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cruelty i've ever heard about. it struck a chord with me as a father, viewer, and millions around the world. men covered him with kerosene and set this little boy on fire. it's hard to imagine anyone can do that to a child. his story isn't so much about cruelty but strength and healing and courage. >> reporter: now nine, it's hard to believe this the same youssif we met in baghdad. no trace of the solemn and angry boy he once was. no trace of the boy who could only speak a few words of english. >> i'm still making it. i'm doing like soccer games and practice. i never used to do that ...

i'm erin burnett. outfront tonight, the brooklyn bridge is occupied. occupy wall street's day culminating at one of new york's most iconic locations. you can see it now. people walking across. this is the pedestrian area which is important to emphasize. obviously, doesn't look like there's any disruption of traffic at this time. it all started at 7:00 this morning when protesters descended on the new york stock exchange in an attempt to shut down wall street. in zuccotti park, demonstrators clashed with police. they pulled down barricades that were there to block them from entering t...

Accommodation options between hotels and vacation options, which are getting more and more popular, where you can save a lot of money, get a lot more space. i know when i was going on spring break in panama city beach back in the day a bunch of girls piled into one little hotel room, we were sleeping on the floor-o i wish we had investigated vacation rentals back then. >> it's much easier now given the internet -- >> trip advisor has a calculator where you can compare hotel versus vacation rental to see if it makes sense. >> if we gave you the computer right now and you went to trip advisor.co...

It takes in more information. but then there's a tipping point and at some point there's so much information that that region of the brain literally shuts down. >> you debt fried. so it seems like an overnight phenomenon. but this suggests information overload and that multiple sources are responsible and it's not from studying too hard. >> studying we still are in favor of, yes. >> okay. studying is good. but can it affect speech? can it affect how you're properly putting together -- because this would be great for me because sometimes that happens for me here on set where it's hard to put to...

Number about the amount of information, that's produced every couple of days. five quintillion bytes of information overload. most of it is from the internet. most of it is from social media. we've got somebody with us who can tell us about this. let me back up, shelly palmer, there's the number, don't take shelly, look at the number on the wall, that's five quintillion bytes, six groups of zeros, a lot of bytes. that's all the information from the beginning of time until very recently. you know, we're duplicating that every couple of days, shelly. this is a number that google put out the othe...