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image of himself as a righteous and innocent man under attack by evil forces. as a matter of fact, he said, david and goliath a lot. martin savidge joins us. he was at today's service. were the congregation pleased with what they heard or not? >> i think overall, clearly he was in his element here and he spoke eloquently. he delivered his lines very well and many people left feeling more comfortable than when they went in. we were there when people started to go in at 5:30 in the morning, actually, people were in the parking lot waiting for the church doors to open the service didn't begin until 8:00 and he didn't appear until 9:00. he delivered his message very well. he didn't get into the specifics, as you say, but i think when people left, they did feel that their opinions were, for the most part, relieved i think is the way of putting it. >> okay, he never really said anything about denying it or whatever. he just says, i am not these things. i am not this man.

and i'm not a perfect person and he prefaced it with that. it was a press conference, can you call it a press conference when he didn't answer any questions? what was that all about? is. >> two things you brought up. one of them was, his attorneys earlier in the week and his spokesperson vehemently denied these charges. you would expect since this was his first public appearance, he would, perhaps, say the very same thing in public. he did not and he never used the phrase like, "i am innocent," which is another thing you might expect. that could be just parsing, he has his own words to express his feelings. as far as this news conference that wasn't a news conference, at the beginning, he came out. we thought at last he'll be able to ask questions. instead, the lawyer says, he'll issue a statement. there will be no questions. we had all led to be believed this was going to be q and a and we would get the right to ask. >> say again, tom? okay. we're going to, let's listen on that news conference and you and i will talk about pit.

>> i will say that i'm going to fight, fight very us vis risley against these charges, and i've been of this church for 23 years. this is the first time i realized that we are as important as we are to get this much attention and we're going to continue as a church to do the things that we do to touch the world. >> i'm going to double up on you because we don't have much time. why couldn't he say that right after this all happened and what's next here? >> good question is what's next. he didn't say it because, apparently, his attorney told him not to speak out until this time. what comes next? apparently, it's going to go to the courtroom. we already know that. it's going to be a fight of biblical proportions, david and goliath, although he's hardly a david. i think we'll have to wait and see if there are more cases that will come forward, perhaps next week. >> we'll have more reaction to bishop long's comments today including a member of the new birth congregation who will be joining me after the break. we're tracking breaking news this hour. it's from wisconsin.

we're getting word from columbia county officials in the central part of that state that a levee there is failing. an evacuation order has been issued for people in the black hawk park area and we'll keep you posted on the developments there. meantime, it is going to take a couple more days for the floodwaters to recede across that region. this was the scene yesterday in stevens point, wisconsin, from 5 to 7 inches of rain fell across parts of wisconsin and minnesota between wednesday and friday. a few areas reported up to 10 inches of rainfall. there has been plenty of damage but so far, no reports of death or injuries. to the middle east right now, where just a few minutes ago, israel's ten-month moratorium on new west bank settlement construction, it came to an end. israeli settlers held symbolic groundbreaking today in support of new construction, but israel prime minister benjamin netanyahu showed on settlers to show restrain. it's not clear how the end to

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okay, so last night, we spoke to young members of new birth missionary baptist church about the sex allegations leveled against bishop eddie long. that was before they had a chance to hear long respond to the accusations that he had inappropriate contact with young male church members. i asked them why they stood behind him and i want to play a bit of that interview for you. >> he's my leader and, as members of the body of christ, it is our duty to stand behind and lift the arms of our prophet, and that's what i will continue to do until he gives me reason not to. >> the ministry has done so much for my family and i, for my friends and i, and for my schoolmates. i stand behind the ministry. >> he is a true leader. the word that he gives is so rich, it's so life changing. there is something about bishop that you just respect. >> so we invited all three new

birth members to be back with us tonight. two of them declined, but gab real richards is back and gab real, i want to hear your thoughts on bishop long on his message this morning but first, let's play some of what he had to say to our audience and i'll get your response. >> my first responsibility was to my family and -- [ applause ] and then my next responsibility is not to address the world before i address my family new birth. [ applause ] there have been allegations and attacks made on me.

i have never, in my life, portrayed myself as a perfect man. but i am not the man that's being portrayed on the television. that's not me. that is not me. by the counsel of my lawyers, they advised me not to try this case in the media. i am not going to try this case in the media. it will be tried in the court of justice. and dealt with in the court of justice. and, please understand, because that's the only place i think i'll get justice. but being in the hands of god, please hear this, please hear this, i've been accused.

i'm under attack. i want you to know, as i said earlier, i am not a perfect man. but this thing, i'm going to fight. and i want you to know one other thing. i feel like david against goliath. but i got five rocks and i haven't thrown one yet. >> gab real, what do you think? >> after hearing bishop long this morning, i was so proud of him, the way that he came out with his head up and with his fabulous wife and he showed the strength that i'm accustomed to and this is the bishop long that i know. >> did you want to hear it earlier? i mean, be honest. it's good, you said it's good,

but did you want to hear that earlier? >> earlier, you mean as soon as the allegations came out? >> well, sooner, didn't have to be as soon but did you want to hear from him earlier than from today? >> i respected his decision to wait and speak to his family, his new birth family, and that's a very respectable thing. >> what was it like being the congregation this morning which service did you go to? >> i went to the 8:00 service. >> there were 10,000 people, i think, you said there? >> it was packed. it was awesome. everyone was there to hear bishop say what he had to say and bishop long did a great job assuring us that he's still bishop long. >> did he say, for people who are not used to seeing him, some people might think that was an act react of him throwing down the mike and what he said at the end, i'm going to fight this rather than being -- it may have come off as a bit arrogant rather than humility. >> so, people are saying that it's coming off arrogant and rather than humility? >> i'm asking for people who

don't know him because he may, in his sermons on sunday, this may be the way that he preaches and so, if you're not used to the way that he preaches, this may come off as arrogant or angry. was this in, in the sense of the way bishop preaches on sunday, usually? >> would it be in the sense, well, bishop long, he, he said what he had to say and at the end, he put down the microphone. i don't feel that it was a. >> addreggressive or in any way different. >> i want to play a clip of when he spoke to some of his members and he said what his members may be going through. let's listen to that and then we'll talk about it. >> okay. >> it's extremely difficult time for you because many who have called you and asked you questions and all of these kind of things, you ain't they have got this many phone calls in

your life. >> are you getting phone calls besides from cnn? are people calling you? >> definitely. people want to know. they want to know what's going on with the bishop and i say, you can wait until sunday and hear and they heard today. >> yeah. anything change for you about the bishop, about the church or whatever he can, he can continue to be a member of the church? has anything changed at all. >> nothing has changed. my love for ministry and my love for bishop and his family have not changed. >> it's very brave to come on. we had two other members who were supposed to come but they didn't. i applaud you for coming on and taking on for the bishop if. >> i want to thank you for giving me the opportunity to come on and show the positive side and our point of view. so, thank you. >> there's more than one side to every story. which side did you get. that's in my first newsroom they said. gabrielle, we appreciate it.

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i want you to sit and pay attention to this story. i can't remember this happening in any modern day, any time recently. the pentagon says it burned 9500 copies of a new book in the name of national security. defense officials say the first version of "operation dark heart" by lieutenant colonel anthony schaefer contained classified information with the officer who serves in the army reserves says the book was fully vetted before printing. it'sis memoir about his time leading a covert operation in afghanistan. concern shaffer joins us live. i know for security reasons you can't get into what the information is that is under dispute. "the new york times" reports that your first edition gave out names of american intelligence officers and details of secret missions. you say that whatever the information is, it was already

part of public domain. what's going on here? >> well, i think that's the issue is that we did go through a very lengthy review process and that process included interviews by a researcher to make sure that we had information from original sources as well as research from public sources which put it all together into the thing. keep in mind, don, this is not simply a memoir. we wanted to make this a lessons learned and a path forward. so the idea was to give the reader an idea of what it's like to be on the ground running this stuff and, at the same time, learn what happened regarding the tipping point from when we went winning to losing in afghanistan and technology, any names we thought were undercover were changed. smaskt -- >> i go back to my original question to you, what's going on he?re >> look, i would be speculating. i've heard rumor. there's a lot of things out there about why and they've cited regulations but i used a process given to me. my lawyer consulted a lot at the

beginning of the project. we walked through it. we got the clearance in january. one of the rumors is that the we canny leaks thing had an effect. the fact that everything, i connect the dots and i think the wikileaks thing is a bit of a blur. my information predates some of the wikileaks stuff related to isi the tat balresurging by a full year and i think there were issues people were uncomfortable about coming out. >> i'm glad you said about we canny leaks because i had a hard time putting my arms around this whether it meant anything. i think they felt this was more detrimental than the we can wikileaks. >> i think you should thank them for destroying this version because a redacted version is on a best seller. >> the army received notification from defense intelligence agency on the 13th of august saying that essentially, if this book is published, the free world will

fall. when i received identity, i looked at it and as a soldier i said, you don't want to give me this. if you give me this, this is not going to have the effect you want it to have. i asked them to not do it. they gave me the memo and the rest is history. so we, i really, i said, there's another way of doing this. if there's real security concerns, let's get this offline, let's not make it public. the fact they'd done it, i'm grateful to the pentagon for the amount of free publicity i've gotten but i think it could be done differently. >> i have to ask you as a man in uniform, you're speaking out against the destruction of your book. could you get in trouble for this? it's a code of military justice that it has rules against officers speaking out against superiors. >> i'm, no, i'm not speaking out against the destruction. i think it was done for the wrong reasons is what i'm saying. i participated completely, fully and everything they've asked me to do. i spent two weeks working with the pentagon on the second edition, so, you know, they can do what they want. this is the course of action

they chose. i recommended against it. i thought there was a better way of doing it. they chose to do it. it's their prerogative. all i'm saying is it's a good read. even in its redacted form, you can figure out what was going on, why the tipping point happened when it did and, frankly, lessons to hearn and try to improve for the future. i think we can do good things in afghanistan but we've got to get the right policy in place. >> lieutenant colonel anthony shaffer, talk, sir. i want to tell our viewers, cnn received this response boy "operation dark heart" from lieutenant general ronald burgess with the pentagon's defense intelligence agency. he says, the dia's investigation identified significant classified information the release of which i had determined could reasonably be expected to cause serious damage to national security. the manuscript contains secret activities of the u.s. special operations command, cia and national security agency. we'll continue to follow this story. go ahead, quit your job. quit your job day. this is quit your job day.

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what you need to do next is, really come up with some creative ideas. get those videos a onto youtube and start building an audience. it's a lot -- >> i'm speaking for the viewers because i'm sure they're sitting at home going, hey, i'm just as talented as that young lady. i can do this. >> that's for sure. we see people, there's a broad range of creators on the site. broad range of partners on the site today. we have something like 10,000 partners across a whole broad range of different topics, whether it's comedy, musicians, as you mentioned cooking, but i think the key is to really find your niche, be authentic, have fun with it, and then what we do find is, folks like joe are masters in marketing themselves, whether that's asking people to subscribe to their videos, engaging with the youtube community, and also leveraging other social media platforms like facebook and twitter. >> joe, mystery guitarman, how

did you start out? did it start out as just something fun on youtube and you putting your videos up and then you figured, hey, wait a minute, i can make money on this? tell us how it started. >> basic loses that's how it started. for everybody who is making money on youtube, that's how it has to start because you have to work on for so long before making money. i've been doing videos for three years before i even became a partner, before there even existed a chance of becoming a partner on youtube. yeah, i mean, if you put a lot of hard work into it. i work 80 hours a week. there are plenty of other people who work plenty of time on youtube. if you put hard work into it, you're able to become a partner. >> can you give us a ballpark how much money you're making? are you in the upper income bracket because of this now? >> well, we have a nondisclosure agreement with youtube and each company we work with so we can't say -- >> you have started your own 401(k) because you've done so well. >> no. basically, that's line a thing

just for my retirement afterwards, basically, no. i pay all my bills. i pay moo i taxes and i'm able to just do youtube full-time now because of the partner program. yeah, i'm quite glad that it's not my full-time job. >> so, listen, chris, you called joe, is it a youtube partner that you called him? explain to our viewers what that means, to become a youtube partner, how do you do it? >> sure, sure. well, the first thing you need to do, as i mentioned before, is gain a certain level of popularity on the site. what we do is, we'll look he cross the site based on things like the number of videos, views that someone like joe is creating and the number of subscribers and their charm. then we'll invite the top creators to become partners on youtube and that really involves youtube going out and selling advertising, placing that advertising next to or within videos. >> do you pay them to start creating more things and to start adding to -- adding

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if you think about it, cars are becoming more like computers on wheels, but their high-tech systems also carry some high-tech risks. i'm talking about computer hacking. that's what some university researchers proved when they broke into some cars without ever touching the vehicle. cnn's national correspondent susan candiotti is here to show us how. at the beginning of the show, i said, hot wiring, those are old school. now there's an app for that. >> ooh, that's az good way to put it, don. wireless technology is all around us. for example, bluetooth, these wireless earpieces that allows us to use cell phones hands-free. increasingly carmakers are turning to wireless technology to make cars safer and easier to repair. however, researchers at rutgers and the university of south carolina say these new systems have potentially dangerous

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we're kicking off a new series here and it's going to be my favorite. if you follow me on twitter, i'm a major, major foodie and cnn is taking a cross-country food journey all this week. we've sent reporting teams to every corner of america and beyond. our mission here is to get fresh answers about how our food is grown, how the choices we make impact our health. our state of mind, our budgets and the pure joy of just eating a really good meal. we've teamed up with a new cnn.com food destination called "eatocracy" to bring you

eatocracy, mind, body, wallet and it can begin right now in your own home and in your children's school. here's cnn's kate baldwin. >> one chicken salad and pastrami ready for 11. from the kitchen to the classroom. >> let's peel our corn back, okay? >> it's a nice. >> reporter: washington's celebrity chef, todd gray, is taking on what he describes his toughest customers yet. the students of d.c. public schools. >> it's a reality we have to recognize, the fact that we've put food in the backseat and we need to put it up front again. >> reporter: his pancake demonstration is part of a star studded effort spearheaded by the white house chef. chefs across the country to promote healthier eating as part of the first lady's campaign.

>> my goal is to get enthusiastic about cooking, fresh food. teach them how to cook with fresh ingredients. >> reporter: schools receive less than $3 per student per lunch from the federal government. d.c. public schools is trying to improve school lunches, launching a pilot program requiring food service providers purchase at least 20% of their ingredients locally in homes they can get fresher cheaper. >> they've done away with those disgusting tater tots and they don't have chicken tenders processed foods. this is a real new page in terms of cafeteria eating. >> reporter: and that is something the parents have wholeheartedly embraced.

why is the food i'm eating so important or should be more important? >> it's as important as digest in a book, what you digest on that plate. it's all equally important. i wouldn't say that it's more important than the right books or teachers. it all has to be a priority. >> reporter: chef gray agrees. describing the challenge of overhauling school lunch as a mountain they'll climb one step at a time. what do you hope to see come from it? >> i think this is decades of change. you might not see school menus change by the fall. i don't think so. i think that these are steps we'll be able to take very gradually. >> reporter: it all starts with the corn. >> on the griddle. with the corn cake. did you have one? >> all right.

as part of eatocracy week, we're about to show you hour your cell phone can be your guide to a healthier diet. it's an app that lets your friends know where you are when you check in. certain locations reward four square users with badges that can be redeemed for discounts. so everyone who has been accusing me how four square works, this is why. cnn's digital producer is here to explain how this technology is being used at the farmers markets all over the country. did you check in this morning? >> i checked in yesterday at a farmer's market. over 6,000 in the country and the usda has a search where you can search for the one nearest you. then follow cnn on four square and you can unlock the healthy eater badge when you check in at one of over 6,000 in the united

states. i went to the peach tree road farmers market in atlanta yesterday and demonstrated the process for you. >> that's the number of farmers markets where you can check in. okay. cool. let's look. >> we're at peach tree road farmers market in atlanta, georgia, where i'm going to demonstrate to you how we're using four square. if you want people to get out, you can check in at one of over 6,000 farmers markets in the united states on your phone. find your location, check in and download the cnn healthy eater badge. and you said these are a little spicier. >> sometimes, around the seeds, there might be more heat to them. >> seed. on your mobile phone, come to a place like a farmers market and

check in. it lets your friends know where you are. if you check in no a farmers market like this one, you'll get a cnn healthy eater badge. >> have you checked in on four square? >> i have. there's my badge. >> excellent. and with your badge, you get your choice of several prizes. we have whole wheat pasta, a pumpkin, or honey. >> thank you so much. >> absolutely. >> have you checked into the cnn news room? >> who's the mayor of the farmers market? >> i think her name is julie. are you the mayor of the news room? >> i am the mayor of acme seafood house in new orleans -- i've got all kinds of badges, but not the healthy eating

badge. >> go to farmers market and get that badge. >> thank you. what we choose to eat, where we buy our food and how much we spend on it says a lot about who we are. it has to do with how you feel, think and how you carry yourself. catch our series this week and remember, you can check in with us online. we talk and twitter and facebook and all of that. we've also been talking about four square. go to one of the farmers markets. check in, get that cnn.com healthy eating badge. just ahead, they're having a ball at uc irvine. students team up and take aim at the world dodge ball record. had a little fun. back to societ. felicia jackson promised her late sisteriet. that she would take care of her children. but she needed help. i used my american express open card

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