Of islam, every muslim must make the hajj if they are physically and financially able to do so. but saudi officials also want to give that reassurance that everything is safe, they have sped up this investigation, hopefully to have it concluded before the hajj begins. of course. a horrific tragedy. ian lee, thank you very much. not the headline most expected, unknown italian player, serena williams out of the open and ends her run for a grand slam. she s not unknown now. but how much do you know about her? yes, miss vinci. we ll talk about it. also this little girl whose viral video caught at eye of the tennis star herself. this little one is here with us. go, serena! we ll talk to her, next.
reporter: well, a little bit from a week from now, millions will be descending upon mecca for the hajj. this is the holiest time of the year for muslims where they will be taking part in one of the five pillars of islam. one of the five essential things to do. anyone who is financially or physically able to go on the hajj partakes in this. there s a bunch of different stations that they go to. and this construction was exp d expanding in the grand mosque around the holiest site to accommodate more than 2 million people. this year they are expecting roughly about that many people to come to mecca. so with this sort of accident, unlikely to deter anyone, because most people, this is their life savings they put into going to mecca. but for saudi officials, they
Did this assignment where they wrote out the five pillars of islam, including having them learn and write the islamic conversion creed. and it looks the qualifier muslims believe x, y, and z. why do you think this is happening? is this a direct attack on christianity? because maybe they re saying they would study christianity later? is this a direct attack. ? i don t know if i would characterize it as an attack but they don t study any other religions to this extent. they re not going to learn any other religion, doctrines or creed and they are not going to back over this chapter, even though they do discuss christianity a little bit in the middle ages, they re never going
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International terrorism groups. a family spokesman who asked us not to use his name tells us the family says their son suffered from severe depression for a long time. had suicidal thoughts. and a serious substance abuse problem. alcohol, marijuana, opiates and other recreational drugs. the parents say their son moved into this house with the family when he was in grade school. he still came back here many weekends. but rented a room 140 miles away for a factory job he had near nashville. his parents say he lost a previous job at a nuclear power plant in ohio because he failed a drug test. in his younger years, abdulazeez participated in high school video production, monotheism listed as one of the producers, seen and heard talking about the koran. there are five major pillars of islam. they re the confession of faith, prayer alms giving fasting and pilgrimage to mecca. reporter: he graduated from