justin bieber was just a baby. so this was a long time ago when newt gingerich was the speaker of the house. and those government shutdowns did damage his credibility. democrats will say it helped deliver bill clinton another four years in the white house. so all of this is coming back to the surface with newt gingerich. isn t justin bieber still a baby, though? that s right. and his hair is early similar to newt gingerich s, but let s not get into that. jim, thank you. you bet. we need to take a moment to note the death of a man who was integral to to cnn s success. his name is burt reinthardt. he died on tuesday. he guided cnn through its editorial infancy and those penny pinching early days. cnn s founder, ted turner, says he s not sure cnn would be here today without reinhardt. burt reinhardt, 91 years old.
2001. some might say, haven t we done that? ten year later, still costing the lives of u.s. soldiers and $10 billion, i should say, every single month which senator richard lugar and others say is unsustainable. lugar said instead of 100,000 troops on the ground, a smaller group like 50,000 to 20,000 may be enough to fight terror. administration starts withdrawing some troop this summer, the goal to get most out by 2014. so the talk-back question today. should u.s. troops leave afghanistan sooner than later? facebook.com/carol cnn. facebook.com/carol cnnh. i ll read comments later this hour. my question to u-can you believe it s been ten years? that s crazy. we all remember that vividly. did any think we d be in afghanistan still today and also iraq in 2001? didn t think much of it.
flexibility in your neck. blind spot detection. warning systems? are you, on some level, trying to turn back time? in some levels no, we are trying to make the best work of the time we have. do we work longer, come up with new forms of play? now stay in our homes. independent and connected as well. even if the connection is a robot. same, weight and feel as a baby and oddly soothing. as for me, i m not ready to get old. i feel 17 again. refusing to age without a fight. deborah feyerick, cnn, boston, massachusetts. hello, just shy of the top of the hour, i m don lemon. let s get you up to speed right now. osama bin laden s sons claim the united states government executed their father and should be held accountable under international law. omar bin laden says, u.s. commandos assassinated an armed
swollen mississippi river flooded hundreds of homes and businesses. one of the hardest hit area, tunica county, mississippi south of memphis. cnn s john king took a boat tour of the flooded neighborhood. eslings a string of home sides and cams along this side of the levee. and they re just washed out. 330 homes total. why saw one just barely was out of the water. look at 99% of them are out of the water. can you see any possibility, people come back here? they re destroyed. and local management says of the 330, 25 had flood insurance. correct. have you ever seen water on these streets at all? it would be water to make it to the base of the levee. if there was a home here that was not built up, it may get
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