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What's Next? Pennsylvania Primary April 22; Polygamist Sect Secrets; Conversations With Black America; Airline Headaches: Who's to Blame?; Protests Follow Olympic Torch; Third Round of Masters Tees Off

Aired April 12, 2008 - 10:00   ET

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BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Yes. Classes canceled, students urged to leave the campus. Vandalism and threats force a university to close.

T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: Also, more than 3,000 flights canceled, thousands of passengers still waiting. American Airlines promising to get things back to normal this weekend.

NGUYEN: And hundreds of women and children taken out of a Texas religious compound. This morning we'll look at the small town taking care of all these people.

From the CNN Center, this is CNN NEWSROOM. It is Saturday, April 12th.

Good morning, everybody. I'm Betty Nguyen.

HOLMES: Hey there, folks. I'm T.J. Holmes -- 10:00 in the morning here in Atlanta, Georgia, 9:00 a.m. in San Angelo, Texas.

Let's get you caught up on what's happening all over the place. We're going to start with politics.

A busy day on the campaign trail. You see on your screen there Senator Barack Obama. He's in Muncie, Indiana, right now.

The other two shots we're looking at there are two events that are happening. We're expecting Bill Clinton to be speaking at one, Hillary Clinton to be speaking at the other. Both of them running a little behind.

You see a gentleman on the stage there on his cell phone. So I don't know exactly what's happening there. But we're keeping an eye on all of these events.

We do want to go ahead -- there he is, Senator Barack Obama. He's been talking about a number of issues. Let's just dip in, listen to what he's talking about now.

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SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D-IL), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: ... had outstripped the capacity of a broken politics to solve. I was betting on the American people that they were tired of a politics that was all about tearing each other down. They wanted a politics that was about lifting the country up.

I believe people were tired of spin and PR. They wanted an honest conversation between their elected officials and the American people about how we were going to actually solve problems.

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Most of all -- most of all, I was betting on the ability of ordinary people to come together. You know, some of you know I now live in Chicago, but I'm not originally from Chicago. I moved there after college.

When the steel plants closed, there were a group of churches that were trying to figure out how to deal with the devastation and how to get people back to work. And so I worked as a community organizer with these churches, setting up job training programs for the unemployed and after-school programs for youth.

HOLMES: Barack Obama there. A kind of familiar part of his stump speech, talking about his background and working as a community organizer there on the streets of Chicago.

Kind of hit on other themes. Issue #1 right now certainly the economy, certainly where he is in Indiana. Also in North Carolina. Also Pennsylvania, which has its primary coming up a short time from now.

Paul Steinhauser, our deputy political director, is in Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, where a lot of those folks have their minds on the economy.

Barack Obama this morning, didn't get to hear everything he was talking about there, but we expect him to talk more about these controversial comments of his in which he calls some of the folks in Pennsylvania bitter because of what's been going on. Of course, Hillary Clinton fired back and said people aren't bitter. John McCain jumped in as well, jumping on his comments for calling folks bitter.

So we expect that to go away, or you expect the opponents to continue to ratchet up that conversation?

PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR: I think you could see it last for a couple more days. Barack Obama, you know, when he made those comments he was really, again, talking about issue #1, that some of these people in some of these towns have been really hard hit, are just so disillusioned with the economy and the lack of no jobs, that they're going to vote on other issues, not on the economy, because they don't think the government can help them anymore.

They'll vote on guns and on anti-gay marriage amendments and things like that. So that's what he said he was trying to say.

And as you mentioned, T.J., both the Clinton and McCain campaigns are trying to paint him as kind of out of touch with average Americans. So it will be interesting to see how it plays out in the next couple days.

Right now though I've been looking at the newspapers across the country so far today, and it's really not front page news. So maybe it's too early or maybe it's just not going to be front page news. But Barack Obama just now, in Muncie, Indiana, talking about issues number one and two.

He was talking about the war in Iraq, all that money going over to Iraq, whereas it could be better spent maybe right there in Muncie, Indiana. And why is he in Indiana, as Hillary Clinton as well? That state votes just two weeks after Pennsylvania. A lot's at stake. All these states matter a lot.

HOLMES: And is he not necessarily giving up on Pennsylvania, but Hillary Clinton has had a lead there for quite some time. He was closing that gap a bit in some of the polls we saw. These comments about bitter Pennsylvanians don't expect to necessarily help him out.

Has he still been going after Pennsylvania hard? He's got a lot of money he can spend and throw at advertising.

STEINHAUSER: He sure can. If you watch TV here, you're seeing a lot of Barack Obama ads. He's outspent Hillary Clinton in the state about two or three to one. He'll be back here this week. Both candidates will be back in Pennsylvania coming up this week.

Our latest CNN Poll of Polls shows just a four-point Hillary Clinton lead right now. That's down from about 11 or 12 points just a week ago. So the race is tightening up. Will these comments hurt him? Maybe, maybe not.

But remember, it seems he survived the Reverend Wright controversy without too much of an effect in the polls. So maybe he'll survive this one as well. Maybe not.

HOLMES: We will see how this one plays out.

We're looking at a live picture here, Paul. Don't think you can see it, but Hillary Clinton arriving for her event there in Indianapolis, Indiana.

You can see here there from that camera shot. She's in that crowd. And that's not her -- it was somebody there, of course, with their camera phone trying to get a shot there of the former first lady, now presidential candidate.

But want our viewers to know we are keeping an eye on both of these events. We expect here -- there she is. You can make out the top of her head there, shaking some hands and greeting some folks. Expecting here -- there she is with Evan Bayh, a very popular senator there from Indiana who is a supporter of hers, expected to help her out greatly in that state.

She's going to take the stage. We're going to keep an eye on her comments, Folks. We'll probably bring you some of her comments live when she starts speaking.

But Paul Steinhauser, our deputy political director, we're going to be checking in again with you again this morning. But thank you so much for your help thus far.

And folks, you can hear much more from these candidates a little later today. You can join the best political team on television for CNN's "BALLOT BOWL," today, 2:00 Eastern. And be sure as well to tune in for a special presentation of CNN NEWSROOM tonight, 10:00 Eastern. "Route 2008" with Senior CNN National Correspondent John King, looking at the issues affecting you. He's coming to us live from Pittsburgh tonight.

NGUYEN: Well, let's take you To Texas now. And the lives of more than 400 children are in limbo this morning. They were removed from a polygamist compound once run by Warren Jeffs near the town of Eldorado.

A hearing is set for next week, and that's going to focus on where the children will go. CNN has learned that the same type of abuse allegation that led to this raid is now coming from a young girl with a sect in Arizona.

CNN's Sean Callebs joins us from the city of San Angelo with the latest.

And let's start with the children there. Where are they today?

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, if you look behind me, you are looking at Fort Concho, an historic fort here in the town of San Angelo, about 45 minutes from Eldorado, where that -- where the compound is for that religious sect. Most of the kids are here, but there are two locations. All 416 are basically right in this small area in San Angelo -- Betty.

NGUYEN: As far as volunteers, they are working with these children. At the same time, I'm sure they're learning a lot about them.

What have you been able to discover?

CALLEBS: It's interesting, because basically the state is working with its child protective services, as well as a volunteer group that has a great deal of history in setting up shelters. They worked at length after Hurricane Katrina, Hurricane Rita.

Basically, those two entities are trying to talk to the children to find out, A, how they're doing. They've also sent mental health specialists in. They're looking at a number of things, because we know that a lot of these young girls are actually mothers at age 14, 15 and 16. So they're talking to those young ladies to see how they're faring, to check their parenting skills.

They're talking about how they are coping, living in the kind of conditions that they are behind us there. And by all accounts, they say that they're doing OK. But it's only been a week, and certainly they have to be very confused about what's going on and why they were removed from the only home that they've known.

NGUYEN: And we are talking about over 400 children, as you pointed out, some of them teenage mothers. Will they be sent to foster homes? What's next for them?

CALLEBS: Right now they had indications that they were going to begin sending these children to foster homes. And we're talking about kids from 17 all the way down to just a few months old. But that is on hold, because there is going to be a hearing coming up this Thursday, and potentially there could be scores of attorneys involved if you're talking about 416 children.

Also, Betty, there have been calls coming in to a hotline here from people around the country wondering if their relative or if their child could be somebody that had been held in that compound against his or her will. So they're trying to check that information out as well.

NGUYEN: And again, this isn't just, you know, a dozen, two dozen -- these are several dozen, hundreds of children. How much is this costing the town? Because obviously they need food, they need shelter. And who's paying for it?

CALLEBS: Well, it's costing the town about $60,000 a day. It's costing the volunteer organization that's come in to work with them about $25,000 to $30,000 a day. So collectively, you're talking about close to $100,000 a day.

I had a chance to speak yesterday with a spokeswoman for the mayor's office. And she says the state is basically telling the city, do what you can, take care of all these kids, they've been through a lot, and in the end everything will be taken care of, meaning the state will come in and work with the city. But, you know, that's an awful big financial burden to take on.

NGUYEN: $100,000 a day?

CALLEBS: $100,000 a day to house these 416 kids.

NGUYEN: All right. Sean Callebs joining us live. Thank you, Sean -- T.J.

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HOLMES: All right. We've got to get quickly back to Barack Obama, talking about the controversial comments in which he called some of the voters in Pennsylvania bitter.

Let's listen in.

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OBAMA: ... things are changing. That's a natural response.

And -- now, I didn't say it as well as I should have, because the truth is, is that these traditions that are passed on from generation to generation, those are important. That's what sustains us. But what is absolutely true is that people don't feel like they're being listened to. You know?

And so they pray and they count on each other and they count on their families. You know this in your own lives.

And what we need is a government that is actually paying attention, a government that is fighting for working people, day in and day out, making sure that we are trying to allow them to live out the American dream. And that's what this campaign is about.

We've got to get past the divisions. We've got to get past the distractions of our politics an fight for each other. And that's why I'm running for president of the United States, and I think we've got an opportunity to bring about that change right here and right now.

But I'm going to need your help, Indiana. I'm going to need your help.

HOLMES: That's Barack Obama. Listening to him in Muncie, Indiana, at a rally there.

And what we wanted to dip in here and listen to was the fact that he was responding to comments that he made that have come out, that certainly his critics have jumped on, and also his political opponents have jumped on, in which he called some voters in Pennsylvania bitter. Precisely, he said, "It's not surprising that they get better. They cling to guns or religion or antipathy, to people who aren't like them, or anti-immigrant sentiment, or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations."

And what you were hearing right there was he's not backing away from those comments. He says, yes, in fact, people are bitter for a number of reasons. He said maybe he didn't say it the way he should have, but he said it in San Francisco at a fundraiser. Many people took it as if he was being condescending to some of the voters, some of the middle class, the lower class folks. And some of his critics certainly have run with it.

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HOLMES: Well, all students at Chicago's Saint Xavier University are being asked to leave the school by noon today.

NGUYEN: Officials closed the Chicago and Orland Park campuses of the Catholic university indefinitely. That's after threatening graffiti was discovered twice this month at a freshmen residence hall.

Officials say a message found on Thursday read, "Be Prepared to Die on 4/14." University officials closed the school for safety reasons.

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JUDITH DWYER, PRESIDENT, SAINT XAVIER UNIV.: This is extremely disruptive to the academic year. It's upsetting for our students, our faculty, our staff, our students' parents. This is a very disruptive situation that has occurred.

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NGUYEN: The FBI is helping Chicago police with security on campus.

Well, Virginia Tech, Northern Illinois, both universities where gunmen opened fire. You can watch the CNN SIU special called "Campus Rage." The documentary looks at efforts to identify the warning signs and stop campus violence. That's tonight at 8:00 Eastern, only on CNN.

HOLMES: An emotional mother and child reunion in Houston. A 2- year-old girl you are seeing there was actually abducted from a daycare center. She's been found safe, reunited with her family, as you see there.

Investigators say a woman working as a trainee at the center took the child yesterday. That woman now facing kidnapping charges.

NGUYEN: Well, a field trip to a brothel is a bit unusual for college students, but that is exactly where some students from Randolph College in Virginia went. About a dozen of them visited Nevada's Chicken Ranch, perhaps one of the world's most famous brothels. And they were given a tour of the place and listened to lectures from the women who worked there about the business of prostitution.

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ELIZABETH-ANN ROWLISON, PROGRAM COORDINATOR: We've talked a lot about how we use sex and women's bodies to sell things of all kinds, and the brothel industry seemed like the perfect intersection of all of those things.

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NGUYEN: Well, one student said she found the women were happy doing what they're doing. She says the cultural idea that these women are forced to do it isn't true.

HOLMES: Well, many black college students these days, black college students, they have a lot of opportunities, they have a lot of options, they have a lot of what Dr. Martin Luther King was fighting for them to have these days. But still, many of them believe that this country is plagued by racism.

I talked to students this week at North Carolina Central University, an historically black college. Listen to what they had to say as part of our conversation with black America.

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HOLMES (voice over): Black students at North Carolina Central and campuses across the country have inherited a better America from their grandparents and great grandparents. But some seem to have also inherited racial resentment.

RACHAEL PIERCE, NCCU FRESHMAN: We still have, like, racist people here, and it it's still an issue obviously.

HOLMES (on camera): Would you find it -- would you at all say this is a racist country?

PIERCE: It is. It really is.

HOLMES: Today, 2008, the United States of America is a racist country?

PIERCE: It is.

HOLMES (voice over): These students have never been forced to sit in the back of a bus. They have the right to attend the school of their choice, and have enjoyed many other rights that generations of black Americans before them didn't have. Still, all say unequivocally that this is a racist country.

When asked to explain their experiences that have shaped their opinion, they don't cite personal experience with racism, they cite news stories -- the Jena Six.

VENISSA NELSON, NCCU FRESHMAN: Those boys -- I don't feel like they were treated fairly.

HOLMES: Michael Vick...

JERMAINE GETER, NCCU FRESHMAN: Racism in America is highest, I would say, like right now, in the past year. Because if you look at the news, like, last year, Michael Vick got arrested for dogfighting. You know, we had seen it all over the news.

HOLMES: Some students like Don say many young people use racism as a free pass to underachieve.

DONALD LASTER, NCCU SOPHOMORE: Just an excuse that they can find for them not working, basically. For them not having a work ethic, they want to blame society and say, oh, just because I'm black people are looking down on me and I can't find a job.

HOLMES: Though the students we talk to haven't lived racism themselves, they've heard stories from older family members. WESLEY LINZY, NCCU GRAD STUDENT: These are things or issues that everybody talks about on a daily basis. They may not say it in front of everyone's face, but I know they talk about it behind the scenes. And I just think it is a good topic, and it is a good subject, and I think it's something that we need to talk about and move on.

HOLMES: People are talking. It is the moving on that has proven to be difficult.

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HOLMES: And you can learn more about the black experience in a CNN.com special report, "Black in America."

NGUYEN: Well, you know, Hillary Clinton is talking as well today. And she's dealing with the bitter comment referring to Barack Obama. She's in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Let's take a listen.

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SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D-NY), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I think hard working Americans are right to want to see changes in our trade laws. That's what I have said. That's what I have fought for.

And I would also point out that the vast majority of working Americans reject anti-immigration rhetoric. They want reform so that we remain a nation of immigrants, but also a nation of laws that we enforce, and enforce fairly.

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You know, Americans are fair-minded and goodhearted people. We have ups and downs. We face challenges and problems. But our views are rooted in real values, and they should be respected.

You know, Americans out across our country have borne the brunt of the Bush administration's assault on the middle class. Contrary to what Senator Obama says, most Americans did much better during the Clinton years than they have done during the Bush years.

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So if we are striving to bring people together -- and I believe we should be -- I don't think it helps to divide our country into one America that is enlightened and one that is not. We know there is an unacceptable economic divide in America today, but that is certainly not the way to bridge it. The way to do that is to roll up our sleeves and get to work and make sure we provide once again economic opportunity and shared prosperity for all Americans.

NGUYEN: And you've been listening to Senator Hillary Clinton speaking today in Indianapolis, Indiana. At first she was addressing the comment by Barack Obama, where he was responding to a question and referred to the people of Pennsylvania as being bitter for losing jobs and watching those jobs go overseas, and dealing with the economy as it is today. Clinton responding, saying that she has seen people who are resilient and who are more optimistic.

Of course we're going to continue to follow all of the candidates on the campaign trail, and you can hear much more from them coming up a little bit later. Join the best political team on television for CNN's "Ballot Bowl." That's at 2:00 p.m. Eastern today.

HOLMES: And still ahead here, the Dalai Lama presides over a humanitarian convention this weekend in Seattle.

NGUYEN: Will he use the forum to address the Chinese crackdown in his native Tibet? That story is just minutes away.

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NGUYEN: Well, many of you might be making summer vacation plans here in the United States. Veronica De La Cruz shows you one place with an international flavor that you might not have considered while you're on the go.

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VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN INTERNET CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Boutiques, exquisite sushi bars, and the scent of cherry blossoms -- the things can you expect to experience during a vacation in Japan. Or Japantown.

PETER FISH, "SUNSET" MAGAZINE: Everybody knows San Francisco's Chinatown, but a lot of visitors from outside the Bay area don't realize that San Francisco also has a really cool reving Japantown. It is a really fun place to go to experience Japanese culture.

DE LA CRUZ: Just a mile from San Francisco's Union Square, visitors to Japantown enjoy karaoke lounges, restaurants, theaters and merchandise from the Far East. And after that long day out in the city, why not relax like the Japanese?

The Kabuki Hot Springs, which is really quite inexpensive compared to a lot of your day spas. You have communal bathing options if you want. You can pretend you're in Kyoto or someplace.

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NGUYEN: Well, you know, too many travelers caught behind the eight ball. More flight cancellations by American Airlines just adding to the problem.

So who's at fault here? Well, we're going to ask an airline travel expert about that.

HOLMES: Also coming up, Olympic torch protests capturing world headlines. But how are the demonstrations playing in China? That's ahead. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

NGUYEN: Welcome back, everybody, on this Saturday morning.

I'm Betty Nguyen.

HOLMES: And hello there. I'm T.J. Holmes.

Got a quick look at some of our top stories here first.

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HOLMES: The airline headache. American Airlines grounded more than 3,000 flights this week for inspections. Thousands of passengers left stranded and, of course, frustrated.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They knew this was happening with the airplanes, so why do we, the common folk, have to suffer?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have all my miles with American, but I'm willing to sacrifice all of them to never have to fly on American for the rest of my life.

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HOLMES: Wow. Strong words there from that traveler.

So who is to blame for this mess? What's right now -- and what are the rights that you actually have as a traveler?

Ben Mutzabaugh, the air and travel correspondent for "USA Today."

Sir, thank you for helping us out and giving us and our viewers some answers here.

First the issue itself, the problem. Explain a simple -- well, I don't want to say simple, but a wiring issue that they're having. Explain what they're trying to check out and why 3,000 flights had to be canceled.

BEN MUTZABAUGH, AIR AND TRAVEL CORRESPONDENT, "USA TODAY": Right. In a nutshell, what happened is the FAA has required all airlines that are flying MD-80s to go back and examine the wiring that goes around these bundles in the wheel well. And basically what happened was American rechecked theirs and redid some of them, the first round of MD-80 cancellations, but apparently they tied these bundles not at the exact spacing required by the FAA's airworthiness directive.

FAA came back, looked at some of these planes. Like, these bundles are not tight enough, or close -- these ties are not close enough to each other, they've got to be a very precise distance. And now they had to redo them. HOLMES: So, looking at that picture, you're literally talking about things weren't far enough spaced apart. This was never really a security threat, a really -- a safety issue, if you will. It was not like there was no threat that these planes would necessarily go down, but this is a part of the rules and they didn't follow the rules.

MUTZABAUGH: Right. And, you know, there's plenty of blame to go around.

A lot of people are pointing at American and a lot of people are pointing at the FAA. They say, you know, the FAA took a lot of heat for what they did in the Southwest incident that's still unfolding, and taking a lot of heat from Congress. So, the FAA is really -- are they reacting, or are they overreacting? So, I mean, you have critics from both sides of the aisle here.

HOLMES: Can we actually say though -- everybody who was holding an American Airlines ticket is upset, of course, and many of those are still stranded. But this is kind of the FAA's fault because they should have been on the airline to take care of these in the first place.

MUTZABAUGH: Well, you know, it's been a very complex relationship the FAA has built with the airlines over the past few years. And once we had the Southwest story break a few weeks ago, where a midlevel FAA person told Southwest they could do one thing, but then when the higher-ups found out, thanks to a whistle-blower, they're like, no, you can't do that and we're fining you $10 million.

I think it's really changed the whole rules for how regulations are going to be enforced for the next -- at least for the next year for the airlines. And I have seen different reports now where there could be three or four more airlines that are going to come under review.

HOLMES: Oh, no.

MUTZABAUGH: And we don't know that it's going to be anything as bad as what we've seen, but this could be just the beginning. I think we are past the tip of the iceberg, but I don't think we're out of the woods.

HOLMES: Oh, no.

And then everybody wants their rights. What rights do passengers have? It seems like we don't have any sometimes. But there is a Passenger Bill of Rights that's being talked about in Congress right now.

Good and bad. It sounds great sometimes for the passengers and the travelers, sure, I'll get some rights, but it might cause a bigger mess in some respects. Explain that quickly for me.

MUTZABAUGH: Right. You know, and first of all, that wouldn't have applied to these American cancellations. So this one would be only if you were on a flight that was stuck on the taxiway or getting ready to take off, it would only affect you if you were stuck on a plane for more than three hours.

It would make sure you had access to food, water, the ability to get off the plane if you want to do so after three hours. And at first glance, who wouldn't say that sounds great? But you know -- and it may still be worth doing, but there are critics on the other side who say, hey, if you bring the government involved, and you start to call for all this regulation, then all of a sudden you might create a problem that was worst than the one you were trying to solve.

For example, If United or American, or an airline operating out of Chicago, let's say, in November knows there was a big snowstorm coming in, and if they tried to operate, they may get stuck on the taxiway, they might say, you know what? We're going to cancel 1,000 flights, because if we don't we're going to get fined and have to make all of these payouts to passengers.

So, which one's worst? And we may ultimately have to decide that.

HOLMES: All right. So apparently what you're saying is we've got a lot of bad options if we want to get around.

MUTZABAUGH: These clearly aren't the heady days for airline travelers.

HOLMES: No.

Ben Mutzabaugh, air and travel for "USA Today." Sir, we appreciate you. No good news in there, but appreciate you being straight with us.

MUTZABAUGH: I do what I can.

HOLMES: All right. Thanks so much, buddy.

Well, also the Olympics to talk about here. The flame heading to Tanzania for tomorrow's only stop in Africa. That follows yesterday's torch run through Buenos Aires, Argentina. That's the only stop in South America.

There were a few attempts to disrupt the relay in Argentina. Someone actually threw a water balloon. That's not going to get it done.

The flame -- it takes more than that to knock out the Olympic flame, guys. But nothing on the scale of what we saw in San Francisco, Paris or London.

NGUYEN: Yes. Those earlier protests capturing attention worldwide. We saw demonstrations -- demonstrators, that is, attacking torchbearers and battling police, even scaling the Golden Gate Bridge.

So what's the reaction in China?

Well, CNN's John Vause takes a look.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Chinese officials had wanted the perfect torch relay, and on state-controlled television that exactly what happened. Only smiling, happy supporters waving Chinese and American flags.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Very excited all over the world about this.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Congratulations on the summer Olympics.

VAUSE: In this paralleled TV universe, thousands of demonstrators were never seen. There was brief mention of the relay route was changed but the news anchor said it was because of local security and nothing more.

The torch relay went on smoothly, she said. Only one protester tried to grab the torch. Most Chinese that get all their news from state-run media, this is now their real of what happened in San Francisco. The reality for the president of the International Olympic Committee is different. The protests around the torch relay, he says, are a crisis and then came even stronger words at least by IOC standards.

JACQUES ROGGE, IOC PRESIDENT: Awarding the games to China, the social agenda of China, including human rights. We definitely ask China to respect this.

VAUSE: In response, Beijing is having none of that. The IOC supports the Beijing Olympics as well as the spirit. And the IOC does no want political factors as part of the Olympics, says this foreign ministry spokeswoman.

China blames most of the problems on the Dalai Lama. The exiled Tibetan spiritual leader is accused of undermining the Olympics and even though he publicly supports the games and has pleaded for the torch relay to continue in peace.

DALAI LAMA, EXILED TIBETAN SPIRITUAL LEADER: I sent a message to Tibetans in the San Francisco area, please don't make any violence activities.

VAUSE (on camera): Despite all the protests, the International Olympic Committee says this torch relay will continue as planned, but future relays remain in doubt. The IOC says it will review the situation, but only after the summer games.

John Vause, CNN, Beijing.

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NGUYEN: All right. Well, it is time to tee it up for the Masters.

HOLMES: Yes. And we are watching at the top of the leader board, a pretty much unknown guy sitting atop right now. He's hoping to be the latest to add a green jacket to his wardrobe. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

NGUYEN: All right. So, simply put, it's the Masters, the most prestigious prize in golf.

HOLMES: Yes. Third round about to tee off in actually just minutes.

Well, from the Final Four to the Masters, CNN Sports' Larry Smith is living the life these days.

NGUYEN: The good life.

HOLMES: He's back with us live now from Augusta.

And the question of course, you have to start with, where's Tiger?

LARRY SMITH, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: Yes, where is Tiger right now? And that's the question everyone wants to know.

He's at 1 under par. And you have to wonder to yourself, you know, how upset is Tiger Woods after a very pedestrian round of 71 on Friday? We may never know.

He skipped right by without stopping to show some love to us in the media. But Tiger can't be happy on a day when so many other golfers were scoring and he did not on Friday, as he stands seven shots off the pace going in today.

Now, while Tiger Woods -- we do know this much about him. The 32-year-old golf legend has never won a Masters when shooting in the 70s in back-to-back rounds to open the tournament. And not since his boyhood idol Jack Nicklaus did it back in 1986 has a golfer stood outside the top 10 halfway through, and yet rally to victory.

Now, while Woods is finding his game, everyone else is finding Trevor Immelman, the South African leader, a one-shot lead heading into today's third round. But really, he's already won.

Immelman had a benign tumor removed from his rib cage back in December, he couldn't walk for two weeks. But now he's standing tall and is the guy everyone is chasing here on moving day at the Masters.

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TREVOR IMMELMAN, LEADS AFTER 2ND ROUND: It definitely gives you perspective, because, you know, I went from winning a tournament to lying in a hospital bed waiting for results on a tumor. So, you know, it definitely made me realize that golf wasn't my whole life, but, you know, I have a real passion for golf. And, you know, I put a lot of hours in and made a lot of sacrifices to try and succeed at the game. So, you know, I'm definitely driven to try and achieve things.

PAUL CASEY, 4 SHOTS BEHIND LEADER: He's setting the pace right now. I'd be very impressed if he keeps that going. And if he does, I think he'll have a green jacket.

IMMELMAN: I'm so competitive, and I've played this game since I was 5 years old. And all I ever wanted to do was win golf tournaments.

And so I kind of felt like it was just a speed bump really. You know? Because I just wanted to keep going.

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SMITH: One familiar name on the leader board is Phil Mickelson, a lefty. Is in position to win his third green jacket. He is at 5 under par, three strokes off the pace after a bogey three round of 68 on Friday.

Now, keep in mind, for Mickelson, you know, a big thing for him over the years is making mistakes down the stretch. If he can avoid those -- and he has so far here, and he did when he won the green jacket in 2004 and 2006 -- he could be in a position to get a victory here tomorrow.

Now, we should tell you that storms and high wins are in the forecast for this afternoon. The winds are already picking up here as we're about to tee off the third round. And that means the scoring could be very tough as we get -- move on toward later in the day, and later in this third round.

Let's go back to you.

HOLMES: Well, hope you don't have a delay there. Everybody wants to get this tournament wrapped up this weekend. Everybody wants to see the big finale on Sunday.

And you enjoy yourself, Larry. Always good to see you.

SMITH: I will do that.

NGUYEN: Try to stay dry today, Larry.

SMITH: Always good to talk to you.

HOLMES: All right. See you, buddy.

NGUYEN: OK.

SMITH: Thanks.

NGUYEN: Well, on the field.

HOLMES: Yes. The Miracle League hits a homerun. Check them out. We'll show them to you here in a second.

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HOLMES: All right. Retirement. When you think of it, you're probably thinking about fulfilling all your dreams during retirement.

NGUYEN: Sounds pretty good, right?

But don't wait until you retire, because that's what one woman did. And she found out that she is making dreams come true for others, in fact.

Here's today's CNN Hero.

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VIOLA VAUGHN, CHAMPIONING CHILDREN: When a girl reaches the age when she can help in the house, the mother starts keeping this girl at home. That girl begins missing school, missing homework, and she starts to fail. It's a downward cycle.

My name is Viola Vaughn. I came to Senegal from Detroit, Michigan. I started a girls education and self-sufficiency program.

I had put a limitation of 100 girls. That's the maximum. That's all I was going to do.

I came to Senegal to retire. And the girls said, No. We want to take to you 10,000.

We take girls who have already failed in school. They have learned how to perfect a skill, to produce products for export.

We have the pastry shop. In the sewing workshop they make sheets, they make dolls. They make any kind of household linens.

Half of the funds goes back to them. The other remainder goes into an education program.

Come on. Give me a hug.

We do this all the time.

They are passing school. They are opening businesses. And I see the success.

Right now we already have seven girls in universities. It's their program, and they run everything. I'm there just to make sure all the I's are dotted and the Ts are crossed.

Here I am retired, and this is the best job I have ever had in my life.

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NGUYEN: Hello, everybody. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. The news is unfolding live on this is Saturday, the 12th day of April.

I'm Betty Nguyen. HOLMES: And hello to you all. I'm T.J. Holmes.

Coming up, a roller-coaster of emotions for one family. First, their child is abducted by a daycare worker. Now the child is back home. You don't want to miss this reunion.

NGUYEN: Also ahead, a live report from Texas on what investigators are finding at the polygamist compound and what will happen next for more than 400 children taken away for their own safety.

HOLMES: Also, it's a war of words between the Democratic rivals. In particular, one word. That word is "bitter."

You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

Well, a polygamist sect today faces new allegations of sexual abuse. This time, it's happening at a compound in Arizona.

NGUYEN: Yes. CNN has learned about a second investigation linked to the sect already accused of sexual abuse at a Texas retreat. This time, a 16-year-old Arizona girl says she was abused by a male relative.

Now, the earlier Texas investigation started with a phone call from another 16-year-old girl. The Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, led by jailed polygamist Warren Jeffs, allegedly forces girls as young as 13 into arranged marriages.

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