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four men a, robert bales was brought to the u.s. and speaks to his lawyer for the first time. here's his attorney, john brown. >> i think flfs an effort to paint him as someone who, rather than having a serious brain injury and shouldn't have been there to begin with, had some other factors. the financial situation for all of us is stressful, i think. but, you know, nobody goes and kills women and children because they had financial stresses. >> bales is kbg held now at fort leavenworth military prison in kansas. that's where we have ted rollins standing by. do we even know if sergeant bales has met with that attorney yet ted? are we expecting the attorney to come on and speak? >> well, we are expecting him to come out and speak. we reached out to him via e-mail and he said he likely would.
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he said possibly right afterwards. we do know talking to people that they have met, they are meeting at this hour and they apparently met for three hours this morning and are on a lunch break and at it again. according to a spokesperson, he is planning on staying through midweek, john henry brown. so this is the first of sounds like a couple of days of interaction with his client. >> do we know yet, ted, when bales will be charged, what charges he could face, when if that happens? >> we don't know when. we do know that those charges are obviously -- likely, i should say, just to couch it -- include murder charges and likely 16 murder charges. sot timing, don't know. and the military has as much time as they need to gather the evidence that they need. and there's a lot of evidence to gather. and then at that point, it will go to a commanding officer and that officer will then prefer the charge, that's what they call it in the military legal
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system. basically they'll officially charge him and at that point, then they go into the slow moving wheels of justice in the military style, starting with an article 32 and going on to a court-martial trial. . >> right, article 32 being the evidentiary hearing. let me back up. you're in fort leavenworth, the military prison where he's being held. do you know if he's in solitary confinement? what kind of access he has to other soldiers, exercise, down time? any of that? >> they say he's being a skbe grated like every other pretrial prisoner here. and the pretrial folks, innocent until proven guilty. he's in a solitary -- he's not in a single cell, however, he is, apparently, going through what everybody else does on a daily basecy. and they're integrating him in now. they are also doing some mental and medical evaluationsnd during
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the morning hours. but according to a spokesperson, he's just one of the others that are here at this base in the e pretrial mode. i spoke with afghanistan war veteran nick hogan about the stresses of war. >> it's important to remember when you're deploy ed, it's not like the united states when you work 9:00 to 5:00 and only see your co-workers then. >> of course. a. >> i was never more than five feet away from my commander when i went to bed. you're with the guys you serve with 100% of the time. any small changes in each other, you notice. it's almost like they become one with you. so it's hard to imagine that somebody -- something like this could happen. it's important not to jump to stereotypes as well. but you spend a lot of time with your brothers and sisters in arms overseas.
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>> nick colgin, thank you. in afghanistan, american soldiers urinating on the bodies of afghan soldiers, massive protests after korans were burned on an american base in afghanistan. and now this american soldier accused of slaughtering 16 afghan civilians to. to say that tensions were high would be a gross understatement. and we spoke with apparent witnesses to the attacks two sundays ago. take a look from kabul. >> graves, a place now haunted by the memory of a massacre. ali ahmed describe what is he saw. it was around 3:00 at night that they entered the room. they took my uncle and asked him, where's the taliban? my uncle replied h he didn't know. ahmed said the worst happened next door. finally they came to this room and martyred all the children in the room. ethere was even a
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2-month-old baby, he said. once the villagers stopped, the villagers said some of the dead were piled in a room and set on fire. evidence emerged of the burning of bodies and killing of babies. u.s. officials say this was the work of a single soldier acting on his own. army staff sergeant robert bales is you should arrest, accused of the crime. most of the villagers say they do not believe the u.s. version. but when it comes to actual eyewitnesses, their stories conflict. one of the young witnesses said -- he was an american. it was just one person, the boy next to him chimes in. but some sduadults tell us they have evidence more than where you know soldier was involved but none have said more than one soldier was firing a weapon. they went through a field of wheat and there was more than one set of footprints.
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in an exclusive interview, a taliban commander from the area told cnn -- we don't think that one american soldier was involved in the attack. the foreigners and the puppet regime are blind to the truth of what happened there. but if this was the act of one soldier, we want this soldier to be tried in afghan stap. the taliban stopped peace talks with the u.s. he said the reason was twofold, the burning of korans and the u.s. rescinded its offer to move five taliban soldiers from guantanamo to qatar. those promises were not kept by the americans. but the u.s. state department said it has not made any decisions op the transfer. back in the villages of panjwi
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district, it isn't peace talks but justice that's being demanded right now. something the u.s. has repeatedly promised will be done. in the streets and in the afghan presidential palace, anger and skepticism reign. so far three protests have erupted in the last week with skaul calls for justice and death to america. if you speak with everyday afghans about what happened, they are outraged about the massacre and even more furious the u.s. soldier accused in the case has been sent back to america. but so far we have not seen the kind of massive, angry protest wes saw after u.s. troops mistakeningly burned korans. some people are worried that tensions are building. no one is sure what might happen next. >> thank you. now this -- >> this is what the politicians should focus on instead of promising lower taxes and lowering the gas and stopping pornography. i pay the tax, i pay the high gas prices.
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focus on violence that's killing these kids. >> a 6-year-old girl shot to death in a drive by while playing on her own front porch. police say the guys behind the trigger are teenagers. that's next. [ male announcer ] introducing the dell xps 13 ultrabook™, powered by a second gen intel® core™ i5 or i7 processor. everything. and more. ♪
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sister an a man and then police say a pickup truck pulled up to the house and shots rang out. aliya was shot twice in the stomach and died later in the hospital. she was drawing on the sidewalk with chalk earlier that day. this neighborhood is furious. i'm sure you are as well. and police believe this shooting may be gang related. they arrested two teenagers, an 18 and a 16-year-old. they were taken into custody. they're now both being charged as adults. and aliya, certainly not the only victim of violence here. 41 people were shot over this weekend in chicago. 41. joining me now live from chicago is the executive sdrek tdirecto group called cease-fire in illinois. let me just begin with this neighborhood. tell me about it. >> well, where the shooting
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occurred was the little village community on the south side of chicago. you have a history of, you know, gang violence in that particular community. but people think violently here in chicago and throughout the nation. and people think it's the norm to react in a violent way to any lightweight dispute. so what happened over the weekend in chicago, we had 41 shootings and ten homicide. most people think it's the norm. so there are a lot of issues over in the little village community, brooke. >> interestingly, wh enen we pud up the google map, the street view, i'm sure you' done this before. you can see a typical day in the love of a typical blook looks like. here we see what appears to be some undercover police activity. looks like a guy with his hands on the hood. we see kids, see school bus, kids getting off the bus in this neighborhood. a couple of kids here hanging out on the stoop. the back alley here behind her
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home. police said this particular alley is known for drug sales. tell me a little bit more about what you know. and you mentioned, you know, this is an area that knows violence. is it a hot spot for the latin king is, that correct? >> yes, it's a hot spot for two different gangs in the area, what you have going on is a 30-year war with the two. i don't usually mention the gang names. you mentioned one of them. but you have a rivalry that's been taking place for 30 years. the police can only do so much, brooke. you have to work more on the behavioral change of interrupting the violence before it happens. and that's what we specialize in as it relates to cease-fire. because we have relationships in that particular community. we can't catch everything. we only are working in one third of the city of chicago that we need to work in. how do you do that with cease-fire? >> we hire professionally trained credible messmessengers. they know how to intercept whispers in order to stop a
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shooting. in 2011, we worked with 1,150 high-risk individuals like the young men you see charged with shooting is this young girl. and we also made yated over 480 conflict where is we stop people on the front end from taking the life of another person. we have about 130 staff working throughout chicago right now and we're doing our best. everything about cease-fire is scientifically proven. we had an evaluation done on our work by the department of justice and we're doing our best to just change the way people think about violence. because if you grew up in a violent area and the mindset is it's okay to be violent, you have to work with people to help change the way you think on a regular basis. some people might thit's all about law enforcement. they can't be out there 24 hours a day. >> you grew up in the chicago housing project. you dedicated your life to this. tell me, though, this is horrendous, because we have the 6-year-old and 41 people over the weekend.
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but these two fteenagers caught. what is working? what are you and police doing right in chicago and what else needs to happen? >> more behavioral change and more intervention on the front end. the police cannot just solve all the issues by themselves. the community needs to step up. most of the guys shooting one another, they come from halfway decent homes. their parents have to stop them before they leave out the door. i had a guy that told me he would put me to sleep, brooke, if i kept trying to intervene on the west side of chicago. and i had to save the life of an 18-year-old young man. i'm still here today and i'm grateful for that, but in order to prevent a suicide or talk nb down is going to take some type of confrontation. people don't just put their guns down because you talk to them. we've replicated the success os of cease-fire time and time again. we're working in 15 cities across america now. in two to three additional countries throughout the world. so cease-fire work, but
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cease-fire can't solve all the issues alone. our job -- we are like a parallel approach to law enforcement. we stop a guy from crossing the line. and when a guy crosses the line, that's when law enforcement gets involved. >> tell me quickly as we're looking at your website for people who want to be educated on what it is you do, what is the website for cease-fire? >> it's ceasefireillinois.org and find out everything. we really appreciate the support. we want to take you out on the streets of chicago. >> i've been. i met the leader of a gang. but i would come back. i appreciate it. thank you. coming up next, a huge development in a school shooting. we have just learned the gun used to kill a teacher and three kids today is the same one used to kill two soldiers, also now france and parts of new york are on alert. back in 60 seconds. hi! looking good. you've lost some weight. thanks. you noticed. these clothes are too big, so i'm donating them.
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there was a shooting this morning in france, this is the third in the last ten days. police say the same gun was used in all three cases. jim bitterman is following the story for us from paris. and obviously the big, i guess, what's connects all of them, it's the same gun. >> exactly. police do know it's probably the same shooter. in fact, as far as we know, they're only looking at one person here. basically the method of operation is the same. the gunman drives up on a motor bike, bursts ute shooting and
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apparently fairly randomly picking his targets. then gets on the motor bike and praises away. so police are looking for the guy, there's no question about it. but they're they don't have a whole love ott leads. they've had eyewitnesses who have given descriptions of the motorcycle. they believe the motorcycle is the same one used in all three cases. it's a stolen motorcycle.. in fact, the shooter has been wearing a motorcycle helmet so there's been no real visual identification of the person involved. so there are a lot of theories about what might be happening here. there's a theory that perhaps some of this is racist oriented because the four soldiers who were shot, three of them died, in fact, were from north africa. and then, of course, the shooting at the jewish school this morning suggests perhaps there's some racist element to this. brooke? >> and now all of this is affecting now security. nypd don't want to take any chances. they're now upping awareness and security at synagogues and
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things like that at different predominantly jewish neighborhoods. jim bitterman, french police are still looking for the shooter. investors are waiting to hear apple's big decision today. what would the company do with the $100 billion they have in cash? today we found out. plus rick santorum announced this war on porn. one senator strikes back.
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we go out to you, allison kosick at the new york stock exchange. a lot about apple today. investors were rating to hear what they would do with the $100 billion in cash. do tell. >> $45 billion of the $100 billion, where is it going to go? to pay back, give value to those shareholders that have invested in the cane in a form of a quarterly dividend. that's going to start this. summer. that means if you own apple shares you're going to get checks from apple. it's also buying back $10 billion of its own shares. and what that winds up doing is it usually boosts the stock price even more. what apple is essentially doing is spending about $45 billion of that $100 billion cash that it's got socked away, it's going to spend that $45 billion over the next three years. but here's what's funny.
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you can expect apple to make that $45 billion it's going to give to the shareholders, it will make that back with all those sales of the ipads and the iphones. so it really won't be losing much, will it? >> not at all. but i can just hear regular folks who own stocks, who don't own apple share what does this mean for us? >> well, here's what's interesting is that you may own apple shares and you may not even know it. many mu chur funds right now, especially the index funds, they already hold apple stock. and the payment of a dividend, what that's going to do is open up the likelihood that more mutual funds are going to begin to buy apple stock to put into those funds. so you may be getting some of that $45 billion and you don't even realize it. you can be getting it now, you could be getting it in the future. clearly, investors are feeling good about this. apple shares are up 2%. trading for $598 a piece. nice. next year, the duchess of
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cambridge delivers her very first official address. hey, max? >> well brooke, the duchess was clearly nervous going into this speech. her hands were shaking. fair enough, this was her first public speech. she was supporting one of her key charities and there was an audience of millions watching around the world with a live tv feed. in the end, she delivered it calmly in a very measured way and very sleely. >> i'm only sorry william can't be here today. he would love it here. a view of his that i share is that through team work so much can be achieved. >> the duchess also spent time with young children with long-term illnesses here at the hospice. a hospice which her mother-in-law, diana, also supported. fashion watchers were also very quick to notice that the duchess was wearing a dress that her
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mother had worn before, in fact, two years ago to the races. so that got a few chins wagging as well. this was a last chance to see the duchess in public for some time. her husband, prince william is on his way back soon from a tour of duty in the faulk lands and they want to spend some private time together. so we're not expected to see them in public for another month or so. brooke? >> max fosterer, thank you. tomorrow is illinois's turn as the state count downs to its primary. we go to mo lean, illinois. if you look at the latest numbers out today, what's the santorum strategy here? >> well, i think when you look at this thing in totality, quite frankly, the only thing he can do is hope for a brokered convention, brooke. you know, the numbers seem to be working against him, but the one thing that the santorum crowd can do is try to pick up as many delegates as they can.
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at the same time, try to keep mitt romney from getting as many delegates as possible and hope that going into the convention in tampa this summer, at that time, they might be able to dissuade some people, perhaps, from voting for mitt romney, in other words, to sort of change allegiances in a brokered convention. that's the best bet for rick santorum. he said he does best among rural voters, among suburban voters. the fact of the matter is mitt romney does pretty well among suburban boat voters, too. but then again, the math right now is working against rick santorum. brooke snoop. >> we know -- you know, you have the puerto rico primary over the weekend. romney bonn santorum took a little time for some r&r pool side. i believe we have the picture. okay, we're work on the picture. >> he had an hour to kill. >> this goes into the context of
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politicians caught with their shirts off. it's happened to president barack obama, it's happened, i think, to a bunch of other people, including the former governor of california, arnold schwarzenegger at the wrong time perhaps. even, i think, newt gingrich. >> there it is. >> so rick santorum decided h he would take a little bit of time at the pool, took off his shirt. next thing you know, somebody snaps a picture and it is on a blog. he apologized for it. he said maybe picked up 15, 20 pounds, what can i say? sorry about that, folks. hopefully end of the story for rick santorum. >> senator scott brown, massachusetts, having a little bit of fun. take a listen. >> i see that both newt gingrich and rick santorum now have secret service with them on the campaign trail. and in santorum's case, i think it's the first time he's
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actually ever used protection. yeah. yeah. >> ba-dum-bum. >> santorum has a chance for payback tonight, huh? >> that's a really good line. when i saw it, i laughed out loud, the contraception line, because santorum has been talking so much about that. but actually, i think if you check the internet and i'm not completely sure about this, but perhaps a comedian who's on one of our sister network, conan o'brien told that will joke a couple of weeks ago. >> oh, really? interest interesting. >> plagiarism is a form of flattery, or so they say. >> he's on -- scott brown is on with piers tonight. we'll see if piers asks if he was watching conan. thank you, sir. that's your "reporter roulette." police arrest a swimsuit model
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a swimsuit model is in the headlines not for how that looks but for what she did outside of her photo shoot. she's known as simone starr, but her international arrest warrant call her simone farrow and officers just caught her in austral australia. she was on the run for a month. how did she run this operation? >> wow, it's really quite surprising. apparently she was shipping crystal meth, via fedex, sometimes also using postal service. and she shipped it allegedly in shipments of bath salts, brooke. so the allegations are that she was involved with at least seven other people and they're describing this as onkagoing criminal enterprise from her hollywood apartment.
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>> okay, so we have some youtube video. she skipped out on bail. how does that affect the people who bailed her out? >> welsh it really does impact them because apparently they put up about $150,000 of bail, and she did skip out. they found her in australia. typically, that money is forfeited, and so my understanding is a friend of hers put that money up. that money is now gone. it becomes the property of the government. >> do we know quickly how long she allegedly ran this global drug ring? >> we are not sure, but it's been several years in the making. so this investigation has been going on for quite some time. >> let me ask you about this. there's suddenly a mistrial in the "desperate housewives" lawsuit. what do you know? >> isn't that something?
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apparently the judge has called a mistrial because the jury was deadlo deadlocked. they couldn't reach a verdict here. sna needed at least nine jurors to agree. get this, brooke. it was 8-4. an 8-4 split in her favor. who knows is this now a case ripe for settlement now that the other side realizes that came just this close to losing on a very, j have you know big monetary amount? who knows. but it's a mistrial that has been declared in the "desperate housewives" suit. 8-4 was the last count. >> we'll see if a settlement happens. sunny hostin, thank you. coming up next, a major development in the search for that hot air balloon pie lo the. plus what he told the sky divers standing next to him right before trouble hit. [ engine sputtering ]
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>> crews found the body of a missing balloon pilot. his balloon hit a storm that made it go way too high up in the air but he managed to get all of the sky divers to jump out with their parachutes and then here's what happened next. >> an up draft took him up to 17,000, 18,000 feet in which the hot air balloon collapsed and started spinning and twisted his ropes up. we had a lot of hail, lightning, heavy rain, wind. it was a bad storm. >> he's being call adhere roe for saving those five sky divers. and now the 911 calls, they are finally released in the case of a neighborhood watchman who shot a teenager to death. there are all kinds of new questions in this mystery. coming up next, i'm going to speak with a florida law student who's part of this protest group demanding an arrest. find out why she's also afraid. .
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>> just leased 911 calls are intensifying this firestorm over the death of a florida teenager trayvon marshall. a neighborhood watch captain shot and killed martin who was 17 years of age after calling 911 about a suspicious person. >> something's wrong with him. yep. he's coming to check me out. he's got something in his hands. i don't know what his deal is. >> are you following him? >> yeah.
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>> okay, we don't need you to do that. >> okay. >> well, a flurry of phone calls followed. callers described a fight between two men, calls for help, and then the fatal gunshot. >> dpung he's yelling help? >> yes. >> all right what is your -- >> just heard gunshots. >> how many? >> just one. >> protests have been happening ever since martin's death. >> he could have so easily just been any one of us. is i feel like the reason you all are out here because you all are affected the same way i was affected. >> today's demonstration in florida involves law students who demanded to meet with the state's attorney who now has the case. i want to bring in one of those law students, one of the protesters live there in orlando.
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and why protest today? specifically what action dpupt to see taken? >> we are demanding an immediate arrest of george zimmerman. that's what the family wants. that's what we want as law students and that's what we want as floridians. we want to feel safe and we don't feel safe with him out there and we don't feel like justice was served without an arrest. and that's what we demanded from the state attorney and pat whitaker. >> you and this group, you wanted to meet with pat whitaker, the state's attorney. tell me about the meeting. have you ever met him before? >> no, never met him before. we walked in. it was a group of us, and three students and an attorney. we requested a meeting and we got a meeting within ten minutes and we met with him for a little less than an hour. and we expressed our concerns and our questions about the shooting, about the investigation by the sanford police department and about the current status of the
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investigation that the state attorney is conducting. and we wanteden s as and we wanted to express our disappointment and our concern with what we feel like is injustice. >> what did pat zimmerman say to you? >> basically -- >> pat whitaker. >> he said they have taken over the investigation from the sanford police department. or the sanford police department handed it over to them, better yet, and that they are pretty much redoing everything that -- he used the exact words, they need to greatly up supplement the sanford police department's investigation. if it needs to be supplemented, then that means there were things that weren't done and that the original investigation was inadequate. and that's what we expressed to mr. whitaker. he also told us it h it was going to be a couple of weeks.
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justice delayed is justice denied. and the family doesn't want to wait any longer. to get an arrest of george zirmman. i told pat whitaker there needs to be a sense of urgency. the public doesn't feel it, the family doesn't feel it and neither do the students president the university of florida. >> we've been trying to get some information on george zimmerman. his father said, quote, he would be the last to discriminate for any reason whatsoever. one black neighborhood recently interviewed said she knew everything in the media was untrue and that she would trust george with her life. i read you're not only angry, you're afraid. what are you afraid of? >> i'm afraid of george
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zimmerman. i'm afraid of a man who will shoot someone whoo is crying for his lives and they don't even get arrested. and with a concealed weapon and he has a concealed weapons license, he can go out today and buy a concealed weapon. and that's what scares me. i have been outspoken about the case. and he could easily find me and he could find anyone. he's a loose cannon and he still can purchase a gun. that's why i'm afraid. >> again, we would love to hear the side of george zimmerman. thus far, he has not spoken up. thank you. coming up, a woman videotapes a tornado coming straight for her home. on that tape, you will hear the words she will utter to her husband. you can savor 12 exciting lobster entrees, like lobster lover's dream i'm laura mclennan and i sea food differently.
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in case you don't know, all the anchors here at cnn were facing off in this fierce march madness competition. it will be very hard to find a bracket out there that's perfect. but there's one, chad myers, that's pretty darn close to per fwekation. >> yes, the top of the cnn leaderboard as well would be at cnn, four winds in the first round, you got all of those play in games correct.
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that was really, really good stuff. then you've got 11 games in the third round here. let's go to your bracket and then we'll go to my bracket. and they're not very different except that i'm way in the bottom. he's your bracket. you have kentucky, ohio state, u unc. >> marshall had surgery on his right wrist. >> but he's left-handed. >> he got some screws put in his wrist, but he is left-handed. >> unc, right there in the middle. except i have this team right here, murray state. look all these losses here. that leaves me with only three teams in the final four and less of a chance of actually getting anywhere. >> how about that wolf blitzer.
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>> mr. wolf blitzer, he's like in third place, but his difference is that he has syracuse, he has all four teams going in, but syracuse is his winning team and i wonder if he knew that the ineligibility of that center would play such a big role in syracuse's run to the final four. >> we'll see, wolf blitzer, coming up here on the sit room. >> i went with my gut, i went with my heart. i'm from upstate new york, syracuse is in upstate new york, i figured if i changed it and decided i was going to do something else, it would be bad. so i stuck with syracuse, i'm going with syracuse, i'm in it all the way with syracuse. so that's good, right, brook? >> i do have crazy love for you wolf blitzer. but i don't know about that.
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anyway, what are you talking about on the show today. >> we got a lot of hard news coming in at the top of the hour, two hours worth, including all the political stuff going on and there's a lot of political stuff going on, the actrimony. and where is newt gingrich, why isn't he campaigning in illinois as he should be if he's serious about winning the republican nomination. i love the cherry blossoms, but if i were running for the republican nomination, i think i would be out there campaigning, if not in illinois, at least in indiana that's coming up on saturday, we got some big states, wisconsin, maryland, other states as well. we're going to be delvings o'into as well.
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i think chad is going to be joining us, we have bad weather. >> let's see if these tornadoes do materialize. >> bonnie was up against me here, and we had arms around each other and he said i love you and i said i love you too. >> speaking of tornadoes, a powerful twister races toward one couple's home, their very final words to one another caught on video.
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>> man, that's a big one too, it's a huge one. >> listen to it. it's coming right toward henryville, maybe we should tell them. it's coming here, it's picking up, it's picking stuff up. look, you can see it rotate. >> i hope it goes to the north of us. it looks like it's getting right toward us. >> maybe we should get away from the window? look at it picking stuff up. well, we need to close this window, i'm sorry, i'm going to have to close the window. i got to close the door. oh, my god!
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susan candiotti spoke with lenore hunter about her last few minutes with wade. >> reporter: the twister threw the couple outside their home, neighbors came looking, and heard a noise. >> well, it sounded like a baby crying, which is what i thought, and mike said it sounded like a cat meowing. and i hollered, there's somebody in there, and we ran in the house and flipped the wall off of her. and got her out and she immediately started saying, my husband, my husband. and we could see his feet underneath the refrigerator. >> i just knew that when he was laying there like that that he didn't make it. >> amazingly lenora hunter survived. she lost her husband of 41 years and virtually everything she
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owns, but has her family keeping her strong. and he has the videos, a bittersweet memento. >> when you think back and you remember saying, i hope it not the last, it turns out -- it was. >> it was for wayne. so it was for him. and he never liked them anyway. >> reporter: she will rebuild right here where the couple retired and where she says she has to be. >> this is going to be my home. >> reporter: this is where you and wayne wanted to be?
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