Police Shooting Protest Turns Violent; Batman Star's Surprise Visit To Aurora; Donors Rally For Victim, Newborn Son; Syrian Rebels Try To Cut Off Troops; Turkey Closes Syria's Border Gates; Killer Whale Attacks SeaWorld Trainer; Senate to Vote on Tax Cut Measures
DAVID BECKHAM: -- there will be a few events I'm hoping to get to and take my kids down to. So it'll be fun hopefully.</s>CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Beckham currently plays for the L.A. Galaxy soccer team. The coach of Britain's Olympic team was a bit disturbed when he decided to leave Beckham off the Olympic team last month. The next hour of CNN NEWSROOM starts right now. And good morning, thank you so much for joining us. I'm Carol Costello. Ahead this hour in the NEWSROOM, a baby boy born out of tragedy. His mom escaped the Colorado movie theatre massacre. His father shot in the head and in a medically induced coma. Why this little boy is now their sign of hope. You know those pesky fees you pay to fly? Those fees create big, big, huge profits for airlines, more than $22 billion. And for the first time we're seeing the horrifying moment when a killer whale at Sea World in San Diego drags a trainer under water. This video, court evidence, is being used against Sea World. How Sea World is responding today. NEWSROOM begins right now. And we begin this hour with another night of violent protests in Anaheim, California. It's the second ugly clash with police since officers shot to death a man who was apparently unarmed. Last hour, we heard from Sergeant Bob Dunn, the public information officer for the Anaheim Police Department.</s>SGT. BOB DUNN, ANAHEIM POLICE DEPARTMENT (via telephone): Yesterday, we had our planned city council meeting, which had a pretty heavy agenda meaning that there was anticipated to be large attendance anyway. In light of what happened over the weekend, we anticipated even more people coming to the council meeting and that turned out -- what happened was that the council chambers filled up quickly. And some people were turned away because the fire marshal told us there were too many people. So the crowd began to swell and that's kind of what began to start the violence.</s>COSTELLO: OK, and how violent did these clashes get?</s>DUNN: You know, they threw rocks at the officers as they attempted to affect at least one arrest near the beginning. Those rocks -- members of the media. After the dispersal order was given, the crowds moved around sometimes fighting between each other, breaking windows, lighting fires in trash cans.</s>COSTELLO: And I understand at one point a police dog got loose and attacked one of the protesters.</s>DUNN: That actually happened last Saturday after the officer- involved shooting when we were dealing with a hostile crowd there.</s>COSTELLO: OK. So how much damage was done to the city of Anaheim last night?</s>DUNN: At this point we're still in the assessment phase. We do know there were quite a few businesses as well as city buildings affected by vandalism. We have crews out there right now making that assessment.</s>COSTELLO: And protesters do accuse police of shooting an unarmed man. Can you tell me how that shooting went down?</s>DUNN: An that particular day, which was last Saturday, two of our officers were on uniformed patrol in the high crime gang neighborhood, attempted to stop three individuals who then fled on foot. It was during that foot pursuit that the officer-involved shooting occurred. The circumstances surrounding that shooting are under investigation.</s>COSTELLO: And from what I understand dozens of people have been arrested. I've seen the figure 26 out there. Is that accurate?</s>DUNN: The number I have right now is 24. We're still working through the statistics of last night, 20 of which were adults and four juveniles.</s>COSTELLO: Anaheim's mayor has called for state and federal investigations into the shooting. Now to the latest developments out of Colorado. Just hours from now mourners will pay their respects to two of the victims of the theatre massacre, the 51-year-old Gordon Kouden and 23-year-old Mikaela Medek. The judge in the case is blocking cameras from next week's court appearance for suspect, James Holmes. His bizarre behavior in Monday's hearing might be the reason. An online fundraiser has collected more than $2 million for victims and their relatives, some of that comes from the film's co-producers and the star of the movie made a surprise visit to Aurora attending a memorial and meeting with survivors. It was that visit that perked up the spirits of a lot of victims. Christian Bale was onscreen at the time of the shooting spree. Bale traveled unannounced to meet with those recovering and their families. He also brought flowers to the memorial setup for those killed.</s>CRYSTAL FLATELAND, SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER EMPLOYEE: Really showed his humanity and that, you know, he does care about people and he cares about his fans.</s>JANIE BOWMAN HAYES, SWEDISH MEDICAL CENTER EMPLOYEE: It was not a canned speech. It was not -- it was nothing Hollywood. He was the human being, Christian Bale.</s>COSTELLO: CNN's Jim Spellman is live in Aurora to tell us more. Good morning.</s>JIM SPELLMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol. Yes, people are really excited about that visit. Not only did he visit with victims and first responders there at that hospital. They bussed some people over from another hospital so that they would all have a chance to meet him and get to have their picture taken with him. He also met with Governor Hickenlooper here before coming over here to the memorial that has popped up across from the theatre. When he was here he joined an impromptu prayer circle that popped up. The people that were there praying with him didn't even know it was him. I heard nothing so far, but good reaction about it. Before he came, there was a Twitter campaign to get him to come and a lot of mixed reaction. Some people felt it would be in poor taste for him to come or maybe traumatic for the victims. But everybody here seems to think he really hit the right note by not alerting the media or having a press conference or making a big to do about it, but really having these kinds of intimate chances to have a conversation with these individual victims so people here so far are pretty excited about it -- Carol.</s>COSTELLO: Jim Spellman reporting live from Aurora this morning. Also this morning, Americans are rallying to help this man. Another shooting victim, Caleb Medley, he is in critical condition right now with gunshot wounds to his head. That's only part of the story. He is also a brand new father. Caleb's wife who escaped the massacre unharmed gave birth to their son just yesterday. Hugo is the baby's name. He is the glimmer of joy in one family's nightmare. They have no health insurance and now face a lifetime of debt. You can help the family if you wish. We want to put up a web site for donations. The address is calebmedley.com/help. You can also find that link on my blog web site. That's cnn.com/newsroom, click on the tab with my name. And be sure to watch Saturday and Sunday night at 8:00 Eastern for a special CNN Presents, "Madness at Midnight." The program will honor the victims, survivors, and heroes of the massacre. That's this weekend 8:00 p.m. Eastern. Today on Capitol Hill, presidential politics and your wallet, the Senate is due to vote on extending the Bush era tax cuts. They're set to expire at the end of the year. But with the issue split along party lines the goal may be more about posturing than passing. I know you're surprised, right? Our congressional correspondent Dana Bash joins us to explain more. So what can we expect?</s>DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think that posturing is the perfect word for what we expect today. We're not exactly sure how the vote or votes are going to be structured. We expect it to be this afternoon. But in any event what we do expect is some kind of vote on what the president has been pushing for the past several weeks, which is an extension of just the tax cuts that are set to expire at the end of the year, but for those families who make $250,000 and less. This is something that Democrats are certainly pushing and they are now all onboard with. They weren't really so much before at least with the leaders in the Senate and the House. But the other question is whether or not Republicans are going to get a vote on what they want, which is a one-year extension of all the tax cuts. Which they say would give time for some tax reform ideas.</s>COSTELLO: But again, nothing likely to come of this?</s>BASH: Exactly. Very important point that we -- regardless we believe that the thing that will get the vote will be the measure to extend tax cuts for short of $50,000 and less and that will probably need a 60-vote threshold. We don't expect that to happen because even Republicans like for example Scott Brown, who is running for re-election in a Democratic state of Massachusetts. I just was in touch with his office and he will even vote against this. If you're not going to -- if Democrats aren't going to get a Republican like Scott Brown, it is unlikely that they will get close to the 60 votes they need to pass.</s>COSTELLO: Dana Bash reporting live from Capitol Hill. This morning the crisis in Syria, it continues to get worse. Rebel leaders have ordered their fighters to attack hundreds of government troops heading toward Aleppo. It's the commercial hub of the country and a crucial test in the 16 months of fighting. In the meantime Turkey is trying to stem the flood of refugees flooding into the country. Today, it's closing border gates with Syria. Also right now, on Capitol Hill, your safety and the threat of terrorism. Members of the House Homeland Security Committee are about to be briefed on where the nation stands nearly 11 years after the 9/11 attacks. About to speak, two of the government's top decision makers on protecting Americans. Suzanne Kelly is CNN's intelligence correspondent. She joins us now live from Aspen, the site of another extraordinary gathering of terror experts. Suzanne, first the hearing though. How frank are the assessments likely to be? Well, obviously, Suzanne, is having trouble hearing me. When we get the technical problems ironed out, we'll take you back to Aspen. CNN's security clearance team will provide special coverage of the Aspen Security Forum that's where Suzanne is. They'll provide that this week on TV and online. Go to cnn.com/security clearance for more highlights and features. Frightening new video from Sea World showing a killer whale attacking a trainer in San Diego six years ago. The whale grabs the trainer by his leg and drags him under the water. The whale occasionally brings him back to the surface. The trainer eventually gets away with a broken foot. This video just released after being used in federal court. Sea World was accused of putting trainers at risk. The judge ruled against the company. Sea World denies the whales are deadly told ABC News the video shows the trainer's skillful execution of an emergency response plan. It is a sight we rarely see. The moment a volcano blows its top. It's all caught on tape.