tonight, we have breaking news. cnn confirms the identity of the man accused of murdering 16 afghan civilians in a house to house shooting spree last weekend. 38-year-old staff sergeant robert bails, an 11-year veteran. let s get to chris lawrence at the pentagon. what can you tell us? well, i can tell you he s originally from the midwest and he was living in ohio until about 2001. after 9/11, that s when he joined the army. he s been based out at joint based lewis mcchord for the majority if not all of his military career. did about three combat tours in iraq. this was his first in afghanistan and as his lawyer has pointed out to cnn earlier today, apparently, he did not ever think he woul get a fourth deployment. a fourth caught him by surprise. get a combat veteran. we know he s been decorated for his service having served three tours in iraq already, but apparently from his lawyer we re learning, that he did not expect to be deployed for this fourth deployment to afghan
chamber of commerce. his wife, can police ta, is going to the university of alabama birmingham medical center. but a trip to the zoo, the birmingham zoo, one of his fate river favorite thing to do was to go to the zoo, has been canceled because of the rain. okay, no trips to the zoo today. thank you, john. more of our special tuesday coverage in a minute, but first some other stories people are talking about right now. we are watching atlanta s international airport this morning to see if there are any residual delays after a delta airline 737 rolled off the runway. no passengers were onboard and nobody was hurt. mechanics have been testing the plane s engines when they had a problem with the braking system to cause the plane to roll into an embankment. live pictures from new jersey where attorneys are giving closing arguments in the so-called rutgers web cam trial. daren rob biis accused of using a web cam to spy on his
gunfire what happened in the next few moments is unclear, he was finally killed. how he died, we do not yet know. didn t take long for the death photos surface. we want to warn you, they are very graphic. gadhafi is indeed dead. the photos come from misrata where he was taken and killed possibly while trying to escape, possibly in a fire fight between captors and support toers or in crossfire or possibly executed. you can see he is surrounded by onlookers, he is not being mourned, certainly not there his death and of his son being celebrated in libya and in the west. faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi forces in their tracks. a coalition that the united states, nato, and arab nations persevered through the summer to protect lybian civilians and courageous libyan people and broke the back of the regime. we ll have video as well and a much more impromptu of sec
[ speaking foreign language ]. that is the first time that we are seeing this video. it s another angle of the video that we saw earlier. clearly you see him wiping blood off his face, looking confused. that matches what a correspondent on the ground says occurred. the bottom line is, gadhafi is dead. the circumstances under which he died, though, are still a little hazy. still unclear. it didn t take long for the death photos to surface. i want to warn you, they are very graphic but this is, indeed, gadhafi, and gadhafi is indeed gone. this photo is taken from misrata. possibly executed or caught in cross fire. you can see there are onlookers. faced with the potential of mass otrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi forces in their tracks. a coalition that the united states, nato, and arab nations persevered through the summer to protect the civilians and libyan people and broke the back of the re
[ speaking foreign language ] gunfire what happened in the next few moments is unclear, he was finally killed. how he died, we do not yet know. didn t take long for the death photos surface. we want to warn you, they are very graphic. gadhafi is indeed dead. the photos come from misrata where he was taken and killed possibly while trying to escape, possibly in a fire fight between captors and support toers or in crossfire or possibly executed. you can see he is surrounded by onlookers, he is not being mourned, certainly not there his death and of his son being celebrated in libya and in the west. faced with the potential of mass atrocities and a call for help from the libyan people, the united states and our friends and allies stopped gadhafi forces in their tracks. a coalition that the united states, nato, and arab nations persevered through the summer to protect lybian civilians and courageous libyan people and broke the back of the regime. we ll have video as well an