>> reporter: playing the part of the aggrieved this time, the romney campaign, accusing the president of turning a unifying event on its head. >> he's mack managed to turn it into a partisan, political attack. i think most americans will see it as a sign of a desperate campaign. >> reporter: that is mild compared to president obama's 2008 republican rival john mccain who ran on his tough foreign policy credentials. he called it a cheap political attack and a pathetic political act of self-congratulation. sunday the white house offered up the president's counterterrorism adviser for a relatively rare round of sunday morning political talk. john brennan arrived with high praise for his boss' steely nerves and nothing on the ad. >> first of all, i don't do politics. i'm a democrat, i'm not a republican. >> reporter: it wasn't like this the night bin laden was killed. not in public where the president said there would be no spiking the football nor in private when he called the people he thought most wanted to hear the news. >> when the raid happened, the nirs two people president obama

called were in this order george walker bush and then bill clinton because he knew at some level both men had tried to actually kill bin laden and had been unable to do it. >> reporter: public reaction a year ago may not have been as solemn as the phone calls sound. it is nonetheless true that bin laden's death was greeted then across party lines as a matter of justice, not politics. candy crowley, cnn, washington. top of the hour. i'm suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. a witness to robert kennedy's assassination says there was a second gunman. nina says her claim was overlooked back in 1968 and that someone altered the testimony she gave. but she remembers it vividly. >> i can hear the rhythm of the gunshots in my head, and i

know -- first i thought it was flash bulbs. it was pop, pop and then pop, pop, pop, very rapid fire to my right in back of senator kennedy. >> convicted assassin sirhan sirhan is asking a court to release him from prison or give him a new trial based partly on this woman's story. think of it as the safest apartment building in the world. residents in an east london apartment complex have been warned in leaflets that as soon as to air missiles could be put on top of the building. that's right. to defend the summer olympic games. there could be ten soldiers positioned there for up to two months. the building is about two milts from the site of the olympic stadium. george zimmerman has a new website. he's the man who killed the unarmed teenager trayvon martin. it's now back online, this time the site being run by his defense attorney. the attorney says it's a place where people can get information about his case.

they can also dough that monnat his defense. and take a look at this. might be tough to watch. more than 500 pelicans turning up dead on a beach in northern peru. hundreds of other birds are also dead. it is the same stretch of coast where some 877 dolphins washed up earlier this month. peruvian authorities are investigating. they say it's not immediately clear if the deaths are connected. the titanic will sail again. an australian billionaire commissioning a chinese shipbuilder to create an exact replica. it will complete every detail just as luxurious with modern technology. construction starts next year. the ship could be ready to sail by 2016. more than a decade after the terrorist attack brought down new york's twin towers, one world trade center, also known as the freedom tower, is about

to become new york city's tallest building. workers are scheduled to install a beam that would lift the tower to 1,271 feet. that is 21 feet higher than the city's tallest building right now, the empire state building. poppy harlow is live in lower manhattan with this historic occasion. it is a milestone. the timing of this, poppy, this is happening a day before the one-year anniversary of bin laden's death. is that coincidenquinc coincide? >> reporter: it's absolutely a coincident but what odd timing. i was talking to the man leading the construction down here and i said, this is just so close. is it really a coincidence? he said, absolutely. it wasn't until a week ago we knew we would be at this height by this time. they have been building at a pretty rapid clip, about one floor a week at one world trade. you can see it right there. but they found out about a week ago and therefore made the preparations, but today is a beautiful sunny day in new york. a lot of new yorkers that i have

been talking to are happy this is happening. they feel this is, you know, a real sense of pride for the city. at the same time because of the timing a day ahead of that anniversary of osama bin laden's death it brings up a lot of security questions. i spoke to the deputy commissioner paul browne about that asking did you raise security levels here, did you bring in more police officers? he told me they have about 200 permanent police officers down here at the site. that's been in existence for about six months. but this is also what he told me. we'll bring up the statement. he said there's no known threat to the world trait center or new york city because of the anniversary but, he said, the nypd continues to maintain a robust counterterrorism posture. that's been their stance and they are maintaining it. what is very different today than, say, the days proceeding the ten-year anniversary of 9/11, is there has been no credible threat that al qaeda is targeting new york. that came from the nypd and the

fbi echoed that sentiment late last week. there is a focus on security here, but at this point nothing to heighten concerns about, suzanne. >> poppy, we actually saw some pictures of you touring the tower as it was being built. tell us what it was like to be up there. >> reporter: well, it was terrifying because i'm terrified of heights but i'm very glad i went up there. i almost said no. this is back in august. i go the a chance to tour the whole site and go up to what was the top floor, the 76th floor, with mike manella, who built the first world trade center, watched the towers fall, and then came back to lead the construction again. what really amazed me was the scale, the complexity. they're building subway lines right through the building. this may be the most complex construction project in the world i have been told. and also the amount of people working on it. you have literally got thousands of workers a day on that location building not only one world trade but the other sites as well. we also had a chance this morning to go around and to talk

to different people, new yorkers, tourists, about what this means to them. take a quick listen to some of the people we spoke with. >> i really think it's just an overall coming together and unity for everybody and it's a great memorial for anybody who was alive during that time and shows a lot of just innovation of things that are to come. >> no matter what the obstacle is we're faced with, we will survive, we will resurface. they can do this. so it's a pride thing as an american, but more importantly as a new yorker. >> reporter: so that was the general sent am, but, suzanne, i talked to one new yorker who told me i don't know why they're rebuilding this. i really didn't think that this was the best way to use the money, and to build another building just as tall as the twin towers were. so a little mixed emotion but overall on the streets here in new york, i think there's a big sense of pride and more of a sense of colleagues. we won't have the final buildings done until 2013 or 2014 but we're certainly getting there. >> poppy, when does this happen?

>> reporter: 1:30 p.m. i think you're going to carry it live. they're going to place that steel beam on the top of the 100th floor winds permitting. not very windy down here right now. as far as i can tell it's a go right now. >> all right. we're keeping our eye on the clock. we're going to bring that to all of our viewers live in about 30 minutes or so, the capture of that milestone event. on the stand today is shari young, the wife of the prosecution's car witness andrew young who has testified at length about his role in trying to cover up edwards' affair with rielle hunter. edwards is accused of illegally using almost $1 million in campaign cash to hide that affair. i want to bring in diane dimond from greensboro, north carolina. she's a special correspondent for "newsweek" and the daily bast beast. first of all, folks want to know

why cheri young in the first place because this sounded so bizarre when we first followed this story, how she allowed her husband to claim paternity for the child that edwards fathered with his mistress. has she talked about that today? >> reporter: in fact, that was the most dramatic moment of this morning's testimony, suzanne. you know, she is this little teeny tiny woman. she's the mother of three children. she is a devoted wife. she's a nurse but mostly a stay-at-home mom, and it became very clear, my words, not hers, that she was bullied into it. at one point the checks started arriving from bunny mellon, huge checks for huge amounts of money and they wanted the money to go through her bank account with her signature on it. she said she was disgusted by that idea and she wasn't -- she didn't think it was legal. she said to her husband, i'm not going to do this unless i hear from john edwards himself that this is legal, so get this, i wro et this down very carefully.

she tofd i heard mr. john edwards tell me on the phone he had talked to his lawyers. this was not a campaign donation. he said get the money in. he was very short with me and very angry. in the opening statement here, suzanne, we heard that john edwards didn't really know anything about this bunny money as they called it, but here is two people now, andrew young first and now cheri young saying, no, she's not the way it was at all. he not only knew about it, he was directing what to do with the money. >> and you mentioned that cheri said she felt bullied into agreeing that her husband would say he is the father of this child. who was she bullied by? did she describe or explain that? >> reporter: oh, yeah. by her husband a little bit, but really by john edwards. she said there was a phone call with rielle hunter, her, her husband, andrew young, and john edwards, and john edwards she said started on this campaign speech. she's very animated in the way she speaks.

she said he started on the campaign talk, and, you know, it was good for the country and it was good for america and, you know, if we would just make it sound like there were two staffers having an affair, nobody would care, it would be, quote, a one-day story. and she said we got off the phone. i just had to go stop and think about it for a while. but then my husband came back and told me he was going to do it. and she was asked for her reaction, and that's when she very silently started to cry. she put her hands up to her face. her shoulders started to shake. the whole room was quiet and finally the judge said to the jury, you're excused for a moment until she collected herself. >> and before she collected herself, how did the jurors react? how did they respond when they were watching this woman and describing the story? what was their reaction? >> reporter: i wish you could have been in the room, suzanne, and i'm glad you asked that question. they were really riveted i must

tell you. they were riveted by her testimony. number one, because she's so animated, and because the story line is believable when you hear her say it. she is now explaining all those human emotions that were going on that her husband didn't bother to explain. let me tell you the first time she said she figured that there was an affair going on before her husband figured it out, and then all of a sudden the pregnant mistress of a presidential candidate was coming to stay at my house, she said. so they ran around, they got ready all day, and rielle hunter arrived one night. and she said she took a spin around my entryway and she said, i'm here. just like that. that's how she testified. she said there wasn't a hello. there wasn't anything. it was just, okay, i'm here. i'm pregnant and i want the world to know about it, she said, is the way she acted. >> wow, diane, you can't make this stuff up. >> reporter: no, you can't.

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actually be bad for you. there's this study that some researchers did. they looked at folks who spent six hours a day or more sitting and they found they were 40% more likely to die during the course of the study than people who sat for three hours or less. so the less sitting, the better. suzanne, it makes sense. when you think about it, as human beings sort of evolving through the ages, we're not meant to sit. we're meant to run around and do things and search for food and take care of children. we didn't evolve to sort of sit on our rear ends all day. >> i like the fact you're standing for this segment. >> yes. >> that's a good thing. i'm still sitting right now. so if i sit all day at work but then i go and i work out after work because i love to go for a run, is that okay? >> it's certainly a good thing to do and we don't want to discourage anyone from working out, but it doesn't necessarily undo the whole day of sitting. those numbers i gave you about being 40% more likely to die, that was true even if those

sitters went out and exercised after their day at work. so really that's why i asked your producers if for these three minutes i could stand because even this is good for you. i'm actually burning more calories than you are. >> oh. and i'm still going to go for a run and it's still not going to pay off. we're all sitting around here. what can we do? >> there's a bunch of things you can do. i want to show you some great video from the georgia poison control center because their people, they are so interested in making sure that their folks do a good job and that they give them sort of treadmill desks and they get to stand up. so they can be on their calls and walking at the same time. not everyone gets to work in a great office like this, but there are things that you can do. first of all, you can stand up at your desk. you don't have to sit. you can stand up. and also while you're at home just sort of watching tv, run around, clean up the room, do something. you don't have to necessarily just sit there. and also take regular walking breaks. there are very few jobs where

they're so mean they won't let you get up and walk around every so often. if you go to cnn.com/empoweredpatient, you can see some articles by my colleague william hudson, and he talks more about different things you can do to get a little action in your day. >> well, maybe we'll try to, you know, stand for the newscasts from now on. i understand that my team in the control room putting on this show, they're all standing right now during this segment, elizabeth. >> that is great. i'm glad to hear that. every little bit helps. >> thanks. a blind man pulls off a daring escape suddenly becoming the center of an international tug of war between two super powers. çñv,>wvs[rk÷=$fí]çffs8rkaglcçñ

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one of china's best known dissidents has managed to escape from house arrest. it's said he's being hid inside the u.s. embassy in beijing. it comes as secretary of state hillary clinton prepares to leave for china tonight. so the stage is set now for an extraordinary tug of war between the two countries. stan grant has the details. >> reporter: somewhere behind these walls may well be the answer to china's great guessing game. within minutes of pulling out our camera, security at the united states embassy in beijing pounced. >> you can't take photo here. >> reporter: i understand we can't take photo but is cheng guang chun here at the embassy? >> i don't know whether he -- >> the blind human rights

activist has been in hiding after escaping house arrest in his provincial village and fleeing to beijing. now, a close friend and fellow campaigner says chen is, indeed, here, given refuge at the u.s. embassy. when chen first fled to beijing, we had to keep moving him from place to place to ensure his safety, and we agreed the u.s. embassy is the only absolutely secure location in town. hu jia is seen in these photos with chen in recent days. chen also meeting hu's wife. hu himself is targeted by chinese authorities and would only speak to cnn away from our cameras, but even then within hours he was detained, questioned, and later released. another friend of chen was seized by cops.

she spoke to cnn just before disappearing saying chen has no desire to flee china. when i asked him if he would go abroad, she says, he said he wants to live freely in his own country. he said he hopes to take my hand and take me to his village one day. more details are emerging about just how chen guangcheng managed to escape. according to activists who know what happened, they say for months he had lulled his captors into a false sense of security. he was spending more and more time asleep on his bed. they got used to his absences and then dropped their guard. here is where it gets interesting. under cover of darkness it is said chen made his break. he clinled over a wall and then this blind man managed to cross a creek a. along the way he stumbled and injured himself but finally managed to meet a car at a secret rendezvous point and they brought him to beijing. chen had been under heavy guard for the last 18 months. the self-taught lawyer angered

chinese authorities by campaigning against alleged forced abortions and stir rilizations. he'd spent more than four years in prison convicted of disrupting traffic and damaging property during demonstrations. since his release he's been in lockdown. this is what happened when we tried to visit chen last year. with hollywood actor and batman star christian bale. we've been stopped. we've been stopped right here. now bale has released a statement to cnn. in it he says an innocent family has been horrifically tortured. while it gives hope that for now chen is safe, his family is not. as a world leader china must now show it's wisdom and compassion and remind the world of its rich cultural history by permanently freeing chen guangcheng and his family and never allowing thuggery and corruption to tarnish china's reputation

again. choo china's citizens deserve more. if he is here behind the gates of this embassy, it threatens to become a political tug of war between china and the u.s. at the moment neither country is making any public statements but u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton is due in beijing this week and in the past she has championed chen. stan grant, cnn, beijing. if you're a journalist, it's the biggest party of the year. reran into director steven spielberg, leon panetta, and george clooney. it was dave chappelle behind the scenes and i got a chance to talk to him. my nutritional standards are high. i'm not juice or fancy water, i'm different. i've got nine grams of protein. twist my lid. that's three times more than me! twenty-one vitamins and minerals and zero fat! hmmm. you'll bring a lot to the party.

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down, but now there a new tower rising in lower manhattan. the freedom tower is minutes away from setting new heights. and later teaching kids to deal with autism through acting. it's a night the president and first lady join the nation's journalists to poke a little fun at themselves. it's the annual white house correspondents dinner. it was hosted by jimmy kimmel. it often generates some controversial headlines the next morning depending on who is doing the roasting. also gives the president a chance to show a lighter side. sometimes zing his opponents. here is a bit about what the president said, joked about what his second term would look like. >> in my first term i sang al green. in my second term i'm going with young jeezi. michelle said, yeah.

i sing that to her sometimes. in my first term we ended the war in iraq. in my second term i will win the war on christmas. in my first term we repealed the policy known as don't ask, don't tell. in -- [ applause ] wait though. in my second term we will replace it with a policy known as it's raining men. >> having been to ten of these, the evening did not disappoint. one of the highlights was finding the missing comedian dave chappelle. he was searching for a ticket to the dinner. he ended the festivities leading a soul train line with rosario dawson at an after party that

wrapped up at 4:00 in the morning. he's been in ohio on a ranch with his family including his 3-year-old daughter he's had since he dropped out of the spotlight. valerie jarrett also hitting the dance floor getting down to justin timberlake's bringing sexy back. and actor jessie high ler ferguson from "modern family" photo bombs me and actress goldie hawn. my colleague, paul steinhauser, he was also there. we sat together at the cnn table. it was a lot of fun. >> what about me? i was the real big select you wanted, right? come on. let's be honest. you did great. you had a lot of celeb photos. i have to give you credit. >> you and i had a great time together. it's great to have like a table buddy that you can just like kind of relax and talk to. we're going to talk a little bit more about the dinner but, of course, we want to talk about politics. big stuff that's happening here, as you know. newt gingrich, he is about to

end his campaign. what do we know about the announcement? >> he's going to do it his way. this whole campaign he's done it on his terms. he's going to end his campaign his way, too. it's been almost a week since we learned he's going to be ending his campaign. we here it's going to be wednesday probably right here in the nation's capital. what we believe is he will suspend his campaign and officially endorse mitt romney. the big question mark is will mitt romney be there? we know romney will be in the washington area on wednesday right about the same time for an event, so it could be likely the two men could show up together. stay tuned. >> tell us about something else we're expecting this week. a meeting between mitt romney and rick santorum. >> yeah. this is the big awaited meeting. remember, before santorum dropped out of the race and suspended his campaign back in early april, he was really mitt romney's main rival. this is what we know. we expect them to meet on friday. don't know where, don't know when. the big question will santorum finally endorse mitt romney? there was a lot of bad blood between these men coming out of

the primaries. we don't know if there will be an endorsement yet. you know romney really wants that endorsement. why? because santorum did very well in the primaries, got a lot of backing from tea party supporters, from social conservatives. the kind of voters romney didn't grab in the primary. >> we know that president obama is not really letting the republicans steal the spotlight, at least he is formally kicking off his campaign on saturday, and we expect former president clinton playing a major role in the campaign. two appearing together at a fund-raiser last night. tell us a little bit about this kind of new cozy relationship, if you will, or working relationship between these two. >> remember four years ago right now when you were covering it on the campaign trail, former president clinton was backing his wife's bid for the white house. she was battling obama for the democratic nomination. there was a lot of bad blood back then. this is now. you can see right there that's president obama on the left,

former president clinton and terry mccauliffe, a member of te clinton inner circle, a fund-raiser at his house in virginia. expect the former president and the president to team up for a couple more fund-raisers. this was an obama re-election team web ad the other day. look who it starred, former president bill clinton. clinton touting obama's role in the decision-making process in that raid that killed osama bin laden. of course, tomorrow is the one-year anniversary. expect former president clinton to do a lot more this year to help barack obama try to win that re-election. >> he's really going to try to go after the moderates as well as hit some of the conservative states. they think president clinton will actually do a better job in resonating with those voters. paul, let's talk about the dinner. what did you -- what was one of the highlights? i understand you were taking a lot of pictures for other people. >> i didn't grab any good photos myself. i took a couple of you. everybody kept giving me their

blackberries and cell phones and saying please take a picture of me and this person. my wife got a photo with woody harrelson. we were watching the speeches, and my big question was, was president obama going to say anything about mitt romney? he had a couple gentle digs. i was wondering whether he would or wouldn't. from the speeches from jimmy kimmel or president obama what was your highlight? >> i guess the dogs were not off-limits. he went for it, this whole dog thing. they really got kind of into that whole joke. i want to show a couple pictures that we got here. i know we showed -- it was a little bizarre to discover dave chappelle the night before with a backpack and he didn't have an invite so he was looking for an invite. i caught up with him the next day at an afterparty, you see us there. he actually gave me a couple of his tickets so we went in with a little group in that after

party. they ended up at the end late, late into the night, rosario dawson stole the show at the italian embassy with a dress that everybody was talking about. and also had a chance to see some folks. woody harrelson, we were both there during that garden brunch before we chatted him up a little bit with his wife, and david arquette was very sweet. he was one of these folks who talked about his passion and one of his passions he says is bringing arts back into the schools and so we're kind of hoping he's going to talk to us about that on the show. and the kardashians, you know, they got a little flack there for even showing up. they were invited by our rival network, and the president went after them a little bit saying why are they so famous? there you see eva longoria, really a good time. she talks about voting rights for latinos. she's going to be on as well. just a good time. didn't disappoint at all, and to have you as my -- you and i

table mates. >> i was honored and you were talking about other people's dresses, your dress was beautiful. you looked fabulous on saturday night. >> thank you, paul. that's so nice. i had such a great time. thank god it just happens one a year because i really can't hang. i can't do that more than once a year. all right. good to see you, paul. >> thanks. beyonce says rumors that she faked her pregnancy are just crazy. months after her daughter was born, beyonce now is talking. we'll tell wau she said straight up ahead.

months after the cruel rumors claiming beyonce faked her pregnancy, the singer recently named world's most beautiful woman is now speaking out. nischelle turner is joining us from louisiana. nischelle, i remember when folks started questioning and taking a look at these pictures of her baby bump and saying it didn't look natural. i imagine that really probably made her furious and want to say something at the time. now she's finally saying

something, yes? >> absolutely. and, you know, it did make her furious, suzanne. beyonce is telling "people requesting requesting m"people"t those rumors were hurtful. she wants everyone to know there was no surrogate. her mom, tina knowles, was even more outraged. she told "people" the reports were unfair and very cruel, and tina says she was actually asked directly about these stories which she called stupid and ridiculous. now, beyonce also take the opportunity in the interview to shoot down stories that surfaced about their demands for security and privacy impacting other new parents on the maternity ward. she said those reports were crazy and ridiculous as well. so i guess if beyonce and her mom had one word to respond to these stories it would be ridiculous. she did also say after giving birth to blue ivy, she does now feel like the most beautiful

woman in the world and that motherhood has helped make her feel that way. but i tell you, suzanne, i think "people" magazine missed the boat. i saw those pictures of you on saturday at the white house correspondents dinner. lady, you know how to wear a lip and a lash. yes, you do. >> if i'm in the top 10 or top 20, i will take it. >> you got my vote. i tell you. >> well, nischelle, also in news octo mom. what do we know about her? >> i have an interview, exclusive sit down with her tonight. she is really in a tough spot. we're talking about nadya suleman. on friday i went to her home outside of los angeles to see how her and her 4 children are living, and it was there she admitted to me her and her family are actually in danger of losing their home. she says like millions of other americans her home is in foreclosure and she's desperately trying to find a way to earn enough money to keep a roof over their heads. now, she says she's hit rock bottom and this includes receiving food stamps. so now she says any job offer

out there is on the table, and i mean everything. listen to this. >> in regard to i will never pose nude, you know what? if the opportunity comes up i will eat my words. all that matters is i take care of my family. >> what about the porn offer, adult fill 123478. >> if it will allow me to get us out of here in a very safe huge home that they deserve, i'm going to do it. >> now, she maintains that she still would not do porn if it involves touching or kissing another person. if she was solo though, she said she'd definitely consider it. now, she did get an offer to do an adult film more than a year ago for reportedly $1 million but she turned it down then. and suzanne, she actually opened up her home to us to defend herself against all those allegations that are children are being neglected. i have to say there's a lot of work to be done on her end, definitely, but what i did come away with is she does have

happy, healthy kids. >> wow. okay. that's good. all right. nischelle, nice to see you. you and i both should try to get on that "people" list. >> i was following your tweets all weekend. you had a lot of fun. >> it was a lot of fun. it was a lot of fun. once a year you can do that kind of thing. thanks, nischelle. for all the latest entertainment news wash "showbiz tonight." remember joe the plumber? he's back running for congress, and he just called the president's parents communists. we'll run through our political fact check next.

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with all the political rhetoric flying back and forth it can be tough to separate fact from fiction. bill adair is here. let's start with this one. this is on mitt romney's website. romney says in the obama economy, the youth unemployment is double the unemployment rate for all americans. how does that statement measure up? >> that one got a half true on the truth-o-meter. this is a classic political half truth, the kind of thing we see a lot. yes, sir, it's true, but it was also true under president bush. we looked at the numbers under bush. it's been consistently about double since 2001. true under obama but that's not unique. so half true on the

truth-o-meter for that one. >> what about this one. president obama says under republican economic policies the typical american family saul their incomes fall by about 6%. true or false? >> this one also gets a half true. and the reason is here he has -- he's wrong about the numbers. if you use the time frame that president obama used in the speech, it's actually more like 3%. to get it to 6%, you have to kind of cherry pick the begin and end dates. and one other element of this one is whether it's fair to blame republican policies for much bigger forces in the economy. so overall that one, too, gets a half true. >> and i remember this guy from the campaign back in 2008. he has re-emerged, samuel wu wurzelbach

wurzelbacher. he says president obama's parents were communists. >> we rated that one false on the truth-o-meter. we talked to historians who looked at obama family. there's no solid evidence that obama's parents were communists. the only shred of evidence that has been cited by a lot of curv president obama's father wrote in 1965, but experts say that's been misunderstood. overall, that gets a false on the truth-o-meter. >> yeah, did a doc on the obama family. never found any kind of communism there. the freedom tower, minnesotas away from setting new heights.

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papers. he's one of 12 acting students with autism. so somebody show her a good way to share. >> with acting skits, the class teaches them how to adapt to real life situations. you just need to survive in this world. >> shannon nash knows all too well the importance of making sure children with autism have what they need to succeed. her son jason is also awe tising. she couldn't find a program tailored towards helping with acting skills. so she founded actors with autism. >> it's short scripts. we take the scripts and build improves off of them. and use those to address the social skills. like today we're going to do taking turns. >> antonio, take the ball.

okay, students, what's the skre correct way to play? >> reporter: aaron's mom says he was bitten by the acting bug early. >> and the class teaches him the basics. >> eye contact, accepting criticism. >> accepting consequences. >> what else have uh learned? >> things that can hurt people's feelings. >> right. >> reporter: the coach sees firsthand how it afc affects al students. >> they were hesitant to become something they weren't in themselves. you're supposed to always let them see your face. parents feel this class provides an environment that children can gain confidence and so much more. >> the stage is where they learn

they can be anything they want to be. >> residents have gotten leaflets warning them that surface-to-air-missiles could be put on the top of their budding to defend the summer olympics games. there could also be ten soldiers there. the building is about two miles from the site of the olympicic stadium where games are going to kick off in less than three months. >> wow. i can't imagine getting a leaflet like that and hearing that news. it must be disconcerting in some ways to folks. >> definitely. as you can imagine. basically they woke up over the week and found leaflets in their mailboxes saying their roof top would be made into a launch pad for missiles. now, to be fair, these are surface-to-air-missiles, the smaller version. and so according to the ministry of defense, they won't make a whole lot of noise, for the most part, unless, of course, they need to be used, which is only in the case of extreme emergencies. they say it's perfectly safe. however, residents are still

concerned. they're concerned with the way they were notified with a leafl leaflet. >> is there any credible threat against those folks in that apartment building? >> no, not at this point. this is only going to be used in the event of an aerial attack. and of course, the ministry of defense says it's very unlikely but they still have to be prepared, they say. >> "news room" continues right now with brooke baldwin. >> we are moments away from not just one, but two major events unfolding before us on this monday. first, take a look on the left hand side of the screen, check th the left side, the white house. we're going to be looking out for whether or not the president addresses the looming international battle over the escape of a blind activist in china. so we're waiting and watching for that. we're going to take that live.

the freedom tower becoming as of today the largest sky scraper. and the folks behind the project will give us a live news conference. that's where we're going to begin in new york. we have a milestone for you. in lower manhattan, this is just so cool. really more than 10 1/2 years since the attacks of 9/11, the new trade center has now risen. as the rest of the nation has gone about its business, this huge sky scraper has slowly gone up there at ground zero. as of today it's the tallest building in new york. it's eclipsing the empire state building and this qualifies as history, folks. poppy harlow covering it in lower manhattan. i know we're all watching for that steel beam, poppy.

technically make it the tallest building in new york. has that happened yet? >> not as far as i can tell. i'm watching it on my monitor. they're about to do it. they were set to lay that beam at about 1:30 p.m. eastern time. you can expect it soon, but as you said, this is going to make 1 world trade just 21 feet taller, maybe we can pan up so you can see the whole thing, but 21 feet taller than the em mire state building. this is a day that's more sym l symbolic than anything else. i have some interesting perspective. because in august i spent time on the ground there in the construction site and went up to the 76th floor, which was the top floor of this building at the time and i spoke with a man named mike manila. he built the first world trade center. he then watched it fall and then came back on september 12, 2001,

h especiallied in the rescue and recovery and is now leading the kruk on this, brooke. leading it. which is just amazing that he's doing that once again. i chatted with him again this morning to talk with him about what it means personally for him. >> what does this day mean to you, mike? >> the milestones we have surpassed and overcome are more significant than the ones ahead of us. the building is in a position now, we can see it coming from the top and see it being finished off in a very, very significant way. >> there's also, blook, a lot of focus on security down here. but especially because of the day to day, it is one day before the one-year anniversary of the death of osama bin laden, so there has been a focus on what security measures are here. i spoke to the deputy dmigsner of the nypd.

he said look, we always have a lot of security down there. he also told me there's no known threat to the world trade center or new york city on this anniversary. the fbi issuing a memo last week that really echoed that sentiment saying there's no credible information that al qaeda is plotting an attack to coin side with the anniversary. so no credible information that points to any threat, but the timing is really a pure coincidence. but what a coincidence. that this monumental day for this building comes one day before that anniversary, brooke. >> to go back to the symbolism, brooke, i hadn't spoken with the person next to me on the plane but they sort of elbowed me and said there it is. there's the freedom tower, there's ground zero. it gave me goose bumps. because it really is this marker of this section of, you know, the island of manhattan. what our nation went through more than ten years ago now. i mean, you're there on the ground. are you talking to new yorkers? how do they see this building and this day?

a. >> we've been talking about it all day. it really is a huge symbol of what this city is. i spoke with people all morning. you want to get a sense of the sentiment sur ronalding this day. >> i really think it's an overall coming together of unity. it's a memorial for anybody who's alive during that time and shows a live innovation of things to come. >> no matter what the obstacle we're faced with, we will survive, we will resurface, we can do this. it's a pride thing as an american, but more importantly, as a new yorker. >> so that was the majority of the sentiment, brooke. i also did speak with one man who said look, i didn't think that they should rebuild there ooj on that spot or build a building in tall. so you've got a bit of mixed emotion, but this is a moment that stands out to people certainly.

>> i think i heard someone say we're all watching for the train. so stand by for me. chad myers, i just want to go over to you because, you know, poppy mentioned in a matter of minutes, whenever this steal beam goes up, this building will be a big -- you know, brag rights. like 21 feet higher than the empire state building. but it just caused us to wonder, how does the building stack up against what is it? dubai and others around the world. >> right. i'm such a purist. i'm going to kind of -- i'm going to pop-up a couple of bubbles here and give you the lay of the land. this building will be 1368 feet high. plus another 408 feet from the spire and antenna on top. so really, almost cheating by 400 feet or so. the empire state building cheats a little bit as well. the empire state building, 1454.

but then all the way over here at 1776, you have to understand dubai, there's a building there, 1,000 feet taller. and literally, they built it in the sand. that's kind of the cool part. the part they put into the sand to put the base in building in dubai, you have to understand what you're building in new york, especially the bottom part of the new york city is solid bedro bedrock. they're putting this building on something much more solid than what they had to build in dubai. that's the reason why they are tall buildings in lower manhattan. no tall buildings in the middle part of the city like, you know, east or west village. >> let me jump in. look at this with me. here is the beam. these are live pictures. you see the crews here on this presumably 100th floor of the freedom tower of 1 world trade center. they are slowly but surely moving this column over. and this will make this building

today, as you're pointing out, the tallest building in new york. what a number, 1,776 feet. it should happen sometime next year with the antenna making the tower even taller. let's just watch this moment. >> slowly but surely, pulling that beam down. if you notice, these guys are pulling the beam down. along the side of the beam, it looked to be vertically written, the number 1271. this is how high, 1,272 feet

will be the height of this building today. >> i'm watching this. it's great to see from this perspective, brooke. >> i know you're a couple of blocks away. you have a pretty fun vantage. we're waiting and watching for this news conference. do we know who will be speaking from the building? >> yeah, we know that we're going to hear from the fort authority of new york and new jersey which is overseeing this massive project. what's neat, and you can't see it, it's behind the camera. a lot of folks here from battery park, many of them just stopped and they turned this way, brooke, facing as that steal beam was coming down and just took pictures of it.

i wonder if they knew this was the day the beam is going to be placed. you're sort of watching the tourists around here take pick kmurps not. >> completion, but a monumental day for this building. the press conference expected to start i would assume as soon as they get the steal beam all attached. i will assume you'll hear from them. we'll dip in live when that happens. president obama is going to be meeting with noda, the prime minister of japan. you can see the room in the white house full of reporters. certainly reaffirming the u.s.'s strong ties with japan. two significant eyes happening

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in new york. we're going to take a news conference there. we're going to speak to the port authority you will soon seen the president of the united states standing alongside japanese prime minister noda. this is the first meeting between the two leaders. i was told they had to move it from the rose garden. set the scene for me and tell me what we should expect from this historic meeting. >> well, we're expecting certainly an emphasis as president obama has tried to reset his foreign policy looking east instead to the middle east that he will be emphasizing his alliance with japan as very important in that respect. there's a number of topics that will come up in the discussions

today one one of them no doubt. >> two-minute warning. we have a couple of minutes to talk. one of those is going to be north korea. japan condemned the rocket launch earlier this month. that certainly is is something the u.s. is looking towards japan. myanmar which is moving towards more democratic principles, the u.s. is looking towards japan there. and looking for help with iran, japan has come through in a way by the u.s. by limiting its oil consumption by iranian oil. and that is, of course, i think you'll be hearing from prime minister know da. japan looks to join a very large trade partnership. the transpacific trade partn partnership that the u.s. is involved in. one of the things that will smooth over relations, there's always this very sticky issue of

u.s. marines in okinawa. there was an agreement that 9,000 of the 19,000 u.s. marines would be moving, staying in the region, australia, guam, hawaii, but moving away from the japanese island of okinawa. >> priorities are shifting after both a decade of war in both iraq and afghanistan. as we wait here to see the president own the prime minister. do we see them? they're early. here we go. let's take it live. >> of course, one of the reasons we enjoy a strong alliance between our nations is because it's rooted in the deep friendship between our peoples. i felt it in my own life during

my visits to japan. and we've seen that friendship on display very profoundly over the past year. last month, we marked the first anniversary of the great east japan earthquake and tsunasue td nuclear crisis that followed. all i cross japan, people stopped and stood in silence at 2:46 p.m. the moment that the earth shook. i want to say, we continue to stand with you as well. we stand with japan in honoring the lost and the missing. we stand with you and the rebirth of japan. and we stand with japan in the asia pacific and beyond. even as it has focused on the hard work at home, japan has

never stopped leading in the world. it's a great contribute to the japanese people and to leaders like prime minister noda. i'm told over the past year, many japanese have found strength in the bonds of s solidarity between friends and neighbors, bonds which cannot be broken. the same could be said between the bonds between the united states and japan. we welcome you in that spirit. as president i worked to strengthen the ties between our two nations. when we first yet, we agreed to modernize our alliance to meet the needs of the 21st century. you've called the alliance with the united states, japan's greatest asset. we have seen your trademark determination and humility. in fact, dpurg our discussions

today. stays focused and gets the job done. brought that same sense of team mark and partnership. i'm proud to announce that we have agreed to a new joint vision to guide our alliance and shape the asia pacific for decades to come. this is part of the broader effort discussed in australia last year in which can the united states is once again leading in asia pacific. it's a corner stone of peace and security. this is our effort to modernize the defense partner, more

flexible and more sustainable. at the same time, it will reduce the impact on local communities. we're among the top trading partners, exports to japan and japanese companies support $1 million american jobs. but there's more that we can do. there's more we can do including i had tra and playing more of a leading role in asia pacific's economy. we would benefit both our economies and the region. and we agree to deepen, clean energy and cybersecurity to enhance our economic competitiveness. third, our joint vision lays out

the future we seek in asia pacific. we continue our close cons consultations on north korea, which are a sign of weakness and strength and only strengthen i don't think gang. we encourage more reforms that improve the lives of the burmese people. we're bound by shared values, peace, security and human rights. for example, our nation is the largest donor in afghan stap. we prepare for the next phase in afghanistan.

we're planning for a donor conference to sustain development there. i also want to commend japan for showing strong leadership with iran's nuclear program. the regime in teheran is feeing the screws tighten and one of the reasons is that countries like japan made a decision to reduce exports from iran. japan has continued to serve as a model and a true global leader. finally, new collaborations between scientists, researches and entrepreneurs to foster and it include new ex-changes that will bring thousands of our young people to put together. we enjoy even greater security

and prosperity. once again i want to salute the people of japan for the strength and resill and kurns they've shown this past year. the american people are proud to call you our friend, and honored to call you an ally. >> he is a black belt. if you get online i've got some protection here. mr. prime minister. >> translator: well, this is the nirs visit to the united states by a japanese prime minister in the bilateral context since the

situation in the asia pacific region, and there is global challenges among others. we were able to confirm the present day significance between japan pan and u.s. alliance should be headed in the longer term. i would like to take this opportunity to say thank you for a you would the unsparing support given by the government and the people in theite, starting with the operation conducted by the u.s. forces at the time of the great east japan earthquake of last year.

anderson who unfortunately passed away but took care of children until the very last moment following the great east japan earthquake. also, i met with the representatives of the fairfax county search and rescue following the earthquake. i was able to see me myself with these true friends of japan. the alliance is the linchpin in japan's diplomacy. having had conversations with my u.s. friends, it's unshakable.

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respond. >> the situation on china, i'm note going to make a statement on the issue. >> every time we meet with china, the issue of human radio eights comes up. not only b is it the right thing to do because it comports with our principles and our belief and freedom and human rights. but because also we think china will be stronger as it opens up and liberalizes its own system. we want china to be strong and prosperous. we're very pleased with all the areas of cooperation we were able to engage in. but we also believe that that

relationship will be stronger and be that much more prosperous and strong and as you see human rights issues on that country. i'll just make a quick statement around north korea. this was a topic of extensive discussion between myself and prime minister noda. our consultation throughout the failed missile launch was i think reflective oaf how important our alliance is, not just to our two countries but the region as a whole. and what i've tried to do since i came into office, to make sure that north koreaens understand that the old pattern of provocation, that then gets attention and somehow insists on the world purchasing good behavior for them, that that

pattern is broken. the more you engage in provocative acts, the more isolated you will become. the stronger sanctions will be in place, the more isolated you will be diplomatically. politically and commercially. and so although we can't anticipate, i don't want to hypothesize what might happen in the coming monthses, i think pyongyang is very clear that the united states, japan, south korea, other countries of the region are unified and insist ing that it abide by its responsibilities, abide by international norms and they will not be able to purchase anything.

>> it underminds the efforts of the country's efforts concerned to achieve resolution through dialogue. in the latest round of missiles, conducted nuclear tests. there's a great possibility that they can conduct a nuclear test will need to call for restraint i believe the measures incorporated in the recent u.n. security council chairman's statement need to be complied with and among japan, the u.s. and korea, as well as china and russia. we need to communicate with each other fully. and also stress that china's role continues to be very important and cooperate with china.

while also maintaining kwloes coordination with the united states and we share this view with president obama. and let me ask tbs from japan to ask a question. >> so you heard basically two people in the room get to ask questions and really what we were listening for beyond both of these gentlemen really highlighting the close friendships, really a lot of people wanted to know about this chinese dissident, what the president would say about this man who is blind, an activist, and escaped house arrest. essentially, the president didn't say very much. he said that he was aware of the reports with with regard to this particular chinese dissident, but said he wasn't going to nak a statement on the issue but did say every time -- he said every time we meet with china, the issue of human rights comes up. so there you have the president

on the record, not really saying a whole lot with regard to that particular story. we'll have much more on the significance coming up here as we check in with our correspondent at the state department. if they continue provocati provocative x as, the sanctions will get worse in north korea. got a lot more for you in the next hour and a half here. a blind activist makes a daring escape in china. but if the u.s. is keeping this man safe, how far would the obama administration go to protect him. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. rst paul ryan, then marco rubio join mitt romney on the trail. but today, another potential running mate isn't quite a household name. >> if washington isn't broken, i don't know what is. plus, the hearthrob known as

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the president has just been asked about the death of osama bin laden one year ago. let's listen in. >> in you think from an international perspective, the u.s. is playing it right in marking this anniversary, or do you think you might advise against excessive celebration. >> well, let me make a couple of opoints. first of all, christy, i hardly think you've seen any excessive celebration taking place here. i think that people -- the american people rightly remember

what we as a country established in bringing to justice, somebody who killed over 3,000 of our citizens. and it's a mark of the excellence of our intelligence teams and our military teams, a political process that worked. i think for us to use that time for some reflection to give thanks to those who participated is entirely proep and that lly that's what has been taking place. as far as my personal role and what other folks would do, i just recommend that everybody take a look at people's previous statements in terms of what they thought was appropriate to go into pakistan and take out bin

laden. i assume that people meant what they said when they said it. if there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they would do something else, then i would go ahead and let them explain it. >> translator: i hold him in high regard for the fight against terrorism. although bin laden has been killed, terrorism has not been rooted out. and i think continued efforts will be needed in cooperation

with the united states. we would like so continue our efforts. i think forms of terrorism are becoming very diverse amongst cyberterrorism, for example. not just in this space will decide to cooperate in cybersecurity as well. joo pan and the united states shall work together to root out terrorism of all sorts. there's no direct reference to china. what sort of exchange views did you have in china connected.

also military build-up. i wonder what you had on the subject. we, in the, confirmed that viewpoint. the opportunity for the international community, for japan err fn the asia pacific. now i explained in the meeting to president obama that when i visited c thadecember, i proe e eeed chinesersde incorporating east china sea in

order to advance mutually beneficial relationships based on common interests and that i'll work steadily to implement this. i also wish to realize the strategic dialogue between the u.s., japan and china. now eas last year with the view that was a success and of course, i said we need so seek rules based response or bior from chinese and we had these exchange of views. >> we have a peacefully rising china. and we have developed a very important stra teej economic dialogue with china.

we think what they've accomplished in terms of lifting millions of people out of poverty is good for its own ache sake and also potentially good for the world and the region. as prime minister noda eni have noted, we do believe that as china continues to grow as its influence continues to expand that it has to be a strong partner in abiding by international rules and norms. whether these are norms of dispute resolution, so in maritime disputes, ensuring that small countries and large countries are both respected in resolving these issues that across the board, we want china

to be a partner with us in a set of international rules and forms that everybody follows. and as i think china makes that transiti transition. it will see that over the longer term, it is in its interest as well to abide by these rules and norms. and so all of our actions are not designed to in any way contain china, but they're designed to ensure that they're part of a broader international community in which rules, forms are respected, in which all countries can prosper and succeed. >> i just want to take you to one point. it was a name the president didn't mention specifically. he was alluding to mitt romney. what about marking the death of

osama bin laden. we all know wasone year ago. and the president specifically said, you know, there was a reerection campaign ad that essentially touted his decision to take out osama bin laden a year ago. it suggested that romney perhaps might not have made the same decision. in fact, romney in the past questioned the billions of dollars in value of taking out bin laden. so actually today some news was made as governor romney is out in new hampshire. he was asked on the rope line about bin laden specifically and he was asked would you make that same decision. and his answer now was of course, even president jimmy carter would have done the same thing. so that's a little bit of news as we're hearing the wor now from mitt romney and president obama addressing it there and questioning mitt romney's decision had he been the commander-in-chief at that particular time. we're going to talk a little bit about mitt romney, his whereabouts today in new hampshire. who is alongside the governor in

just a couple of minutes with jim acosta.

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hard to tell for sure. we're seeing the emergence of the issue. the obama campaign forced it. this ad saluting the killing of bin laden one year ago. >> suppose they had gone in there and it hadn't been bin laden. suppose they had been captured or killed. the down side would have been horrible for him. but he reasoned. i cannot in good conscious do

nothing. he took the harder and the more honorable path. >> and to take it a step further here, that ad includes this quote from mitt romney. this was april of 2007. it's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. jim accososta in new hampshire. i understand mitt romney had something to say about this. >> mitt romney could not avoid this today. he was asked this question on the rope line. >> do you have your microphone, guys. >> let's find it here. hang on one second. it sounds like i'm coming from you inside a well. i apologize. my mistake, my mistake. brooke, that's right. this is a question that mitt romney could not avoid answering. he was at an event up in sportsmouth, new hampshire, today. this was something coming ouft

of the reelest campaign. would you give the same order to take out osama bin laden? here's what he had to say. >> even jimmy carter would have given that order. >> now, you know, he had to answer that question. just a few moments ago, the obama re-election campaign put out that tough ad featuring bill clinton raising this question of mitt romney and whether or not he would have made this same decision. keep in mind, there's a new web video from the election campaign called forward. it's sort of the new introduction of the campaign slogan and it also includes a section on the killing of osama bin laden. so this has been a key sort of campaign issue.

the president said at the news conference there's boon no ux seszive celebration going on here. a lot of republicans have made the case they've been politicizing the issue and they have been engaging in excessive celebration, brooke. >> the president said we would go after bin laden if we had a clear shot at him. there are others who have said one thing and now suggest they would do something else and i would go ahead and let them explain. you called it a campaign issue. we'll be watching for it. >> when the president says there are others, i think from now on, he means mitt romney. >> that he does. jim acosta and your microphone, we appreciate it. now coming up, rolling stone changes the list of the all-time albums of all time. who got added and what got cut.