was because of the type of persona he presented to the public prior to that scandal and of course, i am not a crook and that whole sort of thing. i really think in terms of the reason why it hurts paterno so much is the same thing john's been talking about. the let form that he's had his persona placed upon, being a person of integrity. this isn't a single act. the freeh report said this was a 14-year stretch. you go beyond making a single mistake to a conscious decision to have a cover-up and that really tarnishes the conversation. president clinton you can pretty much say he had a weak moment with a young lady in his white house and it's hard to describe that when you have a 14-year cover up with paterno. legacy, obviously, is key right now and the big focus. john, lz, appreciate it, thank you so much. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello, everyone. top of the hour. i'm poppy harlow in for don

lemmon. this is not good for the president of syria. one of his most senior officials has defected and now he's talking. nawaf was the syrian ambassador to iraq. not anymore, he fled his post and fled to another country and is supporting the rebels trying to throw out president bashar al assad. >> translator: the regime in syria is a totalitarian regime and dictatorship. there is only one person who gives the orders. one person who is the president. >> fares talked to cnn from his secure location in qatar. the syrian capital damascus has witnessed the most intense fighting yet today according to activists. the opposition said 57 people have been killed across the country. activists also have a message for president obama. they say the time for action is now regardless of how it might impact the election.

>> translator: with regard to america specifically, we would like to say to president obama that waiting for election to make a move on syria is unacceptable for syrians. it ignores the tens of thousands of syrian civilians. because of an election campaign. >> and an american pastor kidnapped in egypt apparently had no idea that where he was traveling was a very dangerous area. pastor michelle louis was abducted with a parishioner and tour guide. his son talked to randi kaye about their ordeal and how it's taken a toll on all of them especially the pastor's wife. >> it's all undecided, and i just -- she even right now seems like a dream to her. a nightmare. another chapter in the global rate fixing scandal. according to a report today in "the new york times," the u.s. justice department says it is looking into possible criminal

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the state of florida will now have access to a federal law enforcement database to challenge the eligibility of voters. state officials sued last month to get access to that database in an attempt to purge non-citizens from voting rules. a handful of key states have been closely following the legal fight in hopes of pursuing their own voter rules. and florida's lieutenant governor thought she would just be helping out the romney campaign at an event yesterday, but instead she ended up defending herself to reporters, denying rumors of a sex scandal. here is adrian moore from our affiliate wjxt in florida. >> i haven't done anything wrong. it's a total lie. . >> reporter: lieutenant governor jennifer carroll didn't waste any time addressing the sex scandal that's making headlines. >> immediately i've become an individual that's not accused and in america and now i'm guilty until proven innocent. >> reporter: carroll was in

orange park to help open a new campaign office for presumptive republican presidential nominee mitt romney? spent much of the day defending allegations she had an inappropriate relationship with an aide. carlit carlitia cole faces felony charges for recording conversations with with the chief of staff. >> i'm the one that's married for 29 years. thea, khaccuser accuser has bee for a long time. not only did she have her husband and son nolan on hand for support, but plenty of the defenders who say the accusations are nothing more than a smear campaign. >> being a public figure, you'll have things like that that come up, and when i heard that i actually giggled about it because you know it's just ridiculous. >> that's so wrong, and i -- i followed her career enough to know that's not in her personality. shieldn't be doing that stuff.

>> reporter: as for carroll's focus now, putting what she calls outlandish rumors to rest. serving the state of florida and helping the romney campaign get to the white house. >> under his policies and his leadership, that this entire country is going to be better off. >> thanks again to adrian moore from our filiate wjxt. mitt romney and president obama are neck and neck in the polls except when it comes down to race. romney has a 15-point advantage over the president among white voters, but only 5% of black voters say they would vote for mitt romney. i talked about race and the election with anna navarro, republican strategist and frederick harris with a political science professor and i asked dana about romney's speech and why he said if people knew what was in his heart they would vote for him. take a listen. >> think mitt romney has a problem emoting and i think we

all need to hear more of what's in his heart and i don't think that mitt romney went to the naacp to speak to the 5,000 people that were in that room and he knew he was going to get booed. i saw him get booed from south carolina a month before when he spoke in front of a latino audience. what he's chosen to do is i'm going to stay consistent and yoll not hear me pandering and say different things to one audience to another. that's the choice he made and it was courageous to go there and the naacp is a nonpartisan organization and they gave hem a lot more applause than they did boos and they did 25, between applauses. that's what we've all focused on, but, you know, and though they are non-partisan, though, they're members, and can be partisan and most of them are democrats and most are for barack obama. >> he was applauded when you talked about defending traditional marriage and other topics.

what do you think, professor? why do you think that -- this he's having such a hard time resonating with black voters. >> i'm not sure how courageous he is. he's been strategic. he's come trying to come off as this compassionate conservative as president obama did in 2000. i don't think black voters care all that much about what's in his heart. i think they care more about how his policies are going to speak to black america. what is romney's plan for criminal justice reform? what is mitt romney's plan for the high levels of black unemployment? and so, you know, it was mostly rhetoric, and it was mostly him bashing the president again about obama care and so unfortunately, the republican party has provided no new bold initiatives or alternatives when it comes to black america. we have the same, old, tired proposals around vouchers that

have been touted around ever since reagan was in the white house in the 1980s. i don't hear anything new as coming from the republicans. >> guys, let's talk about jobs and ana, to you first. even under this president, president obama that has the support of the majority of black voters you've got almost 14.5% unemployment for black americans. it's 7.4% for white americans and it's 8.2% average and for hispanics it's 11%. so when you're -- when you're addressing that group that was just so helpful to the president in 2008 in getting him elected and jobs are the number one issue, once again, the economy and jobs this election, has the president failed voters, black voters when it comes to jobs? >> you know, that's going to be a question that black voters are going to have to answer, but obviously, you're looking at black voters that have been disproportionately affected by this economy under obama.

14.4% is a painful, painful statistic and not only that, but you know, i think one of the problems that barack obama has with the black voters is that there were huge expectations by the african-american community on what having that first african-american president would mean, and i think many of them are disillusioned the same way that latinos were disillusioned and there were many promises years ago that he has not delivered on and that's why, though, he still has the predominant support of the african-american community. it has slipped according to polls seven or eight points and that could make all of the difference, poppy, in states like florida that will be very close. >> for his part, president obama says he's glad mitt romney spoke to the naacp convention saying it shows his rival is willing to speak to all americans. a major defection in syria. one of the president's senior officials jumped ship and is

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nearly four years that is, until a few days ago when he suddenly announced his defection. >> what prompted you to say i've had it. i don't want to work with this government anymore. >> translator: i served sirtian regime for 34 years, but after what happened in the holy revolution, all of the killing, the massacres and the refugees, i don't see how anyone can remain silent so i decided to end my relationship with this regime. >> fares has long been one of the trusted lieutenants, an insider who knows how the syrian government works. >> reporter: who is making the decisions in damascus right now? >> translator: the regime in syria is a totalitarian regime and a dictatorship. there is only one person who gives the orders. that person is the president. >> reporter: in his first interview with the u.s. news organization since his defection fares rejected syrian government

claims that the syrian rebels are al qaeda terrorists. instead, he accuses the assad regime of cooperating with al qaeda ever since the u.s. invasion of iraq in 2003 by paving the way for al qaeda militants to transit syria to target neighboring iraq. >> translator: bashar al assad and his security forces are directly responsible for the killings of thousands and thousands of iraqis and coalition forces because he gave al qaeda everything it needed. he trained them and gave them shelter. >> reporter: fares points to a controversial cross-border u.s. military raid in 2008 against the syrian town of al suk ria. fares claims the target was an al qaeda camp run by the brother-in-law of the syrian president. >> reporter: you saw with your own eyes that he was leading this al qaeda in iraq operation?

>> translator: one hour after the raid assef was there at the location. a conversation took place between me and him and he was angry about the attack made against al sukariya and he was scared. >> reporr: he is now in doha under the protection of the qatari government. syrian opposition members applaud the ambassador's defection, but tell cnn they don't trust a man who waited 16 months before joining the uprising. >> reporter: what message would you like to send to bashar al assad and to your former colleagues in the government right now? >> translator: my former colleagues, i ask them to join the people and leave this corrupt regime. there is still time. to bashar assad i say you don't know history. two wills cannot be defeated, the will of god and the will of the people. history will curse you for the crimes you committed in syria. >> reporter: a blunt warning from a man who was once one of the syrian regime's top

enforcers. ivan watson, cnn, doha. >> great reporting, ivan. nawaf al fares says the syrian opposition is claiming for some time. cnn's fredericka whitfield asked retired army general whether he is surprised to hear about a possible link between the al assad regime and al qaeda. >> they were providing safe haven and sanctuary to al qaeda elements transiting through damascus, going into iraq and killing iraqi civilians and killing american soldiers and we told him this must stop. >> the former syrian ambassador to iraq also telling ivan watson that he was furious that an al qaeda safe house was hit in iraq in 2008. does this information shed any new light on overall al qaeda sympathizers? >> well, what it demonstrates is that despite the syrian

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deal of people that were scared of the muslim brotherhood and they voted for the other candidate shafik that was more aligned with the military council, and so when they met the koptic christians when they met with secretary clinton they felt that you are siding with the muslim brotherhood. what the secretary said in her speech at the consulate right before this event was the u.s. doesn't pick any win withers or losers. we're looking to help you with the democratic transition and she's talking to president mors ito get his act together and get a government together and telling the military council, get back to your day job and the democratic elected president's trying to get back to your real job of protecting the country. >> coming up on the half hour now, let's get you up to speed on headlines today. first off, a very senior syrian official breaks ranks with damascus and now supports the rebels. this man, the one-time syrian ambassador to iraq.

he says president bashar al assad is a dictator who rules syria by decree and says the only solution to ending the conflict there in all of the violence is international military intervention. the former ambassador spoke exclusively with cnn. syria's opposition is calling on president barack obama to intervene in their fight, whether it hurts his re-election prospects or not. activists say he cannot wait for election day to prevent this violence. that plea comes on a day when the capital, damascus saw its heaviest fighting yet. in all, 57 people killed there today according to activists. 70 years ago american citizens across the united states were rounded up, and forced into internment camps just because of their race. just because they were asian. now asian-americans are poised to enter the nation's most powerful legislative body in

record numbers. get this, 24 asian-americans are running for congress this year across 13 states. several are hong to become their state's first asian-american member of congress. we've got a very special guest with us to talk about it all. congresswoman judy chu. we appreciate it and for our viewers who don't know you, in 2009 you became the first chinese-american woman elected to congress. i was reading an article from 2009 and you said, quote, it was like a light went off in my head. it was the first time it occurred to me an asian-american leader. very symbolic. what are you seeing in this election? >> i feel that it's a great step forward for all of us when the people who are making the decisions about america look like america. i am so proud of these asian-americans who are now running because they see that it can be done. >> so when you talk about your constituents right now, and

obviously, you represent constituents of all different races, all different ethnicities especially in california. i looked and asian voters were only 13% of the districts that you won, what are the main concerns right now from your constituents across the board? >> they are concerned about the economy. they are concerned about getting jobs. they want to make sure that they have opportunity to succeed and they want to make sure that they can care for their families in the future. >> i do want to talk about the economy and jobs because this is issue number one across the board in this election and local elections and nationally. when with you look at the latest jobs report from the bureau of labor statistics, it actually shows that asian-americans have a much lower percent of unemployment than the national average. it's 6.3% and the national average is 8.2%. what do you attribute that to at this point in time and is it something that you agree can be, you know, changed across the

board? why do you think that asian-americans have around 6% unemployment? >> i think that the numbers may be somewhat deceptive. actually asian-americans are unemployed for longer periods of time than any other racial group in the country. also there are sub groups within asian-americans that are unemployed at a very large rate. for instance, pacific islanders are unemployed at a rate of 8.2%. so we do have groups within us that are facing severe problems. i also think that it's possible that asian-americans are not filing for unemployment because they may be working at their family business. >> that's interesting. so you think the numbers in this report obviously don't tell the full story whatsoever and this is criticism that i have heard that oftentimes asian-americans don't want to be grouped into one group, frankly, because they are so diverse, and as you pointed out when you look at

pacific islanders, their unemployment rate is staggering. >> yes. in fact, in reality, every group has those that are successful and those that are not successful. in reality asn-americans are a very diverse group and there are those that are doing well, but we must remember that there are those like the lao, the muong and cambodians having a hard time just having basic education. >> the 2010 census showed this ballooning asian-american population grouping in this population. 36% of new immigrants are asian while only 31% are latino. i love your broad read on how you think that this change that we've seen from the 2000 census to the 2010 census will affect politics both in california and nationally. >> well, asian-americans are eager to be a participant in

american society. it does mean they are new to the process, but it's interesting to note that asian-americans are more enthusiastic than ever and in fact, five out of six look forward to voting in this upcoming election. i think it's because they really appreciate being american. >> five out of six and that's an impressive turnout if it turns out to be that. i appreciate you joining us, congresswoman. it will be interesting to watch the 34 candidates and the 13 states running and possibly making history. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> more trivia for you. when it comes to healthy nutrition, do you really have to count calories and can you exercise on an empty stomach? can you eat before you go to bed? all good questions. he's here! our health expert separates fact from myth. that's coming up next.

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calories in versus calories out, it's all about stabilizing your blood sugar. eating the right amount of calories per meal so you stabilize your hormones. >> don't throw your body off and don't confuse it. just don't create deficits. when is deficit ever a good thing? >> not for our economy. so when people want to diet they think they just want to cut, cut, cut. they'll rebound and shift how we look at food. >> what about eating before bed? >> i've heard that you can't eat past 8:00 p.m. and that is totally wrong. the reality is this, if you never spike your blood sugar, and you don't eat too much you can't store fat. a baby feeds every three or four hours with a balance of protein, carbs and breast milk. you just have to eat the right thing before bed. you can eat before bed and it keeps your blood sugar balanced. >> do you know what i ate before bed last night? >> gummy bears.

>> my son loves gummy bears. >> eat protein with it. >> when hunter eats skittles, he eats string cheese. >> your son is how old? >> 7 years old. >> i'm 30. is do your cardio before your strength training. does that really matter? you don't want to do your cardio before your strength training. it takes your body to start burning fat. by simply doing your strength training by pilates first, you will burn 30% to 40% with the fat burning doing that same type of activity or you can do cardio and strength together. i've been doing that with the kettle bell swings. >> many people that walk on the treadmill for 30 minutes and then do strength training and switch that up and you'll burn more fat. >> a lot of women think i can't lift weights because i'll be too big, that's not the case. >> mussel your friend. it controls your metabolism. when people get bulky it's because they put on muscle and

you don't lose fat. you get tighter and leaner. >> what about exercising on an empty stomach? good idea? >> when your blood sugar is unstable, it burns muscle. something to fuel your body and that will help you burn fat and not muscle. >> spot reduce, you can't say i would like my arms to be much smaller, but keep my legs the way they are. >> in a perfect world, you could, but it's not the reality of it. you start losing in your face and then your neck and your limbs and then your trouble areas and unfortunately you gain weight in the areas you want to lose first and it takes you long toast lose those. so just be patient and you can take your body wherever you want. >> sleep is so critical. >> huge! sleep controls our stress hormone cortisol. so when you're in a sleep deficit, it makes you store fat. if you can manage your sleep and your stress, it will take your body to a whole other level. >> if someone can teach me to sleep eight hours and manage my

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think about all of the things you need to make it through the day, the essentials. most of the things make it to the store and to your home because a truck delivers them. now there's an alarming shortage of truck drivers and it could cost you. our athena jones explains. >> reporter: it's the only thing i've ever wanted to do.

>> reporter: in his 42 years as a trucker, david boyer has traveled more than 5 million miles. that's like going to the moon and back ten times. >> how long does it take a normal person you said to get -- >> it takes a person to drive a million miles 125 years. >> in other words, it's impossible. >> how much longer do you think you'll go. >> when i joed him, he explained why at 59 years old he's not ready to hand over his keys just yet. >> you can sit here and do an 180-degree view and everything that you see, a truck brought it in, the trees and the grass. the brick in the wall, the metal in that wall, the flowers over on that grave. anything that you get each day, a truck ends up bringing it. we're essential to the nation. >> boyer loves being on the open road and takes pride in his work. still, many drivers around his age are calling it quits.

>> as moorhead retired and trucking companies are having a hard time filling their jobs. every year one million positions become ailable according to analysts. why? the truck be lonely. drivers must also be 21 years old and undergo extensive training to get licensed, with a six-week course costing $4,000 to $6,000 on average, making it difficult to attract a new generation of truckers. starting in 2013 new federal rules that reduce the number of hours drivers can be on the road will require companies to hire een more to meet demand. driver shortages can delay deliveries and they rose 30% in the past two years according to ftr associates which tracks the industry. >> at the end of the day we pass our expenses on to customers and their customers pass it on to their customers and ultimately it ends up that the end consumer winds up bearing a brunt of that. >> as more trucking positions

become available. analysts and folks like boyer says companies should, since many of those leaving the military are used to hand willeling heavy equipment and are away from home for long stretches. athena joesnes, elkridge, maryland. sure, your smartphone can make calls. you can send e-mails. you can play videos, but a new iphone add-on promises self-defense. can you guess what it does? will it fend off evildoers with flames? electric shocks. maybe love? that's next. >> don't forget, you can watch cnn live on your computer while you're at work or on your smartphone. just head to cnn.com/tv.

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>> so there's a start-up company that's promisings a new interesting feature for your iphone, turning it into a stun gun. that's a tease for you. up in j moment. tech pro, job able joins me from new york where he tells me it's a monsoon. thank you for coming in. i appreciate it. let's talk first about what made headlines near the end of this week. yahoo hacked 450,000 pass words online. said we want this to be a wake-up, not a threat. yahoo saying it's less than 5% of those breached accounts actually had valid pass words. what's your overall take here? how big a concern is this? >> not a huge concern. this is happening a lot. li linkedin was hacked a month ago. don't use the same password multiple places. even though this attack wasn't all that terrible, if they got

your password and you use it at your bank and believe me, someone's trying, that would be terrible. overall for yahoo! not good news for this company that didn't need any more problems. we've heard a lot about this. if you have the same password or easy one, change it. let's move onto the story i really love for this segment, turning an iphone case into a stun gun. apparently this army reservist has done just that. what has he come up with? >> apparently, he was attacked in his phone and thought the solution was to convert the iphone into a taser, stun gun. he's trying to raise money on a crowd fund iing site. it's not doing that great. he has $12,000 in 13 days and his funding request is 100 grand. he'll get to keep -- the rules are different. he'll get to keep the money that

gets pledged to him. he will fill these orders. we talk about, there's an app for that and now a cover for this, i guess. >> i guess. i wonder if the company, taser, is going to be interested in this technology at all. >> there are lots of stun gun type things. literally, this is the first thing that attaches to your phone n. the idea is you always have your phone. there's that theory. >> this has a kick, i guess. i want to read you what the inventor told you. i had to test it myself and that's what i did and only as a guy with military experience did, it hurts. we're assuming this is a pretty tough guy. >> it's 650,000 volts or whatever it is. in the funding video, there isn't a piece of him getting stunned by this. we have to take his word for it. he probably did. the technology is for real. the question i have is whether

or not you going to want this on your lovely sleek phone. it makes it very very fat, bulky, how do you carry it, that sort of thing. we'll see. i'm not sure it's very practical but it certainly is original. >> you'll not be allowed to take it on planes obviously. >> or on dates probably. >> nor on dates. on a more serious note, he was attacked in his home, you said, so this is very serious for him. >> i'm sure his motives are genuine. like i said, the idea is very original. you know, personal defense industry is quite lucrative. he might be on to something. we'll have to see. >> ingenuity at its best. thank you for coming in. appreciate it. have a good night. >> you, too. >> sharks often misunderstood by so many. they're just as hungry for the same things in life. watc watch. >> oh! >> this man is about to be the

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sharks. i am terrified of them, as you may be. they're often misunderstood by humans as jeanne moos reports, sometimes they just want the same thing that we do. >> reporter: this is a tale of two fish stories, one on a deck in south carolina tuesday, the other in a boat in australia last year. in both cases, a person fishing hooks a fish only to have a shark snatch it. >> oh! >> reporter: south carolina,

australi australia. >> [ bleep ]! >> reporter: both parties took the name of the lord in vain. >> oh, jesus -- >> reporter: that's where the similarities end. >> it's a shark! a shark! a big old shark. >> that's pretty cool. >> geez, i hate sharks. >> oh jr, god! >> what a dirty scum. >> reporter: sara had never before caught a fish let alone encountered a shark. >> i was actually kind of scared because i seen it jump. i thought, my gosh, it could jump up here and get me. >> reporter: when you combine the list of americans with the chill in australians. >> bloody sharks. >> reporter: you get the catch of teday. holy bloody shark. last year, australia's nine network morning shows sent a reporter to fish for a shark supposedly sighted in a lake.

>> i will give you one chance to catch this shark. >> reporter: his cast was impressive but his catch missed the mark. >> i got a bird! i got a bird! >> oh, no. >> stop now, stop now. that's enough. >> peking duck, anyone? >> awkward. >> reporter: at lest the duck was fine, unlike the mackerel that failed to duck the shark. the one place you will never catch a shark is in a new york city subway, right? maybe you couldn't catch one but you could buy one. the website, gossimis trt bough photo toes of a baby with shark at 1:00 in the morning and wanted 100 bucks for it after it bit him on coney island. seriously, your chances are better of hooking bud than ho hooking jaws. and grabbing a brew sure beats

being shark stew. jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> i knew i had a robeason to b scared of sharks in lakes. our own soledad o'brien has her own shark tale she and british mogul sir richard branson swam with them in cancun, mexico. he's on a crusade to save them from being slaughtered and said they're being killed by the millions to make shark fin soup and can't stand for it. >> what was your reaction the first time you were eyeball to eyeball with a whale shark. >> just the sheer beauty of it. the biggest fish in the ocean. this anonymous gentle giant in the ocean. couldn't bear the idea that people are slaughter them in their millions for soup. and so