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>> chris: by now it is almost a cliche a young man or woman who comes up with a business for the internet worth billions but each time it is still something of a shock. here is our power player of the week. >> amazon is where you go when you want things to go up on your door step in two days and facebook. i think there is an answer to that for local and we can be that. >> tim oh shaughnessy is founder and oec of living social that offers big discounts at local businesses. they can save up to 70%...

Things. fritzl is a very unusual man, which kept these crimes unsuspected for more than two decades. it was the amount of planning and the amount of control. >> what about his wife, rose marie? how could she not know or at least suspect? >> i dont understand why she didnt take the opportunity at some point, maybe while he was away on one of his four-week holidays, to take action and say, "this is my child and i want to know where my child is. why did my child leave one baby or even three babies ...

What was he doing that many hours? why did these children appear from time to time on the doorstep during the night? could she have been completely ignorant of the husbands nature and character? >> in fact, according to some, rosemarie played an essential role in keeping the deception going. >> rosemarie fritz, if she hadnt kept the family together so long, it might have turned up much earlier but she tried to keep playing on the outside the idyllic family, taking the children and adopting them ...

You can imagine that it was getting a bit crowded. you must have guessed the more prisoners in the cellar the more complicated it became to look after them. >> taking the three middle children upstairs posed problems. how to explain the arrival of the babies? his solution was simple. elisabeth was a bad mother and had abandoned her children. a pattern was established in the middle of the night, a baby would be left on the fritzls door step with a note from elisabeth, again, a letter the father f...

The letter said that it was pointless to search for her because she was deeply involved with a sect and that she was so happy there that she was definitely not coming home. >> translator: we were a couple. we wrote to each other. we saw each other. all of a sudden all contact ended. when i called, i was palmed off. it was over. and i didnt hear from her again. >> elisabeth fritzl had simply vanished and no one seemed to think it unusual. coming up, elisabeth is forced to give up three of her chi...

>> fritzls closest neighbors bought his story, too. >> translator: people said that it was irresponsible. what a bad mother elisabeth was just to leave the children on the doorstep. frau fritzl already had seven children and now she has to bring up grandchildren, as well. terrible. >> incredibly, over the 24 years elisabeth was in captivity, there were more than 100 tenants renting rooms in the fritzl house right above elisabeths prison. none suspected. >> translator: in hindsight, you can alway...

can and we will hope for the best as mom likes to say. >> we will be covering this very, very closely. as we always do at cnn. in fact, jim acosta takes over our coverage right now in the "cnn newsroom." jim, take it away. >> thanks, guys, very much. good morning, everybody. it is almost here. hurricane irene is curving closer and closer to tens of millions of people. waves and wind already kicking up and the first rains will soak the southeast today. this is a big storm. hundreds of m...

tripoli. will leader moammar gadhafi flee or stay and fight? a man in new mexico rescues a little girl who is about to be kidnapped. being called a hero, but now he could be deported. take a look in the back of that pickup truck. yes, its a stroller and theres a baby inside. find out what happened next. but first, lets get to libya and the situation their right now. libyan officials are denying that moammar gadhafi and his family are looking to leave tripoli. that as leaders are ...

arent statistics they are people in pain. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room". we begin this hour with whats happening in iowa. right now the state that holds the lead off presidential contest is gauging early support for the republican candidates. were standing by for the results of the iowa straw poll. the winner could get an important boost heading in to the 2012 primary season. cnn don lemon is...

Does not think that zombies are about to take over the earth, correct? >> no, we do not. >> that gives some of your zombie emergency kits, things people should have. switch to the other graphic that i want to put up and show, im pulling this directly from your website. once you made your emergency kit, you should sit down with your family and come up with an emergency plan. this includes where you would go and who you would call if zombies started appearinguted is your door step. you can also im...