New Video of Ferguson Officer After Shooting; Top General Makes Surprise Visit to Iraq; Following the ISIS Funding; Black Friday No Longer Just One Day
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: All right. You can place your vote at CNN.com/heroes. All right. We have much more straight ahead in the CNN NEWSROOM and it all starts right now. Brand-new video of Ferguson Police Officer Darren Wilson just hours after the death of Michael Brown. This as we also hear what police were saying when the shooting happened. Then a comedy icon confronted about old rape allegations.</s>SCOTT SIMON, NPR RADIO: This question gives me no pleasure, Mr. Cosby, but there have been serious allegations raised about you in recent days.</s>WHITFIELD: Bill Cosby's response, straight ahead. Plus, it took them 10 years to successfully land on a comet, 310 million miles away, but now a big problem. Are the probe's batteries dead? Hello again, everyone. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Welcome to the NEWSROOM. Brand-new audio and never-before-seen surveillance video just a few hours after a white police officer shot can killed an unarmed black teen in Ferguson, Missouri. This surveillance video shows Officer Darren Wilson entering and then leaving a police station after he shot Michael Brown. Some eyewitnesses have said Brown rushed at Wilson first and tried to grab his gun. Other witnesses have said Brown, the teenager, had his hands up when Officer Wilson repeatedly fired on him. I want to go to our Stephanie Elam in Ferguson. So, Stephanie, take us through these new tapes and what kind of reaction you're hearing there in Ferguson.</s>STEPHANIE ELAM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right, Fredricka. Well, when you take a listen to these take place, it's giving us perspective from the police side of exactly what happened leading up to and around that critical two-minute altercation between Officer Darren Wilson and Mike Brown.</s>ELAM (voice-over): "The St. Louis Post-Dispatch" obtained the police audio and video through the state's so-called Sunshine Law, according to the paper's timeline of the August night's encounter between Darren Wilson and Michael Brown. At 11:53 a.m. a dispatcher reports a stealing in progress at the Ferguson Market.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're taking a stealing in progress from 9101 West Florissant, 9101 West Florissant. Subject may be leaving the business at this time. Standby for further.</s>ELAM: The "Post-Dispatch" says about 19 seconds later dispatch issues a description of a suspect.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: 25, it's going to be a black male in a white T- shirt. He's running towards Quick Trip. He took a whole box of Swisher Cigars.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Black male, white T-shirt?</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's affirmative. She said he just walked out of store.</s>ELAM: And there's more detail in the police crosstalk.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's with another male. He's got a red Cardinals hat, white T-shirt, yellow socks, and khaki shorts. He's walking up right</s>ELAM: According to the paper, at noon Officer Wilson reports he's back in service from another call. He then asks officers searching for the suspects if they need his help.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 21 to 25, do you guys need me?</s>ELAM: Seven seconds later officers report the suspects have disappeared.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dispatch, can you relay? I couldn't hear.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He said that they disappeared.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.</s>ELAM: The paper says at 12:02 Officer Wilson responds.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And 21, put me on Canfield.</s>ELAM: On August 9th Michael Brown's friend Dorian Johnson said they were walking down the street when Officer Wilson told them to get out of the road. According to Johnson he and Brown told the officer they were almost at their destination and would be out of the street shortly. But Johnson said the officer grabbed Brown by the neck and drew his gun, eventually shooting Brown. By contrast, a Wilson family friend identified as Josie told local radio station KTFK that according to Wilson, Brown started a physical altercation with him and grabbed the gun, which went off. Both sides agree that Brown ran and then turned back. The "Post-Dispatch" says 41 seconds after Wilson's call another officer was about to arrive at the location. The radio calls also show other officers arriving at the scene and a call for a supervisor. And then, according to the newspaper, this call at 12:07 p.m. was the apparent sound of a woman wailing in the background.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get us several more units over here or there is going to be a problem.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is there any available Ferguson units that can respond to Canfield and Copper Creek? Advise?</s>ELAM: The "Post-Dispatch" also obtained surveillance video of Officer Darren Wilson hours after the shooting. The paper says the video shows Wilson in the white T-shirt leaving the police station for the hospital two hours after the shooting accompanied by other officers and his union lawyer. The video then shows him returning to the police station.</s>ELAM: And here in Ferguson, people are on edge. They are preparing for when the grand jury decision does come out. As far as the fate of Officer Darren Wilson, whether or not he will be indicted, I've talked to several families here in the community and it ranges from wide concern to packing up groceries and keeping them in their house in case they have to stay there for a couple of days, to other people who are worried about the small businesses. And Fred, they're also worried about schools because they don't want to see schools again, as they were in August, right when this incident first happened.</s>WHITFIELD: And earlier, Stephanie, we talked to a couple of business owners and they're taking different approaches. Some are staying open and then others are boarding up because they just don't know what's around the corner. Thanks so much, Stephanie. Appreciate it, from Ferguson. All right. Meantime, overseas, a surprise visit to Iraq. America's top military leader, General Martin Dempsey, telling reporters momentum is starting to turn against ISIS. CNN's Arwa Damon joins me now from Turkey. So, Arwa, earlier, we heard security forces appeared close to retaking the country's biggest refinery of Baiji. Do you agree with Dempsey?</s>ARWA DAMON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, look, Iraq's a tricky country when it comes to trying to predict anything. Gains can be made one day and lost just as quickly the next. And I think General Dempsey amongst many is very well aware of that given his own experience in Iraq. Remember, he was the commander of the First Armored Division in the first years of the war, and then he went on to lead up the U.S. effort to try to actually train and equip the Iraqi Security Forces. Now whilst he was in Baghdad, he did meet with the Iraqi prime minister, Haider al-Abadi. His office then putting out a statement saying that they spoke about the gains that the Iraqi Security Forces had made, yes, but also about necessary steps moving forward to try to, first of all, ensure that those gains are not lost, but also to try to figure out exactly what the best way is going to be to tackle ISIS and beef up those Iraqi Security Forces so that they don't turn and run away the next time. That being said, General Dempsey then also traveling on to Irbil. That is the capital of the autonomous region of Kurdistan, meeting with the prime minister there as well. Part of this next phase of the U.S.-led effort is going to be focusing on training the Iraqi Security Forces. Those 1500 additional troops being dispatched to the country just for that. Now General Dempsey is also really trying to get a firsthand genuine and honest assessment of what the situation is. When this all unfolded over the summer after ISIS' rapid takeover, that took everyone by surprise of Mosul and other parts of Iraq, it became painfully apparent that on the one hand, the U.S. had underestimated the capacity of ISIS and perhaps overestimated the capability of Iraqi Security Force. And that's not a mistake that anyone wants to see happen again -- Fredricka.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Arwa Damon, thank you so much for your report from Turkey. For more on General Dempsey's trip to Iraq, let's bring in CNN military analyst, Lieutenant Colonel Rick Francona. He is also a former military attache in Syria. Colonel, good to see you. So, in your view, General Dempsey's trip, is this a sign that things are going well in Iraq? Or is this, you know, strictly an assessment to see how things are going in Iraq?</s>LT. COL. RICK FRANCONA, CNN MILITARY ANALYST: I think it's an assessment to see how things are going there. General Dempsey has been quite vocal over the past few weeks that he is willing to go to the president and recommend that we change what we're doing in Iraq if he believes that to be necessary. And I think it's important and I think it's right that he goes over there and puts his own eyeballs on the situation over there. Because he's the one that has to go to the president and say, Mr. President, what we're doing is not working. We either have to beef up U.S. presence, we have to maybe commit some ground troops, whatever option he's going to recommend to the president, it's probably a good idea that he have been there, talking to the people on the ground, talking to the Iraqis, and actually assess the Iraqi troops himself. He's got a lot of experience in the country. He is, you know, a very qualified army general. He's probably one of the best we have. It's a good idea for him to see this in person and make whatever recommendation the president. I think it comes at a critical time, as Arwa said, we're starting to see some improvement in Iraqi forces, but that could be just today. We could see a reversal tomorrow.</s>WHITFIELD: OK. Now let's talk about nearby Syria, because we understand that the senior administration official is telling us that President Obama has ordered a review of U.S. policy towards Syria. Is this an admission that things are not going well, there was a miscalculation, or is it expected that there are modifications made all the time with military strategy?</s>FRANCONA: Well, there are modifications all the time, but the situation in Syria is very fluid. And you know -- as you know, our tactic has always been, we're going to deal with the situation in Iraq on the ground first. The air campaign will address the entire ISIS target set, but on the ground, we're going to focus on Iraq. Then we'll worry about Syria later. We were hoping to get some Free Syrian Army people trained up to be our boots on the ground. However, just over the past few days, we're seeing an alliance struck between the al Qaeda element in Syria that's called Jabhat al-Nusra, the Victory Front, and ISIS itself. And they are going after the Free Syrian Army, hoping to eliminate them as our boots on the ground. So our strategy in Syria has to be shifting all the time. And we're going to have to really review what we're doing there.</s>WHITFIELD: All right. Let's talk a little bit more about ISIS and kind of the money machine behind it. Let's bring in Janine Di Giovanni, she's the Middle East editor of "Newsweek" and the co-author on cover story on ISIS funding. Janine, ISIS says it will actually begin making its own currency, it's own money, using gold, silver, and copper. How can ISIS afford to maintain its own military and then also make its own money, pay the bills, so to speak, when it has been common knowledge that there was a lot of financial backing behind it?</s>JANINE DI GIOVANNI, MIDDLE EAST EDITOR, NEWSWEEK: First of all, in terms of the currency, let's see if they actually get the copper, the gold, the silver to make -- to actually make the coins. If they do, this will be seen really as a symbolic gesture more than anything. That they're not under the reign of the oppressor, i.e., the West, using dollars, using euros, that they will be using their own currency. And bear in mind that for ISIS, their philosophy is to bring back the time to the epic of the Prophet Muhammad. So they don't want to use dollars, they don't want to trade in this currency. They want to have their own.</s>WHITFIELD: And then --</s>DI GIOVANNI: But, really, during our investigation --</s>WHITFIELD: OK. No, sorry about that. I forgot there's a delay, go ahead.</s>DI GIOVANNI: What we found was that there were really -- there is a four-pillar way that they are getting their money. It's the oil, of course, which is why Baiji is such an important -- if, in fact, the Iraqi Security Forces have taken it back, this really will be a turning point because oil is ISIS' cash cow. Whether or not who they're trading with, it could be the Syrians, it could be the Kurds, it could be Turkey, it might even be European partners. This was part of our investigation. One thing we did find is how much money they were making from the oil. The other is, of course, the antiquities business. They're looting their extortion. The third is they're kidnapping. Now this is massive because it's not just the Western hostages that you read about, the $14 million that various states or countries pay. It's also the small on the ground extortion they're doing on a daily rate, to businesses in Mosul, to people in Raqqa, people who are living under their reign that have to pay for everything from smoking to shops, businesses that operate. So there's extortion, there's kidnapping, there's the oil, and there's antiquities.</s>WHITFIELD: Janine, thank you so much.</s>DI GIOVANNI: They're very wealthy --</s>WHITFIELD: Very wealthy, indeed. I want to get Colonel Francona's take on this because when you hear Janine laying that out, I mean, there looks like a pretty impressive infrastructure in place to keep this machine financed. That is a problem, whether it be for the military strategy or even, really, the -- you know, the PR strategy of the world trying to get together and trying to dismantle, trying to dissolve ISIS. It looks like it's going to be very difficult.</s>FRANCONA: It is. But looking at ISIS, they have got to feed, clothe, house their military. They've got to provide the fuel they require. They have to move all the stuff around. All that requires oil and it also requires money. They've got to pay all these people. They also have to provide the trappings of state, that means goods and services to the people. So it's a very expensive proposition. On the other side of that, and it will work to our advantage is, it also creates vulnerabilities. Because as they set up these institutions, there are things that we can actually go after. Either politically, diplomatically, economically, or if we need to, militarily.</s>WHITFIELD: Lieutenant Colonel Francona and Janine Di Giovanni from Paris, thanks to both of you. Appreciate it. Very fascinating. All right. Straight ahead, stateside now, Bill Cosby confronted about rape allegations. The comedian's reaction that might just confuse you even more.