is a concern for car manufacturers. >> love taking test drives. thanks for joining the conversation on your money. here every saturday and weekdays at 3:30. find me on facebook and tweet me. my handle is@all. hello, everyone, i am fredricka whitfield. you're in the "cnn newsroom." a look at the top stories now. for some 7,000 patients in suburban tulsa, oklahoma, a trip to the dentist office may have brought life altering consequences today. many people are getting tested for hiv and hepatitis. and america's veterans caught in red tape n a half hour we're live from washington where a study says vets aren't getting the care they need after serving our country and in the nfl and gay, one former player comes out after hiding his sexuality for

years. a cnn exclusive interview. we begin in north korea. the pentagon says the country's latest threats amounts to nothing more than war amongering rhetoric. today north korean media announcing yang was entering a state of war with its southern neighbor and compared the u.s. to a boiled pumpkin saying it was vulnerable to attack. just the latest in a string of increasingly belligerent threats. millions of people across italy will get to see a famous religious relic today on television. it is usually kept out of sight in a bullet proof, climate controlled glass case. according to vatican radio the images have been broadcast just once before in 1973. some christians believe the sloud was jesus' burial cloth and pope francis marked his first good friday as head of the roman catholic church and in

about hour and a half he will preside over holy saturday myself in st. peter's basilica. we're live there and will bring it in the next hour. screenings begin today for thousands of dental patients in this country, oklahoma, who may be facing a life-threatening health risk. the patients were urged to get tested for hiv and hepatitis after visiting this office in suburban tulsa. susan candiotti has more. >> reporter: not many people jump for joy when it is time to go to the dentist. colton scott now has more reasons than others to be nervous about his dentist. scott says he had his wisdom teeth removed last year by dr. harrington, and just found out he may have contracted an infectious disease during the extraction. his mom and two other relatives went there, too. >> it is the last thing in the world you think going into get your wisdom teeth taken out that you will be exposed to hiv or hepatitis. i mean, it is something that

never would have crossed my mind in a million years. >> his dentist, dr. scott harrington came under suspicion after a different patient was diagnosed with hiv and hepatitis c. investigators for oklahoma's board of dentistry traced the source to harrington's office. they said what they found was enough to turn their stomachs. >> we were just physically kind of sick. i mean, i have seen a lot of bad stuff over the years. >> inspectors came up with so much bad stuff they filed 17 violations which include allegations harrington was using expired drugs. one vial was dated 1993. also, even though he used morphine until 2012, none has been delivered since 2009. failing to test sterilizing equipment, supposed to be tested monthly and wasn't for six years. unlicensed dental assistants administering sedation, risking

contamination by reinserting needles into the same vial and using rusty instruments in a patient's mouth. >> the instrument that is came out were horrible. i wouldn't let me nephews play with them in the dirt. they were horrible. they had rust on them. >> the conditions so questionable patients need to be tested now and on saturday here at the tulsa health department free screenings will begin for hepatitis b, c, and hiv. >> as many persons who may be infected with these blood born viruses may be infected for years without experiencing any signs of illness. >> a scary possibility. dr. harrington has seen at least 7,000 patients since 2007. there are many more but records only go back that far. cnn has been unable to reach the doctor or his lawyer. he has not been charged with a crime but officials say he has surrendered his dental license.

fulton scott is nervous. >> we're concerned and apprehensive. >> the results of those screenings will take two to three weeks, a very nervous time for a lot of people who will be waiting to exhale. susan candiotti, cnn, tulsa, oklahoma. >> very frightening stuff. this might be a little unnerving to some. do you have any farm rich brand frozen meals and snacks in your freezer? if you do, listen up. it is being rled because of reported cases of e. coli. the cdc says 24 cases reported across 15 states involving almost 200,000 pounds of frozen food. most states impacted are in the south and midwest. new york mayor michael bloomberg is not backing down on his push to ban large sugary drinks. the legal department is appealing a judge's decision to block the ban calling it an important part of the mayor's health initiative. under the ban the board of health would limit the size of drinking cups for sugary beverages to 16 ounces at city

food establishments. and phil ramone, the man behind music legends like aretha franklin and bob dylan has died. shiz son says the 14 time grammy winning producer died this morning. he didn't reveal the cause. it was reported earlier this month that ramone was hospitalized for an aortic aneurysm. over his long career he clab righted with people like madonna, bono, and james and aretha franklin tweeted this, shocking. truly one of the great names in music has gone on but the melodies will remain. billy joel says i have lost a dear friend and my greatest mentor. the music world lost a giant today. phil ramone was 72 years old. and another legend in the music business, well, his name clive davis and his new book, the sound track of my life is all about how he became such an

incredible hit maker. i asked him about his life, his career, and how he got started in the industry. we'll have that interview for you in the 4:00 eastern hour with clive davis. also coming up, after years of hiding his sexuality a former nfl player now says he is gay. an emotional interview with the former san francisco 49ers quayne herrick only on cnn next.

a former nfl player is coming out of the closet and opening up about his sexuality for the first time. we're talking about kwaim harris, former offensive tackle for the san francisco 49ers recently outed in the media. the nfl is not necessarily known for its acceptance of gays, and not one player currently in the nfl is openly gay. covering the cnn exclusive is a former nfl linebacker and frequent guest on the show. coy, good to see you. >> good to see you, too. >> you played with quame back at stanford. he revealed to you in a personal way why now is the time to reveal while he was gay, not as an active player but as a former player. why? >> the thing about this is quame is such an impressive guy. he not only was one of the best

football players at stanford, he was playing masterpieces on the piano and violin and none of us knew for certain but we could have assumed as much but we didn't care. i went back to the college field and i learned about the fears and mental torment that kwame experienced. >> kwame harris was always a stand out football player from high school to stanford university to first round pick in the 2003 draft. he played six tones in the pros, five with the san francisco 49ers and one with the oakland raide raiders. >> i loved football. football provided me with experiences and opportunities i wouldn't trade for anything else. at the same time, the cost was great in asking me to not speak candidly or be able to be open about myself in this complete manner. >> harris is gay. he says he has always known this and concealed it until recently. >> i wasn't publicly out until

about, i don't know, the beginning of the super bowl when it was publicized. >> it was publicized after an alleged altercation with an ex-boyfriend outside of a restaurant. not long after current 49er chris culver made this comment on aarti lang's radio show. >> ain't got in gay people on the team. they have to get up out of here. >> he ultimately apologized but the sentiment is not unmontana. last season escabar was -- it explains why no player has ever come out while playing. >> did you ever consider coming out while you were a player? >> man, no. not while i was playing. i didn't see those two things as being compatible. when i look back in hindsight if i could have done it

differently, i would like to think that i would find the strength tore the fortitude or the grace to kind of make the hard decision. >> starting the last clostet, an organization to encourage the end of homophobia in male proceed sports. >> you have to look back to jackie robinson's days when he came into baseball, and he had trouble, but it was the management that really took care of him and made it okay. >> yaker points out for many players it is a non-issue. >> we'll support him and treat him like we treat everybody else, every other teammate with love and fairness and kindness and compassion because we know it will be a tough burden on that person. >> for harris the burden almost became too much to bear. >> you want to escape this did he entire, this turmoil, and maybe your mind goes to dark places sometimes. i would just say that i am happy today. i am glad that i didn't actually -- that those are just

ideas and i didn't act on any of these things, and it does get better. >> you haven't spoken about this to any media at all. why now? >> i want people, whether they are gay athletes or athletes still in the closet or youth who aren't quite sure what their sexuality is, to realize that not only is that not unique, that those feelings are common feelings, don't feel incredibly alone and having these questions and secondly, that i am gay and i am a former athlete, and i think i am a pretty normal guy. >> wow. very candid. very revealing conversation will with qwame harris and you. he revealed that he didn't ever considered coming out while he was playing and now he is kind of reflecting on it. is it kind of exhibiting almost like how instrumental and/or instructive it might have been had he come out while he was an active player? >> i think so. this process has been ka thart i can for him.

he said he wished that he were able to come out while he was playing, that he had the fortitude, the grace, the strength to be able to do that, and i think the thing he wanted to get across was that any gay athlete out there, even the youth, especially the youth, he wanted them to know, look, you're not alone. these feelings of pressure and strain and torment are completely normal and it does get better. >> now what for him? how does he i guess try to convey this message, how does he i guess assist or help a lot of young people or other athletes that may be grappling with the same thing he felt tormented by keeping it quiet? >> i think it is his purpose in this is to raise consciousness and awareness that like you said, they're to close the piece that he is a normal guy. this is not an issue that this should be treated the way it has been treated in the past. this is a matter of equality. much like marriage equality for interracial couples. it wasn't until 1967 that was completely acceptable and legal in every state in the u.s.

alone. this is another one of those instances of inequality that continues to exist in our country. >> has he said anything about what it feels like to hear the ravens current player really wrap his arms around him and say, you know, we need to be embracing everyone? >> those are the guys who are really empowering people like kwame and giving them the peace to be able to speak openly about this this ultimately will help the youth, right? that is what is important now to have the people embracing this gay community and saying that it is okay, that equality is necessary. >> coy, thanks so much for bringing that to us. really very touching. ted olson and boyd battling each other over the presidential election in 2000. today they're working together in the same sex marriage debate before the high court. we go in-depth with them in a special report marriage warriors tonight at 7:30 eastern time.

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a major catholic university is telling its students to stop handing out condoms. elizabeth cohen has the story from boston college. >> reporter: boston college, a deeply catholic institution, where crosses don't go well with condoms. >> male condoms, female condoms. >> reporter: lizzie has organized a condom distribution network on public street corners and in dorm rooms marked with this symbol. if you're in need of condoms, you may knock on one of these doors and just ask the group's website says.

>> we go through almost 2,000 condoms every semester for students that need them. it is very much an important need here. >> reporter: and that is getting these students in trouble. boston college sent this letter to the students demanding they stop distributing condoms here, isn't in concert with the mission of boston college as a catholic and jesuit university, and if you don't stop, they said, there could be disciplinary action. jack is a spokesman for boston college. you know the students are having sex. >> right. and have them available for doms their private lives, that's their business. our issue is don't try to publicly distribute condoms on our church steps, on our campus, through our dormitories. >> reporter: he says even he was approached while coming out of a church service. >> a person from this group attempted to hand me a condom, and it was inappropriate and i said really? do you really need to do that? >> reporter: he says the group

has never distributed on campus except in dorm rooms. this isn't the first high profile condom dispute on a catholic campus. in 2009 the boston globe reported stone hill college in massachusetts confiscated kond doms being handed out for free in opportunity dormitories. he hopes to sit down and work it out after easter break. but she isn't in a mood to talk. she says this is a health issue and stopping unwanted pregnancy and sexually transmitted diseases and even if they threat tone yank her diploma this spring, she won't stop. >> the work that we're doing is invaluable, and that will not compromise what we're doing in any way. >> reporter: elizabeth cohen, cnn, newton, massachusetts. and chris wright was playing professional basketball in turkey last year working toward achieving his lifelong dream of playing in the nba. then one day at practice something happened that changed his life but not as goal. dr. sanjay gupta has his story

in this week's human factor. >> with less than three minutes left in the game against the atlanta hawks, dallas mavericks point guard chris wright is in the game. playing in the nba has been his lifelong dream, but it almost didn't come true. >> my foot started to get numb, and progressively worse and the next morning i got up to shoot and early in the morning and probably like 7:00 in the morning, something like that and i got up and shot and while shooting my whole right leg went numb. right foot went numb. basically it all went all the way up to my back. >> last year wright was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, ms, a disease that damages the protective covering of nerve cells in the brain and spinal cord. it is a disease he had never heard of. >> i didn't know what it was. i just was being positive about it and once i found out i was still positive, okay, i have to do what i have to do to maintain

my life. >> doctors told wright he would never play basketball again. he responded well to treatment and less than three months after his diagnosis, wright was back on the court. he made history when he signed a ten-day contract with the dallas mavericks, becoming the first person with ms to play in the nba. while it may have only been a short stint, wright believes this won't not last time he will play in the nba. >> everything happens for a reason and everything you go through definitely is not a coincident and can happened during ms awareness week, so everything kind of fell into place. >> monthly treatments are keeping his ms from progressing and he is not shying away from his diagnosis. wright says he is proud to be the face of ms. >> don't be afraid to step out and do what you want to do. that's my message to everyone ahead. don't believe a crippling disease may wreck your life. there may be limitations but you can still live your life.

i wear that on my chest proudly. i am a part of the ms society, and that's what i am. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting. caring for our vets coming up, a new study says the government can't keep up with the veterans who need care. we're live from washington with details.

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the pentagon says north korea's latest threat amounts to nothing more than war mongering rhetoric. he compared the tous a boiled pumpkin saying it was vulnerable to attack. the comments were the latest in a string of increasingly belligerent threats. the u.s. navy is looking into what caused a deadly parachute accident involving navy seals. one seal is dead. he is identified as special warfare operator chief brett chadle. it happened during a training exercise at the command facility in arizona. they were doing a free fall routine before opening the parachutes and can a second seal is hospitalized with injuries. 35 educators in atlanta have

been indicted in one of the largest cheating scandals to hit the nation's public school system. they're accused of fabricating test scores for years and profiting from it. former superintendent beverly hal is among those indicted and in 2009 she won national superintendent of the year. hall faces up to 45 years in prison. a steel beam cross found in the degree from the world trade center will not be removed from the 9/11 museum in lower manhattan. a judge tossed out a lawsuit that tried to get it removed. it was filed by a group of atheists that says the cross is a religious symbol and does not honor the memory of the non-christian victims. the judge said the cross has historical significance. here is a look at what's trending online. ups has agreed to pay a $40 million fine to end a federal investigation into allegations that it did business with illegal online pharmacies. in exchange the u.s. department

agreed not to prosecute the country. nelson mandela is resting comfortably in the hospital this afternoon. a statement from the president's office says the soon to be 95-year-old was admitted this week because of pneumonia. doctors say the treatment is going well and he is able to breathe without any difficulty. pope francis washed and kissed the feet of 12 prisoners this week, all juvenile offenders and he broke with tradition and washed the feet of two women, one of whom is muslim. it was part of the holy thursday ritual ahead of easter. two former political powerhouses and a hollywood star made some news in the nation's capital this week. paul steinhauser has the stories you may have missed. >> fred, same sex marriage, gun control and immigration reform, dominated the headlines this week and that means some stories were overlooked. that's okay. i've got your back. >> i loved being at the

university of kentucky. >> ashleigh judd may have loved being a senator from kentucky as well, but that's a role the actress won't be playing any time soon. judd announced she won't launch a democratic channel to mitch mcconnell, the top republican in the chamber. >> the next election is 20 months away. the last thing we need is washington, d.c. vetting our candidates. >> sarah palin is back. just two weeks after her well received speech at a major conservative conference, her political action committee is out with a new video. >> time for we the people. >> the message appears to be the former alaska governor and republican vice presidential nominee will be a player in next year's mid-term election, back to the future for bob barr? >> i decided to jump back in the fray because we desperately need some experience and some leadership in washington. >> the former republican representative from georgia announced he is running to return to congress. back in the '90s, barr, a ring

leader in the impeachment of bill clinton was considered one of the most conservative men members of the house and he lost his seat and later made a bid as a libertarian and now he is back with the gop and hoping to return to capitol hill. >> thank you so much. from ptsd to pain, a new study says america's veterans aren't getting the care they need. the institute of medicine says backlogs and red tape are keeping the government from keeping up with the claims. athena jones has more from washington. >> the wars in iraq and afghanistan, ten years of fighting, a lifetime of pain for millions of veterans. >> at nighttime i have terrible nightmares. >> 32-year-old jeff mallard suffers from post traumatic stress disorder and back pain after a 13 month tour in iraq. he hasn't gotten a full night's rest in years. >> i have a lot of pain that will wake me up throughout the night a bunch of times.

>> he has a full time job working with homeless veterans and gets 50% disability benefits but needs more government help to get the intensive treatment he needs. >> there is programs but they're usually pretty intense, and they're offered during the daytime, and i work full time. >> veterans like millard are frustrated with the government system that wasn't ready for them. he has appealed for 100% disability but his appeal is stuck in a claims backlog of more than 600,000 cases. >> the fact is that they should have been ready for this. they should have known. they should have been putting in dollar for dollar into the va what they were putting into the war. >> a new study by the institute of medicine shows the federal government can't keep up with the needs of more than 2 million americans who served overseas since 9/11. >> these people have volunteered for the service. there is an inherent commitment of society to take care of them. if they have been unfortunately wounded in action, either

mentally or physically, and we're basically going to be taking care of some of these people until the day they die. >> the pentagon plans a careful look at the study's key findings and say they will work with the veterans administration to provide a response to congress by june. va officials say they have a plan to fix the backlog. >> our commitment is we're going to end the backlog in 2015. this has been decades in the making, ten years of war. >> 2015 is a long way away for millard. >> to me two years of waiting is two years without treatment. imagine you had a debilitating injury and had to wait two years for treatment. >> athena jones joining us live from washington. so apart from ending this claims backlog, is there anything else the va can do to help veterans like him? >> well, there is. particularly the veteran we spoke with, this is someone who works a full time job. he has to work a full time job to help support himself, and that means that he can't go to treatment during the day and for

folks like him and lots of other vets, if the va had treatment programs that were available, for instance, at night, sessions at night, or on the weekend, that could make it easier for these folks to both work and get the treatment they need, fred. >> is this an issue of supply and demand, you have a whole lot of people that have a lot of needs all at the same time? >> exactly. a lot of people. they spoke about 2 million people who have served overseas since 9/11. some of those people of course are still active duty and a lot of them, hundreds of thousands are veterans, and you have issues across the country in rural areas you have veterans who are far away from a va hospital or va center, and in urban areas you have folks who may have post traumatic stress disorder in a big city, hundreds or even thousands of veterans, and there are not enough therapists in the city to treat all of those people. it is a complicated problem, and it is a problem all over the country, fred. >> athena jones, thanks so much, in washington. around 800,000 government

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the heist. >> 1:24 in the morning in boston, the day after st. patrick's day in 1990. two dressed as police officers made their way in and tied up the guards on duty and took them down to the basement. during the next 81 minutes they committed one of the largest property thefts in history, taking 13 different artworks, now worth about half a billion dollars. >> imagine if you could never hear beethoven's fifth or any great piece of music that you enjoy and it is just dedicated to memory. that's the same when you lose a painting like the ones we lost, singular master works but some of the world's greatest artists. >> the thieves entered the first floor and went to the blue room and stole a monet painting and then to the second floor. in the dutch room they stole six paintings, some of them cut out of the frames. among them, three rembrandts

including the artist's only seascape, and a vermeer, there are only 34 ver meer paintings believe to exist and they crossed into the short gallery and took another six art pieces including five paintings. the 13 masterpieces have never been recovered, no arrests made. after combing through thousands of leads that have taken investigators around the world, the fbi announced it now knows who took the artwork. investigators say they're reasonably sure organized crime was involved. >> we have reason to believe it is likely the artwork has changed hands several times and those who might be in possession of the paintings right now might not necessarily have been those that were involved in the original theft. >> where are those 13 pieces of art now? the fbi says it does not believe the pieces ever left the country. they say about 12 years ago some of the masterpieces were seen in connecticut and philadelphia where someone tried to throw them. >> i don't know if all 13 pieces are still together.

we have received information we have been able to corroborate showing the paintings may have been in different locations at different times. >> the two men that committed the crime will likely never be charged because the statute of limitations was up after 20 years and prosecutors are open to the idea of immunity for anyone with information about the artwork. at the gallery empty frames hang on the wall. >> it is incredibly rare for a painting to be destroyed beyond a conservator's ability to repair it. >> one reason for the high level of confidence is they are offering a $5 million reward. the museum says it is one of the largest private rewards ever put up. they're someone may have seen these paintings in an attic, a basement, a home and they're asking if you have information, contact the fbi. lisa sylvester, cnn, washington. 23 years of those works have been missing, but you just heard the official say. they believe they are still in the u.s. i am joined now by a lawyer that specializes in the recovery of

stolen art. good to see you. how likely is it that these works of art will really be recovered? >> i think it is very likely that they will be recovered and i think they will be recovered soon. >> why? >> the fbi in my opinion is very close and they're getting closer. >> why do you suppose that is? what is it going to take. obviously they can't sell them. they came close to thinking they had a sale and didn't. what is it going to take in order for authorities to get their hands on these stolen pieces of art? >> that reward of $5 million has been out there for some time and i believe it has been increased from 1 or $2 million when the theft first occurred. what is needed is i think an intermediary, and i volunteered a few weeks ago to serve as an intermediary in case the people that have this artwork are a little reluctant to approach law

enforcement and maybe out of fear they might be a sting operation involved. but it has been approved by the fbi, and i am willing to do that. >> and so is this how you helped recovery a painting in 1987 where you acted as immediatary or is there another role you played. >> i have done this before. the matisse painting was offered to my organization just a few weeks during christmas, and we checked the marketplace to see if stolen art is being sold and someone tried to sell this matisse after 25 years. 25 years is not that unusual for stolen art of this magnitude to resurface. >> the other pieces of ort work we're talking about that was stolen previously, they're now searching for, have they lost their value since they were cut out of the frame? >> well, that is a major problem, but art can be restored, and there are

professionals out there that will restore these pieces to what they once were. i don't think that that's diminished their value at all. >> okay. all right. chris, thanks so much for your time and all the best in the on going search. let us know if you end up being a roped into this search since you are volunteering. let us know. >> i am still interested in ending boston harbor but i am interested in seeing them back at the museum. >> you and many people of course. thank you. good to see you. >> thank you. >> keeping yourself safe from germs jx and avoiding crazy charges at hotels. forget what you think you may know. we have dos and don'ts you will want to hear next. ♪ you know my heart burns for you... ♪ i'm up next, but now i'm singing the heartburn blues. hold on, prilosec isn't for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast.

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newsroom." here is a look at the top stories. thousands of dental patients in oklahoma are getting tested for hiv and hepatitis today. they were contacted after an investigation revealed unsanitary conditions in this suburban office and his rolodex included clients no one else would take, including saddam hussein and osama bin laden. problem is, this man is not really a lawyer. now he faces years in jail. spitting? physical attacks and threats? justin bieber's neighbor says that's what the pop star did. now serious trouble could be ahead for the biebs. back to our top story now. it could be weeks before thousands of dental patients in oklahoma are able to breathe easier. right now many are taking hiv and hepatitis tests after an investigation uncovered unsanitary tools used at this office. it was so bad health workers say it nearly made them sick. national correspondent susan

candiotti is following the story and joining us from tulsa. susan. >> hi, fred. a few hundred people so far have been tested on this day, and they only have a little left to go during the time they set up this screening. they have taken care of 180 people and they will take care of as many people who are remaining in line once they close the doors. this is about how many people they expected to come. where they're being tested is over my shoulder in the distance and they wanted us to stay far away to maintain the privacy of those people who are going through this screening. as you said, they are being tested for both hiv and hepatitis b and c. that after investigators said they found questionable, deplorable, and unsanitary conditions because of the alleged procedures and how they were being conducted at the dentist offices of dr. scott harrington. all of this came to light after a patient was discovered to be tested positive for hiv and

hepatitis c and later tests proved that patient tested negative for hiv, but because he was still positive for hepatitis, and because he had been a patient at that office, and because of the allegations that are currently being investigated, that is why they went back into the doctor's records and looked up the 7,000 or so patients that he had going back to just 2007 and said you better come in. we want to take a look at you. today we spoke with a teenager, 18 years old, and celebrating her birthday today when she got the news she had to be tested. her mother accompanied her as well, and we talked to them about what she is going through. >> hiv and hepatitis c and hepatitis b are really hard things to live with. i have been to a lot of like things about them and learned about them through the years and

some of my family is living with it and if i get sick, like i could be sick for a long time, and i just -- it freaks me out a little knowing that this could kill me. >> if all of this turns out to be the case, i mean, he certainly should lose his license for definite. i don't think he should be allowed to practice anymore. as far as criminal charges, i don't know what will happen with that. how do you say you're sorry to 7,000 people that you could possibly have infected? i don't think you can. >> at this stage dr. harrington has not been criminally charged. he does, however, face 17 complaints filed by the state board of dentistry here, and the local prosecutor is looking into the possibility of criminal charges. >> what about the staff or people that worked at that dentist office? are they facing charges, too,

potentially? >> it is possible because some of the complaints include the fact that according to authorities some of the dental assistants were the ones administering sedation to the patients and weren't licensed to do so and that's the problem. so this is part of the civil complaint right now, the state complaint against him, and they will figure out later whether they have enough evidence to charge dr. harrington and possibly those dental assistants criminally. >> susan candiotti, thanks so much from tulsa. a look at other stories we're following in latvia. we understand that rescuers have plucked more than 220 people off ice floats that broke away from a shore there. the bigger of the free floating ice sheets was just off the capital with 181 people stranded on it, and another with near a resort town and one person was treated for possible frostbite. good news for a former south african president nelson mandela. he is responding to treatment

for pneumonia and is breathing without difficulty. the 94-year-old was admitted to a hospital this week for recurring lung infection. the rhetoric is nothing new, but the threats coming out of north korea are getting worse by the day. earlier state tv younged that pyongyang was entering a state of war with its southern neighbor and strong words directed towards the u.s. as well. as jim clancy reports, no shots have been fired. >> harsh warnings of war, north korea declared on saturday that north and south were officially in a state of war. they never signed an official peace agreement at the end of the korean war back in the early 1950s, and so for the last 60 years they have in a sense been in a state of war, still this was a troubling announcement from the north as they continue to wrap up the rhetoric. in the meantime north korea rebroadcast images of the mass

rally held in pyongyang on friday and repeated threats it was ordering strategic forces on the highest state of alert. still, no shots have been fired. the situation here in seoul, south korea's capital, remain relatively calm. families walk the streets and enjoyed a day off. it wasn't like that on some of the islands that have been targeted in the past by the north korean guns. they remain more tense than ever. >> >> translator: ft north provokes again like in 2010 i think there will be full out war. i don't think they will be that reckless but they're so unpredictab unpredictable. >> as he continues to push the rhetoric higher and higher, many people are concerned that he is backing himself into a corner, having whipped up all of this nationalist sentiment in north korea. how will he be able to back down and still be able to stand up in

front of his own people in russia joins china on saturday in calling for all sides to dial things back a notch. a war in the korean peninsula, not a nuclear war, just a conventional war would still be devastating and unthinkable for those who live in the region. the u.s. and south korea meantime have condemned the be a rhetoric and call it war mongering. they continue to stage the joint military maneuvers. the problem is those maneuvers will continue on for one more month. until the end of april. they will involve some very large operations indeed. the hope is that a month from now it can remain where it is today, simply a war of words. jim clancy, cnn, seoul. >> he didn't have any legal qualifications, but an italian man known as the devil's advocate did have a reputation for representing high profile

criminals. now the bogus lawyer will spend the next 14 years behind bars. atika filed this report forever republican burnett out front. >> i sure apple. >> the seat is open. >> it has been awhile since i have done this. >> which one is the jump seat again? >> just like leonardo dicaprio's character in catch me if you can, he was a world class con artist but he has a rolodex that red like a who's who of the world's biggest veil villains, osama bin laden, saddam hussein, but he was fooling them all. he worked as an attorney taking on notorious and unwinnable cases. starting in 2005 he defended saddam hussein. >> why not bring charges? the whole world is now beginning to have its doubts. not only on the legality of the war but if the war was so legal, why not challenge this man? where are the charges? >> he also worked with the legal

team defending late sesh an president sloeb done milos virtual and bragged about his meeting with osama bin laden and meetings in which he would give legal advice. >> there is just one problem. he had no legal qualifications and he was not registered to work as an attorney either in italy where he was born or right here in britain where he grew up. >> a thoroughly dishonest individual who has been very cunning, very clever, and trying to be a devious individual. >> it is not just dictators that he was drawn to. he defended harold shipman, a british doctor that killed hundreds of his own patients. >> dr. shipman professed innocence from day one. he has never, ever accepted his guilt, not just a question of psychologically accepted. he never accepted that he murdered anybody. >> and patricia walsh smith, conned out of 5,000 pounds about

$7500, when stefano told her she could get a better divorce settlement. >> he knew that i was drowning. he pushed me right under. he said why don't you commit suicide and leave a note saying my life is in a comedy of errors and he said that four times. >> the judge called him a man of breath taking cynicism, but it is not just his victims left embarrassed by stefano. it is the entire legal system as well. for "outfront." >> phil ramone, the man behind music legends like aretha franklin and bob dylan has died. his son says the 14 time grammy winning producer died this morning. he didn't reveal the cause. it was reported earlier this month that ramone was hospitalized for an aortic aneurysm. over his long career ramone collaborated with people like madonna, paul mccartney, bono, and etta james and aretha

franklin tweeted this, shocking, truly one of the great names in music has gone on but the melodies will remain and billy joel says i have lost a prend and my greatest mentor. the music world lost a giant today. phil ramone was 72 years old. straight ahead, the infamous cases in the fbi's digital reading room. you can read any of them online and the most popular is out of this world. plus, the pope is minutes away from delivering his holy saturday vigil. we're live from roam. justin bieber's neighbor, he is making serious accusations against them. why they could land in court. it's not what you think. it's a phoenix with 4 wheels. it's a hawk with night vision goggles. it's marching to the beat of a different drum. and where beauty meets brains. it's big ideas

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convicted serial rapist gary irving is in custody. he fled 35 years ago after a judge offered him a weekend to freedom before he was to report to jail. at the time he was 18 years old and never showed up at the lockup. the law finally caught up with him wednesday in maine. irving has a court hearing now on monday. a small down in georgia could make it mandatory for each household to have a gun. the council is expected to hold a final vote on the proposal monday. victor blackwell has more on what that could mean.

>> this is a town that normal rockwell would want to paint a picture of. >> nelson, georgia, 50 miles north of atlanta. it is a snapshot of small town americana, grazing cows, small white churches, and a very small police department. >> you're the chief of police here. >> yes. >> but it is really just you and the department? >> right now it is just me. >> the chief has not worked a single major crime in his three years on the job. >> it is just your normal minor thefts, burglaries. >> no gun crimes but soon owning a gun in this town of 1,400 may become not just a right but a requirement. every head of household in nelson would have to own a gun and ammunition. >> it is a deterrent kind of law. >> every member of the nelson city council supports the family protection ordinance as it is known. edith believes it will scare off would-be criminals if it becomes law april 1st. >> it is like when you have

security, the adt in front of your home. we're protected by an alarm or whatever. which the majority of places don't have it. >> nelson would not not first town in america to pass a mandatory gun ownership law. it wouldn't even not first town in georgia. the nelson ordinance is a direct copy of a law passed here in kennesaw, georgia, in 1982. there is no way to accurately merits effect on public safety although historically crime rates here have been low. nelson also copies kennesaw's exemptions for felons, the mentally ill and people that object to owning a gun for personal or any other belief. nelson says they will not enforce the new law. so what's the point? >> georgia ans don't fool around with their guns, and don't have big government tell them what to do and whatnot to do. >> the proposed law is part of a campaign led by the local chapter of the tea party patriots to protect second

amendment rights. >> we to want take this county wide and statewide to other counties and to other states. >> lamar has lived in nelson for nearly 20 years. he calls it a sham. >> this is not about the second amendment. they keep trying to make it be second amendment issue. it is not. >> what is it about? >> publicity. >> we're selling probably 10, 15 guns a day. >> some people in nelson buy their guns at appalachian gun and pawn and profits sky rocketed recently and he thanks one man. >> i honestly believe the commander in chief has raised the prices. he is trying to enforce the gun ban and everybody is worried about losing their guns, so now they're buying more and more and more. >> do you think your federal government is coming for your guns? >> i really do not. i could own a gun without this ordinance and i could protect my home without this ordinance. so why have an ordinance that is not worth anything?

>> a small southern town, now at the center of a gun fight. >> will it be safer? i think it will give them a little, you know, hey, look what we have done in our little town and we could keep our guns. >> and that was victor blackwell reporting. john dillinger, al capone, the fbi files are there for you to see. would you believe none of those are the one that is people want to read? wait until you see what is number one. ♪ you know my heart burns for you... ♪ i'm up next, but now i'm singing the heartburn blues. hold on, prilosec isn't for fast relief. cue up alka-seltzer. it stops heartburn fast. ♪ oh what a relief it is! ♪ 'cause germs don't stick on me ♪ [ female announcer ] band-aid brand has quiltvent technology with air channels to let boo boos breathe. [ giggles ] [ female announcer ] quiltvent technology,

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washington state police are beefing up security in a neighborhood cut off by a landslide in puget sound. the area around the slide on whidbey island is being restricted throughout the weekend. the homes are still vacant and only local residents and certain officials will have access. on wednesday the massive landslide literally wiped out a hill side. two homes were destroyed and dozens more evacuated. the fbi is opening up details on some of the its most infamous cases, but some fbi agents aren't too happy about what the public is interested in reading. they say instead of being excited over fugitives, people are psyched about a ufo. here is brian todd. >> it is called the vault, the fbi's digital reading room,

where any of us can go online and view the bureau's most notorious cases. guess which is the most popular file? john dillingers, jimmy hoffa's? nope. >> since we opened the vault it is this memo about flying disks or flying saucers and relates to an allegation that we heard from a third hand saying that the air force had found a couple of saucers in the new mexico desert. >> no, no, can't be. i mean, most people want to read about machine gun kelly and al capone, right? >> you would think so. this memo itself has gotten over a million page views in two years since we put it up. al capone, doesn't make our top 50. >> the memo is all of two paragraphs. agent guy, head of the fbi's washington field office writes that an air force investigator stated that three so-called flying saucers had been recovered in new mexico. they were described as being circular in shape with raised centers, approximately 50 feet in diameter.

not only that, each one was occupied by three bodies of human shape but only three feet tall dressed in metallic cloth of a fine texture. each body was bandaged in a manner similar to the blackout suits used by speed flyers and test pilots. john fox is the historian. >> this was never followed up on, right? >> no. in fact, it says right here no further evaluation was attempted concerning the above. >> why not. >> from what's written, what we can read, it looks like they thought this was third hand information, that this was not necessarily a hoax which it could well have been but that someone was simply reporting the sighting. >> it was more for the air force to look into along with countless other reports of ufos in roswell and elsewhere, reports that were never substantiated. one reason the memo went viral is because when the fbi vault of the set up online two years ago tabloids seized on that memo saying it appeared to back up theory that is aliens exist.

and it is not just this memo that's a favorite. there are hundreds of pages of memos and files in the fbi vault. in the unexplained phenomenon seconds all about alien and ufo sightings that are more popular online than the fbi's files on bonnie and clyde, serial killer ted bundy and other famous cases. >> casing involving osama bin laden, investigations into the murders of civil rights leaders, all part of fbi lore. fox says out of all the strange cases he has come across -- >> the descriptions here of 50-foot diameter saucers and human shaped three-foot tall metallic clothed aliens, that is unique. >> and we can say a little frustrating for fbi officials who tell us it diverts attention from all the work they have done, all the dangers they faced through the years to capture fugitives and solve the nation's most difficult crimes. brian todd, cnn, washington. camden, new jersey, one of the poorest and most violent cities in the u.s. the graduation rate is also so

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catholics around the world are paying close attention to pope francis as he prepares to mark his first easter as head of the church. the pope is set to begin his hoelt saturday vigil right now. jim bittermann is joining us live from rome. i imagine there are many, many people, thousands of people who are there ready for this service, right, jim? >> reporter: exactly, fredricka. in fact, this is going to be probably i would say probably

the high point and most solemn moment leading up to tomorrow morning, easter, which is more of a celebratory kind of mass. this mass this evening is something that the pope wanted to do to commemorate the waiting that went on before easter began, before the resurrection of christ, and according to the catholic traditions, and we see him there beginning this service. we expect it to go about two hours or so although it is shortened considerably by the fact that the pope has taken up some of the bible readings and as well we expect that his message will be somewhat shorter, this is somewhat less than the three hours of mass we have seen here in the past on this saturday, this holy saturday. >> so here we go again, another example of how pope francis is making it his own and improvising and changing the script so to speak. are they embracing this, the fact they have a new pope and

this is the way he is going to do it and everyone must go along with it. >> reporter: well, i think they are going along with it and one of the things that has some people on the edge of the vatican is what will happen after easter mainly because there is an expectation here that the new pope will make some changes, some personnel changes at the very top, perhaps replacing the secretary of state and some of the other top vatican ministries as they are formulated. the pope may be making personnel changes that could change the way the vatican operates and i think the expectations that he will do that probably are short, not so long after easter. >> so, jim, talk about the easter service or easter mass, what it is expected to be. i would imagine record-breaking as mass on easter sunday would go because of the new pope. what kind of preparations are being made near vatican city for the onslaught of people, the crowds?

>> reporter: i expect there is going to be hundreds of hows out there tomorrow because for one thing the city is loaded with tourists. this is a time when a lot of people come into rome just naturally italians and people from all over the world come to rome and you can sense today when i was walking around the streets, there is a lot of people out there, and so the preparations are in hand. there will be big screen monitors for people to watch on television and making plans to close off the streets around the vatican if the crowds do get too large, and of course it will be televised worldwide as being one of the things, again, that the mark of this new pope is we don't expect it to go as long, these simplified mass structure somewhat, so it is probably not going to go as long and in fact most of the masses that we have seen since he has been elected pope have been much shorter than the normal papal masses. it is a mark, i think, as he is

trying to sort of popular eyes the church, perhaps recognition in the fact long certificate not always better when it comes to mass length. >> all right, jim, thank you so much from rome. we'll of course see you on easter sunday. checking the top stories right now, millions of people across italy will get to see a very famous religious relic today on television. we're talking about the shroud of turin. some people believe it is jesus' burial cloth and now it can be seen from the palm of your hand, a new app called 2.0 shows the high definition images. a steel beam cross found in the debris from the world trade center will not be removed from the 9/11 museum in lower manhattan. a judge tossed out a lawsuit that tried to get it removed. it was filed by a group of atheists that said it is a religious symbol and the judge said the cross has historical

significance. 35 educators in atlanta have been indicted in one of the largest cheating scandals to hit the public school system. they're accused of fabricating test scores for years and profiting from it. >> the fulton county grand jury returned an indictment, one indictment, that contains 65 counts against 35 defendants. >> i believe over the last 21 months that we have made some very good progress, but healing is obviously difficult when you consider the gravity of these indictments. >> former superintendent beverly hall is one of those indicted. she faces up to 45 years in prison if convicted. here is a look at what's trending on cnn.com. the pentagon says north korea's latest threat amounts to nothing more than war mongering rhetoric. earlier today north korea media announced that pyongyang was entering a state of war with its

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the debate over same sex marriage may have prompted 2.7 million people to change their profile photos this week. facebook says it had a 120% bump in new profile pictures compared to last week. supporters of same sex marriage, especially in the dark red areas shown here on the map were putting up the human rights campaign's red equal sign or a variation of it. wearable gadgets are becoming the next big wave in technology. we may soon be switching from smartphones to smart watches,

necklaces or jackets. lori segal takes a look at the blurring of the lines between fashion and technology. >> google glasses, cameras that clip on your shirt, head bands that monitor your brain wave. >> this is my brain on ipod. >> what's in position? technology. >> i think what's happened is that sensors and computing power and connectivity has gotten to a point it is cheap enough and small enough you can put it in lots of different things. >> for example, his company jaw bone makes a bracelet they all the app and syncs to an app to track your health from how well are you sleeping to how active you are. other devices like it are part of what's known as the quantified self movement, using tech aattached to your body to tell what's going on inside of it. >> we don't know that much about why did we sleep a certain way or feel a certain way or how much do we move and how it all relates to each other. >> another wearable item, a brain wave tracking headband and syncs games and tests how well

are you focusing and how well relaxed you are. >> when you are able to sense your brain activity you can do things to improve t you can do exercises to improve cognitive functioning. >> it is a very different use for this kiep of technology. >> you can play games and control appliances in the environment using only our moo i understand. >> it tracks your life without tracking your health like the mini camera. >> we'll be walking aren't with smartphone connected clothing. >> it is true. with the smart phones are like a cyber device and adding extra devices to your true self, it is like a cyber way of life. >> the camera feels a bit james bond, but the company points out it is not exactly hidden. if you want to find someone they say there are better tools. one entrepreneur is putting it inside your clothing. >> what we thought to do is embed it in the items you may lose or left behind really

important items. you walk away and this is your proximity meter and it will flash green if you're close and it will go into yellow and orange and red and then eventually beep if you have walk tood far away. >> still, most of these have yet to become household names. google graphs which would put smartphone capabilities in the line of vision aren't on the market yet. analysts say it is the product that would make wearable tech universal. >> the number one thing that would move them to mainstream is backing of a major consumer platform, namely apple and google. if either of those companies execute well, they could define the market around their product. >> all right. lori seeing he will joining me now. are you with or without wearable technology right now? >> right now i am without. i bet i would be a little healthier if i had something tracking how much i am moving and that kind of thing. >> so google, you know, has the high tech glasses, the google

glass and apple is planning on some sort of wearable gadgets in what form? >> yeah. you know, you have apple. we have the rumors and we have speculation apple could come out with the i watch, so do we know this is happening? not 100%. apple did file a patent a couple years ago talking about this technology and there are rumors google may do the watch and you already have it on the market and i think when it will hit mainstream is when you have someone like google or apple putting these out there and when they're fashionable enough you want to wear it. >> something tells me everybody will want a little piece of the action, wear something interesting and techie. thanks so much. for more high tech ideas and reviews go to cnn.com/tech. every saturday at this time we bring you information on new technology and how it impacts your life. spring break, well, it is here across many states, so that

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it is such a great expansive roadway and so beautiful there. i love the idea of starting in miami and heading all the way down to the keys, a great place to stay is chico lodge. one thing they do is you catch a fish and the chef will prepare it for you. it is a great way to take kids out and teach them about sustainability which is very, very important, and also if you want to teach them a little about literary history you can go to ernest hemingway's house and check out all of the cats they have there. >> that's a lot of fun. then why not go to a national park, especially in utah. there is so much to offer there. >> the utah wilderness is some of the most majestic in this country. i think a great way to go is to do basically a national park tour there. start in salt lake city, go to moab, and then to arches and then finish up in zion. a great home base for that is the lodge at red river ranch. what i love about this property,

there is only 15 rooms there. it is really authentically rustic. this feels like you really are in the wild west. there are navajo carpets. there are beautiful bison heads that definitely have not been hunted recently thankfully and you get access to the incredible majesty right outside your room door and beautiful patios as well. >> and maybe you want to go further west to a national park, why not the olympic national park, you say? >> washington state is stunning. there is no question that that is some of the most beautiful landscape anywhere in this country. olympic national park, you can go from seattle, go to bainbridge island, and then go to olympic national park. i love the lake crescent lodge as a great home base for that trip because it gives you access to all of the incredible hiking you want to do, the visits, the rain forest, paddling around in the pool, watching young salmon as they swim upstream.

this is really one of those experiences you get soaked into nature in the best way possible and at the end of a long day, you sit right on your balcony and back at the hotel and soak in the beautiful sunset. >> gorgeous. all right. the family will be very happy. all of these destinations. >> indeed. >> all right. thanks so much. always good to see you. >> thank you, fredricka. see you next time. >> all right. it is justin bieber versus his neighbor. up next, find out about the allegations that could land the pop star in court. got this citi thankyou card and started earning loads of points. we'll leave that there. you got a weather balloon, with points? yes i did. [ man ] points i could use for just about anything. go. ♪ keep on going in this direction. take this bridge over here. there it is! [ man ] so i used mine to get a whole new perspective. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] earn points with the citi thankyou card and redeem them for just about anything. visit citi.com/thankyoucards to apply.

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a rare collection of letters will be up for auction in late may. an anonymous donor is selling 250 letters including an angry note from john lennon to paul mccartney after the beatles broke up. the letter generating the biggest interest is from marilyn monroe who penned a note to her moan tor before her suicide. writing this, i am still lost. i mean i can't get myself together. i sound crazy, but i think i'm going crazy. the items will be exhibited april 8 through 16 at the douglas eleman gallery in new york city. all right, justin bieber could be in serious trouble with his neighbors. one of the neighbors is accusing the pop star of spitting on him and making threats. that's not the only problem for

the biebs. here's nichelle turner. >> this seems to be boiling down to a he said/he said that could end up in court. first overseas. >> what did you say? >> now at home. >> 9:08 this morning we got a call. >> reporter: justin bieber's bad boy image is going strong. he's now under investigation by the lapd. >> had to do with allegations of a battery and threats made by mr. bieber on one of his neighbors. >> reporter: according to media reports bieber was racing his ferrari around his posh community when a neighbor confronted him. that's when the neighbor claims things turned nasty and a justin spit on him. >> battery by definition is unwanted touching. it could be anything. it could be a pat on the shoulder. somebody could spit on somebody. >> reporter: police say bieber's camp denies the claims and a source within the security team says, quote, there was no

physical contact. the neighbor went onto justin's property. they exchanged words. the neighbor has has issues before. while the case remains open, the incident is just the latest on a growing list of questionable headlines surrounding the 1-year-old star. >> there's been a lot of bizarre things. >> yeah. >> that have been going on. the gas mask, the fight with the paparazzi, the throwing up on stage, running into a glass wall. >> the press, scrutiny, pressure. i think it has a lot to do with his behavior. you can't open a magazine, look around. it's all bieber all the time. >> at times justin bieber is half naked. beyond his tattooed torso millions of bieber fans have been getting a closer look at what appears to be a growing temper, including this altercation with a london photographer. >> what did you say? >> reporter: making matters worse for the star a former body guard is suing him claiming the singer assaulted him.

charges the bieber camp denies ♪ baby, baby, baby ♪ >> reporter: as for the woman who raised him, she offered this to a.j. hammer about her son. >> it's crazy. some of the headlines, you know, that i see them sometimes at the same time as everyone else. it's a tough call. it's tough not having privacy. it's also a great platform to be able to use it to do so much good. >> reporter: and millions, including mom, wait to see if the good justin bieber returns to the scene. >> justin is speaking out. in an interview done with us weekly he talks about recent missteps saying wearing the gas mask was a joke between him and friends and that he was getting over the flu when he got sick on stage. he says it was his dedication that led him to stay on stage that night and finish the concert for his fans. fred? >> all right. thanks so much, any which he

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hello, everyone. a look at the top stories right now. we begin in north korea where the country is declaring a state of war on the south. the fiery rhetoric coming from the north, korea's young leader has been picking up speed in recent weeks. it's not just seoul in the crosshairs. pyongyang is targeting u.s. cities including austin, texas. chris lawrence reports. >> reporter: there is a lot of folks in texas now wondering how

in the world did we get on north korea's bull's eye list. u.s. officials aren't that worried about folks in austin now. they are very concerned about the north's latest moves. look past the picture of kim jong un putting north korean rockets on standby. there is a chart marked u.s. mainland strike plan with missile trails at hawaii, california, d.c. and, for some reason, austin, texas. it's wishful thinking on pyongyang's part. they can't reach the u.s. yet. but tens of thousands of oh american troops are well within range of a more limited strike, something short of an all-out attack. >> i think it's more in the sense of north korea kind of getting right up to the edge, stumbling and falling over the edge. >> reporter: former ambassador chris hill says the real danger is the north shelling a border island like it did in 2010.

hill says there is a wild card here that worries the u.s. young, inexperienced kim jong un's desire to prove himself as a leader. >> i think north koreans have their daughtoubts about whether kid is up to it. >> reporter: so far the rhetoric has not been matched by military moves. but it has no foreseeable end game and could go on for a while. north korea's protested on the streets one day after the u.s. flew long range stealth bombers on a training run, coming within 50 miles of north korea's border. some say although the flights may reassure south korea of u.s. protection it could lead to unintended consequences. >> china viewing this as alarming escalation. the second is that the north koreans almost received validation in terms of their missile development program. >> reporter: senior defense officials say there was intense

debate over whether to send the b-2 bombers all the way to the white house and senior levels of the national security council. he says the full range of options was considered with some urging the u.s. to do more than just fly the bombers and others saying the u.s. should hang back, hold back, and do less. fred? >> all right, chris lawrence. thank you. a second pay apology from don young. the vet rab lawmaker used a slur to refer to immigrant workers. at first he said he didn't mean it in a degrading way. then republican leaders like house speaker john boehner slammed young and demanded a full apology. good news for former south african president nelson mandela. he's responding to treatment for pneumonia and is breathing without difficulty. the 94-year-old was admitted to hospital this week for refurring lung infection. rescuers plucked 220 people

off ice floes in latvia. the bigger of the free floating ice sheets was the capital with 180 people on it. one person was treated for frostbite. >> reporter: screenings under way now for thousands of dental patients in this country and oklahoma who may be facing a life threatening health risk. patients were urged to best theed for hiv and hepatitis after visiting this office in suburban tulsa. susan candiotti joins us live now. what kind of turnout has there been of the testing? >> reporter: well, about 200 people so far -- we'll get final numbers later. the state is asking about 7,000 patients to be tested after oklahoma dental inspectors found alleged evidence of deplorable conditions -- that's what they call them -- at dental offices of dr. scott harrington. they are calling him a menace to

public health. now some of the allegations include using expired drugs, using rusty dental equipment inside patients' mouths. this is an oral surgeon. also allowing dental assistants to administer sedation using ivs. that, authorities say, is simply never allowed. all of this started after inspectors discovered that a former patient tested positive for both hiv and hepatitis c. a subsequent test proved he was negative for hiv. however, authorities are very concerned of possible cross contamination because a lot of the patients there do suffer from some infectious diseases. so a lot of patients when they learned of this, very angry and worried that they have to come in for screenings. they're scared, too. including an 18-year-old we spoke with as well as her mother. this young lady had her wisdom teeth extracted almost two years

ago. >> hiv and hepatitis c are hard things to live with. i have been to a lot of, like, school things about them. i have learned about them through the years. you know, some of my family is living with it. if i get sick i could be sick for a long time, you know. it just freaks me out a little knowing this could kill me. >> do you think he should be charged? >> if this turns out to be the case he should certainly lose his license for definite. i don't think he should be allowed to practice anymore. you know, as far as criminal charges, you know, i don't know what will happen with that. but, you know, how do you say you're sorry to 7,000 people that you could possibly have infected? >> reporter: authorities say they do not suspect there is a major outbreak here. but they are concerned enough that they want to have everyone

screened anyway and trying to alert -- rather avoid anyone feeling a sense of panic. at this time the doctor doesn't face any criminal charges. however, the state is putting together evidence that the district attorney is aware of and he could decide to press criminal charges at a later date if there is evidence of that. so far we have been unable to reach the dentist or his lawyer. the screenings will continue next week. >> okay. thanks so much in tulsa. a major court victory for oscar pistorius, the south african runner accused of murdering his model girlfriend. dan rivers has the story. >> reporter: there is continuing fascination about the story. on thursday of this week e he won the right to travel abroad. it opens up the tantalizing prospect of him competing possibly in august in moscow.

there will be a media circus around him if that's the case. he hasn't spoken publically since he was arrested for the shooting of his girlfriend. there were reports in the paper of him running out of cash, beg extremely depressed, crying and reading the bible a lot. his family obviously concerneded and want him to get back into training. that will be difficult to concentrate on given that his trial is set to start on june 4th for the shooting of his girlfriend reeva steenkamp. >> thanks so much, dan rivers. rising to the ranks of bruce springsteen requires skill and hard work. it helps to have a strong name like clive davis behind you. get the inside scoop about what it takes to find a talent like "the boss." ♪ i'm your venus [ female announcer ] what does beauty feel like?

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phil ramon, the man behind

legends like aretha franklin and bob dylan has died. the grammy winning producer died this morning. it was reported earlier this month that he was hospitalized for an aortic aneurysm. over his career he collaborated with people like madonna, paul mccart think, bono and etta james. aretha franklin tweeted, this is so shocking. truly one of the great names in music has gone on, but the melodies will remain. billy joel says, i have lost a dear friend and my greatest mentor. the music world lost a giant today. ramone was 72. >> janis joplin, whitney houston and bruce springsteen are all successful musicians with one thing in common -- the man who supported h them along the way. clive davis is the chief creative officer for sony music entertainment and just released his autobiography.

i got to talk with him about his career which started, interestingly enough, as a lawyer. >> the fates were good, luck went my way and the firm i worked for represented columbia records. i became their general counsel for five years and then overnight i was made head of the company. so i was thrust into it. never knowing that i had a natural ear and gift for music or that it would become the passion of my life. >> this natural sere for music and this knack for discovering talent or recognizing talent, what do you suppose that quality is? what do you look for when you tap into those kind of, you know, keen interests that you have? >> well, my first signing really -- you know you hear about it. i saw janis joplin and big brother and the holding company

at the monterrey pop festival. it changed my life. if the word epiphany has meaning that's what happened. i knew i had to step forward and make my first creative musical signing move. so that's what i did. i signed big brother. she was so charismatic. she was a white soul sister that i had never seen. i don't think anybody had ever seen the likes of before. i trusted my ears after that as we launched janis and i signed blood, sweat & tears, san that ta, bruce springsteen. after a while you know you're looking for the headliner, someone who can take an audience out of its seats. if it's a singer/songwriter like springsteen who has become, with bob dylan, the musical poet

laureates of america, you're looking for the incredible lyrics -- intense, depth, imagery -- to distinguish them. so it's a combination and it depends on the artist that you are really appraising. >> it was one thing, a very big thing to have the knack to identify that musician, that artist, that it thing. it's another for the artist who entrusts their career in you. what was it that you either promised or what could you exude to those artists that they said, sign me up. i want the to be with you, clive davis. >> well, it was the first one that you have to cross that bridge. i had a connection with joplin whether it was trust, integrity. we had an instant connection. you start building the track

record. when you find that each of the artists santana and spring -- when they start becoming successful, you start building your track record, your expertise. i do want to emphasize i take none of this ever for granted to this day. so i keep my ear fresh. i'm afraid of going over the hill. so i make sure peers of mine did go over the hill. i make sure currently i listen to every new record as it hit it is charts so that it takes vigilance. >> well, all that success comes with tragedy. clive davis was very close to whitney houston. he still has a strong reaction when he hears her music. >> you know, it rips your heart out is what it does. >> clive davis tells me what

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before the break we showed you part of my interview with music recording legend clive davis. he worked with janis joplin, bob dylan, aretha franklin. one of the most famous voices he launched to stardom is whitney houston. he told me about their relationship. >> regarding whitney, i was there when her career began. i discovered her when she was 19. we embarked on this odyssey breaking every record in the record books. seven number ones. 22 million with her first album. she was a workhorse. she went all over the world. you know, every country.

"the bodyguard" is still the bestselling sound track. when you realize the magnitude of her talent and i know her as a person p. it was sad and tragic that she couldn't deal with the lethal issue of drugs. so it's too recent, you know, to really -- i did the best. i have an extended chapter in the book about, a, our relationship. b, the sides of her the public did not know. and then, you know, the few days right before she died, she was full of life, looking forward to. so, yes, it's painful. we were more than just an artist that i signed in my administration. we were creative partners. i worked with her to find every song she ever really recorded that's become a standard today. >> i didn't know her. hearing the song gives me chills. i wonder if for someone, such as yourself, to know her so well,

so intimately, to really be so ingrained in her life oh, what hearing her music, looking at the pictures does to you. >> you know, it rips your heart out is what it does. she was full of life. contrary to the tabloidal reports, i mean, she loved music. it permeated her soul. when she and i were together it was 48 hours before she passed away. she was playing me the music from her new movie "sparkle." i was working with jennifer hudson. i was playing other songs. i was finding for jennifer. so whether in the industry all of us, babyface, alicia keys, that's that wrote, produced, arranged for that beautiful voice, we knew there was no one like her. it's very, very painful. that this tragic talent so

prematurely came to an early demise really. >> your book is beautiful because of the words you speak. as soon as you open the book, the jacket -- there is a photograph. it's remarkable. i wonder the story behind the photo when you look at the talents of loish keys, you, rod stewart, carrie underwood, pink. there's whitney, front and center. >> every year i throw a party the night before the grammys. we all celebrate music. it's the sought after party each year. a picture was taken from people magazine every year. that year alicia and whitney and leona lewis, carrie, rod stewart, they gathered and we took this picture. >> it's beautiful. clive davis, thank you so much for sharing your story, your

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a look at our top stories. it could be weeks before thousands of dental patients in oklahoma are able to breathe easi easier. many p many are taking hiv and hepatitis tests after an investigation uncovered unsanitary tools at this dental office. one health worker said it nearly

made her sick. the dentist, scott harrington, surrendered his license this month. the pentagon says north korea's latest threat amounts to nothing more than war mongering rhetoric. today north korean media announced pyongyang was entering a state of war with its southern neighbor. it compared the u.s. to a ripe pumpkin saying it was vulnerable for attack. gordon chang had this to say. >> we had an agreement between washington and seoul that the united states would participate in retaliation against low level provocations. that really brings us in. we have a defense treaty with south korea that obligates us to protect south korean territory. we'll retaliate in the north koreans do something horrible which many people think they will. so this is a dangerous situation now. it's not going to get better.

>> today's comments were the latest in a string of increasingly belligerent threats from pyongyang. 17 t.s.a. workers facing termination for not following screening procedures will be suspended instead. the agency says many workers didn't violate the rules intentionally. the tsa sought to punish 44 workers. four were with fired. here is a look at what's trending online. a former south african president, nelson mandela, is resting comfortably in the hospital this afternoon. the 94-year-old was admitted this week suffering from pneumonia. doctors say the treatment is going well. and "american idol" seems to be falling in the ratings this season. the singing competition had just over 7 million viewers on thursday. that's the lowest number in the show's 12-year history according to entertainment reports. nearly 3 million facebook users are showing support for same-sex marriage by changing their profile