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i never miss one of those stories. >> she was america's sweetheart and then she was under his wrap. >> she's still cute and she's very talented. yeah. this is cnn tonight. it just keeps happening. another father reportedly leaves his son locked in a hot car. this time in florida. thankfully that child is fine. not just hot cars. what with the mom who was arrested for leaving her baby on a new york subway platform? is merck in the middle of an epidemic of bad parenting or are we more sensitive to these cases? i'll talk with a friend who defends the parents of a toddler who died in a hot car. plus, a 16-year-old said she was drugged and raped and she had no idea what happened until other teen started tweeting
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about it. talk about what i did on may summer vacation. it will be hard to top this. a kid who got this shot of paul mccartney and warren buffest on a bench. what happened? let's get right to the question. people across the country are asking right now, what is behind what seems like an epidemic of bad parenting? where do you draw the line when children's lives are at stake? cooper harris, 22 months oeld, left in a hot car to die. the case that shocked the nation. >> there will always be some fool who wants to leave a kid in the back seat of the car and forget all about them. >> now a trend, parents locking themselves into hot cars, showing solidarity with cooper harris, urging others to pay attention, putting it all on video. >> man, don't be the next fool. >> i am covered in sweat.
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i feel nauseous. >> do not leave your kids in the car. that is freaking stupid! >> it is dumb but it happens. more than you know. >> i know it can happen. >> barbara, mother of six, moving into a new house, distracted, left her 1-year-old in the car for 45 minutes on a hot summer day. >> i came down to get emma from the car. i felt so horrible about what i might find. i was so afraid to look. all of a sudden, nothing mattered. >> california meteorologist jan has tracked hot car deaths for 13 years. >> about half the cases are where children are accidentally forgotten in cars. another 30% are where children gain access to a car on their own. almost 20% are where parents or caregivers make a conscious decision to leave a child in a vehicle. >> 17 hot car death this is year so far is sadly about the norm,
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he says. it is the cases we never hear about that will shock you. >> there are literally thousands that, where children are left in cars and they're rescued in time, where they don't fall into that death or injury category. >> and it is not just leaving kids in cars where parenting is concerned. there is the good, the bad, and the ugly. >> there is frank in new york who last week casually rolled her 7-month-old baby girl in a stroller off a subway, stepped back into the car and watched as the train pulled her away from her own child. is the she told police she felt she couldn't provide adequate care for the baby. she's been charged with abandonment and acting harmfully toward a child. then case of sarah in florida. she used only soy based products for her newborn. the child became dehydrated and a doctor told her to take the child to the hospital. she refused and was arrested for
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negligence. she has pled not guilty. >> where is the line between bad or questionable parenting and criminality? >> when it comes to hitting children, the lane in almost every state now, if you leave visible marks, that's the line. >> roger has spent decades prosecuting bad parents and advocating for kids. he says they are some of the hardest cases to try in negligence can be tough to define. >> is what you did so just ridiculously unreasonable that it cannot be excused? >> that brings us back to barbara who made a mistake 12 years ago. she is one of the lucky ones. >> can you imagine a world without this lovely 13-year-old? >> no. and i couldn't then. >> emma today, healthy, happy, holding no grudges. to help others remember this family has made up stickers along with a little rhyme. a potentially fatal episode turned into a lifelong lesson.
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>> thank you very much for that. the tragic case of little cooper harris has outraged people around the world. what could have been going on in his father's mind when he left the boy in a hot car? was it bad parenting or something far worse? joining me now, a man who knows justin ross harris better than most. thank you for coming and talking about your friend. how do you know ross harris? >> ross and i, we met actually playing little league baseball together and this is when we were about 10, 11 years old. and we became actually really good friends together. i had an older sister, he had an older brother, they knew each other. and then we wound up going to school together for quite some time and we wound up at the university of alabama at the same time. both as students and also as sort of employees of the university, and you know, he was just one of those guys that you know, you may have gone your
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separate paths as you sort of branched out on your own. as you grew up. he was one of those guys, you always knew, you always saw, you always ran into, you always talked to, and he was just one of those people that you knew were out there and you know, you had a friend that knew him and he had a friend that knew you. he was that kind of person. >> i'm sure you never thought he was capable of doing anything like this. i'll talk to you more about that. whether you think it was intentionally or unintentional. i want to know first, how did you find out about cooper's death? what was your reaction when you found out? >> i first found out about it like most people nowadays, via social media. my wife came across the general story when it first hit before any name were involved, and then i think it was the next day when
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my mother, you know, knew of course ross as well. when she called me and she said, you know, do you know who that is that they're talking about in atlanta? and i said no. and she said, well, it's ross. and i said, you know, are you sure it is the ross harris that we know? that's not all that peculiar name. it could have been somebody else. she said no, they have a mug shot of him. it is ross. that's when i was just -- >> speaking of the ross harris that you know, any of the charges, the allegations, does that match the person you know? >> no, it does not. not at all. i, you know, i cannot speak for every part of ross. i can only speak for the ross that i knew. the ross that i knew was, you have to picture the nicest guy that you've ever met that nobody has a problem with, everybody seems to know. nobody has a problem with him.
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everybody knows him. that's ross harris. that's who ross harris was to me and a lot of other people growing up in tuscaloosa, alabama. >> so listen, he has claimed, his attorney at least has claimed that he lost hearing in one of his ears. do you know what happened or how that happened? did he ever share that with you? >> he did. this is, you know, back when we were, both of us were still working at the university of alabama, he was working delivering mail and things lake that. i was working as a building manager at the student union there. because of where we were in our jobs we crossed paths a lot. he would deliver stuff to the student union. i remember it wasn't long after it had happened and he had surgery, the way it was explained to me, a bottle rocket had somehow, you know, gone off and shot into his ear and exploded in his ear. and he literally lost a very
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good portion of his hearing. the way he scribbled it to me was he pretty much, he could not hear anymore. after the surgery they had to do to reconstruct everything that was damaged from the incident, he lost a lot of it. >> the reason i ask you that is because they're saying he may not have heard the child because of that if he went back out to the child or if he got distracted in some way. you have a child around the same age as cooper waux do you ever speak to your wife about the possibility of leaving your child in the hot car? have you ever talked on your child about that? does that concern you? >> of course. even before this happened, you know, may wife and i have discussed this situation because it's true. you do see it on the news. you do hear it reported. and when it doesn't happen to you, you're one of the ones that so far has been able to escape a tragedy lake this, you do.
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you immediately think, who would be so stupid as to do something like that. but i think it is something that all parents need to talk about, especially young parents, you know, because we live in a world today that is so fast-paced, so hectic, crazy, we have social mead, all this technology everywhere, i'm not going to say it is easy to do, to leave your child in a car but i can say it is easy to get distracted. you can see how it can happen. >> sadly enough, i can. i pray that you know, yes, i have two kids. my daughter is a little over 2 years old now and i have a 9-week-old son. when you look at both of them you think, i would never do this. i would never, ever in a million years, you know, put myself in this position.
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but if you're honest with yourself, then you realize that tragedies happen. >> tyler brian, thank you very much. we appreciate you coming on tonight on cnn. >> thank you. when we come back, may team of experts will weigh in on this. where do we draw the line between bad parenting and crime? plus the 16-year-old who said she was drugged and raped and only found out when other teens tweeted about it. jada tells her story. and chilling with paul mccartney and warren buffett. the kid had a got this picture. we want to know what you think about all this. ess can be on at&t's network for $175 dollars a month? yup. all five of you for $175. our clients need a lot of attention. there's unlimited talk and text. we're working deals all day. you get 10 gigabytes of data to share. what about expansion potential? add a line anytime for 15 bucks a month. low dues... great terms... let's close.
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a lot of people are asking where do you draw the line between bad parenting and crime? joining me to analyze this, sunny hostin. judge alex, we just heard from the friend of justin ross harris. you heard him there. a lot of people are coming out of the wood work to defend him. what does that tell us? he believes harris is the last person who would intentionally harm his child. >> from my perspective, that tells us absolutely nothing. think about it. how many times have you seen something as horrible as a
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serial killer and the neighbors, how many times do the neighbors come out and say, you know what? i saw it coming. i tried to warn people but nobody would listen. they never do that. the neighbors and family and friends say he was such a mild mannered guy. i never would have expected this to happen. people don't know what is in someone's heart. this may be a tragic accident or a horrible, horrible crime. that's what we need to determine in this case. what was his state of major? was it accidental? did everything brain dead? or was this something intentional or reckless? that's what makes it a claim. >> we know that parents accidentally leave their children in cars all the time. the prosecution will try, will show that harris wanted to live a child-free life. is it your opinion this was an accident or do you think there was something more sinister? >> i don't know we know enough, quite frankly. i wanted to disagree with alex. i think what his friend said will be very important. i think that's the view of so
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many people that will be on the jury. sort of that, there but for the grace of god go i. may goodness, this tape of thing happens all the time. albeit tragic that it is almost in may view an epidemic, it happens all the time. so when you have a bunch of people on the jury thinking, how could this be intentional when someone lake me could have even done it? >> do you think that's what parents will think? that his peers will think that? >> i think this is going to be a very difficult case for the prosecution, quite frankly. we have on the one handled, he could be the worst person in the world. the most evil among us. somebody willing to kill his child. or it could be someone who just made this very tragic accident. and i think most of the time you'll find with casey anthony's jury, a lot of juries, they don't want to believe that a parent could intentionally kill their child. i have to tell you, i'm still reserving judgment. i've said that over and over again. i am not certain that this man
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intended to kill his child in this way. >> even with all that, the sexting and all that, do you think that a jury would be that sympathetic to this man? >> well, the way to look at this is on a spectrum. one end of the spectrum is intentional murder of this child or worse. close to that but up there is that real negligent behavior. that criminally negligent behavior where you don't care. there doesn't seem to be a lot of evidence of that. all of that periphery evidence, about sexting, visiting the websites, trying to find out about child-free life, all of that evidence can swing. like sonny was saying can swing the jury away from this is a tragedy. how can a parent kill a child. if you're looking at all of this on the internet. if there is enough to suggest you could be a person to kill your child, they're going on convict him. >> let's talk about the facts. not only this case but other cases. it happens a lot. we heard from miguel marquez.
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are parents more distracted now between work, mobile devices, running errands? what is going on? >> i think there's a lot of variables going on. if you look at some of the cases, some of them may be post partum depressions. in a lot of cases it is distracted parenting. parents pulled into two directions, have more than one child, to have work or are not at home and they're not focussed the way they should. they get to where they're exhausted. they think something and they act really impulsively. a lot of variables. at love times it is a mental health issue that has gone unnoticed. >> the one thing we have to consider, we saw in the report. 50% of these cases are parents that accidentally left their kids. 30% of the cases are generally kids that get into the car. then that 20% of parents that intentionally leave their kids in the car, let's say, to go to a job interview or to go
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shopping. i have never in my experience, and maybe some of the panelists may disagree, heard of a case where someone intentionally decided to kill their child by baking their child in the car. this would be a case of first impression. and i think that will go a long way in front of a jury. because may god. if he did decide to kill his child in this way, which is what the prosecution seems to be alleging, he would be the most evil among us. >> the question is where is the line between bad parenting and a crime, judge? >> the line is the matter of the state of mine of the perpetrator and their consciousness. for example, a mother who turns her back on her 2-year-old child has the house wide open. the child drowns. clearly an accident. tragic. a mother who decides to go take a nap with the house wide open and leave her 2-year-old running
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arounder in a the pool, the culpability goes up to manslaughter. a mother who intentionally drowns her child. all of those are the different levels that will pull from you a horrible tragic accident to a criminal event. and my comment before about the friend was not about whether or not the jury would sympathize with these things happening, may comment is that is it important that a friend thinks his friend is not capable of murder. it is very common. defendants benefit from the because defense lawyers will dress up their clients to look very professional in a suit and tie and make them look in a way, jurors say, this person is not capable of committing that crime. people think they have to look a certain way to be evil. those of us in the system know that horrible people look like you and i. >> so in case of a mother who left their baby girl in a stroll order a subway platform. that's completely different.
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>> that's an intentional act. did not cause immediate harm but that's abandonment and neglect and a parent not taking on her parenting needs. we have these safe harbor statutes say if you can't take care of your child taerk child to a fair house. i'm okay with that. if a child truly cannot care for a child, put the child somewhere else. that to me is much better than, you know, the drinking and not caring about your child. that's a separate case. abandonment. but trying to do the right thing for the child in a bad way. >> what should we be doing? i guess we can all be helping out, i would imagine in situations like this. for parents who feel they're so desperate that they feel they have to leave their kid on a subway platform. ? i think it is most important for parents to know it is safe to ask for help. there are safe places, hospitals, e.r.s, go to a clergy member or a friend or a neighbor. any of houston see a parent
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struggling, help them out. it is about making them feel safe to relinquish their clald before something bad happens. >> coming up, jada said she was raped but did not know until photos of her assault turned up on social media. .
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a 16-year-old girl from texas says she is a victim of rape. she went to a party, she drank some punch that she believes was spiked and then she passed out and was allegedly assaulted. she said she didn't know what happened until photos appeared on social media. in a cruel twist, teen have been posting photos of themselves mimicking her passed out. her name is jada and she joins me with her adviser. thank you for joining us. you've had a very long day. i've seen from you sunrise to sunset. how are you doing? >> okay. >> you're very brave. do you think you're very brave? tell me what you remember about that night?
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>> okay. we went to a party of a friend of a friend. they were drinking at first. and i was -- one of the boys added something to the drink and brought it back upstairs. that's when me and my friends started drinking. then after that, i passed out. that's all i remember. >> what do you think happened to you? you're saying that you passed out. they took advantage of you and took photographs, correct? >> yes. >> what did people tell you? there were other people at the house. did they tell you anything? any of your friends who were there? >> one of the girls said that i threw up on myself and she put my clothes back on and cleaned me up. that was it. >> did you first think -- when did you first think something might have happened? what i'm told is this happened, the police department that this happened to you on the 1st.
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they at least say a 16-year-old girl, that it happened to. and then the 20th, they said, you became aware of the photos. >> uh-huh. >> and then the 22nd they said that your mother, you and your mother reported the assault and the investigation then began. correct? so you had no idea until saw you the photographs? >> no idea at all. had you known, would you have done anything differently? like gone to the police sooner? >> yeah. i would have went to the police sooner. >> when did you first -- how did you learn about the photos? did you see them on line? >> someone single me screen shots. that's when i told my mom. >> i asked your mom, how did you come to a decision, meaning you, how did your daughter come to a decision to step out in front of this? and she said there are no secrets in your family. how did you decide as a 16-year-old girl to say, you know what? i'm going to tell the truth to
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the world about what happened? >> because the picture that was posted and how i looked is not how i am. so i just wanted to show how i really am. >> that's not you. >> that's not me. >> what do you want people to know about who you are? >> people? >> yeah. >> nothing. i don't have anything to say to people unless they're supporting me. >> did you, did social media, you think, compound this problem? >> absolutely. social media, don, has been the gift and the curse to society. you have people who are hiding behind a tech device. with the press of a button can send out such vitriol, such statements about human beings that has forced some young
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people to commit suicide and in cases like this, of rape victims, to remain silent. and through bullying, to not come forward and tell someone what really happened to them. we have to challenge and fight as best as we can in the best positive manner the culture of silence in forcing victims like jada. she is a very courageous young woman. >> i can't imagine, your mom raised a very strong young lady. but if it were not for social media, we might not even know. she might not even know what happened to her. >> but these young men were boasting and bragging. they were admitting on social media that they spiked the punch. admitting what they sexually did to this young girl and then sent out videos and pictures detailing what they had done to this young woman. the dehumanization by jada, even those posting the jada sign, we want to make sure we're saying, we are jada also.
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to dehumanize her is not just dehumanizing her but we too are jada. those of us who want to see justice. we called the police department and they confirmed there is an active investigation with the juvenile sex crimes unit involving a 16-year-old female. they were unable to confirm the identity because of the victim's minor status. but that report was failed on the same day that jada filed her report and as of now no charges have been filed and police are following up on all leads. what do you want to happen to the people who you believe did this to you? >> everyone that's involved should just go to jail. that's pretty much what's going to happen. >> do you believe you were the only victim? >> oh, no. there were two other girls. >> two other girls. >> yes. >> and you believe they have a history of doing this. >> yes. we were able to find from our investigation, don, where there were other young women who were
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in like a comatose state in sexual positions with the same young men. and you can tell these young girls could not have been cognizant to what they were doing with them because they were asleep or in a comatose state and they were bragging about it. i'm hoping police will follow through and will identify these young girls, contact them, speak to their parents and make sure that thenlds what's out there. that they were victimized also. >> you said that you don't have anything to say to the people who are not supporting you. but you have a lot of support. are you surprised by the amount of support that you have gotten? >> i'm grateful. i want to say thank you to those people. >> why aren't you surprised? >> it's the right thing to do. there are still some people that have hearts. >> you held a press conference in front of the house where this allegedly happened? >> yes. >> as you said, most people, especially victims, they don't want to talk about it. they want to put it behind them. you chose to do it in front of
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the house. what led to that decision? >> well, i was told that i had to meet there. it was just -- >> but you're okay with doing that. >> we wanted to make sure. these perpetrators committed that crime in the house. they were still bullying her, cyber bullying with that address and we wanted to make sure they understood, you didn't break her. she is not running and hiding anywhere. those of us who support her will stand with her at ground zero of that location and say to those perpetrators, we are coming after you. we're not going to tolerate what you've done to this child. >> you speak for young women who this has happened to. a lot of young women who have been afraid and they were look at you probably as a hero for coming out to speak. what do you say to victims like you? to other young women? >> i just think everyone should speak out. it is not right at all. and i know many people who just sit there and don't do anything.
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>> jada, thank you. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >> we appreciate you joining us. best of luck. if we can ever do anything, be in touch with us. >> thank you. up next, more on jada's case with my team of experts. guy: ok, and just click on the one you want. woman: but, but, jimmy. all of these travel sites seem the same. captain obvious: i always use hotels.com. with their loyalty program, i get a free night for every ten nights i collect. so they're not the same, because they're different. woman: jimmy look, this one has a king-sized bed. captain obvious: if you're travelling with your grandmother, i suggest getting twin beds. woman: oh, captain obvious, jimmy is not my grandson. woman: man: are you no. jimmy? man: here comes president roosevelt. woman: i hope so. captain obvious: i regret coming here. hotels.com. for lovers. ♪he cadillac summer collection is here. ♪
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you just heard jada's shocking story. the 16-year-old told us she went to a house pirate where she said she was raped. photos of the alleged attack were then posted on social media and now houston police are investigating. back with me, cnn legal analysts. you first, what did you think of the interview? >> she is such a brave young girl. it was remarkable. what i found stounlding was her ability to get in front of this, to give this press conference. when i was prosecuting child sex
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crimes, one of the tough parts was getting these young girls on the witness stand. many of them didn't want to come forward. unfortunately they felt ashamed. they felt like the system wouldn't work for them. i've seen a real change with this generation. perhaps in part because of social media. they live their lives so openly and publicly and trans apparently. i've seen this change in girls coming forward and saying, i will be counted. >> are you surprise that had no one has been charged so far as a former prosecutor? >> i am not surprised only because, and judge alex is agreeing with me. i'm not surprised only because these cases are very difficult to prove. i think what is going to be crucial here is the fact that social media played a part and there is video of the attack and photos of the attack. that will be evidence, you know, put forth on the first day. so i think there's a good chance this case will go to trial. but it still doesn't make it easy. >> mark, i hear you in the back
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ground. >> social media is the bain of adolescence. everything you say is under public review. just like sunny said, the good part about social media is that they're recording everything that will be used by a prosecutor to prove the case against them. so it is very sorry to say that when this happened a generation ago, but four or five people might hear about it. now 400,000 people are hearing about it. it is a shame that someone like jada goes through it but it may be an opportunity to really grab this by the throat and make a turn-around with it. >> with what's happening on social media, how does that affect children? >> the very word children is who, that's who is operating these devices. and you don't have a developed brain. you have a brain that is developing but it doesn't fully have good judgment. it doesn't have impulse control. it doesn't think through things.
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plus you have alcohol or drugs on board sometimes and that's a bad combination. >> why would a young person want to share pictures like that online? i don't understand it, doctor. >> well, because i think somewhere they're getting a message that that means that they're moving into manhood. >> they think it is cool. >> it is a medal of honor. >> it is very cool. that's how they are with their buddies and friends. this young woman is a great example of great parenting. >> who is agreeing that they think it is cool? >> no question mark is right. kids today seem to live their lives so transparently and put everything out there as a result of social media, a as a result of television. this is a good sign of great parenting. as a mom my worst fear is my children on social media. i don't think what they understand, you put yourself out there on social media. that digital footprint lasts forever. when you're going to college, you're trying to get a job, people will look at that.
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and prosecutors and investigators look at social media first things first when they're conducting these investigations. so i think it seems to be the way this generation is just living their lives. >> go ahead, judge. >> they're completely desensitized about privacy, but also, they're desense tiesing women. because women for the past few generations, particularly this last one, there's so much more of a focus. the sexting. you're not allowed into the group unless you sext a picture of yourself. as the adolescence, taking on the desensitizing of women and it is showing up where this is semi acceptable behavior to show this to your buddy, what you do to a girl last weekend. >> judge, i have a question for you. if someone is convicted of uranium herape here, should the consequences be equally as severe when it is online? >> absolutely. they're facing a lot of potential problems in this case. that may be the reason why the
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police haven't arrested anybody yet. there is an investigation, i'm sure, into the question of two other females who they supposedly had sex. even younger, 14 and 15 years old. if you photographed them, you have possible child pornography charges with all these girls being photographed and pictures being disseminated if they had sexual photos that they took. sex with a child that young or pornography, you're facing 20 years, life in prison. it is a serious, serious case. sexual assault happens in this country every two minutes. every two minutes. that's how frequent it is. date rape makes up more than one out of every two cases and date rape and drug use to incapacitate your victim are both on the rise. social media has made it so much worse. as mark pointed out, better for prosecution. the victim is victimized again when it is publicized. that's why i think it was great that jada came forward. a lot of victims out there who
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are keeping this inside and being eaten up by it. it helps to see other people have gone through and it they're holding their head up high. >> especially to see a 16-year-old going through and it coming out front. i think she will help a lot of people. and dr. sophie, here's the question. what is the conversation parents should be having with their children to avoid these times of situations? should they even be snooping on their kids more? >> it is not about snooping. it is knowing what your child is doing. if you're going to give them a device to have, make sure you know what's going on. it should start like. this explaining the ramifications and educating your child but most parents are afraid to even think about this stuff themselves. opening yourself up and talking to your child and be in your child's media. >> i have a question for you. >> quickly, i'm going on get to sunny. >> you have a responsibility to know where your kid is. it used to be, are they on the street corner? now it is where are they on
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social media? >> i had a really short time here. i wonder if it changes the equation that she admitted that she remembers nothing about this and learned through social media what happened. >> it makes the case very difficult to prosecute. i will tell you as a former prosecutor, part of the problems with these sexual assaults is that the women are drugged. they're drunk and they can't testify as to who did what. that is why there haven't been charges yet. because this has been documented, it is possible that this case will be tried. >> sunny, judge, dr. sophie and mark o'mara, thank you. coming up, two mega millionaires sit on a bench in nebraska. it sounds like a joke or a saturday night live sketch but it is real. narrator: this is the storm sea captain: there's a storm comin narrator: that whipped through the turbine which poured...
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so just last week i dwoot selfie with a beatle and i took this picture with ringo starr and john barbados. this week i got upstaged by a teenager, no less. 16-year-old tom white got this picture of himself with warren
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buffett and sir paul mccartney in the background. so what do you think? you spoke to these three boys. how did they get this picture? >> this is about the power of social media and the power of seizing the opportunity when it presents itself. it all boils down to one kid who saw paul mccartney at a local ice cream partner and rallied his seven friends. within seven minutes they were there. take a listen. >> paul mccartney, this great icon that like, you see once in a life maybe, is just a rarity. >> we knew he was here. when jacob saw the instagram post, he with immediately reacted and got in the car and went to the creamery where he was. >> as you pointed out, this is not technically a selfie. another teenager shot the actual picture of tom who is in the picture. >> were they really sir paul fans?
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they knew who he was? >> legit. and warren buffett? >> they didn't care about warren buffett too much. look, he is a local there. it kind of begs the question, which would you rather be? an international pop star or one of the richest men in the world? which would you rather be? >> i don't know. i would probably take money and the anonymity. they wanted to get a guitar and get it signed but they ended up with this epic -- not a selfie but kind of a selfie. were they dispointed? >> totally dispointed by the fact the guitar and the album weren't signed. they grabbed a guitar and an album. teenagers nowadays kind of value this kind of social phenomenon and fame more than an ought autograph. it reminds me of katy perry wrote an op ed about how the music industry isn't dead. it is just changing. take a listen. >> yeah.
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i think a selfie is just as good as an autograph, if not better. it is with paul mccartney. >> not to mention that we talked to him and saw him in our own neighborhood. that we go to on a daily basis. >> i probably would have cried if he signed my guitar. that would have been a huge deal. i think if we got an autograph, it wouldn't be as crazy on social media. >> yeah. >> yeah. if you had a signature on social media, you maybe get a couple likes. if you have a picture, a selfie kind of with paul mccartney and warren buffett, it just goes crazy. >> so they valued their 15 minutes of fame more than an autographed guitar that could go for, i don't know, i saw them on ebay for several thousand dollars. >> this is like the new modern autograph. >> yeah. it replaces an autograph. >> and to top it off, sir paul retweet it. >> and he did to his $2 million. so these kids have seen their
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social profile skyrocket. >> okay. we'll get this selfie with the selfie in there and then tweet it out. one more. >> look at the kid. i thought he is probably wondering, people are wondering if he has a mullet. that's the street light behind him. he has a nice short hair cut. >> it is a well styled photo. >> thank you. a pleasure. when we come back, can soccer fans change the world? this week a hero finds out. he certainly thinks so.
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together. this is the only worldwide sport really. 2004, i saw all the things around me. it was like an intact army. an untapped army. some of the children that love it the most in very poor areas. i started asking myself, what could do i if we could mobilize some of these people to do some good? so we bring people to the world cup. they get to watch games. we find local charities that are working with children and ask how can we help you? >> three classrooms to do this for the children. this is a world cup spirit. >> in brazil, we've got about three volunteers here in about 12 countries. part of the fun and really hard. when we invest in a place, it is for the long term.
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lots of guys come and get it in their blood. that's what we're about. >> this is my second go. this time my son has come with me. uponing and building things together. look how far we've come in a week. fantastic. >> football has had the ability to break down barriers. we're taking it a step further to try to harnest football and make a difference. >> go to cnn heroes.com. ac 360 starts right now. >> good evening, everyone, thanks for joining us, there is breaking news tonight. a cease-fire proposal between israel and hamas. we begin with a report you won't see anywhere else. it's where every child's dream comes true, where you're supposed to feel safe and kids can be kids. you'll want to pay close attention to our story. as you're getting ready to pack the family van and head to central florida's disney world,