there was heavy shelling in several places, at least 35 people killed today. yesterday more than 200 died. opposition activists say regime forces are firing at people from low flying helicopters and syrian state tv claims at least three civilians and a security officer were killed in a suicide truck bombing. the syrian opposition wants kofi annan removed saying he has failed to broker a peace plan. a u.s. official tells cnn syria is believed to be moving some of its chemical weapons. why? it is unclear, the answer that is, but the question is causing significant concerns here in the u.s. and abroad. here is barbara starr. a new worry about how far al-assad will go to keep his grip on power. the u.s. now believes the syrian regime has moved some of its chemical weapons in recent days. as the fighting continues, u.s. officials will only say the weapons are still under the control of assad forces but a former cia director says make no mistake, the u.s. is urgently trying to ga
clinton meeting with egypt s newly elected president and pledging u.s. support for the return of civilian leadership there. muhammad morsi won that seat two weeks ago, but there s still no cabinet or parliament. two weeks before the start of the olympics, the company providing security guards said it s failed to recruit enough staff and could lose as much as $77 million for not covering the contract. the government has to deploy an additional 3,500 personnel. the u.s. olympic committee said it s too late to change the uniforms the athletes will wear. the uniforms are manufactured overseas. here in the united states, visa, mastercard and a host of big banks agreed to pay more than $6 billion to settle a huge anti-trust lawsuit. it has to do with alleged price fixing of so-called swipe fees charged by retailers when they accept a credit card for you. don t celebrate just yet. that means the deal will mean they can pass the charge to you. that deal still needs to be approv
and new documents in the case of the man charged with killing trayvon martin. could shed some light on whether or not race played a role. want to get right to it. u.s. military judge held a hearing at ft. hood, texas, today a few weeks before the court-martial begins for major nadal hassan. hassan, he is the army psychiatrist who went on a shooting rampage in back in 2009. he is accused of killing 13 people, all but one of them fellow soldiers. he also wounded 29 others. now attorneys today discussed the makeup of his military jury which has not yet been convened. hassan s murder trial is set to begin august 20th. florida a&m university now looking for a new president. the school s board of directors going to hold a meeting today on rather monday. president james eamons announced his resignation yesterday. he stepped down more than seven months after a student was beaten to death. robert champion. he was a drum major. he died during an apparent hazing incident on a bus
washington while bankruptcy burns across the nation. san bernardino, california, is the latest american town unable to pay its bills. the math $46 million in debt. they ve made drastic cuts in employees and services. and the city according to the los angeles times has only $150,000 in the bank. that s it. residents are coming unhinged saying, why wasn t this calamity headed off at the pass? what about two years ago when they took $10 million from the employees? what were they doing then? now the city is forced basically to file bankruptcy because they have this tremendous amount of debt over their head. in the last 14 days, two other towns near los angeles have gone into bankruptcy. other places across the country have done the same or tried to in idaho, alabama, pennsylvania, rhode island, dozens of other local and state governments have made dramatic cuts just to try to stay solvent while they wait for the economic recovery to help with terrible budget shortfalls. and y
transparency tornado. president obama s team is ripping into mitt romney for what they call an appalling lack of transparency. they say he s hiding things about his past, his businesses, his finances, and they re hitting hard with a new web video on a tax frattacks from t vice president himself. he wants you to show your papers, but he won t show us his. democrats have been demanding more financial disclosure from romney for weeks, and suggesting that he s got secrets he s keeping from voters. listen. this is the most secretive candidate since richard nixon. mitt romney plays by a different set of rules and keeps secrets like other things he keeps secret. governor romney has released his tax return for only one full year. critics say even his father release 12 years of returns when he was running for president in 1968. romney also holds off-shore bank accounts in switzerland, the cayman islands and bermuda. to be fair, those accounts could be completely legitimate,