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also, one more thing. no item, no specific item within the meal can have more than 200 calories. now, you know, this is big topic. we talk about it a lot. and supporters of this particular bill say they are trying to improve the nutritional value of kids' meals and also try to attack childhood obesity. the final vote on this is next week. if it passes, it's going to go into effect next year. parents say, hey, it may make it a little easier to say no. i agree with that, as well, as a father of three. be sure to check out my podcast, cnn.com/podcasting. thanks for watching, everybody. i'm dr. sanjay gupta. more news right now on cnn. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning! the president has found something to dance about on his ten-day tour of asia. we'll tell you that he's not just dancing. he's got some contract deals to tell you about that he says will
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bring tens of thousands of jobs to the united states. also we want to say good morning to new york city! in just a short time, about 45,000 people are expected to hit the streets of new york city for the new york city marathon. we will take you back there live. beautiful shot of new york this morning, but from the cnn center this is your "cnn sunday morning." good morning to you all. i'm t.j. holmes, give you a look at some of the things we're keeping a close eye on. first of all i need to give you an update on and remind you if you have not done it, if you are watching us now you haven't set that clock back an hour you need to do it. run and do it right now. keep the tv on to "cnn sunday morning." let's do the time check, 8:00 a.m. on the east coast right now, 8:00 a.m. in new york city and atlanta. so 8:00 a.m. 7:00 a.m. for you folks in the central time zone including you waking up on the magnificent mile in chicago this morning. mountain time, 6:00 a.m. out in denver for you folk.
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beautiful shot courtesy of our affiliate kusa and for you folks on the west coast, seattle in particular 5:00 a.m. for you people, just possibly rolling in from your saturday night out, so wherever you may be, get those clocks right. glad you to be here with us. some of you iphone users may have an issue. if you have one of the recurring alarms on your iphone or some of those ipod touches, it won't reset the way it's supposed to and someplaces around the world actually has people waking up an hour late. so what you need to do is go cancel out your recurring alarms, you need to set a new one. everything will be fine after today, but still, if you had that recurring alarm, some of those phones did not readjust at the end of daylight savings time so just a heads up there that some people are actually having problems causing them to wake up late, even though we are falling back an hour. scientists have found
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evidence of damage to deep sea coral near the site of the bp gulf oil disaster. we'll be certainly keeping a close, close eye on that. go back to new york now, those long distance runners in new york city getting ready for one of the world's premiere marathon events. we want to take to you new york now look at the streets right now, you don't see the runners yet. competitors are supposed to get under way in about 30 minutes or so. they have several different waves that will start throughout the morning but it attracts no doubt some of the best runners in the world. it also attracts people who just want to go out there for personal goal of running this thing, a lot of celebrities participate as well. our national correspondent susan candiotti is there, and she joins us with more and has more now on some of the famous faces that will be a part of today's race. >> reporter: the celebrity king of this year's new york city marathon is edison pena, a huge fan of the king of rock 'n'
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roll, elvis. ♪ the rescue chilean miner shined on david letterman and appears to be getting a kick out of all the attention. >> translator: i have to take advantage of it in case i can, and i would be an idiot if i didn't do it. >> it does actually seem like the chilean miner is going to upstage any of the other stars running in the new york city marathon on sunday, yes. >> reporter: star gaze something half the fun of watching about 45,000 runners over 26 miles. actors anthony edwards and mrs. tom cruise, katie holmes, rapper, entrepreneur p. diddy, alanis morery seth and david lee roth. former governor mike huckabee and tv chef bobby flay have all crossed the finish line. this year howard stern's sidekick and new job robin quivers is challenging herself.
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running a marathon is hardly for laughs >> celebrities are not just running for their own glory, it's often to shine their spotlight on a cause close to the stars. >> reporter: quivers is running for ch two-children's charities. last year, edward norton raised more than $1.2 million for charity. >> come on, how good is that? >> reporter: good stuff. subway spokesman jared fogel famous for dropping 245 pounds on an all sub diet put the marathon on his bucket list. when you go over the finish line, what do you think you're going to say? >> i'm going to say, it's done. it's over. >> reporter: quivers's boss howard stern told her don't expect a day off monday. >> i was like, come on, i'm running 26 miles. he said don't die, but make sure you get to work. >> reporter: for edison painia,
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he injured his knee during the time he was in that mine, and i'm not sure -- >> oh, all right. sorry to our susan candiotti there, having some issues with her shot going in and out. of course there's a lot of activity, a lot going on in new york. a lot of people, a lot of activity, a lot of signals going on all over the place. a lot of runners and news organizations covering this thing. we'll continue to keep an eye, and the new york city marathon expected to get under way here, reynolds in about half an hour. several other waves over the next couple of hours of runners taking off. how is the weather going to treat you? here we go. >> bring it. >> what is good running weather in the first place. what do they prefer? >> depends what you happen to be. i did do running a long time ago, the night wares, cobwebs in my mind. i think it will be ideal.
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temperatures will be in the 40s, some 50s. right now 40 degrees in midtown manhattan, a little bit warmer near some of the buildings but you're going to have clear skies no, precipitation in the forecast which is great news. quickly let's shift out a little bit. happening to do traveling, not just talking about traveling on foot, talking about flying or driving some of the worst weather in the country, go out towards the west, especially on the i-5 corridor. anyone tuning in who may be listening by satellite radio to cnn, i'll tell you what if you're making a drive on i-5, look out to your window and look out towards the east you'll see heavy clouds hitting up the mountains of the cascades, heavy snow back in eugene or ben same story. farther down the coastline the rain is popping up in earnest in the san joaquin valley and towards parts of the sierra nevada the rain will switch over into snowfall when it interacts with the cool air in the higher elevations. speaking of your temperatures across the nation, pretty comfortable in a lot of places. 62 degrees your expected high in
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minneapolis. enjoy it while you can. winter is coming on very soon. we have 73 in miami. 70 in dallas. 62 in san francisco, 52 in portland and wrapping up where we started new york city with 52 the expected high with mostly sunny skies. t.j. you're up to speed. >> reynolds appreciate you always. always forget about the folks we have listening to us on satellite and radio. need to keep them in mind. thank you for that as always. reynolds thank you so much. the president is on a mission, a ten-day mission trying to help bring more american jobs, bring more jobs here to the u.s., also spur some economic activity between asia and the u.s. but on the trip the president found a little something to literally dance about. ♪ i'm not sure what you call that move but we'll go through it. the president with children at the major festival of lights. if there's any question who the
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better dancer in the family is -- ♪ now, this was yesterday, the first lady getting involved with some schoolchildren at mumbai university. she told them she liked to dance when she was speaking to them, they pulled her in and she took them up on it, having a good time with the kids there. also got one more bit of video, do you recognize this one? ♪ who can forget? this was back in 2007, president george w. bush, he was dancing at a malaria awareness event happening in d.c. he got a little drum solo in as well, but on the topic of presidential dances, we decided to bring that back and show it to you. it wasn't all fun and games. certainly not fun and games, not just dancing on the president's
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trip. even though he might have a little something to dance about, meeting with heads of state discussing billions of dollars in trade deals that should lead to thousands of jobs here in the u.s. our sara sidner joining from us new delhi, his second stop. hello to you. the president able to announce something that will literally translate into tens of thousands of jobs right here in the u.s. >> reporter: t.j., it is certainly by design that the president is really emphasizing the deals that have been announced here, the business deals between u.s. companies and india about $10 billion worth and he says that will create somewhere around 50,000 jobs back in the u.s. how, you say? basically he says that some of the products being built in the u.s. will create jobs there that will then be sold to india, including a big deal with boeing making planes for one of the local indian carrier spice jet, and so that has been a big focus
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of this trip and he did explain to an indian audience exactly why that is. >> the united states has gone through probably tough as two years economically as we've gone through since the 1930s. this was a profound financial crisis and economic shock, and it spilled refer to most of the world. india weathered it better than many countries but, you know, most of the work that i did with prime minister singh in the first two years in the g-20, we were focussed on making sure that the world financial system didn't collapse. >> he is also pushing india to open its markets to the u.s.? it's agricultural and retail markets and there's a reason for that. india has some very high import
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duties. harley-davidson is here, they're selling bikes that are made in america, but the indian consumer has to pay 100% more to buy the bikes here because the import duties are so high. president obama pushing to get those taxes, those tariffs down. >> sara, we saw the president what he was up to yesterday, but now made his way to new delhi. what does he have on his agenda today? >> reporter: he came by the u.s. embassy and then he went to a predominantly muslim neighborhood where there is this fantastic, beautiful tomb in there, humayans tomb built in the 1500s. we were able to speak with some who live in that neighborhood and they were excited to see the u.s. president had chosen to the neighborhood of nazam hudeen. a lot of people say that was a precursor to the taj ma mal. >> sara sidner, we'll continue
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and belmont. >> people were paying attention yesterday. this horse is something else, zenyatta is her name, the race, breeder's cup trying to go fo for 20-0. that was the photo finish. >> unreal. >> yesterday. she came from dead last in the race, got a horrible, horrible start, had to make up some ground but couldn't navigate through, had too many obstacles to get around but still almost pulled it off. if she's doing okay why retire the horse? a lot say she could keep going. >> they can only be ran for a finite amount of time. it's in the blood. her father was street cry who won the dubai classic in 2002. her brother was street sense who won the kentucky derby in 2007. came from way back. this may be $6 million, $7 million in her career.
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19-1, but a horse that will go down in history. another history-maker, a lot of people will at least know this name, joe pa. joe paterno 83 years old, now the penn state coach with 400 wins. he got his 400th win yesterday, did it in dramatic fashion, they were down unfortunately for rick horrow his northwestern team was up 21 points on penn state, penn state came back but it was all about joe pa. it's amazing he can do this this long. 83 years old. >> how long do you think he'll do this? >> who knows. >> they've been saying for ten years he's going to retire >> amazing. >> goes another year. goes another year, the third winningest coach in ncaa football history, a couple of others to have a few more wins, but that's a heck of a feat. also, overtime in college football is a little weird. >> oh, my gosh. >> it's exciting but a little
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strange. >> it is strange. >> i won't try explain all the rules but michigan yesterday set a record of its own, 132 total points scored in this game, but they won, beat illinois after three overtimes. i watched this game, happen to be married to a michigan alum. she doesn't really care that much about the michigan team but i was watching at least, but it was an exciting game, but arkansas has been involved in the two longest overtime games in ncaa football history against ol' miss and also against kentucky. seven overtimes we played at some point. the razorbacks were able to pull off a win against south carolina and also football season is getting a little whacky because auburn pulled off the win they were supposed to yesterday but alabama lost. i won't get too technical here
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but this means that the boise states -- >> it is going to be a tough time for boise state and for tcu to advance this team, the auburn tigers has got to lose one of their next two games, playing the georgia bulldogs next weekend. georgia has owned the tigers, won the last four games in a row. you have the iron bowl, alabama and awe turn and tus ka leeloo is ayou never know. >> 20 minutes past the hour. hope you got the right hour. we were supposed to fall back last night. did you do that? hope you got the right hour wherever you are. quick break and we're right back. than tylenol 8 hour. so why am i still thinking about this? how are you? good, how are you? [ male announcer ] aleve. proven better on pain. had a tree that bore the most rare and magical fruit, which provided for their every financial need. [ thunder rumbling ] [ thunder crashing ] and then, in one blinding blink of an eye,
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seen. the women are neurophysicists and astro physicists and doctors. listen to this. ♪ this is called skips cheerleader. keep watching it here, taking off and what happened is these are former nfl and nba pro cheerleaders who are now getting back together and they were recently cheering at this event basically where at a science foundation got together and had the big event. listen to what some of them say. >> science cheerleaders are smart, funny, entertaining and engaging but most importantly they're an incredible source of inspiration to millions of young women. go science! you get the point. >> that was the woman who is the head of it. we'll skip ahead and go back to the first video. what we're talking about here is they performed at something called the usa science and engineering festival in washington and this video that they put together went online
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and now it's getting thousands and thousands and thousands of clicks. people leaving all the great comments and saying all these great things about how they believe it's busting down stereotypes. one of the things you see in this video is them saying we're busting down the stereotypes. these women talk about how much they love being cheerleaders and always interested in science. some of them are doctors, nurses, taking on all sorts of different roles in different fields of science and the woman you saw who is the organizer, darlene cavalier is a former cheerleader for the philadelphia 7 6ers and now a science advocate. they did this performance in washington and i'll tell you, people are loving this. it is nice to see, come out and send a message to you on girls to women in general that science is cool and something to get into. anything it takes to get young people more and more interested in science in our country is a good thing. i have all of it posted online at facebook and twitter. see what some of the people are
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talking about, those are my pages joshlevscnn. people say how much the video means to them and they like the lessons these women are giving. it is inspirational and surprising way. these are former nfl and nba cheerleaders off in the science world maybe saving some lives. >> guys at the game with their wives have an excuse, i'm admiring her because of her brain when they look at the cheerleaders on the sidelines. we appreciate you as always. learning the rules of the road from a young man who is too young even for a driver's license. does that make sense? 25 minutes past the hour. stick around.
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want to bring in student news anchor carl azus. a a young man not old enough to have a driver's license but teaching bus safe driving? is that right? >> it's sort of a dichotomy. s' a race car driver, 15 years old, open wheel race so long he's hooked up with some of the people who discovered danica patrick. the guy has got talent, used to driving fast but can't go to the grocery store legally without one of his parents sitting in the passenger seat. his name is zach veech. you drive at 150 miles per hour, on the racetrack, how do you convince somebody like me who drives to the grocery store every day to be safer and this is how he responded. >> when we're out on the track, we have 100% of our attention on
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the other cars around us, our shifting points, our brake markers and you know, really we're thinking of 1,000 things for each corner, and when you're driving a streetcar, you're not thinking as many things, but it still needs to have 100% of your attention, because you don't know if there's somebody in front of you that's going to hit their brakes or there might be an accident you need to avoid. >> wow. that makes perfect sense. he looks so young. >> 15. >> going 150 miles an hour around a track. how does he get his message out? how does he promote safe driving? >> he's harnessed the power of the growing smartphone market. he knows that more people are having these things, knows that's one tool, one way he could get his message out. i'll let him tell you how he's working it. >> on the marketplace for droid called your text and it works as an auto reply feature so when you get in your car, you turn it
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on, and you either create your very own personal message or select one of the pre-made messages and you turn on my application and while you're driving, as you get a text meage you'll automatically send a reply back. >> this is one of those things, t.j., that you know it's like why didn't i think of this? why didn't i come up with this first? >> my goodness. >> so many kids in middle and high school audiences say they don't like to not respond to their friends. they feel like when their friends text them while driving they feel compelled to respond, don't want their friends to be impatient or afraid their friends are ignoring them. this would solve it with the app zach came up with it. >> wow, that's brilliant. we should all do that. you do feel pressure, hear it buzz buzzing, i might need something immediately. that was brilliant. >> especially you and me with our blackberries. do i check it? i'm driving, i can't. >> he'll be on the pro circuit one day. >> the way things are going for
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taking a look at some of the stories making headlines if you haven't done it yet, you need to set that clock back one hour. go ahead and do it right now, microwave oven, watches, you name it, get all that stuff in. of course daylight saving time ended this morning at 2:00 a.m. also president obama he is in india right now, this is the first stop part of his ten-day visit to asia, touched down in new delhi a cup of hours ago, he had been in mumbai and the president announced $10 billion in new u.s. contracts for exports to india, an aggressive push to show his $10 billion in contracts could mean some 54,000 jobs here in the u.s. also he took a little time out to hang out with the kids, visiting schoolchildren there celebrating the religious
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festival of duvali. schoolchildren enjoying their visit with the president. i move to a name you may not know, helen suzman, most major players in the struggle for south africa's apartheid. suzman challenged the government consistently. this week an exhibition opened here in atlanta to document her legacy, nadia bilchik joining me to talk more about her. >> i know you like feisty women and she is a feisty woman. she died in 2009, would have been 90. this week there is an exhibition going around the country on helen suzman, part of the progressive party, the only party that was the opposition to the nationalist government under apartheid. all the time that nelson mandela was in prison helen suzman was
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fighting for years. she visited him in prison. he writes in his book "long walk to freedom" she was the only woman to ever grace our cells. >> now while he was in prison, how prominent, even though a lot of people might not know her, but was she -- >> very prominent and i'll tell you why. so many people were banned. you couldn't hear what people were saying in south africa. what was said in parliament was allowed to be documented and when she went to visit him on robin island one of his guards was particularly cruel, and when she went to visit he said helen, this guard is being very cruel. he has a swastika. she said i am going to do something about it and went to the head of prisons and said we have to remove this guard and the guard said absolutely not. she said i'll tell you what, then i'll talk about it in parliament and then the world will know, and he was removed. she was also incredibly funny. one of the things she said to the president at the time, she said, why don't you go into one of the black townships, see what
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it's really like and go disguised as a human being. >> oh, my gosh. now the exhibit we're talking about now in atlanta, is this the first stop, one of the first stops? >> it is actually about the 13th stop. >> 13th stop. >> it's going to a whole lot of other cities and the morehouse library. people will have to make appointments to see it, part of the rabin king initiative. my other favorite helen suzman quote, helen, you ask the most impossible questions. she says it's not the questions that are impossible, it's the answers. she was one of the first people who fought for mandela to have books and blankets and a feisty person. she was later criticized by the left for not being radical enough but she wanted to do it within the confines of parliament and spoke often interestingly enough about the myanmar activist, aung san suu kyi, who said this woman should be liberated and often felt for her, another realization of how
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extraordinary it is to live in a democratic country. >> helen suzman, a name maybe you didn't know before this morning you know it now and worth checking out, the exhibit opening up here in atlanta. nadya bilchik he appreciate you as always. coming up, an inner city church now needs a helping hand itself, a congregation in danger of losing its church. also they campaigned on bringing real change to the capital. can the newly elected tea party backed candidates deliver? looking at their impact on washington, 37 minutes past the hour. including crunchy new parmesan shrimp in a buttery garlic sauce. our best value of the year ends soon. at red lobster. we're with you when you're saving for your dreams. [ woman ] when you want a bank that travels with you. with you when you're ready for the next move. [ male announcer ] now that wells fargo and wachovia have come together, what's in it for you? unprecedented strength, the stability of the leading community bank in the nation
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election cycle. it just is, you know, presidential elections start right now, really the day after the midterms, because this is when people are kind of looking at those exit polls. we've been looking at them in terms of how should congress respond, how should the president respond in if you want to run for president, you're also looking at what does this mean? what are voters trying to say, and we've already, we know we've been asking a lot of people among them, one of our guests today, tim paw lentie, outgoing mayor of minnesota, eyeing a presidential race, so there are a lot of people we've been asking all along. now is the time they begin to play cat and mouse, are they going to iowa, new hampshire, what's going on? what sort of signals are they sending out. it's 2012 a little early. >> is anyone taking responsibility if you will for what happened to the democrats on tuesday? people accepting hey this is a natural cycle of things with the president in power, economy a bit down, this just happens or
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is someone out there kind of people pointing the finger at? >> sure. i tell you there are rumblings among democrats who believe that president obama kind of hung him out to dry on a couple of things, that he was not there, particularly for those house democrats who took some really tough votes only to see their bills kind of die in the senate. so there's some resentment there. there are a number of people saying out loud, we don't think the white house gets it. we don't think that they have, if you will, the common touch, so there's a lot of that, but if you listen to the president, if you listen to the lawmakers on the democratic side they have two arguments, one is well the economy is really bad, and the other is, well, we just weren't good at messages. there are a lot of people who would disagree. many politicians lose and say we didn't message effectively. so people are still trying to sift through this, i think, and figure out where they go. we hear the president talking about mid course corrections. what does that mean exactly? we'll see. >> one more thing, people trying
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to sift through. have people figured out quite yet we know the tea party had an influence on the campaign season but what kind of influence are they going to have on now governing? >> certainly on the house side you have a number of people backed by the tea party, given tea party money and it's really kind of a wing of the republican party, but nonetheless these are fiscal conservatives, people that want to go somewhat further than what we'd call establishment republicans, people that have been in washington for awhile. on the house side i think they have considerable effect except for let's remember, republicans may have about a 54-seat margin so they could afford to lose some votes from the tea party, much less so i think on the senate side. we saw some very headline type tea party candidates go down in delaware and nevada and colorado so there will be less of an effect on the senate side because republicans look at the mix there and say, hey, there's some moderate democrats and we could form some coalitions with
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on this morning's "faces of faith" pastor mark mitchell started a church in one of atlanta's poorest neighborhoods trying to serve the people less fortunate, offering free food, free child care and free counseling to help others and now they're in serious need of help of their own. they could be losing their
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building. ♪ woke up this morning with my mind, it was set on jesus ♪ >> reporter: atlanta urban four square church is not just traditional church in the burbs. pastor marc anthony mitchell leads this congregation in lakewood, one of the poorest areas of atlanta. >> we've got lakewoods all across america, the heartfelt needs of the poor and underclass. >> hallelujah, hallelujah. >> reporter: needs that include food for the hungry. mentoring. >> jesus was here today, where would he be? he'd be in the lakewoods of america, amen. >> amen. >> reporter: spiritual guidance. >> deliver us from evil. >> reporter: even child care, all free of charge but the money is running out. mitchell has been renting an older abandoned church for sale. they're months behind in rent
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payments and facing the same plight as many in their congregation, homelessness. >> here we are living from hand and mouth. we give out more than we receive. >> reporter: he compares neighborhoods like lakewood to countries where many churches conduct mission work. >> we go across the train tracks and we have a third world situation and if we put the same effort here, it would free us up so much. i want an urban/suburban connection. i want to live out acts 2:32, those who have give to those who have not. >> reporter: mitchell a former drug dealer earned his masters in theology from harvard. this is his calling. >> i could be anywhere with my degree. i've been blessed and given a second chance and i have a real affinity for felons because i'm a felon. >> reporter: the message seems to be working. >> without this ministry, i might still be on those streets using and going to jail and doing what i was doing. >> i struggled every day. i fight with me. >> so it's down to the wire.
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we literally need a miracle. >> if we lose this building, we'll have to, hmm, the people have nowhere to come. they will have lost complete hope. ♪ woke up this morning with my mind, it was set on jesus ♪ >> reporter: so the church continues to pray. >> but god says what, if he be for us, who could be against us? ♪ hallelujah >> and joining me now is the senior pastor of atlanta urban four square church, markant thee mitchell in studio. we appreciate you taking the time with us. you said we're in need of a miracle. >> yes, we are. >> is that miracle zmocoming? >> we believe so and hope so. we're thankful to you for the shout out to the world. >> you can hope somebody's going to come through but so far, has there been some sign that maybe you'll be able to come one rent? >> at the particular moment, no, and so again we're still fasting
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and praying and believing that in this 11th hour something will happen to help us to be able to continue to serve the community there. >> what did happen, according to united methodist you're in their building, they own that building, you've been renting it from them. >> correct. >> you don't dispute haven't been able to pay rent since june, here we are in november. a grant ran out. >> correct. >> what do you think should happen? you understand their position in that we've got a building here, trying to pay for as well. >> definitely and we've tried to work with them. the building needs extensive work, and my denomination has come forward and said if they would donate the building we've been trying to do that the past ten months we would utilize that to bring it up to code. it takes about $300,000 and we're asking the church to be a church. we understand you want to sell the building, we understand it's about monetary gain but we want to invest in souls and that's the purpose of the church, to invest in souls. >> did you make, did you have a
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backup plan? you knew that grant was going to be running out. was there a backup plan for getting a stream of funding to keep you in that building? >> we've done several things during the stimulus time looked at putting grant writers, i'm a grant writer myself, to put a team in and we brought in tenants to be able to subsequently support a lease or mortgage, so we've been diligently trying to do that. we understood and again we just ask the united methodist church to work with us to do the work of jesus christ. >> so far do you believe they have willing to work? we talked about it hasn't been rent since june and you are still in the building now. do you think they have pretty lenient in. >> yes, i do. we don't have any beef with the united methodist church. we appreciate their efforts and again just want to take it to the next stage and see if we could work something out, because of the poor, we have no place else to go. >> who loses out, how much will be lost in that community if you are not able to continue to
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serve? >> well, again, we are a pillar in the community. we work with the indigenous people, the working poor and underclass. they have nobody to champion their cause so this is a plight that's literally across america and we hope to address in the institutional church how do we get creative and again dealing with the plight of the poor, we have a haiti in our own back yards. >> again, like you say there, you're trying to serve the community, a lot of them on hard times, unfortunately, you that are serving have fallen on hard times as well. we've seen stories around the country, a lot of people having a tough time making the rent so certainly good luck to you. we appreciate you coming in. >> thank you very much. >> a quick break here on this "cnn sunday morning." what's her advantage? it's speedy alka-seltzer! [ male announcer ] alka-seltzer plus rushes relief for all-over achy colds. the official cold medicine of the u.s. ski team. alka-seltzer plus.
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they ran on the premise of bringing change to washington but can they deliver? brian todd is investigating what's next for the tea party. with the energy of a high octane rock band they propelled republicans to historic wins. >> tonight there's a tea party tidal wave and we're sending a message to them. >> reporter: rand paul headlines a slate of conservative tea party backed candidates partying after victories. i asked benjamin solomon of "the daily beast" to rate the movement. did the movement do as well some
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projected? >> you can't say it was a bad night but there's no doubt they faltered in a few key races that a lot of our critics say they could have won. >> reporter: te party defeats christine o'donnell in delaware and sharron angle to the loss some called the world's most endangered incumbent, harry reid. voters' concerns about tea party extremism which reid exploited against angle slowed the momentum tuesday night. still with high wattage leaders like marco rubio, now reality, tea partiers have to channel all that energy into pushing their agendas through in a town where that's known to be tough. a lo of people argue it's hard to get things done in washington once you move into a seat of power. do you have a plan for really getting something accomplished, a tangible plan? >> we do. immediately, we're going to have an orientation for the incoming
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freshmen from both parties so that they understand what the local koocoordinators expect of them. >> jenny martin, coparty founder of the tea party participate ross they'll melt the phones of those who don't stay on message, push to cut taxes and spending and repeal the health care overhaul. she says how the distaste for compromise will play. >> saying rand paul will vote for nothing less than a completely balanced budget is saying you'll pretty much never vote for a budget ever, removes from you any serious discussion of deficit reducing measures. >> reporter: sarlin says if rand paul doesn't compromise they can still have an effect on the debate. paul could use his credibility with the movement to demagogue hard against republicans who cross over to the other side. that will at least give him symbolic strength. brian todd, cnn, washington. a quick look at stories making headlines. es
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