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a french robber has busted his way out of prison today in true gangster style. we'll tell you how he may his daring getaway. u.s. secretary of state john kerry visits japan. another high-level meeting ends with calls for north korea to stand down. but will the messages from the u.s., south korea, china and japan make any difference to the north? and justin bieber is catching a lot of flack for something he did while visiting the ann frank house in amsterdam. he wrote in the guest book, "ann was a great girl. hopefully she would have been a belieber." frank died in a nazi concentration camp in 1945. it is shaping up to be an important week of immigration reform starting with a proposal in the senate that's getting some traction. there are some pretty heavy hitters behind this proposal. what are the nuts and bolts of it all? hi, fred. >> reporter: i think you are talking about republican senator marco rubio. he's been the gop's point person in all of this.
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what was interesting about his appearance on seven talk shows this morning, he spelled out some details of things we hadn't heard. he talked about three policy triggers, things that would have to happen before the people who are here illegally would be able to get legal status. among them a universal e-verify system that would aploy employers to check the citizenship status of workers they want to hire. another is a tracking system to make sure that immigrants who come into the country legally don't end up overstaying their visas. that's one of the big problems. and lastly, there would be what he called real border security which would include fencing. the idea here is that it is not going to be easy for the undocumented to become legal. they'll have to pass a background check an also pay a fine. let's listen to what senator rubio had to say about this to our own candy crowley on "state of the union." >> you're going to have to be in the system at least ten years, plus db plus all theens forcement things happen before we give you access to apply for a legal immigration system.
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we're not rewarding anybody anything. we're just giving people the opportunity to eventually earn access to our new, improved, modernized legal immigration system. >> senator john mccain who's another republican in the gang of eight, this group of senators who have been working on this, he said he is guardedly optimistic about the prospects for this bill but another fellow republican, senator jeff sessions of alabama, was doubtful about it. listen to what he had to say. >> i just want to say, this bill as we understand it on immigration will inkreets legal flow of low-skill, low-wage workers and it will adversely impact workers. i think it is beat on republicans, democrats, everyone among us ask what is going to happen to working americans whose wages have been falling since 2000. who are unemployed at a very high rate. >> and so senator sessions was just talking about some of the concerns on his side of the debate. it just shows that this bill could face a tough road ahead.
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i should mention on that trigger issue, president obama has indicated that he wouldn't be in support of something that would require border security before the path to citizenship can begin. the white house now says that they're waiting to see what comes out of this bill when it is formally presented sglp one other detail cnn was able to confirm late last week, that any undocumented immigrant who entered the country after december 31st, 2011 wouldn't be eligible for citizenship under terms of the immigration deal that's set to be unveiled this week, tuesday, by that gang of eight? >> reporter: that's right. that's one of the issues. the hope is to get much support, as many people on-board to this bill, to make it something that will really go through. so that was an attempt to gain some support, this idea that if you come here after december 31st, 2011 you can't follow this path to citizenship program. now to florida where a port
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canaveral police sergeant has been fired for owning shooting targets that are meant to resemble slain teenager trayvon martin. sergeant ron king brought the tarts to a gun range earlier this month and then offered them to the other officers but he says the tarts were meant as a no-shoot training aid. and now a daring escape from a french prison and a manhunt spanning 26 countries now. it happened in a style you probably thought only existed in the movies. fred pleitken has details. >> reporter: the french government is calling the prison break an act of war, involving explosives to blast through the heavy doors with four guards briefly taken hostage. all the work of this man, a well-known criminal mastermind. a witness to the escape described the scene. >> translator: i first saw a prison guard walk by, followed by someone dressed in civilian clothes who was holding a gun to the guard's head. so i got a little scared and i
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hid in the room. >> reporter: it is not clear how he managed to get explosives. france's justice minister rushed to the prison and says a jurp-wide manhunt is now under way. >> translator: there are no victims, thankfully. we came close to a tragedy so i perfectly understand that the prison staff representatives voiced their worry, their anger, their fury. now we start working together. that's what we have done for more than an hour and a half to examine problems, to hear their proposals and then see what can be done in the present situation when, unfortunately, we don't have unlimited means. >> reporter: his criminal exploits have made him something of a celebrity in france. known for robbing money shipments from armored trucks, he he spent almost ten years in jail. he says he modeled himself after the lead characters in movies like "heat" and even saw the movies almost like instruction manuals for his heists. his lawyer says he's not surprised his client broke out.
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>> translator: it is also a young man remarkably intelligent and he is using his intellect to serve his ambitions and i think he has so many years in prison behind him that he thought it was one too many. >> reporter: now all police forces in europe are looking for him after one of the most spectacular jail breaks in recent history. fred pleitken, london. on to us a gus that, georgia and the final round of the masters. all eyes had been on the number one player in the world, tiger woods, but unfortunately for all the wrong reasons. rachel nichols is in augusta. the whole attention on the penalty thing and now he's not finishing in the top spot. >> reporter: he's had a little bit after rally in the last half-hour, 45 minutes. had he two bogeys, then he followed that up with two birdies. but even is not going to do it when you come into the day four
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back. he is now looking at really too hard a hill to climb. he has said in the past, hey, if i'm within six when i make the turn on the back nine, but that doesn't look like it is going to be enough for him to make the charge today. i think that he's going to look back at this tournament as having been marred by that penalty shot because certainly if it hadn't been weighing on him all day, he might have had a different result. but it is what it is, as they say, and he'll have to look for the next opportunity to break this drought. he hasn't won a major in five years. he was playing so well into this masters, i know he was looking forward to breaking the drought this time. probably not going to happen. >> let's move on to somebody else. in the nba, talking about kobe bryant with his big injury. he seemed to be taking it in
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sprid. what stride. what's the latest? >> reporter: he's shown a great sense of humor about it. he's been tweeting out and ingraming pictures of himself. he instagramed a picture of himself going into surgery with a little cap on his head. he joked that he looked like "mrs. doubtfire." today he joked that his agent and very close friend sent him a picture of the front page of the "los angeles times." if you look at the picture, it talks about how kobe, it is a devastating blow, might not come back to the injury. kobe jokes that was sent by his buddy for a little motivation. he says point taken that he's got it. he's looking at a six to nine-month recovery. that's no small task for someone who's going to be turning 35. it is certainly an injury and recovery time that would have had a lot of players saying, this is probably a good sign that it's time for me it retire but as kobe noetted, it is all just motivation. he says he is definitely connelling back.
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the lakers would love to see him back at the beginning of next season. that's ambitious but kobe's an ambitious guy. >> good. first he seemed a little bummed in his initial tweets being 35 and injured, it is tough to make a comeback. now it seems like his attitude is changing like, hey, i guess it really could happen. there it is, there is going to be a comeback, he is on the mend. >> yeah. his trainer, tim grover who legislation worked wialso worked with michael jordan, says this is all about his mentality, if he can turn the corner and approach it in a certain way that he will be able to come back. certainly seems that he wants to do that. >> rachel nichols, thank you so much from the masters in youa a augusta. a statement -- laura and i are thrilled to announce the birth of our grandchild,
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margaret laura mila hager. jenna bush hager delivered her baby girl last night in new york city as she and her husband henry hager had been married since 2008. congrats to everybody. how easy is it to buy a gun? while lawmakers debate stricter laws on background checks, our cnn crew goes to gun shows to see just how easy toss get a gun. no requests asked. straight ahead, the u.s. tries to prevent a crisis in north korea. will the country's leader tone down his threats to fire missiles? we had never used a contractor before and didn't know where to start. at angie's list, you'll find reviews on everything from home repair to healthcare written by people just like you. no company can pay to be on angie's list, so you can trust what you're reading. angie's list is like having thousands of close neighbors where i can go ask for personal recommendations. that's the idea. before you have any work done, check angie's list. from roofers to plumbers to dentists and more, angie's list -- reviews you can trust. i love you, angie. sorry, honey.
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today u.s. secretary of state john kerry urged north korea to stop the provocations and come to the negotiating table. secretary kerry spoke in japan on the latest stop of his asian tour and while he left the door open for possible talks, he made it clear that the u.s. stands behind its allies. >> it is very simple that the united states will do what is necessary to defend our allies, japan, republic of korea and the region, against these provocations. but our choice is to negotiate. our choice is to move to the table and find a way for the region to have peace. >> kerry was in china yesterday for crucial meeting with that country's president. china is seen as key to getting north korea to stop its threats
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and after yesterday's meeting, secretary kerry said the u.s. and china will work together to ease tensions. i spoke to sumi terry, a senior research scholar at clm universicolumbia university and a cia analyst sglp north korean provocations will continue and we'll probably see an intermediate range missile launch, or musadan coming maybe tomorrow on the 15th on kim il-sung's birthday or next week. but yes, i don't think that would deter more provocations from north korea, not yet. >> so if anything, you think that this kind of pressure might further provoke north korea or was this simply kim jong-un's plan all along, regardless of what kind of pressure is coming from whom? >> it is kim jong-un's plan all along and he's calling this
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bluff. meaning okay, we're pressuring them but what are we going to really do about it? after the mills launch though, they're not going to do any kind of attack against japan or u.s. or south korea. and probably tensions will calm down after april 30th when u.s.-south korea joint exercises end. >> so is it the feeling that while his predecessors may have done the same, may have threatened some sort of strikes, in this case this younger leaders feels like he's at a point of no return that he has to make a statement. is that your view? >> yes. he can't back down now. i mean he said he would. but what he's doing is walking this fine line where he just is escalating to the point where we can tolerate it. meek it is going to be a missile test, not a missile attack. and there is going to be a nuclear test but it's not going -- it's very, very
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carefully calibrated, his decision making. he's just going to press us and try to provoke us but just up until certain point. >> so this test doesn't necessarily threaten south korea, japan or even guam where north korea has threatened that its missiles could reach any one of those three places. >> no. it is just going to be a missile test. it is going to be a new test probably a mobile missile. musudan. so it is still worrisome. we don't want north korea to nuclear test and so on. but it is a lot of blustering. it is not to the point where it is going to escalate. tensions are not going to escalate to the point of causing a war on the korean peninsula. >> what about this pressure of trying to get north korea to get rid of its nuclear program and if it concedes to doing that then the u.s. will be engaged in talks, direct talks, with north korea. is that a reasonable notion? >> it's not reasonable.
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it's not realistic, let's put it that way. north korea is never going to give up nuclear weapons program. i think most north korean scholars agree to that. so the question is what are we going to talks for. some people say we should return to the talks nonetheless because it is important to cap the program but they're not going to give up nuclear weapons and we need to be realistic about that. >> all right. su mi terry, thank you so much for your time. a big debate is going on in congress right now about stricter background checks on gun sales. straight ahead, our crew goes to several gun shows to see just how easy it is to buy a gun. morning, brian! love your passat! um. listen, gary. i bought the last one. nice try. says right here you can get one for $199 a month. you can't believe the lame-stream media, gary. they're all gone. maybe i'll get one. [ male announcer ] now everyone's going to want one. you can't have the same car as me, gary! i'm gettin' one. nope!
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the legislation on gun control is headed for debate in the u.s. senate, but will a compromise deal brokered by senators pat toomey and joe manchin get enough votes and are enough republicans on board to get it passed? let's listen to what politicians are saying on the sunday morning talk shows. >> are you on board with toomey-man chin which expands universal background checks to gun shows but allows, it seems, personal sales, private sales to a friend, to a relative. are you on board with that? can you go with that? >> i'm very favorably dispose
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pd. >> this bill would limit the rights of the law than it would to actually prevent violent crime. soky not support it. >> we are not about infringing on the rights of law abiding citizens sglp it will prevent criminals and those adjudicated mentally ill of getting guns and at the same time has the best chance of passing. >> senator sessions, you obviously oppose this. are you going to be able to stop it? >> i don't think it is going to pass. >> i think it is an open question whether or not we have the votes. i think it is going to be close. >> these men risked everything for this vote. i mean senator man chin represents west virginia and he's proposing gun reform? he's going to lose his job. and senator toomey, this man is a republican who is willing to make just the slightest compromise on gun control. he's going to lose his job, too.
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>> either one of you worried about any kind of challenge, primary or general? >> let me just say that i -- pat and i talked. we came here to do something. you know? we came here to make a difference. >> i'll just let the political chips fall the way they fall. >> this week, two members of the house plan to introduce a bill expanding background checks for gun buyers. it is similar to a measure already introduced in the senate designed to close the so-called gun show loopholes. what is that loophole? martin savidge and a cnn crew went to five gun shows to find out. >> it is a simple idea. just how easily can you buy a gun at a gun show? so, a cnn crew took a weekend drive. 600 miles with a pocket full of cash. hitting five gun shows in three states. tennessee, south carolina, and georgia. first stop -- ella jay in north
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georgia. the selection small. >> there wasn't a lot of product out there for people to buy. >> reporter: next the crew went north to tennessee for a saturday morning local gun show held in a hotel convention center. it was a smith & wesson mp 45 caliber semi-automatic that first caught our producer's eye. asking price -- $625. >> it is nice. it is not brand spanking new. >> make me an offer. >> cash and carry or do i have to -- >> but it is early and the team opts to keep looking. 10 to 20 minutes later they circled back to the same table, negotiating for the same gun. it's a deal. no background check. it is not needed for a private sale. but the seller is legally required to check i.d. like a driver's license to make sure
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the buyer is not from out of state. in this case, no identification asked for, no paperwork, not even a question like, what are you going to do with it? in fact, neither the seller, nor buyer, ever used a first name. if that's not surprising enough, listen to where the seller said he he got gun. >> bought that off from a police officer yesterday. >> really. >> yeah. >> reporter: that's right, he got it from a police officer. it was so easy for the next buy the team decided to up the ante. >> that one right there is very, very new. >> reporter: this time they see two nine millimeter semi-automatic handguns, glock 17s. asking price for the pair, $1,100. the producer offers a flat $1,000. that's rejected. the next bid at $1,050 prompts a phone call. >> let me see. >> reporter: in fact, in all of the deals the team paid less
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than the asking price. the producer boxes the guns in their carrying cases and heads for the door. again, no names, no i.d., no paperwork, not even a receipt. total time of the gun show -- 45 minutes. $1,650 spent. three semi-automatic handguns purchased. incidentally, because there's no paper trail, none of these weapons can ever be traced to the buyer. later the same day in greenville, south carolina, and it is the biggest show of the five our team attended. after wandering the floor, our producer spots this gentleman carrying a semi-automatic rifle on his shoulder. asking price -- $1,200. >> strap doesn't come with it. that's from my .22. i just moved it over. >> the bush master xm-15 is a
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semi-automatic only version of the military rifle first introduced in the vietnam war and still used by troops today. >> where's your i.d.? >> it's out in the car. i just didn't want to carry it around. >> i brought it to a gun show a couple weeks ago in columbia and this is big and bulky and there were so many people in there, i kept banging people. that's why i didn't bring it with me. >> 5.56? >> yeah. either one. the .223 or the 5.56. >> any way you can go down $50? >> yeah. i can go down $50. >> all right. you want to walk out, i'll pay you? >> sure. >> the seller takes our offer -- $1,150. from first conversation to settling on a price takes just
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70 seconds. out in front of the convention center, the money is exchanged and the rifrl complete with case is handed over. our team walks away with a variation of the same weapon used in the deadly sandy hook shooting. again, no questions asked. okay. thank you very much. >> we should make clear that there were three instances, one in each state, where the team was asked for i.d., including during this potential sale in tennessee. >> where you from? >> georgia.
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without proof of residency, the seller refuses the deal and our team walks away. our total weekend weapon haul is three semi-automatic handguns with extra magazines and one semi-automatic rifle with a 30-pound magazine. total spent -- $2,800. all done without showing any identification, without filling out a single form, not even so much as a name exchanged. the team now has a small arsenal which can never be traced. martin savidge, cnn, atlanta. straight ahead -- on some health news. how about those kids' meals? are they healthy for your children? a consumer group rates america's restaurant chains straight ahead. and an investigation into hundreds of burglaries in a small maine town leading to the so-called hermit burglar. the life into a reclusive accused thief.
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here's a look at what's trending right now. the story of the first african-american to play in major league baseball is number one at the box office. 42, the movie based on how jackie robinson broke the league's color barrier made just over $27 million this weekend. cnn's jason carroll caught up with yankees slugger robinson cano. >> if it wasn't for him he wouldn't be here right now telling stories. not only myself but dominican and africa and america. in uganda, it opened the door for us. >> catch more of jason carroll's
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interview at 9:00 a.m. tomorrow in the "cnn newsroom." an alarming new study says nearly all kids' meals offered in america's top chain restaurants flunked nutrition standards. senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen has more. >> the center for science and the public interest come down hard in the restaurant industry in this new report. they looked at 50 restaurant chains and said 91% of them did not follow the nutritional guidelines for kids that are laid out by the national restaurant association. let's look at what they say are three of the biggest offenders. first let's look at this meal from chili's. pizza, fries, chocolate milk. 1,120 calories. that's more than twice as many calories as most kids are supposed to get in a meal. take a look at this meal from dairy queen. fried chicken fingers, barbecue sauce, french fries, ice cream bar and a slurpie type drink -- more than 100 calories. was the biggest offender calorie wise -- french fries, grilled cheese and chocolate milk? this one is from applebee's.
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1,210 calories. applebee's and chili's point out parents don't have to buy those meals for their kids. the restaurants have plenty of other healthier lower calorie options for their kids. the national restaurant association had this to say. they say restaurants nationwide are providing innovative, healthful children's options to their young guests. so again, sometimes it is going to be up to the parents. you're going to have to look for the healthy items and skip the ones that aren't. fred? >> all right, good advice. thanks so much, elizabeth cohen. hey, guess what? a new show debuting tonight on cnn. anthony bourdain bringing his taste for adventure to cnn. this new show with no boundaries, cnn brings you the world as bourdain and his crew travel to myanmar, libya, peru and more. we'll have a sneak peek in a minute. show airs tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. "parts unknown." international pop star justin bieber creates a stir for
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superstar justin bieber is in hot water again, this time he's catching a lot of flack for something he did while visiting the ann frank house in amsterdam. he wrote in the guest book, "ann was a great girl. hopefully she would have been a belieber." frank died in a nazi concentration camp in 1945. her diary survived to tell her tragic and inspiring story. the oscars and the grammys might be long gone but we are just now hours away from this year's mtv movie awards in los angeles. each year mtv leaves it to you, the viewer, to decide the winners and losers. our movie critic gray drake from
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rottentomatoes.com joins us to discuss. before we get to some of your predictions, the movie awards are known for the unpredictable. so i don't know. you want to take a slot at predict being the unpredictable tonight? >> no. there's no way that you can. that's why i love this awards ceremony, because they save it until all of that other nonsense is done so people can have fun and get crazy and it's one of the best awards shows on tv for sure. >> really! okay. >> yeah. >> let's go through some of your predictions. what do you suppose will happen this evening? maybe for movie of the year? >> yes. well, movie of the year is the big one at mtv. i think that that one should go to a movie that was really overlook by all of the other awards this year. shockingly, the "avengers" was one of the best pictures of 2012. i think mtv is smart enough that they are going to reward these fabulous super heroes with an award.
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>> okay. so then best hero, would it come from bad movie in your view, one of the characters from that flick? >> you got it. now the other great thing about the mtv awards is the categories are so much fun, too. so best hero i think should go to the hulk because i was so super in the avengers. for everyone that saw the movie -- which was everyone, by the way. one of my favorite moments in the movie was because of the hulk. because. chris hemsworth plays thor in the movie. he's a very good actor and he a he very handsome. but the hulk is the one that understands that chris hemsworth needs to get punched in the face so i think that makes him the best hero of the year. >> how about in the romance category? apparently there is a category for best kiss. where would we have seen that? what movie? >> so romantic. this is always won of my fave where fave categories because mtv gets a little racy with this
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category. my pick is one that is not the raciest of all the nominees but a very, very sweet one that sort of reminds you of the magic of someone's first kiss in their life and that comes from "moon rise kingdom." basically a first kiss, if i had to rewrite mine, would be taking place on the beach while i'm dancing around in my underwear to french pop music and that's what this movie does. >> thanks so much on that one. a little tmi. there are some pretty serious contenders up for this next category -- best villain. what did you like? >> best villain. another actor sadly, sadly goes -- went without mention in 2012 that i thought was one of the finest villains in cinema of all time ever, and he's dreamy dream dream dreamboat even when he's wearing velcro shoes. javi
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javier van dam. >> just for the hair. hair alone, fredricka -- yes! >> there was a creepiness about him for sure. but hence the best villain in your view. >> yes. >> gray drake, thanks so much. always fun to play. police nab a man they say was responsible for more than 1,000 burglaries and he apparently lived as a recluse for nearly 30 years. that story straight ahead. michael, tell us why you used priceline express deals to book this fabulous hotel. well, you can see if the hotel is pet friendly before you book it. and i got a great deal without bidding. and where's your furry friend? oh, i don't have a cat. priceline savings without bidding. governor of getting it done. you know how to dance... with a deadline. and you...rent from national.
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a 63-year-old man sitting in his suv was set on fire in long beach, california. a man threw flammable liquid into his car making it burst into flames, as you see there. the driver is in the hospital in critical condition. the 39-year-old suspect was arrested and is being booked on attempted murder charges. neighbors described him as a transient who was known to act strangely. for decades people living in a small maine town wondered if a person was creeping out of the woods to steal their things. an urban leg of sorts, until they decided to calm the north pond permit and found out that the myth just indeed may be reality. pamela brown headed to -- headed north, rather, to get the story. >> reporter: fred, it was talked
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about for years as a myth, that one person, a man, known as the north pond hermit, could be responsible for hundred of unsolved burglary cases. could that myth be true? this surveillance video showing a burglar stealing food from the pine tree camp kitchen near rome, maine helped authorities nab 47-year-old christopher knight, a man known locally as an elusive figure. he was a mystery for more than two decades until now. >> soon as he stepped outside the door i just turned, game warden, on the ground, on the ground, show me your hands. he immediately just dropped right to the ground. >> this is what he had in his backpack. >> he did. random stuff. marshmallows. veggie burgers. canadian bacon. ground beef. stuffed shells. quite a wide variety of stuff. >> canadian bacon and veggie patties -- >> doesn't seem to go together, does it? >> reporter: after he was caught red handed, the pine tree manager confronted the man.
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>> irritated, frustrated, angry all of those things were racing through my head. found out he went to the same high school i did. had a year book, brought it here, showed him the picture. he started to open up. >> i don't think he ever missed a day of class. >> reporter: this was the wilderness survival teacher in school and says he vividly remembers him as a student. >> we learned about hunting, fishing techniques, outdoor survival skills. >> do you remember him being pretty good at it? >> very good. yeah. yeah, he was very good at it. >> reporter: still, he never thought knight would take those skills so far. >> could you imagine him being a permit for 27 years? >> absolutely not. >> why? >> he was a socialable kid. he seemed to get along with everybody. >> reporter: a recluse, knight says he lived alone in the woods for more than 27 years. we trek through the maine woods near where knight lived for more than 20 years, going over snow banks, over creeks. navigating around trees.
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knight told authorities that he would travel through these woods 90 minutes each way in order to steal goods from the pine tree camp. authorities say he told them he's only talk to one other person in all that time. >> he hasn't had eye contact with another human being since the mid 1990s when he encountered somebody on a trail and they just exchanged a common greeting and that was about it. >> reporter: officials say he lived at this camouflaged campsite in the woods, even in the dead of maine's brutal winters. >> it is amazing he can make it through maine winters like that, living in a nylon tent. >> reporter: police say knight targeted vacant camp sites, stealing to survive. >> i would say well over 1,000 burglaries. everything i stole the was to survive. food, clothing, shelter, that type of thing. >> reporter: after his arrest, a trooper showed knight a picture of himself, something he hadn't seen in more than 20 years. >> he seen his reflection in the water a few times and that was all he said. >> reporter: authorities say knight told them he'd spend his days reading books and listening to rush limbaugh on his battery
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powered radio. when asked why he spent all this time alone in the woods he didn't have an explanation and says he he often asked himself that same question. knight rejected our request for an interview. fred? >> thanks so much, pam. hey, a book that is older than the united states is going up for auction. wait until you hear how much money someone may pay for it. [ engine sputtering ]
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could fetch as much as $30 million. >> wow. >> that's pretty incredible. one heck of a story when that purchase is made. don lemon here. much more straight ahead. >> yep. doing great. doing great. you have been talking about this fascinating documentary to air tonight on cnn. it's called "there's something wrong with aunt diane." the mother of two drove the wrong way killing eight people. i'll talk to the director and tell me what struck her about this documentary. immigration, gun control. with my sunday regulars. you know anthony bourdain's new cnn program "parts unknown" premiering tonight at 9:00? fred, i talked to him about his show and about, you know what? >> what? >> he loves the place i'm from south louisiana. >> love it. >> yeah. look. >> if you don't love new orleans, if you don't love louisiana, there's really no
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hope for you. >> right. >> it is the magical, magical state with a -- maybe the single most glorious tradition of cooking and eating and drinking. >> i think the cooks there are some of the best in the world. >> no doubt about it. i think it is an environment -- i think it's the mix of cultures, the wonderfully mutant history. you know? louisiana has a long tradition of, you know -- they're not ambivalent about pleasure. >> right. >> they like -- >> a good way of putting it. >> they like a good cocktail. they like food. you know? they're not kidding about letting the good times roll. >> hah hah! there's the promo. cnn brings you the world. anthony bourdain, of course, traveling to countries. "parts unknown" at 9:00 p.m. here on cnn.
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left the gym and later charged her with stalking. take a look at what's happening in the week ahead. monday marks 66 years since jackie robinson first stepped on to a major league baseball field breaking the color barrier. tomorrow players and umpires will wear his number 42. monday is also the super bowl for serious runners. thousands will compete in the 117th boston marathon. on wednesday, the iron lady will be laid to rest. the funeral of former british prime minister margaret thatcher at st. paul's cathedral in london. on thursday, the rock n roll hall of fame welcomes induct tees like heart, public enemy and rush and singers randy newman and donna summer. producers also receive lifetime achievement awards. all right. congrats to them all. that's it for