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room." join us at this time every day on cnn international. the news continues next on the news continues next on cnn. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com hello i'm don lemon thank you for joining us. we'll start with politics. is it a rain for rick santorum in the kansas caucuses giving him another win. we should note that mitt romney and newt gingrich conceded the state spending practically no time or money there. all four gop candidates will slug it out tuesday in the alabama and mississippi primaries. i want to start with shannon travis. he is live in kansas right now. it looks like santorum's conservative credentials won the day for him. >> reporter: won the day yet again. you know, him touting his
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conservative credentials helped in oklahoma and tennessee and now in kentucky. yet again i was at a caucus site and that was the topic on a lot of people's minds. social issues. they talked little about the economy but a lot of people were saying that rick santorum is our guy in terms of leading the charge on the hot-button social issues that the conservatives care so much about. rick santorum was not here. ron paul was the only candidate in kansas today. but rick santorum campaigning in missouri. we have him talking about his win here in kansas. take a listen. >> a great win. awesome win. feeling great. >> reporter: you know what, don, quick and to the point. >> short and sweet. >> a win is a win. a win is a win heading into tuesday. you know what, he -- a lot of people are wondering how well he will do in mississippi and alabama. but he pulled it out here in
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kansas today. >> we talked about social issues. can you drill down on that? what issues specifically seem to dominate in kansas? it had to be the economy as well. everyone is cornncerned about that. >> reporter: everyone is concerned about the economy and a lot of people at this conservative caucus want to oust president obama. that's their number one concern. but social issues. people feel like rick santorum speaks with passion when he talks about the issues that he cares about. obviously these are things that he has been drilling down now on for years now. we know his position against gay marriage. we know he is against abortion and pro family and pro religious freedom. those are some of the things that i overheard and talked to people about today not to say that the economy wasn't important but they feel like that those are key issues that should be a part of the conversation and they feel like
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rick santorum is making that a part of the conversation in ways they want from their candidate. >> let's look ahead, now, shannon, to mississippi and alabama. who needs a win most? it's important to all of them but who can afford the -- least afford a loss there? >> reporter: you can't ignore newt gingrich. he won georgia on super tuesday. he banked a lot of his candidacy on i can win in the south. rick santorum says i can win in the midwest. mitt romney has wins. but newt gingrich said i need to win in the south to prove that i'm still a viable candidate. he said it's a media infatation dismissing his candidacy time and time again. he needs the south more than others do. all want to win tennessee and mississippi. but newt givingrich is the one
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with the most to lose. >> appreciate very much, sir. a new national study found that hiv in black women in certain parts of the u.s. is almost as high as what researchers see in parts of africa. the study funded by the national institutes of health says that the hiv rate for at risk black women is five times the rate of black women overall in the united states. the study focused on areas known for higher occurrence for the aids virus. researchers followed more than 2,000 women over two years for the study. join me tomorrow night when i will speak with the authors of the study one of the authors who says it shows how this forgotten disease is alive and well. dr. carlos del rio will join me on 7:00 hour of the cnn news room. make sure you join us. one of the world's most high
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profile diplomats tried to defuse the syrian crisis today. but they weren't in the mood to bargain. he dismissed the idea. many want to see the president step aside. but as barbara starr explains new intelligence suggests that might take a while. >> reporter: we have all seen the videos on television but now we have newly declassified imagery from the state department. this is the critical intelligence that the u.s. is looking at frame by frame to assess the syrian military. it shows damage in cities and neighbors more than what a camera can capture on the street. the real evidence of tanks on the move. the syrian regime claims it is aiming at enemies but plenty of evidence that civilians are
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being killed. evidence of mosques, hospitals and play grounds are being struck. u.s. intelligence analysts tell us the evidence shows assad right now has a firm grip on power. he is directing the assaults. they see no evidence any of the military defections or movements by the elite to get their money and relatives out of syria, none of this is part of his inner circle. unless he believes he is at risk or his inner circle is cracking he has no incentive to step aside. u.s. officials believe that assad will hang on to power for time to come. cnn affiliate is in homs right now. join us on sunday night as she gives us an account. 72 hours under fire. tomorrow night at 8:00 p.m.
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eastern. washington state police tracked down a suspect who say they shot and stabbed a deputy and attacked a judge. the latest on that developing story in two minutes. a campaign to capture an african war lord. a woman who says she was victimized by joseph kony joins me live. on december 21st, polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space, which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd and you still need to retire, td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. we'll even throw in up to $600 when you open a new account or roll over an old 401(k). so who's in control now, mayans? weso to save money, services can get kind of expensive.ount or roll over an old 401(k). i've found a new way to get my profile out there. check me out. everybody says i've got a friendly disposition
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this afternoon washington state authorities arrested a suspect who they say shot and stabbed a deputy and attacked a judge in a courthouse yesterday. the suspect stabbed a female deputy threw her to the ground, stabbed and shot her and stabbed a judge who rushed to the
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deputy's aid. >> when i went to assist the deputy, he had a weapon in his hand. and -- a knife or something. and he was stabbing at her. he got away from the deputy and went pop, pop. and turned and looked at me and went out the front door with the gun in his hand. >> deputies say the arrest happened without incident. the suspect's mother called police after seeing media reports about the incident. surveillance video shows officers detaining an american airlines flight attendant who delayed a flight from dallas to chicago on friday. passengers said that parts of her rant sounded demonic. >> get off the plane. >> the flight attendant talked about problems with the labor union. crew and passengers subdued her
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and she was taken to the hospital for evaluation. there will be no criminal charges. i will speak with one of the passengers who restrained the flight attendant and find out what she said to him as he tried to calm her. this week everyone was talking about the film kony 2012 on facebook and tv and print. we'll look at the phenomenon on this viral video and talk to a former victim of joseph kony to find out what she thinks of "kony 2012." when it comes to searching for the best schools for children of same-sex parents how do they choose? steve perry gives advice to a mother named lori. >> since my kids are coming from a lesbian family and i want my kids to be raised in an open
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environment which private schools are best for her? >> that is a good question and an important one. you need to understand where your children are going to school not just because of what they learn but how they will be treated. go as a family to visit the schools. ask the question you are asking me. what are your values of diversity? get them to answer your questions. and ask the question until you feel like you've gotten the answer. ask the reputation of the school. if they want your money they will tell you what they want you to hear. but ask your friends. when you go on the tour go with other students and ask them. kids they don't typically lie. the kids will tell you the truth. ask the school, visit the school, ask about their reputation and ask the students who attend the school. you should find your answer.
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kony 2012. it's been hard to turn on the tv or log on to facebook or twitter or your e-mail and not hear about joseph kony. most had never heard of him. now millions of people do know the name thanks to a video on
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youtube this week. and that was the plan. >> reporter: is it a 30-minute video. it's hope to change the world. with a narrator and film maker want you to pay attention to is this man, joseph kony. he leads the lord's resistance army and his goal is to overthrow the ewe began dan government. he has kidnapped more than 65,000 boys and girls, kids, forcing them to maim their fellow villages and kill their own families. kony says he is doing it in the name of god but the children's stories paint a picture of hell on earth. cnn has covered it from the beginning. >> we were forced to bite him with our bare teeth while he was screaming in pain.
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>> reporter: russell and his charity invisible children are on a mission because of a promise he made to a 12-year-old boy in 2003. jacob was kidnapped by the lord's resistance army and his brother killed by it. >> after spending a few weeks with jacob he told me something i would never forget. >> it is better if you kill us. if possible you kill us, you kill us. >> you don't want to say on earth? >> only to no one taking care of us. we are not going to school. so -- >> you would rather die than stay on earth? >> yes. >> even now? >> even now. >> how are we going to stay in our future? >> he told me more about his brother and what he would say to him if he were still alive. >> i love you. but now i miss you. so it is better when we meet. we are not going to meet but we may meet in heaven. you see? so it is better.
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i will not talk it will start something. because if i saw my brother once again, i don't -- [ crying ] >> jacob is one of thousands who are brutalized at the hands of joseph kony and his lord's resistance army. last fall we spoke with another who was abducted when she was nine years old and in captivity an explosion blew off part of her face. >> they abducted me as child from my home where i grow up and they took me in the bush with a lot of hundred,000 of kids were there with me. some of them are still missing. and some of them made it back home. and some i'm not sure where they are. joseph kony has continued to
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abduct young people in congo right now and some of them are still dying. >> that was back in october of last year. she escaped the kony army when she was just 13 years old. she is now 22. she is part of the strong heart fellows program an advocate for children abducted by the lra. you have seen the video "kony 2012." what is your reaction to the video? >> thank you very much. i am here tonight to advocate on the thousand of young people who are still in the lra in the bush with joseph kony. the way i feel about the joseph kony in 2012 my own opinion is that i think i would be glad to
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see the faces of the children who are being abducted to make those kid become well known to the peel around the world. not the face of joseph kony. joseph kony, he is the one who are abducted the young kid. and i feel like it might be better if it were the faces of the children. it's better than joseph kony himself. >> evelyn, the "kony 2012" film makers say we should support the army to get kony and military strategy. you were there. do you believe that is the best way to apprehend or kill him. you think we should show the children but do you think this is the best strategy to apprehend him? >> i think there is many other
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ways to find a solution to figure out that one out to find and capture joseph kony. i have a very strong opinion about this and i am not agree with this one because joseph kony is not in there in the bush right now by himself. he has a thousand of young kid who are surrounded by him. he use them as shield. and in order to do that, we need to look in a way to put a plan somewhere a structure which we -- to protect those kid if they want to get to joseph kony. >> in the last interview you said he is killing thousands of people or killing many people in congo now. the film is about uganda and there is criticism from people saying you know he hasn't been here for years and it is harming the people in that part of the
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country. now he is elsewhere. do you agree with that? >> i agree. joseph kony right now is no longer in uganda. he is no longer in sudan but in the democratic republic of congo. i agree on that. and on the video what i didn't like about it on what i saw they're still concluding uganda and suppose to be focus more in the congo is where the -- the issue still continuing there instead of -- and also to what horror all the people who have been effected in northern uganda. these children or the people like to make them go back to home and start their own life.
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and i didn't see that on the video. and i wonder what it is all about? what is our interest in to see in northern uganda right now is to see the people. they are getting back into their normal life. and i want to see, like, more school and hospital built for those people who have been suffering for so many years. >> evelyn i have to ask you on a personal note as a survivor of joseph kony i'm not sure if you have spoken to other survivors since this film has been out. what sort of memories and feelings does this stir for you when you see it on social media and when you see the "kony 2012 kwl " film and so much attention to what happened? >> in my point of view i feel
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really hurt because i don't know. it's not easy to be a survivor but i'm glad i able to escape. maybe the purpose is why i'm sitting here. and it's very painful for me to hear in the united states joseph kony is a celebrity. what is a celebrity? the kids are the one who are supposed to be a celebrity because they are still alive with all kind of tragedy he has thought and you traumatize them and you don't know what to do for their life. and this kid the one that supposed -- the one that supposed to be spread around the world. they're the ones who are supposed to be a celebrity. they live their life every single day. and i'm not happy they are
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showing the face of joseph kony the guy who is committing all these aross toity in young people like me life which is i am not agree with in this "this kony 2012." >> it is painful for you obviously. but you are a survivor and the world has to commend you for being so strong and brave to come on this program and talk about it. you are part of the strong heart fellows program. tell our viewers about that program and your work with them and how it helped you and how it's helping others. >> yes, i am right now in the organization. they're helping me through my emotional feeling and my education and all of that they're helping me. so in the next coming future i
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can become somebody and i am already right now i feel grateful because i have no life. i am right now working with them. they have been a pleasure for me. because i finally i can find my voice to stick up for a thousand of young children who have been abducted. they don't have a voice and i feel i have that opportunity right now. >> evelyn apoko. you are amazingly brave. thank you. we appreciate you. best of luck to you. okay? >> thank you very much. >> thank you. and a reminder for our viewers tomorrow night at this time, 7:00 parking lot eastern, jason russell the co-founder of invisible children will join us live here on cnn to talk about the film and the motivation behind it. the social media phenomenon it has created and the controversy surrounding it. that's 7:00 p.m. eastern tomorrow night. what is happening in uganda
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the short youtube video "kony 2012" has been all over the news. joseph kony is responsible for the abduction of children and turning them into soldiers and sex slaves. first of all before i ask you about "kony 2012" the film were you able to hear evelyn apoko and her response to this film and how brave she is? >> she was extraordinary. and she just bears testimony to the incredible, remarkable resilience of young people in that region who have been through hell for so long. things have moved on largely in uganda. we are going back to 2006 and i was there at the time. and the country has put that
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behind it to a large extent just as evelyn was saying. and of course there is still -- kony is believed to be at large in the democratic republic of congo. he has been seen in the central african republic and south sudan as well. and right true that extraordinary impenetrable region. joseph kony is just one. next week we have a pronouncement from the international criminal court in the hague on a suspected war criminal from congo. so the story and the situation is extremely complicated. and sadly the video has given us a rather simplistic view. if we could harness the following that has been churned up, this 70 million odd viewers
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to support people like evelyn then we would see a fantastic thing happen. >> and evelyn is so selfless she is saying it should be put on the children and not talking about herself here. she said why make joseph kony famous? she would like him to be caught or killed or whatever it is, him to be stopped. but she said it should be about the children, the victims of the lra first. do you have that same criticism of the film? >> she's absolutely right. if ever there was a war against children, though, this is it. and this was it. the lra is a shadow of its former self there are about 300 fighters now in the region with their dependents and so on. but is it -- the good thing about it is it shows the international community cares and that they care about justice
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being done and being seen to be done. that is important but the solutions are more complex and evelyn quite rightly points to the ordinary children on the ground and their stories. and what we have seen, experience has shown us in the four countries we are working in the region is that these children and jung people can be resuscitated with the right psychosocial support by helping their communities and by building back and really build up the communities back to what they once were. and that's going back about 25 years in some cases. but is it possible. and i think this movement needs to start looking at the impact of children -- the children on the ground and look at the kind of issues like poverty, malaria, schooling. these are the fundamental tools to help them survive and thrive. >> you say that joseph kony has
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moved on from uganda. he is in congo and you believe -- should the focus move on? he's not the only bad dictator or war lord there. so where should the focus be, then? >> the focus should be on the children. >> i mean --? finding him and stopping dictators? >> that certainly has to -- justice has to be done and to take place. that's a given. that's a very important road to follow. but the real heroes are the ones who have been able to rise up and to survive. and those are the children in the communities that have been affected. and if we can find ways to support them, that would be enormously helpful. and rather than focus on one suspected war lord -- one war lord. >> sarah crow thank you very much. we appreciate the who, that unicef does and continues to do.
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a conservative activist announced earlier this year that he uncovered a video that could cost president obama the election. >> i have videos. this election we're going to vet him from his college days to show you -- [ applause ] -- why -- to show you why racial division and class warfare are central to what hope and change was sold in 2008. >> as you know he died this month but the video he was talking about surfaced a few days ago. it shows then law school student barack obama arguing for racial diversity at harvand. i'm going to bring in goldie
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taylor. she is a cultural critic. goldie is this a political bombshell? >> there was a movie phrase that said "is that all you got?" if there was going to be a bombshell video there would be videos of president obama on camera with an actual radical. they have him on camera hugging a very well respected law professor who has done a great work in terms of advancing civil rights in this country and worked if for justice department in the '50s rein a lot of work with the naacp and wrote great bodies of work including developing the critical race theory which examined the intersect between race, politics and the law. >> obama spoke favorably able derek bell and hugged him.
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does that necessarily lead someone to believe that he agreed with everything that bell taught or wrote? >> you know a few years ago, president obama then candidate obama hugged me too. and there's a photograph. i doubt very seriously that president barack obama believes everything that i've ever written or said. let's hope he really doesn't. but no, it doesn't mean that he believes everything a man said. but he certainly had a great deal of respect as he should have for someone like derek bell who was a pioneer and leader in law in this country. black, white, or yellow he was a very important figure. >> i have shaken hands with the president when he was a state senator in illinois where i lived. and the next word out of his mouth is why did you do this story about me. it doesn't mean he agreed with everything but he did shake my hand. why would people who see this video see it as alleged
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radicalism? and why will it have impact on 2012 at all? won't most judge him on his record in the white house so far? >> what i love about democracy is that when we can have a rigorous debate about the issues i think not having a very strong republican candidate this year is not a good thing for all of us. and so, you know, they're looking for something, just anything to put -- you know to level a decent charge at this president and they haven't been able to come up with anything. they can't beat him on policy. >> listen. there is plenty to go on. there is gas prices. there's unemployment. there's the economy. some would say, you know, liberals would say it's improving and others say it's not going fast enough. there are other things than a video from college days where you can hit the president on. i think that is what most people
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don't understand. >> the economy is improving. the economy isn't cooperating. >> well the other side -- quite honestly the other side said it is not fast enough and people are not even looking for jobs any more. we're not going to beat that dead horse. >> absolutely. speaking of the president's re-election. listen to this and then we'll talk. >> our time of standing pat of protecting narrow interest and putting off unpleasant decisions, that time has surely passed. >> his advisers would ask where to begin? which need would he put first? >> what is the first thing you notice, goldie? >> you know, a lot of -- i don't know. [ laughter ] i noticed -- i noticed the music. and i don't notice any hope and change stuff going on.
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i don't know. >> go ahead. >> i just -- >> goldie you are stumped and at a loss for words for the first time ever. why? >> i think this president has a lot of pressing needs and which thing will he answer first? you know is the work of every president in his office. but i just think he's doing the job that we elected him to do and i think he will be elected again this fall. >> we stumped goldie for the first time. thank you. good to see you goldie. >> thank you. >> reports of bounties in the nfl by the saints, two pro football vets, fran tankenton and lamar campbell weigh in on that and peyton man's big move next. dr. martin luther king jr.
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championed against injustices. but have you wondered how he learned about issues that impacted the lives of african-americans? many wrote to him. amelia boynton is one of them and is making her mark today. she helped organize a selma to montgomery march in 1965 known as bloody sunday. she was one of 17 who were hospitalized after being beaten and tear gassed by police and left for dead on a bridge. that brought national attention to the voters rights movement and led to the signing of the 1965 civil rights act. this week activists mark the 47th anniversary of bloody sunday by recreating the march. they say the push for voter rights is just as relevant today. we choose amelia boynton as the
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saints' illegal bounties. fran tarkenton founder of one more customer.com. and lamar campbell. fran we start with you. do you think the colts did the right thing by making this move? >> this deal been done for a long time. the colts are rebuilding. they will draft andrew luck number one. they are rebuilding. a new general manager and new coach. >> didn't you predict this the last time? >> before the super bowl i said the same thing. >> how did you know? >> it work out for the colts. peyton doesn't want to go back there. they fired the general manager and the head coach. he wants to go to a team that will have a chance to win a super bowl. he's going to play and probably today he knows where he is going. >> where do you think he's going? >> i think he's heading to miami. >> some team is going to pay him the money and you think it's go inning to be miami and coming
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off surgery here? >> you are looking at over 50,000 yards. career run rating of 95 out of 100. 300 touchdowns. >> go lamar. >> you look at what he has done in his career, four mvps and one super bowl. you are going to take a chance. >> let's talk about the bounties now. we heard about the saints and talk that it is happening in the rest of the league. when you played, lamar did you think it is common? >> not to this extent? >> it did happen? >> it did. when you look at a situation when a coach and gm is involved and a head coach is involved and they were asked this question were they involved in bounties and denied it and continued to put bounties of 10 to $30,000 allegedly.
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it will hurt the integrity of w. >> the lions always cheated. the black and blue division, they always cheated. >> are you going to take that? we got some helmets. >> we beat up on minnesota numerous times. >> did you know about? >> no. i played 18 yirs. i missed five games because of injury. there was no bounty. it wasn't this kind of dirty play. here is the problem. you've got young men playing the game. you look up to your coach and if he says knock a guy out, we're going to give you recognition and money, you do it because that's what you're told to do. gregg williams, the defensive coach did it in new orleans, tennessee, washington, he did it in buffalo. he should be banned from the league. banned from the league! and i think roger goodell is going to come down hard. >> well, from football to the
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the city of austin, texas, being overrun right now by music and film lovers and tech nerds like the next person i'm going to introduce. the festival is under way and brooke baldwin is there getting her nerd on. fill me in on what's going on. >> hello, don lemon. you love south by southwest. so we're in part of the
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interactive part of this festival. you have interactive, film, music. and let's go inside. keep in mind, sit a rainy day in austin. you need your umbrella and iphone. no high heels. follow me. ♪ i'm sorry, this is how everyone here at the circus that is south by southwest walks. everyone is staring at their phones. and i tell you, we want to show you one thing and we get turned off to something else. it is like information interactive overload on all these different hallways. there are different vendors trying to get the buzz out about the next big thing. we're checking it out with everyone else from all around the world to see what the next hot thing is. ♪ >> this is an electric skateboard. you lean forward to go, lean back to stop.
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get on the pad and lean forward. >> sweet jesus. and this is just one thing that jumped out at us. it just shows that this may be the interactive portion of this festival. there are all these different columns around the convention center, talking about politics. this is probably one of the films, music to go to tonight. the anonymous here or the little codes to find out what this is, where you can go. and so finally, since i have a little something, sanjay gupta, that's for you. so we headed back, and guess what's going to be newly located three blocks away from the austin convention senter? the cnn grill. it was three months in planning. i'm sitting in the beer garden. we do have a little cider and we
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have the ale, both dark and light. this is the beginning of the end of the day, the beginning of the night. yes, i am drinking cider, don lemon. we're going to be here at the cnn grill the next couple of days. don lemon, you have to come next year, all right? >> of course i do. thank you, brooke. i'm drinking water with ice. rub it in. glad you're enjoying yourself. we'll see brooke this weekend. see you back here at 10:00 p.m. eastern. "cnn presents" begins in less than three minutes. what's the best way to santa cruz, california?
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