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damascus. they arat the scene of this attack own a progovernment tv station. the bashar al-assad regime calling it a quote, massacre carried out by terrorists. greg palkot is streaming live for us from damascus syria live now. reporter: over the past couple of days we have been telling you about how the attacks, the clashes are getting closer to the center of power here in damascus. today a cameraman and i had a chance to get a first-hand look and proof of that. take a look. this is what is left of a progovernment tv station just outside of damascus, the burning and smoldering remains of a bomb explosion, walls of mortar attack and as everything in this contact now a lot of spin on both sides. one opposition group is saying that it was a defected elite soldier s responsible, whoever it is it was a well coordinated attack, after hitting the place
with mortars earlier in the morning dozens of armed gunman stormed the complex, sprayed the place with bullets. killed three journalists, four security guards, set off six large bombs, detonated those, damaged this with fire, et cetera. officials not pleased as you can imagine, they described the attack as a massacre, a massacre against the freedom of press. the u.n. office also condemned it. here is what one reporter a colleague of those killed had to tell us today. they were killed, this is what happened. they won t freedom, they want democracy. this is the kind of democracy. they destroyed the other opinions. reporter: what we were also struck by as we rode around in the suburbs of damascus is the amount of soldiers, security, checkpoints, clearly a response to what has been happening here and what has been building in the few days that we have been here. two final notes, the u.n. investigation into the houla
today wisconsin is a fall preview. they look at wisconsin, and they see america s battleground between people who want to work together to solve problems and penal who want to divide and conquer. democratic challenger and milwaukee mayor tom barrett on his bid to oust the republican governor in a recall race. then battleground politics with virginia republican governor bob mcdonald, u.s. jobs and the bloodshed in syria. plus, unemployment is up, the dow is down, and the presidential election is 157 days away. analysis from mark zande of moody s analytics, stechen moore of the wall street journal, and dan balz of the washington post. i m candy crowley. and this is state of the union. 19 months after electing republican scott walker as governor, wisconsin voters decide tuesday whether to recall him. walker s critics were galvanized by his first budget designed to fix a $3.6 billion shortfall. it included stripping collective bargaining rights for most public workers