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Cardinal O'Brien of Scotland Apologizes; Queen Elizabeth II Spends Night In A London Hospital; Child Possibly Cured Of HIV; Cardinals To Meet Tomorrow In Vatican For Conclave

Aired March 03, 2013 - 22:00   ET

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ALINA CHO, CNN ANCHOR: An incredible medical breakthrough, a baby infected with HIV now said to be cured. And just as surprising, how doctors say it happened.

Plus, a nurse refuses to help a woman who collapses right in front of her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, I don't know --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They're refusing CPR. They're going to let her die.

CHO: Then, a mission to Mars. Wanted, one committed married couple willing to relocate.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a way to help us give perspective.

CHO: But, the question we really want answered, what about sex in space?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a pretty difficult answer.

CHO: And can women really have it all? Can anyone?

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CHO: That's a big question.

Hi, everybody, I'm Alina Cho in tonight for Don Lemon. Let's get you up to speed on the hour's top stories including this.

Come with the $85 billion question, how soon will Americans start to feel the effects of the new federal spending cuts? President Obama and Republicans say they want compromise, but so far all talk. More on the cuts and their potential impact straight ahead.

The men who will choose the next Pope are about to begin their work. The cardinals will meet tomorrow and start setting up the special election otherwise known as the conclave. The Vatican says it's still unclear whether a firm conclave date will be agreed on tomorrow. The cardinals will also hold important talks on the future direction of the Catholic Church. Meanwhile a shocking apology from the catholic cardinal mired in scandal. Cardinal Keith O'Brien of Scotland has been dogged by allegations of abusing four men studying to be priests back in the 1980s. O'Brien initially contested the claims. Today, he reversed course and apologized saying his sexual conduct had fallen below standards expected of a priest. He resigned last month from his post as archbishop of Scotland.

Queen Elizabeth the II spending the night in a London hospital.

Here's CNN's royal correspondent Max Foster with the latest.

MAX FOSTER, CNN ROYAL CORRESPONDENT: Alina, the queen hasn't been in hospital for ten years, but she's in here overnight and she has cancelled a whole week's worth of public engagement. There is concern about whether or not this is more serious, we don't know whether it is, we do know she does has the symptoms at least of a stomach bug. It has been indicated that she will probably be in for a couple days -- Alina.

CHO: Max Foster in London for us. Max, thank you very much.

Meanwhile, back in this country, a remarkable announcement today by doctors dedicated to finding AIDS and HIV. A little girl just 2- years-old, once HIV positive, now been declared free from the virus, cured.

Some details now from our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Let's talk about what happened to this baby in Mississippi because it's a fascinating story. The baby was born to an HIV positive mother. The baby was on anti-retro viral drugs for 15 months. And then, at around that time, the mom just took her off of those. She stopped giving them and she stopped going back to the doctor. She was off the drugs for eight to 10 months total. When they brought her back to the doctor around her second birthday, there was no sign of HIV. The doctors in Mississippi couldn't find it. They brought in other doctors who couldn't find it.

Now, what does this mean for other babies with HIV? Here's what the folks at Johns Hopkins have to say. They have been involved in this. They say it may help pave the way to eliminating HIV infection in children.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This has a very important implication for pediatric HIV infection and ability to achieve a cure. So, we think we should be able to replicate this.

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COHEN: In other words, many other babies can go on these drugs for a relatively short period of time and don't have to stay on them for life. Maybe they can just on them for a year like this baby did. Now, this baby got high doses of three drugs right after birth. And they're saying that may be the way to go.

Now, this baby does have little tiny bits of RNA and DNA fragments in her blood, so some people are saying it's a functional cure, since she does have those fragments, the bottom line is, this baby isn't sick, this baby no longer has HIV, she's a healthy little girl.

Back to you.

CHO: What a breakthrough.

All right, Elizabeth Cohen, Thank you very much.

Crews will continue tomorrow to demolish the house where an enormous sinkhole literally swallowed a man while he was sleeping. That sinkhole opened on Thursday night. It happened near Tampa Florida killing 37-year-old Jeff Bush. Engineers say they plan on stabilizing the hole with gravel and sand to protect nearby homes.

A young New York City couple expecting a baby, die in a car crash on the way to the hospital. But miraculously their baby survives.

Our Susan Candiotti has the story.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Alina, family and friends are grief stricken after attending an emotional funeral and burial following a horrific hit and run crash in Williamsburg section of Brooklyn today. As in a civic Jewish community rallies to give support, a young couple, 21-year-old parents to be were on their way to a hospital at about midnight Saturday night, because the expectant mother wasn't feeling well. Police say a hit and run driver crashed into the side of their cab, killing Racy and Nathan Gluber (ph). The dark colored cab was totaled.

Thanks to quick action by doctors at New York's Bellevue hospital a premature baby boy, thigh months shy of his due date was delivered by c-section after his mother died. He was the couple's first child. Police say the infant boy is in critical condition, relatives are standing watch.

Investigators are trying to track down the driver of a light colored BMW who fled the scene on foot. A passenger in the car also vanished. Police will only say they spoke to the registered owner of that car, but not much more. We don't know whether the car was stolen. Relatives and friends are trying to come to grips with what happened.

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Just got along so beautifully. Just lovely, lovely couple. And they're truly going to be missed by everyone. Everyone is just so heartbroken.

(END VIDEO CLIP) CANDIOTTI: The driver of the cab survived and is in stable condition. Relatives tell us the couple had been married less than a year - Alina.

CHO: Susan Candiotti from New York.

Susan, thank you very much.

Meanwhile, we are heading into the first full week of those new automatic spending cuts. And top lawmakers on the Sunday morning talk shows didn't give much hope of an end in sight.

Our Emily Schmidt has more from Washington.

EMILY SCHMIDT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Alina, there are two different situations that are unfolding at the same time here, first, is there talk between the parties about finding compromise on cu cuts. President's senior economic aid says yes. In fact, President Obama talked on the phone to both Republicans and Democrats Saturday. But, will it result in action? Just listen to senate minority leader, Mitch McConnell?

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SEN. MITCH MCCONNELL (R-KY), MINORITY LEADER: The president's free to call whoever he chooses to. He doesn't have to go through the speaker and myself to talk to our members. And I fully expect him to do that. But, so far I haven't heard a single Senate Republican say they're willing to raise one dime in taxes in order to avoid a spending reduction commitment that we made on a bipartisan basis just a year and a half ago.

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SCHMIDT: With no new compromise in the works, the $85 billion in spending cuts now begin to kick in. They're going to impact everything from defense spending to airline security lines to head start programs.

House speaker John Boehner said in an interview that was taped Friday for "Meet the Press" that the House will work this week to avoid yet another potential road block. They are going to be putting together legislation, he says, to keep the government funded beyond the date when money would otherwise run out later this month.

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REP. JOHN BOEHNER (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Absolutely. The house next week will act to extend the continuing resolution through the end of the fiscal year, September 30th. The president this morning agreed that we should not have any talk of a government shutdown, so I'm hopeful that the house and Senate will be able to work through this.

(END VIDEO CLIP) SCHMIDT: But, when it comes to the budget cuts that are already beginning, speaker Boehner said he doesn't think anyone quite understands how the cuts will really work, or if they will hurt the economy - Alina.

CHO: All right, Emily Schmidt in Washington.

Emily, thank you.

A high school student suspended for taking down a gunman. We will explain.

Plus this --

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CHO: A mission to Mars. Wanted, one committed married couple willing to relocate.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maybe missions like this give us perspective.

CHO: But, the question we really want answered, what about sex in space?

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CHO: Guess what, the comets are coming, and you won't need a telescope to see them. The first named Pan-STARRS will show itself in the northern hemisphere starting Friday. And if you miss that, try for comet ISON. That's in November. Some are already dubbing ISON, the comment of the century for the brilliant sky display it's expected to give.

Another high-tech space milestone today, take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And capture is confirmed on this dragon spacecraft that captures time 4:31 a.m. central time. On the dragon --

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CHO: Way over our head. Earth's orbit, the space's ex-dragon capsule hooked up to the international space station. The dragon is an unmanned cargo ship. It was built by a private company, contracted to NASA. Space X engineers were a bit nervous because a little glitch that happened right after launch on Friday. But, everything obviously worked out just fine. The capsule took the flies and equipments to the space station crew.

A private project hopes to send a husband and wife team on a flyby of Mars in 2018. Earlier, I spoke with Taber MacCallum and Jane Poynter. They are part of the inspiration Mars team as it's called. And by the way, they're married. Yes, they have thrown their hat into the ring hoping to be the couple who goes on this trip. But first, I asked them what they tell people who say, this just can't be done?

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TABER MACCALLUM, INSPIRATION MARS TEAM MEMBER: That's the tragedy. That's what's occurred, that we've stopped dreaming. And it used to be that, you know, we thought we have been to the moon, you know, Mars could happen. And now people are going, yes, Mars is never going to happen. And I hear so many people say, that's the way America used to be. That we had bold dreams and we all got behind making them happen. Well, I think that's the way America needs to be now.

CHO: Five hundred and one days straight in space is some people's idea of pure torture. And yet this is something that you desperately want to do. I think we should tell our viewers that you are part of the famed biosphere II experiment back in the early '90s where the both of you lived in a basically three acre bubble in the Arizona desert. What is it about this type of work that is so thrilling, so exciting for you?

MACCALLUM: Being inside and being separate from the earth's biosphere gave us a perspective that was very interesting and unique and a way to set off see what's going on in our world and earth. And having a spacecraft going flying by Mars where you look back at earth is literally just a pale blue star like all the other stars. I think it is going to give an interesting perspective, you know. Maybe, in a - it is all settle that missions like this help give us perspective.

CHO: I have two more questions. Number one, as a married couple how do you not kill each other being together 501 days straight, 24-7 inside a space capsule?

JANE POYNTER, INSPIRATION MARS TEAM MEMBER: Well, I think it really does have to be a test of the relationship. Whoever goes on this, yes, it's got to be a relationship that's really solid. Taber and myself, se have actually had some experience for this in the biosphere, as you mentioned. And for me, it was incredibly comforting to have somebody there that I trusted, that was, you know, in it with me, that could help me when I was down, that could problem solve with me, but also, sharing those wonderful moments.

You know, I mean, I can't imagine that the crew that goes on this isn't just going to be in awe of the experience at times.

CHO: And I'm going to ask both of you this as well. I've been ordered to ask this, so I don't hold it against me. I've read the research and it says - I'm almost embarrassed to say that sex in space is wetter and hotter. Now, how long is it going to take for you two to become members of the seven million mile high club? I'm afraid to ask.

MACCALLUM: Well --

(LAUGHTER) MACCALLUM: You know, with this, this is a mission for all ages and there's clearly going to be private time that the, you know, the two crew members will have. And I think we should sort of this leave it at that. But, it is an interesting survey.

CHO: Right. Well, Taber MacCallum and Jane Poynter, I'm going to leave it right there. I don't know where you could go from there. But, I wish you the best of luck on your quest to travel to Mars and space.

POYNTER: Now we just have to build a vehicle.

CHO: Yes, you do.

POYNTER: Awesome.

CHO: I wish you the best of luck. Thank you for joining us.

CHO: Thank you.

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CHO: Honestly, I can't believe I asked that question.

Call it the $85 billion dollar question. How soon will we feel the effects of the new federal spending cuts?

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CHO: Plus, a nurse refuses to help a woman who collapses right in front of her.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK, I don't know --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They're refusing CPR. They're going to let her die.

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CHO: A Florida teen suspended after he helped wrestle a gun away from a potential school shooter.

Here's what happened, according to our affiliate, WFTX, they reported the teen along with two other students grabbed the loaded weapon from a 15-year-old boy as he aimed it at another student threatening to shoot him. The 15-year-old was arrested. The teen and two others were suspended for three days for being involved in an incident with a weapon. The teen's mother admits her son did admit her son refused to cooperate with investigators, but said he was scared.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think he was really going to shoot him right then and there not taking no pity. It's dumb. How they going to suspend me for doing the right thing?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Those kids have to fight for their lives. All the kids that were involved in this, they should have a pat on their backs, because they did the right thing.

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CHO: They obviously wanted to hide their identity for fear of -- out of safety concerns, rather. School officials meanwhile told WFTX that Florida law allows for immediate suspensions if there is a quote "potentially dangerous situation."

The next story is one that is frankly pretty hard to believe, an elderly woman unconscious on the floor, needing CPR or she will die. Nobody is willing to help. Nobody, they say they can't. It is apparently policy at this senior assisted living center.

911 tapes tell the story, and Kelsey Thomas of CNN affiliate, KGET in Bakersfield, California has the report.

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911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: Fire department what is your emergency please?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, we need someone out at Glenwood Gardens as soon as possible. We have a lady with heart problems --

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: OK. What is the address?

KELSEY THOMAS, REPORTER, KGET (voice-over): It's 11:07 Tuesday morning. 87-year-old, Lorrain Balis (ph) has collapse in the dining room at Glenwood Garden. She is unconscious and barely breathing. Fire and ambulance crews are on the way. It takes about four minutes of question and answer for Tracy Halverson, the dispatcher to assess the situation.

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: We need to get CPR started. That's not enough, OK?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. We can't do the CPR to this facility.

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: OK. Then hand the phone to a passerby if you can't do it. I need - hand it to a passerby. I will have he do it. Or if you got any citizens there, I will have them do it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. No, it is not.

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: Anybody there can do CPR. Give them the phone. I understand if your facility is not willing to do that, give the phone to that passerby or that stranger, I need -- this woman is not breathing. She's going to die if we don't get this started. Do you understand?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I understand. I am a nurse. But I cannot have our other senior citizens who don't know CPR --

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: I will instruct them.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In the dining room.

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: I will instruct them. Is there anyone there who -- I don't understand why you're not willing to help this patient.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am, but --

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: OK, great. Then I'll walk you through it -- EMS takes the liability for this. I'm happy to help you. This is EMS protocol, OK?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't know where he is. But, she's saying we have to have one of our other residents perform CPR. And she will instruct and I'm not going to do that.

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: Is there anybody that works there that's willing to do it?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We can't.

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: We're just going to let this lady die?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's why we're calling 911?

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: We can't wait. She can't wait right now. She is stopping breathing. She can't wait for them to get there.

THOMAS: A little more than five minutes into the call, Balis (ph) remains untouched, barely breathing on the dining room floor.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is saying we don't. So, you can talk to my boss and I'm --

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: OK. They're refusing CPR, they're going to let her die by the facility.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When will the fire department be here?

911 UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE DISPATCHER: They're coming as quickly -- they've been on their way all this time but we can't wait, this lady's going to die.

OK. If you can get any stranger that walks by that's willing to help. I understand if your boss is telling you can't do it. But as a human being, I don't, you know, is there anybody there that's willing to help this lady and not let her die?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not at this time.

THOMAS: A little over seven minutes after Glenwood Gardens dialed 911, Balis (ph) who has taken in an ambulance to the Mercy hospital southwest where she later died. We went to Glenwood Gardens and asked why the staff refused to resuscitate Balis.

Jeffrey Toomer, the executive director told me, it is the policy of Glenwood Gardens that staff does not attempt CPR. He said the policy is in place because it's not a nursing facility, it's an independent living facility, and there are no nurses on staff to provide assistance and residents are made aware of this when they move into the building. Yet, there was a nurse on scene after Balis collapsed. Toomer wouldn't explain that. He issued a statement that said in part, in the event of a health emergency, our practice is to immediate call emergency medical personnel for assistance and to wait with the individual needing attention until such personnel arrives. That is the protocol we followed. As with any incident evolving a resident, we will conduct a thorough internal review of this matter. But, we have no further comments at this time. Toomer wouldn't give me a copy of the supposed policy. He said the staff is supposed to call for assistance during an emergency and that's exactly what they did.

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CHO: Lorraine Balis is the woman who died, she's 87 years old, our affiliate in Bakersfield did talk with her daughter. She said she is satisfied with the care that her mother received.

Basketball's bad boy, Dennis Rodman, now good will ambassador? Close but not quite. We will have that story coming up.

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CHO: Bottom of the hour now, let's take a look at the headlines including this.

Word tonight from the White House that President Obama will make a cabinet level nomination tomorrow. He's chosen Sylvia Matthews Burwell to be the new director of the office of management and budget. Burwell is currently the head of the Walmart foundation, one of the country's biggest corporate charities.

The queen of England is spending the night and probably a little longer in a London hospital, just a precaution, according to Buckingham palace. 86-year-old queen is suffering from stomach flu symptoms and she has cancelled all of her official engagements for the week.

Egypt's ousted president Hosni Mubarak will be re-tried in April, that from the country's state-run news agency. The 84-year-old Mubarak successfully appealed a life sentence he received for his role in the deaths of hundreds of protesters two years ago.

An exciting an optimistic announcement today for doctors working to cure HIV and AIDS, they say an HIV positive little girl is functionally cured of her infection, cured. The 2-year-old got the virus from her mother. The girl is the second person ever declared cured of HIV. The federal spending cuts that were never supposed to happen, well, they did happen. And lawmakers in both parties are eager to make sure Americans realize who is to blame. The Sunday talk shows featured plenty of back and forth including remarks by long-time Republican senator John McCain who says it's up to the president to lead the country to compromise.

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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: This sequester, it requires the president to lead and for us to sit down. If he will stop going out and running campaign events and then bashing Republicans and coming back to Washington, why not take a day and invite us all over and work this out because American national security is at risk. I can find billions, in cuts in defense spending that are absolutely necessary and appropriate. Not this way.

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CHO: The president's economic adviser Gene Sperling says Mr. Obama has been working. Has been making calls to members of both parties of congress, in search of a bipartisan fix.

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GENE SPERLING, DIRECTOR, NATIONAL ECONOMIC COUNCIL: Everybody who is part of that conflict or negotiation in 2011 knows we put the sequester in place to force both sides to come back to the type of grand bargain than Bowles-Simpson have called for, that most budget experts called for. They recognize it's not cutting defense and domestic spending like education and research we need. What we need is a compromise.

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CHO: Earlier I talked with CNN contributors LZ Granderson and Ana Navarro. We discussed former NBA star Dennis Rodman's bizarre trip to North Korea last week. We also covered the forced spending cuts. The President called them dumb and arbitrary. Republicans are claiming victory. So, I began by asking Lz if the president may have overplayed his hand.

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LZ GRANDERSON, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: I don't think so. I just think he hasn't necessarily done a great job explaining how this is going to impact us in the long run. If you're waiting for something to happen immediately because of the cuts, I don't think a lot of Americans are going to feel bad.

But, I would like to go back and talk about what happened between 2009 and 1999. We had 1.1 percent private sector job growth. We didn't feel that audit once. It was a gradual buildup. And then, all of a sudden, when the recession happened, we are like holy cow, what happened? That's what's going to happen with these force budget cuts. We are not going to (INAUDIBLE) right away. It's going to be a gradual thing. And at the end of the tenure, if we don't adjust it, we're going to be like holy cow, what happened.

CHO: Well Ana, and let's talk a little bit more about that because as we talk about that and Lz, that sort of long term effect. You know, "the New York Times" and its second graph in the lead story said, it said today, lost in a talk of Washington's dysfunction of this fact, on paper at least, President Obama and Congress have reduced projected deficits by nearly $4 trillion by over a decade, and that is really the goal toward stabilizing the national debt. Some people might argue, it might hurt right now, but it's better in the long run.

ANA NAVARRO, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: You know, Alina, I don't think many people are arguing much of anything, because people are just so tired about this topic. They are tired of being brought into a frenzy and a froth every three months by the government. I think it is a very risky move for everybody involved, for Congress and for the president.

I don't understand how Democrats and the president can rationalize not allowing the cuts to be not arbitrary, but actually specific and having more control on how the government cuts.

Look, here's the problem. The problem, number one, we've got a frenzy every three months. Because all they do is govern by kicking the can down the road, not by spending - not by solving the big issue.

And problem number two is that if you ask most Americans if they think the government is bloated, most Americans will tell you, yes. If you ask Americans, if they think that you can cut two and a half percent from government budgets, most Americans will tell you yes, and most Americans, most American businesses and families have had to cut themselves in the last several years, there's not that much sympathy.

CHO: I've been to North Korea twice. Lucky enough to have been. It's a journalist's dream to be able to meet Kim Jong-Un face to face. And many diplomats would fight for that chance as well, you know. And here, Dennis Rodman is the first American ever to meet face to face with him. What do you make of it?

GRANDERSON: I don't. I just don't. I'm so thoroughly embarrassed for us, so thoroughly embarrassed for North Korea. I'm so thoroughly embarrassed about this conversation because it's not really talking about anything serious. This is like a publicity stunt.

NAVARRO: I'm absolutely with LZ on this one. It's all I can do to fit myself I'm having my eyes rolled to the back of my head, you know, to be discussing this. Frankly, you know, if you want, let's talk about his jacket and his choice of clothes. But, you know, we're not going to send Peewee Herman to negotiate the peace between Israel and Palestine. And we're not going to send Mickey Mouse to go solve the issue with Syria.

This is a joke, this is not serious. It is not diplomacy. And I think, you know, if he'd like to stay in North Korea and play one on one, with that dictator, I think it is fine with a lot of us.

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CHO: All right. the forced spending cuts were perfect fodder for the folks at "Saturday night live" last night. Take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And of course, these cuts will affect our military, our civil service, federal construction projects, even grants to Native Americans. And I'm the one who has to tell these folks, young man, there's no need to feel down. Young man, pick yourself off the ground. Young man, just 'cause you're funning us now, there's no need to be unhappy.

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CHO: Got to love it.

From high schools to the pros, we have seen a lot of buzzer beaters caught on video this basketball season. But, you have never seen a finish quite like this one. It's next, have a look.

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CHO: And can women really have it all? Can anyone?

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CHO: All right, we have seen some pretty good ones this year, but you have just got to see this amazing buzzer beater, watch.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He tosses it, it's knocked around, and Mt. Vernon is going to hold on and win.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hold on a second. Goodness. Are think going to count that?

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CHO: The shot counted. The shooter is Khalil (INAUDIBLE), a New York high school. He's also the school's star quarter back on the football team, talented guy. The last second shot gave his team a one-point victory over Mt. Vernon high in the state playoffs.

All right, talk about a challenge. One woman tried to crack the NFL this week, but a quad injury forced Lauren Silverman to give up for now. She had hoped to become the first female kicker in the NFL as it is. She's the first woman ever even invited to an NFL sponsored tryout. And she says, she will try again.

We wish her luck.

Facebook's Cheryl Sandberg says women have an ambition gap in the workplace. She says women should take more responsibility for owning their careers. Her comments are sparking controversy even before her book officially goes on sale.

Then there's this. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer this week banned telecommuting for all Yahoo! employees. And a few months ago, Mayer posted that she only needs two weeks of maternity leave.

The backlash has been intense. And it brings us to familiar ground. The aged question, can women really have it all -- glamorous high-powered career, driving children, a rock solid marriage?

Earlier I spoke with "Feministe" editor, Jill Filipovic.

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JILL FILIPOVIC, EDITOR, FEMINISTE: To having more women in leadership edition is quite valuable. It normalizes female authority. They get used to seeing powerful and assertive women. And so, that perception gap that hopefully will decrease.

CHO: But, how do we get there?

FILIPOVIC: Right, it's one of the chicken and egg problem, right? I mean, you know, on the one hand, we need women to be more assertive, we need women to take individual steps, you know, to help pull themselves up to positions and power. But, we also need major institutional and cultural changes. You know, we are the only country, developed country on earth that doesn't have federally mandated maternity leave. We don't have federally mandated sick days. We don't have federally mandated vacation days. That really makes us an outlier. And it is incredibly harmful to women at all levels of employment.

CHO: You know, I think, you know, I spoke with Bobbi Brown, the make-up may have this week about this very issue, and one thing she told me, which I thought was really fascinating and she said, you know, and she's written seven books or something like that. She said, I write all my best books in traffic jams, you know, just about sort of multitasking and prioritizing which some might argue that women are better at anyway, right?

FILIPOVIC: But, I think, women are great at that. There are some men that are great at that. I think one of the big issue is we also need men to pitch in more. We really center these discussions around women and women arguing and arguing. And frankly, part of the problem is that women have to take on so much more at home, because those of us who are married, and our married, our partnered with men, don't have partners who are doing an equal share of the work. And that's really something that men need to work on and change, they need to step up.

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CHO: Keep it here. CNN is taking a closer look at challenges facing working women all this week. Be sure to watch CNN NEWSROOM Wednesday through Friday. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

CHO: Now to the big stories in the week ahead. Our correspondents tell you what you need to know. We begin tonight with the president's plans for the week.

DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Dana Bash in Washington, where Congress will return this week to start work on avoiding the next looming budget crisis which will be at the end of the month, when the government runs out of money. The house will vote on GOP legislation this coming week, to keep funding going through the end of the fiscal year, September 30th. They have differences with Senate Democrats on priorities and how to fund the government. Both the president and the house speaker of voicing optimism and a shutdown can be averted.

POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Poppy Harlow in New York. Wall Street will continue to keep a close eye on Washington over the next week as the fight over those budget cuts continues.

Also coming up this week, we will get two key reports on U.S. manufacturing. It will show us where demand stands for those big ticket items in this country, very important for our economy. But then the big news of the week comes on Friday morning, that is when we'll get the February jobs report, we will see how many jobs were created last month. Of course, everyone's hoping to see continued improvement in what has been a persistently sluggish job market. Of course, we will track that and all the business news of the week for you on CNN money.

A.J. HAMMER, HLN HOST, SHOWBIZ TONIGHT: I'm "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT" A.J. HAMMER. Here's what we're watching this week. I'm one on one with Hollywood's sex symbol, Jennifer Love Hewitt. She's going to reveal everything you want to know about her sizzling new season of "the client list." I'm also going to ask her about the amazing secrets behind her recent slim down.

All right, coming up, many have noticed a different tone from the president this second term. More emotional, more personal, is it true? And if so, what has brought on the change?

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CHO: On Monday, the president is expected to nominate a new foot soldier in the battle over those force budget cuts. He will reportedly announce his pick for the new head of the office of management and budget. That oversea the president's spending policy. And while we have been seeing a hardnosed Obama during those budget talks, our Jessica Yellin reports, the president has been notably softer in his second term.

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JESSICA YELLIN, CNN CHIEF WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): President Obama has been showing his softer side lately from tears of joy, speaking to his campaign workers the day after the election. BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm really proud of all of you --

YELLIN: To tears of sadness after the Newtown shooting.

OBAMA: They had their entire lives ahead of them -- birthdays, graduations, weddings, kids of their own.

YELLIN: He's not just showing his emotions, he's sharing them too.

OBAMA: This is many Michelle and I met, where we fell in love.

YELLIN: Having some fun here with the Miami heat.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We got a ten-day contract left?

OBAMA: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Pick my man up.

OBAMA: You guys could use a shooter.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Or a point guard.

OBAMA: Thank you, man.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.

YELLIN: The president's biographer says it all changed after he won re-election.

DAVID MARANISS, ASSOCIATE EDITOR, WASHINGTON POST: I think we have all seen since the day after his re-election, a more relaxed Barack Obama, something that took a lifetime for him to get to this point. We have really seen a new Obama.

YELLIN: First term Obama was known for his cold detached style. Early in his first term, he failed the empathy test, with this California teacher about to be laid off.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I got my notice on Saturday.

OBAMA: You got -- I'm sorry, you got what?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I got my rip notice, which means I'm going to be intention to be laid off.

OBAMA: A pink slip.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, that's why I'm wearing pink.

YELLIN: Now the president's more likely to wear his heart on his sleeve.

I wish I had had a father who was around and involved. YELLIN: In his first term, the president was far more cautious about his past. On most topics, he just didn't go there. Now, as the president himself points out.

OBAMA: I've run my last election.

YELLIN: He's free of the pressure to lose swing voters. So he's using his stories to try to inspire audiences and pitch policies talking about his biracial identity in a eulogy for his childhood senator.

OBAMA: Here I was a young boy with a white mom, a black father, raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. And I was beginning to sense how fitting into the world might not be as simple as it might seem.

YELLIN: Remembering his troubled teenaged years, speaking to kids back home in Chicago.

OBAMA: When I screwed up, the consequences weren't as high as when kids on the south side screw up. I had more of a safety net. But these guys are no different than me.

YELLIN: Bringing a more complete personality into focus.

MARANISS: I don't think one ever knows the real him. But I think that it's closer to being the private and the public Obama coming together in a clearer way.

YELLIN: Don't take our word for it. Even he admits he's changed. Check out his humble brag.

OBAMA: The one thing about being president is, after four years you get pretty humble. You think maybe you wouldn't but you become more humble. You realize what you don't know.

YELLIN: Humility he can afford after winning a second term.

OBAMA: I did it.

MARANISS: President Obama is never going to be I feel your pain like Bill Clinton type of president. But he's getting closer.

YELLIN: Jessica Yellin, CNN, the White House.

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CHO: And we have new information tonight on the violent death of a man running for mayor of a small city in Mississippi. Marcus McMillan's broody was found this week. And since then police have been tight lipped about how he died even though they have a murder suspect. McMillan's family released this statement on Sunday.

Part of it reads we know that Marco was brutally murdered. His body was found on Wednesday, beaten, dragged and burned, set afire, unquote. These are the first details released so far about how McMillan died. At the time of his death, he was running for mayor of Clarks Dale, Mississippi. McMillan's family says he was gay, but they aren't aware of how many other people knew. Police are exploring whether his sexual orientation may have been a factor in his death.

We are back after this.

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CHO: All right. Before we end the program tonight, we have breaking news we want to pass along to you. Our Don Lemon is joining us by phone from Puerto Rico, where, Don, you're celebrating your birthday, right?

DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR (via phone): Yes. I am celebrating my birthday. I can barely hear you, though, Alina.

CHO: All right. I know why you're on the phone. We are going to discuss someone who is near and dear to us. Jeni Cook, who has been our fearless leader, and I know the executive producer of your program and someone who has been at CNN for 15 years, tell us about Jeni, the person.

LEMON: Where do I start? When Jeni came to the show, all I was thinking about is that song, Jeni, Jeni, who can I turn to. And so, I turn to Jenny to lead the show and the direction. So, I was very excited when she came aboard because Jenny has probably more experience than any executive producer, at least in Atlanta that I know. And she's amazing. And no one is like her. No one can compare to her when crafting a show and putting together.

But on breaking news, she is the queen of breaking news. No one can do it like Jeni does. CNN is not going to be the same without her. We are at a loss because Jeni Cook is leaving us.

CHO: We are.

LEMON: I begged her and begged her to stay. She's going on to bigger and better things.

CHO: I know one thing that's great about Jeni, she's always can do, you ask her for something, got it, it's done already, you know. And she is like that. But Don, I guess, just remind our viewers, I mean, for People who don't realize what an executive producer does. I mean, they really sort of honcho the whole operation for your show.

CHO: She does, she's in charge of everything. That picture of us you had standing in front of the wall that you had there, @Donelemoncnn, I mean, Jeni created all that, the set you're sitting on, the background that viewers look at. Everything -- the entire look of the show, when I'm there that had CNN flipper thing that comes on, the entire look of the show is created by Jeni Cook. And she and I went into the set and the control room and did certain looks and certain camera angles and positions that we wanted for the show.

She's in charge of the graphics, the editorial process, what goes on the air and what doesn't go on the air. And Jeni Cook is amazing. And I want Jeni Cook to know that she's always welcome to come and work with any show. I welcome her to come and work on any show that I work on. And what I want her to know is that she is amazing --

CHO: Jeni is in my ear, Don. She is crying and she says, tell him thank you.

LEMON: She should never let anyone distinguish that fire that she had inside and she is very special and she is extremely, extremely talented.