nato command center were targeted. you're going to see rooftop to rooftop fighting, today in kabul. >> these are u.s. security forces that are returning fire from what we're told was a well-organized taliban attack ugz rocket-propelled grenades, also machine guns. street fighting lasted several hours. it is over now, and there were casualties. want to go straight to the capital of kabul where our own suzanne malveaux has been there for a better part of a week and a half. she has now details there. suzanne, just begin with, can you confirm what we're being told, that all of the asill aai are either dead or captured? >> reporter: actually, a spokesman for the ministry of defense just tweeted, there might be one or two more terrorists still alive. he also says the building has not yet been cleared. we know for sure there were four insurgents involved in this attack. they've been going floor by floor in this abandoned building, the building that's been under construction for some time. this has happened over the course of hours. this whole thing started ten hours ago. but it's been relatively quiet with sporadic gunfire throughout the evening, the last couple of hours or so as they've been trying to find this fourth building, perhaps are a fifth person, if they're in this building and still alive. they don't think this is all wrapped up but it's quieter now. folks at the u.s. emhe basscy have been are on lockdown for the last ten hours or so, kind of in a duck and cover mode. all of those activities are canceled for tomorrow. i have to say, brooke, i was down there below and outside of the embassy, outside the nato compound, this is where we spend a lot of time, a very tense situation. you had afghan police, afghan army trying to clear the streets. you had people who were in the hospitals who were being wheeled in who had been injured. we even saw a man, who was shot and killed, who was taken in the back of a pickup truck to a military hospital, found out that that was actually one of the insurgents who had been killed in the building. this is a bold, brazen attack, and this is one of those things really that affect alo lot of people on the ground because this really is at the heart of the security p apparatus in kab kabul. you've got the presidential palace, nato, u.s. embassy, all of these places in a relatively close proximity for the taliban to get to them and get to them way outside the compound and do the kind of damage they do, quite unsettling for a lot of people here. >> help me understand. you've been walking, as you've explained, the ground. help mor understand the lay of the land. this building apparently where these insurgents positioned themselves, prepared to do this in conjunction with these other targets and also what more can you share about the casualties. any u.s. casualties, nato casualties, and certainly civilians. >> reporter: well, sure. what happened today is obviously you had this bold attack against the u.s. embassy, nato as well as intelligence agencies offices downtown central kabul. but you also had three other attacks thattor were happening all around the area. these were isolated situations where are you would have a suicide bomber with a jacket who would try to detonate a bomb at various places. so one was outside a high school, one was on airport road that's right outside of the airport, another one was at a police compound. all of these different things were happening within the course of a couple of hours that this was taking place. now, in terms of casualties that the final numbers that we have gotten here is that seven people in total have been killed on the day and 17 injured, most of them civilians. now, nobody inside of the u.s. embassy we're told was actually killed or injured. we do know that four afghans who were right outside the compound of the embassy were injured. we know that also inside of the international security assistance forces, that's a place we spent quite a bit of time this week, nobody was injured. they were not able to penetrate the walls in that video. everything is stringed with barbed wire, very, very thick barriers to actually get inside. that did not happen so nobody was injured or killed there. but the police have been killed, civilians have been are killed, and, more importantly, people just feel a sense of fear and anxiety because what's happening is the taliban is going to the heart of the security to show that they're going to disrupt things and the afghans trying at the same time to get up to speed, take their own security into their own hand s and they realize they're working against a taliban really trying to show a symbolic strike, if you will, that they he ccan get to the he of the security apparatus here in kabul. >> certainly. here we are just two days after the tenth anniversary of 9/11 as well. suzanne malveaux live from kabul. suzanne, many thanks to you. also unfolding right now, the president of iran tells an american news network that two u.s. citizens in prison there will be freed, and i'm quote him, in a couple of days. talking about josh fattal, shane bauer locked up in iran since july of 2009 when with they were arrested and accused of crossing into iran from are iraq. they say they were with hiking. they and another american were accused of being spies. fattal and bauer have been lockedlock locked up. they were sentenced to eight years behind bars in iran. here is the problem trying to learn more about their fate. the u.s. has no diplomatic relations with iran and relies on third parties just to get information. aleae alease, did the statement from waahmadinejad just pop p up outf the blue? >> certainly the news they could be released any day now was news from the united states. they were just watching the interview with president ahmadinejad today and heard him say this. but for the last month since these men were convicted, brook, there's been p rumbles that perhaps they had been released. but u.s. state department officials being very cautious and not wanting to say anything. they've heard they're going to be released only to have the hopes of the families and u.s. dashered. let's listen to how careful secretary of state had hillary clinton today when with she was asked about this news. >> we have followed this very closely, and we are encouraged by what the iranian government has said today. but i'm not going to comment further than that. we obviously hope that we will see a positive outcome from what appears to be a decision by the government. >> now, brooke, even the family being very careful today. we have a statement just coming out shane and josh's families. it says, shane and josh's freedom mean more to us than anything and it's a huge relief that they are going to be released. we're grateful to anyone who has supported us and looking forward to our reunion with shane and josh. we hope to say more when they are finally p baback in our arm. we understand tomorrow there could be some more news, the swiss ambassador to tehran, as you mentioned, the u.s. doesn't have any relations with iran. so the swiss government is the protecting power. we understand that the swiss ambassador to iran has been summoned by the iranian foreign ministry to have a meeting on this. i just spoke to a swiss diplomat just minutes ago. i said, are you optimistic? is it looking good? he said, look, it doesn't look bad but we don't want to say more. again, we've heard this more and we don't want to get too excited. >> we've heard that phrase, cautious and optimistic. hopeful from the parents as well. elise, thank you very much. i spoke with both mothers of josh and shane just a couple of months ago. here's what they told me back then. do you think this story really is much so much bigger than josh and shane and sarah? this is really country versus country? how does that make you feel if that's the case? >> we feel terrible. this has been a time of enormous angui anguish, enormous desperation. our kids are in isolation from any other prisoner. we don't get to speak to them. more than two five-minute phone calls over 21 months. this has been a terrible situation. we want it to end. >> cindy, have you gotten everything you've needed thus far in this entire ordeal from the u.s. government? have they done enough for you? >> you know, when with shane and josh are home we'll know enough has been done. the real message is, iran need to quit playing games with shane and josh and their families. this is political. they need to take this out of the political ra rena. our families are devastated. shane and josh are 28. they need to be doing what they do fwor the world and get on with this. >> obviously we'll follow this and see if those young men come home. also, just in to cnn, a bizarre arrest in a kidnapping case. this 3-year-old canadian boy goes missing. several days miss later he shows up at home unharmed. here's his father. >> he is happily home and playing with his brothers and sisters. thank you. thank you. >> so police come forward, name this guy as a suspect. this is 46-year-old randall hopely, a convicted sex offender who lives just a couple of miles down the road from the boy's home. here is the news today. we are told police tracked him down using dogs as he took off running from a house. it it's not yet clear what evidence investigators have on him. also this -- >> someone doesn't have to weaponize the bird flu. ed the birds are doing that. >> that's where we're headed. >> this is the biggest movie in america right now, a virus threatens to wipe out the human race and it's got a lot of people asking, how real is this threat? coming up, we'll talk with a woman who actually advised the folks behind the scenes of the film "contagion." she says the threat is very real and the world needs a wiekup call. incredible video. this it car and motorcycle go up into flames. bystanders run to rescue the guy. police have been looking for all these heroes involved, and guess what we have managed to track one down. we'll talk with him live, next. i want to show you some video. this is a recesses cue like you've never seen before. watch this with me. this is a motorcycle on fire and a bmw behind it it. police say the car pulled out in front of the biker who swerved to avoid hiing it, ended up underneath the car. so you see the fire? that's because gas spilled and then the big boom. one man tries to help this guy, lift the car, can't do it by himself. you see this crowd of people, about ten people by my count, pulling this car up. by the way, the car 4,000 pounds. you see they actually drag the guy out. we'll loop the video again so you can see it, saving this young man. they then basically wander off, stunning. police in logan, utah, are are trying to track some of these heroes down so they can recognize their efforts, say thank you. i want to bring in one of the guys who actually helped in this rescue. i just learned he was the first officer on the scene. logan police department sergeant jason olsen. sergeant olsen, first things first, let's just say this 21-year-old motorcyclist, brandon wright, we're now reporting he is in stable condition. where were you when you got the call to get to the scene? >> i was actually on the street of about 900 north and 600 east in logan so i was probably less than a half mile away. >> you rush to the scene. at that point were there people already around the car, trying to lift it up, what we're seeing on television? >> i think you can see on the video, if it it's the same one that i have, as i get next to the vehicle, i kind of turn and look over my shoulder because i've got another officer that's arriving. i kind of motion to him that i need him to bring me a jack. but it was only seconds that i realized that these citizens had already organized and were just going manually lift it up. so by the time i realized what was -- what they had in store, i really didn't even need to help because the vehicle was up and they were dragging the victim out from underneath. >> by looking at this video, you see a guy in a suit, a couple of construction workers. i understand the agriculture building on campus was under construction so these people were nearby. do you know who these individuals were who kind of rushed together to pull this car up and save this young man? >> well, fortunately the accident happened right there close to campus where there's a lot of people in classeses and i understand there was a business meeting going on on the ninth floor where this videotape came from and there's a building that's under construction. so it's a very, very high traffic area. i think had this accident happened in more of a suburban area we wouldn't have gotten that kind of response. we would have never had that kind of manpower to get that car up, which is why i was already just kind of going through our protocol and motioning for a jack because i thought it was just going to be me and another officer trying to get this vehicle up. >> so did you even know, though, that this 21-year-old was under the car? did you know that when you first came in? >> it was obvious. i could tell by the panic on the people. the people were down on the ground. i think you see a couple of citizens, one female included, actually lay down on her belly. they're looking under the car. soy didn't have to ask. i knew the motorcyclist was pinned underneath. >> tell me, what's being said in this group of people who are lifting this car up. what are they saying, what are they shouting? >> you know, i can't really honestly recall that for certain. i -- it was very stressful, just because i was -- i'm now concerned about the 15 people that are there. i don't want them to get hurt. they picked up and then they walked away. i was telling them to get back away from the fire because it was still so volatile. i didn't want it to become something bigger. they just moved out of the way of the camera. they didn't really want to leave very badly. but it was just kind of chaos and pandemonium. i do remember the one gentleman say, we need everybody to come and help lift, and that's when everybody just ran over. >> i mean, at any moment in time, that car could have burst into flames. obviously you, the people around you were risking your lives. but what does this say -- from what i understand, you know, your police department has been trying to track some of these people down. i guess they hadn't inherently come forward to get kudos. what does that say about, i don't know, your community, logan, utah? >> well, i've lived here for my entire life, which i guess i can say on the radio is 40 years, and, you know, it's always been that way around here. you can't say enough for what happens when people are really in dire need. i mean, that's not just our community. i'm sure that's all over the place. but in ours in particular it speaks volumes to what people will do in a tragic situation to help another person out. >> amazing. again, that young man there on the ground is in stable condition. what about quickly, sergeant olsen, what do we know about the driver of the car? is he okay or she? >> he is okay. obviously he's very shaken up about this, but as far as injuries there were none reported by him that i know of. >> stunning scene in logan, ute uxt sergeant jason olsen, thank you so much for calling in. >> thank you. next, zero jobs created from the stimulus, stealing money from medicare to pay for health care reform. those are just some of the comments from the republican presidential debate. in a moment, tom foreman will break down what else was said and whether it was true or false. and later, pope benedict faces some serious allegations. we are going to explain why he's accused of, quote, crimes against human itd. ity. be right back. so you're seriously proposing we change our name to sun life valley. do we still get to go skiing? sooner or later, 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[ engine revving ] [ male announcer ] you won't find the toughness of a ram 1500 combined with the legendary power of a hemi v8 in any other truck. it's a beautiful thing. guts. glory. ram. p. . let's talk about the debate. it was great stuff. did you watch last night? lots of great exchanges among the eight republican candidates, each of whom wants to be president. wolf blitzer by the way did one heck of a job, didn't he? i do want to play this nice little exchange on something we knew was coming, social security. listen to mitt romney zeroing in on rick perry. perry first. >> a program that's been there 70, 80 years, obviously we're not going to take that program away. but for people to stand up and s support what they did in it the '30s and what they're doing in the 2010s is not appropriate for america. >> but the question is, do you still believe social security should be ended as a federal program as you did six months ago, or do you want to retreat from that? >> i think we ought to have a conversation. >> we're having that right now, governor. we're running for president. >> and there were a lot of good moments like that one. did you happen to be watching? did you hear any whoppers? eight politicians, two hours, surely someone shaded the truth, just a smidge. tom foreman is live in washington for us, doing a little fact checking. tom foreman, what did you hear? >> well, brooke, here's what i heard. first of all, don't write books. that ae's obviously a mistake because people hold you to it later on. we heard a lot of statements last night. as i always say to people, these are smart pokes. no matter what you think of them, they're smart folks. rarely they'll throw something out there patently untrue. yet they get excited and they stray and say things that certainly zefb a lot of scrutiny. think of something said by michele bachmann in the course of this debate that was quite incendiary because it was aimed directly at president obama. listen to it this. >> president obama in a stunning level of power now just recently told all private insurance companies, you must offer the morning after abortion pill because i said so. and it must be free of charge. that same level coming through executive orders and through government dictates is wrong. >> well, you know for many social conservatives in this country, those are fire bomb words. it's very important. here's the claim, that the president has ordered the morning-after pill must be free, as she referred to it, as an abortion pill. the simple truth is health and human services in august did put in regulations that said you must allow women, if you're an insurer in this country, to have access to various birth control methods through you with no additional co-pay. that doesn't first of all make it free because they still have to pay for the insurance to begin with. nonetheless, no additional co-pay. there is an argument to some degree to be made about the type of pill you're talking about. if you're talking about the morning-after pill, which can be taken some two, three days after somebody has had sex to keep them from becoming pregnant -- i know i'm on dangerous ground now because there are arguments about when actually pregnancy occurs -- that is considered different by doctors than what are more commonly called an abortion pill which can be taken four, five, six weeks later to actually terminate an ongoing pregnancy. so those are some details. there was an effort by the hhs in august so we're basically going to say that that is true but incomplete. if you listen to everything about it, you get a somewhat different picture than just this idea that the president said, the morning-after pill must be free. brooke? >> so we also, in another word that came up many times, jobs. the president was just in columbus selling his jobs plan, the eight candidates up there saying, elect me, if you elect me, i can help the economy creat