americans in its first year alone. shasta darlington, cnn, havanna. >> if you want to check out the runners up, we will have links at facebook.com/suzannecnn. the news room continues with randi kaye. >> thank you, and have a great day. two more events to go now in the president's three-day tour in the midwest. this is a live picture right now as we are waiting for the president to speak in atkinson, illinois. and then it's back to washington tonight and then off to martha's vineyard for vacation. and he is not only putting together a plan to grow jobs and the economy, but he is planning to announce it september 5th, the same week congress returns

from the summer break. president obama has actively been meeting with some to create a plan. the question is how specific will it be and will it help? white house officials tell us it's a work in progress, and will include tax cuts and infrastructure ideas that could create jobs, and measures that target unemployed, and struggling economic sectors. they say the president is working on a debt reduction proposal and will present the so-called super committee, and as you know it's the 12 lawmakers tasked with cutting trillions from the federal deficit. their plan is due at the end of november. and the president's debt plan will go beyond that $1.5 trillion. now republicans who have been calling on the president to come up with a plan of his own, and they are now responding.

>> we appreciate the fact that he is trying to devote some time to it, and not just on the bus tour, and not vacationing at martha's vineyard, but giving thought to the american people, and i thought that is what he would have done since day one. if i am president, from day one, i will try to get americans jobs again. >> joining us to talk about it is white house correspondent for the urban radio networks. what is your reaction to the president's plan to address the nation with his job creation plan? >> well, it's needed. the nation is in the grips of something we have never seen before. we are now in the time when this president and this congress must act before things get much worse. the president and the white house are saying that they are going to be aggressive in talking to congress after the speak, and working with congress, particularly with the

gop as they were into moving the tax cut issue forward, and the president feels this is something they were working on before and they should accept it when he goes to them to aggressively move forward with the initiatives and pass them. >> the president has started to speak, and let's listen what he has to say for a couple minutes. >> i want to acknowledge a few people who are with us today, wonderful, wonderful folks. first of all, our secretary of transportation, ray lahood is in the house. and our outstanding secretary of agriculture, tom billsak is here. and mayor gus junior is in the house.

and i told gus that i did not have any gray hair either when i took office. so i just want you to know what you have ahead in store for you, right here. everybody tells me he is doing a great job. i want to thank the waffles family for -- whiffles family, excuse me. i have not had lunch. i want to thank the whiffles family for having us here today, and give them a big round of applause. i want to thank lisa, of lisa's place. where is lisa? is that lisa? because secret service had to shut down the road and do all

this stuff, i know some of you guys have not been able to enjoy her outstanding food. so as a consequence, my staff has been, i think, trying to eat up as much as possible. my understanding is i have a pie coming? is that correct? what kind of pie? coconut cream and a cinnamon roll. i am very excited about that. coconut cream is one of my favorite pies. thank you. and congressman bobby schilling is here. now, it is absolutely terrific to be back home. i just want to, first of all, say to so many of you, i had a chance when i was still running for the united states senate, and a lot of people did not know

my name. this young lady, she still has like a picture from the -- i will sign it. of course i will. and so as we have been traveling through the back roads of iowa, and now illinois, it is such a reminder of why i decided to get involved in public service in the first place. you know, we have obviously been going through a tough time in the last two and a half years. we went through the worst recession since the great depression. we have saw 8 million jobs lost and 4 million before i took office and another 4 million in the first months of 2009. a lot of small businesses got hit. so you know, i think a lot of times there have been folks who said -- who wonder whether our

best days are still ahead of us or are they behind us? but i will tell you, when i travel through downstate illinois, and i travelled through iowa, and travelled through the midwest, i am absolutely confident about this country. and the reason is because of you. the reason is because of the american people. because as tough as a time that we have had, there is not a country on earth that would not readily change places with us right now. we still have the best workers in the world. we have got the best intrapreneurs in the world and the best scientists and the best universities. we have so much going for us. you see it in a company like this one, and i was talking to the whiffle brothers, and they

were telling me they are expanding and hiring new folks and going into new markets around this region. so we have got so much going for us. there is nothing wrong with our country right now. there is something wrong with our politics. there is something wrong with our politics. when you look at this debacle we had with the debt ceiling and raising it, what you realize is is that our politics engaging in partisan brinksmanship and potentially seeing the frs default in the of the united states of america, that that has no place in how we move forward together. when this country is operating

off of a common ground, nobody can stop us. but when we are divided, then we end up having a whole lot of self inflicted problems. the fact of the matter is the economy has gotten better than it was when i first took office. we have seen over the last 17 months 2 million -- over 2 million private sector jobs created. but everybody here knows we still have a long way to go. and it's urgent for us to make sure that we're joining together and not thinking about party first, and not thinking about elections first, but thinking about country first. that's the message that we need to send to washington. there are some things that we could be doing right now to put our neighbors and our friends, some family members back to work.

and over the last not just two days, but over the last several weeks i have been talking about some additional things we need to do. there is no reason why we should not extend a payroll tax cut that put $1,000 into the pockets of every single family out there. that means they have got more money to spend. that means businesses have more customers and the economy grows and more people get hired. we could renew it right now to give business the certainty they will have customers not just this year but next year as well. the only thing holding us back is our politics. it's traditionally a bipartisan deal, and no reason why we shouldn't pass it. no reason we should not put americans back to work all across the country rebuilding america. as i was driving in here -- [ applause ] >> as i was driving in here, i saw a new fire station is being

built. thanks to the recovery act. well, we need roads and bridges and schools all across the country that could be rebuilt. all of those folks that got laid off from construction because the economy went south or the housing bubbles bursts, they are dying for work. contractors are willing to come in under budget, and on time. and interest rates are low. we could finance right now the rebuilding of infrastructure all across america that drove not only unemployment in the construction industry down, but drove unemployment down across the board. traditionally that has not been a democratic or republican issue, that has been an american issue. we have taken pride in rebuilding america. the only thing that is holding us back right now is our politics.

we should be passing trade deals right now because, look, the koreans, they can sell kias and hyundais here in the united states, and that's great, and i want to sell fords, and chrysler and chevys in korea, and i want all products across the word stamped "made in america," and that's something we could be doing right now. there's a bill pending in congress right now that is called the american events bill. basically says intrapreneurs coming up with good ideas, and let's say if the whiffle brothers came up with a new strain and wanted to patten it in some way, it would make it easier for them so they could market it and make money off of it and hire people for it. we could do that right now and the only thing that is holding us back is our politics.

over the last six months, even though the economy has been growing, and even though the economy has been recovering, it has not recovered as fast as it could. some of those things are not in our control. we couldn't control the tsunami in japan that disrupted supply chains. we could not control what happened in the middle east that drove up gas prices. we don't have complete control over what happens in europe with their problems, and all of those things have affected our economy. there are so many things we have got control over right now that we could be doing to put people back to work. and, by the way, there's no reason to think that putting people back to work is somehow in conflict with us getting our fiscal house in order. you know, this downgrade that happened, they didn't downgrade us because america could not pay

its bills, they downgraded it because they felt our political system could not seem to make good decisions in order to deal with our budget the same way families deal with their budgets. and so the fact of the matter is, we came close to a grand bargain, which would have said we are going to cut spending we don't need in order to pay for the things we do. we will eliminate unnecessary programs so we can pay for student loans to go to the university of illinois, or the university of iowa. we know that we have got to invest in basic research. that's what part of made us the most agricultural powerhouse in the world. we don't want to cut back on agriculture research, but we have to get rid of other things. but what we also said, we have to do it in a balanced way. a couple days ago warren buffett

wrote an op ed piece, and he said it's time to stop coddling billionaires. he has a lower tax rate than the people in his office, including his secretary. that doesn't make any sense. you know, if everybody took an attitude of shared sacrifice that we're not going to put the burden on any single person, we could solve our deficit and debt problem next week. and it wouldn't require radical changes. but it does have to be balanced. i don't want a tax break as lucky as i have been, if that tax break means that a senior citizen will have to pay an extra $6,000 for their medicare. that's not fair. i think it makes sense before we

ask that student to pay a little more for their student loan, we should ask the oil and gas companies to get rid of some corporate tax loophole that they don't need because they are making record profits. >> and you are listening to president obama talking all kinds of things. still with us, white house correspondent for radio network, and we're joined by ari fleischer, and he was the secretary of the white house under president bush. we are talking about the plan to create jobs after labor day. i want to get your take on the latest announcement and the timing of it, ari? >> i think the president made a bad tactical move here. he would have been better served if he first came out of all the

new specifics of the plan and not wait until september and then took the tour to promote the plan across the country. it would have been a presidential trip and plan of accuracy into policy, and he is just another candidate, and i don't understand the white house's strategy, thinking, timing or tactics, as they have gone through this august. it just seems they are making a lot of mistakes. >> april, we have not heard a whole lot about the president's plan to improve the job and get people back to work. what do you think needs to happen? what does the president and congress need to do? >> that's it, randi. i love ari to death, and it has been eight years since we were on tv together, but you are totally wrong, and without the spin congress and the president need to work it out. that's the bottom line. this president has had a hard time with congress trying to get things passed. the bottom line is the american public, those who are without jobs and those who don't have enough money coming in, and

those who are under employed. that's the issue. it's not the politics or what is going on, it's about getting the job done, and that's what people are going to vote for in the polls. >> what needs to be in the jobs plan to get it through, ari? >> well, i am a skeptic on what president obama is left that he could announce that would make difference in the private sector employment. he has been in office for 31 months, and by my count, this will be his 10th major speech announcing jobs plans, so on average every three months the president is announcing a new major economics program. the reason is because nothing he announced before worked. we're caught in a business cycle where the likelihood is nothing will happen between now and the election that will turn the cycle around. whoever is in president in 2013, they will be the beneficiary of

the changing of the climate of the economic cycle. there's little the president can do other than make more government jobs and put people on the payroll, and that's what the stimulus tried to do and failed to do that. >> april, i see you shaking your head. >> i love ari to death, but he has a lot of spin. ari you are not directing the issue to congress. the gop has tax cuts. the president is talking about tax cuts. this is something the gop has been pushing. if this does not happen, and if congress does not push tax cuts, what is the problem? what is the problem? it's about coming together, and it's about everybody, all of these incumbents are faced with the realism of people not having jobs and they are seeing what is going on right now. >> ari, i want to give you the last word -- go ahead. >> congress does have the vital role to play, but it begins with the presidential leadership.

what the president needs to do is he should have done it in august and then taken the bus tour. will he raise the age on medicare and social security higher than 67? we need to hear the specifics from the president. presidential leadership is what drives congress to action. of course in the united states senate, they have not passed a budget for the last two years in a row, which is a big part of the problem in washington. >> we could continue to talk about this for hours, and unf unfortunately we don't have the time. thank you both. we appreciate it. it could be the biggest scandal in the history of college sports. players getting gifts of cash, prostitutes, cars, and that's not even the worst of it. you have to hear this report right after the short break. ne y on the red hills of georgia,

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former booster, nevin shapiro spilled the goods that he gave gifts to the 72 players and recruits. the gifts are shocking. hundreds and thousands in cash, and prostitutes and cars and paid trips and jewelry. shapiro also says he offered bounties for injuring opposing players. and he says in one case he paid for an abortion for a woman that he claims a miami hurricane player got her pregnant. charles robinson spent 11 months investigating the allegations, and he audited business records to examine the claims. here is what you should know about nevin shapiro. he was convicted for a role in a ponzi scheme. he first made his allegations about a year ago.

among other things, he says six miami coaches were aware of his activities. he said that he did it because, quote, nobody stepped in to stop me. we reached out to miami for reaction, and here is what they told us. the university of miami takes any allegations seriously, and we will continue to cooperate fully in a joint investigation with the ncaa. the miami hurricanes coach said they are disappointed, but see the scandal as a life lesson. >> how do you do this? by getting to the facts and the truth. how did this guy, if he did, how did he get around our players like that? i know, me as a head coach, i want to know, and i know our assistant coaches want to know and we want to make sure it never happens again, it should not the happen. >> we just received a statement, and i am quoting, if the

ashursons are true the alleged conduct at the university of miami is an illustration of the need for change in college sports. this perfect tans to the involvement of booster and agents to student athletes. while many are hearing about the case for the first time, the ncaa has been investigating the matter for five months. next hour we will dig deeper. you want to tune in for my interview with the sports writer about his interview and the impact this could have on the university of miami and college sports in general. here is a question for how many kids live in homes right here in america, where one parent is unemployed? we'll let you know. ♪

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and welcome back. we hear a lot about jobless rates and debt ceilings and the ups and downs of wall street. but today we're talking children and how the economy is impacting them. details on how many american children are living in homes with unemployed parents. poppy harlow joins us in new york live. what stands out to you in the findings? >> it's a troubling number not only in the amount, but the increase. the study that came out this week shows us from the 2010 data 7.8 million children in this country live in a home with at least one fully unemployed parent. that's doubled where it was three years before in 2007. what is also troubling, this study outlines, is african-american kids were nearly twice as likely as white children to have at least one unemployed parent. there's a lot of racial

disparity here. under employment, people not making enough to support their family, that's arguably an even bigger problem. take a look state by state. the most recent data is the 2009 numbers. here is what it shows us. we will pull up a map. if you look at the state of mississippi, 39% of households there are households where no parent has a full time job. kentucky is next on the list at 38%. michigan, alaska, and tennessee. all of these states, randi, are above 30% of households where no parent has a full time job. that is a big, big increase from what we saw the previous year in 2008. so the situation is getting worse. when you look at the state in the best position in terms of parents being fully employed, and that's in north dakota. there are so many oil and gas jobs in north dakota.

when you look at income levels. 42% or 31 million americans lived in low-income cfamilies i 2009, and that's an increase from 2007. what stood out about the study, randi, 31 million kids live in low income families, and also 5.3 million kids were affected by foreclosures since 2007. that means their home entered the foreclosure process. what this is showing us is the trickle down affect of the recession and the jobs crisis that the president just addressed and what that is doing to kids in america. when you look at it from that point it's obviously very troubling. >> yeah, not just those unemployed but families and children behind it as well. that's disturbing information. poply harlow in new york, thank you. a world class restaurant and youth looking for direction. see how they both come together next. first, the results are in, we have the money magazine list

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working for one of the top chefs in new orleans. his murder made sister mary lou want to walk away. >> the last thing i said is marvin, i love you, and i hear this in my head every day, and he said i love you, too, sister. >> reporter: she sees inspiration in every face, because of young people like davis, a kid with so much talent and the biggest smile around, looking for a place to blausam. he is 22 years old, and taught himself to play the piano. >> i feel every key that i play is real emotion. >> his family left new orleans when he was in high school, and he stayed behind and started drifting. davis said he wasted countless days smoking waed and no place to call home, he lived out of a car, and no future for a father

of two children. he turned to cafe reconcile, but the first time he fail add drug test and got kicked out. >> what did you think of yourself? >> i felt like a failure. >> reporter: you would never guess, but his smile hides the reality of this life. this is a young man that has almost nothing. >> this is the living room. and this is my bedroom. it's either this or homeless. so it's a roof, and i am grateful for a roof. >> the people most vulnerable, the poorest get judged the harshest, because i think people don't want to see the poor. >> reporter: thanks to cafe reconcile, you can now see davis working in a fancy new orleans restaurant, and he has even bigger dreams. >> i have a strong belief that i

will be successful, and nothing this time will stop me. nothing. >> really took a while to just set in the fact that the young man had taught himself to play the piano. you can hear how well he played. it's a 12-week program at cafe reconcile, and they move in and seems like they are there for a little while, and this is a program much of new orleans has adopted. we went into the lowe's hotel and restaurant, and er where we turned, the manager showed us a graduate from cafe reconcile. >> what is the future of the program there at the cafe itself? >> well, they are looking to expand. they are in the middle of a $10 million capital campaign. they raised about half of the $10 million. they can help 60 kids at a time,

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four top british police officers are off the hook in the investigation sir rounding the tabloid phone hacking scandal in the uk. an independent panel said there was no wrong doing on the head of the metropolitan police and three others. but there is word that the british parliament may recall james murdoch to answer questions about the case. dan rivers is following the developments in london. i understand murdoch's testimony is being challenged by two executives of the now defunct "news of the world." what is the news there? >> yeah, and it's the lawyer and former editor of "news of the

world," and both taking issue of a rather sort of technical part of the evidence that james murdoch gave. basically, james murdoch told that commission said he was unaware of a smoking gun e-mail that contained the transcripts of 35 hacked conversations that was destined for one of his chief reporters. he was unaware of the e-mail when he settled a huge amount of money, almost $6 million to somebody suing the company over phone hacking, and they are saying, hang on a minute, he knew full well about the e-mail. that's critically embarrassing for him and may mean that he is recalled. also, his own former legal firm, the firm that acted for his company, are also describing murdoch's evidence as hard to credit, and self-serving and inaccurate and misleading. that's the firm that he used to employ to represent the company. it's damming stuff.

it may mean that politicians want to have him back in the room to ask him more questions. >> are they saying, dan, are they using the word "lie," and saying he "lied" to the british parliament when he testified? >> no, they are saying they want to get him back to clarify issues. they have not formally made that decision, and they will have to get together and vote on it. if he does come back, it will be in october or so. they are taking this and want to get the facts straight before they make accusations. they are saying they want to get tom crone and the former editor back as well to clarify what they said, and everybody looks like they will be called back to explain themselves again. >> could he face prosecution? >> well, potentially he could. the committee itself has no powers to put him behind bars in practice. they could hold him in contempt

of parliament, which would be a big humiliation, but not result in criminal action. and there's a crime of prevurting the courts of justice, and that's interfering with the investigation, and if they feel he is holding the facts back and burying the e-mail to try and stop it from coming up, then yes, he could. >> dan rivers, thank you for the update. and up next, changing the face of fashion by taking it off the runway and putting it at your fingertips. the possibilities are dless. inin.. to tuesday and wednesday only. hotels.combe smart. book smart.

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>> excellent. fine choice, i must say. >> let's get to the important stuff. what inspired you, david, to go the on-line route. >> ralph lauren has been a lifestyle brand for years. you have seen our brand come alive in magazines and in stores. but taking it to the internet was a way to express ourselves in a much more cinematic way. it's been the ultimate expression for me and for so many people in our company to talk a new way of shopping and a whole generation of people who want to understand our brand in new ways. >> tyler, this has been pretty successful. do you see other companies, brands following suit here? >> this is uncharted territory. you have a lot of people selling discount things and low budget things. but the fashion industry is a little bit risk averse when it comes to technology. they're big into taking risks with art and avant-garde culture. when it comes to doing technology and going on-line,

it's new ground. brands may be like a -- somebody might do something like this. not to the degree ralph lauren has done it and not as early. >> david, if you were to really understand, we're not talking about going on to a website and buying ralph lauren items and products. we're talking about something completely different here. so if you could, just talk about -- tell us some of your creations and how they differ from just on-line shopping. >> what we have done is created the ralph lauren experience on-line. so it's unlike anything any other brand has done. we've created something called the first ever 4 d experience, which is a four-story tall interactive experience for literally models walking down madison avenue and bottles were spinning over your head and spraying real fragrance. no one had ever seen basically avatar come to life beyond a movie screen. we took an entire block in new york and brought it to life.

>> go on. >> we've created on-line fashion shows that were shopable before anyone did that. we created something called the children's storybook, which is a virtual storybook that parents can shop with their children and literally roll over a video watching these children on an adventure and the shop the clothes that they're wearing. it's immersive and interactive, but it's also fun and takes shopping to a new level, which is cinematic and modern. >> you really take window shopping to a new level. i love the idea that you can shop after hours at the store window. >> yes. we created something called the first-ever 24-hour shopping experience, which is a touch screen window where you can walk down the street with your dog at night, tap on the glass and shopping you see in the window of the store and buy it. you can also read articles, you can get tennis tips and shop the tennis clothing. there's a real immersive

experience with ralph lauren. >> tyler, why does this work? why would someone take advantage of this? >> that's the thing. anybody can. that's what makes us so interested in this story at fast company was we saw someone doing something in a space where this sort of thing, it hasn't really been done, not only in fashion, in this particular industry, but with this brand. i mean, this is a brand that relies a lot on legacy and a lot of tradition and a lot that's gone on in the past in embracing those values for the future. but this is an entirely new direction. it's steering an aircraft carrier, essentially. that's what they've done by moving this stuff on-line, so anything with an ipad or phone or walking by a window at midnight can access. >> that walking by the window at midnight, that scares me just a little bit. i'll be too tempted. thank you both. it's fascinating. david, we wish you the best of luck it. david lauren, tyler gray, appreciate it. >> thank you. >> thanks. for more about the digital content, check out my facebook

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dr. sanjay gupta tells us more on what's being called the canary in a coal mine. >> randi, the answer will be surprising to a lot of people. it's something that men aren't often comfortable talking about. but with regard to trying to predict a problem with heart disease, possibly having a heart attack later on down the line, erectile dysfunction can be an early warning sign. about 30 million men have some form of erectile dysfunction and it's often something that's treated in isolation. but if a doctor is inquisitive or treats the patient as a whole, the whole body, they may find there's problems heart disease. take a listen to how dr. terry mason, who is a urologist at cook county hospital puts it. >> i would say that erectile dysfunction is the canary in the coal mine. when men begin to have erectile dysfunction, it's a sign that there's more widespread disease and not just for the heart, but throughout all the blood vessels in the body.

>> randi, keep in mind that blood vessels in the body are potentially subject to disease. you want to look for early clues, atherosclerosis or hardening of the arteries. if you want to find, sort of get an early clue that heart disease may be developing, you can look in other places in the pod i. i will tell you that men under the age of 50 in particular, if they have erectile dysfunction, that's going to be more of a warning sign for example than as men get older. you diminish the correlation as men get older. a man under the age of 50 having this problem, if they go to get treated, they should probably ask about heart disease as well. one thing as well i want to point out is there's lots of different medications out there. but some of the medications when they're initially developed were developed to try and combat heart disease as opposed to erectile dysfunction. there's been a correlation there for a very long time. again, we're working on this documentary, the last heart attack, and part of getting to that point in this country is trying to figure out who is most at risk in reventing the --

preventing the disease from developing. as you can see behind me, i'm in havana, cuba. i have never been here before. very excited to be here. we're working on a special about diana nyad. she's a long distance swimmer who wanted to swim from here all the way to the florida keys to do something no human being has done. the way she wanted to do it. a remarkable story. we're looking closely at cuban healthcare system. they have one of the highest life expectancies, one of the lowest infant more talts and they spend a fraction of what we do in the united states. is it available to everyone? these are questions we're trying to answer. >> thank you, sanjay. tune in to cnn this weekend, dr. sanjay reports, the last heart attack, this sunday night at 8:00 eastern. sanjay talks to doctors on the cutting-edge of heart disease -- one man developed a radical diet

he says can make anyone heart attack-proof in a single month. this story i am about to share with you could turn out to be the biggest scandal in the history of college sports. it's unfolding right now with the university of miami. sure, of course, the world is no stranger to sports scandals. hour house programs like ohio state, southern cal, auburn. some of the most recent to receive black eyes for various rules violations or other investigations. this latest investigation by one journalist is filled with extraordinary allegations. yahoo sports reports that miami hurricane coaches and players broke ncaa rules for eight years between 2002 and 2010. during 100 hours of interviews with investigative journalist charles robinson. former booster, nef inshapiro spilled the goods. he told robinson that he gave lavish gifts to 72 current and former hurricane players and recruits. the alleged gifts are shocking.

hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, prostitutes. cars, rides on his yacht, paid trips and even jewelry. shapiro tells yahoo sports that he offered bount is for injuring opposing players. it gets worse. shapiro, the booster, says in one case he paid for an abortion for a woman who claims a miami hurricane player got her pregnant. charles robinson spent 11 months investigating shapiro's allegations and audited thousands of pages of financial and business records to examine his claims. here is what you should know about nefin shapiro. he was convicted in a $900 million ponzi scheme and sentenced to prison in june. he first made allegations about a year ago. among other things, he says six miami coaches were aware of his activities. and he said that he did it because "nobody stepped in to stop me." we reached out to miami for reaction and here is what they

told us. "the university of miami takes any allegations seriously and we will continue to cooperate fully in a joint investigation with the ncaa. the miami hurricanes new football coach, al golden hired last december says he and his team are disappointed in the allegations but see the scandal as a life lesson." >> we have to make sure we prevent that from going forward. how do you do that? you get to the facts, by getting to the truth. how did this guy, if he did, how did he get around our players like that? i know, me as a head coach, i want to know. i know the assistant coaches want to know. we want to make sure it never happens again. it shouldn't happen. >> a short while ago, we received a statement from the president of the ncaa, mark 'em ert. it says "if the assertions are true, the alleged conduct at the university of miami is an illustration of the need for serious and fundamental change in many critical aspects of college sports. this pertains especially to the

involvement of boosters and agents with student athletes. while many are hearing about this case for the first time, the ncaa has been investigating the matter for five months." he also says, "the serious threats to the integrity of college sports are one of the key reasons why i called more than 50 presidents and chance lors last week to drive substantive changes to division one intercollegiate athletics." maria elena perez joins us on the phone along with the investigative reporter, charles robinson who broke the story. charles, let me start with you. you had spent quite a bit of time with shapiro. why due think he's -- do you think he's speaking out now? >> my impression of him is, despite the fact he's obviously had a profile legal -- high-profile legal situation, sentenced to 20 years in prison for a ponzi case.

he is a credible individual because he has documentation to back up some of his actions in the miami program. so just from that standpoint, i do find him to be credible. as far as why he's coming out now, i think it's a number of issues. early on in the process, he could only talk to the federal government. he had to deal with his case. had to prepare for his sentencing. and then i also think, come december, shapiro felt compelled to be truthful and honest about some things that had happened, partially because he felt left out in the cold but some of the athletes he took care of, but also, i think, because he simply felt, look, it's time for people to know the truth. >> i mean, my question is, who dropped the ball here? we're talking about eight years. how could this have gone unnoticed? did you get any ing ling how this happened? >> up for debate. miami is not really saying how it could go unnoticed. there were moments in time and shapiro is first to point those out, the moments in time when

this should have been noticed and one of those the head of compliance at miami. someone who is supposed to run things there and make sure everything is above board, shapiro attempted to fight him in the press box in the full view of multiple individuals and then after that occurred, you know, nevin, it was public display, he was allowed to continue unabated for two more years after this incident took place. there have been multiple incidents where shapiro thought the university could have been on to some of the things he was doing with athletes. for whatever reason, and i think he believes it was financial, they never felt compelled to step in and stop him. >> charles stay with us. i want to bring in maria perez. you are nevin shapiro's attorney. is there anything he hopes to gain by coming out with the allegations? >> yes. i do represent mr. shapiro. i would like to extend my hellos to charles robinson who i love dearly and is an amazing writer

and has done an incredible job, better than anyone who came my way. that's why we gave him the story. he's spent 11 months of just going over every paper, every inch, every phone record to make sure that everything that went on paper was credible. back to your question is what do i think he hopes to gain out of this? i think primarily he did not seek to gain anything out of this. i think when nevin was approached in april 2010 bit state's attorney's office in new jersey, they asked him to cooperate and come clean about what he did in his case and other things he had done with his money. which was investor money. that's when all of these matters regarding his relationship with the university of miami and his financial relationship with the players came to be. it was basically he was put in a situation where he was not going to lie or embellish or

misrepresent what had happened. so clearly, the federal government obviously dealt with what they were most concerned with and the issue with the university of miami took second place. but then it came the issue for the bankruptcy trustees, because they are the one that is were responsible for collecting all of the investor funds and then when the bankruptcy trustees' investigation opened up, they're the ones had to approach the university and ask them to refund the money that had been given to them. what nevin hoped to gain is number one, to be truthful with the government so that he could get accepted some responsibility for coming forward and accepting his actions and doing his time and the second thing he hoped to obtain from this is honestly, just to come clean and to have legislation come out of this. to have -- >> right. >> in some way be prevent it from happening in the future. >> just a -- how serious is

this. what type of steps might the ncaa take to punish the university? >> caller: a lot of that will depend on the ncaa's investigation, which frankly the ncaa is notorious for lacking transparency in their investigation, but it's a very fragile time right now. i think in college football. mark 'em ert, the president of the ncaa has come out and said we take these matters very seriously. it's very important to us. right now the ncaa when you lay out all of the allegations, when you lay out all the individuals involved and the fact that many of them have spread out across the country, you're looking at ncaa investigation that will probably be one of the most expensive in the history of that association as far as the sanctions, you know, we won't know until the end. but i think the allegations that are laid out are probably as serious as anything we've seen and i think you probably have to go back 25 years to southern methodist university when that

school received the death penalty for some sort of similar violation. >> based on your investigation, we're talking about players, coaches. the allegations are really something. something that we've seen before. is there a chance, do you think from what you know in all your time that you've spent investigationing this, that this program at miami could be shut down. >> i don't think the ncaa -- i don't think it wants to invoke the death penalty again. twh it used the death penalty on smu, it really damaged the city of dallas, it damaged an institution. it destroyed a very powerful conference and for decades, you know, that region of the country felt ramifications of what happened to smu. i don't think that's something the ncaa -- it doesn't take it lightly. it's only been used once and seeing the fallout of that makes me believe that even with what shapiro is alleging and what can be proven, it's hard to believe the ncaa really wants to step

out and possibly entertain giving the death penalty to another football program. >> and maria, back to you now. if nevin shapiro is shuch a huge fan of the hurricanes and loves the team so much, does he realize the damage that these allegations could do? >> i believe that he does realize this. and it's my understanding that nevin does not want the school to get the death pen amount. based on what my understanding of the what the ncaa intended was not to so much give the school the death penalty but basically to give everyone an opportunity to come forward, admit their wrongdoing, be sanctioned and then fix it and correct it so that it never happens again. that's what, i believe, the ncaa wants to do and i know that's what my client wants. my client doesn't want the school shut down. my client wants there to be some sort of legislation or rules in place so that boosters like him cannot do this again.

to protect the integrity of the school. of the schools and of college sports, period. and i would ask the university at this time, at my request to them and to the players, is to remember the children and the youth that look up to them and to think of them when they're approached and when they're asked to be truthful and to be forthcoming and to set an example so that the children can see that people make mistakes, but if you're truthful and you're honest, they should set an example and not just be in this situation of denial which is the position that the university of miami is taking since they first learned this back probably 11 months ago when they first heard that mr. shapiro was going to write a book. they reached out to me and wanted to know what was going on. they did not make any real efforts to find out what was going on or investigate this. >> charles, i want to ask you. did you get any response from

shapiro about why he continued to do this? this went on for eight years. you look at what he says he did. why did he do it? >> well, you know, frankly, i think he was a little bit cavalier during this time in his life. he said i did it because i could and because no one stepped up to stop me. you have to understand, he's a mixed bag as a human being. there's a lot of different parts of him. it's good and bad. you hear a lot of different opinions about him. slices of all those opinions, you can probably find parts of his life that fit those opinions. i think he loved that program. i think he really, i believe he real di love a lot of those players that he dealt with. i think that he did it because he felt like it was something that, you know, would not be stopped, it would not be discovered and frankly, i don't think he saw the harm in it, showing guys a good time and doling out benefits that he thought they deserved anyway because they're producing

millions of dollars playing football for the university of miami. >> one of the incidences he told you about where he paid for an abortion for one of the women who says one of the hurricane players had gotten her pregnant. did he really think that was okay? >> well, you know, that's really one of the more outlandish instances of nevin taking care of something for a player. in his mind, he thinks that was the right thing to do. you know, that's between nevin. that's between the young woman who was involved. really, the player who was involved. >> i don't want -- i don't want you to name any names. but i know you have spoken to some of the players and they've corroborated this. they say, at least one of them said yes, indeed this did go on? >> we've talked to multiple players who have told us, yeah, shapiro, multiple different things, we talked about prostitution, money, a lot of the different benefits that shapiro provided many players who took those benefits admitted

to us, they didn't want their name attached to it, but said yeah, he's telling the truth. these things did happen. >> well, it's an incredible investigation. we're curious to see where it goes. fantastic reporting charles robinson, well done and maria perez, thank you as well for your time. an attack scheduled to take place on the event. hopolice put the brake on a plan to kill dozens of student and faculty. we'll have the details next. the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit down together at the table of brotherhood. i have a dream today! [ male announcer ] chevrolet is honored to celebrate the unveiling of the washington, d.c., martin luther king jr. memorial. take your seat at the table on august 28th. energy is being produced to power our lives.

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police found explosive materials and a written minute by minute plan of attack to kill 30 students and administrators. what is the latest? this is so disturbing. everyone associated with this school thinking about what could have been and thinking how lucky they are that someone, some unknown person right now came forward and talked to the police and told them what this kid was thinking. had they went to his house to the 17-year-old's house, what they found was bomb making materials. they said fuel, timers, shrapnel. they found a manifesto where he laid out in detail hour by hour how he was going to go to his old high school and he was going to carry out this attack starting at 5:00 in the morning randi. what he was doing is he was laying out who he was going to attack. he was targeting two particular administrators at the school and police say that when they went and searched, they didn't find any firearms at his room when

they went to search. but they are saying that there was a lot of potential here for a lot of harm to be done. listen. >> it had specific targets, who were two individuals at the -- in the administration of freedom high school. those individuals are aware that they were listed as targets. and then also his intent to take the lives of approximately 30 students at freedom high school o on that morning. and it goes minute by minute what he intended to do, starting at 5:00 a.m. in the morning and then going through the day where he intended to put these destructive devices and particular layouts of the school drawn, that type of information. >> one of the big sources of relief here, the police say they believe there's no reason to believe, they say, that anybody else was involved. it was just this one 17-year-old. >> you hear about what they gathered and the fact that he had a minute by minute plan and

a layout of the school. did they find anything about a motive, why he wanted to do this? >> no. but they do know that he's had trouble with the law for quite some time. he was very familiar to police as a juvenile offender. we saw his record. grand theft auto, grand theft firearm. in fact, he was expelled from school last march. this was about the same time that police arrested him for carrying a concealed weapon that he had stolen. this was all as a juvenile. so when they found out, they got the tip that some student was planning something, they went to the school administrator and said it could be this guy. they immediately were able to put a name. they went straight to his apartment and that's how they found out. >> that is amazing. if he hadn't had a history and they weren't a little suspicious of him, how would they have known among the students who it might have been. >> that's right. you look at his facebook page now. that's very interesting as well. he comes across as a real stoner. you look at the comments, posts he's had just in the last three

days. he said i love me some weed. like i don't think it's possible for me to be higher. but i'm not going to stop trying. shortly after midnight on monday, it changed a little bit. he said my life stays on repeat. it's getting old. then on tuesday morning, randi, this was the one i found really strange. he -- this was posted just hours before the police came knocking on his door. he said, i just did the dumbest thing ever. he could have been talking about this. we're not sure. but it was quite a coincidence that he just put that right before police were showing up at his door. >> sounds like he was getting dark as we've seen br. david mattingly. appreciate the update. president obama will deliver a major speech on jobs. we'll tell you when and what he plans to include, next. [ male announcer ] for sore muscles use new bengay cold therapy.

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president obama has just wrapped up a town hall meeting in atkinson, illinois. that means just one more event on his three-day midwest bus tour, then back to washington tonight and martha's vineyard for vacation tomorrow. meanwhile, we've just learned that the president is not only putting together a specific plan to create jobs and grow the economy but he plans to announce it in an address to the nation right after labor day, september 5th. that happens to be the same week that congress returns from its summer break. president obama has been actively consulting with experts in the field of job creation, including company ceos to come up with this plan. the question is how specific will it be and will it help? white house officials tell us it is still a work in progress but will likely include infrastructure ideas, tax cuts, measures that target the long-term employed, as well as measures that target specific struggling economic sectors.

they also say the president is working on a debt reduction proposal. he'll present the so-called super committee. as you know, that is the group of 12 lawmakers tasked with cutting at least $1.5 trillion from the federal deficit. the plan is due at the end of november. according to the white house, the president's debt plan will go beyond that $1.5 trillion. republicans who have been calling on the president throughout the debt crisis to come up with a plan of his own are responding. here's mitt romney on the campaign trail just a short time ago. >> we appreciate the fact that he's trying to devote some time to it, not just on the bus tour or vacationing in martha's vineyard. i would have thought he would do that from day one. if i'm the next president from day one in my term, i'll be working to get americans jobs again. >> of course the president argues he inherited an economic mess bigger than anyone expected. take a listen to what he told wolf blitzer last night. >> when you took office, i'm sure you remember, you said if i

don't have this done in three years, there's going to be a one-term proposition. meaning you'll be a one-term president. you remember that? >> well, here's what i remember. is that when i came into office, i knew i was going to have a big mess to clean up. and frankly, the mess has been bigger than i think a lot of people anticipated at the time. we have made steady progress on these fronts but we're not making progress fast enough and what i continue to believe is that ultimately the buck stops with me. i'm going to be accountable. i think people understand that a lot of these problems were decades in the making. people understand that this financial crisis was the worst since the great depression. ultimately, they say, look, he's the president. we think he has good intentions. but we're impatient and we want to see things move faster. >> and if you want to watch more of wolf blitzer's interview with the president, you can check out his blog, cnn.com/wolf. meanwhile, we're still digging on the beating death of a homeless man in fullerton,

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there is a lot we want to update you on in the case of a homeless man in fullerton, california, who police are accused of brutally beating to death. let's first start with what happened last night at the city council meeting. at certain points, it looked more like an uprising or revolt.

council hired michael gennaco who we spoke with on monday. gennaco will be pald $80,000 to review police department policies and dig into the beating death of kelly thomas. the vote to approve him was delayed because of anger and outrage over what the community calls failed leadership. listen. >> mr. mayor, i came here tonight to offer you an olive branch. but the first thing you do is open your mouth and i want to grab a baseball bat instead. i swear to god. [ cheering ] >> why are you still here? we don't want you here. you need to get out of the city, man. >> six guys killed that boy. six. >> we're told thomas' father, ron thomas, who you saw there, met with the mayor this morning. but i want to replay that last part for you again. >> you can see the crowd got so heated at times, the mayor and

city council members walked out of the room. there they go. that gives you an idea of the mood in fullerton right now. all you have to do is see the pictures of the victim in this case. kelly thomas, who was homeless and schizophrenic, to understand why. i have to warn you the photo we're about to show you it very graphic. to be honest, it's hard to look at. but i think it's important to show it to you. important that you see it. this is what kelly thomas looked like before and after the alleged beating by six fullerton police officers. can you even recognize him? on july 5th. fullerton police responded to reports of a man trying to break into cars near a bus station. witnesses say what began with a search of thomas' backpack ended with this. tasered multiple times, hogtied face down. smashed against concrete. kelly thomas' head slammed with a flashlight. thomas died from his injuries five days later. the police chief, michael sellers, took paid medical leave last week as he calls for his

resignation intensified. the six officers allegedly involved in the beating have been placed on paid administrative leave as well. listen to this. those officers wrote their reports after their supervisors allowed them to watch a videotape of thomas' beating. the interim acting police chief, kevin hamilton has said the officers were only following standard procedure. the attorney representing kelly thomas' family says he's in the initial stages of preparing to file a state, maybe even a federal complaint in the thomas case which could take place by the end of september. but their lawyer, garo mad rose san. he is now representing another alleged victim, a man who claims one of the police officers involved in the beating of kelly thomas, viciously attacked him too in an earlier incident last year. watch what he recorded on his cell phone. >> hey, you guys -- >> yeah, man look at.

>> his attorney says he was recording a friend being arrested on his iphone when an officer tried to take his cell phone away. someone standing nearby apparently picked up the phone and continued to record as officers wrestled the man to the ground and charged him with crimes he insists he never committed. the attorney representing thomas and ma'am says he expects to file a federal complaint in the other case by the end of the week. he told me yesterday, thomas' beating and death could have been prevented if one of the officers in the previous attack had been held accountable. >> and had the police department and the d.a. taken note and brought mr. [ bleep ] to the foreground and questioned him about the falsifying reports and bringing false charges against the man, he would not have been there that night beating kelly thomas. >> in the meantime, fullerton police are launching their own investigation in the case.

they issued this statement saying "based on the information brought to our attention over the last week, acting chief hamilton is very concerned and ordered an internal affairs investigation into the matter to determine what happened that evening in october 2010 and the court case this year. there is a strong possibility they say that we arrested the wrong person that night." in the federal lawsuit to be filed later this week, conspiracy o to violate the civil rights of a citizen and police brutality. the attorney for vet mam and kelly thomas' family is prepared to file charges at a later time. meanwhile the fbi is looking into whether the officers violated kelly thomas' civil rights. the pope is heading to spain and we will go live to madrid to find out exactly why. that's next. we'll always cook dinner,

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madrid tomorrow for world youth day. more than a million people are expected for the largest gathering of young people. protestors are already lining up. many opposed to the estimated $72 million being spent to stage the visit. al goodman is live in madrid where preparations are under way. al, i understand there has already been an arrest. >> reporter: that's right, randi. there's a mexican national. 24-year-old man studying chemistry here in madrid. he was detained on a charge of terrorism. potential terrorism. he was planning, authorities say, to attack with noxious gases a protest march this evening that was going against the visit of the pope.

he wasn't going after the pope. he was going after protestors protesting the pope's visit. he's now in custody and that march is going on at this time. also, it ourns out that he was a volunteer for the organizing committee. the committee told cnn he had gone through the volunteer procedure and he was arrested on tuesday when he went to pick up his backpack and his green volunteer shirt by plainclothesed detectives. randi? >> you mentioned the protestors. what about security there? how prepared are they? >> reporter: well, there are 10,000 police officers on duty. some of what the protest has to say is that they fear the government money is being spent on this. the organizers say no, there's no money to the taxpayer. 10,000 police officers, spain has a lot of experience in organizing big events. the olympics and international summits, so they think authorities say it's going to go off all right. at this hour, that protest against the pope's visit is going, we're told peacefully. we were there a short while ago.

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we talk about it often. when a celebrity goes to rehab, when a lawmaker is embroiled in a sex scandal. the conversation always seems to turn to addiction. but today, we've got a whole new definition for the next time we use the term. according to the american society of addiction medicine, addiction is actually a disease. a chronic brain disease to be exact. like diabetes or cardiovascular

disease and needs to be treated over a lifetime. one of the authors of the study that led to this redefinition joins me now to tell us much more about it. so does jane velez mitchell and author of addict nation, an intervention for america. doctor, i want to ask you, how did you come up with this redefinition of addiction now being considered a disease? >> well, it's a definition that we've been working on. it's been a case in pro dpres for many, many years in the society of addiction medicine. we started the process back in the mid 90s actually and agreed on a definition in 1999. i've also been involved with the american society of addiction medicine and we've been talking about the canadian definition, which was then adopted by the international society in 2002 and to see how things could be brought forward in the u.s. and

it's taken about four years. it was at our annual meeting in 2007 that the leadership of the american society of addiction medicine put a group together called the definitions and diagnosis and terminology action group, dd tag for short. through that process, we consulted with the committee members and the board in all about 80 colleagues who put our heads together and then consulted widely with various different organizations. many people at the organizations. we reviewed all the neuro biological advances and in the neurosciences and specifically, so much of the neurosciences research as sponsored by niaaa. agencies like that and people at those agencies have really provided us with invaluable input which -- >> let me just interrupt you. i'm sorry. i want to bring in jane vele next mitchell. you're no stranger to addiction. i want to get your take on this

new definition. >> yes. i speak as a recovering alcoholic with 16 years of sobriety. what they're saying in people terms is addiction changes the rewards circuitry in your brain. it's a disease. so what they're saying is, you're not a bad person if you're an addict. you're not an evil person. we should stop pointing the finger and realize this is a disease like a cardiovascular disease. but it doesn't let the addict off the hook. because you can prevent getting a disease and you can also treat a disease. and so we still have a moral obl dpags to deal with our addiction. i will say, respectfully, doctor, i think this is a great advance. it's only a piece of the puzzle. they say it's cunning, baffling and powerful. i do feel it is. yes, it does affect the reward circuitry of the brain but it's not just a medical condition. there's a genetic predisposition, for example i believe i had a genetic predisposition towards alcoholism. it runs in my family. environmentally, if you see

people engaged in the addiction, you're more likely to do that. cultur culturally. we have an addictive culture here and in america and the western world encouraging everybody to become addicted to a slew of things from alcohol to prescription pills to food, especially with two thirds of americans overweight or obese and then the two other components, the emotional component. people use drugs or use a substance to escape. and they also use it to fill a spiritual void. >> doctor, would you like to respond to that? what should we take away from this? >> absolutely. actually, i couldn't have said it better, jane. if you have a chance to read the definition, we actually broadened the medical perspective. that is what my aim has been over my career, to help people understand that specifically with addiction, the disease manifests in the biological area, psychological, soesh and spiritual. we've actually come up with guidelines as part of the definitions as to what areas

people need to pay attention to. because the disease affects all these different areas and treatment has to be more broadened. >> i was going to ask you about that. jane, having been treated for it, how do you think treatment should change or will change from here on in with the new definition? >> my recovery did not involve going to rehab and as you know, recovery is an anonymous program in the sense. i don't really want to delve into that too much except that i feel that this is a very good step in the right direction. look how many people we're incarcerating in this country who are basically addicts who need treatment. we could change our entire prison industrial complex in america, which has become a huge business, billions made on the telephone calls. if we started to retool our bureaucracies toward treatment as opposed to punishment.

because, again, if it's not something that you're really in control of and it's not a question of willpower, then why punish somebody for it? why not give them help. >> it changes the conversation about addiction. >> absolutely. we have to stop moralizing. that has been the problem. in addition to what jane has said, if you look at our definition, we've gone beyond the reward circuitry. we have solid neurosciences research that says memory circuitry is involved, motivation circuitry is involved and we know, as the disease progresses, people have more and more impaired control over their thoughts, feelings and behaviors. so all these be it bad behaviors that people want people to stop are actually very driven from the inside biologically, psychologically, socially and spiritually. >> doctor, appreciate your expertise and jane thank you for your openness in the discussion. appreciate that. governor christy is reportedly feeling the heat and

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one at a high tech firm here in nashua, new hampshire. he met with business leaders. earlier in the day at a breakfast, he refused to stand down on his comments about ben bernanke. in fact, he said that yesterday that president obama basically lectured him for making those comments, those critical comments to bernanke. let's listen to what the texas governor had to say. >> yesterday the president said i needed to watch what i say. i just want to respond back, if i may. mr. president, actions speak louder than words. my actions as governor are helping create jobs in this country. the president's actions are killing jobs in this country. it's time to get america working again.

>> reporter: there you have rick perry, the texas governor who just jumped into the presidential race last weekend. he's holding private meetings today. done some local interviews. tomorrow he has more events here in new hampshire. randi? >> let's turn to washington where paul steinhauser is standing by. paul, i want o ask you, what is the latest on governor christie, i know the gop field may be set but it feels there's pressure on him to step in. >> reporter: a source close to the new jersey governor says the pressure has been intensifying since the straw poll in iowa and sunday when tim pawlenty dropped out of the race. for him to reconsider. as of now, the source says no he has not reconsidered. good reporting by peter hamby. another report saying that focus groups are being conducted on behalf of the governor to see if there is a pathway for him to the nomination. two sources, one telling hamb yfrks and one telling myself that's not true. randi, people have been talking

about republicans and christie for a long time. he kept saying forget about it, forget about it. maybe that is changing now. we'll keep our eyes on the new jersey governor. >> he's not the only one that some people are talking about who may enter the race? >> reporter: there's talk about the house budget chairman as well. maybe pressure on him to jump in and rudy giuliani hasn't ruled it out. the former new york city mayor says by late september he'll have a decision and of course, sarah palin. stay tuned. >> who was that last name you mentioned? >> sarah palin. remember her, former alaska governor. >> i've heard of her. >> yes, you have. >> paul steinhauser, appreciate it. thank you very much. that's going to do it for me today. cnn newsroom continues with cnn newsroom continues with brooke baldwin. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello to all of you. first of all, have you heard about this. some first responders, 9/11 first responders are calling this a huge betrayal. the firefighters and police from 9/11 are not among those