hospitalized, we ll have the latest on the 93-year-old s condition. a scene that reminds many of black friday, these people are running for a bargain, i ll explain the frenzy. from the cnn center, this is cnn saturday morning. we begin with breaking news out of afghanistan, two u.s. officers have been killed, possibly in response to nato troops burning qurans. it happened at the afghan interior ministry in kabul. let s go to nick paton walsh, nick, what are you learning? reporter: a lot that is unclear, what we do know is two americans were shot dead in the interior ministry here in kabul. that should be one of the safest places, frankly, for them in the country. we do also know the taliban have claimed responsibility for this attack. naming the man they refer to as their holy warrior, saying he shot four american personnel, obviously at times they tend to exaggerate their claims of their acts here. unclear at this point from a senior security source, exactly who was
government tanks and troops. we are going to show you more of that very dramatic video. presidential candidate mitt romney addressing an empty stadium. more to the picture than meets the eye. we are going to explain. ever want to hand pick the person sitting next to you on a flight? good news. there s an app for that. from cnns world headquarters bringing you news and analysis from across the nation and around the globe. live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. good morning, everyone. we start with a developing story out of south africa. former president, nelson mandela has been hospitalized with an abdominal complaint. his health declined in recent years and p has been living quietly with few appearances. what are you hearing? what s going on there? well, deb, as you can imagine, the african nation and many people who love and adore nelson mandela are holding their breath. he was admitted into the hospital. they are telling us it was because of a long st
until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. it s time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. despite the words, the killing goes on. we said at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday, according to activists. and the shelling, this was the 21st day of the bombardment for people living in the baba amr section of homs. in the middle of this, crews from the red cross managed to evacuate a small number of women and children. the two western journalists remain in homs, so do the bodies of marie colvin and remy offlic, and so do tens of
according to activists. secretary of state clinton had a warning for the assad regime. assad can still made the choice to end the violence, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will chemopressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send a clear message to president assad that it is time for a transition. it s time for that regime to move on. and it is time to stop the killing of syrian citizens by their own government. despite the words, the killing goes on. we said at least 91 lives today. more than 100 yesterday, according to activists. and the shelling, this
government is trying to kill them and is succeeding at doing that. first, sharp statements from the obama administration as america and more than 60 other countries, so-called friends of syria, met in tunisia. this is video of the meeting. they called on the assad regime to end the violence which claimed at least 91 lives today, according to activists. secretary of state clinton had a warning for the assad regime. assad can still made the choice to end the violence, save lives, and spare his country from descending further into ruin. but if he continues to reject that choice, we and the syrian people will chemopressure on him until his deadly regime cracks and collapses because it will. i m absolutely confident of that. late today, president obama called for greater pressure on assad to go. all of us who have been seeing the terrible pictures coming out of syria and homs recently, recognize it is absolutely imperative for the international community to rally and send