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both the husband and wife were killed. the baby was delivered by c-section and now critical condition. we will have a live report on this tragic accident and the manhunt for the suspects straight ahead. major medical breakthrough to report to you today. researchers say a 2-year-old girl has become the first child to be functionally cured of hiv and hope it can be done for other people. the little girl was born to an hiv-positive mother. given treatment almost immediately after birth. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen will join must a few minutes with this development. new tampa, florida demolition crews working near the sinkhole have ended their work for the day. they have started tearing down the house that was partially destroyed by a sinkhole. one of the home's occupants is missing and presumed dead after he disappeared into that sinkhole thursday night. parts of the house were also moved onto the street to help the family recover some of their valuables.

>> the family is being well taken care of. we're looking after all of their needs, we'll be looking towards providing some housing on an interim basis and looking for some permanent solutions for them. we believe they've been very pleased with all of the valuables we've been able to recover for them. >> demolition crews are expected to finish the work tomorrow. no ordinary sunday at the vatican. it is not business as usual for the first time since pope benedict xvi's resignation there is no pope to say the angelus prayer over st. peter's square. cardinals are still arriving in rome for the conclave and tomorrow, they will attend preconclave meetings to discuss the future of the church. queen elizabeth ii spending the next few days in unfamiliar surroundings for her. she was admitted to the hospital earlier today for symptoms related to a stomach bug. the queen rarely misses royal engaugements but this week, all her appearances what have been postponed or canceled.

royal correspondent max foster joining us now outside the hospital to explain exactly what's going on. max? >> reporter: frederica, an interesting one, this, because the queen very rarely cancels anything. she has cancelled a whole week's worth of engagements. we were told on friday about this gastrointer right ties this stomach bug she was suffering from. this is serious. she won't like all this fuss around her. but her aides, her family, made sure that she is in hospital, which in itself is quite a big deal. >> it is indeed. of course, everyone is wishing her the best.

and knowing that she doesn't like a whole lot of fuss made of her, was it difficult to try and get her to go to the hospital or that was a decision that was made kind of beyond her control? er shall. >> she has the ultimate choice on all decisions in relation to the royal family, she is head of state of this country, head of state of 16 countries, she can make her own decision bus she i'm sure, would have been urged to go to hospital. she is in her mid-80s, but just as sort of a sign really of how she insists on carrying on with her public work, she was this morning giving medals to a long-serving member of staff at windsor castle, insisting that she had to carry on with her commitments. and she would have been really, really ill, felt really uncomfortable if she had to come to hospital in the afternoon. >> max foster, thanks so much. keep us posted there in london. and now, a heart-wrenching story out of new york a car crashes into a cab carrying a young couple expecting their first baby.

the couple dies but their baby survives after doctors work very quickly to save his life. susan candiotti is live for us in new york. so, susan, this is a tragic accident. it's a hit and run case. what more have we learned about the circumstances? >> reporter: first of all, this certainly is tragic, frederica, an emotional funeral and burial are already under way following that horrific hit and run cash in the williamsburg section of brooklyn today, as the hassidic jewish community rallies around the surviving family. a young couple, 21-year-old parents-to-be, were on their way to a hospital about midnight last night because the expectant mother wasn't feeling well. the cab was t-boned, smacked on the driver's side by a oncoming car, a light-colored bmw, the husband and the mother-to-be were dead on arrival. but the doctors were able to deliver the baby boy by c-section. police say the infant is in critical condition.

relatives are standing watch. now, investigators, meantime, are trying to track down the drive over a light-colored bmw which fled the scene and the drivers and occupant fled the scene on foot. police will only say they have spoken to the registered owner of that car but not much more. we don't know yet whether the car was stolen. relatives and friends trying to come to grips with what happened. >> they have all the resources there to deal with it. all the psychological help they need. the impact of it, as we are all learned as children, go to the grave of the parents, parents don't go to funerals of children. and here we are going to have two sets of parents going. >> the driver of the cab survived and is in stable condition. relatives tell us the couple, frederica, had been married less than a year. >> oh, my goodness. thanks so much, susan.

keep us posted on what is a horrific, very tragic story. >> yes, it is. on to selma, alabama, now. thousands are re-enacting an historic march. it was 48 years ago this month when alabama state troopers and others attacked a peaceful group of marchers, marching from selma to montgomery in support of what would become the voting rights act. vice president joe biden told a commemoration ceremony that the fight for civil rights is not over. >> we still have a lot of work to do, but i think it will be easier, a lot easier than it was 48 years ago, for one overwhelming reason. what we all did here 48 years ago changed the hearts and the minds of the vast majority of the american people. that's why i'm absolutely convinced we will prevail in the new fight with regard to voter access and voter rights. >> the vice president said it was one of his regrets he didn't join the civil rights marchers back in 1965. a 911 operator begs a nurse

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chris christie, arguably the most popular republican in the country was not invited to cpac, a collection of conservative groups. is it a mistake for the conservatives not to have invited someone who right now has shown an ability to bring together independents, republicans and democrats. >> chris christie is doing the job, but say because he fought for the aid for new jersey, he was entitled to same aid every other state has got, he won't be accepted to me that writes off cpac as a serious force. >> michael gerson is a former

speechwriter for president george w. bush. ram mesh pin nor row is senior editor at the national review, both joining us from washington. good see both of you. ram mesh, let begin with you, is this an indicator of a widening divide within the republican party that chris christie would be dissed, snubbed, ignored? >> i think an indicate they're too many conservatives and republicans are not interested in are not interesting in being outside the conservative ghetto, full. think of new jersey state that last voted for a republican senor 1972, last voted for a republican president in 1988. conservatives don't have to agree with every single thing governor christie has done to think, you know, maybe it is a good idea to listen to this guy and see how he is getting to be so popular in such a blue state.

>> is this a microcome of how bad is it is within the republican party now? it is broken? >> i don't think cpac speaks for a huge portion of the conservative community but it certainly represents a ten den i is there are some republicans out there seeking now, in the aftermath of the last election defeat, seeking converts. there is another group of republicans seeking her rhett ticks, people to blame for what's going on. cpac is doing that christie acres long with people like bobby jindal and marco rubio and paul ryan, they represent a rising generation of reformers. the question is whether the party, and in the primaries next time around, are gonna give them the leeway they need to reposition the party, which needs do some repositioning in ways that can win a majority of the american people. >> in fact, michael, you know, you kind of remind us when you write that six of the past presidential elections, four have gone to democratic

nominees. and in contrast, five out of six elections went to republicans between 1968 and 1988. so what's behind what you are calling this kind of "stunning reverse a.m. of electoral fortunes"? >> it's a confluence of factors, none of them good for republicans there are demographic shifts going on. you know in 1976, about 89% of the national vote for president was white. in the last election, it was more like 72%. and this's a big shift. there's a -- there have been problems with candidate quality, to be honest. but there's also a big problem with economic messaging, a lot of the republican message now seems stuck in the '80s when it comes to the economy, doesn't really speak to middle class voters will are concerned about the cost of education, the cost of health care, problems of globalization and technology that really have depress $wages. republicans haven't had as much as they need to say on those type of issues and that's -- somebody's going to have to seize that mantel.

>> rammesh, how does that get done, how does the disconnect get fixed within the party? >> the answer hab haas to be find wags to apply conservative insights to the problems of today and not the problems of the late 1970s and early 14ri 980s. i think that too many republicans are always saying how we have got to be just like ronald reagan but what they forget is that reagan succeeded on a lot of fronts and so we have different challenge than we had then. we don't have the 70% top tax rate that reagan faced when he took office, for example, and so we have got to apply our conservative philosophy to the concerns that people have today. >> well, the clock is ticking. i think a lot of people expected that after the presidential election that suddenly there would be this reform that would get under way when you started hearing about, even within the republican party that something's got give, something's got to change that change would happen overnight but just this past week, leading

up to these forced spending cuts, clearly, it hasn't happened yet. so, are we talking about months to come, weeks to come, years to come? will it be in time for the next leeks, michael? >> well, first of all, i think that barack obama's rather aggressive demand for taxes has actually united the republican party in opposition to that. may be not the most popular position in the world but republicans are not divide when it comes to. this the immediate test, for smerks going to be immigration reform, whether republican can have a reform-oriented message, does genuine outreach to a new demographic reality and the you will mat test is whether primary voters going to allow a reformatory emerge, something like bill clinton did in the democratic matter that 1992 where he repositioned his party. that's what republicans are going to need and the question whether primary voters ultimately will allow that repositioning to take place. >> and yes, we see marco rubio,

just saw his picture, he is a rising star within the republican party but you know, ram mesh, there's an awful lot of conversations about diversify this party's got to look a lot more diverse around it's just hurting in that category. that is why it is not an an attractive option for american voters. >> if the republican party had a message on the economy that was more appealing to middle class, lower middle class, working class people that would also be a message that would not only help them with white working class voters but also, i think, increase their appeal among hispanics, among blacks, it's not just one thing or the other. and i do agree with michael, it's not the kind of reform that cannot really be driven by a congressional party. it has to be driven by a presidential candidate. and for that reason, i don't think you're going to see the reform really happening right away, although some of the seeds

that can and i hope will be planted. >> ramesh upon knew rue, michael gerson, thanks so much, jerks always good to see you. >> great to be with you. find out what expect this week on the stock market. an 87-year-old woman collapses in a nursing home. the nurse calls 911 instead of doing cpr herself. this story straight ahead. target is in sight. yes, dad, i see him. now pour some chloroform into a white rag and.... no. hi. i understand you're looking for a hotel with a pool. with priceline express deals, you can save big and get exactly what you need. do i have to bid? use the stun gun. he's giving you lip. no! he's just asking a question. no bidding. awesome. get the grappling hook to... dad, i... no? ok.

a company policy that bans workers from attempting cpr in people may be the reason why an elderly woman is dead in california today. it was a nurse who stood by that policy at the glenwood garden senior living facility. she refused cpr to a woman had ho had collapsed after having a heart attack.

the 911 operator begged for someone to save the woman's life.

>> wow, pretty extraordinary. nick valencia is following this story. nick, how does the hospital continue to defend itself? or the assisted living facility? >> fred this is a story that got a lot of us talking this morning, especially, the moral outrage factor this nurse who has the ability to help this person, does not choose to exercise that ability. now, we have tried repeatedly to get in touch with this senior living facility. they have not called cnn back. but earlier this week, fred, they did give a statement to our local affiliate, kget and in part that statement reads --

now, if you're watching this at home, you maybe wondering perhaps this 87-year-old had a do not resuscitate order. now, it's reported she did not have a do not resuscitate order around also that her family was well aware of the cpr protocol. fred? >> in fact, the woman's daughter had something to say about this. and what was that? >> she did the daughter who shockingly herself is a nurse, reportedly is a nurse, spoke to our affiliate said she has no problem with the way the facility cared for her mother. ask if the nurse will be culpable at all. under the good samaritan law in california, show with not have had any liability at all if she helped this 87-year-old person and perhaps something led to injury. it is just shocking us and perhaps shocking you at home as

well. >> nick valencia, thanks so much. forced spending cuts, now rate, but the markets have barely taken notice. the dow finished higher on friday. doesn't mean there won't be an impact. hal sirkin, the boston consulting group. how mike this tright this trick the economy? >> it will begin with basic spending cuts that have already taken place what we call sequestration. it's gonna continue on in a little bit in about 27 days from now in which we will start to see layoffs and furloughs of government workers. when those government workers stop getting paid, they will start to stop buying things and when they stop buying thing, of course, we will see more of the economy spiral down. the potential here is for about a 1.5 to 2% drop in gdp relative what it would have been and that would be pretty dangerous for

our economy. if you remember, right, fourth quarter, gdp was .1%. you see us taking risks here h >> you see this over the long term? the dow finished close to an all-time high, just as these forced spending cuts were, you know, about to get under way. it didn't impact the markets right away. do you see that it would some eight or so months from now, when the forced spending cuts are in high gear? >> well, i think there will be. any time you take spending out of the economy, the economy starts to slow down. and it starts to spiral. unfortunately downward. as it spirals downward, the stock market tends to react. right now, we haven't seen much reaction from the stock market but been through the deficit and the debt ceiling so the stock market may be waiting to see what actually happens. we may see something on monday about this >> okay, jobs report coming out tend of the week as well what are the expectations?

>> the numbers sort have been for a while in that 150,000, 180,000 range. and the expectations is they will probably stay there. right now you with all the uncertainty that we have in the business community, particularly with the sequestration now and the phones even for debt ceiling crisis coming up in the next few months, business community just suspect hiring. we have got to get past this and unfortunately, congress is taking its time in making this happen. >> hal sirkin, good to see you you thanks so much from chicago. >> great seeing you. a medical breakthrough could change every ething in the figh against aids a possible cure. we have all the details when we come right back. you name it...i've hooked it. but there's one... one that's always eluded me. thought i had it in the blizzard of '93. ha! never even came close. sometimes, i actually think it's mocking me. [ engine revs ] what?!

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welcome back to the newsroom. i'm fredricka whitfield a look at our top stories we are following for you right now. queen elizabeth ii is in a london hospital where she is being treated for gastroenteritis. buckingham palace says the 86-year-old monarch was taken there as a precautionary measure and expected to be there for several days. all of the queen's official engagements this week have been postponed or canceled. in the u.s., a deadly hit and run accident claimed the lives of a new york man and his pregnant wife. police say a bmw crashed into a cab carrying the couple, which were heading to the hospital. their baby was delivered by a

cesarean section and is now in critical condition. police are looking for the two people in the bmw who fled the scene. and it's the start of a new era at the vatican. for the first time since pope benedict xvi's resignation, there was no pope to say the angelus prayer over st. peter's square. cardinals are still arriving in rome for the conclave and tomorrow, they will attend preconclave meetings to discuss the future of the church. here's what's trending online. two dogs found lifeless inside a burning california home are now alive, thanks to firefighters who performed cpr. >> eventually, i seen the paws starting to move. >> they brought him back. i saw them pull them out. they are like your children. they are part of your neighborhood family. and you love them and you care for them. and it's being called the last great race.

>> sled being driven by the win other of the 2013 junior iditarod. >> the legendary alaskan iditarod kicking off yesterday with the ceremonial start in anchorage. the nearly 1,000-mile journey starts today. dogs barked, people cheered as 66 mushers and teams started off from downtown anchorage. the unmanned space-x capsule meets up with the international space station. it is car 1200 pounds of cargo had a problem with thrusters after the launch on friday but engineers were able to fix it and the capsule rendezvoused with the station early this morning. all right. now back to that major medical breakthrough that we have been reporting today. researchers say a 2-year-old girl has become the first child to be functionally cured of hiv and hope can be done for other people. see liz beth cohen is here with us to explain. tell us about this little girl and the word "cure" is huge

here. >> the word cure is huge. in medical journalism, we call it the c-word and try not to use it, but researchers at johns hopkins and other play wases are using the c-word them say that girl is -- >> how did it happening? >> interesting, not through anyone's injeep knewity through the goof of a mother. so what happened was a baby was born in mississippi to a mom who had hiv. and they put this baby on high doses of three different hiv drugs, very quickly, in the baby's second day of life. the mother came in for her doctor's appointments. >> what they usually do? >> i will get to that in a minute. i will get that in a minute. you are asking the good questions. so the baby is in treatment and is taking the medication for about a year, about 15 months. and then they lose the baby. 15 months, they can't find the baby, motor is not bringing her in, have no idea. they send social service after the mother, literally knock on her door, she brings the baby back in, this baby is now second birth day, what baby was on drugs for about a year to 15

months, was off of them for another ten months, they bring the baby back in. it's now around the baby's second birthday, by or girl, we don't know, and they test the bay bind the hiv's gone. gone. and this baby hasn't taken drugs for eight to ten months. and there's no hiv. the pediatrician in mississippi says how is this possible? she called in some other researchers who came in and tested the baby and they couldn't find it either. they just couldn't find the hiv. they had to use a super ultrasensitive test. they found teenie-weenie very low levels of rna and dna fragments, little dna fragments and that was it. that was all they could find. so, they are saying that this baby is cured. some people are saying functionally cured, of hiv. now, you ask me do they usually do this? so that's the issue. oftentimes, when a baby is born to an hiv-positive mother, they will give a low dose of one or two drugs for a couple of weeks until they are sure that baby has hiv. so, that's what they did that was different with this baby,

this baby got drugs very quickly, second day of life and you got high doses of three drugs. and they are thinking that maybe was the difference, the quickness, the drugs and the dose of the drugs. >> is there anything to the suspension of the drugs? >> well, now they are thinking, wow if this baby is cured of hiv after taking drugs for just a year and then going off them, maybe there's a possibility we could do that with all babies. i mean, these drugs can be toxic, these babies are taking them their entire life, their entire life. so they are thinking, wow, maybe we can just give them for a year and then we will done. >> incredible. >> but they are not sure they can do that they need study that but these the hype pot situations >> unclear whether this will be practiced for other babies. >> you wouldn't want to do this for other babies right away but this sort of little weird goof may make a difference for other babies. >> that's incredibly hopeful. >> is hopeful. >> elizabeth cone, thanks so much for bringing that to us. keep us posted. dennis rodman has a message for president barack obama from

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storm sandy clslammed into the u.s. as susan candiotti reports, some couples without power apparently made the best of a bad situation. >> reporter: meredith swarmstead is 20 weeks pregnant. she and husband, hank, are hope to be learnt gender of their baby. >> the doctor will be right with you, okay? >> reporter: down the hall, stephanie tisch and her fiance, brian, are also expect eing. >> everything going okay? >> reporter: meredith and stephanie have more than their uneventful pregnancies in common. both were stuck in a house without power during super storm sandy. i have to ask, have you pinpointed the night, what? what happened? >> not exactly. >> pinpointed, but i think we have a sandy. >> we think we have a sandy baby. >> reporter: same goes for stephanie and brian. so, you were without power for how long? >> about a week. >> a little. >> about a week? >> about a week. >> that must have been tough

when you doesn't have power, especially at night. >> it was. it was. >> it was night all day long. it was night from 6:00 on. >> so, what did you do to amuse yourselves? >> well -- >> there was no tv. >> are you blushing, brian? >> no not at all. >> we just got closer, i guess. >> their doctor, robert rubino, says his new jersey practice had a huge sandy spike. >> and it got to the point where we had to stop seeing new obstetrical patients through the practice. >> reporter: this possible baby boom is based on science. honestly, there's a study about this. researchers over the years documented an increase in pregnancies not in areas were storm destruction was most severe, but in areas where damage was not too bad. and that appears to be what happened with meredith and stephanie. the study's author stays makes sense. >> you may run out of power, but you're not running for your life.

there's probably more opportunities for reproductive behavior. >> reporter: so, are you thinking about names? >> we started to. but not sandy. >> definitely probably not sandy. but anything else maybe. >> looks like it's gonna be a girl. >> oh. >> reporter: part of a possible baby boom that started when the lights went out. susan candiotti, cnn, west orange new jersey. >> i don't know whether they have a boy or girl, the name so appropriate. >> the blame game in washington. who are you mad at about those forced spending cuts, enough blame to go around. and michelle obama still wants everybody to get moving. find out how she is promoting her fitness initiative now. target is in sight. yes, dad, i see him. now pour some chloroform into a white rag and.... no. hi. i understand you're looking for a hotel with a pool.

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a reality. but who is losing the blame game? cnn senior political editor paul steinhauser takes a look at what you think of the gridlock in washington. >> the obvious, a lot of you don't like the forced spending cuts. in a recent poll, they said they're a bad idea. with just 1 in 5 saying the cuts known in here in washington as a sequester are good a idea. >> washington sure isn't making it easy. >> neither the republicans in congress nor the president scoring well on this issue. they disapprove of the job congressional republicans are doing on federal spending. with a slight majority giving president obama a thumbs down. both sides are blaming each other. >> none of this is necessary. it's happening because of a choice republicans in congress have made. >> the house has laid out a plan to avoid the sequester. i would hope that the senate

would act. >> whom do you blame? more fingers seem to be pointing to republicans in congress than the president, at least right now. that's according to a pew research center "washington post" survey. we'll see if that changes over time. and finally, most people the forced spending cuts will have an impact on the economy. but less than half said it will hurt their personal finances. >> thanks so much, paul. as the world waits for the selection of a new pope, "saturday night live" is getting into the action. of course they would. in a skit last night during a mock "situation room" report with our very own wolf blitzer. take a look. >> retired pope benedict is trying to compete in cuteness, and now he's attempting an, oh, no, you didn't gesture. not even registering with the crowd. because the new pope is riding a cardinal like a horsey. >> o look at that. wow. i could watch that all day, huh?

how about that. horsey rides in the vatican. that's got to be a first. but probably isn't. >> yes, wolf, she is cute as hell. >> but is she enough to turn the fortunes of this beleaguered church? >> is the pope catholic? >> she is not. and i don't think anyone cares. >> oh, my my my. they take risks, don't they. i have to say -- >> i love the real wolf blitzer the most but i love jason almost as much. >> that was very clever. >> you've got the newsro newsroom coming up this evening. >> great to see you. the last time i saw you in person you were pregnant. now you have twins 3 months old. great to see you. >> great to see you too. i'm not sure if you heard of this mission to mars. we found that the organizers are actually trying to find a married couple to take the trek. we're talking about a man and a woman, 500 days straight in

space. talk about a true test of a relationship. now, i talked with one married couple who actually spent two years cut off from the world. they lived in that biosphere 2. this inspires and stimulates them. you're going to hear what they say about the experience. you know, what it would be like to spend 500 days straight in space together. and we even talked about the possibility of sex in space, fred. yes, we did. >> no holds barred. talked about everything. >> plus a live report at the top of the hour on the queen's condition in london. obviously a lot of people concerned about that. we'll be talking about that. >> she is a warrior. >> she's a fighter at 86. she sure is. >> she looks in great condition. she's almost going to be 87. we'll be watching. alina, good to see you. >> great to see you. what do jimi hendricks, fdr and michelle obama all have in

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