kareen wynters hanging out on the red carpet. who are you, kareen? >> the red carpet is blazing hot with so many stars making their way in. and i have the pleasure right now of being joined by emma roberts. we're both shivering here, so we'll try to keep it together. you look lovely. you paid cnn the highest compliment. you said, this is one of your favorite award shows. there are so many in hollywood, night after night events, fund-raisers, but you wanted to be here tonight. tell us why. >> it's one of these award shows i watch with my mom and my sister and i think it's so inspiring and so important to recognize people who, you know, normally wouldn't be recognized for doing such amazing things that really make a difference in the world and in people's lives. >> i'm sure you've heard all of the amazing stories all week of these honorees tonight, who are just doing incredible things, but it really does inspire us all to act that anyone can make a difference, whether it's donating your time, your money. just get involved, correct? >> it does. people t

kareen wynters hanging out on the red carpet. who are you, kareen? >> the red carpet is blazing hot with so many stars making their way in. and i have the pleasure right now of being joined by emma roberts. we're both shivering here, so we'll try to keep it together. you look lovely. you paid cnn the highest compliment. you said, this is one of your favorite award shows. there are so many in hollywood, night after night events, fund-raisers, but you wanted to be here tonight. tell us why. >> it's one of these award shows i watch with my mom and my sister and i think it's so inspiring and so important to recognize people who, you know, normally wouldn't be recognized for doing such amazing things that really make a difference in the world and in people's lives. >> i'm sure you've heard all of the amazing stories all week of these honorees tonight, who are just doing incredible things, but it really does inspire us all to act that anyone can make a difference, whether it's donating your time, your money. just get involved, correct? >> it does. people t

time was running out for kareen, a 4-year-old with downs syndrome.onths away from being sent to an adult mental institution to live out the rest of her life -- a fate that awaits most 4 and 5-year-olds with downs syndrome in this eastern european country. >> this is her life at stake. >> reporter: kris and keesha cox of utah knew the enormous potential of children with special needs. their youngest, bree also has downs syndrome. after they saw this picture of kareen online, the coxes knew they had a mission and they had to move fast. to see for ourselves what children like kareen face if they aren't adopted in time, abc news traveled deep inside rural ukraine where we got unprecedented access inside some of the country's orphanages and mental institutions. we found young children with downs syndrome living among the severely mentally ill. at this institution for girls ages 5 to 35, we met 7-year-old masha. i quickly learned all she really wanted was a mom to call her own. if she is not adopted, she will spend the rest of her life here. we sat down wi

cnn's kareen wynter right there on the red carpet, talking to all the big stars as well.e all here for "cnn heroes: an all-star tribute," saluting everyday people who are changing the world. ten cnn heroes will be honored tonight. and then we're going to reveal to you who you have voted as the 2011 cnn hero of the year. that person's going to walk away with $250,000 to help them continue with all of the great work that they're doing. this incredible night has now been a year in the making. and over the past year, this is unbelievable, we have gotten more than 10,000 hero submissions from all over the globe. and tonight, the lives of these top ten heroes will change forever. each of them will receive $50,000 to help them continue with their great work. so how do they feel on this incredible night? you can go to cnn.com to watch streaming video of dr. sanjay gupta. he's interviewing the top ten cnn heroes nominees right now. and he's also talking to the celebrity presenters and the superstar performers. and one of the superstar performers, one of my favorites, kid rock is h

kareen wynter, it's interesting. when i first heard this, i didn't believe it. of secret advertisement for words with friends that alec is not telling us about? it seems like overkill. it seems like much to do about nothing. >> well, anything that alec does, he's sometimes a lightning rod, oftentimes, it makes headlines. in this case, you know, don, alec, he wasn't ready. give him an hour or two, he would have been good to go. alec wasn't ready to stop playing words with friends. american airlines flight attendant told him he had to turn off his electronic device which would have ended his game. he refused and was forced to get off his flight. we know via twitter that his fellow passengers, they were not too pleased by being held up with this. baldwin is not afraid to sound off when he's fighting mad about something. he tweeted. he wrote flight attendant on american reooemd me out for playing. no wonder american is bankrupt. american airlines, they rebooked him on another flight a short time later. baldwin wasn't done. oh, no, he fired off a few more scathing tw

kareen wynte >> kareen, thank you. >>> the presidential candidates making their final push, the republican candidates, voters in iowa getting ready to make their final decisions, and breaking today, cnn releasing new polls that suggest newt gingrich's lead, gone. mark preston is standing by. he'll join me live, next. >>> cnn political director mooshg breast aren joins me now with america's choice 2012 politics update. mark, let's talk about the new numbers, the new cnn/orc poll finds the republican race now deadlocked at the top. run through the numbers. >> very quickly, brooke, in the last couple of hours, cnn/orc released this new noeshl poll showing support for gingrich is eroding, good news for romney, it shows both men are are right now at 28%, followed by ron paul coming in third at 14%. what this says at this point is that newt gingrich, the attacks on him are working, it so seems. it seems that what mitt romney has been saying and what the likes of michele bachmann and rick santorum have been saying to or about newt gingrich have actually worked. not very good news for gingrich cer

>> thank you, kareen. we appreciate it. we'll be watching., the audience, can see the ten nominees and donate to the hero of the year you'd like to choose, cnn here rooheroes.ch sunday night 8:00 p.m. eastern/5:00 p.m. pacific. >>> a dilemma united these two moms. patricia and sheila say elementary school staff pressured them to medicate their sons for behavior problems. >> the principal told me, your son is not focused, not on task, and this is a continual problem. she goes, counseling is too slow a process, and you need to put your child on medication. >> you fought it, though, in the beginning. >> something inside of me told me that that was not what i wanted to do. >> right. >> and i had everybody telling me, oh, it's safe, it's going to help him focus. you think, here are experts, maybe these people know more than me. >> patricia gave her 7-year-old various drugs for more than two years. >> he was up and down. he became psychotic. >> what do you mean? >> he literally attacked me, physically hitting me. he went to school and he was bangin

kareen wynter. kareen, what's going on? >> what's going on? >> there have been talks? >> yes. yes.multiple reports, don, nbc has been talking to ryan see crest about his joining the "today show." neither side is commenting publicly. it means that seacrest and the entire e network are part of the nbc family, and he has a relationship with the "today show." according to the hollywood reporter seacrest's contract is up next year with e. there's a lot of talk that this would be a perfect fit. again, not a done deal. in public, lawer, he's only dropped hints about leaving. it could be a play by nbc in leverage for negotiating with the anchorman. neither seacrest or nbc is saying anything. >> we'll move on. let's talk about alec baldwin's plane adventure. turns out to be a plus for the game words with friends. i said to you, was this some sort of undercover advertisement for words with friends yesterday? >> you called it yesterday. i was going to remind you about that, but there you go. you reminded me and all the viewers. yeah, this is huge in a big way for the company. let's get to ale

kareen, hello to you.air to say all those housewive shows and all the housewives this one has gained the most fame and notoriety of all? >> yeah, absolutely. she always brings the drama, so maybe she'll bring the ratings in and people will tune in. we are talking about the show, "glee." they get the best guest stars. we've seen britney spears on the show and now, yes, nene leakes will play a swim coach. they broke the news during an appearance on bravo's "watch what happens live" how nene's character gets along with the rest of the faculty. hopefully mesh a whole lot better and the show hopes that she can help fight off declining ratings. they dipped a little bit. "glee" still doing well but lost a quarter of its audience last season. nene is going to be on there. >> let's go from one notorious reality star to another. snooki the news not so good news for her. >> this is not good news at all. they were supposed to team up, t.j., and produce a slew of snooki-related merchandise. while snooki sued to get out

kareen winter is joining me now with all the details. hi, kareen. >> hi, keira.e an early christmas present in your stocking this year. >> i don't know if i can wear that diamond tiara. >> look at that. if that were on your head right now, lady, oh, my gosh. it would be spectacular. don't get me started. i love diamonds. anyway n a few hours you can own some of hollywood's most treasured jewels. christie's auction house is putting up a big collection of taylor's jewelry together. everything from necklaces, earrings, pendants, bracelets, all of that. the estimates are that the collection will sell for more than $30 million together. that's a whole lot of bling. some of the more famous pieces are the elizabeth taylor diamond, a 33-karat gift from her then-husband richard burton. burton bought it in 1968 for a reported $305,000. guess what, it is expected to fetch a whole lot more between $2.5 million to $3.5-million. i would love any piece, just one. >> we'll see what santa brings your way. another chapter in the alec baldwin american airlines saga. >> we talked a

kareen wynter, can't we just make it stop?ou know, just for you, don, on this friday, i know we're buddies, we go way back and i know how much you love talking kardashia kardashians. more kim than you can handle this friday morning. kris humphreys gave kim kardashian an engagement ring estimated worth $2 million. the marriage only lasted 72 days. i don't think $20,000 is going to get it done but that will get you close enough to kim an maybe see who's she kissing at midnight. she will be ringing in the new year at las vegas hotspot inside the venetian. tickets for the event are $200 a head. radaronline says $20,000 will get you a table next to the kardashian party. that include an open bar and a champagne toast. they've hosted birthday parties and other events for kim. they pay her pretty well for this privilege. reports are kim has gotten up to $25,000 an hour in the past to appear at the club. it should be another profitable new year for miss kardashian. good news, huh? >> oh, yeah. lovely. >> let me have it. >> finally, an

ok time for your hourly business update here on out here with kareen. i want to welcome to our business update the south thanks for joining me and we'll russian venture tank a b.p. says it's going to invest ten billion dollars in arctic oil production this will include infrastructure on the oil fields and links to the export pipelines mainly into china the move follows a failed arctic alliance between b.p. and ross net which was blocked by the russian partners in taking. and gazprom says the south stream pipeline to ferry russian gas to europe will have its terminal point in italy earlier the state energy giant austria at its central european location and gas infrastructure was seen as an advantage but vienna backs rival pipeline project in a book or causing gas probably to switch to a lot of the members and costs get more capital says this also makes better commercial sense. the country which is providing the route for the guess probably. enjoy a certain. a better development maybe some future discounts maybe some privileges . obviously it's a mutual i

movement is seeking to find more specific goals and attract more supporters and as our correspondent kareen of course has been finding out recent converts are even being recruited from the ranks of police. the. occupy wall street has become an undeniable american household name. and police crackdowns against the democratic movement have become something of the norm not so normal is seeing one side endorse the other. retired philadelphia police captain gray lewis became the game changer on nov seventeenth arrested while demonstrating with occupy protesters on the streets of new york city the twenty four year veteran was held in police custody for eleven hours and received one comment from a new york cop nobody talked to make sure this one individual said that i had the testicles of an elephant although all of america's police force is part of the ninety nine percent captain lewis says cops secretly supporting o.-w. west's face dire consequences by going public oh a tremendous fear of losing their job being disciplined being fired and then what do they do everybody in the ninety nine percent

remind our top stories only a few minutes away before that latest business news with kareen. thank you carrie hello and welcome to our business update the south thanks for joining me it's been called the deal of the year by russian business magazine company the country's two stock exchanges the r.t.s. and allies x. have completed their merger and business r.t.s. marina costs or how that attack. financial experts have been debating and proposing this for years and the opening bell at the start of the traded they made it official but investors struggled to see the difference for the time being my six r.t.s. as it's now known will work on the same conditions offering the same services and they will also maintain separate indexes for the time being now the merger is expected to reduce transaction costs drive profitability and diversify the revenue pool and this is of course seen as a major step towards establishing moscow as a global financial center and some of the new bourses main priorities will be to lure more companies to list in moscow rather than the broad and also to attr

and the warrant has also led to fears of escalating sectarian tensions right now let's turn over to kareen and she joins us next with all the business news. thank you rory it's twenty three past two pm here in moscow welcome to our business updates world bank claims that russia were big from the world trade organization are being played down by a top official here the global lender says national g.d.p. mid-term will jump more than three percent from entry to the trade body which was accepted by other members on friday but the chief negotiator to the. vet says he expects only half that. march through most of the music. room trees grow three to four. really prefer to be more person mystic. if it's. more than. about the same as the mystics of a would be emotional or. so bold. bias has put a figure on the games he expects from membership of the world trade organization at a ceremony accepting russia as a member of a trade body why it's revealed it was not or had also received around five billion euros in state aid ahead of schedule. this is where the additional so important five percent of the

well we're up to date with what's happening in business kareen is here. hello and welcome to our business update the world bank claims that russia will earn big from the world trade organization are being played by a top official here who will lenders says national g.d.p. mid term will jump more than three percent from entry to the trade body which was accepted by other members on friday but the chief negotiator to the w t o. says he expects only half that. marx who most of the mystics and. groves were increase those three to four. really preferred to be more person mystic. if it's. about. mystics of would be emotional laura. bush's new finance minister is a fiscal hawk who wants splash the cash says first deputy prime minister of uncivil one of was confirmed as alexei cordons replacement on friday mr chevelle of told r.t. he expects a continuation of his predecessor's policies and dubbed him fairly conservative. it's a very good news for the minister of finance because he will continue the politics which was originated by the minister for mr good reason

to recap our top stories we are in just a few minutes before that we have the latest business with kareen. thank you bill hello and welcome to our business update the south there's been progress in the gas dispute between russia and ukraine from says a deal will not be done by the end of this year media reports in kiev say the size of come to a draft agreement on forming new joint ventures this would effectively guarantee a russian access to ukrainian gas transport network in return for price cuts on gas supplies daniel bushell has been. on the face of it this is a success for all sides so supply transit to ukraine and european gas customers most importantly finally gets a say in the point line but politics are always just below the surface of any rush ukraine agreement current ukraine lead the code which is pushing to hold to get cheap russian gas is possible for ukraine but this may be a case of the you know because on thursday. this deal allows mosco to present a solution to the gas tensions that we see every christmas in two thousand and nine and two thousand and six ukraine even cut

interview with alexy were kind of in our spotlight program next week that's it from me my colleague kareen mini-con will be here in about fifty five minutes time with another business update here on. the little. this was the plant that was responsible for causing the world's worst industrial disaster and now it had been abandoned in a condition where it had become a source of pollution or the most recent study that was done shows that this water pollution and spreading. will continue to be more than hundred thousand people in. groups working in effect the children see the children to be ten times more likely to be born with birth defects in children in the rest of the country. in the sea as little as five hundred dollars. unpunished. he.

has raised questions about who the police are actually working for now as our team correspondent kareen important i discovered they may not be the one percent but when it comes to protecting and serving it's often the one percent that reaps the benefits of police officers. when the very people employed to protect americans. leave thousands with these bodies. burned i was. locked behind bars tasting their own blood. the land of the free adopts an entirely new image problem. with her first words so. far you've joined the force. from. the office walk. in recent months u.s. police officers have made an enemy. of those citizens using their freedom of speech to protest against corporate greed and corrupt politics today's breed of american law enforcement is dressed in riot gear and armed with heavy weaponry body armor flash bangs tear gas and lethal projectiles. as tens of thousands of americans assemble cops have been accused of braving confrontation not diffusing it. was. never sat on. a level of police brutality so bad a former marine sergeant couldn't stay silent when i was. a little vete

program coming up in a couple of minutes for you if we've caught up on the business right now with kareen. hello and welcome to a business that here in our capital is still flying out of russia reach ten billion dollars in november forcing the central bank to once again raise the forecast for the whole year to an estimated eighty five billion dollars that's more than doubled last year's total. capital says cash down to a lack of structural improvement. the fundamental reason for a sustained difficult is that roughly equal to the russians are going to be killed by just much money that the. exchange rate with the flexible chain freed from the capital flight is it has become important for later. going to going to the development and the basically a bubble for developing bought another means that there are other options to invest also the russian should better than. them because mobile so no longer the right sort of this means the structure of the russian economy because of the labor market there's because i wasn't going to play with asians or he's not able to you just look up the well it's g

handing confidential files and having over the wiki leaks first of all the latest business news with kareen on top of our big story of the day russia joining the w t o. i. would work into business here and thanks for joining me as we've been reporting a new era has begun for the russian economy the world trade organization has formally invited russia to join in bringing to an end eighteen years of negotiations analysts warn that joining the trade body could harm certain sectors of the russian economy particularly the uncompetitive light industry and machine manufacturing sectors but in the long term duction of trade barriers should spur russian companies to become more competitive r.t.s. marina cost has more. it's been a long and bumpy ride to say the least russia force applied for membership back in one thousand nine hundred ninety three but russia negotiator switched gears after seeing china's economic performance and su thousand and one talks and volved some sixty countries making it the biggest seam of its kind in the entire w t o history while the exception is good news for export orie

would rather you didn't know always a good watch the first of it's going to cross the business with kareen it's not. welcome to business here and thanks for joining me capital is still flying out of russia flow reach ten billion dollars in the vendor forcing the central bank to once again raise the forecast for the whole year to an estimated eighty five billion dollars that's more than double last year's total. capital says cash is down to lack of structural improvements the fundamental reason for a sustained difficult call for free is that roughly equal to the russian economy can buy just hold it is much more near the camp and that you never saw so fixed exchange rate with a flexible exchange rate or the capital flight believes it has become important for later. going to going to the development and the disappearance precludes bubble from developing bought another also means that there are options to invest also the brush from which are better than options to the side of fashion. because bubble so no longer a very good option right so it's means the structure of the russian economy becaus

be back with a recap of our top stories for in just a few minutes from now before then as promised kareen is here with your business news. thank you bill welcome to business the sour angle russian venture tank a b.p. says it's going to vest ten billion dollars in arctic oil production this will include infrastructure all the oil fields and links to the export pipelines mainly to china the move follows the failed arctic alliance between b.p. and rosneft which was blocked by the russian partners in cavan. and gas from says the south stream pipeline to three russian gas to europe will have its terminal point in italy earlier the state energy giant also its central european location and gas infrastructure was seen as an advantage but vienna backs rival pipeline project in a book call causing gust front to switch to italy but even in our capital says this also makes better commercial sense. the gum to which is provided for the guest wipes enjoy a certain. a bit of development maybe some future discounts maybe some privileges so it's obviously it's a mutual it's a win win situation it's a good

kareen recaps the headlines of 2011. >> thanks for the gift. >> no, charlie, thank you for making 2011 a winning year in celebrity news. >> you're awesome. >> he put on an awesome display of erratic behavior. >> keep that in mind, phones are patrolled by trolls. >> most memly with abc news. >> winning. it's the cancer of happen. >> remembering being stunned. >> he was spewing just this absolute crazy awesome just nonsense to anyone who would listen. >>. >> reporter: he insisted that he was not addicted to drugs. his verbal spree came in the mix of an epic feud with his bosses at "two and a half men," a dispute that eventually got him fired. by refusing to bow to his employers, he turned into a folk hero, at least in his own mind. >> every great movement begins with one man. >> and his act began to thin as he brought it to the road. he called his violent torpedo of truth earned as many boos as cheers. in the fall, dwt two and a half men" rebuilt the show around ashton kutcher. >> it can't be that bad. >> it can be. you don't know. >> he soon found himself in the headlines but for other

thank you very much, kareen wynter, for all of us. other 2011 cnn heroes and vote for your favorite, go to cnnheroes.com. then join us watching the all-star tribute live sunday 8:00 p.m. eastern. >>> coming up, if a u.s. veteran ends up on the wrong side of the law, there's now an alternative option to jail. we'll take you there. >>> plus -- a tough story to hear but one that's developing right now. a little georgia girl abducted, beaten, raped, stabbed to death. we're going to show you what her community is doing to keep this little girl, this 7-year-old girl's memory alive. my mother said, "well, maybe we ought to buy this hot dog cart and set it up someplace." so my parents went to bank of america. they met with the branch manager and they said, "look, we've got this little hot dog cart, and it's on a really good corner. let's see if we can buy the property." and the branch manager said, "all right, i will take a chance with the two of you." and we've been loyal to bank of america for the last 71 years. my coat? solid gold. my insi

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kareen wynter is at the shrine auditorium where the countdown is on.cting on the red carpet? >> hi, there. actually made our way inside. we have a special treat for you. we're inside the historic shrine auditorium. this is where it will take place. the stage looks fantastic. take a look at all the people, the honorees that will take the spotlight tomorrow from a chef, bruno serato who feeds hungry children here in california to derek kayongo, we spoke to him a few hours ago. his nonprofit organization provides soap to basically kids, families in needy countries. more than ten countries. individuals making such a powerful difference in their communities. all of these faces will be honored tomorrow, faces like diane latiker. she joins us now. how are you? >> i'm excited. >> how are the nerves one day away from the big night? >> very exciting. >> she has a remarkable story. you wanted to do something, make a difference in your community, chicago, a very tough neighborhood. you're actually pulling in kids, complete strangers off the streets into your own h

kareen wynter recapped some of the biggest celebrity headlines of 2011. >> bye, charlie. >> thanks for. >> reporter: no, charlie, thank you for making 2011 a winning year in celebrity news. >> you're awesome. >> reporter: he put on an awesome display of erratic behavior. >> keep that in mind. >> reporter: on the web and in interviews most memorably with abc news. >> winning. can't is the cancer of happen. >> reporter: maggie furlong remembers being stunned. >> he was spewing just this absolute crazy, awesome, just nonsense to anyone who would listen. >> reporter: he insisted he was not addicted to drugs. sheen's verbal spree came in the midst of an epic feud with his bosses at "two and a half men" a dispute that eventually got him fired. by refusing to bow to his employers or convention, he turned himself into something of a folk hero, at least in his own mind. >> every great movement begins with one man and i guess that's me. >> reporter: his act began to wear thin when he brought it on the road. the tour he called his "violent torpedo of truth" earned as many boos as cheers. in the f

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our own kareen wynter will be there. as well as a.j. hammer. >> it's so exciting., by the way, but by 10:00, if it goes late, they are going to need some umbrellas because there is some rain moving in. a big rush of moisture is starting to move in along with the really cold core system. we're going to see heavy snow in the mountains, hail for thunderstorms for tomorrow. in los angeles, a little concern about the potential for flash flooding. this is going to be huge impact storm certainly from the beginning of the week. it will be a slow mover through the day tomorrow into tuesday and then by wednesday it's going to start to pick up forward speed. also bringing in heavy snow across the mountains in arizona and new mexico more an a foot can be expected. very difficult travel. it will eventually make its way to the nation's midsection by the middle of the week. we'll have to track that. >> fantastic. hopefully everyone will be inside the auditorium and enjoying the festivities. >> that's right. we can't have bad hair. thank you so much. let's look at the red carpet a