but couldn't find it when she got up and suspected her bassett hound when he acted strangely. after ten days and the ring didn't come out naturally, she took the dog to the vet and had the ring removed and now she has it back. >> we'll never forget this. the ring and her have gotten more expensive. >> the vet told the family bassett hounds tend to eat rocks. sheer has expensive taste apparently. she now keeps her ring hidden at night. >> try not to think about that ring. >> i knew someone who had a bassett hound. didn't like rocks, he liked to eat people. >> imagine that. they're the slowest dogs out there. >> if you run fast, he can't catch you. >> exactly. >> it is balmy out there tonight. >> comparatively so. we were at 17 degrees the other night and now we're sitting with temperatures into the 30s in most locations. the lowest temperature out there is sitting at that 30-degree mark. again, our average low temperature this time of year sitting around 28. so we're well above average once again across the area today after just two days below average. 50 degreeses high tempera

the 10-month-old bassett hound named coraline was the on one in the room and looked guilty. a vet managed to remove the ring and both dog and ring are in good condition. >> i thought bassett hounds always looked guilty. >>> a new study challenges the current research on alcohol and breast cancer. >>> running a distant second in the polls, ron paul plays catchup in new hampshire. >>> the republican presidential hopefuls are heading into their final weekend of campaigning before the nation's first primary and even with all eyes on new hampshire danielle nottingham reports not all the candidates are there. reporter: while mitt romney sits comfortably at the top of the polls the rest of the gop field is trying to chip away at his lead in new hampshire. with a commanding lead in new hampshire polls mitt romney started his day in south carolina focusing his attacks on president obama. >> what would happen if we elect someone without experience to the white house? now we know. reporter: and his campaign strategy appears to be paying off. a new poll of south carolina voters shows ro

(cheers and applause) >> stephen: but you're on broadway with the great angela bassett. >> yes. >> stephen: how does it feel to be a broadway star? >> its phenomenal. i did theatre for 19, 20 years before i got discovered. and there's nothing like the feeling of being in front of a live audience and sharing the energy. like being with these guys. (cheers and applause) >> the live, the sharing of energy between us. >> stephen: i want to see what that is like. i think these guys are the greatest audience in the world. (cheers and applause) >> stephen: that does feel fantastic. >> so what i am trying to find out though is it's not a word. i'm going to say this anyway. so-- because your mom was a freedom marcher. >> stephen: my mother was at the march on washington in 1963. >> really? all right. >> stephen: and you were inside the womb. >> stephen: yes, she was pregnant with me, you got all these nonracial viewings. >> i think that's yes don't see-- that i soak in king's dream. >> through the waffle of the placenta. >> right on, right on, right on. >> all right. >> and where was your dad. >> s

we'll chat with angela bassett, the actress on broadway in a play that is a modern day retelling of what happened on the last day of dr. king's life. >>> also, in the state of arizona, ethnic studies ban books literally locked up. one of the those books was written by a guy named william shakespeare. "starting point" begins right now. >> welcome. everybody. the cruise ship rescue mission has now been suspended in giglio, italy. the cruise ship is now slipping which we'll update you on what exactly what means in just a few moments but it sounds like that ship which has been listing on one side is now going under. italian prosecutors have ruled out at this point technical error. the ceo is apologizing. he says he believes it is human error and the captain of that ship has been arrested and charge with manslaughter and abandoning his ship. the ship hit rocks, has 160-foot gash in one of its side. many people think the other side looks the same way. 2300 tons of fuel on board. at this point there is no sign of leakage. there are 14 people missing at lea least, including 2 americans and 6 peo

senate office building and in the campaign headquarters he later brought in leonard hall and jim bassett and bob wilson, congressman, was there to help in the scheduling of things. so that the campaign structure was unusual and often he would tell us both the same thing and we would talk back and for the to be sure we weren't duplicating each other. my impression at the time of the campaign was that he hadn't learned to delegate fully at that time. but the issues again were the national issues. we determined that the international relations ought to be our strength and -- another issue was the missile gap which was pushed by a guy name tom lamphier. but it was a very clean-cut campaign in which we talked issues and kennedy talked issues. we didn't try to snipe back and forth. we made a determination not to bring up the issue of his health, although there near the very end john roosevelt asked about it and i said go ahead and use it. so it was used just briefly by john roosevelt. >> what did you know about -- excuse me -- about kennedy's health and what was just rumor and so on? >> it was

probably going to lose the next french elections so they have the europeans have an extraordinary kept bassett shooting themselves in their feet. they keep complaining that. d. are hostages of russia in terms of gas sales in europe and they are not hostage to iran in terms of oil sales but the need to rein in oil specially do most vulnerable countries in the clip mad countries let's put it this way if you talk to anybody in brussels that it's not replaying the official line all the time independent minds in brussels they are somewhat about the fact they say look we would google to run so mara sit down with them and do an overarching deal of buying their oil and gas efore not constrained by the u.s. sanctions and now they are doing the same kind of sanctions proposed by the obama administration only two weeks ago so then it makes no sense that they defend this as a dual track approach sanction sanctions sanctions and then we fight iran to talk and there and says what kind of talk is this when they were being pushed against the wall all the time you don't respect us as a nation any of trainers l

. >>> a class action lawsuit filed against the company that makes skechers shoes, lisa bassett is onethe plaintiffs in the shoes. she claims they left her with some serious injuries. 36 other people claim they were injured too and part of that suit. our cnn legal contributor avery friedman weighed in. >> the key that holly and the class which she represents will have to undertake is to look at the so-called safety tests that were undertaken by sketchers. this is exactly the reason why the federal trade commission whacked reebok with about $25 million in fines because the question of the science. this usually affects women 40 and over. there's a real question of whether or not there are defects, it's a products liability case. we'll find out in discovery when the safety tests emerge. at that point we'll be able to judge whether or not the case is meritous. >> richard, quickly, what is the responsibility of a shoe manufacturer to ensure your safety when you're wearing their shoes? >> well, it's their obligation to test it to make sure it's sound and it's a viable product and not injure

. >> reporter: on a hot los angeles day, you will find scout bassett outside on the roof of the apartmentng logging miles on the bike. she is a dedicated multisport athlete, but take a closer look. scout has run marathons and raced triathlons all with one leg. >> this has been very good to me. it has gone a lot of long miles. >> reporter: she lost her leg when she was a baby and the beginning of a difficult childhood. >> i was burned in a fire in china, and when i turned 1-year-old, i was placed on the streets in front of the government orphanage. when i came here to the u.s., i was 7 years old and weighed 22 pounds. >> reporter: scout had never left the orphanage before being adopted and overnight she found herself with a new family in a new country surrounded by strangers an unable to speak any english. >> everybody just looking at you and wanting to know what is going on, who you are, where you come from, and i mean, it is like, i'm not even sure what is happening to me, and how i am i supposed to explain that to you. >> reporter: exercise became a refuge, and she saw other paraathlete

this bassett hound named tap coraline gulped down a woman's wedding ring.ing off when she goes to bed every night but couldn't find it one morning. she noticed that coraline was acting rather strangely and kept looking the other way and was considered immediately the suspect in the ring theft. after ten days, the ring didn't come out naturally. so she had surgery to get the ring out. now rachel has her ring back, but she keeps the ring hidden at night. good advice. >> she has good taste. she saw something valuable. put it in reach. >> it's a good thing she didn't keep it on her finger and have the dog chew her finger off. that would not be good. >> i take my ring off before i go to sleep too, but i put it up high. just so my kids don't hide it. could you imagine? i would never find it. >> your kids would go out and sell it. >> i know. >>> a new study says brain function could start declineing in your mid-40s. >> oh, really? that's much earlier than researchers previously thought. researchers say the brain's ability to function can start to deteriorate as ea

he's part bassett hound. >> it was the unconditional love of bo's buddy, the dalmatian, tritan that got the constant changes in other breast cancer diagnosis and treatment. >> i had friends and family around helping me through this but there is something, you know, whether they're at your feet or 80 pound dalmatian on your lap. it is one of those things that they're there and you know, you know that there is love. even though you may be feeling alone and frightened. they're still there. >> offering support to women with cancer is the primary goal of critters for the cure. proceeds from the calendars will support the unspoken side of cancer. the side that deals with the financial and emotional aftershock of a diagnosis. >> you shouldn't be in the situation where you have to choose one or the other. do i get a prescription paid for nausea medication or do i actually go to chemo. you need both. >> and so what we try to do is make sure that you don't choose. you need both. >> all of the women featured in this year's calendar are breast cancer survivors. but critters for the cure supports wo

and a bassett hound dressed up. you can't hear what he's saying but he's saying go niners. i know that for a fact. and a feline fan. the dog fan, the cat crowd. to share your 49er pride, please do it. upload video to u report abc7 news or e-mail. lisa, i know you will be in red and gold glued to the set for tomorrow's game. >> yeah, you know it. exciting. it will be wet, though. periods of rain throughout the game. you probably knew that. we've got still another system to move on through. we are getting set with the tail end of this one to push on to the south and east. but still part of it hung up to the south of us right now. but the main activity has been pressed on. we've picked up anywhere from 2 to 4 inches in our higher elevations. here's our roof camera. to a half-inch to nearly two inches in the urban area. definitely we've had the ponding on the road ways and it's been slick out there. here's a look right now live doppler 7 hd. you notice most of the activity is south into san jose and also eastward in parts of our east bay. but as we take another perspective, you

. >> on a hot los angeles day, you'll find scout bassett outside logging miles on her bike.closer look. scout has run marathons and raced triathlons, all with one leg. >> this has been very good to me. done a lot of long miles. >> scout lost her leg when she was just a baby. it was the beginning of a difficult childhood. >> i was burned in a fire in china and when i turned 1 years old i was placed on the streets of the government orphanage. when i came here in the u.s., i was 7 years old and weighed 21 pounds. >> reporter: overnight she found herself in with a new family in a new country surrounded by strangers and unable to speak english. >> everyone was looking at you, who you are, where you come from. and it's like, i'm not even sure what's happening to me. how am i supposed to explain that to you? >> reporter: exercise became a refuge. she saw other athletes race a triathlon with the challenged athletes foundation. >> being able to see that was something that changed my life forever, seeing what was possible out there. >> reporter: she started to race triathlons herself,

a little bit of chatter now, once again my friend carl bassett has been talking about it for years but it is entering the conversation again. >> japan, i care about it from the point of view they've bm become not kpe if i hancompetitf the strong yen. they've eased to be competitors. the koreans, too. they've seen to have made a bet on tvs, which was a disaster. corning in its quarter talking about how the koreans are overstretched, too, the japanese are overstretched. >> you mentioned on a positive note on the market, the golden cross, where the s&p 50 day moving average crosses the 200 day moving average. it's about to happen for the first time since 2010. >> showing shorter momentum is in tact. >> it's happened 16 times since the early 60s, 75% of the time following six months are up by an average of 4.4%. >> i want to see it first. now it's starting to get built in. if it doesn't happen, we're going to come in and say the golden cross didn't happen. i'd like to have it happen first. >> when we come back this morning, "squawk on the street" exclusive, live interview with the philadel