correspondents dinner is a-list, power players from washington and hollywood. jimmy kimmel had this to say about hosting the big event. >> obviously the secret service thing is something i'll talk about but not necessarily going to do 30 jokes about it. probably stop at 20. >> i have never been in the white house i will probably never be asked back, either. it's really very cool, actually. >> tune in to cnn tonight, live coverage of the dinner beginning at 9:30 eastern. a night leon panetta called nerve racking, when osama bin laden was killed. in the year since his death the nation is better off, he says. >> they said that they had kia with geronimo and confirmed it happened, that was the moment when we knew that all of the

work that had been done was paying off. i think the one thing all of us feel good about that were involved in this operation is that as a result of what we did, america is safer. >> but even without bin laden as leader, the threat of al qaeda still remains, saying there is no "silver bullet" to destroy the terror network. ramping up the attacks, mitt romney is moving ahead after another big week in the republican race but president obama has a few things to say as well. we'll break down the political week, next. does aspirin even work on my headache?

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welcome back. things are heating up in the presidential race with the republican primary season pretty much in the rearview mirror now. more on the battle from cnn political editor paul steinhouser. >> reporter: good morning, randi, from the campaign trail. >> because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions and distortions. >> reporter: to the air waves. >> big oil pledged 200 million to help mitt romney and romney plenl e pledged to protect their profits. >> reporter: after sweeping primaries tuesday he declared himself the nominee. >> you haveg me a great honor and responsible. >> reporter: the last day, word

of newt gingrich exiting the race. >> there are times when the mountain gets bigger than your ability to climb it. >> reporter: romney started looking for a running mate. >> the process for selecting a vice presidential running mate is just beginning. >> reporter: teaming up with someone who may be high on the list. marco rub icio is keeping quiet. romney was tieing a bow with the nomination, barack obama was reaching out to younger voters to push for extension of low interest rate for student loans. >> i got to tell you the republicans who run the house of representatives have not yet said whether or not they will stop your rates from doubling. >> reporter: since all three stops were in battle ground states crucial to the reelection republicans cried foul. >> reporter: mr. obama slow jamming the news. >> now is not the time to make school more expensive for young

people. >> ohhhh, yeahhhh. you should listen to the president. or as i like to call him the prezie of the united steezy. >> a pac was quick to criticize going up with a web ad. obama, obama, obama. with the one year anniversary of the killing of osama bin laden days away the team used former president clinton to praise president obama's decision. >> he had to decide and that is what you hire the president to do. you hire him to make calls when no one else would do it. >> and questions if romney would have made the same call. >> what would governor romney do?

truth is we don't know for certain. >> all that in a week, we have six-and-a-half months to go. randi? >> paul, thank you very much. a man adopted 30 years ago wanted to know more about his past and what he found was a missing person's photo with his face on it. >> i think oh my god that looks like me. it does. it's pretty much the spitting image. ya know, your rates and fees aren't exactly competitive. who do you think i am, quicken loans? [ spokesman ] when you refinance your mortgage with quicken loans, you'll find that our rates and fees are extremely competitive. because the last thing you want is to spend too much on your mortgage. one more way quicken loans is engineered to amaze. ♪

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you know the age progression photos that help find missing children that have grown up? a man looked at one, what he saw shocked him, a spitting image of his own face. turns out he was a missing child and had been for more than three decades. our national correspondent susan candiotti has more. >> reporter: steve carter has lived a happy life. adopted when he was four, he had little reason to search for his biological parents. >> i didn't really care where else i came from.

>> reporter: he always had nagging questions about his past. when he was six months old he was put in an orphanage in hawaii but never knew why. then he saw a cnn story about a woman who discovered she was a missing child and started his own enter internet search. pulled up hawaii, male, missing 34 years. >> mark barnes was reported missing by his father in hawaii after his mom left with their baby and never came back. the report included a sketch of what he might look like grown up. >> i think oh my god that looks like me. it really does. it's pretty much the spitting image. >> he contacted authorities, took a dna test and got a phone call. >> he said you are mark barnes. >> knowing he is that missing child, he learned his biological father lives in california. they haven't yet met but spoke

by phone. >> he was convinced my mother had taken me and taken me and raised me somewhere else, one of the first questions where is your mother? and i said that is a fantastic question, i have the same one for you and i think he was dumb founded by that response. >> he hopes to meet him in person this year. >> i think face-to-face meeting will be very emotional. >> reporter: carter has not found his biological mom and still doesn't know how he wound up in an orphanage, one of many confusing aspects of his life. >> ten names, three birth certificates and two birthdays. i celebrate both birthdays, that is a nice plus. >> just because it has been a week or month or year, or ten years or 34 years, there is hope, there are more missing children out there who can be identified and can be brought home. >> people need to have hope about missing people. >> reporter: carter has always

known who he is an thanks to this sketch, now knows more about who he was. susan candiotti, cnn, new york. carter now lives in philadelphia, he says he still wants to know what happened in that three-week period between his reported disappearance and his arrival at the orphanage. his mother's whereabouts are unknown. they are super rich and hoping to add more to the wealth by mining asteroids. yes, you heard me right. see who is behind the new venture coming up next.

♪ oh, yeah, steve miller. one of my absolute favorites "the joker." a wonderful shot near pier 39 in san francisco, wow, great shot, absolutely. we're going to let steve miller fade off and tell you a story that sounds like something out of a sci-fi film, but folks every bit is true. a few billionaires are putting up money to mine, wait on it, asteroids. but first, let me show you who the rich guys are who happen to be putting money up. not scientists, they know how to make money. as we look at the list. pop them up. james cameron, eric schmitt, larry page, and billionaire, ross perot, jr. they are hoping to find platinum on the asteroids. one of the most precious metals on earth. you use it every day, you don't

even know it. many of you might wonder if it's necessary to launch a rocket to go in space to get it? we're lucky to have steven fleming, of enterprise innovation institute in georgia tech, steven, you have to nrt there will be people skeptical, it sounds like something out of "star trek" is this worth doing? >> past time to be doing it, should have been doing it 20 years ago. >> we think of mining, in pennsylvania, west virginia, maybe oklahoma, mining in space on an asteroid, can you walk us through how it would happen? >> it's a lot harder, but the asteroid belt is a bunch of rocks which look like the rocks here on the surface of the earth. they happen to be busted up in little pieces that are orbiting the few million miles away. rather than drilling holes in the ground to find precious minerals, metals or other things, you can drive up next to one, and pull these materials off the surface. >> what type of minerals do we

hope to find on some of the asteroids? >> things like the plat nuinum metals, easy to make a business case for to get them there, bring them here, use them here. it has induce freeal uses in catalytic converter in your car, batteries, things like that. clearly an economic case for those valuable metals. another category, water, nitrogen, iron, things like that, which are incredibly valuable in space because you don't have to launch them from here. >> when you talk about this in terms of a time frame, how far out could you see this becoming a reality? >> there could be launching the surveillance satellites or prospecting satellites within a couple years, those will stay in orbit and identify the first candidates. actually going out and parking next to one and starting operations, probably within ten

years. >> when we think about the mars rover, how long it took for that to reach the surface, how much time, what is the time frame in terms of launching from say cape canaveral and landing on an asteroid, how long would that journey take? >> probably a year but remember these are robotic missions, there is no people on board. a year is no big deal. >> in terms of cost, any guest i mat, i know we're a long way out, how much would this cost each time you would have one of these missions? >> the reason we're able to do this now is we're finally getting to the point where launch costs, the costs to get a pound from the earth into orbit is about to come down dramatically. right now that cost is about $10,000. if you have a crescent wrench that weighs a pound, that is a $10,000 in orbit. because the private sector is taking over the launch business we expect to see the cost come down by 100.

instead of $10,000, it's $100. that is what it costs to have one in the oil platform in the gulf. we're seeing that by changing the launch dynamics, we'll get large amounts of material up in orbit relatively cheaply. unbelievable. when did this idea first come up? who was the person who came up with this, the grandfather of the project? >> you have to look back in the annals of science fiction, they have been talking about it since the 1940's, it has been written about it. some engineering studies started being done in the 70s about doing it for real, had becontinued on the path we were on after the apollo missions, rather than going with shuttle, which was the decision made in 1971, 1972, we could have been doing this mining in the 1990s. >> unbelievable. amazing things, very enjoyable for viewers to hear this, spell

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now that he. welcome back. remember the movie borat? sasha cohen plays a reporter from kazakhstan. >> my government send me to usa to make a movie film. >> kazakhstan banned the movie because of how it mocked the country.

the kazakh government changed their mind? >> they said just this week, we thank you borat because tourism has increased ten-fold. in fact the foreign minister said the following. he said with the release of this film, the number of visas issued by kazakhstan, with the release of this film, the numbprelimina. >> they had that so situation that huge embarrassing situation with the wrong anthem with the sporting event. >> we had the olympic event in march of this year, they played the borat version of the anthem. there it is, let's take a look.

♪ >> it was the athlete herself. we are kazakhstan proud of our prostitution. but it has been rectified. that is not going to happen again. >> if kazakhstan benefits, there must be some other movies that benefit when movies are done? >> don't you want to go to the rainiest city in the country and and you might see a werewolf or a vamp pyre. you can go to 150 different places in new zealand on the official lord of the rings tour.

>> if you wanted to do this, how do you find out about it? >> there is a website movie-location.com. it will give you any movie you want to see and any location. if you are dying to know where the sound of music was shot, that is the number one most favorite location. >> really? >> off to austria. >> thank you, nadya, that was fun. a suspect tries to make off with a woman's purse, but her son said, no way, not so fast, n find out how he bravely stopped that crook next. no, sorry, sir. we don't. oh, well, that's too bad. [ man ] kyle, is that you? [ laughs ] [ man ] still here, kyle. [ male announcer ] visit your local chevy dealer today. right now, very well qualified lessees

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former president george w. bush led them through 30 miles of a rugged texas canyon through the second leg of the trip yesterday. some lost limbs, others have post-traumatic stress disorder. a family says a funeral home

cremated their father but gave them someone else's remains. the box they received had someone else's name on them. now the family wants to do a dna test to be sure. an 8-year-old was able to stop a burglary. cade came in and took his mother's purse. we have much more on cnn saturday morning which starts right now. from cnn center, this is cnn saturday morning. ahead this hour, police say he murdered his wife and daughter, then tried to burn down his house. but that didn't work. now a seattle s.w.a.t. team is staking out this underground bunker, where police