tiger woods has now regained the title he lost almost three years ago. it is this that helped him become golf's top ranked player. he won the arnold palmeren i have invitational by two strokes. well, next up, the masters in april. he's on business overseas, but secretary of state john kerry took a time-out today to meet with the afghan women's national soccer team. pretty cool. here is something you don't see every day. there he is trying his hand and head juggling the soccer ball. kerry met the team captain and

the players during a stop in kabul. at the white house, the president honors the champions of hockey and soccer. president obama welcoming the los angeles kings and the major league soccer champion, l.a. galaxy, to the white house, to officially recognize the 2012 championship season. for the kings, the season brought them their first ever national hockey league stanley cup. and the miami heat, they have won again. lebron james and company continue their winning streak, defeating orlando magic, 108-94. the heat's streak now up to 27 games. that's the second best in nba history. they need six more to tie the lakers' record of 33 straight wins. we wish them the best. that's it for me. "cnn newsroom" continues. one report indicates very soon a gay nfl player will come out. but the headline, he's not afraid of the locker room.

he's afraid of the fans. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. i had to watch my baby die, and i want him to die. >> raw, revealing. why a mother wants a life for a life. t-mobile's hail mary. why the fourth place cell phone carrier is getting rid of contracts. plus, acquitted of killing her roommate during a drug-fueled sex game, italy wants amanda knox back. and -- must be something about this judge's courtroom. good to see you on this tuesday. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. for civil rights, brown versus board of education. for women's rights, roe v. wade. now gay rights advocates are

hoping, this is the case that the u.s. supreme court heard today on whether same sex marriage should be legal. and we are now getting the audio from inside the nation's highest court. >> there is some 40,000 children in california according to the brief that live with same-sex parents. and they want their parents to have full recognition and full status. the voices of those children is important in this case, don't you think? >> at the heart of the case is proposition 8 or prop 8, which bans same-sex marriage. californians approved it five years ago. but these two same-sex couples, the plaintiffs in this case, are arguing that keeping them from getting married is unconstitutional. one of them spoke about it after

the hearing today. >> more than anything i believe in love. and proposition 8 is a discriminatory law that hurts people, it hurts gays and lesbians in california and it hurts the children we're raising and it does so for no good reason. >> on the other side, supporters of prop 8 say the court should not undo a decision by the voters. >> we believe proposition 8 is constitutional and the place for the decision to be made regarding redefining marriage is with the people, not with the courts. >> joining me now, senior legal analyst jeff toobin. and before we get into the arguments, both, you know, for and against, i want to get to something you alluded to this morning and i was reading the new york times, the lead line, buyers remorse here, the justices inside this court are wondering allowed if they acted too quickly to hear the case. did you sense that? >> certainly from some of them. i have to say, i've seen a lot of supreme court arguments and

perhaps i've been a bit hasty in making predictions in the past, but, boy, i was confused by this one. i am baffled about which direction they're going to go. any of a number of possibilities seems to still be on the table. even among the ideological blocks, some of the conservatives seem to want to get rid of the case and not really decide it on the merits. some of the conservatives clearly wanted to say that this was a political issue, not a legal issue. the liberals were pretty much united on the issue of same-sex marriage but not united on whether this case was properly before the court. there are a lot of moving parts to this case, and frankly i came out of that courtroom more muddled in my thinking about the results than when i went in. >> so here we are, jeff toobin is officially baffled. maybe you can help unbaffle some of us as we parse through some of the audio we're getting from inside the courtroom. let me play this down.

this is going to be the voice of justice antonin scalia. >> the california supreme court decides what the law is. that's what we decide, right? we don't prescribe law for the future. we just need to decide what the law is. i'm curious, when did it become unconstitutional to exclude homosexual couples from marriage? 1791? 1868? the 14th amendment was inducted. sometimes -- sometime after baker where we said it didn't even raise a substantial federal question. when? when did the law become this? >> may i answer this in the form of a rhetorical question. when did it become unconstitutional to prohibit interracial marriages? when did it become unconstitutional to assign children to -- >> a question for that one, at the time that the equal

protection clause was adopted. that's absolutely true. >> and jeff toobin, let me say this for the viewer who folks that do not write books for the supreme court like you do, we try to read into the tea leaves. >> that's most viewers, i think. >> most viewers. we try to listen to the questions closely because it could be a harbinger of how each of the justices could ultimately decide on said cases. that said, what was justice scalia getting at? >> what he was getting at there was quite clear to people who know this sort of rhetoric of the supreme court. justice scalia is an originalist. he thinks the constitution does not change with the times. the constitution means today what it meant in 1791 when it was ratified and in 1868 when the 14th amendment came in. so what he was sort of mocking ted olson, the lawyers for the opponents of proposition 8, saying, look, you know, you don't think that the founders of this country were thinking about

same-sex marriage. you don't think in 1868 that the people who passed the 14th amendment were thinking about same-sex marriage, which they clearly weren't, and olson was trying to make the point that, look, the constitution, the meaning has changed over the years. in 1967, the supreme court said laws banning racial intermarriage were no longer constitutional anymore. that's what we know about how the constitution changed then. and it changes now to prohibit banning same-sex marriage. >> if he's an originalist, you have to think about how are americans sitting with this, you know, idea of same-sex marriage. if you look at the polls, they show a shift in public opinion. take a look at the numbers with me. cnn orc poll last week, 53% of americans support same-sex marriage. you look from back a couple of years ago, 2007, that number was 13 percentage points lower at 40%. do you think the justices are

weighing any of that? public opinion? >> well, you know what, this came up several times in the argument. i thought it was interesting how it was spun. it was actually the opponents of same-sex marriage who mentioned the changes more than the supporters. the opponents, charles cooper, the lawyer who was saying proposition 8 should stand was saying, look, this is a subject of intense political debate in the country. some states are changing. some states are not changing. you, the justices, you should not get involved. you should let the states continue to make their own decision. obviously things are changing, he was saying, but don't you preempt that process, don't you stop the people from expressing their views of how the law should change. >> and let me throw this final crazy question at you, sort of making -- from an original question. is it possible that even though the supreme court hears a case, they may not move on it? >> you know, there is a

technical term that justice kennedy raised, and he's obviously a very important swing vote here, where dig, a case can be digged, d-i-g, dismissed. you go back and rely on the decision in the court below. that does not seem out of the question as oa possibility here. what that would mean in real terms is same-sex marriage would become legal in california. proposition 8 would be overturned, but it wouldn't apply anywhere else in the country. if they do that and justice kennedy seemed very open to that possibility. >> it is fascinating. thank you for allow knowing get my supreme court geek on with you. it is fascinating. jeff toobin, thank you very much. and now to some of the hottest stories here in a flash, rapid fire, roll it. take a good long look with

me at this man. this man won $338 million in powerball lottery. announced a short time ago, one day after pedro quezada revealed he had the winning ticket. what does he do? owns a bodega in new jersey. >> one of the biggest rushes i've ever felt in my entire life. >> this is extreme rope jumping. daredevils fix a rope to this canyon arch, in utah. they jump. and after getting as low as ten feet off the ground, they bounce back up and they swing again. but a stunt like this one you're seeing here, this turned deadly for 22-year-old kyle lee stocking. he miscalculated, leaving too much slack in the rope, sent crashing into the base of the sandstone arch there. you think normal sharks are scary? how about this one? you're looking at a shark with two heads, the first ever two-headed bull shark discovered off the florida keys. other species of sharks have been born with two heads before.

this is the only bull shark on record. researchers from michigan state university are still trying to figure out what caused this abnormality. from creatures of the ocean to monsters on the beach, take a look at this. hollywood themed sand sculptures, gollum, et, the hulk and the godfather. look at this, works of art built from nothing more than water and sand at the uk's annual western sand sculpture festival. the long wait is over, t-mobile usa unveiled plans to sell the iphone. the nation's fourth largest wireless carrier wants to compete with the other big guys. after years and years of hints and rumors and all of the speculation, it ditched monthly service plans and set its hopes on apple's iconic device. here is the president of t-mobile. >> i can finally announce that the phone that redefined the industry is coming to t-mobile.

there is an affordable, unrestricted way to buy an iphone 5 from t-mobile for $99. that's right. >> zain asher is in new york. so, if they're saying no to contracts, 99 bucks for a new iphone 5, what does the plan cost the customer? >> so they're saying it is $99, but in this case you really do need to read the fine print carefully, brooke. so technically it is $99 down payment, down payment. so you will be paying full price for the phone, around $600, but spread out, so $99 down and then make $20 monthly payments. technically, t-mobile is not offering a subsidy, will be the first major carrier to do this. no contract. but the good news is you can upgrade at any time. now, let's compare t-mobile to other carriers. at&t, verizon, you pay $200 for the phone. but you're locked into a two-year plan. t-mobile in this instance is really going off the other

carriers that offer contracts, calling contracts a two-year sentence. but the company does desperately need to bring customers back. let's take a look. it lost 4 million contract customers over the past two years. so it is really looking to shake things up somehow, brooke. >> for the customers, this would help them be competitive? >> how it is going to compare to the other carriers, the proof is in the pudding. customers respond, if successful, it could shake up the industry and save carriers millions of dollars in subsidy costs. t-mobile faces stiff competition. has 8% market share. not huge by any stretch of the imagination compared to 30% for at&t and verizon. also, the stakes of t-mobile in this instance are pretty huge. they're merging with metro pcs and soon going to be their own publicly traded company. so they're going to need to grow subscribers or else investors will sell. brooke? >> zain asher, thank you very much. the numbers are in. and it is looking good for home

owners across the country. here is what we're learning. according to the new s&p case schiller index, we have had the biggest year over year jump in home prices since that housing bubble in 2006. look at this. phoenix, leads the pack here, with a 23% jump in values. prices are up more than 10% in cities like san francisco, las vegas, atlanta. amanda knox's operatic drama has another act to go. the reason it has yet to ex-plaex explain, the italian court issued a stunning reversal for her acquittal of the murder. she will be tried yet again in italy for the slaying of her roommate mare deaeredith kerche 2007. knox was 20 at the time, convicted of murder two years late, but then in 2011, was freed when the conviction was

overturned. knox received today's news in seattle, in her home where she's now 25 years old, has a new book coming out next month. her attorney says the ruling is disappointing, but the case against amanda knox has not, he says, gotten any stronger. >> -- while, yes, we would have preferred the supreme court to simply affirm the acquittal, and it certainly was painful for amanda to receive this news, in the bigger picture, these charges still remain just as unfounded, just as unjust as they were before. >> knox doesn't need to attend the trial, which would be held in florence italy later this year, possibly early next. the rhetoric is growing louder, north korea is threatening to strike american bases. you'll hear why the threats may be different this time around. also, remember the judge who got the bird? well --

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supreme command will put on the highest alert. all the field artillery units assigned to strike bases of the u.s. imperialist aggressive troops in the u.s. main land and hawaii and guam and other operational zones in the pacific as well as all the enemy targets in south korea and its vicinity. >> what was that? that was more saber rattling from north korea today, the latest in the string of taunts and threats. this time, they are directly targeting american bases. and this comes on the third anniversary of a torpedo attack that killed 46 south korean sailors. north korea denies it was responsible. but when you talk to and read from these opinions from international analysts, they say that these are empty threats. they say this is meant for a domestic audience to portray the leader kim jong-un as strong. but then there are propaganda films, like this right here,

which depict north korea destroying our capital in an all-out attack. a recent cnn orc poll shows most americans do not take these threats seriously. but they do view north korea as a long-term threat to the united states. want to talk about this a little bit more with north korea specialist john park, with mit and harvard. welcome back. certainly provocative statements from north korea. not exactly new. what is different this time around? >> well, brooke, the environment is different. right now we have a situation where north korea has walked away from the 1953 armistice agreement that stopped the fighting between the combatants. also north korea is no longer answering the military hot line that in previous episodes provided a little more space for conflict management, crisis resolution of sorts. the tensions are definitely high and you look at all of these threats coming out of north korea. also we're seeing levels of heightened military exercises

from the south korean and u.s. side where this brings up the tensions between the united states and china when it comes to these type of military buildups, very close to china's borders. >> as the u.s. and south korea have agreed to lower the threshold for responding to these provocations in north korea, north korea pushing ahead with its nuclear weapons program, is it foiling for a fight and do you think they would get it? >> well, these measures are very calculated in terms of how these are being announced and how these moves are coming about. how they're being closely covered by north korean media, the signaling has been very specific and quite high profile as well. but with respect to, you know, another sort of side angle to all of this, it is north korea's attempt to try to drive a wedge between the united states and china. if you recall, it was only a little while ago those three countries coordinated very closely in getting the latest u.n. security council resolution passed in new york. that kind of coordination is

lethal to north korea. by doing the type of threats, military exercises on the north korean side and having the heightened military tempo on the u.s. south korean military side, you're raising the stakes in the region and bringing this tension between china and the united states ever closer. >> john park, thank you so much. when you are in a courtroom this kind of outburst doesn't have your case. no! no! please, no! >> my goodness. a florida woman getting hysterical after being denied bond. but the judge in this case, no stranger to courtroom drama. (announcer) scottrade knows our clients trade and invest their own way. with scottrade's smart text, i can quickly understand my charts, and spend more time trading. their quick trade bar lets my account follow me online

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a florida woman is accused of trying to kill her husband. so she goes, she applies for bond. but the judge in this case denies her application, and this is what happens next. >> no bond.

>> my husband broke my leg. please, no! no! no, no! please, no! >> she's crying, and screaming, he broke my leg. he told police she stabbed her husband to death because' abused her. and if you're looking at that judge, and thinking he's looking a little familiar, you're right. you've seen him before. he's no stranger to courtroom drama. you remember this? >> are you serious? >> i am serious. adios. >> [ bleep ]. >> come back again. come back again. bring her back again.

i believe i heard you saying to -- >> yes, i did. i'm not going to -- >> i believe -- did you say [ bleep ] me? >> actually, i -- >> did you say that? >> yes, sir. >> you did say that? i find you in direct contempt. 30 days in jail. >> okay. that's fine. >> not only did she show him the lovely gesture with the finger. she said, what's up? the woman in orange is penelope soto. she did turn things around. she did finally apologize to the judge. >> they couldn't get a pulse, but the emts arrived and they took my baby in the ambulance to work on him. and they wouldn't let me see him. and they just kept working on him and nobody knew if he was alive or dead. >> this scene, after losing her baby to a gunshot on the street, a mother opens up. her emotional words next. [ male announcer ] it's red lobster's lobsterfest our largest selection of lobster entrees, like lobster lover's dream

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new developments today in that cold blooded killing of that 1-year-old baby in brunswick, georgia. the mother and aunt of one of the teen suspects has been arrested for allegedly making false statements to police, in addition to other charges we're hearing. 17-year-old suspect de'marquise elkins and another teen, a juvenile, were arrested last week. they appeared in court yesterday. brunswick police also say they may have found the murder weapon. that will be sent to the state crime lab for forensics testing, but this mother, sherry west, the mother of this dead baby, talked to piers morgan about her nightmare. >> i was approached by a young man, and some other boy that was hiding behind him. and he yelled at me, give me your money. and i proceeded to tell him that

i don't have any. and he shot -- pulled out a gun and shot at the ground. and i didn't see any shells, so i thought the gun was a cap gun or bb gun, i thought he was just using a toy gun to scare me. and then he shot at my head, and the bullet grazed my ear, on the side of my head, and then he shot me in the leg, and i still thought that it was a fake gun. and i -- neighbors had bb guns and it stung. i injured my leg, moving furniture days before and i was on pain medicine, so i didn't feel it, but i felt stinging. and then it got numb, and i didn't realize, you know, that it was real, it didn't look like

a real gun. and apparently he kept asking me and i kept telling him, i don't have any, and he shot my baby in the face. and then i knew it was a real gun. and i screamed, and i was scared to scream, because i thought he was going to shoot me in the head. and not miss this time. and then when i kept screaming for someone to call the police, and the emt, he shoved me and grabbed me and then he ran. and then i -- i wasn't sure if he was gone. but i quickly, limping, wheeled my baby into a yard next to me, into the gate, and i took him out of the harness, and i laid

him down on the ground, and i proceeded to do cpr. and i saw his lungs inflate, but there was no pulse. no pulse. and i kept proceeding cpr, and i still couldn't get a pulse and finally the police arrived, and a policeman took over, clearing the air way and continuing cpr, and they couldn't get a pulse. but the emts arrived, and they took my baby in the ambulance to work on him, and they wouldn't let me see him, and they just kept working on him and nobody knew if he was alive or dead. and i limped the whole way over to the ambulance where they placed him in, and the detective and the police asked me why i was limping.

and we weren't sure. i looked at my knee, and there was nothing wrong. and then they said, pull your pant leg all the way up and i was shot in the leg in the thigh. and didn't realize it, they got to call another ambulance to take me to thehospital. >> in terms of the investigation, we know that these two boys have been charged. one is 17, we believe. one is 15. do you have any doubt that the two that have been charged are the ones that committed this crime? >> i have no doubts that the shooter they have in custody, i've seen his photo, another reporter's cell phone of the men that they have in custody, and it is definitely him. they're being charged with felony murder.

and i just -- i just hope, you know, that -- that the shooter dies. i had to watch my baby die. and i want him to die. a life for a life. and the young one, he was an accessory, an accomplice, i hope that he gets a juvenile correctional facility to age 21 and a consecutive life sentence in state prison. >> you chose to cremate your little baby, antonio, you had a private memorial service. how would you like to remember his short life? >> alive, walking around, waking me up. he didn't even get to say his first words. i'll never hear his first words. we loaded it with fast food, sweaty hockey gear,

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you clearly don't know who you're talking to. let me clue you in. i am not in danger, schuyler. i am the danger. >> only the brave or the crazy would break into the car of bryan cranston's meth-making character on the serie identify breaking bad." in real life, cranston has fallen victim to a car break-in. it is not his car that the show fans are worried about. it is what was inside, a script. cnn entertainment correspondent a.j. hammer in l.a. for me with the latest here on this stolen script. people love this show. i imagine they're going nuts over this. >> you don't want to mess with highsenburg. count me among the fans, the millions who consider "breaking bad" to be one of the best shows on television now. we're eagerly waiting of course to see how the final season plays out. not surprisingly, producers want

to keep the scripts full of all the twists and turns for the ending a big secret. that leads us to star briyan cranston and his automobile. cranston's car was at santa peak in new mexico in december when it was broken into. the thief got away with an ipad and a script for the show, given the timing, the thinking is the script isn't for the series finale, thankfully, but considering there are only a few episodes left, any details obviously are important details and in this day and age when anyone can post anything online and see it go viral, if the script was posted online, it would be everywhere pretty quickly. fortunately for the fans that hasn't happened yet. there is a lead in the case. the local sheriff's department has a suspect and got the suspect after a confidential source contacted cranston's assistant and accused someo ed named xavier mcafee of breaking into the car and showing off the script at the bar. we found mcafee and got him

denying everything on tape. listen to what he said. >> i don't even know what they're talking about. i work for -- they have me mistaken for somebody else, man. >> now, we have reached out to reps for bryan cranston for an official comment and he's not talking right now. but the studio filming that produces the show tells me they do applaud the efforts of the police. they look forward to sharing the incredible last season when it premieres later this year. again, brooke, as a fan, i don't know about you, i don't want to know what's coming. read in between the lines here, but let it happen organically. i'm not interested in spoilers. if the story breaks further and there is a script out there, i'm calling in sick. i don't want to talk about it. >> done with the internet. phone, cold turkey. all right, a.j. hammer, appreciate it. i can't believe the show is almost over. thank you. coming up next, my hot topics panel facing off. first, we'll talk about tiger woods. and when it comes to this elite golfer, does winning trump everything? you see this nike ad?

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public and tearful apology. remember this? all leading to the divorce from his model wife. that was just his personal problems. to say he struggled professionally would be an understatement. flash back to 2010, he didn't win a single golf tournament. zip. zero. but, now, 2013, he looks to be back in top form. boom. started with three wins this season, including yesterday at the arnold palmer invitational. and that is good enough for tiger woods to regain the number one spot on the world golf rankings. there is more. he also went public, facebook official if you will, last week, look at the cute couple, telling world he and downhill olympic skier lindsey vonn are smooching. seems like there is a sports cliche we could hang the tiger woods saga on. luckily nike has done that for us. look at this with me, because

they are now tweeting this new ad, nike golf, quote, winning takes care of everything. this is the tiger woods quote. world number one. that ad is definitely get something criticism online and tweets as well. let's open this up to the panel. here you all are. david begnaud, elsie granderson, senior write for espn, jennie huff, author and sirius radio talk show host and alonia alonia makogsi. elsie, kick this off. when you look at this quote here, wrong message or a-okay? >> it is a message. >> yes, it is. >> as a parent, it makes you cringe. but as someone who has been covering sports as long as i have and someone who is a fan of sports and continues to play in sports, will say more often than

not if a coach is fired, it is not because of the team, it is not because of the reasons you were once acquired, such as having players accused of sexual assault or pulled over for duis. usually a coach is fired because they're not winning. it may make me cringe as a parent, i can't help but think of the fact that winning does seem to solve a lot of problems and if you're losing, that's when everything else is more highlighted. >> who says this winning takes care of everything, this is a-okay? >> no. >> in the context of tiger woods it doesn't make sense. somewhere, some pr machine should have said, look, tiger, we get it, youe winning and this is good, but we're not going to put out this quote. he had problems. i'm a fan of his game. i'm not a fan of the man necessarily. you just don't do this when you've gone through all of that. this guy is a role model. you don't want somebody coming out of a scandal like that, say, well, look at me, boys, winning takes care of everything. wrong message. >> go ahead. >> it has been several years since the scandal. i agree, this was a super ugly

scandal. and winning does not take care of everything. but in our society, winning sure does take care of a lot of things. so, yeah, i don't want to be married to tiger. i don't want to be dating tiger. i like who i'm married to, but he's winning again, he got his golf game back and is a supremely talented -- >> you don't put that on an ad. >> in the sports world, shouting out to my team today, we were thinking kobe bryant, ray lewis, we were thinking michael vick for folks who all have -- in the sports world, you can continue the list. in sports world and entertainment as well, if you continue to win, fans are forgiving. do you think it is possible that then people will see him as, he's not necessarily an infallible person, maybe more realistic, make his likability will increase. is that possible? >> everybody loves the comeback story in our culture, right? i think it is also highly representative of the hero

worship we have for a lot of athletes and so while this is a really bad pr move, on the part of nike, they should have thought this through. i think that unfortunately it represents the emotions a lot of people have out there, which is just that if you do win, if you stay on top, we're going to love you no matter what. >> some of the -- >> bad quote. >> it is our fault because we refuse the word redemption. when it comes to athletes, we equate their winning or on field performance with redemption. we do not do a good job of talking about morality being connected with redemption, it is all about victory. >> it is true. americans love a good redemption story, the fall from grace and the climb and the climb back up. let me read one of the tweets from the haters and then we have to move on. would nike put that slogan under lance armstrong's picture? mike vic? being a better human fixes everything. not winning. got to move on. how much do you weigh? i'm not asking how much you weigh. it is rude to ask. don't ask me. one of the problems is the

airlines could start asking that very question, making, you know, folks who weigh a little bit more pay a little bit more to fly. is it fair? is it good business strategy? we're going to talk about that next. i'm here at my house on thanksgiving day, and i have a massive heart attack right in my driveway. the doctor put me on a bayer aspirin regimen. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. go talk to your doctor. you're not indestructible anymore.

okay, let's start with the fees here you pay when you buy a plane ticket. you have early boarding, extra leg room, how about having to

pay a fee for your extra pounds? one economics professor in norway says your weight should be factored into the ticket price. why? to cover the cost of the extra fuel. the heavier the plane, the more fuel it takes to move, the more it costs you and me. here is part of the professor's fat tax pricing. total weight, this is how much you and your luggage weigh together, let's say you weigh 240 pounds together, you have to pay price that as a passenger who weighs 120 pounds with his or her bags. so, panel, alonia, i'll pick on you here off the top, you think it's great business strategy or discrimination? >> i think it is an incredibly discriminatory policy here. if it were to actually go into effect. it is ridiculous. sure, there are a lot of things they charge you on based by weight, how much luggage you can

have, but let's not pretend this might keep anybody safe, there are safety measures that might go into effect. this is solely for making money, for the airlines to line their pockets and really ludacris. it is getting out of hand. >> david? >> wait, wait, i just took a flight from houston to los angeles and i was sitting in between two obese men, okay. and it was as if their stomachs were cushions on both sides. and i remember actually thinking on the flight, why is it -- i'm serious, why is it -- why shouldn't you have to pay a little bit extra if for the three-hour flight i am absolutely going to be inconvenienced. brooke, i got up and stood up for half of the flight. >> you're kidding me. >> discriminatory or not, you cannot give the obese person the same seat you give somebody like me. >> let me jump in. we were talking about this, smokers pay more for life insurance, if you skydive, riskier behavior, you have to pay more, and so, you know, if you're burning more fuel because you are a chunkier passenger, is that fair to the average weight

passenger. jenny? >> brooke, i used to be very overweight. and this would have been unbelievably humiliating for someone like me. it would have stopped me from going anywhere by plane, frankly. and weight is a complicated issue. it is not as simple as to not just eat whatever you want to eat all the time. it is emotional. it is complex. i think this is discriminatory. i think it is sad. i think it is one of the last acceptable forms of prejudice against fat people. and i don't like it. i don't like it. >> okay. >> it is not about how comfortable you are sitting on the plane, and who is skinny sitting next to you and how much room they have. this is about fuel costs and solely for lining the airlines pockets, not about those people that sometimes actually have to buy two seats because they can't fit into just one. >> to this point, let me just say, this is a big if, we're all paying more, once you get a crack at this, but i want to

move on, this other story i want to talk about as it pertains to flying as well. new york times, this blog, they're reporting the faa may be loosening the rules that apply to electronics when you take off and you land, like the tablets, your ereaders, kindles, so, you know, you soon may be able to keep them on for takeoff. let me just ask an honest question of all of you. do you really turn them off? >> never, never. >> no. >> i love honesty. >> i do. i turn it off. but i try -- >> i tried tweeting on takeoff. >> i have actually never -- i've ridden a lot of corporate planes and private planes and never had the pilot tell me to turn off my electronics before we took off. >>

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he's afraid of the fans. i'm brooke baldwin. the news is now. find out why drones could be flying over your house sooner than you think. and the author of friday night lights admits he has a serious addiction to shopping. plus, acquitted of killing her roommate during a drug-fueled sex game, italy wants amanda knox back. and, as the demand for ammo goes up, so do job openings. top of the hour, i'm brooke baldwin. for civil rights it was brown versus board of education, for women's rights, roe v. wade, now gay rights advocates are hoping hollingsworth v. perry becomes their landmark case. this is the case that the u.s.

supreme court heard today on whether same-sex marriage should in fact be legal. and we're now getting this audio from inside the nation's highest court. let me play this for you. let me set this up, this exchange is between justice alina kagan and the attorney against same-sex marriage, charles cooper. >> mr. cooper, suppose a state said, because we think that the focus of marriage really should be on procreation, we're not going to give marriage licenses any more to any couple where both people are over the age of 55. would that be constitutional? >> no, your honor, it would not be constitutional. >> because that's the same state interest, i would think, you know, if you're over the age of 55. you don't help us serve the government's interests and regulate and procreation through marriage. so why is that different? >> your honor, even with respect to couples over the age of 55, it is very rare that both

couples -- both parties to the couple are infertile. and the traditional -- >> no, really, because if a couple -- i can just assure you, if both the woman and the man are over the age of 55, there are not a lot of children coming out of that marriage. >> a little laughter inside the u.s. supreme court today. so at the heart of this case is proposition 8 or prop 8, which bans same-sex marriage. californians approved it five years ago, but these two here, same sex couples, the plaintiffs in this case, are arguing that keeping them from getting married is unconstitutional. on the flip side, supporters of prop 8 say the courts should not undo a decision by the voters. let's turn now to two strong voices on this issue, we have ben ferguson, host of radio's ben ferguson show and david sarota, radio talk show host as well. gentlemen, welcome to both of you here. right off the top --

>> good to be back. >> good to have you. right off the top in 30 seconds, i want each of you to explain your positions, ben, i defer to you first. >> well, i'll say this, i think what this boils down to is you have the people in california that decided they wanted marriage to stay traditional between one man and one woman and that does not mean that they don't believe in civil unions and equal rights under the law, but the sanctity of marriage being between a man and a woman, they, the voters, did not want to redefine it and then open the door for it to continue to be redefined year after year, decade after decade, and i think that's why even in california, liberal state, they chose, the citizens chose to keep it the way that it is. >> okay, you say californians spoke here. david, 30 seconds, what is your stance? >> well, southern states in the confederacy spoke also back many years ago, saying they wanted separate but equal for african-americans and white people. and the court struck that down because the court recognized that there is a constitutional right to equal protection under the law. and if the government is going

to be in the business of recognizing or not recognizing marriages, it should be in the business of extending the same exact identical protections to people regardless of their sexual orientation. end of story. >> okay. i want to start, there are a lot of arguments we could go through. let me begin with this one. it was brought up by justice kennedy, talking about the children. so, ben, let me quote this. quote, there is some 40,000 children in california that live with same sex parents, they want their parents to have full recognition and full status, the voice of those children is important. and that comes just about a week after the american academy of pediatrics endorsed same sex marriage saying there is no evidence that it harms children in any way. do you think that children should be brought into this discussion? >> if you're coming from a doctor's perspective and doctor says they don't see any harm in children, i'm not claiming that if you are gay or lesbian you're going to harm a child. i think it is pretty obvious what their conclusion there. the issue is this, can someone

still have the same legal rights under the law without changing the definition of marriage? because there is the other issue, once you change it once and we know in the supreme court knows this better than anybody that once you make a change, you are opening up that definition to be changed continuously to any person that says, well, what about my group, what about my definition of what i believe marriage should be. >> the question, you can get into rights and that's a whole other argument, but when it comes to kids, should that be part of the discussion at this level, at the nation's highest court level? is that pertinent? >> i think you have to look at the actual -- what they're trying to decide and what they're trying to decide is not what kids want to call mom and dad. they can call them mom and dad. what the court is looking at is not what the kids are asking for at the age of 6 or 7, because i doubt that many are asking for something. that is not what they're deciding at the court. they're deciding should we

redefine marriage and go against the voters of california, which, by the way, is not the south. it is california liberal state, and they say they want it to be one man, one woman. >> david, jump in. >> first of all, if you don't think 6 or 7-year-old kids are asking for something, it shows you're probably not a parent. kids at that age are asking and understanding what equal rights are and what equal rights are not. i think the court should take that into account. i think the country should take that into account, that we have to understand that -- >> the country did. >> -- our laws recognize people, the way our laws recognize people is a way for us to create or not create equality. there is no equality with separate but equal. what ben is arguing for is separate but equal, which is an inherently bigoted idea. >> but, also, if i can, to ben's point, hang on, hang on, hang on, hang on. to ben's point, a lot of the defenders of prop 8, you know, would say, look, you look to the states. why not -- even some of the justices sort of wondering allowed if they took this case too quickly and we'll see if they move on it or not, but the

fact that, you know, should this be a state's issue? he has a point, a lot of people have a point. >> i don't know. let me go back on that. we had a country that 50, 60 years ago states had voted through their legislatures and created all sorts of laws to create separate but equal. and the court stepped in and said there is an inherent constitutional, national right to equal protection under the law. so i don't buy the states' rights. 60 or 70 years ago, states rights was a clarion call for bigots just as i think it is right now. >> okay. >> ben ferguson, respond, you have the last word. >> let me say this. 41 states have decided they want to respect marriage being between a man and a woman and they're also very open to civil unions. it is a brilliant ploy what your other guest said. if you don't agree with me, and many on the left are saying this, many gay rights groups, you're automatically a racist and bigot, a great way to win your argument, but 41 states including california have

decided that they're not going to allow people to continue to call them bigots just because they want to defend something that has been traditionally since the beginning of time between one man and one woman and they're willing to compromise. i'm willing to compromise. i think civil unions are something that the people are in favor of but hold on. but you call somebody like me a bigot because you don't want to respect any other viewpoint but your own and therefore you say i'm a bigot because you have no respect for my marriage or tradition. >> are you calling ben a bigot? are we going there? >> i said you were forwarding a bigoted idea. but i would say this, ben -- >> you might as well call me a bigot, let's be blunt. >> your argument is the same argument, you would make the same argument we should have respected states rights to keep separate but equal for african-americans. >> no, i wouldn't have. again, you're putting words in my mouth, trying to imply that i'm a racist. >> nobody would have made the same argument saying that we should have separate but equal for african-americans, but it doesn't mean the people who are pushing that are bigots. as a country, the people who said -- >> gentlemen, gentlemen, gentlemen, this goes to show

this is the perfect microcosm of the discussion and the argument that is happening today, not only in washington, d.c., but i'm sure across lunch tables and dinner tables as to whether or not prop 8 should be overturned, whether this is the state's rights issue, whether this is constitutional or not. we have to wait and see how the nation's highest court rules. that's not happening for another couple of months. thanks for the semipolite discussion, david and ben, guys, appreciate it. let me move on, amanda knox's operatic drama has another act to go. for reasons it has not yet explained, the italian supreme court issued a stunning reversal today of knox's acquittal for murder. that means knox will be tried yet again in italy for the slaying of her roommate, meredith kercher, that was back in 2007, when both of these young women were exchange students. knox was 20 at the time. she was convicted of murder. two years later. but she was freed.

that was in 2011 when that conviction was overturned. knox received today's news in seattle, where she is now 25. happens to have a book coming out about this whole ordeal next month. her attorney says the ruling is disappointing, but that the case against amanda knox has not gotten stronger. >> -- while, yes, we would have preferred the supreme court to simply affirm the acquittal, and it certainly was painful for amanda to receive this news, in the bigger picture, these charges still remain just as unfounded, just as unjust as they were before. >> joining me now, from seattle, is reporter jeff dubois of cnn affiliate krio. good to see you. i know amanda knox issued a statement calling the court's decision painful, her word, but vowing to fight on. i know she lives in seattle. has there been any reaction beyond that? any sign of her? >> well, just the statement from

her and her family. they're expressing the same kind of concern, shock, surprise of this ruling. many people thought that this legal drama was over for amanda knox. but now the supreme court in italy ruling that she needs to be retried. so it is here we go again. amanda knox is a student at the university of washington, just finished the winter quarter at the uw. getting ready to release a book next month. here are more chapters for maybe the next book, brooke. >> jeff dubois, that book coming out next month. what timing. thank you so much for me in seattle right now. ♪ want to make sure you saw this clip before we get into this. this is a clip from "friday night lights." this is buzz bizzinger, he's

best known for writing the book for inspiring that show. he's make something news for admitting to an addiction, not talking gambling, drugs, alcohol, i'm talking shopping. talk about his habit here that cost him $600,000, just about, in three years. in this feature article, quite a read, in "gq", admits he owns 81 leather jackets, 75 pairs of boots, 115 pairs of leather gloves, most of those from high end fashion house gucci. he released the statement to nbc news saying he wrote the essay to help others currently struggling with addiction. let's talk about this. david tollen is founder and director of the anxiety disorder center at the institute of living. he's live with me from hartford, connecticut. so, david, i read this article, it was pretty juicy, and i have to fess up first, my guilty pleasure is staying in really fancy hotels. when i take time off, i like to take some time off. but how does it get to the point

where, you know, like buzz, you're comparing buying clothes to the rush of a drug addict? >> right, well, brooke, buying things feels good. there is no denying it. and i think most of us are able to keep that into perspective, we're able to do some of it, but not to the point where it causes financial damage or gets in the way of the rest of our lives. but just as some people can't control how they relate to food, to alcohol, to drugs, to gambling, there are some people who can't control how they buy things. they get so hooked on that good feeling that they lose control of their behavior. >> he is a 58-year-old husband, father of sons, he's a sports guy, talks in this article about sitting, you know, in the front row of the fashion week in milan. let me quote part of what he says, in terms of breaking stereotypes. i received a package at least every other day and sometimes two or three or four because i ordered so much, i often forgot what was inside them. it added to the drama and the

ritual. david, drama and ritual. what kind of people tend to suffer from a shopping addiction? >> i think what you see is people that get very hooked on the rush of getting something new. it is not so much the owning that turns them on, it is the getting it. they feel good about having acquired it, feels like it gives them a sense of status, makes them better, cuter, funnier, sexier, whatever, and they get so hooked on feeling that way that they just start buying and buying and buying until they cause themselves some very real damage. >> so then how do you help someone? >> well, right now there is a couple of ways we can address this. there are some medications that do seem to reduce the urges to start buying things. help people with impulse control. another kind of treatment that we use a lot is called cognitive behavior therapy, which helps people learn to slow down how they relate to buying things and help them learn and practice new patterns of behavior.

>> okay. david tollen, i appreciate it very much. buzz bizzinger, what a story in this magazine. appreciate it. drones, they are not just for the u.s. government anymore. farmers, journalists, even colleges, some of the groups getting in on this growing craze here of drones. next, we're going to talk to a man who is working to develop the next big thing in drone technology. he'll be in studio. we'll ask him exactly what that is.

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tapping into drone technology? >> we believe that agriculture and public safety are going to be the first adopters of this technology. i'll tell you why, because in agriculture, right now, they have what they call scouts. they walk the fields, look for what is going on in the fields, seeing seeing if they need to water in certain areas and when they find it, they can't pin point it because they're walking with a human being. they have to spray or water the entire field. if we can find a small helicopter drove over the fields, they can pinpoint this area needs to be sprayed, this area needs to be watered. now you spray the insecticide just on that area, you're going to spray water just on that area. that reduces the cost to the farmer, reduces the amount of pesticide, increases yields and is a great deal for everybody involved. >> public safety, how do you mean? >> public safety, let's go back to atlanta, back to november, there was a helicopter that was searching for a lost child, and the helicopter crashed and it killed two police officers. that same mission could have been done with a helicopter uav.

and it could have done the same mission, found the lost child and if you would have lost the vehicle, ran into a telephone pole, something like that, you wouldn't have lost any lives. and that's the main thing. we are able to do these ming ms at lower cost and less risk to the public. >> the faa has until 2013 to come up with rules regulating the drones. i wonder how do you, despite some of the rules, there are bad people out there with potentially nefarious purposes, how do you keep someone from getting their hands on them or spying? >> well, i talked to legal experts and they say that all the laws that cover surveillance activities, aerial surveillance activities, those rules don't differentiate between man and unmanned vehicles. so for the law abiding citizens, it is very clear. if you can't do it with a manned vehicle, you can't do it with an unmanned vehicle. folks will get their hands on it and do nefarious things with them, it is the same as folks

going out with a cessna 172 and breaking the laws in that. there will be registration -- >> is it? you get your hands on a drone, you don't have to have a pilot inside, you pop it up in the air and there you go? >> it will be easier but noticed by the public. the same thing the public does now, they report an aircraft, take the registration number of it, things like that, and report that, if they find perpetrators and prosecute them to the full extent of the law. we'll see those things happening. >> you talk about how you are looking for the next big thing. give me a look in the magic ball here of drone technology. what do you think is the next big thing? >> the things we're working on, especially here in the state of georgia, what they call defense and avoid. you don't have a pilot in the uav, you don't have eyes to say, there is another airplane out there, we don't need to run into that. we're developing technology so that uav can sense the other airplanes and vehicles around it, knows the rules of the road in the air and can take evasive action to miss another unmanned

vehicle or a manned vehicle and that's the thing that will really enable uav in the national air space. >> steve justice, director, appreciate it. >> thank you very much. >> thank you. question for you, you look to save money on your next flight? go on a diet. one economist says airlines should charge people based upon their weight. is it legal? we're on the case next.

how about this, you weigh more, you pay more. this is a suggestion coming from the economic professor in norway. he says your weight should be factored into the price of a plane ticket. why? to cover the cost of extra fuel. the heavier the plane, the more fuel it takes to move, the more it costs you and me. here's part of the professor's so-called fat tax pricing. total weight, how much you and your luggage weigh together, you and your bags, you weigh 240 pounds, you have to pay twice that of a passenger weighing in at 120 pounds with his or her bags. but how would the airlines know how much you weigh? passengers would have to declare it or possibly airlines would weigh passengers before boarding. that would be embarrassing. cnn legal analyst sunny hostin. can you imagine?

on the case with me. i know, i know. let me ask, legally speaking, if this went through, would this be legal? >> yeah, actually, it would be. when i found out we would be talking about it, i did a lot of research because my first inclination was, oh, my gosh, you can't discriminate against someone on the basis of their weight. well, i found no federal laws that make it illegal to discriminate against someone on the basis of their weight. and many people that are obese often tell me, you know, it is like the last form of discrimination that is okay. and i think that is probably right. right now at least federally there are a couple of states and cities that have some protections. but across our country, it is okay still to discriminate against people by weight. i got to tell you, look at what happens to overweight passengers already. i looked at a bunch of the policies of airlines and if you are overweight on some airlines and you can't buckle your seat

belt, you got to buy an extra seat. if you're overweight and can't put both of the arm rests down, you got to buy another seat. people say that's discriminatory. but nothing really has been done about it, hasn't been challenged. i think that's where this is going. if this sort of policy starts popping up, then people are going to have to challenge it. >> we talked about this in the hot topics panel. people are on both sides of it, you know, some would say it seems discriminatory, interesting you say it was sort of pass legal muster. so if somebody -- if this were to go through and somebody would sue for discrimination, you're saying the policy would probably stand? >> i think it is possible. i actually think it is possible. what is interesting to me, though, on a separate note, let's say this kind of policy starts affecting one group, let's say pregnant women are affected. let's say african-americans are more affected. let's say the elderly are more

affected. i think, in a situation like that, courts are going to start looking at it. right now, there is really no protection for our obese pals out there. and i just -- i wonder, wow, is that okay? our society? >> can you imagine walking through metal detectors and then having to step on a scale. >> it would be horrifying. that happened to me once, i flew a little tiny flight to cape cod. >> it happened to me as well on the teeny tiny planes. >> they made me get on it. i'm trying to hide it from my husband. don't worry, don't worry. don't look. >> you are fine, sunny hostin. you are just fine. thank you very much. on the case with me today. there could be a major breakthrough in the nfl. a player is reportedly thinking about coming out within the next couple of months. and it is not the reaction from his teammates, from within the locker room that is apparently making this decision so hard. wear going to talk to that reporter who uncovered that next. announcer: where can an investor

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yes, several gay athletes have come out post retirement, but not when they were playing. but now we have this. mike freeman writing, cbs sports.com. based on interviews over the past several weeks in current and former players, i'm told a current gay nfl player is strongly considering coming out publicly within the next few months, end quote. now, that would reverberate across professional sports beyond professional sports. mike freeman with me on the phone, pinned this piece, also in new york i have former nfler wade davis, openly gay, gay rights activist. welcome to both of you. mike freeman, i begin with you, because you're the ones making the news with your column. you don't say who the player is in this piece. did your sources confirm the story to you independently of one another? how did this come about? >> well, without getting into too many details as to protect

people, basically it just came about that there is a player in the nfl, right now, who is gay, who is thinking about coming out. and thinks that this is the best time to do it, that there never has been a better time to do it. that's sort of the main point of what i wrote is that, you know, i've been covering the nfl for 20 years, and i've never seen an environment like this. i would say for most of the time i covered the nfl, it has been extremely hostile to gay players. i'm not saying it's paradise for gay players, but i think now there has never been a better time. and the issues in the locker room, i think, are lesser as compared to issues outside of the locker room. outside of the locker room is where you have bigger issues than inside. >> wade, i've watching your face, watching you react to this. you came out after you retired playing professional ball. and i'm just curious, because

the headline as mike was alluding to, not that -- certainly there would be some sort of ramification within the locker room, but this individual player would be hesitant in coming out because of the hostility from the fans. can you see that? >> i can definitely see that. i think that there is opportunity for people to be sitting behind their computers, you know, saying all types of homophobic things without having to answer to anyone. i think the environment of all sports culture is changing. i think that there are organizations doing great work. i think the nfl is taking great steps forward in creating a more inclusive environment. so i think that the nfl has done its work, i think there is a society out there that can sit behind their laptops and write whatever. >> back to this unidentified player, do you think this player is quietly, you know, sending out, let's call it a trial balloon, maybe this -- maybe seeking advance support, right, before he may or may not come out publicly? that's possible? >> i think that's 100% exactly

what happened. i think in a way i was sort of the canary in the mine, to see what would happen if -- when this story would be talked about and discussed and i think the player and others are sort of watching the reaction. and, you know, the reaction to me has been mixed at best. i guess that's a polite way to say it. >> you said hostile. i was asking you in the commercial break, this canary has gotten hostile, right? >> some of it, yeah, some of the stuff i've gotten on twitter has been pretty nasty. >> give me an example. give me an example. >> just, you know, just the usual homophobic stuff, just lots of it. i think -- i think this is what players are more concerned about, gay players in the locker room, than anything else, just the reaction of fans and not just what they're saying on twitter or on their -- online,

but actions outside of that. what does a gay player going to face when they go around town, when they walk on the field, when they're around fans, what is it going to be like? i think that is a bigger concern than anything else. at least that's what it seems like to me. >> and just quickly, wade, i'll get to you, you talk about the timing for this player to come out what is it about the timing? we talked about how today is a pretty good day in terms of the u.s. supreme court taking up prop 8, same-sex marriage. i imagine this player, i mean, much bigger picture, yes? mike? >> well, yeah, the timing is really interesting because i think when you -- sports, in many instances, like with jackie robinson, really sort of pushed the envelope of society. jackie robinson came and integrated baseball at a time when much of society was not

integrated. so now, though, i think society is pushing sports. when you look around society, there is a lot of change going on for the better. and younger people in particular really don't care. they just don't see this as a big issue and really support it. so i think that's pushing sports and the timing of that is making it -- making players like this person sort of really consider that things are more open than ever before, maybe i can do this. >> wade davis if this person does come out, do you think it will be the catalyst to others coming out? and i'm not just talking football, i'm talking basketball, talking baseball, yes or no? >> i think it depends how this person is received. i think as long as his teammates are great with it, i think as long as the media handles it the right way, i think as long as the rest of the country, you know, rwraps their arms around this play, i think you will see more players come out. i think you'll see potentially a coalition of players that are

gay that can create a community where they all can kind of talk about some of the issues that they're facing and see how many allies that they all have. >> mike freeman, if you get the heads up this player is coming out, you're coming back on my show, yes? >> absolutely, yes, i will. yes, i will. >> mike freeman, thank you very much. cbssports.com and wade davis, as always, great to have you back. appreciate both you guys so much. up next, new on everything and everyone including president obama showing off i had sports skill at the white house that we have never seen before. the coach of florida gulf coast university talks basketball and his model wife. also, the job created by the recent hike in gun and ammo sales. you think one shark is scary. a shark with two heads. the power block is next. acceler-rental. at a hertz expressrent kiosk, you can rent a car without a reservation... and without a line. now that's a fast car.

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sports, business, health, science, we're hitting it all for you with the power block beginning with the white house. west coast feel today. check it out. president obama welcomed the l.a. kings. and the l.a. galaxy to washington. congratulating both teams on winning the nhl and nls championships perspectively from last year. >> what do we got here? >> a ball for you and then a -- a jersey for you. >> i hope you caught that. that doesn't happen very often. what do we got here? >> jersey here. >> that's a good looking jersey. 44. that's a lucky number. >> knew he had moves on the basketball court, but what about that? after the ceremony, the team went to the south lawn to host an exercise clinic for children as part of michelle obama's anti-childhood obesity program. he is a millionaire, married to a model and right now andy

enfield is leading one of history's most surprising cinderella teams, i know you know who i'm talking about, florida gulf coast university, just became the very first 15-seed ever to advance to the sweet 16. the team's coach, his wife, spoke with cnn's rachel nichols. >> it has been overwhelming with the amount of interview requests and television. but we're trying to take it all in stride and prepare for a game. my wife and three kids have been under scrutiny, so it is challenging for our family, but this isn't about our family, it is about our team and our university. >> when you google amand wa >> when you google amand wmanda name, modeling pictures come up, you have a bunch of hormonal teenagers that you coach. how do you deal with that? >> she was so successful and flew all over the world, and did portfolios, so a lot of her portfolio books at home, i just marvel at the beautiful pictures, but she's done such a wide variety of modeling shoots, with blouses and jeans and

outfits and -- >> clothes. >> a lot of clothes. but the only thing you see on the internet are the swimsuit and lingerie and they get sent around. >> and we show you that, of course. she says she wears clothes. we believe she gave up her modeling career to raise their family. arizona gun shop will not sell an ar-15 to mark kelly, the gun control advocate and husband of gabrielle giffords tried to buy the popular semi-automatic gun to show how easy it is to buy one of these high powered weapons. but the shop owner, douglas mckinley, had a change of heart and announcing on facebook he will not sell a gun to anyone for, quote, reasons other than personal use. mckinley says the refund is in the mail. believe it or not, the national gun debate is creating jobs. weaponsmakers aren't just hiring, some are struggling to find enough workers. christine romans has more. >> there is a run on guns in america. and it is sparking a boom in job creation. since the newtown shooting,

stricter regulation has millions of people rushing to buy guns and ammunition. that means weaponsmakers are hiring. and some manufacturers are scrambling to find enough workers. the firearms industry employs about 230,000 people in the u.s., according to an analyst at morgan dempsey capital management. it is not just a couple of workers at your local gun store. the giants of the business are expanding. companies like sturm ruger and smith & wesson have boosted their hiring. there is a labor pool that is in need of work there. many of these jobs require highly skilled workers, so the competition for these positions is tough. but engineers and computer design skills who create parts like ergonomic springs, triggers and sites can earn $100,000 a year. gun repair shops are also seeing a big increase in business and workers there can make around $60,000 a year. but the interesting irony of

this, brooke, is the national discussion about gun violence has sparked huge demand for guns and ammunition and that's actually sparking demand for more bs. brooke? >> christine romans, thank you. next, let's talk sharks. one shark for me is scary enough. how about a shark with two heads? come back to the tv. look at this picture. this is the first ever two-headed bull shark. it was found off the florida keys. other species of sharks have been born with two heads before. but this one is special. because this is the only bull shark on record. researchers from michigan state university are still trying to figure out what caused this. and who says the tech bubble has burst? we're going to introduce you it a 17-year-old who sold his company to yahoo! for a cool $30 million. next, a look at the app he created that is getting all kinds of attention. [ man ] i got this citi thankyou card and started

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a british teenager looking to condense his studies into easy to read snippets. he reportedly sold his mobile app assembly to yahoo! for $30 million. not too shabby for someone yet to graduate high school here. countless others struggle just to pay the internet bills. samuel burke, our internet guru here is with me. are what are the biggest apps you can cash in on? >> well, just remember when these companies buy these apps, brooke, they're not necessarily hacking or getting big revenue stream or big profit. they're often getting the technology and the talent behind the apps and the example we all remember is instagram. we heard a billion dollar price tag when facebook bought it. it was only worth $736 million according to "forbes. "another big one out there was yamer. that sold for $1.2 billion according to "forbes." that allows employees to speak

privately to each other. and then there are the kind of smaller ones, smaller being $37 million for a tweet that according to "the guardian." what's interesting, it wasn't necessary they even invented a new technology, it was just a better, cleaner way of looking at your tweets. >> $37 million sounds decent to me. just quickly, are is this another tech fad bubble waiting to burst or should people get in on the whole app company thing? >> i'm not going to leave my day job. don't forget these are very small teams, a few people creating these apps or are a dozen people for some of the apps i just mentioned. so they're not hiring. i just checked a job with the most projected job growth out there is actually a care giving assistant, so let's stick with our day jobs. >> done and done, samuel burk. thank you. appreciate it. coming up next, you may think you know, but you have no idea. an exclusive report challenging what happened moments before

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