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U.N. Measure to Condemn Syria Fails; Nevada's Day to Pick GOP Candidate; Fatal Highway Crash; Gadgets for Valentine's Day; Fit Nation Triathlon Challenge; More Outrage Over Mississippi Pardons; Brits Sent Home for Tweets; MHK, Inspiration for the Big Game; Helping Overweight Kids in America; Hospitals Refuse to Operate
Aired February 04, 2012 - 15:00 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: The U.N. Security Council tried to formally condemn the government of Syria today, but their draft resolution failed, shut down by a double veto. Ambassadors from Russia and China voted against it.
American ambassador Susan Rice made her feelings very clear.
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SUSAN RICE, U.S. AMBASSADOR TO U.N.: The United States is disgusted that a couple members of this council continue to prevent us from fulfilling our sole purpose here, addressing an ever deepening crisis in Syria and a growing threat to regional peace and security.
For months, this council is held hostage by a couple members. These members stand behind empty argument and individual interests while delaying and seeking to strip bare any text that would pressure Assad to change his actions.
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WHITFIELD: Richard Roth is at the United Nations. So we just heard Ambassador Rice saying that she was disgusted. You just spoke with her personally as well. What did she add to that?
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR UNITED NATIONS CORRESPONDENT: The U.S. ambassador and others are deeply disappointed. India's ambassador say he was surprised at the double veto.
I asked Susan Rice why the diplomacy broke down.
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RICE: At the 11th hour, Russia tried to introduce amendments. It would have gutted the text. They were unacceptable to the other members of the council.
The one silver lining in this is that 13 members of this council supported the resolution, made strong statements in its - in its favor. And countries that had originally not supported the resolution last time changed their position and - and voted in favor. ROTH: South Africa, countries such as that. Take us into the back rooms, if you can. Do you feel Russia was stalling all along, they were presenting a more conciliatory front? They're working together, sleeves are being rolled up? Do you feel they ever intended to either abstain or vote yes?
RICE: I can't speak for Russia, Richard. I think our colleague, Ambassador Churkin, was negotiating in good faith. But I also think that at the end of the day, the decisions were made in Moscow, and Moscow decided that it would rather stand with Assad against the people of Syria than do the right thing.
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ROTH: Despite last minute talks in Germany between U.S. Secretary of State Clinton and Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov, the Russians still veto, just like they did in October, along with China. The Russian ambassador is saying it's an unbalanced resolution and that there were misleading statements put forth by other council members and it was sort of a rush that wasn't needed in the U.N.
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VITALY CHURKIN, RUSSIAN AMBASSADOR TO U.N. (through translator): Influential members of this council (INAUDIBLE), unfortunately, including those of you at this table, from the very beginning of this hearing process have been undermining the opportunity for peaceful settlement. You're calling for a regime change, pushing the opposition out of power, and not stopping a provocation and feeding armed (INAUDIBLE) struggle.
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ROTH: The U.S. ambassador and the others say the work here is not done. They will still keep trying. But it's clear events on the ground may determine, should there ever be another U.N. meeting like this, where a resolution has a chance.
Syrian opposition groups upset, Fredricka, Amnesty International, calling it a disgrace, what happened. Russia and China have their principal positions and they weren't able to be budged this time.
Back to you.
WHITFIELD: All right, Richard Roth, thanks so much, at the U.N.
All right, let's take you to the nation's capitol now, where right now police are removing tents from an Occupy camp downtown. U.S. Park Service officers in hazmat suits are taking away tents that contain camping gear.
Police had clashed with protesters and six people were arrested earlier. A federal judge Tuesday upheld the ban on camping in McPherson Square and another park in D.C. just blocks away from the White House. And we're one hour closer to Nevada Republicans picking who they want to run against President Obama. Take a look at Las Vegas where our cameras went inside one of the many caucuses underway.
And in some areas, caucus workers are already counting ballots, but naming a winner is still a few hours away.
Let's head to Carson City, the capital of Nevada where our Paul Vercammen is. So Paul, what is the buzz there?
PAUL VERCAMMEN, CNN SENIOR PRODUCER: Fredricka, I just got drowned out after they finished a rousing version of the national anthem. A very patriotic feeling here.
Look over here. You can see the 24 precinct boxes here in Carson City, Nevada, people coming up and voting right now as we speak as the caucus here has begun. You might wonder, they've got 11,000 Republicans here in Carson City, 10,000 Democrats.
Back in 2008, they voted for John McCain. If you look, they're expecting about a 50 percent turnout by kind of the sight of things right now, it seems like it could be even more vibrant than that in Carson City. People checking in over there, going to vote. They're going to tally up these ballots in about three hours, or at least start to do so.
One things that interesting, no matter who you talk to, whether they're for Romney or for Ron Paul or for Santorum or Gingrich, they all say that we need to change in Congress, and right now more patriotism. I'm going to let you listen.
CROWD: ... indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
VERCAMMEN: As I said to you, Fredricka, a rousing celebration, if you will, here in Carson City, Nevada.
WHITFIELD: All right. Paul Vercammen, thanks so much. We'll continue to watch the caucusing and the results unfolding later on. Appreciate that.
All right, a massive pileup in Florida is still under investigation nearly a week after it happened. One 15-year-old girl survived the crash, but in an instant she became an orphan.
We talk to the girl's aunt to see how she's doing and what will happen now.
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WHITFIELD: To headlines oversees now, witnesses in Syria call it a massacre.
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WHITFIELD (voice-over): In this town near Damascus, several people were reportedly killed today during a public funeral procession. In the past two days more than 320 civilians were reportedly killed in the city of Homs.
An opposition group says Syrian troops shelled apartment buildings randomly.
In Egypt, officials say 12 people died in street fighting there between protesters and riot police. More than 2,500 people are injured.
The demonstrators were furious at the government for what they call poor security at a soccer stadium riot that killed 79 fans.
And the hacker group that calls itself Anonymous says expect more stolen sensitive information to go public. That's after the group posted a secret phone conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard.
FBI agents say they're investigating how hackers were able to record that call.
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WHITFIELD: Florida investigators have identified the last three victims in last weekend's massive crash there. At least 11 people were killed when fog and smoke from a brush fire filled Interstate 75 near Gainesville. The smoke reduced visibility to zero.
The highway had been closed at one point, but the Florida Highway Patrol then reopened it just before this massive crash unfolded. At last check, eight of those injured in the pileup were still in the hospital, among them a 15-year-old Georgia girl who lost most of her family in that crash.
Martin Savidge talked to the girl's aunt who had to break that news to her.
MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, the outpouring of the support for the 15-year-old Lidiane Carmo, the Georgia teenager who was made an orphan as a result of that terrible crash on I-75, has been, in a word, huge.
Her condition continues to improve, but she still has a long way to go. And I had the chance to sit down and talk with her aunt who has been at the young teen's hospital bedside.
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SAVIDGE: Let me ask you first, how is Lidiane?
LUCIANE BOUTIN, LIDIANE'S AUNT: She's doing better. She's all right.
SAVIDGE: (voice-over): And that, in the minds of many, is a miracle.
Lidiane Carmo and her family were caught up in the horrible series of accidents that stretched a mile along a smoke shrouded Florida highway. Luciane Boutin got the news by phone early last Sunday.
SAVIDGE: -- her birthday. BOUTIN: It was 4:00, 4:20 in the morning on Sunday when my brother- in-law called.
SAVIDGE: In an instant, a family had been destroyed. And it would fall to Luciane and her husband to tell Lidiane she had lost her father, her mother, her older sister, her uncle.
BOUTIN: I know she's a very strong girl, but I never thought it was like that. Just for - talk to her and give her the worst news we can give to her, and how strong she was at the time.
SAVIDGE: Luciane showed me the photo she took of her niece in the hospital, which for legal reasons we can't share with you. Her face is swollen, black and blue, but it is definitely Lidiane.
(on camera): You did her hair?
BOUTIN: Yes. I brushed her hair, I did her hair and I kind of polished her nails, too.
SAVIDGE: Even here, you can see she's beautiful.
(voice-over): Luciane says it wasn't long before her young niece began to ask questions.
BOUTIN: The first question she asked me, where are we going to live now?
SAVIDGE: "With us," was their automatic reply. But adoption here is not certain. You see, Lidiane and her aunt and uncle are from brazil and have been living illegally in the U.S. Keeping them all together, Luciane says, may require a drastic and unwanted step, taking Lidiane back to a country for which she has no memory.
BOUTIN: If I have to move to Brazil, I will move. Whenever we can have our family together would be the best place for us, just to stay together.
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SAVIDGE: Luciane she says that she hopes it doesn't come down to that. They've been in the United States now for 14 years, and they love it here.
They also say that Lidiane is an all-American girl - Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: All right, thanks so much, Martin. And we'll have much more straight ahead, after this.
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WHITFIELD: All right, check your calendar. Valentine's Day is just 10 days away. It's time to think about shopping for that special someone. Perhaps instead of getting flowers and candy, why not mix it up a little bit? Give your loved one something high-tech. Syndicated technology columnist and our tech guru Marc Saltzman, joining us now via Skype in Toronto with some Valentine's Day gadgets for your sweetheart or maybe, her, for yourself.
Let's start with, you know, for the ladies perhaps. What kind of gadgets do you have for us?
MARC SALTZMAN, TECHNOLOGY WRITER: All right. Well, let's start with this Kindle Fire. Of course, it's something (INAUDIBLE) e-book reader (INAUDIBLE).
We're being (INAUDIBLE) by distortion here. Do you hear that, Fredricka?
WHITFIELD: Yes. It sounds terrible, actually.
SALTZMAN: (INAUDIBLE).
WHITFIELD: Uh-oh, and I jinxed it (ph). Now we don't hear him at all. I'm sorry, Marc.
OK, we're going to try this again because we're having a hard time being able to connect with Marc Saltzman. I know you want to know all those great high-tech ideas you're your sweetheart or for yourself so we'll try to get to that and re-establish that connection as soon as we can.
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WHITFIELD: All right. Each year Dr. Sanjay Gupta picks a team of viewers to train for and actually compete in a "Fit Nation" triathlon challenge. They get a bike, a wet suit, personal trainer, and a trip to Hawaii to race with Sanjay in the Nautica Malibu Triathlon this September.
All right. Here are the lucky seven.
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NANCY KLINGER, FIT NATION PARTICIPANT: My name's Nancy, and I'm sending you this video on a really chilly November night here in Afton, Minnesota.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Nancy Klinger is recently separated from her husband after a 26-year marriage, and though she's in OK physical shape, mentally she's finding it tough to stay motivated.
KLINGER: I'm finding it really hard to generate the energy needed to - to get through the day, let alone get some really good regular exercise.
GUPTA: Glenn Keller is a truck driver from Texas. He runs a call in ministry from his cell phone when he's on the road.
GLENN KELLER, FIT NATION PARTICIPANT: Here I sit, making this video, and I'm at least 100 pounds overweight. I think the first life that I need to make a difference is in mine.
GUPTA: Denise Castelli from New Jersey was a star college softball player when a tragic accident on the field forced doctors to amputate her leg.
DENISE CASTELLI, FIT NATION PARTICIPANT: I have always prided myself on being a topnotch athlete, and I miss that, and I desperately want that back.
GUPTA: Radio host Jeff Dauler has just gone through a divorce and is looking to reinvent himself.
JEFF DAULER, FIT NATION PARTICIPANT: I realize that one of the only things that any of us can control in our lives is our bodies. What we put in them and how we take care of them.
GUPTA: Carlos Solis has dedicated his life to helping troubled kids, but he often doesn't take time to focus on his own health.
CARLOS SOLIS, FIT NATION PARTICIPANT: I am a Type 2 diabetic, and my doctors have told me that I needed to lose weight and diet and exercise and bring my sugars under control.
GUPTA: Rick Morris is a web designer and volunteer firefighter in North Carolina, but the smoke he's battling most often comes from his own cigarette habit.
RICK MORRIS, FIT NATION PARTICIPANT: After my career in the Army, I started smoking and quit exercising.
I don't want to die young from controllable circumstances. I want to live.
GUPTA: And Adrienne Lagier, a journalism teacher from Maryland, has a big event coming up just two weeks before our big race day.
ADRIENNE LAGIER, FIT NATION PARTICIPANT: Getting married to the father of my twins, Chris, after eight long years, and the biggest gift I feel like I can give him is starting our life off in fitness and in health. This teacher wants to be your student.
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WHITFIELD: And you can follow the "Fit Nation" lucky seven from now until the race at CNN.com/FitNation.
Stay with us and we will be right back.
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WHITFIELD: OK, we're going to try this again.
Flowers and chocolate for Valentine's? Oh, that's so yesterday. Why not something more high tech?
All right, tech guru Marc Saltzman. He's back with us from Toronto. If we can't see him, then maybe we can hear him this time.
All eight, let's talk about some of the gadgets you have in mind for the ladies.
SALTZMAN: All right, let's start off with the Kindle Fire from Amazon. So that's a sub $200 tablet. A colored e-book reader that also can stream movies and can you play games, watch TV shows. It's got a web browser. So it's a great product not just for those who liked to read but who just want to listen to music and watch videos as well.
It also works great with the Amazon Prime service, so you can stream content, which is something not as easy to do with iTunes. So, again, for those who don't want to spend $500 on a tablet, $199 for your sweetheart for the Kindle Fire is a great buy.
WHITFIELD: OK, and how about something fashionable but affordable for the music lovers?
SALTZMAN: Yes, so if you have a significant other who is - likes to be fit and fashionable, an iWatch Wristband I think is a great pick for starting at $25. These turn your sixth generation iPod Nano into a wristwatch.
So it snaps in to the side. There's lots of colors and patterns and materials to choose from. And then you wear it, and as you likely know, the - he new iPod Nano does have 18 different watch faces to choose from, but I like the fact that it's hands free. So now you can use that radio, your music, a pedometer while you're exercising.
WHITFIELD: My goodness.
SALTZMAN: It snaps in. Easy to use and affordable.
WHITFIELD: And look cute while doing all that.
OK, and then there are some pretty unique headphones that you have.
SALTZMAN: That's right. They're called Sculpted Ears, and as the name suggests they're the first off the shelf earphones that actually molds to your ear for a perfect fit.
It comes with a small contraption that you first put on and four minutes later after, this liquid silicone enters your ear, it hardens and it forms a perfect ear bud just for you. So you remove the contraption. You can put it back in the box or toss it. And then you have the little ear buds that snap into your ears.
It's got a little loop around the back, so they're also great for working out. And it also has a microphone on the headphone cord, so if you want to use it with your smartphone instead of your iPod, the you can also make calls with it.
So these are great sounding earphones that are perfectly fitted just for you.
WHITFIELD: Oh, I can see that's going to be hugely popular.
All right, so let's talk about tech toy suggestions for some of the guys, starting with gloves for those touch screen devices.
SALTZMAN: Yes. Right, so we all - most of our smartphones and tablets are touch screen only. But if you're living in the northern states or up in Canada, this time of year it may not be so fun to take off the gloves just to pull out a phone number.
So these iTouch Gloves, as they're called, they're only $10, and they let you use touch screen devices without having to take the gloves off. It has a special conductive yarn on the finger tips. So it lets you click around, flick and tap your way through all of your apps without having to take off the gloves.
And they're, again, only $10 at itouchscreengloves.com.
WHITFIELD: OK. And if your man is a gamer - sorry. No, just kidding. What do you have for them?
SALTZMAN: Well, one of the hottest games this spring is coming March 6. It's called Mass Effect 3. Is it spring yet?
Well, anyway the demo is out on Valentine's Day, and this is the third and final game in the epic sci-fi role playing series. It's a blast. I've - I've had some hands on time with Mass Effect 3. It's huge. It's got thousands of lines of dialogue, intense action and high definition graphics.
So there's a lot of buzz about this game. A lot of people putting down preorders, paying for this game. So that's something that your man would love, I'm sure.
WHITFIELD: I'm so glad my husband is not into that. Thank you.
All right, thanks so much. Marc Saltzman, glad it worked out the second time around. Appreciate it. Great ideas.
SALTZMAN: Thanks for having me. See you later.
WHITFIELD: All right, for more high tech ideas and reviews, just go to CNN.com/Tech and look for the "Gaming and Gadgets" tab. Or follow Marc Saltzman on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.
Stay with us. Your top stories, right after this.
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WHITFIELD: A look at our top stories now.
We're just a few short hours away Nevada announcing which Republican candidate Nevadans want to run against President Obama in the fall. Right now Nevada Republicans are meeting in caucuses across the state. The latest polls giving Mitt Romney a strong lead.
A big hard boiled egg recall to tell you about. A Minnesota company is recalling about a million eggs that went to 34 states. The eggs could be tainted with Listeria, which can cause sometimes deadly infections.
None of the eggs went straight to consumers. They're usually used by grocery chains and other stores in things like egg salad or on other prepared salads. For more information, go to FDA.gov.
Don Cornelius, the legendary deep voiced host and founder of "Soul Train," friends and colleagues paid tribute to him today in Harlem, and Al Sharpton hosted the event. He is, as well as singer Roberta Flack and others, honored Cornelius for changing the way America listened to soul and R&B.
Cornelius died Wednesday of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
When Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour pardoned several convicted killers last month, lots of people were furious in that state about it. But, for one mother, the decision to free the repeat drug drive - drunk driver, rather, who killed her daughter was just too much to bear.
Ed Lavandera has the story.
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SGT. HILDON SESSUMS, OXFORD, MISSISSIPPI POLICE DEPARTMENT: I know who you are.
ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There's a reason the man in the red shirt, Harry Bostick, looked familiar to Sergeant Hildon Sessums. This was the second time the Oxford, Mississippi police officer had arrested Bostick for driving drunk.
SESSUMS: You've been drinking today?
There was an open bottle of wine in the front seat with him. There was an open bottle of champagne on the front seat with him. He had a large cup that was full of red wine.
LAVANDERA: Police found he was driving at twice the legal limit of alcohol. This was Bostick's third drunk driving arrest in a year.
SESSUMS: You know you're not supposed to be driving.
LAVANDERA: Bostick pled guilty to the felony charge, was sentenced to a year of house arrest and to four years in an alcohol abuse program.
SESSUMS: Right before I put the cuffs on, he said, don't do this to me. And my comment to that usually is, you did it to yourself.
LAVANDERA: A year after that arrest, Harry Bostick applied for a pardon from Governor Haley Barbour. This former IRS investigator had high-profile friends write letters asking the governor to pardon Bostick. Friends wrote that Bostick's life fell in a destructive course after the tragic death of his teenage son in a house fire and a divorce from his wife. A federal prosecutor wrote, "Harry no longer drinks alcohol and can now be a positive factor in many lives." Another friend wrote, "Bostick has turned his life around."
The Mississippi Parole Board in a 3-2 vote recommended Bostick get a pardon. Governor Barbour agreed.
HALEY BARBOUR, FORMER MISSISSIPPI GOVERNOR: The power of pardon in the state is to give people a second chance who have repented and rehabilitated and redeemed themselves.
LAVANDERA (on camera): Charity was quite the artist. This is a gift she gave to you?
LINDA SMITH, VICTIM'S MOTHER: Yes. And this is how she signed it.
LAVANDERA: Signed it with her hand print?
SMITH: Yes.
LAVANDERA (voice-over): But don't tell Linda Smith that Harry Bostick has been rehabilitated. Just seven days after he was recommended for a pardon, Smith's 18-year-old daughter Charity was killed along this highway in a violent car crash. The driver of the car was Harry Bostick.
SMITH: She should still be here with me. She'd still be here with me. This should not have happened.
LAVANDERA (on camera): The sun had just set on an October night and Charity was driving down this gravel road. She had come here to this neighborhood to pick up her sister and take her to dinner. They were excited. They hadn't seen each other in quite some time. Mississippi authorities say the meantime, Harry Bostick was driving this way, back towards Oxford, driving, they say, under the influence again.
Charity pulled out into the highway to make a left hand turn, Bostick slammed right into the side of her.
(Voice-over): Charity was killed. Her sister survived. Bostick was sent to a jail in Oxford for violating his previous DUI sentence while prosecutors try to figure out what to charge him with.
Harry Bostick's attorney never returned our repeated calls. We tried to find Bostick at his home. He didn't answer. And we called him.
(On camera): Voice mail.
(Voice-over): But while Bostick waited in jail, Haley Barbour pardoned him. Bostick was free. How did that happen? It turns out the Governor's Office and Parole Board never did a last-minute check of Bostick's record. Both say they had no idea Bostick had been arrested a fourth time for drunk driving.
A baffling stroke of luck for Harry Bostick and Linda Smith worries her daughter has been forgotten in all of this. (On camera): Do you feel like they didn't -- they didn't know about Charity, they didn't know what had happened to her?
SMITH: Yes. Surely they didn't know about her. Why would they do it if they knew about her? She is a person. She was just a name on a piece of paper. She was a person.
LAVANDERA (voice-over): Charity Smith was saving money to go to college, dreaming of getting a business degree, a young girl with big dreams and an artist's heart.
(On camera): This is one that kind of stands out to me.
SMITH: Yes. This one, life is short.
LAVANDERA (voice-over): Mourned by a mother with a broken heart.
Ed Lavandera, CNN, Oxford, Mississippi.
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: And beware of the tweet. One man's destroy America is another man's call to party down. It was enough to ground two air passengers hoping to go from London to the U.S. Our legal guys take flight on this one.
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WHITFIELD: You have to be careful what you tweet. A British couple traveling to the U.S. tweeted something that got the attention of the TSA. The offending tweet, "Destroy America." Well, to Brits, that means to party. The TSA didn't see it that way.
It makes you wonder, are there trigger words you shouldn't tweet, especially if you plan to get on a plane? I took that question to the legal guys, Avery Friedman and Richard Herman.
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AVERY FRIEDMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Well, if you see words like "destroy America" and "dig up the body of Marilyn Monroe," I think that's a pretty clear idea to get the TSA guys pretty cranked up. Look --
WHITFIELD: But they say they were joking. The passengers say they were joking.
FRIEDMAN: Yes, I know they were joking.
WHITFIELD: Don't take us seriously.
FRIEDMAN: Well, hey, we're for the TSA in trying to run that by them. Look, the fact is since 9/11, it's insane to do that. These are 20- something Brits trying to come over to the United States. You know what? I think TSA did the right thing. They never intended to do it. But that's how it goes. WHITFIELD: All right. So, Richard, this is what -- this was one tweet that they exchanged. "Free this week for quick gossip/prep before I go and destroy America," with a question mark? Lesson to all, you just don't --
RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: You know just --
WHITFIELD: You don't joke about things like that.
FRIEDMAN: That's for sure.
WHITFIELD: If indeed this was a joke, right? HERMAN: You know this is what it's come to -- this is what it's come to in our society that everybody is so jumpy. Look, we speak English in the United States. They speak English over there. They look down on our English. It's slang. I'm going to destroy America is a slang term for party up in America.
Look, homeland security obviously overreacted in this case. They just better forget about it and move on with it. It's going nowhere. They could have questioned them. But then they had to release them. So it's -- really, Fred, it's ridiculous.
FRIEDMAN: Fredricka?
WHITFIELD: OK.
FRIEDMAN: Fredricka?
WHITFIELD: Yes, Avery?
FRIEDMAN: We've had a look at this Giants jersey for the entire hit. I mean goodness gracious. I mean --
WHITFIELD: Are you a Pats fan instead?
FRIEDMAN: Well, Myra Kraft said that passed away -- is the wife of the former owner --
WHITFIELD: Yes.
FRIEDMAN: The Patriots is going to be out there fighting. Let me show you, guys. There you go. Right there.
WHITFIELD: Wait a minute.
FRIEDMAN: Richard, there it is.
WHITFIELD: You should have been revealing that whole time. Then we'd have equal time for the Pats and the Giants.
FRIEDMAN: No, no. I had to be discreet about it.
WHITFIELD: My supermen Avery and Richard, you can join them every weekend Saturdays 12:00 Eastern Time.
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WHITFIELD: They're so full of surprises all the time, and smart.
All right, next week, we'll be introducing you to a new group of -- group, rather, of amazing people. The CNN heroes of 2012. But first, let's talk to the woman you named the 2011 CNN Hero of the Year, Robin Lim. She has helped thousands of poor Indonesian women have healthy pregnancies. Here's Anderson Cooper.
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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST, CNN HEROES (on camera): Congratulations. How do you feel?
ROBIN LIM, 2011 CNN HERO OF THE YEAR: Full of gratitude.
COOPER: Did you think you might have a chance of winning?
LIM: Of course not. We've helped so many people since 2005. Almost 113,000 people got free medical care and medicine.
COOPER: What does that feel like to start with one person and then slowly start to build the organization?
LIM: I found that if you have a good idea and you do it with love, a lot of people want to help you.
COOPER: It was a very personal loss that got you involved in this.
LIM: My sister died. She was pregnant. This was 21 years ago.
COOPER: What was your sister's name?
LIM: Her name is Christine. I feel like she really helps me.
COOPER: You carry her with you still.
LIM: Yes, and I think I carry her baby, too.
COOPER: What kind of impact do you think this will have?
LIM: The clinic we have in (INAUDIBLE), in the tsunami zone, that one is really safe. But the clinic in Bali is -- it's falling apart. It's too small for our patient care.
COOPER: You're hoping to maybe rebuild the clinic?
LIM: We've been saving money for years. And we did get a piece of land right in our village. So we're ready to build. And now we have money to begin.
COOPER: You have $250,000 plus $50,000 so $300,000.
LIM: Yes. Yes. That goes a long way in Indonesia.
COOPER: What keeps you going? I mean in those dark days when, you know, when you don't have money and when you don't have support?
LIM: Some days I don't have money. But I always have support. Just when you think, well, how are we going to pay the electric bill? There is always an e-mail that says we're sending money. It's just a miracle every day, just like birth.
COOPER: Congratulations. I'm so happy for you and for the work you're going to do and the lives you're going to save. Thank you. Thank you.
LIM: Thank you.
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WHITFIELD: All right. Do you know someone who's making a big difference in the lives of others? Go to CNNheroes.com now and tell us all about them. Your words just might change the life of someone working every day to help others. Nominate a 2012 CNN Hero today.
All right, when you watch the big football game tomorrow, the Patriots want you to know a little something about their angel. That story next.
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WHITFIELD: When you watch the Super Bowl Sunday, you will likely see a lot of signs with the letters MHK. You'll also see those letters on the New England Patriots' jerseys.
CNN's Mark McKay tells us why.
MARK MCKAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The letters MHK meant more than W's and L's to the Patriots this season. Myra Hyatt Kraft, the late matriarch of the Patriots, died at the age of 68 last July after battling cancer. The team began training camp just days later and has been playing for her ever since.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want to win every game for one reason and that was Myra.
JONATHAN KRAFT, NEW ENGLAND PATRIOTS PRESIDENT: Virtually every player in that locker room knew my mom and a lot of them had pretty deep personal relationships with her.
MCKAY (on camera): Her career was philanthropy, her constant pursuit. Humanitarianism and the Boston community and abroad. But Kraft didn't just write checks. She was a hands-on participant.
SANDY EDGERLEY, FORMER BOARD CHAIR, BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON: I think her passion was really infectious. It was hard to say no if she asked you to do something because she believed so strongly in it.
ZAMIRA KORFF, COMBINED JEWISH PHILATROPHIES: Her work was -- it was -- it was heart, it was mind, it was soul, it was intellect, it was spirit. And I think that resonated with people. ANDREA SWAIN, BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF BOSTON: You see young people doing drives, volunteering and shelters, volunteering to teach younger kids and to tutor and to read to younger kids because the teens want to embody the legacy that Myra left regarding service.
MCKAY (voice-over): That legacy has left a void felt most by her best friend and husband of 48 years, Robert Kraft, who bought the team in 1994 with his wife's support if not necessarily her understanding.
KRAFT: Somebody like my mom wasn't rabid about football but got the importance of it to other people and their lives. And I think, I think that's what once she became involved with the NFL and she understood the power, she wanted to make sure that that power was used for good.
MATT LIGHT, THREE-TIME SUPER BOWL CHAMPION: We knew that, you know, this was a special place for her and that this organization meant a lot. But you always got the sense that it was not because so much what we did on the field but what we did off the field.
MCKAY: Light would not let his teammates forget either Kraft, though, persuading them to commission a painting in her memory given to the Kraft family in an emotional postgame moment following a victory over the Dolphins on Christmas Eve.
LIGHT: I think for everybody kind of of stop and take the time to really, you know, acknowledge the fact that, you know, Mr. Kraft and his family and so many other people were affected by the loss of Myra and to find a way that you could kind of symbolize that dedication that everybody's put into this year was special for all of us.
KRAFT: It really validates that the men who are in that locker room are really special. And I think the emphasis that we place on character and well-rounded human beings really shown through and that's a pretty special moment that we'll cherish for the rest of our lives.
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MCKAY: Emotion. It will be and has been a constant for the Patriots all season long, Fred. It'll certainly be the case Sunday here at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
WHITFIELD: All right. It will indeed. Thank you so much, Mark McKay, there in Indianapolis.
All right. It's been 30 years since the hit TV show "Fame" debuted making us all believe there was a singer or a dancer inside us all. Well, next week Debbie Allen who played the tough talking teacher Lydia talks face-to-face with me about her new role on the TV show "Grey's Anatomy," her dance studio and the future she sees in performing arts.
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DEBBIE ALLEN, ACTRESS: I need Diana Ross to come and tell me. I love her. I do have her number in my cell phone.
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WHITFIELD: All right. Next week, face-to-face with Debbie Allen. She also opens up about missing a best friend and one of her best dance students, pop icon Michael Jackson.
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WHITFIELD: First Lady Michelle Obama hits the road this week to celebrate the second anniversary of her "Let's Move" initiative. She's been challenging the nation's young people to eat right and to be active. The aim is to help end childhood obesity. The three-day tour includes stops in Arkansas, Texas and Florida. It begins on Thursday which is "Let's Move" day in Des Moines, Iowa.
And now Christine Romans introduces us to a man who is trying to trim kids down. And he is someone football fans should know.
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OTIS WILSON, 55 ALIVE: We always say in the locker room, the more you can do, the more valuable you are to the team.
CHRISTINE ROMANS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Otis Wilson is no longer tackling opponents. He's tackling a childhood epidemic. As a Chicago Bears linebacker, he wore the number 55. And today, his after-school program, 55 Alive, gets children in Chicago moving and eating right.
WILSON: I want to bring young people's bodies alive.
ROMANS: Wilson is football royalty. You know, Chicago Bears, '85 Super Bowl Shuffle?
WILSON: I mean we have so many great athletes and we're just having so much fun. That was the best time in the world. We just -- we just had fun. It was like kids in a candy store.
ROMANS: An interesting metaphor from a guy who's trying to reverse a staggering statistic. In Chicago, the percentage of obese children is two times the national average. This according to the Department of Public Health.
WILSON: The whole thing is to get them to understand if you're going to go out there and play, whatever you play, you have to fuel the body.
ROMANS: Wilson says 7-year-old Tabitha was barely able to run when she joined the program. And now --
TABITHA, PARTICIPANT: It's fun and give me a good workout. So when I go home, I feel great.
ROMANS: Wilson teaches living well and leadership. WILSON: That's something that we work on every day and that we enforce that because a lot of them, it's unfortunate to say, they don't get it at home. You know they see what they see and it's sometimes not good. Every phase of their lives you have to make a difference in.
ROMANS: Sierra came here four years ago to learn to move but what she got was so much more. This little girl also learned about confidence.
SIERRA, PARTICIPANT: He shows like toughness and determination like if you want to reach a goal, he will reach it and nobody will stop you. And that's like my motivation, like, when I'm playing sports and doing tests and stuff like that.
WILSON: You hear a lot of athletes say, well, I'm not a role model. But I understand what they are talking about. Because role models should be people that's in your household that you come in contact with every day.
ROMANS: Three hundred kids come through here a year and Wilson says he consider each one like one of his own.
WILSON: These my babies now. That's why I tell these young kids today, just because you don't have -- you don't see a whole lot in your community don't mean that that's what you have to settle for. As long as they're in this building and I'm with them every -- 365 days a year, you know, we just keep enforcing that. I know that I'm making a difference.
ROMANS: Christine Romans, CNN, New York.
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WHITFIELD: All right. Let's keep talk about shaping up but this time the pets. They need to go on a diet. That's right. Pet obesity, it's on the rise. But you can do something to help your cat or your pudgy pooch. Next hour in the NEWSROOM.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Don Lemon, coming up on tonight "CNN WEEKEND PRIME," Megachurch pastor bishop Eddie Long back in the news, this time, for a controversial ceremony involving what appears to be a rabbi wrapping long in a Jewish torah and anointing him king. It is an amazing video to see and it's also raising questions about Long's judgment. All that and more when you join us tonight on "CNN WEEKEND PRIME" at 11:00 p.m. Eastern.
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WHITFIELD: A Los Angeles man needs a kidney transplant or he will die. He has private insurance. He could pay for it. He has even found a donor, but no hospital will operate on him. Here now is Casey Wian.
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CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT voice-over): Thirty-five-year-old Jesus Navarro's home dialysis machine is keeping him alive for now. But to see his 3-year-old daughter grow up, he'll need a kidney transplant. Navarro rose to the top of the waiting list at UC San Francisco Hospital last May but the hospital refused to perform the surgery because of concerns about his ability to afford costly life-long follow-up treatment, Navarro says.
JESUS NAVARRO, PATIENT (Through Translator): It depressed me a lot the news they gave us because we were so far ahead in line and because of a few papers, we couldn't do anything.
WIAN: And Navarro now has a willing kidney donor, his wife. He has health insurance to pay for the surgery. What he doesn't have is a green card. Navarro is an illegal immigrant from Mexico. Last month Navarro lost his 14-year job at Pacific Steel Casting following a Homeland Security Department audit. His insurance will expire soon. A company spokeswoman called Navarro's situation heartbreaking, we hope he gets the transplant.
NAVARRO (Through Translator): Do you suppose they are here to save lives and that's what they should do. They shouldn't care about our status. Have faith that they are going to change their mind.
WIAN: Privacy laws prevent UCSF from commenting directly on Navarro's case. In a statement the hospital said, "UCSF does not reject potential transplant patients based on their immigration status. Medicare is a critical link in the safety net for kidney transplant patients. Individuals who cannot access Medicare because of immigration status are at risk of being unable to sustain the organ."
Among the challenges he'll face, a daily regimen of expensive drugs. Supporters have set up a Facebook page and Web site to collect donations. Several nonprofit groups are trying to help and say they are talking with a kidney surgeon at another hospital and an immigration attorney.
(On camera): Local news coverage of Navarro's plight also has drawn the attention of border security activists who argue he should return to Mexico to seek a transplant.
(Voice-over): Navarro says that's not an option because he wouldn't be able to afford a transplant there either.
Casey Wian, CNN, Los Angeles.
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