obviously, if you don't file your 2008, you could miss out on certain tax credits, but there are conditions, so the irs says you wouldn't get your refund for 2008 if you didn't file your tax returns for 2009 or 2010. there you go. i have to wonder if there's something else going on besides just wanting to give away the money. they want to know if you didn't file. come on. >> 2008, gosh. alison kosik, thank you. now this. and we continue on. top of the hour, welcome back, i'm brooke baldwin. gas prices inching up every time. you blink and they go up. also, continued rage over the kor koran burnings despite a u.s. apology. and time to play reporter roulette. straight to washington we go to lizzie o'leary. we're talking gas prices. they jumped 3 cents a gallon from yesterday to a national

average of 6 cents a gallon. why have they gone up? >> i wish i could give you the political sound bite the politicians want, but it's just not that simple. the world is big. there are three things driving this, and that is essentially the price of oil that's influenced by iran and the middle east, supply and demand, you have a lot of people, certainly in india and china, who are getting richer than they've ever been before using more, and then speculators. it sounds like an evil word. sometimes it means banks and hedge funds, but often it means the investments that you and i and anybody who has a pension hold. pension funds, remember, betting the oil markets just like everybody else. these aren't just people who are actually going to use oil at the end but people who make money on the price of oil going up and down. so even if you're paying more at the pump, it's also possible that your retirement fund is earning some money because the

underlying price of oil is going up. >> okay. so sort of a silver lining. >> sort of. >> tell me where my money goes when i pay for gas. >> most of your money goes to oil, crude oil. when you look at what makes up, say, your regular old pump worth of gasoline, there you see it, a little money for taxes, a little money for marketing the product, moving it around the country. that depends on where you are. some for refining, making oil into gas. but there you go, 76% comes from oil. we all know the price of oil is very high right now, largely because of those other factors we were talking about, certainly tension in the middle east always a big one. we looked at these numbers for ten years ago, and brooke, what was driving it then, only 37% in the 30s, really, ten years ago was made up of the price of oil. that's really the big determinant here. when oil moves, gas prices move

with it. there's not a price squeeze here, we're not really using more, and they're happy to export it around the country where there's a market for it. >> the price of gas going up, up, up, lizzie o'leary, thank you so much from washington, d.c. the president's apology has really done very little to calm the moods of the burnings of the koran in the middle east. nick? >> many afghans out in the street. protestors were initially peaceful but obviously hating it. in the west of the country, a series of demonstrations which outside the u.s. in which police clashed with protestors. a total of six people dead, 60 injured, one person dying of protest. in the north of the country, another dying in the east. in the capital of kabul, police firing over the heads of the crowd.

a total of 70 people injured today in these protests. so deep concerns, really, about tomorrow, and people appear to be coming out day after day despite these freezing temperatures. wondering if fears could really be tempered, especially given that president obama has apologized and they have appealed for calm at this particular point. we also heard from nato commander general john allen, a man normally very calm, considered to have visited troops at a base where yesterday two americans were shot by a man in afghan army uniform where he is seen in conjunction with the protest of this koran burning that was outside. he gave a very impassioned address to troops there. let's hear what he had to say. >> there will be moments like this where you're searching for the meaning of this loss. there will be moments like this when your emotions are governed

by anger. and you need to strike back. these are the moments when you reach down inside and you grip the emotion that makes you a united states soldier. and you gut through the pain, and you gut through the anger, and you remember why we are here. we're here for our friends. >> you can hear the frustration, perhaps, in john allen's voice, how many nato officials may be feeling after days of protest and violence. there is a timetable to convince afghans that it is world is becoming safer, that nato security forces can take over, and now what they admit was a simple, unintentional mistake, this accidenl burning of the koran is meaning that day by day they're dealing with these violent protests that showed no signs of letting up and they're really distracting people from the urgent task at hand and

that's nato troops handing over to afghan forces here. >> nick walsh in kabul, thank you. next, meteorologist alexandra steele on the volatile weather hitting the east coast. where on the east coast are we talking? >> it's snow, severe weather and wind. we've gust bjust begun to fight some of the delays. here's where we expect to see some delays. right around new york city, lagarla guardia and newark coming in at an hour and 30. big time delays. of course, it's friday, the volumes are big and the winds are only going to get bigger so problems will only get exacerbated through the night. charlotte, they grounded flights. none allowed to take off. georgia also under the gun because of wind. chicago, 50 minutes of ground delays. another one to two inches of snow today, and those winds only getting worse in the west and midwest. the winds predominantly tonight and tomorrow in the northeast

and southeast. brooke? >> thank you. that's your reporter roulette on this friday. coming up, the head of an army hospital under investigation for reportedly not diagnosing post-traumatic stress disorder, ptsd, in american veterans. why? because it costs too much. that's next. [ male announcer ] the draw of the past is a powerful thing.

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medical evaluations may be skewed by the army's concerns over the cost, the cost of claims of troops diagnosed with ptsd. i want to pull some sound. this is what a ranking member of congress is saying about this. >> we have found that the navy and the air force had a higher rate of disability than the army. that's hard to conceive of. you're more concerned about money, frankly, than the soldiers. >> i want to bring in from washington tom tar an teen owe, an iraq veteran and a director of the veterans of america. tom, thanks for coming on. i know you can't speak for the army but you can for vets. what, if anything, can you tell me about the situation at that hospital in washington state and the complaints of soldiers? >> overall, it's unacceptable. frankly, as a veteran, it's insulting. post-traumatic stress disorder is a real problem. granted, the vast majority of

people who come back from iraq and afghanistan do not suffer from ptsd, but for those who do, it can be pretty serious. it's hard enough to go and seek treatment for something like post-traumatic stress disorder. and when people hear something like this, it makes it even harder. the fact that they're concerned that this is going to cost too much, aside from being just completely disrespectful to the service of the men and women who need help, it also shows that they don't really understand these issues. if someone is suffering from an invisible injury, not treating them up front, it's actually much more expensive later down the line if that condition goes untreated. so not only is it smart fiscal policy, but it's also part of the responsibility we have to the men and women who sign up to join our military. >> but what about the army on a whole? we heard the impassioned sound from congressman dix, right? the army said, quote, the u.s.

army medical command is committed to ensuring that the soldiers get the best quality care possible on the battlefield and at home. currently, the u.s. army medical command and the western regional medical command are conducting investigations into the inquiries and concerns regarding soldiers. do you buy that they want the best possible care for their troops? do you buy that? >> overall, yes, i do. because the army, especially in the last four or five years, has gotten much better at this. we have to take a step back. this is one hospital, one incident. it's a fairly significant one and the consequences should be very, very severe for these people who are putting other concerns above the lives and well-being of american soldiers. however, we have to understand that the military as a whole has gotten much better at dealing with these issues, and frank the, they are trying, although they're not quite there yet, to make up for some of these failures in the past.

whereas before, these people with post-traumatic stress disorder, brain injury, were not getting the care they need. with a lot of work from the military, from congress and the veterans community has helped bring that level of care up to where it is today, but honestly, we still have a long way to go. >> a long way to go, but i want to ask you about the price of ptsd, and i'm talking dollars and cents. when you read this l.a. times story, they obtained this memo from the army. according to this memo, one army doctor who is connected to this base, he cautioned his colleagues that a ptsd diagnosis could cost the army $1.5 million. this is for one soldier over his or her lifetime. 1.5 million. does that sound accurate to you? >> possibly. i'm not an economist or a doctor, but, you know, the right answer to this isn't doesn't that sound right, the right answer is so what. this is a young man or woman who has put their life on the line for this country, and it's

gotten a wound while in combat. we have a moral, practical and legal obligation to take care of them when they come home, and cost shouldn't factor into that. when you go to war, you make a promise to these men and women. and ultimately, when you think long term, this affects the entire military. if the american public is not convinced that our government and our country is not going to take care of our service members when they come home, they're just not going to join the military. so this incident, if taken out, can really, really be detrimental to the armed forces. >> let me throw this at you because there has also been some concern on the flip side. some have seen, perhaps, some members of the military, they're ang li angling for the highest paid diagnosis in terms of the disability claims. they want the cash that comes with the ptsd diagnosis and they're perfectly fine. is that position valid? >> so what. yes, a few people might want to

gain the system. i don't care if two or three people are going to gain the system if that means the five or ten who need help aren't afraid of going to get it. we need to focus on taking care of the service members who need help as early on as possible so they can readjust into civilian life or go back into service. so if a few people are clever enough to figure out a way to gain the system, so what, because ultimately what this is about is taking care of servicemembers and that should be the primary concern, not trying to figure out how to regulate the exceptions. >> tom tarantino, thank you. >> thank you. we are told there are more than 9,000 people now who have been murdered in the streets of syria, including innocent families. breaking today, women and children are being evacuated. this is brand new information. we'll have it for you next. the landscaping business grows with snow. to keep big winter jobs on track, at&t provided a mobile solution that lets everyone from field workers to accounting,

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in syria today, the red cross says rescue crews are finally being allowed to evacuate the wounded along with sick women and children from the beleagured city of homs. this news comes when world powers are gathering in indonesia to try to bring an end to this conflict. for more than a year, we have watched this, the syrian government continuing to shell civilian homes. the number today, 90. 90 people have been killed. i want to bring in michael holmes. he is live in neighboring beirut and lebanon. michael, we have this news. the red cross is saying it's finally being allowed to evacuate the sick and the wounded, but does that mean anybody has actually been removed yet? >> actually, i can tell you

that, yes, several people have been taken out of that problematic neighborhood of homs. this has happened in the last few hours. the syrian red cross has been permitted to go into that neighborhood. they have picked up seven people, we understand women and children who are among the most seriously injured in that neighborhood, and they have taken them out and to a hospital still in the city of homs but out of that battered and bruised neighborhood of baba amir. this comes after hours and days of trying to get some sort of assistance to the wounded. it has been days, three weeks tomorrow, of continued bombardment of baba amir. we had american journalists marie colvin, and the french photographer who were killed in the shelling in baba amir.

there were two other gentlemen wounded very badly from that shelling and they wanted to get them out as well. that's what really brought it into the wider public, if you like, that they needed to get those people out and into surgery. what's happened is that the red cross has gone in. they haven't brought out the journalists, according to our sources, yet, but they are bringing out some of the worst civilians. only seven so far. it's just the beginning. hopefully this will go on in the perhaps hours or days to come to get out the worst injured. brooke? >> hopefully so. that is seven out of who knows how many people need help. michael holmes for us in beirut. michael, thank you. talk about dramatic video of racecar driver danica patrick crashing in her daytona nascar review, and this guy over here, meteorologist rob marciano normally covering weather. hey. >> nice to see you.

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a frightening finish for danica patrick in her daytona nascar review. ouch. patrick, on the last lap, got caught up in an accident. you saw her slamming into that wall. there's the inside. good thing they had good helmets, huh? she wasn't hurt. she already has qualified for sunday's big daytona 500. and speaking of racing, you may think of my buddy rob marciano here as a guy who chases hurricanes, stands out in knee deep snow to do weather for us. you're just such a toughmarcian. >> so tough. >> apparently you're a bit of a nascar fan. w >> who knew? >> not i. let's see what kind of trouble you got into.

>> we're here where they're prepping three teams for daytona. we're here with the pit crew to see how they make it happen. that was fast. what's the goal here? how many seconds? >> we shoot for about 1150 out here in practice. >> squirrel is going to be your instructor. you'll have your left hand here, and when he pulls it out, just -- >> how much does that tire weigh? >> 65 pounds. >> i've been changing diapers too much. if that's more than 9 pounds, i can't lift it. >> see, you got the job already. >> right. >> start running through traffic, playing frogger. >> playing frogger. >> yeah.

>> 25 seconds, rob. very good. >> you looked a little intimidated running out in front of a racecar. >> 17 now in for pit practice. the 99 team in the weight room. >> are you the strength guy? >> yeah, i'm the strength guy. how long do these guys train? >> they train twice a week doing weight workouts and they twain another time in the week doing conditioning workouts. a lot of their durability is made here. it's a long season and a lot of pit stops. >> this is one of the cars carl is going to be running in daytona. what are the things we're working on today? >> i'm going to have you check the air pressures, we'll set the heights and dial in. >> a lot of this stuff is

driving around in circles. to make a left at 200 miles an hour, it takes a lot to make that happen. >> what kind of tricks do you have up your sleeve for daytona this year? >> can't say. >> come on. >> no. >> dude, you were kind of struggling with that 65-pound tire. >> trust me, my chiropractor is in business for a couple years. it was heavy, it was awkward. i clocked the guy in the head with this thing. >> nice job. >> they have to be strong, they work out. >> i had no idea they trained. >> they do pit training in the morning, then they go to the gym. most of these guys actually work on the cars, so they're engineers and/or mechanics, so they're athletes and they're smart and know how the car works. >> did you seem qualified for the poll? >> you saw the car i was working on. that car and two other cars actually qualified for the poll. danica is going to run the thing, and there's six guys that

go over the walls, we like to say. there is a total of, i think, 21 that are in the pits during game day but they've got like a farm system of about 70 guys that are just kind of working their way up through the ranks. it's definitely more of a team sport than you would expect. >> i had no idea. nice job. >> thanks for having me. >> see you next time. >> see you at daytona. days before, huge primaries in the presidential race. mitt romney makes a big speech today in michigan on his plans for the economy. joe johns is in detroit for us. joe, did the governor reveal anything new? >> reporter: well, you know, i think -- yeah. first you said it was a big speech and that's the way the campaign certainly saw it. it was a huge speech when you consider the venue. the venue where he gave this was the ford field, the 65,000-seat football field where the detroit lions play. now, obviously campaigns try not

to put their candidate in gigantic rooms like that because the crowd looks to be swallowed up. and that's sort of what happened, but the campaign really didn't have any choice on that. the detroit economic club helped us, and as you know, they basically had a smaller room, then they had to move to a larger room because they sold out, and that's where they end up. mitt romney thought this was a huge deal, and he said so during the speech. listen. >> what i described, i believe, are economic plans that will strengthen america and strengthen michigan by making bold cuts in spending and common sense reforms. we're going to make our government simpler, smaller and smarter. through pro-growth policies, we're going to get our economy back on track and get our citizens back to work. and taken together, the plan i'm proposing represents the biggest fundamental change to the federal government in modern

history. >> reporter: honestly, though, he was sort of restating a lot of stuff he said before on the campaign trail, reducing the tax rates on everybody, getting rid of the alternative minimum tax, getting rid of the debt tax, changing entitlement. so a lot of things we've heard before on the campaign trail, brooke. >> let's talk, though, joe, about people in detroit who aren't at all happy with mitt romney. these are the union protestors in detroit. what are they protesting? they're upset with romney who said last year that he suggested that detroit should let the automakers go bankrupt. so they're angry. >> reporter: they're absolutely angry about it, but i think you have to say the romney campaign said, look, he didn't write the headline. it was in the "new york times." what he supported was a managed bankruptcy which they say is roughly the kind of thing the administration was looking for and ended up getting. still, there are people here who just do not like romney's

policies and the way he talks about the auto bailout, and these were, of course, members of united auto workers union right here in town. romney has also been critical of organized labor overall, and certainly that's a reflection of sort of the people you see in the streets. i would say 250 people. halfway decent. >> halfway decent inside and outside. joe johns, thank you. remember that primary in michigan and also next tuesday. we're all over it. coming up, the woman whose husband was shot and killed outside their children's daycare in broad daylight. she gets banned from the court, thrown out. she is the main witness. what did she do? that's next.

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murder trial is banned from the courthouse. this is the latest twist in a trial that's already made claims of seeing an angel that looks like olivia newton john and a demon that looks like barry white. we're not talking about some random witness who was tossed out of the courthouse. this woman is integral to the trial, she is the victim's widow. i can't imagine this happens very often. >> it really doesn't. this is just extraordinary, brooke. it's remarkable, and it doesn't happen because witnesses listen to the judge, they listen to prosecutors when they were instructed not to have any contact with other witnesses. well, this witness, andrea sneiderman, as you mentioned, the widow of the victim in this case, doesn't seem to get it. she doesn't seem to listen. perhaps she doesn't want to. but right there in the courtroom after one of her friends testified, she hugged her friend in front of the jury. you see it right here. but then, brooke, she follows it

outside and says to the woman, you are no longer my friend since you don't believe me. and that is because andrea has just completely, completely stated and denied that she did not have an affair with this defendant, and her friend said that while she wants to believe that in her heart, she really doesn't believe that. she believes they did have an affair. there is a lot of evidence coming in that there may have, indeed, been an affair in this case. this was really just remarkable. she's not only blocked from speaking to other witnesses now or from the courtroom, she's barred from the courthouse. and that's just something you don't see. >> so back when she was in the courthouse and on the stand, she was really hammered by the prosecution. you would think she was the one on trial. what's the point in that? what are they trying to prove? >> well, the prosecution is trying to prove that this was a premeditated, planned murder by

hemy neuman, the defendant, and that is because he was having an affair with andrea sneiderman and he wanted another man's wife, so he killed that other man. that is the prosecution's theory of the case. now, of course, the defense in this case is saying, that's not true. there was no affair. he is out of his mind. he suffered from delusions and he thought perhaps there was an affair. he was deluded. and that's why the prosecution is trying to show the jury that an affair did, indeed, occur. >> sunny hostin, thank you so much. in today's human factor, dr. sanjay gupta speak with celebrity chef and cookbook author sam talbott, about living with diabetes. >> for sam talbott, making food taste good has been important for a long time. way before people started to get

to know him on tv's smoo celebrity chef." >> i was cooking pizza when i was 14 and my first professional job i was about 15 years old. >> naturally good at cooking? >> yeah, naturally. it just is one of those god-given abilities. i remember being eight years old and going to the farmers market with my grandmother and making scrambled eggs and all those types of things that an eight-year-old doesn't generally pick up. >> you said your food is generally healthy? >> i am living with diabetes, but i'm not necessarily cooking for die bekabetics all the time. >> you just weren't feeling well? >> my dad's brother was diabetic, so all the same symptoms were happening to me, and my mother had obviously seen them from growing up with her brother. one night i used the bathroom like 15 times over the course of a ten-hour sleeping period, so my mom took me to the hospital. we went to the emergency room, and they checked my blood sugar, and my blood sugar was like 980.

it was crazy. >> normal is under 100. >> normal is about 80 and i was 980. my mom burst into tears. she took friendly's and we got a bunch of sugar and ice cream, and then my blood sugar was probably through the roof. right then i was 12, and i really made it a lifetime goal of mine to never have to say that to somebody and never live within a certain parameter. >> how much of your life is dictated by measuring your sugar and your diabetes overall. >> we both wake up in the morning, we both shower, we both brush our teeth. i just have a few more steps i have to go through, and that is my life. >> talbott's motto is cook nice. he shares his my loss if i in his cookbook called "the sweet life" which he says is for everyone, not just those living with diabetes. from basketball player to

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in student loans. some things on my credit report are over six years old. should i file for bankruptcy? >> i can think of two reasons why she should not file for bankruptcy. first off, student loans are not statutorily acceptable to file for bankruptcy. second, in michigan, it is not legal to collect debt or sue to collect debt for debt older than six years old. she might be actually scot free, and in one more year, all that stuff will fall off her credit report because you can only maintain negative debt for seven years on a credit report. >> thank you very much. if you have a question you want answered, send a letter any time to cnnhelpdesk@cnn.com.

all right. let me get to that news in san francisco. cnn has confirmed that a security checkpoint, if you're familiar with sfo, they have been shut down. this particular wing services delta. so heads up if you have a flight. the bomb squad is investigating a suspicious package. we're told at least one person is being interviewed. flights, though, still on schedule, updates obviously as soon as we get them there out of san francisco airport. this is the first time that a major legal baseball player has fought against a drug test and won. he will be in the lineup in a couple of weeks and arbitration panel overturned his 50-game suspension for testing positive for elevated testosterone levels back in october. here's the reason why. his urine sample took two days

to get to the lab when the rules say it has to happen on that same day. braun views this as a complete vindication. >> the system and the way that it was applied to me in this case was fatly flawed. the initial test result in question was on october 1st. it was a playoff game. i was made aware of the positive test result on october 19th. at which point i had a conversation with the players association. i expressed to them that i had not done anything that could have possibly led to that test result. >> on the phone, contributor for sports illustrated, mel, does this finally put the questions of speculation of braun, put it to rest? >> it doesn't put it to rest at all. i think there's going to be a debate because while there was problems with the shipping, you have to remember that in his appeal, braun didn't argue

evidence tampering, he didn't dispute the science of the medical evidence. he just argued protocol. so the issue is done as far as major league baseball is concerned but i think in the eyes of the fans, there's going to be some debate. >> now, a little bit of history. braun reportedly offered to give this dna sample that could be compared to the tested urine sample. why didn't the mlb accept it? i presume that's part of what helped him win this. >> well, that's a good question. major league baseball declined. however, that's other reports that said that braun's side backed off in offering to take a dna sample as well. there's a lot of speculation and it's been hard to nail down. >> mlb, the league itself s. it

convinced an untainted sample. >> they were in charge of the drug testing and part of it and obtained it and all that and they believe that there was tampering and roughly over the weekend, 44 hours, braun's lawyer made the case that it could have been tampered with. major league baseball indicated there was no evidence that it was tampered with. >> they said it was sealed three times but they didn't follow protocol. is it possible that the league could go after braun again? >> no, i don't think the league can do anything. the system is in place.

they agreed on it in the basic agreement and it was put in place. ryan braun had a right to appeal. he won his appeal and that's that. i don't think baseball can do anything more. they can continue to test. ryan braun will be continued -- will be continued to be tested randomly and information he comes up with another positive test, this is going to be it. you know, he did pass 25 other tests. and so -- but it will just be standard procedure. they won't go after him any more, they won't go after him any less. randomly he will be tested. this is all going to come up again. >> in the meantime, we'll see him in a couple of weeks. thank you, sir. si.com. some huge news involving the battle of your privacy online. what google may do involving your web searches. back in 90 seconds.

all right. before i let you go, crazy pictures out of brazil. take a look at the rescue effort falling apart. look at that. piece by piece the chopper shook to pieces right after landing at an air strip. this is yesterday in the state of para in northern brazil. the cockpit totally came apart. the tail as well. the four people on board, they got out of there with minor

injuries. bra ziz ye brazilian investigators have yet to determined what caused it to fall apart. one reason may be that it just fell apart. now, when you're online, just assume someone's watching what you're doing, from your web searches to e-mail traffic. but breaking today, a huge development in the fight over your privacy. dan simon is live for us in san francisco. dan, apparently the web giants, including google, have agreed to a do not track button. how does that work? >> it sounds great in theory that you have a button on your browser and then they can't track your online activity. that's not what this does. what this does is prevent advertisers from being able to send you targeted ads. but there are significant developments in there. if you click this button,

companies cannot use your data for things such as employment, credit, health care, insurance, and as i said, customized ads. on the flip side of it, your data can still be used for market research, product development, and it can also go to law enforcement. so beware here, if you click that button, it really only affects the web marketer's ability to second you those targeted ads. that some people like and some people don't like. >> so it's a do not track button but they can still track you? >> they can still track you. and privacy advocates say it doesn't have a lot of teeth to it. they would prefer that they can't be tracked period. but, remember, all of your data, everything that you're doing online, companies like google, facebook, they can see where you're going. and really why do they do that? because the backbone of the internet is funded by advertising. they want toab