tween stars who are all the rage right now. tonight in our encore presentation, we visit with one of them, victoria justice, a seasoned veteran at 18. but what's the cost of fame so young? here's juju chang for our series "celebrity secrets." >> reporter: victoria justice is a child star who's just now coming of age. ♪ best friend >> reporter: she's packed a lot into those 18 years. she's worked hard for nearly half of them. like miley, the jonases and selena, victoria used a hit tv show to catapult into tween superstard superstardom. now she's breaking into movies and released her album. ♪ best friend's brother is the one for me ♪ >> i want my songs to be on the radio and i'd love to do a tour and do movies at the same time. >> reporter: victoria is an actor, a singer and a dancer, which makes her a triple threat on the hollywood tween scene. add cover girl looks and maybe she's a quadruple threat. >> i just hope it all works out because my family moved out to l.a. for me and i want to be able to, you know, buy a house for my

moammar gadhafi but some information has come out about just how deep the ties are and were there tween he and some high powered government officials from america it turns out it was just two years ago that a team of washington's best known hawks visited libya in a show of great friendship and unity let's look back to august of two thousand and nine where just released wiki leaks cables give an in-depth account of senators john mccain lindsey graham and joe lieberman meeting with gadhafi son to discuss a long term bilateral relationship between the two countries and a promise that the u.s. will provide arms and military gear to libya and take seriously its requests to be treated with more respect fast forward to today as we know these are the same three lawmakers who have said that the u.s. should have provided more weapons more support to the rebels to help help take down gadhafi and this is interesting too it's not just the lawmakers here in washington who can't make up their minds about the libyan dictator the lobbyists here in d.c. are in the same goat according to an article in the

that then you suggesting with curfews that for all of those things you point out about teens and tweens we need to have the government come in and do the job of the parents sorry i don't buy it and you seem from ben make feet oh and adam on a side note you were right when you said there is a fundamental acceptance of authority in the status mindset that sets establishment liberals and their followers apart from libertarians i would add something else the same except in some authority sense establishment liberals apart from actual progress is not just progress as a name only or pios as establishment conservatives have nothing in common with actual conservatives like most libertarians. no kidding wow and you know in england they're calling the anarchists who are protesting they're a nose an artist's a name only and for an email finally tonight we will hear from christopher bone who writes you should let dr tarpley at least finish his point without talking over him so much it was so annoying i know i'm so sorry i just much as i enjoy listening to webster if you don't stop him he'll just go

your average day consists of pacing stages, dancing vigorously and then sprinting from hordes of tweenser get in shape. trust me. if you're in this boot camp, you'll get in shape. here's juju chang. >>> before he brought sexy back -- ♪ i'm bringing sexy back ♪ >> reporter: or she did it again. ♪ i did it again >> reporter: justin timberlake, britney spears and the jonas brothers had dreams of making it big. >> he was a little man. >> reporter: johnny wright turned scraggly teens into platinum-plated megastars. how many bands have you managed over the years? >> back street boys, britney spears. boys to men. >> reporter: they haven't had a hit. every day, he weeds through aspires young stars. >> how to she sounds like every britney spears girl out there. i'm interested h this sound. i'm curious about the other one. ♪ got no money, baby >> all right. if you put a beat on this -- does this work now? >> reporter: the singers behind those voices want to come here, trophies and memories line the walls of the multimillion dollar compound in the florida suburbs. ♪ always in the limelight keep yo

corporations who are keenly aware that tweens, girls between the ages of 8 and 12, have $43 billion a year to spend on clothing, beauty products, books, entertainment and more. in recent months, abercrombie & fitch had to pull its padded bikini tops for girls as young as 8 after a public outcry. a french company selling loungeerie, get it it sounds like lingerie, for girls as young as 4 had to defend its products as innovative and unexpected. and an american company selling babi-kinis as young as girls three months old had to come out and say it's products were just for fun. all this corporate porn, as some critics call it, can make it tough for parents like diane when they go out shopping with their daughters. >> i don't really like it. it's just not a young person's outfit really. >> reporter: it's even tough for parents like madonna, who as a younger woman made parents squirm -- ♪ like a virgin when she ride around singing about being a virgin. now the international superstar has some parental concern. >> we have arguments about how short the skirt is or is there cleavage. >> repor

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and in the making of a tween star. they command a market of billions, but how long is too yoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyoyo >> closed captioning brought to >> closed captioning brought to >>> a dangerous drug is showing up in the east bay. it looks like a product you might add to your bath, but it caused extreme cases of paranoia and even death. the product is perfectly legal. >> reporter: they are called bath salts, but they have little to do with soaking in a warm tub and more to do with snorting for a quick high. the drug that became big on the east coast is now creeping its way to the east bay including livermore. >> so we wanted to get that out to the public and let them know, let parents know so they can look and make sure their children aren't involved in that. >> reporter: police believe the so-called bath salt contained synthetic compounds with a similar chemical structure to the illegal substances ecstasy and methamphetamine. snorting the salt can cause increased blood pressure and heart rate, huh louse nation

advance and match up a tween two thousand and two winter break no seven runner up is never to prove good preparation ahead of this month's u.s. open grandstand it was his near who took the first set on a tight grip but blake didn't wait long to strike back securing the second six one over twenty six. in the decisive set sitting thirteen aces no less no becoming forty six unforced errors to be played for the second time in the past fortnight. with. the new zealand rugby team will be the oldest and most experienced yet for the twenty eleven world cup a classic bledisloe cup match up against australia tomorrow in the tri nations should prove a kid parameter for the powerful test that bunch done carter and captain richie mccaw they've got for world player of the year awards between them on the part of a group whose ages. up to a record four hundred thirty three years that beats england's world cup winning squad dad's army in two thousand and three by ten years but all of these are hoping a perv twenty three year olds will gain year on quade cooper and country the veteran crunch with some fre

shape the past week a surge of violence in the middle east with fears of a deadly exchange of plywood tween israel and gaza might lead to the jewish state launching a new ground offensive. also bridgend fights back against recent riots with harsh sentences handed to even those who just thought about taking process with many saying the government's disproportionate response simply fueled public discontent. and as turmoil in global markets gathers pace following the u.s. credit status downgrade explores the credibility of rating agencies themselves on top stories this hour.

was to touch on the subject of abuse because i was like you know that's a family affair that's for tween a husband and a life we're going to stay out of it will want nothing to do with it at all his cousins as brothers everyone ran out the house none of his friends kicked to say they just laughed everyone just laughed but. they just let him beat me and left me when it's another guy you know and god forbid i hate i would hate to say if i would have stayed in a year longer i wouldn't be sitting here today tried crappy day or sit in jail somewhere and that's just honest to god true it goes around the two options that i saw at that moment either i'm gonna kill him only in jail or he's going to killing me it just spiraled aside one thing after another it was like you know like i was in a black hole everything to start caving in on me everything that i thought that was going to be you know when i met him and other marriage was supposed to be when him and i know we discussed our dating and our hopes and dreams and things that we want to do together everything just crumbled like a glass house yo

police stepppp up patrols after roving gangs of teens and tweens rioted and beat up store owners in response messages posted on twitter, facebook and myspace. in two sections of the city everyone under the age of 18 must be indoors by 9:00 p.m. on weekends. the mayor says violators could be fined and jailed. >>> and singer gavin degraw was forced to cancel a concert scheduled for tonight after an attack on a new york street. degraw was taken to the hospital after suffering a broken nose and cuts on his face during the sunday morning assault. his family says he is expected to be all right. degraw had been spending the summer touring with train and maroon five. >>> and that amazing long distance swim we told you about yesterday morning, well, now it's over. diana nyad's attempt to become the first person to swim from cuba to key west without a shark cage foror protection ended ear this morning. she was about halfway through what was expected to be a 60-hour swim. strong winds and currents and some injuries combined to end the attempt. after she got into a rescue boat she said stopping was "the

moscow show look sky was on the ground more deals are being made a new joint venture has been asked to tween russia's rostik knology and french aerospace companies suffer from the c.e.o. of stuff from small business so it's either multi-million the eurostar also will work on states of the or maybe the actions that stems. you are very very few. countries in the world master of the bible particularly provide extreme accuracy i'm very gay sure nobody here critical of the weapons i mean there is about two or three countries worldwide but a good week to get here but see the dream or a false you from. a he's very very significant reggie wise. secular markets this was the morning crude is losing ground off to climbing to the highest level in almost three weeks concerns about global economic recovery away on the price however the we could always giving some support brant lenders trading still at over one hundred ten dollars per barrel light sweet is just over eighty seven. asian stocks i love following mild gains on wall street in tokyo exporters are leading the losses on a strong young master was d

only that is good news but the reality on the ground is that no one here really believes that is a tween the two sides and will who really survive the test of time this is the latest violence started on tuesday in a three pronged attack that left eighty's rabies did that it was funded almost immediately with a strike and those airstrikes have been continuous since. there have been more than a dozen palestinians killed if the more these eighty grad and cause some rockets that had rained down on southern israeli towns killing one israeli and injuring many more so certainly the these since on the ground is that both sides are incredibly angry both sides are incredibly distrustful of the other and one of the sentiments being expressed here in israeli circles today is that the israeli prime minister been a minute and yahoo has been preparing for a war with gaza for some time and every day what happened on tuesday was just perfect opportunity to carry out the assault that the scenes. ties in with the current domestic problems. in israel this very weekend we saw the marches on the streets you h

of that sympathy here about so that it makes sense although the crisis will say that we're healthy tween a family and here is a find the kids don't tell you my god the heels on a tiny i'm full house which brick was level in your history you lot what if any have over to investigate them to pursue a suicide vest they didn't believe anything about sick abed if it was to be unsustainable and it's been over six then to them i was saying it was the prime minister that the pharaoh dad's house will call a day and return and hike with the christ in madrid and italy national said of course it's much bigger than the current product which caused the war neither of the trouble of people here say here in italy the economy is just too big an i.p.o. in other words much bigger than green island of course you could put together a private big bulk of germany as in the euro zone and all the e.u. even if it does want to pay out italy it just costs more to do sleep over this whole of the huge very fabulous ending because when the hell i'm saying i'm willing to accept this and we heard one of the world's big m

shape the past week a surge of violence in the middle east with fears of a deadly exchange of plywood tween israel and gaza night leads to the jewish state launching a new ground offensive. also bridging fights back against the recent riots with harsh sentences handed to even those who just thought about taking process with many saying the government's disproportionate response will simply fuel public discontent. and as turmoil in global markets gathers pace following the u.s. credit status downgrade explores the credibility of rating agencies themselves on top stories this hour. with a look back at the past week's top stories on the latest developments this is on sale life and moscow reports of tracer bullets some explosions over the libyan capital have caused many so i believe it's the beginning of the end all colonel gadhafi stronghold but dr franklin lambert the director of americans for middle east peace who's currently in tripoli told us on the phone a short while ago the city is quiet now and then he reports the rebels are making a move on the capital or false. i just got back to our

that respect tween e.u. nations make it almost impossible to reach a meaningful solution on the crisis. this is a fascinating meeting because i actually it demonstrates that within the e.u. and so there is a very very significant struggle and argument over what is the process by which the eurozone needs to be saved the difficulty is that a lot of the politicians are owned and bureaucrats involved simply have been too slow to realize the extent of the problem because they managed to pin to with a crutch for the past five or six years they thought they could keep doing so you keep throwing these false agreements that signed wonderful everybody says the euro zone crisis is solved and there is within a matter of a few weeks we have a further crisis in another a cause. i mean we need more money very very fundamental argument going on within the european union the euro zone needs to come together with sensible moves because at the moment they've been throwing money at any possible problems and all they're doing is

stock indexes plummeted but tween five and seven percent on monday now all of this coming just after standard and poor's downgraded the u.s. credit kicking america out of the triple a club this is already creating a climate of uncertainty or increasing this climate of uncertainty and lack of confidence among investors when they look to the stability of the u.s. economy now the u.s. president barack obama of course tried to inject some optimism into the public and into the markets on monday saying that america has been and always will be our aaa economy he says that washington's problem is not a lack of policy or plans but a lot of lack of political will and he says many lawmakers have been insistent on drawing lines in the sand and now it is urgent for all parties to come together to come up with a long term approach on how to reduce the deficit in the u.s. the u.s. debt of fourteen point three trillion dollars and growing and at this point many investors as we saw on monday are selling now and asking questions later clearly the markets have not been reacting favor favorably to the f

tween politicians and police about how the riots in the u.k. . prime minister david cameron and turns them into u.s. experience for help well fed up local communities in terms of vigilantes. three years on remembers of the victims of a short but bloody conflict in georgia. to reclaim its territories hundreds died in the ensuing five day war and the republicans are still trying to recover. u.s. regulators declare war on the ratings agencies after america has a long treasured school gets to send the world markets into a state of. exclusive.

observations so i try to address them as best i can our first comments and i came to us via twitter truly a tween to ask about how the media is framing the whole debt ceiling debacle will lead s. and p. downgrade in the united states from aaa to double a plus she wrote why can't the media open their mouth and blame who is really responsible republicans julia you're right on the facts here's what s. and p. had to say in their eight page report about why they dumped our credit rating for the first time in this nation's two hundred thirty plus year history they said quote we have changed our assumption because the majority of republicans in congress continue to resist any measure that would raise revenues a position we believe congress reinforced by passing the act but most of the mainstream media has not focused on the republican refusal to close close loopholes for corporate jet owners or oil companies at all instead they're blaming the government spending which s. and p. did not cite as the reason for the downgrade in fact even the debt ceiling debate had nothing to do with spending it was about

in the last few years actually in the last twenty years there were a tween government to a new mostly. new supporters change the character of these rarely economy and we would see that the rich people in israel the most richest families that control most of the big companies in israel enjoying benefits and enjoying their better condition to grow and to develop while day middle class is actually fighting in the in order to have enough money to to live here in israel in a decent environment so this is something that people fear for many years now and this is the first time the news where you can hear such a big wave of voters saying we want to change just the system and we want to call go back to do more socially you know we're certainly seeing some pictures here taken recently showing just. tens of thousands up to one hundred fifty thousand people making their voices heard in the streets but again it's the centuries old story isn't that of the rich get rich richer and the poor get poorer now this is the third week of protests but we haven't seen any decisive action from prime minister

in the restaurant two years there were a tween government in a mostly. changed character with these wally economy and we would see the day reach people in these were the most richest families that control most of the big companies in israel enjoying benefits and enjoying their better condition to grow and to develop it while they. actually found eighteen in order to have enough money to live here in israel you need a decent environment so this is something that people fear for many years now and this is the first time that to me is where you can hear such a big wave of voters saying we want to change just the system and we want to go back to the more socially policies. well we are keeping a cost of elements in israel and artie's in tel aviv is actually posting comments on our twitter account that underscore calm doing so on what's happening at the so-called israeli toe rear ahead of the mass rallies tonight have a look at your screen right now are checking out the latest tweets one of the one of the most recent ones cites a slogan she's heard that we are

. >> it's interesting john chambers was kwoited as saying on average it take tweens ten and 18 years country to reclaim the aaa rating one its lost it. it could be a long-run problem for the u.s. certainly that criticism coming from the nation, even stronger coming from president obama's former economic adviser. larry summers. he was also the former u.s. treasury secretary tear. >> the track record has been tear about and as we've seen this weekend its arigt ma tick is me worse. that's not the large issue here. the large issue is the house majority played chicken with america's credit worthiness and america's families are now going to be the losers, losers in terms of higher interest rates on their mortgages, losers in terms of what this is going to mean for employment, that we're about got critical economic problems. >> no mincing his words. this is "world business today." you've heard about the ratings agencies, the markets and the trillions of dollars but what does the downgrade mean for average americans? cnn hit main street usa to find out. >>> what i think the s&p thing did was

reporter: ironically, these 21-year-old men play high school boys on a show that attracts even younger tweenspens to work for our fans. as young as4 years old to people our age and the parents. >> reporter: to create big time rush, 15,000 boys were competing for four slots. this is kendall's audition. james has the chops. he sang in opera at age 8. ♪ >> reporter: that's excellent. nice. scott fellows is part task master and part chaperone. the executive producer that created the show. you scoured the earth. >> we were not going to be satisfied until we had the chemistry. you hdad a guy that could dance but didn't have the acting or the comedy. >> reporter: they all still remember the moment three years ago when they were told they made the cut. >> i was more freaking out. i knew it was a big responsibility. >> scary. >> here we go. >> everybody has a different idea this their mind of what it's like to be famous. it's a much harder and less glamorous life than you think. >> reporter: jc chasez hasas be this their shoes. as part of the boy band 'n sync. >> you know this opportunity can only com

the idea is to build grass roots support among american teens and tweens to help peers in developing countries stay in school, stay free from child labor, and safe from violence. >> if you educate one girl and she educates her community. if we inspire one girl with girl-up, she inspears her community to get involved. >> suarez: less than one year old the girl movement caught the attention of first lady michelle obama who recently invited girl-up girls to the white house. >> keep it up. >> if we get millions of girls around this country engaged, pretty soon we hope they're going to be the next generation of women leaders. >> suarez: so far 200,000 girls across the u.s. have signed up. almost all the money they've raised is already helping to fund u.n. programs for girls in liberia, ethiopia, maul awey and guatemala. >> most of them live in abject poverty. they're lacking in education. many of those girls don't learn how to read write or do their numbers. often times they're married by age 15 and pregnant soon after. >> suarez: on this day in chicago project girl performers tackled gir

reporter: ironically these 21-year-old men play high school boys on a show that attracts even younger tweens who as young as 4 years old up to our age and thehe parents and everyone. >> bingo. >> reporter: it spoofs the high grossing entertainment machine they're nocaught u uin. >> impressive. >> reporter: what does that feel like to be the cog in the machine? >> i feel like for us it's become a lifestyle. this big time rush. >> it's bigger than all of us. >> there's so much going on so it's like, you know, i mean i sleep, eat, drink, wake up, everything big t te rush. >> reporter: nowadays, the tv stars have become real-life rock stars on an international rock tour. >> getting off a plane in germany we had like 100 people waiting for us at the airport. in a different country that we had only been to like once or twice. >> reporter: the exposure is a welcome change of pace having spent the last 3 1/2 years on a hollywood sound stage. >> it's literally a box for 16 hours a day and it's dark so sometimes we show up. it's nighttime and it's nighttime. we never see the sun. >> reporter: how much

controversy that is raging right here in america where this year in fashion has been the year of the tweens competing to dress litite stars like 13-year-old elle fanning who in these marc jacobs ads seems to have the steamy stare down pat and 14-year-oldctress haley ste steinfeld in these miu miu ads looks like a child bride. it makes you wistful for th the '80s when a fully clothed brooke shields generered a firestorm with this ad. >> want to know what comes between me and my calvin's? nothing. >> what was right for a 14-year-old is now right for a 10-year-old then right for an 8-year-old? what more needs to happen before everybody shouts enough. >> where are we heading? a lot of people asking that. as for thylane, the 10-year-old we reached out to her parents and agent but got no response. >> she wasn't the only one in the french "vogue" that ages. >> there were several other -- two other i believe young girls in the french "vogue" spread but their poses and the looks on their faces not quite as suggestive so a lot of attention on thylane. >> thank you. it is time for you to weigh in. do

circle, about this diameter, a little piece of paper and an inkwell and her father built this the tween two windows and i felt taken by her. she seemed to rise and there was suchbetween two windows and i felt taken by her. she seemed to rise and there was such a connection with her. the journals were published for the first time and some of the thrillers from her secret literary life, some of them were coming out. i was working at w gb h so i was always talking to my friend nancy porter and directing the film we made together. i went to nancy and said this, that and the other and she said let's make a film like judy garland. so 20 years later we completed this film which will be seen on american masters on december 20th at 9:00 p.m. and you will see a little bit of it here. so a way to introduce louisa is to show you the opening, a little clip of our film and you will see what a woman she was and how many aspects she had to her life. then we can talk about the bookmark. i wanted to write a book about lousia may alcott for a long time but didn't have the credentials at that point. when w