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Fighting Worsens In Syria; Assad's Weapons Of Mass Destruction; Same Sex Kiss In At Chick-fil-A; Jobs Created in July; LinkedIn Earnings Meet High Expectations; LinkedIn Earnings Meet High Expectations; Shark Attack Victim Speaks; Tropical Storm Ernesto In The Caribbean; Nearly 800,000 Dehumidifiers Recalled; Tanorexic Mom Goes Pale; Scout Returns Award To Protest Gay Policy; Tractor Crushes Cop Cars; Olympic Results; World's Fastest Man Returns; Honor Killing Verdict

Aired August 03, 2012 - 14:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: Good to see you too, Suzanne. Thanks.

I'm Brianna Keilar, in for Brooke Baldwin.

And we need to begin in Syria again today. The violence has gotten worse there over the past several hours. This is YouTube video from Aleppo today. Activists calm this shows fighters arriving in Syria's largest city, upping the ante in the already intense fighting there.

Now to the protest taking place across Syria today. This is Hama. It was also in Hama where the Syrian opposition claims the Assad regime carried out a massacre today killing 69 people. Opposition forces claim at least 105 people have been killed across the country today.

Now to another Syrian city, Douma. Video uploaded to YouTube claims to show a demonstration filling the streets there. And I need to remind you here that every time we air these YouTube pictures, CNN cannot independently confirm the authenticity of the video.

This is video coming from Idlib. And consider this. Protesters across Syria have demonstrated every Friday during the nearly 17 months of unrest. I want to bring in CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom now. He's monitoring Syria today from the save vantage point of Abu Dhabi.

And, Mohammed, let's begin with the massacre in Hama. What are you hearing?

MOHAMMED JAMJOOM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brianna, very disturbing reports emerging throughout the day today that after midnight Friday, in Hama, that there was a massacre that was carried out there by the regime. Opposition activists telling us that at least 69 people killed there. We're trying to get more details about exactly what happened.

But more disturbing even because this is coming on the heels of very disturbing reports that emerged yesterday. Opposition activists yesterday were talking about another regime massacre that they say happened on Wednesday in a suburb of Damascus. This is -- we hear about these massacres, according to opposition activists, happening with more and more frequency.

The Syrian regime, for its part, said that the massacre that was reported on Wednesday was because they were trying to root out terrorists from a Damascus suburb and that they had vanquished and arrested and killed many terrorists. But opposition activists saying that the regime continuing to go after citizen there.

And today we're also hearing about a lot of violence in the capital of Syria, in Damascus. We saw video streaming live just a short while ago showing rebel free Syrian army members in the streets of Damascus as they were clashing with regime soldiers.

Brianna.

KEILAR: Well, Mohammed, I want you to hear this statement concerning the fighting in Aleppo. This is from the head of the U.N. peace keeping ops. And we'll talk on the other side of it.

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HERVE LADSOUS, HEAD OF U.N. PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS: The focus two weeks ago was on Damascus. The focus is now on Aleppo, where there has been a considerable buildup of military means. And where we have reason to believe that the main battle is about to start.

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KEILAR: So, Mohammed, Aleppo, Syria's largest city and its commercial capital, the battle has been raging there. And now the U.N. is saying that the main battle is about to start.

JAMJOOM: That's right. We can't overstate how important Aleppo is for both the regime soldiers and the rebels as far as trying to control that city. But I've spoken to activists there and residents the past couple of days. They are really afraid. Despite the fact that the clashes have been intensifying the past two weeks, they expect that there will be an onslaught that will start -- that will start imminently. They expect the regime to start pounding that city in a way that they haven't yet so far.

To that end, in the last 24 hours, we've heard of lots of military reinforcements, lots of tanks arriving to Aleppo. On top of that, you heard from the U.N. peace keeping chief, you just played that sound bite, they say they don't even believe that the main battle for Aleppo has started yet. They expect it only to get worse. Very worrying at a time when the humanitarian situation in that city is being described already as a crisis.

Brianna.

KEILAR: And, Mohammed, I'm wondering, this news of Kofi Annan's resignation yesterday as special envoy to Syria, how is that being greeted there in Syria? And do you even think it's going to make a difference? JAMJOOM: It's really not making a difference. As far as the opposition activists that we've been speaking with and the rebel free Syrian army members, they say, look, this was happening a world away.

We heard a statement earlier in the day from the Syrian National Council, that's the main opposition group in Syria. They function as on umbrella group for the opposition groups. And they said that they're not surprised by this. That it was really only natural because they said that the Syrian regime was always trying to stymie the efforts of Kofi Annan. They also said that at the time that Kofi Annan has been the special envoy to Syria, he's been ineffective. They say that the regime has only increased the number of massacres and the crackdown against the people of Syria while he was negotiating with the government.

And for the last couple of months, we've heard the opposition, we've heard the rebel free Syrian army members be very critical of Kofi Annan and his plan and say that really them negotiating with the Syrian government was only prolonging the amount of time that the Syrian government had to continue to crack down on protesters there.

Brianna.

KEILAR: Mohammed Jamjoom, thank you so much for that report.

And now let's talk about weapons. Specifically the kinds of weapons that the Assad regime has tucked away in its arsenal. And I want to bring in Andrew Tabler to talk about this. He's a senior fellow in the Arab politics program at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He's also the author of "In the Lion's Den: An Eyewitness Account of Washington's Battle with Syria."

So, Andrew, nobody wants to think the worse here, but the Assad regime has got some pretty nasty stuff that they could unleash or that could get into the wrong hands. So, fill us in. What are we talking about here? And what could happen with it?

ANDREW TABLER, NEAR EAST POLICY EXPERT: Yes. Basically here we're talking about unconventional weapons. And Syria has one of the largest stockpiles of chemical weapons in the Middle East, as well as significant biological weapons stockpile. They also had a nuclear program, but that was bombed by Israel several years ago.

So, what we have is about 45 sites or so across the country. All of which have been, until now, under government control. But as government control has slipped, there's a real risk of the regime using it, perhaps as a fear tactic against the rebels going forward, or the opposition overrunning those areas and being in possession of those weapons themselves.

KEILAR: I want you to listen to a statement from the U.S. secretary -- or, pardon me, the U.N. secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon. This is what he said a week ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BAN KI-MOON, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL: I demand -- again, I (INAUDIBLE) my demand that the Syrian authorities (INAUDIBLE) state that they will not use chemical weapons or other weapons of mass destructions under any circumstances. That's my strong demand.

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KEILAR: So you brought up this possibility, Andrew, that the Assad regime will use the weapons, but also that they could end up on the open market. Which is the bigger concern or are these both huge concerns?

TABLER: They're both huge concerns. Syria -- the Syrian regime's a major ally of Iran. As that regime contracts, it could use those weapons as a deterrent so that -- in a sort of rump Alawite state on the Syrian coast. It could also use them against the rebels as part of a last stand. Or, if those -- if the opposition overruns those areas, opposition is very fragmented. If those get into the hands of extremists, third forces which are sometimes among the rebels, then that could end up in the hands of al Qaeda and other groups like it. So it's a real risk either way this goes and that's what has the Obama administration, at the moment, really trying to figure out what to do.

KEILAR: And, Andrew, you testified just this week, a couple days ago, before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Part of what you talked about what next steps in Syria. And you told the committee basically that there needs to be a red line. The U.S. needs to be clear about a red line on atrocities. And you said that there needs to be a clear message that the U.S. will intervene. What do you mean by that and what's the reality of the U.S. kind of putting out that red line when you're looking at such a -- I guess you could say war-weary American electorate?

TABLER: Sure. Well, you know, mass atrocities are something -- and the right to protect and the responsibility to protect was something -- was the main reason why the United States intervened in Libya. And I think in terms of Syria, we have to send a message to Bashar al Assad, any mass atrocities or any use of chemical weapons, or those two things together, really will immediately get a response from the United States.

I'm not talking about invading the country here, but rather some kind of decisive military strike. Now, that wouldn't just be the United States alone. It would be an entire coalition. You know, a much broader coalition in actually we had in Libya. If we don't do that, I really fear that Bashar al-Assad will then keep on pushing the red lines until he actually uses these kind of weapons against his own people. That's something I don't think Barack Obama wants to deal with ahead of his election in November.

KEILAR: And it does seem like the administration may be preparing, or has been here in recent months, to provide some more non lethal assistance to the opposition. We'll continue to follow that with you. Andrew Tabler, thank you very much.

TABLER: My pleasure. KEILAR: And we've got a lot more to cover in the next couple of hours. Chick-fil-A restaurants being targeted for protests and vandalism.

And those July jobs numbers, they aren't stellar, showing why jobs and the economy are at the heart of the presidential contest.

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KEILAR: It's been 18 days since the president of Chick-fil-A, Dan Cathy, went public that he's against same sex marriage. But the anger over it is far from stale. Look at what police in Torrance, California, found today. And while some say "tastes like hate," other protesters are using a symbol of love to make their point, announcing that today is kiss day at Chick-fil-A. This i-Report is of two straight men showing their support for gay rights. Organizers are calling for same sex couples to do the kissing at Chick-fil-A's across the country.

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CARLY MCGEHEE, ORGANIZER OF CHICK-FIL-A KISS DAY: We want to show our love. We want to show that a polite kiss between someone of the same gender is just as good as a polite kiss between a heterosexual couple. I like to liken it to a married couple sharing a light kiss over a romantic meal. It's the same thing. We're here and our love just as good.

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KEILAR: Now the kiss in is happening two days after Chick-fil-A protection day led to lines that its competitors no doubt salivated over. And CNN's George Howell joining me now.

So I'm wondering, how is the kiss in going, especially if you compare it to the showing on appreciation day?

GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brianna, if you look at FaceBook as any indication, for the Chick-fil-A appreciation day, we know that more than 600,000 people signed onto that. The FaceBook page for this, the numbers are not nearly as high. Some 13,000 people. But they still say they want to make an impact. That they believe that they are making that impact through kissing at these different stores. Also, through starting a conversation just about where your dollars go when you buy Chick-fil-A food. One person here in the Atlanta area, in Decatur, Georgia, Marci Alt, she actually invited Dan Cathy to her house. And she said she'd cook chicken if he'd come and have a conversation with her. But she explains why she decided to come out and speak on this today. Take a listen.

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MARCI ALT, ORGANIZER FOR DECATUR KISS DAY: I would just like to talk to him about, you know, everyday life, you know, and let him see that we -- we have the same kind of everyday life. I have the same struggles as everybody else. I'm a small business owner here in Georgia for over 23 years. My children go to school. I'm concerned about bullying in school. I'm concerned about the teachers and the education. I'm sure that he will find that we share some of the same kind of values. So I think it would open his eyes to understand that, you know, just because we're, you know, a lesbian couple that, you know, we're really not any different than him and Mrs. Cathy.

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HOWELL: And one point they also make is that this is not just about same sex marriage, but it's also about these groups that Chick- fil-A supports that are anti gay and lesbian.

KEILAR: So she invited Dan Cathy.

HOWELL: She did.

KEILAR: I suspect he did not show up.

HOWELL: I didn't see (ph) him (ph).

KEILAR: But how is Chick-fil-A responding to this kiss in?

HOWELL: The company just today released a statement. I'll read this to you. It says, "we appreciate all of our customers and are glad to serve them at any time. Our goal is simple, to provide great food, genuine hospitality and to have a positive influence on all who come into contact with Chick-fil-A. So they are alluding to the fact that they support all of their customers despite the fact that they have, you know, made it clear they do support groups that are against same sex marriage.

KEILAR: And we'll be breaking that down next hour. We'll be looking at where the money goes --

HOWELL: Yes.

KEILAR: And exactly the breakdown of how much money goes to what kind of charity organizations.

George, thank you so much for that.

HOWELL: Thanks.

KEILAR: Really appreciate it.

And baseball hall-of-famer Cal Ripken, Jr., he's pleading for information on the person who kidnapped his mom. Hear him in his own words, next.

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KEILAR: Baseball legend Cal Ripken, Jr., speaks out today for the first time since his 74-year-old mother was kidnapped. He says his mom's abduction was premeditated and he needs your help capturing the man behind the attack.

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CAL RIPKEN, JR., BASEBALL HALL-OF-FAMER: Law enforcement needs your help. The investigation is moving along. If you know anything about the case, if you know anything about the identity of the person in the photos, the sketch, I would encourage all of you to call in and report what you know. And for what we know right now, from what I know, we don't know why. And so that's -- it's bizarre on many levels and it's unsettling on many levels.

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KEILAR: Police in Maryland say that a man with a gun showed up at Violet Ripken's house, forced her into a car and drove off. They found her early the next morning in the back seat of her car near her home. She was unharmed, I should say, with her hands bound. Ripken says she's still dealing with the psychological effects of the kidnapping and hasn't returned to her home yet.

As for the suspect, police believe he's a white male with a thin build in his late 30s to early 40s. They say they've received several tips since releasing security footage showing the suspect at a Wal- Mart. A $2,000 reward is offered for any information.

And boxer Floyd Mayweather, Jr., was released today from a Los Vegas detention facility. Mayweather served two months for domestic battery against his ex-girlfriend while two of their three kids watched. The undefeated boxing champ was named by "Forbes" magazine as the highest paid athlete last year earning $85 million from fights and endorsements.

And an Oregon teen saves a life, then gets a $2,600 hospital bill? That's right. John Clark, he told our Oregon affiliate KOYN (ph) that he got the bill because he went to the ER as a precaution after saving a 12-year-old boy near Oregon's Rockaway Beach. Clark, who is 17, said he was suffering from a headache.

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JOHN CLARK, SAVED DROWNING BOY: The physician's bill was like $300. And he gave me a cup of water and a blanket. And the ambulance ride was $1,900 and I mean I just got in, got my blood pressure taken. I couldn't just let the kid go, so I had to do something.

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KEILAR: But, wait, I will tell you, this story ends on a sweet note, because since hearing about the billing, dozens of people have offered to cover the bill for Clark. Kind of nuts, though.

Now, five would-be robbers got quite a shock when a 65-year-old woman chased them from a jewelry store with a gun. Surveillance video from Garden Grove, California, shows the men entering the store holding large bags, but seconds later shots are fired and the men race back to the door, fighting to get out as the woman runs after them. Police say they're still looking for suspects. And the July unemployment rate is at 8.3 percent. That's a slight increase from June. While millions of Americans are still looking for jobs, one social website is booming and connecting companies with workers.

And just a quick note for those of you heading out the door. You can continue watching CNN from your mobile phone. Or if you're heading to work, you can also watch CNN live from your desktop. Just go to cnn.com/tv.

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KEILAR: The new jobs report out today shows a mixed bag of results. Employers added more jobs than expected. More than 160,000 new jobs. But the unemployment rate unexpectedly jumped to 8.3 percent. So, how do more added jobs and a bigger unemployment rate happen in the same month? Well, that's because even more people lost their jobs last month and another 150,000 people stopped looking for work and dropped out of the job market. Some say temporary jobs made up much of the gains. CNN's Christine Romans has more on this.

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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We've taken 40 pages of charts, graphs and tables and we've boiled it down into this. A visual snapshot of what's happening in the labor market. Well, you can see, 163,000 net new jobs created in the month of July. It would have been better had it not been for 900,000 government layoffs. The private sector created 172,000 jobs in the month of July. And you can see that the trend has been the private sector leading the way in job creation for more than two years now. Every one of these black bars shows net job creation in this economy. You want to see at least 150,000 jobs or more created in a month to just absorb new entrance into the workplace. We didn't do that the last few months, but we finally did again in July with 163,000 jobs created.

Where were the gains? This is important. Leisure and hospitality, 27,000 jobs create there. A sign perhaps that the consumer -- the consumer is spending money this summer. We also saw jobs in transportation and jobs in manufacturing. Twenty-five thousand jobs created in manufacturing. A surprise to some people who were concerned about the Eurozone crisis. Europe is the largest destination for American factory goods and, of course, American factory workers would lose jobs if you saw the Eurozone crisis get worse. We also saw health care jobs grow by 12,000. This has been a steady performer overall for the American economy.

Bottom line, you have an economy that looks like it is healing just a little bit, a labor market gathering a little bit of momentum at the middle of the summer.

Christine Romans, CNN, New York.

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KEILAR: Thanks for that, Christine. And, of course, the jobs report got a fast political reaction. Here's President Obama.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: What we should do right now is give middle class families and small business owners a guarantee that their taxes will not go up next year. When families had the security of knowing that their taxes won't go up, they're more likely to spend and more likely to grow the economy. When small business owners have certainty on taxes and can plan ahead, they're more likely to hire and create new jobs.

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KEILAR: Republican Candidate Mitt Romney took this as an opportunity to jab at the president's track record on job creation.

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MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And, of course, today we just got a new number from the unemployment report and it's another hammer blow to the struggling middle class families of America because the president has not had policies that put American families back to work. I do. I'll put them in place and get America working again.

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KEILAR: LinkedIn is raking in the dough, proving that it's got a leg up on FaceBook when it comes to making money. The jobs network insight (ph) reported that sales nearly doubled from a year ago. And CNN's Felicia Taylor joining us from New York to talk about this.

So, Felicia, here's what I think a lot of people don't understand. How does LinkedIn make so much money when most people aren't even paying anything to get a LinkedIn account?

FELICIA TAYLOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, a lot of people, Brianna, take advantage of LinkedIn's free membership. That's certainly attractive. But the company has been pretty successful at actually making money. Here's how. Sales from job postings, where employers pay to put up their openings, had huge increase in the latest quarter. Those paid subscription sales, they jumped by more than 80 percent.

And, you know, people can pay from -- anywhere $20 to $100 a month for these kind of upgraded accounts. And they give a bunch of extra perks like letting you see everyone's expanded profile. So, ad revenue rose as well.

LinkedIn shares are on the rise today and are already up about 45 percent for the year. The company has also raised its guidance. So that's a very important thing for most companies right now. You don't hear that a lot -- as much as we would like, frankly, from a lot of corporate America. But LinkedIn has fared a lot better than other tech companies that have gone public recently, like FaceBook, which has had so many problems.

KEILAR: Yes. Yes.

TAYLOR: And also Groupon and Zynga. They're -- all three of them are at their lowest levels of the year.

Brianna.

KEILAR: And, Felicia, so there is some criticism because you'll remember in June hackers stole millions of passwords. This is very scary because so many people are on LinkedIn. How's the site now dealing with that?

TAYLOR: Well, the site said it only cost $500,000 to about a million dollars in the quarter for the company itself. That's not a lot for a company that pulled down about $20 million in one quarter.

Executives say they have obviously redoubled their efforts to ensure password safety. You know, these things have happened before. About six and a half million passwords were stolen in that breach.

So it wasn't small, but LinkedIn CEO said just yesterday that the health of our networks remains just as strong prior to the incident. So hopefully they've got things under control and it won't be a repeated incident.

KEILAR: Yes, hopefully. Felicia Taylor, thank you so much for that.

And a quiet July, not a single named storm in the month, but meet Tropical Storm Ernesto. Meteorologist Chad Meyers will introduce us.

Also, a woman leaves the safety of the suburb and enters a war zone to save young girls. This week's "CNN HERO" when we come back.

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KEILAR: A man who survived a vicious shark attack off a Massachusetts beach is out of the hospital and expects to walk again. A short while ago, Chris Myers and his son explained how they managed to escape the shark.

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CHRIS MYERS, SHARK ATTACK SURVIVOR: There was really one option, which was swim. Swim towards shore. So we sat out towards shore. About halfway there I started feeling dizzy and lightheaded.

I wondered if I was losing blood and wondered if I was able to make it to shore. That went through my head for a minute and I just kept swimming.

I looked up at one point to see if people on the shore seemed to realize what was happening and I could see people gathered and pointing at us, but nobody came into the water until the very last minute.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I remember he was sitting on the ground and he said well we're not history. I remember thinking how incredible that was that through all of this and through the pain he must be feeling he was able to keep such a calm and collected attitude and having his witty humor.

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KEILAR: Myers is the first person to be attacked by a great white shark in Massachusetts waters in 76 years. He said he has eight puncture wounds, 47 stitches and is lucky to be alive. Our meteorologist, Chad Myers, no relation I should say.

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: No.

KEILAR: Is here and this is -- I mean, this is scary. We saw that picture of the shark behind the kayaker about a month or so ago.

MYERS: Same place really. Same area. All right, the waters have been so warm up there. It's 5 degrees above normal up there in Massachusetts.

The sharks arrived early. People weren't expecting them. But it's the reason why I don't go in the water. Sharks do come on land. I don't go in their water.

KEILAR: That's extreme though. I like going in the water.

MYERS: I understand.

KEILAR: You can brave it, I guess, but it's really scary when talking about it in Massachusetts. We're talking Tropical Storm Ernesto. What's going on here?

MYERS: You know, some people might remember Ernesto from like 2006. They said wait a minute, we've already had Ernesto. How can we had him again?

KEILAR: I know him.

MYERS: I know that guy. He went to South Florida. You don't get new names for storms unless they get retired. Actually named storms get recycled the names every six years.

So if you remember, Ernesto, it actually came right up over the Florida Keys as a rainmaker. That was 2006. Here is the new Ernesto, 50-mile per hour storm just to the east there of Puerto Rico and Jamaica right there near the islands way out there.

So still a long way to go and 50 miles per hour storm, not a hurricane yet although forecast all of the computer models. Every single computer model takes this to at least Category 1 hurricane. Some all the way up to Category 3. Remember, it could go all the way to Cuba here. This is the one side of the cone all the way down here to Honduras.

That's the other side of the cone, but it's a pretty significant event I think for next week. All computer models kind of wiggly at the time here, not that far south of Haiti maybe over Jamaica.

Not too many models any down here toward Honduras, but many of them into the Gulf of Mexico. The problem with the Gulf of Mexico, well two, it's very warm.

The second thing is if it gets in the Gulf of Mexico, it has to come out somewhere. It's going to hit something. Can't really escape once you're in that big loop of water and sometimes they get very strong very quickly in the Gulf of Mexico.

KEILAR: So what about us? What about the U.S.?

MYERS: Well, certainly, you know, some people, if it doesn't come in as a hurricane just like a small TS would welcome the rain. No question about it.

It gets here in the Gulf of Mexico. I think the plan is probably for it to turn like it usually does. If the models don't allow this or if the wind doesn't allow it, it actually could probably come in right here somewhere around Brownsville.

And I can understand that, this is nine days from now. The literally the forecast are good for about 24 hours. So you have to give me a bit of time before I can tell you where it's going to hit.

KEILAR: Too soon. All right, Chad, thank you so much for that.

MYERS: You're welcome.

KEILAR: This is a very serious story. Acid attacks, poison water and the daily threat of violence keep schoolgirls and their teachers in Afghanistan fearing for their lives.

While terrorists try to prevent girls from receiving an education, this week's "CNN Hero" has been fearlessly giving them one.

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RAZIA JAN, CHAMPIONING CHILDREN: In Afghanistan, most of the girls have no voice. They are used as property of the family. The picture is very grim.

My name is Razia Jan and I'm the founder of a girl's school in Afghanistan. When we opened the school in 2008, 90 percent of them could not write their name. Today, 100 percent of them are educated. They can read. They can write.

I lived in the U.S. for over 38 years, but I was really affected by 9/11. I really wanted to prove that Muslims are not terrorists. I came back here in 2010. Girls have been the most oppressed.

I thought I have to do something. It was a struggle in the beginning. I would sit with these men and I would tell them don't marry them when they're 14 years old. They want to learn.

How do you write your father's name? After five years now, the men are proud of their girls when they can write their name. Very good.

Still, we have to take these precautions. Some people are so much against girls getting educated. We provide free education to over 350 girls. I think it's like a fire. It will grow. Every year my hope becomes more. I think I can see the future.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KEILAR: Amazing work, right? Well, Razia was nominated by a viewer just like you. So if you do know someone who is making a difference in your community, go to cnnheroes.com and nominate them.

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KEILAR: We're learning more about the victim in that awful megabus crash in Illinois yesterday. A 25-year-old woman from India has been identified as the only person killed in this accident.

She was a graduate student at the University of Missouri according to our affiliate, KTVI, in St. Louis. The bus was headed from Chicago to St. Louis when it crashed into an overpass pillar on Interstate 55. As many as 25 people including the bus driver were taken to hospitals.

Almost 800,000 dehumidifiers are being recalled because they could burn down your home. Sears and Kmart are recalling some Kenmore dehumidifiers that you see right here.

You have the Consumer Product Safety Commission saying these faulty dehumidifiers are linked to more than $7 million in property damage and three reports of smoke inhalation injuries. Kenmore is fully cooperating with the recall, which only affects certain models manufactured by LG Electronics from 2003 to 2005 and sold from 2003 to 2009.

Remember this lady? She made headlines earlier this year for her excessive tanning. Take a look at this. That is tan mom's new look. Her name is Patricia Krenchil and her new pale look comes after she accepted a challenge from "In Touch" magazine to give up tanning both inside and outside for one month. How does she feel about her new look, quote, "weird and pale." Her story appears in this week's "In Touch" magazine.

When the Boy Scouts of America reaffirmed a policy that bans membership to open or avowed homosexuals, the gay community unified and voiced their outrage. Now an eagle scout who is gay is taking his anger even further. He is returning a medal he worked years for in protest.

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STEVEN COLELLA, RETURNED AWARD: My hope is that it can influence a new ideology for the organization and that it will inspire other people to stand up for what they believe in.

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KEILAR: The Boy Scouts released a statement that says, quote, "While the majority of our membership agrees with our policy, no single policy will accommodate the diverse views among our membership and society."

KEILAR: A 911 caller to a Vermont Sheriff's Department told deputies they might want to go out back and check their parking lot out. So when they did, this is what they found, a total of seven flattened police cruisers.

A farmer apparently seeking revenge for some minor criminal charges used a farm tractor to crush the cruisers yesterday. He was stopped a mile away. Yes, still on his tractor and I know you know this. He's got a few more charges to face now.

Just ahead, we've got an Olympic spoiler alert plus Usain Bolt, he is known as the fastest man in the world. And just ahead, we're going one-on-one with him as he answers questions as fast as he can including the one thing he hates about being famous.

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KEILAR: You hear that people? That is a spoiler alert. Yes, we're getting results in from this afternoon's Olympic events. So if you don't want to hear them, put your TV on mute right now. We'll even give you a few seconds to do that.

Just in, Missy Franklin has just won the gold medal in the 200-meter backstroke in record setting time and Michael Phelps has finished first in his final individual race of his Olympic career. He's already the most decorated Olympian in history and he can now add a gold medal in the 100-meter butterfly.

As the Olympic focus turns to track and field, all eyes are on Jamaican Usain Bolt. Four years ago, he smashed the world record. He took home the gold in the 100-meter dash.

But will he make history again this weekend? In true sprinter fashion, 1992 Olympian Lynford Christy asked Bolt some quick fire questions about his aspirations and also the one thing he hates most about being famous.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Quick fire round, another gold medal or world record.

USAIN BOLT, JAMAICAN TRACK AND FIELD ATHLETE: Gold medal.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: World record in 200 or 100.

BOLT: In 200.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No 400?

BOLT: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you had to name your ultimate Jamaican four by one, past and present?

BOLT: That's a hard one. Me, Blake.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Worst thing about being famous?

BOLT: All these interviews.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you listen to on your iPod?

BOLT: Mostly reggae and rap.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Who are you looking forward to see at the Olympics?

BOLT: Argentina.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: At our peak, who would win, me or you?

BOLT: It would be a tie.

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KEILAR: Pretty fast, but I think he does run a little faster than he answers questions.

Coming up next hour, six decades after setting an Olympic record at Wimbley Stadium, Mal Whitfield, father of our Fredricka here at CNN returns to London to see some old friends and meet new fans.

Mitt Romney's firing back at Senator Harry Reid saying put up or shut up. The Senate majority leader accused the candidate of not paying taxes.

Also a British court convicts parents in an honor murder. There were a lot of twists and turns in this case. But in the end the court says the teenager girl was killed because of her westernized lifestyle.

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KEILAR: Now a big headline out of Britain. It's not about the Olympics. This one is about a family torn apart by an honor killing. This is the victim, a 17-year-old who went missing in 2003.

The parents who are originally from Pakistan told police their daughter ran way. It happens all the time, right? But in this case, the girl's body was found on the banks of the River Kent the following year.

Even that didn't provoke suspicion that the parents killed the girl. That's where the story gets filled with strange twists and even stranger turns that led to the parents arrest and now a murder conviction.

To help straighten all this out for us let bring in CNN's Atika Shubert in London. So let's start at the beginning here Atika, well, sort of the beginning.

The parents are now going to jail for killing their daughter, but first what made police suspect the parents at all?

ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, actually police were suspicious from the beginning because the parents did not report that she was missing. In fact, she was reported missing by a teacher at her school that was concerned.

Then under questioning police learned that she had very serious injuries because she had drunk a bottle of bleach and she had apparently done so in protest against an arranged marriage in Pakistan that was set up by her parents.

So police had already seen a number of very disturbing signs, but they didn't have enough evidence to charge the parents. That didn't come until 2010 when her younger sister, Alicia, actually told police that she personally had witnessed both of her parents suffocate her older sister with a plastic bag.

KEILAR: And Atika, we learned about, in this trial there were wiretaps, threatening phone calls, changing stories. Tell us about the trial and also the sentence.

SHUBERT: Yes, it was a very dramatic case and in many times harrowing court case. Alisha, of course, had some of the most disturbing eyewitness accounts of how her mother apparently she said held down Shafilia while her father stuffed a plastic bag down her older sister's throat until she stopped struggling.

She also described years of abuse by her parents from anything of wearing a short sleeve t-shirt to going out to party with friends. These were all things that apparently the parents felt were too westernized and were shameful to the family.

But as soon as Alisha actually testified to that, her mother then completely changed tact and her defense pinned the blame on her husband and said he had beaten her the night she disappeared. She didn't know anything about it.

He denied having any violent tendencies and said the entire family was lying. This was a case of he said, she said between family members. It would have been very difficult for the jury.

But there was wiretap evidence to show that husband and wife were conspiring not to just get rid of evidence, but possibly also Shafilia's body. That seemed to have been what change the jury's mind.

KEILAR: Atika, you now have friends of this victim speaking out. Let's listen to what one said and then we'll talk on the other side.

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MELISSA POWNER, FRIEND OF MURDER VICTIM SHAFILEA AHMED: Shafilea was an extremely intelligent young lady who we have no doubt would have accomplished her personal ambitions of becoming a lawyer.

Yet this opportunity was unfairly snatched away from her when her life was taken for reasons we cannot even begin to comprehend. Reasons that young girls have to face on a daily basis behind closed doors.

If there's one thing that we pray will come from this is that her beautiful face and tragic story will inspire others to seek help that make them realize this kind of vile treatment no matter what culture or background they are from is not acceptable and there is a way out.

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KEILAR: So this, Atika, is of course the hope that her death wasn't in vain. What's the reaction in Britain to the honor killing? Is he becoming a bit of a poster child for this crime?

SHUBERT: She is. She has become a symbol for what is a truly horrific crime. Unfortunately, she's not the first case of an honor killing happening here in the U.K. And what campaigners are saying is that they are hoping that with her case they'll be able to raise awareness and show where the different warning signs were coming from.

The fact that she apparently was missing school for example and several times ran away from home and told care workers that her parents were threatening to marry her off in Pakistan, all of these according to campaigners are signs that she should have been taken away from her family as soon as possible.

Unfortunately, in this case her family was still able to get to her and apparently kill her.

KEILAR: Hopefully those signs will help other killings be prevented. Atika Shubert from London, thank you so much for that.