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Is at least still active, suzanne. >> and nick, what do you make of this? here is a man who has seen many rivals in the u.s., u.s. presidents come and go, all the way back to president eisenhower, ten presidents or so, that he's still standing. >> reporter: he's still standing, yeah. he's really one of the great survivors of modern history n a way. he was ruling cuba for almost five decades. u.s. congress found that the cia had planned something like eight assassination attempts on him. he was able to repel the bay of pigs invasion. and certainly when he handed over power in 2006, many people ...

So many are saying, look, this could be just sort of one of those one-hit wonders. and then next month, we'll see a difference. >> alison, thanks. appreciate it, as always. want to bring in this breaking news here. we are now learning the justice department has just announced the federal government will recognize same-sex marriages that were performed just a short time in utah. that decision is going to affect more than 1,000 gay and lesbian couples. want to bring in our jim acosta joining us from the white house from washington. and jim, first of all, jeffrey toobin and i were talking about...

Symbol to see him still up and around. we saw all those pictures of the former u.s. presidents that he has outlasted, and certainly something that people are going to be watching and seeing if he has any influence at all through his brother. but thank you so much. we appreciate it, nick. this story, sad, tragic, hero heroic, this is a 14-year-old we're talking about. this boy was killed stopping a suicide bomber. it happened at the entrance of a school in pakistan. this teenager, of course, being hailed a hero, because he saved a whole schoolyard full of children. we're in islamabad with how...

The initiatives in the capital have been slow to reach the remote forests that still cover most of this country. at stake, a culture that is fast 'tis appearing and along with it, the elephants, and an unrival's knowledge of the forest that both poachers and protectors want to exploit. >> they need education. they have the right to education. they have the right to everything that everyone does. the but they learn that phd in forestology from the age they're starting to crawl and they're in the forest every day. and that's how you learn it. and when you take these kids out of the forest and pu...

He says he had no choice but to follow his father's footsteps. i had to go to the forest and kill the elephants. there was no work, he explains. he began exploiting the very forest that gave birth to the pigmy culture of harmonious existence with nature. he isn't alone. >> they're being abused. they're the only one that know the forest well enough to go into these remote areas and stand up to an elephant and pull the trigger. they come out with the ivory and give the ivory to somebody else. and they're either not compensated, so they just got a little bit of meat, or maybe they're just given $...