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Aftermath of Mass Shooting; New Loughner Video Released; Catastrophic Flooding in Australia; Nearly 600 Dead in Brazil Flooding
Aired January 15, 2011 - 22:00 ET
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: This hour, a CNN exclusive, Inside Camelot. Never before seen photographs of President John F. Kennedy, his wife and children. You'll see them in moments and we'll talked to the man who owned them.
How did this snowy and slippery police chase end? It's all caught on tape. But what about the suspect?
The pictures are amazing. The stories of death and survival simply stunning. Australia and Brazil reeling from record flooding. They say it's their Hurricane Katrina. We'll go there live.
And vanished. Have you seen this teenage honor student? She has been missing since Christmas. Tonight we investigate and we talk to police who are sadly fearing the worst.
And it's the middle of winter, perfect time to buy a boat? Well, the deals are good, we hear. Sales are brisk. We take you to the boat show to find out why.
But we begin tonight in Arizona with a surprising turn of events for one of those wounded in the mass shooting there. Police say 63- year-old James Fuller has been involuntarily committed. He allegedly threatened a member of the Tucson Tea Party during a town hall meeting at a church today. Now according to the Pima County sheriff's office, Fuller snapped a picture of the man and then said, quote, "you're dead."
Another sign of recovery for Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Doctors say they have taken her off a ventilator and she is now breathing on her own through a tracheotomy tube. Giffords is one of three victims still in the hospital after last Saturday's rampage.
The Tucson Safeway where the shootings happened is now open for business again. The supermarket held a moment of silence in honor of the victims. And the youngest victim in this tragedy, 9-year-old Christina Green, has given another child a new chance at life. Christina's father tells CNN that some of her organs went to a little girl in Boston. A funeral mass was held for Christina on Thursday.
And also tonight, we're hearing from alleged shooter Jared Loughner in his own words. We're getting a new look at a video reportedly shot and narrated by him. It is a rambling rant-filled tour of a Pima County Community College campus.
Our Susan Candiotti walks us through it.
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JARED LOUGHNER, ALLEGED SHOOTER: This is my genocide school, where I'm going to be homeless because of this school.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's creepy and it's confusing.
LOUGHNER: If the student is unable to locate the external universe, then the student is unable to locate the internal universe. Where is all my subjects?
CANDIOTTI: With a guitar occasionally strumming in the background, Jared Loughner walks through Pima Community College campus at night, shooting video as he goes. He appears to come across a professor he knows.
LOUGHNER: How's it going? Thanks for the B -- I'm pissed off.
I lost my freedom of speech to that guy. And this is what happens. And I'm in a terrible place.
CANDIOTTI: He rails against the school.
LOUGHNER: This is Pima Community College, one of the biggest scams in America.
CANDIOTTI: A glass door catches a quick reflection of Loughner.
LOUGHNER: We're examining the torture of students. We're looking at students who have been tortured.
CANDIOTTI: He approaches a campus police office.
LOUGHNER: This is the police station. This is where the whole "shaboozie" goes down with illegal activity.
GARY SCHWARTZ, PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA: We get to see both his sickness and his sadness.
CANDIOTTI: University of Arizona psychology professor Gary Schwartz looked at the video with us.
SCHWARTZ: On the one hand, he is describing physical reality in terms of what's present. He says there's a police station and that's a police station. On the other hand, the interpretations that he's making about those places is clearly certainly not mainstream thought.
LOUGHNER: All the teachers that you have are being paid illegally and have illegal authority over the Constitution of the United States under the First Amendment.
CANDIOTTI: Professor Schwartz takes a broader view of Loughner's video and people with troubled minds.
SCHWARTZ: We should have compassion for them at the same time that we need to protect ourselves and our loved ones.
CANDIOTTI (on camera): And get them help? And get them help.
SCHWARTZ: Absolutely, get them help.
LOUGHNER: This is genocide in America. Thank you. This is Jared from Pima College.
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LEMON: Susan Candiotti joins us now live from Tucson.
Susan, how did the college find out about the tape?
CANDIOTTI: Well, you know this video was posted on YouTube. The college became aware of it. And when they did, it became part of their case that they were building against Loughner. They told him they were suspending him and said he couldn't come back unless he came back with a note from a doctor saying that others would not be unsafe in his presence. Well, he left on his own. But that's how they got hold of the video. And then we made a public records request for it.
LEMON: And Susan, we let the newscast talking about the victim James Fuller who has been involuntary committed.
What can you tell us about that?
CANDIOTTI: Well, this is a 63-year-old man who was wounded in the shooting that took place just one week ago where I'm standing. He attended a taping of a town hall meeting to discuss the tragedy. And during the course of it, there was talk about gun control. And he allegedly lashed out at the organizer of the tea party here in Tucson. And he went after him, allegedly said, "You're a dead man." He was arrested. Police determined that he needed to be involuntary committed to a mental health facility here while they assessed what to do next.
Now it will be up to the prosecutor's office to decide whether to pursue it. But right now, the object, his target is saying, and Trent Humphries is his name and saying that he thinks he might press charges after all.
Back now to the suspect. We're hearing about some strange picture of him in a G-string? Loughner.
CANDIOTTI: Yes, yes. CNN learned from a law enforcement source that in fact the suspect took pictures of himself posed in a red G- string holding a 9 millimeter weapon, which is the kind of gun he used in this shooting. And he held it up against his private areas to block them.
Now police found this because he had taken a roll of film to a Walgreens just a few hours before the shooting have to develop. And that employee contacted police after he saw what he had just developed. You know, what to make of it is another thing altogether.
LEMON: We thought the story couldn't get any stranger, it does. Susan Candiotti, thank you very much.
And as more stories come out about 22-year-old Jared Loughner, the picture coming together is of a disoriented and hostile young man. Psychologist Wendy Walsh told me, she can't give an official diagnosis just based on reports of his strange behavior, but the signs of mental instability are there.
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WENDY WALSH, PSYCHOLOGIST: This is a very damaged young man, who is hurting. I mean, he's delusional, he's hallucinating, he thinks the police are bad and the police are dangerous and he's talking about freedom of speech being censorship, but those are two opposing thoughts. So, yes, it's really sad. I mean, this psychiatric community, at arm's length, is pointing fingers at potential for schizophrenia as a diagnosis because it's most often is un-sided of -- in man in usually college years and it's delusions and hallucinations and paranoia and all the kinds of things that we're seeing in Jared Loughner.
LEMON: Yes, so, we know he had problems at college. We don't know exactly what his parents knew or didn't know or experience except for, you know, why the shooting happen.
WALSH: Well, you know, that's the important thing that we should keep in mind for people who are saying, why didn't his parents do something? I have to remind them that this symptomology might have been environmentally sensitive. In other words, when he was at home, in the comfort of his familiar surroundings, he might not have exhibited any symptomology.
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LEMON: Psychologist Wendy Walsh.
Also there is a new push to ban the type of extended magazine that Jared Loughner allegedly used to gun down those people in Tucson. New York Congresswoman Caroline McCarthy is behind the measure.
She suffered a gun tragedy of her own. In 1993 when a man opened fire on the Long Island railroad. Her husband was among six people killed and her son was critically wounded. We're talking with Congresswoman Caroline McCarthy later on in the show.
An intense manhunt to tell you about under way tonight for a man suspected of killing a New Jersey police officer. It happened Friday in Lakewood, which is in central New Jersey. Police say that Officer Christopher Matlosz was shot at point-blank range as they question the man from his patrol car. The suspected gunman is 19-year-old Jamel Crockham. Earlier I spoke with the Ocean County prosecutor. She described how police believe the shooting happened.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MARLENE LYNCH FORD, OCEAN COUNTY PROSECUTOR: From our investigation so far, it appears that officer Matlosz was conducting a routine patrol stop. He stopped to talk to this pedestrian. The pedestrian, who we believe was the defendant, Jamel Crockham, and for reasons that, you know, only known by the defendant now, he stepped back and opened fire.
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LEMON: Again, the man is still on the loose. And we'll continue to follow this story and bring you the latest developments.
Dangerous and deadly flooding affecting two of the world's biggest countries. I'm talking about Australia and Brazil, hoping for relief as the waters continue to rise. We have reports from both countries.
A teenager vanishes while visiting relatives. And some people believe there's been a lack of media attention because she's African- American. I'll talk to police about this cold case.
And did President Ronald Reagan have Alzheimer's while he was still president? His former advisers don't agree with the family member's claims.
And I'm online. I know you are, too. Check out my social media accounts. Let's connect. I'm tweeting now.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god. Oh, my god.
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LEMON: Check out that heart-pounding video from Australia. That is a yacht going down in the flooded Brisbane River. The owner was briefly dragged underwater but was rescued with only minor injuries.
This is how it happened. After days of heavy flooding, the powerful current yanked the yacht from its moorings. Underwater debris punched a hole in hole and it quickly sank. Now this is what Australians had been facing. Massive raging rivers of mud over a large area. And authorities confirm at least 16 deaths in the catastrophic flooding and dozens more are missing. Receding waters have left behind thick mud that could take months to clean up.
Glen Bartholomew is with us, with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. He joins us now on the phone, where it's just after 2 p.m.
This is incredible, Glen.
GLEN BARTHOLOMEW, AUSTRALIAN BROADCASTING CORPORATION: It is indeed, Don. And I can tell you in breaking news that 17 people are now confirmed dead in the Queensland floods. It affected an area of 500,000 square kilometers, affected more than 2 million people and about 51 distinct local government areas. Fourteen people are still missing. But that's down from a peak of about 78 at one point. It has been considered that some may never be found.
Now this death toll have risen today to 17 after a woman's body was found at the town of Grantham in Queensland's Lockyer Valley. This was the size of that so called inland tsunami. And the body was found in the third search of her house. Such as the nature of the debris that had to wait. Some of the names of the dead are only now starting to be released. Old and young alike, found in homes, and cars are swept away. The search continues. Not everyone's been allowed back into that town yet. Sixteen of Grantham's population of 200 are dead. All the missing are from that area. It could turn out that 10 percent of the town is gone.
LEMON: Oh my gosh. And when you think about it, it's just -- almost the size of Texas. The amount of land that's covered with water right now.
Listen, so we were hearing reports that the water was receding. But it is still going, in your estimation?
BARTHOLOMEW: There is indeed flood threats remaining for parts of Queensland alone. The clean-up's continuing in the capital city of Brisbane, Australia's third largest city. Still some homes without power there. And the massive, massive clean-up being aided by the thousands of volunteers. And tons are being called for. Still the water hasn't dried up and hope that the donations don't do so either. But the other sights of Australia are certainly feeling it as we get away.
LEMON: This is being compared to Hurricane Katrina here. Is that a fair assessment? A fair comparison?
BARTHOLOMEW: It certainly is, as far as the absolute disruptions to the communities with head of the third there. The CDD of the third largest city is power off. The city in darkness. Floodwaters lapping up against the buildings. It was a very eerie period for Brisbane earlier this week. But there are other town in Queensland still being affected. Dirranbandi and Rockhampton still had issues, and there are threats remaining in the south of the country. Victoria is feeling the threat of the flood today. There are towns there that are waiting for a flood peak. The second one in a couple of days. That's going to happen today or early tomorrow. Some of these towns had been flooded up to five times in recent weeks and it's happening again today.
LEMON: Glen Bartholomew from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Thank you for your reporting this evening.
The death toll from flooding in Brazil has risen. Nearly 600 people have died. Most of them in the mountains north of Rio de Janeiro. The rain was so heavy, one resident said it felt like a tsunami fell from the sky.
CNN's Helena De Moura has the latest.
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HELENA DE MOURA, CNN PRODUCER (voice-over): There is a collective state of shock at the sudden catastrophe that descended upon Teresopolis and nearby towns overnight on Tuesday when a heavy, persistent outpour unleashed deadly mud slides followed by a shower of massive boulders, raising homes and killing entire families in a single strike.
Impatience and frustration prevail here. Residents are kept at times from returning to their homes. They demand the right to bury their loved ones while survivors are often left to pick up the pieces on their own. Only with the help of a handful of volunteers making their way through the drenched roads.
Here, a volunteer is delivering food and water to an elderly man who lifted his paraplegic brother to a rooftop after a sudden flash flood swept away his home. Hajina Marie Amano (ph), also a volunteer, has made her rounds through the hills of Teresopolis. But mostly to retrieve bodies, a horror scene, she says, as dozens of corpses were found trapped in trees and cars, some strewn over grassy areas.
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LEMON: And you might remember as in Katrina, because of the intense heat and humidity, refrigerated trucks have been pressed into service as temporary morgues.
Going to check our political headlines right now. Another potential roadblock to repealing "Don't Ask, Don't Tell." Even the legislation repealing the ban on gay serving openly in the military was passed last month, a draft bill by California Republican Congressman Duncan Hunter could derail it. Hunter's bill would require the heads of all four branches of the service to sign off on the repeal before it can be implemented. The bill may be introduced in the House next week.
New Republican Party Chairman Reince Priebus attended a congressional retreat today in Baltimore where he told Republican members of Congress that he is eager to earn their trust. Priebus is the former chairman of Wisconsin's State Republican Party. He won the national party chairmanship yesterday in the seventh round of voting, defeating incumbent Chairman Michael Steele and several others.
Former White House aides are disputing a claim by President Reagan's son that he showed signs of Alzheimer's disease while in office. Ron Reagan makes the claim in a new book out next week. It's called "My Father at 100." Among those disputing the claim, Reagan's chief-of-staff Ken Duberstein, Reagan cabinet member Bill Bennett and Reagan communication's director David Gergen. Duberstein said young Reagan, quote, "Is mostly in the business of trying to sell books."
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ALAN DUKE, CNN PRODUCER: Oh, the kids. KEYA MORGAN, KENNEDY COLLECTOR: There are the kids. There's Caroline.
DUKE: Wow.
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LEMON: You have to see this story.
Never-before-seen JFK photos are being released for the first time in 50 years. It is a CNN exclusive. You'll see them ahead.
And it doesn't exactly make for a fun day on the slopes. Dozens of people get trapped on the ski lift.
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LEMON: Tens of thousands of photos of President John F Kennedy were stored away and have spent half a century unseen. Now as the 50th anniversary of his inauguration approaches, you'll see some right now in a CNN exclusive.
The owner of the pictures, collector Keya Morgan, told me he bought them at auction.
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LEMON: Was your heart about to explode out of your chest when you were pulling out these photos of Kennedy that have not been touched in decades?
MORGAN: Absolutely. It was absolutely incredible. It was like having multiple orgasms simultaneously, which was one of the most amazing experiences I've ever had, to see thousands and thousands of photographs. Usually, I just buy one or two photographs. They cost like $1,000 and I tell everybody about it.
But to see 15,000 or 20,000 photographs all original from the 18 -- sorry, 1960s, I'm thinking Lincoln now, you know, that's -- it's just very, very exciting.
LEMON: You made me blush. I'm turning rust. OK, so listen, you have gone through about 1,000 of these photos so far. You got some amazing moments here like Kennedy with the nuclear weapons and a machine gun.
MORGAN: Right. Yes. I mean here's a peace president who won a Pulitzer and you know, who is known for this incredible peaceful guy and he's holding a machine gun in the White House. Of course, it's only interesting. I mean, he was a very peaceful guy. But there are many incredible photos. I mean there is just so many -- you know, there are private moments with the kids. There's, you know, public events. There's just so many different ones. Yes.
LEMON: Talk to me about this one. Because with, you know, the Martin Luther King holiday coming up, this one is apropos, there is a special Kennedy moment, an M.L.K. moment, I should say, among these photographs.
MORGAN: Yes. There's a really moving one that I thought was very moving. You know, I also collect African-American historical photos. And there's one with all these African-American ladies basically surrounding President Kennedy. And this right around the whole, you know, civil rights era. So it's really fascinating to see these African-American ladies handing a portrait of Abraham Lincoln to, you know, President Kennedy and the smile and expression on this lady's face when she's looking at President Kennedy and how proud she is.
But there are many incredible photos. There is one of Caroline under the desk which probably most people have not seen in the United States which is really sort of surprising. We've all seen, you know, John under the desk. But it was interesting to see Caroline.
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LEMON: We want to check some of your top stories and the headlines right now. There is tense quiet in North Africa in the North African nation of Tunisia after days of unrest. The long-time ruler of the country has fled to Saudi Arabia. The speaker of parliament is now interim president. Tunis TV reports new elections will be held in 60 days.
CNN's Ben Wedeman is now in Tunis. During a nail-biting taxi ride through numerous military checkpoints from the airport to a downtown hotel, Ben reports seeing many young men kneeling while the military clamps down on looting and violence.
Instead of flying through snow, more than 80 skiers were stuck on a lift in Chesterland, Ohio. Our affiliate WJW reports rescuers had to use ropes and ladders to bring people including some kids to the ground. A mechanical failure on the chairlift left some skiers stranded in the air for over an hour. The lift is about 30 feet off the ground at its highest point.
Boy, oh boy, remember the tragic start the deputies in Clark County, Ohio had to the New Year? One of their own, Deputy Suzanne Hopper was shot to death. Investigators say trailer owner Michael Ferryman killed Hopper and wounded another deputy. He was fatally shot during that confrontation. Today, someone set Ferryman trailer on fire. That's according to authorities. The camper was gutted but no one was hurt. There's a $5,000 report for information on the arson.
Devastation at a South Carolina farm to tell you about. An estimated 20,000 chickens are dead after a fire broke out at this Aiken County chicken house. The cost is still under investigation, but inspectors are focusing on heaters used inside the building. The blaze destroyed about half the structure, but none of the chickens inside survived.
Look at what's gone viral now. If you think you have snow problems, I want you to check this out.
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LEMON: All right. So we're no experts here. But this guy is doing it wrong. Unfortunately, though, you can see he's OK. He was not hurt. And here's a word to the wise. If you're going to clear snow off the roof, just remember what happened to this guy. Keep that picture in your head because it's what not to do.
Everybody likes a snowy hill, even this dog found she could slide downhill by just flopping down and letting gravity take over and when she got to the bottom, she did what every kid does. She enjoyed it and then she ran right back up to the top and she did it again.
OK, bowling enthusiasts, eat your heart out. This guy could not miss. He nailed one strike after another. His name is Josh Scanlan. And he was trying out for Team USA bowling. And then he makes this impossible shot. All right. So as impressive as that is, knocking down the pins in another lane, even a strike, it doesn't count. Scanlan did not make the team. But he is a viral video star now.
A wild police chase in the snow caught on camera. You'll see it play out straight ahead.
Plus the mystery of a missing honor student continues to haunt her parents and law enforcement. We'll talk to police for an update next.
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LEMON: A lot of people have been asking about this story on social media. Here it is. Phylicia Barnes turned 17 the other day, but she wasn't home in North Carolina to celebrate the milestone with her family. No one knows where she is. She disappeared three days after Christmas while visiting her half sister in Baltimore. Baltimore police say they tried to get the word out, far and wide, as soon as possible, but without much success.
I spoke with the chief of public affairs with the Baltimore police about whether he thinks the slow response might have been due to her being African-American.
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ANTHONY GUGLIELMI, CHIEF OF PUBLIC AFFAIRS, BALTIMORE POLICE: Don, I think the question has to be asked. I mean, here we are 17 days later, and today we're on CNN. But day two, day three, when we were putting information out about Phylicia's disappearance, we were talking about birds falling out of the sky in Arkansas and fish coming up dead in Maryland's harbor. And this girl's in danger. And she needs help. And it was very frustrating for my office to see an anemic response from our national media partners.
LEMON: I'm glad you said that. So first 48 hours are critical. So chances are, it doesn't look good, does it?
GUGLIELMI: It doesn't look good. But I guess the flip side of that is we don't have any evidence as of now to say it looks bad. But given the amount of time -- here's the key, Don. We're monitoring everything that the government has capabilities to monitor.
At some point, if you're a runaway or whatever, you're going to pop up on the grid. And we're going like 17 days now without a single blip on the radar. So it's frustrating for us because last year, we had 350 missing persons cases. We solved all of them but four. So usually in these types of things, you find that there's drug activity involved or there's a nexus of something else. Phylicia is the perfect girl. I mean, she's the perfect student. Graduated high school early. Doesn't fit the character at all of a runaway, never associated with violence. It's frustrating.
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LEMON: Anyone with information about Phylicia is urged to contact Baltimore police. Here's the phone number, 855-223-0033. Again, it's 855-223-0033.
Make sure you join us Sunday, tomorrow, in our 6:00 p.m. Eastern hour when we speak with Phylicia's mother and the disturbing things she has learned leading up to her daughter's disappearance.
Are Americans ready to spend again and spend big? Well, we'll take you to the boat show here in Atlanta to gauge the appetite.
And you've probably seen him before, but let's be honest. It's worth watching again and again and again. It's called Twiggy. You recognize him. The water-skiing squirrel is back up on his skis.
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LEMON: It's possible new sign that the economy is on the mend. Wealthy Americans spent freely over the holidays opening their wallets for luxury items. The boat business is also an economic bellwether.
Boat sales took a hit when the recession arrived, and we went to the Atlanta boat show this week to talk to people who are thinking about buying.
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LEMON: People can afford boats now?
LARRY BERRYMAN, ATLANTA BOAT SHOW: There's a boat for everybody.
LEMON: And people are buying them?
BERRYMAN: Absolutely. Absolutely. The show opened and half a dozen dealers posted four or five sales each, so we got off to a great start. It's just a reflection. I think the economy, like you said, is coming back slowly.
LEMON: Even in this economy, you're going to buy a boat? Is it for family?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it's for family and friends.
LEMON: Why do you feel that day, instead of taking a long vacation or something?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We went on a cruise last month and it wasn't quite as long, but with a boat, you can go out every weekend and spend time with it.
LEMON: What kind of boats are selling?
BERRYMAN: Pontoon boats, ski boats, center consoles, jet boats, tow boats, a little bit of everything.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you want it, you're going to get it. That's the bottom line.
LEMON: How is the industry doing overall now?
BERRYMAN: A little better than last year. In general, the 2011 outlook looks much brighter than 18 months ago.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've had a phenomenal year, especially with the higher end products.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's nothing better than being on the water.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The motor home industry and the boating industry is what barometers we're using. When both of those pick up, you see an uptick in the economy and we're seeing that in the R.V. industry at this particular time.
LEMON: You're upgrading?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I want to. Let's put it that way.
LEMON: Can I come hang out with you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.
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LEMON: Let's head across the country right now to see what our affiliates are covering.
In Weirton, West Virginia, driving is hard enough in the snow, but it's a real hazard if you're running from the cops. Look at this video. Police say they tried to pull over a man who was driving a stolen car but he took off. The chase reached speeds of 60 miles per hour before the car slipped on the road and crashed into a ditch. You can see it right there. Police then arrested him.
In Rancho Cordova, California, they say a dog is man's best friend, but it's also dog's best friend. This 15-year-old miniature schnauzer named Casper was stuck in a drainpipe for up to three days. That was until this little guy caught Casper's scent and alerted neighbors. He barked his little head off. Firefighters responded and Casper was saved, thankfully.
And in Kansas City, Missouri, you know him, you love him. Twiggy, the water-skiing squirrel is back. The wave-riding rodent donned a stars and stripes cape at the Kansas City boat show. Furry squirrel, favorite. It was a big draw, as usual.
On the lam for more than 30 years. How an escaped fugitive's run from the law came to an end and what he said when he was captured.
And the shooting in Tucson puts the focus on gun control back on the front burner. A congresswoman who lost her husband to a crazed gunman shares her thoughts on tough gun laws. That's straight ahead.
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LEMON: A glance into the mind of the alleged Safeway shooter from the man himself. Jared Loughner's former college released this video to us. It is a rant-fill tour of the Pima Community College campus, reportedly shot and narrated by Loughner himself. Police record show this was one of the reasons the school suspended him in September.
One of those wounded in the Arizona shooting has been involuntary committed. Police say 63-year-old James Fuller threatened a member of the Tucson Tea Party during a town hall meeting today. According to the Pima County sheriff's office, Fuller snapped a picture of the man and then said "You're dead." That's a quote. He is in the custody of the county mental health services now.
Meantime, word of a fugitive is captured after being on the run for 30 years. The U.S. Marshals service says Ian Jackson MacDonald fake a heart attack in prison back in 1980 and escaped from a Florida hospital. At the time, he was awaiting extradition to Canada to face marijuana smuggling charges. He later settled in West Virginia. Took a new identity and opened a used appliance shop. Investigators recently captured him in Florida. He reportedly told them, quote, "I wondered when this day would come."
Tonight, we are going to introduce you to the first CNN Hero of 2011. And her name is Amy Stokes. And she is using the Internet to build relationships between hundreds of kids in Africa who have been orphaned without role models and caring adults from all over the world.
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AMY STOKES, CHAMPIONING CHILDREN: Hello, there, are you going to help me do this other one?
In 2003, my husband and I went to Johannesburg and we adopted our son.
Here you go.
HIV/AIDS has really decimated some of these communities.
Seeing all of the children and so few adults to help them grow up, with none of the adults you care about has ever lived past 35, then why would you think you can? Why would you stay in school? Why would you invest in yourself?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tell me something good that happened in school will week.
STOKES: I had to find a way to bring the caring, nurturing effect of other adults for that child to invest in themselves.
I'm Amy Stokes. I use the Internet to create a global village where the mentors and kids can interact face to face on a regular basis.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi. How are you?
LESLEY YANIV: How was your day at school? Did you work in the garden?
STOKES: That mentor shows up every week, a relationship starts between one person here and one person there, and then that relationship expands.
My mentor is so good, I like him very much.
Because they want to connect with that special someone, they're going to learn keyboard skills. The skills that they will need to have jobs and to be able to do whatever they need in the future.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At first I was nervous. OK, I love you.
YANIV: Love you, too. Bye.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She's part of my family and also part of my life.
STOKES: It's a bite-sized opportunity to change the world. And there's no commute.
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LEMON: And to nominate someone you think is changing the world, go to CNNHeroes.com.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If he hadn't been there, I might not be here right now. I might have got shot. I might have come out of that door and got my head blown off.
THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Does that go through your mind?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
GUTIERREZ: It has really affected your life?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it's been horrible. It's just one of the worst things that's ever happened.
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LEMON: A witness to the shooting that critically injured a congresswoman. How the split second decision he made kept him from taking someone else's life and possibly losing his own.
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LEMON: Turning back now to the aftermath of the mass shooting in Arizona. State law lets people carry guns in their pockets without any training or permits, as long as they're over the age of 21. But as our Thelma Gutierrez found out, sometimes it's the decision not to draw your weapon that ends up saving lives.
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GUTIERREZ (voice over): At this firing range in Tucson, Arizona, nearly every lane is full, with couples, and firearms enthusiasts like Jim Caniglio who says he's proud to live in a state where he can carry a concealed weapon on his person, and in vehicle with no permit at all.
JIM CANIGLIO, GUN ENTHUSIAST: We are citizens, not subjects. And that is the bottom line.
GUTIERREZ: The law is called constitutional carry, a new law that just passed last year.
SHERIFF CLARENCE DUPNIK, PIMA COUNTY, ARIZONA: I think we're the Tombstone of the United States of America.
GUTIERREZ: After the massacre in Tucson, the sheriff of Pima County says things are out of control. He cited a proposed legislation that would allow students 21 and over to carry guns on campus.
DUPNIK: I've never been a proponent of letting everybody in this state carry weapons under any circumstances that they want, and that's almost where we are.
JOE ZAMUDIO, GUN OWNER: I carry -- this is a Ruger P-95.
GUTIERREZ: 24-year-old Joe Zamudio says he carries a concealed weapon to feel safe.
(on camera) This is something you carry with you where, the store?
ZAMUDIO: Pretty much everywhere I go.
GUTIERREZ: Last Saturday was no different. Joe said he had his firearm in his jacket when he went to buy cigarettes. ZAMUDIO: I heard the shots from inside the building. When I turned and squared my shoulders to the breezeway, I saw another gentleman with his right hand lifting the firearm up like this. Only it was locked back. And he brings it around his side and that to me -- he was standing, he was holding a gun.
GUTIERREZ: Joe saw victims in pools of blood. He had to make a split second decision about his gun, with no room for errors.
ZAMUDIO: Somebody needed to be taken care of. That was my immediate problem, was address that firearm.
GUTIERREZ: Instead of his gun, which he says he was prepared to use for a moment just like this, Joe reached for the man's wrist instead.
(on camera) Did he say anything? Did he say, I'm not the shooter?
ZAMUDIO: Immediately, no, no, it's him, it's him.
GUTIERREZ: Joe saw Jared Loughner on the ground. Turns out the man with the gun had disarmed Loughner.
ZAMUDIO: I'm just so lucky. I'm just so lucky. We were all blessed that he was there that day, because if he hadn't been there, I might not be here right now. I might have got shot. I might have come out that door and got my head blown off.
GUTIERREZ: Does that goes through your mind?
ZAMUDIO: Yeah.
GUTIERREZ: This really affected your life?
ZAMUDIO: Yeah, it's been horrible. It's one of the worst things that ever happened.
GUTIERREZ: Joe Zamudio believes the gun training that made him an able marksman also helped him to make a sound judgment call.
ZAMUDIO: There was a bunch of people watching, and all those people watching see me pull a gun out thinking second shooter. And in Arizona, where people keep guns in their cars, somebody could have shot me.
GUTIERREZ: Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Tucson, Arizona.
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LEMON: The suspect in the Arizona mass shooting allegedly used an extended magazine in his gun to shoot 19 people before having to reload. Many gun control advocates don't see any reason for these high-capacity magazines to exist.
And next week, New York Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy plans to introduce a bill that would ban those high-capacity magazines. This is a very personal mission for McCarthy who became a congresswoman after a gun tragedy hit her family back in 1993.
I asked her what exactly her new bill would do in tonight's "What Matters".
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REP. CAROLYN MCCARTHY (D), CONGRESSWOMAN: Basically it would go back to reinstate the 1994 -- the 204 ban on high-capacity ammunition- feeding devices. What people have to understand, the clips that are -- still would be legal would be a clip with ten bullets in it and of course one in the chamber. So that would be 11 bullets. But we're going to try to get rid of the large-capacity clips.
LEMON: Given how difficult it has been in this country to pass gun control legislation, what do you think your chances are here?
MCCARTHY: Listen, it's always difficult when you're dealing with a pro-gun House and a pro-gun Senate. But when you really look back over the last, gosh, 17 years, unfortunately these guns are being used more and more in these types of killings.
People have to remember, when we were trying to ban the assault weapons ban, I fought to have the large magazine clips at that time put into it, which it was. But with that being said, I mean, people have to remember. The reason we even did that bill back then was basically because so many cops were being outgunned and killed.
If this bill does become law, if you get what you want, what will be the penalty for possessing an extended magazine?
Well, the possession would be obviously -- it would be a federal charge, which would mean jail time and also a fine.
Listen, I can remember -- I was a young kid, an assignment editor at a New York station. And when it came across police scanners about the Long Island railroad shooting, can you remind our viewers about your story and what drove you into public service?
MCCARTHY: Going back to December 7th, 1993, commuters were coming home from New York City from work on the 5:33 train. The train stopped at Merrill Avenue station. The person that got up, he was sitting in the back of the last row of the second car. And he just started shooting. Those that were right by him, which was my husband and my son and a number of other people, were shot in the head. Three of them were killed at that time. My son was shot in the head but he did survive. And I'm making this sound very easy. It was two years of very long rehab and a tough fight.
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LEMON: Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy.
You know, he was once one of the most powerful men in Washington. Now he has been sentenced to prison. Also rapper 50 Cent is investing in stocks. That's not big news by itself. But wait until you hear what he did that may draw the attention of federal investigators.
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LEMON: For 25 years, LARRY KING aired on CNN. In just two days, you'll see the new face of the 9:00 p.m. hour here. PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT premieres. And the first interview? The woman behind her own network.
Here's a sneak peek where Oprah dishes about a troubled relationship.
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OPRAH WINFREY, TV PERSONALITY: It was a relationship that I thought that really broke my heart. I was keeping a journal then. You know, keeping a journal is -- you get to see yourself, how you're evolving as a human being. And I remember having a ceremony in my head for that woman. I look back at that time and I hold no remorse or bitterness toward that person, even though I was like, you didn't call and you didn't -- and you don't love me, and I can't believe -- and I still have all those crazy letters. I should burn them.
PIERS MORGAN, CNN HOST, " PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT": Do you really?
WINFREY: Yes, I do.
MORGAN: You kept them all?
WINFREY: I have them all.
MORGAN: Why do you kept them?
WINFREY: I don't know. I just kept them.
MORGAN: Do you still read them?
WINFREY: No, I haven't read them in years. But, you know, I have them in a safe deposit box some place.
MORGAN: Wow, that's amazing.
WINFREY: But I was thinking I should burn them now, because, you know, Gayle knows if anything happens to me, get the letters, get the letters.
MORGAN: Now I have got a message for Gayle, give me the letters.
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LEMON: Here's what Oprah said afterwards. She said it was one of her toughest interviews in 20 years.
Later in the week, Piers sits down with Howard Stern, the king of all media, George Clooney, among other newsmakers. Again, join Piers Morgan, Monday, 9:00 p.m.
Every weekend we like to bring you some interesting news items that you might have missed during the week.
First one up, Tom DeLay was once the second most powerful man in Congress, one of the most powerful men in Washington. Now he's facing a three year prison term. A Texas judge this week sentenced the former House Majority leader on money laundering and conspiracy charges. He was found guilty last November of illegally funneling corporate money to elect Republican candidates to the Texas state legislature. DeLay will remain free on bond while his attorneys appeal the conviction.
Rapper 50 Cent is adding stock-picking to his portfolio. But he's running into some potential trouble. Last weekend, he promoted a penny stock on Twitter, it's called H&H imports. MoneyWatch.com points out that 50 Cent owns about 30 percent of the company and after his tweet, the stock price jumped more than 200 percent. Of course, promoting a stock you already own risks violating securities laws, which are designed to keep insiders from privately dumping a stock while they promote it publicly. Well, 50 Cent later tweeted that investors should do their homework because in his words, the stock may or may not be right for you.
New California Governor Jerry Brown has a message for about 48,000 state workers -- hang up your mobile phone and turn it in to your boss. Brown has ordered supervisors to deactivate about half of all state employees' cell phones by June. About 96,000 California state workers currently use cell phones paid for by taxpayers. Brown says the cutback will save the state $20 million a year. California faces a $25 billion budget shortfall over the next 18 months.
Times are tough all over. Thanks for watching. I'm Don Lemon at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta.
Make sure you have yourself a great evening. I'll see you back here tomorrow night at 6:00, 7:00 and 10:00 p.m. Eastern. Good night.
