killer's chilling last words. take a listen. >> we don't want any more, you know, people to lose their life. >> i'm not going to kill anybody else. >> the dispatcher's call, remarkable. maybe saving more lives. people are 100 years old and older are missing. the japanese not wanting to give up their dead or the government checks either. a college professor can't. why? because he's not gay. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast and 6:00 a.m. in the west. i'm krya phillips. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." we begin with the breaking news on a broken economy. we have new evidence of just how feeble the recovery is and how many americans have nothing to show for it. the nation's unemployment rate has remained flat at a disheartening 9.5%. just last month, 60,000 jobs vanished. the news is bad but not quite as bad as we expected. if you have tickets on an amtrak train going south from washington, you will have to change your plans. a cssx coltrane derailed in quantico, virginia, blocking all tracks. that's caused amtrak to cause all or parts of the following services. washington to newport news, virginia, new york city to miami, charlotte, north carolina, to have a vanna, georgia, and lorton, virginia, to sanford, florida. amtrak says that limited alternate transportation will be available on some routes. amtrak is making calls to passengers with confirmed reservations on the shutdown trains. people's whose trains were stopped in the middle of their trips were pretty frustrated. >> i will never ride it again. >> amtrak, never again. >> amtrak is asking passengers that want to know about a specific train to call this number. 1-800-usa-rail. just when you thought the lockerbie bomber outrage couldn't be hotter, this comes out today in "the wall street journal." remember scotland let ali al megrahi go to libya yesterday because the doctors said the prostate cancer would kill him within three months? as you know he's still very much alive. sources tell "the journal" there was no consensus among all those specialists who actually treated megrahi. instead the justice minister went with one doctor's opinion and granted the compassionate release. al megrahi killed 270 people on that pan am flight 22 years ago. we will have venting to do on this issue a little later in the hour. americans tied to terror. a man raised as a baptist in alabama and now known as a jihadist rock star. a former california resident believed to fight alongside the so-called star in somalia and listen to this. two minnesota women are accused of raising money for terrorists by just asking donors to give to a fund for the poor and needy. 14 people in all have been charged with aiding an al qaeda linked group. who are these people? how did the feds track them down? let's bring in jeanne meserve to talk about the case. >> a new state department report avl shabaab as one of al qaeda's affiliates. part after pipeline to that somali group. funneling funds and fighters. al shabaab, a u.s. designated terror group on the battlefield in somalia. among its commanders, u.s. officials say that two of the indicted men, jihad's sir one mustafi and hammami. both u.s. citizens. appears in jihadi videos. >> only reason we are staying here, way from our families, away from the votes, away from, you know, candy bar, all these other things, we are waiting to meet with him. >> reporter: an expert calls hammami a jihadi rock star. a bridge between two cultures. >> i'm going to stop when i send them to hell. >> somebody that has feet in both worlds, fuse it is jihadi narrative with the american culture and rap music. this isn't just someone reciting dusty old texts. this someone americans see glimmer of themselves in. >> reporter: hammami was raised baptist but converted to islam as a young man. his mother tells cnn she hasn't talked to him since 2007 and she doesn't know if he's guilty as accused. also unsealed, indictments of ten men from minnesota's somali community. all are believed to be overseas training or fighting with al shabaab. the government hopes the indictments send a message. >> if you choose this group, you can expect to find yourself in the united states jail cell or to be a casualty on a somali battlefield. >> reporter: the indictments don't reflect the breadth of the homegrown terror problem. recently four young men from new jersey, virginia, chicago have been arrested for allegedly trying to travel to somali to fight. also announced, the arrest in minnesota of two women who the government alleged raised money for al shabaab. sometimes through teleconferences. in some instances the government says they misled donors telling them their money would help the poor in somali and not wage war. kyra, back to you. >> jeanne meserve live in washington. americans disappear and winding newspaper a terror war half a world away. we have the heartbreaking story of the family that lost a son and later found a picture of him dead. the chilling call a killer made to 911 just after his rampage at a beer distributor in connecticut. omar thornton shot and killed eight people when he made that call. the dispatcher trying to convince him he must relax and stop the killing. >> you are going to make the troopers and people come in and catch you, you are not going to surrender yourself? >> well, i guess. i guess, maybe i'll surrender. they come in. >> we want to you relax. >> i'm relaxed. >> we don't want any more, you know, people to lose their life there. >> i'm not going to kill nobody else. >> okay. >> thornton eventually killed himself. but did you notice how calm the dispatcher was? next hour, we are going to talk with the s.w.a.t. negotiator about what an amazing job that dispatcher did and how he might have saved even more lives. dye 109 of the gulf oil disaster. this could well be the beginning of the end. crews wrapped up their statdic kill operation and the cement they pour flood the ruptured well is hardening. but the work is not over. crews will don't drill two relief wells once they reach the pipeline within the next week or two they will pump for cement through the bottom. bottom kill operation will serve as an insurance policy. even then the disaster will be far from resolved. one federal official warns tar balls that actually wash ashore for years to come. other issue that will decide the recovery of the gulf is the seafood. how much is tainted. and how willing are americans to buy it? we are about to share answers as we go behind the scenes of the government's extensive testing process. here is the story from chad petri who is with wkrg out of mobile, alabama. >> reporter: what used to be known as the catch of the day is now the scientific sample of the day. this is one of more than a dozen boats bringing seafood for noaa to test. with a chain of custody form in hand, these fish are data, not dinner. >> chain of custody form because all of the fish are treated as evidence. this is part of the process that's used for any of the oil spill data collected. >> reporter: from there the fish are taken to the lab to be processed into samples. shrimp are peeled, fish are filleted. information on the fish were caught is carefully logged. the samples will be sent to seattle for chemical testing. this facility focuses on sensory or smell tests. sniffing for oil in fish is a lot like trying a fine wine. >> let the head space build up and raise it up. and fan it through. take a little slight sniff. put it down again. then let it register before you write that. it is not just training your senses. it is training your mind to react the same way every time you get that sense. >> reporter: with more than 2,500 samples gathered since late april, noaa officials honl one stink of oil. these tests are vital in determining whether or not sections of the gulf can reopen to fish. >> three out of seven fail it. that fish fails. that station fails and most likely that area of water will fail. we will no reopen. >> we hope that we could have the areas open early in september. >> reporter: fish are also cooked and tasted for oil. noaa officials say the program is comprehensive and want people to be confident in what they buy. >> as the commercial fishermen wait to see how many of the closed fishing areas will be reopened, they know the rebound of the industry depends on something much less scientific. confidence of the american people. they say if shoppers and diners remain skittish and don't buy the seafood, the future of their industry will be bleak. just after 10:00 p.m. in tokyo. do you know where your gray grandparents are? 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>> yes. some people are getting relief. thanks to the thunderstorms as the cold front went through. the mayor of alexandria, virginia, says that this storm was worse for his city than snowmageddon. that's a lot of trees down. let me tell thaw. the cold front super bowl on the move and that's a little bit of good news. bringing in some of that heat relief and it is also triggering storms across parts of the mid and deep south. and although it is not fun to have the forms, it will drop the temperature by 5 to 10 degrees. maybe even a little bit more. we have been seeing that pushing through the nashville area as well as across parts of northern louisiana where some of the worst of it has been. let's talk more about this heat. you know, we have seen some big drops in the temperatures. advisories remain across parts of the deep south. and one of the reasons why you need to use so much caution is this. let me tell you what story -- we will show you video of what happened in kentucky this week. six football players were at practice. this was at 10:00 in the morning. they were overcome by the heat and had to take -- be taken to the hospital. everybody is okay right now. this is something to keep in mind you really need to take breaks and drink a lot of water. it is dangerous situation. especially when the morning temperatures start out in the 80s. that's what we have been seeing. heat advisories from oklahoma city down towards dallas. stretching all the way over towards charleston, south carolina. it is going to feel le 100 thon 110 degrees. there is some heat relief. who is getting it? oh, my gosh. gorgeous day in chicago. 81 degrees. 83 in minneapolis. 80s across the northeast. couple of comparisons and contrasts. one of the best cities that's going to feel the drop today, 105 yesterday in little rock, arkansas. how about 91 for today? we will take that. >> that's true. compared to 100 plus. college professor gets the boot from his job. his offense, he says, he was a closet heterosexual. he says he was a straight man living in a gay world. safety s. it's is a combination of five accident avoidance technologies. the star safety system is something that's standard on 100 percent of toyota vehicles. we always think of safety, even in the concept design of our vehicles. 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