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tomorrow night, the fight for medical marijuana takes a very emotional turn as parents say they need it to treat their daughter s disease. now they re asking the new jersey governor to change the laws. that s tomorrow night. now erin burnett anchors a cnn special investigation, the truth about benghazi. tonight, u.s. embassies and consulates around the world close. we believe this threat is significant and we are taking it seriously. u.s. officials afraid of another benghazi, where four americans, including the u.s. ambassador to libya, were murdered. nearly a year later, no one wants to repeat the same fatal mistakes. my heart is broken, because
coalition. my name is chris stevens and i m the new u.s. ambassador to libya. his job? to bring stability to a hot zone. gadhafi s weapons stockpiles had been raided and weapons were everywhere. so one of the things that the u.s. was interested in doing, and in particular the cia, was collecting weapons. that mission brought stevens to benghazi on september 11. when he opened a cultural center and met with officials. ambassador stevens had met with a turkish official and the consulate there in benghazi and everything was quiet for them. that all changed when darkness fell. at 9:42 p.m., gunfire is heard outside the benghazi consulate. then a loud explosion.
group has claimed credit. if there was any thought that this might have been a spontaneous uprising, well, this clearly put that to rest. three days before september 11, is a local libyan militia told the u.s. the security situation in benghazi was quickly deteriorating, warning the americans to decrease their presence. there may have been a lack of situational awareness. they may have not been able to identify which of the dozens of violent armed groups in benghazi pose a threat to the united states. we have breaking news. an american we can confirm now has been killed in libya tonight. at about 1:00 a.m., an eyewitness captures a man being pulled from the smoke-filled consulate on video. this is the last image of chris stevens alive.
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