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Rare October Snowstorm; 13 U.S. Troops Killed in Afghanistan; Chinese Migrants Suffer as World Population Nears 7 Billion; Getting the Best Halloween Pictures; Aruba Suspect to Stay in Jail; Midwife to Many; Fighting Bullies; Sugarland's Bittersweet Return
Aired October 29, 2011 - 15:00 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: So this rare Halloween weekend snow in the northeast is impacting more than just New Yorkers. We have storm team coverage, with meteorologist Jacqui Jeras in the CNN Weather Center, and we've got Chad Myers in the field, in his own Severe Weather Center. He's right in the middle of it all there in York, Pennsylvania.
All right, let's begin with you Chad. Amazing accumulation since the last time you and I spoke an hour ago.
CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: I know. No question about it, we have at least picked up two inches in one hour, without a question.
You know, we travel a lot for CNN, but I usually travel for hurricanes. This is absolutely the first time - because I vacation in warm spots - this is the first time I've ever had a snow brush in my rental car. But it was included in the price of the rent car because they knew we were going to need it.
Take a look at the - at the ground, and cars literally just drove on this not 30 seconds ago, but it's turning white again. So the tracks, as this car goes by, the tracks are black right there, where kind of the tire took away some of that snow. But now, I'm telling you, in 30 seconds, that track will be gone again. That's how hard the snow is coming down.
So take your attention to that tree over there, and that - especially that branch that's kind of bending down to the right. They're really worried about how heavy this snow is, and the - the weight of the snow is difficult to imagine.
You've heard in Minnesota or Alaska, where all of the snow is pretty light and fluffy most of the time. But when you look at - I'm just going pick up some of this snow, because it weighs so much. This is - this is such - this is great snowman snow, actually.
WHITFIELD: Oh, my gosh. That looks fun.
MYERS: You can make anything you want. You can make Spongebob of this, you want to.
It really is - and the thing is, we don't know how much snow we're going to get here because the computers are printing out about 1.4 inches of water. So 1.4 inches of rain - if this was rain, it's not rain, obviously. And sometimes you can get 10 to one, multiply 1.4 inches of water to 10, and you get 14 inches of snow. But this is so full of water and so heavy we may only be able to measure it and multiple it by seven, so maybe eight to 10 inches of snow here.
But think about it, that branch is already bending. Another four or five inches on top of that branch, and these branches are going to start breaking, power lines are going to come down, and we are going to have at least hundreds of thousands of people here, from Pennsylvania and Maryland, all the way up to Maine, without power just by tomorrow night for sure.
WHITFIELD: Oh, and that is super miserable. You got snow on the ground and then you have no power? Well, I know that all those crews are at the ready, just in case.
MYERS: Right.
WHITFIELD: Chad Myers, thanks so much, from York, Pennsylvania.
Our Jacqui Jeras here in the Weather Center. So it's not just York, Pennsylvania. I mean, that swath behind you is huge.
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, it is.
WHITFIELD: It encompass a good part of the northeast.
JERAS: It is, and the higher you go up in elevation, the higher your snowfall totals are going to be.
And it is kind of a tricky forecast because of that liquid ratio that Chad was talking about there, as well as that fine line between the rain and the snow, and really the I-95 corridor is kind of that zone where we're seeing most of that transition. So the big cities are going to get some snow, but not it's going to be the foot of snow that you're going to get into some of the higher elevations.
But our storm system is intensifying as we speak, and we're starting to see those snowfall totals increase. We're also starting to see those winds really begin to pick up. New York City, for example, we're looking at sustained winds around 20 miles per hour, and you've already got 1.3 inches of snow on the ground in Central Park. That's a record for you.
WHITFIELD: Oh my goodness.
JERAS: You've never had that much snow ever in the month of October.
So, 1.3, you know, you might say that's a walk in the park, so to speak, but - but that is a record breaking snow. So it is kind of a rare event to see something like that happen this early in the game.
Now let's talk about how quick this thing is going to move on through here. Get through tomorrow morning and things are going to be a lot better, but it's a lot to go through between now and then. Our storm system pushes up to the northeast, it takes all this moisture from the Atlantic, brings it up and around, mixes it with that cold air, and that's why we get such heavy snow accumulations as there is such high moisture content in place.
And there you can see where we're expecting the worst of the snowfall totals, and, keep in mind as you take a look at these numbers, you - we get what we call convective (ph) snow in this situation, where basically it's literally a thunderstorm but the snow is coming out instead of rain. And you get one burst of that, and that could really skew these totals to the higher side as opposed to the lower side. But the further you are towards the coast, the lesser those amounts are going to be.
So we'll continue to track that situation. And in terms of the temperatures tonight, dropping down there, near that freezing mark. But look at the high temperatures for tomorrow already. We're talking well into the 50s for some of you. So a lot of melting is going to take place very, very quickly, and this storm is going to be out of here. By the middle of the week you'll hardly even remember it, hopefully.
Those people that are traveling, though, you might remember it a little bit longer, but it really is inconveniencing a lot of people. In fact, we've got Teterboro closed right now, ground stop in Atlanta. That's because of the winds that we're experiencing here as a result of that low there. Ground stop at La Guardia.
JFK over five hours. What's the (INAUDIBLE), right? Six hours at Newark; and Philadelphia looking at delays around four hours. So it's just getting uglier by the minute for those travelers.
WHITFIELD: It really is. And Jacqui, we have someone who's on the line who is part of that ground stop at JFK. Oh, I'm sorry, no, in Hartford, Connecticut. Our Richard Roth, who's generally a New Yorker, but this time he's in Hartford. He is stuck on the runway, and it's been the case for three hours also because of a - a ground stoppage there?
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT: Thanks, Fredricka. Yes, That's not great, hearing about travelers who will remember this day. I think I will. I'm a little bit concerned about how long we'll be here on this plane that is on various runways at Hartford Bradley International Airport.
I boarded a flight at Syracuse University. I began at Syracuse, coming from Syracuse University at about 11:15, 11:20 this morning, and we were very close, first in line to land at JFK, and then, in the clouds, we were diverted.
WHITFIELD: Oh, my.
ROTH: But it took a while to really find that out as they were scrambling to find out where to put us.
Now we're on the ground. The crew is hoping that we can get out of here, saying they need fuel and that flights that have been diverted get priority over those that are going point to point.
But it's very frustrating, and I think I'm a little worried because we all - I mean, we all remember these horror story flights of planes that stand on runways for eight - seven to nine hours. They've just given out potato chips, and we'll see what happens here, Fredricka.
Though you're talking to the weather expert, there's a five hour JFK wait. They said that JFK - on board here, they said JFK is accepting (ph) flights. We will have to see if that happens.
WHITFIELD: Oh, my goodness.
ROTH: But that's the latest.
WHITFIELD: That looks pretty miserable. And we're looking at pictures that you're not seeing, Richard, unfortunately, because you're on the runway, but we have pictures of downtown Hartford right there, to see the accumulation, the ground completely coated there in the park. And the trees have lots of accumulation on it as well.
We're hoping, Richard, you're not going to be stuck there much longer but, you know, we'll try to keep you posted, and you keep us posted too, and hopefully they've got more than just potato chips on board for you all.
Richard Roth, thanks so much.
All right, one suicide attack today killed several American service members in Afghanistan. A car bomb blew up next to a NATO convoy in Kabul, destroying an armored military vehicle carrying NATO troops.
Live to Kabul, Afghanistan now, and CNN's Nick Paton Walsh. So Nick, are you learning anything more about the casualties and whether the fear is more people might be - more people's lives may be in peril?
NICK PATON WALSH, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well ISAF have released a statement, clarifying exactly who the casualties were in this instance. They said eight civilian personnel working for ISAF were killed, and five military. Not releasing their nationalities, but a U.S. official did earlier tell CNN that all 13 were Americans. That subsequently appears to be in doubt because the Canadian military have just said that one of the dead was, in fact, a Canadian soldier.
So there is obviously a picture emerging slowly here, perhaps testaments to the severity of the blast here, a suicide bomber driving a vehicle laden with explosives into an armored bus known as a Rhino. Now, these are heavily armored buses used to - to ferry large numbers of NATO personnel through hostile areas. And, really, I guess you've got an indication, frankly, as to the sheer amount of explosion that would be required to actually damage one much these enormous vehicles, Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: Well, you know, Nick, there's a statement coming out from the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Ryan Crocker, and he is saying this, "It's a shock. It makes you mad. It makes me angry. We are not going to let these guys win." But, the reality is, as the troop withdrawal winds down there in Afghanistan, clearly this is - or those who were causing trouble in Afghanistan feel like this is a more porous state than ever, and the opportunities seem ripe there for those who want to cause disruptions like this.
PATON WALSH: Well, Kabul is known as the safe sanctuary in Afghanistan for years, and frankly in the last six months or so you've seen that characterization eroded by the attack on the British Council, by the attack on the U.S. embassy, by the assassination of a key Afghan peace negotiator right in the safest parts of the capital city of Afghanistan by various different parts of the insurgency.
And I think the impact of that has been to make any Afghans who live there consider themselves less safe, consider NATO's grip over this key city to be slipping. Exactly what NATO does not need in these delicate weeks and months ahead as they have a series of conferences discussing future international role here, trying to establish some kind of peace system, if possible, and look for a political way to slow down this war - Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: Nick Paton Walsh, thanks so much, from Kabul.
We are apparently nearing seven billion people on earth. It could happen this weekend. But one group in China is struggling, and straining resources.
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WHITFIELD: News overseas this hour, three people are dead, one of them a woman who purposely blew herself up. It happened in Eastern Turkey today in a largely Kurdish region.
The woman was reportedly a suicide bomber who detonated herself, killing two others and injuring 20 people. It is the latest of several recent extremist attacks in Turkey.
The Syrian military blasting away at homes and buildings with artillery and air strikes. They're trying dislodge anti-government fighters in the city of Homs.
A human rights group say Syrian troops shot dead 35 protesters yesterday across the country.
And every high tide makes the flooding worse in Bangkok. The outer suburbs are underwater, as is much of the country. More than 370 people have died in the most severe flooding to hit Thailand in more than half a century.
And experts predict that the world's population will reach a record seven billion people on Monday, and China is the world's most populous country. Chinese migrants are struggling, and the population of Beijing has reached nearly 20 million.
CNN's Eunice Yoon reports.
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EUNICE YOON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Migrant workers crowd cities like Beijing, now the world's 13th most populated city, with almost 20 million people. The strain on cities across the globe, like the Chinese capital, is evident as the world's population reaches seven billion.
In Beijing, the number of people almost doubled over the last decade as migrants looked for jobs, struggling to make it in the big city.
(on camera): The people in this community earn roughly $300 a month. They say that they're the ones who really built Beijing, but they just don't feel like they have the same rights as anybody else in the city. This is how they live.
(voice-over): Families living side-by-side, in rooms they rent for $80 a month.
"If all the migrants went back to their hometowns, life in the city would not go on properly," she says. "The economy wouldn't develop as well if we weren't here."
With costs for housing and food rising, many migrants are growing resentful. They don't reap more economic rewards.
"I don't even have a place to live. How can I feel rewarded?" he says.
(on camera): Just a couple of days ago, the school in this community was torn down, and they found out that this entire area is also supposed to be demolished, so a lot of people have started to move out.
As much as they want to stay, these migrant workers don't really have much of a choice. Some of them are going to go back to the countryside, but most of them are going to look for other communities like this one and hope that they don't have to move, at least not any time soon.
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WHITFIELD: And that was Eunice Yoon reporting.
For more information on the earth's population reaching seven billion, just go to CNN.com.
All right, with Halloween right around the corner - it's Monday - many people are visiting haunted houses this weekend. Hauntworld.com has released its list of this year's scariest haunted houses.
So, we want to ask you, what is the scariest haunted house in America, if you visited them (ph). A, Netherworld Haunted House in Atlanta; B, Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride and Pennhurst Asylum Haunted Attraction in Philadelphia; C, 13th Gate Haunted House in Baton Rouge, Louisian; or D, House of Torment Haunted House in Austin, Texas.
Stick around after the break to find out.
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WHITFIELD: All right, before the break we asked you what is the scariest haunted house in America, the one that really gets under your skin?
According to Hauntedworld.com, the answer, B, the Bates Motel and Haunted Hayride and Pennhurst Asylum Haunted Attraction in Philadelphia. Of course, the Hayride is located in a 200-year-old forest. Also, the Pennhurst Asylum, well, that's located at a 100- year-old abandoned mental institute. Spooky stuff.
So whether you're using an expensive high end camera or a simple smartphone, you want your Halloween photos to be perfect. So we now have five tips on how to take the best pictures and make those costumes really shine.
Our technology analyst, syndicated writer Marc Saltzman is with us now from Toronto. Happy Halloween, Marc. So -
MARC SALTZMAN, SYNDICATED TECHNOLOGY WRITER: Thank you. And you.
WHITFIELD: -- what's your first tip for taking the best of Halloween snapshots?
Oh, scary.
SALTZMAN: My - yes. I'll put my friend away for our chat.
The first tip of five would be, for those who own a point and shoot camera, on of the, you know, the more affordable, pocket sized ones. Often, when you're taking pictures of the kids, they don't want to be photographed and they're out of the scene by the time you actually get that shot.
So, to increase the shutter time on these cameras, the first tip is to simply hold it down halfway. You'll hear maybe a chime or you'll see the LCD screen auto focus. That means you're ready to take a shot, the camera knows you're ready, and then the moment the kids or grandkids does something cute, you just snap it and it'll take a much faster picture.
So, in other words, going from five to 10 is much faster than zero to 10 if your finger is off the shutter button all together. So that's tip number one. A basic one, but one that we often overlook.
WHITFIELD: OK. And you say for lighting purposes, of course, for nighttime photos, it's good to kind of set that shot. What do you mean? How do you do it?
SALTZMAN: Yes. So, I was referring to smartphones. Know - know your flash's distance is the second tip. Try to go out at twilight, if you can, opposed to later on, because you'll get better lighting.
But for those on a smartphone, you know, their - the big challenge is - and - is the flash's distance, if there is a flash at all. So if you are - want to take a picture with your camera, know that the flash is only a couple of feet away, only a couple of - it's about 10 feet for a point and shoot camera, or about half that for a smartphone.
So make sure you get in nice and close to take a picture if you're using the flash, and make sure that they're not standing by a mirror or a window because you're going to get a reflection. So just know your flash's limitations.
If you're standing on the sidewalk while your kids are trick or treating at someone's front door, you're not going to get any - you know, you're not going to get a good photo there because the flash will not go that far.
WHITFIELD: OK, and I've got that camera phone, but it doesn't have a flash on it. How am I going to take a good picture? Any advice?
SALTZMAN: Yes. Well, definitely you're going to need to use light. That's the number one issue, especially around Halloween time is lack of light.
So here's a tip for you, if you are using an SLR or a single lens reflex camera, one of the great things about them is that they've got a large sensor that can take in more light so they are better in low light conditions.
But here's a couple of quick tips for you. What you're going to want to do is increase the ISO setting. The higher the number, the more light will come in through the sensor. You can also increase the - slow down the shutter speed, rather, but make sure you keep a - a steady shot so that it's not blurry.
And finally you can also use larger aperture, which can also help bring in more light into the sensor. So that's a good tip.
For those who have these fancy cameras, you may not even need the flash at all, but make sure you try bumping up the ISO.
WHITFIELD: OK. And - and what do you do to try and make your pictures very authentic? How can you do that?
SALTZMAN: I'm a huge fan of candid photos. My kids do not like standing and smiling. The smiles look fake. So I loved, you know, capturing some emotion on their face or some action that they're not aware of and then we share it later on the computer. We - I show them what I - I captured and they love it.
So definitely a camera with a decent lens so you can zoom in from afar is ideal for candid shots or Halloween. So, again, an SLR like this, this is the Canon Rebel T3i, by the way. It has those interchangeable lenses, you know? Can you swap in a different lens and capture some great shots. And, of course, they're also great for soccer moms and hockey dads, not just over Halloween, to capture good shots.
So definitely use a good lens for those candid images. WHITFIELD: People are barely familiar with cameras any more. I mean, you've been showing us the iPhones and, you know, other kinds of smartphones that take pictures. Very seldom do you ever see anyone with a camera. So, gosh, that was like taking us back, even though that was a very modern day camera. We've got to get used to seeing those again.
SALTZMAN: Yes. You know, cameras are in everything now. You've got them in your smartphones, they're in the point and shoots -
WHITFIELD: Yes.
SALTZMAN: -- there's the SLRs. Even these pocket video cameras are - are still popular, the flip style camera.
So, you know, capture video, too, over - over Halloween, not just still photos. You can have a lot of fun and relive it, not just with the kids, you know, a few years from now, but it's digital.
WHITFIELD: Of course.
SALTZMAN: So you've got future generations that are going to be able to see what you did in Halloween 2011.
WHITFIELD: Oh, very fun. Well, have some great Halloween moments. Nice, candid moments -
SALTZMAN: Thank you.
WHITFIELD: -- since that's what you and your family are accustomed to. Oh, yes, and that fellow right there too. He's going to his job this weekend and scare a lot of people.
All right.
SALTZMAN: That's plan.
WHITFIELD: Yes. That's good.
All right, thanks so much. And that framed picture over your shoulder, that's kind of scaring me.
SALTZMAN: Yes.
WHITFIELD: That is only up there for Halloween, right?
SALTZMAN: Yes. We're decorating for a house party.
WHITFIELD: OK. Just checking.
SALTZMAN: So that's it.
WHITFIELD: Just check.
All right, Marc Saltzman, thanks so much. Happy Halloween. Have fun.
SALTZMAN: And to you.
WHITFIELD: All right, for more hi-tech ideas and reviews, just go to CNN.com/tech and look for the Gaming and Gadgets tab.
And the Twitter world is now hitting about five billion tweets per month. So what do you think the most tweeted event per second is in recent history? Osama Bin Laden's death; Beyonce showing off her baby bump; or the Japanese earthquake and tsunami?
The answer in just two minutes.
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WHITFIELD: All right, so we asked you before the break, what is the most tweeted event per second in the world so far this year? Osama Bin Laden's death, coming in at 10; Japan's earthquake and tsunami, coming in at number seven; and the number one tweet, Beyonce revealing her baby bump at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards back in August. She got a record 8,886 tweets per second.
A look at our top stories now, an early winter storm is dumping a mix of sleet and snow on the Northeast and the mid-Atlantic. Some areas could see more than a foot of snow.
Many trees are still full of leaves, and that is creating a big problem and it's causing a lot of concern about power outages. Already 23,000 customers in York County, Pennsylvania are without electricity.
A suicide attacker drove a car bomb into a NATO convoy today in Afghanistan. At last report, five NATO service members and eight civilians working for NATO were killed. No confirmation yet on the nationalities of those NATO troops.
And a puppy survives the gas chamber. This beagle was set to be euthanized at an animal shelter, except, guess what, it didn't work. Now he's at a no kill shelter in New Jersey that saves dogs from death row.
And check out this high-speed police chase in Texas. We're talking more than 125 miles an hour. The suspect is accused of robbing a gas station with a rifle and then speeding off, and then the police right there catching up with the man, who they then arrested.
A lawyer for missing Baby Lisa's parents just got the boot. The parents of the missing 11-month-old girl cut ties with one of the attorneys. It came just hours after the couple canceled a scheduled police interview with the baby's two half brothers.
Baby Lisa disappeared from her home October 4th.
Gary Giordano will spend another month in jail. He's the Maryland man being held in Aruba, the only suspect in the disappearance of fellow American Robyn Gardner over the summer.
Giordano appeared yesterday before a judge, who ordered him held for at least 30 more days. Investigators in Aruba say they need the time to investigate further.
Here now is Martin Savidge.
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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Gary Giordano stood up before an Aruban judge and declared I am innocent. He also said that that he has been telling the truth to authorities the entire time. That apparently didn't move the judge one bit instead later in the day she ruled in favor of the prosecution extending Gary Giordano's stay in Aruba behind bars for at least another 30 days.
Giordano was taken into custody on August 5th at the airport in Aruba as he was attempting to board a flight back to the United States. He was arrested in connection with the disappearance of 35-year-old Robin Gardner, his traveling companion, who he says vanished during a snorkeling accident in the southern part of the island.
But authorities were suspicious of his story and they became especially more so after they learned that Giordano had taken out a million and a half dollar life insurance policy on Robin Gardner just days before they went on a trip.
Now today Giordano's new defense attorney argued that his client's life was being destroyed by the continued detainment. He also said that the case against him was nothing but circumstantial that there was no solid proof.
But the prosecution had argued they needed more time for a couple of reasons. Number one they say this case has now spread to four countries, the United States, the Netherlands, Aruba and Curacao. They also say that they need still more time to diagnose some electronic devices, two smartphones and a laptop computer.
And they also say they need more time to investigate apparently a couple of hits that some search and rescue dogs found on the island pertaining to a search a couple of weeks ago. All of that is the reason that the judge apparently sided with them and said that Giordano will, in fact, remain behind bars.
The defense attorney says at the end of this 30 days he has to be formally charged or let go.
I'm Martin Savidge in Atlanta.
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WHITFIELD: All right. One of our great legal minds, Richard Herman, is here. You usually you see him out of Vegas. He's here right now in Atlanta. Good to see you.
RICHARD HERMAN, DEFENSE CRIMINAL ATTORNEY: Hey, Fred.
WHITFIELD: Defense criminal attorney. All right.
This is a really peculiar case, is it not, because Giordano and his camp thought perhaps, you know what, he'll get a chance to be released, they haven't charged him with anything yet. They've been holding him since the summer.
How long can they hold him without the evidence to charge him?
HERMAN: Shades of Natalee Holloway and just an unbelievable criminal justice system in Aruba. They can hold him for 30 more days. Give the time for the prosecution, for the authorities to do more investigation. And if they come back with some kind of evidence or any more evidence, they present that to the judge and the judge could extend this another 30 days.
WHITFIELD: So this could go on and on and on every 30 days, once expires another could pick up if prosecutors feel like they have reason to keep searching.
HERMAN: If they can persuade the judge that they're making progress or they have some kind of evidence to link him to the crimes. But at this point in time, incredibly they have no evidence linking him. They have nothing. So that's why the defense attorney stands up and says he's going to be released in 30 days because they have nothing.
WHITFIELD: Now, if he were to be released, and the investigation continues in Aruba, he makes his way back to the States, what's the extradition agreement? Would the U.S. cooperate if Aruba, even though he's absent he's no longer there, Aruba were to say we now have some evidence to impose or further our investigation of him?
HERMAN: That's a great question, Fred. That's what everybody wants to know. They were trying to get him released in Aruba now but make him stay in Aruba for the next 30 days. The judge did not go for that.
WHITFIELD: Why wouldn't they?
HERMAN: They just wouldn't let - let it happen.
WHITFIELD: OK.
HERMAN: If he comes back to the United States and they release him, we absolutely have a treaty with Aruba and the Netherlands. He can be extradited. He will be extradited and face charges there unless somehow in the United States they can draw up some charges up against him.
WHITFIELD: So this is a reflection of a small island, they do things differently there. Perhaps they're not used to having to investigate cases like this. It just simply takes more time.
HERMAN: I think it's incompetence. That's what I think it is.
After Natalee Holloway, you think they would have learned something there, some sort of procedure. They don't get that like this in Aruba. So they just don't know how to act.
And this case is just another abomination, Fred. It's going continue on. This poor woman is dead. Who takes out a life insurance policy with someone they're traveling with and then all of a sudden that person dies? You know, it's just not right. They're going to have to do more investigation, competent investigation.
WHITFIELD: And so apparently we heard from Martin what they want to further investigate cell phones, smartphones, computers, what potentially could they be looking for if they are never to find a body, if they never have that physical evidence, is there something in those pieces of technology that they could use that along with this life insurance that was taken out prior to to help strengthen their case against him?
HERMAN: Oh, sure. But, you know, that should have been done by now.
WHITFIELD: So it's almost too late in your view?
HERMAN: It's not too late, but those - that should have been done. I think it's already been done and they don't have anything. But they'll be looking for any evidence of a crime on those tapes, on the recordings, on the texting, on any phone messages. They'll check who the phone calls were made to. They'll check who these people were. They'll interview them. But, again, this should have all been done. It would have been done in the United States.
WHITFIELD: Wow. All right. Richard Herman, thanks so much. We're not done with you.
HERMAN: I'll be back (ph).
WHITFIELD: You're going to be back with us. We're going to talk about Lindsay Lohan and problems that her entire family - maybe not entire family - other family members are also having with the law.
HERMAN: The acorn doesn't fall far from the tree.
WHITFIELD: And then we're going to talk about John Edwards and the latest in his motion to get that case dismissed.
HERMAN: Yes.
WHITFIELD: Thanks so much, Richard.
HERMAN: OK, Fred.
WHITFIELD: I appreciate that.
All right, the mother of eight brings more babies into the world. Find out why, next.
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WHITFIELD: All right. Each week we're calling on friends of CNN Heroes to shine a spotlight on our top 10 honorees and their work as you vote for the hero who inspires you the most, the CNN Hero of the Year. Well, today actress Kristin Davis introduces to a midwife who's delivering more than just babies.
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KRISTIN DAVIS, ACTRESS: Hi. I'm Kristin Davis.
As an ambassador for Oxfam, I'm committed to finding lasting solutions to poverty and injustice. Now, I'm thrilled to help introduce one of this year's top ten CNN heroes. Now, more than ever the world needs heroes.
ROBIN LIM, COMMUNITY CRUSADER: The moment that a woman falls pregnant in Indonesia, she's 300 times more likely to die in the next 12 months than if she was not pregnant. If you have money you can get excellent medical services. But the poorest people don't always get the services they need.
My name is Robin Lim. I'm a midwife. Most people call me Ebu Robin, because "ebu" means mother.
I've learned about the dangers of motherhood when my own sister, she died as a complication of her third pregnancy. I was just really crushed. I came to Bali to reinvent my life.
Hi, baby. Hi.
We started a clinic run by Indonesian midwives. We offered prenatal care, birth services. No matter how poor they are, no matter their race or religion, we teach new graduating classes of midwives how do to a more natural, gentle birth. The women can stay as long as they want.
Each baby, each adult deserves a clean, healthy, loving environment. Those are human rights.
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WHITFIELD: They are some of the most inspirational people in the world working against the odds to help those in need.
And you can tell us who should be named the CNN Hero of the Year. Our Josh Levs is here to show exactly how one does it.
JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And, Fred, that was a really good example. And, you know, when you look at all 10 of our CNN Heroes this year, they're amazing.
WHITFIELD: Yes.
LEVS: They're doing things like helping people struggling to pay for necessities. Helping children living in hunger, kids affected by HIV and many other people in need.
This right behind me is CNNHeroes.com and this is the place to learn about all 10 of our heroes. Let me tell you how it works. Each of them gets $50,000. And then the CNN Hero of the Year chosen entirely by you will also get $250,000.
Each one has a fan page here. So when you go to this website you want to learn some more about them, you just basically click on their picture. I pulled up one as an example. Eddy Canales, interesting guy, he runs a non-profit that helps high school football players with life changing spinal cord injuries.
So after you've spent some time, you've learned about all 10 of them, what you'll do is you click on Vote and it brings you over here. And then you decide who you want to choose to be the CNN Hero of the year.
And we have a new system going forward this year. What you do is you highlight the photo and then when you place that photo down here under your selection, I'll do it for your but I don't want to create a vote, so I'm just telling you. You're going to hook it up to either your e- mail or your Facebook account and what this will do is it will make it very easy for you to then share that vote with your friend so that in turn you're getting them involved in social media as well.
You can also do all of that on your mobile device this year and, Fred, people can vote up to 10 times a day.
WHITFIELD: Oh, yes.
LEVS: So the sooner they start the more votes that will get in.
WHITFIELD: And so how long do people have to actually vote?
LEVS: They have until early December. The deadline is December 7th at midnight. And then the announcement of who the CNN Hero of the Year is will take place at the big event. That will be at "CNN Hero: An All-Star Tribute," Sunday, December 11th at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific.
And, you know, I tossed a lot of information at you and I want to make it easier for you to find, so it's up at my pages right now CNN.com/Josh, also Facebook and Twitter JoshLevsCNN. Everything you need to know to decide who will be the CNN Hero of the Year.
WHITFIELD: All right. Good luck to all of them.
LEVS: Absolutely.
WHITFIELD: Thanks so much, Josh.
LEVS: You got it.
WHITFIELD: All right, teens standing up against bullies. One group takes the message on stage.
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JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: And that winter wonderland right there is New Haven, Connecticut, a rare October nor'easter bearing down on the northeast as we speak.
Welcome back to the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm meteorologist Jacqui Jeras.
And the system is really intensifying as we speak. Almost a snow paint (ph). Take a look at this. This white that you see here in that big hole in the satellites, that's the center of circulation from out storm, so we're getting all of this moisture whipping up from the Atlantic interacting with that cold air and bringing down some really impressive heavy snowfall.
In fact, we're getting as much as two inches per hour now in parts of Pennsylvania, into upstate New York, into Western Massachusetts where we can get as much as a foot of snow before all is said and done.
This is the forecast and you can see west of I-95 is going to be the worst of it. The closer to coast you are, the more rain you're going to be seeing. But some very difficult travel conditions all throughout.
Here's a live picture for you in Washington, D.C. where it has just started to snow. Not expecting a lot for accumulation. We're mostly going to be seeing a wintry mix.
Temperatures tonight are going to be very cold, but are going to warm up very quickly. So by tomorrow morning this is going to be out of here with the exception of Northern Maine. We're very concerned. We're hearing hundreds of thousands of people already without power. A lot of leaves on those trees, so we're getting branches coming down and bringing out that power.
We'll have more coming up with our weather forecast and continue to track this nor'easter coming up a little later in the show. Fredricka, back to you.
WHITFIELD: All right. We look forward to that. Thanks so much, Jacqui.
The message to keep bullying keeps spreading to fight bullying, that is, keeps spreading. CNN Education Contributor Steve Perry introduces us to a group that's singing about haters. It's this week's "Perry's Principles."
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STEVE PERRY, CNN EDUCATION CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): Teen band, Radio Silence NYC is making some noise about bullying with its first single "Renegade."
(on camera): You're starting to write your own music, when the wheels stop spinning, how do you end up on bullying?
WYATT OFFIT, HIGH SCHOOL SENIOR: We had this idea. Let's make three lists: things we love; things that we kind of don't really care about; and things that we really don't like. And we all wrote the word "haters" on the list of dislikes.
PERRY: What's that? What's a hater? OFFIT: Someone who makes fun of you for what you like, your style. And we're like, that's - that's it, that's the song we want to write about. It's something that has affected us in our lives.
PERRY: How?
DYLAN BRENNER, HIGH SCHOOL JUNIOR: Well, we've all experienced it, but probably me the most, because I've always been on the shorter side. So kids just like got a hoot out of either, you know, verbally picking on me or sometimes even physically.
PERRY: When I look at bands like the Ramones and others, they must have been outcasts. Tell me about that experience of being on some level by design outcasts.
ZACH ALLEN, HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE: I guess you just have to try to learn that it's OK. And that even though people may not think you're the definition of cool maybe, it's really all right. You just have to be your own person and not care what other people think.
PERRY (voice-over): To spread that message the band teamed up with dosomething.org, a non profit that provides tools for young people to create social change. Together, they spoke out and rocked out at several high schools in New York and New Jersey this year.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's definitely more effective than just sitting down through a boring chitchat because kids can relate to it.
PERRY (on camera): What do you want kids to take from this?
TIM HOLMES, HIGH SCHOOL SOPHOMORE: When I saw kids at my old school, it was always the same kids bullying the same kids every day and nobody else would do something about it. We're trying to get kids to, you know, like stand up and say something to the bully. You know, like "stop that." You know, "it's not cool."
PERRY: So these songs speak to your generation?
ALLEN: Yes. We actually have a song called "Future Generation" that - that tells people that we are the generation. It's our time to change and it's our time to make things better.
PERRY: Steve Perry, New York.
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WHITFIELD: Destroying pumpkins is a time honored activity for rebellious boys on Halloween night, but smashing pumpkins can be a real art. Stick around after the break to see exactly what I mean.
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WHITFIELD: Oh, I'm happy to see this segment because I needed some ideas on what to do with that Jack o' Lantern after Halloween, Jacqui.
JERAS: You chuck it. WHITFIELD: Yes.
JERAS: Right.
WHITFIELD: But how and where do you chuck it?
JERAS: I did it once years ago.
WHITFIELD: I mean, it's going to be a mess.
JERAS: It's going to be a mess and you have to clean up the mess, right?
WHITFIELD: But it's a mess already because it's already getting rotty, right?
JERAS: Well, ours are already rotted.
WHITFIELD: Yes. Mine is also getting rotty, too.
JERAS: Exactly.
WHITFIELD: So I'm wondering what should we do with them.
JERAS: You make it (INAUDIBLE) -
WHITFIELD: But, you know, it's not going to look that glamorous and great. How can that be art now?
JERAS: Yes. OK. So they took these pumpkins, they took these shots at 300 frames per second after they were dropped off a three-story building into a parking lot.
WHITFIELD: You're kidding me.
JERAS: But look at that.
WHITFIELD: And then who cleaned up the mess? That's what I want to know.
JERAS: I don't know. It wasn't me.
WHITFIELD: Somebody had to do it.
JERAS: It's all that matters, right?
WHITFIELD: That's crazy.
JERAS: Yes.
WHITFIELD: So the filmmaker's name is Devin Graham and he got together some of his friends and they collected these pumpkins and there you go.
JERAS: How cool. He even puts some fireworks in some of them.
WHITFIELD: Oh, really?
JERAS: I don't know.
WHITFIELD: OK.
JERAS: It looks really neat.
WHITFIELD: It's gone viral.
JERAS: Haven't you always wanted to do that, though?
WHITFIELD: No, I had never though of that. But, OK, now, I guess I will.
JERAS: But not the fireworks thing, but drop them, right?
WHITFIELD: I still never thought of that either, but, OK. I guess that's what I will do.
JERAS: It's a blast. I did it from 50 feet up once -
WHITFIELD: Really?
JERAS: Yes. Old radio show that I did back in Iowa.
WHITFIELD: Oh, really? Well, that's gone viral. Apparently it's very popular, 140,000 hits on that. All right, Jacqui -
JERAS: Try it at home.
WHITFIELD: Yes. Thanks so much. I'll consider that after Halloween. I wouldn't have the little one watching.
JERAS: You can come to my house.
WHITFIELD: Oh, really?
JERAS: I'll clean it up.
WHITFIELD: OK. Well, you know what happened over the summer, that big fair concert that was to happen in Indiana, but the big windstorm came through?
Well, Sugarland is turning that tragic moment into something very great. They've returned to the place to perform in front of fans who are still mourning the loss of seven lives. We're going to take you to Indianapolis after this.
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WHITFIELD: Country duo Sugarland made a bittersweet return to Indianapolis performing for the very fans who witnessed the horrific stage collapsed that killed seven people two months ago.
Singer Jennifer Nettles told the crowd, quote, "We were all changed," unquote, by what happened. But last night's shows started to heal the scars.
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JENNIFER NETTLES, SUGARLAND: Well, hello, Indianapolis.
KRISTIAN BUSH, SUGARLAND: Hello, everybody.
RICHARD LINDSAY, CONCERTGOER: I was there the evening at the Indiana State Fair.
NETTLES: We are so happy to be here with you and we are so happy that you are here for everything that that means tonight.
LINDSAY: A lot of people were hurt and a lot of people also were emotionally and mentally hurt. There are a lot of scars that people can't see.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Those of us that were there that night, it was a totally surreal, surreal experience. And that it was just insane that it happened.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The show, if you met people, you never forget that, because of that night.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After that tragedy unfolded, people started to connect with each other.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: These are people you become friends with. You stand in line together.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think that's helped make this like a group healing experience.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We want to be here together, to experience it together. We also want just to be here for the band.
NETTLES: It may be an emotional show tonight, but it will also be a celebratory show tonight.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Honestly, I went back and forth a million times whether or not I was ever going to really be able to come tonight. A little nervous, a little bit scared.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Tonight is about being with the people that were there that night and healing all together and just getting to see them again after seeing them after so long.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I feel like we're almost like completing something we started in August.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's kind of come in full circle and glad we could finally be there (ph) last night.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are going to all be together in that pit together. We all experienced the same thing. Yes, we've experienced it at different levels and it's affected all of our lives differently, but we were all affected by this.
LINDSAY: It's not closure this evening. People are healing, are going to be healing past this evening. Some people will be healing physically, emotionally and mentally for months, maybe years.
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