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on his feet. this prisoner has the face of the syrian regime tattooed on his chest. portraits of of the family that has ruled syria for more than 40 years. former president haffaz assad, and on the back, a tribute to hezbollah, the shiite movement in syria, and then someone has put tattoos showing assad s face, and allah is great is all that the prisoner says. this prisoner is a member of the group that is a former member of the agricultural industry who does not want to be identified. it looked to me that somebody deliberately cut on the tattoos of the assad family. . this man was cut because he wanted to show loyalty to the rebels. it is unlikely. and now this man trembles looking at the caps or the loo g looking at his captors every time he speaks. i worked in aleppo until it was blown up. desperate to pay for his wife s cesarean section, he took money as a guard and he said he had been on the job for fife dve da when the rebels captured him. the top enforcer in t ....
hour two. welcome. i m brooke baldwin. families are reacting as the man accused of carrying out the massacre officials hears the charges against him. 124 counts including two dozen murder charges. we ll talk about that in just a moment. first, to syria. we have been talking about the commercial hub of this country, that being aleppo. so far they have failed to rest control of the city from the increasing confident rebels. take a look at this video. far from hunkering down and taking a pounding. the anti-government rebels attacked this military base. this is north of aleppo. they drove out the government forces and seized all kinds of weapons including several tanks. iran watson is in syria. he witnessed this battle overnight. here is what he said. reporter: the army base was firing in all different directions with machine guns. it was firing big tanks outside hitting the neighbors villages. they called in artillery all the way from aleppo which was a couple of miles ....
right for america to stand with you. mitt romney trailing in polls when they are asked which candidate would handle foreign policy better. it s a critical time for him to recover from what some say were big gaffes made in britain. michelle is the co-chair of the obama campaign s national security committee and former defense secretary under president obama and in the situation room during the osama bin laden raid. nice to see you. thank you for talking us with this morning. do you see a big difference between mitt romney s foreign policy stance when it comes to iran and president obama s foreign policy stance when it comes to iran? they both talked about no option being off the table. there really isn t that much substantive difference, soledad. the president has made clear his policy is to prevent iran from gaining a nuclear weapon and that all options are on the table. right now we re focused on imposing the most crippling sanctions in the history of any country. ....
captions by vitac www.vitac.com i m suzanne malveaux and this hour in the cnn newsroom, the movie theater massacre suspect has just had his first court appearance, and the family is expected to break their silence. and penn state is slapped with a $60 million fine because of their part with the sexual abuse scandal, and their role. and now a first close-up look at the man accused of the mas massacre inside of that colorado movie theater. james holmes made his first court appearance since the shooting rampage that left 12 people dead, and 58 others wounded. holmes had the hair dyed bright red and orange and you can see he appeared somewhat emotionless and somber as he sat next to his attorney in the courtroom. what we know is for mall charges are going to be filed against holmes monday. the judge assigned a public defender for the case, and sometime today holmes family is expect t expected to say something and issue a statement. i want to go to casey wian wh ....
well, i was trying to crawl out, but everybody was crawling back in and they said don t go over there, because he is going to shoot everybody who is trying to get out of the main doors, and he was. it was a night of the movies that turned into a day of tragedy and shock and grief. i m suzanne malveaux in cnn head quarters and we are preempting k cnn international and we new now welcome in our viewers who are watching around the world. you are watching cell phone video capturing the chaos after a man burst into a theater in aurora, colorado, and opened fire. at least 12 people were killed. 38 others wounded. now the theater, it was packed with people attending the premier of a new batman movie the dark knight rises. the gunman starts this rampage and the police arrest this suspect identified as 24-year-old james holmes in the parking lot. witnesses describes what happens in this terrifying scene. he came in and he started lighting a gas can, and he threw it in ....