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Privacy Worries With iPhones; Searching for a Serial Killer; Journalists Killed in Libya; Weather Slows Texas Fires; Man Arrested in Webcam Murder; Shell Says Gulf Moratorium Has Slowed Production; Buckingham Palace Staff Prepares for the Big Day; FaceBook and Your Information
Aired April 21, 2011 - 11:59 ET
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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. I'd like to get you up to speed.
A second firefighter lost his life in Texas today. Hot, dry winds could spread some of these wildfires. Seventeen now are burning across the state. Roughly 1.5 million acres have burned an area almost as big as the state of Delaware.
One man who refused to evacuate says he saved his home the old- fashioned way.
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KEN MACKEY, SAVED HOUSE FROM FIRE: We just got out here and fought it, you know what I'm saying. We just got out here by hand and shovels and buckets of water.
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MALVEAUX: The FBI wants to talk to this man about a pipe bomb and two propane gas tanks found in a mall in Littleton, Colorado. Those things were found on the 12th anniversary of the attack on Columbine High School. Pipe bombs and propane tanks were a part of the arsenal in that 1999 massacre, but police are not yet sure if the two situations are connected.
A man is in court in Toronto today charged with murder in a Web cam attack involving this young woman. Police say he attacked the exchange student while she was on a live Web cam feed with a friend in China. The feed ended before that woman was killed.
The FAA is taking steps to rebuild public confidence in the agency. It has now fired two air traffic controllers who were discovered sleeping on the job. A short time ago, Mary Schiavo, former inspector general for the Transportation Department, told me that sleepy controllers are an old problem.
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MARY SCHIAVO, FMR. DOT INSPECTOR GENERAL: A lot of people just didn't rock the boat with the FAA. The FAA would always say we have it under control, and they swept problems under the rug. So, this time, because it happened in Washington, D.C., and it happened to the first lady's plane, the second incident there, I think it's getting the attention it deserves.
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MALVEAUX: Libyan rebels claim that they are in control of a key border crossing with Tunisia today. Rebels say about 100 fighters loyal to Moammar Gadhafi fled into Tunisia after a fierce battle. Thousands of Libyans have used that crossing to escape the civil war.
Well, starting tomorrow, no one can enter the 12-mile-wide nuclear hot zone in Japan without a government escort. Officials don't want people going in to collect belongings without radiation protection. They also don't like journalists reporting from the zone like our own CNN's Stan Grant.
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STAN GRANT, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Now, I am inside the 20- kilometers zone, so I need to take precautions. As you can see, I'm wearing some face covering here, and down at my feet, my shoes are also protected. This is to stop me coming into contact with any potentially contaminated material on the ground or breathing in any contamination.
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MALVEAUX: Our top story this hour, we take our cell phones everywhere we go. Well, now researchers say that your iPhone is keeping track of everywhere that you've been. They say they've discovered a file hidden in the operating software of iPhones and iPads that tracks your location history.
Joining us to talk about this is John Abell. He is New York bureau chief for Wired.com.
John, thanks for joining us here.
We are hearing so much about how our personal data is being misused and abused. Should we be shocked? Should we be shocked here that they are actually collecting our location and storing it now on our iPhones?
JOHN ABELL, NEW YORK BUREAU CHIEF, WIRED.COM: Yes. "Shocked" might be a little bit strong. It's a little disturbing.
There's no real reason that we know of yet for them to be doing this. They didn't say that they were doing it. It came as a surprise to everyone.
There might be a purpose that they're intending to put this to. It might have just been an accidental sort of legacy part of development. So right now it's disturbing, but not a lot more than that.
MALVEAUX: It's disturbing because it's not just that it's being stored, but it's being stored poorly. Right? That the information is simply accessible from your computer, or anybody can get to this pretty quickly. Right?
ABELL: Right, which lends credence to the argument that this is just something gone wrong. It's stored on your computer when you sync your phone, which people do often. It's there without password protection. It's not encrypted.
Anyone who knows that it's there can get it, which means that if you sync on your company computer, your company's IT department can get it. It means that if you're in an ugly divorce, the other side can demand it. It means that even if you're not in an ugly divorce, your spouse can say, you know, I don't believe you that you were working late last week, prove it, show me your iPhone log.
So it's just kind of a creepy thing to have going on. And until we know from Apple exactly what's going on, and that they will undo this in another software update, then we just can think the worst.
MALVEAUX: Can you turn it off? Can you disable it?
ABELL: You cannot disable it. It doesn't use the location services part of the phone. It uses the cell phone tower information which the carriers have always collected.
You can turn your phone off and you can choose to encrypt your data when you transfer it from your phone to your computer when you're syncing. But for now it's there.
MALVEAUX: It is just Apple, or are there other mobile device companies that are doing this?
ABELL: For all we know, no one else is doing this. The researchers did immediately, being good journalists, look into the possibility that Android, which is the most popular operating system, the next most popular, and Nokia and the others, were doing something like this.
There's no evidence that anyone's doing it. There's also no evidence, by the way, that Apple is actually accessing this information, that it's going to Apple at all. It's just simply there.
MALVEAUX: Could it be used as a tool perhaps for exonerating somebody from a crime or implicating somebody if you know what their record is, where you can actually track their location, their history? Is that something that they would use in the future?
ABELL: Well, that's a great question. This kind of information has always been available to the government by subpoena.
So the information itself is considered pretty bullet-proof. So, yes, you're right, it might be a great sort of B-script that you can suddenly have your Perry Mason moment and produce your iPhone geolocation logs, but it cuts both ways. And the fact that it's not under user control, the fact that it's there at all is just not -- doesn't sit right with people, and correctly so.
MALVEAUX: All right, John. Thank you so much for breaking it down for us. Appreciate it. And obviously, there are questions to Apple, and everybody's waiting for a response to see what kind of statement they put out.
ABELL: Everyone is..
MALVEAUX: Thank you, John.
Donald Trump called in to CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING" today, spoke about his investigation into the birther issue. He says, "Every day that goes by, I think less and less that he" -- meaning President Obama -- "was born in the United States." But Trump also says he'd rather talk about other things like jobs, the economy.
It brings us to our "Talk Back" question.
Carol, of course he doesn't want to talk about the birther controversy. Right? He keeps bringing it up though.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: No. He keeps bringing it up, but he says --
MALVEAUX: He knows it's going to get attention.
COSTELLO: That's right, he is getting a lot of attention, but he seems like he wants to turn the corner, because people really want to talk about the economy, because -- and this is why Republicans are turning the corner -- the fight for Independents is on, and it's taking an odd twist, thanks to Donald Trump.
There is an effort by some on the right to discredit him for the good of the Republican Party, and it's coming from the former senior adviser to President Bush and Republican political consultant, Karl Rove.
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KARL ROVE, FMR. BUSH ADVISER: His full embrace of the birther issue means that he's off there in the nutty right and is now an inconsequential candidate. He's just now, you know, a joke candidate.
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COSTELLO: And it's not just Donald Trump, but Michele Bachmann and Sarah Palin, they are now targets, too, by some conservative voices. Bill O'Reilly called them grenades that could do a lot of damage to Republicans.
You see, those election-deciding Independent voters are turned off by the very issues that turn on both the right and left wing. So, for the GOP to win them over, it means talking less birther and more budget.
Take Michele Bachmann, who recently said President Obama should answer some questions about his birthplace. But on "GMA," when presented with Mr. Obama's certificate of live birth, she appeared to back off.
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REP. MICHELE BACHMANN (R), MINNESOTA: That's what should settle it. I take the president at his word. That is not the main issue facing the United States right now. The main issue facing the United States is dealing with our debt and our deficit.
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COSTELLO: She's apparently to turn the corner politically. But, is it too late to win over Independent voters?
The "Talk Back" question today: Do you think the birther and conspiracy issues are hurting the GOP?
Facebook.com/CarolCNN, and I will read your answers later this hour.
MALVEAUX: All right. Thank you, Carol.
COSTELLO: Sure.
MALVEAUX: Checking what's ahead "On the Rundown."
Using bones now to solve crimes. We're going to find out how it's done.
Plus, our Nic Robertson is just back from Libya, where he met with rebel forces.
And a Texas-sized inferno. We're going to go live to one of the state's big wildfires.
In Canada, a gruesome crime caught on a webcam. A woman attacked and killed as her friend in China watched.
And we will visit an oil drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico one year after the massive oil leak started.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are on the Mars platform. Just take a look. We are about 150 miles out from the coast of New Orleans. Below us there are 24 different wells drilling thousands and thousands of feet down into the Gulf.
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MALVEAUX: No dives, no searches, no briefings are planned today in New York's serial killer investigation. Police divers, they were on the scene yesterday, and they returned to an upscale bay area on Long Island where the bodies of four women were found within a quarter mile of each other.
Now, in this latest search, authorities say that high tide allowed the divers to swim more easily and they were able to use metal detectors now for the first time. Investigators have found at least eight bodies on Long Island beaches since December.
Our Jason Carroll has been looking into the science behind identifying remains, and he's joining us from New York.
And Jason, it's good to see you. You've been talking to forensic scientists. Can you give us a sense of what this process entails?
JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Suzanne, it's fascinating, really, to see it up close. And what we wanted to do was we wanted to get a sense of what the medical examiner is going through in trying to identify the victims in this Long Island case. And what we found is, is that the doctors have the process down to a science.
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CARROLL (voice-over): The analysis under way on remains of victims of a possible serial killer in Long Island. Four bodies still remain unidentified.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Please keep in mind that this is not an episode of "CSI."
CARROLL: Cases and shows like "CSI" or "Bones" -- far from reality.
DR. LAWRENCE KOBILINSKY, JOHN JAY CRIMINAL JUSTICE COLLEGE: What you see on television is obviously entertainment.
CARROLL: Dr. Kobilinsky, professor of forensic science, and Dr. Richard Li, associate professor, both at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City. They don't need much to do their job.
KOBILINSKY: I would say about the size of an inch, an inch and a half.
CARROLL: All that's needed for them to extract DNA, enough to possibly identify a victim.
KOBILINSKY: We certainly can extract DNA from a bone like this.
CARROLL: They took us through the process. Clean bones brought to their lab will be made into a powder.
(on camera): So, we start with this device right here?
DR. RICHARD LI, JOHN JAY CRIMINAL JUSTICE COLLEGE: Right. You can use either the commercial blender.
CARROLL: So, this is just a commercial blender? Because honestly, this looks similar to what I think a lot of people may have at home.
(voice-over): Another device here works better.
LI: It's called the freezer mill.
CARROLL (on camera): The freezer mill?
(voice-over): Liquid nitrogen is poured into the mill, a bone fragment encased in a tube deep inside for deep freezing.
KOBILINSKY: I'm sure kids have seen different things put into liquid nitrogen. It freezes instantly.
CARROLL: The sample brittle enough to blend into a fine powder. They use chemicals to break down the powder even more.
(on camera): Usually, this part of the process happens overnight, right? For the sake of television, we'll move on.
(voice-over): Dr. Li extracts a small amount of the mixture, and on to a another lab for the final process where the DNA is refined for the result.
(on camera): Do you in some ways feel like you're detectives, too, because in a way, you're trying to find out who a person is from just a small fragment.
KOBILINSKY: I feel very much like a detective. Loved ones are lost. And so the analysis of the skeletal remains are critical and very important to the families.
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CARROLL: Well, Suzanne, we went through this entire process in just a few hours for our story, but the reality is it actually takes several days or more to come up with a profile. So, in the case of Long Island, the medical examiner will take their DNA profiles from the victims and then they will try to match them to the unidentified people they already have in their system -- Suzanne.
MALVEAUX: So, Jason, explain to us -- given what the scientists already know, I would assume that the medical examiner already has a pretty good idea of what that DNA profile would be.
CARROLL: I think a lot of scientists would agree with that. Given that it takes about several days, and when you look at when these remains were found, some in more than a week ago, that would give enough time to then extract what you need from the remains in order to come up with some sort of a DNA sample or profile. But what they've got to now then do is match that against what they already have in their system, and then try to reach out to those who are missing loved ones -- Suzanne.
MALVEAUX: All right. Jason, critical work there. Thanks. Excellent reporting, Jason.
Well, there is no end in sight right now for the war in Libya. The United States' role in the battle just got a little bit more complicated. Our Nic Robertson is back from Tripoli and he's in the NEWSROOM to talk about it.
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Well, it's a hotly-contested issue for the White House. President Obama says that Libya's leader Moammar Gadhafi must go. But what specific role should the United States be playing in getting rid of him?
Our Nic Robertson is here. He joins us to go beyond the headlines.
And Nic, good to have you here, obviously, on set.
We learned from President Obama yesterday about $25 million or so that is going to go in aid to the rebels on the ground in Libya. What does this mean? Does this actually suggest to you mission creep, this is beyond protecting civilians and now investing in this country's civil war?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's not a lot of money if you compare it to the amount of money that a cruise missile costs. This is perhaps -- $25 million will buy you maybe 50 cruise missiles, and already far more than that number have been sent to Libya. But it will buy flak jackets and it will buy uniforms, and it will buy night vision goggles or whatever else is going to be given to the rebels. So this will give them some psychological boosts and it will give them a small technical leg up on the battlefield.
But it seems unlikely that $25 million is going to be a game-changer, but it can be the start of a slippery slope. What happens if this $25 million and what it buys doesn't bring the results on the ground you want, which is essentially protect the civilians, but ultimately Gadhafi to step down and get out of power for an interim government, all these things? So, yes, potentially it is a slippery slope for more money and more commitment.
MALVEAUX: You personally have spoken to the rebels on the ground. Is there a sense of organization? Do they even know who their own leaders are? Or is this money just going to go nilly-willy and we won't really have a sense at all of who is getting the dollars?
ROBERTSON: Always, when we're putting money into wars, it's very tough to follow the money. Twenty-five million dollars is not as much as was thrown at Iraq, for example, if you will. And this is being given in the forms of equipment. But yes, it is going to be hard to keep track of.
These fighters do have different loyalties to different leaders, and different ideas and ideologies. So, it is going to be difficult to keep track of on the battlefield. But, again, this is not a huge a money, but these are a relatively small number of fighters. So, enabling them to be more effective will make them more effective on the battlefield against Gadhafi.
MALVEAUX: And Nic, what do they need? You've spoken to them. What would this provide for them? What do they need to overthrow Gadhafi?
ROBERTSON: Well, they want to annihilate his army, and this is not going to do. They want heavy weapons. They want bombers who are going to be able to come and bomb his tanks and his artillery.
They really need a modern sophisticated special forces that can go in under the cover of darkness, put laser designations, or whatever, on tanks; blow up tanks in the night, artillery pieces; break the siege around Misrata; enable rebels to move across the east of the country towards Tripoli. All of these things are unlikely to happen.
I mean, Gadhafi has a depth of support, whether we like it or not, in the tribes that have always been loyal to him. Some of these tribes have 300,000 people. They see their allegiance at the moment with Gadhafi.
Many of them are sort of senior -- have been traditionally senior leaders in the army. So there is a depth of loyalty that, however we enable the rebels at the moment, is going to be difficult to sort of overthrow that outside of Misrata, et cetera.
MALVEAUX: And Nic, there are reports obviously of two journalists who were killed in Libya. You were on the ground.
How dangerous of a situation is that? Did you feel that you were always in that kind of danger when you were on the ground?
ROBERTSON: I think where we were, which was on the government side, was safer than being in Misrata, at the center. We were on the outskirts, and we could see down Tripoli Street, where we understand Tim and Chris died.
But where we were, we were with the government. And it was the government that has the heaviest of weapons there which were being used against the rebels.
So I think it's far more dangerous for journalists who -- on the rebel side, and particularly Misrata. It's becoming like the siege of Sarajevo was in Bosnia, which is a city that's surrounded. Gadhafi's forces have artillery ranged all around the city.
We saw places where NATO bombs who had tried to destroy tanks on the outskirts of the city, and they've been sort of sitting ducks near farms. Very hard to hit, very hard to target. So it's much harder and more dangerous on the rebel side.
MALVEAUX: Nic, thank you so much for your perspective. And so glad you're safe. Thank you.
ROBERTSON: Thank you.
MALVEAUX: Now more on the two western journalists who paid the ultimate price while covering the conflict in Libya. Acclaimed photojournalist Chris Hondros, on the right, and Oscar-nominated filmmaker Tim Hetherington were killed yesterday in Misrata, a rebel city under siege from Moammar Gadhafi's forces.
Our Becky Anderson takes a closer look at Hetherington's life.
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BECKY ANDERSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He traveled the globe documenting some of the world's deadliest conflicts. His profession was his life.
Born in Liverpool, award-winning photojournalist Tim Hetherington spent eight years in West Africa, where his images of civil war in Liberia brought to the world the reality of the conflict that had until then gone unnoticed. He then turned his attention to Afghanistan, where he spent five years capturing award-winning and iconic images of life on the front line.
He was awarded the Grand Jury Prize in 2010 at the Sundance Film Festival for "Restrepo," his directorial debut, a film which also earned him an Academy Award nomination.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The fear is always there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to die here.
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TIM HETHERINGTON, PHOTOJOURNALIST: Often when I'm working in a very pressured situation I can almost flick the off switch and go into a default of filming. And later on I come to, and it shocks me, what I've done. And that's just something I've been able to do, and that's perhaps why I realize that I'm good at what I do.
But it does have the side that it is very dangerous. I remember being in (INAUDIBLE) and firefights, and realizing -- a guy said to me -- I was filming close range, and he said, "Did you see the tracers pass between our heads?" And I hadn't. And, you know, later on I saw the trees behind me all shot up, and I realized we were very exposed.
And I'm in default, and that can be a funny thing later to understand.
ANDERSON: Hetherington thrived on his work. He lived with his characters and told their stories to millions around the world. That was his talent and that was his mission.
His final assignment was for "Vanity Fair" in Libya. His last Twitter post read, "In besieged Libyan city of Misrata, indiscriminate shelling by Gadhafi forces. No sign of NATO."
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MALVEAUX: Today, the bodies of Hetherington and Chris Hondros were being carried out of the battle zone aboard an airship.
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MALVEAUX: Checking what's ahead "On the Rundown."
New fires now breaking out in Texas. Live to one of the danger zones.
Plus, hear from one of the survivors from the oil rig explosion that started that massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.
And a royal wedding reception fit for a future king.
And picture this -- about the entire size of the state of Delaware now in flames. That is the scope of the wildfire disaster right now in Texas.
One of our iReporters, Jim Malone (ph), sent us this dramatic video of the flames, the smoke from the fire in Possum Kingdom in north Texas. Across the state, more than a million acres are scorched and the flames are still spreading. The new 1,000-acre fire broke out today, and two firefighters now have lost their lives.
Our CNN's Patrick Oppmann, he is in Brad, Texas.
Patrick, just give us a sense of what is taking place. The battle against these fires is just unbelievable.
PATRICK OPPMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It has been. And it's really been a story of just bad news. It didn't seem like Texas could get a break here. The 2,000 firefighters, just really not being able to get ahead of many of these big blazes.
But today, Suzanne, they've had a bit of some good luck. Cool temperatures, a little bit of rain this morning is allowing them to get closer to these fires with bulldozers, actually put some of these fires out. They expect these fires to eventually kick back up, so at least for today, though, they're getting between some of those fires and the homes.
To show you how intense some of these fires burned, look here behind us. This was an old general store and service station. It burned to the ground over the weekend. Witnesses said the fires got as high as 40 feet. And just to show you how close calls -- some of the close calls that residents here had, it burned all the way across the ground I'm walking on here, burned a large cactus field behind us, up into the hills.
But here behind me, there is a sort of island in the middle of this destruction. That's because one man who owns a little bit of a lumber company -- talk about the worst place you want to fight a fire in, all around this chopped lumber -- he decided to stay -- Ken Mackey decided to stay and save his home. And he talked to us a little earlier about that battle against the fire.
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OPPMAN: You came pretty close to losing everything.
KEN MACKEY, SAVED HOUSE FROM FIRE: I came really close to losing everything, yes. We just got out here and fought it, you know what I'm saying? We just got out here by hand and shovels and buckets of water.
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OPPMAN: Now, as you can imagine, this is the last thing that officials want people to do. They've evacuated much of this area. They want people to leave their homes because if somebody like Ken Mackey gets stuck out here, they really can't reach him in the middle of the fire. And you can see, it just burned up to the fence line. I talked to him again this morning and said if the fire comes back, which it still could -- it still could get kicked up again in this area, threaten his home, threaten this nearby town. He says he's staying, Suzanne.
MALVEAUX: And Pat, do you have any idea when people are going to be able to get back into their homes?
OPPMAN: Right now, officials are just saying that there are too many power lines down. It's too dangerous. These fires could get kicked back up. So they may take in some of the media a little bit today, give us an up-close look at some of the damage. But as of right now, for most of the residents, they're saying stay away.
MALVEAUX: All right, Patrick, thank you. Be safe.
"Time" magazine has released its annual list of the world's most influential people. Included this year are Prince William and his fiancee, Kate Middleton. Also Arizona senator (SIC) Gabrielle Giffords, who has made the "Time" 100 list. Well, who's made the "Time" 100 list the most times? We're going to tell you after this quick break.
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MALVEAUX: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, one of "Time" magazine's 100 most influential people. Oprah Winfrey, currently winding down her talk show, has been named one of "Time" magazine's most influential people every year since 2004, more than any other "Time" 100 designee. Winfrey is followed by President Barack Obama. He's made the list six times.
Starting a restaurant -- it can be quite expensive and it uses a lot of resources. Well, in today's "Green Solutions in Focus," our CNN photojournalist Bethany Swain (ph) shows us a new experiment in Washington, two restaurants in the same place but at different times.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We leased out an ice cream shop and started selling tacos. It's a space that isn't use during the winter, so it's just closed for about four to five months a year.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were fortunate that this wasn't just an ice cream shop. They sold Philadelphia cheesesteaks. So that's why there was cooking equipment in here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Couple hundred bucks to buy ingredients, and then we just went day by day after that. We only offer three things, (INAUDIBLE) taco (INAUDIBLE) taco and vegetarian taco with beans and cheese.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So as long as we made, like, you know, enough money to buy ingredients every day, we could stay open.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, we tried to run it right on the edge and make sure we were using everything we had.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's like anything else. You get a better deal in volume if you buy in volume, so it's tempting to go out and buy cases of everything. But definitely, nothing goes to waste, that's for sure.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean, if you don't use it, you're going to throw it away and that, I mean, kills me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We came in here and we figured out what needs to change, what doesn't. You know, we've been tippy-toeing around ice cream machines this whole time because, really, they didn't need to go anywhere. I mean, is it ideal to look in the window and see ice cream machines in a taco shop with red and white walls? Not really. But does it really need to change?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we just threw our sign up. It worked. We didn't have to tear anything down.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's very good. And the people at 2:00 o'clock in the morning are definitely going to be sad to see them go.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just planning out our last few orders and making sure we didn't have a lot of food that was going to go to waste. Pretty much everything here can go and be used someplace else.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sad to see them go tomorrow.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All we have to do is clean, and take, like, the five things that we brought in, and ice cream will be available tomorrow. It's been a lot of work, but it's been a lot of fun.
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MALVEAUX: Tune in this Saturday for more of our "Green Solutions in Focus" series. Tom Foreman hosts this special "Eatocracy" edition at 3:00 PM Eastern.
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MALVEAUX: Police in Toronto have charged a man with first degree murder in the death of an exchange student at York University. Her attack played out on a webcam as the victim's frantic boyfriend watched on a computer in China.
CTV's Ben Byrne (SIC) picks up the story in Beijing.
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BEN O'HARA-BYRNE, CTV (voice-over): It's a journey no parent should ever have to make. Seven months ago, their only child left to study English in Toronto. Now they're going to bring her body home.
"At the beginning, I didn't believe it was true," her father says. "She was very hard-working, an outstanding girl."
Twenty-three-year-old Liu Qian was found in her apartment in York University, a crime in part witnessed on webcam an ocean away in Beijing by this man. Her boyfriend didn't want to be identified, but spoke for the first time publicly about the horror that began with a 1:00 AM knock on her door.
"She opened the door, and it looked like they knew each other pretty well," he says. "They said hello, and he borrowed her cell phone."
And in the park where they first met his kids, he talked about their agonizing final moments together. "He wanted to hug Liu Qian, but she said no and fought back," he says. "I was so helpless. I could not calm down, until in the end, the guy closed the computer."
He tried desperately to get help to her but couldn't until it was too late. "Canadian police want my computer," he says. An expert could help to find clues.
(on camera): The 23-year-old's family and friends say she was homesick but that had gotten used to Toronto and was hoping to stay there to continue her studies. They also say they never gave any indication that her life might be in danger.
"It's normal to be worried about your children when they're not with you," he says. "I had many concerns, but never imagined this." Ben O'Hara-Byrne, CTV News, Beijing.
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MALVEAUX: A year and a day after an explosion set off the worst environmental disaster in this country, we are focusing now on the survivors as part of our coverage "CNN in Depth: The Gulf a Year Later." The fiery blast aboard Transocean's Deeepwater Horizon drilling rig killed 11 men. Dozens of others were hurt in the blast, and they're still suffering one year later. Our Anderson Cooper talked to some of them.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ANDERSON COOPER, HOST, "AC360": Do you think about the night, what happened on the rig? I mean, do you think about -- do you run through it a lot still a lot in your mind? You do.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every day.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every day.
MATT JACOBS, SURVIVOR: It's been rough. I still have the nightmares.
COOPER: What kind of nightmares?
JACOBS: Just takes me back to that night, like I'm on the rig, just wake up screaming. I mean, it's just, like, never going to go away.
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MALVEAUX: While technically still employees, the survivors have not set foot on a rig since the disaster, and their employer stopped paying their salaries last December.
Well, the blame game is intensifying in the gulf oil disaster. Just a short time ago, Transocean announced it has filed a countersuit against BP and other parties. Now, this comes after BP sued Transocean. That's the owner of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Now, BP is also suing Cameron International, the maker of the rig's blowout preventer. And a third suit reportedly is targeting Halliburton. BP accuses the contractor of fraud and negligence.
Well, many people question if oil companies can prevent future disasters. Our Poppy Harlow discusses that with the president of Shell. It is a CNN exclusive. It's part of our coverage "CNN in Depth: The Gulf a Year Later."
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POPPY HARLOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We are on the Mars platform. Just take a look. We are about 150 miles out from the coast of New Orleans. Below us, there are 24 different wells drilling thousands and thousands of feet down into the gulf. So oil production here goes on 24 hours a day, seven days a week. It never stops.
Overall, what would you say that the spill here on the gulf a year ago has cost Shell in terms of having idled production?
MARVIN ODUM, PRESIDENT, SHELL OIL COMPANY: Well, it's a difficult thing to say exactly. It's -- I can tell you it's at least hundreds of millions of dollars. The -- I can put it in production terms. When I look at now my business in the Gulf of Mexico for 2011, we'll produce an average of 50,000 barrels less a day less than we would have without the moratorium.
HARLOW: So what is this showing us?
WOODY WOODWARD, OFFSHORE MANAGER, SHELL MARS: This is showing us how many barrels we're pumping to town, how many barrels of oil we're pumping to town through this one meter.
HARLOW: How many barrels a day go out of this rig?
WOODWARD: Out of Mars as a hole, about 90,000 barrels.
HARLOW (voice-over): Shell monitors its deepwater drilling in the gulf around the clock from this operations center in New Orleans and says it can help prevent disasters like the gulf oil spill.
(on camera): We basically have one station operating right now, monitoring drilling in the gulf.
JOHN HOLLOWELL, EVP, SHELL UPSTREAM AMERICAS: Yes, because right now, this is the only drilling rig that we have active in the gulf, drilling an injector at the Mars platform. We don't have any other active drilling rigs.
HARLOW: It took months to plug the hole after the BP spill. Do you have to prove now that you have the technology to plug that hole pretty quickly if that were to happen on one of your rigs?
HOLLOWELL: We have to prove that we have the capability to cap the well, hopefully, cap and contain it as it is, and we also prove we have the ability to respond to it in the very unlikely event that it was to occur again.
HARLOW: What's the biggest misconception about deepwater drilling?
ODUM: I think the thing I worry about most, it relates back to the spill because that's, I think, where most people's perceptions come from now. And I think there was a perception that built up during part of the response to that spill that said, Does the industry actually have the technology to do this?
HARLOW: Does it?
ODUM: Should we be down there? And the answer is, Yes, we do.
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MALVEAUX: Today's "Talk Back" question -- do you think the birther and the conspiracy issues are hurting Republican candidates? One viewer says, "Absolutely. It takes away from having them communicate the issues Americans care about. I seriously want to hear them talk about debt, deficit, not birth certificates." More of your responses ahead.
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MALVEAUX: If you're a fan of all those "Terminator" movies, like I am, you probably know that today is pretty significant.
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ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER, ACTOR: It is time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a new "Terminator."
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MALVEAUX: April 21st, 2011! It's judgment day! The world's computers in the network known as Skynet are supposed to become self- aware. Then they try to destroy the human race. Just a movie, right? But a lot of folks -- a lot of folks -- are tweeting about this.
Donald Trump says he's going to reveal interesting things on President Obama and defends his belief that Mr. Obama wasn't born in the United States, but Trump gave very few details when he spoke on "AMERICAN MORNING" today, which brings us to the "Talk Back" question, the birther issue and hurting the GOP.
But Carol, you know, we got to talk about the "Terminator" first...
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I know!
MALVEAUX: ... because it's judgment day! And is it -- is it -- is it a coincidence that we're talking about these iPhones track...
COSTELLO: Exactly.
MALVEAUX: ... tracking our movements...
COSTELLO: That's why...
MALVEAUX: ... and recording them?
COSTELLO: Someone put that tracking device in your iPhone, baby. The world is soon to be taken over!
MALVEAUX: By the machines.
COSTELLO: By the machines!
MALVEAUX: See? We knew.
COSTELLO: That's why I have a BlackBerry and not an iPhone.
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COSTELLO: Anyway, let's get to the "Talk Back"...
MALVEAUX: Trump and the birthers.
COSTELLO: ... question. Trump and the birthers, the controversy. The "Talk Back" question today, "Do you think the birther and conspiracy issues hurt the GOP?" This from Ellen. "The birther and conspiracy issues are a gift to the Democrats and they should make the most of it. The birthers are a joke, and serious Republicans who don't call out the birthers are revealing themselves as the cowards they are."
This from Lover Boy. "yes, without a doubt. I hope they continue, though, with the birther issues, the racist chimp e-mails, the clown candidates who can't stay out of the media, and all of the social issues plaguing the GOP. It's going to be an easy year for the Democrats in 2012."
This from Henry. "Absolutely. Conspiracy issues and the media bias have hampered the GOP ever since Watergate. The GOP's only successful when they are for an agenda, rather than against something."
Joanne, "Seriously, if Obama conspired to seal his files and was really born in Kenya, then Bush commissioned the 9/11 attacks to make money from the defense industry. Really, people? How ridiculous we keep talking about things like that."
Thank you, again, for your comments. FaceBook.com/carolcnn if you wish to continue the conversation.
MALVEAUX: Thank you, Carol.
COSTELLO: Sure. Any time.
MALVEAUX: We survived judgment day.
COSTELLO: It's not over yet, Suzanne.
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COSTELLO: The conspiracy (INAUDIBLE)
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MALVEAUX: All right. Thanks, Carol.
The British are preparing for one of the most talked about parties in decades, the wedding of Kate Middleton and Prince William. Aside from the bride and groom, there's a lot of pressure on one person in particular. That's the royal chef. Max Foster has the story.
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MAX FOSTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the basement of Buckingham Palace, a team of 21 chefs will make nearly 10,000 bite- sized canapes for the 600-odd guests invited to the reception. That's about 16 canapes each.
MARK FLANAGAN, THE ROYAL CHEF: Any canape event is all about fine detail at the last minute. There's a lot of preparation, but there's lots that we would like to do earlier that we really can't do until, you know, we see the guests coming into the room. It will be about double checking, triple checking, and checking it again and making sure that we've got everything in the right places.
FOSTER: There will be 10 to 12 savory varieties, five or six sweet, some hot, some cold, and all personally approved by Kate and William. The canapes will be carried upstairs on trays and plates to the spectacular state rooms. This is home to arguably the finest private art collection in the world. JENNIFER SCOTT, ASST. CURATOR OF PAINTINGS: And the 19 state rooms, which are used during state functions, drip with opulence. They really are intended to make people think, Wow, this is an incredible palace! And I think that's very much part of its history. This was a place that was intended to impress.
FOSTER: But this is also a working palace. A staff of 60 upstairs will attend to the guests' every need.
EDWARD GRIFFITHS, DEPUTY MASTER OF THE HOUSEHOLD: For any event, we're going through every single detail that we possibly can so that it's planned in advance and we don't leave anything to chance.
FOSTER: And this is the level of detail we're talking about, using an antique measuring stick to make sure every glass sits a certain distance from the table's edge, a perfect line of perfectly polished glasses ready to be handed to the guests, including monarchs, prime ministers and diplomats.
Around 300 close family and friends will have the added privilege of going on to a sitdown dinner hosted by Prince Charles.
(on camera): Well, during this most exclusive of wedding receptions, the public will get a chance to see the newlyweds. At about half past 1:00 local time, we expect them to come out on the balcony over there for what's bound to become an iconic moment in British history, when Prince William kisses his princess. Max Foster, CNN, Buckingham Palace, London.
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MALVEAUX: You picked the story you wanted to see, FaceBook and your privacy. That's our CNN's Mary Snow report.
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CHRIS MCCANN, PRES., 1-800-FLOWERS.COM: So this is our Mother's Day contest.
MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sharing a story about your mother may not seem like it has anything to do with selling flowers. But Chris McCann, the president of 1-800-Flowers.com, says it's all part of a way to reach customers through FaceBook.
MCCANN: So if we can get involved in a conversation, get involved in the relationship, it builds a bigger bond with our brand, which therefore helps sales.
SNOW: What he considers pay dirt, getting customers to share with FaceBook friends that they like the store, which he says helped double the number of fans around Valentine's Day. And then there are targeted ads.
(on camera): Hypothetically, let's say a 30-year-old woman gets engaged. What might your company do with that information?
MCCANN: Sure. So if a 30-year-old woman gets engaged and she lets that be known publicly on FaceBook, well, then, we might start serving her up ads about wedding flowers.
SNOW (voice-over): That kind of information posted can be profitable for both FaceBook and advertisers. But some privacy watchdog groups are raising a red flag. Jeff Chester is the director of the Center for Digital Democracy.
JEFF CHESTER, DIR. CENTER FOR DIGITAL DEMOCRACY: What makes FaceBook different and one of the reasons we are concerned about it in terms of protecting privacy is that FaceBook is not only tracking what you do on your FaceBook page and your profile, but it's tracking and analyzing stealthily the communications between you and your friends and acquaintances.
SNOW: FaceBook says it's not tracking private messages, but messages posted on your FaceBook wall are fair game. It says ads are based on what people add to their profiles, and in a statement said, "Advertising on FaceBook is better because it's social and based on interests you choose to share. We don't share and never sell personally identifiable information to advertisers."
One long-term technology writer in Silicon Valley who explored FaceBook's ad business for MIT's "Technology Review" says the ad part of the social networking company is only growing.
ROBERT HOF, FREELANCE TECHNOLOGY WRITER: By all estimates, it did a couple of billion dollars in advertising last year and may double that this year. So it seems that the advertising machine started to take off there.
SNOW: Robert Hof adds that FaceBook's last foray into public ads back in 2007 backfired over privacy concerns, before the company changed its practices. Mary Snow, CNN, New York.
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MALVEAUX: If your choice did not win or you just want to check out the runners-up, I'll have links to them on my page at FaceBook.com/suzannecnn. CNN NEWSROOM continues right now with T.J. Holmes -- T.J.
