government s brutal onslaught in homs, day five, where neighborhoods are now raging battlegrou battlegrounds. a doctor there said bodies began coming in before the sunrise and says everyone is waiting to die. an activist echoed that earlier on cnn. what keeps you going? we have no choice, no other choice. we are dying slightly, and we tried to save each other at least, i mean, to keep somebody alive. because we believe we are all going to die here. with the death toll rising by the day, the u.n. is expected to take up an arab league proposal calling for a joint monitoring mission in syria. neighboring turkey, which has been critical of the crackdown in syria may offer to host a conference on what to do next. republican senator john mccain wants to help the syrian rebels. we can work with other countries to provide assistance in a broad variety of ways, and by the way, military equipment should not be an option, it should not be is an option that should be considered
damascus. where can syrians go? they ve been calling out to the world for help. we want to see actions, we don t want to see talk. we re really tired of talk and talk and talk. we ve seen no actions at all. the syrian president still has his legitimacy. until now no country said this president lost his legitimacy. until now. why did they not say that? why does he still have his legitimacy after all the killing he did? and that activist is talking about this weekend s lack of action from the united nations. the security council rejected a resolution to call for president bajar assad to step down, stop the violence. china and russia are the reason they voted against it. meanwhile, syrians scrambling every minute with the sky hailing on them. it seems that way, anyway, with constant shelling. cnn can t confirm the details because syria has restrictions on journalists. we do have some live in washington. we talk about the latest on the american reaction to this internationa
defense sources with knowledge of the mission and problems with the new missiles being used, griffin missiles which are essentially new and improved hell fire missiles that were attached to a special operations fixed wing plane caused the mission to fail. in fact, those griffin missiles struck the vehicle in which awlaki was traveling, i m told. because they didn t detonate properly, he had time to get out, change vehicles, and he managed to escape. these griffin missiles are in the testing phase, i m told. they have been used on other special operations missions but a series of mistakes really made it so they narrowly missed getting one of the world s most wanted terrorists, shepard. shepard: jennifer, thanks. either somebody is signing a lot of foreclosure papers or massive fraud is still running wild in the mortgage industry. straight ahead, the brand new investigations into an illegal practice that s pushing people right out of their homes. plus, he won two olympic gold
mission to fail. in fact, those griffin missiles struck the vehicle in which awlaki was traveling, i m told. because they didn t detonate properly, he had time to get out, change vehicles, and he managed to escape. these griffin missiles are in the testing phase, i m told. they have been used on other special operations missions but a series of mistakes really made it so they narrowly missed getting one of the world s most wanted terrorists, shepard. shepard: jennifer, thanks. either somebody is signing a lot of foreclosure papers or massive fraud is still running wild in the mortgage industry. straight ahead, the brand new investigations into an illegal practice that s pushing people right out of their homes. plus, he won two olympic gold medals, now he is begging for money on the streets. the rise and fall of a world class athlete. that s coming up. [ male announcer ] walls can talk.
entire planet with miner mania, to news at home. we are breaking down at other big story today, states are starting to step up where the federal government has refused to t in fact, maybe in the way. all 50 attorneys general announcing a joint investigation into the massive foreclosure fraud that is emerging in america s housing market. the main question these ags want answers to, whether mortgage companies cut corners when preparing foreclosure papers and whether they lied about it later, which then begs the larger question, is the desire to create a fraudulent foreclosure a crime intended to cover up a much larger crime that is the toxic debt that was sold to our government and pension funds by these very same banks that they do not want revealed through the foreclosure process? all of this marking an important first step to finding out how much of the $1.6 trillion that was stuck in the gut of us, the taxpayer, at fanny, federal drirg, and the federal reserve