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held. cnn national correspondent susan candiotti joins us now from pennsylvania with reaction to the verdict. susan, we heard just a few minutes ago that one of sandusky's lawyers just made a startling revelation. what can you tell us about what was said? >> reporter: hi, fred. we've known throughout the lead-up to this trial that his defense team kept asking the judge for more time, more time, more time to push back the start date of the trial and each time they were turned down. the brand new information we're learning today from the defense team is that as recently as the day before jury selection, the day before this trial was to begin they again went to the judge and told him, we don't feel we are ethically ready to move forward because we simply have not had enough time to put this case together or even an adequate witness list so, please, give us more time and the judge turned them down. so with that, they had to move forward and this is very likely
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to be part of their basis for an appeal saying that they weren't given adequate time to prepare. this is what he said. >> we actually asked to resign from the case and that was done in secret. joe amendola and i asked judge cleland if we could resign from representing jerry sandusky because we felt we were unable to ethically go forward. >> when did you ask to resign the case? we did that before the jury was selected and we got an informal opinion and we were told under rule 1.16, if i'm quoting it right or 1.6, or it is 1.16, if the attorney has an ethical duty to be prepared and adequately able to represent the defendant. if he can't he must ask to withdraw from the case. we did that. this was denied. >> reporter: now again, that is the voice of carl romager and
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one of the co-councils in the case and he was appearing on his own radio show that appears in this area every friday. fred? >> why wouldn't these attorneys express themselves further about these concerns even once jury selection began. they would still have the judge's ear in order to express their concerns about their concerns about being able to fairly represent jerry sandusky, wouldn't they? >> reporter: the judge already ruled on it and they were forced, they said, to move forward with the trial. so the deal was done. they had to go forward, but again, fred, this is something that could be part of a basis for an appeal, saying they simply didn't have adequate time to prepare a defense for jerry sandusky. in the end even they acknowledged that the prosecutor his a mountain of evidence to use and put together a very strong case and they were ill-equipped, they said, to go up against it. >> so, meantime, this is the first day of jail that jerry
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sandusky is spending. what do we know about how he's spending it? we know his wife dottie arrived at the county jail carrying a bag. what more do we know? >> reporter: well, we know that she only spent about ten minutes there, so it is unlikely, fred that she had a chance to actually see her husband at that time, but we watched her go in carrying a clear plastic bag, we watched her come out and we know she went back home. we also know that jerry sandusky is under a suicide watch, placed there for his own protection. that order put in place by the trial judge in this case. so that would mean that he is at the very least under 24-hour surveillance at that jail facility. >> susan candiotti, thanks so much for that update. meantime, another guilty verdict in a different case in pennsylvania, very high-profile child abuse case. this one involving an official in the roman catholic church. a philadelphia jury convicted
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monsignor william lynn of child endangerment not for abusing children himself, but for helping to keep predators in the church. lynn becomes the first u.s. catholic official convicted of covering up abuse claims. >> this trial was historic. monsignor lin is the first member of the roman catholic church hierarchy convicted of endangering children that he did not personally assault. however, there is no verdict that could fix the harm done to the victims of adult predators within the church. there is no apology that could heal the wounds these children suffered. there are no words to truly, press how sorry we should all be for what happened to them. >> the jury acquitted lynn of conspiracy. he could spend as many as seven years in jail for the child
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endangerment conviction. firefighters in colorado are up against extreme fire conditions as they battle flames in the high park fire. we heard from local officials a little earlier that they say it looks like the fire is going to keep growing all weekend long. so far, at least 191 homes and more than 75,000 acres have been destroyed. ireporter ken rager took the photos from fort collins, colorado, yesterday. he evacuated his cabin which is about a mile away from those flames. he said seeing the fire at such close range is both horrific and beautiful, in his words. overseas now to dennia. americ americans are being warned to leave the city of mombasa. kenya's second largest and a major tourist attraction. no details were issued with the warning, but kenya has been hit by grenade attacks blamed on somalian terror groups along the
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coast. in egypt, thousands have gathered in cairo's tahrir square, waiting for the results of the runoff presidential elections. officials say they will be announced tomorrow. right now both candidate are claiming victory. it is a stark reminder of the demonstrations last year that brought down the regime of hosni mubarak. and a possible security breach in washington. how a man linked to a known terrorist group got access to top administration officials. stay in the moment sanya focus lolo, focus let's do this
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i tell mike what i can spend. i do my best to make that work. we're driving safely. and sue saved money on brakes. now that's personal pricing. here are some other stories around the world. in syria, bashar al assad announced the formation of a new government. he named the prime minister offing a culture as new prime minister. syrian forces shot down a turkish military jet. a search for the plane and crew members is now on. deadly violence in gaza today. three people were killed, among them a 4-year-old boy. palestinian medical officials blame israeli artillery fire. israel has been pounding targets in gaza in response to sustained rocket fire from palestinian militants. >> and here in the united states new questions about an egyptian delegation that came to washington. one member is linked to a known
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terrorist organization. you may not believe the places he visited or the people he got access to. here's cnn's brian todd. >> reporter: he came to washington in a gaggle of egyptian lawmakers in town to meet with top officials with the obama administration, but it appears hani noor aldean shouldn't have been allowed in the u.s. at all. he was elected to reg i want's parliament as a member of the building and development party. analysts say that's an arm of the group jemaah islamiyah, a terrorist organization under the state department. that means he should have been denied a visa to come to the news this is a terrorist organization without any ambiguity about it whatsoever and for someone that represents a terrorist organization to be given a visa to come here and to meet with officials is dubious diplomacy as best. >> reporter: or maybe a mistake. in an with "the daily beast,"
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aldeen says he gotta a visa. and he met with hillary clinton, he met at the white house with deputy national security adviser dennis macdonough, a spokesman for the national security council declined to comment. we trekked through washington to find out howaldeen got here. first at the egyptian embassy. well, they claim they didn't arrange this visit and they don't know where the delegation is at the moment and most of the logistics of it where mr.aldean came and who he visited, they say that was arranged by a washington think tank at the woodrow wilson center. here at the wilson center a spokesman said this group did not arrange the visit. the state department handled that. the spokesman said aldeen did have a meeting here, but they don't know who set that up. now a spokeswoman tells cnn the department is looking into who
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arranged the visit. what about checking aldeen's background? >> you can find out information online fairly easily. >> let's google his name in arabic and the first entry you have here is his facebook page and once you enter on his facebook page you can very easily see mr. aldeen himself where he very clearly says that he is a member of jemaah islamiyah and that he was arrested in egypt and spent 11 years of his life in prison, but hani noor aldeen that he is not a terrorist and jemaah islamiyah did renounce violence years ago. and they asked dennis mcdonogh, the blind sheikh convicted of planning the 1993 world trade center attack. aldeen says that request was denied.
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again, the national security council did not comment. brian todd, cnn, washington. some health matters straight ahead. if you're in pain, popping a pain may not be the only way to treat it. find out why people are slapping on a patch and why it might work for you.
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if you have pain should you pop a pill or put on a match? in the united states most of us use pill, but more of us are now turning to patches. i've had some advantages over pills getting into your system faster, but is the patch right for you. she is a physician for women in atlanta except today she's joining us from miami. good to see you, dr. ready. the traveling doctor. what makes patches particularly good for treating pain? >> well, we know you do pain if you can stay in front of it and why the patch is better is that it's a continuous delivery system. you're getting a little bit of pain medicine into your bloodstream all of the time. when you take a pill there's initial spike in the drug level and then it drops until you take the next dose. the benefit is all pills you
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take go through your liver as it goes through your stomach and you lose some of the medication and there could be more side effects and possible risks from going to the liver. the patch through the skin could be the best thing for pain. >> there are no side effects as it pertains to patches. >> well, no, there are side effects with patches. the main one with patches is going to be the glue can irritate your skin if it's sensitive, but beyond that it may be a great way to treat things like arthritis. a lot of people may be familiar with products like ben-gay or icy hot and they last a long time and there's a lot of smell and odor with that, and the patches are much cleaner and last longer, so if you need to wake up pain-free, putting a patch on before you go to bed may be easier to get out of bed from arthritis pain. >> what other disadvantages might there be about patches? >> the patch, the way it's set up, the patch should be more
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costly. there's a lot of new technology about how to get the medicine from the patch into your skin, so it can be more expensive. also not all medication is a menable to being in a patch and the molecules have to be relatively small and be able to be absorbed through the skin and that will limit what we can use it for. how do i know if the patch is the right thing for me? >> the best thing is to ask your healthcare provider. right now there are 20 different drugs available here. i have one here. you can see how small and thin this is. this is a hormone patch we prescribe in our office a lot. patches are commonly used for hormones and pain, dementia, alzheimer's disease and parkinson parkinson's, there are good immune cells in your skin so vaccines through patch is a technology that's burgeoning out there and there are a lot of fda studies in the works for approval for new products. so if you think a patch might be right for you ask your healthcare provider. >> you have to ask your
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physician about it and these are prescriptions and not over the counter patches that we're talking about. >> the hormone patches will be prescription and arthritis patches and the first patch that ever came out was for motion sickness in 1979 so some will be prescription and some will be over the counter, so you might want to ask your pharmacist. >> thanks so much, enjoy the sunshine in florida. >> take care, fredericka. thanks. with the jerry sandusky case has also come now a new focus on the horrors of child abuse. we'll visit a camp where the healing for victims begins. >> they're having a great time. all energy development comes with some risk,
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cnn has learned there are at least four separate federal investigations into florida congressman vern buchanon, the third-term congressman has become an influential figure in the republican party. he is in charge of fund-raising for the party's congressional campaign committee and sits on the house ways and means committee. well, investigators are looking into his business practices, campaign finances and an alleged
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attempt to stop a witness from talking. mary cheney, the openly gay daughter of former vice president dick cheney has married her longtime partner, heather poe. dick cheney and his wife lynn released a statement saying they are, quote, delighted about the union and wish the couple every happiness. the couple has two children. their wedding was on the 20th anniversary of their first date. police say they know who spray painted a picasso on display at a houston museum. the suspect is a 22-year-old student at the university of houston. he was caught on cell phone video painting a bull and the word conquista on the masterpiece. charges have been filed, but he has not been arrested. the painting is expected to survive intact. the trial and conviction of former penn state assistant coach jerry sandusky has people thinking about the toll child
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abuse takes on victims and the healing process can take years. our lisa sylvester goes inside one child rehab camp to find out how healing begins. >> reporter: it's the first day of summer. >> it's a little warm out here. >> reporter: these kids were racing. >> let's go! >> reporter: something so normal. >> they're having a great time. >> reporter: for children who have been so traumatized. >> the worst you can imagine what people are capable of, these children have experienced. >> reporter: 60 boys and girls who live at a presidential camp in rural virginia ranging from ages 5 to 14. >> right here! yea! >> they are all victims of physical or sexual abuse. >> probably 75% to 80% of our kids have been sexually abused. >> hi, sweetie. >> they live here. >> sweetheart, right here. >> how about beans and corn. >> reporter: and hope to heal here. >> you need to eat your salad before you come back for cucumbers, honey.
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>> reporter: most of the kids don't report that someone did something to them. >> reporter: the stories of the child help residential center are almost too difficult to hear. >> the scope of the problem is huge. >> reporter: but you can see their angst. you can see where the kids are struggling with some of their identity in some of the pictures. >> reporter: subject to severe neglect and physical abuse and horrendous sex abuse. sometimes at the hands of a parent, a step parent or another trusted person in their lives. lancaster says child sex abusers choose their victims carefully. >> they can pick out which kids they can probably groom and victimize. it's the loner in the classroom or the child that often isn't included in the groups. >> reporter: and sexual predators convince the victims. >> that nobody will believe them, they'll lose friends, that everybody's going hate you to things as drastic as if you tell i'm going to do something horrible to your family.
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>> the advice for parents. >> listen carefully and believe what your child is telling you and to inquire if you see them acting differently and to avoid what's easy, which is, that a priest would never do this or a coach would never do this. >> reporter: the center tries to build it back. >> this is such a healing place. >> you've got this 270 acres that used to be a horse farm. >> reporter: the horses have stayed and now are part of therapy. >> behind you, there's shampoo. >> i think four-legged therapists are better than any two-legged therapists. very confident building especially for kids who have been victimized. it gives them a sense of, wow! i'm not as small and powerless as i felt at other times of my life. >> reporter: when children leave the center to return home to foster care, they leave behind the handprints at the stables. >> some of the handprints are so small. this one is about the size of my son's handprint and he's not
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even 5. small hands, hopefully leaving behind huge burdens. >> lisa sylvester joining me now from washington. so, lisa, can these victims ever feel comfortable even using the word recovery? >> reporter: you know, it's interesting because the way i phrased it, was can these kids ever move past this and it gets to the same point. can they ever reach a point where they make sense of what has happened and the truth is that this is something that stays with them for life. it's part of their past and it becomes a prism through which they see the future, but the thing to remember is kids are very resilient. even the kids that we saw in this piece and some horrible, horrible things have happened to them and they are resilient and the starting point is therapy in places like this and for anyone who has been in the situation to reach out and to get some help and to get therapy, fred. >> incredible advice from the one person in your piece who were saying parents need to
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listen to their kids and believe them so that kids feel like if they're going to pour their hearts out and explain what kind of experience they may have had that they don't feel like they're not being believed and can find comfort. oftentimes if you imagine just how traumatic it must be for these kids they're not able to come right out and say what happened. sometimes it's body language. sometimes there are certain behaviors you want to look for. if a child starts wetting the bed again after they move past that stage or if they don't want to go over to a neighbor's house or they don't want to go to sports practice, pick up on these clues, ask your child, probe and ask and see what's going on. another thing is parents need to be proactive and they should sit down with their children and tell them and explain to them about what proper boundaries are, that there are actions and things that appropriate and inappropriate and they should start having these conversations at a young age. >> that dialogue being an
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important starting point. lisa sylvester, thanks so much. our weather team is watching a storm now that could cause a lot of trouble in the gulf. we'll check in with them as they track what could become a tropical storm by the name of debby today? maybe. ♪... ♪... choose the perfect hotel wanted to provide better employee benefits while balancing the company's bottom line, their very first word was... [ to the tune of "lullaby and good night" ] ♪ af-lac ♪ aflac [ male announcer ] find out more at... [ duck ] aflac! [ male announcer ] ...forbusiness.com. [ yawning sound ]
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more people than ever are using their smartphones as cameras while on vacation. rob marciano is on the go with the latest and gaitest apps. for your next picturesque vacation leave that camera behind. nowadays all you need is a smartphone. more and more people are using their smartphones to take important photos while traveling
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with their friends and families because smartphones are so accessible. there are so many apps that will improve the quality of your photos. >> say you have this incredible view and you want to soak it all in, the 360 panorama action lets you take a picture of your entire surroundings. it will stitch together the images and give you a great panoramic view. >> reporter: take a picture, hey, baby girl. and add a variety of filters and send them out to your friends. >> for a great way to edit photos on the fly, try snap seed to change the contrast, brightness and saturation and many other features. >> you can actually send it old school snail mail, postcards on the run, and it does it with a few clicks. >> you can print a scent on to the postcard so some someone receives it they can scratch and sniff the postcard so it makes it interesting. >> to capture your vacation next time you're on the go. >> fun stuff.
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now you found out a great way to take pictures with your smartphone and now i'll show you pretty great travel destinations with amazing views whether you're looking at the scene, the beach or the mountains so you'll have plenty to take pictures of. j.d. renee of jetsetter.com, good to see you. let's begin with the beautiful greek islands of santorini in particular. this is where my husband and i honeymooned and it does live up to the hype, but tell us more about some of the things santorini we didn't know when we vacationed there. >> the sea is your idea of a perfect view then santorini is the place to go. this the is the greek island in the middle of the aegean. blue water is just wonderful. we have the gold suites. this is a 14-suite property and it's charming and it has the whitewashed architecture that you expect on an island. all of the rooms are open plan and everyone has a picture
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window. so you just got tips on how to take smartphone pictures and take one and everyone will be insanely jealous of you and it starts at $462 and it includes breakfast and a bottle of wine. it is breathtaking no matter which angle you're looking at of the beautiful sea. there are a lot of economic problems in greece, particularly in athens, but in many cases you have to go to athens and we ended up taking a boat from athens to santorini can and it is a ways, and will not be any problems. >> santorini is a world away from athens and yes, you may have to go through athens to get there, but tourism is so important to the greek economy that they're saying please come, come visit, the waters are fine. we can't wait to see you. >> let's go way on the other side. let's go to hawaii now. can't go wrong there, and it's a beautiful view from any window and you say that renting a villa or a home really is a great idea
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for families, groups, friends, et cetera. >> at jetsetter.com we have more than 300 private homes and villas. these are multi-bedroom properties where everyone can stay under one roof and you get access to the island destinations you can't get at a hotel. my favorite is a four-bedroom property on the big island and what the editors at jetsetter love on the big island is it's not as populated as other islands, the sea, beach, the palm trees. you can get great access, and it is four bedrooms and sleeps 12 people so bring all your friends and starts at $125 per person, per night. it's very economical once you put it that way. >> let's talk stateside now, mainland. on to wyoming. you say a mountain view is as good as it gets particularly this one. >> so if you don't need the sea
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and the beach, mountains are the thing, we have elk crest this is very close to the grand teeton national parks and you see the great mountain views and the home himself is something out of a theodore roosevelt fantasy and it's a 6,000 square foot cabin and fireplaces, 20-foot cathedral-like ceilings and taxidermy, it is the great west and it sleeps eight people and starts at $263 per person, per night. >> looking at the interior you don't want to leave the house and there's a lot to do and you don't want to go fishing or hiking or take in nature. absolutely, you might see elk and it might be named elk crest and foxes and moose and on the property is a fully stocked pond and if you want to try your hand at fishing you can have cutthroat trout. >> that's a lot of taxidermy, but gorgeous, nonetheless. beautiful places with views. j.d. renee, appreciate it. >> thank you. you can find more travel
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hollywood is celebrating stars that shine during the day. the daytime emmy awards will be broadcast in our sister network hln tonight and "showbiz tonight" a.j. hammer is live on the red carpet. who are some of the big nominees? >> i have to tell you i just took a tour of the ballroom at the beverly hilton hotel in beverly hills and i see so many stars from "general hospital" will be showing up and it's a good thing be "general hospital" the most nominated show, 23 nods in all -- anthony geary, fred, i know you know him as luke. he's been playing the character on "general hospital" for
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decades now. he's the most honored anyway on daytime television and he's up for a seventh award and it will be interesting if he wins that and it's not just a soap operas, fred, that are being honored and celebrated tonight on beverly hills. the judge shows "judge judy" is the number one syndicated judge show on daytime. it's never won a daytime emmy. she's up for an award and all of the other judge shows and you might get something from judge joe brown. who knows? another surprise, "live with regis and kelly" nominated for regis' swan song year. they have never won a daytime emmy for daytime talk show in all of the years he's been doing that show and maybe, maybe, fred he'll be the sentimental favorite tonight. >> oh, my gosh, this would be the year. what a great honor that would be for him and he's just one of the big names, regis with a last shot at the daytime emmy. who else is hoping to score that emmy with that kind of swan song? >> "all my children" left the air in this past year and
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they're up for 11 including outstanding daytime drama. i can't wait to see susan lucci walking on the red carpet. she once taught me how to do the soap opera smack across the face. she has experience, and i'm hoping we can re-enact that. another one is the game show "cash cab" which was recently cancelled and they're up against the juggernauts "wheel of fortune" as well as "jeopardy" and those shows have been on the air for decades and have gotten a lot of honors, but i can tell you there will be a lot of surprises with the daytime emmies and not just who wins what and including, and i can't tell you much, but sming voomet involving our own anderson cooper and another character you love on stage after my one-hour preshow and the awards show gets under way at 8:00 p.m. that is intriguing and that will
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make me and everyone else watch for sure. now we really will. 7:00 eastern begins the coverage beginning with of course, the fashion on the red carpet. a.j. hammer is there and the 39th annual daytime emmy awards will celebrate the tv and the stars and the tv shows and the stars that you love at 8:00 eastern time. we look forward to that. thanks a lot, a.j. floridians are keeping a close watch on what could become tropical storm debby. we'll get an update on the tropical storm's strength and where it might be heading. ♪ then we turned the page, creating the rx hybrid. ♪ now we've turned the page again with the all-new rx f sport. ♪ this is the next chapter for the rx. this is the next chapter for lexus. this is the pursuit of perfection.
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>> florida is bracing for what could become a tropical storm. let's turn to bonnie schneider in the weather center and if it does it will have a name. >> the next name is debby, we're up to the letter "d." not quite a tropical storm and if you're wondering is because the hurricane hunter aircraft is still flying through. preliminary data indicates this is a tropical storm, but not officially yet. as you can see, it's loosely organized and it's impacting the state of florida, but at this point we're monitoring it because we could see an impact anywhere in the gulf of mexico and it's important to keep things focused and watchful for what changes we can see. i want to show you something
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they think is really neat. we'll take a look at the air force base where it took off hours ago and follow it on its route southward, southward. there we go. here's the storm. the wind speed right now 38 miles per hour. if it was 38 miles per hour, we're really close. watch what happens. the plane makes a quick turn to the north and it loops back around and these are incredible with what they can do. look what's happening to the east. a lot of convection so it's working its way on the perimeter of the storm and it will take another couple of hours to go through it and get the data and the surface pressure and you can see it veering more to the southwest, but that plane will loop around and we'll get the data as it continues to do that. so interesting that we're getting the data as it's happening live on the air which i think is cool. it is instantaneous. here's something that's widespread and we're able to pinpoint where the plane is. the computer models are all over the place. a lot of divergence here and a
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lot of the models in toward mexico while others are taking it more toward florida. so the reason we're seeing so much divergence. this is where the beginning of the models start and we don't know where the center of circulation is and we get the name of the storm and the data from the hurricane hunter aircraft then we'll have a better idea and right now we have a general idea that everyone on the gulf of mexico needs to be on alert. however, looking at the winds it's impacting areas east. so this is realtime data for you where we're getting stronger winds. the wind speeds in new orleans have definitely picked up, but computer models are showing the precipitation is enhanced toward florida over the next 48 hours. still, a lot of questions remain with this system and we'll bring it to you live as soon as we have officially a tropical storm. >> mystery storm. we know you're on it. thanks so much. all right. rates are skyrocketing in america so the government wants restaurant chains to post calorie counts.
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as brian todd returns, pizza executives are fighting back. >> reporter: lunchtime and i'm ordering pizza from my colleagues and me. let's see. it's 100 degrees outside and i don't want nap-inducing, caloric intake. luckily here at a domino's in montgomery county, maryland, i'll get a sense of how many calories i'll be slamming. >> i'll take a medium pepperoni, please. that's 215 calories for a slice and if one part of the health care law goes through, i'll be able to see that on the menu at every domino's in america. it would force restaurant chains with 20 or more locations to clearly post on menu or menu boards the calorie count for each item. >> how many different ways can you order a pizza? >> we've calculated you can do 34 million iterations of a pizza. >> reporter: linda is working the halls of capitol hill trying to fight off the proposed rule with with all those ways to order a pizza, a menu board calculation of calories is
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useless. liddell, with chains like pizza hut and papa john's are joining forces against it. >> most of our customer in pizza stores order online or over the phone and they don't look at a menu board and make their decision that way. oui not only doing it in the way that's expensive for the small business person. we're doing it in a way that would be too confusing. >> they don't want to spend money on menu boards that most customers won't see when ordering. it's enough that customers can go online for the information. i chose a hand-tossed crust, medium size and add pepperoni. on domino's calo meter online i get the readout, 20 milligrams of cholesterol for a slice. >> reporter: i'm ready to chow down on my medium pepperoni pizza, but before i do, i want to get the guilt trip from the member of science and the public interest. margo, why is it more important for me to get the bad news on this from a minuty board rather than ignoring it?
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>> people are eating more than in the past. we're getting a third of our calories from eating at strupts and other retail food establishments and it's a big part of our diet and a problematic part of our diet. eating out is linked to obesity. >> there are mixed results from studies in places where there are already calorie labels on menus. she says in those places like new york city it's been found that people have used the information to make informed choices to cut calories when they order. brian todd, cnn, bethesda, maryland. everyone's been talking about this, the school bus monitor verbally abused and taunted by middle school kids. find out what she's saying about it and if she's received any apologies.
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get headed in a new direction. ask your gastroenterologist about humira today. remission is possible. rer name is karen klein, and you may not recognize her name, but you recognize the story. the greece, new york, bus monitor who was bullied on a school bus. a video showing the abuse has gone viral and a campaign to help her has raised half a million dollars in less than 36 hours. randi kaye went to her hometown and talked to the woman behind the uproar. >> reporter: the ten-minute video begins with karen klein in her seat in the back of the bus surrounded by a small group of seventh graders. >> oh, my god, you're so fat. you take up, like, the whole seat. >> the students, all boys, tell klein, their 68-year-old bus monitor for the greece central
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school district in upstate new york that she's so fat she'll probably die from diabetes. it's not just verbal attacks, there are physical attracts, too. >> you're a troll. you're a troll. you're a troll. >> i'm going to bring my knife and [ bleep ] cut you. if i stabbed you in the stomach my knife would go through you like butter. >> what's your address so i can piss all over your -- >> i'm going to [ bleep ] -- >> klein takes most of it in silence, hardly engaging the kids except at moments like this. >> unless you have something nice to say don't say anything at all. >> why don't you shut the [ bleep ] up. >> reporter: while everything the teenagers said was cruel. this comment was most hurtful. >> you don't have a family because they all killed themselves. they don't want to be near you. >> karen's sun killed himself and it is unclear if the
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children knew about the death. >> reporter: they then posted it on his facebook page. from there it was picked up and posted on youtube and by thursday afternoon it had gone viral with with more than 1.6 million hits, putting this quiet community of greece, new york, on the map. >> i think it's disgusting. do you know i raised eight children. if one move children would have done that there would have consequences to this and i don't care what you have to have respect and it starts at home. >> reporter: just 48 hours after the video was posted online, klein told me these same students have misbehaved before, but never like this. >> how are you feeling when they were such cruel things to you? >> didn't catch them all. the things i did catch -- i didn't know what to do. i just -- you know, it was one of those things, i didn't know what to do. >> reporter: investigators here have interviewed all four boys involved. they may be suspended or
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expelled from school for a year or possibly even charged with aggravate adharassment, menacing or stalking, but for now this grandmother of eight says she doesn't want to pursue criminal charges. all she wants is an apology. >> reporter: is there anything that these kids could say that would take away the hurt that they caused you? >> that they won't do it to anyone else. they thought they were so smart and so smug, and wipe the smile off their faces, too, but i cannot see pressing criminal charges. >> reporter: randi kaye, cnn, greece, new york. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com jerry sandusky now behind bars and it's likely he'll be there for the rest of his life. the jury reached a verdict late last night and found the former penn state assistant coach guilty on 49 of 48 of abusing
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boys. he is under suicide watch. less than 24 hours after his conviction, cnn cameras caught this moment, his wife, dottie sandusky showing up at the jail where her husband is being held. a cnn national correspondent susan candiotti is joining us with reaction to this verdict. we heard from one of sandusky's neighbors this afternoon. what is she saying? >> reporter: well, this is a woman who has lived next door to him for a very long time. in fact, the children of both families even socialize and this woman told us that after she heard the verdict she was relieved. >> as strong and as overwhelming as the evidence was, i was terrified that there would be either an acquittal or a hung jury because i didn't want him back. and i didn't want this sort of circus. i mean, we need to move on. we need some sort of realization that the wor

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