journey earlier. in january of 2012 she weighed 385 pounds. by the time she applied for a program she had already lost more than a hundred. now it's 146 pounds off the scale. last week i got to see her in nashville. >> when it comes to working out you only get out of it what you put into it. i can remember not being able to, you know, maintain for 30 minutes. you know, i can run for two hours now or when i'm doing a spin class i have steam left at the end of an hour. it feels good to keep building on that. like, oh, i can do a little bit more today than yesterday. >> there is more to the story. annette inspired her own sister who was considering gastric bypass surgery but had a change of heart when she saw annette's progress. >> about a month ago she told me, you know, i have been watching you and i have seen how you have done this and changed your life. i have seen your attitude change. i'm going to try it without the surgery first. she said, because you have done

it. i think i can at least try. >> that's a great story. it's what this is all about. we'll keep checking in with annette and her sister. annette, i will see you at the nautica malibu triathlon, hopefully at the finish line in september. chasing life now for st. patrick's day. here's the message. have fun but be smart. many people make the holiday all about drinking. don't overdo it. i get it. what does that mean? that's the question. here is a rule of thumb. for healthy adult men a healthy level is no more than 14 standard drinks a week. still quite a bit. standard drink is one beer, one five-ounce glass of one or one and a half ounces of liquor. for women, the healthy upper limit is no more than seven drinks a week. don't drink them all on st. patrick's day. that's a good message. anyone over 65, man or woman, should keep it to just one drink a day. and also a reminder, this never hurts. don't mix these with prescription drugs.

and don't drink and get behind the wheel. don't do it. that will wrap things up for "sgmd." let us know what you think of the show. cnn.com/sanjay. follow us on twitter. up next a check of the top stories and "cnn newsroom." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com up and at 'em. happy st. patrick's day, everybody. i'm christi paul, for randi kay. in steubenville, ohio, in two hours, two lives and more could change forever. judge is expected to hand down his verdict, yes a verdict on a sunday in the case of two high school players accused of raping a 16-year-old girl. poppy harlow is covering the

trial. it's an odd day for a verdict but it's a different case because it's a bench trial. explain to us what's going on? >> reporter: it is, good morning, christi. it's a bench trial because trent mays and malik richmond have been accused of raping a 16-year-old girl over a series of overnight parties in august. they're juveniles so a judge is going to make the final decision. they brought in a visiting judge from another county so there's no concern over conflict of interest in this case. the reason is as you know it has garnered national attention, really global attention and everyone in this town certainly knows about it so they brought someone in from the outside but the four long days of testimony ended last night with the prosecution and the defense resting their cases, making their closing arguments. after the 16-year-old alleged victim took the stand for more than two hours, at one point breaking down and crying when prosecutors showed her a naked picture of herself allegedly taken on that night, she said

she remembers almost nothing from that period of time when these incidents allegedly occurred. i want to you listen first to part of the closing arguments made by the defense team. >> and there's no dna from malik richmond anywhere. no one calls the police, no one calls the alleged victim's parents, no one calls their own parents, no one contacts anyone. why is that? are these all bad kids? >> reporter: the prosecution also made their case in front of the court. the burden of proof relies on the prosecution to prove beyond a reasonable doubt these two boys raped this girl. the verdict is set to come down about 10:00 a.m. here. i want to you listen to the prosecution. >> the case is not about social media, this case isn't about

football. this case is about a 16-year-old who was taken advantage of, toyed with and humiliated and it's time that the people who did that to her are held responsible. >> reporter: the two boys have maintained their innocence throughout. interestingly they did not take the stand. we weren't sure if they were going to or not. that was a game time decision. they did not testify. if they are found guilty, the maximum sentence they could face as they're juveniles is until they're 20. >> even sentencing could come down today, poppy, you said that earlier. i wonder if you could give us a sense of what it was like in the courtroom when the alleged victim took the stand. at one point we heard she would not be taking the stand. >> reporter: it's always a game time decision but the defense told me if the prosecution didn't call her to the stand they were going to. she was taking the stand either way. it was very tense.

everyone hearing she was next, waiting for her. once she was on the stand after about ten minutes she was pretty calm the entire time answering yes/no questions, a lot of "i can't remember" answers. the argument here is she was very intoxicated but when she was shown this picture of herself lying down naked it's the first time she had seen that picture, the first time and the prosecution handed it to her and it was too much, she broke down, she cried, her mother was in the courtroom as well so two hours of testimony we got from her. we'll hear from the judge two hours from now and bring that to you as soon as we have it. >> poppy, thank you so much. appreciate it. interesting how much social media is playing a role in this trial as well as evidence. moving to pennsylvania to give you more on the deadly bus crash, some other things we've learned. it could take several days for investigators to determine what caused the crash of that bus that was carrying members of a

seton hill university women's lacrosse team. two people were killed in the crash. cnn's national correspondent susan candiotti has more for us. >> there were 23 people aboard the bus carrying seton hill's women's lacrosse team. the team's head coach, 30-year-old christina quigley, was 6 months pregnant with her second child and air lifted to the hospital but attempts to save her and her unborn baby boy failed. >> we're mourning the loss of our head coach and unborn son. the university extends its deepest sympathy to her husband. >> reporter: the rest of the passengers were rushed to the hospital. >> my roommate is on the team and i was nervous but i found out she was okay. >> reporter: the charter bus was heading east from seton on its way to a game in millersville.

state police say the driver veered off the road, hit a guardrail, went about 70 yards through grass and slammed into a tree. the front of the bus appears to have taken the brunt of the impact. the bus company, mlaker says it is investigating and issued a statement expressing its sorrow. we checked the company's safety record with federal authorities, there are no accidents shown online in the past two years and the 40-year-old bus line has a satisfactory rating, the highest allowed. investigators are taking a look at everything, including the weather. >> everyone's devastated by the losses and almost seems like we're all coming together. >> reporter: police say there was a mix of rain and snow at the time but it's not clear if weather played a role. authorities will be talking with survivors, those lacrosse players and other members of the team to see if they can shed any light on what happened. there will be a mass tonight at seton hill university for the accident victims. christi? >> susan, thank you so much. want to tell you about nfl

wide receiver donte' stallworth still in a hospital after suffering severe burns in a hot air balloon crash. stallworth's agent says the accident should not hurt his ability to play football. he is expected back on the kneeled weeks. tone loc collapsed at a concert in des moines, iowa. he finished the song and dropped to the floor. his crew rushed over, organizers immediately stopped his event. he's best known for "wild thing" and "funky cold medina." another first for pope francis, just about an hour ago he gave his first weekly blessing in front of a massive crowd at the vatican.

he read the angelus prayer. look at the thousands of catholics from around the world whom he blessed and who had packed st. peter's square there. before that, he had his first sunday mass and this was a rare move, too, he greeted people outside the church after the service. let's talk about politics here, final exclamation point per se for the conservative political action conference, cpac, the annual gathering of conservatives, movers and shakers, they just wrapped things up choosing rand paul as the flag bearer. his father, ron paul, won the same poll twice. marco rubio finished a close second in the voting, rick santorum finished third and chris christie who wasn't even invited finished fourth. sarah palin received 3% in the straw poll, her best moments came during her spirited speech on center stage. so grab a soda, sit back, might

be too early, how about some coffee and orange juice. there's a reason i said soda. you'll get it in a little bit. we'd like to wish everyone a very happy st. patrick's day. how are you going to celebrate? apparently you might need a pair of sweat pants under that kilt depending on whether you are. alexandra steele, there are some parades today, people in atlanta are running in a big marathon, how does it look for everybody? >> i think for this rain train what we've got what we need is an umbrella. atlanta, georgia, the publix race, marathon started at 6:45 for wheelchair participants so beautiful weather for a road race this morning. look at this, i-44, i-64, it's really just kind of a very wet, wintry mix so it's rain, sleet and snow, not much in the way of accumulations from i-70 just north but maybe on the grassy

surfaces but for the most part as this thing pushes eastward to the mid-atlantic including washington it will just be a wet, wintry mix, sleet, rain and snow. cinci, st. louis, kc, louisville all wet and it all pushes eastward. here is the radar in the future of it so i'll move it through some time period, this is this morning and watch what happens, this area of low pressure kind of moves north again still st. louis, cinci through the day today. washington begins to fill in so the morning commute in washington tomorrow around the beltway a wet one chicago to cincinnati as well. watch the two areas phase together so new york to washington and believe it or not the colder air in place in northern new england, tuesday into tuesday night we could have some heavy snow in new england. burlington, the ski resorts and green and white mountains could be good gang busters tuesday into tuesday night and pushes eastward. big picture the southwest, record warm temperatures from salt lake city to flagstaff to

phoenix, those have come down a bit but they're still about ten degrees above average. here's a look where the potential for severe storms are, not only today but believe it or not into tomorrow, the last full weekend of winter. today the potential, memphis, little rock, nashville, more hail and damaging winds, not the threat for tornadoes per se. tomorrow as well that threat pushes eastward. nashville, asheville to atlanta, georgia. christi, a lot of weather around the country and we move into spring officially wednesday so last full weekend of winter and we're going to see a little bit of snow around. >> we still have a couple weeks left in march. until we hit april nobody is safe. thank you, alexandra, appreciate it. okay, a nuclear threat on a chicago commuter train? federal agents swarm the cars with handheld dedex devices. we'll tell you what they found. >> they were in charge and they weren't going to let that train go out until they knew it was safe.

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the cpac conference was kind of a who's who among influential conservatives. four names rose above the rest, senators rand paul and ted cruz talked tough, dr. ben carson kind of gave us a glimpse of the party's future and sarah palin brought down the house with her usual pizazz. let's tear from ted cruz and then it's sarah palin's turn. >> on guns, do we surrender or do we stand up now? on drones, do we surrender or do we stand up now? on spending, do we surrender or

do we stand up now? >> we're here to restore america, and the rest is just th th theatrics, just making noise, that sums up the job president obama is doing today. when we were here last year, the words on everyone's lips, the wish in your heart was for barack to pack her up and bubble wrap the nobel and the club and the high-tops and head on back to chicago. well, the election came and went, but the campaign never stopped. mr. president, we admit it. you won. accept it. now step away from the teleprompter and do your job.

allow yourself to imagine leadership that deems to understand us little people, us clinging to our god, our guns, our constitution and the grassroots. is it any wonder there was such a run on guns and ammo for christmas presents a couple months ago, considering politici politicians' attack on the second amendment. you should have seen what todd got me for christmas. it wasn't that exciting, it's a metal rack, case for a hunting rifle to put on the back of a four-wheeler and then i had to get something for him to put in the gun case, right? so this go-round he's got the rifle, i got the rack.

[ cheers and applause ] oh, bloomberg's not around. our big gulp's safe. >> for more on cpac and sarah palin, check out cnnpolitics.com. let me tell you about a this nuclear threat on a chicago commuter train possibly. this was not a movie. this was not a drill. photojournalist with affiliate wbbm just happened to be on that train when it was stormed by tsa agents, reporter dave sevigny with wbbn has the story. >> reporter: sources say these are members of the elite tsa viper team aboard the 504 p.m. union pacific west line, carrying hand held nuclear

detection devices which picked up a reading for nuclear activity, here at the oglivie station they detained this train and searched for the bag in threat. the bag turns out to be clean but there's still a signal of something nuclear somewhere on the train. >> they were in charge and they weren't going to let that train go out until they knew it was safe. >> reporter: jerry jones, a chicago lawyer, was heading home on that train, he's the passenger in the blue shirt. they narrowed it down to the people right around you on the train. >> yes they did. >> reporter: the entire time you're sitting there thinking i wonder what they're looking for. >> i had no idea if i was the center of the activity. >> reporter: jones says the security must have picked up on him, a nuclear stress test he took earlier in the day sent off silent alarms and sent security scurrying. >> probably 15 minutes. >> reporter: 15 minutes they're buzzing around looking for this bag or person. >> yes. >> reporter: the tsa team passed

by him several times before ending uhm on his train car. finally he got a clue when the agent questioned the man. >> he says "sir do you have an explanation why i'm getting a high isotope reading on your bag." >> reporter: jones realized he was the one they were looking for. that's when he raised his hand to confess. >> i had a nuclear stress test. >> reporter: after showing his id. and proof of the nuclear test which can leave patients emitting radiation for some time, jones and the other passengers were allowed to go on your way. what feeling do you walk away with? >> one of great security knowing there are people on the lookout for this type of thing. >> our thanks to dave sevigny of affiliate wbm for that. we'll be right back. a bad dream, be ready. morn for the times you need to double-check the temperature on the thermometer, be ready. for high fever, nothing works faster or lasts longer.

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st. patrick's day, 8:30 in the morning, if you happen to just be getting in from a little bit of celebrating i'm christi paul, withal come. in less than two hours 17-year-old trent mays and 16-year-old ma'lik richmond will learn their fate, they're accused of raping a 16-year-old girl last summer and the judge is expected to hand down his decision in just about an hour and a half for the two high school football players, yes, on a sunday. the alleged victim says she was too drunk to remember much of what happened to her. she testified yesterday. there is going to be a memorial tonight on the campus of seton hall university near pittsburgh as they remember the victims of a bus crash yesterday. the bus was carrying the women's lacrosse team and the team's pregnant coach and the bus driver were both killed.

the other 21 people on board were taken to area hospitals and some are still there at this hour. you're looking at one of the consequences of those forced federal budget cuts that took effect this month. passengers at miami international airport had to wait several hours yesterday, hours to get through customs. airport officials say the federal agency that checks passports had to cut overtime so travelers were reported to be yelling, screaming, even fights breaking out in line. the carnival "legend" has arrived at a port, here are pictures of it from a little bit ago after its journey has sidelined with issues from the propulsion system. despite the issue, the company says the ship is going to be ready to sail again this afternoon. today's "faces of faith" we're talking about how pope

francis became pope. lot of people were betting against him. cnn senior international correspondent dan rivers got the inside scoop for us. >> reporter: as the sun sets on the conclave, gradually details are being pieced together as to how cardinal bergoglio was elected pope francis. posters of the cardinals attr t attracted passersby. >> at the end of it, he was 25:1. it was as big as 40:1 but in reality almost no one backed him. he was about 16th or 17th in the betting. >> reporter: the cardinals themselves are supposed to say nothing, swearing an oath of secrecy about how they voted. we tried asking one what went on. >> i cannot tell you that. i will not tell you that. it would be exposing what we had agreed we were not going to tell anybody. >> reporter: it's reported cardinal bergoglio made a key

four-minute speech at the pre-conclave general congregation meeting which impressed many cardinals but few predicted he'd win. >> it's like a poker game, until they disclose their cards, none of them will have a clear picture of what is possible. and then once the cards are put on the table, they will then see who's got the votes and who has not. >> reporter: and this is how the cards fell, favorites cardinal angelo scolo was struggling after the first ballot. two establishment kingmakers not electing cardinal angelo cedano and bertoli were trumped by others who wanted reform, back in the deck in favor of cardinal bergoglio. the joker in the pack, timothy dolan his endorsement gave bergoglio the two-thirds majority needed to make him unbeatable.

all of this was supposed to be in secret but soon the details were leaking. the story of which few predicted the ending, a first pope from the new world. dan rivers, cnn, rome. >> joining from us rome, senior vatican analyst john allen. i know we're learning more about how he was elected obviously but what do you think made him stand out? >> reporter: i think the election of cardinal bergoglio was the intersection two of different forces. one, there were a number of cardinals going into the conclave wanted to elect somebody for putting a face on the 1.2 billion catholics who live in the developing world, so they were looking for somebody who came from that part of the world and latin america struck them as the best bet. the other camp was an anti-establishment mood among many of the 114 cardinals who elected bergoglio, who felt that

old ways of doing business in the vatican and the old guard needed to be swept out, there needed to be a serious reform in the direction of greater transparency, greater accountability, and greater efficiency. they wanted an outsider, somebody not connected to the old guard to do that and of course cardinal bergoglio has never worked a day in the vatican in his life. these two things came together, a latin american outsider who had been the runner-up eight years ago, who has enormous respect among his fellow cardinals. he became an irresistible force inside that conclave, christi. >> i heard that he gave a four-minute speech before the conclave and that that impressed some people. do we have any idea what he talked about? >> reporter: yes, this was a speech given during the general congregation meetings which were the daily meetings of all the cardinals, including those who were over 80 and couldn't vote in the conclave. there was 100 some speeches given during this period so it's hard for any one of them to

stand out but cardinal bergoglio's did. he talked about the need for purification and the need for conversion and many people believe that he was directing those comments towards the vatican bureaucracy in particular, and that was sort of taken as a signal that he might well be the reformer, the guy who would sort of bring a new broom and sweep clean inside the brur crassy, that the other cardinals were looking for. >> i know that he was elected despite some controversy about his history in arming tinnia, accused of being complicit with the dictatorship in the '70s that kidnapped two priests. the vatican denies the charges. when you look at that, what could francis have done to protect those priests anyway? >> reporter: the specific charge is there were two jesuit priests, he comes out of the religious order known as the society of jesus, he was the superior of the order at that time, charges these two priests

were kidnapped and he didn't do enough to try to have them liberated. one of those priests who is currently living in germany has said as far as he is concerned the case is closed, he's reconciled with francis and praying for the success of his papacy. you make a good point which is what more could he have done? the record is he tried to get the priests liberated, that he was not in any way complicit with the regime. it's always easy with the distance and benefit of hindsight to make judgments about what someone should or should not have done but i think those closest to the situation had said that the future pope at that time did what was in his power, of course, a nobel peace prize winner from argentina, known for being a ferocious critic of the regime has also come to his defense. my suspicion it's probably one of the stories that's not going to have legs. >> john allen, so good to see you, john, thank you for your insight. cpac is packing up today.

it did manage to bring in some pretty big college crowds, they weren't there to see the oak ridge woods perform. he'll ask "state of the union's" candy crowley, who were they there for? >> i got to guess rand paul, and this is an umbrella group for conservative groups, mostly republicans but there is a libertarian streak very much in rand paul that does tend to attract young people, as his father did, and i think we can tell by the results of the straw poll at cpac which of course declared rand paul to be the winner that a lot of them came to hear him. he was coming off a pretty big week for him, he hailed that filibuster on the senate floor, demanding to know more about drone policy in the u.s., et cetera, so he's had a couple of really good weeks of headlines,

having won the straw poll it makes him a player, but it does not make him, you know, by any means, a lock as to who is going to lead the republican party. we're not going to know that for another two years or so until republicans decide on who their nominee might be for president. >> candy, thank you so much, we appreciate it. and keep it here for "state of the union" it starts at the top of the hour, 9:00 a.m. eastern, here on cnn. we've been talking about the fact that yes it is st. patrick's day. want to know how to pour the perfect pint of stout? we have a handy guy, we have a hint, he's doing it all wrong. [ nyquil bottle ] you know i relieve coughs, sneezing, fevers...

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top of the morning to ireland, there's dublin you're looking at n the streets celebrating the st. patrick's day holiday. it looks like it's kind of cold there, but you know, they're going to have a good old time just like we do here in the states, it all merges over to us, too, doesn't it, nadia, plenty of revelers will be celebrating with a pint of guinness, nope for its dark hue and white top. pouring the perfect pint not the easiest task. we're joined by nadia belchik will show us how it's done. >> i love guinness and president obama has been to ireland because his great, great grandfather on his father's side was irish. they say everyone is irish on

st. paddy's day. >> on st. patrick's day we certainly are because we need to celebrate. >> yes because 37 million americans of irish ancestry, that's six times more than the population of ireland. >> really? >> may be pouring a stout today. >> i thought people wanted to party and that was an excuse. >> that, too. >> what did you learn about pouring the perfect stout? >> it takes a cold glass and you have to tilt it at 45 degrees and you're looking at a stout on tap but you have to pour it slowly, and then once it reaches around three-quarters, you stop and you stop so that creamy, milky texture fills and starts looking black so the whole idea is that the entire pouring procedure takes sometimes over three minutes, then there's a pause and they carry on pouring slowly and get that big, creamy top otherwise known as the head,

and only then is the stout perfect to drink. >> all righty but is it really a meal in a glass like some people say? come on! >> guinness is not allowed to say it's good for you, but i so ek to o spoke to one of our producers and say physicians tell elderly people in ireland to have a guinness because it's full of vit anyone c and antioxidant. this is the color it's supposed to be. unfortunately this is missing our big, white foamy top. [ speaking in foreign language ] in gaelic is cheers, and we say may good luck be with you, wherever you go and your blessings outnumber the shamrocks that grow. >> nice! i love it. i'm not going to take a sip. >> it increases your amount of vitamin d and antioxidant. >> another reason for you all to go out there and have a couple.

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>> the picture was of me and i sent it. >> it began very innocently as i suspect many of these things do. >> i violated the vows of my marriage. >> i've begun to atone for my private failings with my wife. >> let me first of all apologize to my wife, jenny. >> especially my wife. i'm truly sorry. >> these are the moments that just do not die, people. disgraced politicians, we've seen more than a handful of our elected leaders resign for unsavory things, some are starring in their own tv shows, book deals, even running for office again. political comedian dean abudala is in new york. we saw mark sanford running for a congressional seat after he was caught publicly cheating on his wife, former representative

anthony weiner he may make a comeback after getting caught sending racy pictures to women other than his wife. how do these guys, i mean how do they find favor again? >> i think, christi, they're like jason from "friday the 13th" movies, you can't kill them like political zoombies. every time you think they're dead they're walking around. anthony weiner spent $100,000 on polling to see about running for mayor of new york this year. people remember he resigned because he accidentally tweeted pictures of himself in his underwear out. apparently he's learned how to use twitter and wants to run for mayor. south carolina mark sanford is actually a candidate for a house seat, special election vote is next week and he's the leading republican. if he wins the nomination he's probably back in the house. so these guys are back and i don't think they're ever going to go away. you'll see this over and over. >> do you think the comeback can work? >> i think overall as americans we're forgiving people. if you say you're sorry and the

crime you've done or lack of a better term not a crime but the fault is nothing with corruption, you haven't stolen money, it's a personal thing like in the case of these two gentlemen we can be forgiving as we see you're sincere. sanford is probably going to win and weiner could have a good chance. >> why do you think they put themselves back in the spotlight. why don't you go get a regular job? >> why don't i sleep more on sunday mornings and don't come on the show? because they like the attention. this is what it's about. we have the same thing in each of us. some of them it's truly about public service and they were led astray by their own weaknesses and their sins and they're trying to get over it and make up for it. others just can't help being on tv, and speaking and getting the attention that fuels them and that's part of their self-worth, frankly. >> you know, we can't talk about this without talking about bill clinton, who is