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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com i'm suzanne malveaux. this hour in the "cnn newsroom" the president is speaking to voters in columbus, ohio. plus republican leaders asking todd akin to bow out of missouri's senate race because of comments about rape. diana nyad gives up her dream to swim from florida to cuba. taliban insurgents fired rockets at the main nato air base today. martin dempsey was not on board at the time, he was not harmed. dempsey left on another aircraft but was in afghanistan for talks with nato and afghan commanders. the clock ticking now for a congressman under fire over his comments about rape. representative todd akin is running for the u.s. senate seat in missouri.

fellow republicans urging him now to drop out of the race. he has until 6:00 tonight eastern to do it voluntarily without much difficulty. but as early as today, akin was still saying he's seeking redemption with this apology ad. take a look. >> i'm todd akin, and i approve this message. rape is an evil act. i used the wrong words in the wrong way and for that i apologize. as a father of two daughters, i want tough justice, i have a heart for the victims of sexual assault and i pray for them. the fact is rape can lead to pregnancy. rape has many victims. the mistake i made was in the words i said, not in the heart i hold. i ask for your forgiveness. >> i want to bring in correspondent dana bash, and dana, first of all, that ad, how is it being received? is that good enough for a lot of the republican leadership who are publicly and quietly asking him to step down?

>> definitely not. in fact, we have, i would say, breaking news on this issue. we just got an e-mail from really a list of heavyweights in the missouri republican party. the current republican senator from missouri, roy blunt, and four former republican senators who are basically -- you combine them, they're like republican royalty in the state of missouri. all calling on todd akin to step aside. and what they are saying is we do not believe it serves the national interests for congressman todd akin to stay in this race. the issues at stake are too big and this election is simply too important. the right decision is to step aside. and specifically the statement comes, suzanne, you'll recognize all these names, from the current senator roy blunt, former senators john ashcroft, kit bond, john danforth and jim talent. that answers your question. last night, i was getting some hints from sources that the missouri, some members of the missouri delegation might really sort of close ranks around him.

this is probably, i would say, far more significant because of the weight of the names. the history of the republican party in the state. >> it really doesn't get much higher than that when you list those names and those folks who have a lot of influence in republican circles there. and, of course, in the state. do you get a sense now that this is something that he would abide by this deadline? i know you have a 6:00 deadline today but you also have another way that this can be done, a much more difficult way, and, perhaps, those republicans might use that window of time to either way try to get him to step down. >> you know, what you're talking about is for our viewers, to be specific, is the fact that, yes, by 6:00 tonight, he can voluntarily come off the ballot without any kind of penalty for the republican party or for himself. but he does have until september 25th to officially get off, but he would have to appeal to the state, to the secretary of state in missouri, who happens to be a democrat and would have to

financially pay to remove his name for the ballot. so it gets more complicated. what i'm told, from some republican sources who are trying to figure out, read the tea leafs inside the akin camp, they believe september 25 9 is really the deadline for them. and procedurally, in terms, yes, that's true, but politically that makes this nightmare for republicans go on and on and on into really what's six weeks before the general election. that's the worst case scenario for republicans. >> dana, is there any sense at all, do we know whether or not akin has received the message from the powerful republicans in his own state? >> i literally just got it on my e-mail from senator blunt's office as you were coming on the show. if they're watching cnn, they have it. it's hard for me to imagine these individuals have not in some way, shape or form also made this known to him privately in addition to publicly. >> and dana, finally, if you could, put this into context for us because this really is a very

significant race for the republicans in their effort to overtake the senate. to get the senate majority. what does this mean for them? >> it means you just really laid it out beautifully, suzanne, it is not just about one senate race in missouri where they really feel that they can potentially beat the democratic incumbent, claire mccaskill. this, if you look at their math, and look at the map and look at the way republicans have reacted to this, this is really a pivotal race for them to ultimately retake control of the senate on the republican side. that is big reason why they want this over. another reason is the narrative. what are we talking about? todd akin, talking about issues of rape, issues of abortion. these are not the issues republicans want to be talking about from romney and ryan on down, particularly going into their convention. they really want this to be over. they want to start talking about the economy or re-start talking about the economy where they obviously believe they have the benefit. >> all right. dana, as you get more details, more e-mails, please bring them

to us. we'll follow this developing story. dana, always excellent reporting. as always. we want to go to president obama who's in columbus, ohio, now, speaking before a campaign group. >> that's not just tough for middle class families that are trying to make it, and young people who are trying to get started, it's also painful for the entire economy because that means that money you might be spending on buying a new home or doing something else with it, it's going to that check that you're writing every single month. it's not going to local business. and i have to say, this is something michelle and i know firsthand about. you know, i'm not speculating on this because we've been in your shoes. neither of us came from wealthy families. both of us graduated from college and law school with a mountain of debt. when we married, we got poorer

together. we combined our liabilities into one big liability. we paid more for our student loans than we paid on our mortgage each month. and that went on for years. and then once we had malia and sasha, we needed to start saving for their college educations, but we were still paying off our college educations. now, keep in mind, we were lucky enough to land good jobs. he had steady incomes. but we did not finish paying off our student loans until about eight years ago. think about that. i'm now -- i got an education, it worked out pretty good. but -- but -- the point i'm

making is, i'm only standing before you because of the chance that my education gave me. so i can tell you, with some experience, that making higher education more affordable for our young people, it's something identify g i've got a personal stake in, it's something michelle has a personal stake in. we believe in it because we've been there and we know that unless you provide the ladder of opportunity, more people who are more talented than we are may not get a shot. that's why i made it a top priority of my presidency, and ohio, that is something that is at stake in this election. that's part of the reason why november is so important. i say this because putting a college education within reach for working families just doesn't seem to be a big priority for my opponent.

you know, a few months ago, just up the road in westerville, governor romney said, if you want to be successful, if you want to go to college or start a business, you can just, and i'm quoting here, borrow money if you have to from your parents. when a high school student in youngstown asked him what he would do to make college more affordable for families like his, governor romney didn't say anything about grants or loan programs that are critical to millions of students to get a college education. he said nothing about work study programs or rising college tuition. he didn't say a word about community colleges or how important higher education is to america's future. he said, the best thing you can do is shop around. the best -- the best thing i can do for you is to tell you to shop around.

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exceptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother. it's important to point out, suzanne, this is basically the same language that was in the republican party platform in 2008, in 2004, in 2000. but, again, at a moment when the republican party would rather be talking about the economy, and their plans for the convention next week, this is not what they want to be the headline coming out of tampa. >> it is a consistent platform there, and the president is talking about the economy, and as you mentioned, it's a very important point, this is not something they would like to be discussing today. how do you square this? mitt romney said he would allow abortions in cases of rape. how does he square that with the party's platform? >> reporter: yeah, you're right. this might be the most important point of contention today. in the wake of the todd akin comments about legitimate rape and abortion, mitt romney and his running mate, paul ryan, who is an ally on issues like this with paul -- excuse me, with akin in the house, romney came out and said under a romney presidential administration they would allow exceptions for rape.

however, the party he's going to officially assume control of next week in tampa is saying that there is no official exemptions. they're not going to put it in the platform. social conservatives i have talked to said it would be a mistake for romney to do that, it would only aggravate the republican base. it is somewhat at odds of what the base of his party did here today in tampa. >> i know there's a process where the party has to officially adopt its platform. there's going to be the convention coming up, of course, in less than a week or so. was there any way they could have avoided this from happening, that they would have to adopt this today? could they have put it off for another couple days or not possible? >> reporter: i mean, this was always on the schedule. monday and tuesday was when the republican party platform committee, which is charged with drafting the party's official positions, was supposed to meet. the romney campaign was in the room for this. there were several top romney advisers in the back of the room. a raomney ally, bob mcdonnell

chaired the committee. romney advisers like jim talent were on the committee. they effectively had a lot of control over this process but at the same time let this language go through. they'd rather not be talking about abortion. they're making a choice. do they want to unnecessarily aggravate the republican base and also drag this story out for another few days? they're hoping they can just get this out of the way and i can tell you they're also hoping todd akin is not the missouri senate candidate by this time next week when the convention starts. >> peter hamby, appreciate it. she's wanted to swim from cuba to florida since she was 8 years old. it's not going to happen. diana nyad had to give up her amazing dream earlier today. you've been busy for a dead man. after you jumped ship in bangkok, i thought i'd lost you. surfing is my life now. but who's going to .... tell the world that priceline has even faster, easier ways to save you money. . . on hotels, flights & cars? you still have it.

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diana nyad ended her fourth attempt to swim from cuba to south florida. the 62-year-old endurance swimmer has been pulled from the water halfway through the journey. you're looking through exclusive pictures here showing the end of her quest to become the first person to swim 103 miles from havana to key west without a shark cage. you can actually see she suffered from severe sunburn as well as swollen lips from jellyfish stings. now, the last time i spoke to

her, and she tried this, this was about a year ago. you're going to hear her talk about the problem that she faced back then. that was just jellyfish. it also plagued her this time as well. >> so you ask me would i do it again? not with the jellyfish in the water. i want to live big. i want to dream big. and i will continue to do that my whole life, but i can't -- i can't beat these guys. they're too much for me. >> we're going to talk to sanjay gupta and chad myers about this. first, i want to bring in breaking news from our congressional correspondent dana bash. i understand you have more information about congressman akin and whether or not he is going to stay in the senate race. what do we know? >> he is currently on mike huckabee's radio show. mike huckabee has actually been a supporter of todd akin through this and he, todd akin, made very clear just now despite the mounting pressure her, is intending to stay in the race. this is what he is telling mike huckabee as we speak on his

radio show. we're going to continue to listen to see if there's any more information about his reaction to what we just reported at the top of the hour, the fact that the current republican senator from missouri and four former republican senators from missouri all say that it's time to go. as of now, he is saying, as we speak, he's not going anywhere. >> dana, it might be a little bit too early to know this. do we know if he's given a reason why he's insisting he's going to stay in the race? >> i don't know if he's giving a different reason in this radio interview than he has in the past. in the past he has said pointblank he feels he is the best person to run. he feels that this is his calling. he is by all accounts a very religious person and this is something that he feels that he is, again, called to do, and, you know, just a little bit of background on his personality. covering congress, you see that there's a lot of comrade. there are different cliques, if

you will, not unlike junior high, i have to say. he's a loaner, somebody who by many accounts is not super close to anybody in the missouri delegation. he certainly has some friends who are like-minded in terms of his conservative ideology, but there's a lot of palling around and he's not somebody who tends to be one of those people. he marches to his own drum and it's very clear he's doing that right now. >> and dana, he's also made some comments, i think he's apologized for his remarks or at least tried to explain his remarks. can you tell us what his thinking was behind that? >> the way he explains it, and he did it in about a 30-second television ad that they released, his campaign released before dawn today, by saying that he misspoke, that he believes that rape is evil and awful and that he didn't mean to say what he said. it's very clear from the way that his fellow republicans continue to try to shove him out, they don't buy it.

they don't buy that he misspoke. and more importantly, whether he misspoke or not, it's become so intense and it has become so divisive that it almost doesn't matter politically. >> all right. dana, bringing us the breaking news, as always. thank you. really appreciate it. of course, we'll be following the developments as it happens throughout the day. i want to go back to a story we're covering about diana nyad, a 62-year-old trying to make this swim, 103 miles. sanjay, chad. obviously she faced a lot of difficulty here. one of the things that she faced was bad weather. how did that impact her ability to swim in these waters? >> you know, it's unfortunate, because diana sat in key west for months waiting for good weather and then she got in the water. she was talking to me. we were e-mailing back and forth. she has a whole team on her crew for weather. the winds were going to be at her back. following seas, according to, if you're a sailboater. it was a perfect situation. but those following seas, those winds off of cuba pushed a

thunderstorm off cuban coast and right into her swim. and she had thunderstorms both nights. you just can't predict that thunderstorms are going to fire off the mountains like they did here in cuba. here's where she was. right in the middle, right in between, still 57 miles to go to key west. and let me show you what the radar looked like from last night. look at the lightning going right over her position right there. here's havana. the winds are nice and calm. she had to wait for what we call the doldrums. no real thunderstorms, no real wind during the day. when these things popped up yesterday afternoon along the coast of cuba, they rolled with the wind right across and right over diana. she had to get out of the water. it was literally just too rough. >> sanjay, tell us a little bit about the other physical conditions. you followed her very extensi extensively last year. we had a chance to talk to her after that failed swim that go around. what happened this time? >> some of it was the same sort of thing. obviously from a physical standpoint, because i think that gets lost in here a little bit.

simply swimming, she's burning so many calories. we calculated, you know, literally 40,000 calories burning. so she has to try and get that back as she's swimming. you lose about a half a liter of fluid every half hour. she's tried this four times as you mentioned. again, it was in part the weather chad was talking about and these jellyfish stings. look at those pictures, we have a couple showing how much her face was sort of torn up by these jellyfish stings. it doesn't just look bad. it's also potentially medically problematic because, you know, you have to breathe through your mouth. you're doing it under challenging conditions. you can get swelling due to the jellyfish stings on your lips and tongue. it can be a problem. i think, you know, she was pulled out of the water sunday night the first time. >> right. >> because of weather. >> she was on the boat for a while. got back in, and 12:55 this morning, the same thing, she got out of the boat, but this time they waited a few hours at sunrise. they said, you know what, it's not going to happen. >> the last time she needed,

what, four liters of -- what is it going to take for her to recover this go around? >> last time she had four liters pretty quickly after the swim, so, you know, it's probably -- it's ongoing right now. i mean, she's still sort of recuperating even as we speak right now on a boat heading back toward key west. i think they just give as much fluids to get the blood pressure back up, heart rate back down. i don't know exactly what it's going to be. you lose an inordinate amount of fluids, despite how much she drinks during the swim. >> you have to love her spirit, really, her undying secret. let me ask withdryou this. she's going to be 63 tomorrow. her birthday is tomorrow. can she physically do this? a 63-year-old woman. is it possible to do this swim? >> you know, they calculated she would be swimming for 60 hours if she were to do it and not get blown off course and have good weather. from beginning to end, she was 63 hours. again, she got on the boat a couple times in the middle of all this. you know, i think at this point from a physical standpoint, she's proven something, i think, very important. a woman in her 60s has come very

close to doing this now a few times. i think it's mental in her case. she talked to us last year and said it wasn't happening again. i will tell you, suzanne, the rest of the story was a couple weeks later. she called and said, it is happening again. here we are. we'll have to wait and see. >> she said she was retiring then she jumped back into the water. the message she sent to us last year, be your best self. be the best you you can be. >> she's truly one of the most inspiring people i know. it's just remarkable what she does, what she stands for. every time i walk away, i feel a little bit more like a slacker hanging out with diana nyad. >> think how i feel next to you, sanjay gupta, me, a slacker as well. thank you, sanjay. she inspires us all. >> thank you. here's some free money advice from the cnn help desk. >> hi there, here on the help desk today we're talking about what to do with extra cash. a real big problem to have, right? with me, liz miller, and doug flynn. liz, this is the first question. >> my husband and i are six

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number after latinos in public schools and colleges is now soaring. that is according to a new study by the pew hispanic center. rafael romo is joining us with details. tell us what we're talking about here and why such big numbers now. >> it's truly a fascinating studty. i was taking a close look. the number that really caught my eye is the fact if you go back to 1972, the percentage of

latinos in u.s. colleges was only about 3%. compare that to now. at actually last year, the last year for which statistics are available. it's 17%. so that's more than fivefold that we have there in increase. this is happening because of mainly two reasons. big immigration wave in the '90s and now the children of those immigrants are going to high school, are going to college, and all of a sudden you have this percentage, 16.5%, which by the way, suzanne, reflects the percentage of the latino population in the united states as a whole. >> so folks are going to school. there's a great deal of immigration going on. tell us about in elementary school, in kindergarten? because you are talking about funding. you're talking about politics. all the stuff wraps up into seeing this group. >> i think we can talk about a population boom, because when you go to not only those grades, but also elementary schools, when you go to high schools, you're talking about a quarter of the entire population. so one out of every four

students, particularly when you talk about public schools, is latino. so that means that the next generation of college students is probably going to be the same as we're seeing right there. look at those numbers. 25% and 24%. so that means that in a decade or two, colleges in the united states are going to be 25% lati latino, if not more. >> now, we talk a lot about the power and the reach of the hispanic vote, latino vote, when you talk about this election, this go cycle. i imagine the next time around, when you have this group, they're growing up, they're educated, that that voting bloc is going to be even more important. >> exactly. this time around, we're talking about swing states like colorado, like florida, like new mexico, where the percentages of latino registered voters could actually make a difference. now, if we go four years down the road, eight years, that impact is going to be much more significant. so, yeah, it's definitely a number to consider. >> all right. rafael romo, good to see you as

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of a rough time, this is a great movie for you to see because at the end of, you know, at the end of that tunnel, there is some light. you know, there really is some light. it's a film that matters. you know, there's issues of redemption and forgiveness and how you can really impact your community. >> tell us a little bit about the story line without giving it away. we promise we'll go see. >> okay. i play a character by the name of papa joe bradford and he has accidentally run into an old friend of his named sam. and he -- they're both kind of forced to help each other out by default and at the same time try and catch up on their past. in catching up with their past, they learn so much more about each other. and, you know, the hard past they both have had to go through. >> is there anything from your own personal life that you drew from in bringing to this movie? >> one of the things that joe does really well, and i admire him for it, is he helps out the

kids in his neighborhood. he helps them with their homework. he gives them food. he's like an after-school program. >> sure. >> i used to work as a camp counselor for years. there was nothing more rewarding than, you know, waking up -- not waking up, but, like, coming into camp and all the kids are looking at you like you're their hero. and that's the same feeling i got in the specific scene in the movie where the kids come off the school bus and they just think papa joe's a hero. >> isa lot of people wouldn't kw this. one of your other passions besides acting is bringing awareness, pancreatic cancer. what is your personal draw to this? how did you get involved? >> i know someone, someone close to me has passed away because of pa pancreatic cancer. my standard actor connections, i was able to go to a fund-raiser for the lus garden foundation and at that fund-raiser i made my way to the executive director and said, i'd like to get

involved. i'd like to do everything i can to try and help find a cure for pa pancreatic cancer. and this fall, we're actually going to start a psa campaign. i'm looking really forward to that. >> and why is this important? >> well, the lus garden foundation, you know, the good thing about them is they -- every -- their administrative costs are underwritten by cablevision, so every single dollar goes to the research. and, you know, that's just the kind of organization you want to work with. it's always important for me to give back. it's one of the things that, you know, you learn in this particular movie, you learn in "unconditional," it's important to give back. this is just another way for me to do that. >> the last time you and i talked, everybody wanted to know about your dating life. so we want to know whow you're giving back. ladies want to know what's up. >> i'm good. i'm good. i mean, i'm good. i'm still around. >> still around. >> you know what i learned about you, though? >> what did you learn about me? >> i looked at your twitter

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kids between the ages of 8 and 12 were honored guests at the white house. they were winners of a healthy lunch recipe contest. joining us from washington madeline and her mom debra. thanks for joining us. >> thank you. >> congratulations.

you and your mom. tell us what was your recipe that won you the trip. >> fish chowder with a salad. >> how did you figure that out? what inspired you? >> i know i love soup, so i wanted to do a soup. when i went into a cook book called celebrate virginia, i looked what the state beverage of virginia was and it was milk and the first soup that came to my head that had milk in it was chowder. >> nice. really nice. mom, do you like it? >> it's fantastic. we really enjoyed eating it in our own family and for guests we served it to as well. >> tell me what was it like to be at the white house. were you able to meet the first lady and the president? >> yes. >> what was it like?

>> it was cool. >> did she say she liked your recipe? >> yeah. >> did you get a chance to meet other young chefs? >> yes, 53 others. >> did anybody else have any kind of chowder recipe or you're the only one? >> i was the only chowder but there were a couple other soups. >> what was that like to walk into the white house? >> it was really amazing. some of the people had marine bands. the bands were playing on the side as we walked in. >> wow. did you get a chance to see beau the dog? >> yes. he ran across the lawn. >> mom, how did madeline get involved in cooking here? does she cook for the family? >> she's been cooking since she was two and a half. she's attended several cooking

camps and every mother's day, father's day every noncooking parent enjoys cooking with our kid. we have entire meal cooked. it's a surprise for mother's day, father's day and birthdays. that's a really fun cooking experience that our kids have enjoyed. >> i understand you went to a cheese camp where you learned to make cheese. >> yeah, i did. >> what did you tell the first lady when you saw her? >> i told i was really glad to see her and i was really excited for that day. >> okay. i know that you're taking japanese lessons. can you say anything like good-bye? nice to see you both. thanks for joining us. >> thank you for having us. comedian rosie o' donnell is

happy to be alive after a heart attack last week. what happened to her? >> it's on a interesting an important story. she was walking to a parking lot and heard someone calling out for help. it was a woman stuck in her help and she went and helped this woman get out of the car. a few hours later she said she had some vague pain. she had pain in her arms and a bit in her chest. she felt clammy and nauseated. she wasn't sure what was going on but she did decide tyke an aspirin. that's something she learned about at some point. she didn't call 911 and she repri manded herself. the next morning she goes into the doctor's office and gets an ekg and they discovered she probably had a heart attack.

they look at the blood vessels around the heart. >> how serious was it? >> it was potentially very serious that they found one of the major blood vessels that supplies blood to the heart was 99% blocked. they typically call this, this speaks to the gender issue, they call this the widow maker because it would cause people to become widowed very quickly. she had a stint placed. they open the blood vessel and place a stint to hold it open. when someone says they had a heart attack there was some loss of heart tissue but it wasn't significant to the point she had to be further hospitalized. >> explain why she didn't exhibit symptoms that you think of. you're grabbing your chest and this sort of thing. >> i'll preface by saying symptoms can be anything in anybody. i always say if you risk of

heart disease, a family history or you think you're worried about heart disease because of your own physical attributes then if you're having unusual symptoms get it checked out. more likely to be the crushing chest pain. take a look at the list for woman. shortness of breath, nausea, vomiting, back pain. back pain is so common. if it comes on all of a sudden and you're at risk of heart disease that's something you shouldn't ignore. >> good advice. thank you. we're going to have to go to a break. ♪ [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] if you have yet to master the quiet sneeze... ♪ [ sneezes ] [ male announcer ] you may be an allergy muddler. try zyrtec®. it gives you powerful allergy relief. and zyrtec® is different than claritin®

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toing the charts. ♪ >> i love this. this is the group monsters and men. the group is from iceland. the song is it number one in ireland. "cnn newsroom" continues with brooke baldwin. thank you. i'm brooke baldwin. on the very day republicans reveal part of next week's convention platform a constitutional amendment to ban abortion nation wide, a fire storm involving one of their own got a little hotter. i'm talking about todd akin. he says he used the wrong words and has asked missouri voters for their forgiveness but she not getting out of this missouri senate race. akin said over the weekend that victims of what he called

legitimate rape rarely get pregnant and he has spent the last couple of days trying to explain what he meant by that. we have seen major developments in this story in the last 30 minutes. he's been on multiple radio shows. he says he's in. why? >> let's let him explain it for himself. he did this in one of the few friendly forums left for him and that's mike huckabee's radio show. listen. >> we're going to continue with this race for the u.s. senate. we've given it a lot of thought. the first thing we felt we had to do was we had offended some people and we tried to respond to that and let people know that we didn't mean anything or to take in any way rape anything less than very, very seriously. >> that's him explaining why.

there's another comment that he made that struck us all about the way he believes in in his party, not just the leadership but several tea party groups and radio hosts and columnists, the way they have reacted or in his word overreacted to the comments he made about rape. listen to this. >> it does seem just misspoke one word in one sentence on one day. i hasn't done anything that was morally or ethically done as sometimes people in politics do. we do a lot of talking and to get a word in the wrong place, that's not a good thing to do or to hurt anybody that way. it does seem like a bit of an overreaction. >> as you can imagine republican party leaders are not happy at all. just as we were coming on this show i got an e-mail from the spokesperson for the national republican convention committee. i'll read you some of the

quotes. by staying in this race congressman akin is putting at great risk many of the issues that he and others in the republican party are fighting for including the repeal of obamacare. goes onto say they continue to hope that congressman akin will do the right thing for the values he holds dear effectively saying he will at some point step down. he made clear today that's not happening by the deadline which is 6:00 eastern for him to do so voluntarily. >> you pointed out members of the national party are not supporting him. a big chunk of change he is now no longer getting. people in his own state are not supporting him. is he being stubborn at this point? >> you know, that's definitely the way most of the republican party thinks he's being. they think he's being very stubborn. from his point of view he believes he's doing what is his constitutional right and his calling. this is something he believes

that -- let me take a step back and explain, maybe give a bit of color as to the kind of candidate he is. he is not the person that the republican leadership wanted to be the nominee to run against claire mccaskill in the first place. he was probably their last cl choice. i was told point-blank he was. he knew that and stayed in the race. he made that point today. he was told before he couldn't win. he did win. we beat somebody with a lot of money and he said he'll continue to do that. he said that some of the grass roots supporters that we're not hearing from are contacting him, contacting his campaign, giving them money. he's basically in this. he is -- maybe stubborn is a good word for the way he's reacting to the pressure from republican party leaders. >> just a question. just wondering. dana bash appreciate your reporting on it.

thank you. now to something fascinating. this is one of the starkest contrasts between the president on one side and his opponents on the other. we caught this earlier. first president obama then congressman paul ryan each critiquing the other side's vision of how to achieve success. first the president seeking in columbus, ohio. >> a few months ago just up the road governor romney said if you want to be successful, if you want to go to college or start a business, you can just, and i'm quoting here, borrow money if you have to from your parents. [ boo ] one high school student in youngstown asked what he would do to make college for affordable for families like

his. governor romney didn't say anything about grants. he said nothing about work study or rising college tuition. he said the best thing you can do is shop around. the best thing i can do for you is to tell you to shop around. >> even if washington could be good at picking winners and losers, which they're not, they shouldn't be in the business of picking winners and losers. that's not the role of government. you see, it invites cronyism. it's basically big government and big business joining in a common cause to rig the rules, stack the deck and keep the

small business person and the entrepreneur on the outside looking in. >> that was congressman paul ryan speaking today. we also heard from the president who spoke within the past hour. both on achieving success in america. as we said two starkly competing visions there. this time next week i'll be anchoring this show live from tampa where republicans will be holding their national convention. join us. our whole cnn crew is down there. that kicks off august 27th. a lot more happening on this tuesday. take a look at this. dozens more shot in chicago as the crisis there grows and cnn rides along with police when the calls don't stop. i'm brooke baldwin, the news is now. the fists come out between neighborhoods. cnn gets up close proof the violence in syria is spilling over into lebanon. a mother loses her daughter

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as you know we really follow the war in syria very closely here. one of the reasons we do that is the fact that this war could, could pleadbleed across syria's border and that is frighten. you can see this turkish town not too far from the turkish-syrian border. yesterday a bomb exploded there and killed a dozen people. was it directly related to the ongoing fight in syria? we can't say. what we can report is that this town where this happened is now housing tens of thousands of syrsi syrians who have fled across the border. we've talked about lebanon there in the past. i'm talking about this city right here along the water.

this is tripoli not too far from the border. watch this. that is some serious gunfire and it looks a heck of a lot like syria, but no, this is syria's southern neighbor. this is the city of tripoli south of the syrian border. i want to go straight to jim clancy joining me from beirut. who is fighting in the video we just looked at and is that fighting directly related to all the fighting we have been witnessing in syria? >> reporter: in a word, yes. directly related because you have two neighborhoods. our correspondent bureau chief here and cnn cameraman were up in tripoli today. they literally ran into this fighting as it erupted once

again. this has happened before. inside you're looking at one syrian neighborhood-excuse me one, sunni muslim neighborhood where many are fighting on the side of the free syrian army. there are refugees from cities who are now living in that neighborhood in tripoli. on the other side of the street named syria's street is another neighborhood. a neighborhood of muslims who support president bashar al-assad. they post posters of him on their homes on that street. at least four people reported killed. 40 wounds. they tried to take army personnel up there speeding up there at the street. trying to put a lid on awe of

this. they pulled back under a hail of automatic weapons fire and rocket propelled grenades. the fightings was continuing as little as two hours ago. back to you. >> with the video we saw and you're talking about tripoli, what saw what looks like the lebanese civil war from the 1980s. we went only as cnn can deep down into the fault and we found a clip of a very familiar face reporting back in 1983. take a look at this. >> reporter: the hill s above beirut. many believe the lebanese army was born here tested by syria backed drew's malitia. >> that was a bit younger jim clancy. i know you've gotten to know this part of the world very well. what are people saying about the prospect of lebanon sinking back

into the civil war as the result of a conflict in syria? >> reporter: that's a small town overlooking beirut. it was 29 years ago. they don't want to see a return of that on their territory. emotions are running high. there are links between these two countries. the question is, can the politicians, can the religious leaders, can the lebanese army put a lid on all of this and control it, so that it does not spill over? that's the challenge tonight. many people are looking on and saying this is the test. how far have we come? what lessons have we learned is being put to the test in tripoli tonight. >> what's your personal gut feeling as to what happens next? >> reporter: there's no need to

sink into it. the risks that are mozambiqued by the conflict in syria are great. there are forces that are at work. some say trying to cause destabilization in lebanon. trying to influence the conflict that is ongoing in syria in favor of one side for the other. there's no denying all of that. a lot of people are concerned. i'm concerned. same time i don't think you need to blow it out of proportion tonight. i think what really needs to be done is for those politicians and those other leaders to get to work setting things right, getting these communities to at least stay there fire and not bring the conflict into lebanon. back to you. >> jim clancy, we appreciate you being able to put this story into context the only way a veteran journalist can. we appreciate it there in beirut. it's a fete she says she

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i want to take you right to new york. these pictures just in. look at the scene here. these are pictures from wabc right there in manhattan. this construction blast a little too powerful goes awry. we're told this was supposed to be a controlled blast. it was too powerful. reports of broken windows and possible damage to the streets. no injuries were reported. several city agencies are at the scene. you can see a number of them inspecting the surrounding buildings. there you have it. this is right around 1st through 3rd avenues in manhattan. a family trip turns into tragedy in texas. we're seeing video of a car wreck that killed five children and injured six others on

monday. a back tire blew causing the driver to lose control on their way to water park. none of the kids had on they're seat belts and there were too many people in the suv. the driver could face five criminal charges. a close call for a top u.s. military officer in afghanistan. general martin dempsey's plane was hit by shrapnel from two rockets. dempsey left afghanistan on another plane. his visit comes a t a time with growing takes in u.s. troops by afghan security forces. sorry have to report diana nrz nyad calling it quits. another round of painful jelly fish stings to her face and a lightning storm pushed the 62-year-old off course. it was also the constant threat

of sharks attacking the swimmer. she turns 63 tomorrow. all right. people are fretting over this one. we're saying calm down for now. a tropical depression has formed in the atlantic. chad meyers is about to tell me, i think, this thing should not be spoiling the rnc next week. >> i cannot tell you that. >> you cannot tell me to bring my red cnn hurricane jacket. >> you should take it. the chance of anything is 2 or 3%. this is going to go left or right. it's in the middle of the what we could consider the model cone this this isn't a named storm. it's probably going to do a lot more damage to haiti, even cuba before it gets here. the producers of our political unit are freaking out because this thing could end up somewhere in the gulf of mexico and they're all going to be in

tampa trying to cover this rnc thing. all these people trying to scramble out of the state that they just went to because they have evacuations. that's not the forecast. 30 miles an hour storm. it's a tropical depression. it's going to be spinning around and getting stronger as it moves into warm water here in the caribbean. here are the models. it's going to come in here south of puerto rico. there are models that take it up and completely miss the u.s. and there are other models that miss cuba. you need to keep up to date because there are models bringing it as a hurricane on to the shores of the u.s. the official track somewhere over cuba as a cat 2 in about five days. five days, okay. that's like three days away from the rnc. we'll see. >> i just want you to get that a

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by the time we get into october, early november election's week could be big. romney campaign has opened up a substantial lead over the democrats when it comes to campaign cash. tell me about this. >> three straight months in a row we have seen the romney campaign out raise the president and the democratic national committee. i guess the key number to look at is cash on hand. these are the latest figures and the obama campaign and the democratic national committee, $124 million. sounds like a lot of money but

that's down $19 million from last month. romney campaign is $186 million. their cash is going up. that's just the campaign and the party committees. you factor in these super pacs. these are the independent groups. the pro-romney groups are raising and spending a lot of money. where is the president's money? he spent a lot of it on campaign ads but those super pacs on the republican side are keeping up and keeping pace. the president has been talking about this. he admitted he will be the first sitting president to be out spent by the challenger. take a listen to what he said over the weekend. >> over the next three months the other side is going to spend more money than we've ever seen. nay are writing $10 million checks individuals just to run the same ad over and over again. >> to a degree he's got a point.

when you go to the battleground states, a lot of these are super pac ads, not from the campaigns but the battle for cash so important. >> money, money, money. remind us why it's so much. >> it pays for ads. the ads on national cable tv. money also buys you the get out the vote efforts which are so crucial. the teams to go in and get supporters to the polls. money isn't the only factor at all. the candidate and the stance on the positions are very important but money is a big factor in modern politics. >> thank you. next, talking about michael j. fox returning to your living room in a show in which art imitates his life. totally orig. do it again. that's good. call in the engineers. call in the car guys. call in the nerds. build a prototype. mold it. shape it. love it. give it a starting price under 16 grand.

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love alex p.keeton. michael j. fox announced he's coming back to tv. i want to go to a.j. hammer. i read this this morning. i was excited. he's been away from tv for quite a while. why does he want to come back? >> it is great news. we can only guess at this point why he's coming back because he hasn't publicly explain ee eed move just yet. he's been appearing on more and more tv doing some great guest starring roles. he's been on shows like the good life. i'm guessing he must feel the time is right and he's able to handle a full production schedule. all the networks were bidding for this show. nbc wanted it badly enough to order 22 episodes of the series. it's not even fully cast yet. deadline hollywood daily is reporting that fox has arranged to shoot the show in new york

city which is a very big accommodation. not too many sitcoms are shot in the city. they are betting on his appeal. even though it's been more than a decade since he was star of "spin city" it's a good deal. >> this is a show he pitched that is loosely based upon his own experiences. >> it is. nbc says the character he'll be playing is inspired by fox's peonal life. he's going to be playing a husband and father of three who is dealing with parkinson's. they are characterizing it as funny, heartwarming and personal. this is going to give him a whole new avenue to promote his foundation. they have been doing excellent work searching for a cure and it's a nice return to nbc for him playing a dad on the network he became famous on for playing a teenager. we can expect to see the new show in the fall of 2013.

brooke, as a huge fan of michael j fox, both the man and the actor, i can't wait. >> i can't wait either. thank you very much. next, gangs, guns, drugs and violence all plaguing the streets of chicago as we get out with officers to see what can be done to make it stop. be surprised be productive. make a sale make some lunch make it movie night. play a game or an old favorite. do it all more beautifully, with the retina display, on ipad. after you jumped buship in bangkok,n. i thought i'd lost you. surfing is my life now. but who's going to .... tell the world that priceline has even faster,

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it's been an awful scene in parts of chicago this summer. some of the highest crime rates in the entire country were in

chicago specifically in englewood. that area saw 4550% jumps in homicide. 50%. ted, i imagine it was a bit unnerving. >> reporter: well, eye opening, that's for sure. it really is to see the neighborhoods that have been besieged by violence. a couple things really strike you is the amount of kids that are out there. we've seen a number of kids die this year, more than 30 in the streets. they are out and about at 11:00, midnight. most of the people there were happy to see the police. you think it's going to be this battle against police and the people living there and the mistrust, and there is mistrust and police will tell you that but most of the people we ran into really were happy to see the patrol cars rolling around. >> it's interesting. a lot of kids out and about.

i did a ride with a gang member and that was unnerving. 38 homicides have been logged with the city. that's just the month of august here and also more numbers. 346 homicides in 2012. that's up sharply from the scene time last year. the question is, what is the city doing to combat these huge numbers, this increase? >> reporter: the city has a new police superintendent. he has a plan that's been enrolled. we talked to him for our piece that's airing later tonight and he said that he is disappointed. he thought the numbers were going to be better after his new plan. it's a three-prong plan. they are looking at gangs, categorizing them. they are trying to predict retaliation murders. they are taking back street corners where drugs are sold and holding felons a bit longer.

he needs help from the community. he needs them to take ownership and they need to work through the kinks. they need witnesses to come forward to prosecute these people that are killing all these young and some cases innocent victims. >> ted, just tell me, i know we're previewing this for 360 tonight but tell me one moment that sticks with you that you'll be highlighting later tonight. >> reporter: it's almost a constant shatter on the radio of shots fired. you're sitting in that squad car and it's shots fired on 10th street. shots over here. it's unbelievable how much running around they are doing on a nightly basis for the gunfire that's going on. it's concentrated. this doesn't happen where i live. that's part of the problem too. it is so concentrated in four to five different areas around this city and the rest of the city knows it's not going to happen

in their neighborhood. is opportunity lieutenant says that's one thing that has to change. it has to be a full chicago problem, not just these areas. >> we're look for your reporting tonight 8:00 eastern. thank you very much. two words, sex sells. how one book seller is getting a huge kick from mommy porn. the city you live in can say a lot about your financial success especially if you live in one of the top earning towns in america. money magazine were crunching the numbers. number five, lower maryland, pennsylvania. the median income $153,000. number four here is about ten miles an average family income just shy of that $157,000 mark and number three silicon valley. income of 163 grand. palo alto, california.

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where did i leave you? we were talking money. money magazine released the list of top earning towns. what are the top two? number two is greenwich, connecticut. average income $167,000. the number one earning town in america is bethesda, maryland. the average family income there $184,000. there you go. the top five. that's good news if you live and earn that kind of money in those towns. there's a bit of bad news. best buy is in trouble. the second quarter earnings

tanked. that's not good news heading into the holiday season. alison kosik and i hear your sigh. tell me what's going on. >> you're right. because if you look at this april through june quarter, if it's any indication, the holiday season for best buy will be just as rough. you look at the quarterly profit it fell way short of forecast. the company stopped giving out guyed about the future. it's not sure what's going to happen in the second half of the year. this is is company that's in a whole lot of trouble. sales fell in eight of the last nine quarters. what seems to be happening here is customers are using best buy like a showroom. people are going in there and playing with the products but ultimately they are walking out and not buying anything because they are going online and buying it for a better price. best buy did say they got to stop the showrooming.

you want to sthoe case yohowcas but not too much. >> you know what people are buying. >> nothing like a little erotic sex to help your bottom line if your barnes and noble. it's not giving any special numbers at this point but the head of the retail unit told investors analysts that 50 shades of gray had an impact. it told a total of 25 million copies. many of those have been digital copies. barnes and noble cut the price of the nook to keep the digital sales going. overall you look at the company it narrowed its loss from a year ago. shares are slipping 2%. they still lost money last quarter. thanks to 50 shades of gray it narrowed that low. >> gosh darn it and there you go. going to leave it there. rosie o' donnell credits a

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now it is 16.5%. you have five fold increase in a little less than four decades. what's happening is there was a huge wave, migration wave in the '90s. they had children then and they are now going to grammar school, high school and college and for the very first time latinos are the largest minority across u.s. colleges. >> largest minority. >> largest minority. still the minority but the minority. >> are the schools having to adapt because of the numbers? >> yes and no. one of the them were born here. speak more english than any other language. they're as american as can be. there's a portion who will need esl programs. some school districts across the country are already adapting to that. many other school districts in places like california, texas

are used to that already and are implementi ining programs alrea. >> i know the population shift is just beginning. almost a quarter of all students in pre-k through high school are hispanic. a quarter and that number is only going to climb. >> that's exactly right because latinos are the most part are still a very young population. you have higher fertility rates, higher birthrates. that's being reflected in the population. we're looking at 16.5% of the whole u.s. population are hispanic. in the next few decades, that percentage is going to increase to maybe 25%, maybe even more. at some point during this century that percentage is going to stabilize and reflect what's been happening in the united states. we have a zero increase in the population when it comes to

percentage. that's going to happen with latinos as well but it will take longer. >> they're the largest minority at u.s. kplcolleges. >> that's right. >> thank you very much. a congressman in hot water over comments about legitimate rape. those were his words. he vows to stay in. this as tonight's deadline inches closer and closer. rosieo' donnell reveals how often women ignore heart attack symptoms. ♪make just one heart to heart you - you sing to♪ ♪one smile that cheers you ♪one face that lights when it nears you.♪ ♪and you will be happy too.

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the person was a woman in car who need eed help getting out. the woman was surprised. a couple hours later she started to have some more vague symptoms, pain. some of it in her arms and she felt clammy and nauseated. she knew enough to take an aspirin. she read take an aspirin. she didn't call her doctors or 911. the next day she calls the doctor, goes in. they get an ekg which shows evidence she probably had a heart attack. >> probably had a heart attack. that's what the doctors are saying. >> what that means is some heart muscle has died. you can test for that with a blood test to see if you sthee. i think they did see evidence of that. when they did the katherization. they saw a narrowing that looked

like that. take a look. that's the stint. you die late open the blood vessel and leave that scaffolding in place to hold it open. >> she talks about nausea, vomiting. are those symptoms different in women than men? >> yes. if you're at risk or starting to have unusual symptoms that come on suddenly, you need two worry whether you're man or woman. typically the more crushing chest pain for men. this is what she described in the blog. for men typically it's chest pain. for women it can be chest pain but also just being tired. it can be back pain. it can be the nausea that rosie o'donnell described. if you're at risk or have a family history or worried about it and something comes on that's unusual and comes on quickly,

that's something you need to get checked out. >> let's pick up where the graphic left off. she said i became sick, my skin was clammy. i googled women's heart attack symptoms. i had many of them but i thought nah. at the end she said if you think something's happening please call 911. >> more women are likely to die of heart disease than men. people don't realize that and part of what you describe. women blow this off. there's about 50% likely to call 911 if they're having a heart attack. 79% of the time they will call on behalf of somebody else. they recognize the symptoms of somebody else. >> need to worry about themselves. it's a great reminder for all of us. thank you very much. we appreciate it. as mitt romney and paul ryan

hit the trail together when it comes to the economy their differences with president obama are pretty clear. the to give you a better idea of their background cnn compared romney and obama's resumes and some choices may come back to haunt both of them. >> reporter: it's race between the man who holds the oval office and the man who sat in the corner office. mitt romney and barack obama. two men who say they have the best cv to fix the u.s. economy. >> i've spent 25 years in business. i know how business works. i want to use that experience to help businesses grow again. >> where we were losing 800,000 jobs a month when i was sworn to office, we've been creating jobs for almost three years straight. >> the romney campaign is closer to this sort of austerity point of view that some countries in europe are trying. obama for the last few years have been about priming the pump and stimulus. >> reporter: it's a tough job they are applying for.

economic growth has slowed to 1.5% in the spring. the jobless rate has been stuck over 8% for 42 straight months. most hiring managers have stacks and stacks of cvs to choose from when trying to fix the right candidate. in this election the american people have a choice between just two men who have very different ideas on how the fix the u.s. balance sheet. first, the obama cv. the president's campaign points to his success at saving the u.s. auto industry. his plan to overall the health care system and the creation of more than 4.5 private sector jobs. critics question his rocky relationship with wall street an his commitment to big government. >> under obama's plan you wouldn't have to work or train for a job. they just send you your welfare check. >> reporter: as for mitt romney, the gop said his time as governor of