that will wrap things up for us this morning. the conversation continues online. findous facebook and twitter, cnnbottom line. back now to cnn saturday for the latest headlines, have a great latest headlines, have a great weekend, everyone. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. good morning everybody, breaking news out of afghanistan. two american officers killed and the taliban is claiming responsibility. we'll get details in a live report from kabul. former south african president nelson mandel la hospitalized, we'll have the latest on the 93-year-old's condition. >> a scene that reminds many of black friday, these people are running for a bargain, i'll

explain the frenzy. from the cnn center, this is cnn saturday morning. we begin with breaking news out of afghanistan, two u.s. officers have been killed, possibly in response to nato troops burning qurans. it happened at the afghan interior ministry in kabul. let's go to nick paton walsh, nick, what are you learning? >> reporter: a lot that is unclear, what we do know is two americans were shot dead in the interior ministry here in kabul. that should be one of the safest places, frankly, for them in the country. we do also know the taliban have claimed responsibility for this attack. naming the man they refer to as their holy warrior, saying he shot four american personnel, obviously at times they tend to exaggerate their claims of their acts here. unclear at this point from a

senior security source, exactly who was behind this, pretty clear from isaf the individual was not a westerner, we can out internal dispute between nato forces and pointing toward the possibility of some kind of afghan being the gunman here, but this came up from the taliban. we hear quite often sometimes they are right, sometimes they're wrong but they always try to get political capital from instances like that. i should bring more breaking news we're hearing from the commander of isaf forces here in afghanistan, general john allen in, a statement released a couple moments ago. "i condemn the attack of the interior ministry that killed two of our partners, our thoughts and prayers with the loved ones of the brave individuals lost today" he calls the attacker a coward and says "for obvious protection reasons, he's taken the measure of withdrawing all isaf working in

personnel around kabul. advisors out there, advising afghan forces, ministers, et cetera, will be taken away from these ministries while they work out what it was that happened here. this could be a very bad psychological blow for many americans and nato soldiers. they work hand-in hand with afghans. we have periodic instances when weapons are turned on them, increasingly common, this is different in some ways. if it turns out to be linked to the quran burning feeds in the sense of fury from the afghans against this unintentional error the americans say they made. if it's the taliban, it bring as whole new sense of unease for many americans working here as to where they are exactly safe. >> nick, the taliban claimed responsibility but didn't necessarily give a reason. is the taliban using this

unintentional quran burning as almost a lightning rod to harness the anger that many ordinary afghans may have experienced during while u.s. troops were there? >> reporter: absolutely. the taliban's statement is explicit, they said their holy warrior killed the individuals because of the qurans. there were fears the taliban would tap in this. they made a statement calling on all afghans to rise up against foreigners because of this burning. we have also seen protests yesterday and again today, where five people were killed and apparently advanced on a u.n. building. this is quite different, it's a sign this is perhaps going potentially affect the relationship of trust that has toamericans, nato

and afghans. if they are to hand over the country, so americans can go home, deb. >> obviously, this happened in the interior ministry, kabul is one of the safer places with the taliban in citing all this, do you get concern there is concern in the karzei administration? >> i think there are concerns in the karzei administration, they have to play two games, they have to stay with the afghan people they are supposed to represent. on the other side they know they need the americans, infrastructure support, american money, basically. a lot of time to keep them in power and alive i'm sure afghan officials are concerned about the post-american future where they don't have nato to fall back on. i think karzei will be concerned about what it will do to the relationship but at the end of the day he has to seem to

present the anger afghans are feeling about this, although he has been calling for restraint. >> nick paton walsh, thank you so much. to syria now, a key ally of the government changing sides. hamas says they are backing the anti-government activists. they are literally fighting for their lives in places like homs. we have incredible video from inside syria showing the growing humanitarian crisis and the ongoing battle for freedom. something you'll see only here on cnn. images were recorded by french journalist who was with anti-government fighters. take a look. >> reporter: guerilla warfarris relentless and terrifying. the fighters appear fearless and

take crazy risks. they still find time to look out for mani. [ gunshots ] >> back at headquarters, the battle is raging. syrian forces detonated a bomb below the roof top position where government snipers are trapped. after more than 12 hours, the snipers are putting up a fight. casualties are mounting.

that is a look at what anti-government activists are facing. today more shelling by the syrian military. joining me is michael holmes, live in beirut. michael, what are you hearing out of that region today? >> reporter: yeah, been a lot more violence today, deborah. in homs itself more than a dozen deaths, that is not counting the injuries. we can't get a number on the injuries. around the country, 36 is the death toll, officially from the activist side of things, but our experience is that is likely to go way up before the end of the day. there has been violence in fact all around the country, not just in homs, several deaths in another area, families killed according to activists. we have seen impacts of shells

being uploaded to youtube, activists telling us we were speaking to one activist earlier said the shelling in homs had been almost constant and we could hear the shells impacting as he talked to us via skiep. for the people in the neighborhoods, this is very much a war underway. deborah? >> michael, the red cross was hoping to get in, a lot of people injured, hoping to get them to safety but there's no cease fire, no detante, what is the red cross' position, what are they going to try to do? >> reporter: a good question. i actually just got off the phone with a represent kniative damasc damascus. they went in and came out with seven wounded syrians and 20

others described as ill. they got them out. when you consider the death tolls we're seeing out of homs every day and wounded as well, that is a drop in the ocean, just that one convoy brought in four ambulances, now 5:00 p.m. here in the region of the world, they have been trying all day to get back in and get more people out, and the spokesman i spoke to said negotiations are continuing, they are difficult, he said we need the agreement of everybody on the ground involved in the fighting, we do not have those assurances. he did say, however, they still have high hopes to get in today and get more people out. not happened so far, though, deborah. michael holmes, thank you so much. it appears that syrian president is digging in his heels, doesn't care what everyone else around the rest of the world is saying. michael holmes, thank you so much for us there in beirut. nelson mandela was in the hospital for surgery today,

according to his family, the 93-year-old former south african re president had a hernia operation. it was planned, not an emergency. all went well with the surgery. he's expected to be released from the hospital as early as monday. the youngest son of robert f. kennedy charged with harassment and endangering the welfare of his newborn. douglas kennedy allegedly tried to take his two day old son out of a new york hospital despite a nurse's warnings. according to wnbc, nurses tried to stop kennedy from taking the boy out of the maternity ward and out of the hospital. he allegedly kicked one of the nurses then fell down himself while holding the newborn in his arms. he and his wife say they did nothing wrong. crowds in several states are literally rioting, fighting for the chance to slip in a pair of these. the glow in the dark nike galaxy, hundreds camped out and

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. meterologists alexandria steel, two tornadoes tore through south carolina. >> the front has moved through, the warm moist buoyant air is done, temperatures much chillier. let me show you pictures, there are 120 reports of severe weather reports from yesterday's storms that moved through the southeast. ef-2, tornado in wagner, south carolina, winds of 130 miles per hour. ef-0 near pinewood, south carolina. a possible tornado with two homes destroyed, four damaged near eilinton, south carolina. the storm threat moved through, behind it winds are the big factor. wind threat, 40 mile per hour winds can knock down trees and power lines, we will see in excess of that, 50, 60 mild per

hour gusts, you can see in the darker orange the bigger threat is here where it's most exposed, east end of long island, could see gusts to 60 miles per hour. it's a threat today in tonight, late tonight, we'll watch the threat diminish. you can see the current wind gusts, pitbutsburgh, philadelph, 35, this will impact travel especially at the airports. new york, boston, 33 miles per hour gusts right now. the big picture, a bit of snow coming in, believe it or not, lakes are still open, there is not ice on the great lakes, lake effect snow a factor, a few inches, syracuse, buffalo, lake-prone areas. winds the biggest threat in the eastern portion of the country, southwest it's warm. fire threat here, been dry, the winds kicking in. pacific northwest, one-two punch had the first round, this is the second round, snow elevations coming down where they were before.

in terms of temperatures, so warm, 48 hours ago, 76 degree temperatures, well above average. 56 today. believe it or not even with the big drop, 15-20 degrees still at seasonable levels. temperatures have dropped but those winds it will feel much cooler than that. in the northeast, 40, 44 new york, boston, 45. but again winds making it feel cooler. 56 in dallas, 68 in los angeles, dry, sunny skies. deb, we'll talk about the winter thus far, chicago big snow storm, thursday into friday. but what's left of the snow season, believe it or not, not much. we'll show you the numbers in a bit. thanks, alexandra. the battle for oscar gold, an actor's greatest reward being recognized by your peers, this year the competition is getting personal. cnn entertainment correspondent karynn winter has the low down.

>> reporter: george clooney and brad pitt going toe to toe. melissa mccarthy and octavius spencer are neck-in-neck. they make up the hottest showdowns this year. >> i hope you were the groom. >> clooney and pitt share a bromance. pitt shook up a lead actor nomination for "money ball" clooney for "the descendants" sounds like the rivalry is heating up. >> what is the competition -- >> there is nothing friendly about it, i'll tell you that. >> we'll wrestle it out, fight it out and last man standing. >> my money is on brad. >> he's my friend. >> in a fist fight. >> they are not the only big stars squaring off on the road to gold. >> i can whoop meryl streep's

behind. >> she is the favorite in the lead actress category despite being nominated against meryl streep. octavia spencer is honored to battle it out. the big show down pits her against her pal, melissa mccarthy. >> if it were people i didn't know, maybe there would be the competitive thing. i know what she has been through and she knows what i have been through. we're thrilled to be there side-by-side or head-to-head, shoet downs will be decided on the oscar stage, no matter who ends up with the gold the contenders seem to be enjoying it. >> really nice, fun. that what is it's about, having fun. for the first time in more than a decade the academy awards won't be held in the kodak

theater in hollywood. well, not exactly. it will be the same venue, just not being called the kodak theater anymore. as part of the bankruptcy filing a judge let kodak out of the $75 million contract, that put their name on the place. the theater's owners have not quite found a replacement. for now being called the hollywood and highland center, just rolls right off the tongue. be sure to tune in tomorrow night as a.j. hammer hosts our special. live coverage of the oscar, the r road to gold. a bitter battle is brewing in michigan with three days to go until the primary, it's no holes barred for mitt romney and rick santorum. we have the latest on the race coming up on the other side. ♪ [ woman ] i was ready for my trip,

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mitt romney and rick santorum are both in michigan today. pair battling it out ahead of tuesday's primary. mitt romney is from michigan, his father was governor there. so why isn't he running away with the state? cnn's senior correspondent joe john's is in michigan. joe, why does it seem like mitt romney simply stuck is in neutral especially in a state that technically should or could be a slam dunk? >> reporter: you know, deb, that is what everybody has been asking around this state over

the last several days and i think you can say mitt romney had some trouble with conservatives, with evangelicals, and that in large part has been the margin, the big difference in the polls, evangelicals and conservatives going heavily so far for rick santorum. both of those guys appearing here in try to, michigan, a big grass roots gathering of conservative activists, held by americans for prosperity, rick santorum appearing just a little while ago before this pretty healthy crowd, over 1000 people in the room, hitting mitt romney very hard on a variety of issues, just listen to this, he talked a little bit about romney's positions on emissions and global warming. listen. >> i don't -- i don't go out and crow that i imposed the first carbon cap on power plants.

as governor romney did when he was governor of massachusetts and talk about how we're responding to the severe threat of man-made global warming. i didn't buy it. i didn't buy climate science. i didn't buy it because i new this climate science, it was political science. >> reporter: mitt romney also expected here later this afternoon or right around noontime eastern, he is coming off his big speech last night at the detroit economic club, huge room, obviously, ford field, which seats 65000 people, only 1200 there for him. the club essentially had to change locations because they got so many people signed up but obviously, wouldn't have been able to fill the room up. he talked about a variety of things, we found it interesting

that he also talked about the cars he and his wife drives, listen to this. >> i love this country. i love the state. this feels good being back in michigan. you know the trees are the right height, the streets are just right. i like the fact that most of the cars i see are detroit-made automobiles. i drive a mustang and chevy pick up truck. anne drives a couple cadillacs, actually, and i used to have a dodge truck, i had all three covered. >> reporter: so deb, you listen to the sound bite it goes back to your question at the top, why isn't he able to seal the deal in his home state of michigan? there is the question of mitt romney being able to connect. clearly he's trying to connect with michigan voters, we'll see still a tight race here in the state of michigan. back to you, deb. >> he's trying to connect and it's hard for folks there who were so close to losing their jobs to be told that his wife drives a couple of cadillacs,

kind of a niche market. joe johns in michigan, thaengs so much, we appreciate it. making house calls by boat. for one doctor it's the only way to get to his patients. meet this week's cnn's hero coming up next .

taking medicine to remote areas, the lack of easy access isn't keeping this cnn hero from making his rounds. take a look. >> i'm dr. benjamin labrot, i don't have a private practice, i make no salary. >> ben you want to take her, this is ingrid. >> i started an organization

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it's 32 minutes past the hour. welcome back, everyone i'm deborah feyerick. thanks for starting your day with us. checking top stories, nelson mandela is recovering from a hernia operation this morning. the former south african president was admitted to the hospital for what officials was

a planned visit. a family member said he could be released monday. last year he was hospitalized for a respiratory infection. he made his last public appearance in 2010. at least 21 people killed after a car bomb exploded near the yemen presidential palace. it comes as yemen swears in a new president today. with the michigan primary three days away, rick santorum and mitt romney are trying to shore up support throughout the state. recent polls suggest the candidates are in a virtual tie. with santorum rising in the polls, and with santorum rising in the polls, that has made him a target at this week's cnn debate, mitt romney went after santorum on his economic credentials. >> i'm looking at historic record which voting for raising the debt ceiling five times without voting for compensating cuts.

voting to keep in place davis bacon, costs $100 billion over ten years. whole series of votes fund planned parenthood, spending grew by some 80% of the federal government in his time in the senate. >> santorum fired back on romney's record as governor of massachusetts. >> you balanced the budget four years you have a constitutional requirement to balance the budget in four years. no great shakes i'd like to see it federally don't brag about something you have to do. michael dukakis balanced it for ten years, does that make him qualified to be president of the united states? i don't think so. >> joining me now, cnn contributor and strategist, maria cardona and lenny mcallister. did rick santorum miss a big opportunity or score points? mar maria? >> deb i think he missed the opportunity it didn't seem he

was well prepared to receive the attacks to be the big target, going in this as the front-runner, nationally, he should have understood that he was going to be the one that was receiving all these attacks from all sides and should have been ready with more pivot, it seemed that romney was able to get under his skin, having said all that, i do think that he still performed well in terms of showing that he is the consistent conservative, that he is still the candidate that can be the anybody but romney and what we've seen from romney, especially this week in michigan, is he still hasn't been able to seal the deal. so i think that santorum still has a chance here, he's still neck-in-neck in michigan and arizona and looking forward to super tuesday. mitt romney from michigan, people have been talking about that, he tried to make the connection with the state that the trees are better, streets are better, he drives their cars. but he still hasn't sold himself to voters there.

why do you think? >> he hasn't sold himself to voters because just like the other 49 states that he has campaigned in and sent ads into, he doesn't inspire voters. i even go back to the debate on wednesday, you look at one word adjective had to say, he picks "resolute" rick santorum picked "courageous" neither picked presidential. if you don't see presidential going up against an incumbent president, if the economy is getting better and done fairly well overseas, he will be a hard guy to beat. mitt romney despite the structure and money and republicans establishment getting behind him he has not done a good job inspiring people he's presidential. the one word he should have picked on wednesday. >> we want to point out that you're the republican analyst and you're the one who is saying that about these two men. what is interesting to me is that you look at mitt romney,

you look at rick santorum, and it's clear that neither of them has a lock and so what does that mean when either one potentially has to go up against president obama? what do you think about that, maria? it almost seems like they are fighting for something that -- i don't know what they are fighting for in some levels. >> i think that is the difficulty the republican party finds themselves in, deb. the more americans look at what these candidates stand for, in the debates, in the campaign rallies and all the events, the more these candidates are focused on a smaller and smaller section of the republican party, meaning that in all of their events and all their talking points they are alienating latinos, women, independent voters, and as president obama continues to speak to the middle class and to working class voters about the problems that they care about, which is the

economy, which is creating jobs, continuing on this path to economic growth, the republican candidates are beating each other up -- >> lenny, newt gingrich is not in the picture, he's feeling if they knock each other out, last one standing wins. >> well, that is not necessarily going to happen but with super tuesday coming up newt gingrich has the south coming in play, rick santorum has michigan, if you look at the polls in arizona, michigan and pennsylvania where one of the criticisms about rick santorum was, look how he got trounced in 2006. mitt romney can't say that anymore, because he can't pull the trigger on michigan yet and santorum is up in pennsylvania. this is still far from over. it could still solicit a strong candidate moving forward coming up against president obama. it's no where near done yet. thank you so much. i find the strangest irony, with

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oscar night, a fashion designer showcase, but you don't have to go to the red carpet to see the latest creations. you can head to the golden arches instead. cnn's alina cho explains. >> reporter: what does this have to do with fashion? you'd be surprised. designers aren't just creating clothes for the catwalk. they are also designing uniforms. >> there was a time i walked around with a hamburger at mcdonald, they wore my uniforms. my package delivered by federal express, thank you very much, everybody i touched seem to have a stan herman uniform on. >> stan herman, multi award winning fashion designer who branched out in the world of the

designer uniform. twa. that cute, you would look good in that now. >> that is great. >> her man designing uniforms more than 40 years. for companies like mcdonald's, jet blue and for decades, fed ex. so popular his uniforms arguably cover more bodies than any other designer on the planet. >> i was a hot designer on 7th avenue, someone approached me would you like to do uniforms, what is that? i discovered i loved doing it because it was like branding, branding corporations. >> a braniff hostess meets you she will be dressed like this. >> pucci and hallston designed uniforms for braniff. dior and nina ricci for air france. at sephora, the inspiration is employees.

>> we want to feel good, that is such a uni veer sal emotion. >> sophie is showing this on the runway, this at the grammarcy park hotel. cocktail uniform in spill-proof silk. >> for me it's not uniform at all, it's really one dress, more like a cocktail dress, really. >> but how do you design a uniform that suits, well, everyone? >> like a reality competition how i can take constraints and make them look fantastic. >> most important thing is likeability. when you put on your dress, if i don't like it by the end of the day i'm a grumpy guy. corporation walks around in and i form they don't like, they become a grumpy corporation. >> alina cho, cnn, new york. fashion back stage page at 2:30 p.m., top names in the

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the flag drops on the daytona 500 tomorrow but the big names in stockcar racing are taking a back seat this week to a rookie, danica patrick. joe carter joins me live from daytona now, joe, tell us about danica's up and down week. >> reporter: you know, it was a wild 24 hours for danica patrick. if you haven't seen the video of the crash, incredible, the final lap, she got clipped from the side, sent in the wall, there is a great camera ang frel inside the car where you see her remove her hands from the steering wheel, that was a safety maneuver she learned in indy car

to protect her hands and wrist. the next day on friday. she came out for the nationwild qualifying run and was the fast car on the track, 182 miles an hour, beat all the other cars, made history in the process. today in a couple hours around 1:00 eastern when they get set for the nationwide event, she will be the second female driver in the history of nascar to be the lead car when they start the race, deb. >> that is remarkable. you can tell what a scheduled driv skilled driver, that is something i would never have thought before to get your hands off. how is she and the other drivers handling the spotlight on this rookie, does it change the dynamic of the race or are they all just out to win it? >> reporter: i think it changes the dynamic off the track. once they get on the track, it's -- it all doesn't matter, she has ganld a lot of attention, she is the topic of conversation and because she is more famous for what she has done off the track than on the track. indy car, won one race, nascar

best finish fourth place, she makes more money than most drivers out here with endorsement deals. of course with that kind of celebrity and popularity, comes jealousy. >> you have to think of the little girls watching, this woman take the track at nascar, and that is a pretty impressive thing to be able to do. so probably the endorsement is well worth it, i imagine, certainly to the tween set. >> reporter: you know she is breaking as i heard some people say, the steel ceiling, female, use her driving ability and marketability to put her name out there. >> joe carter for us there at daytona, we'll check in with you, exciting one to watch, thanks so much. well, imagine being able to watch tv or talk to someone while secretly texting your friends. my next guest says his app could

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admit it, you spent times with friends or family hunched over your smart phone busy texting and e-mailing don't even know people are around you.

i've seen people doing it on dates. probably not a good date. my next guest says his new app will put an end to that. mario is a researcher at georgia tech. tell me about your app and how it works. >> thank you for having me here. the app is a software keyboard for smart phones, and you actually can type on it without having to look at it. >> okay. so who is this -- who would use something like this, for example? >> we developed it and our primary target population is visually impaired. so the people that can transfer their skills directly, they don't have to learn it, are the people who know how to type braille. >> you wouldn't think on some levels this opens up the whole world of smart phone and ability to folks advice lil impaired. how can you do this with no one knowing, though? >> what do you mean by no one knowing? >> if you're able to -- this is really just for folks who need

that sort of auditory feedback. >> i want to make certain -- there is a data that you sat. visually impaired people do use their iphones and android devices, they get it out of it but more difficult to get it in. >> we're holding one you designed. so explain it to me. >> i'll explain it to you i'll start here, actually, this is a historical background if your camera people to zoom in, this is an electronic keyboard, abc, you can keep going, the idea is that you -- it has fewer buttons than fingers, they don't have to move like we do on a regular qwerty. so, what we have done is we have mapped the keyboard directly on

the phone and i'm going to show you we just bent it so the palms are facing each other, and you type abc. >> then you showed me how to do this not like i magically figured it out. is this like braille? is it easier, more difficult to use? >> this is exactly braille. >> even on a smooth surface. >> really interesting, braille input is different from braille output. reading braille is much harder task than typing braille. >> so if you wanted to send, if you were visually impaired how would you send a message? you would need to know where to put your fingers. >> if you're a visual impaired user, use a screen reader what is on the screen, then it opens the two box and when you tap on the tool box, what regularly happens is the keyboard pops up,

this braille keyboard would pop up and you type on it and then do you a gesture to send it. >> interesting. what is so fascinating this is the kind of thing that really will help so many more people have access to everything, basically. >> it thank you, we appreciate coming in. so much we could talk about, a wonderful device. thank you. >> thank you. right after this, we are going to go back to more serious news the latest on the deadly attack that claimed the lives of two americans in afghanistan, stay with us. gas producers to supply affordable, cleaner energy, while protecting our environment. across america, these technologies protect air - by monitoring air quality and reducing emissions... ...protect water - through conservation and self-contained recycling systems... ... and protect land - by reducing our footprint and respecting wildlife. america's natural gas... domestic, abundant, clean energy to power our lives... that's smarter power today.