firm on september 11, 2001. he was 48 years old. that s it for me. thanks very much for watching. i m wolf blitzer. erin burnett out front starts right now. out front next, breaking news, mike pence releasing his tax returns. why won t donald trump do the same? more breaking news, north korea exploding its powerful nuclear warhead ever? can kim jong-un launch a nuclear attack on the united states? can what really happened behind the scenes? he s my guest. let s go out front. good evening. i m erin burnett, out front tonight, the breaking news p taxing news. mike pence releasing his income tax return. pence following a decades-old
tradition for presidential and vice presidential candidates putting out that in 2015 he and his wife karen made a combined $113,026 and paid $8,956 and their effective rate was 8%. this raises the burden for donald trump to release his. 8%, maybe his rate is lower than that. he continues to refuse to release them. he said they re nobody else s
i m wolf blitzer in the situation room. erin burnett out front starts right now. donald trump taking aim at america s generals. hillary clinton says no more troops in iraq as polls show trump s lead shrinks. plus the putin obsession is, is it a smart political move or is trump being played? what is aleppo? the three words haunting gary johnson tonight. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. bitter battle, hillary clinton, donald trump in the biggest clash of the campaign so far launching nasty personal attacks on who is fit to lead america at war. tonight clinton slamming trump saying he s scary and dangerous. it s hard to forget what trump did last night. it was a test and he failed it.
he trash talked about america s generals saying that they have been, quote, reduced to rubble. he suggested he would fire them all and hand pick his own generals, since he knows so much about what it takes to be a general. trump firing back citing clinton s use of her pr
in paula hancocks. paula, the fifth nuclear test north korea appears to have conducted and the most powerful one and coming on the heels of president obama s visit to asia. reporter: that s right. the timing certainly is interesting, john. the fact is north korea announced on state-run television saying they successfully tested the nuclear warhead and they can put that on any one of the ballistic missiles. it is impossible for the world to verify that specifically in washington and seoul and tokyo. in the past hour, there has been an intelligence briefing for lawmakers here in seoul. they have said they believe north korea s goal is to mount a nuclear warhead on a scud missile. remember 28,000 u.s. troops in south korea are here now. this is going much quicker than expected. intelligence says north korea has advanced quicker than expected. there is large interest around the world in china and japan and russia condemning the nuclear test. it shows that kim jong-un is determi
employees got fired. let s talk, live in the cnn newsroom. good morning, i m carol costello. north korea says its carried out its most powerful nuclear test yet. the explosion registering the force of a 5.3 earthquake. kim jong-un s government now claiming it can make nuclear warheads small enough to fit on to missiles. world leaders are strongly condemning the apparent test. with president obama saying just moments ago there will be serious consequences. he also said, and i m just getting his statement right now, that north korea s nuclear test is a grave threat. he says to be clear the united states does foot and will never accept north korea as a nuclear state. we have suzanne malveaux on this story. she ll join us in a little bit. let s head to tokyo now for north korea s side. will ripley has that. hi, will. hi, carol. that brand-new statement from president obama comes after he was very busy during the overnight hours speaking on the phone separately with the japa
nearly 3,000 people were killed when hijackers crashed planes into the world trade center and the pentagon, as old as 85, as young as just 2 years old. lights illuminated the sky, though, late last night in tribute here. they re going to be turned on again this afternoon in honor of the people who died. for a lot of people involved the wounds have not healed even 15 years after. it s the sight of the twin towers collapsing is too painful for many to watch. victims without graves, now memorialized as names on that permanent memorial that i know so many people have seen there in new york. most people when they lose someone, they have a grave to go to and that brings them closer to that person. but for us, this is our parents grave. so it brings us closer and makes us feel connected to that parent. a lot of our parents bodies weren t found after 9/11. so that literally could be where our father s bodies lay to this day. it is a memorial, but it s our grave. we can go the