sleeves. thanks for watching this special edition of fashion back stage pass. for more on my fashion specials, foll follow me on twitter or visit my facebook page. han thanks for watching. welcome. i'm richelle carey. you're in the cnn newsroom on this saturday, the 25th of february. in afghanistan, two high ranking american officers are shot and killed. the taliban says the americans were killed in retaliation for the burning of korans at a nato base earlier this week. protesters have been packing the streets for five days now, pure yus over the koran burning. we will go live on afghanistan for details in just a couple of minutes. nelson mandela spending the night in the hospital. a family member tells us he had

hernia surgery for that and he is resting comfortably. he's 93 years old. and a huge explosion rips through a neighborhood in the syrian city of homs. people there have been trapped by shelling and sniper fire for three weeks now. syrian officials agreed to a cease-fire yesterday to let wounded people and women and children evacuate. at least 75 people are reported killed across syria just today. nato's reacting swiftly to the shooting deaths of two american military officers in afghanistan. both were shot dead inside a government building in kabul earlier today. protesters have been packing the streets across afghanistan for five days furious over the burning of korans at a nato base p. nick payton walsh joins us from kabul. what are nato and the u.s. going to do to get other westerners out of harm's way is th? because clearly the situation is

not stable. >> reporter: absolutely. what they've immediately done is the head general john allen has withdrawn advisers from ministries in and around kabul. now, that's not a huge number of people, but it is deeply symbolic because obviously this this is a war going on here and they're in a deep hurry to train up afghan security forces to take over the job of keeping this country secure. so may toe can leave. this isn't going to help at all. an incident like this play there is to the essential trust between afghan soldiers and americans in nato here undertaking that training mission. let me tell you exactly what we do know at will point. sources say the gunman who managed to enter a secure part of that secure interior ministry where the americans were, that gunman was not a westerner. and that he is at large. so he escaped from that particular shooting. as understand, the taliban have

claimed responsibility for this and saying he was acting to avenge the burning of the koran. that's not something afghan officials wish to corroborate, but we are also hearing that the afghan defense minister has apologized and agreed to cooperate in the investigation. suggesting perhaps to some that maybe afghan security personnel was somehow involved. >> so we understand that the gunman is not in custody. is anybody in custody at all? >> reporter: not as far as we're aware, no. and this is the big mystery, how did the gunman it seems get into the securest part of the ministry, carry this out and escape. many questions to be answered certainly. but bear in mind whatever the investigation brings out, the damage could already be done. we have the withdraw of ministers, and huge impact on i'm sure many nato soldiers. they should have been safe where they were, but somehow somebody

got to them and it happens of course in this climate of afghan fury about the burning of the koran a week ago at a u.s. base not far from where i'm standing. we've seen protests for the fifth straight day. clashing with police. and really concerns as to how that climate of afghan discontent and this incident could really play into how may toe so nato soldiers feel here. >> so the ramification still yet to be seen. nick, thank you so much. a concrete reminder of osama bin laden's life is going away. it's tricky to make this out, but in the distance, that's the three sorry building where bin laden was hiding and where he was killed. cranes and heavy machines are working through the night knock down the walls and the building itself. they don't want to become a

shrine for followers of bin laden. addrenelson mandela went to hospital and we checked in with our reporter a little while ago. >> reporter: very worried, wanting more information. and in the last 30 minutes or so, we received an updated same from the presidency. the preside they say mr. mandela is in a satisfactory condition in hospital, he's comfortable, he went through a planned procedure. we can only assume that the hernia surgery that our sources have told us about to investigate the causes of this abdominal complaint that the presidency spoke about. president zuma tonight saying that mr. mandela is fine and fully conscious and that doctors are satisfied with his condition which they say is consistent with his age.

they're stressing today that mr. mandela is not in any danger and that's exactly what his party, the african national congress, has been saying the whole day. >> it was not an emergency. it was pre-planned. and finally happened today. >> is it self threatening? >> it's not. he is fine. he's okay. and that's what we've been communicate to go south africans that there's no need to panic. >> the ruling party, the african national congress and the presidency telling south africans and the world not on panic. mr. mandela is expected to be discharged from hospital either tomorrow or monday. >> thno word on where he's recovering from surgery. the family is wanting to keep that private. next, the race for the gop

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michigan and arizona vote tuesday. a lot of people see michigan as critical for romney. he's in a dead heat with santorum in both states. super tuesday just seven days later. so much going on in a short period of time. cnn's joe johns is in troy, michigan, a big focus on michigan. joe, is too much being made of mitch or is that just not even possible?

>> i don't think so. this is a place where romney grew up, so you sort of expect to see how well he does. here in tloi is a very interesting place to sort of see both of these candidates in the home stretch, if you will. santorum appearing in the morning, then romney in the afternoon. both in the very same room before the very same crowd, group of 1200, 1500 people with americans for prosperity, conservative group. their approaches in their speeches in the home stretch seem to be very similar. first they talk about what they're forks a, and then the seamless you were to what they're against, which would include certain policies of the bom ed obama administration. and then they turn to each other with select i haive critiques, u will. neither candidate found it necessary to adhere to ronald reagan's 11th commandment that's

been made so famous, don't speak ill of another republican. so listen to the sound bites and i'll talk to you about it in a moment. >> in that last debate, we heard something about business as usual in washington. but when the senator mentioned that sometimes you have to take something for the team, he disagreed with it on principal but he had to vote for it. we can't do that anymore. we can't take continue to take one for the team. my team is the people of the united states of america and i'm going to fight for that team, not for the partisans with n. washington. >> i don't go out and crow that i impose the first carbon cap on power plants. as governor romney did when he was governor of massachusetts and talk about how we're responding to the severe threat of manmade global warming. i didn't buy it.

i didn't buy climate science. i didn't buy it because i knew it was political science. >> reporter: so also important to say as you noted at the top, michigan is not the only state in play right now. arizona is, too. they also vote on the 28th and there's a new poll just out today that seems to suggest that romney's lead there is narrowing a bit, it's now within the margin of error, so looks like it could be a pretty close race in these two states as we enter the final 42 hours. >> so much to watch and so much to talk to you about. so we'll talk to you again. thank you. a member of the kennedy family is in a bit of trouble. this is so odd. it involve asthma sternity ward, two nurses and surveillance video. and that's next. minnesota. in here,

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a member of the kennedy clan is fighting accusations he got into a scuffle with two nurses and n. the maternity ward. douglas kennedy is the son of the late robert f. kennedy. cnn's susan candiotti has more on this really unusual story. so i know you've been doing some digging. layout the deails for us as you know them. >> to call this strange is an understatement. what you have is a father in this case a son of robert f. kennedy facing criminal misdemeanor charges after trying to take his newborn baby from a maternity ward outside for some fresh air. this happened last month. according to court documents, the baby was almost three days old. douglas kennedy was visiting his wife who was recovering from a c-section. he was holding his baby boy swaddled in a blanket and cap. nurses told him will he needed

permission to leave the ward. trouble started when another nurse old kennedy he could not go outside. if sworn depositions to police, the nurses said they talked kennedy out of an elevator, but then he headed into a stairwell. a nurse tried to so that him from leaving. here's their attorney. >> the only aggressors were the nurses. and in fact initially the nurses said that he could go outside. and it only changed when another nurse and then another nurse after that became aggressive and blocked douglas from walking with his baby outside to get fresh air. >> that was actually the lawyer representing mr. kennedy, not the lawyer for the nurses. an emergency room doctor who is a family friend of kennedy's who says saw the whole thing issued a statement. he said i can state the nurses were the only aggressors.

to charge mr. kennedy with a crime is in-comprehecomprehensi. the nurses said when kennedy had the baby in his arms and when they tried to so that htop him leaving, the baby's head was shaking violently. the lawyer representing kennedy says that absolutely did not happen. so again, mr. kennedy is not charged with assaulting the nurses. he faces a miscledemeanor chargf endangering a child and that ration t harassing the nurses. >> such an unusual sorry. and, again, it happened a while ago, but it's just now coming to light. >> just about six weeks ago. and the baby we're told is not harmed in anyway, is not injured. the district attorney's office is not commenting more is the hospital at this time. >> susan, thank you for that reporting.

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sony launch as new gaming system and the academy awards allows back stage access with an official app. lots of technology news. let's start with gaming and

gadgets expert mark saltsman. seasonony says sales are positi. >> sure. is this sony's second major handheld gaming system. the successor to the psp. the psv how available at $249 is a great piece of hardware in my review, i'm very positive about it. it's got a gorgeous five inch organic light emitting diodes. there's five ways to play the games. you've got a touch screen on the front, a back touch panel, you've got dual analog sticks so it feels like a video game console. there's tilt sensors, familiar playstation buttons on the front. a lot going for. and the first batch of games led by unchartered golden abyss which is one of their key signature franchises on the p y playstation 3. looks and plays great. so it's like having a console in your pocket.

the problem that i have is the price of the games. $30 to $50 a pop for a portable game. and that's pretty steep when you're talking about a culture now used to paying 99 crep 9 ce angry birds. it's a lot. granted again we're talking console can-like quality in both video and control. but i think that's going to be a hard sell. but if you look at the quality of the games, the selection, there's a very strong future with this platform. >> and please don't laugh at me. don't the kids like borrow the games and then return them? i mean, isn't that how it works with the games? >> you can rent psvita games. they come on memory card. and there are some that you can download that are digital only. but kids could swap them. when you play a multiplayer game however, usually both require

the same game. but that could happen. but i hope sony take as good hard look at the numbers and decides to just bring down the overall price of the games. >> thanks for not laughing at me. let's talk about the blackberry update. >> the question is it too little too late. we're talking about the 7 inch blackberry tablet that came out in april of 2011 to very sort of luke warm reviews. it was a lot of experts including journalists felts of rushed to market in the wake of the popularity of ipad. so this new software update, which is free to blackberry play owners does allow to you pick up your e-mail and calendar entries and appointments on the playbook. you can now download a lot more apps. that was lacking significantly. including the ability to play

some android apps. so it's expanding its catalog considerably. and there's a number of other improvements. again, it's a free download. if you already own a blackberry playbook, it will unlock a lot more of the capabilities of this more portable tablet. but for those who are still on the fence as to which one to buy, i still i think that rimm is still playing catch up in this space as much as this re in the smart phone space. but the $200 price point is pretty attractive. >> and tell us about the official oscar app. >> right. so speaking of apps, of course tomorrow might is the 84th academy awards. and there is an official ipad app from abc. and it's really meant to serve as a second screen. you've got this this ipad on your lap while you're watching the oscars tomorrow night. and it allows you to do a number of things. first of all, before the oscars even take place, much like your office pool, you can predict who the winners will be in all the

categories and then when they're announced in real time, you'll be measured on your success, how good were you at guessing the win he is and compare help with your friends on facebook. the second thing perhaps more importantly, more exciting is the ability to choose what cameras you want to see. there's a lot of exclusive video, live feeds that you get to choose on the ipad. so while you're watching it it on your big screen tv, you've got back sage beingtake stage a you think cam for winners who want to say thank it is to their pans on camera, a control room cam. so if you're interested in broadcast journalism, you want to see how it works behind the scene, it's pretty excites and free app if you're an ipad owner. >> sounds like a lot of fun. all right. good stuff, mark. appreciate it. for more high tech ideas and review, go to cnn.com/tech and look for the gaming and gadgets tab. and speaking of the academy awards, there's a couple of hot races this year. who do you want to win tomorrow night?

our movie expert is sharing her picks. and just ahead, a former nba star goes public with his addiction. >> i woke up in the back of an ambulance. police officer cuffed me. and said my man, you were just dead 30 seconds ago. >> candid talk about drugs from a guy who had everything and nearly lost it all when we come back.

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welcome back. mitt romney is holding a grass roots rally right now in flint irks mit, michigan. let's listen in. >> time for us to make sure we can can live with our own resourc resources.

some things are easy to get rid of. we won't cry when they go. obama care is number one on that list. we'll get rid of that right away. and there's other things that i like that we'll have to say, guy, you have to stand on your own feet. for instance, we borrow money so that you when you were little when you watched big bird and bert and ernie you didn't have to see any advertisements. i'm not willing to borrow money. you're going to have to get used to big bird and corn flakes on the same progress. we won't borrow money from other people to do all these things. moving for fr politics to sports. chris herron travels the country telling people how addiction nearly killed him. jason carroll has this really powerful story. >> reporter: chris herron is

back on the court. >> two minutes left, my name is called in the starting lineup. >> reporter: but this one time raising basketball team is not performing the way he had once imagined. >> my first memory as a boston celtic was hanging on a -- >> reporter: he's speaking to students in massachusetts, talking about who he really is. >> how do you define who you are? >> i'm a recovering drug addict. extremely grateful. grateful for one day at a time. >> reporter: in a basketball town like fall river, massachusetts, herron was the answer to all those who dreamed of making it. a 2000 point scorer this high school, a mcdonald's all-american, a sports illustrated dash link. all before he started for boston college. >> i was just like every other kid. i was an athlete. i went out friday and saturday nights thinking this is what high school kids do.

a dollar bill was handed to me and at 18, i snorted my first line of cocaine. >> three failed drug tests and a year later, his career at boston college was over. but herron wasn't out of the game. he landed at frez knsno state, denver nuggets. but his drug use escalated. >> i woke up in the back of an ambulance. police officer cuffed me. and said up just dead for 30 seconds ago. >> in the world of addiction, you hate yourself. so escape yourself. so whatever drugs in front of me, i'm going to take because i don't like being me. >> reporter: after years of abusing heroin, cocaine and prescription drugs, after losing his career and nearly his family, he finally accepted help through a 12 step program. his troubled past detailed in the book basketball junky. he's been owner since august 1st, 2008. three years sober. >> 3 1/2.

don't cheat me. >> nba basketball player, chris herron. >> reporter: speaking about addiction is therapy for herron. taking his story to schools nationwide and reaching out for people like luke and his father. luke has had trouble with alcohol. >> it's helped put a perspective on there's a path where i can take from this point. >> reporter: it took herron 14 years to find his path to sobrie sobriety. >> do you ever think to yourself what could have been? >> who cares. who caress. honest on god. why should i care? because i'm too happy where my teeth are today to worry about my footprints behind me. >> reporter: jason carroll, cnn, boston. can't dwell on the past. herron started a nonprofit in 2011 to help people with addictions and one year, the herron project has paid for the treatment for 100 addicts. taking medicine to remote areas. the lack of easy access isn't

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the 84th annual academy awards are tomorrow. we'll start making some predictions today. why not? we have both our critics this afternoon. from rot tonto maten tomatoes.c great movies.com. let's get started. before we get your predictions, first i want your take on whether you think it's a good batch overall, whether or not you think it's a really deep category will this this year. what do you think about the being actor category? >> i think it's strong. it's packed with fantastic performances and a couple surprises especially mr. brad pitt for money ball. he's always been great, so it's a really strong category. >> matt, what do you think? are you impressed with the overall category? >> absolutely. i think we've got some really great performances that are

nominated this year. any one of them are stand out in what they've done. it would be -- if i was voting, it would be hard to choose. >> do you feel the same way about the actress category? >> absolutely. i think that we've got a really strong category, too, although i think in this case it's probably down to two of help. it's down to maerl streeryl str viola davis. >> gray, what do you think about that? >> i think the actress category is missing a few people like tilda swinton. but i agree that the big race is between viola and meyrl. but we live in a world where glenn close has never gotten an osc oscar. that's crazy. >> let me ask, do oscars just

tlat out come down to a pop layer day contest as opposed to who is just the most talented? i see both of you nodding. >> unfortunately, withis is basically hollywood high school where the most popular kid wins. occasionally you get people that win for an entire body of work instead of the actual performance. and that one is always tricky. >> matt, you concur? >> i absolutely agree. one of the best examples was shake shakespeare in love. it was a pine performance, but that was the academy really honest organi honoring previous efforts. >> let's start with the actress category. you mentioned

vile la davis, rooney mara, meryl streep, and michelle williams. matt, you can go first. who do you think will get it and what do you think should get it. >> i think this will go viola davis. in other years, i might say it would be a toss up, but i think meryl slooz loses points becaus movie didn't do that well. viola davis turned in a fantastic performance and i think she'll win and i think she deserves to win. >> gray, your you were. >> i have to agree with matt flp's an interesting statistic. every year that glenn close and meryl streep are nominated in the same category, they both lose. and so i think that this is going to be viola's year. and i would just like to points out however that michelle williams in my week with marilyn was truly amazing creating not

just an emtags imitation of marn row, but bringing that woman back to life. i don't think this is her year, but. >> that's a great scene. look at that. okay. let's get to the actors now. damien bashir, george clooney, that was really on my to do list. john dujordin, gary oldman and brad pitt. gray, who do you think should win, who do you think will win. >> okay. well, just first and foremost, who is definitely absolutely going to win, john judarin. he didn't even have to speak english as a first language in order to win everybody's hearts. acting is universal and that's what he showed.

however, also i just got to speak up for the little by again because not only has glenn close never won an oscar, but in this category, gary oldman has never gotten an oscar for delighting up for decades and this would be an amazing surprise. >> so you're saying she get one for the body of work. i love gary oldman. >> matt, you have the floor. >> i actually disagree in this category. i think that this award will go to george clooney. i think he put in a great performance. they all put in great performances, but i think clooney has a lot of friends in the academy, he hasn't won best actor before and i think he's going to go home with this time. >> you say george clooney is going to win and who do you think should win? >> yes. if i were voting, i would be

voting for gary oldman, i do agree. i think that old man's performance was a level of subtlety that we haven't seen from him before. he's fantastic in that movie and i'd love to see him continue to do other quieter roles that we've seen in the past. >> i think it's hilarious the way that george clooney and brad pitt, the way that they rib each other in the press about being up depends each other. but it sounds like mets one of you mentioned brad pitt, so you don't think he has a chance. >> no, i don't think this is brad pitt's year at all. >> i don't think so. >> gray, you go hahead. >> he also deserves a body of work oscar, but i'm more than willing to put money down on my choice. >> shoabsolutely. p 20 bucks. let's do it. >> you're so funny, we'll talk

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it's amazing now. to recap the basic reasons, some is an uptick in the economy. some is what's going on in the stock market. a lot is concern over iran. concerns about what could happen with iran's oil supply affects the world oil markets. also speculation. all these things come together to impact crude oil which impacts gas prices. what we are looking at is this. this shows you the differences in prices all over the country. the more red, the more expensive. take a look at the average right now in california. this is from cnn.com. $4.20 average in california. jump over here to california, $3.12 average. jump to the northeast. new york you've got $3.91 average. in georgia, $3.60 average. why are these so different? we've got them on screens for you. the four major factors. one is taxes are very different in different states and different counties all over this country. taxes end up making a

difference. another is environmental rules. individual states and in some cases individual counties have specific environmental rules about what happens to gasoline. that can add to your price. distance from supply. if it takes more of an effort to get the gasoline to where you are, that's going to show up in price difference. the other, which helps explain what we saw out of orlando is competition. if you have a lot of places selling gasoline near each other, it can work the prices down. if you have one place where you return a rental car, they might go up higher. take a look at this map. this map in blue shows you how much of your income goes to gasoline. the darker blue, the more. montana, lately 11% of income going to gasoline. in mississippi, 12% of income going to gasoline. richelle, that has a lot to do with the price of gasoline, how much people drive and average incomes. it's stark when you see it like

this. it's striking how much money people have to spend in this economy at the gas pump. >> that is a fascinating map. nobody wants to waste all their gas driving around looking for the cheapest gas. help us out and tell us how to find the cheapest gas. >> let's show my screen. there are a few places that will link for you. facebook and twitter. also next hour, i'm going to show how to use them. be with us in the 4:00 eastern hour, 1:00 pacific. richelle and i will break down how to use the web to save money at the pump. >> let's do it. thank you, josh. wild winds, enough to knock you down. the weather has been kind of weird from east to west. what is going on and what you can expect. since i was a kid. [ mike ] i always wondered how did an airplane get in the air. at ge aviation, we build jet engines.

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chances are no matter where you are in the country you had a smackdown with some wind somewhere. am i right, jacqui jeras? >> i love that, a smackdown. >> there is something going on. >> it's crazy. difference is in pressure drives the wind. we've got that all over the country, particularly in the

northeast and the northwest today. a lot of people are dealing with this. it's actually dangerous to be out there from time to time when we've been seeing wind gusts around 40, 50 miles per hour. look at those strong winds. you can really see it with the radar on top of this how those winds are driving the snow showers, how the cold air is moving over the great lakes and bringing that snowfall all across parts of the northeast. the advisories are out from new england all the way down through the appalachians. this is going to start to quiet down after sundown. that's the good news out of all this for today. bad news is that it makes for an ugly day and for a lot of travel problems. this is new york city, central park looking at gusts around 30 miles per hour. that is helping to keep temperatures down today, as well. here are the delays as of this hour. newark looking at delays over an hour, about 1 1/2 hours at washington dulles. everything is reported fine at reagan national. let's show some of the current gusts across the region.

they are impressive. we saw the highest one this afternoon was out of boston at logan, 52 mile-an-hour gusts. you're at 38. that is enough to bring down tree limbs. there are a couple of hundred people without power. it's not widespread, but it could happen to you. high pressure in place across the nation's wid section. strong low over here, strong low over here is driving in those winds. this will be the next system we are watching today. it's impacting you in the pacific northwest right now. watch this move across parts of montana through the dakotas, through parts of minnesota for tomorrow. by wednesday, or monday, excuse me, it will be across parts of the great lakes. some of those numbers will be high. on a typical winter, this wouldn't be a major storm for you, but this winter, this is a big deal when you're talking six to nine inches. that will make for difficult travel. an ugly weekend, a good one to stay inside not get hit or smacked around. >> you liked that. >> i loved it. >> thank you, jacq