wow. all right. thanks for being a part of the new cnn "money" each saturday 2:00 p.m. eastern, the money news that matters most. so set your dvrs and check out the revamped cnn money site and upgraded mobile app. find everything from jobs to are kas, inequality debate and how the rich spend their millions. have a great weekend. hello, everyone. i'm fredricka whitfield. the big stories we're following in the "cnn newsroom." actor and comedian tracy morgan is in critical condition in the hospital after a terrible crash on the new jersey turnpike. morgan had just performed a comedy show in delaware last night, and he was in a limo bus driving in mercer county, new jersey, early this morning. police say a tractor trailer hit the limo bus from behind in

traffic and the limo flipped over. another tractor trailer, suv and two other cars also involved. one person on the limo bus was killed. police say he is 63-year-old james mcnair. seven people, including morgan, were hurt. the ntsb is investigating the crash, along with the new jersey state police. morgan's publicist says his family is with him at the hospital, and they don't expect his condition to change. family and friends of legendary poet and civil rights icon, dr. maya angelou, celebrated her life today at a memorial service in winston, salem, north carolina. full of emotional words and songs. ♪ i hope you dance i hope you dance ♪ >> country singer lee ann womack singing "i hope you dance."

oprah said that was her favorite song, and former president bill clinton also spoke about angelou and you remember she became the first african-american and first female inaugural poet when she recited her poem at his inauguration back in 1993. clinton told the audience how much he loved angelou. >> i loved maya. the last time we were together was just a couple of weeks ago at the lbj library in austin. they were having -- andy was there. they were having a 50th anniversary of the signing of the civil rights act. and they had an all-day conference. and i gave my little talk, and we wept into this lunch, and it was like a political version of

the antique roach show. [ laughter ] the pope, bill russell, came reminded me how short i was and i looked over and there was maya. i looked over, saw her, went over, hugged her and i said i cannot believe that you have gotten yourself here, and she said, just because i am wheelchair bound doesn't mean i don't get around. >> oprah winfrey also giving a very emotional speech about angelou, and you're hear from her in about ten minutes from now. three minutes of sheer terror outside a courthouse in georgia. [ sirens and gunfire ]

>> all right. what you're hearing is a gun fi fight between law enforcement officials and a man who had an assault rifle and grenades and eastern used his suv to attack a police officer. forsyth county sheriff says marks appeared intent on taking over the courthouse where he faced 11 felony charges that day. his assault plan was foiled. he never made it inside after police and a s.w.a.t. team moved in. marks was killed in the firefight. the sheriff says the situation was very close to being a major catastrophe. weeks after-ele re-elected, south africa's president admitted to the hospital for fatigue. after a long election season, he is exhausted. doctors are satisfied with his condition. the 72-year-old leader was

reeleaksed to a second term last month due to allegations and became president back in 2009. and doctors say army sergeant bowe bergdahl is getting better every day. the former p.o.w. is recovering at landstuhl military medical center in germany. a week after he was rushed on to a black hawk helicopter by u.s. special forces and flown to safety. now, karl penhaul is joining us on the phone from landstuhl. so, karl, what are doctors saying about his recovery process? >> reporter: well, fredricka, doctors citing patient confidentiality and giving little away about what specific physical and psychological illnesses bergdahl may be suffering from right now, but in general terms, as you say, they do say that his condition is stable. that he continues to improve. they do say that he is being able to rest much better than he did when he first arrived in

landstuhl, and also taking a keener interest in the program that his doctors havehood for him to prepare him for his reintegration into society showing that he is more alert, and each day as this process goes on, a team of physicians and psychologists get together, and amongst themselves will discuss when he is ready to go back to the united states, but so far, right now, the doctors have decided that he isn't ready to go back just yet, and this period of psychological, what they're calling decompression must continue. now, when you ask the army psychologist what does this period of decompression mean they say, well, compare this, when you come home after a bad day in the office, want a little time out before you go back into your family, and tell them about your day. well, of course, bowe bergdahl has had a gut full of bad days in the office. so that is why this process of decompression, both

psychologically and also the physical aspects of that, could take some time, fredricka. >> and, karl what, if anything is being said about his ability to, you know, verbally communicate whether indeed he's had a difficult time being able to speak english as has been reported? >> again, we're hearing very little about the specifics of what he is going through, but just this very fact that in a press release put out by the landstuhl medical certainty, they say that he is conversing with doctors and the medical staff around him about the kinds of treatment, about the kinds of care they're putting him through. so that just indicates that he is speaking to them, communicating to them, one would guess in english to find out about this. he is showing an interest. so there doesn't seem, from the information we're receiving right now, either to be any language problems there, or really that he's too withdrawn simply to speak to people. it seems he is awake, alert and

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that includes some late-model vehicles which have a problem that could cause the air bags not to deploy in a crash. the company has recalled almost 16 million cars and trucks so far this year. gm was also out with a scathing internal report this week. ceo mary barra revealing a pattern of incompetence and neglect that allowed the company to wait more than a decade before revealing to the public a deadly ignition flaw that caused some cars to switch into accessory mode. that change can cause a car to simply shut off. disables air bags, power steering and brakes. gm says 13 deaths have been caused by the faulty ignition switches, but there could be more. one georgia couple believes their daughter's death was caused by this defect. before the recall, they settled with gm, but now they're trying to take the auto giant to court over that, claiming they were deceived. here's poppy harlow. >> the pattern of incompetence

and neglect. >> reporter: gm's ceo mary barra admitting the auto giant's failures. >> in short, we misdiagnosed the problem from the very beginning. >> reporter: those words aren't enough to the parents of brooke melton. >> i kept thinking, this is not possible. it's her birthday. it can't -- this can't have happened that she died. >> when i touched her hand it was cold. i knew -- i knew in my hand and gut there was something wrong with the car. that it wasn't her fault. >> reporter: it was here that georgia state patrol says brooke melton's 2005 chevrolet cobalt hydroplaned on a rainy evening four years ago. the car spun out and was struck by another vehicle. then dropped 15 feet into this creek. the accident report says melton

was driving too fast for roadway conditions, causing her to lose control of the vehicle. >> she was driving 58 and the speed limit was 55. >> reporter: do you believe that could have caused the accident? >> no. i believe that she lost power. >> reporter: it's now known the ignition switch on her cobalt was defective. this analysis of the car's data recorder provided by the melton's attorney shows the switch was in the accessory position at the time of the crash. shutting the engine off and disabling the air bags, power steering and anti-lock brakes. >> we believe the evidence is overwhelming that the defects in this key system resulted in brooke's loss of control and her death. >> reporter: gm would not comment on the date taye recorder information. the defect led gm to recall 2.6 million cars, but before the recall, the meltons settled their case with gm for an undisclosed amount. now they're fighting an uphill legal battle to reopen it. >> they thought they had the truth when they settled their

case. we now know they had some of the truth but not all of the truth. >> reporter: in a new lawsuit, the meltons allege that gm hid key documents from them and say a gm engineer lied in a sworn deposition. >> the design reless engineer for the ignition switch in the '05 cobalt? >> yes, i was. >> reporter: the melton attorney gave cnn part of the deposition are ray degeorge yo who denied approving any changes to the ignition switch. >> there was never a work order that i saw outlining this in the spring. >> any such change was made, if it was, it was made without your knowledge and authorization? >> that is correct. >> reporter: but in 2006, digiorgio signed this form authorizing a fix to the ignition switch, making it harder to turn inadvertently. >> this subcommittee will come to order. >> reporter: gm's ceo was questioned by congress about this. >> you know that he lied under oath. >> the data that's put in front

of me indicates that but i'm waiting for the full investigation. >> reporter: that full investigation came out thursday and digiorgio is among 15 employees dismissed from gm. he did not return cnn's calls. >> good evening, everyone. >> reporter: gm declined an interview with cnn but denies the asepgs a fraudulently concealed fact in connection with the melton matter and gm denies it engaged if in any improper behavior. the automaker admits 13 people died but won't release those names. gm's list only includes frontal crashes, where air bags didn't inflate. >> general motors says 13 deaths, 47 crashes. >> and they're playing with numbers that they don't count brooke's death and she's dead. because of that ignition switch. >> reporter: why is general motors only counting frontal crashes where air bags did not deploy? >> so what we've done is analyzed all of the information we have available to us, based on one specific definition, as

you describe. >> reporter: right. >> we've counted 13 people. >> her death has not being counted. it means like it doesn't matter. >> reporter: poppy harlow, cnn, marietta, georgia. and some of the country's most powerful and influential people are paying tribute to legendary poet and author maya angelou. one of them, a tearful oprah winfrey, hear why she calls angelou her spiritual queen mother. it starts with little things. tiny changes in the brain. little things, anyone can do. it steals your memories. your independence. insures support. a breakthrough. and sooner than you'd like... ...sooner than you think. ...you die from alzheimer's disease. ...we cure alzheimer's disease. every little click, call, or donation adds up to something big. alzheimer's association. the brains behind saving yours.

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maya angelou is being remembered as a poet, author, singer and for many other achievements throughout her career, but to oprah winfrey, she was the ultimate teacher. oprah broke down in tears earlier today at a memorial service for angelou. she told the world angelou was her spiritual queen mother. >> she was the ultimate teacher. she taught me the poetry of courage and respect. many a day i'd ask her for advice while trying to navigate the pitfalls of fame, of a public life, when somebody had

written or said something hurtful and they wrote it, when he sat down at the typewriter. those people can't hold a candle to the light god already has shining on your face. can't you see it? [ applause ] she's say, look up, look up and see the light. when i was on trial in 1998 in texas for saying something bad about a burger -- yes -- for six weeks i was on trial sued by the texas cattlemen, mama angelou

came to texas with a prayer posse. and we all know that maya was a force all by herself, but the force came with backup. they prayed all day and all night long, and maya would sit in the courtroom while i testified. the prosecuting attorneys didn't know what hit them. warrior mom had arrived in amarillo, and it was at the same time that i'd met dr. phil, coaching me on how to behave in the courtroom and he'd say, look in the jurors eyes, and maya said, no. look above their heads. look above their heads. she said, look above their heads and stand still inside yourself and know who you are. you are god's child, she told

me, and in god you move and breathe and have your being. of course, we won that trial. [ applause ] and every other one i faced, she was always there holding me up, holding me up to know myself, to see the light that god already had shining on my face. yes, i will -- i will miss her.

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it's pretty hard for many women to find a balance between work and kids. and it can be pretty scary to jump back into corporate life after taking time off to raise a family. now, it just might be easier to make that transition, with what's being called a returnship. here's cnn's alison kosik. >> reporter: hi, fredricka. after taking a big chunk of time off from work to raise kids at home, getting back into the working world is be really tough, especially in a male dominated field like finance, but wall street is leading the

charge and helping with the transition. >> today's my first day of my new job. >> reporter: kristen marks is now a vice president at morgan stanley but a year ago doing a very different job. stay at home mom. after working her way up to vp of goldman sachs she took a 15-year break to raise her kids. >> ages and stages, always something to focus on with them at home, and it never feels like it would be necessarily an easy thing to come back and work 40 hours a week. >> reporter: marks isn't alone. more than 40% of women take a break from the workforce to take care of family, and in a field like finance, that can feel lying it's filled with wolves. >> one, two, three! >> reporter: but wall street is trying to change that. running paid internships for people who have left the workforce, usually moms. >> it gives us an opportunity to see where they would sort of set in, back in the organization, and for them, it's a real

opportunity to figure out if they really do want to re-engage on a full-time base. >> reporter: it's not just morgan stanley, goldman sachs credit suisse and jpmorgan also run programs and it's spreading beyond wall street. >> prior to 2004 we could only identify nine programs, and now we have 105 programs. >> reporter: carol fishman-cone is the woman companies go to when they want to launch a return to work program. she's helped thousands of women try and re-enter the workforce saying even hollywood is catching on to the trend. >> there are tv characters like "the good wife," "modern family," portraying characters of people who have taken long career breaks and are returning to work. it shows that the conversation has moved away from academic circles into the mainstream media. >> reporter: what makes moms like this so special? >> a level of maturity and life experience you can't get from a 22-year-old. >> reporter: as for kristen,

advice for moms considering a break. >> you never know what you're going to want to do ten years from now. you just don't. you think you do, but you don't. >> reporter: part of it is in a wall street is trying to attract more women, but more and more companies from met life to major law firms to start-ups have begun doing programs like this. if you want to go back to work and aren't seeing an internship, you can ask a company to give you an internship, like a setup, a trial run, so you get back in the game and they don't feel they're gabbling on someone with a resume gap. fredricka? >> thanks, alison kosik. hello gagain. the big stories we're following right now. i'm fredricka whitfield. tracy morgue is in critical condition after a crash on the turnpike in new jersey. he was a regular on "saturday

night live." police say he was in this limo bus early theirs morning when hit by a tract irtrailer. one person killed in the wreck and seven hurt. live outside the hospital in new brunswick, new jersey, alexandra what is the latest? wrt wrt. >> reporter: fredricka, we're learning an investigation is going on along with new jersey state police now saying it appears that the driver of the tractor trailer failed to see slowing traffic and that he tried to swerve at the last minute but hit the limb o bus tracy morgan was riding in. a horrific scene along the new jersey turnpike inside this mangled limo, tracy morgan. >> he is in intensive care. in new brunswick's hospital. looks like two tractor trailers, a limo bus, suv, a limo bus overturned.

tracy morgan was in the limo bus, but he is alive. >> reporter: the 45-year-old comedian had just wrapped up a live performance at the dover downs casino in delaware when the multi vehicle accident happened around 1:00 a.m. fellow funny man artie post the pictures on his facebook page from the event just before hitting the road back to new york city. new jersey state police tell cnn one person inside the limo was killed. seven others hospitalized. morgan remains in intensive care. the accident also involved two cars, seven people, including morgan, were taken to the hospital. >> there's no way of really knowing whether or not alcohol was involved as of yet. i do not have that information right now. the limited information i have doesn't indicate that. >> reporter: the turnpike was closed several hours as investigators combed the area for clues. it has simpson since reopened b investigation continues. including trying to determine

the cause of the fatal crash. morgan joined the cast of "saturday night live" in 1996, but after seven years left to start his own show that bore his name. ten years later, he came back to nbc in the show "30 rock" created by "snl" co-star tina fey. pouring in on social media, tweets, morgan tweeting earlier in the week, dover down, coming with truckloads of funny. delaware, stand up. get those tickets while you can, baby. police have now identified the man killed in the crash as james mcnairis, 63-year-old described as a comedian. two other comedians were in the bus include be artie we're told morgan's family is with him and say he's getting excellent care but don't expect his condition to change today, fredricka.

>> facial. wishing the best to all of them. thanks so much, alexandra field. a short time ago the u.s. capitol was evacuated when a small aircraft entered the restricted airspace. let's get more now from cnn's erin mcpike. so, erin, very unusual on a saturday. how many people did this impact to evacuate the u.s. capitol? >> reporter: well, fredricka, obviously, not as many as if it were during the week. this happened before in 2005 and 2009 and actually those two times it was the same aircraft and it was a student with a teacher, a pilot teaching that student how to fly. so accidents in those cases. still waiting to hear more details. we fwh we know it was a mooney m-20, a personal civilian used aircraft that enterrd the restricted airspace about 1:35. no communication from the pilot, and so norad scrambled jets when they lost that communication, had to evacuate the supreme court and the u.s. capitol as well as the library of congress.

they ultimately did make contact with that pilot. the secret service will be interviewing the pilot, sort of standard operating procedure, but at this point the u.s. capitol and those other buildings have been reopened to the public, fred. >> not a feeling that this plane also originated from reagan national, just across the river, the potomac from the capitol? the supreme court? >> reporter: that's right. you know, those are a few miles away from reagan national airport, but, again, we're waiting to hear more details from the secret service as well as the faa. there wasn't huge concern. just have to go through the standard operating procedures of these interviews with the pilot, but likely, as it was with these other two incidents in 2005 and 2009, just a simple accident. >> erin mcpike, thanks for that update. okay. so what was really going on in sergeant bowe bergdahl's platoon before he ended up in taliban

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that's him with a pipe in his mouth, just weeks before he walked off base and into taliban fans. you hear a member sympathizing with allegan villagers. >> [ bleep ] russians for 17 years and now we're here. >> in iraq when i was there. >> they want to be left alone. >> reporter: shots from a british filmmaker of a published "the guardian" trouble in bergdahl's unit. why? some of the pictures show soldiers without helmets, flouting army rules. an army source tells cnn discipline in the platoon was lax. a sergeant demotened and two other sergeants reassigned after the pictures became public according to a "rolling stone" article. the sergeant said the whole thing was blown out of proportion. >> there was pictures taken of us building those bunkers, and with soldiers without their equipment on, and it blew up and

there are some people really angry that people -- soldiers weren't wearing their protective equipment out in the field, and it's something that got exaggerated bigger than it should have. >> reporter: sean smith other issues were at play as well. >> a new commander and new changes. one of the senior sergeants who had been with them a long time was coming up to retirement. you know, and -- >> reporter: a are forelieutenant colonel who advised officials investigating bergdahl's disappearance said while some of the unit's commanders didn't have their act together -- >> there's nothing going on there that could justify in my mind or in anyone that i've talked to about this, that would allow for, or explain bergdahl as simply walking away and abandoning his post. >> reporter: if there's one constant theme in the story, it's that bergdahl walked away. for cnn, washington. the president defends his decision to swap bergdahl for five top taliban prisoners and says he would do it all over

again, if he had to. the white house also says everybody needs to wait and hear bergdahl's own version of how he got into taliban hands in the first place. i want to bring in our military analyst spider marks. good to see you. the obama administration repeatedly invokes the no man left behind pledge as part of the rationale for doing this deal with the taliban, and in an exclusive interview with our jim acosta, national security adviser susan rice brought it up again. here it is. >> we don't leave anybody on the battlefield. regardless of the conditions of their capture, and as a prisoner of war, bowe bergdahl deserved and we had the obligation and the commander in chief had the obligates to do what was necessary to bring him home. >> all right. spider, talk about the military policy here. are there ever any exceptions to what extent do you go to get a service member out, who's in trouble? >> fredricka, if i understand your question, to get a service

member out of the service? who's in trouble, or -- >> no. a service member in trouble, such is the case as bowe bergdahl, in the hands of the taliban to what extent does u.s. military go you know? whether it was your mistake or whether it was desertion, for whatever reason you fell into the hands of something else to what extent does the military say we will leave no one left behind? is that a written or unwritten appeals? >> as described, the conditions of his capture are not relevant. an american soldier, in combat. we have an obligation to bring him back. so i'm probably until a minority any that i agree with the decision that this should have been done, and also doesn't, isn't this a wonderful tribute to how we view and the sanctity of the individual, that we, the united states, are willing to pay such a high price to get one individual back? the bottom line in all of this is that the army will get --

will investigate what took place and how he was captured, and not unlikely, possibly bergdahl could go from captivity to jail. he could have broken the law and he's going to be found guilty -- svlgts that possible as a p.o.w.? wouldn't that be precedent-certing, whether he did something dishonorable or not? serve five years as p.o.w. and then face prosecution or court-martial in the states? >> the real issue, would the administration pursue that? of course not. is that a legal possibility? of course. if he broke -- if he broke the uniform code of military justice, was found there was evidence and he was charged, that could be a likely outcome. i am confident it will not happen. the fact of the ma thor is, the army will investigate that. the real story here is the high price that was paid, a justifiable price paid, and was the united states intelligence community doing right now to ensure that those five taliban are not disappearing and going

over the horizon? we're not hearing a thing about that, and we should. >> you say a justifiable price paid. the five taliban members. these five members may have been released from gitmo, anyway, because we know this president wants to close guantanamo and after the afghanistan war, almost everybody is going to be released. so there has been, you know -- the argument that if you're going to release these folks who are in guantanamo, you might as well get something out of it. in this case you get something out of it when the value is there. the release of bowe bergdahl? >> i would not draw that conclusion. number one is, we cannot presume that those that are still in gitmo will be releases. there might be some other form of incarceration or some other form of legal status that they're going to remain in. so let's not presume they're going to be released and fly to the winds. the issue truly is, what is the

united states doing to ensure that the terms as established between the united states and the qatari government will be followed, and the united states has an obligation to brief our congress, lay it out in all its details, all its classified details, on how this is going to take place. the focus should be on jim clapper and the -- the national intelligence community in terms of what is going to take place. let's let the army investigation sergeant bergdahl and we'll see how that falls as well, but i can see how there is a lot of, there are a lot of critics that will be involved in every one of these steps along the way. >> do you see other potential gains from the release of these five taliban members? >> oh, yes. >> in terms of how intelligence will continue to watch them, keep track of, see how they may return to, you know, any other behavior or activity that the u.s. would be suspicious of? >> fredricka, that's a wonderful

question. the short answer is, yes. we need to view this as an opportunity. we have five very senior taliban now back trying to reintegrate after a decade in captivity in guantanamo. they will begin behaviors, establish new patterns, they will begin to thicken and enrich their networks, and we must be on top of that and see this as an opportunity to confirm and to continue to build on intelligence. this is a great intelligence collection opportunity for the united states, and our partners. >> as it pertains to bowe bergdahl, still in germany, hasn't made his way stateside yet and apparently there are three stages of integration. what can he look forward to, and what should all of us expect as he tries to reintegrate from five years being held, and now making his way, after he gets a thorough medical check up, checkups and landstuhl and rye

to return to the united states, where he hasn't been for a very, very long time? >> he needs to meld medically and emotionally get his act together and he'll do that. the next stage, unfortunate, because it probably won't take place you want his buddies in combat loonk back up with him. we're getting discordant voices he probably had challenges, maybe the unit had challenges. it is all about leadership. you'd love to have that leadership embrace him coming back. i'm not saying that's going to take place, but we need to make sure that he is also part of a debrief process so that we can extract great intelligence from him. he's an intelligence source. he's been in the camp of the enemy for five years. we need to figure out what he knows. >> james spider marks, always good to see you. thanks so much. >> thank you, fredricka. all right. it is a race known as the test of a champion, and many are betting california chrome will

be that champ. but will he win the belmont stakes and the triple crown tonight? we're headed to the track, next. 'r 2 for $25 guest favorites! get your all-time favorites like creamy chicken alfredo. plus unlimited salad and breadsticks and dessert. 2 for $25 guest favorites at olive garden.

art. it's been 36 years since a horse has won the triple crown and it could happen today, if california chrome wins the belmont stakes. only 11 other horses have ever done it, and this track is a notoriously tough one. here's cnn's richard roth. >> reporter: california chrome is not going to have a walkover in this belmont stakes. he'll face tough competition including horses that have been rested for this occasion. he'll go off as the betting favorite but one of the honors of the other competitors believes that he could be beaten. >> all eyes will be on

california chrome. i think he's in a tough spot, because all of the other riders will see the x on his back. obviously, he's a star. and he's carried himself really well since up here at bowlmoelm. we're afraid of him and if california chrome has a good day, we're all running for second. i hope he doesn't and i hope we have a good day with commanding curve. >> reporter: 7 times in the last 17 years horses have failed to win the belmont stakes and thus the cripple crowns after wins in kentucky, at the kentucky derby, and the preakness, at pimlico. california chrome is running for racing history. his owners and trainer is confident, one guaranteeing a victory. back to you. >> thanks, richard roth. we'll be watching. earlier i spoke with espn commentator hank goldberg who talked about a few things that could put the win in jeopardy for california chrome. >> the only thing that can do him nsf they turn the

temperature up 20 degrees and he cramps up like lebron james, and that isn't likely. >> well, make sure to drink lots of fluids. so i understand this horse is in post number 2. i heard that the horses -- owner, said that is very favorable. why is that? why is post number 2 so important? >> well, inside could get him in a little trouble. although secretariat. i'm not comparing him to secretariat, he broke out of post 2, but there's some speed in the race who might break earlier than him by a fraction, but they're from the 7 post out. so nobody's going to break in his face. the horses around him are closers. so -- he's going get his customary if he breaks cleanly, he's going to get his customary position just off the early speed in the race, and he figures to run, oh, just off the early speed and make his

customary run when he gets near the top of the stretch, and he should have the lead as he h has -- if i took his last four races, he's so consistent, and i scramble them and ran them back for you, you couldn't tell the difference. he always runs the same way. >> interesting. >> the key is, that there's a long run down this belmont back stretch. it's such a big racetrack, and victor espinoza has been racing here all week and can't push him. he's got to be able to -- >> hold him back a little. >> yeah. so that he has something left for the stretch run. yeah. so that those closers don't catch him at the end. >> ooh. good luck, california chrome. and victor espinoza, the jockey. maya angelou touched many around the world, and today we're hearing just how, from oprah winfrey, to first lady michelle obama. we'll show you some moments from a very special emotional service. omething you really love, what would you do?" ♪

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