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today marks the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of hiroshima. in a flash the japanese city was destroyed. >> in essence, that attack ended world war ii. but as diana alvear reports the death and destruction there will never be forgotten. i'm warning you, some of the pictures in this report are pretty graphic. >> reporter: monks lit incense and prayed for peace in japan, in remembrance of the thousands of lives lost. 65 years ago, u.s. forces dropped two atom bombs to end world war ii. one on hiroshima, the next, three days later, on nagasaki. >> translator: i was 7 years old. >> reporter: michiko was at school looking out a window when

she saw a blinding mix of colors. seconds later the window shattered and the ceiling disintegrated. >> translator: help me, mommy, it hurts. help me, i herd my friend scream around me. >> reporter: she says what she felt no child ever should. >> translator: people's eyeballs fell out of their sockets and were dangling on their faces. >> reporter: his body still bears the scars of trauma that he suffered at 16. the ribs he lost. the skin that melted away. >> translator: every day i wondered when i would die, and every day i would scream, kill me, kill me. >> reporter: they are known is hibaksha, survivors of the bomb. their numbers are quickly dwindling. their fear, time is running out to spread their message of peace. that message may carry more weight now than it has in years. the obama administration has placed limits on the use of nuclear weapons. in may, they took their message to new york city.

joining peace activists to tell their stories. mikso says he was forced to make an impossible decision. stay with his dying mother or save his own life. days later, he discovered what was left of her body. >> translator: it was a burnt black piece of mess dripping with bodily fluids. my mother was killed as a thing, not as a human. >> reporter: so long as there is war, they say they'll stand as a living testament to peace until there are no more hibaksha left to speak. diana alvear, abc news, new york. >> and on this day there is an annual peace ceremony. for the first time this year the united states, britain, and france are actually sending representatives. so basically what it is, is not only a chance for government leaders to give speeches there, it also gives people who are survivors and people who had family members there to give ritual remembrance to people they lost. in his horrific scene. >> it's been 65 years and still so much debate about this. a full-scale invasion of japan

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welcome back, everybody. well, mark wahlberg and will ferrell play an "odd couple" type of police partners in the movie "the other guys" which opens today. >> peter traverse sat down with the two stars. >> excuse me, you're under arrest. okay? you have the right to remain silent. anything you do or say can be used -- um -- what's the next part? >> as a flotation device. >> as a flotation device. oh, you know what? that's very funny. >> will ferrell, mark wahlberg, the guys from "the other guys," welcome to the show. >> thank you for having us. >> did you know each other before you teamed up in this very unlikely movie "the other guys"? >> i don't know if -- >> are you from the hood? >> i'm not from the hood. i am from the -- irvine, california.

>> that's a different kind of hood. >> charter member of the irvine crips. >> were we locked up together? >> we weren't locked up together that i know of. >> explain a little bit for the benighted souls out there who may not know yet who you're playing. >> we're the guys -- >> i was supposed to get the glory. >> right. >> but i made a little boo-boo. i shot derek jeter in the leg. i didn't kill the guy. game seven of the world series. i become the most hated person in new york city and they force me to partner -- i was this close to being a gold shield homicide detective. and i get partnered up with -- >> you get partnered with my guy who loves paperwork, loves the -- never has any -- doesn't aspire to ever go out in the field and just feels like, you know, working at the desk is as vital a cog in the justice system as anything. >> when did you get a feeling while you were doing this that it's working for you? >> i felt like when we did the first read-through of the script.

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of work running out of hope. >> this is my first time here so i'm a little overwhelmed by the number of people. >> reporter: at this night's meeting over 300 people came looking for help to get back to work. >> everyone's here for the same reason -- >> reporter: for many it is the first time in their career to be without a job. a very lost feeling. >> just to sit down with other people you think, gosh, i'm not alone. it's really wonderful. >> reporter: the volunteers include recruiters, corporate executives offering guidance on how to land a good job in tough times. >> i want that hiring manager to look you in the face, go wow, that was impressive. >> reporter: volunteers come from different churches here to help. >> many of them have lost their identities. and i wanted to get them that identity back. >> it's really loving your neighbor. and a genuine love for people you don't know. >> reporter: that meant the world to jo berkhart, executive recruiter, when she lost her job, career ministry helped her

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mangled mess. two school buses in a chain-reaction crash. the fatalities and the heartache. then, naomi campbell's claims in court. >> this is a big inconvenience for me. >> the supermodel's key testimony in a high-profile trial. and, household hazards. unprecedented inflammable danger in a common consumer product. it's friday, august 6th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> linseed oil is something a lot of people use in the house. whether it be a cleaner or not. you don't even realize how dangerous it can be. >> stay tuned for that report. good morning, everybody, i'm rob

nelson. >> i'm vinita nair. it started as a day of fun for a missouri high school marching band. instead they ended up in a mangled wreckage of a freeway pileup. >> the crash killed two teenagers and the ntsb has put together a team of 14 investigators to find out why. robert pinto shows us what happened in gray summit, missouri. >> reporter: it happened in a matter of seconds. a school field trip took a tragic turn. >> it was all very, very quick. really quick. >> reporter: more than 50 students from john f. hodge high school were rushed to area hospitals. interstate 44, a tangle of mangled buses and crushed trucks. the teens were celebrating the end of band camp with a trip to six flags. the girls in one bus, the boys following in another. police say the crash happened when the driver of that first bus changed lanes to avoid another car. >> as she was looking into her mirrors, either to the left or right, she took her eyes off the

road. >> reporter: straight in her path, a gmc truck had rear-ended a tractor-trailer, touching off the deadly chain reaction crash. the girls' bus landed in the pickup truck. the boys' bus hit the girls'. the force of that attack. propelled one bus into the air and on to the pickup. one teenage girl was killed along with the driver of that pickup truck. helicopters airlifted the most seriously injured to area hospitals that quickly filled with worried parents. >> i just want to say i'm very thankful that i'm taking my child home today. >> reporter: it is unclear whether the school buses had seat belts despite tough new safety standards. the national traffic safety administration doesn't require school districts to install them on large buses. those new standards do require higher seat backs and more padded that offer good protection. on facebook prayers for the family of their schoolmates and those injured on a day that was supposed to be a celebration. students here are getting ready for a far more somber event, a

memorial service for their classmates. barbara pinto, abc news, st. louis. moments after a connecticut man shot and killed eight of his co-workers tuesday, he made an extraordinary call to 911. omar thornton introduced himself to the operator as the shooter over in manchester. he said his work place was "racist" but he had handled the problem, words that alarmed the operator. >> this is a horrible situation. i understand that. >> you don't need to calm me down. i'm already calmed down. i'm not going to kill anybody else. i just want to tell my story. >> thornton also said he wished he could have shot more people, then he committed suicide. thornton's employers say he never filed a claim with them, his union, or any anti-discrimination agencies. the search is on for a new leader of president obama's council of economic advisers. christina romer is stepping down. she is returning to the university of california and her old job as an economics professor. romer is the second economic

adviser to leave the white house this summer. elena kagan will be sworn in as the supreme court justice tomorrow. when the confirmation votes were counted kagan won the senate's approval by a wide margin. but as jonathan karl reports, critics kept up the fight to the very end. >> the tally is 63-37. >> reporter: elena kagan was easily confirmed in a vote the president hailed as historic. >> for nearly two centuries there wasn't a single woman on our nation's highest court. >> reporter: kagan faced last-minute attacks from republicans who branded her a liberal activist with absolutely no judicial experience. >> her lack of judicial experience, striking. >> is not suited. >> does not have the gift. >> she is unlikely to exercise judicial restraint. >> reporter: it was highly partisan. all but five republicans voted no. all but one democrat voted yes. with kagan, the court will now have for the first time three women serving at once. one-third of the justices. it's a huge sea change for an institution that has been

dominated by men. as recently as last year, there was just one woman on the court. >> now, there i am all alone and it doesn't look right. it's lonely for me. there's life experience that a woman has simply because she's grown up inside a woman's body. >> reporter: ronald reagan nominated sandra day o'connor as the first woman in 1981. but it wasn't until 12 years later that the court installed a woman's restroom near the room where they deliberate. >> for years, they would just have a men's bathroom back there. it just goes to show what a male-dominated place the supreme court had been for many years. >> reporter: jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. bp says its ruptured well in the gulf of mexico is now sealed. engineers pumped tons of cement into the well shaft to fortify the mud that is holding back the oil. they believe the process has permanently plugged the well but they say they will continue to pump mud and cement through a

relief well just to make sure. later this month the government will take over processing claims from people harmed financially in the gulf region. bp is still sending out those claims and the company has paid $303 million so far. $112 million was spent in the past three weeks. the claims were sent to 40,000 individuals and businesses. it's not often a lengthy international war crimes trial winds up in the spotlight. reports that all changed yesterday when supermodel naomi campbell took the stand. she was testifying about an incident 13 years ago involving so-called blood diamonds. nick watt has the story. >> where is she? >> reporter: naomi campbell arrived, characteristically, a little late. waiting for her in court, the indicted war criminal charles taylor. >> are you a bit nervous? >> no, well, i didn't really want to be here. this is someone that i read on the internet has killed thousands of people, supposedly.

>> reporter: taylor is charged with fomenting a vicious west african war, trading weapons with rebels for so-called blood diamonds. campbell's in court currently due to what movie star mia farrow told abc's brian ross a couple of months ago. she said after a dinner at nelson mandela's house in 1997, taylor gave the supermodel a diamond. >> you don't forget when a girlfriend tells you that she was given a huge diamond in the middle of the night. it was representatives of president charles taylor. and that they had given her a huge diamond. >> reporter: campbell denied the allegations to abc news. >> since you received this diamond from charles -- >> i didn't receive a diamond and i'm not going to speak about that. thank you so much, good-bye. we're not answering those questions. >> reporter: under oath she told a story very similar to farrow's. >> i opened my door and two men were there and gave me a pouch and said, a gift for you. i'm used to seeing diamonds. i'm used to seeing diamonds shiny, in a box.

i saw a few stones. and they were very small, dirty-looking stones. >> reporter: helping prove, prosecutors say, taylor was in south africa with uncut stones, buying weapons. campbell claim claims she gave her diamonds to charity. she was just a little less combative. >> this is a big inconvenience for me. >> reporter: nick watt, abc news, london. >> while they have received money from her, the charity says they never got those diamonds. here's a look at your weather now. stormy in the southeast with 70-mile-an-hour winds, hail and downpours from raleigh to atlanta. showers and thunderstorms from louisiana to florida. steady downpours from new mexico and arizona into the northern rockies. >> 90s from billings to albuquerque. 72 in seattle. 80 in portland. 80s from fargo to detroit. boston gets up to 88. new york 90. and baltimore 91. joysticks are getting quite the workout in southern iowa this weekend. >> gamers from around the country have descended on

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>> it's linseed oil. it's something we use on just about everything in our homes. consumer correspondent elisabeth leamy explains what you need to know to keep your family safe. >> reporter: this can come from this. and we're going to show you how it happens. we tossed some linseed oil-soaked rags and newspaper in a box, like any homeowner night. might. but we do it under the close supervision of montgomery county, maryland, fire and rescue. then we train cameras on our two experiments. one outside, another in a fire lab. and we wait. >> it was like, you know, staying at the top of a chimney. >> reporter: charlie shod says linseed oil fires seem to burn hot and fast. >> with all the heat and fire going up and up the stairwell -- >> right at you. >> right at us. >> reporter: and he should know. >> my neighbor across the alley, their house is exploding. >> reporter: this is the linseed-fueled fire that charlie

and his fellow washington, d.c. firefighters got trapped in. their only way out of the house, back through the flames. >> i did say to myself, you know, you can stay up here and try and put this fire out and probably die, or you can get out of here. >> reporter: they made it. but with devastating burns over much of their bodies. the official cause, according to the fire department, linseed oil. back at our experiment, it's been an hour. and we check the linseed-soaked rags with a thermal imageer. those glow in the dark spots are where the linseed oil is beginning to grow hot. >> obviously you're getting heat buildup. >> reporter: exposed to air it combines with oxygen molecules. this chemical reaction creates heat. if the linseed oil is on something like a cotton rag it can catch fire at a low as 120 degrees with no outside spark.

>> it is certainly among only a few items that gives off heat when it comes in contact with other natural products like cotton. and given the right atmosphere, the right amount of ventilation, it does self-ignite. so that makes it extremely dangerous. >> reporter: in fact, linseed oil caused the biggest high rise fire in u.s. history. in 1991, meridian plaza in philadelphia burned for 19 hours. >> so that's the hot spot right in, there boy, i can feel it. >> reporter: two hours into our experiment we spot smoke. the pile we left outside starts to smolder first and builds quickly. smoke curls from the rags indoors soon after. >> people simply forget the potential deadliness of simple cloth and linseed oil. >> reporter: this historic albuquerque theater and saloon went up in flames after a wooden bar was refinished with linseed oil. three hours and ten minutes into our experiment, suddenly we see flames. and remember, there was no outside spark to cause this fire.

>> whoo! >> reporter: that's why they call it spontaneous combustion. the rags inside go up in flames too. and that is the unique power and danger of linseed oil. so the way to dispose of something like newspaper or paper towel that's been soaked in linseed oil and do it safely is get yourself a metal can, fill it with water, put the items in there, seal the lid tightly, and take it to your local hazardous waste center. in washington, elisabeth leamy, abc news. >> linseed, so people know, is used in paint binder, putty, wood finish, linoleum, even some nutritional supplements. >> there's a lot of things people have in our cabinets that don't realize are combustible. if you want a complete list or complete as we could get of things that have the potential to self-combust, visit our

website, abcnews.com. that's an important thing to know. >> now we know. coming up, mary hart quits "entertainment tonight." who will replace her? >> we have the answer. plus, rosie o'donnell is back on tv. we'll tell you what her new gig is next in "the skinny."

i have to admit this first "skinny" story brings a tear to my eye. >> you're upset about this. >> i really am. for almost half her life mary hart has been the face of "entertainment tonight." she's 60 years old and there's tons of rumors from multiple

websites that she's been replaced and by who, the woman you see on your left, lara spencer, host of "the insider." they're saying a source on the show says this deal had been in place several months. there's also another website, hollywoodreporter, saying this has to do with money. they say in her 29th season, mary hart was making something like $5 million. astronomical sum. they simply couldn't pay it anymore. they asked her to take a pay cut, which she did. she took a 50% pay cut for one final season. then she said, i never intended to be here more than three years. i've had a wonderful 30-year run. best of luck to lara. >> she's the face of that program, been around so long. looks great. so all that money, huh? >> i wish her the best. at 60 i'm sure she has family she wants to spend time with. it's probably great news for her. >> she'll probably find other work for sure. >> i'll miss her, yeah. >> speaking of tv, who's coming and who's going, after oprah,

stepping down off the throne, who's going to replace her? n ftns o apparently not quite true. now word has gone out rosie is not going to replace oprah but instead, work for her. rosie will have her own show back on oprah's new network that she will own, that there broadcast and debut on january 1st, produced by o'donnell, a one-hour daily show based here in new york city. sometime next year when the oprah winfrey network launches in january. >> so many questions about what that network's going to be like. to hear rosie, i think a lot of the people will be interested in watching. >> it's a big name. she has an interesting image for sure. >> i like rosie. i know a lot of people don't. i think she's hilarious and i think she's quick-witted. >> i think she's real and she speaks her mind. >> we just love everyone here today on "the skinny." here's one i don't love. this iwso if you' beellowat all, whoopi and the gate crasher from the state dinner, they've been sparring since wednesday

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search for the truth. you're government does not take ufo sightings too seriously. so we're told. >> a report released by the british government thursday, they don't apparently mess around with sightings of the unexplained. the bbc's tasmin smith has that story. >> reporter: if the truth about ufos is really out there, the closest we can get to it is here. the results of government investigations into hundreds of sightings made public for the first time. why, asked one mp in a letter to the m.o.d., were raf fighter planes not scrambled to investigate this? an unexplained light in lancashire filmed in 1996, matched a strange blip on an air traffic control radar. the report released concludes this in fact is the planet venus. we now know in 1957, the m.o.d. took ufo sightings so seriously, they were discussed at a joint intelligence committee meeting. but the declassified files show how the official information

changed radically after the cold war. >> by the time we get to the '90s you get massive amounts of public interest. but declining military interest. in that aircraft are no longer scrambled anymore to investigate things. >> reporter: over the next year, the m.o.d. will release thousands more documents about ufos to the national archives here. some of the most interesting ones are yet to come. and we're also going to find out whether the m.o.d. really believes that ufos from outer space actually exist. sandra smith, bbc news. >> do you buy it? what do you think? >> you know, we've been on these crazy overnight hours to have spottings of our own ufos. take us to your leader. >> take us to the weekend. man. take us. >> we'll be right back.

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chilling call to 911. >> are you armed, sir? do you have a weapon with you? >> oh, yeah, man. >> what the gunman who shot and killed co-workers said to police before his death. then, set free. a minnesota man let out of prison after a case involving his crashed toyota. and, supermodel naomi campbell's message in court. >> well, i didn't really want to be here. >> it's friday, august 6th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good morning, everyone, on i'm rob nelson. >> i'm vinita nair. moments after a connecticut truck driver shot and killed eight coworkers on tuesday he put down his gun and called 911. >> omar thornton spent four minutes talking to the operator,

outlining the disturbing details of what he did and why. t.j. winick has the story. good morning, t.j. good morning, rob and vinita. authorities released the chilling phone call that the shooter made after he had gone on his bloody rampage. omar thornton called 911 after shooting ten co-workers. eight fatally. on tuesday morning at hartford distributors in manchester, connecticut. >> state police. >> is this 911? >> yeah, can i help you? >> this is omar thornton, the shooter over in manchester. >> where are you, sir? >> i'm in the building. you probably want to know the reason why i shot this place up. this place here is a racist place. >> yep, i understand that. >> they treat me bad over here, they treat all black employees bad over here too. i had to take it into my own hands. i wish i could have gotten more of the people. >> yeah, are you armed, sir? do you have a weapon with you?

>> oh, yeah, i'm armed. >> reporter: thornton opened fire after an early morning disciplinary hearing in which he was forced to resign when confronted with videotaped evidence that he was stealing beer and selling it. >> it's a horrible situation, i understand that. >> you don't need to calm me down. i'm already calmed down. i'm not going to kill anybody else. i just wanted to tell my story. >> reporter: he had smuggled guns into the building in a lunch box. >> how much ammunition do you have with you? >> i got -- i shot, oh -- >> what was that? >> it's all right. i guess it's got me. i have to take care of business. tell me people i love them and i got to go now. >> reporter: the owner of the company denied the charges of racism. >> omar thornton was embraced as a member of our team. >> reporter: police found thornton in the warehouse shortly afterwards, dead with a gunshot wound to his head. rob and vinita? 14 federal investigators

will look into a fatal chain-reaction crash on a missouri highway. two school buses packed with teenagers plowed into a pickup truck and semi that had already collided. the impact launched one bus into the air and onto the pickup and the other onto the semi. two teens died in the crash. the head of president obama's council of economic advisers has one more month left on the job. christina romer is resigning so she can go back to work as an economics professor in california. the white house says romer's resignation was expected and president obama has thanked her for what he called extraordinary service. by a senate vote of 63-37, elena kagan has been confirmed as a supreme court justice. five republicans supported her while one democrat voted against her. after a celebration at the white house today, kagan will be formally sworn in as the court's 112th justice tomorrow. two legal decisions in minnesota set a man free from prison where he spent two and a half years. his case involved his toyota, a fatal car crash, and a mandate

to get his case reopened after toyota's huge recall. michael maher has the story. >> reporter: an emotional scene as koua fong lee embraced loved ones and attorneys after two legal decisions that changed his life. >> i am really happy to see my wife and children. i'm really happy about that. so i think the first thing i'm going to do is spend time with my family. >> reporter: he was released from a minnesota prison after a judge decided there was enough new evidence to retry his criminal vehicular homicide case. in 2006, lee said his toyota camry would not stop on a st. paul freeway exit ramp, crashing into another car, killing two people and paralyzing a third victim. these attorneys wanted the case reopened because of complaints about sudden acceleration

problems in toyotas. >> we started this whole journey for one reason. not for a deal but to vindicate his entire story from the day this happened. >> reporter: the prosecutors' decision not to continue the case led to more celebrating. >> the prosecutor just announced that she's not going to press more charges. >> she did? >> she did! >> reporter: as lee was allowed to go home to his wife and children he asked for forgiveness from the victim's family, saying he never intended to cause the fatal accident. michael maher, abc news, new york. bp executives say operation static kill seems to be working. the blown-out well in the gulf of mexico is just about permanently sealed. all that's left now is for that cement to dry. engineers pumped in the cement to shore up the mud that's holding back oil. they say they will continue forcing mud and cement through a relief well to make sure the leak is finally stopped. 65 years ago right now, the city of hiroshima, japan, was the scene of unimaginable

carnage during world war ii. of course being the target of an american atomic bomb. >> and there is something different about this year's anniversary memorial. margaret conley is in tokyo with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, vinita and rob. whether or not you believe the decision to use atomic weapons was right or wrong, 65 years later, the ceremony remains an emotionally charged as ever and the united states attended for the first time. a peace toll marked the minute the first atomic bomb hit hiroshima 65 years ago. 140,000 people died. few survived. fewer lived to share their stories. for decades after the end of world war ii, many japanese hid that they were survivors. exposure to radiation was seen as a terrible stigma. today, they speak out for recognition and medical aid and provide an oral history for future generations. >> translator: it was a burnt, black piece of mass dripping with bodily fluids. my mother was killed as a thing,

not as a human. >> reporter: their voices had been heard by representatives from over 70 countries. and united nations secretary-general ban ki-moon. the united states, britain, and france were there for the first time. their collective hope, to prevent the use of atomic weapons in today's radically different world. washington's choice to have u.s. ambassador john roos attend could single a future visit by president obama which would be controversial and unprecedented for a sitting president. vinita, rob? >> margaret, thanks. wisconsin state fair got off to something of a bizarre start. the fair's overhead gondola ride got stuck because of a mechanical failure. it took firefighters more than an hour to evacuate some of the riders. there were no reports of injuries. in south florida, a 2-year-old girl has died after

being left alone in a day care center van for up to six hours. relatives in delray beach say the child was picked up at home but apparently forgotten in the 15-seat van when it arrived at the day care center. temperatures were in the 80s but inside a car they could top 100 degrees. now here is a look at your friday forecast. wet and windy in the southeast with strong winds, hail, and flash floods in the carolinas and georgia. showers and thunderstorms along the gulf coast. more drenching rain in the four corners region stretching as far north as montana. 92 in billings, 72 in seattle and 110 in phoenix. another day of triple digit heat in dallas as well. near 90 in kansas city and omaha and 90s from new york down to miami. they admitted they were tempted, but in the end they both managed to do the right thing. >> a 16-year-old washington state boy was searching for his cell phone in the cushions of his friend's couch. that's when he fished out a wallet with 650 bucks inside. >> turns out it was a

second-hand couch. so the teens tracked down the wallet's owner on the internet. the owner was so happy to get her wallet and all that money, she says she lost it at a party five years ago. she should have let them keep the money. >> yeah, whatever. they got a reward, though, apparently. >> they did. i hope it was more than $650. >> better teen than i was. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now." [ wom nine iron, it's almost tee-time...

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this could be a real-life tale of beauty and the beast. supermodel naomi campbell testifies in the war crimes trial of liberia's charles taylor. >> she was questioned about so-called blood diamonds the foam warlord gave to her. a claim she denied to abc's brian ross. >> i solemnly swear on the bible that -- >> reporter: on the stand, the war crimes trial in the hague today. supermodel naomi campbell

appeared to be put out to be called as a witness. >> this is a big inconvenience for me. >> reporter: campbell had initially refused to cooperate with prosecutors in their case against the former liberian dictator charles taylor and appeared today only because of a subpoena from the court forcing her testimony. >> are you a bit nervous? >> no, well, i didn't really want to be here so i was made to be here. so obviously i'm just like wanting to get this over with and get on with my life. >> reporter: for prosecutors, campbell's testimony is seen as crucial in the case that goes back over a decade. involving hundreds of thousands of people killed or maimed in the bloody civil war that taylor is accused of fueling with what came to be called blood diamonds. as first reported by abc news, witnesses said campbell on a trip to south africa, to the home of nelson mandela, had boasted receiving a packet of diamonds from taylor's representatives. >> when i was sleeping, i had a knock at my door. and i opened my door and two men

were there and gave me a pouch and said a gift for you. >> did you ask them who they were? >> no. i was extremely tired. >> what did you think the stones were? >> they were kind of dirty looking pebbles. they were not -- they were -- dirty -- i don't know. when i'm used to seeing diamonds, i'm used to seeing diamonds shiny in a box, you know. if someone hadn't said they were diamonds i wouldn't have guessed right away they were diamonds. >> reporter: but witnesses, including actress and activist mia farrow, have given much different testimony. farrow was there the next morning and said campbell knew exactly what she had. >> she said, during the night some men had knocked at her door, and it was representatives of president charles taylor, and that they had given her a huge diamond. and you're like, oh my gosh. >> reporter: at the time, taylor was at the center of international outrage over his

alleged role in stoking the bloody civil war. but campbell today claimed she was completely ignorant of the term "blood diamonds" or what was happening in africa. >> i don't know, i don't know anything about charles taylor, never heard of him before, never heard of the country liberia before, never heard of the term "blood diamond" before. so i just assumed that it was. >> have you had any other contact with -- >> no contact, never seen him again since the dinner table. >> when at breakfast you were told probably they were diamonds and probably they came from charles taylor, did you consider thanking him for the gift? >> i didn't thank him, i just looked for my friend jeremy radcliff and gave them to him. it's not abnormal for me to get gifts. i get gifts given to me all the time, at any hour of the night. >> reporter: the man she says she gave the diamonds to, jeremy radcliff, was the director of the nelson mandela children's fund. >> my intention at that moment and at that time was to give them -- find jeremy and give

them to him. don't recall his reaction. i just said, take them, do something with them. and make sure children benefit from them. i didn't want to keep them. >> reporter: radcliffe could not be reached for comment today but current officials at the children's fund tell abc news there is no record of any diamonds received from naomi campbell, at the time or since. she did make contributions of some $50,000 that year and the year after, according to their records. >> i care about the protection of my family. and as i said on television before, i didn't want to have anything to do with it. >> reporter: naomi campbell has said she feared for the safety of her family in explaining why she was so hesitant to cooperate with the war crimes tribunal. >> miss campbell, we want to thank you for your testimony. >> reporter: at the end of today's session campbell was thanked for her testimony, which prosecutors said took months to arrange. the multimillionaire supermodel left with no comment. eager, as she said, to get on

with her life and put the inconvenience of the war crimes trial behind her. this is brian ross, abc news. >> when you know the atrocities that happened in sierra leone, that region, it's sort of hard to hear her say i want to get back on with my life. this is a conflict. a lot of the lawyers for taylor have argued there's not a lot of evidence to connect him with those atrocities. so her testimony is critical. >> pretty big. the mia farrow evidence, what she said about naomi, plus no letter confirming she did give them to the charity. it's hard to figure out who to believe in this one. a car's getting around. using a very different kind of gas. >> making fill from something you find in the toilet. you're watching "world news now." ws

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think again. >> no, not at all. in england they've developed what's called the bio bug. a volkswagen beetle that will run forever on fuel from, what, human waste. the bbc's john mcguire has more. >> reporter: from the bathroom to the open road. this sewage works near bristol, one of the biggest in the uk, already generates its own electricity, and now, biogas is being used to fuel a car. well, this is sewage sludge that surrounds seven stages through the sewage treatment process after you flush the toilet. and this is the car. it's a volkswagen beetle with a two liter petrol engine. just take a look in the boot here. you can see the tanks where the methane gas is stored. that should give this car a range of around 250 or 300 miles. the annual waste from 70 houses would power this car for a year. it's a first for wessex water which has plans for more. >> we have a fleet of 400

vehicles, 20 tankers, and there is absolutely no technical reason on this earth why we couldn't convert all of those vehicles to run on the biogas that we produce on this site. >> wow, this is a first. >> there she goes. >> reporter: so what does professional petrol head sol ziegler make of it? >> oil as we know it is finite. this is infinite. as long as there are people and cars and chickens there will be methane. so this is the future. >> reporter: nicknamed the dung beetle, it's much cleaner than a conventional car. and considering methane goes in, thankfully what comes out is odorless. john mcguire, bbc news, bristol. >> they did a sniff test on the exhaust. >> you know everyone was wondering. at least he addressed it. >> he did. he kept it real. >> methane. >> doing something for the environment, folks. coming up, the "morning papers." coming up, the "morning

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gunman called, revealed recordings to 911. what was behind the connecticut shooting rampage. then, atomic anniversary. the hiroshima atomic bombing. 65 years ago today. what's different at today's memorial. and police parody. >> anything you do or say can be used -- um -- what's the next word? as a flotation device. >> mark wahlberg and will ferrell look for laughs in their new movie spoof. it's friday, august 6th. >> from abc news, this is "world news now." >> i'll go see that this weekend maybe. that looks pretty good. >> there's a bunch of good

movies out. i think there's a luke wilson one coming out that i want to see. >> yeah, tune in monday on "insomniac theater." >> a good tease for monday. >> good morning, i'm rob nelson. >> i'm vinita nair. the connecticut man who went on that deadly workplace shooting spree left behind an extraordinary look into the mind of a killer. >> just before ending his own life, omar thornton called 911, explaining what he did and why. clarissa ward now has the latest from manchester, connecticut. >> reporter: the final words of a killer. the chilling 911 call from omar thornton moments after he shot eight of his colleagues in cold blood. >> this is a racist place. >> yep, i understand that. >> they treated me bad over here and treat all the other black employees bad over here too. so i had to take it into my own hands. i wish i could have gotten more of the people. >> reporter: at a press conference, the family-run company was unequivocal about its treatment of the shooter.

>> omar thornton was embraced as a member of our team. >> reporter: also in attendance, hollinger's brother steven who was shot twice in tuesday's deadly rampage and placed this call to 911 from inside the facility. >> you're shot where? >> in my head. >> you were shot in the heady. >> yeah. >> reporter: accusations were that he was the victim of constant racial taunts at work. the company has said repeatedly that thornton never filed a complaint with them, the union, or any anti-discrimination agencies. even so, they're launching their own investigation into the matter. christie hannah was thornton's girlfriend of nine years. she asked for her face not to be shown on-camera, although she was willing to share this photograph of her and thornton. she claims she saw cell phone photos of racial slurs on the bathroom wall at his work. >> one was a hangman with a noose around its neck, and underneath it said "kill."

the n word. >> reporter: state police have the cell phone but refuse to discuss whether the alleged photos are on it. for this small community the focus is on honoring the dead and beginning the painful process of moving forward. clarissa ward, abc news, manchester, connecticut. the ntsb is investigating a chain reaction crash on a missouri highway that left two people dead and dozens injured. it started with a pickup trick rear-ending a semi, then two school buses packed with high school students slammed into the crash site. the impact launched one of the buses into the air and onto the pickup and the other bus right onto the semi. police say the driver of the first bus lost focus, trying to avoid the accident scene. >> as she was looking into her mirrors, either to the left or right, she took her eyes off the road. >> it was all very, very quick. really quick. >> the driver of the pickup truck and one of the students were killed. both of them were teenagers. for the second time in a

week, president obama is losing a top economic adviser. christina romer is resigning as chair of the white house's council of economic advisers. she will return to her old job next month as an economics professor. last week the director of the president's office of management and budget also stepped down. and the country has a new director of national intelligence. james clapper was confirmed by the senate. he is a retired air force general who has served as the pentagon's chief intelligence clapper replaces dennis blair, who resigned under pres attorney general eric holder credits muslim community leaders for helping investigators down on terror suspects. 14 people in three states are charged with aiding somali terrorists linked to al qaeda. as t.j. winick reports, the suspects share a disturbing common denominator. >> reporter: they are american citizens fighting on foreign soil. the justice department charged 12 men and two women for associating with al shabaab, a somali terrorist group and ally

of al qaeda. >> we are seeing an increasing number of individuals, including u.s. citizens, who have become captivated by extremist ideology and taken steps to carry out terrorist objectives either at home or abroad. >> reporter: the accused have lived on the west coast, the deep south, and the midwest. in minnesota alone, ten men are accused of leaving the united states to join al shabaab. >> those are kids that have been brainwashed. >> reporter: the terror group claimed responsibility for a pair of synchronized bombings in uganda last month that killed 74 people, including one american. indictments shed further light on the deadly pipeline that has routed funding and fighters from cities across the u.s. >> now, you're seeing action. >> i think this reflects not only the direct action of this administration but working with the people we can in somalia to weed out terrorists. >> reporter: omar hamami is a top recruiter for al shabaab, originally from alabama. to attract fighters he produces rap videos such as this one called "blow by blow." >> fight the oppressor straight

off the land. >> just like any normal american teenager and there are certain hooks they can draw people into. and they've been used. >> reporter: seven of these defendants have been charged with terror-related violations before. some of their whereabouts are unknown. t.j. winick, abc news, washington. new supreme court justice elena kagan will be at the white house today to celebrate her confirmation with president obama. kagan won senate approval yesterday by a vote of 63-37. five republicans voted for kagan and one democrat voted against her. she will be the fourth woman ever to serve as a supreme court justice when she is sworn in tomorrow. bp says its blown-out well in the gulf of mexico is now sealed. engineers pumped cement into the well shaft to reinforce the mud that's pushing oil back into an undersea reservoir. now they're waiting for that cement to dry. bp says it will also be pumping mud and cement through a relief well. they hope that will shut off the

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today marks the 65th anniversary of the atomic bombing of hiroshima. in a flash the japanese city was destroyed. >> in essence, that attack ended world war ii. but as diana alvear reports the death and destruction there will never be forgotten. i'm warning you, some of the pictures in this report are pretty graphic. >> reporter: monks lit incense and prayed for peace in japan, in remembrance of the thousands of lives lost. 65 years ago, u.s. forces dropped two atom bombs to end world war ii. one on hiroshima, the next, three days later, on nagasaki. >> translator: i was 7 years old. >> reporter: michiko was at

school looking out a window when she saw a blinding mix of colors. seconds later the window shattered and the ceiling disintegrated. >> translator: help me, mommy, it hurts. help me, i heard my friend scream around me. >> reporter: she says what she felt no child ever should. >> translator: people's eyeballs fell out of their sockets and were dangling on their faces. >> reporter: his body still bears the scars of trauma that he suffered at 16. the ribs he lost. the skin that melted away. >> translator: every day i wondered when i would die, and every day i would scream, kill me, kill me. >> reporter: they are known as hibakusha, survivors of the bomb. their numbers are quickly dwindling. their fear, time is running out to spread their message of peace. that message may carry more weight now than it has in years. the obama administration has placed limits on the use of nuclear weapons.

in may, they took their message to new york city. joining peace activists to tell their stories. mikso says he was forced to make an impossible decision. stay with his dying mother or save his own life. days later, he discovered what was left of her body. >> translator: it was a burnt black piece of mess dripping with bodily fluids. my mother was killed as a thing, not as a human. >> reporter: so long as there is war, the hibakusha say they will stand as a living testament to peace, until there are no more hibakusha left to speak. diana alvear, abc news, new york. >> and on this day there is an annual peace ceremony. for the first time this year the united states, britain, and france are actually sending representatives. so basically what it is, is not only a chance for government leaders to give speeches there, it also gives people who are survivors and people who had family members there to give ritual remembrance to people they lost. in this horrific scene. >> it's been 65 years and still

so much debate about this. a full-scale invasion of japan would have cost more american lives, on the other hand, the country was ready to surrender soon so the bomb wasn't necessary. so the just one of those t oprah: we've saved the worst for last. witness the dramatic breakthroughs. >> oh, my god. oprah: and, room by room, a brand-new start.

welcome back, everybody. well, mark wahlberg and will ferrell play an "odd couple" type of police partners in the movie "the other guys" which opens today. >> peter traverse sat down with the two stars. >> excuse me, you're under arrest. okay? you have the right to remain silent. anything you do or say can be used -- um -- what's the next part? >> as a flotation device. >> as a flotation device. oh, you know what? that's very funny. >> will ferrell, mark wahlberg, the guys from "the other guys," welcome to the show. >> thank you for having us. >> did you know each other before you teamed up in this very unlikely movie "the other guys"? >> i don't know if -- >> are you from the hood? >> i'm not from the hood. i am from the -- irvine, california. >> that's a different kind of hood.

>> charter member of the irvine crips. >> were we locked up together? >> we weren't locked up together that i know of. >> explain a little bit for the benighted souls out there who may not know yet who you're playing. you're the other guys -- >> we're the guys -- >> i was supposed to get the glory. >> right. >> but i made a little boo-boo. i shot derek jeter in the leg. i didn't kill the guy. game seven of the world series. i become the most hated person in new york city and they force me to partner -- i was this close to being a gold shield homicide detective. and i get partnered up with -- >> you get partnered with my guy who loves paperwork, loves the -- never has any -- doesn't aspire to ever go out in the field and just feels like, you know, working at the desk is as vital a cog in the justice system as anything. >> when did you get a feeling while you were doing this that it's working for you? >> i felt like when we did the first read-through of the script.

because i agreed to do the movie, then i was like are these guys going to write this thing? then they sent me a script and i was, gosh, this part is perfect for me. when we read the script together it seemed to click right away. >> you introduced him when he got his star. >> yes. >> on the hollywood walk of fame. >> which was -- how great is that? >> what kind of moment was that? you had everyone there. family was there. and yet, despite the fact that by then you had taken will and shoved him out of your life -- >> no. >> gone -- >> he came back. >> came back and did that. >> that was amazing. >> i was like, seriously? i feel like, you know, i don't want to like trouble people. you know. inconvenience them in any way. but honestly, a serious note, to have him there was really an honor. >> i'd never been to one or have been asked to participate in one.

never have. >> there is no will ferrell star. >> no. there is one. >> because i called. >> in east l.a. >> then i called christian bale, couldn't come. and i called -- >> ice cube. >> i called ice cube, then i called that catering line. "boogie nights." nobody else. >> i can hear you. >> justin bieber even? >> justin bieber would do it. >> in a pinch. >> justin bieber would have showed up. >> song. you must sing on this set. ♪ >> i forgot the song. what's the song? >> make [ muted ] up. >> what's in your head, will ferrell? ♪ >> that's not really a song. ♪ hey sitting here with peter,

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i'm a little overwhelmed by the number of people. >> reporter: at this night's meeting over 300 people came looking for help to get back to work. >> everyone's here for the same reason -- >> reporter: for many it is the first time in their career to be without a job. a very lost feeling. >> just to sit down with other people you think, gosh, i'm not alone. it's really wonderful. >> reporter: the volunteers include recruiters, corporate executives offering guidance on how to land a good job in tough times. >> i want that hiring manager to look you in the face, go wow, that was impressive. >> reporter: volunteers come from different churches here to help. >> many of them have lost their identities. and i wanted to get them that identity back. >> it's really loving your neighbor. and a genuine love for people you don't know. >> reporter: that meant the world to jo berkhart, executive recruiter, when she lost her job, career ministry helped her persevere to the new job she

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