it's a heartbreak to know that he's gone at 75. >> talk to me a little bit about, you know, the barriers he broke, the doors he opened. do you think had it not been for "soul train," had it not been for don cornelius, stevie wonder, do you think you would be where you are today? >> well, obviously, he was a major contribute toor to allowi that to happen. i think definitely the visual presence of a lot of the different artists he made happen because the doors to get in like that were kind of crazy. but it opened up such a whole other kind of era of music and dance. he found the latest dances on "soul train." again, like i said before, my understanding is that the dancers were incredibly great, and at some point a lot of oertel visiothe other television shows began to emulate what he was doing. so that's a good thing. >> when americans saw "soul train" and saw a new don cornelius. we knew him for his baritone, his style, the dancing kind of setting the trend. but who was the person? who was don cornelius, the man? >> you know, i knew him as just a kind person. did i see him every day, did we talk every day? no, we didn't. but, you know, we had great conversations when we did talk. there was a thing that he would always do, act like he was some promoter from some country and he was saying, okay, you're going to sing. no, i'm not going to sing. he would say, no, you're going to sing or i will leave you out here with nothing. just being silly. i just remember great moments. it's a shock. like i said, it's a terrible shock. but, you know, what do you do? i mean, you hear about these things and your heart aches and you wish that you could have been there for that person, for those in the past that have lost their lives in that kind of way, but whatever way one loses their life, were you able to prevent that from happening in some kind of way, to encourage them, to inspire them? you think we have to learn, whether it be the lessons of those that we've lost in different ways, obviously, like michael jackson or just anyone, we would have to give them as much love as we can and tell them, listen, no problem is so big that it cannot be solved. that's just the power of having the most high that you believe in your life and just know that whatever the problem is, whatever the situation, you know, the album titled, as george harrison said, all things are past. that's how i look at it. >> speaking of giving love, and this is my final question for you. certainly there will be a memorial perhaps in the coming days and coming weeks. you said you played "superstition" for the first time on the show. stevie wonder, if you're asked to play a song, if i may ask, of your repertoire, what song would mean the most, do you think? >> i would let the family decide that. >> stevie wonder, i thank you so much for calling in. i know there are sore spots within the cornelius family today. thank you. >> okay. now this. just oafter the top of the hour here. a couple stories we're watching for you right now. first and foremost, a major birth control recall, a mix-up that could leave you unprotected. stay tuned for that. also from afghanistan, the taliban is poised to overtake the country as soon as nato forces pull out. and facebook. when can we get in on the action and buy a piece of that pie? time to play reporter roulette. i want to go straight to elizabeth cohen with this massive recall of birth control pills. elizabeth, what exactly is being recalled and why? >> if you are a woman on birth control pills, i suggest you go to your medicine cabinet and see if you have either of these kinds of pills. the first one is called lo/ovral, and the second is generic norgestrel tablets. if you have them -- some of them, not all of them -- there is a mistake in the way they were paj aged and you might not be protected and you need to know they're recalling these. >> so as women are sort of rushing to their medicine cabinets to check, what can they do if they use this kind of pill? >> if you're taking this kind of pill, you want to bring it back to the pharmacy you got it from, and secondly, you want to go to your doctor to get another type of birth control. because it is possible, again, that this is not protecting you. so two-step process. go to the pharmacy, go to your doctor. >> all right. elizabeth cohen, thank you so much. more information at cnn.com/empoweredpatient. i want to go straight to the pentagon to chris lawrence. we're hearing, chris, about a leaked classified military report. it claims that the taliban already ready to retake pakistan. this would come after nato withdrawals in 2014. what are they saying about this? >> this is a classified report that was based on about 4,000 interviews with everyone from senior taliban to low-level, some al-qaeda fighters mixed in, foreign fighters. these were all people captured by the international security forces there in afghanistan and interviewed over the course of last year. it shows the taliban as a whole to be very confident. their thinking is come 2014, they will be back in power in afghanistan and will win, so to speak. it also shows that a lot of the taliban don't really trust pakistan. they feel pakistan is manipulative but they don't see any other area to get help so they go along and they take pakistan's aid, and that some of the senior taliban officials are still being given safe harbor there in pakistan. brooke? >> what about the ultimate goal of getting out of afghanistan? does this mean we're even further away from reaching that target? >> yeah. when you look at it, you know, there has been some talk about, you know, the afghan saying that they may meet the taliban for some negotiations in qatar. a taliban spokesman put out a word just recently, in the last day or so, saying that's not true. they respect the idea of negotiations but they have no plans to do so at the time. so still -- hard to say on that. you know, meanwhile, u.s. officials have saying about this report, this is some of the most ruthless people involved. they're sort of downplaying it. one u.s. official told us this is more comments than intel. there's been no analysis of what some of these people are saying, and, of course, pakistan is still saying, you know, they're not aiding the taliban directly. brooke? >> of course. of course, they're saying that. chris lawrence, thank you so much. now on to reporter roulette. this is the first step on to you maybe owning a piece of facebook. but let's not get too far ahead of ourselves. felicia taylor is live at the stock exchange. there is so much talk about this. what is facebook actually expected to do today? >> well, brooke, we started to hear rumors really early this morning that facebook was getting ready to file the paperwork required to launch an ipo. then the process actually begins, and it can take several months. they go on what they call a roadsh roadshow, which is basically advertising facebook, although i don't think there is anyone out there who doesn't understand the magnitude of facebook. they are seeking to raise about $5 million in this offering. we could find out what the particularer m ticker symbol will be, where it's going to trade, and what it's worth. we'll have to wait until after it actually starts trading. analysts estimate that its value is somewhere between 75 and $100 billion. not bad for a company that didn't even exist eight years ago. that valuation would make it worth more than iconic companies such as walt disney and general motors, both of which have been around for a very long time. brooke? >> wow. so people sitting there thinking, how can i get in on this? how long before individual investors can maybe even own facebook stock? >> yeah. well, this is kind of an interesting one, in particular with facebook. one trader told us earlier he expects facebook to include everyday people in the offering. after all, it's people like you and me who make facebook the value of it, what it actually is. we're the users of it. mark zuckerberg is ceo, he's known for doing things differently. he's not going to kowtow to wall street on the average way to introduce an ipo. usually the average investor gets shut out at the ipo price. big investors usually snatch up the first offering. it could be between 48 and $200 a share. w i have no idea, though. you can compare it to other names. yahoo at $15, linkedin at 72. google which opened at $18 is now at $583. a lot of people are betting that facebook could be the next google and they don't want to miss out on it, but it will be interesting, there is also discussion out there that maybe zuckerberg will give every person who is a member of facebook a share. but we have no idea. these are still rumors that are swirling around. >> seems like maybe the fair thing to do since we're helping him out, but who knows. thank you so much. i want to move along. we're just getting some breaking news in to us here at cnn. this is out of egypt. dozens are reported dead as riots are break out over a soccer game. we're going to take you live to cairo for more of the news, next. vacations are always wasn'ta good ideaa ♪ priceline negoti - - no time. out quickly. you're miles from your destination. you'll need a hotel tonight we don't have time to bid you don't have to bid. at priceline you can choose from thousands of hotels on sale every day. save yourself... some money at liberty mutual, we know how much you count on your car, and how much the people in your life count on you. that's why we offer accident forgiveness, where your price won't increase due to your first accident. we also offer a hassle-free lifetime repair guarantee, where the repairs made on your car are guaranteed for life, or they're on us. these are just two of the valuable features you can expect from liberty mutual. plus, when you insure both your home and car with us, it could save you time and money. at liberty mutual, we help you move on with your life, so get the insurance responsible drivers like you deserve. call us at... or visit your local liberty mutual office, where an agent can help you find the policy that's right for you. liberty mutual insurance, responsibility -- what's your policy? at meineke i have options... like oil changes starting at $19.95. my money. my choice. my meineke. a master rival after a soccer game. ben joins me from egypt. ben, soccer? what happened? >> well, this is no question this is the worst case of football violence in egyptian history. we understand that after these next to the mediterranean, the fans next to the club went on the pitch and became involved with violent clashes with fans of the other team in cairo. we understand 73 dead, at least 200 wounded. of course, these are just initial figures. we understand there are 90 ambulances on the scene at the hospitals in port siaga. they are completely overwhelmed by this bloodshed. certainly this is indicative of the kind of security vacuum that has occurred in egypt since the revolution. since the revolution, really, the police have never returned to the streets of egyptian towns and cities in the kind of numbers they were on the streets before the revolution, and certainly there weren't enough at the portside stadium to prevent this sort of horrific bloodshed that has many egyptians wondering where this country is going. we understand parliament is now going to be meeting in an emergency session to discuss the situation, but certainly, very disturbing for many egyptians. brooke? >> disturbing as i'm just seeing these pictures here of fires. this looks like something we would have seen many months ago, certainly not after a soccer or football match. can you explain just a little bit more context about these two teams? are these big rivals? why the degree of the violence? >> well, the team that was -- one of the teams is the onli team, which is from cairo, a widely popular team. but there is a small group of fans called the ultras who often go to these games with the specific indent of getting in fights with fans from the opposing teams. what happened is the portside beat the other team, the onli team, 3-1 and that may have played a part in sort of sparking these clashes, but it's really hard to explain this level of bloodshed, this death toll, this number of injuries given that in the past, you have had some soccer violence in egypt but nothing on this scale. brooke? >> unreal. you said initial reports, 73 dead, 200 wounded, 90 ambulances. ben wedeman, we'll keep following it along with you there in cairo. thanks so much. next, a writer follows general david petraeus for months and months and gets amazing exclusive access to the most dramatic moments. you're go to hear unique insight on strategies, the wars and petraeus' relationship with the presidents he's served including friction with one of them. paula is standing by with this interview. don't miss it. all energy development comes with some risk, but proven technologies allow natural gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's natural gas... domestic, abundant, clean energy to power our lives... that's smarter power today. he is now the director of the cia. he was once the top u.s. commander in afghanistan and in tie rack before that. i'm talking about david petraeus. he is in charge of the country's deepest secrets. a new biography is bringing readers now into hizzoner circle. it's called "all in, the education of general david petraeus." paula is a west point grad who has worked both in intelligence and counter-terrorism. paula, thanks so much for coming on here. you embedded with petraeus and his staff while he was still in afghanistan. how did you manage that? how did you get this access? >> this project started maas my dissertation about three years ago and i was working with general petraeus virtually, doing interviews and him doing the interviewing. i decided the time was right to turn it into a book. i got a visa and went to afghanistan. i actually went on a few trips both with the troopers in the field and also at headquarters, and at some point i think he realized i was taking this research seriously, sharing hardships with the troops and risk and so forth. we had a relationship before i went there as far as this dissertation was concerned, so it just took it to another level. >> given your time, paula, in afghanistan, i just want to ask you about some news today where we're hearing about the secret u.s. military report, that the taliban are poised to retake afghanistan as soon as nato leaves. in fact, i want to tell you something petraeus said just yesterday. >> there is nothing easy about afghanistan. as we used to say, it's all hard all the time, but it's also all-important all the time. there is a reason we went there in the wake of 9/11. we have hugely important national security interests there, and it's very important to that country, to the region and the world that we do everything possible to try to get that right. >> so to use his phraseology, getting right, what is the u.s. getting right in afghanistan if the taliban are ready to swoop back in after a decade of fighting? >> that's a pretty grandiose statement to say they're ready to swoop in. you have to think of the record gains the troops made last year. we had an increase in insurgents attacks, but last year there was a did he crease in overall attacks. in some cases it was 30%. a 30% decrease in attacks, i don't think that shows the taliban has momentum here. but this shows a bigger point, that our gains are quite fragile and reversible if we don't continue to put pressure on the taliban and the insurgents. i think they've done a great job at standing up and building their forces. there are over 3,000 forces there now. they're working arm in arm with our troops. that's our ticket out of afghanistan, and i think there's no light between general allen, who is a commander in afghanistan right now, and the president on the vital interests that are stated here if we let the taliban swoop in, but i think that's a pretty grandiose statement to listen to. >> you bring up the president. you write very specifically in your book that petraeus almost resigned in afghanistan over president obama's withdrawal timetable. is friction the right word here? why so much friction between these two men? >> there was a misunderstanding in that headline, brooke. actually, he was urged to quit. after the decision was made by the president to draw down the troops on a certain timeline, several of his mentors and friends sent in e-mails and said this is egregious. the fast drawdown puts our troops and mission at risk. we risk everything we gained. petraeus didn't feel it was that egregious. he felt that what the president had decided was implementable. in fact, he turned around and got on a video conference and said we will execute. so there was friction in that he had made recommendations. the president asked him for another recommendation. he went back to his troops in afghanistan, a very small group of leaders, actually, and came back with a recommendation that he felt was viable. so there was tension, but i think if anything, it was healthy tension. the national security council and the president's national security team should debate these issues. there are a lot at stake, but there are a lot more issues at stake beyond the war in afghanistan, the economy, many more factors came into the president's decision making. one thing we really show in the book is the arc of their relationship over time. in 2009, i would say it was the military versus the white house. that was the perception, anyhow, in some open sources. but the military leaders didn't feel like they were boxing in the president, and i think what the president has learned and the administration has learned is that, really, we're all in, to bring the title of the book back into it, but -- sorry, go ahead? >> they're all in, but i do have to press you a little bit because i actually had michael hastings on a couple weeks ago, rolling stone writer, has this new book out as well. he wrote in that rolling stone article that eventually led to general petraeus' downfall. i want co read this. quote, this is a biography written by a semi-official spokesperson. its chief interest is as a rough draft of the latest myth petraeus is selling to the american public. we won iraq and we're on the verge of a great victory in afghanistan and petraeus is the main reason why. are you buying it? paula, how do you respond to that? >> i'm glad you're giving me the chance. first of aushlll, i'm not sure michael hastings read it, because i'm critical of both wars. on a broader scale, listen. this is a book about strategic leadership. it's also a war chronicle, it's petraeus' intellectual history, but what i want to show and the interest it's generating is leadership. i think petraeus gives us a great model for that. i'm not a spokesperson for him, and if showing a role model to other people in the world or other readers is a repugnant thing, then i'm sorry, but i think the values he holds and tries to instill in his organizations are valuable and worth pointing out. >> paula broadwell, west point grad, your book is "all in ch: education of david petraeus." thanks for being on. >> thank you, brooke. back in florida, folks are still talking about mitt romney's win, but the race is hardly over. they swear they're going to keep going. heck, newt gingrich says he's going all the way to the convention. folks, that is end of august. where could romney lose his lead? where are his weaknesses going forward?