most notorious prisons where they had been held for 26 months. fattal's grandparents and cousin, perhaps just like, watching c thmpb n this time yesterday from their home in seattle. i want to you watch their reaction the second they first laid eyes on him. >> they emerged. the families are cheering. they're running down the steps. >> oh! >> flashing lights. >> how wonderful is that. what a moment for this family. like i am, waiting 26 months for this day to come. i have josh fattal's uncle back on the phone with me from seattle. fred, what a past 24 hours, huh? how are josh and shane doing? and do we know yet when they get to come home? >> well, i did get a wonderful photograph e-mailed to me from my sister. but i just sent on it to your studio. a picture of laura, jacob, josh, all together. looking remarkably happy. and you see my barents their tears of joy. i think we're all still a little shell shocked by the wonderful night of this. i understand they're doing really well and we expect to see them home. >> do we know yet, do you know yet what they said the first moments they came racing down the stairs yesterday in oman? >> i don't know whether they could hear between the tears of joy and the situation. i wasn't able to discern what was being said. but my parents did have a chance to talk to josh directly. so maybe you can follow up and see what they said. >> we certainly will. we do have some sound. i wanted to ask you if you knew anything firsthand. we do have some sound as well from josh and shane right after this moment here. after the hugs and tears, tasting freedom in oman. let's listen. >> we're sincerely grateful to the government of oman for hosting us and our families two years in prison is too long and we sincerely hope for the freedom of other political prisoners and other unjustly imprisoned people in iran. >> you know josh better than we do. how does he look? how does he sound to you? >> this was, every time i would get a glimpse of him. between the trial or during any, i'm only looking for the glint in his eyes, the smirk in his mouth. at no point, i've seen him look a little down trodden, a little beaten up but not, emotionally but not ever broken. and he seems as vivacious and animated as ever. so i'm confident this guy, who has a tremendously strong constitution. both physically and emotionally, is coming out of this hole. >> we're looking at the moment. psych shane throwing his articles around sarah shourd. his fiance. she was arrested and health in iran. she was released last year because of health concerns and then shane proposed to sarah when they were in the evin prison in tehran. what do you know about how these with, these three spent those 26 months inside that prison? >> how they spent them? >> what they did. >> yes or no and shane were roomed together. sarah was alone. sarah, it was a hard term for her to be alone all that long. they would get an hour or two a day to walk outside and they would get like 16 minutes of television. that was their connection to reality. one story i did get, was that when shane told josh he want to propose to sarah, josh said he would forego his hour or two of daylight that day in order to give him some alone time outside so they could ask, so he could propose. so talking about good friends. you only get an hour or two of sunshine a day and you forego that. i think those guys will be forever inseparable. >> i think so. and then you have the picture. let's put the video back up of josh's grandparents who we saw. i don't know if that was laughter or crying there. here they are. the grandparents and the yusin. they were watching the news yesterday with us. they're in their 80s. how hard has this been on them? >> it's been, you know, a lot of emotional collateral damage associated with this period. and my parents are 87. and they are not spring chickens but they are with it. they know what's going on and they've had the displeasure of watching the various false starts that this process has gone through. and my father's heart has not been all that cooperative during a couple of these milestones. but he's hanging in there now and we all need to close the loop in being able to put our own hug around the family. >> do we know yet when they'll hop on another plane and come home? >> i expect it will be momentarily. i think they've had enough of touring the middle east, to tell you the truth. i don't know exactly when but do i believe, my parents have spent the past couple months in seattle avoiding the hurricane season of florida. and are heading back next week. so they will be potentially able to see them soon. but i'm waiting to, i'm just the uncle sitting here in the wings. i'm waiting to hear what josh wants to do. what he needs. he might just need to be in the middle of a city and feel the vibration of all the people in contrast to the isolation that he's been subject to. but until he tell us what he wants, i'm just waiting in the wings to be helpful if i can. >> i cannot imagine. fred felleman, thank you so much for calling back in. >> did you see the still image that i sent? >> we got it. we played it a couple of time. thank you so much for sending that in and sharing it with us. perhaps we'll check in with you once josh and shane are back home. many thanks to you. have a good one. now this. >> that sounds awful but it is kind of a relief that it is over for me. >> that is the refraction the family of a murdered police officer after learning troy davis was in fact executed. but many supporters of davis still believe in his innocence. also ahead, ben wedeman finds possible yellowcake. what is being done about it? 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>> in my mind, yes. in my mind, it has. it took a long time to get there but it really does in my mind. >> several hundred protesters, demonstrators, rallied outside the prison in jackson, georgia where he was executed. in his case, drew international attention. seven of the nine witnesses who testified, several decades ago, recanted or contradicted their testimony. among those holding the vigil was davis' sister who says she will continue fighting to prove his innocence. >> i have to get over that. i believe in a higher power. and i believe that he is going to give never strength to carry on and to continue this fight. not just for my brother but all the troy davises around the world. >> former president jimmy carter has been outspoken. had call for sparing davis' life. releasing this statement. we are deeply saddened by the execution of troy anthony davis by the state of georgia. if one of of our fellow citizens can be executed with so much doubt surrounding his guilt, then death penalty system in our country is unjust and outdated. david mattingly joins me here to talk about this. you were there. i was watching you for hours on end last night on 360. it seemed a fairly peaceful, solemn occasion. people holding candles. a lot of those people didn't want davis to die. >> there were hundreds of people. most across the street from the gates of the prison facility where we were. between them and the facility were about 100 armed officers. many of them in riot gear which really struck us as sort of strange. because the demonstrations had been so peaceful up until that point. but as the night went on, when we got to 7:00, the time when the execution was supposed to take place, there was this crescendo of emotion. that demonstrators wanted everyone to know they were there and how they felt at the time. and when they realize that had there was a delay. there was sort of a brief period of elation. there was some jubilation in the crowd. people cheering. but then as the hours went by, people became emotionally weary. physically weary as the night wore on. and once they got word that the supreme court had rejected the stay, everything was very quiet. a lot of prayer. there were some tears. at the time of the execution, people were lighting cams. there was a lot of silent prayer, group prayer. people resigned to what was obviously going to be inevitable once the supreme court ruling came down. it was a night for a lot of personal reflection and flepeop feeling like they weren't done. >> we heard from the flip side, officer macphail's mother saying this is relief. relief for her. but at the same time, we heard the sound from troy davis' sister saying, even after his death she wants to prove his innocence. how can she do that? >> i wouldn't know how they can do that. they've had so much help. so many people involved in this fight for the last 20 years. in the last few years, since his last past what i dith the delay don't know how they'll proceed in the future. but troy davis has become more than just a single inmate being executed on georgia's death row. he has back tremendous symbol, not just in the state of georgia but worldwide. remember, there were over 600 people signing the petition. many, many people invested in seeing him have his sentence commuted. having him get off death row. when that didn't happen, now you have a lot of people with a lot of unresolved energy. wanting to see something happen here. so i really don't think this is the end. >> we'll continue this the next hour talking about the death penalty as we move forward nationwide. david mattingly, thank you. now this. we used to have the best infrastructure in the world here in america. >> we're the country that built the intercontinental railroad. we built the hoover dam, the grand central station. >> president obama still pressing for infrastructure spending to create jobs. also, the nfl. not taking kindly to fakers sending out a memo after players were caught pretending to be injured so the referee would call a time-out? 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the brent spence bridge connects the home states of two of the president's most powerful rivals. the gop senator mitch mcconnell of kentucky and speaker john boehner of ohio. let's to go cincinnati. in the crowd we find the white house spokesman there in cincinnati. what was the president's message? what was the headline? >> reporter: it was pretty interesting. he was very aggressive. this is something we've seen over the past couple weeks. aggressively calling out republicans by name. house speaker john boehner, mitch mcconnell using this. the brent spence bridge as a back drox kentucky is over there. ohio is over here. trying to highlight what he says republicans were standing in the way of his $447 billion jobs plan. listen to what he said. >> part of the reason i came here is because mr. boehner and mr. mcconnell, those are the two most powerful republicans in government. they can either kill this jobs bill or they can help pass this jobs bill. >> reporter: you'll remember, that the president during that whole bruising debt ceiling battle tried to strike tone of being the grown-up in the room, the compromiser, the reasonable one. now he is facing in the aftermath of that, dismal approval numbers and we're seeing a very different tact that he's taking. calling out republicans. >> one more for you and i'll let you go. i know the band there is loud. we're looking at the bridge. they are calling to get people back to work now. projects that are shovel ready. we discovered this particular bridge, connecting kentucky and ohio, it is anything but shovel ready. what's the deal there? >> reporter: that's exactly right. that's what the spokeswoman for the ohio department of transportation told me. that this really isn't the best example of a shovel ready bridge -- a shovel ready project. that's something, brooke, that republicans are absolutely slamming the president for trying to promote a jobs plan that he says will create a jobs plan and then coming here. that it wouldn't have construction going on until mid to late 2013. that's with an expedited process. more likely you wouldn't see jobs here until 2015. here's what the white house is saying. they're saying they didn't say it was shovel ready. the point they're making, this is what we heard from jay carney today, this is symbolic of the crumbling infrastructure across the country. that republicans have a choice to help out the president to do something for jobs, and that instead the white house says, they're deciding to play politics instead. trying to beat him politically. rather than try to do something for the american people. >> thank you. speaking of the american people. and zpoks the dow. let's go to the big board. the dow is down now over 500 points. we're just about a half-hour away from the closing bell. a huge, huge drop. we'll check in to see what's behind these numbers today. also, it is the end of rem as we know it. the band is breaking up. i'll talk to one of my favorite musicians who has been very much inspired by them and made with members on the last album. going to join me live in a couple minutes. but first, anderson cooper introduces us to the top ten heroes of 2011. they will each receive $50,000 and a shot at the big prize in december. all year we've been introducing to you everyday people who are changing the world. we call them cnn heroes. today we announce the top ten cnn heroes for 20 level. i am ay stokes uses the noet match teens lacking role models with adults around the world. bruno serato is getting solutions so kids don't to go bed hungry. and he reprocesses soap. and diane, in a violent neighborhood, she open her door inviting gang members in. eddie helps young football players side lined by spinal cord injuries. elayna offers poor children a way out of the trash dump into school. patrice diagnosed with incurable cancer, started feeding and coaching children from haiti's slums. robin helps poor women have healthy pregnancies and safe deliveries. sal pays for food, rent and bush administration necessities to keep the working poor afloat. and taryn ability sisterhood of women for american war widows. congratulations. the top ten cnn heroes of 2011. which one inspires you the most? 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[ giggles ] iran's president, mahmoud ahmadinejad, took on the united states in a speech at the u.n. general assembly. he blamed the u.s. for a litany of international problems including the current global financial crisis. i want to you watch this. watch what happened during his speech. here you go. >> translator: the slave master or colonial powers today reparations to the affected nations. if the damage -- >> there goes france. there's another one. another one. a flood of western delegations getting up, walk out including germany, ireland, and the united states. watch. >> translator: political powers in the united states and in europe. will there remain any gaps -- >> and out they go. the palestinians may not time, they want to be recognized as a state. and in the past, president obama has said they should be. but is the united nations really the best way, the best path to an independent state of palestine? certainly the path of palestinian authority leader mahmoud abbas has chosen he plans to submit a request for full u.n. membership. he'll do that tomorrow. and president obama is trying to head that off in his speech yesterday. to the general assembly. >> peace will not come through statements and resolution at the united nations. if it were that easy, it would have been accomplished by now. ultimately, it is the israelis and the palestinians who must live side by side. ultimately, the israelis and the palestinians, not us, who must reach agreement on the issues that divide them. >> an executive director of the american task force in palestine, also a former adviser to mahmoud abbas. thank you for coming on. >> thank you for having me. >> the first question is going to the united nations seen by many as a very risky move by president abbas. is it worth the risk? >> it is an expression of frustration. i don't think they believe it will change but they are taking that step to show the world that the issue is still alive. is it worth the risk? i don't know. but the risk is not only to the palestinians. it is to the israelis and the international community. therefore no matter what happens in the u.n., i think we have to keep our eye on the ball. to make sure things do not deteriorate to create a new crisis. let the diplomatic crisis pass and let us make sure there is some sense of progress. >> let's take it a step further. we know the united states plans to veto the full membership. there could still be a symbolic vote within the general assembly. what would the palestinian people gain beyond a symbol of frustration? what will they gain for that? >> the gain will be a reaffirmation of palestinian rights. but as you indicate, it will not create any real changes on the ground. ultimately, the changes will happen two ways. negotiations on the one hand and on the one hand, the continuation the stinds have been doing, building their institutions on the ground. working on improving the economy. these two tracks are the two track that's will get real results. the u.n. move is simply a way to draw on the system and create a sense of urgency. i don't think it will get to the general assembly any time soon. we have gained a few weeks and possibly a few months. even though abbas will present the request tomorrow, the vote will not happen for a while. we have these weeks and months. let's hope they are used in a constructive way. >> let's take one of those options. you know mr. abbas, is there anyway he, the palestinians will change course and agree to talk directly with the israelis? >> the palestinians are not in particular, abbas has been saying negotiation is the first option. today we are seeing diplomacy led by the u.n., the u.s., the eu and russia to try to create negotiations. if sum a formula can be reached, such a formula is possible and i understand that they're very close to reaching it. we might yet see a return to negotiations. not tomorrow, not the day after but hopefully within the foreseeable future. >> i just want to show you an image. i don't know if you saw this. mahmoud abbas during president obama's speech to the g-8 yesterday. you can see right has not on the forehead. what does this image? what does it say to you? >> i think the palestinian delegation in particular, and generally the person in public were disappointed by president obama's speech. not necessarily by the substance of the speech. that was expected. by the tone. president obama and rightly so, showed empathy with israel. and they are still our strongest ally. but he is showing the palestinians suffering. he talk about political issues but did not show the kind of tone of empathy that he has been known to show. i think a mix of the two has created a sense of frustration. this is what we see in president abbas's gesture. >> the president falling short showing empathy yesterday morning. thank you very much. now here's a question. what's the first thing to go when you're having a tough time making ends meet? 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the next year... that was weird. but awesome ! ♪ nationwide is on your side the number of people applying for unemployment dropped last week. 9,000 fewer applications but more than 400,000 people filed claims. the ailing economy, the tough job market. we just saw the dow taking a tumble. the housing market. it is all playing a part in pushing families to the end and it is putting a new face on poverty. more and more young people. they're risking living in poverty. now more so now than world war ii. and we're talking one in five. the reporter from cbs atlanta news, and clothing boutique owner are with free fabric, a program that helps teens and moms in need. ladies, good to have you here. this whole thing started. you were all sitting around. >> doing what we all do. >> how did the idea, what specifically is this? free fabric. >> it is free shopping sprees for those that need it. people that can't go into a boutique and shop. what we did is we gathered closeding and transform our boutiques into no price tags. so we had girls to reach out to us. and we have personal shoppers. they came in and had the shopping spree. >> this is an actual boutique. certain days -- >> the boutique that dana owns in the atlanta area and all around the country now because she's franchised. you can turn them into free shopping days for the girl. it started out we were reaching out to shelters. as you mentioned, with the number of people out of work, the foreclosure rate in atlanta, we were seeing people not just in shelters but families saying, we can't afford back to school shopping. >> so is it adults? is it kids? all of the above? >> we've done a couple different ones. we can help so many people. the donations are so many. we've had kids come from back to school. we've had moms come in for holiday shopping. a bunch of different things. >> what more do these people say when they walk in the doors? it is a new face now. a new face of poverty. what are they saying when they take the beautiful clothes people donated? >> some of the girls we met with. it start a mentor program. we're living in transitional housing. we just want our parents to get a job again. but they're so happy to be able to spend time with us. to have confidence going back to school. that's what we all wanted to do. high school and junior high, it's tough enough. >> when you want to have cute clothes and you can't quite have the same jeans that your friend has. maybe you can to go fab rik. >> fabrik style.com. you can find out how to donate clothing. >> check it out. tomorrow our in depth coverage continues. the face of poverty is all around us. especially at the grocery store. in fact, after the show today i'm going grocery shopping with a father of four who has found some creative ways to stretch a dollar and a meal. now though, brad pitt seems to be backtracking a little bit more after allegedly suggesting his marriage to jennifer aniston wasn't too interesting. what he is now saying about his ex and then this. ♪ >> the end of rem. a lot of you are talking about it and tweeting about it. >> i was always a huge, huge rem fan. and they were like one of the first bands that exploded for me and made me realize that i loved music. you can't change the way banking works. just accept it, man. free ? 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>> yeah, i grew up in helena, montana and had a hard -- there was a whole lot of access to -- interesting music around there. and an uncle in college, mixed taped. he would send new mixed tapes of things he was discovering from the college radio station and r.e.m. was one of those bands. i think the first song was "superman" from life's rich pageants. >> what is it about these that totally resognates with fans all over the world? >> i think they came around at a time, you know, when punk rock was a little tapped out and new wave was on the rise and they kind of created this new really american music, you know, borrowing both from new wave and punk, but you can hear like a birds influence. there was something really universal about it and something really novel and new and i think really american, too, in so much music, punk and new wave was coming from england at the time. >> your latest album, r.e.m. guitari isist played on three tracks. did you have any inkling at any time that the end was near for r.e.m.? >> well, you know, chatting with peter after the show, he played with us in edgefield, we did two nights in portland, and he was mentioning that as the band was together and they were working on a couple of new songs for this greatest hits package coming out soon, they kind of had a weird feeling of finality to it. like it might be the last thing they do. i didn't really delve, but i guess i wasn't surprised to see the news yesterday. >> favorite song? >> by r.e.m? oh, man. geez. going -- south central rain. probably be on the top there. >> yeah. before i let you go, i want to mention as i mentioned a moment ago, you were on the road with your wife, carson. you have an amazing, you're an amazing song writer, but now, you've taken your write tog this book. she's illustrated it. how's the tour going? >> it's going good. yeah, it's an illustrated novel and it's been great so far. froms it's been a lot of fun. meeting people in a way i haven't with the decemberists. >> tougher than a rock 'n' roll tour? >> in some ways, yeah, they certainly get you moving and doing a lot more. at least on a rock tour, you can kind of disappear on the bus for a little bit. >> thanks for stopping for your biggest friend here an cnn. i really appreciate it. his book is called "wild wood." and r.e.m. fans, they'll be releasing this greatest hits album in november and maybe we'll feature them in a music monday. coming up, is president obama finished playing nice with republicans? >> already hearing the republicans and congress dusting off the old talking points. you can write their press releases. >> gloria borger is up next. she's breaking down what many are calling the president's transformation. 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[ male announcer ] just like you, business pro. just like you. go national. go like a pro. chief political analyst gloria borger joins us with the latest news off the political ticker. i know you wrote this column on cnn.com about the transformation you see obama. talk to me. what kind of transformation? >> yewell, i saw barack obama a more of a clark kent figure in the debt ceiling negotiations, for example. lots of liberals thought he was somebody negotiating with himself, a little more passive, trying to be the grown-up in the room. then what we saw coming out this week was the guy going into the phone booth and come out as superman. the hero to the base of the democratic party laying down a marker, saying this is where i am going to stand in these negotiations with the supercommittee. so i think we saw very different kind of obama. i think he was reacting to house speaker boehner who had given a speech saying no taxes can be a part of this deal, so, the president decided, i'm going to lay down my marker at the beginning of this, but now, we just have to wait for the supercommittee to get something done because these folks have staked out very, very different positions. >> cnn.com/opinion. all things superman and clark kent. quickly, we know, there's another debate here tonight in florida. 30 seconds. what should we expect? >> well, i think we're going to expect more fireworks on the social security issue which started in our debate in tampa. mitt romney has made it very, very clear he's going to continue to take on rick perry. he's already said that somebody who wants to take on social security is unelectable, would oblate rate the party. he's put out another press release saying he's going to -- >> forgive me, i must interrupt and go to the closing bell. it's been an ugly day. my thanks to you and there she is. the cloeding bell. it has been a tough day and the dow has tumbled very much so into the red. for now, take a look at this. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com markings in arabic on the bellies of some southwest jets. who had access to vandalize these planes? i'm brooke baldwin, the news is now. we know passengers are checkcheck ed thoroughly, many are outraged. but who's keeping an eye on the planes? the fbi is now investigating. troy davis is dead, but the debate over the death penalty goes on. testing our system and our faith. >> he's going the give me the strength to carry on and continue this figts, not just for my brother, but for all the troy davis' around the world. >> we'll explain why this is an historic case no matter what your feelings are. and advice for running a successful campaign from a guy who knows a thing about it. advice chris christie shared with a sixth grader. >> really kcolorful posters. >> if only it were that easy. political pop. then, that satellite out of gas, expected to hit earth tomorrow. look out. fortunately, there's a lot of ocean on that globe. what are the odds this thing hits land? the news starts now. welcome back and we roll on, hour two. as we mentioned moments ago, an ugly day on wall street. u.s. markets taking a steep dive. let's take a look at the numbers. the dow down 390 points. alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange. what's going on today? >> brutal day. just a brutal day and you know, we are off the worst levels of the session. we were down as much 527 points on the dow, so it's an improvement to see us down only 390 points. what was going on today, just worries of a global recession. not just here in the u.s., but overseas as well. it was the federal reserve that spooked everybody first, warning of what they call a downside risk to the economic outlook. then overnight, weak manufacturing reports. out of europe, the u.k., even china. analysts are saying these reports are the strongest sign yet that europe could be teetering on the edge of a recession, so remember, we're all interconnected. this really spooked the markets in a big way. >> but still, all of this despite the fed, their official announcement yesterday, that being that the stimulus, if that's designed to help the economy, then still why? >> because you know, not everybody's so certain that this stimulus is really going to make a big difference to help the economy. what i'm talking about is this operation twist and we're seeing it do its thing because we're seeing longer term interest rates lower today. the ten-year bond yield, it hit a record low today. there's a lot of skepticism with this stimulus plan that the fed is putting into action in october. the idea with this is to lower rates on mortgages and encourage people to refinance and hopefully get businesses to take out loans at lower rates to get them to spend and expand. but the question is, will this really help the economy? analysts say there's really not much more the fed can do at this point to help the economy and what you're seeing play out in the markets today is this realization setting in that the fed really can't do too much at this point. >> thank you. i'm going to ask you the stand by. you're going to be back with us a the bottom of the hour with big announcements from facebook today. meantime, if it's interesting and happening you, you're about to see it. many are questioning last night's execution of troy davis. the convicted killer was put to death last night for the 1989 murder of mark mackphail. calls for his life to be spares, seven of those nine witnesses had recanted or contradicted their original testimony and there was no dna evidence presented at his trial. macphail's family says justice had been served. secretary defense leon panetta says the taliban is showing signs of weakness in afghanistan. he and mike mullen testified today. mr. panetta saying some of the attacks we've seen lately in afghanistan are a shift in taliban tactics because they're being pushed back in places where the afghan defense forces are getting stronger. mullen also said the haqqani network there is acting as an arm of pakistan's intelligence agency. the pope arriving back home in germany. he spoke to crowds at bellevue castle where he said he is not pursuing political or economic goals with this trip. he just wants to meet people and speak about god while he's back in germany. and you probably heard of bpa. it's a chemical with suspected links to cancer used in making some plastic bottles. now, a report is claiming many metal food cans contain this same metal. the report says the cans are marketed towards kids. the group wants companies to stop using the chemical and support legislation to ban bpa from food and drink containers. toys "r" us will hire 40,000 workers this season, so if you want to sale or demonstrate packaged toys, they are hiring through november and less you think the income will only last through the merry season, alas, 10% of last year's workers were kept on full time after the christmas rush. it seems mr. pitt is still explaining his cent comments about his previous marriage to jennifer aniston. in an interview, he was quoted as saying he wasn't living an interesting life and thought his marriage had a little something to do with that. brad pitt talked to matt lauer and jennifer aniston and his current partner, angelina jolie. >> i think it's a shame that i can't say something about angie without jen being drug in. she doesn't deserve it. >> he also said he hasn't spoken to jennifer about the comments he made. and then this. >> it sounds awful, but it's kind of relief that it's over for me now. >> the macphail family says they find peace in troy davis' execution, but many of his supporters are still expressing outrage over his death. also, we know passengers, you know this, perhaps personally here. you check when you go to the airport. many are outraged by such searches, but who's keeping an cry on the planes? 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it set off a pretty interesting discussion in our show meeting this morning about airport security, what it focuses on and what perhaps it may miss. first, this woman. you remember isis brantley? the dallas hair stylist? she was humiliated when her hair was searched. they were apparently looking for explosives, weapons, none was found. now, federal agents are working with southwest airlines to find out who is vandalizing these 737s. symbols of graffiti seem to be written using some sort of chemical process. you can only see it when the plane's auxiliary power is on, revealing the text. southwest airlines did send this internal mem o to employees asking for their help. here's what it said -- southwest believes this to be an internal problem and poses no threat whatsoever to passengers or air travel, but part of the crux of the issue here, if any employer, anyone, can just walk up to a plane and vandalize is i. how safe are the planes? want to bring in tom fuentes in washington. first reaction. disgruntled employee, joke? >> i think maybe a joke or disgruntled employee. i think the fact this is only happened to southwest airlines planes is pretty significant. why not other aircraft if there's some kind of a general message to aviation or a general threat to aviation? so this certainly would appear to be possibly a disgruntled employee. the fear there is that the person could end up doing more to a plane, but that's what they're trying to determine now. >> so, who is it that actually has this kind of access to planes on the tarmac? >> there's a lot of people that have access to it and i think thart parse of the reason you would suspect an employee. you would have mechanics, the baggage, cargo loaders. other people bringing the catering bringing the food supplies to board the aircraft or to be loaded on the aircraft, so there's a number of people that have access. so, if you have a southwest airline employee walking around under a plane that belongs there, maybe he is a mechanic or some other function, that wouldn't be that unusual. the other interesting thing is what's been written on the bottoms of those aircrafts, we don't know and we don't know exactly how it was. i've read some accounts that basically say it was written in the dirt that accumulates in an aircraft from takeoffs and landings. it could be arabic for wash me, we don't know. >> when i was reading about it, i thought i saw reports of dirt, but apparently, it's some sort of chemical, when you flip the auxiliary lights on, poof, suddenly the writings appear. >> i was an fbi s.w.a.t. team member. we trained on the aircraft all the time to be prepared for hijackings. that auxiliary power unit is a small jet and we were caucused to stay away from it, don't get near it, you could get hurt. if it takes activating that jet in order to read what's under the aircraft, who's going to be under there? i don't know who would be the intended receiver of the message if you have to have a power unit or jet activated in order to read it. >> maybe -- >> i'm not certain about the accuracy of that. >> maybe what we get from this, when you look at the woman who had her afro searched, yet you have a plane and someone has that kind of access to get under it and write whatever it is he or she wrote, doesn't that raise questions about the security of planes on the ground? >> well, it may, except if it's an employee that has access and is supposed to have access -- >> but still, even ifs an employee. >> employees are working on that aircraft at all times while someone takes a few seconds to write something in the dirt cht that's not the same as someone what who does have have authorization and gets to it. authorities will always have that concern that the people that prepare the carts that have the food on it, that's usually done outside the airport and brought in. who inspects those loads? you have the cargo in addition to the checked luggage. there are a lot of people that work on an aircraft. housekeeping, other people that have access. if someone that does not belong on that tarmac, you would think that one of the other employees that are working on that aircraft would recognize a stranger. you would hope that they would recognize that somebody is near that aircraft that really shouldn't be there. >> you would think. thank you. >> you hope. you're welcome. then there's this. >> iwitnessi witnessed somethin was horrible, a tragedy. this night, the state of georgia, legally lynched a brave, a good and indeed an innocent man. >> we're going to take a closer look at the troy davis execution and why they were so many questions as opposed to another death penalty case. so what are you doing at a gas station? 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>> in my mind, yes. in my mind, it has. it took a long time to get some, but it really does in my mind. >> joining me now live from minneapolis, former federal prosecutor and st. thomas lay prof sore. good to have you on. just explain the our viewers, with executions in states, where the death penalty is still used, why this one? why is this case so resognate with people? >> this one is different for a couple of reasons. number one is that it has had a lot of process. it's been in the news several times. there have been multiple times he's been close to execution. it established an important legal precedent in the supreme court that innocence on its own could be a basis for hab yous corpus. and most importantly, there were so many changes such as the recanting of testimony by witnesses. >> let's pull up this poll. it showed american's ideas towards the death penalty. 61% say they would choose a punishment other than the death penalty for murder. this comes at a time when public support for the death penalty has been shrinking just a tad, but at a time when executions, death sentences, have gone down a lot, what is prompting that decline? >> there have been a couple of things. number one, i think there has been this question of innocence. the development of dna technology has allowed us to see that some people on death row did not do the crime and before the development of dna, we didn't have that. then you have some states like illinois that paid close attention to what was going on. that developed a commission to examine it. that discovered that 50% of the people on their death row shouldn't have been there. and that's changed people's mind. i think this issue of innocence has been at the core of it. >> so might we see other future cases, crimes committed, before the technology was as it is today where there is no dna to use? >> you know, we may and that's one thing that is represented here in the troy davis case is we don't have dna evidence. he's not able to exonerate himself through dna, so we have to go to the softer sciences and that's going to be a challenge because one of the things i hope is not drawn from this outcome is that it's only dna that can clear your name. because that would leave far too many cases with the possibility of executing an innocent person. >> in your cnn.com op-ed, you write about these two virtues in the constitution. one being deliberation, it's been one of the most exhaustive judicial ve views, but two, mercy, like the power to grant clemency. is today's judicial system wandering too far in one direction? >> i think that it has. i think that the especially since the passage of the antiterrorism and effective death penalty act of 1996. we've seen that it's very hard for a prisoner to get a hearing will everything will come out where the full story will be heard. because of procedural hurdles. in the troy davis case, they did have such a hearing. there's questions about what the defense attorneys did there, but in many, many other cases, it's become process about process. and procedure about procedure, rather than getting to the truth that's at the core of the matter. and unfortunately, procedure can be a way to get us to truth. it also can be a enemy of truth. what we've seen with the opinions in a case like this where with all the ups and downs to the supreme court and back again, so much of what's in those opinions is about process, not about what happened in that burger king parking lot and that's wrong. >> thank you. >> thank you. governor perry, texas, topping a florida poll, but mitt r romney appears to have a better chance at beating president obama. jim acosta live in wororlando w today's political ticker and then that bus sized satellite. out of gas, hurdling towards earth tomorrow. fortunately, there's a lot of blue, a lot of ocean on that globe. what are the odds though this thing could hit land? 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>> well, you know, people get really mad at us when we say this race for the republican nomination has come down to two men. mitt romney and rick perry, but i'm sorry, there is another poll out today that basically indicates this race is down to two candidates. this is a quinnipiac poll that came out just today about the race in florida right now and the florida race is important not only because this will be a critical primary here, but also because we need to know what these voters are saying in this critical state for the general election as well. just to give you a sense of where the race is right now, before this debate, take a look at this poll. it shows rick perry is leading mitt romney 28 to 22%. that probably is not a big surprise to people given a lot of the national polls we've seen recently, but if you look at the poll for the president, the president's approval rating in florida is bismal. 39% approving. he's very vulnerable in a critical battleground state and if you look at how romney and perry do against obama in this poll, it shows romney does a little better, actually beating the president who's a couple o points behind the president. and we're starting to see some of that come up in the campaign trail, brooke. mitt romney is starting to make the case that he is the more electable candidate. rick perry is saying i'm the one who shares your values as republicans, as conservatives. i think we're going to hear some of those messages tonight. >> all right, so maybe more fireworks on that political stage this evening. let's talk about fireworks of a different kind. i.e. falling space junk. we've been talking a lot about this satellite that's been tumbling towards earth. the faa is now warning pilots to look out for falling pieces of this satellite as it should be falling and hitting earth who knows where, at this point in time, but at some point tomorrow. so, the pie hot lots officially warned now. listen to this. >> listen, there's no threat of government shutdown. let's just get this out there. >> will the government pull together in time to avoid a shutdown? 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>> two things. i want to get to that and also give you a little bit of news. the two things this fight comes down to is fema funding and the republican desire to cut back federal spending. democrats on the house and senate really, they think that the fema funding, the additional federal dollars going to federal disaster relief that was put into the short-term spending bill, think don't think it's enough. it's about half what the senate passed. they are also opposed to the fact that republicans are requiring in this bill that part of the fema money be paid for by cutting money from another program. this is a company that promoted the production of more fuel efficient vehicles. that's on the democratic side. on the republican side, there's a very big block of house conservatives that voted against this bill because they think the bill doesn't cut back spending enough. so here's the news we're just getting in the last few minutes. house republican leaders may have found the way to thread the needle f you will. win over enough republican votes, to pass this bill through by adding another off set. another spending cut they're considering. by cutting back money from a department of energy program linked to none other than the solar energy company that went bankrupt after receiving half a million dollars, i think, of federal loan guarantees, so this may be a way house republicans might go about winning over enough votes from their party to push this through. at least in the house, brooke. >> when is that vote? >> great question. we heard from the number two republican in the house, they will vote this evening, but it's unclear how this is going to fly in the senate. >> kate bolduan, thank you very much. next, alison kosik back at the new york stock exchange and big announcement. facebook's making all kinds of changes lately. >> oh, yes, lots and lots of updates. people are upset, but you're going to have to get used to it. some of the announcements made today at this big conference that came out for facebook, facebook's partner wg a music streaming service which means you can see what your friends are watching and listening to. you get to creep on them even more. also, there's a new feature called timeline and that's actually going to roll out in a few weeks, so now, when you update your pro file and photos, all that older stuff gets replaced by new stuff, but this is going to collect everything you've shared and posted chronological chronologically, so you get to kind of cherry pick what's featured. your story right on your page. that's an improvement, right, brooke? >> don't throw anything at me, but i do like the news feed, although i haven't noticed i haven't been able to marry my tweets to my public facebook page. >> little practice. >> lot of changes at facebook. thank you very much. and next, the faa as we mentioned a moment ago, they are out and about warning pilots about this satellite falling to earth tomorrow. they're saying look out for it as your high in the skies. the satellite the size of bus is re-entering the atmosphere. most is expected to burn up. but the rest could hit the earth. john? >> brooke, nasa says it may not even know and probably won't know, even up to the minutes before uars re-enters the atmosphere, where it's going to come down. what nasa is saying today is that the satellite is not going to hit north america. but it will come down sometime tomorrow afternoon, u.s. time. but that still leaves about five continents that are possible targets. now, about a ton of the debris from uars will make it back to earth. remember, the entire satellite only weighs about six tons and of the material that comes back, nasa says it should be about 26 pieces. some of those pieces anywhere from tens of poupds hundreds of pounds, so the hope is that none of that hits anywhere but in the water. brooke? >> we'll be watching for it. thank you very much. and he's been openly against the jersey shore tv show. chris christie of new jersey, threatening to take back a state tax credit for the show they're actually getting for filming there. also, he is giving advice to a sixth garader on how to campaig for student council. political pop, next. but first, today's top five list is especially relevant if you are about to head into rush hour traffic. the cities with the longest commute. number five, riverside, average commute time, 30.6 minutes. number four, chicago, naperville, illinois. number four, newburgh, middleton, new york. about a 32-commute. we'll show you the worst two. let's take a quick break. 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[ male announcer ] with interactive learning solutions from dell, mrs. davis can make every student feel like her only student. dell. the power to do more. almost 77% of americans drive alone to work, so who has the worst, the longer commute in the country? washington, d.c., arlington, alexandria in part due to the high price of housing, people live far away from where they work. not fun. nou number one, new york, northern new jersey, long island where a third of the commuters use public transportation. and since we were talking about new york, new jersey area, chris christie, the republican governor of new jersey, but did you know this? at a recent town hall, he actually put on the hat of a political consultant when a sixth grader asked him for a little adadvice. i loved his answer cht. >> it was fantastic, wasn't it? when you were in school, did you think about running for student council? >> i did. >> i ran, i was the president. >> me, too. >> we're do gooders. i can tell you from personal experience, it's a big step even in high school or in this case, elementary school, and the first thing you want to know is where do you start? how do you do it? there's a sixth grader, showed up at a town hall meeting in union, new jersey, to see the governor. decided to take the question to the real pro in the room and the governor responded with some good advice. first tip was get a group of friends to help. second tip was ask people for their vote and now, here's christie talking about the last two tips. listen. >> have really colorful posters, right? sixth grade student council, really important to have colorful posters? let you hang up posters at school, do you know? hang them up until they tell you to take them down. and the last thing is don't make promises you can't keep. all right? because if you do, they won't be voting for you in seventh grade, all right? >> got a sense of humor. it is all about the posters, right, joe? >> it is, but the one thing i can't figure out is what's a promise you could make on high school or whatever -- >> square pizza? >> that's what i was thinking. good ideas. >> more news from governor christie. wants to nix this legislation involving a certain new jersey reality tv show. >> seems like new jersey has always gotten good political pop stuff going on. >> we like it. >> this is something being called the snooki subsidy tax credit. it's not a joke. we're talking about a $420,000 tax break for the economy that produced the first season of jersey shore. they apparently spent a lot of money making the show there, but not everyone in new jersey is crazy about the image of the program and the garden state. disparaging to italian americans and reenforcing stereotypes. and now, the big drama is whether the governor might actually veto this bill. if he vetoes it, the state could get hit with a lawsuit, we hear. the producers might not be too happy about that. >> that is so political pop and speaking of movies here, we're finding out that rick perry has a really good film in the film industry. who is that is this. >> russell crowe. the australian star, politico reporting that the african-american goes all the way back to the 1990s, perhaps even before. perry was lieutenant governor, he was also the agriculture commissioner. they share an interest apparently in farming and ranching, have stayed in touch over the years, but don't look for crowe to vote for perry. he is an australian citizen, so he can't vote in the election or contribute to the campaign. that's one deep pocket that's just not going to happen for rick perry. >> who knew? not i. thanks so much. have you heard this? dramatic 911 call after this car bombing in a michigan neighborhood. >> 911. >> okay, we have a bad accident. any car blew up with two kids. called on already. i've got two significant leg injuries. one to the bottom left injury, his bottom left leg and then one to his left buttocks that are chewed up pretty good, okay? >> okay. >> eight tissue wounds that are bleeding. i need someone here now. >> why was this family, father, two sons, on the case? "the situation room" on the road, day four. stay with us. wolf will join me live from new york. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. designed for maximum damage, what police are now saying about this bomb placed under a car that blew up with a michigan lawyer and his two young sons inside. take a look. this is attorney eric chapple's burning volvo. he was just taking his 11 and 13-year-old sons to a football practice. he had the presence of mind to pick up the phone, call 911. >> 911. >> okay, we have a bad accident, my car blew up with two kids. i've got two significant leg injuries. one to the bottom left injury, his bottom left leg and one to his left buttocks that are chewed up pretty good, okay? eight tissue wounds, they are bleeding. i need someone here now. >> neighbors heard the blast, dropped everything, ran out to the street to help. >> smells, you could just smell burning rubber and plastics, gasoline in the air. the car when i had arrived, was smoulderringing and burned literally to the ground. >> nearly two dozen state and federal investigators are exploring every possible lead here in this case. >> we're looking at everything. we're looking at there's nothing specific leading us that we're going to stop there and say, hey, this is what we're going to focus on because that's not the case. we're looking at everything coming in. every avenue. >> we keep hearing about a particularly nasty divorce case. is that something you're looking at? >> everything. >> chapple and his sons were badly hurt. they are expected to recover, but there is a $10,000 reward for information that leads investigators to the person that placed the bomb under that car. we are mere minutes away from t"the situation room." wolf, i guess it's which world leader did you talk to today and i did sort of sneak a peak at your twitter page. you talked to the first female to hold the position of foreign minister in pakistan. >> she's very impressive. only 34 years old. she's not only the youngest person ever to be the foreign minister of pakistan, she's also the first woman to be a first foreign minister of pakistan. a special interview with her. another woman, susan rice. we're talking to her about all the stuff going on, but here's a question for you, brooke. guess what i just spent some quality time right now? guess what world leader i got a chance to talk to over the past hour and a half or so. >> i have a funny response. that's mahmoud ahminedjad. >> that is correct. i just came from a little briefing. he had a few tv reporters, print reporters in to see him, so i just came from that. it was all on the record ch we have a tv camera there. we're going to play some of it. i asked him what he thought of president obama. you're going to be interested to hear what he had to say ant that. i also asked him to follow up on the comment he made at columbia university when he said there were no homosexuals in iran right now. he had some warnings for israel if they try anything as far as iran's nuclear program. he also predicted this awakening unfolding in north africa and the middle east eventually will come to the united states as well. so it was a fascinating time with mahmoud ahminedjad, the president of iran. i think you'll be interested in hearing what he had to say. >> for the record, that was just a guess. but of all world leaders, i landed on it. thank you very much. and just when you thought the connecticut home invasion couldn't get more horrific, chilling audio recordings of joshua komisarjevsky. jurors reacting, that's next. they want to see before they die. they don't fill photo albums with pictures from an online search. it's okay. the internet will be just fine without you. that's why we built the dodge journey. it has everything you need to get out there. somewhere. anywhere. think of it as a search engine for the world wide world. ♪ i have to be a tree in the school play. good. you like trees. well, i like climbing them, but i've never been one. good point. 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[ cackling ] he's my ride home. how much can the snapshot discount save you? call or click today. a man prosecutors described as a racist psycho path was executed last night. he had no final statement before he was put to death for the infamous 1998 dragging death of james byrd, who died after being chained to a pick up truck and was -- and decapitated. the murder so savage it led hate crimes legislation. what was left of his body was dumped alongside the road and the suspects went to a barbecue. three men were convicted. one got life, the other two sentenced to death. brewer is the first of two to be executed. the family witnessed the execution. this is what they said afterwards. >> it was sad. thoughts go back to what happened to james at the same time, your thoughts are with brewer's family and what they're going through. for him, it was a peaceful death, but for james, it was dragged out over a long time period, so it's much more horrible than what he had to undergo. >> no efforts to stop his execution. jus when you thought the home invasion case couldn't get more horrific, chilling audio recordings of joshua komisarjevsky played in court today. helen, without getting too graphic, please what was on the recording? >> we finally found out exactly what joshua komisarjevsky did to 11-year-old and how he sexually assaulted her and it was stunning revelation that left lots of people in the courtroom including reporters who covered the first trial, completely stunned. >> we're talking about what he did to her sexually. how did he sound in that recording? >> lots of us are talking about just the tone he had in the audio statement and it was very flat. there was no affect. it didn't matter what he was talking about, whether he was spelling out his name or spelling out how he sexually assaulted her. his tone never really changed. >> how were jurors reacting? >> after the audio statement was played yesterday, the judge abruptly stopped testimony because at least one juror was having a tough time with what they were hearing. on the tape. dr. petit, he was there today. his reaction? >> dr. petit and his whole family, obviously, he's -- just being lots of dignity, graceful. he's always talked to the media and yesterday and today, they sent word to the press and asked us to please respect their wishes to not make any comment because the testimony affected the family so much. >> helen, hartford current. you can follow her on twitter. at notes from hel. that's it for me. thank you so much for watching. now to wolf blitzer, "the situation room" in new york starts right now. a mass walkout after ahminedjad unleashes a vicious tirade against the united states. hi questions about the terror attacks, a jab at the u.s. operation that killed bin