family to work. >> social media is a big catalyst in all of this, too. the acceleration of all of this, again, super bowl weekend people barely heard of this guy. but the -- i think sort of the swiftness of all this is interesting too. it's a great sports story. >> thank you, jon, joining from us frld fld tonight. >> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. an arizona sheriff dropping a series of bombshells on the public. one, he's gay. two, he's leaving a prominent post with the mitt romney campaign. three, he denies intimidating a former lover with the risk of deportation. that's paul balbu. the phoenix new times is claiming that he threatened to deport his ex-boyfriend, a mexican immigrant, identified

only as jose, if he revealed their relationship. these are the photos that jose gave the paper and he denies any wrongdoing here. he's leaving his role as mitt romney's state campaign co--chair but he's staying in the race in arizona's fourth congressional district. later in the show, we'll talk with the reporter who broke the story. and tomorrow night, we've got the sheriff himself, an exclusive interview with ac 360, monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn you won't want to miss that. and now to the violence in syria. residents say that they are growing akus can stop where the war is hopelessly outgunned. nick paton walsh has the latest. >> reporter: awakening to the

offensive and you are seeing troops move in the direction of that neighborhood, concerns growing over the past few days heightened this morning that this may be preparation for some syrian army onslaught into that neighborhood quite separately, in a different part of the country, they are still trying to digest the ramifications of yesterday's protest shot upon by syrian security forces. allegedly a protest turned into violence and the presidential palace is nearby and many ministries as well. this may have caused some in the capitol to cause greater disquiet. the violence is playing out and perhaps the protests may finally have an impact among the psych

key of residents living in that vital area in damascus. nick paton walsh, beirut. >> well, there's the situation in greece. greeks are getting tired of having budgets cut, shoved down their throat. thousands of protests in athens. the greek prime minister hopes to seal the deal for tomorrow for $171 billion in new funding. the new austerity measures would slash the rate and timothy geithner says he supports the bailout plan. at least 38 people have died in a prison riot in northern mexico. state media reports that clashes broke out today and a prison guard was taken hostage. new clashes break out a week before the presidential

election. police today fired rubber bullets and protests near a mosque. the surge in violence there this weekend has marred early voting. demonstrators are frustrated about the term. iraq is striking a new oil war with tehran. iran claims that it can sell the excess oil to other customers. china, india, for instance already import more than a third of iranian oil. europe is brushing off the move. the eu has already approved a ban on crude from iran set to take effect this year. whitney houston now in her final resting place. the music legend was buried during a private ceremony in westfield, new jersey.

yesterday she was remembered in a star-studded funeral service at her hometown church. there are still many questions about how houston died buttocks kolg results are still weeks away. cnn producer raelyn johnson was invited to the service. she says it was an emotional service. >> for three hours you literally felt like this was a girl from new jersey who had a few famous friends and it is the same church service that will go on and it was sell brag, it was singing. it was praise for three hours and it wasn't until the very end until you remembered that this was a funeral and it was a very sad day for a lot of people. there were about 1500 of us and it was a very close view. i have to say there wasn't a lot of sitting because there was a lot of reveling and clapping. i knew every song and so did

everyone else. this was a group of church-going folks, i should say, and even where i was sitting, the kas skut comes by you. you see cissy houston so broken down, oprah winfrey, and it was so hard to really believe what had happened and to know that you go there to support people or to cover a story and to realize that, you know, i don't have to go and bury my mother today or my child and i think it was such a beautiful service for three hours it wasn't until the last moment that you pinched yourself and said, there's oprah winfrey with a face full of tears and tyler perry with a face full of tears. it all really sunk in and got really, really heavy. because the entire time we were on our feet clapping and singing. >> cnn producer raelyn johnson. rick santorum raising

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rick santorum speaking right now at a church called earth redeemer. his controversial comments made this week about theology, he's talking about theology now. let's listen. >> by the way, the accommodation was no accommodation. [ applause ] it is trampling a constitutional

right. it is saying that the government knows better. it is imposing his ideology on a group of people expressing their theology, their moral code. and saying government will force you to do what your face says is gravely wrong. thank god the leaders of the catholic church have said they will not comply. [ applause ] and if you think this was just a one off, if you think this was

just, well, the president may have miss calculated on this one, now about a case that was just decided two weeks before that on the united states supreme court? it's not like you didn't see this coming. there was a case before the united states supreme court called hosana tabor where the government of the united states, the obama administration saw to impose em employment discrimination statutes against churches with respect to the hiring of their ministers. they made the case that they could enforce employment discrimination with the hiring of their ministers who didn't agree with the face of the church. there was a question by justice kagan where they asked the

question, are you suggesting that you can force the catholic church to hire women priests? the answer was yes. so if you think this is just a miscalculation or just pan doctoring to a particular interest group, when i got into this race because i saw obamacare as a threat to the very foundational principles of our country, as a threat -- >> all right. that is rick santorum incoming, georgia, about 20 minutes outside of at lan tark talking about all of the issues that he's been speaking about. contraception, women in combat, santorum called it a phony theology. goldie taylor, we're talking about the hosana tabor case. >> sure. >> i am -- i don't know much

about the hosana tabor case. i know peripherally but you know in depth. you know what? >> what he's saying tonight is an out and out lie. what they are asking is, does labor law apply to all employees, including lawyers of faith and the answer is that is yes. now, does that mean that they are going to force people to hire women into ministry when women aren't allowed in some denominations? no, it doesn't mean that at all. but it does mean that the church secretary may be of a different faith of the church for which she is working. >> this is red meat for -- he's speaking to a group of -- a captive audience and he knows it. >> he absolutely knows who he is talking to and about what. >> it's interesting, because rick santorum talked about the economy. he spoke about the economy and

he spoke about social issues somewhat in the beginning. >> sure. >> but then when newt gingrich questioned him on social issues, he said, let's talk about something else. let's not really talk about these things. i thought it was about the economy. now it's about social issues. what's going on here? >> the difficulty was the republicans played politics with this economy. the economy is having its revenge. it's now playing with politics. the economy is rebounding. people are going back to work. people are shopping again. there is a renewed sense of consumer confidence about us. you just don't bet against americans. and so that's what is happening now and so you can no longer say, obama has really destroyed this economy because this economy is healing. and so they've turned to things, turned to something else and that something sells social issues, those things that divide us. >> there are those who believe that this is sort of a -- you know, a mandate by the obama administration and there are people who believe that he is

saying you have to have contraception, you are making us think out of the boundaries of what we believe is faith and not act according to our faith. >> i think the obama administration answered it appropriately when they said, no, we don't want churches to have to go against their moral code, against their theology, you know, to invest in contraceptive. we would put that on the insurance carrier but we want that to be accessible to any woman who wants it and so i think that compromise, that allotment was a good thing to do but now to play politics with it, stay away from my girly parts is what i've said. if i want a new contraceptive, if i want to have something during a pregnancy, i ought to be -- i ought to have access to every reasonable standard of health care for women and to attack women's health care in a

year like this will be most unfortunate for republicans. >> you think that's going to pay you've? >> i think it's going to pay off just the opposite fashion. i think that this was the year that they had a golden ticket to win this white house. i think they've flushed that ticket by attacking women this year. >> so is the president going to get credit for a recovering economy and is it going to pay off at the -- at election time? on election day? >> i think he absolutely will. they've said that the president can't be elected with a certain level of unemployment. that's not necessarily true. unemployment is falling. the economy is recovering. many fewer people are signing up for unemployment benefits and so, you know, i think the recovery is going to help this president come. >> listen, i know we have to run but on another note, we just talked about the whole whitney houston thing in church. i thought it was interesting about the whole faith part.

>> sure. >> and quite honestly, i was telling all of the people that i had worked with yesterday, piers morgan and soledad o'brien and everyone that it was really a validation that i got from african-americans about the way that they worship in thurge r church on sunday by seeing whitney houston services play out and thanks to cissy houston. >> it was absolutely that. i'm glad that the family decided to take her home to new york. i heard people calling it a funeral yesterday and this is not a funeral. this is a home-going. this is a celebration of life and i think this church really showed up and showed out yesterday. >> can you clear something up for me? everyone would say to me and text me and send me e-mails saying aretha franklin is not her god mother. what's the whole thing about that? what's the truth in that? >> well, the truth is this. darlene love is whitney houston's god mother. cissy introduced whitney to

aretha franklin when she was 10 years old. she became a second godmother to her. but not the traditional that you see with the christianing and baptism. but the god mothers that we collect over the years. >> good stuff. good stuff. and my thoughts and prayers to cissy houston and to the family, of course. finally at peace. regardless of if you liked her as an artist or whatever you thought about her, she is at peace. >> she is at rest and her legacy in in tact. coming up a virginia bill that could threaten women's rights over reproduction. that report is next.

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embryos, the same rights available to you and me. >> it grants recognition that there's a human being here. by itself it cannot criminalize abortion. >> reporter: while the bill doesn't directly challenge the landmark row versus wade supreme court right, republican delegate bob marshal, the bill's sponsor and a long-time opponent, recognizes that it's a step in that direction. the bill hasn't yet passed the state senate. the fight over the legislation here in richmond has been fierce with opponents saying that the bill will severely restrict women's rights and could reduce access to forms of fertilized eggs. >> this is all an overreach by the state and the government and these decisions should be left to a woman and the goal is to

ensure that birth control is illegal. >> reporter: the battle in virginia isn't unique. a similar bill is now pending in oklahoma's legislature. >> i would say that we're in the middle of a wave of these kinds of bills and they are happening across the country. we're also seeing valid initiatives being introduced. >> reporter: virginia's governor has reviewed the bill and hasn't committed to signing it. whatever happens in virginia, one thing is certain. 39 years after row v. wade, the debate over women's reproductive rights is not going away. athena jones, richmond, virginia. next, a woman giving children with cancer a way to reclaim their childhood. you'll see why she is a cnn hero. and then, in one blinding blink of an eye, their tree had given its last.

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the hospital was the only place that my child would go. >> to see the smiles on their faces and they are reclaiming their childhood, that feeling is such joy that it's indescribable. >> to nominate someone making a difference in their community, go to cnnheroes.com. up next, we are talking finances. your finances. reports show historically low employment numbers for young americans. how can you stand out in the job market? here are some ideas right after the break. people with a machine.

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we'll start in cleveland a woman and a baby allegedly snatched from the street were found dead today in the garage of an empty building.

the 19-year-old's estranged is the shooter. 22 new princes of the church as they are known to catholics will be eligible to vote for a new pope when benedict dies. they are also eligible to become the next pope. if there's anybody who deserves a happily ever after is elizabeth smart. smart was abducted and held for months and is now a married woman. she exchanged private vows in hawaii. she's 22 years old. when she was 14, a man snatched her from her home. she was recovered nine months later. the numbers for youth unemployment are out and they are not looking good.

financial expert nicole breaking them down and answering your question right now. nicole, first the news. how bad are these numbers? >> the numbers are so scary, don. only 54% of young people in america have a job. that is only half. and that is the lowest that these numbers have ever been. it shows that the recession is really killing job prospects for younger americans. >> all right. well, let's get to the questions that our viewers had. all right. in this job market, people are going back to school and one viewer asks, i'm $50,000 in debt in student loans and finally found a job. should i start paying off my loans right away? nicole? >> you know, this is a really tricky one. most financial experts will say, yes, stop paying them off right away. the quicker you pay them off, the quicker you can get to other things. but i would say, hold up, wait a minute, especially if you have a sliding scale payment plan because the quicker you pay them off, the higher your payments are going to be and if you can't

keep up with those higher payments, that's really going to upset your creditors. so your credit score could suffer there. they are going to say, wait a minute, why don't you keep up with those payments. so i would say, slow and steady when it comes to paying off your student loans, pay off the higher interest rate debt that you have first before moving on to the student debt. >> okay. next viewer question says, in this tight job market, what can i do to make myself stand out? nicole? >> it always helps to stand out, especially right now. so invest in a trade magazine to find new and creative ways to help your company make more money and come up with a new idea for your boss or invest whatever time or energy that you have in taking a class online or at a local university to hone a skill and once you've actually developed that skill, you can go on sites like odesk and that's where companies hire freelancers

from writing to web design to administrative tasks. makes an extra point on the side. >> elance or -- >> odesk. >> you got it. >> all right. the next one, let's see. i 2k3wr5d waited last may and i'm looking for a job. >> or you can play your work weaknesses. play to your work weaknesses. that's actually the thing that you enjoy doing most which is probably going to be the thing that you give most passion to. do you have a twitter addiction? you might want to reach out to a company to actually get paid. you can't because you have all of the cnn restrictions. but you can promote the tweets online. are you that guy or gal who

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this past week and at the cross-sectionses of tech and sports, we're talking about jeremy lin. and our tech reporter katie lindahl is going to join us. can we take the video down and show katie? she's not even there in the chair. okay. so katie's supposed to be in this segment. this is what happens when you have guests in live television. sometimes they don't get hooked up in time. all right. the story is in prompter. we're going to go a little out of order. have you ever used skype before? you know the pixels don't always give you a perfect picture? but don't sell that to sandro cop. he's an artist for people who pose for him long distance via

skype. >> i think i look very star trek with the he will if here but they do look like that. they are little elf ears. i think he did a good job, is what i'm saying. >> i'm a painter and i'm painting people over skype. >> this new technology and it's still old tech nick. i think it's a great mixture. >> i like that he utilizes skype and then some of the pixels are incorporated into his style, you know. >> this is your mother? >> this is my mother in new zealand. >> and why is she wearing a headset? >> she no longer wears the headset. >> i've not particularly been successful at painting pictures

for people in photographs but i live in the north of scotland so it can be a little difficult. >> does the technology ever get distracting? >> it gets very frustrating when it comes out. there's a real precariousness because you have auto drops, you have pixelations and calls being caught off and of course that's difficult. >> right now this is what i'm doing. >> but there's actually a kind of beauty actually about that because it means that the sitter's really there. you both have to meet and the sitter had to push himself into the painting. >> it was a good, duty tiful. you know what surprised me, i realize how much time i sit in my computer on a daily basis

without getting up to pee or a glass of water. >> i switch up any glasses a little bit. >> and who might this snb. >> this is my sweetheart. >> slept through the whole sitting. it's more of a lying. >> well, she tends to get a little bit inpatient and just because she's a very, very busy person and also not only has she lived around painters all her life so there's absolutely no novelty in sitting for someone that also there's no novelty for sitting for me. >> i take it john didn't comb his hair at all during the sitting? >> no. he's just like that. the reason that it's less detail

in this particular painting is because the connection speed was not that fast. so it was actually very, very pixelated and was throughout. >> do you ever think about what da vinci or rembrant might have to say about painting from skype? >> i do think a lot about what the impressionists may have thought and i thought that monday na would have gone completely bananas. okay. so up next, we have a developing story for you. you want to pay attention to this because it's the one that's burning up the internet and headlines everywhere you see this rising star, he tells the world that he's gay but that's

only half of the story. we're going to talk with the reporter that led to this arizona sheriff coming out of the closet. if you're one of those folks who gets heartburn

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all right. this story is big news now and forced out of the closet by scandal. this is sheriff babeu and a republican candidate for congress he admitted that he's gay at a press conference on saturday. why is that important? okay. that's not all he admits here. his real purpose for calling the media was to deny claims from an ex-boyfriend, phoenix news, the phoenix news times report says that babeu threatened to deport his ex-lover, a mexican immigrant only revealed as jose if he revealed their relationship. these photos are what jose gave the paper. babeu says the allegations are not true but he is leaving mitt romney's state campaign co-chair position. monica, thank you very much. >> you're welcome. thank you for having me.

>> quite a story here that you broke. so tell us what happened. so who -- did jose get in touch with you? how did this happen? >> yeah. jose reached out to us because of the threats and intimidation experiencing from babeu. that's why he also reached out to an attorney, and he felt that going public was the best way to end what he was experiencing. >> okay -- >> he just wanted to be left alone. >> so here's the thing, and this is something i want our viewers to understand. so paul babeu, has paul babeu admit to have hted to having a relationship with jose? >> yes, he is. >> he has. so jose apparently worked for his campaign in some way? >> yes, he maintained his campaign for sheriff. >> and there was an accusation that jose hacked into babeu's campaign website, and then that babeu's attorneys contacted jose and told him to turn over his passwords and all the information concerning the

campaign's websites, and not to use them, that correct. >> that's correct, yep. >> okay. so then, from there, what happens. jose says he felt intimidated or threatened, because the attorneys also asked him to sign some sort of confidentiality agreements not to talk about their relationship publicly, to keep it a secret. is that correct? >> right, that is what jose says. and his attorney backs up his claims. >> okay. so then what happens from there? jose feels intimidated, as you were feeling, and then contacts the newspaper and that's how you got involved? >> right. part of the intimidation came from, they both agreed that they would not contact each other, through their attorneys. they would just cease all contact with him. after jose moved, he got a christmas card from paul babeu, even though he had moved to an apartment, didn't leave any forwarding address. so he felt that that was babeu's way of letting him know, i know

where you're at. and there was pressure there for him to sign something, that he wouldn't disclose any details about the relationship. >> and, paul, to your knowledge, paul babeu, in the community, is not out? >> no, not before this story, no. >> okay. is there -- what is the evidence that babeu was going to threaten to deport him, if he made their relationship public? >> the evidence comes from the attorney who received those threats from paul babeu's attorney. as they were discussing this document, they wanted jose to sign and she made it clear that her client wasn't interested in doing that. that's when they started raising questions about his visa, saying that it had expired, saying that he wasn't in the -- that legally, he was not here. >> so that's where the threats -- >> and they said -- >> -- and the accusations of abuse of power are coming from that. >> right. >> so, will blisten, you're say

he's not out in public, he's saying he's gay, and he said it in front of cameras. he's not out. there are pictures of him, a allegedly, with jose. there's a shirtless picture of him that he's taking in the mirror. there's also a profile from a gay website of him and his personal information and shirtless, that's allegedly him. why is any of that important? >> well, it's important because it goes to judgment. here you have a sheriff of pinal county, somebody who has made himself the face of arizona when it comes to border security, illegal immigration, and he's also making a run for congress. so i think the reason that those pictures are important because it talks a lot about the credibility or the judgment that somebody has in posting photos like that or e-mailing photos like that of themselves. and those were the more tame ones. the other ones, um, are maybe a little more explicit. >> yeah, and we said, this is a

relationship site, and that's the gentle way of putting it, and those are the explicit ones that you're talking about? >> right. and then some also, that he had e-mailed to jose. >> okay. all right. monica, it's an interesting story. and again, it's going to go on next week, explosive. i hope you're ready for it. go ahead. >> it is. what i want to point out here is that i think that they really are trying to change the focus of it to make it like paul babeu's being attacked for being gay, but really, that doesn't have anything to do with the story here. it has to do with these accusations and the next step of the story is really answering the question of what's going to happen to these allegations? who's going to investigate him? who's going to try to determine whether they're true or not? >> that's why i said, is any of that important? but if, monica, he was trying to keep the relationship secret because he's gay and he didn't want out, then that's a part of the story, but the bigger part

is these allegations are indeed true. >> correct. and that's why the photos are important. we've seen a lot of other politicians come beforehand that used less than -- well, poor judgment in sending photos of themselves, and it just has bad implications. >> monica, thank you. monica alonzo from the "phoenix new times," i want to thank you for coming on cnn. tomorrow night, anderson cooper has an exclusive interview with sheriff paul babeu. it's going to be tomorrow night on action "360," 8:00 p.m. eastern and again at 10:00 p.m. eastern, tune in. we'll be right back. you ready? we wanna be our brother's keeper. what's number two we wanna do? bring it up to 90 decatherms. how bout ya, joe? let's go ahead and bring it online. attention on site, attention on site. now starting unit nine. some of the world's cleanest gas turbines are now powering some of america's biggest cities.

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katie lyndinendollinendoll, got access. let's talk about jeremy lin, of course, who's not talking about him. online people are going crazy. >> yes and i know we're short on time, so i'm going to talk faster an usually. let's talk a little insanity, because it's amazing when someone can come out of know where and own the interwebs. in terms of twitter, he's beating out every nba player, including lebron by 28,000. he had over 215,000 twitter mentions in just one week alone. and he's not doing too bad on facebook either. over 500,000 facebook fans since his debut, february 4th, and also, he's gaining about 48,000 facebook fans a day. and i reached out to yahoo! too.

some additional statistics i thought were pretty interesting. searches for linsanity are up over 19,000%. big numbers here. and they're not the only people cashing in on linsanity. two guys in california are actually petitioning to the u.s. patent office to try to coin the phrase. this generated so much hype across the web that jeremy lin turned around and heard about it and actually is trying to patent l linsanity himself. but i want to give you a few more statistics before we go, because it's pretty ridiculous when we're talking about these numbers. msg, ratings, doing pretty well. up 87% in lin's last five starts. also, his rookie card, it's going up for more than $5,000. some people think they're going to cash in, it's $75,000. ebay informed me that products with jeremy lin are actually doubling. and as you can see there, best-selling jersey on nbastore.com. we all have it here at cnn, don, linsanity. >> whoo!