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tonight we take you for a look at some of the favorites coming up. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com the national security agency will keep saving records on your phone calls, e-mail, at least for now. president obama made that clear yesterday as he laid out a number of proposed reforms at the nsa. wikileaks founder julien assange ridiculed them as embarrassing. and joining us now from the white house we have more on the president's reformed proposal. so what's the reaction been like in washington? >> reporter: fred, president obama was really under a lot of pressure to make some big changes to this program, and what we saw in his proposals is, he left many of the details up to congress to really hammer out and fine tune those details. now, first of all, effective immediately, now nsa analysts have to go before a court and
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get their approval before they can tap in to all of these phone records. as you know, this has been one of the most controversial aspects of this nsa program, that medi data collected, the phone numbers, length of calls, all of that data president obama proposed moving out of control of the government's hand and putting it into a potential third party, maybe even a phone provider. now, the president talked about this proposal, but, again, it's up to congress to work out the details. and we spoke yesterday to the aclu. let's take a listen to what they said about this proposal. >> the president understood the kearns around such bulk data collection by the government. but he didn't walk away from it. he talked about mending the surveillance programs, but we think that the president ought to end the bulk data collection surveillance programs. >> reporter: and they said there's really no guarantee there that the surveillance program is only going to focus
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on snooping when it's about a national security concern, fred. so clearly, they are going to keep pushing for that program to be completely disbanded. back to you? >> sunlen, the president created a panel of independent advocates to argue against the government. what more can we say about that? >> reporter: interesting. basically the way it works now is the government goes in front of the secret vice accord when they want to tap into the phone records and make the case. more or less, it's been rubber stamped for the most part in the past. now this proposal president obama brought foefrd. a new panel. ind dends outside voices that will argue against the government. bring that other side to the table. the aclu isn't happy about this. too many horses in the room. the other side, saying this adds one more lay whir talking about national security, tern concern
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has the ability to slow down the process and potentially making our security, us all less safe. interesting to see if this is one of the proposals that does get approved by congress. >> all right. spun l sunlen, thanks so much at the joushgs and dismissing from the reforms as p.r. gesture. he says the president should adhere to the u.s. constitution. >> the president -- >> the oath that the president takes when they get inaugurated is to protect and defend the constitution of the united states. one part of which is the fourth amend money that se we are supposed to be safe from being searched and seized by the government without probable cause. even though there's no evidence of wrongdoing. that's the responsibility and oath of the president, according to the constitution. >> the nsa the thoauthority to gather up phone calls and e-mails expires march 28th. governor chris christie is
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in florida raising cash for his fellow gop governors. part of his new role as president of the association. the scandals in his state of emergency might still upsurge his visit. he kept himself from the media's cameras driving off without talking to reporters as well. he has more events, however, in south florida. even as he remained under the cloud of suspicious in know, it follow s retribution to closing the nation's busiest bridge in september. and what the list tell us about the direction of the investigation in about five minutes from now. philadelphia police say the suspect in a school shooting is in custody. they say the minor turned himself in today after an arrest warrant was issued. this comes day after two students were shot in the school gym. investigators say the
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18-year-old girl has been released from the hospital, and the 17-year-old boy remains in stable condition. a group of passengers who were onboard an asiana airlines flight that crashed last summer at san francisco's airport are suing aircraft maker boeing. the suit claims pilots got inadequate low air speed warnings due to equipment installation errors and denaects it says boeing knew about. boeing declined cnn's request for a comment. royal caribbean says over 60 passengers were infected with a stomach bug during a recent cruise. the majesty of the sea returned friday after a four-day getaway to the bahamas. more than 2,a 500 onboard. officials is a spebs n s suspec and a suicide gunman
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attacked a cafe in afghanistan today. the taliban took responsibility and said it was payback for an air strike this week that killed civilians. the u.s. state department calls it "despicable targeted attack on innocent civilians. terrorists continue to demonstrate blatant disregard to life." and taken the key town of bore from rebels. the mayor fears more casualties than the hundreds killed when the town was previously held in december. former first lady barbara bush says she thinks her son jeb would make a good president. but she really doesn't want to see him in the white house. and before she accepts her lifetime achievement award from the screen actor's guild, rita moreno reveals to me details about her love life off-screen. plus, live to the red carpet. the lowdown on all the arrivals and, of course, the dresses.
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the special committee investigating the bridge closing scandal in new jersey has issued 20 subpoenas. among them, governor chris christie's chief -- deputy chief of staff, his former deputy chief of staff, and even his pick for the state's next attorney general. so what does the witness list tell us about the direction of the investigation? former federal prosecutor and independent counselor michael zeldin joins me now from seattle good to see you. the special counsel for the buckley sandler law firm. michael, you'd expect the two fired staffers, but this is very, a very long list of christie insiders. what does this say to you about the investigation? >> it's very broad-ranging.
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if you look at the subpoena itself, what it says is, they want all information about the finances, operation and management of the port authority, with respect to two things. first, the access to the bridge from fort lee which is what we're all talk be about. but then they said, any other thing that involves the potential abuse of power. and then if you look at who got the subpoena, the 20 people. they're really everybody in the christie inner circle. his political people. his communications people, his fund-raising people. his people in the port authority. so this is -- this is taking shape at the outset of big net in the pond. let's see what comes in through the documents. then we'll go to the witnesses and see where it goes there next. >> so that his inner circle has been subpoenaed, then what kinds of evidence, besides whatever testimony, eyewitness accounts
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they could get what kind of information are they trying to pluck besides e-mails, even texts? >> well, they want to know how did this plan originate? who knew about it? what role did anyone in particular have in it? with respect to the subpoena asking for finances, they want to know whether financial quid pro quos were exchanged. nothing we've seen evidence of at the moment. you have to note. but they're asking about that. so they really want to know the who, what, why, where questions about all of this, because if you look at the e-mails that we saw, which says time for a little traffic congestion in new jersey, and then they got it, you realize that that's the middle of a conversation. something had to precede that see that that cryptic conversation would be understood, and then something had to post date it. they want to know the back end
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and front end of that little bit we've seen so far. >> potentially, what kind of charges would you see being penned in this investigation? >> well, that's a little bit tricky. it used to be -- one of these ironies. when governor christie was u.s. attorney, he brought charges against a lot of politicians for the lack of honesty in government. it was a male fraud, wire fraud type of case, but the supreme court has since said you can't bring that denial of services, unless there's a payment's. which is why i think the superior has this question in it. unless there's a payment of money, i don't see that as a charge, but you do have the possibility of state charges. interfering with -- i'm sure it's a crime in new jersey. some malicious use of office is a crime in new jersey. i think you're going to see a
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lot of state crimes that involve the muddling up of life in fort lee as some form of maliciousness or public corruption that the state is going to criminalize. federally, it's not yet clear. >> and as a former prosecutor, how would you approach this case, if you were on it? >> well, similar to the way that the legislature is. we have to remember two things. one is, this is sort of watergate in a sense. not in its seriousness but in his structure. that is we have the legislature of new jersey looking in to this. they have no power to indict or charge anybody with a crime. then paul fishman, for the assistant attorney general of new jersey. we don't know whether he's convene add grand jury yet. we don't know his scope of interest, but he's the charging authority. he's the one to bring people to criminal justice. you have two things going on in parallel. the legislature, like the whitewater and the watergate
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before them, want to see everything and everybody. fishman and the u.s. attorney may be much more narrowly focused in their investigation. we'll have to see how theetz two parallel lines proceed throughout the next couple of weeks. >> we sha see. thank you for your expertise. appreciate it. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. former first lady barbara bush has a message for her son jeb. i hope you don't run for president. but will that affect the bush brothers' future? brian thood more. >> reporter: fredricka, in typical barbara bush fashion, she not mincing words and said for the second time publicly she does not want jeb bush to run for president. the remarks are posted at a time when the political climate may be the most welcoming it's ever been for a jeb bush run. with chris christie's problems in new jersey, political observers say the door might be opening wider for jeb bush to
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seek the republican nod for president in 2016, but the governor's mom is trying to push that door closed. >> i would hope that someone else would run, although there's no question in my mind that jeb is the best qualified person to run for president, but i hope he won't. >> reporter: in an interview with c-span, former first lady barbara bush took jab at america's political dynasties, including her own, i think the kennedys, clintons, bushes, they're just, there are just more families than that. >> reporter: jeb bush responded tweeting what day a mother's day this year? asking for a friend. his office pointed us to remarks he made in november. responding to almost identical comments his mother made last year when she said, we've had enough bushes. >> i love my mom, and i listen to my mom. but i don't always agree with her. >> reporter: why would mrs. bush discourage a run from jeb so publicly sdwris she gave a hint to c-span. >> i think he'll get all my
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enemies, all his brother's. >> there's been a lot of bush bashing, particularly of george w. bush's presidency it was difficult at the end. there's a lot of people that consider themselves enemies of anything related to bush. i think she would like to avoid that. i think it's maternal concern. >> reporter: cnn calm dater ana navarro who knows the bush family well says if jeb bush decides not to run, his wife columbus influence might be greater than his mother's. >> she's not what re perceive as a typical political spouse kbrop think she'd love the politics of it, i don't think she's somebody that would enjoy giving speeches. >> reporter: i asked reporter leslie clark who covered jeb when he was florida's governor about the mother/son -- >> a kindred spirit? >> the type that likes to get things done and not a ton of patience for people if they're
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not getting his idea and standing in his way. he does not do this greatly. >> reporter: there may about split in the extended bush family over a jeb bush run. the former president said he thinks his brother should run and jeb bush hinted last year their father thinks he should run. fredricka? >> quite the family feud, then. we'll be watching. thanks so much. the fbi joins the search for missing wall street journal reporter. what happened to him. and a military cheating scandal bip it's raising new questions about america's nuclear arsenal.
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now to a massive cheating scandal involving the people who command and guard the country's nuclear weapons arsenal. the air force says three dozen nuclear launch missile officer was caught cheating on a pro efficiency exam. the big question is, how safe is america's nuclear arsenal? brian todd has the story. >> one, turn. >> reporter: they stand ready to unleash nuclear fury. a job with awesome responsibility. prestige. but a clear pattern of problem ace mong the people who command and guard america's nuclear weapons arsenal, and there's not a single easily solvable cause. why would several air force office entrusted with maintaining nuclear mefls at a montana base cheat on a pro
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firsty exam? >> 100% is the expectation. perfection is the expectation. there's an amount of pressure involved. >> reporter: experts say different types of pressures can affect the junior and senior officers at nuclear commands. general michael kerry seemed to go off the deep end last year, removed from his post after going on a drinking and woman eisen binge during an official visit to russia. kerry commanded the 20th air force overseeing through nuclear wings. >> that job is extremely stressful. in officer, especially numbered air force command position is an exceptionally stressful job because it's the war fighting element of the air force. >> reporter: separately experts say the junior officers the ones deep inside the silos illustrated here in our virtual studio, the people with the hands on their switches face the pressures of staying proficient and battling long, drawn out periods of sheer boredom. a nuclear missileer for three years inside a silo in wyoming. >> 24 hours or more underground.
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days where it did can go to 42 or 72, literally locked in a launch control center, under the ground. there's no opportunity to go take a break or take a run. it's a tedious nature of the job. >> reporter: aside from the disciplinary issues, morale could be a problem. in a force whose cold war submission no longer perceived as a top priority. >> one area of the defense budget where we shouldn't be cutting costs it's in the management of our nuclear weapons, because the consequences of a mistake are just unimaginable. >> reporter: with all of these problems, has safety been compromised? top military officials stress it has not. the secretary of the air force says the pentagon has "great confidence in the security and effectiveness of the icbm force." brian todd, cnn, washington. and the fbi joined in the search for wall street journal recorder david byrd. the 55-year-old father of two vanished last saturday after going for a walk. joining us now from outside the
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"wall street journal" offices in manhattan. what's the latest alexandra? >> reporter: well, fredricka, another search party has gone out today to try and find david byrd. certainly no swun giving up any hope here but his family is becoming increasingly desperate to find him. he was last seen before he headed out of his long hill, new jersey, home last week. said he was going for a walk but never returned. the family says he is without his cell phone. also without med dhags he needs to take daily following a liver transplant nine years ago. we spoke to his sister-in-law. she says the family is worried about his health and his condition now. >> he's a strong man. he has been through -- been through a lot before, and he's got -- we just think he's holding on, and we just want him back. >> reporter: bird is a married father of two. he has been an energy reporter here at the "wall street journal" for a number of years and, fred, his family insist hess would have no reason to
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take off willingly. >> and is there any feeling that there might be a connection between the types of stories that he was covering and his disappearance? >> reporter: you know, it's a question that everyone has asked. especially because this search hasn't turned up any answer. some suggested that this energy report here put together stories on opec, the organization for petroleum exporting countries, wondered whether there could be have kind of link here. we asked his sister-in-law if she thinks the disappearance could be related to any of his work here at the "journal." she said that is not a here to they makes any sense to the family, fred. >> all right. alexandra field, thank you so much. students and parents are stunned after bullets flew inside the gym. the shooter allegedly was on the loose in philadelphia until a few hours ago. the latest on the investigation, next. in my world, wall isn't a street.
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the suspect in a school shooting in philadelphia is now in police custody. investigators issued an arrest warrant this morning for the minor charged with two counts of aggravated assault after two students were shot at school on friday. nick valencia has the latest. >> reporter: the suspect in
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friday's shooting at a philadelphia high school has turned himself in to police. philadelphia police tell cnn that the suspect turned himself in at about 1:00 p.m. on saturday. now, because he's a juvenile, his name has not been released to the media. also, police are still looking for the motive behind the shooting. they have not ruled out that it could have been accidental. initially, police were looking for two other suspects. they were questioned by police and later released. police are confident now that the shooting suspect is in police custody. now, the two students who were shot on friday, they received non-life threatening injuries and are expected to make a full recovery. nick valencia, cnn, it. and an interesting week on wall street. alison kosik brings us up to date. >> reporter: a seesaw week on wall street. showing investors were plagued with indecision. that's because of a mixed bag of earnings reports. and with all that back and
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forth, stocks ended mixed. the s&p 500 hit a record high wednesday. a rough week for retailers. jcpenney announced 33 stores will close, and 2 soushgs employees laid off. the struggling retail hear been trying to turn itself around for years but is still losing money. meantime, best buy shocked wall street way surprise drop in holiday sheas. taking a 28% hit on thursday. housing, foreclosures dropped to the lowest level in six years. realty track says 1.34 million homes were foreclosed on this as home prices rise and the job market recovers. finally, did your child use your iphone to rack up charges without you knowing it? you could get a refund from apple. apple didn't tell parents the app remains open 15 minutes allowing more purchases to be made. one child made charges of
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$2,600. that's a wrap of the week on wall street. fredricka, back to you. >> wow. some bill. thanks, alison. on to california now. three years of a severe drought resulted in the governor there declaring a state of emergency. crops wither in the fields, and the impact will be felt across the country in higher food prices. about half of all fruits, nuts and vegetables in grocery stores come from california. corey knowlton says he cares about preserving black rhinos. so much so, that he's willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars for the right to kill one. his argument -- ishs the money is donated to black rhino conservation. but his decision is triggering outrage across the world. here is cnn's ed lavandera. >> reporter: fredricka, corey knowlton cares so much about the black rhino he's willing to spends 3ds 50,000 of his own money which is being donated to conservation causes for the chance to hunt one. but still, to people around the
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world, this system seems totally illogical. >> 350,000. 350,000. >> reporter: this was the scene inside the dallas safari club auction hall when corey knowlton dropped $350,000 for a hunting permit issued by the government of in a mianamibia to hunt a bl rhino. it didn't take long to get out on social immediate yae and the death threats roll in. >> i had no idea it would be this visceral, attacking my 2-year-old daughter and my 7-year-old daughter and my beautiful young wife and they'd want to kill us all and burn it. >> reporter: knowlton hired a private security team while the fbi investigates the threats against him. instead of hiding, corey knowlton wants to convince critics this hunt will actually help the black rhino population thrive in namibia. >> it's a belief in conservation from me. >> reporter: knowlton started hunting as a young boy. >> god bless you, gentlemen.
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thank you. >> reporter: knowlton hosts hunting shows on the outdoors channels and organizes high-end hunts around the world. he describes himself as a passionate conservationist and argues old black rhinos that don't reproduce actually threat ton kill other younger rhinos. >> they're actually the biggest killers of rhinos in the area, and so throughout -- they put this group of experts together. they went out there. they identified them as a problem, and they need to be, for lack of a better term, exterminated for the species to continue. >> reporter: but knowlton faces scathing criticism from other animal rights groups. critics say the sanctioned hunts will only drive up the price for endangered ang malls. >> the message, americans will throw money to kill one of the last species. saying it's rarity of this animal meaning it's more valuable dead than alive. that's not going to help the rhino in the long-term.
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>> reporter: he han scheduled hunt yet but says if the jurny goes as planned it could be the most amazing experience of his life. >> to that end, i'm a hunter. i want to experience a black rhino. i want to be there and be a part of it. okay? i believe in the cycle of life. i don't believe that meat comes from the grocery store. i believe that animal died and i respect it. >> reporter: this black rhino hunt is authorized by the namibian government. every year that country auctions off up to five of these hunting permits and since this has been done in the last 15 years, the population of the black rhinos have come back from the brink of extinction. fredricka? >> thank you so much. the stars come out tonight. coming up, our preview of the screen actors guild awards, and -- fabulous at 50. michelle obama celebrating her birthday. we'll tell you about her big bash. welcome back. how is everything?
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be plenty of food, knowing the obamas and knowing the white house. so i don't think that's going to be an issue, but this is going to be a party of her friends. this is not official washington. and they have never been really part of official washington, and i think for her 50th birthday, it's probably the most appropriate way to celebrate, is with neem they are close to and that they care about. >> right. i guess, and, you know, it's common knowledge, that she and her husband don't necessarily -- you know run around town with the washington circles. i mean, every now and then you see the two of them going out to dinner, but i understand she does get out and about on her own, meeting up with her bffs at favorite restaurants. >> reporter: right. >> showing um at target, like everyone has seen in the past. you know, she likes to find ways to have her "me" time. what does that say about her? whether it will at this
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milestone or about this first lady, trying to make sure there is froorm "me" time and just doing it my way? >> first of all, the obamas have never been part of washington, and they're very much to themselves. in vi their own friends who come to the white house. she goes out a lot with her girlfriends, and pals and has din but you don't ever see them on the circuit at all. but i think the most important thing i would say about michelle obama right now is that there's incredible sense, and she's imported this to women all over the country, all over the world, really, of liberation. she talks a lot about balance, and in her "people" magazine interview she talked about how she started doing more yoga, because she wants to stay balanced. she doesn't want to lose her balance when she gets older and break a hip, burpt i think that you could -- talk about that in terms of her life as a whole. that she has really managed to
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ball ps being a mother, being a wife, and also being involved in issues that she cares about, and nothing too excess. she's balanced everything in a way that, she's saying to women everywhere, look, this is what i'm doing with my life right now, and this is just fine. and whatever you want to do with your life is also fine. you know, there have been a lot of criticism about her, why didn't she take some big job? why didn't she -- she's got all this education. she went to harvard law school. but what she's doing, i think, is more important than that, which is that she's showing people that this is my life. this is what i want to do. i want to spend this time, precious time with my children. i will never get back. i need to support my husband. he's got the most powerful and stressful job in the world. i can about great helpmate to him. >> wow. just look at all of those pictures. she looks amazing. totally ageless over the years.
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big thanks to "washington post" columnist sally quinn for that preview of the first lady's big, old bash tonight. no mother would consider giving their -- to a small child? a mom says her child needs it. you'll hear her story coming up. all right. first, olympic veteran julia kluky is very passionate about the luge. she didn't even let a serious brain disorder keep her off the track. cnn chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta has her story in this week's "human factor." >> reporter: jumping do her sled, julia has one focus. getting down the track as fast as possible. >> the speed is definitely a big adrenaline rush. >> reporter: her life experiences helped give her per spect whiv she's on the track. >> i think anytime something happens to you, you have to
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decide to decide what you're going to do to get there and stick to the plan every day. >> reporter: and kluky has had plenty of of life obstacles. her father passed when she was 19. she's had training injuries. her knees, torn meniscus and acl to torned discs in her neck. she overcame them all to make the plimps in 2010. >> a great honor for myself and my family. they'd seen all the good and bad days. highs and lows. >> reporter: but her olympic high was short lived. >> i was diagnosed with a syndrome shortly after the 2010 winter olympics games. >> reporter: a disorder in which the fluid around her brain doesn't circulate properly. >> a lot of the symptoms i was having, severe headaches and pressure in the lower part of my skull, and a lot of problems with the right side of my body. >> reporter: for her, surgery was the only option. >> they go in and removed a little under a centimeter of my skull bone to create access for
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the spinal fluid to flow freery. >> reporter: she didn't let that stop her, though. just 14 months later, she was back on a sled i. never lost sight where i wanted to be after my surgery and that was back competing in the sort of luge. >> reporter: she fell short of making the olympics bike a fraction of a second, she's staying sharp as the team's first alternate. >> knowing i'm training for something i love is a big gift. >> reporter: it's that gift that kluky wants to make sure other young girls like her also get to experience. >> there's a ten-day camp that focuses on self-confidence, understanding stereotypes, breaking down barriers, just being proud of who you are and going after your dreams. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting.
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imagine your child suffers hundreds of life threatening seizures each day. if medical marijuana was your
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best hope, what would you do? cnn's adriana hauser brings us a story of one florida mother fighting to get the drug for her young son. >> reporter: hi, fred. well, here are some interesting statistics. according to a november quinnipiac poll, 86% of florida voters approve of legalizing medical marijuana. despite placing an amendment on the ballot to legalize medical marijuana in the state it is not clear this overwhelming support will translate into trivictory the polls. i had an opportunity to talk way supporter of medical marijuana, and she told me her reasons for backing it. on call 24/7, that's how giselle describes her life for the past two years. >> i had to stop teaching. i used to go out, and i stopped. i can't just leave him anywhere. i sleep with him holding his
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hand. >> reporter: when bruno was 3 months old he was diagnosed with tra vette's syndrome, a vision described by experts as a rare and intractable type of epilepsy. >> it's hard to manage with medication pap good day, it's 30. 30 seizures a day. that's a good day for us. a bad day will be 300 seizures a day. >> reporter: she says she has tried every treatment legally available in florida, but nothing has worked. she now centers her hopes on medical marijuana. >> i've heard it has helped other children. why can't it help my child? >> reporter: the constitutional amendment effort to legalize medical marijuana in the sunshine state is being led by a group calmed united for care. the group believes it has collected more than 683,000 signatures needed to get on the ballot. >> you know, we're not asking o to -- to let marijuana be a recreational use here. we're asking for medical marijuana.
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we're asking for help. >> reporter: although she is convinced that medical marijuana could have bruno, experts say there is still no not evidence. >> cbd, a derivative of the plant, of the marijuana plant, is thought to treat seizures base and anecdotal evidence. right now we don't have scientific evidence that that's the case, and we want to obtain it. >> reporter: the initiative to legalize medical marijuana has yet to clear yore hurdle. florida's attorney general took the proposed amendment to the supreme court arguing that the language in it is too vague. that it could turn florida into the most permissive state in the u.s. and would give immunity to the doctors who prescribe it. >> i have a feeling we're going to have a tough fight. >> reporter: and for this devoted mother, time is of the essence. >> a soosher could take away his life any minute. >> reporter: in the event that the proposal is not approved in florida, she is ready to move to colorado. a state that recently approved the sale of recreational
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marijuana in a place where she believes bruno will have access to a treatment that may just may help him live a better life. fred? >> hmm. thanks so much. all right. and tonight, a pretty big night in hollywood of the screen actors guild awards being handed out. we'll go there next. of the dust at 1406 35th street the old dining table at 25th and hoffman. ...and the little room above the strip mall off roble avenue. ♪ this magic moment it is the story of where every great idea begins. and of those who believed they had the power to do more. dell is honored to be part of some of the world's great stories. that began much the same way ours did. in a little dorm room -- 2713. ♪ this magic moment ♪
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tonight for the first time in more than six years, a black female cast member joins "saturday night live." just a few weeks ago, she was relatively unknown, but tonight, all eyes will be on the former upright citizens brigade theater comedian. she's making the big debut, along with two new writers who are also black. in hollywood, the stars are coming out tonight for the 18th annual screen actors guild awards, and let's get to hollywood where our own shining star, is on the red carpet. high heels or tennis shoes? lift week, you showed me your sneakers. >> reporter: well, here's the thing, i am going to put -- i am going to put some heels on eventually. but right now, what you see is what you get. i mean, this is like -- we're having rehearsal, because we're doing this 90-minute live cnn red carpet special starting at 6:30, right here on the network. so we just got done with the dress rehearsal. i know i'm not dressed for the
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dress rehearsal, but i did it from the neck up. this is the red carpet here. if you see our position, you look right over there, you see the two monitors, the two screeners, that's where the celebrities will be walking in, and we are right here. so all of your favorite a-list celebrities will be coming right here to our spot, and we'll be talking about their movies. we'll be talking about what they expect tonight it's a fun night. t the s.a.g. awards, it's actors honoring actors. a sitdown dinner, a couple glasses of wine or two, and they honor each other and have a good time. you know, some of people that will be here tonight -- because i did sneak inside yesterday to see the seating chart, the arrangements -- brad pitt will be here. but angelina jolie did not have a placard next to him, so she may or may not show up. oprah winfrey will be here. she also is presenting. forest whitaker, the rest of the cast of "the butler" virtually shut out from the academy, but they are nominated tonight. i'm anxious to see what they think about that, and all of the
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television shows, "big bang theory," carrie washington nominate for "scandal." she'll be here tonight. and the table that she's sitting at, i can give you a taste, fred, a great table i would love to sit at for dinner. it's carrie washington, matt damon, michael douglas, and mindy kaeling. such a fun group. that's what they love to do. they love to mix and mingle and put everybody in different areas and sit them next to people they may not know. i have to tell you something, though. it's really hot in southern california. >> ah. >> reporter: i know the rest of the country is suffering from subbelow temperatures, are, like, okay, come on, you know, give us a break. it's so hot, i just want to show you, i'm not a diva. but graham and topher are here. >> be a diva, it's all right. >> reporter: so i don't melt, they're so sweet, and i love them for it. they've been giving me a little cool breeze, because it's 87 degrees out here. but, like, it's really, really hot. >> that's cool.
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you know, they're fanning you or it's kind of, like, we're not worthy. one or both. who knows? all right. >> reporter: we'll take it. >> yeah, i say take both. all right, thank you so much. we'll be watching for the 90-minute special this evening. very fun stuff. something tells me if you went to michael douglas' table, they'll make room for you. no problem. so tonight, rita moreno will receive a lifetime achievement award. i had a chance to talk to the actress about her career, her life, and her relationship with actor marlon brando. >> my relationship with marlon brando was really chaotic and turbulent and tempestuous, and very sexy -- very fun as the kids would say now. but we also were adkted to each other. we were obsessed with each other. if you know anything about obsession, it is like addiction. he was my drug. i was his. and we were not good for each other. >> you write that he was actually very cruel. he could be very cruel with you.
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>> he was -- he was abusive emotionally abusive, yeah. you know, i was the kind of girl or child who was brought up to believe by my very latina mother that you had to please everyone, and especially men. >> it's a very personal memoir, but there's a little bit of the kiss-and-tell. you talk about marlon brando. you talk about your, you know -- >> i had to talk about marlon -- but i had to talk about marlon brando, because, you know, that goes beyond -- that's not even kiss-and-tell -- >> yeah. >> -- he played a huge part in my life. he changed my life. >> was shaping. >> we were together almost eight years, so that's hardly just the old kiss-and-tell. there were a couple of other dishy things there, no question. >> so then, even though you describe him as being, you know, cruel, very abusive, what did you learn? how did that relationship, that eight-year affair, really shape you, make you stronger, more resilient? what would the words you would
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use? >> i became -- i became much more resilient, and eventually, i -- but i've always been resilient. that's so much a part of my dna. i knew if i get, you know, tossed over on the floor, i get up, and as they say, dust myself off and go on and move on. that's just so much a part of my nature. my mother was like that, also. and it's something you learn when you come into a different country where you don't speak the language, and you have to put up with some very bad behavior on the part of many, many people. you just -- i don't call it tough. i call it resilient, because tough implies that you get a very hard shell about you. i've never had that. but i am able to bounce back, and i did learn that from my mom. but, you know, the way i got even with marlon was kind of terrific, because at the time that i was really having a hard time with him, one of the many times, elvis presley let it be known through a gossip columnist that he would love very much to
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meet me. >> and he did. >> of course, i read that, and the colonel called me up. i love this conversation. ms. moreno, this is colonel parker. no kidding? and he said, my client, elvis, would like to meet you. would you like to meet him? and at the time, i was so angry at marlon for finding somebody else's clothing in his house, and i thought, why not? and i said, yes, i would. >> and what was that relationship like with elvis? >> well, it was interesting, because it was -- it was very surprising in many ways. number one, i don't really think he was handsome. i think elvis was almost pretty. he was kind of beautiful. >> yeah. >> and i don't mean that in a derogatory way at all, but just very different kind of looks. he had the most gorgeous profile i've ever seen. perfect teeth. this gorgeous, shiny, thick, black hair.
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and a very sweet fellow. he was, you know, that snarly look he had when he sang, nothing remotely like that. he was bashful. but he didn't have a whole lot to say. when you've been with marlon brando for a long time, as i was at the time, i found it kind of dull. >> really? >> well, yeah. i mean, he's country boy. i'm just -- i was a little puerto rican spitfire, and we didn't have a whole lot to say. >> gosh, all handsome people, rita, elvis, marlon. okay. well, that's going to be it for us. don't miss this, though. the screen actors guild award right on the red carpet tonight at 6:30 p.m. eastern time. rita morena, lifetime achievement award. so much straight ahead. my colleague martin savidge is here.
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martin, have fun. hello, everyone, i'm martin savidge. coming up this hour in the "cbs this morning," daniel ellesburg, a whistle-blower from the past, once called the most dangerous man in america for his role in the 1971 pentagon papers leak, and he's got a lot to say about president obama's reform of our spy program. and a common vitamin that is credited with saving the life of a teen. dr. sanjay gupta is working on that story. >> reporter: martin, a young boy barely survives a horrific car crash. the doctors say to let him go. they refuse, and pump him full of fish oil. what happened next is astounding. you know her from the movies being john malkovich, 40-year-old virgin, and captain phillips. katherine keener joins us live to dish on her newest film.
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but we begin with governor chris christie. he escaped the cold and the snowy effects of new jersey and for the weekend now, he is down in sunny florida. christie is in orlando today. he's stumping for re-election, mainly for a fellow republican governor by the name of rick scott there in florida. he is the star of some fund-raising activities, most of them invitation-only, no news cameras allowed, thank you very much. but at the same time, back home, a new bombshell, this one from the mayor of a major new jersey city, naming names, and saying that chris christie's office deliberately held back hurricane sand relief money just for political reasons. >> the lieutenant governor came to hoboken and she said to me, you know, her words were, if you tell anyone, we'll deny it. of course, they're denying it. and the bottom line is, she said, basically, it's connected. the sandy funding that's being held hostage for the city of hoboken, is connected to the rockefeller group project. she said that very clearly.
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and she said, you know, if you don't move ahead, we won't be able to help you. well, we've barely gotten any money. what they want me to do with the governor's pressuring me to do, like, i can't do that. i have no choice but to come forward and share what's happening. >> cnn's tori dunnan is live in new jersey, and chris christie is singing to the republican choir so to speak there in florida. what's happening inside this exclusive fund-raising event? and any sign that christie's troubles back home are chasing him in florida? >> reporter: so, martin, you mentioned, of course, this is in front of a republican crowd, so, obviously, it might be a friendly reception, although there are probably some people inside the fund-raisers who do have some questions for chris christie. on the agenda today, three different fund-raisers, two for florida governor rick scott and wund for the republican governor's association, all in different parts of the state. we caught up with a woman inside the fund-raiser here in orlando to get her take in what was and
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wasn't said inside. take a listen to this. >> -- reaction in there to governor christie? >> excellent. >> great. >> excellent. >> reporter: what did he say? >> he talked about governor scott and how good he is. >> reporter: did anything about the scandal come up? >> what do you think? >> reporter: elaborate. >> what do you think? yes or no? what do you think? >> reporter: what did he say? >> he said no, nothing, zero. he was all for scott. scott's going to win. >> reporter: all right. so obviously, she might be saying there that nothing was said about the scandal inside. but we're also able to catch up with florida congressman john micah inside the event for a bit, as well. there's a lot of talk here in florida about really what this trip might mean for his future political ambitions. let's take a listen to this. any talk in there about this being an issue for, if christie decides to run in 2016? >> none. thank you. >> reporter: all right.
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so he said no talk about this being an issue if it were to come to him, wanting to run in 2016. but martin, basically the bottom line is that this weekend is going to be be a test of chris christie's fund-raising abilities as well as a test of where his star power is at this point in time. >> tory, let me ask you this. what happens tomorrow? i understand one major event planned with a pretty heavy hitter. >> reporter: oh, yeah. all eyes on this event tomorrow. it's a donor outreach event. what that means in simple terms is that it's an opportunity for chris christie to meet potential donors down the line that if he were to decide to run in 2016, these would be people maybe he would rely on. you mentioned this -- where this is going to be. it's going to be at a house in north palm beach. the home belongs to ken langon, the co-founder of home depot, a billionaire. he's talked to cnn a little about this. he said the interest has gone up because of the scandal, because, according to him, people have
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called and said they like the way governor christie has handled everything. >> all right, very interesting. tory dunnan, we'll continue to follow and check in with that. thank you very much. turning now to president obama's big speech which was on dealing with proposed changes to the nsa program, that's the spying program, and how it's going to affect your privacy. every phone call that every american makes will continue to be logged for a the number dialled and the length of the call. the nsa will keep the records for now, but access will be tightened. and who will stobulk phone reco long term? that's up in the air. edward snowden first leaked a classified document on the top-secret nsa programs, and that triggered a worldwide debate. and now obama aims to rein in those programs. here's part of the plan, we'll outline it for you. if the u.s. government wants to check the phone records it collects, it must ask that secret intelligence court, which obama wants to bolster, with a
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privacy advocate, and also, obama wants to move bulk phone records out of nsa storage while making sure they are still accessible. plus the president wants to extend certain privacy rights enjoyed by u.s. citizens to people in other countries, and stop monitoring communications of friendly world leaders, unless there is a compelling national security reason. as far as edward snowden, now, a fugitive in russia, here's what the president had to say -- >> i'm not going to dwell on mr. snowden's actions or his motivations. i will say that our nation's defense depends in part on the fidelity of those entrusted with our nation's secrets. if any individual who objects to government policy can take it into their own hands to publicly disclose classified information, then we will not be able to keep our people safe, or conduct foreign policy. >> snowden was not the first to
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disclose classified information. in 1971, an american military analyst named daniel ellesburg leaked u.s. decision making in the vietnam war. the documents became known as the "pentagon papers." ellesburg was the first person prosecuted under the 1917 espionage act for releasing classified information. the case was later thrown out. daniel ellesburg joins me from berkeley, california. thank you very much for being with us, sir. >> thank you for the opportunity. >> you recently said that you believe the nation has been mired in a constitutional crisis since 9/11, but we just didn't know it until edward snowden took action. do you feel any differently now after the president's speech? >> the president confirmed my concern very much for the state of our constitutional system. i would say it was in very bad health. it's sick. the checks and balances are broken, and what we heard from the president was not even
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band-aids or aspirin for the fourth amendment, which is near death. it was sugar pills, basically placebos. it didn't pretend anything. it didn't, i think, have any effect at all. the president said that this debate will make us stronger. he's certain of that. well, he neglected to say thank you, edward snowden, because is there anyone who believes that this debate, which is wealthy, which is healthy, healthy, would be happening without edward snowden? there's no chance of it at all. >> well, i'm going to get to that in a moment. let me just ask you this. i want to read a journalist from chris greenwald, whose stories stem from snowden. -- acknowledging there are serious questions raised and then they set out with their actions to do exactly the opposite, to make the system prettier and more politically palatable with empty cosmetic reforms. do you think that's what's
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happened here with the president? >> i think that's exactly right, says it very well. as a matter of fact, time after time, the president, whose election i supported on both his elections, and i don't regret that, but i have to speak frankly here, he says very good things from the point of view of what he calls advocates of civil liberties or the fourth amendment or critics of his program. he says the right things, but what he gives in terms of policy is entirely from the point of view of the intelligence community, which has been very largely in violation of the fourth amendment, and, thus, of the first amendment, the freedom of the press. now, for a number of years. >> well, let me ask you what -- before we run out of time, i would like to get your thoughts on what you think would be real reform for the nsa. >> yes. his own advisors, the review panel that he commissioned and which he basically ignored, most of their 46 recommendations, but above all, their number-one
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recommendation that we end the bulk mass indiscriminate collection of every e-mail, all of the data on the phones, the mass suspicionless spying on the american people should not be -- should not just be limited, which he has pretended to do. it should be ended. and the only way to get that is for people to do what they did in connection with the war on syria. they buttonholed their representatives when they could on a congressional recess, and they said to them, "we don't want war." and the representatives heard that. and the president backed off, his threats to go to war in syria and iran, which, by the way, is what i hoped from him when i supported his election. these representatives in congress have got to hear from the public that they want these abuses ended and they want investigative actual methods, which would call for people embedded in nsa, with full clearance, reporting to congress
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and the judiciary, including the judiciary committees, and with full access to what nsa has actually been doing. that might be surprising even to the president if they report to him, as well. >> i understand that, of course, you're a member of the freedom of the press foundation, and a nonprofit that aims to support public interests in journalism. it was announced this week that snowden will join you on that board. i've got to ask, how will he do that? have you spoken to edward snowden? >> you know, we're -- he will be communicating to us by encrypted channels here. he will be an active member of the board. i'm very proud of that. i would say when it comes to protecting, defending, supporting the fourth amendment to the constitution and the first amendment, edward snowden has done more than any member of congress, any official in the united states, going up to the president himself. >> daniel elles berg, coming from us, that's a powerful statement. thank you very much, sir, for joining us today. >> thank you. coming up, the price of
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they are expected to be fine. surveillance video captured the incident, while police say the motive is still unknown. police and volunteers have been scouring the longhill, new jersey, area for wall street reporter david bird. he vanished last saturday after going for a wall. his family is particularly worried because he has a liver condition that requires medicine twice a day. a few media reports have said that his credit card was used in mexico last week, but his family isn't confirming that. bird is an energy markets reporter for the wage wauj. it's been a painful vacation for dozens of passengers on board a royal caribbean cruise ship. it docked in miami yesterday after a four-night trip to several ports of call, including the bahamas. the cruise line says 66 passengers were suffering from various gastrointestinal problems. more than 2,500 people were on the ship. they suspect the norovirus is
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smack in the middle of award season, hollywood heads to park city, utah, for the annual sundance festival. it's celebrating its 30th anniversary, and it will showcase 117 feature-length projects, including several performances from hollywood a-listers. one movie on the radar, "war story." it's the tale of an american war photographer who's dealing with the effects of ptsd after being taken hostage during a conflict in libya. cnn's miguel marquez is live inside the cnn lounge in park city, utah, lucky fellow, accompanied by one of the stars of the film, catherine keener. miguel? >> hey there, marty. this is the hottest ticket in sundance, the cnn film's lounge. i am here with catherine keener, who has this stunning film, this tough film in the next category for sundance. >> thank you. >> about a woman who's been through hell, and she's trying to deal with it. what is this film about?
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>> well, you know, war and hell, i guess, that's what it is. but the film's about the character that i play, who's called lee, is a war photographer who's working in libya. and something happens, she's -- i don't know if it comes through, but she's basically covering the refugee situation there. and something happens that's pretty traumatic, and she's pulled out, and she goes to -- she goes through a port, where a lot of refugees -- >> the libyan refugees are coming through. >> yes, and others, but a lot of libyan refugees and the passage is quite dangerous for them. and hers wasn't comparatively, but she goes there and ends up not coming back. she's a news -- a paper photographer, and her editor
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tries to get her to come back, and she decides not to right away. >> but she decides not to -- i mean, is it -- it seems to be more than ptsd at this point. is it her lover, her partner, the reporter, has been killed there? is it -- >> yeah. >> she has a very -- >> i think it's probably more than ptsd. but honestly, i have no -- i mean, that's kind of exponential, don't you think, in terms of how bad that can be? who knows? what the limits of that are? >> it is a stunning role. i've been in a few places like this, iraq, afghanistan. i was in libya and benghazi when the bodies of tim heatherington and chris were brought into benghazi, and it reminded me. i had colleagues in iraq killed -- iraqi colleagues. it's extraordinarily difficult. and you play that character very, very well. >> thank you.
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>> was it -- >> i did have the -- excuse me. >> no, please, how tough was it? >> well, it was -- well, you know, i have a lot of -- first of all, a tremendous amount of respect. i feel that is a very noble profession. i can't believe people do that, because they're basically in as much danger as either side. you know, they're there on the front lines. and what they're trying to do is to just show to the rest of the world what's happening to a population that ordinarily wouldn't have any focus on it. and it's not really -- it's not a self-aggrandizing profession by any means. i mean, i know that within it, there are things you want to achieve, but, you know, it's a very -- it's as dangerous as anybody else. and i just -- it's amazing to me that people actually go and do that willingly. and basically need to keep doing
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it. >> and you can get very, very addicted to it. >> sure. >> which i think your character probably was, in this sort of -- this sort of crisis. >> mm-hmm. >> this is in the next category of films here at sundance, we sort of mentioned the next generation of filmmakers. >> is that -- >> it is indpeed. i did my homework. made for a shoestring. ben kingsley. labor of love? why take part in this project? >> well, i mean -- well, yes, labor of love. and i think it's -- like i said, the subject matter is, for me, it's very timely, because i think the focus on ptsd and many surrounding populations and soldiers and war, people around war. i think it's becoming more prominent, we know anyway. >> this country has been at war for a long time. >> we're always at war, yeah. but we've been at war, this war,
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how long, how many years now? >> well, it's been a decade of war, between iraq and afghanistan. >> yeah. that's right. because i remember when the bombings started. but i wanted to say, do you know any colleagues at the "l.a. times"? a lot of those guys -- which is where i was lucky enough for a month to hang out with those guys, and rick bloomis, i think, was in benghazi. >> i know tony based down in san diego. >> tony dunn. >> we're done. thank you very, very much. >> all of guys are great. >> we hope to see it in theaters soon. martin, back to you for now. thank you very much. >> thank you, miguel. thank you, catherine. next hour, george takei will join us. he will talk about his film at sundance, and his new book, and why he has strong words for the governor of utah. meanwhile, coming up, the first lady turns 50. michelle obama is celebrating her birthday. we'll tell you about her big bash. ♪ [ chainsaw whirring ] humans -- sometimes life trips us up.
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hollywood is dressing up for one of the biggest nights of the award season. it is the screen actors guild awards tonight, and in just two hours, our special coverage begins with interviews from the red carpet and a look at all of the fashion. well, we're told that the president of the united states advised guests coming to the white house tonight to wear their dancing shoes. it's the birthday party for
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first lady michelle obama. she turned 50 yesterday, but the party is tonight. don't expect to see any pictures, though. everyone invited was specifically asked to leave their cameras at home. oh, well. we'll have much more at the top of the hour when "cbs this morning" continues. sanjay gupta m.d. begins right now. some parents call it bullying, others call it just pushing your kids hard. but i watched esquire network's new show, called "friday night ta tikes" and i did watching that wonder how much is too much. >> this is the texas youth football association, one of the elite programs for kids in america, and the division in san antonio features the best of the best. >> don't give me that soft crap. >> there should be no reason why you don't me other teams cry. >> i could care less if they cry! >> the teams are ultracompetitive, demanding