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thanks to all of you for being part of the program this week. i will see you next week. right now on cnning with, held hostage in the hands of the taliban a soldier's family speaks and the world wonders if he'll make it out alive. what about his captors? how far will they go. we'll go inside the taliban to places hardly anyone else has gone before until now. up in flames, wildfires bear down on a small town, 15,000 people flee the raging inferno. we take you there. and a quest for history at 59. he stands to be the oldest king on the links. did he capture the crown? the news starts right now. hello. i'm don lemon live in atlanta. it's confirmation of america's worst fear.
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the man in the video first posted on islamic websites a 23 year old american soldier missing since june 30th. the pentagon says this man is u.s. army private first clabowe bergdahl and on the video he can be heard talking about his families and his fears. >> i'm scared i won't be able to go home. it's very unnerving to be a prisoner. >> let's head to washington now and bring in our pentagon correspondent chris lawrence. any further comment from the pentagon since they confirmed private bergdahl's identity? >> yes, several. we have 30 minutes of video that the military officials will be able to take a look at trying to find any clues they possibly can about where he's being held. about who may be holding him. at one point in that video, he
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and his captors both mention that he had been taken to kandahar, while the military can't confirm that, it at least, does give them somewhat more to go on. the military released a statement recently saying "we strongly condemn in public exploitation and humuliation of a prisoner. it's a violation of the international law of war and we continue to use all resources available to us to return this soldier to safety. over the past few weeks, that has included a carrot and a stick approach. the u.s. military has been drops pamphlets all over afghanistan. one shows a soleier kicking down a door and basically saying, if you do not return this american soldier we'll hunt you down. the other shows a soleier with his hand outstretched surrounded by children. that one says, one of our american guests has gone missing. please call this number if you are able to help. so two very different approach there is by the u.s. military as
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they, you know, really spare no amount of work to try to find this missing soldier. >> all right. on top of the story, we have our pentagon correspondent. private bergdahl's family released a statement and it says -- we appreciate all the support and expressions of sympathy shown to us by our family members, our friends and others across the nation. thank you and please continue to keeb bowe in your thoughts and prayer. insight from our national security analyst. peter, thanks for joining us. it's very interesting in these sorts of situations that we often hear that the time -- the best time to get a soleier who's been captured is early. this is certainly not early on in the process? >> no, it subject. unfortunately, he might not be in afghanistan anyway. i think he's already been taken
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to pakistan. this is a routine way when somebody is taken by a lower-level taliban group and then sold or given to a higher level taliban group, many of which are headquartersed in pakistan. likely the network, the group long allies to al qaeda, the leaders of which are old friends of osama bin laden and speak arabic and have kidnapped others in the past including the "new york times" correspondent that managed to escape after being held for almost nine months. so dropping pamphlets in afghanistan to encourage people to bring in information may be a waste of time if he's already in pakistan as is i think is somewhat likely. >> that was my next question. do you think by doing this, by going to the afghan people personally, directly with these types of messages you don't believe it helps at all? >> not in this case, if he's in pakistan.
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it can't hurt. obviously you want to try to do everything you can. >> what about the overall war effort? what is the effect? what does this -- any effect at all on the overall war effort? >> well, you know, the capture of one soldier is always an enormous strategy by for the family and everyone that knows him but i don't think it substantially changes the war effort. we've seen kidnappings of various kinds in iraq and afghanistan. i mean, what are the kidnappers going to ask in return for this soldier is the question. and i think we can predict quickly what they'll ask for. they'll ask for the release of prisoners from bagram air force base in afghanistan, the taliban prisoners. they may also ask for a large ransom. the u.s. government its policy is not to release prisoners from american custody and not to pay ransoms. so unfortunately this is an extremely difficult situations. options are limited.
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we can try a rescue operation. they are inherently very difficult. often the captive may be injured or killed in a rescue operation and right now no one really knows where the soldier is being held. >> i got to ask you and that leads to my next question. we don't know when these pictures were taken. how long ago. if it was yesterday, the day before or two weeks ago? >> i don't think that's so relevant. the value of a kidnap -- somebody you kidnap is that they remain alive and healthy. that, cleary as you can see from the pictures he's not being in any way obviously mistreated and i would be very surprised if he were because the value to the kidnappers is a captive that they can continue to negotiate about. leverage. >> okay. peter, we thank you for joining us. make sure you stay with us because next hour i'll talk about the captive soleier with
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ken robertson. a vet rab of u.s. military operations and former military intelligence officer. that's our next hour. a helicopter plunged to the ground in southern afghanistan killing 16 civilians. it crashed after taking off from a that to kandahar's air field, a major hub. this is the latest in a string of air crash this is weekend in afghanistan raising urgent safety concerns amid a anti-taliban offensive. we're in helmand province with the latest. >> they're not releasing the national at of these passengers but say none of the passengers or crew were military personnel and saying that this was not a result of any kind of hostile fire. there will be an investigate into this. this is the third crash in the last two days. earlier today there was also a hard landing and emergency landing by a u.s. military helicopter in eastern afghanistan, in kunar province and we're told that the
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passengers and crew were being treated for injuries. we don't have further details on that except that there was hostile fire and yesterday, we had an f-16 strike eagle, the first we believe, u.s. fixed wing warplane that crashed in the predawn members with two crew killed. despite we travelled with marine helicopters and i believe we have video you can show you, we traveled around helmand province. this is a difficult province in the south of afghanistan today. i traveled with u.s. marines some 10,000 marines have been moved into this this area. 4,000 launched an offensive earlier this month moving into area that is taliban and insurgents had cooled. during our trip, it was very clear that i was in the same area last year. the small operating bases have tripled in size. they had several hundred british
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soldiers and marines and now it has some 2,000 personnel, a sign that the u.s. and the nato allies are ramping up their efforts here, trying to reach out and extend the afghan government's authority in this very contested region where poppies, drugs are produced in massive quantities and this, ahead of the august 20th presidential elections that are scheduled to be taking place then. >> all right. ivan, thanks for that. police investigating the jakarta, neenl hotel bombings may have found a clue. they believe they found a bomber's laptop in one of the blasted-out buildings. the state media are reporting the computer and information and secret codes the attackers may have used to signal one another. friday's explosion killed nine people including two suspected bombers. 50 other people were wounded. for the first time since the story broke about the dug-up bodies at the chicago-area
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cemetery we finally hear from the cemetery's lawyers. >> there was not a situation where bones littered the cemetery. >> but police investigators just aren't buying it. plus, is president barack obama's health care plan dead in the water? his bug push could dominate the news. and we want to know what's on your mind tonight. get on the air.
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during his weekly address, president barack obama tried to set the record straight about what is and what isn't in his health care issue in snooif they'll they will you can't choose your doctor. some bureaucrat will choose for you. that's not true. michelle and i don't want anyone tells us who our family doctor should be and no one should decide that for you either. under our proposal if your like your doctor, you keep your doctor. if you like your current insurance, you keep that insurance, period, end of story. >> well, it's not quite the last word. health care was a hot topic on this morning's talk shows as our john king shows you. >> if the sounds of sunday are part of your water cooler chatter it's a good bet that health care reform is one of the topics. how to pay the price tag. flings got for complicated last week when the budget office said the leading democratic plan increases costs instead of
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meeting the president's promise to trim health care spendsing. >> this is a work in progress. >> they passed a budget that puts us on a path to double the national debt in five years. triple it in ten. here comes health care. on top of it. >> the fact that it's not bipartisan is not because we democrats don't want to have a bipartisan bill. we don't have any republican answers. >> the fight over how to get it done is affecting the plans for when to get it done. a president call from the house and senate to act by early august was a firm deadline. now a goal. >> we want to get it down by august. and we think we can. >> he knows he can't sell it if the debate lasts very long because it is so expensive and costly. >> want to get it done by august. you saw that, joining us now o bill snider. bill, is that possible, by august? >> well, i won't say it's impossible but say it's unlikely. it's going to be very hard to
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get a bill this large and complex to congress in the next couple of weeks, particularly if the administration wants any bipartisan support. republicans are dead set against that and are likely to try to drag things out. >> he's got a lot on his plate. his approval rating soared for a while but that is not the case. it's not bad but it's slipping. >> slipping a bit, which is predictable. the recession is becoming very serious for many people. the job losses mounted in june. he still has a positive job rating. 57% is the average of the most recent surveys and dropped about four points since june. that's pretty good. it is holding up well, but republicans here in washington see some vulnerability. particularly on the economy and they are trying to make the argument, how can we afford this big health care plan if people aren't doing that well? and if it involves a tax increase, which it almost certainly will? >> the party's over or the honeymoon, i would imagine, is over when it comes to that and
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people want results. >> right. and it will be a while. the administration has cautioned this recovery is likely to be slow. there will be some reversals. they claim the recession they inherited was very deep, and it was. by most counts with worst recession since the great depression of the 1930s and you can't expect things to improve that quickly, particularly joblessness. in every recession we've seen since the 1930s job gains are the slowest thing and the last thing to catch up, even after the economy as a whole starts to im. >> bill, thank you very much. you can bet president obama will talk about the economy and health care during thinks news conference on wednesday at 9:00 p.m. eastern and we'll bring it to you live. it takes a great golf story to get tiger woods out of the headlines and we have one. 59 year old tom watson's quest for history has everyone talking. did he make it? can you give us any clues, jackie? how was the weather for that? >> it looks gorgeous in those
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creek area and they are under an order for a mandatory evacuation. and about 100 campers were ordered out. we'll continue to follow that and we're trying to get pictures. the temperatures out west have been extremely warm. we have heat warnings in effect across parts of southern california and on over into the phoenix area. this is going to last for a good couple of days. in the meantime we have cool temperatures across much of the east. 74 in detroit. that's it. a strong cold front which has dropped in the eastern half of the country. showers and thunderstorms triggering along that front. mostly down into parts of florida. we have a few severe thunderstorms to talk about in parts of colorado on into texas as well. a severe thunderstorm warning in effect for terrant county in the ft. worth area. we're expecting large hail and damaging winds to be the primary threat.
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don? >> thanks, jackie. the oldest winner of the british open is not tom watson. for a while it looked like the 59 year old might make history when he tied stewart singh. he walked off with the title by six strokes. justin armsden spoke with watson a short time ago. >> in the end, heart breaking into the open championship. i wonder if you can sum up the entire week for us. >> well, right now it's very disappointing. it's hard to take a lot of positives away from it, but the positives were that at the beginning of the week i felt like i had a chance to win. i started off great. i knew i was playing well enough to win. and it almost happened. >> what kept you going all week? >> well, my driving. i put the ball in play. and that's critical when you're
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playing golf. you look at the players who missed the cut. they couldn't keep the ball on the fairway. you hit the ball in the rough and they lost balls. i just hit one tee-ball in regulation and it was really out of play. and then one that was out of play on the 17. but that was it for the week. so my driving was very good. my strategy was pretty good, too. >> it seemed like at times, an emotional week for you when you spoke about the spiritual week. >> this is a beautiful spot. just look over and out to the sea. you see sight that is can fill you with emotion and spirit. it's always been that way for me here. and, it didn't matter that i
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have a lot of sentimental feel otion here. i felt a lot of respect from the fans and a lot of cheering going on and the feeling is mutual. >> will we see you back at st. andrews next year? >> i'll be there. >> thanks for joining us. we'll hand it back to the studio. >> all right. congratulations are in order for him. not a bad life, mr. watson. congratulations. >> our sports business analyst, rick, was also at the british open and he'll join us life to talk about asignificance of singh's triumph and watson. the cemetery scandal. lawyers speak out. >> there are any number of operational reasons why headstones were back and they did not mean they had been removed from a family's legitimate grave site. plus, finding success in a tough housing market. one person's secret.
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we'll check the top story. the military says this taliban video shows u.s. army private first class. bowe bergdahl from ketchum, idaho. the first time he's been seen since he disappeared in southern afghanistan. he's talking about his family and his fears. >> my girlfriend who is hoping to marry -- i was hoping to marry, i have my grandma and grandpa. i have a very good family that i love back home in america. and i miss them every day. when i'm gone, i miss them and i'm afraid that i might never see them again. and that i'll never be able to tell them that i love them again. i'll never be able to hug them. >> well, the u.s. forces in
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afghanistan issued a statement about private bergdahl and it says -- private bergdahl's family has also released a statement and it says, we hope and pray for our son's safe return to his comrades and then to our family and we appreciate all the support and expressions of sympathy shown to us by our family members, our friends and others across the nation. thank you and please continue to keep bowe in your thoughts and in your prayers. the mayor of private bowe bergdahl's hometown is on the phone with us tonight. it's ketchum, idaho's mayor. randy hall, hello. how is the town doing? >> i think it's a little early to take the temperature of such a tragic issue right now. i know that tomorrow, once everybody wakes up, i'm sure this will run through the town like wildfire and we're all very
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concerned. >> so a lot of folks don't know already? >> well, you know, it's sunday. i've gotten several phone calls but i have not spoken to the family yet so i don't know how far and wide this story is going. at least today. but i'm surely tomorrow, everybody will know. >> do you know the family at all? >> you know what? i don't. i know of them and i do not know bowe. but we're a very close community. a very small community. and we're all very proud of bowe's service to his country, as well as ought the other young men and women who are fighting overseas right now. >> as i understand it you said you're putting your faith in the u.s. military and u.s. government to bring him home safely? >> you bet. it's a difficult situation. we just have to trust the people who have the resources to bring him home safely. i know that it's a high priority of the country to protect all the people who are fighting
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abroad. >> have you thought about or are opened to any sort of plans or events or ceremonies to help the family? >> well, of course, we are. again, i don't want to speak out of turn. i have not spoken to the family yet so i want to respect their privacy. but the city of ketchum stands by to help out in any way we can. >> all right, mayor randy hall, please give our thoughts to the family. our thoughts and prayers are with them. >> will do. time for your feedback and here's how you are responding, to the soldier story. talking about the video. should it be aired. and we have -- and van adam sports says -- and serena 5401
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says -- and sophie says -- and we've got quita -- logon to twitter, facebook, or myspace or i-report.com. please in tennessee charged a 30-year-old man with the murders of his wife, three of her relatives and a family friend. the victims were found at a pair of neighboring homes outside fayetteville, tennessee, yesterday morning. a sixth body apparently related to the case was found some 30 miles away at a huntsville, alabama, business. no identification yet. the sheriff of lincoln county, tennessee, describes it as the worst crime in his community's
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history. held without bond. jacob schieffer, found at the crime scene. the police believe the attack was a domestic dispute or domestic related. not as bad as the sheriff suggests that's the just of what the lawyer says of the cemetery. the cemetery is in a mr. for profit sandal that broke 11 days ago with the arrest of four cemetery employees accused of digging up graves for resale. ben bradley of our affiliate in chicago has the latest round. >> reporter: ten days of turmoil and finally, answers. those responsible for the cemetery. >> how does that happen? >> apparently it happens when you hire what you think are good people and you leave them to do their jobs and they find schemes of taking money where they shouldn't. >> trudy foushee is not only a attorney but she was running the cemetery for its investors owners when the sheriff came
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calling. >> what we found was beyond startling and revolting. >> there was not a situation where bones simply littered the cemetery. we have people in and out of the cemetery every day. >> ms. foushee says it was a backhoe operator practicening on the machine in a back lot that unearthed a partial skull on memorial day weekend. the cook county police were called in and since then, she suggests that facts have been twisted. reports have discovered bones exaggerated. and truths omitted. case in point? she says discarded headstones are the result of type os, not part of a plot to resell graves. >> there are any number of operational reasons why headstones were out back. and they did not mean that they had been removed from a family's legitimate grave sight. >> a spokesman said we would expect the attorney for a firm
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with more than a dozen vil suits filed it and ongoing state and criminal investigation to try to downplay what's been found but the fbi wouldn't have sent in a team of investigators if this were just a case of a backhoe operator stirring up dirt. still, the bur oaks operators say the families of the vast majorities of those buried here have nothing to worry about. >> right now, we don't know exactly what families were impacted. and we're hopeful and we're cooperating with the authorities that we can find out those that were. >> that was ben bradley reporting from our cnn affiliate, wls in chicago. ben adds, the cemetery owner concedes they did not have a full time caretaker overseeing the sight and three other gave yards and meantime, a spokesman for the sheriff scoffs at the suggestions by the attorney. the plots for profit scandal is thought to have pocketed more
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than $300,000. to california, no word on what caused yesterday's collision of two commuter trains. it happened mid afternoon in san francisco when one train struck another one that was stopped. some 48 people were hospitalized with injuries. none fatal, though. now the national transportation safety board is joining in on the probe 37 investigators say they'll look into the signaling systems. the conditions of the rails. the tracks and the structural integrity of both train cars. >> looking for a deal on a cheap home? roll down the street in northwest detroit. bank-owned homes, some abandoned and others vandalized may not be pretty but there's an upside. here's our poppy har lowe. >> reporter: this how this in northwest detroit recently sold for $7500. just $4,000 would have bought you this one across the street. you may have missed the investment opportunity of a lifetime. >> we have actually a waiting
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list of people to rent and buy. >> this man thinks he didn't. michael alexander has purchased 250 homes in detroit, betting the motor city will rise again. >> when we find a nice street like this we try to buy all the available inventory on the street. >> why on earth is this a good place to put your money to work? >> that's a good question and i get asked that a lot. we're buying homes in that particular market range and we're able to offer them at better prices, so since everyone is going to need a place to live, we're offering value. >> alexander's company invests between $10,000 and $20,000 rehabilitating the homes which they say they've been able to flip for a 20 to 30% profit. even with buyers scared, alexander said he was able to rent many of the homes at attractive prices. but it's far from a safe bet. home values in detroit are down 45% from their peak in 2005 and the city continues to combatle a
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high crime rate. >> this house since we acquired it has been broken into. i didn't know that until a minute ago when we walked into the kitchen. >> really? >> if you turn 5r7bd you'll see that someone kicked in this door. >> so you saw a home that's foreclosed and in shambles and one in the process of getting fixed up. here's the finished product. for this investment to work out, you have to get someone to rent or buy this home and the man in charge of doing that is eric. he's the property manager. >> since winter we've done about 70 homes. of the 70, we have about 64 of those have already been filled with families. >> my partner and i have both been investing in real estate for over 30 years and we're at a point where we want to give back. we saw an opportunity here where we could make some money and give back and help to revitalize this community. >> as far as the rest of the city, there are some parts where alexander just isn't willing to make the same bet. >> there's a lot of properties
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available in the inner city which be bought for little to next to nothing. but if i turn around and invest, $15,000 to $20,000 even though i bought it really cheap, if people are afraid to live there my house is going to be empty. >> reporter: and in detroit, poppy harlowe. let's put this a little bit more into context. new report shows a record 1.5 million plus homes fell into foreclosure in the first half of this year. in michigan, that equates to one in every 74 households. and on friday, michigan became the first state in 25 years to top a 15% unemployment rate. experts say those job loss as count for much of the increase in foreclosures. it's bad out there, huh. a once unspoken subject in the black community. not anymore. depression is no longer a dirty word. you're in the right place.
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depression in the african-american community has long been a taboo topic and as a result, many cases go undiagnosed and untreated. my colleague, soledad o'brien yen is searching for solutions.
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soledad? >> don, sometimes black women are the backbone of the family and that means that sometimes they are the very last person to take time to care for themselves. that means vulnerability, often, to an illness that affects millions of americans, depression. because depression isn't often openly talked about in the black community black women sometimes are unaware that's what they're suffering from. terry williams is a successful publicist who's had a long list of top tier clients. on the surface, she always looked like she had it together. but on the inside -- >> it was so dark. it was the hardest thing in the world to just get up and to shower and to dress and to put the mask on because you had to put the mask on. you had to walk out that door and pretend that all was well. >> even a background in social
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work didn't help techltrrie seet she was suffering from depression. >> you're a social worker. how come you didn't know that's what you had? >> you don't. you just don't. >> some mental health experts say there's a reason that black women don't always recognize that they are depressed. >> it's definitely something that hadn't been talked about in our culture so people don't know what the signs and symptoms of depression are. >> because it's unrecognized depression often goes untreated. and some health experts say ignoring their mental health may be causing black women physical health to suffer. contributing to high rates of heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes. >> it has to do with -- i call it the body screaming. you know? somehow, it has to get out. something has to break down eventually. and so we are breaking down in numbers that are astounding. i think i'm vulnerable. >> reporter: it was after a
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mental breakdown that terrie got help in the form of therapy and medication. >> i was highly irritable. i snapped at people. >> she decided to share her story in a book and with audiences around the country. she's been moved by the response. >> when i speak about it at these events i can't tell you the number of people who come up to me afterwards and say, that's my story, in tears. >> reporter: how many of those people who say "that's my story, too" are black and female? >> overwhelmingly female. black female. black women carry the nation. carry our community, you know? we're nurturers. we're care takers and feel like we have to be there and do for everybody. >> reporter: brenda is the oldest of five children. and was the bun the family turned to after her siblings
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became ill and her mother was diagnosed with cancer. she cared for everyone, but herself. she was worn out and gaining weight. >> i don't recall ever crying. i did not have time to cry. so 65 pounds could have been mostly tears, you know? just stuff on the inside that wasn't -- i didn't have the ability to get out. >> reporter: it never occurred to brenda to see a therapist like so many generations of black women. she turned to god instead. >> we grew up in church. and when things were beyond what i for naught i could handle i would pray about it. >> dr. michelle balamani understands the importance of the church to black women because she's also an ordained minister and she spent her career trying to build a bridge between church and therapy, letting women know they're not turning away from god by seeking help. >> i preach that god can heal in many ways. the same way you go to a doctor to get your leg fixed if it's
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broken. you can go to a therapist if you need to. you need to put your own gas mask on first so if you're going to be taking care of all these other people, take care of yourself first so you can do a better job at it. >> reporter: now with her own gas mask in place, terrie williams hopes her words can help others begin to heal themselves. >> when you hear somebody else and their tears start to flow and you feel the emotion, it gets other people talking. that's the goal. >> reporter: last year, she started a national mental health awareness campaign directed towards the black community called "healing starts with us" and hopes to educate african-americans about the signs and symptoms of depression and end the stigma associated with getting professional help. don? >> thanks so much for that, soledad. soledad will be here at 10:00 p.m. eastern in the newsroom. catch "the moment of truth" with
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if your kid is heading to summer camp this year, home sickness isn't the only thing to worry about. i always got home sick. camps across the u.s. are trying to fend off the h1n1 virus commonly called swine flu. some are canceling symptoms, prescreening kids before accepting them. the virus was declared a global pandemic last month with more than 27,000 cases reported in the u.s. alone. so ask your kid's camp if they're doing health screenings and if they have any flu cases. also pack some extra hand sanitizer and just be careful overall. taking a walk is a great way to get energized. canadian researchers are taking that concept literally. our gary tuchman takes us on a
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true power walk. >> reporter: with every step you take the body creates energy that usually goes to waste until now. >> this particular device is designed to capture energy while you're walking. >> reporter: it's called the bionic energy harvester. it might look like an energy knee brace but a closer inspection shows wire and generator that harness power from the natural motion of walking. >> they are producing the mechanical energy initially and through the device that's turned into electrical power like a battery charger basically. >> reporter: simply strap on the two-pound brace and get moving. each step the device transfers the energy from the hop in your step to batteries. pop those into a digital camera or cell phone and the more you walk, the more you can talk. >> walking for only one minute you can produce about 20 minutes of talk time on a typical cell phone. that's a lot of power. >> reporter: it's still in the development phase but researchers are hoping to have it available soon in a "where
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are they now?" staying connected is key, unplugging the power cord can give you more space to roam. >> you become the juice for devices. for many people that means freedom. >> reporter: gary tuchman, cnn. that looks pretty cool. all right. 160 million in five days. that's how much money this week's top movie earned. so what is it?
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half blood just doubled its box office. >> you are looking at memories. in this case pertaining to one individual, voldemort or as he was known then, tom riddle. >> harry pot certificate still one of of the lucrative movie franchises around grossing nearly $160 million in the u.s. half of that was just this weekend. worldwide harry potter and the half blood prince has conjured up nearly $400 million in ticket
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sales. not what you want to hear in space, out of order. one of the two toilets on the international space station is broken. the most number of astronauts ever. until it's fixed, the six station residents will have to get in line to use their one working toilet and the seven "endeavour" are restricted to their shuttle bathroom. this isn't the greatest way to mark the eve of the 40th anniversary of the "apollo 11" moon mission. they will hold a discussion at the national air and space museum in washington where we assume everything will be in working order. so time now for your feedback. this is what twitter says. it is sad to see that video. i fear for what the end will be. yes, seeing him gives you hope. maybe the enemy holding him will look at him as human and let him go. this i pray. it should be aired. it puts a human face on the air.
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yes, america needs to know what our soldiers are subject to. i don't like seeing this manipulative airing of war negotiations, but we must stay acutely aware of the costs of our actions. uncomfortable and important news must be aired. you have to show it. it is the face of the worst our soldiers can face. if we don't show it, we are doing him a disservice. i don't think it should be shown. very disturbing and i think used for propaganda by enemy. logon to twitter, facebook, myspace and tell us what you're thinking. we'll get it on the air. she is 15. he is 86. her flight instructor and an original tuskegee airman. with his help, she became the youngest african-american female to fly solo across the country. in our special series "an african-american first" i will

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