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Famed Sniper Shot Dead; Alabama Hostage Standoff in 6th Day; Football: America's Favorite Sport; Ray Lewis Playing Final NFL Game; Space Money Controversy

Aired February 3, 2013 - 18:00   ET

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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. Thank you so much for joining us.

We're going to start this broadcast with news of a killing at a gun range, and everyone involved, the alleged shooter and the victimes, are all former military men. One of the dead is well-known former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who wrote a best-selling book all about his career in special operations. He described himself as the most lethal sniper in US military history.

Here's where Kyle and another man died yesterday -- a gun range outside Ft. Worth, Texas. Police say a third man shot them both dead. The suspect is in custody now.

We're going to have full details and a live report, just momentsaway , here on CNN.

Meantime in Alabama, officials say the man holding a boy hostage in an underground bunker is allowing the delivery of potato chips, toys and medicine. Police say 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes grabbed the autistic 5-year-old from a school bus Tuesday after fatally shooting the driver who was trying to shield the children. Funeral services for that driver were held today.

Pakistani activist Malala Yousufzai is awake and talking after successful operations to repair her skull and boost her hearing. Taliban gunmen tried to assassinate 15-year-old Malala in October because she had spoken out in favor of girls' education. She is recovering in a British hospital.

Tourists outside London's Buckingham Palace got a real surprise today. A man broke through a security cordon and held a large knife to his own neck. In second, police moved in, and that set off a brief confrontation. The man started waving the knife, lunging at one of the officers, the officer used a taser. The man dropped to the ground and was handcuffed and taken to a police station.

This time singer Chris Brown apparently won't face any civil or criminal charges. Fellow singer Frank Ocean says Brown jumped him leading to a brawl over a parking space a week ago at an L.A. recording studio. But Ocean says he is dropping the matter. Brown is already on five years' probation after assaulting his pop star girlfriend Rihanna back in 2009. The man who invented Etch a Sketch has passed away. French electrician Andre Cassagnes dreamed up the drawing toy in his garage back in 1950. Etch a Sketch's popularity got another boost when it appeared in the "Toy Story" movies. Its magic screen is in the National Toy Hall of Fame. Cassagnes was 86 years old.

This is our top story this hour. Two men are dead after a shooting at a gun range in Texas. One of them is a well-known former Navy SEAL and acclaimed military sniper. His name is Chris Kyle and he wrote this memoir, "American Sniper", after he left the Navy SEALs. It went on to be a bestseller and propelled Kyle into semi-stardom.

CNN's Susan Candiotti is closely following this for us, the death of Chris Kyle.

Susan, a little while ago, we heard from law enforcement where the shooting happened. What did they say?

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: You know we got a lot of details from them, Don. And police believe it was actually the very first time that legendary Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle and his friend Chad Littlefield met with another marine vet, 25-year-old Eddie Ray Routh. And it ended tragically with Kyle and Littlefield shot dead multiple times of a remote area of a gun range near Ft. Worth, Texas.

Police say they were found nearly two hours later by a guide at the range. About 25 to 30 other weapons were found at the crime scene, including AK-47s and long guns. Investigators say Routh drove off in Kyle's pickup and headed to his sister's house. There he allegedly told her and his brother what happened. He left, and the two called police.

When a team arrived at his house, they say that Routh was sitting out front in Kyle's pickup truck. A hostage negotiator tried to talk him out, but he took off down the road. And here is how a witness describes it.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was scared. I'm sitting below the window line. I was peeking out. They had four shotguns on him, I believe. It's dark out here, so I really did the best counting I could. And the next thing I know, a little time passes, he starts up the truck. And then all of a sudden, he rushes down the road, and they all take off after him.

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CANDIOTTI: So about five or six miles down the road, they caught up with him and took him into custody without incident. They told him to get out of the car and he had to lay down, flat down on the street.

Police also found a semiautomatic handgun they believe to be the murder weapon at Routh's home -- Don.

LEMON: Susan, let's talk about a motive here. Any idea? CANDIOTTI: Yes. Well, you know, no and sadly, don we may never know, because the only witness is the alleged killer. The other two can't tell us anything.

But Kyle does have a foundation where he helps veterans with post traumatic stress. The three went to the range together in Kyle's pickup. So police think that maybe this was therapy for Routh. They also don't know whether Routh was diagnosed with PTSD.

Here is how investigators say all three came to know each other.

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SHERIFF TOMMY BRYANT, ERATH COUNTY, TEXAS: There has been some mention of the suspect's mother was a school teacher for what we understand for a long time. She may have reached out to Mr. Kyle to try and help her son.

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CANDIOTTI: So they're still piecing all of this together. Routh is being held on $3 million bond, and he is in a cell all by himself so police can keep an eye on him. He is charged with two murder counts and he's not yet had an opportunity to enter a plea -- Don.

LEMON: Susan, there is a man in custody. Who is he? What is his connection to Kyle?

CANDIOTTI: Well, again, police seem to think that Routh, the suspect in this case actually met them because the mother of -- his mother asked Kyle to get involved and try to help her son. That's why they think maybe they went to the range to have some kind of a talk with him or give him some kind of therapy out at the gun range. That's what they said would have been commonplace.

LEMON: So that is the connection. OK. Wondering that.

Thank you, Susan Candiotti. I appreciate your reporting.

This is a nightmare scenario for police in Alabama. A kindergartner held hostage in an underground bunker. The standoff began Tuesday after police say a man got on a school bus, killed the driver and abducted a 5-year-old autistic boy.

CNN's Martin Savidge is in Midland City for us.

Martin, funeral services were held today for the bus driver who is being called a hero. What are people saying about him tonight?

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, that would be Charles Poland. Hello, Don.

Very difficult day. They've all been difficult, of course, since Tuesday. But even more so because of the emotions that came to a head as family member, as those who worked, fellow bus drivers, teacher, even strangers, all came together at a nearby civic center, hundreds of them, for a public memorial service that was held for Charles Poland as he is officially known, Mr. Chuck as he was known to his students.

There was a lot of praying. Prayers that were said of course not only for the victim, but also for the young boy Ethan, who continues to be held, and for the man alleged to be his captor. And that's Jimmy Lee Dykes. They say they hope his heart will be turned to release the little boy. And then after that came the funeral service and the burial.

It was very interesting to note school buses were very much a part of this memorial service. They lined up outside of that building. And then they were part of the procession that went to the graveyard itself. And at some points, we actually saw at least 10 buses with school bus drivers standing by them, sometimes with the students they drive.

A very difficult day. Tomorrow in neighboring Ozark, they will begin classes for the first time and that too is going to be a tough day. Security is going to be tightened for that event -- Don.

LEMON: Martin, everyone is wondering. You know, obviously, what is the motivation? Is he going to let the boy go? But this bunker, because they're talking through a tube. But the size of this bunker, there are differing reports.

Does anyone know? What are you hearing?

SAVIDGE: You know, all of that is being carefully kept as closely guarded secret, I would say. There has been some people who said authorities generally say it's about four feet deep. Part of it must be above ground given that, and it's about six feet by eight feet.

But again, all of the information -- well, the lack of information is mainly believed that Dykes may have access to the media in some way, whether he's got a radio, whether he's got a television, no one will tell us. But it does appear that authorities are being extremely guarded about any specific information because of that particular fact.

So, in all of these events that are covered over time, never had one where this is so little being said. But, of course, everyone is in the foremost of their minds worried about Ethan. Nobody wants to jeopardize that young life -- Don.

LEMON: Absolutely. Martin Savidge, thank you very much.

More than $70,000 in reward money may help track down the killer of a Texas assistant D.A. Fifty-seven-year-old Mark Hasse was gunned down Thursday near the Kaufman County courthouse. His boss hopes the reward swells pass $500,000 to encourage someone to talk. Investigators are pouring over Hasse's caseload, searching for clues to a possible motive.

New details about the missing American woman whose body was found yesterday in Istanbul, Turkey. Police say Sarai Sierra died of a blow to the head. The 33-year-old mother of two also had stab wounds. Police are detaining at least nine people in connection with the case.

Sierra was reported missing after failing to board her flight home on January 22nd.

Police in Alabama want to end that hostage situation that Martin just reported about quickly and peacefully to rescue that little boy. Next, we'll talk with a man who knows how this is done. And later, we'll take you inside that bunker. A man who knows the suspect talks with CNN.

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LEMON: Tensions are high in Midland City, Alabama, as officials try to negotiate the release of a 5-year-old boy, autistic boy, held since Tuesday in an underground bunker. Police say 65-year-old Jimmy Lee Dykes about a dubbed the boy from a school bus after shooting the driver to death.

Authorities -- well, they face a difficult task. The bunker is four feet underground. Its only connection to the outside is a 60-foot ventilation pipe.

And joining me now is NYPD hostage negotiation Wally Zeins.

And thank you so much for joining us.

How are you this evening?

WALLACE ZEINS, FORMER NYPD HOSTAGE NEGOTIATOR: I'm doing fine. Thank you for having me.

LEMON: It's got to hurt your heart to watch this. You probably want to be down there helping, don't you?

ZEINS: Absolutely. Everyone in my profession wants to do that.

LEMON: Yes. How do tactics change for a sealed off location like this one, Wally?

ZEINS: Well, first of all, you have to go with the premise that he has a TV, he could have cable TV, he can have satellite TV.

You've got to go with the premise that he has weapons. You got to go with the premise that he has explosives. Until you can disprove any of that, you have to continually go with that.

Now, there are options there is only one good option in this particular negotiation, and that is to keep talking.

LEMON: Keep talking.

As someone brought up we were talking about this story yesterday as we were doing our editorial meeting, and someone said, why not just do the gas like you do at a dentist? And --

ZEINS: Well, I don't know if you remember this, that's probably the worst suggestion. First of all, the child's lung capacity is different than an adult's lung capacity. You don't know if he has asthma, the child has asthma. You don't know what type of lung conditions there might be.

And look what happened in Russia a number of years ago. They did that in a movie theater, 120 people died.

LEMON: Yes, 117 people -- almost 117, probably close -- what was close to 120 people. It was October of 2002 when that happened. They sent in gas, and people died from inhalation, gas poisoning. So you're right.

What are the top priorities for negotiators as the standoff continues here?

ZEINS: The most important thing is to have a dialogue between the hostage taker and the negotiator. You want to be able to gain credibility.

Everything is a negotiation. If he says I need some sodas -- well, let me -- they can negotiate and to say, let me talk to the child, let me know that he is OK.

The bottom line to this whole thing is he has the onus of being responsible right now. And he is. He is starting to develop what we call the Stockholm syndrome, which is a very important type of thing. It's bonding, and that's starting to develop, and that's very important.

LEMON: How long will officials allow this standoff to continue before taking more aggressive action?

ZEINS: I don't think they're going to take aggressive action. I think they'll continue to negotiate and talk. Talking is the name of the game.

Unless something happens that, you know, takes place where they know it's happening, they will not take action. They have a great rapport in a sense that the conversation is going.

And one premise in hostage negotiations are that if you continue to talk, the best results will be a good hostage negotiation where everyone is safe.

LEMON: How do they know the little boy is alive and well?

ZEINS: Well, they are communicating with him. They must have some sort of information, and they're not giving it out to the public. They have to have some sort of information telling them that they are communicating with the boy.

And, again, there is back and forth conversation. This can be a marathon, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The bottom line is keep talking.

LEMON: I heard earlier that chances are that he probably has a television down there and he is watching television. He could be watching.

Could he be watching us now?

ZEINS: Absolutely. And most importantly is that we all have to be honest with him.

LEMON: What would you say to him if he is watching, Wally?

ZEINS: If he is watching right now, tell him that his big responsibility right now is to talk to us and let us know that the child is OK, and that he is OK. And that the situation that he is involved in, we're here to negotiate to help him and the child come out safely.

We're not there to go for the arrest. That's a totally other side of the coin. We're here to help him and help the child.

LEMON: Wally Zeins is a former NYPD hostage negotiator -- thank you, sir. I appreciate you joining us.

ZEINS: Thank you.

LEMON: President Barack Obama heads out on the road tomorrow to sell his gun control plan. But tonight, it is this picture that has everyone talking. Ahead, our experts weigh in on the president's skeet shooting.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Most people hear microbes and think something that can cause a problem, cause an infection. If you look at microbes and see what?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I see little chemical factories. And, in fact, that's who we treat them.

So, our goal here is to engineer microbes to produce fuels that behave exactly the same as petroleum based fuels.

UNIIDENTIFIED MALE: We call them drop in biofuels. And those are fuels or blend stocks, molecules that are identical to those that are in fuels today.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm Jake Kipling (ph) and I'm a synthetic biologist.

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LEMON: President Obama sat down for what's become a traditional pre- Super Bowl interview and weighed in on a range of topics. He blamed the Washington debate over the fiscal cliff for the economic slowdown at the end of last year. He said football is going to, in his words, evolve to make players safer, and he said the Boy Scouts should be open to gay members. As for the debate over raising taxes as a way to reduce a deficit, he said the answer will require sacrifice from everyone.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Well, I don't think the issue right now is raising rates. The question is if we're going to be serious about reducing our deficit, can we combine some smart spending cuts, because there is still some waste in government.

Can we reform our health care programs in particular? Because we spend a lot more on health care than every other country does, and we don't get better outcomes. So there is a lot of waste in the system. And there are things that we can do to reduce health care costs.

And can we close some loopholes and deductions that folks who are well-connected and have a lot of accountants and can take advantage of, so they end up paying lower rate than, you know, a bus driver or a cop? Can we close some of those loopholes?

If you combine those things together, then we cannot only reduce our deficit, but we can continue to invest in things like education and research and development that are going to help us grow.

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LEMON: Meantime, the president leaves Washington tomorrow for Minnesota to make his case for new gun restrictions. It's part of an attempt to pressure Congress to take action in the wake of the horrific shootings in Newtown, Connecticut. The president has called for new safety programs and universal background checks. He also wants Congress to renew the assault weapons ban.

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Let's talk more now about the president's push for new gun restrictions with our favorite CNN contributors L.Z. Anderson and Ana Navarro. L.Z. is in New Orleans. He's also a senior writer for ESPN. And Ana is in Washington. She is a Republican strategist.

So, guys, as the president gets ready to take his message on the road, the White House released a photo that shows his skeet shooting or him skeet shooting at Camp David. There he is in his golf shirt, firing away.

So, Ana, the president says skeet shooting is something he does all the time at Camp David, but until a week ago, he had never even mentioned it before. What's going on here?

ANA NAVARRO, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: Look, I think -- I think this is the president's version of small varmint, if you will. I really don't understand the timing for releasing this picture now. I'm not understanding what the purpose of it is, or what the end game is.

But, OK, it's provided a distraction. I'm not sure it's going to have any effect on the gun debate or any gun legislation or any efforts having to do with guns, but OK, we had some fun during the week. Next?

LEMON: L.Z., why even do it? Just like the president, I've never heard you talk about skeet shooting. How often do you go to the firing range?

L.Z. GRANDERSON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I don't go that often, but I actually have gone scoot shooting myself. About four or five years ago I did a piece on skeet shooting on CNN and I went skeet shooting with the U.S. sharpshooters before they went to Beijing. So, there's documented proof that I've actually skeet shoot as well.

I don't recall anyone ever asking the president if he had a gun or fired a gun in the past either. So, while I'm not necessarily saying this isn't a political move, we may not have heard about it, but we haven't asked him about it either.

LEMON: Yes, OK.

NAVARRO: Well, Don, all I can tell you is I was born in Nicaragua. We only shoot stuff we can eat.

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LEMON: Thank you, Ana. Thank you. We needed to hear that.

Let's talk about Chuck Hagel now. It was a very interesting week for him, his nomination for defense secretary. His Senate hearings this week were rough, to say the least, especially when his old friend, maybe former friend, you know, frenemy asked questions. Take a listen.

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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: Were you correct or incorrect when you said that the surge would be the most dangerous foreign policy blunder in this country since Vietnam? Were you correct or incorrect? Yes or no?

CHUCK HAGEL, DEFENSE SECRETARY NOMINEE: My reference to --

MCCAIN: Are you going to answer the question, Senator Hagel? The question is, were you right or wrong? That's a pretty straight forward question.

HAGEL: Well --

MCCAIN: I would like to answer whether you are right or wrong, and then you are free to elaborate.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LEMON: L.Z., Hagel had a bad day for sure. You know, maybe they have said it. I haven't heard a lot of Democrats saying that he was ill- prepared, because he seemed ill-prepared if you were just sitting there watching it, the viewer at home. Did he deserve the treatment he got from McCain and from others? GRANDERSON: You know, if they do a movie about that hearing, I hope Daniel Day-Lewis is involved, because there was a lot of political drama and political theater happening during that confirmation hearing. So much focus, so many of the questions were based upon things that he said decades ago, and not enough was being asked about the present state, where the military is, about the war on terrorism.

So, in my opinion, that was simply about Republicans being upset over the past remarks that Hagel has made, and it's their chance to get some opportunities to have a measure of revenge and also try to embarrass him a little bit. He wasn't as prepared as he needed to be. But at the same time, on the line of questioning that was happening really weren't relevant to what we need to be focusing on today.

LEMON: So, listen, are you saying he wasn't as prepared as he needed to be because the questions were out of line? I mean, he just -- he just seemed really ill prepared. Come on, L.Z.

GRANDERSON: I think he was ill prepared to get beat up. I think if he was allowed to answer the questions in a sensible manner, perhaps he would perform a lot better. But I don't think he was expecting to get beat up, especially by someone he considers a friend during a confirmation hearing.

He already knew there'd be controversy. But no one expects to get blindsided like that. And I think that's kind of what happened to him.

LEMON: Ana, was this about Hagel's views or was this just bad blood with McCain?

NAVARRO: It definitely is not bad blood with McCain. They've never had a fight.

And let me tell you this -- anybody who has seen John McCain or many of the other senators who were on that panel do questioning before, I remember John McCain grilling Don Rumsfeld in hearings. I remember John McCain grilling Secretary Baker in hearings.

It's their job. They are there to advise and consent. Somebody needs to put these candidates through a scrutiny.

LEMON: But what about, L.Z. --

NAVARRO: The questions need to get asked --

LEMON: What about the relevance of the questions they asked, that they were old questions that didn't have any relevance today?

NAVARRO: Oh, Don, look. A lot of it goes to -- Chuck Hagel couldn't answer questions about things he said 10 years ago, and he couldn't answer questions, for example, about the United States policy towards Iran. He couldn't answer any questions.

Basically, the only question he answered accurately was when he got a softball question from Senator Jack Reed who asked him how he got the job. And he said he had told President Obama he wasn't qualified. That's probably the only truth he said in that entire hearing.

It was a hearing that was full of Chuck Hagel saying, I should have said, I meant to say, let me clarify this. There were clarifications to his clarifications.

So he looked very poor. He looked ill-prepared. He looked rather incompetent.

Had this been an interview for a private sector job, he probably wouldn't be getting hired.

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LEMON: At one point, football was so violent, critics wanted to ban it. The president of the United States had to step in to help save it.

Tom Foreman follows the American journey of this country's most popular sport.

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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The numbers expected from the big game are staggering: 179 million fans will likely watch. Almost 8 million will buy new TVs. And total consumer spending for wings, beer, pizzas, and more will top $12 billion.

So how did we get there from here? This is believed to be the oldest film of a college football match, Princeton and Yale, 1903. At that time, a version of the game had already been played for 30 years, but football as we know it was just beginning its American journey.

MICHAEL ORIARD, FORMER NFL PLAYER: We're talking about a period when the game was being played in college and maybe 2 percent of Americans were even going to college.

FOREMAN: Michael Oriard is a former NFL player turned author and college professor.

ORIARD: So why would they care about what the boys are doing with their spare time? Well, the popular press transformed the game into this popular spectacle.

FOREMAN: Through florid, hyperventilating accounts, newspaper readers were drawn into a competitive world so violent that horrendous injuries and even fatalities were common. The game was so wild, many wanted it banned outright, prompting President Theodore Roosevelt, a fan, to plead with organizers to tone it down.

(on camera): He succeeded, and football has grown ever since, developing a professional league before World War I, and not terribly long after World War II, surging in popularity.

ORIARD: And what changed that in the 1950s was television. Television made it possible for football fans everywhere to follow professional football, and it also opened it up, then, a game for people who had no connection whatsoever with universities.

FOREMAN (voice-over): TV turned it into big league entertainment with slow-motion replays, cute cheerleaders and superstar athletes. Today, pro football has, by far, no more fans than any other American sport, and each Super Bowl is a record breaker even before the kickoff.

Tom Foreman, CNN, looking for tickets, in Washington.

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LEMON: All right. Just a little bit past half past the hour. I want to get a look at your headlines right now on CNN.

Tomorrow in Manhattan, New York City will say goodbye to its third term mayor, Ed Koch. Koch died early Friday of congestive heart failure. A who's who of New York political power is expected to attend the funeral. Former President Bill Clinton will give a tribute and current Mayor Michael Bloomberg will deliver the eulogy. Ed Koch was 88 years old.

Direct talks between the United States and Iran. It could happen. Vice President Joe Biden says Washington is willing to sit down one- on-one with Iranian officials on the subject of Tehran's nuclear program.

Biden is in Germany, attending a security conference. Later this month, Iranian officials will start a new round of nuclear talks with the U.N. Security Council.

The Boy Scouts of America could decide to lift its ban on gay members as soon as tomorrow. The group holds its executive meeting this week in Texas, but Republican Governor Rick Perry of Texas says there is no reason to change the ban.

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GOV. RICK PERRY (R), TEXAS: Scouting is about teaching a substantial amount of life lessons. Sexuality is not one of them. It never has been, it doesn't need to be.

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LEMON: Governor Perry, a former Eagle Scout, spoke yesterday before a statewide scout meeting.

Can Wall Street hold on to Friday's momentum when it opens tomorrow? The Dow will start the trading day above 14000 for the first time in five years. But that could be threatened by what are expected to be weak factory orders due out this week. In addition, the Consumer Credit Report comes out Thursday, along with earnings reports from Sony, Nextel, Sprint, and AOL.

Ben Affleck and his movie "Argo" just keep piling up the awards. The Directors Guild of America gave Affleck its top prize last night. Ironically, he is not nominated for an Academy Award for Best Director. But "Argo" is up for Best Picture.

Back to this hour's top story here on CNN, the shooting death of a highly decorated military veteran and best selling author.

This is Chris Kyle. He claimed a record number of sniper kills during four combat tours in Iraq as a Navy SEAL. He came to national attention because of his autobiography that became a best seller. He and another man were shot dead yesterday at a Texas gun range. Kyle was 38 years old.

I want to bring in CNN's Nick Valencia right now.

Nick, the police in Texas still working on a motive, gathering evidence. And they have a suspect in custody right now. But let's leave this horrible crime and the investigation alone for just a minute, because I want to talk about Chris Kyle.

He was more than just a military man, right? He was doing some work, and he was helping a lot of people here.

NICK VALENCIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I spoke to his friend Travis Cox, who he worked with at FITCO, which is an organization, a nonprofit, it's a Dallas fitness club. But it also has a side project, Don. It's called the Heroes Project. And almost immediately after coming home, Chris Kyle' got involved and worked with soldiers that were suffering from PTSD. Although he was never officially diagnosed himself with the disorder, Travis Cox, his friends said that he struggled with everything that anyone who's in combat, who sees combat, comes back with.

And he wasn't just known in the service community. He was known to millions of Americans nationwide. He wrote that best selling novel. And during his combat tours, he earned the nickname "the devil of Ramadi." He wrote that he killed more than 150 Iraqi insurgents. In an interview, recent interview with Conan O'Brien, he talked about that.

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CONAN O'BRIEN, HOST, "CONAN": How did the Iraqi insurgents identify who you were?

CHRIS KYLE, FORMER U.S. NAVY SEAL: When I'd go into a house and we had the occupied houses, I would take the top of my uniform off and just have my short-sleeved shirt on. And you could see my tattoo coming down the arm. And they identified that with me. And started -- every time someone would be shot by a sniper in the area, they associated that with me.

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VALENCIA: He was very proud of his service in the military, but above all else, Don, he was proud to be a family man.

LEMON: He did catch some heat because he wrote a book around the SEALs like to keep -- (CROSSTALK)

LEMON: They like to keep everything secret. But so -- but he said he didn't want to be famous. So why in the world would he write this book and then go on television?

VALENCIA: I think it was probably to help his fellow soldiers, and as well as sort of self-therapy as well to put these combat tours. I mean, he survives four combat tours overseas in the Middle East only to come back home, Don, and die around the corner from his home. He is a humble man and he leaves behind a wife, Tea, and two small children.

LEMON: And so the investigation continues. Still a suspect at this point that they're questioning.

VALENCIA: Right.

LEMON: Yes. All right. Thank you, Nick.

VALENCIA: Thank you.

LEMON: Appreciate it.

Now to the big stories in the week ahead. From Washington to Wall Street, our correspondents tell you what you need to know. We begin tonight with John Kerry's first week as secretary of state.

ELISE LABOTT, CNN FOREIGN AFFAIRS REPORTER: I'm Elise Labott at the State Department which be all abuzz come Monday with the arrival of the new Secretary of State John Kerry.

Secretary Kerry, who was sworn in on Friday, will be meeting with his new staff at the State Department as he assumes his duties. But he'll also have to face some pressing issues, particularly the suicide attack on the U.S. embassy in Turkey.

The U.S. is also bracing for a possible nuclear test by North Korea. That could present Secretary Kerry with his first foreign policy crisis.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. Well, a psychologically important day for investors Friday. The Dow closed above 14000 for the first time in five years and all three major U.S. indices posted a fifth straight week of gains.

Coming up this week investors will be closely watching some key economic news and earnings. We'll get the latest reading on factory orders. Just how many of those big ticket items are in demand. And that's key for U.S. economic growth, which we know contracted in the final quarter of last year.

We'll also get the latest earnings from oil giant BP. We'll hear from Toyota, Coca-Cola and Disney as well as some other major companies. We'll track it all very closely for you on CNN Money. A.J. HAMMER, ANCHOR, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT: I'm "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT's" A.J. Hammer. Here is what we are watching this week. We're going to play Monday morning quarterback. Judging Beyonce's Super Bowl performance, and also tomorrow SHOWBIZ TONIGHT is at the Oscar luncheon. We're talking to all of your favorite nominees. It is going to be one busy star-studded week.

LEMON: A 5-year-old boy held hostage for six days in an underground bunker. Next, a look inside that bunker through the eyes of a man who says he's seen it.

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LEMON: Authorities in Alabama spent a sixth day trying to negotiate the release of a 5-year-old autistic boy being held hostage in a cramped shelter four feet underground.

CNN's George Howell caught up with a neighbor who described the bunker in detail and the man who built it.

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GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Jimmy Davis Jr. and his family have been neighbors to Jimmy Dykes since he moved to this area and bought property here more than a year and a half ago. And Davis says he's seen the bunker firsthand.

JIMMY DAVIS, JR., SUSPECT'S NEIGHBOR: He told me it was storm shelter. And I've not seen it in about probably eight to nine months. I'm not sure at what he's done to update it or anything.

HOWELL (on camera): So when you saw that bunker, I mean, what did it look like? How wide, how deep was it?

DAVIS: It was -- it was like a 15 by 15 foot, you know, wide in length, and about 12-foot deep. And it was lined with bricks like the little red bricks.

HOWELL (voice-over): Davis says Dykes' travel trailer where he lives sits about 20 yards off the road on his property. Just behind the trailer is a massive steel shipping container that Davis says Dykes used as a shed. And behind that, slightly to the left sits the underground square bunker.

DAVIS: Actually had cinder blocks going down the steps. And it was covered up with two sheets of plywood nailed together with hinges and stuff as a door to open to it.

HOWELL: Davis saw the bunker early in its development. It says it had a tarp and sand over the top. He also noticed a PVC pipe buried in the ground that went from the bunker all the way to the front gate.

Dykes told Davis that he put it in so that if he was in the bunker, he could hear people or cars approach the front gate.

(On camera): Did he ever give you any indication as to why he built this bunker?

DAVIS: A storm shelter. That's what he told me.

HOWELL: That's what he said. Yes.

DAVIS: He said back when he lived -- I forgot where he told me he used to live. But back where he lived there was a bunch of tornadoes and they would always hit close to his house. So he is preparing for it. And wanted to make sure he had somewhere to get in.

HOWELL (voice-over): Davis says his relationship with Dykes quickly deteriorated, though. Just in December he says Dykes fired a pistol at him and his family while they were in her pickup truck. The two men were due in court Wednesday, where Dykes was to face a charge of menacing. But since allegedly kidnapping a child and killing a man, Dykes is now in much deeper, hiding out underground.

George Howell, Midland City, Alabama.

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LEMON: There is always a party in New Orleans. With the Super Bowl in town and Mardi Gras coming up, the city is alive tonight. We're going to take you there next.

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LEMON: The Super Bowl down in New Orleans marks the end of a great NFL career for Baltimore linebacker Ray Lewis. The Ravens chose him in the first round way back in 1996. Now he is hoping to head into retirement with a Super Bowl victory.

Our Rachel Nichols has more from outside the Superdome.

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RACHEL NICHOLS, CNN AND TURNER SPORTS: Ray Lewis, one way or the other, win or lose, he said he is walking away from the game. And really an interesting moment. Because over his 17-year career he's not only become for fans just such a presence. You're used to him being the premier middle linebacker really for his entire career, but for other players as well.

Over the past decade I would say he's become kind of the godfather of a lot of NFL players to the point where dozens and dozens of other players, not just on his own team, but around the league regularly talk to check in with him, ask him for advice. I think some of that will continue once he leaves the game.

But obviously, it's going to be a bit of an end of an era for many people around the league when Ray Lewis walks off the stage. There's fans who are conflicted about that, given some of his history both on the field and in the courtroom. But there is no question that for the players on his team, the emotion he's shown this week to them, it's not over the top. They say that for them they feel just this incredibly strong rush. As Ray Rice, one of his teammates, the running back on the Ravens, has called it a rush of destiny. They feel that they're going to feel it walking out of the tunnel today and maybe the fans will, too. They think it's going to be a big part of them winning this game. We'll have to see if it does come true.

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LEMON: All right. Thank you, Rachel.

International controversy over Iran's claim of launching a monkey into space. Iran's government says it has an explanation. You'll hear that story. That's next.

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LEMON: A space monkey controversy raising some tough questions. Iran says it launched a monkey into space this week and returned him to earth safely. According to Iran the fearless monkey was strapped snugly inside -- a rocket for monthly space flight. Some say Iran's space monkey claim is completely bogus. A birthmark may be a clue.

CNN International's Azadeh Ansari joins us live.

Azadeh, I never thought I'd be reporting on a space monkey but here we are.

AZADEH ANSARI, CNN INTERNATIONAL DESK EDITOR: We are.

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LEMON: Here we are. Some are questioning this Iran space monkey's launch. What are they saying?

ANSARI: Well, Iran is basking in the glory of their recent space race success. So they're like look at us, we can send a monkey into space and bring it back safely. But the reality is that you're always going to have naysayers. Right? So these conspiracy theorists took to the Internet and they just went bananas and they got all into Tehran's monkey business -- no pun intended -- but they really did.

And they said, what is the deal with this monkey? Is it real? Is it fake? And all of this over a money -- the monkey's mole. And we're going to take a look at these pictures here.

LEMON: OK.

ANSARI: So if you look at the pictures before the monkey was sent up into space.

LEMON: All right.

ANSARI: Right? OK. Now let's look at a picture.

LEMON: That's before money. ANSARI: Right. Let's look at the picture -- well, after the monkey was sent up to space. And now we're going to look at the comparison. And for our viewers at home, I want to point this out. So what we had is the picture at the top was obtained from the official Islamic Republic News Agency, IRNA. And what happened was they published this picture before the monkey was sent up into space and you can see the light fur and you can see that mole, that's the key right there, above the right eyebrow. And the bottom one is the monkey supposedly afterwards with the dark fur and there's --

LEMON: It doesn't look the same.

ANSARI: Do you know why? Because it's not. Do you know what happened?

LEMON: I was going to say -- I was just going to say that is not the same monkey. Unless that monkey is under a lot of stress. He must work in the NEWSROOM. But go ahead.

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ANSARI: Well, it's not. And what happened was is that the pictures that they showed of the monkey before the launch were actually archive of photos that were taken in 2011 --

LEMON: OK.

ANSARI: -- of a space flight that didn't succeed. So --

LEMON: All right.

ANSARI: That's what happened there.

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LEMON: But launching a monkey into space, it's not groundbreaking.

ANSARI: Well, for the Iranians it is. Because the last time they tried to send something up into space --

LEMON: Yes, we know. It is --

ANSARI: Well, it's like a turtle, some worms, you know. But for them it is, but not for NASA, no, because, you know, this dates back to 1948 when the U.S. actually sent the first --

LEMON: Controversy settled. Not the same monkey. Unless it's just a very stressed out monkey.

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ANSARI: Which it could be.

LEMON: Yes. Probably. Thank you.

ANSARI: You're welcome. LEMON: All right. All right. We've done that story. We're moving on.

Hashtag hacked. Twitter accounts compromised. Next, what the site is saying tonight.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I heard something but it all happened so fast, and it was like all of a sudden black.

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LEMON: Well, police say the driver of a charter bus that crashed in Boston yesterday was not among the 27 people injured and may face charges. The bus was carrying high school students from Harvard to Pennsylvania when it struck an overpass. The overpass was up for replacement.

Officials say the driver failed to heed height warning signs and troopers are looking into how long it had been on the road.

Your Twitter account may have been hacked. Twitter says sophisticated hackers struck this week and compromised up to 250,000 accounts. Hackers got access to users' names and passwords.

If your account was hacked, Twitter will send you an e-mail notifying you to reset your password.

Cybersecurity may get a boost from the White House soon. This comes after a string of hacker breaches at the "New York Times," "The Washington Post," and other media outlets.

Senator Tom Carper, chairman of the Homeland Security Committee, told "The Hill" newspaper that the White House will likely unveil a cybersecurity proposal. Some proposal -- sometime, I should say, after President Obama's State of the Union address.

And add "The Washington Post" to the list of U.S. newspapers coming under attack from Chinese hackers. Just this week "The New York Times," Bloomberg News, and "The Wall Street Journal" all reported their computers had been compromised. Security experts say China started targeting American news organizations in 2008 to monitor their coverage of Chinese issues.

The next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM begins right now.

Good evening, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. Getting close to the top of the hour and topping the news right now, officials in Alabama say the man holding a boy hostage in an underground bunker is allowing the delivery of potato chips, toys, and medicine.

Police say Jimmy Lee Dykes grabbed the 5-year-old boy from a school bus Tuesday after fatally shooting the driver. Funeral services were held today for the driver who is being hailed as a hero for protecting the other students.

New details about that missing American woman whose body was found yesterday in Istanbul, Turkey. Police say Sarai Sierra died of a blow to the head that crashed her skull. But the 33-year-old mother of two also had stab wounds. Police are questioning as many as 10 people in connection with the case.