Austrian Girl is Out of Coma After Being Rescued From her Grandfather's Captivity
LEMON: Just into the CNN NEWSROOM, Jim Johnson, former CEO of Fannie Mae, we've just learned from the Barack Obama campaign that he will no longer be helping the senator and Democratic presidential nominee, will not be helping him find a vice presidential running mate. He, along with Eric Holder and Caroline Kennedy, were supposed to be part of that team. But we're just getting word from the Barack Obama campaign, Jim Johnson will no longer be a part of that. The best political team on television working that story for you. Updates here in the CNN NEWSROOM. Meantime, we're working on a couple of other stories for you here in the NEWSROOM. Rivers are rising in many parts of the Midwest and evacuations are underway in Iowa and Indiana. New storms are moving across the region today. Police now believe two killers were involved in the murder of two young Oklahoma girls. The girls, ages 13 and 11, they were shot to death while taking a walk on a country road near Wauteka (ph). Two different caliber guns were used, leading police to believe there are two killers in this case. Remember Austria's monster dad case? Well, a 19-year-old woman, allegedly fathered by her grandfather and held captive in a cellar her entire life, has emerged from her medically-induced coma. Her hospitalization in April, led to the investigation of her grandfather, Josef Fritzl.</s>KEILAR: Five years into the Iraq war, you've never seen the inner workings of al-Qaeda like you will tonight on "AC 360." This is a story from CNN's Michael Ware. We're going to chat with him in just a second. But first, let's get a sneak peak at his exclusive snapshot.</s>MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Al-Qaeda gunmen brought this man here to die. Staged for maximum impact, he's to be executed on this busy market street. We don't know why. The al-Qaeda members who recorded this tape offer no explanation. But the anticipation is agonizing, leading to a moment we cannot show you. A punishment for betraying al-Qaeda or for breaking their strict version of Islamic law. Either way, it was public executions like this that would help lead to the unraveling of al-Qaeda in Iraq.</s>KEILAR: Michael Ware is live in Baghdad, with more on the story that you're only going to see on CNN. Michael, this is the kind of -- you see these pictures and it makes your heart pound.</s>WARE: Oh, absolutely. I mean, those moments truly are as we say in the story, agonizing. And now, what you saw in that brief snapshot from inside al-Qaeda in Iraq, is what was happening across much of this country over the past few years. Now, al-Qaeda in Iraq today is under more pressure than it ever was before. This is a snapshot of al-Qaeda at its peak here in this country. The war in Iraq is now about a competition between Washington and Tehran, for influence. But al-Qaeda is still out there. And in these hard drives, that had thousands upon thousands of documents from al-Qaeda's internal correspondents, hours upon hours of videos, uncut and shot by al-Qaeda. We learned about how al-Qaeda operates today. It's far more sophisticated, far more bureaucratic, far more organized and far more led by Iraqis than foreigners, despite what the White House says, than many had ever feared before -- Brianna.</s>KEILAR: Why is it so important that people get this sort of unfiltered look, Michael?</s>WARE: This gives you a window into not just one of America's enemies here in Iraq, who, like I said, whilst under intense pressure -- because America now has 100,000 former insurgents and former members of al-Qaeda itself, on the U.S. government pay roll. And these men have been conducting an assassination program against al- Qaeda. This is but one of the enemies here in Iraq. But through the prism of al-Qaeda in Iraq and the way you see that they work, in a sense that the public has never experienced before. Only members of al-Qaeda or members of the intelligence services have ever seen anything like this, you get a window of the broader al-Qaeda. This is how Osama bin Laden's most sophisticated elements of his network operate and we see that best here in Iraq -- Brianna</s>KEILAR: Michael Ware, In Baghdad. Thank you for the preview. And you can check out the entirety tonight at 10:00 Eastern. The entirety of this report. CNN unveils what the U.S. military believes to be one of the largest collections of these internal al-Qaeda in Iraq documents ever discovered. Both the videos and the documents giving fascinating insight into the terror groups inner workings. "AC 360," deciphers what it all means for the future of al-Qaeda in Iraq. And again, that's on "AC 360," tonight at 10 Eastern, right here on</s>CNN. LEMON: Well, it's not easy being green. John McCain overshadowed by this backdrop. We'll find out what everyone's saying about the big green.