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hangs in afghan president karzai's hands. plus, what is hollywood hunk george clooney doing in hand cuffs? hello. we'll tell you. this morning a soldier accused of killing 16 gachb civilians in a house-to-house ram pain is back in the u.s. plane carrying army staff sergeant robert bales arrived in kansas. he's now being held in a private prison krelg at fort leavenworth. neighbors say he's much different from the decorated combat veteran they know. the shooting rampage has sparked a lot of anger. hundreds of protester s marchin, demanding that he be put on trial according to islamic law. they chanted death to america. she's live in kabul, afghanistan, for us. sarah, is it likely that bales will be returned to afghanistan?

>> reporter: not likely at all. how anyone accused in the military, what the process is for that person and normally they would go through a military tribunal. we heard from his attorney, staff sergeant bales' attorney saying there's not a chance that he's going to be brought back here and tried here. you're hearing chants death to america but also that he betried accordinging to islamic law. that is also not going to happen. they'll use the law under which the agreement exists. we should also talk about the protaft. this is the second time we've seen it in jalalabad. quite a rowdy protest. hay closed down one of the main roads, and now we're seeing another protest break out there again. but we're not seeing protests all around the country. they're very isolated. this is only the third protest since this happened on sunday.

it's almost been a week now. very different from what we saw when u.s. troops were accused of burning korans that they said they did mistakenly and then we saw massive protests were 40 people were killed. very different scenario. still, though, people are quite angry about what transpyred of sunday. randi? >> what about hamid karzai? what are his plans today? is he trying to calm people there? is he in touch with the villagers where this happened? >> reporter: yes, he's in touch with the villagers. he brought them in, the village elders and some of the family members of the victims who were killed on sunday to let them tell him exactly what they saw, their feelings, what they want to see happen. they're basically asking for justice to be done. they say they don't want any compensation from the u.s. or the afghan government. but we do know that the afghan government has helped with some things such as paying for funerals and the like. we also know that the president is very frustrated with what's

happened here in recent months and has said so, saying that the relationship between the united states and afghanistan is at the end of its rope. and so a lot of frustration coming from him and obviously in front of this group of people who have just been through such a dramatic time. there is a lot of anger on his part about how things have unfolded here when it comes to the investigation of this soldier because afghan investigators did not get chance to speak to the soldier before he was sent back to america. randi? >> in light of what's happened there, they've been saying there that if they catch any american soldier, they'll behead him. there's a lot of threats of violence there. what is the mood among the troops there in after gap stan? >> reporter: i think any time something like this happens, people worry. it reflects back on them. although time and again, the u.s. and international security assistants where officials have said this is not representative of our armed forces that are here. these are isolated incidents. but still, think, there's always

worry, especially when you hear the taliban saying we're going to behead any soldier, any american troop that is on the ground in our country if we catch them. so as you might imagine, there's heightened security at some of the bases here. >> sara sidner in kabul for us. thank you very much. what is the reaction to the afghan shooting incident and how does it impact on troop withdrawal? join me at 10:00 a.m. eastern. we'll talk with general spider. now to syria. two huge explosions killed 27 in damascus today. the syrian government is blaming terrorists. at least ten people also died in other parts of syria. former nazi death camp guard and retired ohio auto worker john demen yeo died. he was found guilty last year.

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little longer because reynolds is back with a weather update. what are people going to find? >> out west, there's going to be rain, especially the interior valleys, san joaquin. in is sthe see aiierra, snow is possible. in parts of the midwest, we might be dealing with severe weather late in the day. we'll talk more about that coming up in just a few moments. >> okay, reynolds. thank you. just ahead general spider marx is in our washington bureau. he's ready to talk about the afghan shooting rampage and the ugs troop pl pullout strategy and who he thinks really is in charge of the war. you're watching "cnn saturday morning" where news doesn't take the weekend off. but now, with zyrtec-d®, i have the proven allergy relief of zyrtec®, plus a powerful decongestant. zyrtec-d® lets me breath freer, so i can love the air. [ male announcer ] zyrtec-d®. behind the pharmacy counter. no prescription needed. i care about my car because...

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a revealing look this morning into the ef-4 tornado that wiped out entire communities in indiana. surveillance cameras inside henryville high school rolling on march 2nd as the tornado headed straight for the school. students were heading on their school buses after this happened. immediately after the teachers got the students back inside the school, this hit. incredible video. about 80 staff school teachers and students were inside the school. nobody was injured. isn't that incredible? you look at that video and it's hard to believe no one was hurt. >> it is unreal. the damage bolgs the imagination. >> the power of it. >> the biggest danger that you have when you have storms like this is not really the wind but rather the stuff that gets picked up by the wind. a small coin, a penny, and can be picked up and with winds that

can top 300 miles an hour, it can become a deadly projectile, almost like a bullet. that's the reason why during tornadoes the safest place to be is under ground if possible. there's a chance we'll see an outbreak later today. we might see it later this afternoon in portions of mid-mississippi valley. cape girardeau and maybe before the day is out, little rock, arkansas. areas we're concerned with for a couple of reasons. one we have moisture in if there the gulf of mexico. very close to 80, cl makes for a very unstable air mass. when that happens, all that moisture air rises up. when that happens it mixes with the cool air aloft. with that we have the potential when the jet stream mixes in too of having rotating thunderstorms, supercell, possibly some tornados. plenty of warm conditions. back out west, it's snow. especially out west. you could see several feet of

snow, approaching 40, 50, 60 miles an hour. still very dry in parts of west texas, arizona, and even new mexico. that coupled with very, very dry conditions and strong winds, you've got the fire danger. again you see the watches and warnings. as we wrap things up, one of the things you're going to see in your travels will be delays. washington, las vegas, even salt lake city. you have the trifecta of the rain, the wind, and low clouds that can keep you grounded for over an hour. that's the latest, randi. we'll send it back to you. >> thank you so much. now to the main bar story, the attack in afghanistan and the american soldier leaving his outpost and killing 16 men, women, and children. he's been identified as staff sergeant robert jals. last hour we spoke with someone. the plan to withdraw the troops

from that country. here are the results from a poll done just this week. take a look. in a survey of more than a thousand people, a u.s. gallup poll shows the united states thinks they should speed up the withdrawal. about one in three changed to that opinion because of recent events including the post attack while 60% say their views has not changed. joining us to talk about what this means is general james "spider" marks. nice to have you on the program this morning. good morning to you. is this latest incident a setback for u.s. strategy, do you think? >> well, it most certainly is. in a very sad way, this incident, the murder of these 16 civilians, is in the afghan view really eclipsed by the burning of the korans. however, in the united states with the sanctity of christ,

with the way our judea christian background has been established, we view the 16 murders -- it's much more grieves to us than i frankly think it is to the afghan people. if you look at what happened in afghanistan after the koran burning, the violence was immediate. it was extremely vitriolic, it was emotional, and it lasted for an amount of time. it's been incredible, the reaction in the united states. the polls you indicate are not surprising in the least. thing the u.s. views this as a real inflexion point in terms of our presence in afghanistan. and president karzai knows that probably as well as anybody in our administration. >> yeah. i mean you have actually told us that this is obama's war, but that afghan president hamid karzai is in charge. can you expand on that a little bit? >> what that means is he certainly is the president of gachb stan, and we are there as

his guests. clearly we invaded in 2001. we brought him into power. he has been elected. he is a legitimate leader in afghanistan, regardless of how we view how he's conducting business and the intense nature of our relationship. that is to be expected. but what he says in that country, we must listen to. so when the president of gachb stan says, look, i want all u.s. soldiers out of my villages and back into your major bases, we have to abide that. now, if that ooh's permanent change in terms of the mission, we have serious decisions to make in the very near term. our president has committed to getting the fight in afghanistan right. he was absolutely correct in terms of supporting a surge. establishing a time line relative to that surge. it was a wonderful operation to go after osama bin laden and get him and kill him, but right now

our president is probably very concerned about a call from president karzai saying, you know, you're making this too difficult on me, i need you guys to leave, and i need you guys to leave as soon as possible, not on the timeline we've agreed to. >> what's your expert opinion? if the soldiers and troops are confined and they ve to stay out of the villages as car someday said, does it change the mission? can it even succeed? >> a couple of things. it has chanchd. if those forces are not going to stay there, we need to get out. we still have a responsibility to train the afghan security forces and kit be done on the bases and in protected areas that does not put our soldiers at riff income those villages and that's really what it's all about, it's about lowering the global heat on the u.s. presence. it's not anyone on the fence to become a bad guy to go target u.s. forces in the villaging. but if u.s. forces are now

permanently restricted to four on rating bases, this is a completely different mission than what we signed up for and we have to get out of there and leave behind what we have to leave behind. you can still make some goodness out of this. its has to be done aggressively. i can promise you that's what's happening right now. >> i want to ask you about the incident itself. obviously we don't know what happened here yet, but what's your take on it, given your experience in the battle field. what do you think might have happened here? >> randi, it's real tragic that's occurred. now he's a known commodity. he has a face, he has name, and he also has a record. his record, quite frankly, in uniform is exemplary. is he a man without flaws? absolutely not. he's had some challenges. this is man who stepped up post 9/11 and stepped up and done

well multiple times. so he's given at the office. now he's deployed to afghanistan. something went terribly wrong. his internal gyroscope went completely out of whack and he went over the edge. what we must do is paint every soldier, every service member, every marine with the same brush. nearly 99% have honored us with their service. this is very tragic, not an accident, a very tragic incident that occurred that involve add u.s. soldier and as a result 16 civilians in afghanistan were killed. this is bad on multiple levels but let's focus on the good news and what we can do to continue to help afghanistan. >> it's nice to have you on the show this morning. thank you. coming up, new 9/11 tapes giving insight to the deadly shooting of around unarmed florida teenager. you will hear those tapes next. . but your erectile dysfunction -- that could be a question of blood flow.

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outraged. charges of racial profiling cause for justice after one unarmed teenager was shot and killed. his name is tray skron martin. he was on his way home from neighborhood market when someone called 911 to report a suspicious man. when they arrived they found martin dead with a gunshot wound to his chest. zimmerman who has not been charged says he shot the boy in self-defense. david mattingly has the story. >> 911.

>> i just heard a shot behind my house. >> reporter: you can hear the fear in every caller. >> the person is dead. he's lying on the ground. oh, my god. >> reporter: seven 911 calls in all beginning with this one from neighborhood watch captain george zimmerman. that's zimmerman's first impression watching trayvon martin walking alone acting strangely. >> he looks like he's up to no good or on drugs. >> reporter: then zimmerman says he watches him come toward him. >> there's something wrong with him. he's coming to check me out. he's got something in his hands. >> reporter: less than a minute later, martin is running way a way. zimmerman gets out of his car. >> are you following him? >> yes. >> we don't need you to do that.

>> okay. >> reporter: then just a few minutes later there's another call. 911. do you need police or medical? >> maybe both. i'm not sure. there's screaming in the background. >> reporter: listen for the panicked voice yelling for help. >> is it a male or female? >> i don't know why. think they're yelling help. i don't know. send someone quick, please. >> reporter: ten seconds later shrieking continues and then a gunshot. >> do you think he's yelling help? yes. >> there's gunshots. >> you just heard gunshots? >> yes. >> how many. >> just one. >> the identity of the person pleading for help is in dispute as well as the number of gunshots. but there is no doubt the calls capture the sounds of a deadly end to a tragic encounter.

david mattingly, cnn, atlanta. >> they haven't commit add crime but these children are locked away behind bars. up next, you'll meet the cnn hero who's working to provide them with life's necessities.

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streets chants "death to america." they're furious over a shooting rampage. he's being held this morning in a military prison in ft. leavenworth, kansas. a rally in support of syria's opposition uprising is said to get under way in washington shortly. demonstrators are marking a one-year uprising against president bashir al assad. an explosion killed more than two dozen people. and former nazi death camp guard and former ohio auto worker john demjanjuk has died. he was sentenced to five years in prison. hollywood heavy weight george clooney out of jail this morning. police took clooney and his father and other members of congress into custody during a protest outside the sudanese embassy outside washington yesterday. he was charged with a miss

demeanor, fined, and later released. he met with president obama earlier this week had this to say about his involvement. >> you never know if you're accomplishing anything. all we're trying do is bring attention to a moment in time that is actually important. we hope that this brings attention to it. we hope it helps. and we hope that the people understand that there really is a ticking clock on this and that we need to get moving. >> clooney recently returned to a trip to the sudan. he said the government haskill and injured civilians in a series of bombings and asking that humanitarian aid be allowed into the country. president obama's re-election campaign is $5 million richer today. he received a star-studded welcome in atlanta following fund-raising stops in chicago yesterday. filmmaker tyler perry hosting $38,000 a plate dinner at his house. among the guests, oprah winfrey. he says mr. obama has made what once seemed impossible possible.

>> everything that i've imagine ed, i never thought -- there would be a day that the presidential motorcade would come through southwest atlanta giving all these little boys and girls a glimpse of what destiny looks like. >> as puerto rican voters get ready to take part in tomorrow's republican primary, the candidates have been talking a lot about what language those voters should be speaking. rick santorum has said in order for puerto rico to become a state, english must be its principal language. as you can imagine that hasn't gone over too well where spanish is the dominant language. joining me now cnn contributor and democrat analyst maria cardona and republican lenny mcallister.

who is he reaching out to? maria, i'm going to start with you on this one. >> i think what rick santorum is try dog is focus on his own principles. give him credit for that. he didn't go down to pander to the people to get their vote. that wouldn't work anyway. that's what mitt romney is trying to do. rick santorum is still focused the very conservative segment of the party that i think he already has a handle on and has a lot of support from. he didn't go towndown to puerto rico to tell the puerto rico people what he thought they wanted to hear and that's what romney has done. i don't think it's going to help romney in the long run. but let's just put thicks where they are. the republican parties is in hot water with the latino votes. no candidate gets about 14%. they're in big trouble when it comes to that in the general election. >> lenny, does it hurt rick santorum with the latino voters? >>, i think actually what this does is shows he has a little bit of conviction when this comes to this. this is something they look for

in candidates. do you keep consistency as you move forward door you all of a sudden start changing where you're going to stand on issues. that is a criticism and has been a criticism. santorum is riding the line pretty well. he says, listen, i understand the culture but when we talk principle lainch in america. he says if you're going to be the 51st state, english should be the principal lancguage. he didn't say official. he said the principal language of the new state should be english. i agree with him. i think he's riding the line to give cultural respect but we need a language that involves diversified. >> some would like to know who they choose for a running mate before they make a choice. why don't the candidates want to go there yet? >> well, thing because they haven't -- >> maria first. >> sorry. they haven't sealed the at all

with themselves, first of all, so i don't think they can choose a vice president until they seal a deal with their own personalities, and think that's the big problem they're having right now. >> for fun let's see the gop candidates wither going to reach out for a political running mate right now. what kind of vp personal ad might romney put out there, do you think? >> well, if it were mitt romney, he would probably say something along these lines, presumed republican nominee looking for someone special that excites latinos, minorities, catholics, and women. now considering southern toouz, he'll probably be looking for a different types of grits, and it would have to be somebody who bring as poll to the relationship. now when it comes to something along those lines you'd have to be looking at suzanna martinez

or nicky haley. i would imagine. >> what would rick santorum's look like? >> probably something along the line of courageous, a front runlter, seek as partner to who lep secure two big must-win states this fall. he'll have to have experience to taking down a candidate establishment. that sounds like marco rubio. >> very quickly so we can get to maria's too. >> he's a cheerful republican presidential hopeful looking for someone who can deliver rhett state full of latinos, conservatives, and republican delegates. that sounds like rick perry. >> i love the cheerful note. that's very good. all right, maria, your take. let's start with romney for you as well. what would his match ad look like. >> so romney would be very wealthy billionaire dapper dan man, looking for desperately

seeking a partner who can -- who is fluent and can speak average joe, who loves dogs, and who can make me look 15% to 17% edgier. >> oh, i love the loves dogs. i love it. very good. >> thank you. >> what about santorum? >> santorum would have to be desperately seeking partner for magical days and nights at the white house who can balance out not so mainstream conservative values and alls i ask is please do not google me. >> and gingrich? >> gingrich would have to be historian turned politician, again, desperately seeking partner who can take me to tampa, and if you get me to the white house, i will promise you the moon. >> and help him win any state. >> help him win any state. >> any state, exactly. that was a lot of fun. i think we should play that

match game as we get closer. >> i agree. >> see what else we can come up with. all right. we'll see you next week. >> thanks so much, randi. >> god bless. take care. studying your march madness bracket this morning? so am i. let's compare. stay here on "cnn saturday morning" where news dungt take the weekend off. like underwear. fits same great protection. depend®. good morning. great day. bayer aspirin... ohh, no no no. i'm not having a heart attack, it's my head. this is made for pain. [ male announcer ] bayer advanced aspirin enters the bloodstream fast, and rushes extra strength relief to the sight of your pain. feel better? yeah...thanks for the tip!

all right. so we're talking march madness here. reynolds is here to talk a little bit about it. look at this. how convenient. we have my bracket up. >> i'm disgusted. i really am. can i give evan idea what's going on here? randi is not really into the whole basketball thing. this is the first time she's filled out the bracket. if you look at her score, she's getting 97%. she eels nailed it. it's equivalent to going to augusta and on the 18th hole nailing a hole-in-one during the middle of a hurricane. you've done an amazing job. as we scroll down let's look at what you have here for your final four. kentucky, louisville -- who do

you have winning? >> syracuse. and all of my final four teams are still in. >> unbelievable. >> i had help. >> one of the few that you missed yesterday and a lot of people did, of course, was the duke and lehigh game. that was an amazing game. that was one of those situations, here take a look at the video here, every team in the tournament believes to be here. what happened last night with duke university was one of those weird things where they've run great plays, they have a great coaches and great athletes but sometimes shots do not fall. that was the situation last night, not taking anything away from lehigh at all. who knows how far they're going go. that was one of three huge upsets yesterday. >> you would have picked duke. >> i would have. >> it's probably best you didn't fill one out. >> i'm going to lead you lead. you're the expert. my gosh, you are doing great so far. >> give credit to my producer. ncaa march madness is taking over america, of course yochl u can watch every gave live on

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get ready to tear down those justin bieber and robert pattinson posters. yes, yes, really. i'm not kidding. if you have tweens hunger games mike take over your house next week. teens are forced to fight each other to the death. joining me now from los angeles is the president of hollywood.com, paul. thanks for coming on the show this morning. first, i'm probably one of the few who hasn't read the whole series. what are the "hunger games"? i understand they're pretty violent. >> it is pretty violent but i

love the concept and i believe it's going to catch on in a big way. this movie has so much going for it. first of all, jennifer lawrence is the oscar nominated actress. she's the star of this show. it's beautifully made, the film, it's highly entertain, and i think most importantly for lionsgate, they're ghoingt to get to just the girls which was the case with the twilight films, they're going to get the boys in there as well. on top of that you're going to get the older audiences who are intrigued by this idea and they'll probably read the book as well. you have a great veteran actors in the midst of these younger teen actors, so this could be called a four-quad movie playing to men, women, boys, and girls under 25, over 25. it's not for little kids. i wouldn't take a 5-year-old. it is a pg-13. it is a terrific film.

>> let's talk about the plot of it. what happens during the "hunger games"? >> i won't giving too much away. there are 12 districts around the world rather than countries and they pick two kids between the ages of 8 and 18 in each district go into this battle royal that's basically -- to me it's like "survivor" meets "lord of the flies," and that's what it sort of plays like but it's televised for a worldwide audience. it's great commentary on media, pop culture, governmental control over the populous. and so it has a lot of very deep themes. it's a very so fisty indicated movie. it sunlt just vampires versus werewolves. this is a big deal. there's a lot more stake. >> could this be, dare i say it, bigger than "twilight?" more than 1,700 sold out

previewing. >> that's right. look, people always throw around these big opening weekend numbers. i would think a hundred million-plus is in the cards for this film but you never know until it opens. based on the preline tracking, the online sales you mentioned, the imax sales, all that, people are saying it could as much as $150 million. would that be bigger than twilight, well, the last twilight film, "breaking dawn, part i". here's the difference. this will play for the long haul. this will be rare intersection of critical acclaim mixed with massive audience appeal. the average person who's going to see the movie will love it. critics will love it. and it's rare that you love it. the "twilight" movies were not well reviewed. they didn't need to be. they made it because of the

fervor and the excitement surrounding it. that didn't hurt them at all. >> paul, before i let you go, i want to ask you about "luck," the hbo show. it's owned be i our parent company, time warner. they orange namely named "luck." it stars dustin hoffman and nick nolte. it canceled after third horse dying. do you recall anything like this ever happening before? >> i know of shows being can selled for controversy and divl things but not specifically animals, and beloved animals. people love horses. this was a p.r. nightmare. the show didn't have huge ratings anyway for an hbo kind of show. but it had great pedigree, great actors, but i don't know. maybe it was going to eventually be canceled anyway and this was an excuse to get that done. i don't know. just sad and kind of tragic for the whole production that this had to happen because there were great people attached to that project. and i'm sure obviously it had

its followers and maybe over time would have built an even bigger audience. it wasn't a boardwalk empire or the "sopranos," and luck ran out. it's sad about the horses definitely. >> it sure is. paul, thank you very much. nice to see you on this saturday morning. >> thank you. i appreciate it. >> the news doesn't take the weekend off. hopefully you do. grab a drink, coffee, oj, put all your feet. stick around for this. some of the coolest videos coming your way, especially a special bond between a gorilla and a rabbit. ok, guys-- what's next ?

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welcome back. reynolds and i have been looking for our favorite videos, favorite snapshots, and i want to show you the first one. it's a gorilla and bunny that have become good friends. it's a bit of an unusual pairing. it's at the erie, pennsylvania, zoo. the gorilla is samantha and the bunny named panda. >> why would you have a bunny named panda? >> i don't know. she needed company.

she's been alone since 2005. and, you know, she feeds this little bunny rachblt she takes care of it, holds it like a little pet. and it's really sweet. >> do you think it's a happy relationship or she going to fatten it up and eat it for easter? >> no, no, no. that's why it works. it's a relationship that works. >> it's a beautiful thing. another rare sight, this one we also found for you. this is of london. check this out. this is a proud english guard somehow passes out. watch it there. he actually passes out at the st. patrick's day parade. he falls right to the ground. it takes a couple of seconds. they finally come. they're not supposed to move. >> absolutely. they're supposed to stand there like statutes. that's pretty bizarre. >> it's incredible to look at him go down like that. just a couple of our favorites and hopefully he's okay. >> all right. we're going to take a quick break here, and we'll be right back. ♪

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>> it makes me sick because there are sex offenders out there. to me, she's still a little girl. >> that was christina lopez in january sounding like a concerned parent, outraged that a strip club would hire her ujds age daughter to dance. but since that time surveillance has surfaced. police say it shows the 47-year-old mother watching her 17-year-old daughter dance and allegedly giving her money. the club claims the teen lied about her age. the mother now faces child abuse charges. >> this was my worst nightmare seeing an animal pulling my daughter under water. it was to me like a scene from "jaws." >> in florida a mother is being credited for saving her daughter from a shark. the shark clamped down on the girl's ankle and pulled her off the board. here's a picture of the wound. il