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>> with arrested for violence and battery. his daughter told police he punched her, choked her and threw her to the ground and today, he stood in his pulpit and said anyone who says he abused his taur is lying. >> the truth is she was not choked, she was not punched, there were not any scratches on her neck, but the only thing on her neck was a prior skin
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abrasion from eczema. anything else is exaggeration. >> something happened that police felt was enough to arrest him. here is a question. he says somebody is lying. so who? >> somebody is trying to discredit him so who? are we watching a family spat or does southbound someone have a real beef here? >> the point that he made in his service today is that it is tough to discipline a child. this is not 20 years ago. i got hit with a belt. that was part of a conversation we had out there. this is an issue for him. how do you discipline a child in today's society. he is saying one side of the story is he did not rush his daughter or trip his daughter. police are alleging something else. police were not involved before the 911 call and the 15-year-old
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daughter made the call. i have faulked about it with a number of other people. i don't know whapds so i am not condoning anything he or she did. only they know what is going on. if i had said to -- apparently she wanted to go to a party. >> he said you have bad grades you can't go. >> if i had said to my mom when i was a kid, i want to go to a party, she says you can't, i'm going to call police, she would have said i will give you a reason to call police. then she would have whipped me or sent me to my room or police would have come and said she's your mom. go to your room. >> the action at question is his confrontation. she tried to avoid confrontation and she apparently went to the kitch kitchen. he went into the kitchen and asked her what is wrong, apparently he felt disrespected. >> how old is she in. >> 15. >> and the 19-year-old witnessed
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it there are two statements. one being poorly reflecting on the character of dollar and the other saying she was disrespecting her father. >> sit tough. there are people saying you should never strike a child. i know in my day, kids got spankings but there is a difference between a beating and a spanking. >> this incident does not seem to affect his prigsers. >> he is what you call a prosperity minister. t.d. jakes preaches that god rewards followers with material wealth and gifts. he has got a big congregation. >> he is one of the mes well known megachurch pastors in the country. he got a standing ovation at his
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church. >> he did. let's listen. >> the simplicity and understanding, he is a great father and husband. >> so i know this is a great man of god, him and his family. >> i have a 15-year-old daughter myself and if she needs discipline, that is what she will get. case dismissed. >> did you think for a second of not coming this week? >> please, no. come on in and join us. >> she is saying what i was saying. i have a child. i know. kids are bad. so, who knows here. again, he did get a standing ovation at his church. here it is. everyone wants to know why is it such a big deal? why is this a lead story? >> 30,000 member congregation. >> but the people who follow him
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online or look up to him and believe his interpretation of religious doctrine, he has a flock and a following. and if he is accused and kons quantitily found guilty of ab e abusing a 15-year-old, that's a big deal. >> he did spend the night in jail. it happened on friday. he did spend the night in jail. now he is out. >> whatever it is, as a family, let's hope they work it out personally and as far as the official investigation, we will follow that. we will follow up on a story you brought to us yesterday. have you seen the video of this little boy being whipped with a belt in his backyard. it was nick's story. we led with it. this is an elected official in imperial county, california. the two of them will playing catch. a neighbor video taped it from next door.
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>> i am having a problem with you for beating him because he won't catch the ball. >> i'm watching you. i'm a father, too. >> the stepfather was arrested on felony child abuse charges. the boy's father has mixed feelings about what he sees on this video. >> i will say anthony had excessive spanking. he spanked him too much. but anthony, again, is in a difficult situation. he is trying to be a stepfather for a child that has some behavioral issues. a child that i love dearly and has blessed my life. this is all about zach and my daughter, they are doing behavioral counseling in california. the first thing, they tried time out. they tried removing things. it is documented in his church and school. when the spanking discipline has
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worked. it's helped his behavior. >> that is the boy's grandfather. the stepfather is out of jail. prosecutors will decide tomorrow whether they will forp mally file child awe bus charges. >> and more than 14,000 acres. it is dubbed the high park fire. it is being fuelled by high brush and temperatures. some residents are not sure what they will come home to. >> i can't imagine that my house is there right now, to be honest with you. with how close the fire was, right now i will not have a home. i have no place to go. >> it's fire there and water other places. by the way, fire officials say 18 structures have already been lost or damaged. fire there, water other places. more extreme weather. this on the gulf coast.
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record amounts of rainfall in alabama and florida. the worst is not over yet. storms have drenched florida and a state of emergency has been declared there. peoplelying in low lying areas are being asked to evacuate because of flooding. more than 20 inches of rain. 20 inches of rain fell in one day in some areas near pence cola and the rain is still coming down. . >> police are looking for 22-year-old desmonte leonard. they want to talk to two people they consider persons of interest. this all went down last week at a party in an off campus apartment.
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the first victim found, the 20-year-old was dead at the scene a second former player also died at the hospital as did another man. this has rocked the community to its core. >> not only union slersty students and athletes, but it's young people. it's six young people. as you can tell, the community is shaken by this and grieving today. >> police say they consider leonard to be armed and dapg rous. they are not discussing a possible mow ti here but they are not aware of a connection between the university and leonard. they are not aware of a connection between the university and leonard. >> major u.s. city is days away from declaring bankruptcy because the state won't hand
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>> aujtsds 12.7 million americans are unemployed. of those, more than 5 million have been out of work for at least six months. the average is about 40 weeks or about nine months. that's a long time.
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>> sire ya's opposition can't stop the killing that fwoes on every single day. >> the sound of fwun fire echos in the streets. 16 people were killed in homes today. at least 14 in other parts of the country. outside syria, the national counsel named its leader and he vowed that his country will one day be a free democratic state. >> sarah was rescued by japanese
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coast guard officials after a fierce storm disabled her boat in the pacific. aiming to be the first woman to kayak, bike, and row her way around the world about 20,000 miles. she made it to pretty far, i should say. more than 11,000 miles. that's a long distance. >> is the president responsible for the alleged leaks from the white house? a top republican senator says he is. >> the organ is not what it is about, it's about the performer. the whole community of american organists sort of saying to each other that we need to do something to promote the organ. and this is a ridiculous and fruitless idea which is doomed to failure because you don't promote a medium more than painters promote the tool.
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that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. >> holding president obama accountable. we are told the president needs to own up to leaks coming out of his white house. >> i have no idea whether the president knew or did not know. i have never alleged such a thing. but i have alleged if you look at the information that has been leaked, again, that information in the book says that several
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officials said that they had to remain anonymous who gave this information because they would lose their jobs. the president may not have done it himself but the president is responsible as commander in chief. >> so the senator was responding to several reports that were leaked from the white house. some claim the leaks were done intentionally to make the president look tough in an election year. the white house denies the claim and eric holder said he assigned two prosecutors to investigate the issue. >> we must say that. we must give you your accomplishment, sir. and republican strategy, hi. we missed you last night. how was the wedding? >> don, everything was great, but i want you to add, and heat fan. >> oh. oh. >> congratulations. >> congratulations. who are you going for?
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quickly? >> heat. >> okay, so you're both heat? back to the subject at hand. i'm going to start with anna. should the president take responsibility for these leaks? >> yes. the reason he should do it is because it's a national security issue. we're not talking a political issue. i saw the leadership, the head of the senate intelligence committee together with the leadership, the democrat and republican leadership of the house. getting together and saying this is a huge problem. national security is at risk. the lives of people, of u.s. agents, the lives of people serving our country is at risk. our relationships with our allies are at risk. we must adless this. when you see republicans and democrats get together, not only
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in the senate but with their colleagues in the house, you know this is serious and must be addressed. >> i was here anchoring live when they held that press conference after the meeting and i said to one who asked the question about politicizing this in an election year and it is hard to say that it is being politicized if you have people on both sides saying this is a serious issue. do you think that the president has taken responsibility or handled this properly? >> absolutely. i don't see him ducking his administration. the "new york times" had a story that stated that the obama administration has investigated more than any other presidency. it is not as if he is taking this lightly. he understands the risk with that and how important this is. >> lz? >> yes, sir. >> hold on, standby. let me play you this sound bite. it is sort of saying what you are saying. here is the president.
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listen. >> the notion that my white house would purposely release classified national security information is offensive. >> uh-huh. >> so i will let you continue on. but if someone else in the white house did this. and if the president had no idea, then why should he take responsibility? continue on. >> he should take responsibility if not for his administration, then ones after his. >> i have a lot of respect for the senator. however, i feel as if he is trying to inject a political angle with the way he is attacking the presidency. he is not ducking this. he is taking responsibility.
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>> i agree with that. i know john mccain very well and when it comes to issues of national security. the people who risk their lives, but john mccain does not play politics or games. he has been there himself. it is as personal as it can get. >> will kwlou kidding me? >> no i'm not. >> john mccain plays as much as he possible can. >> not with this. >> his very first major decision, once he secured the nomination, was to pick his vp. and he politicized that and put the country at risk by picking sarah freaking palin. picking sarah palin? that epitomizes politicizing something and risking national
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security. >> sarah was not -- >> sarah palin always comes up some kind of way. >> she is not talking about national security secrets. >> we have got move on. already i don't know how sarah palin came up. that's a good strategy. >> he is all over it. 2008 all over again. let's move on and talk about money. done with that. and in this case we are talk in we don't have that much money. >> light now one concern is europe which faces a threat of renewed recession. in the short term they have got stabilize their financial system and part of that is taking clear action as soon as possible to inject capital.
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>> i would be saying talk about the pot calling the ketment black. that being said, obama is right. they are doing it themselves. they are the ones that have to get it out. what we can't have is barack obama blaming our problems on europe. he spent three years blaming it on bush and now he is blaming it on europe. >> lz? >> you can't blame problems on europe. it's part of the problem. we are no longer able to say we are living in vacuums. what happens to europe directly affects what happens. >> sarah palin must have some responsibility here. >> it's all sarah a palin's fall. >> it's all bush, obama and palin's fault. >> he brings a girlfriend to get
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her into the presidency. >> we're good, lz. >> the man got hung by his stump for five years. >> i have a great deal of respect for him. >> you guys keep talking. actor tommy chong makes an announcement and he tells us why he believes his time in prison may be the reason that he now has cancer. where is it ? it's gone. we'll find it. any day can be an adventure. that's why we got a subaru. love wherever the road takes you. wow, there it is. cause we want to show them something new. you ready? let's go. walmart can now convert your favorite dvds from disc to digital. no way. if hulk smash disc... it's no big deal.
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>> the storybook right here, just this weekend, tommy chong announced to us he has cancer. then he told me this.
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>> the tommy chong is here. tommy, good to see you. we brought you in to talk about this new york state about lessening the laws for possession in public but you have ap announcement to make. what is it? >> i was diagnosed with prostate cancer about a month ago. and i am going to start treating it with cannabus oil or hemp oil or pot oil. and the reason i am treating it with hemp oil is because i looked at a video just recently called run from the cure by rick simpson and it documents how he cured his melanoma cancer by using hemp oil. >> you believe that -- you think that you got prostate cancer in
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prison after the paraphernalia and the internet company selling the bongs in 2003, you think that you got it in prison? why? >> that's my feeling. i was totally healthy when i went in jail and i had not smoked pot before i wept in jail. while i was in jail, i was clean as a whistle because they drug tested me almost every day and i started having problems with my prostate. you have to get up in the middle of the night and pee a lot. i also contracted gout while in prison from the food. i think it is a combination of the food and the fact that the prison is built over a toxic waste dump. they have a thing called valley fever that other prisoners were getting. it is some sort of wasting disease. i think i got it there. >> you have not smoked pot in
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how long? people think you are a pot head. >> i laid off for about a year, you know. i started getting weird health issues, which actually turned out to be property tate cancer. so i did everything. i'm a very wholistic person. i went on the juices and everything, low red meat and the whole bit. but now that i found out that the hemp oil will help the prostate, i'm back. >> do you think people are shortsighted because many people have an issue with it morally? do you think that people are being shortsighted about what marijuana can do to you as it compares to alcohol and other drugs? and also what it means economically? should we, meaning the country as a whole, the leaders, be looking at regulating marijuana as a way to boost this economy?
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>> actually, i am against it. i think it's -- leave it the way it is. i mean we don't need more taxes. we don't need to be taxing something like they are doing with tobacco. i mean, because, again, where does the tax money go? it runs into a black hole called the government. >> i think that people are going to be surprised that you don't think it should be legalized. >> i don't think it should be taxed. i think it should be totally legal. but it shouldn't be taxed. >> why? how can you legalize it and regulate it and not tax it? >> because. all you have to do is decriminalize it. just take away the penalty. we don't need a system of who we're going buy it from. we have got growers that we buy it from.
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we got people that deal it that will come to your house. we don't need a government regulation to tell us this is good pot, that's bad pot. we don't need any of that. we have got everything in place. just take away the penalties. >> tommy chong. thank you so much. thank you for being candid about prostate cancer and telling our viewers. we wish you the very best, okay? >> thank you. and i want to come back when i'm cured and let you know how it went, okay? >> yes. we will have you back. >> thank you. >> i love tommy chong. >> already and horrific attacks against women. splashed with acid that leaves them scarred for life and now these attacks are becoming more common. ♪
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>> a warping for you. the images we are about to shoi you are going be disturbing. victims of acid attacks having to live with the trauma. reports of an alarming rise in these types of attacks against women. more now from the area. >> reporter: in january, this woman opened her front door as she set out for work. a man was waiting outside. he tosseds a sit in her face. >> i couldn't recognize him. his face was covered up. he tint say anything so i can't recognize his voice.
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i don't know who he cough been because i don't have enemies. >> acid attacks are on the rise. they seem to be linked to relationships gone wrong. >> lately we have seen an increase in these assaults that always are against young beautiful women. it's always a boyfriend, a lover, or a person with a grudge. >> going beyond the headlines here. beautiful women. you saw the pictures. this appears to be scorned lovers who were scorned or spurned and they are upset right? >> activists and doctors are calling heez crimes of passion. >> because they are jealous and trying to seek revenge. >> it's a surge.
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>> we have seen knit other countries. india, bangladesh, we have seen it. >> absolutely. that is where we see the highest rates. 80% of the perpetrators are men, those in cambodia, for example, women commit acid attacks on women mostly. why? because it's the women who are jealous of their husbands taking on a lover or having affairs so that is where we are seeing women on women acid attacks. last month we saw in pakistan the man who was attacked by his wife because she wanted to get a divorce from him and he said no. >> depending on the country, it's different ramifications for committing these crimes do that go unpunished largely? >> it depends on the country. it's illegal.
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>> sblo deuced a bill that put a tougher punishment, up to 20 years in prison and also providing -- they want to provide better medical care for the victims as well as making it harder to buy the acid in the first place. >> thank you. good stuff. did they get somebody else's mouth? thank you. let's hope they get a handle on this terrible thing. something that is in your house, probably on your table, got a beating from the mayor of new york city. we're talking about sugar, public enemy number one and whether it deserves the bad rap, next. and keep an eye on us on your phone. you don't just have to be in front of the television. go to cnn live on your laptop and your phone.
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okay, i want to you take a look at this. do you see this right here? this is sugar. this is the amount of sugar that is in 20 ounces of regular soda. did you know that? right? all right. so more about sugary soda in a second, but sugar is having one hell of a bad week. it's already blamed for child obesity and diabetes and tooth decay. this week the mayor of new york city came out strong with the proposal to ban the sale of large-size soft drinks that contain sugar. even this guy is fighting sugar and we can all agree he knows a thing of two about drugs.
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listen. >> let's face facts. the worst drug on the planet today, in my estimation, is sugar. >> all right, mark mcdonald is here. he's a nutritionist, author and fitness training. you just heard tommy chong who is not well known for coming out against most substances. is that an absurd statement about sugar? >> sugar is how our body creates energy, so when we look at on you hour heart beats, how we breathe, we need sugar. it's not about not needing sugar, it's how to balance it out. >> maybe the mayor agrees that it's one of the most dangerous stub stances on the street. >> when you look at sugar, it makes your blood pulse. >> this is a 42-ounce.
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that's pretty big. this is a 32-ounce. so from the fitness community, from the nutrition community, what do they think about what bloomberg is doing? >> i'm personally not a fan of regulating whether people can have soda or not. is soda great for you? of course not. it's full of chemicals, it spikes your blood pressure levels, but i think we need to educate people on how to do that. >> you always tell me, drink water, don, drink water, don. >> i don't think soda is the best choice, but i'm not a big fan of you can't have stuff. i think we need to educate. i just came from the american diabetes association and we talked directly about blood sugar. >> do we have the tweet from bloomberg up? more than half of nyc adults are overweight or obese. then he says, we're doing something about it.
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that's what he's saying. he's being criticized about it. i get what he's saying. when he says he wants people to think about it before they just get a drink. >> that's not what's causing obesity. having someone drink a large soda is not causing obesity. sugar is how our body creates energy, so you have to learn how to stabilize your blood sugar. >> let's go through all this, okay? sugar is in everything. we don't even realize we're getting it. >> an apple has sugar. oatmeal, brown rice, it's all broken down to sugar. what you have to do is every meal needs to have a balance of sugar, which is a carbohydrate, protein, which could be turkey, string cheese, yogurt, and then some fat, which could be nuts. that keeps your blood sugar stable just like a baby. a baby feeds every three or four hours, ten calories per meal. >> when i first started with you, i wasn't fat, i wasn't
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lean. everybody says, what did you do, you look 20 years younger. i just started eating right and you lose that little layer of fat that you have, right? you can eat these things but you have to be balanced about it, right? >> exactly. my son, hunter, you know he loves skittles. skittles is pure sugar. but by him having a piece of cheese before that, it stabilizes the sugar. i'm not saying soda is great for you, but it's all about balancing it out. >> when you drink a 30-ounce soda, you might as well take water and this, because that's how much sugar you're taking in. many take more than that in one day. we need a workout. they're like, we're going, we're going. you're going to tell people how to eat healthy when they're eating out. they're so easy to use, even an april can kbet it. ♪
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ipads so easy, apes can use them. it turns out they are. john found some orangutans moving past ipads. >> meet the orangutans. some are getting long in the tooth. >> let me see those. open, open. stay open. open again.
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those are beautiful. >> reporter: and just like many of us, the kids love playing with new gadgets. the older ones, sinbad, and connie, not so much. >> those two have no interest in it. these four can't get enough of it. they understand, it's just like they catch on, and connie and sinbad just sort of look at it as if to say, what is this new-fangled thing? >> reporter: this new-fangled thing san ipad. for a year now they've been drawing and painting on it. just recently they've been identifying symbols. the ong trangutan has to pick o the right one. can you pick out the peanuts? good girl. >> reporter: caregivers say they are amazed there seems to be no end to their ability to learn. and the ipad seems to be a way
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to enrich their lives. >> they're so unlimited in their intelligence. there is no limit to what they can learn. >> these great apes might be smarter than chimpanzees. here, too, the ipad is used to enrich the sanctuary's 15 orangutans and to raise awareness to their plight. there are, according to the world wildlife fund, only 53,000 or so left in the wild. >> habitat construction is leading to the deaths of probably 2 to 3,000 orangutans in the wild a year right now. >> the work with the orangutan intelligence is working beyond just being able to recognize symbols. they're skyping -- yep, you heard me right -- using an ipad 2, a zoo carried out the experiment.
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sdplz they' >> they're interested in seeing each other in realtime. they recognize it's not just a recording, it's actually realtime. >> reporter: in oregon, 14-year-old shawna has taken a shine to me. maybe she would play the ipad game with me. touch the mango. no, huh? where is mango? she actually did it. she absolutely did it. she's amazing. i'm amazed. john zarrella, cnn, miami. top of the hour. i'm don lemon. let's talk about a megachurch preacher. he takes to the pulpit and says no to charges he beat up his teenage daughter. i'm talking about kruklo dollar. he preaches in his massive church just outside

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