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U.S. Soldier Kills Afghan Civilians; "Kony 2012" Attacks Controversy; HIV Rating is Alarming Based on New Study; First Interview of Bobbi Kristina Brown in Oprah; Kofi Annan Met With Syrian President

Aired March 11, 2012 - 22:00   ET

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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: A U.S. army soldier accused on going to a deadly house to house shooting rampage in Afghanistan. Tonight more information about the man that NATO says killed 16 civilians.

Answering their critics, the man behind the "Kony 2012" documentary, that is exploding online talks strategy and gives CNN an exclusive. New information about how they plan to answer their critics.

Alarming new information about the skyrocketing HIV rates among one group of Americans as high as some developing countries.

And the interview everyone has been waiting to see. Oprah Winfrey interviews Whitney Houston's daughter, hear Bobbi Kristina in her own words tonight, those stories, this hour on CNN.

Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon. And thank you so much for joining us.

We're going to start with this. The sun is rising over Afghanistan on a day when American troops could face the wrath of Afghans furious over an alleged massacre. The killing took place in two villages in Kandahar province in a district considered the spiritual birthplace of the Taliban. This official, say, the suspect is a U.S. army soldier.

He left his forward operating base early Sunday morning and traveled to the villages where the murders took place. Now, Afghanistan's president says, nine of the victims were children, three were women, and four for men. NATO's international security assistance force says the gunman is an army staff sergeant who acted alone. He's said to be from joint base Lewis McCord in Washington state and assigned to a special forces unit.

President Barack Obama spoke with the afghan president today. He offered his condolences and said that this incident doesn't represent the true character of the U.S. military. American troops could be looking at a long day in Afghanistan.

With more on the situation now, we're joined on the phone by our pentagon spokesperson, by pentagon's spokesperson, Captain John Kirby who is on temporary assignment with General John Allen right now and he joins us by telephone from Washington. Thank you so much, sir, for joining us. We have seen how dangerous things can be when civilians are outrage in Afghanistan. What is being done to keep our troops safe and to calm things there?

CAPTAIN JOHN KIRBY, PENTAGON SPOKESPERSON: Well, thanks to having me first.

On your -- to your question, I would say we're always vigilant in Afghanistan. It is a war zone. And General Allen has made it clear over these last several weeks as there have been several incidents that regional commanders throughout the country need to take whatever actions are appropriate to protect the troops and to protect the mission. And they're doing that.

I will tell you, though, that with respect to this incident today, this very tragic incident. We haven't taken any specific measures to improve force protection at large across the country. This is very clearly the act of one individual for motives we don't quite understand right now. Very, very tragic, but it isn't having a major effect across the country with respect to the mission our troops are doing every day.

LEMON: OK. He's an army staff sergeant who acted alone as you said and said to be from Joint Base Lewis McCord in Washington state. Can you give us the name of the suspect?

KIRBY: No, I'm afraid I can't right now. He is in U.S. custody, and he is being made available to investigators, army criminal investigators that have been on the scene since the incident occurred. And we're just not prepared right now to release the name.

LEMON: How could this happen? How could a soldier walk off a forward operating base in Kandahar province in the middle of the night and not be seen and not be noticed that he's gone?

KIRBY: Well, actually, he was noticed. In fact, that's one of the reasons why we know it was the act of one individual, because when he did leave the outpost, the guard at the gate noticed, this was an afghan guard, reported it as he should have up the chain of command.

They did the right thing on the outpost. When they got word a soldier had left in the middle of the night alone, they took a proper accounting of everybody at the outpost, a muster what we call it in the military, to make sure they knew who they had and who they didn't have. And that's how we know who left and the fact that it was just one person. So they did the right thing.

LEMON: Captain, is there anything in this soldier's record to suggest that he was unstable in any way, any medical issues that you can discus discuss?

KIRBY: Well, nothing that I can discuss, no, I'm afraid not. I mean, that's one of the things the investigators are looking at, certainly, as to motivation. And I wouldn't get involved in the actual investigation itself. This was a soldier who had been in the army some time, had deployed before. This wasn't his first deployment. But as, you know, with respect to specific motives, we just can't say right now.

LEMON: Captain John Kirby, we appreciate you joining us on CNN. Thank you, sir. And make sure you stay tuned to CNN. We'll be following this story for you throughout the evening and also tomorrow morning, all this week.

We want to go to Syria now, where violent attacks have claimed the lives of at least 45 women and children today. Opposition activists said that the killings happened hours after the U.N. special envoy, the Syria met with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.

Opposition groups say government say government forces were randomly shelling civilian areas in cities across Syria. Talks between the former U.N. secretary general, Kofi Annan and Syria's president ended without a peaceful deal.

Annan is asking President Al-Assad for a ceasefire and to allow relief agencies to deliver much needed aid.

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KOFI ANNAN, U.N. SPECIAL ENVOY TO SYRIA: It's going to be tough. It's going to be difficult. But we have to have hope. I am optimistic. I'm optimistic for several reasons. First of all, I've been there for a very short period, almost every city Syrian I have met wants peace. They want the violence to stop. They want to move on with the alliance.

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LEMON: Both Annan and opposition members agreed that plans for resolution cannot began as long as bloodshed continues.

Here in the U.S., more than 200,000 jobs have been added to pay rolls for three straight months. Good for the economy but not necessarily good news for Republicans who have blamed President Obama for not putting people back to work.

Earlier I spoke with CNN contributor Will Cain, LZ Granderson and a contributor to cnn.com and senior writer at ESPN.

I asked them about the marathon race for the Republican nomination and how signs of an improving economy are affecting the Republican political strategy.

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WILL CAIN, CNN CONTRIBUTOR: So, by almost every indication, job growth, our construction industrial loans, or car sales, that big plunge we took in 2008, 2009, looks to have started to turn up.

Now, there are many questions about whether that upward turn will continue, what kind of jobs we're adding. You know, there's still a lot of debt out in the economy. There are threats externally like Iran. So will this curve continue? That's really hard to predict and no one should get in the game of celebrating or predicting that. But if it does, I'll tell you clearly that would be bad news for GOP presidential election hopefuls.

LEMON: Well Will, you know timing - I mean, LZ as you say, timing is everything and the Republicans will say, well, Obama is just a lucky guy because all of this is happening, as you heard Lindsey Graham there saying this is anemic. And if you talk to anyone in the Obama administration, they'll say, it's our policy. So, is it a reflection of policy or is he just the luckiest guy in the world?

LZ GRANDERSON, CNN.COM CONTRIBUTOR: Well, if that's the case, he started off as the most unlucky guy in the world because he walked into a situation that was actually abysmal.

You know, the thing that I really find so disconcerting is that you have these GOP candidates as well as leaders, cost me bashing good news for America. I mean, I can't think of anything more unpatriotic right now than the ongoing onslaught of 200,000 jobs being created in this country. That's cost a celebration. But what you're really seeing is the core of this party and that they're more obsessed with trying to win the White House than being focused and on trying to turn the country around. Because you celebrate news like 200,000 jobs being created and how to keep it going but not --

LEMON: Not in an election year, LZ.

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GRANDERSON: You're right. Right? I mean, they're playing the game, right. I mean, both sides are trying to make it look good for their party. And I think what really needs to happen is the need to have good for the country. And the leader that does is the one that people going to get behind.

LEMON: Yes. I think that's tough in an election year. And I think the economy, when everything is so concerned about the economy, that's the best thing you have. You are not going to let that go. It's OK that economy is improving then what are you going to hit the other side on. So, I don't think that right well, the Republicans are not going to let that go.

CAIN: Probably now. But you know, I've been telling you the future is still uncertain. So, we'll see. 1980 we had a muddled election where George H.W. Bush won Iowa and the race muddled along for months. In fact, people talked about bringing former president Gerald Ford back into the race.

As much people talk about bringing Jeb Bush or Mitch Daniels into it. The point isn't, Mitt Romney or whoever the eventual nominee could end up being like Reagan. The point is, at that point in 1980, Reagan wasn't Reagan. So, we don't yet know who these guys are, what passion they'll elicit in November. It's just -- when you draw parallels, you need to take very, very, very long views.

LEMON: Yes. And it was June, LZ, before - I mean, it was decided but were still into June back in 2008. So this, I mean, this is only March. GRANDERSON: Absolutely. You know, I will disagree with Will a little bit here in that I think part of the reason we're not excited or you don't see people excited for the four guys is because we actually do know who they are and we don't like them.

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LEMON: And remember to check out CNN on Tuesday night with CNN's coverage of the Alabama and Mississippi primaries begins at 7:00 p.m. Eastern with Erin Burnett and followed by CNN's complete live coverage of the primary results, 8:00 p.m. with Wolf Blitzer, Anderson Cooper and the CNN political team at "AC 360" follows at 10:00 p.m. That's Tuesday beginning at 7:00 right here on CNN. A lot of numbers, a lot of coverage for you coming this week on CNN.

Up next, an exclusive, the men behind the "Kony 2012" campaign tells me what they are doing to respond to a growing course of critics. One critic includes a woman who survived the warlord's tier.

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LEMON: I got to lead "Kony 2012" has become a viral sensation. This 30 minutes film was posted in you tube last week. And at the time, most people had never heard of him. Well since then, it's been hard to turn on the TV or log on to facebook or twitter and your e- mail and not hear about Uganda warlord, Joseph Kony.

He's been blamed for a decades-long campaign of abductions, killings and turning young people stolen from their families into child soldiers and sex slaves. One of the stated goals of "Kony 2012" was to make the world aware of Joseph Kony and his crimes. Apparently, that has happen now.

In the past week the makers of the movie have won the support of celebrities and millions who watched the video online. But it's not without detractors. We'll address some of those criticisms in a most.

But first this isn't the first time the filmmakers have tried to get the word out about Joseph Kony. I asked the visual children's Jason Russell and Ben Keesey, what they did different this time o make "Kony 2012" catch fire?

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JASON RUSSELL, FILMMAKER, KONY 2012: I kept telling my close friends and my wife, my wife has written all the stories, I've said, this the last one. I can't tell another one. You know? I made 11 or 12 movies about, you know, Ugandan children and central African children crying, you know. And I just - I'm so angry. I'm so angry that 30 days ago when we set out to make this movie, it was burst out in anger. I was just like I can't do it anymore. I guess the world doesn't care unless they look like you. You know, because it's their problem, it's their problem, not our problem.

So that's how the movie came up. We just wanted to try to, not knowing that it would catch fire, and it did. So of course we're overwhelmed and so excited.

LEMON: There are, Jason, plenty of injustices, maybe not as great here closer to home. Many would wonder why those haven't -- why aren't you addressing those. And my question is you said you were angry. Why has this story stuck with you over the years? I mean, what's in this story that hit a nerve with you in particular? I mean, a young man from San Diego.

RUSSELL: Yes. It's just really personal because I made the promise to Jacob. So it's a personal promise that is on camera, you know. So I am -- I have to give testimony to the fact that I made a promise to Jacob that we're going to stop them.

And I thought that it would take maybe six months or less once people found out about this atrocity. I didn't think it would take almost a decade of me trying. And let me just say this. There are thousands and thousands and thousands of people who have tried and are trying still to do it. I just happen to be the messenger.

So I've gone -- you know, CNN has been covering it. Anderson Cooper, all of these people, they've been telling the same message. It's just this one has become very human because, you know, there's Jacob in it and there's my son in it and there's me in it. So it's just a human story.

LEMON: So, Ben, this film aims to make Kony famous, does it Kony famous and it has done that. So then what is the next step in this process?

BEN KEESEY, CEO, INVISIBLE CHILDREN: Exactly. Exactly. Yes, the film is the beautiful entry point, you know. And it's made and Jason makes it so intentionally for a brand new audience, someone that's maybe never heard of the L.R.A. before.

And so now, the next step and the thing invisible children is working on is how do we connect the awareness to action and mobilization of resources from the international community to support the regional effort, to support the amazing people on the ground who are working every day both to get innocent women and children out of the L.R.A. safely, safe defection, and also deal with the top commanders like Joseph Kony once and for all.

LEMON: And we saw the pictures there that were up on the screen of people who were disfigured. Yesterday I spoke with a woman who is a survivor of Joseph Kony and there are some of the images, right there.

So, of course, "Kony 2012" has its share of critics, including a young woman who was on our show just yesterday, a survivor as I said of Joseph Kony and his army.

So, Jason and Ben, I want you to stick around because I want you to address the criticisms coming up. You know there had been criticism and that is going to come up next.

We'll be right back after the break. (END VIDEOTAPE)

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LEMON: So here is the new information, the exclusive that I just said. So either Ben or Jason you can take it. To address that criticism, you're doing something you hope to have by midnight tonight but you're saying tomorrow. What are you doing?

KEESEY: Yes. We're just going to release a ten-minute video that kind of clicks through some of the questions where we say, here's all of the answers. Here are all of the figures. There's nothing to hide. "Invisible children" has been transparent since 2004 when we started. That's our intention and we want to show that this campaign is part of a strategy and model that's comprehensive and that we stand by it.

LEMON: All right, Jason Russell and Ben Keesey of invisibility children, part of the team that made the film "Kony 2012." It's been hard to miss in the Internet, on TV, and in print. And it is a film of course about Ugandan warlord Joseph Kony.

They say its goal is to create day of movement to stop Kony. But there's been criticism of their film. And as you heard, they're planning a video to address that with an exclusive they gave us earlier on CNN.

But until then, until that comes out, I talked with them about what critics of "Kony 2012" had been saying.

First I asked them to react to Evelyn Apoko who is a survival of Joseph Kony's brutality. Yesterday she shared her thoughts about the film.

EVELYN APOKO, L.R.A. SURVIVOR: : I feel really hurt because I don't know -- it's not easy to be a survivor, but I'm glad I able to escape. Maybe the purpose is why I'm sitting here. And it's very painful for me to hear that Joseph Kony is right now in the United States is a celebrity. And I ask myself what is a celebrity? The kids are supposed to want to be celebrity because they've been through a lot.

KEESEY: Evelyn is a good friend of ours and she actually e- mailed us last night after the show and explained that a lot of her comments were related to the fact that Joseph Kony is not by himself. There are a lot of innocent women and children and abducted fighters that are near him.

And so, any approach to stop the L.R.A. needs to be sensitive to that and needs to do everything possible to protect those innocent women and children. And that's what Jason and I have been saying since the beginning also. That is absolutely the mission and point of this campaign.

LEMON: OK. Go ahead, Jason.

RUSSELL: Well, the intention is built into the name, to make the invisible visible. So of course we want the children to be visible. That's the point. But because of the zeitgeist of the culture in the world, we need an enemy. We need to know the worst is. And the world has already agreed. We didn't make it up. The international criminal court says the first is Joseph Kony because he's the most perverse in the world. He's just the most perverse. No one makes anyone else -- takes children, makes them kill their parents and eat their parents.

LEMON: OK.

RUSSELL: That's what's going on. He's been doing that.

LEMON: OK. I want you now to look into some people who live in Uganda, their reaction to "Kony 2012." Listen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It turns people problems into their business and it's important we found out people who are -- by choosing people's problems.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How can they use the situation of war to benefit themselves, to make money out of people's plight?

LEMON: OK. So they think that you are becoming famous, making a name off of other people's plight, the merchandising and what have you. What do you say to them? Where is the money going?

KEESEY: Well, I think more than making ourselves famous, we're trying to make Joseph Kony famous. That's what the film's all about and what it shows. And what's important to remember also is now that Joseph Kony is no longer in Uganda, we spend a lot of time in the currently affected L.R.A. areas in the Congo in Central African Republic and I was there a couple of months ago. And those communities are asking with a lot of passion and energy, please keep talking about Joseph Kony.

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LEMON: All right, they said they're not getting rich off products and the project. So, that's according them. Also, they mentioned Evelyn Apoko and that she e-mailed them before they went on our show earlier. Evelyn Apoko called me just before this show. I didn't have time to speak with her. She disagrees and said it wasn't such a hunky-dory exchange there. So, the debate continues, I'll call her afterwards and report back to you what she said about that e-mail traffic.

All right, a new report reveals the founding HIV rates among one group of Americans higher than first thought and even worse than some developing countries. The doctor who conducted the study, next.

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LEMON: A very disturbing new study out that was conducted in ten cities across the U.S. It's found the HIV rates for black women are actually much higher than previously estimated. Five times higher in fact than numbers reported for the Centers for disease Control and Prevention.

I spoke with study investigator Dr. Carlos del Rio.

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LEMON: African-American women are at the top of the list, especially when it comes to new infection rates. I think they're highest, right?

DOCTOR CARLOS DEL RIO, CO-DIRECTOR OF THE EMORY CENTER FOR AIDS: Correct.

LEMON: OK, already. So how did you choose the specific cities? And why not big cities like - why not L.A. or Chicago or something like that?

DEL RIO: Well, it's based on data that CDC has of areas that we know there's a higher portion of HIV infections occurring in women and it's primarily in the cities in the eastern United States where we see a higher rate of women.

The epidemic in other cities, for example in San Diego is primarily among gay men. So, I think these are the cities that were chosen for a variety of reasons but most importantly because they're the most affected areas of the country for women.

I think an important topic tools to remember that, you know, ironically yesterday was also women and girls HIV awareness day. And I think it really highlights the importance that we need to put and try and talk about prevention. There's a new campaign, take charge, take the test.

We really need to encourage the African-American women is the first step you have to know your status. You got to know if you are infected or not. If you are infected, you got to get into care.

We found 32 women during the study enrollment period who were HIV infected, lived in the community with a lot of risk of HIV, yet didn't know it. And then if they're HIV negative, they got to use prevention.

LEMON: All right, Doctor, I want to ask a couple of things really quickly because we don't have a lot of time. You mentioned it was because of lifestyle. You said because of drug users and what have you. Does it have anything to do with dating men who are not revealing their statuses and not revealing that they're gay or does that all factor into that?

DEL RIO: It probably does and probably does because there still is a higher rate of infection in men in those community and many of these women -- almost 40 percent of these women said they had unprotected sex with men who they dent didn't know their HIV status. And that of course plays into this. LEMON: Yes. And you said that the numbers -- you found the numbers of HIV in these cities were comparable with parts of sub- Saharan Africa, which has been ravaged by HIV/AIDS and places with less information than the United States.

DEL RIO: And we're right here in the District of Columbia, in D.C. And D.C. is again is a city of -- if D.C. was a country in Africa, it would be one of the most affected countries in the world. I think one message out of the study is that the epidemic in the U.S. is not gone. Is it's here, but it's primarily affecting the forgotten population. The poor and the ones we're not really paying much attention to. And we really need to do renewed efforts as the HIV - as the AIDS conference is happening in July here to really confront the epidemic.

LEMON: Ok, yes. Doctor, that is - that is going to be big. I have to go, but I have to ask you, does stigma in the African-American community have anything to do with it? Does that contribute to this?

DEL RIO: Stigma has always had something to do with the HIV epidemic. And I think it's one of the most difficult things to deal with.

LEMON: Now to the big stories in the week ahead from the White House to Wall Street. Our correspondents tell you what you need to know.

We begin tonight with the president's plans for the week.

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm Brianna Keilar at the White House where President Obama and the first lady welcomed British prime minister, David Cameron and his wife, Samantha, this week. Tuesday, the president and prime minister, head to Ohio for an NCAA tournament game and Wednesday is the state dinner back here at the White House. Then Friday President Obama heads to Chicago and Atlanta to fund raise.

POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM CORRESPONDENT: I'm Poppy Harlow in New York.

Following Friday's strong jobs report, Wall Street will focus on a number of key economic numbers coming up this week. We'll get the retail sales data as well as two important inflation ratings. We are also get earnings from a number of retailers.

And then in Washington, central bankers will meet for a one-day meeting on monetary policy. Rates are not expected to chance, but Wall Street will be all ears for what the fed has to say about economic conditions across the country. We'll track that and all the business news of the week for you on CNN money.

LEMON: Also, we will be following this. A U.S. soldier is accused of going on a deadly house to house shooting ram wage in Afghanistan. We are going to check your headlines, next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) LEMON: Checking headlines right now.

President Barack Obama has spoken with Afghanistan's president about the alleged massacre of 16 civilians by a U.S. soldier. President Obama offered his condolences to the victims' loved ones while insisting the incident doesn't represent the true character of the American military.

NATO's international security assistance force says the soldier accused of the killing acted alone. Nine of the victims were children, three women.

The people of Japan stopped to observe a moment of silence today for the victims of last year's earthquake and tsunami, among those paying their respects, the Japanese emperor. Exactly one year ago, a powerful nine magnitude earthquake unleashed a wall of water that swept away lives and homes. It also triggered the world's worst nuclear crisis in a quarter century.

The last of the inmates involved in Governor Haley Barbour's controversial pardons are still free. They had to wait while the Mississippi attorney general challenged pardons and state spring court. He claimed Barbour violated the constitution when deciding to pardon more than 200 prisoners as he left office. Four of them were convicted murderers and late last week the court upheld the governor's pardons.

The world's first nuclear aircraft carrier, well, it set out for a final deployment today. The "USS Enterprise" left its home, its home port of Norfolk, village, just after noon eastern. "Enterprise" is heading to the Middle East. A bit of pop culture for you, the "enterprise" was the carrier used in "Top Gun."

The Peyton Manning mystery tour is in Arizona today. The cardinals are making their pitch to the quarterback trying to persuade him to finish his career in Arizona. Yesterday Manning visited the Denver Broncos. Those teams are considered the front-runners to sign Manning. It's unclear whether the four-time league MVP is healthy enough to play next season.

Basketball junkies are poring over their brackets tonight. The NCAA tournament for men's basketball is set March madness begins Tuesday. Kentucky is a top seed overall despite losing its conference final. The wildcats are gunning for an eighth national title, Syracuse, North Carolina, also lost conference tournaments but got top seeds. Michigan state rounds out the top four.

NCAA March madness is here and you can test your bracket skills and the official NCAA March madness bracket challenge game. Just head to CNN.com/brackets, cnn.com/brackets. And join the CNN group to see if you can do brackets better than I can.

A stormy start in the middle of the country could mean a difficult commute for millions of you tomorrow. Are you laughing at me Jacqui?

JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: You had your sports broadcaster voice on for that segment.

LEMON: That voice, yes.

JERAS: Indeed.

LEMON: So we can expect trouble tomorrow for the commute?

JERAS: Yes, I think so. Nation's midsection in particular, that is going be the spot we're really watching. You know, there's severe weather tonight already that's been ongoing across parts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas and a tornado watch remains in effect here. It is going to go overnight so be aware of that. Make sure you have your NOAA radio on.

Now, as we head into tomorrow though, the energy is going to start to pushes northward with the system. And we will be watching for the severe weather threat across the lower great lakes. So, we do expect a lot of travel trouble with strong winds, heavy rain, and a lot of thunderstorms. And we're also watching a storm system in the Pacific Northwest that's slamming into the coast here tonight. And that is going to be bringing in some winds that could exceed 65 miles per hour.

Now, the one bright note is that the nation's midsection also sees some of the warmest air of the season. We're talking 20 degrees above where you should be for this time of year so if you're dodging showers and thunderstorms, hopefully you'll enjoy the mild temperatures to go along with it.

All right. So, here it is. It's back to work, back to reality tomorrow. Tomorrow's commute, tonight the five worst cities, the cities, you don't want to live in necessarily or at least not be traveling to.

City number five, Portland, Oregon, looking for that heavy rain and strong winds. And that is going to be ongoing throughout the entire day. City number four, Atlanta, Georgia, looking for rain, low clouds, especially if you're flying into the airport. Any little hiccup can cause problems there. City number three, Indianapolis, Indiana. Looking for thunderstorms and that should occur especially after 10:00 a.m. City number two, Detroit, same issue as Indianapolis. And city number one, take a live look at Chicago, Illinois, my friend. Don, you know that one well, right?

LEMON: Yes. Why didn't you ask me? That's a magma right there.

JERAS: Because I was already out of town.

LEMON: Yes, I know that one. I can see the bigger monitor in the studio so. I thought you are going to say -- when you said, you're going to know the city, I thought you would say New Orleans, because it would be the dome or something.

JERAS: You'll know that one, too. But they'll have thunderstorms tomorrow, too, so. They could have been on the list.

LEMON: Chicago. Thank you very much. Jacqui, we appreciate it.

You know, it's the interview everyone has been waiting to see. For the first time, Whitney Houston's family, including her daughter, they open up about -- to Oprah about the superstar's life, death and her last days. That's next.

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LEMON: Tonight, Oprah Winfrey sat down with the interview, almost every journalist wanted, Whitney Houston's daughter. Bobbi Kristina Brown is the only child from Houston's marriage to singer, Bobby Brown. The teenager says she is coping with her mother's death as best she can.

Bobbi Kristina also says her mother's death has shown her she is stronger than she though.

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BOBBI KRISTINA BROWN, WHINEY HOUSTON'S DAUGHTER: I can say her music, but to hear it right now --

OPRAH WINFREY, TV SHOW HOST: You can't?

BROWN: I Can't. You know, I can hear her voice, you know, in spirit talking to me and telling me, you know, keep moving baby, you know. I'm right here, I got you. But I say I don't know -- I went to go get -- I said, you know mom, you just come lay down with me? Just come lay with me? She stayed with me all night and all day.

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LEMON: Winfrey also talked with Whitney Houston's sister-in-law who took care of Bobbi Kristina for a couple of years. She was very candid about Whitney's drug problem.

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WINFREY: Did you all, family, try to get her had help for the drugs? Did you try to intervene?

PATRICIA HOUSTON, WHITNEY HOUSTON'S SISTER-IN-LAW: We were always trying but the choice was always theirs and hers. They're grown people.

WINFREY: Were you afraid she'd be gone too soon?

HOUSTON: If things hadn't changed but things were changing. Things were really changing with her, very much so. It wasn't about substance abuse or anything like that relative to the latter days or anything like that. I think it was just more of lifestyle. I was afraid for other things, lifestyle.

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LEMON: The lifestyle Patricia Houston mentioned was she called Whitney looking for love with a younger man.

There is an eye-opening new exhibit in the nation's capital aimed at increasing awareness on the plight of human trafficking here in the United States. It's being held in the very same cottage where President Lincoln worked on the emancipation proclamation that freed American slave.

CNN's Athena Jones takes us on a tour for part of tonight's "What Matters."

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ANGIE, CONTROLLED BY A PIMP: A guy decided he wants me so I go back there and, you know, I just have to just pray to God, just please helps me. This place when I get there.

ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Angie came from a good family in Wichita, Kansas. But when she ran away with a pair of friends she ended up under the control of a pimp, turning tricks at an Oklahoma City truck stop.

ANGIE: He had grandkids as old as us. And all I could think about the whole time was how much my grandpa could be this guy right now and how that would feel. I just wanted to die.

JONES: Angie's story is part of an exhibit on human trafficking at President Lincoln's cottage in Washington.

ERIN CARLSON MAST, DIRECTOR, LINCOLN COTTAGE: We really wanted to do this exhibit on modern slavery at President Lincoln's cottage for the 150th anniversary of Lincoln working on the emancipation proclamation right here at the seasonal retreat.

JONES: It was the emancipation proclamation that freed slaves in 1863. The cottage partnered with the Polaris project, an anti- trafficking organization. Polaris operates a national hotline to help identify traffickers.

Most Americans think that slavery ended here 150 years ago here. But in fact, it's believed that hundreds of thousands of people are being held against their will in this country today. Many are forced to work on farms, in factories or in the commercial sex trade.

This modern-day slavery is one of the fastest growing criminal industries in the world. Second only to the illicit drug trade, bringing in an estimated $32 billion a year, according to Polaris. Anyone can be a victim.

BRADLEY MYLES, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR, POLARIS PROJECT: The much bigger issue in the United States than most people understands or realize.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Passports were withheld.

REPORTER: Gibben (ph) from Zambia came to America as part of a choir hoping to earn money to support his six orphaned siblings. But instead of being paid, he was forced to work for free.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I never spoke to my little sister the whole two years I was in the United States. I never spoke to my brother. I never spoke to any of my siblings. So I had no way to let them know what was happening to me.

JONES: The hope is that this exhibit will raise awareness about human trafficking of all kinds.

MYLES: There's an enormous amount of money to be made, and as long as the community is not aware, low risk. And so, the traffickers can kind of tiptoe around while the community sleeps.

ANGIE: And so, you have to keep going to trucks and sometimes we would stop and we would cry and she kept saying if you can be strong, I can do it. And I just kept thinking I had to do it.

JONES: Athena Jones, CNN, Washington.

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LEMON: When Lehman brothers went down four years ago, hundreds of employees went down with it. But there are stories of survival. We'll show you how one man bounced back, one family at a time.

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LEMON: Now to a story of success the second time around. Sebastien Amy lost his job at Lehman brothers four year will ago. He wasn't a high-powered executive. He worked in Lehman's dining room.

CNN's Susan Candiotti explains how he got back on his feet as part of our series called "in depth" comeback stories.

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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sebastian is friendly.

SEBASTIEN AMY, OWNER, A+ CHILDPROOFING: Good morning.

CANDIOTTI: He is handy and he has a growing business, making homes safe for children.

Four years ago, things were a lot different for this father of two. Amy worked in the executive dining room of investment giant Lehman brothers.

AMY: It was a good company that took care of its employees. You had pretty good benefits, vacation. So I saw myself staying there for a lot more years.

CANDIOTTI: But when Lehman brothers tanked in 2008, Amy married, raising his first child and paying a mortgage, was out of luck.

AMY: Just pick it up where you are and say, OK, let's move on. CANDIOTTI: Amy was child-proofing his home for his baby and then helped some friends with their place and the light bulb went off.

AMY: It's natural to become a business idea, which was there's a need for this. I'm pretty good at it. The door is still lock.

CANDIOTTI: Word started to spread.

AMY: (INAUDIBLE) and I had a phone call the next day. And I thought, well, this is a pretty good start.

CANDIOTTI: Three years later, Amy may hire his first employee. Customers like this mom of twins are finding him through those mommy groups.

JUDY RACZ, AMY'S CLIENT: It was almost unanimous with everyone saying that Sebastian would be the one to call.

CANDIOTTI: His new calling gives Amy a lot of satisfaction, one safety gadget at a time.

AMY: And for the parents to open, you just push right here and it would open.

CANDIOTTI: And you're able to get it out.

AMY: And very easily, you get it with one finger.

CANDIOTTI: Nothing easy about starting over, but Amy says --

AMY: You have to believe in yourself.

CANDIOTTI: Believe in yourself and don't give up.

Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.

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LEMON: Good advice.

A new theory of what happened to the titanic and it may have something to do with the moon. Sunday night mysteries with our Jacqui Jeras, is next.

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LEMON: "Sunday Night Mysteries," it is how to do the world of mysteries, now Sunday night mysteries. As a matter of fact Jacqui Jeras has some great ones for tonight.

So, next month will be the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic. And just in time, Jacqui, a new theory brinks -- a disaster on the moon. Explain that.

JERAS: Not what I think. But actually, once I get through this whole process you're going to say, that makes a little bit of sense. LEMON: Gravitational pull?

JERAS: See, you're on to something there.

All right, take a look at this. It has to do with an ultra rare alignment between the earth, moon and sun and it only happens so often, and when they're aligned so perfectly, yes, we do get that extra gravitational pull.

And we've heard of the super moon before, right? You heard the super moon. And there was a super moon in January of 1912, a few months before the titanic sank. But a series of events occurred after that time which may have set things into motion to ultimately cause the demise of the titanic.

So, basically the super moon took place and that large gravitational pull caused increase in tides, OK. So, the waves go up and down and are stronger than normal and that agitates the sea, and when the strong waves break up against things like, say, an ice shelf, that would cause that to potentially break off more.

So, they knew that there were a large unusually large number of icebergs that were floating during that spring and they didn't know why. And that could also result in unleashing old icebergs that kind of got stuck.

And so, ultimately that could have brought the iceberg toward the titanic.

LEMON: Interesting.

JERAS: There you go. So, blame the moon.

LEMON: Certainly a beautiful ship to look at.

JERAS: Yes.

LEMON: And still, sitting down.

JERAS: That's so much interest in it still, you know.

LEMON: The next mystery involves another ship that was sunk. This was back during the civil war.

JERAS: Right. But the mystery here is who was on board? So take a look at these images. Believe it or not, the U.S. Navy and NOAA, wants to know if perhaps these two men could be your relative or your ancestor, yes.

So, these remains were found in the turret of the "USS monitor" back in 2000 and just those two remains were the only ones that were found. And you can see some under water pictures of it. So they brought the remains up. They created clay modeling and used computer imaging to create those images that you saw there. And they're doing this to kind of pay tribute to these guys, see if maybe anybody knows who they were. And the "USS Monitor," you might be saying, that rings a bell. It was most known for world war - I'm sorry, the civil war, like you said. It was a big battle between confederate troops in Virginia and the "USS monitor," the two battled in 1862. It was the first iron- armored ship battle. So, it was kind of the end of the wooden ships, signal of that.

LEMON: Interesting. I have a Sunday night mystery for you. Daylight savings time, that one hour took it out of me. I'm so exhausted. I kept thinking I wasn't going to wake up.

JERAS: Were you late for anything this morning?

LEMON: The gym. I didn't go.

JERAS: It happens to the most of us.

LEMON: Yes. Thank you, Jacqui. "Sunday Night Mysteries."

NATO's international security assistance force says a U.S. soldier accused of killing 16 afghan civilians acted alone. The victims included nine children, three women and four men. That's according to President Hamid Karzai.

A NATO official says the gun man left his base at 3:00 a.m. and carried out the massacre in two villages.

In Syria, violent attacks getting the lives of at least 45 women and children today. Officers of activists say they were all stabbed to death they say and then burned. This has happened hours after U.S. special envoy to Syria, Kofi Annan, met with Syrian president, Bashar al-Assad.

The talks ended without a peace deal. Annan is proposing a ceasefire and release of detainees. He's also asking that relief agencies be allowed to deliver much needed aid.

Republican presidential candidate, Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich battle it out in the Deep South. Both spent the day crisscrossing Mississippi ahead of Tuesday's primary there and in Alabama.

Santorum rejected talk that Mitt Romney's lead in the delegate count was virtually insurmountable. And despite Santorum's calls for him to step aside, Gingrich says he is staying in.

The last of the inmates involved in Governor Haley Barbour's controversial pardons are all free now. They had to wait while the Mississippi attorney general challenged the pardons. He claims Barbour violated the constitution when deciding to pardon more than 200 prisoners before leaving office. Four of them convicted murders. And then late last week, the court upheld the governor's pardons.

Higher gas prices are starting to feel like one of life's certainties. The average price of a gallon jumped another 12 cents just over the past two weeks, from 3.69 for a gallon of unleaded to a nationwide average of 3.81. Analyst Toby Lundberg says the retail price of crude oil is the biggest factor pushing prices higher.

The world's first nuclear aircraft carrier set out for its final deployment, the "USS enterprise "left its home port of Norfolk, Virginia just after noon eastern time. "The enterprise" is heading to the Middle East. A bit of pop culture for you, "the enterprise" was the carrier used in the movie "Top Gun."

There you go another night shift.

I'm Don Lemon at CNN headquarters in Atlanta. Thank you so much for joining us this weekend.

I will see you back here next week. Have a great night and a great week.