something that was you know some sort of marketing stunt or anything it was a genuine organic groundswell of support. well you can watch the entire episode of what happened next on facebook pages hosted by lives show and she joins us to tell us more about the story list why was the ice bucket challenge such a big deal. also we first of all it has to do with the massive participation so you had about three hundred seventeen million videos that were uploaded showing people doing the ice a bucket challenge and this really helped to bring a much needed attention to last a disease that affects the nerves and also the massless so most patients that starts out by them no longer being able to use their hands then they can t use their feet they can t walk they lose their speech and then slowly that starts to paralyze and some really palis almost completely and most patients once they re diagnosed they only live for two to five years and there s no cure
7:00 eastern, erin burnett outfront on cnn. a great program, allows me to fill in for her sometimes and i try to keep the ship in the right direction. pant sizes. you have heard of 0 and 00, but a company is now selling a 000. is that like negative pants? are they really smaller jeans or is this a marketing stunt? model emmy and peter shankman join me next. and this is a new cover of vanity fair s latest edition with more than a dozen stars. what brought all of these 80s action stars together? it s a generation, my generation, next. you re driving along, having a perfectly nice day, when out of nowhere a pick-up truck slams into your brand new car. one second it wasn t there and the next second. boom! you ve had your first accident. now you have to make your first claim. so you talk to your insurance company and.
medals are awarded in six sports today. and what you re about to see right now isn t an olympic medal event but probably should be. check out human bowling. it uses one of those big orb balls you can ride in. kind of like what juan pablo was doing on the bachelor. in new glee zealand, only they re doing it in the snow. they are having a ball with it. this is in california. truth be told, this is a marketing stunt for a granola company. but it looks cool. everyone seems to be having a good time. marci was talking and said that looks like fun. i would do that. i would totally do that. but i mean beats bungee jumping. i might consider that. i could do it for a short if it was a long run, i might get motion sickness. but a quick roll down the hill, count me in. if you really look at that ball going down the hill and that person tumbling around i m not good at bowling but i
day. i wish i could eat pizza every day. a plus called dumb starbucks. we told you about it yesterday. just a big marketing stunt apparently. nathan fielder from comedy central is behind it. the l.a. health department shut the shop down for operating without a permit. earlier in the show we told you how christians are being persecuted in many places across the world. but could it ever happen to that extent right here in the united states? a movie called persecuted addresses the issues of freedom of religion and freedom of speech. i m lucky enough to have a small role in this movie. it was screened before members of congress before it officially opens in may. here s a sneak peek with former senator fred thomas and comedian fred stein. as long as you have power and ambitious people together you re going to have abuse of that
with that. their whole push is to bring news to younger people. you know, and you d think that younger people are going to be more interested in this bieber story than just about everybody. james, was that a marketing stunt, do you think, for al jazeera and fusion to basically dismiss this story as fluff in. well, i can t get inside their heads. i think there can be a value proposition as establishing yourself as a serious network that doesn t cover stupid news just because it s going to get ratings. by the way, aw v value proposit that i think cnn has also identified in the past. there is, leaving ratings aside, there is a business, you know, dollars and cents value to cnn to be perceived as the serious news network that you can respectably show in public. it s why it does so well internationally, why it does so well digitally, why they show cnn in airport and hotel lounges. and one risk here besides the issue of actually informing the public the way journalism is supposed to is t