iowa for the week. and john hunt mnz returns to new hampshire. wednesday, cain goes to florida. and rick perry is in new hampshire. and michele bachmann will be in iowa. thanks so much for tuning in for this special hour of politics. join us every sunday at 4:00 eastern time. now stay right here for the latest news right here in "the newsroom." portland, oregon, this hour, police in riot gear closed in on the few remaining protesters telling them to move. about 200 demonstrators are d y defying the city's eviction order. live pictures now. police are warning anyone who resists faces arrest. on to denver now, overnight, police forced occupy denver protesters out of a park near the city's civic center. protesters danced in the streets while police tore down tents and

cleared out the protesters' personal belongings. 17 people were arrested there. and in a few moments, i'll have a report on where the money comes from to finance the occupy wall street movement. president barack obama is in full asia pacific mode today in hawaii. he's hosting the annual apec summit and hoping to re-energize u.s.-based business in that region. the president told ceos that americans need to stay to use his word hungry in attracting new investment from overseas. it is important to remember that the united states is still the largest recipient of foreign investment in the world. and there are a lot of things that make foreign investors see the u.s. as a great opportunity, our stability, our openness, our innovative free market culture. but we have been a little lazy, i think, over the last couple of

decades. we have taken for granted, well, people want to come here. we aren't out there hungry, selling america. >> in a little over an hour from now, vice president joe biden is set to give the keynote speech at a fund-raiser for an orthodox jewish school. he'll talk about foreign policy and u.s. support for israel. new york police are investigating what could be a hate crime in brooklyn. they say someone or a group set cars on fire and scrawled swastikas in a jewish section of brooklyn. police received emergency calls about it friday morning. the vandalism coincided with the 73rd anniversary of an infamous nazi backed attack against juices and their property in germany. the interim prime minister of italy has been selected. mario monti. monti is an economist and former european commissioner. his nomination has to be approved by italy's parliament. but watch how people in rome reacted to the resignation of silvio berlusconi.

♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ >> hallelujah at the news of berlusconi's departure from the office of prime minister. a special military task force has taken over some of brazil's largest and most notorious slums. 3,000 police and security forces in rio backed by helicopters moved right in last night. it is a drive to root out drug gangs ahead of the 2014 world cup and the 2016 summer olympic games. on to afghanistan now, the taliban claims it knows when and where vital meeting of tribal elders will be held next week. it is a meeting to discuss afghanistan's relationship with the united states. earlier i talked to cnn's nick payton walsh in kabul about how the taliban claim to have the sensitive information. >> taliban claim this say leak from inside the afghan government with detailed plans for the security for a meeting

of tribal elders here from across the country caught by the afghan president hamid karzai due to start later on this week. i must point out, the afghan interior ministry says the documents are fake and this is part of a propaganda campaign. the taliban said they'll do whatever they can to disrupt this meeting. it is an absolutely vital meeting between community leader across the country where they're set to gather together to discuss what kind of long-term presence u.s. troops can have in this country and even discuss with peace with the insurgency is still possible. >> how unusual is this that there would be public notice, fake plans or not, presented by the taliban? >> well, it is all about this information war that is starting between the insurgency and isaf here in afghanistan. they say the taliban can't win on the battlefield, so they're waging this information warfare, but the taliban and many afghans point out that actually this is

perhaps the sign of the insurgency using more sophisticated tactics, going to the internet, showing they have good intelligence, having proved tactics, and if these claims are actually true, if this leak is the real thing, then showing they can get the deepest secrets from inside the afghan government. fredricka? >> nick payton walsh, thank you for that update. for months now we have been covering the occupy wall street movement. it has real staying power. cnn's susan candiotti wanted to know how this group is holding it all together. she found an interesting money trail. >> reporter: since occupy wall street, ows, began its rallying cry against corporate greed more than 50 days ago, the movement has grown and so has its needs, including feeding hundreds camping out, providing sleeping bags for those who need them, distributing tarps and waterproof floorboards and medical supplies. >> very grateful to all the donations that have come in. >> reporter: what isn't donated

has to be bought. ows released its first month spreadsheet to cnn. the group took in nearly $455,000. and spent nearly 55 grand, quite a balance sheet, about $400,000 in the black. helping to keep track is money man pete dutrill who says his job is -- >> like having an office job in a mosh pit. it requires a lot of leg room to keep on top of receipts, and, you know, staying accurate and, like, making sure each account, when it is opened, gets closed. >> reporter: some donations are made on the spot. people walking through the park. >> seems to come in waves, you know. people stand around and one person sees one person and it is like a chain reaction, you know? >> reporter: some campers help the cause by spray painting occupy slogan on t-shirts for a donation. cash deposits mainly go to amalgamated bank.

ows says it was chosen for its ethics. >> they are a for profit bank, but donate all profits to charity. >> reporter: the alliance for global justice manages online donations and checks accountable to the irs. some critics have raised questions because of agg's support of the sandinistas among other causes. >> we have been on the side of right and justice and alleviating poverty in the world. >> reporter: for occupy wall street loyalists, there are no signs of dying down. will all the donations be spent and not squandered? >> i trust them completely. i'm not concerned at all that money is being inappropriately spent. >> reporter: what worries ows is whether the $10,000 a day they're taking in will keep on growing. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. and if you missed the sun mornding talk shows today, don't worry. we have you covered. a political roundup including

the latest republican presidential debate as well. but first, which u.s. newspaper has the largest circulation according to a new report just out? is it, a, the washington post, the los angeles times, c, the new york times, or d, the wall street journal. the answer after this. daddy, come in the water! [ gnome ] awwwwwwww. i just feel bloody awful. she told tiffany, stephanie, jenny and becky that she was coming to a place like this! but somebody didn't book with travelocity, with 24/7 customer support to help move them

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before the break, we asked you which u.s. newspaper has the biggest circulation. if you guessed eed d "the wall

street journal," you're correct. it has a circulation of more than 2 million copies. gop presidential candidate michele bachmann's campaign says it now has proof of media bias against their candidate. it comes in the form of a mass e-mail sent to cbs staff. the e-mail suggested bachmann wouldn't be getting many questions in last night's cbs national journal debate. the memo stated bachmann is, quote, nearly off the charts in recent polls. in a statement obtained by cnn, cbs described the e-mail chain as a, quote, candid exchange about the reality of the circumstances. after two debates in one week, the republican presidential hopefuls hit the campaign trail again and one state in particular, our deputy political director paul steinhauser fills us in. >> reporter: rising in the polls, republican presidential candidate newt gingrich spends much of this week in iowa.

the former house speaker isn't alone in the state that votes first in the race for the white house. texas governor rick perry and minnesota congressman michele bachmann stump in the hawkeye state this week. on saturday, most of the gop white house hopefuls show up at a family values forum in iowa. iowa caucuses are seven weeks away. fred? >> thanks so much, paul. we made the sunday morning talk show rounds so that you don't have to. among the big issues, the tenth gop debate, the super committee, and penn state. here are the highlights. >> how far are you all willing to go? >> we believe that frankly increasing tax revenues could hurt the economy. but within the context of a bipartisan negotiation with democrats, clearly they are a reality. so we put a half a trillion dollars of revenues on the tables. >> what we ought to be saying is

let's find a balanced way to do this. and let's say to those who are fortunate enough to be in that upper 1% who had 275% increase in their earnings over the last 28 years, let's say, come on, let's tone this down and put you where you were 28 years ago, relative to the rest of the country. >> we can fix our problems, but we require leadership from the president and the leaders of the house and the senate and saying we're going to do this and we have not seen that. >> president obama has absolutely been engaged, but, you know, this is a congressional committee. and the members of congress on that committee need to come together and we need republicans to step up to the plate and agree to come to -- come to a compromise. >> governor, both newt gingrich and rick perry said last night when it comes to foreign aid, that every country should start out at zero. what do you make of that? >> you know, it is fair enough

to say we have to start with a zero-based budget approach, but let's also be smart enough to say that we do as a people get a certain return through foreign aid. we have to carefully identify what that return is, explain it to the american people, but to say we're just going to wish it all away i think is a political sound bite. >> we saw mitt romney, one of the republican front-runners say, if push came to shove and nothing else worked with he would have to take military action against iran. would you be for that? >> totally, absolutely, without any doubt. the iranians, if they develop a nuclear weapon, bob, the whole region is going to want a nuclear weapon. then you march down the road of armageddon. you open pandora's box if you attack iran, if they get a nuclear weapon, you open pandora's box. that's the world we live in. >> i think one of the lessons we need to learn from this is that when people see something like this, or hear about something

like this, you need to investigate right away. you need to report. we have lost the focus of what is in the best interests of the child when you see something like this. >> i think about my children, if that was my child, and i think my automatic reaction would be, even though i'm a small woman, i would want to go find that guy and beat him to a pulp. >> and for the latest political news, you know exactly where to go, cnnpolitics.com. a new york man has a pretty cool hobby. swapping letters with presidents and world leaders. he was also a pen pal with a leader many call a dictator. his story next. also, when the sex scandal news broke at penn state, and this man, ex-coach jerry sandusky was taken into custody, many people instantly started comparing penn state to the catholic church scandal.

mexico mourns the death of its interior minister. the mexican government held a wake and funeral for jose francisco blakemora yesterday. he was killed in a helicopter crash on friday with eight others. mexican president felipe calderon said conditions were cloudy when the chopper went down. floodwaters in a spark in thailand are starting to recede and elephants are being used to carry away the debris. floods there have killed more than 500 people since july and have affected about a third of the nation's 77 provinces. also this -- the man who posted this video on youtube can be heard saying

protesters are being shot in syria. but state media showed another scene. rallies reportedly in support of the president. a network of opposition groups reports 27 people died in in violence today alone. a retired florist from brooklyn is a world class pen pal. he's exchanged thousands of letters and photos with presidents and other world figures. his name, louie slomowitz. he started his collection in 1953 by sending a christmas card to the white house, but no american president comes anywhere close to his most unlikely of pen pals. i think the whole pen pal story is so cute. i mean, a lot of people do it, but this man, louie, he takes it to a whole other level. >> quite extraordinary. one of his most famous pen pals that put him in the news is the

late libyan leader moammar gadhafi. that's when people started talking to louie. >> how did that come about? >> well, in 1969, he was reading the papers and he saw that gadhafi had seized power in a military coup. he wrote to him and congratulated him and told him he wished him well and he didn't expect a response, but gadhafi responded back and since then they started exchanging christmas cards, views on the middle east, not that they agreed about them, but then in 1988, when the lockerbie bombing happened, that's when louie decided that he wasn't going to write any more to gadhafi. and this is in his own -- in his own words, why he made that decision that ended the correspondence. let's listen in. >> i wish him well. he kept corresponding with me through the years, you know. but then i stopped. the reason why i stopped, i saw what he did and i said to myself, they're shooting down a plane, killing innocent people,

so i didn't write to him anymore because i felt it was -- what he did was a crime against humanity. and i don't want to be mixed up with individuals like that. >> but in general, he said he didn't need to agree with the leader in order to write to him. so he continued writing to other leaders, whether they were pro u.s., anti-u.s., and sometimes he even heard from the fbi and the cia. they were asking what's -- >> why are you having a conversation with any of these people. >> he said it was just, you know, correspondence, he wanted an autographed picture back and just curiosity and that was that. >> he says it is purely innocent. really wasn't -- he wasn't making political statements. statements of any kind, he just was learning from them. >> yeah. and for him it was just collecting those signatures and those autographed pictures. he has 60 albums, 6,000 autographs and material.

he has albums. some people offered to buy them. he's not selling unless he seize cash. one person offered him $35,000 for all the albums, but he said the check will be in the mail and he said, oh, i don't suffer fools. so he -- >> louie is sharp. he's got friends in high places. he's not falling for that old trick. thanks so much. >> you're welcome. >> that's fun. we're going to talk about the tuskegee airmen coming up. how their stories are being brought to life on the big screen. their historic mission is the subject of an upcoming george lucas movie and documentary. we'll talk to two tuskegee airmen and a historian, next. ub. you saved us hundreds. what was that? the discount double check? it's when we comb through your policies and make sure that you're getting all the discounts you deserve. no, i get that part, but you guys are doing my move. the discount double check move? that's my touchdown dance. so you're a dancer? no, i'm a quarterback. oh, a quarterback. mrr. i'm a robot. mm, mm. ee, er, ee, er.

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the story of the u.s. military's first black fighter pilots, the tuskegee airmen is coming soon to a theater near you. it is called red tails. there is also a documentary released earlier this week called double victory. yesterday i spoke with the author of a book who gives several tributes to the tuskegee airmen and two tuskegee airmen about what they think about the upcoming films. >> for a long time, people have felt that there was a dirge of information about the tuskegee airmen, about sacrifices, about the commitments and for a long time you've been incredibly dedicated to piecing together a lot of these details and you've compiled it in your book. george lucas and others, part of

the lukas film, knew about that dedication and they really turned to you to find out more about the history of the tuskegee airmen and compile that in this film. what are you most proud of with this documentary and this upcoming film? >> i'm proud that i did get to work on double victory. i did make a contribution. the thing is that as red tail comes out, it is a fictional account. the true story where the men are telling their own stories, along with pictures that you don't normally see, will be displayed. so with double victory, before seeing the movie, they will get a true account and that's what is very important. >> i said it was a bit of an incredible year of compiling a lot of the stories and bringing it to the silver screen and the big screen. but really in the past couple of years, there has been a greater amount of attention paid to the honoring of the tuskegee airmen. you have the congressional gold medal you received a few years ago, you were invited to the presidential inauguration for

the first time. what has it been like in the past few years, knowing that there has been this sort of attention being paid to the history and there has been a relearning of something that happened that you experienced 60 years ago. >> yeah. it is just -- it is a learning curve for us as well. it is interesting to me to watch people today who are not familiar with our experience. to watch how they interpret and receive the information about our legacy, and it is interesting to watch us watching them. there is some -- i found some humor in that. >> do you? >> although it is very serious stuff. and depending on how well we receive this new information, and it will say a lot about how

the next generation, generations will interpret it and incorporate that into their experience. >> and mr. hall, did you talk about it openly, share all of your experiences or good bit of your experiences with your family members or are you similar to a number of tuskegee airmen who suppressed it and didn't share it because it was a very difficult time? >> i shared it with my family. and we communicated, my father and i. my mother passed away before i joined. but i think it is good for the children today to know something about the history of the black people, you know? and it encourages them to maybe seek higher levels of everything. >> you all have been an incredible inspiration. thanks for continuing to share your stories, share your legacy. i appreciate your time today too.

and we really thank you for your service, your dedication, all of these years. and this is the cover of your book. it is a beautiful book. beautiful pictures. and great detail. heroes in war, heroes at home. good to see all of you. >> thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you so much for having us. >> thank you. a big push to shut down occupy protests this weekend. garbage trucks and police officers lining up in portland as you can see the situation there. it is heightening. we'll have the latest. plus, when the sex scandal news broke at penn state, and this man, ex-coach jerry sandusky was taken into custody, many people instantly started comparing the case to that of the catholic church sex abuse scandals. we'll have a discussion next. daddy, come in the water!

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move, move, move. >> in just the past hour in portland, oregon, police in riot gear are closing in on the few remaining occupy portland protesters telling them to move. about 200 demonstrators are defying the city's eviction order. police are warning anyone who resists will be arrested. and we also just got these pictures in, showing portland police tearing down the protesters' tents and then carrying off personal items. the protesters had stored there. meantime, president barack obama greeting leaders from asia and the pacific rim in hawaii.

this is the first time the united states has hosted the annual apec summit since the clinton administration. and we're live from honolulu in just a couple of minutes. an interim prime minister for italy has just been nominated. mario monti, an economist, and a former european union commissioner. monti's nomination has to be approved by italy's parliament still. ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ ♪ hallelujah hallelujah ♪ >> they were singing upon notice of the former italian prime minister silvio berlusconi stepping down, singing "hallelujah" in the streets of rome. so back here in the u.s., when the penn state sex scandal came to light, many people started quickly making comparisons to the catholic church child sex abuse scandal. cnn.com religion editor dan gilgof is here to talk about that. in your article, there are real

parallels being drawn between what happened with penn state or at least this investigation and how the investigation has also taken place involving the catholic church. >> right. there are so many seemingly striking parallels, one of the first big ones is the male-dominated hierarchy of the church with priests and bishops and the pope himself and the way that might have played a role in the way that a male institution responded to abuse. it is also striking, the parallels not only in how the alleged abuse happened with these men in power taking advantage of their respect that they were accorded and access to boys to allegedly perpetrate abuse, but also the way the institutions responded to the allegation. and in both those instances you had hierarchies which had apparently allowed people to report allegations up a chain of command without the people at the top actually taking those allegations to authority. >> so this code of silence, it is pervasive. and the handling of the

situation, once it bubbled to the surface and came to light, still similar? >> yeah. i think so. in both instances you had these hierarchies and they didn't know how to -- the people at the top were seemingly obsessed with how the image of the organization would be tarnished by the scandal, and the speculation at least is that that obsession with image prevented them from going to authorities. and in the case of the catholic church you have a highly revered religious institution, but also, you know, in penn state and state college and pennsylvania, paterno was revered as something of a god. so i think it is yet to be seen in how this investigation is played out, if that did play a role in people not coming forward, or the way the top officials responded. >> and some parallels that maybe the football program or the athletic program was almost like a religion, fraternity as well. >> that's right. yeah. i think it is also, though, important to point out some of the differences in how these scandals are playing out.

one of the big ones is that within a week of the indictment being publicized in pennsylvania you had the firing of top officials at penn state. so the president is gone, and the coach of the football team is gone. and i think, you know, ten years in, in -- into the catholic church scandal there are a lot of people wondering why haven't bishops been fired, why have bishops that presided over this abuse still in top positions in rome. >> and so when you reach out to people to, you know, to write about this, was it difficult to get people to reveal, to talk, to express their sentiments about these parallels or what is taking place with penn state? >> you know what is striking? the advocates for abuse, lawyers that represent abuse victims says said this week after the penn state scandal was broken, that they received, you know, a rush of phone calls, of e-mails 2 from victims saying they're watching this on television and this is how the scandal played out for them in the cath lib church. i think one irony here is that because the scandal in the church broke out in the big way,

in the united states about ten years ago that institutions are held to a different standard now because of the experience of seeing it, how it played out in the catholic church. >> fascinating stuff. people can read this -- >> cnn.com/belief. >> fantastic. dan, thanks so much. good to see you. >> good to be here. the occupy movement followed president obama to hawaii. a musician performing for the president singing a rather different tune there. we're live from honolulu to find out who took notice.

president barack obama is in hawaii today. he is trying to re-energize american business relationships with leaders from asia and the pacific rim while hosting the annual apec summit in honolulu. so let's go live to honolulu now where we find our white house correspondent brianna keilar in a very picturesque little perch there overlooking the water. how gorgeous. however, not so picturesque was a dinner, a big gala. tell us more. >> reporter: you know what's -- you know what's interesting about this is this sympathizer of occupy wall street, he's actually a performer here.

he plays guitar. and in particular he's renowned for a sort of style of hawaiian style of guitar. he plays slack key guitar. so he was invited by the white house to perform during the welcoming ceremony for these 19 heads of state. the kickoff, sort of the ceremonial kickoff to this apec summit and then also to play at the welcoming dinner hosted by president obama, a very small dinner, president obama and the first lady and, of course, the spouses of all of these leaders. so pretty small, four tables, of all of these leaders. and this man who -- mcconia, was playing all kinds of different songs, fred, some hawaiian songs and then he sort of launched into what is really -- what he -- a song he wrote that has been inspired by the occupy wall street movement. he actually revealed a t-shirt that said occupy with aloha during the dinner and then

played this song for the better part of about 45 minutes, sort of different parts of the song, in different styles. he was never escorted out. he said some people noticed what he was doing. and i asked him about this and here's what he said. >> that's the thing is for me, it was that moment when i thought, wow, you know, they're never going to invite me back if they find out or -- i thought to myself, so what? >> the lyrics -- just to give you -- fred, just to give you a sense of some of the lyrics that he was singing, certainly that would have raised some eyebrows, one was we occupy the streets, we'll occupy the courts, we'll occupy the offices of you until you do the bidding of the many, not the few. but he played entirely for about two and a half hours, and now he's -- he did this sort of in conjunction with some anti-apec folks and now they're sort of going around, certainly publicizing this on blogs,

publicizing this on a website, that they put up. at this point, no response from the white house. we have asked multiple times. >> this is so strange. and so strange that he would be able to play for two and a half hours and making these statements and nobody noticed. he may have been invited by the white house, bounce once they realized he was not staying on point, that they hired him in which to do, why didn't security or somebody step in and stop what was going on? >> reporter: you know, i think there is a couple of things going on. one, i think he was doing it -- it sort of an acoustic guitar, so at least musically it was pretty mello. and certainly the words, i think, are very challenging as you can imagine, but i also think it is possible that certainly some white house staffers and maybe even the president himself, we don't know, wasn't aware, because this was a providing background music. he also has performed for the white house before.

he performed during a christmas party in 2009. he has this relationship with them as being an entertainer, but said he wanted to express himself, and i think he was a little surprised too that he wasn't stopped, but he said part of the way he was doing it was sort of in a way that wasn't completely in your face. although he did show the t-shirt, it is very surprising, but he said it wasn't, like, he trunt e interrupted the dinner, he segmented into this rendition of a different song than what he had been playing. >> in the end, his music is what upstaged it all. they didn't notice what was being said. all right, brianna keilar, thank you so much from honolulu. a digital media diva inspired by comedian bill cosby and fat albert. jackie beauchamp claimed the corporate ladder and left to focus on her passion, video games. meet her next. try bayer advance. it's not the bayer aspirin you know. it's different. first, it's been re-engineered with micro-particles.

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in today's black in america, soledad o'brien introduces us to an african-american woman who is a success in the high tech world. >> different environment -- >> reporter: jackie beauchamp is the founder, ceo and chairwoman of the digital media company energized entertainment. >> this is an entrepreneur starting up a video gaming company and being a woman and african-american, she was trail blazing many paths. and doing so from right here in baton rouge, louisiana.

>> reporter: born and raised there, she climbed the corporate ladder. >> there is not a lot of diversity. not just in the executive ranks, in the industry. and, you know, there are times as an african-american female, i was the only african-american female in the room. >> reporter: then left that loneliness to follow her heart. >> electrical engineer by degree, so technology has always been at the heart and soul of what i am. but animation and multimedia is my passion. as a kid growing up, watching fat albert and the cosby kids, i'm seeing something that, you know, mr. cosby created and said, one day i want to own a company that knows how to do that. >> reporter: and now she does. >> the biggest success so far has been the -- the release of and launch and shipment of our first console video game, which

is the black college football video game experience. what we constantly kept hearing and seeing in the industry were, you know, not enough content that reflects the urban character and those that were there, they were not portrayed in a very positive light. so our intent was to provide some different type of content into the market segment. >> reporter: up next, a documentary and then -- >> a dance-based, music-based video game on x box 360, out li utilizing kinect, playstation 3 and wii. it is not just for the african-american consumer to enjoy the experience. >> reporter: she concedes it is an uphill battle and embraces it. >> i'm an african-american female. and every day i know that i've got to get people to see me, to see me, and not that i'm an

african-american female. >> reporter: for in america, soledad o'brien, cnn, reporting. >> watch soledad o'brien's black in america special tonight 8:00 eastern here on cnn. actor, singer, producer, the list goes on, justin timberlake. he's also a man of his word. and here is the proof. this picture shows timberlake at last night's marine corps ball in richmond, virginia. as promised, remember that his date is corporal kelsey disantos, she popped the question, she's stationed at marine corps base in quantico. she used youtube to pop that question. will you go to the ball with me? and timberlake, the man that he is, the gentleman that he is, the man of his word, said yes and he actually did show up. wasn't that cute? >> yeah. >> i need some dates. >> you do? no, you're such a popular guy. >> we should use cnn.

i would like to ask whatever -- >> go ahead. you're on the sofa. interesting things happen here on the sofa. people start really talking. >> i'm not condoning that. >> okay. >> i'm not going to do that. just a joke. that was great. congratulations to brooklyn and justin. you're a stand-up guy. >> what do you have going on this evening. >> we're going to handle a very tough issue, fred, tonight, and it is going to be about surviving sex abuse. one brave man is speaking out on his experience and the silence that can lead to a penn state type tragedy. when you heard about penn state what did you do? what did you think? >> i really felt for the boys who were victimized by the assaults and especially also for the witness who actually witnessed it and reported it and nothing was ever done. and it is unfortunate that the coach's popularity preceded support for these people.

>> does it bring anything up in you, does it remind you of anything, is there anything you have to do? does it trigger anything, i guess, is a better way of putting it? >> this triggers the person who assaulted me. she decided to support her son instead of listening to me and listening to me and getting me the help i need. it is a tool to help myself to recover from listening to these types of stories in the news. it is very triggering. >> from what you were saying one of your family members was the abuser. >> that is part of the panel. we had a survivor, doctor and jon wertheim at the campus last night. and tonight you want to watch this. because at 7:00 one of our regular guests. you know goldie taylor. she will talk about the abuse she suffered as a young girl and she says it haunts her and

impacted her daily life and how she raised her children. it is a compelling story and today, she says she just told her mom for the first time. >> really? >> yes. >> that's incredible. this investigation certainly provoking a lot of conversations and hopefully a lot of things learned as a result. >> hopefully shed light on the silence and the cycle of abuse doesn't continue. >> much more from you straight ahead in the newsroom and we will have more after this. ♪ we're centurylink...

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a lot of ups and downs on wall street lately. when will the wild wings stop now that italy passed the austerity plan and appointed a new interim prime minister. cnn money.com poppy harlow on the week ahead. >> stocks were all over the place this last week. the dow posted triple-digit moves as the turmoil in europe continued. the focus shifted to italy as that country's ten-year bond shooeld yield spiked to a record high and hit a level that could indicate a need for a bailout. wall street bonuses are set to tumble up to 30% this year.

johnson associates says it will mark the weakness simpbs the financial crisis. they are getting hit by new regulations and a weak economy. poppy harlow as a look at business news. >> thank you so much. the upcoming week on wall street brings notable economic reports. we will get the latest look at inflation and home construction. meantime, earnings from wal-mart, target, jcpenney and retail sales numbers will put a focus on consumer spending and the senate banking committee will hold a hearing on freddie mac and fannie mae's compensation packages. they sparked out raj with plans to hand out $13 million in bonuses this year despite having received $170 billion government bailout. we will keep an eye on it all week on cnn money. back to you. blizzard warnings are in effect in areas near denver right now. jacqui jeras has the bigger

picture right now. >> the winds are making travel difficult. some pictures out of colorado to show you how treacherous the conditions have been. near blizzard conditions and white out at times. this is really just in the mountains, by the way. denver hasn'thood a single flake of snow whatsoever because the wind is sloping down the mountains and that's a drying effect. pull up the video anytime you get it. what's going on? why are the winds so strong? low pressure drives the wind. the greater the difference in pressure is what drives the winds ann and that's why we get gusts over 60 miles an hour at times. frisco colorado, 115 miles an hour. that's a gust, but if it were a sustain wind it is a equivalent of a category three hurricane. >> oh, my gosh. >> loveland pass closed today. can't get t to the ski resorts.

i know with the fresh powder you want to get there but by tomorrow this thing will be over and done. how much snow have you gotten? in utah over a foot. steam boat springs had six inches. so quite a bit out there. if you are traveling, the winds causing problems at jfk and chicago. so call ahead. we have winds all across the nation's mid section and throughout the front range. >> thank you so much. appreciate that. have a great evening. thank you for hanging out with me this afternoon. i'm fredricka whitfield. more straight ahead with don lemon. have a great week. look at these big pieces of potato. ♪ what's that? big piece of potato. [ male announcer ] progresso. you gotta taste this soup.

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