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rape. platform calling for a >> from what i understand from constitutional ban on abortion doctors, that's really rare. with no exceptions for rape and incest. if it's a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to later the platform committee shut that whole thing down. but let's assume that maybe that adopted a pair of amendments. didn't work or something. you know, i think there should be some punishment. one stating that being pro-life but the punishment ought to be is consistent with being pro-woman. on the rapist and not attacking the other supporting a ban on the child. ru-486, a similar >> well, congressman akin pregnancy-ending -- and similar yesterday went on some radio i should say pregnancy-ending shows and said he used the, drugs. quote, wrong word in the wrong an alabama delegate objected. saying in light of the akin controversy it sends the wrong way. then earlier today, took it a signal to women. step further and put out a given the gender gap romney campaign ad, again apologizing for his choice of words but not appears to be facing. mentioning the bogus science. not to mention another three then late today he finally days of his own message getting up staged by something else, it addressed the notion that defied biological explanation. raised some big questions. john king is here at the magic wall to break it down for us. >> what did you mean when you >> if you look back in time, remember, george w. bush won said that the female body has twice, ronald reagan won. ways to try and shut that whole george h.w. bush won with the conservative republican thing down? platform. and you said if that doesn't work. however, mitt romney does have what did you mean by that? that gender gap you just mentioned. >> well, my only point in that want to do a little bit of history. was i had heard from medical reports that rape is such a could the todd akin problem potentially be a mitt romney traumatic type of thing that, problem? yes if they don't put it to

that it -- that there's a rest. yes, if it begins to affect him reaction. among moderate suburban women. but i -- you know, that's wrong this is the state of colorado. and that was -- that's the these are national exit polls second thing i've apologized for. from the last two presidential >> i understand that, but what elections. did you mean by the female body this is nationally. has a way to try and shut that john mccain actually won among whole thing down? i didn't understand it. suburban women. he won by four points nationwide among suburban women. >> well, i had heard one time a we all know he lost the election big time. look at 2004, george w. bush won by 12 points. medical report that said that that's the big difference. it's -- it's hard to get, um, republicans need to win big in the suburbs. um, uh -- it's harder for they also need to get suburban women or else. somebody to get pregnant under let me show you an example of those conditions. what i mean. i don't believe that's true now. here's 2008. in the state of colorado, the i, in fact, have checked the president and john mccain facts and that's wrong. actually wins by 11 points, john i was just wrong in that statement. mccain does, but he lose the state of colorado. george w. bush wins it four >> congressman akin did not years earlier because he has a elaborate on the medical report he says he heard. 16-point advantage among just keeping them honest, the idea that rape rarely leads to suburban women. pregnancy has been spread for years by anti-abortion politicians. come back to the map it i'll show you what i'm talking about. it's not just this guy akin. if you pull out the map, this is 2008. in 1995 republican representative said this in watch the denver suburbs. front of the house the closest in suburbs to urban appropriations committee. areas tend to be more moderate. see the blue for 2008? he said, the facts show that go back to 2004. people who are raped who are truly raped, the juices don't you see the red right in here in

the denver suburbs. flow, the body functions don't george w. bush does better in work, and they don't get the suburbs. george w. bush wins the election pregnant. and becomes president of the united states. medical authorities agree that this is the state where the this is a rarity, if ever. demographics are changing. virginia. so we spent today tracking down do the math first. 2004 now. the genesis of this wild but apparently accepted in some see the red. in the richmond suburbs. corners notion that a woman's in the washington, d.c. suburbs. body can shut down a pregnancy that's 2004. george w. bush does very well. in the case of rape. and it looked like it lands at he wins. the feet of this guy, john c. we come fast forward to 2000. willke, a doctor, a longtime blue. barack obama wins the washington abortion activist. suburbs. he runs the life issues wins down in the richmond institute. suburbs. and changes this. again, he only broke even with he wrote a book in 1985 titled john mccain in virginia among "abortion questions and suburban women statewide. answers." it's since been reissued and retitled, 'why can't we love closer in the city areas, he does better it look at the gap them both. questions and answers about for george w. bush. abortion." 17 points over john kerry among in it, the doctor writes about suburban women. women and hormones. anderson, close presidential elections in the united states quote, hormone production is are decided in the suburbs. controlled by a part of the brain which is easily influenced by emotions. one more example for you. we'll show you the state of there's no greater emotional ohio. trauma that can be experienced this could be the decisive state this year. by a woman than an assault rape. this is where president obama was today. again, a tie between obama and this can radically upset her. mccain in 2008. this can radically upset her we know what happened. obama carried the state 52-47. you go back in time. possibility of ovulation, george bush won by five points. fertilization, implantation and that's among just suburban

even nurturing of a pregnancy. women. setting aside the notion of some again with that same conservative platform, just to rapes not being an assault, show you what it looks like, the let's look at the science behind biggest place here in a close s statement. presidential election in ohio suffice it to say, the science when it comes down to the is lacking. suburbs, lake county, just near cleveland. see it blue. that's 2008. according to a 1996 study in the go back in time to get to 2004 american journal of obstetrics and it is red. and gynecology, the rate of rape-related pregnancy is about 5%. which is about the same as it is so close elections are won in for consensual, unprotected sex. the suburbs and they can be won based how well republicans do among suburban women. >> interesting stuff, john king, appreciate it, thanks. it allows anti-abortion i want to bring back the lawmakers to say that exceptions political panel. allowing abortions in cases of kelly ann conway and paul rape really shouldn't be an begala. issue because if a woman was pregnant, chances are she really before the break, you mentioned the good mocker institute wasn't raped or perhaps not even institution. the victim of incest. sex, selective abortion in the iowa congressman steve king was united states. here's what they said. asked yesterday about a bill in a may 30th press release. the study acknowledges the both men support, which would practice does go on overseas as ban federal funding of abortion for medicaid recipients in the cases of statutory rape or we mentioned and perhaps in incest. certain asian-american >> i just haven't heard about that. communities in the united states being a circumstance that's been in small numbers. brought to me in any personal way. but, quote, in the united i'd be open to hearing about states, meanwhile, there is limited data indicating that that discussion matter. >> that statement's gotten a lot sex-selective abortion may be of play today. occurring in some asian the question was, was he saying, communities.

although the u.s. sex ratio at as some have taken it to mean, 1.05 males for every female is that incestuous intercourse. squarely within biologically or intercourse between an older normal parameters. man and under aged girl doesn't i wanted to put that out there. lead to pregnancy? in terms of of what john king we invited him on the program. was talking about, do you he said no. believe that this can have an impact on mitt romney? we offered to send a satellite even though mitt romney's truck. position not the akin position? he declined. late today, he put out a statement. here's the relevant part of that romney says he does support statement. abortion in the case of rape an quote, i never said, nor do i incest. believe, a woman, including >> john king is correct. minors, cannot get pregnant from rape. statutory rape or incest. the election will be lost and suggesting otherwise is ridiculous, shameful, won in the suburbs particularly disgusting. among women and married women. and nothing but an attempt to falsely define who i am. i disagree with anybody who says it's going to be won or lost on i've never heard of and categorically reject the so-called medical theory that launched this controversy. the issue of abortion and so, one other late note. contraception. in everybody's polling. the deadline passed at 5:00 including cnn's polling. central time today for todd akin to drop out of the race without these issues are nowhere in the too many complications. quitting now gets tougher, more top five or top three. and voters want people to talk expensive for his campaign. we'll talk more in a moment about the things that they are talking about around the kitchen tables. about the politics of that. and the cappuccino counters. which are jobs, the economy, first, i want to bring in a doctor, dr. david grimes. really, the everyday affordability of daily life. he's an ob/gyn, epidemiologist, there is a management issue teacher of medicine, published more than 350 peer-reviewed here.

articles, 50 textbook chapters this has been a powder keg for the republican party the last and 10 books. so dr. grimes, i can't believe couple of days. and how it is managed is going to be very important. but i think that for obama to win this election he has to go back to who he was in 2008 when we're having this conversation. you've treated rape victims he ran promising no tax on the including rape victims who middle -- no tax on 95% of became pregnant for decades. when you heard what akin said, what went through your mind? americans, hope and change. i think for romney to win, he >> i was shocked as were most americans i think. has to go back to 2010, where women favored republicans over the report you spoke of, about democrats. the american journal of obstetrics and gynecology the congressional level for the first time ever. estimated some 30,000 american based solely on the economic women become pregnant every year agenda. >> paul, to kelly ann's point, by rape. when you look at polling, we see rape victims in our women's reproductive issues have office on a regular basis. barely been an asterisk on the list this year. it's a common occurrence for me to have a pregnant 13-year-old is there a risk for democrats to along with her mother, a social keep focusing on this, or do you worker, a policeman, sorting think this does have an impact through this tragedy. on romney or could? it does happen with regularity. >> i think it could have a tremendous impact. for a couple reasons. >> i've interviewed women who first, this may jump that up a have been the victim of incest who have gotten pregnant and bit. even borne children. i've interviewed women who have but also for a lot of women -- been gang raped and have borne kelley ann just mentioned children. as i mentioned, a lot of people married women. it's true. point to this doctor, john there's actually a significant marriage gap. willke, i think you say his single women tend to be much more democratic. married women tend to be much name, as a key source. more republican. both, single and married women,

which he's standing by -- i just in the main, support abortion want to read you something he rights. told "the new york times" just yesterday. this is the sort of issue for about women who have been raped. the kinds of constituencies he said, and i quote this is a president obama needs to traumatic thing. motivate, especially young she's, shall we say, she's people. that could be very powerful. uptight. we are now probably two she is frightened, tight and so generations into young women on. growing up without any worries and sperm if deposited in her about their abortion rights vagina, are less likely to be being restricted. able to fertilize. the tubes are spastic. and now you have a light shown does that make sense to you? on a long-standing republican >> utter hogwash. position that they didn't know about, young women and young men suggests that uptight women for that matter. can't get pregnant. that even in cases of rape, even in cases of incest, the republican party's proclaiming itself to be the party that will >> the flip side of that is then outlaw a woman's right to choose. that's pretty remarkable. kind of suggesting that women >> we got to leave it there. paul begala, kelly ann conway, appreciate it. whdo get pregnant are somehow if you want to see the full either haven't been raped order study, it's on our website. somehow culpable in those rapes reaching out to women is a key i assume. >> well, you're right, and that's part of the broad theme here of misogyny, that women are role that ann romney is playing. responsible for being raped. they brought it on themselves we're going to profile the woman through their provocative who could become the first lady behavior or clothing. of the united states next. and on top of that, should they be raped and they get pregnant, that too is their fault. tap... it's a double whammy it it's pinch... cruel beyond words. and zoom...

>> you also had interaction with in your car. dr. willke. introducing the all-new cadillac xts with cue. is he just -- is politics driving him? is his religious beliefs or political beliefs driving his ♪ don't worry. perception of science? we haven't forgotten, >> dr. willke is an 87-year-old you still like things to push. general practitioner who was once president of national right [ engine revs ] to life. the all-new cadillac xts has arrived, he has no scientific credentials. and it's bringing the future forward. >> for you, you're saying he's just -- he's taking a political stand or a -- just a snd based on his beliefs, he's not actually looking at science? >> correct. in medicine, opinions count only to the extent they're born out or supported by evidence. no evidence at all supports dr. willke's bizarre theorys. >> doctor, appreciate you being on. >> my pleasure. >> let's turn to the political fallout. kelly ann conway who did polling for akin during the primary but is not working for him now. also paul begala who is currently advising the top pro-obama super pac. paul what do you make of this? how likely do you think it is akin is going to drop out?

>> i don't know. i mean, the republican establishment is bringing all of the weight it can bear to drive him out of the race. one would hope it's because of these really offensive views and statements. but i have to say pragmatically, i think it's because they're scared they're going to lose election. if they really cared about these issues, they would be working to change their party platform, which really kind of reflects chances are, congressman akin's views. you're not made of money, more than it reflects main so don't overpay for motorcycle insurance. stream america's views. >> do you think this does damage to the gop writ large? as you said, they are distancing themselves but largely based on language. there are plenty of folks who geico, see how much you could save. agree with the stand of not -- of supporting abortion in the case of rape. >> right. one of them is now about to be nominated for the vice presidency. congressman ryan. they co-sponsored, along with 200 other republicans, co-sponsored legislation that would have limited the hyde amendment outlaws federal funding for abortion under the medicaid program it it's been on the books for decades.

it's always had an exception, for rape, incest and the threat to a woman's life. what others wanted to do was restrict that rape restriction exception to what they, i think in a sick way, call forcible rape, to try to -- i don't know what their motive is. i don't want to say. but anyway it would greatly one of the deadliest days in syria. restrict the access to abortion at least 230 people killed according to an opposition for rape victims. group. and that's not just -- scampi, grilled, the fried -- there's nothing better. >> critics -- critics of that, paul, were saying that if you [ male announcer ] at last, use that term, "forcible rape," red lobster's endless shrimp is back, it somehow implies that incest but only for a limited time, for just $14.99. or statutory rape is somehow not try as much as you like, any way you like, -- or rape of a -- if somebody like new parmesan crusted shrimp or new teriyaki grilled shrimp, with down syndrome -- all with salad and unlimited cheddar bay biscuits, because somehow it may be, you know, technically not a forcible for just $14.99. rape in terms of physical [ ryan ] they can try everything. they love it. violence but that it would limit i'm ryan isabell. i'm a server for red lobster, and i sea food differently. that. >> that's why i think most americans are going to find what congressman ryan and congressman akin doing pretty offensive. i have to say, even the republicans changed that language before they passed the

bill. even among conservative republicans who are pro-life, paul ryan, congressman akin are really out there. but the party has moved to that sort of extreme. this is the problem. these positions have been held by the republicans, by many republicans, for a long time. but sometimes it takes one of these events that pops and it shines a light on it. i think this is -- this is one of those events. i think this is transcending politics. i think people who don't follow politics are really appalled that one of the major political parties seem to believe that some women who are raped should not have access to abortion rights. >> kelly an ann, right now it seems there's only two groups who want akin to stay in this race. akin himself, i guess his family and some supporters. and his democratic opponent, claire mccaskill. sends a loud and clear message to him. think he's going to get that message? >> the deadline passed today. he basically has till september 25th to plead his case to a judge and take himself off the ballot. i'll just repeat what congressman akin said in the

press which is where i read it that he's going to stay in the race. on this broader point, the gop platform, that's been in the platform, that's been in the plank of the platform for as long as i can remember. and what paul is saying, you know, that it doesn't really reflect what most americans think. the republican national we all know polling has been convention opens monday in tampa. we'll of course be there all showing many people in this country want restrictions on abortion. week. i think need to talk about the mitt romney's wife, ann, will extremes on the left as well. play a prominent role. they got some pressure. convincing women to support the the press reported on august gop ticket. so up close tonight, we're going 10th that there are democrats to look at ann romney. who are going to the convention it's part of our series this week what we're taking an inside in charlotte who want their look at the candidate, his new, plank expanded. the issues and the ticket, as we they feel it's too draconian. count down to the convention. last night we examined the role it doesn't allow for partial birth abortion bans. the mormon faith plays in romney's life. it doesn't ban sex election. you've got all these little baby girls being killed just because and on the campaign trail, they're girls in this country -- romney's wife more than four >> excuse me, where is that decades is usually at his side. happening? >> excuse me. randi kaye now on the woman who could become the next first lady of the united states. >> you say we have all these baby girls being killed in this >> reporter: in the romney country on sex selections, abortions. household, ann romney has a host of titles. where is that -- trusted adviser. the mitt stabilizer. >> -- research on planned parenthood has data on sex mother and grandmother. elective abortions. but she's also the great the house just passed a bill to ban that. protector of all things romney. i'm not sure it ever went to the >> the last person on earth

senate. i'm sure obama would veto it if you'd want to cross would be ann it went to his desk -- romney. >> statistically, there's not if you go after one of her kids really much evidence that is actually occurring in the united or after her husband, she's going to be there. states. amongst some immigrant groups in >> reporter: ron scott has known small numbers it may be occurring but in no statistical mitt romney since 1985 and just wrote a book about him. measure is it significant. he says ann is no pushover. >> we should look at the >> she got into a tiff with one statistics to really illuminate of her teenage boys and he was us on that. it does occur because there's so being a smart mouth and she was much science now people can know trying to get away to go to the the gender of their baby and they make their cases cape for the weekend and he was accordingly. >> it occurs overseas a lot but going back and forth with her. again i don't think the evidence finally she got in the car and is here in the united states. slammed the door and said, see i'll double-check it. >> thank you. you later and took off and left him standing there in the i was going to say, we have to driveway. >> reporter: scott says ann even think of the gallup poll last stood up to her mother who year that showed 44% of voiced concern years ago when americans think abortions should ann and mitt started having so many children. be available, quote, in just a couple of circumstances. >> her mom said, gee, you're overpopulating the earth. people have been moving. science and religion, if not ann at one point said if you want to see your grandsons on a morality, have compelled some regular basis you need to knock people. this stuff off. the pro-life plank and the republican platform exist. >> reporter: calling him her most disobedient child. they believe in a culture of she often shares secrets about his love of chocolate milk and, life from birth -- from

conception to natural death. quote, obsession of peanut putter. and they're focused on the right and of course tales of romance. of the baby to be born, >> we're high school sweethearts regardless of the circumstances. and we still are sweethearts. i'm just trying to explain the platform to you. we actually have a presidential we have five wonderful sons. no nominee, again, like we did we have 16 grandchildren. last time, who has a position on abortion that does not match its >> reporter: like mitt, ann grew party's plank. up wealthy in michigan. her father manufactured auto >> paul, i want to read you parts. something. she and mitt fell in love in a tweet that akin sent out. high school. i'm reading it off my mitt proposed when ann was just blackberry. 15. he says, i apologize but the they married while in college at liberal media is trying to make me drop out. please stand with me tonight by a mormon school in utah. signing my petition. ann converted to mormonism in do you think that's going to high school. fly, the idea that this is their love affair has been part liberal media drum beat trying to get him out of the race? of the campaign rhetoric dating >> he has to say something. back to this ad for mitt's 2002 senate run. simply titled ann. it is not for me to say whether he should stay in or get out. >> our first real date. although he should get out. it is not the liberal media. >> the night of the senior prom. this is the conservative >> mitt pulls up to pick me up republican establishment. in some goofy-looking car. not because of his views but >> it was an amc marlin. >> he was a little embarrassed because he spoke it aloud. about it. >> it was kind of awful. because he spoke it in such an >> he was very romantic. offensive way. >> reporter: mitt admits without because he seems to embrace this ann he's a bit lost. >> if i'm away from ann for really nut nutty theory. the reality is, the platform longer than a week or so, i get off course. she has to bring me back and

includes language calling for no moderate me down a bit. federal funding of embryonic >> reporter: still, ann may not be perfect. stem cell research. in 1994, during mitt's senate even nancy reagan, one of the campaign, she told "the boston globe" money was so tight in icons of the republican party, strongly supports federal college they considered selling funding of embryonic stem cell stock from their portfolio. research. it does not include any critics painted her as out of exceptions for women who are the touch. >> everybody that read that victim of rape or incest. this a very extreme position. gassed. >> reporter: ann's greatest challenge had nothing to do with politics. >> let me push back though. >> in 1998, she learned she had multiple sclerosis. critics will say party platforms are often pretty extreme whether >> it was devastating. it's on the left or the write. in order to mobilize the base or satisfy the base. i went from being a very active and rarely does it actually translate into what the involved and hands-on mom to candidate thinks. hardly being able to take care i want to -- you to respond to of myself. that and kelly ann as well. >> reporter: to feel better, she turned to holistic therapies and we have to take a quick break. we'll talk more about how this is playing in the presidential horseback riding. race. how it factors into each side's in 2008, she was diagnosed with efforts to get a coherent breast cancer. message out. let us know what you think. follow me on twitter right now. @anderson cooper. whether it's cancer or the campaign trail, ann romney is a more on "360" after this. fighter. she's beaten two life-threatening diseases. but she knows there are many more battles ahead.

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period last year. 38 homicides just in this current month alone. most frightening of all, 34 children under the age of 18 have been killed so far this year. 34. the chicago tribune reports the murders are happening in certain neighborhoods on the city's south and west side. ted rowland got a look. at the battle against the violence. we've gone to chicago a number of times over the last several years to report on this violence. if this violence was happening in other parts of the ited states, many critics say it would be getting a lot more attention. ted rowlands went along with some chicago police officers as they patrolled the streets on a recent friday night. >> there's a couple places i want to check out. >> reporter: it's a friday night on the streets of chicago in the inglewood neighborhood. joe patterson and leo shmittz been cops here for 26 years. >> you go on these blocks, what you do is you scan everything. when they see you're a policeman if they're doing something wrong or got a gun, they start moving

away or running. >> reporter: as we ride along, there's near constant reports of shots fired over the radio. >> -- person with a gun -- >> reporter: a call comes in that gets their attention. >> fourth and -- shots fired. that's one block away from the police station. >> reporter: it's also near a park where in the morning there's a community event planned. >> someone with a gun there. we know we got people over there setting up. >> reporter: when we arrive, there's no sign of the person with the gun and there's no time to linger. we leave quickly because there's another call just a few blocks away. >> man with a gun on 64, 44 bishop. >> reporter: several officers are there when we arrive. there's a man in custody. this gun, which was found in the house. >> they're still working so -- but that's the name of the game. that's how we -- we stop the next shooting. >> reporter: this year, the homicide rate in chicago is up about 30%. which is not what first-year police superintendent gary

mccarthy envisioned would happen when he took the job. >> it's playing out not as well as i anticipated. we expected to make much greate gains by this point. >> reporter: chicago's overall crime rate is actually down 10% from last year. like other cities, the murder problem here is concentrated in a few specific areas. >> the entire city suffers when violence happens. this idea of not in my backyard is not okay. we have to make the entire city safe. >> reporter: mccarthy's plan, which he's confident will work, includes holding gang members in custody, taking back specific street corners where drugs are sold, and using gang information to predict and stop retribution killings. but he says he needs more help from the community. >> law enforcement is not going to solve the gang problem in chicago. law enforcement is not going to solve the gun problem in chicago. law enforcement is not going to fix the educational system or the poverty rate or any of those other things. >> yeah, close to home now, it's starting to get late, boys.

>> reporter: one thing we noticed on the ride-along was the amount of children on streets after dark. >> you're about to go in the house, right? >> reporter: 34 kids have been killed in the violence this year alone. including 7-year-old heaven sutton who was shot in the head while selling candy in her front yard. >> juveniles are the ones getting shot. we got to get them home. that's where the parents can help us a lot. >> quite frankly, we need the parents to step up a little bit more. and take ownership. of their children and raise them a little bit better. >> 13-year-old -- >> stay here. >> reporter: at one point, they pull over two men driving a car with illegal tailpipes. >> you got a license? >> reporter: they approach with caution and get them out. they end up being clean. no gang tattoos. just two young men out trying to have a good time. the men may feel like they're being harassed. leo and joe say it's a part of the job. >> overall, we do a good job. as a police department. and our numbers, although they might have bubbled up a little bit this year you don't know, by the end of the year, we might have that taken care of.

>> reporter: that's easier said than done. and there's more work to be done in every way. >> shots just fired. >> more shots fired. ted rowlands joins us now. why is it so bad in chicago? is it entrenched gang problems? is there an easy answer about what it is? >> well, yes and no. gangs are a huge problem. they attribute about 85% of the homicides to gang activity. the other thing about chicago, and this is true in other cities, it is so segmented. there are areas of chicago that are very dangerous. and then there is the rest of chicago. the suburbs of chicago. it is night and day. and one of the things that not only superintendent mccarthy but rahm emanuel, the mayor here, wants to happen is for people outside of these areas to start to care as well. they say they need the people from the outside to care and they need the people in those neighborhoods to help as well if they're going to beat this problem. >> ted rowlands, appreciate it. coming up, rosie o'donnell says she's lucky to be alive after she had a heart attack.

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then she fnd out she had 99% artery blockage. i spoke with chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta about o'donnell's case and what every woman should know about the signs of a heart attack. rosie o'donnell says she misunderstood a lot of her symptoms. what were her symptoms? what happened to her? >> it was interesting because she had been helping this woman get out of her car a couple hours earlier. but then a couple hours later, she had some pain in her arms, somewhat vague it sounded like. but also developed nausea. developed clamminess of skin. felt a little lethargy. you know, sort of vague things. not things people typically associate with having a heart attack. i think that was some of the confusion for her. >> i hadn't realized more women die of heart disease than men. and yet the symptoms for women are very different or can be very different. >> the stat's absolutely right. more women die of heart disease than men. women oftentimes get to the hospital later because they

themselves don't recognize the symptoms. so they come, you know, as things have already progressed more and therefore they're less likely to survive. the symptoms can be different. i'll preface by saying this, anderson. symptoms can be variable in men and women alike. if you're worried about a heart attack and you have a development of new symptoms, this is something you should worry about. men have a crushing chest pain. women, shortness of breath, nausea, jaw pain, back pain. again, anderson, some of those things can be vague it unless you're thinking about it, you may not attribute it to a heart problem. >> she said her artery was blocked 99%. how exactly do they treat that? >> well, in her -- there's several different ways. people have heard of bypass surgery to treat this. in her case specifically they got an ekg. they determined she likely had had a heart attack. they did a heart catheterization.

which i know you're familiar with. take a look here at what happens. once they went in there and saw that narrowing, that type of narrowing there, they decided to put in a stent. angioplasty means when they dilate the blood vessel. they put in a stent. they left it in to sort of hold that blood vessel open. >> she acknowledged she didn't call 911 immediately. she recommended i know on her blog site that people do that. that is what somebody should do, correct? >> i think there's really no question. it's interesting, she took an aspirin. i don't know if you caught that as well, anderson. she clearly was thinking about it. the reason you take an aspirin, people have heard this in various ways, is to try and thin your blood a little bit. and decrease the chance of having more heart troubles. so she was thinking about it. she chided herself or reprimanded herself in her own blog. for not calling 911. if you're at risk of heart disease, you have a family

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it's time for the riduculist. tonight, a diploma drama. the valedictorian of prague high school, class of 2012. is a young woman named kaelin. she's an extraordinary young woman by all accounts.

>> she was in every curricular activity. she's been with the kiwannas. with the banks. on the bank boards. if there's anything to do, she does it. just excelled beyond anything i would ever expect of her being my child. >> so kaelin excelled in school, was in all those activities, even on the bank boards, whatever that is, she's running the banks apparently. she became valedictorian of her class. and then she gave her speech at graduation. during the speech, she said something that was so shocking, so wildly inappropriate, that now the school won't give her her diploma . >> went to the office and asked for her diploma. he said they're out here, but you ain't getting it. she earned that diploma. she did all the state curriculum. four years of straight as and 4.0s the whole way through.

>> so what could kaelin possibly have said during that commencement speech that was so offensive? well, it is just too appalling. i'm going to let kate lynn tell you herself. >> they're going to ask us what we want to be and we're going to say who the hell knows. that's it. >> she beat everyone over the head with the h-e double hockey sticks. now they won't let her have her diploma. not the f-bomb. not the s-bomb. the h-bomb. you may wonder why she doesn't write the letter of apology. >> i don't want to because i'm not sorry so writing an apology letter that's just going to be a lie which if they're saying that my cursing was sinning, that would be another sin, so -- don't want to have two sins on my hands. >> i hate it when these kids have principles. school officials say it is a confidential matter. they aren't publicly commenting. come on, clearly the word "hell" is inappropriate at any high school but especially school but especially prague chool.

the devil. that's another story. did i forget to mention the school mascot is the devil? they're called the devils. he's just a denizon of hell. by the way, she's on a full scholarship. she's already moved into her freshman dorm. she is now safely ensconced in a collegiate environment where people never, ever use four-letter words. she's majoring in marine biology. >> who the hell knows, i may change five more times.