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Cleared After Recording Police; Not Much of a "Carmageddon"; J Lo & Marc Anthony Split Up

Aired July 16, 2011 - 19:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Right now on CNN:

What is going on in Rochester, New York?

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EMILY GOOD, COMMUNITY ORGANIZER: I'm not deserving what they're doing, and they're arrested me. I don't understand what's going on. I did nothing. I did nothing.

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LEMON: All right. That's Emily Good being arrested for videotaping an arrest from her own front yard. I'm going to talk with a local lawmaker who says he's been the target of police retaliation.

Plus, we investigate deeper.

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LEMON: So, the outburst you see right there probably won't help this woman's case. She's accused of attacking her husband -- caught on tape attacking the judge sentencing her. We're going to talk to the officer who grabbed her.

And I want you to meet Mama Jazz and her very unique fingernail style. Her longest nail, 26 inches, the one in her thumb. We're going to visit her house to see how she goes about her daily life. And she'll be here to answer some questions for me.

I'm Don Lemon at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta.

A lot of news to get you caught up on and so let's do it.

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GOOD: What in the world? I'm sorry I was standing my front yard, concerned about what was going on in my neighborhood, and you're arresting me. What the hell is going on right now?

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LEMON: Tonight, we go in depth about a story behind this video.

When Rochester police put the cuffs on Emily Good, they also set off a national debate -- monitoring police versus public safety.

Good -- a Rochester, New York woman -- was arrested for obstructing governmental administration after she recorded police making a traffic stop. Her charges were later dropped, but police say citizens now feel bolder to intervene which puts everyone at risk.

CNN's Susan Candiotti is on the story for us.

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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Emily Good was unwinding at home in her pajamas late one night in May when she and a friend noticed police stop a car in front of her house. As the police were questioning the car's occupants, the 28-year-old community organizer was questioning why. So, she hit the record button on her iPod.

GOOD: I wanted to see what they were doing to this young man.

MARIO MASIC, POLICE OFFICER: You guys need something?

GOOD: I'm just -- this is my front yard, I'm just recording what you're doing. It's my right.

MASIC: Actually, not from the sidewalk.

GOOD: This is my yard.

CANDIOTTI: Good is speaking with Rochester Police Officer Mario Masic.

MASIC: I don't feel safe with you standing behind me. So, I'm going to ask you to go to your house.

GOOD: When I started filming, I had my feet just barely on the sidewalk like this. He told me you can't watch from the sidewalk. So, I stepped back just one step so I was entirely on the lawn. He said, "You're not even backing up." And I said, "Would you like me to take a step back? You know, I will take a step back." And I -- I stepped back further.

MASIC: OK, listen, I'm not going to explain myself. What you're going to do is you're going to end up going to jail. I'm trying to give you a warning. OK?

GOOD: I'm going to back up.

MASIC: You know what? You're going to go jail. This is not right. No, stay right here.

GOOD: I'm sorry.

CANDIOTTI: She dropped the iPod. Her friend picked it up and kept rolling.

GOOD: I'm not deserving what they're doing and they're arresting me. I don't understand what's going on. I did nothing. I did nothing.

What in the world? I'm sorry. I was standing in my front yard. I'm concerned about what was going on in my neighborhood.

CANDIOTTI: She was charged with obstruction of governmental administration, a misdemeanor. Police Officer Masic is not allowed to speak publicly about the case, but the head of his union, Mike Mazzeo, says the situation was not that Emily Good was shooting video.

MIKE MAZZEO, PRESIDENT, ROCHESTER POLICE UNION: The issue here is the officer's attention was distracted from a very, potentially very dangerous situation. All she had to do was comply, go up on her porch, go on her home her own safety.

CANDIOTTI: Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard says safety is a key issue, but admits citizens have a right to shoot video in a public place.

CHIEF JAMES SHEPPARD, ROCHESTER, N.Y. POLICE: I don't think it was a -- a filming issue. I think if that were the issue, the film would have been confiscated. And I don't think that's the case.

CANDIOTTI: Emily Good sees her arrest as an attempt to intimidate residents.

GOOD: Even though the police insist that the filming isn't what got me arrested, it doesn't make sense that, you know, my taller male friend was never given any orders, was never even spoken to, and he was, you know, much -- much more I guess menacing-looking. He was fully dressed. I was in pajamas, you know?

It seems to me like the camera was the variable.

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CANDIOTTI: The Rochester prosecutor's office later dropped the charge against Emily Good.

However, questions involving the Rochester police and video recording are still very much in play.

On the same night Emily Good was cleared, a supporter of hers, Rochester resident Warren Barnes, recorded police officers stopping several men in his neighborhood.

WARREN BARNES, ROCHESTER RESIDENT: What are you being detained for?

CANDIOTTI: You can hear Barnes speaking out to the young men being questioned. 7 BARNES: What are you guys being detained for? What are they being detained for, officer?

CANDIOTTI: The men were released, and Barnes approached the police officers. BARNES: Can I have your lieutenant's name? Can I have your lieutenant's name, sir? Can I have your business card so I know who interacted with you (ph)?

CANDIOTTI: Barnes says he did not record what happened next.

BARNES: I walked across the street like this gentleman's about to do. They sped across the street and said, "Jaywalking, jaywalking, we got you on camera jaywalking."

CANDIOTTI: Barnes was ticketed for not using a crosswalk. Later changed to disorderly conduct and obstructing traffic. Other charges followed, including weapons possession, what Barnes said was a utility knife, and marijuana possession.

Barnes pleaded not guilty to the charges, but says the jaywalking ticket was a way of publishing him for making a recording.

Police Chief James Sheppard says jaywalking is a violation of traffic law and led to other charges.

SHEPPARD: There were a number of other issues involved in that case. One was possession of a weapon. There was also contraband that was seized by the police department that also resulted in that arrest.

CANDIOTTI: On YouTube, video shows another incident that community activists call purely retaliatory.

While Emily Good's supporters were inside a meeting, police took out rulers and issued parking tickets to any car more than 12 inches from the curb. Rochester Police Chief James Sheppard says, in each of the cases, his officers were enforcing the law.

SHEPPARD: However, in the spirit of the law, maybe they take it a little bit too far. That's yet to be determined. We'll look at it in terms of our internal investigation.

CANDIOTTI: Rochester Mayor Thomas Richards is waiting for the results for all the internal investigations.

MAYOR THOMAS RICHARDS, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK: We're going to look at whether there's a pattern of arrests here. Whether there's a pattern of arrests here that would indicate that this kind of arrest is being somehow abused.

CANDIOTTI: Emily Good says she's been arrested several times over the last couple of years for civil disobedience, most recently at a local protest against foreclosure. And she's convinced that the law is on her side in terms of recording police activity. Good and her supporters vow to keep cameras rolling.

GOOD: It has a powerful role in, you know, telling the officers that not only are we watching this, but, you know, potentially the whole world is watching this.

CANDIOTTI: Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York. (END VIDEOTAPE)

LEMON: And when we return, a man who wasn't there that night but claims he was harassed, as well. The county legislator who claims he was a victim of police retaliation.

Willie Lightfoot talks to me live from Rochester, next.

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LEMON: OK, continuing our in-depth coverage now of the Rochester police incident.

Joining me is Willie Lightfoot. He's a county legislator.

Mr. Lightfoot, thank you for joining us.

You say that Rochester police officers mistreated you and that was back in May. You say that you were intervening when a young African- American male was getting arrested outside your barber shop, and we have the surveillance video to show you.

This is the surveillance video of what happened. Officers charged you on this day with disorderly conduct, obstructing governmental administration and driving while intoxicated, after this very incident.

Then you cut a deal pleading to DUI. So, you said you did that to save your firefighter job. Explain that to me.

WILLIE LIGHTFOOT, MONROE COUNTY, N.Y. LEGISLATOR: Yes, first of all, I thank God for being able to be here with you. I also want to say that there were two more charges. This was obscene -- a charge of obscene language and also failure to blow in a breathalyzer. So, there were actually five charges that I was charged with. Four of them got dropped in the plea.

Basically, I took the plea because I couldn't afford to go to trial like many people in my community. And also because of my job, if I was convicted of obstruction of government administration, I would have been terminated from my employment.

LEMON: OK. So we reached out to Rochester police about your situation, and they didn't want to make any further comments. But earlier, Chief Sheppard told our affiliate WHEM-TV that he encouraged you to continue the complaint process, Mr. Lightfoot. But you dropped your complaint against the police. Why did you do it?

LIGHTFOOT: Well, sir, when I went to make my complaint about three or four days after the incident happened, I was sitting giving my complaint. The person that I was giving my complaint to was in constant defense of the individual officers.

I didn't feel confident in their internal process. I believe we need an external process because people just are not confident in the RPD's internal process, internal complaint process. LEMON: OK. So since this incident, yours and Emily Good, and what have you, since this controversy with you, since it began, police behavior has gotten better because people are watching officers more closely, or has it gotten worse because officers are angry now? Which one is it?

LIGHTFOOT: Don, I'm getting numerous calls from people, constituents in my community, and people in the neighborhood, especially adjacent to that I represent. And many people are saying that they're constantly being harassed.

And when I say about harassed, I mean, I believe that the way the police department treats African-Americans especially in this community as opposed to Caucasians is a different approach. They're much more aggressive than they are when they're approaching a Caucasian resident as opposed to an African-American resident. And so, I'm hearing nothing but complaints from people in the city.

LEMON: OK. So, Mr. Lightfoot, that was the reason that Emily Good said she recorded that video in her front yard, because she was concerned about racial profiling and police harassment. Do you believe that this is a systematic problem with Rochester police?

LIGHTFOOT: Absolutely. I believe that. I was a victim of that myself.

I was driven around for four hours. When asked to the bathroom, I was told to urinate on myself. I was never told why I was arrested.

I was treated like a common criminal and thug. And basically, I've been nothing but an upstanding citizen in this community. I'm a two- time war veteran. You know, I'm an upstanding citizen, business owner.

And I came to the aid of a young man who was in handcuffs who was being threatened. And I thought that that was wrong.

LEMON: OK. How do you -- you heard the police chief say you can't be intervening in police work. If an officer asks you to do something, you should abide by that, especially if the officer doesn't feel safe.

Does that explanation -- is that enough for you and for the citizens of Rochester?

LIGHTFOOT: Well, I think that you have to definitely uphold the law, and we have to let them do their job. Quite naturally, if you look at my video, it was said -- before my video came out, that I was acting belligerent and interfering. But when you see my video, you see me actually assisting the officer, trying to help him find the individual he was looking for.

So, in my opinion, you know, we have to get to a point of who oversees the overseer. We have to really ask ourselves this question. And, no, I don't think it's enough because they're sworn in to uphold the law.

And if they're sworn in to uphold the law and tell the truth, then they have to be accountable, as well.

LEMON: All right. Thank you, Willie Lightfoot.

This is a story we're going to continue to investigate. We really appreciate your time.

LIGHTFOOT: Thank you.

LEMON: Casey Anthony, just hours away from walking out of jail. Where will she go?

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CHENEY MASON, CASEY ANTHONY'S ATTORNEY: You'd be surprised the outpouring of mental health counselors and doctors and nurses and people with homes and ranches or farms, places for her to stay and protect her.

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LEMON: We're going to tell you what's next for the Florida woman acquitted of killing her daughter.

And it was supposed to be a nightmare, but is it turning out to be a piece of cake really? What happens when Los Angeles closes one of its busiest freeways?

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STEPHEN COLBERT, COMEDIA: Sure, Californians have survived earthquakes, wildfires, Laker victories, even alien invasions. But this is the big one, folks: increased traffic on two off-peak days.

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LEMON: Stephen Colbert didn't seem to think the so-called carmageddon in Los Angeles would be that big a deal or at all this weekend.

And so far, he seems to be right about this. The 10-mile stretch of the 405, one of the busiest freeways in the country, is shut down until Monday so crews can tear down a bridge. But the warnings to stay off the roads, they must have worked. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa did a flyover to see if there was any road congestion, and he had to be pretty happy with what he saw.

Live now to Sandra Endo. She's standing by on the Ventura Freeway.

So, Endo, where is all this hellacious traffic everyone was worried about?

SANDRA ENDO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I know. Unbelievable, right, Don? Because this is unprecedented that they shut down this 10-mile stretch of the 405 freeway. And city officials are saying so far, so good -- everything is smooth sailing, what epic traffic jams that they were warning the public about for three months now.

Take a look behind me, down at the shutdown 405. Ads you were mentioning, this is a major artery servicing San Fernando Valley, all the way to Orange County. This is a major artery. And more than half a million drivers are on it any given weekend.

And I can tell you, I'm a valley girl. I grew up in Northridge. This is the lifeline to my grandma's house. And this has caused me so much road rage or tested my patience so many times. That's how notorious the 405 freeway is.

But you can see it right now shut down. The traffic underneath, smooth sailing, and a lot of cars easy breezy going on by.

Let's take a live look at Ventura Boulevard. That is the boulevard we were look at. Now, if this was actually carmageddon, as people were calling it, or carpocalypse, Ventura Boulevard in the San Fernando Valley would have been backed up bumper to bumper for miles. But all morning long, we have seen cars just sail on by. We've also tried to see how people are getting around.

Some people are on their bikes, Don. Other people are actually -- get this -- they're actually walking in Los Angeles. That's pretty rare here because a lot of my friends at least get in their cars to go two blocks to buy some coffee. So, a pretty car-dependent town.

The city officials are even giving free bus rides and train service to people affected in this area. But so far, it seems like the campaign to get people off the streets, off the roads -- well, it's working because carmageddon is turning into, as they call it, carmaheaven -- Don.

LEMON: Maybe this is a mass transit wake-up call for L.A.

All right. Thank you, Sandra Endo. Really appreciate it.

Now this on CNN.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you! Shame on you!

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LEMON: Rupert Murdoch says he is sorry for the phone-hacking scandal that's infecting his News Corp empire, and he's making sure everyone in Britain knows it -- taking out giant apology ads in seven national newspapers today. The uproar has already led Murdoch to shut down "The News of the World," his enormously popular U.K. tabloid.

The scandal came to light whether actor Hugh Grant secretly taped a conversation with a former "News of the World" journalist, Paul McMullan.

I spoke with McMullan who said that hacking phones to get information illegally happened all the time at the paper.

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PAUL MCMULLAN, FORMER "NEWS OF THE WORLD" JOURNALIST (via telephone): Everybody knew. I mean, it started from the time way back in the '90s when you could buy a scanner in a shop and sit outside a star's house and actually tape-record their entire conversation. When that became illegal to buy a scanner, all you were left with was getting into the voicemail of the celebrity or politician, whoever was being targeted.

I mean, everybody knew -- I mean, it was commonplace. It wasn't just journalists. It was kids in the schoolyard who were doing it to their mate. I mean, it was just a very common trick. All you had to do was hit 9 and put in the pin code and people didn't even change their pin codes from 40.

So the problem is people got such good results early on. I mean, for one example, a very famous British, very chic blonde, (INAUDIBLE), someone on a fishing expedition hacked her phone, listened to three messages, and the last one was the (INAUDIBLE) saying, "Darling, we had such a good night last night."

When you get that quality of information, instead of being the one-off every now and then, it started to be done routinely and not just to the Hugh Grants and Nicole Kidmans of the world but to our readers and, worse than that, to, you know, the mobile phone of the girl who was in fact -- had died. And that's where it really came to a head because part of those who did that deleted some of the messages. So, it looked like her phone it h come back to life.

LEMON: OK. So, listen, you talked about Milly Dowler and her family. This is what I want to know -- were people as high possibly as Rupert Murdoch complicit in this? Would Rupert Murdoch know about these practices? Would people under him know about these sorts of practices?

MCMULLAN: Yes. Well, people under him certainly should have known. I mean, when Rebecca Brooks, who is his right-hand woman in Britain, were doing my job, she wad features editor, and I became deputy feature editor. So, we were looking at the same books. So, we both had.

And we were spending 4,000 pounds a week on private investigators doing these kind of practices. And it's extraordinary, you know, if she was the department boss who then moved up to be editor, I mean, how could you not notice the spend of over 100 grand a year on this kind of thing and not even ask what it's for.

So, I mean, her position is ludicrous. And even worse than that, for her to turn around and initially, Andy Coulson, turned around and say we didn't know about it, it was a rogue reporter acting on his own. And now, five reporters have been arrested. I've been invited to Scotland Yard to be arrested three times.

And they were still saying that we didn't know. It was just reporters acting on their own. (END VIDEOTAPE)

LEMON: Rupert Murdoch and his son James Murdoch have agreed to testify Tuesday at a parliamentary committee hearing on the scandal.

She was tried. She was acquitted. And now, she's about to be set free.

Casey Anthony's murder trial captivated much of the nation. The verdict outraged many.

As of midnight, she's eligible to be set free from the Orange County, Florida jail. And we don't know exactly when or how the release will happen.

There are some concerns about Anthony's safety once she is released. But the sheriff says he's not aware of any credible threats to her life.

I want you to take a look at this freight train derailment outside Minneapolis, St. Paul. Incredible video. The train's engineer and another worker suffered minor injuries when it went off the tracks. It happened near a bridge that had been washed out by recent heavy rains. Investigators are clearing the train's 17 derailed cars. Service has been suspended, including to tonight's Minnesota Twins game.

The president and top Republicans are staying out of the spotlight, but they're still working on a deal to raise the debt ceiling. The spokesman for White House speaker John Boehner -- I should say House Speaker John Boehner, tells CNN that meetings have been occurring and ideas are being exchanged.

So far, though, no progress to report to you. The government has to raise its $14.3 trillion debt ceiling by August 2nd or risk defaulting on its obligations.

President Obama and the Dalai Lama met today at the White House. The president praised the Tibetan spiritual leader for his commitment to nonviolence. And he repeated his support for direct dialogue between China and Tibet. China, meantime, blasted the meeting, saying it harmed relations with the U.S. and interfered with China's international affairs. China considers Tibet to be a breakaway province and the Dalai Lama to be a separatist leader.

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LEMON: All right. That is just crazy. A woman tries to attack a judge. Why was she so mad?

I want you to look at this. It is a giant television tower on fire. Wait until you see what happens next.

And if you want to get some information for stories that we're airing here, you want to give us some story, ideas. You can get us on social media, Twitter, Facebook, CNN.com/Don, also on Foursquare. And the wait is over, "Transparent," my new book, available on e-Book. You can get it online right now.

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LEMON: A Kentucky woman is behind bars after she went after a judge at a court hearing in Monticello. Take a look at what happened.

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JUDGE: Ms. Harvick, you will be held in contempt of this court if you're --

MELISSA HARVICK, PLAINTIFF: I don't care. I haven't done anything to this court. I haven't done anything to him.

JUDGE: She will be arrested for contempt of this court. Go now --

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LEMON: Boy, Melissa Hardwick was in court with her husband on domestic violence charges. And as you saw, she lunged at the judge when the judge told her to stop interrupting. The court security officer Adam Dodson, well he helped restrain Hardwick. I spoke with him just a short time ago and I asked if he had ever seen anything like this.

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ADAM DODSON, COURT SECURITY OFFICER (ON THE PHONE): I have seen people react this way, but only in training videos and the training they send us to. But not actually in any courtroom I worked in in the three and a half years I've been there.

LEMON: Yes, when you grabbed her and you guys finally subdued her, what happened? Was she remorseful? Did you have to take her away? What happened?

DODSON: She was not remorseful at all actually. I was - had to administer the handcuffs there on the floor. She was resisting arrest the entire time. She was fighting with me, and another bailiff tried to hold her feet, while she was doing that she was sort of fighting with him. So we finally got her handcuffed, picked her up off the floor and walked her out of the courtroom, and she was still using foul language and she actually made another threatening comment to the judge.

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LEMON: The judge ordered Hardwick to serve 120 days for the outburst. She also upheld a domestic violence order against her.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh!

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LEMON: Incredible video out of the Netherlands. The top of a burning television tower collapsed in thick smoke and flames. Fire crews were at the scene but moved to a safe distance when it became too hard to control the blaze. Luckily though no one was hurt. But nearby TV, radio, and cell phone connections were all disrupted. It's not clear exactly what caused that fire.

And remember the Chilean miners who inspired the world after they survived being trapped underground for more than two months last year? Now 31 of the 33 miners are suing their government for half a million dollars in damages apiece. But they say it's not about the money. They say Chile failed to ensure the mine's safety and they don't want something like that to ever happen again.

Netflix customers, listen up. We'll tell you why the company is jacking up prices for many of its customers.

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CHRIS SANDERS, I-REPORTER: The internet is broken up with Netflix. It was a lifelong love affair. We thought it would last forever. Nope, Netflix decided they wanted more money. How could you do this to me, Netflix? How could you do this to me?

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LEMON: You got to love the CNN I-reporters. That's one of our I- reporters, speaking for the masses of resentful Netflix customers. The company is jacking up the prices of its most popular packages. And now you'll have to pay separately for DVD and video streaming plans. I want to bring in now tech expert Daniel Seiberg. He is the author of "The Digital Diet." That's his book. Daniel, what's going on? What are the charges, and why is Netflix doing to there our I- reporters?

DANIEL SIEBERG, AUTHOR "THE DIGITAL DIET": Oh, no, help us! All right. So here's the deal -- basically before you were paying $10 for the DVD service plus the ability to stream movies and TV shows on line. Well, they've decided to break that apart. So now you're paying $8 for the DVD service and $8 for the online streaming. Put those two together and you've got $16. So it's going up by about $6. And obviously about, you know, thousands of the 24 million Netflix subscribers are upset about it. Message boards have lit up. A lot of people posting online that they're very upset about this change.

LEMON: But yes, isn't it cheaper though - it's a whole lot cheaper than paying for cable. Are people overreacting here?

SIEBERG: Yes, you could certainly say that this is a bit of a virtual tempest in a teacup and that it is cheaper than other things out there. And Netflix is defending its decision saying, "Look, this is the price of a couple of lattes. This is the way we need to go with our business model." You know, it's expensive for Netflix to do the DVD service. They would rather people move away from that. People are used to seeing the red envelope. They would rather people just stream movies on line. It's expensive. About 50 to 75 cents to send out those DVDs. So they're hoping people will go along with it but you can see there's resistance.

LEMON: OK. This one is I'm really interested in this. There's another online service, Daniel, that I want you to tell us about. It actually has people really excited. It's called spotify, right?

SIEBERG: Yes, this has been around for years in Europe and particularly in the U.K.. Here's the idea - we've gone from vinyl to cassette tapes to mp3 players. Now we're talking about streaming music. So in a sense you're not downloading the music anymore. You're getting it on demand. So once you've got the spotify program on your computer, you can see it - it looks a lot like iTunes, frankly. But you can start streaming your choice of music whenever you want. Now Spotify has partnered with the major labels. They've got about 15 million song available. It's free in the beginning, however, it's still an invitation-only service in the U.S. right now. You can pay $5 or $10 a month for the premium service, and that means you can put it on your mobile devices, your iPhone, or your Android devices, as well. And you can sort of think of it as getting music any time you want as long as you've got an internet connection. Say 3G at the least. And it uses peer-to-peer computing and streaming the music from their services right away.

LEMON: All right. Daniel, can I stop you right there?

SIEBERG: Yes.

LEMON: Because I have Pandora, and I'm sure you do, too, and a lot of people have Pandora. What's the difference here between Pandora and Spotify? It seems like the same thing, but it's not?

SIEBERG: It's similar. Pandora is an internet radio service that you can't choose the songs that you listen to on Pandora. It tries to learn what you like, your music tastes, whereas spotify is you get to choose which music you want to listen to at any time. You can - and then you can also store a copy of it on your portable devices. This is playing right now - I'm not streaming this, this is actually stored on my device. Now I've paid for the premium service. But you can get a copy of the music so you can have it on the go even if you don't have an internet connection.

But this is where we're going with the cloud, you know, this is the future of streaming music in all sorts of media.

LEMON: All right. Daniel Sieberg, interesting stuff. Thank you, sir and good to see you.

Let's get you caught up on the headlines right now. The sounds of gunfire on the streets of Damascus, Syria.

You can see armed men in civilian clothing firing weapons. It's not clear if they are security forces, but the violence against anti- government protesters shows no signs of easing. Activists say Syrian troops fatally shot a demonstrator today, one day after 21 civilians died in protests across the country.

The military's don't ask, don't tell policy is back in force. Temporarily, that is. A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court has reversed itself based on a request by the Obama administration. But the judge has blocked the military from enforcing the policy. The government wants more time to prepare for the end of the policy, and president Obama signed a repeal of the law last December. But the bill gave the Pentagon an unlimited time frame to implement the change.

And maybe we shouldn't be calling it carmageddon after all. There's not much gridlock to speak of in Los Angeles. Even though a 10-mile section the 405 freeway is shut down until Monday. Crews are tearing down a bridge along the interstate which is one of the busiest in the U.S.. Drivers had plenty of warning, and it seems like they listened at least so far. Live pictures there of the bridge being torn down on the 405.

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HARRY POTTER: What do you know about the deathly hallows?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is rumored there are three.

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LEMON: Boy, there are a lets more than three people at the latest "Harry Potter" premiere on Friday. We'll tell you about it. Coming up next.

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CPL. KELSEY DE SANTIS, U.S. MARINE CORPS: I'm going to call you out and ask you to come to the Marine Corps ball with me on November 12 in Washington, D.C. and if you can't go, all I have to say is "Cry me a River."

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LEMON: "Cry me a River." That's Justin Timberlake's song. Hey, a Hollywood fairytale is playing out. Justin Timberlake is going to the ball. He's taking up the offer that you just heard. Timberlake says he will attend Corporal Kelsey De Santis' marine ball November 12 in Washington.

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JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, SINGER: I accept.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yey!

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TIMBERLAKE: But not because she shouted out one of my songs, which I do love whether they do that. Because I'm shameless.

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LEMON: Well, all this came about after Timberlake's co-star, Mila Kunis, created some doubt whether she will go to a marine ball with Sergeant Scott Moore. Kunis confirmed this week she will be there.

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LEMON: "Harry Potter" continues to draw beyond this world numbers at the box office. The final movie of the franchise is breaking records. The details coming up on that.

And that entertainment headline that might not surprise you, but this may surprise you. "People" magazine reporting that Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony are splitting up. And CNN entertainment reporter Shanon Cook joins us now live. So Shanon I was kind of surprised by this. Did you see this one coming?

SHANON COOK, CNN ENTERTAINMENT REPORTER: No, I didn't. Of course, I'm never surprised when a celebrity couple splits up, unfortunately. But the timing of this seems a little bit odd because the couple appeared recently, they performed together on "American Idol," mere weeks ago. And they seemed to really saucy together. And they've also been going around hyping this new show that they're doing together, it's called "Kaviva," "The Chosen," and it's a talent contest. The two of them are hosting it. They're supposed to be going around Latin America and trying to handpick burgeoning talent in the area.

I think we've got some video. A video that they actually did to promo the show. It doesn't have an air date yet, but Simon Fuller who created "American Idol" is on board with the show, so what happens to that show now that they're splitting up? I can't imagine that when you're going through a divorce you want to be hosting a show together. But Don, I guess this is showbiz, put on a happy smile and get on with the show, I guess. You'll see - I did -

LEMON: Well, it's all going to add up to more ratings and more intrigue. You said you put in a call?

COOK: Oh, I was going to say I did reach out to the publicist of the show to find out what this means, and nobody's really saying anything yet. So I'm sure people are scrambling to figure it out themselves.

LEMON: All right. Let us know when you know. Let's move on now and talk about "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part Two." How much money did it make on opening day?

COOK: Oh, my goodness. It made so much money, Don, not as much as we get paid, though. It made more than $90 million in its first day which is the most amount that any film has ever grossed in a single day in the box office. It's just doing massively well. And what a great sendoff. This is the final show, the final movie in the franchise. What a great way to say good-bye, everybody, going out with a bang. Big bucks. The biggest movie of the summer for sure, Don. And it's only going to break more records. You'll see.

LEMON: OK. I want to say just a reminder, about 15 minutes a Larry King special, "Harry Potter: The Final Chapter" is going to run at the top of the hour, 8:00 p.m.. So finally, Shanon, I want to talk about Michael Buble, the singer. He called fan so f-ing cute. What makes him -

COOK: He did.

LEMON: What makes his music (INAUDIBLE) so f-ing cute, what's going on?

COOK: Well, I loved the way you said that. Are we allowed to say that on CNN? I guess so. We're quoting Michael Buble. He's talking about his older fan base. You got to check this out. We're going to look at a little video here. There are residents of the Clark Retirement Community in Grand Rapids, Michigan. And they're doing a lip dub of one of Michael Buble's songs. Check it out.

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COOK: Isn't this cute? This is so cute -

LEMON: They are really cute.

COOK: This was produced by film students at Grand Valley State University. The filmed the whole thing in one take. It took them eight goes, Don, but they did it in one take. Must have kind of exhausting. And hats off to those people who got in their swimsuits. I'm amazed.

LEMON: They look hot. Thank you, Shanon cook. Appreciate it.

COOK: Thank you.

LEMON: I want you to go the marine ball with me, as well. Will you go?

COOK: Oh, absolutely. Twist my arm.

LEMON: Awesome. It's a date. Thank you.

You're not going to believe this next story. You've heard of nine inch Nails? Well, they have nothing on our next guest. Find out what it's like to live with 26-inch-long fingernails. This lady is going to tell you, coming up next.

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LEMON: All right. We first highlighted Jazz Sinkfield and her nails earlier this year and the response was so overwhelming we decided to find out everything we could about her and those very, very, very long nails. Why does she do it? How does she cook, clean, and other personal questions. So here she is in her own words answering those questions for us.

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JAZZ ISON SINKFIELD, NAIL LADY: My name is Jazz Ison Sinkfield. I'm here to introduce the world to my nails. My nails are 24 to 26 inches in length. This one right here is my longest nail. I go and get my nails done every month. The cost to maintain my nails, I pay $250 every month. My nails, they don't actually stop me from doing anything. The only thing that I have had problems doing is tying shoes and that's just about it. But everything else, I cook and clean. I have no problem with cutting up my vegetables. It's a must that I keep my hands clean because I do come in close contact with preparing my meal.

I do believe in a clean kitchen and washing my hands. I use alcohol to sterilize my hands, clean the nails on the outside and up under my nails. Of course, everybody wanted to know as far as tying my shoes. Either I can tuck them in like that or I can - if my husband is at home with me, I can get him to tie them. But most of the time this is how I lace my shoes. I just lace them like that. And the shoestring go on the inside. Now, using the bathroom. This is the tissue. I take the tissue, roll it off the roll. And I'm ready to go.

My nails is a talent and a gift from god. I've been growing my nails now for 22 years. And I want to be an inspiration to others to let them know that follow your dreams. You can excel on being whomever you would like to be.

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LEMON: All right. They call her Mama Jazz, and she is right here to answer more questions about those long, long nails. Send me your Twitter questions now.

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LEMON: OK. Everybody, welcome back. I want to introduce you now to Jazz Sinkfield, an Atlanta woman who has been growing her nails now for 22 years now. The longest which h is 26 inches long, you heard me, 26 inches long. Which one is that one?

SINKFIELD: This one.

LEMON: That one. I don't want to get close. I don't want to break it. If I break it I'm in major trouble.

SINKFIELD: That's right.

LEMON: All right, Jazz. They call you Mama Jazz.

SINKFIELD: Yes.

LEMON: So first, before I ask you how you do stuff because you answered a lot. The big question is why.

SINKFIELD: Why am I growing them? LEMON: Yes.

SINKFIELD: Well, first of all, I would like to give honor to god who is the head of my life and send shoutouts to my pastor, Pastor Gregory Williams and first lady of Go to Memorial Church in Douglasville.

LEMON: OK. With that out of the way, why do you do it?

SINKFIELD: Well, I always have been able to grow my nails. My father is a pastor. And I couldn't grow them when I was smaller because he told me that I had to find my identity and once I found my identity, I started growing my nails.

LEMON: OK. So you've been growing them now for 22 years.

SINKFIELD: Yes.

LEMON: When they break are you like, oh, no.

SINKFIELD: Yes.

LEMON: How often do they break?

SINKFIELD: Not too often. But if I break them I go back to my nail tech and she puts the acrylic back on them where they broke and mend it back together.

LEMON: So they never break at the base.

SINKFIELD: No.

LEMON: Never.

SINKFIELD: Never.

LEMON: Do you protect them with something?

SINKFIELD: I have acrylic. Yes.

LEMON: All right. So someone asked me on here, they said do you have - from your nails they said do you any joint problems because - are they heavy?

SINKFIELD: No, they are not heavy.

LEMON: Oh, my god, I got to tell you, that's weird. I mean you have to admit, when people see you, do they have a reaction like - I mean do you frighten children ever?

SINKFIELD: No. Children are my biggest loved ones to my nails. Actually.

LEMON: OK. Someone says, how do you wash your hair?

SINKFIELD: I have a utensil, hair utensil. And I just take and wash my hair with. LEMON: OK. And this is from Twitter. (INAUDIBLE) says, OK, how does she sleep and how does she scratch the inside of her ear.

SINKFIELD: OK.

LEMON: Did you see that? That goes right in there no problem.

SINKFIELD: Right in there. Yes.

LEMON: Do you know, are there other people - are you the nail champion?

SINKFIELD: I'm not aware that I am, no.

LEMON: Yes. I remember that from years ago there was a fingernail champion. This was the woman who was a secretary. Her nails were that long.

SINKFIELD: OK.

LEMON: What do you do for a living, are you housewife or a housekeeper, whatever?

SINKFIELD: Yes.

LEMON: A homemaker, that's what I meant to say.

SINKFIELD: That's OK. Yes.

LEMON: And your kids?

SINKFIELD: Five kids.

LEMON: They're all over there taking pictures.

SINKFIELD: Yes.

LEMON: They're cool with it.

SINKFIELD: They're cool with it.

LEMON: I have to go, but do you ever go, OK, enough already? I just want to -- because you have to protect these all the time. Do you ever get tired of it?

SINKFIELD: No, I don't because they're just like my family. We have a bond.

LEMON: Right. Would you get mad if I break one and kept it?

SINKFIELD: Priceless.

LEMON: Mama Jazz, thank you very much. We appreciate it.

SINKFIELD: OK.

LEMON: I'm Don Lemon. I'll see you back at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.

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