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Giffords Transfer 'Flawless'; How to Find $500 in your Closet; Cold Case Warms Up; Gearing Up for 2012 Election; Bill Daley Takes White House Reins; Teenage Sex Crime Victims Treated Like Criminals; MTV's 'Skins' Draws Fire; Building Up America: Charm City Cakes
Aired January 22, 2011 - 11:00 ET
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RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR: From the CNN Center, this is CNN Saturday morning. I'm Randi Kaye in for T.J. Holmes.
Injured Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords enters a new phase of recovery. She's now in Texas about to start rehab. Find out what that involves and new details about her condition. A live report is just seconds away.
The funeral for Sargent Shriver being held right now in Maryland. Numerous dignitaries and celebrities are attending, including the first lady. We will take you there.
And a cold case heats up. We'll tell you about a possible break in a 26-year-old missing child investigation. That's coming up.
U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords is in a Houston hospital this morning for the next step of her treatment. Giffords is recovering from brain injuries she suffered in an assassination attempt two weeks ago today. Doctors say her transfer from a Tucson, Arizona, hospital went, quote, "flawlessly".
CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is in Houston for us. Elizabeth, what's the very latest from there?
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: The latest here is that her doctors Randi say that she is doing great. I'm actually going to let her doctor speak for himself. His name is Dr. Dong Kim and he's her neurosurgeon here at the University of Texas Memorial Herman. He spoke to the media yesterday.
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DR. DONG KIM, DIRECTOR, MISCHER NEUROSCIENCE INSTITUTE: She looks spectacular. In all ways, from a neurological point of view first, she came into the ICU and she was alert, awake, calm, she looked comfortable. I think we were already feeling some interaction, which is important. She's got very good movement on the left side of her body.
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COHEN: Now, you'll notice that Dr. Kim says that she was in the Intensive Care Unit. That's right. She was transferred from the Intensive Care Unit in Arizona, Randi, to the Intensive Care Unit here in Houston. And the reason for that is that she still has a drain in her head. It's draining fluid from around her brain.
And Dr. Kim says as long as she still has that drain, she needs to stay in Intensive Care Unit. But she will have some rehab, some physical therapy, et cetera, for a couple of hours a day while she's in the ICU -- Randi.
KAYE: I know this is going to be a long process for her, at least that's what her doctors are saying, Elizabeth. But what is the next step?
COHEN: The next step is to try to get that drain out. And after that, to make sure she's completely stable, and then they hope to move her to the hospital behind me, which is purely for rehabilitation. It's a rehabilitation hospital.
Once she's here, she's going to have rehab for four to six months, they think. They don't want to predict exactly. But they think it will be around that amount of time.
So to -- to sort of summarize it, she's going to be in intensive care until at least the first part of next week and then we don't know if she'll go right into rehab or spend a little more time in the hospital first.
KAYE: About a nurse. Can you share some of that with us?
COHEN: Yes. There was a nurse at this press conference who was just terrific. She's been with the -- with the Congresswoman since day one of her injury. And she said that on the trip from Tucson to Houston, Randi, that the Congresswoman admired -- she could tell she was looking at a ring that the nurse was wearing.
So the nurse took off the ring and gave it to Giffords. And she said Giffords held up the ring and looked at it. And then when the nurse went to take it back, Giffords went like this and wanted to keep it. And they said that shows is that she -- her sense of humor is intact. And that's very important at this stage in the recovery.
KAYE: That is such great news and really is a sweet story. Elizabeth, thank you.
COHEN: Thanks.
KAYE: The man accused of shooting Giffords and 18 other people are scheduled to make another court appearance Monday in Phoenix. Twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner faces federal charges that he attempted to murder Giffords and two aides. More charges are expected in the connection with the shootings which left six people dead.
In the wake of the attack on Representative Giffords, another Congresswoman is planning to protect herself with a gun in her home district. North Carolina Republican Renee Elmers already has a gun permit. And she tells the "Charlotte Observer," quote, "I'll be carrying", unquote. At least two other members of Congress have announced similar decisions.
In California, authorities are also taking seriously a threat against Governor Jerry Brown after what happened in Tucson. Jerry Brown hasn't even been in office for a month, but somebody reported seeing some pretty disturbing graffiti.
Take a look. This is the first message. It says "We gonna kill Governor Brown on February 14th." We're told it was found on a wall in a residential neighborhood.
Somebody also apparently found a second message in a different neighborhood. This one includes a countdown actually, saying quote, "26 more days for Brown". Police are investigating and we are told that the city crews have painted over all of that graffiti.
Police across the country are looking for a woman suspected of kidnapping a baby from a New York hospital 23 years ago. She's identified as Ann Pettway from North Carolina. The girl she raised her own, Carlina White was reunited a few weeks ago with her real family after finding her baby picture on a missing children's Web site. An amazing story, the man she knew as her uncle is still in shock.
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KAPEL PETTWAY, ANN PETTWAY'S BROTHER: I'm mad, I'm fed up, I'm hurt, I'm disappointed, as simple as that. I'm still thinking why would Ann do something like that? I don't know.
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KAYE: Carlina White says she wants Pettway found so she can hear her side of the story. Her biological aunt though, says Pettway belongs in jail.
Another abduction and the search for a missing 4-year-old boy this one in California; Jose Esteban Rodriguez is wanted in the disappearance of Juliano Cardenas (ph) from Paterson, a town in northern California. Police fear the kidnapper may have driven into a canal. The child's mother says her son was pulled from the arms of his grandmother.
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TABITHA CARDENAS, ABDUCTED BOY'S MOTHER: All I could do is hang on to him. Please, I need him home. I know he's telling you that he misses me and he wants to come home. And you need to bring him home.
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KAYE: Police have been searching the canal for clues.
Family and friends of Sargent Shriver are paying a final tribute this hour. These are live pictures; his funeral mass being held in Potomac Maryland at Our Lady of Mercy. First Lady Michelle Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, former President Bill Clinton, Bono and Oprah Winfrey they are all there; many dignitaries there in that crowd.
Shriver was 95 when he died Tuesday. He suffered from Alzheimer's disease for years. Shriver was married to Eunice Kennedy for nearly 56 years until her death two years ago. Among his accomplishments: launching the Peace Corps.
New concerns today about a flu vaccine for youngsters: federal health investigators have detected an increase in fetal-related seizure in infants and children who were given Fluzone. The Food and Drug Administration says it's investigating whether there's a link between the seizures and the drug. Fluzone is the only flu vaccine recommended for use in infants and children 6 months to 23 months old.
A terrifying scene on a busy highway: the driver of a tractor trailer rig loses control and crashes through the guardrail. Next, what he blames for the crash.
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KAYE: Nine minutes past the hour.
Time now for a look at some stories our affiliates are covering today. Imagine this coming at you, a tractor trailer rig tearing through a guardrail, ending up on the other side of the highway. It happened in Toronto.
The truck was hauling 30 tons of sand. What a mess. No serious injuries were reported. Reports say the driver is blaming the wreck on poor driving conditions. The region has gotten heavy snow and lots of ice lately.
In Denver an extra set of eyes and ears for the police department, taxi drivers now on the lookout for suspicious activity. The program is called "Taxis on Patrol" and it's one of the first of its kind in the country. More than 1,200 taxi drivers will be taking part in the program.
And check this out from Canada's Northwest Territory.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So what I've done is boiled the water in the kettle. So it's boiling water. We're going to pour it in here. And then throw it in the air. And it's going to evaporate. Ready?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, wow.
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KAYE: Temperature is so cold boiling water turns to a snowy fog, when you throw it in the air.
Karen Maginnis, what are your thoughts on that?
KAREN MAGINNIS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Wow. That must be pretty cold. That was really kind of fun to take a look at that. All right, let's go ahead and show you what we're expecting as we go into the next 24 to 48 hours. We've got a swath of snowfall all the way from Rapid City extending down towards St. Louis, nothing terribly significant. We're not looking at a foot of snowfall but on the order of three to six inches of snow. Those will be some of the common amounts that we see.
It looks like Minneapolis is supposed to pick up some snow. But mostly that's going to be a flurry or two. Mostly what we have to worry about is going to be those bitterly cold temperatures.
Let's go ahead and show you what the bigger picture looks like as we take a view across the north-central United States. There's a little clipper system and behind it actually they have issued some blizzard warnings in portions of Montana. But this clipper is going to move through, there'll be another one right behind it and then, a little bit of a break. So that will be some good news. You'll have a chance to kind of recover from the Arctic and Polar blasts that we've seen.
All right, here are the football games and this is what we're looking at: Green Bay Packers and Chicago Bears at Soldier Field, 3:00 coming up tomorrow, temperatures only in the teens. Wind chill factor is going to make it feel a whole lot colder than that. You'll keep a partly cloudy to partly sunny skies for most of the day.
And then as we look at the New York Jets and the Steelers in Pittsburgh, it is going to be cold. It's going to be cold today; temperatures mostly in the teens, a little bit of a wind. We'll keep some flurries maybe in the forecast. Nothing terribly significant coming up weather wise, maybe a few flurries in the morning, and then it will kind to be over it by then.
And in the forecast for the Midwest, well, the Arctic blast is, Randi, fortunately is going to moderate as we go into the next, probably 72 hours to 96 hours. We'll start to see those temperatures, upper 20s to around 30 degrees.
So that will be some -- you know a very pleasant news for them.
KAYE: Sure will. All right, thanks, Karen.
MAGINNIS: OK.
KAYE: I appreciate it.
If you're looking for some extra cash, look no further than your own closets. That's right, financial expert Alexa Von Tobel says, you can find -- get this -- $500 in your closets. Earlier this morning, she told me how.
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ALEXA VON TOBEL, FOUNDER & CEO, LEARNVEST.COM: For the gentlemen, it's a lot harder to sell your clothing online. So we recommend accessories like ties and coats and particularly uniforms. If you have any uniforms, they're really easy to unload on places like Amazon and eBay.
We also like sports memorabilia, any type of collector's items, particularly baseball, basketball; it's very easy to make a ton of extra money from those, reselling them online. So those are the main things that we focus on for guys.
KAYE: So if I am able to squeeze anything out, I'm able to part with anything, what can women cash in on?
VON TOBEL: I'm sorry. So for women at LearnVest.com, the biggest thing that you can sell online that's easy are things like jewelry. So we recommend you take your extra jewelry, let's be honest we all have tons of, and actually go get it appraised first.
So with this, what we want you to do is go find an appraisal, sit down, don't tell them that you're trying to resell it. And they'll actually give you the best price that they can give you. And then it's easier to turn around and actually resell it to the person who gave you the appraisal first.
So that's a great thing to do. If you have baby items, we recommend a great site called ParkSlopeParents.com. Baby stuffs, you don't have a space for it. All those extra carriages, different -- all of the different caring items for your baby, old coats, have awesome online resale values. So we recommend you start with those.
KAYE: And so you do suggest getting it appraised first?
VON TOBEL: Yes. We do.
So the big thing with anything that's high value; so old jewelry, but also high end fashion items. So your old Louis Vuitton purses, Gucci, anything that has designer quality, get it appraised first because it's really easy for you to actually make pretty high resale costs on those things. We want to make sure that you do that first.
And again, we're trying to help you to find at least $500 in your closet. It's quite easy to do.
KAYE: And just quickly. I mean I know a lot of people -- I know myself, I hoard gift cards. I have cards for every occasion. I will never be able to use all of them in my lifetime. Can I actually really make some money from gift cards or books? A lot of us have that.
VON TOBEL: Yes, that's right Randi. So at learnbest.com, our two favorite sites are bookscouter.com. It's so easy for you to resell your books. I actually just did this with all my old textbooks. It takes less than five seconds to upload the bar code. You can easily resell them.
And then for old gift cards, I know I got a ton of gift cards that I didn't want for the holidays. We like plasticjungle.com. And what you'll simply do is upload the gift cards you have. You can either consolidate them and get a gift card to a place like Saks or someplace you're excited about or you can even get some of the cash back.
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KAYE: That was Alexa Von Tobel, founder of learnvest.com.
An eight-year-old girl got off a school bus and disappeared. Now she has been missing for 26 years. Next, could there possibly be a happy ending and a break in this case?
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KAYE: Top stories now: doctors in Houston, Texas, say injured Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, is quote, "doing great". She was transferred from a Tucson hospital to Houston yesterday; a process doctors say that went flawlessly. Giffords will undergo therapy and rehab for the next four to six months.
A bold statement on America's competitiveness from President Obama: in his weekly address, the President said the U.S. can, quote, "outcompete any nation", but he says to do that the country must ensure overseas markets are open to American goods and U.S. companies and jobs are given every advantage possible.
Authorities in California say a car found in a California canal did not contain a 4-year-old boy abducted earlier this week. According to police, the boy was snatched out of his grandmother's arms by a man who used to date the child's mother. A car matching the description of the suspect's was seen plunging into the canal. The car discovered yesterday was not that car. Crews continue to search the canal.
A new tip could end a quarter century mystery surrounding a child abduction outside Pittsburgh.
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KAYE (voice-over): Nearly 26 years after her daughter disappeared, Janice McKinney still remembers it like it was yesterday.
JANICE MCKINNEY, MOTHER: Four o'clock, the bus came, and we heard it, and she just never came up the driveway.
KAYE: We first met Mrs. McKinney back in 2005, more than two decades after her daughter mysteriously disappeared. She's still holding on to the grief and the guilt.
MCKINNEY: I should have been there when Cherrie got off the school bus, and I wasn't.
KAYE: It was one of the few days she didn't meet her daughter at the bus stop, February 22, 1985.
(on camera): What is that moment of panic like, that first moment when you realize your child has disappeared?
MCKINNEY: It's the most scariest thing. And I think my guilt started at that point, because up until that day, I was there. And if I would have been there, she wouldn't -- I wouldn't be going through this.
KAYE: It was a day just like this one: snow on the ground, the sun shining. Cherrie got off her school bus right here. She had to go about 200 feet, around that bend, to get to her driveway then another 300 feet to her front door. Investigators never found any footprints, which means Cherrie never got very far.
(voice-over): Kids on Cherrie's bus described a blue van right behind the bus with a snow-capped mountain and a skier painted on its side. Investigators checked out hundreds of leads. No van. No Cherrie.
MCKINNEY: I think that the last words that I probably told her was, you know, "Have a good day" and "I do love you." And that was probably, as I took her down to the bus stop, and she got on the bus.
KAYE: Did she tell you she loved you back?
MCKINNEY: Yes, she -- she always told me that.
KAYE (voice-over): Cherrie was just eight when she first disappeared. She helped put a face on missing children nationwide. The first child ever on a "Have You Seen Me?" mailer still delivered to homes across the country.
But today, for the first time in decades, Janice McKinney has hope, thanks to this man, Pennsylvania State Trooper Robert McGraw.
TROOPER ROBERT MCGRAW, PENNSYLVANIA STATE POLICE: I believe Cherrie was abducted by somebody she knows very well, and I believe that this person had the ability to basically lure Cherrie to their vehicle without her giving it a second thought prior to her disappearance.
KAYE: McGraw took the lead on the case last summer and after poring through the 3,600-page case file, he's closer than ever to cracking it.
MCGRAW: We are highly optimistic that this lead is -- has the potential to bring closure to -- to Cherrie's family.
KAYE: McGraw says he gets tips about once a week, but most don't pan out. This one, he feels especially good about, although he will not give us specifics.
MCGRAW: We will pursue this lead until we find out if it's viable or if it's a dead end. So we try not to get too excited. I mean, it's difficult, but you have to stay grounded, because this lead could -- this lead could -- it could take us nowhere.
KAYE: Working the case of a missing child is difficult, even for the most hardened law enforcers.
MCGRAW: It is. It's -- I can't imagine if that was my child. I can't imagine the pain that her mother and stepfather must wake up with every day. I couldn't imagine that.
MCKINNEY: That was her dog, and that was her cat.
KAYE: Today, Cherrie would be 34. If she's alive, this is what investigators think she might look like.
MCKINNEY: By now, Cherrie could be married and have children and have graduated, and I could be a grandmother.
KAYE: After all these years, Janice McKinney still isn't ready to say goodbye to her daughter. At the cemetery, no gravestone, just an angel.
MCKINNEY: Until I see something or hold something or know something, I can't put it to rest yet.
KAYE: Janice McKinney still hopes her daughter is alive. But alive or dead, she says, she just needs to know what happened and why someone would have snatched her little 8-year-old girl.
Randi Kaye, CNN.
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KAYE: Trooper McGraw told me he keeps a picture of Cherrie Mahan on his desk, a reminder, he says, of the little girl that he's working for. Three other investigators failed to solve the case. He's hoping to find the answers they were all looking for.
Coming up, he is no stranger to the White House, but this time he's back in a much different role. The job ahead for new White House chief of staff Bill Daley, next.
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KAYE: 2012 may seem like a long way off, but not in the world of presidential politics. In just a few months, President Obama's reelection campaign officially gears up. Joining us live from Washington, CNN deputy political director Paul Steinhauser; Paul, how is the President getting his ducks in a row for his campaign?
PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR: He's getting the shop and the team back together, I guess. You know, Randi, we were just saying that this cycle is starting off a little slow, well, now it seems to be speeding up.
This week we got word that the President's reelection effort is going to be concentrated in Chicago, his hometown. That's where then- Senator Obama four years ago put his campaign headquarters.
We hear there's some top people from the White House and the Democratic National Committee are going to be out there starting in late March and early April to set up shop. And we also hear the President right around then will also be formally be filing papers to run for reelection. But the White House says this doesn't mean the President's going to be nonstop campaigning starting in March or early April. Take a listen to Robert Gibbs, the White House press secretary.
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ROBERT GIBBS, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: Just because the President sets up the machinery of ultimately running for reelection does not mean that you're going to see the President doing a ton of political reelection events. That's just -- the nature of the way these things work is you got to have -- you've got to set up a legal mechanism by which to begin to fund something like this. You have to -- you have to get people in place.
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STEINHAUSER: You know, the setting up of shop in Chicago for the reelection efforts could maybe spur Republicans to speed up their plans and get into the race for the White House -- Randi.
KAYE: And where does Obama stand in the eyes of Americans right now?
STEINHAUSER: Well, here we are just two years into his presidency, just a couple days before he gives the State of the Union address.
Take a look at this. This is our CNN poll of poll; we take the most recent national surveys including our own and average them together. 52 percent approval rating for the president, the approval rating is probably the best indicator of the president's clout and his popularity. And 42 percent disapproved.
Randi, that 52 percent number up a little bit from late last year when the President was in the mid upper 40s -- Randi.
KAYE: All right. Paul Steinhauser. Thank you.
STEINHAUSER: Thank you.
KAYE: The man President Obama is counting on to help get him reelected is his new chief of staff. But first, they have to get through Tuesday's State of the Union address.
Our senior White House correspondent Ed Henry has more on what Bill Daley brings to the table.
ED HENRY, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Randi, as the President's new chief of staff, Bill Daley has a monumental task. He has to try to help fix the economy, end two wars and try to stop Republicans from tearing down key accomplishments like health care reform.
And oh, yes, just to try to get the President reelected.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) HENRY (voice-over): Just minutes before President Obama was sworn into office two years ago this month, outgoing President George W. Bush pulled a top Obama confidant aside.
DAVID AXELROD, SENIOR WHITE HOUSE ADVISER: President Bush said, "Axelrod, you need to enjoy this. This is going to be the ride of your life. And it's going to be by quicker than you imagined."
I think Bill knows that. Bill understands that, and I think he will value every minute of it. And so he comes in with his eyes wide open.
HENRY: Bill is the man launching Obama 2.0 at the midpoint of his first term.
OBAMA: A devoted patriot, my friend, fellow Chicagoan, Bill Daley, to serve as my chief of staff.
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HENRY: Daley's first priority is to use his time in the Clinton cabinet and as a banker to get the White House tightly focused on jobs.
STEVE ELMENDORF, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: Having a big impact on the Clinton economic recovery, and I think he will help bring real focus to the economy, which is the issue for the next two years that I think the president has to focus on.
HENRY: Top aides say the twin themes of the president's State of the Union Tuesday will be creating jobs and promoting American competitiveness, the point he hammered again and again as salesman in chief during Chinese President Hu Jintao's state visit.
OBAMA: We want to sell you all kinds of stuff. We want to sell you planes. We want to sell you cars. We want to sell you software.
HENRY: Insiders also tout Daley as a bridge-builder to business leaders who have sparred with the president but are effusive about his new top aide.
TOM DONOHUE, PRESIDENT, CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: He's traveled the world and he's a damn good manager. But I told our folks here he's not going to be a pushover for the business community. He's a very tough guy.
HENRY: Don't tell that to liberals, who believe Daley bends over backwards too much for business.
ADAM GREEN, PROGRESSIVE CHANGE CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE: Every policy fight in the past two years ranging from trying to hold Wall Street more accountable, to trying to take on the big health insurance companies, William Daley has urged the Democratic Party to take a more corporate position that's wildly out of touch with where most Americans are. HENRY: Daley fancies himself a moderate who is steering the president back to the center to reel in Independents in time for the 2012 reelection battle. After all, campaigns are in his blood since his dad and brother have served as mayor of Chicago.
COLLEEN DOLAN, DALEY CHILDHOOD FRIEND: His first convention he went to, he was probably 7 or 8, and he had been to two conventions before President Obama was born.
HENRY: Then there was Daley's time as Al Gore's campaign chairman in 2000 --
WILLIAM DALEY, AL GORE'S CAMPAIGN CHAIRMAN: Our campaign continues.
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HENRY: -- cool under fire during the contested election.
DON BAER, FMR. GORE ADVISER: The best thing about Bill Daley, more than anything else, is he's a real grownup. And I think people believe he's capable, competent, fair-minded, and will do a very good job for President Obama.
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HENRY: Donna Brazile, who was Al Gore's campaign manager, told me that Daley is every bit as tough as the president's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel. But Brazile said there's one key difference. Daley is more diplomatic. In her words, "He can administer the medicine, but not tell you to drop dead" -- Randi.
KAYE: Thank you, Ed.
They can be 15, 14, or even younger, underage girls sold for sex. Nobody wants to lock them up like criminals, but oftentimes, that is just what happens. We'll tell you why.
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KAYE: When Craigslist dropped its adult services section, online ads for the underage sex trade moved to another Web site, backpage.com.
Our Amber Lyon has been investigating the trafficking of teenage girls for a CNN special this weekend. She reports that even though teenage prostitutes are considered victims, they're usually locked up just like criminals.
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AMBER LYON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Federal law says that if you're under 18 and you're being sold for sex, you're a victim, not a criminal. That's the law. But for thousands of American girls who get arrested every year on prostitution charges, this is the reality: belly chains, ankle cuffs, a locked cell. (on camera): Three-inch mattress, cement. They don't have any pictures on the walls, no TV, nasty looking toilet. They're locked in here at night just like a prisoner.
(voice-over): Nobody thinks that these kids should be locked up, but nobody wants to risk turning them loose.
JUDGE WILLIAM VOY, CLARK COUNTY FAMILY AND YOUTH COURT: Well, this is a good example of one.
LYON: Judge William Voy keeps an old case on his desk to remind him why these girls need to be safe.
VOY: She was released on February 7th and she was found dead on February 10th. She was murdered and her throat was cut.
You can always theorize that maybe they'd be alive, but this one, I know it. I know it.
LYON (on camera): So why do you keep this case on your desk every day?
VOY: I keep it here because it reminds me that if I had that house, she would be alive.
LYON (voice-over): Judge Voy is trying to get funding for an alternative to the jail, a safe house for the girls who cycle in and out of his courtroom.
VOY: It starts right here. It's not a detention center, it's not an institution.
LYON (on camera): You have bedrooms instead of cells.
VOY: It looks like another healthy homeowner in Vegas, right? And that's what we want it to look like. These kids are messed up in a lot of different ways, and they need a lot of help.
LYON (voice-over): Voy says private donors will pay for the land and the building. All he needs is the county to pay for probation officers. But the county won't pay.
VOY: We can't get to the next level, and it's extremely frustrating.
LYON: It's not just this county. There are almost no places for these girls anywhere in America, girls like 13-year-old Selena, now stuck in jail.
"SELENA," 19-YEAR-OLD SEX TRAFFICKING VICTIM: Oh, my God, that's my favorite picture in the world. I love my little sister more than anything in the world. Oh, my God, I miss her so much.
LYON: Selena wants more than anything just to go home to be with her little sister.
Today, Judge Voy and Selena's mom are trying to figure out what's best for her.
VOY: So you're my best judge right here because you know this child.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Of course I want my child to come home, but we need a plan. I mean, it's not --
VOY: No, I understand what you're saying. OK.
SELENA: You know, she's saying all this. I want to go home, that's all I want.
LYON: But she's not going home because no one can say for sure that she won't just run away, back to the streets, back to the pimps.
SELENA: So I'm going to be here for, like, another month? I just want to go home.
LYON: Selena is now getting help through a court-ordered drug treatment program in another state. Her future is uncertain at best.
There are thousands of girls just like her caught up in an industry driven by lust and greed, now online and better than ever at selling the girl next door.
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KAYE: A bill that would have funded special detention facilities for victims of the underage sex trade failed in Congress last year.
Amber Lyon joins us live with a closer look at this problem.
So it seems to me, Amber, that the reason they're keeping these girls in jail is basically to save their lives, keep them safe.
LYON: Yes, to keep them away from the pimps. I mean, I know it looks bad, they're in handcuffs and they're being locked up in those cells that you just saw, but it's better than the alternative, which is being back on the streets, which is -- the odds are that that's going to happen if they're released.
And Randi, the Justice Department estimates there's less than 50 beds nationwide to take care of these girls to specifically handle underage sex trafficking victims. So that's why we're putting them in detention centers.
KAYE: Sure. And your heart just breaks for them. I mean, they're in trouble and they are troubled, apparently, but you spent a lot of time with them. I can't imagine the things that they must have told you.
LYON: Yes, the stories were just horrific of the things that happened to these girls. And that's why so many advocates are pushing them to get tailored facilities to help them deal with the sex abuse and everything they've been through, specialized treatment that you just can't get in a detention facility that's taking care of drug addicts or thieves.
KAYE: And there is actually a bill that's in the U.S. Senate right now to try and get some of the funding to help build some of these facilities. Where does that stand?
LYON: Well, the bill actually passed in the Senate and the House last year, but became a victim of the lame-duck Congress. And now they're just starting over from square one. So they're hoping it will get passed this year, will offer about $10 million a year to help build facilities to treat these girls.
KAYE: And you spent quite a bit of time with them. Very important story. And it airs tonight?
LYON: Sunday.
KAYE: Sunday.
LYON: Sunday at 8:00.
KAYE: OK. Want to make sure we get that.
LYON: And it will re-air at 11:00, too, if you're a football fan and watching the game.
KAYE: OK. All right. Amber Lyon, thank you.
LYON: Thanks, Randi.
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From bass player to baker, his creations take the cake. We go behind the scenes and find out how he started his business from scratch.
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KAYE: MTV has a new hit and a new controversy. Its new show, "Skins," can easily be called edgy and provocative, but the Parents Television Council is calling it something else -- child porn.
With some of the show's cast members as young as 15, the council claims MTV may actually be violating federal law and is calling on Congress and the Justice Department to investigate.
So, before we go any further, here's a clip of the show.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, "SKINS")
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, Nips.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Stop calling me "Nips".
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a funny name. I've see nipples, Nips, and, gosh, golly, yours are hilarious.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My nipples aren't funny. OK?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Get used to it, kid. Anyway, you promised to help out Stanley today.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In what?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You remember, the virgin thing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. You are not serious.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. He's got a (EXPLETIVE DELETED), and I nominated you to, you know, help out.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do I have to?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. You promised.
(END VIDEO CLIP, "SKINS")
KAYE: So, can you see why the show is raising just a few eyebrows?
Well, yesterday I spoke to Melissa Henson with the Parents Television Council, and she explained why her group is calling for an investigation.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MELISSA HENSON, PARENTS TELEVISION COUNCIL: There were internal discussions being held at Viacom about whether they were potentially running afoul of federal child pornography laws with upcoming episodes, and suggesting that cuts had to be made. So if they're having those conversations internally at Viacom, that tells me that they've already gone too far. That it should even be a concern that they might potentially be in violation of the law means that they've done too much already.
KAYE: Well, let me share a brief rundown of the first six minutes or so of the first episode. Two minutes in, you see your first image of bare skin. Just over five minutes in, you get the first sex talk. Six minutes into the episode, you get your first teen sex scene.
Some say this isn't any worse than what we already see on teen shows like "Gossip Girl," or there's also MTV's "Teen Moms" and "Real World." But your group is actually claiming that MTV may actually be violating child porn laws with "Skins."
On what grounds?
HENSON: Well, again, that is based on the report in "The New York Times" yesterday that Viacom is having internal discussions about whether content had to be cut from upcoming episodes that might potentially run afoul of federal child pornography and exploitation laws.
KAYE: So your group hasn't found any specifics yet?
HENSON: No, and it could be that it's in material that has been cut out or excised from upcoming episodes, or material that might be sitting on the cutting room floor. That's what we're asking them to look at. It's based on the report in "The New York Times" that they're having these conversations internally.
But I think what makes this show so different from other shows like "Gossip Girl" or "Glee" or many of the other shows that people think are when they think about sexy high school shows, is these are not adult actors pretending to be high school kids. These actors and actresses are under the age of 19, for the most part. They're between the ages of 15 and 19, many of them under the age of 18.
From what I've seen of it, nothing remotely redeeming about this show. It is a dark and disturbing view of adolescence.
And it may be realistic to the experience of some teenager in America, but certainly it's not typical for most American teens. What they're showing is reckless behavior, sometimes even illegal behavior. They're shown using illegal narcotics, underage drinking, engaging in other reckless and irresponsible behavior, behavior that if it were imitated in real life, would have real world consequences.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAYE: The controversy is costing MTV. Taco Bell was a sponsor, but it announced it's pulling out. Here's what the company told us: "Upon further review, we've decided that the show is not a fit for our brand and have moved our advertising to other MTV programming."
So what does MTV have to say about all this? Well, the network released a statement. It reads in part, "'Skins' is a show that addresses real world issues confronting teens in a frank way. We review all of our shows and work with all of our producers on an ongoing basis to ensure our shows comply with laws and community standards."
And NEWSROOM continues at the top of the hour with Fredricka Whitfield, here with a little preview for us.
FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Good to see you.
KAYE: Good to see you, too.
WHITFIELD: Well, instead of talking about what's taking place on the silver screen, how about the big screen soon, in a theater near you? You know the Sundance Film Festival is under way. Our Brooke Anderson is lucky enough to be there in Park City.
KAYE: Yes, we aren't there. We must have missed those flights, I guess.
WHITFIELD: Yes, we must have. They were oversold, overbooked.
KAYE: That's what it was.
WHITFIELD: Yes, that was it.
So instead, we're going to go via television, thanks to satellite and all that good stuff. We are going to take you to Sundance.
And our Brooke Anderson is also going to have a conversation with Danny Glover, actor Danny Glover.
And, of course, you know the famous twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. Well, did you know that they have a sister who's an actress, Elizabeth Olsen?
KAYE: No way.
WHITFIELD: Yes. So a conversation with her as well in a couple of films that you'll want to look out for.
And then, of course, our legal guys will be along. Richard and Avery always have some tantalizing thoughts about stuff, and it includes this time, Lance Armstrong.
You know there is a case, or a federal case, that some say is building. Well, potentially, there might be some indictments coming out of a grand jury. We'll see. "Sports Illustrated" has already talked about it, that the case is building. But is it indeed building? We're going to talk with our legal guys about that.
And, of course, you remember the "Balloon Coy" case back in 2009, October.
KAYE: Oh, yes.
WHITFIELD: How could we forget this balloon that had escaped, and maybe there was a child in it? Well, the father -- you know that was all a hoax -- the father served some time, he was faced with a 30- day sentence. And now he says -- after his sentence, he says, I am suing the Colorado judicial system and police.
KAYE: You're kidding?
WHITFIELD: And oh, by the way, I'm looking for an attorney, so anyone who is looking at Craigslist -- yes.
KAYE: Wait, for looking for his child that wasn't really missing? He's suing them?
WHITFIELD: Yes. He says he should not have served jail time, he should have not seen a conviction because of this, and now he wants justice. He is suing.
KAYE: That's good.
WHITFIELD: So he's also looking for an attorney, so any attorneys out there, take a look at Craigslist.
So our legal guys are going to talk about that and see if --
KAYE: I'm sure they'll have plenty to say.
WHITFIELD: -- they're willing to raise their hands since he's looking for an attorney.
And then we're going to talk about Haiti. As if that country is not already dealing with enough, now former president "Baby Doc" Duvalier returning to Haiti. And now there's talk of Jean-Bertrand Aristide, former president, possibly returning to Haiti.
So we're going to have a conversation about what is at stake for Haiti when you have its former presidents who are now making their way back when they say that, "This country needs my assistance." And at the same time, how involved would the U.S. get -- involved with this, with these former presidents, how -- you know, foreign policy, and why.
KAYE: And why are they going back?
WHITFIELD: Still don't know the big reasons why.
And 2:00 Eastern Time, of course, we want to keep an eye on your money. What should you do with your money this year? Should you invest it, spend it? If you are going to spend it, how? If you're going to invest it, how? And how not.
The Dolans --
KAYE: Put it under the mattress.
WHITFIELD: Yes. The Dolans will be with us.
And then we're going to go back to the movies, because there are some new releases this weekend with "No Strings Attached" and --
KAYE: Oh, that's getting a lot of chatter.
WHITFIELD: That's getting a lot of chatter with Natalie Portman, right off the heels of "Black Swan." Now some are saying this is kind of the modern day "When Harry Met Sally." We're going to have a reviewer --
KAYE: That's a lot to live up to.
WHITFIELD: It is. We are going to have a reviewer along -- say that 10 times fast. He'll let us know -- or she. Still not clear if it's a he or she.
KAYE: One or the other.
WHITFIELD: Yes.
KAYE: Well, I might go see it maybe later today. I'll give you my review as well. WHITFIELD: Yes, should you see that. Right. All right.
Randi Kaye, good to see you.
KAYE: All right, Fred. We'll see you, too. Thank you.
A bad boy of baking shares his recipe for success coming up.
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KAYE: Have you thought about striking out on your own but are worried about how to succeed in business? In his "Building Up America" series, our Tom Foreman says one out-of-work musician started with a cake.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the shadow of the Baltimore skyline, on a rough edge of town, Duff Goldman is building up a remarkable business.
(on camera): Hey, how you doing? Nice to meet you.
DUFF GOLDMAN, CHARM CITY CAKES: Welcome to Charm City Cakes.
FOREMAN (voice-over): He's a star on the Food Network, and this is where his team spins out those dazzling creations that have captured the imagination of millions.
It wasn't always this way. Eight years ago, Duff was a struggling musician, just looking for a way to pay the rent.
(on camera): What did you play in the band?
GOLDMAN: I'm a bass player. I still am.
FOREMAN: So you were essentially unemployed.
GOLDMAN: Pretty much, yes. So I called my dad and I was like, "Dad, how do I start a business?" He's like, "Sell a cake." "OK."
FOREMAN (voice-over): By creating what others did not, Duff caught the attention of cable TV scouts and turned his small bakery into a big brand. Ever since, people have listened to his ideas about business.
GOLDMAN: When I started this place, I sold a cake. That first cake that I sold, I got a deposit. With that deposit I bought some cake pans. I bought some flour. I bought some eggs. I bought some butter.
That's literally how simple it was.
FOREMAN: By buying only what he can afford and focusing on quality, he avoided the dangerous debt that doomed so many others during the recession. And so the jobs have lasted and the customers keep on coming; some for a few hundred, some for many thousands of dollars per cake. And for Duff, the creations are spectacular, but the recipe remains simple.
GOLDMAN: To build in tough times, you need to do things correctly. There's no short cut.
There's no formula. There's no magic pill. There's no spell. There's no anything. Just -- you need to pay your bills and keep your employees happy.
You just have to do a good job.
FOREMAN: Tom Foreman, CNN, Baltimore.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAYE: CNN NEWSROOM continues with Fredricka Whitfield.
Hi there, Fred.
WHITFIELD: Hi. I love that story, because it makes me hungry, and those cakes are so beautiful. Who doesn't love cake?
KAYE: And it gives you hope. I know.
WHITFIELD: Yes, and it's a beautiful business story --
KAYE: It sure is.
WHITFIELD: -- a community story. I love that.
