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al albs. th beatles dominate rolling stones top ten. with me, live in new york. i have to ask, who made the call on the beatles. anyone on the panel under 40? >> yeah, they were people on the panel under 40. we put this list together with a lot of help. it's actually the help of twof separate large polls we've done. we did one back in '03 then another one just a couple of years ago. it's a really, really diverse mix of albums. >> who made this this list. a ma i jor upgrade with heavy folk, black, country and jazz voters. how do you respond to that person.
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>> i think he should read the rest of the list is what i would say 500 albums really a big tent. there are options by johnny cash, there's a bosa nova album. there's's a sound system album representing the electronic music field. it's a diverse mix of albums. i have talked to, you know, across genres. so many say they're infrunsed by beautiful, dark twisted fantasy. >> kanye has emerged as a major artist the last ten years or so. "twisted fantasy" was kind of his magnus opus. it's not the highest one on this
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list. but "twisted fantasy" is kind of when he really went for it. it was kind of like a prague rock rap album. every idea in his head he went for it. and i think really inspired a lot of people with how much is going on on that record. >> we appreciate you coming on. apologize for cutting your time. the rolling st top 500 greatest albums. apiate y. now this. moments ago, it became official. now officially the tallest in new york. it will be the tallest skynh co. i'll speak live with the lead designer. some of the coolest features and what this really means symbolically for new yorkers. but first, this -- chris bale
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and a cnn crew getting roughed up as they tried to see a building where chen guangcheng was holed up. now it's said he's at the u.s. embassy in beijing. he's blind, scaled a wall and crossed a street. jill, when you hear the story and the escape and the backgrou. it's almost like this hollywood script, but it's very, very real. talk about the dplomatic aspect of this.. >> he's supposed to be at the
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u.s. embassy. he is at least at u.s. custody. nobody can or will confirm precisely where he is. but this is the real drama, let's say diplomatically about it. tonight, hillary clinton, secretary of state is headed for beijing. and this is happeni right as she's preparing for this trip. we're going to be going along with her and i can tell her right down to the last wire, it's pretty unpredictable. and today, just about an hour ago, you had the president asked about this very thing. ands as everyone else in this administration, he was pretty much clammed up. let's listen to what he didn't say. he said i'm aware of the reports is essentially what he said. >> aware of the reports but he would not go any further. also here at the state department, we tried.
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it got almost ridiculous after a while with the spokesperson who had to say nine times that we counted, don't have anything for you on that. don't have anything for you on that. but the reason, seriously, is that this is extremely delicate. it's a relationship that deals in human rights and it also is a relationship with china that deals with very important issues. you know, iran, syria, north korea, things that china could help the united states on and the u.s. really does need its help. so they are doing what nay eve done since the beginning. and it's never very easy, which is this balancing act between human rights and other issues that are important. >> not hearing much from the u.s. or china. i know it's tim geithner and also hillary clinton. safe travels to you. we'll be watching your trip to see what news could be made. meantime, dhen campaigned against government abuses, he criticized china's one-child policy, speaking out against
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state forced sterilizations and abortions. just a little background on this man. now that we know he's escaped, he was under house arrest, what happens to his family? sharon holmes, executive director of human rights in china. she joins me live in new york. and sharon, i know you testified and advocated for chen's freedom. talk to me about his family members who i know are in china. what happens to them now? >> well, from his own mouth, after the escape, he actually posted online almost a 14-minute video in which he details quite extensively what was happening to his family throughout this 19-month illegal house arrest. not only was his wife and elderly mother throughout this period of time harassed, threatened, intimidated, physically beat up, the child was followed to school and each day had her school bag, had her
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things had to be checked and searched and reviewed by the security thugs that were following her. so this -- after his escape, he posted online and said of his three asks to the premier, one of the asks was, please, look to the safety of my family who i am very concerned about. so it's his wife, his eld ler i mother and his child. >> so from -- i guess reading between the lines they're still there and he's obviously concerned about them. can i just ask you, the chinese government, why do they see him as such a threat? >> it's clearly a government that is really now scrambling. i know the u.s. is on the eve of u.s. strategic economic dialogue and the u.s. has to handle this very sensitively. however, it's .haing at an incredible time when the rampant corruption and ordinary people in china have had it so clear.
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his case shows what happens at the individual level. that these thugs that were monitoring his family were all without legal basis. so i think that this is very -- the outcome of what will happen following his escape will have severe ramifications. not only for the u.s. strategic dialogue, but it's going to have severe ramifications domestically for how the chinese government happenedndles this v sensitively. >> while the president would not confirm or deny this man was in u.s. custody he said yes, every time we meet with china, the issue of human rights comes up. i do want to talk about the president not saying much, china not saying much. i know there's a version of twitter in china. they've censored obviously his name. they've censored the blind man is a phrase. they've censored the number of
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united flight he rumored to be taking. that's not the case. even cnn censored. what does that say? >> well, they've also censored -- this shows a very deep sense of fear and insecurity by the authorities that they can't even allow the words not only blind person, but embassy. that's a blocked phrase. but a chinese twitter user posted a very interesting story called the mouse and the mole. they said this poor little mole and his family was vourpded by w wolves. but somehow with the help of the mice, the mole escaped. now the voice of the mouse is a little bit weak, all are helping the mouse spread the word. the story is what will happen with the mole and is this a victory. that story was posted and was up for a bit.
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>> for a bit. it's just stunning. it's stunning speaking in code. i know some experts are saying, this is the biggest test in bilateral relations since tiananmen square in 1990. take a look at this. today, 1 world trade center becomes the tallest building in new york and soon will be the tallest building in america. a grew comes under fire in the middle of an attack. and insiders call it the nerd prom. celebs, politicians, the folks who cover them get together for some laughs. >> a pit bull is delicious. i was there and i've got some stories. çñv,>wvs[rk÷=$fí]çffs8rkaglcçñ
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it's a great day for this nation. i watched it just a few blocks behind me, making this once again the tallest building in new york city. i think you can see all the way to asia from here, but this really marks the emotional significance of the site. that's what today is. we still have a year and a half before this is complete. 7 1/2 years in the making and we have reached this point. a man biked over to me and said he used to work in the world trade center and biked all the way up here to see it. we've got numbers to give you, just released from the port authority. 33,000 tons of steal. that's what's gone into this building so far. 190,000 cubic yards of concrete and also in the press release, they said this is a symbol for liberty, opportunity and economic prosperity.
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this is going to be a major attraction, a big commercial hub, this building, when it is completed about a year and a half is going to mean a lot certainly for this city and all the folks that have lived floig this rebuilding. >> one -- the number of times it will take for me to go way, way up there and think oh, this is a little too high for me. >> yeah, me, too. it's terrifying. >> it's woonderful and exciting. coming up, i'm going to talk to one of the design oefrs 1 world trade center, david childs. he's going to talk to me about the building and what it means to both new york and the rest of the country. >> heavy rein, flash flooding, natural disaster. nearly two years after music city was under water. one business there in nashville says the government needs to pay.
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>> if it's interesting and happening right now, you're about to see it. roll it. we saw president obama meeting with japan's newest prime minister, all in an effort to strengthen ties. they take trade, sdis kus japan's recovery from the tsunami, earthquake, nuclear price sis, but it's what the president said about his personal role in the takedown one year ago that's now making
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news. >> 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 whether they thought it was appropriate to go sbroo pakistan and take out bin laden. i assume that people meant what they said when they said it. that's been my practice. i said i would gop after bin laden if .we had a clear shot at him. and i did. >> mitt romney stumping with another republican rising star. romney's main taking points today, jobs and the economy. >> we're see a greater and greater gap between those that
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have the most and those that have the least. the spt to us canned on those who have the looest. i want to help the poor, i want to help the middle class get the kinds of jobs that raise their income. >> the state of ohio is returning five kpok tif animals to the farms from which they escaped, two leopards, two con fees and one brown bear are the only ones who survived october 18 last year. remember the huge story? the big escape. that's when terry thompson of thompson farm set free nearly 60 wild animals before killing himself. thompson's widow will take care of them and has refused requests for officials to inspect her farm. the owner of the national opry house is going to sue the government for $40 million. gaylord entertainment is claiming the government was negligent in opening a nearby dam and the snanl national weather service failed the warn the public they were approaching
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a new drug on the market to help men's sex drive. and mcdreamy proves he can save people in real life, too. time to play "reporter roulette." our elizabeth cohen, we're going to begin with you. 30 million men with sexual performance issues. and now for the first time in ten years, the fda has come out with a new drug to treat it. >> now there's a fourth one on the market, or that will be on the market. it's called stendra. it works pretty much the same way. there's one little twist which is they have some data that shows this works faster. so you take it and then 15 minutes later for some men, they're able to get it going.
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whereas some of the other drugs take a little bit longer than that. >> okay, so if men are out there thinking great, does this work for anyone who wants to take it? >> it doesn't. and people forget that. all of these drugs, none of them work for everybody. this drug only works in sort of the exactly the way it's supposed to about 60% of the time. that's up with of the advantages of having four drugs on the market. somebody said do you really need four drugs? in some ways you don't, in some ways you do. >> okay, so if it's quicker, are there side effects? >> there are side effects and they're similar to the side effects of the other drugs. and most of them are just sort of annoying like headache or stuffed up nose, et cetera. there is some of this very rare thing which is sometimes men will have vision or hearing problems. even losing vision or hearing. doesn't that freak men out and make them want to stop?
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they say no, because they geerting what they want. it does go away when you stop taking the drug and it's exceedingly rare. >> okay, we're going to leave it there. another animal mystery in peru. this time 1,200 birds have died on the coast. why? what are authorities saying. >> they're trying to find oit exactly what's going on. hundreds of pelicans followed by the death of hundreds of dolphins last week. and so at this point, they're looking at everything. they're looking at the fact that there may be biotoxins in the water, maybe some sort of traumatic sound affecting all of these animals. but the real answer is that at this point, they don't even know what's going on, brooke. >> that's awful pictures to have to look at here. but you have to wonder if all these are connected. as you point out, possibilities.
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>> in a pan of less than two weeks. you can talk about natural causes. when you have hundreds upon hundreds of animals dying in the siem pod at about the same time for no apparent reason, there has to be something connecting all of these sdets. >> rafael romo, thank you. and now to mcdreamy. you know him as mcdreamy. now he's being called a hero after a car crash happened at his malibu home. michelle turner live in los angeles, what happened? what did he do? oh, my gosh, brooke, this is a great story. patrick dempsey played a reel life hero. he pulled a teenage driver out of a car wreck near his home in
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malibu. according to reports, dempsey used a crow bar and a fire extinguisher to freeze the underaged driver from an upsaid down 2006 mustang. the driver was 17 years old, but the sheriff's department tells "showbiz tonight" he was only 15 years old and had a 16-year-old passenger in the wreck of the car. so this really could have been a tragic story. the boy's father was out of town when the teenager decided to take dad's mustang for a spin. he called paramedics and stayed with the boy until he was air lifted in the hospital. we reached out to patrick dempsey, but while his rep did confirm the incident happened, he hasn't made any public comments about what took place. >> i am sure he's being inund e inundated by folks who want tho know how he pulled this off. what about this boy, this 15-year-old. are you okay? >> while he was taken to ucla
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hospital in santa monica, he only suffered a concussion and an eye injury. i don't know what's going to happen when his dad gets a hold of him. his dad just put $15,000 of work into that car when he took it out for a spin. i know. back to patrick dempsey, though. this is where it gets really good. he reportedly called the boy's mother to reassure her that everything was okay. she thought he was a paramedic or something until he identified himself. and she said the first thing she thought was, what do you think? mcdreamy. but he also called the family later that night, brooke, just to make sure everything was okay. >> that's impressive. good on him indeed. >> good bedside manner. >> not good for the kid in the mustang, but that's another story. and that's your "reporter roulet roulette" on this monday. now this. look at these pictures.
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>> a judge in colorado is set to send a convicted serial rapist and murderer free. dna ed shows he did not rape a woman and strangle her with a dog league. he was sentenced to life without parole and has been in prison
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for the last 16 years. but if he plans to sue for wrongful imprisonment, his case is not quite as slam dunk as you think. i want to bring in joey jackson. he is on the case with us today. first thing's first. is is his freedom a done deal? >> it looks that way. it renews your faith in humanity. as a result of that, i would believe he's going to be released on stipulation of all the parties. what that means is the defense agree, the progression agrees and the court has jurisdiction. you have to go back to the court for the court to vacate that conviction and let him walk out the door. soo if he is exonerated, to the question of the civil lawsuit he could be filing here what does he have to show? >> whenever you're talking about
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a deprivation of your civil rights, you have to establish not only that you were wrongfully convicted but usually something more. some type of malicious intent, whether it's suppressing evidence and not providing you as a defendant with the information that you need to cross-examination witnesses. perhaps it's some kind of prosecutorial misconduct that you would have to show. it's not just, you know what, i spent time in jail and, you know what, as a result of that, i deserve relief. usually it's a lot more with a federal civil rights case. but i would suspect, brooke, wiser minds will prevail. he will be given some compensation sfr settlement. >> i sdo want to ask you this other story, this website and facebook page that the legal team for george zimmerman set up. you know the story, the volunteer charged with the death of martin.
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so his lawyer explains some of the reasons for putting up this site, to discredit and edispute misinformation to, to provide a voice for mr. zimmerman and to raise funds. so joey jackson, bad idea? brilliant ideaed? >> i think it's a great idea. of course, i think raising funds was at the top of their list. they snuck it down towards the bottom. but these are expensive propositions. whether it's compositing expert witnesses or lawyers or investigat investigators. a lot of people certainly have strong feelings about this. and those people motivated in his favor will provide funding h he needs to support himself. the other issue, though, is that it provides a voice to a number of people. this case has captured the imagination of the public, and as a result, people want to be express nif that regard. i think they'll get a lot of mail. it certainly does very good marketing for the actual firm that's putting this up. but more importantly, i think it will give them some ideas in terms of what the public is thinking, how to handle the case. it's like a focus group.
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i think it's no not a bad idea. and in an era of spoeshl media, i think this is something you'll see more and more of going forward. >> my next question is what about the risks? what risks could be involved in setting up this website that prosecutors can use. >> i think you eel see motions to preclude that kind of stuff. the i think the exploitation issue in terms of what will come out of trial, i think there's too much of a fear of that. i think the judge will limit the issues to what they were and what they are on that eight noo and it won't go off into tangents about a website and the social value and whether it should or shouldn't happen. but we'll see actually what happens.
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the case should be very riveting when it occurs. >> joey jackson, thank you. good to vie you. we'll stay in new york for this next one. i don't know if you're in and around the area of lower manhattan today, but history has been made. you see the tower, officially now the tallest sky scraper in new york. we'll going to talk to the lead designer about why he said this building served as the marker. what's the view like from on top? all those questions and more next. cancel golf today. [siri] it's off your calendar. good, 'cause it's date night. find me a store that sells organic mushrooms for my risotto. [siri] this organic market looks pretty close to you. how many ounces in a cup? [siri] this might answer your question. oh, i knew that. and remind me in an hour to put the gazpacho on ice. [siri] here's your reminder. shall i create it? yeah...unless you like hotspacho. siri?
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>> i want to get more now to this milestone that happened on our watch just a short 250i78 ago. in lower manhattan, they erected a new beam at 1 world trade enter. it's now higher than the empire state building. eclipse thaty 21 feet. it's certainly a proud, proud day for new york. really a proud day for our entire nation. with me now live from new york, the shadow of that building, the man who led the design team for the new trade center, david childing, a consting partner. mr. childs, thank you for joining me. i know you've been to the top of the building. do you have butterflies? what can't you see from up
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there? >> of course, you can see all of manhattan. it's a fantastic view. >> i was fly into laguardia and saw at night, all the lights up and down the freedom tower. my thought was -- i got goose bumps and my thought was, wow, that is ground zero. i imagine that's part piston plan, really, to mark this part of manhattan. what kind of message are you sending? >> yes. well, the idea, of course, was that when you go to look at it, the memorial is the most important place within the complex. but you can't see that from laguardia, as you just said. so to have the marker in the sky is an important thing for people traveling around the city. but as a marker, it also says shutdown town is back. it now has a place that responds to the midtown of new york that
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was missing for so long. >> writing that down. downtown is back. i read that your clues built a new floor every week. what are the biggest challenges in building? i know right now it's officially 1,271 feet. what are the biggest challenges? >> well, of course, any towel tower like that is a tremendous overturning moment. the winds are what control the facemask author, not the weight. the smaller is the weight of the building that you have to design for. in this case, coming down the hudson river, those great winds and such a tall, slebder piece has got to be carefully engineered and anchored into all of that bedrock, that great granite that's 80 feet down. once you do that, when you're in pretty good shape. this building is very robust and very solid. eni am very proud about how it has responded to all of those
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technical challenges that we had to reach. >> how tall will it be ultimately once the topping out, the final frame work is put in place. >> well, the building is very much designed in response to the original tower. to answer your question first, because its height is exactly the same height as the towers, 1,3689. its footprint is the same. so as you look at it, as you're looking a the it behind me now, it is the same profile of one of the towers that was there. now on top of that will be a sculptural sfier of the antenna and all the information that was sent out tooth world. that will be the additional height, up to 1,776 feet, which was the numb we are called for in the laster plan. >> 1776. that's the ultimate height in
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footage. i just want to ask, i'm sure it wasn't far from mind for you and for, you know, the people running the cranes and working construction, just all the lives lost at that site. more than ten years ago now. how has the construction been just over the many months, thinking about those people and honoring those people with this building. >> well, it was tough. in a way for us and my own firm, it was therapeutic. because we watched from our wind windows, our offices are at 14 wall street that terrible tragedy. we lost an employee who was over there working with our interior design clients. it was therapeutic in a way to be part of the design. but all the way through it, it was something that we thought about. it's wonderful to go down there now. the faces of the people looking in through the guardrail are all smiles. ten years ago, there was
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sadness. and that's a palpable change. it makes it all worthwhile. >> downtown is back says david childs. thank you so much. i got you. i hear you loud and clear. thank you so much, congratulations on a stunning building. we prappreciate it. and now it's a place for celebs and politicians and the people who cover them come together for laughs. coming up next, we'll share some behind the scenes moments in photos. but first, think about this one. what are some items you can live without? wall street 24/7 listed a compile of things generation y doesn't plan to buy. generation y, by the way, young people born after 1980. so take a look at the top five. that includes land line phones. forget about it, they say. cars they won't buy. the facebook generation would rather pay for the internet than make a car payment.
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we're back, we were talking about these products that gen y says they won't buy. number two, they say they're not buying beer. so many 20-somethings drink light beer. and the last thing young people won't pay for, no surprise, e-mail. and there you go. now it's not often you get to say i had dinner with the president, but saturday night, i had dinner with the president. and so did several hundred
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politicos or as many dub it, nerd prom. and a lot of you tweeted me, why is it called nerd prom? is that because the president was joked? not too many cool people went to the prom back in the day, ergo, prom nerd. then the moment when i saw this woman, an icon in my field, diane sawyer, just my height. we turned to each other and said, another tall girl. and a lovely and pregnant reece witherspoon. there's diane keaton looking very annie hall. and there's the lovely dana bash as well. and there were all kinds of other stories and other photos
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as well. happens in washington stays in washington. though i do want to share one more. the manage i consider a dear friend, the man i have so much respect for. we asked myself and brianna keeler to walk the red carpet with them. wolf blitzer, thank you so much. >> last year i invited mila --- >> some of my team was asking me, well what was the biggest best sort of joke that the president gave because i thought the president was hilarious and i thought it was that moment right before he took the stage. you remember this open mike moment? let's roll it. >> would someone back there please turn off the president's mike? the president's mike is hot, please turn it off. thank you. thank you.
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>> great, i got to get warmed up. ♪ i'm so in love >> i thought i had that. guys what am i doing here? i'm the president of the united states and i'm opening for jimmy kimmel? why am i telling knock knock jokes to kim kardashian. >> that was just part of it, folks who watch cnn or cspan didn't get to catch that. what do you have coming up on your show? >> we have a lot of obviously serious news, the president was very tough today, he had a little smirk on his face when he was talking about the one-year anniversary of the killing of bin laden, referring to others, ie, mitt romney who had a different view four years ago, we're going to go in depth on that. also the debate in israel, it's a very intense debate about iran
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and it's nuclear program. dennis ross is going to be joining us, we're going to go in depth on that as well. so we got a lot of news coming up on the situation. you looked lovely on saturday night, spectacular, if the viewers haven't seen those pictures, they should. coming up, the fight over oil puts a country on the bringing. journalists caught in the middle of an air strike, cnn journalists are there as jets fly overhead. ♪
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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ i get my cancer medications through the mail. now washington, they're looking at shutting down post offices coast to coast.
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closing plants is not the answer. they want to cut 100,000 jobs. it's gonna cost us more, and the service is gonna be less. we could lose clientele because of increased mailing times. the ripple effect is going to be devastating. congress created the problem. and if our legislators get on the ball, they can make the right decisions.
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>> reporter: we had been promised a story. this is close to the front line of the border clashes with the north and the south sudanese commander here is willing to talk. but another story is about to break around us. >> run, run, run.
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>> reporter: it's coming, these soldiers shout. sudanese are storming in and we have just seconds to find cover. [ gun fire ] >> reporter: we try to make ourselves invisible as half a dozen bombs drop around us. we wait for the sound of the planes to fade, then we make our escape.