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good morning, everyone. it's half past the hour. i'm randi kaye. thanks for starting the day with us. years after mubarak was toppled from power, the first free election is urnds way. millions are expected to head to the polls today and tomorrow. tensions remain high by what many call a power grab wii the military. ben is joining us from cairo. ben, what are you seeing there this morning and what kind of turnout have you seen in terms of voters? >> reporter: given what we have seen so far, the turn out is fairly impressive. we are in one room where men are voting. there are lots of people outside. one of the problems today, of course, is that it is very hot. people are becoming impatient. but, certainly, the turnout is
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good. in the first round of presidential elections, turnout was about 46%, which was lower than the prior election. what we have seen so far is people are coming out despite the heat and despite the wait. one woman told me she's willing to wait all day long to get her vote in. this is it. this is where people will decide who the next president of egypt will be. there are lots of uncertainties. the parliament has been dissolved. because egypt doesn't have the constitution, nobody knows what powers the president will have. people seem to be taking it very seriously so far. >> they certainly are. ben, these are incredible pictures as you are inside the voting room to see the men coming and casting their votes along with you standing there. how critical would you say this
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election is for egypt's democratic future? parliament hans been dissolved. can there be real change? >> reporter: it's important to keep in mind the change that happened so far. egypt had one referendum. parliamentary elections. parliament has been dissolved, now presidential elections. there's still a lot of disagreement. there's a lot of -- there are a lot of street protests. fundamentally, the mind set changed. i spent many years covering egypt under hosni mubarak. people knew elections didn't matter. as you can see here from the noisy room, people take this election seriously. if nothing more than that, that represents a huge change for egypt. the arab spring was not going to be over in a month or two
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months. this is going to take years. it will take decades. but, as we see, this man casting his ballot, he takes it quite seriously. >> speaking of the arab spring, is this what those who were involved invisioned? if you look at the candidates, a top military official for mubarak, and a muslim brotherhood candidate as well. one voter says he doesn't want egypt to become another iran. is this what they really imagined? >> reporter: certainly the young revolutionaries who you saw for 18 days in tahrir square, this is a disappointment. a choice between the old regime and the muslim brotherhood, it's what the choice has been the
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last 80 years in egypt. what people are saying is, look, say we elect somebody. we don't like them. in four years we have new elections. they say after four years if we don't like them, we'll vote them out. it's how the process will work. they have a clear idea, unlike mubarak who was president for 30 years, the next president of egypt may simply be president for only four years whether he's from the muslim brotherhood or the old regime. four years from now, they can elect somebody different. that's really the change. >> yeah. all right. ben, we are going to let you get out of there before they hand their ballots to you. thank you for bringing those amazing pictures inside as they are voting. thank you so much. an international manhunt is under way for a triple murder suspect.
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21-year-old brandon killed three security guards and left another in critical condition during a robbery attempt in edmonton, canada. the mother is pleading for him to surrender. i'm pleading for you to end this without further bloodshed. i will be there by your side to support you. we are following the story closely and will bring more on the hunt throughout the morning. a high school teacher fired for showing students video of an alleged murder. he says he did it because his students asked him to. a tenth grade civics class was discussing a porn star accused of dismembering john lynn showed here. he was a student at concordia university. a democratic lawmaker is
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find your away. for a dealer and the rv that's right for you, visit gorving.com. democratic lawmakers in michigan are being punished after using words like vagina and vasectomy on the house floor. they say it wasn't mature. not because they used those words. here is mary snow. >> reporter: republicans in michigan are calling this a temper tantrum. >> amendment 2 i. members board at the desk. the amendment is not adopted. are there further amendments. >> reporter: she was drown out. vasectomy was the last word she read. it's part of the opposition to a bill restricting abortions. lisa brown, another democrat was
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barred from speaking after saying this. >> finally, mr. speaker, i'm flattered that you are all so interested in my vagina, but no means no. >> members i ask that you respect the quorum of the house. >> the stage of pregnancy does not matter. wherever there's a question of the life of the mother or that of the unborn child, jewish law favors the life of the mother. >> reporter: she still hasn't been told by the republican leadership why she couldn't speak on the house floor thursday. >> i have been making guesses. i don't know if it was references to religious beliefs or using the word vagina. i'm left to guess. >> reporter: they say religion was not the reason. it's about keeping to quorum. >> it's not about women or
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policy or the use of two anatomically and medically correct terms. this is about acting professional on the house floor and about making sure we maintain a level of decorum. >> reporter: lisa lyons took offense to using the phrase, no means no. >> as she finished up her statement, compared the bill to rape. it's when she was gavelled down. it's what the floor leader objected to. >> i think they are looking for an excuse to punish me. to me, this is a war on women. it's silencing our voices saying we want control of our bodies. >> that was mary snow reporting. lisa brown says she's received a wave of support since the controversy. campaign donations are rolling in. call it a rap sheet for record books. you'll never guess how many
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happy fathers day, which is sunday. if you haven't bought a fathers day present, get a bottle of boos thrown at them by chris brown and drake. a bloody bar fight between the two rappers. several people sent to the emergency room. brown learned an important lesson from the brawl. men actually fight back. >> that's jay leno referring to the quote brutal attack on rapper chris brown. by the way, drake spokesman
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denied the singer was involved in the attack. a simple test of knowledge, or it should have been easy for a group of high schoolers in washington state. most of them got the answers right. the wrong answers turned into a viral video with more an a million hits. let's bring in bill santiago to talk about this and so much more. good morning to you. >> good morning to you. >> let's listen to the video, then i want to ask you about it. >> do you know the vice president of the united states? >> definitely not. >> george bush. >> george bush is the vice president? >> the bald guy. he was going to run. clinton, right? >> clinton, the vice president. bill clinton? >> yeah. >> correcto. sarah palin? >> i don't think it's right. i don't know who it is. it's somebody. bin laden.
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>> joe biden. >> joe biden. >> joe biden. is that right? joe biden? >> there you go. >> unbelievable. bin laden, joe biden. who is the vice president? can you believe this? >> it's sad. i don't think it's representative. i deal with a lot of high school kids and college kids and they are much dumber than that. i'm talking fence post with acne. it's unbelievable. it is a crisis. i'm so glad that obama came out yesterday and said from now on, we are not deporting students based on immigration status. it should be based on ignorance. every one of those kids should be deported and shipped off to a country they can name like europe, utah, u tautopia. >> or the moon. >> yes. that was one of the answers.
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whoever made the video blew it with the sound track. they should have used black eyed peas, let's get retarded. that should be the new national anthem. >> that was really something. that's something jay leno used to do. it's funny he went out and made the video. >> it's very entertaining. >> i don't know who to blame, the parents, teachers or kids. someone is not doing their job. >> these are the kids that grow up into adults we deal with on a daily basis. >> we have a texas man arrested for exposing himself to women on a jogging trail. nothing funny about that, of course. the real story is that he is 28 years old. he's 28. think about the math. 28. he's been arrested 41 times. how many times behind bars is too many? i mean 41 times and he's on the street? >> it's amazing. i don't know if you read through
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some of the reasons he's been arrested but this guy has amazing range whachlt a repertoire. forgery, burglary, theft of a corpse. he escaped from jail. he's not a one trick perp. i love the variety. no one mentioned why he stole the corpse. i'm interested in that. the reporter never -- did he need an extra body for the car pool lane? why would you do that? >> we'll get our team on that one. isn't it ridiculous he's on the street. >> yes. i think they let him go to see what he'll do next. i don't know why he escaped. he wants to be behind bars. i have a cousin like that. he's posting his picture to facebook. the family tree is wide. >> let's talk about this. a bitter divorce going on right now in austria. it breaks my heart.
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breaks my heart. they are giant tortoises. they have been together 115 years. they were cozy until resently. the female tortoise bit off a chunk of the male shell. what do you think went wrong? >> it's a long time. marriage itself is a form of captivi captivity. they are in a zoo and married. i'm not surprised the 150 year itch is kicking in with a vengeance. we are assuming they are married. i don't see a ring. >> they have been together. >> maybe that's why she's so mad. they have been together 150 years and he's never popped the question. how long is he going to string her along. >> no ring, no question. none of that. >> the rumor is they are splitting. it is an official divorce. it's going to be nasty. she's going to get both shells.
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>> maybe some of the extra treats and greens in the cage. >> i don't know what triggered it. maybe he had a fling with a 110-year-old hotty in the text cage. you shouldn't live too long if you want to live happily ever after. >> there are many happy couples that have been married a long time. >> 115 years? we should adopt a new rule. until death do us part or 115 years, whatever comes first. >> bill, a pleasure to see you. you always make my saturday morning fun. thank you. >> thank you so much. see you next week. it was an unforgotable night for a young couple. a tigers mascot gave her a baseball that read will you marry matt. matt dropped to one knee. >> will you marry me?
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>> that's a couple that could be married for 115 years. yes, she said yes. they kissed. he slipped the diamond ring on her finger. then a foul ball went flying toward them. matt grabbed it. it slipped out of his finger. a man nearby gave it to them. he had one more wish, for the tigers to win. unfortunately, the colorado rockies beat them, 12-4. rockies beatalmost tastes like one of jack's cereals.
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they broke down as they testified about what they say they endured. cnn's jason carroll reports. >> reporter: the week began with prosecutors telling the jury, jerry sandusky is a serial predator, sexually abused children not over days, weeks or months but years. an 18-year-old identified in court papers as victim number one, sobbed as he testified the former penn state assistant football coach began sexually assaulting him when he was just 10 years old. after rubbing and cracking my back and the blowing of the stomach he -- he put his mouth on my privates. victim one also testified sandusky would expect the oral sex to be reciprocated. he sat there and looked at me and said, it's your turn. prosecutors say, sandusky followed a pattern, using the charity he founded, second mile, to target young boys, many of them fatherless or troubled. giving them gifts, taking them to games, then sexual lay salting them. >> here he was with this
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relationship, with these boy after boy after boy, which by any conventional evaluation of any normal adult would say, this is just so terriblebly odd and wrong. >> reporter: a key witness for the prosecution, mike mcqueary, testified when he was a grad assistant back in 2001, he saw jerry sandusky sexually assaulting a boy in a penn state shower. he say his heard smacking sounds, skin on skin, quote, i looked directly into the shower and again saw coach sandusky standing right against the back of the young boy. coach sandusky's arms wrapped around the boyd's midsection, just as close as i think you could be. the defense challenging his account of what he saw and when he saw it pointing out mcqueary initially said the assault happened in 2002, a year later than he now says it occurred. the week ended as it began with the jerry hearing graphic and disturbing testimony from an 18-year-old, identified as
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victim number one. he says sandusky repeatedly forced him to perform oral sex, and he says sandusky sodomized him, quote, he got real aggressive, and just forced he me into it and i just went with it. it was no fighting against it. his screams for help from sandusky's basement, he says, went unanswered. >> no one sitting in that courtroom could sit there and listen to what these victims are saying and not be convinced that they're telling the truth. that is powerful testimony about deeply personal issues and none of them wanted to be here today. the jury's go see it. >> reporter: the procedure sandusky stared at his accusers as they testified. the question now, will he testify in his own defense? the commonwealth is expected to rest its case monday. then the defense will have its turn. the defense likely to highlight how many accusers have hired civil attorneys hoping to convince jurors these young men are falsely accusing sandusky in order to sue penn state later.
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