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Mexican Authorities Kill Drug Cartel Leader; Details Revealed From George W. Bush's New Book; Worst Eruption Indonesia's Mt. Merapi Yesterday; San Francisco Removes the Happy from Happy Meals; Charlie Sheen Lives Life on the Edge; Jury Deciding on Death Penalty; 152 Arrested in Oakland; Tomas Saturates Haiti; President Obama Visiting India; Health Care Job Explosion; The Future of Legal Pot; Top Cartel Leader Killed

Aired November 06, 2010 - 17:00   ET

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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: This hour on CNN, rioting in one of America's biggest cities. A white officer, unarmed black man, a controversial verdict, tonight will the streets of Oakland erupt again.

The president is on the other side of the world on a trip to India just days after a Democratic election trouncing.

And speaking of elections, let's talk about marijuana and all those initiatives. Some of them passed, others didn't. America's drug czar is here live to explain it to us.

We begin tonight in New Haven, Connecticut, where convicted murderer Steven Hayes could find out any moment where he lives or dies. Because the stakes are so high, the jury is back at work today in extremely rare weekend session in that state. Prosecutors want Hayes to die in his role of the brutal rape and murder of Jennifer Hawke- Petit and her two daughters, 17-year-old Hayley and 11-year-old Michaela. Only the father Dr. William Petit survived the 2007 home invasion. Sunny Hostin is a legal contributor at our sister network in session on truTV. Sunny good to see you. They're seeking the death penalty in Connecticut. Is that extremely difficult? What are the jurors doing?

SUNNY HOSTIN, LEGAL CONTRIBUTOR, "IN SESSION" ON TRUTV: Well, the jury certainly has been deliberating now, Don, for almost 11 hours. And it is unusual in Connecticut, the death penalty is not sought a lot here. There are only ten people on death row and the last time a verdict came down was in 2005. That was a serial killer who didn't appeal and wanted to get the death penalty by all accounts. This is a very unusual thing that is happening in Connecticut. And I will say many people thought that this was a special verdict that was going to come down very, very quickly. That has not been the case.

LEMON: I would imagine this is unusual. I think the defense attorney stood up and said this guy is not like a rabid dog, he shouldn't be put to death. He's a human being. So what questions, after all of these unusual circumstances, what questions might the jurors be asking the judge?

HOSTIN: Well, I will tell you the jury did send a note out today and asked for the testimony of Dr. Goldsmith, a defense witness to be read back to them. And that defense witness basically said that Steven Hayes was mentally impaired and really went over his mental health history. So I think that what we can glean from that is that this jury is just trying to determine the mitigating factors. There is the very first step of their determination. I have this special verdict forms with me. They are almost 50 pages long, because this defendant was found guilty of six capital counts and they have to decide, this jury, whether or not he should be given the death penalty for each and every count. So what I think is happening here is that they are really struggling with just whether or not he was mentally impaired when these crimes occurred.

LEMON: So it's got to be unanimous, if not, does that automatically mean life in prison?

HOSTIN: That's right. Actually, if they find unanimously that just one mitigating factor exists, let's say that they find he was mentally impaired, couldn't appreciate his conduct at the time of these crimes then immediately the sentence is life in prison without the possibility of release.

LEMON: OK. So this is a rare session on a Saturday. Will they be back on a Sunday, is that possible?

HOSTIN: We were just told that they will be back on Sunday. The jury asked to be relieved for the day. They got out at about 4:00, between 4 and 4:30. And they will be back tomorrow at 10:00 a.m. to start their deliberations yet again.

LEMON: Sunny Hostin from truTV, thank you very much. We appreciate it.

In Oakland, California, people are on edge after last night's violence resulted in a mass arrest of more than 150 people. That unrest was triggered by the sentencing of a former transit police officer in the killing of an unarmed man in 2009. They were upset that the officer only received a two-year sentence in the killing. City officials say the marchers started out peaceful but turned unruly as night fell and began tearing up the city. A resident said the situation quickly became very tense as police moved in.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It seemed like an army full of police guys with their tear gas guns out and their Billy clubs like they were just going to beat up someone you know. It was really scary.

LEMON: We'll keep a close eye on the situation in Oakland and let you know if there is any future trouble there.

Disaster, disease and now more devastation to tell you about in Haiti after hurricane Tomas tore through the country. Tomas is a tropical storm but before it weakened, it overwhelmed some areas, wiping out homes and creating rivers out of streets. CNN's Paula Newton joins us now by phone with an update on this. Paula, the big concern now is mudslides, right?

PAULA NEWTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Not so much of a concern. They are doing some sweeps of the countryside to make sure there aren't communities that aren't cut off that they don't know about yet. We have seen some aircraft in the air doing that already. I'm here in Leogane where it's incredibly sad. This was a place that was the epicenter for the quake completely devastated. I'm still wading through rubble on my left, on my right it's completely flooded. The center of town was completely flooded yesterday. The cemetery is flooded. Clinics, hospitals, people's homes, people are just wading through here. I think the problem remains is there is no solution to this. Another hurricane season will come, even during the rainy season these roads get flooded. It underscores the disaster that still exists here in Haiti so many months after the earthquake.

LEMON: You said in Leogane there was some flooding. But what about the camps, where nearly a million people, those earthquake survives are living, have they been spared?

NEWTOWN: It was a bare knuckle night. In talking to people here, they really did fear for the high winds and for the rain. In the end, they were incredibly fortunate, because the winds were not as strong as they expected them to be, while they did get a lot of rain, between 6 and 10 inches in some areas. The camps are a bit soggy but people were okay, meaning the tarps, the tents, the makeshift homes they had made for themselves are in tact. The exception here a few thousand people were moved because the waters being flooded. Further west, there were six deaths from people trying to cross rivers already swollen.

LEMON: It was just last week and all over this week, Paula, we've been reporting about cholera there. It's killed more than 400 people. It is a water borne illness. Who are the concerns now after the flooding from Tomas?

NEWTON: Well, the concerns I'm looking at, people are going into these streets, taking water and going back to their homes. In many places the issue of sanitation has not yet been addressed. When we were here seven days ago just covering that cholera outbreak, we could see the problem with sanitation. Again we see it. The fact that the rivers are swollen, the streams are swollen, canals filled with garbage, these kinds of things will perhaps exacerbate the outbreak. Officials here quite gratified that the outbreaks didn't turn out to be worse. They really haven't had any significant cases in the capital, Port-au-Prince. But again, this underscores the risk that that cholera, that water borne disease, will again spread.

LEMON: Paula Newton, reporting to us from Leogane, Haiti, we appreciate it tonight.

Even half a world away, President Barack Obama can't get away from the challenges back here at home. But his trip to India may actually benefit U.S. workers. We're live from Mumbai coming up.

A new view from the oval office, former President Bush's new memoir hits shelves this week. We'll give you a look at what's inside.

And spewing ash and also ash, volcano shows no signs of slowing down. Don't just sit there. We want you to be part of the conversation. Send us a message on Twitter or Facebook. Check out our blog at CNN.com/Don and look for us on Four Square, foursquare.com/DonLemonCNN.

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LEMON: President Barack Obama is in India right now, the first stop on a ten-day tour through Asia. He's fresh off the thumping the Democrats took on election night, as he called it a shellacking. Even in India he couldn't get away from the main issue that dogged him during the midterms and that's the American economy. He announced $10 billion in new contracts for U.S. exports to India, a move he says will deliver jobs here in America, back home. Mallika Kapur is in Mumbai where the president earlier. Mallika, good to see you. Can you tell us what his first day was like, can you go over what he did and what's going on there?

MALLIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Of course. The president arrived here on Saturday morning and the first thing he did was to express his really solidarity with the people of Mumbai. He went straight to the Taj Mahal Hotel and he met with survivors of the Mumbai attack and also with people who had lost family members in the attacks. He went on to sign the memorial book of the Taj Mahal Hotel which of course was attacked and he wrote in the book, "We will always remember the events of 26-11." That's how the attacks are known here in India. "Not only the sorrow but also the courage and humanity displayed on that day." He made it very clear that his decision to stay at the hotel, which was attacked and to make Mumbai his first stop on his Asian tour was not a coincidence.

LEMON: What's the next stop on the president's agenda?

KAPUR: Well, he moves on to New Delhi tomorrow. But before that, he's going to spend the morning meeting with schoolchildren. He's going to a high school and today we met with a 15-year-old boy who has been chosen to make a presentation to the president. I cannot even begin to tell you how excited he is. He said it's a dream come true to meet the president and he's been rehearsing his speech all day. Also, Michelle Obama, she spent some time today meeting with children and that visit went down really well. She took off her shoes, played hopscotch with them and broke into an impromptu dance with the children.

LEMON: Very nice. We see the dancing there. Mallika Kapur, thank you very much. We'll be checking in with you.

It's time right now for your CNN equals politics update. We're keeping an eye on the latest headlines on the CNN.com political ticker. Here's what's crossing right now. The Republican mantra leading up to the midterms was "fire Pelosi." But now it's "hire Pelosi" as this banner reads outside the RNC in Washington. Republicans would love to see her become house minority leader. And fall flat. That's what they want. The sign went up after she announced she was running for the job yesterday. The GOP is wasting no time in capitalizing on its new stars. Florida's Marco Rubio will still be a senator elect until January. But this morning, the party had him deliver its weekly address. He called the election a second chance for the GOP to live up to his promises, something that he repeated in his victory speech. And Keith Olberman has plenty of time on his hands after MSNBC suspended him indefinitely for donating to Democrats. But before that happened, he revealed a tidbit about Vice President Joe Biden in an interview with the "New York Times" magazine. Olberman says that Joe Biden turned to him on advice in controlling his anger while he was still in the Senate. Biden reportedly asked him how to -- how he turns anger into "righteous inspiration." For the latest political news go to CNNpolitics.com. We'll have another update for you at 7:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

A developing story to tell you about from the Middle East. A new charge to find an American born member of al Qaeda.

And talk about being in the right place at the right time. A baby falls from a window. The ending you have to hear to believe.

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LEMON: A look now at your top stories now on CNN. A judge in Yemen has ordered the capture of the so called Osama Bin Laden of the internet. Anwar al-Awlaki charged with inciting the killing of foreigners in Yemen. The order means more Yemeni troops will be deployed to find al-Awlaki. The U.S. born cleric is already on a U.S. list to be killed or captured. He's been linked to al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

Pirates have reportedly released two tankers they seized months ago off the Somalia coast. The two vessels were freed after ransoms were paid to the pirates. There are conflicting reports but they totaled less than $16.5 million. The EU and NATO have stepped up patrols off Somalia in response to piracy, but they've been unable to end the mayhem.

Pope Benedict XVI began his second visit to Spain today. His first stop was in Santiago, an important pilgrimage site for centuries. Tonight, he travels across Spain to Barcelona where he's expected to consecrate one of the city's most famous buildings.

Health care is the fastest growing part of the economy and the fastest growing segment of the jobs market. While the positions are available, not all health care jobs are created equal. CNN's Christine Romans has more for you.

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TANNEKE BURNS, STUDENT, BUNKER HILL COMMUNITY COLLEGE: Are you okay?

CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Tanneke Burns enjoys her job. Drawing blood for a Boston area blood bank. But over the past couple of years, she's watched her hours shrink. Seven or eight-hour blood drives now last just five.

BURNS: I've always been told that as long as you have a job in health care, you pretty much are set.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is this thinking --

ROMANS: So Tanneke is pursuing a more secure career in nursing. She goes to class at night and works during the day.

BURNS: I don't consider myself to be a risk taker but I guess on some levels this is.

ROMANS: A risk that will likely pay off. The population is aging. And an estimated 50 million Americans enter the health care system when reform kicks in 2014.

ANDREW RUBIN, NYU LAGONE MEDICAL CENTER: They are going to need hospitals and doctors and nurses to take care of them. Demand for health care services equals demand for good jobs.

ROMANS: Where are the jobs in health care? It's not just nursing but up and down.

RUBIN: It's up and down the spectrum. It's a big field. Any health care profession is a big field and you have all levels of people in there. And the jobs are going to be found in all those levels.

ROMANS: There's already a shortage of health care I.T. professionals, medical coders and medical assistants. The government estimates hundreds of thousands of personal aides and home health aides will be needed over the next decade. Often those jobs come with on the job training but low pay. Median wages for registered nurses, however, is $66,530. Tanneke Burns is hopeful. There will be student loans to pay off, but she's confident she made the right choice.

BURNS: I always tell my children you need to go to school and get an education, but if I haven't gone to college, how can I expect them to do something I haven't done myself?

ROMANS: Christine Romans, CNN.

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LEMON: All right Christine. Thank you very much. The growing call to legalize marijuana failed to carry through on Election Day. But is the fight really over? The president's so-called drug czar joins us live to talk about the ongoing debate, next.

One of Mexico's biggest drug cartel leaders shot to death. Could his killing slow down the violence or make it worse?

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LEMON: Let's talk about something that's always controversial here. We always get a lot of responses We're talking about marijuana. A move to legalize marijuana in California died this week. 54 percent of voters rejected, it's called proposition 19. That is a measure that would have permitted the drug's recreational use. So what is next in the push for legal pot? Let's get some perspective now from the nation's drug czar, Gil Kerlikowske, joining me from Washington. Last time I saw you was here in Atlanta. Good to see you by satellite. Your official title though is the director of the White House office of national drug control policy. Do you think the failure of prop 19 means it's an end to this move to make pot available to everyone, not just medical marijuana?

R. GIL KERLIKOWSKE, WHITE HOUSE DRUG POLICY DIRECTOR: Don, let's put it in perspective. They brought in top notch pro legalization folks, highly paid publicists, campaign managers. They completely outspent the grassroots opposition. And yet they were handed a significant defeat. I think when people get the right information about marijuana, they see that legalizing it is not a sound move.

LEMON: You say that, but isn't that -- any sort of advocacy group even in Washington to get people who are pro something to pay them to get out and get the message out. That's what any professional organization does, it's called lobbying.

KERLIKOWSKE: The important part here is the opposition was just this grassroots group. They didn't have publicists. They didn't have money. They didn't have ads on TV. And yet the voters of California really understood that legalizing marijuana wasn't going to do all the things it promised to do. Reduce violence in Mexico, improve California's budget, et cetera.

LEMON: Do you think it's an age thing? At the same time 3 million people did vote yes for legalizing pot. Does that show you many people don't view marijuana as seriously as other drugs and how are they going to respond over the years? Maybe as the electorate gets older, these younger people it could turn in a different direction.

KERLIKOWSKE: You know, I think what will happen is that more of the information that's very specific and really lets parents and young people know, remember, a lot of these kids, their older brothers and sisters are going to be parents themselves some day. When they see that the number one call to hotlines for substance abuse problems is in fact marijuana, when they see the problems that occurs of people dropping out of high school, that was made evident by the assistant superintendent of the Los Angeles unified school system in her discussion, when they see all of these problems, I'm not sure that these really smart voters aren't going to continue to say this just really isn't the best thing for us or our community.

LEMON: Aren't there the same problems with alcohol?

KERLIKOWSKE: We have similar problems, and I think that's an excellent example. The taxes collected on alcohol don't begin to pay for the harm and the criminal justice costs. And we know that we can't keep it out of the hands of young people very efficiently. How could we ever think we'll develop a system which we're going to keep marijuana out of the hands of young people?

LEMON: Right now, 14 states have medical marijuana, 13 states have laws that decriminalize carrying pot so violators just pay a fine, plus more than a dozen municipalities have even directed police to make arrests for possession of pot at a low priority, including Seattle where you were once police chief. Some could say that legal pot is just a matter of time. What is your response to that?

KERLIKOWSKE: Well, I don't think it is just a matter of time, but I think that everyone looks at it, or most people look at it and say, you know what? Harsh penalties, severe jail time et cetera is not an answer. There is not a police solution to this. On the other hand, legalization doesn't make any sense. We have prevention programs that work. We have treatment programs that work. Why don't we turn to them instead of saying gee, the legalization is an answer. The California voters, by the way, the voters in Oregon, it is losing in Arizona, and the voters in South Dakota also have turned it down.

LEMON: All right. Gil Kerlikowske, as we call it the U.S. drug czar, we appreciate your time. Have a good rest of your weekend.

KERLIKOWSKE: Good. Thanks, Don.

LEMON: There are of course two sides to every issue and you'll hear from the executive director of Normal which is a marijuana advocacy group. Allan St. Pierre says plans are under way for the 2012 elections. They're already gearing up for that. He'll join me during the 7:00 p.m. hour of the CNN NEWSROOM.

Mexican authorities say they have dealt a serious blow to the Gulf drug cartel, one of the top cartel's top leaders was killed during a gun battle with security forces along the U.S. border. As Rafael Romo reports, this wasn't the only development in the increasingly bloody drug war this week.

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RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Just before dusk, a hail of bullets rattles the Mexican city across the border from Brownsville, Texas.

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The shootout sent residents running for cover, while the special forces with Mexican marines stormed the area believed to be a hideout for a powerful drug lord. Authorities say after a two-hour long gun battle, Mexican forces killed this man, 48-year-old Antonio Guillen, believed to be the leader of a powerful gulf cartel.

ALEXJANDRO POIRE, MEXICAN GOVNERMENT SPOKESMAN (through translation): This was another significant step toward dismantling criminal bands that have done so much damage to the people of our country.

ROMO: Authorities accuse Antonio Guillen, also known as Tony the Storm, of being responsible for a wave of violence in northern Mexico that included shootings, assassinations and beheadings. The U.S. State Department offered a $5 million reward for information leading to his capture. Mexico offered an additional $2 million.

In a fierce shootout back in 2003, his brother, Olsein Cardein Guillen (ph), who was then the leader of the gulf cartel, was captured. He was extradited to the United States in 2007 and is currently serving a 25-year sentence for drug trafficking and other charges. It was a busy week for both Mexico and the United States in their war against drug cartels. In Clayton County, Georgia, authorities sized drugs and arrested 45 alleged members of the Mexican drug cartel known as La Familia.

UIDENTIFIED MALE: This particular cell has been dismantled.

ROMO: And earlier in the week, a 600-yard drug tunnel was discovered in San Diego, California, a link to Tijuana, the 75th tunnel found along the border in four years.

JOHN MORTON, IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT: I don't pretend that this particular seizure is going to end the problem of tunnels, but that our 75th tunnel ends up in a seizure of 30 tons of marijuana, again, a very bad day from the cartel's perspective, is a sign that our efforts are working.

ROMO (on camera): Authorities say the marijuana discovery is the second largest ever in the United States. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials believe the tunnel had only been in operation for about a month.

Raphael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.

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DON LEMON, CNN NEWS ANCHOR: All right, Raphael, thank you.

We're spilling some of the revelations from former President Bush's new memoir, days before you can find it on store shelves. You might be surprised to hear what he says about waterboarding terror suspects.

And there's a crackdown on calories in San Francisco's McDonald's. The new law will not make the kids happy.

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LEMON: Former President George W. Bush has been laying low since he left Washington. He didn't even make it out on the campaign trail this year. But he has been really busy. His memoir, "Decision Points," hits shelves on Tuesday.

And our Sandra Endo has gotten a peek at it.

So, Sandra, spill it. Are there any other surprises in there?

SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, some good stuff in here, Don. The book spans a wide range of topics from his early political life to his battle with drinking. But also former President George W. Bush goes on the defensive for parts in the book. For one, he defends his decision on the use of enhanced interrogation techniques against terror suspects. He writes when he was asked by George Tenet for permission to use techniques, including waterboarding. Bush writes, quote, "I thought about the 2,973 people stolen from their families by al Qaeda on 9/11 and I thought about my duty to protect the country from another act of terror. Damn right, I said." Also, on his handling of the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, he was widely criticized for his now-famous quote, when he said to his FEMA director, Michael Brown, "Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job." That's when the federal response was getting blasted and people were suffering. In his book, the former president defends his comments saying, quote, "I knew Mike was under pressure and I wanted to boost his morale. Critics turned my words of encouragement into a club to bludgeon me."

So an interesting take as to his perspective on some of the tough times in his administration -- Don?

OK, sure, so he defended a lot of events during his term. But he had to admit to some mistakes. Everybody is human.

ENDO: Yes. He made some reflections on his two terms. And in a rare admission, the former president did say about the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that his heart was broken at the sight of people trapped on top of their roofs and he writes, quote, "I should have recognized the deficiencies sooner and intervened faster. The problem was not that I made the wrong decisions, it was that I took too long to decide."

So some reflection there on his two terms in office and really his personal take on what happened -- Don?

LEMON: It's interesting. One of the excerpts I read, Sandra, that I found most interesting is that he was at dinner at his parent's house with his wife and he blurted out to them, what is sex like after 50?

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ENDO: Yes, I wasn't going to go there.

LEMON: And he said it was completely quiet. That's when he --

ENDO: But, yes, he does talk about his drinking problem.

LEMON: He said that's when he quit cold turkey after that. Not a good mood.

ENDO: Yes, embarrassing, yes.

LEMON: Thank you, Sandra.

Just ahead here on CNN, the story of an opera singer. Here voice is a gift from someone she will never know. A transplant recipient recalls her near-fatal illness.

And a child falls out of a window. But this is not a tragedy. Her survival story is coming up.

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LEMON: Let's check the top stories. Jurors in New Haven, Connecticut, will be back tomorrow in the death penalty phase of a brutal home invasion that killed three members of the Petit family. After deliberating all day, the jury asked to be dismissed about 90 minuets ago. And based on questions to the judge, it appears they are deciding whether there are any mitigating factors to spare Steven Hayes the death penalty. If they do, Hayes will spend the rest of his life in prison.

NATO and Afghan authorities are investigating the alleged killing of three American troops by an Afghan soldier in Helmand Province. NATO confirmed a joint probe to CNN. According to a statement that surfaced on a Taliban web site, the soldier opened fire Friday night. Separately, two NATO troops were killed in insurgent attacks different parts of Afghanistan on Saturday.

Actress Jill Clayburgh has lost her 21-year battle with leukemia. She's best known for her Oscar-nominated role in the 1978 movie "An Unmarried Woman." More recently, she appeared in TV's "Ali McBeal," "Law and Order" and "Nip/Tuck." She is survived by three children, including actress Lily Rabe, Michael Rabe and her step-son, Jason Rabe. Jill Clayburgh was 66 years old. (MUSIC)

Opera singer, Charity Tillemann-Dick, is one of 11 children and the grandchildren of Holocaust survivors, the granddaughter of Holocaust survivors. She was raised to believe, in her own words, that fear is not an option. That was put to the test when she was diagnosed with an illness that threatened to steal her voice, her career, even her life.

Our chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, has her story.

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LEMON: Taking a toy from a kid. It may be mean, but lawmakers in San Francisco are doing it in the name of a healthier Happy Meal.

A volcano in Indonesia has killed more than 100 people. The latest on the natural disaster.

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LEMON: It's a natural wonder and a natural disaster. We're talking about Mt. Merapi, in Indonesia that's erupting. So far it has killed more than 120 people. Many others have been burned.

Let's turn to our meteorologist, Jacqui Jeras, with more on that.

Jacqui, frightening situation.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is. This has been going on for 11 days, Don, 11 days.

LEMON: Wow.

JERAS: The worst eruption happened yesterday where ash and lava and dust spewed up five miles up into the atmosphere. It is a very serious situation. It doubled the death toll yesterday.

You can see some of the pictures of it. Let's take them full, because they're really amazing. You'll get a better idea of what's been happening there. There you can see it. A lot of times we can see this on satellite, but we haven't been able to do so because there's been so much cloud cover in the area.

Now, if you remember what happened with the volcanic eruption in Iceland and what it did to air travel in Europe, we're starting to have air travel problems now here in Indonesia as well. Flights have been canceled at airports near the volcano. Now, 50 flights have been cancelled in Jakarta, about 280 miles away from that volcano.

I want to show you a couple of iReports. This gives you a good idea of what things have been looking like in the city with all that ash coming down. There you can see it right there, the ash in the city. People are wearing masks. It's dangerous. IReporter Matias Ike (ph) sent us some of these.

The other thing I want to mention, too, is a lot of people have been evacuated. We're talking about 200,000 people now who are in need of shelter. The Red Cross has been stepping in, trying to help these people out as well.

You, of course, can donate to the Red Cross. If you go to CNN.com/impact, you can find out exactly how to do this.

This is a very active part of the world when it comes to volcanoes. We talk about that ring of fire, right? 75 percent of all volcanoes are within this Pacific plate and in this ring of fire. There you can see the Java Trench right in that area where that volcano is and where this eruption has been taking place.

Mt. Merapi has been historically a very unpredictable volcano. So we really don't have an idea at this time of when these eruptions are going to stop, Don. A dangerous situation and not looking better any time soon.

LEMON: On a lighter note, you know I'm very upset about something, right?

(LAUGHTER)

JERAS: Yes, I know you are.

LEMON: Mom?

JERAS: Yes, the Happy Meal. You're talking about the Happy Meals?

LEMON: Yes. Because San Francisco, Jacqui, is taking the happy out of McDonald's Happy Meals. For kids that means no toys.

Our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, explained to me why the city is taking such drastic action.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ELIZABERTH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: We have an epidemic of obesity in this country among young people. This is one way to combat it. Tell kids, hey, look, if you want to get a cheeseburger, fries or soda Happy Meal you don't get a toy, but if you get chicken and milk and fruit, you can have a toy. So that's one way of doing it.

LEMON: So they're enticing them by giving them -- it's like giving a prize or a treat --

COHEN: Exactly.

LEMON: -- for rewarding bad behavior for bad nutrition.

COHEN: You can look at it that way, sure.

LEMON: What about choice? What if I want my kids to get a -- if you don't want a Happy Meal, right, you don't -- don't take your kid to McDonald's to get a Happy Meal. Why are you taking away my choice to get a Happy Meal with a toy?

COHEN: That is true. Right, that is true.

LEMON: OK.

COHEN: And that is what McDonald's said. I'm going to tell you about their reaction. They say, "We're extremely disappointed, this is not what our customers want," and say, "It's the parent's right to make the decision, not the government." That's what McDonald's said. There you go. That's what they say, too.

LEMON: What's in a Happy Meal now? Now, I feel bad, because I'm sure it's not good. It takes good but it's not good for you.

COHEN: We're going to look at one of the Happy Meals that would not get you a toy.

LEMON: OK.

COHEN: OK, look at this. If you have a cheeseburger Happy Meal with a small fries and soda, 640 calories and 24 grams of fat. That is more than half the calories that an 8-year-old is supposed to have in a day. So in one meal you're getting more than half the calories you're supposed to have in an entire day. So you can see why people aren't crazy about the meals.

LEMON: But you're not supposed -- I'm going to look at some of out viewer feedback. You're not supposed to do it every day. Everything in moderation. If you do it once in a while, but the problem is sometimes that's the defacto meal.

COHEN: Right. McDonald's says most kids eat at home. They don't always eat here. Sure, maybe, they say this isn't supposed to be every day. They don't quite say that.

LEMON: I know it's not good for you. But I think we should have a choice. I'm sorry, that's just me. I'm saying that -- Don.

COHEN: McDonald's does saying, look, if you don't want the fries, get the fruit.

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LEMON: That was senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen. The ordinance still needs final approval and is expected to go into effect December next year.

Everyone deserves a second chance. But Charlie Sheen must be on his fifth or sixth. We've got the low down on how -- what happened, one mayhem-filled night in New York and how his friends wonder where it all ends.

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LEMON: Charlie Sheen is living a life in the tabloids and really on the edge. That's left his friends wondering where he'll fall off or if he'll fall off.

CNN's Amber Lion spoke with his closest friends about Sheen's demons.

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AMBER LION, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Last week, reports of an alcohol-fueled rampage. A hotel suite trashed, Charlie Sheen naked, hospitalized. And this porn star, 22-year-old Christina Walsh, locked in the bathroom.

(on camera): What really happened at the Plaza Hotel that night with Charlie Sheen?

KEN BAKER, E! CHIEF NEWS CORRESPONDENT: I think there's two people who really know what happened inside that hotel room and it's Charlie Sheen and the other is Christina Walsh.

Now, what we think happened inside that room is that, at some point in the night, early in the morning really, things got ugly. There was an argument of some sort over something.

LION (voice-over): Actor Tom Sizemore is Charlie's friend of six years.

TOM SIZEMORE, ACTOR: In six hours you can undo 17 years of hard work. What people will remember is the six hours when you were in a (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

LION: Like Charlie, Tom has long battled addiction. And like many of Charlie's friends, Tom fears for him.

(on camera): Have you tried to reach out to him and help him get into rehab?

SIZEMORE: I tried to call him, couldn't get through. He wouldn't talk to Robert Downey. You know -- LION: Robert Downey tried to call him as well?

SIZEMORE: Yes. He knows about treatment. He's been to treatment. Marty knows all about it.

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LEMON: We will put Sheen's story under the microscope tonight. Don't miss "Fallen Star: The Charlie Sheen Story" at 10:00 p.m. eastern and Sunday night at 10:30 p.m. eastern. That's in four hours, only here on CNN.

A nationwide manhunt is under way for a dead man. Thomas Stevens Sanders vanished 23 years ago. He was declared legally dead in 1994. Turns out, he's alive and police want to find him, because of a death of a 12-year-old girl and the disappearance of her mother.

Lexis (ph) and Sue Ellen (ph) Roberts were last seen traveling with Sanders in a silver car with Nevada plates. That was in September. Last month, hunters in Louisiana found the girl's body in the woods. She had been shot multiple times. Her mother is still missing though.

Police released this surveillance video from Las Vegas taken two days before the road trip. It shows a man believed to be Sanders in Las Vegas buying what authorities suspect is ammunition, the same caliber that killed Lexis (ph). Sanders is 53 years old. His family in Mississippi said he vanished in 1957 at the age of 30. They had him declared legally dead seven years later.

She fell out of a window Monday. An 18-month-old kid in Paris could be called the luckiest kid around as this animation shows. Take a look at that. The toddler fell seven floors but landed onto an awning and bounced into the arms of a man who happened to be a doctor. A Parisian newspaper reports the doctor's son alerted his dad to the falling child. The paper says the girl, who is OK, had been left alone briefly with a sibling. Lucky baby. Lucky parents as well.

Don't forget to set your clocks back one hour tonight. Most of the country ends Daylight Savings Time at 2:00 a.m. If you rely on an iPhone to wake you up, reset the clock manually. A glitch in the alarm function doesn't automatically make the change.

I'm Don Lemon at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. Thanks for watching. I'll see you back here in one hour.

"The Situation Room" with Wolf Blitzer begins right now.