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will step down on the condition that a drastic and unpopular bailout deal goes through parliament. the greek president released a statement a short time ago. george papandreou and opposition leaders will meet tomorrow to decide who will run the government until elections can be held. the annual muslim pilgrimage to mecca is fully under way. millions of islamic faithful are in the holy saudi city observing hajj. saudi arabia's news agency reports the pilgrims attending hajj this year come from more than 180 countries. the mayor of vancouver british columbia hopes to shut down occupy protests in his city. he says the situation is becoming unsafe for demonstrators. a woman's body was found in their encampment yesterday. it is unclear how she died. back in this country, 19 occupy protesters were arrested in atlanta last night. another showdown with police may be looming. central oklahoma gets rocked by the strongest earthquake on
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record. the 5.6 magnitude quake caused mostly minor damage, but no one was seriously hurt. the quake was centered near sparks. also shook oklahoma city, 45 miles away. >> having an earthquake right now. our lights shaking quite a bit now. it is calming down as another earthquake has just hit. i still hear a few lights rattling in our studio. and we will -- we still have our -- if you can see our dura tran back here, it is still shaking, near oklahoma city. we do not know the epicenter as it just now happened. >> all right, and that was the second one this weekend. so let's find out what's going on in oklahoma. jacqui jeras in the weather center. explain this. this is very unusual. >> it is somewhat unusual, yeah. this is the strongest one that they have ever had in recorded history. to get something this powerful to cause that kind of damage, pretty significant, i can't believe how calm that anchor was, by the way. i think i would be getting under the desk.
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we have video to show you in addition to some damage to some homes and some chimneys, you can see a road was buckled. this was in three different places here. there were no serious injuries, so that's the good news. but, you know, 5.6 can cause some serious damage. and since that time, we have also had quite a few after shocks. in fact, there have been over 30 aftershocked reported in the area as we zoom in to show you this. most have been pretty weak, however. the dots, by the way, it shows you the area compared to where the epicenter was, a 5.6 late last night and early in the morning yesterday is when you had the 4.7, the strongest one prior to this time happened in 1952, around reno. there are a couple of smaller faults, believe it or not, in oklahoma. they get on average anywhere between 50 to about 100 earthquakes per year. and here is one of those known faults. it is called mears fault, but not along that one. last but not least, fredricka, to show you, people really felt this all over the place from
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texas, stretching all the way up to iowa and illinois, across missouri. a lot of people felt it. thankfully nothing more serious. the aftershocks will continue for weeks and probably months. >> that's unsettling thing for so many people too often. >> yeah. >> thanks so much. more than 100,000 homes and businesses in connecticut are still without power after last weekend's freak snowstorm. the governor has sent national guard troops to help utility crews and he wants the state attorney general to join in the investigation of what he calls the inadequate response by the state's largest power company. on cbs tonight, a tribute to legendary broadcaster andy rooney who died friday night at the age of 92. "60 minutes" will end its broadcast with a segment off honoring rooney. the national basketball association put a deal on the table to end the lockout and pro basketball players have until wednesday to accept it. the players association rejected
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the proposal yesterday, but the nba is hoping it will reconsider. no new talks are scheduled. a former penn state coach is at the center of a child molestation scandal. jerry sandusky, former defensive coordinator for the nittany lions, denies sexually assaulting young boys. two school officials charged with perjury are expected to turn themselves in tomorrow. susan candiotti is looking into this very complex investigation, susan. >> reporter: hi, fred. you know, it is complex. and troubling. but just -- not just because the allegations against the lege legendary assistant coach are graphic, but the grand jury alleges two university officials could have done more to stop him before he came in contact with several other alleged victims. 67-year-old jerry sandusky is accused of sexually assaulting at least eight boys over a 15-year period. some as young as 11 years old, at several locations including penn state locker rooms.
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pennsylvania's attorney general says the boys were all part of a meantering program for boys called second mile, that sandusky himself founded. also charged timothy curly, the athletics director, and gary schultz, the university's senior vp for finance. they're accused of failing to report the alleged sex assault of a young boy to police and then lying about it to a grand jury. what happened according to the grand jury report is that a grad assistant with the football team testified he saw sandusky having sex with a boy in a locker room shower, reported it to head coach joe paterno, paterno told the university athletic director, but authorities were never told of the incident. paterno is not accused of any control wrongdoing and cooperated with the grand jury. some are calling for paterno to step down and question what the possible victims must think now. >> i can't imagine how many now think to themselves, did the
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coach know? did joepa, the great joepa know that his defensive coordinator was keeping young boys in his company and what he was doing to them? that, to me, if i'm an abused victim, that's what i'm asking today. how many people knew about jerry sandusky in the penn state program? >> penn state's president issued a statement calling the allegations against sandusky troubling, but defends the university's actions. quote, tim curly and gary schultz have my unconditionable support. i have complete confidence in how they handled the allegations against a former university employee. sandusky surrendered yesterday and is out on bail. through his attorney, he denies the charges. >> jerry is very, very depressed. he's very upset. he's very distraught about the charges, the allegations. and the knowledge that regardless of whether he eventually prove his guilt or innocence that people are going to think that he did this stuff.
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>> reporter: two penn state officials as we said are expected to surrender tomorrow. and the attorney general says the investigation is far from over, fred. >> susan candiotti, thanks so much, from new york. more on our top story now. a european prime minister is resigning. he says it is the only way to keep his country from falling into bankruptcy. i'm talking about greece. we have just heard from the president's office about prime minister george papandreou's intention to leave office on one condition. cnn's diana magny joins us live. diana what is that condition? >> reporter: hi, fredricka. well, it has been a weekend really of intense political wrangling as the opposition party and george papandreou try to thrash out whether or not to go ahead with a new government. and what has now been decided after a late night meeting with the president, the leader of the opposition and george papandreou is that as you say, he will step down. a new government will be
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appointed, and that government will basically tide the country over until elections and be behind the implementation of the bailout that was agreed by european leaders on october 26th to try and save greece from bankruptcy. george papandreou had said i cannot have early elections, i will not step down until i am convinced that the mechanism, the government is in place to make sure that we can stick to the terms of the bailout. because otherwise, we're lost. that's pretty much what europe has said to greece. if you don't get your government united behind the terms of this bailout, then, you know, you might be out there on your own. this is what george papandreou was fighting for and it seems as though there are areas of agreement. these two parties have refused to agree for months now. and now at least they say we are agreed that there will be a new government tomorrow, it will not be led by george papandreou, and we will be holding meetings again tomorrow morning to try
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and hammer out who exactly the new cabinet will be, what this new government will be, who the new leader will be, but some things are certain, there will be one and it won't be led by george papandreou. fredricka? >> diana, is there a likely succession of who would replace papandreou? >> reporter: well, there is some names that have been bandied around by the greek media. and i think what is important to note about both those two names is that they're both kind of elderly states men who haven't been muddied by the kind of political posturing that has been going on within the two parties over the last few months. one of them is a career diplomat in his 80s from the opposition, new democracy party. the other is a former vice president of the european central bank and close adviser to george papandreou. they could both be perceived, both within the country and outside, as kind of figures of national unity rather than people who are too closely
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enmeshed with parties that people effectively lost faith in here. but having said that, we might be surprised, it might be someone completely different. we'll have to sort of wait to see, but those are the two names in the fray right now. >> diana magny, thanks so much from athens. it is a home fit for a future king. britain's new royal couple, will and kate, have picked out a place to live in london. and it has been 20 years since an earth shattering moment in pro sports history. it involves that recognizable man right there, and a shocking announcement about his health. is this a chevy volt? [ stu ] yeah. it's electric. i don't think so. it's got a gas tank right here. electric tank, right over here. an electric tank? really, stu? is that what you pour the electricity in? it's actually both, guys. i can plug in and go 35 miles gas free, or i can fill up and go a whole lot farther. is that my burger? oh. i just got bun. i didn't even bite any burger.
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the construction of a transnational pipeline. to make their point, they staged a demonstration at the white house there. the keystone xl pipeline would carry crude oil from alberta, canada, to texas, the $7 billion project would create thousands of jobs, but protesters say it could also contaminate drinking water. herman cain's bid to put sexual harassment allegations behind him has gotten a lot of attention in the political arena. and it was a hot topic on the sunday morning talk shows. here are the highlights. >> don't even bother asking me all of these other questions. >> i talked to a republican this week who said, after the events, is he disqualified, unqualified, or will the conservative base just love him more? >> that's totally up to herman cain, a person i've come to know as a decent, decent man and good candidate. and now it has been said over and over again, it is up to
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herman cain to get the information out and get it out in total, but that's important because we have got some real issues to discuss in this campaign and this is taking all the bandwidth out of the discussion. >> these problems that he had now, i don't think -- i think the media has blown that way out of proportion. i think there are a thousand stories out there. i think it dilutes the real debate. >> the gentleman from new york has 30 seconds remaining. >> a year now into the new congress, what is your biggest regret then? >> i thought the president and i could come to an agreement. and i thought for the good of the country, we could have solved this problem, we could have passed a significant bill to reduce our long-term obligations. we have made promises to ourselves that our kids and grandkids cannot afford. and we have to deal with it. >> it is becoming clear over time, as the president puts forward proposals that had been accepted in the past by
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democrats and republicans alike, is that we have a very, very obstructionist wing of the republican party who has been very successful at keeping the president from accelerating this jobs recovery as quickly as he would like. >> do you think the united states, the obama administration has to ratchet up the confran tags? >> yes, i think it is time to confront the iranian regime because it is the poster child for state sponsorship of terrorism. it is trying to get a nuclear weapon. it is repressed its own people. the regime has absolutely no legitimacy left. we should be doing everything we can to bring it down and never take military force off the table. >> the gop candidates for president meet for two more debates this week. our deputy political director paul steinhauser joins us for a political look ahead. >> hey, fred. mitt romney returns to iowa tomorrow. the republican presidential candidate hasn't spent a lot of time stumping in the state that
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kicks off the primary caucus calendar. regardless, the most recent polls indicate the former massachusetts governor is tied with businessman herman cain for the lead in the hawkeye state. now, if romney went big in iowa four years ago when he made his first bid for the kwhowhite hou and the strategy back fired on him. will he go big again in. >> i'll be here again and again, campaigning here. i want to get the support of the good people of iowa. i'd love to win in iowa. >> wednesday, the candidates team up in a debate for the first time since our cnn showdown last month in las vegas. the cnbc debate in michigan will focus on the economy. the candidates share the stage again on saturday night in south carolina for a debate that focuses on foreign policy and national security. fred? >> thanks so much, paul. we're looking at faith and the presidential campaign in about 15 minutes from now. cnn's religion editor joins me with a look at impact rick perry's beliefs had on his decision to run for the white house. six months after britain's prince william and kate
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middleton tied the knot, they actually picked out a home in london or a home has been picked out for them. they'll move to an apartment in kensington palace that was the home of queen elizabeth's late sister, princess margaret. but the move will take some time. a lot of work including asbestos removal has to be done. how far away are we talking for those renovations to be completed? >> well, they say two years because first they have to wait for an exhibit to end in september because it has been open to the public since the year 2004. so a charity has been operating exhibits, using it for storage, so once the exhibit ends, in september, they'll start the repairs, as you mentioned that got a lot of repair work to do, asbestos removal, there is some -- a lost work to be done on the heating, the electrical system. so it is going to take a while. >> they need to make it livable. this is a building with, you
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know, great historical relevance. >> absolutely. >> and it is grand and big and, you know, won't be like some quaint little cozy apartment they'll be living in. it is funny how they call it an apartment. it is more like a wing they'll be living in, right? >> very good description. it is a wing. it is four stories of apartments. we are hearing that it is 20 rooms. they can seat 40 people for dinner or 60 standing people for dinner. so it is -- it is big. it is big. >> that's pretty big. will and kate will be living in a wing of kensington palace, but so will brother harry, right? >> he's going to take over the cottage, on the same premises, two bedroom cottage they're living right now in. when they move in two years to the bigger wing. so they'll still be in the same palace, so to speak, but in different apartments, or as you say, wings. >> one of these units will be the same location where they spent some significant time as
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little ones, right, with charles and diana. >> yes. they lived there when they were little boys with their mother, but it won't be the same apartment. it will be a different wing. they lived in one wing with their mother. but it will be a different one. but, still, lots of memories there for them. >> interesting. they have to wait a whole couple of years. it is funny that they would make an announcement two years out that this is going to eventually be their place of residence. we have to do some renovations. >> it took them a while to pick it out. the queen herself had to intervene. >> who picked it out? will and kate got to pick it out? >> yeah. >> it wasn't picked out for them, by the queen? >> that's what they say. that's what they say. >> okay. >> but they say they loved it. kate loves it. she loves -- there is a big walid walled in garden. she loves gardening. she'll be decorating the place. princess margaret lived there for 40 years. there will be changes probably.
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>> wow. i can't imagine they would opt to live anywhere else, you know? nice free digs for the royals. >> it is a beautiful building. they'll be paying for the decorations, actually. >> oh, really? >> while the structural changes and all the other things will be taxpayer money will be used for the structural repairs. like the electrical, the hot water, all that stuff. >> fantastic. that's very exciting. can't wait for two years, maybe before that when we all get to do a virtual tour of it. >> that would be nice. >> i know. >> all 20 rooms, four stories. >> we'll hope you can bring that to us. >> i would love to. >> thanks so much. how many of you remember this moment? >> because of hiv virus that i have attained, i will have to retire from the lakers. >> isn't it hard to believe that was 20 years ago? up next, a look at magic johnson's life since that announcement. nd who ordered the yummy cereal? yummy. [ woman ] lower cholesterol.
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perhaps you need a little cash, extra cash for the holidays? how does a thousand dollars sound? coming up, we'll show you what to do over the next seven weeks to make that happen. it is the 20th anniversary of a water shed moment in professional sports. november 1991, irvin magic johnson announced he was infected with the virus that causes aids. mark mckay looks back at that momentous day and the decades in
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magic johnson's life that followed. >> reporter: irvin magic johnson entered the nba as a 20-year-old rookie and took the league by storm. during his first 12 years with the los angeles lakers, johnson won five nba championships, three league most valuable player awards, and was an all-star in 11 of those 12 seasons. then in a flash, it ended. >> because of the hiv virus that i have attained, i will have to retire from the lakers today. >> reporter: the news rocked sports world. but johnson was determined to face this new challenge head-on. >> your back is against a wall and i think you just have to come out swinging and i'm swinging. i will now become a spokesman for the hiv virus. i guess now i get to enjoy some of the other sides of living. >> reporter: johnson returned to the court three months later to play in the 1992 nba all-star
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game, where he was named most valuable player. he was also a member of the famed dream team that won the olympic gold medal later that summer in barcelona. but johnson's attempt to return to the nba in september of '92 was short lived. several players, most notably, karl malone, voiced concern about playing against an hiv infectioned player. he would attempt one more comeback in january of 1996. >> i didn't think i went out the way i wanted to go out before, and that's the reason i'm back. >> reporter: johnson played in 32 games in '96, retiring for the final time at the end of the season. today he's a business executive, an nba television analyst, the head of a foundation whose efforts revolve around hiv/aids education, and perhaps more importantly, he's a husband, a father, and a grandfather. it has been 20 years since that stunning news, and magic is still going strong. mark mckay, cnn, atlanta. in other sports news, former
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heavyweight boxing champion joe frazier has liver cancer. his manager says the 67-year-old is seriously ill and in hospice care in philadelphia. he was diagnosed last month. fight fans will remember frazier was first man to beat muhammad ali but lost two later bouts with ali. a legendary performer andy williams says he's suffering from bladder cancer. he broke the news to concertgoers last night during a christmas concert in branson, missouri. he is 83. he has been singing professionally since childhood. frozen in time. it is one of the most visually arresting images of the american civil rights movement. two young women, one black, one white, i'm about to talk to a man who met both of them and wrote a book about how they feel about each other today. and rick perry's religion. is it private or public matter?
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in thailand, the death toll has topped 500 from the country's worst flooding in a half a century. floodwaters are now inching toward downtown bangkok and authorities ordered a fifth of the city evacuated. they're cleaning up in central oklahoma from the strongest earthquake on record there. the 5.6 magnitude quake hit before midnight eastern time. no one was seriously hurt, but some homes and businesses were damaged. and at least three sections of a u.s. highway buckled. people from texas to iowa felt the quake, which has triggered at least 30 aftershocks. every week cnn.com's belief blog takes an in depth look at the religion of a 2012 presidential hopeful. and this week the focus is on texas republican governor rick perry. he has made his faith a centerpiece of his presidential
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bid. dan gillgov is a religions editor and he got a chance to talk with anita perry about religion and where that -- where that is on the hierarchy of importance for rick perry. and was she a reluctant subject for this conversation or was this something that she very quickly agreed to? >> well, she agreed to the interview, but i don't think she was that enthusiastic about it. i think that reveals a dynamic that is very important on the campaign. that is that the perrys are very comfortable talking about the religion when speaking to a christian audience. i talked to some religious activists in the republican party who were astounded that the perrys spent seven hours with them over the course of two days a couple of months ago shortly after he announced his campaign. and when she's talking or when the perrys are talking to a secular audience, they're a lot less comfortable about it. they don't want to be branded as a christian candidate or conservative christian candidate. we'll listen to what she told me when i asked her about her faith recently. >> okay. >> i think it probably had to do
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with that awakening you mentioned in 1977. since then he has grown in that. i think truly if you -- if you do that, if you have that in your heart, you need to go in whatever you do, whether you're a teacher, a doctor, a minister, and so that's what he did, and, yes, he probably is more spiritual than people think, because we tend to take that very privately. when i talk about my faith, i become very emotional. when i talk about my family, i become very emotional. so it is not something that we, you know, blast out there. it is something that we tend to have more -- be more private about. and i just think that's everybody's personal choice, that tends to be -- that is our choice. that is my choice, that's his choice. >> hmm. very interesting. she doesn't seem at all reluctant. and we saw her just, you know, maybe about a month ago when she took to the microphones and as if she wanted to clarify the image of rick perry. she didn't like the way he was being treated. >> right, yeah. i think it is really telling in
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this clip. she talks about this year, 1977, and this was a year rick perry had been raised in this tiny little central texas town called pain creek. in 1977, he was done with college, had gone off and served four years in the air force and way was flying huge cargo planes around the world. he comes home to tiny little paint creek and he's back helping, you know, on the family farm with his dad. is it seemed like quite a demotion. he talks about this to christian audiences, but not secular audiences, that provoked a spiritual crisis. he talks about wrestling with god and ultimately being saved from that experience by accepting god into his life and he talks about being called to ministry. but for him, ministry didn't mean becoming a priest or a pastor, it meant becoming a politician and politics became his pulpit. >> why was that important for him to sxound expound on this t point of his life. >> to establish credibility with christian voters. at this point, mitt romney has so much with the republican
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establishment, buttoned up and behind his campaign. what he doesn't have is the evangelical activists who are influential among the christian rank and file in the republican party. in a state like iowa where the first, you know, caucuses are going to be held in a couple of months, evangelical christians are 60% of those voters. those are voters that are not buttoned up. perry is telling stories largely in an attempt to connect with those voters. >> fascinating stuff. dan, thanks so much. folks want to read more about this, they can go to the belief column at cnn.com. >> slash belief. >> check out the rest of that interview that dan got with anita perry. thanks so much. coming up next, they don't look like they did in 1957, but these two women are forever linked by one of the most important news photographs of the 20th century. where are they now and what do they think of each other? next.
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an accident doesn't have to slow you down. with better car replacement, if your car is totaled, we give you the money for a car one model year newer. liberty mutual auto insurance. all right, straight ahead, in a few minutes, do you recognize this photo from the '60s? that's olympian john carlos on the right, tommy smith as well. well, then john carlos was protesting racial discrimination, making a real statement for human rights. and now he is part of the occupy movement. he's going to explain in a moment. but first, this is an image that illustrates the american
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climate of the civil rights movement. probably better than any other. remember this one? taken in 1957, elizabeth eckford, one of the little rock nine, walking into a high school, which was until then reserved for whites only. behind her an angry young woman shouting at her, it appears, right? a reporter, david margolic wrote a book about elizabeth and hazel ryan, the two women of little rock. he joins me now from new york with more on this. so often people see these iconic images and wonder where are they now and what was that relationship like post that photograph. you had a chance to talk with both of them. apparently they're -- there became a relationship between these two. the picture certainly, i guess, wouldn't -- wouldn't convey that there would ever be a relationship between these two women. what did you discover? >> well, it is hard to imagine a
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less auspicious start to a relationship than this picture, of course, which sort of encapsulates white hostility to blacks in 1957. but the picture has tied these two women together for the last 55 years and they have had quite an interesting relationship subliminally, psychologically and even together. their relationship has gone through several different stages. in 1962, hazel brian, the white girl, aactually apologized to elizabeth over the phone, very privately. in 1997, the two were reunited for the 40th anniversary celebrations. for a time after that, they actually became close friends and spent a lot of time together before they had another falling out. and now they have not spoken to one another for the last ten years. >> really? so, wait a minute, take me back to that phone call that hazel made. what provoked her to make a phone call to elizabeth? was it to apologize?
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was it to explain her actions? was it because she received so much pressure from that photograph? >> well, i think the pressure was very private. hazel was a 20-year-old woman, she was the mother of two young children, she was watching the civil rights protests on television. she felt guilty about what she had done. she had two young children and she knew they were going to grow up to learn that that girl with the hateful face was their mother and she had to sort of set things right. so she called elizabeth. there were no cameras rolling, no publicity, there was no pressure except whatever was generated in her own mind. >> and then you said a relationship did ensue for a little while. it was pretty amicable. to what degree? >> it was really more than a little amicable, fredricka. for after the 1997 commemorations, the two of them made a lot of joint public appearances before schools and
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civic groups. everybody was invested in their reconciliation. the idea that these two archetypal antagonists could ever have come together was a sign of great hope for people. and they actually became friendly. they discovered they had a lot in common. and they spent a lot of private time together too. they shared a lot of interests. they went to a lot of places together. they liked one another and respected one another. >> and then something happened. and they went their separate ways? >> well, then the sort of racial chasm that always existed in this country opened up again. and elizabeth found that there were certain portions of hazel's story, elizabeth is a very discerning and demanding woman, a judgmental woman, and she felt that hazel hadn't fully reconciled herself with her own behavior and hadn't come clean and hadn't really explained exactly what led her to do what she did in 1957. and so the two of them split apart over that.
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>> my goodness. and then you also write that elizabeth had a very unhappy life, even though there was that breakthrough moment, she was a trailblazer, there was something -- a number of things that made her life very unhappy. what were they? >> well, elizabeth had her family had a predisposition to depression to begin with. and then, of course, she went through the ordeal that was captured in this photograph and then like the other members of the little rock nine, she spent a year in central high school being harassed terribly and unrelentingly by the segregationist students in the school. and that was -- that was enough to traumatize anyone. and so afterwards she had great difficulty, she was depressed for many years, she was on disability for many years. she tried to kill herself a couple of times. >> oh, my goodness. >> gradually she pulled herself out of it, but it was a very long and arduous ordeal for her. >> are you taking credit for helping to bring them back
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together again by talking to them, to document this for this book? >> well, i don't take any credit for it. in fact, i really didn't want to affect my own story and so i made no effort until the very, very end and only then i asked them to be photographed together. and elizabeth was willing to, but hazel was not. i do think, however, that the process of talking to me and the process of reading my book in a way has accentuated the bond that still exists between these two women and i would not be surprised if another chapter is still to be written in their relationship. >> wow what an extraordinary story. two women of little rock, david, thanks so much for bringing this story to us. >> thank you, fredricka. all right, the holiday season will be here before you know it. perhaps you need some time to save some money for shopping. our christine romans will have some advice on how you can save
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a thousand dollars.
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you know how great it is to find lost change in the sofa or a freshly washed $10 bill, maybe in the dryer? well, what if i told you that it is possible to actually find an extra thousand dollars just in time for the holidays? cnn's christine romans shows us how it is definitely doable. >> all right, you have seven weeks until the holidays. how are you going to pay for it? time to start planning so you don't begin the new year with a debt hangover. what if i told you could be on the way to saving a thousand bucks by the holidays? you can and i'm not going to tell you that old standard make your own gifts. this is real money. the biggest savings comes from your house.
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your mortgage. refinance if you can. lower a 6% mortgage on a $200,000 loan, lower it down to 4.2%, you're going to save 221 bucks a month. you can also save money when you ditch your gym membership. throw on a pair of running shoes. you could be saving 120 bucks if you cancel or you just put your gym membership on hold until after the holidays. some gyms let you do that. also, you need to be really smart about how you're shopping for groceries. don't buy your groceries ever at the drugstore. a recent study of the basics purchased at boston drugstores shows they cost as much as 50% more than at a grocery store. you could be saving on average 25 bucks a week if you avoid buying any grocery items in a pinch at the pharmacy and be smart. buy in bulk. don't buy name brands all the time. go to discounters. never use an out of network atm. if you do this twice a week, you're spending more on bank fees than you do on fresh vegetables. walk the extra block, drive the extra mile, save 50 bucks easy
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by the time the holidays roll around. also, you want to check and make sure you're using your technology in a smart way. bundle your internet, phone, cable, save, i don't know, 60 bucks a month if you switch from paying from them all separately and shop around. finally, this one is so controversial, but maybe you should be making your coffee at home. you could be spending as little as 15 bucks a month instead of $2 a day on your cup of joe. if you add it all up, here you go, you can pick and choose what is right for you. that's a thousand dollars in savings right there. the national retail federation says the average person will shell out $700 on presents this year. so pocket that extra $300 or so for your savings. christine romans, cnn, new york. all right, next, john lennon's tooth went up for auction yesterday. over 40 years after lennon actually gave it away. you'll never guess how much it actually sold for and what it looks like today. we're centurylink... a new kind of broadband company
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all right, he took a stand that became an iconic moment in olympic history this moment at the 1968 mexico city games. american track and field med medalist john carlos an tommy smith in their well known silent but resounding statement for human rights. john carlos has written about his life and that moment in mexico city. i talked to him a little while ago. >> to think, irregardless of what part of the world you were in, to resurrect your conscience and have a concern not just for yourself, but for your fellow man as well, to try and make this a better, more cohesive society for all individuals to have an opportunity to succeed in life. i would hate to think just based
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on an individual's color, he cannot achieve the goals that god might have set forth for him in their lives. >> john carlos is also active in the occupy wall street movement that has taken hold in new york and around the country. >> when i became >> when i became involved in this fight that we have for equality for everyone, there were individuals long before john carlos, dr. king, rosa parks, gandhi, many individuals, john brown, many individuals felt that we need to do something to change this society to make society wake up and be responsible for itself to try to cure the ills that we have. we thought that 1968 was an excellent opportunity for us to make a better understanding as to how we can come together as a race of people and be toll ranlt of one another and try to learn from one another to try to solve our problems that we have. >> fascinating icon.
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john carlos' book is called "the john carlos story" the sports moment that changed the world. more ahead in the yoom with our don lemon. >> you have some good stuff today. i love the iconics civil rights picture then that. he took a lot of flak for that picture. >> he did. he said that moment and he are intertwined. he knew it at that moment. certainly he didn't recognize it was going to change history or have that indelible mark on history, but he embraced it the whole way through and he says he's never run away from that moment, never tried to explain that moment, but certainly wanted to help to write this book, wanted to write the book to dispel so many myths that a came with that iconic picture. >> why he did it and the impetus behind it. >> i have a lot of props for you today. i have a phone and a cap and you
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know what that is about and i have the society professional journalist code of ethics. i should read it over. herman cain wants to make sure every journalist has a copy. >> i saw that last night. he reminded journalists. >> he conducted it after this debate with newt gingrich. let's listen. >> mr. cain, sexual -- >> don't even go there. >> >> can i ask my question? >> no. >> can i ask a good question. >> where's my chief of staff. >> please send him the journalist code of ethics? >> we will look at it and ask if reporters violated it, does herman cain or does herman cain the man who wants to be the president of the united states want to change the subject? that's what we are going to ask. we will have more besides that. we will talk about some apps
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the beatles sang that you can't buy me love but you can buy a tooth. oh , my goodness. first time seeing it. john lennon's tooth was sold at auction for $32,000. the canadian dentist said he is the lucky winner. he gave it to his housekeeper after he had it removed and the housekeeper held on to it all this time and decided to sell it. >> only a dentist would want that. >> here's don lemn in the background that you hear. he's disappointed he didn't have the winning bid. >> only a dentist would want that. >> leaf a bad taste in your mouth? >> little bit. >> how are you doing. >> i'm good. >> i like the sunshine back
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there. but it is not going to last long. they are o things are going to become severe leer. we have a storm system in the southwest this weekend and as it heads to the plain states, oklahoma not just dealing with earthquakes but a severe weather threat will pull up moisture and warmth from the gulf of mexico and interact with colder, drier air from the west. we expect severe thunderstorms from texas, oklahoma and possibly in to kansas for monday and tuesday. be aware of that front. large hail, damaging winds and isolated tornados. on the backside, yeah, it did say snow. my goodness. couple of inches in the plains. >> a couple of inches already this winter. going to be a cold one. >> an early start. a skiers delight. >> don lemon is up next with more in the newsroom. r camaro. [ man ] chevy silverado -- third one. [ male announcer ] people love their chevys. that's because for 100 years, chevy has offered the best value in america.
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