in miami, they resorted to name calling. >> two more times, michael bradshaw, as in a lottery system to keep things orderly. this guy managed to get his hands on a pair, but they aren't for his feet. >> if you go right now online, they're going to be worth a thousand, $2,000. >> reporter: we decided to look online and see what the shoe was going for. this is ebay. pretty hefty prices. $1700, $1200. i don't know if this is a capitalist or just an optimist. if you want to buy the shoe right now, $10,000. that's canadian, by the way, even more in the u.s. as one customer put it, the foamposite one is the most anticipated shoe of the year, at least until the next must have sneaker comes along. martin savidge, cnn, atlanta. >> pretty sure the guy's an optimist. cnn newsroom continues for richelle carey who's in for fredricka whitfield. >> have a fantastic weekend. thank you so much.

we begin with a developing story from afghanistan. at least two u.s. soldiers shot and killed inside the interior ministry in kabul. the taliban are claiming responsibility. they say this is retaliation for the burning of korans at a u.s. air base. anti-american protests over this incident have been intense, they have been deadly. four afghan civilians were killed today. now all military advisers for the international security forces are being pulled out now. we have the very latest on what we know. nic, what do we know? >> reporter: well, the most interesting thing is the gunman who is believed to be northwestern is still at large. these two american officers found in what we understand from an afghan senior policeman was a secure part of this government ministry. obviously deep concerns as to how the security breach happened and of course the taliban claiming responsibility.

they do this reasonably often. sometimes they're right, sometimes they're just trying to get political capital out of these things. but they're saying their gunman infiltrated this base and carried out this attack in revenge for the burning of the korans so a deeply troubling development i think for many american and nato soldiers in the capital and around afghanistan worrying about their security. this is a place they should have been safe. >> and let's talk about security. what does this mean for security in afghanistan going forward? >> reporter: well, the big question really is trust. there's been many instances in the past year when afghan soldiers have turned their weapons upon the nato troops, advising them or even training them the big rush here is to get afghan security forces ready to take over controlling and securing the country so nato troops can leave. that really tight timetable president obama has set. things like this, incidents like this, in this climate too where there's much afghan fury about the koran burning really damaged

that relationship of trust. i think general allen's comments talking about how the gunman was a coward, they're still looking for him and saying he wants to withdraw other advisers from kabul, that's not a huge number of people. it's more a symbolic precaution but it does show that this could impact the nato training mission and of course the psychological impact. americans may not trust the afghans they work with. >> let's talk more about this gunman. an afghan official says it is unlikely in his opinion that this gunman was an outsider, that this had to be a planned attack perhaps from the inside. what do we know, if anything, about the shooter so far? >> reporter: well, if we believe the taliban, we know his name. we have spoken to afghan policemen. afghan policemen are still a little surprised as to how this happened. isaf too say they're still looking for this gunman. the taliban claim another gunman

escaped from the ministry and in fact they even received a phone call from the gunmen just after the attack had happened. so many different claims and counterclaims moving around this particular incident, but i think the impact is already clear. the two americans should have been safe where they were. they were shot in the secure part of what should have been one of the securest ministries in the country. and all this happens while afghans are out there in the streets, many of them dying in violent protests because of the koran burning. >> it certainly is a dramatic development for sure. nick patton walsh, thank you very much. syrian forces relentlessly foundry sich pound -- it raises worries about the effectiveness. dozens of countries to increase pressure on president al assad while laying groundwork for a political transition.

it includes immediate humanitarian aid, giving legitimacy to the opposition and endorsing a joint arab/u.n. peacekeeping force. the epicenter of the violence is homs. it has been rocked by shelling every day for the past three weeks. our other big story, former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital right now. a relative says he had hernia surgery. joining me now is cnn -- what is the latest we're hearing from there. was this a planned operation? >> reporter: well, that's what the presidency is saying. they just recently released an updated statement. of course the first time we heard of this hospitalization was this morning when the presidency said that mr. mandela had an abdominal complaint, a long standing abdominal complaint they described it as. they tell us that he's in a

satisfactory condition in the hospital and the presidency is saying that they're expecting him to be released either tomorrow, sunday, or monday, but i'm sure many south africans will say we will believe this when they see is because they have in the past been lied to about president mandela's health. of course it is a closely guarded secret here. when he was admitted into the hospital last year january, we were told that it was just a routine checkup only to find out that he actually had a respiratory infection. so many south africans still worried. they want to see mr. mandela, they want to see pictures of them just to reassure themselves he's okay. earlier i spoke to the ruling party about whether south africans are really emotionally prepared for what is the inevitable. this is what the spokesperson had to say. >> people do accept that he's -- he's come a long way. you can look at his age. he's still going strong.

that is why these constant monitoring of his health because people at his age need all the attention. but i think south africans while they understand, they wish him to live longer. they would appreciate if he can stretch his life longer. >> do we know how long he'll be in the hospital? >> reporter: the presidency is saying that they're expecting he will be discharged from hospital either sunday or monday, not giving any further information about that. >> thank you very much for that report. appreciate it. gas prices are top of mind for americans right now. prices crept up 12 cents in a week. and they continue to rise. president obama talked about the problem and the solution in his weekly address.

>> you know there are no quick fixes to this problem, and you know we can't just drill our way to lower gas prices. if we're going to take control of our energy future and avoid these gas price spikes down the line, then we need a sustained, all of the above strategy that develops every available source of american energy, oil, gas, wind, solar, nuclear, biofuels and more. we need to keep developing the technology that allows us to use less oil in our cars and trucks and our buildings and plants. that's the strategy we're pursuing and that's the only real solution to this challenge. >> and the weekly republican message, senator kay bailey hutchison squarely blames the president. >> president obama's policy has resulted in an unprecedented slowdown in new exploration and production of oil and gas. offshore drilling permits are being issued at less than half the rate of the previous

administration. the average number of leases issued on public lands is less than half that during president clinton's term. not only will the slowdown in domestic production drive up fuel prices, it also takes away jobs from tens of thousands of oil industry workers. >> obviously gas prices will be a hot topic when congress returns from recess next week as well as the debate over transportation legislation continues. cnn's athena jones explains from washington. >> reporter: as prices at the pump rise, so does the political rhetoric on the campaign trail. >> they're saying by the summer drive time in areas of this country it will hit $5 a gallon. >> i have developed a problem for american energy so every american can look forward to $2.50 a gallon gasoline. >> reporter: and in washington -- >> gas prices have more than doubled since the president took office. >> reporter: average gas prices have risen 40 cents a gallon

over the past year, and boosting domestic energy production is an increasingly topic of debate on capitol hill. >> gas prices are so important because it's such a tangible and real impact on people's lives. they can feel it, it affects their everyday life and that's why it's such a political issue when it comes to fighting between the two parties. >> reporter: the republican-controlled house has passed a bill that would increase offshore drilling, open the arctic national wildlife refuge to drilling, develop u.s. oil shell resources and fast track approval of the keystone excel pipeline. these would not bring down gas prices immediately. the only way to do that would be to cut the gas tax but that's not a reason to reject them. >> to judge the merits of a long-term program on the basis of short-term impact, that's like not saving for retirement now because you're not retired. >> reporter: the measure, part of a larger transportation bill that has yet to reach the house floor, faces stiff opposition in the senate where democratic

lawmakers are working on their own bill without the drilling measure. now, president obama as he alluded to is touting an all of the above approach to energy policy. that's one focused on increasing domestic production, improving car and building efficiency and developing alternative energy sources. of course he says america can't just drill its way to lower gas prices. >> all right, athena jones, thank you. should it be a crime if someone lies about getting a military award? the supreme court is talking about it and so will our legal guys in just a few minutes. and the gop primaries in michigan and arizona just three days away. we'll follow the candidates on their final push for votes. [ male announcer ] this is lawn ranger -- eden prairie, minnesota.

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welcome back. it is almost time for the next big showdown for the republican presidential hopefuls. mitt romney desperately needs to win michigan on tuesday, and after arizona and washington state next week, it's on to super tuesday. our joe johns is in troy, michigan. so i know where you are.

where are the candidates today? >> reporter: well, rick santorum has already spoke here in troy, michigan, and we're expecting to see mitt romney in just a little while, richelle. this is a big gathering of conservative activists, very important to the cause of both of these men. but we also have to say that this is the final weekend before not only the michigan primary, also the arizona primary and polls showing those two top candidates in a very close race in both states. the latest poll out from american research group showing mitt romney has actually lost some ground in the state of arizona, still leading, however, within the margin of error right now. of course both of those candidates, as i say, still here in the state of michigan. mitt romney really hammering home his attacks on rick santorum on this final weekend before the primary. listen to this. >> there were times in the past

that we had this other debate the other night, that was so much fun, that debate out in arizona. thank you. and i think senator santorum wishes that he could take back what he said. he talked about how he voted for some things because he took one for the team. the team has got to be the people of america. not partisanship. and this -- this is not time for the politics of the past. >> reporter: rick santorum giving as well as he's getting on the issue of attacks. he gave a speech here going after mitt romney on a variety of issues, including global warming and whether he simply is conservative enough to be the party's nominee. listen to this. >> free market health care before conservatives were for free market health care. i've been a leader on conservative causes. on the most fundamental issue, your health. it's what the progressive

nirvana has been from the beginning. when they can get control of your health, they have seen it in other socialized countries in the world. when the government can convince you that you need to give them the power over your health, they gotcha. they gotcha. >> reporter: and really can't overemphasize how important the conservative vote is here right now. it could be the difference between winning and losing in the state of michigan. richelle, back to you. >> joe, is the romney camp letting on that they may have any angst about how their candidate is struggling in his home state? >> reporter: well, i think they have always said that this is going to be a long slog across the country as everybody tries to pick up any delegates they can. they expected it to be a little tough in michigan. you have to realize conservatives have been a big question mark for mitt romney because he's tried to campaign

in the middle, assuming he was going to be the nominee, so that he would be able to reach out to independent voters as you move toward election day in november. but this turned into a fight for him so he has to figure out how to appeal to enough conservative voters to try to get the nomination and move back toward the middle, if you will. a real challenge for him and obviously for some of the others too. >> okay, joe johns from troy, michigan. joe, thank you. a program note as well. join me tomorrow afternoon at 4:00 eastern for a special hour dedicated to the presidential contenders in the 2012 election. uh-oh.

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welcome back. we're in an economic recovery so why aren't you feeling it? in this week's "smart is the new rich" christine romans looks at the growing divide between winners and losers in this economy and what you can do to take control an speed up your own recovery. >> your job, your home, your investments. on paper you're doing okay, right? unemployment is going down, but the long-term unemployed, those out of the workforce for 26 weeks or more are still struggling. home prices are at the lowest point in more than a decade. while the payroll tax cut is putting an extra 40 bucks in your pocket, that's likely going to pay for rising gas prices. rick newman is the chief business correspondent for "u.s. news and world report." there are winners and losers and it's harder to get from this group into this one.

>> absolutely. i think of this as a barbell economy where some people are at the top, they're generally doing fine, getting back to their jobs, getting raises, promotions, their investments are picking up a little bit. >> coming back to normal for those people. >> whatever they think normal is, yeah, things are pretty good. at the other end are people who may never get back to what they used to think of with regard to normal. we certainly see with with regard to education. if you don't have a college education, it's very clear that people who don't have the right education for this economy are basically going to be dropping out of the economy. it is just crucially important these days to have the right skills. >> what do you do to make sure you are on the right side of this two-speed recovery? constantly learning you say? >> we have to think about ourselves the same way. so always ask yourselves what new skills can i be developing? if you're in manufacturing, can you get more technology skills to help you operate the latest machinery, things like this. everybody needs to learn a little bit about social media, the new technology. technology is changing so fast and that is really becoming a

differentiator. so the people who can apply what's happening in technology to whatever they do are the ones that are going to get ahead. >> i'm christine romans with this week's "smart is the new rich."

in alabama, a 9-year-old girl is allegedly forced to run to death. it was reportedly a punishment for eating a chocolate bar. her stepmother and her grandmother are both charged in this horrific case. let's bring in our legal guys, avery friedman and richard herman. guys, it's good to talk to you. i just hate to start with this type of story.

what happened to this little girl is unbelievable. the coroner's report says that she suffered severe dehydration, seizures, that her stepmother, jessica mae hardin knew that the grandmother had told the child to run for three hours and did nothing to stop it. that's what the allegations are. and the charges are felony murder with aggravated child abuse. avery, let me start with you. do these charges sound appropriate? we've heard they could be upgraded, what do you think? >> i thought about it very deeply, richelle, and it strikes me that after not five minutes or a half an hour but three hours, both jessica and the stepmother knew exactly what the consequences were going to be. i don't care if you're living in the backwoods in northeast alabama, richelle, you know what the consequences of that behavior will be. this is what used to happen in the soviet goulags but at least they did it with adults. i think the charges are

appropriate and i think you're looking for a conviction for both the defendants here. >> richard, i'm going to give you the tough question. how would you defend somebody in this case? >> wow, richelle, coming at me with that one. okay, this is a bad one. i'd defend them by making a deal right now because i'm going to try to get my clients to see the light of day again. this is a horrible, horrible case. no jury is going to be sympathetic to them. you make this 9-year-old girl run for nine hours where she just collapsed. where were the neighbors watching this child run around? i tell you something else. this husband, he's a winner. boy, he picks them. his first wife, the biological mother, has no visitation and no custody with this child. this new wife, who he had filed from divorce for in 2010, he alleged she's bipolar and alcoholic, she stole the child and ran away and didn't know where they were for a while and poisoned the kid. and he left her. >> that might be a defense. >> he left her with her again,

so major -- it's just a horrible, tragedy, should never have happened. these people should be punished to the hilt. just horrific. >> it is horrible. if the charges are upgraded, we'll pass that on. let's move on to our next case. we got a verdict this week in the george huguely trial. he was tried for basically beating his ex-girlfriend, yeardley love, to death. they were both lacrosse players at the university of virginia. the jury deliberated about six or seven hours and came back with second-degree murder. richard, appropriate verdict in your opinion? appropriate charge? the prosecution actually wanted more. >> yeah, richelle. this kind of case, this is where people lose faith in the judicial system here. this individual was charged with first-degree intentional murder. the jury said, no, i don't see that it was -- i don't think he went there to kill her. he was drinking, he just roughed her up, didn't mean to kill her. richelle, he wrote her a letter a week earlier saying i should have killed you. he came that night, he busted

open her door to her bedroom and then he basically beat her to a pulp, crushed her head against the side of the wall there. he's a big guy. knocked her out and left. to me that's intent. i don't know where this jury was. this judge has the right to ignore this jury verdict and convict on first-degree -- >> ignore the jury verdict? >> no, no, hold on, hold on. hold on. >> avery, what do you think about that? some people say there was an element of premeditation that was proven. do you not agree with that? >> no. there was absolutely no element of premeditation. >> absolutely. >> this is a smart jury. you want to know something? if there's any good news about this in this tragedy, it's that you had an intelligent jury that rejected what the prosecution said because the premeditation was really flimsy. there was intent and that was established. that's the second-degree murder, richelle. it also rejected the defense argument that it was just involuntary manslaughter, which

was a ridiculous defense. but i think this is an example of a jury doing things right. i think second-degree murder is exactly what it's going to be. the judge does not have discretion other than to maintain that verdict or lower it. the judge will maintain that and that's what's going to happen, second-degree murder. >> so it certainly won't be more than 26 years but could be less. >> 26 years in prison. let's move on to the next topic. i know attorneys like to talk about the first amendment so let's go ahead and make time for that, the stolen valor act. xavier alvarez ran for public office, claimed that he had 25 years of military service, that he'd won all these awards. none of it was proven to be true, which is a violation of the stolen valor act. this has gone all the way up to the supreme court. avery, you say the question is does the first amendment cover lies. >> yeah. and it was probably the most stimulating argument before the supreme court so far. each of the justices had

questions except for clarence thomas, and they asked that they question. are lies protected under the first amendment? this is the same supreme court, by the way, that upheld others saying god loves dead soldiers. so i think at the end of the day, even though this is so emotional, can you imagine what alvarez did here, terrible, disgusting, but i think it's going to be a close vote. either 6-3, 5-4, affirming that the stolen valor act is unconstitutional. >> how about that, richard? people lie all the time of things that are of no real consequence except hurting somebody's feelings. is this a really slippery slope? >> yeah, and that's exactly the argument that was made here against the act, richelle, is that just a mere lie with nothing more should not be punished. in this case it's potentially punishable by incarceration. in 2012, it's ridiculous. this valor act -- i mean the

integrity of the military, we all look up to the military and they have incredible integrity. if somebody lies about medals, that does not lower the integrity of the military. if somebody lies and fraudulently induces you into something, that's different, that's fraud, that's a lie, that's actionable. but here saying he won a medal when he didn't, come on, there are so many other more important cases to deal with. >> guys, thanks for the discussion. we have a lot more to talk about today so stick around. in 20 minutes, our legal guys will be pack to talk about a woman who claims paramount pictures stole the idea for the film "titanic," the one that's been out for years, and now she's suing. [ thinking ] i wonder what other questionable choices i've made? [ club scene music ] [ sigh of relief ] [ male announcer ] choose taste. choose prego. you noticed! these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them. how'd you do it? eating right, whole grain. [ female announcer ] people who choose more whole grain tend to weigh less than those who don't.

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the top stories now, former south african president, nellson mandela, is in the hospital right now. the 93-year-old had hernia surgery. a relative says he should be released from the hospital no later than monday. let's hope so. all military advisers for the international security forces are being pulled out of afghan government ministries after at least two americans, both nato service members, were shot and killed inside the interior ministry in kabul. the taliban are claiming responsibility for the attack and say it was in response to

the bushing of korans at a u.s. air base. and we now know the names of the seven marines who died in that helicopter collision wednesday night. they were on a training mission when the two copters slammed into each other over the california desert. they are major thomas budrejko, captain michael quinn, captain benjamin cerniglia, captain nathan aroundson, sergeant justin everett, lance corporals cory little and nicholas elliott. the cause of the crash is under investigation. the gop presidential candidates are fanning out across michigan and arizona ahead of next week's primaries and are also looking for big support on super tuesday. rick santorum is blasting rival mitt romney over his health care plan when he was governor of massachusetts. santorum is also suggesting romney and ron paul have a secret partnership against him. romney blasted santorum over his team comments during the debate on wednesday. in a new arg poll, romney is leading santorum with 39%.

and tune into cnn at 5:00 p.m. eastern today for an encore presentation of the cnn republican presidential debate from mesa, arizona. this is really a strange story. the youngest son of robert f. kennedy has been charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of his newborn. douglas kennedy allegedly tried to take his 2-day-old son out of the hospital in new york last month, despite nurses warning him not to do so. nurses tried to stop kennedy from taking the boy out of the maternity ward and out of the hospital. he allegedly twisted one of the nurse's wrists, kicked another in the groin and then fell down himself with the child in his arms. kennedy and his wife say they did nothing wrong. okay, take a look at columbia, south carolina. people there have some cleaning up to do. the weather service says at least two tornados touched down. obviously as you can see

damaging homes, snapping power lines, just ripping trees up. luckily no one injured in all of this. alexandra steele is in the weather center. things calmed down since then. >> one was an ef-2, 130-mile-per-hour winds, the other an ef-0 but the front has moved through but very gusty winds behind that. there was a 230-mile-per-hour wind yesterday in south carolina but this morning we've got 50-mile-per-hour winds on the back side. really kind of the winds the biggest weather story up and down the eastern seaboard. north adams, mass, 48-mile-per-hour wind gusts so certainly if you are flying be mindful of that. wilmington, vermont, 38. albany, new hartford, 36-mile-per-hour wind gusts. the winds of the severe weather are over but this is just gradient wind. low pressure here in the northeast, incoming high pressure, meaning better weather is on the horizon. as these two are quite close, we have this pressure grade yept. here's what we're going to see

in terms of very strong winds. here on the outer end of long island, 60-mile-per-hour wind gusts today. so the winds, of course, the biggest story there. dry skies for the most part. look at wilmington, washington, d.c., west wind gusting to 44 miles per hour at this very moment. 25-mile-per-hour gusts in pittsburgh. new york city gusting right now to 40. so some very voracious winds. there's the story with the winds in the southeast. the other story, temperatures have dropped 15 to 20 degrees in the last 48 hours, but even with that we're right at seasonable levels so temperatures cooling down, the severe weather threat is over but the winds a big threat throughout much of today, into tonight and they'll abate for tomorrow. >> okay, thank you, alexandra. a lot of finger pointing going on about who's to blame for that deadly stage collapse at sugar land's concert back in august. our legal guys will weigh in on the lawsuit next.

welcome back. that sex tape involving john edwards and his mistress will soon be destroyed. our legal guys are back. avery friedman in cleveland, richard herman in las vegas. yeah, guys, we're starting with the sex tape. okay, andrew young is the aide in question who rielle hunter said had the tape and it was an invasion of privacy. my question, guys, is if andrew young were your client, wouldn't you just have told him, hey, turnpike the tape over to her? who wants to take that first? >> i do. >> okay. >> i'm going to defer to richard. no, no, here's what happened. i never understood the argument that the youngs made that they went diving into john edwards' trash to pull out the sex tape. he's put it in his book. his wife has talked about it on oprah. the bottom line is they got the tape back, but so what? i mean maybe john and rielle

feel better to have the tape, but that doesn't end. i need to mention this to you, richelle. the fact that they're still facing contempt in front of a north carolina judge for distributing the tape. they gave it to the feds. and now they're going to have to justify violating the court order. so the case is not over. over and above john edwards' federal campaign financing trial. >> exactly. he's still facing charges for allegedly misusing campaign funds for the purposes of his affair. richard, what are your thoughts on this? >> well, the real deal here, richelle, is that he complied with a federal subpoena to turn over the tape, which is going to trump the state prohibition against distributing it. >> no, it's not. >> in any event there were copies of this tape. this is a settlement. we're not sure if these are all -- they're doing a movie on this. who cares, but they're doing a movie about this relationship. i assure you, richelle, that right before that movie comes out on youtube is going to be a copy of this tape. someone has it. they're going to distribute it.

she was pregnant. the sex tape was made when she was pregnant. >> that's plenty of detail, guys. that's all the detail we made. >> what difference does it make? >> who wants to see that? let's move on to the next story. the band sugarland is being sued by fans and family members of people who died at that horrific, horrific incident at the indiana state fair. winds came in, blew the stage down. it fell on people. just heart-breaking video to see. so we've been hearing now some of what's in the lawsuits coming out this week, including one of the attorneys for sugarland saying that the victims bore some responsibility for what actually happened to them. richard, what's your reaction to that? >> well, richelle, any time you bring an action for negligence, that's always part of the defense. it's called an affirmative defense. >> okay. >> what they're saying is, listen, this was an open and notorious event that could have possibly happened with the

stage. you should have known, it was rocking, the weather was horrible. nobody should have been that close to the stage. they're not denying -- they did deny liability, but they're saying that some of the victims bore some of the responsibility because it's a comparative negligence state. so they're going to apportion responsibility here but it's something that's done every time in a negligence case, richelle. >> avery, go ahead and jump in on this. how does sugarland defend themselves? >> well, they do because they can show that there were others responsible. let me say knit one sentence, richelle. it is a standard affirmative defense that's being made much bigger than it is, not a big deal. it's a technical issue. the facts will be born out. >> let's take the law out of it, though. sugarland has to be careful about how they talk about their fans, because there is no sugarland without their fans, right, guys? >> well, that's right, that's right. and again it's a technical defense. the band is not saying that, it is a technical defense getting

blown out of proportion. that's all it means. people love sugarland. i love sugarland and the fans love them. it's not going to have any effect on their popularity or the lawsuit. >> all right. let's talk about -- >> they're going to settle, richelle. they're going to settle. >> okay, we'll check out and see if that happens. let's talk about princess samantha kennedy, guys. >> love this. >> isn't this -- this is a wild story. let me get everyone up to speed. princess samantha says that she didn't see "titanic" when the rest of the world did. it's the second highest grossing movie ever. she just recently saw it, and she feels like the studios, paramount, rimmed off her personal story, that jack and rose are her relatives, so she submitted a handwritten lawsuit, hand wrip, i don't know if that means she can't get an attorney. she wants the movie destroyed. i know you both want in on this. i'm sure you've got some one-liners prepared. avery, i'll let you go first. >> oh, no, no, i'm taking this very seriously. >> okay. >> not really.

this might be, again, one of -- when we do top ten dumb cases of the year, princess unfortunately winds up on the list. there is no basis for a case. she hasn't been to the movie theater, she said, since the '90s. i don't know what she's doing, but it sounds almost respectfully delusional. a federal district court will dismiss this case, end. that's it. >> richard, what do you think? >> her case will sink like the ship 15 years ago. >> i turned that to richard so he got the one-liner. >> you served that up to me, avery, you really did. >> 60-page hand written complaint. >> it's time to wrap it up. great talking to you as always. richard, avery, have a great weekend. >> pleasure. take care. former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital. we'll have the latest on his surgery as well as a closer look at his health through the years.

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former south african president nelson mandela is in the hospital. family members say he successfully underwent hernia

surgery. he's 93 years old. he's expected to leave the hospital within the next two days, let's hope so. robin takes a closer look at mandela's health. >> reporter: the former south african president has seemed frail and unsteady on his legs for the past few years. public appearances have become increasingly rare, just too much effort for a man in his 90s. when he has left the privacy of his home, he sometimes seemed confused, slow and tired. those close to him, like his wife, say he has found the strains and indignities of old age difficult to endure. >> he is a very proud person. he's even vain. so when he realized that he can't walk as tall and firm as he used to be, he doesn't like it.

he use the walking stick to keep his balance but don't suggest to him to use any other way of being helped. >> reporter: she also says that his memory is not what it used to be and that it's difficult watching someone you love age. >> to see him aging, it's something also which pains you. it's like you understand him, you know that it has to happen, but that's -- i mean the spirit and the sparkle, you see that somehow it's fading. >> reporter: to watch mandela's sparkle fade, even more difficult because he was always so physically robust and energetic. when he was on robin island serving a life sentence and forced to do hard labor in this lime quarry, he was the fittest of the bunch says a former

political prisoner. >> unlike the rest of us, he was much fitter because he used to go to his gymnasium. he was a boxer. >> reporter: while in prison, mandela tested positive for tuberculosis and his health was closely monitored boy apartheid authorities. in his prison diaries, mandela noted his blood pressure and doctors' visits. >> blood pressure which fluctuates quite a lot. >> reporter: over the years, mandela has been in the hospital for prostate cancer and operations on his knees and eyes. his body, slim, tall and strong has survived the brutalities of apartheid prisons, but now it seems the undeniable march of time is finally taking its toll. >> we'll keep a close eye on his condition for you. another attack on americans

in afghanistan. two u.s. officers are dead. we'll tell you where it happened and who is claiming responsibility.

taking medicine to remote areas, the lack of easy access is not keeping this cnn hero from making his rounds. >> my name is dr. benjamin la brot. i don't have a private medical practice, i make no salary. i started an organization called floating doctors to use a ship to bring health care to communities that have fallen through the cracks and been denied access to health care. floating doctors has a 76-foot

100-ton ship that we refurbished and we use that to transport all of our supplies. since we set sail about two and a half years ago, our mission has been continuous. we were two months in haiti, we went to the honduras and have been in panama about the last eight months. in the last two years, we've treated nearly 13,000 people in three countries. i'll find patients who have never seen a doctor before in their lives. >> that was about as good a result on that ultrasound as we could hope. >> typical community is usually living with no electricity, with no running water, with no sewage. essentially living with none of the basic requirements as we understand it. we've built schools, we've done community projects, we've provided health education for thousands of patients. floating doctors is an all volunteer organization. nobody gets paid. all of our medical supplies are donated. i had to postpone many aspects

of my own personal life. i don't have a home somewhere. i had to give up a lot but i gained everything. >> wow, remember all of our heroes come from your nomination so go to cnnheroes.com to share your inspirational stories. the trial of a former rutgers student accused of spyi spying, his alleged actions letd to do suicide of tyler clementi case is now in court.

checking top stories, all military advisers for the international security forces are being pulled out of afghan government ministries. that's after at least two americans, both nato service members, were shot and killed inside the interior ministry in kabul. the taliban is claiming responsibility for this attack, saying it was in response to the burning of korans at a u.s. air base. we'll keep you updated throughout the day on the health of former south african president nelson mandela. he is recovering from hernia surgery. a relative says he should be released from the hospital no later than monday. prosecutors say a former rutgers university student acted purposefully when he secretly recorded and web streamed his