job. gregg: escaped prison inmate john mccluskey and casslyn welch, his cousin and fiance nabbed at a campground. martha: tell us how all this went down. reporter: the ending played out like something from a bonnie and clyde movie with casslyn welch pulling a gun from her bag as the police moved in. mccluskey said he would have fired on cops if he had had the opportunity. a forest ranger noticed an unattended campfire. he noticed a silver nissan backed into the trees as if someone is trying to hide it. he sees mccluskey. then he leaves and runs the plate. he find out the car was stolen and the plate was stolen in next arounin newmexico, around the ta accumulation were murder. welch pulls a gun from the small of her back then drops it when she realized she is about to be shot. casslyn well much has a firearm in the small of her back. she attempted to go for the firearm. but as she pulled it out the swat officers had her had their guns trained on her and she dropped the w
and meet our cnn hero of the week. she says get off the couch. she s fighting obesity in america s fattest state. walking is cheap. your life is priceless. good morning, everyone. i m jim acosta in for tony harris. those stories and your comments right now, right here in the cnn newsroom. there is a lot happening in the next two hours right here on the cnn newsroom. we re glad you re with us. in just moments we expect to hear the latest on the busted oil well in the gulf. bp s doug subtles is briefing the mediaened and announcing he s going back to his previous job with the company. a summer meeting with the republican national committee is getting under way. michael steele is speaking right now. we will take you there live. and president obama is focusing on small businesses with new numbers on jobs out this morning. but let s get started talking about your security. from a jihadist rock star using rap videos to recruit terrorists to a rising star within the
mawmy and 13 others from the u.s. with funneling money and fighters to somalia. we are seeing an increasing number of individuals, including u.s. citizens, who have become captivated by extremist ideology and have taken steps to carry out terrorist objectives, either at home or abroad. reporter: the 12 men indicted in the crase now on an f.b.i. wanted poster. they re not in custody and are believed to be fighting with al-shabaab in somalia. two women charged with raising money for the terror group by going door to door in smally neighborhoods in minnesota were arrested earlier today. minneapolis with the nation s largest somali population is ground zero for al-shabaab recruitment. terror experts say over the past four years, some three dozen young men from that area have left the u.s. to join al-shabaab s ranks. many families there have now turned to the f.b.i. for help. it s their kids that have been recruited and in some cases, ended up as casualties in somalia. so, p
in over a month and because there s oil spilling into that water right now and every minute of every day, the anger and despair there are now taking a toll. now the oil is surging. miles up and into the marsh. more than 65 miles of some of the most beautiful coastline in the united states now affected. the damage spread across three states, louisiana, mississippi, alabama. the effort to stop it, clean it up is huge. 22,000 people are working on it just there in the spill zone. over three quarters of a million gallons of chemical dispersant and that s a story in itself, have been poured into the gulf to try to break up the slick, which is now the size of delaware and rhode island combined. we have complete coverage again tonight beginning with our chief environmental affairs correspondent, anne thompson. anne, good evening. reporter: as bp works to plug the well, the oil giant faces potential fines and perhaps a criminal investigation. while taking a public beating from resi
is special report. i am hosting fox news sunday this weekend, so please tune into that. and we will be at the supreme court on monday. have a great weekend. [captioning made possible by fox news channel] captioned by the national captioning institute www.ncicap.org shepard: 2 night, a big meeting on the war in afghanistan. the harsh rejection of chicago and america. and the new normal for david letterman. i am shepard smith. the news starts now. a connecticut man has been indicted and arrested. shepard: it turns out the man works for cbs news. tonight, new information about what prosecutors called a multimillion-dollar extortion plot. plus, what was inside the package in letterman s limo. plus, chicago watched it streams disappear as the olympics go elsewhere. it was not enough. rio goes home with the gold. chicago did not even get the bronze. the windy city was the first of four finalists eliminated for the 2016 olympic games, that despite the president, mrs. obama,