and name paris davis will still stand alongside the nation s pioneering heroes. reporter: davis says to receive the medal of honor is noting short of a dream. it s mayda day to say thank u to america for allowing me to be in the military, serve the country and the country has been pretty damn good to me. he is one of four service members in u.s. military history to have earned the medal of honor and soldier s medal. pamela, it was a privilege to put together the story and meet paris davis who remained in the military for 20 years. what an inspiration, so well-deserved. thank you. a florida man s smart phone helped save his life from body cam video. you can see the man s car upside down in a canal. this is wednesday in martin county. deputies say the driver swerved to avoid an animal mall.
people stranded in puerto rico as we have been showing you. government working with religious groups, nonprofit and others raving landslides thick mud and broken asphalt to try to provide food water and medicine for people in need. about 850,000 people in puerto rico still have no electricity. more than 400,000 customers are still without water tonight a malaysian defense contractor who orchestrated one of the largest bribery scandal in u.s. military history has been arrested in venezuela. the u.s. marshal service says leonard glen francis, also known as fat leonard, was arrested tuesday as he was about to board a plane in caracas. francis under home arrest in san diego when he cut off his g.p.s. ankle bracelet and escaped in early september prompting an international manhunt. russian and ukrainian forces exchanged artillery fire today as both sides refused to exceed
incredible pictures oust philippines. entire villages may have been wipe out by flash floods caused by a tropical storm. just look at the force of that storm. more than 400 people are confirmed dead now. hundreds more are missing. an estimated 100,000 people have been displaced. you can see them walking in the water in. according to witnesses, residents were in their beds when the deluge struck and water rose so quickly, people had to scrumble on to their roofs to keep from being swept away. cnn spoke with the philippines red cross about the disaster. here it is. this is one quick deep fix we never expected out of what is considered a storm that brought an awful lot of rain, that brought a lot of landslides caused by high t.i.d.e. tides n rivers and all of a sudden you have a flash flood that suddenly kills people in most of the villages in the area, and that is why today we have 436 people dead and over 350 people missing. let s get for perspective. from meteorologist ja
13,000 gay troops were kicked out after their secrets leaked out and the taxpayers spent more than $100 million replacing them. today don t ask, don t tell is no more. repeal took effect at 12:01 a.m., nine months after signing the measure from the waining days of a lame duck congress. gays can now serve openly in every branch of service and all of those discharged service members can try to reenlist. key word, try. turns out repeal is one thing but reality is much different. more on that in our next segment moments from now. more than 22 years after former army ranger and offduty police officer was shot to death in savannah, georgia, the man convicted of killing him is once again set to die. the georgia board of pardons and paroles rejected the last ditch appeal for clemency. the state relied almost entirely on witness testimony and seven out of nine witnesses who implicated davis have since recanted or changed their stories. amnesty international is one of several group