. >> pump up kicks, made a appearance in nirvana's anthem, now they party rock with lmfao. and cool sneakers once worn everywhere, are making a major secret. >>> and from miss america to desperate housewives, we thought we knew all about vanessa williams. tonight she opens up about a secret even her mother didn't know. >>> good evening. i'm cynthia mcfadden. we've reported many times on this broadcast about america's growing obesity problem. but tonight we bring you a new twist. an epidemic affects people who are a healthy weight. it's called mindless snacking. from gobbling chips on the couch to scarfing birthday cake at the office. we've all done it. it's wreaking havoc on people's health in unforeseen ways. neal karlinsky introduces us who one family kproconfronting the habits they never knew they had. >> meet the bolsteads of seattle. they see themselves as above average when it comes to healthy eating. they're in for a surprise. because they are among the millions of americans that nutritionists say are engaging in a potentially harmful habit. they call it mindless eat

next-to-last independent bookstore with a mind of its own, the next to last leftie looking for obama nirvana the first day of the wall street occupation set forth upon this continent a new revolutionary nation. [applause] >> in addition to its own programming as -- of artist talks, meridian has been a downtown host for san francisco states well-known port trees center. recent luminaries have included david meltzer, steve dixon, and jack hirsch man. >> you can black as out of the press, blog and arrest us, tear gas, mace, and shoot us, as we know very well, you will, but this time we're not turning back. we know you are finished. desperate, near the end. hysterical in your flabbergastlyness. amen. >> after the readings, the crowd headed to a reception upstairs by wandering through the other gallery rooms in the historic home. the third floor is not usually reserved for just parties, however. it is the stage for live performances. ♪ under the guidance of musical curators, these three, meridian has maintained a strong commitment to new music, compositions that are innovative, experimental, and

. >> this was listening to the dial tone times nirvana. >> and there's a transformation, there's a changet happens. and suddenly at the end, you're in a completely different landscape. so i love this idea of taking something simple like -- [ taps on mug ] -- and making entitle the weirdest sound you've ever heard. i feel like that's the voice of this show. >> radio lab is reinventing what you can do object radio in a bunch of different ways. >> so emily couldn't see, couldn't hear -- >> because remember she wore hearing aides. why couldn't she just put those in? >> we tried. >> that separates it from a generation, from every generation of public broadcasting, public radio shows before it. >> you go to a movie and it's like, there's crazy radical things that are happening underneath the story. >> he pays exquisite attention to what's going on. >> in terms of how it's cut, in terms of where the music is happening, in terms of the way the points of view are constantly shifting. >> and as they're chatting from up around them, floats the sound of where they're chatting about and the voices of

was it a trip to nirvana or a nightmare. >> we'll find out. >>> and carrie underwood.iew with her just ahead. all leading up to our huge live event tomorrow morning. carrie underwood takes over times square tomorrow. >> she's lovely, by the way. in case you didn't notice. >> josh, let's get news. >>> we're going begin with what could become the worst diplomatic crisis between the u.s. and china since the 1980s. a blind human rights activist who was under house arrest pulled off a daring escape. this morning, he's believed to be in the hands of american dip lowe mats, possibly inside the u.s. embassy there. u.s. and chinese officials are scrambling to try to work out a deal for his asylum. >>> it could be a rough day on wall street. the markets reacting to growing concerns about the economic crisis in europe. spain has fallen back into a recession. >>> drivers here getting good news this morning. aaa says gas prices have dropped an average of four cents per gallon in the last week alone. >>> now, a story of survival there the utah wilderness. last tuesday, victoria grov

the democrats out there see california as a nirvana, a theme of entitlement.real well, do you think the workers remind them to take a lunch break? >> greg: i don't think the court should get involved in issues unless it involves using microwaves in the work office. if you microwave fish or broccoli, it's disgusting. >> bob: this is disgusting. moving to westin florida to wage campaign for mayor. the current board of supervisors has decided they should not have in the town nightclubs, dance hall and skating rings. if it were up to me, have all of those things and a few bar bars, where people may or may not wear a lot of clothes. the idea with a town with bad nightclubs is the ridiculous idea i heard. >> eric: they don't allow dancing in new york city without a cabaret license, did you know that? >> kimberly: can you imagine that? ice skating and $is ridiculous. >> eric: this is. fewer regulation in westin but more -- >> bob: no, no regulation. >> dana: if this is what the town wants, that's fine. since i don't go out, it might be a good retirement home for me.

the front man of nirvana, kurt cobain still making headlines 18 years after his suicide, his unfulfilled all of that inspiration cobain, the muse behind this new book. letters to kurt. the author is eric erlandson and he drives me live from l.a. you're a songwriter, a musician, it makes sense that you would express yourself through something like this titled "letters to kurt." let me ask you 18 years later, what are you writing to your friend kurt cobain? >> i'm writing my frustration at the time and everything that had been going on in my life. i started writing the letters in 2010 and i was going through, you know, some financial issues and some contractual issues that were broken and i felt that he would be the only person that would understand where i was coming from. so i began writing those postponed letters to him just reflecting on my past. you know, it's like you have this -- you carry with you all these people that have affected your life and your experienceses and people that are now gone and eventually the burden becomes unbearable and you have to express yourself and i guess

. >> kind of nirvana for a guy like you. >> it was. >> big, good-looking ex-football player like him?and women, in southern california. like nanette. her while working at this gym. what did you think when you saw her? >> i thought she was a snob when i first met her. a little stuckup. she had the sunglasses on, you know, the expensive watch. she was a little snobby. >> reporter: well, at least she was at first. but -- so what made you friends? >> proximity. she was a fun girl. we worked out together. i'd say we probably worked out together more than we did anything else together. >> reporter: he was impressed by her intelligence, by what she told him about herself. that she had a business degree, for example. >> she graduated early from high school and she graduated early from college. >> reporter: by february 1994, ten months before bill mclaughlin was killed, nanette's affair with eric was in full bloom. chshgs given that eric was not exactly flush, trned out to be just fine, because -- >> she had no lust for money, as she talked about things and as she drove her new cars and as she

. >>> got to love a show that's playing nirvana off john's playlist "molly's lips."an check out our playlist at cnn.com/starting dlts point. >>> our "get real" this morning -- usually it's my favorite story of the day. today is no exception. started with a tweet back november 8th, election day. a local lawyer there, his name is jared klein, tweeted this. it's election day, people. get out there and vote for -- he listed a couple of people to vote for. >> so creative. >> yes. third guy is councilman jim k kenn kenney. jim kenney responded to the tweet with his own tweet. that is this. i'm not on the ballot today but thank you for the support and for supporting my friends. but he was on the ballot. it turns out, of course, it seems he was paying an outside media company called chatter blast nearly $30,000 a year to update, monitor and tweet for him. they have had tweets like this. it's april fools. someone tell me a joke. >> wow! >> and this. kind of looks like a snow globe outside. and this one. i'm giving up smiling for lent. so i thought i could get a new gig tweeti

a friend of the nirvana front man says that cobain was working on a new solo track that transcended anythingve been his white album, referring to the beatles album that inspired all kinds of new sounds 40 years ago. do these songs really exist? will we ever hear them? >> that tupac thing is really amazing >> but is grunge coming back? oh, no. >>> "early start" nerd now. it makes a brainiac's head explode. a star trek convention is set to unite all five captains on the stage for the first time. william shatner, captain picard, captain cisco, kate mull grew, and captain archer. they will all attend destination star trek london. it's expected in october, and they're expecting thousands of trekkies from all around the world. can you imagine that as you're walking through the streets? >> trekkies unite, and just in time for their world tour, which starts tonight, five guitars stolen from tom petty and the heartbreakers have been recovered. the guitars were taken last week from an l.a. recording studio when the band was rehearsing. petty had offered a $7,500 reward for their return, no questions a

democracy includes advance toward, compared to the rest of american history. 10 degrees south of nirvana united states has seen a progression up ideals. the living nature of the constitution and the influence of precedence are actively debated. >> the living constitution is an idea that is controversial. the idea that the constitution as drafted in 1787 and amended a few times since then, that constitution has devolved. >> many would say that the evolution of our federal government has gone well beyond what our constitution as intended, and that the correct way to change the federal government, if you want to see it do things that are not in the constitution, is to amend the constitution. >> the framers understood this. they knew we would discover pieces of the constitution that should have been written, but which were not, because they did not think of it. >> the process has only just begun. as we move into the future, article 5 will continue to allow us to move toward the milestones that we can reach. not only do we up hold a living constitution, but rather an eternally living constitu

this conjures up a nuclear nirvana that does not exist. experts agree that there is no purely technical solution. countries need to begin now to view their few cycles and choices. whether it is like reactors in china, russia, south korea, and india, or engagement in enrichment processing. they need to view those choices through nuclear security lines. this will be a more equitable -- but i did not say easier -- approach to reducing nuclear risk area thank you. >> good morning. i'm alex from princeton university. the four i turn to the idea that bob gallucci introduced and to propose my set of action items, let me briefly summarize the way we are today with regard to material and production. i am a member of the international panel on material. we annually update material on stocks. it also includes -- and you should have found in your press kit are related report which summarizes our numbers. overall, we are looking today at almost 1450 tons of high in -- highly enriched uranium and plutonium worldwide. combining several hundred thousands

this conjures up a nuclear nirvana that does not exist. experts agree there is no purely technical solution. so countries need to begin now to view fuel cycle choices whether it's to develop fast reactors like our friends in china, russia, south korea and india are doing or to engage in enrichment and reprocessing. they need to view those choices through a nuclear security lens. and ultimately, this will be a more equitable -- but i didn't say easier -- approach to reducing nuclear risks. thank you. >> good morning. i'm alex glaser from princeton university, and before i turn to the idea that bob gallucci introduced in the beginning, the idea of a fissile zero and, you know, to propose my, you know, set of action items, let me briefly summarize where we are today with regard to fissile material stocks and production. i'm a member of the ipfm, the international panel on fissile material, which annually updates our best estimates on global fissile material stocks and production. it's partly based on government declarations but also includes

broadened our idea .f democracy carried i compared to the rest of american history, we do not live that nirvanaive 10 degrees south of it. >> the living nature of the constitution and the influence of traditional presence are actively debated. >> a living constitution is an idea that is controversial. the idea that it was drafted in 1787 has to evolve. many would say, and i am amongst them, the evolution of the federal government has gone beyond what the constitution intended. the correct way to change that would be to amend the constitution. the founders understood this. they knew that as time went on, they would discover pieces of the constitution that should have been written. >> the process has only just begun. as we move into the future, our goal five will continue to allow unimaginable milestones to be reached. and internally living constitution, one that will always hold the american values of freedom and equality up. with a firm foundation set by the framers, the progress of the constitution will propel the country on board into the next 200 years. >> continue the conversation about to

an important meaning in people's lives, a 50 years from now we reach that kind of assimilationist nirvana in which you ask somebody to describe someone else so it would never come out come the voting rights act was nothing to say about race because at that point i will not be racially polarized voting and there won't be restrictions on people's ability for candidates because of race. right now lefthandedness versus righthanders based on the political role per process. there's polarized voting. people don't have distinctive means that they feel the political process ought to be responding to. so in the long run it stopped being about investment in american history for the last 400 years. the voting rights act i hate to ever quote karl marx, especially on television, but the literary that they state that traditional marx has will be a living at the voting rights act because it will no longer have any meaning. it will be on the books, but it won't plan the operative role. >> just one thing today, which is -- it varies between different groups. how we measure race in how you identify populati

if we don't live in a nirvana we live 10 degrees south of that. >> over the decades the united statesa progression of ladies resulting in the passing of new amendments. however, the living nature of the constitution and the influence of judicial precedents are still actively debated. >> the living constitution is an idea that is controversial. it's the idea that the constitution as it was drafted in 1787 and has been amended a few times that constitution has devolved. >> well beyond what our constitution had originally intended and that is the correct way to change the federal deride if you want to see it kugels the are not in the constitution is to amend the constitution. ischemic the founders understood this and they knew that as time went on, we would discover pieces of the constitution that probably should have been written but which were not because they didn't think of it. >> the process has only just begun. as we move in, article 5 will continue to allow it to move towards the milestones that can be reached. not only do we uphold the constitution but the internally living const