to escape, keeping anderson below and out of sight seemed the best answer to an untenable situation. once it became known that anderson was being held on board the ship, a group of jamaicans went before a local magistrate and insisted he be set free, but the magistrate refused to act insists it was the sole responsibility to whom the ship was confined to take 2 fwhishive. the in an attempt to prove anderson was who he initially claimed to be provided what we'll call protection papers signed by a notary in baltimore stating that the man who came on board the young america was in fact phillip nettles a free black. the rescue and hearing before the magistrate generated public interest and raised questions about the international reach of american laws meant to address domestic issues, even to some observers who opposed slavery. flying an american flag, which was considered american territory was as was said, a violation of international law. if that were the case, a supporter to the rescue countered and the offense was committed on american soil would anderson have to be handed over for

we are talking about anderson cooper, my colleague at cnn. i love anderson.ng to do. >> celebrities showed their love, tweets, people came out and supported him. a few of those here. neil patrick harris. good for you anderson cooper. you are awesome. other celebrity friends chimed in as well. yesterday, picture, kathy griffin, i think she tweeted, here i am with my girlfriend anderson cooper who i am so proud of. which, they have been on tv together. >> kelly, kelly rippa. really tight and -- great on the show together. so proud of you anderson cooper, always have been, always will be. borrowing the line from the e-mail. anderson still the man. now it is out there. we can all move on with our lives and he can go on being the great journalist that he is. >> and will always be. next "true blood" you know i am a big, vampire, all things vampire. and "true blood" getting renewed by hbo for a sixth season. i have seen every single season and will see the sixth. and "the newsroom" which you love and i love it as well. >> with jeff daniels. and -- i thought it was g

anderson is on daytime tv.t all. >> but there is the self-admission that the country is more popular with this point of view. >> cenk: that's what is really interesting. rush saying we lost. obviously it's more popular to be gay. >> yes, rush limbaugh just gets hurt as the country moves forward. >> cenk: ana? >> he won't be hurt. >> cenk: i agree. in the old days it really did hurt movie careers etc. i think these days there are so many gay anchors. they have no problems with ratings, steve cornackie, i didn't know. he now has a show out. we'll move forward. when we come back, arrest arctic drilling. it's likely to become a disaster but there is a funny story we'll look at that when we come back. >> when we look at the gulf of mexico, we were not prepared to clean that up. it's a little unreasonable to think that we're going to be ready to clean up an oil spill in the arctic. >> cenk: what they're saying about how prepared we are. it's a joke. also scientologists, should we bar them from office? >> arguing abou

for stand up to cancer. >> pelley: now, cnn's anderson >> pelley: now, cnn's anderson cooper on assignmentxt week, michael phelps will climb onto the starting blocks for his final races at the summer olympics in london. when we first interviewed him on "60 minutes" in the fall of 2008, he had just made history, winning eight gold medals at the beijing olympics. phelps was riding a worldwide wave of awe and popularity. it seemed there was nothing left to accomplish. so why continue swimming? arelps has often wondered the same thing over the last three years. as we reported in may, it's been the most difficult period of his career. he was photographed at a party with a marijuana pipe, and it may surprise you to hear that his passion for swimming seemed to have faded. but now, as he approaches the last lap of his career, with another olympics in sight, yichael phelps is once again training hard, once again ready to make history. it's 6:20 on a saturday morning in march. virtually alone on the streets of his native baltimore, a groggy michael phelps is off to another grueling daily practice in

anderson cooper starts now. mon. that's all for us tonight. anderson cooper starts now. >>> we continue to focus tonight on the victims of the aurora shooting. the victims and the survivors. there are some remarkable people we are going to introduce you to tonight. some who made it and tried to save others. some who did not make it out of theater number nine. we'll speak to the father of alex sullivan who died in that theater. it was his 27th birthday. sunday would have been his first wedding anniversary. also an amazing 13-year-old girl who tried to save the life of a 6-year-old girl after the shooting. a stunning story of a young woman who survived in the most remarkable way imaginable. her story and more ahead. >>> keeping them honest with a few lawmakers on capitol hill talking today and toughening gun laws in response to the shooting. but most politicians, especially president obama and mitt romney trying hard not to talk about it. trying to take gun control, whatever you think about it off the table. at the same time what little they are

university of the pacific where anderson graduated.was shot four times including in the face. she is improving after surgeries. >> it's crazy. i've been in shock. >> reporter: prosecutors say they are considering going for the death penalty for holmes but will talk with victims and victims' families. >> victims will be impacted by that decision in a an enormous way for years if the death penalty is sought. it's a long process. >> we have also learned anderson's mother has been battling cancer. a website is raising money both for anderson and her mom. it's unclear if anderson will attend the university of maryland in the fall. >>> a sailor is hail adhere row for diving over his girlfriend during the theater shooting friday. the gunfire killed sailor belong belong -- johnathan belong in the shooting. his grandmother is creating a cross from petrified wood that will be buried along her grandson. >>> five things you may want to know, months after the death of the former baltimore city mayor and shaffer, shaffer will learn his fate. tension

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but i think a lot fewer people -- i don't know anderson personally. i know is what i read about him in the press. i assumed he was gay, but i didn't really know. "the new york times" had an something story on one of its blogs talking about how anderson's coming out has inspired an activist in china to suggest that there might be a day in december where all the homosexuals in china might come forward. and also come out. it's much more dangerous to be out as a gay person in china. so there's a resonance to this coming out that even goes beyond what we know in the united states. and i think assuming that people knew he was gay without it being reported is a dangerous assumption. want to point out one other thing. there's a dynamic that academics talk about called linked fate in and people in minority groups sort of judge their actions according to how they will affect the entire minority group. and we're used to seeing that with black people. and i think that's happening in the gay community, as well. and i think that's something that anderson cooper was

also for caleb medley's family it's the same situation, anderson.s bills could reach up to $2 million we're told. the website to help caleb is calebmedley.com/help. >> we'll put both those web addresses at our website at ac360.com. appreciate the reporting. thanks. >>> the quirk of anatomy that allowed this remarkable young woman to survive the way she has. we're joined by 360 m.d. and practicing neuroseason dr. sanjay gupta. so what kind of birth defect could cause this to happen, sanjay? >> there's a couple. they're rare. i sort of was trying to piece this together, anderson, reading some of the descriptions of what happened to her. i want to show you a couple of images. i don't know if you can see these, but there's a normal looking brain and then the other side is a brain that has something known as a cavum septum pellucidum. it's an extra fluid-filled space sort of in the middle of the brain. you can imagine if someone were to be injured, have a bullet injury as was the case here, and the bullet were to traverse through that fluid-filled space.

. >>> plus, cnn's anderson cooper tells the world he's gay in a simple e-mail exchange. a lot has changed since elen degeneral rhus, tonight how more and more celebrities are coming out casually. >>> this is "nightline," july 2, 2012. >> good evening. i'm terry mor reason. tonight an extremely rich hollywood couple, high profile religion and divorce battle that's about to thrust both of them into the spotlight. katie holmes blind sided tom cruise with divorce papers after five years of marriage and asking for full custody of their daughter, suri. it's a surprise move that's raised a delicate question of faith and marriage. could cruise's famous devotion to the church of scientology be one of the causes of the split? here is abc's dan harris. >> reporter: in the celebrity divorces, this one is the block buster. it's got it all, fame, hundreds of millions of dollars on the table, and high-powered lawyers on both sides. to do it quietly, would be mission impossible. and further, inflaming this whole situation, the role of scientology. according to sources close to katie hol

now add in other minorities, anderson. this is where you see this is such an advantage for the president. the president is getting 95% of their votes. 10% latinos, that will be higher. that's the 2008 number. president gets 2/3. others, asians, native americans, the president is getting 2/3. if you add all of this up, 28% of the electorate, that's where essentially you get a 15 or 16-point lead for president obama. the only way to offset that is for governor romney to try to dent those numbers big, and then to win huge among the white vote, limiting the president to 38% at most among whites to have a chance to win. anderson? >> all right. johns, thanks. interesting to look at that. let's turn to a democratic strategist and pollster for the obama 2012 campaign. also romney campaign adviser tara wald. appreciate you both being with us. tara, i want to go back to romney's speech at the naacp. he said he expected a rocky reception from the crowd. john mccain used a very different tone in talking about candidate obama four year

and that's what anderson just did.ecause we know there's not been a more fierce advocate for antibullying measures and efforts than anderson cooper. no one doubted that he was for us. now everyone knows that he is us. >> chely wright, jess cagle, good to have both of you here. >> thank you. >> thank you. >>> target shooters in utah don't want to give up their guns, even when they are now being blamed for starting more than a dozen wildfires. this morning we'll take a look at what the state is doing about it. >>> and tomorrow, the boston pops. get ready for america's greatest fourth of july celebration on "cbs this morning." over the south pacific in 1943. i got mine in iraq, 2003. usaa auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation. because it offers a superior level of protection, and because usaa's commitment to serve the military, veterans and their families is without equal. begin your legacy, get an auto insurance quote. usaa. we know what it means to serve. a stevia leaf erased my fears. it mad

. >> well, that's exactly the case, anderson. you know, through leaked e-mails, through the whistleblow whistleblowers, the family did not know that the weapons found at the murder scene were tied into a atf gun trafficking investigation which eventually became known as operation fast and furious. until two or three months after brian's death. >> wow, two or three months. >> that's correct. even then, it wasn't a government official that gave us that information. it was the whistleblowers going to the media and the reporters presenting this information. and then the congressional investigators looking into it and providing information to the family. and that was a very disappointing aspect. and no one has ever apologized to the family for that or ever explained why that was the case. >> josephine, i mean, losing a son is the worst possible thing for a mom, for a parent. to hear that there was this whole other aspect to it, the guns involved that were supposed to have been tracked and to have not been told that for months, what we

that could fit into many categories, anderson. more details, we hope, but there has not been a lot of information, vournding the congressman and his condition to this point. that's why the rumors and speculation has been flying for weeks now since he's taken his leave of absence from capitol hill all the way back to illinois in his district. so much so that even following the doctor's statement that you just read, his chief of staff made a point to add, in addition, the rumors of him being treated for alcohol or substance abuse are not true. he's trying to tamp down the rumor that have been flying about what's really going on with the congressman. pressure has been mounting, even among fellow democrats for the congressman and his family to come forward and disclose more detail about what the congressman has been facing because it's been pretty much an information blackout. listen here to two democrats who themselves said it's time to come forward. listen here. >> people get sick. and when theme get sick they miss work. everybody i

anderson? >> two guys cutting open a watermelon. split it open by putting a bunch of rubber bands around the watermelon. i didn't know this could work. let's take a look. who knew? never seen that done. i wonder how many rubber bands it takes. let's take a look at this slow motion version. >> let's see this again. >> it's so slow we can't even see it. wow! look at that. >> that is your homework for tonight. find out how many rubber bands it took. >> thanks very much. >>> a piece of exercise you have to see. if you like the shake weight, the thigh master, you're going to love this new exercise machine we found in an infomercial from korea on the ridiculist next.. >>> time now for the g cleaner , putting us to work here in america and supporting wind and solar. though all energy development comes with some risk, we're committed to safely and responsibly producing natural gas. it's not a dream. america's natural gas... putting us in control of our energy future, now. >>> time now for the "ridiculist." and tonight we're adding whatever

the anderson case is erie similar to another case involving a fugitive slave also known as john anderson who fled to canada at the end of the decade to avoid prostitution for murder. arrested and brought before the court of queen's bench, anderson was finally freed on a technicality following intense public pressure on the british government organized in london by the foreign anti-slaveried society. both cases also raised questions about the political reach of american fugitive slave laws and the many ways opponents found to resist the enforcement at home and abroad. as in so many other instances, it was anderson, handy and lois who took the decision to act, to get on board the ships in baltimore and charleston and doing so they opened up a heated debate with international repercussions over the nature and legitimacy of the fugitive slave law. their actions and those of others were a direct political charge to slavery. anderson knew this, so did handy and lois. they had a profound sense of the meaning of freedom. when asked by the magistrate in savannah lamar, why he went on board the sh

i'm hoping to go over 100%, anderson.n more negative ad after the election just to get over 100%. >> you say you'll be disappointed? >> i'll try to save enough money to run one more after the election so it will be 101%. here's why. people already know a lot about the president. they don't know much about mitt romney. they know that president obama killed osama bin ladin, they don't know that mitt romney killed thousands of jobs all across america. i want to tell that piece of the story, and i think you guys ought to keep us honest. i think the press ought to fact check our ads about but when we take real people, put them on cara and tell their stories about what happened to their lives, it's pretty powerful stuff. >> these attacks on bain, focused in swing states, do you think they're working? >> no, because if they were working, mitt romney wouldn't have cut the gap against barack obama. primaries, mitt romney was down by 5, 6, 7 points in most of the averages. now he's running neck and neck. he's not really running a v

anderson? >> two guys cutting open a watermelon.plit it open by putting a bunch of rubber bands around the watermelon. i didn't know this could work. let's take a look. who knew? never seen that done. i wonder how many rubber bands it takes. let's take a look at this slow motion version. >> let's see this again. >> it's so slow we can't even see it. wow! look at that. >> that is your homework for tonight. find out how many rubber bands it took. >> thanks very much. >>> a piece of exercise you have to see. if you like the shake weight, the thigh master, you're going to love this new exercise machine we found in an infomercial from korea on the ridiculist next 37 [ male announcer ] while many automakers are just beginning to dabble with the idea of hybrid technology... it's already ingrained in our dna. during the golden opportunity sales event, get great values on some of our newest models. this is the pursuit of perfection. starts with arthritis pain and a choice. take tylenol or take aleve, the #1 recommended pain reliever by ortho

here's the deal, anderson. the jewish votes overwhelmingly vote democratic.f barack obama gets between 25% and 30% of the jewish vote, if he loses 3-1 is huge victory for republicans. it means florida goes republican. if he breaks 30%, those two states are in the bag and pennsylvania likely goes republican. that's the margin this race could come down to. >> do you think he made inroads with jewish-american voters? >> i think it's tough to say he made inroads. the think the major news coming over the last two days has been about gas. most of the press that's been covering right now -- i don't even know what his statements on israel is because everything i read is about the gas. what ari says is important. we're increasingly becoming a country of minorities. i think the republicans more broadly have to start competinging for more of these minority votes. especially in these key battleground states if they're going to be a majority party. >> you got to read more than the huffington post here. that's why you've been reading about the gas i think. >> well, they're

thank you very much for being with us. >> anderson, thank you.hank you so much. >> yes. >> so strong. >>> something dangerous found inside sandwiches served on four separate delta airlines flights. >>> plus, how a texas man found his car more than four decades after it was stolen. next. [ taste buds ] donuts, donuts, donuts! who are these guys? oh, that's just my buds. bacon, donuts. -my taste buds. -[ taste buds ] waffles. how about we try this new kind of fiber one cereal? you think you're going to slip some fiber by us? rookie. okay. ♪ nutty clusters and almonds, ♪ ♪ almonds. ♪ fiber one is gonna make you smile. ♪ [ male announcer ] introducing new fiber one nutty clusters and almonds. with 43% daily value of fiber for you. crunchy nutty clusters and real almond slices for your taste buds. >>> three teenagers in chicago are charged in the beating death of a 60-year-old. the teens videotaped the beating and posted the video on facebook. that is what led to their arrest. delta airlines says sewing needs were found in sandwiches. all the sandwich

. >> the young woman is petra anderson has plans to start graduate school at the university of maryland this fall but right now she is recovering in hospital after being shot four times. >> it has been crazy. i have been in shock. >> bri and says she petra anderson attended the university of the pacific together for three years. the two were in a small music program together. >> she is a composer that was a list of the. >> anderson is one of the 58 victims who police say survived the shooting rampage at a colorado movie theater last week. 12 others were killed. friends say anderson was shot four times including ones in the face but is improving after several surgeries. >> the campus community knew her well. she was a scholarship recipients. we're truly saddened by what has happened to her. >> good morning everybody. >> yesterday the alleged shooter james holmes had his first court appearance where a judge said he will be held without bond. prosecutors say they are considering going for the death penalty but will first talk to the victims and families. friends have set up a website raisi

here's why, anderson. he says it was too narrow in scope and the senator also says he has whistle blowers coming forward to him, saying that that nhtsa investigation may have been flawed. that's senator grassley's words. he wants to take another look at it. there have been 9,600 or so reported cases of this. you know, last march, we reported on your show, anderson about an internal testing document we got out of toyota, which seemed to indicate to us and a lot of electrical engineers we talked to that they did find electrical sudden unintended acceleration in one of its proto-type vehicles. toyota says that is not the case. the key thing is, we don't have any evidence that test was part of the government's review. we'll see what happens. senator grassley asking for a whole other investigation into unintended acceleration with toyota vehicles. >> appreciate the update. we received a statement from a toyota spokesman. there's no problem with the electronic throttle control systems in toyota vehicles. and all

for years we've heard anderson go on and on about some girl named katrina.ughter) standing in front of her house at odd hours, fighting with her and ending up outside in the rain. it was true love. of course looking back now it was suspicious that we never saw a photo of her. and their relationship always seemed strained. i mean who calls their girlfriend by the pet name worst natural disaster of the modern era. and of course, folks, no one, no one took more advantage of my absence from the scene than the you could ad-- coward in chief. you see this man is running scared, folks, because we all know mitt romney is the man we need in the white house thanks to his years of business experience at bain capital. so obama is now attacking romney's record. it's like he is hell-bent on making word bain synonymous with a source of harm or ruin. (applause) i'm mad, i'm mad. i am mad. obama in the last two weeks obama has spent a hundred million dollars in key battleground states running anti-romney ads like this. >> oh beautiful for spacious skies, for amber waves of g

anderson is in his second year of a five-year deal. according to the san francisco chronicle, anderson is in talks with stanford, university, for the same job. anderson told the washington post today that is not true. anderson took over as athletic director in 2010 inheriting a problem with serious financial problems. we'll of course continue to follow this story and bring you the latest as we get it. >> all right, that is it for us. the cbs evening news is next. >> join derek at 7:00 for the area's only local newscast. >> and don't forget, wusa9.com is always on. have a great night. good night, everybody.

anderson? for the shot, a chinese aerialist blindfolded walking backwards loses his footing. 650 feet in the air, somewhere in the middle of a 2,200 stretch of tightrope. imagine this? watch this. takes a bit of time, find hit balance, get back on his feet. amazingly he it. a camera strapped to his chest pointing at his feet. backwards he walks. this is the camera pointing at his feet. as he's walking backward. not giving up. but he falls. let's look at that again in slow motion. he later -- unbelievable. aye-yi-yi. >> there he goes. >> now, he later fell, he said, because of the wind and from feeling faint before the walking. we should point out he only suffered minor injuries thankfully. it could have been a whole lot worse. >> i'm going to channel my mother now. she would say this is what happens when people have too much time on their hands. >> well, it's -- yeah. i don't know. >> i'm just saying. >> you're just saying. >> i'm just quoting my mama. >> all right. a wise woman. >>> everyone w