and why isn t it just simply fiction in your mind? if you do it right, it teaches you two things. one, the incredibly contingent nature of history. over and over again, tiny changes would have resulted in enormous consequences. if it hadn t stopped raining in dallas, that bubble top would have stayed on john kennedy s limousine. if elian gonzalez mother had survived there wouldn t have been a custody controversy that probably cost al gore 15 or 20,000 votes in state he lost by 500. the second thing it teaches you is how critical character and temperament is. you take the same conditions and put a different person in and you get a different results. if lyndon johnson was in charge of the cuban missile crisis because john kennedy was almost killed before he even got to be president, with his values, his understanding, his trust in the military, you might have had a totally different outcome. apart from being kind of fun, i think it teaches a lot of stuff
this morning on world news now outside influence. federal agents uncover details about two brothers accused in the boston bombing. were they connected to extremists overseas? custody controversy, a 5 month old boy stuck in the middle of a dispute over hospital care. his parents concerns and the state of california. what the parents are now saying about their boys welfare. cycles collide. captured on cell phone video. yowsa. crash involving a motorcycle and bicycle sharing a notorious stretch of road. you ll see what happened. celebrity advice. nba s jason collins and his much publicized coming out. he turned to a high profile entertainer who had been in the same situation. that s coming up in the skinny on this wednesday, may 1st.
this morning on world news now outside influence. federal agents uncover details about two brothers accused in the boston bombing. were they connected to extremists overseas? custody controversy. a 5-month-old boy stuck in the middle of a dispute over hospital care. his parents concerns and the state of california. what the parents are now saying about their boys welfare. cycles collide. captured on cell phone video. yowsa. crash involving a motorcycle and bicycle sharing a notorious stretch of road. you ll see what happened. celebrity advice. nba s jason collins and his much publicized coming out. he turned to a high profile entertainer who had been in the same situation. that s coming up in the skinny
pounds, does that mean you are a bad parent? some experts now arguing the state should actually remove obese kids from their families. tonight, the custody controversy. first, from fox this wednesday night, another day of terror in mumbai. i m trace gallagher in for shepard smith. three bombings killing at least 21 people and wounding more than 140. officials calling it a terror attack, though so far no one has claimed responsibility. and some of the images too graphic for tv. bodies lying in the streets. survivors dragging bloodied victims to trucks and taxis. police say the blast went off in three different neighborhoods just minutes apart during the evening rush. president obama condemning the, quote, outrageous attacks: it is the deadliest assault on india s financial capital since november of 2008. that s when militants killed