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secret no longer. brand-new information this morning on what we will see during the olympics opening ceremonies friday night. details leaking out from london. two early hints, james bond and harry potter. newsroom begins right now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thanks for being with us. we begin with a single stor that captures both the heartbreak and the hope of the shooting rampage in colorado. this morning, americans are rallying to help this man, shooting victim caleb medley. he is in critical condition right now with gunshot wounds to his head, but that s only part of the story. he is also a brand-new father. caleb s wife, who escaped the massacre unharmed, gave birth to their son just yesterday. baby hugo is the glimmer of joy in one family s nightmare. they have no insurance. and now face a lifetime of debt. we begin our coverage this morning with cnn s randi kaye. reporter: katie and caleb are high school sweethearts. they knew katie was e ....
while the air force investigates the deadly crash of an eighth plane. one of these based in charlotte, north carolina. we expect to learn more in a news conference this afternoon. we know that four of the six crew members were killed, including this man, lieutenant colonel mike mckiel who spoke to one of our affiliates on saturday. lizzie o leary with the latest out of washington. what s the latest? reporter: latest is that they are investigating the cause of this crash while the other c-130s are grounded, grounded by the air force right now, and that essentially really diminishes the ability of the forest service to fight a lot of wildfires. the way the service does this is they use a number of different planes, but some of the big guns, as you said it, are the c-130s that are on loan from the air force as part of this fire fighting fleet. this is not the first time a c-130 has crashed, a relatively horrific crash in 2003 when essentially a c-130s wings folded up war ....
bring it back to this live picture. chad myers, now to this. the rich are getting richer in america. new video of a baby rescued from the rubble and twitter war with the taliban. time to play reporter roulette. the new report contains the top 1% making more money and that s not the case for middle class. where does it come from and what does it say? you re absolutely right about that. this came out of the congressional office. it looked at how much income here in the u.s. has grown from 1979 to 2007. you know what it found? that the wealth gap is big but it s getting even bigger. you look at the top 1% of the population. incomes grew 275% for the middle class. incomes grew only 40%. in dollars and cents, what does this mean? if you earned $43,000 back in 1979 when gerald ford was president, in 2007 you only earned $60,000. that s not much of an increase. pretty sad, if you ask me, brooke. so why the disparity wean the rich and the middle class? that s a good que ....
the accused ft. hood attacker, u.s. major anadal hasan and three 9/11 hijackers and faisal shahzad. the death of awlaki is a major blow to al qaeda s most active operational affiliate. awlaki was the leader of external operations for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. in that role he took the lead in planning and directing efforts to murder innocent americans. reporter: for more on awlaki, the al qaeda off shoot he represented and where we go from here, i want to bring in cnn s international correspondent nic robertson. nic, this was a huge development. why was awlaki such a threat and a priority for the snus. he was an intellectual. he was smart. he was well educated. he knew how to sort of manipulate his audience and the one thing that he had that al qaeda really wanted was a way to communicate the potential recruits in the west. he spoke english and he spoke it with a charisma and a meaning that drew in radicals or potential radicals towards al qaeda. and reall ....
watermelon haul, which you can picture. oh, boy, yes, i can. hey, go big or go home. that s what i say. thanks, jeff. okay. all right. at 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west, i m kyra phillips. thanks for joining us. wall street just minutes after opening, only hours removed from the gut-wrenching plunge, u.s. investors seem to be shrugging off some of the concerns, at least for now. riots erupt across great britain. dozens of police officers hurt. hundreds of people arrested, and a government desperately trying to tamp down public rage. 61-year-old diana nyad back in the u.s. after abandoning her attempt to swim from cuba to miami. she was halfway on the 109-mile journey when she became too sick, and too sore to continue. well this morning, millions of us are waking up to smaller nesteggs, and, of course, looking at that big board on wall street and watching the numbers very closely, we re covering all the angles from new york to london and wal ....