bumps, and a mounting itch. i passed out on the side of the road for about 20 minutes. but i went and had enforced rest at a nearby hotel and three hours later came back and just completed the final leg. we walked from yesterday at 12 noon and all afternoon, all evening and all night and finally arrived here at 8:00 in the morning. it feels very nice to be here. check out ed s website for information on the expedition, all of his blogs, and videos. don t forget, you can link from our site, cnn.com/worldone. gulf seafood has been a hard sell since the oil spill, but now food experts and chefs are going a step further to show their seafood is safe. it recommends the custom fit orthotic that s best for your feet.
president obama and big name basketball stars, let s face it, the man loves basketball. he plays it all the time. but this time it was different. the pros played ball with the president at fort mcnair in washington before an audience of wounded warriors. you can bet they didn t throw any elbows and probably let the president take any shot he wanted. checking stories in our political ticker. mark williams is rejoining the tea party movement. he tells cnn he is working to form a political action committee to elect conservative candidates. he recently resigned after committing a stupid and horrible gaffe. williams came under fire per posting a blog of a fictional letter of what he called colored people to president abraham lincoln. and sarah palin is stumping today for karen handel. she will be in the runoff
corn on the could be. how nice is that? reporter: cnn, atlanta. all right. let s have a look at ed s journey by the numbers. he walked nearly 4,039 miles, been bitten by 50,000 mosquitos and worn out only three pairs of boots, lost 15 pounds and told more than 100 times he would die carrying his 88-pound pack. food, he eight four pounsd of rice a week and a little over two pounds of beans. they also eight piranha and other foods along the way. we talked to ed this morning when he reached the finish and said he almost didn t make the final push. i am embarrassed about it, really. i think i pushed myself too far. i had too many days of sleep and no nights. i had to crouch down beside the road and my skin came up in big
well, it s time now to lift up our men and women who have made the ultimate sacrifice in the wars in iraq and afghanistan. it s called home and away. we ll tell you how to get involved but first we want to tell you about sergeant an ton phillips from ingle wood, california. he died in an incident in afghanistan last december. a comrade who preferred to remain anonymous says, i was blessed with the opportunity to serve with staff sergeant phillips. he was a good man, well liked by his fellow soldiers. i was there we he passed. he went with dignity and with honor. he was a credit to his unit and the entire army. whether you re a fellow soldier or family member, we want to hear your memories, cnn.com/home and away, type in your service member s name in the upper right hand search field, and pull up
the great plains right here in the states all the way to great britain trying to get a handle, better handle really, on what makes private manning tick. private bradley manning s small town life ended at the age of 13. his parents separated and his mom moved them out of oklahoma, overseas to wales. there in the uk, cnn tracked down old friends who told us manning didn t back down from school bullies. he would stick up for himself and for others. even if he knew he couldn t particularly win the battle. reporter: and how he loved computers. he was in high coding, the most complicated stuff from the age of 14, 15. reporter: eventually manning s skill with computers would get him in trouble. he d end up here at quantico locked up in solitary confinement. but there were other steps along the way. we know manning moved back to the states five years ago. when night he came to this gay