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>> listen up, parents. a new study points to you. it says you the distracted parent, that's the reason why kids are suffering serious injuries on the playground. the study says the distracted adult makes young children, those under 5 years old, three times more likely to take dangerous risks on playground equipment. those risks lead to more serious injuries. the chief culprit of distraction, you guessed it, your head is down looking at that phone. more than 200,000 kids in the u.s. every year are seriously injured on playgrounds. this makes sense. i see this actually a lot. i hope i don't do i...

For years and years and the teasing that kids do when kids will be kids? what's the line? >> i think the consensus is we're looking for a couple of things. one is repeatedly being targeted and attacked verbally or physically. two, when they involve other folks. remember back in middle school, high school or even elementary school when you were teased, usually there were other students involved so bullies tend to involve other folks. the other thing is when there are people standing around and they're watching and either implicitly by not saying anything and not getting involved and not trying ...

Zimmerman case. study points to al sharpton as being personally involved in the story rather than analyzing it. news anchor geraldo rivera inflamed the story with some comments he made about hoodies. and finally the study points to president obama who says if he had a son he would look like trayvon martin. the study concludes that tv world -- story web sites often distorting what the facts were. joining us from new york chairington a criminal defense attorney and from washington howard kurtz most of media buzz seen on nc sunday. what did you take away from the study. >> this was bare lay story...

Christians and atheists. the tweets sent by followers of pope benedict vxi, joel osteen and pastor rick warren were analyzed alongside the tweets of followers of richard dawkins and the late christopher hitchens who penned the bestseller, "god is not great," and researchers found christians used more positive emotion words than atheists like love, happy and great rather tan negative emotions like bad, wrong or awful. and that religious people have a more intuitive rather than analytical style of thinking. bill? bill: uh-huh, uh-huh, uh-huh. what are christians and atheists both saying about th...

Government yet. we get people to take a year off. it's geeks. it's also designers. it's also product managers. people from the technical industries. and we get them to work with people in city hall to solve problems in cities for a year. >> reporter: she wants to fix local government. one smartphone app at a time. >> this saturday, 2:30 eastern, "the next list." >> facebook, twitter, instagram. parents, if you're not on any of these social media sites, maybe you better get with it and think about it. this study points to a major impact on the family when everyone is connected online. we'll hav...