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Missouri Tornado Aftermath; A Look Back at Face to Face Interviews For 2010, 2010 Legal Topics; New Year's Eve Tornado Outbreak; Seeking A Job in 2011; Hollywood 2010 Troubles; Baby Boomers Reaching Retirement Age; Busboy Beats The Odds; 2010 Hero of the Year
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SUSAN HENDRICKS, CNN ANCHOR: A deadly start to the new year in parts of the South and Midwest. Many communities are in recovery mode this afternoon after a tornado outbreak killed at least six people in Arkansas and Missouri. High winds blasted apart buildings and tossed around cars, leaving widespread damage to homes and businesses there. Look at that.
CNN international meteorologist Jennifer Delgado has more for us from Sunset Hills, one of the hardest-hit parts of Missouri -- Jennifer.
JENNIFER DELGADO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: We are here in Sunset Hills and we are waiting for the Missouri Governor Jay Nixon to come here and actually look at some of the damage left behind from yesterday's tornado, that actually touched down here in Sunset Hills. Now, you have to keep in mind it was rated an EF- 3, we're talking winds potentially up to 165 miles per hour, the strongest tornado this area has seen since 1967.
You are going to look at some video and this is going to show you some of the damage left behind. Businesses were damaged, we're talking homes destroyed, of course you can see trees down, thrown all around, roofs ripped up and trees uprooted. Well, the problem is when that storm system came by so many people in this region actually had a lot of damage to their homes. One woman wasn't home at the time of the tornado outbreak, but listen to her story, what she found when she came home.
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RUTH HICKS, STORM VICTIM: Everything's gone. There's nothing left, maybe a few of my son's toys that I might be able to salvage, but the Christmas tree was still up.
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DELGADO: You heard that woman say that she only had her Christmas tree after that tornado pushed through. Now, it wasn't just Sunset Hills, we're talking another city, we're talking another town about two hours to the west of St. Louis, Raleigh, Missouri, also experienced a tornado, it was rated and EF-1. And while it was weaker, it left behind two people who were actually killed when the tornado struck it ripped through a trailer park and it looks like two people were trapped inside when the storm system came through. Again, that was out in Raleigh, Missouri.
I'm CNN meteorologist Jennifer Delgado in Sunset Hill, Missouri.
HENDRICKS: Jennifer, thank you from Missouri, there.
Also in Cincinnati, Arkansas, they saw three deaths from those New Year's Eve storms. The severe weather swept through fast. It obliterated whatever was in its way. You can see an aerial shot of the destruction. Entire buildings smashed, demolished, including a fire station with two engines still inside. Affiliate KFOR says 20,000 people lost power in that area at the height of the storm, but it should be fully restored, today. A bit of good news.
Meteorologist, Reynolds Wolf is at the CNN Weather Center to tell us how it looks in the aftermath of the New Year's Eve storm -- Reynolds.
REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It is going to be brutal for a lot of people. They're waking up, skies are going to be clear and they're left with just this devastation with very cool temperatures. But one thing that we've got to remember, you know, just moments ago we saw the lady who mentioned that she lost everything except for her Christmas tree. Well, those things can be replaced. So, that is the good news. The thing you have to remember is there are people who lost their lives in this storm. And the problem is we still have that threat today, especially in parts of Alabama and into Florida.
Let's go right to the weather maps, as we do so, we're going enlarge this one, and zoom in on a few key spots. You're also going to notice in southern Alabama and into Florida, that is where you have this box, that box is actually a tornado watch that was set up by the Storm Predication Center because this is an area where tornadoes are likely to form.
Closer inspection shows that cities that are being affected, obviously, you've got Mobile, but we've got, of course, Gulf Shores that has been dealing with quite a bit of the rainfall, back in Orange Beach, West Pensacola, even in Fairy Pass on the I-10 corridor over to Crestview, we're seeing some rain that's coming through. The heaviest precipitation indicated by the orange and yellow, as you happen to see on the screen. Niceville's had plenty of rainfall this morning.
You're going to notice some of these places like Niceville have seeing several bands, if you will, of showers that have been coming through. With some of the heavier downpours in areas where you have poor drainage, flooding is going to be a possibility, so keep that in mind.
If anyone happens to be spending their holidays over, say, in Panama City, if you don't have rain just yet, but if you were to step out on the beach and you were look out toward the west, you're going to see the dark skies, you're going to see the clouds coming, you're going to feel the wind very soon and before long it's going to be the rain.
(WEATHER REPORT) Susan you are up to speed. Let's kick it back to you.
HENDRICKS: All right, our thoughts are with the people who lost everything, today. And as you said, things can be replaced. Great message. Reynolds, thank you. Great to see you.
We are talking about this, today, both President Obama and GOP leaders are making New Year's resolutions. In his weekly address President Obama says he will do everything he can to keep the economic recovery on track.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: At the start of 2011, we're still just emerging from a once in a life time recession that's taken a terrible toll on millions of families. We all have friend and neighbors trying to get their lives back on track.
We are, however, riding a few months of economic news that suggests our recovery is gaining traction. And our most important task is to keep that recovery going.
As president, that's my commitment to you, to do everything I can to make sure our economy is growing, creating jobs and strengthening our middle class. That is my resolution for the coming year.
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HENDRICKS: Well, for their part, congressional Republicans say it is time to change the way Washington does business altogether. Senator-elect Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire says Congress needs to cut public spending.
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SEN.-ELECT KELLY AYOTTE (R), NEW HAMPSHIRE: For Republicans, the start of the 112th Congress on Wednesday, will mark the opening of a new chapter for our country and our party. We're keenly aware that the American people are relying on us to change business as usual in Washington and we're well positioned to do just that.
The American people sent us to Congress with clear instructions: Make government smaller, not bigger and stop spending money we don't have on programs that aren't working. It's now our responsibility to carry out the will of the people.
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HENDRICKS: Ayotte is one of 13 new Republicans to be sworn in next week in the Senate, 87 new Republicans will take their place in the House of Representatives.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano is in Afghanistan, now. She rang in the New Year with U.S. troops in Kabul. Napolitano has met with Augustan President Hamid Karzai and other senior Afghani and U.S. officials, as well. Their talks focused efforts to dismantled and defeat al Qaeda and the Taliban in the region, plus ways to combat the trafficking of chemicals which can be used to create homemade bombs. The U.S. is also working to beef up security operations along the Afghanistan/Pakistan border.
2011 is here. Happy New Years to you. Out with the old, in with the new and for New York's New Year's celebration, no problems.
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CROWD: Five, four, three, two, one!
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HENDRICKS: That was last night, in case you missed it. The crystal ball descended on cue and a million people crowded into Times Square to count it down. Right after that, more than a ton of confetti rained down on them. and who cleans all this up?
These people do, an army of sweepers -- 175 sanitation workers, in all. They began attacking the mountains of confetti as soon as the crowd cleared out. What a mess. With the help of 23 mechanical sweepers, 21 trucks and 36 leaf blowers they managed to make quick work of the nearly 40 tons of trash left by partygoers. Happy New Year, New Yorkers. Cleaning it up.
What is CNN founder Ted Turner's biggest regret? He spills the beans to Fredricka Whitefield in our "Face to Face" recap.
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HENDRICKS: Welcome back. They are some of the most familiar and iconic figures in the world and you get to know them with "Face to Face" with CNN's Fredricka Whitfield. She looks back at some of the more memorable interviews of the past 12 months. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As we ring in this New Year we look forward to more poignant and powerful moments face-to- face with remarkable people on the public stage. 2010 was a fabulous year with a variety of people as diverse, impactful and far reaching as you see here.
From CNN founder Ted Turner, who shared with us face-to-face some of his big dreams and big defeats.
And author Steve Harvey who said good things could come from failures to business mogul Russell Simmons who redefines success without ever having a business plan.
Then, there was author Catherine Schwarzenegger, trying to help young women and men rock what they've got.
And author Salman Rushdie on both his memoirs about living with a year's long death threat and his latest projects inspired by his children. Author Terry McMillan helped us get to happy while icon Pam Greer found many ways to make us laugh.
A look back at "Face-to-Face" 2010.
TED TURNER, FOUNDER, CNN: My biggest regret, though, would be in losing my association with Turner Broadcasting and CNN.
I would have liked to have been Captain Planet. I would have liked to have been the ecological superhero. I think at my age I'm probably too old to be an anchor, but I did, during the second -- at the beginning of the second Gulf War, I volunteered to go over there and cover the war, because they didn't have anybody that would cover it, the second one, at that time, and I would have been happy to do it. Well, they said well, you don't have enough experience. I said, all you have to do is be able to duck and say, wow, that one was close.
WHITFIELD: You've got to be kidding me.
TUNER: No. I'm serious. Anybody could do it
PAM GREER, ACTRESS: When I stepped in the room, you hear "wacca- wacca-wacca-wacca," you knew it was me. You knew a black person stepped into the scene.
It didn't feel good. It made people feel uncomfortable if you show the problem as opposed to ignore it and keep it under the rug, then you can heal.
WHITFIELD: Did you ever realize your reach would be global to this degree?
RUSSELL SIMMONS, DEF JAM: You just do what's in front of you and of course, I didn't have a business plan. I had never written a business plan. When I invest in a companies, these days, they write them, I don't read them. But I know what they are. The plan is to do well and focus every day and give as much as you can.
WHITFIELD: Have you had a failed business?
SIMMONS: You can't fail until you quit.
ANDREW YOUNG, FMR U.N. AMBASSADOR: Well, there has been violence against us, but there had been violence against us all over. John Lewis had been beaten up 20, 30 times, by then. It happened to be a first for me, but, you know, it was my turn.
KATHERINE SCHWARZENEGGER, AUTHOR: My dad's just my dad. And he's not, you know, the "Terminator" to me. He's not, you know, Mr. Olympia to me. I know I see the pictures in my house of him being, you know, very muscular, obviously.
He never pressured me and my siblings to kind of go down that path or be extra fit because of that. I think we, as women, we look in the mirror and we don't see what other people see. We automatically jump and only focus on the flaws, the things we wish we could change about ourselves. And I think that is true of women of all ages. And, you know, I was in fourth grade and I was doing exactly that. and I think, you know, to me, my mom wasn't Maria Shriver, the beautiful journalist, she was just my mom, to me. And so, when she told me, you know, you're beautiful, Katherine, I was like, yes, sure, whatever, you have to say that. and I think that's what a lot of young girls think.
CHRIS GARDNER, PHILANTHROPIST AND ENTREPRENEUR: My daughter, eight years, old runs up to me at the front door and says, "Papa, tell Chris I'm going to get your Ferrari when you die."
WHITFIELD: Oh, my gosh.
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GARDNER: Right there, whacking up the goods, man. She's eight and he's 12. Can't nobody even drive. Right? Who going to get my Ferrari. Oh. At that same time they both decided to bring home report cards that started with the back end of the alphabet. And that's where I said, no. It was Christmas. I'll never forget this. The tree is up, the presents are wrapped and I said don't touch nothing. We're not going to open a single present until the next report card comes out, which was in March.
WHITFIELD: Oh. That was a very delayed Christmas.
GARDNER: And all their little friends had to come to the house and wondering, why you all still got the tree up?
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KERRY WASHINGTON, ACTRESS: She actually got gray hairs playing the character because her body was caught up in the reality of the role she was playing.
KIMBERLY ELISE, ACTRESS: It's true. I went with about five gray hairs and came home with 50, seriously, in a matter of weeks. It was that intense and gratifying. I wear them proudly, now.
WHITFIELD: You still have them and it is OK?
ELISE: Yes, I was introduced to the dye bottle. It's my friend now.
(LAUGHTER)
WHITFIELD: How does one do that, go into seclusion or...
SALMAN RUSHDIE, WRITER: Most difficult.
WHITFIELD: Go into hiding for a period of time and then eventually emerge? RUSHDIE: Yes, well, it was tough. I wouldn't recommend it. I mean, if, on the whole, if you can avoid be sentenced to death by a tyrannical leader of a foreign country, then you know, avoid it if you can.
And how's Terry McMillan feeling these days? Are you breathing?
TERRY MCMILLAN, AUTHOR: I am feeling...
WHITFIELD: At a comfortable place?
MCMILLAN: Yes. I feel like -- I feel like I'm floating in my own sky, sort of, and that I'm -- that I got my center back, because I had lost it, I was lopsided, and it is a horrible way to live. And so I basically wrote myself to happy.
STEVE HARVEY, ENTERTAINER: It makes no sense for you to go to Las Vegas and play a game and not know the rules and lose your money. You're sitting there going, what the heck happened to me just now. That's what a lot of women do in life. You know, they just go through relationship, relationship -- what the heck just happened to me?
WHITFIELD: In 2011, "Face to Face" promises more surprises from people you thought you knew. Perhaps there is someone in particular you'd love for me to talk to, face-to-face. Send your suggestions to me at CNN.com/Fredricka or my Facebook page and we will try to profile someone who intrigues you face-to-face on CNN weekends, in 2011. Happy New Year.
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HENDRICKS: Fredricka, thank you. Great job.
We're not done with 2010 yet. New laws and lots of lawsuits, everything from health care reform to spilled oil and funeral protests. Get set to review some of the biggest legal challenges of 2010.
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HENDRICKS: Taking a look at our top stories, a deadly fire in Redman, Washington on this New Years Day. Five people were killed in a blaze at an apartment complex, sadly four of the victims were children. Investigators say the building did not have a sprinkler system.
A car bombing attack outside of a Christian church in Alexandria, Egypt has killed 21 people, 79 others were wounded. Eight of the wounded are Muslims. They were at a nearby mosque that was damaged in the blast. The country's interior minister says the explosion was not just an attack on Christians, but on all Egyptians.
Hours later, Pope Benedict denounced violence in Egypt during his New Year's Day mass at St. Peter's Basilica, today. His message focused on religious intolerance. He is now planning to hold a summit of world religious leaders in Italy in October to find a way to promote peace.
We saw a lot of legal maneuvering in 2010. Yes, we did. Here to review some of the more memorable ones, our legal guys. Civil rights attorney Avery Friedman in Cleveland and criminal defense attorney Richard Herman in Las Vegas.
Happy New Year to you both.
RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Happy New Year to you, Susan.
HENDRICKS: All right, let's get right to it, let's start with Richard. Richard, let's talk about BP oil spill, the most disastrous oil spill in American history, 11 workers killed, not to mention all the ecological damage going on. Is BP doing enough to rectify?
HERMAN: No. BP is not doing enough and they're going to be forced to do enough. Susan, close your eyes for a moment, and think back of that video of the oil being pumped into the water. Some 200 million gallons, they say. I believe it is substantially more. The Exxon Valdez cases are just now, a lot of them being settled now, 20 years afterwards. BP, one of the wealthiest companies in the world is going to have to put substantially more money up to make a global resolution and try to resolve this case.
HENDRICKS: Yes, and what about the victims' families? Has there been a settlement and isn't there something in there that says they cannot sue if they accept the settlement?
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Sorry about that. Avery you can take that question.
AVERY FRIEDMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: There are various aspects of it. You know, there's a cleanup fund which is $20 billion. There are individual lawsuits pending, all have been consolidated. That's a good thing for the victims.
And there are also separate Justice Department cases. So, sooner or later, Susan, I'm actually optimistic, I actually don't agree that the matter should be settled. I think every victim should move forward. I don't think the Justice Department should settle these cases. This is the, as you said, the largest oil disaster in American history. This is not the kind of case that should settle. It should move forward with full prosecution.
HENDRICKS: Avery, I will stay with you on this one. We're talking about health care. No matter where you go, no matter who you ask, people have an opinion on this one. A reform bill passed and signed in March. What do you think about this one? Health care, a big one?
FRIEDMAN: I love this case because we knew lawsuits were going to be filed. There are 24 pending. We have three decisions, two affirming the constitutionality of the law, one against it. It all turns, Susan, on the commerce clause. We have 75 years of precedent. I think this thing is heading to, obviously, to all the courts of appeals, federal courts of appeal. We're going to see a hodgepodge, it will not wind up in the Supreme Court in 2011, but look for 2012 and actually I believe the reform legislation will be upheld as constitutional.
HENDRICKS: All right, Richard, let's talk about Arizona immigration. The question was is this constitutional? Boy, a lot of protests surrounding this issue.
HERMAN: A lot of protests. And, you know, Arizona they just had enough. They threw their hands up in the air waiting for the federal government to come in and protect the citizens of the state of Arizona. But, murder capital of the United States, Arizona...
FRIEDMAN: No.
HERMAN: Illegal aliens coming in, crossing the border, huge drug trade, nothing happening. Nothing protecting the citizens, so Arizona stood up, enacted a law to try to protect themselves. They gave the state the same rights the federal government has. Federal officers have a right to stop people and ask for their identification.
HENDRICKS: Avery, chime in. I see you shaking your head.
FRIEDMAN: Look, you know what, Richard sounds like the governor of Arizona. Look, this all exaggeration. He knows and the legislators knew, in Arizona, that this law, SB-1020 is unconstitutional. It was enjoined the day it was supposed to start, it's now pending in the U.S. Court of Appeals. Susan, it's going to be held unconstitutional. It's solely the domain of the Congress. You know, give Arizona the benefit of the doubt. They knew it was unconstitutional, try to get Congress to move, let's see what happens this year.
HENDRICKS: I guess the question is does it crack the door for abusing power, here? Does it give too much leeway?
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FRIEDMAN: Yes. This is the responsibility of Congress under the Supremacy Clause. Arizona has no right to be in there, none.
HERMAN: Pieces of ill will survive.
HENDRICKS: All right, Richard, you got the last word in on that.
Let's talk about the Westboro Church. It is hard for me to even talk about. On a lot of these issues, there's two sides, everyone has an opinion, but with this case, especially, the Westboro Church, the protest here. Come on. Is there another side to this? I don't think so.
Avery, let's start with you.
FRIEDMAN: Yes, sadly, Reverend Fred Phelps of the Westboro Church has a First Amendment right, he argued his case. This year in the U.S. Supreme Court 2011, promises the result. He's going to affirmed, but the good news about this, Susan, is that citizens are wising up. When Fred shows up with his motley crew and putrid message, they are flooding the streets, protecting the families who are suffering unspeakable because the loss of their sons and daughters in Iraq and Afghanistan. First Amendment rights protected on both sides.
HENDRICKS: So, you say, you think it's good our First Amendment right is protected, even though you don't agree with the message, obviously.
FRIEDMAN: That's what the Supreme Court is going to say.
HENDRICKS: Yes, Richard, what do you think about that?
HERMAN: Yes, Avery's right. It's going to be upheld. We take free speech supremely important in the United States. But, this is not a reverend, this is not a church, these are a bunch of animals and look, they're going to continue, they're going to be allowed to give it because again, free speech is everything. But, this is not a church, this is not the message of the church, the message of Jesus. This is completely an abomination.
HENDRICKS: Yes, and when you think of the families and the suffering they are going to and arrive at the funeral of their son or daughter, it truly is horrific.
All right, last but not least, guys, and Avery you can start with this, WikiLeaks. Take it away.
FRIEDMAN: Yes, look, if this guy were an American citizen he should be charged with treason. He is not, he's an Australian. I think he has worked in conspiracy with Americans. I think if Eric Holder gets tough, he promised that he would, he's going to look for a theory upon which to charge him. I think Jurisdiction is a big issue, but let's see how tough the Justice Department can be on this one.
HENDRICKS: Richard, you have the final word on Julian Assange and WikiLeaks.
HERMAN: Yes, they're not tough. Holder can do nothing. They cannot prosecute him. There is no viable grounds to prosecute him. All he was was the messenger. He published it online. That's all he did. Pentagon papers case against "New York Times," they have the right to publish this stuff. They're going nowhere. Assange, as unbelievable as it is, is going to get away with it.
And if you think our country can't shut down these Web sites with our technology, come on. There's nothing we can do with Assange. He's absolutely going to be able to do this in the future.
FRIEDMAN: We'll see. We'll see. We'll see.
HENDRICKS: All right, last word Avery Friedman, civil rights attorney. Criminal defense attorney, Richard Herman, a lot to talk about in 2010. Thanks so much to both of you. Happy New Year. FRIEDMAN: Happy New Year to you, Susan.
HERMAN: Happy New Year to you, too.
HENDRICKS: All right, we'll be back in a few. Thank you.
Well, if you are about to pound the pavement in search of work, some tips on how to put your best foot forward in a tough market. Stay with us.
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HENDRICKS: A deadly end in 2010 in parts of the South and Midwest. Powerful storms ripping through several states killing at least six people. The two hardest hit states, Arkansas and Missouri. Three people were killed and damage was heavy in Cincinnati, Arkansas. The small town is in the northwestern part of the state.
The storms also tore through several areas around St. Louis killing three people. Damage was also reported around the Jackson area in Mississippi. And Reynolds Wolf joins us again to tell us how it's looking today -- Reynolds.
WOLF: It looks a little bit better in some places, Susan, other places it looks a little bit worse. Where they have the storm damage, things are actually going to improve weather wise, but now looks like Mother Nature's putting a bull's eye on parts of the southeast with a tornado watch that is in effect for parts of southern Alabama and into the Florida panhandle until 3:00 local time.
Strong storms and showers. We've got some heavy showers. We have these strong storms. We've got certainly some thunder that's been coming out. A lot of folks have been hearing that rumble right along the I-10 corridor.
If you are making the trek say from Panama City and you're taking the freeway back over to Mobile, you're going to run into some very intense rainfall. If you happen to be tuning in on satellite radio and you're going through that section, you can certainly see it. You're driving through it. It's going to be kind of an on and off sporadic pattern of these scattered showers coming through.
Some places where you have low lying areas you might have some ponding in the roadways. Keep that in mind. And, of course, there is the potential for tornados. There certainly could see a few of them spin down. So certainly keep that in mind through the afternoon hours.
The next big story that we've been covering is not just along the Gulf Coast, but we're going to go to way up on the U.S./Canadian border where we have a couple of things. One, we've got a lot of snow on the ground. Some places had up to a foot of snow. That on the ground coupled with strong powerful winds coming out of the north and the northwest, anywhere from say 45 to 55 miles an hour.
We've got whiteout conditions in a few places. The blizzard warnings are in effect toward the Dakotas and into parts of Minnesota. It feels like seven degrees in Grand Forks, Sioux Falls with seven and to wrap it up the Twin Cities around seven degrees. It feels like 13 in Thunder Bay.
Cold times obviously in store and at the same time we have the spring type storms in part of the southeast. Certainly rough conditions are going to be expected in those two spots. We're going to keep an eye on it.
More updates coming up throughout the afternoon. Let's send it back to you.
HENDRICKS: Reynolds, Happy New Year. It's great to see you. Thank you.
Well, now the holidays are over, time to refocus right in 2011. If your resolution is to find a new job in the new year, get ready for a lot of company. As CNN's Christine Romans tells us, it's not just the 15 million Americans out of work who will be joining you.
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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Crowds may be great when you're ringing in the new year, not when you are looking for a job. With 15 million Americans out of work, job seekers have a lot of company this January.
(on camera): No question. It's harder to get a job today. It's very hard to get a job. You have to be incredibly strategic and maybe even lucky and use your connections.
BILL RODGERS, ECONOMIST RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: Not only do we have those 15 million who you speak of who are actively searching, you've got another nine million who are working part time, but they want to work full time.
And then there's another two to three million Americans who are not captured in the unemployment rate number who are out of the labor force, but if offered a job today they would take it.
ROMANS (voice-over): Sounds like the boss has the upper hand, right? Well, maybe not. Those who have a job are ready to jump ship as soon as the economy improves.
A survey by the job placement firm Manpower found 84 percent of employees plan to look for a new job in 2011 despite already having one. That's up from 60 percent last year. Bosses will have to work hard to keep their good people.
JEFF JOERRES, CEO, MANPOWER: No doubt that is a little bit of a reaction to the amount of work that's being done by each individual in every single company.
ROMANS: Good if you want to ask for a raise, not necessarily good news for the long-term unemployed. JOERRES: What you're going to be seeing is trading of jobs and you are going to being seeing those that have been long-term unemployed probably still struggling in getting the attention of potential employers to hire them.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Measurable deliverables.
ROMANS: At this boot camp for job seekers, career coach Ellen Gordon Reeves says, don't worry about all the big numbers of job seekers. It's about the number one. You being the one employee a company needs.
ELLEN GORDON REEVES, CAREER COACH: The biggest mistake people make when they are looking for a job is thinking that it's all about them. It's not about what is a great job for you. What's a great fit. What works for you. It's about what you can do for the employer.
ROMANS: Christine Romans, CNN, New York.
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HENDRICKS: So how do you convince employers that you are the one for them? Reeves says, it's about being ready to sell them on you. That means having ready at all times a 30-second elevator pitch it's called. Also, a business card, she says, you don't have to be employed to have one. So get yourself one. And, of course, a clear and concise resume.
In and out of court, jail and rehab, big stars, big names were the talk of 2010. Our legal guys are back. They can't get enough.
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HENDRICKS: A look now at some or our top stories today. The son of former NBA player, Nick Van Axel, has been charged in the shooting death of a close friend. Twenty-year-old Nickey Van Axel faces a capital murder charge. His father says the two men were playing with a shotgun which accidentally went off. Police say the body had been moved and dumped in a Dallas suburb.
Brazil is inaugurating its first female president today. Sixty- three year old Dilma Rousseff is the daughter of a Bulgarian immigrant and has never before held elected office.
U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton attended today's inauguration calling Brazil an essential partner in the hemisphere and the world.
It is one of the most anticipated TV debuts in history. We're talking about OWN, the Oprah Winfrey Network signed on about 40 minutes ago. Twenty-two series have already been announced. The channel is available on cable to a potential audience of nearly 85 million homes. Back to Oprah.
You know, there were lots of stories in 2010 that outraged out legal guys topping their reject (ph) list of big names who were in and out of court. Let's bring back our legal guys, Civil Rights attorney Avery Friedman in Cleveland and criminal defense attorney Richard Herman in Las Vegas. Nice enough to join us again.
All right, guys. I'm going to start with Richard out of Las Vegas on this first day of 2011. Lindsay Lohan, need I say more. Take it away.
HERMAN: No, you don't because Lindsay Lohan is toxic. She can't get a job. She can't work She can't act. She can't be in movies. She can't do anything. The only way she gets press is by violating probation, walking into court with the crocodile tears. In and out, in and out. These judges in California are absurd. They just let her go. They sentence her to 180 days. She does 10, 14 days in prison. They release her due to overcrowding.
On February 25th she goes back again for a potential probation violation over at Betty Ford there. You know, how can they go away for a couple of weeks in Betty Ford and all of a sudden not be a drug addict and not be a drunk again? I don't know. But they're releasing her from Betty Ford in another day or so and on the 25th we'll see if she has violated again for failing to take the drug test.
HENDRICKS: All right, Richard. Avery, do you feel for her at all if she has obviously an addiction problem of some sort? Do you feel for her? Do you want to give this girl another chance?
FRIEDMAN: I did, Susan. I think she was genuinely sick. But what's so troubling to me is she's turned into legally a five-alarm trouble. The difficult here is that she's acting, even under controlled circumstances, as a certified mean girl. Yes, she's going to be out on Tuesday, but you know what? I predict that for 2011 Lindsay Lohan isn't going away. There is some talent there. It is overcome by some of these problems, but she's going to be the gift I think that keeps on giving.
HENDRICKS: Yes, and Hollywood always like a comeback story. Richard, I want to talk to you about Charlie Sheen. Is the key to getting out of trouble having a hit series? It seems like this guy gets chance after chance after chance.
HERMAN: Susan, he makes $2 million an episode. Are you kidding me? Two million dollars. This is unbelievable. And this guy's risking destroying blowing everything by what? Getting into drunken frenzies with his drunken ex-wife and putting a knife to her throat. And then Teflon walking away from that one.
This crazy incident in New York. We're not even sure what happened there. But, you know, if he continues the drinking and doesn't get a hold of himself, he's going to be a complete burnout, wash out and ruin everything. He's so lucky and he doesn't appreciate it.
HENDRICKS: Yes, at the Plaza Hotel this is what he said. It was an allergic reaction. Are you buying that? To medication. Avery, are you buying that? FRIEDMAN: Yes, he's allergic to cocaine. That was the problem. And allergic to prostitutes apparently. But look, let me tell you something, the difference between Lindsay Lohan and Charlie Sheen is America loves this guy. It doesn't matter what he does it seems like.
HERMAN: Why?
FRIEDMAN: And the other sad part about it I think is that like Lindsay he's gotten celebrity justice. Any other poor schnook would be in jail right now. If he doesn't watch his act, this show's going to wind up one and a half men. So let's see what happens.
HENDRICKS: And it almost seems like life imitating art. On that show his character is this kind of smarmy (ph) guy is playing out in real life. Makes you wonder.
FRIEDMAN: It's bizarre.
HERMAN: Two million.
FRIEDMAN: It's absolutely bizarre.
HENDRICKS: Two million. Richard can't get over it. Two million.
FRIEDMAN: Richard can't get off of that. Two million bucks a show.
HERMAN: I can't take it.
HENDRICKS: I can't get over it either. All right. Kwame Kilpatrick.
FRIEDMAN: You'll be all right. You'll be OK.
HENDRICKS: Kwame Kilpatrick. Let's talk about him. More legal trouble for Detroit mayor. What do you think, Richard?
HERMAN: Yes, the Kwamster is now really in deep trouble, you know? He was in trouble before when they violated him on his probation. But now, when you get hit with a major RICO charge alleging that you had a trust and a charity that you used as your own personal piggy bank and that you rigged contracts and kickbacks and everything else. And now all his people around him are allegedly government witnesses are going to testify firsthand against him. Oh, boy, this guy is going to go away for a long, long time, Susan.
HENDRICKS: Avery.
FRIEDMAN: Well, that's right. That's right.
HENDRICKS: It sounds like you agree.
FRIEDMAN: The bottom line is he wouldn't pay back -- wouldn't make restitution because he said he had to function at the upper echelons of society. Well, hey guess what, Susan? He's now in the lower echelons of society and I think 2011 it's going to get even lower. So goodbye to Kwame. Absolutely.
HENDRICKS: All right. Someone else who made a comeback, a massive comeback, at least on the field. We're talking about Michael Vick. Comes out in an interview and says, you know what, someday maybe I'd like to have a dog. And boy, did we run with this one. Richard, what do you think?
HERMAN: You know, Susan, just a few minutes ago you said America, Hollywood loves a comeback. Well, Michael Vick has made the comeback. Look, let's face it. He did a horrible, horrible thing. It was atrocious. His acts. He went to prison. He lost his contract with the Falcons. He lost millions of dollars in endorsements. He got wiped financially. But he made his way back. He's now a superstar.
FRIEDMAN: So what?
HERMAN: Look, it was a dog. It wasn't a human. He paid the price. He paid the price and now he's entitled to live and he's going to live. He is going to have a dog. He is probably going to have ten dogs in a year. In a year he will have ten dogs. Watch. And he'll be in the Pro Bowl.
HENDRICKS: Some of the -- this is a hot topic here, Michael Vick, whenever you bring it up. People have strong opinions on both sides. When you talk about some of the things that he did to those dogs. Granted, I know he went away for them. They're really horrific. It's like come on does he really deserve a dog, a right to it? Avery, what do you think?
FRIEDMAN: I'd rather have Bernie Madoff handling my personal investments than give Michael Vick a dog. I mean, you know, you heard The Humane Society came out in support of him. That was after he gave them a fortune. And so I think there's a correlation. It's totally hypocritical.
This guy no more deserves a dog than the man in the moon. Forget about it. Fine. You know, playing football has nothing to do with the right to have a pet. And I think the federal judge is right in barring him from a pet. I hope that remains in effect. We'll see what happens.
HERMAN: We'll see. Only for one year. Only for one year. He's going to have a dog next year. We'll talk about it.
FRIEDMAN: Yes, we will.
HENDRICKS: Richard, would you feel differently if he wasn't coming back, so to speak, on the field and doing amazing things on the field. Would you feel differently or he served his time?
HERMAN: Good question. Good question. You know, Susan, he speaks for The Humane Society. He speaks for cruelty to animals against it. Each time he acknowledges his horrible conduct. He doesn't pump it up. He said it was horrible. He asked for forgiveness and people should forgive this guy now. He absolutely is entitled to forgiveness.
FRIEDMAN: We are a bunch of suckers if we give him a dog.
HERMAN: He's paid the price. He's paid the price, Avery.
SUSAN: Finally, guys, I don't know if you're hungry, but we're talking about happy meals. Look, I grew up with toys and happy meals and hamburgers and French fries. Richard, what do you think? Should we get rid of the toys?
FRIEDMAN: And you came out fine.
HENDRICKS: So to speak. Thanks, Avery. Richard, what do you think about it?
HERMAN: Come on, Jersey girl, you ate McDonald's a lot. Come on.
HENDRICKS: Exactly. I love it.
HERMAN: Listen, right. I mean, I wanted ice cream every day as a kid growing up, but my parents wouldn't let me have it. These kids who want to go get happy meals for the toys, the parents just have to say, look, it's not happening. Once a week we'll go or something. Just tell the kid it's not happening. That's it. This is ridiculous.
HENDRICKS: In moderation.
HERMAN: Avery, this is a ridiculous lawsuit.
HENDRICKS: Avery, what do you think? A couple of seconds left, Avery. What do you think about it?
FRIEDMAN: Very quickly. Principled righteous case. Good for science. Good for some of these people standing up putting pressure on McDonald's to do the right thing. You know, whether it's going anywhere I don't know, but good for them for standing up for the right reasons. Parental control, of course, but let's make these companies responsible. Bottom line. I'm glad it's going on right now.
HENDRICKS: All right. Avery Friedman, Richard Herman, Happy New Year to you both. Richard, I know you're in Las Vegas --
HERMAN: Happy New Year, Susan.
FRIEDMAN: Happy New Year.
HENDRICKS: -- which probably means little sleep.
All right. Happy New Year to you. Have a great day.
HERMAN: Little sleep. You're doing a great job, Susan.
HENDRICKS: Thank you.
The generation that came of age in the years after World War II is now coming to a very different age. Retirement we're talking about. And it could put some serious strain on the troubled Medicare program.
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HENDRICKS: You know, it may be hard to believe especially if this includes you, but baby boomers are starting to hit age 65 this year. The generation includes people born between 1946 and 1964. This year 7,000 people will become eligible for Medicare every single day according to AARP. And that is fear that they could overwhelm the system.
But if you are turning 65 this year, boy you are in some good company. Take a look. Here's a list of celebrities who are also hitting that mark in 2011. Sly Stallone, Susan Sarandon, Suzanne Somers, Steen Spielberg, Oliver Stone, Cher, Dolly Parton, Barry Manilow, Liza Minnelli, just to name a few. Laura Bush, George W. Bush and Bill Clinton. Age is just a number, right
HENDRICKS: He rose from busboy to CEO. Along the way he overcame hunger, war and cancer. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the remarkable story in today's "Human Factor."
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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Horst Schulze remembers what it was like to be hungry.
HORST SHULZE, FOUNDER, CAPELLA HOTELS AND RESORTS: We actually moved for days into the forest picking mushrooms and beechnuts and things like that to survive.
GUPTA: Growing up during the war in Germany, he had one goal. A warm meal. Which for him meant leaving home at a very young age.
SCHULZE: When 14, I left. I went to work in a hotel as a busboy.
GUPTA (on camera): At some point, you know, working in a hotel was more than just having a place where you could actually get food.
SCHULZE: In the maitre D, I could see that if you are excellent at what you are doing, you would get recognized and you will get rewards. We are ladies and gentlemen serving ladies and gentlemen. I wrote an essay when I was 15 in the hotel school about it. And it has been my motto ever since.
GUPTA (voice-over): He worked in hotels throughout Europe and he eventually landed a job in the United States, but there were always challenges.
(on camera): What was the biggest obstacle to getting to this vision?
SCHULZE: The reality that (INAUDIBLE) and the reality that I don't speak the language. The reality that the people I competed with, if you will, came from Cornell and different universities and I came from eighth grade.
GUPTA: At some point in your life you had another obstacle and this one a much more personal one.
SCHULZE: They discovered a large tumor. That was the greatest shock. At the time my children were young, looking at them and being told this is a very serious cancer. It's not easy.
GUPTA: How do you overcome it?
SCHULZE: I make the decision that I won't accept it and I believe.
GUPTA (voice-over): He empowered himself through extensive research.
(on camera) You were told by very respected cancer doctors you would be dead within a year. How many years ago was that?
SCHULZE: Sixteen.
GUPTA (voice-over): After overcoming cancer, Schulze went on to open his own line of boutique luxury hotels all over the world still guiding his employees with the same principles he learned at just 15.
SCHULZE: You are ladies and gentlemen just like they are.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN reporting.
HENDRICKS: He makes you feel like anything is possible. Our thanks to Sanjay Gupta for that amazing story.
Well, she is a woman whose mission is to stop the sexual exploitation of young girls. You, our viewers, picked her as the 2010 Hero of the Year. We will meet this incredible woman next.
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HENDRICKS: Today, as you know, is the first day of 2011. But we want to look back at the CNN hero who you, our viewers, chose as the 2010 Hero of the Year.
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ANURADHA KOIRALA, CNN HERO OF THE YEAR 2010: In the west, America, Europe, if someone comes and says I want to make your child a prostitute, they would give them one slap or shoot them. But there are families that are tricked all the time.
Girls are brought from the villages by people who can lure them and tell them that they are getting a nice job. The border between India and Nepal is the conduit point of trafficking. Once they are here there is no way to escape.
I am Anuradha Koirala and it is my strong hope to stop every Nepali girl from being trafficked. When you go through the border exit points, we are intercepting four girls to five girls per day. After the rescues, the girl is taken to Maiti, Nepal. We started this. We take rape survivors, trafficking survivors. We take everybody.
The girls who come back from brothels, they are totally psychologically broken. We give them whatever work they want to do. Whatever training they want to do. One day we will really stop it. The trafficking will end. These are all convicted. There is always a small scar that, yes, one day I was trafficked. But today I am something new in my life. They are my strength.
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HENDRICKS: She is doing amazing things. To nominate someone who you think is a hero, just go to CNNheroes.com.
She's truly amazing.
I'm Susan Hendricks in for Fredricka Whitfield. Thanks so much for joining us.
"YOUR MONEY" starts right now. Have a great day.
