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New York Security Worries; Tokyo Sees Steady Exodus; Ivory Coast's Civil War; Trumps Media Blitz; Tornado Rips Iowa Town; New Master's Champ
Aired April 10, 2011 - 19:00 ET
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DON LEMON, CNN HOST: I'm Don Lemon. The next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM begins right now.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Large tornado, guys. Large tornado!
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LEMON: Mapleton, Iowa, becomes a target for this monster tornado and cameras catch the quarter-mile-long twister as it rips through the tiny town. The tornado wiped out entire blocks, 100 homes and almost all the town's power.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Scared me. Went outside and looked around after it quit and couldn't believe it. I was out on the front porch and I seen that tornado coming, I got in the house, the windows blew in, broke.
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LEMON: And this is what is left behind, damage so bad that it's declared a disaster area. Today shell-shocked residents returned to see what, if anything, was left standing. And amazingly no serious injuries were reported. The Red Cross and the National Guard are there now. Officials say utilities could be out for two weeks.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And this is a pretty strong-looking elephant trunk nighttime tornado. Two of them, dual funnels. Look at that.
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LEMON: Look at that indeed. Unbelievable. That's the voice of one very brave storm chaser and this is the incredible nighttime video he shot. You can see clearly two ferocious funnels at once there. In all, three tornadoes ripped through northern and west central Iowa last night and more could be on their way in parts of Wisconsin right now.
That's the sound right there of burning wildfires. They are burning through thousands of acres through north and west Texas. The Texas fire service is bracing for what could be one of the worst outbreaks in state history forcing hundreds of evacuations. The fires are being fueled by heavy winds and hot, dry weather throughout the region. And thus far, no reports of injuries or building loss.
Japan will hold a moment of silence tomorrow to mark one month since a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated the country. More than 13,000 people have been confirmed dead and at least 14,000 more are still missing. About 22,000 Japanese troops launched an extensive search today for victims along the country's northeastern coast.
Tokyo's electric power company is hoping a new tool will help with the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima Daiichi power plant. Engineers are using a remote-controlled helicopter with a camera to get pictures of the damaged reactors. The camera can take both regular and infrared pictures. Those images are expected to be released tomorrow.
The African Union says Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi has agreed in principle to the terms of a road map that could end his country's civil war. It's not yet clear what those terms are, but it's believed they will include an immediate cease-fire in the nearly two-month long battle. E.U. leaders met with Gadhafi in Tripoli today. Tomorrow, the delegation will travel to Benghazi to meet with rebels.
Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is speaking out for the first time since the revolution that ousted him from power two months ago. In an audio message aired by Al-Arabiya TV, Mubarak denied he amassed billions in wealth during three decades in power. His remarks come as the public prosecutor wants to question Mubarak and his sons about violence against protestors and corruption allegations. The Egyptian attorney general's office told CNN that the speech Mubarak gave today will not affect the investigation.
In Southern California, a frightening scene after a small plane crashed into a storage facility near the airport in Camarillo. But amazingly everyone survived. Four people aboard the plane managed to get out moments before it burst into flames.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They jumped in my arms and I pulled them away from the wreck, and not too long after that the thing exploded and caught fire and that's the end of the airplane.
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LEMON: Witnesses say the engine, the plane's engine seemed to be sputtering and running rough just before the crash.
The White House is looking ahead to the next big budget battle. Top presidential adviser David Plumb appeared on four Sunday shows this morning. He said President Obama this week will lay out his plans for long-term deficit reduction. Friday night as you know Republicans and Democrats hammered out a budget deal that covers the rest of this fiscal year, narrowly averting a government shutdown.
Well, this weekend we're learning about some troubling security failures in and around New York. What one lawmaker describes as a nightmare scenario. CNN's Alison Kosik joins me now. Alison, thank you for joining us. What are we learning about these security concerns?
ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Don, these are some stunning revelations that came out of a state homeland security meeting that happened here in New York City on Friday about some of the city's biggest vulnerabilities.
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KOSIK (voice-over): At JFK Airport, a fully automated unmanned transit train called AirTrain rolls into the international terminal several times an hour. In testimony at a state homeland security hearing on Friday, a Port Authority police union official said train patrols have been cut and that the airport is vulnerable. State Senator Greg Ball chairs the homeland security committee.
GREG BALL (R), NEW YORK STATE SENATE: A nightmare scenario could include a dirty bomb, radiological device, placed on AirTrain, sent directly under the international terminal, LL being a prime target but many others. And you would see a complete shutdown of the city, this nation's economy and an absolutely horrific and tragic event at taxpayer events because we refuse to do the tough job of securing that vital transportation corridor.
KOSIK: Port Authority said in a statement that it's spent $6 billion on security since 9/11 and that the, quote, "traveling public" should feel safe. But Ball wants federal officials to take action.
BALL: In my conversations with management, I believe that they would happily solve this problem immediately, it's a question of finite resources. And when you have a federal Department of Homeland Security that is protecting strip malls and places like Topeka, Kansas, spending billions of dollars, it's time for the federal government to step in and get involved and bridge the gap.
KOSIK: One possible solution would be to screen passengers and bags before they're allowed on the train, eight miles from the airport. Isaac Yeffet, the former head of security for El-Al, the Israeli airline, says the lack of patrols on the AirTrain is just one piece of a failing system.
ISAAC YEFFET, AVIATION SECURITY CONSULTANT: My heart is with the passengers. We in this country rely on God. We rely on luck, not on security because we don't have security.
KOSIK: This weekend, a memo leaked to the "Newark Star-Ledger" shows that TSA manager at Newark Airport feels there are also security gaps there.
YEFFET: The security in our country and especially our airport is worse today than we had before September 11th. Spend the right money in this country. Build a high level of security. Show the world that no one can kill us anymore.
KOSIK: Meanwhile, the airports aren't the only transportation hubs at risk. Senator Ball provided CNN with a document showing other places union officials feel are vulnerable. One is the country's largest bus terminal, Port Authority.
BALL: It's been shown through testimony that there is a road that used to be secured but now is not secured and somebody could drive or position themselves under that and be under the main bus terminal. Huge problem.
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KOSIK: The unions that are raising these concerns have a vested interest in having more patrols, but Senator Ball insists that he is spotlighting this problem not because -- because of doing nothing would be akin to aiding and abetting terrorists. Don?
LEMON: All right, thank you Alison Kosik. From the Midwest to the West, severe weather is sweeping the country. Massive floods, golf ball-sized hail, now tornadoes touching down in Wisconsin. The latest from our meteorologist Karen Maginnis just ahead.
Many of you have been sending and asking for information on social media. Here's how you can reach out to us on Twitter, on Facebook, CNN.com/Don and on FourSquare.com as well.
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LEMON: Wow, listen to that. That's hail that hammered folks near Charlotte, North Carolina. That was last night. Some areas reported hail the size of baseballs. Don't believe us? Look at this, the hail was so large it easily shattered car windows. The thunderstorms swept through the Carolinas and caused quite a bit of damage. Nine people were injured when they were hit by lightning at a dog show.
Folks in Fargo, North Dakota, are breathing a side of relief tonight. That's because so far those dikes and those sandbags holding back the bloated Red River, they have worked. The river crested at nearly 40 feet, just under 44 foot, the 44-foot levee there. Lighter than expected rainstorms also helped stave off a flooding disaster. Hundreds of volunteers and National Guard troops are patrolling the flood defenses and haven't reported any major breaches.
Oklahoma today, the governor extended a state of emergency to help battle those vicious wildfires. A prolonged drought isn't helping any as firefighters on the ground and in the air battle hot spots from this enormous grass fire near the town of Cleveland. More than 350 people were forced to flee the area and so far there have been no reports of injuries. We go to CNN'S Karen Maginnis now. She's in the Weather Center. But very busy day, Karen. You've got, what, tornadoes, possible parts of Wisconsin right now as well.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think life as we knew it for the five years that we were here is going to be changed. I don't think it will be the same carefree, wonderful, happy life that we've had.
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LEMON: Tomorrow marks one month since a massive earthquake and tsunami devastated China -- devastated Japan, I should say. And we'll look at how life for millions living there has changed, some forever.
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LEMON: It's hard to believe, but tomorrow marks one month since that devastating earthquake and tsunami changed the way of life for many in Japan. And aftershocks, many of them powerful, continue to rock the country. But that's not the only thing that has people worried. In cities like Tokyo, foreign nationals frightened by radiation fears are still ling up to leave. But as Kyung Lah reports, others are stays put.
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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The new normal of the Bromley's Tokyo life is not all that abnormal. Bottled water is mom Maria Bromley's choice for her three kids, worried about possible radiation exposure. She avoids subways and high-rise buildings. Daughter Brittany now carries an earthquake kit.
(on camera): So, you always have it with you now?
BRITTANY BROMLEY, CANADIAN EXPATRIATE: Now I do, yes. It's always in my room.
MARIA BROMLEY, CANADIAN EXPATRIATE: I think that life as we knew it for the five years that we were here is going to be changed. I don't think it will be the same care-free, wonderful happy life that we've had.
LAH (voice-over): While a little nervous, this Canadian family says it is still proud to call Tokyo an adopted home, unlike an estimated quarter of a million foreigners who left Japan in the wake of the earthquake and nuclear crisis. Thousands more lined up at immigration bureaus for exit and entry paperwork from Japan.
(on camera): Since that mass departure of foreign residents, they have started to now return to Japan. But not everyone. This is a neighborhood where you normally see a lot of international faces. And while we see some, just not as many as we used to.
SATOKO OKI, UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO, ERI: I understand those people who really scared of coming to Japan.
LAH (voice-over): Satoko Oki is with the University of Tokyo's Earthquake Research Institute. She says this will be the new norm in Japan for up to a year. That's how long she expects aftershocks near a magnitude 7, like what Japan saw last Thursday. But most of Japan, she stresses, is built to withstand a magnitude 7. For Tokyo residents, where most of the international residents live:
OKI: In this coming 30 years, we may have this metropolitan Tokyo earthquake. The chance is about 70 percent. So, it's quite large. LAH: That's an acceptable risk for El Salvador native Greg Hidalgo, who says what Japan needs now is for international residents and businesses to invest in Japan's economy, not run from it.
GREG HIDALGO, EL SALVADORIAN EXPATRIATE: I don't want to be part of the problem. I want to be part of the solution. That's why I stayed.
LAH: Even the young ones who stay notice the new Tokyo is a little different.
HAYDEN BROMLEY, CANADIAN EXPATRIATE: Five people have left, and I only know one that is not coming back.
LAH: An adjustment in progress for a country and its international residents. Kyung Lah, CNN, Tokyo.
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LEMON: Also in Japan, protestors marched against nuclear energy in Tokyo today. They're concerned about the long-term effects of radiation. Tokyo Electric struggling to cool down three damaged nuclear reactors. Radiation has been a source of growing concern. Japan is getting help from two massive pumps being sent from the U.S.
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BILL DWYER, PUTZMEISTER AMERICA: Well, the goal for them is to actually pump water at this point. They were originally designed to pump concrete. Putzmeister has a retrofit that goes on the end of the boom that will allow it to pump water at high pressure.
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LEMON: Japan will hold a moment of silence tomorrow, the death toll has passed 13,000.
Bitter fighting in the Ivory Coast, bodies litter the street, refugees are fleeing the country as two politicians battle for control. We'll have the very latest, next.
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LEMON: What you're watching there is an all-out civil war in the Ivory Coast where a bitter and bloody political battle has turned a once prosperous African nation into a scene of disarray and now desperation. CNN's Dan Rivers reports on the growing humanitarian crisis from the border in Ghana.
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DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is what it's come to in Ivory Coast. They used to call this place an economic miracle. Now bodies litter the boulevards. The French don't want this fight, but they are slowly being sucked into it. This is how they're moving about Abidjan now. What was once a political standoff a week ago is now looking like Africa's latest civil war in a former French colony which was once so prosperous.
The French army is struggling to support Alassane Ouattara, the man who won the election amid escalating violence. His French commanders explains that after mortar shells fell on his ambassador's residence, his troops supported by helicopters had no choice but to strike back. The French blame Gbagbo's side who in turn deny they're the aggressor.
Next door to the French embassy, Laurent Gbagbo remains holed up in a bunker underneath the presidential palace refusing to concede defeat in November's election.
Ivory Coast's border has been sealed to visitors since Tuesday, though some locals are being allowed in, many more are coming out. We tried approaching the frontier at Alibo (ph) in Ghana, crossing the river Tano. We weren't allowed to film as Gbagbo militia aggressively told us to leave.
(on camera): So this is as far as we're being allowed toward the border of Ivory Coast. It's pretty what looks like dirty mortars on the other side with a bunch of uniformed gunmen who we understand are with Laurent Gbagbo.
(voice-over): Those without guns later agreed to talk. These men are defiant, angry, and insistent that Gbagbo remains and always will be president. And this is where some of those fleeing the fighting have ended up. Ampac Camp (ph) in Ghana already has nearly 3,000 people, mostly women and children. Lored Nina (ph) fled here from Abidjan with her family. She says people were killed, people's heads were cut off. She says there were massacres, rapes and everything, so it's better to leave so they can't kill you.
Here, childhood is a luxury in short supply as even the very youngest Ivory Coast refugees struggle to make a new home. They've already been here weeks. Who knows how long they'll stay. Dan Rivers, CNN, on the Ghana/Ivory border.
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LEMON: Well, some are calling it an obsession and we're talking about Donald Trump's questioning the birthplace of President Barack Obama. This week he's gotten a lot more vocal, making the rounds on some of the national talk shows including right here on CNN. Why is he pushing this issue again?
Plus, the president's aunt has a few words for the Donald as well. You don't want to miss what she has to say.
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Let's get you caught up on the top stories right now. I'm sure you've noticed gas prices are burning a bigger hole in your wallet. While the Lundberg survey says prices at the pump has just jumped 20 cents over the past two weeks. Analysts says the unrest in the Middle East, of course, increase demand from developing nations and a weak dollar are all factors. The average price of a gallon of regular is now $3.76. Nearly a month after a standoff in Wisconsin over union rights there's another round of protests in Madison. Demonstrators are part of a grass roots movement there. They say their aim is to reduce the influence of corporations on state government. They held a protest just yesterday. Another is scheduled for today.
In Ohio, about 11,000 people gathered at the statehouse to demand a repeal of that state's new collective bargaining law. Speakers include union workers, teachers, and firefighters. They call the new law an attack on the middle class and Governor John Kasich signed the bill into law more than a week ago.
OK. Donald Trump has been all over the media this week telling anyone who will listen that he's not sure President Obama was born in this country and, therefore, shouldn't even be president. He said it could be one of the biggest scams ever perpetrated on the American people. Look at just a little bit of what he has been espousing just this week.
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DONALD TRUMP, ENTREPRENEUR: Three weeks ago when I started I thought he was probably born in this country. And now I really have a bigger doubt.
I just say very simply, why doesn't he show his birth certificate? There's a huge difference between a birth certificate - and I can show you mine and it's upstairs and it's in great detail and it's certified by everybody and it's got signatures all over it.
His own family doesn't know what hospital he was born in Hawaii. But you have no hospital records in any of the hospitals he was born in, no bills, no room numbers, no nothing.
Either they don't have one, which is very bad, or there's something on it that he doesn't want people to see. And I think that would be the lesser of two evils, no matter what's on it.
The president and the administration have said their peace about this. Now the president's family is also weighing in. Our affiliate WHDH caught up with President Obama's aunt who lives in Boston.
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ZEITUNI ONYANGO, PRESIDENT OBAMA'S AUNT: It's crazy, accusing my mother with lies.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: WHDH REPORTER: Zeituni Onyango, President Obama's aunt says she's angry and hurt about Donald Trump questioning the president's birthplace by quoting her 88-year-old grandmother in Kenya, the president's grandmother.
TRUMP: His grandmother in Kenya said he was born in Kenya and she was there and witnessed the birth. OK.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're saying Donald Trump is lying. ONYANGO: A naked lie. In the name of the (INAUDIBLE).
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: From her home in south Boston, filled with pictures of her mother and President Obama, his 58-year-old woman says Trump's accusations are bringing ridicule to her family back in Kenya. The president's aunt said when she was a girl in Kenya in 1961, the President's father, her brother, sent the family a letter announcing the birth of the future president. She says the letter came from Hawaii.
ONYANGO: My brother was telling my mother how happy he was with another baby boy on the other side.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you see this letter?
ONYANGO: Yes, I saw it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Onyango says she hopes her message gets to Trump.
(on camera): What would you like to say to Donald Trump?
ONYANGO: That I respect him and I respect his wealth, but I only demand him to respect us.
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LEMON: What does this all mean now and in the course of history? So I'm going to bring in presidential historian, Douglas Brinkley. He's a professor of history at Rice University.
OK. Douglas, what is Donald Trump trying to prove? Does he really believe the president may have been born outside of the United States?
PROF. DOUGLAS BRINKLEY, PRESIDENTIAL HISTORIAN: Nobody will know what's really in Donald Trump's mind here except it looks like he may be aiming for the White House. You know, this is really a scoundrel's charge, what Trump's doing. It's ridiculous to be calling the president of the United States a phony faux president, as Donald Trump's doing.
He's been an iconic person, Trump, people right, left, have liked him, laughed at him, admired his chutzpah, but to be making these kinds of allegations against the president of the United States is reprehensible and it's despicable. One can only think that he's going after the gold ring, meaning the Republican nomination, and thinks he could use this birther issue to claim the hard right.
Governor Palin who was a darling of the right before kind of backed away from the birther issue, Trump seized it this past week and you see today Governor Palin trying to say, "Well, thank you, Donald, for re-raising this again." This seems to be the issue that could take a candidate, in this case Donald Trump, from very low popular opinion, to catapult him to the top three in the Republican Party.
LEMON: We're talking about politics here, but this goes beyond Donald Trump's reputation in politics. Also in business. Could this hurt him?
BRINKLEY: Well, yes. I mean, he may be getting people just boycotting anything with the name Trump on it. I mean to be calling our nation's first African-American president, making charges that he isn't born here and that you're suspicious and you're hiring private detectives on him. This smacks of the worst aspects of Pinkerton police or McCarthyism. I don't know why Trump feels this is OK to be injecting this sort of poison into our national dialogue at this point.
But it's only out of his own self-interest. Maybe in the end Trump's always just been about Trump, not really what's good for America. But certainly making these kind of allegations against the president of the United States is just it's both silly and it's deeply disrespectful.
LEMON: Can people distinguish Donald Trump from the GOP? Does this have repercussions for the GOP as well?
BRINKLEY: No. People will see this as just a Trump play. I don't think serious candidates, a Mitt Romney or Governor Huckabee would take this kind of low road that Trump appears to be taking. It's sad because Donald Trump is somebody who in history is one of the colorful figures. You can't write about 1980s, 1990s America without Trump. But at this point of his career when he's lurching into a kind of has- been status, he's decided to catapult himself to the front of newspapers by throwing this very discredited birther charge out there again.
It's sort of sad to watch somebody that once was so popular and such an interesting American maverick, to see him take such a low political road.
LEMON: Well, it's interesting that you say that because many people have not taken Donald Trump seriously for a long time. They think he's become a caricature really of himself. And this just sort of adds to that. I mean, on what issue would you really take Donald Trump seriously when you consider the history of things that he's said and then he's done?
BRINKLEY: Well, I mean, it's always interesting listening to Donald Trump's view on real estate, not the Donald Trump who had Gadhafi come to the United States and did that whole - wanted to have him come, all that kookiness. Trump is wheeler dealer. You can't help but go into New York and see the Trump Tower, go to West Palm Beach and see Trump. And you kind of - it symbolizes that old-style, kind of moneymaker.
And of course, his television shows and the phrases that will be in Bartlett's book of quotation, you know, about being "You're fired" and things. He's been a popular figure in some ways, but this has turned him almost into a menacing character. He's put his entire brand, his whole reputation on this birther issue, and it's a loser for him. It's not good for anybody who touches it. It's sort of - it makes Donald Trump really look like a joke in history.
LEMON: Yes. Well, Douglas Brinkley, we'll see how this will play out in history. Thank you for joining us.
BRINKLEY: Thank you.
LEMON: Tiger Woods makes a late run at Augusta. Was it enough to take home another green jacket? We've got the answer, right after the break.
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LEMON: Well, the 75th Masters golf tournament is history and we have a new champion. He's not a household name so get used to it, OK? His name is Charl Schwartzel of South Africa. Joining me to talk about it is Jon Wertheim of "Sports Illustrated." OK. So let's look at this new guy before we get to this, before we do this.
Let's just talk about Schwartzel real quick. This guy wasn't even in the top - was he supposed to even make it?
JON WERTHEIM, SR. INVEST. REPORTER, "SPORTS ILLUSTRATED": Yes. This guy never had a top 10 finish in a major. You know, you had Tiger Woods. I mean, Rory McIlroy had never won a major, but you know, this was a name that people knew. And this is remarkable to have that stature and shoot the round Schwartzel did, a 66 the last Sunday of Augusta. That's awfully impressive.
LEMON: And Tiger Woods really did sort of tried to fight back, to come back here but in the end, it didn't do very well.
WERTHEIM: Yes. It's good to see he still has that charge in him. He can still sort of mount that play on Sunday that we're all so familiar with. But again the magic just isn't there. We had sort of very strange - I mean he was sort of (INAUDIBLE) afterwards. We saw him yelling at himself. And you know, you hate to keep referring to this, but really since the public scandal, you just sort of look at his results.
Again, he was in there - I mean, at one point even in the lead today, a strong round overall but just didn't have it in the end. So still without a major since the public scandal.
LEMON: OK. So Jon, I want you to take a look at this photograph right here. This is me and my trusty team at the Masters practice round earlier in the week, complete with our crazy golf attire. So it's a beautiful event. Again, it's nice that Charl won but, again, it wasn't expected to win there.
OK. Now that we talked about myself and my team, let's talk about Barry Bonds, the perjury trial here.
The jury got the case Friday and will resume deliberations tomorrow morning. Some people felt that they might be leaning toward the prosecution based on their request for transcripts? Do you have any feeling about this? Do you think that he will get prison time, if convicted here?
WERTHEIM: I don't think he'll get prison. I think the verdict is still very much up in the air, very strong close by the prosecution, but this was - we talked about this last week. This was not the smoothest case the government has ever put on. And I think - you know, in the public, this case has done what a lot of people thought wasn't, made Barry Bonds, a fairly sympathetic figure. I think a lot of people think, this is just enough is enough and given, this - probably wouldn't even involve jail time, if he did just a little bit of jail time. That's awfully extreme measures to go to and it's that sentiment has sort of seeped into the jury room, I think this is, this one could go either way.
But, again, as you said, even if he is convicted, very unlikely to do major time. No jail time, this is a pretty big trial, big expense, big time for something that may end up resulting, even if it's not an acquittal, may end up in no jail time.
LEMON: All right. Manny Ramirez retired this week apparently to avoid another suspension for using performance-enhancing drugs.
Bonds, of course, finished the all time home run leader and Manny had 555. Will their use of performance-enhancing drugs keep them out of the Hall of Fame, Jon?
WERTHEIM: I think in Bond's case, likely. I mean, the mountain of circumstantial evidence is a pretty high one. I think in Ramirez's case, after the steroids era, to have these analytical positives - I mean, again, Bonds, a mountain of anecdotal evidence but no positive drug tests. That's not the case with Ramirez. I think Ramirez, no chance. Bonds, very little.
I mean, the one case, people I've heard in Bonds' defense is look, even before the steroid era, his numbers were sufficient for induction. Again, I don't think he's going to the Hall of Fame, but that's one angle. Ramirez, no chance. No way do you flunk two drug tests after the steroids era and have any expectation of going to the Hall of Fame.
LEMON: We know you're author of a book called "Scorecasting." And I'm wondering we wonder if it would have predicted today's Masters.
WERTHEIM: It's interesting. We have a chapter on golf and how golfers are much better at par putts than birdie putts because of this phenomenon of loss aversion. But no, I couldn't get Butler right. I wasn't going to get a runaway Masters winner right either. You looked at Tiger and you thought maybe he had one more run in him. But I don't think too many people are - except for you. You had this guy pegged when you saw him in the practice round.
LEMON: Yes, I said, I know nothing about golf, and I saw him during the practice rounds. I was like and I turned to my friend, Andreas, who's an EP and one of the producers on my show, Jason here, and I said, "Look at the lift on that guy's ball. Because he hit it and then it just did one of these like an airplane and just kept going and going." I don't know anything about it, but that looked good to me. And then he ends up winning.
WERTHEIM: Masters office pool next year. LEMON: All right. Thank you, sir. Good to see you. Have a good rest of the weekend.
WERTHEIM: Thanks, Don.
LEMON: It's a murder that may never be solved, the murder of David Hartley. Last year on Falcon Lake, a body of water that straddles the U.S.-Mexico border. Coming up, find out what Hartley and his wife knew about attacks on the lake before they took their trip.
And it's a glimpse of CNN, a special report that airs right after this newscast.
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LEMON: Parents are signing up for a new program in Philadelphia schools designed to get them on the same page as their kids. It's called parent university and it can help parents to get caught up on math, computers, and other skills to help their children in the classroom.
CNN education contributor Steve Perry checks it out in tonight's "Perry's Principles."
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Please take a colored marker -
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you remember when we went to school, we did what was called the traditional method of multiplication.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You have five minutes to complete this task.
STEVE PERRY, CNN EDUCATION CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): It's a busy night in the Philadelphia classrooms. They're packed with men and women hoping to connect with the most important people in their lives, children and grandchildren.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And that might be an issue that we have today in mathematics because we really do need to understand why we're doing what we're doing.
PERRY: It's a real challenge for parents everywhere. What they learned in school is very different from what kids are learning today. That's why superintendent Arlene Ackerman created parent university.
ARLENE ACKERMAN, SUPT., SCHOOL DISTRICT OF PHILADELPHIA: Not every parent has a computer. Not every parent has access to the resources that many middle class families have. So in this district, we've really focused on engaging parents in this process. It's worked.
PERRY (on camera): What's the reason so many parents have signed up?
ACKERMAN: They're free. All you have do is have a child in the public school system and you can come.
PERRY (voice-over): Jose Ramirez has two boys in middle school. He's originally from El Salvador.
JOSE RAMIREZ, ATTENDS PARENT UNIVERSITY: Sometimes as an immigrant, we say the teacher can handle the classroom, my children are fine. But because of the culture and the barrier right there but right now I feel like we're close in.
PERRY (on camera): What are some of the classes that you've taken at parent university?
RAMIREZ: Well, character development, computer classes.
PERRY: What changes do you see in your dad as a result of this?
NICK RAMIREZ, JOSE'S SON: He seems more confident in doing things as he was before.
PERRY (voice-over): Octavia Lewis, another parent university student is a grandmother and foster mother.
OCTAVIA LEWIS, ATTENDS PARENT UNIVERSITY: When your child comes home and they're in tears because they don't understand what the teacher just told them, to be able to give them the help they need is priceless.
PERRY: Steve Perry, Philadelphia.
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LEMON: It was a story that made headlines nationwide. An American gunned down while jet skiing with his wife on a lake straddling the U.S-Mexico border. No arrests have been made in the murder of David Hartley, although a Texas sheriff says he has identified four of the shooters as members of a Mexican drug cartel.
Drew Griffin of CNN's Special Investigations Unit has been looking into the murder on Falcon Lake.
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DREW GRIFFIN, CNN SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT (voice-over): David Hartley had always been interested in visiting the sunken church in Falcon Lake. On Thursday morning, September 30th, a week before he and his wife would move home to Colorado, David decided they would go.
(on camera): Did you know then what you must know now, there had been several attacks on that lake? That fishermen don't cross into Mexico in that lake anymore.
TIFFANY HARTLEY, DAVID HARTLEY'S WIFE: We did know that there were attacks. We didn't know where they were exactly.
GRIFFIN: You had no worries whatsoever when you took those jet skis?
HARTLEY: No idea.
GRIFFIN: And as tragic as this is, what I think I'm hearing from you is what the Hartleys did was incredibly stupid.
ROBERT "SPEEDY" COLLETT, OWNER, BEACON LODGE: Incredibly.
GRIFFIN (voice-over): Fishing guide and resort owner Speedy Collett says business on the lake has taken a beating since the Hartleys what he call a "Stupid trip to see a sunken church." He is sick of the media attention and insists the lake and the fishermen are completely safe. As long as they follow the unwritten rules.
COLLETT: This is not a jet ski lake. There's never jet skis seen here. Here they come - they show up on a jet ski, they don't see and then they try to approach them and stop them because it's a war over there. Two cartels fighting each other for control. And they don't stop. They take off running.
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LEMON: Drew Griffin will have more on a CNN special report "Murder in Mexico: What happened at Falcon Lake." It will air immediately after this show, 8:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN.
Misrata has been a hot bed of intense fighting in Libya. Forces supporting Moammar Gadhafi continue shelling parts of the city as they fight rebels for control. And NATO has stepped in with air strikes that hit parts of the city as well.
Straight ahead, a firsthand look at the city after weeks of fighting.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Large tornado, guys. Large tornado!
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LEMON: A tiny Iowa town becomes a target for this monster tornado. Amateur video catches a ferocious funnel as it rips through Mapleton last night. The quarter mile long twister wiped out entire blocks of town and some 100 homes. But thankfully no one was killed.
This is what it left behind. Damage so bad, it's been declared a disaster area. Today shell-shocked residents returned to see what if anything is left standing. The Red Cross and the National Guard are there now. Officials say utilities could be out for weeks.
Well, people in North Dakota and Fargo, as a matter of fact, are breathing a sigh of relief right now that's because so far those dikes and sandbags holding back the Red River have worked. The river crested at nearly 40 feet just under the 44 foot levy. Lighter than expected late rainstorms also helped staved off a flooding disaster.
About 22,000 Japanese troops launched an extensive search today for victims of Japan's devastating earthquake and tsunami. Nearly 15,000 people are still missing and more than 13,000 others have been confirmed dead. Tomorrow marks one month since the disaster struck. Communities across the country will hold a moment of silence.
We want to get back now to war-torn Libya. Some consider Misrata as the last rebel holdout in the west. But Moammar Gadhafi's forces continue to try to take back the country's third largest city, making it seem less and less clear which side has control.
ITN's Neil Connery reports from the once thriving city.
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NEIL CONNERY, ITN REPORTER (voice-over): Misrata is a city under siege. Around 300,000 people live here. But after weeks of fighting, many have fled. The Libyan authorities wanted to show us they're winning here. Anti-Gadhafi graffiti painted over and nearby a demonstration of loyalty to the leader.
But head closer into this deserted city and this is the only sound you'll hear. One Libyan army captain, who asked not to be identified, admitted to me the challenge they still face.
(on camera): How long before you win then beat the rebels?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Maybe two weeks or something like that. Because fighting inside the cities, we all consider that the hardest kind of fighting.
CONNERY (on camera): For 40 days and nights now, pro-Gadhafi forces and rebels have fought for these streets. The regime here insists that it is in control of Misrata. But it doesn't feel like it.
(voice-over): Suddenly we're told to take cover as Libyan troops fear a rebel sniper is targeting them. The army captain we had spoken to just moments earlier was injured and rushed away. A journalist nearby was struck by shrapnel.
(on camera): Misrata's hell grinds on, Libya's third largest city has been ripped apart by intense fighting. What is happening here right now reflects the widest stalemate and the consequences for those civilians trapped in the middle.
(voice-over): Later, we were taken to the hospital where the Libyan army captain was being treated. Government officials were keen for the media to film him. We were only allowed a brief glimpse of this city's desperate plight. But what's clear is that the fierce battle for its future has no quick end in sight.
Neil Connery, ITV News, Misrata.
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LEMON: And now a CNN Special Investigation.
