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away by the rapid water and oprah says a shop in switzerland refused to show her a handbag she wanted to buy. she says she was the victim of racism. we begin in idaho where the search for teen hannah anderson and her alleged kidnapper is intensifying. last hour, officials in cascade, idaho, said dozens of federal agents were scouring through a remote area, but the wilderness is making the search difficult there. paul is live for us now in san diego where the suspect is believed to have kidnapped the teenager after allegedly killing her mother and brother. officials are saying they're going to descend upon that vehicle that was abandoned there in idaho to look through it and see if more information can be found. like what? >> well, first off, let me tell you this, that the suspect apparently tried to hide that
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vehicle. it was covered in brush. he had pulled off the license plate somehow, but they found it and the big concern was that perhaps it was booby trapped, rigged with homemade bombs. he does have military experience. was a navy core man. idaho officials went through the car and so far, they have not found any bomb making material, fredricka. >> so, now, talk to me about the body that was located in that burned out house. they are saying there's a positive i.d. of little boy who happens to be hannah's brother. >> yes, unfortunately, the worst fears were realized that body was badly charged, the dna sample was difficult, but last night, authorities saying the second victim inside the property is indeed 8-year-old ethan and that is hannah's little brother and the son of the woman killed there in that boulevard california, that town
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on the mexican border, so we now have at least one murder charge and later on, you can imagine when prosecutors get together with detectives, the host of charges is going to grow this long. it's going to be two homicides with special circumstances. you likely have arson. also cruelty to animals because a dog was killed in that fire and no doubt, there could be kidnapping and possible ancillary charges related to that. >> gosh, horrible situation. of course, that search in idaho is intensifying by air, on foot and on horseback as they continue to search for the 16-year-old and the alleged kidnapper. thank you so much, paul. keep us posted. storms are hammering about a dozen states across the u.s., triggering serious flooding. this video captures the crisis. cars flowing downstream in
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colorado. flood waters swept two people to their death in colorado and oklahoma. the national weather service is concerned about more severe flooding in southern missouri today. rescuers are still pulling people from their homes and that's where we find zane asher in holster. what are they telling you about their experiences? >> the clean-up process is well underway. that's what they're telling me, it's really all about rebuilding. you're seeing small families even with small children coming here to get rid of the debris. take a look at this mobile home right here. this home actually used to sit all the way over here. basically, pretty much a football field away. the force of the flooding, the force of the waters pretty much moving around 85 miles an hour was so strong that it picked up
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the mobile home and sent it flying, landing in this spot right here and this house used to be the other way around, so the force sent the house spinning 180 degrees. that's the back of the house. i asked the property manager here what was it like here on thursday when everything you see here was pretty much under water and she told me that you saw residents sitting on their roofs, waiting to be rescued. over there, you see a basketball hoop in the distance. one woman was hanging off that basketball hoop for pretty much two and a half hours waiting to be rescued and despite that, people here have still found reasons to be grateful. take a listen to what one woman had to say. >> very thankful nobody was hurt, nobody was killed. we're very thankful that we had units to put our families in so they have a home to go to. i had five empty units and did transfer everybody that lost everything into another unit.
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>> we are seeing unprecedented rainfall all over the midwest. colorado spring, one person was found dead. also, here in missouri, two people found dead and oklahoma city, one person found dead as well. so people here right now are really just trying rebuild their lives. >> very dangerous. thank you so much. appreciate that. california, it, too, was having a difficult time. can't seem to catch a break. look at this massive wildfire burning east of los angeles. it has scorched more than 28 square miles already with hot, dry winds driving it and this is a view from banning, california. the so-called river fire. the two have merged into one big blaze. it has forced evacuations, injured five firefighters and one homeowner was also severely burned. unfortunately, the weather pattern calls for much of the
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same. more flooding in about a dozen states. more hot, dry weather in california which needs the rain badly. jennifer delgado joining us now in the cnn weather center and this is a dangerous and deadly situation. >> you know what, we're not done with it yet. we talk and the video we had earlier and hopefully, we can pull it up for you. we saw the video of the cars rushing away. what happened there is all that rain and we're talking just an inch and a half came down in a very short period of time. quickly over to our graphics, with all the rain coming down, it came down the mountains and we had mudslides as well as the water basically just ponding down there. channelling and it washed those cars away, so this is actually result of fires that happened last year. that is the waldo canyon fire and that left behind an area with virtually no vegetation to soak up all that rainfall that came down. what you're seeing in red, that
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is the actual vevegetation. now, we continue to follow storms moving through the midwest. you can see in areas including northwestern parts of tennessee, the rain has been coming down. in fact, we have flash flood warnings that have been issued across the area. some of those have since expired through parts of missouri and arkansas, but the rain is not done yet and we're still talking more flash flooding because 15 inch of rainfall has come down in the last five days across part of missouri, arkansas, we've seen the video there and with more on the way over the next 48 hours, we're still just not out of danger yet and with the silver fire they're dealing with, we are looking at wind gusts up to about 25 for today as well as tomorrow with no rain. temperatures in the lower 90s. >> that does not help the situation at all. thanks so much. oprah heading back to hollywood. her new film opening next week. ahead, she sits down with cnn to
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it was a grim facebook first. a man posted a picture of his dead wife on his page. but it gets even more strange. he wrote, quote, i'm going to prison or getting the death sentence for killing my wife end quote. sure enough, police found derek medina's wife shot to death in their miami home. he is now under arrest. in court friday, he was charged with murder. medina told his father he and his wife fought and he admitted to shooting her. >> you just said that his wife picked up a knife on him, had a big fight and he shot her. >> your son came to your house -- >> all he said is i need to go to the police. i need to turn myself in. >> medina's post stayed online for five hours before facebook took it down. this case is gaining national
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attention. the post went viral and lori has been following the story for us. so lori, this is a rather unique case. what is facebook's legal obligation if any? >> first of all, completely unbelievable. the photo of this dead woman was up and had been shared over 100 times. i think you're going to be surprised to hear about their legal obligation. we spoke so our legal analysts. let's hear what they have to say about this. >> as offensive as it was to post the photograph of someone who had been murdered, there's nothing illegal about it from the standpoint of facebook. facebook took it down in five or six hours. in fact, facebook was under no legal obligation to take the
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picture down at all nor is buzz feed or any other entity that runs it. >> we think four to five hours is a long time, well, facebook has a billion users and that is just growing. they have people reported information all the time, so the company said this is probably pushed forward because of the sensitivity. >> and so, facebook, their official response was what? >> i reached out to them, they said the content was reported to us and we took action on the profile, removing the content and disabling the profile. they also reached out to law enforcement and said we take action on all content that violates terms which are laid out on our site. obviously, with a billion users now, facebook and other social media, twitter, these are becoming a place where there's a lot of digital evidence when
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there's a crime. >> thanks so much. next in the cnn news room, a heroin explosion in the united states. the drug is hot with teens and it doesn't have a happy ending. >> i just broke down. like i didn't feel like it was real. like, i can't believe like something like that could just happen to like one of my best friends. >> you'll hear one family's story and why the drug has made a huge comeback. i'm bo jackson and we can make an impact after the storm. >> this is what one deadly twister left behind. >> i got phone calls from relatives and friends saying there was a bad storm, a troorno that came through. i thought about what can i do to give back to my community and i
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heroin has made a huge comeback in the u.s. just a few weeks ago, you saw the death of corey monteith. its use has doubleded in the last ten years according to the u.s. government. 18-year-old jonathan marelli died this year from an overdose in a pittsburgh suburb. his brother said heroin ruins lives. >> i'm like, this shocks me, too, because the amount of people still go out and continue to use it like there's no problem with it at all. i -- something that's $10 and
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comes in a little package, it's unbelievable what it can do to someone's lives. >> joining us now is jonathan's mother, rachel, and also is bob forest. he runs a counseling center in los angeles. good to see you. rachel, let me begin with you. did your son's drug use kind of sneak up on you, meaning you learned about it at the time of his death or did you know that there was a problem, that he had a heroin drug problem? >> well, it started eight years ago, my husband committed suicide when my son was in fourth grade and my son suffered from depression and took him to doctors and got him on antidepre antidepressants. it wasn't until ninth grade when there was a case study and they prescribed him vicodin. the vicodin ended up numbing his
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depression, made him feel better, normal. so he went out in search of more, however, when he went to the school, there was no vicodin to be found, but plenty of oxycont oxycontin. my son was a star athlete. he was an incredible student. very smart. very talented. i noticed he was sleepi ining a. he was staying away from the family. his whole behavior changed. i went to the store, got a drug test and it came up positive for opiates. i sent him to rehab and he did really well. he was actually clean for about six months. when my son was in rehab, he had written journals. i was not able to see him because the hippa law and was not able to read them until my son passed away and he explains
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in the journal about how his brain, how the drugs affected his brain. how it, the cravings that go on. that he was still drawn to it. that the drawn to actually moving on to heroin from the pills. and the second time then when he relapsed, he was shooting heroin and that's when we found out and sent him back to rehab. >> and you know, many people will tell you, rehab only works p if the person invites it, allows that rehab to work in their life. as a important who's still grieving the loss of your son, you've been on this journey, seeing his drug use, misuse, how it became an addiction and then reading the journals, what kind of advice if anything do you offer to other parents or family members to identify there's a problem and a way it should be addressed? >> people can't afford not to know about heroin, these pain
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pills. everybody thinks not my kid. there's such a stigma that goes along with addiction, that drug addicts are bad people. my son became addicted through a surgery. good people make bad decisions. this can happen to anybody and this drug is pure evil. it wants you dead. even after people are in recovery, they still have to fight this battle every single day because the chemistry of their brain has been changed. i'm from pennsylvania. our system, the system we have set up for addiction does not work. changes need to be made. we need the good smar tin law. we need norcan. we need rehabs available for people. most insurances, they're only covering people for 14 days. 14 days is not like enough to fight this monster. >> so, bob, you run a counseling center in los angeles. is there a simple explanation as to why is heroin making a comeback and why is it that
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young people in particular seem to be so sucked in to this drug. this latest, newest craze of use? >> well, if you look at the tendency of these overprescribed opiates in young people, that lays the foundation for them migrating towards stronger opiates. this has been a problem ongoing for about 15 year, actually, where you're prescribing unended opiates to children from sports injuries, from you know, back pain. car accidents. a back pain. neck pain. and so, that lays the foundation for them to increase their tolerance, need more and more strong opiates, move to oxycontin and end up heroin is the natural migration of that. >> and so, what is it about the supply of heroin? call me ignorant to it, but i
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think there was a large thinking that it wasn't available anymore. it was gone. a drug of the past, a drug of the 70s and how is it now that it is so available or is it the case that it is so pervasive, available now? >> first off, amazing what she said. she is attuned to addiction. attuned to her son. she tried to get him help. the problem is the help available for these young people who haven't even begun their lives yet to be put through the 12-step absence phase programs. they get very, very resistant to it and we as clinicians need to be more attuned to that population. 50% of the population in treatment is under 25. >> and treatment is not necessarily accessible. treatment usually mean expensive and so, if a lot of these young people are finding themselves in
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the middle of addiction, you know, how accessible is help for them? >> well, when you say 14 days in pennsylvania or whatever it was, it needs to be 14 months and that just shocked everybody. >> but not everyone would be able to afford that and insurance doesn't necessarily, isn't necessarily the answer. >> we need to rethink this. there needs to be step down levels of care that go on and on. we need to come together as a society and communal to say listen, our children are are dying. 30,000 young people are going to die this year of this. we need to step up. >> absolutely. in fact, in when my son died in february, there were five other overdoses that week. in my county alone, we are up to 70 overdoses since january.
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that's why i had sponsors and took my own money and created a film on my son's life and death and addiction on heroin because awareness needs to be spread. these parents, these kids need to know, you know, one bad decision and you could be dead from this. heroin doesn't affect the family or the addict. it takes down a whole family. i mean, it is the worst form of evil that there is and awareness needs to be spread. people are dying every single day. if there was a natural disaster, the government comes in and will you know, jumps in and sweeps up to help everybody. you know, we're in the middle of an epidemic. lives are being lost every day. great kids, great people. great families. this can happen to anybody. >> rachel, our hearts go out to you and your family as you continue to mourn the loss of your son, jonathan. thank you so much for your candor and effort to really try
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to spread the message and help so many other families and bob, we thank you for your time as well. >> thank you. >> and of course, you want to find out more about rachel's movie, head to the jonathanmorellistory.com site. and this program reminder. join dr. sanjay gupta for his special report, weed. airing tomorrow night, 8:00, right here on cnn. next, one of the hottest stars in r and b taking the witness stand. usher fight iing to keep his ki. what are you doing back there? ow! that hurt! no, no, no, no. you can't go to school like this, c'mon. don't do it! no! (mom vo) you never know what life's gonna throw at you. if i gotta wear clothes, you gotta wear clothes. (mom vo) that's why i got a subaru.
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a victory for singer, usher. a judge has denied a motion from the star's ex-wife to get temperatu temporary custody of their children. she petitioned the court after one of their two boys nearly drowned in a swimming pool. alina has more on the drama that unfolded in court. >> what was supposed to be an hour long hearing turned into two hours of full of drama and emotion. an unexpected embrace between usher and his ex-wife moments after a judge ruled in the singer's favor. >> dismissing the motion. >> the emergency hearing m inin
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out in a packed courtroom on friday. first op the stand was tameka foster raymond, who was hoping to get custody. >> i don't know if my son is going to have a brain defect. i don't know that his heart is operating correctly. i don't know that my son is going to be 100% the boy he was before this incident. >> she kept her head down as they played the 911 call in court. >> is he breathing? is he breathing? he's breathing. >> okay. >> and at one point, she became so upset, the judge intervened. >> i never left the hospital, ever. >> this is very difficult for you. >> ridiculous. this is ridiculous. >> step down. >> thank you. >> a sharp contrast from usher, who appeared calm, even as he described trying to comfort his son the day of the accident.
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>> my son was hysterical and in the back of an ambulance. very irate and i did my best to help him calm down. >> usher's aunt, the woman caring for the boys monday, also took the stand. the judge found her to be a competent caregiver. the judge found the aunt to be accident. the 5-year-old by the way, is doing much better and should be going home soon. >> thanks so much. guess what, everybody? it is shark saturday here on cnn. next, you'll meet the men who get in the water with giant killer sharks and they'll explain why they do this. next.
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♪ that has everybody singing. that was a show that defined saturday night for a generation and now, the ship that inspired the love boat is making its final voyage to the scrap heap. according to reuters, the ship -- isaac was behind the bar, oh, it's bringing back memories. heading to a ship breaking yard off the coast of turkey. that's where it will be stripped
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of its metal and parts, but not from our memory bank. ♪ it's time for our weekly series, the science behind. in this installment, we're taking a dive into the ocean to save a species we often fear. >> we just can't get enough of them. the ocean's most storied predator. hollywood's kept us fascinated since jaws. and this summer, the movie sharknado and discovery's much hyped shark week are drawing us back in. >> we're almost there. >> but how's this for a scare? you're ingches away from a grea white shark. it's been baited, hooked and walked on to this platform. fishing master brett mcbride
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jumps in, risking everything to guide the beast in. he's got to steady it, put a blanket over the eyes to calm it, get a line around its tail. one mistake, the shark wins. what do you tell your family? >> that i'm being safe. this has been my whole life, being around animals like this, being in the ocean, reading fish. they know i'm safe. i'm not a thrill seeker kind of person. >> a team of scientist has 15 minutes to take blood and tissue samples, see if the shark has health problems. this hose runs non-stop and attaches to this sleeve. they've got to run water through the sharks mouth through its gills. this one's been used on a great white shark. samples taken, tags attached, the shark is set free. the crew celebrates and gives this one a name.
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>> lydia, yeah, yeah, yeah! >> this is the work of o search, renowned scientists teaming with expert fishermen to tag, track and save the great white shark. >> spot's on. >> on the dorsal fin, a s satellite enables anyone to log on and use the tracker to see where the shark goes. some of with the ones tagged off cape cod has been tracked off bermuda. a big misconception is that they're a huge threat to us. every year, maybe five people are killed around the world by shark attacks, but we kill at least 38 million sharks a year. i spoke with the chief scientist. what happens if the shark population is decimated? >> sharks are a critical component. they're a top predator. something on which they feed may come out of balance and you get
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this cascade of effects that ultimately causes real problems not only for the ocean, but for man. >> brian todd, cnn, off the coast of cape cod. >> all right, coming up in the next hour, this hour we should say, oprah winfrey claims that she was the victim of racism. ininvolves a% that costs more than a car. hear what happened. we are just one month away now from the nautica triathlon. six of out of viewers, along with me, are going to be swimming a half mile in the ocean, biking 18 miles and running four miles on the beach. the culmination of seven months of intensive training. i can also tell you they're happy and healthy. if you're looking for a way to get fit, but aren't ready to commit to a triathlon, let me
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oprah winfrey said she was a victim of racism. the billionaire told entertainment tonight she was in a swiss handbag shop when the clerk refused to show her a crocodile purse. the manager insists it was a misunderstanding, saying the clerk wanted to show winfrey the same make of a purse in the cheaper version. the tom ford purse costs $30,000. dealing with racism is a prime theme in her latest project. she plays the wife of the bu butler, a fim m based on the life of eugene alan. a real butler in the white house who served eight presidents.
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>> so, your first dramatic role in 15 years. >> can you believe that? what made me say yes to that? >> that was my question. >> i was going through it. i was going through building own and thank goodness we were on the other side. at least headed in the right direction for that and i said to lee, this is the worst time you could ask me to do anything, lee. and you know, he just would not take no for an answer. i think that one of the reasons why there's so much still lingering prejudice and racism is because we don't get to see people as ourselves, so this was an opportunity to let the world feel 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. >> i was going to say will this
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generation that sees this movie today, do you think they'll get cecil gaines or look at him as weak? >> i certainly hope not. what i hope this generation sees, they see their own fathers and see their own fathers and recognize that there were different ways of being a warrior. that moment in the film where he goes in and says, the white help is making more than the black help here and i think that's not fair and we should get equal pay. that is his way of worrying. >> the conversation that is had in this film about race, race relations, we're still having that conversation today. >> i think we'll be having that conversation for a long time because you know, all of this, conversations about race, about profiling, regardless of what race is being profiled, is really about our march to humanity. it's about our march to not fearing one another and i think when you don't have stories and
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you don't have a placement in the culture where people can see there's a whole tapestry, one of the reasons why i love this film and wanted to be a part of it is because of the tenderness between the, of the husband and wife and the tenderness and nurturing nature of the middle class family. >> i've never seen that before. >> i know you hadn't seen it before. >> i know. >> seriously. >> isn't that just shocking? and what i ask other people, white people, black people, when have you seen tenderness and honor and respect and people who have been together and finish each other's sentences and you can see the caring. the caring happens not swrus when they're in bed together, but when they're sitting at the table and finishing each other's sentences. >> in the heat of the night. >> in the heat of the night.
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you can feel that. do you feel like you still experience racism of any form? >> nobody's going and i can't find them. twitter thugs. the twitter thugs. so i have learned to leave the twitter thugs alone. unless it is something ridiculous, no one is going to do it. i experienced racism in ways that you experience when you have reached a level where people can't call it to your face. i use it to my advantage. it's a wonderful thing when people count you out because they think you can't do something. it's a wonderful thing. i always say this. there's a poem called "grandmothers" and a live in there that says when i walk into the room, i come as one but i
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stand as 10,000. when i walk into the room and i'm the only one standing in there, i'm the only one. doesn't bother me a bit. >> can i ask you quickly about the good news you got earlier this week that own is going to turn a profit six months ahead of schedule. >> yeah, thank you so much for that. listen, from the beginning everyone told me it would take five years. i think because it was my name on the channel, there was an expectation that people were going to automatically turn on the tv and even though nothing was there they were going to just sit there and watch nothing. so we had to build the channel. now, i always believed it would take time. what threw me off was when i finished the show and everyone said why isn't it done yet? what i do when the going gets rough, there's no such thing as quitting. i have to -- i sit with myself. i go inside and i say, all
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right, what is the next right move? what do i need to do to turn this around? that's what we did. not i but my team. we had many, many, many nights. honey, jesus was at the table. jesus was at that table. that's why we are moving forward. jesus was at the table. thank you. >> thank you very much.
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round three. pga championship is under way in new york. chances are when it is all done tomorrow, we'll say what we've been saying since 2008. tiger woods is still looking for major victory number 15. joining me now is rachel nichols. that's cold blooded. totally out. no chance? >> reporter: a little bitler th better than when we last spoke. we'll see how he digs in as he goes through the rest of the afternoon. >> okay. so what else is up? jason duffner, get used to the name sort of or maybe not anymore? >> reporter: jason is still your leader. he's an american. he went to auburn. he actually came close to winning this tournament two years ago. he had only three holes to play.
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he was up five strokes. almost as if he couldn't lose except, well, fred, he lost. that was bad. however, in the time since he's not only gained confidence on the course, he's inspired a national trend. this was a picture of jason dufner visit classroom in texas inspiring kids instead they snatched him slouchy in this photo causing this trend called dufnering. they themselves took pictures and put on twitter of themselves slouching so i think you will see if he does end up winning this event not only payback for two years ago when he coughed up the lead and should have won and instead did not but also it will be a victory for dufnering, fred, and you have to like that. >> i'm trying it out a little bit. i don't know. it's kind of uncomfortable actually. i'll go back to sitting straight
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