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>> reporter: well, we did talk to police here in rialto. by all accounts this was an accidental drowning. there were no signs of foul play. basically this morning around 5:00 p.m. a 11 call came in from rodney king's fiancee. she heard a splash, went out and rodney king was at the bottom of the pool. police responded. they were unable to revive him and he was pronounced dead later at a local hospital. rodney king made swimming a daily part of his life. it was a ritual. as we've been told rodney king was swimming in many ways because of the therapy he sustained during his injuries, physical therapy. this was part of his routine every day. no one at cnn knows rodney king
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more than stan. when you met up with rodney about a month and a half ago you were in the backyard in the pool. this was part of his life. >> well, when i asked him how did you manage to survive the beating 20 years ago? he mentioned that was his main objective to get through that terrible phase in his life. the other phase was his struggle with addiction. at the poolside, although it was a ritual for him, he also made it a point to try and get his life together. his fiancee cynthia was an integral part of that. swimming was not just physical therapy, but it was the mental therapy he needed to cope with his other struggles in life. >> can you characterize just sort of where rodney king was at in his life a short while ago when you interviewed him?
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>> joyous. a tender heart, but a very disturbed soul. that was primarily because of his struggle with alcohol addiction. in foeb, ebruary, he had been p on misdemeanor for a reckless violation. he had been drinking and continued to drink, and that was his big struggle. overall, his fiancee cynthia was a major support system in his life. when i spoke to her this morning, she was incredibley morseful and beyond her ability to compose herself. all i can do is feel so much for her and the rest of the king family. >> thank you, stan, for your unique insights to rodney king. police will look to. rodney had a problem with alcohol. there were no signs there had been a party or drinking
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poolside. that's another stone they'll have to turn over. back to you. >> thank you, paul and stan for that reporting. many of the people who knew rodney king are reacting to his death. people all over the world saw that taped beating and it brought the issue of race in america into the national conversation in a very big and very different way. one of the people who knew him is pat morrison of the "los angeles times," joining us now. good to see you. you describe that it was always very difficult for rodney king to strike some balance with being thrust into this situation that made him a symbol of something so many, particularly in the black community, had been saying for a long time was happening, that police officers were beating black suspects. this time it was caught on videotape and thereby rodney king came to symbolize what was happening for a long time. >> rodney king said he was an
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unlikely symbol. as big as he was, as broad as his shoulders were, don't know he was capable of bearing that particular burden. i asked him whether it was worth it, this beating caught on videotape that changed so many things about los angeles? he said he was glad ultimately it happened to him because it did make for those changes. his name now is symbolic. a police officer told him once, rodney, your name is going to be known when we've all been dead for 100 years. >> how did he accept that? >> it was a big burden for him. i think there was at first this sense of kind of the awe of celebrity that important people wanted to meet him. after a while, the fact rodney king became a symbolic name and the person was a little bit different. he was a happy-go-lucky guy, a ne'er do well. after the riots police would stop him and say it's rodney king. you are just be careful. >> you describe him as happy go
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lucky. we heard from stan wilson who said he was joyous, he had a tender heart, yet he continued to be or was in and out of trouble an awful lot after that very public incident. what did he say was at the root of that trouble, whether trouble followed him or whether he found himself in trouble a lot? >> i think it was a little bit of both. certainly the fact the spotlight was on him after the riots, after the trials made him more vulnerable to some of these pressures. he had this element of glenn king, the name the family and friends all knew him by. the guy who loved to go fishing and hang out with friends. he knew people were watching him. he was disappointed from time to time he would have let them down. >> a year after his beating there was the 1992 riots. what did he say in most recent years how he assessed those '92
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riots, whether there was a feeling off responsibility or guilt that he simply felt by nature of how this all started with the beating of him by police officers? >> i don't think guilt would characterize it at all. i think he was shocked as many angelinos were. he talked to the public and said, can't we all get along? this comes from his days going to the jehovah witness kingdom hall when they were worshipping with latinos and asians. he understood, he said, the first couple of hours, maybe the first day was about political protest and anger, but after that he couldn't understand the looting, rioting, children and older people, as he said, getting in harm's way. >> and that can't we all get
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along came from his heart. his attorneys wanted him to say something else. they had something written and scripted for him. he bypassed that and went with his heart. pat morrison, thank you for your time and perspective. >> a pleasure. tonight cnn presents "race and rage" 8:00 eastern time, 5:00 pacific right here on cnn. we have a winner in greece's critical parliamentary elections. the country's conservative new democracy party has declared victory over the leftist party. the lead wasn't big enough to form a government on its own and it will now look for coalition partner. the outcome is expected to have a significant impact on the world's financial markets tomorrow. we'll tell you how in just a few minutes. in egypt, polls have closed in the presidential run-off there. voters turned out in spite of the extreme heat to cast their
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come into red lobster and sea food differently. republicans are struggling to have you a nighted response on the president's new immigration policy. this morning republican senator john mccain said this executive order will likely be challenged in court. former republican presidential candidate rick santorum called the execution of the policy outrageous. latinos like jose antonio vargas who wrote a "time" magazine cover story about being undocumented maintains the new policy is hopeful, even if it doesn't benefit him.
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>> these are americans. at the end of the day, giving them status to go to school and live their lives and a work permit is good for all of america. it's good for all of us. >> looking at the criteria of this policy that is now effective immediately, and it seems as though just from you riddled off, you qualify, you're law-abiding, you went to school, you went to college, but you have to be under 30 and you're 31. >> today i have to say today is probably the day i feel old. i haven't acquired that feeling before. i feel old today. i traveled since coming out of the "new york times" magazine last year. i've been to 20 states, countless cities, meeting face-to-face, talking, hearing the stories of the dreamers. >> is this bittersweet for you? >> no. this is such a big win. it's beyond politics. it's not about democrat.
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it's not about republican. it's not about obama's re-election strategy. at the end of the day these are everyday people trying to live their lives and trying to live as fully as they can. let's bring in brian monroe, editor of cnn politics.com. are only the republicans having trouble mounting a united front, but among them mitt romney's response has been tepid, described which some. let's remind everyone what he had to say friday. >> i think it's unfortunate this sort of thing comes up 4 1/2 months before the election. president's been in office 3 1/2 years. he had both houses of congress, did nothing in his first two years with them. of course, this comes up at a time when it's a temporary measure. we need something that's long-term so people can understand what the future will be for them. >> does that response indicate there is an internal struggle
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within the republican party or perhaps even just within his republican candidacy about how to handle this issue? >> mitt romney has come out clearly against the dream act. he did that last year and several months ago reiterated it. in some ways, i think the obama administration painted him into a corner. it made it clear that he has to take a stronger position one way or the other. fully against anything that smells like amnesty or come over and say, maybe this might be a good idea. right now, they are stuck because the republicans have very clearly been against the dream act or anything that was like that. even though there was agreement on many of the principles. >> did it appear romney is uncomfortable even talking or venturing into this area because he's made it clear or his camp made it clear they want to focus on the economy, and this immigration issue is a potential
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distraction from his strategy? >> well, on one hand he may be hitting on the right track. in survey after survey, while immigration is always important issue to the american people, it's never ranked as highs a the economy or the debt ceiling or taxes. this is an issue that is not in his wheel house. he knows it. >> now, what's at stake potentially for the sitting president who is trying to keep his post there at the white house? we heard john mccain earlier who said he is not so sure there will be a challenge on capitol hill, but there will likely be a challenge on this executive order in the court system. what is at stake for the president? >> clearly, the republicans in congress were not too happy about this. they felt it was an end run around their process. this wasn't an executive order. it was a process of homeland security to stop an enforcement of the regulation. many in congress felt they were cut out of the process.
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the administration will come back and say they gave them plenty of time to act on the dream act as a whole. even yesterday the president reiterated he wants them to, again, take action on the dream act. right now, they are not too happy with him. >> that moment friday, we are looking at the videotape, president in the rose garden. certainly his announcement elicited an emotional response from many on all sides. it elicited a response from a reporter from the "daily color website" who interrupted the president, except the reporter later would say i thought the president was done and that's why i spoke at that moment. does that display a level of disrespect that trickled from some leaders of congress we saw during his first state of the union address to campaign strategists talking about the heckling, if that's allowed, et
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cetera, to now members of the press? >> this has been a fiery issue both in the journalistic community, those who cover the white house and amongst readers at hope. we have a piece on cnnpolitics.com asking was that an appropriate move or disrespectful? most folks who cover the white house know it's important for reporters to be aggressive and ask questions of the president, but not when he's speaking and doing prepared remarks. if you look at the videotape, you can see that reporter, neil monroe, no relation, he didn't have a notebook in his hand. it was almost a confrontational approach to the president. >> do we know whether his credentials have been jeopardized for violating a certain code of conduct among the white house press corps there? >> not that i know. folks i talked with know that's something that has to be worked through. certainly, i think just about everyone you talk to that covers the white house knows he crossed a line.
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he should not have gone there. we are hearing a lot from the reaction from readers and others about did he go too far. >> brian monroe, thanks for joining us. happy father's day. we took you away from your family. >> they are right outside. happy father's day to my dad general james monroe. and your father. >> thank you so much. he is listening and watching. those elections in greece could have an impact on your finances. you see us, at the start of the day. on the company phone list that's a few names longer. you see us bank on busier highways. on once empty fields. everyday you see all the ways all of us at us bank are helping grow our economy. lending more so companies and communities can expand, grow stronger and get back to work. everyday you see all of us serving you,
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candidate tsipras hoe wants to tear up the debt deal with europe and samaras who wants to keep the debt deal intact. results are in. let's go to matthew chance in athens. how does it look? >> reporter: well, fredericka, if you're worried about your 401(k) you can probably breathe a sigh of relief for the moment, at least. even though the threat hasn't dissipated all together, it receded this evening because results of the final results delivered a victory of sorts for one of the parties that backs the austerity deal and backs the financial commitments that greece has made to its international creditors. that's an enormous relief to many people in the your owe zone and many people around the world watching this intently. if greece had gone the other
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way, and it could have according to the opinion polls in the weeks ahead of the election, it may have gone back on those agreements and crashed out of a single currency. that would have had a knock-on effect all over the economy. the new democracy emerged with the largest number of seats and are looking to form the next government. and to keep greece on the path of economic reform. >> were there some remarks that were already delivered by this presumed winner? >> yes, there have. samaras is most likely to be the next greek prime minister. he said this victory for his new democracy party is a victory for greece. also a victory for europe, as well. he promised to put the country back on what he calls a path to hope, an acknowledgement of the fact that the country has been
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in deep recession over the past five years. unemployment among the youth has risen to well over 50%. half of all people between ages 16 to 24 don't have a job. obviously, that creates a depressed poverty-stricken atmosphere in this country. he's vowed to try to address that and go back to the troika, the imf and the european union to try to renegotiate the terms to inject a growth element into them. austerity by itself isn't working. everybody acknowledges that. at least greece isn't going to turn its back on its international creditors. it will continue, for the moment at least, in the single currency in the euro. >> matthew chance in athens, thanks so much. back in this country with the passing of rodney king, we'll look back at his tumultuous life. and the sporting world is mourning the loss of an olympic great. long-time american public servant and great family friend.
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reggie pearman died monday from complications of pneumonia. he will be laid to rest this week in brandywine, maryland. i talked to his daughter lydia who reminded me how privileged she and i are and our siblings are to learn and be guided first hand by a remarkable generation of exceptional world class athletes like mr. pearman and my dad mal whit field who would dedicate their lives to sport, global humanity and service. after his olympic and athletic career he would dedicate his services to the peace corps, public school teaching and climb the ranks of the u.s. office of education. a bit frail and moving gingerly, he told me back in 2008, before the beijing games, years of hard training caught up with his body, but he had no
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what are you waiting for? this is big news. rodney king's body has been transported to a coroner for an autopsy. he was found at the bottom of his swimming pool this morning. you grew up in california and remember the beatings of rodney king and the riots that ensued. it feels like it happened yesterday. >> it was a formative week for all of los angeles, white, black, asian. whatever you were, if you were living in the city you were affected by it. rodney king died earlier today at his home at the age of 47. it was this scene caught on camera that would turn rodney
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king's life and los angeles upside down. in 1991, king led police officers from the lapd on a high-speed chase after leaving a friend's house during a night of drinking. >> i had a job to go to that monday. i knew i was on parole and knew i wasn't supposed to be drinking. >> reporter: what transpired in its aftermath changed the dialogue on race in america. king, 25 when the incident happened, was nearly beaten to death. he was in surgery for five hours. he admitted he should have stopped the car. following a three-month trial, three of the officers involved in the beating were acquitted on charges of assault with a deadly weapon and excessive use of force. the jury was deadlocked in the case of the fourth officer. the verdict sparked riots across los angeles. in l.a. riders ran through the streets, looting businesses, torching buildings and attacking those who happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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at least 50 people were killed and $1 billion worth of property was damaged. as the riots entered their third day, rodney king emerged to plea. >> can we all get along? >> in the years that followed, king struggled to leave his past behind. >> you didn't want to be part of history? >> no. i wasn't expecting to get tossed in history like that. unfortunately, it happens to us unexpectedly to some of us. i was one of the unexpected ones to survive through it. >> reporter: in his later years, he battled addictions to drugs and alcohol. never escaping the demons that caused his infamous encounter with the los angeles police officers. rodney king, whether he wanted to accept it or not, was an infamous character in los angeles and u.s. history. in a recent interview he said, "understand, we can all get along. it will always be my saying and that's how i will want to be
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remembered." >> again, the police underscore it was the fiancee who heard a splash of water. she couldn't swim so she couldn't jump in the water to try to save rodney king. >> he was a big man. >> she called 911. officers arrived and consequently found rodney king's body at the bottom of the pool. thanks for that update. appreciate it, nick. is the millenal generation giving up on god? a new survey indicates a growing number of young people have doubts that god exists.
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a cording to pew research, americans under 30 who never doubted god's existence dropped 15 points in five years from 83% to 68%. is the millennial generation giving up on god? eric joins me now from washington. good to see you. why is this apparent drop-off in belief seem to be so concentrated among younger americans? >> this group of millennials is interesting. it's important to note there are 2/3 of millennials who say they have never doubted god. when you look at the way the question was phrased by pew, i never doubted the existence of god. millennials don't like words like "never." they are much more interested in the gray. that's my experience in talking with a lot of millennials. for a lot of religions, doubt and questioning, that's still a big part of the religious
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journey for a lot of folks. in particular in the stories in christianity and judahism we see a lot of characters in the bible wrestling with doubts about the existence of god. i think with millennials we are seeing a lot of that. i think it has to do with the technology. they can't remember life about the internet. >> does that point to why now? >> you can make that leap. if they have question about doubt and their life they can get to it and find it. now we are seeing a spike on college campuses of secular groups who welcome and embrace this doubt. while millennials are less likely to be atheist, only about 3% of american millennials are atheist, we are still seeing a big spike where kids can come out and question together and figure things out as they go. >> is there a difference, a
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notable dir notable difference how religious groups might be reaching out to younger people to get them reinterested or enticed at all? >> absolutely. we are seeing lots of religion groups in particular reach out in ways like social media. there are a number of services who are streaming on facebook now. today even as we speak around the country. it gives millennials a chance and everybody a chance to scope them out before they head out there, check them out online. we are seeing a lot of pastors on twitter and facebook connecting to folks who they never would have had a chance to do. there aren't many people in america who had a chance to go back and forth with rick warren. now you can do that on twitter. there's a big reaching out from a lot of groups. the catholic church is going to have their own social media push in the not-too-distant future. we are seeing a reaching out to hit millennials where they are. whether or not it's going to work and that doubt meter is going to shift the other way to
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absolute faith, i think that's probably unlikely. what we may see is more of these millennials getting back into it, checking it out and feeling things out for themselves. >> interesting stuff. thanks for bringing that us to. what will happen if more people continue to question the existence of god? decades from now could that mean people stop believing? cnn's don lemon plays devil's advocate tonight at 10:00 eastern time. check out our belief blog. you can add your own comments, as well. some struggling families are forced to decide between buying food or diapers. how one woman is helping moms living in poverty.
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it's something many of us take for granted, buying food, milk, diaper for the baby. mothers living in poverty are forced to pick one or the other. as our lisa sylvester finds out one woman is on a mission to help moms take care of all the needs. >> reporter: just a few miles from the white house, in a
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neighborhood called anacostia, poverty is so rampant, many mothers have to make a choice. >> choose between feeding their family and diapers, they are going to feed their family. >> reporter: people here so poor, the little things we take for granted are out of reach. naisha davis is a mother of three. the simple act of keeping her baby dry and clean is not so simple. >> before i had my daughter, i didn't know how many pampers i would really use in a day, in a week and a month's time. it's a lot. >> reporter: an average of eight diapers a day, about 240 diapers a month at a cost of more than $100. she can't afford enough diapers for her baby. you can't get diapers through the food stamp program. it's considered a hygiene item, often the only alternative, reusing diapers.
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>> i'm the executive director of the d.c. diaper bank. >> reporter: boxes and boxes of donated diapers. being delivered to a neighborhood community center. >> hi, sweetie. >> diapers are a necessity for infants. you have a mom who wants to work, has been trying to work, doesn't have enough diapers to send her child to daycare. has to stay home with that baby. >> reporter: corinne became a mom the first time in 2009. the first months with a colicky baby were rough. >> one night around 5:00 a.m. i had been up with him all night. i thought how do you do this if you don't have somebody you can call? after we got out of that hazy first six months of having an infant, we looked around and said what can we do to help families? i called organizations, what do you need? i can give time, money, what can you need? i was blown away when they said diapers. >> reporter: corinne started the d.c. diaper bank, an idea
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catching on nationwide. she recently helped launch the national diaper bank network. each one of these boxes contains 50 diapers. the d.c. diaper bank distributed 2,600 boxes in the last year, more than 130,000 diapers. the diapers are donated. from individuals and corporations. >> this is a need they want to help. we are doing this so they don't to wonder where the diapers are coming from. they can have time with their baby and smile at their baby and know that there's a network here that is going to help them and support them. these are all our kids. >> thank you. >> that will last you for a week. >> whether we see them or not, we are all one large community. i want to make sure our kids are taken care of. >> lisa sylvester joining me from washington. are in programs like this in other cities. surely, there is a great need in other cities, too.
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>> yeah. as a mom you can just imagine what it would be like if you're not able to provide the basic necessity of diapers for your children. what has happened is really in the last ten years or so, there are individual groups that started in arizona and connecticut and started spreading through church groups and community groups. they have about 100 of these diaper banks. what they did is have all come together. there is now a national diaper bank network. you can go online and get information there. they are now working together. it's, as you said, this need is not just in washington, d.c. there are impoverished women throughout this country facing the same thing. food stamps, you can't pay for diapers with food stamps. you can't for it with the women and infant program. they have no way of getting diapers. some mothers end up having to reuse a diaper. >> oh, my goodness. clearly, a lot of these programs could use help, donations, assistance of some kind.
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>> i would advise people, if you see the story and this calls to you, you want to help, go to the national diaper bank network's website. i believe we have a full screen we can put up for you. diaperbanknetwork.org. there is a wealth of information there. they have a list of organizations you can connect with. you can start a diaper drive if you're part of a community, part of a church, a company. you can run a diaper bank. you can certainly start with a drive collecting diapers. they always welcome diapers. >> someone is in need and could use that effort. >> absolutely right. >> thank you, lisa sylvester from washington. 40 years ago the watergate scandal forced president nixon to resign. which is why at wells fargo, we work with you to get to know the unique aspects
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battleground states already. hess last stop will be in troy, ohio, in about an hour from now. he's campaigning with potential vice presidential pick senator rob portman. later this evening, president barack obama heads to mexico for the g-20 summit. the group of 20 is made up of the world's biggest economies. the summit comes a day after parliamentary elections in greece. the financial turmoil in greece will be on the g-20 agenda. today marks the 40th anniversary of the watergate scandal. even now we tend to affix the word "gate" to anything remotely scandalous. candy crowley with why this suffix is so notorious. >> reporter: today is the 40th anniversary breaking into watergate. it's the name of the building
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complex housing d.c. offices. in the history books it's the scandal that brought down richard nixon. the oxford english dictionary devotes considerable space to the word including the modern use of the word "gate." the continued success of gate, it reads, shows how english speakers welcomed the means to describe any scandalous event with a snappy suffix. there has been travelgate, billygate, monicagate -- >> someone got access to my account. that's bad. they sent a picture that makes fun of the name weiner. i get it. >> weinergate. >> i'm announcing my resignation from congress. >> climategate, koreagate. >> it's fair to say any of us would be pretty angry. number two that the cambridge police acted stupidly.
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>> henley lewis gates-gate. no resignations, just a round of beers and awkward photo op closed the books on that one. initial google search turns up more than 120 gates, contragate, memogate, nannygate. examples range beyond u.s. borders and the confines of politics. >> if there is one thing that's followed you -- >> tasergate. >> troopergate. >> palin's troopergate is not the same as president clinton's troopergate. that dealt with four arkansas state troopers and alleged extramarital affair and federal jobs. after 40 years, sometimes it's hard keeping the gates straight. >> thanks to you, we are keeping it straight. candy crowley, appreciate it. the struggling economy is creating a nightmare scenario for some parents in greece. what they are being forced to do with their kids. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com
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they witnessed a surge in the number of greek families unable to feed and clothe their children. >> i think that is first time for us. i'm working since 1982. for the first time i see so many poor families ask for help for their own children. >> reporter: austerity and years of recession are literally breaking up families here. of course, there have always been orphans, children in care in greece, but what's changed over the course of the past two years is this, previously children in care came from problem families, parents who were drug addicts or alcoholics, but over the past two years, that's transformed dramatically. the vast majority now come from families who simply can't afford to look after their children.
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parents like cassiani, a single mother, unemployed and unable to care for her three children. we caught one of her rare visits. >> pleased to meet you. how are you? >> michaela, good to see you. giving up this family, she told me, was painful, but in greece's economic climate, still her best option. >> translator: it's really difficult, really tragic for a true mother to leave her children, but when you understand they're not at fault and deserve a future, it's better to make a move like this then have them beside you without even a plate of food. >> reporter: who do you blame for putting your family in this situation? do you blame the government? do you blame the economic crisis? who do you hold responsible? >> translator: for me, it's all those
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