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looking at them to put together a great team. if you're tired of making excuses regarding your health, just do this logon to cnn.com/fitnation and you and i will train together. that's all the time we've got for "sg md." time now to get you back into the "cnn newsroom" with don lemon. welcome back, everyone, to our live news coverage. i'm don lemon, you're in the "cnn newsroom." it is 6:00 sunday morning in the philippines. sunrise breaking on a national tragedy, and i'm talking about the utter devastation caused by an enormous pacific typhoon. the storm smashed into the philippine islands with a fury tearing roofs from buildings, ripping trees from the ground and cutting off hundreds of thousands of people from communications and any ability to move to safety.
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the people of the philippines are not only dealing with the cleanup and repair but the human cost is immense. early estimates put the death toll at more than 1,200 people and that's just in two coastal provinces. that number will likely rise considerably as casualty reports come in from rural areas. about 350,000 people are without homes today because of that storm. and we have some remarkable images that we want to share with you, they are emerging from the philippines, many from right in the heart of the destruction. storm chaser james reynolds tried to bring people to safety in the hard-hit coastal city of tachlabahn. >> over here.
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>> okay. >> guys, one more. any more in there, josh? >> yeah, two more. >> two more. one more? >> i think we got everyone. >> good, everyone. >> okay, i can feel electricity in the water, guys, my legs are tingling. >> so, i spoke with james reynolds as he described to people who had never lived or experienced a storm like this what it was like. >> it was just absolute screaming mayhem, don. the winds were so ferocious. it was like a blinding,
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deafening whiteout. huge chunks of debris were hitting the concrete building we were in. you could feel the building shake and the water was just entering every corner of the building, flowing down the stairs and the hotel like a waterfall. and then the storm surge came and it was very, very rapidly rising, within minutes the entire first floor of the hotel was swamped and unfortunately ran in to a captain there, they didn't have time to get out of their rooms, escape to the higher floors to safety, and it was a really desperate situation, don. >> as we're looking, we're looking at people being rescued it looks like on eater rafts or mattresses or cardboard, i'm not exactly sure, but in the video of the rescue, cnn producer tim schwartz and cnn international anchor andrew stevens helped pull people to safety and you shot the video. walk us through what is happening in this video.
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>> yes, absolutely. it came to our attention that one family was trapped in one of the hotel rooms. they couldn't get out somehow and heard a woman screaming desperately and smashing the glass windows with her fists in a desperate attempt to get out and it was clear that they it was basically a life-or-death situation. one of my colleagues josh morgan and he went out there trying to fish another colleague actually injured himself, but the team among us managed to get some sort of flotation device, a mattress i think, something to float to get that family out which includes some elderly and infirm people who on not get out by themselves and with those flotation devices we managed to put them on and get them to safety, don. >> it's just unbelievable. so, i hear you guys talking there, you're talking about electricity in the water. when it's that much water, i would imagine it's probably a good thing that there is no electricity in the town because
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that would be another disaster, correct? >> yeah, absolutely. and the communications are out right now, but the floodwaters were exceedingly dangerous, you know, and electrocution was a threat at the height of the storm. one of my colleagues mark actually injured himself very severely, and at the height of the storm it was an extremely hazardous situation there. >> so, this storm could go down as one of the strongest storms to hit land ever. you've chased a lot of storms. how was this one different? was it the intensity? was it the wind? was it the water? >> don, the line's not so good, so i didn't fully hear your question. but in terms of the strength of the storm, it was one of the most severe landfalling tropical
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cyclones in recorded history anywhere in the world. that puts it in perspective and that's not an exaggeration. this was the top end of the strength of these storms that was physically possible and to hit a country like the philippines where the infrastructure is not as good as compared to the other countries in the region, it's a double whammy of perfect ingredients of a massive disaster that is unfolding, don. >> where are you off to next? are you staying put? or are you going to continue to move around? >> i am miraculously managed to get on a military flight to sibu city, all my reporting gear has either sustained major damage and has to be left behind, so i'm going to try to get to hong kong to get some of the images that i took at the height of the storm and the aftermath so people can see what happened in
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this devastating storm, don. >> devastating, you can't really say how devastating those pictures. and, you know, the pictures that we're seeing on the ground show the destruction that super typhoon haiyan left behind but its massive strength is striking from space. it's a killer storm as seen from space. nasa tweeted the picture on saturday as they passed over southeast asia on board the international space station. you can see that even in orbit, even in orbit, about 240 miles above the earth, haiyan's clouds still filled nearly the entire frame of that photograph. so, aid agencies are mobilizing to help the victims of the typhoon and to find out how you can help go to cnn.com/impact. we'll continue to update you on the super typhoon, a man makes it all the way onto a
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ask your health care provider about levemir® flexpen today. welcome back, everyone, a man breached security at seattle's airport last night and even made it onto a plane. he eventually made it onto the tarmac and punched an empty plane window to get inside before tsa officers chased him down. a rep for the airport says no one was hurt and no flights were delayed, but drugs may have been involved. that's what they believe. 11 bikers have been indicted for allegedly beating the driver of an suv and an undercover detective is included charged with gang assault. he was off duty that day but
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prosecutors say he can be seen hitting the suv. you've probably seen the video, the driver allegedly bumped one motorcyclist and hit two more when he tried to drive away. he said he was cut off and his family's lives were in danger. he has not been charge d. a utah doctor convicted of drugging his wife and then drowning her in a bathtub could spend the rest of his life in prison. >> as to count one, murder, guilty. >> martin mcneil remains stone-faced when the guilty verdict was read early this morning. but behind him an outburst of emotion filled the courtroom. the star witness in the 22-day trial were mcneil's four daughters who testified against him. one of them said she was happy with the verdict. >> so happy he can't hurt anyone else. we miss our mom. we'll never get her back. but that courtroom was full of so many people who loved her. i looked around, and it was full
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of everyone who loved my mom. >> sentencing mart can mcneil early january, we'll carry it live on cnn. ted cruz visited jay leno last night, cowboy boots and all. leno said the senator who made his name with the marathon speech against obama care is gaining a reputation for being controversial even abrasive, but cruz said he's just trying to do his job and some people may not like that. here's what he had to say about congress' latest approval rating -- >> congressional approval is at 12%. >> i'm amatezed it's that high. >> you're amazed it's that high. americans are sick of this brinksmanship, don't you think? >> i think americans are deeply frustrated that washington is broken. and i think it's a bipartisan problem. i think the biggest divide we have is not between republicans and democrats. it is between entrenched
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politicians in both parties and washington and the american people. >> senator ted cruz also defended his dad who recently made comments against same-sex marriage. cruz said people should pick on him and not his father who is his hero. you're about to hear about the assassination of president john f. kennedy here on cnn. the 50th anniversary of that world-changing day is coming up very soon. and did you know that our own secretary of state is one of those guys who doesn't believe the official government conclusion about who was responsible for jfk's death? >> where do you come down on the conspiracy theories? >> to this day i have serious doubts that lee harvey oswald acted alone. >> really? >> i certainly have doubts that he was -- that he was motivated by himself. i mean, i'm not sure if anybody else was involved. i don't go down that road with
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respect to the grassy knoll theory and all of that. but i have serious questions about whether they got to the bottom of lee harvey oswald's time and influence from cuba and russia. >> and what about the cia? there are some who believe -- >> i've never gone there. no, i don't believe that. >> but you think the russians and the cubans may have had something to do with it? >> i think he was inspired somewhere by something and i don't know what or any -- i can't pin anything down on that, tom, and i never spent a lot of time -- >> so, wherever you fall in the conspiracy spectrum, make sure you watch our cnn original film "the assassination of president kennedy." premieres thursday night 9:00 eastern, make sure you tune in. set your dvr as well. again, thursday 9:00 eastern right here on cnn, "the assassination of president kennedy." a little girl starved to death, then her body burned. her parents now facing charges and the head of child services admitting the system failed the child. we're getting some answers about
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the details surrounding the case of 10-year-old amani moss almost too hard to hear, starved to death, burned and found dead in a trash can and now allegations that the abuse may
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have been going on for some time now and that's according to cnn affiliate wsb. her case includes six previous contacts or complaints with the georgia department of family and child services dating pack to 2003. the most recent complaint happened just two months before her death. father and stepmother were in court on friday facing charges of felony murder, first-degree cruelty to children and concealing a body. i want to bring in now human behavior expert dr. wendy walsh in los angeles and criminal defense attorney holly hughes in atlanta. it's just awful, isn't it? you know, holly, the dfcs director admits that there have been agency failures in this case, the system failing this little girl. >> absolutely. and given the fact this latest report, don, came in two months before this little girl was starved to death and subsequently burned in a metal trash can in her apartment complex. and they closed it without further investigation because they said we couldn't find a
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good address. given the fact that this child had been checked on six prior times, that is all the more reason the agency should have stepped up and worked additionally hard to find that address. this little girl was enrolled in school. go to the school and check out where it is that the current address is listed. this is inexcusable behavior, don. and unless something is done to step up how these investigations are run, we are going to see more children suffer. >> wendy, you know, the couple charged here allegedly tried to cover up the death. what goes through a person's head to make a decision like this? >> well, they're only thinking about themselves at this point, don. but, you know, we've talked in past weeks about how one of the most dangerous places for a child to live is in a home with a nonbiologically related male. there's a reason why historic fairy tales and disney movies
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talk about evil stepmothers, too, because when the parent doesn't have a connection to the child there's a risk that they won't have the cellular empathy you need to keep the child safe. let's not just blame the department of children and family services, let's talk about a school system. if the child is truant, they need to check up, the medical doctors and the dental doctors need to raise red flags when they see them. >> can we go back, too, because, wendy, when we talked about that nonbiological thing, people go insane, right? why is it so hard for people to get that through their heads? >> well, because two things, one there are lots of great stepparents out there of both genders, but secondly adults don't like to be inconvenienced, you know, i once said to a divorce attorney, have you ever thought of leaving the kids in a stable home and making the parents switch every single week, and the attorney said it happened once and the parents only lasted a couple months and yet we expect children to be
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shuffled around. >> amen. let's move on. i want to talk about this subject because i've been getting a lot of feedback about it online and people say why aren't you covering it. this will be the fourth time i'll be covering it. the police in detroit investigating whether a 19-year-old woman killed on the front porch of the home she was looking for help after a car accident, the person said the shotgun went off striking the woman in the face. do you expect charges to be brought against this homeowner, holly? >> absolutely, don. shotgun -- this is such a fallacy. when i hear the gun accidentally went off, it's crap, don, guns don't accidentally discharge especially not shotguns. what the police are doing right now i guarantee it, they are looking at the trigger pull on that particular model to see how much pressure has to be applied for that gun to go off. they don't go off by themselves. at the very least if he was terrified enough to answer the door with a gun in his hand, why
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open the door, don? why not just holler through the door, what can i do? you need help? i'll call 911 for you. this does not sound right in any universe, and at the very least if we don't see a murder, we need to see a negligent homicide, a manslaughter, something coming out of this, don. >> but, holly, listen, there are -- there's some reporting that's not exactly accurate in this case because the accident happened, like, 1:00 in the morning. the car accident, right? she was in a car accident. >> exactly, correct. >> and then by the time she was shot, this was, like, 3:00, almost 4:00 in the morning, so investigators want to know, you know, what went on in those hours, the two or three or almost four hours. >> it's an important question. >> and then they said -- and also -- and also, they said she was shot in the back of the head. she was not. she was shot in the face. >> right. >> she was facing him. she wasn't trying to turn away when she was shot. go ahead. >> but it is an important question what happened in those intervening two hours, but, don,
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it's a little bitt irrelevant, e want to fill in the story, but what happened during the face-to-face exchange at that moment. >> right. >> why did you have a shotgun in your hand? why was it pointed at her face? is there any evidence whatsoever even though some of the reports have been inconsistent i have not heard and you can back me up on this that the young lady had a weapon of any kind. >> right. >> that she uttered any kind of threat, i haven't heard any of that. so what she did in the prior two hours is irrelevant to what the homeowner did at the time he opened the door to her holding a shotgun aimed at her face. >> i'm glad you answered that. wendy, why answer the door with a gun if you've been that fearful or there have been break-ins or whatever, why even go to the door? >> well, because some people respond to feelings of fear with aggression. n they put on a great offense when they're feeling defensive. this reminds me of a story we did on hln with jane velez
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mitchal, a college football player, accident, he was disorie disoriented, she was so afraid she called the police, the police came and shot him. i'll have to wave this flag because you haven't, don, there's a little racism going on here, too, potentially, if they're fear based, they tend to fear things that are different from them and if it's the middle of the night and they own a gun. the big question i have is, do you think more people with fear-based thinking tend to purchase guns. good question? >> that is a great question. making us think. i like that. thank you, wendy. thank you, holly. appreciate it. >> all right. >> thanks, don. a super typhoon leaves a trail of death and destruction in the philippines. the images and the sounds from the storm zone next. ♪
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of problem and can't figure out how to handle it, i go on to the forums and as i sleep the problems are floating across europe and by lunch i could have five or six good solutions. >> reporter: making it easier for the rov go into more uncharted waters. >> people ask us, is it a toy that's fun to build and play with or is it something that you expect to be used by real researchers and our answer is certainly both. >> we hear from people all the time that want to go in and find and check on invasive species, fish and game groups and teachers that want to get them into classrooms and we're excited about all of them. all right, let me update you now on the overwhelmingly recovery work that is just starting in the philippines. a monster typhoon that is a pacific hurricane, a typhoon is a pacific hurricane, it's as big as germany, terrorismle the power of hurricane katrina, triple the power of hurricane
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katrina, it shredded the philippines islands and leaving about 1,200 people dead and 350,000 people have no homes across the country. the typhoon either tore the homes to pieces or wiped them all altogether. the cost in human lives and buildings and infrastructure were impossible to estimate as bodies washed up on beaches and littered the streets. storm chasers on the ground described the destruction as apocalyptic devastation. >> during the height of the storm, the scream of the wind was deafening. we could just hear thunderous crashes of debris flying through the air, you know, at some point you could feel the whole hotel which is made of solid concrete shaking as some unknown object was just repeatedly crashing into the side of the hotel. >> we have storm surge starting to flood the ground floor of the hotel. residents are evacuating up to
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the second floor. >> we had residents staying at the hotel on the ground floor you can see in the video who were trapped. they were smashing windows in sheer desperation to try and get out of those hotel rooms, you know, in total fear for their lives. >> over here. >> i was riding out the storm with the cnn crew and andrew stevens and tim schwartz and it was really put the cameras down. we got to get out there and help these people otherwise, you know, there's the possibility they could drown. >> one more? >> no, i think we got everyone. >> we're good. everyone? >> it was a life-and-death situation for those people and it was an incredibly dangerous situation. people are roaming the streets just dazed and confused. i just hope this gives them that -- it's hard to describe in words. i hope this can give, you know, the viewers an understanding of what the situation was like there. it's desperate. so we got some looting going on
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at the drugstore by the looks of it. people are starting to get pretty desperate, it would seem. you can see with just basically heading back to the hotel to meet mark. this town is suffering very badly. i've been through a lot of typhoons before. i've been through a lot of natural disasters before and this just does not -- it's incomparable, this is just off the scale in terms of just an event to witness and the aftermath is honestly apocalyptic in tacloban. it's a devastating situation. >> wow. aid agencies mobilizing to help the victims of the typhoon. to find out how you can help -- and you can help -- go to cnn.com tha cnn.com/impact. cnn.com/impact. so, they increase the shelf life of food, but they could say -- but you could say, excuse me, that they decrease the shelf life in humans. we're talking about trans fats
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okay. it's just about dinnertime here on the east coast and you're heading out. if you're heading out the door to your favorite restaurant, hold on, because you're going to talk -- we're going to talk about the food that we eat and what's in it, okay? hold on, i promise you, you will like this. specifically trans fats. the fda is taking the first steps to ban it from our food supply. trans fats are hydrogenated oils that make foods like, oh, my gosh look at that, doughnuts. microwave popcorn, frozen pizza, makes it taste so good. in a moment our two guests are going to shed light on what the ban means to all of us. but first we want to get some background from cnn's chief medical correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta.
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>> reporter: it's an ingredient in a lot of our favorite foods, microwave popcorn, cookie, cakes, frozen pizza and much more. transfats. they increase shelf life and they add flavor to processed foods. but the fda is now saying they are not safe and wants to ban them. it's a move they say would save thousands of lives. >> we think it's time to address and really phase out the remaining uses of trans fat in the diet so that we can reduce the incidence of heart disease and deaths resulting from heart attack. >> reporter: you see trans fats lower good cholesterol and they raise bad cholesterol. what we're trying to avoid is this -- ldl or bad cholesterol building up as plaque in the blood vessel walls. because that plaque buildup is what can cause heart attacks. the cdc says ditching trans fats would prevent up to 20,000 heart attacks a year and as many as 7,000 more deaths from heart disease.
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new york city banned trans fats from restaurants in 2007. and many companies and popular chains around the country have already phased them out. the grocery manufacturers association says that it looks forward to working with the fda to better understand their concerns and how the industry can better serve consumers. >> okay. so, i've got a bunch of food here, and i'm joined -- take the true shot now. with so many foods to choose from it can be hard to navigate, and we're going to try to figure out what's murky in these ingredients because sometimes it says it has no trans fats and it might have trans fats. not all the foods here have trans fats in them. that's not what we're saying. we have a variety here. and some of this is my favorite diet. these. i want to bring in the experts now. joining me in studio is alexis towers, she's a personal trainer and lifestyle coach and on skype from charlotte, north carolina,
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is bonnie hari, the creator of foodbabe.com, don't get offended if i call her the food babe, that's what she calls her. alexis, let's start with you and the products in front of us. it's a little murky because sometimes it says it doesn't have it, but it does. >> yeah, when the fda first said that, you know, food manufacturing companies had to basically put the food labeling on there and tell you how much fat and trans fat was actually in a product, even though it says zero grams of trans fat on there, it doesn't necessarily means it has zero grams of trans fat. >> like this. my executive producer and i vickie russell were, like, this was our diet growing up in our lunch pail we had funyuns or cheetos or whatever, it says zero trans fats and when you go down there it says hydrogenated soybean oil, does that mean trans fats? >> yes, partially hydrogenated
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oils are trans fats. the regulations state that the food labels must have the trans fat amount on there, but if it is under -- >> right. >> -- 0.5 grams they don't actually have to declare it, it can say zero grams trans fats but if you go on to the ingredients it may say partially hydrogenated oils. >> if we look at this, oh, my gosh, do you remember honey buns, right? this honey bun has a 0.5 grams of trans fats. do they have to declare that? >> no. they don't have to declare anything less than 0.5. so, here's where the tricky situation comes in, is if you eat more than one serving you could get more than a gram or maybe four or five grams of trans fat in one serving, and one popular product that has trans fat is microwave popcorn. i don't know when the last time you ate 3popcorn, i don't eat oe cup, i eat one bowl.
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trans fats are still allowed in foods when the label says zero. >> here you go. because i went and bought this today just for this prop and i opened it. and -- >> and you ate it? >> rosa perez -- rosa florez, rosa perez, i can't believe i called her that. rosa and i ate this popcorn as soon as we opened it, as soon as we got it here. listen, bonnie, why does it taste so good and it's so bad for you? >> well, you know, the thing is, is trans fat inherently doesn't taste that different than real fat. what trans fat's done it's allowed food companies to create a shelf-stable oil that stays on the shelf forever basically and allows -- >> but what's wrong with that, then? what's wrong with that? >> well, what's wrong with that, it's clogging our arteries, it's causing up to two -- i'm sorry, 20,000 heart attacks a year and up to 7,000 deaths. i mean, just a 40-calorie increase of trans fat in your diet increases your heart rate
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risk -- heart rate disease rate risk to 23%. that's an astronomical, we should be, i mean, eating really healthy fats. >> listen, if rosa and i only eat these once a month or once every three months or what have you, it's moderation, what's the big deal? >> no trans fats are good for you. like, no trans fats are good for you. you can't argue for it in any way, there's no nutritional value and you could make a better alternative by yourself. >> vodka isn't good for you, but if i have a couple glasses of vodka, what is it -- >> well, i guess, no one's perfect. but the thing is people don't realize you can eat the same foods, you just have to be really aware of how you're preparing it. you just have to prepare it differently. >> stand by, everyone, we'll go to break and come back and we'll talk more about what's good for you, what's bad for you, and i have a lot of people on social media saying how am i going to do my christmas cakes without the trans fats? they taste so good. don't go away. we'll be right back.
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okay. so we are back and we're talking about trans fats, alexa is a personal trainer and vani hart creator of foodbabe.com and i'll call this the lightning round. not all of these have trans fats, product people, managers, owners, we're not saying that all your food has trans fats. this is just for my diet. okay. alexa, someone says, alexa towersy, tell her to stop suppressing my trans fat freedom. #fatguy. >> stop wining about being fat. >> okay. someone said, trans fats help balance electrolytes in the heart. vani? >> that sounds like a study funded by the food industry so that they can make more money. >> so, that's -- you think that's wrong? >> oh, absolutely. >> by yourself, don, an air poper to make air popcorn. it's much better for you.
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vani? >> it's a great discussion. >> that's true? okay. let's see. someone said, don, you're way too excited about that honey bun. yes, i am. that's true. i want some popcorn, too. vani for you as well, pop secret popcorn said it has zero grams of trans fat. >> but it has partially hydrogenated on the ingredient label and if you eat more than one cup, you're going to get trans fat, and, remember, 40-calorie increase increases your heart rate -- disease rate by 23%. >> okay. so, then, what do we do? because they're taking it out -- you guys, are you the food -- people are saying what is with the food police, who are you mayor bloomberg, michael bloomberg, all of a sudden telling people what they can eat and what they can't? what happened to freedom in america? >> oh, my gosh, there are so many people, there ask is an obesity epidemic worldwide, it's not just in the u.s., it's all over. i'm from hong kong, they're in china as well, they blame the americans for the fast food. i get clients complaining to me
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all the time why can't you lose weight, this is one of the reasons. why wouldn't you want to address this. >> i'm old school, i say everything in moderation. trans fats will be j.j. says, tell vani she is crazy. trance fats forever. just so you know. >> there's a bunch of great fats the food industry can replace those trance fats. i hope they don't do the wood glue kraft is investigating now. use palm oil. they are healthy alternatives. >> thank you. we'll make sure all this food is taken care of. thank you very much. appreciate it, great conversation. u.s. and iranian officials face-to-face to negotiate a deal on iran's nuclear program. we are live with the latest on
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diplomats trying to negotiate a deal on iran's nuclear program are working into the night to resolve differences. so far, no deal. we are joined from geneva where the talks are taking place.
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what's happening carl? >> don, it's nearly midnight here in geneva. we are moments from what we expect will be a news conference to tell us if a deal will be sealed. right now, we don't know. they are gone into a scheduled third day. john kerry has been working hard yesterday and through today trying to thrash out a deal, trying to narrow the differences with the iranians. at the core of this, a lot of issues, sensitive issues and complex issues. the core of this is an effort by the u.s. and other world powers to stop the iranians getting their hands on enough material to build a nuclear bomb. right now, what we understand from delegates, most of them are keeping tight lipped. those who have spoken say any deal on the table they don't believe there are enough checks and balances to make it watertight to hold the iranians to their word. what we have to do is wait for a
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few more moments. when they come out, we are expecting u.s. secretary of state, john kerry to come out and the iranian foreign minister to come out and tell us. the good news, if there's no deal today, there's a climate of optimism throughout the negotiations. if there's no deal today, all sides could be back in a week or ten days to iron out the last differences to get a deal that makes the mideast a safer place. don? >> it's 11:56, almost midnight. how long are we talking before they come out and what happens next? >> reporter: right now, what we do know is john kerry and other leaders of the world powers are in a meeting with the iranian foreign minister. they have been in that meeting now about an hour. that has gone longer than we expected. we expected the meeting to say hey, guys, no deal today.
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when should we come back? it seems like they might be talking about the nitty gritty. we don't know. it could be another hour or moments away. don? >> carl, don't go anywhere. if it happens within the next few minutes or while we are on the air here in the hour, we want to get to you. thank you very much for that. i want to bring someone in to talk about the deal with iran. he's a fellow at hoover institute. you have made it no secret the lack of faith with the iranian regime. am i putting words in your mouth? >> no, you are absolutely right. we would have a deal. we would have a deal because our side, the american side is desperately eager for a deal. >> why do you think it's not a good idea? >> it's just not a good idea. if you read it, take a look at why there hasn't been a deal. ironically, it's because the french haven't thought it's a
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good deal being worked out. let's go back and remember when we changed the names of french fries into freedom fries. because we thought the french were too much of an accommodationist nation. the irony is we are eager for a deal. the rules are bizarre since we are talking about iran. you must always be willing to walk away. the dilemma of the american position, the position of the obama administration is it's not willing to walk away because it wants this deal. >> you are getting ahead of me here. >> sure. >> i want to keep on in that same vain. you had tough words for the obama administration in the wall street journal. you wrote the gullibility of the obama pursuit, mr. obama's pursuit in an opening with iran unsettled america's allies in the region. there's a powerful feeling of abandonment. in israel, there is the bitter
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realization that america's strongest ally in the region is now made to look like the final holdout against a blissful era of compromise that will calm a turbulent region. will a deal with nuclear iran make the middle east more or less stable, in your view? >> i believe something about officials now. i will not state publicly. i think iran is going to be a school drivers twist away from a nuclear weapon. i think the th is the truth we cannot utter. iran is well on its way to acquiring a nuclear weapon. here, talking to the iranians about uranium enrichment. there's another trick. there's another path to the bomb. it's heavy water reactor in iraq where they produce plutonium. plutonium could be a way to the bomb. the decision in iran, iran is
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hell bent on acquiring nuclear weapons. they believe it is their right. they believe they are close. they want the lifting of the sanctions. >> a big factor is israel in all this. will israel accept a negotiated deal with iran? >> i'm not sure they have many options. we see prime minister netanyahu lobbying against the deal. in fact, it depends on the will of the united states. if the united states wants to make accommodations, this deal with iran, it will make the deal with iran. here is one irony. we are not dealing our friends in the world in that region are the iranians, russians and syrians. the people we antagonize are two very important powers, saudi arabia and israel. >> is there a reason for no tie today? >> i was at home watching you and i saw you had no tie, so i