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he proclaimed he was gay on his blog over the weekend. >> the 14-year-old new york boy committed suicide after enduring bullying for years. continuing on, i'm brooke baldwin, here we go, t.j. holmes live in las vegas for tomorrow's presidential debate. matthew chance is in gaza covering the prison exchange and karina huber has news about your cell phone bill. time for reporter roulette. we'll begin with matthew chance. matthew? >> reporter: brooke, thanks very much. that's right within the next few hours there could be one of the biggest prisoner exchanges for some time here in the
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palestinian territories with isra israel. 1,027 israeli -- palestinian prisoners held in israeli jails will be swapped for just one israeli soldier, gilad shalit, arrested in gaza five years ago. a lot of anticipation, excitement here in gaza for that to take place, in israel a lot of concern that too much of was given away for the release of just one man, brooke. >> when do we know yet we can expect the exchange to take place? >> reporter: they're keeping those details very much under wraps, at least here on the sort of palestinian side of things. we're expecting in about nine hours now, about midnight your time, that the prisoner exchange will get under way with an initial release of several hundred palestinian prisoners by israel here into the gaza strip, only then will the hamas militant group who have been
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holding gilad shalit for five years transfer him to the red cross and he'll be moved across into egypt and handed to the custody of israeli officials and taken home. >> matthew chance live in gaza, matthew, thank you. next, karina huber live at the new york stock exchange. i know we're hearing a possible end to surprises over the size of your cell phone bill. how so? >> right, brooke. the fcc is moving to end what it calls bill shock. that's when with you open your cell phone bill and see a number that is so large your eyes almost popt. essentially, they'resaying that st pgete $100 in overcharges, but one person even got a $68,000 charge for going over. don't quite know what happened there, but they're saying that parents often find this happens with kids. that's a little worrisome. starting next year essentially wireless companies have to send you an alert, via voice mail or text, and it will tell you when you're close to your limit. it will send you an alert when you go over.
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this will be free and automatic unless you opt out. >> let me ask you about those iphone 4s sales. i was at a store over the weekend to replace an iphone and they were all sold out. >> well, yeah. these are a very, very hot device. despite the lackluster reviews, essentially sold 4 million devices in three days. that is a record for iphone sales, to compare, less than 2 million of the previous iphones were sold in its opening weekend. a couple of differences this time, though, the iphone 4s is launched on more carriers so at&t, verizon and sprint and in more countries than last time. the gangbusters sales were not a huge surprise, the iphone 4s preorders topped 1 million. >> thank you, karina. finally to las vegas we go, t.j. holmes covering the ramping p up to the cnn gop presidential
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debate. t.j., what do you have? >> reporter: well, the debate is coming up tomorrow night 8:00 eefrn time. you know there will be a lot of talk about the economy. no better place to talk about it than here in las vegas with its issues with foreclosure rates and also the unemployment rate here. i got to talk to one of the foremost experts here on the economy, a cabdriver. >> the recession kicked in, the strip got slow, they laid off thousands. these thousands couldn't find work. they started losing their holmes. these people lose their homes, local construction starts slowing down. these people start losing their jobs. they start losing their homes. >> reporter: and, brooke, i was being kind of tongue-in-cheek on the foremost expert but they can tell by looking at the strip it's not as busy as it used to be. economy one of the worst in the country, 14.2% the unemployment rate here in the vegas metro area. >> t.j. holmes, thank you very much. let's remind everyone the big debate tomorrow night 8:00
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eastern right here on cnn. now ythis. >> it looks like a dungeon. these people were stored like surplus meat in the basement. >> a disturbing discovery to say the least in philadelphia. four mentally disabled adults found locked up in a basement. we are hearing there could be other victims in other states around the country. also, he is 100 years old, ran 26 miles. he is even revealing his secret for good health and a long life. that story coming up in two minutes.
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about to see it. rapid fire beginning with the sad story, the world of indycar racing reeling from the death of a champion. fans began placing photos and memories of dan wheldon at the gates of the indianapolis motor speed way just minutes after hearing he had been killed if a horrific racetrack crash. >> i know this is a dangerous sport. i know we're exposed to that every day in normal life as well. but you, you know, you don't think about it. and today we have to think about it. i lost one of my best friends. >> dan wheldon, the reigning indianapolis 500 champion, died yesterday in this fiery pileup in las vegas. he was just 33 years old, survived by his wife and two small children. renee-nicole douceur is finally somewhere other than the south pole. the american researcher has been fighting to be evacuated since last august when she suffered an apparent stroke. so all the severe weather kept her there, kept her grounded. couldn't take a plane in or out.
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a u.s. air force transport was finally able to reach the pole and today she arrived in new zealand for treatment. after spending 26 years in prison for a murder he did not commit, dewey bozella won his first professional boxing match at the age of 52. he claimed victory. president obama called to wish him luck last week. you can call it a real dutch master murder mystery. legend has it the genius yet depressed painter vincent van gogh committed suicide, shot himself. but two pulitzer prize-winning writers looked into unanswered questions surrounding van gogh's death and they are drawing a different conclusion. >> that a couple of kids had shot vincent van gogh and he decided to basically protect them and accept this as the way to die, these kids had basically done him the favor of shooting him. >> he was covering up his own
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murder. >> covering up his own murder. >> at the same time, curators at the van gogh museum in amsterdam are skeptical of the story and saying there's not enough evidence to be certain. the world may actually never know for sure. and take a look at that man right there. that is fauja singh, now the oldest person ever to finish a marathon. he's 100 years young, crossed the finish line at the toronto waterfront marathon after a good eight hours. even though he finished in last place, he didn't even start running marathons until he was 89 years old. his coach credits singh's diet of tea, toast and curry. singh runs ten miles a day. four mentally disabled adults found locked in an apartment basement. they were rescued by the landlord who will join me live with details. plus, another strange story. we're talking about amish on
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defenseless mentally challenged adults held kamticap in a basement, one chained to a radiator. it sounds like something from a horror film, but police in philadelphia say that is precisely what happened. they say the four people found by the building's landlord saturday night were emaciated, covered in bedsores, living in filthy conditions. now three people here have been
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arrested, all of them facing charges including aggravated assault, kidnapping, unlawful restraint and false imprisonment. they're accused of stealing the laejtded prisoners' social security checks. police say linda weston orchestrated the kidnapping, traveled to at least two other states with the people found in this basement and then she allegedly had i.d.s for about 50 people in her possession. here is what philadelphia's police commissioner told cnn earlier today. >> we've got about 50 different i.d.s of people, social security information, power of attorney information, those kinds of things which we now have to track down each and every one of these people to get their status. we believe that she's been involved in this for a period of time. we don't know how many victims, however, are part of this investigation. >> we have the property manager and landlord of the building, the person who found these four
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people. he joins me live from philadelphia. if you can just take me back, sir, to saturday night. i understand you were headed toward the basement following the sound of a barking dog and you come into this dark space. then tell me, what did you see? >> it was actually saturday morning around 10:00 a.m. my normal check of the property, i arrived at the building and i keep my tools, everything in the basement for the simple maintenance. when withi entered the base thme wlient work -- light wasn't working. i went to pick up my flashlight in vehicle, return back. as i reenter the base thement i
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start to hear dog barking. that was dark in the basement and somehow i thought some stray dog got in the basement. i follow to the sound, i went to the basement and saw the old boiler room door is locked and the chain wrap around the door handles. and when i unwrap the door handle and open the door and look i saw blankets, pillows, that kind things, filth. i pull the blanket from the ground, underneath i saw human feces and dogs are barking and i questioned the people under the
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blanket, what they are doing here. i didn't get an answer and dog start barking vicious. then i close the door to get out. >> let me jump in and ask, you tried talking to them, but they were unresponsive? they wouldn't talk back? >> they didn't give any kind answers but that was the kind moment i talk nor than two people because when i pull the blanket that was two people showed up under the blanket. but the other side dark corner of the area, dogs were barking and as i not able to handle the situation it was best to reclose the door and get out to the street and call police assistance.
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>> how large is that room? and how filthy were the conditions? >> really it's about a 10 x 15 small old boiler room, which is not being used anymore. i always keep the door open over there because during rains is the water p seeseeps in the bas and i always peer to stop by to check any water in the sump pump and never lock it. >> did neighbors complain to you? did anyone have any idea there was something suspicious happening in this building in this room? >> oh, yes. not in the room. i believe wednesday evening our block captain lady give me a
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telephone call. something is p happhappening on property, pillow, blanket, come when you see your property. i said, who is this? they say your tenants apartment fifth. i called her and i couldn't approach her. i call her brother, i said, had wh -- what happening? her brother call me back, i'll be glad to clean it. i'm cleaning everything. he says, my mother came and they
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were extra blankets and pillows. >> what a discovery to find in your own small room beneath your base the to find these four human faces one chained. thank you very much. in fact, i just got news in my ear i want to pass along with regard to the story. the alleged ring leader of all of this, linda weston, she now faces a $2.5 million bond. woman in the middle of your screen. now this. new york, god bless them, wonderful city but they have no connection to the space program and certainly no connection to nasa. so why would the shuttle go to new york? it's like putting the statue of liberty in omaha. >> when one of the four retirede shuttles could come to a museum in manhattan. some people are angry. john zarrella live in miami with the shuttle latest. stay here.
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little longer, you will be able to get close enough to touch one of the four now retired space shuttles. the shuttle program as we know it is officially history. nasa is moving ahead with plans to get the spacecraft on permanent display in museums. more on this, john zarrella in miami. johnti john, i thought the final destinations for the shuttles was a done deal. what's going on? >> reporter: you're absolutely right. we all thought it was a done deal. in reality it still is a done deal, brooke. but the folks in texas from the get-go were not happy that they did not get a shuttle and new york did. and if you think they were angry then, they're angrier now. there were only four retired space shuttles available, coveted, the holy grails of space flight. >> the space shuttle pulls into port for the last time. >> reporter: even at a cost of nearly $30 million apiece,
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dozens of museums bid. new york's intrepid sea air and space museum on the hudson river was one of the winner withes. it gets "enterprise," a test shuttle that never flew into space, currently at the smithsonian. but folks in texas tex, home to the johnson space center never happy to new york got a shuttle and they didn't are crying foul again. you bet we are, said the texas representative ted poe. >> is it a bait and switch. >> reporter: let's rewind. may 2010 it, here's what the intrepid museum's executive director told us then. >> on the west end of our pier we have the concord. we would look to place the shuttle in that spot. >> reporter: but the plan now, construct a building not on the end of the pier but over here on the other side of the busy highway on land that's now a parking lot. land they don't yet own, next to a car wash, bagel shop and
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warehouses. museum officials so willing to talk before they were selected wouldn't talk with us now. they issued a statement saying, in part, while we continue to be in the planning stages, we remain on track with both our logistics and our fund raising. poe? he's got plenty to say. >> new york, god bless them, wonderful city, but they have no connection to the space program and certainly no connection to nasa. so why would the shurt elle go there? it's like putting the statue of liberty in omaha. >> reporter: poe wants bidding reopened. nasa on the other hand is satisfied with intrepid's new plan. >> i don't tell them how to suck eggs. they gave us a plan, told us they would have the money, gave us a schedule and everything. as far as i know, they're on schedule, and so i trust them that they're going to deliver what they said. >> reporter: but texans say they have the history. the first words uttered when man landed on the moon, not "new
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york" but -- >> houston, the eagle has landed. >> so "atlantis" will stay in florida, "endeavour" goues out o the science center in los angeles and "discovery" will go to the smithsonian and "enterprise" goes to new york, if everything stays the way it's supposed to right now. >> i know you say on paper it's a done deal. you know nasa better than anyone. is there any chance that they would change their minds? >> it doesn't look that way. i'm not sure what the administrator meant by, i don't tell them how to suck eggs. >> i was wondering the same myself. >> i think it's probably a done deal. you know, nasa and officials at nasa looked carefully at this plan. they want the maximum exposure for the space shuttles. new york gives them more eyeballs on a vehicle than houston, according to the way
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nasa looked at it. so that's why they he want to put it in new york. >> so will "enterprise" have to leave the smithsonian to make room for "discovery"? >> yes, it will in fact. now, this is really another one that's got the folks in texas hopping mad. because the building probably won't be ready in new york, no matter where it's ultimately put, before "enterprise" has to leave. so the plan is for "enterprise" to be put in a tent at john f. kennedy airport in new york, climate-controlled tent there, until the building is ready because it's got to leave d.c. in order for "discovery" to get into the smithsonian. >> ah, the juggling. thank you so much. good to see you. >> sure. coming up, vegas, the place to be this week if you follow politics. seven gop presidential conten r contenders are participating in another debate tomorrow night. new polls are out. who's's hot, who oes not, next.
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i want to take you back to our poll just out. it confirms the herman cain surge, have a look if you would, among republican voters, cain now trails mitt romney by a single percentage point. that is well within the poll's margin of error. also take a look at this, just last month cain was down in the single digits, just 9%. now he's at 25%. romney you can see he had a pretty good month as well, up from 22% to 26%. let's go to gloria borger who no is not in italy. she is in vegas, our chief political analyst. don't let the gondolas fool you. >> reporter: you can hear the gondo leers, serenading,
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absolutely. >> gloria borger, i'm assuming all eyes on herman cain tomorrow night for the debate in vegas. >> reporter: sure. yeah, you know, if you look at that poll, you just mentioned, the republican voters are incredibly unsettled. some would call them fickle. it's clear they're looking for alternatives to mitt romney who seems to remain the same in the polls, sort of mid-20 percentage points. i think what you'll see at the debate tomorrow night is cain on the hot seat and you're going to see people like michele bachmann and rick perry attacking cain because they're losing support, particularly they're going to attack him, i would think, on his 9-9-9 plan. he was grilled on that yesterday, and even he admitted that in the end the 9-9-9 tax plan could raise some taxes on lower and middle income americans, which is not what people are really look for these
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days. so he's going to get the grilling, not only from anderson cooper but also from his fellow republicans. >> yeah. we started to see some of those jabs last week in new hampshire. but looking back to the semi-recent past, we've had the bachmann bubble, the perry bubble, both popped under scrutiny. now the spotlight is shining on cain. sure enough he said something saturday he has since taken back flgt i you want to play this clip. he said he would build an electrified fence along the border with mexico. listen. >> i tell you what, when i'm in charge of the fence we're going to have a fence. it's going to 20 feet high. it's going to have barbed wire on the top. it's going to be electrified. and there will be a sign on the other side that said, it will kill you! warning! mr. cain, that's insensitive. no, it's insensitive for them to be killing our citizens, killing
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our border agents. that's what's insensitive! and that mess has to stop! >> you could hear the cheers as he was talking about the electrified fence along the border, we should also say. he later said that was a joke, but i'm guessing gloria borger you can only get away with one of those "just kidding" things. >> reporter: right. and he actually said it twice. he said that it was a joke. i'll tell you, here in the state of nevada lots of people aren't going to think that's funny. very large hispanic population here, very interested in the immigration issue, very interested in serious immigration policy. so, again, this provides another opening for those conservative candidates who are competing with herman cain for the tea party voters to say, you know, wait a minute, this this isn't a joking matter. and, in fact, that's exactly what michele bachmann said today. she also wants to build a fence, but she said, don't joke about it. it's a very serious issue.
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you know, he said americans need to get a sense of humor. it's a rough economy out there. immigration policy is really important. i don't think anybody wants to joke about these serious issues. they want to hear serious solutions. again, that will be another issue that will comp up in our debate. >> let's remind everyone. gloria, thank you very much. tomorrow night live on cnn the republican candidates for president gathering in vegas to deba debate. we're calling it the western republican presidential debate, 8:00 eastern hosted by anderson cooper. that's the republicans. now let's talk about the president. today he launched his three-day bus tour, two days in north carolina, one in virginia. back if tw2008 barack obama carried each state by a narrow margin, especially north carolina. so first stop this morning? asheville, a town that was likened today to berkeley, california, in the blue ridge mountains. pretty receptive to the president. here he is, comparing his jobs
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plan to that of the republicans. >> so far at least i feel better about my plan. but, but, but let's admit i'm a little biased. so remember those independent economists who said our plan would create jobs, maybe as many as almost 2 million jobs, grow the copy by as much as 2%? one of the same economists that took a look at our plan took a look at the republican plan. and they said, well, this won't do much to help the economy in the short term. it could actually cost us jobs. we could actually lose jobs with their plan. >> the president also said that since senate republicans blocked his jobs plan from being debated he'll break that plan into a bunch of small pieces, get congress to vote on those. he also says he'll seek a vote on his desire to hire teachers
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police and firefighters. coming up, how long do you think it would take for someone to, say, walk around the world? one man did it. he is finally home. we'll have that. but first we're on the case today with ms. holly hughes in studio. prosecutors say new tests prove michael jackson did not swallow an overdose of sedatives. conrad murray trial on hold until wednesday. those details next.
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to be released. "on the case" with holly hughes talking about that and the conrad murray case. a lot have been following the case since august when he was initially arrested in aruba after robyn gardner from maryland disappeared. police say they didn't have enough evidence to hold him, yet he's still there. >> right. >> so what happened? >> well, what they're doing is continuing their investigation. remember, they collected certain items off of that beach. i think there was a condom they collected and some other things. so what they're probably doing is having dna tests done on every piece of evidence. what we see is they haven't gotten the results back yet so the judge is going to allow them to hold him. they don't have enough to charge him yet. they haven't been able to sort of return what we in the united states call an indictment. the actual charging document. they're not there yet because they're not ready to walk into court and say, we can prove it. but they say there's enough for him to still be held in custody there while they continue their investigation, continue interviewing witnesses, and hopefully come up with enough to
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charge him soon. >> but then there was that insurance policy, right? it was the giordano the bebb fishery of a 1 p$1.5 million accidental death policy days before they went to aruba. >> that just doesn't pass the smell test. that stinks to high heaven because what you're looking at, this isn't a couple that was together before they went on this trip. they were sort of internet friends, they talked back and forth. >> but they had not really had a serious relationship. so for him to be taking an insurance policy out on her makes you pause right then and there. then of course she accidentally just disappears in the ocean? yeah, this isn't where she was murdered and her body was found. he wants everybody to believe, if in fact he's the one responsible for her di disappearan disappearance, oh, she just got swept out to sea. so he can collect on the policy. >> he's in aruba, in jail, he wants out. has another detainment hearing
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coming up. will it just be the same story then? >> the judge gave the state or the prosecution down there a certain amount of time. that time has run so i think what the judge is going to be looking for is, what kind of progress have you made? you know, to hold somebody when they're not charged, let's face it, that's a deprivation of their rights. they don't have the u.s. constitution. here in the u.s. you'd be sprung. we can't hold on to you without charging you. but i you think the judge in aruba is going to look very seriously at what coined of progress have you made? how close are you to getting dna results back? what is the status of the case? if you're telling us you haven't made progress, his defense team has a compelling argument for releasing him and saying, hey, if something comes up in the future and you want to charge him, we'll talk about extradition then. in the meantime he needs to go home. >> we'll see what happens with that hearing coming up. also, conrad murray on involuntary manslaughter, that's on hold until, what, at least wednesday. the defense wants more time to study the new lab results.
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prosecutors say the new tests will prove michael jackson did not swallow that fatal dose. >> right. and the defense has to have the opportunity to not only, as the lawyers, review the new reports and the new evidenced but they're going to want to give it to their experts and say, okay, now our experts have to have the opportunity to review and make sure that those tests were done properly, that procedure was followed, there wasn't any contamination or anything that would affect the results of the tests. and we also have dr. steven schafer who is supposed to testify for the prosecution as their last witness, and he had a death in his family. his father passed, which is another reason we're seeing a little bit of delay. so it's sort of a combination of factors. this judge has been fantastic about keeping this on schedule. >> didn't he say it would be just like three week snz. >> exactly. he's kept everybody moving and he obviously understands the need for the defense to look at this evidence and to present it to their experts because you don't want this coming back on
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appeal, if indeed there is a conviction, saying you denied us the appropriate time. so he's being careful to give everybody what they need, but i still think we're probably going to see it wrap up by next monday. i think we'll have it to the jury. >> wow. holly hughes, thank you so much. >> thank you. now this. >> our firearms sales seem to have taken an increase. ammunition sales have gone up. we've sold out of mace three times this week. we've had quite eye few cameras we've sold for people to put on their property. >> an amish community shaken over recent beard cutting attacks. some parents have even been attacked by their own children. we have an amish expert live on the show to give us some information with regard to this amish-on-amish crime, what it means. also, wolf blitzer in vegas. we'll have a preview from him, who he has coming up on "the situation room." be right back. or no collars. we are business in america. and every day we awake to the same challenges.
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leaders of an amish community in rural ohio are doing something that people of their faith really simply don't do. they're asking for help. police help from outside their tight-knit religious circle. that's after these men and a couple of others were arrested on very unusual charges. they're accused of breaking into the homes of amish families, holding down the adults, and cutting off their had hair and beards. it's unusual circumstances that people outside the amish faith may find hard to comprehend. we couldn't think of anyone better to help explain all this, the significance of this, than professor donald crabo, a leading expert on the amish faith from elizabethtown college in pennsylvania. professor, thank you for taking the time to come on. if you can, let's just begin
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with help us understand the significance of these attacks where i know some women's hair was cut short and men's beards cut off. >> that's correct. the beard cutting and hair cutting was instigated by a renegade amish group. the leader left the amish, the main amish community, about 15 years ago and set p up a cult-like community in a different county, in a remote area. and his behavior contradicts all the standard amish expectations for behavior and some of it is quite serious. >> if i may, though, just first explain the significance of beard cutting in this community. >> well, adult men, after they are married, grow a full-length beard. there are references in the hebrew bible to the beard. women wialso allow their hair t
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grow to full length, again, based on biblical teaching from the new testament. and so a full-length beard and full-length hair for women is viewed as an important symbol of amish those off is really, you know, a way to assault amish identity and amish typical amish behavior. >> okay, i was going to ask, so just that would be equated to an assault on their faith and community. also, i know, having covered the nickel mine school shooting years ago, amish people are very private. it is difficult to get them to talk. being a member of the media, they want to turn the other cheek. can you turn to the significance of them reaching out to the outside and calling police? >> well, they prefer not to call attention to themselves and so the they are reluctant to appear on media. and like wise in terms of
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inviting the help of local law enforcement, they typically prefer to solve their internal problems and religious problems inside their community. but when they become serious, or involve some kind of violence, they will turn to the outside law enforcement agencies for help. and so, the families who were assaulted, some of those families are the ones that agreed to cooperate with law enforcement authorities. >> and sir, in your years of expertise in this field, have you ever heard of anything like this? >> i don't know of any other cases like this. and it is really not correct to call this amish on amish violence -- >> because you say it was a renegade group. >> precisely. >> got it. >> this renegade leader acts like a cult. he uses, he masquerades under
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the amish name. uses religion as a way to create a kind of barrier between himself and law enforcement officers. he thinks he is invincible and answers to no one else except to himself. so in all of those ways, and other ways, including accounts of sexual abuse and physical abuse in his group, he certainly doesn't qualify for the name amish. >> professor, thank you very much. beard-cutting and now arrests. thank you, sir, for helping us understand the amish community. now man from montreal who decided to go on a little walk one day. that walk was 11 years ago. he is back home after walking around the world. back in 2000, he said he had a mid life crisis. closed his business and started
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jogging. he ran all the way it atlanta before slowing to a walk, kept going, over six continents. more than 60 countries, wearing out 54 pairs of tennis shoes. his goal was to raise awareness and peace for children. now that he is home, maybe he will sit down a little while and give those running shoes a break. coming up, "the situation room" with wolf blitzer. wolf is live in las vegas and you have ron paul on the show. >> ron paul, dan pfeifer, white house communications director. we have a lot coming up the next two hours. brooke, remember last week, we had a discussion about a popular singer and you were pronouncing her name one way and i pronounced it another way. do you remember that? >> yes. >> do you remember? >> of course i remember. >> we will remind our viewers who that famous singer is. just to remind you, she has that
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hit with eminem, "i love the way you lie." >> i was saying brieian, you said rhianna. >> i went to google. there are videos of her. she is from barbados. he is rhianna as i said or as you said. let's listen. >> hey guys, i'm r hawahianna. >> wolf blitzer, is this your way of saying, brooke baldwin, i told you so? >> it's my way of saying she is from barbados and in barbados they say say rihanna. have you been to barbados? >> i have not. should rego some time? you can show me how to speak.
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>> i've been to barbados. i have to thank may make-up artist. she is the one who took me off to that. >> thank you for clearing that up. you want to talk about why you are in vegas? >> so from now on we all say rihanna. we don't say rihanna any more. >> okay. i'm told we have to go. ron paul is coming up on the show. mr. pfeifer as well from the white house. can't wait. see new five minutes. >> thank you, very much. my goodness. you just never know. lady gaga, stevie wonder, ashton kutcher, bono. stop. [ laughter ] >> oh, my goodness. coming up -- come over here. we will be right back. what was that about? . i'm not a number.
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former president bill clinton celebrating the 10th anniversary of his foundation over the weekend. along with his belated 65th birthday party. joe johns in studio. >> hello. >> hello. thanks for being part of the giggle fit. let's talk about this. >> yeah. gosh. ashton kutcher, lady gaga. she was the big headliner. i have it written down here. bono, ellen degeneres. usher. people like kenny chesney. stevie nicks. stevie wonder. >> but ga ga we want to talk
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about. >> what did she do. >> she is very edgy. she was very edgy here in fact. she actually, not only did she flirt the bird, she also dropped the f bomb. >> at the former president. >> yeah. let's listen. >> okay. >> if someone had told me so many years ago that i would be doing that right in front of y'all, i would not have believed them. give just a good american [ bleep ]. >> there you go. >> okay so we blurred that. so that was one bit of fun. >> a birthday party for a former president. probably not a sitting president. because if you were at the white house, it would have been all about respect for the office. >> yeah, that would have been a no-no. what else did she do? >> the thing is, former president clinton was totally prepared for this, which is interesting. he was able to ride with it and even made a little comment about it. listen to what he said. >> okay. >> always kinds of g
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