cnn is committed to bringing this kind of serious reporting. other news we are following right now. new information emerging about tourists brutally attacked in brazil. we now know that one of them is an american. it happened in rio de janeiro, a city preparing to host three, yes, three huge international, vent events, shasta darlington is in brazil. reporter: wolf, we ve gotten confirmation from the u.s. embassy that one of the two foreign tourists kidnapped and brutalized aboard a minibus in rio de janeiro this weekend is an american citizen and we don t know if it is the man or the woman, and police want to protect the identity of the victims. this nightmare began on saturday morning when the two foreign tourists boarded a minibus in the copa cabana beach area of rio de janeiro. shortly afterwards three men got onboard and they forced all of the passengers off and they
first, we have mayor bloomberg coming up and one of his big issues is guns. i m just wondering, curious, does assault weapons, like the bushmaster, have a place in our society here in america? what is your position? especially given the recent event events? i spent a career carrying typically either an m-16 and later m4 carbine. and m4 carbine fires a 223 caliber round, 5.56 mill litter at 3,000 feet per second. when it hits a human body, the effects are devastating. it s designed to do that. that s what our soldiers ought to carry. personally don t think there s any need for that kind of weaponry on the streets and particularly around the schools in america. i believe that we ve got to take a serious look. i understand everybody s desire to have whatever they want. we have to protect our children and our police and we have to