. >> you're in the cnn newsroom, i'm martin savidge, i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. don is far away on special assignment, as you may have just seen. las vegas. we'll be back in touch. >>> we have to start overseaes with that desperate national emergency now facing the people of the philippines. nationwide recovery effort just beginning after a tremendous pounding by a monstrous typhoon. this was the storm when it was tearing buildings to pieces and sending millions of people to any shelter they could find. a staggering number of people didn't make it. international red cross says the death toll may soar past 10,000, in all casualty figures finally in. >> in nearly every populated area, people finding clean drinking water and food, hospitals are overrun. and veteran emergency officials tell cnn that this is by far the worse devastation in the philippines that they've ever seen. >> paula hancocks is in an airport a few hundred miles south of manila. it took the full force of this enormous typhoon. tell us what the area looks like today and where do people even start to

. >> you're in the cnn newsroom, i'm martin savidge, i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. don is far away on special assignment, as you may have just seen. las vegas. we'll be back in touch. >>> we have to start overseaes with that desperate national emergency now facing the people of the philippines. nationwide recovery effort just beginning after a tremendous pounding by a monstrous typhoon.

i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. you're not going to believe this story.ry that every veteran, even veteran police officers are calling shocking. a couple in union county, north carolina in jail this hour after a deputy found a child head cuffed to a porch with a dead chicken hanging around his neck.

. >> i'm don lemon in for john r berman. >> i'm zoraida sambolin. >>> breaking overnight, super typhoon haiyan. a category 5 storm with winds topping out at 230 miles per hour. it is slamming into the philippines and happening right now and overnight and putting millions of people directly in harm's way. we go live to kathy novak who is live on the phone from manila this morning. i know it's difficult to get live images out of there because you're in the midst of this. can you describe what is happening right now? >> if i can give you a sense how big this storm is. it covers an area as large from washington, d.c. to miami. you said this storm is a category five. if we compare that to super storm sandy, sandy was a category three when it hit cuba and two when it cost the u.s. east coast. this is a category five and only because there are no categories above five. it is just huge. only three official reports of death but it's hard to get information from these hard-hit areas. communications are still cut to many of those regions. several aviation authorities haven't been able to make cont

don lemon, cnn new york. >>> the new first family of new york. let us know what you think, follow me at twitter and use hash tag ac 360. >>> rob ford and what happens after a politician goes on tv and admits to smoking crack in a drunken super. when the going goes weird, the weird turn pro. >>> a shocking revelation after cnn obtains video that could show what really happened to kendrick johnson in a new york high school gym. i'm beth...

your "new day" starts right now. >>> and don lemon! >> and don lemon! good morning.de it to friday. november 29th. it is 6:00 in the east. chris and kate are off but don lemon and rosa flores are joining us on the friday news set. >> good morning. >> we are all surviving after all of our turkey? >> a lot of alcohol. >> that could make for a very interesting program today. >>> it is black friday. the mad dash to find those holiday deals has begun. in fact, just look at the shoppers fighting their way it is a scene that is playing out across the country. crowds lining up. not always politely for things like clothes, electronics and more. with everyone looking to get a bang for their buck. assuming the stores have not sold out of the hottest items already. >>> let's start our coverage with zain asher at macy's flagship store in new york city. how is it looking there so far? >> reporter: hi, micaela. 15,000 people lined up yesterday ruffle around 8:00. i am told there should be a mad rush roughly around 10:00 a.m. black friday officially kicking off today. take

i'm don lemon. >>> new this morning.evelopment in the case against three teens accused of killing an australian baseball player allegedly because they were bored. prosecutors have upgraded the charges against one suspect. 17-year-old michael jones charged as an adult with felony first-degree murder, the same as the other two suspects. prosecutors claim jones drove the get-away car. >> you just heard those allegations against your son. do you have anything to say? >> no. >> is there anything you want to say about your son, ma'am? >> i don't want to say no more. >> the victim, 23-year-old christopher lane was jogging back in august when he was gunned down. >>> outrage in the motor city after a 19-year-old woman was shot to death. she was seeking help from a stranger? the middle of the night. a large turnout at a vigil last my for mcbrooiide who was kille saturday in dearborn, heights. her family say she was looking for help at a stranger's home after getting into a car accident. she wound up getting shot in the head and ki

the same way that since they're both on video, it's fair to compare don lemon's reporting to this dog milking a goat. (cheers and applause) well, i've got to say, chuck todd looks great in that hat. and this failure to launch is the end of more than just obamacare, folks. jim, bring down the krauthammer. >> we have not just obamacare unraveling, not just the obama administration unraveling, not just the democratic majority of the senate, but we could be looking at the collapse of american liberalism. >> stephen: you nailed it count chuckula. (laughter) obamacare's failure means liberalism is dead! i can see it just as clearly as if i'm about to do it at another camera. (laughter) just got back from the social justice rally which i attended because i believe in all citizens' shared responsibility and human rights regardless of race, class, creed or orientation. wait, what's this? i can't log on to obamacare? burn the gays! burn them! (cheers and applause) of course, i was just doing that in character. yes, nation, things are going pretty well for conservatives and we've handled this su

that's where don lemon is.e joined by anthony bourdain, who as you see, well, he will be rehearsing inside. they'll talk about the "parts unknown" season finale from las vegas. >>> the typhoon in the philippines is one of the worst recorded. we will go inside the typhoon where cameras were rolling as the storm hit. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative, we like interacting with people. so you have time to focus on the things you love. ink from chase. so you can. ingeniously uses radar to alert you to possible collision threats. and in certain situations it can apply the brakes. introducing the all-new 2014 chevrolet impala with available crash imminent braking. always looking forward. while watching your back. and recently the 2013 chev

i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us. you're not going to believe this story. we're going to begin with a story that every veteran, even veteran police officers are calling shocking. a couple in union county, north carolina in jail this hour after a deputy found a child head cuffed to a porch with a dead chicken hanging around his neck. you have some additional information about this and about the mother, but i can't believe this story. >> there are many shockers in this story, but one of those shockers, don, is that this mother works for social services. so above everything, she works for social services, and even though she was not there at the time that the deputies arrived, she is accused of being complicit in the mistreatment of those children. take a look at your screen. here are their mug shots. doren lee harper and wanda sue larson, both 57 years of age, now facing intentional child abuse, inflicting serious injury, false imprisonment and cruelty to animal charges. wanda sue larson is als

i'm don lemon, you're in the "cnn newsroom." it is 6:00 sunday morning in the philippines.unrise breaking on a national tragedy, and i'm talking about the utter devastation caused by an enormous pacific typhoon. the storm smashed into the philippine islands with a fury tearing roofs from buildings, ripping trees from the ground and cutting off hundreds of thousands of people from communicationsnd

. >>> hello, everyone, don lemon here in the "newsroom."th our live coverage. we're going to learn a lot of new things about what happened in los angeles including a new photograph of the victim. we hope to have that for you within the next hour. we'll begin, of course, in los angeles where we have just learned beefed-up security teams are monitoring l.a.x. airport police are getting lots of help one day after a gunman opened fire killing a tsa officer and bringing chaos to one of the world's busiest airports. >> today in our enhanced pl

>> don lemon. have a great weekend, everybody. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. >>> right now, the house is getting ready to decide on a new obama care plan. the republican bill would override the president's fix, but will democrats join the chorus? stay with us on that. . right now president obama gearing up for a critical meeting on his health care fix. he is holding talks with insurance company ceos. the white house briefing getting under way right now. right now, stocks are on the cusp of reaching a key milestone really, the dow is up again today and marching toward 16,000, but is it a sign of a recovering economy or a bubble just waiting to burst? >>> hello, everyone. i'm don lemon. do not adjust your tv sets. wolf will be back with you on monday. we are moments away now from that vote in the house that we have been reporting on here on cnn. the republican-sponsored keep your health plan act. as late as a day ago, it had a lot of democratic support. so i want to bring in dana bash on capitol hill where she has been stationed

. >>> hello, everyone, don lemon here in the "newsroom." back now with our live coverage. we're going to learn a lot of new things about what happened in los angeles including a new photograph of the victim. we hope to have that for you within the next hour. we'll begin, of course, in los angeles where we have just learned beefed-up security teams are monitoring l.a.x. airport police are getting lots of help one day after a gunman opened fire killing a tsa officer and bringing chaos to one of the world's busiest airports. >> today in our enhanced deployment for los angeles world airport, los angeles police department has committed additional resources. this morning i met with the federal air marshals and they're providing additional resources for us. obviously today and for the foreseeable future we'll continue our very high profile at the curbs and anywhere in those ticketing areas and anywhere on our campuses. >> we're also learning some new troubling clues emerging about the suspect 23-year-old paul ciancia. a source tells cnn the suspec

and don lemon, you have covered tornadoes, these epic disasters just as i have.ly is incredible to talk to these people who survive, especially 78. her heart stopped. you know, and just finding these people in the hours afterwards, it's pretty stunning. >> it doesn't seem real. and quite honestly, i'm not speaking for you. sometimes i'm almost embarrassed to stand here because here i have everything, my home, and these people are coming back, many times as we're doing live shots, and they're looking for anything that they might own in the wreckage, in the aftermath. it's just unbelievable. >> i know. >> yeah, all right, brooke, thank you. we'll get back. you're not on this weekend, and this story broke this weekend. horrific. north carolina sheriff's deputies say they found a house of filth, an 11-year-old boy handcuffed to a porch with a dead chicken around his neck. the person who did this, hiss foster parents. they arrested dorian lee harper and his partner, wanda sue larson on friday. investigators say what is doubly troubling is larson is a county social ser

i'm don lemon. a deputy sheriff walks up to a house, sees a child handcuffed to the porch by the ankles and there's a dead chicken around his neck. it happened. two adults, a man and woman are in custody at this hour and what the woman does for a living will surprise you. we are joined with the details on this. we have new video of the scene. what can you tell us about this? >> we have new video of the house, the outside of the house, of live animals, a chained animal and a dead chicken. we don't know if this is the one that was allegedly around this boy's neck. we have that video, folks. here is what we know. they are facing intentional child abuse, inflicting serious injury, false imprisonment and cruelty to animal charges. larson is charged with willful failure to discharge her duty as a public official. listen to this. she is currently employed as a supervisor of the union county department of social service. . this is what authorities found at her house, a dead chicken around the neck of an 11-

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>>> i'm don lemon, thank you so much for joining us.t area, and still, we're trying to get our andrew stevens up for the very latest on this. he's part of the folks in this rescue right here. he's going to explain this rescue which he took part in, he and some other members of our crew. the "cnn newsroom" is going to continue live at the top of the hour with more breaking news and more developments. and make sure you join us at 6:30 eastern tonight because we'll be talking about a very interesting subject. we're talking about the business of pot. the business of pot. some people say it is the fastest-growing business in the country right now and it has the potential to make millions if not billions for businesses. we're going to check it out. do you want to get involved in this business? maybe so. sanjay gupta now. we'll see you back live at the top of the hour. >>> welcome to "sg md." we got a busy, important show today. the food and drug administration is making a major recommendation. get rid of trans fats. it's the ultimate junk foo

top of the hour, i'm don lemon. thank you for joining us.d bad weeks. i'm talking about none other than the toronto mayor. and yes, this one was about as bad as it gets for rob ford. >> i can assure you i am not an alcoholic. i am not a drug addict. have i drunk and done drugs? yes, i have. >> i didn't hit you. >> those reporters are shouting, why should we believe you and how can we -- can you do this to your family? he apologized and apologized again for smoking crack cocaine, for doing things he calls sheer stupidity. he's sending lawyers after people who say he abused them physically and brought hookers into city hall. you can't write this stuff. he watched as the city council took away most of his power. after all of that, he says he's not going anywhere. the mayor of toronto could have a worse week coming up, but it's hard to imagine that. i want to bring in cnn's nick robertson. nick, watching this play out, this is one of those stories that you kind of -- it's once-in-a-lifetime. you've talked with the mayor's brother, and why does -

i'm don lemon. you are in the cnn news room. a lot of news to get to. an entire nation still in shock after one of the most powerful and destructive national disasters ever recorded. i am talking about the philippines where a massive typhoon ripped apart homes, flooded rivers and may have killed 1,200 people. the death toll will likely go up in the coming days as rescuers find more victims and the scope of the destruction nationwide becomes clearer. communications lines are down. the storm is not deed. people of eastern vietnam are bracing for what is left of the typhoon. it should hit on monday and could bring up to 12 inches of rain. cnn has correspondents throughout the philippine islands today. listen to andrew stephens describe what he experienced. >> no building escaping damage. destruction caused by the typhoon. roads are impassable. all communications are down. medical supplies are running out. food and water are becoming scarce. reports of looting are widespread. it's impossible, at this stage, to estimate the costs in human lives. we have seen

don lemon, cnn, new york. >>> the new first family of new york. let us know what you think, follow me at twitter and use #ac360. >>> next, rob ford and what happens after a politician goes on tv and admits to smoking crack in a drunken super. does he possible go nowhere and stays in office? when the going goes weird, the weird turn pro. >>> a shocking revelation after cnn obtains video that could show what really happened to kendrick johnson in a new york high school gym. ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ ♪ stacy's mom has got it goin' on ♪ [ male announcer ] the beautifully practical and practically beautiful cadillac srx. get the best offers of the season now. lease this 2014 srx for around $369 a month with premium care maintenance included. ♪ this is the creamy chicken corn chowder. i mean, look at it. so indulgent. did i tell you i am on the... [ both ] chicken pot pie diet! me too! [ male announcer ] so indulgent, you'll never believe they're light. 100-calorie progresso light soups. introducing cardiovi

[ cheers and applause ] >> we're back with wendell pierce and don lemon.us is chef roy choi. he's the author of the book "l.a. son." >> you're not a bad son, actually. i was surprised. >> no, i'm not. it seems nowadays somebody with a gun is shooting somebody. as many people in red state and gun country america, they like guns. i have to admit. i like guns. i like holding guns. i like shooting guns. i don't think i necessarily want my neighbor to have a gun, but i'm ambivalent. can the two -- this is more than anything else, i felt as i've come to know my own country, can the two americas be reconciled? this is a cultural thing more than really about the issues. there are now 2.5 million ar-15s in america. we clearly love them. and similar weapons, similar-type weapons. you've got 4 million. is that necessarily a bad thing? i'm going to ask you, roy choi, because i know of all the people i know you are the most good hearted, peaceful, socially conscious. i suspect you of leftyism. i don't think you're a buddhist, but you live a buddhist-like life in which

i'm don lemon. thank you so much for joining us.s angeles live we're awaiting a press comment there. in moments we'll bring it to you. in los angeles troubling clues are emerging one day after a gunman opened fire at l.a.x. killing a tsa officer and bringing chaos to one of the world's busiest airports. a source tells cnn the suspect 23-year-old paul ciancia had a note with an anti-tsa rant and the note reflected his fear of an ominous new world order. kcal and ccbs got this video and it appears to show the suspect handcuffed to the stretcher. cnn cannot independently confirm who it is. but we had video inside the airport moments after the shots were fired and you can hear for police screaming for people to get down. >> on the floor! on the floor now! on the floor! >> bags abandoned. so now stranded passengers are reclaiming bags abandoned in the panic and we're covering every angle of this story for you. kyung lah is live in l.a.x. and chris lawrence is near the suspect's home in new jersey and barbara starr live for us in washingt

i'm don lemon in new york. today is the end of daylight saving time.t your clock back an hour. daylight saving time officially starts at 2:00 a.m. eastern. okay? it's daylight saving, no "s." "black fish" begins in a moment. see you back here tomorrow night. >>> orange county fire rescue? >> 6600 sea harbor drive. seaworld stadium. >> okay. >> we actually have a trainer in the water with one of our whales, the whale they aren't supposed to be in the water with. >> okay. we'll get somebody en route. >> gate number three seaworld stadium. >> gate three.

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i'm don lemon. thank you so much for watching.and prayers go out to the people who have been really hit with this. our coverage on "new day" tomorrow morning with chris cuomo. in the meantime, our cnn special presentation. >>> in the average man's life, there are two or three emotional experiences burned into his heart and brain, and no matter what happens to me, i'll remember the 22nd as long as i live. >> there has been an attempt on the life of president kennedy. >> they are combing the floors of the texas depository building to find the assassin. [ gunshots ]. >> oswald has been shot at point blank range fired into the

don lemon. the breaking news here on cnn is one of the strongest storms ever recorded on this planet. i want you to take a look at these satellite images. it is typhoon hayian, also known as typhoon yolanda. chad, give us an idea about its scope as we look at these satellite images. >> we will never know, don, how big and high the winds were with this storm. there's not going to be one wind vane that will survive long enough to get up to 1935, if that's where it was. people out in the eastern parts of the pacific there, they don't fly into these storms. we would know what this storm was because we would have our ac -- c-130s in there looking a what the storm has done. this is the size of the storm right here from top to bottom. over here, this is the size of india. it would cover up the entire country of india. and when the small eye is a bad thing. think about a figure skater bringing her arms in as she spins on the ice with one foot and how fast she spins when sher arms are in as opposed to wh

and he's probably getting more angry mail at cnn than i do -- don lemon. good guys. this party has started already. >> salud. >> in detroit, people are pointing to an influx of artists, galleries, popup restaurants. there's no doubt, i don't doubt, that in the future, sooner or later, hopefully sooner, detroit will improve. things will get better. it may contract, it may be different. but it will get better. >> it will and it's going to look a lot different, though. >> who will live in the detroit of the future? that's -- that's the question i'm sort of asking here. >> i kind of figured where you were going with that. i think detroit will be even more diverse. it won't be as dark a city as it is now, right? so there's going to be a lot of gentrification and people with money, younger people as we saw in your story, people who like, you know, these unique kinds of foods are going to move into detroit. >> well, look -- >> same thing that's happening in new orleans. >> -- should thin crust pizza, hipster salumi, whole foods cupcakes, should they be the right of every am

i'm don lemon, you're in the "cnn newsroom." it is 6:00 sunday morning in the philippines. sunrise breaking on a national tragedy, and i'm talking about the utter devastation caused by an enormous pacific typhoon. the storm smashed into the philippine islands with a fury tearing roofs from buildings, ripping trees from the ground and cutting off hundreds of thousands of people from communications and any ability to move to safety. the people of the philippines are not only dealing with the cleanup and repair but the human cost is immense. early estimates put the death toll at more than 1,200 people and that's just in two coastal provinces. that number will likely rise considerably as casualty reports come in from rural areas. about 350,000 people are without homes today because of that storm. >>> and we have some remarkable images that we want to share with you, they are emerging from the philippines, many from right in the heart of the destruction. storm chaser james reynolds tried to bring people to safety in the hard-hit coastal city of tachlabahn. >> over here. >> okay.

don lemon, cnn new york. >>> the new first family of new york. let us know what you think, follow me at twitter and use hash tag ac 360. >>> rob ford and what happens after a politician goes on tv and admits to smoking crack in a drunken super. when the going goes weird, the weird turn pro. >>> a shocking revelation after cnn obtains video that could show what really happened to kendrick johnson in a new york high school gym. i'm beth... and i'm michelle. and we own the paper cottage. it's a stationery and gifts store. anything we purchase for the paper cottage goes on our ink card. so you can manage your business expenses and access them online instantly with the game changing app from ink. we didn't get into business to spend time managing receipts, that's why we have ink. we like being in business because we like being creative, we like interacting with people. so you have time to focus on the things you love. ink from chase. so you can. is what makes us different. we take the time to get to know you and your unique health needs. then we help

i'm rosa florez in for my friend don lemon. thank you so much for being with me on this saturday. we have a lot to get to, and we start with obama care take two. the white house said that it's a train wreck website that would be fixed by the end of november. well, tomorrow is december 1st. and if the site isn't fixed, president obama could see his approval ratings drop even lower. cnn's tory dunnan is covering the last-second fix-it from washington. >> reporter: it's been a frenzied race to fix healthcare.gov and today november 30th, is the day when president obama promised the website would be running smoothly for the vast majority of users. >> by the end of this month, we anticipate that it is going to be working the way that it is supposed to. all right? >> reporter: it's been two months since the botched rollout on october 1st. sparking a firestorm in congress, and forcing the administration to set a self-imposed deadline. >> the assessment that we have made is that it will take until the end of november for an optimally functioning website. >> reporter: the latest from jeffre

i'm rosa florez in for my friend don lemon. thank you so much for being with me on this saturday.ot to get to, and we start with obama care take two. the white house said that it's a train wreck website that would be fixed by the end of november. well, tomorrow is december 1st. and if the site isn't fixed, president obama could see his approval ratings drop even lower. cnn's tory dunnan is covering the last-second fix-it from washington. >> reporter: it's been a fr

my colleague, don lemon is going to take it from here. rt of the country very well. >>> hello, everyone. we're going to get right to it. make sure you stay put and watch. a lot of news to cover chblgt it's big, weather-breaking news in the upper midwest. powerful storms in just the past few hours. take a look at some amateur video of the twister hammering washington. illinois, look at this. washington, illinois, a small town of about 10,000 people. and as you can see, nothing was left standing. at least 26 states are now in the path of the system. >> so that is what it looked like blowing through st. louis. even without it,

don lemon looks back at his many achievements. >> bayard was at heart a militant and revolutionary inerved as a trusted a visor to martin luther king jr. but he's best known for organizing the 1963 march on washington. >> one man in america who could do it did it and that's why it happened. it had an architect. his name was bayard ruston. >> reporter: but at a time when intolerance ran high, ruston stood out for more than just his work on civil rights. >> it was just one of these facts of life. bayard is gay, he doesn't hide it. i said to somebody once that he never knew there was a closet to go into. >> he'd been attacked both for his homosexuality and also his political views. >> strom thurman did it on the floor of the united states senate. >> reporter: thurman referenced ruston's 1953 arrest on a public sex charge. >> the senators is interested in attacking me because he is interested in destroying the movement. he will not get away with this. >> reporter: the march was a huge success and exceeded expectations, but it wasn't the first time ruston's sexuality came under attack, som

don lemon is standing by.ard to believe there hasn't been a democratic mayor in new york which is a pretty democratic city, in a long time. that's about to change, right? >> reporter: yes, it is about to change, if it goes the way the polls are going. 65% to 24% democrat bill de blasio to joe lhota, the republican here. it has been two decades since there has been a democratic mayor in new york city and that was david dinkins. listen, bill de blasio has been running as an unapologetic liberal, unapologetic progressive, he says, and he says he will bring in a new era of liberalism to new york city. he's running on things like universal pre-k, charter schools, income inequality, really saying he is going to change the way that things are done under bloomberg and also running, saying he's going to get rid of that controversial police tactic in new york city called stop and frisk. so he says he believes the people here have bloomberg fatigue and he has been running very successfully on that and if things continue

don lemon. top of the hour here on cnn. thank you for joining us.ing news on cnn is tornado outbreak. tears across the upper midwest. >> our father in heaven, give us this diour daily bread and forgive us -- >> if you saw this out of your window, believe me. you would be praying as well. this is one of 11 confirmed tornados in illinois. as it hit the small town of washington near peoria. at least two deaths have been reported. this was the aftermath. nothing was left standing after the tornado was done. clean-up and recovery will take a very long time.

martin savage is in for don lemon tonight, taking to the helm here. you're a big gamer. >> i am.on. >> oh, that's fun. good to see you, too. >> thank you very much. get out there and enjoy what is a beautiful day. >> i know, it is. >>> we are going to start overseas right in the middle of a natural disaster that is growing more tragic every hour. i'm talking about the philippines. in every part of that country right now, people are struggling for food, safe drinking water, medicine and shelter. it was just the second day since a monstrous typhoon tore the fiphilippines apart. >>> in some parts of the philippines right now, the power could be out for months. entire homes flattened. hopts are trying to deal

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i'm don lemon. it is 6:00 here in the east in the cnn newsroom. thank you for joining us.zzly new details on the los angeles airport shooting. the shooter fired at point blank range at tsa officer hernandez who crumbled

. >>> here in the cnn news room, i'm rosa florez in for don lemon. we start with north korea. a plea from the white house, a requestions to release american detainees. an american veteran who served during the korean war apologizing to killing troops and civilians during the war. according to his family, he was detained while on a ten-day tour of north korea in october. the white house response says given his advanced age and health conditions, we urge the dprk to release mr. newman to he can return home and reunite with his family. the white house also urged them to release kenneth bay, another american held in the country for more than a year. let me bring in carl on the phone in tokyo. do we know if newman has had any contact with western officials? >> caller: we do. in fact, we understand from the state department that on saturday a swedish diplomat did visit newman. we haven't had word about the state of his health right now but certainly that swedish diplomats had access. u.s. diplomats can't meet because north korea and the u.s. don't have diplomatic ties. when one look