hello, everybody. i'm carol costello in for kyra phillips. ozzy keyen hie guillen has suspended for five games where he said he respects the former cuban dictator. he had another chance to apologize a few moments ago. >> it is not what happened today. it is what happens in the future. it is what is going to happen in the future. i expect to be here for a long time. i live in miami. my family is in miami. i will do everything and i will do everything to try to make it better. i will help cuban community, latino community, like i always do. i hope i get better and people understand me and my situation

but i will be willing to do everything in my power, to help this community like i always do. >> he had come under criticism in the miami community for his castro comments. the marlins new ballpark is in pl little havana. president obama is on his way to florida, an economic speech on the so-called buffett rule. he is expected to talk about how it will make for a fairer tax code and how the rich will find it harder to find loopholes. former president, george w. bush, says the buffett rule is a bad idea. he spoke at a bush institution economic forum in new york. he said increased taxes on the very rich are an attack on job creators. >> i wish they weren't called the bush tax cuts.

if they were called somebody other body's tax cuts, they are probably less likely to be raised. if you raise taxes, you are taking money out of the pockets of consumers. it is important for policy makers to recognize all the data about taxes causes capital to stay on the sidelines. >> the bush tax cuts are set to expire at the end of the year. >> gary stein said he will fight his discharge. he posted comments on facebook critical of president obama. this is what he told soledad o'brien this morning. >> i am hear to uphold the constitution against foreign and domestic. i never disobeyed an order. i was never told not to do media interviews. i was never told not to write on redstate.com. i was never told not to do my own personal thing i was never told that. >> he is asking a federal judge

to stop the discharge and says it violates his free speech rights. protest rallies over trayvon martin's death and george zimmerman's fate. it could come down to one prosecutor's decision, angela corey. she will decide whether or not he will face charges. she ruled out presented his case to a grand jury. she could announce her decision at any moment. for the first time, zimmerman is speaking out on his website, the real george zimmerman.com. zimmerman posts i have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family and ultimately my entire life. he is asking for doe nathss for his legal fund and living expenses. >> a stunning confession in tulsa, oklahoma, in the shooting rampage. the suspects, 19-year-old jake england and 33-year-old alvin watts, according to police reports, england has confessed of shooting 3 of 5 victims. watts to the other two. the two allegedly gunned down a pair of strangers at these four

locations. three killed, two wounded, all of the victims were after cain american. police are not saying whether they believe the shootings were racially motivated but prosecutors he are reviewing whether hate crime is appropriate. another worker in hot water. david foley, a top official of the general services administration has been placed on administrative leave. he is the eighth staffer to be disciplined. he appears in a video joking about the lavish spending at a 2010 conference. there is also video of gsa workers mocking president obama's clean energy exam pain. more than $800,000 of taxpayer money was spent on mind-readers, clowns and music videos. >> heavy chelishelling continue syria on the day the government promised to withdraw their forces from all cities and towns. opposition groups say at least 45 people have been killed, at least 160 died yesterday. president bashir alazon had

agreed to a deadline to withdraw his troops today and a full cease-fire on tuesday. in the meantime, a special envoy arrived in turkey to visit a refugee camp. accompanying him are senators john mccain and joe lieberman. live reports from the border in 30 minutes. suicide attacks killed at least 18 people and wounded 27. targets were police officers and local government officials. among the victims, at least seven police officers and a police chief was among the wounded. the attacks were carried out in the western and southern parts of the country. in norway, the man accused of killing 77 people was sane at the time of the massacre. that's the assessment of two court-appointed psychiatric experts in the report. it says that anders breivik was not psychotic at the time of the attacks and does not suffer from a psychiatric condition. he is charge with killing eight people in a bomb attack in oslow

and gunning down 69 others on a nearby island. he has pleaded not guilty. his trial is set for next monday. a new study is raising questions about the safety of dental x-rays. the study published this week in the journal of cancer shows that people who have had dental x-rays frequently are more likely to develop a noncancerous brain tumor. this is not the to prove that but supports previous research. in a state, the american dental association noted potential flaws and encouraged further research. >> smart phone theft is on the rise. the fcc and lawmakers are stepping in. they met and announced a plan to stop from using your smart phones here are some details. wireless providers will work to initiate a data bates that will prevent smart phones from being used and those stolen are deactivated. they are working with law enforcement to show consumers

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time. in the meantime, george zimmerman seems to be building up his defense funds through his website, the real george zimmerman.com. this is the first time we are hearing from him. let's head straight to martin savidge, who is following all of these developments in sanford, florida. martin, have you spoken with zimmerman's attorney or his family and friends about the website? >> reporter: only to the point we wanted to authenticate that it really was his website. they say, yes, it is. the defense team had launched their own, zimmermandefense.com. they have decided to take that down and it is being replaced by therealgeorgezimmerman.com. he says his entire life changed dramatically, as it did for the trayvon martin family, it should be pointed out, on the night of the shooting when it happened on february 26th. he says as a result of the media attention that has been brought to bear, he has had to leave his home, his job, doesn't have any income coming in. all of this is to make an appeal

for people to donate, not just to a potential defense fund but to donate to allow him to continue having a lifestyle. you can conveniently make those donations. we don't know, even though there is a lot of traffic on that website, how much money he could be pulling in. there is potential. we know one group last week donated about $10,000 from texas. there have been reports of money coming in from all around the world. we will just have to see and fry and keep tabs on that. >> what's trayvon martin's family saying about this? >> the first thing they said was that trayvon martin himself could not have a website but there is a website that has been started as far as trying to get the message out about trayvon martin. they too are troubled by the fact that money is being raised, money that will go to try to keep george zimmerman if he was to be charged from serving any time or going to jail. they are not real thrilled. >> i bet not. last question, tell us about

this police car with the bullet hole found in the neighborhood. >> reporter: this is actually very troubling, carol. despite all the weeks that have gone by, despite the tremendous tensions in sanford and elsewhere, despite all the number of protests, there has never been any violence or problem. that changed early this morning, 4:30 by the time we were arriving here outside the police station. apparently, someone opened fire on a sanford police car parked outside the neighborhood where trayvon martin had been killed. there was no police officer in that vehicle at the time. it was struck anywhere from four to possibly six times, shattering the glass and pumping into the sides. clearly, a very, very troubling site. that school was parked in front of an elementary school. someone is using a weapon. whether they knew there was anybody in the vehicle, we don't know. >> still disturbing. martin savidge reporting live from sanford, florida. the issue of whether or not george zimmerman will face charges is complicated,

especially in the light of florida's stand your ground law. paul cal an is a criminal defense attorney and also a prosecutor. welcome, paul. >> nice being with you, carol. >> nice that you are here. the prosecutor, angela corey, decides, no grand jury. tell us why this is significant? >> it is very significant, because a lot of times, prosecutors try to use a grand jury to kind of pass the buck to the grand jury. if the grand jury decides to dismiss the case, it is up to the grand jury. if they decide to indict, they say, well, we presented it to ordinary citizens and they said indict. here, angela corey has taken this case on her own shoulders and she will bear responsibility and public praise or criticism for whatever she does. she can't blame it on a grand jury. >> you know what many experts say. this means she has made her decision and she will fire

charges against zimmerman. >> well, it does seem to suggest that direction. the reason i say that is because a lot of times in controversial cases, if there is going to be a dismissal, prosecutors will use the grand jury as an excuse to get the dismissal. the fact that she has held on to the case would suggest maybe she is going to return charges. i would raise one other thing. her predecessor, the state attorney who originally veend the grand jury and she was appointed by the government to take his place, he said he was going to use the grand jury as an investigative tool to develop facts in the case. the fact she is not using the grand jury for that purpose suggests the investigation is complete and she is ready to make a decision. if i were a betting person, i would bet charges are going to be filed. >> let's say charges are filed. george zimmerman gets his day in court. this story has exploded into a national debate.

rallies, vigils everywhere, how could he possibly, george zimmerman, get a fair trial? >> you are right, carol. the passion surrounding this case are as great as any case i can remember, maybe as far back as the o.j. simpson case. how do you get a fair trial in that situation, very, very difficult. bear in mind, this case won't go to trial for at least another nine months to a year. passions will have subsided a bit. we have a lot of mechanisms for picking juries. you can bring them in from outside the county, move the trial to another county, and you can also carefully screen the jury. ultimately, you wind up with a jury that is generally familiar with the faks cts of the case b hopefully will base their decision on the evidence and not the passion an the tabloid headlines. >> if you are a betting man, do you think she will make her decision today? does she just want to get it out of the way, the pros cue tore i am talking about. i'm intrigued by this. >> i think there is a good

possibility she will make her decision today but if not today, certainly within a very, very short time frame. a week or so. i would be surprised if it went beyond that. if she needed to develop more fact, why wouldn't she use the grand jury as a subpoena? what people don't understand is that only grand juries or courts can authorize the issuance of subpoenas to get evidence in a case. a prosecutor can't do that. she doesn't need the grand jury here. i think she is saying he sh is done. you might see it today or the very, veneer future. probably charges but most definitely a decision. >> we will keep our eyes on sanford, florida. paul callan, good to get your insights. >> charles manson may have a chance at freedom. debra tait will testify to stop that. the sister of manson's most famous victim, sharon tait, joins us live next.

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charles manson is up for parole again. the 12th and possibly last chance for the 77-year-old manson to get out of prison. he may not be eligible for parole again until the year 2027. manson's crimes are some of the most gruesome and most famous in american history. nine murders in all. most of them orchestrated by manson and carried out by his so-called family. the most famous was the murder of pregnant actress, sharon tate, and friends at her los angeles home. joining me now is debra tate, sharon tate's sister and a leading advocate for victims rights. welcome. >> thank you. >> you are going to be there for the hearing tomorrow? >> yes, i am. >> what will you say? >> i never know exactly what i'm going to say.

i usually respond to whatever is being read out of the statements of his mentally valuations, et cetera, et cetera. i've been going for the last 15 years. for the last 15 years, he has chosen not to come into the room with me. so i'm hoping that heel show up this time and then i will have a lot more to say. >> why are you hoping he shows up this time? >> i think that -- i think that he needs to look into our eyes, victims' eyes, and see the pain that he has caused. i think that that is something that is essential to his coming to peace perhaps before he passes, as you said. this is probably going to be his last parole hearing. >> when you think of charles

manson, you think of absolute evil. you don't think that he wants any forgiveness for what he has done. i mean, do you think there is something in there? >> i like to think that there is something in there, in everybody. however, this is a tough man. i don't think that he has come to grips with what he is and what he has done in the past. i am just hoping that he chooses to do so and understand the magnitude and gravity of his crimes before he goes to meet his maker. >> if these new pictures, mug shots came out of charles manson at the age of 77, a lot of fascination of people looking at those pictures, why do you think that is? >> there is a unique social icon kind of a thing that goes along with the manson family.

they have made murder popular. they have more followers than they have ever had. there have been murders done in their name. quite frankly, i do not understand it. i understand there are a lot of young people that are looking for something to believe in but i don't see how you could possibly think this man is leadership material. i don't get it. >> leave us with an image of your beautiful sister. >> thank you. >> just tell us about her. tell us about the victim's families and what they are left with so people don't admire creeps like charles manson. >> sharon was obviously extremely beautiful on the outside. what people don't know is that there was an equally magnificent soul, a beautiful creature on the inside. she would give you the shirt off

her back. she would go to great lengths to help mentor or position young people around her. she was actually going to be a psychologist, had this profession not worked for her. she was very much into helping the underdog. she was a magnificent soul. >> and you are a magnificent sister going into that room to make sure he stays in prison for the past 15 years. you are something else. >> thank you so much. >> debra tate, thank you for being with us this morning. >> you are welcome. >> marlins manager, ozzie guillen faces an immediate five-game suspension. what he said about fidel castro, that led to this firestorm. that's still ahead. ould go broke with imports? look, i'm just saying. well, energy creates jobs. [announcer:] at conocophillips, we're helping power america's economy with cleaner, affordable natural gas. more jobs, less emissions.

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for richer or poorer, weddings don't come cheap. last year, the average cost, $27,000. felicia taylor is here with some tips to help you save on the big day. good morning, felicia. >> hey, carol, for some, getting married is very expensive. according to the knot.com, manhattan weddings are the most expensive with an average cost of $66,000. chicago, comes in second with $53,000. rounding out the top five, the new york metro area, new jersey, and rhode island. kara? >> i am glad i got married in toledo, ohio, where it was beautiful and cost effective. >> if you want to save money, where should you start trimming? >> i got married in new york and it was expensive. you made the right choice.

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>> we are terrible. >> the dress, a lot of women spend lots and lots of money on the dress. what are some ways to get a fabulous dress without paying a high cost. >> well, this is sort of every bride's dream. of course, a white dress is memorable but with an average cost of, get this, $1100. it is also extremely expensive. try shopping sample sales in the spring or fall ahead of the wedding. the knot.com says this can cost -- save up to 80%. you can also save by eliminating some of the beading and detaili detailing. keep it simple. budget conscious brides may consider renting. sites like renttherunway.com and adornbrides.com offer this. my wedding dress has been in a box for 12 years. >> won't you pass it on to your -- >> yeah, that's true. i didn't think of that.

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the u.n. planned to end the carnage in syria, being ripped apart by heavy government shelling of cities and towns. today is the deadline accepted by president bashar alasa to withdraw his forces. opposition groups say it hasn't happened. government shelling has killed 45 people across the country, 160 yesterday. senators john mccain and joe lieberman are in turkey for an up-close assessment. here is what mccain said about the rebels a short time ago. >> our meetings with the syrian

national council and the pre-syria army, there are not divisions within their leadership. they are united. they have resolved most of their differences. >> in another serious turn for the worse, fighting spilled across the border with turkey yesterday. now, home to more than 45,000 syrian refugees. ivan watson is in turkey, near the border with syria. ivan, he was there for a first-hand look. what did he say? >> he seems to think there is hope still for some kind of dip diplomatic solution to this crisis. today was the deadline for the military to withdraw from towns. he said, with he do have some information that some units have been withdrawn from some areas and gone to attack other areas that had previously not been targeted by the syrian military.

when asked about whether this plan was failing, he said the plan is still alive and he went on to say what other choice do you have? what other solution is there? unfortunately, that answer is not going to satisfy some 25,000 refugees living in camps here in turkey, who have fled their country, some of those camps that he visited. some gathered to call the man that is trying to resolve the crisis with a diplomatic solution, to call him a liar. as you pointed out, one of these camps was attacked by syrian security forces yesterday. firing across the border, shooting two turkish citizens, one was a cop and two syrian refugees there. a sign of how out of control the situation is just across the border. kyra? >> you talk about other solutions. senator john mccain and senator joe lieberman, what are they offering?

>> reporter: i haven't been able to hear what they had to say firsthand. with know senator mccain in weeks and months past talked about bombing syrian government targets. that's not a step that the international community or the u.s. government is interested in taking. the people, the syrians inside i am not stress enough how desperate these people are, kyra. we have been traveling to this region month after month. we meet these people who came out in the streets months ago demanding democracy and freedom and a change in their authoritarian system of government. now, they are increasingly looking for weapons to fight back against a government that has continuously used tanks and artillery and now helicopters against them. just a few weeks ago, i was here. i met a few men that had sold their wife's gold, cars, cows, to come over here and buy a couple of walkie-talkies and

hand-held satellite phones themselves to go back in after the military overran their town. that is how desperate they are. they are not relying on anybody else to help them. nobody else seems to want to step up and help these desperate people out. kyra? >> ivan watson, reporting live for us today. thank you. one of the megamillions winners steps forward. it isn't that woman, you know, that woman from mcdonald's who claims she had the winning ticket. instead, it is the three amigos, the maryland megawinners next.

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games after he told "time" magazine he loved cuban dictator, fidel castro. he has been known to run off at the mouth before. this time, he is apologizing. john zarrella is covering this story. are they accepting his apology? >> reporter: i don't know. only time will tell. we will have to see if five games are enough. he was absolutely contrite during his news conference today. it was maya culpa over and over again throughout saying that he hoped that this cloud would go away soon. so it was one apology after another. >> i'm very, very, very sorry about the problem about what's happening. i will do everything to make it better, everything in my power to make it better. >> now, he said he hasn't been able to sleep for the past three

nights. he apologized not only to the cuban-american community but to the entire nation. he spoke primarily at the beginning in spanish, which was probably a good thing. guillen is now saying when he spoke to "time" magazine in english, he was misinterpreted. >> what i mean in spanish, when you asked me in spanish, i was thinking in spanish. i was saying, i cannot believe somebody heard so many people over the years still alive. i say a couple things i cannot say right now to the guy that expressed exactly what i was thinking or what i was saying. >> reporter: so he gets a five-game suspension from the miami marlins. that's a suspension without pay. we are really just going to have to see how this plays out in the miami cuban community. carol? >> there are some people saying you should be fired for that. >> a lot of people saying that.

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president obama on his way to floor do to hold an economic event to taught the buffett rule. joining me now, maria car doe na and boris epstein. welcome to you both. glad you are here. >> do voters really care about the buffett rule, boris? >> no, this he do not, warren buffet is the first or second richest man on earth year to year. what they care about is unemployment going below 8%. the buffett rule is a gimmick by the democrats. it means absolutely nothing in

the larnlger picture, trying to play a game in the election year. >> if you look at the poll, 60% of americans like it? >> absolutely. so they do care about it. they absolutely support it. why? because they support fairness. they understand that there is a huge contrast in visions between president obama, who is out to support and help middle class families and working class families who have been the ones who have been the hardest hit by this recession, wanting to basically put policies out there that give a level playing field and so that everybody that is working hard and can get ahead by playing by the rules can do so, versus a party that is out to coddle their own presidential candidate, the presumed presidential nominee who pays a lot less in taxes and makes a lot more money than all of us do and his nfl team owners and nascar team owners and other community friends who probably also have that. >> maria, come on.

>> boris, i didn't interrupt you. so don't interrupt me. >> go ahead z i think it is a difference between fairness and coddling millionaires and billionaires and voters do care about that. >> go, boris, go. >> the talk of millionaires and billionaires. the same social billionaires, it's gotten democrats nowhere. they happen to win election by accident in 2008. 2010 they were swept out of the house. and lost a ton of seat in the senate because the message of let's go against -- let's go against the rich and we're all for the poor isn't even true by the democrats because barack obama himself is a multi, mul multimillionaire. let's not make it fast he is this poor person standing up for the poor. okay. as far as who pays what, mitt romney paid more in taxes, let's talk about dollars. the top 1% pays over 90% of the dollars paid in america. so let's not make this a debate about the rich are so bad and the poor are getting screwed. that's not the truth. >> no one is saying that the rich is bad, that you're not

listening. >> really? >> yes. we're >> that's not how i hear it. >> it's an issue of fairness. i didn't say, and mitt romney paid less of a percentage in taxes than all of us here. >> dollar amount though. >> it's an issue of percentage, boris. that's where the fairness comes in. >> really? >> should a teacher pay less of a percentage of her sally than mitt romney? i don't think so. >> so -- >> if mitt romney is paying less -- >> okay. okay. i could listen to this forever because i enjoy this topic but we must move on. hold on. let's move on to the second question and talk about mitt romney. he's going to spend $3 million in ads in pennsylvania which probably mean he's going in for the kill to get rid of rick santorum. will it work? >> well, unfortunately negative ads do work and what we have seen is the strategy for mitt romney is going into a lot of the states where he has been behind, he and his super pac

basically just put in everything that they can plus the kitchen sink in negative ads against rick santorum and any of the other opponents, it's what basically buried newt gingrich and it has worked, unfortunately. now, the issue in pennsylvania is that a lot of people already know rick santorum so the negative ads might not work as well as they might have in a state where he isn't as well known. but we'll see what happens. >> well, he did pull negative ads after rick santorum's daughter bella got sick. maybe the ads won't be as nasty. and boris, i wanted to pick your brain on this. everybody says rick santorum lost his seat in pennsylvania so that means bad things for him. does that necessarily mean anything? >> it does. the last election he was up for in pennsylvania he lost by 18 points, the largest loss ever by a sitting republican senator. so that is not a good sign. '06 was a bad year for republicans like 2010 was a bad year for democrats so that could

skew the message. the bottom line is this primary election is over. mitt romney is going to be our nominee, he is the best from the republicans to face against president obama. and negative ads, being on hillary clinton's side, the barack obama team is not above negative ads at all and they inted it then, they are exhibiting it now. let's not say the republicans or mitt romney are the ones playing the negative ad game. that game, unfortunately, is played by both sides of the aisle. >> yeah, because you know why, they work. boris and maria, thank you so much. >> exactly right. >> thanks, carol. >> it's almost 100 years since the "titanic" hit that iceberg. this ship is returning to the site where the "titanic" sank. what the passengers on board this anniversary cruise can expect. over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection,

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descendants of die tannic victims and survivors, they will be boarding first. we have some interviewed lined up later today. but that you know, is just part of it. a lot of folks are here because they are "titanic" buffs, a lot of "titanic" historians, folks in period dress, even eating some of the same meals. it's a little bit eerie but they are doing it to memorialize the 100th anniversary. earlier today we had a chance to catch wake-up the ship's captain who told us what this cruise means to him. >> i think it's the significance of it all, remembering the people that died on that night and also being grateful for the improvements in safety that have come about from that disaster. >> reporter: he as the captain, he will be behind the wheel when this ship is in the north atlantic in potentially icy waters, and he says you know, he will admit there is a little bit of an eerie feeling he has inside as he starts this voyage. >> i wonder what will happen

when they arrive on the exact spot where the "titanic" sank. hopefully the weather would be good. that would be really freaky. will there be a moment of silence or something like that? >> reporter: they are planning a couple of memorial services. this is just one of two cruise ships, the other -- this leave from new york. it will meet up where the "titanic" sank in the middle of the north atlantic at the time the "titanic" struck the iceberg, 11:40 p.m. on april 14. at that same time, a ship that has left from south hampton a couple days ago, that's retracing the footprint of the "titanic," will meet up with this ship at the same spot at that site where "titanic" sank. they will hold simultaneous memorials, one for 11:40 and another for 2:20 when "titanic" sunk under water. >> that's something else. i can't imagine that feeling and then people will be in period costumes and a menu with some of the same stuff they ate back in

the day. one of the things on the menu i understand is pigeon. >> pigeon. that's news to me. the meals they have been planning are all created by the ship's captain and they created a couple -- i think it's one or two dishes each day. they are planning a full on meal. so it will be quite the experience for everyone on board i'm sure so. i think people are really looking forward to seeing what he comes up w. pigeon is news to me. i never had that. >> i'm serious. i talked to two women from western maryland on the british ship. on the menu is pigeon which was a delicacy back in those days. mmm. i hope you get to eat some of that. >> reporter: i'll get the menu, maybe we can top pigeon. what do you say. >> chris welch, thank you. it's actually sounds like a lot of fun and i'm jealous. thanks, chris. thanks for watching. cnn newsroom continues with suzanne malveaux.

>> live from cnn headquarters in atlanta, it's 12 noon, i'm suzanne malveaux. i want to get you up to speed. the neighborhood watch volunteer who shot trayvon martin launched his own website to raise money for his defense and his self. it reads i am the real george zimmerman. it warns viewers to be careful of other sites claiming to be raising money for him. there is a link to donate money to pay for zimmerman's lawyers and living expenses. so far no criminal charges have been filed. >> president obama, he is on the road today to make his case for the so-called buffett rule. it would require people who make more than $1 million a year to pay at least 30% in income taxes. the president says it makes the tax code more fair and prevents the very rich paying a lower tax

rate. republicans say it would thurt economy and stifle job growth. >> marlin manager ozzie guillen says he is very sorry, the team suspended him for five games after he said he loves and respects fidel castro. a lot of cuban-americans want him fired. about an hour ago he talked about the controversy saying he betrayed the latin american community and he is now asking for forgiveness. >> very, very very sorry about the problem about what happening, and i will do everything to make him better. everything in my power. >> extreme winds, bone dry conditions fueling dangerous brush fires up and down the east coast. there are warnings that are in place today from florida to new york as firefighters they are trying to get things under control. >> that sound, that is not gun fire. that is actually softball size

hail that is smashing into an oklahoma creek. it happened last night. pretty amazing. thankfully no reports of anybody being hurt. >> no pullout and no peace. syrian troops were supposed to withdraw from cities across the country today, but as you can see, the attacks, they are continuing. opposition groups say at least 40 people have been killed already today by government forces. our ivan watson is joining us on the phone from neighboring turkey. ivan, you were at a news conference with kofi annan who is brokering this peace deal. does he have hope this is going to stick or is it falling apart? >> reporter: believe it or not, he says the peace plan is still alive. even though today was supposed to be the first phase of it, the syrian military was supposed to

withdraw from population centers today. and despite those plans, we are already getting reports of dozens of people killed today and fresh artillery bombardment of cities and towns. he made another appeal for all sides to stop fighting. take a listen. >> so let me again appeal to the syrian government and the syrian parties to cease violence in accordance with the plan and i believe there should be no preconditions but stopping violence, that is something we need to do for the people and for the country concerned. >> reporter: on sunday, the syrian government dropped new preconditions, it demanded that the syrian rebels sign written guarantees and hand in their weapons. it demanded that countries that support the rebels also sign written guarantees that they

won't do that. in the meantime, yesterday, we had a deadly gun battle erupt on the border between syria and turkey, we had a journalist killed in neighboring lebanon, in addition to the hundreds of people who have been reported killed in syria itself over the last couple of days. >> ivan, tell me about the situation where you are in turkey, the situation with the refugees. >> reporter: yeah. these people we're now at about 25,000 refugees in this country. some of them have been here so long they are you are giving birth to children in the refugee camps. but there has been a fresh wave of them coming across the border in the last weeks, more than 2700 refugees in a single day last week. they are being pretty well taken care of. the refugee camps look clean but they are desperate and see no hope going home. they are terrified of their own government and their own army which is supposed to protect them instead of shelling their cities and towns.

>> ivan watson, thank you. i want to bring in michael holmes into the discussion. we know that syrian opposition claimed 11,000 people have been killed. i'm going to break these down to look at. we're talking about march 27, this is when syria's president accepted kofi annan's peace plan. 80 were killed. the number stayed high. jumps to 150 on april 2. that is the date, the exact date the troops are supposed to start leaving these heavily pop youlated areas. you look at yesterday's death toll, 160. this trend, you got a total of 1,088 people killed since the peace deal. michael, explain to us why this is not working. >> it has been extraordinary seeing the death toll climb. that's because the assad regime they know they have to crush this dissent in order to survive themselves as a regime. so they are going into the towns and cities and trying to do as

much damage to the opposition and the opposition infrastructure and of course civilians on the way, to -- before he would even consider pulling back. there are plenty observers who say he has from the beginning played for time. he said what he needed to say, paying lip service to ideas or suggestions or pressure, while at the same time continuing on and continuing on with the crackdown. >> what is going wrong here? the international response, clearly they cannot control the situation on the ground. there are other alternatives to what annan is doing? >> internationally there is not. you've got a situation there is no real consensus when you factor in the russians and the chinese and their tacit support of the assad regime. and you have the west in a situation where they are not going to do a libya and go in there with nato warplanes. assad knows this, he can sit back and continue doing what he's doing. he is feeling the pressure now from the russians which is changing things. he has had all of the opportunity in the world to stop

this. he's not doing it because his own survival depends on it. >> what is the next deadline? >> the deadline is now. there is no other. kofi annan said today at the news conference that ivan was at, the peace plan is alive and if you did take it off the table what would you put there. i don't have anything else either. it's very dangerous situation because you got as ivan said, you've got shots over the border into lebanon, into turkey, arab gulf states supplying arms and money to the rebels. the regional implications are still huge. >> is it clear who is being killed? do we know? is there a clear delineation here? the good guys, the bad guys, and the people losing their lives. >> it's not that simple either. that's a good question. a lot of those being killed on the opposition side are fighters, defectors from the army. enormous number are innocent civilians. you cannot shell a neighborhood and not kill women and children

and families. that is happening as well. you say good guys and bad guys, assad does have quite a lot of support in various communities within syria. it's not that -- it's like saddam hussein situation, he has a lot of support, obviously with the shia as well and within parts of the sunni community as well. so it's not good guy/bad guy. it's hard to see this having a good outcome because even if he does pull back from the towns and the city what is have you left behind. a social fabric that has been absolutely torn asundayer by this. he did, kofi annan quickly, too, he did say that there is evidence that he's pulled back from some towns but moving to others where he hasn't been. >> it's a terrible situation. michael, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> here is a rundown of some of the stories we're covering first. he has been in hiding since the night that he shot and killed trayvon martin. now he's speaking out on line. then, they sprung into action, saved the lives of their classmates.

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because up until this point there has been no violence associated with the trayvon martin shooting after the initial event. last night there was a police car, patrol car, parked in the neighborhood for several weeks. it was there really to deter tour buses that had now added the community where trayvon martin was shot to their schedule. so as a result that police car was parked. last night about 4:30 in the morning, this morning, came reports on the telephone of people saying shots fired in the neighborhood. police dispatched couldn't find anything and then looked at the patrol car, it was riddled with gun fire, hit several times, shattering glass, puncturing the sides of the vehicle. there is no person in it but would not want to have been in the vehicle at the time and unclear if the shooter knew there was anybody in there. authorities had no clue who did the shooting or what weapon was used. it's got to be considered a troubling sign in this community. >> martin, did you say there's a tour that's going through the neighborhood now?

>> reporter: this is what authorities say. i know that sounds extremely bizarre but after the incident and of course the national notoriety that has come, there have been tour buses that go through that area, large tour buses. there's an elementary school right there in front of the housing area, and as a result it's been disrupting traffic for the school. and buses have been pulling on the property so that's why the spotter car was placed to try to deter that. >> a little strange. george zimmerman launching a website asking for money to help out in his defense. what's his appeal? what does he say? >> reporter: therealgeorgezimmerman.com launched apparently yesterday, and this is designed, one, to allow george zimmerman, he says to get out his message. he did begin speaking out. he says he hasn't been able to do that. let me read you a couple of quotes. as a result of the incident and subsequent media coverage i have been forced to leave my home, my school, my employer, my family are and ultimately my entire life. he goes on i'm grateful to my

friends that have come to my aid, never questioning my integrity or actions. and then you can essentially contribute to him, i would say defense fund, he doesn't have one yet, he's not been charged, but to support his lifestyle by clicking on the paypal. it's surprising to many. there is no idea how much has been raised. we know last week there was a donation of $10,000. what's interesting there is no mention of trayvon martin, no mention of it being a tragedy, and no apparent mention of remorse in any way. >> interesting. what do we know about the latest in the case itself? we know that the special prosecutor is not going to have a grand jury involved in this. do we expect she could come up with some decision soon about whether or not zimmerman will be charged? >> reporter: right. the belief is could be any moment. we have no idea. if it is going to be any moment. but the thought is if it's in her hands she could make that decision, she could do it at any time f. she's not using the

grand jury it will not be murder in the first degree. you have to have a grand jury to do that. so perhaps if it's a charge it could be manslaughter or something along those lines, he could get up to 30 years if getting a full conviction. >> keep us posted if there are developments. thank you. >> could it be the end of the yellow pages? that's right as we know it. we'll talk about the phone book in the age of cyberspace. [ male announcer ] you are a business pro. monarch of marketing analysis. with the ability to improve roi through seo all by cob. and you...rent from national. because only national lets you choose any car in the aisle... and go. you can even take a full-size or above, and still pay the mid-size price. i'm going b-i-g. [ male announcer ] good choice business pro. good choice. go national. go like a pro.

>> the new phone book's here! >> i wish i could get that excited. >> nothing? are you kidding? page 73, johnson, maven r., i'm

somebody now. millions of people look at this book every day. >> awesome. right, used to feel like a big deal when you got your name in the phone book for the first time. at&t is selling its majority stake in the yellow pages to a private investment group for almost $1 billion in cash and credit. i'll bring in felicia taylor. okay, this thing, and this is not even the biggest one, right. this thing is so heavy. what do you use it for? lifting weights? when i brought this to the set they asked me, they thought i was going to sit on it as a booster chair. >> that's not what it's for. >> do you use the phone book? >> i don't. i haven't used a phone book in years. i think that's pretty much the majority. did you get that excited when your name was in the phone book? >> i did. totally. like paying off your student loans, you know. that's a great thing. sign of recognition. >> here's the deal.

at&t sold off a majority stake in yellow pages to a private equity firm. it's 53% stake and it sold for $750 million. naturally, at&t has been struggling to keep the yellow pages relevant. it's turned yp.com into more after city guide. it's had limited success so now the hope is that servers can super charge that web business. yellow pages has delivered still to about 150 million homes. think about that. it has a far reaching expanse. i get it. i haven't looked at it. >> in some cities like seattle and san francisco, homeowners have to opt in for delivery. but did it take in more than $3 billion last year. at&t will share in any future success because it still has 47% stake in the company. >> when you get older the goal is not to be in the phone book.

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>> there is new embarrassing video from a conference that cost taxpayers hundreds of thousands of dollars. >> i think meetings are good to have in between breaks. >> we're going to show you the tapes, break down the money that was spent during both the obama and bush administrations. >> time for the help desk. joining me this hour is a financial planner and president of objective advice.com. carmen is the president of alta wealth management. first to you, gary. question from south carolina. this person wrote in, they have a pretty large amount of credit card debt. they have enough money to pay it off. should they pay it off at once or set up a payment plan to pay it off gradually? >> well, first of all congratulations that you are about to pay it off. almost everyone is going to want to get rid of it unless the card

associated zero%, you want to wipe it out. the only other real exception is if for some reason they won't accept cents on the dollar, it's something you might meaning not pay the full amount to pay it off at once. why carry high interest debt a second more than you have to. >> exactly. carmen, your question am from paul. when i got divorced i bought a condo for $125,000 now worth $80,000. i owe 114,000 on the mortgage. >> paul is under water. he can hold it, which to see if it actually grows in value in any way. he can sell it. or could short sale it and go for a short sale which it would sell for less than he owed. it's a difficult process but that's a responsible way. or he could walk away. if you walk away it goes into foreclosure and that destroys his credit so he needs to make that judgment call on his own. >> does it change since it's

viewed as an investment property? >> that's the thing. there is not a lot of help for folks on a second property. it has to be a primary residence to qualify. a secondary residence not there. >> if you have a question send us e-mail any time to cnnhelpdesk@cnn.com. this is $100,000. we asked total strangers to watch it for us. thank you so much, i appreciate it, i'll be right back. they didn't take a dime. how much in fees does your bank take to watch your money ? if your bank takes more money than a stranger, you need an ally.

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bill clinton once told struggling americans i feel your pain. the presidential candidates are trying to convince americans they, too, feel it. they are scrambling to appeal to middle class voters and paint the other guy as out of touch. joining us to talk about that is

strategist ed espinoza and sherry jakovitz. >> that's okay. >> it's so good to see you. glad to have you on. i want to talk about president obama on the road pushing his so called buffett rule requiring the richest americans to pay at least 30% of income in taxes. you have a campaign conference call promoting this. and senator dick durbin took aim at romney's swiss bank account. i want you to listen. >> it is impossible for him to explain or defend owning a swiss bank account. i asked lord buffett have you had a swiss bank account. he said no, there are plenty of good banks in the united states. i asked why do instrument a swiss bank account? there are two reasonable explanations. number one, you believe the swiss franc is a stronker currency than the u.s. dollar. that apparently is the decision the romney family made during the bush presidency.

secondly, you want to conceal something. you want to hide something. why would you have a swiss bank account? >> i'm going to you first. legitimate questions there or is this another attempt to really paint him as out of touch, not like everybody else? >> this is a class warfare pure and simple what we've seen with the obama campaign and the democrats for some time. frankly, it's all they have. when you have a very poor obama economy you have to make voters jealous and resentful of the people who are doing better. look, the bigger issue is that the so-called buffett tax they talk about, this 1%, the people that they want to pay more, warren buffett has done very, very well, one of the few people who has done well with barack obama as president. he got a sweet deal with the company he owns under the keystone pipeline deal that the president torpedoed. so let's set that aside because warren buff sfet doing very well. but in terms of people in this country becoming million mayors it's what we want, something

that should be encouraged and the other thing is the government should not be telling anybody what they can do with their money. even if it's dividends from investments. they paid taxes on this so this notion that there is somehow something wrong or illegal, there is not. this money has already had taxes paid on it and the buffett rule would not bring any hardly anything into the treasury to pay off the debt. >> i got to get you off there for a minute and get ed. does it make sense for the president, he's got the bully pulpit. does he need his surrogates to go after romney on things about the offshore bank account? well, durbin made a good point. why do you have a swiss bank account. you are hiding something or don't have confidence in the american dollar. cindy said you don't want to begrudge someone's success. but warren buffett doesn't need to be jealous of anybody, he doesn't begrudge anyone's success and he doesn't have a swiss bank account. if you run for president of the

united states maybe lead by example, keep your money state side and invest in things you have confidence in. this sends a message to people you're out of touch and it's not something that everyday people can identify with. i don't know anybody with a swiss bank account. >> why is it the government's business where somebody keeps their money? i think that's a bigger issue. you have a president who did well under the bush account now a millionaire 12 times over. i don't understand why it's dick durbin's business or anybody. >> it's not the government's business. it's principle. >> an odd argument. i think what we want is somebody who knows money who wants to create an economy in the united states where everybody wants to keep their money here but you know what, if the united states congress and the president isn't doing that, isn't creating that environment then americans no matter who they are should be able to do what they want with their money. i think it's -- should make us all nervous when you've got senators trying to dictate what

somebody can do with their funds. >> why not just put it out on the table and say here's where my money is, what i've done and here's why. what's the point of not discussing it? why not just put it out there and satisfy people who have questions, legitimate questions? >> right. it's a good question. >> they can do that and they should. sometimes they do it piecemeal. and sometimes they do it, they have, when you have a lot of funds or properties, sometimes takes more than an afternoon to do it. but again, i think -- >> let me -- >> i think it's a false issue and the american people are going to catch it. >> let's talk about the gender gap here. president obama is leading romney when it comes to women. we have a new poll that shows the president is having a harder time with male voters, and this poll he trails romney among men, 44% to 52%. talk about this, ed. what does he need to do? what is the problem that he's having in appealing to men?

>> i looked at this poll and i dug into the cross tabs and tried to find what it was that was -- that had men leaning in a different direction. i couldn't specifically find it in this poll. what i did find is african-americans still support the president by 90%. latinos support the president 2 to 1. women support the wpt an 18-point gap. when we talk about men that aren't supporting democrats or the president you are looking at white men. anglos, largely in the rust belt area, pennsylvania, ohio, michigan, places that have been hard hit by the recession. it's natural that bread winners who lost their job are going to be skeptical of government right now. we're not losing them completely but it's a group that we need to -- democrats need to communicate with in a stronger way. >> ed, we'll leave it there. we'll have you guys back on soon. thank you. >> if you are not alarmed by all of the wild spending we saw at a vegas conference for government workers, stay tuned, there is another employee who is now on

leave that means eight gsa workers fired removed or out of a job, put on leave, and new video from the conference. dana bash has the details. ♪ >> hoping to limit the political damage, the obama administration headed out to selective media outlets and hours of new embarrassing gsa video over the holiday weekend. among the see to the believe it clip, government workers appearing to mock the president. his greens jobs initiative. it's yet another submission for a video award ceremony cnn first reported on last week, a talent show at a 2010 convention in las vegas which cost taxpayers over $800,000. husband charl issa says 3 omitted a key part that they were making the videos during a

taxpayer-funded work day. >> that was amazing. was there anybody in region 7 that wasn't in that? >> if they worked, if they didn't work on friday that chances are they weren't in the video. >> with the administration did release is damaging. in this video a man dressed as an angry clown makes fun of government meetings. >> i think government meetings are good to have between breaks. >> in this one government employees mimicking the movie "office space" appear to destroy government property. at the las vegas conference where the videos were played listen to this brazen boasting. >> i think i pretty much promised to deliver an over the top unforgettable team building experience. how'd we do on that one? >> that's jeff neily, an acting administrator for the pacific region. here he is on the event's red carpet, a make believe red

carpet at a government conference. >> i am wearing all armani. i think what i'd like people to take home is to dispense with the notion that what's done in vegas stays in vegas and to really leave with what's done in stray gas needs to be shared with everybody. >> and what is this government employee's talent? >> i have a talent for drinking margaritas. >> how is it that gsa gave you that? >> this is my commitment to our go green initiative. >> dana bash joins us. dana, first of all, why did they do these videos? seems really odd to me. >> it was a talent contest. just like we have here at cnn. no, that was a joke. a big joke. i mean, that speaks to the whole scratch your head question because it's a very good question. why did they do this. it was supposed to be team building, supposed to allow people to lighten up.

but obviously the content went too far. never mind the cost to taxpayers. which is mind blowing, the cost to taxpayers. almost a million dollars. >> never seen any costs on our talent contest there that got us lavish spending. tell me here, i imagine that the white house is on the defensive. >> absolutely. they realize this is a huge political problem. and one thing we're hearing more and more, though, from the obama administration is push back at the house republicans who were pushing this issue, about spending not just during the obama years but the bush years, in fact, we have a graphic to give you a sense of how much spending has really gone up and went up exponentially during the bush years. back in 2004, $93,927 was spent on this western regional conference. this happens every two years. by tend of the second term, the bush term, it had gone up to

$655,000. that's a 600% increase. so those are the kinds of things that democrats certainly are pushing. not only from the white house but we'll see those kinds of questions no doubt when these hearings begin on monday from democrats. what about spending during the bush years. >> sure. excess in both administrations. dana, thank you. >> used to say a picture worth 1,000 words. well, facebook thinks a picture is worth a billion bucks. coming up. sure that we were on schedule. the first technology of its kind... mom and dad, i have great news. is now providing answers families need. siemens. answers.

following the trayvon martin case, and of course a new development whether or not george zimmerman, the killer of trayvon martin, is going to be

facing criminal charges. i want to talk to trayvon martin's parents in orlando now. sabrina fulton and tracy martin are there as well as their attorney benjamin crump. thank you for being with us this afternoon. i know you've been traveling, you've been doing interviews, you've taken time off from work. it really must take a toll at some point. how are you holding up at this point? >> it's very difficult. we do a lot of praying. we read our bible every night. it's just, you know, we keep pushing forward because we just are fighting for trayvon. >> at this point what do you make of the fact that now you have the special prosecutor angela corey who is going to be making the decision on her own, without a grand jury, whether or not your son's killer, george zimmerman, is going to be charged. >> well, we're not that versed on the legal system but our attorney did advise us that if it went to a grand jury we would

not be able to attend, that it would be a closed door meeting, and we didn't agree with that but that was the system and how it was set up. when we found out that there were not going to have a grand jury, that miss corey's office is going to handle it and she's going to make the final decision we were a little at ease with that rather than something that's going to be closed door. >> mr. martin, are you -- how confident are you that this one woman, this special prosecutor, is going to be the one to determine whether or not your son's killer could potentially face charges and go to jail? >> i have strong, i have faith in her. it's not only having faith in miss corey. we have strong faith in the lord and all we can do is continue, all we do is continue to pray and ask that our lord and savior

bring us through this, in a peaceful manner. we are just asking for justice to be served. >> have you seen the website, do you know that george zimmerman now has a website and is asking people for money for his defense? he is reaching out to people, he put this out, a page saying i'm the real george zimmerman and now looking for people to donate for him? >> we've heard about it. we have not seen the actual website. we've heard about it. and we just think this is america. it's just america at work again. and there is good and bad in each person and we believe that it's his right to have a website if he wants to. >> do you think, mr. martin, he's raising money from your son's death, from your tragedy? >> certainly if he has a website and he's asking for donations, he's raising money off of our

son's death, but all of this could have been avoided. we never asked for the media coverage. we never asked for any of this. george zimmerman made the decision to shoot and kill trayvon and that's how all of this came about. if he had not got out his vehicle that day he wouldn't have had to worry about starting a website or writing a letter or asking for people to make donations for his defense funds. had he stayed in his vehicle as he was asked to do by the dispatcher, none of this would have mattered. >> i know you have been asking for calm and peace for people to not to disrupt things and there were reports of a police cruiser that was shot up in the neighborhood, in your neighborhood. does that alarm you? do you want to talk to people who potentially are acting out? >> i just want them to look at us as examples and this happened

to our son, so no one can be more hurt than we are and we're remaining peaceful. that's what we ask. we don't ask that they stop the protest. we ask that they have a peaceful protest and that they are able to get their point across without any violence or destruction. >> and that shooting wasn't in our neighborhood. it was in the sanford area, it wasn't in our neighborhood. >> okay. all right. well, thank you so much for joining us, really appreciate it. we'll be getting back to you. i know as soon as there is more information about the fate of george zimmerman as well. thanks again. americans believe they should be in charge of their own future.

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>> "titanic's" allure seems as strong as ever. you have if books, the movie and you have two memorial cruises. sailing to the site where the ship went down. one left from london this weekend, another leaves from new york tonight. chris welch is joining us from pier 88 in new york. you're going to take this journey, i think that's pretty amazing there. hopefully we'll follow it throughout the week. tell us who is on board. >> reporter: well, suzanne, they are just starting to board. there will be about 440 passengers on this ship. some of them are actual descendants of "titanic" survivors and victims.

you alluded to this already. there are two memorial cruises, one leaves from new york, this one i'm on now. there is another ship that left a couple days ago from south hampton. that ship is retracing the actual steps of "titanic." both ships, this one will actually go up to canada to a cemetery where a lot of "titanic" victims are buried, then will head to the site where "titanic" sank and where a lot of victims rest. now, both ships will meet at that site in the middle of the ocean. there will be a memorial service at that point. it will take a couple of days for the ship to get there. there will be a memorial service at a point when the ship struck the iceberg, then another service at the point when "titanic" sank. >> tell me a little about how this is set up here. i understand that people will be in costumes of the time, the times that the outfits that people wore, that they will have the same menu, the same music. >> a lot of that. a lot of things that were done on the "titanic" will be done on

this ship. some of the same menu items, string quartets, period music, that kind of thing. in many ways it is a little eerie but also they say we wanted to memorialize, those i spoke to who have relatives from the "titanic" say we want to go to the site where my great-grandfather died. we had a chance to catch up with the ship's captain this morning. he told us about what it feels like for him to be behind the wheel of this ship, 100 years later in the same waters in the north atlantic. interesting and fascinating. i believe there will be descendants of the "titanic" on board. also "titanic" enthusiasts of course. >> that captain requested to

make sure he was captain of the ship because he is a big buff, "titanic" buff i should say, he is actually he lives near south hampton currently and grown up with "titanic" in his back yard. this is a special trip for him. >> what i loved about your interview earlier this morning you asked him about his sense of responsibility and he yeah, he does feel a sense of responsibility to these passengers given the history of the "titanic" there. it's really a fascinating journey that they are going to be on. of course chris, we'll be following it all the way in about 30 minutes, speaking with one of the passengers on the memorial cruise. it was her great-grandfather one of the 1,500 who died at sea 100 years ago. >> instagram, this tiny photo sharing company, hits the jackpot when this week facebook buys it for $1 billion. if you are one of the 30 million who have downloaded instagram to post your piks you know what it's about. it's an app and it lets you

doctor up your photos, make them look like old pictures, post and share them, a cool thing. i want to bring in mario armstrong about it. the digital lifestyle expert at our sister network hln. mario, people love this stuff. and now facebook wants to buy it up, buy it badly but they aren't going to make money off of this. why the appeal? >> well, the appeal is because it's app, number one, it's absolutely beautiful. it's one of the flawless apps that are out there suzanne. more importantly than it's just beautiful design, it's what it can do. people take photos with this app and then they instantly share that to people following them in their community, or they can share to the facebook and twitter and other places. what it really does, even for me i get excited when i see other people's photos that they have taken. >> you see ours. check out our photos. these are from our morning meetings.

you can see the before and after. explain a little what it does. >> you can see the before and after. apply filters to the photo so you can make them look retro if you want to or them look better, clean them up. it's a lot of flexibility in the app. what it's about is being able to share what people are up to at that moment. so instead of me reading a tweet or reading a facebook post about what you're up to, i can see an image and see what you actually see. that's the real pow are of it. >> tell us about the guy behind this app. this is a young guy and he's about to be really, really rich. >> not only him. most of his staff will become really, really rich. started by two guys back in 2006 he left college, this thing was new in 2010 of october. so this is a relatively short amount of time. you don't normally hear about apps that take off that fast. thisap