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calling out americans saying now is the time to support stronger gun laws. homeowners on the edge. a landslide takes out one house and threatens more than a dozen others. today, questions if they will ever be able to move back home. >> go team go team go team. >> all right, guys. good morning from dunk city. florida gulf coast university eagles, obviously the talk of the ncaa tournament. and as you can see, fans here in fort myers are loving every single minute of it. we're going to dial in to this excitement right after the break. >> and the s&p 500 closes at a new record high. what it means for our economy and your money. >> stars of a new movie called "the host." the actor also join us live to talk about their new flick. it's friday march 29th. and "starting point" begins right now. welcome everybody, our "starting point" this morning,
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an hiv and hepatitis scare is unfolding in oklahoma. 7,000 patients are getting pretty terrible news that they may have been exposed to both of those diseases by their dentist. officials are calling dr. scott harrington and his tulsa practice a menace to public health. we're told investigators who inspected his dental office were, quote, physically sickened by what they uncovered. ed lavandera is live for us in tulsa, oklahoma with this developing story. >> good morning, soledad. even experienced health investigators say that when they walked into this dental practice that you see behind me, they were shocked, and disturbed by what they found. tulsa health officials say the sanitation conditions inside this building where dr. scott harrington works as an oral surgeon were horrifying. >> i will tell you that when the health department investigators, when we left, we were just physically kind of sick. i mean that's just how bad -- and i've seen a lot of bad stuff over the years. >> reporter: those health
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officials say that as many as 7,000 patients in the last six years might have been exposed to hiv, as well as hepatitis-b and c. health officials say dr. harrington treated a higher population of patients with those illnesses. but when investigators started inspecting the dental tools and equipment in the office, in the last two weeks, what they discovered was disturbing, and extremely unsanitary. >> the instruments that came out of the autoclave were horrible. i wouldn't let my nephew play with them out in the dirt. i mean, they were horrible. they had rust on them. >> reporter: so far health officials believe at least one patient was infected with hepatitis-c from treatments in this office. the news has sparked a nerve-wracking sense of unease. patients are receiving letters urging them to get tested. >> the magnitude of these infractions in clinical practices, and the unknown length of time that the practices may have occurred have prompted public health to begin systematic notification of
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doctor harrington's patients, and recommend testing for hiv, hepatitis-b and hepatitis-c viruses, as many persons who may be infected with these blood-borne viruses may be infected for years without experiencing any signs of illness. >> reporter: state health officials say dr. harrington voluntarily stopped practicing after the investigation of health and safety law violations started a few weeks ago. harrington is 64 years old, a veteran oral surgeon, who started practicing more than 35 years ago. but it's not clear if the closure is permanent or temporary. we haven't been able to reach dr. harrington yet, and this is the message callers to his office hear now. >> you have reached the office of dr. scott harrington. the office is currently closed. >> now the free testing for all of the patients dating back over the last six years, 7,000 in all, will begin saturday here in tulsa. they are being urged to do that
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as quickly as possible. and as far as any criminal charges, soledad, health officials here in oklahoma say they -- no charges have been filed yet but they are in contact with the district attorney's office here in tulsa. >> ed lavandera for us this morning. thank you, ed. in just a few moments we're going to hear from the executive director of the oklahoma board of dentistry about that story. a developing story out of pakistan this morning where a bomb's gone off near the u.s. consulate there. john's got that and some of the other top stories. >> thanks, soledad. that bombing happened just about five hours ago now. suicide bomber blew himself up less than half a mile from the u.s. consulate at peshawar near the afghan border. hospital officials say six people were killed, about a dozen hurt. police say the bomber rode a motor bike up to a security checkpoint and detonated about 20 pounds of explosives that were on his body. also developing this morning, north korean leader kim jong-un ordering his generals to put rockets on standby, ready to be fired at u.s. targets in the pacific. he issued this latest threat after the u.s. confirmed that it
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flew b-2 stealth bombers which can carry nuclear weapons over south korea as part of joint military exercises. north korea considers those exercises a threat of war by the u.s. the foreof a former u.s. soldier charged with conspiring with al qaeda in iraq as he fought in syria says his son is no terrorist. in fact, he says his son eric harroun is a hero for fighting alongside syria's opposition. the fbi arrested harroun tuesday near dulles airport in virginia. he's charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction outside the u.s. specifically a rocket pr-propel grenade in syria. prosecutors in the aurora movie theater mass shooting case they are extremely unlikely to accept a guilty plea from suspect james holmes in order to take the death penalty off the table. prosecutors say they're still seeking access to information that allows them to fully assess holmes and his alleged actions in order to get a just outcome. they also suggested the defense is not acting in good faith by
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disclosing this offer in a public filing. it is, of course, the most solemn day in the christian calendar when believers around the world mark the death of jesus on the cross. for catholics today is their first good friday with a new pope who really seems to do things his own way. believers in jerusalem following in jesus' footsteps carrying a cross through the streets. pope francis providing observances in rome today. this holy week has already had its share of firsts. yesterday the pontiff broke with tradition, washing and kissing the feet of 12 inmates, 2 of whom were women. so it's not exactly the millennium falcon but it is still pretty fast. the soyuz spacecraft made it to the international space station in just under six hours. that trip normally takes two days. the match pops open after midnight eastern time. nasa says equipment and computer software upgrades help make the record fast flight possible. soyuz orbited the earth four times instead of the usual 16. two russians and one american will be at the space station
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until september. well, it's four down and four more to go as march madness heads from the sweet 16 to the final four and last night another number one seed bit the dust. syracuse knocking off top seed indiana, right out of march madness, happened last night with a 61-50 victory. the orange raced to an 18-point first half lead, and then that just kept going. also advancing the number two seed ohio state with a win over arizona. wichita state pounded over la salle 72-5. and marquette taking care of miami 71-61 was the score there. the sweet 16 schedule tonight, louisville takes on oregon. then michigan/kansas, michigan state/duke and the one everybody is looking for, 15th seeded florida gulf coast university, which is now john berman's number one pick. >> dunk city. >> they're trying to keep the dream alive against the florida gators. joe carter is in fort myers, florida, with much more on that big match-up. wow, that's noisy or 7:07 a.m.
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>> and the fact that they're college kids is more impressive. here we are in fort myers. they like to call themselves dunk city. now for florida gulf coast university. the basketball team the eagles, the talk of the tournament. the cinderella story. this team, 'tis is really their moment right now. this crowd, guys, has been gathering since about 5:00 this morning. we've got about 50 people over here by us. i've said probably about 400, 500 people here on the plaza. all to cheer on the eagles. of course, they're in dallas tonight, playing at you could base stadium taking on the third seeded florida gators. in every sense of the word it is david versus gol a at. this small school against the big school. the unknown against the known. i want to talk to a couple people real quick about tonight. your school the it school what's that been like for you guys? >> it's been very exciting and surreal. >> florida gulf coast. are they on the map now? >> hell yeah!
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>> we are a morning show. college students. let me ask you, what has this been like this week? the kind of energy that this team has generated here on campus? >> we are so excited. >> you know obviously this team has become the talk of the tournament. as i said. and it's certainly been an exciting run for them. and improbable one. they beat georgetown by ten points. san diego state by ten points. and now they find themselves as the first 15 seed in the sweet 16 guys. it's been a great, incredible story to cover. as you can see, these guys are very excited here in fort myers. >> wow. wow. >> florida gulf coast university. i like the way the minute he asks a question lyre take -- hang on, talk about the school. now make noise again. joe carter for us. back to our top story this morning. telling but the thousands of people who have to be tested for hiv and hepatitis-c because of
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accusations of dirty instruments at a tulsa dentist's office. let's get to susan rogers this morning, executive director of the oklahoma board of dentistry. they are now investigating the practice. nice to have you with us. we certainly appreciate it. you've offered free testing for those 7,000 people who are the patients of this doctor. tell me a little bit about how many you're expecting are going to take you up on that free testing? >> that's actually the state health department. and we don't have any idea. we're hoping that anyone that hasn't been tested but that did go to that practice will actually go seek testing. and if they're afraid to go to the health department, we would ask them to go to their private physician, and visit with them, and get tested. >> give me some details about what you found in this investigation. because you have said that this has got to be one of the worst cases, if not the worst case you've ever seen in just how bad it was. >> you know, we -- we have a lot of investigations of different
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things. we don't hardly ever have them for unsanitary conditions. and this is one where we got a phone call from the health department, they were doing an investigation about a potential hep-c inspection, and that had come out of this dentist's office, they had narrowed down a window and believed it came from there and we went out with a couple of people from the health department, one of them is a registered nurse and one of them is a dentist. they don't normally do these kind of investigations. and some of the things we found were just absolutely incredible. and it's stuff that it's just basic universal precautions for blood-born pathogens that they were just not following regular protocols. the thing that was most upsetting to us, because we take a very dim view of this from our board's perspective, is he was allowing unauthorized, unlicensed personnel to do iv sedation. and that is completely unacceptable, and illegal in oklahoma. >> so his assistants -- >> we don't know if that was part of the contraction.
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>> assistants basically doing anesthesia on the patients. i want to run through some of the details of the complaint. rusted and unsterilized equipment. needles reused in drug vials, nonsterile gauze, and open vials of medication. i guess no one was even tracking the medication. much of it had actually expired already. did his office look like it was a train wreck? if you were to walk in as a patient would you know something really bad was going on there? or did it look from the usual eyeballing it, did it look fine? >> when you walk in it looks like a normal dentist's office. clean from the outside looking in. when the health inspectors went in there, the health department investigators, they saw things that you wouldn't necessarily know unless you pulled open cabinets and looked and were looking for specific items like we were that day. we went to follow up on their investigation to see the things that they had told me that they had seen that i frankly just couldn't believe. and when we got there, and went further into the investigation, looking at things that we
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normally look at it, it was actually a lot worse than we had expected. >> oh, my goodness. it sounds horrible. of those 7,000 patients, what's your guess the number who will actually end up with some kind of infection? i mean do you think with those kind of conditions it's actually going to be a large portion of them? >> we hope not. i think one of the reasons for the large number, and of course this is the health department's purview as to why they did this, when we interviewed them, he had the same personnel working there for six years, and seven years respectively, two assistants. and so we went back as far as we could with the records because they've done the same practice and procedures for all this time. and that's probably just the best way to try to contact everyone. one of the things that we're concerned about is we have people that's been there seven years ago and probably don't even level in that area. we would ask you to please go get tested. i truly don't even have a guess. we haven't really had a
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situation like this in oklahoma where we've had this large number of people that we've had to contact to be tested. when i visited with the health department person that's in charge of this kind of activity, she said this is about the third public notification they've had to do in about ten years. and the last two were not near this -- near this large. >> one out of every 60 people in tulsa, is how the number turns out. susan rogers is the executive director of the oklahoma board of dentistry. thank you for talking with us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> still ahead on "starting point" this morning, a 1,000 foot stretch of hillside crumbles into the ocean. we'll take you live on that washington island where residents might not everen able to go back home, even if their homes are still standing. and then two brave customers take on a robber and the whole thing is caught on camera. when you have diabetes... 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.
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several homes are still threatened by that colossal landslide that tore through washington state on whidbey island about 50 miles northwest of seattle. a 1,000 foot stretch of hillside literally just fell off and chanced into the ocean. one home was destroyed. but several others were just cut off. and some residents have been allowed to return. other people are not actually sure if they're ever going to be able to go back to their homes. kyung lah is live on whidbey island. tell us a little bit about the situation, kyung. >> the land is actually still moving, soledad. and geologists say there isn't much that they can do. they have to let mother nature take its course when you consider this is a bluff and houses sitting right on top of it. what the city is trying to do is to lay some loose gravel. you see this big pile over here so that residents who have been evacuated out, their houses cut off, they can try to hike down. those houses cut off because of this huge landslide. the view is breathtaking until you look closer. the earth is still tumbling down
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hundreds of feet. the grass of this backyard dangling on the edge above an impromptu cliffside that took out one house and cut off 17 others. daniel garcia lives -- or lived -- here. his house tagged yellow means it's possible it could go tumbling. >> kind seems like the best interest to go. >> reporter: so you want to get out of here? >> i wouldn't -- i'd rather not but the situation kind of dictates. >> reporter: this large landslide in washington state is a 1 in 100 or 200 year event says geologist harry swanson. >> just beyond the cliff here. you don't want to get too close. so the entire road, this whole section here, about 600, 800 feet of it has been completely rotated. >> reporter: swanson said scientists knew this was coming but couldn't predict exactly when. >> when you get lots of water, the water pressure can push the sand grains apart, and then there's no cohesion and the stuff moves. >> reporter: and is this an
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example of man versus nature? have we built on stuff we just didn't understand? >> yes, absolutely. back in the 1930s and '40s when they were plotting this in 1950s, even the 1960s, people weren't thinking about this. >> reporter: resident karen mccoy certainly wasn't when she moved in a few months ago. >> i thought of it as like a huge, big huge wave crashing against the cement wall. and it was just really strong. >> reporter: it cut off the main road to her house. finally climbed a trail at night to get her cat. >> she's a little freaked out right now. it's okay. there's just a lot of anxiety about what's going to happen. will i be able to move back home? >> reporter: daniel garcia isn't anxious. he's made his choice. the man who moved in to this house for the view is now leaving because he has too much of one. so the big question is, will any more houses go? well, according to the city
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there is one house that's considered red. a significant risk. they don't want anyone inside that property. there are four houses considered moderate risk. yellow. and those houses, they can walk in to, but they're not recommending the residents stay. the rest are considered green, soledad. but when i asked the geologist in my story, hey, would you live here? he said maybe for a short period of time. but, he doesn't think he'd live here permanently. >> yeah, well, when the geologist who is right on the side of the, the, the fall there tells you yeah, i wouldn't live there, probably good advice to take. in the next hour we're going to talk with the chief geologist for the washington state of natural resources. we'll talk a little bit about some of the warning signs there. and ahead the s&p 500 closes at a record high. is that a sign the economy is back? you're watching "starting point." can acne cleansers be tough on breakouts and be good for your face? [ female announcer ] now there's new neutrogena® naturals acne cleanser. acne medicine from the wintergreen leaf treats breakouts.
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welcome back, everybody. our team this morning, ryan lizza is back, cnn contributor, washington correspondent for the new yorker. will cain is with us, too. let's start with the big news this morning from wall street and good news. >> for a change. both the dow and s&p 500 are sitting at record highs. the s&p 500 doesn't get all the headlines the dow does. but the s&p 500 is a broader measure of the stock market. and it's 500 stocks, not just 30, in the dow, so it's more representative of what's going on in the market. so it closed at 1569. that is pretty impressive. and the market, coincidentally, or not, it did that on the last day of the first quarter. that was yesterday. but look at these returns. look at these gains. the dow up 11%. s&p 10%.
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nasdaq up 8% in just the first three months of this year. that's really, really good returns. but there's a reality in this, because a lot of people aren't in this rally. they're really not invested in it. it's only about half of americans are invested, half are not. so they're not really feeling this. they're not feeling the rally that's going on. we're sitting here with these great headlines of these record highs. but 12 million people are out of work. the jobs market, it's moving forward but just barely. i mean -- >> can i ask an economy 101 question, how come when you're saying the dow and the s&p and nasdaq doing so well there isn't some kind of a trickle down effect on the economy as a whole? not just people who aren't investing which can completely understand that affects them that way but when you look at those charts there's one that goes like this, and then the one for worker bees is like that. why is there no big rise for the workers when the dow is doing so well? >> you can't just gloss over the fact that you mentioned which is that so many people aren't invested in the market. we have markets going up but we have people with no savings,
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high debt, we still live in a society like that. >> shouldn't it help the general economy when the stock market is doing well? >> people are starting to work off their debt. >> and it's oftentimes when you see that where you're going to see as we are seeing now the markets are operating on all cylinders but the economy isn't it. we're seeing improvement in the housing market. consumer spending is picking up. but look at gdp. we've also got a gdp report yesterday that sets the broadest measure of economic growth for this country. it's barely moving as of last quarter last year. 0.4%. come on. that's anemic. it's not going anywhere. >> she's mad. alison's mad. >> the problem is worse than that. not just when the stock market is performing very well sometimes in the rest of society not doing well. but when the economy was booming the middle class wages were stagnant. i mean that is one of the central economic conundrums of the modern american economy. when this economy does finally take off, the big question, will middle class wages start rising
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again? >> what happens to middle-class workers. >> no one's getting ahead. >> we got to go to commercial break. when we come back we're going to talk a little bit about what president obama said. part of it was shame on us, tell congress don't forget newtown to work to create better gun control laws. and folks in congress pushing back on that. we'll talk to the sister of a teach here died in that school shooting. and a would-be robber tries to get away from cash from a drugstore but customers don't quite let that happen. tackling the bad guys. and then the author of twilight has a new book and a new movie called "the host." we'll talk with two of those stars watching "starting point." can acne cleansers be tough on breakouts
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welcome back, everybody. you're watching "starting point." the president says now is the moment for congress to pass stricter gun control laws. he said that yesterday, even as we learned that adam lanza
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showed up at sandy hook elementary school in connecticut with practically armed for war. he had an assault weapon, ten high powered magazines, two handguns, a shotgun and in less than five minutes he was able to 20 children and 6 adults. the president saying we cried enough over sandy hook, and it is shameful that nothing's been done. dan lothian is at the white house with more on this. good morning. >> good morning, soledad. the president really trying to keep the pressure on congress. that event here at the white house next week, another ant anti-gun violence event in denver, colorado. making a strong, urgent appeal in order, the president says, to save more lives. >> reporter: more than 100 days after the mass shootings in newtown, connecticut, president obama sensed his support for stricter gun laws slipping. >> this is our best chance in more than a decade to take commonsense steps that will save lives. >> reporter: while surrounded by mothers touched by gun violence, the president made an emotional appeal, invoking the memory of newtown massacre victims to
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shame congress to act. >> the entire country was shocked. the entire country pledged we would do something about it and that this time would be different. shame on us if we've forgotten. i haven't forgotten those kids. shame on us if we've forgotten. >> reporter: one poll shows support for tougher gun laws dropping 10 points to 47%, from 57% in december. and there's tough opposition to the president's sweeping measures. what the senate will be taking up next month lacks some key components the president pushed for. universal background checks, and a ban on some high-capacity magazines. in addition, four gop senators, including florida's marco rubio, say they'll block any legislation that puts more restrictions on gun owners. in a statement rubio said he intended to, quote, oppose any
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legislation that would infringe on the american people's constitutional right to bear arms. but the president is getting support from groups like mayors against illegal guns. out with this new ad featuring relatives of the sandy hook victims. >> she just wanted to teach little kids. and that was her goal. she died doing it. >> now that senate bill will try to expand background checks. will also make it illegal for someone to buy weapons and resell it to a criminal. and also will look to increase funding for school safety. but, again, there's strong resistance. the nra in a tweet saying, quote, the economy is weak, national debt is mounting, too many americans are out of work, but obama campaigns against guns to please the fringe. >> dan lothian for us at the white house. thank you. victoria soto you might remember was among the teachers who lost their lives in the sandy hook massacre. her younger sister appeared in that new ad you just saw a
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moment ago hosted by mayors against illegal guns. she's with us this morning. it's nice to have you. dan showed us a little snippet of the ad. do you worry that, as the president seems to be worried, that people are sort of losing their sense of anger that that sort of that is sort of waning in the wake of the shooting at sandy hook elementary school? >> i do. i feel that a lot of people are starting to forget what happened, and it's losing momentum. so, doing this ad for newtown, and having it released yesterday, with everything going on with president obama, giving his speech asking people to join him, the senate to join him with everything that he's doing, you know, i feel like it helps. and you know, it's getting it out there once again and making our story known. again to everybody, it's been almost four months. so you know, it helps to put it out there yet again, and make everyone know, we haven't forgotten. we're not going to forget. and we're going to keep fighting for change.
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>> when you look at the polling, there's a poll out from cbs news, and americans who want stricter gun control laws, 57% back in december 2012, but now it's dropped ten points. now down to 47%. and, you think about it, it's really only been four months. you know, that number, i think some people would say it's doomed for any kind of legislation if in only four months it's dropped so much. >> i think so. i think it does -- it worries us that, you know, it has dropped. but we'll keep fighting. we'll keep making sure that people don't forget. we won't let the whole connecticut effect die. we're going to keep fighting. we're going to keep telling our story to everybody who wants to listen. speaking to anybody who wants to hear us. any senator, anyone who wants to hear. >> you think they're listening? here's what ted cruz, senator ted cruz said he has promised we showed a picture of the four among the four who are going to block legislation by that puts any kind of restriction on gun
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laws that and he said this, it's saddening to see the president today, once again, try to take advantage of this tragic murder, promote an agenda that will do nothing to stop violent crime but will undermine the constitutional rights of all law-abiding americans. i guess as someone who's been very specifically victimized by this, do you feel like he's trying to take advantage of the murder to promote an agenda? >> i don't think president obama is taking. -- to fight for change, you see that there is a problem here. that there are kids losing their lives. there's 20, 6 and 7-year-olds who died in december. and any person who thinks we're doing something wrong in asking for change to fighting for it. if they were any of these families they would feel very differently. and it hurts so many people in newtown and all over the world to see this happen, and no one has to lose a loved one because guns are in the wrong hands. we're not doing the right things by checking every person who buys a gun and doing a background check on them. you know, these are commonsense
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things that we're asking. and assault rifles ban is not taking away every assault rifle. there's several that aren't even included. and you can still purchase one if it's something you truly want. but it's taking big ones and ones that are involved away. you know, it's hurtful to see people say that we're trying to take the second amendment right away because that's not what we're doing. you can still get a handgun. you just have to go through a background check. >> jillian soto's visitor victoria soto was killed in that massacre in sandy hook elementary school. i've covered a number of unfortunately a number of massacres and and every single time, you know, people stop caring. i've seen it over and over again. the media aftermath when people feel so intensely about it and then it always goes away. we'll see if this time it's any different. thank you for talking with us. we appreciate you coming on the show. we've got to get to other stories. >> thanks, soledad. nelson mandela said to be in good spirits this morning after he was hospitalized for a lung
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infection. the office of the south african president says the 94-year-old apartheid leader enjoyed a full breakfast this morning and he's apparently responding positively, they say, to treatment. new developments in the case of evan ebel the parolee believed to have killed colorado's police chief. roars show that ebel was written up 28 times in prison for things like threatening to kill guards, and beat up other inmates. he even threatened to kill a female guard and make her beg for her life. ebel was killed in a shoot-out last week. alaska congressman don young is in full backpedal mode this warning after using a slur to describe migrant workers. he was talking about how technology was affecting the economy when he made this comment to an alaskan radio station. >> i used to -- my father had a ranch. we tuesdayed to hire 50 or 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes. you know, it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. it's all done by machine. >> the term he used wetbacks caused a lot of people to raise
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their eyebrows. >> who uses the word wetback now? i mean that's just so crazy. >> don young. >> don young. >> what year are we in? >> let me read you how he explained it. >> yes, please do. >> -- television station in alaska what don young said was i used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in central california. i know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays. and i meant no disrespect. that's -- >> that's almost a version of the i'm sorry if you were offended by my comments apology. >> that's a word used to describe people that look like me. >> this was obviously just a part of his vernacular that it was -- >> it's pretty clear -- >> mr. cain you're so quiet this morning. >> what is there to say? you expect me to come out in his defense? >> no, no i don't. i think we could just move on with that. carry on, mr. berman. >> so two strangers turn into good samaritans when they team up to take down a robbery. have to look at this security
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video from a drugstore in mesa, arizona. a suspect demands cash from the cashier. he took the money, but two customers tackle the guy like a couple of linebackers. >> wow. >> threw my stuff down, and just told him no. and he decided to try and get past me. my wife works as a cashier. and you know, if she was getting robbed i wish somebody would step in for her. >> strange. it's in my neighborhood and i'm glad i could help. >> sideline tackle barely in the frame there. police got there a few minutes later and took the suspect to jail. mesa police plan to honor the heroes for their bravery. >> good for them. still ahead on "starting point," it's a gym class staple but it's getting banned. we'll tell you why one school is saying no to dodgeball. there's a movie in this i think. the star of the highly anticipated new sci-fi movie "the host" max irons and vic abel will join us. [ male announcer ] this is bob,
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♪ where just one touch creates the perfect coffee. where every cappuccino and latte is only made with fresh milk. and where the staff is exceptionally friendly. ♪ nespresso. what else? welcome back to "starting point." did you play dodgeball in school? yes, yes, yes, okay so everybody. are your memories -- are your memories of dodgeball kind of like this? >> dodgeball is a sport of violence, exclusion, and degradation. make sure you pick the bigger, stronger kids for your team. that way, you can all gang up on the weaker one. >> so true. that's how it works. it really is true. that's from the 2004 movie dodgeball with ben stiller and
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hank as area. one school in new hampshire has prompted the school board to ban it saying it promotes violence and bullying. not everybody agrees. here's what some of the parents from the district are saying. >> it's dodgeball. dodgeball has been around as long as i can remember. personally i think it's a blast. if you don't want to play it, don't play it. >> everything these days they're worried about kids' feelings getting hurt. kids getting hurt. you know. how are they ever going to learn? >> i love that mother. >> i degrade my kids at a very young age. >> the school board insists that the game opens up opportunities for bullying and contradicts their anti-bullying policies. >> we all, i think, at least the three of us agree it's good for a kid to get hit in the face with a soft, round ball every once in awhile. >> we called it bombardment when i grew up. you know what's going on in windham, new hampshire.
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who knows what's happening? maybe there were a rash of kids who were hurt or 30 kids staying home from school -- >> oh, please. >> while they're doing this, they say is to prevent bullies. but here's the problem, you could knock a kid down playing basketball. you could knock a kid down -- you can bully -- in some other sport. so -- >> it's dumb. >> all contact sports will be banned in windham. >> i think there is something that is helpful to kids, yeah, to be pounded by a ball. kind of recover from that and come back and be strong. not humiliation. failure, yes. humiliation, no. >> isn't there and in-between ground here? couldn't they just use -- >> let's -- >> get a ball -- >> when you hear people saying all we do is care about kid's feelings. >> i'm sorry. >> i'm -- >> oh, my god my kid fell down. yes, he's a 5-year-old boy. let him fall. he'll get up, he'll be fine.
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>> i played rugby with a bunch of kids in college. you've got to be tough. you've got to toughen up. 7 is not too early to start. >> playing dodgeball -- >> have you seen these ads for the movie "the host" it opens today based on the novel by the same name written by "twilight" author stephenie meyer. we're going to talk to the two stars about that movie coming up. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight.
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host," at least what they are hoping. it's by the same author. it is about aliens seeking to occupy human bodies. the last two humans left. listen. ♪ >> what is that? >> our bodies. >> find her, we find the resistance. >> you fin her, and you find the resistance. rivals in the movie join us now. nice to have you with us. we have moved off dodgeball. so kind of a love quadrangel, a guy and a girl and then the alien takes over the girl's body, so they are sort of like girl alien inhabited and another guy. that's a lot of people. >> we've been doing this for months now and we find it quite difficult to sum it up. tough to do. >> that was good, though. >> not bad. >> you need me to come along on
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the -- >> because -- so we saw the blond woman with the ponytail, the heart of aller ill, trying to trace the girl that was that girl. and if she can trace her back to the original team she is with, she could solve it, right? >> hiding out in the cave. the last remaining faction of human resistance and every agent struggling to survive and growing crops in a cave. >> the aliens decide we're not good from our planet and to save us from ourselves and safe us from the planet, they are going to put us on the right path. the only downside is potentially genocide and we're no longer the top of the food shane and forced to hide. >> the young woman becomes inhabited and the big concern is she will rat everybody out. let's play a clip and talk about it on the other side.
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>> no. >> come back. wait. look, look, look at me. >> get off me. >> dramatic. so the goal -- the goal -- it is. i mean, all these clips, a lot of them on the internet. >> a lot of heavy breathing. >> and some scary stuff. i would imagine the big-picture goal is to grab the twilight audience, is to grab the stephenie meyer audience. because she wrote the "twilight" series. do you feel the pressure from that? >> really? >> i saw an article in the newspaper, and they said when of the 12 films would bet next "twilight," the only common
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denominator was a young cast. >> max, you said it's really hard to get parts, at least for men, because are you competing against 30 or 40 year olds, you have to be 30 or 40 to get in a starring role, essentially ben affleck is still standing in your way? >> a few -- more interesting parts the older you get personally i believe. >> for men. >> not for women. >> not for women. but i think hollywood is a dangerous place for young actors at the moment. youth is disposable, both for men and women i think. people are looking for that astronomical boost for fame and pay, and that's not necessarily success. as an actor, just want to keep working, lay a foundation of good solid work. >> she is working on another book. is that the goal? to do what she did with "twilight" and franchise? >> we can only hope that people like our film. i think "twilight" was a
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phenomenon, but i think we would love to come back and do more. this is a really great cast, but with william hurd, franklin fisher, diane kruger. you don't normally get a cast like that in the young adult world i don't think and it elevates the work in a way that's enjoyable to be part of. >> the movie opens today, good luck. it's like "the host," the tenth version. >> sure. bring it. still ahead on "starting point," we'll talk about the 7,000 people in oklahoma that are being warned that they could have been exposed by hiv and hepatitis b from their dentist. the office so unsanitary it made inspectors physically ill. and a sting operation to find out who was actually ripping their kid off. we'll talk about the video which has gone viral. straight ahead. ♪
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a regular guy with an irregular heartbeat. the usual, bob? not today. [ male announcer ] bob has afib: atrial fibrillation not caused by a heart valve problem, a condition that puts him at greater risk for a stroke. [ gps ] turn left. i don't think so. [ male announcer ] for years, bob took warfarin, and made a monthly trip to the clinic to get his blood tested. but not anymore. bob's doctor recommended a different option: once-a-day xarelto®. xarelto® is the first and only once-a-day prescription blood thinner for patients with afib not caused by a heart valve problem, that doesn't require routine blood monitoring. like warfarin, xarelto® is proven effective to reduce the risk of an afib-related stroke. there is limited data on how these drugs compare when warfarin is well managed. no routine blood monitoring means bob can spend his extra time however he likes. new zealand! xarelto® is just one pill a day, taken with the evening meal. and with no dietary restrictions, bob can eat the healthy foods he likes.
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court cases. where why does rush limbaugh think it's over? stranger to the rescue. a man jumped into action after he sees someone fall to the rails. these pictures just in. >> welcome to ft. meyers, florida, on the campus of florida gulf coast university. the basketball team making the sweet 16 tonight. the town going crazy for dunk city. > . >> and the price of your airline ticket may not depend on when you fly. the other factor you must be aware of, coming up. we'll meet the parents of a clever toddler who figured out how to pick a lock and break into her sister's bedroom and steal her stuffed animals. "starting point" begins right now . welcome, everybody. our team this morning, ryan lisa
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is back, cnn contributor, washington correspondent. and will cain and roland martin. nice to have all of with you us. our "starting point" this morning. the health scare in oklahoma. the health department notifying 7,000 patients, roughly one out of every 50 people in tulsa, oklahoma, that they may have been exposed to hepatitis b, hepatitis c, hiv, all treated by one particular dentist, whose name is scott harrington. officials say he is a menace to public health. susan rogers, director of the oklahoma board of den terroristity said this to me in the last hour. >> some of the things we found were just absolutely incredible. and it's stuff, basic universal precautions for blood borne patho agapath yo g patho jen.
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he was allowing unauthorized, unlicensed personnel to do sedation. completely unacceptable and illegal in oklahoma. >> we are live in tulsa. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. you know when it's bad when health investigators do this kind of work for leaving, inspecting clinics and dentist offices say when they walked out of this dental clinic behind me, they felt sick. tulsa health officials say the sanitation conditions inside this building where dr. scott harrington works as an oral surgeon were horrifying. >> i will tell you when health department investigators left we were physically sick. and i've seen a lot of bad stuff over the years. >> reporter: as many as 7,000 patients in the last 6 years might have been exposed to hiv and hepatitis b and c. health officials say dr.
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harrington treated a higher population of patients with those illnesses, but when investigators started inspecting the dental tools and equipment in the office in the last two weeks, what they discovered was disturbing and extremely unsanitary. >> the instruments that came out of auto claif were horrible. i wouldn't let my nephews play with them out in the dirt. they were horrible. they had rust on them. >> so far, health officials believe one patient was infected with hepatitis c from treatment in this office. the news has sparked a nerve-wracking sense of unease. patients are receiving letters urging them to get tested. >> the magnitude of these infractions in clinical practices and the unknown length of time that the practices may have occurred, have prompted public health to begin systemic notification of dr. harrington's patients and recommend testing for hiv, hepatitis b, and hepatitis c viruss, as many
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persons who may be infected with these blood borne viruss may be ineffected for years without experiencing any signs of illness. >> reporter: state health officials say dr. harrington voluntarily stopped practicing after the investigation of health and safety law violations a few weeks ago. harrington is 64 years old. a veteran oral surgeon who started practicing more than 35 years ago. not clear if the closure is permanent or temporary. we haven't been able to reach dr. harrington and this is the message callers to his office hear now. >> you have reached the office of dr. scott harrington. the office is currently closed. >> reporter: soledad, as far as possible criminal charges, none have been filed so far, but health officials in oklahoma say they are in contact with the district attorney's office here in tulsa, oklahoma. soledad. >> ed lav an dandera, thank you.
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a suicide bombing in pakistan, less than half a mile from the u.s. consulate in peshawar. hospital officials say ten people were killed. and another 30 injured. police say the bomber rode a motor bike to a security checkpoint and detonated 20 pounds of explosives on his body. the father of a former u.s. soldier con fired with al qaeda in iraq as he fought in syria says his son is no terrorist. he says his son eric harroun is a hero for fighting alongside syria's opposition. the fbi arrested harroun near dulles. he is charged with conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction outside the u.s. specifically a rocket propelled grenade in syria. rush limbaugh telling his listeners that the battle over same-sex marriage is over. >> this is lost. this is now inevitable.
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once we started talking about gay marriage, traditional marriage, opposite sex marriage, same-sex marriage, heteromarriage, we lost. it was just a matter of time. >> the issue goes behind closed doors. justices will spend the next three months drafting legal opinions outside the public eye until the decision is ready at the end of june. a philadelphia man may be alive this morning due to the quick actions of a complete stranger. for reasons unknown, this man walked off a subway platform, falling down into the tracks. seconds later a stranger jumps down to assist the man and screams for the power to be shut off. firefighters arrived a short time later and took the man to the hospital. >> it's amazing. would you be the person who jumped in? >> your answer to yourself is always yes.
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>> i have never asked myself that question. >> on the subway platform -- >> will has a hero complex. >> turning to sports. >> please. really, the first bump, gentlemen. really? really? oh, oh. four down, four more to go, march madness heads from the sweet 16 to elite 8 and another elite seed hit the dust. indiana hit the dust by syracuse. 61-50 victory. orange raced to an 18-point lead and ohio state with a 73-70 win over arizona. wichita state, over la salle, and marquette taking care of miami. 71-61. and on the schedule tonight. louisville taking on oregon and then michigan/kansas. michigan state/duke and drum roll, please.
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anybody. thank you. florida gulf coast university looking to keep the dream alive against the florida gators. joe carter is live at florida gulf coast, and he has more. louder than last time. >> so much louder than earlier. i'm impressed with these college kids. up at 5:00 a.m. still cheering at 8:00 a.m. look at the energy. dunk city usa, a phrase coined after this team beat georgetown in the first round of ncaa tournament. went on to beat san diego state. first to make the sweet 16. the energy is electric. this is a cinderella story that captured the attention of the entire country. they are saying this is the team that could make the difference in the long run. we got here at 4:00 this morning and the campus came alive around 4:00 a.m. 500, 600 people in the plaza on campus, they plan to party the
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entire day. you see these newspapers right here, dunk city. that phrase that was coined by the players. you see these newspapers all over campus, headed to dallas as well. the team plays florida tonight. a great atmosphere. they have assured me, no classes today. they are going to enjoy jumping and dancing and having a great time. >> dunk city, dunk city, dunk city! >> no classes, shocker. >> wait a minute, isn't that our daughter, imagine some parent. >> no fun at all at florida gulf state university. >> terrible. >> broadcasting legend. thank you. a broadcasting legend could be taking a final lap. barbara walters will end her trail-blazing 50-year long tv career in may 2014.
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we have more. >> reporter: good morning, soledad. i can't get sombrero guy out of my head. >> shirtless sombrero guy. >> wow. he was hyped very early in the morning. soledad, this really isn't a surprise that the 83-year-old walters retiring. when you think about it, it's very tough to imagine television without barbara walters. the reporting is that she will make this announcement in may and that will let abc celebrate her career for a year with the specials and retro specials. we'll see some of the older barbara walters specials and ten most fascinating people. a lot to remember, because she had such an impressive career. we'll have our own really retro speculative. a timeline of barbara walters' career, a reporter, writer and panel member on "today" in 1961. and then promoted to co-host in '74. and hired away by abc in '76. she began the barbara walters
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specials and those became a regular program, and in '84, a host and correspondent for abc news magazine show "20/20." if you are an important person, chances are you were interviewed by barbara walters. it's interesting to see what happens with the daytime program "the view" going forward. >> thank you, nischelle. still ahead on "starting point," several homes are still in danger of being destroyed by a land slide. were there any early warning signs? we'll talk with washington state's chief hazard geologist ahead. this man said he was just doing his job. how he was able to lift a car off a man pinned beneath it. the story, straight ahead. you're watching "starting point." nespresso. where i never have to compromise on anything. ♪ where just one touch creates the perfect coffee.
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welcome back, everybody. you're watching "starting point." dozens of home remain under the threat of destruction after an enormous landslide on the coast
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of whidby island, north of seattle, have seen 30 homes under evacuation orders as officials are investigating what caused the landslide. and if it will be safe for residents to return home. we want to get to kim watch, chief hazards geologist with the washington state department of natural resources. nice to have you with us. walk me through the number of homes that you think will not make it, if we have three dozen roughly targeted as the most nullnerable. how many people think will be able to get back in their homes and live there, seriously? >> i think it's premature for us to be answering that question. one of the reasons we're out here right now is to take accurate measurements of the landslide mess so we can begin to make -- to do monitoring, see where this is going, how fast are the grades, how fast it might move in the future. we need more information before we can answer that, but i should
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back up and say this is a landslide that has been moving off and on for a number of years. if destroyed, a little bit north of here, destroyed a house in 1997. and this landslide overawl probably started moving about 13,000 years ago. it stretches for about 1.3 miess along the coast. it's a matter of managing this and living with it, rather than making definitive judgments about it. we'll see on a -- a day by day basis, how fast this is moving. but as of yesterday, we're not seeing anymore active movement. we suspect it's going to be slowing down for a while. but that's having our fingers crossed. >> how do you do the monitoring? explain how you take those measurements, from air? what do you do? >> well, we're still crossing it out, but what we expect to do
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later today is fly aerial photography, so we can make accurate measurements of the dimensions of the landslide and by doing it in steero, we can actually make measurements of the -- of the height as well. and we'll do that periodically so that we can tell how fast the tuflt landslide, the part out in the water right now, how fast that degrades and that's important because this is what's called a rotational landslide and that means the top of it goes straight down, but the bottom of it on states back up. and so that acts as a retaining wall and as that degrades, the effectiveness of that retaining wall degrades as well and that could trigger more movement. but we want to watch carefully how fast that tow does degrade. >> tim watch, chief hazards geologist for the washington state department of natural resources. thank you for talking with us.
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welcome back to "starting point." i'm alison kosik watching your money. the stock market is closed in observance of good friday. check out the returns for the first three months of the year. dough up 11%, best q1 performance since 1998. the s & p set a new record ned. up 10% for the quarter and
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two young ladies recreated scenes from the london olympics. >> can you reuse them year to year? >> i think so. when are you pretty much flawless like victoria's secret model aheadry anna lima. she wore this in miami. supposed to be worn the other way. no one is really looking. >> now a story i have a comment on. >> that's how it's supposed to be worn, from the runway. and she, of course, wore it backward. looks great. >> like crisscross in the 1990s. i remember crisscross. ♪ jump, jump . >> did you just compare adriana lima to crisscross?
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welcome back, everybody. you're watching "starting point" he's only two years old, but he may have a career in breaking and entering. the parents of a toddler whose little lock picking antics have gone viral. what they have been able to catch on camera. stories making news today. thanks, soledad. be lea believers around the world solemnly marking good friday.
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for catholics, it's the first good friday with the new pope. he does seem to do things his own way. pope francis, washing the feet of inmates on holy thursday. two a women and one a muslim. never done before by a pope. jim is following all of this in rome. he seems to be doing things differently every day now. >> reporter: absolutely. i think we'll see a very different style from this pope. we'll see him do things very differently. he said in the ten days he's been pope basically, and it will start again and again, and we all need to address the poor. at one point, apparently this is a report going around here, that he's told the other cardinals when he was talking to them to the general congregation, that the power of t eer is a sin for
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church, that is to say, the kind of things we have seen already is abandonment of the red shoes, for example, his sim listic way of dressing, iron cross. and he himself manifests exactly the kind of things that reflect his belief. >> we're waiting to see what we might hear from him in easter weekend. a new arrest in the baby killing case in brunswick, georgia. two teens accused of shooting to death a 13-month-old baby. a city commissioner is charged with witness tampering and obstruction. he allegedly prevented an investigator to talk to the mother of one of the suspects. a zookeeper in quebec hospitalized after surviving an attack by a siberian tiger. the keeper was attacked by a female siberian when he was cleaning an enclosure. they are supposed to be kept in
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a separate pen. an investigation under way as to why the tiger was there. obama administration are moving to announce new rules that would require cleaner vehicles on the road by 2017. the oil industry claims it could send gas prices up 9 cents per gallon. the government says more like a penny. the fast diet, known as the 5:2 diet, allows normal eating five days a week and fasting 500 to 600 calories for two nonconsecutive days. the author, british medical journalist dr. michael mosley. discovered this while working on a tv science show as the human guinea pig. >> i agreed to be tested. quite painful. measured, and monitored to find out what it takes to feel
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younger, look better and maybe even live longer. absolutely everything i was talking about. >> the health, diet and exercise focused science series, wednesday. check our interview with dr. mosley on our blog at startingpoint.blog.cnn.com. >> dot. >> british actor british actor richard griffiths known for his role in "harry potter." they play uncle vernon. he died of complications following heart surgery in coventry, england. he was 65. an inkridible story out of illinois. a state trooper saved a man hit and pinned underneath a car. he lifted the car off the man. >> we were going to count down
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to three, and we'll lift and pull him out. and one swoop, just, he was out from under the car. and just thank god. like there is no way i should be here right now or at least in this capacity. >> scott reunited with ethan yesterday under much better circumstances and they got a surprise visit from governor pat quinn. the rescue called inspiring and unwrapped a frame commendation for scott. >> oh, my goodness. wow. amazing. here is a question for you. what would you do for a pillow pet? would you break and enter someone's room and steal it? here is a little bandit right there. a 2-year-old, his name is kyle moster and when his sister's toys started going missing, she pointed the finger at him. parents set up a sting operation in the hope of catching somebody in the act and struck gold video wise. his parents are in salt lake city. we were watching that yesterday, hilarious to see.
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what made you think it was the 2-year-old, your son kyle who was the breaking and entering? >> our daughter came and told us that he was the one going in there, and he liked to play in her room and get into her toys and we know he's a wander at night. so that's kind of how we knew. >> you set up a camera. how long did you have to wait before you got some evidence? >> about three minutes. right after we put him to bed. >> really? >> we put him to bed. made sure her door was locked, turned on the camera, walked and away, and within a few minutes, we heard the door open. i walked over to the hall to listen and mouthing to my husband, he's doing it. >> what exactly was he doing? the door was locked. he really was like picking the lock. how was he doing that? >> he -- we didn't realize until later, after, we had videotaped it and went in and looked
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underneath the pillow, he was using a fingernail clippers, a little pair of fingernail clippers he flipped open. >> wow. >> we were quite surprised at that. >> i have 6-year-old twins who i think are destined for a life of crime, much like this. i am always struck with a combination of admiration and also fear. which is it for you? is it admiration for ingenuity or fear for what may be to come? >> a little of both. he's definitely one that likes to figure things out. and he's always been that way, but we need to direct him in a positive way. >> we have to give him a good sense of right and wrong now, because he's going to do whatever he wants later. >> or look at reform schools, might be another option. >> right. >> he's 2 years old, do you punish him, tell him not to break into his sister's room, change the lock? >> high five. >> yeah, no. the next day we just went in and talked to him and said we don't
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open locked doors and he really hasn't bothered it since. oh, okay. i'm not supposed to open locked doors gone on his way and not opening them anymore. >> for god sakes, the pillow pet, will you get him his own pillow pet so he doesn't have to steal one from his sister? >> we're going to consider that. >> listen, do the pillow pet now, don't worry about the reform school later is what i would say. >> right now, he's trying to figure out how to overcome your video surveillance. >> it was very, very -- >> you have your hands full now. >> it's really adorable. we'll check in in 16 years, see how it's going for you. >> 16? a year. >> hopefully we're on a good path. >> joann and mike most moeser,
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welcome back, everybody. the photo started as a love note to new orleans after katrina. dear world project, people with words on their hands or arms. the most recent project, is in breezy point. we have richard fogarty along with one of the men he photographed. a breezy point volunteer firefighter. >> thank you for having us. >> we talked before. you shot amazing pictures in joslin, missouri, new orleans, and breezy point, the photos will take your breath away. why are think so effective when
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they are entwined with magic marker message. >> i have always liked the person's voice into the pixels is an important way to convey a message. we started running with the idea and just keep moving toward asking people to share stories. so i think our breezy point work is indicative of everyone has a story. >> it's breath taking and you are the focus in one of the photographs. is it annoying when a photographer comes into a disaster, and you're a police officer and firefighter, and someone wants to come in like at the lowest moment. what was your first reaction? >> yeah, it gets annoying sometimes, but rob came in with tact and class. he called us ahead of time. we knew it was going to happen. not someone throwing a camera in front of your face. it was done right. >> tell us about -- >>ist right on your hands.
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>> when you deal with the press, you never know what's going to get on tv. with rob, you have your message right there. >> tell us about the night in breezy point, you are new york city police officer, but you started in breezy point. >> it was my day off from nypd work and we got a call that the fdny was pulling out and most residents stayed behind. we had to make a choice to stay or go, they were going to close the bridge at 7:00. we had a pow wow, decided we would stay. it was scary, hurricane sandy was devastating for my community, but we stayed, rescued 40 some odd people, and us and the other two volunteer firehouses there, and in the end no, one died. in our community, horrible structural damage. >> oh, my gosh, the fire horrific, i remember covering that as a reporter, no one lost
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their lives. >> not a single person died. >> tell me about what you wrote on your body. uncommon valor with a common virtue. >> we were decitrying to decidet to write. people wanted to say hopeful stuff, which is good. i was thinking back to the night of hurricane sandy, the night of the fire, on a couple of situations we should have all died three or four times, and we kept going, and and i wanted to say something about bravery. and i was thinking back to the history books and i remember admiral nimitz used that quote to describe the war in the pacific and the war who fought there. so i thought it was appropriate. >> rob, you are conveying a message and story as you said, but also producing pieces of art. are you helping people like sebastian with that message? is there an editing process? or does he get to put on his body whatever he chooses? >> the project, i keep pretty universal. i asked them to share one message, and what is really
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beautiful about the project, we kind of get out of the way, so all the messages are pretty much come from the heart, the minds of the photo subject. >> as the photographer, are you thinking about setting and all of the other? >> that's our job. a team and we make the lighting and all of that work. it's really the message comes from them, but our job is to make something beautiful and their job is to come up with something that is meaningful to them. >> what's your favorite portrait? >> i would say -- today, it's sebastian. >> in all honesty, sebastian is an amazing individual. i got to meet from breezy point, brennan, he wrote the reason why
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we fall is so we can get up again, and between these two guys, they are wonderful people to know, and i'm honored to have them in the collection. >> how is breezy point doing? i remember the days after the smouldering ruins, a crazy stor to cover. how are people in breezy point? >> we are rebuilding. just one day at a time. and it's been a little bit of a disaster, but, you know, we're doing okay. >> if folks want to see your photos, where can they go? >> dearworld.me. >> take a look at the foeltos, they are heart stopping. nice to have up. >> thank you so much. >> robert and sebastian, appreciate it. excuse me. ahead on "starting point," a wrong way accident sends a truck over the edge of an overpass. what happened there. dire looking pictures. back in just a moment. r those ns when it's more than a bad dream, be ready.
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welcome back to "starting point," everyone. chief justice john roberts, the victim of credit card fraud. at his favorite starbucks, he to use cash to pay for his coffee. huntsville, alabama, the truck going the wrong way on an overpass when it hit two cars, the truck crashed over the guard rail. rescue crews got the driver, pinned inside. two people seriously hurt. one with life-threatening injuries. pictures right now, convenience store clerk in virginia, turning the tables on a shotgun wielding robber. the suspect enters the store with the weapon raised, the clerk rushes him and takes the gun right out of his hand. the thief then ran away, gunless, and no one was hurt.
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>> pretty brave. >> a lot of brave people out there. camden, new jersey, is apparently one of the most violent cities in the country if that's not enough, also has one of new jersey's high school graduation rates. this week's cnn hero is a mission to turn that around. taking kids off the streets. meet towanda jones. >> who are we? we what are we going to do? ♪ >> very hard for children growing up in camden today. it's dangerous. you can hear gunshots almost every other night. these kids want more. they don't want to be dodging bullets the rest of their life. my name is towanda jones and my mission is to empower youth of camden, new jersey, for the structure of drill team. what i do is simple. if you instill discipline, drill team is a facade to bring
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children in because it's something i love them to do. and once i have them, i introduce them to college life. >> css takes me a whole lot. my dad was shot and killed. my dad passed, i stopped going to class, i started hanging with the wrong people. >> did you complete your homework? >> she is my second mom. without her, i don't know where i would be right now. in camden, the high school graduation rate is 49%, but in my program, it's 100% graduating. we have never had a dropout. >> my grades now, i have a gpa of a 3.0. i want to be a sports manager. we need to take back our city and most importantly, take back our youth, let them know we really care about them. >> i don't think people really understand how important it is to have these children succeed. when we do this, you get great rewards. it's better than money. >> amazing.
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past year. >> i so appreciate you. >> what based you change your mind on will's commentary. >> absolutely nothing. >> we had our ups and downs and over the past year, i have really enjoyed getting to know you as a person. >> don't suck up now. >> i have enjoyed the last year. we have had a remarkable year. last show for you, my final day as cnn next week as well. >> and somebody named nadj journalist of the year. absolutely miss working with you and the crew. >> privilege being on the show. >> you can top that? they have been really nice. >> here is the question. >> i prefer politics and a shoutout to the year's worth of best interviews with politicians. >> thank you. >> you should be very proud of that body of work. >> mr. berman.
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>> john sununu could not be here this morning. it's been incredibly interesting and exciting and i want to thank you for letting me sit here and watch and be part of a really interesting, fantastic year. >> thank you. my end point. i'm going to do end point this morning. because the end point is really. my tenure at the helm of the show ends today. and i won't be covering daily news at cnn. i have had a chance to cover some of the biggest stories of our times, over the past decade. and i want to highlight something that was really important and made me very proud when we were covering hurricane katrina, we had spent the first two weeks living in an rv on canal street and we were pretty much disgustingly dirty and after two weeks, leafing, we had our cnn baseball caps on,
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because we were just a mess and we walked in the airport and everyone gave us a standing ovation, because we will covered the story so well and at that moment it really made me incredibly proud to be a reporter, working with really great journalists, so i think if i have learned anything over the past year, it's that facts matter and we shouldn't be afraid to have tough and honest conversations and maybe even argue a little bit when there is a lot at stake and yes, governor s sununu, back to you. i will continue to focus on the girls we serve, the 25 girls my foundation sends to college. and i will focus on the people who have stories to tell. and huge thanks to my colleagues here at "starting point," we have worked insane hours to bring strong journalism and important stories to our viewers, big thanks to the crew. i have known most of the guys over the past ten years. my kids have literally grown up in this building, and a really wonderful organizio

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