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here's hoping grumpy lives true to his slogan. for this week's gps challenge question we asked you which of the following was not added this week to the u.n.'s list of intangible heritages in need of preservations. the correct answer to the gps question was b, mexican tequila. the only one of the four not added to the cultural heritage list this week. go to our website for more. thanks to all of you for being part of my program this week. i'll see you next week. saving time and money this holiday season. some high tech tools will help do you it here's proof that rocking out has no age limit. it's just one of many memorable ima images. we'll have comedian george wallace joining us live. you're in the "cnn newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield.
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getting home for the holidays might be snarled because of bad weather in some parts of the nation in the sierra nevada drivers are chaining up for an early winter storm that has already dumped two feet of snow there. in minnesota, freezing rain and ice are making roads downright impassible. hundreds of spinouts and accidents have already been reported on what's turning out to be a very icy and nasty sunday. let's go straight to minnesota right now where we have a member of the minnesota state patrol joining me on the phone from st. paul. how bad is the situation? >> temperatures have improved from overnight. temperatures are warm noing now. from 10:00 p.m. last night until early this morning it was a very treacherous road conditions. >> what are you telling people as they set off to hit the road and to visit their loved ones this holiday season? >> well, between the snow last
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weekend and ice last night, i think most minnesotans are probably in that winter driving mode. we want to remind people to take extra time, check the weather forecast and the road conditions before they head out. >> thanks so much from the minnesota state patrol. appreciate that. jacqui jeras keeping a close watch on what's happening in minnesota. folks want to get there and get there easy but it doesn't always happen that way. this is your neck of the woods. your family members up in minnesota. >> last week a foot of snow. and now it's freezing rain. freezing rain comes down as liquid and freezes on contact or it came down as rain and started to freeze as those temperatures came down overnight. you look at the radar picture across minnesota, it's not so bad. heavier snow up into the arrowhead and that's about it. we zoom into the twin cities area and temperature here now is above freezing. that's a little bit of good news
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here. there you can see about 33 degrees in the twin cities. so most of the main roadways are doing better. outlying roads will have problems. we'll show you where freezing rain advisories remain in effect and this is really northwest of the cities up toward st. cloud and then this is a winter weather advisory for some of that light snow. this isn't the worst of the conditions that we'll see. the concern is tonight we think that those temperatures are going to drop back down below freezing. so we do expect things to get a little icy. if you are traveling by the airports today, delays 50-minute ground delays there at chicago o'hare. we have departure delays right now in ft. lauderdale. those delays only about 30 minutes. you can see that they are increasing just a little bit. all right. what can you expect for today? monday back to work for some of you. maybe travel for others of you. we're going to continue to have problems out west. a series of storm systems that have been moving through here and just bringing down some incredible amounts of snow. we've already had more than two feet of snow in into the higher
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elevations across parts of the sierras and into california and we'll see some of the same as well into the wasatch range into idaho and montana and dakotas and minnesota will have lesser amounts of snowfall than that. ahead of this system tomorrow we'll see some rain showers. st. louis up toward chicago, maybe even into detroit expect to see a bit of light rain. minor delays expected here and the east coast you are sitting pretty. things are looking good for your monday. try to get outside and enjoy some of that. things will be changing. of course wednesday is the biggest travel holiday and my map doesn't want to advance. why isn't it advancing? you'll have to stick around. i'll hit wednesday and thursday once my computer decides to start working. >> weather gremlins are in there. >> it happens. >> ice in some places, snow in others, why not gremlins in your computer system. all right. we'll check back with you. >> for those of you who will be taking to the skies this holiday week ahead of the transportation security administration is again
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defending those added security measures at some of the nation's busiest airports. we're talking about the use of full body scanners and even pat downs for some passengers. john appeared this morning on "state of the union" with candy crowley. >> it come down to the person. i talked to a number of people that said this is what we need to be doing. it's thorough. i want thoroughness when i get on a plane to know everyone has been screened properly. to some people it is demeaning. >> what's over the line? all those things were fine. you saw a woman whose breasts were being felt and a man who had another man's hand in his crotch. what's over the line? >> i think that's for the public to help inform that discussion. clearly if we are to detect terrorists who have again proven innovative and creative in their design and implementation of bombs that are going blow up airplanes and kill people, we
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have to do something that prevents that. >> bottom line, pistole says the balance is to find the right balance between security and privacy. if you are traveling this week, cnn is your holiday travel headquarters. we have lots of great ways for you to stay on top of what's happening. you can logon to cnn.com/holiday travel and you can also find us on twitter at cnntravel and ireport.com for pictures and videos. overseas to north korea where a stanford university professor toured that country's main nuclear research site this month. the professor says he saw 2,000 pieces of equipment. a u.s. envoy arrived today to discuss six-party talks with the north. a military review of the war in afghanistan is due next month but u.s. joint chiefs chairman
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mike mullen is already making some assessments. on cnn's "state of the union" this morning mullen said beefed up u.s. led forces have made progress in efforts to keep afghanistan from becoming a haven for international tourists but warns the progress is fragile. >> really from my perspective fought afghanistan for years from an economy of force standpoint. and i have said for a long time that we didn't have enough forces there. we didn't have enough u.s. forces and not enough nato forces. that was from my perspective because we were heavily focused on iraq and i was literally looking at the resources that were headed in both directions and so as we have changed the strategy focus and gotten resources right over the course of the last year, this is the first time we really are where we need to be in terms of
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executing a comprehensive strategy. >> mullen also reaffirmed president obama and nato's goals of handing over security to afghanistan forces by the end of 2014. the allocated published magazine called inpispire is coming out with a report saying the entire operation cost $4,200. it says al qaeda bombmakers designed the bombs disguised as printer cartridge. they were intercepted. the magazine also writes saying "it is more feasible to stage smaller attacks that involve less players and less time to launch and thus we may circumvestance uvent the barrie worked hard to erect."
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it is a waiting game at a collapsed mine in new zealand. rescue crews are standing by for the go ahead to try to get to 29 trapped coal miners. nothing has been heard from the miners since an explosion three days ago. right now underground gas levels are high making a rescue attempt dangerous. but we're getting new details about two miners who escaped that blast. >> i was asked several times if by interviewing them we would know more of value to apply to the situation we have currently got and i can say not really. its with a very interesting and obviously quite distressing to listen to daniel's story of coming from the mine and how he got out and fact he got out okay and is now home with his wife and his family and father and mother and other brother but as i said the other day there's not a lot of detailed informing that can give because both had their own experience and none of them
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were far enough into the mind to know where the explosion initiated. all we know as we knew before that it came from further into the mine than where they were. >> the chilean miners know too well what the folks in new zealand are going through. however, just last night they were in los angeles. take a look here. 33 rescued miners were there for the taping of the cnn heroes special. some were speaking for the first time about their underground ordeal. they were talking with cnn's anderson cooper. >> that moment when the first drill came through what was that like? >> translator: it was exciting. very exciting. hope. life. the desire to continue living. it was beautiful. like a party. it was outrageous. it was like a carnival. it was as if chile played argentina in a soccer match and chile won. we had a note prepared.
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a letter ready to send up. otherwise we would have forgotten everything because it was such an exciting situation. so that's why we wrote the note. >> did you know the drill was coming? >> translator: yes. the minute we heard them drilling, the minute it started, i wrote we are okay in the shelter. the 33 of us. >> and you can watch the cnn heroes all-star tribute with anderson cooper thanksgiving night on thursday at 8:00 p.m. eastern. the dreaded b word. bailout i'm talking. it's making headlines again. this time overseas. how it could impact your money right here at home in the u.s. next. ♪
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folks are trying to get to loved ones somewhere across the map but there are big problems like ice and snow standing in
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the way. what's going on? >> i hate it when that happens. it's mostly out west we're dealing with major issues and into parts of minnesota. big holiday travel weekend. we told you what's going on today. we want to give you the forecast for wednesday because wednesday and a week from today are really the busiest travel days so what can you expect on wednesday. the good news is our storm system in the west finally starts to clear out. it will be very chilly here but at least it will be better for you for travel. that system move into the nation's midsection. we'll see snow across the midwest and so places like dallas up toward nashville and even washington, d.c. is where we'll start to see the delays as a result of that. and then thursday you may or you may not be traveling on thursday but this thing is going to move over toward the east coast and what do you know? it still won't go to thursday. come on. come on! it did it five seconds ago. i promise you the rain will be over here and it still looks good over there and i promise
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you i'll get it before the end of the hour, fredricka. there it is. there it is. you can see the rain up and down the coast. boston down into jacksonville and we will see snow and lake-effect snows on the backside of it so places like syracuse and buffalo could have big problems and chilly everywhere else. >> think cold thoughts. wherever you are, it will be cold. thank you so much for that. appreciate that. this just in, the lawyer for two americans being held in iran says their court date has now been postponed until february 6th. he tells cnn the court's reason is that shane bauer and josh fattal failed to show up for their initial court date. they were arrested for espion e
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espionage. their companion, sarah shourd was released in september if you remember that. ireland has been hard hit by the global recession. the government has slashed its budget but it still needs financial help. a new bailout plan could have an impact on the dollar and wall street. let's bring in our international business expert richard quest joining us from abu dhabi. give me an idea why this is so earth shattering in the world economy and for the european union as well. why do people need to pay attention to what's happening in ireland? >> well first of all because greece took the first bailout. this is now the second european economy that's required to be bailed out. and although we don't know the amount involved, we expect it will be in the tens of billions of dollars according to the iri
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iri iri irish finance minister because irish banks are just about broke. the european union will have to stump up the cash. it only comes with a certain number of strings. it will be a hard road ahead for the irish people with further budget cutbacks and totality of the effect is that having said they didn't need the money, having said they wouldn't require a bailout, tonight ireland is effectively gone into reverse saying we'll take the money you offered. >> what potentially could be the ripple effect taking the money or if for any reason they were a change of heart on that. >> the money -- what's going to happen tonight, first of all the irish cabinet is disgusted and agreed to do it. there will be a telephone call or conference call with european finance minister and then the g-7 which the united states is a
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major leading part of the g-7 and if that comes together as expected in the next few hours, ireland will be promised the money. the ripple effects are that it shows the depth and severity of the crisis. it proves that what happens in one part of the world can affect dramatically what happens elsewhere. just think about it. we have said this before, fredricka, you and i. how could subprime mortgages in florida or in california explode the world economy as they did? and to such an extent of course that now we also see those overlending and mortgages in ireland and ghost towns that now exist, they blow up the irish economy. >> how would the u.s. be directly impacted in ireland does indeed need this bailout and takes the bailout? what would be felt on this side of the pond? >> i think initially obviously
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there's no direct impact. it's not like a to b to c to d. what i think you will notice is for example as tension in europe perhaps shifts to other countries, portugal or spain, maybe even italy, the u.s. dollar, which had been weak, the one thing ben bernanke's printing money has weakened the dollar. i tell you this, it will be a jolly side weaker if it wasn't for european crisis. the euro and dollar are like two drunken men swaggering down the street on a late saturday night. it really is a question of which is the weaker at any given point. they are propping each other up but i would expect to see the dollar be a marginal gainer on this one. >> wow. all right. richard quest from abu dhabi. thanks so much on perspective of what's taking place in ireland. we'll check back throughout the week. deals you just can't pass up.
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>> we know you are thinking about the turkey and black eyed peas and yams and about the shopping the day after but there are deals out there you better read fine print. we'll tell you why in just a moment. first, a look at the top stories. >> the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff admiral mike mullen says the marines will comply with a repeal of don't ask, don't tell, if congress passes one. general james amos is opposed to reversing the ban on openly gay
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service members but today mullen insisted there's no question general amos would implement all necessary changes to allow openly guy marines to serve. the king of saudi arabia will fly to the u.s. for medical treatment tomorrow. a high level saudi official says the 86 year old suffers from a blood clot and back pain. the country trio lady antebellan antebellum could be a big winner. five nominations. several other big names are performing including justin bieber and katy perry to name a few. back to shopping and indulging on thanksgiving. retailers are getting ready to roll out big discounts to lure holiday shoppers this friday but some deals may not be what you think they are. josh levs says read the fine print and everything else. >> you have to watch out for some of these things.
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i've been learning a lot. folks at cnn money put together a list of black friday secrets. we will get you to a couple of them. the first one won't shock you. limited supplies. you may not realize how limited some of the door busters are. sometimes you see something you really want. amazing deal. turns out there's only three or four in the store so get you in. you waited through the night. tens of thousands of people don't know this. they get disappointed. check the supply. you can call the store in advance. better to do that than to wait all night. the next is called beware of the derivative. here's what that is about. sometimes you go and get an item and you don't realize until you get home that it doesn't have all of the standard features of what you expect it will have. >> you feel ripped off. it turns out the standard model has a bunch of features. this is a derivative model which is why it's cheeper and why it was the door buster deal. you have to read the fine print. another one that we're talking about this year, avoid bad bling. because of the economy and things going on with commodities and gold supplies, you see
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jewelers advertise gold in big letters when it's really just gold plated or gold filled because gold prices have gone up. more than ever this year check what's going on with that jewelry. if it has gold in it, you definitely want to make sure you know how much gold you're getting and how much you are not getting. >> you need to ask questions. >> ask a lot of questions. don't assume price matching. there's stores out there as you know that offer price matching through the year. there are people who think that's also going to apply on black friday. you find a great deal at one store and figure i'll ask the other store to do it. doesn't happen. another good thing to watch out for there. >> and then drum roll please. hottest toys. people are lining up at 4:00 a.m., midnight, et cetera, to get their hands on that hottest toy on black friday. what would they look for? >> great breakdown. look at this one. this is one of them. hottest toys of the year. this is air hogs motor frenzy. i love it. this is another one over here. tonka chuck truck. i spoke to an expert about this
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one. >> nothing can stop him. this is so cool. you turn him on here. even if he falls off, dude keeps going. look at this. he can go upside down. he with go when he's hanging off the bridge. what do you say about this? a bad age group? >> i don't think there's a bad age group for this. i want to take it home. what i love for kids is a kid will take this set and rearrange everything and see how chuck works. then he'll do it another way. natural experimenters. girls will love this toy as much as boys. >> i have another one of hottest toys of the year right here in my hand. check this out. i love this little guy. it just starts playing music. posted online for you at the blog. facebook and twitter. do you want to play with this thing? >> i'll give it a shot. when we're not on the air. that sounded like led zeppelin there. wait a minute.
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okay. that's a nice trick there. i like it. i think i will try that. bought. sold. all right. appreciate it, josh. thanks so much. by planes, trains, automobiles, americans are on the move this holiday week. next, some great websites to check before you leave home. y a. this is america, man. home of the highway... last minute detours and spontaneous acts of freedom. ♪ we're wanderers. wayfarers. even nomads. so doesn't it just make sense that we build an electric car... that goes...far. really far. ♪ [ female announcer ] black is always flattering. myth. flakes are the only sign of an unhealthy scalp. also a myth. there are several signs of an unhealthy scalp... and the fact is, head & shoulders works on those too.
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>> we know you are hitting the road. this is what you are about to encounter in some places like minnesota with icy roads making it difficult to travel. minnesota's department of transportation is reporting hundreds of spinouts and accidents and in many areas drivers are being asked to simply stay off the roads. that's the best bet. delay those plans a little bit in some parts. jacqui jeras has a look at some interesting websites and tools for those of us who will be hitting the road. >> we're going to try to hit
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airways and roadways today. a lot of people taking different modes of transportation whether you are just going across town or maybe flying thousands of miles to get where you want to be. we'll start off with one of my favorite websites. i use this almost every day. this is www.fly.faa.gov. it pulls up this map for you. it updates all of the time. green dots mean things are looking good. if you take a look in chicago and mouse over it will show you that they're having delays here due to weather. low ceilings so looking at a ground delay program if you double click on it, it will tell you how many minutes. i will tell you that those delays are about two hours. there it goes. there you can see it. chicago, 1 hour and 56 minutes. that's not so much fun for all those folks.
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let's go to the neck one. a good traffic website traveling interstates. it this is traffic.com. it pulls up a map of the united states and you can either click on that or you can click on the city. i'll click down here on the birmingham area. and it will show you red, green and yellow where you are having problems. you can even click on that and find out how much time you could be delayed and then last but not least this is from caltran in the state of california where they are dealing with a lot of snow. click on travel here and go to highway conditions or my favorite the live traffic cameras to see what things look like out there actually on the roadways and pick from a variety of different ones. i want to show you down here. i-80 at truckee where they've had two feet of snow in the last 24 hours. you can see how things are going very, very slowly. >> where was that? >> truckee, california, on i-80. 26 inches so far with this storm. >> truckee is getting stuckey.
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that's not good. >> we want to hear from you. we want to know how your trip is going and if you're having road delays or air delays or what your security wait time might happen to be. you can go to cnn.com/holiday travel to find out information. you can follow us on twitter at cnn travel and tweet us to tell us how it's going and send pictures to ireport.cnn.com. >> in the end when it comes down to thanksgiving, we want to hear about how people got to their destinati destinations. thanks so much. this name may sound very familiar to you. he started in the kitchen. now the world is his dining room. once best known as a chef, anthony is now an author and a world traveler. he's the host of no reservations. a popular show on the travel channel. his latest book "medium raw a bloody valentine to the world of
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food and people who cook." i caught up with him earlier this weekend. you have the most admired job on the planet. >> i'm well aware of it. i really have a lot of pinch-me moments. i have to pinch myself to realize how lucky i am. >> to travel the world and allow your tummy to lead you along the way. what's the most exciting thing about it? >> i getting too anywhere i want. any place i ever dreamed of as a kid or saw in a movie and i think because everybody worldwide seems to feel very proud of their food and well disposed to a wandering stringer interested in what they love to eat it gives me a degree of access that even hard news reporters might envy because it's not that resistant. all i want when i visit you in your country and let's sit down and eat and get drunk together. >> how did this come about? in your book you kind of talk
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about some of your feelings about food network and some of the chefs who have become famous or on tv and how you weren't necessarily that impressed with a lot that was out there but this opportunity to be able to travel the world and you kind of created it but it was also happ happenstance. >> i can't believe i'm getting away with it. i had an overnight success with a obnoxious memoir of a not distinguished career in the restaurant business. one day standing next to a deep fryer and next i had a grig trav gig traveling around the world living the dream. that said, in this book i talk about the fact that having made the first half my career making fun of celebrity chefs i've become part of the problem. >> do you take all that back? >> i was a chef for 28 years.
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i'm somebody who takes food very seriously. it hurts me physically to see someone abuse food on television or lie about it or sort of demean the profession. it's fun and funny to make fun of it. >> when you do tour and you're at the travel channel and you're embarking upon the most obscure of places and then some that are just so hugely popular among tourists but you kind of rediscover these cities by your stomach and by the food that's being offered, do you open yourself up to i'm just willing to try anything? is there a moment where you say i will go but so far as it pertains to something raw or something living or whatever the creature may be. >> i see myself in a tony -- i see every american abroad as an ambassador for culture. people take their food seriously. i try hard to be a good guest
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and try anything offered to me. i have gone out of my way to do everything possible to not be offered cat or dog. i managed to avoid those two things. i don't know what i would do if i was confronted with it at the last minute with a proud family. people take it seriously. i'm grateful. so i've never said no. >> what's the strangest thing you've eaten and most fascinating thing you've eaten? how do you remember? >> i don't know what strange is. it's relative to a rural thai ranch dressing would be appalling. nothing more bizarre than a grand slam breakfast if you look at it from the point of view of people abroad. i've gotten sick of course but only twice in two years. i eat locally. if the locals are eating it from a street vendor they make a living feeding their neighbors. you're much more likely to become ill eating at your major
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chain hotel. >> he's a fascinating individual. he'll host a new reservations holiday special on the travel channel december 6th. just for those of you trying to plan that holiday meal, he says do not depart from turkey and all of the trimmings no matter how creative you get people want turkey and trimmings. that's his little piece of advice this thanksgiving. all right. saving your shopping dollars with high tech tools. we'll show you how in today's tech time coming up. ♪ [ man ] i thought our family business would always be boots. until one day, my daughter showed me a designer handbag. and like that, we had a new side to our business. [ male announcer ] when businesses see an opportunity, the hartford is there. protecting their employees and property and helping them prepare for the future. nice boots. nice bag. [ male announcer ] see how the hartford helps businesses at achievewhatsahead.com.
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high tech help for your holiday shopping now. first a check of the top stories. new worries about nuclear materials in north korea.
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a stanford university scientist visiting the nation and said there was a new enrichmentu uranium site. utah police are looking for a gunman in the shooting of a park ranger near moab. investigators believe the suspect was wounded when he exchanged gunfire friday night with ranger brody young. young is in stable condition. resident in western and midwestern states are dealing with a string of fierce storms today. two to three feet of snow has been dumped in the sierra, nevada, mountains and winter storm warnings spread out from there on the rockies. at lower elevations freezing rain and ice are making roads treacherous at best. if the thought of running up
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your bills this holiday season is making you anxious, you'll want to hear about some high tech tools that could save you money and time. joining us now via skype from san francisco cnn.com technology reporter mark milan. good to see you. first up you say that you can actually scan yourself. how do you do that? >> well, i mean, there's a lot of scanning technologies you can use to help you save money and help you try on clothes. facebook has been pushed as this very helpful medium for try on clothes and snap a picture and then post it online so your friends can tell you you look ugly in that. >> you have help out there. >> maybe that helps your buying decision. >> okay. >> now facebook also has this relatively new component that they rolled out a few weeks ago called places which has facebook
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deals so you can when you are at the mall you pull up facebook on your smartphone and it will tell you gap has a sale nearby or it will present coupons for a bunch of different stores and you can bring that up. hit a button on your phone and show it to the cashier and says, all right, you get 40% off or whatever they're offering. >> that's gps coupons you're talking about? >> yeah. that's right. there's actually a bunch of different companies that build apps to offer these sort of functions. there is this rewards program called shop kick where you can open up your phone and download shop kick app and they'll have a bunch of different stores that opt in like target will offer coupons the more you shop there. >> okay. >> or go to their stores. >> that image is freezing up a bit. we can hear you. what is a self-check out mode all about? how does that work? >> well, the self-checkout you find in a lot of supermarkets
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but you also find a lot of stores are working these into their routines to save on manpower. you can actually -- some stores invest in technology called rifd where you don't need to physically put the item against the scanner. it will just ring it up for you and you put your bag of items on the counter and it reads some wireless chips. now this hasn't rolled out in very many stores yet. another forward looking interesting technology is something called nfc, near field communications. a year or a couple years down the line your phone will be your credit card so you kind of wave it in front of a machine and then it charges your phone bill. >> i've already seen that being used for some people with their boarding passes. i remember someone checking in before me and his boarding pass was right there on his phone. the sky is the limit on this stuff. it's unbelievable. thank you so much from san francisco joining us via skype.
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thank you for those money saving tools there right at our disp e disposal right now. >> hillary clinton ran for president in 2008. will she she do it in 2012? we will tell what you she says in the political update. mmmm.
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here's what's crossing right now. hillary clinton says she will not run for president in a television interview today clinton laughed off speculation that she might challenge president obama for the 2012 democratic nomination. she says she's happy in her current job secretary of state. also talking about 2012 today, louisiana governor bobby jindal suggests suggested will not seek the presidential nomination but left the door open for a vice presidential seat. republican minnesota governor tim pawlenty says the tea party is here to stay. he calls it a positive force that is driving accountability and change in the country and that it will continue to play a large role in national politics. less than three weeks after the 2010 election and potential presidential candidates are looking ahead to 2012.
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cnn deputy political editor paul steinhouser previews the week in politics. >> mike huckabee is in the political spotlight today. the former arkansas governor who ran for the white house in 2008 is considering another bid this time around for the republican presidential nomination. and iowa plays a very important role in the road to the white house as its caucuses kick off the presidential primary calendar. huckabee scored an upset victory in 2008. sarah palin another possible white house hopeful is also in the political spotlight this week. the former alaska governor new book comes out. palin who is john mccain's running mate in the last presidential election kicks off a book tour on tuesday in phoenix and that book tour will take palin to iowa and south carolina which is also another important state that votes early in the road to the white house. fred? >> all right. thanks so much, paul. members of jfk's secret service speak out for the first time
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tomorrow marks the 47th anniversary of president john f. kennedy. over the years there's been no shortage of commissions, reviews or conspiracy theories questioning what really happened in dallas on november 22nd, 1963. in a new book jfk's secret service agents break their silence. brian todd talks with two of them. >> reporter: they're a pair of stoic 78-year-old grandfathers. they still carry themselves in that upright tradition and till have that bond that only secret service agents know. and still have vivid memories of the clear, crisp day in november nearly half a century ago. >> we couldn't help but we felt like we failed.
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we all had the same mission and it was a terrible feeling. >> blaine gives new accounts of that period in his just released book "the kennedy detail." he reveals how less than 24 hours after john kennedy's assassination, he almost caused another unspeakable tragedy. blaine stood guard outside lindhen johnson's house adjusted and on edge and heard approaching footsteps and readied his machine gun. >> put it to my shoulder and steadied my feet and i recognized right away it was president johnson by his profile. >> reporter: johnson had just come out to get some air. how close did you come shooting him? >> my finger was on the trigger. i had nightmares about this for months afterwards. >> reporter: johnson, he says, turned white. said nothing. and went back in the house. i spoke with blaine and clint hill just a few feet from john
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kennedy's grave. hill road the forward to blaine's book but has rarely spoken about that day. you had a tough time there in those years after the assassination after your resignation. can you talk about what you went through? >> i had nightmares and seemed like every time i turned around there was something that reminded me of what had happened so i just clammed up and went in my basement with some alcohol and some cigarettes and stayed there for a few years. >> reporter: clint hill was the first secret service agent to get to kennedy's car in dallas. he broke into a sprint after the initial shot was fired. he said if he could relive the moments and jump on the back maybe two second earlier. >> without a question i would be taking a bullet for the president and be dead. >> reporter: you think that would be a happier ending if you weren't here to talk to us? >> it would be a happier ending for the country and for
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everybody. >> reporter: how do you feel about that? that's a tough thing to live with for a number of years. >> it's just one of those things you do live with it that you have to accept the fact that you had a certain responsibility and you failed in that responsibility. you just have to accept it and live with it the best you can. >> reporter: hill says he still goes through periods where he's almost unable to talk about the assassination. he brushes it off when people call him a hero. heros, he says, are people who are able to do extraordinary things and unfortunately i was unable to do that. brian todd, cnn, arlington, virginia. >> dallas police plan to honor an 82-year-old man for his action on the day jfk was assassinated. he saw a dallas police officer lying dead near a police vehicle. he immediately got into the police car and radioed for help. he had no idea that the man who had just shot the officer was the same man that killed president kennedy, lee

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