moderate? >> i'm a conservative. and you know, i've governed as a conservative in this state and i think that's what's led to some people disagreeing with me. >> is he conservative enough to win over republicans in 2016? then pope francis, shaking things up once again, this time asking catholics what they think about gay marriage and divorce. the vatican survey on the modern family, coming up. plus, moments to live in, an extreme kayaker gets stuck under a waterfall and a daring rescue was caught on camera you're watching "around the world," the voters have spoken in key races around the knt and we're watching closely, ha does it mean for 2016 and the presidential race? the big winners are new jersey governor chris christie, a likely presidential hopeful. he beat his democratic challenger, in a mostly democratic state by a wide margin. we're talking 60% of the vote. well christie says he did it by

reaching across the aisle, something he says washington has not yet learned. an apparent reference to the 16-day government shutdown. >> if we can do this in trenton, new jersey, maybe the folks in washington, d.c. should tune in their tvs right now, see how it's done. >> and meanwhile, in virginia, the only other state to hold elections for governor, the year after presidential contests, bill clinton's close friend, terry mcauliffe won. the well-known democratic fundraiser narrowly defeated his republican opponent, ken cuccinelli. who seized on the obama care website. new york city has a new mayor, bill de blasio, the first democrat in 20 years to win the mayor's seat. joining us from washington, wolf blitzer. what struck me were two particular states. you have virginia and new

jersey, important in 2016 presidential race. virginia always this large swing state and governor chris christie. very strong in his home state. could put new jersey on the electoral map. which is really fascinating. what was your take-away? >> on the latter point you make, you're right. it could be close, because in the exit poll. we did in new jersey, we asked potentially hypothetically, would you support christie versus hillary clinton for the presidential race in 2016. and hillary clinton won, but by not many points. so new jersey, which in a presidential contest is very, very democratic, as opposed to republican. potentially could be up, if in fact christie were to run for the republican presidential nomination. all indications are, he seriously thinking about it. if he were to win, get the nomination, and hillary clinton were to get the democratic nomination, maybe even new jersey could be in play. who knows right there. i think the big problem he would have is getting the republican nomination. because he would have to win in states like iowa, new hampshire,

he probably could do well in. but south carolina, then florida, you know, another northeastern governor, rudy giuliani, tried the republican route that way. didn't exactly work out well for giuliani. so let's see. >> and governor christie, you know initially he was criticized by fellow republicans for praising the president, being on his side. because they worked very well together after superstorm sandy. well now right after he wins, yesterday in the interview with jake tapper, he was very critical of the president, saying that look, particularly obama care. that he was not forthcoming when he said that some people, actually everybody, would be able to keep their insurance, which did not end up being the case. and here's how he put it. >> here's what my suggestn would be to him. don't be so cute. and when make a mistake, admit it. listen, if it was a mistake in 2009, if he was mistaken in 2009, 2010 on his understanding of how the law would operate, then just admit it to people.

you know what? i said it, i was wrong. i'm sorry. and we're going to try to fix this and make it better. i think people would give any leader in that circumstance a lot of credit for just you know, owning up to it. instead of now like trying to don't lawyer it. people don't like lawyers, i'm a lawyer, they don't like them. >> wolf, i love the rolling bus shot. two things he seems to be doing, he's slamming the president, but he's also slamming obama care. which one do you think is going to be more effective winning over the republicans? >> i think he's going to have to do both if he wants to win the republican presidential nomination. he was giving the president, and i think they have a good relationship, especially after superstorm sandy at the end of the campaign last year. when the president came into new jersey, help new jersey, he warmly embraced the president. to the irritation of a whole bunch of republicans. including republicans in the romney campaign. he was giving the president some good advice. if the president made a mistake, americans are very forgiving. acknowledging the mistake,

saying it won't happen again and move on. instead of lawyering it, if you will. and lawyering it. he makes another good point, americans like leaders, they don't like lawyers. he said he's speaking as a lawyer. i think he's giving the president some good advice, the president is not yet ready to admit he made a mistake. as you know and all of our viewers know, he's finessing and putting some additional clauses on the earlier assertion, if you like your plan, you can keep your plan. >> all right. a little hit that the lawyers took as well there. thanks, wolf. sorry we didn't have time for virginia, i'm sure we'll get to that in the 1:00 p.m. hour. president obama is taking a political hit at least in the polls. take a look at this. only 39% of americans now approve of the job that the president is doing in the white house. 53% say they now disapprove, according to the latest numbers from gallup. it puts the president just one percentage point above his lowest approval rating of 38%. back in 2011. well some are pointing to the

botched roll-out of the president's health care reform website and of course the mountain criticism from all of that as well. president's point person for implementing obama care back on capitol hill, you see there, full damage control mode. we're talking about health and human services secretary, kathleen sebelius. testifying again. this time it is before the senate finance committee. she's facing some new questions about the troubled roll-out of the website. healthcare.gov. here's some of the back and forth. >> the 88% of americans we satisfied with their current health insurance plan. which is why the president no doubt made the promise that he made, and as you can see, as of yesterday afternoon, the white house website says if you like your plan, you can keep it. and you don't have to change a thing due to the health care law. well we know that lying to congress is a crime.

but unfortunately, lying to the american people is not. i just like to ask you a simple true or false question. is that statement on the white house website true? or is it false? >> sir, think the statement -- >> is it true or is it false, madam secretary. >> you ceep your plan. the vast majority of american who is are insured, are in the employer market, in public plans or in veterans' plans. and those plans have stayed in place and continue to offer benefits. the 11 million people who are in the individual market, a majority of those individuals will keep plans that now will have stronger coverage. and others will have to choose if they have a brand-new plan and not a grandfather, have to choose of a plan that they no longer get medically -- >> my time is limited, i would

ask that the record note that you have refused to answer my question, whether it's true or false. >> i just keep limping along. why not just shut it down and put it together the way it should be put together? many have pointed out that -- when all fixes tend to have unintended consequences down the road. that is, some other part of the system. no end-to-end running of the whole system after all the fixes have been made. and people ask, why hasn't that happened. pointing out also, that every day, when there's a story of somebody didn't get on, a blank page or a security problem, that's, that's -- bad media campaign. it's negative. it hurts, it doesn't help you. why not just have one bad story, you're shut down. and fix it all. why not shut it down and do it right? >> well, mr. chairman, i'm

relying on the advise of not only the inside team and contractors, but a lot of the outside experts who have come in to take a look at the system. and they did a number of things along the way. they did a series of diagnostics. looked at the entire system, and determined at the outset, that healthcare.gov is fixable. that it isn't fatally flawed, which was the initial report out of many people. secondly, we have asked that question a number of times. wouldn't it just be helpful to take the whole system down and make fixes along the way. we've been advised that that actually doesn't help. that it is better to do routine upgrades, some of which are hot patches, which can be done while the system is fully running. others are better to be done in

the maintenance period between 1:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m., when the user experiences are pretty low and we take the system down for periods of time. but given the fact that various fixes particularly the functionality fixes, the codes, have to be written in batches, it's been advised that you don't gain much from just taking the whole system down. >> joe johns joining us from washington. so joe, last week we heard from kathleen sebelius. she apologized and took full responsibility for the problems associated with the website here. but now we have more information. we're learning about more problems than we were first told. li 50e c center rdsavings in the initial days. how is she explaining the new information, the new problems that we're learning about this week? >> well, it's interesting, suzanne. they talked a lot about the issue of security. and that has been a major issue. both in the house and the

senate. she's pushing that line thaw heard right there. that they're fixing the website. they're doing the best they can. and it's improving every day. which is precisely what the white house has been saying as well. this is a real tough position for kathleen sebelius, defending a high-profile government rollout that just went very poorly. suzanne. >> did she respond at all to the idea of the notion of taking it down, fixing it and bringing it back up? or was that just a nonstarter? >> well, she did. and her position is that according to the experts, it's better to do what they're doing right now. which is try to fix the plane while it's in the air, flying. she says she's been given the recommendation to do that. and so far, it's working very well. she also made the hee tore cal point that you're not going to be able to get cancer for example, to take a holiday. so there's a real reason and an now.ncy to get this thing going >> now the obama administratio says that the website is going to be fixed by the end of the

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truth that this mayor could no longer trun. months of secret police surveillance of ford was made public last week in connection with the mayor's arrest. police say so far, the mayor isn't charged with anything. police did confirm that they have the video. the one that allegedly shows mayor ford smoking crack cocaine from a pipe. and mayor ford says he wants to see it. >> i want everyone in the city to see this tape. i'd like to see the tape. i don't even r there being a tape or a voixt i want to see the state i was in. >> but now mayor ford says he's putting it all out there, he's looking for forgiveness. >> i have nothing left to hide. i embarrassed everyone in the city, i will be forever sorry. >> he had a lot to say except the words -- i'm stepping down.

>> i was elected to do a job and that's exactly what i'm going to continue to do. >> he intends to run for mayor again next fall. >> not only is he running, many people here in the city say he actually has a good chance of winning ag if he runs. you know, he has a strong base of support here and it has been a movement some people call it the ford nation of people in the suburbs, really deciding tha they want city hall back here to get their act together. and that means reducing taxes. it doesn't have anything to do with people's personal lives. many people here today, suzanne, still telling me, this is the best mayor the city has ever had. hugely controversial and i can promise you, the story isn't >> unbelievable story. and pope francis is taking a survey, and he's asking catholics, what do they think about gay marriage and divorce. the vatican survey on the modern family, pretty amazing stuff, coming up.

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of amanda knox was in court today for a retrial. he said life has been a nightmare beyond imagination. he is calling the chachs against him absolutely absurd. both knox and the boyfriend have served four years in an italian prison. they were charged with killing knox's roommate. and knox says she's afraid to go to italy. the convictions were overturned in 2011 for lack of evidence. and secretary of state john kerry met with mahmoud abbas. he's trying to get peace talks back on track. earlier he met with israeli prime minister benjamin nittenia hue. and said after the meeting, both sides have legitimate demands and deserve to live in peace. and pope francis shaking things up once again. in the catholic faith, this time by sending a survey out about gay marriage, divorce, other controversial issues, to the

parishes around the world. it's kind of this global rollout by the vatican. who better than to talk about all this our senior vatican analyst, john allen. we're talking about same-sex unions, mixed marriages, single-parent families, surrogate moms, just to name a few. what, first of all, what is the pope interested in knowing. >> well, suzanne, listen, i think the story is a perfect example of the francis effect in action. the truth of it is stuff that otherwise might seem kind of ho-hum, suddenly seems new and fresh and full of possibility. because we've got a pope who is perceived as a maverick. the pope has summoned a meeting of bishops for next october to talk about the family. the vatican has done these meetings off and on for 40 years and they always send out a survey in advance. i think the new thing in this case is francis seems interested in hearing not just from bishops and others, but also hearing from the grassroots. so he's asked for people to chip in their two cents on the various issues you mentioned. so you know, what's the reality

with gay marriage in their part of the world? what's the reality of people living together before marriage? what's the reality on divorced and remarried catholics and so on. we should say this doesn't indicate that church teaching in those areas is on the brink of undergoing a revolution. the vatican official said during a press conference yesterday, that it doesn't mean that the church teaching is about to change. but the pope wants to know what the reality on the ground is, so he can gear the church up of doing a better job of caring for these folks. >> why does the pope want 0 know that? you say there's not going to be a lot of change. but clearly he's trying to tap into something here. he's trying to understand people of the faith. why does he believe that he needs this kind of information? >> well, i think fundamentally, what francis is trying to do suzanne is to use secular language. he's trying to rebrand the catholic church. he's trying to take existing church teaching and doctrine for the most part. but trying to put a more compassionate and welcoming and merciful face on all of that.

and in order to do that, i think he feels that he and the other kind of leadership apparatus of the vatican, need to know what the reality on the ground is in different parts of the world. and let's face it, the way the typical american might think about gay marriage or divorce or contraception might be very different had than the way the person in sub-sarahan africa or the middle east might think about it there are 1.2 billion catholics in the world. two-thirds live in latin america, asia and the middle east that might have different takes on these issues. i think the pope wants to know what's bubbling in those parts of the world. >> john, quick before i let you go. i'm one of those catholics, i'm in church on sunday. am i going to get a questionnaire or a survey from my priest to ask me those questions? does it trickle down to the rest of us? >> well that remains to be seen. the vatican has put the ball in the bishops' court as to how it will do this i expect it will work differently in every diocese. >> you don't need to have a

survey to have an opinion on these things. if you have something you want to get off your chest, as a mass-going catholic, walk up to your priest and tell it. thank you. now shocking images, this is from russia's capital had this is national unity day, that's what it's called in moscow. but it's anything but, demonstrators called for a whites-only russia. while some flashed heil hitler salutes. now organizers were expecting about double the number of people who actually showed up. so what is all of this about? this is a national holiday. seen as a way for racists to blow off some steam. and the government created it five years ago to commemorate the polish leaving moscow in 1612. well, you might say, when one election booth closes, another one opens. coming up, how new jersey governor chris christie, could be setting himself up for a presidential run. the question is does he have what it takes to win over the

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new jersey governor chris christie handily beat his democratic challenger. >> do you think of yourself as a conservative? do you think of yourself as a moderate? how -- >> i'm a conservative. and you know, i've governed as a conservative in this state. and i think that's what's led to some people disagreeing with me in our state. because it's generally a left of center blue state. but i think that the difference has been, i haven't tried to hide it or mask it as something different. i just tell people, this is who i am. >> cnn political commentator, maria car daytona, democrat, joining us from washington and cnn commentator ken joining us from dallas. i want to start off with you

here, it was fascinating when you saw how all of this played out yesterday and last night. christie prides himself on reaching across the aisle, working with democrats. working with those in the democratic state there. and got into some heat when he thanked the president, really worked well with him after super storm sandy. so you know let's start off with you. tell us what you think he needs to do to prove that he's not too moderate for the republicans. that he does have a base that he can count on. >> well, i think you got to look at new jersey. and he has done the best that he can, living in a state that is moderate, some would say at best. and he's been able to do that incredibly well. but he's also been able to be true conservative, he's taken on teachers. he's gotten in people's faces that get in his face. he's not afraid to fight back. and i think a lot of conservatives love that about chris christie. he's blunt, he's bold and he's real. he's not calculated in the political ways of kissing babies and shaking hands, what you see

is what you get. i think it can work to his advantage if he decides to run for president. i think the hardest part for him is, there are a lot of really core conservative people that see him compromising the democrats, being moderates on some of the issues that he is in new jersey as saying well he's not one of us. and sometimes there's going to be a fight there. there's going to have to a compromise there. and some people aren't going to like chris christie. but overall, i think he's got a good shot at being the republican nominee next time if he chooses to do it. >> maria, i want to talk a little about these polls. i think it goes to what the republican party is trying to do here. but you have the early exit polls, which show that christie won 63% of the men, 57% of the women. made progress with hispanics, winning 51% compared with 32% back in 2009. and if you take a look at african-americans as well, winning 21% compared to 9%. so is he, is he a threat to the democrats here, when he is able

to actually win over some of the base of the party, in particularly the moderates as well? >> well i think he certainly has shown a kind of pathway for republicans. in terms of how to win in a blue state. >> ben talked about some of those issues, can he get through a republican primary. i can see ted cruz running an ad bludgeoning chris christie for the hugs he gave to president obama when they were working on super storm sandy. i can see the ads about chris christie's immigration reform stance which is one of the reasons why he got a majority of the latino votes. but he will get pummeled in the republican primary. because of it. so i think it's very doubtful that he will actually get through the republican primary process with today's republican base. that could change. but i would also say let's not read too much into it one of the exit polls was, if hillary clinton were to run, who would

you choose? majorities of new jerseyens chose hillary clinton for president, as opposed to chris christie. >> see, i disagree with the primary, him not being able to get out of it and here's why. if you do have ted cruz and you have a mike huckabee and rick santorum. other hard conservatives like that running in the primary. they're going to be sharing a lot of people's votes we saw it last time in the primaries that we had with the republicans and so a guy that was not a hard conservative, mitt romney, came out as a victory because there were so many people fighting for that core conservative at the very beginning. that can actually play i think to chris christie's hand here. and i think you're right, he's going to have a tough time in the primaries. it would be much easier i think for him in the general election. but if you look at mitt romney, you look at john mccain, they also were sitting in the same boat that we're now seeing christie sitting in and both of them came through? >> maria, ten seconds to wrap. >> here's the problem with what happened with mitt romney. he didn't stay as the moderate.

he ran so to the right, ben, that he was way to the right of all of those conservatives that you just mentioned. so unless chris christie does that -- i don't think he's going to get through the process. >> i think he's a boring candidate. >> we've got to leave it there. there's going to be a lot more excitement. we've got until 2016 to play this thing out. maria cardona, and ben ferguson, thank you so much. sure. and the president uses twitter. actually as well, twitter helping start a revolution in the middle east. coming up, now you can own a piece of twitter. it's going public. [ ship horn blows ] no, no, no! stop! humans. one day we're coming up with the theory of relativity,

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that began through the internet, through facebook and twitter. dictators stepping aside is something that no one, not just me, but the entire region, ever imagined could be possible. >> and a miracle on the hudson documented. >> the first picture came from twitter. >> i saw that there were survivors on there. i took a picture. i happened to be on twitter. so i just did a quick twit pic and posted it. >> here at cnn, a race for followers. >> if i beat cnn to a million followers, i will literally go and ding-dong-ditch ted turner's house. >> do you think you can take on an entire network? do you know how big we are? cnn will bury you! >> let's just say he hash tag won and now the start-up is spreading its wings, it will trade under the ticker twtr.

>> i think a lot of people are watching the ipo because of the expectations of what happened with facebook. why everybody is so a-twitter is because of what's going to happen now. this is the next big public-facing technology company to go public. >> so what's next? >> there's always a lot of challenges, relevancy. continuing to stay relevant. growing users and improving on the value proposition that you sell to advertisers. >> those micromessages will translate to millions, if not billions for investors and founders. co-founder, evan williams could now be worth between $1.3, to $1.4 billion. the ceo could be $191.9 million. and a board member's stake could be as much as $789 million. >> it's a stupid, it's just crap. >> no longer the butt of the joke. investors will now see if shares of twitter will soar. lori siegel, cnn money, new york.

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here's nick payton-walsh. >> this is what happens when al qaeda claims they came to help, but instead decide to rule this man beaten for spraying graffiti. >>. >> translator: every 15 minutes someone poured water on me, electrocuted me, kicked me and walked out. he said. he was dragged from the city streets of racca into this church that al qaeda had torched and marked as their base. they tortured many. >> translator: when a person is tortured in front of you, you feel responsible. that's the hardest. one guy still inside used to call me dad as i taught him about democracy. >> al qaeda-linked militants the islamic state of iraq and sir yarks known as isis have put an end to the liberal lifestyles of racca. they put up posters asking women to cover their beauty. they roam at night.

preaching to a cafe that smoking will be banned. by day, they bun confiscated cigarettes. life looks normal, even though just filming it could get you flogged. but look closer -- women's rights are vanishing. there are new rules, wear islamic clothing. don't see a maelg doctor, don't leave home without a male relative. >> they're closing hair salons, women can't go out at certain times. they spat on one girl for disobedience. it's like afghanistan. now people call racca, tora bora. >> this islamist school indoctrinates the city's youngest, the first steps. at the weekend, one nearby town awoke to signs saying thieves would have their hands cut off. isis has in this graphic video filmed by activists, their own

form of justice. in may, isis swept in, their brutality against these alleged regime thugs an antidote to the weak and chaotic rebels. can you hear the crowd's fury for blood revenge. the hole in society that al qaeda slipped into. but soon, isi s's heavy hand sparked protests. they began arresting other rebels who didn't agree with them, like this girl's father. >> translator: they've had daddy for a month, she says, i miss him very much. today, locals complain using graffiti, they don't dare protest, only dare film this at night. the revolution sprang to life because the regime tortured boys for graffiti. now al qaeda does the same. and many wonder if the revolution itself is dead. nick payton-walsh, turkey.

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a virtual child is being used as bait, as an online operation. now it targets potential cybersex customers and pedophiles. a children's rights group says that more than 20,000 predators have approached this virtual girl. now becky anderson introduces us to how this works. my name is sweetie. i'm ten years old. i live in the philippines. every day i have to sit in front of the web cam and talk to men. >> when she logs online to internet chat rooms, sweetie is bombarded by requests. >> the men ask me to take off my clothes. they undress. >> men from all over the world, three, four, five times her age ask her to perform sexual acts in front of a web cam. >> as soon as i go online, they

come to me. then, 10, 100, every hour. so many. >> but sweetie, also has a secret. >> but what they don't know, i'm not real. i'm a computer model. made piece by piece, to track down these men who do this. >> she's the creation of dutch ngo ted asan, they use her avatar to pose on internet chat rooms, baiting men online who prey on children. in ten weeks, the charity says some 20,000 men contacted sweetie. with 1,000 offering her money for explicit acts. a number of the charity's director says illustrates the demand. >> with the extension of the internet, with the decreasing prices of the internet, it will

get more and more accessible, not just for the western part of the globe, but also for the developing world. which means that there will be more of victims, there will be more children exposed to this phenomenon. >> the charity has launched a campaign to end so-called web cam tourism. where men go online to pay children from developing countries to perform sex acts. >> we have shifted our attention to the demand side if nothing is being done about the source of the problem, this phenomenon will only increase, even further. >> the charity has given the identities of the 1,000 men who offered sweetie money, to authorities. while sweetie's true identity is now known, it's hoped she'll act as a deterrent. the project serving as a warning to predators that they can also become prey. becky anderson, cnn, london. >> now this olympic swimmer ryan lochte is going to be out of the pool for a little bit because he a run-in with a teenaged girl in florida. we can explain this. according to "u.s.a. today," the

five-time gold medalist severely injured his left knee after an over-zealous female fan tried to jump into his arms. lochte felling, slamming on his knee on a curb. well he's expected to make a full recovery. but unclear when he's actually going to be able to compete again. and the girl is okay as well. well that's it for us for "around the world," cnn newsroom starts right now. have a good afternoon. right now we're waiting to hear from the new jersey governor, chris christie. just hours after his landslide row re-election victory. right now, kathleen sebelius just finished facing some very tough questions over the problems plaguing the obama care website. the health and human services secretary testifying by the senate finance committee. and right now, a record day on wall street, the dow hitting an all-time intraday high this morning. right now it's up, up 98 points

right now. hello, i'm wolf blitzer reporting today from washington. you can stick a fork in election 2013 -- it's done. now the pundits and the politicians are busy reading the tea leaves to see what the results mean going forward. was this a referendum on obama care? and if so,