significant impact on troops and allies. private first class bradley manning is a primary focus of the leak investigation. he served as an intelligence analyst in iraq. private manning has not been charged, but he is locked up in solitary confinement at quantico, virginia, in connection with a separate leak case. cool, calm, and talking to a killer. a police dispatcher tries to end a massacre using only words. now, you re going to make the troopers and the people come in and catch you? you re not going to surrender yourself? well, i guess, i guess maybe i ll surrender. no. they can come and get me. we wouldn t want to do it like that, omar. you know, it s already been a bad enough scene here this morning. we want you to relax. i m relaxed. i m done. we don t want any more people to lose their life here. i m not going to kill nobody else. okay. the killer, omar thornton,
the beer distributor busted him. showed him security video that actually featured thornton stealing the beer. he basically was forced to quit. that s when police say he got out his gun and unleashed hell claiming that his employers were racists. that s a claim that they deny. so how can we know so much detail? well, it s because omar thornton tells us. police say he stopped killing and actually called 911 before he took the final shot. listen to the cold, calculating voice of the killer and the steady calm of the dispatcher on the other end of the line. police. is this 911? yeah, can i help you? this is omar thornton, the shooter over in manchester. where are you, sir? i m in the building. i understand that.
calm down. i m not going to kill anybody else. i want to tell my story to you anyway. where in the building are you? i m not going to tell you. when they find me, everything will be over. what type of weapon do you have? pistol. it s my favorites. thornton had just been fired from the company for stealing. he claimed that the firing was racial. well, new chief about al-qaida operations very familiar with american society because he s lived in the united states of america for more than 15 years. the f.b.i. says he has taken over for khali shaikh mohammed. the mastermind, of course, of the september 11th attacks. the 33-year-old used to live in miramar, florida with his mother and five sisters and brothers. he studied computer science and chemistry at a community college there. they have been looking at him since 2003. those are the headlines.
have? i got a ruger sr 9. sr 9? automatic, yeah. is it a rifle? no, no. pistol. now, you re doing to make the troopers and the people come in and catch you? jur not going to surrender yourself? well, i guess maybe i ll surrender. no. they can come and get me. have them come and get me. we wouldn t want to do it like that, omar. you know, it s already been a bad enough scene here this morning. we want you to relax. i m relaxed. i m down. we don t want any more, you know, people to lose their life there. i m not going to kill nobody else. okay. i m not going to [ inaudible ]. john wh
front. private employers added a very tepid 71,000 jobs in july. far below the 90,000 forecast for the month. unemployment stayed steady at 9.5%. overall the nation lost 131,000 jobs. president obama will speak live on the economy next hour, as we get the news that one of his top economic advisers is resigning. msnbc will cover the president s remarks live. the shooter in the deadliest workplace massacre in connecticut history said he had hoped to take out more of his co-workers. omar thornton s words reported in a 911 call just after his shooting rampage and just before he took his own life. bp is close to permanently sealing the blown-out oil well in the gulf with a cement plug. they re waiting a day for the cement to harden before crews can inject more mud and cement into the bottom of the well from deep underground to make sure that this is a lasting plug. firefighters in russia are having a pretty tough time keeping up with the wildfires that are now burning across more