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d years, it couldn't. it's the mayflower two. it's being brought back to its harbor because it was under some repairs. it had a bad time and needed to be repaired at the fair haven shipyard. the hole in the rudder was a bit of a mess. there's a big celebration when it gets to plymouth plantation. it's going to the state pier. there you go. the replica identical as well including the tar that was used to build it. thanks so much for watching. "around the world" starts next. a massive fire shutting down an airport in kenya. one of the most lethal strands of bird flu in china.
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the woman believed to get it from another person. president obama cancelled with russian president putin. who this could mean for u.s.-russian relations. welcome to "around the world." >> good to have you here. thanks for your company today. he has strange relationsined relations between the u.s. and russia. edward snowden, russia granting temporary asylum. >> the white house announced president obama will not meet with president putin in september. jill joins us live from the state department. how badly has this relationship deteriorated? >> if you look at the statement coming out of white house announcing this postponement it's bad. they not only mentioned snowden but they mentioned, the entire
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relationship. given our lack of progress they say and then they list all of these issues missile defense, arms control, trade security issues human rights civil society, et cetera. it's really an indictment of the relationship and very interesting in the way they mention without using his name putin because they say there was progress when putin wasn't president. now we're having all these problems. it's pretty bad. however the meeting, the friday with the top -- the secretary of defense, secretary of state and their counterparts will take place repairing for the g-20. >> jill i suppose the risk here in a political and diplomat things is it's a at the.
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how does he see this? >> people are telling us that the russians aren't really interested in engaging on much of anything. you'd have to question what can they really accomplish right now? the tone coming from the russians is on the one hand the invitation is still open. we're willing to work on all bilateral and multilateral issues but you also hear things from the senior aid to president putin saying the united states is not looking for equal relations are russia. they are hurt and stunned as well. when we try to get immediate reaction after the announcement was made by the white house they did not have an immediate reaction. perhaps they didn't think that the white house would follow through on that threat. right now it's not looking very good. >> jill thanks so much.
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i got to say just this moment while jill was talking to us, the russian news agency saying the kremlin is disappointed with the u.s. to postpone the meeting. it's clear the meeting is linked to the situation around edward snowden. >> disappointing but i'm sure it was expected. let's talk about that huge fire that's shut down a key international airport in east africa but apparently it's contained. the impact on tourism and exports could last for a long time. this is one of the big three in that part of the continent. we're talking about nairobi's kenyatta airport. this is very important, an important commercial hub. fresh fruits vegetables and now
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flowers exported from there to europe several times a week. >> no one was hurt but depending on how long the airport is closed this could be a very serious blow to kenya's any. economy. >> nick officials were hoping to get things up and running soon. what's happening on the domestic flight side and then the international one? >> well, there are some domestic flights. they are trying to clear passengers who are in nairobi to get them out of nairobi and try to clear the space, if you like around the airport. domestic flights can use the runway. the runway is not affected nor is the small domestic terminal.
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departures has some smoke damage and then there's the international arrivals which is entirely waste. it's now just completely burnt to the ground. i think the issue is here we're looking at a terminal that was built in 1978. that gives you some idea as to the sort of investment that's gone into infrastructure in the airport. >> we're talking about a remarkable amount of commerce that would rely on those runways. how is this damage going to impact the flow of goods and services? >> very badly indeed. look at the african continue innocent. what you have to understand is there are really only three areas.
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you have in nairobi and kenya. they are the three transport pubs for the whole continent. just look at what happens with nairobi. this is kenya airways long haul international route. you have these big routes coming down from europe crossing into asia. you have more down into southern parts of africa. if you add on the other airlines going up to the gulp again back up to europe you start to see that these are not just airports. i give you the simple statistic that says kenya and nairobi has three, four million international passengers. it's only raknked 140th into the world. you think so what when you put sbiet it into the context of the cross roads of african transports for passengers and fresh fruits and
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flowers you realize that as a hub it's significant but kenya airways is significant and particularly since it will not be easy just to get that international traffic, the airport, the immigration, the customs hold up and running. they will not be able to build it. you'll take a cargo center or something like that and turning that into a new immigration hole. >> that will take a long time. >> thanks so much. there's only one runway there. everything will be funneled in like that. richard quest was saying you'll have major disruption. you have to build the thing again. >> i spent a lot of time there as a kid. the amount of commerce and tourism has just multiplied over the years. hard to believe they will have to do without or find some other kind of route to get people in and out. >> exactly.
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there's hope for everyone. that's the message from michelle knight. she was standing in front of the house where she was held for a decade. >> knight celebrated the demolition by doing this handing out yellow balloons and releasing them. she said the balloons represent abducted children who were never found. >> knight one of the three women found. castro pleaded guilt to 937 counts that included murder and kidnapping. >> he forfeited the house as part of that plea deal with prosecutors. back overseas now. we're about to show kwouyou a frightening piece of video. a tour bus full of people is hit from behind by a speeding truck. video cameras recording it all. watch this.
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>> we just saw that driver flew out of the window. >> this is another camera angle. violent scene. the driver who flew out the window is alive, believe it or not. this happened a few days ago in eastern china. the bus was backing up and the truck coming down the road just barrelled into it at high speed. you can see the result. >> oh, my goodness. passengers had to kick out the front screen. that's the case. a lot of people on board were hurt but remarkably no one died. >> nobody died in the bus. the driver of truck did die in that incident. extraordinary. thank goodness it wasn't worse. china's the focus of a very
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alarming health energy todaymergency today. we're talking about the bird flu. >> it appears to be the strain of the avian virus that might be spreading from person to person. that's the part that's got chinese officials and the cdc concerned. >> it's time to turn to sanjay gupta on this. that's alarming but you might have some hopeful news. >> you're right. this is the type of thing that scientists aring looing for. is there evidence of human to human transmission? >> we're talking about h7n9. it's a different virus. this is the first time we have seen it in humans just this year. it's been 134 cases. of those 43 have died.
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there was a father spending time with infected chicken, became infected and his daughter was caring for him. she didn't have any contact with the birds. she only had contact with him. she became infected from her father. they confirmed that by looking at the genetics of the virus and finding a match. this is the first documented evidence of human to human transmission. >> the important thing is to not be alarmed and keep things in perspective. what is the fear of the potential of this type of flu compared to others? >> this man, this father had contact with 43 other people. this is all part of the investigation. none of those people got sick. while this can spread from human to human, it doesn't seem to spread easily. this case we're talking about even though just written up happened back in march.
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we haven't heard a significant number of cases from human to human transmission. the ingredient the things people worry about are two things. request it spread easily and is it very pathogenic or very lethal. this does appear to be lethal. about 30 prts% of the people have died. >> very alarming especially that 30% death rate not good. always a pleasure. don't forget more from dr. gupta, his show saturdays and sundays right here on cnn. the military in yemen is on high alert as u.s. intelligence officials try to unravel detail offense a terrorist plot. >> sources say two drone strikes killed six alleged militants. this was the fifth drone strike in two weeks. the second in the southern
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province. >> u.s. military transport planes evacuated as many as 90 americans. the u.s. embassy in yemen is closed this week. all non emergency employees were told to leave the country. the attack happened almost a year ago now, september 11th, 2012. ambassador chris stephens and others were killed. >> charges have been filed against suspects. a prom innocent militia leader was charged. he acknowledged being at the benghazi mission but denied any involvement. >> he said he had not been questioned by libyan authorities
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or the fbi. officials say it's not unusual for the fbi to interview defendants in a case while they collect other evidence. a u.s. tourist is in big trouble after snapping the finger off a statue. >> museum is saying look with your eyes not with your hands. >> this is hundreds of years old. we also have this. a couple at sea hit rough waters. they had to abandon ship and the water saved the dog before the wife. >> man's best friend. if you're planning to visit south america and have long hair guess what you may want to tie it back or wear it under a hat. how women now are being robbed of their long locks. just like people are experiencing cell phones being snatched this time it's your hair. >> give me your wallet and your hair. we'll be right back.
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that's one rule. that's a rule that an american tourist should have remembered on a visit to a museum in italy. >> this is one of those head shaking moments. >> the what were you thinking department. he have to pay a price for what he did to a priceless statue. >> reporter: an american tourist is in trouble after snapping the finger off a priceless statue in florence. it appears he was trying to measure the finger. we don't know why but in the course of doing that he snapped it off. it dates from the 15th century. the sculpture of the virgin mary. the head of the museum who has to be an american says the fundamental rules of visiting museums have been forgotten, mainly don't touch the works. in this case the american tourist may end up with a hefty
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fine. back to you. >> all i can say is it wasn't florence. thank goodness it wasn't the statue of david. japan's navy is showing the world that its brand new warship. it's not only new but really really big. >> it's called the izumo. it looks like the aircraft carrier designed to be a floating helicopter base. it's the biggest naval ship since world war ii. >> since the war ended in 1945 japan is not allowed to have a offensive military. only a self-defense force. you remember the images of pope francis surrounded by the crowds. took a wrong turn got surrounded. he's in that little silver hatch back. >> not quite the pope mobile people are used to. just as brazilians love the pope
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rgs they love his idea. the fiat is selling out across the country. >> it's built in europe. it costs about $18,000. >> they'd want the volings wag again too. a couple at sea gets into rough waters. instead of rescuing the mrs. first, the husband saves the dog. >> what would you do? >> i know what i'd do if i wanted to live afterwards. we'll have you that story. we're talking with diane about the walmart low price guarantee, backed by ad match. you got your list? let's go! look at that price! i like that! they need those for school. wow! that's the walmart low price guarantee backed by ad match. save time and money getting your kids ready for school bring in ads from your local stores and see for yourself. hero: if you had a chance to go anywhere in the world but you had to leave right now, would you go? man: 'oh i can't go tonight' woman: 'i can't.' hero : that's what expedia asked me. host: book the flight but you have to go right now.
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s- here's one of those stories that begs the question what would you do. >> your boat runs aground and you must decide who to rescue first, your spouse or your dog? >> it was a serious situation. man was forced to make that choice this week. this happened off the coast of south africa. we have the details. >> reporter: what started as a dream boating holiday ended with
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a south african husband forced to make a split second decision. save his wife or their dog first. graham and cheryl set sail off the south of south africa. also on board their 9-year-old jack russell terrier rosie. the only thing they could do to survive, abandon ship. cheryl's safety line snagged. she was unable to swim to shore. she told her husband to get rosie the dog to safety first. station commander jeff was part of the team that helped rescue the couple. >> she insisted that he took the dog to the beach and come back to help her. graham got back cut herself free and then they both gone back to the beach. >> at the moment when he made the decision to take his dog to the shore before his wife she was very much in danger. >> she was. at that stage anything could
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have happened with the swells that wer capsized the yacht and the worst could have happened. >> we're all familiar with pampered pooches but it takes a unique breed of dog owner to save the life of fido first. >> rough waters all the way around. >> he clearly does what he's told by the wife. >> he did do that. i guess everyone's happy. harmony back in the household and the man works for the coast guard, as a volunteer. >> that's right. he's been a volunteer for the past 22 years. he described the process of himself being saved as an incredibly humbling experience. apparently when some of the other volunteers found out about what happened them. one of the first questions they asked, how is rosie? apparently a special, much loved dog. >> the dog is fine.
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>> that's good. i'm glad everybody is happy. >> thank you for that. >> the lesson is do what you're told by the wife. >> i'll remind somebody of that. there's a new trend in south america. mainly in venezuela. >> this is about robberies but we're talking hair robberies. a group stealing and selling women's hair. >> we'll explain all of that next. begins with a surprise twinge of back pain... and a choice. take up to 4 advil in a day or 2 aleve for all day relief. [ male announcer ] that's handy. ♪ ♪ [ tires screech ] [ beeping ] ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] we don't just certify our pre-owned vehicles. we inspect, analyze and recondition each one until it's nothing short of a genuine certified pre-owned... mercedes-benz for the next new owner.
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criminals. >> translator: you have to see it to believe. we're not going to be able to have long hair anymore. as a woman this is something dramatic. >> reporter: authorities have cently noticed an increase in the number of attacks with women. the common denominator, all of the victims had long hair. >> translator: it's happening downtown at the beach or the mall where you find a lot of young women. the thieves grab them, and cut it. they sell it at beauty or hair salons. >> reporter: they call them piranhas. it's a crime of opportunity. they are fast and seem to have very little compassion for their victims. it's also happening in neighboring colombia. luna says the time she real estated what had happened to her the thieves fled and a chunk of
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her braid was missing. she lost eight inches of hair. from the robbers perspective it's quick and easy money. this hair stylist says synthetic hair costs $40 to 160 but natural hair can cost well over $500. all the more to guard your tresses. >> my goodness. >> literally they are running up grab the hair cut it and run. >> they normally work in teams of two riding a motorcycle and somebody jumps off and by the time the victim knows about it the robbers are already gone. they have already fled. they have found cases this which it's a single person with scissors hiding. >> are they violent? >> hear the noises of your hair
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being cut and run way. >> are they violent? >> no. you make $500 in matter of seconds. >> women with eight inches or more are pinning their hair up bun, something. >> you're at risk if you're in that situation. >> good value. i know here in atlanta, i think elsewhere you see stores that sell extensions getting robbed. >> it's true. it's big business across the country. >> authorities are saying is best thing you can do is prevention wear your hair in a bun. then all of a sudden you're no longer a target. they are dispatching police officers to the problem areas but the threat is still there. >> that's amazing. >> that's extraordinary. steal hair extensions from the store but off somebody's head. >> hadn't heard anything like that before.
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a place i'm no longer going to visit. i don't have long locks. my hair is a whole lot of work. >> that's a whole other story. oprah on the other side of the couch it gets personal with cnn. >> one-on-one interview with oprah winfrey. this week major league baseball suspended more than a dozen players including alex rodriguez in a performance enhancing drug scandal. >> drugs in sports we all know that's not new. how germany has been dealing with this for decades, next.
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no way you could have missed this story. this week major league baseball suspended 13 players including a alex rodriguez. >> it seems to be making more and more headlines in the u.s. and beyond. >> beyond indeed. not a new problem in sports in general. germany has been dealing with this for decades but is only finding out now about the extreme consequences of doping. check it out. >> reporter: doping secrets laid out in this newly published report detailing a widespread scheme sanctioned by some west german officials that went on for decades during the cold war.
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some former athletes say doping was an open secret. it's always been known that in west germany the same happen but there was never any evidence for it. now we have that. i hope everything will be clarified also with names. the investigation was conducted by berlin's university at the request of the government's institute for sports research. it details how doping started out in the 1950s and became widespread and organized in the 1970s. one example of the dangers of steroid abuse was an athlete who died at the age of 26 after receiving performance enhancing drugs for years according to be public prosecutor. doping controls were put this place in the 1980s but more needs to be done including tighter testing standards and more severe punishment.
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it's also about the credibility of sport. we realize it does not guarantee this credibility. communist and east germany were engulfed in battle for sports issue supremacy. in 2008 i visited a former east german olympian who said he had to have a sex change of years of excessive steroid abuse. i felt much more attracted to women and felt like a man but i knew i was not lesbian. that puts this man under pressure. the head of germany's olympic confederation and a front-runner to become the next president of the ioc. he says an independent panel has been set up to evaluate the
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doping report but he maintains it's almost impossible to stop athletes from using ban substances. it's like a society. for thousands of years there's been theft but we have not managed to stop it altogether. germany germany's parliament is said to launch an investigation in september. a chinese newborn returned after being sold by a doctor. we'll have that coming up, next. distribution systems," "and one of the most efficient trucking networks," "with safe, experienced drivers." "we work directly with manufacturers," "eliminating costly markups," "and buy directly from local farmers in every region of the country." "when you see our low prices, remember the wheels turning behind the scenes, delivering for millions of americans, everyday. "dedication: that's the real walmart"
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all right. this story just makes your heart stop. a baby is returned and a doctor accused of selling newborns is now in custody. >> thank goodness. what happened was according to state run media, the doctor was selling several babies to human traffickers. a baby boy taken last month was returned to his parents. an motional reunion this week. >> police say the doctor sold the baby for the equivalent of about $3500. he told the parents the child has serious problems and persuaded them to give him the baby. >> it was nothing wrong with him. the mother contacted police. they found the baby in neighboring province and they were reunited. what a terrible story. we're learning more about
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this hard landing of southwest flight 345 last night. >> this was the scene july 22nd as the plane's nose gear broke. ten people were injured. >> the national transportation safety board updated its investigation and notes the captain took control of the plane during a critical phase. this is in the last few seconds. >> the report did not reveal why the pilot did that. this was the pilot's second flight into la guardia. the captain inexperienced flying was probably not a factor in that accident. in china people looking for ways to beat the heat. temperature still in triple digits. >> it's awfully hot. in 140 years of recordkeeping, shanghai never topped 1104 degrees. yesterday marked the second time
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in a two week stretch it reached 105. >> chad meyers joins us now. this has been going on for a long time. why is it? >> we showed you picture last week. it was like 10,000 people in this pool. we thought the pool had to be 98 degrees because everybody is in it. it's the same high pressure that's been in control around shanghai for three weeks. all time high set on wednesday. we got to 104 last week. it was a new record high. we beat that and the temperatures have been kept since 1872. we go right back to the records all this week. we get down to 103. shanghai 101 tomorrow. the morning lows are in the 80s. by this time last year we had six typhoons. this year one. typhoons will bring cloud and rains. the wet ground doesn't warm up.
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it's baking like a desert. they really need rain. when the heat index is high you get afternoon cloutdclouds. they need the clouds to stop the sun. >> a lot of folks don't have air-conditioning. it's caused a lot of deaths. let's talk about oprah winfrey now on the other side of the sofa. >> getting personal with cnn. >> nobody's going to come up to me and call me the n word unless they are on twitter and i can't find them. twitter thug. >> the twitter thugs. i've learned to leave the twitter thugs alone. >> sit down with oprah winfrey, next.
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for the first time in more than a decade oprah winfrey returning to the big screen. >> she plays the wife of a former white house butler. lee daniels, "the butler" features an a-list cast. >> cnn entertainment correspondent sat down with the queen of talk to discuss the movie. a much anticipated film releasing the 50th anniversary
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of the march on washington. what did she say about that and the whole impact? >> just a couple of weeks before. it releases on august 15th. like you said this is her first dramatic role in 15 years. according to her it was only by the persistence of lee daniels who got her to say yes and the story of the influence of domestic workers. she told me the movie's message helps keep the conversations about race relations going. she hopes this generation sees there's a different way of being a warrior and fighting for your rights. >> i was going through building on. thank goodness we were on the other side. i said to lee this is the absolute worst time you could ask me to do anything lee. he just would not take no for an
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answer. i think that one of reasons why there's so much still, lingering prejudice and racism is we don't get to see people as ourselves. this was an opportunity to let the world feel the heart of the butler the heart of this period that really was a defining period in the lives of many black people but also our nation. >> again, like i said this movie, "the butterlerbutler" releases august 16th. when you sent it to me there was a little glimpse, i don't know if you saw of robin williams. when you first see it you're like wow. >> what a transformation. >> looks like a terrific film. thanks so much. take a look at this. some crazy photos of people drinking coffee. that part not so crazy but guess
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having coffee sharks swimming around. >> there's no tank or anything. >> we look really relaxed. >> that's a terrible photo shop effort. this is not an altered photo. can you believe that? two extreme athletes are free divers posing for some incredible photographs. >> fascinating art. this project was carried out by a talented photographer. we have leah on the phone now. i know you're telling me these have not been photoshopped but they're really amazing. who came up with this idea? how did you do this? >> hello. we were actually after a free diving competition we were trying to get a few shots and they kept swimming after them. we decided to grab a couple of
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problems and sit them down so the sharks would swarm around them instead of chasing them away. >> it was a pretty spur of the moment thing. were the sharks a bit nervous? >> these are caribbean reef sharks. they are pretty friendly. we're not exactly what they want to eat. we just had a little bit of chum close to the divers so they could smell it but they weren't interested in the divers. >> these free divers it takes a little time to execute this shoot and get everyone in place. they're holding their breathe. is there something like 70 and 90 feet down below. tell me how long they had to hold their breath? >> we had three safety divers giving them breaths. this is about 70 feet. they had to sit there and take their breaths.
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they would signal every time they were out of air. >> you had to shoot the pictures in between the bubbles. don't you have to release a bit of air if you're not going to have your tank on or a regulator on your mouth, right? >> exactly. they released a good amount of air but able to hold it. >> how do you keep them down there, like weight wise? >> you can see on the champion on the left he's got a little black belt under his shirt. that has weights on it. >> oh my goodness. >> on the way up they had to stop. they take the props up with them. >> or did you leave them below? >> we were hanging on the line with the table and lamp and chairs for a pretty good decompression stop because we were pretty deep on air for about 40 minutes. we need to off gas a bit.
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>> is this your thing under water photography because it's not that easy. >> yeah it's my thing. >> this is a very innovative project. now i have to ask what's next. i'm sure since this is an every day thing for you you want to top this picture. >> i would love to shoot a band down there with sharks. that would be my next goal. an album cover. >> i'm sure somebody is getting ideas now. >> i'm impressed. we showed these in our morning meeting and everybody like was like photoshop. that's fantastic. being australian i know she's up at 3:00 in the morning. >> it's 3:00 on the dot. >> you're committed in every way. >> that's okay. >> appreciate it.
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>> you can check that out on cnn.com. thanks so much. >> i like it. >> thank you. >> maybe we'll try that but with dive gear. maybe there will be some heavy furniture laying around. then you can photo shop out the dive gear and somebody will think you're a free diver. >> i've got to go. >> great seeing you. >> more after the break. >> see you tomorrow. after a decade as a home of torture, ariel castro's house is torn to pieces. one of his victims bravely watches from across the street. he didn't have our bags. he was looking at our bags. >> he had our front. >> it was wrong. why would you come here with us and do what you did?
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