>> yes. yes. evacuteers is a blessing for all of us. >> reporter: assurance that's as long as they can find a way in, they will have a way out. tom foreman, cnn, new orleans. >> best of luck to them. certainly a very, very important endeavor there. >> much needed. >> go to our blog. that will do it for us. thanks for being with us. >> the news continues with kirkuk in "the cnn newsroom." four passengers alive. but it took 12 hours, broken, stranded, waiting for help. >> are you going to lose your job? >> more than likely. the. >> the fallout from the flipout. the flight attendant may have lost his job but to millions of people, he is now an american folk hero.

sold for sex on craigslist. the site promised to crack down on prostitution. now confronting craig from craigslist. cnn goes under cover. 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 on the west coast. i'm kirkuk. you are live in the "cnn newsroom." it is just before sunrise in alaska. the investigators have a long day of work. this plane that slammed into a side of a mountain killing five people. including former senator ted stevens, the longest serving republican in the history of the u.s. senate. as important the survivors, the crash site was so remote and so rugged that it took 12 hours to reach them. it is that delay that makes the stories of survival just so remarkable. pilots that discovered the wreckage say that it appeared impossible that anyone could have survived that crash. yet nearly half of the people aboard did. one of the four sr. vooifrs is sean o'keefe, former nasa

administrator, and his son onboard is in serious condition. as we just said, because of the remote and rugged location of this crash, one of the pilots that found the wreckage and told rescuers how to get to the crash site says that he didn't even think they would find anyone alive. >> it was pretty smashed. the wings were laying beside the fuselage. on each side and i couldn't see the float the the floats were underneath it. there's -- i couldn't see anything in the front of the airplane, from the window forward. everything was gone. the main fuselage and tail was in one piece. the wings were off. and the -- i couldn't see the engine. >> reporter: do you think anybody could have survived that? >> i don't think it was survivable. it looked pretty -- from where he hit to where the airplane

came to rest was probably just 100 feet. 150 feet maybe. when you are flying down low in stuff like this, you are flying in the hills. between the hills. and you have to know where they are at. he flew into the side of the mountain. i have no idea how he got there. he wasn't -- if he was flying from the end of second to porter street, he would have gone right down that valley. he was going in a different direction. i don't know how he got there. >> how did he get there and how did the passengers survive? deborah hershman is on the line with us now. let's go ahead and begin with what are your investigators doing right now at this moment. >> it is 5:00 a.m. here in alaska. everyone is getting ready to start their day. the weather has really been a challenge for us since we arrived on scene yesterday. and so we have investigators

really standing by watching the weather. if it is going to permit them to get access to the accident site today and so we certainly don't want to be in a dangerous situation or putt any other air crews in a situation where they have to go into a limited visibility area. we will have to see what the weather looks like to get this there today. we have a lot of work ahead of us. collecting records and conducting interviews. we just arrived on scene yesterday. we have a lot of work ahead of us. >> if indeed the weather continues and your investigators are able to get there to the scene, what will they actually do first? will it be straight to the wreckage, to lock at that? is it to look for a black box? if indeed that exists on this type of aircraft. >> well, we don't expect a black box. we don't expect a cockpit voice recorder or flight data recorder on an aircraft of this size. we will look to see if there is any devices that may have memory

associated with them we could look and see, you know, in our labs to see what the trajectory of the aircraft was. we are not counting on that. really the wreckage will help tell the tale of what happened. and our investigators are very good. they investigate hundreds of aviation accidents every year. many of them like this without a black box and we do determine the probable cause. our goal here is to find out what happens and if we can make recommendations to prevent something like this from happening again, that's really what our mission is. >> as you know, we reported that there are survivors. do you have any idea what at this point could have led to the survival of some of the passengers? do you know if all of them had seat belts on? were they all still in their seats? anything you can tell us about that. obviously people are -- you know, paying close attention to what what do you do in a case like this where do you have a chance to survive.

>> well, i think that's a great point. i think a lot of people have the sense that airplane accidents are not survivable and that's not what we find in our investigations. anding in fact, we do find many accidents are survivable and i know you have seen in the last year we had a big accident in denver where everyone walked away. we had the miracle on the hudson. wearing restraints is critical. having safety devices on the aircraft and having good dispatch and flight following knowing the airplane is overdue and looking for it to find people that may be injured. all of those things are important. we are going to be looking at that in this accident investigation. we have already begun talking to the emergency responders who helped at the accident site. see about restrain use. it is going to be important for us to talk to those survivors. they are going to give us the best account of what happened. >> deborah, do we know if those survivors had seat belts on? do we know if those that

actually died in this crash had seat belts on? >> we conducted some initial interviews but i think it is important for us to be able to corroborate all of that information. we need to talk to quite a few people before we make determinations about that. critically it is important for us to talk to the survivors and we have not yet done that. our first priority is their medical attention and to make sure that they are healthy. we will talk to them when they are ready to speak to us. >> we look forward to hearing from them as well. deborah hersman. four u.s. senators wouldn't put their hands on the lockerbie bomber's medical records. they are now demanding that scotland hand them over. nearly one year after megrahi was set free. he returned to libya where he was expected to die of prostate cancer within three months. but he is still alive. the senators from new york and new jersey want to know why he was let go from the hospital. al megrahi was convicted in the 1988 bombing of a pan am jet

that killed 378 people, most of them american. a s a takeover under way? has voter rebellion taken a foothold? first, colorado. senator michael bennett captured the democratic nomination for senate. the endorsements were definitely high profile. president obama had bennett's back. former president clinton pushed for romanoff. connecticut, winning the republican senate primary, former world wrestling executive linda mcmahon now battles state attorney general dick blumenthal for the seat. minnesota, former senator dayton barely snagged the democratic nomination for governor. now he will take on gop nominee tom emron and tom horner. in georgia, sarah palin may have backed karen handel and mike huckabee. the runoff for governor is too close to call. stowe your luggage properly.

lessons learned onboard a jetblue plane after a flight attendant decided he wasn't going to take it anymore. allegedly unleashed a slew of profanities, grabbed a couple of cold ones, slid down the emergency chute brought him to jail. now this working class hero is bailed out and talking. >> reporter: tell me what you think about the is port you have gotten. >> it has been very, very appreciated. it seems like it is something here that's resonated with a few people. that's kind of neat. >> reporter: are you going to lose your job? >> more than likely. >> reporter: do you care about that anymore? >> no comment at this time. >> reporter: how about this? tell me about rude passengers. talk about that for a second there's a lot of wonderful people you on there. >> steven slater is now on forced leave from jetblue facing felony charges, reckless endangerment, criminal mischief. he has become the water cooler talk of offices worldwide for frustrated workers that are

cheering slater's mad as hell moment. coming up, we are taking a closer look at stressful work environments and why people snap. that's coming up in 15 minutes. outrage over the so-called ground zero mosque. the project that's now approved but the opponents are not giving up. you will be surprised where this campaign is headed. >> i'm rob marciano. rain bands are rolling in to new orleans. the forecast is coming up after the break. a fantastic opportunity to get a great offer on an all new cadillac srx luxury collection crossover... ..with a bose premium sound system. and an ultra-view sunroof designed to let more summer time in. summer brings out the best in all of us, so now's the perfect time to get behind the wheel of a new cadillac. hurry in for great lease or purchase offers on an all new srx during cadillac's summer's best sales event going on now at your cadillac dealer.

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the heated debate over the so-called ground zero mosque is far from over. you may remember the outrage that culminated last week. the city cleared the final hurdle for a giant mosque to be built near the site of the 9/11 terror attacks. >> i think the goal is very much to manifest control and insert and infiltrate in a our culture. more evidence of islam and

sharia law. >> it hurts everybody. >> this is a victory for frdom of religion in our constitution. people trying to attack it through the rhetoric of fear and hate. they did not win. >> just as muslim leaders invoked freedom of religion, opponents are trumpeting what they call freedom of speech. they are slapping anti-mosque ads on the side of city buses. cnn's mary snow is in new york to give us more. mary? >> good morning. as you said, the plans to build the mosque cleared all hurdles but now an opponent of the mosque is hoping an ad campaign on city buses will convince people to fight against the plan. pamela gellar runs the group american freedom defense initiative. she's with the group stop isl islamization of america. she filed a lawsuit with the agency overseeing new york's busses and trains. she cites freedom of speech to run the ads. we have an ad and we will put it up. it shows a plane about to hit the world trade center with

smoke in the background. on the other side, what she calls the world trade center mega-mosque. questioning why there. among other things, her lawsuit is claiming the mta the image of the world trade center be removed. i asked pamela gellar if she thought that new yorkers would object or upset about seeing these interviews. >> i think that's a piece of american history. do they get upset with pearl harbor? or iwo jima? if this is offensive, it is showing an image of 9/11 is offensive, then what's a 15-story mega-mosque on the cemetery where they are still finding human remains. >> that hits another part of the controversy. the planned mosque is close to ground zero. it is two blocks away. it is part of a larger community center. one muslim group questioning the motives of the ads is the islamic circle of north america. >> this is being organize

straighted on a national level through campaigns such as this. the type of campaigns we run are to promote tolerance and dialogue. these are the complete opposite. they promote here and hatred. >> what's concerning him and others is seeing protests in other parts of the country. a planned mosque site in california, another recently in connecticut. his group has been running ads here in new york city and other cities about answering questions about the religion of islam itself. >> later today mary snow will have more on this story in the situation room at 5:00 p.m. eastern on cnn. i hate to break it to you. ladies especially. chivalry is dead. we are see thing video from a houston astros game. watch the foul ball, if you can keep your eye it. he says don't worry, i will protect you, cupcake. why did you jump back there, big

boy? you can finally -- well, probably figure out the rest of the story. girlfriend, right there, gets plunked by the ball. gives the boyfriend dude, what the bleep? he tries to kiss up. she's in shock. she is not buying it. as for the ball, yeah, he got it. she got a big fat goose egg right there on her arm. nice job, romeo. rob, what would you do? come on. >> first of all, i wouldn't take a yankee hat, turn it that way, nor would it be camouflaged. i mean, that gives you an idea of the character. first, number one flaw there. >> number two. >> i don't know, maybe he wasn't wearing a cup. that could be coming at him hard. >> would you protect your sweetheart? >> i would jump out there like secret service protecting the president. take one in the chest. >> wait a minute. one more time. did you see he completely ran

from her and went for the ball. she got nailed. >> did he go for the ball or -- >> he went for the ball. that's just instinct. you can't fault him for that. loose ball, you go after that. the other part probably his cowardly instinct. sorry, buddy. nice way of describing that, by the way. listen, you may want to get out of the way of this. if it becomes any stronger. it is tropical depression number five. it is forecast to become tropical storm. and go towards the new orleans area and through the mississippi area as well. it is pretty unorganized right now. the reason you see this circulation, it is kind of -- the way it started, broad circulation. an upper-level low. now it made its way to the surface 37 trying to get its act together. it is having a hard time doing that. here are the latest numbers. 30-mile-an-hour winds now. that's weakened. and it is moving northwesterly at 12. about 250 miles from the mouth of the mississippi. you are starting to see more of

a flare-up of convection, thunderstorms around the -- at least the eastern side of the center. it may start to get its act together just a little bit here. here's the forecast track for the national hurricane center. tropical storm status. later tonight. maybe winds as high as 50 miles an hour. see what the next advisory says. thursday afternoon, making maybe -- actually very similar track. i wouldn't want -- very similar track if this verifies ties to w five years ago. not the same strength. but similar track. tropical storm warnings are up from the basin back through parts of destin, florida. the other big story we are working on is a couple of thunderstorms moving in across wisconsin. pga championship happening there. they had rough thunderstorms roll across lake michigan now. softening up the green it is last championship of the year. >> beautiful place to play, too. >> i have never been. >> rain or shine. head out that way and you can

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checking top stories. investigators looking into the cause of the alaska plane crash that killed former senator ted stevens and four others. remarkably there are four survivors. they had to way 12 hours for rescuers to get to them because of the remote and rugged area. jetblue flight attendant is out of jail. but still facing charges for his meltdown. steven slater cussed out passengers before leaving the plane on the emergency slide. slater says he's grateful for all the online support he's getting. tropical depression pushed back the work on a permanent seal for the ruptured oil well in the gulf. drilling on a relief well has been suspended. relief well was scheduled to be finished this weekend. now they are looking at next week.

this story got so much response yesterday. we brought our dr. sanjay gupta back. we are talking about the fight against alzheimer's and this break it is through you were talking about yesterday. we got so many questions on the blog, tweets, you name it, we wanted to go more in depth and answer some of the viewers' questions if that's all right. do you wouldn't start by what exactly has been discovered and then we will -- >> sure. it is sort of the age-old question. somebody is having some memory problems. this is this going to turn into alzheimer's? that's the genesis of the whole thing. a question a lot of people ask at some point in their lives. that's what this research is all

about. what they found is by doing a spinal tap they get really important clues. this is a model of the spine. this is the back of the spine here. a spinal tap involves -- somebody usually hunches over, bend their back out. put a needle right through a couple of bones over here. and right through the spinal sack and take a little bit of fluid from that area. >> have you done that before? did somebody else do that before you take a look at the -- >> no. i have done this procedure. a lot of people in the world of neurosurgery do this procedure quite often. a lot of primary care doctors don't do this regularly. >> we need to see somebody like you as a neurosurgeon -- >> or if it became a more widely screening test, people would have to be trained to do this. they examined it for a couple of proteins. it was a very good predictor of the likely someone developing alzheimer's. people that just had mild memory problems if they got that test done, they found those proteins in that fluid, every single one

of them in this particular study went on to develop alzheimer's within five years. that's a screening test that has a very good accuracy. >> i had asked you about is there any way -- i know the proteins, i will never remember the names because i can never remember the technical medical terms. the two proteins. if the doctor discovers these proteins, no matter what your age, what condition you are in, is there anything at this point that can be done? is this just one of these okay, we have a got a braikthrough. we have to figure out what we do when we discover the protein. >> that's right. the responses on the blogs yesterday, that was the biggest question. people really are divide order this. this people say i would want to know despite the fact that there isn't a lot that can be done medically. we are not very good at preventing it from getting worse. we are not very good at treating it if it is all right pretty bad. there are not a lot of options. i saw my parent go through this. i want to make sure i get my own

affairs in order and make sure i can prepare my family for what's about to happen to mo. which is a frightening thing. no question. there are a lot of people that said i simply don't want to know if there is nothing that can be done. >> let's get to some of these viewer questions. this one comes from nate. this was on our cnn blog. he says that -- this is all well and good. are you going to conduct a spinal tap object every middle-aged broke in a walks into your office complaining of mild memory loss? >> it is important to point out that this is -- we report things as they are happening in the news business. this is unfolding over the last couple of days. this isn't ready for widespread screening now. it is the tests and studies will have to be done again, duplicated. it was really good study. a lot of people are excited about the fact this might -- might happen, be available. right now i think that for the average person, if they got curious about this ask went to their dock and asked for the test, they could probably have it done. you can do the procedure and you can test for the proteins.

research trials going on if you have a family history. >> well, the test, the insurance questions. this blogger writes -- is your insurance going to pay for this. now they get to know and you are the owner of the pre-existing condition. >> this -- you talk about this all the time. especially regard to health care reform. right now we dug into this a by. insurance is probably not going to cover it. this is brand-new. you can get a spinal tap for meningitis. as far as the -- cost $300 to $5 00. it is a fascinating thing. if health care reform plays out the way it has been passed, there should be no discrimination based on pre-existing conditions. premium shouldn't go up. you shouldn't have more out of pocket costs. for adults that should take place by 2014. you should be able to safely get this test no matter the result and not be discriminated against.

that, you know, that will be a question i think that comes a lot of times. when your employer treats you differently, might your health care provider find way to treat you differently despite the lost laws? who knows. >> i thought about this, too. by the way, would anyone want to know if it is incurable? that's a great point. >> it really is. i don't know. >> i don't know if i would want to know. not -- if there isn't a cure i wouldn't want to know. >> it goes back to the same point. would you conduct your life differently? for the average person, they live their life differently if they knew. would they get their affairs in order? spend more time with their families? who knows. from a medical perspective, is this an opportunity to build on the science we just learned? will we build on this and hopefully find better preventative strategies and better treatments at some point as well. we are not there yet, frankly. everybody wishes with we were. >> let's keep talking about it. it is a great breakthrough.

thanks, sanjay. for anybody that wanted to say take this job and shove it, america's most famous flight attendant may be your new hero. workplace flipouts are nothing new. a closer look at why people snap.

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and lexus models? today the japanese auto giant gets a green light from the feds. government tests reveal no evidence of faulty electronics 58 vehicles involved in crashes blamed on acceleration, the department of transportation examined the vehicles' data recorders. in most cases it revealed brakes were not applied before impact. ♪ >> the guy has become a folk hero now. he really went crazy. he went so crazy, the good news, terrorists are not afraid to fly jetblue. that's good news tonight. anyway, he -- he got arrested the the flight attendant. how is this for karma? he asked for t jail guard for a blanket and they said that will be eight bucks. >> steven slater may be the subject of a lot of punch lines these days but american workers have a new folk hero. he just got bailed out of jail.

he was near will you 100,000 facebook fans. a number that's growing by the minimum, by the way. he's not feeling disgruntled worker to quit in a rage. listen to this radio deejay who decided i'm not -- enough was enough. >> i can't take it. i'm not going to take it. i don't have to take it. i'm not a dummy. i know how to find another job. for the last six years, i made $6 an hour. that ain't nothing. i just got a raise after six years. i know i'm qualified. after say thing i don't care if i ever get another job in radio, period. if you are confused about what i'm saying, listen very carefully. i quit this [ bleep ]. >> or how about a co-worker who flies into a rage when a co-worker bumps his desk? papers fly. computer screens tumble. curious co-workers pop their heads above the cubicles. the question is -- why are so

people so on edge? money woes, job security. that's what brings us to our a.m. extra. john roberts is joining us live from new york. a lot of people are praising steven slater for lashing out and grabbing out a couple of cold ones, sliding down the chute. you got a different take this morning from a psychologist and also an anger management counselor. >> things went too far. this guy acted out what peter finch did as howard beal on the big screen and he has,s as you said, back folk hero for it. we examine today on "american morning," what is it that makes people snap. this fellow had been having some problems. we know his father died and mother is battling cancer. may have been problem was alcohol. somewhere in there. and jeff figures has been

playing this over and over again and push cave came to shove and an incident combined with a bad day. it is never just one thing that causes people to snap. but there's no question that a lot of us had thought about doing the same thing. how many of you out there have sat back and said, you know, take this job and shove it? you just haven't gone over the edge. this guy did. jeff talked to bus that. jeff pfeiffer talked us about what he is concerned could be the potential consequences of this. have a listen. >> a lot of people have this fantasy in their head they just love to say to an employer someone that has been rude to them, take this and shove it. and we play it out all the time. we don't say it or do it because there are consequences. i'm not surprised what kind of anti-government these days and you know, kind of anti-corporation. and we know the abuse that flight attendants get each and

every day. it is a tough job. it was totally inappropriate. and as you said, he flipped out. and i don't trust someone on an airline that i would be riding with who could flip out in that way. >> there is a part of me that feels like he had this planned because he wanted that 15 minutes of fame. that really distresses me. oh, yeah. that distresses me a lot. in this country we tend to glorify bad behavior and reward it. i'm concerned about the consequences that this is going to have on the rest of society as well. >> this is definitely a totally different take on -- with regard to where we were yesterday. and it seems like people are starting to look at this in more after serious manner. especially like you pointed out, we are learning more about his background. life may not be so good for him right now. so do they say anything -- any kind of advice that's not cliche? if you get into a position where you feel like it is building up, where you want to snap, what do you do? >> so many of us have felt that

sort of volcano building inside them. jenna uses a technique, stop, walk and talk. basically, it is -- if you start to feel that volcano building, the magma flowing up from within, blow out the top of your head, stop. realize okay, i'm in a situation here where things could potentially get out of hand. you never make a good decision when you are emotional. the next is walk away. walkway from the situation. when steven slater could have done is instead of taking on that person just sort of walk away and say okay, i'm going to get myself away from the situation. then self-talk to take a moment and saw, what are the potential consequences of my actions here? what is the most appropriate way to handle the situation? you know, in terms of the glorification, jeff gardere is worried copycats will be out there. we had one person that wrote said he set such a high for an epic withdrawal from work. what do we do to true to top that? well, jeff's worried some people

may try to do that because bad behavior, to some degree is rewarded in this country. while it is very inning what steven slater did, there's no question by popping open that door and activating the emergency chute, with all the ground crew around the aircraft, he would have hurt someone severely. >> wow. number of people are saying oh, boy. is the reality show just around the corner? you are saying that your anger management counselor said s.w.a.t. stop, walk, and talk. >> not my anger management counselor. the one we had on the program this morning. >> really. s.w.a.t., if you think of a s.w.a.t. team, it is all about the de-escalating the threat of violence. all right. we have to remember s.w.a.t. that doesn't mean hitting somebody over s.w.a.t. >> acronyms mean completely different things. i don't know that they go together. >> just look at the -- they are

not supposed to get violent. not supposed to use the weapons. just the tactic. >> all right. >> you remember that s.w.a.t. you and i both can practice that next time. >> i will introduce you to the anger management counselor. >> you can met with the psychologist. you need a lot of clinical psychology. all right. love you. bye. sex for sale on craigslist. police say they found posts for underaged girls. is the website doing enough to police itself? for the answer, we went for the man behind craigslist. craig. >> reporter: what are you doing to protect these girls? >> that was an awkward moment. the search for answers and view from within. we will talk to the women that say they are virual slaves in the online sex trade. because of one word,

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a takeover under way and has voter rebellion taken a foothold? listen to the primary election results and you can decide for yourself. first colorado. senator michael bennett beat andrew romanoff. capturing the nomination for senate.

endorsements were definitely high profile. president barack obama had bennett's back while former president bill clinton pushed for romanoff. connecticut winning the republican senate primary, former world wrestling entertainment executive linda mcmahon. she will battle state attorney general dick blumenthal for the seat. minnesota, mark dayton barely snagged the democratic nomination for governor. he will take on gop nominee tom emin. karen handel and mike huckabee may have stumped for deal but the runoff for governor is too close to call. back to con. that senate race. perhaps money can buy you love. that's former wrestling executive linda mcmahon who spent $22 million of her own fortune in the republican primary campaign. and she secured her party's

nomination in a three-way race. she says voters are sending a message. >> when i'm finding across con skon i traveled across the state and talked to the people of connecticut, they want a change. they don't want to send the same politicians to washington and get the same politics out of washington. they want someone that's an outsider and had real-life business experience. they hope that someone who built the business and created jobs and understands the impact of taxes and regulations on small businesses can have more of an impact on the economy. >> mcmahon defended herself from steroid scandals that rocked the world wrestling federation. the flight attendant may have lost his job but to millions of people he is an american folk hero.

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frustrated workers worldwide after unleashing a string of profanities and frustrated american workers. 106,000 facebook plans and counting right now. a string of t-shirs praising him. go on line and order them right now, and these words of wisdom. >> tell me what you think about the support you have gotten? >> it's been very, very appreciated, and it seems like something here has resonated with a few people and that's kind of neat. >> are you going to lose your job? >> more than likely. >> tell me about rude passengers? >> there's a lot of wonderful people out there. >> as stories become so popular around the globe that this company in taiwan has animated steven slater from the confrontation to the pa cussout to grabbing the brews and sliding down the chute. but, who exactly is this guy?

we have been checking out his myspace page, too. he posted this picture with the caption, my other home and says his friends have given me new wings to fly, see above the clouds. maybe that's why several jetblue employees said he was sipping the blue juice days before the meltdown. what's that? it's the company's equivalent to school spirit. who knew that his infamous rant and run was lurking around the corner. >> what gets you angry? let's get a look at what's coming up. >> what happens when workplace rage is caught on tape or how about when it takes place on live, national television. don't get the wrong idea. it's not going to happen here but it did happen on live national television and i'll have that in the next hour. if your job has you

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so if you want to sell an old couch or a new cell phone, there may be no better place than craig's list, but the website is now tied to a more seedy commerce, the selling of sex, even sometimes underage sex. so why is the illegal trade still posted for all to see when the company vowed to be more diligent. cnn's amber lyon investigates. >> i don't know. men just disgust me, everything about them. they disgust me. you know, i'm doing the things

that i do with them is not what i pictured myself doing when i was a kid. i wanted to work with animals or be a meteorologist or a doctor or something, not a whore. >> reporter: why craig's list? >> craig's list is the quickest, easiest, fastest way to get money. >> reporter: we found 20-year-old jessica after spotting her ad on craig's list. you spend most of your life in a hotel room like this? >> for the past two to three years, yeah. >> reporter: how many guys do you sleep with on an average day? >> three to five. >> reporter: how much money is that? >> i get 150 for half an hour and 250 for the hour. that's what i charge. >> reporter: jessica says she and most of the girls she knows who sell sex on craig's list are being trafficked by pimps who take their money and their freedom. what would happen if you said, i'm sick of this. i'm done selling myself on

craig's list. i want to leave? >> i can't leave. i cannot leave. i'm his. i'm his property. he owns me. i cannot leave him. that's how it is with most girls, i would think. they can't. >> reporter: since our investigation aired last week, anti-sex trafficking organizations took out an ad in the washington post and in it two girls plead with craig to shut down the adult services section and even address the letter to craig. one of the girl says i was sold for sex by the hour at truck stops and cheap motels. ten men every night. this became my life. men answered the craig's list advertisements and paid to rape me. another girl was underage when she was being sold on craig's list. she says, dear craig, i was first forced into prostitution when i was 11 years old. so craig's ceo jim buck masters

says craig's list is anxious to know that the perpetrators in these girl's cases are behind bars and asks that the police reports are e-mailed to him. cnn has seen the police report for the so-called a.k. m.c. is still a minor, so her records could not be released but two sources say they have seen her arrest records. this is malika, and her organization posted the ad in the washington post. >> i think it's important for him to acknowledge that the stories are true. it's thoughtful that they wants to catch perpetrators, and i think he ought to use better screening processes. >> reporter: sex for hire ads are against the company's stated policy and says it manually screens all adult services ad and rejects those that look or sound like they're selling sex.

we caught up with craig at a speech he was giving in washington, d.c. on trust. he agreed to this interview on trust on the internet. is what are you guys doing to protect these girls? you guys say in the blog that you will remove any ad that looks like the person might be suggesting that they're offering sex. look at this ad. young, sexy, sweet and bubbly. she writes 250 an hour. what do you think she's selling in a bra and underwear? a din are date? >> have you reported this to us? >> you guys say you screen the ads manually. >> i don't know what this is. >> jim buckmaster says they're being screened. >> have you reported this to us? >> reporter: why do i have the responsibility to report this to you when it's your website? you're the one posting this online. under the communications decency

act, craig's list is not liable for what users public on its site but if they know it's happening and vows to stop it, why do they allow it to continue? victim's advocates say it's about one thing, money. aim group projects that the site will make $36.5 million one-third of its total revenue from adult services ad this year. after our story aired, jim buckmaster said craig's list is vigilant in barring child sex ads and prominently features exploitation sites. we will continue to work tirelessly in tandem with law enforcement and key nonprofits to ensure any of these victims receive the assistance they desperately need and deserve. amber lyon, cnn, washington. lesson learned on board a jetblue plane after a flight

attendant decided he wasn't going to take it anymore, unleashing a slew of profanities, grabbing a coupe of cold brews and sliding down the emergency chute, steven slater went to jail. slater is certainly not the disgrunld worker -- the first one to quit in rage. lift ton this radio deejay who decided enough was enough. >> i can't take it. i'm not going to take it. i don't have to take it. i'm not a dummy. i know how to find another job. for the last six years i made $6 an hour. that ain't nothing! i just got a raise after six years! i know i'm qualified and after saying this, i don't care if i ever get another job in radio period. so if you are confused about what i'm saying, listen very carefully. i quit this [ bleep ] job. >> how about a co-worker that

flies into a rage when another workers bumps his desk. papers fly. commuter screens tumble. question is -- why are people so on edge? how about money woes, unemployment, a little job security. is it something more. debbie mandel wrote "addicted to stress." you are learning more about steven slater. what is your reaction to how he handled it? >> we all need an escape hatch, and we're all looking for that, but what we're realizing is that stress is cumulative. the small stresses add up and we should begin to manage them before we boil over. >> how do we do that, though? we heard so many dif sfrent types of tips, stop, walk and talk, meditate, call somebody you are close to before you go crazy, write it out an a piece

of paper before you send it. think about it, sleep on it. we heard so many pieces of advice but it's not that easy. >> but do we do it? you have to start. we all have a negativity bias. that means we're drawn to what's wrong as opposed to what's right. when you become aware that you're getting out of balance, you're getting agitated and irritated, this is the time to focus on the pop. what's right with your life? don't focus on the stain on your outfit. look at the whole context, and the more you do it, you get a reflex action and it will become a part of you to look for the positive. >> now, some stress can be good for us, right? >> yes. acute stress is very good for you, making you perform better. if i'm too relaxed now, i'm not going to give you a good interview. >> oh, so you're a little stressed? >> always. a little stress is good. you know what, when you do your work, you're writing, off deadline, sometimes we perform

very well with that, that surge, a little more alert and alive. >> i have to agree with you. sometimes it's hard to really balance all of it. now, you wrote the book "addicted to stress." why use the word "addicted"? are we all somehow addicted to it and need a little drama in our life? >> yes, and we get a powerful surge of hormones like any addiction and begin to feel hyper vigilant and very alive, and then e we crash. so we surge and crash and when you crash, you want to get the next surge, and keep in mind the more that i can do and accomplish on so many fronts 24/7, thanks to technology, i get a lot of validation. you are going to say, wow, deb, you're great. look at what you do. i feed off of that if i don't feel important enough. i think what happened to slater was when the woman did not follow his order, he felt

trivialized. he didn't feel important enough, and that really set him off. >> tell you what, i need a few sessions with you. debbie mandel, thank you. >> you're very well come. if you hate where you work, don't get too down. there are jobs out there. st stephanie, you wouldn't know it from the unemployment rate? >> there are 15 million americans out of work, so thes a sum hun is no one's hiring, right? that's the not the case. the labor department says there are millions of jobs throughout the country. we are sifting through the report and will bring you the details in about 15 minutes. >> the dow looks like it's down 177 point, now. what's the deal? >> this all follows what we heard the fed say yesterday, we have a recovery but slower than we want to see at this point.

that led to the overseas selling off overnight. >> well come back and see you in about 14 minutes. >> sounds good. sun is just coming up in alaska, and investigators have a long day ahead combing through the wreckage of a plane that crashed into a mountain killing five people, including senator ted stevens. as for the survivors, the crash site is so remote and rugged it took rescuers 12 hours to reach them. one of those survivor is former nasa administrator sean o'keefe. he's in serious condition and his teenage son is in serious condition. >> it was pretty smashed. the wings were laying beside the fuselage.

on each side. i couldn't see the floats. the floats were underneath it. and there was -- i couldn't see anything in the front of the airplane. from the window forward, the cowling and everything was gone. the main fuselage and the tail was in one place, but the wings were off, and i couldn't see the engine. >> do you think anybody could have survived that? >> i didn't think it was survivable. it looked pretty -- from where he hit to where the airplane came to rest was probably just 100 feet, 150 feet, maybe. when you're flying down low in stuff like this, you're flying in the hills, in between the hills, and you have to know where they're at. he flew into the side of the mountain and i have no idea how he got there. i mean, he wasn't -- if he was flying from the end of second lake to portage creek, it would

have went right down that valley, and he was going a different direction. i don't know how he got there. >> investigators will be looking at weather being one possible factor in that crash. pilots have said there was almost no visibility around that time. the investigators have not yet been able to speak to the survivors. is a takeover underway and voter rebellion taking a foot hold? lift ton these results and decide for yourself. michael bennet beat andrew romanoff. the endorse moneys were high profile. president obama had bennet's back. connecticut, winning the republican senate primary, former world wrestling entertainment executive linda mcmahon. minnesota, former senator mark dayton barely snags the democratic nomination for governor and will take on tom emmer and tom horner.

sarah palin might have backed karen handle, but the runoff for governor too close to call. and defiant and apologetic, how about charlie rangel on the house floor yesterday. he said he was sorry. he said he was embarrassed for what he has caused fellow lawmakers but he insisted heesz not corrupt. >> i'm 80 years old. all of my life has been from the beginning public service. that's all i've ever done. been in the army, been a state legislator, been a federal prosecutor, 40 years here. all i'm saying is that if it is the judgment of people here for whatever reason that i resign, then, heck, have the ethics committee expedite this. don't leave me swinging in the wind until november. if this is an emergency and i think it is to help our local

and state governments out, what about me? i don't want anyone to feel embarrassed, awkward. hey, if i was you, i might want me to go away, too. i am not going away. i am here, and i do recognize that. >> the house ethics committee last month charged rangel with 13 violations of house rules. >> desperate searches for survivors in china after deadly landslides. >> we're hoping that tropical depression number five doesn't turn into a deadly storm. it will have heavy rain and may become our next tropical storm of the season. there it is right there. weather after the break. for the aches and sleeplessness in between, there's new motrin pm. no other medicine, not even advil pm, is more effective for pain and sleeplessness. new motrin pm.

well, a new tropical depression in the gulf of mexico. rob marciano tracking that for us opinion. >> over the last couple of hours, it's perked up a little bit. winds of 30 miles an hour. that's not very impressive. the last couple of frames, you see the convection beginning to fire up a little bit around it. it is about 250 miles from the mouth of the mississippi, heading in that direction northwesterly at about 12 miles an hour. it has time to get itself together. because of that, and it's forecast to become a tropical storm at some point, tropical storm warnings have been posted

back to destin, florida. here is your official track from the national hurricane center. forecast to become a tropical storm later tonight or early tomorrow morning. winds as strong as 50 miles an hour sustained and taking a track that would bring it along the mouth of the mississippi. notice the wide cone from panama city back. that's the area that could potentially see impact from this particular storm. we'll see if it strengthens to a tropical storm status. that would probably happen. the question is will it get to hurricane status? probably not. you see how wide the circulation is. we need it to tighten up to start feeding off itself. the other big weather story, heat. another day of record-breaking heat, 105 to 115 heat indexes, meaning that's what it feels like. this is yesterday, georgetown,

jersey, tampa, california, record lows on that west coast. this is all going to even out over the weekend and next week as our pattern begins to shift. kyra back to you. devastating floods in pakistan, rescues going on by land and air. the pakistani military has launched dozens of hospitals and boats. so far more than 350,000 people have been savored but food is in short supply and tons of homes have been damaged or destroyed. the u.n. and the u.s. are providing aid. >> frantic search for survivors in china. emily chang has more on the rescue effort. >> reporter: this village now lies beneath this sweeping mud plain. 300 homes swallowed by the

landslide. this man was pulling up in his taxi when he saw the mud and rock race through. i was crying and i was so anxious, he says. he tried to call his family, but they were already gone. this is the bedroom. they found his wife's body and are still looking for his two sons. he's drawing a map of his home for me and describing where he believes his family members were when it happened. others don't know exactly where to start. this man believes his brother's bedroom is here but hasn't found signs of a structure. even days later, there are still floodwares cutting through the disaster zone, and the mud is still so soft that if you step in the wrong place is stand there too long, you could easily sink in, and that is really slowing down the rescue efforts here. even at the base of the mountain, heavy machinery is stranded, and the threat of more

flooding looms. debris has built up in the river, and the water level is dangerously high. it's long uphill trek to bring in supplies like water and instant noodles, but the painstaking work goes on. family members sob over dead bodies, wrapping them in clean clothes. villagers believe the death toll is much higher than government reports. it's definitely too low, these men say. 2000 people lived in this village alone. thousands of government soldiers continue to heave stone by stone, but for most, it's too late. i don't have anywhere else to go, says mr. li. a few blankets and bowls are all he has left along with haunting memory of a life that was lost in seconds. emily chang, cnn, china.

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>> or this controller built with larger buttons for easier access. as for steve spawn, he stays busy as associate editor of able gamers.com. >> the community will always exist at able gamers. it was a place that i fit. i found the place where i needed them and they needed me. >> reporter: gary tuchman, cnn. checking top stories. investigators at the site of the alaska plane crash that killed former senator ted stevens and four others. remarkably there are four survivors even having to wait 12 hours for rescuers. tropical depression pushes back the work on the relief well in the gulf. a flipped out flight attendant is out of jail but still facing charges for his meltdown. he became famous for cussing out

passengers, grabbing a few brews and launching the emergency slide. slater says all of the online support proves he's resonating with america. resonating because he isn't the first place to freak out in the workplace. right, josh? >> unfortunately we see things like this all of the time. like with this guy, another place of workplace rage, in this place they call it cubicle rage. we can't be absolutely sure that it is real, but i will tell you, i am showing others that seem to be fake. he's at his computer. he doesn't like something and, boom, there it goes. that's not all of the abuse that computer is about to take. coming up later this hour, more workplace rage. what happens when workplace rage takes place live on national tv at a sporting event?

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only a few countries are reporting a significant number of cases. >> here's a strange case. when this massachusetts man developed breathing problems, he resigned himself to terrible news. he expected the doctors were going to say he had cancer but it wasn't a tumor growing in his lung. it was a plant. apparently he inhaled a pea and it sprouted. >> probably about a half an inch, and -- which that's a pretty big thing. whether this would have gone full term and i'd be working for the jolly green giant, i don't know. >> he's keeping a good attitude. by the time the doctor's found the problem, the lung had already collapsed, unfortunately, but one of the first hospital meals he was served after surgery, yeah, it was peas. an ex-firefighters

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government level. now, looking at it by region, they increased in the midwest and south but here's the thing. hiring doesn't seem to be catching up with the openings. if you take a look at the graphic from the wall street journal and you look at the purple bar there, that represents job openings in different fields, and the orange one reps how many people have been hired. the good news, there are jobs out there but the bad news is a lot of companies aren't finding the right people to fill them. >> what's the deal and why the disconnect? >> often times it's coming down to the skill set. employers say they can't find qualified candidates. career builder says nearly have hr managers report a skill shortage. it's even more pronounced in health care. 63% of hr managers at big health care companies say they're seeing a shortage of qualified

workers, and those jobs require specialized training. that's the issue. the other issue is worker mobility. in the past people could pick up and move for a job but because of the housing meltdown, there are millions of people who owe more on their home than they can afford or it is worth, so they can't sell their home or afford another mortgage in a different city. don't forget about corporate budges, cuts at corporate level, so a bigger gap about how much a company thinks the employee is worth. >> people may have wondered where you have been. you're working two full time jobs, working the money news and taking care of little simone, born just a few months ago. there's the proud dad and mom and what a cutie pie. >> thank you. >> getting any sleep? >> a lot less now, but funny how you adjust to the less sleep thing.

it's good to be back but good to see her smiling every day when i leave. it's working out. >> congratulations, stephanie. >> thank you so much, kyra. the story we've been talking about, an ex-seattle firefighters is awarded nearly $13 million after taking a big fall on the job. he said he was permanently disabled, but after an investigator secretly taped this guy off the job, questions and outrage surfaced. >> reporter: mark jones danced up a storm as this secret video was recorded. it shows him dancing, chopping wood, playing hor shoes and making moves. attorneys working for the city says this a part of his deception. >> mr. jones testified at trial that he was in constant pain, felt like he was 80 years old and unable to use his right arm. >> i feel like i'm 80 years old. >> reporter: that was jones at a

deposition before he won a huge settlement from the city back in october. a jury agreed he was permanently disabled in 2003 at a fire station when he fell 15 feet through an opening near the fire poll. he was awarded 12.8 million and 2.5 million for lifetime medical care and assistance. that judgment is in jeopardy because of this video. doctors now have recanted. they have reversed their decisions concluding that mr. jones' behavior at the examination was a performance and his frequent testimony about all of the pain he's in that convinced a jury and many others. >> that's what my day consists of. it's such a struggle from point a when i get up. >> reporter: attorneys for the city says jones' claims were greatly exaggerated. they are asking for the $12.8 million verdict to be thrown out and a new trial to be set. his attorney is outraged. this particular one seems designed to generate false

sympathy for the city and prejudice the appeals court judges before they know the facts of the case. >> now, we want to add that we did reach out to mark jones' attorney and he did reply in an e-mail to cnn. dick kilpatrick emphasizes that during the trial his team did not claim that mark could not perform ordinary things and, in fact, the jury knew he could participate in several every day activities including lifts 50 pounds but that it was mark's brain injury that got the substantial award because of bleeding in the brain. he claims he has problems training, remembering and following through. demanding a terrorist's medical records. four senators want to know why the lockerbie bomber is alive nearly a year after he was accepted home to die. gecko: sir, i feel a little bit uncomfortable with all... you know... with all this. i mean, it's not about me.

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♪ no more mr. nice guy jetblue flight attendant steven slater is without a doubt america's most famous flight attendant, an instant rock star to frustrated workers worldwide after try leasing a string of fro fanties and making a grand exit down the emergency chute. 101,000 facebook fans and counting. that's about 20,000 more than when we checked this morning. a string of t-shirts are praising him. go on line and order one and these words of wisdom. >> reporter: tell me what you think about the support you have gotten? >> it's been very, very appreciated. it seems like something here resonated with a few people and that's kind of neat. >> reporter: are you going to lose your job? >> more than likely. >> reporter: tell me about rude passengers. >> there's a lot of wonderful people out there. >> resonate, that's putting it

lightly. his story is so popular around the globe, this company is taiwan animated him from the confrontation to the p.a. cuss-out to the slide down the chute. who exactly is this guy. we checked out his myspace page and he posted this picture with the caption owes my other home" and says his friends have given him new wings to fly. see you above the clouds. several jetblue employees told tmz he was sipping blue juice. what's the blue juice? the company's equivalent to school spirit. who knew steven's infamous rant and run was lurking around the corner. we want to know what ticks you off at work. jamie says i worked plenty of customer service jobs, and the attitude is generally you can treat people like crap, but expect them to smile, bend over backwards and get everything for as little as possible. if everyone used a little

kindness, we'd all have an ease yes day. steve says the people working with the public get no respect at all. the customer is not always right and this is what needs to be changed, the plea having to take this abuse is being told by company supervisors to take it because it's their job. that's wrong. it's their job to assist the customer with their needs not be abused physically or verbally. dee writes, some manager don't hear quiet employees but they do hear loud employees. it's a shame you feel so helpless that you act out as a juvenile. this usually happens last after all their attempts to be heard have failed. amber says it's frustrating when your co-workers treat you like they're superior to you even though you're just as educated as they are. we love hearing from you.

this is hardly the first time that someone's workplace meltdown got people talking all over the world and one of the reasons for the success of youtube peeking at people's breakdowns. >> you and i have covered the horrible side, the worst kind of rage that can happen at the workplace, but this is the lighter kind where people don't get hurt and there are so many people that associate with it. in the early days of youtube, this was one of the reasons people were excited about youtube. people get frustrated at work. they saw other people getting frustrated at work and it made them feel better. this is the most popular set to the music of "bittersweet symphony" as far as we know, everyone is fine here. people cannot watch that enough. they keep moving and moving and this is on so many places online that it's had millions of views

combined, and i'll tell you, you want to see a freakout, that's the one to go to. sometimes it just happens in a cubicle, and there is a term cubicle rage, and there's this guy that people are calling cubicle rage man. i mentioned it earlier. take a look at this. that computer must have done something to him. who doesn't have that feeling once in a while? we saw office freakouts as workplace freakouts but keep in mind there are other kinds of workplace rage that we're all sitting there and watching and to some extent maybe even enjoying when it happens at sporting events like this. >> david sheldon with the call. >> he's up there. he's getting a penalty. and jim just broke a still over the ice. he has lost his mine. >> let's keep watching this. this is the coach of the heat of

the american hockey league. he was fined. our partners at sports illustrated said add this to the list of great coaching meltdowns. he splintered the stick. he is not david banter turning into the hulk. >> bobby knight was worse than that, he threw chairs, choked players. >> this is just the platest. if you have your own frustrations out there and you want to work it out, maybe the web can help you. look at this. look at this game from the folks at iguess.com. all you have to do is get on there and click. you click the coffee, he does that. you click the computer, he does that. his eyes go berserk. at the end, you can hit your space bar and have him throw the computer out the window. there you go. lots of fine online if you want to work it out without working

it out in real life. >> that's easier and you won't get fired for that. that's great. we could play that every morning. love how his eyes pop out. like our entire team when we see how much work we have ahead of us. lessons learned from katrina. we'll tell you why these people are making plans before the next big storm hits. the smell of home made chili whatever scents fill your household, purina tidy cats scoop helps neutralize odors in multiple cat homes... keeping your house smelling like it should. purina tidy cats scoop. keep your home smelling like home.

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prevent a repeat of that cam lambty. this is evacuteer.org, helping people be prepared to get out when a storm comes in. >> if we're not preparing our vulnerable residents for a way to leaf leave and feel safe in that process, we're not doing the best that we can. >> reporter: about 30,000 residents lack reliable transportation, so when an evacuation is called, 007 evacuteers man collection points all over, offering information, assistance with bags, help with paper work, getting those people onto buses and on their way. what is the number one sort of mission for you? >> for me personally, it's to get every person in this city somewhere safe if there's a storm coming. >> we're here to make sure that there's greece between the gears and that people are calmed down. >> evacuteer.org is about me

taking care of my family, my extended family, and hopefully the rest of -- everybody feels like we're family. >> reporter: hurricane gustav tested their work two years ago and it went well but they keep improving, always mindful of the chaos of katrina. >> i think organization exists to reduce and never have happen what happened five years ago. i mean, that just can't happen. >> reporter: beverly mitchell is counting on that. there are people here who don't have transportation, people with medical problems, people with financial problems, people who have questions who are afraid. >> yes, yes. you know, so evacuteer, it's a blessing for all of us. >> reporter: and assurance that as long as the evacuteers can find a way in, they will have a way out. tom foreman, cnn, new orleans s.

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him -- >> why are you smiling. >> reporter: he made us smile when he went blaskic on the airplane intercome. >> to the expletive expletive who told me to expletive off. >> reporter: he's even swearing in chinese and already immortalized in animation, his name flittered around twitter. my hero, free steven slater. if the slide don't glide, give steven slater a free ride. it's as if network met jerry maguire. >> i'm not go toing do what you think i'm going to do. >> reporter: on a double bill playing aboard airplane two. but in slater's case it was grabbing beer on the way out that captivating everyone and had morning hosts fantasizing in song. ♪ take this job and shove it >> reporter: as the daily beast

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