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rains it pours. for the obama campaign it appears to be a gully washer. lately the president has had some bad poll number, some bad headlines, some democrats are expressing doubt about his message and his chances come november. big donors are sitting tight with their money. for mitt romney, several things appear to be going right. he is raising a lot of money and his poll numbers have been getting better. a little more than two hours from now, both men take to the stump in the battleground state of ohio with dueling key economic speeches. they won't be face to face, but you can bet that they won't mince words about each other either. so, cnn's jim acosta joins us from cincinnati. the obama campaign is billing today's speech at the framing of his economic message. he has to, one, present a plan, two, instill confidence, three, convince the american people maply independents that he deserves a second term. that's a lot for one speech. >> reporter: that's right, don. and this is as close as we've
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gotten to a real general election battle between these two candidates taking place in a battleground state. i mean, you're going to have both president obama and mitt romney on two separate stages, one in cleveland, the president in cleveland, mitt romney down here in cincinnati at basically the same time. it's as if the two campaigns were talking to each other and decided to put on a show for the american people, because that's basically what we're going to get here in a few hours from now. and both of these candidates, the president and mitt romney, have been laying out some of their lines of attack in the last couple of days. obviously, the republicans and mitt romney have been going after the president on the president's comments from last friday on how the private sector in mr. obama's words are doing fine. mitt romney has a brand-new ad out this morning going after the president on that line from last friday. the obama campaign is also going after mitt romney. the dnc just put out a web video yesterday that was sort of
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tallying up all of mitt romney's, quote, unquote, out of touch moments where he's talked about corporations are people, too, and i like to be able to fire people. all of these snippets of course taken out of a larger context, both campaigns will say. but, don, both candidates are going to be getting down to some brass tacks when it comes to their economic plans. mitt romney's going to be talking about how he wants to shrink the size of the federal government. he laid out specifics on that yesterday talking about eliminating government workers in the federal government through attrition, bringing their pay in line with the private sector. he's go other ideas he's been talking about. just yesterday, white house press secretary jay cardy was eventually reading from the campaign script laying out to reporters gathered at the white house as to what the president is going to be talking about. he's going to be talking about trying to create an environment where the middle class can i guess grow stronger. he's been talking about a jobs plan that he would like to see the congress pass. and so the president will be going back to that message
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today. but make no mistake, i mean, this is really what we've all been waiting for, don, theerz two candidates going at each other in a real general election campaign style. >> talking about the president and what he'll have to do, i want to get these numbers because i think it's important for americans. most americans, 68%, still believe president bush is responsible for the bad economy, but a growing number says obama is to blame. the obama message has been blame bush. even his own party's words. yet democratic leaders say he should stop saying the economy is getting better. listen to this from yesterday, james carville. >> i'm worried when the white house and the campaign talks act the progress being made, people take that as a signal that they think things are fine, and people don't feel that or believe. they want to be assured he feels the depth of the problem and has a plan to deal with it. >> it's interesting. what is he going to say in those speeches? the president is boxed in even by members of his own party, jim. i'm sure the romney campaign is
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take advantage of that and we'll hear about that today, as well. >> reporter: that's right. the rnc is already putting out an e-mail to reporters noting what bill clinton said in the state two years ago, basically saying, look, if we haven't gotten the country out of this mess by the time 2012 comes around, throw us out, in the words of president clinton. so the republicans obviously trying to make some hay out of that. but keep in mind, don, there are some local considerings from romney campaign as well. the unemployment rate in ohio has plummeted over the last couple years, in january of 2010 it was above 10%, don, now around 7.5%. the romney campaign was asked about that on a conference call yesterday. they said, well, that's because of the republican governor in the state, john kasich, not because of president obama's policies. so the president also has some good economic news to point to. it's a matter, as james carville might say, go ahead and point to it. it's something the obama campaign has sort of struggled to do in the last several weeks
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because they've been sort of under attack, you know, when it comes to some of the things that the president has said on his own, when it comes to what bill clinton has been saying. so, you know, it is going to be interesting to watch both of these campaigns today, don. >> dueling speeches, jim acosta. thank you very much. we appreciate it. mr. obama's remarks are expected to start 1:45 p.m. eastern right here, and mitt romney kicks off five minutes later. stay with cnn for live coverage of that. want to get back now to our breaking story, our lead story here on cnn. we're talking about egypt where we reported the country's highest court just ruling that parliament must be dissolved. as i reported, riot police, military personnel taking up positions outside of the court. let's go to cairo now live. ben wedeman. ben, what is happening right now? what happened? this is a stunning turn of events here. >> reporter: well, don, this was a decision, actually a pair of rulings by the constitutional court which on the one hand declared that a law that would
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have barred former officials from the mubarak machine from holding high office. that has been ruled unconstitutional. so ahmed shafiq, one of the two presidential candidates, will, indeed, be able to run in the elections that happens day after tomorrow. more important, however, is the decision from the constitutional court that the egyptian parliament has been dissolved because of irregularities and that the supreme council of the armed forces, the military body that took over from hosni mubarak in february of last year now holds full legislative powers. in addition to that, they also will be forming the 100-man body that's been charged with writing up egypt's constitution, because at the moment there is no constitution. in addition to that, raising the fears of many egyptians yesterday the egyptian justice ministry came out with a decision that the military now has essential police powers.
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they can arrest, detain, and interrogate civilians as well. some egyptians are saying if you take it all together it amounts to a soft coup d'etat by the military. don? >> overall, give us a bottom line here. what does it mean as far as the elections go, who's going to be in charge? you said it amounts to a coup d'etat for the military. what does it mean to the people of egypt, ben? >> reporter: well, it certainly means that in a sense we've kind of gone through a time machine back to when the military ruled this country with an iron hand. but something has changed, of course, since the revolution. egyptians have become highly politicized, dramatically politicized, and those who were o'posed to this constitutional court edition have made it clear, they're going to take their opposition to the street. don? >> all right. ben wedeman, thank you very much. we're following the fallout to today's ruling and the lead-up
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going to pennsylvania now where the prosecution's case against jerry sandusky appears to be winding down. already? wow. two more young men who remember the former penn state assistant football coach allegedly molested are due to take the stand. and at this rate, the trial has been moving really quickly and the prosecution could rest as soon as tomorrow. cnn's susan candiotti at the courthouse. court is in session. take us inside. >> reporter: hi, don. it's been another fascinating morning of testimony. this was an alleged victim whose case goes back to 1998 when he was 11 years old. he's in his early 20s now and graduated from bible college in colorado. he came in and testified, said he met jerry sandusky when he was a little kid at the second
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mile and he was thrilled because he was a huge fan of penn state, still is, penn state football. he got a tour of the locker room from jerry sandusky. sandusky gave him a pair of coach joe paterno's socks. eventually that was led to them going into the shower. there the boy said it was the first time he ever got naked in front of another man and said it felt really awkward andicy and that jerry sandusky said i'm the tickle monster, and picked him up and said i'm going to squeeze your guts out. when they were urn the shower and he got all soaped up. the boy said at that point he could feel the chest hair of jerry sandusky and then he blacked out. he said he doesn't remember anything else. his mother called the police. the police investigated it. however, the district attorney never pressed charges even after the police at the invitation of the mother came to the mom's house and they'ves dropped on her conversation with jerry sandusky, during which time she continue fronted him and he
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said, "i understand i was wrong. i wish i could get forgiveness. i wish i were dead." but the police later met with jerry sandusky and said you shouldn't be taking any more showers with boys, and sandusky told them that he wouldn't. obviously from testimony, don, that didn't stop him. however, the boy oddly, don, went on to stay in touch with jerry sandusky, he testified, over the years, even sending him father's day cards within the last couple of years that said that he was awesome. but now he is testifying in this case. >> yeah. >> reporter: and jerry sandus sandusky's lawyer in cross-examination really went after him and said, wait a minute, what changed? how come all of a sudden you've now changed your mind and you're saying this is now inappropriate after staying in touch with him and saying he's a great guy? did the police coerce you into this? he said that he didn't. that he just now feels it was inappropriate thinking back on it. >> testifies a kid then and an adult now. so there is a difference. thank you, susan candiotti.
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lance armstrong, one of the fastest and most famous athletes to ever ride a bicycle, but the one thing he hasn't been able to outrun, and that's allegations that he used performance-enhancing drugs during a remarkable career that includes seven tour de france titles. now the u.s. anti-doping agencies says it plans to bring doping charges against armstrong that could lead to his being stripped of the tour de france titles. the a corporation today banned armstrong from taking part in the ironman competition later this month. casey wian joins ne me from los angeles. this is what everyone is saying -- everyone is asking me. so there's no concrete evidence here against lance armstrong. is it just his word against these other folks? and why does that am to an investigation if there is no concrete evidence? >> reporter: well, don, according to the u.s. anti-doping agency's letter that
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was sent to lance armstrong and the others who were involved in this alleged conspiracy to not only use performance-enhancing drugs but to traffic in performance-enhancing drugs over a 13-year period, this agency says it does have a lot of evidence in terms of eyewitness testimony of other competitive cyclers who say they were involved in some cases in this conspiracy. now, we should point out that the u.s. anti-doping agency says that all of these other athletes have cooperated in their investigation into performance-enhancing drug use. lance armstrong, they say, was given chance to cooperate but refused to do so. that's one of the reasons why he's facing the allegations and not the others. >> so he probably feels then he is being made an example out of here. they're making an example. so what's at stake? can they really take away his titles if they don't have any physical evidence that he ever used performance-enhancing
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drugs, meaning no photographs, no needles, any of that stuff? can his titles actually be taken away from him, and can he face possible criminal charges, or is this going to go down the road to make it uncomfortable for him? >> well, the u.s. anti-doping agency will not say what the potential sanctions will be, but lance armstrong himself has said that this is an effort -- he's called it a witch-hunt -- an effort to strip him of his tour de france titles. he has now moved on from cycling, is competing in triathlons. he's not going to be able to compete in those while this investigation is ongoing. as for criminal charges, it doesn't appear that any will result. you may remember, don, that earlier this year he was cleared by the justice department, which conducted its own investigation into performance-enhancing drug use by armstrong. also a grand jury looked into this and refused to indict him. so armstrong says these are all old allegations and he calls this a vendetta basically being brought against him by many of his former competitors.
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>> whatever it is, it does appear to be never-ending. thank you, casey wian. we appreciate it. lance armstrong retired from the sport of cycling last year to focus on triathlons. cold feels nice on sore muscles, huh?
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look at that. crazy. this video's from our dallas affiliate wfaa. they say the storm left thousands without power. people who lived there had to ride it out. they described what it looked like. >> it went for at least 20 minutes. it just pummeled. it was unbelievable. and the rain, there was so much rain. it was like -- it was like being in a disaster movie. >> it sounded like the house was exploding. just -- >> literally. >> just over and over and over again. i mean, you can look at the roof and see a thousand explosions. >> just want to tell you that there was historic damage. okay. imagine this. it's 2:00 a.m. and you're hungry. happens to all of us. happens to me. your chances of finding something healthy not that great. probably not what you're looking for, unless you're in atlanta. you can get something atlanta. we have a 24/7 go-to for healthy organic fare in a quirk yay,
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session for just over four months, and military now saying it has full legislative power, riot police, military personnel taking up positions outside the court. the stream constitutional court also ruled that a former member of hosni mubarak's regime seen here may run as planned in the presidential runoff this weekend. we are following that voce klosely for you. it is a very busy day for the president in ohio for his presidential election. president barack obama will be getting an up-close look at the world trade center construction site and briefed on the progress crews have made there. pictures right there. right now, crews are gearing up for the president's visit this afternoon, and it's been a long, complicated process. a controversial road for thousands involved in the rebuilding of this. you're looking at the time lapse video of the construction site. after all this, president obama will be getting a glimpse at
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just how much has been accomplished. help us answer that question, we're at ground zero at the site of the world trade center, poppy harlow. crews are up to the 144th floor. what kind of progress will the president be looking at? >> reporter: don, he's been invited by the governors of new york and new jersey. he'll be touring with them, shake hands with some construction workers. he's going to look at a lot of progress, especially in the last year. amazingly they've been building one world trade center behind me. let's pan up to the top so you can see it -- at a very rapid clip. one floor a week is what they've been building. i am told that the president will go in the tower. i did is ask if he would go to the top and they said we don't know and secret service probably wouldn't want us to tell you that, but interestingly, don, this will be the president's first time inside one world trade center. he's going to sign a beam that will go at the top of the center when it's complete. this is a very big deal for the workers down here, don, and we're just a few weeks away from
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the topping of this building. when it reaches that final heat of 1,776 feet, a very symbolic number. >> i think it's interesting you can keep up with the progress of the trade center on social media. i get tweets all the time. i hear people saying crossing from new jersey i can see the tower. it's amazing. but back now to the president. the timing of his visit is telling. it follows his visit to swing state of ohio where he's going to talk the economy. the world trade center construction site is right in line with the president's push for jobs as well. >> reporter: absolutely. i mean, i'd be remiss not to mention this is a very political stop. this is the site with 3,500 construction workers, most of them, almost all of them union workers, and those workers are key for the president. right after he faced off today in ohio with mitt romney talking about the economy, talking about jobs. he'll head here and he'll have that photo-op with these construction workers. and we just heard, don, last friday when the president made
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that speech, pushing congress to act on the jobs act, he talked specifically about construction workers that are out of work wanting to put them back to work. so absolutely this is political. >> poppy harlow, thank you. we will be watching. and after visiting the world trade center site, president obama and the first lady will then head to two campaign fund-raisers, one sat sarah jessica parker's house and another at the plaza hotel with corey booker and mariah carey. two george bushs, father and son, have had the distinction of serving as president of the united states. the 41st president, george herbert walker bush is at the center of a new hbo documentary called "41." it takes an intimate look at bush and his presidency. the former president and his family screened the documentary on tuesday, which just happened to be bush's 80th birthday. among other political and personal details, bush talks about the historic moment his son, george walker bush, became the 43rd president of the united states.
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>> what was it like to see your son elected president? >> very emotional for me. very proud father. first time it's happened i guess in the history of our country except for the adams. it was enormous and a source of great pride for the family. >> the documentary premieres on hbo, hbo, our sister network, on the at 9:00 eastern, 8:00 central. tune in. happy 237th birthday. we're talking about none other than the u.s. army. what began on june 14th, 1775, with the continental army is now more than 1 million servicemen and women strong. celebrations are under way all over the country as we speak, including a pentagon. we find our pentagon correspondent barbara starr. so, barbara -- >> reporter: i have a very special guest. >> you do, standing next to that tank of cupcakes.
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>> reporter: this is u.s. army genmar tin dempsey, of course also chafk of the joint chiefs of staff. he's such a sport. he came out of the turret of this cupcake tank. being an army general, we want to ask how it felt. what was it like being in a cupcake? >> it was sticky, actually. it's obviously made for the two georgetown cupcake. not made for somebody my size, let alone ray. i'm the 38th chief. he was the 37th. >> reporter: a nice moment to remember the troops. but you have spoken extensively about your concerns here in washington about budget cuts and the threat to the u.s. military if these massive budget cuts go into effect, if congress and the white house can't reach an agreement. as the chairman of the joint chiefs, what are your concerns? >> my concerns are the uncertainty. we don't yet have a '13 budget
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from which to plan. and therefore we don't have a lot of the marks and the conference results from this congress. so i don't know where i'm starting from. secondly, it's the mechanism, which is -- which is draconian in the first year, and then it levels off in the following years. and therefore we have not been able to do any detailed planning. so i know what we did -- i know what the budget did to us in -- with a reduction of $487 billion as a result of the budget control act. but i don't know what it would do to us with another a $500 billion. but i know how hard it was to get $487 billion. >> if there's another $500 billion in budget cuts at the pentagon, can the u.s. military fight and win? do you think it raises the risk of instability of war around the world somewhere, whether it's iran or syria or wherever? >> well, it raises the risk, i mean, clearly. it's defining the degree of that risk that i'm struggling with right now. we'll get to that. but i'm not there yet.
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but to your point, we would certainly be less visible and active globally because we'd have a much smaller force. and nature abhors a vacuum. if we're not there, others will be, and that doesn't mean we have to be the world's policemen and all the rhetoric, but it does mean we have to engage and build partnerships, have to live up to our treaty obligations and so forth. >> reporter: last question. your concerns about syria right now. >> well, syria, it's a tranl di. you probably saw overnight that the -- someone blew up a very famous shiite mosque in damas s damascus, which, of course, gives us all pause that have been in iraq and seen how these issues become sectarian and tn they become civil wars and then they become very difficult to resolve. >> reporter: we thank you so much for your time. so, don, there you are. we sort of started with cupcakes, but we've shifted and got a little news from the chairman of the joint chiefs. >> you have reached -- probably set a record here.
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this is unprecedented. you've reached a milestone in your career. who can say they've interviewed the joint chiefs chair in front of a cupcake tank. >> reporter: i want to tell you, before we came on camera, he turned to me and said i'm not wearing any of these cupcakes on my shirt, am i? always the general. wanting to be clean. >> it's edible. you can take a bite if you want. >> reporter: absolutely. >> thank you, barbara starr. we appreciate it. barbara usually reportinging from the pentagon for her latest report on national security. logon to cnn.com/securityclearance. a party?
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so you need help getting from point a to point b? there is an app for that, but it's so 2011. the google map app has been a part of apple's iphone since the iphone debuted back in 2007. now apple's rolling out its own maps reportedly produced with military-grade technology from a swedish company it bough last year. we're talking aerial 3d images that can pick up objects four
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inches wide from 1,600 feet. naturally, google's not sitting still here. it, too, has eyes in the sky and on the streets all over the world, and privacy advocates take a pretty dim view of all of it. joining me in atlanta, bob barr, former u.s. congressman, former u.s. attorney, head of the partisan grube liberty guard. then bill safire of "the new york times" once calling you mr. privacy. that was his nickname for you. what is wrong with apple and google making high-res maps of the world? aren't we already there yet? >> well, hopefully we're not to the point where one can be sitting in the privacy of one's own yard around which they placed a fence so that prying eyes and inquisitive people can't go into it. and it's already for either the government or a company or perhaps a government-funded company to be photographing them when they don't know that they're being photographed from
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distances above them that make it impossible for them to even know that they're being photographed. this is a very substantial invasion of one's privacy, and if we don't try to get a handle on it right now, it will be, in fact, more and more difficult to place limits on it and effect some real privacy rights with teeth in them in the years ahead. >> i have to say, when i talked to my producer about this and it was from 1,600 feet, objects up to four inches wide. imagine being in your backyard and you think you have privacy, and then you don't. i got a little ahead of myself, mr. barr, because i want to bring someone else in now, shelly palmer, the host of "shelly palmer digital living" on fox. we've had a space race, an arms race so, talk to me about the upside of this, about apple and google maps, this race that they have going on here. >> well, first of all, i have to agree with congressman barr. this is a perfect opportunity to start a dying log. the question isn't is it a good
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idea or a bad idea because it's -- that really isn't the issue. it's are we as a society willing to allow it to happen and if so how are we going to regulate it. the technology is good. you can't argue the technology is good or bad, because that's a bad argument to have. technology is always -- it's in flux. it's dynamic. we progress every day. we went from the wheel to axls with wheels to cars with wheels. i mean, you know, and these are just tools. the technology in itself is neither good nor bad. but as the kongman suggests, and he is 100% correct, the society, the laws need to adjust to the technology. that's what the conversation should be about. >> bob, doesn't he have a point, too, because, i mean, the genie is out of the bottle. there are advances like this already. you can look on google images. i looked at my house the other day. it's already out there. >> well, i certainly hope that you weren't out there doing something you shouldn't have been doing while that photograph was being taken. >> well, you say i shouldn't have been doing. i can be doing it in my own
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backyard but if there is a camera or something looking at me in the privacy of my own backyard, there is no privacy anymore. >> and that's entirely the problem here. and congress and state legislatures are unfortunately but very traditionally and historically very slow to respond to these changes. and it's a very fine line here. we do not want to stop the advances in technology. that's important. but i think at the beginning now of this process where the technology is available very, very widely, is the perfect time, we need to address it, and there are a lot of questions. we've just touched on a couple of them. another one would be are companies operating as de facto government agassis with government money or equipment. >> no, no. i disagree completely for a second, guys. hold on. the question isn't about what the companies are doing or aren't doing. the technology is available, and i will be used for the best or
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worst possible purposes. the question really becomes, you know, we have a new issue in our lives. there is no reasonable expectation of privacy in the 21st century, period. none. >> but, listen, i understand. but no reasonable expectation? if you are in your house or in your backyard, i don't necessarily agree with that. i think people want their own privacy. you don't want people looking into your backyard or your bathroom. i understand that the genie is out of the bottle. >> that's right. >> but when it comes to your personal property or personal space and there is a camera or drone over your house, that is an invasion of privacy. my question to bob -- what do we do to have the laws catch up to this technology? anything we can do? >> certainly there are some things that can done. congress and state legislatures should immediately be looking at revising our even implementing privacy laws that establish a very clear right to privacy in one's home, on one's home, in one's yard that cannot be violated without their express
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consent, for example. simply because a person uses google as a search engine, for example, does not in any way, shape, or form and should not in any way, shape, or form mean that that person has consented impliedly to having themselves or their property photographed from thousands of feet or miles above their home or their business. >> so how is that different -- >> bob, sully, can't get that question in, shelley. sorry. we're out of time. >> okay. >> i want to show you this as we end this. this is one of our producers. he looked. it up and saw on maps already a copy of -- that's him mowing his lawn. right? who wants -- he didn't even know that was going to happen. it's interesting. we have to figure out what we're doing here. shelly, i get your point, bob, i get your point, but i think it's an invasion of privacy. you don't agree with that because you're a homeowner or american that anyone can invade your personal space at anytime. thank you, bob. the new apple maps debuting this fall.
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dna tests confirm that body parts mailed to two schools in vancouver last week are connected to the gruesome killing and dismemberment of 30-year-old jun lin, and police say that the hand and foot delivered by mail to two elementary schools belonging to lin who was a university student. over the last few weeks lin's body part s has have been found scattered across canada, in montreal and ottawa and now vancouver. the suspect is a porn actor luka rocco magnotta who was caught in germany and police say he posted a individuvideo of himself kill then dismembering lin. we have the latest from diana magna. the police are still searching for more of lin's pbody parts, and what can you tell us more about the investigation? >> well, as you say the dna matches between the severed hand and foot that were sent to the two schools in vancouver, and obviously the police were alert
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ed to the whole case when a body parts were mailed. two political parties in ottawa now they say they are looking for the head and they have no idea where it can be. they say they are also trying to ascertain a time line as to where magnotta has been over the last couple of years, because he traveled a lot under assumed names, and police in los angeles are saying that they are looking into whether there is any connection between the magnotta case, and between the killing of a man and dismemberment of a man whose severed head was found in hollywood in january of this year. so far, no definite or link at all, but they are obvious ly looking to see if there is any connection in that sense, don. >> we are talked about the suspect and now the victim, lin's parents flew in to reclaim their son's remains and they are giving us a clear picture of who lin was. what do they say about him, diana? >> well, it is a picture that his friends and social media have also confirm oed of a kind
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and diligent young man and very kind. he was the pride and the hopeb, and the students at the university where lin was have set up a foundation for him and the family says that reflects the compassionate spirit. so really the picture we have, it is so sad, because this is obviously a very, very kind man who got tangled up with magnotta somehow, and we know he was apparently romantically involved with him, and the family are saying that we are desperate, but we are hoping that magnotta is extradited to face justice in canada as soon as humanly possible, don. >> thank you so much. there is a vigil for lin tonight in montreal at 9:00. lin was attending concordia university in montreal, and according to the cbc, the college has created an award to honor his life. it will help chinese students who want to study at concordia, and the university says it will establish a jun lin family fund
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just informed the folks in charge of the judge and the jury there that they have concluded their case against the former defensive coach jerry sandusky, and that they will turn it over to the defense, but again, they have concluded their case. the trial is now in recess for a lunch break. this has moved at a rapid clip. just started, and it has been really days since they picked a jury and then they went to testimony, and now the prosecution has wrapped up the case. we know that jerry sandusky is accused of having an inappropriate sexual relationship with a number of boys, and as many as 12 or 13 young men, many of them boys at the time, and then also that officials there, excuse me, officials at penn state knew about it. that is what the prosecution is saying, and did nothing, and then acted inappropriately. so now they have wrapped up the case against the former defensive koord coordinator jer sandusky there. so, we are going to continue to
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follow that for you and we trying to get susan candiotti up for us, and she has been in the courtroom, but apparently still in the courtroom making her way out, and we will bring this to you as soon as we can get it. expect the development to come up soon. this is moving quickly. and next the baseball perfection in san francisco as matt cain pitched the perfect game for the first time in giants' history. let's have a look. >> on the ground, arias from deep third -- got him! >> taken out with the grounder at third, and the celebration begins. cain e cain's perfect game is just the 22nd in major league baseball history, and he struck out a career high 14 houston astros in the giants' 10-0 victory. i think they are happy there. fredricka whitfield? >> that looked blissfield. >> excited and dancing there.
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excited. good to see you. i am sure you will be following up on the developing news. we couldn't get to susan, but i am we will. thank you, don. see you later. fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. we have heard that the prosecution is wrapping up the case against jerry sandusky, the fo former penn state coach. one is an alleged victim whose mother called authorities when she found out that zimmerman had showered with her son. he is accused of abusing boys over a 15-year period. we will have more updates. and cyclist lance armstrong will set this one out. he was all set to compete in the iron man france this month, but now that he is under a new investigation involving the new u.s. anti-doping agency, he is on the sidelines. some other athletes accuse armstrong of blood doping and using performance enhancing
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drugs. he says that it is not true. >> all right. news this hour out of egypt. that country is a political mess. a social tinderbox, and today, the last thing that egypt needs is more instability. well, they got it. the highest court in the land declared a short time ago that egypt's brand new elected parliament must be dissolved. they have been in place for four months and the timing could not be worse. remember, this is a country where the people overthrew a strongman, president hosni mubarak who is serving the rest of his life in prison. this coming weekend a historic runoff election to put the first president in place since that revolution. we will get right to ben wedeman live in cairo, and ben, what happened at the judge making this ruling? >> well, it is a constitutional
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court, so it is a group of judges who ruled that there were irregularities in the parliament elections and therefore the parliament should be dissolved. it is widely interpreted as a frontal assault on the muslim brotherhood who won almost 50% of the seats in parliamentt, and they are of course contesting the president, the post of president as well. day after tomorrow, egyptians are supposed to go to the poll s for that second round, and elect a president. but now it is not clear that given that the muslim brotherhood received this body blow in parliament, whether they are willing to go ahead and actually participate in the election. i just right now got off of the phone with one of the senior members of this presidential campaign forming the muslim brotherhood, and he said that at the moment, they are still participate ing participating in the election, but that their leadership is
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meeting this evening, and he said that all options are on the table. including pulling out of this election. if the muslim brotherhood boycotts the election, the whole political process that began with the overthrow of hosni mubarak could be up in the air. it is absolute confusion here in cairo. fredricka? >> so, ben, if that candidate were to pull out of the runoff election, does that mean that the entire process would have to start all over again, the presidential election or would they just continue on with this runoff and go with the results? >> well, in theory it could go, it would go ahead. in fact, it is too late for anybody to pull out. it is just two candidates, the muslim brotherhood, and muhammad hasek who seems very much a symbol of the old regime, but he would be running against nobody. it is like the old days of hosni mubarak when he had a referendum which nobody gave any legitimacy to.
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so it is really just throws everything up in doubt, and all hopes for some sort of stability and gradual move toward democracy are up in the air. >> and now, help us to understand what took place yesterday with the return of martial law. what does that mean? >> well, it is not technically a return to martial law. the egyptian justice ministry gave the right to egyptian police, military police and military intelligence to essentially act as policemen. they have the right to detain, arrest, charge and interrogate civilians essentially giving them the same rights as the police. it is not officially martial law, but you could saw it is de facto martial law. this was imposed according to many observers in anticipation of a backlash to today's court decisions.
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now, so far in the streets, they have been relatively peaceful. we were outside of the constitutional court when the ruling was announced. there was unhappiness and protests and chanting, but so far, we have not seen huge crowds in tahrir square, and not many large protests throughout the country, so maybe it hasn't sunk in yet, and maybe egyptians as many of them are, are simply exhausted from all of the upheaval and want to get on with their lives. >> and then, ben, let me ask you about the former president hosni mubarak who is currently serving life in prison and nearly daily reports coming from the various publications whether inside egypt or elsewhere that talk about his status and his health and in some cases have even reported his death. so what is his status? how is he doing? >> well, his status is so -- his health situation seems to have stabilize. we got reports from his lawyers
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from interior ministry officials that he had gone into a full coma. then they backtracked to say that those who declare it was a full coma were not medically able actually to make that kind of call. i think that what is clear is that hosni mubarak is not happy to be a prisoner in cairo's torah prison, and apparently he is refusing to talk to the prison staff. he is only willing to talk to his sons who are also in prison awaiting trial on the 9th of july for money laundering, so more than anything, i think that he is very unhappy with the humiliation of being imprisoned, and he has told his wife and his lawyers that he thinks that the prison authorities are trying to kill him. it may really be a case of wounded pride. >> all right. ben wedeman, thank you much in cairo. all right. in this country now. battleground showdown. president barack obama and mitt romney both converge in ohio
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next hour to deliver dueling speeches on the economy. they are miles apart from ways to improve the economy, but today less than 250 miles apart on the campaign trail. om romney in cincinnati, while president obama speaks in cleveland. and jim, ohio is on of the big battleground states, and it always is, is this a sign of just how important these states will be in november and along the way? >> yes, fredricka. you have to look at how many times the president has been here since he started the re-election bid, nine times. and mitt romney according to his campaign has been here 20-some-odd times since he started the bid or the the presidency, so, yes, they believe that ohio is important. no republican has won the presidency without winning ohio and on and on, and what is really interesting about these dueling speeches, fredricka, we are told officially they will start at the same time 1:45, but for mitt romney, you have to
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wonder how will that exactly play out, because there was an occasion recently where they had speeches timed at the same time, and most of the networks went to the president, and instead of going the mitt romney, and so, we will have to wait to see exactly whether or not these two guys go at the same timet they have been going at each other over the last couple of days on the economy, and mitt romney was in washington at a business roundtable laying out the economic plans and he said that the president, e expects the president to give an eloquent speech in his words today, but he said that words are cheap. meanwhile, the president has been doing fund-raisraisers ove last 48 hours and he was at one fund-raiser two nights ago where he talked about how he inherited a big budget deficit when he came into the office and accused the republicans of running up the check at the restaurant, and then trying to leave the tab to the president. so they have been going back and forth over the last couple of days and the job for the president is to stop the bleeding, that bad jobs report he had at the beginning of the month and last week when he said
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that the private sector is doing fine, he has to stop the bleeding. and mitt romney, do no harm, because he has been on a roll lately, fredricka. >> and jim, talk about the crowds of 250 miles apart, but what is the distinction of the crowds and the message catered specifically to the audiences since these two might be speaking, might be speaking simultaneously. >> that is right. that is right. and emphasis on the might be speaking at the same time. you can look over my shoulder, and the sign thatm are i in has up right now is putting jobs first, and you have to say that the romney campaign has been very disciplined and very focused on the economy as an issue for the last couple of weeks. what is interesting about the events today, fredricka, going after the president saying that the private sector is doing fine and look at the jobs report and only 69,000 jobs created last month, but keep in mind that in ohio, the unemployment rate has dropped dramatically since january of 2010. it was over 10% in 2010 and now
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below 8% and around 7.5%, so that the president's campaign with say, okay, on a national basis, we are sort of in this holding pattern here, and sort of plateaued a little bit when it comes to the economic recovery, but in ohio and other key battleground states, fredricka, like virginia, the unemployment rate is going down under the president's watch. so it is interesting to see if the president calls attention to that today, because he is expected to talk about his economic plans and talk about infrastructure jobs and talk about hiringer more public sector workers, because he sas s that, and this is what got him into trouble a little bit because the layoffs in area and states and municipalities has done some damage to the economy, and it is interesting to see the duels messages and how they shake out and where the american public wants to go with this, i mean, this is a sort of key debate of the campaign on this economy. mitt romney says nope, i am going to come in and hop chop the government down to where he thinks it should be and lay off
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a lot of government workers and lose them through attrition, and make the pay equal to the private sector, and the president is saying, no, we should hire more government worker workers and that will help to get the economy kick started. >> we don't necessarily think that the skand dacandidates and candidate will address money, because that, too, is dominating the attention on the campaign trail, particularly sheldon adelson, you know, the casino billionaire who backed newt gingrich in a big way in the primaries giving $10 million here and there, and apparently now giving money to romney. listen to jon stewart's take on "the daily show." >> sheldon adelson was the guy willing to spend an unlimited amount of money to crush mitt romney by bankrolling ads in the republican primary like this. >> for tens of thousands of americans, the suffering began when mitt romney came to town. >> i feel that is the man that destroyed us.
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[ laughter ] >> romney 2012. >> all right. poking fun there, but it really is very serious business when we talk about the money on the campaign trail, and in fact, "forbes" magazine is quoting a source saying that adelson could give as much as $100 million to the romney super pac, and just how this money, might this infusion of cash impact the campaign and the political process? most of the money going to campaign ads or in some other ways being distributed? >> you know, this is all going the go to ads, fredricka. we saw it during the primary campaign, and newt gingrich's so super pac was bankrolled by the adelsons to the tune of bimillis of dollars, and that is what is
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according to the aides of the former massachusetts governor. and in is a financial arms race, and some will say, critics of rom i in, you are fund-raising with donald trump and taking in all of the money or the pac is taking the money from the hotels out in las vegas, but the republicans are going to say, wait a minute, president obama is fund raising with the editor of "vogue" magazine and george clooney and by appearances this is not going to look great for either side, but they are in a situation, fredricka, where they are in a financial arms race. it is going to be who can raise the most money from now to november which is largely going to determine who gets the most ads out on the air and i will tell you right now, i was just in a grocery store earlier this morning in ohio and saw am ropny general election campaign ad playing in the supermarket in the middle of the day. it seems very early to see this saturation of the airwaves with the ads, but both sides have decided this is how they will play the game in the campaign. >> thank you so much.
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we will go back to ohio where mitt romney will be speaking roughly at 1:45 and president obama will also be speaking roughly at 1:45. we will be watching them both. this is what is happening at this hour. they are outgunned by syrian rebels so they are turning to homemade bombs. and then no farms, no food, so why are both sides of the aisle pushing to cut funds for fa farmers? and falling boulders putting tourists in danger at one of the country's most popular national parks. with the spark cash card from capital one,
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the military forces sent out to stop them. and you will only see this on cnn. we manageded to get video of opposition fighters while making homemade bombs they use to blow up military trucks and tanks. it is a tactic that was frighteningly effective in the insurgent uprising in iraq. cnn's arwa damon reports. >> reporter: most of the clips start with a koranic verse and followed by the title of the group calling itself the brigade of the hawks revolution. then a jihadi voice says this is a suicide mission against the soldiers. and this is clear as the van comes into view apparently approaching a checkpoint. the camera zooms in. this is one of several clips posted to youtube by the brigade.
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the videos are very similar in tone to those that came out of iraq. as al qaeda allied insurgents there took on the u.s. military. but this is syria, today. outgunned by assad's forces, some rebels have turned to suicide bombs and roadside ieds and iraq-style guerrilla warfare. they are a group, but extremely effective. in this video obtained from cnn the commander shows how the bombs are made. cylinders are packed with a lethal concoction of explosives, fertilizer and other chemicals bought locally. [ speaking foreign language ] we don't want to name them so that the government does not confiscate them from the market, he says.
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bolts are affixed to the tops of canisters and once detonated, they are lethal shards of shrap nell. this one would blow up a jeep or tank pointing to two devices that another rebel is taping together. for tanks and armored vehicles we use six to eight bombs. the brigade has some 300 fighters and the damascus hawks division he claims is around 8,000 strong, operating most in idlib province. there is no way of confirming such claims. he says that his men are moderate islamists fighting for democracy. we want a democratically elected government and military separate from the government he says. andhe captain sayses they are
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getting no outside help not from the syrian army or the council. we are reliant on local donations and whatever we capture from the syrian military, he says. their weapons, a kshk-47s, snip rifles, automatic machine guns and rocket propelled grenades, no match for the syrian military. we are relying mostly on mines and making bombs the captain explains. one of his units is just back from a mission. we set up an ambush against assad's army using ieds this fighter says, but they received intelligence about our plan and rerouted their convoy. another fighter claims that his group destroyed an armored vehicle. this is how the battle for syria
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is now being fought. protest has become insurgency which in turn threatens to become all-out war. >> arr arwa damon is joining use from beirut, lebanon, and these are disturbing images of the group making the bombs. how did you get your hands on those images? >> well, that was smuggled out for us by opposition activists, and they are becoming increasingly more sophisticated in how they are trying to get the images out and filming and in working with journalists like ourselves we are unable to access syria, but a the government continues to deny our visa requests, but you can imagine how precarious it is for those involved smuggling the individu video, because if they are caught with that footage, they will be detained if not killed. >> all right. arwa arwa damon, thank you so much for brings us that reporting. all right.
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all right. let's face it, it is not something that you hear a lot about from congress these days, lawmakers finding common ground on spending cuts? well, that is what a farm bill backed by a senate democrat and senate republican is designed to do. our dana bash takes a look at at how it affects the farmers and whether the savings to taxpayers add up. >> reporter: this is a third-generation farmer and since he can remember has gotten cash payments from the federal government to manage the risk of farming. how much? >> about $35,000 a year. >> reporter: that's right. he gets $35,000 a year evenb in good times when he doesn't need it. but for schmidt and over a million farmers across the country, that could come to a screeching halt. >> welcome to our home. >> thank you. >> reporter: these two senators want to end the payments to the farmers in place since the great depression. the democrats and the republican sat at this committee table and
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made the decision together. >> people say back home whether it is michigan, kansas or any state, why can't you folks get along back there and do something instead of e spinnisp your wheels and pointing fingers. >> bipartisan that will cut $23.6 billion in spending. >> almost $24 billion. and adding to the deficit. >> reporter: a significant savings to the taxpayers, but watchdog groups say that the savings may not last, because it comes from eliminating direct cash payments. >> we will eliminate the subsidies if you don't need them, but farming is the most risky business in the world. >> reporter: in place of checks from the government, there are new subsidies for crop insurance and some worry in bad crop years the cost to the taxpayers could explode. senators scoff at that. >> crop insurance makes sense,
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and it is there when you have a loss. >> reporter: at the farm schmidt say says he is okay with losing checks from uncle sam that he doesn't always need. >> i'd be happy to give up those subsidies, if it is going to help to get our country's fiscal responsibilities back in order. >> reporter: but he calls the new government subsidies for crop insurance critical, because farming is unpredictable, and even in good years there are problems. this combine was supposed to be cutting wheat when we visited. >> we hoped to be cutting wheat today, but the moisture is too high. >> reporter: another criticism is pork in the form of popcorn. popcorn growers slipped in a provision making sure they, too, get government help with the crop insurance and here, no apologies. >> i would call it a specialty crop, and there is demand for it, and just go to the movies or go anyplace at home. >> reporter: some ask why farmers with high profits these days need government help at all? the weather did allow us to bail hay with han schmidt, the farmers need a safety net.
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>> we all have to eat. if the consumers want safe, nutritious and affordable food. >> our dana bash is joining us live from washington, and do you believe that the farm bill will pass with the same kind of bipartisan support? >> that is still an open question that is being debated on the sent floor and will be for the next couple of weeks. the issue when you have anything like this, this big, and anything frankly that is bipartisan where you have had a compromise, you will be hit from the right and the left, and that is what is happening as we speak from the right, you have senators who say way too much spending here and way too much from their perspective unnecessary spending and from the left a lot of complaints that there is too much. for example, the farm bill also governs food stamps, and $4.5 billion are from the food stamp program and you are have senators like kerstin gillibrand saying that must be put back in
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there, and others who say that it is waste, fraud and abuse and won't hurt people who are hungry, so they have to keep it in balance the people who wrote the bill that it is not chipped away on both sides otherwise the whole compromise could get unraff unraffled. the art of legislating. never a dull moment. >> yes, and you were navigating the tractor pretty well. who knew? >> it was my first time bailing hay, and it was fun. >> thank you, dana, in washington. the prosecution in the jerry sandusky case is expected to rest today. we will have the lat est on the trial that is rocking penn state. if you are one of the millions of men
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a surprise announcement at the jerry sandusky child molestation trial. the prosecutors will wrap up the case today. we are hearing from more alleged victims as they give accounts of the sexual abuse they allegedly endured at the hands of the former penn state coach. writer mark brennan is the writer on state.com, and he is
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watching the trial from bellefon bellefonte, pennsylvania. right now they are on lunch break, right, mark, and after lunch one alleged victim who will take the stand? >> yes, it is going to be victim nine and he offered some of the most emotional testimony to the grand jury when he was called before the grand jury, and this is one of the alleged victims who came forward after the initial case broke last november. some of the stuff that we have read about him just gut-wrenching stuff when he was down in sandusky's basement crying out for help and that sort of thing. they are saving one of the more emotional people for last, and we will also hear from the state office, and so they are saving two of the best witnesses for last. >> and the victim nine is the one who was calling out hoping that sandusky's wife might come to the rescue. is that the same gentleman? >> yes, absolutely.
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jerry sandusky's wife as people realize is not in the courtroom. she has been identified as a witness, so she is not allowed to be here. she is sequestered, and it is going to be interesting how jerry sandusky reacts and his family reacts to what is i'm sure emotional, emotional testimony. >> so after victim nine, will we have heard from all of the alleged ten victims who are pointed out in the case by the end of today? >> no. we will have heard from eight victim victims. remember two of the victims, alleged victims had never come forward so they were identified by mike mcqueary, and that victim, the one he allegedly saw never came forward and the victim yesterday that was in question, thele a ledged victim is the one that the janitors had seen, so two of the alleged victims have never come forward. >> so, mark, has the defense or the reporters there been reflecting what the strategy is going to be out of the gate, how
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they will try to discredit these alleged victims' accounts or how the debunct the allegations? >> well, joe amendola has -- hammering away at the inconsistencies of the witnesses, and whether it is this trial or the curly schultz trial which mike mcqueary testified at in this trial, and so with those inconsistencies and you really get a feel about it is that he is asking the alleged victims about is the fact that they have hired civil attorneys, and pointing to the fact that they are in it to make some money. i bet that the defense starts the case fresh on monday. >> all right. very good. mark brennan, nonetheless, all of this is moving very quickly with the jury selection last week, and testimony beginning monday and now the end of the
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prosecutor's case until we hear their closing arguments or any rebuttal witnesses, and here it is thursday. thank you so much, mark brennan, and thank you so much. again, writer on state.com. and a prosecutor says that a hospital staff injected people with dirty needles and left some with a dead lin fek shun. cymbalta can help. cymbalta is fda-approved to manage chronic musculoskeletal pain. one non-narcotic pill a day, every day, can help reduce this pain. tell your doctor right away if your mood worsens, you have unusual changes in mood or behavior or thoughts of suicide. antidepressants can increase these in children, teens, and young adults. cymbalta is not approved for children under 18. people taking maois or thioridazine or with uncontrolled glaucoma should not take cymbalta. taking it with nsaid pain relievers, aspirin, or blood thinners may increase bleeding risk. severe liver problems, some fatal, were reported.
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>> a sudden outbreak of hepatitis b cases is being linked to a new hampshire
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hospital. 20 people who worked or were treated at exeter hospital have tested positive for the virus. health officials say anyone who has been treated there since 2010 should be tested. plans are under way to test 900 people. officials believe it is caused by an infected hospital employee who reused needles on patients. the suspect has not been identified publicly. and a disturbing setback for the housing market. foreclosures spiked last month. almost 206,000 homes went into foreclosure in may, and that is a 9% hike from the previous month. georgia had the highest foreclosure rate and arizona second followed by nevada and california. a big factor in all of this, the multimillion dollar settlement that the banking industry paid for unfair foreclosure practices known as robo signing, and the banks were to push ahead the backlog of foreclosures after that issue was resolved. you won't believe how fast tuition is rising for students
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at public universities right now. we will tell you what it means for your kids' future. first a guy who plays the organ, and making it cool. he is young and wears crystals and leather, and he is on this week's "next list." >> the organ is not what is said, it is about the performer. we have a 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 of course doomed to failure, because you don't promote a medium anymore than painters promote the paint in the tube or hear a cellist or rock guitar, but we go to hear them. naturally, i want to continue to try to reinvent myself, and there is a enhanceability to that. my name is cameron carpenter and
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already. parents and students are dealing with another round of big tuition hikes and the rising prices are across the board with public and private schools charges more. alison kosik joining us from the new york stock exchange. alison, how much here? >> well, more sticker shock for you. the average tuition at a four-year public university is up 15% from 2008 to 2010 and the big reason for this is because the states cut the budgets, and 40% of the states and the territories have cut a lot of the money that they spend on educati education.
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what is the biggest standout being california and georgia. but interestingly, that is not where we saw the biggest individual increases. the big winner there is the university of fort lauderdale in florida which is a private school. and tuition there jumped 160%. >> oh, my. >> and that is incredible, and the biggest public school increase was at the university of district of columbia with the tuition there, fredricka, almost more than doubled. it is shocking. >> those are incredible numbes.s there are thousands of colleges, across the country and universities, and any bargains out there with prices going down? >> small. three schools that have tuition s under $1,000, and the first one is the haskell indian nations university in kansas and also berea college in kentucky. that is the cheapest. but if you want aer ba gain in terms of the quality of education that you can get for the money you have to pay, and u.s. world reports says to go
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with the big boys. the top schools include harvard and yale and princeton and lots of financial aid is available at those schools and most of the students who go there pay 70% of the sticker price, and it is bargain, but the catch is that you to be smart enough to be accepted, and that is a catch. >> you have to know how to ask for it at that lower rate, too. >> exactly. that is part of it. >> oh, my goodness. that is eye-opening. tha thank you so much alison kosik. geologists are afraid that rocks could be putting people in danger at one of the nation's national parks. and real beef and egg. to help you put more play in your day.
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dangerous rock slides are threatening to permanently close parts of yosemite national park and what does this mean for the 4 million annual visitors? chad meyers is here with more on that. does it mean that people should not go? be careful? what? >> it means that some cabins will be permanently closed or
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moved. >> they are in the line of fire? >> if you have ever taken a look at yosemite, the walls and the faces of the walls of the cliffs of granite are almost straight up and down and greater than 60 degrees for sure, and parts of the wall will fall off once in a while, and it is what happens. rocks falls down, and water in between and freezes and breaks away and trees grow in between the cracks of the rock and the roots get better and eventually parts of the rocks fall down and people are down here in the bottom where the rocks are falling. so there was an assessment done, and put together in april, and now the assessment put out now for curry village, one of the areas there where a lot of the employees live there and dormitories and also people who rent the cabins will not be used anymore because of the potential rock falling. this is so cool. this is google earth, and we will take you right into the yosemite national park, and there is california and the ocean, and this is the valley. this is an exact representation of the topography of the area, and into curry village, the area
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down here is really susceptible to the rock slides. parts of the cabins have been knocked down before, rebuilt, but left there. now, they are saying, well, let's not do that anymore and i have read the entire assessment right now, and there is not one true safe place in yosemite. i mean, there could be a large rock that falls off any one of the cliffs down into the valley at any time, and there are a certain number of areas that are too risky to put people in there sleeping, and families in there sleeping literally. and so, for a while, at least it will reduce the number of cabins available for sleeping, but yosemite is amazing, and you is to see it. >> it is on my list and i have not done it, but it is not to deter me at all, but chad, i am wondering, there is always the threat of rock slides when you have mountainous terrain like this, but are we saying that right now, it is exceptionally worse or this is on par with the way that it is there? >> on par.
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they looked at 500 years' worth of rockslides and how far the rocks have done, because there are boulderers sitting there, and they could see how far the boulders go. and if they went past a cabin already, then the cabins are going to be closed. >> beautiful pictures. i have to get there. hurry up already, fred. thank you so much, chad. the u.n. deemed it the most dangerous place in the world to be born a girl. we will take a look at what is going on in india. brett gallaway. he's serving his guests walmart choice premium steak. but they don't know it yet. they will. it's a steakover! the steak is excellent. very tender... melts in your mouth... so delicious... tonight you're eating walmart steak. what? it's good steak. two thumbs up. look, i ate all of mine. it matches any good steak house if not better. walmart choice premium steak in the black package... it's 100% money back guaranteed. try it for your father's day barbeque.
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>> a horrifying story out of india. a father is accused of killing his baby, because she is female. unicef says that india is the most dangerous place to be born if you are a girl. sara sidner tells us why. >> reporter: staring at the tiny screen on the cell phone is the only place she can see her baby girl alive and well. her 3-month-old died in the hospital with cigarette burns, bites and dislocated neck.
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police say that her own father killed her. why? because efrim happened to be born a girl. after my delivery, my husband came to see me and the baby and after seeing the child he said it is a girl. why did you give birth to a girl? he wanted a boy, an heir. she was devastated when she was given this ultimatum by her husband. for our wedding we will require 100,000 rupes, and if not, then you have to kill her, and she couldn't so the husband did it himself. as brutal and shocking as the case may be, getting rid of babies because they are girls is nothing new here in india and many times it is done long before the child is born. how? selective abortions. india has a growing gap between
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the number of girls and boys and the 2011 census showed for every 1,000 boys, there were only 914 girls. the gap was smaller ten years ago. unicef has said that india is the most dangerous place to be a girl. would you agree with that considering what you know about the subject? >> yes, this is from the point of the view of the proportion of boys and girls, i would say yes. >> reporter: he has been researching this issue for years. selective abortions are against the law in india, but he says it is still happening, and he say ths that there are more sex selected abortions among the educated and well off than the desperately poor and uneducated. when you say that, you are saying that the familyies look t the girls as liability -- >> absolutely. >> reporter: and boys as retirement. >> absolutely correct. >> reporter: in traditional indian families the men marry and bring their brides home to live and take care of the
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parents. girls marry and leave the home providing no extra financial support, plus a girl's family can go broke trying to pay a dowry to get her married. dowry is also outlawed in india, but it is as common as it ever was. we traveled to a village that the indian government says has one of the worst ratios of boys to girls in the country, where the government has launched a campaign to change minds. but even though they wear t-shirts with messages about keeping girls, we still found many more young boys. girls are mostly aborted here she says. the people want more boys. there is a shortage of girls. we met this woman while she was taking care of her neighbor's newborn baby girl all of the while blowing cigarette smoke into the baby's face. she says that the poorest people don't have the money to abort so they are forced the keep the girls, but those who can afford an ultrasound and abboortion ge rid of the fetuses.
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too much money is required to get them married. where will the money come from? but for this woman and her parents, a baby girl is a blessing. she had just come into the world and like a flower bud, and he killed her. i lost my daughter. what can be worse than this? her husband is still waiting trial. she is still mourning the chance to raise her first child just because she was born a girl. sara sidner, cnn. hello, again, everybody. i'm fredricka whitfield in for suzanne malveaux. major setback for egypt. who is running the country? the constitution was ruled invalid today in egypt, and said that anyone elected under it has to go. egypt's military rulers took over all of the legislative pow, and it is already a tense time politically as the egyptian voters will choose a president in a runoff election this weekend. and the

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