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the rules overrule common sense. this is how we tame the unwieldiness of air travel, until it's not just lines you see... it's the world. top of the hour. want to get you up to seed. newt gingrich gets ready to pull the plug on his presidential campaign. sources telling cnn gingrich is going to officially end his run for the white house next week, throw his support behind mitt romney. gingrich expected to help republicans try to win back the senate and hold onto the house. here is what he said earlier today. >> we're going to stay very, very active. we're working out the details of our transition and we'll have information for the press the next couple days, but i am committed to this party, i am
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committed to defeating obama. we will find ways to try to be helpful. i do think it's pretty clear that governor romney is only going to be the nominee and we'll do everything we can to make sure he is, in fact, effective. >> a major retailer in south korea is pulling u.s. beef from its shelves. the store is stopping sales after a single case of mad cow disease was confirmed in california. the u.s. agriculture department says the dairy cow had a rare genetic form of the disease. this is an atypical case which means it's not connected to feed. we have a feed band so that's reassuring. a very rare circumstance situation can come up and pop up. sometimes it's genetic. some secret service agents say that what happened in colombia is not unusual. "the washington post" reports today that several agents fired in the wake of a prostitution scandal may actually start telling stories about what really goes on when the president travels.
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so far nine members of the secret service either resigned or were fired. the newspaper talked to people close to the agents who say they may fight to keep their jobs. president obama mentioned the scandal on a talk show last night. >> a couple of knuckle heads shouldn't detract from what they do, but what these guys were thinking, i don't know. that's why they're not there anymore. racially diverse marriages or on the rise now here in the united states. a report shows interracial and interethnic mare rariages grew 28% between 2000 and 2010. it is sex, lies, politics, money all front and center of the trial of the former presidential candidate john edwards. he's accused of campaign finance violations. it is tied to an extramarital affair that he tried to cover up. so far we have heard from
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edwards' former aide, andrew young. he's facing cross-examination by the defense this afternoon. our joe johns is reporting on the testimony that has a lot of folks talking. >> reporter: with andrew young on the stand, he's the former right-hand man, errand boy, and fixer to former senator john edwards, the prosecution laid out an amazing story of sex, lies, politics, and money. young spoke of the day when edwards' mistress, rielle hunter, made so many repeated frantic calls to him that when he finally got her on the phone he said, somebody better either be pregnant or dying. rielle hunter, young said, responded nobody is dying. edwards said she's a crazy slu t and there's a one in three chance it was his child. andrew young said he secured the
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agreement to get hundreds of thousands of dollars for the campaign no questions asked. checks in ever increasing sums funned through mrs. mellon's decorator and endorsed by andrew young's wife. with this money in the family account, young said, he moved rielle hunter to north carolina to keep her away from the media. she was threatening to go public, he said. he gave her a $5,000 a month allowance, a couple times it went up to $12,000. he rented a house for her in his name. got her a bmw. by this time she was using an alias going by the name of gia james. young said rielle also lived in his house with him and his wife and kids for about three weeks which he called very difficult. he said rielle could be very demanding. more than once he said rielle said if she didn't talk to edwards, she was going public. and how did his wife feel about all of this? young said she was scared to death. we were scared to death. edwards was a viable presidential candidate and this was a truckload of money. they asked the trial lawyer,
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edwards, if it was okay to do this. young said edwards told them it was completely legal. young said he communicated in code with edwards because there was concern that knowledge of these matters could implicate edwards if he were to become attorney general. so far it's all been about andrew young's version of events. as a star witness for the prosecution. but as early as wednesday, he's expected to get a challenge as the edwards' defense team gets its first opportunity to cross-examine him. joe johns, cnn, greensboro, north carolina. >> diane dimond has been in court actually watching the edwards' trial. she's joining us from north carolina. diane, it's good to see you. you have watched the expressions of both young and edwards. how are they coming across to those inside the courthouse? >> reporter: well, so far, suzanne, it's only the government's case, and it's not looking very good for john
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edwards. we've heard about all these romantic liaisons, about the side comments he makes about his own mistress, calling her a crazy slut and what not. andrew young is very calm on the stand. he's quiet spoken. the judge sometimes has to tell him to speak up, and when there's some really devastating testimony, i'm sitting directly behind john edwards, and i see him rub his eyes and blow -- do one of those. i think this testimony is taking its toll on him. every defendant has their own -- it can be really exhausting. >> diane, i covered john edwards in 2008 and it was really fascinating because a lot of people -- there were two camps. one camp that was inspired by his message of two americas. the others who thought he was a little too slick and it was a phony. do you have any sense of what those people inside the courtroom feel about him now? >> reporter: i am so glad you asked me that, suzanne, because there has been a crush of media the first couple of days.
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today it's sort of thinned out a bit and there's a lot of public in there. an elderly gentleman, very distinguished, came and sat next to me. i said how are you? why are you here? he said i'm his neighborhood a figure eight island. he said i'm here because i never liked the s.o.b., i think he's a phony, and i'm here to see him get his. there is a feeling of that here in north carolina, and that's important because that's where we got the jury, from right here in north carolina. >> wow. and describe for us a little bit more, if you would, about john edwards and his demeanor when he walks in there. is he trying to present himself in a way that he's not flustered by this? he always has had this kind of exterior, if you will, with the slick hair and all of that, that he was not bothered by some of this criticism.
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>> reporter: he walks in the courtroom every morning and a hush comes over the room. he walks in like a gq model. he's got the perfect suit. he looks like a candidate. he looks like he's running for something. he does get sequestered with his daughter, kate, who as you know is a lawyer. his elderly parents have been here, although i didn't see them this morning. he doesn't pay very much attention to his parents, but he's often conferring with the attorneys at his side and with his daughter, kate. but except for these few expressions that i see, i list some of them in my daily beast piece, at one point he turned to his lawyer and said this is crazy. he's pretty staid. his chin is always up, as if he knows his puck tour icture is b taken. unfortunately, there's no cameras allowed in the federal courtroom. >> does he have any supporters in that room? can you tell? is anybody coming to his defense, to his side besides his
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attorney? >> reporter: well, i tell you, the big news right now is that the federal government is done questioning andrew young for now. the direct is over. after our lunch break, we're going to go back in there and abbey lou well, that pit bull o an attorney, i'm expecting there's going to be a withering cross-examination. some family members of mr. lowell came in appeared to come in. today there's just kate and these three people there to support john edwards. >> one final question before we let you go and you can go back into the courtroom there, do we expect to see in the course of this case rielle hunter and the daughter of john edwards and rielle hunter, the child they had together? >> reporter: i am 100% sure -- okay, 99% sure we'll see rielle hunter. i'm sure the defense will call
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her to say i didn't get any of this money. andrew young kept the money or some such. i'm not sure we're going to see kate. she didn't -- she wasn't active in the campaign. she had nothing to do with the finances of the campaign. i think if they put kate on the stand, suzanne, they open up the door to the federal prosecutors asking about her mother and about how her mother handled this affair, and things that her mother did that might elicit some bitterness from kate. so i'm not sure they're going to call kate. >> okay. certainly. i'm told we have a little more time so i want to ask you just a couple more questions here. do we know if rielle hunter and john edwards are still in contact, in touch? do they still have a relationship at all? do they communicate? do we know? >> reporter: "newsweek" and the daily beast sent me in here a few days early to try to figure things like that out. the best i can understand from people who have seen them together, they meet frequently for dinner.
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always with their 4-year-old daughter. maybe they go out alone, but i couldn't find anyone who saw that. they usually go to a family-style restaurant. they were seen in church together over the easter holiday. so, yes, they're still together in that sense for their daughter. are they still a couple? i don't know, and nobody is saying so far. >> and do we know if -- we've seen kate, john edwards' daughter. do we know if any of the other children by that marriage with elizabeth edwards, whether or not they still support and are with their father in some way? >> reporter: you know, these are the people i think about the most, those small children. kate and claire are i think just 10, 13 in that age range. they've lost their mother. their sister has moved away now. kate is now married, lives in her own home, and they're with their father. now, they've got to have been told something about daddy being
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on trial and the possibility that maybe daddy is not going to get off. they must be worried sick. i'm sure they still support their father. he, frankly, is about the only thing that they have left. >> and he actually -- he's raising those kids, is he not? >> reporter: yes, he is raising those kids. i think during the trial -- i may have misspoken a little bit. i think during this trial kate is probably staying with the senator and the children, although now that the trial is on, are they staying here locally, we just don't know. they have protection as they come and go from the court every day, and they go out with sirens blaring. so i don't really know what they're doing right now. i should also tell you that andrew young also appears in court every day with a federal marshal at his side. she's an african-american woman, very professional looking, and, you know, it made me realize today he is a federally protected witness. he has entered into an agreement with the government that if he
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lies on the stand here, they can turn around and prosecute him. >> wow. all right. diane dimond, so great to see you and great for all those inside details that you've got there. >> absolutely. >> you know, after the lunch break, we'll bring you back. we can't get enough of this case. >> i'm here, suzanne. nice to talk to you again. >> nice as well. >> see you soon. many of you shared their thoughts with me on twitter and facebook about this. b.j. tweets, not surprising, a lot of top achievers do not anticipate failure. unfortunately, that philosophy isn't always sufficient. ken wilcox tweets we always love to see people fall in this country. should no the take away from what he has accomplished as we all make mistakes. bill dixon on facebook says, just think, if he'd been elected, this would be babygate or mistressgate. the coverage would never end. and jackie on facebook says what a fool, shame on him for what he has done. and to his wife who was dying of
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canc cancer? you can't get much lower than that. and i'm a democrat. keep sending your thoughts to us on the edwards fall from grace. watch us here on cnn for more on this story. tweet me so we can get your thoughts. like my fage on facebook.com/suzan facebook.com/suzan facebook.com/suzan facebook.com/suzannecnn. here is a run down of some of the stories we're covering. first, senator john mccain not happy with the way the investigation into the secret service is going. we're going to hear why. and a father puts a microphone on his child to hear how his teacher treats autistic kids. his worse suspicions confirmed. >> that's the horror of it. it was his teacher and his aide, the people who were there to protect him. and they betrayed him. then the dalai lama talks to piers morgan about politics, celibacy, and women. >> do you ever feel temptation when you see a woman? >> oh, yeah, sometimes. oh, this is very nice, but then
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lawmakers to pass an anti-bullying legislation bill for teachers. now, the cherry hill courier post released this statement from the school superintendent saying, quote, i want to assure our parents that the individuals who are heard on the recording raising their voices and inappropriately addressing children no longer work the district and have not since shortly after we received the copy of the recording. later we know more and more kids are being diagnosed with autism. but what is it like watching your own child struggle with this disorder? how do you get help they need? well, we take a look at one mother's battle. and senator john mccain snit happy with how the investigation of the secret service scandal is going. we're going to hear why up next. ...the united states would be on that list. in 25th place. let's raise academic standards across the nation.
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millions turn to him for inspiration and spiritual guidance. tonight on cnn the dali ai lama opens up on a wide range of issues including his feelings towards women. >> do you ever feel temptation when you see a woman? >> oh, yes, sometimes. oh, this is very nice, but then thinking, thinking the real job, then feel, oh, too much problem. too much dirty things like that. >> really? >> really. even my dream some sort of dreaming some women like that. immediately i remember i'm a monk. i never dreamt in my dream i'm dalai lama. i always remember i'm monk. >> fascinating stuff. watch cnn tonight for a piers
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morgan interview with the dalai lama. he also discussing his support for the arab spring uprising and his love for president george w. bush. piers morgan tonight at 9:00 eastern. new developments in the ongoing secret service sex scandal. it's rocking the white house, the pentagon, members of the senate armed services maine have just been briefed by defense department officials. want to bring in data bash to talk about what we're hearing from senators about that briefing. what have we learned, dana? >> reporter: i want to give a little background and that is that on the secret service side of this, we have been reporting that the secret service director has been on the phone constantly with members of congress giving them information about their investigation. this private briefing that just happened this morning is the first time pentagon officials have even been up to talk to members of the oversight committee here, and the answer to your question is they were not happy, particularly senator john mccain who is the top republican on that committee. he said it was just completely
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in his wordsworthless. take a listen. >> it was a waste of time because they had no information. they told us the mechanics of what's happening but certainly no information about the issue that we and all americans are concerned about, and that's not behavior. that's whether there was a breach of national security associated with this situation. >> reporter: in a word he was furious about what he didn't hear from this briefing about how the investigation is going, what they know, what they don't know, and this is specifically about the 12 members of the u.s. military who were also involved in alleged misconduct. i can just tell you that i was talking to our barbara starr who is an expert on all things pentagon, and she said that in terms of practical terms, you can't really send anybody up to talk about this who would be in a position of deciding or administering punishment, but, look, john mccain is no stranger to the ways of the military.
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he was in the military. he's been a top senator on this committee for a long time and the fact that he thought that he should be getting more information says something. >> yeah. i mean, that's very strong language that we're hearing from him. between you and barbara, your reporting here, do we know if there's some secret service agents who were involved in this, this sex scandal in colombia, are they going to be talking about the culture of the secret service and whether or not this was really something that was tolerated among the ranks? >> reporter: that's the interview everybody wants, isn't it? especially now that they're gone. so far we have not, but, you know, on that note if you take a look at a picture and that shows you what happened this morning. now we're looking at the hotel where this allegedly took place. there was a public hearing about the secret service, the 12 members of the secret service, who have all gone through the investigating of them. some have been punished, some have been forced out, some of
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them not. what a contrast between the way the secret service and the homeland security secretary who was here in this hearing today talked about this and what we are not learning from the military. there's some reasons for that in terms of process they have to go through. >> sure. >> reporter: what she did say is that she doesn't think that there were other incidents beyond what happened in colombia. but she also said she's not sure and they're starting to go through and look at that at this point. >> really appreciate it. he's quitting the presidential race, so now what? we're going to tell you what newt gingrich plans to do after he ends his run for the white house next week. you know, i have done something worthwhile. when i earned my doctorate through university of phoenix, that pride, that was on my face. i am jocelyn taylor. i'm committed to making a difference in people's lives, and i am a phoenix. visit phoenix.edu to find the program that's right for you.
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double amputee athlete has his eyes set on a goal. we spent time with an autistic 21-year-old who has not been able to speak for years. he said he would take his campaign all the way to the republican convention in tampa. it looks like newt gingrich has reached the end of the road. mark preston has all the layest -- latest details. i understand there's details about a conversation held between mitt romney and newt gingrich. >> this conversation took place this morning. i have new details on what was said. mitt romney called newt gingrich i'm told now without newt gingrich knowing the call was going to come in, and apparently during that call mitt romney told the former house speaker if he had decided to stay in the race and continue with the campaign, then mitt romney would, in fact, be okay with
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that. he would understand. but if newt gingrich decided to then suspend his campaign, then mitt romney asked him to be part of his campaign team to try to help him win the white house in november. now, this is very, very important because it just shows you these relationships that occur between presidential candidates between campaigns that you normally don't hear here on television or you certainly don't see printed in newspapers. these very personal relationships, suzanne, that really help propel campaigns forward. >> it's really a nice kind of pulling back the curtain and taking a look at the relationship between these two men. do we know how gingrich responded at all when romney actually said, hey, are you willing to join my team? >> what i'm told by gingrich's speaksman is that gingrich agreed that -- that's when we reported newt gingrich would be suspending his campaign. he's agreed to help mitt romney try to win in november. this comes at a time when mitt
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romney has already made the turn for the general election. we saw it last night in his speech in new hampshire. how this was the first day of the campaign and how he was ready to take the fight to president obama. what is gingrich's role actually going to be? they haven't worked out those details. we also don't know if mitt romney plans to be with newt gingrich when he decides to formally step aside from the campaign. i would be surprised to see mitt romney there. it would allow newt gingrich to have his one last day in the sun on tuesday. >> why tuesday? why is he waiting until next week to do this officially? >> it's a logistical challenge. right now he's in north carolina. he needs to get his family together, his supporters together. he will be here in washington. he lives in the virginia suburbs. he will be at the white house correspondents dinner. he's going to be a guest of cnn at that dinner on saturday night. they see tuesday as a very clean day for this to happen. but, suzanne, it won't just be the presidential campaign gingrich plans to play a role
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in. he's emphatic about trying to help republicans maintain the majority in the house and try to take back the majority in the senate. >> it's a very familiar role for newt gingrich. how important is that going to be, especially if they're worried that president obama could win a second term? >> as they try to retake control of the senate, which the democrats own right now, it's extremely important for a couple reasons. one is newt gingrich is very good raising money. donors like to go and hear him speak. they will cut checks. not only can newt gingrich help mitt romney on the presidential level raise money, but he can also help these house members across the country who are trying to either run for re-election or they're trying to challenge democrats. what's interesting about newt gingrich, too, schts he's a pasa polarizing figure, back in 2009 it was newt gingrich who really came to the aid of the house republicans and senate republicans when he decided to
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headline their dinner. if our viewers remember, sarah palin was supposed to do that dinner and she backed out at the very last minute. newt gingrich came in and saved the day. >> and stepped in. as always, mark, great insights and a shaout out to shawna shepherd. land mines took his legs at age 11, but now this double amputee has his eyes set on being a champion swimmer. we have his amazing story. ... scientists, technicians, engineers, machinists... ... adding nearly 400 billion dollars to our economy... we're at work providing power to almost a quarter of our homes and businesses... ... and giving us cleaner rides to work and school... and tomorrow, we could do even more. cleaner, domestic, abundant and creating jobs now. we're america's natural gas. the smarter power, today. learn more at anga.us. the calcium they take because they don't take it with food. switch to citracal maximum plus d. it's the only calcium supplement that can be taken with or without food.
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an elite athlete, a world class swimmer training to compete to be the best in the world. that's what elite athletes do, rig right? but this is an unlikely athlete. >> reporter: being a symbol is never easy. throughout his young life,m ali k has already overcome so many challenges some might be tempted to think he requires no assistance whatsoever. the 18-year-old double amputee
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knows better. >> i snead supponeed spooupport. >> land mines took his legs at age 11 when he was walking through a field near kabul's airport. he wants to swim for his country at the paralympic games in london. it's been a struggle and a lonely one at that. >> if i don't have any coach or any trainer to teach me how to swim, how to prepare for the games, so i am doing it by myself because i love swimming. >> reporter: malik isn't the only athlete in afghanistan facing these kind of challenges. in kabul sports facilities are generally considered lacking. financial support is minimal. encouragement is what he gets in droves. friends and family finding hope in malik, something they say is missing in a country torn apart by too many years of war. >> translator: i am so happy to
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see someone like him who has no legs still swimming. and often even better than the rest of us. >> reporter: malik clearly loves the water but there's another place where he has just as much fun. on the track. running on prosthetic limbs made for him in america where he spent time recovering from his injuries. his thread is wearing thin. he says in kabul replacements are impossible to come by. another reason he spends so much time in the water. he realizes the odds aren't exactly in his favor but remains optimistic. >> i am sure some day i will have some professional trainer, good teacher, and good support and representing afghanistan and that will be my job, to bring some medal for my country. >> reporter: knowing that whatever happens in a sense he's already won. mohammed jamjoom, cnn, kabul.
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suds, and you get an entirely different experience. >> looks like our cnn crew car could use a little wash. i'm going to punch up the app and order the service. i'm using a new iphone app called cherry. instead of going to the car wash, cherry sends the car wash to you. it needs my location, sees where i am. after inputting my credit card, license plate number, and the make and model of the car, the app searches for the nearest car washer. so that's all there is to it. within 15 minutes this guy rolls up. how are you doing? >> good. how are you? >> reporter: he brought all his own supplies to clean the car right on the street inside and out. cherry says it uses ecofriendly biodegradable products. and only one gallon of water is needed where by comparison somebody washing their car at home might go through 100 gallons. where did this idea come from? >> so the idea came from one sunday afternoon i was looking
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for a car wash in san francisco, and i pulled up google maps and typed in car wash and the first two places i went to actually were no longer in business. >> reporter: travis van der zanden is the ceo of cherry. he left a lucrative job at another technology company to fundamentally change an industry. >> it's this massive $19 billion-plus industry and there hasn't been innovation in decades. >> reporter: the biggest selling point he says is the convenience. no need to drive to the car wash and wait. customers, in fact, don't need to be present but do need to keep their doors unlocked. >> if they're not comfortable with that for whatever reason, we also send them a text message when the washer arrives to have them come down and unlock the doors. >> reporter: location based smartphone services are taking off. the san francisco company uber, for example, a car service that sends a car to you anywhere, has expanded tose selveral other cis and has picked up $40 million in
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venture capital money. >> i need a store that sells me organic mushrooms. >> reporter: apple has a lot invested in location services with siri for the iphone. as more people start using this kind of technology, cherry, which has raked in more than $4 million in venture capital, is poised to take advantage. >> our customer service will ultimately allow us to win out over traditional car washes. >> want to bring in dan simon from san francisco. all right, dan, looks like you're all set up there. show us what you got. >> reporter: well, we want to tell you about the price of this car wash. it is $29.99. that's $10 more than the typical car wash. right now they're just in san francisco, but they want to expand nationwide in about three years. the biggest selling point of using a service like cherry, it's actually the only service of its kind, is you're going to use a lot less water and there's a huge convenience factor. you can save the time of doing it yourself or going to the car
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wash and typically that takes about 60 minutes depending on what city you're living in in terms of going there, having it do done, and getting to the next destination. >> are you going to be washing that car or do you have somebody on site with you? >> reporter: well, we're going to touch it up a little bit. cherry washed it for us, but that was a few days ago. it's gotten a little dirty so we just brought everything so we could make sure it was nice for our crew. so we're going to get to work right now. how about that? >> yeah, crew cars sometimes can be a little messy there. dan, it sounds like a great idea. thanks again. good to see you. apple's profits soaring and it's having a major ripple effect on wall street. we'll have a live report from the new york stock exchange. you think you take off all your make-up before bed.
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every child is different and so is every child with autism. some children diagnosed with the disorder go on to be high functioning independent adults, others need more help. >> reporter: this is daniel lee. he's a 21-year-old from chicago. autism for daniel means being unable to speak or use sign language. it also means struggling just to button a shirt or drink from a water glass on his own. his mother, ivy, knew something was wrong when he was just a toddler. >> i first noticed that daniel seemed to be regressing. like he used to be one of those babies like a year and a half, used to walk around with a bottle holding it, and then he went back to laying on the couch with it like he was a baby
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again, like 6 months old, and he wasn't speaking. he had gone to not saying anything. >> reporter: years went by and more problems came to the surface. >> he tried to climb out a window at the school. climbed out a window at home. kids with autism, you pretty much have to keep an eye on them 24 hours. >> reporter: while his mental development was frozen, daniel was growing physically into a powerful young man, and sometimes he got violent. >> he was hitting me. he was knocking me to the ground, kicking me, punching me. there's been times we've been in the car and if i didn't get to the music he wanted to hear, he would punch me and knock my glasses off and then i had to hurry up and get off the expressway because i can't see, see. i was like it's time. i can't take care of him anymore. and so i started searching. >> reporter: but help was hard to find. >> and we fought and we fought and we fought for about four
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years to get danny into the facility he's in. >> through the help of her teachers and community, ivy daly found a solution. she put him in a group home. with a sfaf of nurses by their side 24 hours a day, daniel and his house mite maates are able e their own lives. it's run by a nonprofit group called independent advocacy. >> we had people no one ever thought possible was going to be so happy and live such a normal existence. >> it's really, really hard for me when he went away. the first month i was crying constantly, but i think with him being 21, going to be a 22-year-old, i think where he is now is the best thing that could happen for him. not for me. >> reporter: ivy daly feels lucky to have found help. but with the rate of autism diagnosis skyrocketing, up 78%
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in the u.s. in just the last decade according to the cdc, she wonders if other parents will be as lucky as she was. >> i worry about the people who have 3-year-olds who are being diagnosed right now. what about resources for them. >> according to the centers for disease control and prevention, 1 in 88 children may have some form of autism, though not everyone child's experience is the same as danny's. while there's currently no cure for autism, early detection can be a big difference in your child's life. if you think he or she are growing signs of developmental problems, learn more at cnn.com/empoweredpatient. and remember, help is out there. for all the latest medical news, watch sanjay gupta m.d. you can catch it sunday morning at 7:30 a.m.
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apple's big profits are having a major impact on wall street today. alison kosik live at the stock exchange. wow, apple nearly doubling its profits in the last quarter is that right? >> yeah, it's right. investors are going bananas over apple. i know that's corny, but it is true. apple shares up more than 9%. apple is trading above $600 again. this is all about how much money that apple made in the first three months of this year. how many products it sold. now, wall street was a bit nervous before apple's earnings came out yesterday about how apple did, since activations at both at&t and verizon had slowed down at the beagainbeginning of year. but apple just came out and blew away expectations again. 16,000 is iphones sold every hour. also getting a lot of help from the new ipad which came out in march. >> wow.
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i like that, going bananas over app apple. i think that's pretty cool. how big a factor is it for the broader stock market? >> that's a good question. a funny thing about apple. it can really change the mood of the entire market. it can also change the momentum of the market. look at the nasdaq composite right now. the nasdaq is up over 2%. s&p 500 up over 1%. apple is in the nasdaq and the s&p. it is not in the dow. so those indices are outperforming the dow. and this is really all because of apple. it literally moves an entire index because apple is hunl. -- huge. it's the world's most valuable company. we just can't get enough of our gaj y gadgets. apple found a curious way of making us believe we need these products and make us think we need to buy new ones every few years. look at how apple's stock has performed over the past five years. this is including during the recession. shares are up almost 400%.
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>> they figured out something, alison. i have my iphone with me right here all the time. good to see you. >> i've got the ipad. >> thanks, alison. five guys and a goat? i'm not i kidding about this. try to break a curse that's been plaguing chicago for years. [ male announcer ] imagine facing the day with less chronic osteoarthritis pain. imagine living your life with less chronic low back pain. imagine you, with less pain. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain.
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misusing campaign funds. money that went to cover up his affair as well as baby. most sad how weakness can lead into disaster, but i can't cast the first stone. john edwards denied being the father of his own daughter. how will she feel when she learns about that? and it's the lies and deceit that should be our focus. if he broke the campaign finance laws and/or lied under oath, he must pay a penalty. jail time. we're going to keep the conversation going online. watch us here. for more on the story, tweet me. like my page on facebook.com/suzannecnn. all right, this story. kind of funny. five guys and a goat take on a legendary sports curse and a serious cause. they're walking across the country to help the chicago cubs and to raise money for life saving medical research. our affiliate kok ireports from tulsa, oklahoma. >> another curse of the billy goat, it's one of the oldest
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stories in sports. >> in 1945, a guy went to writing fee field and brought in a goat and was asked to leave because the goat smelled. later he wrote a letter to the owner of the cubs saying until you respect the goat you will be cursed and not win a world series. >> these guys are ready to take that curse on. they plan to break the curse by fifing this 5-month-old goat wrigley into his namesake's confines. '. >> he got him from phoenix, arizona for $60. we're going to quirky stores an places along the way. the story began in mesa, arizona. now they're in tulsa on their way to chicago. >> it's an adventure. not a lot of people get this opportunity. our little buddy has a
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specialized carrier that keeps his legs rested on the journey. >> he draws people in. gives us the opportunity to share what we're doing. >> what we're doing is not only about cracking curses and world series redemption, the guys are also raising many unfor cancer research. >> my sister had aflastic leukemilou kechemo -- akeem that, a form o leukemia. >> no hotels. >> a couple nights ago, i slept behind a dollar general. >> wrigley, do you think you can break the cubs curse? the guys don't know either. >> if you believe it will be broken, it will be broken. >> wrigley, whether he knows it or not, could change the fate of one frustrated franchise. >> will they let wrigley in? that's up to the organization. >> for the sake of the last
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place cubs, they have to try. >> the curse of the billy goat is real. thanks, suzanne. i'm don lemon. brooke is off today. we begin with the news, "rapid fire" style. so roll it. the supreme court takes up arizona's tough immigration law. january brewer signed the bill into law two years ago, promising the obama administration to sue. who has the power to enforce immigration laws, states or the feds. and there were a couple of surprises. we're going to take you there live in just a couple of minutes here on cnn. congressional hearings on secret service sex scandal. that scandal that already cost nine agents their jobs. here's homeland secretary janet no -- thnapolitano about what s expects. >> one was to make sure the president's security was never at risk. two was to make sure we
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instituted a prompt and thorough investigation into the actual allegations into colombia. and three, what other steps we need to take for the future to make sure this behavior is not repeated. >> watch out for newt gingrich to end his white house bid. bing bing was hit hard with five primary losses yesterday. two sources close to again going tell cnn he will bow out probably on tuesday and throw his support behind his nemesis in the race, one mitt romney. allegations that rupert mur dog's empire bribed police and politicians. the 81-year-old media mogul denied allegations he had an in with prime minister tony blair. >> in ten years never asked mr. blair for anything, nor did i receive any favors. >> the country's culture secretary is under fire with
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calls for him to quit or be sacked. >> a 3-year-old british girl vanished oan family vacation in portugal. today police released this photo showing what mccann might look like now. her birthday is next month. a and dad takes on what he calls teacher bullies. he put a wire on his 10-year-old son to find out what was going on in the boy's classes. his son has autism and can't speak. listen closely to what the dad heard. >> once he heard that, he took his reportings to the school
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destruct and posted a video on youtube. the district said the individuals heard on those recordings no longer work in district schools. >> pay your fair share! >> that's protesters getting noisy at general electric's annual shareholder meeting. the chant stems from reports that ge pays no corporate taxes and hasn't for years. a ge spokesman says the corporation complies with tax laws and paid $2.6 billion in u.s. taxes last year. mirror, mirror on the wall. who's the -- you know the rest. fairest, prettiest of them all. that would be beyonce. at least according to "people" magazine. past has gone to julia roberts, nicole kidman and last year's choice was jennifer hudson. we've got a lot more to cover in the next two hours so watch.
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>> the showdown over arizona's immigration law hits the highest court in the land and the man behind it argues the case to me and answers critics live. i'm don lemon. the news starts right now. >> they call him tattoo. a bounty hunter chases bail jumpers in new orleans and warns -- if he comes after you, game over. isle speak with this guy live. a young boy is next on the list to get a new heart when suddenly police say his own father snatches him from the hospital. and -- >> my propensity for bossying. >> russell brand is invited to testify about drugs and things get awkward. ountry. from helping to revitalize a neighborhood in brooklyn... financing industries that are creating jobs in boston...
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i've got a question for you. if the federal government fails to carry out bun of its constitutional duties can the states step in? that's a question before the supreme court of the united states versus arizona. lots of folks gatted outside the high court as it heard the case this morning. arizona and now a number of other states contend they've had to act on their own because the feds have failed. here's a woman from mississippi outside the supreme court. >> we have got people that are hungry and starving that are u.s. citizens. we do nothing about it. absolutely nothing. but we allow them to come over and take our tax dollars. if they're going to be here, go through the process. go through the process. i have no problem if they go through the process.
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but jumping borders, i have a problem. >> cnn's kate baldwin with us now from washington. you heard the arguments before the high court. how did that go? >> it was a very interesting day in the courtroom. we have this arizona law. the obama administration is challenging that law and the question of who should be enforcing illegal immigration laws was the big question before the supreme court. it did appear the federal government faced quite a bit of an uphill battle and faced some trouble specifically from the conservative majority as it appeared they were at least somewhat sympathetic. i would say, they seemed surprising surprisingly sympathetic towards arizona's argument, which could indicate they're leaning towards upholding at least part of that law. some of the toughest questions, don, really focused on one of the more controversial
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provisions in this law. the provision that requires that law enforcement, that they check people's immigration status. if there's a quote, unquote, reasonable suspicion they're in the country illegally. if they're doing so in the course of enforcing other laws. if this person has already been stopped. so there seemed, from some of the justices in their line of questioning, it seemed they had some sympathy and seemed the state, arizona's argument that where the federal government has failed they need to step in. one good quote that i heard from justice antonin scalia. he said what does state sovereignty mean if it does not include the ability to defend your borders. arizona believes it's facing an emergency, an economic and public safety crisis because the federal government hasn't done enough to stop illegal border crossings. a lot of what we saw in the courtroom today is very interesting. we'll have to see where they decide. that will come in the next
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couple of months. >> there's an interesting twist to this. elena kagan has recused herself from the case because as solicitor general, she took a -- you've got eight justices here, an even number. that could mean a die, if there is a die. >> it is unusual. it's not unheard of. they're not taking nine justices hearing this case. they're talking eight justices. because elena kagan recused herself. she was involved in the early stages of the challenge when she was at the justice department just before taking to the supreme court bench. if there is a 4-4 split, the lower court ruling would stand and that means practically speaking that the four controversial provisions that are in question before the court including the one i just described earlier, they would not be implemented. but on the flip side, it also means that there wouldn't really be a precedent set here in this case. that the other states that are considering similar legislation, they could move forward with their legislation.
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and bottom line, if there is a 4-4 split, it really means that this fight over this issue, this type of law, this type of action by states, this fight is going to be kicked off to another day and possibly another state. >> what that means bottom line is stay tuned. we don't know what will happen. anything can happen. >> absolutely. >> thank you, kate. we appreciate it. do you remember mccann? she disa peered in portugal. london police are tracking new leads and asking police in portugal to reopen the case. and a man who tracks fugitives joins me later this hour. tattoo talks about the danger of keeping new orleans safe temperature so i used my citi t . ries. a new belt. some nylons. and what girl wouldn't need new shoes? we talked about getting a diamond. but with all the thank you points i've been earning... ♪ ...i flew us to the rock i really had in mind.
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there was a time when the name madeline mccann was as known as any celebrity name. she was a 3-year-old girl in portugal who disappeared from her room. these were the images plastered everywhere. british police believe this is what madeline mccann might look like today as a 9-year-old. they say a review of 100,000 pages of evidence reveal the child is still alive. what specific evidence tells investigators that the missing girl is alye or might be alive now? >> well, the portuguese police are leading the investigation. they closed it. that's still the official case, but the british prime minister wasn't happy with that about a year ago. he asked british police to look again at all the evidence. they got together aulg the
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portuguese evidence, all the british evidence. something like 100,000 piece of people. they got a quarter of the way through and they say they've already found something like, well, nearly 200 new leads, which they want the portuguese bliss to look at again. and if we just look at this image, she was released today in cooperation with the family. just to remind people that this case is alive in britain, even if it's not alive in portugal. >> and i'm sure, we're hearing from the parents. what are they saying? >> well, their spokesman has been speaking and they talked about how they did work closely with the police to come up with this image. and actually, they found it quite heartening. they thought they would be upset seeing the image, but they found it warming to see her and also madeline's mother talked about how she can see both of her other children in this image and
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even see herself in it. they've got it up in the home. but really, the main reason for it, of course, is to jog people's memory if they' seen someone that looks vaguely like this. >> you and i both covered the story back in 2007 .. the patients were under a lot of suspicion then. does what british police are saying now support the mccann's statement of their innocence? >> well, it doesn't go either way, really. the prime minister starting this whole process off is really behind the parents. when the parents reopened the case, so did the british politicians and british police. there's really a sense in the uk that there's no evidence against them anymore. that's all gone away. they want to investigate what happened within the apartment after the parents left and before they came back. because that's where the real gray area is. and that's where i suspect a lot of this new evidence is based, these 200 extra leads are based
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on that, i think. >> yeah. and you know, there have been a number of reported sightings of madeline mccann in the last five years. none have panned out, obviously? >> no, but they do get followed up. the mccanns have lots of money so they do send out private investigators to investigate each time. and sadly, none of them have come up trumps. this is their best hope really, coming up with this image. you know, it's a very powerful image, isn't it? when you see it next to the last known public image of mad din when it was an official photo. >> all right, amazing what they can do now with technology. thank you. we appreciate it. still ahead here on cnn, he is a media giant. but today, rupert murdoch on the hot seat testifying about the hacking scandal involving his empire. he talks about allegations that he got cozy with the world leader. plus, video just in of a wild landing. you'll see what happened next. [ jennifer garner ] there's a lot of beautiful makeup out there.
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>> and now, this is a huge scandal, this is amid that scandal that murdoch bribed establish police and politicians. let's begin with murdoch denying allegations that he had an in with former prime minister tony blair. any ten years in his power ever ask tony blair for anything. nor did i receive anything. >> the day began with a high-ranking official resigning after text messages reveal he may have leaked insider information. plus, the country culture secretary is under fire with calls for him to be sacked.
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here's the culture secretary defending himself before the british farlment. >> transcripts of conversations and texts published yesterday between my special adviser adam smith and a news corp. ration representative have been alleged to indicate there was a back channel through which news corp. ration were able to influence my decisions. this is categorically not the case. >> got to love british parliament. there's a lot of yelling there, so much that the culture secretary who's also in charge of the olympics had to sit down and wait it out. once things calmed down, he continued until the next outburst. >> however, the volume and tone of those communications were clearly not appropriate in a quasi judicial process and today, adam smith has resigned as my special adviser. >> make sure you stay tuned for more on this one tomorrow. rupert murdoch, back on the
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stand. i have some new video i want to show you right now. i want you to watch this plane. look at that. pretty shaky. winds of 50 to 60 miles an hour. chad myers, help us out. not that unusual, but the video, right? it's not that unusual. >> it's not. >> it's a little bit unusual for america because they would say no, let's change the runway and go to a different direction or send you to a different place. the planes use the rudder in the back to make the plane crab. they have to fly into the cross wind and finally at the very last minute, straightens out the plane, puts it on the ground and hopes it doesn't tip over left or right so the wings or engines scrape on the ground.
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>> when you're in the plane and looking out the window and you can see all the way down the run way, this is happening and you're back and forth and back and forth. >> and the plane is doing this, right? it's rocking -- >> well, at that point, the pilot is just fighting for control to try to not get the plane to tip. you don't want the wings to start gouge into the runway. bad things can happen if that ever happens. and obviously the engines are hanging down there. you don't want them running either. >> you can go on youtube and watch this all day long. it's something else. >> i would rather watch it than be on one. >> when you feel the runway come in and you see the captain at the end you go nice job, sir. well done. >> everybody is looking for those little bags in front of the seats in front of them. all right. lucky i haven't been in one that windy. newt gingrich gets ready to drop out of the race. newt gingrich getting ready to drop out of the race.
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on monday, marco rubio appeared alongside mitt romney and a lot saw his presence as a potential audition for a vp slot. then late this morning, a major address at a big-time washington think tank. the topic -- foreign policy. that's the turf of heavy hitters and heavy hitters only. here's marco rubio wrapping up his speech with his vision of the globe.
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>> a world where more people are free to grow their economies. free to pursue their dreams. free to become prosperous. i left my last page of the speech. does anyone have my last page. did i leave it with you? >> that was an oops moment. he spoke at length on toppings like the aids epidemic in africa, the conflict in iran, the united nations and most importantly, the leadership role of washington, and here's that conclusion. >> this is indeed the world america made and it is freer and more prosperous than it's ever been. and it can be even better. as americans, we cannot make that happen ourselves. but the world cannot make it happen without us. >> so big week on the national stage for marco rubio. with us now from washington, our chief political analyst gloria borjer. always good to see you.
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so let's see here, talking foreign policy. often seen as a way to garner credibility. what might be going on here, i wonder. >> you used the word audition. >> look, i think marco rubio is a serious senator. he's young. he's only been there a year. and i think post sarah palin, the calculation in terms of choosing a vice president has changed. mitt romney has said ready to serve on day one as president of the united states or words to that effect. and i think that requires foreign policy credibility. and i think what you see from senator rub goe who, by the way, is on the foreign relations committee, i think that this is an effort to show publicly and in a pretty big way his foreign policy expertise and lay out what i thought was a very
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inclusive bipartisan, with criticism, but generally talking about how he sometimes agrees with democrats across the aisle. how he's not an isolationist republican. very much a prod conclusive speech. >> about being on the short list -- >> there is no none. >> is all in talk maybe premature after all? he would have to be vetted first by it romney people.
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when you go to somebody and say you know what? governor romney is interested in you for the vice presidency, if somebody were to come to me, the first thing i would ask is okay, am i on the short list? because i don't want to go through that whole vetting process unless you're serious about me. i don't think they're going to have a list of 40 people and ask 40 people to go through what is a very rigorous process. i think they're going through that now. and eventually they'll come up with a list of people that they're serious about. and then they will go to those people. >> and you know what, it hasn't been just rubio. we did a segment a few weekends ago saying, you know, he has a bromancce with rob portman and paul ryan. this is the next one. can we move on gloria and talk about newt gingrich? we'll listen to this and then talk about it.
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>> we're going to stay very, very active. we're working out the details of our transition and we'll have information for the press in a coup of days. but i am committed to this party and committed in defeating obama. we will find ways to be helpful. i think it's clear that mitt romney will be the nominee and we'll do everything we can to make sure he's effective. >> impact on his departure? >> it wasn't so long ago we were saying if newt gingrich gets out of the race, where will h iz support go? rom nooe or santorum? there's no rick santorum anymore. so the real impact will be on newt gingrich himself. and it will be on what role he can play at the convention if any. what role he can play as a surrogate for mitt romney, and what role he could possibly play in a potential romney administration. i think the people in that campaign have reached out to
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gingrich as they've reached out to santorum. even the governor himself. and i think they're going to want to be incorporate them in a republican campaign because they represent those people who didn't really like mitt romney very much. so they're going to be important in terms of helping to gather the republican base together. >> always a pleasure, gloria. thank you so much. >> we go live now to iowa. president barack obama speaking now. he's been talking to students. he's been on a tour speaking to students about extending the student loan program that helps middle income families. >> the average student who borrows to pay for college now graduates with about $25,000 in student loan debt. omp are and in this state, it's even higher. americaning now owe more on their student loans than they owe on credit cards. and living with that debt means you. >> egot to make some pretty
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tough choices. it might mean putting off buying a first home or chasing that great start-up idea you've got. maybe you have to wait longer to retire or start a family. that's not good for the km i. that money that could be going into businesses is going to service debt. i know something about this because michelle and i went through it. we've been in your shoes. we needed loans and we needed grants to get our way through. and that meant that when michelle and i graduated from college and law school, we had a
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mountain of debt. when we got married, we got poorer together. so we combined our assets and they were zero. we combined our liabilities and they were a lot. so we ended up paying more for our student loans in the first few years than we were married than we paid on our mortgage each month when we finally bought a don co don co. we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago. think about that. i'm president of the united states. it was only about eight years ago that we finished paying off our student loans. >> president barack obama there sur pliezing some people that he and his wife just paid off their student loans eight years ago. he wants to extend the program that cuts interest rates for
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middle income families when it comes to paying back student loans. we'll monitor that for you. if any news comes out of it, we'll bring it to you. in the meantime, boun thank you hunters tracking fuj hifs from justice who definitely don't want to go behind bars. they don't. we're going to talk to that man. there he is right there. he's known as tattoo. but first, if you're looking for a place to relax and enjoy quiet time, here's a list of the most peaceful cities. cambridge, massachusetts comes in first place. the edison-new brunswick, new jersey. that is second place. and third, seattle, washington. but not so peaceful cities? i'll tell you that after the break.
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at the right price. liberty mutual auto insurance, responsibility -- what's your policy? >> before the break, we looked at the most peaceful cities in america. i want you to take a look at the least peaceful okay? detroit, michigan. bottom of the list with new orleans. keep new orleans in mind, new orleans, louisiana because we're going to talk about that in the next story and miami, florida rounding out the bottom three cities. four criteria, the number of homicide, the number of violent crimes, incarceration rates and the number of police employees. and i told you to keep an eye on new orleans. let's talk about this. it is a job where people at their worst do their best to avoid you. bounty hunting. you're about to meet the man labelled the top all around boun
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bounty man in new orleans. here's a sample of what he and his crew do. you'll figure out who tattoo is. just look at his arms. watch for his arms. >> i got him! takening him on foot. >> get on the ground, get on the ground. >> he's running. >> don't moov, dude. >> that will get your blood pressure up. he stars in big easy justice which debuted on spike tv just this month. tattoo, thanks for joining me, sir. you're on tv now. don't be inner vous. i heard you're nervous. you're nervous about being on tv. you shouldn't do that. i have to ask you this, you've napped more than 10,000 fugitives in your 12 years of bounty hunting down in new orleans. we did the math. that's like more than two bail
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jumpers a day. new orleans has that many fugitives? >> we average right now, probably about five a night we pick up. >> really? >> is it -- is it -- is it worse since katrina? >> it's definitely worse than katrina. when katrina hit, everybody was displaced. when everybody was put back, the bad with the good, the good with the bad, the neighborhoods were put together and everybody was combined. so then you took the neighborhoods that had the most crime and put it in the neighborhood that had no crime. so now every neighborhood had crime even more so than it did before. >> what's your -- i'm sure you had some pretty scary experiences. what's the scarriest for you? >> a we've been shot at. i've had my head split open. several things that's happened since we've been doing this. but i leave it all in god cease hand. whatever happens, happens. i've got a job to do and that's
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exactly what i do. >> tattoo, you said you've been shot at, had your head split open. in the little piece of ved, your people use guns. have you ever had to fire it? >> no. not as a bounty hunter, no. i mean, we fir it every six months to get trained, me and my guys that actually go to the range and we train. and i make sure that they're up on their training with firearms. other than that, i don't think people really want to mess with us too much. >> that's the last thing you want to do is use that gun, but you will use it? >> it's a last resort. but at the same time, you need to think it's their life or yours. >> okay. so listen, we think your job is all action. bounty hunters have to do a lot of talking to -- sometimes i think you're almost like therapists. let's watch another clip and then we'll talk about it. >> this drinking and driving he's doing is basically attempted murder.
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you have 18 charges. do you realize they can throw you under jail with 18 charges. but you have to promise me you're going to try because if not, i'm going to do everything i can to get you into rehab. >> you're like a counselor. >> yeah. that clip was a guy i went to high school with. and now he has two jobs and quit drinking. >> oh, really? do you think that you -- when you sit there and you sort of talk to them and counsel them, do you think you get through? do you think you got through to this guy? >> i know i got through to him. i know him personally. i have known him since he was a kid. and different people have asked me about him and i actually did a follow-up on him after. and like i said, he's working as an electrician. he's working at one of the department stores and also he quit drinking. and everybody said that it did him a world of good. and i mean, it is a psychological game at the same
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time. you know? you have to sometimes play this game with people because they're playing a game with you. but with him, it was down right hone honest. i mean, i was telling him how it was and the way his life was going. >> people wonder, this is so dangerous, why you would do it. do you make tons of money doing this? >> a you don't make many tons of money, no. the more money you make, the more money you spend. i've got the crew to pay for, expenses with the vehicles and maintaining equipment. so it's a lot of money out of pocket, but i think more than money, there's something more, you know, important than the money. it's getting the bad guys off the street. and that's the passion that i got. >> listen, i know what you do and we see it, you know, there in the show and in the video clips. but i know what you do is very dangerous. and in all fairness, not -- nothing is as dangerous as what you did, but when i worked in philadelphia, i went to bounty hunter school and became a licensed bounty hunter.
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it's scary knock on people's doors and vourpding their houses. i just did it one time. i don't ever want to do it again. >> when you first start, it's scary. but when you've done it as long as i have and you rely on what you know, the training you received. it starts to become an everyday thing. and i've come to the realization that whatever is going to happen is going to happen. but if i go out like that, i'll be happy because i know at least i'm protecting the people that need to be protect popped. >> and you're doing what you want to do. thank you, tattoo. appreciate it, man. good luck. stay safe. >> you, too. >> dating. dating, dating can be daunting for people at any age. so many baby boomers are turning to the internet to find that special someone right now. >> i think it's less intimidating than going out there and trying to meet someone at a, you know, bar. >> we have an in depth look at dating online next. and just in -- news on the marine who criticized president
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boom generation. some remain single while others are divorced trying to find love and companionship again. >> reporter: suzanne foreman is on a blind date with todd who she's only met on the phone. >> i think i know you. >> there's still quite a bit to get to know. >> like many unmarried baby boomers, foreman considers companionship more important in her 50s. >> i can't believe i'm 55. i still feel like i'm 20 or 30 something. i still have that energy or that spark. but i do have a lot of candles on my cake. >> introductions through friends and relatives haven't worked. >> they kept trying to set me up with friends of theirs. each one was worst than the next. i was vegetarian and one of the guys they set me up with took me to a moroccan restaurant and ate raw meat next to me. >> so foreman and a growing number of singles are going online to find potential
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matches. >> it's like being in a candy store. >> stacy is a 61-year-old real estate agent. >> i can't imagine spending the rest of my life alone. >> dansey's daughter-in-law made a suggestion. she said you've got to get on one of those online dating sites. i said i don't think so. >> what was your concern about being on an online dating site. >> i heard who stories. >> stockers, scam artists and worst. dansey's daughter persuaded her to join our time, a dating site for baby boomers. . another more numbers i meet, the greater the odds are that i'll meet a guy that wants to have a loving, warm, committed, serious, monogamous relationship. >> there's been a perfect storm of a growing number of baby boomers who are single with a growing number of baby boomers who are using the internet and discovering it's a way to be connected. a 2010 eharmony survey found the
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internet is the most popular way for people over 50 to meet and marry. >> i always thought that idea that the older generation is afraid of technology is overblown because they do seem to adopt it. and now adopt it in numbers just as much as everybody else does. >> this widow and divorcee met online in 2008. >> i had been married for so long i forgot the process. >> it was scary. >> both liked viewing and reading about potential dates before agreeing to meet. >> i think it's less intimidating than going out there and trying to meet someone at a, you know, bar. >> dating after 50 is different. >> we each have assets now. and when i was in my 20s, i owned a stereo and a used car. >> fwu the results can be the same. they are planning a hawaiian wedding this summer. coming up, a young boy waits in a hospital for a new heart. in fact, he's next on the tran
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plant list. but suddenly, there is a search for him after he's taken from the hospital. also, football great deion sanders sends a series of bizarre tweets. did you see them on twitter last night? accusing his wife of attacking him. well, she gets a mug shot, but today we're learning that police are on sanders for assault. [ nadine ] buzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, bzzzz, you know, typical alarm clock. i am so glad to get rid of it. just to be able to wake up in the morning on your own. that's a big accomplishment to me. i don't know how much money i need. but i know that whatever i have that's what i'm going to live within. ♪
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hudson was the most people woman last year. it was jennifer lopez. alzheimer's moment for me. you may recall deion sanders took to twitter, tweeting during an altercation with his estra e estranged wife at his family home. she was arrested and spent the night in jail on domestic violence charges. but deion sanders was not charged at the time. so what gives here? what in the world is going on? explain to me what's going on. why are these charges being filed now now? >> we're coming up with a he said-she said situation here. we know these two are going through a divorce but living in the same home while it's all going on.
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he went to twitter and was posting some pretty crazy tweets in the midst of this domestic argument that went down. she said why would deion put that on twitter, pictures of he and his kids? it seems odd. >> it does. why would you involve your children. so many americans go through divorces. we all know they get ugly. but you can't involve the kids. it's just not right. those kids will say why did dad say that about mom. >> octomisdemeanor, mother of 14. she's being accused of child neglect. we know police and social services visited her home afterwards saying there was only one working toilet in the home and the children appeared dirty.
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we know she's been struggling financially, what are police finding out about this? >> we heard the hair dresing went to her home to do her hair and put photos on the cell phone while she was there and contacted protective services that said this home was squalor, not the right place for children to live, certainly 14 of them. they went to swres and they said it was fine. they didn't find it unfit for children to be there. but what it did say is that nadya suleman needs some help. >> and one toilet. >> yeah, she needs some help. >> interesting stuff. thank you. pleasure meeting you. first time working together. good info. hope to see you around a lot more. appreciate it. >> thanks so much. >> all right. >> all right, this story defies understanding. a 5-year-old boy is abducted -- okay, that's bad. but not so out of the
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