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interview with baylor. we planned to have it tonight but ran out of time. he's speaking for the first time since sterling got banned from the nba. that does it for this edition of "360." cnn tonight starts now. waiting for word. we hear from the parents of two of the nigerian girls abducted in a mass kidnapping and the u.s. is detailing how it's going to help. we want to provide whatever assistance is possible in order to help for their safe return to their families. it could be the biggest tech ipo ever and it's coming soon. we'll take a closer look at ali baba. climate change is not a distant threat.
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why america's climate has already changed and why it could get worse. hello, you're watching cnn newsroom. >> we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and all around the world. we begin with breaking news from thailand, the constitutional court has just found the prime minister guilty of abuse of power. >> she's being forced to step down for violating the constitution by reassigning a national security official back in 2011. >> for more on what this means, we're joined by phone from bangkok. tell us what this means for thailand going forward. >> what it means, we'll have relative stability over the next month or so, i think the court
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did not remove the government in its entirety, it removed the prime minister, yingluck, and a few cabinet members. so, there will be a significant number of cabinet still standing after this courtroom, there will be appoint a new prime minister, the government will stay in power and they'll move toward elections on july 20th, not good news for the opponents of the government. they were hoping that the government would remove the prime minister. it doesn't look at this point that it's going to happen court specifically ruled out that option, in keeping with the court rulings over the last couple of years, ruled against the interests but haven't taken
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the final step, nuclear option, so to speak, to remove the government. >> it's interesting that you say relati relatively security ahead, there has been a problem on the streets certainly in the last six months or so, what's going to happen, though, in terms of the supporters of yingluck, what are they going to do. >> the supporters were worried about what they called a judicial coup, putting in a new government that's not elected. that's what not happened. but i don't think, given what the court has ruled today they'll be looking at an appointed government coming in and an elected government going out. >> so, how quickly -- at this
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point, that the remaining cabinet will need to appoint a prime minister given the election is not until july 20th? >> right. i think they'll come up with a name pretty quick. the government has been pretty ineffective. lot of projects are on hold. so, we have had government paralysis here. they have promised to try to disrupt elections once again, which would just continue this dysfunction if he delivers on that promise, so we'll have to let this cook to see what the supreme court -- what the
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decision means and how they react over the coming days. >> it's early late, we'll be watch watching closely. thank you. u.s. offer of military help has been accepted as nigeria deals with another mass kidnapping. the latest abductions this time of eight girls happened over the weekend in a village in northeastern nigeria, the same place where boko haram kidnapped 200 school girls last month. >> cries are growing loudly, rallies were held in washington. president barack obama explained how the u.s. will help nigeria
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look for the missing girls. >> we're sending in a team made up of our military and law enforcement and other experts, we're very glad that nigeria has accepted the help. what's happening is awful. as a father of two girls, i can't imagine what the parents are going through. >> a presidential spokesman is defending the rescue operation, he offered some details to cnn telling us his government has deployed two special battalions to look for the girls and that helicopters, airlines and fighter jets have searched more than 250 areas. >> he said 1,000 special operations forces have been deployed. urging patience and promising again that the girls will be found. >> the government and the
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military are on hot pursuit and i'm very, very sure, that, you know, this time around, the terrorists have made a major error and we will get them. >> the parents of two kidnapped girls just don't believe that, their father has told us that he's seen no evidence that troops have entered the area to look for the girls. >> there's been no sense for himself, his wife or their other children. >> life is very dangerous in chibok right now. since on 14th of april, to date, we don't sleep at home. in the evening, right from 6:00, you will be seeing people coming into the town, but around 5 to 6 people will disappear to the bush because there is no security. there is no security. we sleep in the bush with all of our little ones. >> the kidnappings in nigeria
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has raised global awareness of boko haram. >> as barbara starr, they appear to be joining forces and becoming more dangerous. >> reporter: even as the world watches horrified, boko haram continues its terror. the latest vicious attack afflicted on africa's most vulnerable. but there's also growing worry africa's al qaeda are joining forces on bombmaking and assassinations and threatening attacks on western interests. boko haram which has killed nigh jeerian jeerian. >> northern africa and have vowed that they could get conduct attack against u.s.
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embassy in the region. >> reporter: they believe that the boko haram leader had contacts with osama bin laden. and another affiliate in africa, which was behind last year's attack on nigeria which killed 40 hostages. the two groups may now have trained together. a third group has also stepped up its operations even after the attack on the westgate shopping mall in niairobi. a growing worry, senior al shabaab operatives. watching monday announced it signed another ten-year lease for a base.
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the u.s. is now sending a team to help find the school girls. >> law enforcement officials with investigations and hostage negotiations. >> then there's al qaeda in yemen, a source with access to the latest intelligence says the group has recently stepped up its active plotting against the united states. barbara starr, cnn, the pentagon. and in saudi arabia authorities say they have arrested more than 60 with links to al qaeda. >> the group planned to attack targets inside the kingdom, a government official told cnn the operation is not over yet, police are still pursuing 44 other suspects. russia's foreign minister is
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ruling out a second international meeting to try to ease tensions in ukraine, he said the agreement's reached during last week's geneva talks still have not been implemented. >> the foreign minister is also questioning the legitimacy of presidential elections in ukraine scheduled for may 25th. >> translator: scheduling an election when the army is used against some of the population, it's not afghanistan, where an election was held during war. >> reporter: john kerry had similar words for efforts by pro-russian groups to hold a refer endumb on may 11th. here's what white house spokesman jay carney had to say. >> it is ironic to hear russian governmental leaders to say that
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it would be hard to have elections when there is chaos in the region that they themselves are helping to sell. >> the situation in ukraine may prompt gnat toe to station troops in eastern urp on a permanent basis. ahead the debate over climate change is heating up. >> new white house report isn't going down well with republicans, we'll tell you why that's next. the buzz about the alibaba ipo next. when the satellite provider checked his credit, he found out his daughter didn't pay her bills. but he's not worried. now he checks his credit report and score at experian.com,
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welcome back to cnn newsroom and the investigators say the passenger ferry that sank last month off of south korea was carrying too much cargo, more than twice the limit and it
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wasn't properly secured. that may help explain why the ship listed and then sank leaving 269 people dead and 33 still missing. what's also interesting about this, the ferry sailed over overloaded 139 times since march of 2013, and in the process, earned nearly $3 million in extra profits. a new white house report says climate change is a reality, it's arrived and it will only get worse, the national climate assessment was compiled. by more than 300 experts over several years. >> the obama administration say the effects are being felt in every part of the u.s. details from brian todd. >> reporter: the forecast is dire, more torrential rain. like this deluge that wiped out streets. the threat of climate change is already in our backyards according to a new report
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commissioned by the white house and it's not just a distant warning about the future of polar bears. >> it's happening now. >> reporter: the don wubls and and those behind the report are calling for urgent action, they warn of the dangers americans are facing directly as a result of climate change in each region n the heavily populated northeast, more coastal storm surges, heavier than ever downpours. >> more concerns about flooding. at the same time, sea levels are rising in the northeast. >> reporter: that means railways sun merged and other big transportation disruptions. in the southeast, especially in coastal areas, rising sea levels. >> the other big concern is increase of intensity in hurricanes. >> reporter: flooding in some areas, water shortages caused by too little rain in other areas. in the west, more crippling drought. we're already in the third
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straight year of drought in that region and it has a dangerous by-product. >> it leads to more wildfires. >> reporter: officials say to illustrate how climate change is impacting conditions on the ground. two contrasting satellite photos. the reports' author say you might have escaped some weather hazards but americans will see the same. >> more hot days. >> reporter: with more extended heat waves especially in the west. don wubble say we can all mitigate this by conserving energy, keep trying to find ways to trap carbon dioxide before
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it's sent into the atmosphere. and he says we need to adapt. brian todd, cnn, washington. u.s. republicans are lashing out at the report calling it a political rule to force new measures that will hurt businesses. >> mitch mcconnell says america's middle class will bear the brunt of new regulations it will take a global effort to actually make a difference, he says. >> if we enact a kind of national energy regulations that the president seems to want so badly it will be unlikely to impact global unless other na s nations do the same thing. >> we want to get a nonpartisan view on all this.
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>> let's go to weather center, you have been looking at all day. what have you come up with? >> nine of top warmest years have occurred in the past 14 years. some of the images to put it in scale of what we're dealing with, going back to mere glacier, from now back to 2004. when you melt glacier, you're releasing methane. talking about the storms, the intensity of storms being on the increase. this was a supertyphoon in tacloban. several months ago when it impacted the philippines. you take a look at the fire threats out of the state of victoria in australia, one of the hottest years on record.
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pakistan, we had extensive flooding as well. temperatures are forecast globally to increase 7 degrees fahrenheit. if that happens, of course the effect is going to be dramatic planet width. you see the intensity and the extreme nature of storms in recent year. the indicators of climate change, we know that sea levels are on the increase. several inches. several feet in the forecast across portions of southeastern u.s. water vapor, that's on the increase, increasing the likelihood of heavy rain events in pensacola and around the world.
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also, that air temperatures near the earth surface also on the increase as well. droughts and fires and such. that we have seen in recent weeks. you put all of this together, you see what's going down, our glacial coverage, you have the darker soil absorbing the sun's energy, also see snow cover on the decrease. all of this is bad news and occurring in our children's lifetime. >> i was going to ask you about the timing of it, that's the being concern. threats to harvest and people having access to enough food, that's a worry. >> if something's done, it may too late to stop it completely. >> okay thank you. all right, let's take a short break right now. but ahead -- the biggest online
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welcome back to cnn newsroom. china's largest e-xhors site is on the verge of conducting one of the most anticipated largest ipo of the year. alibaba has filed papers to sell its stocks in the united states. it ambulance plans to sell
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stock. imagine for a moment that amazon, e-bay paypal all started trading shares on the same day, well the chinese equivalent is closer to doing just that. alibaba is not only china's biggest joan line marketplace, it's the biggest in the world. it's going to be one of the biggest tech ipos ever. >> a former english teacher started it in his apartment and, right now it has the transaction volume of two amazon.coms. if you think about it's huge. it controls 80% of the online business in china. >> reporter: here are some other numbers. alibaba saturday 66% compared to
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q42012. $1.4 billion of that was profit. and it's estimated more than half of all partials delivered in china are done by alibaba's various companies. they estimate that its various arms ship in volume than amazon and e-bay combined. add to that, its online payment arm is estimated to handle half of all of china's online payments. its connection to yahoo! is legendary. the u.s. internet firm owns a 24% stake in alibaba, that stake has been one of the few bright spots for yahoo! and its fifth ceo, marisa mayer. yahoo! is now in for a huge payday. >> yahoo!'s wind fall could be somewhere $10 billion and $20
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billion depends on how that comes to the marketplace. are they going to invest it? if you own yahoo! you might be able to get a piece of alibaba. >> what could they do all of that cash and all of those shares, acquisitions in the west as it looks to get even bigger. cnn, london. new surveillance footage of a 15-year-old plane stowaway who we told you about last month, he snuck in a wheel well of a plane flying from california to the hawaii. >> reporter: in a video released you can see the shadow of a person climbing down there. of course, limited oxygen, you can see him stumbling around there. >> obviously a little bit stunned. much more ahead here on cnn
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you're watching cnn newsroom and we want to welcome our
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viewers in the united states and all around the world. >> coming up on 3:30 on a wednesday morning on the east coast of the united states. time to check the headlines. thailand's cobbs tugal court has just dismissed prime minister yingluck from power. the u.s. is sending military support to nigeria to help find more than 200 school girls abducted by boko haram militants. >> word surfaced that eight more girls were kidnapped in eastern nigeria. he says agreements reached during april's geneva talks still have not been implemented. he's also questioning the legitimate of ukraine's may 25th
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presidential elections. more now on that u.s. offer to help nigeria. >> the u.s. president barack obama says a team of military and law enforcement experts will essentially set up in the capital, they'll open up a coordination cell offering expertise and intelligence. secretary of state john kerry says now there is no time to waste. >> like jonathan was very happy to receive this offer and ready to move on it immediately. and we're immediately engaging in order to implement this, we remain deeply concerned about the welfare of these young girls and we want to provide whatever assistance is possible in order to help for their safe return to their families.
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>> and you may recall that shortly after the mass kidnapping in april, nigeria's government claimed that most of the girls has been rescued. >> that simply wasn't the case. one u.s. senator says nigeria was just too slow to ask for outside help. >> it is beyond my imagine mags, i can't fathom why they haven't readily accepted the as is answer the and out there asking for it. boko haram is a real challenge to the government. whether they feel embarrassed by this challenge. this is the largest economy in africa whether it's the government own history of its armed forces. i'm not sure what it is. but it's unacceptable. >> government officials there are defending their response to these kidnappings and vowing to
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find the girls. >> the information minister acknowledged that it won't be easy and the ongoing battle against boko haram poses big challenges. >> we're not fight iing -- we'r fighting warfare. >> you'll have to change your strategy, it's not working? >> of course, this story and the outrageous threats by boko haram to sell the girls brings up questions of what modern-day slavery means. jim clancy has more. ♪
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this story of the mass kidnappings of girls in nigeria shocking many of our viewers. an issue that's all too common. slavery is illegal in every single country, but people continue to be sold or forced into prostitution. between 20 million and 30 million people living in slavery around the world right now. a nonprofit research foundation called walk free released its global slavery index last year, it showed the top 162 country for the prevalence of slavery, 4 out of the top 10 worst offending country were in africa. nigeria was 48th. the numbers of slaves in a total country, estimated 700,000
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people in nigeria are living as slaves today, that ranks fourth in the world behind india, china and pakistan, in this case the kidnappingis and the threat to sell school girls is embedded in a much deeper culture of slav y slavery. >> there's other elements of labor expectations. inflicted on them as children. so, this is unequivocally a form of slavery. >> now, like the girls kidnapped by boko haram, a majority of the victims come from rural areas. they're then forced into prostitution rings as far away as europe.
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brought on extreme poverty, ethnic divisions and high level of corruption. forced marriage is just one form of slavery, women and girls are married without having any choice and forced into a life of servitude which often includes physical violence. i'm jim clancy. back to you. ahead -- the oscar pistorius murder trial has been filled of drama. >> how has the prosecutor gone too far? a look into that when we come back. plus, the president and the intern, 16 years later, monica lewinsky reveals all. the day we rescued riley was a truly amazing day.
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you're looking at life pictures of balloting under way in south africa, they're
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electing a new national assembly. the congress is expected to keep its longtime hold on power but growing frustration with the president and the death of nelson mandela have weakened the party's dominance. the election in south africa is delaying the murder trial of olympian oscar mipistorius by a day. >> they'll resume their case on thursday zthey'll follow up on yesterday's testimony from neighbors who said they didn't hear a woman screaming before the shots were fired. >> contradicting earlier testimony from prosecution witnesses. the defense, though, is still trying to recover from the relentless grilling that pistorius received from pos kurt nel.
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at times even laughed at his answers. it was all gripg television seen around the world. >> it's all about you, what's important to you. no other way that gun could have been discharged oththe gun. you shot and killed her. won't you take responsibility for that? >> i did, my lady. >> then said, yes. >> the pit bull go too far? one legal expert said that if this case was held in american court, it could be grounds for a mistrial. i spoke with james zennin, a trial lawyer. the prosecutor received a lot of attention for that pit bull
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approach he took when he was cross examining oscar pistorius mrp from a procedural point of view, he overstepped the boundaries. >> he was constantly making statements instead of asking questions, he was accuse toir, he was browbeating, he was overbearing. this went on for five days. you have no jury here. a young who's supposed to be bound by the laws and the facts and the judge is certainly not going to be persuaded by these arguments. his real motive is to appeal to the public so there's public pressure on the judge to find a verdict of guilty. >> from an american standpoint and also from the stand point of international standards it verges on denying pistorius a
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fair trial. the jury would have been subjected to all sort of improper statements from the prosecutor where the witness is called a liar, where he's accused of concocting the story not in the form of questions but in the form of accuse toir statements. >> appeal at a later date if he's found guilty? >> i don't know what the law is in in south africa, if i'm pistorius' lawyer i would argue that this improper prosecution held up the witness to such public ridicule and was so prejudicial it had to have an impact on the court and the court's thinking. >> do you think that maybe this is the first time the world is
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getting a very good close look at how the legal system works in south africa, they just do things differently down there? >> they may do it differently. but, certainly, the standards that we have here in the united states, which we got from english law, are standards that are recognized all over the world, we have in the united states, we have 225 years of prudence. to make sure a defendant isn't railroaded and doesn't become a pinata for the prosecutor just to bat him around for five day and james zirin, a trial lawyer, thank you for being with us. >> thank you. testimony resumes tomorrow. find a lot more about the trial
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so far, background interviews and analysis from our correspondents, find all of that at cnn.com. it has been nearly 16 years since bill clinton's presidency was nearly derailed after u.s. lawmakers impeechd him for lying about his affair with monica lewinsky. >> at the time, she was a 22-year-old white house intern, now, she's speaking out in a new tell-all essay, randy kaye has the details. >> reporter: from the arms of the president to the pages of vanity fair magazine, it's been a long road for monica lewinsky baa she's found her voice and she has plenty to say. she rights, it's time to burn the beray and bury the blue dress. the intern opening about her affair with president bill clinton the scandal it created
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in 1998 and the global humiliation, now 40, she's determined to have a different ending to her story and hoping to give a purpose to her past. lewinsky says she was inspired to speak out by tyler clemente, the rutgers university student who jumped to his death. lewinsky tells vanity fair his story brought her to tears, after her affair, she had strong suicidal temptations. she's hoping to help others in their darkest moments. she said, i myself deeply regret what happened between me and president clinton, adding it was a consensual relationship. made a scapegoat in order to protect his powerful position. at the time the president tried to protect himself, too. >> i did not have sexual relations with that woman, ms.
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lewinsky. >> reporter: but seven months later, president clinton spoke to the american people again, this time a different story. >> indeed i did have a relationship with ms. lewinsky that wasn't appropriate, in fact it was wrong. >> reporter: monica lewinsky spoke to barbara walters about that. >> i felt like a piece of trash, i felt -- i felt dirty and i felt used and i was disappointed. >> reporter: we haven't heard much from lewinsky since then, this interview with larry king on cnn in 2002 was one of her last. >> was there a little, like, you know, flirtatious thing going on. >> sure, there had been this flirtation and that was where it began and that's where it started. from there -- >> it took off.
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>> reporter: silent for more than a decade, she's quick to note that the clintons did not pay her off to keep her quiet. though she's done little professionally over the years, besides promote her own handbag line, it wasn't for lack of trying. in fact, she can't get a job. after getting her masters degree at the london school of economics, because of what potential employers so tactfully referred to my position i was never quite right for the position. >> that's the tough part of the story, isn't it? never being able to hold down a job because of the relationship. interesting timing. >> she said that she was possibly one of the first people out there to be vilified on the internet because that's when the drudge report first started and it was all put out there. >> yeah, anyhow, all right, just
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ahead here on cnn newsroom, outrage is brewing in california on what's happening the other side of the world that. >> that's next.
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welcome back. there's more fallout from the racism controversy that's rocked pro basketball los angeles clippers. >> the team's president has announced that he's taking an indefinite leave of absence, analysts said it should make it easy to instill new management and force don sterling to ban. >> he of course was banned from the sport for life. the city of beverly hills wants the government of brunei to own its ownership of the iconic beverly hills hotel.
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>> it all has to do with a harsh judicial code that many hollywood's a-listers say is an outrage. >> reporter: the absolute rural of brunei, small southeastern asian countries. but one of the richest nations in the world. courted by the u.s. most powerful leaders. >> renew the long standing and friendship. >> that friendship is being strained as brunei instills a new law. >> nobo the sultan and hollywood protesters like jay leno want his money out of the storied beverly hills hotel. the hotel chain is partly owned
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by an investment. richard branson tweeted -- >> people being stoned to death, hello? it's all economic. how big of an economic impact it will have, let's find out and see. it's just a matter of doing the right thing. >> reporter: the hotel says a boycott is the wrong thing, hitting not just brunei but the locals. but the boycott and the celebrity power is bringing attention to the sultan's new law, a law that surprises this woman who says she knows the sultan like few others, she details in her book, "some girls." that at 18, she was a mistress of the sultan's brother for a year and a half in brunei. one night she said in her book
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was gifted to the sultan who broke his own laws. >> i'm a witness that the sultan was drinking, committing adultery, was, you know, not exactly living on the straight and narrow. >> for them to then pass this harsh law. >> right. >> how do you view this? >> maybe indicative of the way a lot of people in power behave. it's one rule for them and another rule for the rest of the people who don't have so much money and don't have so much power and that's why i felt compelled to tell my story. there's a new poll that will make students attending pricey universities cringed a bit. >> costly education doesn't necessarily buy you any happiness after graduation. after surveying college grads in the u.s. where you went to the
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school isn't as important as the experience you had there. >> it also suggests other factors lead to job over all satisfaction. nurturing teachers and emotional attachment to the school. it's mind-boggling here in the u.s. what college students pay. all right, the record heat that has been baking the central u.s. may finally be easing its grip in the coming days. let's turn to our meteorologist to get more on that. >> good morning. some changes for the better in the forecast across the central u.s. a good 27 degrees above average for this time of year, dallas, 9
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degrees above average. but cooling trend beginning to push in. excessive heat moving offshore. by friday and saturday, seasonally warm, certainly not going to be cold outside. generally for 12 million people across the middle part of the u.s., large hail and severe weather the threat. your temperatures this wednesday afternoon should be such, low 90s around okc. southern u.s., temperatures generally in the low to mid 80s. this self-ie out of mars, in the last couple of days, taking a self-ie sharing with us the rover. it has arms 6 feet in length. putting it inside its high-tech belly. what's fascinating about this,
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this is called the kimberly region and where the drilling is taking place is named after western australia. >> thank you so much, pedro. >> see you tomorrow. in japan, this is perhaps the only time you'll hear the word cry baby used in a positive way. that so-called crying contest in hiroshima. >> the infant who cries the loudest and first is the winner. the loud cry of baby will ward off evil spirits. >> isn't that also called child abuse? >> yes. >> unbelievable. thank you for watching. "early start" is coming up
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terror in nigeria. more young girls kidnapped and threatened to be sold to the highest bidder. hundreds of children abducted and the desperate search to bring them back continues. we are live in nigeria with the latest. >> deadly fights in the streets between soldiers and prru