and i'm very, very proud of my union. >> alec, it's been a great pleasure. thank you. >> my thanks to you, piers. thank you. >> that's all for us tonight. >> sunshine and politics. two days perfect florida's big primary, the sun could be setting for some gop hopefuls. >> we're doing great. we're in this for the long haul. >> priest, lies, and videotapes. a man of the cloth with a camera sparking an investigation. now four officers indict, acc e accused of executive force and profiling latinos. >> switching mystery. what's causing high school students to erupt with uncontrollable outbursts and ticks? >> i have that worse and started twitching and everything.

>> aaron brock vich on the case, turning up the heat for answers. >> black or white? even his friends were wrong. but as you'll discover, when it comes to race in america, don't assume anything. >> good evening, everyone. the floir finish line is coming into view. four presidential hopefuls are still standing as we approach tuesday's primary. and the three most recent polls show mitt romney holding double digit leads over newt gingrich. the question is, can romney translate his front-runner status into votes? and what will florida mean once all those votes are counted? here is dandy crowley. >> reporter: florida will break the tie, but it won't win the game. the four intend to keep on

keeping on. they can all see the white house from their campaign headquarters. >> we will beat barack obama. >> newt gingrich thinks he can muddy up prospect by doing well? states that diffy up delegates. >> tease are all proportional representation states. and he's not going to be anywhere near a majority by april. this is going to go on all the way to the convention. >> reporter: looking to caucus states, ron paul also depends on the law of political gravity. >> we're going to stay in and see what come of it. and who knows what will come of the other two candidates. you know, there's been lots of ups and downs. >> reporter: rick santorum needs a miracle like iowa, he needs a

ittumble from the top. >> we're doing great. and -- but we're in this for the long haul. we just weren't going to go out and spend every dime in a huge state like florida. >> reporter: ever the ceo, romney is a numbers cruncher, figures in the highs and lows. he patiently awaits a return on his investment. >> in the financial analysis, if i do my job right, we'll be able to take the prize. >> reporter: even if the florida results do not change the players, they will surely change the game. >> game on. >> reporter: florida is not rick santorum's iowa, dismissed as too white, too rural with a lousy record of choosing winners. >> thank you, new hampshire. >> reporter: nor is florida, romney's new hampshire, discounted as a hometown win.

and florida is not gingrich's south carolina, diluted by naysayers as an oversome amming of the evangelicals. florida is nobody's home state. it is popula diverse, and hard hit about it economic down turn. there is a constituency for everyone. florida is the no excuses state. a good win for romney would establish him as the front-runner. a nice win for gingrich would make him more than a one-state wonder. florida will change everything. even if we don't notice it at first. candy crowley, cnn, washington. looking at a live picture of miami. cnn, of course, is your source for complete coverage of tuesday's florida republican primary. our special coverage live coverage begins at 6:00 p.m. eastern. and coming up in less than a half hour, my no talking points segment. tonight, a challenge to tell the truth. you won't want to miss it. in other news, a massive poll open along a one-mile

stretch of florida interstate kills ten people. drivers on a stretch of i-75 were blinded from smoke from a brush fire in the predawn darkness on sunday. some stopped when they drove into the smoke and in an instant cars and trucks started smashing right into each other. it happened near gainesville. he told me how he watched a driver who stopped next to him die. >> and i tell you, no later than five seconds later we heard a crash on the back. guarantee you in no less than three seconds after we heard that, the driver was under the semitruck. >> wow. >> and that experience alone just really blew me and my friend's mind because we were just talking to this guy and he is under a semitruck. and after we, you know, we sat there and we were like, you know, we're going crazy, no later than ten seconds later, we get hit by a car going at least

80 miles an hour on the interstate and then literally knocks us into the semitruck. >> the florida highway patrol had just reopened i-75 when the collision started. oakland, california, now is assessing the damage while police are on stand by, waiting to see if occupy protesters will return to the streets. this is from last night when police say occupy protesters tried to take over a vacant convention center. police fired tear gas and smoke grenades into the rowdy crowd.

they say that the occupiers pelted them. they tried to take over a convention center. some of them trashed city hall. they burned a flag and spraypainted walls. in the nation's capital. the clock is ticking for occupiers at two camps near the white house. police threw down an ultimatum leave or you'll end up in handcuffs. on friday, park police put up a notice telling occupiers they can't camp there overnight anymore. here's what one protester had to say. >> i'm more than happy to go to jail as many times as they would like to take me to jail. if they come to arrest me for camping, they can take me to jail. i'll be out next day, i'll be right back here and they can come arrest me again. four police officers dharnlged with beating and harassing latinos in their

company. the justice department accused police of supporting a policy of abuse. a catholic priest is getting credit for bringing the problem out in public. cnn's national correspondent introduces us to father james manship. >> reporter: he takes his service from the office to the streets. >> any affront to somebody's dignity, to somebody's safety is an affront to god. and it required a response. >> reporter: so respond he did. long before four east haven, connecticut, police officers were indicted for systematically targeting and arrested latinos, father manship picked up a camera to document alleged abuse in his own backyard. >> sir, what are you doing? is there a reason you have a camera on me? >> reporter: a stour security camera was rolling in this

latino convenience store when the priest saw police order that some old decorative license mraements be taken off a wall. >> i began to videotape what was going on. and then i was arrested. >> reporter: the priest's camera kept romming on police. >> is there a reason you have a camera on me? >> yes. >> why is that? >> i'm taking a video what's going on here. >> reporter: the store's camera spokes what happened next. father manship is arrested and charged with disturbing the police. >> he's definitely played critical role in helping people come forward and helping people really stand up. >> reporter: the fbi used

manship's video to help establish what the justice department called discriminatory policing of latinos. authorities say more arelss are expected. east haven's mayor, who has been criticized for insensitive exempts about the latino community, says he stands behind the police department. the father's parishioners say they are blessed to have him speaking out. "if it weren't for him," she says, "we wouldn't nope what to do. he's the best." >> this was not for us, similarly about a few bad apples. this was a serious decull chral issue within the police department that needed to be transformed. >> reporter: among latinos, fear of police remains almost pant. >> what is the reason why you stop me? no reason at all. because you are latino. >> my hope is that one day we'll have a police department in east haven that we can be proud of. >> reporter: the priest who holds an engineering degree and once designed brakes for a living now finds himself trying to put a stop to alleged racial profiling. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. one candidate is surging from the florida primaries. what is he doing right? plus, what is making this girl twitch? there are about a dozen others like her with a mystery illness at a high school in upstate new york. those stories straight ahead.

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that is going to become a key part of this. >> i was talking early better the romney versus gingrich battle. i asked them what romney's been doing right lately. >> i had a huge complaint about mitt romney. i couldn't believe he wasn't man enough to stand up to newt gingrich. but this past week, he's been man enough to stand up to newt gingrich. he's actually confronted him. he's taken him on. mitt was playing the nice guy and now mitt has rolled up his sleeves and he got tough. i think that's taken everyone by surprise. >> want to play something that romney said about gingrich in florida today. listen, guys. >> i think for each of us if we fail somewhere, if we fail in the debate or fail to get the spore of people, it's time to

look in the mirror. my view is the reason that speaker gingrich issing are a hard time in florida is people of florida have watched the debates, have listened to the speaker, have listened to the other candidates and said, you know what? mitt romney is the guy we're going to support. >> is that true? are we watching newt gingrich implode? >> you got a couple things going on. first, there is the mechanical answer, the political answer. that is mitt romney outspent newt gingrich $15 million to $30 million. so there's things going on politically. also has surrogates out there across the state following newt gingrich around winning the political battles. so that is going on. at the same time, yes, this is following the pattern of all of newt gingrich's relationships, whether or not they are professional or personal. the longer you're exposed to newt gingrich, the less you like him. >> wow. i can't even believe you went there. wow. >> and a conservative. you heard what bob dole had to say. i mean there are lots of people

who are high up in the conservative party -- in the republican party who are saying the exact same thing or expressing the exact same sentiment that will just expressed there. >> absolutely. it is really hilarious to see newt running around kolg mitt romney a liar. when he goes off on john king, basically based on a lie. you know, he knew full well that he did not offer abc all the extra witnesses that he talked about and had to admit to his lie. so for him to talk about who is blind at this point, he looks absolutely ridiculous. >> go ahead, will. >> i just want to say, on this lying thing. he is pointing to this. newt gingrich in a debate the other night. when he gave an answer. gingrich said there were four lies involved in the answer. i'm not going to spend the time rejecting all the lies. he did it in the clip he jufd said. i have a candidate i'm running against that is lying consistently. he kupz ueeps using the word lit he's not telling us what are the lies. tell us the lies and how you're rebutting them. you can't just call someone a liar and let it stick.

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let's check your international headlines right now. another violent day across syria as shown in this youtube video. a woman shot by sole engineered was dragged away. 64 people died in attacks sunday. nearly 100 on saturday. cnn cannot confirm those numbers. nor the validity of video since western journalists are heavily restricted. iran's state media report nuclear inspectors have arrived for a two-day look at tehran's atomic energy program there is concern that iran is building a nuclear weapon. iran denies this but agreed to inspections. those sanctions are aimed at cutting off funding for iran's nuclear program. another likely hero found in the wreckage of that italian cruise ship that capsized two

weeks ago. ed bo body found saturday has been identified that of a bartender from peru who worked on the ship. she was found without a lifejacket on. survivors have spoke been a peruvian bartender who gave her jacket to an elderly man who did survive. the number of dead stands at 17. 15 people still unaccounted for. the verdict, guilty, for three afghan immigrants charged in so-called honor murders in canada. a man and his wife and their 21-year-old son were convicted of killing a man's three daughters and his first wife in a polygamist marriage. we have the details in ontario. >> you know this jury did not take very long with this verdict. basically seven women, five men decided little bit less than 15 hours they to to look at 12 counts, four counts each of first-degree murder. they decided guilty. now the three defendants am now spend 25 years in prison without

the possibility of parole. the details are stunning. can you imagine a mother, father, and son, the brother of those girls in the car taking their four by four vehicle, ramming the family nissan into a seven-foot deep canal. inside, three teenage girls and listen to this, don, the woman they called aunty. really she was the first wife of mohamm mohammed. the first wife in a polygamist marriage. again this family immigrated here from afghanistan. you know, social workers have been to their home. they knew there was conflict in the family. but what was really at the crux of this as the jury heard in multiple wiretap conversations is this whole question of honor. this, the jury decided was an honor murder. and why? the family decided the father made it very clear in wiretaps that these women had to go. they were just shaming the family far too much.

and he actually uttered things on the wiretaps to say if they came back to life 100 time, i would do it again. and then may the devil defecate on their graves. i mean really when you hear this on a wiretap, a man talking about his three teenage daughters, one of them being just 13 years old, it was shocking days. and many who were here tell me you could see a difference with the jury saying that, look, they were really quite emotional rendering this verdict. again, these three people spending 25 years in prison without possibility of parole. many here in canada asking questions. you know, i have to underscore this is a rare crime. this is not like this happens very often. at the same time, many people asking how can social service workers and teachers and principals be more atuned to make sure this doesn't happen again? >> thank you very much. how many americans, the word liar is already synonymous with politicians. but if you're going to call someone that, you better be ready to back it up. no talking points next.

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we begin with the president's plans for the week. >> i'm dan loathian at the white house. after a week of selling his state of the union priorities on the road, president obama will take his message online. on monday he'll answer questions on google plus, a live multiperson video chat room. he'll also host the president of the republic of georgia on that same day. president obama is not expected to travel this week. >> coming to you from the world economic forum in davos, switzerland. back on wall street all eyes are on the january jobs report that is coming up on friday morning. it is our first look at jobs in 2012. also coming up this week, the latest consumer confidence reading. that's out on wednesday. and we'll get earnings from amazon, ups and aol. we'll track it for you all week on cnn money. >> i'm a.j. hammer. "showbiz tonight" has major star pow they are week. i go one-on-one with real housewives of beverly hills star taylor armstrong. she is telling all about her alleged abuse nightmare.

plus, hollywood's most charming guy, kneel patrick harris on life as a new dad. be sure to catch "showbiz tonight" exclusively week nights at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific on hln. >> all right. thank you. tomorrow's morning's weather. shou that going to affect your drive to work? jackie gerris with the travel forecast for you. >> hey, don. wind is the big weather story all weekend long from california, wind gusts up to 50 miles per hour across the great lakes. that's going to be the story once again as you head out the door tomorrow. even last throughout much of the afternoon. the northeast you'll wonder is this going to linger for the morning commute? for the most part, the answer is no. this is a real quick mover. but the winds coming back in behind it will continue to be an issue for all of the big cities across the northeast. now the big picture then as we look at foretomorrow is much quieter across the southern two-thirds of the lower 48. but the northern tier will remain a little bit active. new clipper for the midwest.

rain and snow across the pacific northwest. everybody else is looking really sunny and warm. temperatures way above average. you probably don't need a coat by the afternoon ais kro the south. look at kansas city, 64 degrees. even 40s up here across parts of north is unseasonably mild for this time of the year. all right. let's hit it. the top five worst travel cities for your commute. tomorrow morning, we start out with city number five. we're going to say new york city. it doesn't take much of a wind to cause delays, especially at laguardia. we're expecting to see some minor delays maybe around the range of 15 to 30 minutes. city number four, seattle. this is going to be for you drivers. i think the airport will be okay. looking for rain and low clouds and, of course if, you're trying to head to the mountains, you'll see some of that snow as you head to the passes. miami, city number three, very blustery there. sunny and 77. the winds really going to knock your socks off not to mention if you think you're going to get in the water, the threat of rip currents is really high there for tomorrow.

city number two, detroit, michigan. rain, snow, and some low clouds. that's going to hold you up at the airports and also cause problems on the interstates. and we want to mention city number one, boston, massachusetts. again this is primarily going to be at the airport. the winds are going to be really strong. don, we're talking wind gusts around 30 miles per hour. so that's enough to bring doup tree branches, too. so if you're driving around, be aware of that threat. >> enough to scare a lot of people as well. thank you very much, appreciate it. >> time now for no talking points. >> there have been a lot accusations gagainst each other. the best place to sort it out is getting them in the same room on the same stage. i have an idea, a debate. where they can hash it out and explain themselves. but one candidanedidate in part refuses to own up the to attacks he's been leveling against his strongest competitor. >> this is a nonsense question.

how about if the four of us agree for the rest of evening to talk about the issues about america. >> you made an issue this week when you said that he lives in a world of swiss bank and caiman island bank accounts. you said. that. >> wouldn't it be nice if people didn't make accusations somewhere else that they weren't willing to defend here? >> go wolf blitzer. wolf blitzer gets an honorary no talking points award for an xlept follow up. and mitt romney makes an excellent point. if you're going to go around accusing people of making negative claims about them like the ones i'm about to show you, then you have to be ready to back it up. >> i'm standing next to a guy who is the most blatantly dishonest answers i can remember in any presidential race. he came into the debate preparing to say things that are false. you cannot debate someone who is

dishonest. >> what kind of man would mislead, distort, and deceive just to win an election? this man would. >> that's serious stuff. he is basically calling mitt romney a liar. cnn conservative commentator will cane. >> he keeps using the word liar. but he's not telling us what are the lies? tell us the lies and tell us how you are rebutting them. tell us how they're false. you can't just call someone a liar and it sticks. >> the reason mr. gingrich is up on those debate stages is to answer questions and not to do this, deflect and push supporters to his website. >> i'm not going to spend the evening trying to chase governor romney's misinformation. we'll have a site newt.org by tomorrow morning. he listed four things that are false. i don't want to waste the time on them. >> not that we're taking any sides. we're not taking any sides. the truth is that sometimes when you repeat something over and

over and over again, people start to believe it. perception is reality. but it's not always the truth. i'll say that again. perception is reality, but it's not always the truth. however, it can become a catchy refra refrain. you want an example? ♪ newt gingrich taking over the street ♪ >> i like that song. it may be cute and catchy. but it's not the truth. that is not taking over the streets. in all seriousness though, it's great that mr. gingrich wants to move on and focus on the issues. but if he doesn't back up his claims, it's just name calling. and that's tonight's "no talking points." up next on cnn, a symbolic landmark that was a reminder of the tornado that struck joplin, month moshgs last year comes down.

police in alabama believe more than one person is responsible for the deaths of five people at a home in birmingham. officers discovered the bodies early sunday as they were responding to a report of a robbery in progress. police do not believe the killings were random. new developments in the case of a missing girl in maine. police say test results show that blood found in the home of little ala reynolds does belong to the 20-month-old girl.

she was reported missing on december 17th. police say there's no evidence of the girl was abducted and they have cast doubt on stories told by three adults including her dad who were in the home when ala disappeared. it's been eight months since a tornado slammed joplin, month moshgs killing 161 people. a hospital was heavily damaged and sunday demolition crews began tearing it down. a four foot wooden cross that once hung in the emergency department was taken to the new hospital site about two miles away. demolition crews used a wrecking ball to tear down the hospital fearing they would damage surrounding properties. highlights to have night's 18th annual screen actors gild awards, "the help" was the big winner. viola davis wins for top female actress and she was back. when the award for the top cast of motion picture went to "the help" as well. among other winners, betty white

for outstanding female actor and tv comedy series. we love betty white. and now boardwalk empire for the second year running. earlier tonight i asked george clooney why i didn't get to attend the sag awards. listen to the exchange. >> there's someone there, i don't know, kind of recognize this guy and young lady. i think he is george clooney and stacy korean winter. hello. >> don, vicinity stopped laughing. george is such a comedian. george clooney and his beautiful date stacy kiebler. we're so thrilled to you have with us. talking about the big night ahead. how fabulously thrilled are you? >> fabulously tlhrilled but i'm disappointed dan couldn't make the show. >> i'm very disappointed as well. i didn't get george's invitation. >> he's very disappoint the as well. >> i'm sorry, it's in the mail.

>> still never got it. all right. moving on now. hugh hefner says the lindsay lohan edition of "playboy" magazine could be the biggest telling issue ever. "playboy" with lohan on the cover is going to be a record breaker. she was paid close to a million dollars to pose for "playboy." all right. it was the longest grand slam final tennis open in history. the men's final started sunday in melbourne and ended in the early hours of monday. when it was over after almost six hours, world number one djokovic, deveeted spain's nadal in five sets. congratulations. up next, a mystery illness in upstate new york causing high school students to have violent outbursted and uncontrollable twitches. but first, the drastic drop in home prices at the root of

america's economic crisis is still being felt in florida which was hit especially hard n this week's mastering your money, we report on the crisis in the sunshine state the site of tuesday's gop primary. >> home prices here down from the peak $80,000 median home prices down $80,000. orlando is a little worse. miami is worse. down about 40% here. you can see it's about 50%. imagine the value of your home cut in half really limits your omgss, doesn't it if, you're a homeowner, whether or not you're under water. >> which is why when we heard the debate on jacksonville on thursday night, the social issues didn't come into play all that much. if you can get past newt gingrich and mitt romney sniping at each other. it was all economic issues. even rick santorum wasn't doing that in florida. >> yeah. you know, anybody who's going to cast a ballot tuesday or in the general election, they'll have

housing baggage. you know, i talked to a real estate professor who said you're not going to fix the housing crisis until you fix the jobs crisis. but he also said, i know you're going to be interested in this, he said when he runs studies going back as long as we have independent data about housing, five years from now his best assumption is that home prices will be higher. because all of the ingredients are, there right? record low mortgage rates. home price that's are so low. afford abltd finability finally. you have to clean out these foreclosures, the people who have been blown out and start fresh. but right now you've got to delay and that cleaning out because the foreclosure, there is still the shadow inven tore yif homes. >> that's exactly right.

at least 15 teenagers are displaying odd symptoms, twitching and verbal outbursts. doctored diagnosed it as conversion disorder. but new developments may have revealed there is more to this story. earlier i spoke with hln's dr. drew pinsky. there is a investigation. you are have spoken to her on your show. what did she have to say to you? >> she is come upon information that really is rather stunning. and i just like that we are looking under every stone to try to see if we can understand what

happened to these young girls. and even if there's not a direct relationship between what we uncover with aaron brokovich and these girls strange illness, the fact is what we uncovered i can only describe as an environmental disaster up there in leroy. she found out that in the early 70s there was a train derailment where thousands of gallons of tce was spilled, it is a known carcinogen, something that can cause neurological disorders was spilled into the ground right there outside of leroy just a few miles from that school. and she had discovered that there about h. been bedrock samples from in and around that area showing a plume of this potentially carcinogenic compound heading towards that high school. now she set up one of her own investigators to leroy. we sent a team up there. what you're going to see monday night is just astonishing. they went to the site of the train derailment and it found that the remediation site, the site where they were supposed to

manage all these toxic chemicals has itself become a pre -- almost an aton autonomous site of its own. so we're on this and trying to understand where and what these girls might have been exposed to and what this community might be facing. >> i want you to talk about this conversion disorderment but even if it is that and it turns out it is conversion disorder, as you said, it's still a huge problem when you look at all the chemicals that were spilled here and if you look at that site. let's talk about conversion disorder, dr. drew. i have another doctor, dr. wendy walsh, say it could be conversion disorder but we don't know right now until all the testing is done. and i have people who are writing to me via social media saying i don't think it's conversion disorder. i think it's a chemicals. what do you make from talking to the girls?

>> i spent decades working in a psychiatric hospital. you would be stunned how often i found bonnafied medical conditions underlying the psychiatric syndrome. in this particular case, particularly miss sanchez, there felt like there tl is something organic going on. there let me define conversion for you. it's a way of the body expressing psychiatric or psychological symptoms through blindness, numbness, twitches, this sort of thing much it's a physical manifestation unconscious of an emotional event. does it happen. it happens. there is a contagion. but you doan want to call -- by the way, there may be a component of this in leroy. i have no doubt there might be. you don't want to say everyone's got that until you have categorically ruled out medical causes. and that has been my call. there is some experts out there that can help us with infectious

agents that can cause this or chemical agents and erin brokovich stepped up and we uncovered things astonishing even if it's not directly related to what these girls have. >> monday night, dr. drew gets n new details. dr. drew every night, 9:00 p.m. eastern only here on cnn. coming up, in this hour, meet dr. james scott. that's him right there. he sees a racial divide in america like almost no one else does. we'll have his fascinating story. [oinking] [hissing] [ding] announcer: cook foods to the right temperature using a food thermometer. 3,000 americans will die from food poisoning this year.

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often you can't see what really matters in life. take the case of dr. james scott, an anesthesiologist in atlanta. from outside appearances, he looks luke any other white doctor. but he's not -- white that is. he talks about a professor of african stories and be warned, this story fine language that some may find offensive. >> hi. how are you? >> i've been in situations where people perceived me perhaps as

white. i never passed. i never denied who i was. but i didn't always go around and advertise. i just was myself. >> how do you identify culturally or racially? >> i'm an appalachian african america. >> april lasha african-american. >> so your father is african-american and your mother is pan american. >> my father who was a graduate of howard university, army man, was very powerful force in my life. we grew up -- my dad pretty much subscribed to the thought of the one drop rule. we were raised african-american and proud of it. growing up, people may not have initially realized i was african-american. one time i was with my cousins. and my cousins came in a variety of skin tones from brown to black. and we were playing, i don't know, touch football. there were these two white men and they were looking at us. one of them says come over here.

come over here, fellow of wai wo meet you. he said let me hold your hand. he said what are you doing playing with those niggers? i'm like, what? a white boy like you shouldn't be over there playing with those niggers. i don't like seeing a white boy over there. come on. i looked at him. he was a big guy. and i kick him in his knee. i just kicked him in the knee. i said don't you call my cousins niggers. i was brought up to be proud to be black. and that racism existed but it's not an excuse for weakness or cowering. it's something that makes you stronger. when i was admitted into my program, my specialty, i can only remember there were a couple of times that were painful. i had a few professors use the n word. >> in your class?

>> in the operating room. >> but you know what? i also was around african-americans who made it horrible racist remarks about whites. and there is racism on both sides of the spectrum. it's so much more important to have a sense of self-worth and an identity who have you are inside and not be classified by the way that others look at you. >> having to write for the one job project and in america has inspired me to search my own family history. i'm going to do my ancestry. you can read my latest posting on cnn.com dot kom slscnn.com/i. one week away from the super bowl and the question is being asked, is football too dangerous a sport? ahead, dr. sanjay gupta and lamar campbell join me to talk about the dangers of concussions.

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been con vicked of murdering these four women. the murdered women are the man's three daughters and his first wife. investigators say the three conducted so-called honor murders to punish the victims for being rebellious and westernized. cnn has spent more than a year investigating the dangers of concussions in sports. coming up at the top of the hour, we'll bring you big hits, broken dreams hosted by our chief medical xpont dr. sanjay gupta. we'll talk about the dangers of concussions while playing football. >> let's talk about the dangers. it is more dangerous than people think? and can it be made, after all, it's sportsment it's football. you're hitting. that's the nature of it. >> it's a violent sport. it is always going to be that way, i think. there are two things. there are a lot of things in the documentary. one is if you have a concussion and then you get a second

concussion while first one is healing, you turn a bad situation into potentially a catastrophic situation. if you have a bruise on your arm and somebody hits you, the next day somebody hits new that same spot, it would hurt a lot more. it's going to heal from the first hit, no doubt. but that second hit hurts that much more. that i of think of your brain the same way. inflame, swollen. but if it gets a second hit, it becomes a really bad situation. and number two, you know, the 650 hits a season when we really dissected a season of a high school football team, we found the vast majority of those occur in practice number questions the players have to learn skills. but so much of that can be dialed back as they're starting to do in states liketh in north carolina and other states aren't country. >> i want to ask you a question, if you had a teenage son, you would let him play high school football? >> no. i'm very consideration of how i feel. if he did decide to be that. he would be hohn yort education and knowledge whast game can do to down the line. that's the important