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No Change At Augusta National; I-Reporter Captures Twister On Video; 80 Year Old Woman Makes Emergency Landing; Predicting Crime Before It Happens; 2,000 People Lose Jobs at Yahoo; Seven Dead, Three Wounded in Oakland; Burger King Pulls Mary J. Blige Ad
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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello to all of you. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Top of the hour. Let's get you caught up on everything making news right now. "Rapid Fire," roll it.
Either Augusta National Golf Club is still discriminating or they've got a female member and have simply chosen to keep it secret. Here on the eve of the Masters, club chairman Billy Payne reiterated this morning that membership is a private matter. We're going to have a live report for you from that club in just a moment. Stay tuned for that.
Also today, big news from Yahoo!. They are cutting 2,000 jobs in an effort, they say, to streamline. That is about 14 percent of the Internet giant's work force. The new CEO, Scott Thompson, says the company will be focusing more on its core business, all in an effort to become more profitable and thus better able to innovate.
Overall though, speaking of jobs, private companies, look at the numbers here, adding 209,000 jobs last month. That is down just slightly from February, but still in line with recent monthly increases. The report is from the payroll processing company ADP. Official Labor Department numbers, they'll be coming out this Friday and are expected to show similar growth.
Look at it. This bomb blast rocks Somalia's national theatre. Several people in this crowd were killed, including two of the company's top sports official. Police blame a female suicide bomber who set off the device while standing there in that crowd.
Four former New Orleans police officers should find out soon if they will be spending the rest of their lives in prison for killing unarmed civilians. Do you remember this? This happened on a city bridge in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Prosecutor says police shot six unarmed people, killing two of them. A sentencing hearing is now underway. A fifth former officer will also be sentenced for covering up that crime.
And Mitt Romney one step closer to the Republican presidential nomination. The GOP hopeful sweeping Wisconsin, Maryland, Washington, D.C., primaries last night, beating out his biggest rival, Rick Santorum. Taking aim now at the president.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: President Obama thinks he's doing a good job. It's enough to make you think that years of flying around on Air Force One, surrounded by an adoring staff of true believers telling you that you're great and you're doing a great job, it's enough to make you think that you might become a little out of touch with that. And that's what happened.
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BALDWIN: All right, let's talk delegates here, because the latest count, you see the numbers, it shows Mitt Romney now has more than half the delegates needed to win that GOP nomination outright.
And now I want to show some pictures to you. These are students -- these are students in Santa Monica College in California moments after being pepper sprayed by police. You can see them reacting, taking video. About 100 students were protesting these tuition hikes during a board of trustees meeting, this was just last night, when the officers sprayed these demonstrators. In fact two students had to be taken to the hospital. Several others suffered minor injuries as a result.
Millions of genealogy and family history buffs have overwhelmed this new website containing detailed information from the 1940s census. Perhaps you're included in that, trying to get information. An National Archives spokeswoman says the site had more than 22 million hits in the first three hours just this past Monday. The census offered detailed information as the country was emerging from the Great Depression and about to get into World War II.
President Obama, today, just signing this bipartisan bill that bans members of Congress from insider trading. We talked about this. It's called the Stock Act. And what it's supposed to do is just to keep lawmakers from making a profit from stock tips they'd be getting on the job on Capitol Hill that are not public knowledge. The Obama administration calls it, and I'm quoting, a good first step toward fighting the bad influence of money in politics.
And four fatal shark attacks in seven months off the coast -- the southern coast of western Australia. This latest victim here, a 33- year-old father of two, killed Saturday while diving with his brother. Now this intensive effort is underway to insert acoustic tags inside the sharks in the area. The tagging team uses long lines and baits to hook the sharks and then they place the warning systems inside.
Got a lot more to cover for you here in the next two hours, including this.
Police shoot and kill a Marine in his own car. And his young daughters, they were sitting in the back seat. Now as this family is demanding answers, there's new video revealing what exactly happened moments before his death.
I'm Brooke Baldwin. The news is now.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my God. Please!
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BALDWIN: Monster twittered pounded Texas live during this show. Today, as the storms east, the southeast braces for more. We're all over it.
Tyler Perry says he was pulled over because he's black. Now police are investigating the actor's bizarre traffic stop.
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BILLY PAYNE, CHAIRMAN, AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB: All issues of membership are now and have been historically subject to the private deliberation.
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BALDWIN: Plus, it's a golf club that only allows men. But one female CEO could turn this boy's only world upside down.
And Mary J. Blige sings about chicken and Burger King yanks the ad. We'll talk with a branding expert who says this controversy is ridiculous.
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BALDWIN: They are about to play a little golf in August, but first there is this matter of sex discrimination at the nation's most famous golf club. So here we are on the eve of the Masters, no change. Let me repeat, no change in membership policy at Augusta National Golf Club. None announced at least by club chairman Billy Payne. Here he is speaking late this morning.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Chairman, you began talking about a number of the changes that have happened here at the course since you've been chairman. All of those changes have been well documented. One of the changes that hasn't happened to the club is the all-male membership. I'm wondering if you ever foresee that changing? And why or why not?
BILLY PAYNE, CHAIRMAN, AUGUSTA NATIONAL GOLF CLUB: Well, as has been the case, Mike, whenever that question is asked of the (ph) -- all issue of membership are now and have been historically subject to the private deliberations of the members. And that statement remains accurate. It remains my statement.
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BALDWIN: So, you heard him, no change, at least not announced today. Joining me now from the grounds of Augusta National, friend of the show, Geoff Shackelford, contributing writer for "Golf World."
And, Geoff, there seemed to be quite a bit of buzz that something maybe had been afoot on this whole membership issue. Did Billy Payne's announcement this morning, or I guess I should say lack of any major announcement, did it take folks there by surprise?
GEOFF SHACKELFORD, CONTRIBUTING WRITER, "GOLF WORLD": No, it didn't take us by surprise that he deferred to his traditional statement. What was surprising was prior to talking about -- or to answering these questions, he built up with this discussion about how Augusta National needs to have a better place in the game and wants to help grow golf, which we were all real excited about. And you kind of thought he was building up to saying, well, and part of that is going to include -- acknowledging 50 percent of the population by having a female member. And so that buildup kind of, I think, led to some of the really tough questioning that he got, which was pretty unusual for a pressive (ph) in here.
BALDWIN: OK, so it was the buildup and then the lack of any significant announcement. And amidst all this discussion, Geoff, there's this talk about Virginia Rometty. She's the president -- she's also the CEO of IBM. And her four predecessors all were made members of this club. Is there a chance that she herself, Geoff, might be a member right now and Augusta National is just simply keeping it a secret?
SHACKELFORD: Very much so. She could be walking around the grounds this weekend in a green jacket for all we know. A lot of people thought, well, you know, again, the way he set up his discussion today about Augusta wanting to be a bigger part of golf, they thought, well, maybe she's -- she is going to be here or somebody like her has been accepted and we're just going to bump into her. But we won't know until people run into her, because it's just not their policy to announce such a thing, and it's probably not the member's place to run around and twirl a baton and say, hey, look, I'm a member and let everybody ooh and ahh over here in a green jacket.
BALDWIN: Well, a woman in a green jacket there will certainly turn some heads and we will all know very quickly, I'm sure, if, in fact, that is the case. And I know we -- Geoff, we talked to some folks attending the practice rounds about their stance on this whole issue. Let me just play some of that.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is it discrimination? Possibly. But I think at this point that they deserve the right to be able to determine what they want to do in their own club.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh I think definitely females should be given the opportunity. This is 2012 and women are allowed to do everything else.
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BALDWIN: It's 2012, you know, you heard the woman. Maybe that seems to represent the sentiment, what a lot of folks are saying. You've got folks who say, you know, look, this is a private club. It's their own business. You also have people saying, as she did, you know, this is 2012, the 21st century. You're there on the grounds. What are you hearing? Are folks there focused strictly on golf or are they talking about women? SHACKELFORD: Mostly talking about golf. But when you do talk about this topic, it's very split. And it's very divisive, really, frankly here. And so -- but ultimately this is not going to go away because you have a woman heading one of the companies that is a tournament sponsor. And I think that's why this is so much different than it was even 10 years ago.
BALDWIN: Final question to you, as you're there, as we're here on the eve of the Masters. I mean if we do see Virginia Rometty at some point walking around with a green jacket and people say ah-ha, she is a member, what do you think the reaction will be?
SHACKELFORD: I think everybody will be relieved that this is kind of behind us. And it really -- that's what ultimately makes it sort of silly that we've gotten to this point. There's so many incredible women in the world who are qualified and capable of being a member here and who run major corporations and change the world. And so it's just one of those things. Everybody feels like, OK, let's -- it's time and let's move on and enjoy this beautiful place and the great golf tournament that it is.
BALDWIN: Enjoy it. We will continue talking if, in fact, that happens, Geoff Shackelford. Beautiful blue skies there in Augusta. Thank you, sir.
Meantime, not at all blue skies. Remember what we were seeing this time yesterday? Scary video out of Texas. Devastating tornadoes hitting the state. Coming up next, we're going to talk with a woman who shot this video -- look at that -- as one of the twisters formed very closely to her home. Stay with me.
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BALDWIN: It was just about this time yesterday, Chad Myers and myself, we were going pretty much live talking about all those tornados touching down in Texas. And I want to share one piece of video here from that tornado outbreak in the Dallas area. It is getting all kinds of attention. At first glance it's tough to see what's going here. But you can see we've spotlighted it. And you can see this giant tractor trailer being tossed about in the air. Remember we watched this live yesterday. And I was almost speechless looking at this. I mean these things are 12,000, 15,000 pounds. And it's just like the wind just picks it up, tosses it about, drops it, picked up another one, drops it. One after the other after the other.
And then this is what the area looked like when the twister got finished with it. This was the aftermath. So, in all, some 50 tractor trailers were damaged. The weather service says between six and 13 tornadoes hit northern Texas.
And most people, when faced with that kind of destructive storm, would run for cover. But not everyone did. Some stopped, just stood still and watched and pulled out their camera and sent us an i-Report. Here's an example. You can actually hear the family talking as they're watching this tornado developing right in front of them. Take a look.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's huge. Pay attention. Which way's it going?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, don't stay (ph) there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is it -- I think it's disappearing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What happened (ph)?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Holy crap.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Is it coming this way?
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BALDWIN: Well, you hear a couple of voices there. But one voice you hear is Kelly Carrasco. She's joining me on the phone from Dallas.
And, Kelly, when I look at this, that twister looked a little too close for comfort for me. Yet your brother -- I'm assuming that's your brother with the camera rolling on this --
KELLY CARRASCO (via telephone): It was.
BALDWIN: Why didn't you run for cover?
CARRASCO: Well, we had the kids and the dogs in the -- underneath the stairs in a closet and we were ready to dive in, but we didn't hear sirens. It wasn't raining. I mean all the typical things that you would hear or think you'd see for a tornado just wasn't happening. And we just happened to be looking outside and just started seeing the clouds coming together.
So by the time that we had seen that, it was, well, just past our house. So lucky, you know, we were OK, we were safe. But, yes, it was -- it was a little intense. Normally you would take cover. I'm not sure what we were thinking at the time.
BALDWIN: Sort of one of those Monday morning quarterbacking thinking, maybe I should have joined the kids in the shelter. But for now, we're glad you guys are a-OK. Tell me how long you all sat out there and watched this thing, what it looked like, what it sounded like and how long it took before it passed.
CARRASCO: Well, we had heard a siren really far in the distance about 10 minutes before all this happened. And so we started getting everything ready to get into the shelter. And then that sirens turned off. So we went outside and just started seeing the wall cloud. And we put the kids and the dogs in the shelter, well, in the closet. And before we knew it, I mean, the -- our right side was completely clear. And when we went to the backyard, we could see the clouds on the right hand side were -- where there was clear blue sky, coming in and gathering with the dark clouds.
And there was -- it was very little wind. It wasn't raining. I mean you can see in the video, it's really clear. So we weren't really sure what was happening. I mean our local television station wasn't reporting that there was a tornado forming. So we just, I don't know, just pure shock.
BALDWIN: So this was a surprise to you? Shock and a surprise. Was your heart just pounding out of your chest?
CARRASCO: Oh, absolutely. I don't think I've ever been so scared before. It was really, really intense. I mean my voice is cracking certainly in the video. We just -- we were -- we just didn't really know what to do. But we knew once it had gone past us -- or at least I know that it wouldn't come back towards us. So I felt safe at that point.
BALDWIN: Got one more question for you, and that is, you know, you mentioned wall cloud and we talk about a shelter. This tells me maybe you've been through this before. Have you?
CARRASCO: Well, just being in the Dallas-Ft. Worth area, I mean we kind of go through this every year. I mean obviously not to this extent. But we -- you know, growing up here and going to the schools here, you know, you go through tornado drills and you kind of know what you're supposed to be doing, much like people, I'm sure, on the West Coast that go through earthquakes and stuff. So they -- they prepared us. I mean we know just by watching our local television and being educated in school what to do.
BALDWIN: Kelly Carrasco, we are glad you and your family are a-OK and we appreciate the i-Report. But next time, do me a favor, get in the shelter. Get the -- take the video later, all right?
CARRASCO: We'll do. Thank you, Brooke. Thank you for your time.
BALDWIN: Kelly, thank you. Thank you.
Coming up next here, the fight rages on over a Miss Universe contestant who was born a man.
Plus, an elderly woman, listen to this, this elderly woman, she lands a small plane after the pilot, her husband, dies.
Those stories after this quick break.
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BALDWIN: Two media savvy characters fighting over one controversial beauty queen. And the attacks now have gotten very personal. Attorney Gloria Allred called Donald Trump out at this news conference just yesterday for initially disqualifying her client from competing in the Miss Universe Canada Pageant. The sticking point, her client, Jenna Talackova, was born a man. Here's what she told Donald Trump.
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GLORIA ALLRED, ATTORNEY: She did not think for one moment that what she might have looked like at birth would be relevant. She did not ask Mr. Trump to prove that he is a naturally born man, or to see the photos of his birth to view his anatomy to prove that he was male. It made no difference to her. Why should it have made a difference to him?
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BALDWIN: Trump owns the Miss Universe organization. And initially the pageant booted Talackova because it didn't consider her a naturally born female, but it later changed its tune. Talackova will be allowed to compete in Canada, but there are conditions. Trump said Talackova will have to meet the legal gender recognition requirements of Canada and the standards established by other international competitions. Allred called the naturally born female rule and Trump's response wishy washy. Here's what Talackova had to say.
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JENNA TALACKOVA, TRANSGENDER MISS UNIVERSE CONTESTANT: I wish Mr. Trump would just say in plain words whether or not I will be allowed to compete and, if I win, whether or not -- whether I be allowed to represent Canada in the Miss Universe Completion. I also want Mr. Trump to clearly state that this rule be eliminated.
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BALDWIN: You heard that. No volley back yet from Mr. Trump as of this moment. The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation called Trump's reversal an important first step.
"Kony 2012" is back. Part two slated to be released tomorrow. We're going to have the details coming up for you after this quick break. Stay with us.
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BALDWIN: Helen Collins, she is 80 years of age, and from what it sounds like she's one tough cookie. Helen and her 81-year-old husband John, they were flying home to Wisconsin from Florida in their Cessna. They were almost there and suddenly John slumped over in the plane, midair, unconscious. Helen Collins is not a licensed pilot. Didn't know how to fly a Cessna. But she alerted air traffic control and then she took over the plane. Pilot Rob Vuksanovic was sent up to be her wingman and guide her to a safe landing. He joins me by phone.
And, Rob, my goodness. Let's go back to when you get this call from the manager of this airport, the Cherryland Airport, and they need your help, they ask for your wife's help as well. She's a licensed pilot and senior instructor. What did he explain to you was the situation in the air?
ROBERT VUKSONOVIC, SHADOW PILOT FOR 80-YEAR-OLD WOMAN (via telephone): Well, Brooke, when Keith called me initially, he asked if I could meet him at the airport. And I said, sure. And we have hangers and aircraft at the airport. And so I was, of course, a little, you know, concerned it might have something to do with our investment in the airport. And he said, no, actually, he said, we have John Collins airplane inbound to the airport and John is unresponsive and his wife Helen is flying the aircraft.
And all of a sudden it kind of brought me to a very high sense of awareness that there's an aviation situation going on at the airport. And I have to start thinking about this if he's asking for my assistance.
So I headed to the airport along with my wife, Kathy. We headed to the airport. A lot of emergency personnel were here. Keith was here, of course. Some of the family was here at the airport already.
And we walked into the conference room and the radio room and I asked what's the plan here, what's going on. And they looked at me pretty much asked me the same question. It was left up to myself and the airport manager to develop a very quick plan of attack.
BALDWIN: Quick plan of attack, by the way, let me just tell our viewers, you're friends with this man who slumped over at the airplane. You go back a number of years.
So I imagine, it's tough for you knowing this is your friend, you don't know what's going on with your friend. Your wife, Kathy mentions, so she stays on the ground. She starts talking to Helen Collins up in the air. How did Helen sound? Was she terrified?
VUKSONOVIC: No, she sounded actually very much in control and attempting to gain control of the situation that she was in. You could tell that the communication, as I left the radio room at the terminal of the airport that my wife was talking to Helen.
And they were working out the next communication connection, which was me in their -- in Helen and John's other aircraft, which the single engine Bonanza to come online and begin working with her air born.
BALDWIN: So you hop in the Bonanza and start chasing, I don't know how many minutes later, you went up chasing and finding Helen's plane. What's your next move?
VUKSONOVIC: Well, the 7 minutes from the time I started the engine in the Bonanza and I joined up on her wing. And the quote from Helen, well, that sounds great. You're coming up to help, but you get up here quick because I'm running out of the fuel.
And when she said that, I felt that I had somebody that I could really work with who was aggressive, if you will, to deal with the situation and that is very important in this scenario.
BALDWIN: She's never flown a plane in her life, correct?
VUKSONOVIC: Well, actually, she has soloed in a single engine airplane many, many years ago. It's not like riding a bike. You have to stay proficient and current at, but things start coming back quickly as far as pitch control and handling the aircraft.
And she's flown with John in the twin engine airplane and a single engine airplane multitudes of time. They flew very often. So she was familiar with some of the control, some of the switchology, if you will, of the cockpit.
BALDWIN: So bottom line, her husband is slumped over the controls. Somehow she's able to gain control of this airplane and with your help land it. How was the landing?
VUKSONOVIC: The landing was outstanding for her level of competency and ability. I've got a lot of multiengine instructor time with students that have brand-new, no multiengine time at all, maybe just single engine time, lighter craft and upgrading to multiengine aircraft.
I would put her on the same level as guys that have previous experience flying and her abilities were actually amazing. I'm going to use the word amazing. She was responsive to all the instruction that got through to her from my aircraft.
There were some technical communication difficulties, but we solved those. Once we were on a two-way conversation, the rest of the flights just went very smooth.
BALDWIN: That is amazing.
VUKSONOVIC: We did about four circuits around the airport for training and then we began an approach to landing and found out when we got close to the ground, the alignment over the runway and altitude and air speed was too high and needed to be reduced.
So we opted, because I thought she was competent to do this, we opted for a go-round and we did. And I was right on her wing on the go- around. All she had to do was just follow me on the go around.
She did an outstanding job. We came right back around at traffic pattern elevation, which is about 800 or 900 feet. And came in for the final approach, which required a little bit of maneuvering and she did it just like an old pro and lined up with the run way, came in. The time factor of reducing the power and pitching the airplane, that's what --
BALDWIN: It's amazing. You're throwing out these technical terms, but let me just say, Rob, whatever it was, hearing she was able to land this thing with your help and your wife's help is truly stunning.
We so appreciate you calling in. I'm so sorry for the loss of your friend, but it sounds like you saved her life and I'm sure she's grateful. Rob Vuksonovic, thank you for calling in.
VUKSONOVIC: You're welcome, Brooke. Thank you for calling.
BALDWIN: And now to this as we' been telling you, "Kony 2012" is back. Part two is slated to be released tomorrow. Those details next.
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(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BALDWIN (voice-over): In the movie "Minority Report," actor, Tom Cruise tracks down would-be criminals in the year 2054. Police in Santa Cruz, California are turning sci-fi into reality. They're using an algorithm, that's a complicated math equation to predict crimes before they happen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People tend to burglarize the same area more than once, even during the same types of days or the same days of the week.
BALDWIN: The program generates 10 hot spot maps each day, letting officers know when and where a crime is likely to occur.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's 60 percent likelihood of a residential burglary in this area that we're going to go to now.
BALDWIN: With police departments facing budget cuts across the country, this system gives them another tool.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Since 2000, we've lost about 20 percent of our overall staff. Yet, calls for service have gone up by 30 percent.
BALDWIN: Santa Cruz police say the program led to 13 arrests last year and they also saw an 11 percent drop in burglaries. The Los Angeles Police Department is also following suit. In three months they found the algorithm twice as accurate as crime analysts in predicting crime.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really just see this as the future of law enforcement.
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BALDWIN: Yahoo cutting 200 jobs. That is hefty chunk of the work force nearly 15 percent. We're talking about. Alison Kosik live at the New York Stock Exchange. You have a friend at Yahoo. She tells us tense time in the office today.
ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Yes. And you know what? It's really been tense time for Yahoo for a really long time now. You know, it forced out its last CEO, several board members are leaving.
It filed a lawsuit against Facebook, which investors see as desperate and the list goes on and on. So the company needs to turn things around. So what this new CEO is doing, Brooke, he's slimming things down as far as Yahoo goes.
He wants Yahoo to be a leaner, meaner machine, which is why they're cutting 2,000 jobs as you said about 15 percent of its work force. The thing with Yahoo is that it's still got a big user base, but it no longer the trend setter that it used to be.
It's losing a lot of ad dollars to Google, to Facebook so Yahoo is just trying to find its way back -- Brooke.
BALDWIN: Let's talk -- continuing talking jobs from Yahoo to this jobs report. We're hearing more than 200,000 added in March. How is that as far as what was expected? How does that compare?
KOSIK: Well, Wall Street wanted better. Even though it's not bad news, you look at it. It's actually the second month you're seeing the private sector add jobs above that 200,000 mark. There has been job growth over the past year.
But the problem is, that job growth has been pretty spotty. Look at last May, only 47,000 jobs were added in the private sector. The goal here is to really bring down unemployment.
And in order to do that, we really need to see strong gains consistently month after month of these job additions. It's the reason the unemployment rate, Brooke, is expected to stay at 8.3 percent on Friday when the government jobs report comes out -- Brooke.
BALDWIN: Stay at 8.3 percent. How are the numbers here affecting numbers on the big board? There's a bit of a selloff.
KOSIK: Yes, stocks are definitely taking a nose dive. It's not just because of the jobs report missing expectations. What happen was the fed yesterday came out with its minutes from its latest meeting saying, it's kind of closing the door on any extra stimulus, any monetary stimulus that had been a talked about or had been rumored.
And what's going on is Wall Street has kind of grown addicted to the fed helping to prop up the market by flooding it with cheat money. But with the fed putting the Kabosh on it, it really surprised Wall Street. It's sending investors to the exit at this point. The fed essentially wants to see if the economy can stand on its own two feet to see if it can make it on its own without any safety net at this point.
BALDWIN: Alison, were you a Jetson's fan?
KOSIK: Kind of.
BALDWIN: Pause, total pause, you absolutely were not. I was a total fan. "The Jetsons," standby for this, maybe you won't enjoy this. I'm going to enjoy this so here we go.
"The Jetsons," back to the future, we have all seen flying cars in the movies and on television, but folk, apparent it's going to be a reality. We're going to show this to you. You don't want to miss it next.
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BALDWIN: OK, back to "The Jetsons," when you were a kid, you watched the show. You think could there possibly one day being a flying car? Check this out. This is a video of a prototype taking off. It flies.
The street legal airplane is about to be shown off at the New York Auto Show. The company that makes it is seeing if people who aren't pilots have interest.
Testing, they say, is not complete. These may actually be available to buy next year. It's going to cost you a cool $280,000. Look at that. You have to see it to believe it, I suppose.
An update now on a story we told you about this past Monday. Atlanta police are investigating this traffic stop involving film and television mogul, Tyler Perry. In a Facebook post that was liked more than 100,000 times, Perry called it a case of racial profiling.
In response, the Atlanta Police Department released this statement. Let me read it for you in part, quote, "Mr. Perry's concerns as recently expressed by him publicly will be the basis for referral of the matter to the department's office of professional standards.
It goes on, OPS has soaped an investigation to determine if Mr. Perry's claims can be substantiated and whether any departmental policies or procedures were violated during the stop."
In that Facebook post, I was telling about a moment ago, Perry said, racial profiling should be a hate crime investigated by the FBI and he described this intense run in with two Atlanta police officers.
This happened last month when he was pulled over for allegedly making an illegal turn. Perry said, he told officer he signalled to get into the turning lane then made the turn because he wanted to sure he wasn't being followed.
Perry said it wasn't until a third officer, an African-American officer who arrived on the scene that the situation was defused. In this Facebook post, Perry also made an apparent reference to the killing of Florida teenager Trayvon Martin.
Here's what he wrote about that, quote, "I'm not sure how a murder in Florida can be protected by a stand your ground law." He also mentioned the suspicious disappearance of two Florida men, Terrance Williams who's African-American and Felipe Santos who was Mexican.
Both were arrested by former (inaudible) officer, Steven Culkins more than eight years ago. They haven't been seen since and as Tyler Perry points out, no one has been charged.
Tomorrow, we are told the American-based charity behind "Kony 2012" is to release a sequel to the smash hit documentary as you probably know by now.
"Kony 2012" got about 100 million hits on the web. It reset the bar for, you know, what we consider viral and got millions of young people in America to pay attention to the problem in Africa. Namely this murderous African war lord and also prompted questions about accuracy and the group who produced it.
Six women, one man killed during a shooting rampage in Oakland, California, the campus of this small Christian university. The names of the victims have now been released and the suspect is due in court just about two hours from now. That story 90 seconds away.
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BALDWIN: Well, 48 hours later, we are filling in a lot of gaps, the who, the where, what and why of that horrific killing spree in Oakland, California.
We also, as I mentioned a moment ago, we have a court appearance for the suspect. We're going to talk about that here in just a moment. But first, the emerging time line here from CNN's Dan Simon.
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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Monday morning, 43-year- old One L. Goh arrives at Oikos University. According to police, he's on the hunt for a specific female administrator at the college, his intended target. When he can't find her, the rampage begins.
HOWARD JORDAN, OAKLAND POLICE CHIEF (via telephone): This was a calculated, cold-blooded execution in a classroom.
SIMON: Goh first takes a receptionist into a classroom full of students and shoots her police say. Then he tells the students to line up against the wall. I'm going to kill you all, he allegedly told them.
Some of the students refused to follow his orders police say and he begins shooting them one by one. At 10:33 a.m., the first 911 call comes in and police arrive on scene just three minutes later.
Police conduct a search of the building and find students barricaded inside classrooms hiding under desks. All the students are removed from the school. Seven are dead, three are wounded.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's a female bleeding down on the ground, face down on the concrete and bleeding.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It looks like he's got a gunshot to the head, non- responsive.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were able to extricate one body, a victim from the building. The victim still has a faint pulse. We're waking her up now.
SIMON: By this time, Goh fled the scene, allegedly in a car stolen from one of his victims, but police already have a description.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The shooter is going to be a male Korean, about 40 years old, 5'5", heavy build, wearing a blue jacket and a baseball cap.
SIMON: At approximately 11:30 a.m., Goh surrenders to police at a Safeway supermarket after allegedly telling the security guard he needed to speak with police because he had just shot several people. He's now in custody. Police say he doesn't appear at all to be remorseful.
JORDAN: He said to us that he was upset with the administration. He was a student there and while he was a student, he had been picked on, wasn't treated fairly by students and the administrator.
(END VIDEOTAPE) BALDWIN: Dan Simon now live there in Oakland. Dan, as we mentioned, the suspect is going to be in court just about two hours from now. What's the significance of today's court appearance?
SIMON: Well, Brooke, he'll be informed of the charges he's facing, at least seven counts of murder, three counts of attempted murder, as well as a kidnapping charge. This is actually a routine hearing.
We don't believe Goh has an attorney at this point. So he'll be referred to the public defenders' office for representation. This hearing about to begin as you said in a couple of hours from now.
One thing we should also point out, Brooke, you know, there's been a frantic search to find the murder weapon in this case. Investigators are searching yesterday, searching today.
They believe that Goh put the weapon in an estuary and there are actually divers looking for the gun. We don't know what type of weapon was used, but according to police it was actually purchased legally in the state of California -- Brooke.
BALDWIN: So we don't know where the weapon is yet. We do now know some two days later the names of most if not all of the victims. What are we learning about them, Dan?
SIMON: Well, there was a memorial service last night to remember the victims. We're talking about six women and one man. Their ages range from 21 to 53 years of age.
Despite the fact that they all attended this Christian college, they all come from different faiths, actually come from all over the world. And obviously just a horrific story and this community is still reeling over what happened on Monday.
BALDWIN: Dan Simon, thank you, Dan.
This fast food commercial got a lot of you talking and tweeting. Is it OK to have an African-American woman and specifically a very famous African-American promoting fried chicken or does that feed into a negative stereotype? It's trending. We're going to talk about it in 60 seconds.
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BALDWIN: Trending today, this Burger King ad featuring Grammy Award winning artist, Mary J. Blige, singing about chicken wraps causing a bit of a raucous. You see critics say the commercial is reinforcing old stereotypes.
The chicken wraps ads are part of the fastfood chain's newest rebranding campaign. They also feature fellow celebrities. You have Jay Leno, David Beckam.
Burger King reportedly paid the queen of hip hop and gave her $2 million for the ad. You take a look. This ad here, Burger King has yanked it, but they say it's because of the licensing issue. That's why they pulled it and that the RNB's star's ad will be back on air soon.
I want to bring in branding and social media consultant, a friend of our show, Peter Shankman. Peter, (inaudible) make sense to this because I know you have to be so, so sensitive in your field. How do these ads make air without somebody saying, hang on a second, maybe we shouldn't do this.
PETER SHANKMAN, BRANDING AND SOCIAL MEDIA CONSULTANT: You know, normally I would agree with you. I mean, you do have to be sensitive, but come on, they're sensitive and then there's give me a break.
I mean, this is -- this is Burger King. No one's commenting on the back of Jay Leno's doing this ad, David Beckham. You know, this is not a stereotype ad. This is a couple of bloggers who said, let's get some additional press for us.
We'll turn this into a controversy. There's no controversy here. This is (inaudible) $2 million to talk about Burger King's new chicken wraps. How is that controversial? It's a business decision that she decided to make. She still looks awesome. I can tell you she's not eating Burger King.
BALDWIN: You said $2 million. We checked her Twitter page. She's not, you know, tweeting about it or anything. I'm guessing by your answer. I don't know if you read the op-ed in the "New York Times" what was it a week or two ago from Bill Maher, you know, host of "Real Time with Bill Maher" in HBO.
It was something like, you know, please stop apologizing. I just want to read part of the op-ed, which I imagine you're going to agree with. Bill Maher wrote, "In the last year, we have been shocked and appalled by the unbelievable insensitive of Nike shoes, Ashton Kutcher, Tracy Morgan, Don Imus, Kirk Cameron, the Super Bowl halftime show. He goes on.
The ESPN guys who used the wrong cliche for Jeremy Lin after everyone else used all the others. Who can keep up? My question to you, Mr. Shankman, is this a case of people being a little too sensitive?
SHANKMAN: You know, I posted this on my Facebook page. The first 15 comments were I'm sorry, I didn't realize there was absolutely no other news today in the entire world.
Sometimes we have to take a step back and say an ad is just an ad. No one completely -- it's a sign of the times too. In 1984, Michael Jackson was on stage when his hair was caught on fire making an ad for Pepsi. I didn't realize he was drinking soda.
BALDWIN: So Burger King though, you know, we reached down again, they're saying, you know, look, we yanked because of licensing issues. They will put an ad back up, but they're not specific if it will be a chicken snap wrap or not. You're in PR. If you're in Burger King, do you put the same ad up? SHANKMAN: You never should have taken it down to begin with. If you're doing something that's right and you're creating a controversy, unless there's a glaring reason why it's wrong, stand by your principles.
You put that ad up there to take it down and blame something else like licensing or branding or an issue like that, it likes you a little wishy washy. Quite frankly, there was nothing wrong with the ad. It could have stayed up there.
That was one of the only mistake that Burger King made. It certainly wasn't bringing a mega superstar like Mary J. Blige to do an ad like that.
BALDWIN: She did look pretty good, doesn't she? Peter Shankman, thank you so much. We appreciate it.
SHANKMAN: Thank you, Brooke.
BALDWIN: All Right.
