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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120107:13:24:00

armstrong joins us now. mario, thank you very much for joining us. >> my pleasure. thanks for having me on. >> it's great to have you. >> i've got a way fork you to work off the pecan pie. >> i ate a lot of dessert. but i eat salads, too. >> they make vegan desserts, by the way. >> we'll have to talk about that the next time. we have something interesting we want to talk about this time. you'll give us the heads up on the new health and fitness gadgets premiering at the consumer electronics show. first tell us what css is, how big of a show is? >> this is massive. it happens in vegas. you're talking close to 130 or more thousand people from over 100 different countries attend. over 2,400 exhibiters. and the space takes up about the length of 33 football fields. this is a massive conference. all of the latest technology that shows up in the stores, the services, all the things that could affect your life.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120107:15:13:00

and tahoe, of course, how about snow in tahoe, 56. hard to make it even then. highs today, 62 in washington, d.c. you should be at 42 this time of year. so ahead of this front, right along the eastern seaboard, 52. in boston, can you imagine in january? so not making a lot of snow there in the green and white mountains. 65 in atlanta, should be in the low 50s. so a big picture, quiet around the country, other than maybe some winds around the great lakes. but, really, the warmth and the lack of really cold, cold air is coming down from the north is the big story. >> alexandra, we are doomed. come february. >> it's going to be great. manchester, we'll talk about the tuesday forecast, coming up. >> sure. thank you very much, alexandra. let's say you follow a healthy exercise. you exercise, you eat right. research suggests a common act may be bad for your health. in fact, you're probably doing it right now.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120107:13:28:00

health. >> mario armstrong, cool stuff. i expect you'll be jogging in las vegas very soon. >> i'm looking for a segway. >> oh, i see, taking the lazy man's way out. >> you bet. >> take care. join us every saturday at this time as our digital lifestyle expert mario arm strongs gives us the scoop on the latest technology. we look at the country's new jobs report. and hear what president obama has to say about it. plus, peace talks in afghanistan between the u.s. and the taliban? what afghan president hamid karzai says about the negotiations and where the taliban may open an office there. those details in about two minutes.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120107:17:06:00

she left the house. he looked out the window and a black sedan was leaving. >> the husband agreed to meet the detective and his partner at the grant home the night he reported her missing. five days after he said she'd walked out in a huff. >> mr. grant answered the door. i could tell he was afraid that we were there. where as he's our complainant, we're here to serve him and help him, but he's afraid of us. >> one of the detective's first questions was why grant had waited so long to report his wife missing? the husband replied that they'd had fights before when tara walked out for a day or so, but she would always come back. >> we're immediately trying to establish her reason for leaving. was it an argument, was something prearranged? >> detective kozlowski proceeded to ask grant about the health of his marital relationship, potential lovers and potential enemies. while the other detective, sergeant pam mclean was with the two children and their au pair, a 19-year-old german girl verena durkis, lived in and looked after them because of tara's hectic travel schedule.

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20120107:09:36:00

we nurse them back to health. we resocialize them. we get them used to being around people. and once their court case is cleared, we take actual ownership of the animal, we adopt them out to a good home. >> good boy. >> the animals are cared for by inmate workers who have no history of animal abuse. male inmates take care of the horses and other farm animals. >> we get accused of standing around scratching our ass all day here at m.a.s.h. unit. best job on the yard. >> i bond more with the dogs here than any of the girls on the yard. what i like best about the dogs is they don't argue with everything that you say like the inmates do. >> abigail, calm down. >> you know, i'm very strong on animal cruelty. anybody that violates or abuses animals goes directly to jail. i don't give them a ticket. i don't care their occupation. you know the sad part of it? the animals are doing more time

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120107:12:57:00

but he often doesn't take time to focus on his own health. >> i am a type 2 diabetic. my doctors have told me i needed to lose weight. diet and exercise, and bring my sugars under control. as a california public schoolteacher, i want to be able to show my students that you have diabetes, or if someone in your family has diabetes, you can break that chain of ever getting it. >> reporter: rick morris is a web designer, and volunteer firefighter in north carolina. but the smoke he's battling most often comes from his own cigarette habit. >> after my career in the army, i started smoking, and quit exercising. and for the past 12 years, i've eaten mostly only the things that taste good. you know, food that comes from a box, or drive-up window. i've seen six relatives die from heart disease, lung cancer, and throat cancer. i'm worried that if i don't make

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120107:15:16:00

every 90 minutes to see if there's a measurable health impact of that significant throughout the day, to see if the kids are getting noticeably less healthy just in that one day. >> travis saunders expects to have preliminary results soon. no one knows yet how long a break you have to take in all that screen staring to counteract the effects. but safe to say, it would help if every hour you stood up for a couple of minutes of juggling. >> okay. good advice. why are some in new hampshire saying, not so fast, to political experts predicting mitt romney is a shoo-in to win the state? stick around. you may be surprised. grow quake? because there are mountains to climb. ♪ dreams to be realized. ♪ new worlds to be explored and hearts to be won. quaker oats. energy to get you going, fiber to help fill you up

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120107:13:26:00

player. it can, over time, it learns what music you perform best to. and so you almost end up with this performance play list of music. it has wireless features in it as well so you could do blue tooth, ear phones. i've been using it the past week, i'm really impressed. >> do you remember the dick tracy show? he had this watch that he could watch tv on, that's what it sounds like, the future has arrived. >> the future has arrived. >> there may be a solution for those of us who have trouble sleeping. >> yes, this is the lark sleep monitor. i've been testing this out for the past few days. this is awesome. what this is is a wrist band that basically you wear at night when you go to sleep. and you sync this up with your computer. what it does is it measures your sleep activity. this is very important for health. many people stress out, many people don't get enough relaxation and get quality rest. they're having a rough time throughout the day, or not being productive or creative. it links up to your smartphone

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120107:12:58:00

some life-changing decisions about my health, i'll soon join the family statistics. i want to live. >> reporter: and a journalism teacher from maryland has a big event coming up. just two weeks before our big race day. >> i'm getting married to the father of my twins, chris, after eight long years. and the biggest gift i could give him is starting our life in fitness and health. this teacher wants to be your student. >> i can't wait to start training with these guys. last year we called our team the six-pack. this year, it's the lucky 7. you may have noticed, there were only six videos there. that's because we saved one for last. a nationally syndicated morning show based here in atlanta, i've been on jeff's show, but we never talked about his health or his fitness. then my producer showed me this ireport video from jeff. >> i've had an interesting 18

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Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - CNN - 20120107:15:14:00

>> at 13, travis saunders came to our attention because of his skills as a juggler. at 27, he's juggling married life, work and writing a ph.d. saunters has never been a couch potato, bit floored him when he found out exercising doesn't seem to counter the bad effects of sitting. for more than two hours at a time. >> in general, people who sit more, they die sooner, but they also get more diseases like cardiovascular disease, diabetes, even if they're otherwise healthy. so even if they're exercising, eat ago healthy diet, not smoking, sitting seems to have an independent effect on their health. >> a study reported in the january journal of the american journal of cardiology says british researchers found that those who sat for more than four hours a day in front of screens were twice as likely to be optized or die from a major cardiac event, regardless of how physically active they were

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