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visit dr. eggbert who is on trial for assisted suicide, but some call it hastening death. it is one of the most controversial subjects, and we will have more on that next week. time to get to the top news stories right here on "cnn newsroom." from the cnn news headquarters in atlanta this is newsroom. and promises that the jurors will hear from the man, himself. and the world is holding its breath as the world faces collapse. greece may be the next lehman brothers, and if you thought the 20308 meltdown was bad, wait until you see what the elections bring. and while iran is waiting to obliterate israel, evidence that
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the u.s. sanctions are working. we will have a report live from we will have a report live from teheran. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. happy father's day. it is 8:00 on the east coast and 5:00 a.m. out west. thanks for starting your day with us. first, the eyes of the world are on greece. voters there are picking a new parliament and many fear that the outcome could spell financial turmoil, not just for greece, but the struggling u.s. economy. debt ridden europe and even rising super power china. several parties are battling out in greece, because they say they don't want out of the single currency eurozone, but one of the front-runners is voiing win end the austerity.
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back home, nearly 200 acres have been destroyed in the fast moving hyde park fire in northern colorado. thousands of people have been evacuated in the fire. and today's weather could make things worse with wind gusts up to 40 miles per hour expected. it sparked a week ago when officials say lightning struck a tree, and it could be a month before firefighters have it contained. one man is dead and four men injured after a stage collapse in toronto. police say that the weather was good at the timef of the collapse with no significant wind or storms. the incident took place an hour before fans were due to arrive in a sold out show by the band radiohead. the concert was cancelled. an international man hunt for a suspect of a triple murder has ended. travis baumgartner was captured yesterday while attempting to cross the u.s. in washington state. police believe he tried to rob an armoured car at the university of alberta. three guards were killed in the
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robbery and a fourth critically injured. egyptians are doing something that is unthinkable. a year ago they are picking a president in a democratic election. voters are casting ball lots for a second straight day in a presidential runoff, but there are fears that the military may not be entirely ready to give up power. cnn's ivan watson is at a polling station in cairo and joins us live. e ivan, tell us what is the mood there? >> well, it's dethe voting is under way and you can see we are outside of the polling station, and there is a line of people, hello, waiting to go in. we have soldiers who are helping to keep order, and security in here. i just come in to take a look at how this process is taking place. people kind of guide voters through, and some of them don't really know how the voting process works. you have to remember that this is decades of one party rule in egypt. this is the second day of voting, randi, so the ballot box
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which had votes of course cast yesterday stayed in here overnight, and an observer from one of the two parties computing the muslim brotherhood actually slept outside of this room to ensure that nobody could mess with the ballots that have been cast. these are the ballots that people are voting with. they have two choices. they have a former air force general and prime minister of the former dictator hosni mubarak and muhammad morrissey who is the candidate of the muslim brotherhood. so a very sharp ideological split between the two candidates. randi? >> ivan, since the arab spring, i mean, the military has been running things there, and they have been in charge. do you have any sense whether the military is ready to krooce powe power? >> well, there are serious questions and doubts about that,
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because just two days ago a constitutional court, the supreme court here ordered the parliament which had been recently elected and which was dominated by the muslim brotherhood, it ordered it to be dissolved, and many critics accused the military and the court of a soft -- against the muslim brotherhood. this is supposed to be a transition from democracy to military rule, and will is a big question, because there is no constitution in egypt right now, so nobody knows what the powers of the man who is elected president, nobody knows what they will be. the military council that rules the country has declared that it now assumes legislative powers now that the parliament has been dissolved. the muslim brotherhood is denouncing the dissolution of parliament, and also calling it a dangerous step for egypt and a soft coupe, so a lot of attention for what is a historic and celebratory election. >> i am curious, because you
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spent so much time there and more than a year in tahrir square when the uprising was happening and you and i spoke many times during that time, and is there real hope for change? then there was such hope and determinati determination. >> that's right. and some of those revolutionaries that caught the world's attention in tahrir square, we met them. some of them are actually boycotting this vote. they say that they don't want to vote for somebody they see as a symbol of the old regime, and they don't trust the muslim brotherhood who they fear will try to impose an islamic system of government on this country. so remarkable to see people who fought literally for democracy opting out of participating in this election. randi? >> ivan watson reporting for us. ivan, incredible live pictures of the voting taking place. thank you so much. and more now on the critical election that is happening in greece. voters are picking a new
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parliament against a backdrop of economic despair. the economy there has been in collapse. it is so bad that parents have actually had to send their children to orphanages because they can no longer afford the feed them. some fear that the outcome of today's vote could cause chaos in the financial markets and shock the u.s. and other economies. cnn's richard quest joins us from athens. richard, this is a vote for a greek parliamentt, but it is a vote that has global implications. walk us through that. >> rightmentrightment. that is the parliament building behind me that you are talk aul about. that is today, they are electing the 300 members of parliament. to give you some idea, new democracy, their leader says that tomorrow a new era begins for greece. the far left wing party says that today we win over fear, and
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tomorrow we must have a government. what that tells me and what it all boils down to is that ultimately, they all say there needs to be unity, but of course, they are not prepared necessarily yet to do the deals that will create that unity. as you rightly point out, it is wrong to say that greece is in recession. let's call what is happening in greece a depression. >> well, what is the likelihood, because there is so much talk of greece exiting the eurozone, and how likely is that? >> greece only exits the eurozone if a number of dominos have to fall. it doesn't happen automatically. first, they have to rip up the bailout agreements. then they have to be cutoff from money, and the ult maimate, the draconian doomsday scenario as
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we called it last hour, only happens as it will take place if you squeeze greece only to the point where frankly staying in the eurozone is not an option. we are someway off of that, but let me tell you where we are closer to. i think that the result tonight is uncertain or if it creates a lot of confusion, then you are going to see worry in the markets. that worry in the markets will be the contagion that the ecb, the european central bank, the european leaders will have to work very hard to try and calm. what they not want is an electoral brushfire started, because if that happens, the flames here will be felt across the world. >> and some have said that this could be what they are calling a lehman bro therbrothers-type mod is that blowing it out of proportion or cause for concern? >> i would say blown out of proportion, because they have had two years to plan for this,
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but if you remember back in march and april and the whole thing of the banks and the private sector and the renegotiation, that uncertainty that led the dow to fall 10%, and led everybody to drop considerably, 8% or whatever, it proved the ability for unse uncertainty and fear is still there. so whilst it might be hyperbole to say that lehman number two or lehman on a grand scale, we cannot, cannot discount the level of fear and don fusion th -- and confusion if a result here goes badly. >> richard quest, thank you for all of that wonderful reporting. appreciate it live from athens. the former rutger student convicted of spying on his roommate could get out of jail early. dharun ravi was convicted of spying on his roommate, and he
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could get out with an early sentence, and prosecutors are appealing for a longer sentence. he is back from a 1,700 road trip across iran and he says that u.s. sanctions are succeeding. still to come my conversation with new york times columnist nick christoph. ll. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. starts with arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by orthopedic doctors. just two aleve can keep pain away all day.
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by nick christoph with a report. you just finished a 1,700 mile trip through iran, and you say that the sanctions are working pr pretty well. so tell us, where are they having the most impact? which industries would you say are being hit the hardest? >> really everything except for agriculture is hit pretty hard. factories are closing. prices are rising. and they are just everywhere you look in the economy, you talk to people who have less business than before, and who are angrycht it is not just that the economy is affected, but that people seem to be largely blaming their own government, their own regime for the economic problems rather than the west with some exceptions, of course. >> by one estimate, iran's oil exports have fallenb 40% since the start of the year causing serious economic distress, and you say that they are blaming their own regime, but it also has implications for iran's nuclear program, and you write in the column in "the new york
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times" today, and let me share with the viewer here, the success of the sanctions makes talk of a military strike on iranian nuclear sites unwise as well as irresponsible, aside from the human toll, war would create a nationalist backlash for years to come just when economic sanctions are increasingly posing a challenge to its survival. what is the best option, nick, n in terms of preventing iran's nuclear program from advancing? >> well, it is continuation of these sanctions. i mean, what really struck me traveling around the country is how much the larger forces are whittling away at the legitimacy of the regime, and ultimately will force it to change. and the one thing that i think that could really upend that would be some kind of war between iran and the west, and you know, triggered by iz srael strikes on sites that would create a backlash for the regime. if it were the supreme leader of
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iran or mahmoud ahmadinejad i would want the air strikes, because that would be the best hope for the regime staying in power in the long run. >> you also found in your travels that iranians have a pretty interesting view of americans. i want to play a little clip for the viewers. >> reporter: i swent spent a week talking to various people from uneducated farmers to struggling factory workers and self-confident women to a grand ayatollah. iran is a con tri of contradictions, but there was a common thread. >> thank you so much. >> the people of iran like american people. >> it is a great clip to see you there talking to the people, nick. why do you think that this is? >> you know, it is fascinating, because i travel to our allies, and i go to pakistan and everywhere you go in pakistan where we pour in billions of dollars and people dislike the
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u.s., and you go across the arab world to the allies and again, there are deep suspicions and hostility toward the u.s. and i go to the supposed enemy and everybody wants to buy me tea or take me into their homes or buy me lunch. i mean, it ises if -- is fascinating. obviously, the u.s. is not allied with an unpop ular regim in iran and also among the restless young people intuitively embrace what the regime criticizes, and in this case, it is americans. >> a great article in your piece in the "new york times" this morning, "pinch and griping in iran" a great headline. great to see you, nick. >> great to see you. behind a historic decision, we will ask what is going on
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gorgeous day shaping up in washington, d.c. good morning. great shot of the capitol there. just a few clouds in the area. going to be a good day, and it is going to be an interesting week in washington. we could have a supreme court decision on health care as early as tomorrow. there are really three options for president obama's affordable health care act. the court leaves it alone, throws out the whole thing or picks something that stays and some things that go. either way the nine justices go, it is a monumental decision that will impact all of us. join joining me now from washington is a legal affairs editor for reuters and long time supreme court correspondent. joan, give us some behind the scenes here if you will. is the decision already made, and they are waiting to release
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it or still working on it right up to the end? >> a little of both. the bottom line decision was made the friday after the late march oral arguments when they took the bottom line vote, but then they have to write the decisions, and the majority and the dissent have been crafting the language and crafting the rational and circulating it among the nine. so actually what we have now is more of the heavy lifting frankly of trying to justify the two counter positions, but i believe that the end result does the individual mandate stand or not stand has probably already been resolved, but we won't quite see that for another week, but it could come as you say, randi, as early as tomorrow. >> from your years of covering the court and the justices, themselves, do you have a sense of which way they might be leaning or at least some of them? >> well, it is so funny you say that, because we are like looking at everything they can say and do to give us a sign. on friday ruth bader ginsberg
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gave a speech in and up mood and we said maybe that says something, but then i talked to justice scalia and he was in and up mood and the court's liberals and conservatives can not both be happy about how this is turning out. we have seen signs from the lower courts, and three of the four lower appeals courts have decided this rejected the challenge, but then of course, randi, you saw in the oral arguments some pretty tough questioning of the government's position. >> right. >> so, it is -- it's anybody's guess at this point, but fortunately we have at most two weeks to wait. >> in is the best kept secret in washington, i think. >> it is. it is, and this is, you know, so many people are just now watching the court, but this is how it is every year. i will tell you one thing that is that things can shift and change. i don't expect the vote to have flipped completely here, but some of the rationale might have
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changed. and some pressure on the secondary issues. >> what about knowing that the health care is a key issue in the upcoming presidential election, is there pressure? >> well, they know everything. they see people protesting outside of the marble columns. they are playing a long game, and they have all been appointed for life. they are going to have to rule the way they think that the law is, and let things fall after that. and so i think that they understand that it is unprecedented in terms of how many people are watching. face it, they held modern record 6 1/2 hours of arguments. so they understand that this is a very big deal leel egally and politically. >> and health care is not the only big decision we are waiting for, right. there is the challenge to the arizona immigration law and what do you pekt from that -- do you expect from that? >> that is right. that is the law where arizona is trying to stop the tide of
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people crossing the mexican border, and it has sort of gone into where the federal territory is in terms of regulating immigration, and arizona says that we are just trying to work cooperatively with the federal government to have our officers ask people who they stop if they suspect they are here illegally for their papers. that is one that might end up with the conservatives in control, because as you remember 8 of the 9 justices heard that one. elena kagan, one of the liberals had to sit out, because she had been involved in the litigation before. so i expect maybe a split decision there with at least part of the arizona law being upheld. >> and then you are the president's decision and the announcement on friday shifting the administration's position on undocumented immigrants. would that have any bearing on the court at all? >> no, it wouldn't at all, because that of course came in an executive order, and sort of expanding some of his, you know, prosecutorial discretion on who is deported and who doesn't, and it is a temporary measure.
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if he could expand it at some point or frankly if mitt romney were to win, then he could change it. so that's really just in the executive domain, and what the supreme court is deciding is, you know, how far can the states go to enter a field that has traditionally been with the national government. >> joan biskupik, we hope to talk to you in a couple of weeks when these decisions come down. >> thank you, randi. in texas, a kindergarten's lesson on bullying backfires and now she may face charges.
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hello, everyone, i'm randi kaye and glad you are with us.
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checking stories cross country. let's begin in texas where a kindergarten teacher allegedly ordered students to line up and hit a 6-year-old boy accused of bullying him. hit him. the teeacher in san antonio say that he wanted to teach him a lesson and she even quote told students to hit him harder. and now they are looking into filing for mall charges. and swift currents and high waters turned a family's kayaking trip into this nightmare. the family of four's boat left them in the water to fend for themselves, but as you can see there, thankfully the oregon national guard able to rescue and air lift each person to safety. surf's up in san diego, californ california. it was a dog day at the beach for some four-legged furry surfers. and one was named the top dog at the lowe's annual competition.
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the benefit is for the prevention of the cruelty to animals. well sh well, he was doing good there. and if you thought that the surfing dogs were adorable, meet the newest addition to the nashville zoo. look at this, a 6'0", 160-pound baby giraffe. she's celebrating being one week old today with her mom, margarita. both giraffes are off display until a date is set for her debut. she is a little wobbly there, but boy, oh, boy. you can't even get the two of them in one shot there. she is adorable. all right. that was our feel of animals for the morning. more people believe that god created humans today than they did 30 years ago. the evolution versus creationism debate is raging in churches and schools across the country, and we are going to dive right into this controversial issue. those surprising littl
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form some time in the last 100,000 years. it is the top line, slightly up 44% in 1982. the poll shows that under one-third of americans believe that humans evolved with god's guidance and 15% say that people evolved without the hand of god. terry mortenson creationist, and historian of geology joins me from cincinnati and along with him david silverman, the president of american atheists joining us from new york. david, let me start with you with this one, you are an atheist which means that you lack a belief of a supreme being or beings, and what do you make of the poll? >> i make the poll is really a tantamount to the poor education system that we have in this country. the kids and the students in this country are not taught to think critically. they are taught to remember and regurgitate, and what you get from that is that people are just listening to their preachers and believing it without actually thinking about, do i really think about the invisible man in the sky. that is what we are talking about here.
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there is no more evidence for a god than there is for santa claus. yet 46% of the country think n santa claus or god made humans in their present form despite all of the fossil records that we have. evolution is scientific fact about which we know more than gr gravity and relatively, but the creationists in this country are so proud and so stubborn that they won't even admit when they are proven wrong, and in fact, they are proud of the fact that they won't admit when they are pro proven wrong. >> let me ask terry here to the weigh in. terry, why do you think that the number of those who believe in evolution grew 6% while the creationist view although much higher only jumped 2% in the last 30 years? >> well, i think that most people have not really studied the issue. they just have had a very
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limited amount of information, you know, what they heard in school, and the bible says that every person knows that there is a god. romans i says that the creation bears witness to the existence of god and the conscience bears witness. so, it is not surprising that the number keeps fluctuating. >> would you like to respond to david's comment that if you see fossils in a museum that you can't believe that god made animals in their current form? >> well, i didn't hear his answer, so i don't know exactly what he said, but fossils are not a problem for the creationist view. in fact, they fit very nicely in our understanding that the earth was flooded with a global flood at the time of noah which would have buried billions of plants and animals in sediments and they would have become fossils. >> okay, we have a fossil record -- we have a fossil record that goes back all of the way since the dawn of humankind
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all of the way since the dawn of life that says that shows us how life has evolved over millions of years, and it is not disputable. and what i find so discouraging is that it is not disputable. this didn't happen in a flood. this happened over millions or hundreds of millions of years, and we really have to stop allowing people to dumb us down. the world is laughing at us. we are equal in our scientific theories to the third world nation of turkey. while real, and while first world nations dismisthe myth ol jis of yesterday and move into the future, the status of this country is actually going backwards and the education of this country is actually going backwards in time. >> david, let me let terry jump in here. because terry according to gallup, the more education you have, the least likely you are to believe in creationism, and
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down to 25% of postgraduates now. why do you think that is? >> oh, that is very easy for me to understand. the more education you have means the more you have been taught evolution, and you have not been taught to think critically. why did the evolutionists not allow criticism of evolution in the public schools? why is it that in the universities it is very difficult for a student who raises any objection, scientific objections against evolution or millions of years. i have a personal friend who studied at a major secular university in the midwest and got a double degree in biology and geology and the professors were thrilled with him and encouraging him to go on the graduate school. they didn't know he was a young earth creationist, and he was doing excellent work, and on of the professors said in private in a meeting with some students, no young earth creationist will be allowed into the graduate program. there is a blocking of any
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critical thinking in higher education on this issue, and i have spoken to secular universities. >> that is because it has been proven wrong. you can't think critically about anything and come up with a solution that has absolutely no scientific evidence to support it. that is not thinking critically, and that is thinking dogmatically, and lying about thinking critically, and that is what you are doing. >> let terry respond here. >> yes. i have a ph.d. in the history of geology, and i did not study under creationists, but i studied under people who are evolutionists, and i had to prove my case on a historical question from competent research. we have a ph.d. geologist on the staff from australia, and got his degree at a secular university, major university in australia, and he has done geological research on four continents and there are other creationists geologists all of whom got their degrees at secular universities where evolution is taught as an
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indisputable fact, and they had to wade through the programs, and i know as a historian of geology where this millions of years idea came from and it did not come from the rocks and the fossils, but from anti-philosophical people who are atheisms and deists who oppose it. >> and in history, any evidence at all found to prove the existence of any deity ever? >> that is a good question, david, and -- >> the answer is no. >> david, i appreciate your time. >> i dispute that. >> i know, but we are out of time unfortunately. it is a great discussion and maybe we will be able to have both of you on again. terry mortonson and david sil r silverson. for more, you can go to our
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welcome back. all eyes on washington this week as anticipation from the supreme court's rulings on health care grows. candy crowley is live in washington with us and getting ready for her show "state of the union." candy, good morning. what happens if the court strikes down the mandate? does that mean that the whole thing is out of the window? >> well, that is the question. e whenever you ask the
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administration this question, and what is plan b here? let's say that the supreme court says that you cannot require americans to buy health insurance, and you cannot demand that americans buy a consumer product, well, the whole reason that insurance companies, many of them went along with health care reform was they said that we need to bring the healthy people into the system. if they no longer have that, what happens to no lifetime cap s? what happens to you can't deny coverage to people with any kind of pre-existing condition? what happens to all of that? and you can't, and here we are and i don't have to tell you five months from the election, and you cannot at this point get the administration to tell you what plan b is, because they said that we don't believe that the supreme court will strike it down, and maybe they will and maybe they won't, but the republicans, we have seen some instructions going around at least from one leader on the house side saying let the democrats stew in this. if the supreme court strikes it down, let them figure it out. it happens to be one of the
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questions that we have today on the show, which is, okay, what is plan b here? >> right. exactly. you had an exclusive this week with rick santorum, and did you talk about health care with him? >> no, we talked about immigration, and that is sort of the big thing, and also how he thinks that mitt romney is doing. and he has not been the most enthusiastic supporter as you may know of mitt romney, but he seems to be all on board, although, i will tell you that in the sneak peek he was not all that pleased with mitt romney's response to the president's action on immigration. >> all right. candy, thank you very much. we look forward to the show this morning, and keep it here for "state of the union with candy crowley" starting in about 13 minutes at 9:00 a.m. eastern and 6:00 a.m. pacific right here on cnn. defense lawyers for jerry sandusky are expected to present their case this week and the question remains whether he or his wife will take the stand. we will preview the defense
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were involved in the second mile charity. so what will his defense be? here is jean casarez from "in session" on trutv with a preview. we believe that the defense will begin presenting their case tomorrow right here in bellefonte, pennsylvania, at the courthouse. the defense doesn't have to prove anything at all, but their witness list is voluminous, and they have over 100 witnesses, and there is one thing about this, jerry sandusky wanted the case right here in centre county, and he wanted it where he founded the second mile. he wanted it where he was a coach at penn state university. who best can describe his years? dottie sandusky, his wife. it is believed she may take the stand to change the focus of this case so that the jury will hear about the good things that he did, the children he helped, the charity he founded, and his years with his family. they adopted six children of their own. now, there is also a big question about jerry sandusky taking the stand.
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what we know is that jerry has done two interviews since he was charged with 52 counts of sexual abuse, and we know he likes to talk. he may very well take the stand in his own defense to say, i d didn't do all of this. yes, i showered with young men, but i never had a sexual intent. a much like michael jackson-type defense that, yes, i slept in beds with young children, but i didn't mean anything by it. but the big question is, will they now present a mental disorder in front of the jury? the judge is saying they can do it. histrionic disorder is where someone has an aggressive person personality to seek out attention even to the point of making sexual aggressive moves on others merely for attention and nothing more. but the prosecution can have that psychologist exam jerry sandusky if they go that way, and that means that a psychologist of the commonwealth could determine that jerry sandusky is a classic pedophile.
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it'll be a big decision for the defense to make, but they can do it if they want to. we shall see. reporting from bellefonte, pennsylvania, i'm jean casarez. >> jean, thank you. we now know that the judge will allow the defense to allow testimony on whether jerry sandusky has that histrionic di order and he is to be exam pin ed ed by the the prosecution's psychologist and we will keep you updated as the story develops. as you are waking up this morning you don't want to think about chores like even making your own bed so we have good news and a possible solution. there is a bed now that will make itself. we will show you how it works. rg fountain at the mall. [ male announcer ] great tasting tap water can come from any faucet anywhere. the brita bottle with the filter inside. until i got a job in the big apple. adjusting to city life was hard for me. and becoming a fulltime indoor cat wasn't easy for atti.
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tomorrow, the michigan state lawmaker who was punished after saying vagina in a speech will join in a special performance of the vagina monologues on the capitol steps of lancing. she will be joined by the award-winning playwright, and several democratic lawmakers. lisa brown was giving an impassioned bill about abortion. let's listen. >> i have not asked you the adopt or adhere to my religious beliefs and why are you asking me to adopt yours? and finally, mr. speaker, i'm flattered that you are all so interested in my vagina, but no means no. >> michelle lawmakers say she was not punished forr esaying
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vagina, but for violating decorum of the legislature. and when the alarm goes off, the last thing i'm worried about is making my bed. and it turns out that smoothing the pillows and the sheets may one day be a thing of the past. jean jeanne moos explains. after all of the centuries of making beds, finally someone is making a bed that makes itself. >> would i get that? in a second. >> reporter: it is called the smart bed. three seconds after it senses a human has left the bed, it begins making itself. up comes a little sideboard, and then a mechanical arm pop up that gathers the cover. eventually the pillows are drawn up to make room, and the whole thing takes about 50 seconds. finally the pillows plop down. >> it is the answer to a problem which doesn't exist. >> reporter: tell that to messy teenagers like the one who took to youtube to mimic her mom.
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>> you are going the have to make this bed. this bed is not going to make itself. >> reporter: you want to bet? a spanish en tre fpreneur made the prototype, and who like mary poppins wouldn't like beds to make themselves or unlike george jetson. it jettisoned out as the bed put it away, and the smart bed would require you to buy special bottom sheets that velcro on and special duvet and other pieces that have special cords to allow the bedding to move. no price is put on the bed since it is a prototype, but is this smart bed smart enough to handle a nocturnal apocalypse like sheets strewn about like bodies on a battlefield. >> if you sleep as messily as do. >> what if you kick the sheets. >> what if you hit the floor. >> fall out of the bed? >> and what happens to get the sheets back on the bed.