another simple example of loneliness are being alone there was a study at stanford university between eight ann coulter of girls how they use social the working. and the people who did the most amount of social networking and multitasking we're sort of together but not really have the lowest self-esteem analyst self-confidence. and if you were between eight and 12th who would look in the i the people you are talking with which is hard for teenagers and a lot of adults but that would compensate redefining a different -- different competency? >> somebody works that go with the name of dan russell and he has a concept of what he believes that education needs to be geared, he is not alone in this and unfortunately people are arguing the same thing we should be spending efforts teaching people how to find information on the internet. this is different from knowing so if i took all the electricity away and we have a blackout in washington we did not have electricity and i said if your devices don't work what do you know, ? the answer is they will say not much because they need to be able to

and in this approximate silence we have felt that not regreting has spared us loneliness. called at the door. you did not tell me about these hours, how thick they were and wounded. i hear myself telling someone to punch me just to figure the order of my beliefs. someone else in my clothes who would view this and move on. explain again the conditions that will bring along the morning and what it is here that convenes the night. and then the last poem is called upon living. they shove your feet out of the smokestack kitchen. they narrow the big sea sba a line of your sweat and then they take away your last word and then they take away another. now you put the keys back in your pocket and now you push on the door until it is in flame, until it is in flame. next reader is jane herschfield. . >> one sand grain among the others in winter wind. i wake with my hand held over the place of grief in my body. depend on nothing, the voice advices, but even that is useless. my ears are useless, my familiar and intimate tongue, my protecting hand is useless that wants to hold the single

one classroom has been set aside for the children to play games and read, to ease their loneliness. it also has an online hookup so children can talk with their parents. >> reporter: talking face to face with their parents is intended to ease the children's anxiety. >> mama. >> reporter: this girl is a fourth grader. her parents have been working in shanghai for the past six years. they only come back once a year. >> translator: i want to be with my mother all the time. >> reporter: her parents work in shanghai, selling home accessories. they wanted to bring their daughter to live with them in shanghai. but children from rural areas are rarely allowed to join schools in big cities. >> translator: i asked schools in shanghai, but they refused. migrant workers like us are the people who are behind shanghai's growth. we're paying a high price. >> reporter: for her parents, working in shanghai is the only way they can earn enough money to support their family. it comes at a cost. living far from their daughter. >> translator: when i see other children, i feel sad. they remind me of my d

he never stopped thinking about his days as a prisoner of war, the loneliness and fear.hat's why he started sending packages to the troops. to let them know someone, somewhere is thinking about them. >> when i send a box i put my name in it. so they know where i have been. maybe they do, maybe they don't. the one thing they know is that we care. >> at 92 now, lesterer is one of the few remaining survivors of the bataan death march. when asked how he survived his answer is inspiring. >> i think my first thought after that was i can't die. because the japanese want to kill me. they are working hard to do it. if i die they win. i was just making sure they did not win. >> just an incredible story. obviously doing so much good for the troops still over seas now. a check of the top stories minutes away. first, chasing life? learning how to put the right foot forward. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shake

he never stopped thinking about his days of war, the loneliness, the fear, that's one of the reasonssending packages to the troops. to let them know that someone somewhere is thinking about them. >> when i send a box, i put my name in it. do they know where i've been? maybe they do, maybe they don't. but the one thing they do know, they do know that we care. >> at 92 now, lester tenney is one of the few remaining survivors of the baton death march. and when asked how he survived, his answer is inspiring. >> i think my first thought after that was i can't die because the japanese want to kill me and they're working hard to do it. and if i die, then they win. and i just was making sure that they did not win. >> just an incredible story. and obviously doing so much good now for our troops who are still overseas. lester tenney there. a check of top stories ten minutes away, but first chasing life, learning how to put the right foot guard. forward with the spark miles card from capital one, bjorn earns unlimited rewards for his small business. take these bags to room 12 please. [ garth ]

so much, where does she go, where does she find the strength to battle the fear, to battle the loneliness?" >> through me, in the first months and maybe years of my marriage, i remember feeling extremely protective of my husband. and i kind of acted as... when we were together, i acted almost like another member of his security. i was always... >> hinojosa: i was shocked to read that, honestly. i was like, "oh, my gosh, she's standing in front of him?" >> it was just an instinctive... it was just instinctive, because... and this is where the answer to your question comes in. because he represented not only the love of my life and the father of my children and my partner and so much that was important to me in terms of my work, but he represented so much in terms of the hope and prospects for peace in our region, because of the example he set, and because of his constant 24-7 efforts to achieve that. i can attest to that, because he was working to achieve peace in his dreams. i heard it at night. and that is... so that was the reason that i felt so protective of him, because he was somethi

loneliness. the looming specter of valentine's day fast approaching.e day of the year february 13: desperation day. that's not a thing. it's a thing. much like valentine's day itself desperation day dates back thousands of years. barney: weddings were forbidden under ancient roman law, so saint valentine performed them in secret under threat of death. that's actually true. wait, there's more. this won't be. and right by saint valentine's side was his best bro saint desperatius, there to pick off insecure bridesmaids. whoa. check out that one. her body is a perfect x. player, play on. high v. oh, jupiter, what are your plans for me? 15 and still unmarried. and i thought pompeii was smokin'. every woman wants a date on valentine's day. that neediness reaches its climax-- what up-- on february 13. a magical night when a ten has the self-esteem of a four and the depraved enthusiasm of a two. now, there's only one thing you can't do. please say "widows." wherever you are, or whoever you're under you must get home alone by 11:59 p.m. otherwise, you're on a d

revealing his sadness, his loneliness, his loves and loves lost. ♪ all dressed up to go >> reporter:of today's country stars have called him the greatest living country singer. tonight, they remember him and the song that surprised even george jones himself. ♪ he stopped loving her today >> reporter: he was born in 1931 with a broken arm in sara ttoga texas. he remembered watching the grand ole opry with his parents. >> i said, momma, if i go to sleep, you wake me up when bill munroe comes on. and then eventually i was about 9 years old when i got my first guitar. you could beat me to death and i wouldn't let it down. >> reporter: his first number one hit in 1959. "white lightning." ♪ white lightning >> reporter: he battled drinking, battled with his loves, too. he met rising country star tammy wynette. in 1966, they married. she was his third wife. >> do you love me? >> reporter: along the way, he would reveal the secret behind his music. >> it's like reading a storybook, it's so true and so sad and i really get to live in that song in my mind, you know? >> reporter: it was just las

days full of loud, angry, determined crowds, and days deep in loneliness. peaceful marchs were met with applause in some places, violence in others. people were hurt, and people died. students and civil rights workers were hosed, beaten, jailed. strong leaders were shot and can killed. and killed. and one day, a bomb was thrown into a church killing four little girls attending sunday school. none of that happened to you. so why offer memories you don't have? remembering can be painful, even frightening, but it can also swell your heart and open your mind. whenever i see sheets drying on the line or smell gum bow simmering on the stove, a flood of memories comes back to me. in many 1953 -- in 1953 when i traveled in the rural south with a group of students, we received the generosity of strangers, african-americans who took us in when there were no places for non-whites to eat or sleep. they were strangers who gave up their own beds, dressed them in brilliant white linen smelling of mulberry and pine. they fed us from their gardens and were so insistent on n

loneliness being alone is also the way that creativity is born.studies are done of research scientists, for instance, the big break throughs in terms of medical leaps forward and other insights, they don't come when people are looking at their computer screen. they come in moments of reflection, where people are blue-skying it. they're kicking back, having lunch with their colleagues. that's when they have these moments of epiphany that turn research in a different direction entirely and lead to all kinds of gains. instead we note, general time we have a free moment, don't let yourself think, don't let your mind wander, check your e-mails, check your tests, that's not about creativity, that's accounting for information. >> megyn: look for outside stimuli bill o'reilly once told me i don't have a blueberry or a blackberry, i sit around and i think. to his own credit he writes his own show, dictates his scripts and he thinks about the issues and comes up, and you may agree or disagree with what he says, that's how he has the most powerful show in al

the notion of loneliness and to pair it with the idea of the stranger waiting around the bend with aommunity is out there and together we make it across the finish line. i thought it was a brilliant metaphor for this moment in time. >> i have to tell you -- it gets do me. i find boston and it's unique. all cities will say this and they have have their own character and their own sense of community. but boston is this closed-in, cold a good part of the year. you live inside, you're in together. the scenes and cheers are not made up, that really is true. everybody knows your name. it isn't something made up in hollywood. robert gibbs, you're a writer, you have to deal with this kind of thing. i have to tell you, this president, you can argue with him as a legislator, he's had his failures, successes, as a head of state he has come through like clinton did, as a personification of our country's unity, not its politics. >> in many ways, this is how we remember presidents. we remember bill clinton in being okay city. we remember george bush after 9/11 and you remember the moments in which

revealing sadness loneliness his love and love lost. >> all dressed up.orter: many of todayÑi country stars called him the greatest living country singer. tonight they remember him and song that surprise even george jones himself. ♪ he stopped loving her today. they place a wreath upon his. >>reporter: born in 1931 with broken arm. saratoga, texas t.he remembered watching opry with his parents. >> i said if i go to sleep you wake me up. bill monroe comes on and then eventually i was about nine years old i got my first guitar and you could beat me to death and i wouldn't lay it down. >>reporter: first no. 1 hit in 1959. him if white lightning. fell battled drinking. battled with his loves, too. he met tammy in 1966. they married. she was his third wife. him if ♪ along the way he reveal the secret behind his music. >> like read ago story book. it's so true and so sad and i really get to living that song in my mind. >>reporter: just last year at 80 years old when he announced plans to tour again and planned to call it the grand tour. >> this old house will n

the solar winds and storms, the loneliness. silence.ce the project will be broadcast as a tv reality show 24 hours a day. the sponsors say thousands are already applying. writers say just how suitable old people would be for such a trip. come to think of it, perhaps mars travel isn't really the answer. not if the multitude already lining up. it's beginning to sound like cancun or disney land. everything and everyone you want to leave behind may soon be on the way there. some years ago before the world became so global you wanted to scream,be a famous columnist wonered why the 1976 democraticbe national conference went off without a hitch in new york. then a city of high crime and low expectations. people seem so plight, he wrote. the only answer, he said, everyone in manhattan has been relocated to staten island and surrounded by barbed wire. unfortunately today, the very people we might want to get away from the civil libertarians, politically correct, talking head, would foil such an ingenious plan before we got off the launch pad. ho

. >> we know that forgiveness only nullifies the pain and hurt and loneliness and tears that we have caused because we truly realize the pain that we brought to so many innocent lives. we thank miss lawson. i thank my victim, sidney. and the boys. we know we did wrong. and we realize that. >> i want to thank all you guys for taking the time out to come up. this, today, is very -- i'm nervous, by the way. my victim's name is jenny crompton. i'm doing first-degree murder. i'm doing a life sentence for it. >> 20 years ago, mark smith stabbed his high school sweetheart to death on a hot summer day after school. >> she thought i was cheating on her. i didn't want to hear it. she got pretty emotional, you know, upset. i was getting upset. and with her getting upset made me get even more upset. it just went back and forth. got to pushing, you know. and then she is trying to tell me, well, you better go. you better go. i'm like i really don't care, you know? you're not going to tell me what to do. you are not going to push me around. she went to the kitchen. she come back out with this knife

. >> really it was just an opportunity to express to her in her moment of loneliness that you're not >> reporter: before laura could say thanks or even get his name, brent was gone. so, she thanked her mysterious benefactor on facebook. >> i put the thing on facebook yesterday just thinking a couple of my friends would circulate it. a couple thousand people shared it. tens of thousands and then this morning i woke up and it was over 100,000 people had shared it on facebook. it was unbelievable. >> reporter: word of the post reaches brent cunningham, by then all the way back home in alaska. but for something like this, an online thank you note falls little short. so, we bought brent a ticket and he agreed to turn around and take another marathon flight back to boston. we have someone who wants to say hello to you. >> oh, god. >> i love you. >> thank you so much. >> you're welcome. >> thank you. >> reporter: which brings us back to, what if? of course, there is no answer. but there is hope. some would say on monday, evil won. >> at times you might feel they might have won the battle. b

by her niece and she was getting older, lonelier "barack obama: the stories" about the tome stone never ended. how was she is going to protect the legend? a sudden new player picture. that's lincoln else worth who was the american explorer of antarctica. he approached her with the idea of naming his boat, which was going to go to antarctica after wyatt. and he created a little shrine on the ship with eye glasses she gave him and a rifle and all of these things. it was a great idea. it was hard to imagine. it was like naming the space shuttle after him. i tracked the story in the "new york times" there were hundreds of them. basically wyatt's name was in the newspaper at least once a month for six years. in the 19 30s. so take a look at the front page of the "new york times" january 22, 1936. this is the same day that edward the eighth is proclaimed the king of england and there over on the left-hand side is a story about lincoln who had been lost at sea and oops. how am i going get back to that? there we go. he's reporting aboard the motorship wyatt earp. it polished his reputation sudd

he's tired of the loneliness, the emptiness, the frustration, the hopelessness, so he prefers death.is being transferred to tennessee's death row located at river bend maximum security institution more than 100 miles away. >> we're getting rid of one of our most dangerous inmates. we just have to make sure everything sets in motion right and no mistakes are made. because when you deal with an inmate like that, mistakes cost you. i asked him how he was feeling today, and the statement he made was, "i'm alive," and, you know, he jokes about that. he jokes about it all the time. >> my life fits in two bags. >> see you later. all right. all right. that's part of prison life. you don't get attached to inmates. steve's a likable guy, but he's a very dangerous individual, and that's just part of it. you know, you see inmates come and go every day. and to me he's just one of the inmates that's come and gone. >> one week later, steven hughley was granted a stay of execution when he decided to resume the appeals process. he may have to wait out his appeals at another facility. in 2005 tennesse

let us sign up, sign in, and confess here at the altar of loneliness. >> sherry turkle has written a called alone together on just this point. talking about how the internet has produced this serial isolation. >> well, when i think the human is so complex, you know? and as we're relating here, we're relating on so many different levels that we don't consciously understand. i mean, we're actually smelling each other right now, but our, we, as we talk, don't know that, but our bodies know that, you know? my gestures, your gestures, the look in your eye. and the internet takes all that away. there was, there is one level of communication on the internet, which actually in a way is really insulting to the complexity of being human. >> how so? >> it limits us to one sense. >> one dimension. >> one dimension. and that's not who we are. the poetry, if you will, of life is reduced to this sort of dry, scientific, you know, it's the worst sort of prÉcis of who we are. and, you know, i don't have facebook friends. i have friends. and a lot of my friends play basketball. and when we play basket

i guess for most people when they come to prison, the hardest part about being in prison is the lonelinessere's no companionship while you're in prison. but that's not for me. i'm not lonely and i can have companionship. >> sex in prison is supposed to be a no-no but it happens. people spend a lot of time together. it is what it is, you know. >> this is my second time here at seward. the last time i was here, oh my god. me and the boyfriend lived in the same cell. we had the matching comforters and the matching jackets and whatever. we had packages come in and always have the matching set or whatever. we were a little couple, you know what i'm saying? dysfunctional but it's all right. so i don't try as hard to stay out of prison like i should. which brings me back to places like this. >> though both sam and polando talk openly about their sexual experiences in prison, their outlooks are quite different. >> of course i'm not. oh, my god. i don't want to get into my partners. but you know. i'm not going to go without. please. >> let's see. i've had relationships before in jail that were long

have newly arrived into the united states, often feel a sense of profound extensional loss and lonelinessfeelings about their homeland. students from strife-torn areas were more likely than others to report psychological symptoms like anxiety, depression and trouble concentrating and sleeping. more than a third of the students in our study reported that they had little or no opportunity, even to interact with native-born students. much less make close friends, that made me think about something that tamerlan tsarnaev is credited as saying on one of his websites, which is i don't know any americans, i don't understand them. i don't have any american friends. >> that begins this challenging irony. of the immigrant story. where you, you find so many people who emigrate to this country with such a profound sense of hope and optimism about what this country can offer them. what this country is. and part of the beauty of the character in this film, you have a person who wholeheartedly embraces that. and in a quick swing in a quick, in the quick paradigm swing, where there are almost then quickl

by her niece who decided she didn't need to share with her aunt, and josephine was getting older, lonelier those stories about tombstone never ended, and how was she going to protect the legend of wyatt earp? voila. a sudden, a sudden, new player enters the picture, and that is lincoln ellsworth who was the american explorer of antarctica. and he approached josephine with the idea of naming his boat, which was going to go to antarctica, after wyatt earp. and he created a little shrine on the ship with eyeglasses that josephine gave him and a rifle and all of these things. and teen thought this was a -- josephine thought this was a great idea. it's hard to imagine now, but it was sort of like naming the space shuttle after wyatt earp. i tracked the stories in "the new york times," there were hundreds of them. and, basically, wyatt earp's fame was in the newspapers at least once a month for six years in the 1930s. so take a look at the front page of "the new york times," january 22, 1936. this is the same day that edward viii is proclaimed the king of england, and there over on the left-hand

loneliness is something that you have to not be afraid of. >> charlie: you wear this as a badge of courage. >> yeah. it's very partisan. snairlt the idea that there were partisans in yugoslavia. >> it means warrior. charlie: the lovely thing about your parents, back to them, tell me if i'm wrong about this but as i remember it he -- he found her and saved her. she was almost bleeding to ath. >> yes. charlie: and then she comes back and finds him and he's almost bleeding to death gee same blood group. >> charlie: same blood group and they save each other. quite a story. >> then came the peace. then i was born. and then they discovered that in real life they have nothing in common. >> charlie: they have nothing in common but saving their lives. >> but at the same time two totally different backgrounds. my father liked toun the pig in the backyard of the house and have the drink with his partisan friends. my mother likes to go to the theater and the ballet. that's two different... >> charlie: didn't she become a curator at a museum. >> she was the director of the museum of art in the revoluti

i mean, we were loneliness, long-distance runner was the phrase in the '60s.? >> now we're much more part of the mainstream. we fought for recognition of this sport for a long, long time. >> reporter: the first running boom came in the 1970s. but the bigger leap was in the mid-1990s as more women stepped on the course. >> you can't even describe the change in 50 years. there were three women in the boston marathon, i believe, the year i won. >> reporter: only three women. >> there were three or four women in the field. they were not recognized. they couldn't have numbers. they didn't receive prizes or trophies or anything at the end. they were bandits. >> reporter: today they're part of the tradition. of the nearly 27,000 registered runners in boston this year, more than 11,000 are female. >> i haven't won a lot of marathons. this is the biggest victory of my life for sure. >> reporter: burfoot was able to turn his love of running into a lifelong career at "runner's world" magazine where he offers advice and anecdotes for the next generation. for the past four

the loneliness, the fear.ackages to the troops. >> they know where i've been, maybe they do, maybe they don't. but the one thing they do know, they do know that we care. >> at 92, lester tenney, one of the few remaining survivors of the bataan dait death march. how did he survive? >> my first thought was i can't die, because the japanese want to kill me and they are working hard to do it, and if i die, then they win. and i was making sure they did not win. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> we appreciate his stubbo stubbornness. >> amazing. >>> ahead on "starting point," he spent 11 years as norm on "cheers," now george wendt back at the bar. but this time he owns the joint. his pivotal role in "breakfast at tiffaniesytiffany's." but i wondered what a i tcustomer thought? is great, hi nia... nice to meet you nia, i'm mike. what do you drive? i have a ford explorer, i love my car. and you're treating it well? yes i am. there are a lot of places you could take your explorer for service, why do you bring it

he had never stopped thinking about his days as a prisoner of war, the loneliness, the fear.e reason he started sending packages to the troops. >> they know where i've been, maybe they do, maybe they don't. but the one thing they do know, they do know that we care. >>> at 92, he is one of the few remaining survivors of the bataan death march. how did he survive? >> i think my first thought after that was i can't die because the japanese want to kill me. and they're working hard to do it. if i die, then they win. and i just was making sure that they did not win. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >>> top of the hour, i'm brianna keilar in for brooke baldwin. fights between detainees and guards with improvised weapons, hunger strikes. it might sound like a prison riot, but it's not. this is all happening in guantanamo bay, cuba. you may not have even thought about the u.s. detention facility lately, but you can be sure there is a lot going on down there. in today's new york times, one of the detainees wrote a scathing op-ed detailing those hunger strikes that have b

he had never stopped thinking about his days as a prisoner of war, the loneliness, the fear, and that'started sending packages to the troops. >> they know where i have been, maybe they do, maybe they don't, but the one thing they do know, they do know that we care. >> at 92 lester tenny is one of the few remaining survivors of the ba ttan death march. how did he survive. >> i think my first thought after that is i can't die because the japanese want to kill me and they're working hard to do it and if i die, then they win. i just making sure they did not win. >> dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. >> a packed afternoon straight ahead including a look at the man behind the number 42, jackie robinson, talking to a fellow legend that knew jackie robinson as well. license and registration please. what's this? uhh, it's my geico insurance id card, sir. it's digital, uh, pretty cool right? maybe. you know why i pulled you over today? because i'm a pig driving a convertible? tail light's out.. fix it. digital insurance id cards. just a click away with the geico mobile app. try align. it's the num