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Sticker Shock on the Horizon; Survivors' Guilt in Japan; Rare Look at Nuke Plant; New Film "Follows" its own Path; Libya Rebels Seize Two Cities; 6.5 Magnitude Earthquake in Japan; Radiation Spikes at Nuke Plant; Carter Back in Cuba; Listening in on Suspected Abusers

Aired March 27, 2011 - 19:00   ET

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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. Welcome to the second hour of the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm at CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta.

There's a lot of news to get you caught up on in Libya.

But first I want you to look at some amazing new video captured on March 11th on the tsunami in Japan as it unfolds. .

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LEMON: Again, that's the devastation that happened on March 11th when the earthquake and tsunami rolled through Japan.

Right now we have some breaking news out of Japan. Another tsunami could be on the way. A short time ago a 6.5 quake shook the ocean floor just off the coast. It's very near the epicenter of the March 11th quake that triggered the devastating tsunami. And this is not welcome news for the crippled nuclear plant in Fukushima. Radiation levels at the plant have been off the charts at times. Fortunately some of the most alarming readings turned out to be false. Four of the six nuclear reactors at the plant are in bad shape, and it's been touch and go really trying to contain the damage for the past two weeks.

More from Japan in just a moment.

But first, we want to go to Libya where Operation: Odyssey Dawn is stretching into a second week.

Eardrum rambling explosions and tracer fire over Tripoli, this was just a few hours ago in the capital city. It's not clear where the explosions were coming from. But coalition forces continue to enforce a no-fly zone over the country.

Libyan rebels are advancing westward taking control of two key cities today. The opposition says Gadhafi's forces retreated from Ras Lanuf and rebel fighters have seized the key oil town of Brega. Meantime, NATO ok'd a plan to take over responsibility for the Libya operation. That will happen in two or three days, and then the current coalition led by the U.S., Britain and France can stand down.

The Libyan government says the woman who burst into a Tripoli hotel with a horrific tale of rape has been released. The last time we saw Eman al-Obeidy, Libyan security forces were dragging her away and shoving her into a car. She had stormed into a hotel yesterday and hysterically told journalists that 15 members of Moammar Gadhafi's militia raped and beat her over a two-day period. Her cousin is concerned over what may have happened to her in custody.

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WEDAD OMAR, COUSIN OF EMAN AL-OBEIDY (through translator): We were surprised when we saw what happened to Eman. We didn't recognize her. Her face looked different. She didn't look like herself. We hope this problem passes but we're afraid Gadhafi's people will give Eman something to make her go crazy.

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LEMON: Now back to the crisis in Japan. Many of the people who survived the March 11th earthquake and tsunami are considered lucky, but CNN's Kyung Lah reports that many of them don't feel that way.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: In the haunted shell that remains of Takata Hospital (ph), amid the broken beds, the IV bags filled with mud, Nurse Fumiko Suzuki (ph) hears the screams of the lives she could not save.

"The patients couldn't walk," she says. "I heard someone screaming, auntie, I can't save you. I'm sorry."

I looked out and the wave was as high as a fourth floor window. "I'm sorry," I said, "as I ran upstairs."

LAH: You had to leave patients behind.

FUMIKO SUZUKI, NURSE: It is the biggest regret I have.

LAH: The tsunami flooded every single floor of this hospital, 51 people were hospitalized that day. 12 drowned in their beds, three died on the roof awaiting rescue.

But it wasn't just patients who died that day. Ten of Takata's hospital staff died with the patients. Among them, a man who ran for a satellite phone, so survivors could call rescue crews. The hospital's director says he tossed it to the roof seconds before the tsunami killed him.

"This handwritten note reads, he's helping us from heaven," says Dr. Ishiki. The doctor himself lost his own wife but won't leave his makeshift clinic, a survivor burdened with echoes of lives left behind.

Nurse Suzuki feels the same. She's been here ever since she was rescued; cheerfully treating patients despite losing her house, her friends and her family, everything. The clothes she's wearing donated.

"When I hear that," says Suzuki's lifelong patient, it breaks my heart. It's a natural disaster. They want to save everyone, but in this situation they can't."

Nurse Suzuki says she can do something now. She can stay on the job.

SUZUKI: Whatever the situation, I will stay here; talking with the patients will be my cure.

LAH: the caretakers pledging to heal and hoping to heal themselves.

Kyung Lah, CNN, Rikuzentakata, Japan.

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LEMON: Mother Nature is causing major flooding and damage to homes in northern California. That and more amazing weather video is next.

Plus, how close is your home to a nuclear plant? We'll show you a Web site that makes it easy for you to find out.

And you have a voice on this show. Let me see your social media feedback. I'm online right now Twitter, Facebook and also Foursquare.com

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LEMON: Breaking news here on CNN: a 6.5 magnitude earthquake and a tsunami warning in Japan. Let's go to CNN's Paula Hancocks in Tokyo. Paula, what do you have for us?

PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Well, Don, we've been seeing these kind of earthquakes pretty consistently since that magnitude 9.0 on March 11th, obviously in that particular area. It's been very hard hit, the tsunami devastation is very clear. So every time they hear a tsunami alert, many people are likely to head to higher ground up in that region.

In the space of just two hours in one particular town there were two alerts and people were making sure that they got out of the way. Many of these tsunami alerts, in fact, all of them, have come to nothing. So, let's hope that's exactly the case for this one as well.

It's quite usual to have so many aftershocks and some of these fresh earthquakes after such a large magnitude earthquake on March 11th. We've seen over 40 quakes within the region of 6 to 6.5. Those are pretty sizeable earthquakes; many of them felt here in Tokyo as well -- Don.

LEMON: And Paula, this is the biggest one, correct, we've had so far, aftershock?

HANCOCK: I'm not clear on that, don. I understand that we have had many in this particular area of 6.5. If my memory serves me correctly, I think we actually had higher than 6.5, so it's not necessarily that the biggest quake that we have had.

It's quite a shallow quake, less than four miles deep, so this could have some bearing on that. But certainly people will not be taking any chances at this point. When you look around and see the devastation that the last big tsunami wreaked, then it's really not surprising that people will be heeding these alerts and will heading for higher ground.

LEMON: All right. Paula Hancocks, thank you very much. Stand by in Tokyo.

Our meteorologist Jacqui Jeras joins us now. We've had 700 or so aftershocks since March 11th. And I asked her about the magnitude of this one. Is this on the high end as far as aftershocks?

JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It's on the higher end, but we've had stronger ones and that bad. I know for sure we've had at least a 6.9, possibly higher. I'd have to go and double-check for you.

But a 6.5, that's a serious earthquake and that can cause a lot of damage. And if it were to produce a tsunami, it would be very localized. We'd just be looking at the immediate coastal area.

The Japanese Meteorology Agency issued the tsunami advisory and that type of advisory basically means they're expecting an increase in the water level about half of a meter; that equates to about a foot and a half. So this would not be a major tsunami, this would not be Pacific-wide. This would not affect Hawaii. This would not affect the United States. So we'd be mostly looking for the potential for damage.

We also have an update for you in terms of timing for when the tsunami could happen. I think if this were to have happened we would have heard about it by now, but Sendai, for example, is expected to receive that tsunami height increase in about ten minutes from now. So that's about 20 after the hour. It's after 8:00 a.m. Local time in Japan.

And take a look at all of the aftershocks that we've been seeing. The yellow ones have all happened in the last week. All the orange ones that you see have happened in the last day. Here's the one that happened on March 11th, the 9.0 magnitude is right underneath where my cursor is, where that most recent 6.5 happened and that's within about 70 miles away, by the way, of the Fukushima Plant.

All right. Let's talk a little bit more about what's happening here in the United States. We've had a lot of extreme weather in the last week. In fact, it's been a series of storms along the West Coast. And this is video that we have in from California, from the San Pablo area where several homes are being threatened by a landslide at this time. Nothing has given way just yet, but people have moved out of the area. This will continue to be a big concern. We also have a picture we want to show you coming in I believe out of Minnesota, I guess. This is Hastings, Minnesota, along the Mississippi River where more than a thousand volunteers showed up to help sandbag and protect homes. The river is above flood stage already but it has not crested yet. That's not expected to happen until Thursday. So this is going to go on all week long.

And hail has been the big story across parts of the southeast this weekend, Don. We've had reports of hail as much as 4 inches in diameter, that's about the size of a grapefruit. It will cause a lot of damage.

Severe weather continues to be the story, Don, this evening as we have a severe thunderstorm watch in effect across southern Georgia, Alabama and into northern Florida, especially along the I-10 corridor. We'll be watching that area for tonight.

And there will be rough travel across the southeast tomorrow as well with more rain and low clouds for all those folks heading back to work.

LEMON: Jacqui Jeras, thank you very much. Jacqui Jeras is following it. I'm following the breaking news here on CNN.

She mentioned the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant. When we come back: a rare tour inside a plant very similar to the troubled plant in Japan.

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LEMON: All right. I want you to take a look now at this video just in to CNN that we just got in here. It shows March 11th when that tsunami and earthquake hit Japan. It is really jaw-dropping video, and each video that we get in really just worse than the last.

And of course, this is the cause of the breaking news that's happening right now. Japan, we are told, suffered a 6.5 quake just moments ago. It is believed to be an aftershock from this and also a tsunami warning in Japan as well.

We know what happened after March 11th. It crippled the nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Television cameras, though, rarely get to see inside a nuclear power plant, but after the crisis in Japan, experts who operate those plants in the U.S. are anxious to relieve public fears.

CNN's David Mattingly takes on a tour of one of them. Take a look.

DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Don, the operators of the country's largest public utility have one thing on their mind right now, and that's damage control. They took us inside a nuclear reactor facility to drive one point home -- that what happened to Japan cannot happen here.

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MATTINGLY (on camera): This is a rare look at the inner workings of a nuclear plant, this one owned by TVA, the Tennessee Valley Authority at Browns Ferry. They're opening up this tour today because they want to reassure the public that what happened in Japan could not happen here.

(voice-over): This nuclear plant was built to generate electricity the same way as the stricken Fukushima Daiichi plant. But operators here say redundant layers of generators and batteries would keep the critical systems running after a catastrophe.

(on camera): This is an interesting place right here. Just step through right here. And right below my feet is 1,000 pounds of pressurized steam. I'm standing on top of one of the reactors.

(voice-over): Shutting it down in an emergency is easy. Keeping the nuclear fuel from overheating, though, was a problem in Japan. This is the pool where spent fuel rods are kept cool, just like the one that malfunctioned in the Japanese plant. Fire hoses are strung here nearby to pump water into the pool manually if all systems fail.

PRESTON SWAFFORD, TVA CHIEF NUCLEAR OFFICER: You can never in our business say ever positively because I think the Japanese may have said the same thing. But I'll tell you don't believe we're have a 43- foot wall of water that's going to hit this interior plant inside the state of Alabama.

MATTINGLY (on camera): This big red area is a huge reservoir of water that sits underneath the reactor. The water in here is then pumped into the reactor in emergency situations. What I want to show you is right here, that piece of metal right there that looks like a shock absorber for your car. That's a shock absorber for this reactor.

It's called a snubber, and it goes into operation in case there's an earthquake.

(voice-over): This plant is designed to withstand a 6.0 earthquake and a million-year flood on the Tennessee River. We asked local residents if that's enough.

LUTHER MCKINNEY, ATHENS, ALABAMA RESIDENT: If an earthquake or a million-year flood came around here, I mean, there's probably nothing to much we could do but try to run. So I mean I feel it's safe that they have everything in order.

JESSICA MARTINEZ, ATHENS, ALABAMA RESIDENT: Considering I live right down the road from it and the things we've seen go down up here, probably not. With four kids in my house and never knowing what's going on because with the river flooding, you don't know where you're going to wind up at. Look what happened to Japan.

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MATTINGLY: The biggest change here after seeing what happened in Japan, operators say they are now going to start re-imagining what could be their worst-case scenario, going back playing a what-if game to make sure they got it right -- Don. LEMON: All right. David, thank you very much. If you're concerned about how far you live from a nuclear power plant, you can go to CNN.com to find out.

Coming up -- a popular movie you may never have heard a lot about, but tell that to film critic Roger Ebert and thousands of others on Facebook. I'll talk to the stars and the director of "I Will Follow", next.

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LEMON: Talk about what matters, a new independent film is following its own path to box office success. There are no trailers or billboards and no distribution from a major movie company. But that hasn't stopped the movie "I Will Follow" from receiving rave reviews and huge support from fans.

I talked with the writer, director and two of the stars of the film to find out how they're doing it and about solutions to the so-called blackout in Hollywood.

Ava is in L.A., Sally is in New York, and Omari is in Atlanta, right here with me. How are you doing sir?

OMARI HARDWICK, ACTOR, "I WILL FOLLOW": What's happening Don? How are you?

LEMON: Good to see you. Good to see you ladies, thank you so much for joining us.

Ava, I want to start with you. It's an amazing film. It's gotten great reviews. Why should people watch?

AVA DUVERNAY, DIRECTOR/WRITER, "I WILL FOLLOW": Well, you know, I mean we're basically offering something a little different than what the studios usually offer for African-American filmgoers and folks that are interested in diverse stories.

I mean a lot of the studio films focus on broad comedy or the shoot them up and a lot less on the character-driven drama; the intimate story about black folks being who they are, loving, losing, learning from one another. So we hope our film kind of fills the void of the character-driven black drama that's kind of gone by the wayside.

LEMON: It's a mostly black cast. It's not just a movie that appeals to African-Americans. It's universal.

OMARI: No, definitely universal. I think the theme obviously is universal, that being cancer, even if you haven't dealt with it at a personal level it terms of your family. You've definitely dealt with friends who have passed away from cancer. So it speaks to a broadband.

LEMON: On that same note there, let's talk about -- we talk African- Americans, their presence in Hollywood. There was a whole controversy about the Academy Awards this year. Where were the African-Americans? You heard Bill Maher saying, "I guess you had to be a swan if you were black in Hollywood to get a nomination."

It's a joke but partially true. How do you feel about that, as a black filmmaker?

DUVERNAY: You know, I feel like every year or so, every couple of year there's a big conversation and there's a lot of dialogue about the lack of African-Americans or people of color in general on television or in film.

I just feel it's a little bit repetitive at this point. I mean I've had the conversation a lot and I think the dialogue is important, but I'm really interested in how to push past that and actually create solutions, create films, distribute our films, you know. Tell and share our stories. I'd much rather have my energy there.

I think that certainly, you know, the Oscars, they were challenging to watch because it wasn't for lack of strong African-American films being made but for whatever reason they weren't acknowledged this year by the academy. You know what? It's ok.

LEMON: To find a theater near you playing this film, go to Iwillfollow film.com for more information.

Explosions and tracer fire seen over the skies of Tripoli, the latest on the war in Libya, next.

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LEMON: Breaking news we're following here on CNN. How much more can Japan take? Just got word a short time ago of a 6.5 magnitude quake, which is believed to be an aftershock from March 11th quake and tsunami.

Also, we're hearing there's a tsunami warning in Japan as well. This is in northeast, the northeastern part of Japan, Miyagi. Miyagi is the prefecture where this is believed to have happened.

We have correspondents there, of course, following the original news out of Japan on March 11th. Our Kyung Lah traveling in the region very near the epicenter of this last quake. She'll join us in just moments here on CNN.

Rebel forces in Libya are advancing on two key cities. Moammar Gadhafi's forces have retreated from both Ras Lanuf and the critical oil town of Brega. Meanwhile, NATO has okayed a plan to take over responsibility of the Libya operation and that will happen in two or three days. So let's talk more about Libya with Gordon Chang. He is one of our regulars here on CNN. He's a columnist with forbes.com and the author of nuclear showdown North Korea takes on the world.

Before we speak about Libya, let's talk about Japan quickly. I said, how much more can they take. Of course, this happened very near Fukushima. That plant can't take more rattling. That's why this is significant, Gordon.

GORDON CHANG, FORBES.COM, COLUMNIST: Well, it certainly is, because the Fukushima plant, you know, this goes from bad to worse. It seems like the operators there are not in control, and that what we are having are all of these bad news, one right after the other, and there's going to be much more in the way of radiation leaks I fear in the coming days.

LEMON: OK. Let's talk Libya now. NATO has said they will take over operations, the U.S. will back off. Is this more palatable now to President Obama's critics?

CHANG: Well, I think at least for the moment it will be. But the real issue here is, you have a lot of people saying they want clarity from the president. Well, the president has been very clear about what his goals are. The problem is that he has a very complex policy that is not resonating with the American people, and essentially I think what's going on is that they probably are not going to support it.

So for President Obama, he needs to see Gadhafi go soon because if he doesn't he's got a policy that is going to be very difficult for him to explain.

LEMON: The president will address the nation tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. We'll carry it here on CNN. What is he going to say? What do you expect, Gordon?

CHANG: I expect him to say what he's been saying since March 19th when the bombings have begun. And that is that the United States has limited goals, it's humanitarian, is what the security council wants and there will be no ground troops. That's what he's been saying all along. The problem is that this really is about Gadhafi. And if we aren't there to try to take him out, people are going to say, why are we there?

Defense Secretary Gates said the United States doesn't have a vital interest in Libya. That's going to be - that's going to be hard for the president to explain, why we're using force there.

LEMON: And the former secretary of state Madeline Albright appeared on this program and I believe she has spoken for the very first time about the situation in Libya. She agrees with what the administration has done. She believes that the U.S. should have intervened but she says in a coalition as it has done. But she's also saying as well that she believes Gadhafi must go and use the same words that the president used, saying that he has lost legitimacy to lead.

CHANG: Well, he certainly has. But you know, the president has this rhetorical gap where he says, of course, Gadhafi must go but then he's not employing the means to force Gadhafi to go. And people have recognized this. And so that's why people are talking about clarity, because they want probably not more explanation but they probably want a policy where the goals and the means used are much closer together. That's really I think the essential problem for the president at this moment.

LEMON: As we are looking at the situation in Libya, we see towns like Ras Lanuf and Brega now being taken over by those who oppose Moammar Gadhafi. Does it appear what's happening there with the coalition and the air strikes is that helping the rebels?

CHANG: Well, it's certainly the rebels because they've now reacquired all the territory that they lost in the last two weeks. But, you know, the coalition air strikes can help sort of target Gadhafi's tanks in the sand, but it really can't help the rebels where it counts, and that is in the middle of these cities. Because there you can't have coalition air strikes without severe loss of civilian life. And so essentially the rebels are sort of back where they were, but I don't think that they really have got the means to dislodge Gadhafi if he's going to fortify Tripoli and some of those other cities in the west.

This could end up being a standoff. This could go to the end of the year as Secretary Gates intimated earlier today. That means the president is going to be with this policy that is neither here nor there when Gadhafi sort of in Tripoli, sort of making fun of the rest of the world. And I think that that's going to be a very, very difficult point for the coalition to take.

LEMON: All right. Gordon Chang, thank you.

And President Obama will address the nation about Libya, as we said, on Monday night. We'll bring it to you live. Live coverage starting at 7:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

OK. Strange question, but what does Charlie sheen have to do with the war in Libya? That conversation is next.

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LEMON: Breaking news on CNN and it's out of Japan. A 6.5 magnitude quake and also a tsunami advisory. How much more can they take? Let's go to Kyung Lah who is traveling very near the epicenter of this latest quake. Kyung, what are you hearing?

LAH (via telephone): Well, what I can tell you, Don, is that people are getting used to these earthquakes but this is certainly something to take note of because it was larger and the tsunami advisory was issued. We want to (INAUDIBLE) the word, advisory, that is very different from a tsunami warning which is what we saw more than two weeks ago, where we saw all that devastation on the northern coast.

So what we experienced, yes, it was a strong earthquake, but this is something that people in this region are feeling again and again and again. We feel them fairly regularly, every few hours or so, and they vary in intensity. I was in a building just a couple of days ago, and it was a public space and people started running out of that building because they're very alarmed. And when you live with this constantly, there's a part of you that gets used to it.

But when it's something this strong it is certainly something to note. But we want to make sure that people understand and they're keeping this in context, that this was a tsunami advisory. The tsunami has already reached the shore, that is, and the tsunami was very small. Don. LEMON: Kyung, you're just north, I believe, of Miyagi prefecture, is that you - and Miyagi prefecture is believed to be where the epicenter of this latest quake was?

LAH: Yes, absolutely, just slightly north of that area. It really is all in this entire region that was hit by the initial strong tsunami. So whenever there's any tsunami advisory issued, it is certainly something that people here are very alarmed by, anytime there's any type of advisory and the word "tsunami" comes around. These people who are traumatized. These are people who are still standing in the rubble of their homes.

There are 17,000 people still missing. You turn left, you turn right and people are still looking for their mothers, their fathers and their children. So we're talking about people who have been incredibly traumatized and these advisories tend to cause even more havoc on their lives.

LEMON: And 10,000 people dead. These are stories that Kyung Lah and CNN are bringing us from that area. Kyung, thank you very much. Stay safe. We'll check back with you.

OK. Let's take a bit of a turn here because we need a little bit of levity sometimes to lighten up. There's so much serious news. When you're engaged in potentially deadly combat, anything that can raise spirit becomes practically a necessity. So even if it involves a certain tiger blooded ex-sitcom star with Adonis DNA and serious fixation on winning. Let's bring in Maureen O'Connor, she's a staff writer for Gawker.com.

So Maureen, it seemed that Libya is the one story that Charlie Sheen had nothing to do with but that has all of a sudden change hasn't?

MAUREEN O'CONNOR, STAFF WRITER GAWKER.COM: It has. A Dutch radio enthusiast was scanning the airwaves for public military communications because they have to broadcast flight patterns, paths, so that you know, they don't collide with a civilian aircraft. And he noticed that one of - there is an EC-130 that is flying to psychological operations in Libya called Sheen 53 when it was landing in Greece. So it turns outs that someone in the military took inspiration we assume from Charlie Sheen when they were naming their flight paths.

LEMON: Oh, boy. All right. Let's switch gears now and talk about the royal wedding coming up, much anticipated. We heard reports that Prince William had his bachelor party this weekend. Got any details for us?

O'CONNOR: Yes, well, rumor has it that Prince William had his bachelor party thrown by little brother, Harry, this weekend. It's the last weekend that Prince William is in England before he sets off to the North Pole which he's going on a charity trek with a group of British veterans next week. The royal palace, of course, wouldn't confirm anything about it, but rumor has it he was getting together with some of his friends for a night of manly drinking. LEMON: Manly things. I wonder if this is divided between the sexes or if it's a class thing or even, I don't know, an ethic thing. There are people who are obsessed by it and others who could care less.

O'CONNOR: Well, on one hand it's like the ultimate bride-zilla affair, right? The biggest, craziest wedding is going to be the future queen of England. I think especially after what happened with the last royal wedding with Charles and Diana and seeing what happens with this next generation of royalty, after a generation that had a lot of distress, has a lot of people curious, what they'll do and how they'll conduct themselves.

LEMON: OK. Most of my guy friend will say, I don't really care and the women are, like, I can't wait to see it. The guys are, like, it's just going to make her want a more expensive wedding. She's going to want to be like that.

O'CONNOR: Yes, everybody wants the big wedding now.

LEMON: The big wedding and big ring.

So the last thing I wanted to talk to you about, let's throw something out there that you tweeted yesterday. You said after one evening of using color, it's a $41 million GPS-enabled elastic social media photo app, you said, "I concluded that it is creepy as hell." There's been a lot of talk about this app. Explain how it works and why it creep you out so much?

O'CONNOR: Well, Color has raised an unprecedented amount of money. Their major investors in Silicon Valley that are betting more money on this than they even betted on Google. So whereas on Facebook you build your own social network by sending out friend requests or following people. This one creates a network for you based on GPS.

So if I'm at a party taking pictures my network is everybody else at that party taking pictures. In practice, this means that if I'm taking pictures and I'm in an apartment building, then I'm going to start seeing pictures of everybody else in the building, people in the room over, people above me, below me on different floors, which I found pretty crazy, when I was using it at dinner last night. I was looking into people's apartments, you know, two doors down. So in theory it's something that would be good for events coverage. In practice, it's a little weird if you're using it at home.

LEMON: It is a little creepy. Maureen O'Connor from Gawker.com, thank you.

O'CONNOR: Thanks. Thanks so much.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm sorry, but they seem to be against everything that I believe in and so I don't want them necessarily in my neighborhood.

(END VIDEO CLIP) LEMON: Residents of a southern city get into a territory fight after learning a mosque is being built in their backyard. It's part of a CNN special report called "Unwanted the Muslims Next Door. Our preview is straight ahead.

But first, sex education in public schools always a controversial topic. Now it's getting attention in Boston where some teenagers have produced a documentary promoting the idea. CNN's education contributor Steve Perry investigates in this week's "Perry's Principles."

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want to fight for sex education.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's part of a fight for health equity.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want to start fighting for this now.

STEVE PERRY, CNN EDUCATION CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): This is part of a documentary created by teenagers from the Jamaica plain neighborhood in Boston. It's a place where teen pregnancy is common and rates of Chlamydia are three times higher than other parts of the city.

Samantha Brea is a youth organizer at a community center in Jamaica Plain called the Hyde Square Task Force.

SAMANTHA BREA, STUDENT: So what we do is we pretty much look for problems in the community and we try to fix those problems.

PERRY: Boston City councilor Ayanna Presley supported their cause, even calling for an official hearing on the issue.

AYANNA PRESLEY, BOSTON CITY COUNCILWOMAN: So here we are, facing an issue which leads to serious consequences for our young people, their families, and our entire city.

PERRY: Sex-ed in schools has been met with resistance from some.

(on camera): What is Pure in Heart?

CHRIS PHAM, PURE IN HEART: Pure in Heart is a group of young adults and young professionals who promote chastity and purity.

PERRY: So you're against the distribution of condoms?

PHAM: Oh, absolutely. Yes, especially in the high school setting.

PERRY: I just spoke with the councilwoman, and she said that they are not done. She said that she would be interested in inviting all parties to sit at the table and have a conversation about sex ed, which should include abstinence.

PHAM: Absolutely. We've got do make sure that's not lip service.

PERRY: In 2011 amidst budget cuts, who teaches in Boston?

PRESLEY: Well, we may have to look to existing personnel and just train them accordingly.

PERRY: And that might be where this is headed.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Now we're recognizing sexual education as part of the whole healthy child.

PERRY (voice-over): Steve Perry for CNN Boston.

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LEMON: A small city in Tennessee's Bible belt is outraged after learning about plans for an Islamic center in its backyard. Opponents quickly organized and the fight was on over construction of the center.

CNN's Soledad O'Brien has a preview of her special report "Unwelcome. The Muslims Next Door."

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KEVIN FISHER, MURFREESBORO RESIDENT: We are the citizens. We have families and we have children in this community and we're trying to look out for our future.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: we thank you for your love. We thank you for your joy.

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Kevin Fisher has lived in Murfreesboro for 20 years. He's a corrections officer and a single father. Last May, Kevin was stunned to discover that local officials had approved plans for a 53,000-square foot Islamic center in his hometown.

FISHER: Neighbors were outraged that something of this nature was being basically shoved down our throat, so we didn't know anything about it.

O'BRIEN: A month later, the typically sleepy county commission meeting was anything but.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So many people turned up for the public hearing and authorities wouldn't let them all in.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am very happy to see these many people here that are really standing up.

O'BRIEN: A few residents complained about the lack of notice of the mosque plan.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would respectfully ask for an expanded public hearing again. O'BRIEN: Virtually everyone else spoke out about the threat of Islam.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Everybody knows who's trying to kill us and it's like we can't say it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And I would encourage the boycott of any contractor associated with the project. Thank you.

Our country was founded through the founding fathers through the true god, the father and Jesus Christ.

I'm sorry, they seem to be against everything that I believe in so I don't want them necessarily in my neighborhood.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That concludes our public comment period, thank you very much.

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LEMON: "Unwelcome. The Muslims Next Door" airs tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, immediately following this hour of the NEWSROOM.

Another earthquake shakes Japan's ocean floor just off the coast. The latest on this developing story, next.

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LEMON: Breaking news in Japan on CNN. Another tsunami could be on the way. Just a short time ago a 6.5 quake shook the ocean floor just off the coast. It's very near the epicenter of the March 11th quake that triggered the devastating tsunami.

And this is not welcome news for the crippled nuclear power plant in Fukushima. Radiation levels at the plant have been off the charts at times and, fortunately, I should say, some of the most alarming readings turned out to be false. Four of the six nuclear reactors at the plant are in bad shape and it has been touch and go trying to contain the damage for the past two weeks. We will check some of the other top stories right now.

Libyan rebels are advancing westward, taking control of two key cities today. The opposition says Gadhafi's forces retreated from Ras Lanuf and rebel fighters have seized the key oil town of Brega.

Former President Jimmy Carter will be back in Cuba tomorrow. This video shows Carter on his last trip that was in 2002 when he was greeted by Fidel Castro. He's the only U.S. president in or out of office to visit the communist island. This is not an official visit. It's a private trip and it was at the invitation of the Cuban government.

Prosecutors are listening to the calls of domestic violence abusers make from jail and it is making a huge difference when it comes to protecting victims and here's a warning for you, some of the following images are not for children. CNN national correspondent Susan Candiotti reports.

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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ishak Rahaman is about to be sentenced to two years in prison for beating up his girlfriend. But she never had to testify. Because Raman's own words from jail helped put them away.

ISHAK RAHAMAN, ABUSER: Whatever you do not tell the district attorney that we've been talking.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know baby.

CANDIOTTI: He repeatedly called her from jail despite a court order forbidding any contract. He wanted her to clam up.

RAHAMAN: Basically just tell him, it was a misunderstanding. I love him. We want to get married and we want to have children together. Say something nice like that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I will. I will.

SCOTT KESSLER, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE BUREAU CHIEF: They'll realized that the reason they're in jail is because of this victim.

CANDIOTTI: Queen's New York prosecutor Scott Kessler is believed to be the first in the country using jailhouse calls to prove abusers are making victims too scared to testify.

KESSLER: They think that the only way to get out of it is make sure she doesn't help us and they're trying to do everything they can to pressure her.

CANDIOTTI: The crimes are horrific, but until last year, Kessler says he had to dismiss 70 percent of his domestic violence cases mainly because of intimidation. Now that New York jails are hitting the record button, dismissals are down to about 15 percent. Prosecutors are minding calls feverishly for evidence.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He hit her in the face with some kind of metal object. She has a puncture wound on her face.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Do we have jailhouse recordings listening to?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, these are recordings from Rykers (ph).

CANDIOTTI: This man (INAUDIBLE) pleaded guilty to felony assault for burning his girlfriend with an iron. He even told his child to lie to prosecutors.

PERSAUD: If she asks you about your daddy fight your mommy you say "No, I don't remember. OK? If you tell her stuff she's going to use it against me to go to jail.

CANDIOTTI (on camera): How many calls, has for example, has one person made.

KESSLER: We've had defendants make in excess of 400, 500 phone calls straight to the victim while they're in jail. Every day, three, four, five times a day.

CANDIOTTI (voice-over): There are exceptions, including calls to attorneys, but here's the head scratcher. Defendants know they're being recorded. Check out the warning signs and they hear a message on every call.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This call may be recorded and monitored.

CANDIOTTI: This young is woman is Ishak Rahaman's victim. CNN usually doesn't identify abuse victims, but she agreed to publicly describe her terror.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The worst thing that he ever did to me was punch me in the mouth. And in the back, and I started throwing up, and I started bleeding.

CANDIOTTI: Yet, she says she still has feelings for him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Because I don't only think about the bad things. I also think about the good things.

CANDIOTTI: Her reaction, not uncommon for abuse victims. Prosecutors hope using jailhouse calls will offer some protection.

(on camera): What's your message to the inmates?

KESSLER: Keep talking. I mean, and, you know, your words will be used against you. I can guarantee it.

CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.

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LEMON: Prosecutor Scott Kessler is now going around the country to share his technique with other law enforcement officials. For more, go to cnn.com.

OK. So tonight at 9:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN, I'll be with John Vause for a look at a number of Middle Eastern countries in turmoil, among them, Libya, Egypt, Syria and Bahrain. What the future holds for these nations and what it means to the United States. "Uprising, Region in Revolt" tonight, 9:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN.

I'm Don Lemon at CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. I'll see you back here at 9:00.

The CNN special report "Unwelcome: Muslims Next Door," is next.