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Obama Talks Gas Prices And Economy; Peyton Manning Released by Colts; Romney Counting Delegates; Joe The Plumber up for Election; 25 Dead Across Syria Today; Pentagon Weighs Syria Options; New iPad Unveiling Expected This Hour; Firestorm Over Foxconn; New Theory About Titanic; CNN Inside Shuttle Endeavour; Families Flee Syrian Fighting; FDA Not Happy with Aeroshot Caffeine Spray

Aired March 07, 2012 - 13:05   ET

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: We're listening to President Obama, campaign-style Obama there, talking about the need for fuel- efficiency vehicles. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. Want to get you up to speed.

Peyton Manning, he's the guy who turned Indianapolis into a football city. Well now, the team -- the Colts letting the star quarterback go. Manning was out for the entire 2011 season after undergoing neck surgery. Team owner, Jim Irsay, and Manning made the announcement at an emotional news conference just last hour.

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PEYTON MANNING: I haven't thought yet about where I'll play, but I have thought a lot about where I've been. And I've truly been blessed. I've been blessed to play here. I've been blessed to be in the NFL.

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MALVEAUX: It's on to the next contest and the fierce competition for the Republican presidential nomination. Mitt Romney winning six of the 10 Super Tuesday states, didn't manage a knockout punch but still, Romney sounded confident about the look ahead.

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MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Tonight, we're doing some counting. We're counting up the delegates for the convention and it looks good. And we're counting down the days until November. And that looks even better.

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MALVEAUX: Romney leads in delegates with 404. Rick Santorum won three states, he's got 165. Newt Gingrich has 106 after winning Georgia. Ron Paul has 66.

Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich loses his bid for reelection. He was defeated by fellow house Democrat Marcy Captor. Both of them ended up in the same district after a pretty tough redistricting battle. Now, Captor's opponent in November, he's the guy we came to know as Joe the plumber, his real name, Samuel Wurzelbacher. I remember when I covered Obama's campaign back in 2008 when he first challenged then candidate Obama's tax plan.

An opposition group says at least 25 people were killed today in street fighting across Syria, most of them in the city of Homs. At the same time, we are hearing that aid workers from the Syrian Red Crescent finally managed to enter neighborhoods and homes where the fighting is the worst. They brought in one doctor, some food and some blankets.

The U.S. defense secretary does not want to get involved in Syria right now. That's despite pressure from some senior Senate Republicans to end this conflict militarily. Senator John McCain today demanded to know from Leon Panetta how many more Syrians and civilians have to die before U.S. forces intervene.

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SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: How many more have to die? 10,000 more, 20,000 more, how many more?

LEON PANETTA, DEFENSE SECRETARY: I think -- I think the question, as you stated yourself, Senator, is the effort to try to build an international consensus as to what action we do take. That makes the most sense. What doesn't make sense is to take unilateral action at this point. As secretary of defense, before I recommend that we put our sons and daughters in uniform, in harm's way, I've got to make very sure that we know what the mission is.

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MALVEAUX: All right. Attention, tech junkies. This is what you're waiting for, your wait's almost over. In this hour, Apple is expected to unveil the new iPad. Alison Kosik, she's at the New York Stock Exchange. Alison, I've got the dinosaur version here. You tell me what's going to be different from what I have here and what we're going to see later this afternoon.

ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Oh, yes. So, the pressure is certainly on Apple to come up with something snazzy this time around. But remember, the iPad 2, which replaced the original one, obviously, only had these small incremental changes.

But expectations, they're higher this time. And you know Apple, they kind of feed this frenzy by being notoriously tight-lipped. But the word on the street is this new iPad is going to have 4G connectivity, meaning it's going to be faster than the current 3G network. Word is it's going to have Siri only -- it's right now only in the iPhone 4S right now. And its screen resolution is said to be double the current iPad and it's said to have a better camera and longer battery life. It sounds like it could put my iPad 2 -- it could become a doorstop like yours, Suzanne. Do you have the original one?

MALVEAUX: Yes. Kind of an expensive doorstop. But, yes -- so you would get the new one, yes? Do you think? KOSIK: Would I get the new one? You know what? I'm really happy. I feel like I'm a commercial, but I really am happy with this one.

MALVEAUX: Well, that's OK. Talk a little bit about the culture of the company. It was less than a year ago since Steve Jobs died. How is Apple doing without his input, his guidance even?

KOSIK: You know what? All you have to do is look at the numbers. You know, judging from the stock price, right now, it's going for -- Apple shares are going for $534 a share. Apple is doing pretty darn good. You know, look at how Apple's done over the past three months. Apple shares are up 36 percent. They topped $500 a few weeks ago. You know, and almost on a daily basis, Apple shares really hit record highs. And what this essentially is it's a sign of confidence in the company.

But you know, Apple's been dealing with a big P.R. nightmare, right now. Allegations about unsafe working conditions on Chinese suppliers, including Foxconn. You know, the Fair Labor Association is investigating. Apple is investigating. So, they're taking it seriously, apparently. But as far as the business goes, no major effect. You know what? People are still hundry -- hungry rather, for their gadgets. The iPad still has almost 60 percent share of the tablet market. It doesn't seem to be affecting Apple's bottom line in any way right now -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: The late Steve Jobs', his imprint is on everything Apple. And we look forward to seeing what he's -- what's next here as they unveil this. Thanks again, Alison.

KOSIK: Yes.

MALVEAUX: Here's a rundown of some of the stories we are covering this hour. First, a new theory about the sinking of the Titanic. The moon, right, may have been partly to blame. We're not kidding. Sounds crazy but some physics professors are making a pretty strong case about it.

Also, only this -- you'll see this on CNN. NASA gave us exclusive access inside shuttle Endeavour. we're live from the Kennedy Space Center.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And they fled the fighting in Syria, thousands of families, where they found refuge and the horrifying stories they are now telling us.

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MALVEAUX: Aid workers with food, medicine finally allowed to enter some of those neighborhoods of Homs, Syria today. They are ravaged. They have been trying to get help to those people for weeks now. Also today in Washington, defense secretary Leon Panetta said he is not ready to commit American troops to a military intervention in Syria. While world leaders are discussing what to do about Syria, thousands of families have left their homes, they're afraid, and they are now crossing into Lebanon. That is where our own Nic Robertson is today.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Hidden in woods close to the Lebanese border, Lebanese Red Cross ambulances wait for Syria's wounded.

(on camera): We're less than a few hundred yards from the border. On the back of that Red Cross ambulance are two wounded men. They wouldn't let us film them being loaded in. One of them has got wounds on his arms and on his body and the other one has got head wounds, it's all bandaged up.

(voice-over): Not far away in the mountaintop town of Asal (ph), more Syrians are getting Lebanese help. These refugees arrived two days ago. Many are camera shy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, hey, hey, no, no.

ROBERTSON: Some, though, are prepared to talk. And they're tales are horrific. Sisters Danyette (ph) and Zana (ph) both suffer nightmares.

"I see Assad's forces killing us," she says. The shelling and shooting was unbearable.

Their father tells me they fled their home just across the border in Alcasia (ph) two days ago. "We were told it was going to be bombed," he says.

Twelve people live in this tiny room. Three families, all sharing each other's grief. Six-year-old Mahmoud's (ph) father is dead, they say, killed by the Syrian intelligence service he worked for. Mahmoud barely seems able to understand.

They are a fraction of the estimated 2,000 who have fled Syria in the past few days. One hundred and twenty of them crammed into this eight- room building made for far fewer. Local officials are worrying they are running out of space. "We expect more refugees," the deputy mayor tells me. "Everyone wants to help, but we are filling up. We are asking aid groups to build a camp."

Throughout Asal's rugged alleyways, refugees are squeezing in wherever there is space. Four families here hosted in an elderly lady's house, all from Alcasia, and all terrified of what they've been through.

"Assad's soldiers came into my house," Nora tells me. "They asked my three-year-old son if he likes Assad. He said, no. And they were going to kill him."

Her friends Salwa (ph) tells me of rapes. "Two women I know were raped," she says, "by Assad's forces. We couldn't stay."

Another friend, Nabiha (ph), tells me, "we had to leave. The shelling was so bad. I saw houses destroyed. All that was left of the families were body parts."

But when I asked about their husbands, they all tell me they've gone back to fight.

ROBERTSON (on camera): The U.N. refugee agency says that until last week it had registered close to 7,000 refugees crossing into northern Lebanon in the past year. The concern is that now Bashar al Assad's new military offensive is well underway. That number could rise dramatically.

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MALVEAUX: Nic Robertson, he is now live in Beirut.

Nic, you say that these refuges, the flood from Syria could actually get much, much worse. That it could increase dramatically. Is there a plan? Is it even possible for some of these neighboring countries to handle that kind of refugee crisis?

ROBERTSON: In Lebanon, they're not really prepared and ready for it at the moment. And that village of Asal is somewhere that the refugees coming out feel safe. They feel safe in that community. And the townspeople say that they would love to help, but they are running out of space.

I was in the northern Lebanese town today of Tripoli and an organization there that was helping with the medical needs, the humanitarian needs of refugees coming in from Syria. They say they don't have enough money. There are people coming with medical conditions, medical injuries, injuries to heads and such like. They don't have the money to treat them. This is because the government here is not really set up to sort of reach out and help all the Syrian refugees. So right now there's a massive shortfall in what's needed to help the people that are here, let alone if more people were to cross over the border, which is a very real fear if Assad's forces move onto other towns.

MALVEAUX: And, Nic, what do we know about the aid, the shipments that are now reportedly allowed into Homs? Is that making a difference? Is it actually getting to the people who need it?

ROBERTSON: We don't really have a very good assessment so far of what difference it's making. The Syrian government has made it incredibly difficult until today for humanitarian supplies to get into that neighborhood of Baba Amr. In fact, today was the first time the Syrian Red Crescent could get in. that was because the U.N.'s chief humanitarian representative, Valerie Amos, was there and she went into Baba Amr with the Syrian Red Crescent.

We know that some aid has been handed out. Blankets, medical supplies, food supplies. But to some of the Baba Amr people who fled that area into neighboring villages, but we don't have a good analysis of how much is needed, how much more is required in the future, and what good it's doing because there aren't independent witnesses there that can tell us.

Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Nic, as always, thank you. Excellent reporting. Obviously a lot of need. Those people there inside of Syria. Aid that is desperately trying to get to those people as that fighting in that country is continuing.

So, brace yourself. I want you to show -- I want you to actually see this. The sun sending some mighty powerful energy this way. What is this? We're going to tell you what to expect from a solar flare.

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MALVEAUX: We like this question. Are you the kind of person who actually saves your pennies? You pick them off the sidewalk, you fill your piggybank with them or maybe the penny's past its prime, are you more likely to vacuum it up than put it in your penny loafer?

More importantly, when the price of gas goes down a fraction of a cent, like it did today, does your family feel it? "Talk Back," what is a penny worth to you? Send us your two cents. Yes, I said that. You can post your thoughts on my FaceBook page, facebook.com/suzannecnn, or send your tweets @suzannemalveaux. We're going to put them on the air at the end of the hour.

The sun, this is pretty cool, gave us a pretty hard smack yesterday. What are we talking about? A massive flare that shot out of the solar storm. It was the strongest solar flare this year. Want to bring in Jacqui Jeras.

You talk about weather on the earth, but this is all about what's happening on the surface of the sun.

JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Right.

MALVEAUX: Explain what is this, actually?

JERAS: But it affects us, eventually, all right.

MALVEAUX: Yes.

JERAS: We've already felt some impacts for this. But the big impact is going to come tomorrow. And there's two different things that we're talking about. We've got solar flares and then what comes after it is what we call the CME. Let's -- roll the video and I'll kind of explain the difference. And don't get too grossed out when I say this --

MALVEAUX: OK.

JERAS: Because a solar flare -- think of a solar flare as the sun shooting out like hot, stinky breath at you. And it's got all these little tiny particles that are charged that come at you. And what follows after, which doesn't happen every single time, is a CME, or coronal mass ejection. And that's plasma. So that's more like hocking a loogy, sort of, at the earth. OK. And they -- so they have --

MALVEAUX: Wow. OK.

JERAS: Have different impacts. But this is the strongest one that we've seen in five years and it's coming at the earth at about 4 million miles per hour. So all these little particles then get caught up in the earth's atmosphere and heads towards the poles.

And why do we care about that? Well, we care about it because it affects our toys, or GPS's, it effects our satellite systems. We've already had outages and blackouts of high-frequency radio. And that has to do with the airplanes that are up towards the pole, OK. So they get interference to their communications. So they've already been rerouting some of the planes.

Then we can get outages to the power grids, the GPS and satellite interruptions. But the one bonus is we get beautiful aurora borealis displays. And that is going to be coming tomorrow night. So keep that in mind. We've been in this really active phase, this solar cycle, as we call it. And this little spot here is where that ejection has been taking place. And we could see more active flares like this, Suzanne, really in the next one to two weeks. That's kind of a problem.

MALVEAUX: Yes, I love the analogies you used, though. That's pretty --

JERAS: I know, I didn't want to -- it's not very lady-like, but, you know.

MALVEAUX: It did have a little gross (INAUDIBLE) --

JERAS: It gets the point across, I think.

MALVEAUX: It certainly does. And I want to focus here, this is right up your alley here. This is about another heavenly body. And we're not talking about the sun. It's getting blamed now for actually helping turn a historic ocean crossing into the "Titanic" disaster. Watch this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE, "TITANIC": Is there anyone there?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE, "TITANIC": Yes. What do you see?"

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Iceberg, straight ahead!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: All right, so nobody -- that was a big moment, you know, the chain of events, that sinking of the "Titanic," and more than 1,500 people passing with that. That's the movie, of course. Nobody's disputing that the ship actually hit an iceberg, but there is some new research now that says that the moon might be to blame for creating more dangerous route for the "Titanic."

So, I don't know, are you buying this? Could this actually happen?

JERAS: Well, it makes sense. If you think about it, it's actually logical. So the basic premise is that the alignment and the position that the moon was in at the time -- it was a super moon. Remember us talking about that at the end of the year, the super moon?

MALVEAUX: Yes. Right. JERAS: That's when the moon is as close to the earth as it ever gets when it's in its full phase. And we know that the moon affects the tides, right?: The rises and the falls of the ocean waves, right?

MALVEAUX: Right.

JERAS: OK. So when the moon is at its greatest, that activity would be more. So more agitation going on in the oceans, which would then, in turn, cause more icebergs to break off. So they're saying that it was a very active period and there were more icebergs than normal, so they would have more to navigate around.

MALVEAUX: So it's possible, then, right, that the moon might have had something to do with the Titanic?

JERAS: Yes. Makes sense to me. A little bit. I mean, you know.

MALVEAUX: It sounded good. The way you explained it sounded -- you convinced me.

JERAS: All right, then.

MALVEAUX: Thanks, Jacqui.

JERAS: Sure.

MALVEAUX: Here's a rundown of some of the stories that we're working on next.

Mitt Romney, he won six of the 10 Super Tuesday states. Barely pulled off Ohio, though. We're going to look at what it means for him.

Then we're going to get an exclusive tour of the inside of space shuttle Endeavour. It is the last to retire from the space program.

And later, caffeine that comes in a spray, getting a warning now from the FDA. We're going to tell you why it could be dangerous.

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MALVEAUX: Mitt Romney's campaign now saying it is almost impossible for his rivals to catch him in the race for the delegates. Romney won six of the 10 Super Tuesday states. But he just squeaked by in Ohio, despite outspending Rick Santorum.

Wolf Blitzer is joining us live.

Wolf, great to see you here. You were up very late, early in the morning, I know. Do we think that this was ultimately a win for Romney, when you see what happened over the 10 states?

WOLF BLITZER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It was certainly a win. It was decisive. Does it mean he's absolutely, positively going to get the Republican nomination? No, it's still a contest. There are still races. I don't think he's going to do well, for example, next Tuesday in Alabama and Mississippi. I don't know if he's going to win Kansas, which is this Santorum. Santorum could do well in Kansas. Gingrich, for all we know, could do well in Mississippi and Alabama. He just canceled a trip to Kansas to focus in on Mississippi and Alabama. Let's see what happens and then we'll be able to make a better prediction.

MALVEAUX: We'll be watching very closely.

Also a fight to the finish, that's what some Republican candidates and their supporters are promising. Here's what Newt Gingrich's daughter said about the campaign now going forward.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: You expect him to go for a while at this? Do you expect him to go all the way to the convention?

(LAUGHTER)

JACKIE GINGRICH CUSHMAN, DAUGHTER OF NEWT GINGRICH: I love the way you say go for a while.

(LAUGHTER)

He's going all the way to the convention. He's said it from the beginning. People keep saying, does he really mean that? Absolutely, he means that.

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BLITZER: Sarah Palin, she says she's not going to say "no" if her name gets thrown into the ring.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPORTER: It's the open convention question, if we wind up with an open convention and someone wants to place your name -- throw your name into the hat, would you stop them? Would you be open to that?

SARAH PALIN, (R), FORMER ALASKAN GOVERNOR & FORMER VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: As I say, anything is possible. And I don't close any doors that perhaps would be open out there. So, no, I wouldn't close that door. And my plan is to be at that convention.

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MALVEAUX: All right. So what happens if the fight goes all the way to the convention?

Bryan Monroe, editor of CNNpolitics.com, is here.

Bryan, good to see you. We've talked a lot of this yesterday in anticipation of what was going to happen. How would that work?

BRYAN MONROE, CNNPOLITICS.COM EDITOR: Here's the deal. The way that the convention process is set up is convoluted and changed this time around. The Republicans changed their methodology. But the deal is that if no single candidate gets 1,144 delegates --

MALVEAUX: The magic number.

MONROE: -- the magic number, going into the convention in Tampa this summer, then it could be open. And what does that mean? On the first ballot -- the first time they raise their hand and vote for -- I want Mitt Romney or Rick Santorum, to be our nominee, if he doesn't get that magic number on the first ballot, many of those delegates are free to go for somebody else. That somebody else could be a nomination from the floor of the convention itself.

Look, here's the real deal. I don't think that's going to happen. Both parties have got enough of the system together where they don't want that to happen, particularly Republicans, for this to be a floor fight, an open convention in Tampa would just be a disaster.

MALVEAUX: It was funny because we got a chance to see Sarah Palin. That was probably one of the most interesting moments of the evening --

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MALVEAUX: -- when she weighed in on 2016. It was like, whoa. Is it possible --and this might sound like a silly question. But is it possible for her, at this point, to jump in this go-round?

MONROE: It all depends on what happens in these next few states. Romney did well last night, not as well as he had hoped in Ohio. It was close, within 1 percent. As Wolf said earlier, these next states are going to be really important, Kansas, Mississippi, Alabama. States that are socially conservative, that would tend to be more Santorum states. Romney has to win every state from here on out in order to clinch by May. If he doesn't, there's a real chance he may not have enough numbers.

If that happens, Sarah Palin could step in at the floor of the convention or just before and say, hey, pick me, pick me. Jeb Bush could do the same, Mitch Daniels, Chris Christie, some of the other names. It could be an open free-for-all.

Again, I don't think that's going to happen. There's too much at stake for the Republican Party to not go into the convention with that much chaos. It would not look good.

MALVEAUX: Would not happen. But wouldn't it be entertaining?

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MONROE: Oh, yes.

MALVEAUX: Following it all the way to the floor. Something like that, crazy that happened.

MONROE: Great story to cover.

MALVEAUX: Yes, absolutely.

Bryan, great to see you.

MONROE: Thanks.

MALVEAUX: CNN gets an exclusive access, inside the space shuttle "Endeavour." We are live at the Kennedy Space Center. That's up next.

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MALVEAUX: Wow, what an opportunity for CNN. Check it out.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Expanding our knowledge, expanding our lives in space.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is "Endeavour."

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MALVEAUX: This was the historic launch of space shuttle "Endeavour" last May at the Kennedy Space Center. It was the final mission of the shuttle program. Commander Mark Kelly was at the controls. Today, NASA granted CNN exclusive access to the now-retired space shuttle.

John Zarrella at the Kennedy Space Center right now.

John, you and I were at that historic launch. That was absolutely amazing. Now, you have all kinds of things going on. But you had an exclusive chance to check out the shuttle for yourself, yes?

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, we got inside. Now that all three space shuttles are retired and being readied for the museums, NASA's allowed us some extremely rare access inside the space shuttle "Endeavour." Now, it's in the orbiter processing facility right now. And, of course, the cargo bay is absolutely immense. You can really see that well from the outside. But because it is in the OPF, orbiter processing facility, being readied for its museum trip, you can't see a whole lot else on the outside. It's all encased in scaffolding. The engines have been removed. You can barely see the nose cone. You can see the tiles on the underbelly, the thousands of heat-shielding tiles, really well.

But, of course, they say it's what's on the inside that counts. And that, Suzanne, is really cool.

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ZARRELLA: I'm sitting over here in the commander's seat. On, of course, the final flight, this is where Mark Kelly sat on lift-off and when he brought her in for that final landing.

TRAVIS THOMPSON, CLOSEOUT CREW LEAD: This is their living quarters. We're in the mid deck now. Flight deck's above us. Mid deck is where they eat, sleep, potty, do their normal --

ZARRELLA: And you could have five, six, seven people down here all at once.

THOMPSON: Definitely. There's not as much equipment in here now as there would be a launch date. There would be lockers out here to about 18 inches.

ZARRELLA: There's not a lot of room up here in the cockpit. But if you have something to do out in the cargo bay, or if you need to work and just maneuver the space shuttle, you can do it all right from here. You can maneuver the shuttle from here. You can work the robotic arm from here. And right out there is the massive cargo bay.

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ZARRELLA: Down the mid deck where the astronauts -- when they sleep, they actually sleep in sacks up against the wall literally like in a coon. That's how they all fit in that mid deck area.

For the workers here who are still here at the Kennedy Space Center preparing these shuttles for their final spots in the museums, it's really a difficult time.

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STEPHANIE STILSON, NASA SHUTTLE FLOW DIRECTOR: The thing that we've been trying to focus on is how fortunate we are to continue to work with these vehicles until the very end. There's a lot of our co- workers and friends that didn't get this opportunity. There's a small group of us that are fortunate to be a part of this. We're shuttle huggers. We're holding on to the very end.

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ZARRELLA: And they really are, Suzanne. They love what they do. We loved getting inside there. "Endeavour" is going to go to the California Science Center. And "Atlantis" will be staying here. Those should both move in the fall.

MALVEAUX: John, I'm so jealous. The commander's seat, really?

(LAUGHTER)

That was pretty amazing.

ZARRELLA: The commander's seat, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Were you surprised at all, anything that you saw inside surprised you or you didn't expect? ZARRELLA: Yes, you know what surprised me is how small it was in there. When you see it on TV and they're floating up there in that mid deck area, it looks like they've got a lot of room.

MALVEAUX: Yes.

ZARRELLA: But there really isn't. They are cramped in there.

Suzanne, one other thing, a huge event, April 17th, "Discovery" will leave here, if all the weather holds, on the back of a 747, fly up the east coast at daybreak, and it will land before 10:30 a.m. at Dulles. We're not sure if they're going to do a flyover. But "Discovery" is going to the Smithsonian. And it will be the first one to move and the first one that will be in its permanent museum home. That's going to be one spectacular morning for a lot of people all up and down the east coast.

MALVEAUX: That would be so incredible.

ZARRELLA: Come on down.

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ZARRELLA: Come on down and watch --

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MALVEAUX: -- I will join you.

Thank you, John.

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Do you prefer to get your caffeine high from coffee or in a spray? Well, if you answered spray, the FDA has actually sent out a warning when it comes to this product.

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MALVEAUX: The company calls it breathable energy. It is caffeine you can spray. But the FDA is not happy with this product. The agency says that Aeroshot is being marketed in kind of a risky way.

Lizzy O'Leary is here to explain all of this.

First, I've never quite heard of this kind of thing before, inhaling caffeine. What is the FDA concerned about?

LIZZY O'LEARY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Two things, marketing and safety. What these are, and you can see them, Aeroshot. This is the little package. It says breathable energy on it. And this is the little tube. And essentially you puff a sort of caffeine powder onto your tongue. It tastes like really concentrated Gatorade. The concern is how it's being sold. The FDA says, wait a minute, we want to understand what you mean by inhalable or breathable -- breathable being the keyword. They're concerned if people were to puff these things and actually inhale the particles into their lungs, it could be dangerous. They're also saying that the company isn't exactly forthcoming with its marketing, that it is failing to distinguish between something you actually inhale and spraying a caffeine powder onto your tongue. And they want some more answers on the safety testing as well.

MALVEAUX: We were looking at some of those pictures -- the advertising there. It looks like they're marketing this to young folks. Is that right?

O'LEARY: Yes, this is one of the big questions. I interviewed a doctor a couple of weeks ago who said this could be a party drunk. You could mix it with alcohol. One of the concerns is, you look at the ads, they show people dancing, partying, having a good time. Aeroshot says, we don't market to people under 18. But it does look like they want people to party. They also advertise by saying you could use this to hit the books, study in the library. Who does that? Students do.

MALVEAUX: What's next now that we have this warning out?

O'LEARY: Essentially the company has two weeks to answer all the FDA's concerns. Aeroshot is marketed as a dietary supplement. And that's very thin regulation. So the FDA would actually have to prove that it's unsafe in order to get it off the market. Remember ephedra? That's the last time they pulled a supplement off the market. The FDA would have to prove it's unsafe and it's hard for them to do that, to actually go out there and recall the product.

MALVEAUX: Thank you, Lizzy.

Tell us what you think about today's "Talk Back" question: What's a penny worth to you when the price of gas goes up or down a couple of cents of even a fraction of a cent? Does it matter? Are pennies worth carrying around anymore?

Marconi says, "In San Francisco, as a commuter on its trains and buses, I'm happy pennies are still hip to pay the trip. Hence, me penny jar will never be full."

More of your responses up ahead.

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MALVEAUX: This story just in. CNN has just confirmed that the hacking group Anonymous took down the Vatican's web site today. CNN just spoke with sources that say hackers within Anonymous Italy are responsible now for that hack. This is the same group, you may recall, that has admitted to taking down the CIA web site, the FBI web site as well in the past. They are now threatening to take down more web sites in protest against the federal government. We are also getting new details about Apple releasing a new form of the iPad, a new iPad. We understand that now it will have an H.D. display and also it will be 4G wireless. This will be available March 16th. We're told, as well, the starting price will remain at $499. Couple of more details about that if you're interested in a new iPad.

You've been sounding off on the "Talk Back" question: What's a penny work to you?

Brian says, "Nowadays, a penny is worth picking up off the sidewalk."

Brandon says, "99 more cents and I can go to the dollar store."

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"I'll need a little help with taxes."

Jim says, "Pennies make no more sense than the fractions of a cent you see on the pumps. They need to go away."

Shelley says, "I found two pennies the other day and put one in each shoe. I went to the casino. I left with a few big jackpots under my belt. Lucky pennies."

I guess that is pretty lucky.

Keep the conversation going on my Facebook page, facebook.com/suzanneCNN, or send your tweets @suzannemalveaux.

A valedictorian wins the fight to stay in the United States. It's a temporary win but she's going to take it. We'll have her story up next.

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MALVEAUX: Checking stories our affiliates are covering across the country.

Massive fire early this morning in Mount Holiate (ph), Massachusetts, left 10 people homeless. The fire started in a vacant house. It spread to two other buildings, destroying a three-story home.

Two police officers in Oregon now are being called heroes after pulling a man from this burning car. Check out this video. This was taken from the police car dash cam. The driver had run into a utility pole. The electrical wires fell and set the car on fire.

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OFC. RODNEY BAMFORD, KEIZER, OREGON POLICE DEPARTMENT: I was to the point where I was afraid my uniform shirt was going to start melting because they're polyester.

SGT. ANDREW COPELAND, KAIZER, OREGON POLICE DEPARTMENT: Officer Bamford and I came around to the passenger side and we basically climbed inside the car and started, both of us together, were able to wedge this guy from the driver's side and pull him out.

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MALVEAUX: An 81-year-old woman has won the third-largest Powerball jackpot in the history of the game. Check it out. Louise White from Newport, Rhode Island -- lucky woman -- got $336 million check there. Chances of winning? One in 175 million. Wow.

You may remember last week we brought you the story or a high school valedictorian who faced deportation to Columbia. We got a chance to talk to here. There is news today that she can stay in the United States, at least temporarily. So can her sister.

Alex Deprado, of affiliate, WSBN, has the latest from North Miami, Florida.

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DANIELA PELAEZ, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT & HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: It's crazy. It's been like a roller coaster of emotions.

ALEX DEPRADO, REPORTER, WSBN: Daniele Pelaez is at a high point. She'll get to stay in the United States, at least for now.

DANIELA PELAEZ: I can't believe I get to stay for graduation.

DEPRADO: Pelaez is the valedictorian at North Miami Senior High and both she and her sister were facing deportation to their native Columbia within a month.

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DEPRADO: But ever since their story went public last week, students and the community have rallied to their defense. And on Tuesday, immigrations and customs decided to allow the sisters to stay for two more years.

DAYANA PELAEZ, ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT: I'm very grateful. I told my sister, we are so blessed, honestly.

DEPRADO: But the decision is bittersweet because the women are still here illegally and face deportation again in 2014.

NERA SHEFER, ATTORNEY: It is good we are moving forward. However, that is not the goal. The goal is to keep them here permanently.

DEPRADO: Their lawyer is filing an appeal and will ask ICE to grant the Pelaez sisters permanent resident. In the meantime, the women say they'll take the decision as a temporary win.

DANIELA PELAEZ: I came here since I was 4 years old. I was raised here. This is all I know.

DAYANA PELAEZ: I'm grateful to it, but in two years, we're going to be in the same spot again.

DEPRADO: And while their lawyer works out the legal hurdles, Daniela Pelaez says she must get back to the books to maintain her 6.7 GPA.

DANIELA PELAEZ: I still have to do homework.

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MALVEAUX: U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement issued this statement on the case, saying, "ICE has exercised prosecutorial discretion in Daniella and Dayana's Pelaez's case and will defer action for two years."

CNN NEWSROOM continues right now with Brooke Baldwin.

Hey, Brooke.

BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Suzanne.