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jesus through the ritual of self-beating. now, this symbolic act during holy week is made to help participants atone for their sins. in bangladesh a celebration of spring. students play with colored powder during the annual holy festival. >> it washes out apparently. >> nice. you know they have races in atlanta where you can put your -- >> yeah. people complain because they got it on their cars. i remember that. we digress. that'll do it. >> we usually do. >> good to see you all. i'll be back tomorrow. >> good. see you tomorrow. carry on, mate. attention. texting while driving is dangerous, yet adults still are doing it. a new study showing more adults text while driving than teenagers. what you can do to stop yourself from sending e-mail or text while on the road.
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blackberry still breathing the company just announcing a surprise profit f profit for th quarter but will this help the company revive the brand? president obama is working to keep his campaign for stricter gun laws alive. his renewed push as polls show his plan is losing support. this is cnn newsroom and i'm suzanne malveaux, today marking the end of the best first quarter for the dow since 1998. it has been a great five months for the s&p 500 as well hitting an all new toim high. we're joined by alison kosik from the new york stock exchange. what does it mean? >> that is the money question. i don't have a crystal ball here but this market really seems to be riding this nice wave to the up side. you know this is also a market reacting more and more to the news headlines that come out. so bad news could set the market back even though lately when we've gotten bad news the market has shrugged it off. now the path of least resistance seems to be upward. now keep in mind that the fed
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does continue to pump stimulus money into the economy, pushing down interest rates and sending investors to stocks because it seems to be the best game in town. that is really what's created this stellar first quarter. look at the returns just in the first three months of the year. the dow is up 11%. the nasdaq is higher. and the s&p 500, that's climbed almost 10%. in fact, today the s&p 500 is making history of its own. it just broke through its all-time high that was set in october, 2007. so we have the dow breaking records earlier. a few weeks ago. now the s&p 500 is breaking its own record. so all of that is really helping this upward momentum that we've already seen this year. >> alison, tell us about blackberry. i understand there was a lot of anticipation and even some excitement over what they were announcing earlier. >> yeah. what's interesting is earnings reports really don't get people all jazzed up but this one is reel it biggy especially when you think of all the hype that led up to the release of blackberry's new phone called the z-10. we learned this morning that blackberry posted a surprise $94 million in profit last quarter.
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it sold almost 1 million z-10 phones in canada, uk and uab where it went on sale a few weeks before the end of the quarter. we are watching shares jump about 2% now following what has been a choppy year for the stock. you look at shares. they've been rising and falling since the beginning of the year. still, its revenue numbers, those were a big disappointment. you look at its subscriber base. it shrank by 3 million. we'll get the best picture of how the company did in the next report because that's going to include the z-10 numbers from the u.s. debut when the phones went on sale here in the u.s. early reports, though, they called it under whelming so sales here not doing too well apparently. now to hoboken, new jersey where two water main breaks have flooded most of the city. this is in one instance a contractor at a construction site hit a 30-inch water main. the pipe burst. most of the city is now without water. people who do have water and are
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being now told they got to boil it before actually using it. remember hoboken is one of the cities hit hard by hurricane sandy. and of course you might not think you need another lecture about texting while driving. it is deadly. we all know that. we're adults. a new survey finding adults do it the most. almost half of a thousand adults admitted to texting while driving compared with 43% of teenagers. so our guests are here to talk about this problem. it was hard to believe actually when we heard these stats but then, you know, on our morning meeting are folks who fessed up to it and said, yeah. i do it too. tell us about the study. what did they find? >> okay. what is interesting here is that 49% of adults admit to texting while driving compared to 43% of teenagers as you mention chld what is interesting is that the numbers are misleading because they sound like roughly the same
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but actually there are a lot more adult drivers in the u.s. than teenagers so what we're talking about is 10 million teenagers compared to 180 million adults. also want to mention some other stats the survey coughed up. 98% of people know it is distracting and dangerous versus 2% of people who said they don't. 60% say they weren't doing this three years ago so it does seem as though the problem is getting worse. >> zane, also, you have 39 states that actually banned texting while driving but this continues to be a big problem. i mean, there are people who essentially are in these accidents and losing their lives and causing other people as well. >> yes. it's really sad. the cdc says that roughly nine people a day are killed from distracted driving. over a thousand people a day are injured. also the numbers of deaths are getting worse. we have 3200 people in 2010 versus 3300 in 2011.
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what is interesting here is we only have studies that show distracted driving. it is very difficult to prove whether texting while driving specifically is what caused an accident. if somebody gets into a car crash, you know, at 1:05 p.m. for example, yeah you can prove they received a text message a minute before-hand but you can't prove they read the text message. you can't prove that text message actually is what caused the crash. >> you know what's amazing, in the study it doesn't take long at all when you're texting, you take your eyes off the road and just like that is when you get into an accident. it happens very, very quickly. want to bring in jeff. you know, adults know it's dangerous. we've been told and time again not to do it yet we do it more than teenagers. how do you change the behavior? >> it's very difficult to change the behavior but one of the things that needs to happen, cops need to give more tickets for texting or talking on the cell phone while driving. and we've seen that when you do
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get a ticket you tend not to do it. it's the adults who don't get tickets who don't get the punishment who just don't get the idea that this is something that can be deadly. >> is there any sense of this that there is an addiction here? you know, people always talk about being addicted to blackberries or their cell phones or e-mail. is that really real that you would have to do it in your car? >> i think one of the things we're learning, suzanne, is that addictions go beyond drugs and sex and alcohol. that there are so many things now that are part of our daily lives that we do become addicted to. we do have the dopamine, the neuro transmitter that fires and says, yes, that's great. let's do that again. so getting the satisfaction of texting, getting to your business right away, having that instant gratification, all of those things can become addicting. and it's the fact that we don't address it as being addictive that is one of the major issues. >> jeff, finally here, you talk
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about addiction but isn't there a part of this which is really your boss's, your business's, all these people demanding our time constantly and you've got it all in caps respond now that people feel like they've got to take care of it immediately even if they're in their car driving? >> i think a lot of it is self-imposed, yes, we do have pressures from our bosses and the corporations, but it just takes a few more seconds to just pull off to the side of the road and respond to what it is that you're getting on your cell phone. this just takes common sense. as adults we just can't say, well, we're more experienced. we know more, do as i say not as i do. it's just not working. we have to be not just role models to our kids but we have to be truthful to ourselves or our kids won't listen to us and certainly we're getting in too many accidents right now because of texting and driving. >> all right. jeff, amen to that. just put it down for a minute
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here. appreciate it. thank you very much. for what could be a first for congress you have a hollywood movie inspiring some lawmakers to actually do something. we're talking about the oscar winning film "argo" the movie chronicling the secret operation to rescue the six americans taken hostage in iran back in 1980. well, today there is a bipartisan group of senators proposing legislation to pay those former hostages $10,000 a day for each day they were held. current law bans such legislation and compensation rather. and here is what is coming up for the hour. some of the family was the newtown connecticut shooting victims are asking congress for stricter gun laws. >> our daughter, grace, was 7 years old. she couldn't wait to go to school. she would skip down the driveway. >> my sister loved -- >> plus, new information about the sandy hook elementary school shooting. how investigators found a gun safe in adam lanza's bedroom.
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the president is working hard to keep alive his campaign for stricter gun laws. just the last hour gun control advocates joined him in the east room of the white house for what they are calling the national day to demand action. the president said the time is now to protect children from gun violence. >> all victims of gun violence have come here today from across the country, united not only in grief and loss but also in resolve and in courage and in a deep determination to do whatever they can as parents and as citizens to protect other kids and spare other families from the awful pain that they've endured.
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as any of the families and friends who are here today can tell you the grief doesn't ever go away. that loss, that pain sticks with you. >> i want to bring in our chief political correspondent candy crowley. good to see you as always. it seems as if the president here, he says, please don't get squishy on this issue but it seems like it's an uphill battle at this point to get anything pushed through congress. why does he continue? why does he continue to make the effort? >> well, first of all, because he promised. and, second of all, so has the senate majority leader harry reid saying i'll put something on the floor here. and i think if you look at the totality of the things that are on the floor, certainly they will get some things passed. right now most everyone agrees that an assault weapons ban of some sort is not going to pass the senate much less the house. right now the hangup seems to be not on background checks. that is having background checks
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for all guns sold except for family to family member or a present but all guns being shoeld at gun shows which is now a loophole and at regular licensed gun dealers. and the question, it seems, for republicans has been, we don't want those records, that background check kept. and that's where they seem -- that seems to be the sticking point. the president is just trying to keep the heat on to try to get something. and right now what the white house has said, according to the vice president, is, you know, a background check, a universal background check would be major and that's what they're pushing for. you know the best way to push congress is to push the american people to push congress. >> absolutely. one of the things, you look at the latest polls and it shows that there is less of an emphasis now. you have those who are older americans and those who live in rural areas not pushing forward now for gun control legislation the way they did shortly after
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the newtown shooting. so what kind of momentum does the president have here? >> well, not enough. that's why he was out there today doing this. he clearly doesn't have enough momentum because right now more people over 50% in that poll, 53%, 54%, favor no restrictions at all or few restrictions. so, you know, the fact is that the sentiment has changed in this so far and that is that -- with some distance people it seems have gone back to sort of their positions prior to newtown, which was so horrific. and so they are losing some of that. yet i think they have it on capitol hill. i think there is momentum on capitol hill. it's about what? what's going to get done. so he definitely does not have enough momentum to get what he wants and that's why he's out there doing this. >> all right. candy, good to see you as always. you can catch candy's state of
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hello. 911. there was a shooting at safeway. >> okay. what do you mean?
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>> ina and oracle. where gabrielle giffords was. and i do believe gabby giffords was hit. >> that was a 911 call from the day congresswoman gabby giffords was shot at a rally in tucson, arizona. well, now more than two years later authorities have released new information about that day. they released thousands of documents that offer vivid details about the gunman, jared lee loughner. and our brian todd has actually been poring over these documents. here's what he found. >> reporter: early morning, january 8th, 2011, jared lee loughner is stopped for running a red light in tucson, arizona. state fish and game officer alan thorny lectures loughner on his driving. loughner seems to break down. i said i won't write you a citation for this forney says later in a statement to investigators and when i said that to him his face got kind of screwed up and he started to cry. forney asks if loughner is okay. loughner replies, yeah. i'm okay. i've just had a rough time, and
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i really thought i was going to get a ticket. loughner is sent on his way. just a couple hours later -- >> he went in, he just started firing, and then he ran. >> jared lee loughner kills six people, wounds congresswoman gabrielle giffords and 12 others at a safeway in tucson. we're getting new details of the incident in thousands of pages of documents just released by the pima county sheriff's department. a judge had kept them under seal until now, concerned they would prevent jared loughner from getting a fair trial. just after the shootings, a witness described how he and others subdued loughner. >> i held my legs behind his knees and my arm on the back of his small of his back and another guy was stepping on his neck. >> reporter: but in the new documents he says one good samaritan did more than that, threatening to kill loughner with loughner's own gun. the other gentleman was holding the pistol. he said, i'll tell you, you [ bleep ] to the guy on the ground saying i'll kel kill you. i said just put it down.
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if i wasn't a controlled person i might finish him off right there. daniel hernandez an intern for gifds described caring for her just seconds after she was shot. >> she was alert and conscious but she wasn't able to speak so the way she was communicating was by grabbing my hand and just squeezing. >> reporter: in the new documents more detail from hernandez. her breathing started getting shallower. there was one visible gunshot wound. it was to the head. and the reports depict how loughner's anguished parents had sensed he'd become violent and tried to stop him. his mother amy loughner interviewing with police says once at the suggestion of officials at jared's school he had a shotgun that we took away from him. in another account, loughner's father said he even tried to disable jared loughner's car to prevent him from going out. brian todd, cnn, washington. >> now to the sandy hook elementary school shooting. family members of the 20 children and six adults killed during that massacre in newtown, connecticut are now speaking out in a new ad.
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>> jess off in the morning and he gave me a hug and case kiis and said i love you, dad. and i love mom, too. >> our daughter grace was 7 years old. she couldn't wait to go to school. she would skip down the driveway. >> my sister loved teaching at sandy hook. every student would say, i hope i get miss soto next year. >> loren loved children and always wanted to be a teacher. >> i got a 911 call that there was a shooting at sandy hook elementary school. >> we need to remember the 26 victims who lost their lives. >> their message part of a campaign by mayors against illegal guns. that is the gun control group led by new york mayor michael bloomberg. also today the connecticut state prosecutor's office is now releasing new information on the shootings. susan candiotti is in new york. what kind of details are we learning now? >> well, first of all we want to tell you and all of the viewers that all of the newtown parents, the victims' families, have been notified of all of the information we're about to tell
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you. new details as far as we are concerned. but first let's recap. they're telling us for the first time specifically that 154 bullets were fired at sandy hook elementary school when 20 children were killed along with six school teachers. we know that two hand guns were found on his body as well as that bush master assault style weapon. and they are again stating that those had three, 30-round magazines with them and in addition near adam lanza's body, the shooter, they found six additional magazines that had 30 rounds each. half of them we now learned were emptied out and the rest had ten, 11, and 13 rounds left. now we turn to his house, which we can only describe as a virtual arsenal in terms of how much weaponry was found there and ammunition. we know that a gun safe was found in the house. we've been reporting that. it's now documented. we learned that there were at
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least were counting more than 1600 unspent rounds of ammunition inside that house. in addition, we know that a rifle was found next to adam lanza's mother that he shot with a single gunshot to the forehead. we also learned that there was an additional -- at least one more rifle, a b.b. gun, .22 caliber revolver with additional ammunition and samurai swords as well. also i previously reported they had found material that indicated adam lanza was virtually obsessed with serial murders. and we learned part, a bit more information about that. for example, they talked about finding an article about a university -- a college shooting in illinois back in 2008. so he had saved materials and journals and this kind of thing. "the new york daily news" reported they found a spread sheet seven feet long and four feet wide filled with details of other shootings. but this part is new as well.
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they found a holiday card. remember this shooting happened december 14th. >> yes. >> inside the holiday card was a check written out to adam by his mother and it was to purchase it said a specific model of firearm. we know the model but we're not clear from these documents whether that was a handgun or a rifle. we learned one more thing that's new. from a witness cooperating with police they are not revealing his name they said for his own safety, but this is someone that spoke with him right after the shooting. he said that adam lanza was an avid gamer and liked to game in particular a video game called "call of duty." also, he said that this is a young man who rarely left his home. he was a loner, a shut-in. this witness knew about the safe in the house that he believe had four rifles in it and also he added this. he said, adam, for adam lanza, sandy hook elementary was his life. well, if that's the case, why
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did he then target it? perhaps some authorities have suspected because those children were an easy target, suzanne. >> he was clearly armed to the teeth. susan candiotti, thank you very much for those details, disturbing details. i can only imagine what the family, what they are thinking about all of that information particularly just how many rounds he shot. thank you very much. olympian oscar pistorius is charged with murdering his girlfriend but now a judge has just lifted a lot of the restrictions that came with his bail. another arrest in the case of a baby shot dead in georgia. we'll have the latest on that case. she's still the one for you -
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getting new pictures in, taking a look at the aerials from wiff, actually a fire department that is on fire. a fire house. these are firefighters actually
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having to put out the fire of their own fire station. this is out of lawrence county, south carolina. it is upstate fire department building and we are being told that traffic is being diverted in the area. of course because they are trying to tend to this there but you can see the water hoses as they try to deal with this. the fire was reported around noon. this is the fire department in lawrence county. dispatchers there are actually describing it as a large fire and we are now told that there are multiple departments that are actually assisting in putting that fire out. it is not just the staff from the fire house but many others now involved. we don't know how the fire actually started. we don't know if there are injuries because of this fire but certainly they are tending to this as quickly as possible. those who are staff inside of that fire department in lawrence county as well as neighboring
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fire departments that are now involved in trying to get that extinguished as quickly as possible. the jodi arias trial back ontrack after a delay for a day. the judge canceled court yesterday. sources are telling our sister network hln that the reason was arias' health apparently suffering from a migraine headache. today, well, we're seeing a domestic violence expert scheduled to testify. you know the trial. we've been following it. arias shot her boyfriend in the face, stabbed him multiple times, slashed his throat. she is charged with murder but she says she acted in self-defense. the pope putting a new spin to an old tradition not only celebrating holy thursday mass at a youth detention center but washing the feet of some of the prisoners. it is a symbolic ritual based on the belief that jesus washed the feet of his disciples before the last supper. ben, just explain the significance of this.
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>> reporter: well, normally, suzanne, the pope would go to a church in rome or in the vatican city and wash the feet of 12 retired priests. in this case he is inside a prison right behind me on the outskirts of rome where he will be washing the feet of 12 prisoners but of those 12 prisoners two of them will be women we understand from italian prison authorities. they say one of them will be an italian catholic woman. the other a serbian muslim prisoner because most of the prisoners here are in fact not italian. now, after the mass is finished it's almost done right now we understand, he will meet in the separate gym within the prison one by one with the prisoners and he will give them a chocolate easter egg, the italian ones are quite large, as well as a special italian easter cake. this is really a break from tradition. as i said, the pope would
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normally do this to retired priests. as we've seen, day after day pope francis, he's only been pope two weeks and one day, is showing that he's going to be his own kind of pope. suzanne? >> all right. ben wedeman thank you very much. appreciate it. a south african judge has lifted bail restrictions on the former olympian oscar pistorius. back in february he was charged with murder for killing his girlfriend reeva stein camp. the story is still awaiting trial but he is now allowed to travel outside of south africa if invited to compete overseas. until it happens, his lawyer is going to hold on to his passport. pistorius is also now allowed to drink alcohol and return to his home where he shot his former girlfriend. new details now in the tragic, tragic killing of the baby in georgia shot in the head while his mother was walking him in a stroller. two teenagers accused in the shooting have been indicted by a grand jury. some of the family members now
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are also in big trouble. victor blackwell is joining us from brunswick, georgia. i know the police just updated you on the case. what have we learned? >> reporter: three big headlines, suzanne. first, that the bullet that was used to kill little antonio, they say they have retrieved that and they're now trying to match that to the alleged murder weapon and possibly then on to the suspect. also, the police chief says that this is being potentially investigated as a gang related smooting. he is exploring the possibility that it was a gang initiation or a gang related crime. also, he said, that overnight more search warrants were issued and more evidence was collected in a crime that's already led to five arrests. 17-year-old demarcus elkins and 15-year-old dominic lange both now charged as adults in the shooting death of 13-month-old antonio santiago one week ago. each faces five felony counts
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including felony murder and cruelty to children. elkins faces an additional charge of malice murder for allegedly firing the shot at the baby's face. >> i found an outfit that my baby was wearing before he was killed and i can't seem to let it go. >> something else little antonio's mother can't let go, a question, why? >> we believe that the location and the victim were both random. >> reporter: the county police chief's department is investigating this as a botched robbery. elkins' attorney does not buy it. >> it seems odd two individuals whoever they are so desperate to rob someone who wouldn't have appeared to have any money and going to the trouble of shooting two people would then leave the object of their attention at the crime scene. >> reporter: not left at the crime scene, the murder weapon. according to the indictment
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elkins' sister sabrina elkins and their mother ditched the .22 caliber revolver in this marsh miles away from the crime scene. tests will determine if a gun pulled from the marsh this week was the gun used to kill little antonio. >> i had to watch my baby die and i want him to die. a life for a life. >> reporter: that's not possible under georgia law. elkins and lang are both under 18. if convicted of the new charges these boys could spend the rest of their lives in prison. as part of the indictment, demarqueis elkins was also charged with attempted armed robbery. the police say this gun that they believe was used to kill little antonio was also used in an attempt to rob a man a few days before. they're also exploring the possibility that the gun was used in other crimes, suzanne. >> all right. victor, thank you. appreciate the update. coming up some restaurants billing their food as healthy
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now fast food not exactly healthy for your kids but even some restaurants with the so-called healthy meals have their fair share of kiddie calorie bombs on the menu. we were talking to elizabeth cohen about this staggering report. calorie boles, right? did you make that up or was this a report, a calorie bomb? >> reporter: okay. calorie bomb is an interesting term. i'll tell you the center for science and the public interest the folks who wrote the report really dropped a bomb on the restaurant industry. they really were very critical of them. they looked at 50 restaurant chains and found that 91% of them the kids' meals did not live up to the nutritional standards for kids that are established by the national restaurant association. let's look at three of the
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biggest offenders according to this group. the first one here is from chile's, pizza, fries, chocolate milk. 1120 calories. that is more than twice as many calories as most kids are supposed to get. here is another one from dairy queen. chicken fingers, of course fried. barbecue sauce. french fries and ice cream bar, sort of a slurpee kind of drink. 1,027 calories. this one here, this is from applebee's, grilled cheese, fries, chocolate milk, 1210 calories. these are a lot of calories for a kid and the kid might look at it and think oh, i'm supposed to eat the whole thing. they're getting a lot of calories. for days there. are there any good options? what do you do? >> i did sort of put one restaurant in a different category and that's subway. subway has done a great job they said with healthy kids' meals. let's look at one. a subway kids roast beef sub, 1%
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milk, apple slices, 395 calories. that is definitely within the range of what kids are supposed to get. >> that is much more reasonable. if you're in a pinch what should you do? >> if you're in a pinch what you want to do is choose a healthy side. that is so important. you don't have to get french fries. you can get apples. also skip the soda or the chocolate milk. just get water. also check out healthy adult options because sometimes you can take a chick ebb breast and cut it up and give it back to a kid. if you go to cnn.com/empowered patient you'll see an article by my colleague matt sloan who has all sorts of other options. i also want to tell you, suzanne, we reached out to these restaurants and applebee's and chile's said, look. we have other options. you don't have to get the ones that are here. we'll custom make them for you. you don't have to get these. i want to also read you something from the national restaurant association. the national restaurant association says restaurants nationwide are providing innovative, healthful children's options to their young guests.
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on same sex marriage. you said and i quote here, i hope that the supreme court stands on the right side of history by acknowledging marriage equality for all. tell us why this is an important issue for you. >> well, i think the freedom you take for granted for yourself you should extend to everyone else. that's just the way that we've a all -- we should know giving part of what we want to receive as critical part of our own happiness and freedom. if we want to be able to get married we should extend that right to others. whatever rights we think people should have we should fight for them. we think we should have we should fight for them for others. >> that is an evolution really in the hip hop community. >> i don't know. i mean, this is not a hip hop issue. the hip hop community is a lot more tolerant than i would say the rest of society has been on this issue for a long time. but i don't think it's a hip hop issue. it's a national issue that is one that needs to be addressed by everyone. they were very, very supportive
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in public. they have been that way about gay members of the hip hop community and been respectful of them for many years the hip hop community has. >> russell i understand you are also involved in somewhat of a breaking news issue where you were sending a letter to the president regarding the war on drugs. >> yes. >> tell us about that. >> well, dr. watkins and myself coauthored a letter and it was about the details, you know, a road map to end the war on drugs, which, you know, blacks are ten times more likely to go to jail for the same offense as their white counterparts. further, they are ten times more likely to be arrested for the same drug use. whites and blacks of course use drugs at the same rate. for me, it is a very important issue. billions of dollars, many billions of dollars, the taxpayers spend to incarcerate diseased individuals, educate them in criminal behavior, then dump them back in the communities without hope. that has destroyed the fabric of many communities in this country
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and it is terrible on economics and the prison industrial system pays $10 million to make that happen. we have to stop that. >> we have to leave it there. russell simmons, thank you so much. appreciate it. >> a pleasure. >> for a look at russell simmons behind the scenes visit cnn.com. . your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have six grams of sugars. with fifteen grams of protein to help manage hunger... look who's getting smart about her weight. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. a new ride comes along and changes everything. the powerful gs. get great values on your favorite lexus models during the command performance sales event. this is the pursuit of perfection.
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one woman lost her camera while diving in hawaii. guess what, pictures wound up on the internet six years later. >> i don't know why this happened, but it's pretty amazing. >> reporter: lindsey lives what most would consider a normal life, but now -- you're like a worldwide celebrity now. >> yeah, went from normal boring to now you're in my living room. >> reporter: she's famous because of the cannon camera she lost six years ago while scuba diving in hawaii. >> took a lot of pictures, night dive, the night dive was when i lost my camera. >> reporter: lindsey was hurt. >> i was pretty upset about it, but, you know, what are you going to do? >> reporter: she chalked it up to life and went on with hers, forgetting about the camera until 24 hours ago. >> i get this random message on facebook from a guy i went to high school with. hey, lindsey, my wife found this article and we think it's you,
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we think they found your camera, check it out. >> reporter: turns out the camera washed ashore in of all places, taiwan. >> an employee of china airlines found the camera, found the pictures on the memory card impact, got in touch with them because they could tell it was hawaii to get it back to the mystery blond woman, as they called it. >> reporter: check out the pictures that were recovered from that camera. hawaiian tv station put its story online, which is how lindsey's former classmate found out about it. >> social media at its best. >> reporter: but the story doesn't stop there. >> china airlines has offered me to pay for me to go out there and my room and board and food and everything, just all expenses paid trip to come out there and get my camera back and meet the guy that found it. yeah, been a wild ride. >> that is a sweet deal. that is pretty amazing there. bernard watson reporting from our affiliate wgcl. this high school basketball
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now for march madness, this is a name you're not going to see on the court this year, but you might want to take a look at next season, jabari parker, he's a high school basketball player from chicago's south side. he is destined for college power house duke. we explain how this teen is already considered a superstar. >> reporter: from chicago's notorious south side, 17-year-old jabari parker is one of the best high school basketball players in the country. and one of the nicest young men you'll ever meet. >> as long as i keep working and just keep on having a good, humble attitude, i think that will take me a long way. >> reporter: that attitude is what makes people so excited
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about jabari parker's future, including his coach at simeon high school, robert smith, who also coached nba star derrick rose. >> i love, he's a caring kid, not about jabari, this is about simeon and everybody else. >> reporter: jabari has gotten a lot of attention, he made the cover of "sports illustrated" last may and when he announced he was going to duke, it was covered live on television. >> duke university. >> reporter: the south side of chicago is dangerous and has been for years. in january of this year, a 17-year-old boy was shot and killed after attending one of simeon's games. nearly 30 years ago, another all-star, ben wilson, was shot and killed while walking down the street with his girlfriend, his number, 25, still hangs on the wall at school. >> sometimes i've been uncomfortable, but it's never been a moment of time where i've been totally unsafe, because i have so many people on my back
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and that helps me get out of, you know, scuffles. >> reporter: this season, jabari led simeon to a fourth straight high school basketball title and also excelled in class, earning a 3.7 grade point average. >> we are truly blessed to have him. >> reporter: growing up, he was the youngest of four children where school and the family's mormon faith came before basketball. he may play in the nba someday, but his family expects him to graduate from duke. >> that degree will be more precious than any millions he'll make. >> reporter: jabari's dad, sonny, played six seasons for the golden state warriors. when he retired, he returned to chicago to start a youth foundation helping at-risk kids. >> i know there are a lot of kids on the south side that lack a two-parent home. i'm fortunate to have my dad beside me. what he does in the community helps me want to be like him when i grow