well, i was trying to crawl out, but everybody was crawling back in and they said don t go over there, because he is going to shoot everybody who is trying to get out of the main doors, and he was. it was a night of the movies that turned into a day of tragedy and shock and grief. i m suzanne malveaux in cnn head quarters and we are preempting k cnn international and we new now welcome in our viewers who are watching around the world. you are watching cell phone video capturing the chaos after a man burst into a theater in aurora, colorado, and opened fire. at least 12 people were killed. 38 others wounded. now the theater, it was packed with people attending the premier of a new batman movie the dark knight rises. the gunman starts this rampage and the police arrest this suspect identified as 24-year-old james holmes in the parking lot. witnesses describes what happens in this terrifying scene. he came in and he started lighting a gas can, and he threw it into the
minutes, but first, we are getting kwoword of a u.s. milit crash in oman which happened 15 miles from the country s capital. five crew members were on board, and the condition is not clear. military officials don t know what caused this crash, but they say it was not attacked. in northern columbia, a 3-year-o missing for an entire day was finally rescued from a sewer. you have to watch this. the boy had been playing in a construction zone with his brothers when he disappeared, and now he is safe and sound. the. a suicide bomber had a michigan driver s license and that is what officials in bulgaria are saying today and we are talking about the explosion that killed five israeli tourists and a bus driver which happened yesterday outside of an airport on the bulgaria s black seacoast, and they say that the michigan driver s license was probably a phony. we have surveillae footage of the man who may have set off this bomb. this is the airport, and this is in burgas, bull gari
off of a glacier this week and scientists say it is probably because of global warming, but too early to say for sure. oh children in south africa singing to nelson mandela on today, his 94th birthday. civil rights icon and south africa africa s first black president turns 94 on what is officially mandela day in the country. and what is most important today is what sis happening in syria and the most important development there. a bomb in damascus that killed four officials who were all part of the president s circle. the first man killed is the syrian defense minister who is our equivalentf the ministry of defense and he is killed da wood rajiha, and also is the president s brother-in-law and the president s security adv and all of the men were in a meeting when the bomb went off. cnn does not have reporters or camera crews in syria right now but arwa damon is watching this unfold from beirut, and arwa we are talking about the president s closest advisers and a family
has fallen short. dan joins me from london. appreciate it. so dan, this comes down absolutely, yeah, this is fast turning into sorry, go ahead. this comes down to a private contractor. they were tasked with providing security for the games, so what s the concern now? where did they fall short? well, they basically haven t been able to guarantee the number of guards that they were contracted to provide at various different olympic sites. we re going to turn up on time. we haven t quite drilled down to the bottom of exactly why that is but we re told it s something to do with scheduling problems with software problems, basically that they can t insure that the people they trained will turn up at the right place or that the people have the right accreditation or can get to one place or another. logistical problems bike this private security firm who last wednesday told the government, look, we can t fulfill the contract of supplying 10,000 guards. you re going to help
full extent of this until the cotton is picked and the kernels are counted. now setting them to stun, is it going too far? hello, everyone. i m poppy harlow. a senior government official with 34 years of service now says he s on the side of the rebel upriding. he says he can t be part of a dictatorship any locker. you ll hear him in his own words in just a moment. plus, i just spoke with the long time american ambassador to syria. his reaction, our conversation, coming up. an egyptian official says two americans kidnapped in the sinai peninsula are unharmed and well fed. their families want to know when they will be freed. the son of reverend lewis wants to know how the ordeal is taking a to the on the pastor s wife. even right now, it seems like a dream to her, a nightmare. also, a huge portion of the united states being strangled by drought this hour, which is threatening everything from crops to cattle. 1,000 counties spanning 26 states are now considered dro