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joining us live from ghana's capital. he talked a lot about democracy and the fact africa is responsible for africa but the u.s. is ready to support and lend a hand. >> reporter: you know, betty, you're absolutely right. this is one of those countries that has a stable democracy, and something that is really attracted presidents from the united states. both trips when we saw president clinton back in 1998 offering a trade and opening up trade to this country. president bush just a couple of years ago when he offered aid to help combat malaria and aids, and it is arguably that the thing that president obama is bringing here, what he talked a lot of today, is inspiration. that people feel that schae part of the family that they call him their son, they say, welcome home. you see the signs throughout the country. what the president's message today was that africans, they're future, they're responsible for their own future, for their own government. that this is a model of

democracy here in ghana, but the message going much farther than this country, but really to much of the rest of the continent. particularly to those other leaders who are dictators, strong men in their country where there is bloodshed. we saw president obama with the first lady michelle visiting one of the hospitals for mothers and their babies, specializing in prenatal care. he has been emphasizing here his personal connection to this continent as a way of having credibility in really delivering this message of tough love. take a listen. >> we must start from the simple promise that africa's future, i say this knowing full well the tragic past that has sometimes plagued kniss part of the world. after all, i have the blood of africa in me --

and my family -- my family's own story encompasses both the tragedies and try ums of a larger african story. >> reporter: and, betty it is very clear president obama is using his own personal story to deliver that message of tough love with credibility here. he talks about his grandfather. he says, this is now in kenya, who used to be a cook for the british and was called boy. talks about his own father starting off as a goat herder as a young boy and eventually coming to the united states to get an education, returning back to kenya as somebody who eventually died a broken man. one who was broken, he said, by the system, but also by his own personal choices. so the president, really trying to relate in a very direct and personal way with africans, not only in kenya but here in ghana, to make the case that he understands. that he gets it. that he's part of a legacy of tragedy and triumph and, therefore, people here as well

as the rest of the continent have to pay more attention and take greater responsibility for their futures. >> speaking of responsibility, we talked to young people specifically saying you have the power to hold your light and making up half the population, a point he wanted to make. suzanne malveaux, joining us live. appreciate it. and the president wrapping up his trip in ghana and anderson cooper is in ghana going with the president to visit a castle used to ship slaves to the americas. >> and anderson will have an exclusive interview with the president. more details from anderson on president obama's historic visit. >> reporter: betty and t.j., the president arrived in ghana on friday evening, he was welcomed at the airport. the entire first family was welcomed. the entire country of ghana is incredibly excited about the president's arrival.

driving down the streets there are posters and bill bods, people wearing t-shirts with president obama's picture on it. the fact the president of the united states has chosen ghana as his first trip to subsahara as the president has honored and thrilled a lot of people here. obviously there are other countries who could have picked, in particular, kenya, where his father was from, where he's been before on several occasions. he picked ghana because the administration considers this a system of driving democracy. successful elections, seen economic growth. they've seen development policies that seem to be working and they see this as a model for what they want to see in the rest of africa. that's the message the president want to bring to this country here in west africa. on saturday, he's going to be visiting cape coach, where there's a series of fortresses which were used by, by slave masters to hold slaves before they were sent to the new world before they were sent to europe, and to the americas.

and the president and his family are going to visit one of those castles. i was there yesterday, on friday. i'll be there again with him today on saturday interviewing him exclusively. it is a haunting sight to be in the castle, the dungeon, holding pens. literally rooms with no windows, stone walls where hundreds of slaves were crammed in,'s of them died in these rooms, suffocated to death. it is truly a haunting place to be. the president will be there. we'll be talking to him not only about the way he sees the u.s. economy and other world issues but about his experiences here and on this trip to africa and what it's like to be in a place with such history. >> i'm just -- such chilling history as well. we talked today with a lady who has been there herself and said, just going down into those dungeons where hundreds and thousands were kept, as they were waiting for people to board them on to these ships and send them to places around the world, including america, and they would go through that door of no return, and never see the

continent of africa again. >> and some for months at a time, stuffed down, waiting to be taken off to a land they didn't know. several people, just changed them, that experience. to go there. and anderson cooper going through that, with the president, when the president goes through as well. then you can see the interview, anderson cooper's interview monday night, "ac 360." 10:00. let's get to pensacola, florida. police searching for a moat iran and suspects in the murder of a couple who adopted 12 special needs children. just west of pensacola, police say three gunmen entered the home of bird and melanie billings. you see the billings with some of their 16 children in this foet pope eight of those kids were in the house when their parents were killed. they were not hurt. investigators are asking people in the area to be on the lookout for a red passenger van. they say may it may have been used in the plot.

and just outside chicago. hundreds of graves dug up then resold to unsuspecting family. now a lot of families have questions about what's going on at this particular cemetery. sheryl jackson joins us live from alsip, illinois right outside of chicago. tell us where this investigation is. we understand the cemetery is a crime scene? >> reporter: yes, t.j. this situation grows more and more tragic. on thursday, run hundreds of people out here able to go through the cemetery to see if they could find the gravestones of their loved ones. today's hundreds are expected to show up but won't be allowed to go through the cemetery because now the entire cemetery is a crime scene and that is because some of those family members and police officers in the general part of the cemetery actually ran into bones. human bones. and it's as bad as it can be. a place in the cemetery called baby land. a lot of babies and infants buried, no evidence it ever even

existed right here now. today an exhumation. a family member recently buried, already asked police to get the body up out of the ground because they said it didn't go down very far. one of the other things police are worried about, there are bodies on top of bodies. so this is a big deal. this is an investigation that's going to take weeks, and still you know, the civil rights icon is buried here. his grave was undisturbed but the tombstone originally buried in, exhumed in 2005, you remember, as part of a death investigation. that casket he was in, put into another one. that casket was supposed to be used in a museum but the office manager here one of the people charged in the crime, supposed to use that as part of the museum. they found that yesterday, back in a, an old out building. they stead was ruchted, torn up and full of rodents. she had been collecting money, to, police say, to build this museum and then kept the money. so that's where it is today.

>> all right. the story gets stranger and more disturbing as we find out more details. joe jackson for us, again, right outside chicago. thank you so much. turning to another story in the philadelphia area, people are scratching their heads and disturbed as well. the president of this swim club says that space, not racism, the reason for cancelling swimming privileges for minority children. they were predominantly african-american swimmer, paid to swim at the club. some of the children reported hearing racial comments during the first days at the club. then the club refunded money and withdrew its membership saying there were too many kids. >> i apologize deeply for any misunderstanding. it was never our intention to hurt anyone or for anyone to be offended here and this is a terrible misunderstanding and i would actually -- i would send my best wishes to the camp and all the camps, really, because

they have done an outpouring of support all over the country. >> they deserve it. they're doing wonderful work giving these children a safe place to be, which is what we trying to do, also. >> all right. pennsylvania state officials now investigating the club's actions. that has a lot of people worked up, and certainly that video we saw of the young man crying, the little boy. tears your heart out. >> and it appears, yes, they got the apology but the children will not be swimming in that pool. let's get to the weather outside. reynolds wolf is watching it closely. hot folks in dallas, not happy with mother nature now. it is so incredibly hot. they've been in doors for days. >> i know. e-mails from people all over texas, calling in, typing in and sharing hot stories. really rough time there's. no question, intense heat. no signs of that letting up and really no sign of a chance of rainfall across parts of florida letting up. good chance of rain today. it is a very good chance the

shuttle launch scheduled for later this evening at 7:00 will not occur. a live image at the cape. what do you need for a shuttle launch? you need kind of like about a 30 mile wide hole in the atmosphere almost. so free of thunderstorm activity. so the shuttle can actually launch. if they don't have that big window, the shuttle will remain on the launching pad. that may happen today. a good chance of rain. the reason why as we go to it magic wall. you see in front of the area, combined with daytime heating and low 90s, a chance of thunderstorms, some might reach severe level. farther north, high pressure building over parts of georgia. a muggy day. in the ohio valley, a chance of thunderstorms some rough especially the late afternoon hours, a chance of rough storms into the rockies. not a lot of action in the rockies for the time being. look into the ohio valley. intense thunderstorms mainly due west of bowling green.

northwestern nashville all into the st. louis area. large hail reported through the area and strong winds, heavy rainfall. betty, we're finish up with wa we started. warm temperatures in dallas, 101 today. 88 in kansas city. 95 in houston. 90, salt lake city. and in boston today, 77 degrees, plenty of sunshine, by tonight, 80% chance of rain. that's the latest. back to you. >> i'll take the 77. pretty good day in store for a saturday. >> not bad at all. >> thank you. you know, before sonia sotomayor makes a historic leap into the supreme court she has to make it through a senate grilling. we'll listen to that coming up. also, can you believe it's been 20 years. dot right thing. yes, the movie. here to tell us about it. that movie that took on race relations. stay with us. of shell gasolines... contain a nitrogen-enriched cleaning system... that seeks and destroys engine gunk...

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unemployment insurance and health insurance to those that have lost their jobs in this recession, delivered $43 billion in tax relief to american working families and businesses. without the help the recovery act has provided to struggling states, it's estimated that state deficits would be nearly twice as large as they are now. resulting in tens of thousands of additional layoffs. layoffs that would affect police officers, teachers and firefighters. >> as he's done in the past, the president tied the economic crisis to the last administration. the bush administration. however, this is now mr. obama's economy to deal with, at least according to republicans. that's how they put it in their own weekly address. the house republican whip around canter called this nothing but pork, waste and massive borrowing. >> the plain truth is, that president obama's economic decisions have not produced jobs, has not produced prosperity and simply have not worked. president obama has already

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who's leading the questioning? >> starts monday. a full week of confirmation hearings for sonia sotomayor for her nomination in the supreme court. break down on the committee, 12 democrats, 7 republicans. republicans led by senator jeff sessions of alabama, the ranking republican on the committee. you'll see him questioning sonia sotomayor quite auv and maybe leding some of the attacks from there are going to be attacks on her. and the senator from texas. another republican pretty outspoken about sonia sotomayor recently. you can see him as well with serious questions towards the supreme court nominee. >> as we watch this play out on monday, are there any particular stumbling blocks we should kind of be looking out for, possibly? >> monday will be a day where you'll hear mostly from the senators. the question of sotomayor may start monday, tuesday, wednesday. could go into thursday as well and then testifying later in the

week. you asked what are some stumbling blocks? questions about her on affirmative action and comments made about her latina heritage and how that may or may not affect her on the high court. asking her things about those thing, things we heard about soon after her nomination by president obama. >> once this is all said and done, how quickly will we know if she was approved or not? >> we'll know on the judicial committee once they make the vote next week or the following week. after that is over and under the assumption she is confirmed by the committee then it goes to the full senate and president obama has said he would like the full snoot to vote on sonia sotomayor before they break for their summer recess at the beginning of august, betty. >> and if approved, how soon will she be meeting with justices, reviewing cases and all that? >> if approved by the senate, by, before they break at the end of august, she could join the high court almost immediately.

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all right. want to give you live pictures right now. this was out of cape coast and the president is headed there. you're seeing what is going to amount to a welcome ceremony. this is going to be a very emotional and somewhat of a chilling, perhaps, tour, because there at cape coast castle are the dungeons, the places where thousands if not millions of slaves were kept before they were sent on ships to places across the world, including the america. we'll keep an eye on that. when the president arrives we'll

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a lot going on this morning. a quick look what we're following. police declared a crime scene at a chicago area cemetery, hundreds of plots dug up and resold. relatives won't be able to visit foreseveral days because it is a crime scene for workers, now facing felony charges. wrapping up an address in ghana this morning. we brought that to you live earlier. the president told his audience ethnic conflict in africa has no place in the 21st century. >> these conflicts are a millstone around africans' necks. we all have many identities, religion, nationality, but defining ourselves in composition to someone who belongs to a different tribe or worships a different -- has no place in the 21st century. africa's diversity should be a source of strength. not a cause for division.

we are all god's children. we all share a common aspiration -- to live in peace and security, to access education and opportunities to love our families and our communities and our faith. that is our common humanity. >> and just in case you heard that in stereo, a little extra there, a bit of a ditty with some of the audio feeds. we've been asking you this morning, why ghana? why does president obama go there rather than perhaps where his father was born, kenya? >> where they hoped he was coming. the favorite son. don't want to be too hard on him. josh levs is with us. >> good morning. also relatively speaking it's true. democracy in ghana is part of the major reason president obama is there. listen to the big picture. google earth animation, zoom in on ghana. see where it is. looking at that northwest section of ghana, subsahara,

sub-saharan, africa. two places you're hearing the news a lot today. one is the cape coast. president obama visiting a major area of the slave trade. showing pictures today and the capital. accra. the population center. a big picture on ghana. can see where it is. facts about ghana and why it's so significant. straight to those. first, the population is 24 million. smaller than some people think, but look at this next one. the religious breakdown is very important here. the vast majority of the population there, christian. 69% christian and 60% muslim. keep in mind, anytime president obama goes to a nation with a muslim population that's part of his reach out effort and interesting that that applies in ghana. and the poverty line, 20% below the poverty line.

by western industrialized standards the huge. african standards, not so huge. the economy in ghana, relative to africa, not so bad. that's something president obama is talking about. two more things here. first of all, the economy is very heavily dependent on international assistance. when a u.s. president comes to ghana, it's important not just politically but economically, u.s. involvement in the economy there is huge. part of what pops up, the economy. one more thing to show you here. interesting about the first sub-saharan country to gain independence. look back at ghana's history and even in some ways the u.s. history and independents, you can see interesting things people point to as well. somebody said that. see there. it's celebrated there. okay. oh, new video, i'm told, actually. straight to you. >> actually, new vud yo. crowds gathering and you can see them just lining the streets. of course, it's no doubt that word has gotten out that the president will be touring -- well i don't know what this shot

is. really we're at the mercy of the poll cameras now. there we go. another shot of it. the president will be touring some of the fortresses there at cape coast and this is a slave port. a lot of history including that door of no return. where thousands if not millions of africans wo s boarded on to for places across the world, inclupding america, and never saw africa again. >> here's a shot again. looks like a white sky, but what we are showing, live feed, folks. we're not controlling the feed, but this is a live picture. thought sure if this is the craft the president is on now, but it could be. that's why the cameras now are keeping an eye on it. made a short trip from accra in ghana over the cape coast and expecting him to land there soon. shortly. maybe any minute. he might be hopping off of that helicopter there. this tour will go on for a little bit, a couple hour. you can see from the crowds here, betty, excitement all around the continent, really, but center aaron ghana.

no, he is not originally from, as far as ancestors go from that country in, particular but still claim him calling him their son of africa, son of ghana. we're keeping an eye on this live pick color and the crowds. a quick break. be right back. ♪ on this endless ocean

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former quarterback steve mcnair laid to rest today. mcnair was killed one week ago. police determined it was a murder/suicide. investigators say mcnair's mistress shot him several times before then turning the gun on herself. cnn's larry smith is live in hattiesburg. set the theme for us. >> reporter: good morning to you, t.j. mourners lining up more than three hours ago. three hours, i should say, before the start of the service. the first of an estimated capacity crowd of more than 8,000 and by the colosseum here on the campus in mississippi all to say good-bye to see mcnair. to the people here he's more than a retired football star. an active, leading part of a very tight knit community. his son, star wide receiver on the local high school team. his dad always on the sidelines. here he held his final football

camp here for youngsters. the last of four days of paying respects to the former nfl player. on wednesday and thursday, the tennessee titans, owning a super bowl a decade ago, opened themselves to the public. a church service in the suburban nashville area where mcnair attended church services while playing and last night a smaller visitation in his hometown of mount holly, where his body will return after today's service for his final resting place. the herself hearse arrived about 40 minutes ago carrying family and close friends following behind. the tone here one of a celebration of a life of accomplishments and not so much a decision made in recent months that led to his death, the murder/suicide at the hands of this girl. >> and a little flavor. it's shocking, surprising.

young man, anybody can be gunned down and dying in such a violent way, but that community knew him in a way a lot of people didn't. how are just the people, you walk around town, talking to, are they even talking about the circumstances surrounding his death and the alleged mistress here? >> reporter: there is a shock. i was in one store and someone said, are you from around here? no. i'm just in town. they said, here for the mcnair funer funeral? it's on people's minds. one gas station, a sign, already team number 9, air mcnair. about two hours ago, made his name there at the college. heisman trophy, a black college. never hear of that happening. 30 miles away. people here are close to steve. on the sidelines saturday night. active in the community and thing like that and so the shock here, eddie george put it thursday night, former running back, said you know, we just don't know how long the healing process is going to take. so many people here you can

tell, 8,000 gathering, still stunned, because they lost more than just a former football star, but he was a friend to many people here. >> all right. larry smith for us there. thank you very much. talk to you soon. secretary of state hillary clinton is calling on north korea to grant amnesty to two american journalists. laura ling and euna lee sentenced to 12 years hard labor about caught in the country back in march. >> journalists and their families expressed great remorse for this incident and i think everyone is very sorry that it happened. what we hope for now is that the two young women would be granted amnesty through the north korean system, and be allowed to return home to their families. >> lee and ling were working for the current based tv when arrested. show you extraordinary

pictures we have been keeping an eye onwhat we're ying see, at least, live picture of a helicopter we believe may be carrying the first family to cape coast cass's there in ghana. extraordinary pictures i was speaking of. the celebration in the streets of cape coast and just all around ghana celebrating what many of them call their son. the son of africa, who has now become the first black president of the united states, on his visit to ghana. we saw him earlier making a speech there in front of the parliament of ghana and many others who were there and lucky enough to get in there. we are at the mercy of this live signal, this live feed. why it's jumping around the way that it is. we don't have control of that. as it bounces around, we'll continue to navigate through it with you but we believe the president may be landing there shortly to check out some of the, the players there. >> we're going to take a moment to let this breathe for a moment so you can hear the sounds of what it's going on and take in

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a hot summer day. here it is, atlanta. a story about a hot summer day to tell you ap. you might know this one. a story about even hotter racial tension. the story i'm talking about is spike lee's "do the right thing" actually turning 20 years old this summer. spike slee in atlanta for special screening but stopped by last hour to talk about his landmark venture. >> can you believe 20 years

later we're still talking about this? >> i think that's a testament to the power of the film. and i'm glad it happened. and 20 years went fast, too. i got married, had two children. so a lot of things have happened. i never thought there would be an african-american president 20 years ago. i didn't think that three years ago. >> on that point i'm going to roll a clip in a second from the movie, but you brought the president in there. what was it, now, his first date? first movie he'd seen -- >> their first date. >> went to see your movie. >> michelle and barack. he told me that when running for the thing in illinois. i didn't even know who he was. >> you know now. >> well -- >> let's take a quick look at one of the clips here. a lot of people will remember a lot of these. take a quick peek and we'll talk again. >> our brothers of war.

>> and sal, what about the war here? >> brothers in the war, get your own place and do has you want. get a bunch of brothers and uncles and nieces and nephews, stepbrothers, whoever you want. but this is my history. america is on the wall. >> hey? >> you. it's us. >> yeah, it might be fine, pal, but you own this. rarely do i see any american italian pizza in here. since we spend much money here, we do have a say. >> you know, a lot of the characters you created and conversations, that movie was released something similar today, would it play the same in 2009? and if not, why not? >> i don't know. i'm in a different place than i was. the world's different than it was back then. so i really can't understand the hypothetical, "what ifs."

but the film is still relevant today, eve win a black president it's still relevant today. because i don't deal with the postracial, whatever this is. to me, it's insane. it's not like this thing has disappeared because barack is in the white house. we got a lot of work to do. at the same time, not only has this country made great progress. >> yeah. 20 years ago, like he said, he thinks the movie, 20 years later, it's relevant, great. you have a movie that is relevant to this day -- >> the times. >> sad at the same time maybe we haven't progressed enough in this country as some of the same themes ay ply today. >> a lot of comments from you. asking, spike, are you going to make another one of these movies? and an up to date one. as we've been talking about, though, the same story line, same racial tensions, many say will still, you mentioned, very relevant today. quickly to my facebook page. angel said, "do the right thing"

is one of the best movies ever in online hot 5. got to love spike lee. a lot of people have indeed resonated because a lot of the characters, many will say are true to form. you will definitely see this aspect of life out in society, and he didn't cover it up. he didn't put makeup on it, try to hide it, make it look prettier than it might have been in reality pip that's what a lot of people thought that -- they took from that movie and it sparked that conversation when it came to racial tension. >> i'll talk to him about that. they were here and he's here, the 20th anniversary of the movie. the coca-cola film festival happening in town. some of the folks in the festival by here. sal's famous pizzeria. no pizza, just a box. having a screening with the film this evening and he'll be chatting with mike about it tonight. >> 20 years. hardly believe it's been that long. taking a trip to canada, new travel guidelines you need to know about.

cnn's richelle carey has them in this weekend's "on the go." >> reporter: crossing border between the u.s. and canada is not as easy as it used to be. the new law requires travelers entering or leaving either country to present a val it passport or another approved travel document. >> there is a nexus card that is in use between the united states and canada and there are also enhanced driver's licenses offered by a number of states. >> reporter: officials say the policy helps to make the process go faefter and more efficiently. travelers without those documents will be handled accordingly. >> they will be assisted by the customs and border protection officers who will do what they can expeditiously to confirm their identity and their citizenship and get them through as quickly as possible. >> reporter: if you need a passport in a hurry, visit a passport agency and they may grant you one within 24 to 48 hours. >> going to open up seven new publy counters between now and the end of 2010, and the big

ones will be in san diego and atlanta, which are two areas underserved for a long time. >> all right. quick break. be right back.

live pictures out of cape coast ghana, and this is a picture, well, it was, of one of the castles there that had dungeons in it where slaves were held as they were waiting to be shipped off to many foreign lands, including america. now, these picture, coming to us via pool camera. we don't have control over the different shots there, but moments before we came on, there was this amazing shot of the crowd there. you see some people hanging out windows right now. if you pan down to the street, again, we have no control over this picture, you will see that hundreds if not thousands have

come out to catch a glimpse's president obama. he is going to be touring these castles there, and really getting an up close look at the history there. the slave port in cape coast, ghana. when that happens we'll try to bring it to you live. meantime, at least one american doctor already working on health care in ghana. she is featured in one of our reports on cnn "black in america 2" series. >> airs july 22nd and 23rd, our soledad o'brien tells us about a doctor's search to cure one form of breast cancer. >> reporter: breast cancer is the focus of this doctor's life, for two important reasons. she's waiting for her own biopsy results after a troubling mammogram and for years has been tracking a particularly deadly form of the disease. it's called triple negative breast cancer or tnbc.

tnbc is disproportionately killing black women and the doctor wants to know why. her extraordinary commitment leads to an extraordinary journey. she's taking her search for answers all the way to africa. the women that are most likely toy aapplicanted with the triple negative, women in the pre-menopausal range and women with african ancestry. >> reporter: these clues have led her to a provocative theory. >> whether or not african ancestry might actually predispose women to a biologically more aggressive form of breast cancer. >> reporter: to test her theory,

she regularly traveled to ghana. why ghana? because 60% of the women here who have breast cancer have triple negatives. >> i will give an injection to your skin so i don't hurt you with the biopsy procedure. it's a little pressure here. you'll hear a popping sound in a moment. >> oh, wow. >> tissue. >> yeah. >> reporter: she takes the samples from african women and compares them to the dna of american women. nearly 200,000 american women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. black women are twice as likely as white women to get tnsb. a little known killer. with black women squarely in its