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Just no room for everyone to watch the event. >> well play it again any way from last year because we love it so much. >> its amazing to watch gravity take hold of those people. >> john edwards mistress is posing from photos and breaking her silence. ri elle hunter says she is still in love with johnny and believes he loves her too. she and edwards slept together on the first day they met. she calls the relationship with his wife elizabeth toxic. hunter says edwards hoped she would have an abort...

Ten years. this is not the future of the american people want. its not the future they deserve and thats worth the fight. >> reporter: and president obama is taking that fight on the road today heading to ohio a little later this afternoon for another campaign-style event to pitch health care reform and introducing the president this afternoon were told is the sister of a woman who wrote president obama a couple months back about losing her health care. the president read that letter in a meetin...

. the suspected drug gang attack on americans in juarez, mexico. we mentioned this just before the break. two americans and a mexican with ties to the u.s. consulate were gunned down over the weekend. want to turn to our studio now in mexico city and turn to professor john ackerman of the national autonomous university. always good to have you with us. first of all, are we -- i guess, naive to believe this could be a coincidence? >> i dont know. this is -- interesting occurrence that happened ...

Supposed to be in charge of the police forces. we need institutional reform, transparency and oversight of mexicos institutions. one of the major problems, i would say, would be the major cause of the failure of this so-called war on organized crime is corruption. i think the mexican state apparatus is still very corrupt. mexico comes in way down around 80 or 90 in the global rankings of corruption and this is specifically the case in law enforcement agencies, and there this has not been address...

Drug cartels and thats not working. we need institutional change and transparency to combat corruption in the police forces in mexico. these are the kind of strategies we need and not sort of just direct frontal attacks in the idea that is -- really just a law enforcement problem. a serious one but a law enforcement problem through the institutions and not military organization. >> john ackerman from mexico, thanks very much. >> the cycle is that drugs come up, the money goes down the guns goe d...

The final week in the health care battle. it seems like weve been say that go since july. the white house is saying that it will have the votes to make it the law of the land even though as of right now the numbers are not there. republicans are vowing to keep it that way with the numbers not there. both sides got in a few final shots on the sunday talk shows. >> they tried to do this in june and july. if they had the votes, itd be law. they tried to pass it in september, october, november, dece...

You. >> reporter: what if someone talks bad about the coach. >> its my coach, not yours or the schools. we have to do it for her. >> reporter: the real test for randolph just as it was for goldy hahn in that old movie will be in randolphs team wins. >> what a great group of guys. randolph is a great teacher too by the way, teaches science and clearly expects the best from her students in the classroom and on the field. thats something i heard from every young man i talked with on the team. john ...

Control. they have examined the car and cant recreate the problem. >> james sikes insists that his prius hit speeds of 90 miles an hour while he was standing on brakes. susan candiotti has the latest on these new developments. >> john and christine, good morning. this draft memo makes it sound like an incident involving a runaway 2008 prius might not have happened the way the driver said it did. so whos right? a draft congressional memo seems to take some steam out of jim sikes wild ride into hi...

strongsville, she hopes shes well enough to be onstage with the president that she add meyers so much. >> im really hoping to be there. >> reporter: channel 3 news. >> as you can see in the box, the president is onstage right now in ohio. lets get you there. "cnn newsroom" continues right now with t.j. holmes. >> reporter: appreciate, kind sir, my friend. im t.j. holmes sitting in for ali velshi. we have a lot of news happening over the next two hours. something we are keeping our eye ...

bordertowns at the height of spring break save two americans were shot and killed. it is a weekend of carnage across the border, including seven people killed in acue pull co- serious yus questions about a california mans claim that his prius went out of control last week. regulators cant recreate the problem in james sikes car, leaving them to wonder if it is a wild story. >> we begin with a developing story. its the weather. hundreds of thousands of home without power this morning ...