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>> anderson cooper, thank you very much. i just want to let you all know each and every night this week, bullying it stops here, an anderson cooper special report 8:00 eastern time only on cnn. let's roll on. bloodshed as christians and police battle it out in the streets an about-face from netflix and one american city may downgrade domestic violence charges which of course is sparking outrage. we'll get to that in a moment. i want to begin with cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman in cairo . it's 9:00 your time there, ben. was today any calmer than the violence over the weekend on the streets there? >> reporter: certainly today was calmer, but that's not to say it wasn't less tense. i mean, what we saw was, outside, for instance, the
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coptic hospital where more than a dozen bodies, people killed in these demonstrations. there was a lot of anger against the military leaders of egypt, people accusing them of working with muslim fanatics against the christian minority, minority that makes up about 9% of the population. what we also saw were muslims coming to console the families of people who had lost victims in this fighting. so there is an attempt on sort of a personal street level by people to narrow this widening sectarian divide. but there's a feeling that the government is unwilling or incapable of really bringing the streets under control. i mean, i have to do this live shot right now with the windows closed because just a little while ago a rock was thrown through our window by young men in the street who i'm told are actually working for the egyptian police. so the situation is not chaotic
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but it's becoming very tenuous at the moment. >> most violence i know you all have seen on cairo streets since the revolution many months ago in which hosni mubarak was ousted. speaking of, this movement on the streets is very much connected to that political revolution back this spring. >> reporter: yes. amongst the protestors, as i mentioned, are people they're not christians, they're muslims, secularists, socialists, nationalists who all believe that the military government has not lived up to its pledges to democratize the country. it's taking an awful long time to organize democratic elections. it is still throwing civilians into prison and charging -- trying them in military courts. there are still thousands of people who have been put in prison, bloggers for doinging in more than criticizing the government. there is a feeling among many egyptians that, despite the
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excitement of the 18-day uprising that lead led to the downfall of hosni mubarak, that really, as much things have changed, many things remain the same. brooke? >> ben wedeman in cairo. ben, thank you. next, triple digit win for the dow today. karina huber live at the new york stock exchange. we're 60 minutes away from the closing bell. how are the numbers? >> they're looking great, brooke. the dow is p up by 263 points, a gain of about 2.3%. nothing happening in the u.s. that's driving the markets. it's all about europe. investors showing confidence in that pledge by french and german leaders to back european banks. of course the european banks are intertwined to the u.s. banks so the rally is because of banks. stocks are not the only things glittering. oil, gold and silver prices are rallying for the same reason. let's talk netflix. it's got everybody all atwitter
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last month when they made that announcement. i guess this is the whole about-face? what's the story with netflix today? >> all right. well, qwikster, which would have been a catchy name, but across not one we're going to add to our lexicon anytime soon. just three weeks after netflix was going to split its service says never mind. it says it will not split the service or change the name of the dvd by mail service to qwikster. instead, it's sticking with one web site and one account for both the mail service and web streaming. that certainly makes it easier for us, only one name to remember. the cio reid hastings says tl's a difference in moving quickly against moving too fast, which is what we did in this case. one thing that's not changing is that big price hike we saw about 60% prompted a lot of subscribers to ditch netflix altogether. >> keep it easy, one account, one deal with netflix. big shock aroo, apple's, what,
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totally being facetious, 4s a huge hit. >> of course. you've heard the story before. apple launches a new device, customers flock to it nothing has changed with that script. the company says over a million devices were preordered already. that is a record. if you're one of those quick people who just were on the ball and preordered last week, chances are you'll get it by friday, the official launch dates for the device. for everybody else a one to three-week break depending on your service provider. also one more way if you want to get ahead of all your friends, this is something where you've got to put in the time. if you're willing to wait in line on friday at the stores they'll be launching it. anytime there's a new product launch as you know, you've got to fight the crowds. >> i'll wait, thank you very much. karina huber, thank you so much for us in new york. and finally richelle carey stopping by from our sister network hln. we're talking topeka, kansas.
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tomorrow it's the city council, voting whether they want to stop prosecuting domestic violence as far as misdemeanor? >> i know it sounds crazy. >> why? >> let me explain why it's about money, isn't it always? topeka is in shawnee county. the district attorney says, i no longer have the money to help the city of topeka prosecute these cases because their budget has been cut by 10%. so they say, we're done prosecuting as of september 8th. it's on you, the city. the city of topeka says, we don't have the money either so they're going to vote tomorrow whether to actually take it off the books, that it's no longer illegal. technically in the city of topeka to commit domestic violence. therefore, they say putting it back on the county to have to act because nobody wants domestic violence to not be prosecuted. let me give you a few numbers to xmrainl. clearly it's life or death talking about domestic violence. the kansas bureau of investigations says domestic violence related murders happen
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every ten days in the state of kansas, and they're talking about wanting to staff money? it's not just lives. if you want to save money, this is really kind of shortsietsed because on the whole, health related costs associated with domestic violence cost the country more than $4 billion. so not dealing with for the sake of saving money doesn't appear to be the answer, brooke. >> so hang on a second. within the city of topeka, if this thing passes tomorrow, committing domestic violence wouldn't necessarily be breaking the law. >> okay. this is the question i put to the spokesperson for the city of topeka. if a woman is assaulted in her home tomorrow and this vote passes, what is she supposed to do? he says, she should still call us for help. we will still come and help, make an arrest and we are sorting out who is going to prosecute. because clearly -- >> that's where the money comes from. >> exactly. >> what are some of these domestic violence people saying?
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>> they're very upset. it sends a message that domestic violence is not a crime. since september 8th since all this started, 18 people have been released from jail in the city of topeka because nobody has filed charges while they figure out who was supposed to file charges. this is what domestic violence groups are worried about. >> wow. we'll be talking about this tomorrow. >> we will. >> without a doubt. richelle carey, thank you very much. still to come -- a new twist in the hunt for a missing 10-month-old baby girl. investigators are now focusing on the family's home and there is video. we'll show that to you. plus -- he is one of america's most infamous mobsters. now that whitey bulger is behind bars, we are learning today who tipped off the fbi. this tipster was apparently watching cnn. also -- should illegal immigrants get financial aid, cash for college? it is happening now in one state. speaking of students, wait until you hear what kids are dog to get drunk. have you heard about this? wait for it, richelle carey.
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for financial aid. this all from california's drooek a d.r.e.a.m. act. two americans win the nobel prize for economics. two professors, they both won for work that sorts out how changes in policy affect the economy and vice versa. by the way, just over an hour ago they talked to reporters, one of whom asked about the occupy wall street protests. >> i do think these protests reflect people's legitimate irritation that policy makers don't seem to have been able to restart the economy and many people are hurting because of what's happened to the economy. it would be nice if they were more careful about formulating realistic policy objectives. >> simms also went on to say he thinks the protests are a legitimate expression of people's anger.
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teens now using gummy bears to get drunk. yep, soaking the candy in vodka and eating it. some doing it for years like this video from youtube. this halloween parents are warned to watch out for kids, little ones may not know the difference. make sure they don't get their hands on any special gummies. new hampshire. nine men pull a moose, there they go, out of a pool over the weekend. just wanted to take a little dip. police, firefighters and animal control helped rescue the ani l animal. it took a couple of hours. the moose made his way out, ultimately walks away. the pool owner said he had not seen a moose in the third 5 years he had lived there. i was in d.c. wauching people run this amazing race, ten miles all around wall, the army ten-miler, starts at the pentagon, one of the biggest in the country, about 60% of the runners have some kind of military connection. coming up next -- a dramatic rescue off the
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florida keys, people stranded in the water over 20 hours, including a 4-year-old who held on to a water cooler for dear life. what in the heck were they doing in the water for the first place? especially because the weather was a major threat. that's next.
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a boat sank off the florida keys at about noon saturday. several of the people on board were not rescued until nearly noon yesterday. so do the math, we're talking some 200 ho hours later. here is what's left of the boat. this is off marathon key. eight people were on board when that boat went down. one woman drowned, others clung to a cooler, including this
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little child, or clinging onto the boat. jacqui jeras here with more. a 4-year-old cling being on to the cooler. she made it, but what i didn't realize upon initial reading of the story was the weather was horrendo horrendous. >> yeah, it was terrible. i can't imagine 20 hours in conditions like this. take a look at the radar map. this will really help spell it out for you. it will show you the storms that were across the area. there was a lot of lightning. there were heavy downpours. and look at this. this was almost nonstop throughout that 20-hour period. there was a couple of hours break and then things redeveloped and went on through. the seas were really high, brooke. eight to ten-foot waves. >> not a good day to go boating. >> just terrible. it begs the question, what were they doing out there in the first place? we knew days ahead of time, we were thinking a tropical storm could develop. >> is the storm still out there? >> it is. i'm going to walk over to the weather map and show you where it is. it continues to be a problem here. we thought it was going to become a tropical or subtropical
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system over the weekend. it sure got close to it. now it's causing a lot of problems across the southeast into north of georgia, across the carolinas, the winds incredible. a lot of beach erosion and coastal flooding, too. so really dangerous conditions still off the coast here. and look at those sustained winds, 35 miles per hour. so really, really brutal. also, by the way, the water temperatures down there in the keys down to about 80 degrees, maybe 79 degrees in the area, and if you're in the water between three and 12 hours that water temperature is below 80, between 70 and 80, you can get hypothermia. unconsciousness, you become confused and all those things. so really scary. you don't think the florida keys -- you think the water is toasty, not a problem. but they did have mild hypothermia as a result. >> i'm looking, hurricane hova? >> yeah. this is on the other side, over into the pacific ocean. it's kind of unusual, too, the way this thing is approaching toward the coast. only one in a dozen storms make
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an approach this way, but this is a major hurricane. we're talking cat 3 with winds 125 miles per hour. it should be making landfall we think sometime late tomorrow near manzanillo. this is a very touristy area. you've heard of puerto vallarta, right? they could see hurricane-force wind gusts. really heavy rain, lots of mountainous terrain so we're concerned about landslides and mud slides, a lot of wind damage and power outages can be expected along the coast especially. >> thank you very much, jacqui. religion suddenly at the center of this controversy involving republican presidential candidates, one with, high-profile christian pastor says mormonism which mitt romney is part of, he called it a cult. one of the reasons he's supporting rick perry. gloriabe borger is here with th, next.
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there's still a lot of reaction to those comments over the weekend from a texas minister, suit porter of rick
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perry, calling mormonism a cult, mormonism being the religion of mitt romney. gloria borger joins us with more. gloria, so far we are seeing the romney camp handling the criticism a bit differently than this time four years ago, are we not? >> remember four years ago mitt romney had to give a speech on religion and his mormonism in order to sort of explain it to america as well as to republican voters. this time, when you had that pastor going up there and calling mormonism a cult, he didn't address it directly at all. in fact, he decided to take on somebody else who essentially said that mormons don't deserve protection under the first amendment. but instead of doing it directly, what he said was -- and i quote -- we should remember that decency and civility are values, too, and he left it at that. and by the way, rick perry denoubsed, of course, the facts
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that the pastor said what he said. actually, he should say he just distanced himself from it because he didn't want to be affiliated with those remarks. >> so then how much of an issue or problem will this be for romney, come primary time? >> well, it's kind of hard to say. it's clearly not as great as it was four years ago, but it's still an issue that lingers, brooke. take a look at this abc anews/"washington post" poll in which republican primary voters were asked about whether they'd be less likely to support a candidate who is a mormon. and in june only 20% said they were. but if you look back in december 2006, 36% said they were. and i believe that you have to think that among those 20% lots of those are evangelical christians who may not support a mormon under any circumstance. but i have to say, brooke, that when it comes to conservatives mitt romney's largest problem is not his mormonism. his problem is that they don't
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trust him on the social issues and so they're very skeptical about him as a candidate. they don't like him on health care either. so mormonism aside, romney's got problems with the base voters in the party. >> gloria borger, thank you very much. >> sure. now this. >> we just want our baby back. please bring her home. our two other boys are waiting for her. please, just drop her off anywhere. we don't care. just somewhere safe where she can come home, please. >> the desperate hunt for this missing 10-month-old baby girl. taking a huge turn, why investigators are looking at the family's home. plus, a psychologist takes the stand in a trial accuse of killing a mother and her two young daughters in that brutal home invasion in connecticut. for the first time, we are hearing quite disturbing details about komisarjevsky's childhood.
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we he are learning new details about josh wra komisarjevsky, the man on trial for the deadly home invasion in connecticut. details are coming in from a psychologist who testified in behalf of the defense. sunny hostin is on the case. when you read some of this stuff, it's quite troubling when it comes to cokomisarjevsky's childhood. dr. shea says komisarjevsky told him he was sexually abused by a 15-year-old. he talks about disturbing stuff that happened to him when he was young. he told the doctor he started self-mutilation when he was 13. quote, i started to cut myself because it was soothing. i did this up to 17 years old. i carved "hate" into my arm when i was 14. i hated everything about my
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life. obviously it's horrific, the details about his childhood. but do you think this will lead the jury to be at all sympathetic to this man? >> i don't think in this phase, brooke. we heard about this before. we heard about this in the first trial. there have been books written about joshua komisarjevsky. he was an adopted child who did suffer terrible sexual rape and abuse by one of the foster children that was brought into his home. hitz parents' home. there's no question that he had a difficult life. he is also clearly guilty of these horrific crimes so i don't think in the guilt phase of this trial the jury will have any sympathy for him. i think he will be found guilty. this may come in as mitigating factor, though, in the penalty phase. so i've said this all along, brooke. this case against joshua komisarjevsky is very much about the death penalty, not whether he'll be convicted of the underlying crimes. i think that's a done deal.
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certainly this could be considered in perhaps sparing his life when it comes to the penalty phase. >> perhaps you would say the same about the fact the psychologist also cites medical records that show komisarjevsky sustained at least five concussions, caused him to have cognitive difficulties. again, perhaps more mitigating for death or life. >> i think that's true. i mean, when i heard about that in the -- put into the defense's case, i was surprised they put it in this early in the guilt portion of it. >> why would they do that? >> yeah. i don't think that will spare him a conviction in this case. perhaps they're just not giving up the opportunity to sort of poison the well to get the jury acquainted with perhaps the motivation behind these terrible crimes. and then we'll hear more about those mitigating factors during the penalty phase. let's move on to case number two, talking about this missing baby out of kansas city, missouri. police and fbi agents did this reenactment of a possible kidnapping scenario, testing the
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voracity of the parents' story that dad was out and mom was asleep and someone broke in through the window and snatched this child. when it comes to the reenactment in and of itself, is that typical or atypical, sunny, for law enforcement to do? >> i think it's sort of atypical. certainly it's not done in every single case, and it's interesting when you look at what happened here. they appeared to be testing the voracity or perhaps the lack of voracity of the parents' story. so they're definitely crossing their ts, dotting their is to see if their parents have anything to do with this abduction or the missing child because, let's face it, brooke, not only are stranger abductions very rare, people are usually abducted by their neighbors or someone known to the family, infant stranger abductions are extremely rare. so the investigators here really are faced with a situation that just doesn't happen very often in the way that these parents
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claim it to have happened. >> so infant abductions, according to statistics, happen with a known person, be it someone who comes into the home often or a parent or a family member. do these infant abductions, sunny, typically have happy endings or not? >> that's a great question because infant stranger abductions do typically have a very happy ending. very, very high rates in terms of retrieving children because stringers that abduct infants usually do that because they want dhirn of their own. they don't abduct children to kill these children. so if this happened the way her parents claim it happened, then there is a very, very good chance that this little girl will be found and brought back home. >> here's hoping that is precisely what happens. sunny hostin, thank you so much. "on the case" for us this monday pf. >> federal prosecutors are cracking down on what has been called a culture of corruption in the health care industry. medicare and medicaid patients
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being overbilled or billed for treatment they actually never received. deb feyerick has a story of a vietnam veteran who exposed a major case of fraud. >> reporter: going through his medicaid statements one day, richard west realized he was being billed for nursing care he wasn't getting. you weren't with even here on some of the days that the company alleged they provided services for you. >> i wasn't here. i got no service. >> reporter: and yet here it is, it's billed. the 63-year-old vietnam veteran suffers from muscular diystroph and requires nurses seven days a week to shower, dress and replace the oxygen tank he needs to breathe. yet when he called the medicaid hotline to report maximum health care services or reporting nurses weren't showing up at all, he was told he was wrong. >> they were getting paid for eight hours and i was getting
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sicker and sicker. and they did nothing. >> reporter: his spirit intact, the former u.s. infantryman hired a lawyer and filed a whistle-blower lawsuit in 2004. are you surprised at just whoo people will try to do to rip off the medicaid system? >> yeah, i'm surprised every day. >> reporter: tom o'donnell heads new york's office of investigations for health and human services. it turns out maxim, with hundreds of offices, wasn't just overbilling richard west but medicaid recipients across the country. >> probably the most egregious thing they did is they were w h overbilling and fraudulently altering the timecards. >> reporter: how much money were they essentially ripping off? >> i think the actual amount was about 61 million. >> reporter: prosecutors recently announced they had reached a deal with maxim health care services which cooperated with investigators and is now
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restructured under new management manageme management. the company will pay $150 million, half of it to reimburse 41 states that were overcharged. nine maxim executives and employees have pleaded guilty to various charges, others fired for misconduct. in a statement to cnn, maxim's new ceo praises richard west for uncovering the fraud saying the company takes full responsibility and has established a new infrastructure. quote, including an entirely new senior management team and an unrelenting commitment to stribl strict compliance to all laws." although the prosecutor did not accuse maxim of compromising patient care, west says he almost died twice because of life threatening infections he got when nurses failed to show. >> there were nights i didn't know if i would wake up, and that's the reality.
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>> because west exposed the scheme, he's set to get $15 million under the whistle-blower's act. that means he could end up paying for his own health care and likely lose the medicaid benefits for which he was initially fighting. deborah feyerick, cnn, new york. >> deb, thank you. life or death moments as one pilot runs out of gas. the whole thing caught on video. wait until you see how he scaped. plus, when you're a kid raised by same-sex parents, hearing words like this can be hurtful. >> they would call me gay, faggot, gay boy. >> cnn's anderson cooper sat down with a couple of kids who reveal their worst moments at the hands of bullies. gas and bloating. with three strains of good bacteria to help balance your colon. you had me at "probiotic." [ female announcer ] phillips' colon health. delivering mail, medicine and packages. yet they're closing thousands of offices,
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take a look at this piece of video, a plane lands in the middle of the ocean. the pilot had apparently run out of gas and was forced to make this emergency landing in the ocean. he landed near hilo, hawaii, climbed into the cockpit, there he goes, coast guard eventually rescued him. amazingly, no major injuries. and almost every day there are kids across the country who simply fear going to school because they are bullied beyond the limit. and some don't want to live anymore anderson cooper sat down with these is students. here are their stories. >> how often do you get bullied, pushed around? >> almost every day. >> almost every day. >> yes. >> and damien, what about you? you're straight but your two dads are gay and you're on the
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gymnastics team, which people make fun of you for. what do people say to you? >> they call me gay, gay boy, faggot, fashion boy. >> what do they call you? >> dike, [ bleep ], faggot, i've been called words i'm ashamed to say to this day. >> delynn, you've been taken out of the school. you're now being home school. did you just not feel safe in school in. >> kids made me feel like i was the grossest person in the world. they would just go against the wall and say, here comes the he/she or here comes the trash. they made me feel gross and i didn't feel safe at school so i just left. >> i'm sitting here and stewing with rage and i just feel so angry and so upset for the four of you and your class experience. and it seems to me that this is all backwards. instead of taking it up with the kids who are tormenting daily and using abusive language and
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being abusive to their students this young man can't even go to school anymore. he shouldn't be the one having to stay home. i just want you to know that people do care about you. i care about you, and i really feel touched for your experience. >> jay, you and your wife are raising a daughter. when you hear these kids, what goes through your mind? >> these kids do need to know they are loved and it's really, really sad that they don't have an advocate. i think this neutrality policy is abdicating the adults' responsibility for protecting these kids. it's very sad. it makes me very sad. >> how do you get through the day, kyle? >> i pray every day that i didn't have to go back to school. and i go -- >> you pray every day you don't have to go back to school. >> yeah. i'd hide under the seats of the bus. and -- >> you'd hide under the seats? >> i would. and then i'd go to the nurse three times a day at least. >> just to get someplace that
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you felt safe. >> to go home. >> i understand at one point how many kids did you know who were bullying you? >> 40. >> 40 kids. you could identify 40 kids. >> yes. >> i want to thank you kids for your courage and your strength. i think you're just so impressive and so brave. i think you have tremendous courage. thank you. appreciate it. [ applause ] yesterday when i interviewed kyle and i was talking to him, i said, is there anything else you'd like to say? he said, i would like to sing a song. he said that to me when he came and sat down, he said, can i sing? so kyle is going to sing his favorite song. >> great! [ applause ] ♪ so hold your head up ♪ listen to me he when i say ♪ how beautiful awake because god makes no mistake ♪ ♪ on the right track baby ♪ i was born this way
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♪ just love yourself ♪ on the right track baby i was born this way ♪ [ applause ] >> go, kyle. it is time for all of us to take a stand. all this week at 8:00 eastern anderson and cnn will bring attention to america's bullying crisis. then saturday night watch with us "bullying it stops here," the town hall led by anderson at 8:00 eastern time. we have just gotten new video, these are live pictures from our affiliate in boston, wcbv. these are the occupy wall street protests, day four since this began in new york. a myriad of grievances manifested in these protests really across the country. bottom line, greed is not good and constantly they say we are the 99%. keep in mind there is a poll in
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fact also just out. half of americans now are aware of these occupy wall street protests. live pictures, boston. still ahead, wolf blitzer joins me live as he gets ready to interview one of president obama's former employees, a man looking to take the president's job. also this -- >> the baby at that time was profusely sweating and was starting to go into somewhat of distress. >> police say a man left his 5-month-old inside a hot car and went on a date at mcdonald's. find out who saved this little girl before it was too late. that's next. but first -- our friends at cnn money are looking at the best jobs in america all week long. on today's list, the best jobs if you're over 50. so here you go. number five, a private tutor obviously teaching experience a plus. number four, online content marketing writer. what does that mean? the person who makes sure what a company is advertising is actually keeping with the product they're selling. number three, energy field auditor. you can set your own hours, help
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so you've thought about this. what are the top two jobs if you're of the over-50 crowd? number two, personal trainer, a lot of fitness conscious baby boomers doing this. number one, a grant coordinator. if you're a good writer, feel passionately about a nonprofit agency or a school, you can make upwards of $47,000 a year writing grants. we're mere moments away from "the situation room." wolf blitzer as always joins me
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for a preview. live today is jon huntsman. >> yes. we're going to talk about what's going on. he ace spending a lot of time in new hampshire, basically bypassing iowa. he thinks he has a chance among moderate republicans in p new hampshire. i also want to ask him how he feels as a mormon -- two mormons are running for the presidential nomination -- in the aftermath of all of these ugly words being said about mormonism, mormons being part of a cult, if you will, not being real christians. how does he feel about that? we're going to get into that as well. he delivered what his campaign describes as a major foreign policy address today. we'll talk about that, some of the other republican candidates. lots to discuss with jon huntsman here live in "the situation room." that's at our new time, in ten minutes. >> i know. we moved back an hour. see you in ten. meantime, here is one for the "we can do better" file,
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folks. sadly this one involves a young man barely out of childhood himself who apparently hasn't picked up on the best parenting practices at the age of 18. he went to meet a friend for lunch, a date, at a mcdonald's. police say he parked his carcdo. police say he parked his car across the tree under a tree. not adjacent to this restaurant. and he left his 5-month-old daughter inside the said car. lucky for that bibby girl, a car pulled up next to her. this woman inside was talking on her cell phone for a couple of minutes. but when she got out she noticed the baby in the car right next to her. and thankfully she picked up the phone and decided to call police. i want to you listen to what officers describe whed he they arrived. >> the baby that time was profusely sweating and was starting to go 23450 somewhat of a distress. >> distressed and sweating profusely. a 5-month-old.
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so around this time, dad showed up at his car, was arrested. he's in jail. charged with felony child endangerment. baby is held in child protective services. i already know what you're going to ask, you know. you want to know where the mother was, right? or where is the mother? cps says they are looking for quote a responsible adult in the baby's family to release her from their custody. thank goodness someone noticed a child alone in this car and 911. we can do better. what would you do. >> i'm so happy. everyone here in time's square. >> coming up next, three years ago, she add mad crush on obama. now obama girl, not so sure. we will tell you why. guess who fired paperwork for a possible congressional run, playing a big part in the
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detroit. that was back in '09. he is representing himself that trial. also, first lady, michelle obama, is cohosting with a national geographic kids magazine, a let's move event. they hope to capture a guinness world record for the most jumping jacks in a 24-hour period. look for that video from us. also president obama heads to florida for two campaign fund-raisers. first will be held at downtown sheraton. second will be held at the home of johning f. >> jon: -- john morgan, founder of morgan and morgan. paul mccartney tied the yesterday. in attendance the only other living beatle, ringo star and his wife. also mccartney's daughter, ael
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fashion designer, stella mccartney, who designed the outfits for the day. another guest, cevelle's cousin, barbara walters. sir paul mccartney told reporters, quote be i feel absolutely wonderful. and political' today. we have a couple characters, shall we say, from the 2008 election now back in the news. joe johns joins me. are you ready for this one? so obama girl apparently no longer crushing on obama? >> yeah. i hate to see it hp. these are sort of retreads. but is still a good story. you remember the video. it was four years ago w, the oba girl yb let's listen. >> i got a crush on obama ♪ >> oh, yeah, we remember the obama girl. >> fantastic, right? the daily caller is reporting that first of all, the caller is
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a conservative, sort of on-line entity. it was a conservative take on things. a lot of conservative contributors. but they are recording that amber lee etinger, who is the obama girl in this video, isn't quite ready to call the obama presidency a slam dunk success. she says he had a lot of work to do. he was brought into say theation she said that was very hard. not a lot of people would be able to deal with that situation and a lot of work to do, right? i reached out to her, haven't heard back, unfortunately. >> she hasn't gone back to you, joe johns? >> i know, isn't that awful? e-mails and everything. she parentally has a soft spot in her heart for arkansas, former arkansas governor, mike huckabee who she calls, the nicest guy i have ever met in my entire life. she has appeared on a couple of his programs on fox news channel. so, who knows, the crush on
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president obama may be over. but like i said, she hasn't gotten back it he yet. >> obviously, the obama girl is the lit nous test for who will win in 1 in 2012. you have to stay on that. so filing paperwork to run for congress, do pel? >> absolutely. this is joe the plumber. everybody knows about joe the plumber. th is a guy who approached the then senator from illinois, who was running for president, barack obama. and asked him a bunch of questions at 5 campaign stop in my home state of ohio. specifically about taxes. and whether obama's plan was going to raise taxes on him if he ever bought his own, sort of plumbing operation. it really caught fire. john mccain started using joe the plumber and so much
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excitement. the question, even back then, was how is he going to cash in on it, if you will. now we know that joe the plumber filed papers to run for congress, right there in ohio. this is the district of congresswoman marcy captor. and it might not be real easy for him though. because captor might end up running against congressman dennis ka sin itch, another democrat butting then the winner might end up facing joe the plumber. a lot of intrigue there in the state of ohio. it'll be interesting to see what happens four years later for joe the plumber. >> what has joe the plumber been up to the last couple of years? >> you got me. i know he wasn't very happy about all of the notoriety and the way it got handled with john mccain, even complained about it a bit. i'm not sure what he's been doing. although he got his 15 minutes of fame, and now it looks like he could get a little bit more than that. >> he just got his 16th

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