all those other parents and community members. you need to take a good look at this and you need to determine how you re going to go about dealing with this issue. reporter: lori segan, cnn money, new york. we are rooting for him because he is absolutely right. still to come has the pope gone too far? the holy father makes strong comments today and conservative catholics are fighting back hard. plus a controversy paradox. showing sympathy for those with ptsd or making security clearance tougher to obtain? is that choice making america unsafe? and then, this car case comes to violent end. but the crime did not stop there. and the shout out tonight an attempted theft thwarted. a 75-year-old woman you see there was nearly knocked to the ground after her purse was stolen. fortunately the suspect didn t get very far. according to m live.com a local delivery man stopped the suspect, other men jumped him helping to tackle her to the ground and holding her until the police could ar
could be what that car looks like now. his granddaughter, debbie mcmanaman says her family used to look out onto this water and wonder. we d always, you know, maybe grandpa s in the lake. maybe he had an accident and he s in the lake. you used to say that? yeah. even since i ve been married and an adult, we would come up here, maybe grandpa s in the lake. maybe that s where he s at. reporter: a random thought that may turn out to be oddly prophetic. ed lavandara. dr. kobalinski, we can identify king tut, king richard iii was under a parking lot in britain and they were able to identify him. they re saying they can t identify these bodies that are just a few decades old. how come? well, i think they can identify these bodies. there are things that anthropologists can do just to assemble this mixture of bones
hassan rouhani offering to broker a peace deal between the west and syria. it seems syria we just reported tonight breaking news here on cnn that s moving its chemical weapons out of u.s. eyes. and what could be the most significant gesture in more than three decades, the new president of iran also tweeted today that he quote has not ruled out the possibility of meeting with president obama at the u.n. general assembly next week, adding quote everything is possible in the world of politics. everything and nothing, perhaps. cnn s jim sciutto is out front tonight with the latest. jim, in the washington post op ed that i just referenced, rouhani said he wants to get involved in the talks between the syrian government and the opposition. i m just curious, we hear about this man. he s a reformer. others say no he s a wolf in sheep s clothing. he s just saying all these nice things. what do you think? how significant is all this talk? reporter: well, i ve been to iran a number of times.
run-ins with the law as well as his serious mental health issues occurred after that initial background check. aaron alexis told police he was hallucinating and hearing voices. he once got so mad he shot out the tires on someone s car. alexis family also claims he suffered from ptsd after being a first responder on 9/11. and still he kept his security clearance. i mean, the political correctness reporter: some lawmakers argue the government has watered down the security clearance screening process for all members of the military. want to be politically correct. we don t want to stigmatize anybody. reporter: to remove that stigma, advocates lobbied for an exception to the security clearance questionnaire. suicide rates were spiking and more troops and vets were seeking mental health care. in 2008, the government said, if you sought mental health counselling related to having been in military combat, you do not have to disclose that. alexis was never in combat. but veterans ex
one day try to kill his co-workers. these are designed to determine if you re the kind of person that can safeguard classified information. reporter: we re also learning new information about what happened at that navy yard. authorities now believe that aaron alexis came out of the bathroom with the shotgun and methodically but randomly started shooting people on the third and fourth floors, not down into the atrium as we first believed. they say there was no pattern to it. and at some point he went down to the first floor, shot a security guard and took his handgun. when authorities found him, he was in a room filled with cubicles and they had to clear those cubicles one by one until they got to him. at that point he engaged them and they shot aaron alexis. erin? thank you very much, chris lawrence. now our seventh story outfront, new ally or wolf in sheep s clothing? so just tonight, just coming out in the washington post, an op ed by the new president of iran,