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1987 Kidnap Suspect in Custody; Congresswoman Giffords 'Surprises' Doctors; Retesting DNA from Knox Case; Powell Undecided on 2012 Vote; Reinventing Your Career; High-Tech Fun on Cruise Ships; State of the Union Speech to Focus on Economy; Rep. Bachmann "Encouraged" after Iowa Visit; Men Who Buy Sex; Underage Sex Trade Flourishes; Brothers Never Forget

Aired January 23, 2011 - 14:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Americans empowering themselves in the job market. They're doing it by changing their careers and boosting their financial security in the process. That story this hour.

Then at 4:00 today, a multimillion-dollar Ponzi scheme comes crashing down with the help of just one whistleblower. We'll tell you what he was willing to do to help gather evidence.

And at 5:00 Eastern Time, Algerians defy a government ban on protests. And you need to follow this story, because it affects what you pay at the pump.

You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.

A major break in that North Carolina woman suspected of kidnapping a baby 23 years ago.

CNN's Susan Candiotti is on the phone with us now from Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Susan, what do you have?

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Fred, the major break in this case is that a law enforcement source tells CNN that the woman suspected of snatching an infant baby from that New York hospital in 1987 has turned herself into police. This is the breaking news.

A woman identified as Ann Pettway turned herself in via Facebook, contacted a police department officer with the Bridgeport, Connecticut, Police Department, and then was picked up from Stratford, which is near Bridgeport, Connecticut. She is now in custody. We're not sure whether she's in the custody of the FBI at this point; however, federal agents are leading this investigation. They have been leading the search.

It's important to remember that there is no federal warrant out for this woman's arrest, Ann Pettway. She would be held at this time on a probation violation out of North Carolina. You'll recall that police there put out a warrant for her arrest based on the fact that she left North Carolina, after leaving the state without notifying authorities on a past embezzlement charge. And she was on probation for that.

So this is huge news and a development in this case, because we also learned just today, that yesterday, Saturday, at about noon time, Ms. Pettway, according to the Bridgeport Police Department, was confirmed inside a pawn shop at Bridgeport. Police from Bridgeport say that she was identified, and that her identity was confirmed from a store surveillance camera, that she had come into the store and was asking about pawning jewelry.

According to police, she didn't like the answer she got about how much they were offering her, and she left. She was on foot and she was alone, according to Bridgeport Police -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: So, Susan, there has been no search for her in relation to this young lady that she raised, Carlina White, who was believed to have been snatched from her birth mother years ago. But you're saying instead, she has turned herself into authorities because of a probation violation that is connected to a warrant out for her arrest in North Carolina.

CANDIOTTI: No, Fred. There had been a probation violation warrant out for her, issued by the North Carolina police. Authorities had been looking for her in connection with the suspected kidnapping. But she hadn't been charged in that case yet, because they don't have enough evidence to charge her with anything in connection with that case as yet.

But certainly the FBI and others, the New York Police Department, as well as Bridgeport, because she has a -- she grew up in the Bridgeport, Connecticut, area and had been living there previously, everyone had been looking for her to question her after it was determined that in fact, she was not the birth mother, according to police, of the young lady who sought out her birth mother. And they were reunited, as we all recall, just last week.

So ever since then, authorities have been looking for her to question her about whether Ann Pettway was in fact the woman who had snatched this woman from a hospital years ago, back in 1987, in New York City.

WHITFIELD: Right. So I just want to make sure that's clear.

So now they are able -- they have an opportunity to question her in relation to that case involving a suspected kidnapping. But until then, do we know whether she could be classified as a suspect in that case?

CANDIOTTI: Yes, she's been identified by the FBI as a suspect in that case. However, she has not been charged with that.

As I said, there's no warrant out for her arrest in connection with that. But authorities have said, the FBI has said they want to talk with her about that. So, certainly, they will. If she's not already in their custody, certainly the FBI will be talking about that with her if she cooperates, of course.

WHITFIELD: All right. Susan Candiotti, thanks so much for that development in that very mysterious case.

And now on to California, where the search intensifies for 4-year-old Juliani Cardenas. His grandmother says he was snatched from her arms Tuesday by his mother's ex-boyfriend. Neither has been seen since.

A witness reported seeing a car matching the suspect's car drive into a canal near the town of Patterson. Divers spent the past three days searching that canal. That is now on hold.

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SHERIFF ADAM CHRISTIANSON, STANISLAUS COUNTY, CALIFORNIA: This is getting frustrating. It's like riding a roller-coaster.

You think you're going to be able to bring closure to this case, and then, suddenly, once again, we've recovered probably another stolen vehicle. So, as always, we remain hopeful that we're going to be able to find Juliani alive and bring him home. That's our goal. That's always been our goal.

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WHITFIELD: The sheriff says the search of the canal has been suspended until at least tomorrow afternoon.

And a Utah state troopers is under investigation after striking a woman several times during a traffic stop. It was all caught on the cruiser's dashboard camera. Take a look.

You can see there, in what appears to be nighttime, a little bit grainy video, the trooper punching the woman several times through the driver's window. The incident happened in August, but the video has just been released.

Sergeant Andrew Davenport is currently on administrative leave. The driver is 53-year-old Darla Wright (ph). She was arrested on suspicion of DUI, eluding police in other offenses.

Davenport wrote in his report, saying this: "She refused to comply with commands to give us her hands. Due to my close proximity to the suspect, and my experience with Taser failure at such close distances, I delivered three close hand strikes to her head in an attempt to gain compliance with our commands. I did this to distract and stun her, and to stop her from trying to drive off and strike our vehicles, or possibly run us over. The strikes worked and we were able to grab her hands."

That from the police statement.

Meantime, this week, President Obama gives his "State of the Union Address" Tuesday night, but he has already made it crystal clear what his focus will be.

Joining us from the White House, CNN's Kate Bolduan.

So Kate, give us an idea. The president released a videotape actually previewing his speech. What did he say about what everyone should expect Tuesday?

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He said he was still working on the speech, which is not atypical of this president. He's very hands-on, Fredricka, in working on especially big speeches like this one that we're expecting Tuesday. But with unemployment still hovering over nine percent, it's probably no surprise that the president says his focus will largely be, on Tuesday, on jobs -- job creation and getting the economy moving, pushing it into overdrive, as he had said recently.

You mentioned that preview video. Take a listen to a bit of that. This is the video he sent to some of his supporters.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I'm focused on making sure that the economy is working for everybody, for the entire American family. How do we make sure that people have good jobs with good benefits? How do we make sure that somebody who has a good idea can suddenly start a business? How are we going to make sure that we have the most innovative, dynamic economy in the world? And how do we make sure that our kids are able to compete with workers anywhere in the world?

Now, to do that, we're going to have to out-innovate, we're going to have to out-build, we're going to have to out-compete, we're going to have to out-educate other countries. That's our challenge.

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BOLDUAN: And to accomplish that, the president is expected to stress the need for taking on the country's -- the federal deficit, as well as the need for more government spending, targeted investments, as you can expect the White House to put it. This, the president has hinted at in recent speeches, as well as has been reported. This would be targeted spending in areas like infrastructure, research and education.

But that is likely to be a pretty hard sell in this new political reality that the president is facing. I don't have to remind you, Fredricka, the Republicans are now in control of the House, as well as have strengthened their minority in the Senate, and have already indicated that they have very little appetite for more government spending at this point.

Another thing that we're expecting to hear about is that -- coming so soon after the shooting in Tucson, and that very moving speech that the president gave at the memorial service there, we expect the president to kind of build on his message from that -- the unity, civility, finding common ground moving forward, and trying to tackle the country's problems together -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Kate Bolduan, thanks so much from the White House. Appreciate that.

Meantime, CNN's primetime coverage of the president's "State of the Union Address" starts Tuesday night, 7:00 p.m. Eastern, with "The Best Political Team on Television." And we'll carry the speech live, 9:00, followed by the Republican response at 10:00 p.m. And then, at 11:00, Anderson Cooper will have a full wrap-up with reaction and analysis.

All right. It's called a plush rush. We'll explore a new winter sport that even couch potatoes might love.

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WHITFIELD: All right. She cannot talk yet, or breathe on her own, but doctors watching over Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords say she surprises them every day with her progress.

We got a look inside the place where Giffords will go through her physical rehabilitation once she is on her feet. This is the Memorial Hermann Texas Center Medical Center in Houston, where the congresswoman is impressing doctors by sitting up, smiling, and moving her muscles.

I talked to a doctor, a rehabilitation specialist, in fact, about her case and her prognosis, right here on CNN yesterday.

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DR. DONALD LESLIE, MEDICAL DIRECTOR, SHEPHERD CENTER: She's following commands. In rehabilitation, that's so important, that they ask her to do something, she understands it, and she does it.

I understand that they asked her to pick her leg up, the leg that has been more affected. And the neurosurgeon in Tucson said that she had good tone in that leg, meaning that the muscles are working well.

WHITFIELD: So you have a scale for us, a model of the brain. We have since learned, based on the information that we've received, that that gunshot wound was on the left hemisphere of her brain.

So when that is to take place, what areas of the brain, in terms of how this side of the brain operates the rest of your body, what is potentially impaired by that kind of injury? And what is -- what are the, I guess, measurements in her rehabilitation? What will they be looking for that's controlled from that side of the brain?

LESLIE: Many brain injuries, particularly those with entrance wounds as hers was from the front, I understand, in the front lobe, which is the temporal lobe, the largest lobe of the brain, and then behind that the parietal lobe and, then, underneath that, the temporal lobe, here. But the frontal lobe is very important in that this is where our memory is seated, a lot of our receptive capabilities.

As far as her speech is concerned, the speech area is back here, farther back in the brain. So not knowing exactly the track that the bullet took, depending on where the bullet went and what swelling it causes, the brain is encapsulated in bone, of course. And as it swells, that skull causes an increased pressure.

WHITFIELD: So you mentioned memory. Then are you at least encouraged based on what we've heard from her husband -- she recognizes him -- that says something about her memory, that her family traveled with her; that there's been the squeezing of the hand? Does that tell you that that portion of her brain seems to be intact? Is there a way of measuring memory?

LESLIE: There certainly is. There's a good way to measure memory.

Unfortunately, memory is not just on or off. There are basically two types of memories -- memory that we train. That's short-term memory and long-term memory.

Her husband's name, who she is, that's all long-term stuff. Unfortunately, with acute brain injury, oftentimes the brain-injured person cannot do the short term. Did you have breakfast yet? You don't remember. So there will be a lot of testing done as to what her memory is, what her memory capabilities are later.

WHITFIELD: And we know that there is this sort of lid. Part of her skull has been removed, you've mentioned, for the swelling, any potential swelling. How long would that stay off or would that be detached?

LESLIE: No. Oftentimes the neurosurgeons will take the bone off and put it in the freezer and actually freeze it sterilely or we also can implant it in the body of the patient surgically.

I'm not sure which they did with the congresswoman. But it will, at some point in time, when all the swelling is down and when she's very stable medically, they will elect to do a cranioplasty which is putting that piece of bone back where it was.

WHITFIELD: Does it sound encouraging to you, or what judgment do you make when you hear Elizabeth Cohen, who's there in Houston, says there's some fluid, the drainage of the fluid is then channeled to the abdomen, the stomach --

LESLIE: Correct.

WHITFIELD: -- what does that tell you about the recovery or how her body is responding to all of this?

LESLIE: What they have done, if I take off the cerebral hemispheres, and you see these sack-like organs here, these are the ventricles. Those hold the cerebrospinal fluid, the CSF, the fluid that bathes the brain and bathes the spinal cord.

WHITFIELD: So that is good, that the body, that the brain is creating this fluid?

LESLIE: It is. And what we don't want is there to be an excess of that. So that takes it off out of the brain to allow the brain to go back into normal size, and it's channeled down into the body cavity.

WHITFIELD: Wow. It's fantastic.

Well, of course we wish her the best. It's good to hear that you are encouraged, too --

LESLIE: Absolutely.

WHITFIELD: -- and are having dialogue with the doctors there. And this is something that is slow-going. We're talking months, maybe even more, a year?

LESLIE: Absolutely. Well, hopefully -- I've seen brain-injured individuals improve over years, but typically the acute rehabilitation phase is a number of months, hopefully.

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WHITFIELD: All right. Dr. Donald Leslie there.

Here's a question for you. What if instead of being sent to detention at school, your 6-year-old was issued a ticket, a citation, a Class C misdemeanor that sent him to court, or her to court? I'll show you where this is actually happening, next.

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WHITFIELD: All right. At some schools in Texas, students who break the rules don't get detention or trips to the principal's office. Instead, they actually get issued tickets.

Carl Azuz from CNN Student News joins us with details on this.

So, a citation?

CARL AZUZ, CNN STUDENT NEWS: Yes.

WHITFIELD: A fine?

AZUZ: A Class C misdemeanor that could lead to a court date, or it could lead to $500 they have to pay. But one thing I want to be clear right at the beginning here is, this isn't just for minor things like talking back to a teacher. Otherwise, I would have been in deep debt in my school years.

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AZUZ: This is for something a little more serious.

In fact, we have a comment for you from a student named Octavius starting us right off today who says that he's a student in Texas, never gotten a ticket. "You have to do something more than interrupting. You have to throw something across the room."

Other specific examples of some of the more serious things kids might do to get a ticket might include leaving school in the middle of the day without a permission slip, or maybe picking a fight in a schoolyard, something like that. WHITFIELD: So, you get a ticket and you, the student, has to pay the fine, or a parent has to pay the fine, or do you have to do some sweat hours? What happens?

AZUZ: I think a lot of times it's going to be the parent who does wind up paying the fine, especially at the elementary school level. And we have a statement from a Texas school district as to why they're doing this.

The Dallas Independent School District tells us that the vast majority of their students are not disruptive. Those who do gets tickets are hopefully learning their actions have consequences.

And I think part of the whole goal of giving these students tickets is so their parents know this isn't something that a student can stay after a little bit for detention and not tell mom or dad. If a student is given a fine, or a court date, mom and dad are going to know about it.

WHITFIELD: And they're going to be really hot about it, too, because they've got to pay for it.

AZUZ: They might be.

WHITFIELD: So what are other students saying about this? Are they saying, you know what, I wish something like this were going on in my school district? Do they see this as unnecessary or punishing the parent? I mean, what --

AZUZ: Yes. It's not popular among our student audience. I'll be honest with you, they hate the idea, by and large.

But there are a couple kids who have written to us at CNN Student News saying this is not a bad idea. The first one of those students I have a comment from today is Billy. Billy says, "This will get students ready for the real world. It will also improve the learning environment," because he's saying, "The crazy behavior of the bad students get in the way of learning for the good students."

Then we have a comment from Haley, who says that she thinks "It's a nice effort." But the students aren't going to learn their lesson because, "It's not them who have to pay. It's the parents. It's not fair to punish parents for what students did."

And you see how this will definitely come back to the parents.

WHITFIELD: Is there an alternative that some of these students suggest?

AZUZ: That's a good question. We wanted to ask them that on Student News, because we don't want them to just think in terms of, are you the victim of this? Or nobody is going to say, "Yes, I want a ticket, man. That would be a great way for me to learn."

There is a student named Mary who wrote -- she's pretty tough. She wrote into us saying, "What they need to do is make the kids who commit these low-level crimes instead clean bathrooms, lunch tables." She calls those disgusting jobs that could straighten the student out. And another good punishment, she suggests, would be to tour them through a jail --

WHITFIELD: Wow.

AZUZ: -- and let them see what bad decisions could lead to.

WHITFIELD: Kind of a page out of that old "Scared Straight."

AZUZ: "Scared Straight" program. Exactly right. Although I think given the choice between those two, I might opt for the ticket, Fredricka.

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WHITFIELD: No comment on that.

All right. Carl Azuz, thanks so much.

AZUZ: Thanks for having me.

WHITFIELD: Good to see you. Appreciate it, and thanks for bringing the sentiments of some of the young people on this.

AZUZ: Thank you, Fredricka. I enjoyed it.

WHITFIELD: All right.

Tough economic times are forcing many Americans to shift gears and pursue completely different jobs. How they're doing it, next.

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WHITFIELD: Changing careers in this economy, we'll talk about it after a look at these top stories.

A woman suspected of stealing a baby 23 years ago is now in custody in Connecticut. Police say Ann Pettway turned herself in after being spotted in Bridgeport. She is wanted for violating probation on attempted embezzlement charges in North Carolina. She is also suspected of snatching Carlina White from a hospital back in 1987 and then raising the child as her own.

Another step forward for Amanda Knox and her defense team. An Italian court has appointed independent forensic experts to retest DNA evidence in the case. The American student was convicted of killing her British roommate in Italy back in 2009. Her best friend said Knox is cautiously optimistic about her appeal.

And former U.S. Secretary Of State, Colin Powell, credits President Obama with stabilizing the economy and tackling health care. But Powell, who endorsed the president back in 2008, said he's not prepared to back him in 2012, at least not yet.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) COLIN POWELL, FORMER SECRETARY OF STATE: So I'm not committed to Barack Obama, I'm not committed to a Republican candidate. I will see who emerges.

Right now, I do not see on the Republican side, any one individual who I think is going to emerge at the top of the pile. So it's going to be an interesting 2011 and a very interesting early 2012 as the primaries begin and they separate themselves.

But I am not committed to any candidate until I see all the candidates and finally see who's the two candidates are and who are going for this position.

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WHITFIELD: Reinventing yourself professionally. Many Americans are being forced to do that in a rapidly-changing job market during a tough economic time. CNN business correspondent, Maggie Lake reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know many of you are figuring out what calculator you're going to bring in.

MAGGIE LAKE, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A new semester has just begun at the Mildred Ely School in lower Manhattan. One of the students back in action, Jeff Bodkin, he lost his full-time job as a construction worker last year and decided to make a major career change.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How is everything? My name is Jeff. I'm your nurse for today.

LAKE: He's training to become a licensed nurse.

JEFFREY BODKIN, NURSING STUDENT: It's a whole new opportunity for me. I mean, experience, I never expected in these years I'd be turning in a nurse, but here I am today.

LAKE: Bodkin is not alone in being forced to rethink his career. Despite a rebound in economic growth, more than 14 million Americans remain out of work. Officials at this school specializing in retraining say it is a whole new reality out there for job-seekers.

FAITH TAKES, PRESIDENT, EMPIRE EDUCATION CORP.: It's not the same old-same old. They need new skills to enter the job market, because those old jobs are gone forever.

LAKE: Part of the problem, the abundance of workers in countries like China and India, who will do similar jobs for a fraction of the cost. But some economists say structural changes such as advances in technology are having an even bigger impact.

ZACHARY KARABELL, PRESIDENT, RIVER TWICE RESEARCH: Even if a you're a small business doing well today, you have at your fingertips technologies that actually make it less meaningful for you to hire an additional worker.

You can use paychecks for your payroll. You can use Intuit and Quicken for your accounting and those we're the kinds of things that you would have hired an administrative assistant for even five or 10 years ago.

We are using technology more and more to become more efficient and one of the down sides of that is that it's eliminating the need for certain types of jobs.

LAKE: Among the hardest-hit, factory workers, since the late 1970s, the U.S. has lost more than 7.5 million manufacturing jobs. But not everyone is convinced the most recent round of job losses is permanent. Economist, Mike Konczal, argue much of the pain is due to temporary factors stemming from the financial crisis.

MIKE KONCZAL, ROOSEVELT INSTITUTE: We're not less productive. We're not less-smart. We're not less capable as a people, as a nation. What happened is we have the shock. We made a bad mistake with thinking housing was worth more than it was.

LAKE: Konczal said the housing crisis delayed the jobs recovery by limiting people's ability to find work.

KONCZAL: If you have an underwater mortgage, it's very difficult to sell it. It's very difficult to sell a house period in this economy. So if you want to move to a new city to get a promotion, start a career and your house is 30 percent under water, your options are much more limited than if you could sell it.

LAKE: Economists in this camp insist as the economy heals and demand returns, so will jobs. Even in hard-hit areas. Ford's announcement that it will hire 7,000 people by 2012 seems to support that. But Jeff Bodkin can't afford to wait for his old job to return. A family man, he must have a steady pay check.

BODKIN: I hope to finish first of all in September and graduate with flying colors. From there just take off flying in the medical field. Hopefully work for a hospital.

LAKE: A former construction worker forced to build a new career in a changing workforce. Maggie Lake, CNN, New York.

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WHITFIELD: And perhaps you're trying to get away from it all on your next cruise. Well, not so fast. Technology expert, Marc Saltzman will be joining us live via Skype, there he is, with details on technology afloat.

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WHITFIELD: All right, vacation cruises aren't just about surf, sun and those huge buffets. They're also offering passengers a whole host of high-tech activities. Joining us now via Skype from Toronto, syndicated technology writer, Marc Saltzman. So, Marc, you and your family went on this very cool Disney Dream cruise. It was a media junket where a lot of media types and tech gurus such as yourself were on board to kind of get the story of what Disney and the Dream are offering.

So what was the most remarkable thing about this cruise ship? It's not just about vacations, is it?

MARC SALTZMAN, SYNDICATED TECHNOLOGY WRITER: That's right. There are a number of amazing pieces of high-tech on board. Including, we'll start with the magical port holes. If you have a state room, an interior state room so your cabin does not have a balcony, and you have a magical porthole.

It looks like a window to the sea. But in fact, it's a real-time HD view, a high-definition view from one of the four cameras that is on this ship and not only is that impressive in and of itself because it looks so real.

But you also have animated Disney characters floating in, like the house from "Up" carried by balloons or Mickey Mouse stopping by to say hello and then when it's time to go to bed, you just turn it off.

WHITFIELD: I was going to say, how do you get your kids to go to bed, they're going to want to watch that all night?

SALTZMAN: Well, that's Disney, exactly. You don't want to go to sleep. It's the happiest treat on earth, right?

WHITFIELD: All right, and then of course there was the Kids Club on board where you know what, these kids are tech-savvy. So your 3-year- olds, 6-year-olds, 12-year-olds, they, too, want to get involved in all this technology. It's right there on the ship for them.

SALTZMAN: Along with animation stations where you can learn how to animate and computers with Disney games. They have this huge interactive das floor with 16 different games and activities kids can play using their body.

So kids would line the outside of this dance floor and partake in a game such as one based on the movie "Tron" or one based "Princess and the Frog."

And using your feet or hands, you compete against other kids and play games while getting physical at the same time. So my kids really enjoyed that.

WHITFIELD: I bet. This is looking like sensory overload too, but that's what it's like when you go to Disneyworld, isn't it? So there's also - I guess, when you're walking down the hallways or in any other rooms, there's high-tech art work as well. What was that like? We're talking beyond like the HD screens that you showed earlier?

SALTZMAN: Yes, sort of. So Disney calls this enchanted artwork. Basically, they look like still paintings. If you walked by it, you wouldn't even look twice at it. However, if you stand in front of these paintings and some of the staircases, you'll see the images come to life. They begin to animate before your eyes.

And in fact, there's also a game kids can partake in, sort of a detective game where you can hold up a card with bar code on it and you solve a mystery. You have to go through the different decks on the ship and there are 12 to go through.

And it's really amazing, in case you don't want to spend time outdoors, there's lots of stuff to do even in between the floors.

WHITFIELD: OK, and of course, you're out at sea, which means, you know, an occasional sighting of Nemo or something like that. Tell me how that worked at dinnertime?

SALTZMAN: This was my favorite. So in the animator's palette, which was one of three ding lounges on the ship, they had these huge TV screens, all throughout the restaurants, on the walls. So while you're eating, it looks like when there are no characters onscreen, it looks like an underwater screensaver.

But maybe Crush, from "Finding Nemo," the turtle with the California surfer accent will come over and he'll interact with guests in an unscripted environment. He might look at my son and say, yo, little dude, what's your name?

And you can talk with Crush and he'll swim around and talk to different tables and talk to them about where they're from and it's all unscripted and my kids thought it was just magical.

WHITFIELD: My gosh, this is so great. I can see how none of the kids ever want to get off this ship, but what about for you, the adults, you know? Did you feel like you got a lot of this too or was it really about seeing your kids enjoy every moment?

SALTZMAN: Yes, well, that was it. If I had a chance to -- they wanted to go to the Kids Club a lot so I might have had an hour to myself every night. My wife had a stay-cation so I took the three kids by myself.

There's even high-tech in the adult lounges, there's a bar that has different cityscapes of, of different cities. So in one moment, you're looking at Rio De Janeiro behind the bar and then 10 minutes later, it's Chicago.

You see a different skyline every few minutes and a drink featured from that city so even the adults got a little taste of technology on board the Disney Dream.

WHITFIELD: All right, that's why they call it "The Dream," right? OK, so tell me about this water ride. Was that something you got involved in, something that, you know, the big people and the little kids too, the big kids and the little could all equally enjoy?

SALTZMAN: Exactly, now this might not be an example of high-tech, but it would be remiss not to mention of Aqua Duck. This is the world's first on-cruise water coaster. So you are actually -- you go up to the top floor, the top deck and you get on board this roller coaster on a raft, if you will.

And not only does it go around the perimeter of this ship, but it even goes outside over the water, 150 feet high. So you go out about 12 to 15 feet inside of this transparent tube and it's really a lot of fun for kids and kids at heart.

WHITFIELD: So let me guess, were you using one of those Sony waterproof video cameras to shoot all this that you showed us a few months back?

SALTZMAN: That's right. I think you're looking at video footage of, Disney's video footage. Brought within of those Kodak Playsport cameras to video -

WHITFIELD: Kodak, that's what it is, yes.

SALTZMAN: -- from a first person perspective as well. You got it. Good memory, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: I have one of those, too, now. It's very fun.

OK, so now, you know, this kind of interactive technology. That you're seeing on "The Dream," I mean, it's Disney, it's fantastic. But do you see that this is something that's going find its way on other cruise ships, in restaurants, malls, et cetera, other big venues?

SALTZMAN: Yes, there's a lot of exciting developments when it comes to technology in public places. There's an Israeli company called "Conceptic" that has developed a touch-screen restaurant menu. They call it an e-menu.

So at your table, it's touch-sensitive, you pick what you want to order and you can even, you know, select different sides and you know, if you have any allergies. So instead of getting a waitress or a waiter on a bad day, you're interacting with technology.

There's a park called "Great Wolf Lodge." It's an inside and outside water park. You get a little wristband with radio frequency identification tags, so instead of carrying around a wallet or keys, this one little bracelet, which is waterproof, gets you into the room, lets you buy things from the shop or order food.

So all this --- this is changing hotels, there's Microsoft surface technology in lots of four seasons, where you use your fingertips instead of a concierge.

WHITFIELD: Well, because of you, Marc and because of Disney now, I don't think anybody is going to look at their family vacation the same ever again. They're going to want to do exactly what you just did on board that "Disney Dream." Thanks so much for bringing that to us, working and vacationing all of the same time. Appreciate it.

SALTZMAN: Thank you, Fredricka. WHITFIELD: All right, Marc. All right, it's a harsh reality, under- age girls being bought and sold online for sex. You're about to see how easy it was for us a CNN reporter posing as an underage girl to post a sex ad and wait for the buyers.

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WHITFIELD: All right, time for CNN Equals Politics and update right now. We're keeping an eye on all the latest headlines on the CNNPolitics.com desk and here's what's crossing right now.

President Barack Obama will deliver his "State Of The Union" address Tuesday night, but he's already giving supporters a preview. In a videotaped message, the president says his main focus will be the economy and jobs.

Congresswoman Michelle Bachman is sounding more and more like a presidential candidate. After a visiting the politically key state of Iowa, the Minnesota Republican and Tea Party favorite said she is encouraged by the support that she has found.

In a GOP presidential straw poll this weekend in New Hampshire, Bachman came in fifth place, Mitt Romney won.

And former New York Mayor, Rudy Giuliani, says he is more likely to seek the Republican nomination for president if former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is also in the race.

In an interview on CNN's "PIERS MORGAN TONIGHT" Giuliani said running against Palin would show him as a moderate Republican. And you can catch the whole interview tomorrow night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern with Rudy Giuliani and Piers Morgan.

All right, despite continuing efforts to stop the under aged sex trade, finding a teenaged prostitute is still pretty easy. CNN's Amber Lyon has been following this story for over a year now and she'll join us, when we come back.

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WHITFIELD: A CNN investigative reporter put herself up for sale on the internet. She actually posted an online ad, and offered sex for money, with an important detail. She advertised herself as underage.

And in a year-long investigation, CNN's Amber Lyon, reveals he devastating realities of the sex trade business involving young girls.

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AMBER LYON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm going to sell myself for sex on backpage.com just like a 12-year-old girl we found who's sold on the site.

(voice-over): Our ad is almost identical to the one used to sell the 12-year-old Maryland girl for sex except that we added a new phone number and a picture of me when I was a young teen. (on camera): I got to tell you. It was quite awkward calling my dad and asking him to send me a picture of myself when I was 14 so I could post a sex ad online.

I have a copy of her exact ad. It says, my name is winter and I would love to meet new people. Add price, 5 bucks. They posted it online.

So there I am at 14. Let's see if we get any calls.

(voice-over): Four minutes later, the phone rings.

(on camera): Hello.

(voice-over): I tell the callers I'm under age.

(on camera): Hello.

CALLER: This is Allen. I saw your ad on Backpage and I was wondering what's your rate.

CALLER: I was wondering if you were available tonight.

LYON: How old are you, Matt, you sound kind of young?

CALLER: Thirty four.

LYON: I'm 16. We've got another one. Hello. What are you looking for?

CALLER: Sex.

LYON: You're looking for sex, OK. I'm not old enough to drink. I'm 17. I can't -- I don't have a fake ID.

CALLER: Really, you're 17?

LYON: Yes.

CALLER: That's good.

LYON: I just got woken up by my pay as you go phone ringing. What's your name?

CALLER: Ronnie.

LYON: I'm 17. You sound like you could be my dad.

CALLER: You're 17. You're 17 years old?

LYON: Yes, I'm 17.

CALLER: Why would I want to consider having sex with a 17-year-old woman who is underage?

LYON: No one needs to find out.

CALLER: That's exactly what I said. What do you think we should do about that?

LYON: What do you want me to do?

CALLER: I want to -- you. You want to -- me?

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WHITFIELD: All right, Amber Lyon here now, very disturbing.

LYON: Yes. I mean, imagine being on the other end of those phone calls, Fred. It was tough to deal with after a while. You know, I just wanted to throw the phone across the room to be honest with you.

WHITFIELD: Yes, so it's pretty remarkable that you're being this open and honest and so apparently are they.

LYON: Yes, I told those guys on the phone, several of them, 15, 16, 17 years old, which was illegal in the state and they still agreed to come out and meet me for sex. They just didn't seem to care.

WHITFIELD: So it didn't end with just the phone calls. You ended up getting these sex, you know, trafficking invitations endlessly.

LYON: Yes, endlessly the phone rang for the next couple of days and we got a unique call from a guy who said he was representing a CEO, a wealthy client, who liked my pictures on my Backpage ad and wanted me to come meet him at a hotel in North Carolina and spend the week with him.

So I told them clearly that I was underage. They still agreed to have the meeting. Even sent a picture of a $30,000 check that was waiting for me so we packed our bags and headed out and you'll see in the doc tonight what happens with that one.

WHITFIELD: Well, we look forward to seeing that. Amber Lyon, thanks so much. So again, you can watch this one-hour documentary, "Selling the Girl Next Door" that's tonight, 8:00 Eastern right here on CNN. And Amber Lyon has done some extraordinary reporting over the past and digging over the past year in order to help to bring this about tonight.

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WHITFIELD: You're about to see that blood and hope are stronger than time and distance. Twin brothers, they left home together to join the fight in Korea. Only one of them came home safely.

Now something has happened that might make their family whole again. Here's CNN's Kyra Phillips.

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Twin brothers, Vincent and Richard Krepps, enlisted in the Army on September 2nd, 1949. They were just 19 years old. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were both in the second infantry division, branch of the army. We were in the same unit, same battery, same platoon.

PHILLIPS: During a vicious battle against the North Koreans, the Krepps brothers and their platoon were given the order, stand or die. Vincent survived, Richard vanished.

VINCENT KREPPS, KOREAN WAR VETERAN: By this time I was, I guess I had tears running down my face. I knew the worst probably had happened.

PHILLIPS: Richard was captured by the enemy and later died in captivity.

KREPPS: Richard lives through me and I lived through Richard. Richard was very quiet. He loved being home.

PHILLIPS: Vincent Krepps has spent the last 60 years, trying to have his brother's remains brought home. He's encouraged by North Korea's recent offer to return the remains of several hundred American soldiers, encouraged, but guarded.

KREPPS: I know there are a lot of families out there, thrilled to death over this, but there's some caution in my mind.

PHILLIPS: Krepps has heard this tune before. So has Congressman Charles Rangel of New York. Also a veteran of the Korean War, the congressman even takes it one step further.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't pay too much attention to the North Koreans as we didn't pay too much attention in 1950 when we drove them to the Yalu River, it's the Chinese communists that are pulling the strings. Everyone knows it.

PHILLIPS: Krepps doesn't know if the North Koreans are sincere or if they're trying to deflect the international spotlight off themselves. But he said the offer represents movement and perhaps a chance to finally say goodbye to Richard.

KREPPS: I miss sitting around with him and having a beer or something and talking about those days in Korea. Talking about all our days as youngsters, playing, we played together, we played baseball together. We did everything together every day of our life. I miss that part of it as much as anything.

PHILLIPS: Kyra Phillips, CNN.

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WHITFIELD: That's going to do for this hour of the NEWSROOM. We'll see you again, 4:00 Eastern hour. We're going to look at America's rudest cities. Is yours on the list?

I'm Fredricka Whitfield. "YOUR MONEY" is next.