that speech went viral, cameron russell, 90,000 views on youtube and cameron joins us this morning.radictory, a woman wildly successful in modeling advising people this is not a career path, but for new some ways it has been a career path. is it contradictory? >> i think what i was trying to say was not that you shouldn't pursue modeling if you can be successful, because it's been really great for me. i've received so many amazing benefits, i paid to go to college all of these people, you have to have the genetics to become a model. >> i encourage people to check out your tedex talk. i made my girls watch it and they loved it. here's what you say in this talk about kind of the you that we see in magazines and the real you. listen. >> for the past few centuries we have defined beauty not just as health and youth and symmetry that we're biologically programmed to admire, but also as tall, slender figures, and femininity and white skin, and this is a legacy that was built for me and it's a legacy that i've been cashing out on. >> you talk about constructions, you say this is me at a sl

cameron russell, on talking about modeling as a career. a/k/a don't do it. great talk. thank you. and christine romans. >> toyota, a big recall. faulty airbags and windshield wipers, airbag issue affects corresporespon corolla and corolla matrix vehicles, and lexus, 270,000 lexus i.s. models, let's talk about blackberry. research in motion blackberry 10 will be unveiled today. enhanced touch screen technology. something called blackberry balance. business and personal work separate on the same device and a redesigned app world. r.i.m. needs this to be successful. not pretty. soledad says in her technical analysis experience, that does not look good. over the past three years, down 76%. berry share of the smartphone pie continues to get smaller by the month. 5%, bottom right of the screen, down from 20%. >> didn't realize android 67%. and three years ago, android only 20%. ios, apple operating system, 20% of the market. people love web browsing and they love mobile downloading and stuff that we don't know -- we don't really use your blackberries for. we use this for e-mail, for wor

. >> tomorrow on "starting point," get your angel wings ready, victoria's secret cameron russell will be here. john berman, ooh! for the first time, "i'm interested." >> we had ben cardin today. >> c cnn newsroom" with carol costello is here right now. >>> gabrielle giffords, the nation marvelled from a gunman's killing spree. today she launches a new fight for stricter gun laws >>> million-dollar mystery an illinois man suddenly dies after winning the lottery but after toxicology tests show he was poisoned there are new questions this morning, who killed farush kan? >>> alabama rolls to its third bcs tight until four years but it was announcing brent mu mussberger's comments making news this morning. ♪ let's dance, put on your red shirt and dance the blue ♪ >> bowie's back and it's his birthday, ziggy stardust celebrated giving his fans a new song from his new album. ♪ let's dance, while color lights up your face ♪ >> good morning to you. thank you so much for joining me, i'm carol costello. we begin with a debate over gun control and new efforts to force stricter laws. former congre

the model cameron russell will join us to tell us she thinks young ladies should not following in hereer path. she gave a talk all about that. looking forward to that. >> speech so interesting. >> interesting, right? don't want to be this. and yet at the same time, she has a great message for young women. they can be anything they want. >> 42 minutes after the hour. 2012, a year for the record books. weatherwise, not necessarily a good way. alexandra steele with the numbers. >> 2012, warmest year on record, besting 1998 by 1 degrees, usually 1/10 a degree is the records, not a full degree. warmest march on record and july 2012, hottest month ever recorded in the lower 48. going down in the record books as one of the driest. the drought worst since the '50s, really exacerbating that dry, hot conditions, that is certainly not the case. texas in a drought, they need the rain. we picked up on average half an inch. some places in southern louisiana and southeast texas have picked up 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 inches. more rain on the way. today, last day of the rain and the forecast radar takes it tow