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all morning we put education in focus. why in the world is our system ranked lower than ireland, saudi arabia, and uzbekistan. did you see this? the happiest olympic worker has an interesting approach to rousing the crowd. we decided to see if the same trick in london would work in new york. happy saturday, everyone. i'm randi kaye and it's 7:00 on the east coast and 4:00 out west. extreme weather and wildfires and at least four major fires burning. we talked to the official at the department of emergency management and said the drought played a big part in all of this and said hundr...

gene louis and daniel louis. thanks for talking with us. gene, i'm going to start with you if i can. what do you know is the latest about your dad, his condition and how he's being held? >> good morning, soledad. i thank you for having us on this morning. and soledad, we're going to tell you what we've been telling all of the news media outlet's that has been interviewing us and we thank them also. the information that we're getting is trickling down and is information that people are getting from the internet. we do have people that are working on our behalves via the u.s. state dep...

blitzer. >> yeah, i'm very sorry about what happened yesterday. it was what i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year. so i think he should just stick with his position. >> president clinton claims he didn't know it expires after the electi election. rick santorum is resurfacing. the former pennsylvania senator will lay out his plans for the future today. sources say he wants his voice heard as leader of the conservative wing of the gop. he's expected to announce he's ez forming a politi...

Expected they would walk right into this protest. the protesters didn't even notice this woman was there. obviously people on their smartphones and trying to get whatever they were trying to get done protesting. she high tailed it out of there as fast as she could and all the pictures were ruined because you don't want 3,000 people in your picture. >> you spend a year planning a wedding, the money, the stress. you are excited and then to walk out and we've been talking about the protests in chicago because of the g-8 summit there. she walks in the middle of it. >> they should have known. >> bu...

Denver, colorado there are no grade levels. in fact, there are no grades, period. kids are grouped not by age but by what they know. >> we're talking about facts from a non-fiction book. >> reporter: jennifer gregg's literacy class is made up of kids age 8 to 10 with four different reading levels. >> it's so individualized. we're filling in their gaps so that they can move on. >> reporter: it's known as standards-based learning, modeled on the belief every child learns in their own way. >> every student in every class is learning at exactly the spot that they're supposed to. >> reporter: princ...