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>> listen up, parents. a new study points to you. it says you the distracted parent, thats the reason why kids are suffering serious injuries on the playground. the study says the distracted adult makes young children, those under 5 years old, three times more likely to take dangerous risks on playground equipment. those risks lead to more serious injuries. the chief culprit of distraction, you guessed it, your head is down looking at that phone. more than 200,000 kids in the u.s. every year are...

For years and years and the teasing that kids do when kids will be kids? whats the line? >> i think the consensus is were looking for a couple of things. one is repeatedly being targeted and attacked verbally or physically. two, when they involve other folks. remember back in middle school, high school or even elementary school when you were teased, usually there were other students involved so bullies tend to involve other folks. the other thing is when there are people standing around and they...

Zimmerman case. study points to al sharpton as being personally involved in the story rather than analyzing it. news anchor geraldo rivera inflamed the story with some comments he made about hoodies. and finally the study points to president obama who says if he had a son he would look like trayvon martin. the study concludes that tv world -- story web sites often distorting what the facts were. joining us from new york chairington a criminal defense attorney and from washington howard kurtz mos...

Christians and atheists. the tweets sent by followers of pope benedict vxi, joel osteen and pastor rick warren were analyzed alongside the tweets of followers of richard dawkins and the late christopher hitchens who penned the bestseller, "god is not great," and researchers found christians used more positive emotion words than atheists like love, happy and great rather tan negative emotions like bad, wrong or awful. and that religious people have a more intuitive rather than analytical style of...

Government yet. we get people to take a year off. its geeks. its also designers. its also product managers. people from the technical industries. and we get them to work with people in city hall to solve problems in cities for a year. >> reporter: she wants to fix local government. one smartphone app at a time. >> this saturday, 2:30 eastern, "the next list." >> facebook, twitter, instagram. parents, if youre not on any of these social media sites, maybe you better get with it and think about it...

Funding to accept people across the public line. chris christie became the eighth republican governor to support the expansion. he say we are putting more people first and hopefully the republicans will do the same. and what do we know about wealth? the gap has grown massively over the past quarterer century. according to a study by brandeis university says that the gap has tripled from 30,000 to 206,000 in 2009. we know that one of the chief components is the real disparity in homeownership. ...

We can have different opinions, we cant have different facts. the fact is the rich got the tax cuts and did not create even 1% job growth. they put the money in their pocket, bob. >> well, keep on talking facts, al. and as ronald reagan says, there you go again. the point is -- the point is they are still relying on that old discredited argument that a rising tide lifts all boats, which is to say that if the wealthy get money, then everybody will be uplifted. the truth of the matter is, as that ...

Necessarily buy happiness, but we have in this country these very unattainable beauty standards, especially for women. and what this new study points out is that -- they surveyed 25,000 people, in germany and the u.s. and britain, and found that the most beautiful people were actually 15% happier than the bottom beautiful people. >> how did they measure that? >> well, they looked at -- they had interviewers interview all these people, and they would rank the person based on how good they looked....

Gas exploded in chehalis, washington. live pictures from our affiliate there in seattle, kiro. you will be able to see that in a second. its a little dark, but fire crews are on hand trying to bring it under control. no immediate reports of insur injuries. we will bring you the details when they come in. a baby stolen in 1987 grows up and tracks down her real mother. wait till you hear all of the details behind this story. a grim update on the daniel pearl case. three-year study points to an...

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