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Aired May 22, 2011 - 14:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. It is Sunday, May 22nd. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.

Three days after President Barack Obama declared that Middle East peace negotiations should be based on Israel's pre-1967 borders, Mr. Obama may have mended some fences today. He offered reassurances to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, or AIPAC, which describes itself as America's leading pro-Israel lobby group.

Obama stressed his fundamental support for the Jewish state.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: No country can be expected to negotiate with a terrorist organization sworn to its destruction. And we will continue to demand that Hamas accept the basic responsibilities of peace, including recognizing Israel's right to exist and recognizing -- rejecting violence and adhering to all existing agreements.

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WHITFIELD: CNN's senior U.S. State Department producer Elise Labott is in Washington.

So, Elise, before we get to Obama's verbal messages, this was a very confident president. Did a rather warm interaction between President Obama and the AIPAC president, Lee Rosenberg, set a tone?

ELISE LABOTT, CNN SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT PRODUCER: Well, I think, Fred, President Obama knew he had to do a certain amount of cleanup from that speech the other day. And Lee Rosenberg, "Rosy," as President Obama called him, really helped kind of set the tone.

Also, first of all, set a message out to the AIPAC crowd, listen, don't boo the president, give him a chance. You know, this is a president that is committed to Israel's security. And I think it did go a long way, this warm introduction that he gave of President Obama in warming up the crowd.

WHITFIELD: OK. And now that verbal message, President Obama said Israel and the U.S. will always be friends. But also warned Israel that it doesn't want to be isolated in the world. What was the president insinuating exactly?

LABOTT: Well, what he's saying is the whole so-called Arab Spring, all of these revolutions in Tunisia and Egypt, we're seeing protests in Yemen and Syria, this is really changing the game. These leaders that Israel used to deal with are not there anymore and you can't guarantee that they're going to be friendly towards Israel.

And now, you can't call for protests and freedom for all the rest of the Arab world and not for the Palestinians. And he's saying change is moving too fast, you really need to get ahead of the game and get negotiations going because sooner or later you're not going to have a Jewish state as the demographics are changing in the region, and you're not going to have a safe one if you don't make a deal.

WHITFIELD: So President Obama focused on peace-making. Was he challenging Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to do the same instead of engaging in yet another exchange or argument about settlements?

LABOTT: I think he was saying, we all know what the deal is. And when he was trying to clarify this 1967 borders, he was actually saying you are not going to have to adhere to those '67 borders.

And what does that mean? You're going to get those settlement blocks, those large settlement blocks that Israel is looking for, in a final settlement. And he's saying, we all know what the territory is. We know all know what the deal is. Let's just call a spade a spade and get on with some of these other tough issues like refugees, like Jerusalem, and security.

WHITFIELD: Did Obama also send a direct or rather indirect message to Hamas?

LABOTT: I think this was one of the things that the Israelis really were glad to hear. The AIPAC crowd was really glad to hear. And you heard rounding applause when President Obama says, no -- you just heard in the sound bite, no country should negotiate with an entity that doesn't accept their right to exist, that they're going to stand by the idea that Hamas cannot be part of these negotiations until they recognize Israel, until they recognize Israel's identity as a Jewish state, and they stop violence.

So I think that there was a lot in the speech today that Israelis were happy with and we also heard a statement from the prime minister's office expressing appreciation for the speech, Prime Minister Netanyahu said: "I share the president's will to promote peace and I value his current and past efforts to achieve this goal. I am determined to act with President Obama in order to find ways to resume the negotiations for peace. Peace is a vital need for all of us."

And, Fred, I spoke to Ambassador Michael Oren just a short time ago, and he said the prime minister really appreciated that speech. Now we're looking for what he's going to give with an address to AIPAC, Prime Minister Netanyahu, tomorrow night.

That's going to be a little bit of a tougher speech. He's going to be speaking to this audience, speaking to this pro-American-Israeli crowd, and he's also going to be giving a speech to Congress on Tuesday. So this is really more of a volleyball game where you're going to see lobs going back and forth. But we're going to see two critical speeches from the prime minister over the next couple of days.

WHITFIELD: All right. Another full week on that matter. Thanks so much, Elise Labott in Washington, appreciate that.

And then later on this hour, a live report from Matthew Chance in Jerusalem with more on how President Obama's speech is being received today.

Now some frightening news out of Yemen. The U.S. ambassador and several other diplomats were trapped inside an embassy surrounded by what's being described as armed supporters of Yemen's president, the embattled president. Mohammed Jamjoom, is with me now live.

So, Mohammed, exactly what happened and how has it resolved?

MOHAMMED JAMJOOM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, it was a very tense situation earlier in the day. Gulf Cooperation Council countries, their ambassadors and their envoy were meeting with officials from the U.S., the U.S. ambassador, the U.K. ambassador, the E.U. ambassador. This was happening at the UAE embassy in Sanaa today, in Yemen's capital city.

They were doing so in an effort to resolve the political crisis that has been going on in Yemen. There has been an attempt to get a deal signed by the opposition in Yemen and the president that would end the political standoff that has been going on in Yemen.

Well, in fact, what happened is, those loyal to President Saleh, armed gunman surrounded the embassy. They would not let the cars pass with those enjoys. Those cars had to retreat back into the embassy. There was a lot of concerns that those ambassadors, those envoys that were inside that embassy were in danger.

Now some people tried to downplay it but those envoys were actually trapped inside for several hours. Now what happened a few hours ago, choppers actually arrived at that embassy, but in fact, the ambassadors, the envoys were taken away in a vehicle.

Then they went to the presidential palace, had a brief meeting with the president, but this deal has not been signed. The president is refusing to sign the political standoff in Yemen still going on, adding a lot of frustration to an already frustrating process.

The U.S., the president, President Barack Obama, and the secretary of state, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, they both urged President Saleh of Yemen in the past few days very publicly to try to keep to his commitments, to make sure there is a peaceful transition of power in that country.

That country has been going through a protest movement for the past four months. Hundreds of thousands of people in the streets every day calling on President Saleh to step down. They've been inspired and emboldened by the Arab Spring, by all of these other countries where there have been these movements calling on their leaders to step aside.

Right now everything in question., a situation that's very fluid. People saying it's very volatile. And we know that the GCC envoy who was trying to broker this deal has left Yemen and it looks like this deal is now on the verge of collapse -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: And then the response directly or maybe even indirectly from President Saleh?

JAMJOOM: Well, President Saleh is blaming the opposition for this. And in fact, he keeps doing so. But in the past several weeks, we've seen many attempts, the U.S. is helping in this, the U.K. is helping in this, other countries trying to help in this, trying to make sure this deal can be brokered, trying to make sure the political standoff can end, that Yemen can get to a place again where things are proceeding peacefully.

It hasn't happened. Every time they've been close, President Saleh has found one way or another to not sign that deal. Now yesterday, the opposition, five members of the opposition in Yemen, actually signed that deal. The president had promised that today he would do so.

This morning he said he wasn't happy with how the opposition signed the deal. He wanted them to do it now publicly in his presence. The opposition then refused, they said it was another delay tactic. They didn't do it. And everything went downhill quickly after that -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Mohammed Jamjoom, thanks so much, appreciate that.

Meantime, the European Union's foreign policy and security chief is in Libya today in the opposition-controlled west. Catherine Ashton arrived in Benghazi to oversee the opening of an E.U. office there. She says creating an office shows the E.U. support for the Libyan people and for the rebel movement fighting to overthrow Moammar Gadhafi.

Back in the U.S. now, Los Angeles police have arrested a suspect in connection with the brutal beating of a San Francisco Giants fan. Two men attacked Bryan Stow outside Dodger Stadium in March. His mother says it was a random act of violence. Stow is now in a medically- induced coma. Police say other suspects are also being detained.

And some dramatic video out of northeastern Kansas where a tornado touched down. You can see what it looks like when that funnel cloud is forming there. One person was killed in the storm last night, four others injured. The destruction is widespread. Take a look at that right there, 200 homes and nearly every building in the town of Reading sustained some damage.

To Shuttle Endeavour, astronauts have successfully completed the second of four planned spacewalks. Astronauts Andrew Feustel and Mike Fincke spent eight hours performing maintenance work on the International Space Station. It was the sixth-longest spacewalk ever. It lasted a little longer than intended because of the trouble containing loose bolts.

And two major announcements in the race for the White House. One happens tomorrow in Iowa. Tim Pawlenty will declare his presidential candidacy at a town hall event in Des Moines. The former Minnesota governor will then kick off a multi-state campaign swing.

And a much different announcement from Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels. In an e-mail sent out to supporters early today, Daniels says he will not run for president. He was considered a potential GOP frontrunner and top Republicans urged him to run, but Daniels says he decided a bid would not be in the best interest of his family.

Single and loving it. Venus Williams talks about her life off the tennis court and why she loves singing karaoke. That's later in the NEWSROOM.

Also, in a matter of minutes, the latest on efforts to save a prison on the banks of Mississippi.

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WHITFIELD: Floodwaters along the Mississippi aren't going anywhere any time soon. Some places expect to be under water until at least mid-June. Check out this cemetery in Yazoo City. You can barely see the headstones, just barely peeking there. The coroner says several caskets have actually floated to the top. They're now in a refrigerated truck until the water does go down.

Inmates, meantime, at the county's largest maximum security prison are piling up sandbags, trying to save it from the floodwaters. The Louisiana State Penitentiary is bordered on three sides by the Mississippi, hence the name "Alcatraz of the South."

And in Vicksburg, Mississippi, one business is making the best of it. Monsour's at the Biscuit Company, a block from the river, has been hosting river crest parties.

All right. So for others who live and work right on the river, well, it's tough going. Take Vidalia Dock and Storage, which is run by three generations of women, as CNN's Jeanne Meserve learned, no flooding is stopping them.

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JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Along the Mississippi, even those who work on the water are under water. But Vidalia Dock and Storage isn't out of business.

MICHAEL MELTON, VIDALIA DOCK AND STORAGE: On what side would you like me to come past you on there?

MESERVE: One of its tugs is headed down the river, though the river has never been like this before. CARLA JENKINS, VIDALIA DOCK AND STORAGE: Mind-boggling. It's really hard to comprehend how much water is coming through here right now. I'm in awe of it. I have tremendous respect for it. And I have a lot of fear.

MESERVE: The Betty M. Jenkins (ph) is headed south to meet up with another towboat and help it maneuver this stretch of the Mississippi.

MELTON: It's usually the easiest part of the river to navigate.

MESERVE (on camera): But not right now.

MELTON: Not right now.

MESERVE: Because of all this water?

MELTON: Exactly.

MESERVE: And all this (INAUDIBLE)?

MELTON: Exactly.

MESERVE (voice-over): They tie up to barge full of chemicals and along with its towboat, push against the current. Together their engines put out more than 3,600 horsepower, but at points they fight to go one mile an hour.

JENKINS: The water will go out and come in like an ocean tide and we have never seen that before. I've never seen the current white- capping off piers like it is on the bridge right now. Never seen that in my life.

MESERVE: Only speed can keep the current from smashing the boats and barge into the bridge between Vidalia and Natchez.

JENKINS: Very nervous. Very.

MESERVE: They are closer to the bridge's piers than they would like and can feel the river fighting for control.

JENKINS: Can you feel it sliding? We're breaking into a slide right now.

MESERVE: But they make it, and a little further up-river the boats untie, the towboat jock heading north alone with its cargo.

(on camera): Right now the river is flexing its muscles. It is so big and so strong, there is little doubt the towboat will need other assists before it reaches its final destination.

Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Vidalia, Louisiana.

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(WEATHER REPORT) WHITFIELD: Well, I think a lot of people can use a laugh or two right now. "Face to Face," what makes Venus Williams laugh? Tennis superstar answers some of your questions, straight ahead.

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WHITFIELD: Tennis great Venus Williams hopes to be back on center court soon. Her abdominal injury is slow healing so doctors and trainers have her taking it easy. She wishes she was at the French Open which begins this weekend. But, taking it easy means that she had some time to be "Face to Face" with me at her favorite Palm Beach Garden, Florida, courts and answer some of your e-mails.

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WHITFIELD: I like to ask a lot of our viewers what kind of questions they may have for someone "Face to Face." So you know I have some.

VENUS WILLIAMS, TENNIS PLAYER: I love questions.

WHITFIELD: Yes, and there really are some great questions. Some are amusing. "Tanner's dad (ph)" says...

WILLIAMS: "Tanner's dad"?

WHITFIELD: Yes, "Tanner's dad" says: "Venus, what is your real spark, drive, and passion? What makes you tick and what tickles your funny bone?

WILLIAMS: My spark, drive, and passion, I think anything that I can work really, really hard at, almost kill myself with hard work, does that sound insane? I think I'm crazy.

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WILLIAMS: And what tickles my funny bone? Well, I'm willing to laugh at anything, including myself, at all times and I'm not very serious person actually and I'm not very grown up and it may seem like it, but when you get to know me, you realize that, gosh, she needs another 20 years before she gets to be a real adult.

So it's an interesting combination, but I laugh at a lot of things. What really sparks my funny bone, big karaoke enthusiast.

WHITFIELD: Are you? You love karaoke?

WILLIAMS: Huge. Love karaoke.

WHITFIELD: Where do you karaoke?

WILLIAMS: I karaoke all over the world. I've karaoke'd in Asia, I've karaoke'd in the U.S., I karaoke at home on a daily basis.

WHITFIELD: So when in Asia, you go to like the big -- you know, because it's like an apartment building, you go to sign up for a room, when people see you coming, are they like, is that really Venus Williams getting ready to karaoke here?

WILLIAMS: Once they hear my voice they fall in love.

WHITFIELD: Really?

WILLIAMS: No.

(LAUGHTER)

WILLIAMS: It's about having fun. It's not about sounding great.

WHITFIELD: Right, right. That's true. That's true. You don't have to be a great singer to be a great karaoke.

WILLIAMS: And we're a karaoke-ing family.

WHITFIELD: Are you?

WILLIAMS: We are. We all karaoke. And some of us have routines.

WHITFIELD: So at home, microphones, sometimes someone just improvises and suddenly a karaoke night has...

WILLIAMS: Suddenly the karaoke turns on, it could be any time of the day, night, morning. Just singing. After you sing you feel good.

WHITFIELD: That is certainly something that probably no one knew about. OK. "Barry York (ph)" is, of course, going to get personal here. He wants to know about your love interest.

WILLIAMS: Well, right now I'm single and I like that because when you're single, you don't have to call anybody. You don't have to care about their issues.

WHITFIELD: It's not complicated, is it?

WILLIAMS: And it's great. So, you know, right now it's a great life. I live in a house where everyone is single and we're all bachelorettes. It's fun. One day I'll grow up maybe.

WHITFIELD: Oh my goodness. OK. And then "A. Solomon (ph)", 15, wants to know what kinds of junk food you like to eat?

WILLIAMS: I love junk food.

WHITFIELD: You do?

WILLIAMS: Yes. I do. I love junk food.

WHITFIELD: How can you be a great athlete and still enjoy junk food?

WILLIAMS: Well, the key word is balance. I don't...

WHITFIELD: I guess you do burn a lot of calories all the time.

WILLIAMS: Yes. Normally I don't diet. I just try to be balanced with eating good foods and then sometimes you have more foods that aren't as good, but...

WHITFIELD: What would be your favorite junk food?

WILLIAMS: ... not too much.

WHITFIELD: Do you have a favorite?

WILLIAMS: It changes. One thing that I love are the Oreo Cakesters, the Vanilla Cakesters. They don't last long.

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WHITFIELD: More "Face to Face" with Venus Williams later on this hour. Her keys to greatness. If you missed any of my "Face to Face" conversations with Venus Williams, just go to my blog at cnn.com/fredricka.

All right. President Obama discussed the Middle East peace process again this morning. Did he mend any fences with Israel? A live report from Jerusalem next.

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WHITFIELD: Time to look at our top stories. President Barack Obama today defended his recent declaration that a Middle East peace settlement should be based on Israel's pre-1967 borders. Speaking to a pro-Israel lobby group this morning, the president said: "The U.S. commitment to Israeli security is ironclad." But he also said: "It is increasingly important to reach a peace agreement."

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OBAMA: Here are the facts we all must confront. First, the number of Palestinians living west of the Jordan River is growing rapidly, and fundamentally reshaping the demographic realities of both Israel and the Palestinian territories. This will make it harder and harder without a peace deal to maintain Israel as both a Jewish state and a democratic state.

Second, technology will make it harder for Israel to defend itself in the absence of a genuine peace. Third, a new generation of Arabs is reshaping the region. A just and lasting peace can no longer be forged with one or two Arab leaders.

Going forward, millions of Arab citizens have to see that peace is possible for that peace to be sustained. And just as the context has changed in the Middle East, so, too, has it been changing in the international community over the last several years.

There's a reason why the Palestinians are pursuing their interests at the United Nations. They recognize that there is an impatience with the peace process or the absence of one, not just in the Arab world, in Latin America, in Asia, and in Europe. And that impatience is growing, and it's already manifesting itself in capitals around the world.

Those are the facts.

I firmly believe and I repeat it on Thursday that peace cannot be imposed on the parties to the conflict. No vote at the United Nations will ever create an independent Palestinian state and the United States will stand up against efforts to single Israel out at the United Nations or in any international forum.

Israel's legitimacy is not a matter for debate. That is my commitment. That is my pledge to all of you.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: CNN's senior international correspondent Matthew Chance is standing by in Jerusalem with reaction to President Obama's speech.

So Matthew, Israel rejected the president's call last week for negotiations based on Israel's pre-1967 borders. Will this speech mend those fences?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: It's not quite entirely clear that it will. Of course, Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, is ideologically opposed in many ways to what President Obama suggested, which is that Israel withdraw to these pre- 1967 borders.

There's a basis for future negotiations with the -- with the Palestinians as a basis for a future Palestinian state. That's not something Mr. Netanyahu has accepted. He rejected it again.

Of course, yesterday, he hasn't really reacted directly to the latest restatement of this position, but he's saying that he valued President Obama's comments. So it's not yet clear whether this will be enough to appease the Israeli leader, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, something else we just heard the president underscore, he said technology will make it harder for Israel to defend itself in the absence of a peace agreement. So what's the interpretation there?

CHANCE: Well, it's a couple things. He's talking about two kinds of technology. The first kind he's talking about is, of course, weapons technology. Over the years, particularly Palestinian militants in the Gaza strip have been refining their rocket making ability.

Making their rockets much more accurate, much more potentially lethal, and so that's something that obviously is going to continue. They will continue honing those skills. In the absence of a peace agreement, you know, the technology is going to get -- rocket technology and other weaponry technology is going to be much harder to combat by Israel.

But, of course, there's another kind of technology as well. It's the social networking sites. It's the fact that Palestinians along with other Arabs and other people in the world are finding it easy these days to marshal support, using the internet to organize protests and rallies at a moment's notice.

And so these two kinds of different technologies are something that will confront Israel is the point that President Obama is making, if some kind of permanent peace agreement is not reached.

WHITFIELD: Matthew Chance in Jerusalem, thanks so much. Other international top stories right now we're following.

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WHITFIELD (voice-over): The U.S. ambassador to Yemen is save today, but it was a bit dicey. A little bit ago when an armed group surrounded that embassy where he, the ambassador, was meeting with other diplomats. People in the crowd were supporter of Yemen's embattled president under increasing public and political pressure to leave office.

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WHITFIELD: Fifteen bombs went off over Baghdad today killing at least 18 people. They were car bombs, roadside explosions and suicide attacks. One bomb went off near a U.S. military convoy. No word that the U.S. troops were actually hurt. The bombings came the same day British forces ended their military mission in Iraq.

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WHITFIELD (voice-over): And now to Iceland where another volcano is erupting, ash from the Grimesvotn volcano forced the air space around Iceland's international airport to close. You can see the dark cloud right there.

But the ash is not expected to have an impact on Europian or trans- Atlantic flights. Last year eruptions from another Iceland volcano disrupted air travel across Europe.

One man was killed and four people injured after a tornado ripped through north eastern Kansas. Two hundred homes were damaged or destroyed and nearly every building in the town of Redding sustained some kind of damage. The Salvation Army has teams helping survivors and first responders there.

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WHITFIELD: All right, checking back with our Jacqui Jeras. What is Monday's commute look like?

JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Looks stormy again, Fredricka. In fact, we're worried more about probably the afternoon commutes compared to the morning commutes. As we take a look at the big picture the nation as a whole, our big focus will be the threat for severe thunderstorms.

We'll watch for that threat from the Great Lakes stretching through the Ohio and Tennessee River Valleys and down into southern plain states. Again, the afternoon looking in a little dicier than the morning commute, but some of you especially in this area are going to wake up to some of that rain as well.

If you're going to be traveling by the airways, we're expecting a lot of delays in the northeast. Mostly due to some spotty showers as well as the low clouds. Cincinnati, Detroit and St. Louis as well as Dallas and Nashville because of the thunderstorms and then San Francisco expecting morning delays primarily due to the low clouds and fog.

Cincinnati looks hazy out there now. Showers and thunderstorms tomorrow and some of those may be severe. So be aware of that as you make your travel plans or just heading out the door to work tomorrow morning.

WHITFIELD: All right, very good. Thanks so much, Jacqui.

OK, so what are the three keys to greatness? Face-to-face with Venus Williams, she's laying out all those ideas. What her inspiring keys to greatness are.

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WHITFIELD: Who doesn't fantasize about being a great athlete? Face- to-face, tennis champ, Venus Williams reveals what she believes are the keys to achieving greatness.

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WHITFIELD: So if there were three things, I like to ask all my face- to-face interviews, if there were three things that were like the key ingredient to greatness, what would they be?

VENUS WILLIAMS, TENNIS CHAMP: My gosh. I think, first, you can never undermine hard work that has to be the first. And because you're willing to work hard, you're going to get the confidence that you need to be able to achieve things. That would be the second one, confidence and self-belief.

And what would be the third? The third one, I would say definitely the third, I would kind of describe it as heart. That could be the first two or it could be the third because you might not have a heart, but it's something you can learn.

And in terms of heart I mean just being able to give that extra, pull it out of yourself, whatever that is, to get the job done whether it's that heart. You can learn -- I think the heart of something you can learn.

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WHITFIELD: If you missed any of my face-to-face with Venus Williams, go to my blog at cnn.com/fredricka.

All right, so we all like free stuff, right? For this week's gaming and gadget segment that's what we have for you, free stuff. Marc Saltzman joins us now with the best five apps for your tablet computer, best part, of course, it's free. So let's begin, Marc, with that Netfix. What do you have for us?

MARC SALTZMAN, SYNDICATED TECHNOLOGY WRITER: Yes, absolutely. So a lot of our viewers are familiar with Netflix. You pay $8 a month on a number of devices on your TV or video game console or now handheld device.

You can watch thousands of TV shows and movies, but it was really meant for a 10-inch tablet or in some cases a 7-inch tablet because, you know, it's a lot more comfortable. You don't have to squint to look at it on a Smartphone.

So if you're spending any time on the go as long as you have Wi-Fi or 3G connectivity, Netflix is great because you have such a variety of shows and movies to choose from.

All organized by Genre or date by star rating. You know, so lots of great stuff. So Netflix is number one if you are a subscriber and again, you do need to be one for 8 bucks a month.

WHITFIELD: All right, cool stuff and then tune in radio. How free is free?

SALTZMAN: Yes, this is my favorite tablet app actually. This gives you access to more than 40,000 radio stations from around the world. So here's a map of the world, by the way, so you can simply tap on the country from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, and you can listen to radio stations by region or by genre.

So why not listen to streaming music. You can listen to blues from New Orleans, reggae from Jamaica and it's so easy to navigate and it sounds great. Most of the stations are deejay and commercial-free.

And on the tune in radio pro version, which costs a buck, you can also record your favorite music or talk to listen to at a later time so a great app. Tune in radio, it's free.

WHITFIELD: That is super. OK, what's the flip board all about?

SALTZMAN: Flip board is dubbed a personalized social magazine and that's a great description of it. It lets you customize a digital magazine with content that matters to you.

So that can be news, your Facebook updates, your Twitter feeds, there's Oprah information, and you can access it. I don't know if you can see me swiping here. I'm trying to dim the brightness of my tablet so you can get an idea.

It's just a beautiful, graceful interface to use your fingertip to flip through all the content. You can post your favorites to your community.

There are videos, articles and photo slide shows. Essentially it's like all your favorite magazines together for free called flip board. And it is only for iPad at this time, but it is a great app if you haven't discovered it yet. WHITFIELD: My gosh, this is incredible stuff. You're never going to want to interact with another person again because this is going to keep you busy for hours. OK, and there's Skype. OK, that will be your interaction.

SALTZMAN: So, should you want to interact with another person ever again, Skype works with the iPad II because you need the cameras to chat with friends and family. There is Skype for Android tablets and the new Blackberry playbook, but it's audio only at this point.

But you know the drill with Skype just like your personal computer, you can video chat with friends and family or in this case, Fredricka, colleagues. For free over video anywhere in the world.

That's exactly what we're talking through right now over my computer web camera, but we could do this tech time interview over an iPad II, so Skype is great and speaking of the iPad II, they also have Apples' own video chatting service, which is also free called "Face Time," but you need Wi-Fi whereas Skype also works over 3G connectivity.

WHITFIELD: And then you're going to tell me something new about CNN?

SALTZMAN: Right. I'm not choosing this app because we're the talking to the CNN network, but really any news network can learn a lesson from CNN on how to create an amazing app. This is the free CNN app for iPad.

It is organized in such a fluid and intuitive way. You've got access to all the top stories, streaming video, interviews, you know, lots of articles, bookmark your favorites to read them off-line, share your favorites or Facebook or Twitter or e-mails.

There are lots of great content here all for free and it's for the iPad. It's the CNN app so definitely download this.

WHITFIELD: It is the best. Yes, thanks for that added plug on that one. Marc Saltzman, appreciate that. Always good to see you. Love all those gaming and gadget things. Awesome.

OK, so for more on high-tech ideas and reviews, just go to cnn.com/tech and look for the gaming and gadgets tab.

Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver, splitsville. So why our legal guys say this might not be your ordinary messy celebrity divorce.

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WHITFIELD: So one of the big legal stories this week is filling the gossip pages, I'm talking, of course, about the split between Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver after 25 years of marriage.

The announcement came on the heels of the revelation that Schwarzenegger fathered a child with a family housekeeper. A celebrity divorce is more than enough to get our legal guys going.

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WHITFIELD: Let's move on to the Arnold Schwarzenegger/Maria Shriver case because little dribbling come out every day and now we're talking about the case of, you know, Maria Shriver hiring a fairly well-known celebrity divorce attorney, Avery.

And so clearly the couple probably had pre-nup agreements before they got married, but the wealth changed over the years, they've been married for 25 years, and isn't California kind of that 50/50 state after 10 years, usually the wealth or the assets get split in half? Would that apply here even if there were pre-nups?

AVERY FRIEDMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Well, ordinarily the pre-nup will expire after a certain period of time, 10, 15 years. They've been married for 25 years, Fredricka.

But the fact is, that it is -- California is one of 10 community property states that's exactly right. Look for a quiet, discreet resolution.

WHITFIELD: How is that possible?

FRIEDMAN: In fact, I'm remembering, I think it can be done and I'm remembering that you did a face-to-face with one of the children.

WHITFIELD: Yes.

FRIEDMAN: Who talked about her struggle.

WHITFIELD: With Katherine Schwarzenegger.

FRIEDMAN: And the fact is -- that's exactly right. And the bottom line is that's the motive to do this discreetly, carefully, thoughtfully, and minimize visibility which, of course, is highly visible now.

WHITFIELD: Interesting. So Richard, I don't know if there would end up being a bit of a custody battle at least over the two younger kids. I don't even though if that will be an issue that Arnold would try to pursue?

RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: I agree with Avery. It's going to be resolved behind doors. But Fred, at this point, Maria Shriver has not said she wants a divorce.

FRIEDMAN: That's right.

HERMAN: She's got to get to that stage first and want it.

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WHITFIELD: And, of course, you can catch our legal guys right here every Saturday beginning at noon Eastern Time.

When we come back, a breaking story out of Pakistan, an attack on a military base there. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

WHITFIELD: All right, breaking news. We're learning of an attack on a Pakistani military base in Karachi. Our Stan Grant is in Islamabad. What more can you tell us, Stan?

STAN GRANT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Fredricka, some really dramatic pieces coming out. This is a naval base in Karachi. It's about 10 kilometers from the international airport. Now I've got off the phone from the interior minister as I called him, he said to me we're in the middle of a major operation here.

Now he says that the base had been attacked by militants. He said there were three explosions. There are some sources saying perhaps the explosions may be as many as five. He said that a plane was on fire and militants were actually inside the base.

Now there have also been reports of gunfire being heard. The minister told me that he was marshaling the commandos, all the commandos at his disposal in that area and moving them into the base to try to root out these militants.

In fact, that would fit with the images we are seeing, the vision that's being broadcast on local television here, showing jeeps and truck loads full of armed soldiers pouring into that base and obviously an emergency under way there right now.

This is the Mevran Naval Base. It's a logistic and support base. It's a naval base in Karachi, a huge city and a city that's actually known as a hotbed of crime and militancy. In fact, there have been some rumors, of course, we can't confirm this.

But some rumors that Mullah Omar who is the overall chief of the Taliban himself, may be hiding out in Karachi. So it's a known hotbed of militancy and right now an attack under way at the naval base there.

And commanders brought in to try to get the situation under control with the militants inside according to the interior minister, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, Stan Grant. Thanks so much from Islamabad. We'll check back with you through the afternoon as that story evolves.

All right, here are some questions for you, how about wearing jeans or even talking on your cell phone? Do you do those things when interviewing for a job?

What should you do to make a great first impression? Find out today at 4:00 Eastern Time right here in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. We'll be back right after this.

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WHITFIELD: The government's debt trouble and one automakers plan to get out of debt, our money team has that and more. Let's first go to Alison Kosik.

ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fredricka. The government hit its legal spending limits this past week, $14.3 trillion. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner is buying lawmakers some time by cutting back investments in federal retirement funds.

That gives Congress until August 2nd to decide whether or not to raise the debt ceiling. If they fail to do so the government will default on its debt payment.

LinkedIn public debut made a big splash with one of the biggest tech IPOs since Google. Shares of the social networking company initially priced at $45 a share and doubled on the first day of trading.

Poppy Harlow has a look at what's something up next week. Hi, Poppy.

POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM: Thanks a lot, Alison. Well, Chrysler may take a big step next week towards paying of the $7 billion bailout that it received in 2009.

The automaker is ling up bank loans and bond sales to raise cash and that would allow the Italian automaker fiat to boost its stake in Chrysler to more than 50 percent later this year.

Also coming up next week, Barnes & Noble's set to launch a new e- reader. Amazon's Kindle currently dominates the market, but Barnes & Noble's Nook is picking up speed so it should be a fun race to watch. Fredricka, back to you.

WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks so much, ladies. And remember, you can get your financial fix every day on CNNMoney.com.

A look again at our top stories, President Barack Obama insists the controversy surrounding his comments on Middle East peace negotiations is not warranted.

During a highly-anticipated speech today to the American-Israeli lobby group APAC, the president clarified his reference last week to Israel's pre-1967 borders.

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PRESIDENT OBAMA: My definition, it means that the parties themselves, Israelis and Palestinians, will negotiate a border that is different than the one that existed on June 4th, 1967. That's what mutually agreed upon swaps mean.

It is a well-known formula to all who have worked on this issue for a generation. It allows the parties themselves to account for the changes that have taken place over the last 44 years.

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WHITFIELD: Police have made an arrest in the attack on a San Francisco Giants fan outside Dodger Stadium in Los Angeles. They have one man in custody and are questioning several others. The brutal beating in March left Bryan Stowe in such bad shape that doctors put him in a medically induced coma.

And two Shuttle "Endeavour" astronauts have successfully completed the second of four planned spacewalks. Astronauts Andrew Feustel and Mike Finkel spent eight hours performing work on the International Space Station.

It was the sixth longest spacewalk ever that lasted a little longer than intended because of trouble containing loose bolts.

And I'll be back in one hour. Right now time for "YOUR MONEY."