accident. police finding key evidence in the instructor s stomach? and also caught on tape. a scary armed robbery at a dunkin donuts, a customer trying to be a hero but ends up unconscious. how this all went down, all in matter of seconds. up first this morning, big new developments with the chinese activist smack-dab in the middle of a political firestorm. hillary clinton is scheduled to speak about chen guangcheng in about an hour. we learned that chen can apply to study abroad according to a chinese state-run news agency. u.s. officials also say they just spoke by phone today with chen and met with his wife in person. they re expected to meet with chen in a hospital sometime this morning. the blind activist says he doesn t feel safe in china and wants to come to the u.s. he even interrupted a capitol hill hearing yesterday to request a meeting with the secretary of state. translator: i want to meet with the secretary clinton. i hope i can get more help from her. the
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surrounding chinese human rights activist, chen guangcheng. he has been pleading for help and asking to come to the united states with the family. he left the safe haven of the u.s. embassy on monday but says officials misled him. he had a congressional hearing and described the conditions at his home. translator: i really am afraid for my other family members life. they have installed seven video cameras. even with the electric fence. among those watching closely, president obama s campaign opponent, mitt romney. the reports are, if they are accurate, that our administration, willingly or unwittingly, communicated would chen an implicit threat to his family and probably or may have sped up the process of his decision to leave the embassy. if these reports are true, this is a dark day for freedom. it is a day of shame for the obama administration. stan grant joins us from beijing. your team spoke again to chen today. this is very confusing, some conflicting accounts
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now we re learning the reason why they chose that specific target. it might not necessarily be what you think. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com he s certainly one of the most visible people on the planet that with global media watching his every single move. how did president obama take most of the world by surprise when he showed up in afghanistan. we re learning new details of this rather complex and massive operation. our white house correspondent brianna keilar is joining us. brianna, tell our viewers what you are learning. reporter: there was nothing normal about how this trip was executed and even from the way president obama entered air force one early, early in the morning on tuesday at andrews air force base. instead of taking the normal multi-story set of stairs he takes usually, he went on a smallerest is stairs into almost the belly of the plane, near the front of the plane and in addition, this is a trip th