it's not from the pawn shop. that was my training wheels banjo for sure. ♪ >> it's the past. it's a haunting thing. i just think that's always going to be a really big, important part of anything that i do, the way that i live my life, the way that i write my songs. ♪ >> there is always that feeling of to go or stay.

you know, there's all these wonderful things. ♪ >> kelly mcfarling, thank you. you can always check out my blog for all our music monday interviews. just go to cnn/brooke. now this. here we go, top of the hour. i'm brooke baldwin. a couple stories we're watching for you. first, which republican hopeful will best challenge barack obama? also the latest on the cruise ship investigation, and a glitch on a very popular web site, and snow projected to cover half the united states this week.

jim costa, i'll begin with you in myrtle beach. are you near that coalition group at which romney is expected to speak at? >> brooke, that is across town, just up the coast, i believe, and it's going to be happening any minute now. we're actually outside a tea party conference that is also going on in myrtle beach. newt gingrich, rick santorum, ron paul is all expected to be here today. it's good news for romney that huntsman got out of the race and he's being endorsed. here's what newt gingrich had to say earlier today. >> it's very clear the establishment wants romney. and it's very clear the establishment only has one chant. they can't argue his record in massachusetts because it's too liberal, okay? so they can't come out and say, here's why you should be the champ.

these are the same people who got us beat in '96, the same people who got us beat in '08. ask yourself a simple question. why would you want to nominate the guy who lost to the guy who lost to obama? >> did you catch that, brooke? why would you vote for the guy that lost to the guy that lost to obama? >> yeah. >> romney lost to mccain in '08 who lost to obama in '08, so that's how it flows for newt gingrich. there was one thing that didn't work out in romney's favor, and that's jim dewitt. he is a godfather, obviously very influential here in south carolina. mitt romney would have liked that endorsement today, probably more than john huntsman's endorsement. >> forgive me, but didn't he endorse mitt fojim demint endor

four years ago? >> he said he's just not making an endorsement, and that shows you the unease inside the tea party about mitt romney. this is the former massachusetts governor that came up with the prototype for president obama's health care loss. what does the tea party do, because after all it was health care reform that mobilized the tea party movement. it's an interesting question in this process, brooke. >> just something i wondered about. the faith freedom coalition, we're going to dip in as soon as we see mitt romney speaking to this group in the next hour. in london with the very latest on this cruise ship investigation in italy. matthew, where does the investigation stand at this moment? >> well, they're still trying to find the basic facts about what happened. tomorrow will be a big day because the investigating judge

will question the captain of the ship, the costa concordia, which ran aground off the coast of tuscany in italy to find out why exactly he was so close to the italian coastline. he should have been four miles out to sea, but instead it seems according to prosecutors, he was just 150 yards or so from the rocks, and of course eventually striking one of those rocks, the ship was then brought around in a shopper turn in an attempt, says the captain, to lay it on its side in a move, he said, which saved lives. but there are still lots of questions, of course, that have to be answered by the investigators as they continue this. >> here's my question, though. you talk about the human toll in this story, but there is also environmental toll, because is there not several thousand tons of fuel still sitting in that ship? >> there certainly is.

this was at the start of the ship's journey. they carry and use very heavy diesel oil to fuel their engines, and it's very heavy, so it can sink to the bottom of the sea and be very difficult to clean up if that happens. there's already word, according to local environmentalists and people at the scene that some fluids may be leaking out of the fuel tanks of the ship. so yes, there's a humanitarian alarm, of course, and concern continuing. but there's also a big environmental one as well. >> matthew, thank you so much in london on that ship disaster. next, if you are a zappos customer, zappos.com, reset your password. the cyber attack could put 24,000 customers at risk. allison cos tirtik, i got up an changed my password.

what could have been compromised, daire i ask? >> your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and last four digits of your credit card. if you're a zappos customer, that information of yours was compromised. what zappos is doing, they're sending out e-mails letting them know, and because they killed everybody's passwords at this point, you can go set it again. if you go there, you'll see on the home page there is a big create a new password button right on the home page. click on that and begin the process. >> if your account was hacked, and i guess you have to wait to know if it was actually hacked, what do you do? >> the best thing to do is take an extra careful look at your credit card charges over the next few months. don't even wait for the monthly statement. i say go ahead and check your statement on line now. go ahead and look at it. what zappos says, the full credit card numbers were not

compromised. the payment information, all that was stored on a separate server which was not hacked. but i tell you what, it's better to be safe than sorry. go ahead and check it, anyway. go ahead and contact zappos through e-mail, because they said they're not taking any calls. they literally shut off their phones because they know they'll be inundated with so many calls and some people wouldn't get through. they're known for customer service and they don't want their rep going down in flames because of this. so they said e-mail is the best way to communicate until they get this whole thing under control. brooke? >> 24 million people. that's a lot. the northwest getting a taste of bitter winter weather this weekend. brace yourselves, folks, it looks like another wet week ahead.

alexandria steele, live in the weather center. where do you want to start? >> where do you start? the jet stream has changed, the pattern has changed, really set the stage for an incredibly wet and snowy pacific northwest. all of the west in an incredible drought. californ california. seattle the first measurable snow yesterday, 2.4" and now more snow coming in. here's the western snow and what we're going to see. this is a jet stream, so it's a vigorous, winter, pacific jet. this is the same jet that brought that incredibly cold air to alaska. it made a 5-mile journey giving alaskans a break. two feet potentially of snow in the purple. so the cascades, the rockies, the bitter roots. they'll get into it. seattle, spokane, 10 inches, and into the northeast as well, winter weather advisories.

freezing rain tonight and tomorrow through so much of new york state and northern new england. >> thank you. remember this story, women slashed along their backsides while in dressing rooms. authorities have finally made an arrest in this case in a whole other country. plus, tens of thousands of cars under a major recall. do you have a mini cooper? coming up next, find out why the recalls. also in this hour, we are digging into the family history of republican presidential candidate mitt romney. we are talking about his relatives in mexico. and actor and activist sean penn gets a governmental job in hai haiti. those stories and more coming up, two minutes away. great guest experience. that makes my day.

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welcome back. you're about to see a rapid fire beginning with bmw now recalling 89,000 mini coopers after reports they could catch fire. the problem is with the circuit board that controls the car's pooling syste cooling system. if it fails, a fire could start in the engine compartment. this is models between 2007 and 2011. this is the same problem that led to earlier recalls of bmw and rolls royce luxury cars. a florida mother has been arrested for allegedly biting her own teenage son. volutia county authorities arrested gillette fleming after she bit her son because he wouldn't give her her cell phone

back. he suffered several cuts to the face and a bruised right eye. a man arrested for slashing women's backsides last year in virginia is now in custody in peru. fairfax county issued a warrant last september for johnny guillen pimentel. the women were distracted before being cut on their backsides. google fires back. the new chairman called google a piracy leader that streams movies free and sells ads all around them. he said, quote, they fight pirates and counterfeiters every day and expressed concerns about the stop on line piracy act and a copyright infringement on the internet. president obama volunteered at a school in honor of martin luther king, jr. day. he helped put a bookshelf together at the brown education campus in washington, and then tonight the president and first lady will be at the kennedy

center attending a let freedom ring celebration there. actor sean penn is now the ambassador at large for haiti. he was honored at a fundraising event over the weekend for his humanitarian work in the country. it has been now two years since that devastating earthquake hit the tiny island nation. republican presidential candidate mitt romney is sitting comfortably atop most polls in the race for the white house. he thhas a tough stand on immigration, but did you know his father wasn't born in the united states? in fact, his family settled in mexico about 125 years ago. coming up next, we take you to his homestead and talk with his relatives in mexico. stay with us.

and ahead of that big debate in south carolina, we are watching two events for you, so on the right side of your screen, that is rick perry. he is speaking now at the coalition in south carolina. on the left-hand side, those wider shots. just take my word that rick santorum is speaking. this is the south carolina tea party convention. let's eavesdrop on senator santorum. >> then we have the right to liberty. there's a lot of talk about liberty, right? everyone who talks about liberty, we have chants, liberty, liberty, liberty, freedom to do. to do what, according to the declaration? life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. to have life, to have the freedom to pursue happiness. it's very interesting to go back and look at the dictionary

definition at the time of our founders. it is not the same definition you would use today to describe happiness. happiness today is doing something enjoyable, something fun, something that gives you pleasure. at the time of our founders, they understood a different dictionary definition, in fact, it was a different dictionary dwen definition. the definition at the time of our founders of happiness was to do the morally right thing. >> all right. now, from santorum to rick perry we go. let's listen. >> and we, we just stand up. political correctness has got to stop in this country. and i happen to believe that as an outsider, and i say that with great pride, as an outsider, it's going to take someone with strong principles in that outsider position to go to washington, d.c..

we need more freedom. >> we didn't see a lot of rick perry in new hampshire. his real push here is in south carolina. they're making their closing arguments five days out from this saturday and the big primary in the palmetto state. we're also waiting to hear mitt romney speak after rick perry, so as soon as we see him, we will listen to him as well. speaking of the former massachusetts governor, if he gets the republican nomination, there will be two presidential candidates whose fathers were born outside the united states. cnn affairs rafael introduces us to rahm knees omneys of mexico. >> a life of community spins out from its religious roots. >> we have apple orchards, peach orchards, farms, ranches. that's basically what we do today. >> reporter: miles romney is the

descendant of more momons who se nd this area more than 125 years ago. >> we come from honest people. >> reporter: his great grandfather led the first group of mormons to the state of chihuah chihuahua. that's where presidential candidate mitt romney traces his heritage. in fact, mitt romney's father, george, who also ran for president in the united states, was born in this area himself. miles anthony romney is mitt's second cousin. miles is so proud of mitt's political career that he managed to get a romney bumper sticker sent to mexico and he also displayed the romney name on his window. he can understand why mitt romney's religion is an issue for some people. >> i think it's just misunderstanding on their part. i know people try to use that against mitt, but they just can't find anything on him to dig up about him. >> reporter: the first romneys arrived in this part of mexico around 1885. they came from uinta where as

mormons they faced religious persecution and were not allowed to practice polygamy. there is still 40 members around here who trace their roots back to the first settlers. >> it was actually a very small percentage of the church of practice, believe me. >> reporter: while that percentage included his great-grandfather, kelly romney, another one of mitt's second cousins, said they stopped practicing polygamy since the church disbanded in the 1970s. he invited us to tour his peach orchard ds, the family business since the romneys settled here and a source of employment this part of mexico. they built this in 1994. mitt romney himself has never been here, but kelly said he saw him in the states. >> i was on a plane to new york, and he was on it. my wife kept trying to get me to go meet him, but i guess i was a little timid, and i thought when

we get off in new york, i'll meet him, but when we got off, he went on the bus. >> as much as he add meyers his second cousin, kelly romney says he disagrees with his position on immigration. >> there should be programs for people who are starving to death to be able to go there and do work that american people will not do. >> reporter: more than anything, this branch of the romney family defines itself by the teachings of its church and feels some allegiance to both mexico and the united states. still -- >> if there's a soccer match between the united states and mexico, which country do you root for? >> i think i root for mexico in a soccer match. we have a loyalty to this country. we were born here. >> that's how you know true loyalty, you talk football or soccer. you know, we've heard that was kelly romney, the second cousin of mitt romney. he talks about his allegiance, his royalty to mexico. so are the romneys mexican, are they mexican american or are they americans? >> they're american citizens by

birth, but they're naturalized american citizens. in fact, kelly told me he got his american citizenship a few years ago, and he plans to cross the border and vote for romney if he gets the assassination. >> he is. they came to mexico all the way back to 1885. mexico welcomed them then, but then you sort of juxtaposed out with mitt romney's stance on immigration. >> that's right, and kelly romney says he looks at it from a practical point of view. he says the united states needs the labor. mexico needs the jobs, so there should be some sort of compromise between the two countries and leave the politics aside, because it would be mutually beneficial. >> he used the immigration program as an option. you mention they had live in chihuahua. >> yeah. >> that's a dangerous place. >> that's where they're located. >> are they concerned? >> they're very concerned. in fact, a brother of kelly's was kidnapped last year.

he was kidnapped for a few days. the family ended up paying ransom. he's back at his ranch. he was not harmed, but as you can imagine, the family is very, very concerned about safety in that part of mexico. >> rafael romo. thanks for taking the trip to mexico to do the story for us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. coming up next, mitt romney about to speak as we promised in front of that free trade coalition in south carolina. he is stumping for that coveted evangelical vote. he is also fighting for the tea party vote. so what happens if he gets it? we're going to take you live to south carolina on the other side of the break. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made.

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the faith and freedom coalition here in stk outh carolina. you're looking at a well known conservative from georgia. this is where we saw perry speaking a moment ago. the second we see mitt romney coming to the podium, we will bring that to you live. meantime, in california, four homeless men are dead at the hands of what police believe is a serial killer. this is all happening in anah m anaheim, california where police have arrested 23-year-old isa f isakof ocampo. he allegedly stabbed a homeless man to death in a fast food

parking lot this past friday. eye witnesses chased him down. police arrested him. earlier i spoke with brian who was a childhood friend of ocampowe, aocam ocampo, and i also spoke with the l.a. times. >> whenever he wanted to talk about his experiences, i never would talk about things he didn't want to talk about. most of the time i would talk about life things, girls, drinking. i never would have guessed this. >> his father is living in a big rig truck in a fullerton parking lot, and he said his son had come to him recently and showed him a picture that i believe was in a newspaper and said that he was worried about him, and his father told ocampo, don't worry about me, i'll be okay. so, yeah. >> his own son said he was worried about his homeless father.

let me quote something. you talked, nicole, to the uncle. quote, when he came back from iraq, he was sick. did anyone in his family try to get this guy help? >> i believe -- i'm not clear on the details, but i believe that someone had made appointments for ocampo to get some psychological help, but it turns out that all of those appointments were canceled for one reason or another. >> and to be clear, he has not been charged. do we know when charges could be filed? >> ocampo is expected in court tomorrow morning. >> tomorrow morning. ultimately, he was caught. what can you tell me about the fact that he was chased down by an eyewitness just a couple days ago? >> yeah, so this happened on friday night at the carl's, jr., and it looks like, you know, several people witnessed this stabbing, and about two bystanders ended up chasing ocampo on foot into a nearby

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the syracuse post standard is reporting a man who was former former -- claiming that former syracuse basketball coach abused him has lied. he was the fourth man here to accuse bernie fein of molesting him as a child. now he's recanting. how does this affect the investigation overall? >> well, it doesn't impact the investigation as much as it does the criminal justice arena. first, regarding the investigation, each one of the victims can have their own trial

based on their allegations, assuming the statute of limitation hasn't run. the fact there is someone who came forward, this person, we'll call him, who is serving a 16-year sentence to life, who has burglarized many homes over the past decades and earned himself the title of career criminal, has on abused the justice system. >> he didn't have someone to help him fight in the criminal system. >> to make these allegations undermines every legitimate victim who comes forward. now there's a pause. we heard this before. you're claiming someone abused you? law enforcement holds back, the public at large holds back. i think this guy should be prosecuted for perjury if's gave a sworn statement for

obstructing law enforcement. this is a serious crime he committed. >> does this dilute the credibility of the other accusers, do you think? >> i don't think it does. this is a pattern of, okay, you've got three accusers and the fourth one says, let's jump on the bandwagon. i'm going to get revenge for him not paying my legal fees. i don't think it affects the other cases, i don't. case number two. the fbi needs help finding the body of teacher sheri arnold. she went jogging on january 4 and never came home. they believe she's dead. officers are hold two people in custody. they have yet to be charged. students, family, friends attended a vigil. the mayor says the community is having a really tough time struggling with her death. take a listen. >> the process is now that we're grieving. we have to get through that process, we have to get to closure. we have to make the family whole

as much as we can. we're missing a daughter, we're missing a mother, we're missing a sister. >> here is my question, because we know, mark, you know, police investigators have ruled she's dead. she don't have a body. is that fairly rare? >> i think so. what you've got are two people in custody, and while they haven't been charged with the murder yet, they are charged with aggravated kidnapping. i think they're probably speaking to law enforcement, causing law enforcement then to put out the word to have people search in certain areas of their property because they think she's probably buried somewhere. unfortunately, obviously we're fearing the worst at this point. >> mark, thank you. i need to pull away from you and go straight to south carolina to the faith and prfreedom coaliti. >> this is going to make a big impact across america and i appreciate the work that you are doing here. i know that this falls on martin luther king day, and i want to

express my admiration for a man who stood for the principles of equality into the law as required by our constitution. i think he's a great man who appreciated service for our country and our constitution. [ applause ] >> and, you know, an audience like this, this is extraordinary. you look how big this audience is, this is amazing. i think in addition to ralph reed and the other speakers, you have to give credit where credit is due. i think barack obama deserves some credit for the people coming together here. you know, they called him a community organizer. i don't think this is the community he was planning on organizing, but it is working. we're coming together because of that guy. [ applause ] >> you know what, when he ran for president, he talked about bringing a lot of hope and change, and we did see a lot of change but not much hope. he went on the "today" show shortly after being inaugerated, and he said if i can't get this economy turned around in three years, i'll be looking at a

one-term proposition. and we're here to collect. [ applause ] >> he's really failed. and you know he's failed. he went out and borrowed $787 billion, said he would hold unemployment below 8%. it has not been below 8% since. you have 25 million americans out of work or stopped looking for work or in part-time jobs who need full-time work. it's been a failed presidency. you've seen median incomes in america have dropped by 10% in the last four years. at the same time he's done these things, he's added up multi-trillion dollars in debt. in fact, he's on track in his first term, and his only term, to put together -- yeah, i agree, yeah -- to put together more public debt or almost as much public debt as all the prior presidents combined. this is a president whose time has come. he's out of ideas, he's out of excuses, and in 2012, we're

going to prove he's out of time. [ applause ] >> and, you know, he wakes up in the morning and looks out across the country and proclaims it could be worse. it could be worse? really? what it means to be american is to look across this country and say, it can be better, it must be better, and if we elect a president of the united states who believes in conservative principles and faith and pree do -- freedom, it will be better. [ applause ] >> now, i think we in this audience recognize that this election is a choice of two very different paths. and i don't know that we've seen this so starkly outlined any time recently. the president says he wants to fundamentally transform america. i don't want to change america into something we wouldn't recognize. i believe that the purpose of the next president ought to be to restore america to the principles that made us salt of

the earth. [ applause ] >> his view is that government should be bigger, spend more, be more intrusive, be more demanding. my view is the government should be simpler, smaller and smarter. his view is that we should spend an extra trillion dollars a year, more than we take in. i think that's immoral to pass on those debts. i will cap spending to finally balance the budget. [ applause ] >> his view of health care is that the government knows better than the people, how to provide for your own health care. so he passes obamacare with $500 billion in additional taxes. he cuts medicare? i hope our seniors remember this. he cuts medicare by $500 billion to pay for obamacare. my view is the right thing we ought to do is not take that course but instead repeal

obamacare and make health care more like a market where people get to make their own choices. [ applause ] >> his path on jobs is kind of hard to figure out. i keep waiting to hear what his jobs plan is. he came into office saying, let me borrow all this money, and that didn't work. so what is his plan to make america more competitive, to create more good jobs? i don't know where he would lead us there, but i can tell you this. having spent 25 years in the private sector, i know how the economy works. i put together a plan that lays out the foundation of what you have to do to make america the most economically powerful nation in the world, again, and continue it. in my view, this isn't time for america -- this is a time to make america stronger and have someone in the white house who knows how to create jobs because he's had a job. and i have. [ applause ] >> this is a president who would take us down a path where he would cut military spending by a

trillion dollars over the next decade, by a trillion dollars. i think in part because of his view that america is facing many other strong nations and that we can't be the leader forever. in my view, it is essential that america's military is superior to any else in the world, so strong that no one would ever think of testing it. [ applause ] >> his path is one that sends the vice president of the united states to china where he tells people there that he understands their one-child policy, that he understands all the abuses associated with that policy. my view is that the next president of the united states should stand up for the sanctity of human life and anywhere that it's threatened. [ applause ] >> this president has tried to pave the path for same-sex

marriage to spread across the country. my view is that we should defend the defensive marriage act and that we should have a constitutional amendment that defines marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman. [ applause ] >> his path is one that says we become more and more of a secular nation. he had reason to chase before the supreme court saying the minist ministerial exemption should be before the institution. fortunately that was struck down in court 9-0. we're very fortunate to have people stand up for religious tolerance and religious liberty in the first amendment of this constitution. one of them is jay seculo and jordan seculo. if you know those folks, they fight for us in supreme court every day. and i'm happy to see them here today. this is a campaign about two

very different paths, and it's a campaign about the soul of america. it's a campaign about who we are as a people and what kind of nation we want to pass on to our kids. when the founders of this country wrote the declaration of independence, they thought very carefully and chose very precisely their words. they said that the creator had endowed us with certain unalienable rights, the kreecre, god, had endowed us with those rights. and among those rights, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. this would be a nation where people would pursue happiness according to their dreams. we would not be limited by the circumstance of our birth, we would not be limited by race. >> mitt romney sure would like to get those votes in south carolina. again, we are five days out from the south carolina primary, immediately attacking president obama. a lot of people say ultimately

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history and hollywood converge at the white house. they screened a movie called red tails and they had a big discussion with them. we're getting ready for you to pull double duty at myrtle beach with political pop today. first talk about this movie. >> it sounds like a pretty good movie. 20 years 20 years in the making "red tals" is. a george lucas film, terrance howard. cuba gooding jr. apparently attended the screening. it's a famed story of the air escort of fighter bombers in world war ii. something like 1500 trips and never lost a plane. let's look at the trailer. >> make it through flight school. survive basic combat. >> we've done all of that. >> i don't believe your boys have scored a single aerial

kill. >> it's damn hard to shoot down the enemy 100 miles behind the front lines. >> what we do, how well we do it, does it matter? >> now, some of the members of the surviving members of the airmen purportedly were there at the screening and so it would have been something that the president would have asked for. i called the white house and they haven't given us a whole lot of details. we're told that was closed press. but there are some details out there and cnn entertainment, i think, i'm told is all over it. >> i'm sure they are. that's an impressive group of airmen. finally, you were tweeting something, all of these sand sculpt sculptors? >> it's sand sculptors who is still in the race and jon huntsman is still up there. these are all the republicans o'that -- >> what are they going to do?

>> apparently leave it because it's too late. there's only a few more days before the election. they're not going to take it down because it would mess up the whole scheme of things. if you look at that jon huntsman is sort of right in the middle. >> i see. and they've done this before? >> yeah. they've done it before. four years ago they tell me, they had both the democrats and the republicans up there. and it stayed up there for awe while until a tv star, on another network, came and wrecked the whole thing. but, yeah. it's going to be there for a while and i got -- i put it up and i sort of got, you though, captions from different people on what they think they should say i put it up on facebook. >> oh, that's so fun. i'll have to see what people are seeing. joe johns, thank you. speaking of south carolina and politics, of course we've got new numbers being released for you today in just about eight minutes, how a certain showdown in the november election might play out. wolf blitzer joined me from "the situation room" and i got a preview of those in an e-mail.

pretty interesting. >> i won't share the numbers until 4:00, that would be in about eight minutes, seven minutes or so from now. hypothetical matchups, between the president and mitt romney, ron paul, the other candidates. who's ahead? who's most electricitiable as far as the republicans are concerned? who's not? we've got that. and we also have a fascinating interview of two survivors of the ship off the coast of italy. it's an amazing story. it almost sounds, obviously, thank god, not as deadly as the titanic but it's an amazing story and i know you've been all over it. we'll share with our viewers this remarkable interview with two of those survivors. politics and all the other important news and we're going to syria because nick robertson has a special report. one more thing, you got a second? >> for you, always. >> i was at the b.e.t. honors.

they honored see i have wonder and spike lee and they also honored the tuskegee airmen, i met one of them, dr. roscoe brown and i got to know him a little bit. terrence howard is in that movie. we hung out a little bit. >> he's amazing. >> you remember him from the soul train awards. a year ago he was an emcee. this was a remarkable evening and i want to thank deborah lee, the chairman and ceo of b.e.t. and paxton baker, my good friend for inviting me. it was a wonderful evening and that tuskegee airmen, when the film comes out -- >> he was just talking about it. >> i know. that's why i'm talking about it. it's going to be a great film and we have a lot to be thankful for what those tuskegee airmen did for us during world war ii. i tweeted, they are real,

american heroes. >> fredricka's father, once he a tuskegee airman? i was kicking myself. she should have been with me at the warner theater to see the honoring of the airmen. they're going to air it about a week from now so it will be a good show for our viewers to watch. when you here see i have wonder perform and aretha franklin was there, need i say more? >> no, you need not. we'll end on that. >> thank you, wolf. >> next year, you'll be there. >> see you in a couple minutes with new poll numbers. news today and we'll leave you with this after the break, news about a member of the royal family, a duchess scared to leave england. what she's afraid open max foster live from london after this quick break. and how much the people in your life count on you. that's why we offer accident forgiveness,

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her own show on the own cham. she's afraid she'll be tossed in jail. max, i know this has everything to do with that documentary in which she went undercover in turkey, right? what's the issue with that? >> yes, she went into this -- in 2008, she went into an orphanage outside of and she had a wig and a camera and she revealed some upsetting pictures of the young children and it was quite a sensational documentary in this country but several years later, a court in ankra is bringing charges against her, this just happened. they approached the british government saying that there are charges that she went against the law in acquiring footage and violating the privacy of five children. they went to the british government and asked for legal help and the british government is considering it but i have so say, brook, it's clear to me when i speak to the home office this isn't going to fly in the

uk, at least, because these aren't regarded as crimes in the uk. >> okay. so if they're not regarded as crimes where she is, what is she saying? is she reacting? obviously she's not going to the u.s.? that's one reaction? >> she's not making any official statements at this point but she's taking legal advice. i spoke to friend and this is the sort of commentary i'm getting from them and i spoke to them in the last couple of hours. she's bemused and stressed and shaken. quite scared. everything she did was under the auspices of i-tv. she said she managed to speak to her official spokesman and he's been giving me comments but he's saying these aren't official comments yet as she takes legal advice. he's reiterating that she feels what she was doing was completely validated. she's done a lot of good work for causes and this was an example of that and she feels very strongly about the welfare of children and most definitely feels that what she did was validated but she's clearly concerned. >> sos what she do now?

stay in the uk until what? >> she was due to travel to the united states. she travels on personal but also business. a lot of her work is done in the united states and she's cancelled those trips. for different reasons. friends say she was due to go there and she cancelled because of an extradition treaty the u.s. has with turkey. that was a contributing factor, they say. but the official spokesman says it's not entirely true. she actually wants to what she can to research the legal matters around this. she's speaking to lawyers in turkey and humanitarian lawyers here in the uk and wants time to consider that. then she'll clarify her position. but no plans to go to the u.s. i did speak to the o.w.n. network and they told me that "finding sarah" the series they did last year and new productions are not in production at this time so any professional work probably won't be in relation to them. >> ten ke