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hello, everyone. it's 1:00 on the east coast and 10:00 in the west. within the past hour we learned that one of the five students shot this morning east of cleveland, ohio, has died. the other four are being treated in hospital and one alleged shooter is in custody. he's believed to be a student as well and may have posted threatening messages online. police say a teacher chased him out of chardon high school and he turned himself into bystanders. before that, pandemonium. >> once i got into the hallway, i heard someone yell, get down and i heard a bunch of shots fired behind me. >> describe the scene. was it total chaos? >> oh, yeah. i heard a bunch of shots fired.
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>> did you happen to see the guy with the gun, the shooter? >> no. i just ran down the hallway. >> in a few minutes i'll speak to the witness of the chaos and the panic that broke out just as the school day was starting. of course, we'll bring you all of the latest details as soon as we get them. tomorrow, two more states hold republican presidential primaries and for once it's not about the delegates. not in michigan, any way, where mitt romney grew up and where his father served as gorve nor where a law would be embarrassment verging on disaster. polls show a neck-and-neck race with romney and santorum. right now romney is holding his second grassroots rally of the day. a chamber of commerce breakfast. others say to vote tomorrow
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arizona and that one is about the delegates. it's win or take all, unlike michigan, and romney leads in the polls. and this is no surprise if you drive. gas prices continue to soar. gas prices have gone up for the 20th straight day. the national average rose one cent since yesterday. senator durbin was asked if freeing up the petroleum reserves would bring the prices down. >> it's a temporary fix. it might show some modest impact on gasoline prices for a short period of time. most analysts agree that it's due to soaring oil prices and fears that tensions with iran could trigger a disruption in oil supplies. turning to syria now, more deadly shelling of opposition strongholds today.
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activists say at least 33 people have been kill canned so far today. all but 11 of them in homs. and across the country, activists say 55 people died in military attacks. and as the slaughter continues today, the government of president bashar al assad said a draft constitution was approved by nearly 90% of those who voted yesterday. the opposition and the west have denounced the vote as a sham. meantime, in afghanistan, no let up in the deadly outrage in the burning of koran by u.s. troops. at least nine afghans were killed today in a suicide bombing outside of a military air field in the eastern part of the country. the taliban says they carried it out in the act of revenge. nick paton walsh joins us live from kabul. they say that they are behind the possible poisoning of nato food. what do you have on that? >>. >> reporter: well, there appears
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to have been a strange incident at a border post near the pakistani border in which a worker found evidence to make his suspicious, maybe somebody was tampering with the food. they found a high level of chlorine bleach in the coffee and food. they don't know how it got in there but as a precaution they have closed that facility. the taliban released a statement, an e-mail saying that they poisoned five americans to death at this same base. that's not true. nobody was hurt by this contamination but they are wondering how they knew that knew about it if they weren't involved in it. zoraida? >> and what has this done between the united states and afghan forces?
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>> reporter: well, we're in ourself event straight days of protests and the concern is that it's going to chip away at the vital trust. u.s. officials expressing concern that maybe karzai and his entire government aren't doing enough to quell the violence to perhaps protect their own people advise them in various ministries. it really could endanger one of the major planks here, zoraida. >> thank you very much, nick paton walsh. we'll have more on that and president obama's apology for the burning of koran. we'll return to the developing story in ohio where a gunman opened fire on a high school cafeteria. we'll talk with one of the students who knows the alleged shooter and was inside the school when all of the chaos
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a lone gunman appears to have targeted a busy cafeteria where students were having breakfast and study hall. when the shooting stopped, a teacher chased the gunman out of the building where he later turned himself into bystanders. police have not released the sis spekt's name but they are saying the alleged shooters name is kejay lane. we have an alleged video of the suspect being taken into custody. a sixth student apparently was grazed in the ear today but not hospitalized. like many, it's not most american schools. chardon high holds drills for such emergency. even so, one girl describes a stampede when the shots rang out. >> reporter: 7:18 a.m., students just starting their day.
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>> i heard shots fired in the cafeteria. i thought it was a cafeteria at first but i wasn't sure. i saw people running out and then i heard someone say get down and shots fired behind me. >> reporter: the school went into immediate lockdown. teachers slamming doors, children hiding in corners and closets, running away, and desperately trying to reach parents on the outside. >> she text me and said there's been a shooting but i'm in a closet and said don't worry. i said, keep texting me. so that's what we're doing. i'm texting her. >> she knows it was a student that brought a gun to school and five shots. >> reporter: as many as five students were shot. it appears the gunman, also a student, acted alone, escaping on foot. authorities describe what happened next. >> the student ran from the building chased by a teacher. knowing that, we've got officers
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in the area and we took care of the victims and got them off to the hospitals tone sure that the suspect did not come back to the school, our canine unit was brought in and tracking was commenced and the individual was apprehended some distance from the school. he had fled on foot. >> reporter: frantic parents raced to the school to find their children. federal authorities are tracing the gun to find out where it came from and where it was bought. >> chardon high senior who had just sat down in english class when his ordinary school became national news. evan is joining me on the phone from his home in cleveland. thank you for joining us. can you set the scene for us. what happened and what did you see? >> i just signed up to go in the section above the basketball
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game was supposed to happen tonight and i got to english and one of the administrators got on the announcement and yelled lockdown and all of a sudden you could hear the doors slam and the lights were turned off and we head towards the corner. >> did you see a lot of people running? what was the scene like? >> i saw a couple people running from where i was at in the hallway. they were screaming but we didn't really think of anything of it right then. we thought they were just being immature and running down the hallway and then we found out that it was actually a real lockdown. >> we know now that one of the victims has died. did you know that victim? >> yes, i did. he lived right across the street from one of my best friends. >> and what can you tell us about him? >> he was a very nice kid. all of the victims were. they were all really nice. they all hung out together and other than that, that's really it. >> now, we just mentioned the
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name of a gunman. it's t.j. lane. we're receiving some reports here that he had been bullied. do you know anything about that? >> no, not really. he was more of a quiet type of kid. he was really nice, though, if you did talk to him. he came from a broken home. my family knew his a little bit from high school. and he just came from a really broken down home and he was living with his grandparents. other than that, that's all i really know. >> we're taking a look at some video right now of him being arrested. can you tell us anything else about him from a broken home, what grade he was in? were there any problems that you knew that he had in the school with any of his victims? >> no, i'm not sure. he used to be friends with all of them back in middle school and in the early high school days. i was really shocked when i found out that it was him.
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because he was -- i mean, he was quiet but he was one of the nicest kids there. you could talk to him really easily. i mean,est funny. it was really shocking that it was him. >> now, there are some reports that perhaps he sent a tweet out oh or posted something on facebook. did you know anything about that? >> yeah, i heard that he sent a tweet out the night before about possibly bringing a gun to school. i'm not sure if that's 100% positive and the tweet has been removed, if it was sent out. >> so you knowing him, do you find that an unusual tweet that he would have sent out? >> somewhat. i mean, he was a quiet kid but it wasn't like him to say something like that and i think people took it as a joke, that he was kidding about and no one took action the way they probably should have. >> was he enrolled in the school? >> yes, he was.
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he was a chardon high school student. >> do you know what year he is in? >> i believe he was a junior or sophomore. >> and we understand that some of the victims actually attended a nearby school. they are not actually enrolled there. do you know anything about that? >> no. they are all enrolled at chardon high school. they all went to a place called auburn career center and it's where they worked on vocational training or plumbing or shop class or those types of things. and they were sitting in the cafeteria waiting for the morning bus to get there. >> and do you know how it all happened? did he just go into the cafeteria and start unloading his gun? >> yeah. that's pretty much how -- he was a table away from them and they were all sitting there and all of a sudden he stood up and that's when it started. >> and i'm sorry if i'm repeating myself here, evan, but
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of the victims do you know if there had been an altercation between him and any one of those victims? >> not that i know of personally at least. there may have been some type of incident but not that i'm aware of. >> okay. and we know that your school and school across the nation practice these types of disasters. that training, do you think it came in handy? >> i think that's what kept it at a minimum. as bad as it was already, it could have been a lot worse if we didn't do the drills that they had us do. >> are there any metal detectors at the school? >> there are no metal detectors but there are tons of cameras around the school. i mean, there are countless number of cameras there. >> and do you know how the parents were notified? >> i think it was all through mostly us. i know as soon as we found out that it was real, almost all of
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us took our phones out and tried to call our parents or texting them and just tried to tell them what was going on so they knew as soon as possible. >> and evan, did you contact your parents right away? >> yes, i did. i called and my brother, he's a freshman at the school so i immediately tried to get ahold of him and then i tried to get ahold of the people in the cafeteria to make sure that they were okay. >> and we're taking a look at a lot of the parents that seemed to have been lined up outside of the school. was there a process to take you home that they had to go through? >> yeah. they had us -- where i was, i was at the school right across the street and the parents would line up and come to the office and they would sign their kids out so that they knew that they were being taken home the way they should be. >> and how quickly -- we are taking a look at the police presence and listening to them talk about the process. how quickly did the police show up? >> they were -- i was impressed in how fast that they got there.
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i mean, the way that they got there, the way that they did was very impressive. >> evan, i know that this has been an incredibly difficult day for you and i really appreciate that you took the time to talk to us today and thank your parents as well. >> yeah. i'd just like to say, thanks to everyone out there. i know the browns have reached out to us and people all across the country. i've been getting texts and e-mails and tweets and facebook posts and i'd like to say everybody, thanks all across america. >> well, you certainly are able to hear and our condolences to you and your entire school and the community. we appreciate your time. thank you. >> yes. thank you so much. all right. presidential candidates newt gingrich and rick santorum criticize president obama for apologizing to afghanistan after u.s. troops burned koran.
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now secretary state hillary clinton comes to the president's defense. >> it was the right thing to do, to say it's not intentional. we deeply regret it. >> why our next guest says the administration was right to apologize. but thinks it was a military misstep. i love that my daughter's part fish. but when she got asthma, all i could do was worry ! specialists, lots of doctors, lots of advice... and my hands were full. i couldn't sort through it all. with unitedhealthcare, it's different. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information.
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as we mentioned, a protest is continuing in afghanistan over the burning of korans by u.s. troops. some believe the spike in violence could derail president obama's plan for ending the longest war in history. three republicans seeking president obama's job have sharply criticized the president. >> i don't think the president should apologize for something that was clearly inadvertent. >> the united states commander in chief apologizes to the afghan government. >> for us to be apologizing at a
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time like this, which is something that is very difficult to the american people. >> in an interview with cnn, secretary of state hillary clinton defended president obama's apology pointing out that former president, george w. bush, issued apologies under similar circumstances. >> it was the right thing to do, to have our president on record assaying, this was not intentional. we deeply regret it. >> and joining us now, former assistant secretary of state at george washington university, t.j. crowley, thank you for joining us. was the president right in apologizing? >> i think he was absolutely correct. afghanistan is important to the united states and right now the relationship is at risk.
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if we want to maintain a presence for our own interests in afghanistan, we've got to mind public opinion in afghanistan and that country and obviously it's been significantly inflamed by the koran burning incident. also, this is fundamentally call it what you will, the war on terror, the competition for hearts and minds within the islamic world. this is what this is all about. and the koran burning cut to the heart of the problem that the united states has had. you know, al qaeda has propagated this idea and it's very important for him and others. but we make it very clear that we are not. >> so let's go to the beginning, the koran burning. it seems remarkable that after ten years or plus of fighting that soldiers would burn the koran and not be able to tell the distinction that that is a holy book. how is it possible that something like that could happen? >> well, we made a mistake and you are right, that we've had plenty of examples recently.
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a few years ago reported abuse of the koran which turned out not to be truth but nonetheless made its way across the world. within the past year we had the case of pastor terry jones which inflamed public opinion in afghanistan. a year ago when he put the koran on trial and then burned it. so the fact that we somehow had not reminded all soldiers coming into afghanistan about careful treatment of the koran and other important symbols of islam is absolutely a military mistake. >> and does the burning and violence derail obama's current afghan strategy? >> not necessarily. but it clearly puts the relationship at risk. you know, obviously you've had the unfortunate incident and then you've had this retribution. what is most concerning is that afghan security forces have turned their weapons on their american allies. four american soldiers dead,
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others wounded. and it just chips away at the fundamental trust and adds to the tension that has already existed in our relations with afghanistan and calls into question whether the two countries can maintain a long-term partnership. >> and what do you make of president karzai's reaction to all of this? >> obviously the afghan government, just like the american government, are struggling to figure that out, the afghan government has been put into a difficult decision because they have to be themselves and the government is struggling and doing what it can to put an end to the unrest there. >> thank you very much for joining us. >> pleasure. we are just one day away from the arizona and michigan primaries. mitt romney and rick santorum are in a dead heat in both states. there are a lot of delegates up for grabs in arizona. so why are they spending most of
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this is the part of the show where all sides are fair game. we're a day away from the michigan and arizona primaries. the two men winning these contests could set the table for a big super tuesday for either mitt romney or rick santorum. so joining me now is republican analyst lenny mccallister and democratic political consultant ed espinoza. so why does it seem like santorum and romney are only focusing on michigan, ed? >> well, michigan is a proportional delegate -- sorry. i've got a little echo here. i'm going to turn down the volume. michigan is a state that allocates its delegates on a proportional basis. romney is going to win arizona.
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these candidates have internal polling. they see the writing on the wall. they know it's going to happen. santorum is going to lose arizona. it's not a good use of the campaign funds. so for them to have a real competition and to have come out of this race with delegates, they are going to take it to michigan. >> do you agree, lenny? >> somewhat. but some of the points ed is missing is that michigan is part of the midwest sweep that santorum would love to have. you listen to what rick santorum talks about, he talks an awful lot about the reagan democrats in the fall should he get the nomination. what does he need? he needs michigan, ohio, pennsylvania where he is up, he needs those types of states. he already has missouri. he would likely get indiana. if he can get the midwest, couple that with a christian conservative in the south, he can see how he would win in november.
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what arizona plays into that is that midwestern belt that he needs. that's why it's important for rick santorum to win in michigan tomorrow. >> over the weekend rick santorum said a couple things i want to talk about. let's listen first and then we'll talk. >> president obama once said he wants everybody in america to go to college. what a snob. there are good decent men and women who go out and work hard every day and put their skills to test that are not taught by some liberal college professor. oh, i understand why he wants you to go to college. he wants to remake you in his image. >> remake you in his image. lenny, what do you make of that? >> it goes back to what i've been saying previously. great social commentary. horrible, horrible political messaging. remember, rick santorum has been talking to the manufacturer that is going to go vote. in that regard, it's a great move. however, i can't help but think about in the month of february black history month, the united
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negro college fund. you have rick santorum telling people that it's snobbery to want people to aspire to go to college. again, i understand what he's trying to go after. you can be a blue collar worker and try to establish the american dream but the way he's messaging it is bad. >> ed, do you agree? >> yeah, i -- when people say i don't understand why politicians say half the things they say, this is what they are talking about. >> this is a tough one. i've got another one. this is a speech in troy, michigan. listen and we'll talk about it. >> to go across this country and talk to minority communities, not about giving them more food stamps and government dependency but creating jobs where they can participate and rise in society. >> i kind of remember hearing this from mr. newt gingrich, lenny.
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>> yep. >> yes, we have. and, again, i understand where they are trying to go with this. but part of the problem is this, zoraida. if you don't have -- >> wait a minute. how do you understand where they are trying to go with this? explain that to me. >> because what they are trying to say, you look at african-americans. you look at how the african-american subculture in america, we're getting more dropouts, we're getting more black men incarcerated and we're not reflecting the pride that african-americans have had for years in this country. you have to get back to prosperity, back to work, back to fulfilling a dream and conspiracy. but if you're making it seem as though all black people are on welfare or you have to save them from one thing to another and pointing blame rather than talking about something that is liberating or prosperous or empowering, you stay stuck on the language and don't get to
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the message of what the candidate is trying to articulate. >> ed, are you going to agree with lenny on this one as well? >> i couldn't follow everything that he was saying but i know this. if you say that it's snobbery to say that somebody needs to go to college but you say that they don't need to be on food stamps, there's a disconnect there. there's also a disconnect between understanding minority communities, building any relationship there, whether it's santorum saying comments like this or even romney making off the cuff comments about his wife having a couple of cadillacs. these are the things that show a real disconnect with voters out there and i think that not only will there be problems on tuesday but problems over the long haul. >> all right. gentlem gentlemen, we will leave it -- >> it's the same problem that the republican parties have had. it will be interesting to see what the convention looks like in 2012. if you don't have black consultants and strategists, you hear these types of comments and see the delegation like we did
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in 2008 and you see the voting results in november. this is what they have been doing previously. >> perhaps vying for a consult 1257b9's job. lenny, ed, thank you for joining us. that is "fair game". and a new bill in georgia would ban illegal immigrants from attending college. universities violate the federal law by admitting illegal immigrants. senator joins me next. america's beverage companies have created a wide range of new choices. developing smaller portion sizes and more low- & no-calorie beverages... adding clear calorie labels so you know exactly what you're choosing... and in schools, replacing full-calorie soft drinks with lower-calorie options. with more choices and fewer calories, america's beverage companies are delivering. we have to thank you for the advice on phillips' caplets.
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illegal immigrants could be banned from attending all public colleges in georgia. that's what essentially is being proposed in this bill. the bill will be considered by the georgia senate but it's not just the senate. the house is expected to consider a similar bill as well. if those measures pass, all 36 colleges and 25 technical colleges within the state's university and college systems would be off limits to undocumented students. it's an issue we feel is undercovered and state senator barry is a supporter of the bill. he is joining us from atlanta. >> the bill primarily clarifies what the legislature did in 2006, which was to put georgia in line with federal law. you know, it's a difficult situation because my heart goes
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out to the illegal aliens who brought their children here and they just want to provide themselves a better future. but the rule of law is a rule of law and we need to clarify that post secondary education in georgia georgia is a public benefit. >> if i could just ask you a couple of questions about this bill. are the students who attend these universities and colleges, do they charge you out of state tuition? >> currently they charge you out of state tuition and that's one of the reasons why we need to pass the legislation. the board took it upon themselves to redefine the law that stated that post secondary education is a benefit. taxpayer money pays for the buildings, for the computers, for all of the infrastructure there as well as subsidizing tuition. prior to the bill a few years ago, the board of regence allowed illegal immigrants to attend the public colleges using in-state tuition. as we passed this bill in 2006
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that define post-secondary education said it only applied if you were getting in-state tuition. currently they determine the immigration status of a foreign student and basically they allow the illegal aliens to attend college and they charge them out of state tuition. >> okay. you say the university system is violating federal law. how is that? >> well, federal law states that states cannot provide any undocumented student or illegal alien any public benefit and federal law states post secondary education is a public benefit. it further states that the only way a state can provide any type of public benefit to an illegal ail alien is if they pass a state law that provides that that alien would receive that benefit. the state of georgia by far has not passed such a law. in fact, we have passed laws that further restrict thoughs
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w those who are in the state illegal will not receive any type of benefit. >> if you allowed illegal students into the school, they would take up the space of students that could go to the schools. do you stand by that? >> we do. and not only american citizens, children of american citizens, but foreign students who come to our great university system. we want to make sure that those who are here legally, that those seats are available for them. and another issue often ignored is, even if the undocumented student or the illegal alien attends our colleges and graduate with a four or five-year degree or a doctorate degree cannot legally obtain employment in this country. even if they go to college, some have offered them to be employed in the united states. >> all right. the chancellor of your university system, he disagrees with you. and he's adamant that the university system follows state and federal law and pointed the
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testimony to the senate committee which passed this bill last week. in it, huckabee announced a system. if the university of georgia charges them out of state tuition. also, undocumented students are not allowed admission into a public college and it seems confusing here, sir. because at the end of the day i'm sure you're aware of the dream act which is sitting before congress right now and a lot of these students have not come to this country legally. they came here -- or came here illegally. they came here because their parents chose to bring them here. this is a way to continue their education and hopefully become contributing members of the society. so why is this a problem? >> it's a problem because we've received testimony from students, even returning veterans who have not been able to receive seats. our technical colleges are being
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overwhelmed. they are attracting a lot of people looking for a new career path. we want to make sure that those contributing to our society, the american citizens and georgia citizens and stud whoents come here legally have a seat at the table. and the issue is, again, i repeat, how is it that the illegal alien student -- how is it that they are going to be able to contribute to society as when they graduate they cannot legally obtain employment in this country. >> they are certainly hoping that our laws will change to allow them to do that. thank you for your time state senator barry loudermilk. well, gas prices don't just hurt commuters. they hurt small businesses stay afloat. we'll explain right after the break. i habe a cohd.
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have you topped off your gas tank lately? gas prices went up again overnight. one cent to an average of $3.70 for a gallon of gas. the spike, as you know, is a concern. economists say it could hurt the all right shaky economy, which is why we are taking an in-depth
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look all week at gas prices. with the arizona primary less than 24 hours away, suzanne malveaux spoke with some voters about how rising gas prices are hitting their bottom line. >> welcome to my office. >> beautiful. >> small business owner, kevin flanagan. >> how long have you been doing this now? >> i've been doing this for 28 years now. so i'm one of the luckiest guys around. >> but his luck is running out. >> the propane heats the air and that make it is fly and it seems like whenever the gas prices go up, the propane prices shoot up as well. just a few years ago we were less than -- we were about $1.85 a gallon and now it's 2.# $9 a gallon. >> so the bottom line, how does that affect your profit in. >> it kind of takes any profit
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away. so i would say most companies are operating at break even. >> suzanne malveaux joins us live from phoenix. you go to great heights in order to tell this story. unbelievable. >> a thousand foot view, i guess. >> yeah, it's fantastic. >> story. >> a great view. >> so do you think the candidates can solve the problem of the rising gas prices? >> kevin flanagan doesn't really see any of these republican candidates coming up with a solution that's going to solve this problem. they're looking at everybody, they're looking at romney, they're looking at santorum, as well as newt gingrich. but they called them out on it and said, we don't think you guys can actually do anything to lower the gas prices. so there is a lot of, i would say, apathy, a lot of frustration, a lot of confusion, but make no mistake about it, this is one of the biggest
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talked-about issues here in arizona, and there is still a lot of people that say they're undecided. they don't know who they're going to vote for tomorrow in the republican primary, and there are some republicans who also told me they thought, well, maybe there's really not a better alternative to president obama. perhaps we're going to vote for obama this next go-around. >> we can't wait to see the results of that. thanks, suzanne malveaux. before lady gaga wore meat, she actually served it. the revealing images of the funny germanata before she became known as gaga. that's next.
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. we wanted to get back to the outskirts of cleveland, ohio where a high school student is accused of opening fire in his high school cafeteria. five students were shot at chardin high. one has died. the daily newspaper reports his name is t.j. lang. earlier this hour i spoke to someone who knows the alleged gunman and the victims. here's what he said about lane. >> he's a very nice kid. all the victims were. they're all really nice. they all hung out together, and other than that, that's really it. >> now, we just mentioned the name of the gunman. it's t.j. lane, and we're receiving some reports here that he had been bullied. do you know anything about that? >> no, not really. he was more of a quiet type of kid. he was really nice, though, if you did talk to him. he came from a broken home.
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my family knew his a little bit from high school, and he just came from a really broken down home and he was living with his grandparents. other than that, that's all i really know. i was really shocked to find out it was him because he was quiet, but i mean, he was one of the nicest kids there. you could talk to him really easily, he was funny. it was just really shocking that it was him. >> and just moments ago, the dead student was identified as daniel parmentor. the cnn newsroom continues now with brooke baldwin. hi, brooke. >> thank you so much. hello to all of you. i want to continue where she left off with our horrible, horrible story out of ohio, breaking news. absolutely horrifying unfolding at a cleveland high school. a student opened fire, hitting five students. we know one of the students has
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died. here's what else we know. the alleged gunman is t.j. lane, who is believed to be a teenager. that paper also spoke with multiple eyewitnesses and one of the shooting victims. if you look close here at this video, this is a video from our affiliate. they appear to be taking a suspect, perhaps the suspect here, into custody in a very snowy ohio here this morning. here's how it unfolded the shooting took place at chardon high school. a teacher chased the suspect out of the building, ultimately. they were slapped into custody. i want you to hear how the students related it. >> i heard what i thought was firecrackers, i wasn't sure. then i saw a bunch of people run out, so i started running.
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once i got into the hallway, i heard a bunch of shots fired behind me. >> we thought it was a drill, to be honest with you, but then we heard over the announcement that it was actually a shooting spree, so we just hunkered down like we drilled over and over before, and we got a knock on the door that we're evacuating. it was a freak accident. >> she texted me and she said, there's been a shooting and i'm in a closet, but don't worry. i said, just keep texting me. >> my son is over here and i have a daughter here in middle school and i'm waiting to get them out, and i just want to get them home. >> absolutely. >> i'm very nervous that everybody is okay. i just hope they make it. >> when you think about the fact that you weren't in school today, what's going through your mind as you hear about this? talk me through your morning.
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>> i think i'm very lucky because i just would have been walking in the school when this -- >> speaking through tears, a student there this morning. obviously our hearts, thoughts and prayers go out to everyone there at that high school on both students and families. i want to bring in danny combhearts. he was there. and danny, i know you were tweeting about this today. you were ten feet away in the cafeteria. tell me what you saw. >> well, what i saw is -- i mean, our friends were walking together, having a good time, and we just heard a pop, and it was pretty loud and pretty noticeable, and just looked up. and i looked straight ahead and i saw a gun pointing at a group of four guys sitting at a table, and he was about two feet away
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from them, and he just fired two quick shots at them, and i saw one student fall. and i saw the other hiding, trying to get cover underneath the table. >> danny, when you talk about how he was -- pointed a gun at these four students at a table, can you describe how he appeared to be shooting? did he appear to be aiming, or was he randomly shooting? >> he was -- it was clearly, to me, that he was aiming right at them as he was two feet away, and he was aiming right down at them. he wasn't shooting around the cafeteria at all, he was directly aiming at the four of them. >> was he saying anything when he was shooting at them? >> i'm not sure. >> you're not sure. you couldn't hear anything? >> no, i couldn't hear anything
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if he was saying anything. >> do you know if those four students were saying anything? were they pleading with him? >> i know the four of them, but they're upperclassmen, so we're not good friends or anything. i know who they are, though. >> how many pops did you hear, danny? you mentioned one pop. >> i heard one, and then i looked up, i saw and heard the quick two and then after the quick two, me and my friends ran out the doors, and i heard two more shots be fired behind me. >> so the initial pop, two, and another quick two. the cleveland plain dealer, as we mentioned this newspaper, it is identifying the suspected gunman is t.j. lane. i want to play some sound. this is what another student told us last hour. let's listen together. >> it was more he was more of a of kid.
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he was really nice, though, if you did talk to him. he came from a broken home. my family knew his a little bit from high school. and he just came from a really broken down home, and he was living with his grandparents, but other than that, that's all i really know. >> danny, do you know him at all, t.j. lane? >> no. honestly, i have never heard of him. i've never seen him, and i don't recognize his picture at all, but some of my friends that were there with me knew him and said that i guess the group of four that he was shooting at, they bullied him, but i don't know if that's true, i don't know if it's rumors, but i don't know why he would just purposely shoot at them or if they did anything to him, so that's all i know about t.j. >> can you describe how he appeared, what he was wearing, the look in his eye?
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>> i didn't know anything he was wearing. i just really looked right at the gun and just had fear inside of me and i was really scared of what was going to happen, so i didn't look at his face, i just looked at the gun, and i ran. >> i understand, danny, a teacher chased him out of the building. what can you tell me about that? did you see that at all? >> the teacher was mr. hall, he's like the study hall teacher, and he's a very brave man. he broke up a fight earlier this year, so he's known to do some good things like that, and i guess he chased him out of the building and saved a lot of other students' lives, probably. >> and just -- let me walk back and ask you this. what was happening right around 7:30 in the morning? it was study hall, so it would
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make sense that mr. hall would be there with the students? >> right around 7:30, that's right when first period begins, and announcements were ending, and so he was right around the area, being the study hall teacher. >> and you would call him a hero, given what you've heard he did. >> yes. >> and you told me you don't know t.j. lane. do you know if he went to your high school? >> yes, i don't know him, but i guess he goes to our high school, but he mainly goes to a school for help -- a different school for help. >> danny, do you know any of those upperclassmen you mentioned that were shot at? do you know them at all? >> yeah, i know them. i don't know them greatly, like i don't talk to them or anything, but, i mean, i know who they are. i know nick walzack was the captain crazy for the junior
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class, which is like the leader for the pep rallies. >> did you see where they were shot? >> it appeared to me that nick had been shot in the upper chest. and that's all i really saw, and then he fell. >> danny, before i let you go, i know you have tweeted and i continue to ask why chardon, ohio. how are you doing? >> i'm just in shock. i can't believe that. i'm only 15 years old, and the first year of high school on a monday, i just can't believe it. i don't think it's real, and i just -- it kills me that i saw someone hiding and now that someone is now dead. >> it's horrible, and i'm sorry it's a reality for you and so many of your friends, but danny
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combhartz, thank you so much for telling us what you saw. we're thinking of all of you in ohio. thank you so much. speaking of these victims, we just got a statement from the family of the teenager who was killed today. his name is danny parmentor and through the hospital they said, quote, we are shocked by this senseless tragedy. danny was a bright young boy who had a bright future ahead of him. the family is torn by this loss. we ask that you give privacy to this the family at this difficult time. i want to go to paul. i imagine you and your colleagues, just as we have, have been all over this story today. can you bring me up to speed about what's happened so far? i understand a vigil will be held tomorrow night. >> that's correct, brooke, and we're all reporting on this with heavy hearts. we've seen the story unfold throughout the country and now it's hit home in our backyard in a small, quaint town in the s w
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snowbelt of eastern ohio. they're searching the gunman's home. they're going through some outbuildings on the property, looking for perhaps other evidence at the gunman's house. grief counselors are expected to be here at 3:00 and 7:00 to see if there's anyone that want to speak with them. there is a church across the street. there is already a candlelight vigil there tonight at 7:00. we talked to the students, as you just did, who described that scene inside the cafeteria. they said the gunman was quiet. they heard about ten gunshots. students ran and hid. one girl was hiding and she just remembers scrambling for her cell phone trying to get it on vibrate because she didn't him to find her. then as you said, that teacher chasing bravely, chasing the gunman we're told had a ..22 caliber, chasing him out of the
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school. he was arrested a short time later. that's what we know so far. >> paul, has anyone talked to this brave teacher yet, this mr. hall? >> not that i know of. i have his name, his phone number, i've been getting a lot of the answering machine. obviously a lot of people in the country want to talk to him. just a brave teacher. not to be a cliche, it could have been a lot worse if it were not for that teacher. they train for this, so although there was chaos in the cafeteria, it was also a very orderly situation. they went on lockdown and it seemed like the students knew what to do. when i arrived here, it was an emotional scene at that point. parents were picking their kids up from school and just clutching them, their arms around their neck, their arms
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around their wrist. sometimes these teenagers don't want affection from their parents in front of people, but they were just all being very affectionate and holding onto each other very tightly as they left the school today. >> it's very riveting as you watch these parents pick up their children earlier this morning. i do want to ask you about the four who were injured. do you have any kind of update on their condition today? >> we know that there were five victims originally, all students. we believe in the junior range of this high school. four boys, one girl. three of the victims, the most seriously injured were life flighted. we have a very good trauma center in cleveland. one of those victims, he died, as you know. the other victims that were shot were taken to a nearby cleveland hospital, hillcrest hospital. we're told they are in serious
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condition. obviously, their wounds were worse. they would have been transported to the level i trauma center. it's just horrible. you see this as a reporter, you see it in national news, but when you're standing right outside the school, it's a far different feeling. >> it hits home. paul, before i let you go, i want to ask the plain view dealers watching yourself at t.j. lane. what else do we know about him? >> he has not been charged. the chardon, hour and 45. they expect to get more information at that time. they did tell us at noon he akd alone. he is in custody but he hasn't been charged yet. they weren't officially releasing his name at that time. we expect to learn more about him at 4:00, as well as these alleged social media postings that he may or may not have
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made. there was some pictures of him on the internet. we're trying to make sure those are authentic before we use them. and the fbi is also involved with this and they'll be talking more about the social media postings, allegedly, by the gunman at 4:00 as well as more about the gunman and an update on the victims. >> okay, paul kiske, we appreciate it. i'm sure we'll take that live here as we get more facts on this horrendous story, this fatal school shooting out of ohio. much more on the story, including what social media revealed as the news broke. first, we'll have more for you in the first hour of media coverage. the fight against america takes a disturbing new turn. militants say they captured the.
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he killed himself after a night of college drinking. why he revealed so many candid memories when he revealed he lied. targeting vladmir putin. we're now hearing how the suspect reportedly planned to kill the presidential candidate. and his gas gas prices rise business owner says it's killing his profit. >> i would say most companies are operating at break even. >> saw zuzanne malveaux gets th scoop 1,000 feet above the ground. for my arthritis, i use
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let's get caught up on everything else making news this hour. rapid fire. let's go. first up here, the family of that missing florida firefighter is pleading for his safe return. i'm talking about jerry perdamo. he was last seen february 5 after he drove up to maine, telling his wife he was traveling there to help a friend. police in maine have now questioned this couple here, and searched his father's home, believing the couple was the last to have some kind of contact with perdamo. his loved ones have now traveled to maine, hoping to find him. >> never in a million years did i think i would be hanging out missing posters of my brother. how can you sleep? >> coming up next hour, i will speak with the stepfather of the missing firefighter. also today, a ship of the
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concordia, this one runs into trouble. it's adrift off the seychelle islands. a fire broke out in the engine room, leaving it without propulsi propulsion. help is on the way. friends of 11-year-old joanna ramos is coping with the loss of their friend. ramos died after getting into a fight with another girl at school apparently over a boy. when she came home, she complained to her mom she had a headache, and a couple hours later, she died in the emergency room. the fight lasted only a minute and nobody tried to stop it. a classmate of dulroon robby said he set up a camera in his room to find out if he was gay.
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>> he did not say anything about disliking homosexuals. >> clemente committed suicide just a couple days after that alleged spying. robbie is not charged in his death. a mob just trying to attend his own party. the crowds were pretty intense in orlando for the nba all-star game this weekend. they forced his wife before, before he was able to get in there. traps some of the hated fwhords nascar. for the first time ever, the daytona 500 did not run on a schedule day. but today skies are looking a little brighter as they were forced out. we'll try fwen this evening at 7:00 p.m. eastern. food poisoning at an
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in afghanistan today a deadly car bombing has stirred the pot of chaos. the afghanistan taliban is claiming responsibility. they say it's retaliation for the koran burning. the suicide blast happened in front of a nato base in jalalabad. at least nine people were killed, 12 were wounded, and before this attack, they said everyone involved needs to take a deep breath. >> calm down, return to a more normal atmosphere and then get on with business. and it doesn't mean we're not
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doing business now, we are. with both military counterparts and civilian counterparts. again, these are terrible tragedies and very worthy of the condemnation they've received. but this is not the time to decide that we're done here. >> i want to go straight to kabul to cnn's, says let's take a step back. is there any indication that's actually happening? >> not really. this is my seventh day in the row and they seem to take koran violation to different levels. we've had today a suicide bombing killing 96 afghan civilians and injuring several others. they say it's vengeance for the
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koran burning. this might be one of their normal attacking style in relation to this american estate, brooke. >> we know that that has been four americans killed so far. is there any way to know to what extent the afghan forces are come police l complicit in this? >> it's really hard to tell. there are many questions about how this man, this intelligence officer, got into the secure part of the military on saturday and shot two of the american high-ranking officers dead. he was in pakistan very recently, and then came back to join the intelligence ministry again. when he was in pakistck backgro
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of the. tragic results in one case but ge, i think the trust issue is a beg deal. >> i don't think troops can go home. if you're not able to have trust, the unity begins to crumble, brooke. >> he's proving to be a shaky ally. he's said things at times that perhaps incited violence. today we know he's condemning the suicide bombing. is he changing his tone? is he becoming more reliable? >> i don't think it's fair to say he changed in any particular way. i think in the beginnings of these protests, many thought he was slow at coming in for a
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comment. he sometimes felt the fury of normal afghans, the koran burning, but he has to keep americans outside and not much military support much of the time. a corresponds, consider him less and less as time goes by, brooke. very danching in that presence. back at home, another day, another rise in gas prices after this quick break. ♪
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let's just be honest and say, i'm sick of having to say this. 20th straight day, gas prices are up again. how high will they go? it all kind of depends on where
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you live. alison kosik is live at the stock exchange. tell us, who is getting hit worst? >> you're sick of it, i'm sick of it. we're all sick of high gas prices. i'm laughing because it's become just every part of our lives these days. aaa is saying the national average is sitting the $3.70 a gallon. if you look at how gas is moving, it's actually moving right with oil. oil and gas are up almost 9%. if you want to see how your state is faring as far as gas prices go, there is a great map on cnnmoney.com which breaks it down for you. states like california, hawaii, alaska, they're above $4 a gallon. new york, connecticut, d.c., they're not far behind. brooke? >> so as i'm sitting here trying to pull up that map, so i'll tweet it out. also, i know some lawmakers are calling on the president to tap into the strategic reserves. how realistic is that?
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>> cannotly. that -- exactly. tim geithner was on cnn on friday. he said tapping is a possibility. but the big question is, will it do anything? will it lower gas and oil prices? but cnn is saying, no, this there won't. we get most of our imported oil from canada, from mexico, saudi arabia. not iran, so supply is not the issue here, fear of iran squeezing the supply, that's what's driving prices. if you remember, the spr was actually capped last summer, and gas prices dropped, but only for less than a month and then they went back up. george w. bush also taxed gas and that had only a momentary impact. we are at the mercy of the
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a father, a firefighter from florida has been missing now for two weeks. his family absolutely desperate for him to come back. we're talking about jerry perdomo. he was last seen on february 15 after driving to bangor, maine telling his wife he was going to help a friend. police found his car in this parking lot in bangor. they have also searched the home of a relative, this man.
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they questioned porter's girlfriend, and police believe they were the last to have contact with perdomo and are now considered persons of interest in the case. just within the last half hour or so, perdomo's wife spoke to reporters. >> it's been really difficult, but i miss him and i just want him to come home. and our kids miss him. my daughter keeps asking about him. she stayed at a friend's last night and she called me so we could pray together to bring him back, and i just miss him. >> she mentioned they have children. the perdomos have a 10-year-old girl and three-year-old boy, and next hour we'll speak to the stepfather of the missing firefighter. did you stay up and watch the glitz, the glamour, the good, bad and the ugly? yes, we're digging through oscar
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watching for that. this guy was as well, monty durham, my dear, dear friend. fashion director, stylist, amazing guy. all of the above. hello. i'm very underdressed. i didn't get the memo. >> i figure i'd keep that mode going, that hip look. >> who are you wearing? >> prada. >> fancy. so last night, were you wowed by the fashion, or was it subtle? what did you think? >> you know what, i was wowed in a way that was understated and elegant. i didn't feel that it was really old hollywood glamour. the sex appeal was kind of stuck to the side -- >> gwyneth paltrow was looking pretty good. one thing i noticed was a lot of these ladies were in white. >> pure tones. we saw jewel tones.
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a lot of white. it works on the red carpet. the hair was pulled back, very sleek. minimal jewelry, a lot of earrings, cuffs, but you didn't see a whole lot. there we see some glamour. >> red lips. you love tina fey. she was a winner. >> i was shocked when i saw her. let's talk audrey hepburn here. she's beautiful. she cleaned up really well -- >> cleaned up. she's a lovely lady. >> look at peplum. >> what's peplum. >> it fits at the waist and it has an oval skirt around the waist before it enters into a skirt. it looks like a two-piece, actually. >> talk to me about jewelry. you said a lot of the ladies weren't even wearing earrings. >> i was shocked to see that. i don't know if that's coming from a runway sense.
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>> no earrings? >> little earrings. >> it was a lot of bold jewelry, rings, especially. big, chunky rings. a lot of bangles, bracelets, cuffs. >> stunning. you did not like -- who did you not like? >> well, it's not that i didn't like it -- >> merle streep, let's be honest. >> yeah, i thought that was a little '70 retro dynasty. i'm a big fan of hers, huge fan. >> we're happy she won. >> i'm excited she won. she deserved to win. however, different dress next time. >> what's our big takeaway as regular folks? maybe not you, mr. glam in prada here, but what's the takeaway as we get into spring here? how can this translate? >> i think we're seeing und
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understated, i wonder if we're taking a nod from our friend across the pond. >> the duchess? >> of course. she's on any top dressed list in any magazine. >> a lot of our fashion is because of kate. >> understated. she's right on the edge but she never pushes the envelope. another thing i noticed on the red carpet, there was a lot of expressions. laughter, eyes, no botox. look at them. you can see lines. yay! maybe that's the trend we're seeing as well. we're seeing a lot of natural -- the high ponytail, i wasn't quite digging. >> monty durham, my pleasure. you look amazing. >> thank you very much. >> i'll wear my gown next time. >> yes, you will. coming up here, imagine a city with no cars. yes, no cars. up next we'll tell you about this out of the box plan for
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imagine living in a community with no cars and building smack dab in the middle of a street. this new exhibit at the museum of modern art in new york is rethinking the entire way we live created as an answer to america's foreclosure crisis. hear the story by cnn.com's poppy harlow. >> how do you fix it? foreclosures weighing down neighborhoods. it's america's continuing foreclosure crisis and it's playing out in cities just like this one, orange, new jersey. architects here at the museum of modern art think they might have the solution, and believe it or not, it involves building in the street. >> this is an experiment to look at what happens if you get rid of streets, and we create a
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pedestria pedestrian city. >> the plan is on exhibit called "foreclos "foreclosed: the american dream." their idea, fill the streets with housing and office space and eliminate the upkeep on the roads. the exhibit reimagines how we live. >> it's not sufficient to fix subprime, globalized who holds the debt and go back to building mansions that take us three hours to drive to. there really is no such thing as a typical american suburb. it manifests itself differently in different parts of the country. >> reinhold martin challenged them to think of three subjects across the country. >> there are opportunities in these decaying suburbs. >> for example, picture kaiser,
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oregon as a city powered by its own methane dome. >> it's creative, but how is it a solution to foreclosure? >> it's not about trying to solve the mortgage crisis. that's for the banks to sort out. we're saying that since we have also learned from it, the way we build is part and parcel of this massive foreclosure crisis. >> reporter: we took the plans out to orange in essex county, which has one of the state's highest foreclosure rates. >> fantastic. >> it sounds like something from the jetsons. >> it's hard to imagine that we can solve all the problems of orange. the biggest problem we have to deal with is this constant sprawl and expansion. >> reporter: orange mayor eldridge hawkins had not yet seen the plan. >> could it help solve the crisis? >> i think it's a novel idea, something futuristic down the road, but the theme is not far from what we're trying to come
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up with. >> our strategy as it relates to foreclosures and vacant properties is a block by block approach. >> where we're standing now, we used to have housing projects. we have nowie erected two and three-story townhomes. >> so will building in the streets be next? >> maybe in the future, but to directly answer your question, the entire city of orange will not be a carless community. >> i'm sure a lot of people wouldn't be laughing, poppy harlow, because of all the gas prices. they kind of like that idea. >> right. >> is this something that could actually be implemented in, say, orange, new jersey, or is this just a thought-provoking exhibit? >> i think it's both. you ask those architects, they actually want to see this built. maybe it will happen block by block. it would be pretty tough to get it past city council. you heard the mayor. he likes the idea, he's pretty skeptical. but this idea of taking what's not working and making it work. for example, in a suburb of chicago, an old industrial town,
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they took an old factory that's abandoned and turned it into offices and apartments and you have a lot of energy generation within these cities, so it's taking a look at once we get past the foreclosure crisis, how do we build cities that work, because these mansions, for example, all over california did not work. obviously we can't rebuild the same way again. it's interesting, robie m emanu said a few years ago, you never want to let a crisis go to waste, and this is a perfect example of that. >> poppy harlow, thank you so much. coming up next, it's monday, and on this show that means it's music monday. and i sat down with an extra special guest. wait until you hear how this guest actually paid to have his last album made. that's next. . and olay advanced hydrating serum. it's new tone rehab 2-in-1 foundation. one pump... covers spots, lines... and wrinkles. and one bottle helps improve skin tone over time.
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visit a local office, or go to libertymutual.com today. liberty mutual insurance. responsibility. what's your policy? today's music monday is a father who told me he's been singing forever. he rarely goes on stage without a tie and he has a lot of quick wit. he says music inspires him, and if you like what you hear, call him up. sometimes he plays and a guy is trying to win his way with a girl. sometimes it works, and sometimes, you'll hear, not so much. i give you david berkeley.
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♪ >> how long have you been playing music, ten years? >> about. i've been singing forever. ♪ driving back from my sunny shoots in your daddy's car ♪ ♪ broke down, yeah, we broke down ♪ >> it continues to be music that inspires me. ♪ lying back against the windshield, cars were blowing by ♪ ♪ you cried wrapped up in my arms ♪ >> all my songs basically come from experiences that turn into emotions that come out as music. ♪ the dress she wore was yellow and the rain was in her hair ♪ >> describe your music for people who have never heard you. >> i say it's indy folk, but i don't really know if that's a genre. >> we'll make it one. >> i play acoustic guitar.
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there's more edge to my music, i think, than some more traditional folk artists. ♪ i like working there, burying the shovel ♪ ♪ the lord is all i know, i miss having somewhere to go ♪ >> your latest album you kind of came about fundraising for it unique uniquely? >> uh-huh. >> how? >> i just sort of asked my fans to chip in, but i felt kind of weird because there's other causes to put your money rather than david berkeley, so i set up a thing on line where there could be different levels of donating. a guy hired me to help get back
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a girl. after the first song, i realized she didn't want to be there. i had to continue to play, and it was really painful. ♪ >> i love performing and i love writing songs, and i hope to be able to continue to do that as long as i have things to say, which i hope is a long time, but i'm definitely trying to find ways to do it and not tour quite as much because it's hard to leave my kids. ♪ i believe this is who we are ♪ i believe, i believe your heart is like a parachute ♪ ♪ it keeps us both from falling down ♪ ♪ your heart is like a parachute ♪ ♪ it keeps us both from falling down ♪ ♪ your heart is like a
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parachute ♪ ♪ it keeps us both from falling down ♪ ♪ ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ♪ ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ♪ ba da ba dum [ applause ] >> david berkeley, thank you. thanks to my brother. my little brother turned me on to him a couple years ago. you want an encore? of course, you do. i'm always trying to find new people, new artists, so tweet me suggestions on any music monday. i'm on twitter at brookebcnn. now this. welcome back, i'm brooke baldwin. new developments out of our breaking news out of cleveland, ohio where a gunman opened fire this morning inside a high school. five students were shot. one of those