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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com developing right now, we're talking to the cops who now have that woman suspected of kidnapping a baby from a hospital 23 years ago. we're also reaching out to the kidnapped girl's family. how do they feel and why did she do it? and remember mary jo buttafuoco. her husband's teenaged lover shot her in the head back in the 1990s. she says she knows what congresswoman giffords is facing. she shares her personal batter in an appearance. presidential his torial douglas brinkley on cam lot past, present, and future right now. elot past, present, and future right now.

>> we start out with breaking news. two police officers were gunned down inside a precinct on the west side of the city. that's the report. a gunman walked into the precinct and opened fire. the two officers were taken to the hospital. their conditions are not known at the moment. the gunman is dead but cnn has not confirmed that yet. we'll bring you more information on this breaking news story as it comes in. a nationwide manhunt is over. the fbi in bridgeport, connecticut, says ann petway turns herself in this morning. now, allegedly raising the girl as her own daughter during that time. a live report on the circumstances leading up to pettway's surrender in just moments on cnn. congresswoman gabrielle giffords is still in intensive care at a houston hospital at

this hour, but doctors say she is surprising tem with the progress she's made already. giffords was transferred from arizona to houston for rehabilitation where she's doing exercises that involve moving, sitting, and standing. giffords still has a breathing tube in her neck and can't speak but doctors say she is trying to communicate. meantime the man accused of shooting congresswoman giffords and others will be in a court in phoenix. jared loughner will be arraigned for the attempted assassination of giffords and the attempted murder of two of her aides. he will probably face more indictments. six were kill and 13 wounded in the rampage in tucson january 8. the battle over repealing the new health care law is headed to the senate and top leaders in both parties are vowing to stand their ground. republicans say they will push for a vote to repeal the entire law but majority leader harry reid says that's simply not going to happen. in that case, republicans insist

they'll try to dismantle the law piece by piece. president obama is telling supporters that tuesday's state of the union address to congress will focus on jobs and the economy. meantime, a white house official tells cnn that gabrielle giffords' husband captain mark kelly was invited to sit with mrs. obama during the speech but he's likely to stay where he is. he's unlikely to attend the state of the union. former secretary of state colin powell told candy croyle that he's not ready to endorse either candidate for breast for 2012. he gave barack obama a big boost when he endorsed him in 2008. next time, maybe not. >> i'm not committed to barack obama or a republican candidate. i will see who emerges. right now i do not see on the republican side any one individual who i think is going

to emerge at the top of the pile. >> powell, a republican as you know, refused to grade president obama's white house performance. he said, quote, we didn't recommend superman. we're length add human being. he got 35% of the vote in a survey. congressman ron paul, the second with 11%. tim pawlenty was third with 8% and sarah palin was forkurth wi 7%. for a week now people have been asking why he has returned to haiti. now one of his lawyers may have provided the answer to cnn. attorney ed marger says he's trying to reclaim millions from a frozen bank account that belongs to a family foundation but he says duvalier doesn't want it for himself. he wants to use it to rebuild haiti after the devastating

earthquake. next hour we'll ask him about it when he joins us live. the woman being sought for guessi ining in the kidnapping baby girl more than 23 years ago turns up in connecticut and susan candiotti is live. apparently she used facebook to turn herself in. that's what the report says? >>. >> reporter: that's right. i'll give you details in just a moment. we have breaking news for you right now, don. that is that ann pettway is now facing federal kidnapping charges. she is now under arrest on those charges. and she will make her first appearance in manhattan federal court monday morning. now, we learned from a law enforcement source cnn exclusively reported first news of her surrender. we learned from a law enforcement source that she contact add bridgeport, connecticut, police department officer via facebook before she turned herself in to the fbi

here in bridgeport today. another key development seemed to come after she was cited yesterd yesterday in a pawn shop here in bridgeport where she used to live. she had gone inside the store, was trying to sell some of her jewelry. didn't like the price and walked out. an employee recognized her, contacted the police and here's how they confirmed who she was. >> our detectives also responded to that location. and they were able to obtain a video of surveillance from the store and they -- based on what they observed and the photographs that we had of her, they confirmed that it was her. >> and she came in by herself? >> she came in by herself, yes. she turned around and left on foot. the clerk advised the detectives that he didn't observe her get into a car. he immediately jumped on the

phone and called the police department. >> are you surprised she would be in this area. >> without a doubt i am surprised, seeing -- reading what i've obtained from the news meady of her being down in north carolina, you know, and yesterday so quickly being sighted here in the city of bridgeport, we believe shed would probably stay in the southern states in that location, bridgeport being, i believe, more of a comfort zone for her, this is where she was raised, went to the local schools here. and she still has family here in the city. so this was her comfort zone where she felt more secure in. >> reporter: so, don, developments have really come together quickly in this case. >> all right. susan candiotti. susan with the breaking news. she's going to face federal kidnapping charges. susan, thank you. in the meantime, we have the

latest. few can rehate to what happens. one of them, the most famous love triangles ever. mary jo buttafuoco joins us live. also caught on camera. a state trooper on paid leave after he punches a driver. excessive force? hear the full story before judging. and president kennedy, 50 years after his inauguration. his popularity might get him elected in a landslide today. we're talking about the legacy of jfk. i'm on line and i know you are two.

all right. as we told you at the top of this newscast we have breaking news. it's coming out of detroit. this is the very latest i know. at least three police officers were gunned down today inside a precinct on the west side of detroit, michigan. again, you're looking at pictures from our affiliate. wdiv. they report a gunman walked into the precinct and that gunman opened fire. the officers, they say, were taken to the hospital. their conditions not yet known. the gunman, we're hearing, is dead. again, the information on this just coming in. there you see the scene there. i want to tell you we're getting this from my producers. i'm being told i'm waiting a press conference from detroit's police chief. it could happen at any moment now within the half hour. a press conference on this. three officers. at least three police officers gunned down today inside a

precinct on the west side of detroit, michigan. that's our breaking news. let's move on now. we have other news to tell you about. gabrielle giffords is beginning the next phase of her rekonkry. it's an amazing, some would say miraculous development two weeks after the arizona congresswoman was nearly assassinated with a bullet in the brain. one woman who survived is mary jo buttafuoco. although her brain was not hit by the bullet her wound, life-threatening. her recovery was incredibly difficult though. the young woman who pulled the treg err was her then husband's 17-year-old lover, amy fisher who media quickly named long island lolita. >> i hit her on the back of the head. i went to hit her again and the gun went off. i guess obviously i shot it. >> this girl is an attempted

murderer, a liar, a prostitute, and the d.a. is accepting her statement that she and joe were together. something's wrong here. >> on july 2nd, 1991, i had sexual relations with amy fisher at the freeport motel. >> what happened the day that amy fisher came to the store changed our lives forever. i learned what i suspected all along, that she had a lot of rage and anger and isolation, too much violence and anger and i don't understand why. >> what happened to you in your childhood should not happen to anyone but that is no excuse for trying to take another human life. there is no excuse for what you did. i pray for you and your continued recovery. >> i have to forgive to continue to move on with your life. >> mary jo buttafuoco stayed with her husband for another decade before finally divorcing him in 2003. she now lives in las vegas and

in 2009 she published her memoire called "getting it through my thick skull." she joins us now live. mary jo, thank you so much for joining us. let's begin with your experience, how you're feeling and your experience. how are you doing right now? >> well, thanks for that walk down memory lane, don. that was really something. i'm a lot better. it's been a long time. it's been over 18 years. so i am as good as i can be. you know, looking at those pictures made me cringe. i was very, very sick and i had a lot of issues and that's what we' we're here to talk about are the survivors of the shooters. >> i have to tell you i was living and working in new york back then. no one thought you were going to survive this. everyone had pegged you for dead and you made it through.

>> yeah. yes. when they found me, i almost bled to death because the bullet nicked my car oddic artery, and i was airlifted to the hospital and they told my family they djts give me the night. so every step broke the odds which is what gabrielle seems to be doing. >> you're in pain, i'm told, constant pain, you have constant paralysis on the right side of your face and hearing loss if not complete deafness in the right side of your ear. >> i do have complete deafness in the right side of my ear and the right side is paralyzed. i don't like to complain. i'm very blessed. lived through this. got to see my children grow up. i made a remarkable recovery. i liken it to living with arthritis or some kind of disease or something. you just have to live with it. this is going to happen with all these shooting victims is you become -- your life becomes

before the accident and after the accident and they will never, ever be the same again. >> mary jo, tell me. what's your memory of being shot. >> i knew something happened. i never saw a gun. i turned to my right to walk into the house, and papparently she had a gun in her pocket because the next thing i knew i felt this mass irv explosion on the side of my head and i hon t honestly thought as i wept down i got hit with a baseball bat. it was that quick, that sunday, that explosive. but i had no idea i had been shot. >> so you have taken a special interest in gabby giffords, and we're going to talk about that, mary jo, right after this break. don't go away.

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we're back right now with mary jo buttafuoco who survived being shot in the head back in 1992. so mary jo, you've been covering congresswoman giffords case. >> i was so amazed, 13 days being shot point blank through the brain that she's strong enough to withstand the ride from the ambulance to the airport, from the aerpt to the hello pad and from the hello i pad to the rehab center. that's fantastic. to do that, she's got to be feeling very, very strong physically. >> okay. let's -- mary jo, let's hear from the congresswoman's doctor in houston and then i want to get your reaction. >> she looks spectacular and always from a neurological point of view first, she came into the

icu, and she was alert, awake, calm. she looked comfortable. i think we were already feeling some interaction, which is important. she's got very good movement on the left side of her body and was very purposeful, and we were testing her vision, and she didn't like us shining the light in her eye and wanted to keep them closed. and these are all very good signs. she also had pretty good tone in her leg. >> mary jo, what do you thing when you hear that? i think that's wonderful. when they said about shining the light in her eyes, e e-mail sure she's starting to feel pain now. the first few days you don't even know what has happened to you. you can't imagine. you're in this cocoon, you're sedated and you've got people yelling in your ears to try to get you to wake up and stay

awake but it sounds like maybe she's in pain, which is the next step. once she starts to come out of the anesthesia and they start to say to her, okay, get up, you've got to walk, you've got to talk, it's going to be a very, very long, long painful recovery. >> you say you were responsive as well but you don't remember anything they asked you. there was one day that it clicked as they had told you a along time before but you didn't remember any of that. >> yeah. my vivid memories was i was told after the fact that when i was in the hospital, my son came to me and they said, you know, squeeze her hand, and i squeezed it back. i don't remember that. my mother also said the same thing, that they would touch me and hold my hand and i would squeeze them, but to this day i don't have a memory of it. but i guess i must have unconsciously felt that connection to them. >> that's very important. her husband, her family, friends being there. >> it is. it's very -- and when the doctor then finally was -- they yell

because you're in this state of semi consciousness. they don't want to frighten you. they want you to realize what's happening and everything like that. >> i want to bring in dr. sanjay dahl. dr. dahl, mary jo says she didn't fully understand what had happened for a long time. is that typical, doonld you thing that's what gabby giffords -- do you think she knows the situation right now? >> yes, absolutely. i've had many, many patients who have seen me months after their injury who tell me that they have no recollection of the injury they suffer and the time that they spent in the hospital and that's for a variety of reasons. one being the head injury and the constant drugs being an ministered. >> mary jo, tell us about the medication. that's a very important point because you became depen department on that medication. >> yes. yes, i did. unfortunately nobody says no --

no doctor says no when you have a bullet in your head. when you say i'm dying, i'm in pain, i need it, they give it to you. they were very good. they said, you know, mary jo, you have a chance of getting addicted to this. when you're suffering like that, you say, i don't care. i need this to survive. so they tried, but i think my trauma of everything else i went through with my husband and amy fisher and all that stuff, it just was -- it became easier for me to self-medicate myself when i was going through all this other trauma and i couldn't just learn to heal on my own. >> it wasn't just physical pain. it with us the emotional pain as well for you. >> exactly, exactly. >> what will doctors do if anything to keep the congresswoman from becoming addicted. >> it's a very challenging problem to simultaneously try to control pain and simultaneously try to prevent dependence on pain medicine. if somebody's on a narcotic pain medicine for a long enough period of time, they'll absolutely form some dependence.

it's almost doctors will walk a fine h1n1 to wean them away. >> mary jo, thank you so much. we wish you the best of luck. take care of yourself. >> thank you so much, don. my parents go out to all of the victims for a full recovery. >> thank you. we sonltd second that. we're following breaking news on cnn from detroit where two police officers have been shot inside their precinct house. that and the hour's top stories straight ahead. plus recognize this guy. take a look. this need for a quick cash turned him into a network star. his advice for anyone that wants to start a business.

i want to update you on the breaking news story. this is coming out of detroit. at least three officers were gunned down today inside a precinct on the west side of that city. that's according to our affiliate, our detroit affiliate which report a gunman walked into the precinct and just opened fire. the officers were taken to the hospital. their conditions again not known. police say the gunman is dead. we'll bring you more information on this story as it becomes available to us. we're also awaiting a press conference there in detroit at any moment. a nationwide manhunt is over for a kidnapping suspect. the fbi in bridgeport, connecticut, says ann pettway turned hurst in this morning and faces federal kidnapping charges. she faces charging for kidnapping an infant allegedly

raising the girl as her own daughter. that girl carlina white disco r discovered her true identity and was reunite last week with her biological mother. egyptian officials now say they know who was behind this attack at a christian church new year's day that left 23 people dead. a palestinian group linked to al qaeda called the army of islam planned the suicide bombing, but a spokesman for the army of islam says it had nothing to do with the attack in lexa. . okay, everyone. it is seriously getting cold in some parts of the country and there's snow as far south as the carolinas. meteorologist jacqui jeras, what's going on with this bitter cold and is there any relief? come on. >> there's not really. we've been stuck in this

negative pattern. basically it's keeping us with these periodic drop in the temperature if you're east of the rockies. so we keep getting it over and over again. and take a look at the pictures for you out of the carolinas. yeah, you had some decent snowfall there yesterday. this is from moorhead city. they had anywhere from 7 to 8 inches. lot of it got melted as temperatures were well above the freezing mark. however now that the sun is down we're going to ice back up. we'll be real concerned about travel and the black ice and the morning commute for tomorrow as well. all right. now, the northeast, let's talk about you. yeah, it's been kind of cold as of late, but the coldest day of the season is now invading your region. it started in the midwest, and is now hitting you and you're really going to feel the greatest impact of this tomorrow morning. here's your current feels like

temperature which is the temperature your body feels. it feels like 14 in philly, 8 in new york, 1 in boston already and look at albany. 13 degrees below zero. that is getting dangerously cold. there you can see the windchill watches and advisories which are in effect. it's going to be feeling anywhere between 5 and 25 below zero tomorrow. you don't wasn't to have any exposed skin out there. you want to bundle up tomorrow because you could get frostbite. just a couple of minutes, believe it or not. we're also watching a southern system which is going to be developing here, don. this is going to be affecting the southeast and then riding up the coast and there's still a lot of uncertainty with the storm. but the best thing i can tell you right now is the models are trending warmer for the south as opposed to the big snow event. cross your fingers. snow in the northeast but rain. >> thank you. appreciate it, jacqui jeras. a small business success story in baltimore to tell you about and the man who created it

all is sharing his recipe for success in this "building up america" report. >> reporter: in the shadow of the baltimore skyline on a rough edge of town, duff goldman is building up a remarkable business. >> good to see you. >> reporter: he's a star on the food network and this is where his team spins out those dazzling creations that have captured the imagination of millions. it wunls always this way. eight years ago duff was a struggling musician looking for a way to pay the bills. >> i'm a bass player. i said how do i start a business. he said sell a cake. >> reporter: by creating what others did not, duff caught the attention of cable tv scouts and turned his small bakery into a big brand. ever since people have lived to

his ideas about business. >> when i started the place, i sold a cake. that first cake e sold i got a deposit. i bought some cake pans, flour, eggs, butter. that's literally all simple it was. >> reporter: by buying only what he could afford and focusing on quality, he avoided the debt that so many others have and so the jobs have lasted and the customers keep on coming, some for a few hundred, some for many thousands of dollars per cake and for duff, the cakes are spectacular, the recipes are simple. >> you need to do things correctly. there's no shortcut, no formula, no magic pill, there's no anything. you need to pay your bills and keep your employees happy. you just have to do a good job. >> reporter: tom foreman, cnn, baltimore. >> all right, tom. we even heard about the calls to 911 for some pretty ridiculous

reasons but this is a new one. one woman's bad nail day and the 911 calls that landed her in jail. but first, president kennedy 50 years after he was inaugurated, his popularity might get him elected by a landslide if he were alive.

all right. so call it camelot, call it charisma, call it whatever you want. 50 years after president kennedy was inaugurated. 85% say they apraved of his job performance. bill christianton is second at 72%. ronald reagan third at 68% in the new cnn opinion research poll. they're followed by the first president bush and gerald ford. 53% approve of carter's performance. and johnson, george w. bush followed by nixon. let's talk with douglas brinkley. his new book is called "the quiet world:saving alaska's worldless kingdom" why is he so

popular? >> for starters he was a very good president. he create add lot of institutions like the peace core, green beret, u.s. navy s.e.a.l.s. he handppenendled two of the flashpoints, the cuban missile crisis, the berlin crisis. when we read and listen to the transcripts of the white house tapes we see a kennedy very much in charge. but there's another factor, thing, don. we all get older and john f. kennedy always stays the handsome gal land young man who was gunned down in dallas. there's that charisma factor. >> i was going to say are his achievements that impressive or did his tragic death contribute to the popularity through the years because you know how we have a tendency to romanticize history. >> well, there's no question of that. let's be candid about it. i mean what happened in dallas and the assassination of kennedy

is america's great murder mystery. nefrms kennedy really started the 1960s which is such an iconic decade. eisenhower's farewell address, the oldest president in history was in black and white. the inaugural parade was in color. there was a real turning point with kennedy. in many ways the whole family is one of northeast political families in u.s. history. bobby kennedy who was very loved and ted kennedy who just died. the whole nation likes the kennedys. the poll was high, and it's higher than historians rate him but for the general public they're still in love with john f. kennedy. >> plus the bevy of pictures. the design and that era and design and fashion and all that. douglas, let's talk about the other poll results. clinton is at 72% ronald reagan at 68%. clinton ahead of reagan? >> i was a little bit surprised

about that. but, you know, bill clinton has his fans. he's a two-termer. people are looking back at his presidency and how the economy did well. hillary clinton, secretary of state. reagan was very popular, still seen by some people as a conservative leader, a leader of the republican party. so i was a little surprised that clinton was ahead of reagan. the rest of the numbers made a great deal of sense to me. >> even george w. bush. do you thing that bush's reputation will improve as time goes on here? >> it's hard for him because of the economy just collapsing at the end of his watch. also the longer these wars in afghanistan and iraq, bush's wars drag on, people aren't very happy with them. we're a country that likes quick results. we right as presidential historians poke very high for winning the mexican war quickly or mckinley for winning the

spanish war. those were wars of choice. if the iraq war was war of choice, history and current events aren't playing in the president's favor. he did write a memoir and he has a library. what's interesting i think is most presidents except for nixon, you know, are above 50%. you usually get a bit of an upward revision when you leave office. nixon's reputation is in shamables because of anti-semitic and antiblack marks he made on the tapes. he was never that likeable to start with. >> it's call ed -- thank you. tuesday night is date night. that's among the stories that will be making news in your week ahead from washington to wall street. we'll tell you what you can expect. but first caught on camera. a state trooper on paid leave after he punches a driver.

excessive force? hear the full story before you judge.

now, for some of the stories that are happening across the country, a utah trooper is under investigation after a video shows him punching a woman. you see him on the right in this dash cam video as he tries to handle the 53-year-old woman

behind the wheel by hitting her several times. the confrontation happened in august and the officer is on paid leave now. they seder la wright had tried to escape patrol cars that had trapped her by ramming back and forth between them. another officers tasered wright. okay, we have heard of a bad hair day, right? but a florida woman is facing charges after repeatedly calling 911 to report a bad manicure. cynthia collison's bad nail day started with a trip to the man kaur salon in dal toe na. police say she called 911 at least four times. they say once was enough. >> you don't handle my hand like this.

>> after you place the initial 911 call an a deputy is responding to investigate, then there's no longer an emergency. >> well, police say colson called 911 a final time while a deputy was inside the salon trying to settle the dispute over payment. that's when she was arrested. it's the kind of killing we usually hear about happening overseas, but in the week ahead, the case of an alleged honor killing will in the headlines in this country. the trial begins tomorrow. he's accused of running over his 20-year-old daughter in october 2009 because she was too westernized. that's according to police. they say he also ran over his daughter's fiance who did survive the attack. a preview of the big stories in the week ahead. we begin tonight at the white

house. >> i'm ed henry at the white house. on tuesday night the president heads to capitol hill for the big state of the union address. senior aides say it will have the twin theme of promoting jobs and creating competitiveness around the world. >> i'm brianna keilar covering capitol hill and the big story we're following this week is state of the union. from where the president stands the house chamber could look a little different this year. many lawmakers have committed to sitting next to someone for the opposing party's address. we'll be following the official response. paul ryan, the new chairman of the house budget committee and the top guy on spending cuts will be giving that rebuttal. he may not be a familiar face to many of you right now, but he'll become very familiar as republicans focus on spending cut this congress. i'm paul steinhauser. trichs this week by two republicans seriously thinking of running for the white house are creating buzz. tim pawlenty speaks tomorrow and

tuesday. that same day former house speaker newt gingrich speaks in iowa. both states play crucial roles in the white house as they go one-two in the primary calendar. the first meeting of the tea party. senators will meet with tea party leaders from across the country. i'm poppy harlow in new york. economic growth. that's going to be the figure big focus this week. the government will report fourth quarter gdp on friday and it's going to show the u.s. economy grew at about a 3.8% annual pace. that would be an improvement. meantime ahead this week federal reserve policy makers will meet in washington to discuss the economic recovery and it's a pretty big week for corporate earnings. mcdonald's, boeing and others will report. we'll track it for you on cnn money. thanks, guys. we've got you covered domesticaldomestic

ly. first up is afternoafghanistan. >> that's rye. their parliament is at a political standstill. >> we'll be watching that this week. a lot of consternation over the -- tunisia has seen a lot of violence. what is going on with the dictator? >> the thing is what's interesting is our senior international correspondent ben wedeman got a tour of the palace of the nephew of ousted president and the question is when we have these protests taurnld world and these leaders leave their country, what happens to their living quarters. you know, what do they do with their palaces? most of them turn into post revolution tourist attractions and as we saw when saddam hussein was forced out, it bake the u.s. army's main headquarters. >> let's talk about much lighter

news. world pastry cup? >> okay. this is a really sweet story. what we have is the creme day la creme of these pastry chefs that are gathering in france. it is the world pastry cup. it happens once every two years and these guys work in dreams of three to put together these yummy culinary concoctions as you see here. >> next time bring examples. that loveable monster elmo, he's not o on "sesame street" today. instead he and his friend are hanging out at the sundance festival. save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance?really

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hard to say what big bird and oscar the grouch are up to this weekend, but wi know where their buddy elmo is. he's a v.i.p. at the sundance film festival and our brooke anderson ran into him and the man who brings him to live where they're there. >> reporter: james franco, suzanne sarandon, to name a few, but there's one sleblt who's in a category all his own and brings joy wherever he goes. hi, elmo. are you enjoying the film festival? >> i'm having a great time but elmo's kind of sad. >> why? >> because elmo hasn't gone skiing.

>> later we'll bundle you up and we'll go skiing. >> yay. >> i have to tell you my daughter who's a year and a half old, kayte loves you. you foe what she would do if she were here? tickle, ticking, tickle. >> elmo loves to be tickled. >> can i have a hug? you're so adorable. thank you. good to see you. >> good to see you too. >> not many people know the story of the man behind elmo. his name is kevin clash. i spoke with him earlier along with the director of "being elmo:a pup it tear's journey". here you are. 6'tall. >> i won't say my weight. >> how do you embody this child-like innocence, the high-pitched voice of elmo. >> you have to do it for about

over 20 years. that's what i've been doing. it's constantly a lot of fun. a lot of fun. this is why this is a little different for me. >> you wanted to be a puppet erie since you were a child. >> animated, the way they hook, the funless of them. i think that really was it. i stad glued to the television. my mom said if you stay that close to the tv, you'll go blind and stuff. >> i think my mom told me that too. >> oh, really? you know, so it was just the fascination. >> director conny marx, were you ever concerned in making this documentary about taking away from the magic, the illusion of elmo? >> no, i wasn't concerned about taking away from the illusion of elmo at all. we've been making this film for six years and we got into a shorthand and a rhythm where everybody knew what the boundaries were. it just turned out great. >> again, this is for adults.

>> kevin, when kids see elmo, they lose their minds and elmo appeals to so many different demographics. it's gaut to be awe-inspiring. >> i'm like a fly on the wall because they don't normally see me. they see me as somebody carrying around their friend but it's really -- to see a kid running with arms wide open to grab their friend is always a really sweet thing to see. >> i'm sure. so heart-warming. >> very, very. >> they are now shopping the documentary to distributors here at sundance. if you want to hear more about the magic of elmo, go to beingelmo.com. brooke anderson, cnn, park city, utah. new developments in a kidnapping case that goes back nearly 25 years. we're live from connecticut where the woman who pretended to be the mother of the victim is under arrest. but first why cake has the number one all bum in the country this week, but this honor just doesn't carry the

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