and how fragmented they are. the problem, rick, you have people who are defecting but nobody for them to lead and there is no effective organization for them to go to. makes it difficult out of the meeting who to give aid these allies want to give to give it to. back to you. rick: we ll watch those developments. leland vittert in jerusalem, thanks. martha: and a terror scare in the u.k. just weeks before the olympics get underway. what police found hidden in a car. rick: and a follow-up to the story we told you about yesterday. the lifeguard being fired after he saved someone s life. none of us want a job back at this company. we re hoping the city takes over the beach and maybe to start work for the city different lifeguard company, red cross maybe. but you wouldn t work for them? no, absolutely not.
this has kind of a happy ending but not really. we will get to that. no. bill: let s walk through it the guy is a lifeguard. used to be a lifeguard. you see somebody in trouble you go save them. guard their life. for that he got fired. bill: how? because they had a contract this lifeguard company with the city to just guard this area. and the person was drowning over here and the lifeguard didn t quite understand the concept of the life saving stops right here. many many beaches says does not swim beyond this point if do you it s your responsibility. this company said to the lifeguard don t save anybody outside this zone. let them drown. he saw the sign. tough noogies. bill: if the lifeguard would have let him drown the family would have sued the city. you have got to give it to his employer because is he paying this guy 8.25 an hour. bill: that much.
this has kind of a happy ending but not really. we will get to that. no. bill: let s walk through it the guy is a lifeguard. used to be a lifeguard. you see somebody in trouble you go save them. guard their life. for that he got fired. bill: how? because they had a contract this lifeguard company with the city to just guard this area. and the person was drowning over here and the lifeguard didn t quite understand the concept of the life saving stops right here. many many beaches says does not swim beyond this point if do you it s your responsibility. this company said to the lifeguard don t save anybody outside this zone. let them drown. he saw the sign. tough noogies. bill: if the lifeguard would have let him drown the family would have sued the city. you have got to give it to his employer because is he paying this guy 8.25 an hour. bill: that much.
this has kind of a happy ending but not really. we will get to that. no. bill: let s walk through it the guy is a used to be a lifeguard. you see somebody in trouble you go save them. guard their life. for that he got fired. bill: how? because they had a contract this lifeguard company with the city to just guard this area. and the person was drowning over here and the lifeguard didn t quite understand the concept of the life saving stops right here. many many beaches says does not swim beyond this point if do you it s your responsibility. this company said to the lifeguard don t save anybody outside this zone. let them drown. he saw the sign. tough noogies. bill: if the lifeguard would have let him drown the family would have sued the city. you have got to give it to his employer because is he paying this guy 8.25 an hour. bill: that much.
reporter: 21-year-old tomas lopez says he got an apology and had a cordial talk with the lifeguard company that the fired him earlier this week. but when he was offered his job pack, he decided not to take it. i prefer not to work with the company. there s no malice or any i m not upset or anything like that against the company. it s my own personal preference to not work there. reporter: lopez was fired for leaving his assigned lifeguard area here after a beach gore told him a man was struggling in the water in an unguarded swim at your own risk area hundreds of feet away. lopez ran to help the man, and said when he got there, other swimmers were pulling the victim out of the water. we met about half way in the water, i grabbed from under him, the other guy grabbed him by the feet and we lifted him out of the water. reporter: when lopez was fired, two other lifeguards were also fired after telling managers they would have done the same as lopez. in protest, four more