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Celebrating the Life of Sargent Shriver; Doctors Say Congresswoman Giffords Looks Spectacular; Accused Ft. Hood Shooter Nidal Hasan May Be Ruled Incompetent For Trial; New Study Shows Good Looks and Big IQs Go Hand In Hand; The Psychology of the Tiger Mom Discipline; Hiding Debts Not Beneficial to Relationships; Pakistani Mother Who Missed Out on Education Returns to Elementary School; Newsom Film "Missrepresentation" Released at Sundance; Woman Trapped in Car for Week Releases Book; Hawk Visits Library of Congress

Aired January 22, 2011 - 17:00   ET

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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks, Fredricka. Welcome to CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Martin Savidge in Atlanta.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords looks spectacular. That word from Dr. Dong Kim at the Memorial Hermann Hospital in Houston. Giffords was transferred there Friday to continue her remarkable recovery and rehabilitation from a bullet to the brain in a failed assassination attempt two weeks ago. We'll have a live report of the congresswoman's condition just ahead.

Doctors and lawyers now have a better grasp of the mental health of the alleged Fort Hood shooter. The psychological evaluation on Major Nidal Hasan has been completed and according to spokesman in Fort Hood, it's still not known if whether Hasan is competent to face court-martial. Hasan could be executed if found guilty in the killings of 13 people and wounding of 32 others. That in November, 2009.

Friends, family and the former president, the current vice president and the first lady gathered to say goodbye to Sargent Shriver today at a funeral service in Maryland. Shriver, who died Tuesday, was the first director of the Peace Corps, the 1972 democratic nominee for vice president and with his wife, Eunice Shriver, the guiding force behind the special Olympics. Former President Bill Clinton remembered Shriver as always energetic and full of happiness.

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WILLIAM J. CLINTON, 42CD PRESIDENT OF UNITED STATES: I had the opportunity to observe him in two setting, which answered a question that even in the most hopeful times was hard to answer with a straight face. Could anybody really be as good as he seemed to be? I mean, come on now.

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CLINTON: Come on. Every other man in this church feels about two inches tall right now.

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SAVIDGE: Sargent Shriver was 95 years of age.

Moving on to our next story, violent clashes today between protesters and police in North Africa. Demonstrators hit the streets in Algeria to call for democratic reforms. Security forces pushed back enforcing a government ban on protests. This comes soon after protests in neighboring Tunisia led to the end of the president's 23- year-long rule there.

And next --

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KEITH OLBERMANN, MSNBC ANCHOR: This is the last edition of "Countdown." Good night and good luck.

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SAVIDGE: And that's that for Keith Olbermann, parting ways with MSNBC. Olbermann shocked viewers when he announced that he is leaving the network and his show "Countdown" after eight years. Neither he nor the network is saying whether he quit or was fired. Olbermann was MSNBC's biggest star but he's had some very public disagreements with management over the years.

And next, a high-powered team of advisers have taken on the case of former Haitian Dictator Jean-Claude Duvalier. The former leader is accused of pillaging Haiti's wealth during his years in charge but he made a surprise return to the country last week after years in exile.

Former U.S. Congressman Bob Barr is in Haiti as an advisor to Duvalier. Barr tell CNN, why the man known as Baby Doc decided to come back.

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BOB BARR, FORMER U.S. CONGRESSMAN (via telephone): He was very well aware of the risk, personal risk that he faced in coming back to Haiti, but that paled in comparison to the needs of his people in Haiti. What he would like to do is to see funds made available to help in the relief effort, which by any reasonable estimate here has not progressed well.

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SAVIDGE: And then there's this, some heart-pounding home video out of Canada captures a tractor-trailer out of control. Pay attention to the left of the screen. It happened on highway 401 near the New York state border. The truck was carrying more than 30 tons of sand when it broke through the guardrail. Nobody was hurt. Officers charged the trucker with careless driving. He blamed poor driving conditions.

And a desperate search is under way in central California for this man and a 4-year-old boy. The man is 27-year-old Jose Esteban Rodriguez. Police say he grabbed Juliani Cardenas from his grandmother's arms Tuesday and fled in a silver Toyota Corolla. Rodriguez is the ex-boyfriend of the boy's mother. She said she doesn't believe Rodriguez would harm her son, she just wants him to drop the boy off somewhere.

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TABITHA CARDENAS, MISSING BOY'S MOTHER: Juliani needs to come home. He doesn't need to be with you. He's not even your son, Jose. You need to get a grip on reality, you know. Take off, leave Juliana somewhere and you take off. I don't care where you go. Just give me my son back.

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SAVIDGE: The search right now is focused on an irrigation canal near the town of Patterson. A farm worker says that he saw a Toyota Corolla with a man and a boy go into the canal on Wednesday. Police have recovered four vehicles from the canal so far but not the one they're looking for. Right now they're using sonar to search the murky water.

In North Carolina, an arrest warrant has been issued for Ann Pettway suspected of kidnapping an infant in New York City in 1987 and then raising her as her own daughter. That girl is Carlina White, now an adult with a child of her own. She was reunited with her biological family this week. Carlina discovered her true identity during an internet search when she found an old newspaper article and a baby picture about her disappearance. Pettway is also wanted for violating probation on an unrelated embezzlement case.

Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords is awake, alert, calm and comfortable. Doctors in Houston offered that initial assessment after Giffords was transferred from Tucson on Friday.

CNN senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is in Houston.

And Elizabeth, Giffords is still in ICU but everything they are telling us sounds extremely positive and optimistic. And I'm wondering, are you hearing the same things?

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Martin, that's what we're hearing. In fact, we talked with one of her doctors and he said that he was really surprised by what she was able to do.

I asked him for an example. He said, OK, here's an example, she was in bed and her left foot was kind of dangling off the edge of the bed kind of like what my foot is doing now. And they asked her to try to put that foot up on the bed like this and they said that she was able to do that. And they said that they really didn't realize that she had that much strength and coordination. So, the doctor I talked to is Gerard Francisco, and here's what he had to say.

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DR. DONG KIM, MEMORIAL HERMANN HOSPITAL: 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, the doctor mentioned movement on the left side of her body. The right side of her body is not quite as strong as the left -- Martin.

SAVIDGE: All right, Elizabeth, thanks very much for the update. It is very, very good news.

Up next, a new study gives more reason to envy those graced with good looks.

And it took 80 operations and more than ten years for this woman to finally find her voice. Her amazing story still ahead.

Want to stay married? You might need to banish the bargain rack. We'll tell you why.

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SAVIDGE: You know, the assumption about blondes, jocks and models, all beauty but maybe not too intense for the brains. Well, a new study strikes down those stereotypes, saying the good looking tend to have higher IQs.

Psychologist Wendy Walsh is here to talk about that. And Wendy, we'll get into the later stuff in just a minute, but first I want to get your take on a couple of big stories this week because everyone has been following that kidnapping story out of New York. And that, of course, had a very good ending.

Someone impersonating a nurse abducted Carlina White 1987 when she was a baby in a Harlem hospital. White always had suspicions about who her family was so she did some internet searching and she found her mother, her biological mother herself and they were reunited.

It's all smiles for now, but I'm wondering about the challenges that could be ahead for Carlina White, Wendy.

WENDY WALSH, PSYCHOLOGIST: You know, the challenges are going to be enormous because we're dealing with the nature versus nurture debate. How much is this woman like her family of origin and how much is her personality, you know, from all the years of abuse been affected and how is she going to live a healthy life after this. That's really the question.

The other is there's going to be lots of conflicting feelings. When and if they do catch this woman who abducted her and kept her kidnapped, so to speak, for all these years, she may have to bear witness and testify against the only woman she really knows as her mother and that can be very confusing and very conflicting.

SAVIDGE: Do you think this nature versus nurture issue played into the gut feeling that this young woman had that she was not in the right household?

WALSH: It very well might have. I'm wondering whether she was breastfeed for those first three weeks, whether there was some bond and attachment even in that time with her biological mother.

Of course, she's carrying with her a huge attachment injury because remember when little babies have attachment injuries, it's not stored as memories, it's stored as feelings in their bones, so to speak. So I'm really worried about her ability to trust people and trust relationships as a result of it.

SAVIDGE: All right. So, let's move on to another story, the tiger mother. There's been just a firestorm over this book by Amy Chua, this is the Yale Law professor who writes she wouldn't let her two girls to go on play dates or sleepovers and forced them to practice their instruments for hours and demanded for less than an A. And she's been vilified for it but Chua says, her book is really not advice on parenting.

WALSH: Yes, let's remember, this woman wrote a memoir about her specific family and her model. Now, it's raising -- it's hitting hot buttons in mothers everywhere because we're looking in a global economy about how to make our children competitive with the Chinese workforce, so that's why it's hitting a lot of notes with people. But the truth is, there is no one right way to raise a child.

And any mother of multiple siblings knows that even her way isn't this right for all of her kids. I mean, I have two kids. One of them if I criticize her, she crumbles into tears. Another one is tough as nails and manipulates me every way she can. So, I think the important is to look at your individual child and think about what their needs are.

SAVIDGE: Do we know in the long run what the impact of say, a hyper competitive mother can be on the child's development?

WALSH: Again, it depends on the child. Everybody has got biological predisposition to be able to take criticism, crumble under it, and so some kids may thrive and there's also this cultural piece. Remember, in China now, these children were raised in America by an American, a Chinese-American mother. But in China, children, if that's sort of the hoppy way, that's what the culture says and that's what's happening with all their friends, it's easier to take in.

Now, if these kids here in America were treated unlike western kids and they perceived that it was unfair, then it can be more injurious.

SAVIDGE: All right. I want to go now with what we started with and that it may be that former Harvard student like Matt Damon and former Stanford student like Reese Witherspoon are more common than what you think. Because what we're talking about here is a study from the London School of Economics. And it found that good-looking men tested with IQs nearly 14 points higher than other men. For pretty women, it was 11 points higher.

It doesn't really seem fair, Wendy. What's going on here?

WALSH: Well, it's actually pretty easy to explain. In my opinion, you know, intelligence is a combination of the biological seed that's in all of us that's going to grow to some kind of fruition, whether it's watered and stimulated by the environment.

So good-looking kids are called on more by the teachers. They're noticed more by the principals. They're encouraged than exposed to more. Maybe both their parents were good looking and have a higher income and as a result got them better education. So there's this big environmental piece that good-looking people get places in life and a testament to that is the proliferation of plastic surgery in our culture these days.

SAVIDGE: Well, the study also noted in Britain that the association between intelligence and attractiveness was much stronger than in the United States, so what accounts for that?

WALSH: Well, our capitalist society, our "lookism" culture. What do you think we do with beautiful young girls and beautiful, you know, sportily athletic good-looking guys? We steer them towards runways and playing courts long before the environment gets to really stimulate their brains because in those other environments, they're really rewarded for their looks. Because in our culture here now in America, you can make money doing that so parents send them to toddlers and tiaras. Early in Great Britain, the cultural, there isn't a cultural pressure to look good and be a famous supermodel, its more respected to be a Nobel laureate.

SAVIDGE: Fascinating stuff. Wendy Walsh, psychologist, thanks very much for joining us.

WALSH: Nice to see you.

SAVIDGE: Thank you.

It might seem like a little white lie, it really couldn't hurt anyone, but experts say it can make a mess of your relationship. Hiding a credit card, downplaying your debt or even a little fib about how much money you make.

Christine Romans reports.

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CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This couple dug out of $80,000 of debt together. This financial adviser schedules financial date nights with her husband and this student never hides her spending.

BRIANNA STRONG, STUDENT: I'm the spender, he's the money maker. But we are very conscious and saving, especially in this economy.

ROMANS: Not all couples are so in sync financially. Some bring huge debt into the relationship and hide them. Sometimes savers resent their spouses spending, sometimes the spouse secretly spends for revenge or independence.

(on camera): If you're doing little white lies about your money, does that show the either you don't trust your spouse or your worried your spouse won't trust you? What else then are you not discussing in your relationship?

JACQUETTE TIMMONS, AUTHOR, "FINANCIAL INTIMACY": Good trust. It's trust, because, it's never just about the money, it's all about what is revealed as a result of that.

ROMANS (voice-over): Revealed in a recent survey, 31 percent of Americans who have combined their finances say they have lied to their spouse about money. Sixty seven percent of those say it caused an argument. Sixteen percent broke up as a result. Many of those lies are about debt. A potential marriage destroyer. Research from Utah State University shows thrifty couples are happiest and too much debt can ruin a marriage.

JEFFREY DEW, ASST. PROOF, UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY: Couples with consumer debt tend to fight more. They're more stressed about their money. And some recent research that I've done even shows that consumer debt is associated with divorce.

ROMANS: He says a couple with $10,000 in debt and no savings is about twice as likely to divorce as a couple with $10,000 in savings and no credit card debt.

DEW: When your savings can take the financial pressure off, then couples can focus on each other rather than the financial problems that they have.

ROMANS: If the debt is unavoidable, then bring plenty of patience and a plan.

TIMMONS: How well do you communicate. Do you have the same shared values? Do you have the same goals?

ROMANS: Communication, after all, is free.

Christine Romans, CNN, New York.

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SAVIDGE: Officials in Spokane, Washington, hold a town meeting to calm community fear after a bomb is discovered in a backpack. That's next. And a mom in Pakistan is doing something very special with her children. They are in the first grade. We'll explain all of this ahead.

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SAVIDGE: Let's go cross country with our affiliates.

Officials in Spokane, Washington are holding a town hall meeting today to respond the concerns about public safety. On Monday, a backpack containing an explosive device was found along the planned route of the Martin Luther King Unity March. A parade for Spokane's division 2 football champs runs along the same route today.

In Nebraska, a lawmaker is proposing a bill that would make it legal for school officials and teachers to carry concealed weapons. State Senator Mark Christensen says, he introduced the bill after an Omaha vice principal rather was killed and a principal was wounded by a student who later shot and killed himself.

A Sacramento woman celebrating the success of a rare operation. A voice box transplant. This week, Brenda Jensen reunited with the team of surgeons who implanted a voice box, windpipe and thyroid gland in her three months ago. That according to our affiliate, KCRA.

"The Modesto" reports Jensen lost her vocal cords after she kept pulling out her breathing tube during a kidney operation 13 years ago. She had been using a device in order to speak.

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BRENDA JENSEN, LARYNX TRANSPLANT RECIPIENT: This was my 18th operation --

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Eightieth, right?

JENSEN: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: Eight zero.

JENSEN: And every time you have surgery, there's always a risk, but after 12 years of putting up with a lot of humiliation, a lot of teasing, not only from the kids but from adults staring because I talked with a mechanical machine and I sounded like a robot. And everywhere I was, people turned their heads. And it was frustrating, but I had to live with it.

But when this opportunity came up, I wanted to do it. I was game to go. I wanted to talk again, and I'm doing it. So, it was very much worth it to me. Well, my daughter, she called me on the phone when she heard that I was talking and from what I understand she cried like a baby when she first heard me talk.

And my 12-year-old granddaughter, Samara, she never heard my voice before because it was 12 years since I've spoke and she only knew me as talking with my mechanical robot voice. And she called my machine the talky-talky machine.

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SAVIDGE: It's very nice to hear from her. Jensen's voice box transplant is only the second of its kind that has ever been successfully performed.

A Pakistan mother takes her sons to school, but it's what she does alongside them that's inspiring others. We'll explain.

Plus an amazing story of survival after being trapped inside a car for more than a week.

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SAVIDGE: We think of parents helping their kids with homework, but one mother in northwest Pakistan is grabbing headlines because she is doing the homework along with her sons and they're in elementary school. That's right, she is going to school with her young kids.

CNN's Reza Sayah has her story.

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REZA SAYAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's a little after 8:00 in the morning and we're in the town of Daud Khel here in northwest Pakistan. We drove four hours to get here from Islamabad.

This is Islamabad, this is where we are in Daud Khel. A lot of the militant Taliban activity you hear about is here in the tribal region just west of us, and this is Afghanistan.

We came here to tell you the story of Rukhsana Batool. She's a 25-year-old mother. And every morning she wakes up, puts on her burqa, full length Islamic veil and takes her two little boys to school. That's not so unusual. What happens next is, Rukhsana doesn't leave her kids at school. Instead she sits right next to them in class and learns. That's because she's enrolled in first grade with her kids.

RUKHSANA BATOOL, FIRST GRADER MOM (through translator): I used to bring my children to school and I saw them studying and I thought I really want to study and learn too.

SAYAH: A teacher here at the school says for weeks, Rukhsana came to class because her kids wouldn't sit still. She ended up liking it. Her parents had never sent her to school so the teacher had an idea, why not enroll and come to class. And for Rukhsana, the decision was easy.

MUREED FIZZA, RUKHSANA'S TEACHER (through translator): She was interested in studying and I welcomed that. I told her I would teach her even if it meant taking up break time.

SAYAH: Rukhsana gives her husband a lot of credit for encouraging her. Remember, illiteracy is a huge problem here in Pakistan. Where we are it's rare for little girls to go to school, let alone 25-year-old moms. One study shows only one out of ten girls go to school in this province.

SABIR HUSSAIN SHAH, RUKHSANA'S HUSBAND (through translator): I think women in every country should be educated. If she's getting educated, then our family will be much more enlightened as well.

FIZZA: My opinion is that one of the main solutions to all of the issues we have in this country is the education of women. I think if one woman is educated, her entire family will be educated.

SAYAH: Their teacher says, one of Rukhsana boys could be sharper than she is. She strongly disagrees. Some friendly competition between a mom and her two little boys in first grade.

Reza Sayah, CNN, Daud Khel, Pakistan.

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SAVIDGE: The Feds make the biggest bust in U.S. history against the mafia. You'll hear from a former Mafia insider, next.

Plus, a new collection of letters by the legendary John Lennon will soon become available.

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SAVIDGE: Checking some of our top stories right now.

New insight into one of the most-beloved musicians of all time. A collection of letters written by John Lennon will be published next year. Lennon's widow, Yoko Ono, sold the publishing rights. "The Guardian" says the letters sparked a major bidding war.

Marriott reportedly will remove adult content from its new hotels. According to "USA Today," the hotel chain says pay per view movies not the big money maker they once were and will be phased out. The hotel reportedly plans to focus instead on new technology to deliver in-room entertainment.

Women sports fans might want to take note of this next story. Your sisters in Iran have been banned from watching live broadcasts of soccer matches at public theaters. State police say the presence of women increases security risks and inappropriate behavior. Women already were banned from attending men's soccer matches at stadiums. Government officials and clerics say the presence of women at men's sporting events is not compatible with Islam.

The FBI calls it its biggest mafia takedown in bureau history. More than 120 alleged mob figures arrested in one day. The list of charges is a mile long and includes murder, labor racketeering, illegal gambling, arson and narcotics trafficking.

Susan Candiotti has been following all of this for us.

Susan, you've got some reaction to the massive bust.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We do, Martin. Hi.

Curtis Sliwa was gunned down in a New York City cab and survived what he calls a mob hit back in the '90s after he criticized crime boss, John Gotti. He grew up in New York's ethnic neighborhoods, watched local godfathers and Sliwa founded the so-called Guardian Angels, those unarmed citizens who patrol streets to help prevent crime.

But this week's mob bust, Sliwa has been following every bit of it, along with prostitution and shakedowns. Sliwa says drugs and the mob have always gone hand in hand.

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CURTIS SLIWA, FOUNDER, THE GUARDIAN ANGELS: The fact that you take in 120 thugs, members of organized crime who've made their bones, who represent not just the Mukaseys (ph), Colombo, Bonannos, Genovese, Gambinos in New York but the DeCavalcantes in New Jersey and the Patriarcas in New England, means that you're trying to put some of those final nails in the coffin. Although, for every nail you put in, there are a few obviously who try to emerge from that coffin.

They were always promoting drug use. That's why the majority of the indictments you saw come down, almost inevitably, they had to do with the weight of one drug sale or another drug sale that these so- called geriatric, espresso-sipping, psychotic killers of organized crime supposedly, according to the godfather, would not get involved with.

You know what I say, oopha (ph) to that, it's all a lie.

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CANDIOTTI: He's an opinionated guy.

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CANDIOTTI: The FBI's boss here in New York says arresting and convicting the capos (ph) and their top soldiers of the five mob families hasn't stopped them, but tougher laws and informants are a help in slowing them down -- Martin?

SAVIDGE: There's a lot more to come on that one.

Susan Candiotti, thank you very much.

Sundance is under way in Park City, Utah. We're live at the Indy Film Festival next.

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SAVIDGE: "THE SITUATION ROOM" is straight ahead.

Wolf Blitzer, what do you have for us? WOLF BLITZER, HOST, "THE SITUATION ROOM": Marty, thanks very much.

Lots coming up, including the new minority leader in the House of Representatives, the former speaker, Nancy Pelosi. A wide-ranging interview with her.

And Donald Trump, is he really serious about running for president? I'll ask him.

Michael Steele also standing by to join us, the former chairman of the Republican Party. What's next for him?

Lots coming up right here in "THE SITUATION ROOM."

Back to you, Marty.

SAVIDGE: Thanks, Wolf.

Let the bidding wars begin in Park City, Utah. That's the site of the Sundance Film Festival, the annual celebration of the independent cinema. It is where little movies can find their ways to big box-office success.

Check out the trailer from "Missrepresentation," one of the movies that screened today in the documentary competition.

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UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: I remember fifth grade, I was worried about my weight and now I'm in ninth grade and still worrying about my weight.

LISA LING, EXECUTIVE PRODUCER: As a culture, women are brought up to be fundamentally insecure.

JANE FONDA, ACTRESS: Media creates consciousness. And if what's put out there that determines out consciousness is put out there by men, we're not going to make any progress.

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SAVIDGE: Our Brooke Anderson is standing by live.

Brooke, you talked to the director of "Missrepresentation" a short time ago, right?

BROOKE ANDERSON, HOST, HLN'S "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT": I certainly did, and she's got a famous last name and a famous husband, California's newly elected lieutenant governor, Gavin Newsom, but Jennifer Siebel Newsom is really making her mark here at the Sundance Film Festival with her tremendous film-making abilities and with this very provocative documentary.

Take a look at what they told me.

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ANDERSON: So this film is about the underrepresentation of powerful women in the media and the overall depiction of women in the media. And what you found, Jennifer, isn't pretty, is it?

JENNIFER SIEBEL NEWSOM, FILM DIRECTOR: No, it's not pretty. Unfortunately, we found that the media is sending this message, that a woman's value lies in her youth, her beauty and sexuality, and not in her capacity as a leader. There's obviously a double standard. But it's making it more difficult for us as American women to see ourselves as powerful figures and ultimately to elect women into leadership positions.

ANDERSON: And you interviewed really powerful women, Katie Couric, Condoleezza Rice, Geena Davis, Gloria Steinem, the list goes on and on and on. What did they teach you? What did you learn from them?

SIEBEL NEWSOM: Today, I was asked in a Q&A, the thing that I learned the most was to stand on my own power. I think we women at an early age are taught otherwise, and even if we played sports and excelled in them. So for me this film really is a gift to future generations, both young boys and young girls, to recognize that women should be treated equally and with respect and violence shouldn't be enacted upon them. Women are 51 percent of the population, so let's start seeing them as 50 percent of the board rooms, 50 percent of the people in media and clout positions in the media, 50 percent of the women in front of and behind the camera, more stories told about them. That's what we're going for.

ANDERSON: Gavin, you participate in the documentary as well. I know you're very proud of your wife. How do you hope that this documentary and the conversation about it affects change?

LT. GOV. GAVIN NEWSOM (D), CALIFORNIA: It's amazing, just watching away from the screening sparking conversation with people. It's not just women we're trying to attach appreciation or empathy but men to start changing the way we conduct ourselves.

As a politician I think it was alarming to me and a big wake-up call when she presented an interesting fact that I think everyone should pause and reflect that are you Wanda, Afghanistan, Afghanistan and Cuba have more women in legislative positions than the United States of America. We've dropped to 90th in terms of that representation. So in the board room, absolutely, obviously what's going on in terms of the media. But also in politics, we've got to do a better job in terms of our gender representation.

ANDERSON: Very quickly, the premiere was just a couple of hours ago. Are you pleased?

SIEBEL NEWSOM: I'm very pleased. There is distribution interest, which is incredibly exciting. Universities want to premiere the film. There's a dialogue. We're sparking a movement. We had Gloria Steinem and Geena Davis and all these incredible champions of women there. And men too, Jim Stair (ph) from "Common Sense Media." So I'm just thrilled and couldn't have asked for anything better.

And to be at Sundance of all places.

ANDERSON: It's a special place.

SIEBEL NEWSOM: It's a very special place. And hats off to Robert Redford and what he started. I don't think our film could have asked for a better debut.

ANDERSON: Congratulations, Jennifer and Gavin, good to see you.

NEWSOM: Good to see you. Thanks for having us.

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ANDERSON: All right. And, Marty, Jennifer has said she doesn't want their daughter, who is about a year and a half old, to have to worry about these same challenges, these same issues of objectification of women when her daughter is her age. So she is very, very passionate about this, and really wants to expand and continue this conversation.

SAVIDGE: Brooke, what's the reaction? What are you hearing as far as the buzz about this film at Sundance?

ANDERSON: Well, like I said when I was speaking with them, the premiere just happened a couple of hours ago but, so far, really positive things are being said about it. There does seem to be interest from buyers, from distributors. They are working it. They are meeting with people. Oprah Winfrey, people from the OWN network are in town. They're looking for content for her new network. It seems like that would really be a great fit for something like this. But they are optimistic that it will potentially have greater reach, maybe even global reach, and people can really discuss and see how important this is.

SAVIDGE: Brooke Anderson with a very enviable job there at Sundance. Thanks very much.

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There's also more Sundance coverage on our web site. You can head to CNN.com for a look at the eight films we want to see.

A woman is trapped inside her car, crushed after a horrific accident, and she lives to tell her story. You'll hear from her next.

Plus, a second inspiring story. You'll meet a concert pianist who battles a disease that affects 50 million people in the U.S.

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SAVIDGE: Trapped in a wrecked car for more than a week, no food and no water. It actually happened in Washington to a woman there back in 2007. Now she's telling her story in a new book and sharing the grueling details with a reporter from our affiliate KOMO.

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UNIDENTIFIED LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER: We found this vehicle.

TANYA RIDER, SURVIVOR & AUTHOR: My body, the way that they found it, had no right to be alive.

ALISA CHASMAN, KOMO REPORTER (voice-over): Driving home from her Fred Meyer job, Tanya Rider's car went down this ravine, trapping her in a ditch for eight days.

RIDER: My memory during that time is bits and pieces and scattered. But I remember being in the car and tugging at my seat belt. Hearing the phone ring and not being able to get to it.

CHASMAN: But her mind played tricks, and she hallucinated calling her husband for help.

RIDER: I remember banging on the window. I heard cars coming by. And I remember needing to go to the bathroom and having to relieve myself in time (ph).

CHASMAN: The 2007 wreck left her riddled with pain, extensive muscle and nerve damage and open wounds that still won't heal. Rider, now 36, tells me she's done burying traumatic memories. In her new book, "Missing Without a Trace," Rider recalls the week of terror.

RIDER: Evil. And extreme amount of horror. You can't imagine anything more horrible. You're hanging from your seat belt without food or water. Nobody can hear you.

CHASMAN: As she struggles to heal emotionally, the way officers and 911 handled her husband, Tom, when he reported her missing remains a sore point.

TOM RIDER, WIFE OF TANYA: I think that someone has done something to her.

UNIDENTIFIED POLICE OFFICER: It just doesn't meet the criteria for us to take in a report so just continue to check the jails and hospitals in the vicinity.

TOM RIDER: So what you're telling me is unless she turns up dead, you're not going to care.

RIDER: They were prosecuting him, asking him questions on whether or not he hurt me.

CHASMAN: A few days after officers filed a report, police traced Rider's cell phone signal.

RIDER: I didn't need to be there that long.

CHASMAN: And found their missing woman, mangled but alive.

RIDER: It's definitely a miracle.

CHASMAN: Rider doubts she'll ever be pain-free, but says she's grateful that she still has her sanity, mobility and her husband.

In Maple Valley, Alisa Chasman (ph), KOMO 4 News.

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SAVIDGE: Each week in our "Human Factor" series, Dr. Sanjay Gupta introduces us to someone who has encountered major obstacles in life and then found a way to overcome them. Today, we meet a concert pianist who battles a disease that afflicts 50 million people in the U.S. Arthritis nearly derailed his career.

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SAVIDGE: We want to update you on a story that we began the hour with. That happens to be the new developments regarding that missing child in central California. A 4-year-old boy has disappeared. We'll bring you more information about that right after the break.

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SAVIDGE: As we said just before the break, new information coming in to CNN right now about the missing 4-year-old boy in California.

Joining us is Reggie Kumar in Patterson, California, with KRON -- Reggie?

REGGIE KUMAR, KRON REPORTER: Yes, Marty. Stanislaus County investigators have wrapped up the search for their day and their postponing it for the next 48 hours. Now, over the course of the past seven hours, they've managed to pull a fifth vehicle from the water.

It's a Nissan truck. It does not match a description of the suspect's vehicle. The suspect, as we well know, is Jose Rodriguez. He was driving a 2003 Toyota corolla. The vehicle they pulled today is a Nissan pickup truck. They searched about two miles of the canal and they've been able to recover five cars, all of them, though, not belonging to that suspect's vehicle at this point.

SAVIDGE: Reggie, I presume the time is just to reconfigure and decide what to do next?

KUMAR: Well, they've been working several hours dragging this canal, trying to find the suspect's vehicle. So they say a lot of their investigators need a break. They're going to regroup, like you said, and figure out what they're going to do next. They did use sonar equipment in their search today, and that sonar equipment basically beams images underneath the water so they can see what is down there. They say the sonar equipment is very successful and they'll continue to use it again in 48 hours. SAVIDGE: Reggie, we'll continue to hope for the best in this story.

Thank you very much.

KUMAR: Thank you.

SAVIDGE: Every weekend we like to bring you interesting news items that you might have missed during the week.

For a lot of students, the first two years of college is a waste of time. That is the headline from a study called "Academically Adrift. It surveyed 3,000 on 29 campuses nationwide. The study finds that 45 percent of college sophomores had no significant gains in learning after two years on campus. According to study results published in "USA Today," college students spend most of their time socializing and about a quarter of their time sleeping.

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SAVIDGE: That's the sound of a number one record, but to coin a phrase, number one ain't what it used to be. That's the band Cake. Their new "Showroom of Compassion" album is the poorest-selling album to reach number one, well, since at least 1991, sold only 44,000 copies last week. In case you didn't know it, digital music is king. Last week's music fans bought more than 400,000 digital copies of Britney Spears' newest single.

Controversy and apology marked the first week in office for the new Alabama Governor Robert Bentley. Shortly after his swearing in, he told a King Day church day audience, if you haven't received Jesus Christ as your savior, quote, "You're not my brother and you're not my sister and I want to be your brother."

Those comments didn't sit well with some religious leaders, one of whom said he felt disenfranchised. At midweek, the governor held a meeting with the Jewish community and a Baptist minister. Bentley said he was sorry, he didn't mean to offend anyone, and in his words, if you're not a person who can say you're sorry, well, you're not a very good governor.

The historic and distinguished Library of Congress building is a Capitol Hill landmark and it attracts researchers from across the nation. This week, it also attracted a surprise visitor who got in undetected and now refuses to leave.

Brian Todd investigates.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm here in the main reading room of the Library of Congress in Washington where researchers have gotten an uninvited visitor. It's a hawk that's made its way to the lantern area. That's on top of the dome, that lit area. It's just on top of the top there with a mural there. It's made its way there, we're not sure how, but it's been there for a couple of days. It's a cooper's hawk we're told.

We're here with Victoria Hill. She is the acting chief of the Humanities and Social Sciences of the division of Congress. Do we know how the hawk got in there?

VICTORIA HILL, ACTING CHIEF, HUMANITIES & SOCIAL SCIENCES DIVISION, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS: We don't know. There's a roof on the outside of the dome and we think that somehow the hawk got in through the roost on the dome.

TODD: What steps are you taking to get it out of here?

HILL: We have someone that's come from the Northern Virginia Raptor Conservancy and they have set traps up in the lantern and are hoping to capture the bird and release it.

TODD: Obviously, during this process, you've let researchers come in here and do their work. No concern for the welfare of the people in here or the welfare of the bird?

HILL: There isn't. The bird is staying up in the lantern, and the conservator is paying attention to the welfare of the bird. If there's any danger, we'd have the people leave.

TODD: Good luck getting the bird out of here safely, Victoria.

HILL: Thank you very much.

TODD: Thank you.

The bird has been in the lantern since at least Wednesday, when it was first spotted there. It's taken a couple of days to figure out how to get the bird out of here. No telling how long it will take to get this coopers hawk out of the library of Congress.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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SAVIDGE: They've probably got a book on that.

Coming up at 7:00, we'll show you the Bunny Ranch in Nevada where legal prostitution takes place. But a CNN special investigation also reveals some disturbing stories of illegal trafficking of under-age girls in America. We'll have that report.

In the meantime, I'm Martin Savidge at the CNN Center in Atlanta.

"THE SITUATION ROOM" begins right now.