good morning to you. i'm carol costello. a lot going on this morning. reversing the search, president obama making good on his promised draw down of american forces. he'll try to convince congress, his generals, and you, the voters, it is a right move in a critical speech tonight. >> i'm kiran chetry. a twist in the casey anthony murder trial. prosecutors are suddenly focusing on a woman who also lost a young child and spent time in jail with the defendant. they're still waiting to hear how she might have impacted the case on this "american morning."

welcome to "american morning." i'm still getting -- >> your makeup kit. >> this is my face in this bag. >> i hear you. called the magic shop around here in the morning. >> we love that, don't we? we do. good morning. it's wednesday, june 22nd. ali and christine are off. i'm carol costello. >> a big day, decision day, on the way forward in afghanistan. the president will deliver a prime time speech tonight, and in it he's expected to announce his plans to withdraw 30,000 u.s. troops by the end of 2012. >> this comes as more leaders are pleading with the president to take money from there and spend it here to fix the crumbling economy. sources say the time frame may be too tight for commanders on the ground. barbara starr is here with us this morning. you wonder, the president, and his mimtry men -- military men talking in the white house and

what that conversation must have been like. >> how many times have they been down before this road before in the last ten years what to do in afghanistan. what we're hearing is that the president will announce a framework that will include withdrawing some 10,000 troops this year. the balance of the 20,000 of the 30,000 surge next year. but that's really the key, isn't it? what's it going to mean on the ground for the men and women fighting there? what does it mean for commanders? is it too much too soon? not enough? you're going to start hearing in the coming hours opinions and views across the political spectrum, but the president has to ensure at this point in making this announcement that he's encouraging the commanders to move along with the withdraw, but not move along so fast that maybe you risk some of the security gains that they've made already. >> and have they made security gains? the other big question is, what are we leaving behind both in terms of u.s. forces, but also a stronger, more stable afghanistan or back where we started is this. >> that is the key.

if you take 30,000 out by the end of next year you will still have twice as many u.s. forces on the ground in afghanistan as when the president came into office. what about the afghans? can hamid karzai really demonstrate that he's a strong enough leader to control and govern the country so that the taliban can't come back? that's the whole goal. no matter how many troops you put on the ground that are u.s. troops. >> i was going to say that. i think there's a sense most americans don't really care about hamid karzai or the country of afghanistan but we should care about the taliban and if it regains strength, because, of course, the taliban harbored osama bin laden. >> that's right. they may not, you know, i think a lot of americans can't really relate who is hamid karzai, why do we care about him? because the root home for a u.s. soldier, sailor, airman, and marine, the way home is right through kabul, through the karzai government and unless you've got a strong government there u.s. troops can't come home as fast as maybe the president would like to bring them home.

>> it seems like a cycle, though, because i mean we tried to help him and prop him up and support him monetary and militarily and it doesn't seem he has any more power -- >> seems like he's selling us out, actually. >> a lot of people will tell you that the afghan forces really have a long way to go and they do, clearly, in terms of being a trained, really professional military force that can look after security in that country. >> right. >> billions of dollars later, ten years later, and we're still talking about a long way to go. >> all right. we're going to be talking about this. you're joining us for a round table in the next hour as well. thanks so much. >> sure. the president's decision would leave 70,000 forces in afghanistan and he's feeling the backlack from top democrats who want more troops home faster and republicans saying, make sure we finish the job. kate baldwin has more on that live from washington. it will be interesting to see what the president says exactly tonight in order to make, i guess, you know the people he

has to make most happy since his re-election is coming up, the voters. >> that's partially right. some lawmakers telling me they want to hear from the president first before they react. we are already seeing some push back from members, including the powerful chair of the senate armed services committee, democrat carl levin. levin says a reduction of at least 15,000 troops by the end of the year is necessary, compared to the president's anticipated announcement of 10,000 troops. then there's a large group of the president's own democrats in the house, along with a handful of house republicans, like ron paul, calling for an even more aggressive withdraw. some saying in the area of 50,000 combat troops out by the end of the year. then there's the other hand, some key republicans are looking for a more modest draw down. fewer than what the president's expected to ask for and more in line with what sources say military leaders have asked for. >> okay. that's the conundrum with afghanistan. let's move on to another conflict, libya. the president is dealing with,

well, let's say, battling lawmakers over the libya issue too. >> this has become a battle within congress, carol. the frustration has been mounting up here for weeks. house republicans and democrats are angry the president has never sought congressional approval for the continued u.s. involvement in the operation in libya. listen here. >> what i encourage leadership in the past and will encourage them now, is to say that the white house has violated the contusion, violated the law. the congress now must need to step up and say we will withhold all funding, not just for boots on the ground that has been done in the past, but for all funding going over to the war making apparatus that the administration has put our men and women in harm's way over there. >> now, house republican leaders have scheduled a vote for thursday on a measure to allow members to vent their frustration, it to remove u.s. forces from libya, except for nonhost still actions until the president gets approval from congress. leadership aides expect the

resolution to pass. it is nonbinding, we have to say. there could be other measures to possibly limit or cut off funding to the military operation there, but in the senate. a key senator, john mccain, is taking issue with his fellow republicans offering them a pretty stern warning. listen here. >> some day, i hope soon, a republican will again occupy the white house and that president may need to commit u.s. armed forces to hostilities. so if my republican colleagues are indifferent to how their actions would affect this president, i would urge them to think seriously about how a vote to cut off funding for this military operation could come back to haunt a future president when the shoe is on the other foot. >> senator mccain and democratic senator john kerry have introduced their own resolution now in an effort to counter the pressure coming from the house. their resolution gives the president limited authority to commit u.s. force to the libya

operation for up to a year. this measure could come up for a vote as early as this week. senate majority leader harry reid says it has the votes to pass. aides say it's not expected to pass there, regardless of how this shakes out, because it is confusing, it's clear evidence of just how divided this congress is on this particular issue. >> i know. my head is spinning. with that backdrop, kate, the president speaks on afghanistan tonight from the white house. cnn will have live coverage for you. that starts at 8:00 eastern time. that brings us to our question of the day. what do you want to hear from the president tonight? what do you want him to say? we kind of know partially what he's going to say, but would you add on anything? send us an e-mail, tweet, tell us on facebook. we will read your comments throughout the morning. in the news this morning, a human rights group is claiming that syrian civilians were forced to attend rallies this week in support of president bashar al assad. meantime new clashes have been reported between anti-government

protesters and security forces in the city of homs. at least two people were killed in the latest fighting. in yemen, government officials are now saying that yemeni president saleh is expected to return. he's in saudi arabia where he's been treated for wounds he suffered in a rebel attack on his compound. saleh plans to return home friday. opposition leaders have demanded he step down and they're also calling reports of his return a lie. wildfires are burning across 12 states right now and in texas a fast moving fire destroyed at least 26 homes in grinds county near houston. flames forcing the evacuation of 1800 homes and businesses. local reports say homeowners caused the fire when they were grilling. and 12,000 people have been forced to evacuate their homes in north dakota. the state's fourth largest city is facing the threat of severe flooding. the rain swollen souris river runs through the city from canada. it's expected to overwhelm area levees. and we're just getting these pictures in from chicago after a

line of powerful thunderstorms triggered tornado warnings and ripped through the city. 70-mile-per-hour winds ripped down trees and power lines, stopped trains and grounded flights. the power company says close to 300,000 customers lost power overnight and i guess a couple hundred thousand are still without power this morning. >> the weather has been crazy in so many places, but meantime south carolina governor nicky hailey is expected to sign into law a tough new immigration bill. it would require police check the immigration status of drivers that they pull over or suspect of breaking the law and businesses could also be shut down if they knowingly hire someone who's in the country illegally. critics say this bill essentially legalizes racial profiling. meantime to california where the budget crisis is getting a bit personal because of a proposition passed last year, the paychecks for state lawmakers have been cut off until they pass a balanced budget. some lawmakers say it's just wrong that they're no longer getting paid.

>> i do think it's very difficult to go back home and tell people we've been working 18 hours a day, passed two budgets and one guy has said that they don't meet his satisfaction so he's not going to pay us. >> he has to understand that the plight of his family is the plight that millions of other californians are experiencing today when there is no budget in place. >> boy. fighting words. remember that lawmakers did pass what they called a balanced budget last week, the one assemblyman was talking about there. they say governor jerry brown vetoed it because the numbers simply didn't add up. we knew it was coming, michele bachmann makes it official, though, on monday. that's according to a gop source. the minnesota congresswoman will formally announce she is running for president. it will happen in her hometown of waterloo, iowa. officials confirmation from the bachmann campaign expected this morning. more trouble for newt gingrich. his staff shrinking again. the former house leader lost his fund-raising director and

consultant. they both quit less than two weeks after 16 other staffers stepped down. gingrich insists his campaign will, quote, continue to reorganize. once you lose your financial people, that's bad news. check out this press pass given to media members covering the campaign of jon huntsman. the candidate's -- >> that's spelled right. look below it. >> there's an "h" that shouldn't be there. errant "h." >> errant "h." it's only j-o-n. >> yesterday, they said don't spell his name wrong, it was acosta. look what happens. >> jim acosta, always telling us things. huntsman people tried to take back the press passes and correct them. it was too late. perhaps it will become a collector's item. the utah governor joins us live on "american morning" it will come your way at 8:30 eastern. a man in pittsburgh really hit the jackpot last month. playing a slot machine, won what

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david mattingly joins us from orlando this morning. what is this woman -- what does she potentially have to do with this case? >> this is one of the biggest moments yesterday in court throughout the entire day and the jury didn't hear any of it. they were out of the room. but the prosecution stepped up and revealed to the court that the investigators in this case are looking into the possibility that casey anthony may have had contact with this other female inmate and may have come up with a story that her daughter drowned in the family swimming pool because of this woman's real-life tragedy. listen. >> the name of the witness is april whalen, apparently her child died in a swimming pool and was found by the child's grandfather, who immediately administered cpr and called 911. miss whalen was in an adjacent cell to miss anthony for a very

brief period of time. miss whalen indicates to law enforcement she did not talk to casey anthony. however, she doesn't remember if she talked to other inmates, so at the present time, it's being explored. whether or not there was indirect contact. >> reporter: so you heard right there, they have not established a direct link between this woman and casey anthony, but they're looking for some kind of indirect connection that maybe casey anthony possibly heard this story from other inmates and fabricated her own to match it. again, at the moment it's just a theory, but it shows you now that three years after caylee anthony died, this investigation is still very active and ongoing. >> crazy. david mattingly reporting live from orlando, thank you. speaking of crazy, the weather has been very, very shaky in some parts of the country, dealing with wildfires, dealing with extreme storms and flooding. rob marciano is checking a all

of it out for us on that first day of summer yesterday at 1:15 p.m. >> it came in with a bang across a lot of the country, the western great lakes, chicago just got peppered. huge area of low pressure which spawned the tornados in nebraska two days ago and then just expanded that severe weather across the great lakes and down through texas. check out some of the video coming into us from chicago last night. at one point just a couple hours ago, over a quarter of a million people without power. at o'hare, 70 plus-mile-an-hour winds, several hundred flights canceled last night because of this storm that rolled through chicago and they had baseball games going on and concerts that had to be canceled as well. dangerous situation there. right now we're seeing thunderstorms across parts of texas. now this my friends, from austin to san antonio, they've been waiting for this. severe drought across the southern half of texas. they'll take any rain they can get even if it comes with a little wind which it's doing as it rolls through houston a little later on today. also dealing with the flooding across minot. we mentioned that from all the rain over the weekend and

canada, flowing south, so they've got some issues there. as far as temperatures are concerned, we're going to look for hot conditions across the desert southwest. extreme heat warnings out there and the steaminess and storminess will continue as the slow-moving storm, the time of the year where the systems move fairly slow, moving off to the east. pictures out of mexico, this was at one point hurricane beatriz, with waves rocking the west coast of mexico. didn't make landfall and it's now weakened into remnants of a tropical storm. nonetheless a reminder even though these storms are moving slowly we are in hurricane season and it's been active across the eastern pacific. so far so good in the atlantic. >> at least one area of the country is settled. thank you. >> okay. just ahead on "american morning," a new jersey college professor is accused of operating an on-line prostitution ring that involved hundreds of hookers and more than 1,000 clients. not the kind of education you want. >> that's not what they were hoping for, i'm sure.

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we're crossing the half hour right now. time to take a look at our top stories. president obama set to address the nation tonight on the future of the war in afghanistan. sources say his number is final. 30,000 u.s. forces home by the end of 2012, 10,000 of them home by the end of this year. two more staffers walking out on republican presidential candidate newt gingrich. the former house speaker's fund-raising director and a consultant just quit. less than two weeks ago 16 staffers stepped down. gingrich is maintaining his campaign will continue to reorganize. according to a gop source, minnesota congresswoman michele bachmann will formally announce she's running for president this

monday. it will happen in her hometown of waterloo, iowa. official confirmation from the bachmann campaign is expected some time this morning. today a coalition of conservative lawmakers and groups will raise the stakes in what many call a dangerous game of chicken over the nation's debt ceiling. they will sign a pledge opposing any bump in the government's spending limit unless three conditions which include spending cuts are met. joining me to talk about this is south carolina senator jim demint, a co-founder of the senate tea party caucus. welcome. >> good to be with you. if there's one thing we should agree on as congressmen and senators, to stop spending more than we're bringing in. unless we have a constitutional requirement to do it, i'm afraid we're going to bankrupt our country in the next year or two. >> you're talking about an amendment to balance the budget. i want to go over this pledge and what's in the pledge that you want lawmakers and also the republican presidential candidates to sign, included in the debt pledge is substantial spending cuts, spending caps and, of course, that balanced

budget amendment. the thing is when you sign a pledge like that or require a signature doesn't leave much room for compromise and isn't compromise what we need to come to some conclusion with how to deal with the debt in this country? >> carol, first of all, it's not my pledge. there are dozens of outside groups representing millions of americans who want congress to take a stand and there's plenty of room to negotiate how much we cut, what the caps look like over the next several years, but the one point we really can't negotiate is this idea of balancing the budget, that we will balance the budget. this gives us a lot of room to operate, because if we pass it, then the states have to ratify it. that's likely to take two or three years and then it takes effect five years after the states ratify it. we're not talking about anything draconian or immediate, other than some cuts this year, and some controls on spending in the out years that will bring us

towards a balanced budget. >> why do we need this pledge then? if it doesn't involve anything draconian and there's some wiggle room and maybe a compromise can be reached, why a pledge? why do you need to sign a pledge? >> well, carol, it comes from a lot of experience here. there's really an addiction to spending here in washington. we've tried before with laws like graham rudman and what they call pay go and budget points of order, but every new congress they come in and change it and blow through it. we've got more debt as a nation than we can sustain. the president apparently doesn't even see it as a problem because his budget doubles it. in the negotiations we've had so far with the democrats, no significant cuts have been achieved. the only -- >> see, senator, it seems that we keep hearing the same things from both sides of the aisles. the same arguments. there's no room for compromise. and a lot of people accuse congress, senators and the president, of playing games with the debt ceiling. i mean the treasury secretary

said if you don't raise the debt ceiling the country will go into fault. thetry secretary geithner, default would cause irrevocable damage. jamie diamond the ceo of jp morgan chase, catastrophic, the budget office said it could add $100 million to our debt. why play games with this? that's what seem some see this pledge as, another political game? >> it's no game. it's deadly serious. if we keep spending we're going to bankrupt our country. we're not going to default on our loans if we never raise the debt ceiling again we would not default on our loans. we would have to cut back on spending in a lot of places. that doesn't need to happen if the president and democrats will work with the millions of americans to simply say, okay, six or eight years out we're going to balance our budget. but we need to raise the debt ceiling today. you would find a lot of people at the table discussing that if they would come around. but we can't just -- this is the

fourth time the president has asked us to increase the amount that we can borrow as a country. a fourth time. and so -- if we keep blowing through these debt ceilings which are supposed to restlan our spending, we will bankrupt our country. we owe it to the american people to tell -- >> i'm sure a lot of the american voters are with you and understand that, but i think that some feel that by signing a pledge, especially tea party conservatives, you know, they won't allow for any wiggle room and doesn't that make it difficult for john boehner to come to any sort of compromise with the president. they played the golf game. they're trying. aren't you tying john boehner's hands tighter by doing this? >> this isn't a partisan idea. balancing the budget is not a partisan idea. we can agree on a lot of things. >> ways to balance the budget has become partisan. >> the ways to balance it, we've tried a lot of things, but the reason 49 states have to balance their budget, the reason we've

seen governor walker in wisconsin and chris christie in new jersey, their constitutions require they balance it. they have to set priorities. they have to cut spending. we don't have to do that in washington. we're borrowing 43 cents on every dollar we spend and there's no indication we're going to stop that. so unless we have a requirement, a constitutional requirement, we're going to destroy our country. the reason to sign the pledge, is to show americans where we stand. what we're willing to do if we really won't stand for anything, i'm afraid as the old country song says, we're going to fall for anything. >> i also just want to ask you quickly, the republicans running for president, you want them to sign this pledge unless they sign this pledge you won't support them. i understand ron paul has signed it, right? >> yeah. i think tim pawlenty will sign it as what he indicated to me. i think it's a good signal that we've got folks willing to take a stand and we've gotten e-mails from a lot of people running for congress and senate, who want to show their constituents that

they're willing to stand up for some kind of fiscal sanity, so i think you'll see this catch on. again, it's not something that's originated here inside congress. this is something the american people are doing. it's not just the tea parties. i think you'll see a lot of democrats out there saying, hey, be we need to balance our budget. >> well, we're going to talk to jon huntsman later and you're going to tell him to sign the pledge or? >> well, if any presidential candidate is looking for my support or the support of millions of americans part of this pledge, they're not going to get that support if they're not willing to take a stand on this very common sense issue. >> senator demint, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thanks, carol. interesting conversation. the driving campaign that sparked debate around the world, women in saudi arabia, it's not illegal, but there are rep pro cautions for driving there. the mullahs ban it, the clerics. now they're demanding change. there's more protests and our secretary of state weighing in

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a new jersey college professor is under arrest this morning for allegedly running a prostitution website. 68-year-old david floorry who teaches at fairly dix kinson university who has done so since the last '60s was arrested in new mexico charged with 40 counts of promoting ce ining pr

tution. police say he was operating a website, the site had some 200 prostitutes and more than 1200 johns. >> at least he was successful, alledgedly. >> in trouble now. chaos in northern ireland for a second straight night, sectarian violence erupting at a catholic/protestant flashpoint in bell fast. police firing water cannons. >> quite a mess there. zain verjee tracking the latest development. what sparked this outbreak of sectarian violence in the first place? >> this is really a worrying situation. it's the second straight night and this is a time of year where typically there are tensions between catholics and protestants but it hasn't been this bad in quite a few years. the reason that it's a tense time probably from now until the end of july, is because what happens is, a group of protestants known as orangemen

march through catholic areas. there are reports a group of people got together and just started firing guns and it escalated the violence and we've just seen it go out of control with mull he tov cocktails, bricks thrown at each other, fireworks thrown at each other, the riot police out firing water cannons at people trying to break up the fight. a photographer was reported shot as well in the clashes. so these scenes are definitely not what people want to see in northern ireland after so many years of relative calm. in other parts of the city, guys, they're celebrating. rory mcilroy, the golfer's victory at the u.s. open. so having these shots come out of northern ireland is a painful thing for thousands of people. >> i thought that was long past and part of the history books. >> yeah. >> so bizarre to see that. let's move on it to saudi arabia. because women want to drive there. it has nothing to do with religion. i guess it's cultural in saudi arabia. but women who want to drive, have been saying, where has

secretary of state hillary clinton been? she's a champion of women's rights. >> yeah. >> she hasn't spoken out. what's up with that? finally, some support, some love from hillary. >> right. they were pretty mad. they said they were disappointed, you know, she's a big supporter of women's rights around the world. the state department had said, well, you know, she is, she's doing quiet diplomacy and pressuring the saudis behind the scenes. but, you know, it wasn't good enough and the pressure was there and finally the secretary of state said this. listen. >> this is about saudi women themselves. they have joined together, they are acting on behalf of their own rights. this is not about the united states. it is about the women of saudi arabia. and what these women are doing is brave and what they are seeking is right. but the effort belongs to them. >> many critics, guys, had said that the reason that secretary clinton hasn't spoken out

earlier was because the u.s. has a very close relationship with saudi arabia and they didn't want to upset the saudis, especially in the context of the whole arab spring, because saudi arabia is a strategic ally, it's an important energy security al ally, but, you know, it was important that secretary clinton said this and sends the message to the saudi women who want to drive. we take it for granted. them for it's a political statement. >> and a danger and cost to their family and danger to the male relatives in the family. that was a carefully worded statement. that wasn't a rousing endorsement either. she said the effort belongs to them. she says this is about, you know, up to the saudi women. didn't sound like, you know, there was anything actionable on the part of the u.s. >> wasn't you go girl. >> well, any words from foggy bottom and the secretary of state carries weight, right. these women, they don't have the opportunity, they don't have the voice for themselves, but they are taking this opportunity and

when they put themselves out on a limb on the threat of a arrest, threat of imprisonment, being beaten up, families being affected, the secretary of state coming out is a big deal for them. >> totally hear you. zain, great ta talk to you always. catch zain 5:00 a.m. eastern on "world one" on cnn. >> kevin kline will be on capitol hill lobbying on behalf of diabetes research. first he will be here to talk with us about his real life passion. aflac! oh, i've just got major medical... major medical. ...but it helps pay the doctors. pays the doctors, boyyy! [ quack ] oh yeah? what about your family? ♪ we added aflac, so we get cash! it's like our safety net... ♪ to help with the mortgage or whatever we need! so my family doesn't feel the pain too. ha! [ male announcer ] help protect your family at aflac.com. [ pigeons ] heyyy! hooo!!!

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in 2007. the 18-month-old accidentally drowned in the family pool. south carolina lawmakers passing a new immigration bill that requires police check a suspect's immigration status. it also penalizes businesses that knowingly hire illegal immigrants. governor nikki haley is expected to sign that bill into law. one lucky gambler in pittsburgh, pa, winning $25,000 on a slot machine that should have only paid out $12. because of that error he was allowed to keep the money. the casino was also fined because the machine was not properly tested or certified. you're caught up on the day's headlines. a quick break. "american morning" is back after this.

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welcome back. you know actor kevin kline from the many roles he's played on stage, screen and television. in his real life he is devoted to finding a cure for diabetes, a disease which has touched his own family. >> later today he will be testifying at a senate hearing along with children across the country who have type 1 diabetes or they sometimes call it juvenile diabetes. kevin kline joins us with aaron kowalski from the junior diabetes foundation and aaron has type 1 diabetes. thanks for being with us. what do you want lawmakers to hear about the importance of funding and research for diabeteses? >> well, that there's still an urgent need. we're there to remind them the need is great, urgency is great and that we're on the verge of really a watershed moment in developing technologies in that we have jdrf and, you know, others have funded mostly jdrf, these hospital trials for the

artificial pancreas and we're trying to get the fda to put that on a faster track and so we're -- it's sort of to remind the government to keep the funding for research. >> before we go on, the idea of an artificial pancreas is big. >> huge. >> you can explain it. you have type 1 diabetes. why is that important to have an artificial pancreas? how does type 1 affect your pancreas? >> we can't make insulin. people with type one can't make insulin. >> that's what your pancreas does. >> insulin helps us get the fuel into our cells. the challenge of type 1 diabetes is twofold. the risk of high blood sugar that causes the complications of diabetes but on a day-to-day basis the risk of low blood sugar which can be life threatening. the other things you'll hear from the families is it's really hard. the promise of an artificial pancreas, it would give the right amount of insulin at the right time, helping the blood sugar control problems we have, but make life easier. you'll see the families, the kids, they wear insulin pumps, they do insulin injections, they

stick their fingers. it's a gruelling sdmeez it's interesting, all of us have a family member, you. >> my husband. >> my father. not type 1 but type 2. you have a child with it. as a parent it must be scary as well. it is a daily -- it's something you have to think about almost constantly. how does your family deal with it? >> well, we try to take it in stride, but once you have a child diagnosed with diabetes, you immediately stop being merely a parent. you become a parent, a doctor, a nurse. unless you want your child to live in a hospital. the thing is it is a disease you can manage and sort of insidious because you can't see someone, oh, you have diabetes, i can tell from looking at you. >> it's weird. you never think of what your blood sugar does for your body. >> no. >> we have functioning pan crecrasses and it's an everyday thing for the rest of your child's life. >> yes. >> and so the families take on a tremendous responsibility, depending on the age of the

child, until they reach an age where they can manage it themselves. you have to count every carbohydrate that they, you know, take in at a snack or a meal, you have to watch their activity because that affects your blood sugar. you have to give them injections. you have to pick their fingers upwards of ten times a day. >> this is all happening at a time and especially kids as they get older they go into high school, even the middle school and elementary level they want to be like their friends and enjoy life. >> yeah. >> and to have to constantly worry about that seems like it must be difficult. >> yeah. they worry. again, it depends on the age. the parents and siblings and loved ones care a lot and it's sort of like having a newborn. you don't stop sleeping at night. you have to check your child frequently. depending on what their blood sugar level was when they go to bed, you have to wake up at 2:00 in the morning. you worry about them all day. it's really -- it never sleeps. and neither do the people who --

>> exactly. >> aaron on the verge of these new technologies, it will be great if they can develop an artificial pancreas every person with type 1 diabetes could use, but really, what people with type 1 diabetes want is a secure. and you have to wonder why with all the research we have done and all the money we have spent why we don't have that, why we can't figure that out. >> in my family this is something that we're incredibly anxious for and we feel the urgency. we know that type 1 diabetes is a complicated disease and i think what we're seeing on the research front is tremendous strides for -- towards a cure. jdrf, our number one goal is to walk away from type 1 eventually. right now, today on the hill, we have research that shows these devices in the near term will help us get there. but we need fda to act. we need to get these devices approved so patients can use them and i think that's going to be the case for all the therapies that eventually lead to a dur. >> for this artificial pancreas

would you have to go through a transplant? >> it's not a -- >> like a pacemaker almost? >> a lot of kids and adults wear a glucose monitor so you don't have to pick your finger every time you want to find out your glucose reading and they wear a pump. the artificial pancreas would be combining those two so that they work in concert and would read your blood sugar, give you the appropriate amount of insulin, detect when you have activity, how many carbohydrates and act the way a normally functioning pancreas would. >> think about it. as a human being trying to figure out, that's difficult because you're right, everything affects your blood sugar. >> it has an alarm that would go off. a lot of times what happens if you're going low, we all have low blood sugar if we forget to have lunch, but if you're a type 1 diabetic and have low blood sugar you become disoriented and really low and can lead to, you know, very dire circumstances. same way with keeping it high.

we all normally, those of us with functioning pancreases, have -- keep our blood sugar level within a certain range. the more we can have these young kids and adults keep it within the range that it wants to be in, then you avoid the complications down the line. >> hopefully you'll make lawmakers understand. thank you so much for being with us. we appreciate it. >> great to talk to you both. kevin kline, aaron kowalski. that can go the distance. that's why we gave the chevy equinox an epa estimated 32 miles per gallon highway.

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starting this year and another 20,000 next year. >> but, there is a but attached, the source says the time frame may be too tight for defense secretary gates and his top general who have pushed for an initial draw down of between 3,000 and 5,000 troops this year. >> right now we're going to bring in our white house correspondent dan lothian, also with us in new york our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. dan, let's start with you. when we talk about pulling back the curtain behind this decision-making process, how did the president come up with a number of troops that he did? because clearly he was facing competing interests on both sides. >> he really was, and white house aides say that the president consulted with senior members of his national security team for weeks. he was mindful, as one aide put it, of the cost of this conflict, understanding that the u.s. does not have an unlimited amount of resources. he also looked at the killing of osama bin laden as sort of a broader success in this region. this goes back to 2009 when the president laid out the mission for afghanistan, laid out that timeline and said conditions

would be -- would dictate the decisions going forward and so while everyone here will admit that there's still work to be done on the ground in afghanistan they believe progress has been made in going after al qaeda and reversing the momentum of the taliban and in stabilizing the government of afghanistan. >> wow. there is some sense among some that president obama is doing this in part to get re-elected and that's how he's making his decision and i want to pose this question to you, barbara starr. because his jens are saying too many men to pull out of afghanistan right now. we should reduce that number. why are you pulling out so many? how did this decision get made and are on the generals -- can the general live with the president's decision? >> well, the job of u.s. generals in the military is to live with the president's decision. he is the commander in chief so they will salute smartly and carry on. i think military commanders are always a little bit more cautious than the political side of the house. i don't think it's a huge surprise, but they know that the

president is facing -- i mean general petraeus himself has spoken about this, so has secretary gates. the president is facing political pressure to ratchet down in afghanistan, isn't he? so the idea here is to have a politically credible withdraw. gates has talked about that. no enough to make it seem -- enough to make it seem like real withdraw is under way, we're really pulling back, getting the troops home. not so much that you would risk the security gains that have already been made. really fine line to walk. >> a lot of the focus has been, oh, you know, the generals don't want him to pull out this many people. when you take a look at the general response that even we've gotten from our e-mailers and that a lot of other people think it's wait a minute, we still have 70,000 plus troops there. i mean, technically, it's not that -- we're calling it a withdraw, calling it a draw down but there are so many more troops still there. >> that's it, isn't it? this is really only the -- only i say, the withdraw of the 30,000 surge forces that were some 18 months ago.

this, perhaps, is just the beginning of the beginning if you will. still when it's all said and done, there will be another 70,000 or there so left, twice as many as when president obama came into office. the end goal at the end of all of this is 2014 when most u.s. troops are supposed to be out of afghanistan. but, of course, even then does anybody think they'll all be gone. >> when american voters hear that, many of them, makes them angry. i want to pose this question to dan lothian, the president is going to say something tonight but the american people think spending money in afghanistan is not a good deal right now. why are we spending so much money to repair afghanistan's infrastructure when our own is crumbling and people don't have jobs? >> when you talk to aides here they do understand how americans feel about this. they see the polling numbers that americans are tired of so much money being spent overseas in this wars in iraq, afghanistan, libya, the involvement the u.s. is there with nato. ultimately you saw a preview of this yesterday during the

briefing with jay carney, when he said listen, there's a reason why the u.s. is in afghanistan. and you'll hear this narrative from the president tonight, where he'll spell out that we are there because of the threat that is posed to the u.s., taking americans back to 9/11, almost 3,000 americans killed, during that attack and so that will be sort of how the president will frame this. we are there for a reason, because it was a threat against the united states and the u.s. is going after that threat. >> it will be interesting to see what the president actually says about this and how he can calm the american people. because they need calming right now, frankly. thank you, dan, thank you, barbara, appreciate you being here this morning. reminder, the president speaks on afghanistan tonight from the white house. cnn will have live coverage. it all starts at 8:00 eastern time tonight. we want to hear from you. our question of the day this morning. what do you want to hear from the president tonight? send us an e-mail, a tweet, or tell us on facebook. we will read your thoughts a little bit later in the hour. we've gotten some comments already and pretty spicy.

>> yes, they are. a new poll is showing that the president's bin laden bounce, pretty much over. a new gallup poll showing his approval rating suffered a four-point drop in a few days, down to 45%, 48% disapprove of the job the president is doing. a couple more hiccups for newt gingrich's presidential campaign. his spokesman confirms the former house speaker had a second line of credit for up to $1 million at tiffany's. assisting all of gingrich's debts paid and account closed. gingrich said his campaign for the white house will continue even though two more members of his team have resigned. gingrich's two top fund-raisers stepped down less than two weeks after 16 other staffers quit. there was a big announcement, of course, yesterday, jon huntsman jumping in the fray to be president in 2012. check out the press pass given to media members covering the campaign. the candidate's first name is misspelled not on that part but

when you go down, huntsman. there's an "h" in the game. tried to round up the credentials and correct them but it was too late. we will be talking to jon, without an "h," huntsman, when the utah governor joins us live at 8:30 eastern. some have said he is president obama's worst nightmare if he makes it to -- past the primary into the general election. yet, he still remains largely unknown by many people, polling about 1% in our poll. we're going to find out more about him, what his positions are on some of these key topics like the debt ceiling, like afghanistan, same-sex marriage and others. >> thought it was a plus working for president obama because he was president obama's ambassador to china. that will be interesting too. on another topic this morning, we're learning about a frightening close call at jfk international airport here in new york. reportedly happened monday night. according to the "new york post," a lieu than za jumbo jet carrying 286 passengers was speeding down runway 22 r when

an egyptian airplane made a wrong turn and ended up on the same runway. >> an air traffic controller realized what was about to happen, thank goodness, and ordered the love tan za jet to slam on the brakes, cancel takeoff, cancel takeoff plans. >> no word on how close those two planes came to colliding, one officials telling the "post" it was close. luth than za's brakes were checked because they became dangerously hot but the plane departed safely an hour and 40 minutes later. >> it was a wrong turn by the egypt airplane they're saying. a wrong turn ending up on the same runway. i mean -- >> i think a lot of that stuff happens and we don't hear about it. >> much more often than we think. you're right. california's budget crisis getting a bit personal. the state's controller, john chiagf ng, saying because of a proposition passed last year, lawmakers won't see a paycheck of their own until they pass a balanced budget for the state.

some lawmakers are fired up about finding out they say they've been working hard and no longer getting paid for it. >> we think it's very difficult to go back home and tell people we've been working 18 hours a day, passed two budgets and one guy has said that they don't meet his satisfaction so he's not going to pay us. >> one guy. he's referring to is governor brown. he vetoed what lawmakers called a balanced budget they submitted last week saying that numbers simply don't add up. wildfires have scorched more than 2100 square miles in 12 states. that would be 1.4 million acres. in texas, northwest of houston, one fire has destroyed dozens of homes and 4,000 acres of land. fire caused by homeowners grilling. >> the sheriff of a county in arizona, say drug smugglers from mexico may have started a wildfire that has destroyed dozens of homes in his state north of the u.s./mexico border. those comments support statements by senator john mccain who took heat for

suggesting last weekend that illegal immigrants could be to blame for some of his state's fires. >> i'm still puzzled by that. the fire service testified before congress in 2006 that was the case. >> the fact that these immigration groups came out and talked about, you know, remarks that were over the top? >> you know, i just -- all i can say is the facts are stubborn things. >> the sheriff says the fire in his county was caused by man and started in an area that's known to police for its high intensity drug and human trafficking. critics are calling a tough new immigration bill in south carolina legalized profiling, but the governor says she's going to sign it into law. >> that's going to happen today or tomorrow we think. joining us with that story, is this the same as arizona as controversial law? too it >> it's a similar law. the aclu is worried about it and already promising to file a lawsuit to block this bill from

becoming law. the measure would allow south carolina officials the right to revoke the business license of any employer who knowingly hires unauthorized immigrants. the bill also requires police to check the immigration status of any individual they suspect is in the country illegally. some this morning are calling that legalized profiling. governor nikki haley has confirmed she'll sign the bill into law. she's been critical of federal officials accusing them of preventing south carolina from enforcing its current anti-illegal immigration laws by denying the state access to electronic records used to verify a person's citizenship. if the bill becomes law, anyone stopped by police even, for example, for a minor traffic violation, would be subjected to an immigration check if the officer suspects they may be in the country illegally. arizona, utah, indiana, georgia, north carolina with a milder law, being targeted now by civil rights groups because of similar anti-immigration laws. >> i was going to say, when is the lawsuit going to be filed?

>> they are all on it right now. >> in the meantime are law enforcement putting it into practice? even though this could be in courts? >> many of these are in court right now and it just is a matter of time to see how they play out. most people expect, for example, arizona's sb 1070 to eventually hit the supreme court. >> currently are they actually conducting these checks? >> no. some of these are already -- they are -- no. they are in court right now, being blocked by federal judges but they are in court of appeals as well. they're trying to right now, determine what to do with this. even georgia's recent one as well. >> right. >> next one to look out for is texas also has a bill that they say will be passing in the house soon that's blocking in texas. >> i'm all over it. >> you're busy. >> thanks so much. >> ahead on "american morning," the sky is turning black over the college world series. scary moments for the fans told, get out as severe weather rolled

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welcome back to "american morning." a dark and stormy night across the midwest. the severe weather prompting tornado warnings as it moved through the chicago area. more than 300,000 people still without power this morning. crews are working to get the lights back on, but officials say it could take days to return service to all customers. that stormy weather left passengers stranded at o'hare airport in chicago. more than 300 flights were canceled at o'hare. 75 mile an hour winds had airport officials telling people stuck in airport terminals stay away from the windows in there. this morning no weather delays at o'hare, at least so far. but there were some scary moments at the college world

series. this was in omaha, nebraska, after powerful tornadoes and thunderstorms rolled through the area. winds were hitting 70 miles per hour in omaha and the skies started turning pitch-black. that's when sirens went off and fans were literally running to escape the storm. >> well, coming here for 30 years, the first time that i've seen something other than a warning occur. this is 75-mile-an-hour gusts of wind or more. >> we were on tenth street and the police officer came up and said out of your car. >> the wind started blowing hard. >> better get covered. >> people who are from here knew to go up. we started walking with the sirens going off and you just heard them going on the air saying it was a high wind advisory which is why the sirens were going off and we were walking out. >> interviewing them once safely at the quest center i guess that's where they got sent for shelter. interviewing the poor guy in the

midst of the storm. why are you being asked to get the heck out? >> just want to stop your run for a second and ask that. it ended up being -- the game resumed yesterday morning, so it ended up being a 14-hour delay. you were wondering who won. florida topped vanderbilt, 3-1. >> yeah. rob, actually, rob marciano is in atlanta, it was nice to see people running for shelter instead of staying where they were when the sirens went off? >> you know, we always talk about the folks in the midwest and tornado alley how tough they are and how they know what to do. you may be tough and may know what to do, but when it's coming you better move quick, that's for sure. that was two nights ago the tornado warning. we showed you the video of the tornado that rolled through west of omaha, west of lincoln, storms in chicago packed a punch. winds gusting over 80 miles an hour in parts of illinois. o'hare had 70-mile-an-hour winds. hundreds of flights kanz cancel canceled. thousands stranded there.

the low that produced this action is not moving quickly, slowly drifting into canada and a wide circulation around this. we're going to look for a wide area that will see thunderstorms. some of them will produce muchly needed rain. san antonio to austin, heading towards corpus christi, this area in severe drought. they will take every drop. we've received over an inch of rain in some of these spots. bring it on, mother nature. flow off the gulf of mexico we haven't seen that in a while. new york city will see thunderstorms this afternoon as that slow-moving storm moves east and we kick up the atmosphere throughout the day. probably over an hour delay there. probably won't see hundreds of flights canceled like in chicago but it could get rough for a short time. memphis and houston looking at thunderstorms potentially. ground stop right now at houston for the next hour because of the storms that are rolling through there. continued very, very hot across the desert southwest. could be the hottest weather of the season. 113 in phoenix. the heat certainly not helping. the winds will kick up over the next couple days.

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more twists and turns in the murder trial of casey anthony. >> actually resumed yesterday after that break -- >> that was a plus. >> because the judge was very angry the day before.

but the defense is trying to discredit forensic evidence against the suspected child killer. this picture is something different. prosecutors pulling a surprise move unveiling a potential new witness who served jail time with the defendant. >> it's an interesting twist. joining us now former federal prosecutor and trutv's "in session" anchor sunny hostin. start with this woman who was an inmate in jail at the same time as casey anthony and supposedly, according to prosecutors, casey anthony heard this woman's story and said wow, that sounds like a great story, i think i'll use that. >> could have heard it. interestingly enough, we've learned that this woman, april whalen, was held in the same prison dorm from june 4th to june 8th of 2009 with casey anthony. apparently her little boy did drown in a pool and her grandfather -- the boy's grandfather did find the boy. there is no direct connection right now ween april whalen and casey anthony, other than the fact that they were both in the same dorm and we found out that

the cell blocks aren't really soundproof. april whalen has mentioned she's never met casey anthony but the prosecution has indicated that they're going to continue investigating for indirect connections because this would sort of dovetail with the prosecution's theory, casey anthony gets pieces of information and then fabricates a story, sort of like that usual suspect phenomena. >> just to we're clear, we keep showing a mug shot of her, april whalen, that's because that's what they have of her. she's not in prison for -- they believe her son did accidentally drown. >> she's not in prison for murdering her child. >> but this is the other interesting thing. headline news producer who had a chance to speak to her said she never spoke to casey, only in jail a few days driving with a suspended license and she was a few cells down. seems to me the defense could easily poke holes saying you're a few cells down and claim you never have spoken to her, how could casey make up this story based on this woman. >> that's why the prosecution

says they're still investigating it and only use her if it becomes relevant. the only way that becomes relevant is if casey anthony gets on the witness stand and it testifies to this drowning. i still say everybody sort of disagrees with me, at this point -- >> you're alone on this. >> i'm alone, i think casey anthony still has to testify to prove up what jose baez said in his opening statement. >> let's talk about the misstries, because in these cases a mistris always seems to pop up. supposedly george anthony, casey's stepfather. >> that's right. >> had a mistress. >> her biological father. >> had a mistress and -- >> well she has come forward and talking about the fact that he said that this was a terrible accident and so she is on the witness list for the defense because, again, that sort of dovetails with the defense theory this, indeed, was a tragic accident but george anthony knew about it and covered up caylee's accidental drowning. i don't know if we'll see that come to play.

i mean it's sort of like the defense is jumping the shark, people start to feel like it's going downhill. >> want to believe, before his daughter took the stand -- before his daughter's defense attorneys said he sexually abused her, which he vigorously denies and those around him deny or say didn't happen, he could have said it was a terrible accident because he was trying to protect his daughter. if caylee was killed by casey it would have had to be an accident. you don't want to believe as a grandfather that your child could kill your grandchild. >> that evidence really hasn't been fleshed out to my liking, so i'm not quite sure how that's going to come into play. >> we'll see. maybe later today. sunny hostin, thanks as always for joining us. we appreciate it. 31 minutes past the hour. president obama has promised to start bringing u.s. troops home from afghanistan this year. tonight in a prime time address, we'll find out when and how the president plans to do that. also heavy thunderstorms and rain pounding the midwest. in chicago more than 300,000 customers are still in the dark this morning. utility officials say it could

take days for everyone to get their power back. ugly. the first charges have been filed against suspects in the vancouver riots that followed the canucks loss to the boston bruins in the stanley cup final. more than 100 people were arrested in connection with the rioting. some were outed on facebook, youtube and other social media. president obama is going to be speaking to the nation tonight. 8:00 about the future of afghanistan and the congressional source telling us, here at cnn, that he will announce plans to pull out 10,000 troops this year and then another 20,000 troops by the end of 2012. when president obama announced the troop surge back in late 2009 he set out a few goals so is afghanistan stable enough to start bringing the troops home? joining us again is cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr and also brett mcgur, a former special assistant to president bush for iraq and afghanistan. welcome to both of you.

okay. let's start with you, barbara. you reported that the generals on the ground aren't so happy about the number of troops the president plans to pull out of afghanistan. >> well you know, it's not a surprise, generals are always a bit cautious as we've discussed, but i think what they were looking for was to keep as much fire power, as much combat power on the ground through another fighting season. some of them have why reduce so much right now, we have time to go, keep the firepower on the ground and deal the taliban another blow so you really lessen their ability to come back and fight another day. >> they would be more comfortable with 3,000 to 5,000 troops being pulled out. >> that's what we're hearing, 3,000 to 5,000 heavy on getting those support forces out, the troops that are out there helping build roads and schools. do you need them so much anymore? get them out. leave the rifles and the firepower on the ground. >> brett, this could possibly be as much of a political calculation as a military one. the president's clearly in a

tough spot. all of our opinion research polling here showing 74% of people want either all or some of the troops out. we're talking $1.3 trillion in this ten-year fight between iraq and afghanistan. for many, it just doesn't seem good enough he's pulling out 10,000 soon and 30,000 later. in your opinion, is that much of a difference going to be made between now and when more of these troops come home to say afghanistan's a success or we're leaving it in a good place? >> well, i think it's important to -- we're not leaving it. i think what the president will say tonight is we're committed to a long-term strategy, but what we're doing now is not sustainable. i think it's important to keep some things in mind. this is much ado about very little. it's been 18 months since obama first announced the surge strategy. 18 months after president bush announced a surge in iraq, the surge was over. all the surge troops had already

left iraq. so you're talking now about the full surge in afghanistan being in place for three years. i don't think he'll commit the commanders to a specific timeline for withdrawing the surge brigades over the course of next year, so they'll have a lot of force in place over the fighting season and then even after that, you'll have nearly 70,000 troops in afghanistan. >> i guess, brett, the bottom line is that i think the american people are tired of war. we're spending something like, what, $118 billion in afghanistan which is -- which is a huge -- >> in 2011. which is a huge increase over 2003, so when people look at afghanistan, voters, and they see the unemployment rate in this country and they see that 14 million americans don't want jobs, they don't really care about what happens in afghanistan anymore. >> well, you know, that's certainly true. that's why the president needs to explain to the american people about why we need to stay committed. not at the left we're at now.

bar said some commanders won't be happy and that's true. only the president can balance the recommendations from the commanders on the ground, the recommendations from the joint chiefs of staff who measure the overall readiness of the military forces, congressional pressure, domestic pressure and economic pressure and the key for the president is to get afghanistan in place that the strategy is sustainable over the long term. >> let me bring barbara in. when you talk about sustainability, look at afghanistan a country 80% illiterate, the country is backwards by many accounts, the afghan troops since we talked about since 2004, getting them trained hasn't necessarily worked. so when does it end? >> well, what the president will have to do and by all accounts will do tonight, is make the case about why u.s. troops are still there. the case he will make is that afghanistan poses a threat to -- to the united states if it again becomes a safehaven for the taliban and al qaeda with a -- this very point, with a weak

government in that country, with people, perhaps, unable to look after their own security. could it become a taliban and al qaeda safehaven even more so than it is? does that pose a direct threat to the united states? of course the complication is, the whole security picture because now, it's not just afghanistan, it's pakistan, it's yemen, it's somalia. >> syria perhaps. >> all these places where you have terrorism taking hold in countries where the governments are not able to fully control their own security picture. especially in yemen right now. so it will be a very tough case to make. that's the case he has to make if he's going to keep 70,000 troops there after the surge is over, why are they there. >> barbara starr, brett mcgur thanks for joining us. it will be fascinating to hear what the president has to say tonight and he speaks on afghanistan tonight from the white house. cnn will have live coverage for you, starting at 8:00 eastern. be sure to tune in to cnn. still to come -- 2400, free merchandise, food, beverages,

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violence again erupting in northern ireland, like a flashback in time. police clashing with rioters in be belfast for a second straight night of fighting. >> zain verjee live in london with details this morning. the pictures are disturbing when you see what's going on there. what caused this flashpoint to

erupt? >> let's show you some of those dramatic pictures we've just got these in from our photographer on the ground in belfast. just take a look at this video. i mean, it's been years of relative calm between catholics and protestants but now as you can see from these pictures the tensions are up. what's causing it? well, you know, kiran, this is generally a time of year between now and kind of the end of july known as marching season, where a group of protestants known as orangemen will march through a catholic area and it does create tensions. but this time, the main thinking is that there was some kind of a renegade commander who's been under pressure for an investigation, and he's kind of upped the ante and ordered this coordinated attack in a catholic area and there's been a severe reaction to that and this has been the result. 700 people out on the streets fighting each other, molotov cocktails, bricks, fireworks. from these new pictures we've gotten, this is the result. >> unbelievable.

let's turn the corner and talk about something a lot less serious. >> yeah. >> popular website for beautiful people, infiltrated by ugly people. oh, no. >> i know! can you believe that? what a scandal! beautifulpeople.com is outraged because apparently there was this shrek virus what they're calling it and it let in 30,000 ugly people, they say, on to this website. and, you know, it's got to be vetted by the other beautiful people on this site and so they were very upset about this and they kicked them out and the managing director, greg hodges, told "the guardian" this, we have to stick to our founding principles of only accepting beautiful people. we can't just sweep 30,000 ugly people under the carpet. and how did they even realize that there was this virus? he says they got suspicious when over only a six-week period all these people suddenly got accepted. he said many of whom, were no

oil painting. >> that's so mean. i love that they call the virus shrek. okay. and they also said that they believe it was a former employee who implanted that virus on the system before they left because i mean the way it usually works, members of the opposite sex have to approve the people because they feel if they let members of the same sex there would be jealousy and people would deny people just because they didn't want competition. >> yeah. that's true. but then the other thing they're doing not only that they get rid of the 30,000, they also got rid of an additional 5,000 existing members because over the years they put on weight and became less attractive and became ugly. out they went and 5.8 million people around the world, guys, were deemed too ugly and they were rejected. i kind of feel strongly about this. i think that beauty is in the eye of the beer holder. >> i agree. >> she said "beer holder" so everybody knows. >> don't you agree with her?

i think hackers should unit and do something about that site. >> they've been uniting, having a lot of hacking problems with the personal information. >> they need to work on beautiful people. >> you know what, get what you deserve. you want to find somebody on that site, you're going to have to live with them if you get together. so good luck with that. hey, zain, thanks so much. you can watch zain every morning 5:00 a.m. on "world one" here on cnn. okay. it is a cat with an identity crisis. really? >> that's a cat that think she's a watchdog. >> she's not coughing up a hairball. she's barking at people walking by her home and keeping lookout from the window. when she realizes she's busted by her owner with the camera, then she starts meowing.

she's going to turn. can you believe it? i think it's fake. >> that's insane. >> that's fake. come on. they're getting a dog to bark and then turns around the camera -- >> watching that has changed my life. i'm just kidding. >> gives you something to think about. >> i'm going to think about that all day. we want to know what you want to hear from the president tonight. it's our question of the day. the president set to address the nation on afghanistan tonight. what do you want to hear from him? send us an e-mail, a tweet or tell us on facebook. and we will be reading some of your thoughts in just a couple minutes.

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51 minutes past the hour. this this morning's a.m. house call a lot of attention paid to concussions and pro athletes. a new study saying young athletes who suffer head injuries can risk death if they return into action too soon. >> they always want to go back and play no matter whether they are hurt or not which is a bad thing. chief medical correspondent sanjay gupta is here with more. it's a big problem. >> some of it is a culture thing. they watch older athletes play. the numbers have not gone down in terms of younger players going out there and getting a second concussion and having sudden death as a result of that. these are tragic stories but exactly the situation you described. they got a concussion, kind of blew it off, went back out there and got a second hit and that

caused a problem. i want you to look at this picture sort of what happens specifically in the brain. you know, you have this two players hit. someone already has had a concussion. what happens a second time around as opposed to just sort of the brain moving around, it starts to develop catastrophic swelling as you can sort of see there in that animation. that is the real problem. >> and so i guess part of the effort -- you've talked about this before -- a, having unified standards, you know, on the sidelines so it's not the players' decision and maybe not the coaches' decision. how do they figure it out? >> i think it has to be an outside force. there is a lot of pride and, obviously, it's a competitive sport, football and other sports as well, i should mention. so it needs an outside governing force to say there must be a sideline exam, for example, someone has to be cleared before they go back to play. also the idea that someone's brain has to be able to rest in between. the problem is someone doesn't need to be knocked out to have a concussion. the symptoms can be pretty vague and look at the symptoms

specifically. these are the questions that are sometimes asked on the sideline. just simply if someone has a headache, any pressure on their head, for example, nausea, vomiting, balance problems, dizziness, vision problems. a football game they might ask questions do you remember who you played last week? did you win or lose? if they can't answer questions like that, they need to be sitting outside. >> isn't that a severe concussion? aren't lesser concussions -- isn't it possible to have a concussion and not even know? >> absolutely. there is no blood test, no scan. even the sideline exams i think you're eluding to, by no means perfect. but, keep in mind, there are players who clearly were having, you know, vision problems and they were feeling decision and memory problems and being allowed to go back in and play and that is part of the concern. that is starting to change incidentally at the professional level. this fall when you watch, you'll see sideline exams happening. watch closely. someone takes a hard hit, watch the player. they will be on the sideline and a doctor checking their eyes and asking them questions. they are moving the kickoff line further forward. the kickoff returns are one of

the most dangerous parts of the game. they want more of the balls to end up in the end zone and less exciting game, but possibly safer. >> but they are fining you for harder hits and trying to do things to take the culture of those hard head hits out. >> yep. >> and, you know, it's terrifying to think for the young kids playing as well, because your brain is -- it's so much more vulnerable when you're young, right? >> it is developing. it is more vulnerable. and none of the protective gear. even all of that in aggregate can make you completely safe. people talk about mouth guards potentially transmitting concussions baugh because you don't have as much force from the chin to the lower mouth. they are talking about generic testing to find you who is most susceptible to concussions but none of that is perfect. >> i have a friend who is refuse to go let her kid play football. hate you! >> thank you, sanjay. >> great to be here. >> remember that, they will hate you for that.

>> he could be the next rafael nadal. come on. >> whatever! they are reimbursed for travel and meals and tickets and fans who lost their tickets during last year's super bowl in dallas are asking for more in court, filing a lawsuit saying they should be compensated for lost income, too! >> come on! you had me at the free tickets and the flight and the hotel! >> no, we are americans. we want more. remember, the fans were moved after more than 1,200 temporary seats were declared unsafe before the packers played the steelers. the league has given them triple the face value of the tickets and a ticket to another super bowl but, you know, maybe you were going to be at work that day and you took the day off and you lost your wages and you went to the super bowl. that's lost income. >> the chance the steelers are going to be back. i love the steelers but magic doesn't happen two years in a row. >> exactly. probably be the ravens next year. >> you wish! time for our question of the day. president obama set to address

the nation tonight in prime time on the future of the war in afghanistan. there are more people here at home getting worried about the toll. all of the polling showing the majority of people want us out. and there is also the economic toll as well. our question of the day is what do you want to hear from the pez tonight? mike writes that my son, who is soon to be enlisted, will be able to serve stateside. >> this from carol. i would like to -- i don't think this is from carol. is this? >> no, it's from horsefly but carol is supposed to read it! >> thank god, kiran is here! stop laughing, sanjay! >> this is from horsefly. i would like to hear him say we are withdrawing all troops from afghanistan and putting them on the mexican border. >> this is from kiran. oh, no, it's not. it's from micelton. >> this from daniel out of facebook. out now, not next year. out now! >> we did search for people to

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a very close call on a runway here in new york. i'm kiran chetry. two jets packed with passengers nearly collide and we're just learning new details about the incident and how disaster was averted. setting the course for ending the war. i'm carol costello. the president preparing to address the nation tonight and announce 10,000 troops are coming from afghanistan this year and a move may come too soon for his top commander on this "american morning." ♪ good morning to you. thanks so much for being with us. it is wednesday, june it 22nd. ali and christine are off. carol is with us. >> good to see you. we are learning a close call that happened on monday night. according to the "new york post" a jet carrying 286 passengers was speeding down runway 22r

when an egyptian airplane apparently made a wrong turn and ended up on the same runway. >> air traffic controller realized what was about to happened and order the luhfhansa jet to slam on its brakes. >> there you heard it. still no word on how close the planes came to colliding. the lufhtansa jets brakes were hot because he tried to stop. the flight took off another 1:42 later. the president speaking tonight about the future of the wars. a source telling us he plans to tell out 10,000 this year and another 20,000 troops next year.

>> there you see the numbers. the time frame may be too tight for his defense chief and his top general. pentagon correspondent barbara starr is here with us this morning. we want 3,000 to 5,000 but you've pointed out there will be some 70,000 plus troops in the country even after this takes place. >> there will be. we talked about this. the generals are always a little more cautious than the commander in chief who has political considerations in something like this. what you're beginning to hear, they are saying, look. we need another fighting season against the taliban to have as many troops on the ground in combat as we can to really get after it. here is the other side of the question, though. we barely have been getting after it for ten years now. you know, how many more years? so one of the things i think we are all will be watching for tonight is to see president obama make the case that there is a good reason to still be in afghanistan. do the taliban and al qaeda pose a threat? could afghanistan return to being a safe haven for terrorism? >> the strange thing about that,

barbara, the taliban. so the u.s. dep liplomats are negotiating with more moderate taliban. in the minds of many americans, they say, hhmm. that must mean the taliban has been substantially weaken so why is the taliban even a concern any more? >> what you have in afghanistan right now is taliban insurgents, the hakani network, you have multiple organizations. secretary gates was very clear actually that they are talking in a very preliminary basis with some elements of the taliban. but actually in eastern afghanistan, this other network of war lords and insurgents called the hakina, a major threat to u.s. troops fight there. you have the pakistani taliban coming across the border staging attacks. but the whole question, i think, really is does afghanistan still pose the potential, if the government there is so weak, to become a safe haven that could, again, shelter insurgents,

shelter terrorists that could attack the united states? a lot of if's and maybe's but that is the case the president has to make. >> we certainly will be listening 12 hours from now. barbara starr, thank you. >> sure. at the same time we are talking about some of the generals not being happy with the amount, there are many who think that there should be more leaving afghanistan now. freshman senator joe manchin from west virginia saying this number is not enough and it's time to rebuild america and stop worrying about afghanistan. he sparred with senator mccain about that yesterday on the floor of the senate. take a look at the exchange. >> it is impossible to defend the mission in afghanistan in which we are rebuilding schools, training police, teaching people to read. in other words building a country even at the expense of our own. >> the statements by the senator from west virginia, which characterize the isolationists, withdrawal, lack of knowledge of history, attitude that seems to

be on the rise of america. >> joining us now is democratic senator joe manchin who serves on the armed services committee. thanks for being with us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> your colleague senator mccain said you don't know your history that we withdrew from afghanistan once and how we got the taliban and al qaeda. what is your response? >> first of all, john mccain i have the most utmost respect for john mccain, the sacrifices he has made for hur country, the service he has given to our country area his experience. i truly do. he is correct. i don't have the experience he has. but, kiran, what i do have like most west virginias, common sense and saying enough is enough after ten years and still where we are today, spending more money than ever. i was there in 2006 as the governor the state of west virginia thanking our national guard, the greatest national guard in the country thanking them for what they do and went back as a senator in 2011.

i saw firsthand and spoke to the general and the troops and all of the different people i could and i was able to come to my own conclusions and speaking to west virginiians who truly we have a need in west virginia and a need all over this country for the roads and water and sewer and bridges and schools and helping our seniors, and everybody. and then, all of a sudden, we have spent $443 billion to date in afghanistan. on track to spend another $485 billion. i just think it's time to refocus and rebuild america. >> right. . let me just ask you about that. i mean, we all are acknowledging this is a war worry country as well. a poll, 74% of us want all or some troops out. those that were pulled. you pointed out. we spent more than 400 billion on the war and our military losing their lives in afghanistan. do we risk what we have made on those investments? are you okay leaving afghanistan broken? >> i'm not leaving afghanistan broken.

i don't think we can build a nation in afghanistan. pure and simple. now, what i've asked and what i would hope to see from the president tonight is basically a mission statement, a dedication of a mission statement back to a war on terror. that's a complete different war than what we are fighting today and that is what i would hope to see and i believe, and you'll see a direction. we have sent a message very loud and clear. you can't hide and you can't outwait us. we will find you. >> technical, you can outwait us because we are planning a withdrawal. 10,000 troops from afghanistan this year and 20,000 next year and event lip the other 70,000 troops are coming home. how do you guaranteed you're not just -- it's not just a wait -- a waiting game? >> kiran, we went to afghanistan on the war on terror. by all accounts right now, less than 50 to a hundred al qaeda members still left in this country of afghanistan. we don't even know the size of our taliban, the enemy that we are fighting.

by all accounts, we have heard 5 to 30,000 and had we won the war in afghanistan as it moves somewhere else. you have the greatest strike force in the world and the best as far as counterinsurgencies we have had. the mission should be clear. wherever there is terrorism, wreaking harm in our country, we are going to go find you, no matter what country. we will go get you. >> all that means is we're ramping it up more. i mean, i get what you're saying but then we should be in yemen and in pakistan and we should be perhaps in somalia and we should be considering action in several other places. it just doesn't seem realistic. >> well, it seems that wherever there is a strike and wherever there is a force is coming after america we will retaliate back. you need to occupy and go in there and basically have a nation building -- here is the thing that took me offer the top, kiran. when i heard that the only country was able to go in there and extract minerals which is

copper, they are extracting from china, china doesn't have any investment there, doesn't have any forces there to keep the peace or build stability. they have to depend on us. is that our mission to build that nation and that economy? i think we need to rebuild america and folk s our efforts back here. >> all right. good to get your take morning. senator joe manchin from west virginia, great to talk with us and thank you for being with us. >> thank you. appreciate it. >> interesting stuff. president obama speaks on afghanistan tonight from the white house. cnn will have live coverage just for you at 8:00 eastern time tonight. >> what do you want to hear from the president tonight is our question of the day. e-mail us, tweet us or find us on facebook and we will read some of your comments later on in the show. jon huntsman has joined the chase for the white house. he will be campaigning in south carolina today, one day after announcing his candidacy in new jersey with the statue of liberty serving as his backdrop. also, check out the press pass. it was given to the members of the media covering the start of

the huntsman campaign and at the top, if you go down, an h. he doesn't have an "h" in his name. it's jon. the location of the event was listed as new york instead of new jersey and also more confusion after huntsman' announce the when reporters and staffers were mistakenly directed to a charter plane that was headed to saudi arabia instead of new hampshire! >> the backdrop. did you notice at the podium you couldn't see the statue of liberty behind jon huntsman and the whole point of him announcing there. >> there you see it. >> when you pull out. when it's close into the candidate, you could not see it. when the children were walking out it was beautiful. the scene looked patriotic and fabulous and maybe better than when ronald reagan announce the there but it was a bumpy start for jon huntsman, but we will be talking to him soon. we will talk to jon huntsman about the spelling issues and the bumpy start and, of course, more substantial issues that will come your way at 8:30 eastern this morning. surprise turn in the casey anthony murder trial.

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over the ballpark. wow. the skies just opened up. winds were hitting 70 miles an hour in omaha. the sirens warning of severe weather went off. fans started spilling out of the stadium screaming as they were running for cover. >> well, it's the first time as long as i've been coming here for 30 years that i've seen something that other than a warning occur. this is 75-mile-an-hour gust of wind or more. >> we were on tenth street. then the police officer came up and said, hey, out of your car and into the quest. >> then the wind started blowing a little hard. gave an indication it might be coming so get cover. >> people from here knew to get up so we started walking with the sirens going off. you heard them on air saying a high wind advisory which is why the sirens were going off and why we were all walking out. >> fans were actually moved to the nearby qwest center for shelter. that game resumed then. after a 14-hour delay! they played it yesterday. and florida topped vanderbilt

3-1. >> good for florida. let's head to the severe weather center and rob marciano. all of that weather is out of chicago completely now? >> for the most part. it's a slow moving system. this time of the year, the jet stream has moved further north and slowed down quite a bit the systems dent move very fast so it's lumbering around slugging its way off towards the north and east. the circulation off the midwest and a good chunk of the country so continue to be unsettled there. the more intense thunderstorms, i believe, across the northeast today tonight. today across the cat skills and finger lakes and moving rapidly. nothing in new york yet but this afternoon, i think it will change as we heat up the atmosphere. seeing showers and storms and decent amount of rain from san antonio to austin you will take it. severe drought in this area. so much needed rain but if you're traveling from houston a ground stop in effect right now, until further notice. probably the next couple of hours. travel probably will be slowed across parts of the northeast because of those thunderstorms later on today. same deal in d.c. and memphis as we mentioned,

houston as well. continue to be hot across parts of the desert southwest where the storms are going to be today. continued warm and humid ahead of that but things will cool down once the system makes its way off to the east. 69 in minneapolis. that is cooler. still 86 degrees in atlanta. mcallen, texas, 102. north charleston, south carolina, 102 again. i think the third day in a row seeing 100 plus and never happened in june. gainesville 1 hundred degrees and heat warnings in effect across the southeast. summer here and winter across the antarctica. if you're a penguin, i suppose easy to get lost but this, beautiful! emperor penguin was found in new zealand! that is 2,000 miles from where that puppy should be! they think he's a youngster, probably less than a-year-old and got lost making his way for food. he looks sad and lethargic as

well. >> got lost 2,000 miles? did he end up on a cruise ship and took a little ride? >> made a wrong turn. >> i bet he was somebody's pet. >> no way! >> no way. who has a pet penguin? >> they stink! you don't want to be that close to a penguin. >> i know a few who do. >> you do not know anyone with a pet penguin! >> what are they going to do with the poor guy? >> like four years since this happened. not move it back to antarctica, too dark and think it caught some diseases and they don't want to bring it back to the home land so letting nature take its course. >> we don't like that idea in this instance! he can't go to a zoo and get nursed back to health? >> i'll propose that. >> where is the sea world of new zealand? >> i don't know! good question! >> but that is what i'm told, let nature take its course. it doesn't mean bad things. maybe back in the water and make

its way back to antarctica. >> yeah, i'm sure he'll do that. >> i would be taking a chill pill and chillin' out. >> but you're not a penguin. >> that's true. a runway on the streets of new york. a 400-pound fire flying off a city bus. there you see it. the bus was empty at the time but the driver said the tire must have just missed hitting a woman with a baby in a stroller on the street! >> wouldn't you know it? >> maintenance workers say overheated bearing caused the wheel to break off. they say the second time it has happened this year. you see it there flying in the air after it hit something. the incident is being investigated. the extensive list of airline fees is growing again. who is about to start charging if you want to print out your boarding pass. really? we will have that story next. we are excited to get a chance to talk to jon huntsman. a former governor of utah and former ambassador to the

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news just in to cnn what could be a major setback license al qaeda in yemen. reuters reporting that dozens of al qaeda militants escaped from a jail in southern yemen this morning. >> it happened after the compound was attacked. a security official saying many of the inmates were jailed after they returned from iraq to fight alongside militants there. when we get more information, we will pass it along. five weeks into the casey anthony trial and unexpected development. prosecutors have informed the judge they are investigating woman who briefly served jail time, i believe driving on a suspended license. her name is april way lon. we want to know if the two spoke while behind bars ist dachl.

>> david mattingly is covering the trial. >> reporter: the reason they want to find out if the women spoke because april waylon suffered a tragedy when her young child drowned in the family's swimming pool. the child's body was found by the child' grandfather and similar to the story told in court by casey anthony who said her daughter caylee was drowned in the family pool and her body was found by the grandfather. now investigators are looking into the possibility that casey may have fabricated her story based on this real-life tragedy. listen. >> the name of the witness is april waylon. apparently, her child died in a swimming pool and was found by the child's grandfather, who immediately administered cpr and called 911. miss waylon was in an adjacent

cell to miss anthony for a very brief period of time. miss waylon indicates to law enforcement she did not talk to casey anthony, however, she doesn't remember if she talked to other inmates. so, at the present time, it's being explored whether or not there was indirect contact. >> reporter: so, at the moment, it is just a theory but investigators are pursuing this possible theory that casey anthony fabricated this story after possibly hearing that story while she was in jail. >> we are also looking at a short day of testimony today, david. court said to be done by lunch time. which is interesting. a couple of days ago the judge said it's taking too long and why this change? >> reporter: actually, the judge makes the rules. he can also break them. he said that they are having a half day today because of a prior commitment that he has, but he said he has been very

conscious of this jury being sequestered and being -- making sure that this trial moves along quickly so they are not kept behind locked doors any longer than they have to be. already, we are seeing longer hours this week during the day. also, we're expecting to see a very long day on saturday as well. so he wants to make up ground but he said this is something he just couldn't avoid. >> all right. david mattingly for us this morning, thanks so much. we are looking at the top stories. disaster narrowly averted at john f. kennedy's international airport in new york city. we are just learning about it today but an incident that happened on monday. a lufthansa jet was taking off and another airplane was on the runway. air traffic controller realized what was about to happen and ordered the lufthansa jet to

brake. here is what happened. still no word on how close the two plains to colliding. the lufthansa jet took off safely later. disaster averted. chicago cleaning up after wind gusts that ripped through the area last night and littering the street with tree limbs and debris and cutting power to over 3,000 customers. commuter trains stopped on its track and airlines canceled over 400 flights. president obama is set to address the nation tonight on the future of the war in afghanistan. sources say that his number is final. 30,000 u.s. forces home by the end of 2012 and 10,000 of them home by the end of this year. >> that brings us to our question of the day. we asked you what you wanted to hear from the president tonight. we have gotten good responses. this is from tony.

a limited withdrawal would in afghanistan's best interest and ours. >> isaac writes all i want to hear we are out and staying out. we need to stop a lot of our military spending. this is from jeff. i want to know why we are worried about leaving afghanistan so quickly after osama bin laden was killed, yet no big hurry to get out of the iraq and saddam hussein has been gone for a long time. time" magazine calls him the republican that democrats fear the most. even the president's campaign manager says the prospect of running against jon huntsman makes him a little queasy. >> high pras for politician most americans have never heard of yet so we want to know him better. former utah governor and presidential candidate jon huntsman joins us. >> i'm delighted to be here. >> you had your big announcement yesterday with the statue of liberty in the background. still, in our polling, a lot of people aren't familiar with who you are. and don't know a lot about you.

what would you say in a nutshell for people about why you're running for president and why you think you would be the best man for it? >> i love this country. i think it's absolutely unacceptable we're about to pass down the greatest country that ever was to the next generation. less strong, less able, less compassionate and less competitive and less confident than the united states we got. and i say you can either stand on the sidelines, as most people want to do, or you can get in the arena and expand the debate and do something about it, knowing full well that it's a long marathon, it's going to be tough and as a family person with seven kids, it won't always be easy but you believe in this country and you want to try to do the right thing at the right time. >> one thing you're likely to tackle is afghanistan. the president is making his big speech tonight and withdraw 30,000 troops but we still will have 70,000 troops in afghanistan. what would you do in that situation? how many troops would you withdraw? >> i can't give you an exact number after to say after nine years and 50 days, after having put karzai in power after the

elections of 2004, routed the taliban, disrupted and dismantled al qaeda i think we are can do better than a hundred thousand fairly expensive boots on the ground and i think a drawdown the next year. >> what is fairly aggressive? 30,000 you could argue is fairly aggressive according to the generals, right? >> i think we can go beyond that. i think what is important is recognizing the asymmetric threat we face. it will require intelligence gathering on the ground. special forces who are able to respond with precision like fashion and probably some training on the ground as well. now whether that is 15 or 20,000 or 30,000 i'm talking to a lot of so-called experts these days to see what exactly that right balance is, but we have got -- it will be a discussion on proportionality. is it right to have 1 out of every 6 defense department dollars into afghanistan?

i'm here to tell you the future of the united states will not be won or lost in the prairies of afghanistan. >> a lot of americans want troops out right now. they don't want more money spent in afghanistan not when the infrastructure is jurvcrumbling when should the troops be out of the afghanistan once and for all? >> i think we will always have a presence in south asia. >> talk about afghanistan. when should the troops be gone? >> let's separate the heavy boots on the ground from the counterterror efforts. i think we always have to have an aggressive counterterror effort in many places around the world. that is the threat we face and we need to recognize the threat we are up against. we are up against a subsidiary. a series of subsidiaries around the world intent on doing us and wherever they are, i think we need to be in a position to respond. >> what does that mean? >> i want to pin it down to afghanistan. what does it mean for afghanistan specifically? >> well, i'm not a fortune

teller here, but i can tell you that, at some point, the hundred thousand troops on the ground will have to be taken out substantially. it's heavy. it's expensive. it's disproportionate in terms of where our spengsding ought t be. we need to fight them wherever we can. whatever is left behind is appropriate to the threat. >> he is not going to answer a number for you today. >> hey, we just want to give us at least 48 hours. >> there's some say you're a dream candidate for the general but it's difficult for you among conservatives for a couple of reasons. first, the fact you were in the obama administration and worked as the ambassador to china. you praised obama at the time and now krl of him. are you glad you worked in the obama administration? >> i'm glad i served my country and would do it again. i served president reagan and president bush and i served president bush. when a president who is

everyone's president asks you to serve during a time of war and time of economic hardship i'm the kind of person who will say i'll serve my country before concerns about party and i hope i go to my grave with that i philosophy. >> you now think you've changed your mind on thinking obama is doing a good ineffective job? >> i think he is a decent person. he is earnest and hard working and doing his best. we examine com from different parties and different world views and different fl philosophies. we want to do what is best for a country we love. >> you have thattish. this polling which is interesting because we know how big of a voting block evangelical christians are. 34% say it would work against a candidate if they knew the candidate was mormon. you're a mormon. how do you get over that? >> well, i like our chances. i think when you get out and people begin to get to know you and understand where you're coming from and understand your record as governor, we're running a record. a lot of people run away from their record. we are running on a record.

very transparent and here is what we have to offer in terms of economic development, job creation and health care reform, so on, so forth. when you take a look at it, you'll see i'm pretty much a conservative problem solver and i think that will play very well among the early states and the people you're describing. >> talk about one conservative, jim demint. we interviewed him this morning. he wants potential presidential candidates and presidential candidates running on the republican side to sign a debt pledge. he said if you, mr. huntsman, don't sign this debt pledge, he will not throw his support behind you and he is a pretty powerful voice in south carolina. >> other than the pledge of allegiance, i don't do a lot of pledges. i think the ryan plan is a excellent place to be longer term. short term the debt ceiling issue and think the negotiations will play out until the final hour and i suspect we will get real cuts in ek xchange in meetg

the debt ceiling and we need to be longer term in a debt ceiling. if you got cuts and talk about the amendment you present a budget that is in balance. you have to as a requirement by law. i think that would be a pretty good out outcome and i don't need to take a pledge to get there. >> one thing that could also be a social litmus test is same-sex marriage. you have supported rights for same-sex couples and civil unions. would you support same-sex marriage in america? >> i'm not in favor of gay marriage. i don't think you can redefine marriage in the traditional sense. i think you get in trouble longer term. i think subordinate to that we have done an inadequate job in terms of equality, in terms of recognizing beneficial rights. >> why can't marriage be extended to people who happen to be in love with somebody of their same gender?

>> civil unions, i'm okay with as it relates to gay marriage, that is when you speak in redefining marriage and i think you have no end to that and i'm for traditional marriage. i think it's been a super piece of society from the very beginning. civil unions, i've come out and i've stated my piece there. some people like it, some people don't, but it's what i feel inside and i have to be honest about that. >> okay. >> and it's jon, not john. >> i've been suffering that in my time, not only recently. >> we showed that on the air and hopefully it will never happen again. >> thank you so much. great to be with us. >> we will take a break. too much on your plate?

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it's 45 minutes past the hour. you know when you hear human trafficking you think it only happens in far-flung places in the world. we learned it's taking place here in our own backyard essentially. >> the next guest is leading a campaign in new york to combat human trafficking and includes a public service announcement with the actress anna thompson. listen. >> fact. innocent people are deceived, then bought and sold like property. they are promised jobs and then held against their will. they are offered work, then forced to give up their wages, their papers, their freedom. >> joining us now, new york city deputy mayor carol robelas-roman. a lot of thought went into the p.a. tell us what kind of message you want people to take from it? >> a lot of thought did go into the pas.

we know when people think of the word traffic, they think people are in handcuffs and shackles and walking down the street you will recognize it immediately and that is not the case. we wanted to create a public service announcement that was going to resonate with everybody, including victims themselves, because sometimes victims themselves don't realize they are being trafficked. we need to educate and raise the level of discourse across the board. >> what are some of the warning signs, i guess, and some of the people that become most vulnerable? people that have entered the country illegally and promised to have legitimate papers and don't? are they typically girls as opposed to males? i mean, is there a profile of a victim? >> well, we saw the psa. you're working for no wages. that is a sign. i'm speaking directly to victims as well. if you're working and have a job and not getting a salary, there

is something wrong with that. sometimes they are coming from other countries and they don't realize that. we have domestic trafficking that is taking place right in this country. and you asked the question about who is most at risk. right now, what we are seeing in increasing numbers is very scary is young kids. we see young girls. we see criminal gangs targeting run-aways and targeting young girls that maybe have an unpleasant home situation. they go to the foster care areas or run-away shelters and they prey on them. and they take advantage of these young girls and they put them into sex trafficking situations as well. >> we hear about the girls being trafficked, right? we never hear about the people trafficking the girls or these young kids. like are there strong enough penalties against the people who recruit these girls to get into this horrible way of life? >> well, we saw the recent case with the nfl player who --

>> lawrence taylor. >> lawrence taylor. that trafficker received a substantial federal penalty. he was prosecuted in federal court. now, let's talk about that young girl. >> just to refresh people about lawrence taylor. he bought -- paid for. >> he went to a motel to have sex and turned out she was underage and he claims he didn't know which is what always happens. everybody says they don't know. >> that's correct. >> so what happens? >> so what happens there is two things. lawrence taylor was prosecuted. >> he got six years probation, though! it was nothing. >> he was not the trafficker in that particular case. and he received probation. the trafficker received federal time. and when we talk about the young girl, the media initially said, because that is what the prosecution had presented was that she was a prostitute. thereafter, she came forward and said i'm not a prostitute. i'm a victim. he drugged me, beat me, told me if i didn't go to this room he was going to kill me.

>> highway are cities across the country tackling this and how is law enforcement trying to put a dent into what is happening? >> mayor bloomberg has taken a very strong stance. ray kelly has really trained his enforcement people. they have retooled their trafficking task force, and what we have learned -- part of the reason for the psa is -- we need to get information. we need to know what is happening. if you're a victim, you need to tell somebody if you don't want to go to law enforcement initially. there are service providers, hospitals. one of the main people we are find whog is ing who is most en working are the hospitals, are doctors because they are seeing people come through the emergency room and we have asked the doctors, what do you see? what could you tell us? they said the teeth. if you have really bad teeth and you're in an unsanitary working situation, that's often a telltale sign. after a bit, they will confide

in the doctor and that is fabulous and important for us. they are now working with law enforcement and working with service providers and working with the city of new york. so we have created this sort of interdisciplinary across the board collaboration and what the public service announcement is all about. >> we're glad you joined us. we appreciate the effort because it's important. >> i want you to know you probably have saved many lives today and i want to thank you for doing that. >> thank you for being on with us. >> thank you. also this weekend, demi moore joins the 2010 cnn hero of the year to take you inside the fight to end this kind of modern day slavery. she will talk about nepal's stolen children that airs sunday night at 8:00 eastern on cnn. 50 minutes past the hour. we will be back. yet an instant classic." with sports car styling and power,

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we are following breaking news this morning. al qaeda jail break in yemen. reuters is reporting that dozens of militants escaped from prison after the compound was attacked. president obama speaks to the nation tonight about the future of afghanistan. a congressional source telling us he will announce plans to tell out 10,000 troops this year and another 20,000 by the end of 2012. south carolina lawmakers passing a new immigration bill that allows police to check immigration status and penalize

businesses knowingly hiring illegal immigrants. ryan dunn was traveling at 130 miles per hour when he crashed his porsche, killing himself and a passenger. police are waiting for toxicology reports to see if alcohol was involved in that crash. markets about to open in 35 minutes. right now the futures are all down slightly as investors wait for the federal reserve's decision on whether or not to raise interest rates. you're kaup caught up on today' headlines. we are back after a break.

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the disease and say the extra care they are getting from their husbands or wives may be the x-factor. >> i have a different theory. it's extremely treatable cancer if it's caught earlier. if you're bothering your husband going for yearly checkups, yearly, you know, colonoscopies, et cetera. >> that is true. when he is not making movies kevin kline is pushing for onel research for juvenile diabetes. it has affected his family. he has a child living with juvenl diabetes. >> earlier on "american morning" we asked him about parenting a child with type i. >> once you have a child diagnosed with a type of diabetes, you immediately stop being merely a parent. you become a parent, a doctor, a nurse, unless you want your child to live in the hospital. the families a take on a tremendous responsibility, depending on the age of the child, until they reach an age where they can manage it themselves. you have to count every

carbohydrate that they, you know, take in at a snack or a meal, you have to watch their activity because that affects your blood sugar. you have to give them injections. you have to prick their fingers ten times a day. >> later today he will testify at a senate hearing along with kids across the country with type i diabetes. >> they want to fast-track devices including artificial pancreas that is showing promise for these kids.

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