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Underwear Bomber Pleads Guilty; BlackBerry Outages Spread; U.S. Alleges Iranian Terror Plot; Private Investigator Hired to Look For Missing Kansas City Baby; Dozens Injured in Prison Riots; Defense Blames Victims in Home Invasion; Five Officers Arrested in Drug Sting; Hip-Hop Changes Marketing Culture; Senate Passes Chinese Currency Bill; Romney Maintains Frontrunner Status

Aired October 12, 2011 - 14:00   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Randi, thank you.

Let's continue on, shall we? Hi, everyone. I'm Brooke Baldwin.

Let's get you caught up on everything making news this hour, "Rapid Fire," beginning in Michigan.

A stunning reversal at a terrorism trial there, the so-called underwear bomber pleading guilty just as the feds were launching their case against him. Remember, this is the guy who just about two years ago tried to blow up an airliner flying in from Detroit Christmas Day with explosives hidden in his pants.

And, today, did you get that text? Maybe not. BlackBerry says its service outage spread today. Millions of people affected by this, mostly affecting texts and internet access, not phone service. To Texas now.

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UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: I cannot, for the life of mine, think that he would be capable of doing that.

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BALDWIN: That is the estranged wife of this man here. We're going to have much more on him in a moment. He's the Iranian-American used car salesman at the nexus of this international terrorism charge.

To the nation's capitol. Congressional Republicans zeroing in on Attorney General Eric Holder, a subpoena issued today covers Holder's communications about a botched undercover operation. Top House Republicans say they doubt Holder's denial of prior knowledge of the fast and furious gun running controversy.

Kansas City, Missouri, the family of little infant Lisa Irwin turns to a prominent private investigator to try to find her. Bill Stanton is this investigator. He is a consultant to television networks. Ed Lavandera is in Kansas City for us. He's going to join me live momentarily with some news and some new video this hour. New Mexico, police scouring the bottom of a lake again today. They're looking for possibly dozens of bodies. They have come up thus far empty handed but the search continues for possible victims of a convicted sexual torturer who died in prison some years ago. David Parker Ray bragged about killing his victims in converted trailer which, by the way, he referred to as The Toy Box. Now police believe he may have killed 40 people or more.

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FRANK FISHER, FBI: We have strong suspicions that he did kill some of them. Again, we don't know how many but we have witness reports that -- that seem to indicate that he did do some killings.

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I'm going to speak with that FBI agent you just saw on the scene of this cold case coming up next hour. To Los Angeles and a photo that might disturb some of you here. This -- this was the corpse of Michael Jackson, the photo introduced at the trial of Dr. Conrad Murray. The pop superstar weighed less than 140 pounds at death. His death ruled a homicide, Murray charged with involuntary manslaughter. We're going to have the latest on the trial a little later as well.

And, an anonymous bidder paying double the highest prediction at an auction for a letter from Albert Einstein, written during the Holocaust. It warned of calamitous peril for European Jews. The letter is typewritten and signed A. Einstein. More after this quick break.

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BALDWIN: Here is the big why. Why would Iran want to kill this man? This man you see right here, this is the Saudi Ambassador to Washington and why would it want him dead so badly that it would go in cahoots with this man, this man an Iranian-American, used car salesman, last known to have lived in Corpus Christi, Texas.

This guy's name is Manssor Arbabsiar. He's 56 and, at one point in time, he -- he listed his address as this suburban body shop. His estranged wife is saying, come on, no way.

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MARTHA GUERRERO, WIFE OF ACCUSED IRANIAN-AMERICAN: He was at the wrong place at the wrong time, I'm sure of that, and I know that his innocence is going to come out. I cannot, for the life of mine, think that he would be capable of doing that.

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BALDWIN: Well, we're going to talk big picture here in just a moment but first I want to talk to Eric Cano, a former neighbor of this terrorism suspect joining me on the phone and, Eric, what a story for -- for you and your neighborhood. Let me -- let me begin with this, what kind of neighbor was this man, Manssor Arbabsiar? Did you ever -- did you ever have any contact with him?

ERIC CANO, NEIGHBOR OF ACCUSED IRANIAN-AMERICAN: No, he -- he was very -- kept to himself, just, the only time we would ever see him if he'd be outside at night pacing the sidewalk, smoking a cigarette, and talking on -- on his cell phone.

BALDWIN: I -- I'm sorry, did you say...

CANO: That's the only...

BALDWIN: ...facing the sidewalk or pacing the sidewalk?

CANO: Pacing, just pacing, just basically wearing a hole in the sidewalk back and forth, back and forth.

BALDWIN: How -- how long in any given time would he be walking back and forth?

CANO: I would always go in and out, so, it could have been, you know, 20 minutes, it could have been an hour but, I mean, it wasn't -- it wasn't just a hello and goodbye conversation that he was having.

BALDWIN: Did that strike you as odd?

CANO: Yes, very odd, considering the language, I'd never heard it before, the dialect that I was unfamiliar with.

BALDWIN: We heard another neighbor say that about the only time he'd seen him he had also been talking loudly on his cell phone. Obviously, you witnessed that. What more did you see?

CANO: That's pretty much it. That's -- he would, you know, come in the house and later in the evening he would go out, talk on the phone and that's pretty much all you ever saw of him.

BALDWIN: Was he ever speaking English?

CANO: No, not on the phone, no.

BALDWIN: Speaking Spanish?

CANO: No, it wasn't Spanish, not at all.

BALDWIN: What language -- do you know what language it was?

CANO: No, it was -- it was a dialect I -- I didn't -- I didn't recognize at all so I'm kind of going with Arabic, I'm sure.

BALDWIN: Yes.

CANO: There was a lot of -- there was a lot of harsh syllables and just things that I didn't understand.

BALDWIN: Well, we just saw his wife a moment ago essentially saying, you know, look, his innocence will ultimately come out, wrong place, wrong time. Did you have a relationship with the wife? CANO: No, they were pretty -- pretty much kept to themselves. I mean, they were -- they were cordial when you would motion to them and say hi, you know, she would wave back. I -- that's pretty much all that we knew of her as well.

BALDWIN: One more question for you. Have you seen the feds in your neighborhood. Are they talking to Arbabsiar's wife and the two kids? We -- we've heard a little bit about...

CANO: Yesterday -- yesterday we didn't see any law enforcement authorities there at all. All that were there were -- were news cameras and reporters. No -- no feds at all. I haven't been there, I left pretty early for work this morning and I don't know what's going on there now. Who knows, there might be some feds there now but, as of yesterday, we hadn't seen any at all.

BALDWIN: OK, Eric Cano, thank you for -- for what you can share and, clearly, this story is a real head scratcher and some are saying it's frankly hard to believe but the U.S. today is acting as if it's caught Tehran red-handed. In fact, take a listen to Vice President Joe Biden.

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JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I think when you see the case presented you're going to find there is compelling evidence for the assertion being made from multiple sources and the first thing we're going to do is make sure the entire world and all the capitols of the world understand exactly what the Iranians had in mind. It's an outrage that violates one of the fundamental premises upon which nations deal with one another and that is the sanctity and safety of their diplomats and, so, this is really over the top.

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BALDWIN: Over the top. All right. So, if this allegation is true then something strange is going on in Iran, something strange and potentially dangerous because whenever you think of Iran, this is not the type of thing that they have typically done in the past, a terror plot on U.S. soil. Again, the question we continue to ask is why.

Let's go to Mohammed Jamjoom, he's still on this story for us in Abu Dhabi and I know, Mohammed, you know the region very well. The story broke on our watch yesterday. I'm going to you the question I asked right around this time yesterday, you know, the Saudis, thus far, have been fairly reticent. Have they reacted yet? What are they saying?

MOHAMMED JAMJOOM, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brooke, just a short while ago there was a new statement issued on the Saudi Press Agency website. It condemned, once more, this alleged plot. It also went on to say that the kingdom of Saudi Arabia would continue its contact and coordination with U.S. authorities concerned about this despicable plot and those who stand behind it.

It also went on to add, "The kingdom calls on the Arab and Islamic nations and the international community to assume their responsibilities relating to these terrorist acts and the attempts to threaten the stability of countries as well as international peace and security.

Now, the Saudis aren't exactly known for issuing statements rapidly but the fact that you've had two very strong statements of condemnation as well as comments from senior princes in the kingdom today really shows how seriously they're taking this. Brooke?

BALDWIN: What about, though, beyond words, Mohammed? I mean, any idea what -- what a Saudi response could be? Obviously, they -- they're not happy with Iran.

JAMJOOM: Absolutely. They're not happy with Iran. Gulf Cooperation Council countries here in the region aren't happy with Iran about this alleged plot. I spoke earlier today with the former U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, Robert Jordan, and asked him what he thought Saudi Arabia's response could be.

He said, look, he thinks they're very angry, that there might be this tendency to overreact but they shouldn't but, at some point, there's going to be a call for some kind of justice. They're going to want to do something. Nobody knows, at this point, what form that this will take but that's the concern right now. How much will this escalate the tension that's already there between Saudi Arabia and Iran in a -- in a region where there already is so much volatility and chaos. Brooke?

BALDWIN: Let me -- let me ask you, though, this, if this would also be a concern because if we know -- if, you know, these allegations are true, if Iran would be targeting this top Saudi official in Washington, do the Saudis at all believe that Iran would target Saudi Arabia itself?

JAMJOOM: Well, Saudi Arabia and many other countries, Arab countries here in this region see Iran as an existential threat. They always feel a threat from Iran and they always point a finger towards Iran as a country that they believe is fomenting unrest, meddling in the affairs of Arab countries. So, they do see Iran as a threat. They've seen Iran as a threat for quite some time and they're always afraid that Iran is going to do something to stir up trouble.

Just, more recently in Saudi Arabia you've seen protests happening in the eastern province. This is a province that's dominated by Shiites. Shiites comprise only about 11 percent of the population of Saudi Arabia which is a predominantly Suni country but the fear in Saudi Arabia, the nightmare scenario has always been that in the eastern province, a region where most of the oil is in Saudi Arabia, that the Shiites of that region would rise up and that they would be inspired to do so by -- by Iranian backed plots.

And, so, the fact that there has been unrest in the eastern province recently really only raises the fear level of Saudi Arabia about Iran and, clearly, the fact that this alleged plot has, you know, has come to light in the last few days is really only going to make Saudi Arabia more fearful of the threat of Iran and they're going to be pointing a finger more towards Iran and how much of a threat they are to the stability of this region as far as the Saudis believe. Brooke? BALDWIN: Mohammed JamJoom, thank you very much. Coming up, dozens of prison inmates are injured in this riot. This is pretty stunning video, the riots so bad officials set up a morgue in a tent outside the prison. We're going to talk live to one of the law enforcement officials who was stationed outside this prison as these guys were crawling out of there.

Also, five officers, among 70 people arrested in a major drug trafficking case in Arkansas.

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VALERIE PARLAVE, FBI: Today's' indictments and arrests are merely a beginning.

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BALDWIN: We have details on the investigation and those arrests, it's straight ahead. And, do you remember the murders of a mother and her two young daughters in that horrific Connecticut home invasion? You may not believe how the defense summed up their case. They have said things would have turned out differently had the victims acted differently. Stay with us.

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BALDWIN: Dozens of inmates are injured after this violent prison riot in western Oklahoma. Take a look at this with me. Chaos erupted. This was just before noon yesterday, lasting for hours into the evening, still unclear what triggered this. Fighting broke out in multiple sections of the prison. Some of the inmates involved in critical condition as they're crawling out of there, multiple inmates flown by helicopter to nearby trauma centers.

Guards from other correction facilities had to be brought in just to try to help restore order. This is the North Fork Correctional Facility. They spent a huge chunk of time last night simply making sure everyone was accounted for and that all of the inmates were secure.

The situation so tense that state and county police, highway patrol officers, they were on standby outside of this facility and Beckham County Sheriff, Scott Jay, was among the members of law enforcement stationed outside this prison just to try to secure the perimeter. He's joining me by phone and, Sheriff Jay, have you ever seen anything like this before, A; and B, what happened?

SCOTT JAY, BECKHAM COUNTY SHERIFF: Well, good day Brooke. No, no I haven't and it was a little bit exciting there for a while and when we first arrived the fighting that was taking place and the -- among the inmates in the yard and, of course, CCA staff trying to gain control, my initial thought was we're going to be in for a long haul on this one so it was pretty frightening, actually.

BALDWIN: So, we saw some of the smoke from -- it looked like through the glass in one of those doors. I mean, were they being smoked out and as we're seeing them crawling just to try to -- try to round these inmates up? Is that what this was?

JAY: Well, yes, the -- it's less -- less than lethal munitions that probably OC spray or OC gas that they spray to help these -- gain compliance with these inmates. If you notice when they come out of the rooms they have stuff wrapped around -- or shirts or what have you wrapped around their face, it's probably because they're burning.

And, we had -- they -- they used a lot of less than lethal munitions yesterday just to try to get compliance.

BALDWIN: And, just so I'm clear, none of them escaped, you rounded all of them up, yes?

JAY: Well -- well, correct. There was no threat to the public. The response -- the initial response to the scene was absolutely wonderful. We had lots of agencies there, including, as you said, state agencies, the Highway Patrol, local police agencies, Sayre Police Department, Elk City Police Department responded in a very timely manner so there was really no threat to the public.

BALDWIN: So, let me ask you this, though, I mean, we're talking about fighting in multiple parts of the prison which -- which leads me to want to ask was this at all coordinated, premeditated, do you even know? And there are also reports of homemade prison weapons being used. What can you tell me about that?

JAY: Well, I know that you're right, when we arrived, the -- there was fighting pretty much over the whole yard and this -- this prison -- there's a lot of area in there and different areas of the yard and -- and it appears that it was probably orchestrated. However, that's not been confirmed.

And, also, the start, we really don't know what started it. We don't know if it was racially motivated, gang motivated, or there was a report yesterday as something about the quality of the food. But, I can't confirm that and I haven't heard anything. It will probably be some time before they know through the investigation so it's -- they've got a lot of work to do in there.

BALDWIN: As you mentioned, you know, multiple jurisdictions called in because of what happened, because of what we're looking at. Is that common? I mean, what -- what's your go to plan when something like this happens?

JAY: Well, in a mass incident like this, when you're looking at 2400 inmates, our goal is -- is -- is -- our objective is we're going to keep them there. CCA is going to be doing their part in regaining control of the facility which they did a wonderful, wonderful job. I must commend them for how fast they got that done.

But, as far as local and state officials, EMS, fire, law enforcement, our job is -- is to make sure that that incident stays there and it doesn't become a threat to the public and we did that. There was no -- no escapees and it was a pretty exciting time.

BALDWIN: Exciting I guess, not -- not a good kind of exciting but I'm glad to know that everyone is safe and accounted for. Sheriff Scott Jay, thanks so much for calling in, I appreciate it.

JAY: Yes.

BALDWIN: You know, officers are supposed to be the crime fighters, right, but five officers were among 70 people arrested in this Arkansas corruption case. We're going to show you exactly how deep the level of corruption went here. Plus, the trial of a man accused of murdering a mother and her two daughters just took a pretty stunning twist.

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UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: At first I thought my ears were deceiving me when they said that my brother's actions had precipitated the events of July 23rd. And then, later on, Donovan repeated it in his closing argument and said they not only precipitated it but they caused it and then he went on to say that Hayley, had she gotten out of her room and climbed out of her window...

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BALDWIN: That's right, you heard defense claiming that if the victims had acted differently here in this case that the story might have turned out differently. More on that. First, quick check of the big board to see how the stocks are faring. Pretty -- pretty well. Positive territory, up 166 points here, 2:20 eastern. We will be right back. CNN NEWSROOM rolls on.

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BALDWIN: A massive corruption scandal rocking eastern Arkansas. Dozens of people have been indicted, including five police officers in a federal undercover sting dubbed Operation Delta Blues. The officers were accused of taking bribes and allegedly looking the other way as shipments of cocaine, crack, marijuana moved across state lines on their watch. So, these arrests -- this is all part of a three year investigation into corruption, drug trafficking, and we're told more arrests could be on the way.

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UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Several of those indicted today are no strangers to law enforcement. Many have been charged in state court with some of the most serious class Y felonies including murder, yet they remain free today. As our investigation moves forward, we continue to find instances where the violent felonies were never completely prosecuted and some of the most serious charges were dropped.

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BALDWIN: And, CNN's George Howell has been digging into this corruption investigation, talking to the Police Chief that was arrested. George Howell, by the way, welcome to CNN.

GEORGE HOWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, thank you very much. BALDWIN: I'd be remiss in not saying that. So, first, what do you know, what have you learned?

HOWELL: Well, and this is such a big case. I just got off the phone with the Helena-West Helena Police Chief and he says, you know, right now five of his officers indicted. That's a big deal. We're talking about such a small department of about 35 full time officers.

BALDWIN: Yes.

HOWELL: He believes others may be involved so he's launching his own investigation to find out if more corruption is on the way.

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ULESS WALLACE, CHIEF, HELENA-WEST HELENA ARKANSAS POLICE: If you're doing something wrong, we're going to find out. I have to win the honor and respect back of this community. I came here September 1st with that mission in hand that I will provide them with what they supposed to get.

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HOWELL: Now, what's really impressive about this case, Brooke, it's the scale of the case, 70 officers -- rather, 70 people who were arrested, right now they're still looking for nine people but a total of 61 have been arrested, have -- are in custody. The other thing that's a really interesting fact about this case, they used 16 wire taps, 16 court authorized wire taps to get the job done.

Another thing about the case, it's how many officers were on the ground to get this done, we're talking 700 to 800 police officers, agents, including the Arkansas National Guard. They were all out there looking for these people and so many different jobs, so many different roles. Some were there to create choke points in and out of the city, others just to make sure city services continued while this big operation continued.

BALDWIN: So, given the fact that this was such a huge scale, seeing the numbers, were any other officers injured?

HOWELL: You know, amazingly, one officer was shot. We've learned non-life-threatening injuries and is currently in the hospital but no other injuries that we've heard of at this point.

BALDWIN: So, what's next?

HOWELL: Well, at this point, I just talked to the U.S. Attorney who's handling the case and he says this is only phase I. There could be a phase II and he anticipates there may be more arrests. I asked him if there were any other public officials and he's not sure at this point, didn't say, didn't specify but, certainly, said more arrests could be on the way.

BALDWIN: Let us know when and if that happens, George Howell, thank you very much. And, a case that shocked the country taking another disturbing twist today. We're talking about the Connecticut case where that mother and her two young daughters, strangled, left to die in this burning home in Hartford, Connecticut.

The father, remember, beaten with a baseball bat, managed to escape out of the basement. The second trial in this case is underway in New Haven right now. And, here's the twist, before the trial went to the jury today, defense lawyers for Joshua Komisarjevsky summed up their case this way, that things would have turned out very differently if the victims -- the victims had acted differently.

In other words, the defense says the victims are to blame here. The father, Dr. William Petit and sister had some pretty angry words when the cameras were facing them outside the courtroom.

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DR. WILLIAM PETIT: I guess we were honestly a little perturbed with the closing with their defense's use of, you know, Dr. Petit getting out of the basement precipitated things as if there had been no plan in place for two or three hours or longer prior to that or that perhaps if Hayley Petit had done something different things would have turned out, the what if scenarios were a little nauseating to listen to.

JOHANNA PETIT CHAPMAN: It was, I thought at first I thought my ears were deceiving me when they said that my brother's actions had precipitated the events of July 23rd and then, later on, Donovan repeated it in his closing argument and said they not only precipitated it but they caused it.

And, then, he went on to say that Hayley, had she gotten out of her room and climbed out of her window, the events wouldn't have taken place and if she had gotten out of her room and gotten into Michaela's room and gotten out that window the events wouldn't have taken place. I think that's really stretching, really grasping, and somewhat delusional, actually.

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BALDWIN: The other suspect, initial defendant in this case, Steven Hayes, he was found guilty last year and sentenced to death. And, with all the news about Steve Jobs' death, prostate cancer, we have some brand new information about the deadly disease and its connection with vitamin E and new research just released this afternoon about teenage boys. It has to do with condoms and sex and I'm just going to leave it at that. Those details coming up in 60 seconds.

But, first, when hip-hop started in the late 1970s it was, you know, really a cultural movement. Young adults in New York exposing problems in their own neighborhoods like drug abuse, racism, gang violence all through music and, at the time, corporate America ignored it. But not anymore.

Here is CNN's Soledad O'Brien.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hip-hop has changed the nation and in this new book, Tanning of America, Steve Stout says he knows how it happened.

O'BRIEN: What does the tanning of America mean?

STEVE STOUT, AUTHOR: It's where the next generation of kids and millennials, specifically, see the world no longer through color or ethnicity. They see the world through shared values.

O'BRIEN (voice-over): Stoute used his connections as a former record executive to connect big business with urban oriented marketing campaigns, like Jay-Z for Reebok. And he's the man behind Justin Timberlake's popular slogan for McDonald's.

STOUTE: I always look at the artist and music as the Trojan horse for the culture and I felt like I can find ways for the branch to tap into the culture that hip-hop has created.

O'BRIEN: But hip-hop was something that started from the streets. Writer, Nelson George, says the partnership with big business is watering down the art form.

NELSON GEORGE, AUTHOR: But what gets on the radio in most of America is not very content driven. It's more an inducement to dance, then leading to inducement to buy a particular brand of alcohol or clothing or car.

O'BRIEN: Forbes music editor Zach Greenburg says many hip-hop artists make more on endorsements than their recorded music.

STOUTE: Again, we're speaking about the music. Most of it is just silly. I think that I hip-hop created a culture and I think that that culture was meant to be shared.

O'BRIEN (on camera): You say that you can draw a direct line between hip-hop and Pennsylvania Avenue.

STOUTE: That younger voter was open to African-American president as a result of the culture sharing that we're discussing and I believe that hip-hop was a main driver of that culture sharing and if using corporations helps spread that message, then that's what it takes.

O'BRIEN: Reporting for "In America," Soledad O'Brien, New York.

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BALDWIN: In medical news, teens are using condoms more than adults. The finding on sexual behavior is published in a special edition of "Journal of Sexual Medicine." Researchers say they have been struck by the range of sexual activities people have reported.

The Black Death from the 14th century may be closer than you think. For the first time ever, scientists have reconstructed the genome of the ancient disease based upon skeletal remains and they say it's almost identical to the current, modern strain.

And researchers at the Cleveland Clinic set out to measure the protective benefits of vitamin E but instead found the opposite. The study in the "Journal of American Medicine" said that ingesting high amounts of vitamin E, or found in your multivitamins, may increase a man's risk for prostate cancer. Increase.

By the way, I did mention Steve Jobs a couple of seconds ago. Steve Jobs died of pancreatic cancer, not prostate. Excuse the error. We're going to be right back with the story a lot of you want to know more about what is Congress doing about China.

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BALDWIN: OK. We're going to bring Chad Myers in for this.

But what you're looking is, the picture is out of Miami. This is the northbound lanes of the Florida Turnpike. We learned that this little plane crash landed there. Three people on board.

What more do we know, Chad Myers?

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Well, it was out of Teterboro, which is a long flight, about four hours in flight, and it came up short by about a mile. This is the turnpike. Turnpike shutdown both directions here, right at the FXE or the Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport as this plane came up short.

SV Leasing is the owner of this out of Miami, Florida. It appears to go back and forth Teterboro quite a bit. So, it should know the way. Weather was good, you can see visibility. Fantastic there out of the helicopters, but that plane didn't make it to the runway.

BALDWIN: Yikes! I guess, what, early afternoon for people on Miami on the Florida turnpike looking at this plane thinking, what in the world is going on?

MYERS: And we can't see it, but if the helicopter would pull out on to the left of there, the northbound lanes, cars are trying to turn around and go the other direction. Some cars can't get there. The backup is for miles.

The only way to get around this is to go to the east of this, go to 95 instead of the turnpike. But, you know, the turnpike has those borders all the way up and down, so you can't turn around. You can't get into the other lanes, and the far side there, that's the southbound lane. Clearly, that's closed due to the danger of any possibility fire, because this plane is still leaking fuel.

BALDWIN: Yes, that must be, you know, fire plane retardant that they are pouring there.

Quickly, three people onboard -- A-OK?

MYERS: We saw rescue squads go in and stretchers go in. But they were not in the hurry. no one got extricated from it but they were not in a hurry.

BALDWIN: All right. Keep us posted. Chad Myers, thank you very much. Pictures out of Miami.

Now to this in -- a move meant to save American manufacturing jobs. The Senate passes the bill aimed at China's undervalued currency. And this has made Chinese officials pretty angry and they are now warning of a trade war.

This is what a lot of people are talking about. So, it's trending today.

And supporters of the Senate bill say the Chinese Yuan is 25 percent to 30 percent lower than the value of the U.S. dollar. That means Chinese exports to the U.S. are cheaper while U.S. goods ship to China are more expensive.

So, let's do an example here. An American made t-shirt sells for 10 bucks here in the U.S. So, with the current exchange rate, a Chinese- made t-shirt would sell for about $7.50. That's a quarter of a percent cheaper, making it more difficult for the American t-shirt company to compete with that price, 25 percent cheaper. What did I say?

OK. The Senate bill would, among other things, force the administration to identify currencies that are lower than they should be, impose tariffs on nations who have cheapened their currency and prevent the federal government from buying goods and services from these nations.

And Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina sponsored the bill and said that he's proud of the Senate for standing up to China's threats.

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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: Last night I think was good for the country. Last night, 63 senators voted to send not only a message to China that we're no longer going to tolerate your manipulation of currency because it's affecting job creation here in America, but to give our own government tools to fight back in responsible form. This is good, solid legislation.

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BALDWIN: I want to bring in "Forbes" magazine columnist Bob Lenzner.

Bob, off the top. Good time to start a trade war with China?

ROBERT LENZNER, COLUMNIST, FORBES MAGAZINE: No, it's a very bad time, I'm afraid. I mean, in principle, it's right that their currency is too cheap and there's this -- they are exporting way more goods to us than we are to them. They are keeping their currency low for the purpose of building up their exports because at this very time their economy is weakening, and also because they have kept their currency so low, it has contributed to inflation there. It has made their food and fuel more expensive, which is very dangerous for them.

The problem is, that the start -- for us to pass this bill, where we put an excise tax on their exports, it would inflame them, the Chinese who own a huge amount of American treasury securities and we need them for the time being to continue to invest in America, invest in our government securities, we cannot afford -- and also because not only for us, but the world economy is in a very fragile shape right now.

BALDWIN: Well, speaking of investing in the U.S., Bob, let me just jump in, because, you know, let's talk jobs and unemployment rate, right, at still 9.1 percent and we know that some senators are claiming that China's currency policies have resulted in a loss of just about 2 million American jobs in the past decade.

So might this be a good thing to try to save or maybe even create American manufacturing jobs?

LENZNER: Well, I think we've sent -- I think we've sent our message. I think they know what our intent is. I doubt very much that President Obama would sign such a bill because it would create a lot of tensions and then the other nations that would think that since that would be -- we've done it once, we might do it to them, too. It would not be in the interest of free trade right now.

I think we've got to get them to do this a different way. Now, it's true, we've been trying. We've been talking it. We've been trying to put pressure on them and we've gotten nowhere.

Right now, they are in the cat bird seat more than we are, but they are also in danger of their economy slowing down dramatically and suffering from a very great -- much higher rate of inflation than we've got. So they've got their own problems that are probably going to prevent them from doing this. But, yes, it would --

BALDWIN: I was going to say, you're not the only person that would think this wouldn't pass the House and certainly not be signed into law by President Obama. So if we go with the doubts there, then why are we even talking about this? Might this be simply symbolic?

LENZNER: Because we have been frustrated in getting to do anything and by putting a bill up like this, it sends a message, much harder than the treasury secretary talking to their people every time he goes to China, or when they come here. So, you know, we're trying to make our case and I think if -- they are missing a point that is, if they let their currency become higher valued, that would allow them to buy -- import their food and their fuel at less cost and it would lower their rate of inflation, which is very dangerous for them right now.

So they have an economic interest in doing this as well. We have to make the case that that's important to be done in a measured way starting now. But I don't think a bill is going to go through and I don't think -- even if it did, that the president would sign it right at this time because we have all of this debt outstanding. Forty percent of the people's China bank holding of $3 trillion are American U.S. treasuries. We need them not to try to dump those treasuries.

BALDWIN: Yes. Yes.

LENZNER: We need them to continue to help finance the deficit of the United States government. Right now, that's more -- that's a higher priority.

BALDWIN: I hear you loud and clear, Bob Lenzner, "Forbes" magazine columnist -- thanks so much for coming on and talking about the China currency issue and the bill that did pass the Senate. Thank you so much, sir.

And now, you have to see this brand-new video. This is out of Florida. This school bus driver caught on camera fighting with students. What started this altercation? That is coming up.

Also, a professional baseball player loses his grip while swinging at a ball. What came next? You got to see it to believe it.

But, first, all this week long, CNN Money has been looking at the best jobs in America. And here now, we have the top five jobs if you want to save the world.

So, if you're in the market to do that, job number five: be a medical case manager. You have to have a background in nursing or counseling. And you will interview patients, help them with paperwork with nurses and doctors to coordinate patient care.

Number four: social worker. Demand is high. If you live in a rural area or your area especially is working with the elderly.

Number three, you could be a dietitian. So, you see a pattern, leaning more about getting into this field, at eatright.org.

The top jobs to be able to save the world after this quick break.

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BALDWIN: Back to the list of top jobs if you want to save the world in 2011.

Number two: nonprofit program coordinator. If you're making a transition from the corporate world, all those skills you learn in the boardroom will certainly serve you well there.

And number one; public school teacher. Average pay, $50,000. I have to warn you, it gets a grade of D when it comes to stress levels. I'm sure a lot of you teachers can attest to that one.

Now, a shocking video out of Florida where a school bus aide caught on camera fighting a student.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He didn't mean to do it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, he did.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, he didn't.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get the (EXPLETIVE DELETED)

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BALDWIN: OK. Watch this. It was a close-up.

Polk County state attorney's office released this security video. This is actually from a June incident. Here it shows 70-year-old Hattie Branch (ph) jumping on a 14-year-old student. Watch it again, there she is in the middle row.

It all started when a student threw a much smaller student over the seat, hitting Branch in the face and chest. She retired to avoid being fired and now faces child abuse chargers.

And baseball fans, let me throw this one on you. Baseball took one for a team during the third game of the American League Championship series in Detroit. Take a look with me. Texas Ranger Josh Hamilton up. Oh, loses his grip.

Where did the bat go? In the stands. He looks to be OK, right? An unidentified fan hit in the head, rubbing it a little bit. No word on his condition but he was evaluated.

Watch it again. Okay. Going to play a couple different angles. Into the -- ouch! That would hurt. This guy was evaluated by medical personnel and it must be a good sign because he stuck around to watch the rest of the game.

I hope he got to keep the bat, right? Do we know if he got to keep the bat? We don't know. They're laughing in my ear.

OK. Time now for America's voice 2012 update.

Paul Steinhauser joins me now with the latest news fresh off the Political Ticker.

Paul, GOP debate last night in New Hampshire -- who won, who lost?

PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN DEPUTY POLITICAL DIRECTOR: I got to say, Brooke, that had to hurt.

BALDWIN: I know, right? I hope he got to keep the bat.

STEINHAUSER: I hope so, too. The least -- at the least. And maybe got, you know, a hat or something.

BALDWIN: Something.

STEINHAUSER: Yes, let's quickly go through it.

Mitt Romney, right, we said he was going to be probably the center of attention because he is now the front-runner again of the national polls. He was.

It was very telling when the candidates have a chance to question each other. Four of them asked tough questions to Romney. But you know what? He seemed to have answers for just about everything. I don't think his front-runner status in the national state polls will be affected.

Herman Cain -- Brooke, we talked about this yesterday. We thought he would be in the spotlight and get a lot of attention because he's been rising in the polls. Brooke, he got a lot of attention. He got slammed over his 999 tax plan but seemed to defend it pretty well.

And, finally, Rick Perry. We talked about the Texas governor needing a break-out performance to try to jump back in the polls. He's been slipping.

Did he have a break-out performance? No, he did not. Some people criticized his performance as being lackluster. But he didn't get a lot of attention. So, maybe that helps as well, Brooke.

BALDWIN: OK. Paul Steinhauser, thank you very much.

In the meantime, new developments in the case of the 10-month-old baby girl missing still in Missouri. New surveillance video has surfaced showing baby Lisa's mom at a grocery store near the home. Find out what this video shows.

Also, we spoke to the woman working the cash register at that store. She was interviewed as well by the FBI. All that and live report out of Kansas City coming up in two minutes.

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BALDWIN: We have some new video that I want to share with you in the case of that missing now 11-month-old missing girl in Kansas City, Missouri. The infant's mother is seen on this video buying baby supplies from the local market on the very day her child went missing.

Take a look. You're going to see Deborah Bradley, the mother of little Lisa Irwin shopping in Festival Foods Supermarket in Kansas City, 5 1/2 hours before, putting the little girl to sleep. She's buying some baby food, some wipes, and a box of wine. She puts her infant daughter to bed at 10:30 that night and says that was the last time she saw her.

Ed Lavandera is the one who helped us obtain some of that video.

Ed, what more are you learning about that?

ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's interesting. It was one of the first glimpses we've had into the hours before. We've had a rough time line of what happened more than a week ago in this neighborhood in Kansas City. We've kind of been focused around that 10:30 at nighttime last Monday when police say they were told by the parents that Deborah Bradley had put her baby Lisa to sleep that night. This is 5 1/2 hours or so before, assuming that is correct, the baby was put down to sleep at 10:30. It's six minutes long. You see Deborah Bradley, Lisa's mother, and another man walk into this grocery store, which is about a mile or so away from this neighborhood here. And they walk away and everything looks very calm.

They walk into an aisle and buy some baby food and baby wipes over at another section of the store. They get a small box of wine, and then come over to the checkout store. They are in the store for all of six minutes.

Everything looks very calm. You can see her kind of smiling. In fact, one of the last images that you see is Lisa and this man walking -- not Lisa. I'm sorry. Deborah and this man walking out of the store. And she seems to have a smile on her face.

So everything appears very calm, Brooke.

BALDWIN: And you also spoke with this clerk at this supermarket, correct, Eddie, who was interviewed by FBI over the weekend. What did he or she say?

LAVANDERA: Well, this is interesting, because we spoke with the woman. Her name is Rebecca Guerrero who checked her out last Monday afternoon. And what's interesting for her is that she has known this family for -- she's worked at the store for quite some time, has seen Deborah Bradley and her husband Jeremy and has actually seen Baby Lisa and the other kids periodically over the years.

She got a call, a knock at her parent's door on Saturday. It was FBI agents wanting to talk to her. She told us that they had found a receipt in the family's home that showed that they had gone to that grocery and her name as the check out person was on that receipt. And that's why FBI agents came to talk to her.

Listen to a little bit about what she told us just a little while ago.

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LAVANDERA: What kinds of questions -- when the FBI agents tracked you down, what kind of questions were they interested in?

REBECCA GUERRERO, FESTIVAL FOODS SUPERMARKET: They pretty much asked me, you know, if she was depressed. You know, if she seemed depressed, how she acted around the baby. You know, if she seemed stressed out. Pretty much questions that, you know, would -- I would know, you know, because she would talk to me a lot, you know?

LAVANDERA: And what did you tell them?

GUERRERO: I pretty much told them she never looked depressed to me. You know, she always seemed to have a smile on her face when the kids were around.

She had a smile on her face, I mean, like she always does when she comes in here. She, you know, loves her kids to death. You know, I always ask her how the kids are doing, you know, she tells me they are great, you know? So --

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LAVANDERA: Brooke, this was interesting because she had seen them several times with and without the children, and one of the things that struck out to me in our conversation with Rebecca is that she said Deborah was pregnant with baby Lisa, that they had often talked about how happy they both were, Lisa and Jeremy, to be having a baby girl. So, a little bit of a glimpse and snapshot.

And Rebecca also says, look, I know these people in a very kind of narrow point. I don't what's going -- if there is anything else going on in their lives, but in the snapshot, in the time that I see them in the store -- and it's been a number of times, she told us -- everything appeared to be very calm and normal in their lives.

BALDWIN: As you mentioned, a window, sort of what they were thinking, what they were like. But still no baby Lisa.

Ed Lavandera for us in Kansas City -- Ed, thank you.

Domestic violence no longer a crime in Topeka, Kansas. I'm not kidding. We have the details about his repeal now of a new ordinance banning domestic battery.

Also, stunning new pictures and video of this massive oil spill just off of New Zealand. Birds coated in oil, beaches covered in tar. The leaking boat listing to its side. And now, the captain of the boat here is facing charges.

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BALDWIN: I want to you take a look at this with me. You're going to see a container ship just listing precariously after hitting a reef. This is off New Zealand last week. So far, about 70 containers have fallen into the ocean.

Even worse, thousands of gallons of oil have spilled, some of it washing ashore already and you can see here, you know, oil on little birds, oil in the beaches. In fact, 50 dead birds found so far. Others being treated.

The ship's captain faces charges of operating a vessel in a manner causing unnecessary danger or risk.

If convicted, he could be fined of a maximum of nearly $8,000 or up to a year in jail.

Chad Myers, you have been watching this. We were talking in the commercial, 100,000 gallons of oil now in the water.

MYERS: That's right, washing up on these pristine bridges on the North Island of New Zealand. Literally, it's heartbreaking when you see again birds, animals, otters covered in oil, freezing, literally freezing to death from hypothermia because they can't warm themselves up. The oil makes the feathers and the fur completely useless. And even though the water is not that cold--

BALDWIN: I was going to ask you how cold is it?

MYERS: These animals literally die from exposure. It's about 60 degrees there. That's cold enough.

So here we go. Here's what we have. We have for you Australia, we have New Zealand, the North Island of New Zealand here on our Google map. This was a well documented cargo ship coming into a very well- marked channel and right there is a reef that this pilot, the captain hit right there. That's why the charges are filed. This is a well- known reef coming into this area right here, into this harbor and cove and that's where all of this, this pristine beach all now getting covered with some of that oil.

There is some good news that for the next couple of hours, the next couple of days, really, the winds will blow this direction. As I put this into this motion, you notice that the winds never really blow. Follow these lines here, that's how the wind is blowing and that's almost out to sea. Better than the current bringing it back down to those beaches again.

But 100,000 gallons of oil on the water again is a lot of oil.

BALDWIN: Wow. Chad Myers, thank you very much just off of New Zealand there.