get this, the boy's cat came to the rescue and fought off the bad pooch, the boy needed stitches, and called his cat a hero. >> might become a cat person after that. pamela, thank you very much. that does it for us, we'll see you at 11:00 p.m. eastern, that does it for us. cnn now starts right now. good evening, i'm bill weir, welcome to "cnn tonight." and a lot to get to, from donald sterling's not so mea culpa. and i'll talk to three women whose ivy league dreams were stopped when they were assaulted on campus. now they are are looking at a system that says traumatized them again. they say every parent needs to hear the story. and karl rove's brain-damag

brain-damaged bluster. now let us begin with anderson cooper's interview. you talked for a long time. but tonight you got to the heart of the racism question. anderson, let's play this. i want to get your action. do you think that is a problem in america? racism? >> i don't think so, i think it is better than any other place in the world. >> you don't see it as a big problem here? >> i don't see it. i'm not -- you know, an african-american. you know, take -- judaism and -- i don't think the jews have any problem. i mean, there are a couple of people that they killed that are jews coming out of a synagogue, and you remember all that. but in general, i think america -- handles everything well. do you think there is a lot of prejudice here? >> i think there is -- yeah, i think there are prejudices everywhere. but i do think there are different forms.

there is institutional forms of prejudice. and then there is stuff that -- biases that people have in their hearts. >> what struck you as you had that conversation about the disconnect between his words in one section, and then his disconnect with people in america today? >> i think he disconnects from regular people in a lot of was.s i think his money is a disconnect. i don't think he has to kind of engage in stuff he finds unpleasant or doesn't really want to do. so i'm not sure how he reads up on things that are going up, how familiar he is with you know, institutional forms of racism and banking or you know, high mortgage loans for people. so i'm not -- it just doesn't seem he has sort of made it a point to truly educate himself on certain aspects of society. >> right, probably not the kind of guy that knows, you know, the cost of milk or what it is like

in a food desert, so to speak. he talks about a lot if i'm fair to somebody regardless of their skin color that is proof of the lack of racism. here is a sample of the logic on that. >> i don't know, in the league of professional -- a guy comes in, he is a lawyer. i respect him. if he has done it and worked hard, and i wouldn't think he was any different than a white lawyer. i don't think -- i think america has worked well with that. maybe not as well as the african-americans would like. but you know, i'm a jew, i watch what is going on with us, too. i think it is better than it has ever been. doesn't mean there is not you know, anti-semitism. there is a lot of it. especially in the south. but -- it doesn't matter. >> what is so brazen about this

is you don't hear people talk like this in public, especially with a camera in his face. and i guess magic said to you last night he is just living in the stone age. is that what is at the heart of this? the age? >> you know, i don't know, i think for a lot of people. people have -- they see what they want to see or they see what they experienced in their own life and don't make much of an effort perhaps to -- for him to say in the legal system he doesn't see racism. you know when he treats an african-american lawyer equally. i mean, obviously in the criminal justice system you can make a strong argument for there are inherent inequalities, you know, even access to attorneys. if you look at -- the prisons, the sort of imbalance in sentencing on federal drug crimes. over the years. i mean, there are a whole host of things you can look at and see institutional forms of

racism if you want to. and some people can also look at those things and not see them. >> when you have a lot of money, you don't have to, i suppose is the lesson there. anderson cooper, thank you, appreciate it. and two men who may differ on this, on the right, ben ferguson, on the left, lamont hill. guys, good to see you. i wanted to take this into the racial conversation and whether -- you know, it is interesting to hear him talk about v. stiviano and all the really sort of tawdry details. but really this is a national conversation about race. donald sterling was 29 years old when bull connor was unleashing the dogs and fire hoses in alabama. in his lifetime he has gone from that being okay to being pillaried in the national square. so mark lamont, tell me what we've learned from this and where our conversation needs to go next. >> i think where i'm most

disappointed is where we haven't learned. we look at this as an opportunity to say, look, america hates racism. we all said what donald sterling said on the tape is wrong. in some sense we can have a collective sigh of relief and joy that the greater majority is not agreeing with him. that is the only type of racism that we acknowledge. it is the foaming at the mouth sexism kind of racism. that is the easy part. that lets us off the hook. donald sterling was discriminating against people. we don't want to see that. the work discrimination, the drug war, mass incarceration. first class jail, second class schools. after that stuff is implicated by racism. we don't want to talk about it. >> we are talking about it now. >> we objenly talk about it now even donald sterling said i'm only dealing with what is on that tape.

it would have been better of they said, donald sterling is discriminating against people for housing, that would have been more courageous. >> i think a different issue is money, where were the african-american players in the nba who knew they were going to play for this guy who did not rent for the hispanics and african-americans, why didn't they say i don't want to play for an owner who doesn't want to rent to my mom or sister if they don't know they are related to me. but how many people are willing to move on if the money is right. and that is one part of the conversation. but there also is a bigger picture we should look at, and that is is. we have in fact moved on a lot in this country. and we should grin about this. we should celebrate that we have moved on an awful lot from when this guy was in his 20s watching what was happening and alabama. and we should be proud of that. but at the same time can money excuse everything with racism

when people overlook it? yes, and all races did it. and donald sterling was the richest guy in the room and other people got rich because of him. and they were willing to overlook the truth and facts of how he denied housing to single moms and minorities all the time. >> but speaking of minorities, let's show another clip. how he is trying to ease his conscience, throwing money at the minorities. here is donald sterling. >> i like to help minorities. that is why i contribute $7 million to the children's hospital for minorities. i have only paid a million down, but i owe the balance. and -- the united -- you know, the united college, the united negro college fund, i've been supporting them for 15 years. the naacp. i have been supporting them every year. i support minorities. god has been so good to me.

i'm so -- if i'm talking too fast, i'm sorry. i'm so lucky. i am so lucky. and so i want to give. that is what my life is all about. giving and helping wherever i can. >> giving a million dollars to the naacp brings a lot of rationalization on both sides. >> look at the corruption of the naacp. they took the money knowing his past. and i think that is something else that should come out of this conversation. the naacp was bought off by sterling for a lifetime achievement award. he was given a lifetime achievement award, and they knew what he had actually done in his business. so they're just as corruption as donald sterling on this issue. they were going to give him a second award because he bought access for a plaque he could hang on the wall, and say look, i'm not a racist. that is just as corruption. >> i don't know if i say it is

just as corruption. >> that was one chapter of the naacp, not the entire national organization. >> but they took his money. >> i'm not arguing that point, and it is okay. we agree. >> with regard to the bigger issue, sometimes philanthropy, where people donate money and by virtue of the donation, they feel like they can have ruling over the people. i feed them, i give them a little bit of money and clothes, i can do whatever i want to them. donald sterling feels like the $40,000 he gives to the naacp allows him to do what what he wants with players and say what he wants, allows him to control housing marketins. it is a troublesome mentality. he absolutely believes what he is saying and thinks he is not a racist. that is what is so dangerous about it. he makes no effort to eliminate the racism in his heart because he doesn't see it. >> i don't know if it is as much dangerous as it is sad.

we are looking at an incredibly lost ignorant old guy who is incredibly rich who has been able to use his money to continue a life-style and to have people around him and say what he wants to. including this young girl, she wouldn't have hung out with him and recorded him if he was not really a rich guy. so he was used by her, and others, and guess what, he used other people as well. >> you're so cynical, bill. >> you're telling me attractive girls don't want to hang out with 80-year-old men? >> let's wait and see when we're 80 -- >> marc lamont hill, and ben ferguson. when we come back, your kids have been accepted at a top college, but are they safe? i'm going to talk about three young women who went public about an assault. some are calling it epidemic.

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now to the uproar against sexual assaults on college campuses, from the party schools in the heartland to the ivy league, 55 institutions are now under federal investigation, including columbia university here in new york. fliers titled rapists on campus

have been circling, while names of attackers are written on walls. a more formal complaint has been filed by survivors, and you're about to meet three of them. they say they were too intimidated to call police, so we have no way to verify if the stories happened. but everybody, hoping to reform higher education for the better. >> i tend to think of wide-eyed, innocent, excited to be on campus. >> i was very excited to be on my own, start my own path. >> i was always going to be that girl who was going to come to new york and shine. i came here ready for excitement and promise. which sounds so cheesy, but it really is true. >> no, that is not cheesy at all. that is what every incoming freshman thinks, all about

possibility and no evil. >> but for these three and dozens of others on this ivy league campus, that was shattered in the worst possible way. >> i was out with some friends in the area. and we ended up going back to a university frat. and i was assaulted. and i was sexually assaulted by two men. >> my first semester of freshman year i was assaulted in my own dorm room by a quite close friend of mine. >> i was sexually assaulted twice. the second semester of my freshman year. >> the style and location of their attacks varied, but in the days and months after they all wrestled with the same kind of shame and confusion and self doubt. >> i think like a lot of survivors i had so internalized this idea well, i shouldn't have been drinking. i shouldn't have looked for adventure as to go to a house with people that i didn't know very well.

so it took me a really long time to even admit to myself that what i had experienced was rape. >> were you lucid when it was happening? did you understand? >> not really. >> i had to combat all of these stereotypes about the stranger, rape, you know it only happens in dark alleys at night. by psychopaths who you have never seen before in your life. that is not the case, most rapes occur between significant others, friends. >> the first assault was by an acquaintance, somebody i had met earlier that night. and the second assault was buy, it was someone a lot closer and they were like in a position of authority. >> were you aware in the moment that this is horrible, i want this to stop. and said so? >> yeah, definitely. and the first -- i don't know, it is kind of like i can't even count how many times i said no

in the first assault. and it was not like a case where like he didn't hear me because he responded and said things like, why not? or you don't have a boyfriend. like he responded to my pleas to stop. >> this is the first time sarah has ever spoken of this horror publicly. but like the others she is motivated to come forward by what happened after her attacks. when she told one campus staff member what happened sarah said she was encouraged to go talk things out with her rapist. >> they said return to the attacker's room to talk to him about the issue. so that was her advice. >> advised to go talk to your attacker and work it out? >> in his room, the place where i was assaulted. >> and after a second attack, another staff member seemed fixated on her behavior, not his? >> and the first question was

why were you drinking so much. and the first conversation revolved around my drinking habits and what i had done wrong. in both cases i was held responsible. and in the first case which i felt was a very violent sexual assault, was only given one semester off. he is currently on campus today. >> my assailant was also found responsible and was given a semester suspension and is currently back on campus. >> it is crazy what happened, because he actually pled guilty. he wrote a note acknowledging that he assaulted her. so there was no question in anyone's minds that this was a violent person. >> how often do you see him? >> i have seen him four times this semester, unfortunately, in all of those experiences they have been very triggering. and i don't feel like i can focus or be calm on campus in class. things like that.

>> were you hoping he would be expelled? >> yes. yeah. >> but sarah, what is it like knowing that the man who had not just -- not just a man, the men who attacked you are somewhere on campus? >> it is very triggering, because it is so unexpected when you run into them. columbia's campus becomes a lot smaller when you're trying to avoid your sexual assaulter. and so just kind of like writing a paper in butler library and seeing him walk through it is very triggering. >> and stories like these are the reason why 95 of% -- 95% of sexual assault survivors refuse to report their attack. >> the healing process is really traumatic, at the end of it nobody is ever expelled. for us we want perpetrators gone. we don't want to have to sit in the dining hall and watch your

rapist. i don't want to be put in the position to justify what happened. people who were poorly trained and would dismiss my story because i had been drinking. >> it is difficult to find people who want to diminish your story. but i found one woman, heather mcdonald, who wrote, the reality on campus is not a rape epidemic but a culture of drunken hook-ups with zero accountability for promiscuous behavior. >> i don't see how somebody can justify that, telling you that was you being promiscuous. i think that is a level of cruelty and ignorance that i don't appreciate. and i don't agree with.

and it doesn't reflect what so many people are experiencing. you're never done healing from an assault. you're never you know, great, i -- i'm done now. >> it is over, it is over. it doesn't ruin you but it is always something that you have to navigate and it becomes part of my identity. i had my choice taken from me in one moment but i'm not going to have it taken from me in the rest of my life. >> zoe's choice now is to create a group called "no red tape." you can see their movement on campus these days. we asked officials about this, but they declined to comment. they say we are implementing measures, supporting survivors and promoting adjudication, changes to mandatory training for in-coming grads, heightened safeguards for survivors. maybe keep them separate from

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if i saw it happening, i speak up. >> if i saw it happening i would never blame her, i would help her. >> because i don't want to be a part of the problem. >> i want to be a part of the solution. >> we need all of you to be a part of the solution.

this is about respect, it is about responsibility. >> it is up to all of us to put an end to sexual assault and that starts with you. >> because one is too many. >> public servants announcement from the obama white house, employing a little star power in their fight against sexual assault on america's college campuses, senator killebran, a leader in this fight. thank you for joining us. >> thank you. >> we followed your fight against sexual assault in the military, and i understand your interest to speak on campus, when a couple of students showed up unannounced at your office. is that what happened? >> correct, what we have been hearing from survivors all over the country and at schools across new york is that they're experiencing real similar problems. it should not be the cost of education to have one in five girls be raped before they graduate. so what we're trying to do is

make it safe for our students to go to college campuses and not be subjected to rape and sexual assaults. so that is what we're trying to do, flip the incentives so that more colleges not only report the crimes but make a safer line. >> one in five is a staggering number. do you believe this is an authentic epidemic that is happening? or is this a case of historic under-reporting? what is going on? >> well, i'm not sure. but i know that that number is unacceptable. and what i do know from listening to survivors is that not only do they have to be subjected to the worst degrading attacks, these brutal attacks but then they're subjected to a second betrayal. an institutional betrayal when the school they worked their who lives to go to turns their back on them and does not either get rid of the rapist or listen to their answers. or even in some instances, they have been retaliated against for

report reporting these crimes. >> should that man who is found guilty of these crimes, should that mean instant expulsion? what should happen in these cases? >> well, what happens in these cases, the schools have a lower standard of proof and they are found not guilty of the crime committed. but what we do is suspending somebody for a few months is absurd. making a woman who has been brutally raped by a peer in her school, receive a one-month suspension, is not acceptable. and it is not acceptable, the requirements that schools do. title one requires them to maintain safe environments, title two requires them to maintain a safe environment for somebody who has endured post traumatic stress syndrome. over 60% of schools are not reporting crimes properly.

they have to report these crimes under the cleary act, and make sure they keep a safe environment and that means holding perpetrators accountable. >> now, you are drafting legislation, i understand. there is a white house task force, where they're doing guidelines, are your really going to come at this with law that has teeth? >> yes, our goal is to put teeth into existing law. right now the penalties for sexual assault or reporting these crimes to the department of education are so low. the schools don't have an incentive to report. they would rather keep it under the rug. and not admit to actually having a problem. and so what we're going to do is hold them accountable. we're going to create transparency and accountability. we'll assess what is happening accurately in these schools and make sure the schools who do not provide a safe environment and do not disclose the rapes are held accountable with really tough penalties. >> so what is the penalty? are you going to with hold

federal funds under title one? >> well, we're going to have fines that they will pay, we have to make sure the fines are painful. and we need the transparency because at the end of the day shining light on this issue is the most powerful tool we have. when parents across this country know that a school doesn't handle the crimes properly, get rid of the rapists and get them off campus and don't look after the men and women who are raped they won't send their kids there. we want transparency and accountability so that schools can meet the title requirements and are safe. >> what do you think of this movement? at least in columbia, it was in the paper where students were trying to get accountability on their own. with fliers, and the words "rapists on campus" with them being passed out and names on the wall. what do you think it says?

>> it says to me people feel the schools are not doing what they need to do. so i have been incredibly inspired by a number of survivor's who have come forward to not only tell their stories but a number of survivors have come together to actually hold the school accountable. this actually happened all schools all over with brave men and women saying this is what happened to me. this is how i was treated. i talked to advocates who were absolutely retaliated against by their schools for actually bringing the rape forward. that is so egregious. and we will change it. it is the courage of these men and women to tell the stories who will make the change. >> senator gillibrand, we appreciate your time, thank you. thank you. >> and coming up, open to the public. dedicated by the president tomorrow. some families are outraged about what is inside this museum. i'll talk to its president next. marge: you know, there's a more enjoyable

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they will be people from around the world and you want them to understand the terrible tragedy that 3,000 people were taken from us by a handful of people who didn't like our freedoms. and that we cannot let that happen again. >> that, of course, is former new york city mayor michael bloomberg talking to our friend, cnn's jake tapper. 9/11 was a moment that a lot of us thought changed us, american s and new yorkers. so it is a little ironic that the new 9/11 museum has set off so many battles. the president will dedicate it tomorrow and it opens to the public one week from today. and joining me now, the president and ceo of the museum, joe daniels. good to see you, joe. >> thank you for having me. >> this is an impossible task i can imagine for the designers, for the organizers, how do you memorialize an atrocity?

how do you decide this picture of a falling person or that snippet of sound doesn't violate the memory of that soul? what was the most difficult part? >> well, that is absolutely right. it is ultimately -- it is a balance. we understand that you know, it is 12 and a half years later. and for the family members that lost people that day it is still so raw for them. and we need to be respectful and express to the public the lives that these victims led and not just the deaths that they died. at the same time, we truly built this museum for future generations to show that when the times require, this country can come together. it will come together. and it is a real powerful message for each of our investors about what it means to be an american. so that balancing has gone on from the beginning. but i truly believe that when people come here starting tomorrow and then we open to the public next week that they will

see that we achieve that balance pretty well. >> i do want to bring in one prosecutor, we want to be sensitive to this. and i can see that you already are. rosemary cane, her son, george was a firefighter lost to day. here is a little bit of her idea of what she is opposed to. >> i waited months for my son to be recovered. out of that hellhole. and now they're putting him back in there. what is respectful about that? >> a museum is not a cemetery, her -- some of the signs read there. so there are remains actually interred in the museum itself? or how does that work? >> you know, one of the statistics that is still so shocking about 9/11 is that 1100 victims were never identified. that means for 1100 people, families they never got to go through that very basic ritual

of burying their loved ones and laying them to rest. we made a commitment to the families years and years ago that these remains would be treated respectfully. so we built an office for the new york city medical examiner in private space at what is called sacred bedrock, separate from the museum, not available to the public so that these unidentified remains could r ov epose at this sacred place. the medical examiner continues to do identifications. each year, one to five identifications happen. my heart as well as everybody here, their heart goes out to the people who never received remains. but this is a very sacred and respectful place that will never be in any way for the public to be a part of. >> i'm a neighbor of yours down there. i used to watch it get built. it used to drive me crazy when

we would see pictures of flames being sold to tourists going through. so i kind of understand that the admission is $24 and you have a gift shop selling souvenirs. explain the difference. >> you know, the bottom line, this museum, at the end of the day is most important, the stories it tells, the artifacts it shows helps to fulfill our promise to never forget. and at this museum, i believe each person that walks through it will feel their experience was worth it. and i really believe it will help people look at their sons and daughters or neighbors and total strangers just a little bit differently after they walk through it. we have to pay for it. make sure this museum is available for everyone. so yes, we do have an admissions charge. 9/11 family members will always be free. every single person that worked

on the historic rescue and recovery period will be free. but for the general public for the tourists that are coming from all around the world, you know, paying $24 to learn and see and understand what this city and what this nation endured is well worth it. other institutions of this size and of this importance receive ongoing federal funding. this museum certainly deserves that. we're working with our elected officials here in new york to try to make that happen. but it is worth the price that people have to pay. >> well, from the reviews i have read it sounds incredibly powerful. can't wait to get down there and explore. joe daniels, thank you. and coming up, if you thought the clinton camp would take questions about hillary's health lying down, well, you didn't really think that did you? when we come back the first couple fight back. i am totally blind. i began losing my sight to an eye disease when i was 10.

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. she had a serious episode, a serious health episode, this was a serious deal. i mean, she basically is out of action from -- she is in and out of the office starting on the 7th of december after she returns. she returns on a friday from the

czech republic. but then it begins an over a month long period where she has a serious illness ending up putting her in the hospital. we don't know what the doctor says, what does she have to be concerned about. but she has hidden a lot. >> that was karl rove on fox news yesterday, not exactly backing down from his allegations that hillary clinton has something to hide regarding her health. not a lot of republicans jumping on the band wagon, but bill clinton, and 2016. joining me now, buzz feed senior political writer. what was your reaction when that story crossed? the rove brain damage, maybe. >> you're right a lot of republicans haven't joined the band wagon, because a, they think it is too early to engage in this kind of stuff. b, they know it can back fire. that said he may be the most

prominent republican to bring this to the front, but i have talked to other republicans who have raised questions and issues not on the public stage. so i think that this is going to be an issue that continues to trail the clintons as they head to 2016. the question is how are republicans going to handle it in front of the cameras. >> and if she just keeps going like the energizer bunny. and there were a few laugh lines, listen. >> first of all, i have to give them credit. that embodies that old saying, consistency is the hob goblins of simple minds. first they say she faked her concussion, and now they say she auditioned for a part on "the walking dead." now they say she must have brain damage, well, she does, i must be in rough shape because she is still quicker than i am. >> do you think this is a way of

inserting her age or physical capabilities in the 2016 debate? >> i don't know, but if it is. you can't be too upset babout i. they will get better and better at it. >> gloria, what is the discussion like in the clinton's house -- >> you know, here is the thing, if you get in trouble or you have a problem or somebody attacks you, you don't want anybody he did it with exactly the right tone.with exactly the bill clinton was the chosen surrogate. he did it with humor. he tried to belittle karl rove. he tried to belittle the entire story with some success. and he also in bill clinton's own way gave us a little news because he said they're going to get better at it. i think that presumes perhaps hillary clinton is actually running. and also he told us a little bit

more about what hillary clinton went through. he said it took six months of very serious work to deal with the ramifications of her fall which i don't think is something i'd ever heard before. so, you know, if she admitted she had a problem but then he said, you know, if she's got some problems with her brain, then i don't see it because she's quicker than i am. >> how do you account for rove's timing on this? what do you think the motivation is? >> for karl rove's motivation? i think this may have happened at a speech he gave and didn't anticipate was going to be on tape. but, i do believe that what happens in campaigns and i think this week shows us that we're starting a new, believe it or not, aggressive phase of the 2016 campaign, we haven't even had the midterm. i know, i'm sorry to say that. but i think what happens in campaigns is you start narratives about candidates early on. john kerry was an elitist.

m.i.t. r mitt romney didn't pay his taxes or care about the poor. hillary clinton, maybe is another way about talking about her age or maybe she's not up to the job. you bury it early on then it gets out there in the echo chamber and it continues. >> the other size, chris christie said today he does not think bridgegate will impact his political future. he says he's still thinking about the presidential run. what do you think? >> he has no choice other than to say that, of course. he's not going to say, yes, that is going to be the end of my career. >> he could be less committed. >> sure. >> i think what we should be looking for as we go forward is, you know, how many republicans in the establishment particularly big donors, the money crowd, the people who were chris christie's biggest champions before the scandal came to view, what are those people going to think of chris christie in six months or so?

after the mid terms, are they going to say, you know what? maybe we should give this guy a second chance. really the establishment has so far failed to, you know, bring up another champion at its high profile and talented and articulate as chris christie. you see marco rubio, jeb bush, all the name floated around. chris christie at his best is very politically talented. the question is will the gop establishment get over bridgegate and give him the money he needs to really drive into a republican primary. >> what do you hear, gloria, about jeb bush, his enthusiasm? >> look, i think after chris christie had all these problems that there are a lot of funders out there who suddenly became very interested in jeb bush. more than anything else, they want to win. and they want somebody who can be an inclusive candidate. what they liked about christie is that, you know, you elect presidents and reaction to the one that went before. so if barack obama is cool and no drama obama and a little bit more of the academic, chris

christie is the trublg teth tel your face. if it turns out he's not the truth teller that they thought he was, then they start looking elsewhere. but jeb bush carries a lot of other baggage. so they're going to have to see how he conducts himself, what happens with the christie investigation. i twha this does is makes the establishment kind of hold back a little bit more to see how this all plays out rather than committing early. >> but not us. we're talking about it and there's 798 days to go. >> having clinton back there is like old times. >> it's all right. fun to watch. >> yep. >> thank you very much. thanks for being with us. when we come back, we have a miracle baby and hero cat and sisters that actually like each other. passion... became your business.

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there are times in the news cycle where i need a little palate cleanse. three stories crossed today that made me go what? really? yay. and as a dog lover, i have to start with the one because i rarely give props to the felines of the world. after what happened in bakersfield, california, my allegiance is beautifully confused. take a look. this is a 4-year-old jeremy riding his bike when a neighborhood dog escapes the yard, comes out from behind the

suv and attacks his leg. bad move considering tara the family cat doesn't like anyone messing with jeremy. obviously didn't get that whole dog-cat flow chart memo. after a few stitches, jeremy, you better watch. >> is tara a nice cat? >> she is nice. >> get used to it, jeremy. >> another family thanking their lucky stars. a miracle baby fell from an 11 story balcony in minneapolis and survived. a big pile of soft mulch. both his arms are broken and breathing with the help of a ventilator. doctors say he should make it. >> it's a gift from god to the family. because he shouldn't have made it. >> lots of mull sh around the

house. finally, 13-year-old twins greenkey were competing against each other in a race in a state track meet and chloe felt something pop in her leg, fell to the ground. no way she could finish the race. her sister rushed to her side with no fanfare, just picked up her twin, puts her on her back and sets off for the finish line. just before the finish, clair and chloe, gives her a chance to cross first. nothing doing. the sisters cross together finishing last leaving their coach in tears proving that nice girls apparently do finish last and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. i feel better. how about you? you're welcome. that's all for us tonight. "cnn's special report" with don lemon is coming up. >> i'm don lemon. we have a live exclusive interview in just moments that you don't want to miss. first, i want to tell you donald sterling is not a racist. well, at least according t