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Keith Olbermann Fired from Current TV; Demonstrators March in Florida in Support of Trayvon Martin; Results of Interrogation of one of Bin Laden's Wives Leaked; Event To Feature New Technology; GOP Presidential Candidates Speak at Conservative Convention; Insurance You Don't Need; Travel Agents Seeing More Customers; Titanic Weekend In Britain; 83-Year-Old Sues Apple For $1M

Aired March 31, 2012 - 15:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: You're in the CNN Newsroom where the news unfolds live this Saturday, March 31. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.

The big question today, who won the biggest mega millions lottery jackpot ever? We don't know their names yet, but do we know the states where the lucky numbers were purchased. The winning tickets were sold in Maryland, Illinois, and Kansas. The winners will split $656 million. The winning numbers are two, four, 23, 38, 46, with a mega ball of 23.

And thousands of people are rallying in Sanford, Florida, demanding justice for Trayvon Martin. NAACP demonstrators marched to the Sanford police department, crying out for the arrest of the shooter, George Zimmerman. They also want Sanford's police chief to be fired who temporarily stepped down after the shooting.

And newly released documents in the 2009 disappearance of a Utah mother are raising questions about the police investigation. Unsealed court records show police found Susan Powell's blood inside her family's home. A handwritten will saying she feared her husband might kill her was also found. Susan Powell's father wants to know why Jason Powell wasn't arrested. Last month police said Josh Powell snatched his two sons from a social worker, killed the children and himself minutes before his home exploded.

GOP presidential candidates are in Wisconsin today jockeying for votes at an event sponsored by the Faith and Freedom Coalition. The conservative forum comes days before Wisconsin's primary, and today Mitt Romney, Rick Santorum, and Newt Gingrich made personal appeals to Wisconsin voters.

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MITT ROMNEY, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I particularly appreciate the extraordinary introduction, your congressman, Paul Ryan. What a leader in our party. What a conservative.

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NEWT GINGRICH, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I ask Callista to come and stand with me because she's from White Hall and has spent all week campaigning here in Wisconsin as a Wisconsinite, and we have had a great, great reception.

RICK SANTORUM, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I want to thank you in particular, because one of the things I hear everywhere I go as I cross this state and frankly across this country is that people are saying the same thing over -- even more than hello, which is, I'm praying for you.

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WHITFIELD: Keith Olbermann is vowing to take legal action after being fired from Al Gore's Current TV. On twitter Olbermann accuses the network of breaking its promises to him. Current TV's cofounders Gore and Joel Hyatt say Current TV's values were, quote, "no longer reflected in its relationship with Olbermann." Former CNN host Eliot Spitzer has launched a new show in Olbermann's evening timeslot.

All right, now, more on the winners of the biggest mega millions lottery jackpot ever, $656 million. We don't know who the new millionaires are, but we do know the winning tickets were sold in Maryland, Kansas, and Illinois. CNN's Athena Jones reports from the place where the winning ticket was sold in Maryland.

ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fred. We're here at the 7- Eleven just outside the city of Baltimore, Maryland, where last night at 7:15 p.m. the lucky winner came in and used the machine back there. You see people lining up to buy more tickets, used that machine to do a quick pick lottery ticket spending one dollar for one line of number. Luckily for that winner it was the winning numbers. This person has a chance to take part, or will take part, in this huge jackpot with two other winners. This is of course, a record jackpot, much bigger than the $390 million record set back in 2007. We had a chance to talk with the Maryland lottery director about the advice they give to winners.

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STEPHEN MARTINO, MARYLAND LOTTERY DIRECTOR: Our advice to the winner, to the extent we give any advice, is to get good advice. And hopefully they'll reach out to some trusted advocates for them both financially and legally, and then at an appropriate time come in and make a claim on the ticket.

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JONES: Not even a day has passed since this winner found out they won. But they haven't come forward yet. And I should tell you, under Maryland law, lottery winners aren't required to take part in any sort of publicity unlike in other states. And so we may never find out who won. Last year two big winners of Powerball lottos never came forward. We'll have to wait and see what happens. Back to you, Fred.

WHITFIELD: Thanks so much, Athena.

Here again are the winning numbers - two, four, 23, 38, 46, and the mega-ball number, 23. We're learning a bit more about the winning ticket in Illinois, by the way. It was sold in a tiny farming town of Red Bud in the southern part of that state. It's not far from St. Louis. About 3,500 people actually there. The manager of the convenience store where the winning ticket was sold says the town is buzzing.

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DENISE METZGER, ILLINOIS MOTOR MART STORE MANAGER: We're having a great time. You know, the people in town are having a good time trying to speculate who it is, or hoping it's still them. And -- the atmosphere has just been phenomenal.

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WHITFIELD: And I'll talk more with that store manager the next in our the commotion in a tiny town over a great big lottery win.

In this age of Twitter, can't forget the tweets, of course, we asked what would you do if you won? Here's what a couple of you told us. Gina from St. Louis says "I would establish a foundation with a drug company to give women free birth control plus research women's health." And henry says "I would self-finance my own independent film studio and fulfill my dream are writing and directing films."

Osama bin Laden after 9/11, one of his wives is now talking about where the family lived for nine years. Full details, next.

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WHITFIELD: News from overseas now. Two bombs kill at least ten people in Thailand. It happened in the southern city of Yala. Police say two stolen trucks blew up on a busy street. More than 100 people hurt. That part of Thailand is the center of an Islamist separatist movement blamed for thousands of deaths.

And in Syria today government officials clashed with defectors in the streets in the capital of Damascus. That's according to anti- government activists who say at least 29 people died in fighting across Syria today.

And it is election weekend in Myanmar. Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi is running for a seat in parliament, but she says she does not believe the vote will be free or fair.

Osama bin Laden moved around quite a bit in Pakistan and became quite the family man between 9/11 and his death. That's according to one of his wives who was telling interrogators all about the bin Laden family's life in hiding. CNN's Brian Todd reports.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: He was alternately hiding, running, and fathering children in the years after 9/11. New details of Osama bin Laden's life on the run have emerged, given by his youngest wife, Yemeni born Amal Ahmed Abdul Fatah. According to a Pakistani police interrogation document obtained by CNN, Ms. Fatah told police that she and her family lived in Pakistan for almost all of the nine-and-a-half years between the September 11 attacks and bin Laden's death. Consistently during those years Pakistani leaders said this about bin Laden's whereabouts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think that Osama bin Laden is in Pakistan.

TODD: The interrogation report filed in January is paraphrased by a police official. The report has Amal Fatah saying the family lived in at least five locations in Pakistan after 9/11 in at least five safe houses.

According to the report, Amal Fatah says right after 9/11 her family scattered. She went to Karachi, Pakistan, stayed there eight or nine months. In mid-2002, she says, she went to Peshawar, Pakistan, reunited with bin Laden there. Then she says the family went to Sawat in Pakistan, stayed there for about eight or nine months. Then in 2005 she says she went to Abbottabad, Pakistan, to that compound where she says they stayed for about six years until bin Laden's death.

Bin laden may not have been with her that entire time, but Fatah says while they were on the run she gave birth to four of the five children she had with bin Laden. The report says she claims to have given birth to two children in a Pakistani government hospital. She says he only stayed in the hospital two or three hours each time. The "New York Times" cites a separate document, saying she gave fake I.D. papers to hospital staff. I spoke with terrorism analyst Brian Fishman about the children born in those years.

TODD (on camera): What does that suggest about his mind-set during those years on the run?

BRIAN FISHMAN, NEW AMERICA FOUNDATION: I think, you know, we have this notion that he was interested in preserving his legacy. We've got that famous video of him watching his old videos sitting there and, you know, in the house in Abbottabad. So it's plausible to think he wants to have a big family. He wants to be seen as a major sheikh.

TODD (voice-over): A U.S. official tells us bin Laden's wife's account seems plausible. We've tried several times to get response from Pakistani officials to these accounts, specifically asked if anyone in the government knew bin Laden's wife gave birth in a government hospital. We've gotten no response.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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WHITFIELD: And the internet is buzzing with rumors of a new PlayStation 4, and a company celebrating April Fools' day with new gadgets. We'll have details next in our gaming and gadgets segment.

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WHITFIELD: Top stories are straight ahead, including a march for justice in Sanford, Florida. The NAACP is urging police to arrest George Zimmerman in the death of Trayvon Martin. All right, in the world of games and gadgets, rumors are flying about the unveiling of a PlayStation 4 in 2013. Our syndicated technology expert Marc Saltzman has the inside track, and he joins us live now from Toronto. You always have the inside track. OK. What are you hearing? What's the buzz?

MARC SALTZMAN, SYNDICATED TECHNOLOGY WRITER: All right, well, an anonymous insider told the very popular gaming blog Kotaku that a PlayStation 4 is in the works. Its code named Orbis, and it is slated for a holiday 2013 release. It has been about six years since the PlayStation 3 debuted. So the timing sounds right, but it's still a rumor at this point.

You would think, Fred, this is very exciting news for gamers. It is. Maybe even they'll unveil it at the E-3 video expo in June. However, the buzz says gamers will not be able to play used games. And that's a huge market that as you can probably understand. Video games you don't like, they want you to buy the games new. Buzz is rumor the new PS-4 will now allow to you play new games. A one-time used code or a link. And will this console play older games? That's going to be very interesting if this holds true.

WHITFIELD: From Sony to Samsung now they just took the wraps off the unique product called the audio dock. What makes this premium speaker so interesting?

SALTZMAN: Yes, they unveiled this Samsung audio dock on Tuesday in New York City. What makes it interesting is the company is no stranger, they're no stranger to premium audio products. This one is about $700 for the high-end version. However, what makes it unique is that it's got a little old school technology fused with modern tech. So it is vacuum tubes for a warmer, more natural sound. So this is something that audiophiles probably still use. It's, you know, some -- older technology, but they still have digital amplification as well. It's a 100 watt dock. So that makes it unique. So it's old technology with modern technology.

But it's also unique in the fact that you can dock your iPhone or iPad or Samsung galaxy product in the back and charge it up at the same time, but it also has wireless technology. It's got Bluetooth 2.0. Air play and other Wi-Fi supports so you can keep using your tablet while listening to music. So it impressed the group of journalists there and out in April.

WHITFIELD: Oh, OK. And the meantime, Marc, I know you're quite the jokester and you like to laugh and all that. Does that mean you really get into the whole April Fool's thing come April 1st?

SALTZMAN: Yes. So geeks like me do get into April Fools' day, which, of course, is tomorrow, and so do popular geeky stores like thinkgeek.com, a popular online store. What's interesting is, every year for the past 12 years they've always released fake products, or announced fake products for April Fools' day. But some have become so popular that they actually create the product and goes on. An example, we have shown on this segment, a miniature arcade you snap your iPad into and less you play games and they've had in the past a "Star Wars" ton-ton sleeping bag.

WHITFIELD: Which I have, thanks to you. We have it right there.

This really started out, this ton-ton, the real deal. Started out as a joke? They put the picture up online. This thing is really huge. They put it up online, thinkgeek.com, and people liked it they started ordering these? Is that how the story goes?

SALTZMAN: That's exactly it. They made the products, too. So the ton-ton sleeping bag is a throwback to the "Empire Strikes Back" when Luke needs to stay warm and la to crawl inside of a creature he slays on this planet. It's a sleeping bag. All the geeks are united. We're are excited to see what they've got for April Fools' day, April 1, 2012.

WHITFIELD: We have to send this back, right?

SALTZMAN: I think that one you can probably keep your yourselves.

WHITFIELD: OK. It's actually very plush. They did a good job, considering it was phony at the start and now it's the real deal, a nice little sleeping bag for the kiddies or for the geeks out there. Marc Saltzman, thanks for bringing us great gadgets and ideas. And we can't wait to find out that thinkgeek.com has up its sleeve tomorrow. Happy April Fool's.

SALTZMAN: And to you. Take care.

WHITFIELD: Thanks a lot, Marc. For more high-tech ideas and reviews go to CNN.com/tech and look for the gaming tab or follow marc on Facebook, twitter and, of course, Linkedin.

She's cute, cuddly, and has a brother that is rather famous. Meet Germany's next big star when we come right back.

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WHITFIELD: Shouts of "Justice" now fill the streets of Sanford, Florida. In just a few hours the parents of Trayvon Martin will attend a vigil with his former football team. More on this after a look at our top stories.

And we have more on that one winner of the biggest mega millions lottery jackpot ever. Winning tickets were actually sold in Maryland, Kansas, and Illinois. The winners will split $656 million. We don't know who the new millionaires are yet but we know her numbers. Here they are, -- two, four, 23, 38, 46, and the mega ball number, 23.

The sister of the world's most famous polar bear is making her public debut. Meet Anouri, who is almost three months old, cute and cuddly. She wandered out into a small outdoor enclosure at a German zoo for the first time this week. Anouri shares a father with Newt. He is the cub, sorry. It's Newt. He's the cub that became an internet star after he was abandoned by his mother and raised by zookeeper. A Cinderella moment for some New York teens who never thought they'd be able to afford to go to the prom. Project Cinderella is giving gowning and accessories to the girls whose families are recovering from last August's record floods. Project Cinderella is sponsored by the New York Disaster Relief Fund.

And a United States marine receives one of the military's highest honors for bravery in combat. Yesterday at Camp Pendleton Sergeant Ryan Sotelo was awarded the Silver Star for heroic action after the Taliban ambushed his patrol in Afghanistan. The Marine Corps says Sotelo took charge after his squad leader was killed and he risked his own life to retrieve his lieutenant's body.

Demonstrators are calling for justice in the Trayvon Martin case, and they returned to the streets of Sanford, Florida, today. They marched to the Sanford police department, which has been slammed for allowing George Zimmerman, Martin's shooter, to remain free.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just know that it is an injustice. There shouldn't be any place in America where being on a public sidewalk carrying skittles and iced tea would warrant anyone to kill you, OK, for any reason. We're free people.

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WHITFIELD: Trayvon Martin grew up in Miramar, Florida, where his family and friends are grief-stricken. Tonight there will be a vigil in Miramar held by members of a football team Trayvon had played with since he was just five-years-old. John Zarrella joins us with one of the men who knew him best. John?

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fredricka. Yes, I'm here at the park here in Miramar, and as you mentioned, tonight about 6:00, there will be a vigil here. And unlike a lot of these marches and vigils, this one -- at this one will be many, many people who knew Trayvon personally, who knew Trayvon intimately from the time he was five when he grew up on these fields playing football until the time he went to high school.

And right over here, to my right, this is the concession stand we've heard so much about where after he stopped playing football, he volunteered his time working in that concession stand. Just a little while ago, I talked to his football coach, who had told me that, you know, people asked him all the time. The boy that was killed, was that the young man who used to work right there in the concession stand? And the football coach would answer, yes, that was him. And he been working there pretty much right up until the time of his killing up in Sanford.

So we don't know exactly, Fredricka, how many people are going to be here tonight, certainly many of the young men who played on the same football team, and played on this same field with Trayvon, along with his football coach, and his parents, who are also expected to be here as well. And again, this vigil getting started tonight here in Miramar at around 6:00 p.m. Fredricka?

HANNITY: John Zarrella, thanks so much, in Miramar.

All right, there's been quite the focus on the town of Sanford, Florida. CNN.com's Malory Simon spent the week there talking to people about their lives, the community before and after this tragedy. She joins us next hour right here in the Newsroom.

Republican candidates for president are in Wisconsin this weekend, appealing to conservative voters gathering at an event sponsored by the Faith and Freedom Coalition.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning, you radical right wingers!

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(LAUGHTER)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Amen to that.

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ZARRELLA: That's how the group's chairman kicked off the event this morning in Waukesha. CNN's Shannon Travis is there. Shannon, he was using a bit of humor there, but no question, this is a very conservative event and it comes days before Wisconsin's primary. So how influential is this group, particularly in Wisconsin?

SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Yes. I mean, this is a national group. This group has meetings, gatherings, all across the country. You probably remember them being very active in Iowa during the caucus process. They came here to Wisconsin a few days before the primary on Tuesday to hear from the presidential candidates.

In terms of how influential they are, they certainly can corral a lot of those voters here to hear those candidates, and those three candidates that appeared, Newt Gingrich, Mitt Romney, and Rick Santorum, they basically talked about faith and freedom. That was the name of the focus, and the name, Fred, of this gathering. They talked a lot about faith and family.

The one thing that struck me as really interesting is Newt Gingrich, and Mitt Romney pretty much stayed away from attacking each other, and attacked president Obama, as you might expect, but Rick Santorum, maybe he didn't get the memo or something, because he went directly at Mitt Romney, saying, repeating his line that Mitt Romney is the worst person to go up against President Obama on the issues specifically of health care. So a little bit of a different message from Rick Santorum. Obviously, he's hoping to win here in Wisconsin on Tuesday, although the polls show Mitt Romney holding in some cases double digit leads over his rivals. Fred?

WHITFIELD: So does that mean there's anything to the reported meetings between, the secret meeting between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich in Louisiana?

TRAVIS: Fred, you know we in the press, we love nothing better than a secret meeting, being able to report details about it. But this meeting happened last week in Louisiana between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich. None of us knew about it, at least those in the press. I talked with the former House speaker about it yesterday, asked him about it. He said, You know what? It was a private meeting, private conversation, but I have those all the time with Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum.

But one interesting thing that he did reveal, he was talking about their agreement. Their goal as to defeat Barack Obama, but said the three have an agreement that if one of them wins, the other two will support them wholeheartedly.

Just a little bit of a tidbit from Newt Gingrich from conversations he has with his two rivals.

WHITFIELD: All right, so potentially that will end the mystery of the whole, you know, who gets the delegates, once one or two steps out.

TRAVIS: Like a good mystery -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right, Shannon Travis, thanks so much in Wisconsin.>

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All right, you want to protect your home and your family, but you don't need to waste money. The five insurance policies that you don't need according to our financial adviser next.

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WHITFIELD: Check your credit and debit card balances. Hackers had hit a major company that processes electronic information gathered each time a customer swipes a card. As many as 10 million card holders could be at risk.

Both Visa and Mastercard say they have notified customers about accounts that could be compromised. Discover and American Express are also monitoring accounts.

It is the number one issue in American homes, getting your financial house in order. Today, in our weekly financial fix, five insurance policies you don't need. Daria Dolan joins me now with details. Daria, good to see you. Flying solo today.

DARIA DOLAN, FINANCIAL PLANNER: I am. I don't want to do with myself.

WHITFIELD: My goodness. DOLAN: Hold a hand.

WHITFIELD: We'll just -- soldier through together, then. All right, you know --

DOLAN: OK.

WHITFIELD: Insurance is important. You like insurance, if it's the right kind of policy. But you're here to tell us there are some things you just don't need, beginning with a credit card loss insurance.

DOLAN: Exactly. I mean, you just talked about the data breach that occurred, which I think has affected us because somebody sent us a new card with new numbers.

But to buy credit card loss insurance is insane when there is a federal law that caps out your liability to $50 and that's only if you don't pay attention and don't tell admit or don't tell somebody that you lost the card.

So save your money. There's no sense paying for that protection when you don't need it. You're protected federally.

WHITFIELD: OK. I know you're a big advocate of home insurance, health insurance. But then there's something called disease insurance that folks might find enticing, even if they have health insurance. Why do you say they don't need it?

DOLAN: Well, because even though you may have a history of heart disease in your family, or cancer in your family, you may or may not contract the disease yourself.

To pay for that one type of insurance, number one, is extremely, extremely expensive when you can buy a good all-around policy that, if you check the fine print and talk with agent before you purchase it, will probably cover you in all eventualities.

So if you don't get heart disease, but do end up with cancer, which you didn't plan for, you'll still be covered. It's a foolish waste of money to target a specific disease.

WHITFIELD: Got it and you really want to hold on to every dime and penny, if you can. And then there is life insurance for kids.

DOLAN: This, we have fought this battle with insurance agents. They used to call us on radio, call us on TV and go on and on about how we hate insurance, and we don't hate insurance, but life insurance should be for the primary bread winners of the family, husband, wife, whoever's working contributing to the mortgage.

Contributing to the college fund for the kids, in case that safety net for people, in case, God forbid, one of you dies, the money will be there to continue what the other person was contributing to the household. But to insure a child, of course, they always hit you with, well, in case they're not insurable later. That's rare a child won't be able to get insurance when they hit their 20s.

Unless that child is a Mark Zuckerberg, who's got an internet up and running that you're living off of, or a child actor or model contributing to the household finances, it's just another colossal waste of money.

WHITFIELD: OK, and then mortgage life insurance. What's that?

DOLAN: Mortgage life insurance, the banks love to do this. If you take a mortgage out, I guarantee you, before the month is out you will have gotten at least a half a dozen solicitations from your bank and other insurance companies offering you mortgage life insurance protection.

You die, we'll pay off the mortgage, but that mortgage life insurance, if you're buying that to protect, to pay off your mortgage, that money is going to the lender. Supposing 20 years down the road, you kick the bucket you've been paying for this mortgage life insurance.

You only have 10 years left to go on this 30-year mortgage. That money is only going to pay off the whatever is left on that existing mortgage, and your spouse may have a better use for that large sum of money maybe for educating a child.

So you want to buy a decreasing term life insurance to cover the mortgage. It goes down in value, it goes down in premiums as your mortgage gets paid off.

WHITFIELD: OK and then we have about 10 seconds left. Flight insurance, why do we not want this?

DOLAN: Well, unless you're going to be on a plane with an out of control flight attendant or a crazy man in the cockpit --

WHITFIELD: You never know.

DOLAN: You never know nowadays, but the odds of you crashing are really, very slim.

WHITFIELD: This was not with your luggage and all that?

DOLAN: No, no, no.

WHITFIELD: Got it.

DOLAN: No. This is to protect you, should the plane fall out of the sky.

WHITFIELD: Got it. All right, Daria Dolan, thanks so much. We miss Ken. Our best regards to him.

DOLAN: I'll tell him. Thanks, Fred, talk soon. WHITFIELD: All right, for some helpful tax tips, you know that filing is right around the corner. You want to sign up for the Dolans' free newsletter. Go to www.dolansonyourmoney.com.

When disaster strikes, a former Marine has 1,400 volunteer whose will answer the call. Meet this week's "CNN HERO" next.

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WHITFIELD: For many war veterans coming home can be difficult. This week's "CNN HERO" is a former Marine who's made it his mission in arms to help his brothers in arms find a new purpose. Meet Jake Wood.

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JAKE WOOD, COMMUNITY CRUSADER: In the military, everyone is taught how to lead, they're taught how to follow and how to solve problems. We pride ourselves on being ready, willing to go anywhere.

I serve in the Marine Corps and deployed to Afghanistan. When I first saw the earthquake that hit Haiti, a lot of the images felt like I've seen them before driving through the streets of Fallujah or Afghanistan. I realized I could actually help out.

So I went on Facebook, I said I'm going to Haiti, who's in? In 72 hours after that, we were we were on our way to Port-Au-Prince. We got to work setting up a triage clinic. We realized veterans are really useful in these types of situations.

I'm Jake Wood and I want to help veterans transition into civil life and help others in need. It started as a disaster leaf organization and then we realized that we can help the veteran community as well.

We bring these veterans together to bring a part of a team once again. They're almost recharged.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You get out, you get that feeling of what are you really doing? It's important in the world. Team Rubicon provided a great opportunity to help people in need.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Put your foot back as far as you can.

WOOD: Most of the work with we do internationally is emergency medical triage clinics. We've gone to Chile, Sudan, and Pakistan. Here at home, we've been in Tuscaloosa, Joplin, doing debris clearing operations, search and rescue.

We have about 1,400 volunteers and about 80 percent of them are military veterans helping other people is part of the healing process.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I can't thank you all enough.

WOOD: There's really no limit to what veterans can do. We have the ability to help and want to serve. I think it's a win-win situation.

(END VIDEOTAPE) WHITFIELD: And remember, all of our heroes come from your nominations. So you can go to cnnheroes.com to share your inspirational stories.

All right, if you spend more than 15 minutes booking your next vacation, you might want to call a travel agent. If they still exist. Details, next.

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WHITFIELD: Confusion and problems in booking travel online is prompting the return of the travel agent. Reynolds wolf has details in this week's "On the Go."

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REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST (voice-over): The average traveller spends hours booking their own vacations visiting about 21 sites, 9 different web sessions for just one trip. That's one reason why travel agents are becoming popular again.

MARK ORWOLL, INTERNATIONAL EDITOR, TRAVEL + LEISURE: Travelers are looking for some advice. Somebody who can answer questions for them, somebody who has experience in traveling, and they can't always get that online.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Maybe I can come up with something that you haven't thought of yet.

WOLF: Travel agent, Kerry Stegeman says beyond the convenience, agents can help if something goes wrong.

KERRY STEGEMAN, TRAVEL AGENT: You actually have somebody that you can call. Whether it's weather related, family emergency, or just any type of natural disaster. We're there for you.

WOLF: But Stegeman suggests, interviewing agents before they plan your trip. If you're worried about costs, most agents make their money through commissions, but complex itineraries often come with a fee.

ORWOLL: If you have to pay a fee for a travel agent, chances are good the discounts and savings they can get for you are going to compensate for any fees you pay to them.

WOLF: Making these globetrotting experts an option the next time you're on the go.

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WHITFIELD: The much-anticipated sequel to "Clash of The Titans" is out this weekend. Two stars of the "Wrath of Titans" sat down with CNN to talk about the differences between the first movie and this one.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED MALE: First film, you know, paint as a wonderful back of the world these Gods and demigods live in. Terrific film. This one we've come a little deeper.

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WHITFIELD: So when we come back, our movie critic breaks it all down.

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WHITFIELD: This weekend's big Box Office releases are all about fantasy and fairy tales. Our movie critic, Matt Atchity from rottentomatoes.com is here to give us his grades. Matt, good to see you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good to see you, too.

WHITFIELD: So it seems like this is the weekend of, you know, fantasies. Why not? You had the Mega Millions, people fantasized about that. So why not have that at the movie theatre, too?

So let's begin with "The Wrath of The Titans." What's that all about?

MATT ATCHITY, EDITOR IN CHIEF, ROTTENTOMATOES.COM: This is the sequel to "Clash of The Titans" from a couple years back. It set 10 years later. Returning as Perseus, the Gods have been losing powers and looks like creatures are going to be breaking out of the underworld and Perseus has to stop them.

WHITFIELD: All right, Liam Neeson is in everything it seems these days. Let's take a quick look at a little clip.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody back!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You betrayed our father.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He betrayed me by choosing you.

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WHITFIELD: And Ralph Fiennes, we haven't seen him in a while, or have we. Sam Worthington as well. OK, Matt, break it down for me. Did you like it?

ATCHITY: I didn't really care for this that much, unfortunately. You know, the action is pretty good and the movie looks OK, and it's a much better 3-d transfer than the original.

You don't have it looking like someone's hair is ten feet behind their head like we had in the terrible post transfer from "Clash of The Titans." So technically, this movie holds up a little bit better, but it suffers the same problems the first one did.

The story gets a little confusing, and you really don't care about the characters that much, which is unfortunate because you have a really great cast, like you said, Liam Neeson, Ray Fines, Sam Worthington.

One of the few bright spots is that Bill Nai shows up for about 10 minutes as Hafeitus and steals the movie, never gives it back. On that level alone, I'd say it's probably the best recommendation I can give here. But ultimately, the movie is mostly disappointing.

WHITFIELD: OK, so our grade then?

ATCHITY: My grade is a "D." Not a total loss, but it's not great.

WHITFIELD: OK, all right, well "D," that's tough. You're a tough grader, but you mean it. OK, let's talk about "Mirror, Mirror." This with Julia Robert, Lily Collins, and Nathan Lane, is this a play on a storyline -- Snow White or something we're used to seeing?

ATCHITY: Yes, this is basically Snow White told from the point of the view of the wicked stepmother, and it's Julia Roberts as the stepmother, Lily Collins, the daughter of Phil Collins playing Snow White.

Armie Hammer playing the young charming Prince, Nathan Lane makes an appearance. It's directed by Carson Sing who brought us "The Fall" and "The Cell" and last year's "Immortals." This is the kind of a different take on "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs."

WHITFIELD: All right, let's take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Earl, don't fight girls.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I shall reconsider.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The queen thinks you're manipulating her.

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WHITFIELD: I see, Snow White meets Matrix, that's what this is really about. Did you like this?

ATCHITY: Something like that. I did kind of like this. The rating on this is "PG," I believe. I did kind of like this movie. I thought it was pretty fun. It's got a different take on the Snow White story.

One of the things it does impressively is that it gives you a new set of dwarfs who all have distinctive personalities and none of them are the standard dwarfs we know from the original 1939 Disney film. They all have new names and new personalities.

WHITFIELD: No sleepy?

ATCHITY: No sleepy, no Sneezy, no Doc. Completely different characters and they're all really fun. Probably the standout performance here is Armie Hammer, who people might remember from the "Social Network." He played both --

WHITFIELD: Yes, that's right.

ATCHITY: He is -- he's hilarious in this. And I'll tell the ladies, he gets his shirt off a lot in this film. If there's one particular scene where he's just hilarious, he really steals the movie on a certain level.

I think the movie is beautiful. I think the kids are really going to like it. It's uneven at times. The story gets a little muddled, but it's pretty good and a fun time for the family. I give it a "B." I think it's a solid film.

WHITFIELD: All right, that's good. We got a nice grade on some fantasy film, and it turns out to be the one for the whole family, right?

ATCHITY: Exactly. So if you didn't win the lottery, go ahead and see this.

WHITFIELD: There you go. All right, I like the trade off. Thanks so much. Have a great weekend. Always good to see you.

And remember, you can check out all of Matt's grades and reviews by going to rottentomatoes.com.

All right, it is a "Titanic" weekend as well in Britain. The 3D movie premiered in London. Wait until you see the huge exhibit dedicated to the ship that opens tomorrow in Belfast. Nic Robertson got a special preview.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I think we're going to another floor.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are. You go through the ship, you move to the corridors where you would have had the cabins. It's like using modern technology to tell a 100-year-old story.

ROBERTSON: You're going up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can see the movement, and now you're up at the first-class level.

ROBERTSON (voice-over): Claire Bradshow's job is to market Belfast's hottest new property. And that includes the replica staircase made famous by Kate Winslet and Leonardo De Caprio.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the largest in Northern Ireland.

ROBERTSON (on camera): This one?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, just over 1,000 people here for dinner. It's an extremely popular choice for weddings. This is going to be the driver for tourism into the whole island of Ireland.

(END VIDEOTAPE) WHITFIELD: Fascinating stuff. Movie critic Gray Drake was in London for the premiere of the "Titanic" 3D. Remember she and I talked last weekend. She said she couldn't wait to go and meet James Cameron and the rest of the gang.

She'll be with you next hour with the review of that trip to London and everything that happened on the red carpet for the "Titanic" 3-D.

A New York grandmother is suing Apple for her broken noise. You have to hear what our legal guys have to say about this case after this.

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WHITFIELD: An 83-year-old woman blames Apple for her broken nose. She is suing the computer giant for $1 million because she walked right into an Apple store's glass wall. Earlier, I spoke with our legal guys, Avery Friedman and Richard Herman, for their perspective on the case.

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AVERY FRIEDMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: I think the reasonable person walking into an all-glass door using reasonable amount of caution would probably not run into this. There are literally millions of people walking in and out.

And I'm sorry for Evelyn Paswell. She did not see the door obviously. I feel terrible. She bonked her schnoz, and I'm sorry it broke, but the fact is the test is reasonableness.

Was it foreseeable? I done think any jury on earth, Fredricka, is ever going to determine that the design of the door is unreasonable.

WHITFIELD: You keep unreasonable, but Richard, everyone has walked into a glass door or a sliding glass door or something. And I think most could empathize? This has never happened to you, Avery, really?

FRIEDMAN: To me? I walked through screens and doors, sure.

WHITFIELD: OK. So because it does happen, I mean, Richard, doesn't this door, you know, knowing that hundreds of people come through all the time, do they have to put something up to make sure that people, you know, see that this is glass and doesn't Ms. Paswell have a point?

RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: They would love you on the jury. They would love you on that jury, Fred.

FRIEDMAN: The plaintiff would love her.

HERMAN: Fred, if there was a pattern of people banging their heads into the glass in the store, then and only then I think would Apple have a responsibility to put some sort of warning --

WHITFIELD: Because there's no precedent, really?

HERMAN: Fred, listen. This is also in a very conservative jurisdiction in New York. I mean, a broken nose case at best may get $25,000. This jury is going to give her a donut. She's going to get bounced out of court. They're not going to be sympathetic. You have to look where you're walking -- you assume the risk.

She's done -- she's going to get nothing, Fred.

WHITFIELD: Tough guys. You can catch our legal guys every Saturday, noon Eastern Time.