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Pay What You Can; New York Auto Show; New Secret Service Chief; Kennedy Clan Pictures Examined

Aired March 27, 2013 - 15:30   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, ANCHOR, "CNN NEWSROOM": Bottom of the hour, I'm Brooke Baldwin.

Technology, sports, business, health, science, showbiz new, we have it all for you. We call it the "Power Block," beginning with an expression you probably use pretty often.

Let me throw this for you. I didn't know. I googled it. Sometimes you actually use the word "google." Other times, maybe you use a Yahoo! search engine, maybe you use Bing. You still say "google."

Well, guess what? Google, not at all happy about that. So they're actually wanting us to stop using "google" as a verb for any old Internet search unless you actually Google. You can say then you googled. You with me?

So they're cracking down on using their own trademark. Google has actually successfully forced "ogooglebar" out of the Swedish language which means "ungoogleable." Apparently, Google wasn't happy with that idea.

And it's cold out. The kind of weather that maybe has you wanting to crawl under the blanket, maybe go out for a bowl of turkey chili.

If you're near a Panera Bread company in St. Louis, Missouri, a bowl of chili will cost you a penny, a dollar, maybe a hundred bucks, whatever you decide.

You heard me right. Panera Bread is experimenting with this new pay- what-you-can cafe.

Zain Asher is live in New York. Pay what you can? How is that working out for them?

ZAIN ASHER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Brooke.

You know, it's relatively simple. They do have a suggested price of $5.89. So that's what you're supposed to pay for the turkey chili, but yeah, you said it. You pay whatever your heart desires.

If you feel like being generous, perfectly fine. You feel strapped for cash, pay, totally fine, too. But they're only experimenting with one item on the menu, so for most things you will have to pay the regular price. Also, they're only trying this idea out in the St. Louis area cafes.

Panera is saying they hope two good things will come from all of this. First of all, they hope that people who can afford to pay more will actually end up covering the costs of people who can't afford to pay, plus any profit will be donated to the hungry. So pretty generous.

Brooke?

BALDWIN: In St. Louis only.

Zain Asher, thank you.

A big moment for the Syrian opposition as they take a seat as the legitimate government of Syria at an Arab League summit, but it was what their leader had to say that is making news today.

He's revealed that he's asked the U.S. to help the rebels by shooting down President Bashar al-Assad's warplanes with Patriot missiles.

The missiles were brought in by the U.S. to protect the Turkish border.

Here's what the White House saying.

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JAY CARNEY, WHITE HOUSE SPOKESMAN: We are aware of the request and at this time NATO does not intend to intervene militarily in Syria.

I think that the Patriot missile battery I think would be -- would fall within the definition of military assistance.

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BALDWIN: But the opposition insists Secretary of State John Kerry promised to, quote, "look into the matter."

And we've just gotten some video we turned around, want to show you here this was a historic event just at the White House.

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VICE PRESIDENT JOE BIDEN: ... do solemnly swear ...

JULIA PIERSON, SECRET SERVICE DIRECTOR: ... do solemnly swear ...

BIDEN: ... that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ...

PIERSON: ... that I will support and defend the Constitution of the United States ...

BIDEN: ... against all enemies ... (END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: The U.S. Secret Service now has its very first female director. Julia Pierson on the left-hand side of the screen sworn in moments ago in the Oval Office.

Pierson has been chief of the staff at the agency ever since 2008. She began as a special agent back in Miami in 1983.

And in sports, the next round of the NCAA tourney kicks off tomorrow. So in the meantime, you can still watch a little basketball. Keep your eye on the Miami Heat in the NBA.

By now, you've heard they're streaking. Lebron James and company have won 27 games in a row.

Tonight, they play at Chicago. The record for most wins in a row by an NBA team, 33.

A policeman makes a dramatic rescue and technology he was wearing gives you an up-close-and-personal view of exactly what happened.

More of this remarkable video, coming up.

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BALDWIN: Now to some of the hottest stories in a flash, "Rapid Fire." Roll it.

Look at this. Police make a dramatic rescue, the whole thing caught on camera. A 38-year-old man slammed his truck here into a building. This is Euclid, Ohio. You see all the smoke, the flames.

Well, police put out the fire and pulled him to safety through a window. The man was treated and released and then arrested on DUI charges.

The last time Prince Harry visited America, some racy pictures surfaced of the royal partying in Vegas. Remember that?

Well, this coming May, he will be back paying a visit to this guy.

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GOVERNOR CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), NEW JERSEY: I'm thrilled that he's going to come. He wants to come and see the destruction himself firsthand. And he wants to be helpful.

And I'm going to be spending the entire day with Prince Harry. And so, believe me, nobody is going to get naked if I'm spending the entire day with them.

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BALDWIN: Prince Harry will be stopping in New Jersey to tour the damage from Hurricane Sandy and, as the governor said, he will be having a close eye on him.

Now to this incredible video, this is out of eastern China as a bus driver saves his own life and his passengers. Want you to watch closely. Keep your eye on the driver and the windshield here.

This guy, look at that, boom, right through the glass. He was carrying 26 people. That's a lamppost, that blue thing, smashed right through, missed him.

He's moving. Amazingly, he's OK. In a second, you're going to see him get out of the way.

He was still able to stop the bus. The driver suffered a ruptured spleen and the other passengers are OK. Yikes.

And this, this is former CIA chief David Petraeus, making his very first public speech since an affair ended his career.

Here he was talking last night at a dinner in Los Angeles honoring the U.S. military and he took this moment to apologize for his affair with his biographer, Paula Broadwell.

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DAVID PETRAEUS, FORMER CIA DIRECTOR: Please allow me to begin my remarks this evening by reiterating how deeply I regret and apologize for the circumstances that led to my resignation from the CIA and caused such pain for my family, friends and supporters.

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BALDWIN: Petraeus called moving from military to civilian life challenging. And he said he knows he's seen in a different light today than before that affair was revealed.

A monster cleanup job in the Philippines is now officially beginning here. Crews had to manually cut the bow off the USS Guardian, a warship that's been stuck on a coral reef since January.

That coral reef is a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

The bow weighs 250 tons. Wow. The rest of it should be removed by mid-April.

The navy is investigating why the Guardian ran aground, but officials say the map showed the reef in the wrong place.

And car companies keep topping each other with new inventions to make cars more driver- and passenger-friendly, and they're unveiling some new technology at the New York car show where Maggie Lake is standing by.

Hey, Maggie.

MAGGIE LAKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Brooke. That's right. We're seeing a lot of cool innovations here today at the auto show, including something tucked into the back of this minivan.

We're going to tell you about that and all the latest cutting edge technologies in the next car you buy.

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BALDWIN: For you moms and dads on the go, this could be the new must- have feature for keeping your car clean, a built-in vacuum.

This is exactly what is inside Honda's new minivan that the company is showing it off at the New York auto show this week.

And that's where we find CNN's Maggie Lake who is going to do a little vacuuming for us? Maggie Lake, take it away.

LAKE: Oh, that's right, Brooke.

There is an embarrassing joke in my family that if we were ever stranded, we're pretty sure we could survive for maybe a week based on what is in the back of our car.

Does this look familiar to anybody? Oh, yeah, I'm sure I'm not the only one who has kids and -- let's face it -- adults who spill things around.

Honda has come up with a solution, right in the car, a vacuum, so that you can clean up your mess anytime you want.

This is exactly the kind of feature that does help if you're busy.

Now, Brooke, I'm not going to recommend it for ice cream or Sour Patch Kids, so just remember that for yourself.

This is getting a lot of buzz, though, here. Sometimes simple is genius. But this show is also about the high-end, a lot of technology in the cars.

Interestingly, if you wanted to get that kind of feeling, if you wanted what you have in your smartphone to be in your vehicle, you used to have to pay an awful lot of money to get it, but it is really drifting down into economy cars, which is great for consumers.

I caught up with Aamir Ahmed who works for Uconnect, the technology arm of Chrysler, who showed me just what's available right now. Have a listen.

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AAMIR AHMED, UCONNECT: These cars are very high tech. So this vehicle here, the Dodge Star, actually has our -- some of our highest tech systems.

It has our 7-inch multi-view TFT LCD screen in the cluster and it also has our Uconnect 8.4-inch radio.

So we've brought in some of our highest technologies in a vehicle that is actually one the lowest price points we offer in the company.

LAKE: Which is different. Because you really had to pay up. This is something you used to get in luxury cars, right?

AHMED: Absolutely. And the reason we've done that is because we realize people -- everyone is carrying a smartphone now, right? So when you've got your smartphone, you want to compare it to what you have in your vehicle.

That's why we bring these large screens into the vehicle, so you can see the information you want quickly at a glance and still stay focused on your drive.

LAKE: And what are you hearing from customers? Because we sort of know that you can fool around with the radio. We're used to the display.

What do customers want from the technology in cars?

AHMED: Again, they want technology that adapts to them. So they want to get into a car and not really have to learn a system.

They want to get into a car and be able for the system to kind of understand them. And this is a system that helps them do that because you can go in and configure what you want as a customer, so each car can be tailored to each person.

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BALDWIN: So back to -- sorry, I'm back on the vacuum.

When I think about putting a vacuum in a car, it seems so, for lack of a better word, like, practical, something that someone could have come up with a long time ago.

Do you see this sense of practicality more pervasive on the showroom floor, versus the, like, cool, high-end technology?

LAKE: Interestingly, not really, which is why it's such a surprise that this is generating so much buzz.

Really it's kind of like who can outdo each other on the most innovative, the most technology. It is really all about making cars rolling computers.

So it's interesting when you flip back to something as basic as this, it reminds us, we still need that kind of stuff. We need the convenience. It is about things like cup holders, the way the chairs swing. That still matters as well, those design features.

So you really got to marry both that, the lower-end, the higher-end to really get that consumer lock. And as we know, we talked about it before, Brooke, women and millennials, younger people, really buying a lot of the cars these days, not necessarily the guys making all the decisions.

BALDWIN: Interesting, Maggie Lake, thank you very much. We were talking about that a little while ago with our hot topics panel, ladies making better decisions according to one study than men. Just saying.

OK, Maggie, thank you.

Coming up next, one magazine is calling him one of the most dangerous people on the planet.

You're about to hear from a guy spearheading the technology that could allow you to make any kind of gun you want at home -- at home.

Don't miss this.

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BALDWIN: Minutes from "The Lead" and here is Jake Tapper with a preview. How you doing?

JAKE TAPPER, ANCHOR, "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER": Pretty good. How are you doing?

BALDWIN: Pretty well. Let's talk about the 3D gun technology.

TAPPER: The guy's name is Cody Wilson. He is a libertarian and believes that everyone should have the freedom to do what he is teaching everybody to do or trying to, which is to download and print a 3D paper gun.

It obviously poses all sorts of interesting ethical questions. He is the subject of a new documentary and we'll be talking to him live.

And also be talking about the really haunting new details released from Arizona about the Gabby Giffords shooting and the details about Jared Loughner, stuff we've suspected, but have not known since the shooting in early 2011.

We'll take a look at the hit show, "The Walking Dead," and look at the 15th anniversary of Viagra.

We got a whole bunch of stuff right here. I can't go into all of it, but some of the highlights.

BALDWIN: That was a good tease. We'll look for you in a couple minutes.

TAPPER: Thank you.

BALDWIN: Coming up next, fascinating pictures and video never before seen actually. Pictures of the Kennedy family. Look at this, behind closed doors. One image brings back pretty tough memories for this family and really the nation, coming up.

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BALDWIN: OK. OK. So we just talked about this.

MONTY DURHAM, TLC'S "SAY YES TO THE DRESS ATLANTA": I know. I know. It's good. We're good.

BALDWIN: It's good. We're on TV, but it's OK.

DURHAM: It's all right.

BALDWIN: All right. New chapter at Camelot. Monty Durham.

Collect myself for a moment.

New chapter of Camelot, new burnish here on the Kennedy legend here, these are new photos. This was released by the Kennedy Library, so they show the Kennedy family. This is a weekend trip to Camp David. These were taken 50 years ago this week.

DURHAM: Wow.

BALDWIN: I talked to David Gergen like last hour. I just want to play a little bit of that.

We talked about how -- the formality -- yes, it is a very glamorous family, but the formality here for just a weekend away. Take a look.

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DAVID GERGEN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Presidents in those days did wear ties all the time, all the way through Ronald Reagan and never went into the Oval Office without a coat and tie on. And the Kennedys were like that.

When -- their glamour, I think partly, came because they had this sort of European style about them that people looked up into in those days. It was sort of a French overlay and those pictures are so poignant.

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BALDWIN: That was David Gergen.

But since we have the Kennedys we have to talk to our go-to Kennedy fashion person.

DURHAM: Yeah.

BALDWIN: Did you realize he's all into the Kennedys? This is "Say Yes To the Dress's Atlanta" Monty Durham, (inaudible) in the studio.

So we talked to -- good to have you.

I want to just go through some of these photos because they're just really fun to look at. You can see Caroline. You see John-John here.

And let's, guys -- let's go ahead and throw some of the pictures up.

And to sort of the point that we were making with David, the formality. You see dad. Here they are by the pony.

DURHAM: Yeah, Macaroni is his name.

BALDWIN: Pony, Macaroni.

DURHAM: And Caroline. Yes, how do you love that?

Do you know that Jackie won her first blue ribbon at thee and she was credited for her style and elegance from riding horses because she sat up. You don't talk and you're perfectly dressed.

BALDWIN: And apparently as I learned today Neil Diamond came up with the song "Sweet Caroline" ...

DURHAM: Yes, exactly.

BALDWIN: (Inaudible)

DURHAM: And here you see John-John. I believe this is the weekend before the trip to Dallas.

This is where Clint Hill, Jackie's secretary -- Jackie's personal assistant -- well, actually he was her bodyguard -- taught John-John how to salute and then that following week he did it at the funeral.

So you see Jackie in that beautiful wool coat, probably a Valentino coat, and in chartreuse, one of her favorite colors.

And she loved animals. I mean, you know, she grew up outside of D.C. where she went to college. Do you know she was the only daughter, only child of Janet Auchincloss to have a college degree?

And she grew up right outside of Washington, right there on the other side with all the beautiful land, and they had horses and donkeys and so she was quite the horse-rider.

BALDWIN: But here they were at Camp David outside ...

DURHAM: Yeah. All dressed up.

BALDWIN: All dressed up.

DURHAM: I know and look ...

BALDWIN: Why?

DURHAM: ... at her. She's in that (inaudible) ...

BALDWIN: Very formal.

DURHAM: Very formal. BALDWIN: Par for the course for that time or ....

DURHAM: Par for the course for that time, but also what it's really about is that it was who she was.

BALDWIN: How do you mean?

DURHAM: She never stepped out not being coiffed. Even if you look at her in her Georgetown days when they were there as a senator's wife, she's always coiffed and dressed and had that little pixie hair cut because she mimicked Audrey Hepburn. That was her idol.

So, if you look at her, that's how she owned it. And when she got married, the first thing she did was go through all John's wardrobe and had all his suits tailored. They were too boxy. He was skinny.

BALDWIN: She had them fitted.

DURHAM: Yes. You look at him prior as a senator and look at him as the president. Total different man.

BALDWIN: And, also, you also talk about Audrey Hepburn then we talk about Jackie O, still to this day so many people try to mimic her look, her hair, her glasses.

DURHAM: Yeah. You mention her name and people will say, elegant, lady, understated, all these beautiful terms which still hold true to her.

BALDWIN: And still, now, Michelle Obama sets quite a standard as well.

DURHAM: Yeah, exactly, so it's interesting to see.

I don't believe first ladies realize what an impact they have on fashion, or lack of. So, you know, you've got to be playing to your game there because we're watching.

BALDWIN: We are watching.

DURHAM: And we expect -- I'm watching always.

BALDWIN: Thank you very much.

DURHAM: Yes.

BALDWIN: And we thank you for watching.

I'm Brooke Baldwin at the CNN World Headquarters here in Atlanta. Always a pleasure. Back here, same time tomorrow.

For now, "THE LEAD WITH JAKE TAPPER" begins right now.