and i will say this right into the camera, thank you ted turner. because it is ted turner who is the body, strength, spirit and money behind this project. fit were not for ted turner, nobody in hollywood would care if this film is made. we have dealt with an astonishing variety of -- i won't get into it. it's been an interesting experience, to say the least. but because of ted turner, we are making a movie. and i hope all of you get excited by that. the release -- this is a big screen feature film. it will be released probably christmas 2002. the filming should go from the end of august into december. you have to cover two seasons. i talked about this before. you have chance lorz bill in the spring. you have to film it when there is green leaves. you can't film it in when the leaves are changing. then you have fredericksburg which takes place where there are no leaves on the trees at all. you have to bridge the two seasons. and they'll be doing that from august to december. so i knew about that. so i thought i would just answer it first. anyone els

ted turner. and newt gingrich. and that's -- i don't know if that's a stretch or not, whether he was -- is or should be a southerner. because he was born in pennsylvania i think. just because he represented georgia and taught at west georgia. well, anyway. "time" has tended until very recent years to be a very conservative, very loose, lucite publication you might say tending towards republicans and consensus sorts of people. chiang kai-shek made man of the year in 1937, madam chian made the team. mao tse-tung never made person of the year. when "time" decided to acknowledge the american woman in 1975, they had some significant people, billie jean king and others, but they somehow in their list of folks on the cover or pictures of people on the cover overlooked betty fredan and gloria steinem. this is a pretty establishment, up east sort of people. and so i wonder about nominating someone. the person i'm going to nominate, however, achieved probably the first thing he did in 1862 of great consequence was to frame s

ted turner has a letter on the cnn web site right now. you can go check it out. mr. turner cites a number of arguments as to why we should not get oil from canada. first, he says well, that oil that we get from canada, we'll just export it so it won't reduce gas prices in the united states. but a recent department of energy report dated june 22, 2011, u.s. department of energy report says just the opposite. it says that the crude we bring in from canada will be refined in the united states and that it will lower gas prices in the united states on the east coast, on the gulf coast, and in the mid-midwest. not "may" reduce gas prices, "will" reduce gas prices, east coast, gulf coast and the midwest. well, then mr. turner's letter says, well, the pipeline will leak and, gee, we -- we don't want a pipeline that leaks. yet, as my second chart shows here, this is the second keystone pipeline. this first keystone pipeline's already been built. he said, well, that keystone pipeline leaked and so we can't build the second one because the first one leaked. well, the first one h

michelle turner is on the red carpet as hughouston's friends colleagues stream into the award ceremony and share their memories. what are you hearing? >> reporter: well, tedy wrangled maroon 5 here with me now. i've been talking it has been a different mood here on the red carpet. these guys are lightening it up a bit for me, and we appreciate that. on music's biggest night, we're talking about music's biggest story. even though you play pop music and rock music, i'm sure whitney had some influence. >> she had a tremendous influence on everybody. everybody is realizing that the hard way after all this time. it's just so shocking and sad. we don't really know what to say. it's a somber vibe. understandably so. now, what we have to do is spend the day and night celebrating whitney because that's the most important thing to spin this into something good. take whatever good we can. we love her. everybody loves her. it's a really tragic loss. >> reporter: some people have said we thought it was a cruel joke. we didn't believe it. we thought it was one of those bad twitter stories. >> it doesn't feel real at all. it makes us really sad. i know it's a basic way

ted? >> all right. casey wian with the latest on the investigation for us from los angeles. whitney houston's death is not stopping tonight's grammy awards. initinischelle turner is on the carpet. what are you hear sog far? what are people telling you? >> reporter: what we're hearing right now on the red carpet is a lot of solemn, a lot of heavy hearts, and with me right now i do have one of whitney houston's closest and dearest friends for the past 13 years, miss kim burrell. kim, you told me just a minute ago that the last time you spoke with whitney was yesterday. >> it was yesterday. i got to l.a. for this, and she told me to call her when i got here. we were going to go to the clive party last night. so i called her and i missed her, and so i was in baggage claim, she called me and missed me and left a message about 2:00. and i checked it and she said, hey, call me, yorn where you are. call me back, call me back, and i called back several times and, of course, i didn't get an answer because my friend had gone. and she was in great spirits, as always, and just left a message in the spirit that she would when she couldn't reach me. it's just the friendship