all right. diane, and finally, a horse in kentucky in touch with his inner artist. the horse named justin. there you see him there. throwing around the paint brush a while back, now painting are just, they cannot keep them on the shelves. selling for hundreds of dollars. all the money going to help a local museum which is really nice. he liked to draw shapes in the sand with her whip. gave her a brush and justin started painting. can we get a better name than justin for that horse? three waiting for the same cycling and it is frustrated. a lot of frustrated people coming out. frankly, just want of to get on with it. being called where they re going or what near going or where they should turn up. clearly still some confusion here but they are working very hard to shake this down. the ceo of this company got an absolute grilling yesterday in parliament about the politicians who didn t spare any block. describing this as a shamble and as astonishing $77 million management
we begin this hour with tensions ratcheting up between israel and iran. a bomb went off just as israeli tourists boarded a bus in the bulgarian resort city. six people are confirmed dead. some 30 others are wounded. president obama s strongly condemning the attack calling it in his word barbaric. cnn s elise labott is joining us live with the very latest. bulgarians are of course investigating. i m sure the israelis are as well. first of all, what are the bulgarians saying? reporter: well, wolf, forensic investigators on the scene. it s all very preliminary at this point, but they re saying that this was caused by a bus bomb already placed inside the bus. that s really all they know, but they re not ruling anything out. they say it s possibly a terrorist attack. obviously the israelis saying they re sure of it. but bulgarians not ruling anything in, not ruling anything out at this point, wolf. didn t take very long for the prime minister of israel, benjamin netanyahu to d
outfront tonight, is syria at a tipping point? the pressure is building on syrian president bashar al assad who is no doubt watching his back this evening after an attack struck the heart of his regime. a regime that s been in power for over 40 years and has launched a brutal crackdown on rebels over the last 16 months, killing more than 16,000 people, according to one opposition group. whether today s bloodshed is the result of a rebel attack or an inside job, one thing is clear assad s security perimeter has been breached. state tv reports those assassinated at a high-level meeting in damascus include the defense minister, the deputy defense minister who s also al assad s brother-in-law, and his security adviser. rebels danced in the street following the explosion. the opposition forces have come a long way since the uprising began. that has deputy defense secretary leon panetta worried the situation is quickly deteriorating. the violence there has only gotten worse a
generation of radar, one expert calling it a matter of life and death. and a grandmother brutally bullied on a school bus. right now though through the power of social media an unbelievable outpouring of sympathy and cash. we ll update you on what s going on. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. they were a critical part of his winning coalition in 2008. and this year president obama needs latino voters more than ever as he faces a very tough re-election campaign. just a few hours ago the president addressed one of the country s largest hispanic conventions laying out his vision not only for immigration reform, but also for the country s economic future. our chief white house correspondent, jessica yellin, is traveling with the president in florida. jessica, after a surprise move last week ending deportations for some illegal immigrants brought to the united states as children, did the president use that and more to politically go after mitt romney? reporte
ground and folks who are still trying to get out of the mess. thank you, kyra. live from studio 7, i m suzanne malveaux and up to speed for august 30th, tuesday. here we go, again, the rivers in new jersey are bursting the banks overwhelmed by all of the rain that hurricane irene dumped on the state. the passaic river has been overrunning parts of paterson, new jersey, all morning long. emergency workers pulled some 1,500 people to safety after the passaic flooded homes. governor chris christie says that nine new jersey rivers have surged to record flood levels, but thankfully, they are receding now. he says only one, the passaic has not crested. the number of people killed now by irene and the aftermath rose to 38 today across 11 states. i want to get the latest on the emergency rescues in paterson, new jersey, where we are taking a look, a dramatic look of pictures throughout the morning and on the phone is sergeant alex popoff of the paterson police department, and we unde