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Catholic Church Sex Scandal; Budget Wars in Wisconsin; Protests Continue in the Mideast
Aired February 19, 2011 - 16:00 ET
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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: Well, a former Pennsylvania judge says that he will appeal his conviction in a so-called Kids for Cash scheme. This is Mark Ciavarella, he was found guilty yesterday of racketeering and fraud for putting juveniles into for-profit detention centers. Prosecutors say that he accepted millions in bribes from his friends who own the detention centers.
One distraught mom lashed out after that verdict. Her son was sent to one of those detention facilities for a minor crime. He committed suicide.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My kid's not here, he's dead, because of him! He ruined my (bleep) life. I'd like him to go to hell there and rot there forever. Do you remember my son? An all-star wrestler? He's gone, he shot himself in the heart. You scum bag.
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SAVIDGE: Ciavarella is free on bond until his sentencing. He could face 157 years in prison.
Now to that showdown in Madison. Opposing sides in the Wisconsin budget battle descend on the state capitol battling over a budget proposal that the state's new Republican governor stands by saying it will save jobs.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is this bill going to pass as is or is there any room for movement at all?
GOV. SCOTT WALKER (R), WISCONSIN: Well, I think in the end we've made significant adjustments to address legitimate concerns that people have raised throughout the legislative hearing process. But again, we're broke. We've got to balance the budget. And the only alternative is to say 5,500 state workers next budget could be laid off, 5,000 to 6,000 teachers and local government workers could be laid off. I don't want to lay anybody off and I don't think that's a good alternative.
So for us we're going to stand on the side of giving them the tools, give them the modest opportunity for local governments as well as the state to balance the budget and we're going to stay firm on that. SAVIDGE: All right. Right now we want to get to Casey Wian. He is in Madison, Wisconsin. Been there all morning and in the afternoon, in the thick of it. Casey, how goes it?
CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's starting to wind down a little bit but as you can see behind me some of the people who are protesting this proposed legislation here in Madison, Wisconsin, are still circling the state capitol as they have been doing all day and in fact, all week long. This, of course, is the biggest crowd we have seen all week and one of the reasons that all of these protesters are here is because the other side of the argument showed up today in large numbers.
We had Tea Party organizers bring people in by the busload from several states. Thousands and thousands of people who said they were here to show their support for Governor Scott Walker's plan, which would strip unions in the state of many of their collective bargaining rights, also require them to pay more money for health and pension benefits.
Now, while there were supporters here, it seems to me that the number of people who are opposing this plan were clearly in greater numbers. The plan itself, though, has actually been stopped by legislative gridlock, if you will. Some of the democratic lawmakers have left the state so it can't move forward. While there's legislative gridlock and the bill is not going anywhere, there is a lot of mixed opinion and bitter division here on the streets.
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TIM PHILLIPS, AMERICANS FOR PROSPERITY: Wisconsin is ground zero. I think it's going to determine largely whether or not the pampered nature of these public employees is finally reined in so they're paying for health care and they're paying for pensions in a level that the private sector is doing. I think this is the ground zero.
KAREN SCHWEDRSKY, PROTESTER: This will cost us an additional $208 to $567 a month for our family just to have health insurance. On an income of $50,000 a year. We need to look at alternatives here. We need to find solutions here that create jobs. We don't need to divide this country. Everybody who works deserves rights.
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WIAN: You know, despite those passions, these protests have been remarkable in the fact that there has been no violence. These people have been very, very peaceful and largely respectful of each other. Hearing each other's views. We don't know how long these protests are going to go on. We don't know how long teachers are going to stay off the job. We did speak to a couple of police officers here and they have been told not to make any plans for several days because they're here keeping the peace. Martin.
SAVIDGE: Casey Wian, where the folks are out to have their voices heard. Thank you very much. Well, we are hearing reports of a military crackdown in Libya, in that country's second largest city, Benghazi. A short time ago I spoke on the phone with a woman who said she saw troops shooting at civilians outside of an army base there. Listen to what she told me.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are (INAUDIBLE). We are near the camp, the big camp downtown in Benghazi. This camp near Gadhafi's house and all the people warn get inside to this camp. After that the soldier shoot the people and killed many, many young people. After that, the Libyan young people make - they shot inside the camp and they take a dozer to (INAUDIBLE) -
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SAVIDGE: A very emotional account. We are not identifying that woman at her own request because of the ongoing dangerous situation there. She said that she witnessed Libyan army troops firing on civilians in the city of Benghazi. We're watching for more from Libya and we'll have more from the Middle East later in the hour.
700 earthquakes just since September in a place you might not expect. Are the tremors man made or mother nature?
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SAVIDGE: The earth is moving in Arkansas. 4.3 quakes shook the tiny town of Guy which has experienced hundreds of tremors in the area since September. The cause of the tremors is well, a source of debate. Some blame high pressure natural gas drilling or wells created when drilling waste is injected back into the earth.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Sonic boom and then everybody started shaking.
SCOTT AUSBROOKS, ARKANSAS GEOLOGICAL SURVEY: What we can't rule out is the possibility that there's a causal link between the injection wells and the earthquakes.
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SAVIDGE: Seismologists say there is no evidence that the area though is in imminent danger of a massive earthquake.
Well, meanwhile, let's turn to the weather. We already saw Susan Candiotti's report out of Philadelphia how the winds are just really going up there.
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I know.
It really is, it's terrible. I mean, it's sort of like a tropical storm when you think about it because the winds are sustained very strong, 30, 40 miles per hour. That's kind of the criteria there. But the gusts have been stronger than that. We're starting to get a lot of reports of tree damage. We're getting reports of problems at the airports and even some spotty power outages. If you're trying to travel today, it's really tough going on there. White knuckles on the steering wheels for sure.
And if you're flying by the airways, take a look at ground delays at JFK over an hour. Newark about 30 minutes. San Francisco, we've got the winds and the low clouds and rain there, 40 minutes and 55 minutes for you at Washington Dulles. So make sure you plan ahead for that. It's ushering in some much older air. Take a look at the record highs.
Yesterday, Washington, D.C., was at 77. 77, How great is that? Today we've been falling through the 40s and are even going to be moving into the 30-degree range. So unfortunately that's a bit on the nippy side. 35 in New York, 31 in Boston, 35 in Chicago. That winter weather certainly moving back into the picture.
Take a look at some of the damage that's been caused by these winds, too. In Washington, D.C., that's the national Christmas tree. Yes. This thing is years and years and years old. Tens of years old anyway. 42 feet tall. It's a blue spruce. You can see it just snapped, right off. That thing was lit up, the president and the first lady were there for the ceremony, so no more. Hopefully they're going to plant a new tree there, right.
Take a look at the sustained winds that we have now across the northeastern corridor. There's the 20s and 30s. And that cold air then now is blowing over the warmer lake so we've got the lake-effect snows going in. Some of these bands are going to be real heavy so if you're traveling in that area, be aware visibility is going to drop real quickly as a result of that.
All right. Let's talk about our next weather maker. This thing is really soaking parts of the southwest at this hour. We've got heavy rain into southern California moving all across parts of Arizona, even Phoenix getting on some of the rain today. And the snow is extremely heavy in the higher elevations. We've already seen seven feet of snow, seven feet in the last 72 hours in the last three days there in the Lake Tahoe area. That snow is moving in across the Wasatch as well as into the Rockies.
We could see one to two feet in the southern mountains by the end of the weekend as well. That thing is going to be moving into the upper midwest so get ready, guys. It's going to be an ugly Sunday here. I- 90 and northward especially we think we could see a good foot of snow. So winter certainly hanging on tight in some parts of the country.
SAVIDGE: Yes, definitely is. Thanks, Jacqui, very much.
Well, imagine waking up from a coma and nobody remembers you, not even your wife. A man's fight to take back his identity and his life in today's "Movie Review."
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SAVIDGE: Liam Neeson is back on the big screen with the release of "Unknown." we'll have a preview of that in just a minute.
But first let's get a look at our top stories. Somali pirates have hijacked four Americans on board a yacht in the Indian Ocean. The yacht is owned by Jean and Scott Adam, a retired California couple making an around-the-world cruise. It's not clear whether the Adams were among those on board. The yacht was en route from India to Oman when it was hijacked. The U.S. military says it is prepared to intervene, if necessary.
Protesters continued to demonstrate in Wisconsin. Teachers and other state workers are upset about the governor's proposed budget. Among other things it would cut public workers' benefits and most collective bargaining rights. Today Tea Party activists showed up to support that governor's plan.
Well, the House has passed a Republican spending bill that calls for $60 billion in cuts this year. Democrats are calling those cuts extreme and they are expected to fight them in the Senate. In addition, the president threatens a veto. If the two sides fail to agree, well, the federal government faces a possible shutdown next month.
All right. Time for the good stuff. Today's movie reviews. Grae Drake is with movies.com and she joins us now with today's reviews. And welcome to you. Thanks for joining us. Let's start with a clip from "Unknown."
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you tell me what you remember?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was in a taxi. It crashed. I don't know how I got here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You have been in a coma for four days. We couldn't find any identification with you. What's your name?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm Dr. Martin Harris.
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SAVIDGE: All right. There we go. Tell us about the movie, Grae.
GRAE DRAKE, MOVIES.COM: All right. Well, first of all, if there's one thing that I have learned ever since "Taken," (INAUDIBLE) a couple of years ago, if there's someone that I want to see punching bad guys in the face, it's definitely Oscar Schindler. Liam Neeson is great in these kinds of movies.
SAVIDGE: Yes, he is. I agree with you. I remember that.
DRAKE: He's absolutely wonderful.
SAVIDGE: I was like wow, wow, look at that. So the premise of this movie is what? It's kind of like "Bourne Identity." He wakes up and he doesn't know who he is. DRAKE: Absolutely. He gets into an accident in Berlin overseas, and then ends up in a coma and all of a sudden his wife has no idea who he is and he's been replaced by another doctor with his exact same name. Totally insulting.
SAVIDGE: I know that problem. All right. So what kind of grade would you give this film?
DRAKE: I would absolutely give this film a solid B plus. And the only reason that I rated it a "B" was because I wanted to see more action, a lot more.
SAVIDGE: All right. Well, if they make a sequel, there you go, that's the advice. The next movie, "I Am Number 4." Here's a clip from that.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There were nine of us who escaped. Number one was killed in Malaysia. Number two was murdered in England. Number three was hunted down in Kenya. You can only be killed in sequence.
What number am I? Seven? Five? Number four.
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SAVIDGE: Wow. This is certainly an action-packed weekend at the box office so tell us about this one.
DRAKE: Definitely. Now, this movie was really mysterious. I didn't know much going into it and was really pleasantly surprised because at first I thought it's going to be another really flat, kind of high school sci-fi movie, which I don't want to see another one of but I was very gently corrected. Because this one had me from start to finish, really engaging characters and wonderful chemistry between all the actors.
SAVIDGE: Yes, I like it when you're surprised like that. You do go in sometimes with a premonition what it's going to be like and, what do you know, you're surprised in a good way. So the grade?
DRAKE: Absolutely.
SAVIDGE: What grade would you give it?
DRAKE: This one I actually gave an "A" because I was so shocked at how great it was. The performances were wonderful and when the action starts, which is towards the end of the film, this movie gets rockin'. Loved it.
SAVIDGE: It looks really, really wild. All right.
Let's move on now to "Big Mama, like Father, like Son," take a look.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I've got a plan.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what, Malcolm, just promise me one thing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Don't let them do a clean version of a Wal-Mart.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to hide you.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hide? I mean, come on, how you going to hide a swag as big as this? I need a shrink after this. You realize that, right?
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SAVIDGE: I guess, you know, maybe we could use a few laughs after those serious movies and this is part of the "Big Mama" genre. What do you think of this one?
DRAKE: There's a reason they made three of them. And I tell you what, I sat in that theater and again was surprised at how much I laughed. Because to me this whole movie is about Brandon T. Jackson for sure. He and Martin Lawrence are such a great balance together.
SAVIDGE: Yes, I've seen the other ones, they are funny, but of course it really is not only just Martin Lawrence, but who is with him that helps to bring these movies along it. This is obviously good chemistry here. What grade do you give it?
DRAKE: This one I gave a "C" because I found it average. I felt like I was laughing in all the right places but I don't think I was necessarily laughing for the reasons that the filmmakers wanted me to. But a laugh is a laugh in the end. I think this one is all about the jokes. Martin Lawrence dressed up as a big lady.
SAVIDGE: Well, he definitely is. All right. Grae Drake from movies.com. Thanks so much for coming by and sharing the films with us. We appreciate it greatly.
DRAKE: Thank you for having me. See you soon.
SAVIDGE: You bet. Bye-bye.
Tunisia's government fell, so did Egypt's. Now the people's voices are rising from several other Arab states as well. We'll be there in a minute.
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SAVIDGE: This isn't Egypt, it's not Tunisia, it's Libya, where Moammar Gadhafi has ruled for more than 40 years. This scene today in the Mediterranean city of Misurata is being repeated in several places in Libya, sometimes with violent responses from security officials. Human rights watch reports that more than 80 people are dead after clashes with government forces over the past three days. All details we are getting out of Libya come from witnesses. CNN s not allowed to report from there. One protester tells us that the moment - the movement is inspired by people-driven revolutions in Tunisia and in Egypt.
The same sentiment in Yemen after nine straight days of anti- government protests there. The man who has been president for 32 years has announced that he won't stand for another re-election but that is not satisfying protesters who insist on faster reform. Hundreds of government supporters and opponents clashed today on a university campus. Six people were reportedly wounded when someone fired shots into the crowd.
In the Persian Gulf, the tiny island of Bahrain, thousands of people angry at the government and heartened by what's happening in other Arab states are also protesting. There was no interference by riot police today but what a difference from just one day ago. CNN's Nic Robertson is in Bahrain.
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The sun is setting. Protesters begin a confrontation with police near a contested intersection. We could hear shots being fired.
(on camera): We just heard what sounded like very machine gunfire. We see a lot of ambulances up here and just a couple of more (INAUDIBLE) but people are warning us that the police they are using live ammunition.
(voice-over): Several hundred young men scatter down the road (INAUDIBLE) ant the trouble begins.
(on camera): Here comes the tear gas.
(voice-over): Police respond with a barrage of tear gas canisters, chase protesters back down the road. People literally running for their lives. The wounded loaded into ambulances. Violent confrontation now becoming common place and with it anger rising.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) We didn't carry anything in our hand, just we go and sit down and they were just - as you know, we want real democracy in our country but these people don't understand that.
ROBERTSON: The day had begun so much more peacefully.
(on camera): No sign of the police so far in this very peaceful procession. There's a helicopter circling in the sky, keeping a watch on everything that's going on down here. They're saying that blood talks. This is, they say, the red freedom.
(voice-over): A funeral procession, one of four taking place for protesters killed in clashes with police the previous day. Away from the crowd, one family in pain. An uncle cries at the feet of his nephew. Others wash the body. He was a 22-year-old engineer. His father calls for Bahrain's king to step down. Another asks President Obama to help.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In Egypt every day he spoke with government of Egypt, with Hosni Mubarak. Why in Bahrain no speak?
ROBERTSON: For two hours they carry his body through the streets. They wave Bahrain's flag, but their chant calls for the death of Bahrain's rulers. There are calmer voices, but not many.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're not asking for the -- to punish this regime, but to introduce some reforms, basic reforms.
ROBERTSON: At the gravesite, chaos and crying. Nothing can bring back the lost son. From afternoon burials, they march to the sundown confrontation. The cycle repeated, death, then protests, protest, then death. Nic Robertson, CNN, Manama, Bahrain.
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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR, CNN NEWSROOM: We want to bring in Chris Lawrence. He is our Pentagon correspondent.
Chris, we've been talking about Bahrain to come degree, also Djibouti, and the U.S. has troops stationed in these places. So let's talk about what the implications may be for the Pentagon and for the U.S. at large. Let's start with Bahrain and the Fifth Fleet.
CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Yes, exactly, Marty. Whatever Bahrain lacks in size it more than makes up for in strategic importance. It is probably safe to say it is the most important post in the Persian Gulf for the U.S. military. You've got 6,000 American troops, civilians and their families that are stationed there. Some of them live in the community off base. They have all been told to stay away from those areas that we just saw, where Nic was reporting from, where the protests are going on.
It is especially concerning when you look at not only Bahrain, but some of the other key nations that are experiencing the same sort of protests.
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LAWRENCE (voice over): Waves of protests have toppled some governments, forced concessions from others. But each country presents unique concerns for the United States. Take Yemen: U.S. intelligence officials say the Al Qaeda group based there has become the number one threat to America. The U.S. spends $100s of millions in aid, trains Yemen's counterterrorism force, and has been allowed to use drones to go after terrorists. Yemen's protestors have already forced the president to step down at the end of his term. New leaders may not be as cooperative with the U.S. on counterterrorism.
Then there's Djibouti. Thousands of protesters are demanding the president step down but he's allowed the U.S. to use his country as a hub from which it trains other countries' security forces. American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines are all based there. There have been violent protests in Bahrain, and more peaceful demonstrations in Kuwait. Those two nations, along with countries like Qatar, in the UAE, have agreed to accept American missile defense systems designed to counter any potential threat from Iran.
JAMES CARAFANO, HERITAGE FOUNDATION: If you string all that stuff together, you actually have across the region going from Israel to the Gulf Coast States, you have a much more robust capability to counter the Iranian missile threat.
LAWRENCE: Bahrain is also home port to the Fifth Fleet. Dozens of U.S. Navy ships that patrol hundreds of thousands of square miles of ocean and protect a big part of America's oil supply.
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LAWRENCE: That includes all that Saudi oil that's coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, as well as the vital shipping lanes throughout the Suez Canal. Iran would like nothing more than a diminished U.S. military presence there in that part of the Gulf, Marty.
SAVIDGE: Pentagon Correspondent Chris Lawrence, thanks very much.
Well, parents who wouldn't let their child drink a cup of coffee may be surprised because many kids may be getting three times as much caffeine from another source. We'll reveal it.
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SAVIDGE: Your kids may be ODing on caffeine in coffee and soda-it has nothing, I should say, coffee and soda has nothing to do with the ODing. That is coming up in just a bit. But first let's take a look at some of the top stories.
Another day of massive protests at the Wisconsin state capitol. Teachers and other state workers say that the governor's proposed budget would cut public workers' benefits and most collective bargaining rights. Today Tea Party activists showed up to support the governor's plan.
The soldier who escaped custody while facing a rape charge has been captured in Daytona Beach, Florida. Private Daniel Brazelton is accused of raping a 15-year-old girl at a Los Angeles motel. Brazelton escaped from an Army vehicle as he was being taken to jail last week. He is awaiting extradition to California.
And a teenage girl attending Oprah Winfrey's leadership academy in South Africa is being questioned in the death of a baby. The body of the newborn boy was found in the teenager's bag as she was treated at a hospital for excessive bleeding. Police believe she gave birth at school, but they say that it is unclear whether the child died naturally or was deliberately killed at birth.
A new warning for parents about the possible dangers of energy drinks and what they may pose to their children's health. The study says that kids could actually OD on caffeine. I spoke with Doctor Bill Lloyd earlier today about how energy drinks are different than other popular beverages.
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SAVIDGE (On camera): A new warning for parents about the possible dangers energy drinks pose to their children's health. A study says that kids could actually OD on caffeine. Doctor Bill Lloyd joins us now from Phoenix to explain why.
Let me start, Doctor Bill, by saying how are these energy drinks different from other popular beverages like the Gatorade, sports drinks, hot coffee, even a carbonated soda? How are these different?
DR. BILL LLOYD, SURGEON: Martin, there's a lot of confusion about these beverages. Energy drinks are loaded with caffeine. Sometimes 10 times as much caffeine compared to some of the other beverages. That's different than sports drinks, which have a lot of sugar and a lot of electrolytes, so they rehydrate you after physical activity. In a report published this month in the journal "Pediatrics", these hyper-caffeinated energy drinks are dangerous because of all the caffeine and nothing else that will help you.
SAVIDGE: And what happens when a young person quickly consumes too much caffeine?
LLOYD: Excess caffeine can be a big problem. As you increase the amount of caffeine that you consume, your blood pressure goes up, your heart rate goes up, the ability to breathe changes. You start having mental problems. You become disoriented. What a lot of people don't know, when you take too much caffeine, it can lead to liver and kidney failure. So we have to back down on the amount of caffeine that our children are consuming and that especially means the energy drinks.
SAVIDGE: With the removal of energy drinks that were infused with alcohol, there were a number of those for a while, i.e., Four Loco, why is problem drinking still a concern?
LLOYD: The young people like to mix alcohol with sweet drinks. Most of us probably had a bourbon and coke when we were in college. Nowadays, they're mixing alcohol with these carbonated energy drinks that are loaded with caffeine. Here's the problem. When you have all that excess caffeine, you remain stimulated even though you're still getting the effects of alcohol. These drinks come in large containers so youngsters who consume alcohol with energy drinks tend to drink for a longer period of time and they tend to drink a lot more alcohol than they thought. Now they're stimulated but yet they're getting drunk and incapacitated from all the alcohol.
SAVIDGE: And before drinking their first or maybe their next energy drink, what are the most important things consumers ought to know.
LLOYD: Well, there are two important things you need to know. First of all, how much caffeine is in this drink anyway? This particular beverage has 160 milligrams of caffeine, which is triple the amount in an ordinary caffeinated beverage. However, it also includes other herbal ingredients, like Guarana. And Guarana is another form of caffeine, but it is not in the list of the different ingredients of the drink. So you're getting far more caffeine than is posted on the label. So you have to be careful and know what's in the can that you're drinking.
Next, if you're going to consume it with alcohol, you have to be aware that you will underestimate the effects of the alcohol. You will be wide awake drunk. You could get into trouble driving and with other social behaviors. You know, Martin, there is on record now more statistics of people mixing alcohol with energy drinks getting involved with DWIs, physical altercations, and sexual assault. So don't mix them up, you could get yourself into a lot of trouble.
SAVIDGE: And according to the published research, who should definitely stay away from these energy drinks?
LLOYD: OK, I've got a great list. Let's break it down. These are the people that should not get involved with energy drinks whatsoever. For starters, children. Children already consume too much caffeine during the day. Children taking medications, like medications for ADHD, it's a poisonous combination. Also you want to make sure that diabetics aren't taking it because these drinks contain lots of sugar and combination of caffeine and sugar is not good for diabetics, as well as for people with sleeping disorders, or some people with eating disorders. They shouldn't be consuming energy drinks as well.
And also we have to mention pregnant women. It's already been shown that pregnant women who consume too much caffeine, and that's what these energy drinks have, too much caffeine, are going to get into trouble with their new baby.
SAVIDGE: Well, it's worth repeating actually, Doctor Bill. Tell us the three biggest dangers that these supercharged energy drinks have.
LLOYD: Here's what's important to know. Energy drinks are loaded with too much caffeine. Also, when you mix energy drinks with alcohol, you will underestimate the effects of that alcohol because you will be wide awake drunk. Finally, there's new research that shows since alcohol and caffeine stimulate the same areas of the brain, individuals who rely heavily on energy drinks are at risk of developing alcohol dependence later in life. Once again, back off the energy drinks and enjoy the sport drinks and other available beverages.
SAVIDGE: All right, Doctor Bill Lloyd. As always, we appreciate it very much. I've got two teens at home. I'm going home to look at the fridge. Thanks.
Documenting a turbulent time in American history. The power of pictures in a CNN documentary focusing on the works of a civil rights photographer.
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SAVIDGE: Well, there is a lot more coming up in the next hour of CNN. Don Lemon is here. Nice to see you.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR, CNN NEWSROOM: I thought you covered it all. SAVIDGE: No, no, no.
LEMON: Martin Savidge covers everything. Did you leave any news for me, Marty?
SAVIDGE: There is always stuff for a man like you to do.
LEMON: All right. This is interesting. Have you heard of -- there's lots of stories about banks foreclosing on homeowners, but there's a twist to this, and it's unusual here. A homeowner is moving to foreclose, Marty, on his bank. It's a major bank, Wells Fargo. What happened, he sued them and they never got back. He filed a lawsuit, they never got back to him. and so maybe he'll win.
SAVIDGE: I like that one. People will tune in already, right there.
LEMON: I'm sure a lot of people will be interested in that, especially with the economy and with the mortgage and the home industry. So he's going to join me in the next hour to talk about how he turned the tables on the bank.
And you know how we feel about robots. I even tried one. I used to have a robot I'd try to get to do my carpeting at home. That's a long story. You've seen the Rumba and all of that. They scrub and vacuum your floor. Now they are actually saving lives in Afghanistan. It's called the pack-bot. And it is a portable robot that the military relies on to keep troops safe. It can go right into the line of fire, Marty. We'll get a little high-tech crazy in the studio with a demonstration on this little robot a little later on.
SAVIDGE: Oh, I love that.
LEMON: Our Katie Lenandol (ph) our tech guru will join us. I can't wait to see this actually live in the studio, see how it's saving lives.
SAVIDGE: Yes.
LEMON: Do you ever watch Bill Maher? Do you ever watch Real-time with Bill Maher?
SAVIDGE: Yes, sure. Sure.
LEMON: You are old enough, like me, you remember "Politically Incorrect" years ago.
So, he's had a heckler before. He had another heckler last night that interrupted his program for a very long time. Again, it's the second time that it's happened. This one had to do with Egypt, and that's all I'll tell you. We have our Maureen O'Connor from gawker. She's been all over this. She wrote the story about the congressman who sent his picture on Craigslist, she'll join us to talk about this story and we'll see what she dug up. That's coming up in the next hour.
SAVIDGE: See, you had a lot of fascinating stuff. LEMON: See, you left me some news.
SAVIDGE: You must have had it hidden away in the newsroom.
LEMON: Thank you, Marty.
SAVIDGE: All right. Thanks very much.
Well, pictures are said to be worth a 1,000 words. You could argue that some are worth a little bit more. A CNN documentary, premiering this weekend, focuses on the work of Ernest Withers. Here is CNN Special Correspondent Soledad O'Brien.
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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Through one lens, Memphis and much of the American South was a frightening place to be. But through another lens, the lens belonging to budding photojournalist Ernest Withers, it could also be exhilarating, exciting, inspiring.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think that he had the impression at the time that he was taking this for preservation of history. But he had a sense of the importance of what he was doing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you look at his work, one of the things he had a feel for as the little guy, the poor guy that's working hard. He had a way of being able to photograph someone's face. It was almost like you were looking at the person's hands, or something, because you could see how hard their lives have been, and it was in their faces.
O'BRIEN: In 1960, black share croppers in Fayette County, Tennessee, were being evicted from their homes for registering to vote. Tent City was an emergency camp set up on donated land for those people who suddenly found themselves with no food, no shelter, nowhere to turn. Withers rushed there with the only aid he had, his camera.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That was a sense of mission to him. I can remember him calling all the different editors and reporters around the country. He literally called-
O'BRIEN (On camera): To pitch the story?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right. That's what he would do in normal occasions, when he felt that it was something that really needed to be exposed. He had his own mission, purpose.
O'BRIEN: What was that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is to expose things.
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SAVIDGE: The CNN documentary "Pictures Don't Lie" premieres tomorrow night at 8:0 Eastern right here on CNN. She's beautiful, a successful businesswoman, and she has a happy and long-lasting celebrity marriage. Fashion icon Iman will share her secrets for keeping it all together coming up.
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SAVIDGE: We've got a little extra time and thought we'd go cross country to see what our affiliates are reporting. Our first stop, Indianapolis, and a reunion that was a long time coming. Parker, that little black and white dog, disappeared six years ago from the Overland family. On Wednesday the Humane Society called saying, hey guess what, we've got your dog. A jogger found the dog at the park and luckily he had a microchip embedded in him. The family and Parker now back home in Kentucky with that mystery solved.
Well, to King's Mountain, North Carolina. Take a look at this face. You would think that llamas would be cuddly animals, but not this one. Ronnie Griffin says that his pet suddenly went crazy and attacked him, forcing him to take refuge in his car and call 911.
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911 OPERATOR: The phone is breaking up. What's got you hemmed up?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A llama.
911 OPERATOR: A llama?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Man, he was all over me and that car, both.
SAVIDGE: Yep, a llama.
Last stop Des Moines, Iowa. This one not quite so funny. A high school wrestler, Joel Northrop, defaulted in his first match in the state tournament because his opponent was a girl. He and his family call it a matter of conscience and faith. He says that wrestling involves a kind of contact that is inappropriate between a boy and a girl.
CNN's Fredricka Whitfield comes "Face To Face" with a woman who commands attention. Take a look.
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR, CNN NEWSROOM (On camera): They have been voted many times over one of the hottest celebrity couples. Fashion icon Iman and iconic rocker, David Bowie. In my "Face To Face" conversation with Iman, she talks about how she turned her modeling career without her parents blessings, how she turned her modeling brand into a cosmetics and fashion mega millions business, and through all of her incarnations, one thing has remained steady, her marriage to Bowie. More "Face To Face" with Iman.
People are dying to know about you and David Bowie and the secret behind the longevity of this beautiful marriage.
IMAN: 20 years.
WHITFIELD: 20 years. And it all started from meeting at a hair dressing salon.
IMAN: No. A hair dresser set us up. It was a blind date. A hair dresser set us up as a blind date. Yes. He told me, and told him, that he was having a party for his birthday. And so I had no idea that David was going to be there and neither did he.
WHITFIELD: You knew who he was.
IMAN: Yes. No, I was a huge fan. I went to all his concerts and I was invited to those after parties, I just never went. Thank god I didn't because we probably wouldn't be married now.
WHITFIELD: So then this blind date?
IMAN: Yeah.
WHITFIELD: Kismet, I mean?
IMAN: That was it.
WHITFIELD: Sparks flying? And all that good stuff.
IMAN: That was it. That was it. That was it. That was it.
The funny thing is that years later after when we got married, his sister, this is the English papers only can find things like this, the sister has moved to Egypt years ago and became Muslim, and married and had kids. The family haven't heard from her in years and years. When the press got hold that we were dating and all that and we were just planning to get married, they traced and found her. And you know what her Muslim name is? Iman.
WHITFIELD: No, it isn't.
IMAN: Yes.
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WHITFIELD: That was a nice coincidence.
IMAN: So it is Kismet.
WHITFIELD: It is Kismet, all the way. Clearly, he's very supportive of your business ventures. You try to keep your private life very private, but your business life is --
IMAN: Is public.
WHITFIELD: Very big in public.
IMAN: Business is public. Personal is personal. That's why we survived it. WHITFIELD: What's the secret in your marriage versus, you know, so many other marriages of a model and a rock star, if you can make that parallel, don't last as long. You think of Keith Richards and Patty Hanson, that's a very long-lasting --
IMAN: That's very long, yeah.
WHITFIELD: What is it? Does it have anything to do with the titles of the public people that you are, or is it everything to do with the private people that you are?
IMAN: The private people that we are. It's all about the private people we are. And that family is first, everything else is secondary. Getting married later in life, you know. He's been married before, I have been married before. And I had a child, he has a child before we got together. And so al that. It's just knowing what your priorities are when you get married. I think that makes the big difference.
WHITFIELD: There's so much more "Face To Face" with Iman. Go to my blog at cnn.com/Fredricka and hear more about what she calls the many acts of her life in its entirety. The risks, rewards, reincarnations and redemptions; "Face To Face with Iman".
SAVIDGE: Thank you for joining us. I'm Martin Savidge, sitting in for Fredricka Whitfield. It's been a pleasure. Don Lemon has the next hour of CNN NEWSROOM.
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