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Philippines Disaster on Epic Scale; U.S. Families Wait to Hear from Loved; Satellite about to Crash to Earth; Two Students Killed at "Party Gone Wild"; Woman Apparently Trying to Get Help is Killed; More Feared Dead in the Philippines; Legal Marijuana Business; Horrors of Hurricane Katrina

Aired November 10, 2013 - 19:00   ET

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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: You're in the CNN NEWSROOM, I'm Martin Savidge, in for I'm Don Lemon. Thank you very much for joining us this evening. Don is not far away -- he's on special assignment, as you may have just seen. Las Vegas. We'll be back in touch.

But we have to start overseas with that desperate national emergency now facing the people of the Philippines -- a nationwide recovery effort just beginning after a tremendous pounding by a monstrous typhoon.

This was the storm when it was tearing buildings to pieces and sending millions of people to any shelter they could find. A staggering number of people didn't make it. The International Red Cross says the death toll may soar past 10,000 when all casualty figures are finally in.

In nearly every populated area of the country today people are struggling to find clean drinking water and food, hospitals are overrun, there's no electricity and veteran emergency officials tell CNN that this is by far the worse devastation in the Philippines that they've ever seen.

Paula Hancocks is at an airport that is a few hundred miles south of Manila. It's one of the places that took the full force of this enormous typhoon. And Paula, tell us what the area looks like today and where do people even start to begin to recover?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well Martin, we've got hundreds of people coming to the airport from the nearby city of Tacloban which is about 10 miles away. But it takes a couple of hours for them to walk through the devastation. They are coming here for food and water -- the absolute basics. So the food and water is now getting through to the city itself as the road is cleared, but not enough so they are coming here.

We've got a couple of updates of what is happening on the ground. Now we know that U.S. boots are on the ground as well. I've just met a couple of the military who are working with the U.S. embassy. They are expecting the forward advance team this morning, to assess exactly what is needed from the United States. And then, it's possible that we could see U.S. planes here as early as this afternoon to help bring in supplies and to contact people who are desperate to escape. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

HANCOCKS: Carrying all they could from their devastated lives a steady stream of typhoon Haiyan victims keeps arriving at Tacloban airport -- looking for food, water and escape.

Magina Fernandez lost her home and business. She is desperate to leave on the next military plane.

MAGINA FERNANDEZ, VICTIM: Get international help to come here, now -- not tomorrow, now. This is really, really like, bad, bad, worse than hell -- worse than hell.

HANCOCKS: As the President of the Philippines Benigno Aquino arrives to assess the damage, Fernandez passes on her anger.

FERNANDEZ: -- and we need to get the word out because in Philippines, we can't do this alone.

BENIGNO AQUINO III, PRESIDENT OF THE PHILIPPINES: There is also a break down, especially in the local government level, their necessary first responders. And too many of them were also affected and did not report for work. That also contributed to the slow delivery.

ALFRED ROMUALDEZ, MAYOR TACLOBAN PHILIPPINES: People here were convinced that it looked like a tsunami.

HANCOCKS: The Mayor of Tacloban also lost his life in the storm surge. He admits a death toll as high as 10,000 is possible.

ROMUALDEZ: I've not spoken to anyone who hasn't lost someone -- a relative or close to them. And now we are looking for as many as we can and we are still trying to retrieve so many people.

HANCOCKS: Faces here tell a story of horror.

(on camera): And many of the people here have been walking for hours through the devastation to get here to get food and water from the military themselves. Many of them just say that they were too desperate to wait for help to get to them.

The young, the old and the injured all board a military C-130, leaving death and destruction behind them.

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HANCOCKS: So Martin, this airport has really become the hub for the relief supplies and also for people trying to get food and water.

Let me show you the scene here at Tacloban airport. You can see the devastation. You can see the overturned cars and the destroyed buildings and many of its trees are stripped completely bare from this storm surge. It reached up to the second story in this area.

And there are many hundreds of people who are coming here for food and water. You can you probably see in the distance a cue, as the military is giving out those basic supplies. Many people just couldn't wait any longer in the city itself. They have to come here and get the supplies for themselves.

And also many people cannot stay here any longer. They don't have a home to stay in. It is also about to start the rainy season here and we understand in the next day or so there's going to be another storm obviously not as brutal but when you don't have shelter these people will be feeling the pain of that -- Martin.

SAVIDGE: Yes, they will indeed.

Paula Hancocks thank you very much. Paula is part of a large team CNN has there. CNN's Ivan Watson also in the Philippines right now; he caught an emergency flight out of Manila as soon as the storm passed.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Approach to a shattered city, Tacloban the first major population center to be struck by super typhoon Haiyan. Amid the ruins of the airport here, desperate people waiting for food and clean water, some hoping for a flight out of the storm zone.

MURRAY ATTWAAD, TOURIST, NEW ZEALAND: Hopefully we can get a C-130 to Manila or something, I don't know.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just have to see --

ATTWAAD: We'll just have to wait here. It's a waiting game, as with any situation like this. It's catastrophic.

WATSON: In this catastrophe some residents say they are terrified of lawlessness and looting.

RICHARD YOUNG, BUSINESSMAN: We are forming groups now. As a matter of fact if you will see since last night we have whistles you know. We were all awake the whole night. If somebody attempts in our street you know we also these flashlights and everything we have our firearms we will shoot, you know, within our property.

WATSON (on camera): You are afraid of being robbed.

YOUNG: Yes, we are afraid of being robbed.

WATSON: From the misery and fear of Tacloban, we fly west -- following the path of the storm -- to Roxas, Kalibo and Busuanga. We accompanied officials from the Filipino civil aviation authority.

Like other government agencies they are trying to assess damage to other islands in the Philippines.

WILLIAM HOTCHKISS, GENERAL DIRECTOR, CIVILIAN AVIATION AUTHORITY OF THE PHILIPPINES: I was 37 years in the Air Force. I have flown all over the country. And I have experienced the storms before, but not to the extent this one put us into. WATSON: In the other towns we saw, the typhoon shattered windows and ripped off roofs. But fortunately, these communities did not suffer the far more deadly surge of ocean water that swept through Tacloban.

(on camera): The typhoon swept through here days ago and now the long hard work of rebuilding has just begun. All this damage was done in just a matter of hours and nobody here really knows how long it will take to truly recover.

MELY FABIAN, STORE OWNER: We have no electricity, no water. And most badly we have no flights. No boat coming here. So we have no food.

WATSON: Haiyan has shocked an island nation long accustomed to typhoons. Everyone here tells us they've never seen a storm this powerful before.

Ivan Watson, CNN, Tacloban in the Philippines.

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SAVIDGE: Our CNN crew members saw and heard Haiyan shred the hotel they thought was going to shelter them from the storm but it did not. Listen.

Winds that are so powerful, you can see they stripped door frames out of the wall. In fact, CNN's Tim Schwartz and Andrew Stevens with storm chaser Josh Morgan helped rescue people who have been trapped in their rooms by using a mattress.

Throughout the world people are seeing these images and they are startled by what is coming out of the Philippines. For many Filipinos living in the U.S. the pictures of devastation are just too much to bear since they cannot reach their loved ones.

Some people are trying to make contact by sending messages through CNN iReports. Dana Cosi from North Carolina is worried for her cousins Kevin Johnson and his new wife. The couple just left for a honeymoon in the Philippines.

And Jacqueline Brainsfelm (ph) from Virginia is desperate for any word from her parents. She hasn't heard from them in two days. They live in Leyte, one of the devastated areas and her mother's hometown.

People in the devastated areas are using the iReports to work in other directions to try to get word out since all communications are down. Douglas Manta wrote one of the notes from Tacloban, saying that his family, they're safe. An iReporter who works for a social media company in Manila uploaded the notes to our iReport site. And messages like that are priceless.

Data agencies are mobilizing to help the victims of the typhoon. Find out how you can help and get involved. Go to CNN.com/impact.

There's no deal on curbing Iran's nuclear enrichment program after three days of intense talks and high hopes. They have all ended now in Geneva. Secretary of State John Kerry says that progress was made and diplomacy takes time.

A fresh round of talks on nuclear -- on Iran's nuclear program will resume next week. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has warned that a U.S. agreement w. Iran would be quote a bad deal for peace. A top State Department official arrived in Jerusalem today to address Netanyahu's complaints.

And in the next few days how about this, a satellite will drop out of the sky. And we're not quite sure where it will land.

Plus, Don Lemon is in Las Vegas for the season finale of Anthony Bourdain "PARTS UNKNOWN". We'll check in with him, next.

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SAVIDGE: And I want to give you a head's up, literally. European -- a European satellite, rather, that ran out of fuel will start falling from the sky. It could be tomorrow. It'll be sometime in the next few days that's for sure and fragments of the disintegrating 2,000- pound spacecraft are expected to make it all way to the earth's surface.

Our Chad Myers explains why we're not exactly sure where it's going to hit.

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CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST (voice over): Remember back in February, a meteor slammed into a small Russian town? We never saw it coming because it came from the direction of the sun and the telescopes were blinded by the light.

This is different. This is GOCE, a satellite launched by the European Space Agency in 2009. Its job was to map the earth's gravitational field. Ironic, now GOCE at more than 2,400 pounds is drifting back toward earth. It's expected to come crashing down soon but exactly where is much less clear.

On timing of impact an official with the European Space Agency told the New York Times, "Concretely our best engineering prediction is now for a re-entry on Sunday with a possibility for it slipping into early Monday."

It's easy to track satellites because they are always close to the earth. But asteroids are much harder to find and much more dangerous. So the question is do we know where they all are?

NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON, ASTROPHYCIST: If it's really big, we know where they are. We know where the big ones are, the ones that would render us extinct or possibly disrupt civilization as we know it.

MYERS: As far as GOCE and all the other satellites they're easy to track. There's an app for that right there. Here all of the satellites that are still spinning around the earth and most of them will someday have a date with gravity. Scientists say debris is falling to the earth all the time -- most of it harmless. But at more than 17 feet long, three feet in diameter, GOCE has the potential to do damage, to what extent depends on where it lands.

Chad Myers, CNN, Atlanta.

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SAVIDGE: And keeping with that theme of unpredictable, Don Lemon is joining us from Las Vegas.

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DON LEMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello. Wait, wait -- I'm joining you. Is this the full thing or am I just teasing what's coming up? This is the big Kahuna right now? It's the full thing. Ok, I hear the music so I'm thinking that we are going to a break.

All right. Marty, how are you doing? Listen, downtown Las Vegas -- Las Vegas is beautiful right now. It's the sunset, and the Strip is back that way -- right? That's where all of the big lighted hotels and casinos are. We're in downtown, which used to be the Strip, the original Strip which started in the 40s and the 50s. And we're at Atomic Liquors and on -- what's the name of this street again -- on Fremont Street.

I want to bring in now Derek. He is one of the owners --

DEREK STONEBARGER, OWNER, ATOMIC LIQUORS: Stonebarger.

LEMON: Stonebarger. Anyway -- Derek, it's Atomic. It was originally Virginia -- right? Virginia --

STONEBARGER: Virginia Cafe, yes. In 1945 it was a restaurant. But that was during war time so it's kind of hard to get food. About 45, 50 miles away, people started watching the atomic testing, the blasts at the Nevada test site. So people started coming up right where we are right here, drinking alcohol, kind of like this, and having toasts and watching the mushroom clouds go.

LEMON: So they started doing that -- they started doing that because it was more interesting, they thought, than what was being served here. And they would come here to watch and so the name changed to Atomic Liquors in the 50s.

STONEBARGER: Yes, in 1952 they built this unbelievable sign. They changed the name to Atomic Liquors and it became the oldest -- the first free standing bar which means outside of the casino system.

LEMON: Yes. And the reason we're here is because Anthony Bourdain is -- we're going to do a sort of wrap up show after his show tonight, the finale of "PARTS UNKNOWN: DETROIT" is going to air at 9:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. Eastern we're going to do a wrap up show. We're calling it "LAST BITE". On Twitter, #lastbite. And you can go to PartsUnknownCNN, @PartsUnknownCNN on Twitter as well. We will be on at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.

But Anthony loves this place. And he thinks it is really iconic of America. And this is really about sustainability and about downtown areas and cities coming back. Because Detroit is coming back -- people want it to come back. And this bar lasted through -- when downtown sort of went away, it was isolated, this bar stood the test of time and stayed open.

STONEBARGER: It did. It was done here. This used to be a huge motel called The Ambassador. There used to be things in the 50s, 60s. And then slowly it all went away and was demolished. But it's all coming back. I mean we're at 10th and Fremont. It's just every week there is something new being built down here. So it's a remarkable time.

LEMON: Vegas is really different than I remember even five years ago, ten years ago. I used to say, I don't really like going to Vegas. Now I kind of like coming to Las Vegas. Why do you -- what do you think is happening here? Is it the cuisine? Is it the architecture? Is it the rejudification (ph) of downtown, what is going on?

STONEBARGER: I mean all of that -- everything you just said. I mean we've got unbelievable chefs here. We've got fabulous restaurants, we've got just everything. There's entertainment and there's -- you know, there's new stuff happening. There's new industry being built here. You know the downtown projects and all the influx of everything that's happening here. It is just bringing interest from all around the world.

LEMON: And so when Anthony told you guys, "Hey I want to do the finale show -- the finale wrap-up show at your place, what did you think?

STONEBARGER: We were just -- we were -- I mean it made sense that he obviously picked the coolest spot in town, you know, the oldest bar in Vegas. But we were just -- you know we're so grateful that you guys are here. And thank you, seriously, for doing this.

LEMON: Yes. Let's show them just how beautiful it is. Look at the mountains behind Derek here. As far as can you see, all the way around here, even where the old testing site was just before those mountains. It's just an unbelievable landscape here. And listen, as I said, tonight we're going to be here at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. Make sure you go on Twitter, @PartsUnknownCNN, you can #lastbite. And if you are in the area, we invite you to come down. We have several viewing stations where people are already starting to show with big monitors. There's food, there's drinks here. It is going to be amazing.

And then you can get to meet Anthony and possibly talk to him if you come down. So if you're in the area, come on down. And if you're at home, make sure you tune in and make sure you engage us online as well. We'll be back right after this.

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SAVIDGE: It was supposed to be a birthday party. But it turned into a crime scene last night. Two high school students were shot and killed at this party in Cyprus, Texas that just outside of Houston. 19 people also wounded after somebody fired into the crowd.

Many of those people who were hit were hit as a result of the gunshots, I should say hurt. This afternoon, the sheriff gave more details about what happened.

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SHERIFF ADRIAN GARCIA, HARRIS COUNTY, TEXAS: Out of no apparent provocation, someone discharged a firearm in apparent celebration of music. Someone else, who thinks it's important to carry a pistol to a birthday party, decides to pull theirs and recklessly reacted to the gunfire and shoots into the crowd.

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SAVIDGE: The sheriff also said the invitation to that party was posted on social media -- over 100 people were there. Deputies are looking for two suspects and they are still trying to determine a motive.

To Michigan now where there are more questions than answers for a family of a woman who was shot and killed while apparently trying to get help after a car accident. A homeowner killed 19-year-old Renisha McBride when she knocked on his door last weekend.

Nic Robertson has the story.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): A simple white coffin, so many questions unanswered. Renisha McBride's family came to do what no parents should ever have to do, say a final good-bye to their young daughter -- their faith now in the prosecutor and police.

WALTER RAY SIMMONS, FATHER OF RENISHA MCBRIDE: We believe that Ken Worthy will do the right thing and prosecute to the fullest extent. So we have confidence in that and Dearborn Heights police will cooperate and give all of the information that's needed.

ROBERTSON: At the house where she was shot early Saturday morning, in a leafy, lower middle class neighborhood, police are still searching for clues. No one charged yet. Neighbors say the man who lives here is white, in his 50s, quiet, law-abiding, lives alone.

(on camera): But why Renisha McBride was here is unclear. She crashed her car into a parked vehicle some distance away, then as much as two hours later comes here -- according to her family -- asking for help. That's when things go horribly wrong. A shot is fired.

RAY MURAD, NEIGHBOR: Just watching from the window, I didn't see nothing. Then three, four minutes later, I see like ten or seven police cars.

ROBERTSON (voice over): The 19-year-old high school graduate, according to the alleged gunman's attorney, was accidentally shot in the face as he feared she was trying to break in proving hard for her family to comprehend.

JERRY THURSELL, ATTORNEY FOR MCBRIDE FAMILY: Was it an accident that the gun was aimed at her face? Is that an accident?

ROBERTSON: Anger and frustration fuelling small protests from people who feel she was shot because she was black. Police and the family's attorney say there's not enough answers yet to reach that conclusion.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The worst part for me is that you have a suspect, evidently he admitted that he'd done this thing but the police arrested him, and the police let him go. That's kind of hard pill to swallow.

ROBERTSON: At the chapel where friends join family to say their good- byes, there is little solace that justice must wait. All here, mourning a life barely lived; in death, leaving a legacy of questions.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Dearborn Heights, Michigan.

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SAVIDGE: Next up, a Veterans Day story you'll want to share with your friends. It's a special delivery, 70 years in the making.

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SAVIDGE: Food aid and emergency supplies are arriving in the Philippines from all over the world, two days after that massive typhoon ravaged the entire country. The humanitarian situation still look very grim. The death toll very high. A lot of hard work toward recovery only beginning.

CNN's Anna Coren is in a make-shift aid center today.

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ANNA COREN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): As the scale of the disaster grows by the day, the people of the Philippines, pitching in, volunteering their time to make sure that those who have lost absolutely everything as a result of super typhoon Haiyan, have the basic necessities.

I'm at the provincial welfare office here, where hundreds of volunteers have gathered to put together food and aid parcels. I want to introduce to you to Richard, who has been here all day. Richard, why so many people come?

RICHARD: Actually, they are here to express their concern to the ones who are affected by the typhoon. They want to offer their help as well. Actually, there are individuals, they have work, they are private individuals as well, those are students even. They come here in convergence to help, offer themselves.

COREN: Are you overwhelmed by the generosity? RICHARD: Actually, overwhelmed is an actually understatement. I'm very happy. We are deeply touched even there are foreigners here. There are Germans who came to Palawan as visitors, vacation, and when they heard about the typhoon they came here to pack the relief goods for all of those stricken.

COREN: Richard, it's fantastic work and we congratulate you and all the volunteers involved.

RICHARD: Yes.

COREN: These volunteers are going to be back here tomorrow and in the coming weeks as they make sure that those who so desperately need food and water, get it.

Anna Coren, CNN, Cebu, the Philippines.

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SAVIDGE: In other news, tomorrow is Veteran's Day. It's a chance to salute those who served in the military. There will be, of course, parades, speeches, flags. But for one Nashville family, all eyes will be on a van coming down the street. It carries a piece of history that reconnects a daughter and two sons to their now deceased hero father.

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CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In a crate in a DHL warehouse in Nashville sits a delivery that has waited 69 years. How it got here, well, well, that's the story.

It begins in the sky over Nazi Germany, November 1944. A young American pilot struggles to control his shot-up B-17 bomber. The plane is dying and so is his wounded crew. They can't bailout. He has to try to crash land in Belgium. Mary Ann Hubert was only a child living there at the time. But she knows the story.

(on camera): He gets out of the clouds and what does he see?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He sees the steeple of a church.

SAVIDGE: Right in front?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A few feet below its wing. So his copilot and himself, they have to brace them self to try to lift the wing and they miss it by just a feet or two.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): The plane lands in the field, sparing the village, saving the crew. The Americans go back to England and the bomber vanishes.

(on camera): So the plane essentially just disappears into the village itself. Piece by piece.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Completely. Just like ants eating something.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): Decades go by, life goes on. Then one day Mary Ann finds the plane again. Well, at least part of it.

(on camera): This particular piece was found where?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was found in a chicken coup.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): It is a steel ring three feet wide from the machine gun tourette of the crashed plane. Grateful to the Americans who fought to free their country, Mary Ann set out to find the brace pilot from that dangerous day. After years of record digging, she did.

Lieutenant James Dimel of Plantation, Florida. And so the remnant was loaded with loving care and returned to the air once more. Bound for the United States. Sadly, Lieutenant Dimel died in 2010. But that only makes the discovery all the more important to his family. As I found out in the phone call.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're just so excited that it will happen on Veteran's day, which just makes the whole event more of an honor.

SAVIDGE: In other words, this will be one very special delivery.

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SAVIDGE: That package, by the way, will be delivered tomorrow morning. The pilot's family will be there to receive it along with Mary Ann Hubert and loved ones of the bomber's radio operator. It will be quite a day.

Next, the horrors inside New Orleans Memorial Hospital during Hurricane Katrina. Patients left to die and in some cases so-called mercy killings by doctors and nurses. Was it a wake-up call for health care in America. We're talking to the author of a new book.

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MARTIN: The images coming out of the Philippines are gut-wrenching. They're also a reminder that life and death during a storm can be decided days, weeks, even years before the storm hits. And those are lessons Americans were exposed to during Hurricane Katrina. A new book details the drastic but often horrifying choices made at one New Orleans hospital during that 2005 storm.

Dr. Sheri Fink, the author of "Five Days at Memorial" hopes her book is a wake-up call. She talked to Don Lemon earlier about what happened then and how it could happen again.

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DR. SHERI FINK, AUTHOR "FIVE DAYS AT MEMORIAL": The American hospitals have elements of their back-up power below flood level. And so the circuits got wet. All power went out and it became, you know, very unbearable. Everything on American hospitals these days rely on electricity. They have to decide who to save first when the helicopters started to arrive. They had about 2,000 people in the hospital, about 250 patients. Here, a year ago, in New York City, we have hospitals who have their back-up power systems that were vulnerable to flooding when we had a storm surge and many of our hospitals in New York City are on rivers and on the ocean and same with nursing homes. So same kind of problems. We haven't yet learned all that we need to learn and apply that from Katrina.

DON LEMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): After that happening down in New Orleans with Katrina, what sticks with you most about this?

FINK: Well, I think obviously this hospital, kind of the most extreme thing that you can imagine, happened. Which is that after the storm, doctors and nurses were accused of having hastened the deaths of their patients intentionally.

LEMON: When you say hastening the deaths, that really means they were just allowing these people to - they were on life support, they were allowing them not to -

FINK: It was more than that. It was allegedly, and what I found out, is actually, that medicines were actually injected that would hasten the deaths of the patients.

LEMON: These aren't mercy killings.

FINK: Well, that is sort of what was alleged. Of course, then there became a debate because, what is that line between comforting the patients, these are the same medicines you would use in a normal dose to give comfort. Or you know, were they pushing them over the edge. In the end there were 20 patients who forensic pathologists determined had received these drugs in short order and died and some of the doctors were willing to tell me that, "yes, we did this. We did do this intentionally. We felt that the situation was so desperate because we had to wait a long time for rescue for the patients."

LEMON: Is there any sort of justification for this, that things are so bad that it is better that patient's life be ended than having to suffer through that?

FINK: It's interesting because a lot of people thought that their families would say that. They would say "Thank you for doing this merciful thing. My loved one was not going to survive anyways and you gave them a comfortable way out." But in fact, almost 2-1 they were very upset. And they felt maybe my mom or my husband didn't have a whole lot of time left but that time was still valuable and so that effort should have been made to rescue him or her.

LEMON: Does this become something more sinister? Because in your book, it says that they all vowed not to talk about it afterwards, right?

FINK: They did. Some of them told me there was a code of silence about it. I think that was in part brought about by the fact that very soon - some of the doctors and nurses really felt like this was the right thing do. We're in a desperate circumstance, these patients won't make it. Other doctors and nurses said, "Are you kidding me? We don't do this." And they stood against it. Very early on, they went to the media, they went to the authorities. The authorities started to investigate. Eventually a doctor and two nurses were arrested. So you can imagine why there was this code of silence.

LEMON: So was it a matter of, in this particular case, was it a matter of just how sick someone was. Their race. Their weight. What were the criteria to, you know, for hastening life?

FINK: So I think one of the most disturbing parts of this was that one gentleman who weighed, I think he was close to 400 pounds. And he was on the seventh floor. Of course, no elevators working. He was conscious. He ate breakfast that morning. He said, "Are we ready to rock and roll?" Apparently, they had a discussion, according to some of the people involved in that discussion and decided he was just too heavy to carry down the steps. And that is something that we really need to think about because we have obesity in this country.

LEMON: What happened?

FINK: So he was one of the 20 patients that was found by the forensic pathologists with these drugs in their bodies. Interestingly, at Bellevue Hospital after Hurricane Sandy last year, super storm Sandy, again, the last person who was taken out was a very heavy-set patient. But they kept carrying fuel up to some back-up generators on the 13th floor until they could get one elevator running and get him out. So maybe we have learned something.

LEMON: Something from that.

FINK: We need to think about the infrastructure in this country. Tremendously vulnerable. So should we be investing more, should we be - here in New York City, there is now a proposal that is going to be going through the local city council to demand that hospitals be brought up to kind of a higher building standard. So that by the year 2030, which is still a long way away, that we will have hospitals that have their back-up power protected against flooding. It seems kind of crazy that we don't have that already. And that's a vulnerability all over the country.

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MARTIN: Our thanks to Dr. Sheri Fink. Her book is called "Five Days at Memorial."

It's been called the fastest growing industry culture in country. Legal marijuana and the business startups that are popping up around it. Even Wall Street is interested. That's next.

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MARTIN: Legal marijuana is among one of the fastest growing industries in the U.S., it's outpacing many technology and manufacturing sectors. The legal marijuana market is an industry with sky high potential.

This year, U.S. sales of legal marijuana may be worth an estimated $1.5 billion. Next year, an estimated $3 billion. Yes, that's a 100 percent increase. That's serious money. This weekend, our Don Lemon spoke with supporters and critics of the business of pot.

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LEMON: Let's break down the legal marijuana business with our guest. Steve Deangelo is the president of Arc View Investors Network and a long-time marijuana activist. He joins us via Skype. He is in Prague. Then there's Jamen Shively. He is a former manager at Microsoft and co-founder of Diego Peliser, a company aiming to be the Starbucks of pot. That is very interesting. I think you're going to be a very wealthy man one day. I will tell you why in just a minute. He joins us from Seattle. Then Kevin Sabet. He opposes legal pot. Kevin and I have spoken about this a number of times. We are getting to be old friends. He works as a drug policy adviser for the Obama, Bush and the Clinton administration.

Kevin, we have been doing this for quite a long time. I've been talking to you for about five years. He also wrote the book called "Reefer Sanity" and he says he is not hearing anything. He joins us from San Francisco.

Jamen, first to you, you said pot will mint more millionaires than Microsoft How do you think that can happen?

JAMEN SHIVELY, CO-FOUNDER & CEO DIEGO PELISER INC.: Well, first of all, just look at the size of the industry. It's a multi-hundred billion dollar industry worldwide. Currently, under a global regime of prohibition per the United Nations 1961 single convention treaty to which virtually every country in the world is a signatory notable exceptions such as Uruguay exists and those actually point to the key to why prohibition is coming to an end a lot quicker than most people think.

LEMON: OK. So Steven, listen, who is going to back you? In the eyes of the feds, this is still illegal. Where will the money come from?

STEVE DEANGELO, PRESIDENT ARC VIEW INVESTOR NETWORK: At the Arc View Group, which we started three years ago, in our early years, we saw mostly cannabis industry insiders who were interested in other businesses in the industry. More and more, we're seeing investors who have been life-long investors. In some case, they are just high net- worth individuals and in some cases funds have been created specifically to invest in the cannabis industry.

LEMON: Are you in this for the weed, or are you in it for the money?

DEANGELO: Well, I've been doing this for 40 years. I fell in love with the cannabis plant and learned of its benefits and my life's mission is to bring the truth about this plant to the world. I've spent more money doing activism than I'll ever make on cannabis.

LEMON: OK. So people have tried to guess what kind of money this new legal pot industry will pull down. But if instead of back alleys, if pot could be sold in corner stores, will this impact people who may have never bought marijuana?

DEANGELO: Well, yes. It's certainly impacting people who have never bought marijuana in their lives. In Oakland, which has had a cannabis tax for the past three years, Arbor Side Health Center is the dispenser and director of, is the second-largest retail taxpayer in the city. We pay for the salaries of well over a dozen cops and teachers every year.

LEMON: I wonder, Kevin though, if we're looking at this like marijuana and pot through the same eyes. And maybe we shouldn't. Because by all accounts, I'm just being honest, I'm just giving you the research here as a journalist, alcohol is much worse for you than marijuana. So maybe there shouldn't even be a comparison and that's why there's such a negativity when it comes to marijuana.

KEVIN SABET, FMR. WHITE HOUSE DRUG POLICY ADVISER: Well, the question is worse compared to what? When it comes to IQ for young people, marijuana is worse than alcohol. When it comes to violence, alcohol is worse. So why is it one is worse than the other? The point is alcohol's legality is here to stay for cultural reasons. Why do we want to create the new big tobacco and the new alcohol industry now in the name of marijuana?

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SAVIDGE: Don Lemon is now in Las Vegas. He's there for the premiere of "Anthony Bourdain's Parts Unknown." And he spoke with the world's most famous traveling chef. That will be next.

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SAVIDGE: If you're still hungry for more after tonight's season finale of "Parts Unknown," don't fear. Anthony Bourdain and friends will host a one-hour postseason show called "Last Bite." It's live from Las Vegas. Our very own Don Lemon is with Anthony Bourdain in Las Vegas tonight.

LEMON: The season finale is tonight. The season finale is in Detroit. But we're here in Las Vegas. You picked this because you think that this sort of represents America.

ANTHONY BOURDAIN, CNN'S PARTS UNKNOWN: Look, there's high roller Vegas and then there is for me the real Vegas. This is the real Vegas. This is the Vegas I love, this side of town.

LEMON: Yes, this is the Vegas you love. This is what you love to do.

Hey, Rosie, come here. What does Anthony have here?

ROSIE: He has a (INAUDIBLE) Joseph James (INAUDIBLE).

LEMON: What is this one?

ROSIE: This is the Firestone solace, unfiltered wheat beer.

LEMON: So this one is not local? But you're Mr. Local. You're Mr. Hops the table.

BOURDAIN: I eat local, drink local. LEMON: Seriously, why do you love this place so much? Why do you love Las Vegas? Why do you love the town?

BOURDAIN: You know, they used to dance on the roof here I think. When they would explode the A bomb during nuclear tests. You know, it harkens back to the time it is one of the oldest establishments in Vegas. Locals drink here and eat here. And it's - this is, you know, it's not that faceless corporate feel, anonymous feel of a casino. I feel it should surprise you not at all that I feel right at home in places like this.

LEMON: I agree with you. I'm having much more fun here than I'm having in my fancy hotel, which is in the famous strip. This is more fun. This is more authentic to me. So we'll talk a little bit more about this and why it's called Atomic, because they would test the bombs and people would come and watch. But I want to talk to you about "Parts Unknown," the finale for this season, Detroit. You love Detroit.

BOURDAIN: Look, I love Detroit. I think it's a great American city. It's almost everything great arguably that truly American came out of Detroit. It was the automobile, the highway, the credit card, the dream of upper mobility. It is an iconic city. It is still, to my mind, a beautiful city. I greatly admire all of the troubles they've had, sort of fierce and very black humored spirit of the people who chose to remain and see it through. It was sort of love at first sight for me. It's a place I felt great loyalty to from way back and a place I wanted to portray on television.

LEMON: Tony, you went places this season that you have not gone in the previous seasons and on your other shows. Tokyo was, shall we say, different.

BOURDAIN: I think that's an example of a show - that's a destination I've been to many times, I've made a lot of television there. The challenge, as it often is in the show, is to go someplace that we've done before or other people have done before, but show a side to it, an important side, one that most people, for obvious reasons, haven't chosen to put on television.

It is some pretty dark, disturbing stuff. But along with all of the things that you're comfortable with and love about Japan, there's that, too. It's something I wanted to look at for a while and didn't rightly think I could get away with it.

LEMON: Well, the reason I said it was different and interesting is because you talk about sex bondage. You talk about masochism. And I asked you earlier when I saw you, what does all this have to do with food? But it's part of the experience when you go to that country.

BOURDAIN: It's part of Japanese pop culture. Those sorts of images, that sort of fantasy life. Look, it's pretty lurid stuff, but how many copies has "Fifty Shades of Grey" sold in the States? So no reason to be too smug about Japan being perverted or anything. I mean I think, we're at least as disturbed. You know, they do things in very lurid, very visual ways. SAVIDGE: I'm Martin Savidge. As you've heard, the season finale of "Parts Unknown" is coming up. The live special "Last Bite" from Las Vegas, that will be at 10:00 Eastern.

But first, Anthony Bourdain's "Parts Unknown" from Tokyo begins right now.