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college with cnn contributor sarah ganim. she's been breaking news almost daily on the story for her paper, "the patriot-news." sarah, thanks for being with us. you spoke to lawyers who say there are new victims coming forward. >> reporter: yeah. i spoke to two lawyers who have said that since jerry sandusky's nbc interview in prime-time on monday, they've had several calls from potential new victims who say they're coming out and speaking about this abuse for the very first time to these lawyers, because of what jerry sandusky said. they felt compelled to come forward, triggered specifically by that interview. now, it's not clear how many there are, and it's not clear how many of these are going to go to police and give a statement, or go to a grand jury and testify. some of them date back not 1970s. so in some cases, the statute of limitations might have run out. it's not clear the range of abuse from those victims. however, we are seeing a lot of reports of more people coming forward. >> the second mile, is it likely they're going to close?

>> reporter: well, you know, the ceo told us today that it's one of three options. they're hoping it's not what they have to do, but right now they're taking some time to talk to donors, to talk to the schools that help them with their programs, that facilitate those programs to see what they think they can do. what going forward is the best option. i think that there's three options here. they can continue on as the second mile. they could continue on doing the things the second mile did under a different name, or they might have to shut down. >> the news today that paterno has lung cancer, was this information out there under the radar, or is this, in fact, new information? >> reporter: well, specifically lung cancer, yes, that's new information. i think it's surprising to a lot of students on campus. however, joe paterno is 84 years old. he's been the subject of speculation and health rumors for a long time, because of his age. and because last season, he had

kind of a intestinal kind of illness and he also had some bumps with players during practice that left him with health problems. so people like to talk about joe paterno's health, but this is one of the first really serious allegation -- it's not an allegation, but serious assertions of a health problem. >> where did this story surface? is this something that his family released or the university released? how did people learn of this? do you know? >> reporter: his son released it today and asked really that people respect his privacy, because he'll have to go through some treatment. >> let's bring in jeffrey toobin and mark geragos. these missing documents -- it's just weird, first of all, this d.a. who's dead, that's a whole other bizarre story. but these missing documents from second mile and these d.a. files that don't exist. what you make of it? >> i draw a distinction between the two. it's very serious if second

mile's documents don't exist. it's an ongoing organization, they're required to keep records. if they were gone just because they were chaotic, that's one thing, but if someone actually got rid of them, that's potentially another crime in and of itself. i'm less impressed or -- i think it's less significant that there is no record of a closed investigation. when i was a prosecutor, when we closed an investigation, we didn't necessarily do a memo about it. i mean, the records were kept somewhere, if we subpoenaed records, but there is no a formal process for closing records -- you know, closing an investigation. particularly in a small d.a.'s office. >> the second mile records would be important because it would have sandusky's expense reports, travel over state lines or not. >> one of the issues that i think's really important here. do you know how many different investigations are going on now? you have the attorney general, that's the one -- she's brought the charges. you have this federal department investigation. you have an internal penn state investigation. you now potentially have the fbi. they're all going to want to interview the same witnesses.

they are going to have to straighten out who does what, or it's all going to get messed up. this happens a lot in big cases. >> mark, is this just piling on? i mean -- >> well, it is miling -- >> -- organizations wanting to get in on this? >> right. anytime you have this kind of attention and media scrutiny, you're always going to have everybody drawn like it to prosecutorial moths to a flame. and jeff has hit it right on the head here. the problem is, if you start interviewing these people, and if you start getting successive stories, and like you've seen with mcqueary, you've already had an evolution of the story, you start having witnesses tell different stories, it's a prosecutorial nightmare. >> mcqueary in particular. he already has sent that e-mail -- >> there's son-in-lonly so many you can interview somebody. >> it's also painful, particularly given the accusations here. but even if you were telling the truth, if you are asked five

times to recount the same event, you're going to do it slightly different each time. you will then be cross-examined about, why did you say this to this person. why did you say this to this person? remember, mcqueary he sent that e-mail out to his friends saying he did report the rape to the police, whereas the grand jury report says he didn't. there's already two story outs there. the more people tell the stories, the more different investigations, the harder it will be. >> i guess mcqueary could be claiming, and again, i don't know what he was meaning in this e-mail, but he could be claiming that one of the guys he talk to oversaw the campus police, and maybe in his mind, that was -- >> that's -- potentially. but the problem is, the statements are now out there and he's going to have to explain it. if you only have one person you're talking to, the odds of conflicting stories are much less. >> so, mark, how do multiple different agencies work that out? >> at some point, somebody's going to just bigfoot it and say, this is our investigation, this is our prosecution.

my guess is it's going to be the attorney general. and they're going to say to everybody else, you've got to step aside. that's why to some degree this ncaa investigation, i understand that they want to act like they're doing something, but it's actually quite silly. in this sense. what is the ncaa going to do at this point until all of these facts are out? until we've had some kind of a hearing? until there's cross-examine in this case. i don't understand what the ncaa thinks they're doing. it's utterly ridiculous. going back to jeff's previous point about the lack of a prosecutorial memo, in state court and in most d.a.'s office, they do have what's called a reject. i don't know if pennsylvania and specifically this d.a.'s office does, but here in l.a., virtually every case where the d.a. gets a case for felony filing, they've got to fill out a form, they've got to say exactly why they did it, and that's one of the things that goes into the file and it follows that file around. so to some degree, that could be

a problem later on for the prosecutors as well. i don't understand why they wouldn't have anything, especially when you're talking about a case that's so emotionally charged, number one, and so potentially high profile. >> well, just good luck finding anything 13 years later. >> right. >> you're just dealing -- just the nature of what it's like. i mean, i was in the u.s. attorney's office, we had slightly different policies. but, i mean, going back to find old records, in any business, is difficult. but particularly you're dealing with small offices. i mean, it's just really hard to reconstruct this stuff. >> does the announcement of joe paterno's lung cancer, does that affect anything? >> yeah, i think it -- i think it's very significant. because, you know, i mean, i hope he recovers, but lung cancer in an 84-year-old is a very serious facing any other part of this he's a witness. people may want to talk to him. he may not be in a position to talk to people. so -- i'm sorry, go ahead, mark.

>> i was just going to say, my experience is, when you have somebody who's led a life like he has, and now all of a sudden everything comes crashing down around you, i've had the experience countless times where this is the worst thing that could happen to somebody, and you just -- your prayers go out to the family, because this is not something when you've got a mental state that is torn apart to begin with, in the last 11 days, and then you compound it with the health issues. and to some degree, there's been that story that's been floating around about the transfer of the house for $1. was that done because of a health issue as opposed to shielding assets? it gives a lot more import, i think, and hopefully, perspective to some of this. >> mark geragos, thanks for being on, jeff toobin as well. let us know what you're going on, we're on facebook, or on twitter. up next, another athletic program, another sex abuse allegation, another coach under a cloud.

there are differences, though. we're talking about what's happening, allegations now have been made at syracuse university. the differences between the way penn state handled and it the way syracuse is handling it. we'll talk about that ahead. we'll show you how the cases are different. we've got the latest from syracuse and talk to dr. drew pinsky. also tonight, congress promising to cut the budget deficit. they voted for tough penalty ifs they failed. now they're failing and looking for ways the to squirm out of the penalties. and decades after natalie wood died at sea under mysterious circumstances, a really bizarre, shocking development. at the time, it was ruled an accident. today, that conclusion is being revisited and the investigation reopened. the late details on that. congratulations. congratulations. congratulations.

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being disgusted in a sense, you know. but that's when everything -- you know, when he started trying to touch me. my private. >> i can't -- probably 15, 20 times. when you tell him that -- you know, first he just -- when he first did it, you would move away and you wouldn't say anything, because, you know, you didn't feel like you were capable of saying anything, you know? he's a god to you. you know? >> a 2005 investigation by the university found no evidence of wrongdoing. fine denies the allegations. for the very latest let's bring in ed lavandera in syracuse. ed? >> reporter: hi, anderson. well, late this afternoon bernie fine put out a statement through his attorney. in that statement he patently denied and called these allegations false. he said he looks forward to defending himself against these allegations. he also went on to say that sadly we live in an allegation-based society and an internet age where in a matter of minutes, one's lifelong

reputation can be severely damaged. i am confident that, as in the past a review of these allegations will be discredited and restore my reputation. i hope the latest review of these allegations will be conducted expeditiously." what he's referring to there, and as you mentioned, anderson, back in 2005, syracuse police investigated this. according to the accusers and the university here, charges weren't brought because it was past the statute of limitations. but also, the university says they had hired a law firm to investigate these allegations as well, interviewed four people that were connected to this, that were brought forth as witnesses by the accusers, and that none of those people could corroborate the evidence against the assistant coach here at syracuse. of course, all of this intense scrutiny going on in the wake of the penn state scandal as well. we want to hear a little bit more from one of those accusers who talked to espn last night. >> if i -- you know, for a short time, he would just put his hand -- first, he'd start rubbing my leg.

you know, he was sitting next to my, rubbing my leg, and then just gradually put his hand down my pants and tried to grab my penis. and if i resisted, which i did all the time, he would get more aggressive. and grab it. and you know, say just relax, just relax. and if i didn't, he'd yank it and try to pull it, you know. relax, relax. he'd keep saying that. >> so these are the same two guys who are making the allegations now who made the allegations back in 2005, that the police didn't investigate because the statute of limitations had expired, and the university says they hired outside counsel and had a four-month investigation and could not corroborate anything that was said, using the witnesses that these two men suggested, correct? so it's not new allegations. it's basically just an old allegation? >> reporter: exactly. but the syracuse police -- now, the city of syracuse police saying that they have reopened this investigation, that forced

the university here to put the coach on administrative leave. we've been trying to get in touch with the police department to figure out what caused them to reopen this investigation and bring it up again. we haven't been able to get any answers from the police department. >> it could very well be publicity over what's happening at penn state and not wanting to appear as if they're brushing it away. syracuse head coach jim boeheim, what is he saying about the allegations? >> reporter: you know, anderson, this is the real interesting part here. as one student put it to us today, jim boeheim is to syracuse what joe paterno is to penn state down in pennsylvania. this is a man who has coached in this community for more than three decades. he is highly respected. his voice and his opinion carries a lot of weight around here. and jim boeheim has come out in strong defense of his assistant coach, saying he has the full support of his assistant coach, believes these charges are false and, in fact, in that espn interview, basically said that these two accusers were lying. interestingly enough, syracuse basketball team was practicing here tonight. we didn't hear anything from the coach.

but they are playing a game tomorrow afternoon. and in the media gathering after the game, we expect to hear from boeheim at that time. >> ed, i appreciate the reporting. thank you. whether or not any or all or none of the allegations between mr. fine and jerry sandusky are true, people everywhere now are talking once again about child sex abuse. just during the height of the priest sex abuse scandals, people wanting to know more about how abusers operate. all too frequently, how powerful institutions try to protect themselves. i talked about it earlier tonight with dr. drew pinsky, host of hln's "dr. drew," and pete hammel who covers sports for "the new york times." pete, you graduated from syracuse. you worked for the local newspaper. did you hear any whispers of accusations against bernie fine? >> anderson, the only thing i knew and it was after i left my job at the "post standard," i knew that espn and the "post

standard" had looked into these allegations in 2003 and that both of them had decided not to run the story. that was my only knowledge coming into yesterday. >> dr. drew, i want to play some of what one of the accusers told espn. >> when did bernie fine begin to act unlike a father figure and like something else entirely? >> i think he always tried to act like the father figure and to try to put that in my mind, now that i look back at it. but he is -- probably when i was, you know, 6th grade, you know, 11, 10 years old. and he started trying to touch me and things like that. >> dr. drew, it is typical for child sex predators, if they're not the kind to grab a kid, to groom children? >> yeah, that is certainly the more common situation, where these guys go through great lengths to groom them and develop relationships and build trust and then they start testing. they start touching them in ways to see how the kids react.

and it's, in fact, the kids that are at most risk, what we call high-risk kids, who have been abandoned or neglected at home or who have been abused at home, who come from broken families, who respond to any sort of physical touch in a positive way. they really want that kind of touch and affection because they have not been getting it. and the victimizer sees that there's no pushing away. then they go a little further. and what typically happens to the victims is they freeze. and that freeze response, which is something that's very typical in victims, is what gives the victimizers the opportunity to really move in. >> pete, it does seem the way syracuse university responded to these allegations is very different from the way penn state handled the allegations against sandusky. >> yeah. and i think, anderson, it's important to realize here that the syracuse allegations are just allegations at this point where penn state, there was a three-year investigation and there was a grand jury report that was released. but you're absolutely right. jim boeheim came out very strong

in defense of his longtime assistant coach, bernie fine in this situation. it was really remarkable how much he did say and what lengths he went to defend bernie. >> dr. drew, in the syracuse case, the alleged victims waited for years to come forward. in one case, the abuse supposedly continued until the victim was 27 years old. is that unusual? >> it's not unusual at all for people to remain in silence. and it's also not unusual that until other people speak up that the victims begin to speak up. >> in both cases, dr. drew, syracuse and penn state, a lot of doubts have been raised about the credibility of the accusers. what would prompt somebody to lie about being sexually abused as a child? >> well, they're alleging that this case it is money. it's also the case that sometimes people who have been severely abused will misinterpret what is otherwise relatively innocent contact as abuse. that happens. that happens out in the world. >> pete, penn state is synonymous with college football, syracuse synonymous with college basketball. there's got to be a lot of

concern on campus that this, even the hint of a scandal, would affect the program. >> sure. you know, i'm obviously at state college now and have been here for a while and i talked to our reporter greg bishop who's in syracuse today. and certainly there's a pall over that place, which obviously prides itself on basketball. and clearly, i mean, that's the university's defining image nationally, is the carrier dome and the orange of syracuse. so, you know, the university was very proactive, unlike penn state, in issuing a response. they put bernie fine on administrative leave last night. chancellor nancy canner made that decision. and this morning she sent a letter to all the alumni at 8:00 a.m., just letting them know how they're reacting to things. there's obviously in the wake of penn state grave concerns at syracuse. >> and police say they're looking into it, but from everything i've read it sounds like police looked into these allegations in 2005 and because the statute of limitations

determined not to pursue. is that right, pete? >> correct. i just talked to tom cannell, the syracuse police spokesman walking over here, and he said they're still very actively looking into this, and that they really couldn't say much more. espn reported last night that an unmarked car picked up the second alleged victim after they finished interviewing him for their "outside the line" story. really all syracuse police would tell me today is they're still actively looking at this case. they did look at this in 2003 and what the accuser told espn is that it was outside the statute of limitations and couldn't move on. >> pete, appreciate you coming to us tonight. thank you. and dr. drew as well. thanks. just ahead tonight, how close is the super committee to coming anywhere near a deal to trim the federal deficit with deadline fast approaching? not good news. we're keeping them honest. plus, the drowning death of actress natalie wood nearly 30 years ago is being investigated again. authorities have reopened the

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another keeping them honest report. tonight the super committee is assigned to cut the deficit that remains by all accounts deadlocked with just days away. they have until wednesday to reach a deal on $1.2 trillion in savings. less time, actually, because they're required by law to have a blueprint ready on monday for review. six democrats, six republicans on the panel. they spent the day in closed-door meetings. what we're hearing them say in public, frankly, does not inspire much confidence. here's super committee co-chair, senator patty murray, earlier

today. >> where the divide is right now is on taxes. and whether or not the wealthiest americans should share in the sacrifice that all of us have to make. >> well, on sunday, her republican co-chair, republican jeb hensarling acknowledged the deep divide on tax hikes, but also seemed to suggest that they were on the table. >> we believe that increasing tax revenues could hurt the economy, but within the context of a bipartisan negotiation with democrats, clearly they are a reality. >> well, today, though, republicans offered a scaled-back proposal that contained almost no tax revenues and democrats rejected that. that's pretty much how it's gone since negotiations began. now, if the super committee does not make its deadline, that's going to trigger automatic, across-the-board spending cuts to the tune of $1.2 trillion. and some of those automatic cuts would be to military programs. now, keep in mind congress created that trigger so that it would hold its own feet to the fire. but congress can also get rid of that trigger by simply voting to get rid of it.

americans, meantime, are almost out of patience. in a new recent "new york times"/cbs poll, just 9% approve of the job congress is doing. 9%. the super committee says it's going to work through the weekend to try to reach a deal. i spoke earlier with our political panel, congressional correspondent kate balduan, chief political analyst gloria borger, and mark mckinnon, a former adviser for the bush/mccain campaign, and co-founder of the nonpartisan political group, no labels. >> so, keith, these automatic spending cuts were supposed to force congress into making tough choices. why does it seem they haven't made any progress at all. >> reporter: well, anderson, things are looking grim. and i think for the first time, we can really say, according to a lot of the sources i've been talking to, if things don't change dramatically up here in these negotiations, the committee is heading towards failure. just evidence of that is that without getting into a lot of the detail, democratic and republican leadership had been

talking about what republicans had called kind of plan "b" or a backup plan if the committee was not going to succeed. but that was quickly panned, as it was mostly all spending cuts and very little revenue. so that really shows why they haven't gotten to the place where they need to be. is things have broken down, and they're deadlocked largely over the same issues which they have been all along, which is taxes. democrats say taxes and revenue have to be part of any deal to be balanced. and republicans simply say they remain firmly opposed to any tax increases unless it's part of a broader deal. and that's why the conversation has really, really started to shift from pushing for a deal and reaching their target to now, how do we lessen the blow of the trigger, of that sequester, if it has to set in. >> but, mark, i mean, we knew all this months ago. we knew this was where the positions were. this is what leadership and compromise is all about. >> yeah. and the real irony here is that the congress and the white house punted this to the super committee, and now it appears increasingly likely that the

super committee is going to kick it right back to the white house and the congress, because they're incapable of taking action. it's no wonder the public has lost complete confidence. they keep showing us over and over again that they are incapable of taking action, even when it's very clear to everybody what has to be done. and, you know, you look at the design of the committee, and it's pretty clear that both republicans and democrats intentionally put people on the committee that they knew at the end of the day would be partisan, wouldn't compromise, and in the end, there wouldn't be a deal. it really comes as no surprise. >> gloria, what's the point of setting these declines in the first place if they're not going to keep them? >> reporter: well, i think that even members of congress understand that they're kind of a crisis-activated institution. and they never do anything anymore unless they're up against a wall. and so they decided to put themselves up against a wall, because they also knew that they had to set a deadline during the whole debt ceiling debacle, because people had to take them seriously. but, again, even when they did

this, there was a certain amount of skepticism, as mark says, that this committee could get done in three months what congress hasn't been able to do in ten years. and guess what? they're unable to do it. >> so, can they find a way around these triggers? can they actually do that? >> reporter: i mean, any act of congress can be overturned or undone by an act of congress. so they technically could, but leadership, including president obama, have said that they do not support that idea. they do not think that's a good idea, because it would be, you know, seen as congress shirking its responsibilities. but there are some senators, like senator john mccain among them, who would like to see overturned, if it would kick in, at least the part of the trigger that really deeply hits the defense budget. and there is clearly a concerted effort up here of at least trying to lessen the blow of the trigger. and we have to remind everybody, these don't set in, this trigger, until 2013. so they have a whole year to fight over how to carve it out.

>> but this is just rationalizing failure, you know? they have failed. >> reporter: i agree. >> and what they're trying to do is go, you know what, it's not going to be that bad, because the cuts won't take effect until 2013. the democrats have waddle off entitlements. the republicans say, you know, we can undo some of these defense cuts. but it's all rationalization. the american public will understand that they have failed. >> and mark, the consequence to that failure is what? for the american people? for the united states? >> well, it's a complete collapse in confidence in the institutions of governmented to their job. and that translates into a collapse of confidence not just in the government, but in the economy. during the debate over the debt ceiling, consumer confidence collapsed 20 points. and it wasn't even the outcome of that debate, it was the nature of the debate itself. so this will just be more evidence to the public, which already is -- you know, their confidence in congress right now is at 9%. i mean, it's down to family members of congress who are supporting them.

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up close tonight, a stunning twomt. a story that shook hollywood 30 years ago. the death of hollywood actress natalie wood. she drowned in 1981. she just finished filming what would be her last movie. her death was ruled an accident. then today came this. >> recently, we have received information which we felt was substantial enough to make us take another look at this case. >> and on the "today" show, the former captain of the boot that wood disappeared from said this. >> i did lie on a report years ago. >> and what did you lie about then? >> it was just a -- i made mistakes by not telling the honest truth in a police report. >> we'll talk with our panel in a moment. but first, the latest developments.

actress natalie wood was a hollywood legend. ♪ tonight, tonight known not only for her films, but also for the mystery surrounding her death 30 years ago. wood drowned at the age of 33. at the time, it was ruled an accident. the case is now being re-opened for investigation. >> recently, we have received information which we felt was substantial, enough to make us take another look at this case. >> here's what we know about wood's death, on thanksgiving weekend in 1981, wood, husband robert wagner, and christopher walken went boating. during the night, an argument broke out. wagner was jealous of walken. after that argument, wood left her room and disappeared. her body was found floating in the water about a mile away. the coroner's office says wood was drunk at the time of her death. >> shortly after midnight on sunday morning, she apparently

attempted to get on to the dingy, slipped, and fell in the water. >> but the ship's captain, dennis davern, who co-wrote a book about wood's death has come forward with a different version of events. he said he withheld information from investigators at the direction of robert wagner. >> we necessarily didn't lie, we just didn't tell everything. and it was agreed that what we spoke about between the three of us is what we would tell the investigators. >> and davern says wagner waited three hours after wood disappeared before telling the coast guard and that the argument between wagner and wood may have turned violent. >> there was a lot of physical activity going on in the stateroom. > >> what do you mean? >> just noises, movement in the stateroom. >> like violence, yelling? >> yes. and then the argument went to

the aft deck, and they argued back there for a little while, and then it became silent. >> the occupancy report showed wood had two dozen bruises on her body, as well as a laceration on her cheek. davern and wood's sister have both publicly said they believe wagner's argument with wood had something to do with her death. they never believed that wood, who spoke candidly about her fear of the water, would attempt to ride a boat on her own at night. police say wagner's not a suspect in this reopened investigation. in a statement, the wagner family says they "fully support the efforts of the l.a. county sheriff's department and trust they will evaluate whether any new information relating to the death of natalie wood wagner is valid and that it comes from a credible source or sources other than those simply trying to profit from the 30-year anniversary of her death." joining us now, "vanity fair,"

sam. why do you think this investigation was reopened now? >> thing four elements. one is the reprise that you just mentioned. the other is, there has been a petition in los angeles to reopen the case. a lot of her fans and people were dissatisfied with the original investigation. and i think that the third element is 48 hours -- >> cbs. >> right, which really took my story, which i wrote originally ten years ago, and really ran with it. and they're talking to ear and eyewitnesss -- >> ear -- people on boats nearby. >> right. there was a woman on a boat nearby who insists that she heard a woman's cry -- a woman cry -- a woman's cry for help, you know? >> so you don't think it was any one particularly coming to the police department and saying, here's some new information. you think it was more things that you had written and the

idea that this was back in the atmosphere. >> i think so. and i think lapd doesn't want to be behind the curve. i mean, they don't quite know what 48 hours has cooked up. and they just want to make sure. i think they would like to put this thing to rest too. because it's been 30 years. >> jim, you think the reopening of this case may have something to do with sort of the politics of the police department, right? >> well, i mean, the timing today, i agree that perhaps they want to be in front of the curve. it is interesting to me, when you listen to the news conference, they said they got new information that they deemed substantial, but they have yet to talk to robert wagner. they have yet to talk to christopher walken. they have yet to really re-interview dennis davern, the captain of the boat. you'd think that they would have done something of an investigative nature before making this big announcement, when all we really here is that robert wagner is not a suspect. one thing i thought was interesting in the timing. if you google "l.a. county

sheriff's department" today, all you will see is this investigation. but coincidentally, today is also a day that a seven-person commission is investigating alleged abuse of inmates at the county jail. the sheriff's department could have announced this on the anniversary or after this special if new information did, indeed, come out that they deemed credible. so i just thought the whole aura of the event seemed odd to me. >> what are some of the thinking big things that we don't know about what happened on that boat? allegedly there was a fight and robert wagner acknowledges he fought with her that night. the presumption is she got into a dingy and her body was found a distance away. >> right. but also there were precious hours after she was missing from her stateroom where they didn't look for her. and where dennis, to his credit, i think, dennis davern -- >> the boat captain. >> yeah, the boat captain, does admit that he allowed himself to be constrained by robert wagner from calling the authorities.

>> why didn't robert wagner want the authorities called? >> i think because he was robert wagner and it was natalie wood that was missing. and in a way, i think this is a lesson too about how celebrity, a certain level of fame can compromise judgment. you try to manage -- you know, stage manage, at least a tragic accident. we saw that with chappaquiddick on some level too. >> jim, for you, what are the big questions you want answered? >> well, i mean, i think if denver davern has a problem with his conscience, i wish it had occurred before he wrote a book. that's one of my problems with this. i agree, this has been a mystery for years. there have been questions about this death for years. even though it was ruled an accident, natalie wood's sister has raised questions, certainly saying that her sister was terrified of water. so it would be nice to finally, i agree, put some closure to this. >> the idea that she was terrified of water, wouldn't get into a dingy. there was alcohol in her system, so she was probably -- she'd been drinking, so her judgment

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time now for the ridiculist. and tonight we're adding all the debate over whether pizza is a vegetable. you might have heard about this. congress has put the kibosh on an effort to make school lunches healthier. it all comes down to tomato paste. namely, what is the absolute minimum amount that can be counted as a vegetable in a

school lunch? proposed new rules would have increased it, which would be great, especially for the many, many kids who love drinking tomato paste. no, congress decided all you need is two tablespoons, and voila, that's a vegetable serving. which qualifies pizza as a vegetable. big questions are at play. is pizza a vegetable? is tomato paste even really a vegetable? and what about that thing about a tomato being a fruit? whatever happened to that? i think the most pithy comments to this question came from the "situation room." let's take a look. >> let's check in with jack for the cafferty file. >> a quick follow-up on to whether pizza is a vegetable or not, congress is a vegetable. >> i also like the take on jimmy kimmel live. >> we've got big vegetables here, we've got little vegetables here, even little bites. and the best thing about these

vegetables is that they're always in season. >> of course, there is a serious side to this. food companies lobbied to keep pizza and french fries in the cafeterias, and a lot of people have a problem with corporate interests being put ahead of kids' interest, because as dr. sanjay pointed out, what kids are eating at school can have a big effect. >> about a third get at least some of their calories from school lunches. this is not only important in terms of providing calories, but dictating the way how kids might eat now. >> trust me, you do not want to grow up thinking pizza is a vegetable. otherwise, fast forward 30 years and you try spinach for the first time and this is what happens. >> i'll try, all right. >> wow. >> ugh. >> you need a sip?

>> okay, that's gross. it's also like slithery