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some studies have shown eating more food for breakfast can actually help you lose weight. how about that? unfortunately, that's going to wrap things up for me today. follow me at cnn.com/sanjay or on twitter at sanjay gupta cnn, and make an appointment to come back and see us here. time to get a check of the top stories in the cnn newsroom. >> what caused a man to kill himself inside this underground bunker after a stand off with his police? perhaps the murders of hiwife and child had something to do with it. nucensus numbers on interracial marriage. how we really feel about people who don't look like us. >> and the president get the last laugh over his political rivals tonight and a whole lot of live media coverage. how's that for campaigning? >> hello, everyone. don lemon here live in the cnn headquarters in atlanta. we're going to begin in washington state where a tense standoff is over. a man is dead after allegedly
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killing his wife and teenage daughter. police say 41-year-old peter keller was holed up in a bunker for two days. a s.w.a.t. team used explosives to blow a hole in the roof of the hideout. they discovered his body in a pool of blood and a gun nearby. keller has no criminal record and his motive for the killings is unknown at the moment. >> uknew it was coming. the secret service now has a new code of conduct following the prostitution scandal. while in other countries, they'll have to act like they're still in the united states. having foreigners in the room is a no no, and they'll have restrictions on where they can go, and they won't be able to drink within ten hours of reporting to duty. >> meantime, we're getting more details on what nay have happened in colombia and we know the agent at the center of the investigation. >> hotel security guard at the hotel karibi said the emotion began in the seventh floor
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hallway. through records, cnn can confirm at least thirty-tree agents ass rooms on the floor left cartagena early. sources with knowledge of the investigation have indicated to cnn that two agents have been cleared but that the agent who stayed in room 707 may already be gone from the service. according to hotel records reviewed by cnn, agent arthur huntington was checked into this room. two sources with knowledge of the investigation say it was huntington who had the dispute with the escort named dania suarez. she's now hired an attorney and through statements credited to the attorney, demands she was an esco escort, not a prostitute. her attorney isn't talking. earlier this week, a man who identified himself as arthur huntington, declined comment to a cnn producer. yesterday, cnn returned to his home where the door was gently pushed shut without comment. the home was just listed for sale this week.
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don, we can tell you that the agent is 41 years old. arthur huntington is married. according to his neighbors, he has two sons and they're home schooled. the former agent told me, yes, this is a crisis for the secret service, but it's a much deeper and personal crisis for the families of the men involved. don. >> thank you very much. a chilling sight for supporters of the resistance in syria. syrian troops in this youtube video march through an alley in doma. activists say ten military dete detectfectors will killed there today. a second group of monitors was due to arrive this weekend to keep watch on what is supposed to be a cease-fire. >> the taliban is claiming responsibility for a raid on a building in kandahar. they walked into the compound with pistols hidden in their boots. >> the white house faces a diplomatic dilemma.
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a chinese civil rights activist is said to be taking refuge in beijing. he escaped from howse arrest last week. secretary of state hillary clinton is scheduled to be in beijing next week. here in the yunls united states, students in henryville, indiana, never thought they would see their prom night after a tornado devastating their town in march. >> it makes up for everything, even though the tornado destroyed everything, it doesn't destroy our determination to still have prom and come toort a a community. >> with grit and gratitude, the students had their prom, and they put aside all of the stress and trauma left behind by the tornado just to have a little fun. the community donated nearly everything from the room and deck rakzs to the dresses and tuxedos. >> everyone who loved through it will not forget the tornadoes that leveled parts of tuscaloosa, alabama. hard to believe, but that was a year ago. george howell went back to catch
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up with a few survivors. >> oh, my god. >> it's been one year since this ef-4 mobster left its mark on tuscaloosa. a year since we last spoke to the owner of the crispy cream doughnuts. >> today, evan smith is still working to rebuild. >> we're talking a year after this tornado came through here and we're still waiting for the concrete to be poured. >> it's amazing. you know, in one sense, you want to be upset and think, how could it take 12 months? but a lot went on in the 12 months. >> first came the massive effort to remove debris, according to city officials. 1.5 million cubic yards of it county wide. overall, 12.6% of the city was destroyed. >> most tornadoes hit a house, skip a house, hit a house. this thing was taking everything out half a mile, mile wide. >> there were trees all through here. >> gary survived by taking shelter in his basement. his home had to be demolished so
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now he's starting over. >> it does take a while to figure out how do you want to build back, do you want to come back? there are a lot of people still across the lake trying to decide. some decided they couldn't take it, be here in the constant reminder of seeing it. >> you can see the difference from the satellite imagery. the corner of 15th and mcfarland boulevard before it hit. here's an image after the storm came through. this is what the same neighborhood looks like today. we're left here with an empty field where the homes once stood. the tornado was on the ground for less than six minutes and 53 people were killed here in tuscaloosa alone. >> this is the safe room, poured in place concrete walls. >> residents are rebuilding to be better prepared? >> worried it's going to happen again? >> yes, i think it's obvious that tuscaloosa is on the path now. >> though there are signs of
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progress -- >> as far as me and the business, i'm not better off until i get the doors open again. >> george howell, cnn, tuscaloosa, alabama. >> interestingly enough, we want to talk about tornadoes now. what's going on? >> we have a tornado warning on the east side of st. louis at this hour. a radar indicated tornado but i think it will be rwrapped in rie so people aren't going to see it. this is the area, st. clair county. belleville, shiloh, and lebanon are all included. interstate 70, this is i-64, and that's the direction where the storm is and where the rotation is going to be. a dangerous situation evolving. a possible tornado hereof. in addition to that, the hail has been incredible today. we're talking tennis-ball sized hail possible in the storm. this is an area we're going to be watching the next few hours across parts of illinois as well as missouri and into southern indiana. and this is mostly a hail day, but isolated tornadoes could
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develop, and it appears that's what's going on on the east side of st. louis. >> just across the river from st. louis, missouri. thank you. >> there are more interracial couples in the country than ever. it seems attitudes are really changing. >> it's not as much of a problem as it was before. everyone is now accepting it. >> people are evolving. people are being more tolerant, which is how it should be. >> i don't have a problem with it at all. my grandparents were in an interracial marriage and you're talking 50 years ago. >> we're going to talk about why this is happening. plus, celebrities and politicians together on the red karpt? well, not yet. it depends on who you think a celebrity is. they're starting to arrive. it's definitely a repcarpet. also the white house correspondents dinner. we're going to cover it because it's the oscars when it comes to politics. we're going to talk to the director of magazines, and you may know this name, too. the president of the united
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you know, for news people, it's like the oscars for us. the ultimate intersection of journalism, politics, and celebrity. tonight's annual white house correspondents dinner. always fun, an a-list crowd. this year, jimmy kimmel is hosting, and it's one of the toughest gigs in the business. >> president keeps to himself. somebody throws him a basketball, he makes the shot. he does everything. i've never been to the white house before. i'll probably never be asked back, either. but it's really very cool, actually. >> we're all over this. on cnn, like i said, it's our
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oscars. it's our academy awards. starting at 7:00 eerb, we'll catch the political and entertainment elite. some are arriving right now. live coverage of the dinner beginning 9:30 eastern live with me, don limenering right here on cnn. i want to go to the red carpet at the dinner where we find ted johnson, a deputy editor for variety magazine, the source for all things show biz. you're looking quite dashing in your tuxedo and your after five, as they say. i want to say -- >> thank you very much. >> it's kind of snarky, but people say this is like, you know, the oscars or hollywood for ugly people. i know that's terrible. i don't know if you think that's true. >> i don't think it's true anymore. people were calling this the nerd prom, but there's a certain dignity to this that you may not get in some awards ceremonies in hollywood. >> so there's a certain dignity
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to this, i'm going to say what everyone has asked me and i have been asking for years. why the heck is kim kardashian there, why is lindsay lohan there? don't you think it cheapens -- i have to be honest with you. i'm not being a snob. i don't get it, i don't understand why they're invited, why they show up. why? >> i should explain. this started as a scholarship dinner. and it was a way for white house correspondents to mingle with white house staff. it's grown. about 20 years ago, some of the media began inviting celebrities to actually sit at their table, and i think fawn hall may have been the first one. it kind of took on a life of itsobe. and i have to say, it's really accelerated. >> fawn hall is a excellent? >> back then, she was. don't forget. >> i still don't understand it. i'm not, listen, i'm not being a jerk to you or anybody else. i just don't get it. i don't see a place for it.
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it doesn't make me any more interested -- in fact, it makes me less interested that they're there. has anyone thought of that? >> maybe dignity isn't the right word. maybe stature, or now it's become a place to see or be seen. it's almost -- you said it was like the oscars. i think it's more like sun dance because it's not just hollywood anymore. what we're seeing this year is a lot of people from the tech community, the ceo of twitter was around, the c erko of google. a lot of sponsors get in. vw is sponsoring an event. and i saw supermodels last night. >> oh, geez. really, ted? okay, someone said you're just jealous because you weren't invited. no, i'm not. i would rather sit here in the cozy air conditioned studio and make fun of everybody. the critics went after the president for appearing on jimmy fallon the other night. and then now he's going to be making jokes. so what do you think he's going to -- how do you think that's
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going to go over and what do you think he's going to joke about? >> the president really has a tough task. because he has a reputation for delivering pretty biting humor. remember last year, he had those zingers at donald trump, but he also doesn't want to come across as cruel. and i think we'll probably see him comment a little bit about the republican attacks on him for doing that jimmy fallon appearance. i would be surprised if we don't see some jokes because they're trying to take on obama as the cool president, and they're trying to turn that on his head and turn it against him. i think we might see the president try to seize the initiative with humor and get right back at them. >> all right, ted. this is jour job. you report for variety. anybody you have seen there yet or is it kind of early? this is like the pre-preparty? >> well, this is kind of the pre-preparty. a bunch of the media has three
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receptions. but i have to say, there have been parties for the past two nights. it's not just this dinner. that's why i say it's like sundance. you come here, and the parties really start on thursday. and actually, i'm already starting to see people over and over again, which is another kind of awkward moment, awkward social moment that you see over at this event. >> listen, here is your headline. if people are going to say, this is a celebrity president and try to turn that on its end, don't invite celebrities then. because i think that's kind of hypocritical when you do that, don't you think? no more celebrities. >> well, no more celebrities. well, i'll believe it when i see it. that's going to be a very difficult thing to stop. >> you're a good sport. i'm doing this a little tongue in cheek. thank you. we'll see you later. appreciate you joining us on cnn. >> thank you. >> all right, there are more interracial couples in the u.s. now than ever before. a lot more, but are old biases
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really changing? >> i'm 65 years old. i was brought up and it wasn't right. and i was against it 100%. >> next, we'll tell you about the changes and listen to what real people have to say. first, we have this for you. >> the ball and chain of the middle class, student loan debt. an off chute of occupy wall street wants to forgive all student loan dent, more than car loans and credit cards. >> it's a crisis and it's not going away, and the current reforms that president obama is proposing in his campaign trail, are like putting a band aid on a tumor. >> the theory goes this is a bailout for students that would also be an economic stimulus because money meant for loan payments would be spent in other ways. it's a far less battle cry, to
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be sure, but student loan experts say it's unrealistic. >> i don't think all loans are going to be forgiven because it's too expensive. there are much more effective ways of stimulating the economy if that's the goal. >> and you the taxpayer would pay for it because 85% of student loan dent is backed by the federal government. experts say the focus should be on limiting how much money we're borrowing anymore. if possible, parents pay for a third, students pay for a third, and the students borrow a third. too much student debt limits your choices later. >> you're still going to be paying back your own student loans when your children are enrolling in college. you won't have saved for their college education. you'll be more willing to borrow for their education because you'll be up to your eye balls in dent. >> don't bari more than you expect to earn your first year out. that means a liberal arts major shouldn't borrow as much as an engineer. rule two, $10,000 a year should be the most you borrow.
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the number of interracial
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marriages is skyrocketing. those numbers in a moment. first, we ask people about their attitudes and experience with interracial couples. >> it's not as much of a problem as it was before. everyone is now accepting it. >> people are evolving. people are being more tolerant, which is how it should be. >> but it's still some people look down on it, you know what i'm saying? so me personally, my family, some of my family members look at it like, hmm, i don't know. and some of them are like, yeah, whatever. it's cool. >> there are a lot of my classmates who date interracially. i think it's good for them to find someone. >> i'm hispanic and my boyfriend is african-american. i have someone in my family is saying are you sure this is what you want, are you sure he's the right person for you? >> guys say it doesn't matter what color you are as lawn as you truly love each other. >> when i was in an
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interrational relationship, my friends, they asked question like how is a white guy? >> but i'm all for interracial marriage and true love. >> how does he kiss? is it true what they say? >> i don't have a problem with it at all. my grarnd parents were in an interracial marriage and you're talking 50 years ago. >> did she say that? i guess. today, one in ten couples in the u.s. interracial. the decades, that's an incredible jump of 28%, right? human behavior expert dr. wendy walsh from los angeles. big jump. you know what, it is a big jump. i'm surprised we're having this conversation. i was like, do people really talk about this anymore? for my family, riltser like, are you happy? okay, great, enjoy. >> right. it depends on where you live and how much diversity. i want you to consider four factors. i think one of the biggest
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factors is that we're seeing a wider varynls of social classes wib the races. what that means is that at a certain level, there's one color, green, and people like to marry up. it used to be that race was often associated with a different social class, and social class of course can mean money, education, decorating, food taste, et cetera. within each race, there's a wide variance of social classes so two doctors in medical school could meet each other, one might be indian, one might be lawyer. two lawyers, one might be black, one might be hispanic. this is creating barriers going away. the other problem, we talked about it last week, we're seeing this unprecedented rise of women which make marriageable men in their own peer group less available. so these women are having to look outside of their own race to find a mate, a man who makes around the same amount of money, and of course, there's the internet. it used to be you married
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someone who lived within five miles of where you were raised. the internet is brings people together with similar tastes. >> from anywhere, all over the world. >> all over the world, and the last factor is we're getting greater cultural accept nls. we're getting more educated and as you know, my children are multiracial, and i only had them for one reason. they're rou they're cuter. what can i say? >> that's a bias right there. all babies are cute. >> it is. >> yes, it's funny, and i think you know as someone, people are people when you date people from different ethnicity and races, it's all the same. people are all the same. >> it is. >> they have their idiosyncrasies, it's the same. those bias es must be hard to change. i want you to listen to what people told the producers how attitudes have changed. >> i'm 65 years old, i was brought up and it wasn't right, and i was against it 100%, i i
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was against it for quite some time. >> i was in a relationship with a white girl. we were young. people use said to criticize it, but we didn't understand because we were young. we just moved on. we were liking each other. >> in the beginning, i didn't like it at first. >> brought up that way to think it was wrong. my parents brought me up that way. relatives talked about it. >> now i think you should know the person. >> and as time went on, you see it more and more and accept it, and i'm not against it in the least bit. >> maybe they can start changing it for other people. other people might look at it and say, well, it mous be okay, you know what i'm saying? or we should try, we should not go about what everybody else thinks. >> i don't think race is an issue as it was ten -- >> how hard is it to change those hard-set biases or attitudes that we're taught from birth? >> well, the thing you should know about soelg change is that when a large paradigm changes,
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it happens not because individuals change their belief. it's because individuals die off and become extinct. if you can see the age generation, older generations, some of them changing and becoming a little more open, but eventually, they'll phase out and the new generation, if you hang out in a college campus right now, you know, it's not -- it does not look like the 1950s or '60s be any mean. it's martin luther's dream right there. >> ah. that was a good way to end it, dr. wendy. thank you. you're not joining us tomorrowering right? no? >> no, i'm getting ready for my birthday. >> i know. i'm going to see you on monday and roast you. you better be ready. >> i'm so scared. >> dr. wendy's 25th on monday and i'm going to be in l.a. to sell bralt with her. happy birthday to you monday. >> take care. >> your headlines are next here, and celebrities and politicians together on the red carpet. you only get that scene at the
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half past the hour. hope you're enjoying your saturday evening. let's get a look at the headlines right now. a man is dead, allegedly killing his wife and teen-aged daughter.
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police say 41-year-old peter keller was holed up in a bunker for two days. a s.w.a.t. team used explosives to blow a hole in the roof of the hide out. they discovered his body in a pool of blood and a gun nearby. he had no criminal record and motive for the killings unknown. >> we now know the name of the secret service agent who triggered the scandal in cartagena. sources tell cnn his name is arthur huntington and he's no long wr the secret service. he got into a dispute with an escort over paying her. opposition said 31 people were killed across the country despite a cease-fire that seems shakier by the hour. this video is by doma where syrian soldiers march through the streets. >> and an assault on the governor's compound in kandahar has killed two soldiers.
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>> we go back out now to the red carpet where hollywood -- where we'll see a parade of famous faces including that one right there, athena jones. let me tell you, our hollywood entertainment correspondents have nothing on you. you look fantastic. i'm sure the crowd is going to be electric, and your anticipating a very funny president and jimmy kimmel. >> absolutely. this is really a big night, the 98th annual white house correspondents dinner. we call it nerd prom. an eclectic mix, the stars and starlets, the president and his wife, almost all of the cabinet is expected here. lots of other government bigwigs and officials. you get to see everyone dress said up, having a good time, drinking, of course, and laughing at the jokes. last year, the president was pretty funny. so was seth meyers. president obama was joking about the so-called birth certificate
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issue. he played his birth video, which shows the lion king, a clip from the lion king with king mustafa holding up a new born simba and seth meyers making jokes about donald trump and osama bin laden. whale we were joking around, the order for this navy -- u.s. navy s.e.a.l. team to go in and strike on the obama compound in pakistan had been given. a lot could be going on behide the scenes. we had a chance to talk to jimmy kimmel who stopped by the briefing room on friday. he talked a little bit about what we might expect from him tonight. let's listen to that. >> so obviously, secret service thing is something i'm going to talk about, but not necessarily going to do 30 jokes about it. probably stop at 20. >> so any guess what we're going to hear. kimmel admitted to being
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nervous. it's a tough crowd. you have to do a delicate dance to make sure the humor doesn't go too far. >> come on, listen, this is life. you should take a jab at the president or several jabs. do it, right? >> well, absolutely. i mean, some say if you look back over at that table, you know, the president and his wife and a bunch of others are up there on the stage. everyone can see them. you look over and you see that they're joking and chuckling, maybe that gives the comedian a little more license and makes them more comfortable and they can go from there. and certainly in years past that i have been, my fourth year now, there's been a lot of humor. there have been timed when comics seem today have crossed the line, but for the most part, people are laughing and chuckling. hopefully, kimmel isn't too nervous tonight. >> we'll be watching. we'll see you soon. good job. >> listen, you can get your red carpet fix at cnn.com. you'll be able to see all of thurivals and interviiews there
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i'm going to plead with all shut lips who know about it, the perpetrators who have been involved in her disappearance, i'm going to ask you to please let my baby go. >> that happened right here live on this news cast. this mother may finally be getting some of the answers she wanted. an arrest is made in the murder of her 16-year-old daughter. felicphylicia barnes went missi baltimore in the december of 2010. despite an intense search and
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need yeah coverage, no answers for month. four months later, her body was found in a susquehanna river. holly hughes joins me. they arrested michael johnson, felicia's sister's ex-boyfriend. what is he being charged with now? >> he is being charged with murder. and they sought an indictment. the prosecutors went directly, took it in front of a grand jury. put up the evident they had, and the grand jury returned a murder indictment on him. >> her brother spoke out this week. take a listen. >> the very first night when i got the call, it was just there, lingering. i was like, it has to be him. everything pointed to us, we're not investigators or police officers or anything like this, but to us as a family, sitting around and collecting the evidence ourselves, i guess you can call it evidence, looking around, kind of everything pointed back to him. >> holly, what took so long? why don't you think he was arrested earlier? >> the thing we have to remember
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about a murder case is there's no statute of limitations, so the police want to be sure they've got enough evidence to give to the prosecution because if you take that swing and miss, it's a done deal. you can't go and get, you know, you can get a hung jury and get it retried, but if you don't have enough evidence and a smart defense attorney will file a speedy trial demand and say, great, you have to be in trial and all the way to the conclusion of the case within two terms, and inthat doesn't happ happen, they automatically walk away. >> what are prosecutors going to have to do to make their case? >> prove he's the one who did it. they can do it circumstanceally, say he was the last person seen with her. they'll add it up and say there's no other conclusion but the fact he's the one responsible. i'm guessing they have probably got forensics tying him. that's another reason we saw
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such a delay. they probably sent things out for testing, hair, fiber, maybe some dna recovered under the fingernails that wasn't waushzed away. maybe some of her clothing found in another location, maybe on the banks of the river. you can get touch dna, and it survives quite a bit. >> i remember covering the story. so sad meeting the mom, making the plea right into the camera. >> yeah. >> we were doing the interview, and we stopped, i said, thank you very much. she said, before i go, can i say something? i said, absolutely. i hope this helps. >> you never get over the death of a child. i used to tell my victims' families that. i said, look, i can't solve it for you, but i'm going to do my best to see that you get justice in a court of law. and that's one part of the process that they don't have to deal with. when ow don't know and no one has been arrested and there's that horrible feeling hanging out there, that's awful. so this will go a long way to helping them take the steps to heal. >> let's hope so.
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thank you. we appreciate it. >> meantime, we're going to take you live to washington for the white house correspondents dinner. everyone is going to be making fun of the president. the president is going to be making fun of people, and i asked one of my favorite comedians, lonny love about the perils of joking about the president. >> lonny love, i'm sitting here. you're sitting there. what happened to your invitation? >> you know what? they knew that i was going to eat a whole lot, so i think they lost it in the mail, don. i'm really upset about this because i want to get invited every year, and every year, they miss my invite.
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all right, there it is. you see it, right there. red carpet. white house correspondents dinner. like the oscars for the political world. we're going to take you there live. people are starting to arrive. this year, going to be jimmy kimmel. you know, it's like being a kid in a candy store. a comedian with an invitation to the dinner. here's a question. how do you know which topics to bring up? i talked with lonny love about the art of cracking jokes at the expense ovthe president. >> how would you start out? how would you come out and say hello, mr. president, first lady? would you talk about her arms, her doing push-ups? i know you don't want to eat the healthy stuff she makes in the garden. >> you wonder how i would start off? what's up, michelle and barack? hey, how are you doing? you doing the let's move. i'm lets eat right now. that's how i would start off.
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you know, you just want to start off really light. not too heavy. and you know, then you want to go through what's been happening in the world. like i said, i can guarantee you jimmy kimmel will start off with a secret service joke. that will be the first thing to get everybody into the mood. then he'll start going the to the president and what has happened and also probably michelle and her let's move program. it's going to be really fun and jovial. it won't be anything too deep because jimmy is like a fun guy. and now when we had steven cobear, he was a little more serious, but with jimmy, it will be freer type of program. >> you think he's going to go there? i'm just saying this, go there with the muslim stuff or the mormon stuff. or do you think it's going to get really plit clael edgy or he's not that kind of comedian? >> i see him as having some video presentations. i see him as keeping it really
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light. and to the point where it's a little edgy but not -- he's not going to go john stewart edgy. i don't think that. >> lonny love, i love you. more from her at 7:00 eastern tonight on cnn and during our special coverage of the correspondents dinner. 9:30 eastern and our special guest is going to help us out tonight, comedian darryl hamann. >> a doctor with cancer risks getting a transplant with a less than perfect match. dr. sanjay gupta has the story straight ahead. first this. >> translator: two years after the earthquake, the situation is still the same. the people are still under the tents. they don't have electricity. there is no security where they sleep. they are getting raped. in haiti, things are very difficult. before the earthquake, there were rapes happening. now, i can say it is total
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disorder. >> translator: adults are not spared,motors are not spared, even babies are not spared. my name is malya. i am a victim of sexual violence. i am on a mission to eradicate this issue so other haitian women do not fall victim. we do awareness in the camps. we were working in 22 camps after the earthquake. now, we are trying to work in others. we tell people to come out of silence, do not be afraid to say that you have been victimized.
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we offer psychological and legal support. we have a call center. we accompany the victim to the hospital. and we have a safe house program. for me, the first thing is justice that i want. i was a victim and i did not find justice, but i know i will get it for other women that are victims. we have to fight so we can say what was said in the past, beloved haiti. this is a great nation. there will be a change. [ nurse ] i'm a hospice nurse. britta olsen is my patient. i spend long hours with her checking her heart rate, administering her medication, and just making her comfortable.
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by the name of mr. davies. he made physics more than theoretical, he made it real for me. we built a guitar, we did things with electronics and mother boards. that's where the interest in engineering came from. so now, as an engineer, i have a career that speaks to that passion. thank you, mr. davies.
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we have some severe weather to tell you about. jackie, it's in the st. louis area. what's going on? >> we've been tracking a very strong storm that moved through there about 15, 20 minutes ago. there was a tornado warning on it. some funnel sightings and a lot of hail being reported with this storm. this is a live picture you're looking at from our affiliate knov-tv in st. louis. a tent it appears has been damaged, a lot of emergency
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personnel on the scene. it's a live, working situation. we're not sure if anyone was in the tent or if there are any injuries but we do know that winds were estimated to be clocking through there around 60 miles per hour. we'll continue to track this story and keep you up to date on the situation in st. louis. this is where that storm is right now. it's off to the east and it is still producing severe weather. we've had multiple reports between baseball-size hail and tennis ball-size hail. that's huge. that's really large. and a lot of damage to cars in this area as well. so that storm continues to track on off to the east. here we have watches which are in effect, severe thunderstorm watch watch es watches. it does concern mei xiaore stor continuing to develop. these watches are in effect
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until 11:00 tonight. so kind of a rough day. keep in mind sometimes tornadoes pop up in severe thunderstorm watches. we don't expect a lot of rotation with these storms today but we've already seen instances of that with funnel clouds being reported. a bit of damage, severe thunderstorms now to the east of st. louis but apparently causing some damage. there is that picture again of this tent and all the emergency crews, which are around the area again. we're are in touch with our affiliate trying to get more information on that. >> that happened as a cardinals game is going on. we don't know about injury. we are getting reports that people were injured. supposedly it hit a sports bar called kilroy's. coming in from our affiliate, kplr is enko route to the
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facility. i know exactly where this is, across from bush stadium. that was a cards game, the cardinals very popular there. those storm systems come through. we saw it two weeks ago. >> you get those winds underneath a tent, it doesn't take 60 miles an hour winds to cause damage like that. >> thank you. we'll be back in a moment.
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now, in every box of general mills big g cereal, there's more whole grain than any other ingredient. that's why it's listed first. get more whole grain than any other ingredient... just look for the white check. dr. carl i don't see -- carlos ziast nearly died from canners. now he's helping others find bone marrow so they, too, can survive. >> we just came back from paris, we celebrated 15 years of wonderful marriage at the eiffel tower. >> three years ago this transplant surj madegeon made a shocking discovery. his lymph nodes were swollen.
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he suspected he had cancer. his fears were confirmed. >> it's difficult to treat and has a poor prognosis. >> when grueling chemotherapy failed, he needed a bone narrow transplant. a near perfect match is needed to be effective. but the pool of potential donors for hispanics in the united states is very small. they only represent about 10% of a national bone marrow registry. and in the doctor's case, a very close match was found but then the donor backed out. >> people join the registry for people that they love or they know but when they get a call about a complete stranger, their answer is i'm afraid i can't do. >> so doctors took another look at his siblings and while his brother headquartersor wasn't a perfect match, zayas got the transplant anyway. da