full extent of this until the cotton is picked and the kernels are counted. now setting them to stun, is it going too far? hello, everyone. i m poppy harlow. a senior government official with 34 years of service now says he s on the side of the rebel upriding. he says he can t be part of a dictatorship any locker. you ll hear him in his own words in just a moment. plus, i just spoke with the long time american ambassador to syria. his reaction, our conversation, coming up. an egyptian official says two americans kidnapped in the sinai peninsula are unharmed and well fed. their families want to know when they will be freed. the son of reverend lewis wants to know how the ordeal is taking a to the on the pastor s wife. even right now, it seems like a dream to her, a nightmare. also, a huge portion of the united states being strangled by drought this hour, which is threatening everything from crops to cattle. 1,000 counties spanning 26 states are now considered dro
he talked with cnn s national political correspondent jim acosta this evening. governor, thanks for joining us. let s talk first about this controversy over when you left bain capital. i ll put one of the documents in question up on screen. their sec filing stating that you were ceo at bain capital past 1999. when you say you left bain to run the olympics. why was your name still on these documents? and why didn t you clear this up sooner? well, i was the owner of an entity that is filing that information. but i had no role whatsoever in the management of bain capital after february of 1999. not that that would have been a problem to have said i was with the firm beyond that but i simply wasn t. i left to go out and run the olympics. i did that full-time. relinquished all management authority and role in bain capital after february 1999. how do you explain that discrepancy? you said publicly you left the firm in 1999. weren t you concerned at some point these filings mi
he was controversial. a bit on the edge. especially when i asked him about his murder of his wife, bonny lee bakley. i mean, i was worth $25 million. i could have hired somebody to kill her when she was in tibet or some place. she drove all over the country. she was out selling, doing her i could have hired somebody to follow her for ten months and make her disappear so nobody would ever find he for christ s sake. i would go out to dinner to kill her? what the [ bleep ] s the matter with you! i didn t say you killed her. you didn t say i didn t. you said it s all very interesting. well, it was all indeed very interesting. joining me now, more on our big stories. tom mesereau. robert blake s attorney till he quit citing irreconcilable differences. you watched the interview. i did. you know robert blake. you represented him. you get him out on bail. what was your reaction to the interview? i had many reactions. robert s been through a lot of ups and downs. the p
olympians and his harrowing escape from a terror attack with the whole world watching. this is piers morgan tonight. deadly danger in the great outdoors. a florida teenager lost the lower part of his right arm to alligator. a california man was in his kayak when a great white shark took a chunk out of his boat on saturday. just from the start of this month, there have been at least seven different attacks across the country by bears, alligators, a ark and a mountain lion. are the attacks on the rise? joining me now, a man who knows about this thing. he survived a grizzly attack himself. jack hanna is the director emeritus at the columbus zoo and aquarium. he s outside the venetian in scottsdale, arizona, and has a um could of his alligators with him. jack, welcome. good to be here, nice to see you, piers. it appears to be quite a worrying time at the moment for attacks by animals. what do you make of what s going on? people are trying to equate the overheating, in oth
it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. this is cnn breaking news. we begin this morning with breaking news. we have learned that president obama is holding a big event at the white house rose garden later today to resurrect the battle over the bush tax cuts. he will be surrounded by working class americans while he calls on congress to extend tax cuts for everyone, making $250,000 a year or less. republicans want the tax cuts extended for everyone, the wealthy included. the white house will be very busy framing the tax cut debate this week with events planned in new hampshire, nevada, colorado and florida. republicans as i mentioned want the tax cuts extended for all americans, even the wealthiest. at 7:00 eastern on starting point we ll talk about that position with tennessee republican congresswoman marsha blackburn. we have been warning you and now the time has come. hundreds of thousands of people are going to wake up this morning and computers will be dark. no web service.