the latest. you ve learned some information about the alleged shooter and it concerns his psychiatrist actually had about him. anderson in the first ten days of june, i ll give you a number of things that were going on to set the scene. on june 7th the suspect was to take an exam. he took this oral exam, it was a preliminary oral exam, and he didn t do well on it at all. secondly, he had to find a mentor. we re told it was unclear he could find a mentor. on the 7th, the same day that he basically failed the test, he went out in the afternoon and bought a ar 15 assault rifle. it was in that afternoon that we know that he was around that period he was certainly talking to his psychiatrist, dr. fenton. we don t know what those conversations were, but we know during that period, something that he said to his psychiatrist caused her to contact the university of colorado threat assessment team. now, that threat assessment team was formed in part with her help and she s on that te
we are still we re still a young nation, and we ve got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity that comes from every corner of the globe. nobody knows that better than florida. so no matter what the naysayers tell us, no matter how dark the other side tries to paint the situation, there is not another country on earth that would not gladly trade places with the united states of america. president obama firing up the crowd there, winter park, florida. you heard them chanting, four more years, touting some of the items he has gotten done in the last 3 1/2 years. keep in mind, not too many states away, we had mitt romney speaking in golden, colorado. folks, three more months until those november elections. you can keep watching the president, go to cnn.com/live. and now, roll the open. as we continue hour two, i m brooke baldwin. al qaeda may be plotting new terror, plots from the skies. police in southern spain have arrested these three suspected members of al qaed
a commuter airliner and two other planes dangerously close to one another. it happened at washington s reagan national airport. and in an extraordinary move, the faa administrator and the transportation secretary came out today to talk about what happened. our brian todd is at the airport. brian. reporter: yeah, candy. extraordinary because for the first time we re getting the hard information from america s two top transportation officials that this was really too close a call. they came out in a hastily called news conference to say, yes, it was too close a call. another part of that news conference they really want to brush back on initial media reports saying that these planes were on a collision course. they re saying they would not have collided. that would not have happened. essentially the way they lay it out is this. it all played out pretty much over where i m standing here tuesday afternoon. there was a whole line of planes coming in from that direction toward me
simply seizing firearms purchased from mexican drug cartels by so-called straw buyers throughout the southwest. instead, says the report, fast and furious was part of a plan to let those buyers and the guns walk in hopes of identifying and busting entire gun running networks. instead, fast and furious guns began turning up at crime scenes in mexico and here at home, including the killing of u.s. border agent brian terry in 2010 right before christmas. his death came at the end of a long chain of mistakes starting at gun shops it the gun dealers were reassured atf was closely monitoring the transactions and interdicting the weapons. the report focuses sharply on this man. william newell. the republican investigators concluding that agent newell authorized and endorsed fast and furious and let it continue long after atf had the goods on the straw buyers. bill newell had the ability and the duty to end operation fast and furious much sooner than it did. instead, the report state
americans are dying every year due to medical mistakes. let s get right to it. the united states is dry, and disastrously dry. more than half of the koun thinks in the nation are designated disaster zones from the ingagriculture department today. the reason is no rain, and creating one of the worst droughts in history. we will pinpoint the hottest spots. and health benefits taking effect today as part of president obama s health care reform law. and it will cover a broad range of early detectioner is viss at no cost. and one of the most controversial parts of the plan is the contraceptive coverage. it is for breast and cervical cancer screenings, and pre- and post-natal care and screenings for gestational diabetes and bres feeding support and supplies. and gore vidal has died. he wrote one of the first books featuring homosexuality, and he unsuccessfully ran for office twice. his nephew says he died at home in los angeles from complications of pneumonia. it is tough to wi