morning. we begin with new allegations of drug use against alex rodriguez. it s not the first time that he s been accused of using performance enhancing drugs. the first time was actually several years ago. the current chatter is that it happened again last year. our national correspondent, susan candiotti, is in new york. what is behind the new allegations? reporter: good morning. it looks like a-rod s ped controversy wga won t go away. now there s another report alleging alex rodriguez got home visits to his waterfront miami mansion from a man who ran a clinic. espn quoting unidentified sources says that man, anthony bosh, injected a-rod with performance enhancing drugs. once bosh was reportedly kicked out of a-rod s home after bosh allegedly had trouble finding a vein. similar drug claims were leveled earlier this week. in the miami times newspaper, it says it has a diary containing notes from bosh detailing drugs including human growth hormone given to several athletes. cnn has been unable to independently see the documents in question. now we went to the clinic days ago, but it s been shut down. bosh denies all allegations. and through a spokesman he tells cnn he did not treat, nor is he associated with players including a-rod. in an earlier statement to cnn, a-rod says none of this is true. through his attorneys he calls the documents illegitimate. in a new statement issued friday, a-rod s lawyers add this in regards to the new allegations made at espn s outside the line story, we can say that they are not true. alex is working diligently on his rehabilitation and it looking ford getting back on the field as soon as possible. a-rod has repeatedly said he stopped taking performance enhancing drugs in 1993. susan, what about major league baseball? i mean, what is the league doing about it? reporter: you know, when reports about this miami clinic surfaced earlier this week, major league baseball weighed in. last night they pretty much repeated the same thing in a statement that reads, we issued a statement on tuesday saying we are investigating. so, there is more to come. yes. it certainly sounds that wamy. thank you very much. to alabama now. the desperate waiting game for the parent of one little boy. their 5-year-old being held underground for a fifth straight day. this while police wait outside his makeshift prison, negotiating with the person who grabbed him off a school bus earlier this week. my colleague, trivictor blackwe has more. any more information? do we know about the suspect and the bunker that he s in? reporter: we have learned information about the suspect. i want to give you an update that i received from the alabama state trooper i ve been communicating with. i asked about negotiations overnight. he sent back an e-mail that said simply, we continue to have an open line of communication with the suspect. so those negotiations continue. about the suspect, after holding on for three days, the dale county sheriff s office released a photograph finally of jimmy lee diykes. we know he s 65 year old, six feet tall, he has minor drug and weapons charges across three states since 1980. we have not learned too much about what is happening inside the bunker now. they re keeping all of those details close to the vest as they try to end this quickly. randi? do police have they given any indication about how long this guy might be able to survive in this bunker? reporter: they have not. but from what we know about details about the bunker if people who live in this community, who is stein, they tell me to this has been built with a lot of care and thought. lined with brick walls. no mowe mortar there because th clay keeps things in place. he could have splice for some time. those things have not been confirmed because we went been told what s happening inside the bunker. i do want to play what alabama gover, robert bentley, said about how long this has gone on so far. we have to have the right people in place to work through this problem. and i believe that patience should be a virtue as far as the dealing with this situation. and we just we don t want to make any mistakes. reporter: a few important thanks are happening today. i wanted to give you a heads up. at noon eastern we re expecting the next update to tell us if there s information. consistently they ve said there s no reason to believe that the boy has been harmed. the other person thing, the bus driver who put himself between the gun and as many children on that bus as possible, his family andence and will gather tonight to remember him. his funeral is scheduled for tomorrow. victor, thank you very much. appreciate that. neuse news just in to cnn news just in to cnn now. a quake has struck northern japan. the 6.9-magnitude quake struck along the coast of japan s second largest island of hokkaido. about 5.5 million people live on the island. no word of injuries or damage. the tsunami warning center saided it does not appear the quake has triggered a tsunami. twitter says around 250,000 accounts were compromised. they gained access to user names and e-mail addresses. twitter officials say they believe the breach may be linked to similar tweets. chelsea clinton accompanied her mom to the state department yesterday for mrs. clinton s farewell. she tweeted this picture of them smiling side by side. chelsea also tweeted that she was grateful for my mom s and the remarkable state department s service. she added she was thank follow she signed thankful she signed off on her last day as thankful to share time with her as she signed off on her last day as secretary of state. i am so grateful that we ve had a chance to contribute in each of our ways to making our country and our world stronger, safer, fairer, and better. clinton s successor as secretary of state is her former senate colleague, john kerry. he was sworn in yesterday, and he s wasting no time getting down to business. an official says he will likely head to the middle east his first overseas trip this month with stops in egypt and israel. to pennsylvania now where thousands gathered early this morning to watch the world s most famous groundhog, punxsutawney phil, make his annual prediction. guess what, folks it s going to be an early spring. for you and me. so ye faithful, there is no shadow to see. an early bring for you and me! [ applause ] isn t that good news? you heard it from the hog. an early spring for you and me. for now, phil, that seer ofseers, sage of sages, prognosticator of prognosticators, he ll have to go back into the hole until next year. if you live in ohio, you may not think that spring is on its way. look at cleveland. the streets are a mess. they could get several more inches of snow. alexandra steele. the prague noftgator of progr prognosticators. we re talking about snow, and look at all the snow coming off lake michigan. actually, lake-effect snow warnings during lake michigan. two to four inches of snow. it should be done by 1:00. streams of snow, chicago to cincinnati, to cleveland. all the c towns coming in. a mess, snow. one to three on the hold around lifting, what happens in west virginia, the air rushes in, it gets forced up by the mountains. that forcing up bring out any possible voifr. then bigger numbers this. 35 potentially, washington, maybe snow showers tonight. doesn t look like accumulation. big picture around the country, pretty benign, pretty quiet in the intermountain west. sunny but quite cold. the cold front moved through, all that arctic air in place. they ve got the air, just don t have a lot of moisture elsewhere other than right here, of course. where the lake effect snow is. there s something i want to watch. a couple of the computer models potentially bridgie bringing a coastal low here. this is one of the models. by tomorrow, here comes the coastal low developing off the coast. this is sunday at 3:00. then we could see more snow. maybe boston getting a little snow. they ve only had over eight inches all winter and they ve usually had at least 14. they could use a little. hey, the big game coming up. what s the forecast? things looking great, no with it that, in new orleans. kickoff tomorrow at 6:30. outdoor temperatures, 70. nice if you re out there, indoors, 70 degrees. no troubles at the game. a lot of fun and watching the adds, right? we ve done that this morning. always fun to watch that. thank you very much. attorneys for jodi arias sea shy shot and killed her boyfriend in self-defense. seems the jurors have a lot of questions about the evidence. what does it mean for this accused killer? i ll ask nancy grace. 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[ crashing sounds ] [ bleep ] take noted, everybody. don t try this at home. in fact, don t try this at all. a woman in ohio kicking out the window of a police cruiser, giving officers a shattered glass shower. even after the window was out, you see there she kept on kicking. police say the woman had just been arrested for allegedly assaulting her mother. keeps getting better, doesn t it? they say it s an ugly example of the influence of too much alcohol. [ bleep ] allegations of abuse, naked pictures, and murder. if you weren t awake yet, that should do it. we re talking about the jodi arias case. prosecutors in phoenix say she took naked pictures with her ex-boyfriend, travis alexander, moments before shooting and stabbing him and cutting his throat. arias claims self-defense. i spoke earlier with hln s nancy grace who has been in the courtroom for this gripping case all week. a couple of the images are graphic. randi, there s always a chance for acquittal. we certainly learned that in the tot mott, casey anthony, trial. before that, the o.j. simpson case. when you think theest evidence incredible for the state, there s not always that possibility. do you see a second-degree murder charge or death penalty, and if so, why? this jury has been all over the board. this is how we know a little of their thinking. in arizona, the jury is allowed to ask questions. i encountered that when i was prosecuting, jurors were allowed to ask questions. it s a sterile setting. they write down their questions. they hand them to the bailiff who hands them to the judge. if they are non-objectionable, don t call for hearsay or some problem under the law, the judge will ask them ask the witness the question and the witness will answer. it s done under lab conditions. but last week we saw some disturbing questions for the state. the jury was asking, randi, well, did you check out the roommates? they were asking this of the lead detective. what about travis alexander s roommates, what s their alibi? what were they doing? okay. that s bad. in the defense opening statement, the defense lawyer said, she did it. my client she stabbed him to death. but the jury was still having about alibis for the roommates. that s not good. this week, they got more on the road. the jury started having questions that were more feasible or understandable questions. i think that a murder two is a possibility. i still think they should convict on murder one. one thing that s disturbing among many, we uncovered that there was a point in time where jodi arias was begging to plead guilty to murder two. to state under oath on the bible, i murdered travis alexander. murder two. when the state rejected that, she then switched her defense to self-defense. this is a charade. it s interesting to watch how the defendant holds up. at one point i know she broke down during the trial. how do you think she s doing? randi, she s like a water faucet. she cries on and off all the time. she typically cries when a discussion to the wounds to travis alexander is shown or photos, sliced up, and her hand. other than that, she s remained stoic. she s demure in court, usually looking down. every time i see her, 15 or 20 feet away and watched her the entire time, she will pull this hair down like a shower curtain over her face so the jury doesn t see her face. and sheep writ she writes and doodles. some have gone on eastbound a aand on ebay and asked for thousands of dollars for the doodle. she has her office chair screwed down. you see the chair backs, and she s sitting way down beside her two lawyers to make her look even more diminutive. occasionally she s gone out and got glasses. she ll push the glasses up every once in a while. she never makes eye contact with anyone. do you think she ll take the stand? that s the million-dollar question. conventional wisdom is never place your client on the stand because it s not worth whatever they say, what will happen to them on cross-examination. it s basically i don t know if you ever heard this quote, better to remain silent and let others think you re an [ bleep ] than to speak and confirm your suspicions. that goes for guilt, too. better to let them wonder if you re guilty than to get on the stand and choke up so badly on cross, then they know you re guilty. but since she s arguing self-defense, that s a conundrum. no one else can explain to the jury what happened that day in the shower, at least her version, other than her. great to chat with nancy. watch nancy weeknights on hln, our sister network. a man who spent four years photographing the beatles forgot about hundreds of his photos. how did that happen? until recently, of course. now we re getting a look at the band like we ve never seen them before. for those nights when it s more than a bad dream, be ready. for the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer. be ready with children s motrin. diarrhea, gas, bloating? yes! one phillips colon health probiotic cap each day helps defend against these digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. live the regular life. phillips . welcome back, everyone. 23 minutes past the hour now. a huge stash, hundreds of never-before-seen pictures of the beatles has been recovered. take a look. here s the fab four meeting with their guru. and the others those are behind-the-scenes pictures from when the band was shooting the film help in the bahamas. the photographer recently found his negatives for the pictures and decided to publish them. and be sure to go to cnn.com where you can see more of these exclusive, never-before-seen images. it s cool stuff. check it out. once again, cnn.com. now to hawaii where lawmakers are proposing a new bill to protect celebrities. it is named the steven tyler acts after the arrow front smith man because he s asked for protection from the paparazzi. the bill would make it illegal to photograph people in private areas but wouldn t stop people from taking pictures at public areas like the beach. critics say the bill is just trying to convince celebrities to buy property in hawaii. this morning, cnn heroes recognizes a young woman who is just in high school but is already changing the world. 14-year-old cassandra lynn has found a way to help the environment and those in need in her rhode island community. and she s doing it one french fry at a time. when i was young i heard of global warming, and i knew there was huge consequences for this huge problem. i got together with my friends. we found that you could turn waist cooking oil into diesel fuel. because many families in my own town couldn t afford to heat their homes, i thought what if we could recycle wasted cooking oil to heat the homes of these local families. we make a difference. so can you. ? 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certainly i wouldn t call it the smoothest confirmation hearing performance ever. but what i was really pricesed at was the grilling, the tough grilling he got from his former republican colleagues, one of his former closest friends, senator mccain. while it wasn t the smoothest of performances on behalf of senator hagel, i do think that republicans really need to be careful here because it is looking very political because this is president obama s nominee. and a former colleague of theirs. they are grilling him, probably a lot harder than they grilled john kerry and probably a lot harder than what they re going to gillrill a lot of democrats. i think he will get confirmed. the white house is pretty confident he will get confirmed. he shares a lot of president obama s views. a lot of the questions focused on iraq, a war that has ended, and not on afghanistan which is where a lot of questions are yeah, that has been some of the criticism. that it was looking backward instead of looking forward. and as far as mccain goes, they got into it over that surge in iraq. and the surge of troops in iraq and afghanistan. does the former republican senator, does he have enough support do you think to get the job? well, chuck hagel s hearing, i think inept would be a generous word to describe. it of course they re going to pour through the senator s statements and decisions to discern and ascertain his judgment on really crucial, crucial matters facing our country in terms of national security. we want the sharpest knife in the drawer at the pentagon. that s the job description. he s not going to the department of the interior. in terms of whether or not republicans will vote to confirm him, democrats need to hold together and get five republicans to confirm him and he should be able to become the next secretary of defense. there are grumblings among republican senators that they may consider putting a hold on his information to extracts more answers from the administration on the issue of benghazi. that this could be leverage to get to the bottom of that debacle and understanding better the administration s timeline, position, since they didn t get straight answers from former secretary of state hillary clinton. yeah. i think if they do that, it would be a big political mistake. the perception would be very negative for the republicans. any single senator can put a hold a nomination. it s been done before. in terms of voting down the nomination, that hasn t happened to a senator since john tower. i don t see that happening. let s talk immigration and gun control. both were big this week. eight senators revealed their plan for immigration reform including a better border security, path to citizenship. later in the week the star-studded gun hearings. which has a better chance of getting passed at this point? comprehensive immigration reform or some sort of gun control, amy? we ve already seen democrats coming out against, say, the assault weapons ban. mark prior, democrat from arkansas. and we have six democratic senators in red states that mitt romney won, up for re-election in 2014. so this comprehensive gun legislation that you re mentioning probably is unlikely to get through some narrower policy position where s there s broader agreement. for example, the doing background checks on all guns and gun sale loophole and so forth. comprehensive immigration reform, you know, that depends i suppose on the house side. the last time we did immigration reform under george bush, the senate was able to put together a bipartisan deal. my former boss, bill frist, worked on that very hard. he was able to get bipartisan buy-in. the question now is, will house republicans feel that political pressure to get a deal done? and i think the politics are shifting and that in fact we might see some movement there. maria, your take? i think the senators and our elected officials can walk and crew gum at the same time. i think there will be action on both. i agree with aimy that on the gun control, it probably will be narrower, probably focused on universal background checks and maybe still a ban on assault weapons, as well as the large magazine clips. i think there s a lot of agreement on that. in terms of immigration, i think that it will get done. there is certainly huge pressure from a political standpoint for republicans to understand that this needs to get done. that there needs to be a a pathway to citizenship. i know that s a big sticking point for republicans. yeah. i also think we should focus on pieces that both democrats and republicans and majorities of americans agree with. i ll mention one. that is the focus hion high-tec workers and making sure american students have the tools they need to graduate in the high-tech fields, the s.t.e.m. fields. i want to ask you quickly, both of you, there could be a new name in the race for new jersey senate 2014. i m sure you re aware of that name. geraldo rivera. yes. he s considering considering a run. senator geraldo. do you like the sound of that, amy? he would be a colorful character. i would look forward to his senate floor speeches, the press gaggle there. i hope he s not looking for cal opponent s tomb or bank for al capone s tomb or bank vault. all of the crazies and circus-type officials, i think it s the senate s turn, why not? i think you re putting him in that category. am i reading that yes, i am. calling geraldo crazy. yes, i am. crazy like a fox. nice to have you here. have a great, great saturday. the boy scouts considering lifting a ban on gay scouts. some parents say the policy could ruin the organization. using robotics and mobile technology, verizon innovators have made it possible for teachers to teach, and for a kid. nathan. tadpole. . to feel like a kid again. because the world s biggest challenges deserve even bigger solutions. powerful answers. verizon. 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why should our common sense response be different if the 15-year-old is a boy and the possible even if not likely to be acted on sexual attraction of the adult supervisors is homosexual rather than heterosexual? the parent who wrote that, ed rhelen joins us, president of ethics and public policy center. joining us via skype is eagle scout zach walls, executive director of scouts for equality. both to you. ed, i d like to start with you. in that op-ed, are you implying in your argument against lifting the ban that homosexuality is santa a synonymous with pedophilia? not at all. i not the example i give indicates the opposite. what s at issue is an organization that has long stood in defense of traditional american moral values. it s attracted parents and supporters from churches, precisely because it s in defense of those values. the supreme court has held that the boy scouts have a constitutional first amendment right to exclude leaders whose presence wouldn t be inconsistent with the values and that includes atheists. we can respect and do respect our fellow citizens who are gays or atheists. we love our relatives and friends who are gays or atheists but do not regard them as suitable for scout leaders. zach? i think it s interesting that that is going into this traditional emotional values framework. i think what he s trying to do is define this as a biblical fundamentalist tradition that s become popular in the u.s. over the last 40 years. the reality is that there are christians opposing that policy change including the united church of christ, one of the bsa s largest top sponsors who friday stated, the ban is inconsistent with the values of dignity and respect that serves the foundation of the scouting program. we couldn t agree more. even though i might be talking about respect, respect for him is a one way street. nobody s calling for the exclusion of baptists, mormons, catholics. frankly, anybody who holds ed s point of view. we re seeing scouts is a program that s experiencing inclusivity because we believe in the values that constitute the program. let me ask you about a woman, jennifer tyrell. she was kicked out of the scouts. she is a lesbian mom who was a den leader for her son. is she a threat? the question is whether a private organization can have answer that first. i don t know this woman. how could i possibly judge whether she s a threat? the fact of the matter is that organizations have all sorts of general rules that they adopt because they re sensible. we don t have to defend every particular rule. the boy scouts, if they abandon the rule and adopt the notion that different troops can have different policies, it s unwokabunwok workable. it will invite legal attacks. and zach and his cohorts will not call a peace truce. they ll realize that the boy scouts can be intimidated. and they re going to continue to intimidate them. this is just an unstable stopping point. it s just a path to further surrender. zach? somebody who spent 12 years in the organization, i simply have to disagree. we re appealing to the traditional values that have been a part of the boy scouts from the very inception in 1903. i feel that moving forward, this is going to be a part of the program that is fostering inclusiveness and valuing the principles of the boy scouts to the entire population of young american men, not just those who happen to be straight. further, to your point about whether or not this is something that is an unworkable legal solution. on a national poll with key three of the boy scouts earlier, the president of the board said that currently with the current ban in place, we don t want to find ourselves in a position where a judge is telling us that we need to expand our responsibpolicy even. even though you might be looking at this one way, the bsa isn t taking that position at all. ed, you mentioned this change in policy would deprive the troops of protection. protection from what? what do they need protection from? they need protection from legal challenges to their decision to exclude gay leaders. the national supreme court organization won that victory 13 years ago. they re throwing it away in a way that would expose local troops and volunteer leaders to lawsuits by activists like zach would you want your son to be in the scouts if he was gay? you know, i think a question like that directed at my son is a rude question. let me answer it this way i would not have put my son in a troop with an openly gay leader or atheist leader. and lots of parents and most vibrant part of the boy scouts believe the same. zach can cite one denomination with this proposal, there are plenty of folks who aren t. i think the boy scouts are fixing please let me finish. this would be an epic failure in flip they topper cave if they were to cave to financial pressure. this isn t a decision on the merits. this decision is being made in the face of financial pressure. the almighty buck. what sort of lesson is it to scouts if the national organization would cave because of that rather than sflel. zach, the final word? to be clear it s not just the ucc that weighed in. the mormon church, catholic churches, hardly known for liberal they re not going prove this. let him finish it. don t you dare suggest they re going to approve this. ed, let zach finish, please. no, i mean the point is simply that while there may be some who are very, you know, opposed to this policy position, there s a vast difference between being opposed to gay marriage and opposing the richment and development of young men because they happen to be not straight. while i think ed s position is one that i respect and we re not going remove his son from the program, i think he should understand that the scouts is about respecting the opinions of all the people who want to be members, not just some. zach walls you don t respect it appreciate the time. appreciate both of you discussing this. thank you. appreciate it. thank you. thank you. more after this quick break. . see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive. but when i started losing energy and became moody. that s 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. that s it. it was a number not just me. 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reporter: of course, major league baseball has acknowledged that it s looking into this. they have weighed in and said that they issued a statement saying that they are investigating and that s pretty much what they also said friday night when we reached out it them. susan candiotti, appreciate the update. all right. now alabama where details are surfacing regarding a possible motive in the tense standoff between police and a man who s holding a 5-year-old boy hostage in an underground bunker. this coming on day five of the ordeal. victor blackwell is following the developments in alabama. what are you hearing? reporter: i can tell 2000 things. we just got off tell you two things. we just got off the phone with the person who immediately after the tragedy on tuesday had been with the parents of that 5-year-old boy. i asked if he had been in communication with the parents since. he said he was with them yesterday. he says they have not been allow ted sited. i asked about allowed at the site. i asked about something, that this boy had been crying for his parents inside this bunker. i asked him had he been to the bunker. he told me no. i asked had he spoken with anyone who heard the boy crying specifically. he said no. he summed it up and said, you know he s crying for his parents. he s 6 years old. we know the boy is 5. so he cannot confirm that the boy is indeed crying inside this bunker. we should clear that up. the second important thing is the news conference coming at the top of this hour. again, every news conference was canceled on thursday. any news conference that happened friday didn t offer anything new. i sent a message to the pio, public information officer here, and i said, should we expect any new information at this news conference, and he told me, yes, there will be a few new, as he called them, nuggets coming out. that s in a few minutes from now at the top of the hour. victor, thank you very much. we ll keep an eye out for the news conference. california s parole board is recommending freedom for one of kafrls manson s con charles manson s convicted followers. bruce davis was sentenced in 1972 for the murders of two men. he was not involved in the more infamous murder of actress sharon tate. calf governor brown has 30 california governor brown has 30 days to decide whether to release davis. if freed he would be the first manson family member to leave prison. in egypt, soccer players are kicking off their season today to an empty stadium. it s than fans don t want to be there. spectators are not allowed, and security is tight after 74 people were killed in a deadly riot following a game last year in port sayed. last week, 21 people were sentenced to death in the riots, sparking new protests in several cities. in cairo last night, demonstrators threw rocks and molotov cocktails at security forces, igniting a fire outside the presidential palace. if you have a twitter account, you ll want to pay attention to this. the social media web site says it has been hacked. about 250,000 accounts are compromised. the company says it discovered the breach earlier this week. the groundhogs had their say. is spring near, or will we have six more weeks of winter? we ll tell you what phil and chuck predicted. his contributions to new york are well-known. now the man behind the documentary on former mayor ed koch brings hear personal stories from mr. new york. let s go. 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[ cheers ] not an early an early spring for you and me. yeah. you heard it there. what phil had to say. what about chuck, the groundhog? he s staten island zoo s prognosticator and also predicts an early spring. at least they agree. the groundhogs say spring is near, but don t tell that to effects in the upper midwest and northeast. meteorologist alexandra steele is here. i think your record is better than chuck or phil phil is 39% at best. beauregard lee, our prognosticator in georgia, he says we ve got a lot of winter left. i hope he s wrong. right. they re seeing a lot of winter in chicago and cleveland. in chicago, they are seeing snow showers now, 20 degrees. but you know, we haven t seen a lot of snow there at all this winter. we re watching the snow here cleveland, cincinnati. the cold arctic air coming off the lake waters in line for lake-effect snow. you see it, making its way to washington, d.c., by 4:00, 5:00 tonight. could see maybe a half inch to haven by tomorrow. winter threat. here s where it is. the purple delineating where the winter weather advisories are. so on the whole, around cincinnati, one to three. here in the mountains of the appalachians because the graphic lifting, the air moves to the mountains. it s forced upward. and that s squeezing out any potential moisture. three to five there. washington could see this afternoon. pretty on the ground if you re watching the game tomorrow. big picture, that s where the snow is. on the whole, cold and dry. one thing i want to show you, the potential for boston snow tomorrow. this is a computer model. this is tomorrow throughout the afternoon and into tomorrow. here s what s going to happen. an area of low pressure may develop. this is one model. this area of low pressure, if it gets closer to the coast, we could see snow in boston tomorrow night. and you see this does bring some to the cape and islands. keep an eye on. that and forecast weather for the game, it s looking beautiful. tailgating, outside door, 60 degrees. indoors, of course, 70. okay. alexandra, thank you very much. sure. he wanted to be new york s mayor for life. a day after his death, we ll get a sneak peek at a fascinating upcoming film on the incredible life and contributions of ed koch from the film s director himself. well, i didn t really. see, i figured low testosterone would decrease my sex drive. but when i started losing energy and became moody. that s 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. that s it. it was a number not just me. 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[ booing ] more yays than boos. he created a second life for himself. he s been a political force. he still enjoys the battle. people would say, oh, you must run again. you must run again. i would say no! people threw me out and now the people must be punished. joining me to talk about the documentary is the director, neil barsky. good morning to you. tell us first, why koch. why did you want to make this film? we started the film in 2010. i was a young reporters in my 20s when ed koch was mayor in the 1980s. i always felt that was a critical part to new york s history. the seeds were planted under koch even though the 1980s, the city was besieged by aids and crack and i wanted to tell the story of new york s fall and rise and hopefully understand how we got to be the city we are today. you obviously spoke with him, conducted interviews for this. what were your impressions? anything surprise you it him? yeah. what surprised me is when we shot from 2010 and 2011, there was so much rich tons gets on camera from contemporary koch. as an 86-year-old, he had a dynamic life. he led us to his home, he let us come while he was politicsing in the burbs. what started out as a historical film became more personal. personal about him, not me. there s two stories now. the story of new york but what was surprising is just how dynamic his life was as an octogenarian. so we have the story of koch then and the story of koch over the last several years. as he said, he had a deep, fierce love of new york city. arguably, brought it back from the brink of bankruptcy in the late 70s as you talk about. let s look at a clip of your film where he talks about that. i knew that the city was in dire peril when i ran. i also knew that was all those who were running or thinking of running, i knew more than they did. how we doing? things did truly change. i remember when he was mayor, growing up there in that area. and things really changed after he left office. yeah. you know, we have a sense looking back that history works out in some inevitable way. it was not nestsable. a lot of inevitable. a lot of cities, even northeastern cities, stayed on the decline past the 80s and 90s. but new york did come back and came back not only because of mayor cost of, but he stabilized the finances, injected the city a new dose of morale. new york was depressed in those days. it was the butt of johnny carson jokes. and here this was larger than life guy who really gave new york his hope. at the same time, he did substantive things. the city in the late 80s spent $5 billion rehabilitating its neighborhoods and housing stock. and that was koch. that s something he s less well known for, but it led the way for the rehabilitation of the city. you don t see the south bronx anymore. that didn t happen by itself. he was an open book about everything except his sexual orientation. he was never married. folks speculate good him. did he talk to you about that for the him? sure. it s an important part of his political biography. since running for office he was hounded by stories this he was gay. in 1977 when he was running against mario cuomo there were signs vote for cuomo, not the home oh. this man was born in 1924. in 1977 when you ran for mayor, you could be gay or you could be mayor, but you couldn t be both. i think his unwillingness to say whether or not he was gay reflects a generational aspects of him. he stayed it w it through t s through the end. i discussed it as to aids, he was less prone to wanting to be identified with a gay issue like attacking the aids crisis. i asked, did you ever would you be attempted to use your platform if you were gay to change lives. and, you know, he s been steadfast, none of your business. throws an epithet around when he s asked. you know, what s interesting it not whether he s gay or was gay or wasn t gay. what was interesting was that here was a guy surrounded by new yorkers, surrounded by the public, surrounded by friends and family, but every night he went home alone. neil barsky, thank you very much. ed koch s funeral will be held monday at a sin going on thesin the upper east side. the nfl players association alan greenspaned to testing flaez as part agreed to testing for hgh testing saying it will help the integrity of the game and make playing safer. at one point football was so violent, critics wanted to ban it. the president of the united states had to step in to help save it. tom foreman follows the american journey of the country s most popular sport. reporter: the numbers expected from the big game are staggering. 179 million fans will likely watch, almost eight million will buy new tvs, and in total, consumers consumer spending for wings, beer, pizza and more will top $12 billion. how did we get there from here? this is believed to be the oldest film of a college football match. princeton and yale, 1903. at that time versions of the game had already been played for 30 years. but football as we know it was just beginning its american journey. we re talking about a period when the game was being played in college, and maybe 2% of americans were even going to college. reporter: michael oriard is a former nfl player-turned-author and professor. why would they care what the boys are doing with their spare time? the popular press transformed the game into this popular spectacle. reporter: through lurid, hyper ventilating accounts, they were drawn into a world so violent that injuries and fatalities were common. the gape wgame was so wild, man wanted it banned outright prompting theodore roosevelt, a fan, to plead for toning it down. he developed a professional league before world war i and not terribly long after world war ii, surging in popularity. what changed that in the 1950s was television. television made it possible for football fans everywhere to follow professional football. also opened it up, a game for people who had no connection what so ever with the universities. reporter: tv turned it into big league entertainment with slow-motion replays, cute cheerleaders, and superstar athletes. today pro football has by far more fans than any other american sport. and each super bowl is a record-breaker even before the kickoff. tom foreman, cnn, looking for tickets in washington. good luck with that, tom. learn how it became a cultural phenomenon and more. we ll have kickoff in new orleans a bleacher report special at 4:00 eastern. a 5-year-old boy and his captor holed up at a bunker in alabama. what are negotiators doing and what are neighbors saying? 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[ woman ] learn from my story. it is february, heart month. this story really caught our eye. according to the american journal of clinical nutrition, vegetarians are about 1/3 less likely to die or need treatment as a result of heart disease. here s why heart disease is the number-one killer in the western world. this is why this is important 83 million americans have some form of cardiovascular disease and risk factors for heart disease like obesity are at an all-time high. if that doesn t convince you, listen to this according to cdc, in 2010 the total cost of cardiovascular diseases in the u.s. were estimated to be $444 billion. fitness and nutrition expert says e desirz expert desiree nathanson joins me to talk about vegetables. i could dive into this table. this is me. i know. let s talk about this meatless diet. it could be hard for some americans to swallow, right? definitely. so there are some healthy vegetables that they can start with, maybe baby steps? yes. absolutely. what do you recommend? these are all great choices. i m probably going to take them home with me. we have corn which tends to be a starchier vegetable. you don t want to overload on that. carrots are wonderful. asparagus, eggplant the, broccoli. and of course cale is the no and exciting kale is the new and exciting super food. let s go through this, we ll start with kale. tell us why it s amazing and you shouldn t have too much. dark, leafy vegetables have tons of victims and minerals and antioxidan antioxidants. these tend to have oxilates where if eaten too much can cause kidney stones. even if it s good for you, you don t want to eat too much at one sitting. i m a big fan of broccoli not as a kid, though. this has protein? yes, dark, leaf vegetables have protein. people think to get protein they have to eat a steak. if you re getting two, three, four grams here and there, you ll end up with a nice amount at the end of the day. asparagus, a nice fan. how nutritious is that? asparagus is wonderful. again, lots of vitamins and minerals. basically if you eat a rainbow of vegetables you ve got your vitamins. diuretic, too. yes. but so water. that s true. but there s other good stuff in there. definitely. we came across this rumor that s been floating out there. can these vegetables actually help you burn fat? i mean, is that true? i am so glad you asked that no. there is no fat-burning food. and i like the state farm commercial on now saying, if it s on the internet it must be true. it is not. then why does everybody say that? that this food can help you burn fat? does it increase your metabolism in any way? no. the small amount that can t can change or affect is so negligible it doesn t count. if you re eating a diet rich in vegetables, lean meats, whole grains fuller longer, right? yes. you re eating more calories. this right has few calories, but it s a lot of food. right. you re going to be eating more but less calories. slimming down with a balanced diet. that s why we think this is healthy and a good fat burner ready for this exercise. no! yes. come on. couch versus exercise, i don t know. thank you very much to desiree nathanson. you can check out more health and fitness tips on my blog. find that at cnn.com/randi. a huge week on wall street. the dow pushes past the 14,000 mark for the first time in more than five years. we ll tell you what that means. first, when traveling to other cities and countries, the best way to get a real taste of the place is through the local food. cnn ireport has teamed up with o make a global list of 100 places to eat like a local. here s more with a sample. reporter: i m here on a beautiful winter s day in istanbul. when i want to eat like a local, i come and talk to this guy over here. my friend ansell mullins. how you doing? he s the editor of a guide book on local restaurants and of a web site, istanbuleast.com. what do you have in mind today? reporter: tis the sean to eat black sea anchovies, what do you think? let s do it. reporter: all right. welcome. reporter: thanks. thank you. reporter: we re eating anchovies. they re totally delicious. one of my favorite foods. i mean, the ingredients are so simple. this is olive oil, lemon. that s right. turkey is blessed with great waters, fresh fish seasonally. in the hands of an usta, master, something like a jedi knight in the kitchen. they re protectors of something serious. and this is the back story of a place like this. it s the guy in the kitchen who keeps it all going. reporter: ooh, here we go. what is this? this is sole. these are local sole fillets which have been wrapped, secured, and grilled in the same way that it was you don t object to lemon juice? no, no, never. mm. reporter: wow. you saw the guy with the coffee from outside? great. again, specialization, you know. man who grills the fish doesn t make the coffee. why should he? reporter: so if you want to eat like a local, eat food the way turks have been doing for years, come here. hear, hear. reporter: cheers. yummy. yummy for sure. ireporters, here s your chance to help create a food lover s map of the world. go to ireport.com/100places. send a photo of your favorite restaurant, the dish, why you love it, c it s special. the final list of 100 places will be revealed in march. some ireporters will be on that list. stay tuned to see if you are one of them. 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[ female announcer ] purina cat chow complete. and for a delicious way to help maintain a healthy weight, try new purina cat chow healthy weight. let s talk your money and a milestone for wall street. for the first time since 2007, the dow jones closed above 14,000. the stock market s rise has put it back in line with more prosperous times. cnn s al alison kosik has more now. okay, randy. party like it s 2007. on friday, the dow closed above 14,000. it s a milestone we haven t seen since 2007. but here at the nyse, we hardly heard a peep from traders when it happened. no hooting and hollering like in years passed. still the dow hit the market thanks to upbeat economic data. wall street saw the january jobs report as good enough even though investors really expected better. also consumer confidence and manufacturing rose. that pushed stops over the edge. but the momentum has been there for a while. the dow has been powering higher ever since it hit rock bottom back in 2009. it fell as low as 6,500. so hitting 14,000 is a reminder of the comeback. but most analysts we talked to say it doesn t mean much. instead they ve got their eyes on the next big one. these are certainly nice round numbers. i mean, i personally think it will be more of an event once we break through that october 2007 all-time high. that is more of a milestone than just going through a thousand marker which we, again, have done before. and if that all-time high of 14,164 that we re watching for now. randi, back to you. thank you very much. cnn newsroom starts at the top of the hour. miguel marquez is in for fredric fredricka. you have a lot coming up. we do. the legal guys are here talking about a case in new york. a 7-year-old who was interrogated and held about six hours by the new york police department over a $5 bill. the legal guys will be here to talk about that. and it was another strange week in the case of jodi arias out in phoenix. he s accused of killing her boyfriend and her case has captivated the nation. we ll have the latest on that case. and from trades to frigid temperatures, wacky weather across the entire country last week. we ll look at what s going on and why it s going on. a news conference expected very soon, top of the hour in alabama where a man is holed up in an underground bunker with a 5-year-old boy. we ll take you there live. it s the party of the year, super bowl xlvii just hours away. football legend joe theismann will be with us live along with some other special guests all afternoon long. a pretty packed program this afternoon. a nice conversation with joe. yeah. i wonder who he s going to pick. do you have a pick? looking forward to that. i love the ravens. but i m from california. so i love the 49ers. i love them both equally. all right. well got to pick one. i was hoping for a tie. okay. i m going with the ravens. we ll see. we ll check back with you in just a moment. the funeral for a 15-year-old girl who performed at president obama s inauguration will take place next weekend in chicago. she was shot and killed at a chicago park this week. her story is now at the center of a passionate debate over gun control in america. here s cnn s ted rowlands. reporter: she was one of those kids that always seemed to have a smile on her face, which you can see in this youtube video. that s how friends are describing 15-year-old hide action pendleton, the latest innocent victim of gun violence in the city of chicago. just days ago, a highlight of her short life she traveled to washington, d.c., to perform with her high school majorette teamed a the inauguration. jada kay ken is the girl next to her in in photo. she was real happy on the trip. she was a nice person. she smiled all the time. she never frowned. she was never mad. she was never sad. reporter: tuesday afternoon she had just finished a final exam. she and a group of friends ducked under this park shelter to avoid rain. witnesses say a gunman came out from behind this fence and started shooting. she was hit and killed just a mile away from president obama s home in chicago. the president and the first lady s thoughts and prayers are with the family of hidea pendleton. all of our thoughts and prayers are with her family. as the president has said, we will never be able to eradicate every act of nooefl this country, but if we can save even one child s life, we have an obligation to trial when it comes to this scourge of gun violence. reporter: illinois senator dick durbin also brought up the murder during a gun hearing on capitol hill, talking about her trip to washington. it was the highlight of her young 15-year-old life. yesterday in a rainstorm after school she raced to a shelter, a gunman came in and shot her dead. just a matter of days after the happiest day of her life she s gone. reporter: it s been a deadly start to 2013 in chicago. she is the 42nd murder victim already this year. 506 people were killed here in 2012. she is what is best in our city. a child going to school who takes a final exam, who had just been to an inaugural. we have a responsibility to see a stop to this, and all of us are responsible. reporter: it was a day of mourning at king college prep high school where she attended. students spent the day with their parents and grief counselors trying to process her death and the toll gun violence is taking on their city. it s too much. every other day you re hearing shootings and killings, and now what s happening is more parents are burying their children and it needs to stop. reporter: ted rowlands, cnn, chicago. a $40,000 reward is offered for information leading to an arrest in that case. cnn newsroom continues now with miguel marquez in for fredricka. miguel, off to you. thank you very much, randi. good to see you. it s 12:00 p.m. on the east, 9:00 a.m. out on the west coast. i m miguel marquez in for fredricka whitfield. thanks for joining us. weegin in alabama where we re expecting an
disappear. newsroom starts now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining s us. i m carol costello. hours after millions of americans watched the final presidential debate, the obama campaign wants to reach millions more. just in to cnn, president obama is rolling out a brand new advertising campaign over the airwaves, internet and in glossy pamphlets. why? cnn chief white house correspondent jessica yellin joins us from the president s first stop today, del ray beach, florida. tell us about this new effort. reporter: hi, carol. fresh off the debate, the president is doing a tour of the battleground states. and he s delivering a message that he is fighting for the middle class and that he has a plan for his second term, answering critics who say he s not giving enough specifics. i guess they figured if you write it down, it looks specific. they have a 19-page glossy new plan for jobs and middle class security that really details a lot of what we ve heard from him before on education, manufacturing, energy, getting the u.s. out of afghanistan over time and tax reform. i ve looked through it. the specifics in this really have to do with his past accomplishments on health care, on jobs and the economy. when it comes to plans for the future, they re broader and they re more of what we ve heard in the past, 1 million new manufacturing jobs, for example, which he talked about at the democratic convention. the message they re trying to convey is, look, he has a plan. he s willing to commit to it in paper. and so the president has a vision going forward. of course, the theme of the campaign being forward. carol? a lot of critics say they weren t clear in what president obama was going to do exactly in a second term, how he was going to make things better and i m guessing that this pamphlet, at least president obama hopes, will help. jessica yellin, thank you so much. let s turn to last night s presidential debate. today marks two weeks till the election. both mitt romney and president obama are hitting the campaign trail with new urgency. romney has been riding a wave after the first debate bichlt all accounts, president obama got the edge in the second debate. last chance for two men to go nose to nose in a race that s now too close to call. dana bash joins us, also from boca raton, florida, the site of last night s face-off. how was this debate different from the previous two? reporter: i think it was a flip of what you just described about the first debate. president obama was incredibly aggressive, snarky at times. mitt romney almost it looked like he was biting his tongue, trying not to be like that. both men understood it was clear that foreign policy is not high on the minds of voters and really wanted to make it about leadership. mitt romney came trying to show leadership of commander in chief. president obama came to make sure that didn t happen. time and time again, comments dripped with sarcasm. the biggest gop political threat facing america you said russia, not al qaeda. you said rusha. 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. the cold where has been over for 20 years. our navy is smaller now than any time since 1917. the navy said they needed 313 ships to carry out their mission. we re now down to 285. governor romney maybe hasn t spent enough time looking at how our military works. you mentioned the navy and we have fewer ships than we had in 1916. we also have fewer horses and bay e bayonnettes. we have these ship that is go under water, nuclear submarines. reporter: before the debate, romney aicampaign said that attacking me is not an agenda. reporter: repeated ly failing to act on hot spots. is the middle east in tumult? yes. is al qaeda on the run, on its heels? no. are israel and the palestinians closer to reaching a peace agreement? no. reporter: for the most part, romney was calm in demeanor and remarkably agreeable on policy, from syria to egypt to afghanistan. we re going to be finished by 2014. and when i m president, we ll make sure we bring our troops out by the end of 2014. reporter: in fact, the republican who democrats try to paint as a war monger used the opening minutes to position himself as a peace maker. i congratulate him on taking out osama bin laden and going after the leadership in al qaeda. but we can t kill our way out of this mess. reporter: romney successfully got under the president s skin by repeating this allegation. and then the president began what i called an apology tour, of going to various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. i think they looked at that and saw weakness. nothing governor romney just said is true. starting with this notion of me apologizing. this has been probably the biggest whopper that s been told during the course of this campaign. reporter: one of the most fiery exchanges was not about foreign policy but rather something decidedly american, the u.s. auto industry. if we had taken your advice, governor romney, about our auto industry, we would be buying cars from china instead of selling cars to china. i m a son of detroit. i was born in detroit. my dad was head of a car company. i like american cars. and i would do nothing to hurt the u.s. auto industry. i said they need these companies need to go through a managed bankruptcy. that is not what you said. you can take a look at the op-ed. you did not you can take a look at the op-ed. you did not say you would provide help. i am still speaking. i said we would provide guarantees, allow these companies to go through bankruptcy, come out of bankruptcy. let s check the record. that s the height of silliness. we ll parse that out a little later. dana, i wanted to talk about what people are saying online, president obama s snarkiness and romney s sweating. it was an agreed upon 65 degrees, i believe, in the hall. he was actually in the sun. maybe that was part of it. or maybe it was the fact that you could almost see him biting his tongue, trying to remember that his advisers warned him time and time again in debate prep and we were told about this beforehand, carol, don t take the bait. you want to look like a commander in chief. steady as she goes. maybe that was part of it. on the flip side it really was remarkable to see the president go from being so reserved in the first debate, because he didn t want to not look like a commander in chief, he wanted to preserve looking presidential to last night where he was just he had enough bumper sticker lines to fill an entire box, put on cars all across florida. he was so ready with his snarky one liners. and, you know, that is what fires up the base. we have talked about this before. there are so few undecideds that at this point it is really making sure that the true believers get out there and vote and get other people to go out and vote for him. dana bash, reporting live for us this morning. we re doing our best to keep both candidates honest. one particularly tense exchange was over the government s bailout of the auto industry. let s put those claims through a cnn fact check. christine romans is here with with a closer look. christine, what s true and what s not? you know, you heard that really tense moment where the are president was saying check the op-ed. the president s claim here is that governor mitt romney did not want any government help for the automakers. this, carol, is misleading. mitt romney did not want a bailout of the automakers as they stood. he wanted a managed bankruptcy and government guarantees for the companies after they went through bankruptcy to reorganize without labor contracts and burdensome debt. he said i have never said i wanted to liquidate this industry. romney told the president, quote, take a look at the op-ed. this is what he meant, this op-ed let detroit go bankrupt. in it he writes a managed bankruptcy may be the only path to the fundamental restructuring the industry needs. the federal government should provide guarantees for post bankruptcy financing and assure car buyers that their warranties are not at risk. in a managed bankruptcy the federal government would propel newly competitive automakers rather than seal their fate with a bailout check. he wanted investments in fuel efficiency, keep the best dealers and make the sales force strong so on the other end of reorganization, you would have a viable industry. nowhere there does he endorse liquidating the automobile industry. the white house has said the industries would wo not survive the bankruptcy process without a massive bailout and a managed bankruptcy. another reminder that the first check to detroit came not under the obama administration, but under the bush administration. you can see why they re still fighting about this, right? this is a topic that really plays in the swing states. but if you have a managed bankruptcy, don t you still need help from the private sector as far as borrowing money, et cetera, et cetera? that was almost impossible to do at that particular time. that s a very good point. many were saying what mitt romney envisioned no bailout and then federal guarantees on the back end of a managed bankruptcy was just not possible because, frankly, of the scope of the problems of the auto industry. but you hear mostly from the president that this is a man who wanted no auto industry left in the united states, wanted chinese cars on american roads, no american cars, clearly the truth is somewhere in the middle. thank you for parsing it out for us. you re welcome. cyber verse goes all atwitter. we decided to give you a quick recap of some of the thing that is sent debate watchers running for the internet. you mentioned the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonettes. we ve watched this tumult with syria, this is a region. syria, leadership. we see syria, drone strike. sear wera is an opportunity for us. drones are being used. rising tide of tumult and confusion. all those things you heard trended very high on google. crunching the numbers. top five goolgle searches, obama s memorable horses and bayonets line, syria, mali, drones and the often repeated romney word tumult. next hour, we ll bring it to you live, president obama s rally in florida. in just a few minutes, strategists from both sides. elephants, donkeys, cardinals, tigers. san francisco moves on after beating st. louis to win the national league title. game seven of the nlcs with his no contest, giants winning 9-0. series mvp, marco scutaro, final out in the rain, setting off a frenzy on the field. they will host game one against the detroit tigers tomorrow night. at least they were already wet when they went in to spray each other with champagne, right? lions sacked bears quarterback cutler, sending him to the soidline with bruised ribs but he would return to the game. full of turf. bears won 13-7. detroit fans have the tigers to cheer at least. today, the widely popular ipad is expected to get a younger, smaller sibling in time for the holidays. unveiling happens a few hours from now. alison kosik joins us from the new york stock exchange. everybody has been whispering about this smaller ipad. worst kept secret. drum roll, please, apple is expe expected to unveil this mini ipad, possibly calling it the i pad mini. rumor has it it will have a 7.8 screen. compare that to the 10 on the tra dirk ipad. 8 gigs of memory and go up to 64. it also will have a new smaller lightning connector port. if you have an iphone 4s you ll have to get a new plug in to charge it. new iphone 5, it actually matches that. apple s late ceo steve jobs was famously known to be against these small it be lets, calling them dead on arrival. this was a couple of years ago. an internal e-mail that came out during the apple/samsung trial shows that he eventually warmed up to the idea. here we are, talking about it today. it also doesn t hurt that there s this whole tablet going on with amazon s kindle and google s nexus, creating this nice market for the small tablet. what will it cost? and that really is the big question mark. guesses have been all over the map. the general consensus is that it will be anywhere between $249 and $349. but one some analysts say if apple prices it closer to $200, it will be a game changer. here is why. it would make it extremely competitive with similarly price in size along with the kindle fire and could force amazon to drop its kindle sizes, a true display of apple s power in the market. carol? yes, it would. alison kosik, thank you. stripped of his titles and asked for the return of millions of dollars, we have the latest on armstrong s crash to earth. americans are always ready to work hard for a better future. since ameriprise financial was founded back in 1894, they ve been committed to putting clients first. helping generations through tough times. good times. never taking a bailout. there when you need them. helping millions of americans over the centuries. the strength of a global financial leader. the heart of a one-to-one relationship. together for your future. governor of getting it done. you know how to dance. with a deadline. and you.rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle. and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. this is awesome. 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[music: artist: willy moon everybody well don t you know it s me now? yeah who s it, who s it huh? willy s back with a brand new beat now, yeah doin it doin it up! heyyy yeah, tryin to bite my style! heyyy yeah, how you like me now? na na na na na na na na and everybody go uh! 18 minutes past the hour. did the final presidential dough bait enlighten you, change your mind or did you find yourself switch withing over to monday night football? be honest now. if you did change the channel, a couple of lines describing the candidates demeanor for you. from a new york times op-ed. quote, at his worst, mr. romney sounded loik a beauty pageant contestant groping for an answer to the final question. and from politico s john harris on president obama, quote, what was communicated was sort of a nitpicky, overly aggressive strategy that had the effect of diminishing the presidency. an example. you mentioned the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. with us now, cnn contributors maria cardona, a democratic strategist and ana navaro, a republican strategist and cnn contributor. thank you for joining us this morning. thank you, carol. maria, i ll throw you a softball this morning. did mr. romney s foreign policy boil down to we want people to be able to enjoy their lives and know they re going to have a bright and prosperous future and not be at war, as the new york times said this morning? pretty much, carol. i will also add that his foreign policy also became what he said, meaning everything that president obama said, mitt romney seemed to agree with, which is as we know, a big change from the last two years where mitt romney has been very blustery in terms of his foreign policy criticism of president obama. but i think he went in there last night really understanding that he didn t have anywhere to go with that because he couldn t really find anything to really criticize, never really talking about specifics of what he would do dimply. so, what did he decide to do? i guess chameleon mitt romney kim out and decided to turn himself, instead of a hawk, into a dove. which was interesting to me. we ll so if it resonates with voters. we ll see if this president is the one that actually has the experience, temperment and leadership to be our president for the next four years. we must talk horses and bayonets. because the president zinged mitt romney for his antequated. mr. president for the thousands of virginians in the navy family, cutting our naval force isn t a game of battleship. we ll see it play out today and tomorrow, see if it becomes an issue in these battleground states like virginia, like florida, where there are big naval operations, where it s a very local political issues. all politics is local. i don t think mitt romney with his a chameleon yesterday. he was channeling john lennon. let s just give peace a chance. i thought it was rather strategic, carol. in the morning whe saw the obam campaign come out with an ad that talked about the clear choice in foreign policy, in trying to portray mitt romney with the war monger with a twitchy finger who wants to kill everybody out there in the world. instead we su a mitt romney who was incredibly agreeable with president obama and i think it got under mr. obama s skin. it got under mine some and maybe under some other conservatives but i think it was a strategic approach he was using even though i will tell you i saw president obama win that debate last night. i think both men came in incredibly well prepared. romney had some solid responses and for a few of the questions. but president obama was well prepared with good rebuttals as well. and, maria, many analysts say mr. romney it was a smart strategy. he needed only to appear presidential. he needed not to make a huge gaffe or say something like off the reservation, and accomplished all of those things. when this is a race that s so tight do you really just want to be acceptable? i don t think so, carol. what a lot of viewers saw last night was a romney on the defense, who seemed uncomfortable in his own skin, speaking about these issues versus president obama, who clearly looked presidential because he s been playing this role for the past four years, and somebody who had a tremendous command of the issues. and i think what s important about last night is that i think it was still it was about three things. trust, leadership and ohio. you saw in the final moments president obama really turn this to the bailout and really focusing on how mitt romney, during the campaign was focused on letting ohio letting detroit go bankrupt. and i think that that focus really speaks to how important ohio has become in this presidential election. my favorite topic like away from foreign policy was the teacher exchange, because as expected both candidates kind of veer veered foreign policy and started talking about education and teachers. the moderator, bob schieffer, got a little frustrated at one point. let s listen to what he said. the federal government didn t hire our teachers, but i love teachers. i want to get our private sector growing and i know how to do it. i think we all love teachers. gentlemen, thank you so much. i think we all love teachers. they talked about domestic policy. i think i don t know. i was communicating with my friends on facebook during the entire debate. they did not seem as passionate in their comments watching this particular debate. they seemed kind of burnt out or bored. ana, what did you think? just to button this segment up. i will confess, count me in that number. i was fading away there for i think i faded away for a few minu minutes a couple of times. i do give props to bob schieffer. it was a heroic effort for him to bring it back to foreign policy. it took all of 25 minutes for them to start going into domestic policy. now we know that my nominee, governor romney, loves big bird, jim lehrer and he loves teachers. it s all about the love. and obama wants to talk about bayonets. by the way, should be happy. this could give colonial williamsburg a huge boost. maria cardonna, ana navaro, it s been fun as usual. thank you. thank you, carol. you can see the debate again at noon eastern here on cnn. how exhausting being on the campaign trail is. after last night s debate, governor romney getting ready to board a plane. on his way to nevada. then off to colorado. two swing states to continue campaigning. mr. obama is also campaigning, pulling when he calls an all nighter in many of the swing states. mr. romney surrounded by people and handshakes. we ll keep you posted when he lands in henderson, nevada. w your chance to talk back on one of the stories of the day. the question for you this morning, do zingers win debates? what s trending this morning? you guessed it, bayonets and horses. those words are today s lightning rod. you mentioned the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military hats changed. the presidential smackdown thrilled democrats. republicans, not so much. but they were definitely aware that bayonets and horses thing could skewer them. from erick erickson who tweeted i m proud of obama for treating the navy so dismissively. that only helps romney in virmg virmgin a, florida, et cetera. and from eric cantor, mr. president, for the thousands of virginias in the navy family, cutting our naval forces isn t a game of battleship. it s become a weird sort of internet sport. a compilation of catch phrases. you didn t build that. i like being able to fire people who provide services to me. i love big bird. it s romney hood. if i were to coin a term it would be obama-loney. i think it s called ronesia. funny. you remember the zinger, but maybe not exactly what it means. prove me wrong. what did president obama mean when he says bayonets and horses? here is the answer, he is saying governor romney has antequated views when it comes to the military. got it? are we clinging to our zingers because, frankly, they re the only things keeping us awake? talk back question of the day, do zingers win debates? facebook.com/carolc facebook.com/carolcnn. your responses later this hour. it is just after 9:30 this morning. the bell rang at the new york stock exchange. pointing to a much lower open, disappointing earnings report. the dow is down 142 points right now. beyond corporate america many investors may be feeling jittery about ratings downgrades in spain. ringing the bell, by the way, are yale economics professor and executives of barclays. what that means later on with l alison kosik in the newsroom. accused of identifying a convert intelligence officer, & analyst to reporters. also accused of lying about material in a book he wrote. lance aarmstrong may have to pay back millions. he was stripped of his seven tour titles yesterday. presidential election just 14 days away now. but the campaigning continues. just this morning, both campaigns released brand new ads. there s just no quit in america. you re seeing that right now. over 5 million new jobs. exports up 41%. home values rising. our auto industry, back. and our heroes are coming home. we re not there yet. but we ve made real progress. and the last thing we should do is turn back now. the president began with an apology tour of going to various nations and criticizing america. i think they look at that and saw weakness. the reason i call it an apology tour, you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt and to saudi aarabia and to turkey and iraq and you skipped israel, our closest friend in the region. these new ads come on the heels of the final presidential debate where both candidates did pretty good. and, of course, stumbled, too. jessica yellin joins us live from delray beach, florida, where president obama attend ace campaign rally next hour and cnn political editor paul steinhauser is in boca raton the site of the presidential debate. reporter: carol, his strengths turned out a crowd today, noisy crowd. his strengths included he was on the offense, defining his accomplishments, getting troops out of iraq, drawing down, setting a timeline for afghanistan. that was one of his goals going in. he accomplished that. second, he drove the narrative largely for the night about defining he has a clear vision, his vision for iran, for the withdrawal romney has flip flopped and changed positions, been all over the map. also saying he is about the future and romney is about the past. he played that clip about the navy versus the horses and that s part of that. and then he had a strong number of strong moments on israel when governor romney tried to attack him for not visiting israel during his presidency. the president had a very emotional comeback, talking about visiting a holocaust memorial there, which hit a deeply emotional core. key words he needed to hit and use to appeal to israeli supporters. and he was the first to bring up israel. so defended himself against those attacks, krarl. let s go to paul. what did the governor do right? reporter: a little quieter here, carol, than where jessica is. i can ask people to yell and scream but basically we re packing and up getting out of the debate site. he played it safe, did no harm. that s the way governor romney played it in the dough bait last night. did it work? it seems to have worked. look at our post debate poll of watchers, among dough bait watchers it was a draw. i guess that play it safe, do no harm approach worked. he also passed the commander in chief test, it appears. that s very important, especially going up against the incumbent president. the president and mitt romney were pretty close to each other when debate watchers were asked if romney was able to serve as commander in chief. that is, i guess, another strength as well. one more strength under president obama s skin on the apologies, when he went after the president for what he said was the president apologizing for the united states. that was one moment in the debate where mitt romney got under the president s skin. the romney campaign came out with that ad. that was one of the highlights for mitt romney from dote bait last night. quick on the draw. so where did president obama slip up? reporter: some of his weaknesses, carol, one he was glib at times. he said mitt romney, the 1980s called and want their foreign policy back. some voters could see it as too low brow or two glib for a commander in chief. he didn t disqualify romney. he passed the commander in chief test, governor romney did, paul just said. in order to have a decisive win last night, president obama would have had to force governor romney into a gaffe, into some huge mistake. that didn t happen. and then finally there is a comeback that governor romney had about a slip-up the president made about russia, saying he will have more flexibility after the election to work with russia on something. governor romney had a very strong comeback saying the russians will have more backbone and that he doesn t view russia through rose-colored glasses. that was both a hit on president obama and george bush. so a two-fer for romney. win to romney on that one. overall a good debate for president but not a knockout, carol. got you. back to paul. mr. romney slip-ups? reporter: i think the first strength is also the first weakne weakness. he played it safe. look, who won the debate? our poll indicates the president won the debate as do some other post debate polls. the president definitely won the narrative. mitt romney did not. second thing that comes to my moind is missed opportunities. a lot of us were expecting mitt romney to be more aggressive going after the president on libya, that benghazi attack and on syria but he was much more of a me, too, candidate. and finally the gender gap. we ve seen the gender gap with women. the president did much better with women, women thinking that the president won the debate by double digits. carol? paul steinhauser, jessica yellin, thank you very much. in an hour we ll talk to someone from ohio and pennsylvania. yes, it s middle-class talk back time. mike rowe here at a ford dealer with a little q&a for fiona. tell me fiona, who s having a big tire event? your ford dealer. who has 11 major brands to choose from? 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(train horn) vo: wherever our trains go, the economy comes to life. norfolk southern. one line, infinite possibilities. oh, the world series is set. the san francisco giants will host the detroit tigers in game one tomorrow night. they broke up the deciding game in the nlcs by scoring five runs in the third inning. hunter fence a had he re, a key hit, broken bat and two-run double. he ended up hitting the ball three times and then put the crazy spin on it. the giants went on to beat st. louis 9-0. it was the sixth elimination win this postseason tying a major league record. the bats woke up and, yeah, we re loading upright now to be honest, you know, with our backs to the wall as long as they have been and to do this, this is a special group. they never say die attitude. they want to go home and found a way to get it done. no one more special than the giants second base man marco, the national championship series mvp, tied an lcs record with 14 his. monday night football. must we? quarterback jay cutler rolls out and hits marshall for the bears only touchdown. chicago s defense was mighty stingy. detroit was kept off the scoreboard until the last minute of the game. chicago wins 13-7. they improve to 5-1 on the season and the lions fall 2-4. the u.s. minimumet men have not won a game but this is a prank. he got the campus police to come into the room and serve two of the players papers. they have no idea what is in the yellow envelopes. they thought they might be in trouble. instead, they opened it up and found they were being rewarded with full scholarships for their hard work and for the players caught onto the prank they got a big hug from the coach and many hugs from the teammates and a big old cheer. congratulations. that s a look at sports this morning. talk about the dow a little bit. it has fallen as much as 200 points this morning. allison is at the new york stock exchange. is it stabilizing at all? the losses are big but the good news, they are holding steady, the dow town 176 points. we saw it down more earlier. this is all happening because the big multinational companies reported their third quarter earnings today, dupont and 3m in particular and reported disappointing earnings and in one respect it is not a huge surprise. they re dealing with the fiscal cliff, dealing with the debt crisis and the recession overseas, and there is this common thread going through these companies. they re experiencing these lower sales because of the global slowdown happening. dupont in particular saying it has to cut jobs just to offset those lower sales, the slowing global economy, and so you re seeing the worry reflected right there in red. the dow is down 177 points. carol? we ll check back in the next hour. thanks, alison kosik. the next hour of newsroom after a quick break. now, that s what i call a test drive. silverado! the most dependable, longest lasting, full-size pickups on the road. so, what do you think? 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you know what i think it was? the focus until last night was on foreign policy. we knew that was going to be a big foreign policy debate, an area mitt romney had gone after the president on and this is a fax copy, the president down the road in delray beach and this is a 19-page glossy brochure, called a plan for jobs and middle class security. he wants the last two weeks focused on the economy. you played a little of what he said, carol. what he is doing is i think he is playing off criticisms of mitt romney that mitt romney has this big plan that is short on specifics. what the president is doing is putting out specifics. he talks about manufacturing jobs. he has put a number on it. he said by the end of 2016 he wants to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs, wants 600,000 jobs in the natural gas sector alone. he wants to strengthen education. he said that in the little piece you played. he is talking about recruiting 100,000 math and science teachers. we heard that number before. he also says they want to train 2 million workers for real jobs at community colleges and cutting tuition growth, the cost of tuition in half. he talked also about cutting 4 trillion from the deficit over the next decade. that is something we heard, but he is emphasizing he can do that without ending guaranteed benefits in medicare and social security. that s something that will play very well in florida where as you know a large part of the population is over the age of 60 and of course reiterated obama care stays as it is. making a big push to put this back on the economy to discuss specifics. if there is any criticism, it is the same criticism of both campaigns and that is goals are fantastic and at least to give somebody something to latch onto, i want to do this because that s what the president wants to do, economic realities are sometimes different. i am intrigued by the glossy pamphlet. that s a little like bayonets and horses, isn t it? when the announcement came out he has a 19-page glossy pamphlet, that was my reaction, who does glossy pamphlets anymore. there is a youtube ad on the air waves and it is on the internet and i have to tell you, i had trouble getting this. somebody had to fax me a copy so i could see it because how do you actually get a glossy pamphlet from five miles across town. there you go. i love you. you re a lot of fun. thanks so much. mitt romney s campaign is also launching a new appeal to voters today. he scolds the president for launching what he is calling an apology tour groveling to other world leaders and apologizing for the united states. listen. the president began with an apology tour of going to various nations and criticizing america. i think they look at that and saw weakness. the reason i call it an apology tour, you went to the middle east and you flew to egypt and saudi arabia and turkey and iraq, and you skipped israel, our closest friend in the region. you said that america had dictated to other nations. mr. president, america has not dictated to other nations. we have freed other nations from dictators. dan it is not a glossy pamph but resonates with the conservative base. it absolutely does. this is the age-old argument that conservatives have made against democratic presidents and candidates for years. i want to actually play for the viewers that exchange taken really within minutes clearly from the debate last night and also how the president reacted. listen to this. the president began what i call an apology tour of going to various nations in the middle east and criticizing america. i think they looked at that and saw weakness. nothing governor romney just said is true. starting with this notion of me apologizing. this has been probably the biggest whopper that s been told during the course of this campaign. now, there were a lot of moments in the did he bit, carol, where the president looked a little mifed. nothing like that particular moment. it was clear that mitt romney got under his skin with that, and to be fair, because to say that the president made an apology tour isn t exactly fair. he didn t do all of those things that mitt romney suggested that he did, and the president did come back and say that when he was running for president, that he did go across europe and went to the middle east and he also did go to the state of israel and visited yabushem, the holocaust museum. at this point there is question about the veracity of the ads and this is definitely one of those times. definitely so. i want to circle back to last night s debate. what were some of the hits and misses? let s start with the president. i think first of all, there is no question that he that the president dominated the debate and that was his intention. he put mitt romney on the defensive, and a pretty stark way. he was the president was very aggressive. kind of a 180 from the way he was during the first debate. that really set him back in the polls across the country and in particular in key swing states. those are kind of the pluses if you will for the president. the irony is the negative is the flip side of the plus. yes, he was aggressive, but he also got pretty snarky and if you look at the dial testing with the focus group in orlando, women in particular who both of these men are going after big time for their votes, they didn t love that so much. they didn t like the snarkyness and the snide comments one after the other. let s go to mitt romney. his goal was to stand toe to toe with the commander in chief, be somebody credible as a commander in chief, and he did accomplish that. i think democrats privately will admit that. if you look at our poll, it shows that 60% of americans say they could see him as commander in chief. he didn t take the bait which you could see he was almost biting his tongue in the last hour. he talked about the fact he was maybe sweating a little bit, perhaps that was why. that was i am told absolutely one of the main things he practiced in debate prep to try to stay calm and cool and steady and not take the bait when the president went after him. what s the negative? the fact that he did let the president dominate in a big way and kind of let him, the president school him in a lot of different areas saying that he air brushed history and so forth. that was a negative for mitt romney as well. thanks. dana bash reporting live this morning. short time ago the running mates gave their morning after spins on the debate performances. what we saw with this debate, we saw that mitt romney is ready to be a great president. we saw a man with a command of the facts, with a temperament and demeanor that makes for a great president. we saw a man with a vision for foreign policy. there are areas where we agree. there are clearly areas where we disagree and i think we flush that out well in this debate. vice president joe biden talked about then senator obama s experience on the foreign relations committee. he had a world view in how the position should be, how we should interact, how we need to rebuild alliances, et cetera, and he acted on those from the time he came in. governor romney didn t understand any breath of understanding, and it was a little bit quite frankly surprising. joe biden is back on the campaign trail by the way. the bottom of the hour he will be speaking at the university of toledo in ohio while paul ryan joins mitt romney for events later today in nevada and colorado. you can watch a replay of the debate in case you missed it last night. it will air today in its entirety at noon eastern on cnn. just the name amazon sounds big. amazon.com is one of the internet s dominant websites. when it goes down, apparently so do others. alison kosik is live at the new york stock exchange. this caused some consternation. yes, yes. when we talk about amazon, most of us know amazon as the massive retailer, but did you know it also rents out storage space to store web data? what happened yesterday is an outage at a cloud computing center knocked out a bunch of popular websites. you may have run into problems if you tried to go on red, pinterest, four square, even tmz and instagram. some speculated it was another cyber attack likes ones on bank websites in recent weeks and a member of the hacker group anonymous claimed via twitter of course to be the one behind the outa outage. amazon says that is not the case and an attack did not happen and they say the problem seems to have come from degraded performance at one of its centers in virginia. the sites didn t go down for all users. problems were mostly resolved by the end of the day yesterday. still, a lot of people wanting to stream a tv show or pin some recipes were mighty frustrated and really, really unhappy, carol. i know. they had to do something unheard of like read a book or something. go figure. i know. there has been a sell off on wall street today. how is it going now? the tumble continues, the dow down 189 points. disappointing earnings from big multinational companies came out from dupont, 3m, and the thing is they re not just reporting lower than expected sales being way down by slowing demand in europe and asia. they re also, carol, lowering their outlook, so this is really bringing wall street ads to what s going to happen in the future. it really shows how what s going on overseas affects us. carol. alison kosik at the new york stock exchange, the morning after, the final presidential debate and both candidates back on the campaign trail and right now president obama is in delray beach florida. we ll take you there live. it is 15 minutes past the hour. checking the top stories, the fda will expand warnings about drugs potentially contaminated with fungal meningitis. they listed more than 1,200 hospitals and clinics that used drug from the new england compounding center. the products are associated with 297 illnesses and 23 deaths in 16 states. in florida brian jones will not go to prison after all for the hazing death of florida a&m university band member robert champion. instead, a judge sentenced jones to 200 hours of community service, two years of supervised probation and six months of community control. jones is the first defendant in the indication to be sentenced. in weather news, jamaica and haiti are expected to get wind and rain this week from tropical storm sandy. tropical storm formed yesterday and the atlantic hurricane season officially ends november 30th. president obama back on the campaign trail this morning. right now he is at a campaign event in delray beach, florida. we re there. those are the pictures you are seeing. when the president starts speaking of course we ll take his comments live. our chief white house correspondent jessica yellowen yellin is traveling with the president and is joining me now. did you get your hands on a pamphlet? i did get my hands on the plan to be jobs and middle class security, the final push to election day, a message to voters, undecided voters, and frankly the media to send a message that he does have a plan for a second term agenda. when you flip inside, it is a lot of glossy pages and pictures and a lot of information about what he accomplished over the last three and a half plus years. then some of the same details we have heard him talk about before, his plans to revive manufacturing, to invest in education, get the u.s. out of afghanistan, tax reform, and more. anybody can go and look it up online. not new ideas about his second term agenda. the idea here is a message that he does have a plan going forward and that s part of the contrast. he s tried to draw this message, you know, that mitt romney wants to take the nation in a different direction. the president is campaigning trying to get people out early to vote, to the supporters, vote early, and really driving home to undecided voters that he is the guy who can turn this economy around, carol. it is interesting that he puts out this plan because the big critique about him has been that he has no plan for a second term. he keeps going over what he terms as accomplishments and nothing will really change in a second term. i am wondering why it took him until 14 days before the election to put a plan out. i wouldn t put it that way because he put this out before, just never in a booklet like this. we heard the same details at the democratic convention and from his mouth on the campaign stump for days and months and weeks and so my point is there is not anything significantly new in here. it is just all compiled in a nice booklet now, so we get the point that there is something, but you can still critique it for lacking details about will he pursue immigration reform, what specifically would the tax reform plan look like drilling down into the details, energy reform, and frankly say you could say the same about mitt romney, neither man wants to commit to too many details at this point for any number of reasons, but that s how it goes in politics these days. fewer details seems to get you more votes, i guess. carol. i guess so. so this pamphlet, are they handing it out at rallies? why a pamphlet? well, it is something concrete. they give it to the press, and, you know, i think what you will hear and they will be giving it out at local offices to volunteers, et cetera. i think what you are going to hear is it symbolizes the push forward that you re going to see from the president as he begins traveling through battleground states. he will now go from here to ohio and a key state for him and mitt romney as they battle and to a number of battleground states through the end of the week. nevada, he will visit las vegas, colorado, virginia, ohio again, and as he pushes in this more than a week and a half before the election to try to get those undecided voters on his side and the final message is he accomplished a lot and he has a vision going forward, hence the pamphlet. jessica yellin, we ll get back to you when the president begins speaking. thanks so much. also this morning, many americans are asking where did the fall go? where is autumn? we ll tell you where it is looking more like winter. artistn song: yeah yeah label: universal] everybody well don t you know it s me now? yeah who s it, who s it huh? willy s back with a brand new beat now, yeah doin it doin it up! heyyy yeah, tryin to bite my style! heyyy yeah, how you like me now? na na na na na na na na and everybody go uh! okay. we wanted to go back to florida because do you recognize this man? he is introducing president obama soon to take the stoj. this is scott van doozer, the gay that gave the president a bear hug in september and owns big apple pizza and is giving quite the campaign rally speech for the president this afternoon. let s listen to a little bit of what he has to say. so are a lot of other businesses thanks to the president s 18 small business tax cuts. but we have a lot more work to do. our president knows that, too. that s why he has been traveling the country talking about his real specific achievable plan to move us forward in his second term. let s jump away. we ll go back to florida when president obama begins speaking. have to pay some attention to wall street now. the dow continues to drop. it is down 203 points now. let s check in with alison kosik again. unfortunately stocks are at their lows. you re seeing the dow fall 219 points. we have been talking about the debt crisis forever it seems like. the debt crisis in europe, talking about the slowing global growth, especially in europe and asia, and what you re seeing happen now as the multinational companies report their earnings, you re seeing all of those issues, the debt issues be the flows growth issues come home to roost in the earnings reports and that really is what is spooking the market today and not really the numbers that are missing and worrying wall street. it is the outlooks the companies are putting forward. they re concerned about the future. they re worried about bringing in new revenue as the economies continue to slow, and here is the thing. the u.s. economy, it is not as a strong enough point yet, where it can sort of pick up the slack and make up for what s being lost overseas, so you re seeing that worry play out in the markets. by the way, we re also seeing oil prices drop a good amount, 3%, sitting at $85 a barrel. carol. that might mean good news for gas prices, i would assume? it could be. it is also a worry because it shows about the concern about the future that there is going to be less demand for oil meaning fewer people will want to fill up the tanks and go out there and shop. it sort of causing that ripple effect. you don t necessarily want to see oil prices plunge quickly. alison kosik, thank you. as much as as we want see gas prices fall. governor romney and president obama running a tight race in ohio. foreign policy took center stage. we ll get reaction to what the two men said from the state of ohio. 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during the debate he said he didn t want more troops in iraq but he was caught on video saying it was unthinkable not to leave 20,000 troops in iraq, troops that would still be there today. last night he claimed to support my plan to end the war in afghanistan. i am glad he supports it, but he opposed a timeline that would bring the troops home. early in this campaign he said would do the opposite of whatever i did in israel. last night i reminded him that cooperation with israel has never been stronger. last night he said he always supported taking out osama bin laden. in 2007 he said it wasn t worth moving heaven and earth to catch one man. now, we have come up with a name for this condition. it is called romnesia. we ll jump off here with the mention of romnesia, going over the points in last night s debate and the crowd very appreciative and cheering. governor romney is on a plane on the way to henderson, nevada. when he lands and appears as his campaign event we ll take his comments live as well. in ohio and other states with manufacturing jobs the auto bailout was a big deal. 18 electoral votes are up for grabs in ohio. president obama and governor romney wasted no time talking about the bailout last night. i think anybody out there can check the record. governor romney, you keep on trying to air brush history. you were very clear you would not provide government assistance to the u.s. auto companies even if they went through bankruptcy. you said they could get it in the private marketplace. that wasn t true. you re wrong, mr. president. no, i am not wrong. people can look it up, you re right. people will look it up. shannon travis is live in toledo, ohio, where a lot of auto manufacturing is going on so tell me, did any of that resonate for voters there? it did resonate. you know the auto industry looms large in ohio because there are so many jobs that rely on the auto industry which is why you saw last night and you have been seeing in recent debates and even on the campaign trail this pitch back and forth between both candidates in terms of whose plan was better in terms of helping american auto workers save their jobs. another thing that was really, really major he could in last night s debate was china, the issue of trade, another thing the candidates sparred on. take a listen at this exchange, carol. that s the reason why we brought more cases against china than the previous administration has done in two terms. recently, steel workers in ohio and throughout the midwest, pennsylvania, are in a position to sell steel to china because we won that case. we had a tire case in which they are flooding us with cheap domestic tires or cheap chinese tires, and we put a stop to it and as a consequence saved jobs. carol, i had a chance to go out after the debate and talk to some voters, some ohio ans and see how they felt about the issues like the auto bailout, trade and china. i spoke with a few people who had support for mitt romney but here in toledo a few people i spoke to, the majority of the people i spoke with, actually were supporters of president obama and one man startingly enough told me he is a republican, did not vote for the president in 2008, but has already voted for the president this go-round because he feels that mitt romney doesn t relate to him and he took exception to mitt romney s position on the auto bailout in particular. one last thing of note, obviously the president is in florida and will be joining vice president biden here in ohio. this is a biden rally and the two mr. meet later today for a rare joint appearance. i think joe biden should rent an apartment in tleed owe. that s amazing. shannon, thank you. nationwide, show, the line of the night from last night s debate was this one. you mentioned the navy, for example. we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. well, governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. oh, but republicans took issue with that. they jumped on the president s remark. 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. the third and final debate is in the bag and depending on your perspective mitt romney won because he looked presidential or mitt romney lost because he presented nothing really coherent or original about syria, iran, or afghanistan. actually, at times governor romney in the end seemed to agree with most of mr. obama s policies. perhaps the most scathing review, though, came from the new york times. i am going to read that for you. this is an editorial from the new york times. at his worst mr. romney sounded like a beauty pageant contest groping for the answer to the final question. his former lieutenant governor, kari heeley. thoou for being with us. thank you. i got to sigh it was a harsh ed in the new york times. did you happen to read it? i haven t seen that, but i did see the debate, and so what i can tell you is that what the american people saw as they were watching the debate last night was governor romney who was presidential, ready to step up and be commander in chief and who has a very fluent command of foreign policy issues, and has a real plan about what he is going to do to make the world a safer place, and he articulated that vision, and i think it was enormously effective. many people say he did not articulate that vision. in fact, he mentioned the middle east strategy, but he did not really say what that middle east strategy was. can you explain what it is to us? i think governor romney was very clear about what his goals were in the middle east. first and foremost, it is to prevent iran from becoming a nuclear power, from getting a nuclear bomb and to stop the enrichment. he laid it out in several steps, in fact. he said tightening sanctions, making the use of force credible, which is something that the obama administration can cannot do because of their cuts to military spending, because of their hedges and distancing themselves from israel and from prime minister netanyahu and we see that the president would not even meet with prime minister netanyahu when they were both together at the united nations. instead, the president flies off and goes to a fundraiser. i think that when iran let s go back to specific policies because i think that excuse me. i think the criticism about mitt romney is he gave long, long answers, but in the end agreed with president obama s policies. for the most part the two men appeared to have the same foreign policy. any credible candidate for president is going to want peace in the world. they re going to want peace in the middle east. they re going to want our soldiers safe at home. they re going to want to prevent iran from having a nuclear weapon. the question becomes who is credible in reaching these goals and who has the proper approach to doing that? governor romney laid out a credible approach to reaching those goals where as president obama has had four years to start this process, to finish these processes, for the last two years there have been no negotiations toward peace between israel and palestine, and for four years iran has moved closer and closer. we have seen the i think americans really understand that, but those are really talking points. as far as the specific strategy, again, it seemed in the end that the strategy that mitt romney laid out was pretty much like president obama s. so i am wondering it is a question of who is going to be effective. we tried president obama s approach and while he talks a good game about bringing iran to the table to discuss stopping enriching uranium, it has not happened. we have had four years of more and more sentry fuj of spinning the answer from mr. romney about that was imposing tougher sanctions. it is the same as president obama s. it is not. unfortunately president obama delayed the tough sanctions that are now in place, and in fact there are still some 20 exemptions from sanctions that could be tightened, and governor romney mentioned some of those last night. it is one thing to say something but just saying it doesn t make it true. president obama has not done everything he can do. some analysts say that mitt romney played it safe. he needed only to appear presidential. he needed only not to make a huge gaffe. he succeeded in those two initiatives, and really when you get right down to it, he did indeed win. well, we certainly believe that governor romney did win because he was able to reach out to voters across the country, speak directly to them, and cut through all of the noise that is out there, all of the misrepresentations that the obama campaign has been putting out about governor s record on foreign policy and domestic policy, so last night for us was a win. lieutenant governor, thank you so much for joining us this morning. thank you. coming up, we ll hear from some undecided voters to get their perspective on what was said and what was not said last night. is efficiently absorbed il continuous amounts. citracal slow release continuously releases calcium plus d with efficient absorption in one daily dose. citracal slow release. i just served my mother-in-law your chicken noodle soup but she loved it so much. i told her it was homemade. everyone tells a little white lie now and then. but now she wants my recipe [ clears his throat ] [ softly ] she s right behind me isn t she? 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[ female announcer ] wells fargo. together we ll go far. last night the president and mitt romney went toe to toe in the final presidential debate. who won? the real question is does it really matter? at some points the president got down right snippy attacking his opponent and mitt romney kind of seemed to agree with the president on a lot of foreign policy decisions. you mentioned the navy. we have fewer ships than in 1916. we also have fewer horses and bayonets because the nature of our military has changed. we have these things called aircraft carrier that is planes land on and we have ship that is go under water, nuclear submarines. attacking me is not an agenda or talking about the challenges in the middle east. i want to take one of those points, again, abeing at thatting me is not talking about an agenda forgetting more trade and opening up more jobs in this country. so let s talk to some voters to find out what they thought. joining me now is lorraine morimarowi and a republican from presidential and a semi retired small businessman. welcome to you both. thank you, carol. i guess my first question, this is the third and final debate. i didn t sense as much excitement from people about this particular debate. am i right, skip? i don t think so. foreign policy is a very complicated and hard to understand even the at best. the very mention of foreign policy sort of puts a pale over your face and you re bound to pay i think a little less intense attention to it. so did you get anything out of it? do you know where mitt romney stands on let s say his policy in the middle east? i think it is reminiscent, i believe, of teddy roosevelt. teddy said walk softly and carry a big stick. i think that is essentially what president obama gave us last night, walk softly and carry a big stick. i think that governor romney said walk loudly and carry a bigger stick. so we had that comparative as we go forward. i love that, skip. that s awesome. lorraine, a lot of people said the president was down rate snarky and didn t appear presidential and the bayonets and horses line was not necessary. what do you think? i think that the president was very commander in chief, strong, knew what he was talking about, and i was proud to have him as a president, and he really understand and understands foreign policy, and i was very pleased and he surprised my expectations. we have this little thing on the bottom of the screen when the candidates talk and it gauges how men and women feel about the conversation. many times when president obama got extraordinarily aggressive, that didn t please a lot of female voters, the green line went down. do you think that will hurt, help? either way, foreign policy, we need a strong president. we need somebody to understand and knows foreign policy. as a woman, as a latina, i really liked what i saw last night and i do believe that he is the right choice for the president. i think it is important to reelect president obama because he knows about the issues. as a woman, i agree with him. lorena, are you a democrat through and through, obama supporter and nothing can change your mind at this point, right? oh, no, now i am more than ever democrat. i see a president including latinas, that he is in the 21st century, understands the latinas, and can the 50 million latinos we are here and we need to be incorporated and we are not invisible anymore and he invites latinos to be part of him and thinks administration and i think he should stay the president of today and the future. i really like president obama. skip, you have been undecided although you are a registered republican. the bay nets and horses thing, did that resonate for you? well, i think that they have both now evened their score snarkiness. i mentioned in a previous interview that governor romney edged in a little bit on the snarky side, and i think in this case so also did president obama. i think the fact of the matter is that the ability of our weaponry on the scene, the air, any other place, it is so far improved over what it used to be even ten years ago, that small numbers don t mean much. it is just we re so capable at this point of destruction and mayhem that a few ships can do today what 1,000 ships can do 15 years ago. okay. so you have been undecided through this long election season, 14 days to go, skip. have you decided? i am kind of moving now in a direction. i do think as has been mentioned before, that what we got last night was a fairly balanced foreign policy position on both one a little bit more aggressive than the other, but not so distinctive one from the other so i think i am migrating but we ll see. we ll have to have you back. i am dying to know. thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with us this morning. we appreciate it. you re welcome. by the way, you can see the debate again in case you missed it. it airs today at noon eastern on cnn. asy to remember. with the bankamericard cash rewards credit card, i earn 1% cash back everywhere, every time. 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but possible assassination attempt. the targets, the federal reserve in new york city and the president of the united states. the suspect now in federal custody. he is 21-year-old quazi nafis from bangladesh, but in the united states on a student visa. get this, he has been studying cyber security at a college in missouri. prosecutors say he was inspired by al qaeda and tried detonating a 1,000-pound considar bomb out the fed. it was a fake, supplied to him by an undercover fbi agent. it s located just a few blocks from the world trade center and, of course, the site of the 9/11 attacks. susan candiotti is in new york this morning. nafis filmed a video before carrying out this attack, allegedly? that s right. carol, evidently, they were on to him for months. that s what prosecutors say. this happened just yesterday. he was on his way, prosecutors say, with undercover fbi agents, to the federal reserve bank and asked them to pull over. he wants to go inside a hotel nearby and make a suicide video. here is what he said, in part. let s see if we can pull up that screen for you. he talks about coming here to carry out i came to this conclusion, he said, targeting america s economy is the most efficient way to draw the path of obliterai tochlt n of america and also said he wanted to attain victory or martyrdom. what about these other plots, allegedly targeting the president? he talked about hitting the stock exchange possibly and even mentioned taking out president obama, but i m told that that was simply an inspirational thi thing. he never took any steps in that direction, according to my sources. so, he was looking for some sort of economic target that he believed would really do a lot of damage to america s economy. he even allegedly said maybe what i carry out will be enough to even stop the presidential electi election. wow! he s in federal custody right now. what s the next step? of course, the investigation will go on. it lasted this long because prosecutors say that s generally how it works you want to carry out an operation like this to see how far it will go, to see whether anyone else might be involved. so far i am told he appeared to be acting on his own with no other associates. in other words, he allegedly talked big about having connections to al qaeda, but did not have any here in the states or apparently, according to sousour sources so far, overseas either. slamming the u.s. government, saying its sanctions torture in the name of national security. khalid sheikh mohammed spoke and compared those killed in the 9/11 attacks to those, quote, killed by the u.s. military. his trial is expected to start next summer. women of america, both parties want your vote desperately. women are, again, at the top of the agenda, thanks to mitt romney s binders full of women comme comment. it s the phrase that won t die. can you not escape it on the campaign trail, internet or on the comedy circuit. he said he had, quote, binders full of women, which is a little creepy. binders full of women. something they would find in a serial killer s basement at the end of a law & order:svu, right? his policy toward women is clear. we have to alphabetize them. it s weird he would bring that up. maybe for mitt romney that s the closest thing he ever got to looking at a dirty magazine? ouch! but in all seriousness, women are a key voting bloc. the race is tight among women voters in what was once a huge lead now one percentage pint according to this usa today/gallup poll. that is within the marginin of error. we don t have to get a bunch of binders to find qualified women ready to learn and teach in these fields right now. why is it that there are 3.6 million more women in poverty today than when the president took office? this president has failed america s women. what i can t understand is how he has gotten in this sort of 1950s time warp in terms of women. we had a discussion about how women are faring in this economy last night. 5.5 million women are still struggling for work in this economy. white house correspondent brianna keilar is at the white house this morning. both michelle obama and ann romney have high-profile interviews coming up. tell us about them. reporter: that s right. and also, obviously, playing into the women theme here, ca l carol. women well, our votes are very desirable right now as you can tell. michelle obama taped yesterday a segment on live with kelly and michael. that s going to be airing tomorrow. here is a snippet. it s like i, uh, compared it to the liolympic parents watchi their kid on that balance beam. right. like you know, lots of clinching. do you ever go yeah, i do. or sneeze? i was sitting next to somebody last at this debate and i was kind of moving around and but, you know, they really caution you to be quiet and i try to follow the rules so i don t get in trouble. right. but it s, you know it s part of the process. it s an important part of the process as well. reporter: there was also a funny moment there where you ll see when this airs tomorrow, carol. but michelle obama there, talking about what it s like to watch her husband at the debate. not to be one upped, ann romney will be on the view live today. barbara walters said that mitt romney was actually supposed to appear as well but canceled due to a scheduling conflict. that s what his campaign says. the cancellation was over the weekend, according to barbara walters, before that binder of women comment. probably lucky for him. women is where it s at, as you can tell, and also very popular surrogates, their wives. you re not kidding. brianna keilar live at the white house this morning. while it is envogue to poke fun at governor romney s binders of women comment, what does it really mean? it was probably inarticulately stated but did he go the extra mile to hire women when he was governor of massachusetts? lisa sylvester has the answer. we took a concerted effort to go out and find with women who had backgrounds that would be qualified to be to become members of our cabinet. and i went out to women s groups and they brought us binders full of women. reporter: one of the most talkable moments. within moments it had its own twitter account, pinterest and facebook page. there actually was a binder but there are different stories on how it came about. a massachusetts nonpartisan women s coalition put forth those binders. in the fall of 2002, mass gap did approach governor romney to express a commitment to working with our group. you know, subsequently after governor romney was elected, mass gap came together. we worked really hard to vet qualified women candidates. there were hundreds of resumes we put together, distributed and gave them to the administration. reporter: romney has consistently been trailing behind president obama in winning the women s vote, even as democrats continue working their narrative that there is a gop war on women. i thought this was a desperate attempt to try to keep this war on women narrative alive. reporter: romney tried to counteract that by relating a story on work balance issues. my chief of staff, for instance, had two kids still in school. she said i can t be here until 7:00 or 8:00 at night. i need to be able to get home at 5:00 so i can be there for making dinner for my kids and being with them when they get home from school. so we said fine, let s have a flexible schedule so you can have hours that work for you. reporter: joann that manyburger is the author of mother s intention she said that statement made him look out of touch. that s not his world view. that s not his experience. his experience is that, you know, it s the father of the family, the man of the family who goes out to make the money and the mother who stays at home. reporter: but despite the optics, history shows us mitt romney has surrounded himself with women. he tapped a woman, beth meyers, to lead his search for a vice presidential running mate. meyers was his chief of staff when he was massachusetts governor. and his lieutenant governor was also a woman, carrie healy. 42% of romney s senior positions went to women. before romney became massachusetts governor, 30% of senior-level positions in the state were held by women. in the first half of his term he did employ even more women. in the second half of his term when the number of women in state senior positions fell to about 27.5%, according to a report for center of women in politics and public policy and nonpartisan group mass gap. lisa sylvester, cnn, washington. in other political news this morning, arizona s largest county, dozens of voters have been given the wrong election date. maric maricopa county election officials handed out voter election cards in spanish, saying the election is on november 8th. of course, the election is really on the 6th of november. county officials say about 50 cards were handed out and the error has now been fixed. local rights group says the damage has already been done. turning now to the economy, we just got these numbers in. sharp rise in jobless claims. the labor department says the number of first-time filers jumped by 46,000 to 388,000 people. that s up from a four-year low set just last week. after 80 years as a newsstand staim, newsweek is ending its print version and going all digital. alison kosik is join iing us wi that story. from the new york stock exchange. reporter: good morning, carol. it s going all digital. you ll only be able to get newsweek online after that. the world is going digital if it s not there already. we want our news now not on a weekly basis. but newsweek is doing this for a couple of reasons. tablets are being used to get their news. from a business standpoint, they can reduce costs by going digital. they don t have to buy paper, hire a printer or pay for delivery. there s only so long that the practice of mushing up dead trees to get the news to us is going to last, given the ease of digital distribution. there s this romance and this history to the publishing industry that can t be denied. editor tina brown said this. exiting print is an extremely difficult moment for all of us who love the romance of print and the hectic hours before the close on friday night. here is the funny thing, carol. newsweek is already embracing the digital age. it made this announcement on twitter. carol? perhaps fitting. you re right, it s kind of sad. it s bittersweet. alison kosik, reporting from the new york stock exchange. if your team lost the best power hitter in postseason history, you would probably be in trouble. not the st. louis cardinals. first inning of their nlcs game three, consider loes beltran, double play ball. he strains his knee and eventually he is taken out of the game. how do you replace a guy with a higher postseason slugging percentage than babe ruth? you bring in that guy, matt carpenter, putting st. louis ahead to stay. final cards, 3. giants, 1. resuming the alcs game this afternoon after last night s rainout. yankees bats have gone cold this series and nobody is colder than alex rodriguez. a-rod addressed rumors of a possible offseason deal that would send him to miami. there s blood in the water. when you don t play well i haven t played well. like i said, some of the criticism i ve received i ve been here nine years. i can take that. well deserved. that other stuff, gossip, i don t give a [ bleep ] about that. what i will tell you is that i hope nothing is going on like that at this point. our only focus is to win a ball game, top to bottom. first they have to give him permission, because he has that no-trade clause and then the team would have to eat a huge chunk of his salary. he is oefr owed $114 million over the next five years. if your team is not winning, s sue. sue the nfl. that s what one new orleans saints fan is doing. americans believe they should be in charge of their own future. how they ll live tomorrow. for more than 116 years, ameriprise financial has worked for their clients futures. helping millions of americans retire on their terms. when they want. where they want. doing what they want. ameriprise. the strength of a leader in retirement planning. the heart of 10,000 advisors working with you one-to-one. together for your future. silverado! the most dependable, longest lasting, full-size pickups on the road. so, what do you think? 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[ female announcer ] dermatologist recommended aveeno has an oat formula, now proven to build a moisture reserve, so skin can replenish itself. that s healthy skin for life. only from aveeno. now is your chance to talk back on one of the biggest topics of the day. is the phrase binders overwhelm overblown? first it was big bird now it s binders overwhelm, the two big talking points for democrats, apparently. binders is the phrase that mitt romney used for his process of hiring women lives on, apparently, on the campaign trail. we don t have to order up some binders to find qualified, talented, driven young women to learn and teach and thrive, and start businesses. the idea that he had to go and ask where qualifia qualifie was, he should have just come to my house. he didn t need a binder. he didn t need a binder. romney s supporters are saying, really, democrats? is that all you ve got? it is a cheap shot and also it s a wrong approach, too. if you look at governor romney s record while he was in office, he not only asked me to run with him as his lieutenant governor but his chief of staff was a very distinguished woman who also ran his presidential campaign last time, his chief policy adviser was a woman and half the people sitting on the cabinet were women. so i think that it s a stretch to make this an issue. and it also is a misdirection. but is it a misdirection? romney s binders comment came in response to an equal pay for equal work question and he actually didn t answer that. he did focus his attention on romney s hiring practices in massachusetts. before romney took over as governor, 30% of senior level state jobs were held by women. romney did appoint more women in the first half of his administration but in the second half, the number of senior women fell to less than 28%. fact is, though, sadly women are underrepresented in the world of politics as a whole. the question for romney, will it matter to that all-important con stit wednesdayy women? is the phrase binders full of women overblown? facebook.com/carolcnn. facebook.com/carolcnn. a new orleans saints fan man he s mad about his team. he doesn t blame the saints but the nfl and roger goodell. 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how do you react to that? well, jump out of your seat and you want to rush down to the debate stage and take a swing at him. but you know you can t do that because well, first because there s a lot of secret service between you and him but also because that s just the nature of the process. well, thankfully, it didn t come to blows tuesday night. the bottom line here is facts matter. and in a campaign where both candidates are questioning what s true and what s not, voters are often left wondering what exactly to believe. joining me now, communications director for pennsylvania governor ed rendell, penny lee and cnn contributor, will cain. welcome to both of you. hi, carol. hi. will, have you ever used the word liar used so much in a campaign? i m going to try to recall to a couple of others. i don t know. it s certainly being used a lot, carol. is it being overused? yes, it is being overused. the thing these candidates do let me emphasize both, plural, candidates they make statements that are not necessarily true, but not open to all the nuance and context involved in that statement, leaving one side to be able to claim, liar. and the other side to be able to claim, no, look into a little bit deeper. i gave you a sweeping statement. i know. penny, the campaigns have a way of saying something is not true and then clarify later. that must be effective or they wouldn t do it, right? right. having worked for ed rendell and harry reid one of the phrases we often used was when i think the governor meant to say or what i think the senator meant to say was often times a phrase we used. what we re seeing in this campaign, mark twain said it best when he said facts are stubborn but statistics are pliable. every campaign nows had their own statistician. now whoa have fact checkers and fact checkers on the fact checkers. there is this unbloevable amount of information out there for the american public and very difficult to sort through what really is true or not. you know, will, we do fact checks all the time at cnn post debate. once something is out there in the the public and seen by 60 million people, it s out there. and most people are probably going to hear that and not the post debate fact check. yeah. so let me use a specific this time, carol. i think what we re getting at here is the weight of the moment is given too much attention when the actual research behind that moment or significance of it is not given enough. let s talk about libya for a moment. let s talk about the libya moment in the debate. what happened that night is that every party involved in that exchange got too involved in treating it like a campaign issue. mitt romney got too specific about what happened in the rose garden. president obama was then able to say check the transcript about the rose garden. and candy then came in and addressed what was said in the rose garden. look, here is the deal. i don t care what was said in the rose garden. what should have been talked about this night is why the president s administration for two weeks continued to say something to the american people that we know now with his not true about the libya attack. did mitt romney lose last night or the other night on that exchange? did president obama lose? accountability lost in that exchange because that question remains unanswered. why did susan rice continue to call it a spontaneous attack in response to a video? you have such a great point. the voters really lost because they never got to the bottom of it at all. never. no questions were asked. penny, i would like to ask you this. you know, it s become like in fashion to attack journalists or attack candy, the moderator, for trying to correct things on stage. but not like pinning the candidate s feet to the fire and saying, okay, let s get past semantics and really aanswer the questi questi question. you have a candidate like mitt romney who lives in a zone where he constantly changes his position. and so it is difficult. six months ago you say one thing and now you re saying another. it is tough. to go after the moderator, they are in tough, tough positions and they are doing their job. that is just trying to cover up for other things that weren t accurately said during the debate. the place is not to go after the moderator. okay. i ll ask you both a tough question. what s a voter to do? there are many places you can go to get information but people have a tendency to go, you know if they re conservative, they go to conservative blogs and those blogs have one point of view. you could say that about the other side, too. so, it s really the responsibility of the voter to get to the truth, but they have to work really hard to do that. so what advice would you give? yeah. and i look at my own father. he is an independent, leans right, but independent and he constantly asks me, where can i go to get the truth? i said you almost have to go to both sites and weigh the balance and take your own gut instinct as to what it is. i would say go to cnn but, will, advice for voters and then we have to go. read more. read a lot more. you can t just watch these things in the moment and assume you re going to get the depth of knowledge you need to make a decision. you need to read more. that s right. you do. will cain and penny lee, thank you so much for being with me this morning. i appreciate it. you bet. thanks, carol. islamic radicals apparently have a new target. national geographic. how the television network is protecting itself. islamic extremists apparently have a brand new target. national geographic. it s all because nat geo will air this film showing the raid on the camp of osama bin laden. the cable channel is now stepping up security after they received multiple threats about the film called s.e.a.l. team 6: the raid on osama bin laden. we reached out to nat geo and also conservative groups are upset over this film. the national geographic will be airing this documentary on november 4th, right before election day, because they say the film basically amounts to a two-hour commercial for the president. national geographic has denied they re being political with the timing of the film. they say they re just being topical and the story is focused on s.e.a.l. team 6 not the politics of going after bin laden. analysts have, on several occasions, recognized the man who appears taller than the rest. three, two, one! execute. he is osama bin laden. obviously a fascinating story. i should point out, lest there be any con fougs, this is n c this is not the katherine bigelow film. what about this r abbi that has a problem with sarah silverman? a rabbi criticized sarah silverman in an open letter to the jewishpress.com because she is crude, according to this rabbi, and uses judaism inappropriately but really crossed the line for most people was the rabbi making a comment like this one. i pray that you channel your drive and direct your passion to something positive, something that will make you better and a more positive person. i pray that you pursue marriage and, if you are so blessed, ray raise children. sarah s dad, donald silverman apparently didn t take kindly to those comments. he is blunt, much like sarah, and told the rabbi to shove it. he mentioned that sarah s sister is a rabbi. i m a big fan of sarah silverman. i have nothing to complain about. i think she is funny, too. she is crude but i laugh all the time. it s what she does. i know. a.j. hammer, thanks so much. a.j. is back next hour to talk about disney s newest princess, who happens to be hispanic. grap with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. e-trade 360 is the world s first investing homepage that shows you where all your investments are and what they re doing with free streaming quotes, news, analysis and even your trade ticket. everything exactly the way you want it, all on one page. transform your investing with the e-trade 360 investing dashboard. on gasoline. i am probably going to the gas station about once a month. last time i was at a gas station was about.i would say. two months ago. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. i go to the gas station such a small amount that i forget how to put gas in my car. 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who would you sue? brian cushing suffered a season-ending injury because of what s called a cheap shot. does that man a fan can sue them? no. the fan doesn t have standing under the collective bargaining agreement. the second is he doesn t have a reasonable expectation that those players were going to play this year because just as they got suspended by the commissioner, they could have gotten hurt in the off season and not played at all. and that s the case for jonathan vilma. this is the first week he s been well enough to play. he s comparing this to a broadway play and a star pulls out at the last minute. now i have these expensive tickets for the broadway show answered guy and the guy in the show i went to see is not in the play answered want my money back. you might be able to get a refund on your ticket for that night but you certainly can t file a lawsuit against the theater, the actress who pulled out or, for example, her agent who told her not to show up. this is the case about reasonable expectation and a fan does not have a reasonable expectation that a player is going to be available every game during the season. in fact, with the coverage that the collective bargaining agreement got and the discussion about the commissioner s power, fans were on notice that the commissioner has the power to discipline players, including taking them off the field. okay. well, this guy is asking others to join his case so he can have a class action lawsuit. we ll see what happens. david cornwell, thanks so much for being with us this morning. thank you, carol. today s talkback question, is the phrase binders full of women overblown? 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we ll go inside the minds of the undecided. and we have live report for you from the pentagon. one of the world s most active volcanos. look at that. it reaches a critical point. newsroom starts now. good morning to you. thank you so much for joining us. i m carol costello. an fbi sting operation uncovers not only a bomb plot because possible assassination attempt, the targets, the federal reserve in new york and the president of of the united states. the suspect now in federal custody. he is a 21-year-old from bangladesh but he was in the united states on a student visa. he s been studying cyber security at a college in missouri. prosecutors say he was inspired by al qaeda and tried detonating a 1,000 pound car bomb outside the bank. the bomb was a fake. it was provided to him by undercover fbi agents. former fbi assistant director and cnn contributor tom fuentes is on the phone in vancouver this morning. good morning, tom. good morning, carol. i d just like to talk to you a little bit about this operation. by all accounts this guy was a lone wolf. no one else was involved in this and some are saying this morning that the fbi actually enabled this guy, a guy who was incapable of carrying out such an operation himself. well, i talked to several officials at fbi headquarters and some other places that, you know, this is a typical problem in a case like this is that when someone reaches out to others to obtain help to carry out a bomb plot or shooting plot or some other terrorist act that they can t do all by themselves, then the authorities are very concerned about accusations of entrapment, that he couldn t have done anything or that he was only able to do it because the fbi undercover agent taught him how or provided significant help. but this is someone who came to the united states determined to carry out a terrorist plot and if he didn t acquire the skills or the equipment to carry out an explosive attack, he probably would have had no trouble obtaining firearms and could have still done significant damage and killed dozens of people in the financial district of new york or any other place he chose. so this is a very dangerous person. they took this to the limit in terms of trying to make sure that he didn t have other accomplices, that he wasn t in contact with the network of other terrorists and once they determined that they had all of that aspect of the investigation completed, then they went ahead and made the arrest. this was a pretty elaborate thing and it took a long time. and i heard what you just said but why wait so long to nab him? take him into custody? because they absolutely want to make sure that there s no one else involved. they re going to be monitoring at the same time as the investigation goes on undercover. they re going to be monitoring his phone calls, his e-mail traffic if they re aware of all the e-mail accesses that he has and that s what they want to know. they want to know absolutely positively that there s no one else, especially in the united states, that he might be in contact with or might be taking orders from in carrying out this plot. that part of the investigation takes a long time and requires a lot of coverage overseas, his hometown, friends, neighbors and associates that may have been looked at, investigated back in bangladesh or a country he may have been in recently. they re not going to hurry as long as they re pretty sure they have in pocket, as they say, that they re aware of his movements and they re monitoring to make sure he doesn t go ahead and carry out something behind their back. the sheik compared those who died in 9 9/11 to, quote, millions who have been killed by the u.s. military. being called the largest joint military exercise ever between the united states and israel, more than 1,000 u.s. troops headed to the region as israel is worried about growing threats from iran and syria. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu expressing his concerns during a recent appearance before the u.n. general assembly. if these are the facts, where should a red line be drawn? a red line should be drawn right here. before iran completes the second stage of nuclear enrichment necessary to make a bomb. chris lawrence is at the pentagon. good morning, chris. that s basically what they re saying publicly is this doesn t have anything to do with iran. the fact that we are working together and we are doing this exercise is a message in and of itself. in other words, there is obviously the context of iran. this exercise was supposed to go on earlier this spring, it was postponed by israel and here it is, you know, literally just a couple weeks before the u.s. presidential election in which governor mitt romney has accused president obama of sort of fracturing the relationship with israeli. well, here you have now just two weeks out the largest exercise of its kind, three weeks, going to cost the u.s. about $30 million, spread out over different sites in israel, europe and the mediterranean. i know that many, many viewers probably don t know the united states does this with other countries. how many people are we talking about? so far, carol, already about a thousand troops have arrived in israel to start for when these exercises kick off. basically what they want to do is make sure that the u.s. systems and the israeli systems can work together so that in the event of a conflict or a war, they re used to the tempo of defending israel against short range, medium range missiles coming from very different areas all at once. israel has a new missile defense system but this is going to be the pentagon s first look at how it works and how well it works with the israeli software. chris lawrence reporting live from the pentagon this morning. 19 days until the election i was expecting that little stinger thing. both campaigns are pushing hard for the woman vote the women vote. that key group of voters could decide which candidate wins control of the white house. over the next two days, the candidates wives have some high-profile interviews to help out their husband s campaigns. i guess it can t be understated how important women are to victory for either candidate. carol, they want your vote. i ll tell you what, they are trying very hard about it. back in 2008, president obama won the women vote by 13 points over john mccain. he won men by just 1 point. now, here we are in 2012 and right now mitt romney has a pretty healthy lead among men and what we ve seen is that the gap that president obama had over mitt romney with women has certainly closed. at tuesday night s debate, they both made pleas to women. let s hear what they had to say. what we can do to help young women and women of all ages is to have a strong economy so strong that employers are looking to find good employees and bringing them into their workforce and adapting to a flexible work schedule that gives women the opportunities that they would otherwise not be able to afford. when we talk about child care and the credits that we re providing, that makes a difference in terms of whether they can go out and earn a living for their family. these are not just women s issues. these are family issues. these are economic issues. and one of the things that makes us grow as an economy is when everything participates and women are getting the same fair deal as men are. carol, as you said at the top, the candidates wives have become very important on the campaign trail, certainly reaching out to women. we ll see ann romney on the view today, a television show that certainly has a large demographic of women who watch it. we saw president obama on the view a few weeks ago. the candidates will be trying their hardest to try to get these women certainly in the nine key battle ground states that we re watching right now to come out and vote for them in november. okay. i m sure many people are wondering, mark. over the last month, president obama s campaign has been able to turn women a slight edge. will that comment about the binders hurt him? lieutenant governor kerrey is out there talking about how mitt romney reaches out to women and certainly creates opportunities for women. they also say that this campaign is about the economy and it s about the deficit and that s what women want to hear. we ll tell you the obama campaign this morning pointed out to me they have been working very hard certainly to try to get women to support president obama again in 2012. they also point out they are going to make an effort to try to paint or rather governor romney as an extremist on women s issues. we saw that the other night when it comes to abortion and contraception coverage. cecile richard, president of planned parenthood, has taken a leave of absence and is working for the obama campaign. yelp says they cost several businesses red handed trying to pay people to post positive reviews and now the page is getting slapped with a consumer warning. we follow the story from the new york stock exchange. explain. when you see these companies that post on these sites like yelp, you have to understand that reviews are really their life blood. so companies like restaurants and salons and auto mechanics that post, when someone says they don t like your place, chances are they re not going to want to go there. some of these companies are reportedly offering money to people to post positive reviews. yelp discovered this and will be putting up consumer alert on companies that are listed with these sketchy reviews. when you see the companies yelp is questioning, it s going to have this big, red alert with this alfred hitchcock looking guy and an alert. and then you ll see a link to the evidence. these companies posted ads on craigslist and offered $10 to $200 to do it. the new york times is reporting yelp did its own sting and responded to some of these ads to catch these companies. the consumer alerts will stay up for another three months. in the current digital world, these personal reviews are really, really important. they make or break these companies. many people will say i m not going to go to these companies without checking out these reviews first. one bad review can be a huge turnoff, especially where reputation means everything. carol? you got that right. allison, many thanks. congressman jesse jackson, jr. has been out of the spotlight for quite some time but now he s back and facing accusations of misusing campaign money to decorate his home. 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i m not dissing richie here. here s what i think a bruce springsteen concert in ohio does. it s essentially a huge get out the vote rally. it s not necessarily going to say i m a boss fan so if bruce is for president obama, i m going to be. at a time when voter turnout is going to mean everything in states like ohio, bruce springsteen energizes the vote. that s what it is. i don t think he expects to convert a lot of people but i do think he expects to double down on how important it is to vote. there seems to be this contest between democrats and republicans to get the best if these celebrity appearances work, politicians would be using them all the time. i think this is more of a pep rally. you know, more people who are fans of bruce springsteen are just going to go to see bruce springsteen. what the campaign is counting on is that a slice of them will go out and vote. but i m not sure about that. i m a bruce springsteen fan myself, i m going to see him in charlesville, next tuesday. if i was in ohio, i might stop by just to see him sing but that doesn t mean i m going to go vote for him as a republican. really? let me say one thing that s kind of springsteen has some street cred with the working man. there is a natural affinity. i think it s pretty clear that sort of on the celebrity factor, it matches the youth support for president obama. so that, you know, we ve seen across the board a huge amount of celebrities who are youth focused are obama supporters. definitely for sure. okay, i want to get inside the mind of the undecided voter. you re a republican strategy, ron. as a republican strategist, what do you need to say first of all, explain what s in the mind of an undecided voter. in such partisan times, you would think everyone would have their mind made up. i think independent voters are looking for plan for the future because they re upset where the country is going. mitt romney is doing that. you keep hearing about his five-point plan to turn the country around. in eight different polls he s leading independent voters 49% to 37%, likely independent voters. and so that says to me this five-point plan that he s getting out there is working, while president obama has been trying to switch up his strategy instead of his ads going after mitt romney now, he s trying to increase his likability and show people what he s done over the last four years because he s done he s not done a good job defending himself or laying out a future. you get inside the mind of an undecided mind by what, offering specifics? by being a man with a plan. hillary, one voter told me she s exhausted, she was exhausted after the debate. it s such a great question, carol, because i think everybody is trying to figure that out. no disrespect to ron but i think what he just said is kind of washington consultant talk, which i m guilty of sometimes myself. but i m in florida right now and i will tell you sit hearing in florida for the last two days, i ve been doing the campaign events, et cetera, watching these tv ads, there is absolutely no way an undecided voter can look at what s going on and look at the campaign communications from a campaign and actually discern facts. because there is so much noise. so i think what it s going to come down to for an undecided voter, who hopefully will make a decision to go to the polls as opposed to stay home, is who do you think is going to be on your side? who do you trust? it s going to be much more visceral. who is speaking kind of the language that you can relate to? i think when it s women in tickeparticula particular it s going to be president obama. and i think the one final piece is not just what the candidates are saying but what people in your own personal life are saying who have already made up their minds, who may have already looked more into the issues. voting is a lot like kind of making a donation or going to a church. it s what s your community of trusted people saying about what you ought to do? i think that peer stuff means so much. and along the same lines, i was talking to one of my team members and she said you know, what i don t believe there are that many undecided voters out there, i think they re afraid to express who they re going to vote for because of these partisan times. have you seen that among voters, ron? i ll tell you what, it s interesting because before the first debate, mitt romney was really behind and we thought all the voters were in president obama s camp. but you see they re will to switch. these are shifting sands. these independent voters are looking for someone to lead them. they re looking for a plan. that s why mitt romney by laying out the five-point plan, it s been extremely useful to punch lieu the rhetoric. by having a vision and forcing the president to try to debunk it, he s taken the lead. if you re an independent voter, i think that does have an effect. we ll see. thanks so much for the discussion this morning. i appreciate it. take care. from politics to show biz, a disney first. a new princess that is latina, though disney isn t planning on mentioning that. now find the most hard core driver in america. that guy, put him in it. what s this? 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for those out there who are not quite sure what the group anonymous is, can you give as you short definition? sure. there s anonymous and there are a lot of trolling groups. we need to make sure we re talking about the right group. anonymous is a smaller group of people who have hacking or high-tech skills who use them for good or not so good depending upon your viewpoint. but there are lots of people who pretend to be anonymous or wanna-bes who may be out there doing some of this thing. you never know where it s coming from, whether it s posted by kids or people who claim to be activists. in this case they supposedly named this bully but it wasn t responsible for the teen-ager s suicide and now he s getting death threats. so what do you do? is it right? is it wrong? it s absolutely wrong. if they ve got information, they should give it to law enforcement. vigilante justice, even if it s true, shouldn t have done what they did. if this person did what was said, it s child pornography and they belong behind bars. sometimes they re well intentioned and have the wrong information. the on people who will get the right information are the rmps. it s very difficult to control, especially with a group like anonymous. it s true. it s not clear this is anonymous. it was posted by somebody with a facebook page called anonymous new jersey. if you believe somebody has committed a crime, there are ways to report that and the way to deal with it is not online because it s diverting law enforcement and facebook s attention away from the people who really did it. thank you so much for being with us this morning. we appreciate it. that s okay. independe i m up in canada trying to deal with this problem now. when i m in new york, we ll deal with this more. wait, you re dealing with this specific problem we re dealing with it th now? absolutely. i m one of facebook s international safety advisory board worldwide. i work with cmps all the time. i ll be out in british columbia in another week and working with law enforcement and facebook on trying to make sure to find the people who are responsible, as well as training teens and other people to become our cyber army in making sure when they see these kinds of things going on, you report it, report it in the right way so that the right people go behind bars and kids are alive. in this case amanda had no place else to turn. she turned to the internet for help and we all failed her. so no one reported it, it hadn t been reported to facebook. if it had been, they would have captured this person and reported them to law enforcement. it hadn t been reported to google on the youtube videos. many people stood by and did nothing. what we re going to be doing is make sure everybody knows what to do when they see things happening online, where to report it, and how not to stand by but to stand up against these things. so how difficult is it for to you track down this, you know, group that may or may not be affiliated with anonymous? well, there are two pieces. the way to track down the person who did post the picture, facebook collects ip information from everybody who has an account. they have lots of it and they lock these accounts, they work with law enforcement under subpoenas to take that ip information, the cyber bread crumbs, and track it back to a real person, a real location. so dealing with that is one thing. whether we need to track down the people from anonymous or the people posing as anonymous really isn t the issue. when they start dealing with this, they re dealing with it again in some cases through facebook. facebook can shut down those accounts and have in many cases. there a lot of trolls and others who are posting on the memorial pages for amanda saying really horrible and nasty things. facebook is on that, too, taking down anything that violates their terms of service. we offered our help in helping the kids who set up the page to police it using technology that s been developed in canada to help make it clean. law enforcement knows the difference between credible resources and credible reports and those that aren t. but when they go to the public and try to set somebody up, you don t know if there s a hidden agenda. in some cases here, they might have been well intentioned, they thought this person is behind it. the only person who knows behind it is facebook and law enforcement. they have the real information. everything sells just suspect. when you hear the stuff, doesn t believe it until it s confirmed by law enforcement. we ll take your advice. thank you so much for being with us this morning. we appreciate it. thanks, carol. appreciate it. we re back after a quick break. insurance company, or geico.as most of you know it. .i propose savings for everyone! i m talking hundreds here. and furthermore.. newcaster: breaking news. the gecko is demanding free pudding. and political parties that are actual parties! with cake! and presents! ah, that was good. too bad nobody could hear me. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. for the past 19 years, lava has been flowing on the big island of hawaii. in hawaii, the word kilauea means spewing. now the lake of lava inside is 150 feet below the volcano s crater. pictures look cool but it s pretty scary. that stuff is like 2,000 degrees carol. you don t want to touch it or get too close. it will bake a pizza up in no time, that s for sure. this is the stuff you see in movies. this is the steam of the volcano that from time to time will erupt on the side and actually spew lava into the ocean. that s the view from up top. what s going on here, first of all, within this volcano at the very top is a crater, okay. and there s an observatory up there. from about a mile away from where this is all happening, the people could actually hear the pop, the rattle and the roll of this eruption happening. now, the surface of the lava has actually come up and it s only 150 feet from the bottom of that crater. if it comes up even more, it will start overtopping that and building up on that. they don t think that s going to happen for a couple of reasons. these guys out there are very, very smart. let s go over the geography of this. it s in the middle of the pacific ocean. this is on the eastern flank of the big island. this is the area that erupts, has been erupting very actively for the past 30 or so years. we ll zoom in just a little bit more here. you can actually see the crater. this is the lake of lava in the crater there. here s where people hang out and just listen and at times see the steam. i sense a field trip for to us go over there and make sure these scientists know what they re talking about. hey, i d like to go along. good idea. i ll try to sell that to the bosses and listen to them say no. thanks so much. today s talkback question is the phrase binders full of women overblown? 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that wade michael page acted alone and no reason the believe at this moment that he had any new collaborators. some details of how this shooting went down and incredible detail, and the police chief john edwards said that basically the suspect ambushed the lead police officer who was the first one to respond and shot him at very close range eight or nine times and that officer is lieutenant brian murphy, 51 years old and 21-year veteran of the police force and a member of the tactical teams here as well and in incredible det detail the police chief said that when, after the suspect was taken down by the other officers and the initial exchange of gunfire, his fellow officers ran to try to help lieutenant murphy, the first officer hit there, and lieutenant murphy waved them into the temple and told them to help the civilians there. he had been shot seven or eight or nine times, and waved them into the temple and incredible act of heroism as reflected by the police chief. and general information, we learn ed th learned that he may have worked for somebody who made parks for welding supply companies and worked nights and that is a landlord of his who we spoke to, and my colleague ted rowlands reported that he may have worked a as delivery person, and other detail and general information given on the suspect at the news conference held by the police chief moments ago. take a listen. as far as some of the information obtained on him, i know that there s much that has been put out in the media already regarding him. and some of that we are looking at. we can say that he was in the military. 1992 to 1998. he had a general discharge, and that he was ineligible for reenlistment. i want to make it perfectly clear right now that he is the only shooter that was involved at the temple. and to add to the detail of the military career, we have been told by pentagon officials that page was discharged after a pattern of misconduct and served as a technician for army hawk missile systems and became part of the psychological operations teams, and we are piece together details of the suspect s past, john. well, thank you, brian todd, on the ground at oak creek, wiscons wisconsin. our drew griffin is digging deeper into the background of the shooting suspect, and drew joins us live. i understand that the southern poverty law center who tracks hate crimes has had page on their radar for some time. yes, since 2005 when the white supremist band scenes, the skinhead bands who go around and then in 2005, this is when apparently the suspect began his own band called end apathy. we know this because he has his own website obviously, and other promotions, but the group was frequently with other major hate group bands, john. on stages with what would be the big time players in the white supremist music movement, and in 2010 wade michael page gave a interview to the record label of the white supremist label, 56, and i want to throw up one quote from the interview. this is from page according to the lyrics. the topics are sociological issues, religion and how the value of human life has been degraded by being submissive to the tyranny and hypocrisy that we are subju kate d to. what is important about the white supremist punk bands is that it is where the movement of the hate groups recruit and go to the festivals to recruit new kids into the movement. i was looking at the song titles and one is definition of hate. so they were not trying the i hide their feelings, drew? h. absolutely not. they had tattoos and we heard from the police that they knew he was from a hate group just based on the tattoos, and we don t have detalils, but they ae specific to hate crimes. i have not been on the the web side, but i hear they are herrifhe horrific talking about other specific indications of hate crimes, and i don t know what these were, but i know he was on the same stage with other hate-filled bands. drew griffin, thank you so much. so much more to learn about wade michael page, and i know you will be looking into it. one of the heroes is this man seen in this facebook photo who is the president of the temple. he was killed when he tryied to tackle the gunman and he was shot in the back. this morning on the early start i spoke to the niece and nephew about what he meant to the community. he was an amazing man. he left this world protecting the church, protecting the people, and now we are trying to figure out who is going to protect our hearts from this pain. he was definitely one of the most dedicated individuals i could ever see, and one of the most happiest people in the world. and he did so much to create this community, to create this temple, and to help involve those in the community, and are the what we understand, he basically fought to the very end, and suffered gunshot wounds while trying to take down the gunman. he was a protector of his own people, and incredible individual who showed his love and passion for our people, our faith until the end. and we understand that he was shot while trying to tackle the gunman, and truly, you know, a hero in this tragic, tragic episode. kanwardeep, i understand that in the midst of the chaos in the tragedy of your family, you were on the scene helping the police to talk to witnesses there, and translate for some of those who do not speak english so well, and what did the people inside of the temple tell you that they saw? i mean, there was a lot of commotion, so people didn t have the most clear picture and didn t remember exactly how many gunshots they heard, but some of the ladies making the food for the congregation in the kitchen overheard some gunshots and some of them went down into the basement to where the kids were playing to protect the kids. one of the husbands was one of the leaders, and the religious leaders of the temple, and he went to go see what had happened, and unfortunately, he was also killed right on the spot. just a great man. his family just came from india three weeks ago, you know. you see a man so happy to see his kids and his wife, and now he doesn t have that. moments of extreme loss, but also some moments of heroism there. the shooting in wisconsin prompted police in new york to step up security at sikh temples and the police say it is a precaution against any possible v violence and they say there has been no specific threats against the sikh violence. but sikhs say that since the 9/11 attacks they have been targeted for hate crimes being mistakenb for muslims. and the president says that the people in oak creek must know that they have the thoughts and prayers of the people of the country, and my administration will provide whatever is necessary to the officials responding to the tragic shooting and moving forward with an investigation. while the shooting is a horrific act of violence, it is not isolated. hundreds of attacks have been reported against sikhs since 9/11, and wasn t to talk to the leader of the sikh organization about the rise in violence. that is ahead. this is what else we are working on ahead in this hour. talk about excited and i mean really excited. nasa scientists react to the touchdown of the rover on the red planet. and hear why the search for life on mars is a big deal. and why olympian ryan lochte says he will miss the rivalry with his buddy michael phelps. do you believe him? 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[ cheers and applause ] you will never see a more excited group of scientists anywhere or really anyone who has ever looked up into the sky and wondered, if there is life on other planet, because the rover curiosity reached mars this morning where it will search for signs of life. chad myers joins me now, and these are amazing numbers, chad. eight months in space and 354 million miles travel and $2.5 billion spent in, and it all came down to the short period of time dubbed seven minutes of r terror when they tried to land this thing the size of a small car in an area of this big, and nothing like this has ever been attempted, has it? no, and people ask me, why didn t they use a really big parachute, and they did. they slowed it down from 1,000 miles an hour with a parachute to 30 million miles, but the atmosphere is not enough to slow down the drag. you know how the astronauts there had plenty of slowdown power with the parachutes, but this rover did not have enough sl slow-down power, but this is the size of a football field. you will hear this, gale crater, and it is seeing the other vehicles from space are seeing the strata, the layers in the ground here and kind of like what you will see at the grand canyon and you see the different colors and the different colors means different layers or times that the atmosphere was there. this is a very difficult process. it came in at 13,000 miles per hour, and seven minutes later, it had to be down to zero miles per hour, and the burn slowed it down and then the parachute deployed and came down for a while, and the heat shield had to be released and after the heat shield was released, this little backpack blower guy here, and it looks like a parachute here coming out flies off and lands, and it is amazing. i have pictures here of what it looks like. it is kind of like a sky crane they called it with wires lowering it all of the way to the ground, and when it landed on the ground, it was on the ground for 14 minutes before we knew it, because that is how long the signal took to go from mars back toett ettarth. those are the minutes of terror, and they knew it was on the ground, but they didn t know how many pieces. and you mentioned the gale crater and that is where the scientists thought they had the best chance to find life, but how will the rover curiosity go about detecting the signs? well, ten instruments on this, and a couple of instruments have been used on other rovers, but not like this, and there is a sensor to sense the oxygen or in this case looking for methane, and methane coming from living beings or anything biological, because when it degrades and starts to go away, it puts off methane. looking for that. any methane in the air and something great there? if there is something like that, they also would be able to dig into the dirt to have a hammer drill, and pick it up and put it in a spectrometer and analyze it. i don t have any doubt in my mind that after the instruments are finding things, we will have found life on mars and maybe not living, but this could be a billion-year-old dinosaur bone, but i believe that we will with this rover in this place find something. the reason why they put it in the crater is because it is a deep spot, and if there is ever waters, it will go to the deepest spot, and that is why they put it there and maybe an ancient lake. and so they are making here by chad myers a joe namath-type prediction that we will find life. so that of course, brings up the question, is there life on mars? or maybe jupiter? it is one of the most profound mysteries that we deal with as humans everyday, and that might, i guess, what physicist lauren krause grapples with. he also is the author of a universe from nothing. you are in australia, and getting new pictures of the mars rover for the nasa scientists back in california right now, right. and what i want to know is this, life on mars, what is life on mars look like compared to say life on earth in your vision? well, of course, we don t know, because we have not discovered it, but what is surprising if it weren t our cousins in fact. i don t know whether i would make a guarantee like your previous guest about life exist ing on mars, but i would be surprised if we didn t find fossil evidence and find it is our cousin, because what we have discovered is that no planet is an island and material goes back and forth between mars and the earth all of the time and which can find the meteorites all of the time from mars and in the 10-month voyage microbes could survive, so it is reasonable to expect that life from one planet polluted the other. and the thing that is interesting is that life on earth may have originated on mars, so martians may be us. so those are the cousins and albeit tiny bacterial cousins, but youb surprise eyou would bet does not come back to earth? yes, because the idea that mars was hotter and wetter early on could support life is true, and it could mean that life could thrive and exist on other planets with s witwhich would exciting possibility. what would be more surprising if it does not have the same pairs in dna as us, and that would be amazing, because it would mean independent evolution of life on another planet, and as we try to look out to the solar system, we have discovered literally thousands of other planets around other stars. most of the stars in our galaxy have plants around them, and there are ofver 100 billion stas in the universe so we want to know are we unique or is life ubiquitous. and of course, if we discover another microbial life on another planet, and there won t be dinosaur bones, but if we discover a different form of life with different genesis, we can expect that the life is virtually teeming in the universe, and if it comes from somewhere else which would be the ultimate discovery. lawrence krauss joining us right now, and excited like every other scientist on the planet. sort of like a scientist mardi gras today. and back here on earth, nasa is making news for a new climate change study. they say that global warming is affecting the weather with reseeing like heat waves and a washington post piece that accompanied the study, james n hanson writes that our analysis shows that for the extreme hot weather of the recent past, there is no other explanation other than climate change. and one racecar driver is dead after the 85,000 fans were told the take cover as the severe storms took the area, and the race was stopped at the 98th lap which is halfway through the race. and the record-breaking michael phelps says this is the last olympics for him, but his teammate, ryan lochte says he has a lot more to give. i always feel like i m an a-student, so i would give myself an a-minus. why lochte says he is going to miss his swim buddy. this is the sound of my soul this is the sound. you feel that? 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[ whirring and beeping ] it s the at&t network doing more with data to help business do more for customers. it was a quiet sunday morning in a milwaukee suburb, but then at the sikh temple, a tragedy unfolded. deborah feyerick has the story. reporter: the reading of the holy book was almost over when the shooting started. i u thought i heard shots. can you confirm that? reporter: people inside of the temple ran to hide. and she kept saying they are out there, they are out there. reporter: calls poured into 911. i need an ambulance. i dot no see i do not see the shooter anywhere but come in behind me. a gunman came into the parking lot started shooting and shot the people standing out front, and entered the temple and opened fire. reporter: community members say that the community leader was shot trying to tackle the gunman. witnesses say that the gunman went to the kitchen and may have turned up the gas before exiting. the gunman tor people doing this went into the kitchen and are trying to blow it up. the man in the parking lot is a white t-shirt. reporter: one of the first police officers to arrive was ambushed while helping a victim. a 20-year veteran was ambushed and shot multiple times. the officer was shot eight to nine times at close range with a handgun. the shooter then taking aim at another officer who returned fire. i need an ambulance. we have one officer shot. our officer did engage that individual, and the individual is deceased. reporter: s.w.a.t. teams and tactical units from around the oak creek area converged search searching the temple building not knowing if more shooters were inside. just small kids, and others inside. reporter: the gunman was taken to a trauma center, and others who waited to pray waited and prayed. the police were looking for a motive and evidence, and leaving a community wondering why. deb feyerick has been covering the story since the beginning and joining me now live is deb feyerick. did the police fire a warning shot at the suspect in the parking lot? what we are learning now is that they did issue commands to the gunman. it appears they either told him to drop the weapon and open d fed fire on some of the squad cars, we are learning then ultimately they shot him, because he was holding a gun and active shooter, and we are learning more about him, spent six years in the military and discharged for misconduct. it means that the performance was okay, but the behavior was not. and the police were there and think knew that there was going to be trouble. they had the rifles with them when they arrived at the scene. yes, when you arrive at a scene, you use whatever you have in the car, whatever you have, and clearly the fact that he was willing to shoot at a police officer, i mean, that is attempted murder, clearly, nothing was stopping him to do what he wanted to do. thank you, deb feyerick, for being here. sometimes the horror of a tragedy can lead to enlightenment. it led to a discussion of sikh members here in america. but we are finding that unfortunately, this type of violence threat is wub that has the grown since 9/11. let me ask you this, why do you believe that the group has been targeted over the last 11 years for the hate crimes? it is not only the sikh communities that have been targ targeted, but the distinct look that we have to give those perpetrators a little bit easier target, because they are not well educated and misunderstood. this isolated incident in my personal opinion, and i don t believe it is an attack against only one community unless we go to the bottom of that one and find out what this perpetrator had in his mind. do you think that this is a reflection of some kind of climate in america or do sikhs face these challenges all over to the world? it is not new to us. we came from india, and he are known over there as nation builders and we have a role over here to play. let me say one thing here to look being americans, we are americans first, and this is un-american what happened yesterday. we have been fighting over there for the liberty of others just like in iraq and the security of our own home is at stake. it is an odd question to ask somebody to explain their faith to me in a sound bite, but a lot of people here in the u.s. have not had a lot of experience with sikhism, so can you give us a basic understanding of the ris regio region? it is a relatively new religion, and the fourth largest tenets are that we believe in hardworking and sharing with others who are less fortunate and worship the god, the almighty, and those are the basic principles laid out by the founder. you just took the name, i belong to a local guawara, and we are here to spread mission that we are a community who believe in developing humanity at large. regardless of what you believe or what your religion is or the race tor or your color or creed. what is the responsible? i know there are 25 million sikhs worldwide, and how big of a response has there been to the tragedy in wisconsin? all toef community is hurting, and everybody taking it as a surprise that american soil, this kind of an act is a horrific act, but at the same time we are community who stay calm and telling the kurds and everybody not to be panicy or reactionary and let us give everything to the law enforcement authorities so that we can demonstrate, and get out of the terror or out of this bad times, and we can still come out as a peaceful and hardworking commu community which i think should be our goal. we can country building in every way an american dream. we are here in just not here to survive b tobut to succeed. we hope you achieve those dream, and our thoughts are with your entire community. thank you for joining us. going to politics, former secreta secretary of state condoleezza rice is going to speak at the rnc. who else is on the list? 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you drop the bomb. it goes this way. you go this way but do you hadded to make a rapid turn. you re at 30,000 feet now. he s in a 36 degree bang which is a very sharp angle. three, two, one, now. we knew the time was approaching and everything else because they had test explosions. they finally briefed us for the bomb, for the mission and everything else. they briefed us we were going to go drop the atomic bomb. go get some sleep. how they expected you to tell you you re going to drop the first atomic bomb and go get some sleep is beyond me. tib we obviously didn t sleep. what fascinating piece of history. cnn newsroom continues right now. thank you very much. i m alina cho in for brooke baldwin. police are looking for a person of interest in connection with a deadly shooting in a sikh shooting. police revealed details of the shooting in suburban milwaukee. we know the gunman is 40-year-old wade michael page, an army veteran. victims ranging from 39 to 84 who died at the scene. the gunman killed by police fire. a police officer shot eight to nine times at close range. despite his wounds just listen to what he did while bleeding to help save others. as they approached him, he waved them off. he had been shot nine times. one of them very serious in the neck area. he waved them off and told them to go into the temple to assist those in there. perhaps one of more surprising elements release today by investigators that person of interest. while police believe wade michael page was the only shooter. they are looking for this man. thai did not say what his involvement might be. take a look at this. neighbors tell cnn that these are pictures of page performing in what s being described as far right band called end apathy. we have all new details. we have details on how it all went down minute by minute. reporter: the reading of the sikh holy book was nearly over when the shooting started. thought i heard shots. can you confirm that? reporter: people inside ran to hide. she just kept saying they re out there. they re out there. reporter: calls poured into 911. need an ambulance. i do not see a shooter anywhere. i am on the, just come in behind me. the gunman came into the parking lot shooting. shot people who were standing out in front, entered the temple and opened fire. community members say the temple president was shot trying to tackle the gunman. a priest and six warshipers among the six dead. witnesses say the gunman went to the kitchen and may have turned up the gas before exiting. the gunman or people doing this ran into the kitchen and tried to blow it up. man with a gun in the parking lot. white t-shirt. reporter: one of the first police officers to arrive was ambushed while helping a victim. 20-year veteran was ambushed and shot multiple times. he was shot eight to nine times at close range with a handgun. reporter: the shooter taking aim at another officer who returned fire. the subject is down. we have one officer shot. our officer did engage that individual and the individual is deceased. reporter: they searched the temple building not knowing if more shooters wered in. pray for the people inside. they re small kids. reporter: police rekocovered single handgun. the wounded were taken to a local tra muma center. relatives and friends waited for words. authorities searched the home looking for evidence, looking for a motive. leaving a community wondering why. we want to go live to the scene right now. david matingly is in wisconsin. david, tell us about this person of interest. what do we know, if anything, about him? reporter: well, this could be nothing. it is unusual and authorities quantity to get to the bottom of it. they are circulating the photograph of this man. he showed up at the scene shortly after the shooting occurred. he obviously does not go to the temple. they want to know who he is and why he was there. they didn t get chance to talk to him to interview him. the police didn t before he left the scene. this is why they are putting this picture out. they want information about him. they want to know why he was there at the time. at the same time they re trying to be reassuring to this community that there was one gunman and one alone that carried off these killings. obviously the investigation is ongoing. we re still looking for that motive. having said that, this is an active crime scene today. what is going on there today, and what kind of clues do you think investigators are finding? reporter: they re not being specific at all about what they re coming up with. we do know that they don t have enough to come out and publicly state with a great deal of confidence the motive behind this. we do know they ve searched the temple completely. they have done a very thorough search of the man s parking lot. it was tense situation. they evacuated some of the neighbors for a brief period of time. they told people in the neighborhood to stay in their homes. nay were able to get into the apartment without incident. they brought out boxes of materials. they would not say what s in the boxes. all right. david matingly on top of it all for us. thank you very much. we re learning much more about the gunman. a picture of 40-year-old wade michael page just released this afternoon. take a look at this. neighbors say that these are pictures of page performing in what s being described as a far right band called end apathy. what are you finding out drew? this is a white neo-nazi band. he was deeply involved. there is such a thing out there. they ve been tracking this guy since about 2000 when he appeared on the stand. we talked with the director of the splc. here is what he hadded to say about the suspect. this man has been in the thick of the white supremicist scene for a good dozen years. we ve been tracking him for over ten years. i also talked with an author of the book we looked at. why it s important is because that s how they recruit. that s how these hate dprups recruit. they play rock n roll music. given his level of participation, he was deep inside this music scene. the name of his band is end apathy. in 2010, he gave an interview to a record label. he said the topics vary from sociological issues, religion and how the value of human life has been degraded by being submissive. he does have a minor criminal record in his past, drunk driving, but no violence. no violence. interesting. i know you ll couldn t to look into his past. investigators have not states a motive. what is certain is that followers of the sikh religion are all too familiar with hate crimes. there s been more than 700 assaults against sikh s. there s about 25 million members of the faith. 700,000 of them live in the united states and that makes sikhism the fifth most popular religion in the world. at the half hour we re going to speak with the editor of cnn s bopular belief blog. he s going to explain faith and why they are mistaken for muslims. we ll bring you the latest on what s going on in wisconsin and the latest details on the gunman. we have a lot more to cover. nasa has a listen to rejoice. a $2.5 billion rover makes impressive pictures. we will bring those to you. another high level defection from syria. the prime minister leaves his country and the regime of bashar ass assad. plap welcome back. talk about a chipper monday. how s this for the start to the workweek? watch. touch down confirmed. we re safe on mars. they re just happy to be done with the weekend. no, that s not the case. these are engineers, scientists, technicians and the like at nasa s jet propulsion lab. one or two wiping away tears as well. here is what the celebration is about. this is nasa animation portraying one of the biggest successes of the space age. it happened around 1:30 a.m. eastern time. we re looking at the complex, high speed dissent of a moving laboratory on to the surface of mars. it did make it. that s why everybody is so happy. take a listen to white house science advisor. if anybody has been harboring doubts about the status of u.s. leadership in space, well, there s a one ton piece of automobile american ingenuity, and it s sitting on the surface of mars right now and it should put any such doubts to rest. all right. the so-called curiosity rover is at work as we speak. it s already sending back pictures from a location on mars known as the gale crater. here with me is james ray. he s with the georgia institute of technology. he was part of the huge team of scientists who worked on this. we want to talk about the mission on mars in a moment. first, i want to talk about this incredible landing. seven minutes of terror. one described it as winning an olympic gold medal. tell us a what happened at 1:30 in the morning. seven minutes of terror, you d like it would be the longest seven minutes. for me it went by quickly. we watched simulations of this happening, the heat shield burning up. the sky crane dropping the rover down to its safe landing on the surface and to see it go by. the ending was positive. this was 11 years in the making. it was almost textbook. it rally landed between a rock and a hard place. that s right. it landed in crater but crater that has a mountain inside of it. it landed at the bottom of the mountain. let s talk about the rover itself. it s about the size of a mini cooper. it weighs about a ton. it s being described as not a human but it has eyes, ears, mouths, arms and feet. what is it able to do over the next 687 days? it s everything you would hope for. it s everything you could hope for pu also if ybut also if you were able to take samples to your laboratory. it can tell us whether there s organic matter in the ridiculouses which could be a sign of past life. there are other ways to produce or beganic but that s one of the pray mare things we re looking for as evidence of whether life existed. beyond little green men, i read this quote. of all the gin joinlts why should life occur only on plan earth. some life form might be discovered this time. curiousty is not looking for evidence of life. it s looking for an environment that could have inhabited. if we don t find evidence for life, that doesn t mean the mission was not successful. it doesn t mean nasa doesn t have a gold medal, as you said. it s possible looking for fossils and the capability to detect organic matter. it will be there for 687 days, which is a martian year. the definition of a year is just how long it takes your planet to orbit the sun. it takes earth 365 days. that was my suspicion. that s how much time we think we have. whoep that we might have more time than that. the first time and opportunity, we are supposed to have three months on mars. we still have one going today. thank you for your insight. we ll be watching curiosity as it roves around mars. thank you so much. wildfires in oklahoma are contained for now. officials warn of the high risk today with triple digit temperatures in the fact. a new development in the case of a church which refused to marry a couple because of race. 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reporter: well, obviously, people here are horrified by what happened in wisconsin. there s a member here that has a relative that was shot at the temple in wisconsin. he s expected to survive. we went a couple of hours talking to members and getting a feel for how they will deal with what happened there. basically, they re going to be talking to local governments, talki inin ining to school dist. they want to try to educate people about sikhism. people mistakes muslims for being sikhs. the religious couldn t be anymore different. that s what they want to focus on. they did put out a statement that says the sikh religion teaches people respect for all faith. they gave their lives to uphold the right of people of other religions to practice their faith. that s what sikhism is all about. it s the most tolerant of all the religions out there. they want to get the word out about what sikhism is. which is an important message to get out there in the days and weeks after the shooting. having said that, there has been tighter security around sikh temples in new york city and other cities. is that the case out there and are there any special services planned at that temple? reporter: they re going to be holding some kind of candle light vigil in the coming days. they haven t firmed up a time. there s no security here. they believe that sort of counter intuitive to what this temple is all about. this has opinion here since 1985. it s the largest sikh temple in the united states. it s the largest in all of north america in terms of the number of worshippers and the sheer size of this facilitfacility. they believe this is a very inclusive community. they haven t had many incidents here over the years. they don t feel like extra security is warranted. dan simon, thank you very much. 25 million people around the world follow the sikh faith. that includes 700,000 right here in the united states. for many of us, this is the first time or maybe the first time we ve heard of sikhs. we learn more about the fifth most popular religion in the world. eric, what is it that we should know about the sikh faith and how it differs from the muslim faith? here in the united states there are about 700,000 to the sikh faith community. it begins in india about 500 years ago. it comes out of a time period in india where hinduism is popular. we see some references to islam as well. what s important for people to know is there are three key tenants that are important. one is to meditate on god. another is to live honestly and work hard and the third tenet is to serve the community. that s what we saw in oak creek where the shootings were. the women were in the kitchen preparing the meal which is so important for sikh members to share with their neighbors and friends. it s a meal that s open to everyone. eric, one of the five articles of faith from what i m reading here is long, uncut hair that some men and women will wrap in a turban. wearing it as so many sikhs do is part of the reason, you say, that they ve been targeted for hate crimes. absolutely. both men and women who are strict adherent to the faith, keep that hair long. that makes them a target. muslim men don t wear turbans. in arab countries in the middle east that s what you see. when we saw the terrorist attacks of 9/11, a lot of al qaeda leaders wore turbans. in the ten years since 9/11 when people who were out looking to commit a hate crime against muslims they targets sikhs accidentally because they thought they were muslim because they were wearing a turban. experts who have studied these hate crimes say any time we see a rise, it s the sikhs that face the brunt of the hate crimes. it s great example of how we see this playing out here in the united states. i think it s important to note that first person that was murdered after 9/11 on september 5th, 2001 was a sikh man. he was a gas station owner and the man who killed him is serving a life sentence. thank you for joining us. across the world in syria, more than 17,000 people are reported dead since the violence began last year. 17,000 people. today one of the people closest to bashar assad has turned against the dictator. we re going to take you live inside jordan where syria s prime minister has apparently defected. machine plap 39 minutes after the hour. in the midst of a growing civil war the prime minister of syria has left the country and condemned the assad government as a terrorist regime. the question is, where did he go? hold that thought because we believe we have the answer. first i need to tell you about a bomb attack in damascus. the syrian rebels have shown they can strike inside the capitol. across syria today, more than 100 people have died in fighting between government forces and rebels. that includes 30 deaths in aleppo alone, syria s largest city. reporter: we saw part of the town where there s destruction. we came under some sniper fire. we re entering the area. we met some nervous fighters with the army who are trying to tell civilians to stay away from maj major roads. basically every four or five minutes we heard loud explosion. as we drove into this, we went through an area that s controlled by the government. it s normal amount of traffic. people on the streets. the rebels are telling us they control as much as 60% of the city, but clearly they re severely out gunned. back now to the mystery surrounding syria s prime minister. by all accounts now he s syria s former prime minister. he has released statement announcing his defection and a host of reports put him in jordan. that s where we find barbara starr. what are you hearing about that? is the former prime minister in aman? reporter: it s confusing. he has defected. he has left the regime. where he has wound up and where he is at this hour remains something that is somewhat confusing. the opposition forces had made statements earlier today that he was coming to jordan or in jordan. the government a few hours ago issuing a former statement saying he s not in jordan, at least not yet. he may be on his way to a persian gulf country like cutter. whatever is going on this is a very important defection. the highest ranking tsunni member. it s possible he had been planning to get out all the way along. barbara starr live. thank you very much. he is a gold medal winner and a police officer. one kenyan athlete is accused of stabbing a woman. siri, what s my day look like? 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hammering that message and why? because the obama reelection campaign believes it is a message that resonates with the voters. the president has talked often about building this economy from the middle out rather than from the top-down and trying the draw the contrast between his policies and the policies of the opponent mitt romney. you will hear the president talk about that, and also talk about how he continues to push support extending the bush era tax cuts, but only for those making up to $250,000. incomes up to $250,000 a year. the overarching theme of the campaign continues to be that president obama is looking out for the middle-class, and mitt romney is looking out for the very wealthy. so that will be the message here today. at the same time while mitt romney is out in colorado, he does have a top surrogate here in the orlando area, marco rubio, and senator rubio is holding an event not far away from where we are standing where he said, yes, the president did inherit a bad 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fixes. it will take time to turn things around, so that is really how the obama campaign has been countering it, but you know, it is a key issue for voters when they go to the polls what will be in the back of their minds is do they have a job? can they afford to keep their homes? can they afford the send their kids to college, and so that the economy is a huge issue, and the job numbers coming out tomorrow, everybody will be watching closely to see, because it could have a big impact on who wins the election, suzanne. yes, huge. dan, thank you so much. good to see you. a widening gap between the richest and the poorest americans is hitting home literally and we are talking about according the a new pew research study that poor are more segregated based on the income. the percentage of upper income households in an affluent neighborhood rose from 9% to 18% from 1980 to 2010, and meanwhile, low income households in poor neighborhoods rose from 23% to 28%. and the income in middle-class 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difference, because he is replacing kay bailey hutchinson, and she voted with the gop 90% of the time. but cruz like any senator would have a lot of power to grind business to a halt. you know what the senate is like. one senator stands up and says no, we stop the train. reporter: and cruz would not be the only possible new senator willing to do that. in indiana richard murdoch beat veteran incumbent richard lugar and vowing confrontation over compromise. what i have said and i continue to believe certainly is one side or the other must prevail, and i m hoping that the candidacy will help to move the republican party forward to become a permanent majority. reporter: and the senate is bound to be a more polarized place because so many moderates chose to leave. more than half a dozen are retiring this years, and still it is a open question whether the tea party rhetoric on the campaign trail translates into action in office. two years ago a handful of tea party backed senators promised the hold their leadership s feet to the fire and protect civil l liberties, but once there, a few uncompromising demands like rand paul on the patriot act. call your congressman and tell them in washington you are unhappy. reporter: and also a kingmakers who says that ted kroousz can help the country. i think that ted cruz can empower the democrats to make the decisions. reporter: he says that the more tea party backed senators, the less gridlock and here is why. if we have a strong mandate election who will work with people like ted cruz and marco rubio and pat toomey and some of the senators here in a sensible way to change the course of the country. reporter: talking to the republicans here in the halls of congress, it is clear that if the leaders understand that the gop retakes control of the senate next year expectations will be higher and pressure more intense on the republican leadership to make good on campaign promises to make the federal government smaller. dana bash, cnn, capitol hill. here is what we are work on for this hour. the psychiatrist who treaedd the accused movie theater shooter was so alarmed by his behavior she reportedly notified the campus threat team. we will look at why james holmes was not taken into custody before his shooting spree. women s gymnastics takes n center stage today at the olympics. i will have some of the highlights. and we will take you through exactly what happened on the runway at reagan international airport when three planes nearly collided. male spirit present.trong it s the priceline negotiator. what? sorry. he wants you to know about priceline s new express deals. it s a faster way to get a great hotel deal without bidding. pick one with a pool, a gym, a great guest rating. and save big. thanks negotiator. wherever you are. ya, no. he s over here. in the refrigerator? 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yes, i started traveling here on monday and it is very, very it gives access to the whole city, and it is so useful. of all of the lines i use this one the most. this is manageable. it should be much fuller though when you think about how many people are intended to come to london for the olympics. i think it is quite good, you know. there haven t been many delays or strikes, so people can get from one place to another quite easily, yeah. that is, it has been quite good so far. reporter: well, that is the exit point for statford station, and we are at olympic park and we had to walk through a couple of underground tunnels to get here, but behind me, you can see a steady stream of people heading through the gates and now it is my turn to go down to the finals. there is more fallout today from the badminton scandal at the olympics. one of the chinese players d disqualified from trying to lose, she is quitting all together and she is accusing the governing body of ruining her dreams. she wrote this in the microblog. farewell my moved badminton. and earlier yang was expelleded for failing to uphold her olympic obigations. who knew that badminton was so controversial? zain, how are people responding to this? well, it is emotional here sh, and this is a debate, because this is someone s whole life has been badminton and dreamed it, breathed it and eat enit for her whole life and this is the goal. she was finally here at the pinkel, and this is what has happened. one of the interesting things that people are talking about, suzanne, is basically, they are wondering now whether the coaches are the ones who instructed the players to just throw the matches. right. so the coaches have apologized and the players have apologized, but one other area that is also being raised is the thing that was different about this badminton tournament is that the officials decided to make it a round robin which meant that if you lose, you are not automatically booted out, so it allowed the room for the maneuver, so that the question is, why didn t those officials even think that this kind of thing may happen? and the coaches, could they be held responsible as well or are they in the clear? they could be held responsib responsible, and there is a strong possibility that they will be investigated by the badminton governing body and their own national team so they are not off of the hook. are people talking about that over there, zain? yeah, they are talking about it. they are saying, gosh, we never knew that badminton could get so much attention, because it never normally does. talking about it and the fans are annoyed saying they want their money back. a lot of of people are thinking badminton, an olympic spo sport, and who knew? didn t realize that, but now a lot of attention to badminton. and talking about the women s gymnastics and it is okay, if you want a spoiler alert and give us the winners, because the americans are doing pretty good? spoiler alert. spoiler alert. okay. yes, gabby is actually at the top of the leaderboard. she is doing really well, and she is managing to keep off that russian gymnast at bay. woo-hoo. and woop, woop, and gabby is fourth, but the u.s. is performing pretty well, and they have a while to go. and don t forget, too, suzanne, that the u.s. in the individual women s all-arounds won gold twice in previous olympics. keep the fingers crossed. and there is a birdie in the ear saying that gabby actually won, but does she mind being called the flying squirrel and have you got a sense of why she got that name in the first place? the flying squirrel, i don t know how that happened? well, i mean, you know, the flying squirrel, it is a compliment and i am sure she does not mind. it mean she s is deft and nibbleable and fanibbl nimble and fast in the air, and to get a great nickname is great. but aly needs one and maybe the magical maneuverer or something. how about swimming, michael phelps and anything else that is popping right now? well, everyone is just waiting for this epic, this historic, this great rivalry in american swimming. michael phelps versus ryan lochte, part two, and it is must-see tv and you can t see it live, suzanne, but we can in a few hours. really, like a lot of people are just talking about, you know, well, what happened here and who has the faster underwater kick? you know, who can make the quickest turn? who is stronger in which stroke, and the bottom line is that michael phelps did come forth and ryan lochte beat him the last time they swam together, but if michael phelps wins this, it is history again and he is the only olympic athlete to win three consecutive races in three different olympics, but the great thing about the rivalry is that you need a great rival to push you to be the best you can po possibly be, so in a way, they kind of need each other to perform at their best. yes, in two hours you will send out a tweet to tell us who gets it? 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well, he has one of the only in america kind of ostories. his mother ran for the city council at a time when it was difficult for the hispanics to enter politics. his grandmother came from mexico when she was 6 after becoming an orphan, and never had anything more than a third-grade education, and worked as a cook and maid and babysitter, so it is incredible that in only two generations you go from poverty to having two children who went to stanford and also he graduated from harvard law school together with his brother joaquin, so that is probably one of the reasons. he has also been a successful m mayor and probably one of the reasons he is selected. he is young, and are people looking at him as a future presidential candidate perhaps? well, he is a sfar in the democratic party and he, as you said, very young. he was in the late 20s when he successfully ran for city council in san antonio. but when you take a look at the big picture, sit is probably to early to tell which way he will go. he would probably want to have him have more experience in maybe the governor s office or run for the senate. his brother is running and apparently a good chance of winning the 20th congressional district in texas. so, both brothers are very involved in politics and also very successful as well. and he is very different than marco rubio who the republicans have pushed out as someone representing the hispanic community. and he as aligned himself with the democratic party, and supports things like affirmative action and also he says that he benefitted from affirmative action and also he has a more liberal stance when it comes to immigration. and when you look at the numbers and the fact that president obama won the election in 2008 with 67% of the latino vote, it is easy to tell why he was elected, because president obama s trying to court the latino voting bloc. thank you, rafael. good to see you again. and mitt romney breaking another record on campaign spending, and we will tell you what it is. the us bank wealth management advisor can help you. every step of the way. from big steps, to little steps. since 1863 we ve helped guide our clients, so they can take the steps to help grow, preserve, and pass along their wealth. so their footsteps can help the next generation find their own path. all of us serving you. us bank who are these guys? 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[ applause ] our i m sure you know this. i mean this tragedy has impacted the community of aurora. i m sure it s impacted the entire state, the trauma here has got to be extraordinary, but across the country, people are thinking about aurora and the tragedy there and the lives that have been lost and lives changed forever. we love you and we pray for you. you re in our hearts and you re in our prayers. today i come to talk about making things better. and i m going to start off with a bit of a report card. some of you have been handed a little piece of paper here. if you haven t gotten that, you will. and i see some people opening these things up. i m going to talk about that in a minute, you don t need to open it up yet, but we re going to talk about that, because ever since we were in elementary school, we had report cards. and you saw on the report card, how you were doing. when i was younger, they used to give us a, b, c, d, e, f, and then later they would just say, he could do better. but when the president was here as a candidate, accepting the nomination four years ago in colorado, he laid out the report card on which he hoped to be judged by. and in this speech he said, look, i can tell you how we measure success and we measure progress. and he went through one by one the things he would use to evaluate whether he was making progress or not. he said, number one, i can judge progress by how many people find a job. now, on that basis, we haven t seen what we would have hoped to have seen. in fact, we have fewer jobs that have been created. we have 23 million americans today that are out of work or underimp underemployed, people who have pulled out of the workforce. 23 million. and of those technically unemployed by the bureau of labor of statistics numbers, it s still above 8%. he said he would hold unemployment below 8%. it has not been below 8% for 41 straight months. that s the longest period in american history. and so the president has been unsuccessful in his number one objective, as laid out by his own measure. then there was the next one. he said, we re going to see how many jobs we have that can pay for a good mortgage. then we ve seen record numbers of foreclosures. and, of course, home prices that are down. he said one more thing. he s going to judge success by what happens to average family income. well, that s gone down. did you know the average family in america has seen their income go down by $4,000 over the last 3 1/2 years? now, another measure, he said i ll measure success by whether someone who has a good idea will go out and start a business. yeah. yeah, i hope he understands that actually the people that have a good idea and start a business are the ones who actually build the business. [ cheers and applause ] we re at a 30-year low in the number of business start-ups that have occurred. a 30-year low. perhaps because he thinks government is the one that helps build businesses as opposed to people. we re seeing that kind of result. and then one more. a little later he said this, he said he was going to cut the deficit in half. [ laughter ] you know, it s it s sad, i mean, it s just extraordinary to have someone to go out and make those kinds of promises and not be able to deliver on them. i ve got a little report card here, and it shows his report card, if you look on there with the arrows, it shows there. jobs, and on the far left, the obama record, it has a little downward arrow. fewer jobs under president obama. then there s unemployed and underemployed. that s gone up, that s in red because that s a bad direction. then we have the unemployment rate, that s bad too, that s why that s in red. and then we have home prices, they ve gone down, that s in red too. then we have the budget deficit, that s gone up, that s in red. and finally we have family income, that s gone down. all measures he laid out are measures that have gone in the wrong direction. now, when i got elected governor of my state, i had the people i was traveling, i said, i want you to write down all the things i promised during my campaign. all the things i said i would fight to try and do. now, i had a legislature that was 87% democrat, and so i knew that not all the things i wanted to do would get passed, but i d get as many passed as i could and i d fight for all of them. and i said to the people who will traveled with me, would you please right down all the promises i made during the campaign. and i entered a few more in my inaugural speech and in the state of the state address, so we ended up with 100 promises. and halfway through my term as governor mitt romney speaking in golden, colorado. you can keep watching mitt romney. just head to cnn.com/live. also keep in mind, he is in golden, colorado, going to be meeting with a roundtable of republican governors in just a couple of hours. and tell me if these are live pictures, guys, my ear. okay, no, this is, obviously, president obama earlier. he is in florida today, so we will be taking the president as he will be speaking in winter park, florida, this hour. keep in mind, he was actually supposed to be speaking in winter park, it was two fridays ago when that horrendous shooting happened in aurora, colorado. he had to hop back on that plane and head back to the white house. so he is back to finish what he would have started in winter park, florida. we ll bring that to you live a little bit later this hour. and as we have begun the show every day this week, we begin in syria, where peace envoy kofi annan calls it quits. i want to begin with really this increase in violence. take a look. [ explosion ] [ speaking foreign language ] another blast rocking the city of aleppo, this is syria s commercial hub. this is the largest city, and you see the aftermath, the damage. and as of today, in aleppo, it is getting even worse. now, south of aleppo, you have the capital city of damascus. these images purport to show shelling in a suburb of the capital. cnn, we have to tell you, cannot independently confirm the authenticity of this video. it was posted on youtube earlier today. same situation with this video, also posted to youtube. it appears to show burials in a mass grave, allegedly, after dozens were killed in a government raid in a damascus suburb. now, add to all of this here, the frustration of the peace envoy, the man on the right of your screen, kofi annan, he quit today. he s frustrated. he says he s frustrated, i m going to quote him here, with quote, present divisions within the u.n. council, those divisions supporting china and russia, who support the assad regimes. we ve been watching their vetoes, thus far, when they ve been vetoing those who want to get tough on assad. and on that note, there was this happened in london today. look at this, russian president vladimir putin arriving at 10 downing street. he stopped by for some face time with the prime minister of great britain, david cameron. cameron tried to push putin to take a tougher line on the syrian regime, and after some 45 minutes, face to face, no progress. cnn s ivan watson recently left northern syria. we ve been talking to him, what he s been seeing the last week here. so much fighting there. he is now back safely in turkey. and i spoke with him minutes ago about this news of the annan resignation and also the escalating violence in syria. reporter: they basically failed to get either side to stop fighting. if anything, the fighting has escalated and gotten much, much, much worse since that peace plan was supposed to have gone into effect months ago. it was basically irrelevant. irrelevant and then the blood on the streets, which you saw with your own eyes. i know you re back in turkey, but just tell me, paint the picture for me, what s the last thing you saw as you were leaving syria? reporter: the last thing i saw, brooke, were refugee families, an old man with a cane, who couldn t stand up, in the middle of the night, 4:00 in the morning, by the border fence with turkey, wanting to escape with his family and a bundle of his belongings. that s what syria has been reduced to. massive portions of the population uprooted by this conflict. running from one village, from one town to the next, trying to find shelter to escape fighting. it s gotten worse over the course of the past 17 months. what we re really going to start seeing and start documenting, i believe, is an increasingly impoverished population that is no longer able to grow food to sustain itself, no salaries to pay for food and the most basically necessities. a truly escalating humanitarian crisis. and what s incredible is how much ordinary syrians have taken in their extended ed ed familie their cousins, their neighbors, complete strangers into their homes, provided them shelter, fed them, according to the local culture of hospitality, to try to take care of people. how much neighboring countries like turkey have taken in over 40,000 refugees and given them homes and camps and fed them for more than a year at a time. this problem is only going to get worse now that over the course of the past two weeks, the largest city in the country has become a free-fire war zone. largest city, that s aleppo, a city of millions of residents, and they ve all had to flee. they have no place to go. this is a spiraling humanitarian catastrophe that is just spinning out of control. that was ivan watson talking to me minutes ago, safely back in turkey, having been on the ground in northern syria. i want to talk now about this other major development in the conflict. sources are now telling cnn that president obama has signed this secret order, authorizing the cia, other u.s. agencies to help the rebels fighting the assad regime. and i want to bring in bob baer. and bob has a unique perspective. bob, welcome back. we don t know when exactly the president signed this secret order, but what does and i know it s referred to as an intelligence finding, what does that really mean? that means that the cia can support with money and medications and things like that, nonlethal items can go to the oppositioning an, and frank right now, that s what they need, is money. the opposition is running out of ammunition. they can t afford things, and if they re going to sustain this holding on to aleppo, they need this money. and i think it s also a diplomatic move on the part of the obama administration to support the governments in the region. in particular turkey, which is panicking. two days ago, the prime minister said that they would consider sending troops into turkey to control the kurdish areas, there are maneuvers on the border. and brooke, i think we have to the look at this, it is getting out of hand. there are reports unconfirmed today that the opposition has artillery, they re firing it at the airport, outside aleppo. if they have artillery, how far are they away from getting some of these chemical weapons? we don t know and neither does washington. when i was talking to ivan, one part that we didn t include, he was saying part of the fear, also, is that the kurdish militants, right, he was talking to me about pkk. that s a fear. fears of jihadists, possibly al qaeda infiltrating the rebels within syria. let me get to that in a minute, but you mentioned, you know, that the rebels in syria now, they need more money. they need more weapons. they need more ammunition. but we have learned that they do now have, bob, they have these powerful shoulder-fired anti-aircraft missiles. what more do they need? well, they re going to need to train on these. you know, they re infrared, they re soviet-made, generally. they lock on to a plane s engine by heat. you just don t pick up on these things and learn how to fire. it s a waste of a missile. who trains them, then? you have to be trained on this well, the cia used to do it in afghanistan. they did it themselves. they re going to need outside people or even people in the syrian army, but it has to be better organized if they re going to defeat the syrian air force. and i think that this siege on aleppo continues and continues to get worse, we re going to see a move to get these trainers in. part of the fear, this is what i alluded to a moment ago, the fear that the presence of jihadists infiltrating these rubble groups, we saw the youtube video, the al qaeda tradema trademark, black background, white lettering, and the longer it takes, perhaps, you have the training and then the military intervention, when then happens to these rebels? do they begin to the feel abandoned and fearful, and at who point do more and more tend toward jihad? well, if history s prologue, all places that have fallen apart, like afghanistan, somalia, northern mali right now turned islam, in a militant form. call it al qaeda, call it militant jihad. it really doesn t matter the name. we re not dealing with an organization, we re dealing with an idea. and people who are desperate in situations like this turn towards islam. bob baer, former cia operative and a cnn contributor, bob, thank you so much. we ll be following what s happening in syria every day. got a lot more for you in the next two hours, including these three terror suspects, ready to act in spain, europe, captured with enough explosives to, to quote one of these investigators, blow up a bus. and they were learning also about motorized paragliders. and then terror here at home as we learn more today about this colorado movie shooting suspect. could his psychiatrist could she have done more, or do federal laws prevent her from speaking out? f morocco. have you seen this road we re going down? 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well, one of them was believed to be turkish. he was arrested today. two of them believed to be chechn chechnyan, or of russian decent. they didn t have any identification papers on them when they were arrested. they were on a bus traveling north, but they put up a ferocious resistance to being arrested when they were caught. how close were they to being caught isn t clear. but these two men on the bus had both had training in afghanistan or pakistan jihadi camps and are believed to be affiliated with the terrorist group lashkar-e-tayyiba, so these men very, very well trained in explosives and weapons according to spanish officials. so they re in spain. this is where they re caught, in southern spain. were they planning on attacking spain, other parts of europe, somehow targeting the u.s.? do we know? what the spanish are saying right now is they think that these men were trying some kind of aerial attack. the police said they had some kind of light aerial flight manuals. another source is telling us that the police were saying that they were going to fly a motorized paraglider into a joint spanish u.s. naval base. now, if you look at the south of spain, not so far from cadiz, the rock of gibraltar, it s high up above that port area. were they planning to use the sort of high mountains to gain a height advantage, fly this aircraft, whatever it was, with explosives? so police are saying enough explosives to blow up a large bus. one bomb, several bombs. the specifics aren t clear at this stage, but what we do know is that the police are still looking for more explosives, brooke. do we know if you re talking about paragliders or some sort of remote-controlled planes. is this a new tactic, sort of an attack from the sky for al qaeda? yeah, we re used to them to trying to get on aircrafts, explosives, the underpants bomber, 9/11. they re fascinated with this. when you think back to last year, a man living in the united states, a 20-or-something-year-old was arrested for conceiving a plan to fly a model aircraft packed with explosives into the white house and potentially into the pentagon as well. so al qaeda s wannabes with, if you will, have flirted with this idea a lot in the past. so it s kind of not new, but using the type of aircraft that they might have been at a fold up, carry on their backs, and fly off a mountain, that might be new. and these men are part of a cell, might there be additional arrests? there are so many questions out there, the police are searching for explosives. they say they ve got a laptop they recovered during the arrest. they want to search that for more data. they believe, because these men were being watched for about a month before they were arrested, the western intelligence agency, not spanish, was tracking the men, a bugging device in one of the buildings where they were gave an indication that somebody was coming in, the wife of one of the men was coming in to clean the apartment, which subsequently they discovered perhaps meant the explosives had been moved. so where s the wife? why were these men traveling north on a bus, potentially to the rest of europe? were they trying took into account vactivate other members of other cells? so there s a lot not clear, but it does seem there are likely to be more announcements, more arrests. nic robertson for us in london, appreciate it. back here at home, florida, a key state in the race for president. and this recent poll shows the president with a six-point load over mitt romney. we are waiting on the president now to come to the podium in winter park, florida. we saw romney not too long ago in golden, colorado. as soon as we see the president, we ll take him live. more on politics after this quick break. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bank are helping grow our economy. lending more so companies and communities can expand, grow stronger and get back to work. everyday you see all of us serving you, around the country, around the corner. us bank. in here, every powerful collaboration is backed by an equally powerful and secure cloud. that cloud is in the network, so it can deliver all the power of the network itself. bringing people together to develop the best ideas and providing the apps and computing power to make new ideas real. it s the cloud from at&t. with new ways to work together, business works better. but what about your wrinkles. neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair. it has the fastest retinol formula available. it s clinically proven to visibly reduce wrinkles in just one week. why wait if you don t have to. rapid wrinkle repair. neutrogena®. recommended most by dermatologists. both mitt romney and president obama on the campaign trail right now, creating some buzz in several swing states. let s begin with mitt romney. his swing state today, here he is in colorado, the race there, very tight. so tight, in fact, take a look at the poll with me. this is the most recent poll. it gives the president a one-point lead over his republican contender, but with 8% saying they still don t know who they want for president. colorado very much so, still up for grabs. i want to the play some sound. mitt romney spoke just a little while ago to a packed crowd in golden, colorado. it s sad, and i mean, it s just extraordinary to have someone go out and make those kinds of promises and not be able to deliver on them. i ve got a little report card here, and it shows his report card. if you look on there with the arrows, it says there, jobs, and on the far left, the obama record. it has there a little downward arrow, a little red arrow, all right? jobs, we have fewer jobs under president obama. then we have unemployed and underemployed. that s gone up, that s in red, because that s a bad direction. then we have the unemployment rate, that s bad too, that s why that s in red. then we have home prices, they ve gone down, that s in red too. then we have the budget deficit, that s gone up, that s in red. and finally we have family income. that s gone down. all measures he laid out are measures that have gone in the wrong direction. mitt romney there speaking within the last hour. also in colorado right now, a group of republican governors, romney is set to swing by the for a chat with them a little later and cnn will be going live there right around 5:50 eastern time today. to florida we go, orlando, specifically, where the senator of that state, marco rubio, rallied for romney earlier today. rubio, one of the republicans often mentioned as a potential vp pick, and at today s rally, the florida senator went on the attack, hitting president obama on a favorite republican theme, taxes. we have the sound. dan, roll it. threatened to raise taxes on people to historic levels. do you realize that next year, when you add up all the taxes that barack obama wants to impose on the american economy, and you add in state and local taxes, some people will pay close to half the money they make to the government. and not too far away from where marco rubio was in orlando, you have the president in winter park, florida, today. he is making a campaign stop there. the president really on a swing state roll. it was ohio yesterday, florida today. got another poll for you, because before we and we re waiting for the president to speak, i should remind you. you can see this poll. these are the numbers in florida during the last week of july. the president polled is six points ahead of romney in this all-important swing state. so again, we re watching, here we go, live pictures, no one there quite yet, but as soon as we see the president, we ll bring him to you live. coming up, though, the son of soul train s don cornelius is going to talk to me live about the day his father took his own life. he was, in fact, the one to find him and to hear his father s final words. he wants to talk about this. he wants to break the silence, because, he says the silence cloaks suicide. hear why he and not his father is the, quote, face of suicide. don cornelius. you know his name. he launched all kinds of music careers through soul train, his tremendously popular tv show that was on air for 37 years. i m don cornelius, and as always, we with wish you love and soul! six months ago yesterday, the man behind love, peace, and soul shot and killed himself. and now his son is launching another project, not on the songs people want to hear, but about the struggle he says people don t want to talk about. and that being suicide. do you know the faces of suicide? i m the face of suicide. and countless other family members. suicide affects family, friends, loved ones, and coworkers. suicide affects everyone. be it depression, prescription drugs, mental illness or accidental, suicide is on the rise in our communities. tony cornelius joins me live from los angeles. tony, welcome, and i m sorry about the loss of your father, but i appreciate that this is something that you want to talk about. take me back. six months ago, your father kills himself and you are the one to find him. tell me about that phone call. what happened in that phone call to make you go find him at his house? well, first of all, brooke, thank you very much for having me on the program, and as i go back and think about that day and that night, and that evening, and that morning, prior to that, he had talked to me about not wanting to be here anymore. in other words, he didn t think he would be here. i didn t know what that meant, but when i got that call that morning, it was just a call of urgency. and i replied to it by getting up out of my bed, immediately, and going to his home. i mean, his thoughts were that, i m sorry to call you, tony. but i just don t think i m going to be here anymore. and those words just resonated for me. so i imagine that alarm bells sort of start going off for you. you go immediately to his home, and i understand that you immediately smell gun powder. did you know, tony, in that instant, what your father had done? actually, no. you know, when you smell gun powder, i mean, it s almost like a match, but it s even more pronounced, you kind of don t know what it is. i thought maybe it could have been, maybe a small fire somewhere, but then, you know, walking into other parts of the house and finding him, that s when i noticed that there was something a little different going on. so you find your father and, you know, i ve talked to people who have loved ones who have committed suicide, and the first thing they say, it s such a selfish act. is it something i m sure it saddened you, but did it anger you as well? well, of course. it angers me now periodically, but it s really about celebrating, at this point. i go through my periods of being upset and disappointed about it, but, of course, we re very angry pip me p . i mean, he should be here. he should be here enjoying his family, his granddaughter, his sons, his nephews. i mean, he should be here today. you re here today because you re taking action. you started the don cornelius foundation, and i understand, tony, that the person who actually gave you the idea was mr. stevie wonder, who, by the way, i talked to, shared his own personal story, his anecdotes about your father when he died, and i just want to play part of that interview. it s a heartbreak to know that he s gone at 75. what do you do? 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 who have lost their lives in that kind of way. but no matter the way someone loses their lives, you wish you were able to prevent that the from happening in some kind of way, to encourage and to inspire them. we have to give them as much love as we can and let them know that, listen, no problem is so big that it cannot be solved. do you agree with that, tony? and tell me more about this foundation you ve started. yes, i totally agree with that. and thank god for stevie wonder. stevie wonder was one of the first people that i spoke to after my father s death. and he gave me words that i ll never forget. and those words were that life is worth living. and from that, the don cornelius foundation was started. it s basically to help people transition, help people who are in need. it s actually, life is beautiful, precious, and worth living. and that s what stevie wonder did for me. unlike others who would either, you know, close up, i kind of attacked it. i wanted to really do something about it. and that s where we are today. i love how you say, thank god for stevie wonder. you know, having people like that in your life, to then help you forward. and as part of this foundation, tony, i understand you re focusing really on minorities, specifically. you say when this happens, this being suicide, happens to a loved one, they don t talk about it, at least not with a professional. why is that? well, it s a veil of shame. and if you will, i ll say that it s not just minorities, it s all people. we re all, as i say, we re all a st starfish, and every starfish is worth saving. and i feel that as i express in the psa that it s prescription drugs, it s old age, it s health, it s divorce. i mean, there s all kinds of things that draw us to hopelessness and pain. and that s who i want to reach out to. i want to make sure that people have a place to go, have someone to talk to. so you never know, tony cornelius, who s watching right now. could be people who are seeing similar signs in their own loved ones. just, finally, advice for them? what do they do? well, first of all, you get to an organization, a suicide prevention lifeline, which is part of the american foundation of suicide, and that phone number is 1-800-273-talk. there are people there 24 hours a day who can talk to you and let you know that it s okay, your problems can be solved. you have someone to speak to. and that s what the don cornelius foundation is really about, is awareness. it s letting people know that there s somebody you can atalk to. i mean, had i had the opportunity to save my father, believe me, i would, but it was too late. he had thoughts in his head that of hopelessness and those things sometimes, without expressing those, being able to express that to someone can be devastating. tony cornelius, thank you for talking about this and coming on. again, the phone number, 1-800-273-talk, your foundation, don cornelius foundation. thank you, sir. thank you very much, brooke. president obama, he is talking middle class and the economy when we come back. then next hour, neighbors storm into a pastor s home, saying a gang, some kind of gang is after them. a frightening night for all involved. but, wait, there s no gang, only hallucinations. bath salts, again, a huge problem in our country. we re going to talk about that, next. 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[ cheers and applause ] four more years! four more years! four more years! now, there are no quick fixes or easy solutions to our challenges. but let me say this. we know what we need to do. there are no challenges that are not within our power to solve. we ve got the capacity to beat any challenge. we have the best workers in the world, we ve got the best entrepreneurs in the world, we ve got the best scientists, the best researchers, the best colleges, the best universities. we re a young nation. we are still we re still a young nation, and we ve got the greatest diversity of talent and ingenuity that comes from every corner of the globe. nobody knows that better than florida. so no matter what the naysayers tell us, no matter how dark the other side tries to paint the situation, there is not another country on earth that would not gladly trade places with the united states of america. president obama firing up the crowd there, winter park, florida. you heard them chanting, four more years, touting some of the items he has gotten done in the last 3 1/2 years. keep in mind, not too many states away, we had mitt romney speaking in golden, colorado. folks, three more months until those november elections. you can keep watching the president, go to cnn.com/live. and now, roll the open. as we continue hour two, i m brooke baldwin. al qaeda may be plotting new terror, plots from the skies. police in southern spain have arrested these three suspected members of al qaeda. spain s interior minister said men were quote/unquote ready to act in europe. the spanish interior minis
landing in nevada when its lappeding gear failed to lower. in this case, the crew was not hurt but the incidents underscore recent concerns the planes themselves are in dangerous need of replacement. rob marciano is here to tell us more. this is war against wildfires for the most part. in war, you have boots on the ground. and they are the ones who will win the war eventually but they need air support. right now, that air support is dwindling. when you see the pictures of the planes flying around to fight these fires, they are old. we don t make planes specifically designed to fight fires. we take planes that are built in the 50s and 60s and we retrofit them to hold thousands of gallons of water and fire retardant to fight the fires. all of these planes have stopped production decades ago. the forest service and its subcontractors have been trying to hold these planes together for as long as possible. that one right there is a plane made by lockheed. the bulk of the fleet are pt planes which are basically anti-submarine propellor planes built in the 50s and they used those to fly into hurricanes. they have a couple of big ones but those are not nearly as nimble. since 2000 we have gone from 43 of these air tankers to 11. actually now it s ten after this weekend s crash. a huge dwindling. i guess the next logical question is anybody doing anything about this problem? well, you know, everyone is pointing fingers at the u.s. forest service or at least the politicians are. senator ron wyden says despite the magnitude and destructiveness of the recent forest fires the agency most responsible for fighting them the forest service has allowed the air tanker fleet to atrophy. that implies the budget is there but event they haven t been able to secure the planes. what they have done is increase the medium sized planes and the smaller planes and heavier helicopters but they need to get more air tankers in there. now they will tap some old european jet planes and try to get them in. they don t build these specifically for firefighting and that is the struggle because you re looking to get planes that you can t order and have them built. you have to take what you can get and i think the biggest problem going forward. rob marciano, thanks. in nigeria, the death toll is climbing in the crash of a commercial airplane and the airline says the pilot was american. dana air has not released the name of the pilot but says he radioed the plane was having trouble minutes before it slammed into a crowded neighborhood. all 153 people aboard the plane died along with at least ten people on the ground. george zimmerman back in jail and attorneys will seek a new bond hearing later today. the man at the center of the trayvon martin killing turned himself in yesterday on the orders of a judge who accused zimmerman of not being truthful about how much money he has access to. martin savidge is in sanford, florida, with more. good morning, martin. reporter: good morning to you, carol. yeah, the theory is the judge has recalled george zimmerman. in essence revoked his bond as you pointed out there. he wants to ask him very specific questions. what did he know about the money he claimed he did not have and yet most people are now well aware it was piling up in a bank account as a result of donations that had been coming in over the internet and this has raised deeper and more troubling issue for george zimmerman. that is the kre of credibility. in other words, we are talking about a self-defense case in which george zimmerman shot 17-year-old trayvon martin killing him, that is beyond a doubt but george maintains it was self-defense. many are going to say if he is not being truthful about money, what else could he be untruthful about? and that is an issue the attorney for trayvon martin spoke about this morning with soledad o brien. the reason judge had this ruling was so important because it focuses everybody s attention to george zimmerman s credibility. remember that is the main thing here because it is only his version of the facts that say trayvon martin attacked him. all of the objective evidence suggests that he pursued and shot trayvon martin in the heart and that is going to be a crucial, crucial issue, credibility, credibility, credibility. reporter: that is a word you are going to hear a lot of as we step forward here. now, the next in the process here is going to be the motion that is expected to be filed by the defense team for george zimmerman. essentially asking for a new bond hearing. exactly when that will be set isn t clear. that s up to the judge to determine and the judge actually doesn t have to grant bond at all. so we will see how that moves forward. carol? martin savidge reporting live from florida this morning. jury selection tomorrow against jerry sandusky. he is accused of sexually abused ten boys. the allegations led to the fire of penn state s iconic head coach joe paterno who died only months later from complications from lung cancer. could be a bumpy day on wall street today. stocks tanked overnight in asia and mixed across europe right now. the picture is as irk murky for the u.s. markets. dow futures down slightly but nasdaq and s&p 500 have climbed into positive territory. we will go live to the new york stock exchange at the bottom of the hour when the new trading day rings in. the winner is! miss rhode island. 20-year-old olivia culpo is the new miss usa. a sophomore at boston university and she is aaccomplished cellist who considered herself as a nerd but not any more. she will represent the usa in the miss universe pageant. when asked who was the vice president, some couldn t fake it. oh, god! that s awesome. oh, shoot. oh, my! this is so bad! i just read an article! i don t know anything about politics so i don t know. this is bad! i don t know! i m blanking! oh, my gosh. i m drawing a blank. world peace! that is bad! i m sorry! it s bad! culpo the young woman who won was asked about the controversy voupeding the pageant s first transgender contestant. she said anyone qualified has a right to wear the crown because it is a free country and, yes, she did know the vice president was joe biden. two men battling it out for wisconsin s top job. will scott walker stay on as governor or will mayor tom barrett take over that position? 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well, the old tiger woods is back. at the memorial tournament in dublin, ohio, he not only won the sensational chip from off the green late in the final round, he also tied the golden bear jack nicklaus record of 73 pga tour victories! 154 days until election day and dead heat in the race for the white house. we are seeing a shift in public opinion. our new cnn/orc poll shows republican mitt romney favorable rateding up but he still trails obama. the president has a 56% favorable rating. in the head-to-head contest obama leads romney 49% to 46% and that would be a statistical tie. one of the battle grounds of 2012 is the state of wisconsin and, tomorrow, it will be the first early test. that s when voters will decide if they want to recall republican governor scott walker and replace him with tom barrett, the democratic mayor of milwaukee. walker was pushed into the recall by people angered at his cutting of union power and bargaining rights. some think tomorrow s vote could be a preview of the upcoming romney/obama match in the state. candy crowley takes an in-depth look. reporter: fueled by power of politic. great to be back in michigan and great to be back in wisconsin. reporter: the race to oust scott walker has seen it all except for president obama. tom barrett, the democratic mayor of milwaukee, who hopes to oust walker, reads nothing into that. no. we understand he has a lot going on. reporter: little else in political world right now and some republicans suggest the no-show president means the white house believes barrett will lose. walker is less direct. i don t know what it says but i think it s interesting two years ago the president came in for our opponent and not here now. on friday he made three stops in the twin cities to my understanding and three stops in chicago so hard to argue he wasn t nearby. reporter: barrett has seen a lot fewer star players and a lot less money but camp obama suggests its committed. after all what better way to say we are with you than money and scores of lawyers. we have poured money into that race. our entire field operation is committed to it and hundreds of lawyers up there for voter protection programs. so, you know, we re invested in it and very much in the corner of mayor barrett. reporter: the recall race was born out of governor walker s first budget which sought to deal with an expected 3.8 billion dollar shortfall a plan that included stripping most public unions of collective bargaining rights. the state capital was a wash in union-led protests and quickly medicine by tea party counter protests. in the end walker got much of what he wanted and democrats set about getting twice the number of signatures they needed for a recall race. barrett accuses the governor of being out to destroy unions and put himself on the map. scott walker wants to make this a national race because he wants to be on the national stage as the rock star of the far right as the poster boy of the tea party. reporter: republicans say walker who, by the way, has a 51% approval rating is a guy who said what he meant and meant what he said. you can t keep operating a government that spends more money than it takes in. so scott walker is one of these special people that have made promises and kept promises. reporter: whatever happens, the wisconsin results will be translated as a proxy race for the fall presidential campaign. it will go something like this. walker s survival is an early bird signal of the grassroots conservatism and opening in wisconsin for mitt romney. walker goes down and it is a rebuke of the excesses of conservatism. a defeat for the tea party. and a sign that wisconsin remains solid obama territory. candy crowley, cnn, washington. it s a celebration that is only fit for a queen. today some of the biggest names in music prepare to serenade her majesty. tell you about that coming up. if you re heading out the door take us with you. watch us any time on your mobile or computer. head to cnn.com/tv. an accident doesn t have to slow you down. with better car replacement available only with liberty mutual auto insurance, if your car s totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. to learn more, visit us today. responsibility. what s your policy? 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[ laughs ] hey! two days of festivities down. two more to go as britt pulls out the stops. today there is a big party and concert at buckingham palace to celebrate her 60 years on the throne. about a million people watched over the weekend as the royal family led a seven mile long flotilla of a thousand boats. joining me is mark saunders, royal biographer. a spectacular sight this weekend! wasn t it just? even though the weather tried its best to ruin the day, it certainly wasn t a washout. a triumphant for the queen. the big party another party begins in less than an hour. the main event this time is this jubilee concert. who is performing? and you who did people snag the tickets for this? well, the ticket were handed out in a ballot. you simply applied and if you were fortunate enough, you received a ticket. but the guest list, the lineup is incredible. it s headed, i say headed but it s paul mccartney and sir elton john are the top of the tree. then just got all sorts of artists. one of the queen s favorites is there and some of the younger. jay ellis will be there and robbie williams and galaxy of stars. for some reason, people seem to think the queen isn t into contemporary pop music which is wrong. she loves this show and why she asks for many of these performers. she certainly is looking forward to this one as we all are. aw. i was going to ask you the queen is into paul mccartney. you say she is because you know what you re talking about. has this celebration lived up to expectations so far? i think it s exceeded expectations! it s funny, because many times i ve been asked that in the last few days why has this happened? why this incredible and popularity the queen is enjoying now? i think it s simply long last, a country has got a chance to say thank you to her 60 years unblemished leadership she has shown and a tremendous reign where she will be remembered as one of the greatest monarchs of all time. this really is a chance for the country to say thank you and celebrate with her in what probably is the last major event of her reign. i see pictures of the princess. i just love her! the princess. how would you compare this event to the royal wedding in terms of how excited people are? do you know what? i think they are remarkably similar to be honest. the royal wedding there was that element that something was happening that you could watch a little bit like her. i guess a sport, event, or something. you had a start, a finish. whereas this is four days of simply celebrating. a four-day party. but the atmosphere i ve just come off the street 15 minutes ago. the sun is shining now. it s incredible. there is actually more flags flying in london today than there were this time last year at the royal wedding. i suppose because the wedding was centered around the abbey. it is a similar atmosphere. i think people enjoyed last year so much they wanted to do it again this year as well. it was fun. i ll admit. mark saunders, thanks for joining us this morning. thank you. the long weekend of festivities marking the queen s 60 years on the throne will reach its climax tomorrow. join us live from london at 9:00 a.m. eastern tomorrow. now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question for you this morning, should american retailers stay out of politic? when did retailers become like super pacs throwing their support behind political causes across the spectrum? most recently, target. its now selling t-shirts to raise money for the family equity council. a group fight ago proposed same-sex marriage band in minnesota. isn t the first time a retailer has put itself in the middle of a controversial political issue. remember who whole foods ceo john mackie opposed president obama s health care law and put it in the newspaper? who could forget this bennetton ad that featured these pictures. even the pope kissing each other on the lips! but political engagement doesn t come without risks. after jcpenney hired ellen degeneres as a spokesperson a group called her a boycott but jcpenney didn t blink. its father s day catalog features a same-sex couple with kids. some retailers are getting gun shy like gander mountain. gander mountain a long time supporter of national rifle association pulled out of nra sponsored event for wisconsin governor scott walker. it cited, quote. their varied interests is a reason why. the talkback question today is should american retailers stay out of politics? 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the dow has now erased all of its gains for the year. yep. we are right back to where we started in january! all of those rallies, remember that dow 13,000? all that have is gone! the nasdaq and s&p 500 they are down 10% from their recent highs. so they are officially in correction territory. carol, don t be surprised if you see the bargain hunters out today scooping up those beaten down stocks as they are right now. i m glad to see the plus sign there and makes fee feel a little better. account federal reserve step back to stimulate the economy like it did during the recession? reporter: it can. that s a good question. it certainly can. especially after we have seen several other weak reports on the economy. but, you know, the loudest cries we have had for the fed to do something is after lousy jobs report and combine it with a slowdown in economic growth the first three months of the year and krous are louder. wall street could get clues on thursday when ben bernanke speaks before a senate committee. they are hoping where the fed stands now on another round of monitor monetary stimulus. critics say let the economy try to revive itself on its own. carol? alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange. i m carol costello. other story watching right now. thousands of people are gathered in hong kong to remember the fierce government crackdown against prodemocracy activists in china. 23 years ago ago today tanks rolled through tiananmen square crushing the protest movement. they say the number to die was likely in the thousands. lawyers for george zimmerman will file a new position for a bond hearing. zimmerman shot trayvon martin what he calls is self-defense. the judge revoked his bond saying zimmerman lied about his financial resources during his hearing. house minority leader nancy pelosi is promoting hillary clinton for president in 2016. clinton insists secretary of state is her last job in government but that isn t slowing rumors. in an interview in the san francisco chronicle, pelosi said, clinton, quote, she s our shot. how times have changed. the legalization of marijuana once unheard of in most every political corner is now pretty much mainstream and it s an issue that can win elections. last month, democrat ellen rosenbloom, a marijuana supporter, won the oregon democrat attorney general primary but in a landslide. in texas, a former el paso councilman sent spuneomeone els packing. he won based largely on his support of legal marijuana. is this a case of crazy dudes out west or a sign of politics lagging behind public opinion? although mitt romney certainly doesn t think so. aren t there issues of significance that you d like to talk about? this is significant issue in colorado. the economy? the growth of jobs? the need to put people back to work? the challenges of iran? we have got enormous issues that we face but you want to talk go ahead. medical marijuana. i oppose legalization of marijuana and oppose legalization of other kinds of drugs. and so does president obama. cnn contributor lz granderson and will cain are here t talk about this. welcome to you both. good morning. good morning. according to a gallup poll last fall, a record 50% of americans think marijuana should be legal. lz, i ll start with you and not for any reason. i m just going to start with you. the dreadlocks, let s be honest. will we hear about marijuana in the upcoming presidential debates? god, i hope not! i really do. mitt romney is absolutely right on this. we have too way many more important things to talk about. i will admit i swung by the store today to pick up some visine to make sure my eyes weren t red because my allergies were bothering me. i had the dreadlocks going and i don t want your viewers to think you hired a pot head to talk about pot. i m sure they didn t think about that all. will, 50% of americans think marijuana should be legalized and many more americans think medical marijuana use should be legal. is this a sign of things to come as in soon? not any time soon and not a part of the debate on the national stage and i m sorry for who that might disappoint. you played a clip of mitt romney there. president obama has cracked down on medical marijuana dispensers. while she saw hope in president obama thinking he might not, you know, come down and crack down on even medical marijuana use the truth has proven much different. the key word is hope, not dope. seriously. in colorado, a lot of young voters are for the legalization of marijuana. president obama depends on young voters this time around as he did last time around. some in colorado saying they will affect him in the state. wirks they are idiots basically. if you re voting for any president on one single issue, especially one issue that is so peripheral such as marijuana usage, you re an idiot. i don t want to mince any words here. we have way too many important things to talk about as mitt romney said earlier and the president said earlier. if you re basing your vote on who is going to be president on whether or not they let you roll up a joint, then you re an idiot and you have no reason to vote any way. let s talk about the war on drugs. some say that, you know, the continued illegality of marijuana is affecting the war on drugs in a way. if we legalized marijuana, maybe we would win. look. hey, i will tell you this. i don t have the exact statistic right in front of me but i believe 60 percent of the mex condrug cartels profits are fed by the sale of marijuana and i think a logical argument to think about cutting the profits out. any business you cut 60% of the profits out of it you re going to hurt them. you know, the drug trade is more than just about morality and a great debate on the morale it s of freedom versus advice and it s about economics and crime and what illicit drug use and drug sale more specifically does to the crime in the united states. i think there is an excellent debate to be had about that. okay. so will that kind of debate come up in the presidential debates? no, no! i m trying to be clear! no! no way this debate comes up. no way. listen. president obama s actions will tell you why this won t come up and lz called it a periphery or a marginal issue. look. president obama has made a political calculation the marijuana vote just isn t big enough out there. or he doesn t want to look like he is soft on crime. regardless his actions are telling you this will not be an issue to be debated in this presidential election. last word, lz. i think what we are really seeing in terms of the 506% number you talked about earlier with the gallup poll is the public becoming more educated. we won t be talking about this presidential election and my not talk about it in 2016. as we understand the relative long-term uses of pot use you will see this a part of the conversation as alcohol was years ago ago. we are getting smarter about it and we don t have the time to talk about it right now. thank you both for the discussion, dudes. thank you. thank you. they call it bieber fever. and it has nothing to do with pot. it just hit madison square garden. he sold out the garden, that s 20,000 seats in 30 seconds! showbiz headlines next. announcer: with nothing but his computer, an identity thief is able to use your information to open a bank account in order to make your money his money. 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i feel sorry for the parents in america. you know their kids want tickets! exactly. whoo! let s talk about the mtv awards. i watched them last night and there were jokes about justin bieber. not tasteful but that sort of the mtv awards. that s russell brand himself, a little on the edge. a little bit after surprise but not lining the hunger games which was kinds of the winners last night. lost to some small independent artsy films. the best picture award went to, of course, the twilight saga which has been a big winner at these awards show. this award is chosen by the fans who vote online during the show and a lot of twilted fans out there apparently but the hunger games won four awards last night including best male and best female stars appearances. it also won best fight. the mtv music awards the best fight pretty big deal. that s like best supporting actress at the oscars. i like the category best dirt bag. although i didn t understand the jokes before it. it was just weird. nichelle turner, thanks. you re welcome, darling. she will be back with us next hour for more showbiz headlines. forget everything what you told your kids about snow white. this movie is a different story. 14 clubs. that s what they tell us a legal golf bag can hold. and while that leaves a little room for balls and tees, it doesn t leave room for much else. there s no room left for deadlines or conference calls. not a single pocket to hold the stress of the day, or the to-do list of tomorrow. only 14 clubs pick up the right one and drive it right down the middle of pure michigan. your trip begins at michigan.org. 46 minutes past the hour. checking top store jis now. the biggest wildfire in new mexico s history is getting bigger. authorities telling people with health issues to stay inside to avoid the smoke. wildfires burning in six other western states. george zimmerman hopes to get out of jail sometime today. his lawyers have requested a new bond hearing. zimmerman turned himself into florida authorities yesterday. the judge revoked his bond saying he misled the court about his money situation. he is charged in the death of va trayvon martin and he says he acted in self-defense. a new survey says expect to pay more for electricity including electric cars. they say electric cars will eat up 7% of the nation s power supply by 2025 and your monthly light bulb increase significantly and blame it on rules requiring more renewable energy that cuts pollution. president obama is teaming up again with former president bill clinton to do some more fund-raising. they will be in new york city today. clinton is an important surrogate and big help when it comes to raising money but he and the president aren t always on the same page. our white house correspondent brianna keilar reports on the complicated relationship between the two. reporter: as president obama s campaign tries to make a liability of mitt romney s past experiences as the head of a private equity firm, bill clinton talking recently by romney apparently didn t get the memo. i think he had a good business career. there is no question that if in terms of getting up and going to the office and, you know, basically performing the essential functions of the office a man who has been governor and had a sterling business career, crosses the qualification threshold. reporter: on the same team as obama, but reading from a different playbook. bill clinton s support is key to the president this election. though, their relationship, to put it mildly, has had its ups and downs. in 2007, bill clinton took aim at the then junior senator from illinois. you know, i m old-fashioned. i think really a president ought to have done something for other people and for his country. when you pick a president. reporter: president clinton questioned obama s inexperience. i mean, when is the last time we elected a president? based on one year of service in senate before he started r running. reporter: in early 2008 obama entered iowa and had a feud with the former first couple. i m here, he s not. i can t tell who i m running against sometimes. the two men have never been especially close but appointing hillary clinton secretary of state helped heal some wounds and since taking office, obama has looked to the popular former president for help. hosting him at the white house during contentionus negotiations with congress in 2010. reporter:. i have a general rule. whatever he asked me about my advice and whatever i say should become public only if he decides to make it public. he can say whatever he wants. what do you think? reporter: obama hopes president clinton can woo voters in the south and some other states. the obama campaign is featuring clinton in ads and hitting up his healthy donors. they appeared at a fund-raiser together last month at the home of long time kleinon supporter terry mcauliffe raising $2.1 million. so have the two really moved past the bad blood of the 2008 election or is this just a show because both are strong democrats? reporter: well, i understand they have moved past it, carol. i don t think you would say that they are best friends. but certainly things were very tense there following the 2008 s were tense there following the 2008 election before president obama came into power. bill clinton s source tells me, really held a grudge against president obama more than hillary clinton did. but as they transition did, obama into power, that was smoothed over, as i mentioned in the piece, because hillary clinton was appointed and bill clinton appreciated how she was treated through the process. but really the role that president clinton is trying to play here is through the reminder after better economic time under a democrat. he will be sort of saying, i know what it takes for there to be a good economy and president obama is doing the right thing. and fund-raising, carroll, very important. there will be three fund-raisers this evening. president obama and clinton together likely bringing in millions of dollars. brianna keilor reporting liver for us from the white house this morning. want know what life is like on the campaign trail? 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democracy. they have the ability to drown out the will of the people and also to buy our political leaders. this from kathy. yes. they need to stay out of politician. shopping is no longer fun escape. it s okay no i can t stop heror there because they support this or that. just be rae tailers and give us all a break. more comment in the next hour of newsroom. and coming up in the next hour, remember flipper? yes, he was the crime fighting dolphin. scientists have come up with a speaker that mimics the sounds of dolphins and one day they might be able to talk with dolphins. really. in about 40 minutes, i ll talk with charles choi of live science.com with b this amazing device. y milk. cream. a touch of sugar. and pure natural flavors. coffee-mate natural bliss. from nestle. add your flavor naturally. and this is what inspires us to create new technology. technology that connects us to everything the world has to offer and vice versa. technology that makes lightweight stronger, safer, and faster than ever before. technology that makes electric electrifying and efficiency exhilarating. technology that doesn t just drive us, but drives progress. and driving progress is what we do every day. tiger woods made an amazing shot, but the big question is, does this mean the old tiger woods is back? we re waiting to find out if he can take that next spet and jack nicklaus says he may have seen the greatest shot ever yesterday. a big warning for one of tiger s rivals in the u.s. open. 16th hole. if tiger hits this in, the ball goes flying into the drink, he has no chance of winning. instead he drops it perfectly on to the green and into the cup. tiger birdies three of last four holes including an exclamation point. this one at 18. tiger woods wins the memorial with the win. he is tied with nicklaus himself with 73 career titles. winning list first major since everything fell apart. nba, game four, celtics and heat. came down to the last shot. lebron james and dwyane wade playing well. rondo with 16 assists. lebron james fouls out with that shot in overtime. he can t believe it. so the heat need it find a way, without lebron, to get the basket. dwyane wade, no, at the buzzer. celtics win. series tied at tw games a piece. game five tomorrow night. carol calling it a joke, how about that? i m from cleveland, all right? check out jimmy johnson wsh wearing the rainbow wig yesterday before nascar. it is about promoting the sponsors. one of his sponsors, madagascar 3. one of the characters wears a rainbow wig. and johnson himself celebrating with the rainbow wig. his seventh win at dover. that looked really funny. maybe the movie will be funny too. i m sure it will. and i m sure you will be going now that you have a child. we love madagascar in our house. i bet do you. thanks. cnn newsroom begins right now. and good morning to you, i m carol costello. just ahead in the newsroom, a hot bed of nastiness and political hype and barometer for the nation five months before america votes for president. air tanker crash, a sign our nation s firefighters may not be properly eequipped to fight wildfires. and facebook junior. facebook wants your kids. how the social media giant is working on new technology so a younger generation can sign up. plus,- i love that show, flipper. scientists say we may be able to talk with flipper and all of the other dolphins in the sea, really. but we begin this morning in wisconsin. one of the battle grounds of 2012 is the state of wisconsin and tomorrow is the first big showdown. that s when voters decide if they want to recall republican governor scott walker and replace him with tom barrett, the democratic mayor of milwaukee. walker was pushed into the recall by people angered at his cutting of union power and bargaining rights. cnn s ted rollins goes in-depth and he joins us live from madison, wisconsin. what is the voter turnout expected to be like, ted. huge, carol. they are expecting record numbers in terms of voter turn out. they are seeing money being poured in here and you said it earlier, the core of this issue is unions. that s what has the nation watch and that s what has a lot of people in wisconsin on both sides very upset. we talk to two teachers. they are on opposite sides of this very nasty fight. michelle and john are teachers in madison. craig clum is a teacher in milwaukee. they are on opposite sides of the political showdown in wisconsin. we met michelle and john 16 months ago protesting at the state capitol. they were furious with then new governor scott walker and his new bill to cut education funding and unions collective bargaining rights. our lines were turned completely upside down. emotions were raw. it was shocking. craig saw it from the other side. he thought walker s plan had merit. i think in the long-term, it will be good for the state. and for education. despite weeks of protests, walker s budget bill known now as act 10 passed. craig says he is one of only a handful of teachers that supported it. i m scared. but i think fundamentally it is going to improve the state of wisconsin in the long-term. and prove education in the long-term. i don t know anyone in madison or anywhere who would want larger class sizes, less resources being poured into the classroom. the difference is jobs. governor walker is in a recall election against milwaukee mayor tom barrett. people in wisconsin have been bombarded with political ads. largely funded by out of state interests. both pro and anti-union. news radio, so glad to have you with us. talk radio host jeff wagner says the last 16 months have divided the state like never before. he says there doesn t seem to be any middle ground. people are down to their last nerve. everybody is so intense about this. you hear it from the callers. and it s out there on both sides. wagner says at times the rhetoric has been ugly. listen to how our teachers both blame the other side for getting out of control. i m heard him refer to us a nazi. it s the other side, governor walker s side, who comes in and does taunting and poking and trying to insight fights. colleagues of mine make reference to republicans and tea party types as the barbarians at the gate. using the word nazi, yelling at my children, you re nazis, communists, socialist. the recall election is next tuesday. but whether scott walker keeps his job or not, the political battle of unions is far from over and other states are keeping a close eye on what happens in wisconsin. carol, a lot of people here in wisconsin, as you can imagine, are eagerly anticipating tomorrow just so this thing is all over. they literally have been bombarded by these ads for the laugh year. plus with with all of the money coming in from out of state. but they still have to suffer life of presidential election campaign ads through 2012. that s nothing compared to this. you re probably right. ted rowlands reporting live from wisconsin this morning. millions of americans revelled in one of the warmest winters on record. now a mean season is coming to collect. right now wildfires burn in western states. and the worst sixth fire is in southwestern new mexico. a quarter acres burned, that about 180 square miles. it is the biggest of the state s history. and it is even getting bigger. there are key concerns about a new fire tool used to combat fires in western a utah. an air tanker loaded with water made the second run of the day. both pilots were killed and the cause of the crash is still under investigation. also yesterday an air tanker had to make an emergency landing in nevada when its landing gear failed it lower. in this case, the crew was not hurt. both incidents underscore recent concerns that the planes themselves are in dangerous need of replace many. we don t know the cause of the crashes, but when you know that planes, most of them, are over 50 years old, you would think that at some point we need to replace these things. every firefighter will tell you, the war is won on the grounds, by the boots on the ground. but they need air support to win the war itself. and that fleet has been dwindling over the years. since 2000, we had a fleet of air tankers, 43. now eats down to 11. with this crash this weekend, now down to ten. we are dwindling the fleet. they have put resources into heavy helicopters and smaller planes, but heavy tankers which we need, won t be around for too long. politicians are angry about this. they seem to think that the service itself has what it needs but are misappropriating money. oregon senator says this, he says despite the magnitude and destructiveness of recent firefighters, the forest service has allowed the air tanker fleet to atrophy. you know, what they do is they take old planes. we re not building planes that are specifically designed to fight fires. we take a p-2, an anti-submarine plane from the 50s, and rhett tro fit it to fight fires. now the newer planes from the 80s, old european airliners, and retro fit those for the fire service. thanks. a third day of protests today. outrage over the stemming from the vie leapt crack down against demonstrators in this very spot. many died. bu mubarak got a life sentence for ordering killings but many say he should have gotten the death penalty. to hong kong where 100,000 people are expected to remember to remember the government crack down against pro government activists in china. tanks rolled through tiananmen square. 241 people died, including soldiers. but some say that number is more likely in the thousands. could be a bumpy day on wall street today. stocks tanked overnight in asia, mix aid cross europe and pretty much flat here in the united states. alison kosik, is at the exchange. they fell for the second month in a row then you pile on to the weaker than expected jobs report and you see how the economy is really losing momentum. that is what wall street is worried about. guess what? other economies aren t doing much 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himself in yesterday. in money news you may feel it in your wallet the next time you pick up your suit from the dry cleaners. that s because the united states in vietnam. the biggest exporter of wire hangers with new trade penalties for unfairly subsidizing exports. dry cleaner operators say they may have no choice but to pass the higher cost on to you. in weather, the northeast is bracing for a cool down. a cold air pattern will bring temperatures down into the 50s and 60s this week. straight up. oh, yeah, look at this, peter. in sports, see that guy before? the old tiger woods appears to be back at the memorial tournament in dublin, ohio. he not only won with a sensational chip m late in the round, also tied the golden bear jack nicklaus s victory with 73 pga victories. castro has been a thorn in america s side for more than half a century. now daughter of president raul castro is making waves. she is injecting herself into u.s. politics. in an exclusive interview with cnn chief international correspondent christiane amanpour, castro says she would like to see president obama re-elected. did you expect more from president obama or has he gone as far as you expected him to go on the cuban issue? do you think he wants to lift the embargo and that there could be proper relations from cuba and united states under a second obama term? translator: i believe that obama is a fair man. and obama needs greater support in order to take this decision. if obama counted on the full support of the american people, then we could normalize a relationship, we could have better relations than what we have under president carter. do you want obama to win the next election? translator: as a citizen of the world, i would like him to win. seeing the candidates, i m pro obama. christiane amanpour joins us from new york to talk more about her exclusive interview with mary ella castro. give us your initial thoughts of her, what was she like? she was absolutely frank. and mariela castro was granted a visa to come to the united states by the state department specifically in her role as leader of gay rights and gay activism in cuba. so she went to a conference in san francisco, she came here to new york and she was speaking all about that. and i questioned here quite deeply about that. but of course within that context i questioned here about civil rights, political rights, in her own country, in cuba. it is very interesting what she has to say. she is the second generation and she is agreeing and acknowledging that there need to be changes. her own father, raul castro, who is now president there, implemented this economic freedoms, economic progress there because they know they have to change. but everything that castros say is reflected through the lens of the 50-year embargo. when you ask about this or that or opening up, it is about well, you know, we want to, we re trying. we re moving. but we are understand this 50-year embargo from the united states. and that makes it much slower. that s their reasoning. as you know, christiane, republicans and conservatives aren t happy that the obama administration let her into the country because of human rights abuses taking place in cuba and her dad is a dictator. well, listen, carol, as you know, this is not new. the cuban-american community has always had angry relations with the castros. but as you also know, that is changing in terms of the dynamics of the relationship between the different demographics. if you look at the pls, much younger cuban-americans have a very different view and much more pope to changing this policy, which all of us know has simply not worked. the embargo, if it was intended to break the back of the castros and have them fall, has simply not worked. so president obama has tried to do things and as you know, she was invited in, or rather not invited in, but allowed to come in, not just under president obama but under president bush as well. the last time she came was 2002. we did ask her very very pointed questions about all of the issues that make people outside of cuba question what s happening there. and this interview is going to air on cnn. so it is a long and interesting interview. and her what she said about president obama was reflected from the fact that she admires what president obama s done for the gay community in this country. particularly has latest statement, supporting gay marriage. okay, so a final question. so should president obama be happy about her endorsement? you know, i m sure a lot of political a lot of people in the political sphere will make a big deal about this. but the fact of the matter is that she is sort of talking about what most people would like to see happen in cuba. whether or not it happens, we ll wait it see. but about change. and i think that is an interesting area to explore. christiane amanpour, thank you so much for joining thus morning. and welcome back. love having you. thank you. facebook is coming for your children. right now, kids under 13 are banned, but mark zuckerberg and company are reportedly working to change that. so is that a good idea for, say like a 6-year-old, to be on facebook? we will talk about that in a few minutes. that bringing you better technology helps make you a better investor. with our revolutionary new e-trade 360 dashboard you see exactly where your money is and what it s doing live. our e-trade pro platform offers powerful functionality that s still so usable you ll actually use it. and our mobile apps are the ultimate in wherever whenever investing. no matter what kind of investor you are, you ll find the technology to help you become a better one at e-trade. now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories today. the question for you this morning, should american retailers stay out of politics? when did retailers become like super pacs anyway, throwing their support behind political causes across the speck truck? most recently target, it is now selling t-shirts to raise money for the family equity council. a group with a same-sex marriage ban in minnesota. this is not the first time a retailer put they re selves in a political issue. remember when whole foods ceo put an ad out? and photo shop pictures with president obama and and nette yu and the pope kissing on the lips. it s father s day catalog featuring a same-sex couple with kids. but some retailers are getting gun shy, like gander mountain, a popular hunting gear store stor. gander mountain cited quote the diversity of gander mountain customers and their very interest, end quote, is the reason why. should american retailers stay out of politics in facebook.com/carolcnn. i ll read your comments later this hour. donald trump is now fating off charges he is a racist and he is bringing up arsenio hall s name, hoping to prove his point, hey, i m an racist, i have black friends. my political buzz panel ready to jump into that fight. 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will? at least with respect to the obamacare stuff, nothing. that s based largely on politico report that house republicans want it keep the preexisting clause put forth in the affordable care act. that being said while that might be a political popular thing to put out there, it is not a feasible thing. you can t have that clause while getting rid of the individual mandate. it is a prescription for killing insurance companies. so house republicans i would doubt very, very seriously are behind that. regarding tax raises with spending cuts, that seems to be inevitable if there are real reduction measures in place. and i think to see guys like jeb bush accepting reality. maria? i think will is right in terms of the healthcare act. you can t have alls of those things that the republicans now know are great and there would be a huge backlash if they were to repeal it without a huge mandate. however they are finally paying attention to the polles with have seen time and again where the american people are blaming americans for the fact that they been the obstructionists and nothing is getting done for congress and they blame them more so for being an ideal logically pure and not helping president obama resolve the things we need to resolve. okay on to the second question. at a fund-raiser friday, president obama said he is hopeful that republicans will snap out of their fever and cooperate with him after he wins reelection in november. he said, quote, my hope, my expectation is that after the election, now that it turns out that goal of beating obama doesn t make much since because i m not running again, that we can start getting some cooperation again, end quote. question, will an obama win or loss cure congress s partisan fever? maria? well, i would say let s hope so. for the sake of the country and for the sake of the american people and i ll go back to the first question. a lot of americans blame republicans for that intrance generals. let s not forget mitch mcconnell s statement that their number one priority is not to resolve american problems but to beat president obama to make sure he was a one-term president. if he wins reelection then that is off the table. so let s hope that it is something that happens and let s hope that it does help cure the gridlock in washington. right now americans mostly blame republicans for it. will sh. yeah, i think by the definition of bipartisanship, as maria just laid it out, it is me agreeing with everything she says. it is like obama said, this is just a result of wanting to get him out of office. as though there are no ideological differences. that the real issue here. we have different ideas about solutions to our problems. president obama believes a bigger role for the healthcare mark seat solution while people like me believe the free market does a better job. he believes in more government stimulus. i believe in less. this isn t solved by kumbaya bipartisanship. all righty, he was fiery on that one. he does. okay our buzzer beater, 20 seconds aefrp. oh, the donald. when he was considering a run for president last year, he said, quote, i have a great relationship with the blacks. now listen to what he told a grup of republicans after some question whether he is a racist after this whole birther issue. somebody said oh, because i brought up the birth certificate, i m a racist. i said, how could i be a i just picked arsenio hall. i can t believe i m asking you this question. please don t. then don t. . i have to. so will the black friend defense work for the donald? will? no. no. but look, will it work to do what? i have never bought into the birther nonsense. largely because, well, it s nonsense. but i m also not going to do this thing where birtherism equals racism. they are not one in the same. i think there are some people bought into stuff. it doesn t have anything to do with president obama s skin. don t mix two things as if they are exactly the same. while there could be overlap. i agree somewhat with will in that the birther issue does not i think equal racism. though i do think that trump doesn t get the blacks or the browns and is not comfortable around any minority. i think mostly though, i go with george will and his statement about what he thinks about trump, which is that he is just a a bloviating ignoramus. we have it stop the madness. maria cardona, will cane, thanks so much. the radio business syndicated talk show host neal boris says he will retire the same day as presidential inauguration and he will be replaced by herman cain. cain previously hosted a night time talk show on wsb radio in atlanta. oh, neal is a good friend of mine. so neal, happy retirement. a celebrate only fit for a queen. today some of the biggest names in business sayre nasayre natin her majesty at her diamond jubilee snb we want it celebrate richard dawson. he died over the weekend. he was 79. we would like it remember him in his natural habitat, so to speak. he kissed every female contestant on the show. of course, he was also a star in match game and played corporal newkirk on hogan s heros but the feud and his signature line made him a household name. you need 15 point for $10,000. our survey said oh, we call it the bundler. let s say you need home and auto insurance. you give us your information once, online. 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that s the hope. i mean, they just complete a prototype a few weeks ago. but they did test it and they could go from whistles and clicks to the burst pulse, barks that dolphins can create. the hope is to do it, this, me tarzan, you jane. so we can improve our communication with dolphins. so are they more intelligent than saying with dogs barking or apes screeching? well, scientist do know that dolphin kes create what are called signature whistles. and those are basically these less than one second whistles that are names. and that s how mothers can tell their infants, this is your mother. and when i call out my name, you know, you should come to me. and dolphins all have these whistles. okay, so explain to me the difference. because can you name a dolphin, like they do at sea world, and does the dolphin come by name just as i m speaking? and if that s true, what do we hope happens when we put that device under water, just to have like an actual conversation with the dolphins? well, we know that dolphin kes name themselves. so it is interesting to see they can also mimic the sound of others. so it ll be interesting to see if they can name other dolphins. and maybe they are say, well you know, fred the other day just caught some mackerel. maybe we should good over there. no way. and check out what he is saying. no way. we don t know yet. but now that we have this technology, we can find out. all of this speculation can be tested now. so flipper really could fight crime from underneath the ocean. well, the navy does use dolphins to help hunt down mines and other things. so yeah, crime-fighting dolphin could be the wave of the future. it is really cool. i hope it works. thank you so much. same here. thank you for joining us this morning. thank you, carol. facebook wants younger friends. they want kids under age 13 to sign up. why the change of heart? 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i, i like soda a lot but for a change of pace. facebook is looking for younger faces. right now you have to be 13 or older to sign up. but the wall street journal is reporting that facebook is working to let younger kids join. so we wanted to talk about this. christina war he is not here. she is with the social media news blog. hi, christina, how are you? hi, how are you. i know a lot of teens and younger on facebook, they just lie about their age. yes and that s what facebook has said publicly in the past that kids are on facebook so they would like to have a way for them to be on, in a way that kids under 13 could be on legally and in way where parents could monitor what they are doing. since many of them are on any way. in a more responsible way. tell us, how would facebook junior actually work? right now what the report is saying, and we have reached out to facebook for comment but they haven t responded to us. but what the wall street journal is saying is that parents would have approval over kids signing up, what apps they could use and what users they could friend. parent would have control over what parts of the site that the kids have access to and kid would have more of, i guess, approach to the site. we have had issues with rife privacy issues on facebook so i m not sure parent would want their 6-year-old on facebook. and the privacy concerns are a big issue as are issues of kids revealing more information than maybe their parents are comfortable with them revealing. i think that a good model that facebook could look to is the club penguin network that disney has. it works well with kids in the 8 to 11-year-old range. it offers a way for kids to have a great social experience on-line but built in filters that prevent them from sharing information and other filters that prevent the conversation from going into an area that parent might not want. okay. let s say facebook actually does this, how does it protect itself from liability? i think what they are hoping to do is hoping to petition the government to review the children on-line privacy protection act or copa, which says that kids under 13 can t join on-line networks. if they can get laws relaxed and make it clear that parent have to sign up and that certain provisions regarding user date why and privacy are kept in check for kids under 13, that s how they can get around different liabilities that might take place. final question, doesn t this all come down to money and making more of it. yeah, i mean, it large degree it does. facebook want users to be as young as possible on the site, so as they get older, they are better advertiser targets and customers for other services. i think there is validity to the point that kids are already on facebook, so it is good to have it in a way to be safer and monitored more closely. thank you. doctores who treat breast cancer say a new drug appears to do a better job than the standard treatment for women with advanced breast cancer. it attacks cancer cells and does so without killing healthy skills. and does not cause hair loss. should american retailers stay out of politics? 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amassing delegates. more than 400 so far. that s way ahead of santorum. gingrich and ron paul who failed to win a single state last night. but the race still has a long way to go. tonight we re doing some counting. we re counting up the delegates for the convention. it looks good. we re counting down the days until november and that looks even better. ohio may not have offered the most delegates last night, but it could be the most telling. and with romney scoring a razor thin victory, some say it speaks volumes about santorum as well. our political editor paul steinhauser is in columbus, the state capitol. paul, what should we take away from ohio? reporter: i tell you, carol, it s deja vu all over again. remember how romney had a close call in michigan, his home state a week ago. same thing in ohio. look at the vote totals. mitt romney won the state by only about 12,000 votes. as you said, razor thin. this was a very tight margin. romney had the same problems according to the exit polls here in ohio that he had in michigan especially with very conservative voters. no knockout blow for mitt romney on super tuesday in ohio or elsewhere. he did win about half the delegates up for grab. a pretty good night. not a great night. what about rick santorum? take a look at the numbers from tennessee. here are the vote totals for him. he had a big win there. nine points. that was a lot bigger than the most recent polls indicated. santorum also won oklahoma and a surprise victory in north dakota. listen, santorum looking okay because where does it go from here? kansas. that s on saturday. then mississippi and alabama. three conservative states. woops, let me get that. little windy here, carol. little windy here. rick santorum, okay. i m still alive. thank goodness. reporter: look at the vote total from georgia. as the lights almost fall down on me. look at that. 21-point victory for gingrich in georgia. he said i have to win georgia to keep going. he did. he didn t do so well in the other states. for newt gingrich a win in georgia was enough. take a listen to what his daughter said after his victory. well, the reality is, if mitt romney was the candidate that people wanted, he would have had the nomination by now. that s the way it should have worked according to them. that s the way it would have worked. that s not who the conservatives want. reporter: and what about ron paul? let s give him a little time as well. he deserves it. he did not win a state. he thought he was going to win north dakota. he did not. he got delegates. that s what he needs to carry on. everybody came away a winner in some way, shape or form on super tuesday and here s another thing you can bank on, this race is going on at least until late april, maybe a lot longer. carol? all right. paul steinhauser live in columbus. run. run to safety now, paul. it s big picture time. political director mark preston is here for that. so romney wins ohio by the skin of his teeth and we know romney spent millions and millions of dollars to win ohio. rick santorum, did he even spend a million dollars? he did but he certainly didn t spend nearly as much as mitt romney did to pull out a squeaker in ohio, carol. what does that mean? i got off the phone with a very prominent republican. i won t say this person s name because they wanted to speak freely. they are very concerned about mitt romney just barely pulling it out in ohio. the fact of the matter is ohio is a very important state. if mitt romney is to be the nominee, if we are to believe that he will amass the delegates, then they re concerned he could be very damaged going against president obama. let s talk about voter turnout. i was reviewing numerous papers in ohio online. most of them said voter turnout was at best modest. at worst low. so what does that say? because this has been a very divisive primary. it hasn t been exciting and it s engs sighting for us to follow. if you re a republican, you re not inspired by the infighting that we re seeing right now between mitt romney and ron paul, between mitt romney and rick santorum, between newt gingrich and rick santorum. all this infighting is really frustrating the republican party. mark preston, thanks for joining us this morning. i know you had a long night. we appreciate it. history has shown that there s a lot of truth in saying, as ohio goes so does the nation. let s break down the actual voting in ohio. cnn s christine romans joins us with exit polls. christine, tell us what ohio voters were saying as they left the polls. they were saying that they wanted a candidate who could beat the president. they wanted a candidate who s elect abl. they were also telling us that they re concerned about the economy. when you look at the exit polls, what do you see from these faces, carol? these are where candidates won a category. rick santorum won several of them. mitt romney came out on top. i want to talk first about the top issue and the top candidate quality for those people who were going to the polls. the top issue, the economy. 41% of those who said that the economy was their top issue went for mitt romney. 33% went for rick santorum. let s talk about who can beat the president. and that, according to folks who said it s the most important quality, 52% of those people said romney was their guy. rick santorum coming in at 27%. ron paul, has such a die hard base, doesn t he? in ohio he was polling in the single digits for many of these. carol, it s interesting as well because when you look at income, this is something we ve seen kind of again and again. and it kind of plays into i think this idea that mitt romney is not like the average joe, right? when you look at income, romney does well with people who have more money. $100,000 plus those people went to mitt romney to the tune of 46%. when you go do you know the income bracket, now they re calling them the sam s club republicans. the 50,000 to $100,000 a year income earners. it s santorum, not mitt romney. you go down the income chain, it is still santorum above mitt romney there. you see kind of all of these things in the exit polls, carol, that give you a little slice of what s happening there. but, there you go, he took it barely, but he took it. the female vote was also interesting because they split. everybody thought that women would flee from rick santorum, but they really didn t. and it was a week too where i feel like republican women must have been watching so much that was happening in the news and that they were hearing on the radio and republican women really were they really dominated the headlines this week, don t you think? with so many of the different issues, rush limbaugh, the contraception issue, rick santorum and his social issues. i feel like there s a lot for republican women to consider heading into the fall as well. you re absolutely right about that. let s talk about another republican woman, shall we? sarah palin. she said if it leads to an open convention, she d be open for running for president. she spoke to cnn after casting her vote. if the open convention question. if we wind up with an open convention and someone wants to place your name, throw your name into the hat, would you stop them? would you be open to that? as i say, anything is possible. and i don t i don t close any doors that perhaps would be open out there. so, no, i wouldn t close that door. and my plan is to be at that convention. so there you have it. who did palin vote for? she voted for newt gingrich in the alaska caucuses telling fox business network he best represents the ideas of many alaskans. a u.n. official is on the way to homs, the syrian city that s been battered for weeks. the goal is to get relief workers into the hardest hit area so they can get supplies in. wounded residents out. those workers have been blocked from the area again today. yesterday syrian forces destroyed a bridge that wounded refugees used to escape into lebanon. president obama reportedly is helping syria s opposition. he s cautioning against rushing in with force. it is my belief that ultimately this dictator will fall as dictators in the past have fallen. but the notion that the way to solve every one of these problems is to deploy our military, you know, that hasn t been true in the past and it won t be true now. we ve got to think through what we do through the lens of what s going to be effective but also what s critical for u.s. security interests. it is believed at least 8500 people have been killed in syria since the government crackdown began. there is more discussion though going on this hour about syria and what the united states should do. senator john mccain, as you know, has called for airstrikes. defense secretary leon panetta and martin dempsey are talking about omptions. the chairman is speaking. pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us. barbara, what should we expect to hear from panetta and dempsey, let s say? reporter: this hearing just getting underway, as you say, carol. chairman levin, the senator from michigan, just opening it up. look for secretary panetta and general dempsey, the head of the joint chief, not to step anywhere outside the parameters that president obama has laid out. they are going to stick to the u.s. policy right now which is no use of military force. that is likely to set off senator john mccain, the ranking republican, of course, who has been calling for airstrikes. mccain is saying the situation in syria is so dire, the people there suffering so much, so many killed that this is now the only appropriate option and that airstrikes are one of the key ways you re going to convince bashar al-assad that he cannot win in this conflict against his own people. and you know what, you ve been hearing the administration say for so long now is that assad could, could hang on for weeks, months in this assault against syrian civilians if something isn t done. you re going to hear panetta refine that a little bit. you re going to hear panetta say that the regime will come to an end. it may take a while, but he s going to talk about the fact that it is inevitable, it s just not going to come to an end at the hands of the u.s. military, at least not right now, carol. you re listening to that hearing. we ll let you go. barbara starr, many thanks to you. newt gingrich, the newt gingrich delegate tally got a huge boost last night after he won the state of georgia. he didn t light a fire in other states. why is he still in the states? 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and remember then when it was michele bachmann? and then it was our good friend, herman cain the first time. and then for a brief moment it was donald trump almost. and then it was our good friend rick perry. then it was herman cain the second time. and now it s santorum. and you just can t quite get across to them. it s all right. there are lots of bunny rabbits that run through. i am the tortoise. i just take one step at a time. okay. so we all like the story of the tortoise and the hare. really? rabbits underfoot. there are really two reasons, i think, newt gingrich is staying in the race at this point. one is the broad reason. the forces that used to drive candidates out of campaigns are no longer as powerful as they once were. the things that used to force candidates to stop were they were denied attention and money. now with cable television, there s infinite attention. with the internet and super donors, there s a lot of money. so structurally races are going on longer. it s no coincidence that we could have a second consecutive race that goes all the way to june after we didn t have one from 1984 to 2008. more narrowly the other republicans in the field are thinking if they could stay in this race, fractionate the delegates, prevent romney from getting to a majority on the first ballot, they ll have leverage. if everybody stays in they can t overcome him but they can get him from having a first win. sarah palin said she was available. she said just that a couple of minutes ago. mitt romney is probably desperate for newt gingrich to get out of the race. i heard what you said, but is there any way that mitt romney could convince mr. gingrich to step aside? not sure i agree, carol, because romney is benefitting from gingrich dividing conservative voters, especially in the south. you know, this race, like 2008 on the democratic side, really has some deeply cut groves at this point. mitt romney is consistently running well among what i call the managerial wing of the party. voters who are more after fluent, better educated, more moderate. mitt romney and rick santorum are running best under the populus wing. evangelical christian, very conservative. to the extent they stay in it helps romney in a divide and conquer strategy, especially as we go to states like mississippi, alabama, texas where romney will have a tough time. so that means rick santorum would like newt gingrich to drop out. yes, he would. rick santorum is doing well. what can rick santorum say to newt gingrich or will he say anything? well, each of them at various points have said this to the other. gingrich made the argument to santorum after south carolina, you should drop out. they both want to argue that the conservative movement of the party needs an opportunity to coalesce behind one candidate to stop romney and that that should be me. the problem is, is that there s really no leverage to kind of put behind that charge when you have the ability of a candidate to stay in the race with the funding from a single person effectively in the case of newt gingrich. ron brownstein, thanks for stopping by. we appreciate it. thank you. the markets take their biggest hit of the year, but a bounce back may be coming this hour. really? we ll head to the stock exchange after a break. plus a royal workout for britain s prince harry. his fast paced care rabin tour, that s a setup, man. we ll be back. sno . 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[ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less. march lee, stories now. happening right now on capitol hill the senate arld services committee holds a hearing on what s happening in syria. john mccain has called for airstrikes against syrian government forces and for arming the rebels. defense secretary leon panetta and joint chiefs chairman martin dempsey are testifying today and talking about possible options. six soldiers from the u.k. are missing and presumed dead after an explosion in southwest afghanistan. a british official says the soldiers were on patrol in an armored vehicle in the held man province when it hit a land mine. back here in the u.s. gas prices have dropped for the second straight day. it comes after weeks of rising prices. the national average stands at $3.76. super tuesday has given way to what does it all mean wednesday? john avlon of newsweek and the daily beast is here. so mitt romney wins six states. rick santorum wins three. and the bell weather state of ohio mitt romney, well, it was at best a squeaker. i wanted to start off by talking about voter turnout in ohio because, john, it wasn t exactly strong. it was at best modest. reporter: that s right. i mean, but had is a story we ve been hearing over and over throughout this primary process, carol. turnout has been down in the vast majority of states. a couple of notable exceptions, south carolina. ohio was flat lined. some argue it was a slight bump. the point being is there is a persistent enthusiasm gap among this republican field. when they ve got all the attention on them, there s no competing democratic primary to draw voters, especially in the open primary states without voter registration, these candidates have failed to inspire. that becomes a real problem not just for the primaries. the exit polls were really interesting because romney did better with ohio catholics than santorum did. santorum did better with women than many pundants believed. is this a primary election that defies analysis? reporter: well, you know, if you look at these exit polls, a couple of things are clear. the divisions we ve seen between mitt romney and rick santorum represent the divisions of really the fault lines underneath the gop. tea partiers go for rick santorum, nontea partiers go for mitt romney. also an important class economic divide. voters making over $100,000, those are mitt romney folks. under $100,000, they voted for rick santorum. there are some fault lines, clear divisions that play out between the two candidates. what one candidate has to do is show the ability to bridge these divides to you night the party from establishment and tea party wing in order to have a credible case to lead the party into the fall where they have to pf foit from the far right to the center to make a case for independents. the fact that romney did better than santorum for women i think is a cautionary tale for people who want to stoke the fires because they can alienate more people than they attract. mitt romney got most of the working women, 43% if i remember correctly. you think this will be a protracted race, oh, yeah, so how long can we all enjoy the fun? reporter: well, you know, this is an issue of math, not momentum. narrative momentum seems to be how we follow these races, but the reality of how you clinch a nomination, it s all about delegate math. mitt romney is in the lead now, 404 delegates. he needs 1144 to secure that and that could take until at least may or further. what s different this year is that the rnc in their infinite wisdom decided to make the vast majority of contests proportional rather than winner take all. the other candidates can stay in the race because of super pacs can chip away. if they can t win outride, they could deny mitt romney the ability to clinch the delegates needed to have the nomination before tampa. this is all going to still unfold. the next couple of states are socially conservative, not generally mitt romney territory. we re in for a wild ride still coming up. john avlon, thank you. john king will have a special interview with rick santorum tonight. that s tonight at 6:00 eastern only on cnn. there are some new names in the country music hall of fame. you probably recognize one of them. the hall honors more than entertainers. the new unduinductees coming up. we decided to build a 100 foot tlong double helix made out of 512 individually computer controlled, full color l.e.d.s and then connected all of that to moose sick sour to a music source. the light sequences were preprogrammed to play with the tempo of music. it was beautiful. look at our route map. and what do you see? 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[ male announcer ] one pill a day. 24 hours. zero heartburn. a well-known christian actor is in the middle of a discussion about same-sex marriage. some call kirk cameron intolerant. he says he s a victim of speaking his mind. a.j. hammer, host of showbiz tonight joins us from new york to weigh in on the issue. a.j.? well, naturally, carol, we ve been following this very closely this week on showbiz tonight. kirk cameron wound up kicking off this firestorm when he was speaking with our own piers morgan. first, let s listen to what he said to piers last friday. do you think homosexuality is a sin? i think that it s it s it s it s it s unnatural. i think it s it s detrimental and ultimately destructive to so many of the foundations of civilization. okay. as you would expect, that hasn t gone well at all among supporters of marriage equality, including many loud voices from within the entertainment world. we have been getting reaction from a huge list of celebrities, including his former growing pains co-stars. yesterday he responded to the controversy. he released a statement saying he spoke honestly and he added this, i can assuredly say that it s my life s mission to love all people. i should be able to express moral views on social issues, especially those that have been the underpinning of western civilization for 2000 years without being slandered, accused of hate speech, or told from those who preach tolerance that i need to either bend my believes to their moral standards or be silent when i m in the public square. cameron says he has gotten support from his gay friends, friends of all types, but the thing is, carol, the majority who who are speaking out, they simply strongly disagree with what he said and they re using their rate to make that known. what kind of comments like is he getting? is he getting death threats or just comments criticizing his views? i mean well, the biggest argument that i m hearing, star trek star george takei and i had a very long conversation about this the other night. what kirk cameron is largely speaking about are views of his based in religion which the marriage equality conversation is really a civil conversation. we re talking about civil law. so there s a little bit of a disconnect there, and that s the point that so many who are behind the marriage equality movement are trying to make. okay. let s talk about something happy. non-controversial. the country music hall of fame. it s inducted some new members and one in particular stands out. that is true. first of all, garth brooks is the performer who stands out this year, carol. you can say the name hargus pig rob bins is the one that stands out in this list of inductees into the country music hall of fame. i believe this is the first pig to get inducted. let me get back to brooks because he s sold more than 128 million albums. he was the artist that helped country music cross over into the mainstream. historically speaking, you look at his album sales, it puts him in the company of elvis and the beetles. the legendary country music singer pig rob bins and connie stevens getting honored for their terrific work throughout country music history. a.j. hammer, thanks so much. a.j. will be back with us in the next hour with more showbiz headlines. those who thought the 2008 mccain palin campaign was a soap opera will see it as an hbo movie. the stars are dead ringers for the real life counter parts. after a break, a question undecided christian conservative voters may be weighing. who would jesus vote for? 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our next guest says clues may be found in another question. who would jesus vote for. larry totten is the director of fixed point foundation and the belief blog, who would jesus vote for. larry, first of all, welcome. carol, it s great to be with you. great to have you. why has jesus been so prominent in this election season? well, i think that there are an awful lot of evangelicals and others who would certainly say that they ascribe to the teachings of jesus christ and quite naturally candidates want to court that particular voting block. so is this the kind of question, you know, who should jesus vote for, that christian conservatives should be asking themselves? well, i don t know if they want to ask it quite the way that i did. i was having a little bit of fun with that piece in asking the question. you may recollect the very popular bracelets, what would jesus do, and so i was having a little bit of fun with the question, who would he vote for. but i also wanted to provoke a little bit of thought among christians to reflect on what jesus s ultimate agenda was. was it political transformation of society or was it spiritual transformation. so which was it? i believe it was spiritual transformation. that isn t to say that jesus was indifferent to politics. i think that history shows that jesus s ministry, his earthly ministry, took place in a very highly politically charged atmosphere. he was ultimately executed for a political reason, sedition. that said, jesus didn t see governmental top-down transformation as his ultimate objective but, rather, he was seeking to transform society through bottom up, which was through a relationship with him. so, you know, i ve read your opinion piece and i wanted to know who would jesus vote for. so jesus was sort of apolitical but not. in your blog post you said that jesus was more concerned about changing the culture not necessarily voting people in or out of office. well, let me be clear. i m not trying to be coy here. i m simply saying that jesus ultimately didn t see pilot or tiberius who was emperor at the time of his execution as the ultimate source of the problem. political solutions are short term at best. if you change the hearts of men, you change the laws that they ultimately enact. and i think that evangelicals in this country, of which i am a part, i think have lost a little bit of some perspective of what christianity was ultimately seeking to do. being a republican wasn t what jesus was ultimately all about but, rather, he was seeking to convict men of their sin and to call them to repent tans and to transform society in that way rather than seeking some sort of short-term political solution. i think it s fascinating to observe, carol, how he condemned and accepted people from across the political spectrum. it was a great blog post. i enjoyed reading it. larry, thank you for joining us this morning. you can check out larry s blagojevich, who would jesus vote for on cnn.com/belief. i we re following a lot of developments in the next hour of the cnn newsroom. let s check in with paul stein hauser. we re going to break down what happened on super tuesday here in ohio and the other nine states, all that at the top of the hour. i m christine romans in new york, where we ve got very important information for veterans who have been foreclosed on since 2006. there s money coming your way. i ll have that at the top of the hour. i m barba starr at the pentagon. for the first time at this hour, we are hearing about u.s. military options for syria. but will u.s. troops go to war? we ll have all the details in the next hour. thanks to all of you. talk of war against iran is getting louder on the campaign trail. would it ever happen? we ll take an in-depth look at the possibility of a strike against iran and its consequences. that s just ahead, too. etiremen, especially in this economy. but with three kids, being home more really helped. man: so we went to fidelity. we talked about where we were and what we could do. we changed our plan and did something about our economy. now we know where to go for help if things change again. call or come in today to take control of your personal economy. get free one-on-one help from america s retirement leader. peyton manning turned indianapolis into a football town, and jeff fischel is here, it s a sad end. what are fans going to do now? remember as a franchise the colts were a mess years, decades before peyton manning showed up. he is truly the face of the franchise, a legend on and off the field. there s even a children s hospital named after him. now, after 14 seasons, his days as a colt are over. we expect an emotional news conference two hours from now, when manning and colts owner jim irsay the team is off the might be for a $28 million bonus. the move also clears the way for the heir apparent, andrew luck, with the first pick in the draft. some have called him the best college prospect since peyton manning. manning has been working out since suffering a neck injury. he still wants to play. this will no doubt lead for the biggest free agent sweepstakes in nfl history. where do you think he ll go? a lot list of teams would sign up, but the question is how healthy is he? i m guesting at least a half dozen teams will. the new orleans saints have admitted to having a bounty program. sean payton and gm mickey loomis say they take full responsibility for it and it will never happened again. gregg williams was in charge of the bowenies. the nfl reported friday that they paid defensive players for injuring opponents during the 2009 through 2011 seasons. college hoops, feeling the madness, it s conference championship week. south dakota state jack rabbits against the leather necks, opening tip into overtime. that s tommy tyler on the dunk, but the jackrabbits jump back. the jackrabbits wince, south dakota state takes the summit league title. the first-ever tournament bid for the school. harvard going back to the dance for the first time since 1946. western kentucky, with the sunbelt. detroit goes in as the hidesen league champs. i like that nickname, the jackrabbits. thank you. selection sunday is just four sundays away. we want you to join our bracket challenge. see if you can pick the winners better than most of usisms including her. including me, yeah. a second radio station drops rush limbaugh from its lineup. more advertisers pull his ad, and limbaugh s critics are not pulling any pumplgs. here s cnn s jeanne moos. remember the days when the s word was a punch like? jane, you ignorant slut. human cold shower rush limbaugh. poster boy for contraception. rush limbaugh, four wives, he his no children dude, you are birth control. reporter: cartoonists put him in a viagra bottle, represented him as the pig, and did the rush limbo. at the detroit free press mike thompson is running a cartoon caption contest. entries so far inclusion open mouth, insert career. who says i m an inflexible bigot? and moot foot is such a slut. i was called a slut because i was doing coverage in the middle east. what year is this, limbaugh? shut we re cake hole, please. and remember he only apologized to keep his advertisers, proving rush will do anything with his mouth for cash. reporter: some conservatives say the left is out how hush rush, to silence him. what political party is he a part of? he s a whore. yikes. all this name-calling. as for the name of the law student insulted by rush, sandra fluke, rush calls her susan fluke susan flake. susan fluke, sandra fluke, whatever her name is. reporter: koin dentally a bronze bust is scheduled to be enshrined in the state capitol alongside governors, mark twain and walter cronkite, with you kaj walter reporting on this? he s actually a very good person. i m sure he will be just fine. reporter: while rush is facing the music, someone was actually listening to the music playing ever so low during rush s rant. what does it say bl the college cosaid. that s peter gabrielle s song sledgehammer. he doesn t want rush using it anymore, even if the music video does feature a sperm. jeanne moos, cnn. jane, you ig norcht slut, right? reporter: new york. it is the morning after super tuesday. the voets are in, but the jury sure is still out. so mitt romney captures six states, claiming the mathematical victory. and nearly snagging the biggest prize, ohio. this morning romney claimed but he is amassing delegates, wait of clearly this race has a long way to go. to get an idea of where it may be going, we turn to our political editor paul steinhauser. he s in the capital of ohio. so, paul, romney barely won. does that make a difference? it does. you can see that s pretty darn tight. just around 12,000 votes. look at the exit polls. for people who said beating barack obama, president obama is the most important issue. mitt romney over 50% on that one, so that happened. also on the economy, romney keeps touting himself he was ahead of the other candidates when it comes to who was best to handle the economy, but carol, there are troubles also for romney here in this state. they indicate he did not do that great with very conservative people, with people who call themselves born-again christians. carol, some positive, definitely some negatives for mitt romney here in ohio. he was sounding pretty confident, and in five other states. what did he say? reporter: he sure did sound confident. 419 delegates up for grabs, he won about half. this is a battle for delegates. here s what he said. tonight we re doing some counting. we re counting up the delegates for the convention, it looks good, and counting down the days until november, and that looks even better. reporter: as you said he s far ahead of the rest of the field, 1,144 is what you need. in the short term, the calendar is a little tough for him. kansas on saturday, mississippi and alabama on tuesday, conservative states tough for mitt romney. paul steinhauerer, reporting from columbus, ohio. romney did win the most states. each of his challengers went before the supporters and vowed the fight will go on. thisfuls a big night tonight. lots of states. we re going to win a few, we re going to lose a few, but as it looks right now, we re going to get at least a couple gold medals, and a whole passel full of silver medals. this is amazing. i hope the analysts in washington and new york, who spent june and july explaining our campaign was dead, will watch this tonight and learn a little bit from this crowd, and from this place. reporte . if you look at the candidates today, there is very little difference, except for one. here s a glimpse of some campaign travels today. newt gingrich will travel next door to alabama, making several stops in the state. rick santorum stumps in kansas and in mississippi. let s look at some more at the super tuesday outcome with our political director mark preston. romney wince six, gisantorum wi three and gingrich with one. we re just a little bit further down the road. this could end up in a fight. mitt romney probably has the edge of taking the nomination. what is next? what does he do now? he needs to raise money. the big question is will he write himself a personal check? he has a big operation, the largest of any of the candidates right now. it s a good operation, but expensive, and he also needs to run tv ads. he needs to make that appeal to the conservative voters, the rural voters, all categories he lost last night. cnn caught up with sarah palin last night. she had some interesting things to say. in umber one she voted for newt gingrich. but what she said after that was really interesting. i m not sure if we have the sound, but what was great about sarah palin is she was very forth coming about her political future. in fact, let s take a listen. anything is possible, and i don t close any doors that perhaps open out there, so, no, i wouldn t close that door. my plan is to be at that convention. okay. she plans to be at the convention. what might that mean? so the question to her was very interesting. if someone threw her name in the hat to be the consensus candidate if the republican party can t get behind mitt romney, rick santorum, newt gingrich, would they pull somebody out of nowhere, and would she turn down any efforts to do that? she said no, which means she clearly want to be in the game big question is what role will she play and what night will she speak? mark preston, thank you. head to our website for a complete wrap up and a look ahead to the rest of the gop race, your best place for politics, cnn.com/politics. president obama heads to the battleground state of north carolina this morning. the president narrowly won the state in 2008, which has been hit hard by the economic downturn. the president will be talking about the economy at a daimler trucks manufacturing plant. cnn plans to carry his remarks live his comments should start around 12:45 eastern. a u.n. official is on the way to homs, the syrian city that s been battered for weeks. the goal is to get relief workers into the hardest-hit areas, to get in supplies and get the wounded residents out. you can see what s happening there. eight workers have been blocked against from that area. now an opposition group says dozens of tanks are heading to the city of ed lib. senator john mccain has called for air strikes. barbara starr joins us now. you ve been monitoring this hearing. tell us what you re hearing. well, carol, this is turning out to be a historic hearing. we are finally seeing defense secretary leon panetta, martin dempsey, in the hearing room laying out publicly for the first time the pentagon views on what to do, what not to do in syria. panetta is telling the committee as we speak that military intervention by the u.s. is not an option. the president has already said that. they are looking for an international coalition. dempsey is laying out the issue of what the options might be if the u.s. were to get involved in syria, and president president was to finally order u.s. military action. i want you to listen to a little bit of what dempsey is telling the committee. you mentioned the principal options, which would include humannary release, no-fly zone, humanitarian corridor, and limited aerial strikes, for example. we ve we re at what i would describe the commander s estimate level of detail, not detailed planning, have not been briefed to the president, have been discussed with the president s national security staff. so as cnn has reported for the last several weeks in fact behind the scenes, the u.s. military has been planning those options being ready in case the president were to ask for them, but general dempsey went on in some military detail to talk about how tough this is. what he talked about, in syria, you have five times the air defenses, radars, missiles, to be able to shoot down incoming planes, five times as much as libya, ten times as much as coalition pilots dealt with back in the war in bosnia. that s how tough it would be for u.s. pilots to fly into syrian airspace. so we re beginning to see the cards laid out on the table really for the first time in some detail. the one place dempsey wouldn t go in public is what do you do about syria s chemical and biological weapons if they were to fall under non regime s hands. talk of war grows louder on the campaign trail, the likelihood of an attack and its consequences next. two oregon police officers are hailed as heroes for their actions at this horrific accident scene. their story is next. 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[ female announcer ] sometimes, all you need is the smooth, creamy taste of werther s original caramel to remind you that you re someone very special. werther s original caramels. have more fiber than other leading brands. they re the better way to enjoy your fiber. iran, israel, nukes in the united states, it s a real world worry. to use a cliche, it s become a political hot button. i think there s no doubt that those who are suggesting or proposing or beating the drums of war should explain clearly to the american people what they think the costs an benefits could be. so what would the costs and benefits be of a military strike. joining me from new york live to talk about that, michael levy, a senior fellow at the council on foreign relations. thank you for being here. good to be with you. michael, if the united states decided to take some sort of military action against iran, what would it look like? if the united states decided to take military action against iran, it would be from the air, not on the ground, and it would probably be targeted primarily at nuclear facilities, particularly the once involved in enriching urannium. then the question would be how much broader? some would call for attacking a wider range of nuclear facilities, some potentially near urban areas. others would call for expanding the campaign, particularly to suppress air defenses, but also to take down iranian capables that might be used in retaliation. so iran would presumably defend itself and its alleged nuclear facilities. so how would it do that? well, certainly aren t alleged nuclear facilities. we northeasterly they are nuclear facilities, the question is to what end are they being used? we don t know how iran will act. one camp says they will lash out, using their proxies hezbollah, or even try to block the strait of hormuz. another camp says if the initial strike from they might decide to hold back so that the conflict didn t explain to a higher level. the problem is once you started ball rolling, you don t know where it ends up. so would other countries join in the fight? it s not clear whether there would be much practical wisdom to having other countries join in. the most likely scenario is israel by itself. if the united states went ahead, it would be an air campaign where frankly the political challenges of looking with other cunning to have their forces involved would probably outweight the benefits that accr accrue. if iran moved openly to produce highly enriched weapons-grade urannium for one or more bombs, you can t certainly imagine the rallying of political support for a military campaign, but as far as the actual assets in the air being used in a strike, i find that unlikely as an outcome. let s get to the bottom line. what are the pros and what are the cons? the pros are fairly clear. iran with nuclear weapons or close to having nuclear weapons would be dangerous in the region and could encourage, almost certainly would encourage others in the region to pursue their own programs. so a military strike by setting back the iranian nuclear programs would remove some of that risk. the cons are also stark. a military acts might look limited to start with, but could easily get out of control, hurting not only the region, but the global economy. there s really no. either way there s a lot of risk. michael levy, thanks so much for joining us this morning. we appreciate it. newt gingrich, the self-described tortoise of the race, georgia is now in his win column. where does he go from here? that s coming up. plus help on the way for struggling homeowners, but how many will be getting help from president obama s new housing plan? that s also coming your way, next. just adopted a rescue panther. i think i m goin-. shhh! we find that we don t need to sleep that much. there s an easier way to save. geico. fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more. i get congested. but now, with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breath freer, so i can love the air. [ male announcer ] zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed. i care about my car because. i think it s a cool car. i think it s stylish and it makes a statement at the same time. and i ve never had a car like that. people don t totally understand how the volt works. when the battery runs down the gas engine operates. i don t ever worry about running out of battery power. because it just switches over to my gas engine. i very rarely put gas in my chevy volt. i love my chevy volt and i ve never loved a car. polls suggested that newt gingrich would win his home state big, and the polls were right. dominated for the one super tuesday victory. here s what he had to say after. remember when it was tim pawlenty who was going to crowd me out? remember then when it was michele bachmann? and then it was our good friend herman cain the first time. then for a brief moment it was donald trump almost. and then it was our good friend rick perry. then it was herman cain the second time. now it s santorum. and you just can t quite get across to them, it s all right. there s lots of bunny rabbits that run tlum. i m the tortoise. i take one step at a time. got a lot of applause for that line. matt helped gingrich with his campaign in the 80s and 90s, so you know him better than most people. yes, i do. he wince georgia big, but does lousy in every other state. what s the end game? it has been to try to develop a southern strategy. he partially did that last night. he did have a huge win in georgia. he wasn t expected to do well at all in tennessee in early polls. so he did better than expected, and certainly did better in oklahoma than expected. to say that was a huge night for newt gingrich would be stretching things. he s still in the race, though. he will not get out. he s going to go to alabama and mississippi. he now has secret service protection, so who knows where he goes from there. he s hurting rick santorum the most. if santorum said, newt, c mon, you re killing me. i m not privy to those conversations, but if gingrich does get out, it would be likely because they simply run out of money. if that does happen, anything is up in the air. i know that one of the problems for santorum and for gingrich is that they have developed sort of personality dislike for mitt romney. i m not speaking for gingrich, but i know from the feeling of the campaign. i was always taught in politics you treat it like business, you don t ever take it personally. i don t know what these guys think they re going to get from barack obama if they get the nomination, but it will not be valentines and candy. so in that sense newt is a touch guy, he can take it, but at some point, you get closer to texas but you re say newt gingrich is allows his personal feelings to dictate what he does. i don t think right now it would be a good time for them to get together for a cup of coffee. newt is a big boy, he s been in politics. he dealt with bill clinton, and actual le they got along well. so anything can happen. what we have right now is a big prize, texas, but it will be way down the road. now turned into winner take all and santorum and gingrich are looking at that, saying without i could get a big number, then try to strip florida and arizona, because they moved ahead, but you ve got to have momentum to do it. i ve seen this guy pull a lot of magic before. whether he can do it again, we ll wait and see, i guess. the way delegates has been awarded has changed. yes. they re not awarded proportionally now. yes. it used to be winner take all. yes. what has that done to this primary? it s made it more difficult. romney is clearly the front-running candidate, but his delegate lead is not as substantial had we seen winner take all. that s why we keep hearing talk of no one having a majority going into a convention, which, by the way, would be a huge problem. that convention is at the end of august, that would give the nominee two months to try to take on barack obama, not a good scenario. should i even ask about sarah palin? well, like i said, anything can happen. matt, thanks so much for being here. sure. some homeowners will be able to refinance their mortgages more easily and cheaply under a new plan. christine romans joins us live from new york to explain it all. who is eligible? let s talk first about lowering the fees on fha-backed refinancings. many of them are low income. you can have a mortgage rate above 5%, but because of the fees they ve been unable to refinance into something cheaper. the president wants them to save up to a thousand dollars annually, two to 3 million people here, fha-insured loans. the government says contact your lender. ball they re going to know. a second group here. people who are veterans who were foreclosed on sometimes after 2006, carol, the government is going to review, the banks are going to review every sing veteran foreclosure since 2006. if you were wrongly foe closed on you get lost equity, a bunch of interesting and eligible for a penalty from the banks who foreclosed on you. so some important information there. also if you re a service member who was relocated and you had to eat a huge loss in your house, you bought the house from july 2006 to december 2008, you may be eligible there as well for that equity to be paid back to you. of course there are terms and conditions, but there are laws and rules to make sure or service members are protected from the shenanigans of the banks we have seen again and again. if you think that s you, visit your armed forces legal assist assistance office. sarah palin drop a bit of a mini-bombshell that has people talking. forty years ago, he wasn t looking for financial advice. back then, he had something more important to do. he wasn t focused on his future but fortunately, somebody else was. at usaa we provide retirement planning for our military, veterans and their families. now more than ever, it s important to get financial advice from people who share your military values. call now for our free guide and tips on planning for your retirement this tax season. let s get a check of the top stories right now. the senate armed services committee holds a hearing on the crisis in syria. john mccain has already called for air strikes against syrian government forces and for arming the rebels. defense secretary leon panetta testified for us to act u.n. lat real would be a mistake. six soldiers from the uk are missing and presumed dead after an explosion? southwest afghanistan. a british officials says the soldiers were on patrol in the helmand province when it hit a land mine. gas prices have dropped for the second straight day, only 0.3 of 1%. the national average stance at $3.76 a gallon. political buzz is your rapid-fire look at the best three questions, 30 seconds on the clock. pete dominic, talk show host on sirius/xm, and the chief political correspond for pot tick 36 a 5, and crystal wright is the editor of the conservative black chick.com. welcome to all of you. actually it was about half of what it was four years ago, but up from what was expected. why aren t the folks rocking the vote now? folks are rocking the vote. republicans are rocking the vote. they re going after their supporters, but make no mistake. by the time we hit august and have a gnome near, republicans will rally around our nominee, and as one voters in ohio said, he would vote for a dead dog over barack obama. oh, man, jason? look, the reality is most of thinks voters aren t that enthusiastic about the candidates, but enthused about getting rid of barack obama. what will be interesting, what does this mean bl mitt romney in ohio? i this could be a problem in the fall. the thew y5678 is not there on many gop side. pete? no one has rocked the vote since the 80s. we ve got to lose that, carol, but to quote a woman, the former first lady barbara bush, said this is the worst campaign that i ve ever seen, the most white bread, crust off lineup of candidates. if you can spitfire and brimstone and say satan is attacking america and still not be interesting thank you. it s super tuesday, it s all about the candidates, right? not when sarah palin is around, here is the exchange that s getting the buzz. reporter: it s the opening convention question. if we wind up with an open convention and someone wants to throw your name into the hat, would you stop them? be open to that? as you say, anything is possible. i don t close any doors that perhaps would be out out there. so, no, i wouldn t close that door. my plan is to be at that convention. so here s my question to you. do you think sarah palin is serious, or has she become a donald trump-like figure who scrounges around for publicity? look, she s lost all credibility when she decided she didn t want governor anymore. she mass enough political influence as josiah barlet from the west wing. she even showed her endorsement doesn t matter. she s following the candidates and the cameras, but not anybody influential heading into the fall. crystal? i think it s a dumb convince and once again an taempt to vilify republicans. she doesn t have to crowned for for media tangs. the media is afraid of her, she s a political figure, she energizes the base, she s been pivotal in getting out the vote, will continue to do so in the fall, and xaert her to dompd trump is insultling. she was governor of alaska and ran as vice president of the united states with john mccain so, you know oh, i my hair is on fire. trump is a stooge, sarah palin is an activist. use you are time is up, i m sorry. carol, you know not to make hair on fire joe exwhile i m sitting here. that s hurtful and wrong. she s been legitimate frankly by some bizarre happenstance. is the only reason why she remains legitimate is we like to follow her around with cameras. she s unique, different, and she says bizarre things, but she s really never been i don t think a respected leader in certainly an intelligent way. hold on. how is saying you ll run for president hey, we re getting to the third question now. last night dennis kucinich lost his primary after a redistricting fight. his was a liberate among liberals and a self-proclaimed ufo eyewitness. what will you miss most about this guy? i don t see there s anything to say. i m sure my two liberal colleagues will say it s such a sad loss. it s a sad day when he says he ll move to washington to protect his job, just like barack obama. more interested in his well being than the constituent he was supposed to serve. good riddance and good-bye. jaysen? you can t miss what isn t there. the problem is he s been infinitely more interested in running for president. he brought russell simmons to west cleveland to campaign on his behalf. i m not going to miss him that have, but i think democrats will miss a lot of liberals. the left is missing out. pete? say what you will, he had a tremendous ahmet of integrity wasn t honest. he s like ron paul in that way. he had a lot of intelry and will be missed. it s sad we focused too much on him as a a joke. 4 el wasn t influenced by the special interests. he voted against the iraq war, by the way. thanks to all of you for a spirited discussion. it is early spring. for the past couple years that has meant the launch of a new launch from apple. ng products to let you shape shift your look from straight to curls. to up-do. the new herbal essences stylers this shape shifts everything. i get congested. but now, with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breath freer, so i can love the air. [ male announcer ] zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed. a little bird told me about a band. an old man shared some fish stories. oooh, my turn. she was in paris, but we talked for hours. everyone else buzzed about the band. there s a wireless mind inside all of us. so, where to next? all rumors wouldn t die, because they were true. snooki is making it official. she is is indeed pregnant. while many of you may ask, who cares, clearly a lot of people do. one of them is a.j. hammer. it is a big story, or is it, a.j.? i care, carol. i care. hey, listen, if you follow jersey shore this is a huge story. millions do pay attention to the crew for better or worse. we had snooki denying the pregnancy rumors, but we have the official statement. it says nicole snooki is pregnant. she is thrilled to finally share her happy news with her fans. i don t know what this means jersey shore moving forward as a show or really for her planned spin-off series, but carol, whatever you think of her, some reality stars are big news, they are big business, it s not going away anytime soon, so i would suggest put your hair in a poof like snooki. i ll try that tomorrow. maybe it will improve things for me. let s talk about the hbo movie that turned the campaign into a movie. i saw the film, i got a preview, and i don t know, it seemed to me to be one-sided, but the actors did a terrific job. 23 you saw it, you know the ultimate reaction will probably pretty clearly be split along party lines. he said if you re a palin fan, you re going to hate this film. if you think that palin wasn t qualified to be vice president, you ll come out saying julianne moore did a terrific job. the film portrays palin as someone way over her head on a national stage, unable to master basic facts. at one point almost having a nervous breakdown. while the people behind the film admit it s a drama, not a documentary, they argue it s based on the facts in the book game change. interestingly enough. i would suggest watching the movie with your partisan friends. if you watch it with a person on the other side of the aisle there will be a big fight during the movie and after. i can only imagine the drinking games already than going to come from this film. i do expect big, big ratings. it s certainly a hot topic. want everything breaking in the entertainment world? a.j. has got it tonight. it s early spring. for the past couple years, that has meant the launch of a new ipad from apple. this year is no different. plus wind and sand come together in california, making driving almost impossible. more details after the break. [ female announcer ] want to spend less and retire with more? at e-trade, our free online tools and retirement specialists can help you build a personalized plan and execute it with a wide range of low cost investments. get a great plan and low cost investments at e-trade. checking stories cross country now. blowing sands closed parts of i-10 and other roads in palm springs, california. winds up to 50 miles an hour combined with the swirling sand reduced visibility. in miami a cell phone captured an off-duty officers hauling mattresses on her cruiser. she was fined for the embarrassment she caused. shah same officer had been disciplined 19 times. the $336 million jackpot is the sixth biggest ever. louise why took the lump sum payout, bought the ticket as an afterthought after buying her son some rainbow sherbet at the store. millions of college grads will be heading out into the workforce in a few short months, but the job market is tough. a new study shows when it comes to wages young people are getting hit hard. alison tell us more. guess what? el won t be getting paid as much the entry-level wages for a male college graduate dropped 11% over the past decade. for female wages fell almost 8%. in comes at an important time in their lives. about you it winds up having a huge effect on their lives, because it takes longer for them to pay off their student loans. it limits how much money they can spend which essentially hurts the economy. most importantly it means the ladder to sections is taller to climb. it s tough out there, carol. it sure is. when we talked to you last hour, you were hinting at maybe a rebound. is it happening? a little rebound. not very much. stocks are in the plus column right now. but yesterday s concerns about the economy, they re carrying through to today. this week we ve gotten several reports about countries showing slowing growth. one thing to remember, greece, believe it or not, is still not out of the woods. everybody is still waiting to the private bondholders to officially agree to restructuring the country s debt, that deadline happening on march 20th. we did get an update report on the job market, so that s keeping stocks in the green for now. there s bus in silicon valley again this morning, thanks to many ale. we ll take you there. 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[ female announcer ] to nurses everywhere, thank you, from johnson & johnson. glue story we re working on, barring a major surprise, a noon eastern news conference, the colts will announce they are releasing peyton manning. 12:45 eastern, talking about the daimler truck manufacturing plant in north carolina. a battleground state with high unemployment that obama narrowly won. at 1:00 eastern, apple is expected to unveil its ipad. dan simon is our silicon valley correspondent. he s in san francisco, a couple hours ahead of that announcement. dan, what usually gets people talking are new features. what are we expecting from which new ipad? reporter: carol, i ve been to a lot of these evends, and it s always mads in, alleges a lot of fun. just to put things in perspective for a minute, when theivity pad first came out, there are there were a lot of nay sayers, people didn t think you would need another device. we can tell you this is apple s biggest-selling device of all time in the company s 35-year history. that s not true only for appearing, but all for consumer electronics. the question is, what will be in the latest ipad. well, we can expect the usual upgrades, better screen, faster processor, faster data connection. those are the things we are expecting. the question is will there be some secrets here? the invitation to this event said you ve got to come here to see and touch. a lot of people are making hay out of the fact that they included the word touch there might be some sort of tactile feedback so it may seen you re it may feel like actual keys on the typewriter as opposed to the screen, so we ll be seeing in a couple hours, but it s always a lot of fun. i know, i can t wait myself. when can we buy it? reporter: well, usually the pre-orders go on sale in the next day or so, and then by the time you see it in the stores you re looking at one to two weeks. what apple has really done very well, as we all know, you paid several hundred dollars for the last unit, many people will feel like they have to upgrade and shell it out for the newest version. . the fda has a warning for people who use tests have found mercury in products sold in seven states. here s the list, texas, california, virginia, maryland, minnesota, illinois and new york. the products are mostly sold as kirsch lighteners, targeting latino, african-american, and middle eastern neighborhoods. mercury in high doses can damage the brain and kidneys. a blast from the political past. you remember joe the plumber on the sidelines of the campaign, now he s on the front lines in 2012. we will explain after a break. splenda® essentials™ no calorie sweetener with b vitamins, the first and only one to help support a healthy metabolism. three smart ways to sweeten. same great taste. splenda® essentials™. the priceline negotiator went down in that fiery bus crash. yes i was. we lost a beautiful man that day. but we gained the knowledge that priceline has thousands and thousands of hotels on sale every day. so i can choose the perfect one for me without bidding. is it hard for you to think back to that day? oh my, this one has an infinity pool. i love those they just. and then drop off, kinda like the negotiator. president obama stole some of super tuesday thunder. our political director mark preston joins me again. you want president obama accomplished what he said he did do it for political reasons. anyone who thinks he didn t is political naive. he talk about what s going on in syria and iran, what he did what was supposed to be a day about republicans became he used the pulley pulpit to be critical of republican rivals, and did a pretty good job, which just goes to show you so you say that was an unusual thing to do. why have presidents in the past not done this? well, but they have in many ways. the fact of the matter is, you use whatever tools are at your disposal. and barack obama will use the white house. some people think it s tactless, but the fact is it s effective. yeah, joe the plumber, who made a name for himself back in 2008 won a primary jed. he s going to face marcy kaptor. it will be a hard election. she s been in office forever. a long time. she just beat kucinich in the primary. a huge upset. dennis kucinich will not be in the congress next year. a look ahead to the rest of the gop race, your best place for politics, cnn.com/politics. let s head downstairs. kyra phillips, good morning. good morning. it s 11:00 on the east coast.
successfully represented jackson. this drug is not like a prescription medication. it s not like a pill to help you go to sleep. it s not like an antidepressant pill. this is different from prescribed medications and this is something that is powerful, dangerous, and should never be in a home. we plan to bring you portions of opening statements that will be live when things get going. well, another high-profile trial is winding down. attorneys for amanda knox will make their final arguments. they are hoping to overturn her murder conviction. knox is expected to speak as well. prosecutors claim that knox slit her roommate s throat during wild sex. libyan fighters say that they have seized the port of sirte today. moammar gadhafi controls most of the city. this is one of the areas not under the control of libya s new leadership. washington dodges a government shutdown. lawmakers have a deal in hand to pay the federal government s bills through mid-november. a final vote expected next week when the house returns from break. the spending bill is upheld because they could not agree on funding for fema. president obama is pitching his new jobs bill in denver at a hollywood fund-raiser last night he refinded republicans that they were in charge in the run-up to the economy s big meltdown. we knew that because this has taken years to build up it was going to take some years to fix. so the question that we have to face now is not whether people are hurting. everybody knows that america has gone through a very difficult time and there are folks all across america still struggling. the house of blues fundraiser was one of seven that the president attended on this trip. joran van der sloot in a taped confession describes how he elbowed stephany flores in the head and strangled her with both hands in a hotel room. so it is true, and i am going to ask you this, and you can say yes or no, did you kill stephany tatiana flores? yes. you killed stephany tatiana flores, right? his lawyer claims that he killed her after she discovered information from natalee holloway in aruba. workers are dangling off the side of the washington monument, inspecting each block of marble. damage from last month s earthquake is worse than last thought. the monument is shut indefinitely. you can see where it shakes violently. despite the damage, the washington monument is structurally sound. for the first time, the image of a living person on the stamp will be made. the trial is going to start soon in the trial against dr. conrad murray. he was jackson s personal doctor and was with him when he died. ted is outside of the courtroom in los angeles. what do we expect in these opening statements? reporter: well, martin, each side will have as long as they want in the opening and the prosecution is going to try to establish early their feel here, and that is that dr. conrad murray was just agrees jously off in his care of michael jackson and he should be held accountable for his death because he was giving him this propofol, this anesthetic used in a hospital setting. he was giving it as a sleep aid. the defense will try to portray their client as someone trying to help jackson to get over an addiction and they will tell the jury that over the next weeks you will see that our client was actually trying to help him, not abandon him. but help him get through this. whether or not this jury will hook on to one of these sides early on, you never know. but it s very crucial. the opening statements in a trial obviously and we ll hear those about 8:45 local. barring a delay. a case like this delays are always possible. 8:45 local, the scheduled start time for the opening. the jackson family has not come in. we saw the defense come in 30 minutes ago. ted, what is the atmosphere out there? how are the crowds? reporter: well, we take a look around here. you ve got michael jackson supporters who have been here in force for a lot of the hearings here and, of course, they were constant during the 2004 molestation trial in santa maria. there are also conrad murray supporters as well holding signs but the overwhelming majority, the media from around the world, cameras across the street. they are here, inside the courtroom. it s a madhouse with michael jackson at the center of it. do we know who will take the stand first. reporter: the first witness for the prosecution is teddy ortega. he was the producer in the this is it production. the prosecutors will use him to establish that jackson was in good health and it was the under lying circumstances that ultimately killed him. they will also show a clip from this is it. the defense will try to chip away at ortega and use ammunition that didn t come out in the alternative that jackson was in horrible health and that played a part in his death. ted rowlands, i m going out on a limb, but i think we will see a lot of you. thank you very much. we ll be monitoring the opening statements. if you want complete, live coverage, hln is there for you. here s your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. today s question is, does it matter to voters if donald trump or warren buffett endorses a candidate? carol costello has more from new york. carol? hi, martin. the donald is back. trump said they hit it off better than anticipated and don t forget the still to be determined it candidate, sarah palin who broke pizza dough with the candidate. take a look at their new ad which portrays romney and trump as two out of touch money man who favor the wealthy. pay special note to the private claim. mitt romney and donald trump are meeting today. well, they do have a lot in common. they have both done well for themselves. both support an economic plan that would help out the richest and big corporations but not the middle class. that would slash social security and medicare as we know it. cut funds for health care, research and development in schools. ouch. but not for the reasons thaw think. after calling the ad amateur night, trump told the wolf blitzer we re not keeping america competitive. we re not competitive at all. the world is laughing at us, wolf, and we are certainly not i was very insulted it at the airplane that they use. that was a great insult. look, president obama has his favorite rich guy, warren buffett. republicans have donald trump. so the question today, does it matter to voters if donald trump or warren buffett endorses a candidate? facebook.com/carolcnn. i ll read your answers later this hour. all right, carol. thank you. a rundown of stories ahead. first, a battle is raging right now for moammar gadhafi s hometown. we ll take you live to tripoli. and then a new session begins in the u.s. supreme court. what cases they have on the docket. that s always big. plus, she was inside the washington monument when it hit. park ranger nicollette relives that experience and also talks about the damage. and two and a half years ago people did not hear about propofol. dr. sanjay gupta with the very powerful drug. he s gone from being completely awake to being completely asleep. 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[ male announcer ] listerine® total care. the most complete mouthwash. the term for the u.s. supreme court begins on monday bu but justices met today to go through thousands of cases and decide which to review. jeffrey toobin is going to tell us which cases they are most likely to take up and one of the big ones is most likely health care reform. this is the super ball for the supreme court. the biggest case since bush v. gore in 2000. opponents of president obama s health care law say that it s unconstitutional to require individuals to buy health insurance. they say that s a violation of the constitution. that case has said the united states department of justice, the obama administration said they are not going to ask the full 11th sir kit and they are going to go straight to the supreme court on this appeal. it virtually guarantees that there will be a decision on the constitutionality on health care reform by next june. it will be a huge, huge case and, really, the single accomplishment of the obama administration is going to be get a thumb s up or thumb s down from the supreme court. no question. huge. but there are other cases and a number of them are dealing with, again, church and state. they could end up before the court and including one out of utah. what is that one about? you know what? these issues come up every year. the justices usually divide 5-4 on these cases. this is a case about utah state patrolman to state police officers who were killed in the line of duty. the police officers organization put up 16 crosses as a memorial on public land and plaintiffs in that community have said, no, that is a violation of separation between church and state and it is a religious memorial on public land and the court may have to decide that one. all right. and then we have another case that involves the state of ohio against the aclu. this is the one where a judge has is going to put the ten commandments up in his courtroom. and this is very similar to a case out of kentucky from a few years ago. this one, i think, unless the court has really changed its minds on these issues, which is possible because the court has gotten more conservative, in an almost identical case from, i believe, 2003, the court said a judge cannot put the ten commandments up in a courtroom that is too close of a connection between church and state. but it will be an interesting test to see if the court has relaxed those rules because it s virtually the same case. can i ask you real quick, how does the court decide what to take and what not to take? how do they make that decision? well, this is one of the great mysteries of the supreme court. they get about 8,000 cases a year and only take about 80 cases a year. basically, the first thing they look at is, have the lower courts split? have there been inconsistent rulings in the lower court on the same issue that, you know, we have a supreme court to resolve those sorts of disputes? the other category is more nebulous. the supreme court says, we have to resolve this issue. it s sufficiently important that we have to resolve it and health care qualifies under both of those. there have been split decisions and it s very important and we will almost certainly see those cases this year. jeffrey toobin, thank you very much. story affiliates are watching. cookies. all right. we ll talk that right now. there is katherine jackson, michael jackson s mother arriving. and father joe there and the rest of the family, jermaine as well. as we watch them go by, there s la toya. there s tito right now. and accepting some acknowledgement from those that have gathered outside of the courthouse. this is the first day of the trial. dr. conrad murray. so we ll show you more of this as we develop. in the meantime, let s get back to where we are. america s middle class has been hard hit during this recession. while households across the country have watched their incomes fall, there have been a few exceptions. alison kosik has more on the middle class. reporter: exactly. the common thread for the lucky ones is that they live in places where there is a big industry, a big demand for a product or a service. the best way to explain this, it rose pretty well in d.c. and maryland because of government spending. and d.c. we saw the biggest increase in pay between 2007 and 2010. incomes were up 21%. in north dakota, natural gas and oil agriculture is where you saw the incomes rise there. here in new york and new jersey, wall street street was the reason why you saw incomes go up in these areas. overall, when you look across the country, we saw incomes rise in 21 states. that s almost half the country. that s good news. keep in mind, though, the rise in incomes is only about 5%. the way that this economy is moving ahead very slowly, anything going higher as far as incomes go is a good sign. right, martin? no doubt about that. how are the markets doing today? markets are looking good. 2-2. nasdaq up more than 4% as well. financials are leading the way. there was a lot of worry about financials being exposed to the european debt crisis. and greece avoided a default and will go through the optimism being played out in the numbers. martin? great to see. let s hope that the optimism continues. thank you thank you, alison. propofol, you re going to hear a lot about that. in a moment, we ll show you how powerful this drug is. 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[ female announcer ] only from aveeno. michael jackson s doctor could get up to four years in prison. that s if the jury convicts him in the pop star s death and the trial begins this hour in los angeles and we re going to take you there live. a few moments ago, janet jackson arrived and we just saw the jackson family arrive as well, including michael jackson s mom, katherine, and other members of the family. joining us to talk about this case is cnn s senior analyst, jeffrey toobin. let s start with the charge against the doctor, dr. murray. manslaughter. why is it manslaughter because we know the family wanted to see a murder charge. well, the difference between manslaughter and murder is intent. i think it would have been impossible to make a case against conrad murray. why would he have wanted to kill michael jackson? that doesn t make any sense. manslaughter, as the charge says, is involuntary. through recklessness, incompetence, through just being a very, very bad doctor, conrad murray killed michael jackson. but because the intent penalty is so much less, the sentence is much less. it s a big difference between the two charges. the opening statements, of course, are about to begin shortly and that s a chance for both sides to lay out their version of the case. what do you expect to hear from the defense in these arguments? well, i think basically the difference between the prosecution and the defense in so many cases applies here. conrad murray gave him this drug, which is entirely inappropriate. the drug killed him, thus he s guilty of manslaughter. very simple. what the defense is going to do is say, no, no, no, this is a complicated case because michael jackson had a long history of drug use, demanded thighs drugs and asked for other drugs, had other drugs in his system, other people were supplying him drugs. basically this death, tragic as it was, was a culmination of a lot of different factors and conrad murray is being treated as the fall guy. that s the defense argument. and the defense was prevented from showing the jury a video that shows jackson being in poor health. so how do you think that is going to affect their case? well, that s going to play out over a long over this full trial. that is not the last word on that issue just because they were not allowed to use that video in opening statements. remember, the first prosecution witness is going to be the choreographer who was working with michael jackson at the time of his death. he s going to say, look, michael jackson seemed fine to me. he was working hard and in good shape. the defense will certainly be allowed to prove the alternative or attempt to prove the alternative that, in fact, had he a big drug problem, in ill health. that s going to play out over the course of the trial. does the defense ha v have t worry about dragging michael jackson through the mud? absolutely. that s going to be a very difficult line to watch. walk. certainly i would expect that the defendants will portray their argument as more in sorrow than in anger but we re all sorry that michael jackson is dead but don t make conrad murray an escape goat for a death that had multiple causes. but you re absolutely right. jury selection, a big part of the process for both sides was gauging attitudes for michael jackson. they both did their best but everybody in the jury pool heard of michael jackson. everybody knew that he had died and knew something about his death. so, you know, how the jury views michael jackson is something that we will probably only know afterwards when the jurors start talking about their attitudes. definitely going to be an interesting case. jeffrey toobin, thanks. prosecutors say that dr. murray used a makeshift i.v. drip to administer the drug propofol so jackson could fall asleep. after his death, dr. sanjay gupta went into the operating room to show us how powerful this drug really is. so we are here with the chief of an these yol gee. propofol is a drug that he uses all the time. so is this it over here? yes. it looks like milk of magnesia. milk of magnesia. are you okay? we have to monitor his input of co 2 and we have to see saturation and make sure he s ventilated. so that s all typical stuff? that s standard of care, yes. okay. and propofol you re going to get sleepy, okay? give me some good, deep breaths. take a look at his eyes z deep breath. you re looking great. ten, nine, seven, eight, six, five, four, three, two, one. his heart rate is increasing. his eyes are closed. his eyes are closed and what else he stopped breathing. so this is watching his co 2 and not breathing more. so take a look over here. all of the breathing is taking place with this bag and this mask. from that medication, he wouldn t be able to breathe on his own without those things. that s part of the problem. with that much propofol right there, he stopped breathing and he s going to need a breathing tube. easy? easy. it s a quick on, quick off. if it gets out of hand, it goes away quickly. there s no one there to resuscitate you and nobody could bring you back. that was pretty quick. you just gave some of the medication. five, ten minutes. he s going to be completely awake. one thing worth pointing out is that this is a hospital that uses this medication thousands and thousands of times a year but they use it in nonhospital settings in outpatient clinics. they told us that they ve never heard of it used in a home. that is fascinating. we are just minutes away from today s court statements in the trial of dr. conrad murray. and then a monumental damage check at the nation s capital. engineers are repelling down the washington monument. we ll talk to a courageous park ranger who was inside when that tremor hits. here in d.c., we want to give you a heads up, literally. take a look at the washington monument. that is a person hanging outside. you remember the earthquake that damaged portions of that monument? today the exterior is being repaired. the landmark is being assessed. this is last month s pretty violent and pretty scary earthquake. the moment it hit the monument. and you can see park ranger nicollette williams getting people out of harm s way. she s here to talk to us about that. how are you feeling and are you over the tremors? i have been through a few and they are really scary stuff. they are really scary. i thought i was over them but i watched the video yesterday and i got a little shaky after watching it. i m not totally ready to getting back up. did you know what it was when it was happening? no, i did not. it was so violent that at first i did assume that we were under attack. that was my first assumption. so you thought that this could have been some sort of terrorist attack as opposed to a natural event, which was an earthquake? absolutely. our training has been for attacks. we don t get trained in d.c. for earthquakes. so that was my first assumption. but it didn t matter, whatever it was, my next reaction was that we had to get everybody down to the bottom as fast as possible. and what was happening inside? describe some of it for us? well, you see on the video that i actually look directly up at the camera when it starts to shake and what i m looking at is the metal apparatus from the elevator and i start to get hit from some debris and i wanted to just run. i wanted to get out of there and just run as fast as i can but he i realize that i have 20 visitors relying on me to get them down safely. so i begin shouting at them to gun g down the stairs and that s when we all descend down to the emergency level. earlier today bill spoke with cbs. she had the composure to get down to the 90-foot level and she showed a lot of courage, in fact, by coming up to the 500-foot level to collect the last remaining visitors and to ensure their safety and put their safety ahead of her own in order to get people out safely. nikolette, of course, he is talking about you and the tremendous amount of courage that it took not to take people down the first time but to go back up. how do you feel about such praise? it still makes me a little uncomfortable. my main concern was getting people out safe. that was important to me. i m glad that they were safe. the terms that have been thrown around are making me a little uncomfortable. well, you deserve all praise. nikolette, thank you. we wish good things for the monument so we can get it back to normal. thank you. absolutely. thank you. some respects think that he should run for the presidential race. chris christie is adding to that speculation. the political ticker update. nort offers a full team of experts who work to understand your goals and help you achieve them. as one of the nation s largest wealth managers, northern trust s goals-based investment strategies are tailored to your needs. and overseen by experts who seek to maximize opportunities while minimizing risk. expertise matters. find it at northern trust. 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[ bleep ] now. today he chose to highlight a bridge between two important states and found himself in some troubled waters literally. the bridge that happens to connect the state that is home to the speaker of the house with the home state of the republican leader in the senate. well, he s not in the race but he s in the spotlight. once again, part of the political team in television, live at the political desk in washington. what is on the table for chris christie today? a big speech for chris christie today in california. a lot of people have been asking if he s going to run for president. republicans have been asking for a long time whether he s going to jump into the gop nomination. in the last few days some people will say that rick perry, the texas governor, has not had a great performance in the last week or two. i spoke to some christie advisers and they had they said no. don t expect that. he s not going to make any announcements. the speech is called real american exceptionalism. don t expect any announcements from christie. because of the tough actions on reducing the budget in new jersey, martin. well, following all of the bickering in washington, what do they think about republicans and democrats these days? they are not getting a thumb s up. brand new information, what do they say, take a look at this. public opinion of the parties. favorable and unfavorable opinions. neither the democrats or republicans are in positive territory. they are both below 50% when it comes to favorable and unfavorable ratings and they say that neither the policies of congressional is in the right direction. what about the tea party? take a look at this. it s not an official party. it s a movement. you can see, americans favorable and unfavorable even lower than the republicans and democrats. all of this back and forth in d.c. about the possibility of shutdowns and neither side getting along, it s weighing on americans and they are getting a thumb s down to both political parties. yeah, they are very upset. what was the name of that speech given by chris christie? real american exceptionalism. sounds very presidential. it does. it does indeed. we ll wait and see. thanks, paul, very much. for the latest political news, you know where to go. that s cnnpolitics.com. chelsea clinton takes on a new roll. she is joining the board of directors of the iac, a huge internet media company. they operate match.com and college humor. it s also a 50% stake in the newsweek daily beast company. besides serving on corporate boards, clinton is working on her ph.d. at oxford university. she s very busy. today s talk back question, why does donald trump matter to the gop? monica says ever since that birther nonsense, no respect for this man. we ll read more of your responses just ahead. loaded potato with bacon. that s what we like to hear. where was i? oh right. our rich & hearty soups.. people love the thick cut carrots. we do too! where was i? progresso. right, our new rich & heart soups. 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[ male announcer ] listerine® total care. the most complete mouthwash. you have been sounding off on our talk back question. carol costello has your responses. hello again. the talk back question, why does donald trump matter to the gop? would would any care about trump, he s nothing more than an attenti attention monger. i do my own homework, donald trul p has revealed himself to be a bit of a buff foon. the only thing that should matter is that the people of the united states concern yourself with the stances of the individual running not what the person with the biggest jet decides what s important. remember when oprah endorsed obama? i m positive that didn t hurt his campaign. he is a campaign donor, may be one reason he s attracted to the gop, and he is a celebrity. keep the conversation flowing, facebook.com/cnn. kacarol, you re probably a frequent flyer. this is how jeb corliss gets around, he s a dare devil and jumped from a chopper at 6,000 feet blasting across on a wing suit. amazed everyone when he coasted through a crack in the mountain. he performed stunts like this all over the world. when you think about this, this is perfect. you get to fly whenever you want and don t have to bother with going through security, do you? there s no peanuts though. hadn t thought about that. it would be difficult to have a drink or cup of coffee on board that flight. exactly. as you watch him flying through the air, it doesn t look real. it s bizarre looking. every time i watch it i ve seen him do this all around the world. it is so impressive to see how you can at the speed of a jet engine go soaring through the air and god bless him, i hope he continues to savely fly where no one has gone before. it makes me nervous looking at that. my hands are sweating. carol, we ll check back. thanks very much. online comment boards can get nasty. some news websites are cracking down on web bullies by forcing them to verify their identity on facebook. 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[ female announcer ] we re rolling away misperceptions about energy independence. did you know that today about a quarter of all new transit buses use clean, american natural gas? we have more natural gas than saudi arabia has oil. so how come we re not using it even more? start a conversation about using more natural gas vehicles in your community. more news websites are scrapping their comment boards. users have to use facebook to identify who they are. this news junkies aren t willing to give up their an anyonety. reporter: he became a frequent commenter after reading a story about a 15-year-old rock throwing mexican boy shot and killed by a border patrol agent. i was astounded by the responses that i got from other people, the hateful, hateful responses. reporter: on many news sites, reader comments sometimes deteriorate into name calling and racial slurs even threats. union tribune home page editor tom mallory adopted a policy this month that seeks to clean up the comments while avoiding the expense of round the clock monitors. i ve had interns moderating the comments and had to warn them, i m going to expose you to the dark under belly of the human soul, are you prepared? it s a very rough place. reporter: union tribune readers who want to comment on a news article now must use facebook to identify their identities. the real name, real identity makes debate better and makes conversation better. it brings respect, brings a level up there that is just lacking when it s island pimp 201 versus this person. reporter: many regular commenters including mel don t like giving up their anoymity. they can look night name up in the phone book and make me a target. reporter: facebook s verification identity tool will keep internet bullies at bay. i don t see a lot to indicate it s a real person. reporter: other websites like the los angeles times and new york times are using facebook to some degree. i can see it dampening the debate but can understand why they implement the policy. if there s hate speech, you re going to alienate readers. if you have to say stupid or tea bagger or communist, you won t reporter: mel may start his own blog to protect his anonymity. it is top of the hour, i m martin savidge, we expect opening statements to begin any minute now in the trial of dr. conrad murray. the singer died from an overdose of anesthesia and other drugs in 2009. we want to go to ted rowlands who is out sds the courtroom with some developments, ted? reporter: martin, already a little drama here, security drama this morning. conrad murray was not brought in the main entrance. he was brought in in an underground entrance. when he arrived on the ninth floor where the proceedings are taking place, members of the public are allowed up there. they are they go through a metal detector, et cetera, but a woman apparently ran at the doctor as he was walking down the hall. sheriff deputies were able to get in between this woman and dr. murray and escort her out. we don t know what her motivation was but already a little drama in what could be a potential security nightmare holding this trial in downtown los angeles with so many emotion outside and inside this courtroom. how well aside from that have the crowds been behaving as far as the leadup to the first day? reporter: yeah, there s chanting some pro-murray people and a lot of folks against murray as well. they are here yelling back and forth at each other. we haven t seen anything bubble up to what would be a concern at this point. but a lot of emotion, for law n enforceme enforcement, that s the worst case scenario, where you interject emotion where people are going face to face. nothing significant out here but security extremely high. what about inside? what do we expect to hear from both sides as it begins? reporter: well, we expect the prosecution to come right out and basically layout their case, that dr. murray caused michael jackson s death because of the care or lack of he gave him. and specifically, they ll argue that he was giving michael jackson propofol, which is an anesthetic normally used in a hospital setting and that s what killed michael jackson. the defense will get up and try to spin it a different way, saying that michael jackson was a friend of dr. murray and when dr. murray came on board to be his personal physician, he had no idea he was addicted to this propofol and his goal was to stand by his side and help him wean off of this and eventually help his friend beat this addiction. that was his motivation for staying because the big question people would have, when you found out he was making asking for the propofol, you should have walked away. he ll try to counter that or his defense will counter that saying he was with jackson because he cared for him. it will be up to the jury to decide which way to go. opening obviously very important but this is going to be a 30-day plus trial. there s a lot of testimony to listen to. who is the first person scheduled to take the stand? reporter: kenny ortega, the producer of this is it. the guy responsible for getting michael jackson ready to perform those concerts in london that were scheduled and the prosecution will use him to establish that jack on was in good health in the days before his death. they ll have kenny ortega say as he did in the preliminary hearing that he was in fantastic health and his underlying health concerns didn t cause his death. the defense maintains it wasn t just what happened that night, it was what happened to jackson over years of substance abuse that caused his death. they ll try to eat away at ortega using all of the information they have, possibly old e-mails, et cetera, because remember, there was concern with the group that put on this production that michael jackson wasn t ready. this is a very important witness really for both sides. all right, ted, we ll continue to follow the story with your help. thanks very much. the federal government won t be shutting down after friday. democrats and republicans have resolved their dispute over the funding for fema, the disaster relief agency. that allowed the senate to approve a temporary spending bill. no, not the jackson trial, rowdy protesters on the streets of lower manhattan for the 11th straight day, they want to call attention to wall street s role in the financial meltdown. michael moore showed up last night to cheer the crowd on. libyan fighters have seized the port of sirte today, but troops loyal to gadhafi still control most of the city. sirte is one of the towns not under libya s new political leadership. a typhoon with nearly 90-mile-per-hour winds hit today. it killed at least seven people. it s expected to dump an inch of rain an hour through wednesday, that means extensive flooding. government offices and the schools and the stock exchange have been shut down in manila. joran van der sloot admits how he killed a peruvian woman. it is true and you can say yes or no, did you kill stephanie? yes. you killed stephanie flores, right? yes. his former lawyer claims van der sloot killed flores after she discovered information about natalee holloway on his computer. workers are perched on the sides of the washington monument, they plan to inspect every block of marble this week. damage from last month s earthquake was more severe than first thought. that means the landmark is closed to tourist indefinitely. they have released security camera video from inside the monument. look at this. the quake really rattled that structure. despite the damage, the washington monument is structurally sound. they knew how to build them. here s your chance to talk back at one of big stories of the day. today s question, why does donald trump matter to the gop? carol costello has more from new york. hi, moartin, the donald is back. first there was texas governor rick perry and then there was mitt romney, trump says they hit it off better than he anticipated. don t forget the still to be determined candidate sarah palin, who broke bread pizza dough at least with mr. trump. the democratic national committee is loving courtship of donald trump. take a look at their new ad which portrays romney and trump as two out of touch money men. play special note to the private plane. mitt romney and donald trump are meeting today. they do have a lot in common. they both have done well for themselves. both support an economic plan that would help out the richest and big corporations but not the middle class, that would slash social security and medicare as we know it. cut funds for health care, research and development and schools. ouch, but maybe not for the reasons you think, after calling the ad amateur night, trump told wolf blitzer they talked about keeping america competitive, we re not competitive that s the problem. we re not competitive at all. the world is laughing at us, wolf. i was very insulted at the airplane they used because my plane is much nicer than that. this was a great insult. look, president obama has his favorite rich guy, warren buffett. republicans have donald trump. the talk back question, why does donald trump matter to the gop. facebook.com/carolcnn. i ll read your comments later this hour. the plight of billionaires, i sympathize. here s a rundown of other stories just ahead. first, the jury hears opening statements in the manslaughter case against michael jackson s personal physician. we re live and monitoring the latest developments. then, final argument continue in the appeal for the american student convicted of murder in italy. freedom could depend on her. we ll tell you why. plus it s probably one of the most popular ideas for fixing the economy. an m.i.t. professor suggests raising the minimum wage and this i definitely wanted to urn my freedom but i primary motivation, for me money was about freedom. the primary motivation was never making money but having an impact. the cnn exclusive interview with a man behind napster and facebook. [ female announcer ] in the grip of arthritis, back, or back joint pain? aspercreme breaks the grip, with maximum-strength medicine and no embarrassing odor. break the grip of pain with aspercreme. a big surgeon wall street, stocks taking a 250 point jump as worries about the debt crisis have eased. an economics professor is boasting a new way to boost the economy, he says boost minimum wage. als alison, let s start with the market rally. we re in day two of a more than 250-point gain on the dow, it s following what the global markets did. asian and european markets rose 2 to 5%. we re seeing optimism that looks to ease europe s debt crisis. one factor is to wipe bad debt of european banks. but remember, there s still lingering doubts it s going to be enough because reality is if the plan falls through, these gains you re seeing could evaporate very quickly. we re seeing financial shares on the rise and gold prices and oil prices also rebounding. let s talk about the interesting argument that we should be raising minimum wage. how will that help millions who don t have jobs? think of it more of a back door idea. it s about giving people more money to spefrnd that will actually boost demand and encourage hiring. this coming from paul osterman, the author of a book called good jobs in america. this is about job quality. it s not about job quantity. we always talk about the numbers of jobs being added but what he says really needs to help, we need to see good jobs added. he says the issue is 20% of working adults make less than $10.65 an hour. try riaising a family on that salary. a full-time employment at that wage is still below the poverty level. osterman says minimum wage needs to be raised. critics say it puts the burden on corporate america, which is already reluctant to take a chance on hiring new workers. others point to the solid corporate profits, a lot of corporations have a lot of money on the sidelines and need the confidence to give more money to their employees through higher wages. martin? confidence being the key word there, thank you, alison, very much. cookies selling for different prices based on your race. they re available at the bake sale at the university of california berkeley. college republicans want to make a point. they are against a new bill that would allow race and gender to be considered in admissions to california universities. it is clean-up day in cleveland, mississippi, a tornado tore through the town yesterday damaging the sears store and wall mart, the good news is nobody was hurt. and then terrifying moments for a tiny dog in portland, oregon. mango, a little pomeranian, slipped out of a gas station and right into rush hour traffic on the freeway. she was finally rescued with the help of a tv chopper crew. good news. well, defense lawyers say she is no femmefatale, the latest in the murder conviction coming up from italy. or blue cr or no collars. we are business in america. and every day we awake to the same challenges. but at prudential we re helping companies everywhere find new solutions to manage risk, capital and employee benefits, so american business can get on with business. defense attorneys say she is not the femme fatale they accuse of her. they say there was no physical trace of knox or her co-defendant where meredith kercher was found murdered. her father says that knox will have a chance to speak out before the jury makes its decision. she s actually been thinking about this and kind of giving us ideas of what she s going to talk about for probably the last, three to three and a half months knowing this is really her final opportunity to express her heart felt thoughts as it relates to how she s being judged and the fact that she had nothing to do with this horrific crime and that meredith was her friend. and it s probably going to take place just before the jury goes in for deliberations, which is probably going to be monday morning of next week. we want to get an update on what s happening right now in the amanda knox appeal. matthew chance following the proceedings. where do things stand at the moment? reporter: well, at the moment, martin, the lawyers for rafael, one of the defendants in the case, they are on the stand at the moment. they are telling the jury about the evidence that they think exists that amanda knox did not commit the crime. they ve been focusing on the dna evidence, basically saying that the police investigation was flawed, that they contaminated the crime scene and so some of the dna evidence that they did pick up connecting amanda knox and rafaela to the crime scene should not be taken as sound evidence by the court. that s the opinion, not just the defense lawyers, remember, but the opinions of the independent experts appointed by the court to go over the frenices of this case and come up with an independent conclusion. they said this dna that connected them to the crime scene is not sound because of the methodology the police used. they ve also been trying to change or canter the prosecution s idea that characterization of amanda knox as a loose woman who led this terrible lifestyle. she was characterized as a woman with a split personality, an gellic on one side and demonic on the other side. they are saying she s not like that at all. a nice caring woman in love. matthew chance outside the courtroom in italy. we want to switch from that part of the world to the west coast, to los angeles and take you inside the courtroom where opening statements are beginning. i believe it s the prosecution that is starting right now. misplaced trust had far to high a price to pay. that misplaced trust in the hands of conrad murray cost michael jackson his life. on june 25th, 2009, michael jackson was pronounced dead. may i ask the clerk to dim the lights? mrs. benson? thank you. he was just 50 years old. he died alone in his bed on the second floor of his mansion. in the house at the time were the defendant, conrad murray, and michael s three young children and some staff that help run the home. because there was no immediate obvious cause of death, the coroner s office soon took a very active role in the investigation, not only performing an autopsy but doing detailed toxicology analysis to determine what cause of death of mr. jackson at 50 years of age. what we learned through that investigation is that propofol, lied dough cane, diazepam, nor diazepam, lor as pam all testing positive in the heart blood and all administered by conrad murray on june 25th, 2009. further investigation by the coroner s office through statements, through interviews, through the autopsy, through the toxicology findings, leds to the conclusion that the levels of propofol found in mr. jackson s body were similar to those when someone is put under for a surgical procedure. they also found the levels of lor as pam were significant and they played a contributing role in the death of mr. jackson. because these ben zo diazepams work in conjunction to heighten the effects that each drug has. following these findings, the coroner s office concluded this was in fact a homicide. that michael jackson s death was a homicide. and more specifically, the coroner s office concluded that the cause of death was acute propofol intoxication, coupled with the contributory factor of the additional ben zoe diazepams in his system. the investigation continued. and the investigation centered on the dates preceding his death and the events of june 24th and june 25th, 2009. the question became, what occurred between june 24th, 2009 when michael jackson shown in this picture is performing at staples center singing earth song , what happened between that time and approximately 12 hours later when michael jackson is dead on june 25th, 2009? what you ll learn through the evidence is that what happened during that time frame is that the acts and the omissions of michael jackson s personal doctor, conrad murray, directly led to his premature death at the age of 50. ladies and gentlemen, the judge indicated this part of the trial was referred to as the opening statement and it is in fact an opportunity to give you an outline of what we expect the evidence to show, to give you as the court said a road map. often times in trials witnesses are called out of order due to scheduling and things of that nature. they may not always come in and testify in a kind of chronological order. this is an opportunity for both parties to present to you and hopefully a logical fashion what we expect the evidence to show. and as i indicated what we expect the evidence to show is that conrad murray repeatedly acted with gross negligence, repeatedly denied care appropriate care to his patient, michael jackson. and that it was dr. murray s repeated incompetent and unskilled acts which led to mr. jackson s death on june 25th, 2009. now, to give you some background to what was going on in mr. jackson s life, what was going on in dr. murray s life, i want to take you through some of the evidence you ll hear in this case. at this time, mr. jackson was preparing for one of the probably one of biggest tours of his life entitled this is it. it was going to start at the 02 arena in london, it was going to be mr. jackson s comeback tour. mr. jackson indicated one of the reasons this tour was so important to him is he wanted his children to have the opportunity to see him perform in front of a large crowd. they never really had that opportunity. he wanted to give them that chance to see him perform in such a manner. the concert and tour was scheduled to begin at the 02 arena and expected to last approximately 11 months. it would then continue in the months and years ahead but at that point it was for approximately 11 months to take place at the 02 arena in london, england. what started as a ten-day tour soon grew to 31 dates. when those tickets quickly sold out it grew again to 50 dates. those dates too all sold out. now in preparation for what was going to be a massive production and massive tour, obviously we hearsals had to take place. the rehearsals were taking place in los angeles beginning in may of 2009. they started in a small scale at center staging in burbank where basic production and rehearsals were taking place with various members of the production team. when the production and the growth and scale of the rehearsals outgrew that location, they moved to the forum in englewood. they remained at the forum for approximately just about the entire month of june. and then just days before michael jackson s death, they moved to a larger scale arena, the staples center so they could more accurately rep my indicate what the actual tour was going to be. at the time of michael s death, the rehearsals were taking place at the staples center. now during this time, michael jackson was living at 100 north kerrwood, just off sunset boulevard, you re viewing an ariel photo, it s a two-story mansion. large yard, pool, lots of privacy. mr. jackson lived there with his family, his three young children, prince, his young daughter paris, and his youngest son blanket. it was michael and his three children that lived there on a permanent basis. he had staff and had security and had a nanny and had a chef. but it was michael and his three children that lived at 100 northerly carolwood which came to be with michael would die. what do we know about conrad murray at this time? well, we know conrad murray was a medical doctor. he was not anesthesiologist, he was not board certified in any medical specialty. but conrad murray had met michael jackson previously in las vegas when michael was living there in 2006. they had remained in contact. dr. murray had treated the children while in vegas for various minor ailments such as runny nose and things of that nature. he treated michael for various minor ailments over the period of time. but they maintained contact from that point of time in 2006 through 2009. and what you ll learn in march of 2009, michael requested that conrad murray accompanied him on his o2 tour, the this is it tour. conrad murray readily agreed to participate and accompany michael on this tour. what you ll learn is that conrad murray initially requested payment of $5 million for one year of medical service. this was quickly rejected and an offer of $150,000 a month was put on the table. what you ll learn is that soon a contract had been drafted and murray was to be hired as an independent contractor. part of the terms of the contract provided that murray would provide general medical care, that he would provide medical emergency care, and that he would provide reasonably requested services. and this was all to be for the tour in london, the this is it tour. in exchange for what dr. murray was to provide for the terms of the contract, dr. murray was going to receive as i indicated, $150,000 a month, airfare two and from london and housing in london for the duration of the tour. again, the $5 million request of dr. murray was rejected and the agreed upon amount was $150,000 a month. what you also learn is that this contract was never signed by the parties. what you ll learn is that conrad murray both as an individual and as part of his medical practice, signed the contract and it s dated june 24th, 2009. no representative from a.e.g., the tour promoter had signed it. at the bottom, no representative specifically michael jackson had not signed it. so although it had not been signed, conrad murray had made it very clear that he welcomed the opportunity to enter this lucrative agreement. in fact, conrad murray made it so abundantly clear of his intention to enter into this lucrative agreement that he soon told his clients that his previous medical clients to find another doctor. he sent out letters in june of 2009 advising his clients because of a once in a lifetime opportunity, i had to make a most difficult decision to cease practice of medicine indefinitely. so he was saying good-bye to his clients with the intention of signing on for this $150,000 lucrative agreement that he at least through words had reached with michael jackson. i ve told you a little bit about what michael jackson was doing at that time and a little bit about what conrad murray was doing at that time. you ll need to hear a little bit about propofol and you ll learn a great deal about it throughout the trial. what is propofol? propofol is a general anesthetic agent. it s defined as an intraveenous hypnotic agent for the use in anesthesia or sedation, it s what used to put you under when you have to be have forced mechanical ventilation, if you have to have surgical procedure, it is used in a hospital to put you under. it is not a sleep aid. it is not a sleep agent. it is a general anesthetic. it has great strengths. it is a wonderful drug if used by someone who knows what they are doing. someone who respects the dangers as well as the benefits of the drug. some of its favorable properties include the quick onset of sedation. it acts rapidly. also, at the end of it, rapid return to consciousness, so it acts quickly and it also brings you back out rather quickly. minimum post-op tif nausea or vomiting, you generally feel okay once you come back out of it. however, with every benefit comes a cost and there are unfavorable properties that must be respected by the doctor who is administering such a potentially dangerous drug. the unfavorable properties that leads to respiratory and cardiovascular depression. there s a narrow margin between sedation and full general anesthes anesthesia. that means there s a continue up between a light or conscious sedation or full sedation or anesthesia. you need to be an expert in the field and knowledgeable to track that continueum and have the safety precautions in place so that if the patient passes through that continuem to a deeper level of sedation, you have to be sure as the doctor in charge, as the doctor with legal duty of care that you can manage any consequences that come forward. also leads to the loss of ability to breathe and ability to maintain your air way. finally, because of these properties, things can go bad very quickly. very quickly. and if you are not knowledgeable and competent and prepared, it will lead to the death of your patient. the package insert that comes with it that every single person would see if they just opened up the package, in plain text, indicates, the continuous monitoring is essential. facilities for maintenance of a patent airway must be immediately available. this is in the package insert. patient should be continuously monitored for early signs of hype poe tension, apnea, air way obstruction and/or oxygen desaturation. a simple reading of the package insert would impress upon a competent medical doctor the precautions that need to be taken. and the inher ent dangers of using such an agent without the skills and knowledge and resuscitative equipment to handle it appropriately. in this case you ll hear about propofol, you ll hear the science of propofol. you ll hear about the concentrations of propofol. you ll hear there are two separate vial sizes, 100 millimeter vial, about that big, the large vial and 20 millimeter which is about that big. each you re liftening to the opening statement being made by the president, david walgren as he talks about the case. we want to bring in jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, this has been first talking about the new launch of michael jackson and his grand tour and talking about how the doctor fit into all of this and money became a big issue right up front? absolutely. the prosecution theory is pretty straight forward. he was fine when conrad murray started treating him, conrad murray only got involved in treating michael jackson out of enormous greed. and he was incompetent and he gave him this drug, propofol, which under no circumstances should be given outside of a hospital setting. and thus he killed michael jackson. that s the prosecution s theory and being laid out here with i think great clarity. and they are trying to make the case here that the doctor, even though he has a medical degree, he was not an expert when it came to propofol and how it should be properly administered? that s right. and you know, there are a lot of questions that the defense is going to can ask about this theory. who told him to use propofol? what was the background? what drugs had michael jackson been using previously? obviously this is a one sided presentation, it s the prosecution s opening statement. but certainly the prosecution theory here is being laid out in a clear and kprensible way. if you re the defense, what are the points you want to make when your chance comes along? for starters they are going to give background on michael jackson s history of drug use, including, perhaps, we don t know the facts, his use of this drug. what the prosecution is trying to do is narrow this case down to one single exchange of drugs between dr. murray and michael jackson in the hours before he died. that s all the prosecution wants this case to be about. the defense is going to want to bring in the whole story of michael jackson s health, his history of drug use, what might have killed him, how he dealt with how he had interacted with physicians in the past. that s going to be a big part of what the defense says later today. jeffrey toobin, stand by. we re going to continue the opening statements but right after this break. when an investment lacks discipline, it s never this obvious. introducing investment discipline etfs from russell. visit russelletfs.com r a prospectus, containing the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other information. read and consider it carefully before investing. i know what works differently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris, to the nose. did you know nasal symptoms like congestion can be caused by allergic inflammation? 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[ indiscernable ] i never seen nothing like this in my life. go, go. i ve never seen nothing like this. go. it s amazing. he s the greatest entertainer in the world. i m taking that money, a million children, children s hospital, the biggest in the world michael jackson s children s hospital. may i play that again? i don t think we had sufficient volume. deputy jones just i m going to play that recording again, now that the volume has been turned up to an appropriate level. listen to the voice of michael jackson on may 10th, 2009. we have to be phenomenal. when people leave this show, when people leave my show, i want them to say, i ve never seen nothing like this in my life. go. go. i ve never seen nothing like this. go. it s amazing. he s the greatest entertainer in the world. i m taking that money, a million children, children s hospital, the biggest in the world, michael jackson s children s hospital. that is what conrad murray is seeing and observing on may 10th, 2009. and what does he do with that knowledge? what does he do with that information? on may 12th, he orders another shipment of propofol and my daz lam, again, he orders 40 of the 100 mill liter bottles of propofol, just two days after that recording was made. accompanying those 40 100-mill liter bottle were 25 20 milliliter bottles for a total of an additional 45,000 milligrams of propofol. the next shipment occurs on june 10th, at which point, conrad murray orders again, 40 100 mililiter bottles and totalling in this shipment alone, 50,000 additional milligrams of propofol. that is then followed on june 15th by an order of my daz lamb and loraze pam, and we learn from these shipments from april 6th and the shipment of june 10th, conrad murray ordered 255 separate viales of propofol, totalling 155,000 milligrams of propofol. equivalent to 15.5 liters or 4.09 gallons of this general anesthetic agent. just based on the orders alone, if you calculate from april 6th to the time of michael s death of june 25th, in those 80 days, based on the orders, what was being shipped was 1,937 milligrams of propofol a day. keep that number in mind when you hear the statements of conrad murray in regard to how much he administered on june 25th. now, i want to talk about what the evidence will show in regard to michael s final days. what you ll learn is that on june 19th, 2009, michael showed up for his rehearsal and he was not in good shape. he was not in good shape at all. he had chills, he was trembling, he was cold, he was rambling. and kenny ortega, the co-director co-choreographer of the production who you ll hear directly was concerned. he never seen mr. jackson in that state previously. he will tell you michael did not rehearse that day, that he sat. he will tell thaw michael was cold. he put a blanket around him. he provided him some chicken to eat. he massaged his feet to try to warm him. but that michael ended up going home early that evening and not rehearsing because of the state physical state he was in. you also hear about the next day, june 20th, 2009. and what you ll hear is there is a meeting called at michael s house at 100 north carolwood. athis meeting were conrad murray, the defendant, michael, kenny ortega, randy phillips, and a discussion was had at that meeting about michael s health and more specifically about what transpired the night before on june 19th. what you ll hear from kenny ortega is that conrad murray took a very hostile tone, he scalded kenny ortega for meddling in what evidently was conrad murray s area of expertise. he said things such as, i am the doctor, not you. you direct the show and leave michael s health to me. he said michael is physically and emotionally fine. don t let it be your concern. i am the doctor. following this meeting of june 20th, rehearsals did not take place that day, the 21st or the 22nd. but they did resume on june 23rd, 2009. and you ll see footage of michael performing on june 23rd, 2009. and by all accounts it was a successful rehearsal at the staples center. michael appeared strong. he was optimistic. and he was looking to the future. and he was looking to get the tour off the ground and head out to london. the following night, rehearsals resumed again. that s june 24th, 2009. and again, the rehearsal went well and michael was engaged and optimistic. in fact, you ll hear from kenny ortega that michael was excited because the next day they were going to be performing an illusion that was going to be part of the tour. michael always loved that type of magical illusion aspect of these shows. so kenny told him tomorrow we re going to do the illusion. michael was looking forward to coming back that next day to participate in that illusion. as you now know, he never returned to the staples center. following that rehearsal, the night of june 24th, 2009, michael was taken home and arrived home at about 1:00 in the morning, which would be the morning of june 25th, 2009. what you ll learn is it was customary that conrad murray would spend the night at the house every night. sometimes only six nights a week but nearly every night for at least two months, two and a half months. in his own words his purpose to be there was to put michael to sleep with propofol. so when michael and the security staff arrived at the house around 1:00 in the morning, conrad murray s bmw was already parked in the driveway. michael was brought into the house. security was debriefed and the customariry routine was followed. again, the house at 100 north carolwood, the front door that faces out in the frontcourt yard, a diagram which is difficult to see from this perspective but a diagram of the entryway would be where the front door is located. you come into this front foyer area, as to the relevant of where michael died, you would go to the left up these stairs and you would go into this foyer where i m pointing here. into the bedroom where conrad murray would do his nightly infusions of propofol to michael jackson. you ll learn that this room on the far left was actually michael jackson s personal bedroom but that the propofol administrations occurred in this room here. from the foyer, it goes into the bedroom through a very large closet, the size of a typical bedroom. then into the restroom. this view here is looking through the front glass doors into that foyer area with the stairs i just described being here on the left leading up to this landing. and again, just to blow up of the diagram showing the relevant room where michael jackson received these propofol infusions, the foyer, the bedroom and the large closet and the bathroom. this is a picture depicting the bedroom where michael jackson died. he died in that bed pointing down here below the slide. this picture is the closet i showed you on the diagram and it s a vantage point of the closet looking into the bathroom that i had described. and then into the bathroom depicting what is shown there the clothes and in fact the jacket that michael was wearing at his last performance that night on june 24th, 2009. as i indicated earlier, the question becomes what transpired then from 1:00 in the morning to michael s death the next day. before i relay to you some of the words of conrad murray as to his story of what transpired, i want to share with you what the independent investigation by law enforcement revealed absent conrad murray s statements. what you ll learn through phone records is that conrad murray was very busy on the phone that night. there are screen shots from the iphone showing him receiving, reading very e-mails, there s text message, there s different screen shots showing various activities of conrad murray on his phone. there s a very relevant e-mail that conrad murray receives. it s sent at 5:54 a.m. conrad murray responds to it 11:17 a.m. on that day and that time will be relevant. it s not just relevant for the time but relevant for the substance. this e-mail that you re viewing on this screen is an e-mail from the insurance broker in london that is trying to collect medical records so they can have the tour properly insured. he s asked conrad murray is asked specific questions about press reports relating to michael s health. and that it s required in order to get the insurance. conrad murray responds by his own e-mail on june 25th at 11:17 a.m., what he says is that as far as his health, published by the press, they are all fell ashs to the best of my knowledge. this is on june 25th, 2009, days after the meeting, month and a half after the may 10th recording. and conrad murray represents to the insurance broker that all press reports about michael s health are fell ashs. we know through the phone records what was taking place that night. we have the early morning phone calls which will be described in witness testimony during the trial. but as we get closer to the time that conrad murray indicates he provided propofol. we have a 10:15 a.m. phone call, 10:20, 10:24, 11:07 phone call. we then go to an 11:18, 32 minute phone call to conrad murray s business in las vegas. followed by a brief message to one of his female friends, bridgette morgan at 11:26. a call with robert russell at 11:49. and then a call at 11:51 with another female friend sade anling who lived in texas. she ll tell you she was working as a cocktail waitress in houston and met conrad murray, they exchanged phone numbers. that conrad murray referred to her as his girlfriend. what you ll learn from the nature of the 11:51 phone call is that this is likely the time that conrad murray first noticed michael jackson s lifeless body. it won t reveal to you the time of michael jackson s death but it may reveal to you when conrad murray first noticed michael jackson had died. because what sade tells us, this 11:51 phone call took place, that she was speaking on the phone when she realized there was no response on other end. conrad murray was not communicating, not participating in the conversation. sounded as though the phone had been put down. she heard a commotion. she eventually hung up and tried to get back in touch with conrad murray but was not successful. she indicated that this occurred about five minutes into the 11:51 phone call, so about 11:56, 11:57 a.m. is when the phone goes do you dead and she s no longer able to communicate with conrad murray. at 12:12 we have a phone call to michael williams and return phone call at 12:15. who is michael williams? a personal assistant to michael jackson. he was at his own house downtown los angeles. he receives this call, i believe he s in the shower at 12:12 p.m. and you ll hear the recording, that conrad murray leaves michael amir williams at this time. call me right away, please. please call me right away, thank you. michael amir williams calls conrad murray back immediately and told to get here right away. mr. jackson had a bad reaction. he s not told to call 911. he s simply told to get there right away from downtown los angeles to 100 north carolwood in the homeby hills area. michael amir williams makes a number of phone calls and gets a hold of alberto alvarez, a security guard, part of michael jackson s personal security. they actually were housed in this trailer on the side of the house. alberto alvarez being on site is told to go in the house, there had been a problem and michael jackson had a bad reaction according to conrad murray. alvarez goes in the house and eventually goes upstairs. he goes up the stairs showing this picture, gets up to the landing and proceeds into the bedroom where he sees what appears to him to be michael jackson s lifeless body on the
of opening statements that will be live when things get going. well, another high-profile trial is winding down. attorneys for amanda knox will make their final arguments. they are hoping to overturn her murder conviction. knox is expected to speak as well. prosecutors claim that knox slit her roommate s throat during wild sex. libyan fighters say that they have seized the port of sirte today. moammar gadhafi controls most of the city. this is one of the areas not under the control of libya s new leadership. washington dodges a government shutdown. lawmakers have a deal in hand to pay the federal government s bills through mid-november. a final vote expected next week when the house returns from break. the spending bill is upheld because they could not agree on funding for fema. president obama is pitching his new jobs bill in denver at a hollywood fund-raiser last night he refinded republicans that they were in charge in the run-up to the economy s big meltdown. we knew that because this has taken years to build up it was going to take some years to fix. so the question that we have to face now is not whether people are hurting. everybody knows that america has gone through a very difficult time and there are folks all across america still struggling. the house of blues fundraiser was one of seven that the president attended on this trip. joran van der sloot in a taped confession describes how he elbowed stephany flores in the head and strangled her with both hands in a hotel room. so it is true, and i am going to ask you this, and you can say yes or no, did you kill stephany tatiana flores? yes. you killed stephany tatiana flores, right? his lawyer claims that he killed her after she discovered information from natalee holloway in aruba. workers are dangling off the side of the washington monument, inspecting each block of marble. damage from last month s earthquake is worse than last thought. the monument is shut indefinitely. you can see where it shakes violently. despite the damage, the washington monument is structurally sound. for the first time, the image of a living person on the stamp will be made. the trial is going to start soon in the trial against dr. conrad murray. he was jackson s personal doctor and was with him when he died. ted is outside of the courtroom in los angeles. what do we expect in these opening statements? reporter: well, martin, each side will have as long as they want in the opening and the prosecution is going to try to establish early their feel here, and that is that dr. conrad murray was just agrees jously off in his care of michael jackson and he should be held accountable for his death because he was giving him this propofol, this anesthetic used in a hospital setting. he was giving it as a sleep aid. the defense will try to portray their client as someone trying to help jackson to get over an addiction and they will tell the jury that over the next weeks you will see that our client was actually trying to help him, not abandon him. but help him get through this. whether or not this jury will hook on to one of these sides early on, you never know. but it s very crucial. the opening statements in a trial obviously and we ll hear those about 8:45 local. barring a delay. a case like this delays are always possible. 8:45 local, the scheduled start time for the opening. the jackson family has not come in. we saw the defense come in 30 minutes ago. ted, what is the atmosphere out there? how are the crowds? reporter: well, we take a look around here. you ve got michael jackson supporters who have been here in force for a lot of the hearings here and, of course, they were constant during the 2004 molestation trial in santa maria. there are also conrad murray supporters as well holding signs but the overwhelming majority, the media from around the world, cameras across the street. they are here, inside the courtroom. it s a madhouse with michael jackson at the center of it. do we know who will take the stand first. reporter: the first witness for the prosecution is teddy ortega. he was the producer in the this is it production. the prosecutors will use him to establish that jackson was in good health and it was the under lying circumstances that ultimately killed him. they will also show a clip from this is it. the defense will try to chip away at ortega and use ammunition that didn t come out in the alternative that jackson was in horrible health and that played a part in his death. ted rowlands, i m going out on a limb, but i think we will see a lot of you. thank you very much. we ll be monitoring the opening statements. if you want complete, live coverage, hln is there for you. here s your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. today s question is, does it matter to voters if donald trump or warren buffett endorses a candidate? carol costello has more from new york. carol? hi, martin. the donald is back. trump said they hit it off better than anticipated and don t forget the still to be determined it candidate, sarah palin who broke pizza dough with the candidate. take a look at their new ad which portrays romney and trump as two out of touch money man who favor the wealthy. pay special note to the private claim. mitt romney and donald trump are meeting today. well, they do have a lot in common. they have both done well for themselves. both support an economic plan that would help out the richest and big corporations but not the middle class. that would slash social security and medicare as we know it. cut funds for health care, research and development in schools. ouch. but not for the reasons thaw think. after calling the ad amateur night, trump told the wolf blitzer we re not keeping america competitive. we re not competitive at all. the world is laughing at us, wolf, and we are certainly not i was very insulted it at the airplane that they use. that was a great insult. look, president obama has his favorite rich guy, warren buffett. republicans have donald trump. so the question today, does it matter to voters if donald trump or warren buffett endorses a candidate? facebook.com/carolcnn. i ll read your answers later this hour. all right, carol. thank you. a rundown of stories ahead. first, a battle is raging right now for moammar gadhafi s hometown. we ll take you live to tripoli. and then a new session begins in the u.s. supreme court. what cases they have on the docket. that s always big. plus, she was inside the washington monument when it hit. park ranger nicollette relives that experience and also talks about the damage. and two and a half years ago people did not hear about propofol. dr. sanjay gupta with the very powerful drug. he s gone from being completely awake to being completely asleep. 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[ male announcer ] listerine® total care. the most complete mouthwash. the term for the u.s. supreme court begins on monday bu but justices met today to go through thousands of cases and decide which to review. jeffrey toobin is going to tell us which cases they are most likely to take up and one of the big ones is most likely health care reform. this is the super ball for the supreme court. the biggest case since bush v. gore in 2000. opponents of president obama s health care law say that it s unconstitutional to require individuals to buy health insurance. they say that s a violation of the constitution. that case has said the united states department of justice, the obama administration said they are not going to ask the full 11th sir kit and they are going to go straight to the supreme court on this appeal. it virtually guarantees that there will be a decision on the constitutionality on health care reform by next june. it will be a huge, huge case and, really, the single accomplishment of the obama administration is going to be get a thumb s up or thumb s down from the supreme court. no question. huge. but there are other cases and a number of them are dealing with, again, church and state. they could end up before the court and including one out of utah. what is that one about? you know what? these issues come up every year. the justices usually divide 5-4 on these cases. this is a case about utah state patrolman to state police officers who were killed in the line of duty. the police officers organization put up 16 crosses as a memorial on public land and plaintiffs in that community have said, no, that is a violation of separation between church and state and it is a religious memorial on public land and the court may have to decide that one. all right. and then we have another case that involves the state of ohio against the aclu. this is the one where a judge has is going to put the ten commandments up in his courtroom. and this is very similar to a case out of kentucky from a few years ago. this one, i think, unless the court has really changed its minds on these issues, which is possible because the court has gotten more conservative, in an almost identical case from, i believe, 2003, the court said a judge cannot put the ten commandments up in a courtroom that is too close of a connection between church and state. but it will be an interesting test to see if the court has relaxed those rules because it s virtually the same case. can i ask you real quick, how does the court decide what to take and what not to take? how do they make that decision? well, this is one of the great mysteries of the supreme court. they get about 8,000 cases a year and only take about 80 cases a year. basically, the first thing they look at is, have the lower courts split? have there been inconsistent rulings in the lower court on the same issue that, you know, we have a supreme court to resolve those sorts of disputes? the other category is more nebulous. the supreme court says, we have to resolve this issue. it s sufficiently important that we have to resolve it and health care qualifies under both of those. there have been split decisions and it s very important and we will almost certainly see those cases this year. jeffrey toobin, thank you very much. story affiliates are watching. cookies. all right. we ll talk that right now. there is katherine jackson, michael jackson s mother arriving. and father joe there and the rest of the family, jermaine as well. as we watch them go by, there s la toya. there s tito right now. and accepting some acknowledgement from those that have gathered outside of the courthouse. this is the first day of the trial. dr. conrad murray. so we ll show you more of this as we develop. in the meantime, let s get back to where we are. america s middle class has been hard hit during this recession. while households across the country have watched their incomes fall, there have been a few exceptions. alison kosik has more on the middle class. reporter: exactly. the common thread for the lucky ones is that they live in places where there is a big industry, a big demand for a product or a service. the best way to explain this, it rose pretty well in d.c. and maryland because of government spending. and d.c. we saw the biggest increase in pay between 2007 and 2010. incomes were up 21%. in north dakota, natural gas and oil agriculture is where you saw the incomes rise there. here in new york and new jersey, wall street street was the reason why you saw incomes go up in these areas. overall, when you look across the country, we saw incomes rise in 21 states. that s almost half the country. that s good news. keep in mind, though, the rise in incomes is only about 5%. the way that this economy is moving ahead very slowly, anything going higher as far as incomes go is a good sign. right, martin? no doubt about that. how are the markets doing today? markets are looking good. 2-2. nasdaq up more than 4% as well. financials are leading the way. there was a lot of worry about financials being exposed to the european debt crisis. and greece avoided a default and will go through the optimism being played out in the numbers. martin? great to see. let s hope that the optimism continues. thank you thank you, alison. propofol, you re going to hear a lot about that. in a moment, we ll show you how powerful this drug is. 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[ female announcer ] only from aveeno. michael jackson s doctor could get up to four years in prison. that s if the jury convicts him in the pop star s death and the trial begins this hour in los angeles and we re going to take you there live. a few moments ago, janet jackson arrived and we just saw the jackson family arrive as well, including michael jackson s mom, katherine, and other members of the family. joining us to talk about this case is cnn s senior analyst, jeffrey toobin. let s start with the charge against the doctor, dr. murray. manslaughter. why is it manslaughter because we know the family wanted to see a murder charge. well, the difference between manslaughter and murder is intent. i think it would have been impossible to make a case against conrad murray. why would he have wanted to kill michael jackson? that doesn t make any sense. manslaughter, as the charge says, is involuntary. through recklessness, incompetence, through just being a very, very bad doctor, conrad murray killed michael jackson. but because the intent penalty is so much less, the sentence is much less. it s a big difference between the two charges. the opening statements, of course, are about to begin shortly and that s a chance for both sides to lay out their version of the case. what do you expect to hear from the defense in these arguments? well, i think basically the difference between the prosecution and the defense in so many cases applies here. conrad murray gave him this drug, which is entirely inappropriate. the drug killed him, thus he s guilty of manslaughter. very simple. what the defense is going to do is say, no, no, no, this is a complicated case because michael jackson had a long history of drug use, demanded thighs drugs and asked for other drugs, had other drugs in his system, other people were supplying him drugs. basically this death, tragic as it was, was a culmination of a lot of different factors and conrad murray is being treated as the fall guy. that s the defense argument. and the defense was prevented from showing the jury a video that shows jackson being in poor health. so how do you think that is going to affect their case? well, that s going to play out over a long over this full trial. that is not the last word on that issue just because they were not allowed to use that video in opening statements. remember, the first prosecution witness is going to be the choreographer who was working with michael jackson at the time of his death. he s going to say, look, michael jackson seemed fine to me. he was working hard and in good shape. the defense will certainly be allowed to prove the alternative or attempt to prove the alternative that, in fact, had he a big drug problem, in ill health. that s going to play out over the course of the trial. does the defense ha v have t worry about dragging michael jackson through the mud? absolutely. that s going to be a very difficult line to watch. walk. certainly i would expect that the defendants will portray their argument as more in sorrow than in anger but we re all sorry that michael jackson is dead but don t make conrad murray an escape goat for a death that had multiple causes. but you re absolutely right. jury selection, a big part of the process for both sides was gauging attitudes for michael jackson. they both did their best but everybody in the jury pool heard of michael jackson. everybody knew that he had died and knew something about his death. so, you know, how the jury views michael jackson is something that we will probably only know afterwards when the jurors start talking about their attitudes. definitely going to be an interesting case. jeffrey toobin, thanks. prosecutors say that dr. murray used a makeshift i.v. drip to administer the drug propofol so jackson could fall asleep. after his death, dr. sanjay gupta went into the operating room to show us how powerful this drug really is. so we are here with the chief of an these yol gee. propofol is a drug that he uses all the time. so is this it over here? yes. it looks like milk of magnesia. milk of magnesia. are you okay? we have to monitor his input of co 2 and we have to see saturation and make sure he s ventilated. so that s all typical stuff? that s standard of care, yes. okay. and propofol you re going to get sleepy, okay? give me some good, deep breaths. take a look at his eyes z deep breath. you re looking great. ten, nine, seven, eight, six, five, four, three, two, one. his heart rate is increasing. his eyes are closed. his eyes are closed and what else he stopped breathing. so this is watching his co 2 and not breathing more. so take a look over here. all of the breathing is taking place with this bag and this mask. from that medication, he wouldn t be able to breathe on his own without those things. that s part of the problem. with that much propofol right there, he stopped breathing and he s going to need a breathing tube. easy? easy. it s a quick on, quick off. if it gets out of hand, it goes away quickly. there s no one there to resuscitate you and nobody could bring you back. that was pretty quick. you just gave some of the medication. five, ten minutes. he s going to be completely awake. one thing worth pointing out is that this is a hospital that uses this medication thousands and thousands of times a year but they use it in nonhospital settings in outpatient clinics. they told us that they ve never heard of it used in a home. that is fascinating. we are just minutes away from today s court statements in the trial of dr. conrad murray. and then a monumental damage check at the nation s capital. engineers are repelling down the washington monument. we ll talk to a courageous park ranger who was inside when that tremor hits. here in d.c., we want to give you a heads up, literally. take a look at the washington monument. that is a person hanging outside. you remember the earthquake that damaged portions of that monument? today the exterior is being repaired. the landmark is being assessed. this is last month s pretty violent and pretty scary earthquake. the moment it hit the monument. and you can see park ranger nicollette williams getting people out of harm s way. she s here to talk to us about that. how are you feeling and are you over the tremors? i have been through a few and they are really scary stuff. they are really scary. i thought i was over them but i watched the video yesterday and i got a little shaky after watching it. i m not totally ready to getting back up. did you know what it was when it was happening? no, i did not. it was so violent that at first i did assume that we were under attack. that was my first assumption. so you thought that this could have been some sort of terrorist attack as opposed to a natural event, which was an earthquake? absolutely. our training has been for attacks. we don t get trained in d.c. for earthquakes. so that was my first assumption. but it didn t matter, whatever it was, my next reaction was that we had to get everybody down to the bottom as fast as possible. and what was happening inside? describe some of it for us? well, you see on the video that i actually look directly up at the camera when it starts to shake and what i m looking at is the metal apparatus from the elevator and i start to get hit from some debris and i wanted to just run. i wanted to get out of there and just run as fast as i can but he i realize that i have 20 visitors relying on me to get them down safely. so i begin shouting at them to gun g down the stairs and that s when we all descend down to the emergency level. earlier today bill spoke with cbs. she had the composure to get down to the 90-foot level and she showed a lot of courage, in fact, by coming up to the 500-foot level to collect the last remaining visitors and to ensure their safety and put their safety ahead of her own in order to get people out safely. nikolette, of course, he is talking about you and the tremendous amount of courage that it took not to take people down the first time but to go back up. how do you feel about such praise? it still makes me a little uncomfortable. my main concern was getting people out safe. that was important to me. i m glad that they were safe. the terms that have been thrown around are making me a little uncomfortable. well, you deserve all praise. nikolette, thank you. we wish good things for the monument so we can get it back to normal. thank you. absolutely. thank you. some respects think that he should run for the presidential race. chris christie is adding to that speculation. the political ticker update. nort offers a full team of experts who work to understand your goals and help you achieve them. as one of the nation s largest wealth managers, northern trust s goals-based investment strategies are tailored to your needs. and overseen by experts who seek to maximize opportunities while minimizing risk. expertise matters. find it at northern trust. [ woman ] my heart medication isn t some political game. [ man ] our retirement isn t a simple budget line item. [ man ] i worked hard. i paid into my medicare. [ man ] and i earned my social security. [ woman ] now, instead of cutting waste and loopholes, washington wants to cut our benefits? that wasn t the agreement. [ male announcer ] join the members of aarp and tell washington to stop cuts to our medicare and social security benefits. 1:1:45 on the east coast. that means it s 8:45 on the west coast and we re expecting the opening of the trial of dr. conrad murray, michael jackson s doctor. we will hear what the lawyers are saying in the opening statements and will bring those statements to you live. no more mr. nice guy. one of the jay leno skits has him blowing up bridges. president obama has been criticized trying to get along with everybody and now he s done with that. that s right. he s starting to kick. [ bleep ] now. today he chose to highlight a bridge between two important states and found himself in some troubled waters literally. the bridge that happens to connect the state that is home to the speaker of the house with the home state of the republican leader in the senate. well, he s not in the race but he s in the spotlight. once again, part of the political team in television, live at the political desk in washington. what is on the table for chris christie today? a big speech for chris christie today in california. a lot of people have been asking if he s going to run for president. republicans have been asking for a long time whether he s going to jump into the gop nomination. in the last few days some people will say that rick perry, the texas governor, has not had a great performance in the last week or two. i spoke to some christie advisers and they had they said no. don t expect that. he s not going to make any announcements. the speech is called real american exceptionalism. don t expect any announcements from christie. because of the tough actions on reducing the budget in new jersey, martin. well, following all of the bickering in washington, what do they think about republicans and democrats these days? they are not getting a thumb s up. brand new information, what do they say, take a look at this. public opinion of the parties. favorable and unfavorable opinions. neither the democrats or republicans are in positive territory. they are both below 50% when it comes to favorable and unfavorable ratings and they say that neither the policies of congressional is in the right direction. what about the tea party? take a look at this. it s not an official party. it s a movement. you can see, americans favorable and unfavorable even lower than the republicans and democrats. all of this back and forth in d.c. about the possibility of shutdowns and neither side getting along, it s weighing on americans and they are getting a thumb s down to both political parties. yeah, they are very upset. what was the name of that speech given by chris christie? real american exceptionalism. sounds very presidential. it does. it does indeed. we ll wait and see. thanks, paul, very much. for the latest political news, you know where to go. that s cnnpolitics.com. chelsea clinton takes on a new roll. she is joining the board of directors of the iac, a huge internet media company. they operate match.com and college humor. it s also a 50% stake in the newsweek daily beast company. besides serving on corporate boards, clinton is working on her ph.d. at oxford university. she s very busy. today s talk back question, why does donald trump matter to the gop? monica says ever since that birther nonsense, no respect for this man. we ll read more of your responses just ahead. loaded potato with bacon. that s what we like to hear. where was i? oh right. our rich & hearty soups.. people love the thick cut carrots. we do too! where was i? progresso. right, our new rich & heart soups. 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[ male announcer ] listerine® total care. the most complete mouthwash. you have been sounding off on our talk back question. carol costello has your responses. hello again. the talk back question, why does donald trump matter to the gop? would would any care about trump, he s nothing more than an attenti attention monger. i do my own homework, donald trul p has revealed himself to be a bit of a buff foon. the only thing that should matter is that the people of the united states concern yourself with the stances of the individual running not what the person with the biggest jet decides what s important. remember when oprah endorsed obama? i m positive that didn t hurt his campaign. he is a campaign donor, may be one reason he s attracted to the gop, and he is a celebrity. keep the conversation flowing, facebook.com/cnn. kacarol, you re probably a frequent flyer. this is how jeb corliss gets around, he s a dare devil and jumped from a chopper at 6,000 feet blasting across on a wing suit. amazed everyone when he coasted through a crack in the mountain. he performed stunts like this all over the world. when you think about this, this is perfect. you get to fly whenever you want and don t have to bother with going through security, do you? there s no peanuts though. hadn t thought about that. it would be difficult to have a drink or cup of coffee on board that flight. exactly. as you watch him flying through the air, it doesn t look real. it s bizarre looking. every time i watch it i ve seen him do this all around the world. it is so impressive to see how you can at the speed of a jet engine go soaring through the air and god bless him, i hope he continues to savely fly where no one has gone before. it makes me nervous looking at that. my hands are sweating. carol, we ll check back. thanks very much. online comment boards can get nasty. some news websites are cracking down on web bullies by forcing them to verify their identity on facebook. 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[ female announcer ] we re rolling away misperceptions about energy independence. did you know that today about a quarter of all new transit buses use clean, american natural gas? we have more natural gas than saudi arabia has oil. so how come we re not using it even more? start a conversation about using more natural gas vehicles in your community. more news websites are scrapping their comment boards. users have to use facebook to identify who they are. this news junkies aren t willing to give up their an anyonety. reporter: he became a frequent commenter after reading a story about a 15-year-old rock throwing mexican boy shot and killed by a border patrol agent. i was astounded by the responses that i got from other people, the hateful, hateful responses. reporter: on many news sites, reader comments sometimes deteriorate into name calling and racial slurs even threats. union tribune home page editor tom mallory adopted a policy this month that seeks to clean up the comments while avoiding the expense of round the clock monitors. i ve had interns moderating the comments and had to warn them, i m going to expose you to the dark under belly of the human soul, are you prepared? it s a very rough place. reporter: union tribune readers who want to comment on a news article now must use facebook to identify their identities. the real name, real identity makes debate better and makes conversation better. it brings respect, brings a level up there that is just lacking when it s island pimp 201 versus this person. reporter: many regular commenters including mel don t like giving up their anoymity. they can look night name up in the phone book and make me a target. reporter: facebook s verification identity tool will keep internet bullies at bay. i don t see a lot to indicate it s a real person. reporter: other websites like the los angeles times and new york times are using facebook to some degree. i can see it dampening the debate but can understand why they implement the policy. if there s hate speech, you re going to alienate readers. if you have to say stupid or tea bagger or communist, you won t reporter: mel may start his own blog to protect his anonymity. it is top of the hour, i m martin savidge, we expect opening statements to begin any minute now in the trial of dr. conrad murray. the singer died from an overdose of anesthesia and other drugs in 2009. we want to go to ted rowlands who is out sds the courtroom with some developments, ted? reporter: martin, already a little drama here, security drama this morning. conrad murray was not brought in the main entrance. he was brought in in an underground entrance. when he arrived on the ninth floor where the proceedings are taking place, members of the public are allowed up there. they are they go through a metal detector, et cetera, but a woman apparently ran at the doctor as he was walking down the hall. sheriff deputies were able to get in between this woman and dr. murray and escort her out. we don t know what her motivation was but already a little drama in what could be a potential security nightmare holding this trial in downtown los angeles with so many emotion outside and inside this courtroom. how well aside from that have the crowds been behaving as far as the leadup to the first day? reporter: yeah, there s chanting some pro-murray people and a lot of folks against murray as well. they are here yelling back and forth at each other. we haven t seen anything bubble up to what would be a concern at this point. but a lot of emotion, for law n enforceme enforcement, that s the worst case scenario, where you interject emotion where people are going face to face. nothing significant out here but security extremely high. what about inside? what do we expect to hear from both sides as it begins? reporter: well, we expect the prosecution to come right out and basically layout their case, that dr. murray caused michael jackson s death because of the care or lack of he gave him. and specifically, they ll argue that he was giving michael jackson propofol, which is an anesthetic normally used in a hospital setting and that s what killed michael jackson. the defense will get up and try to spin it a different way, saying that michael jackson was a friend of dr. murray and when dr. murray came on board to be his personal physician, he had no idea he was addicted to this propofol and his goal was to stand by his side and help him wean off of this and eventually help his friend beat this addiction. that was his motivation for staying because the big question people would have, when you found out he was making asking for the propofol, you should have walked away. he ll try to counter that or his defense will counter that saying he was with jackson because he cared for him. it will be up to the jury to decide which way to go. opening obviously very important but this is going to be a 30-day plus trial. there s a lot of testimony to listen to. who is the first person scheduled to take the stand? reporter: kenny ortega, the producer of this is it. the guy responsible for getting michael jackson ready to perform those concerts in london that were scheduled and the prosecution will use him to establish that jack on was in good health in the days before his death. they ll have kenny ortega say as he did in the preliminary hearing that he was in fantastic health and his underlying health concerns didn t cause his death. the defense maintains it wasn t just what happened that night, it was what happened to jackson over years of substance abuse that caused his death. they ll try to eat away at ortega using all of the information they have, possibly old e-mails, et cetera, because remember, there was concern with the group that put on this production that michael jackson wasn t ready. this is a very important witness really for both sides. all right, ted, we ll continue to follow the story with your help. thanks very much. the federal government won t be shutting down after friday. democrats and republicans have resolved their dispute over the funding for fema, the disaster relief agency. that allowed the senate to approve a temporary spending bill. no, not the jackson trial, rowdy protesters on the streets of lower manhattan for the 11th straight day, they want to call attention to wall street s role in the financial meltdown. michael moore showed up last night to cheer the crowd on. libyan fighters have seized the port of sirte today, but troops loyal to gadhafi still control most of the city. sirte is one of the towns not under libya s new political leadership. a typhoon with nearly 90-mile-per-hour winds hit today. it killed at least seven people. it s expected to dump an inch of rain an hour through wednesday, that means extensive flooding. government offices and the schools and the stock exchange have been shut down in manila. joran van der sloot admits how he killed a peruvian woman. it is true and you can say yes or no, did you kill stephanie? yes. you killed stephanie flores, right? yes. his former lawyer claims van der sloot killed flores after she discovered information about natalee holloway on his computer. workers are perched on the sides of the washington monument, they plan to inspect every block of marble this week. damage from last month s earthquake was more severe than first thought. that means the landmark is closed to tourist indefinitely. they have released security camera video from inside the monument. look at this. the quake really rattled that structure. despite the damage, the washington monument is structurally sound. they knew how to build them. here s your chance to talk back at one of big stories of the day. today s question, why does donald trump matter to the gop? carol costello has more from new york. hi, moartin, the donald is back. first there was texas governor rick perry and then there was mitt romney, trump says they hit it off better than he anticipated. don t forget the still to be determined candidate sarah palin, who broke bread pizza dough at least with mr. trump. the democratic national committee is loving courtship of donald trump. take a look at their new ad which portrays romney and trump as two out of touch money men. play special note to the private plane. mitt romney and donald trump are meeting today. they do have a lot in common. they both have done well for themselves. both support an economic plan that would help out the richest and big corporations but not the middle class, that would slash social security and medicare as we know it. cut funds for health care, research and development and schools. ouch, but maybe not for the reasons you think, after calling the ad amateur night, trump told wolf blitzer they talked about keeping america competitive, we re not competitive that s the problem. we re not competitive at all. the world is laughing at us, wolf. i was very insulted at the airplane they used because my plane is much nicer than that. this was a great insult. look, president obama has his favorite rich guy, warren buffett. republicans have donald trump. the talk back question, why does donald trump matter to the gop. facebook.com/carolcnn. i ll read your comments later this hour. the plight of billionaires, i sympathize. here s a rundown of other stories just ahead. first, the jury hears opening statements in the manslaughter case against michael jackson s personal physician. we re live and monitoring the latest developments. then, final argument continue in the appeal for the american student convicted of murder in italy. freedom could depend on her. we ll tell you why. plus it s probably one of the most popular ideas for fixing the economy. an m.i.t. professor suggests raising the minimum wage and this i definitely wanted to urn my freedom but i primary motivation, for me money was about freedom. the primary motivation was never making money but having an impact. the cnn exclusive interview with a man behind napster and facebook. 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think of it more of a back door idea. it s about giving people more money to spefrnd that will actually boost demand and encourage hiring. this coming from paul osterman, the author of a book called good jobs in america. this is about job quality. it s not about job quantity. we always talk about the numbers of jobs being added but what he says really needs to help, we need to see good jobs added. he says the issue is 20% of working adults make less than $10.65 an hour. try riaising a family on that salary. a full-time employment at that wage is still below the poverty level. osterman says minimum wage needs to be raised. critics say it puts the burden on corporate america, which is already reluctant to take a chance on hiring new workers. others point to the solid corporate profits, a lot of corporations have a lot of money on the sidelines and need the confidence to give more money to their employees through higher wages. martin? confidence being the key word there, thank you, alison, very much. cookies selling for different prices based on your race. they re available at the bake sale at the university of california berkeley. college republicans want to make a point. they are against a new bill that would allow race and gender to be considered in admissions to california universities. it is clean-up day in cleveland, mississippi, a tornado tore through the town yesterday damaging the sears store and wall mart, the good news is nobody was hurt. and then terrifying moments for a tiny dog in portland, oregon. mango, a little pomeranian, slipped out of a gas station and right into rush hour traffic on the freeway. she was finally rescued with the help of a tv chopper crew. good news. well, defense lawyers say she is no femmefatale, the latest in the murder conviction coming up from italy. or blue cr or no collars. we are business in america. and every day we awake to the same challenges. but at prudential we re helping companies everywhere find new solutions to manage risk, capital and employee benefits, so american business can get on with business. defense attorneys say she is not the femme fatale they accuse of her. they say there was no physical trace of knox or her co-defendant where meredith kercher was found murdered. her father says that knox will have a chance to speak out before the jury makes its decision. she s actually been thinking about this and kind of giving us ideas of what she s going to talk about for probably the last, three to three and a half months knowing this is really her final opportunity to express her heart felt thoughts as it relates to how she s being judged and the fact that she had nothing to do with this horrific crime and that meredith was her friend. and it s probably going to take place just before the jury goes in for deliberations, which is probably going to be monday morning of next week. we want to get an update on what s happening right now in the amanda knox appeal. matthew chance following the proceedings. where do things stand at the moment? reporter: well, at the moment, martin, the lawyers for rafael, one of the defendants in the case, they are on the stand at the moment. they are telling the jury about the evidence that they think exists that amanda knox did not commit the crime. they ve been focusing on the dna evidence, basically saying that the police investigation was flawed, that they contaminated the crime scene and so some of the dna evidence that they did pick up connecting amanda knox and rafaela to the crime scene should not be taken as sound evidence by the court. that s the opinion, not just the defense lawyers, remember, but the opinions of the independent experts appointed by the court to go over the frenices of this case and come up with an independent conclusion. they said this dna that connected them to the crime scene is not sound because of the methodology the police used. they ve also been trying to change or canter the prosecution s idea that characterization of amanda knox as a loose woman who led this terrible lifestyle. she was characterized as a woman with a split personality, an gellic on one side and demonic on the other side. they are saying she s not like that at all. a nice caring woman in love. matthew chance outside the courtroom in italy. we want to switch from that part of the world to the west coast, to los angeles and take you inside the courtroom where opening statements are beginning. i believe it s the prosecution that is starting right now. misplaced trust had far to high a price to pay. that misplaced trust in the hands of conrad murray cost michael jackson his life. on june 25th, 2009, michael jackson was pronounced dead. may i ask the clerk to dim the lights? mrs. benson? thank you. he was just 50 years old. he died alone in his bed on the second floor of his mansion. in the house at the time were the defendant, conrad murray, and michael s three young children and some staff that help run the home. because there was no immediate obvious cause of death, the coroner s office soon took a very active role in the investigation, not only performing an autopsy but doing detailed toxicology analysis to determine what cause of death of mr. jackson at 50 years of age. what we learned through that investigation is that propofol, lied dough cane, diazepam, nor diazepam, lor as pam all testing positive in the heart blood and all administered by conrad murray on june 25th, 2009. further investigation by the coroner s office through statements, through interviews, through the autopsy, through the toxicology findings, leds to the conclusion that the levels of propofol found in mr. jackson s body were similar to those when someone is put under for a surgical procedure. they also found the levels of lor as pam were significant and they played a contributing role in the death of mr. jackson. because these ben zo diazepams work in conjunction to heighten the effects that each drug has. following these findings, the coroner s office concluded this was in fact a homicide. that michael jackson s death was a homicide. and more specifically, the coroner s office concluded that the cause of death was acute propofol intoxication, coupled with the contributory factor of the additional ben zoe diazepams in his system. the investigation continued. and the investigation centered on the dates preceding his death and the events of june 24th and june 25th, 2009. the question became, what occurred between june 24th, 2009 when michael jackson shown in this picture is performing at staples center singing earth song , what happened between that time and approximately 12 hours later when michael jackson is dead on june 25th, 2009? what you ll learn through the evidence is that what happened during that time frame is that the acts and the omissions of michael jackson s personal doctor, conrad murray, directly led to his premature death at the age of 50. ladies and gentlemen, the judge indicated this part of the trial was referred to as the opening statement and it is in fact an opportunity to give you an outline of what we expect the evidence to show, to give you as the court said a road map. often times in trials witnesses are called out of order due to scheduling and things of that nature. they may not always come in and testify in a kind of chronological order. this is an opportunity for both parties to present to you and hopefully a logical fashion what we expect the evidence to show. and as i indicated what we expect the evidence to show is that conrad murray repeatedly acted with gross negligence, repeatedly denied care appropriate care to his patient, michael jackson. and that it was dr. murray s repeated incompetent and unskilled acts which led to mr. jackson s death on june 25th, 2009. now, to give you some background to what was going on in mr. jackson s life, what was going on in dr. murray s life, i want to take you through some of the evidence you ll hear in this case. at this time, mr. jackson was preparing for one of the probably one of biggest tours of his life entitled this is it. it was going to start at the 02 arena in london, it was going to be mr. jackson s comeback tour. mr. jackson indicated one of the reasons this tour was so important to him is he wanted his children to have the opportunity to see him perform in front of a large crowd. they never really had that opportunity. he wanted to give them that chance to see him perform in such a manner. the concert and tour was scheduled to begin at the 02 arena and expected to last approximately 11 months. it would then continue in the months and years ahead but at that point it was for approximately 11 months to take place at the 02 arena in london, england. what started as a ten-day tour soon grew to 31 dates. when those tickets quickly sold out it grew again to 50 dates. those dates too all sold out. now in preparation for what was going to be a massive production and massive tour, obviously we hearsals had to take place. the rehearsals were taking place in los angeles beginning in may of 2009. they started in a small scale at center staging in burbank where basic production and rehearsals were taking place with various members of the production team. when the production and the growth and scale of the rehearsals outgrew that location, they moved to the forum in englewood. they remained at the forum for approximately just about the entire month of june. and then just days before michael jackson s death, they moved to a larger scale arena, the staples center so they could more accurately rep my indicate what the actual tour was going to be. at the time of michael s death, the rehearsals were taking place at the staples center. now during this time, michael jackson was living at 100 north kerrwood, just off sunset boulevard, you re viewing an ariel photo, it s a two-story mansion. large yard, pool, lots of privacy. mr. jackson lived there with his family, his three young children, prince, his young daughter paris, and his youngest son blanket. it was michael and his three children that lived there on a permanent basis. he had staff and had security and had a nanny and had a chef. but it was michael and his three children that lived at 100 northerly carolwood which came to be with michael would die. what do we know about conrad murray at this time? well, we know conrad murray was a medical doctor. he was not anesthesiologist, he was not board certified in any medical specialty. but conrad murray had met michael jackson previously in las vegas when michael was living there in 2006. they had remained in contact. dr. murray had treated the children while in vegas for various minor ailments such as runny nose and things of that nature. he treated michael for various minor ailments over the period of time. but they maintained contact from that point of time in 2006 through 2009. and what you ll learn in march of 2009, michael requested that conrad murray accompanied him on his o2 tour, the this is it tour. conrad murray readily agreed to participate and accompany michael on this tour. what you ll learn is that conrad murray initially requested payment of $5 million for one year of medical service. this was quickly rejected and an offer of $150,000 a month was put on the table. what you ll learn is that soon a contract had been drafted and murray was to be hired as an independent contractor. part of the terms of the contract provided that murray would provide general medical care, that he would provide medical emergency care, and that he would provide reasonably requested services. and this was all to be for the tour in london, the this is it tour. in exchange for what dr. murray was to provide for the terms of the contract, dr. murray was going to receive as i indicated, $150,000 a month, airfare two and from london and housing in london for the duration of the tour. again, the $5 million request of dr. murray was rejected and the agreed upon amount was $150,000 a month. what you also learn is that this contract was never signed by the parties. what you ll learn is that conrad murray both as an individual and as part of his medical practice, signed the contract and it s dated june 24th, 2009. no representative from a.e.g., the tour promoter had signed it. at the bottom, no representative specifically michael jackson had not signed it. so although it had not been signed, conrad murray had made it very clear that he welcomed the opportunity to enter this lucrative agreement. in fact, conrad murray made it so abundantly clear of his intention to enter into this lucrative agreement that he soon told his clients that his previous medical clients to find another doctor. he sent out letters in june of 2009 advising his clients because of a once in a lifetime opportunity, i had to make a most difficult decision to cease practice of medicine indefinitely. so he was saying good-bye to his clients with the intention of signing on for this $150,000 lucrative agreement that he at least through words had reached with michael jackson. i ve told you a little bit about what michael jackson was doing at that time and a little bit about what conrad murray was doing at that time. you ll need to hear a little bit about propofol and you ll learn a great deal about it throughout the trial. what is propofol? propofol is a general anesthetic agent. it s defined as an intraveenous hypnotic agent for the use in anesthesia or sedation, it s what used to put you under when you have to be have forced mechanical ventilation, if you have to have surgical procedure, it is used in a hospital to put you under. it is not a sleep aid. it is not a sleep agent. it is a general anesthetic. it has great strengths. it is a wonderful drug if used by someone who knows what they are doing. someone who respects the dangers as well as the benefits of the drug. some of its favorable properties include the quick onset of sedation. it acts rapidly. also, at the end of it, rapid return to consciousness, so it acts quickly and it also brings you back out rather quickly. minimum post-op tif nausea or vomiting, you generally feel okay once you come back out of it. however, with every benefit comes a cost and there are unfavorable properties that must be respected by the doctor who is administering such a potentially dangerous drug. the unfavorable properties that leads to respiratory and cardiovascular depression. there s a narrow margin between sedation and full general anesthes anesthesia. that means there s a continue up between a light or conscious sedation or full sedation or anesthesia. you need to be an expert in the field and knowledgeable to track that continueum and have the safety precautions in place so that if the patient passes through that continuem to a deeper level of sedation, you have to be sure as the doctor in charge, as the doctor with legal duty of care that you can manage any consequences that come forward. also leads to the loss of ability to breathe and ability to maintain your air way. finally, because of these properties, things can go bad very quickly. very quickly. and if you are not knowledgeable and competent and prepared, it will lead to the death of your patient. the package insert that comes with it that every single person would see if they just opened up the package, in plain text, indicates, the continuous monitoring is essential. facilities for maintenance of a patent airway must be immediately available. this is in the package insert. patient should be continuously monitored for early signs of hype poe tension, apnea, air way obstruction and/or oxygen desaturation. a simple reading of the package insert would impress upon a competent medical doctor the precautions that need to be taken. and the inher ent dangers of using such an agent without the skills and knowledge and resuscitative equipment to handle it appropriately. in this case you ll hear about propofol, you ll hear the science of propofol. you ll hear about the concentrations of propofol. you ll hear there are two separate vial sizes, 100 millimeter vial, about that big, the large vial and 20 millimeter which is about that big. each you re liftening to the opening statement being made by the president, david walgren as he talks about the case. we want to bring in jeffrey toobin. jeffrey, this has been first talking about the new launch of michael jackson and his grand tour and talking about how the doctor fit into all of this and money became a big issue right up front? absolutely. the prosecution theory is pretty straight forward. he was fine when conrad murray started treating him, conrad murray only got involved in treating michael jackson out of enormous greed. and he was incompetent and he gave him this drug, propofol, which under no circumstances should be given outside of a hospital setting. and thus he killed michael jackson. that s the prosecution s theory and being laid out here with i think great clarity. and they are trying to make the case here that the doctor, even though he has a medical degree, he was not an expert when it came to propofol and how it should be properly administered? that s right. and you know, there are a lot of questions that the defense is going to can ask about this theory. who told him to use propofol? what was the background? what drugs had michael jackson been using previously? obviously this is a one sided presentation, it s the prosecution s opening statement. but certainly the prosecution theory here is being laid out in a clear and kprensible way. if you re the defense, what are the points you want to make when your chance comes along? for starters they are going to give background on michael jackson s history of drug use, including, perhaps, we don t know the facts, his use of this drug. what the prosecution is trying to do is narrow this case down to one single exchange of drugs between dr. murray and michael jackson in the hours before he died. that s all the prosecution wants this case to be about. the defense is going to want to bring in the whole story of michael jackson s health, his history of drug use, what might have killed him, how he dealt with how he had interacted with physicians in the past. that s going to be a big part of what the defense says later today. jeffrey toobin, stand by. we re going to continue the opening statements but right after this break. when an investment lacks discipline, it s never this obvious. introducing investment discipline etfs from russell. visit russelletfs.com r a prospectus, containing the investment objectives, risks, charges, expenses and other information. read and consider it carefully before investing. i know what works differently than many other allergy medications. omnaris. omnaris, to the nose. did you know nasal symptoms like congestion can be caused by allergic inflammation? 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[ indiscernable ] i never seen nothing like this in my life. go, go. i ve never seen nothing like this. go. it s amazing. he s the greatest entertainer in the world. i m taking that money, a million children, children s hospital, the biggest in the world michael jackson s children s hospital. may i play that again? i don t think we had sufficient volume. deputy jones just i m going to play that recording again, now that the volume has been turned up to an appropriate level. listen to the voice of michael jackson on may 10th, 2009. we have to be phenomenal. when people leave this show, when people leave my show, i want them to say, i ve never seen nothing like this in my life. go. go. i ve never seen nothing like this. go. it s amazing. he s the greatest entertainer in the world. i m taking that money, a million children, children s hospital, the biggest in the world, michael jackson s children s hospital. that is what conrad murray is seeing and observing on may 10th, 2009. and what does he do with that knowledge? what does he do with that information? on may 12th, he orders another shipment of propofol and my daz lam, again, he orders 40 of the 100 mill liter bottles of propofol, just two days after that recording was made. accompanying those 40 100-mill liter bottle were 25 20 milliliter bottles for a total of an additional 45,000 milligrams of propofol. the next shipment occurs on june 10th, at which point, conrad murray orders again, 40 100 mililiter bottles and totalling in this shipment alone, 50,000 additional milligrams of propofol. that is then followed on june 15th by an order of my daz lamb and loraze pam, and we learn from these shipments from april 6th and the shipment of june 10th, conrad murray ordered 255 separate viales of propofol, totalling 155,000 milligrams of propofol. equivalent to 15.5 liters or 4.09 gallons of this general anesthetic agent. just based on the orders alone, if you calculate from april 6th to the time of michael s death of june 25th, in those 80 days, based on the orders, what was being shipped was 1,937 milligrams of propofol a day. keep that number in mind when you hear the statements of conrad murray in regard to how much he administered on june 25th. now, i want to talk about what the evidence will show in regard to michael s final days. what you ll learn is that on june 19th, 2009, michael showed up for his rehearsal and he was not in good shape. he was not in good shape at all. he had chills, he was trembling, he was cold, he was rambling. and kenny ortega, the co-director co-choreographer of the production who you ll hear directly was concerned. he never seen mr. jackson in that state previously. he will tell you michael did not rehearse that day, that he sat. he will tell thaw michael was cold. he put a blanket around him. he provided him some chicken to eat. he massaged his feet to try to warm him. but that michael ended up going home early that evening and not rehearsing because of the state physical state he was in. you also hear about the next day, june 20th, 2009. and what you ll hear is there is a meeting called at michael s house at 100 north carolwood. athis meeting were conrad murray, the defendant, michael, kenny ortega, randy phillips, and a discussion was had at that meeting about michael s health and more specifically about what transpired the night before on june 19th. what you ll hear from kenny ortega is that conrad murray took a very hostile tone, he scalded kenny ortega for meddling in what evidently was conrad murray s area of expertise. he said things such as, i am the doctor, not you. you direct the show and leave michael s health to me. he said michael is physically and emotionally fine. don t let it be your concern. i am the doctor. following this meeting of june 20th, rehearsals did not take place that day, the 21st or the 22nd. but they did resume on june 23rd, 2009. and you ll see footage of michael performing on june 23rd, 2009. and by all accounts it was a successful rehearsal at the staples center. michael appeared strong. he was optimistic. and he was looking to the future. and he was looking to get the tour off the ground and head out to london. the following night, rehearsals resumed again. that s june 24th, 2009. and again, the rehearsal went well and michael was engaged and optimistic. in fact, you ll hear from kenny ortega that michael was excited because the next day they were going to be performing an illusion that was going to be part of the tour. michael always loved that type of magical illusion aspect of these shows. so kenny told him tomorrow we re going to do the illusion. michael was looking forward to coming back that next day to participate in that illusion. as you now know, he never returned to the staples center. following that rehearsal, the night of june 24th, 2009, michael was taken home and arrived home at about 1:00 in the morning, which would be the morning of june 25th, 2009. what you ll learn is it was customary that conrad murray would spend the night at the house every night. sometimes only six nights a week but nearly every night for at least two months, two and a half months. in his own words his purpose to be there was to put michael to sleep with propofol. so when michael and the security staff arrived at the house around 1:00 in the morning, conrad murray s bmw was already parked in the driveway. michael was brought into the house. security was debriefed and the customariry routine was followed. again, the house at 100 north carolwood, the front door that faces out in the frontcourt yard, a diagram which is difficult to see from this perspective but a diagram of the entryway would be where the front door is located. you come into this front foyer area, as to the relevant of where michael died, you would go to the left up these stairs and you would go into this foyer where i m pointing here. into the bedroom where conrad murray would do his nightly infusions of propofol to michael jackson. you ll learn that this room on the far left was actually michael jackson s personal bedroom but that the propofol administrations occurred in this room here. from the foyer, it goes into the bedroom through a very large closet, the size of a typical bedroom. then into the restroom. this view here is looking through the front glass doors into that foyer area with the stairs i just described being here on the left leading up to this landing. and again, just to blow up of the diagram showing the relevant room where michael jackson received these propofol infusions, the foyer, the bedroom and the large closet and the bathroom. this is a picture depicting the bedroom where michael jackson died. he died in that bed pointing down here below the slide. this picture is the closet i showed you on the diagram and it s a vantage point of the closet looking into the bathroom that i had described. and then into the bathroom depicting what is shown there the clothes and in fact the jacket that michael was wearing at his last performance that night on june 24th, 2009. as i indicated earlier, the question becomes what transpired then from 1:00 in the morning to michael s death the next day. before i relay to you some of the words of conrad murray as to his story of what transpired, i want to share with you what the independent investigation by law enforcement revealed absent conrad murray s statements. what you ll learn through phone records is that conrad murray was very busy on the phone that night. there are screen shots from the iphone showing him receiving, reading very e-mails, there s text message, there s different screen shots showing various activities of conrad murray on his phone. there s a very relevant e-mail that conrad murray receives. it s sent at 5:54 a.m. conrad murray responds to it 11:17 a.m. on that day and that time will be relevant. it s not just relevant for the time but relevant for the substance. this e-mail that you re viewing on this screen is an e-mail from the insurance broker in london that is trying to collect medical records so they can have the tour properly insured. he s asked conrad murray is asked specific questions about press reports relating to michael s health. and that it s required in order to get the insurance. conrad murray responds by his own e-mail on june 25th at 11:17 a.m., what he says is that as far as his health, published by the press, they are all fell ashs to the best of my knowledge. this is on june 25th, 2009, days after the meeting, month and a half after the may 10th recording. and conrad murray represents to the insurance broker that all press reports about michael s health are fell ashs. we know through the phone records what was taking place that night. we have the early morning phone calls which will be described in witness testimony during the trial. but as we get closer to the time that conrad murray indicates he provided propofol. we have a 10:15 a.m. phone call, 10:20, 10:24, 11:07 phone call. we then go to an 11:18, 32 minute phone call to conrad murray s business in las vegas. followed by a brief message to one of his female friends, bridgette morgan at 11:26. a call with robert russell at 11:49. and then a call at 11:51 with another female friend sade anling who lived in texas. she ll tell you she was working as a cocktail waitress in houston and met conrad murray, they exchanged phone numbers. that conrad murray referred to her as his girlfriend. what you ll learn from the nature of the 11:51 phone call is that this is likely the time that conrad murray first noticed michael jackson s lifeless body. it won t reveal to you the time of michael jackson s death but it may reveal to you when conrad murray first noticed michael jackson had died. because what sade tells us, this 11:51 phone call took place, that she was speaking on the phone when she realized there was no response on other end. conrad murray was not communicating, not participating in the conversation. sounded as though the phone had been put down. she heard a commotion. she eventually hung up and tried to get back in touch with conrad murray but was not successful. she indicated that this occurred about five minutes into the 11:51 phone call, so about 11:56, 11:57 a.m. is when the phone goes do you dead and she s no longer able to communicate with conrad murray. at 12:12 we have a phone call to michael williams and return phone call at 12:15. who is michael williams? a personal assistant to michael jackson. he was at his own house downtown los angeles. he receives this call, i believe he s in the shower at 12:12 p.m. and you ll hear the recording, that conrad murray leaves michael amir williams at this time. call me right away, please. please call me right away, thank you. michael amir williams calls conrad murray back immediately and told to get here right away. mr. jackson had a bad reaction. he s not told to call 911. he s simply told to get there right away from downtown los angeles to 100 north carolwood in the homeby hills area. michael amir williams makes a number of phone calls and gets a hold of alberto alvarez, a security guard, part of michael jackson s personal security. they actually were housed in this trailer on the side of the house. alberto alvarez being on site is told to go in the house, there had been a problem and michael jackson had a bad reaction according to conrad murray. alvarez goes in the house and eventually goes upstairs. he goes up the stairs showing this picture, gets up to the landing and proceeds into the bedroom where he sees what appears to him to be michael jackson s lifeless body on the bed. conrad murray is giving cpr with one hand while michael lay on the bed. alberto alvarez observes a condom catheter, some device and tubing coming from the penis of michael jackson. what the medical experts will tell you, this is a
it s right for the economy, and i would sign that bill today if it came to my desk. [ applause ] tell congress to get past their differences and send me a road construction bill so that companies can put tens of thousands of people to work right now building our roads and bridges and airports and seaports. i mean, think about it. america used to have the best stuff, best roads, best airports, best seaports. we re slipping behind because we re not investing in it, because of politics and gridlock. do you want to put people to work right now rebuilding america? you ve got to send that message to congress. send send a message to congress to come to an agreement on trade deals that will level the playing field and open markets to our businesses so we can sell more goods to countries around the world. yeah, we ve got a lot of americans driving kias arou s a hyundais. i want people in korea driving fords and chevys and chryslers. i d like to see that. i want to see billions of dollars more products sold around the world stamped with three words, made in america. made in america. those trade bills are teed up. they are ready to go. let s get it done. tell congress we need to reform the patent system so entrepreneurs like the ones who developed some of the technology here can turn their ideas into businesses more quickly, so companies like this one can better compete against companies around the world. we shouldn t make it so difficult for somebody with a good idea to translate that into a business. tell congress we ve got hundreds of thousands of bright, talented, skilled americans who are returning home from iraq and afghanistan, and i ve proposed connecting those veterans looking for work with businesses that need their skills. you ve got 24-year-olds and 25-year-olds that are leading platoons and handling equipment that s worth tens or hundreds of billions of dollars, and they come back here and they can t find a job? let s put them to work. these are things we can do right now. these are things i ve already proposed. we ve worked out the glitches. the legislation is drafted. let s get it done. now given the weaknesses of the economy, we need to do even more than, that and over the coming weeks i m going to be putting out more proposals, week by week, that will help businesses hire and put people back to work, and i m going to keep at it until every single american who wants a job can find one. now, we do have to pay for these things, and in order to pay for these things congress has to finish the job of reducing the nation s budget deficit in a sensible responsible way. not just with more cuts this year or next year. those cuts would weaken the economy more than it already is, and we ve already cut $1 trillion in what s called discretionary spending. what we need is a long-term plan to get our nation s finances in order. that s the only way we can invest in places like this. that s how we can fund the research at the department of energy, that s how we can fund the community college that trains folks to be able to work here. that s how we can fund the infrastructure and the technology that will help us win the future. by doing what you do, what families do. think about it. when things are tight, you cut out those things you cannot afford, even if it s tough, to pay for the things that really matter. you don t cut out the college fund for your kids. you stop maybe going out as often. you don t stop taking care of your parent who needs care. you cut back on some of the things that you don t really need. it s the same principle that applies to government. and by the way in your own families, i m assuming you don t just keep all the stuff you like and tell your spouse you got to get rid of all the stuff she likes or he likes. that wouldn t work in my hou household. you don t just cut out the stuff that s important to you and or keep all the stuff that s important to you and cut out stuff that s important for your kids. the same is true for us as an american family. we can t ask the people in this room, working families, middle class families, to bear the entire burden. we re not going to balance our budgets on the back of middle class and working people in this country. everybody s got to do their part. everybody s got to do their part. everybody s got to chip in. that s fair. you learn it in kindergarten. that s what all this fuss was about in washington. are we going to deal with our deficit in a way that s fair? and that means closing tax loopholes for billionaires before we cut college loans for young people. that means ending government subsidies for oil and gas companies that are doing very well before you cut health care for seniors. it means making sure that the biggest corporations pay their fair share in taxes before we gut the investments in technology and clean energy that made this factory a reality. now that s just common sense. it should have bipartisan support. these are things we could be doing right now. that s how we can jump start this economy and speed up the recovery and get more folks working while making sure that we get our fiscal house in order. we can do both. i ll be laying out more proposals in the days ahead, and i m going to keep after every idea and every serious proposal to help us grow this economy, until everybody wants a job can find one. but i want everybody to understand here the problem is not that we don t have answers. the problem is that folks are playing political games. we ve got a long way to go. we didn t get into this mess overnight. it s going to take time to get us out. that s the truth, but that s no excuse for inaction. it s time to put aside ultimatums. it s time to stop drawing lines in the sand. you know, in the aftermath of this whole debt ceiling debacle, with the markets going up and down like they are, there s been a lot of talk in washington right now that i should call congress back early. the last thing we need is congress spending more time arguing in d.c. what i figure is they need to spend more time out here listening to you. and hearing how fed up you are. that s why i m here. that s why i ll be traveling to a lot of communities like this one over the neck week. that s what congress should be doing. go back home and listen to people s frustrations with all the gridlock. listen to how frustrated folks are with the constant bickering and the unwillingness to compromise and the desire to score points even if it s at the expense of our country. and if they are listening hard enough, maybe they will come back to washington ready to compromise and ready to create jobs and ready to reduce our deficit, ready to do what you sent them there to do. you know, america voted for divided government, and that makes it tough. you ve got one party controlling the house of representatives, another party controlling the senate, so they voted for you voted for divided government, but you didn t vote for dysfunctional government. you didn t vote for a do nothing government. you didn t vote for a government where folks are just looking out for special interests. you didn t vote for a government that is beholden to lobbyists. we ve got a lot of work to do, and the only way we will get it done is if everybody, democrats and republicans, find a way to put country ahead of party. that s what i m fighting for. i m here to enlist you in that fight. you ve got to hold everybody accountable because if we can come together and find common ground, there is no stopping the united states of america. there is no holding us back. we can strengthen this economy, and we can put our nation back to work and we can lead the world in growing industries, and we will make it through these economic storms and reach calmer waters stronger than we were before. thank you very much, everybody. god bless you. thank you. president obama. did you hear his tone through that speech this in holland, michigan in the president is fired up and in a sense he also seems fed up, fed up with bipartisan bickering in washington. he s speaking at this one factory in this town in michigan that is just about 30 miles southeast of grand rapids, and essentially at one point he was juxtaposing the success at this one particular factry, the factory makes hybrid batteries for cars, successes there. they got a cash injection from the stimulus, juxtaposing that with what doesn t seem to be working, according to the president in washington, the lack of compromise. at one point saying there s nothing wrong with the country. something is wrong with our politics. talked about inferring that the debt mess and also the recent s&p downgrade, referring to that as a self-inflicted wound. let s go to athena jones who is there traveling with the president, and athena, being in the room there, i m sure you could hear this very impassioned voice. seemed to be speaking to one very specific group in congress who as he said more than once is putting party in front of country. that s true. he was very fired up today. we didn t just hear him talk about this this company here that s working on advanced battery technology which is the reason he came to tour. you also heard him talking about urging congress to find common ground. now this is not unusual to hear the president urge congress to compromise. we hear this all the time from him, but today we heard a little bit more impassioned language from him. he said he s frustrated. you can probably hear it in my voice he said at one point. at one point he said people have been saying after all of this mess with the raising of the debt ceiling, with the downgrade, that he should be calling congress back to washington to work together towards reaching these more deficit reductions that are required by this debt ceiling deal. he said the last thing congress needs is to be back in washington arguing with each other. what they heed is to be out here on the road in places like this talking to their constituents who are fed up just like he, the president is. he talked about how he s going to be going on this trip next week out in the country talking to residents about how they feel, and so you heard a little bit of the touch on these advanced technology batteries, the kind of technology that will help spur jobs. this is part of his overall agenda, but you definitely heard some of the same political rhetoric we heard before with congress working together with a little bit extra pep in it. back to you. yeah. i would say so. some political pep indeed. he also alluded to that super committee. we now know the 12 names, the bipartisan committee, the debt-busting committee that will have to take a good long look at the debt and see what and how they can cut to make up to $1.25 trillion in cuts, hoping to quote the president, they will do that in a sensible, fair, responsible way. but, you know, some republicans, athena, have criticized the president saying, look, where s the president s plan? he talks about job and job creation, but how can we go about creating jobs? and i know he mentioned a couple of examples as we heard before from the president talking about extending the payroll tax, trade deals. can you elaborate on what we heard from him today? well, he also talked about infrastructure. the trade deals that has been on the on the on the books for congress for a while, and so they wanted to see these deals with colombia, panama and south korea pushed through. of course, you have your usual resistance on the part of labor to some of these deals, and so this is yet another area that remains to be worked out. it s one of the many things that can help spur growth, but what was so interesting today to hear him come again and again back to the whole issue of congress working together. he talked about the need to to have a fair share, everyone hold their fair share when it comes to making these deficit reductions so he doesn t want to see aid for students to go to college cut when you could also close tax loopholes for billionaires and for big companies, and so you saw a lot of that. i expect to hear this kind of rhetoric going forward, pushing congress to come together, to compromise, as you mentioned, with the super committee. there s already speculation about the people on the committee who have been chosen, whether or not these these individual people show that they are not going to be willing to compromise, for instance, some of the members on the super commit were also on the erskine bowles committee who later rejected that deal. we know the nine names, now the final three making the 12, leader pelosi naming her three. athena jones with me from holland, michigan. thank you so much. the president also mentioned the markets. have you been watching along. guys, let s take a look at the big board. the dow, look at this, quite the contrast from what we saw yesterday. it is very much so in positive territory, dow up 470, 468 points as we are just about 45 minutes away from that closing bell, rocky first couple of days on wall street. we re all over it and, of course, the closing bell as well. we ll take that live. meanwhile, folks challenging president obama for his job of right now they are in iowa in a state that could make or break them, and mitt romney, he was asked an interesting question with an interesting answer. we will take you there live to iowa next. 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here s why, brooke. it is a real test in presidential campaigns, organizational strength and grass roots outreach and while it may not always pick the winner for the republican nomination down the road the following year, it can often break a campaign. it was four years ago that former wisconsin governor tommy thompson running for governor on the republican side, didn t do so well at aims, dropped out a few days later. mike huckabee didn t win four years ago, you re right, mitt romney had but huckabee had a strong second place finish. he went on to win the iowa caucuses so it can definitely make or break some campaigns. the straw poll as well as the state fair right here, three crucial days for the race for the white house on the republican side. a lot at stake, and this race may be very different after this weekend is over. some candidates have a lot at stake tonight. the first debate in nearly two months since our cnn debate in new hampshire. talking about michele bachmann, a lot on the line, tim pawlenty, former minnesota governor, a lot on the line for him at the debate and straw poll and mitt romney who is perceived as the front-runner right now, the former massachusetts governor, brooke. but, paul steinhauser, here s the but, the biggest names in and around this ration here, not even taking part in the straw poll, a, why, and, b, what s up with sarah palin swooping in out of the blue here? yeah, let s start with sarah palin. we re here at the state fair in des moines. there s our bus, brought, it a big deal, all the white house candidates come here. sarah palin we ve learned is going to be here, good reporting from our political reporter. bringing that one nation bus tour which we saw earlier this summer back east. it s going to be right here in iowa. listen, every time she falls out of the spotlight she jumps right back in. maybe that s what she s doing. sarah palin says she will decide by september whether she will run for the republican presidential nomination. it will be interesting to see what she says when she s right here in iowa. the other big name, rick perry, the texas governor. he s going to be here in iowa this weekend and earlier on saturday he s basically going to announce in south carolina that he s a candidate for president. he is moving closer and closer to running, and that is also going to change the race, brooke. it s getting more exciting by the day. paul steinhauser, very exciting there at the state fair. enjoy the twinkie logs. i see the stand over your shoulder, incredibly delicious and oh, so nutritious. we ll send you one. as we said the straw poll winner back in 2007 won willard mitt romney, his first name willard, current republican front-runner. back in 2007 here s what he said about the republican hopefuls who declined, declined to take part in that iowa straw poll. you know, it s too bad the other guys weren t competing here. if they thought they could have been successful here, they would have been here. that is mitt romney then, the same mitt romney who is not in the straw poll this time, even though he is there campaigning today. shannon travis, why no mitt romney in the straw poll, and is he taking any grief from the folks there in iowa? reporter: well, the first question, brooke, why no mitt romney? mitt romney says he s focusing his attention on races that award delegates. you know, you have to collect delegates in order to win the republican nomination, and the straw poll that s going to be held here on saturday does not award delegates. as paul just mentioned, basically a test of organization and popularity here in iowa. he spent a lot of money last time for a narrow win, and this time he s sitting it out. he s been focusing a lot of attention, a lot of attention on new hampshire. obviously that s the first in the nation primary and on south carolina, too, the first primary in the south, so he s not here. in answer to your second question, taking a lot of grief? depends. he s really leading, some polls placing very well here, but some people i ve spoken to personally have said they feel like mitt romney is skipping out on the state, and if he isn t attracting or actively going after their votes for the straw poll, why should he get it for the caucuses which he ll participate in. brooke? we mentioned he s there and off the top he got heckled out there. we re not of the opinion that that in and itself is news, but an interesting exchange did come of it. let s listen to this. we have to make sure that the promises we make in social security, medicaid and medicare are promises we can keep, and there are various ways of doing that. one is we could raise taxes on people. corporations! corporations are people, my friend. no, they are not. of course they are. everything corporations earn ultimately goes to people. shannon travis, we listened to that a couple of times. we heard that correctly mitt romney said to this heckler everything corporations earn goes to the people. i m just wondering, have we gotten any followup on that remark from the romney camp, and are they sticking by it? yeah, excellent question, brooke. i ve placed a few calls to the campaign and said, hey, are you standing by this? was this a flub or what have you? surprise, they are doubling down on it. let me read a tweet from an adviser to mitt romney. quote, do folks think corporations are buildings? they are people who incorporate to conduct business. they create jobs and hire more people. the campaign is doubling down on that comment. in fairness, brooke, the person who heckled, who asked that question of mitt romney is a liberal activist. he s done this to other republican politicians before, but the fact that mitt romney would answer that way and defend corporations against higher taxes is creating a lot of buzz, especially among his democratic critics. the dnc chairwoman debbie wasserman schultz has already put out a statement saying that it was amazing. brooke? amazing, you re out there. like every little word, everything you say gets replayed, parsed upon. shannon travis, thanks so. des moines, iowa, straw poll saturday. now to this. medical researchers, they are calling them serial killers, but they mean that in the nicest possible way. how something inside the body of a cancer patient are bringing them back from the brink. this extraordinary medical breakthrough on cancer next. it s the cleanest, clearest water. we find the best, sweetest crab for red lobster we can find. yeah! 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[ jon ] i wouldn t put it on my table at home, i wouldn t bring it in. my name s jon forsythe, and i sea food differently. it s schwab at your fingertips wherever, whenever you want. one log in lets you monitor all of your balances and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the market with live updates. and execute trades anywhere and anytime the inspiration hits you. even deposit checks right from your phone. just take a picture, hit deposit and you re done. open an account today and put schwab mobile to work for you. a possible extraordinary breakthrough on the fight against cancer. scientists may have figured out a way to take your own cells and turn them into serial killers on diseases like leukemia. this discovery could change everything. our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here to explain how this works. this has the potential of being just tremendous. explain this. okay. so there were three people who had cancer, brooke. they had leukemia, a particular type of leaukemia, and they were almost at the end of the road. they had cancer. they got treated. they went into remission, and then it came back, and there wasn t a whole lot that they could do. doctors said, you know what? let s take their t-cells which is the body s natural sort of fighter cells and let s ramp it up or amp it up, i guess i should say and turn them into assassins, so imagine if you give those cells guns that they can go and shoot the cancer cells. that s basically what they did. shoot the cancer cells. shoot the cancer cells and quickly within just a couple of weeks two out of the three patients went into a total remission. wow! and one of them went into basically a partial remission. are they cured? you know, i never like to use what our medical journalists call the c word. these people have had cancer go and come back before. it could come back. that s a possibility. only ten months to two years. i would hate to use the cure word. who doesn t know someone who suffers from leukemia. could this work with other people? you know, it is possible, so they will start studying it at some point in other patients with cancer. it could be work for leukemia. it could work for other patients as well. there is a bit of a danger here. these patients did get a little bit sick. i mean, nothing horrifically horrible, but they had fevers and diarrhea, and it could have been a threat to their life, but they caught it quickly so you want to make sure when you re doing a treatment like this that you re doing more good than harm, so you want to proceed carefully because this is new, and you don t want to just all of a sudden give it to everybody. you want to give it to people who don t have a whole lot of other options. the other part is they used a modified version of hiv to to alter the t-cells. right. it sounds crazy. you ve got someone already sick and you re going to give them an hiv cell. that s what they did? well, they modified, it so they took this hiv cell. they stripped it of all of its sort of toxic and harmful properties, and then used it as part of the genetic manipulation so it was just kind of like a part of the machine that made this whole thing happen, but they hate it so that it was harmless i know we don t want to use the c cure word but this is encouraging. it s very encouraging, and it s something that they will look into further. i m going to be kind of the i don t mean to be the eyore here. you and i might be sitting here a year from now saying god forbid, it didn t turn out that well. those three patient have gotten cancer again. definitely want to follow lieu. cross your fingers that this really does work. elizabeth cohen, thanks. and now this. you realize that you re biting the hand that feeds you? and i said, yeah, but i also realize it s the hand that s killing me. mountaintop coal mining. it s the primary economic engine for southern west virginia, at least coal mining is overall. a living hell though as one worker calls it and the other calls it a much-needed job, but at least one researcher calls it the state s biggest public health problem. soledad o brien, she s going join me here live in a moment. will take us inside this battle. her exclusive report is next. cy we re thinking about them. a couple decades ago, we didn t even realize just how much natural gas was trapped in rocks thousands of feet below us. technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having the idea, and that s where the discovery comes from. with money tight and jobs scarce and the price of everything including fuel going up, up, up these days. people are taking a close hard look at this controversial form of coal mining called mountaintop removal. 57% of americans in this cnn poll say they oppose the removal of a mountain summit to allow a mining company greater access to what s below, the coal there, and as part of her upcoming documentary, calling it battle for blair mountain, cnn s soledad o brien gets this exclusive firsthand look at this highly effective and highly controversial form of coal mining. most mountaintop removal sites are hidden from roads. to get a clear view of the aftermath you need to go up. this is a mountaintop removal process. they will be taking that all. another concern for those opposed to mountaintop removal projects, the blasting. it shook the houses real bad. it cracked the porches, ceilings in our houses. but you couldn t prove it was done by blasting. this was just a bad place to live. charles bela lives in blair. when blasting began near his home in 1997, he was working in the mines. every time i would complain about the blasting, the superintendent said to me one day, he said he said do you realize that you re biting the hand that feeds you? and i said, yeah, but i also realize it s the hand that s killing me. do you worry that the streams are damaged, that the dust is in the air, that it s not healthy? you can t tell dust by sniffing. reporter: another neighbor is diane kish. it s our families. you don t think it s unsafe? no. i would take a drink out of that water. you would take a drink out of this water. no, you would not. yes, i would. look at the color. i wouldn t let you better than black. when you look at this mountain, the trees are stripped away, is that progress to you? it s a job in the makeing. soledad o brien, i look forward to watching this documentary. been up in a helicopter over the mountains as well, and this really is a battle, battle with two sides. you have people that say this argument is all about jobs, and then there are the folks who are concerned about the environment, more so than, you know, feeding one s family with these coal jobs. which side do the folks there in west virginia fall on? you know, i actually think it s more nuanced than those two sides. i think it s often broken down jobs versus the environment, but what we really found is it s more complicated than that. there are certainly people who want to see jobs in the region but also don t necessarily want their drinking water or their water at all have toxins or be poisoned in any way. there are certainly people who feel like they understand that those things should be able to co-exist, but how do you get there? i actually think ultimately when you see the big battle there are people who love their community and love it so much that they are really willing to fight hard for it, so i i don t know that that why should people have to have an either/or, jobs or a clean environment? isn t there something in between that they can fight for and win? i thought that man said it best. yes, he s biting the hand that feeds him, but it s also killing him. for people who aren t in west virginia, who don t live in that state, how does this story really resonate nationwide? well, i mean, i think today everybody is talking about jobs, jobs, jobs obviously because that is what we need in the united states right now and also for anybody who is not in a coal-producing part of the country, we all walk in a room, flick a light switch on. don t even think about it. a lot of that exactly, and we want to continue not thinking about it so the answer is not simply, well, eradicate coal produb. it s how can you have people live together in an environment that s clean? how do you make it so people don t have to make a choice between a healthy environment and, you know, and having a job that pays well? are there jobs that can come in? you look at it right now. there are no jobs that are coming into the area, paying $65,000 a year which is what the coal miners we interviewed talked to and tell us. $65,000 a year, that s a hard job to replace so those are all the complicated and and nuanced issues that are really happening. i think everybody who is watching the story, whether they are in west virginia or outside of west virginia can relate to that. you know, blair mountain is really a metaphor for jobs in the united states i think. yeah, blair mountain, a huge march over the summer and essentially the issue is whether to blast blair or not, right? well, i think the issue is if blair mountain could be mined, then what does that say about the potential for every single place in west virginia to be mined? i see. at this moment there s nobody setting up a blasting site on blair mountain, but it definitely has become a symbol, a symbolic point of where people are saying let s stop it now, stop mountaintop remove. many of the coal miners say mountaintop removal is where the jobs, are good jobs, and if in fact you do stop mountaintop mining, you re stopping our jobs and livelihoods and impacting our families. we ll be watching the images. it s stunning. let s tell everyone when we can watching the documentary, working in america, battle for blair mountain. that s sunday night right here on cnn at 8:00 eastern. look at that, the dow up 534 points. we ll take you live to wall street next. i can enter trades. on the run. even futures and forex. complex options? 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reporter: who knows what tomorrow will bring, right? we can only guess. you know, this is a really nice change of pace, isn t it, after we ve seen what s happened this week, just the beating that the markets have taken. the dow now soaring 543 points. you know, the financial sector is really rallying, bank shares up 6% to 9%, bank of america, citigroup and wells fargo who wanted the financial sector to go strong. that s where a lot of the momentum is coming from as well. also keep in mind, brooke, momentum coming from the computer-generated trading, spike so high on the dow, up 554 points now. just like we saw it happen on the way down when we saw the the levels sort of hit and trigger more selling, we re seeing the reverse now where the buying is triggering new levels, and we re seeing the markets go up. we re also seeing investors flee from gold. gold prices are down almost 2%, and oil prices, they are back up about 3.5%. you can t always get everything you wish for. brooke? we will take what we can get today there on, alison kosik. i ll see new 15 minutes. see how the numbers start to settle at 4:00 p.m. eastern time. in the meantime, streets in and around london are quiet at this hour, and people who live and work there say they hope it stays that way. take a look at this. this is the next cover for time magazine. the assessment, the decline and fall of europe and in the teeny tiny print below it says and maybe the west. i ll speak with the journalist who wrote that cover story and what the chaos means for americans next. yup, we had a good year at chevy. they gave us a consumers digest best buy award. then they gave us an iihs top safety pick and you. well, you gave us your approval. so we thought, why not give a little back. the chevy model year wrap up. get in on our greatest model year yet. and now, very-well qualified lessees can get a low mileage lease on a chevy cruze ls for around $169 a month. our greatest model year yet is wrapping up. well, the streets of london are finally quiet tonight, but the last couple of days many witnesses have seen violence and mayhem and now police are using facial recognition technology to track down people looting and setting fires. the technology wasn t supposed to be used until next year s olympics in london. now it s getting a dry run. also british prime minister david cameron says they will find all the criminals. to the lawless minority, the criminals who have taken what they can get, i who have taken what they can get, i will say this. we will track you done, we will find you, we will punish you. you will pay for what you have done. already more than 1,200 people have been arrested. 16,000 police officers in and around the city, and $161 million in losses. i want to bring in assistant managing editor for time magazine, rona raufar. looking at the cover of the next magazine. you write a lot about the city of great wealth, and how london is burning, but you write here the only surprising thing is that it didn t happen sooner. rona, how do you mean? i ve been wondering frankly since 2008 when we were going to see this sort of violence. i think it s interesting we ve seen it first in the uk. it s positioned perfectly between the u.s. and europe. we ve seen the debt downgrade, incredible destruction of wealth, and the divide, which is really what you re seeing. the first onslaught of cuts. from and it s happening now and may happen elsewhere. we talked a lot about debts here in the states, they re talking about debt in the europe and our situation in the u.s., it s not pretty. we heard the president fired up, we ahead the s&p downgrade, and all this bickering? washington. we think our situation here in the states seasonal exactly ideal, but you write that europe s is worse, why? absolutely. europe s plan a, b and c, was for the u.s. to rebound, they were counting on us, as always. to carry us out of the downturn, and that s not happening, so they re panicking. people here in the u.s. is i ve got to pay my bills, i need to send my kids to school, keep a roof over my head. so explain why is what s happening in europe, not just the uk and elsewhere and the riots, why does it matter to me? it matters dramatically. europe is the largest trading partner. our companies do a lot of business with people there. what s happening in europe is we re sealing people there stop buying our cars, or technological goods, our luxury products and things are already dampened here. but how would it specifically affect me here? as we look at the currency. well, if you work for a company that sells something into europe, which a lot of us doing, and europeans aren t buying, that s an american job that could be put at risk. when you look at some of the similarities between london and let s say major u.s. cities, the unemployment rate among youth is high. social media is powerful, and that s been a force behind what s been playing out in london. if the rioting can happen in london, could any of these play out here in the states? i think it could, and again i ve real lian wondering why we haven t seen more of this? i think more of our pop you lei rage has been channeled into partisan politics and the tea party move. in britain, i think that you have more of a history frankly of labor protests like this, saw it in the 70s with thatcher, you re seeing it again now, but it could be when push comes to shove and when our super committee gets to work, you could see certainly protests. i m not holding my breath. rana faroohar, i encourage everyone to read the article. it s educational. rana, thank you so much for coming on. and it has been, as we mentioned moments ago an up and down wee. today was much, much better than yesterday. we ll go live to the stock exchange for the closing bell. that is about six minutes from now. also breaking news from the world of politics. be right back. that one day on the red hills of georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d.c., martin luther king jr. memorial. take your seat at the table on august 28th. well, we now have all 12 names here. house democratic leader nancy pelosi naming the final they re. he three picks of the 12-member bipartisan congressional super committee, looking for ways to tackle the deficit. let s go to wolf blitzer. wolf, give us the names. jim clyburn, the highest ranking african-american in the house of representatives, he s one of the democrats that nancy pelosi name. javier becerra, one of the highest ranking hispanic members of congress from california. chris van hollen from maryland, who spent the last for you years working to get democrats to the house of representatives, used to run the democratic congressional campaign committee, so you now have 12 members, i ll call them the gang of 12. six democrats, six republicans, taking a look at the diversity, one woman, patty murray of washington state, one african-american, one hispanic, javier becerra, and nine white men. so it s got a little diverse, not a whole lot, but it will be a powerful panel. if they get a 7-5 vote in favor of more than a trillion in cut, it automatically goes to the floor of the house, no amendments, automatically goes to the floor of the senate, no amendments there, no filibuster allowed, a simple majority in both. if they pass it, then it goes to the president for his signature. if they fail to do all of that, they have to come up with recommendations by thanksgiving, the congress, house and senate, has to vote before christmas. if they fail to do it, there is a trigger mechanism that goes into effect and there s sweeping cuts from defense and from domestic programs very potentially sense tifds programs on defense and spending that will anger republicans and democrats, so there s enormous amount of pressure. this committee has a lot of work to do between now and thanksgiving. and a lot of people don t want to see those trigger mechanisms hit. wolf blitzer, thank you so much. we have some breaking news here, just into the world of politics, with regard to someone else who plans to announce he will throw his hat in the ring to become the next president with regard to the republican party. let s go to jim acosta quickly, as we are also watching the markets begin to close. jim, what are we talking about? brooke, we are talking about rick perry. cnn has just confirmed through a source with the perry campaign that the governor of texas will be announced on saturday that he is running for president he s going to be making the announcement at the red state.com speech. as you know, the redstate.com blog is influential blog for conservatives. the person behind that blog, eric erickson is a contributor here at cnn. a lot of people have been looking to this speech as some kind of indication to what the texas governor is going to do. earlier this week, we learned that he was going to make his intentions clear. now we understand that the governor of texas is going to throw his cowboy hat into the ring in this race for 2012, this very crowded field for 2012. you know, he did give an interview for our friend mark halperin over at time magazine earlier this week indicating some of this. some of that video is now on the timemagazine.com website, in which perry says he has basically come from the answer no, no he does not want to run, to now saying yes, he is in the race for president president. tell us more. he s done pretty well, you look at texas, you look at jobs, 9 unemployment rate there in texas. pretty good stats coming into this race. that s right. this is going to be the rick perry message for the coming days. it s going to be his economic message down in texas. in the last two years, and this is not from the perry campaign, this is not from rick perry, this is from the bureau of labor and statistics. nearly half of the jobs created in this country since june of 2009 have been created in texas. now, part of that is because texas is a big state, but also it s because this state has been fairly recessionproof. what the governor will tell you is that s because of the policies he put in place. his critics will say some of that is a result of the fact that texas has always been a good climate for business. the state has no income tax, so it s an attractive place for business is to go. it s also a big energy state. there s also factors to why texas has such a robust economy, but this is going to be an interesting race for the texas governor. i was down there a couple weeks ago in austin, and was told by republicans, look, rick perry has never lost an election in his life. he s a very tough campaigner. you only have to ask kay bailey hutchison, the senator from texas, who tried to unseat him in a bitter primary just last year. he knows how to run for office. he s done it over and over again to great success. so he has a pretty good track record. wolf when we talk about his track record, what about the fact, is america ready for another texan governor/president? well, some americans probably want, those that didn t like the last texas governor, they probably will be reluctant to vote for rick perry. he s very popular, though, with a lot of conservatives, a lot of tea party activists. in the short run, it might hurt michele bachmann somewhat, because they might be competing for some of the same votes, it might wind up helping. mitt romney, trying to appeal to more moderate republicans, if you will, not spending a lot of time campaigning in iowa. we ll see if rick perry starts campaigning in iowa. he wrong be around for the poll for ames this weekend, even though people could write in his name. it s going to shake things up. he does have a lot of strength. he has some serious money behind him. he ll be a formidable contain. some are already suggesting that when the dust settles, it could be romney versus perry, maybe michele bachmann, maybe others creeping up there, but it will liven things up. what would really liven things up is if sarah palin announced she was running. as you know she s showing up in her bus in iowa. so she certainty wants some attention herself. we ll see what she decides. my sense if she were to announce she was running, it would be more of that competition for more of the conservative base for the republican parties, rick perry, michele bachmann, maybe that would create an opening for mitt romney to get some serious support out there as well. it s unpredictable at this stage. the good news is we have a great political story and we ll be covers it. i thank you both. speaking of unpredictable, shall we go to wall street? take a look at some of the numbers as we are four minutes past the closing bell. huge, huge positive terr toish, markets did a lot better than yesterday s nose dive. they closed yesterday down 519, now up 422. we have also had a better than expected jobless claims report. let s go to alison kosik once again. alison, it looks pretty good. talk to me about some of the drivers. so green and lots of it. i ll tell you what. it s a much more cheerful color on the big board, but i m afraid to say it, but brooke, today s huge gains seem so mundane after what we ve been through. we ll take it. yeah, we ll take it. what really drove the markets today were the worries subsiding about france s debt being downgraded. all three set rumors are unfounded, so they swooped in, scooped up bargains after stocks had taken such a beating. we re also seeing the markets trying to find their equilibrium at this point after such huge price swings. still, a different mood here today. there s a lot less nervousness, and we ll take it after the week we ve had. brooke? we will take it. al alison, stand by. paul, we re looking at the dow. what about s&p and nasdaq. how did they fare? we had a great day for pretty much the broad stock market. the s&p 500 and nasdaq both surging as well. i would be cautious as alison. keep in mind that tuesday was a very good day as well for stocks. tuesday was followed by yesterday, which was not so good. it s just the roller coaster right is just not going to end anytime soon. wee just up and down, up and down. what about the blue chips? blue-chip stocks leading the way, but it was a broad move higher for all stocks and all industries, which is encouraging, as a alison mentioned, but again, you have to be cautious here. there still are so many worries about the global economy, even if ratings agencies aren t going to be downgrading some of the big countries in europe yet. france is at the center of all these worries right now, about how their banking system is looking right now. those worries don t change overnight, even with a great day like today. paul, thank you. alison, you get my last question. when i was listening to the president speaking, trying to do some jugglic, and watching the markets, just curious if the markets were affected by the president s efusiveness we ll call it. he was pretty fired up. did the markets at all react to the president? i couldn t tell if they did. they didn t. i think it was full speed ahead on that news about france. i think that s really what was the catalyst that 2k3w09 the markets going. the jobs news we got, that definitely helped keep the gains going as well. we found out that the number of people filing first-time jobless claims fell by 7,000. it s that level we want to watch. below 400,000 is seen as the tipping points. if claims continue to trend down from that level, the economy has a decent shot of creating more jobs, but no, did not see any reaction when the president was speaking. you know, a lot of the spikes we saw today, they were also due to those computer-drich trades, just like we saw that happened on the sell side, we saw that on the buy side as well. as these levels go higher, they trigger new points, whether to sell or buy, and today just happened to be, to buy. brooke? alison kosik, the woman with quite the busy job, as i know the traders have on the floor below you. thank you so much. we want to go to iowa, the iowa straw poll, a slew of presidential prospects out there we just ahead about someone else throwing husband hat into the ring, but let s talk about mitt romney, the front-runner thus far. he s campaigning, taking part in tonight s debate, even though he s actually not competing in the iowa straw poll saturday. now, we told you about this. romney got heckled by a man who we re told is a liberal activist. that s not news, but perhaps this is, a comment he made about corporations. listen. we have to make sure that the proposition we a make in social security, medicaid and medicare are promises we can keep. there are various ways to do that. one is to raise taxes on people. corporations. corporations are people, my friend. no they re not. of course they are. everything that corporations earn ultimately goes to people. [ laughter ] . shannon travis is out there with cnn s paul stein hauer ste steinhauser at the iowa state poll. i understand there s been some reaction saying that everything that corporations earn goes to the people. what are you hearing? absolutely, brooke. as you can imagine, this has been lighting up a lot of news stories. i got on the phone, made some phone calls to people on the romney campaign, actually looked at a tweet from eric fernstein, a senior divorce, reacting to all the buzz over that clip that you just displayed. quote, do folks think that corporations are building? they re people who incorporate to conduct business. they create jobs and hire more people. bakley the romney campaign is not backing down, in fact doubling down on this comment from mitt romney that corporations are people, brooke? paul steinhauser, i want to go to you, looking ahead to start sudden called it an hour ago, we just confirmed that, looking ahead to saturday, to the straw poll, two republican hopefuls with a lot of at stake. michele bachmann who did well at the cnn debate and tim pawlenty, first poll talked about him. why is it so important for him? remember at our debate back in new hampshire, he had a chance to really go after mitt romney, who s perceived to be the front-runner, and he didn t do it. since then he s not been doing so well. there s a lot at stake. if he didn t do well in the debate tonight and doesn t do well at the crucial straw poll, can his campaign survive? the pawlenty people are downplaying that, but a lot is at stake for him, an also michele bachmann. she did well at our debate, but can she win the nomination? i think she has a lot to prove. this weekend may end differently than it started. yeah, rick perry is getting in, who knows who else might. let s talk about the other fellow female, seemingly bam out of nowhere, sarah palin is dropping in in iowa. has she been spotted? do we know why she s there? yeah, yes, we learned last night, every time sarah palin seems is out of the spot light, she jumps right in. remember the one nation bus tour, a lot of coverage of that, well, she s bringing that bus tour right here, the state fair in des moines iowa, and sarah palin said she will announce a decision by september if she s going to run for the presidential nomination. you know her quite well, shannon. every time she s out of the spot light she s right back in it. sarah palin is unpredictable, definitely would shake up this race. if sarah palin jumps in, it would shake things up quite a bit. it s getting exciting, gentlemen. thank you so much. coming up next, the picks are in for what is suddenly becoming the most powerful group in washington. they re about to takes an ax and decide what gets cut from america s budget. it will affect every single one of us. we re going to break down which lawmakers are making these decisions. but first coming up, behind the scenes of this nationwide manhunt that ended in guns, a high-speed chase and bloog. no longer fugitives, 24 hours after their violent run came screeching to a halt. that is ahead. plus the last thing you think is that within day something violent of this nature would happen. yesterday we thought it was a teacher. we have learned today it was a principal. a principal found inside a classroom lying in a pool of blood. a student now behind bars. and there are breaking develops about what went down about the student s disturbing plan. i ll speak live with the memphis police. a lot coming your way. stay right here. an accident doesn t have to slow you down. with better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual insurance, if your car s totaled, we give you the money to buy a car that s one model-year newer. with 15,000 fewer miles on it. there s no other auto insurance product like it. better car replacement, available only from liberty mutual. it s a better policy that gets you a better car. call. or visit one of our local offices today, and we ll provide the coverage you need at the right price. liberty mutual auto insurance responsibility. what s your policy? [ male announcer ] time to check your air conditioning? come to meineke now and get a free ac system check and a free cooler with paid ac service. meineke. we have the coolest customers. a memphis school is in shock after a horrifying murder on just the third day of school. the school s principal was found dead in a pool of blood, stabbed multiple times. this happened at a memphis private school affiliated with the seventh day adventists. police say 17-year-old eduardo marmalejo told investigators that he stabbed principal suzette york and he had been planning to kill her since last may. the 17-year-old has been charged with first-degree murder. joining me by phony, memphis police spokesman tony armstrong. what happened? from the information we have now, it appears that this young man is a suspect we have in custody now, has been carrying a grudge all summer long for something that happened last year in reference to a class that he was either allowed to take or not allowed to takes. at some point throughout the day, he found himself alone in the classroom so am i hearing you right along with a i have knife, he attacked ms. york, stabbing her multiple sometimes. so i m hearing you right, this was all over a class he didn t want to take? apparently he had recently been switched or last year was switched out of a class. apparently he enjoyed this class and did not want to be taken out of the class. he carried a grudge all summer for that, and basically conspired all summer to how he was going to get revenge. did he conspire with anyone? was there any indication this had been months in the making? had he voiced this pin to information? from the information now, it does not appear he conspired with anyone. he acted alone in both his thoughts and carrying out of this crime. according to the memphis newspapers i was reading this morning, principal york had worked for a number of years, she left to go back to canada, and the school wooed her back. obviously, as you know, the community is in total shock. let s listen to some of the reactions. she s so nice, that s why i m shocked. why to her? why? it s tragic all the way around. we grieve. we grieve people have been praying at this corner of memphis for a long, long time. it s a sad day for our whole community. you re in memphis, tone y. i can t imagine losing a teacher in such a horrid rend out way. is school off? well, it s it s sad that you have something of this magnitude to happen in an institution of learn iing you never want to consider or in your wildest dreams, you think you send your child to school, and a teacher in this particular instance, she had dual roles as a teacher and principal, to be the victim of a vite is horrific. it will have an effect. do we know anything more about the 17-year-old s past? any red flags? from what we ve been told and from the people we ve talked to so far, there were no red flags. don t know what could have possibly triggered him to react in this manner. we certain wish there had been some red flags. maybe somebody could have gotten prior to him acting out and carrying such rage around for an entire summer. we ve only been back in school two, three days, and this is the result of it. such rage. it is horrendous, as we look at your police release, he was charged with first-degree murder. toney armstrong, thank you so much. thank you. we have new pictures of the brother/sister crime team arrested in colorado, as we mentioned. these are the siblings known as the doherty gang. lee grace is in the middle along with brothers ryan and dylan. they began their crime spree a week ago in florida, proved violent enough to earn a spot on the fbi s most wanted list. take a look how the run from the law ended, the car flipped, slammed into the guardrail just yesterday morning a high-speed shootout. listen to what happened next. they were prepared for a battle. that s what they got. the female defendant took off running through a field. she had an automatic pistol. she turned and made an attempt to chamber a round and point it at the office, and he fired at least one shot striking her i believe in the leg. siblings appeared in a colorado courtroom just a couple hours ago. they are not being head on $1.3 million bond each. each sibling now charged with four counts of first-degree assault. that s just in colorado. add those charges to the armed bank robbery complaint the state of georgia has waiting for them. the robbery came hours after the siblings became in gang on the run. that part of the story takes us back to florida where a police officer says this trio fired on him when he tried to pull them over for speeding. that was the moment that manhunt ble gan. the florida hoifr spoke out today. you can hear the relief in his voice that these three are caught. at first it was like, wow, you know, they re shooting at me? and then it just turned to i just want to catch them, you know, before they hurt anybody. just to give you an idea to why laws enforcement was so eager to get them, i want you to watch and listen to the video that was recorded by the dash cam. listen and watch this. listen for him to say morris bridge, right after he says that you ll hear several pops. those are gunshots. that gives you just an idea how dangerous this initial chase was. he just cut through the parking lot of cvs at morris bridge, he [ gunshots ] he s now headed on morris bridge southbound. fired several more shots at me. so you can hear some of the shots may hitting some of the metal on the car there. the three sitting in a colorado jail. could it be florida or georgia, or do they stay in colorado? you know we ll keep you mosted. now this. we love the family, this sister. i saw the man in uniform, and i just fell to my knees. there s just no preparing for it. as families figure out what to do next. the pentagon is now releasing the names of the 30 americans killed in the deadliest day in the war in afghanistan. we now know more about these fallen heroes. that s ahead. plus getting new details about a shooting bullets fired at a new york politician s car, his young son was inside. those new developments, next. tom, check this out. good gravy, bill. our insurance company doesn t have anything like it. magnificent, isn t it? 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sounds unreal, right? think again. the pentagon s new ride, called the fall ton hypersonic test vehicle 2, this experimental unmanned aircraft could travel from new york city to l.a. in a cool 12 minutes. today s test flight, attempt number two here, lifted off earlier today from vandenberg air force base in california. an airs rocket boosts the htv-2 to the edge of pace, it reenters the atmosphere and reaches speeds up to 13,000 miles an hour. bar ra starr is standing by, also chad myers is standing by. barbara, first to you, it sounds amazing, but today s test flight not a success. they lost contact. it didn t work too well, did it. basically they did lose contact with it, no electronics signals going back and forth between the vehicle and ground controllers. their working assumption is it basically sort of self-detonated and splashed down in the pacific ocean, exactly how it s supposed to, but brooke, 13,000 miles an hour, mach 20, the friction it creates is something like 1300 degrees fahrenheit on the skin of the aircraft. does it fly faster than superman? i think we re looking into that. mach 20, that s kind of fast. why are they doing this? we may have fun with this in a moment, but this is just for research, just for the military, right? never meant for sticking someone in this thing? well, i think most of us would be a lot of antisickness bills. i won t be too cavalier about it. it is trying to test a concept of hypersonic military technology, in all candor. they want to see if they can prove they can fly at these speeds. it means the military could deliver weapons to a target anywhere in the world within one hour. that s the response type that the military is looking for, that it can put a bomb on target one hour from launches, one hour from making the decision. twhaz a futuristic concept, but it means you don t have to deply tens of thousands of troops possibly halfway around the world. if you do this, that s that is amazing. bauer bra starr, thank you. chad myers, we had an interesting conversation earlier behind the scenes over, obviously as barbara illuminated, there s no way this would be for human flight whatsoever, 3500 degrees faron height, forget about it, but we were talking in terms of gs. you had been on a blue angels flight that gots up to. 7.6. how did you fare? the vision in my eyes started going away. this is only ten seconds, so the vision started going away. i had about that much to see, and then it all turned black and white and got all sparkly. the pilot pulled out and i could see it again i was doing the thing called the hick maneuver. so you like grunt to keep the blood in your head, and it s like like you re slamming a tennis ball. like your entire face is turning red. if you re not doing it, though, you re going to pass out, all the blood will be in the bottom or your feet, because all the g forces are down. the g forces on this plane would be enormous, maybe 20, 30 gs, which would be like you hitting yourself in an embankment. forget it. a concrete embankment. so you re able to do 6, 7 gs in a blue angel. let s pull up the video when i was at space camp, and i got on the centrifuge. so here i am we re supposed to be going 3.2, this poor kid clayton was so excited, and i lasted 3 gs, and then i was waves the proverbial red flag, plus my crew had my eating lunch before this thing. nothing happened, bud i think that was a cruel joke. i have such respect for people who can endure that. and this vehicle i want to call it a vehicle, because it isn t a plane. it s a rocket. it s the end of a rocket that shoots off, drops back into the atmosphere. it s not that we can t go mach 20. we ve never gone mach 20 in the atmosphere. you can go in space mach 20, because there s no drag, there s no air up there. but this thing literally tears air apart i know you love that term i do. it disassociates oxygen, disassociates nitrogen as the end of that front ring hits that air, it rips it apart. there s no laminar flow, there s no better neweu bernuli prin i remember that. it s amazing, we have to try again. we ll be watching for it. they re more impressed with going from our side of the world to the other side of the world in under an hour rather than new york to l.a. chad myers, thanks for having a little fun. you re welcome. a frightening development. now investigators say he could be linked to more murders as in 230 of them. coming up, the brand-new efforts to get inside his mind. sunny hostin is on the case. that s next. the infamous bandit gets a movie deal and the investigation is expanding for the grim sleeper case. sunny, his name is lonnie david franklin jr. who was arrested more than a year ago charged with killing ten pip this beak last police say they re looking into 230 murders to see if he s tied to them. it has to a massive undertaking. what is involved here? it s quite terrifying. i think what s involved is going over every place he worked since the mid 70s. the reason he s called the grim sleeper is because he started his serial killing in the mid 70s, and then took a break for almost 14 years, slept. that s why they re reviewing unsolved cases. sense he s the suspect in the ten cases that he has been charged with, they believe there are many, many more. what are some of the common threads they could be looking for, and why open so many more? it seems daunting. yeah, well, interestingly enough when they raided his home and searched his home, they found about 1,000 photos, and hundreds of hours of video involving different women. and so they believe that that will give them some leads. we know that he preyed upon prostitutes. he had sort of a motive in that he sexually assaulted them, usually shot them and dumped them in trash cans and covered them with debris. any sort of profile that fits that, i guess, motive, they are going to look at. case number two, the so-called barefoot bandit. he s the kit who pleaded guilty to the one-person crime spree. he stole cars, boats, planes, the cross-country spree brought him followic outlaw status, by the way, he s 20 years of age, and reportedly has signed a movie deal worth $1.3 million with 20th century fox, but he s not getting all this money. where is he saying the money will go? apparently he s not getting 1/2 i it. he owes $1.4 million in restitution to his victims. he s made it clear that none of this money will go to him, rather it will go to his victims. that s really how it works. most states have enacted the son of sam laws, brooke, where really criminals cannot profit from their crimes. typically what happens any money derived from a crime does go to victims. i quite frankly are shocked. he s a criminal just like the other ones that people prosecute every day, folks that i have prosecuted, but i think it s a good thing that his victims will get their money. oftentimes in these cases, these defendants are judgmentproof, a good things. i don t get it. i don t know. wait for the movie, i guess. sunny, thank you very much. coming up, the picks are in, we finally know now the super congress, super committee decides what gets cut from our budget, and this could make this an even bigger battle. the u.s. has made a huge move in the race to save lives in the famine that s putting millions of people at risk. sanjay gupta gives us an explanation to what s happening in somalia, with regard to starve ace. isn t the most immediate concern right now. level to help your ene run more smoothly by helping remove deposits and cleaning up intake valves. so when you fill up at an exxon or mobil station, you can rest assured we help your engine run more smoothly while leaving behind cleaner emissions. it s how we make gasoline work harder for you. exxon and mobil. i want to share a stagger figure with you on the fannin in somalia and other parts of east africa. more than 29,000 children have died since mid-may. many more children are sick. and not enough food, not enough supplies are in emergency camps to help them. the u.s. says it is sending an additional $17 million to the horn of africa. secretary of state hillary clinton says that brings this year s assistance to more than $580 million, but it s still not enough. dr. sanjay gupta joins me with a firsthand look. you ve ahead the numbers for some time. people coming here in search of a better life, but for many people that s simply not the case. for some their problems have only just begin, for parents out there, they re forced to do the unthinkable. the kids here will melt your heart. how old are you? wow, i m 41. i spoke a little somali to them. [ speaking foreign language ] is that good? yes. reporter: rare smiles in a place too full of heartbreak. amin and her 1-month-old daughter addison came here in search of a better life, fighting so hard not to starve to death, but in the end it made little difference. amin lost the one thing in the world she cared about more than anything else. we are walking to her daughter s grave. they are really just piles of dirt, with no nameplate. no flowers, no reminders of their lives, just small sticks with colored plastic trash blowing in the wind. she says she brought her healthy baby girl here with dreams of new beginnings, but addison died within a month. what went wrong? [ speaking foreign language ] reporter: she started vomiting, she said, then direa. it wouldn t stop for days and day. direal illness, the reason that 30,000 kids have died here, so many tiny little graves like this one. you know, part of the problem is even after you get to one of these camps, there s still not enough food, not enough water and plenty of infectious diseases. there s diphtheria, pertussis, and i want to shows something else, something very frightening in a camp like this. this is osmon. he s 14 years old. you can tell he doesn t feel well. people are concerned he has mealsles. he had a high fever, the characteristic rash and conjunctivitis. he never got vaccinated. mealsles, as you know is very contagious. he has nowhere else to go. and so hundreds of thousands more of these adorable children unvaccinated are at risk of the same fate as amin s daughter. is there anything anybody can do? [ speaking foreign language ] translator: it is with god. reporter: it is with god. so there s nothing else they kids can do but laugh and play, surrounded by the dead. brooke, it s tough to think about, but it s happening way too often f. parents actually burying their children. it s not just about food and water, but also about medical care, vaccinations, making sure that people get these things quickly. that can make a huge difference. and that mother herself so young. sanjay, thank you. if you want to keep watching some of his reporting, you can do so special edition of dr. sanjay gupta this weekend saturday and sunday mornings right here on cnn. a lot going on, we started breaking news about the race for candidates. the candidates already in the race are in iowa. we re going to bring wolf blitzer back in, next. rcycle? what if we turned trash into surfboards? whatever your what if is, the new sprint biz 360 has custom solutions to make it happen, including mobile payment processing, instant hot spots, and 4g devices like the motorola photon. so let s all keep asking the big what ifs. sprint business specialists can help you find the answers. sprint. america s favorite 4g network. trouble hearing on the phone? visit sprintrelay.com. now for a check of what s going on, let s go to wolf blitzer in washington. we were talking, what, less than an hour ago, breaking news in the world of politics. no big surprise, rick perry saying he s going to announce saturday in. it s going to be official on saturday. he didn t say he was going to the states he s going to the first three contest states, so he ll make it official. together with mitt romney, michele bachmann. he s going to bring some of that texas flair. he s been governor of texas ever since george w. bush became president of the united states. he succeeded president bush as governor. we will see you in a few minutes. still to come here, big news out of the washington today. congressional leaders have named all 12 members of the super committee, that debt-busting committee charged with handling that deficit. the final three were named today. joe johns will tell us who they are and what they bring to the table, next. you name it. i ve tried it. but nothing s helped me beat my back pain. then i tried this. it s salonpas. this is the relief i ve been looking for. salonpas has 2 powerful pain fighting ingredients that work for up to 12 hours. and my pharmacist told me it s the only otc pain patch approved for sale using the same rigorous clinical testing that s required for prescription pain medications. proven. powerful. safe. salonpas. 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