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rhythm twice as accurate as chaim analysts in predicting crime. >> i really just see this as the future of law enforcement. police in oklahoma are spending this holiday weekend hunting down a killer. investigators say the shooter drove around tulsa shooting people in four different locations friday morning. in the end, three people were dead, and two others were left in critical condition. i spoke with tulsa's mayor who updated us on the manhunt. >> well, they're working very, very hard. we've had at least 40 police cars cruising around the neighborhoods, that are affected, going literally door to door and asking people if they've seen anything, what their opinions and their observations are. a 25-person task force specially put together to bring this to an end, bring it to a conclusion quickly. we have the fbi and the u.s.
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marshal's office alerted and involved in this as well. this is san event that is unprecedent 234d our recent history and it is certainly one that is very, very serious and we want to bring to an end very, very quickly. >> the fbi and u.s. marshals joined the search for the gunman. a spokesman for the police department told me the shooter approached the victims asking for directions. >> it appears all of these victims were just out walking or out in the yard at this hour. and this is a residential neighborhood predominantly single family dwellings in that area, except for the last victim. he was found as a business. >> police say the shootings may be classified as a hate crime, since all the victims were african-american and the shooter is believed to be a white man. commuter leaders are calling for calm and urging anyone with information to come forward. no lives lost after a navy jet slams into an apartment complex in virginia beach, virginia. both pilots ejected safely. a few people on the ground were
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hurt. several apartment buildings were destroyed in a fiery aftermath, and in a news conference just a short time ago, the navy called the outcome a miracle. >> i don't speak for anybody's religious beliefs but the mayor and i both agreed that, you know, if you want to define a miracle, what happened here yesterday meets that definition for me. >> navy investigators are working to find out what caused the jet to crash. and more than 120 people are reported killed today in fighting and shelling across syria. most of them in the cities of hama and homs. keeping track of conditionalties there. the seen yar president agreed to a united nations cease-fire deadline promising to have all troops an tanks out of the residential area by tuesday. and claim sheg heard a xufral between shooter george zimmerman and martin between the teen was shot. the anonymous woman says she
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heard cries for help and then this. >> it was almost kind of like a yelp. a devastating desperate tile of yell for help and eve ton a sense, could have been a call. the lead investigators said to me kindly if it makes you feel any better, the person yelling for help say live. i really thought it was the boy crying for help, but here's the lead investigator telling me that, no, it was mr. zimmerman. >> so you heard there. she says police told her zimmerman was crying for help, but she thought it was trayvon martin. george zimmerman's attorneys dispute these details and will actually join me tomorrow in the "newsroom" at 2:30 eastern time. his peaceful landscapes and forest scenes are in millions of americans homes. painter thomas kinkade died. he was known among art
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collectors as the painter of light. the kinkade family says he died in his home in california yesterday apparently of natural causes. he was 54 years old. next hour i'll speak to robert goodwin who collaborated on a book with kinkade. police in ohio are praising two women who fought off intruders in their home. amazing is those homes were just a mile apart and the attacks happened as about the same time. one of the women used her stilettos to fight off the attacker. police don't think the two incidents are connected, and are still searching for the attackers. when we say this car flies, we don't mean it's just fast on the road. it wlit rhe it literally flies. it's one of many cars on display at the new york international auto show, which began this week. testing isn't kplees complete, be available for purchase next year. better have deep pockets. sticker price, about $280,000.
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and round three is underway at the masters golf tournament. fred couples has been in the lead so far, and get this, he is 52 years old. couples has just bogeyed his first hole, and is now one shot off the pace. couples last won the masters 20 years ago. coming up, we'll led to augusta for a live update on the masters. don't go away. your finances can't manage themselves. but that doesn't mean they won't try. bring all your finances together with the help of the one person who can. a certified financial planner professional. cfp. let's make a plan.
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imposed cease-fire. also today, seeing graphic images of people killed in the fighting. cnn's ivan watson has that from istanbul. >> reporter: i have to caution viewers about this next video. it emerged from the embattled city of homs. our position activists say they stumbled across 13 bodies. they are laying at the foot of a wall that was a syrian school, and you can plainly see bullet holes in the wall. it appears these 13 men were lined up and shot to death execution-style by an impromptu firing squad. we don't know who did it, but opposition activists claim that school was appropriated by syrian security high used it as a temporary detention center. >> ivan watson reporting. people across europe and the balkans today are remembering the conflict that made the words ethnic cleansing familiar to generations. the bosnian civil war began 20
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years ago this weekend. nic robertson covered the war for cnn and went back to sarajevo and found two journalists there when the first shots were fired. >> reporter: running literally for their lives. a flashback nearly 20 years when getting to work with these mean sniper's bullet. today, there's no need to rush. it was almost 20 years ago we running right down there with you. when you think back to it now, does that seem crazy, outlandish? >> definitely crazy. i wouldn't do it again. >> reporter: no? >> no. >> we didn't think about it. doing our job. >> reporter: the paper and now she's an author. ho do you explain to your 13 daughter what you did back then now? >> i think she's not ready yet. she's now into the reporter and
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read all the books, and she reads all this twilight things and a totally disinterested in what was happening at the time. >> reporter: at that time, maria hoped her newspaper's multiethnmultieth would be a model for her daughter's generation. >> there is a hope for all of us, not to be divided. not to be different sides, but to be together here as we are together inside this building. >> reporter: is that working? that motto? >> i'm afraid that nowadays people would mix that balance, getting to be more and more irrelevant. >> reporter: but the politics of today enshrining those divisions and making it harder to go back to that mixed identity? >> absolutely. absolutely. it is. >> reporter: now a senior photographer. you're preparing an exhibition for the anniversary of the war? >> yeah.
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it actually was, we have today a special edition considering this event. >> reporter: i know you're doing all this because of the 20th anniversary. do normally these days do you talk about the war? do you think about the war much? >> well, actually, we have -- sometime, not all the time. because now it's different. you have lots of work to do. there is daily excitements, and i have a lot of young photographers, you could see, work wig me, and sometimes we discuss about it, you know what was then, but not all the time. >> reporter: to me the city has a feel of, it's coming back. >> it's coming back with, let's say, luxury looks, but for ordinary people, you know, who was during the war here, they should have a lot of perk, a lot of factories, money for living and to pay the bills and payments for the children that they have, they have school and things like that. >> reporter: the jobs are the
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big issue? >> yeah. >> reporter: once burned and bashed by shells, just yards from the front line, a march like the rest of country is rising from the ashes. for maria and sinadd, it's clear there are still some way to go. nic robertson, cnn, sarajevo, bots nia hertz go xena. >> and this is how people in sarajevo mark the 20th anniversary of the start of the year. chairs all red, each of them empty. through the streets of the bosnian capital. the chairs represent the number of men, women and children killed during the siege of sarajevo that ban in april 1992 and ended in 195. coming up, watch what you say. people inside may listen to your phone calls and see what you're doing online. the government's brand new spy
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all right. the famous masters golf tournament is going on right now. the man leading at this moment, fred couples. he's 52 years old and could become the oldest golfer to win a major championship. patrick snell is live from the
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augusta nationals. patrick, couples, how's he doing? still on course to be leading? >> reporter: hi, fredricka. hi there. just a little curse on him. he's no longer leading. >> so, fred. >> sorry to tell you. without further ado to the top of the leaderboard. what i mean. frustrating start for the 1992 champion couples. he slipped to 4 under par. jason, com operapatriot, and le justin, south african british born player and the american born australian, 3 under par as well, but one notable, fred. rory mcilroy who was at 4 under par at the start of this round had a disastrous start. a double bogey 6 and hole 1. just alongside us here.
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that was in front of his watching father as well. mcelroy sliding right down to 2 under par. a little more quickly now on fred couples. a player, 52 years young. with confidence. still has great length off the tee. that's one of the reasons why he believed he would be a factor here and he can still 24this a long way. a lot of the young guns crush it off the tee. freddie if he can stay calm, who knows. he could be on to a second green jacket. first since 1992, fred. >> patrick, thanks so much. we'll wish him well. i've got to root for fred, only because i, you know, like the name. fred snell, you, too. rooting for you. i like the way you put it, 52 years young. we'll check back. five times bigger than the u.s. capital and super top secret. i'm talking about new u.s. government building. a big, old spy center in the making. my next guest says, unless you
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and that's a huge breakthrough. that's good for our country's energy security and our economy. a look at top stories. tulsa, oklahoma authorities looking to find a killer. police say it may be a hate
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crime since all victims were black. a police spokesman said the shooter is a white male driving a white truck. the mayor of the city says the city will come together and help bring the attacker to justice. >> we understand the significance of what happened. we understand that we need to come together as a community to inform the police, to bring -- to bring information to them so they can do their job, and hopefully sunday, or early next week, this is all over with, and the people are put behind bars where they deserve to be. >> and then to virginia where native officials say it's a miracle no one died after a navy jet slammed b into an apartment complex. the fa-18 jet crashed in virginia beach. at least seven injured, and the navy today announced the investigation is under way. the flight data recorder still has not yet been recovered. a shake-up at blackberry. two more top executives are
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leaving, research in motion, the company that makes the brand. the company has been losing money, and is going through an overhaul, which could result in the company being sold. and it's more embarrassment for a government agency already in trouble with congress. the huffington post released videos of skits and games played by members of the general services administration at a conference in las vegas. they make jokes and sing songs about government waste and out of control spending. your tax dollars paid the almost $1 million cost of the conference that includes a half million dollars for ipods and other gifts for government employees. the head of the gsa resigned just a few days ago. the u.s. army is building a massive high-tech facility in the utah mountains. this is it, right there in the making. they broke ground last year, and the national security agency says from here they will protect the country against cyber attacks and be able to store a
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universe of computer data. critics say it will be the most intrusive intelligence gathering facility on earth. bob bair is with me now from berkeley, california. he's a former undercover cia operative. bob, does this place frighten you or does it seem completely apropos? >> it's got the potential to be intrusive. right now the national security agency seeks warrants when it listens to america's conversations. in a national security crisis, could this change? yes. it's amazing what the national security agency can get into now. broadband, e-mails. cell phone calls. and g and with algarisms, they can sort it all out. the security system has a lot of money and it's gone after
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communications across the world and it needs storage, it needs databases. enormous computers that take up a lot of space, and they need people working at it. you know, this is not much of a surprise. >> what is it likely hold, in order to justify some $3 billion price tag? >> well, let me take a communication like skype. there was a time, it's broadband. they couldn't get into it, but now they can actually get in not only to the mettadata, calls going back and forth, they can get into, for instance, what's called the payload. the actual conversations stored on hard drives, and they can be accessed at any time. it is big brother, but like i said, this is the potential, an there's no evidence that the government is turned on its american citizens. >> what can it do? what would be its scope? strictly the united states? i mean, observing the activities of you, me and everybody else in the u.s. or even broader than that? >> it's broader than that.
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it's focused overseas. it's focused on afghanistan, pakist pakistan, somalia and now mali with the problems there. anything going in and out of mali will be picked up to, listened to, analyzes. looking for links to al qaeda. it's an amazing system, and this link analysis is what it does is very, very good. much better than we before 9/11. >> so i wonder, you know, with this facility being able to kind of infiltrate, possibly infiltrate just about any technology that's you know, any layman has. i wonder how that might influence the industries that make that material? if there are people who say, you know, i want to be more illusive. i want to opt out of being able to be spied upon. would that be an option? do you see technology or manufacturers kind of going in that direction as a result of this incredible, sophisticated place? >> fredricka, there's no way to get around the technology.
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seriously. if you have a visa card, if you use an atm, if you use a cell phone, they can find you. there's nowhere to hide. the on way to get away from this is take the road of the unabomber and throw it all away. i mean, everything. >> you saw this was inevitable, a facility of this magnitude? >> i think it's inevitable. and i think americans want it. look, before 9/11 there were a lot of messages that al qaeda was preparing something in chat rooms, even more open than that. and the national security agency missed it, and they don't intend to do it again. so over the last decade, i saw this coming. >> completion. when do we expect? when's it up and running and full throttle? >> you know, very soon. >> because that's a secret, too. >> there are other facilities, too. >> they can't advertise everything. you know? there's got to be mystery that comes with a facility like that. >> exactly. >> bob, thank you very much. appreciate your time. >> thank you. all right. moving straight ahead now --
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26,000 additional jobs. the biggest job losses came in retail. something else to talk about on the jobs front, this past week, president obama signed the american j.o.b.s. act into law. the goal of the bill is to give small businesses better access to capital. cnn's chief business correspondent ali velshi talks about if it will work, in this week's "fortune brainstorm." >> the co-founder of aol now the chairman of the start-up america partnership and chairman and ceo of reserve ligss steve case joins me now. also a member of president obama's jobs council, at the bill signing ceremony. steve, good to see you again. there's a point at which these start-ups get to where they start to really hire people. what, where is that and how, what impact would this j.o.b.s. bill have on creating jobs, really ultimately what we want to do? >> two sides of it. the early stage, really are start-ups. later stage, we sometimes think as speedups. this j.o.b.s. about the deals with both. funding, primarily focused on
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funding of the early stage of companies, because of a maximum amount of money of $1 million to raise through funding. if you need more than that, a later stage company, the important change there is this on ramp for additional public offering ps's in the 1990s, aol went public, under $50 million. now only 20% because of cost and complexity of the sarbanes-oxley. and sarbanes-oxley makes sense, having the same rules apply to walmart and apply to a small company doesn't make sense. the j.o.b.s. about the recognizes that and puts an on ramp in place. companies wouldn't have gone public now can. that's particularly important. some companies don't wait until later in the life cycle and they get sold. investors get tired, want their capital back. then job growth decelerates. 92% job growth happens after companies go public. this on ramp is important and we struck the right balance giving aunt tra pra near what's they
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need to grow and protect investors in a balanced way. >> thank you. i'm ali velshi with this week's "fortune brainstorm." and everybody loves free stuff, and that's what we have today in gaming and gadgets. our technology expert marc saltzman joining us skype with five free smartphone and tablet apps worth grabbing for the spring. hi, marc. happy easter and passover weekend. if you are going on a road trip, and you don't want to pay for a gps system, apparently there's a free alternative out there? >> yeah. absolutely. it's aptly named app-free gps live for iphone. instead of spending up to $50 or $60 for a downloadable gps solution like tom-tom offers for iphone, this is completely free to use. you grab this gps live, free, for the u.s. market. go overseas, one for europe. also one for canada. if you want to go north, and it's completely free. gives you turn-by-turn directions with audio.
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you'll be able to hear it. turn left and, 50 feet, that kind of thing. it's got gps, sorry, bing and google search for restaurants and hotels and gas stations. so it's a full-featured, the first full-featured yet completely free gps app for iphone. >> cool stuff. now tell us about this very popular instagram for pictures. now for android devices get to enjoy? >> as of last week, the 30 million or so apple device users can share and comment and tag photos with other instagram users. it's a free app for your phone. once you take all the photos this spring with friends and family, you can touch them up with instagram. sepia tone, a vintage look,
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dress them up and share them whip the insta gram community. this is red hot. 30 million odd users. so definitely going to just -- getting bigger and better and completely free to use. it's a great tool for anybody that likes taking photos. >> more people to enjoy that. and speaking of photography, weren't of the hottest apps for apple now, snap guide. tell us more about that. >> i love this. it's the featured iphone app of the week on the itunes app store. snap guide is a collection of guides on how to do, really, anything, and it's fully community driven. it's not professionals. so i'm talking about things like how to build a birdhouse. how to make beef jerky. how to tie a tie. how to build a bicycle. really amazing little guides that you can create as well, and share. so if you have a particular skill, maybe you know how to create an origami bird, or you know how to dry out a wet cell phone, you share that guide with
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all the other snap guide users. it is free to use. you use the iphone app itself to take the photos of your guide, or shoot video using your smartphone camera, then put it up there. it's yours. people search and rated for guides. it's a great, great app. >> cool stuff. something else to entertain the kids, or you. kids at heart. while on the go. a draw something free. what's that app all about? >> that's right. the last two apps we'll talk about are great to reduce it's "are we there yet?" from the back seat. draw something free is for android and i foeiphones, a game pictionary. you must draw it using your fingertip or a stylist pen if you prefer. it wecan be a random person and they'll see you create it. it's a turnbase game. you don't have to sit and play live.
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you can send your drawing of say, a house or bird or -- they're sometimes challenging. you have to draw it and then they have to guess it. you earn gold coins used to buy in-game items. really a lot of fun. it's been downloaded 50 million times in 50 days. >> wow. >> it's no surprise that the company that owns farmville and mafia wars bought out this small company, omg pop for apparently $180 million. really popular game. draw something free. >> okay. tunetastic? >> another great app for kids. let's you create your own cartoon. use your fingertips with characters on the screen or create your own and animate a story. you add the voice to it as well. so you're narrating it and animating it at the same time. it's great fun for more than one person to do together. ideal on an ipad for two hands. you share that story on the internet. kids are creating their own
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animated cartoon. really great for your imagination. >> the sky is the limit. unbelievable. marc saltzman, thaennks so much. happy easter and passover weekend. >> thank you, and to you, fred. for more high-tech ideas and reviews go to cnn.com/tech. look for the games gadgets tab or follow marc saltsman on facebook, twitter and linkedin. raising chickens these days. no longer just a country thing. feathers are fliering. sit slickers are doing it, too. don't adjust your sets. what you didn't see that furry thing, was chicken. this one you know was a chicken. weather phenomenon taking wing. plus -- tim tebow adding another gig to his resume. his job this easter sunday coming up.
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now news that we'll be talking about throughout the weekend. feathers will be flying around the world today. people are carrying out epic battle pillow fight it's. more than 100 cities in 30 countries are planning in partaking. pictures from one of the battles out of stalkhoockholm, sweden. pup lick spectacles to promote free expression. you know how nfl quarterback tim tebow drops to his knee in prayer during games? well, he's making a special church appearance easter sunday. tomorrow tebow will speak during services at the celebration church in georgetown, texas.
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church officials there say they expect 30,000 people to attend. and speaking of easter, easter bunnies. days may be numbered. the easter billby. gaining popularity in australia. rabbits may be cute, but australian wildlife experts say they are pests, and the billby has a lot of cute bunny-like qualities. what do you think? i don't know. promoting the easter bilby, kovationists raising awareness for the endangered animal. only about 600 left in the wild. so these days, if you're hen-pecks it no longer means you're being nags. instead it could mean you've been bitten by the farming bug. raising something egg-stra in your home.
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>> reporter: there's another extravaganza going on. people farming their own organic eggs in their own backyards. from the city rooftop patios to the suburban variety, is it all that it's cracked up to be? or are they yolking? not atlanta city slicker laura saunders. >> come on back. >> this is serious business back here. >> we're not there yet bp there's the babies. >> reporter: in her backyard coop. >> you've been doing this how long? >> i've had my flock for about two years. about two years now, uh-huh. >> reporter: how did you start out? one hen, two? >> no. six. six came in the box, and it kind of just grew from there. >> reporter: she also runs a pet supply store selling all things organic for you and your pets. from barks to beaks. what are you hearing from people in general about their appetite for this? >> i think that the little raising your own flock kind of
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frenzy has caught on, because it's just -- it's, i think, a fun way to show your kids how to take care of animals. i mean, i have a range of different clientele that come in and buy our feed from families to single persons, to couples. you know, they just -- it's just fun. >> reporter: in saunders' case, she's created an organic oasis, bringing the countryside to her in-town hideaway. a real scramble of all that she loves. >> and this is a -- sussex. she's a british bird. she's a bird -- >> reporter: as varied as their firths are, the color of the eggs are different, too. >> different as well. >> reporter: are the flavors different? >> no difference. >> reporter: goodness? she's driven more by her passion for pets than appetite for fresh eggs. although, she says, once you taste farm fresh, you'll never want anything else. >> to me, it tastes like there's a watered-down egg at the grocery store or really deep, rich, flavorful eggs that your
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backyard hens lay for you. that's my rooster, a little picker. >> reporter: funny fowl language always welcome. how does anyone get started way coop? >> this was custom. come on in. >> reporter: the other payoff, each chicken lays on average one egg per day. >> what do you do with all these? you're not cooking up a these chickens? >> no. i don't eat my birds. >> reporter: what are you doing with them? >> surplus. you can't possibly consume that many eggs? >> i give them away. >> reporter: it's unclear how many backyard coops like this are hatching around the country, but specialists in these intimate egg farms believe popularity took flight when the recession landed five years ago. so this is really a beautiful coop that you have here. >> thank you. >> reporter: but for the typical person who says, you know what? i don't want to entertain this. i want to think about doing this. what do they need to get
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started? >> either have a custom coop built or buy a pre-fab coop and build it yourself, assemble it yourself. >> reporter: first, check in having backyard chickens in your city or county is league. in all, saunders says it could cost about $1,000 to begin, and about $25 in feed monthly after that. an investment she believes more households are willing to scratch into their budget. it is a hard boiled business. next hour, the founder of the website mypetchicken.com said getting started is almost as easy as cracking an egg. she joins us in the "newsroom" at 4:00 eastern time. so it is spring break and easter weekend. that means many folks have flown the coop. i could go on and on and on. way too much fun. how are you? people having a good time. beautiful spring weather? >> on the sunny side up, fred. >> couldn't resist. >> you're "cracking" me up!
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>> great weather for daytona beach spring breakers. not a cloud in the sky. lots of sunshine. mild temperatures. panama city, same holds true. the only place for spring breakers with a thunderstorm, in texas on wednesday possibly thursday. overall, looking at fabulous weather for popular spring break areas. today not great in spring fooed, mon springfield, missouri. could see isolated tornadoes and large hail. once the front passes through, scattered showers for texas poor easter sunday. breezy through areas of the northern tier of the u.s. possibly snow showers up into new england and canada, looking nice overall. one trouble spot for those traveling on easter sunday. the pacific northwest and northern california, we run a risk of rain nap ge. that gets worse into the evening hours. one airport delay, in newark, new jersey. ground deep layslays -- delays
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an hour. we'll talk about anticipated travel delays ahead for sunday. so far, this weekend has really looked terrific across the country. >> gorgeous. we like that. perfect timing. thanks so much, bonnie. >> sure. this just in. sunny over there at augusta. we also understand now that tiger woods has taken a little bit of a break from the golf game at the masters. he spoke with cnn about being behind but having confidence to get ahead. >> i don't know. i mean, i don't know what the score's going to be because it's going to be dependent on what those guys do today. if somebody shoots 4, 5 under par in the lead, tough to go get them. but, hey, anything can happen here. that's the thing. you can be 4, 5, 6 back on back 9 and still win the golf tournament. i need to put myself where i have a chance. >> earlier cameras caught tiger woods cracking under pressure.
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there he seems to be fairly calm. we can also tell you british player lee westwood is leading the masters. american jason duffy is in second. all right. attention ladies. it is spring break. you know this by now. the best reminder that beach season is just around the corner, and if you're looking to slim down, you may want to stick around, because coming up, we have a workout secret to help you get in shape. help for her, next.
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spring break is the ultimate warning that summer beach season is almost here. la ladies, if you're looking to revamp your workout routine before the beach, consider weight training. we have more in health for her. >> for many women, it's just a
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habit, get to the gym and expect to work out on the treadmill or elliptical machine. >> many women have the misconception that straengt training will add bulky mass. but it increases resting metabolic rates, increasing strengths, and improves overall quality of life. if you're new to strength training, you want to begin with two to three days per week, and you and starlt with a circuit style program, picking eight to ten exercises that target all muscle breaks and perform 10 to 15 repetitions of each exercise, moving to each muveachimachine. machines mail be a better option for women starting out. >> breathing and proper form are koo, so throughout each exercise, breathe throughout the movement, exhaling on the exertion, and exhaling. >> she adds that working with a
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baseball's opening weekend, but one amateur game at national stadium in washington, d.c. earlier this week continued to inspire. the wounded warrior amputee team squares off against local sports and tv stars. the veterans' new mission, travel the country, raise money for charity, and inspire through frontally competition. >> when professional ball player jamie moyer first walked to the diamond, that was in the 1980s. now at 49 years young, he's just found out he earned a spot as a starting pitcher for the colorado rockies. moyer takes to the field with the rockies tonight. in our own ed lavendera has a look at the journey. >> doesn't get old walking onto the baseball field, does it? >> no, it doesn't. >> jamie moyer first walked onto a major league baseball field in the summer aff1986. ronald reagan was president, america was dancing to "walk
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like an egyptian." and ferris bueller's day off had just premiered in movie theaters. >> jamie moyer is 49 years old, and found out just a few days ago that he earned a spot as a starting pitcher for the colorado rockies. a team that didn't even exist when he broke into the major leagues more than 25 years ago. >> you're 49 years old, playing a kid's game, right? >> that's correct. i mean, it doesn't get any better. >> the does, and sometimes i have to pinch myself, and i have been very blessed to have the opportunities, to have a long career. and at 49, still feeling like a kid. >> if jamie moyer wins hifirst game this season, he'll become the oldest pitcher in major league history to win a game. three of his pitching teammates were born after moyer started his big league career. let the old man jokes begin. >> no one has ask eed you if yo played with babe ruth?
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>> i get that on occasion. and sometimes i kid guys that i used to play in the shoes and something like that. it breaks the ice. >> when jamie moyer talks, the young baby faced players listen. moyer says most of his close baseball friends have long retired. >> when i get on the airplane last night, guys started to sit down, i went back to the bathroom, i'm thinking, oh, my gosh, i feel like i'm, like, we're on a field trip, and i'm kind of watching over the kids. >> moyer is playing against his oldest son's friends now. >> the one constant through all of the years, ray, has been baseball. >> that was james earl jones capturing the timelessness of baseball in the movie "field of dreams" just like jamie moyer has been a constant in baseball for more than a quarter century. ed lavendera, cnn, houston.

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