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But, will it work . Plus thats not a safe environment for her. Born a boy, lives like a girl in the first grade. A school bans this child from using the girls bathroom. Now the parents are fighting back. And health warning. Reports of a rare super bug on the rise. What you need to know. Hi, everyone. Im Brooke Baldwin. Before we begin, i want you to hear emotional sounds this is from a dad, begging congress to do something about gun control. Youre about to hear from neal heslen, his son jesse shot and killed in the newtown massacre. His father testified before the Senate Judiciary committee as lawmakers are considering this ban on assault weapons. Listen. Good morning. December 14th, we stopped at a misty veil deli, got his favorite sandwich, sausage, egg and cheese on a hard roll. He ordered me one. He would always do that. I would get a coffee, and jesse would get what he called the covey coffee, but it was a hot chocolate. We proceeded to the school. It was 9 04 when i dropped jesse off. The school clock, jesse gave me a hug and a kiss at that time, said goodbye, i love you, stopped and said i love mom too. That was the last i saw of jesse as he ducked around the corner. Prior to that, when he was getting out of the truck, he hugged me and held me, and i can still feel that hug and that pat on the back. He said everything will be okay, dad. Everything will be okay. And it wasnt okay. 26 people including jesse and 19 other kids were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School back in december. As well as a heated discussion here on this assaults weapons ban, there is testimony on background checks and the issue of Mental Health. Well have much more from what happened in this incredibly emotional hearing later on in the show. Meantime, Pope Benedict got pretty personal and emotional in his public farewell today before tens of thousands packed into st. Peters square. Look at this. He said the Catholic Church is passing through stormy seas and said his tenure had difficult times. Went to quote him, the lord seemed to sleep. Pope benedict said he suffered over his decision to resign which will take effect tomorrow. I will continue to accompany the church with my prayers and i ask each of you to pray for me and for the new pope. He left his glasstopped popemobile waving to the cheering crowd, kissing some babies. It was an unusually candid speech from a pope often considered aloof and reserved. Our chief International Correspondent and anchor Christiane Amanpour joins me live from rome. Christiane, were you surprised by Pope Benedicts personal message . Reporter well, yes, because a lot of people had said he would say prayers and perhaps he might have a little bit of a personal message interspersed because this would be his final general audience. But in fact, the whole thing was very, very personal. And he talked about, you know, the gravity of this decision, the fact that it is such a novelty and as we know it has been 600 and 700 years since the last popes resigned. So it is a long, long time, entering unchartered waters this church now, especially in our modern times, and he did talk about the joy that he had had and the joys he felt that had happened during his eight years on the throne of st. Peter, but also as you mentioned, the church had been on choppy waters, choppy seas for a while, referring at least obliquely to some of these scandals, a lot of the challenges that had been buffeting this church for more than, you know, 12 years now. So that also has played a part in his departure, and he said that he realized that his strength was ebbing and that a new more vigorous person needed to be chosen to lead the church into the future, brooke. I want to ask you a little bit about the sex abuse scandal and the conclave in a moment. At the same time, there are some just fun interesting nuggets about this symbolic trappings the pope will basically be giving up, so no more red prada shoes for the pope and he wears that ring, which apparently has beens to smashed by some official hammer because, why, christiane . Reporter well, the shoes, they go once hes no longer pope and hes going to go from red to Brown Leather shoes, we understand. The rings, the fishermans ring, which is the ring that belongs to the pope, not the pope emeritus, not the dead pope, but to the actual pope, each time there is a transition to a new pope, the ring that the predecessor wore is defaced and can no longer be active, if you like. Thats simply for the period of time that individual is in the papacy and does reign. That say pretty normal transitional moment. Apart from that, he will be leaving in precisely 24 hours from now. 8 00 p. M. Rome time tomorrow will be the end of his papacy. He will have already left a few hours earlier and gone from the vatican to the summer residence, but as i say, 24 hours from now, the papacy of john of benedict xvi is over, and then begins the process of selecting the next pope. And, of course, well have special coverage of that in 24 hours. Well look for you then. Meantime, back to the controversy with regard to the sex abuse scandal. I want to ask you quickly, some catholics they do not want Cardinal Roger mahoney voting as part of the conclave because of his role covering up this child sex abuse scandal. Do you believe that vote will continue with mahoney as part of it . Reporter absolutely. We have asked everybody, particularly because of the controversy surrounding him, we asked so many people in the vatican, officials and others, even spoke to the retired archbishop, still cardinal, retired archbishop of the washington, d. C. Diocese, and he said, yes, this would happen and mahoney would, in fact, join the conclave. And they tell us every which way that, you know what, no matter what has happened, they still have the obligation, the duty to vote, but it is something that is troubling a lot of catholics, particularly american catholics, particularly because of the scandal, which first erupted into the news in the United States back in 2002 and then swept over here in europe, back in 2010. And really exploded over here. So in general, there is so much anger about that, and so much desire to see the church, you know, move forward. Po Pope Benedict xvi instituted a zero tolerance policy but the work is not finished and that, many catholics want to see finished. Christiane amanpour, thank you. Historic change happening as she pointed out in rome, 24 hours from now. Thank you so much. We are now getting some new information from the white house today on the accused Illegal Immigrants given get out of jail free passes by the administration, by the Immigration Service yesterday. Today, the white house is saying the suspects number in the hundreds. Are they dangerous . According to the white house, no. Priority for detention remains on serious criminal offenders and other individuals who pose a significant threat to public safety. Okay. But that spokesman, jay carney, said he cannot guarantee that these newly freed criminal suspects will appear for deportation. Carney says theyre being quote unquote, monitored but cnns nick valencia found a guy who apparently was freed by the feds and told exactly nothing. So no monitoring, no instructions. Do i have that correct . You have it correct. I spoke to an ice official this morning and they said detainees will be monitored on a case by case basis. When i spoke to Miguel Angel Hernandez released from Stewart Detention Center on sunday, he told us federal immigration officials told him nothing and in fact hes still trying to figure out what hes supposed to do. Im waiting for the paper to come. Youre still waiting now . Yeah, im still waiting. You dont have a court date at all . Dont have a court date at all. They let you free and you dont know what to do now . I dont any what to do. Just wait, wait for the mail, see what it is. I spoke to an ice official this morning and they said some people would be monitored, other people will be expected to check in with the ice official. You didnt get any instructions after you were released . Nothing. They just went home. Now, to be fair, and completely transparent, Miguel Angel Hernandez told cnn he did visit a probation officer about 48 hours after he was released from the Stewart Detention Center, but thats for a different legal matter, brooke, nothing to do with his immigration status. Were hearing now from a congressman out of virginia, bob goodlatte, it is abhorrent that president obama is releasing criminals into our communities to promote his political agenda on forced budget cuts. Obviously politics at play here. Well get to that with somebody else later in the show. To you, how often does this kind of thing happen . It is not new. People need to temper their enthusiasm. There is own recognizance bonds. Detainees are a low flight risk and not a risk of fleeing from the United States, that the ice officials believe that they will make their court date. So this has been happening for a number of years and the federal government has given these own recognizance bonds to low priority detainees. We dont know if thats the case with Miguel Angel Hernandez, but we know this has been going on for a number of years. Nick valencia, thank you. Thank you. And while leaders in washington are ripping each other apart over these spending cuts, deadline remember, midnight friday, they are standing together today. There she is, to honor civil rights icon rosa parks. President obama, congressional leaders, and more than 50 of her relatives gathered there at the capital to unveil this bronze statue of miss parks. It is nine feet tall. She is the first black woman to be honored with a statue there. Rosa parks singular act of disobedience launched a movement. The tired feet of those who walked the dusty roads of montgomery helped a nation see that to which it had once been blind. It is because of these men and women that i stand here today. It is because of them that our children grow up in a land more free. Rosa parks broke the law. That was back on december 5th, 1955, when she refused to give up her seat to a white passenger on a crowded bus back in montgomery, alabama. Actually stood in line for quite a while to get to meet and shake hands with miss parks when i was in high school, back in atlanta. Gogoose pumps. Coming up, a 6yearold girl banned from using the girls restroom at her elementary school. Why . Because she was born a boy. And just moments ago, her parents spoke out, they are fighting back. Plus, anyone . Trip to mars . Tourist trips to the red planet may be coming sooner than you think. [ male announcer ] whats the point of an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon if the miles arent interesting . The lexus ct hybrid. This is the pursuit of perfection. Begins with back pain and a choice. Take advil, and maybe have to take up to four in a day. Or take aleve, which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. Good eye. Which can relieve pain all day with just two pills. Theyre coming. Yeah. British. Later. Sorry. Ok. Four words. Scarecrow in the wind. A baboon. Monkey . Hot stew saturday . Ronny hey jimmy, how happy are folks who save hundreds of dollars switching to geico . Jimmy happier than paul revere with a cell phone. Ronny why not . Anncr get happy. Get geico. Fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. Shaq wins. [ male announcer ] new icy hot advanced cream. The first with 2 max strength ingredients for long lasting relief. Pain over. All right, space time. Mars, it is one of the most formidable planets in our solar system and the next frontier of space exploration. Matter of minutes ago, an incredible announcement, a millionaire who also happens to be the very first space tourist, has a pretty ambitious plan here. He wants to send two people where no man has gone before to a 501 day trip to the red planet. John zarrella is live with me in miami and chad myers here with me in studio 7. So, mr. Zarrella, lets begin with, you know, lets be clear, this is like a blink and you miss it kind of trip. Theyre not actually landing on mars. Tell me what we do know about the mission. Thats exactly what makes it doable. Thats what dennis tito, the first space tourist, flew to the International Space station in 2001 on a russian rocket, hes got deep pockets, multimillionaire, but will take a lot more than that. The foundation that they started, which is called inspiration mars, needs to raise about a billion dollars in order to pull this off. Now, thats really not a lot of money considering that nasas plans to land humans on mars would cost tens of billions of dollars. Thats way out there. Bottom line, 501 day mission, fly around mars, youre slingshoted back to earth, man and woman, a married couple is what they want. This millionaire youre referring to, hes not even the one who would go. He wants a married couple to go. Why . They want a married couple to go and, in fact, what he said was that, you know, the idea is it makes it easier than two strangers going together and they wanted it to be a man and a woman and they want them to be older because they dont want the radiation issues. And what he said during the news conference, theyre talking about media rights to all this, he said, can you imagine dr. Phil talking to this couple as theyre flying about marital issues that might arise. I might have been wondering about that when were talking 16 months. Nasa says it takes eight months depending on the rocket to get there, takes that long, being couped up with anyone would be difficult. My question to you, chad, zarrella mentioned the boot prints on mars, way, way off. How way, way off is it . I think 50 more years. 50. I do think so. This is going to be a really cool thing. The amount of radiation that these people will be in, just surrounded by, coming out of the sun, will be tremendous for 500 years. 500 days. I dont believe that it is survivable at this point with our technology yet. Theyre going to have to engineer this ship and engineer protection for these people as well. Would you go with your wife . With a marriage counselor. Thats a trip for three. Love you, mrs. Myers, but maybe not. Thats what im hearing. Chad myers, john zarrella, thank you very much. Now to this, mayor michael bloomberg, one of the richest men in america, is now throwing his wealth into the gun debate and he just scored. Look at that. A huge win. Wolf blitzer just talked to the mayor. Thats next. You know my heart burns for you. Im up next, but now im singing the heartburn blues. Hold on, prilosec isnt for fast relief. Cue up alkaseltzer. It stops heartburn fast. Oh what a relief it is new york city mayor Michael Bloombergs money may have an impact here on this national gun debate. Just this week, bloomberg super pac state representative robin kelly won the democratic primary to replace former illinois congressman Jesse Jackson jr. And now hes ready to use his checkbook to fight the nra. Wolf blitzer joins me now live. Wolf, you just talked to the mayor. What did he tell you . I went up to capitol hill to speak with him. He was meeting with various senators. Hes just been over at the white house meeting with the Vice President who as you know is putting forward all this new proposed legislation on gun deal dealing with gun violence in the United States. It was clear to me that mayor bloomberg is in washington, making it clear to everyone right now, hes ready to put his money where his mouth is, if you will. Hes going to spend a lot of money just as he did in the special election in chicago. Jesse jackson jr. s seat to get someone elected who agrees with him, that there is way too much gun violence in the United States and the way to deal with it is much more gun control. Listen to this exchange, brooke, that we had. You were willing to put your money where your mouth is. Well, you know, the nra has had the field to itself of talking about guns. And it is time for a balanced approach to get the public the information and then let the public decide. Did it underscore that in order to fight the nra you have to come up with a lot of money. Is that the last thing you learned . I think it is a harbinger of what is going to happen here. You dont have to put money into every race. In the end, the money doesnt matter, it is the people that show up at the polls. Thats true. It is the people that show up at the polls. Having a lot of money and throwing lite of money into the various congressional elections, senatorial elections, local elections, certainly could have a huge impact, brooke, as you know, as they say here in washington, when it comes to politics, money talks. We will look for more of your interview, mr. Blitzer, coming up on your show, the situation room here. Thank you so much. Say it aint so. Beer lovers across the u. S. , theyre suing anheuserbusch accusing them of watering down their beer. Thats ahead. I have low testosterone. There, i said it. How did i know . Well, i didnt really. See, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive. But when i started losing energy and became moody. Thats when i had an honest conversation with my doctor. We discussed all the symptoms. Then he gave me some blood tests. Showed it was low t. Thats it. 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