the 90s and confirms he recently had dinner with espn's president. no deal is imminent. old berman is suing his last employer, current tv, over breach of contract. anheuser-busch taking out this ad in ten national newspapers to fight claims they are watering down their beer. it features a picture of a can of drinking water with the anheuser-busch logo, and said they must have tested one of these. anheuser-busch donates water to the american red cross. unhappy beer drinkers have filed a class action lawsuit. claiming that the company miss labeled the alcohol content. >> i'm not sure i fully get it. >> confusing. watered down beer. >> that's all for "early start." >> i'm john berman.

>> and i'm zoraida sambolin. "starting point" with soledad o'brayen starts right now. welcome, everybody. starting point this morning, a stunning medical break through. a 2-year-old girl is cured of hiv. we'll explain how it happened and whether or not other children could be able to be saved. also, watching another winter storm bearing down on the midwest. ld ed to waready to wallop the midwest. and crews demolish the home sitting atop that deld sideadly. and we're in rome awaiting a decision that could come any moment. a nail biting end to a high school basketball game. an unbelievable shot to beat the clock. you will never see a buzzer beater better than that one. >> and business this morning.

looking for your job, think you need to worry about the wardrobe, resume. why the credit check might be something you need to think about before you walk into the interview. to mark the 57th anniversary of the birmingham civil rights march, we'll speak with cosby, george french, president of miles college. "starting point" begins right now. welcome, everybody. our starting point this morning, a game-changing break through against the battle of hiv. a mississippi girl born with the virus that caused aids has been cured. she would be only the second person in 32 years that could make the claim. let's get to elizabeth cohen joining us live. good morning. >> good morning, soledad. this been's doctors said they

were stunned to find she was hiv and wasn't even taking her medicine. it's a statling announcement. doctors say they have cured a 2-year-old in mississippi of hiv. the infection she had since birth? gone. >> fantastic news from any angle. of course a child is being cured, this happened quite easily and quite inexpensively. >> reporter: the cure came about as a fluke. the baby born to an hiv positive mother, who transmitted the vir to us her daughter. the baby put on hiv drugs, but the mother, for some reason, stopped giving them to her when she was about 15 months old. taken back to the doctor around her second birthday, and tests showed the baby was hiv free, even though she was off medication for 8 to 10 months. >> what fantastic news. this is something that i don't think anybody would have

expected. >> the baby received relatively high doses of three hiv drugs soon after birth. hiv positive newborns get low doses of one or two drugs after birth. if other babies could be cured after 15 months on drugs that would be huge. now hiv positive babies take these drugs for life and they can be toxic. more studies need to be dub, but this case may have inadvertently paved the way for other babies to have a brighter future. now, on routine testing, they can't find hiv in this baby's body. under super duper sensitive testing, they found remnants of rna and dna from the virus, so doctors are saying she is functionally cured. soledad. >> thank you, elizabeth. in a couple of minutes, we'll talk to rowena sdwron, a

retcher doctor for the organization that funded the study of the girl's cure. we'll have more coming up. developing now, a delta air lines flight makes an emergency landing in amsterdam after a fire was reported on board. the plane on its way to mumbai, india. delta is trying to figure out a flight for passengers. another powerful winter storm with its sights on the nation's capitol. it's headed toward d.c. it leads to us jennifer delgado. all right. it's moving. how bad will it we? >> we're talk more than a foot of snow affecting the northern plains. blizzard warnings in place for north dakota and minneapolis as well. chicago, 6 to 9 inches, 6 to 12

inches of snow it will move through the central midwest, and it moves into the mid-atlantic. let's focus on totals. you can see where the heaviest amounts will be. foint wayne, 12 to 18 inches of snowfall. and gusty winds. this will hurt visibility at times. for the mid-atlantic to washington, d.c. anywhere you see it in purple. that's potentially 12 or more inches of snowfall. the high elevations like the blue, they will see the most significant snowfall. but for washington, d.c., there still is some question there. all depends on the track of the low. if it stays more to the south and moves toward the east. more snow for washington, d.c. forward north carolina. but if it moves up toward the knot. we could see it affecting more big cities like new york city to philadelphia, soledad, with the strong wind we're talking about

the possibility of coastal flooding and storm surge. that will last through thursday. >> aren't we close to spring? >> yeah, march 20th. i'm counting it town with you. >> all right. thank you, jennifer. in about an hour, demolition teams back at the site of the giant sinkhole that killed a man near tampa florida. wred yesterday, crews begun to tear down the condemned house. the sinkhole, about 30 feet wide and 30 feet deep. jeff bush is presumed dead. george howell is live in seffner, florida, with the latest on this story. >> reporter: soledad, good morning. to be here, to stand in front of this home, in many ways feels like being at a memorial site. i want to give you a good look at the home. you see a small memorial. bunny rabbit, flowers, and in

the background, you see a happy of wood. a home full of memories. family and friends watched tearfully as crewed delicately, carefullier to down the walls. demolition work began on sunday. spectators watched as a backhoe plunged through the roof, ripping down walls and putting pieces of the bush family life on public display. >> the family very close knit. many family members have lived in the house over the years, it belonged to the fwrnd mothgrand. >> reporter: crews help salvage valuables, including military medals and an american flag. it won't be possible to recover the body of 37-year-old jeffrey bush. only one of six family members at home unable to escape when the sinkhole opened thursday night. his brother, jeremy, tried to save him. >> i ran in there, all i can see

was a big hole and the tops of his bed. i didn't see nothing else. i jumped in the hole, tried to dig him out, and i couldn't get him. all i could -- i thought i could hear him screaming for ming, hollering. and i couldn't do nothing. >> reporter: the stretch for bush was called off. the sinkhole is still expanding and they hope to find the best way to fill it. several other homes had to be evacuated. people only given 30 minutes to get their belongings. back to a live picture in seffner, florida. you see the chain-link fence around the home. it's still unclear whether the sinkhole is growing. those two homes on either side have been condemned. the demolition is expected to continue in the next hour, soledad. >> thank you, george. former presidential candidate mitt romney speaking

out four months after he lost the presidential election, and he and his wife aren't quite over it yet. a little moran than the governor. a very candid mitt romney acknowledged campaign failures and ta can youed about the agony of defeat. >> i still care and believe there are principles we need to stand for. i look at what's happening right now, i wish i were there, it kills me not to be in the white house doing what needs to be done. >> shannon travis live in washington, d.c. with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. i was part of the team that covered mitt romney during the campaign. i have never seen him this candid before. admitting in that quote that you just saw that it kills him not to be in the white house, that he dent have a lot of credibility with the republican party on advising them how to win. and he talked about the very moment he realized he lost the election.

>> it was a slow recognition, ultimately until ohio numbers came in, and they were disappointing and i said, look it looked like we've lost. it was uncertain if this number comes in, you could win. by 8:00, 9:00, it was clear we weren't going to win. >> and then 47% comments he made at a secret meeting with donors. what mitt romney said about how much that damaged his chances? >> when you speak in private, you don't spend as much time thinking about how something could be twisted and distorted and could be wrong. i did, and it was very harmful. what i said is not what i believe. my whole campaign, my whole life, devoted to helping people. i care about all of the people in the country. but that hurt no, question that hurt and did real dto my campaign. >> reporter: soledad, ann romney, equally candid, says she

mourns the fact that her husband is not president, she has cried several times, and is assigning some blame. take a listen. >> not just the campaign's fault. i believe it was the media's fault as well. is that he was not being grchiva fair shake. people couldn't see him for who he was. >> ann romney has gotten over most of it. she revealed she thought about going on "dancing with the stars," but at 64, she is not flexible enough. >> who really is? she is far more upset in the aftermath and one can understand that. aing about booster for her husband. and she feels twice as deeply. >> clearly. >> a big championship. thanks, shannon.

bottom hour, reaction from new york congressman peter king to talk about the governor romney regrets. latest on the sequestration standoff between demes and republicans and harsh words he has to say about a certain senator fundraising in new york after not voting for aid after hurricane sandy. lots to talk to with peter king, straight ahead. first, john berman with other stories making news. >> catholics may have a new pope in less than two weeks if everything goes quickly. the successor may be in place by march 15th. 100 cardinals meeting this afternoon. one of the maun things, they may set a date for the conclave. and keith o'brien who abruptly resigned and will not attend the conclave, says he is guilty of sexual misconduct. he says there are times that my sexual conduct has fallen below

the standards expect of me as a priest, archbishop and cardinal. john allen in rome for us. any insight as to when we can expect the conclave to begin? >> reporter: hi, john. officially no. all of the cardinals of the world being including those over 80 and won't vote in the conclave are meeting this morning. they will go back in this afternoon. one of the top items on the to-do list is establish a date. we don't expect them to do that today. we may be looking at a conclave that begins over the weekend, perhaps as early as sunday. in addition to that they have to outline not only the challenges facing the next pope butly real heavy lifting, who the next pope will be. they'll talk about that in very frank and candid fashion this week. >> behind closed doors as we speak. john allen, our thanks to you. new developments, secretary

of state john kerry, meeting with ahmadinejad, visiting riyadh in saudi arabia. the surprise meeting, to resume the diplomat uk process. kerry wrapped up a two-day trip to egypt, pledging aid to help secure that country's future. and jenna mccarthy has been nominated to head the environmental protection agency. and earnest monies will be the next energy secretary and silvia matthews burwell to the office of management and budget. she currently heads the walmart foundation. 37 years old. the first full week of forced spending cuts. between now and september, $85 billion must be slashed from the federal budget and not a hint of compromise on capitol hill.

even though the president was said to be working the phones over the weekend. >> we're not just trying to make calls to read out the names. he's making those calls to see where there might be a coalition for the willing. a caulk us for common expense. >> the issue is spending. it's out of control there are smarter ways to cut spending than the silly sequester the president demanded. >> john boehner is not sure the forced spending cuts will actually hurt the economy. incredible buzzer-beating shot decides a new york state high school championship game. new rochelle, down two points when khalil edney hit a 55-footer. this was a chaotic scene at the end of the game. refs waved the shot off. they kept on reviewing it, are viewing it, and look at the clock. like one second left.

it leaves the hand right there. the shot did beat the buzzer. you will never see kind of a closer morning chaotic unbelievable shot to end a game. >> awesome. >> fans go wild. an amazing story we're talking about this morning. a baby cured of hiv. up next, one of the researchers who helped fund the study into her cure. and a look at business news this morning. >> if you are unemployed, you need a job to pay your bills. if unpaid bills are giving you bad credit, you may have trouble getting a job. the scary cycle hurting millions of americans, straight ahead. bny mellon has the vision and experience to help. we look at the full picture... to uncover risk, find opportunities, and create a plan that's best suited for you.

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that funded the research into this study. let me see if i understand this. the baby was given retrovirals at high dosage 30 hours after she was born and that seems to be what was incredibly effective. why is that normally tried on infants? >> she was given a standard treatment dose of therapy and p f prophylactic regimen. she made the decision to do the therapy. she did determine the child had become infected. are sore tell me a little bit about the test testing that was done to determine the baby was, in fact, hiv positive. i'm sure you are aware, some push back and think maybe she

was not hiv positive. walk me through the test that would confirm, in fact, she was. >> that's right. we do have to test infants in an unusual way to determine they are hiv positive, and those tests were done in this infant. tests called pcr and look for nucleic acids. these tests were done four times at the age of 30 hours and 31 hours and subsequently for the first fewer weeks of anti retroviral treatment. the child was tested repeatedly, each time there was evidence that the infant had virus. during the course, the virus levels were decreasing so she was responding well to the treatment. there were seven or eight tests that indicate she was hiv infected. >> the mother was getting health care and sort of dropped out of the system and returned. and that's kind of how the surprise that, in fact, the

viral load was much less than would you expect for somebody who -- for her child who was not actually taking any medication. what are the implications potentially? is the takeaway start giving that -- those retro virals at 30 hours? what is the takeaway for others? >> first of all, we need to do further research to confirm whether these results are generalized to other infants. i think they have important implications for children born to hiv positive mothers and ultimately if we are able to cure hiv infections, it has huge implications, because infants who are born hiv positive, may not, in fact, face a lifetime of anti retroviral therapy and hiv infection. this might be applicable only to this population, but u.s. a great, optimistic boost to our efforts to find a cure for hiv.

>> rowena johnston, nice to have you with us this morning. appreciate your time. >> thank you. >> you bet. still ahead, unemployed americans need a job to pay their overdue credit card bills, but to get a job, often they need to have good credit. the credit catch 22 coming up next. then he is spearheading an event to mark the anniversary of 1963 birmingham civil rights movement. cosby joins us with details, back in a moment. i'm a conservative investor.

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still ahead, a senior citizens home under fire after a nurse refused to give a dying resident cpr, despite the pleas coming from the 911 dispatcher. >> is there anybody that's willing to help this lady and not let her die? >> not at this time. >> coming up next, how the home is defending that move. a legend, of course, in the entertainment industry, a huge supporter of civil rights. we'll talk to cosby on his plan to honor 50 years since the march in birmingham, alabama. life brings obstacles. usaa brings retirement advice.

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his lovely wife mary bono mack. john berman with stories making news this morning. >> anyone who follows the british royalty knows queen elizabeth has long enjoyed really good health. the 86-year-old monarch is in the hospital battling what appears to be a stomach bug. she was hospitalized after showing symptoms of gastroenteritis. this can cause dehydration, particular concern among the elderly. and cnn royal correspondent max foster joins us from london. what's the latest? >> reporter: the palace is playing this down. talking about her being in good spirits and good health. the queen is a very resilient figure. working on sunday in the midst of this gastroenteritis, she had a function at home in windsor, so this is a surprise. she never cancels public

engagements unless she has to. canceled all of this week's week's engagements, including a high-profile visit to rome. the one statement we had talks about her suffering from the symptoms of gastroenteritis. not saying she is suffering from gastroenteritis. a lot of people are thinking if they are looking for an underlying condition here. a condition we don't yet know about. we expect an update today. john. >> we'll wait for that as queen elizabeth remains in the hospital. max foster in london today. >> tragic story in new york. a young couple expecting a baby, on their way late saturday to a hospital, because the mother to be was not feeling well. but their taxi broad sided by another car and the couple was killed. miraculously, doctors were able to deliver the expectant mother's baby boy. the driver of the taxi taken to a hospital, later released, after doctors determined he was not seriously hurt. pedro de la cruz told reporters

he is lucky to be alive. >> the only thing i can remember is when somebody was on the side of me, telling me don't worry, don't worry, ambulance is on the way. that's the only thing i remember. >> police are searching for the occupants of the other car. a lot of questions this morning about an independent living facility in bakersfield, california that refused to administer cpr to an 87-year-old resident. the woman collapsed and no one on staff was willing to try to revive her. their policy is not to provide cpr on residents because they are not a nursing home. listen to the 911 operator desperately trying to get help. >> hand the phone to a passer bye. i'll have her do it. or if you have any citizens there, i'll have them do it. anybody there can do cpr, give them the phone, please.

i understand if you -- if your facility is not willing to do that. give the phone to that passer bye or that stranger then. this woman is not breathing enough. she's going to die if we don't get this started. >> the woman was transported to the hospital but later died. glenwood gardens says correct protocol was followed many. >> she had a do not resuscitate order. and as awful as it sounds from the outside, to hear a dispatcher begging for help, the process of signing a dnr is an emotionally grueling one, but there is a point to it. they resuscitated this woman who is almost 90 and then lived on a ventilator against her own wishes. >> causing a lot of discussion no doubt. right now in central florida, crews have the upper hand on a brushfire that destroyed ten homes and 14 other structures in the ocala national

forest. fire scorched 1,900 acres, 80% contained. dozens in volusia county will return home today after officials lifted mandatory evacuation orders. she made history, being the first to compete in the nfl. her kicking, take a look. >> that's how kick. >> silberman only had two kicks. she hopes to get another chance to show off her leg when she is healthy. >> that's not going to work. the former governor mitt romney speaking out about not being president. he spoke at length about his new role in the republican party. you can talk about the forced

spending cuts that kicked in on friday. >> no one can think that's a success for the president. he didn't think the sequester would happen. it is happening. today we have seen the president out campaigning to the american people. doing rallies, flying around the country and berating republicans. the president has the opportunity to lead the nation and to bring republicans and democrats together. it's a job he's got to do and a job only the president can do. >> peter king is a congressman from new york. member of the homeland security committee. nice to have you with us, sir. i know you vent had a chance to see the entire interview. what did you make of it? >> i think governor romney handled himself well, showed real feelings and emotion there. lost the election, he wasn't making excuses, but did admit that it hurts. i think as far as his criticism of the president, i think it's very appropriate. the president not showing the

type of leadership necessary in a crisis like this. almost like he has a perpetual campaign. he knew the sequester was coming and going to ask for it originally. but, again this should not be that hard to do. $85 billion, the entire budget. selectively, rather than saying that kids wouldn't get vaccinated, senior citizens going to die, planes couldn't land or take off. >> you are speaking hipperbolicly. >> i don't think so at all. if anybody was hipperbolic, it was the president the past few weeks. >> let me ask you a question about governor romney assessed mistakes made in his campaign. his wife blamed the media but he basically said there was a -- a bad strategy in trying to appeal to minorities that democrats were able to do more successfully. here is what he said. >> the weakness that our campaign had, we weren't

effective in taking my message to minority voters, african-americans, other minorities. that was a real weakness. we did very well with a majority population, but not with minority populations and that was a failing. that was a real mistake. >> why do you think that was? >> i think the obama care attractiveness and feature was something we underestimated in particularly among lower incomes and we just didn't do as good of a job as connecting with that audience as we should have. >> what do you make of ha answer and the context for the future of the gop? >> i think he's right. and the question is how do we address it. i think he's saying and i agree with this, we weren't able to communicate to minority community, why republican principles would work for them. economic growth as far as being able to make it out of poverty and republican principles are the best.

we sort of portray them as a way that's for more upper class people. best indused or encouraged by the republicpy i had can party, self-reliance. a lot of republicans feel uncomfortable going into minorities areas. i'm not saying we need to change our policies, but we have to show why they relate to those in the minority community, those in the immigrant commune and to show why those as people. i have no problem, i grew up in immigrant community in new york. they were irish, italian and jewish. but too many in the party have an aloof attitude. i think that's part of the problem we have to address. >> let me ask a question about marco rubeio. you were furious when he was in town fund-raising about folks in wall street. saw people out in the hamptons, where the big money is. he voted twice against sandy

relief for new york area, new jersey area. you said that was incredibly hypocritical. florida hit with a number of big storms and gotten lots of aid over the years. have you spoken to him? what is the fallout? would you support him in 2016 if he decided to run for the presidency? >> i felt very strongly about this. this was the worst natural disaster to ever hit the northeast. the line went out and i would say that bill that was voted on and passed the house and back to the senate was drawn by republican leadership. we asked them. we asked the majority leader and chairman to not put anything in there that relates to sandy. mayor bloomberg submitted the most detailed itemization. we talk about pork. nothing in there not related to sandy. if it was, it was put in there with other people. the floor of the house on january 1st, find one thing in the bill, not related to sandy,

tell us, and it will come out. no one came forward. senator rubio voted against this bill. and now they are raising money for the presidential rays race is the ultimate hypocrisy. >> nice to see, you, sir. >> say hello to connie and mary for me. >> they can hear you. 50 years since some of the most rights in the civil rights movement happened in selma, alabama. cosby is leading the charge to preserb that history. the president of miles college in birmingham, charles french, coming up next. chicken nuggets... what's going on? carrots...craveable. sabra hummus: dip life to the fullest.

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this year marks the anniversary of several milestone moments in the civil rights movement. yesterday, a group of elected officials, including voice president joe biden, re-enacting the 1965 march across the bridge in selma, alabama. bummeringham, alabama, marking a half century of civil rights moment. the horrific bombing of the baptist church. joining me are three organizers of the commemorative events. cosby, the mayor of birmingham, alabama, william bell joins us, and george french as well. nice to have you all. what was it like yesterday? it must have been very emotional. we re-enact this every year, but every year it seems to be an

amazing event. >> it was very emotional. the vice president came to acknowledge the march from 1965. and the fact that he was a -- a teenager at that time and wanted to come, prevented from coming and also a lot of people didn't realize that initially only about 550 people participated in the march. when they turned around, then the next time it was about 600. and then it became 2,500. this year they had almost 10,000 people there. >> such an interesting message. over time the march is growing as opposed to getting smaller and fewer people. do college students care? do college students care? i worry about young people saying 2say ing 50 years ago? it might as well be 250 years ago. >> miles college established in 1898. during the movement in 1963, our

students had imposed a selective buying campaign. boycotting was illegal in alabama at the time. so they newted a selective buying campaign which cost birmingham businesses $4 million a week in lost revenues. as a result of that, dr. fred shuttles went to the sclc national convention and said because what's going on already in birmingham with the students from miles college, we should take the movement to birmingham. >> an interesting juxtaposition. i read about you, at the same time the fight for rights in the south wassing if on, you were on the verge of winning an emmy award. first black man. in 1966 you would win an emmy award. and the show "i spy" was banned in the south. you look back at the history -- >> just a couple of stations. what did you say?

>> it's hard to believe. >> i don't think so. not when you look at the president's speech recently. to see people sitting down and then they there are others sitting down. i think we have people sitting there who are as bad as the people who were against any kind of desegregation. and then in place of a better america, they want their own sick feelings put across, and it's -- it isn't -- it isn't a good time, but i think also on our part as professors and presidents of colleges all over, and in public schools, we need to get the education of the

correct history that happened so people can say, yes, this really did happen. because you have to include the assassination of a president and ask the question, maybe that had something to do with it also. >> interesting when you look back at history. we'll take a short break when we come back. i want to talk about what justice scalia was talking about, racial entitlements. we'll see how everybody feels about that. it's not an issue for r5 0 years. they are deciding it now, the voter rights act. >> it's not about mississippi again, is it? >> well, we'll talk about that after this short commercial break, more with cosby and mayor bell and george french. [ man ] i've been out there most of my life.

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welcome back, everybody. we are back with author and philanthropist, bill cosby. and also the mayor of birmingham joining us as well. let's talk about the voting act. the constitutionality of that has been discussed. you heard justice scalia say this. i think it's attributable, very likely attributable to a phenomenon that's called perpetuation of racial entitlement. whenever a society adopts racial entitlements, it's difficult to get out of them through the normal political process. basically, he's saying the voter rights act was a racial entitle many. justice kennedy said it's time to get rid of it. the marshall plan was good too,

the northwest ordinance -- he's being very sarcastic there -- but times change. what do you make of this. >> when you look at politics, there's still an effort to repress the vote, particularly the african-american vote. when you look at issues surrounding registration, what time you can vote, whether or not there's early voter registration, identification -- all of these are roadblocks. it would be different if there were no roadblocks to anyone voting, but it's a constant barrage or attack on the african-american vote, and we need some protection there. >> most people think it's not going to stay, though. most people believe these provisions and the voter rights act will be lost. >> speaking specifically about section 5, not the entire voting rights act, but section 5. the question has to be asked, if we were enslaved, we've been in this country for 375 years, enslaved for 275 years.

and we're talking since 1965, voting rights act, is it really time to look at eliminating those provisions? >> justice scalia would say yes. justice kennedy would say it's past time. >> soledad, you have to look at this was our state. this is shelby county, alabama, birmingham, what does the data indicate? is it really time? >> what do you think, mr. cosby? is it time? >> i think it's dumb to say is it time when we stand and say the pledge of allegiance, for which it stands. where are you going with this? where are you going with the promise of what the united states of america really is. it's also interesting that this republican party is not the republican party of 1863, of abraham lincoln, abolitionists

and slavery, is not good. i think it's important for us to look at the underlying part of it. what is the value of it? is it that some people are angry because my people no longer want to work for free? >> is there be interesting to see what happens with the voting rights act. i have been to birmingham a bunch of times, and i'll be free in september. maybe i'll take you up on that. still ahead this morning, could be a life changing medical breakthrough. a toddler cured of hiv. we'll tell you how doctors say it's possible right at the top of the hour. then in a few moments, demolition crews are back at that house that was sitting on top of a sinkhole. take you to the scene. some really hard pictures to show you coming up. ♪

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welcome, everybody, back to "starting point." a breakthrough, a 2-year-old cured of hiv. is it even possible? we'll talk about the keys to success. plus the march snowstorm bearing down on cities like minneapolis and chicago, with washington, d.c., not far behind. we'll have the forecast for you. right now as we speak, crews demolishing a home that sits above a deadly sinkhole. how can something like this be prevented from'haing again? the market is hitting an all time high. why one investor says now is the time to buy, but there's a

catch. and a 7-year-old boy suspended for turning his breakfast pastry into the shape of a gun. was he playing with his food, or was he genuinely creating a threat? we'll talk with the little boy and his father straight ahead. i can't even get through that with a straight face. it is monday, march 4th. and "starting point" begins right now. welcome, everybody. our team this morning, christopher john farley, senior editorial director of digital features of "the wall street journal." florida congressman connie mack. and california congresswoman mary bono mack joins us as well. in the 32-year-old battle with hiv, a child has been cured. scientists say it's a little girl from mississippi who was born with the virus that causes aids and that she's now infection free. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now from the cnn center in atlanta. hey, elizabeth, good morning. >> reporter: good morning.

soledad, this really is a potential breakthrough, not because there are any new drugs involved, but because a mother was actually noncompliant with doctor's orders. let's take a look at what happened in mississippi. this baby was born to an hiv-positive mother, and then the baby tested positive for hiv. the baby was then put on hiv drugs, anti-retroviral drugs for 15 months. around that time, the mother stopped giving them for reasons we just don't know. she just stopped. she also didn't bring the baby into the doctor. finally, she did bring the baby in to the doctor around her 2nd birthday, and she was hiv free after being off drugs for eight to ten months, and her doctors were stunned and even brought in other doctors to test her, and they found the same thing. she was hiv negative. >> there's some people who say, elizabeth, that, in fact, maybe the baby wasn't hiv positive.

we spoke with researchers and some of the people criticizing the study at this point, this early stage, say that one answer could be that the baby never really was hiv positive. >> reporter: right. and we asked that same question, and we were assured this baby was tested multiple times in the first year of life, and she was indeed hiv positive. in fact, when you go in with super duper ultrasensitive tests, you can find remnants of dna and rna from hiv in the baby's body. she's got remnants of genetic material of hiv, so they offer that up as another piece of proof that, yes, she was hiv positive at one point. >> a fascinating story. interesting to see what the implications could be for other children. even if adults could have some kind of benefit from that. elizabeth cohen, thanks. appreciate it. fierce winter storm setting its sights on washington, d.c. right now it's covering the midwest with several inches of snow. chicago, they say, could see ten inches of snow before the nation's capital gets even more than that.

jennifer delgado is live in the cnn weather center. >> it seems all we ever talk about are big winter storms out there. >> all we ever talk about, you and i. >> if you're wondering, this will be the fourth one in six weeks, if you're keeping count. the snow coming down through the dakotas, but as we go through the evening, into the morning hours, we're really going to see this storm get energized. it's going to be bringing snow to areas like chicago overnight as well as into tuesday. then is affects erie, like indiana tuesday afternoon. by wednesday, this becomes a mid-atlantic problem. let's talk about the snow totals. we're talking a foot or more in some of these locations. for minneapolis, 6 to 12. for chicago, 6 to 9. for ft. wayne, 6 to 12 for you. now the mid-atlantic, because the storm system is going to be moving right along the coast, as it does, we could see potentially in these locations, right around the mountains, 12 or more inches of snowfall. for washington, d.c., 10 to 12

for you. that all depends on the track of the storm. if it moves more towards the north, we could see this becoming a problem for parts of the northeast. soledad, right now we do have blizzard warnings, winter storm warnings in place from the dakotas all the way over towards virginia. this could be potentially a whopper out there. >> you and i have covered way too many chwhoppers. how many times have you said that to me? right now demolition teams are at the scene of that giant sinkhole that killed a man in tampa, florida. yesterday crews began to tear down the home around the sinkhole. the hole is 30 feet wide, 60 feet wide. it's filled with clay and debris. 37-year-old jeff bush is presumed dead after the earth gave way under him as he was sleeping. george howell is live for us in seffner, florida, with more. good morning, george. >> reporter: soledad, good morning. neighbors are starting to come out.

they are still in shock this happened in this neighborhood. i want to give you a good look at this house. you're starting to see the crews turn out around this track hoe as they will start the work to tear down the home. look back there at the debris leftover. i say debris, but there are family memories, a lot of history has that's really been destroyed. as the crews go through this house, the demolition expected to start any minute now as crews continue to tear down the house. a demolition crew started work sunday on a florida home condemned because of a sinkhole that killed one of its occupants. hundreds of spectators watched as a backhoe plunged through the roof, ripping down walls, and putting pieces of the bush family life on public display. >> the family is very close knit. many of the family have actually lived in this house over the years. belonged to the grandmother. so they all have a close, personal connection. >> reporter: crews helped salvage valuables, including

military medals and an american flag, but crews say it will not be possible to recover the body of 37-year-old jeffrey bush. he was the only one of six family members at home who was unable to escape when a sinkhole opened thursday night. his brother jeremy said he tried to save him. >> i ran in there, and all i could see was the big hole, and all i could see was the top of his bed. i didn't see nothing else. i jumped in the hole and tried digging him out. and i couldn't get him. i thought i could hear him screaming for me and hollering for me, and i couldn't do nothing. >> the search for bush was called off when authorities said it became clear he could not have survived. tearing down the home will give officials a better look at the sinkhole, which is still expanding, and help them find the best way to fill it. several other homes had to be evacuated. people were only given 30 minutes to get their belongings. a live picture here in seffner, florida. what do you see here? a mattress, a few chairs. in the foreground, if you could

pan over to it, you can see the memorial, things that people brought, a stuffed bunny, flowers. you can see the community is coming together for this family as this demolition is expected to happen at any time now. >> george howell for us this morning. thank you, george. john berman has a look at the other stories making news. new developments overnight. a surprise meeting between secretary of state john kerry and palestinian president mahmoud abbas in an effort to get israel and the palestinians talking again. it happened when both were visiting riyadh in saudi arabia. kerry is in the midst of his first official overseas trip. he wrapped up a four-day trip to egypt, where he pledged $250 million in u.s. aid to support their future attempts as a democracy. catholics may have a pope in less than two weeks. a vatican spokesman saying the pope's successor could be in place by march 14th. cardinals meeting this morning and again this afternoon. one of the first orders of business, to try to set a date for the conclave, this as former british cardinal keith o'brien, who abruptly resigned and said

he would not attend the conclave, now admits he's guilty of sexual misconduct. he released a statement saying, "there have been times that my sexual conduct has fallen below the standards expected of me as a priest, arch bishop, and cardinal." president obama is expected to make three key nominations for his second term. gina mccarthy to environmental protection agency. she's currently an assistant director at the epa. she worked for mitt romney at one point in massachusetts. and the next nod for the energy secretary. and cindy matthews burwell will be the next director of management and budget. she currently heads the walmart foundation. cnn will bring you these nominations live at 10:15 eastern time. on the subject of mitt romney, we're hearing from the former massachusetts governor, his first public comment since losing the election. in a fox news interview, mitt romney and his wife ann reflect on the campaign and how they ended up on the outside looking in at the white house. both admitted it still hurts.

>> i still care, and i still believe that there are principles we need to stand for. i look at what's happening right now. i wish i were there. it kills me not to be there, not to be in the white house doing what needs to be done. >> i know he would have been a fabulous president, and i mourn the fact that he's not there. it would have been much better for america, i believe, in my heart, if he had been there right now. >> governor romney acknowledged one of the biggest mistakes of his campaign was the comment that 47% of people are dependent on the government and don't take personal responsibility for their lives. so if it seems that no one wants to talk about a really even deal with the forced spending cuts on capitol hill. thank goodness "saturday night live" is dealing with it with the village people. >> and, of course, these cuts will affect our military, our civil service, federal construction projects, and even grants to native americans.

and i'm the one who has to tell these folks, young men, there's no need to feel down. young men, pick yourself off the ground. young man, just because your funding is down, there's no need to be unhappy. >> where were they a week ago when we needed a break? >> we really could run that every day if this thing drags on. thanks, john, appreciate that. what did you think of that romney interview? >> i think it was great to see them out there again. i think for the american people to see the agony of defeat and how big it was, that they still don't quite have the answers that the american people want to hear. i think for me with ann it resonates. i think it's harder to be the spouse of the politician, without a doubt, the pain can be greater. >> like she seems more mad

actually. >> i thought it was a great interview. typically, in interviews like this, you see a candidate who is soft on the interview, but i thought mitt put it all out there. he still has raw feelings about the election. i think it was good for him, good for the country to hear what he has to say. just because he lost the election doesn't mean that things he said during the election, he still cares about. >> once you remove the campaign structure from around them, candidates often feel freer to speak their minds because they don't have these other people to answer to. >> let's ask the two candidates. >> how can you say that? >> i don't notice it with these two people at all. ahead this morning, i'm going to share a story that is just insane. second grade kid has been suspended from school, which i didn't realize you can do in second grade. he molded his breakfast pastry into allegedly the shape of a gun. going to talk to the boy, who's

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welcome back, everybody. jodi arias is back on the stand. 14th day of this trial. defense now trying to do damage control. it's because on thursday arias admitted she shot her ex-boyfriend travis alexander. she slit his throat and then stabbed him nearly 30 times and attempted to cover her tracks. here she is on the stand. >> were you crying when you were shooting him? >> i don't know. >> were you crying when you were stabbing him? >> i don't remember. >> how about when you cut his throat? were you crying then? >> i don't know.

>> take a look then. you're the one that did this, right? >> yes. >> and you're the same individual that lied about all this, right? >> yes. >> that's one martinez. he's the prosecutor in this case, just brutal. beth karas is in phoenix covering the trial for trutv's "in session." how does the defense possibly in cross-examination make that any better? >> reporter: good morning, soledad. we have seen 13 days of jodi arias on the stand. eight days by her attorneys, five days by the prosecution on cross, and now her attorneys get another day, two, three days, who knows, to try to rehabilitate. what can they do with her? i'm not sure. they'll go over some of the areas they already covered on direct examination. she had great recall when her lawyers were questioning her about all kinds of detail in her life except when it came to the

killing itself. she's in a fog, blurry. she remembers shooting and nothing else until she's driving in the desert about a half hour later, probably, maybe more. this is after slicing him up and slitting his throat and deleting photos on a camera of his, incriminating photos that placed her at the scene, which investigators later found. pretty incredible stuff. so on cross-examination, she had memory loss about all kinds of detail she remembered earlier in her life. all of a sudden, i don't know, i'm not sure. so i think her lawyers are going to try to deal with that. why aren't you sure about these things when you were earlier in your testimony? >> jurors are allowed to ask questions too, which is really unusual. how is that going to go? >> reporter: well, you know, they have a wire basket sitting on the rail in front of them, and they can put pieces of paper with their questions in it. there weren't really any questions until last thursday, the last day of cross-examination. so now they're starting to assemble the questions.

the judge will hold them until after all questioning by the attorneys is finished. then the judge will review the questions with the attorneys and ask them on behalf of the jurors if they're appropriate. that will give us an idea of at least where one or two jurors are going and where they feel there may be holes in her story. >> so what's the tone like? from just watching it on tv, it just seems like a complete train wreck for the defense. how does it feel in the courtroom when she falls apart like that and she's sobbing and covering her eyes and the prosecutor's haranging her. >> reporter: the dynamic is always a little different when you're there in person. we do the best we can showing it on a two-dimensional tv. but when you're in the courtroom and watching family members on both sides, watching the jury, the feeling in the courtroom was palpable. people were just hanging on her words at the end because she was breaking down really for the first time on the stand in what

you just showed last week, as she had to acknowledge that she did all these things because she didn't remember anything when her lawyer asked her questions, and she barely cried when her lawyer asked her questions. it was really very moving. the family members of the victim travis alexander have been crying periodically throughout the trial. jodi arias' mother, other family members here all the time. obviously, emotional also but less so than the victim's family. >> oh, my goodness, what an awful thing. beth karas is the correspondent for "in session" on trutv. thanks, beth. pruettal. the details of this case are so horrific. >> i know they have to go through the court process, but you can't see and watch this and go maybe she didn't do it. >> they're fighting over getting her death. this whole entire thing is will she be put to death, right? i actually think the prosecutor, by having her break down and

cry, may have undermined his whole point, right? he humanized her more. she didn't cry with the defense attorneys. she now is falling apart. i think that humanizes her more. >> i don't know how all this works. i don't understand that part, how it humanizes her, because the things that she did is -- >> but i think they won't put her to death, right? she's a sobbing young woman who's teary. i think it makes it more likely for them. >> it's bone chilling. i think the opposite. she seems just evil. >> i find when people say they forget horrific acts on the stand, is it a psychological condition where this happens again and again or a defense strategy to do this? >> she's had three or four different iterations of what happened in this horrific killing. at one point she wasn't there and then kidnap and then mental, it's a whole range. >> it seems like another iteration. so let's talk a little bit about north korea's leader kim jong-un.

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welcome back, everybody. it is estimated that 70% of kids are diagnosed with adhd. these kids may grow up with serious psychological problems. elizabeth cohen has more for us in atlanta this morning. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. this study is so important because millions of children in this country have adhd. these researchers looked at what happens when they become adults. looked at more than 200 adults who had adhd as kids, and this is what they found. 57% had another psychiatric disorder on top of the adhd, depression and anxiety were particularly common. and they were five times more likely to commit suicide if they had adhd as children.

of course, this is of huge concern to parents of children with adhd to people who have adhd. to read more, go to cnnhelp.com and read the blog by my column leslie wade. >> what is the connection between adhd and suicide later in the adult years? >> doctors think what's going on is that, when you have adhd as a kid, it's frustrating. you may be smart, but you're not getting good grades because you can't focus. it's hard to form friendships when you can't focus, and so these kids sometimes become depressed, and when you have adhd, you're also impulsive. depression and impulsivity are a bad combination. that's why they think the suicidal tendencies. look at the demolition right now on the house in florida over the sinkhole. a man was killed thursday night when the hole opened up under his bedroom in florida.

just caved in. crews began to tear down the house above that sinkhole. the hole is 30 feet wide, 60 fight deep, and it's filled with clay and debris. tragedy at the escape from alcatraz triathlon. a 46 yard man from austin, texas, died during the swimming portion of the event. race officials believe he suffered a heart attack. this is the first time in the event's 33-year history they say a participant has died. vice president joe biden joining hundreds of marchers in selma, alabama, to commemorate bloody sunday, the day in 1965 when civil rights activists marched for voting rights. they were attacked by state police. joe biden apologized and said, he should have been there 48 years ago. author, entertainer, and philanthropist bill cosby was one of the organizers of this year's event in selma. here's what he had to say about keeping the memory of that day alive here on "starting point." >> on our part as professors of colleges all over and in public

schoo schools, we need to get the education of the correct history that happened so that people can say, yes, this really did happen. >> cosby says we are still fighting the same hate today as we were back then. "the new york times" reporting this morning that the nation's biggest banks wrongfully foreclosed on more than 700 military families during the housing crisis and seized homes from roughly two dozen others who were current on their mortgage payments. bank of america, citigroup, jp morgan chase, and wells fargo uncovered the data. in january, government regulators ordered the banks to identify military members and other borrowers who were evicted in violation of federal law. so dennis rodman has a message for president obama from kim jong-un. fresh off his north korean tour, the ex-nba star sat down with abc's george stephanopoulos. listen to what the north korean leader told rodman.

>> he want obama to do one thing, call him. >> he wants a call from president obama? >> that's what he told my. he said, if you can, dennis, i don't want to do war. i don't want to do war. he said that to me. >> did you say, why don't you pick up the phone and call president obama? >> it's a different story because, guess what, the kid is only 28 years old. 28. >> okay. so rodman also says he doesn't condone many of kim jong-un's actions. >> it's not who calls who. just that dennis rodman has become the shuttle diplomacy spokesperson between north korea and the united states? am i the only one? >> can he help with sequester too? maybe he can get involved in that too. >> he was there on behalf of "vice" magazine for the documentary that's going to air on hbo. the u.s. state department has distanced itself as far as he possibly can from rodman, saying he is not there on a sports diplomatic mission. and the white house also says, by the way, president obama is not going to call kim jong-un right now. >> i wonder why dennis rodman?

>> "vice" magazine wanted to get it. that's the why. >> does he have an interest in international relations? >> no. the magazine asked him, and he met. >> no. he has no clue about what's happening. he goes over there, meets -- has a meeting, and they become best friends and tells the world that they're best friends. >> do you think north korea is making fun of us? this is almost like north koreans making fun of us. >> they don't need to make fun of us. it's right out there. >> i think everybody is kind of making fun of dennis rodman. >> carry on, john. half a minute of fun just cost 50 miners in western australia their jobs. seems they got caught doing the harlem shake on the job. that's according to the west australian newspaper. the owners of the agnew gold mine told the paper it's a safety issue. the terminated miners insist they did not compromise safety regulations. the miners were also banned from the facility for life.

there you go on that cheery note. >> thanks, john. here's another question for you. can a beak fast pastry be used as a weapon? officials at an elementary school in maryland have now suspended a 7-year-old boy for taking his breakfast pastry and then eating parts of it so that it looked like the shape of a gun. i'm not making this up. school says he allegedly said bang bang while holding breakfast pastry/alleged gun. the boy denies that. he was trying to actually make the shape of a mountain, but it wouldn't hold the shape, so it looked like a gun. let's get to 7-year-old brad walsh. his dad is b.j. b.j., i'm going to start with you if i can. what happened with your son josh? he was in the cafeteria eating. was he making a gun? was he making a mountain? what happened? >> the children eat breakfast in their classroom. so this actually took place in his classroom. i get a call from the vice principal that they had to

suspend him for two days because he was eating this breakfast pastry, it was like a danish type thing, and he was chewing on it and fashioned it into what resembled a gun. as you said, used the words bang bang. i'm assuming that he was inferring that he was trying to use it as a gun. that's about as many details as i got with him and this pastry. >> let me ask a question of josh. you're 7 years old. are you in first grade? >> no, second. >> my apologies. second grade. the big question, of course, is were you making a gun out of your pastry, and did, in fact, you say bang bang while holding your pastry up, right? >> no. i was trying to shape it into a mountain, and it turned out to be a gun. and i did not say bang bang.

and pretty much i got suspended now for two days. >> after you made this mountain shape gun-like thing, what happened? did the teacher remove you from the classroom? was there some other thing that would happen that would make her take you out of the classroom? >> actually, she had to send me up to the office, and i was up there for a little bit. and my teacher had to bring the stuff up. and then my dad came up into the school, and he had to call and talk to the assistant principal. she was scared of guns, and he was in there for a little bit too. then when they were done, we had to go home. and i showed him what the pastry looked like. it was blue, and it was a rectangle. it was a cherry one.

and this one was, i don't know, five quarters long. >> kind of looked like a gun? >> yeah. when i was done, it turned out to be a gun, yeah. >> so let me ask your dad another question. there was a letter sent home from the school to families. part of the letter reads this. "one of our students" -- we're talking about your son here -- "used food to make inappropriate gestures that disrupted the class. while no one was harmed, the student had to be removed from the classroom." they go on to say there's this code of student conduct. a handbook was sent home. can be found on the website, and you have to sign a form indicating that you understand it all. and frankly, as much as you may disagree with what they claim, at the end of the day, it's in the handbook and you signed it. don't they have a point? >> i would say they have a point. i also believe that there needs to be some common sense injected into such handbooks and rules and et cetera. obviously, we need rules for a

reason. they're there with good intentions. but i would like to think that rules are put in place to protect people from harm and danger and things of that nature. do i believe that josh should have been talked to and told, hey, we shouldn't do that in school. i should have been called about it. basic things like that, those steps should have been taken. i just believe that, when you compare the caliber of the, quote, unquote, offense to the caliber of the punishment, they don't match up. and i just feel that's just a lack of common sense in conjunction with the use of the rules. honestly, i believe there's some personal bias involved in the decision as well. >> interesting. let me hope it up to my panel for one second. stand by. i think schools tend to go down this road where they have this zero tolerance policy, and then they find themselves in a position where there's a kid

pointing a pastry. >> this is outrageous. this is the school going way overboard. it's a pastry. he's a 7-year-old kid. even if he did make it into a gun on purpose and say bang bang, the fact that we're talking about this, that they're on tv because they suspended -- >> for two days. >> for two days. it's just outrageous. our schools have got to get their act together, and they can't overreact to stuff like this. it's outrageous. >> we have so many problems with the educational system in america. for us to spend time grilling a 7-year-old over what he did with a pastry, it just makes me really sad. >> let me play devil's advocate. >> about the world. >> let's say the next kid is not a pastry, but now they fashion something out of -- >> it's a steak. >> now they fashion something out of, let's say, wood. and then the next kid actually goes ahead and does something a little further. isn't -- i agree with you. it's a little ridiculous.

i think the school is trying to figure out where the line is. >> that's really ridiculous. i really don't think it's going to escalate. none of the four food groups include metal. no one's going to get hurt. >> the problem is the zero tolerance. zero tolerance doesn't give you any room for good judgment or for a teacher and a principal deciding this kid didn't need to do that. use a very stern voice as a teacher, it will never happen again. zero tolerance gets rid of all of your wiggle room for good sense. >> my boys are 8. they turn everything into guns. >> everything's a gun. >> things that you couldn't think would ever be a gun is a gun. let me ask a question back to josh. josh, i want to ask you our final question this morning. you've been out of school for a day, right? now you've got another day of suspension. are you upset about it? have you learned your lesson? what do you take away from all this? >> well, i do draw tanks in school, and i do draw a lot of stuff. and i do like guns. but i don't make guns out of

food and stuff. when i'm trying to create stuff, like drawing, i do not try to draw inappropriate stuff or stuff that isn't inappropriate, but like trucks, helicopters, and planes, i do draw. i draw a lot of stuff. >> we were showing a little bit of your artwork earlier. you're a good artist. listen, my boys are in second grade too. i've got to tell you, dad, i feel your pain on this one. thank you for talking with us this morning. it will be interesting -- we asked, i should mention, the school if they would xhecomment and they wouldn't give us a comment. they gave us this letter they sent home. josh and b.j. welch. pretty good interview for a kid. >> my son could not say inappropriate. he clearly has learned that. >> he's had a talking to. ahead this morning, talking on the phone unacceptable at a lot of gyms. is it worth losing your membership over?

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breaking news just in to cnn. it's really sad news. the baby who had survived the car crash that claimed the life of his parents has died. police confirmed he died earlier this morning. the couple had been inside a taxicab broadsided by another car in brooklyn, new york, yesterday that's happened. the mother was pregnant at the time. doctors were able to deliver the baby by caesarian section, but we just learned the baby has died. casey anthony set to meet in tampa with creditors, part of her chapter 7 bankruptcy hearings. anthony was acquitted of killing her daughter caylee two years ago. the facebook we've finally gotten used to has changed

again. it's expected to bring more features to mobile platforms, including smartphones, revamped look this thursday. stars of the sitcom requested mot easte"modern family" left hanging inside an elevator in kansas city, missouri. >> get us out. >> whole room. get us out. >> they got stuck on their way to a charity event, and they continued the laughs on twitter. stone street tweeted, i honestly handled being stuck in an elevator for 50 minutes better than i thought. all jesse tyler did was pass wind. you probably all agree that people talking lioudly on their cell phone anywhere is annoying. >> i don't talk loudly. i whisper. >> but did a massachusetts gym go too far when it revoked a woman's membership for yakking on the cell phone while working out? she answered an unexpected call from her doctor while training

on the elliptical. >> it was my doctor. i had to answer it. >> it violated a rule. >> this is zero tolerance policy. isn't there one warning and then you get booted out? >> listen, apparently -- >> soledad is looking over the fine print. >> this is actually the key line. "this is a member that had repeated issues and incidents with cell phone usage." >> so they use their cell phone. >> i use my cell phone at the gym. i just don't yell. >> perhaps this is an intervention for you. your gym called and said, hey. >> what about texting? do you have to talk? just text. >> it's her doctor. important information was coming in. >> don't get on the elliptical. >> she's got to go someplace else now. no more planet fitness. still ahead, a nail biting ending to a high school basketball game. player makes an unbelievable shot, beats the clock. the patient, presented with

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welcome back, everybody. nfl history has been made. the first female to ever tryout for nfl teams at a regional combine. jared greenberg has more in this morning's bleacher report. hey, jared. >> hey, soledad. just two and done. however, at this level, lauren silverman has kicked two more footballs than any woman has ever before. silverman had $275 and a dream to become the first woman to play in the nfl. battling a leg injury, the 28-year-old was only able to last two kicks. the regional combine in new jersey was open to anyone willing to pay the registration fee, offering all 37 participants, including the first woman ever, the chance of a lifetime. >> i've always been an athlete. i've always been a gamer. when i had the opportunity to be in the nfl, one of the world's

most competitive leagues, i absolutely had to take the chance. >> danica patrick's day was also cut short. a blown tire forced patrick to crash into the wall in phoenix. a 37th place finish a week after crossing the finish line 8th at daytona. carl edwards turned last week's misfortune into a victory in the desert and made a bid for the u.s. olympic gymnastics team after he won the checkered. edwards hadn't won in his last 70 races. man code was violated in l.a. serge ibaka, oklahoma city thunder with a low blow to the thun ders. ibaka was hit with a flagrant foul but not ejected. ibaka should keep refreshing his inbox from the league. a suspension is likely. new york high school hoops. new rochelle in the black uniforms, down two. mt. vernon appears to secure the win. an errant pass from kalil edney,

you bet you. take another look. edney, who inbounds the pass, gets the ball back. move over lebron and kobe. for the time being, edney is thrust in the national spotlight. his twitter following has more than tripled since he buried this incredible buzzer beater to up-end the seven-time defending section 1 champs in new york. want more sports? check out lebron james on bleacher report right now. the staff tells us how he would stack up against every era in nba history. all there right now on bleach bleacherreport.com. it's been a big year for edney in new rochelle. he was the quarterback on the state championship winning football team. >> does it all and well apparently. >> got it all going for him. >> thanks. appreciate it. if there was a pill

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