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it really does -- it really does mean a lot. >> the patients are marvelous and are so grateful what we're able to do for it. >> big improvement. it's clear. >> no feeling like that. it's just great. >> tulsa shooting rampage. a painful anniversary, and a possible motive. >> somebody that committed these crimes were very upset with black people. remembering mike wallace. >> no doubt it's the biggest story. >> that familiar sound and face. he called himself nosey and insistent. >> don on camera two. >> cnn after dark. >> the reason that central artery season dead is not because he was black or because he wore a hoodie, he decided to smack somebody in the face and break their nose. >> the case that has just about everyone seeing color, black,
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white and every shade in between. when it comes to murder in america, does color really matter? the news you need to know right now on cnn. >> good evening, everyone. i'm don lemon. for 48 hours, people in tulsa, oklahoma, were afraid to leave their own homes. someone was driving through neighborhoods just shooting people. three people died. two others ended up in the hospital and early this morning tulsa police tracked down two men and arrested them. tonight, cnn's susan candiotti is reporting the biggest question now is why did this happen? >> reporter: less than 24 hours after a plea for tips, tulsa police arrested two suspects in the shootings of five people, all black, at four different locations over a span of a few hours starting just after 1:00 a.m. saturday. three of the victims died. >> it sickens me. it angers me. >> reporter: 19-year-old jake england and 32 yearly alvin watts were charged with murder
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and shooting with intent to kill. police found engelland's burned pickup truck here according to arrest papers and found the two men hiding in a house nearby. were the victims targeted because of their race? >> it is very premature to talk about hate crimes. we have yet to analyze all the information, to understand the motivations. >> reporter: among the possible motives, england's father was gunned down two years ago last week by a black man who was never prosecuted. england's relatives tell cnn say her girlfriend shot herself in front of him and her baby in january. police believe this facebook page belongs to england. on it he posted these disturbing words. today is two kraers that my dad has been gone. shot but he used an expletive and the "n" word. it's hard not to go got off. between that and sheran i'm gott gone in my head. in the suspect's home searched by police, we tried to find out
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more. maybe you can tell us more about this. the family's been through enough. leave them alone! >> reporter: as we moved out of the street, we took cover behind our car and remained there as we watched their car speed down the road. okay. well, they drove their vehicle right up to our car. clearly tried to intimidate us and drove off the road. a neighbor who says she knows england's family calls the suspect a nice young man. what do you think will happen to jake now? >> if they can prove he murdered them, i hope he gets the death penalty. ♪ >> reporter: arrests are a relief to a community whose nerves are badly rattled. >> our community will breathe easier knowing it's been brought
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to a conclusion. >> reporter: police credit the quick arrest less than two days after the shootings to a flood of tips. trying to determine the motivation behind the rampage will take longer. susan candiotti, cnn, tulsa, oklahoma. >> it takes courage and charisma to be a television reporter, and mike wallace had an abundance of both. the "60 minutes" correspondent died saturday at the age of 93. in about ten minutes we'll speak with former cnn chairman tom johnson about wallace, but first our sandra endo looks at the life of a man whose fearlessness helped him become a legend. >> i'm mike wallace. >> reporter: he was known for his hard-hitting journalistic style and aggressive questioning. >> how many blacks are there on your top campaign stuff, governor? >> i couldn't honestly answer you. >> reporter: but decades before millions of tv viewers watched him on cbs news, mike wallace already had a colorful career. he was born myron lyon wallace
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in brookline, massachusetts in 1918. after graduating from the university of michigan, he started his career in radio. his work as a radio host landed him spots in tv, as an actor in a police drama, as a program host and even in commercials. >> get golden fluffo. that's some apple pie. are you the least bit afeed of what might happen? >> reporter: but his love of news made him drop that type of news in 1936 when cbs news hired him as a correspondent. >> i'm -- i'm wagging my finger at the president of china. >> reporter: his feisty brazen style made him a good fit for the network's new magazine show, "60 minutes," which debuted in 1968. wallace didn't cower to american or world leaders. he said this to ayatollah khamenei during the iran hostage crisis in 1979.
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>> president sadat of egypt, a devoutly religious man, a moslem, says that what you are doing now is, quote, a disgrace to islam, and he calls you, imam, forgive me, his words, not mine, a lunatic. >> reporter: media critics say wallace's attack dog style was relentless. >> sometimes he went too far. he pioneered the ambush interview which has fallen out of favor. he used hidden camera investigations and so he really taught generations of younger journalists about how to go get that story. >> reporter: in 2006 he took on a smaller role on "60 minutes," and by 2008 had triple bypass surgery and retired from public life. >> if you had made your living in the early days of black and white television as i did, you would know at sometimes it was like the early days of flying. >> reporter: but his relationship with cbs viewers spanned decades, and he'll have an everlasting impact on the
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field of journalism. mike wallace was 93. sandra endo, cnn, washington. >> former chairman and ceo of cnn tom johnson was a close friend of mike wallace. wait until you hear their connection, a group that they formed called the blues brothers to save their lives, next. two of the most important are energy security and economic growth. north america actually has one of the largest oil reserves in the world. a large part of that is oil sands. this resource has the ability to create hundreds of thousands of jobs. at our kearl project in canada, we'll be able to produce these oil sands with the same emissions as many other oils and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy.
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best mike wallace memories. >> mike wallace was the most boyish 70 or 80-year-old or now 90-year-old that you'd ever want to meet. he had such a twinkle in his eye. i remember flying up from washington one time on the shuttle, and we got out in new york back home, and we're walking along, and he spots up ahead barbara walters. he turns it me, put his finger over his lips, and he creeps up behind her and grabs her from behind, and she jumped up ready to slug whoever it was and then burst out laughing. this was make's spirit. i mean, he was always having such a good time. i remember my very first day as the 36-year-old executive vice president, newly installed as the theoretical boss overseeing "60 minutes." i saw theoretical because who is going to be mike wallace's boss or donohueit, he and donohueit, the founder of "60 minutes" had a knack down dragout in the
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screening room while i was there. i knew this was going to happen, they wanted me to adjudicate it. i actually decided in favor of don. and i thought i have gotten off great with mike wallace. walked out having been life i had for five or ten minutes, winks and turns and smiles. >> john klein, the former ceo of cnn. beginning in the 1980s mike wallace battled depression and he almost committed suicide. he shared his depression with a group known as blues brothers and former cnn chairman tom johnson was a member of that group and also suffered from depression so, tom, thank you for joining us. how are you doing in. >> don, thanks very much for having me. >> good. >> how are you going to remember your friends in. >> as the guy who saved my life and saved the lives of others.
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>> why do you say that? >> he helped save my life. there were four of us who were able to find the right diagnosis and get the right treatment and deal successfully with depression. we went public because we wanted people out there to know that they, too, can get the right diagnosis and treatment and they can make it, but at the very bottom, all four of us, all four, thought of checking out. >> good. do you think that that affected his work, his depression at all? if so, how did it? >> i think we all felt that it probably did affect our work in terms of slowing us down, but i don't think i ever saw a single weak sample of maybe's work on air as being affected by it. in fact, if anything, i think he worked even harder to make certain that there was no diminution in the quality of his work. >> what are you going to remember? everyone is sharing stories and at "60 minutes" they said tell me a story what.
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story will you remember about mike wallace? >> i'll never forget the line that he gave me which is that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem. that is to say it's the one decision if you make it in life you can never reconsider. it also, that it's really a temporary issue, and it was my favorite thing just thinking about mike, not the great television journalist, which he was and the greatest competitive mind when i was here at cnn, but somebody who had another side to him, and i think there are many thousands of people alive because he did go public and did demonstrate that we could cope with this mysterious illness. >> and we said suffered. i said suffered. isn't depression something that you deal with your entire lives, it's manageable but you deal with it your entire life, right? >> i think most of us do, particularly those with a genetic pre-disposition, some who have had dispositions with
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chemical changes. i always think. >> he was behind the scenes and what you saw on camera, this tough guy, a number of pit bulls on "60 minutes," but he was -- off camera he may have been abrasive, but in a fun way but he was a sweet guy. >> he was a sweet guy. had a great sense of humor. i always thought he could talk people in going very easily with the charm and so many of them regretted it after they finished the interview. i so often thought not of the attack journalist but as the watchdog. he was the watchdog, and we need that type of journalist in this society to watch over all of the rights that people have, to watch what's going on in corporate america, what's going on in our government. he personified the very best of what journalism is all about. >> tom johnson, thank you so much for helping us remember mike wallace and paying tribute to him. thank you. we'll be right back. [ nadine ] buzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz,
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and cnn contributor will cane. this morning on "face the nation" bob schieffer spoke with mixing religion and politics with catholic timothy cardinal. >> do you think there's too much religion in politics today? >> no, i don't think so at all. i think politics, just like business, just like ed case, just like arts, just like culture only benefits when -- when religion, when more or less, when faith has a place there. i think the american -- the public square in the united states is always enriched whenever people approach it when they are inspired by their -- their deepest held convictions. >> dean, do you think most americans feel that way? this is more than the separation of church and state here that we're talking about? >> well, i think -- i don't think most people have a problem with faith or a candidate with morals and convictions. i think the difference is when it no longer influencesior decisions but your decisions,
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policy decisions are based on scripture. like rick santorum saying the bible and our laws must comport. that went behind any accepted view of politics and religion no. longer a separation of church and state. saying the same things that the taliban would say, religious scripture and the laws that have state must agree so i think that went too far. people of morals and ethics is what religion is about and that's a great elected official for us to have. >> i've heard you say this before. it's not just about religion. it's about the right religion. >> that's different. >> how did you phrase that? >> that's absolutely right. for some of the people, some of the leaders in the evangelical community in the south, that it's not about having faith. it's not about having more or less, faith to them is their faith. you must pray like them and think like them. you must kneel like they do, and if you don't, then their faith doesn't matter. mitt romania any, a good person, a good moral man, a loyal husband, you know, business practices, maybe there's some issues there, but never
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unscrupulous or like embezler like that and i'm not mocking romney yet he's attacked for his faith. reverend jeffers, one of the leaders of the movement said mormonism is a cult. you hear that from some people and doesn't matter if he's a good guy, good more or less, a person you trust, he's in the our faith so we can't trust them. that's what's wrong to me. same thing with muslims, the whisper campaign continues, 50 people of people in alabama think he's muslim. >> i think we've talked about this in the past, don. something that people describe as at the core of who they are, seen presidents use this quote over and over. it informs every decision i make, and we're talking about religion here, i think something that is that fundamental, asking to be put into a leadership position deserves scrutiny, deserves judgment. do i think it should be the single driving factor on how you
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drive your vote? no, but i think we've stepped too far into political correctness if we think religion shouldn't be part of the decision. >> do you think religious organizations should push issues or support candidates? >> yes, yes, the answer is yes. obviously religious organizations have issues that are a deep part of their ideology and if they see candidates supporting those ideas, i think there's nothing wrong with supporting those candidates. >> i hate to agree with will but i do agree with will and absolutely, of course. freedom of speech, why should it be limited to a religious group not having that right. >> dean, you brought up romney and "saturday night live" took digs at romney last night. >> that afternoon before the start of passover, governor romney appeared in a meeting of the united jewish apeople. >> barack -- >> we don't believe you. >> oh, okay. >> that was just one of them.
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is it looking like seriously that he's the pro everything candidate, first dean and then will? >> i think his campaign slogan should be, too. whatever you are, i am. the hardest thing for romney, when the comedians, john colbert and "saturday night live," begin their comedic take on a candidate it takes traction. that's where americans learn a lot about candidates. he's a me, too guy. could be policy or not. get into little issues. in the south i like grits, a big game hunter, doesn't own a gun but there are issues out there and will is going to disagree on this. >> no, because he's shaking his head. i think we can overdo this very quickly. romney has given people plenty of ammunition, but i think we can overdo very quickly. looking at candidates and politicians who are very principled, i'd have to say a
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man who gives away 10% of his income tithes, it rain or shine, gives away two years of his life that he sees greater than his life or wealth, you'll have a hard time convincing me that's not a principled human being. >> the city of tulsa was terrorized. two people are now under arrest and a social media posting could help police. it was the best first quarter for the s&p 500 in years, but is it the best time for stocks? cnn money correspondent ali velshi takes a look. >> kim forrest, vice president and senior portfolio analyst at ft. pit capital. jim, you say the easy money is gone. >> after the last six months, the big gains, mathematically it's going to be very tough to replicate that, but that doesn't
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mean we're going to go down the line, that we'll have any correction after that sort of a gain. don't come in now expecting another 30% over the next six months. these gains don't come without some risk. you say that all the data points to the kind of volatility that we saw last year, and i like to remind our viewers this. while everybody thinks they want gains, what most people sleep better with is slower steadier gains without the kind of volatility we go through with. tell me your thoughts. >> a couple of factors have that haven't been solved between this year and last year. first and foremost is europe. europe is still not solved. they keep kicking the can down the road. greece is taken care of, but guess what? spain and italy are still out there with very large debts and a very unsteady banking system that the eu has to step up and fix, and we don't believe that the actions that they have taken lately have really, you know,
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nailed what's fundamentally wrong over there. that's eventually going to blow up and make investors nervous, and then there's the big misunderstanding about what's happening in china. it's very difficult to get good data out of china, and we're all depending on china having a soft landing. i don't know that we can count on that, but we're always looking over to china to see what they are doing, and that affects this global stock market of ours. >> great conversation, thank you. i'm ali velshi with this week's "mastering your money. clt clt par [ male announcer ] lately, there's been a seismic shift in what passes for common sense. used to be we socked money away and expected it to grow. then the world changed... and the common sense of retirement planning became anything but common. fortunately, td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. take control by opening a new account or rolling over an old 401(k) today,
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time now for your week ahead cliff notes. the stories you and wee will be talking about starting in washington. >> reporter: i'm dan lothian at white house. on friday the president heads overseas to attend the summit of the america. drugs, cuba and trade are expected to be on the agenda. before departing the president will host some 30,000 mostly kids at the white house for the annual easter egg roll and then he'll sit down with meetings with the president of brazil. finally on tuesday the president will fly for the day to florida to promote the so-called buffet rule, a proposal that calls for those make more than $1 million to pay more in taxes. >> reporter: first-quarter earnings season will be the focus this week. aluminum giant alcoa will kick things off. google, wells fargo and chase follow with their results. overall analysts have been
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downgrading theiry pectations and with good reason, gas prices high, europe's debt crisis still a concern and growth in europe is all growing. this could put a strain on some u.s. companies. we'll keep an eye for it on cnn your money. >> wilson phillips joins me on monday. i'll speak with carney wilson about her second weight loss surgery and i'll ask chynna phillips will alec baldwin's twitter tirade and will "hunger games" beat "titanic 3-d" at the box office. in tulsa, oklahoma, two men suspected of killing three people in random shootings have been arrested. the two men face first-degree murder charges. two other shooting victims survived. a recent facebook posting from jake england may point to a boss motive. using a slashl slur he says his
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dad was killed by an african american. all the victims in the shootings were black. bubba watson collected his first major title winning the 76th masters tournament in augusta, georgia. he defeated south african louis oosthuizen. the 33-year-old watson started the final round in fourth place by shot a 68 to force the playoff. he boei-- oosthuizen boeing i'd second playoff hole to give watson the green jacket. mike wallace died saturday night in connecticut where he made his name. mike wallace was 93 years old. and earlier on cnn, leslie stall said wallace was more than just a colleague.
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he impacted her life personally. >> he was the first -- i think this is right. it's certainly right in my memory, the first famous person to admit he had depression, and he went forward and came out in a time when no one did. there was still a stigma to it, and that's the toughest man in america said i have depression, and -- and allowed his name to be associated with the disease was so helpful and so courageous. yet another thing he did that was spectacular. he was spectacular. >> he is spectacular, and being part of that "60 minutes" family, how closely many of you worked at the same time you were on the road a lot. like ships passing in the night. did you ever detect in him that he was dealing with this depression long before he revealed it to everyone? >> well, i wasn't at "60 minutes" yet when he revealed
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it. i hadn't gotten there, so i really can't answer that question. i can tell you that my own husband had depression, and he was in a deeply personal way. he basically saved my husband's life. i'm not kidding. >> how did he do that? >> because i told mike that my husband had depression and wouldn't see a doctor, and mike just forced it. he forced it. so, i mean, he was wonderful. >> leslie stahl on mike wallace. >> when it comes to murder, does race really kill in america? you may be surprised what the crime stat shows on who is killing who. your finances can't manage themselves. but that doesn't mean they won't try. bring all your finances together with the help of the one person who can.
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it has been 42 days since trayvon martin was shot and killed. the admitted shooting, a neighborhood watch volunteer. >> no justice, no peace. >> you know, it's adding up to more than a month of outrage. protests and weeks of media coverage, but people are asking what about black-on-black crime? what about how often black people kill white people and what about brown-on-brown crime? why don't you talk about all that? earlier i shared some sobering crime statistics and then we did talk about all that and more. listen. i want to -- want you guys to look at this, some stats on black-on-black crime, department of justice. figures in 2005. the murder victim rate was six
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times higher for black community than the white community and in that same year comparing rates where people committing murder, seven times higher for blacks than whites. this is crucial. from 1976 to 2005, 94% of black murder victims were murdered by black people, and as we said, they are usually murdered. people are usually murdered by people of their own race, including white people. it's like 84% for white people. my guests are remarkable people, and i'm looking to them for their unique insight. buck davis is a diversity expert and goldie taylor, you know goldie, here as much as i am. you hear about the what about chorus, you and i talked about that last week. doing all this coverage. the media is doing all this coverage on the trayvon martin case, but what about black-on-black crimor white-on-white, that's not the trayvon martin story, those are legitimate stories and now we're
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hear to talk about. what do you garner from the numbers and what you saw in our first block? >> well, first of all, the numbers are very personal to me. black-on-black crime hit our house in a spe specific way. there isn't a man in our family older than 28 years old, so when you look towards hiv, sickle cell, stroke, heart disease and murder, those men aren't there by their own choice but because someone or something took them away. my fathers and brothers were both murdered. all of those crimes run solved sews that's very specific to me but what i make of the coverage is all of these are very relevant and very important stories to cover. so much real estate on a newscast, but if you want to find black-on-black crime or white-on-white crime, tune into your news every dating. it gets covered every day. what isn't getting the coverage i think deserves are the sheer
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number of protests and people coming together talking about what's happening in their communities. it happened in my hometown of st. louis, happened in philadelphia. dozens and dozens of marches that happen in chicago every year. people are really fighting to combat these issues in a real significant way. >> you were shaking your head. you watch the news and all you see is the mug shots. it used to be the perp walk. >> i'm really excited about the attention white people have placed on the black-on-black crime. never heard white people bring up black-on-black crime to this extent and i think it's an important issue. most murders occur intraracially, black people killing black people and white people killing white people. rich black people are killing rich black people. rich white people aren't killing rich white people. it's people struggling in this country having a problem in the country, people on drugs who have the issue. i feel like in the last couple
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of weeks that white folks have tossed in this black-on-black notion to divert the true issue of racism in this country. i feel like this conversation is so hard for us to have, it is filled with such poison in this country that we have created that it makes the conversation almost unbearable. to the point where if i can say you people are harder on your people than our people are harder on your people, it removes me from the equation. >> buck davis and goldie taylor, thank you very much. north korea and a long range rocket. there's fear tonight that it can be a prelude to war. a report from the launch site straight ahead. of any interest ? well, in that time there've been some good days. and some difficult ones. but, through it all, we've persevered, supporting some of the biggest ideas in modern history.
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so-called armed terror groups turned in their weapons. the rules of war are changing in afghanistan. washington and kabul have reached a key agreement giving afghan authorities cito power over controversial night raids and puts american special forces in training and support roles instead of the lead. the u.s. raids are critical for capturing terrorists, but they have been a major accepts of tension between the two countries. a desperate search operation is taking place in the remote area of the himalayas, but hopes for finding any survivors are fading fast. 139 people were at a military outpost yesterday when it was buried under an avalanche ever rock and snow. most of the victims are pakistani soldiers. the area has been a point of conflict between india and pakistan for decades. north korea has the international community on edge tonight. pyongyang has moved a long-range rocket into position triggering fears of a ballistic missile
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test. north korea insists it just wants to put a satellite into orbit. even invited foreign journalists to take a look at its top secret launch site and our stan grant was there. >> reporter: well, this is indeed a rare opportunity to get this close to an actual satellite launch site, especially year in north korea. this area has been kept very much under wraps away from the eyes of the world, but today, of course, this has changed. can you see the media around here. the number of people who have been invited here to tour this site. this north korea says is part of its transparency, is to say that this is not a hostile act. there is nothing sinister about this. they say that this satellite launch is for scientific purposes. >> translator: this is a spiritual moment, as the north korean people struggle to open the gate to a prosperous and powerful future. >> reporter: launch is timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the birth of the father of the country, kim il
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sung. many people were on the streets today preparing for the celebration and many couldn't help it felt choreographed even to those cleaning the windows at their apartments at the same time. this is about as far as we're going to get and it's pretty close. standing here right at the base of the launch site. that's the rocket you can see behind me which stands 30 meters tall. traveling around here today you really get a sense of what this means to the north korean people. speaking to our guide he was saying that this is about north korean pride, about their right to launch a satellite, and also refuting any claims that this is not in fact a satellite launch, but in fact a covert missile operation. >> translator: i am very disturbed. >> reporter: he can deny that? >> translator: look for yourselves with your own eyes, then you can judge whether it's
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a ballistic missile or whether it's a launch of a -- to show that that's why we've -- we've invited to you this launch site. >> reporter: despite north korea's assurances the skepticism, of course, is going to remain particularly from the united states, always wary about the intentions of an unpredictable country. stan grant, cnn. >> great report, stan grant. thank you for that. your neighborhood drug store, a target of a drug enforcement agency. we'll tell you why after the break. polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space. which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd, and you still need to retire. td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. we'll even throw in up to $600 when you open a new account or roll over an old 401(k). so who's in control now, mayans?
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is the neighborhood drug store actually an illicit drug supplier? federal investigators crunched the numbers and found walgreens and other chain drug stores have suspiciously higher pain killer sales. more on how this is impacting the entire industry. >> reporter: citing a major jump in sales of painkillers, the drug enforcement agency moved in on walgreens, removing records and other documents from six pharmacies in florida and a distribution center looking for suspicious sales of oxycodone n.warrant, the dea states that in just the first two months of 2012, there are 53 walgreens pharmacies listed in the agency's top 100 purchasers of oxycodone. that's half of them in florida. that's compared to zero wall green pharmacies being on that
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list in 2009. a spokesman for the drug store chain said in a statement we are working with and cooperating with the dea on this matter. it comes two months after the dea in florida moved in on two cvs store and a cardinal health distributor. cardinal health is challenging the action. cvs said it was disappointed but cooperating. >> can you look from the dea and state and local partners a continued and vigorous effort in this regard. as pill mills are no longer dispensing, a lot of our focus is on pharmacies now >> reporter: dea says it looks for red flags, things like unusually large orders in an effort to prevent prescription painkillers from being sold illegally. the national association of chain drug stores says it has zero tolerance for prescription drugs being diverted to the black market. but it's also working with law enforcement on another problem. the rise in prescription drug abuse has led to pharmacies around the country being robbed. in new york's suffolk county, four people were killed in a
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pharmacy robbery last june. >> unfortunately, it's a very serious problem in the fact that the price on the black market of prescription drugs, mainly painkillers is so high, and that they can actually buy heroin at 25% less than prescription drugs. and we are seeing that. we are seeing people that are very desperate and that are willing to rob pharmacies. >> reporter: pharmacies are beefing up security in their stores with extra surveillance. some are even arming themselves for protection. mary snow, cnn, new york. >> all right. check it out. this is not an eye glass commercial. you're looking at science fiction come to life. straight ahead we'll tell you why these glasses are making people so happy. to stretch around the earth over 190 times. each brita filter can take up to 300 of those bottles out of the equation.
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thousands of people around the world may be sleeping tonight without a pillow. why is that? here you go. it's 15 minutes of pure fun. the international pillow fight day attracted thousands of people in more than 100 cities. this battle was in washington, d.c., the one that you're looking at. other pillow fights were okay in germany and brazil and at least 24 other countries. all right. so they may look like glasses, but i'm told textically they are eye wear, toemtio, tomato. either way they are making a
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spectacle of themselves. just take it from tech guru katie linendoll >> reporter: concept behind these video and glasses and two days ago the co-founder was actually spot wearing the glasses and this comes under the google labs, has a secret laboratory where they took future forward ideas and try to bring them down to scale. under that umbrella is the self-driving car and also the elevator and now the augmented reality glasses. kind of stole the tech buzz this week. you see what they look like. no lenses inside there, but what you're looking at, there's a small video camera on the one side. that is taking in information in realtime, and then there's a little glass rectangle. that's where the alerts are going to pop you. now the alerts that are popping up in that little rectangle. you can check the weather, play music and video chat with somebody. can you get information just on the building right in front of you so talk about future forward
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technologies. doesn't get any better than this and i spoke to google asking them a now questions. how is this going to be powered? don't know if it's going to be it a stand-alone product or powered off android or something, in a prototype phase. it will probably be a while before we see these pop on market but a very interesting concept. >> what i find interesting here is the periphery because that little thing is like right on the right side there. it will probably get smaller as time gets on, all technology, right, gets tinier and tine ier. i'm wondering what it does like for a distraction, walking in traffic like that. you know what i'm talking about? >> yeah. i totally know what you're talking about. one of the pecks of this would be the turn-by-turn directions you could get popping up in your peripheral. google released this get user feedback and people are saying
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what they think, yeah, it's way over the top but for people excited about technology it could be the next best thing. >> can you wear glasses under them? >> that's the question. interesting today, one individual is tweeting you and i said i'm blind in one eye, i need to wear my glasses. google is experimenting with a lot of different designs and technological capabilities that can arc date different vision requirements and they are also considering people who -- a lot of people are in the rumor mill saying these will be out by the end of the year and guessing a price tag of $200 to $600 which is less than i thought so it's interesting to see how it plays out. >> wow, what was the character that had the glasses, lavar burton's character had glasses that looked -- jordy, someone's
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a trekkie in my ear. i've got to ask you this just quickly. aren't they migraine-inducing, has that been a criticism? >> not something you would keep on all day. if you had ads popping up there in as well. talk about jumping the shark. i don't know, like i think it's a very interesting dialogue and interesting to see that these comments on the google plus page already, do i think it could cause a migraine? yeah, i think it could anight heck out of somebody. >> i'll stick to head lines. tulsa, oklahoma, two men accused of killing three people has been arrested. 33-year-old alvin watts faces murder charges. two other shooting victims survived. they are still in the hospital now, a recent facebook posting from jacob england may hint at a motive. he says his dad was killed by an
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african-american and all the shootings were black. journalism has lost a legend. mike wallace died saturday night. he was 93 years old. he died in new cannan, connecticut where he spent the last few years. wallace became known as a fearless and dedicated reporter during the last four decades at "60 minutes." ♪ ♪ he's the king forever and ever ♪ ♪ hallelujah, hallelujah >> despite the chilly weather hundreds of people came out to celebrate easter at sunrise service at arlington national cemetery. more than 14,000 veterans are buried at arlington. the first family also celebrated easter today. they started their day with a stroll to st. john's episcopal church. the president wished everyone a happy easter as he went by and during the service the obamas received communion along with other worshippers in the congregation. happy easter to everyone. happy passover as well. hope you had a great weeken
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