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Muhammad Ali Opens MLB Season; Own Your Own Town; Obama To Sign JOBS Act; Child-Free Zone On Malaysia Airlines; Forgiving Her Brother's Killer; "Cosmo" Under Fire; Final Autopsy Report on Whitney Houston; Smallest U.S. Town on Auction Block Today; Google Unveils Futuristic Glasses

Aired April 05, 2012 - 13:00   ET

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. Want to get you up to speed.

Some say it is a rare bipartisan victory for Washington. It is the JOBS Act. And the bill will become law when President Obama signs it in about an hour. Startups and small businesses, the focus of the bill, which eases some regulatory burdens. Makes it easier for companies to raise money.

The deadline is now. The very partisan battle over health care. A Republican appointed judge has ordered the Justice Department to submit a three-page letter explaining whether the Obama administration truly understands that federal courts have the right to overturn federal laws. Well, this Texas judge apparently took exception to President Obama's statement that he made on Monday, that if the Supreme Court overturned his signature health care law, it would be unprecedented. No word yet on whether the Justice Department has actually submitted that letter.

And Jerry Sandusky wants child sex abuse charges against him dropped. The former Penn State assistant football coach briefly appeared in court today. Now he's arguing that the charges against him are either too vague to prosecute or that the statute of limitations has run out. The superior court judge says he's going to make no decision while the grand jury investigation is still going on. Sandusky is accused of raping young boys.

Heavyweight appearance at the opening night of Major League Baseball. Former champion boxer, Muhammad Ali, had the ceremonial first pitch honors. It was at last night's game between the Miami Marlins and the St. Louis Cardinals. Ali won his first heavy weight title in Miami. He was unable to throw the first pitch because of Parkinson's disease. Instead, he handed the ball to Miami third baseman Hanley Ramirez.

And have you ever wondered what it would be like to own your own town? Well today, could be your lucky day. Buford, Wyoming is actually up for sale. I'm going to talk to Buford's only resident coming up in the hour.

And it's called jump start our business startups or the jobs act, but what does it mean for President Obama's plans to boost the economy and win re-election? Do business owners, the people who support the bill, supposed to help, do they think it's a good idea? Jessica is at the White House. Alison Kosik is at the New York stock exchange.

So, let's start with you, Jess. House Majority Leader, Eric Cantor, expected to attend the jobs signing here. Is this one thing that Congress and the White House can agree on?

JESSICA YELLIN, CNN SENIOR WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes, and this is being presented as a real bipartisan victory, an accomplishment that will spur job growth and help grow business by reducing the barriers to investment so that more businesses can grow and increase hiring which means more jobs. So, both parties say they like it. You can see why that is a political win for both sides, both on the politics and on the substance, if that were the entire bill.

But critics are pointing out that there are elements of this bill that, in their view, will reduce investor protections that will -- they actually described it as a ticking time bomb. They say it will decrease transparency requirements that were put in place to protect investors after the Enron scandal and after the 2008 financial collapse. And I'm not just talking, Suzanne, about partisan critics. Among those who have criticized elements of this bill is the head of the SEC, and she was critical of pieces of this legislation that still exist in the bill that the president will sign today.

All right. Jessica, thank you. I want to bring in Alison. Alison, what does this bill do specifically for the business community?

ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Suzanne, it gets more money in the hands of these small and medium-sized businesses. And if they have more money, they're going to be able to grow, they're going to be able to expand and hire, and so how are they going to get this money? They're going to get this money by going public. They're going to go out in the open market and sell shares. And what this jobs act would do is relax the rules, making it easier for them to go public, to have an IPO.

Now, before a company can go public it has to go through a lot. It has to have an independent company look at its books. It's also got to disclose certain financial information to investors so they know what they're buying into. And as of now, companies -- because this law will be signed, companies won't have to do these audits and disclosures right away. They've got, you know, at least five years to do that. And as Jessica was saying, there are critics about relaxing regulation, that it could weaken the protections for investors with the AARP, the consumer groups and unions and the SEC against this bill.

And many are actually worried, and one thing Jessica didn't say that I need to say is that this bill lets companies advertise their IPO so they could actually go out there and solicit investors. So, the big worry is that they're going to be able to lure people into these IPOs and making them think that they can make a quick buck. But as we have seen many times on Wall Street, not all IPOs do well. But still, the bottom line goal with this is to really promote entrepreneurship, innovation, you know, helping the economy to boost the job market. MALVEAUX: All right. Alison, Jess, thank you so much.

Here is a rundown of some of the stories we are covering over the next hour. First, you're your bundle of joy belong in a first class cabin? Our favorite frequent flyer says no.

Richard Quest shares his impassioned baby control campaign with us, next.

And this town is for sale today. We're talking about the whole town. A tour -- we have to take a tour of this little fixer upper coming up next.

And then life after genocide. My visit to Rwanda where I found the most unlikely human quality. We are talking about forgiveness.

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MALVEAUX: All right. So, what is it with Malaysia airlines and kids? First, it bans babies from first class, and now the airline has declared a child-free zone on its airbus a-380s. No children allowed on the upper deck economy section of the jets. They're restricted to the lower deck. Richard Quest is joining us from London. Richard, we already know where you stand on this because, we read your tweets. You said, at last a child-free zone, families downstairs. OK, some of you may think I'm being grumpy, but I'm tired of entire bus (ph) class woken up because screaming toddler and parent doesn't care. Never understand why more airlines with multiple flights don't go child free in part of aircraft. OK, now you can attack. Tell us how you really feel, Richard. I mean really.

RICHARD QUEST, HOST, CNN'S INTERNATIONAL "QUEST MEANS BUSINESS": Look, now, hang on, hang on. I have never heard such hypocrisy from so many people on this subject. What is worse are those travelers who when they're using their frequent flyer miles, will fill the cabin up with their children. But when they're on business, they're the first ones to want no children anywhere near the business class cabin. This is a --

MALVEAUX: Well, what about -- what about those business folks? I mean, they got to take their kids. They got to travel with their kids, there's no other way.

QUEST: Back of -- back of -- back of the bus or in the hold.

MALVEAUX: But they're paying their money.

QUEST: No, that's the mistake you make. That is the mistake you always make. When it comes to flying in business, those cabins were designed for business travelers who need to get a good night's sleep, and a toddler age two, three, or four crying in the middle of the night, playing Game Boys or whatever they play these days, and speak -- even the voice is at a decibel level that is going -- look, Suzanne, I have spent my professional --

MALVEAUX: You're such a crook here. QUEST: No.

MALVEAUX: Can you actually -- I have a quick -- can you actually sleep on a plane? A lot of people can't sleep, kid or no kid.

QUEST: The problem is, of course, that they now have these very comfortable, and yes I can hear some of your viewers saying, let them eat cake, expensive beds. What is the point of paying thousands of dollars for a bed to cross the Pacific from the west coast to Asia, if some kid is going to wake up 40-odd people with a wah (ph) in the middle of the night?

MALVEAUX: Take an Ambien, Richard. Come on. Let me -- let me paint a scenario for you here because this might complicate your argument. So, this past week we learned that there was actually a woman who gave birth on the plane. The child was born on the plane. What do you do there?

QUEST: You celebrate it. You give everybody a free bottle of champagne and you look forward to that particular event. It's not unique, of course. It does happen. The truth is, Suzanne -- look, the truth is -- actually, far more worse is, if we're going down that road, is not the ones who have the baby on the plane, but those might go to the back of the plane to try to create the next one.

MALVEAUX: Oh, my goodness. Now, we're getting to the mile-high club here. Do you think that these other airlines are going to follow the example? Do you think it's going to catch on? More people are going to listen to you?

QUEST: Look, every airline would love to do something about it. They know -- the flight attendants -- you ask flight attendants to tweet me @RichardQuest. They know the horror stories of grumpy business class passengers. I think they'd all like to do something, the question is what. Malaysia's solution is perfect. Put the kids downstairs, yes, they can do upstairs if they need the seats because the flight is full, but the general rule is the kids with the families will be downstairs, the business travelers will be upstairs. I can't see anything wrong with that.

MALVEAUX: All right. Well, we're going to -- we're going to tweet you. We want folks to tweet us about this, because I want to know where you are on the plane, all right? Because, you know, you might be a troublemaker, too.

QUEST: Oh, completely and utterly, no question about it. And I'll tell you, people who snore, they should be downstairs as well.

MALVEAUX: People who snore? You can't even control that, Richard. I mean --

QUEST: My entire traveling life has been going backwards and forwards across the Atlantic, Suzanne. Middle of the night, it's a six-hour flight from New York to London, and I guarantee you on this particular one, I'm in the majority when it comes to children. Snoring I'll allow, @RichardQuest, where do you stand? MALVEAUX: All right. And @SuzanneMalveaux, tweet me, too. Good to see you, (Richard). I'm not going to be on a flight with you. I vow I'm not going to do that, but we'll have you on, again.

QUEST: Economy. Get to the back. Economy, economy.

MALVEAUX: We'll get you to the back. Thanks, Richard.

Fresh off is triple primary win. Mitt Romney looks for lasting support from Republicans.

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MALVEAUX: We want to go directly to Kate Bolduan in Washington, D.C. A developing story involving the Justice department handing over an explanation, some papers to some judges in Texas. This all playing out over the Obama administration's health care law that's before the Supreme Court. Kate, what do we have?

KATE BOLDUAN, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: We have this letter that you and I were discussing just last hour, that the Justice department was being asked to submit a letter kind of explaining their position on judicial review. This coming from a very -- it was a very unusual request coming from the fifth circuit -- judges in the fifth circuit. We do have that letter, it was submitted. It is about three pages. As expected, Suzanne, some dry legal language. Also as expected, affirming judicial review, affirming that the Department of Justice department believes in the federal court's authority to declare acts of Congress unconstitutional. That is not surprising.

And in this, just a couple of lines to point out to you, it says that the long-standing historical position of the United States regarding judicial review of the constitutionality of federal legislation has not changed. This is a letter written by the attorney general, Eric Holder. He goes on to say, the power of the courts to review the constitutionality of legislation is beyond dispute.

But it is worth noting here, it seems that the attorney general is walking kind of a fine legal line here, doing just what we expected, affirming judicial review, but not disputing, not going against, President Obama.

Noting that President Obama's recent statements, this request was prompted by his recent statements as the judge noted when he made the request. But in the final line of this letter, it says the president's remarks were fully consistent with the principles described herein. In the principles that they lay out in this -- that he lays out in this letter. He says that the principles -- the president's remarks are fully consistent with that.

So he is not disputing the president's position, he's really backing him up and backing up what the White House has been saying since Monday that the president's comments were misunderstood in their view. Maybe needing a little clarification in his meaning. So what we see here is, we do have the response from the attorney general and we'll be going through it a little bit more, Suzanne. MALVEAUX: All right, Kate, thank you very much. And, obviously, the health care legislation, the law there before the Supreme Court, going to be a very important ruling from the Supreme Court. It will affect all of us in terms of our health care. Thank you, Kate. Appreciate it.

BOLDUAN: Of course.

MALVEAUX: Mitt Romney, he's flexing some new political muscle out on the trail, but is the party -- is the country in a rally behind him as a candidate. Well, Joe Johns, he's with us live from Washington.

Hey, Joe, good to see you.

JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: We know that Rick Santorum, he's not giving up yet despite losing those three primaries during the week and now the fight in his home state just weeks away, neck and neck with Romney in Pennsylvania. Romney is there campaigning, and he is now talking about taking on Obama. Let's listen in.

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MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Look, I need your help, you guys. As you know, I want to win Pennsylvania in November. I'm going to win Pennsylvania in November.

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MALVEAUX: So, Joe, how important is Pennsylvania for Santorum?

JOHNS: Well, it's critical, Suzanne. This is Santorum's home state. Santorum has got to win. And for Romney though, it's sort of a matter of a knockout punch, if you will.

Now one thing I think we have to report to you today, and perhaps some others have said it, Rick Santorum held a meeting in Virginia today with some conservatives and the topic on the agenda, as we understand it, was basically how to get rid of Romney. So it's clear Santorum is still battling away, still intent on trying to win his home state, Pennsylvania. And then the strategy they've sort of dictated to us is that they move on to Texas and do well in the state of Maine (ph). That's what they're hoping to do. Of course a lot of people say that's a pipe dream and you've heard right here on CNN a number of people saying in their view the race is all but over, Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: So, Joe, how is it when you've got Rick Santorum and some of these conservatives Republicans still trying to get rid of Romney? What is the strategy that Romney is using essentially to win them over?

JOHNS: Yes. Well, the first thing I think you have to say is Romney is trying to be pretty gentle about it. If you listen to that last speech after the last set of primaries, he really did not give Santorum a big kick. And basically what he said to the audience there was, look, I want your support going forward in the next primary. He's indicating there was still a primary fight.

Meanwhile, we also know that Romney, today, actually kicked off his victory committee, which is a committee that would be raising money for the general election campaign in November. So he's sort of doing a balancing act right now, looking forward to try to raise the money he needs to run against President Obama, presuming he's the nominee, and still keeping his eye on Rick Santorum, who says he's basically not getting out of the race yet.

MALVEAUX: All right, Joe Johns, all things politics. Thank you, Joe.

JOHNS: You bet.

MALVEAUX: He murdered her brother, cutting him down with a machete. But this Rwandan woman found it within herself to forgive and even live in the same village as her brother's killer, all for the good of her country. More on my trip to Rwanda, 18 years after the genocide.

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

I have just returned from Rwanda, 18 years since the genocide there, and what I saw was amazing. Right now how families are living side by side with some of the people who killed their loved ones.

Then it is almost auction time in Wyoming. Someone is about to own an entire town. That's right. You have 30 minutes to make your bid.

And later, it's the Internet in your face. Google showing off high- tech cyber shades. We're going to give them a test run.

So, could you forgive someone who killed your entire family? Could you live side by side with him? That is what many Rwandan people are faced with. To maintain peace, many are struggling to forgive those who participated in the 1994 genocide. While on my visit there last week, I sat face to face with a killer who is seeking forgiveness.

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MALVEAUX (voice-over): Fredrick Casaguemo (ph) and Lawrence Leona Zera (ph) grew up together as children. They lived and played together in the same neighborhood. But 18 years ago, something horrible happened between them. Fredrick hunted down and killed Lawrence's family.

MALVEAUX (on camera): Specifically what happened? What did he do?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In his group they killed seven people. They killed them using the machetes. Cut the body in pieces, and cut off their heads.

MALVEAUX (voice-over): Fredrick is a Hutu, a member of the ethnic group in Rwanda that, in 1994, killed more than 800,000 in just 100 days. Lawrence is a Tutsi, a member of the ethnic group that was targeted. During the genocide, 10 of her family members were murdered, including her parents and a brother.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Whenever she thought about her brother, she just pray to God so that she can meet him one day in heaven.

MALVEAUX: How do this happen? Neighbor turning against neighbor. Fredrick says he was brainwashed by the government to hate the Tutsis.

MALVEAUX (on camera): When he was doing this, what was he thinking? What was he feeling about this?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He had no feelings at the moment. Just the devil over came their hearts.

MALVEAUX: Did he also -- he's killed women and children as well?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. All of them.

MALVEAUX (voice-over): Fredrick served nine years in prison for the murders. After his release, he agreed to participate in a program to reconcile with his victim's families, starting with Lawrence.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He approached them and told them he betrayed them. And he told them that he's the one who killed their family.

She fainted. She couldn't believe it. She couldn't even talk to him. She felt like she was talking to the devil.

MALVEAUX: We found Fredrick and Lawrence living in a reconciliation village. It's a community of 53 homes that killers and their victims' families build together. The exercise is aimed at helping Rwandans move beyond their tragic past, leave ethnic divisions behind, and forgive.

MALVEAUX (on camera): Why should the family forgive him?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He repented and he realized that what he did was bad and he asked God for forgiveness. And he's not expecting people's forgiveness, but by a miracle people forgave him.

MALVEAUX (voice-over): After three months of praying together and working to build their homes, Lawrence says she did forgive.

MALVEAUX (on camera): When you think about your brother and the way he was killed, do you think your brother would want you to forgive him?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What she thinks is it's not for her to be able to forgive. This is the power of God.

MALVEAUX (voice-over): But is this really a lasting peace? Is the hatred really gone?

MALVEAUX (on camera): Does he ever see the faces of the people that he killed? Do they haunt him?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The most difficult part for him is thinking about the kids that they killed. At the moment they could be brilliant kids, they could be ahead in developing the country.

MALVEAUX: Would you ever kill again?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He could not go back again to killing. He would rather die first instead.

MALVEAUX: Do you ever feel like seeking revenge?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She has never thought about that because she saw how people died, blood all over. Those who got gunshots, those who got the machete. She has never thought about killing somebody else.

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MALVEAUX: That is how Rwanda maintains peace today.

While not everyone I talked to and met there is able to forgive, there is a very strong feeling among Rwandans to see themselves as all Rwandans, not people from two rival ethnic groups. This week they are commemorating the anniversary of the genocide with memorials. If you'd like to see more of my stories from Rwanda, you can go to cnn.com.

It has three bedrooms, ten acres, it's own zip code. We're going to tell you why this Wyoming town is now up for sale and introduce you to its only resident.

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MALVEAUX: "Cosmopolitan" magazine is catching heat for its new cover. Those who don't like it say that "Cosmo" is trying to exploit young readers with material that's too mature, too racy.

Here is entertainment correspondent, Kareen Wynter.

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SELENA GOMEZ, ACTRESS: I love you guys.

(CHEERING)

KAREEN WYNTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Her love fans love Selena Gomez right back.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm your girlfriend. You agree.

WYNTER: The Disney Channel turned her into a teen sensation and a regular on magazines. But "Showbiz Tonight" can tell you Selena's latest edition cover is sparking big outrage.

(on camera): This is her on "Cosmopolitan," but the controversy is not about the photo. It's about the copy surrounding her. Check this out, 50 sex tips, readers share the naughtiest moves they discovered on their own. And what about this? Your orgasm guaranteed, the new trick experts swear by.

(voice-over): Former model, Nicole Weeder, is blasting "Cosmo," accusing editors of deliberately putting Gomez and other young stars on the cover to attract younger readers. She says by doing that, they're exposing underage girls to graphic content.

NICOLE WEEDER, FORMER MODEL: 50 sex tips, naughty sex tips, 75 sex moves, bad girl sex -- that's what they highlight. That's what the core of the magazine is all about.

WYNTER (on camera): These are young girls who are impressionable reading this stuff and that's what scares you.

WEEDER: Completely.

WYNTER (voice-over): "Cosmo's" February cover pictured Dakota Fanning, who had not turned 18 yet, next to this headline, too naughty to stay here, but you have to try this sex trick.

WEEDER: They are sexualizing young girls and daring them to try all these freaky sex acts.

WYNTER: Readers launched an online petition at anticosmomission.com, demanding the magazine shield covers in dark plastic, similar to what's done with adult magazines.

WYNTER (on camera): Would that solve the problem?

WEEDER: If you put a protective coating on it, it means young 5- year-old Jada can't flip through the magazine. It would help if this was sold only to adults.

WYNTER (voice-over): One expert on women's issues thinks her anti-"Cosmo" campaign goes way too far.

PIPER WEISS, SENIOR FEATURES EDITOR, YAHOO! SHINE: I don't think that learning about sex is going to immediately lead to irresponsible activity among young girls. "Cosmo" is hardly the most shocking or fearful place to learn about sex.

WYNTER: Piper Weiss, senior features editor at Yahoo! Shine, the women's lifestyle portal, tells "Showbiz Tonight," younger readers can find useful information in cosmopolitan.

WEISS: It's more about a place where girls go to find out about the things they're embarrassed to ask in Sex Ed class. It's the place you go when you don't want to talk to your parents about something.

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PHILLIPS: A final autopsy report is out on the death of Whitney Houston. It shows the Grammy-Award winning singer drowned facedown in a tub of hot water. According to reports, the water was about a foot deep.

Nischelle Turner is live in Los Angeles with the details.

Nischelle, what does the report say about her final hours and how she spent them? NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: You know, there was a lot in this final report. It did name cocaine as a contributing factor of Whitney's death.

I talked to Dr. Drew Pinsky about this whole autopsy report yesterday, and he suggested she might -- this is just his interpretation -- that she might have had a seizure brought on my cocaine use combined with prescription drugs and alcohol withdrawal.

The report also says, when investigators searched Whitney's hotel room, they found an empty bottle of xanax, empty beer bottles, a small spoon with a White crystal-type of substantial on it, and remnants of a White powdery substance. Despite the beer bottles though, there was just trace amounts of alcohol detected in her body.

The coroner also named heart disease as a contributing factor, Suzanne. But after looking at the reports, Dr. Drew told me she was suffering from very mild heart disease. And he didn't think under normal circumstances that this would have caused a problem. But in this situation, Whitney wound up drowning in a foot of water and hot enough to scald parts of her face. I think they said it was about 93 degrees, the water was when they found her still.

PHILLIPS: Is this the end of the investigation or are they looking for any more information around the circumstances of her death?

TURNER: That's a really good question. As far as the coroner is concerned, Suzanne, it's the end of their investigation. They said yesterday that they're done. But, that doesn't mean that the police investigation is over because the Beverly Hills police department was waiting on the final report from the coroner to conclude their investigation. So it's still a little bit of a waiting game for us. We're going to see how long it takes for them to officially wrap their whole thing up.

PHILLIPS: All right. Nischelle, thank you very much.

For all the latest entertainment news from Hollywood and beyond, watch "Showbiz Tonight" 11:00 eastern on HLN.

Three bedrooms, 10 acres, and its own zip code -- we're going to tell you why this Wyoming town is now up for sale. The whole thing.

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PHILLIPS: It's the smallest town in the country. It can be yours. Yep, get ready, bids are coming in. Today Buford, Wyoming, goes on the auction block. The whole town.

Joining us via Skype is Buford's only resident, Don Sammons.

Don, great to see you here. Why did you decide to do this?

DON SAMMONS, OWNER, TOWN OF BUFORD, WYOMING (voice telephone): Well, this part of my life has come to an end, so to speak. I moved here to raise my family, and now my family is all gone. And the bottom line is the purpose for moving after 30 years has changed, and now I'm going to start a new adventure somewhere else.

PHILLIPS: OK. So what is the person who buys this, what do they get for the money. The bids start at what, $100,000?

SAMMONS: The minimum bid starts at 100. And I guess we'll find out what it's worth at about 12:30.

PHILLIPS: And what do they get? What you got there in your town?

SAMMONS: Well, you got a viable business, convenience store, gift shop, service station. You have a few on-site long leases, which is a cell tower and a post office. You also get five buildings. You get a three-bedroom, two-bath home. You get an old schoolhouse that's been remodeled and turned into my office. You also get a couple historic buildings that are being used for a garage and workshop as well as a tool shed. You get a barn, and you get 10 acres of prime commercial property.

MALVEAUX: That sounds like a steal.

SAMMONS: And the uniqueness of having your own zip code.

MALVEAUX: You know, you can't --

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SAMMONS: I certainly think so.

MALVEAUX: You can't pay enough for that. That's pretty cool. Have you heard from anybody?

SAMMONS: We have. We've had five bidders that have registered online from all over the world. I have one from New York. I have one from Florida. I have one from Kansas. I have one from Hong Kong, and I have one from Vietnam. They're bidding online and then I also have about a dozen people on site that are bidding.

MALVEAUX: And how much more time do we have if we want to jump in there?

SAMMONS: Bidding starts at 12:00 noon and it will probably belong to someone other than myself by 12:15 or 12:30.

MALVEAUX: OK. So we've got a little bit more time to put in our final bid there. And where do you head off? What's next for you?

SAMMONS: Well, I bought a home down in northern Colorado. My son lives in the next town over, so we'll be able to spend more time together, and we'll see what happens from that point. I am thinking of writing a book about my 30 years in Buford. I never realized I have been here for 30 years and no one has known about it. And I'm leaving, and now the world knows about it. MALVEAUX: Yes. I mean, I love that sign -- Buford, population one. That one would be you. What's the highest bid so far? What are we looking at?

SAMMONS: There's not been any bidding yet. It will start at noon. They're just registered to bid, so once the auctioneer starts the bidding, that's when people will know what's being -- what price it's gone up to.

MALVEAUX: Well, Don, good luck to you.

Your own zip code, that's priceless, as the commercial says. It's pretty cool. And we'll see what it goes for. And I guess what we'll do is we'll interview the residents, the new residents of the town and see where that sign goes with the population number, how it changes. It looks like a pretty good deal.

All the best to you, Don.

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MALVEAUX: Thank you so much. Appreciate you taking your time.

SAMMONS: Sure.

Will the real Mega Millionaire in Maryland, please come forward. The Maryland lottery will hold a news conference in just a few minutes. We may actually find out who hit the $656 million jackpot. It happened last week. A woman had claimed her son won, but then her son claims his friends made a fake ticket that looked like the winner.

And then there's the woman in the hat. She claims to be the winner, but now she says she's not sure she's got the ticket. She does have a lawyer though.

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EDWARD SMITH JR, ATTORNEY: I would caution anybody, until it's presented to the lottery commission for processing, that it does exist. We're only preparing in the event that there are people who might challenge what we believe to be a legitimate claim.

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MALVEAUX: Winning tickets were sold in Maryland, Kansas, and Illinois.

And Google working on a new project, testing futuristic eyeglasses that could replace your Smartphone. We'll see what they can actually do.

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MALVEAUX: So we know the kind of damage that they can do, but what actually causes a tornado around where is Tornado Alley? Chad Myers explains.

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CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Technically a tornado is a violent rotating column of air coming out of the bottom of a thunderstorm. But it takes a lot to get that violently rotating column to come out.

All you need for a tornado really to form though are thunderstorms and a jet stream. That jet stream is aloft it makes the energy. If you have moisture at the surface, dry air, cold air pushing that moisture up, you be get a tornado to form in any state. Those days were all the ingredients combined. You get the humidity, the dry air, the jet stream. The higher you go the winds change direction. That can cause storms, those things all cause storms to exist and get big. Those are the ingredients that cause a big tornado day.

So now the EF scale, enhanced Fujita Scale, starts at zero and goes to 5. Anything above 200 miles per hour is considered an EF-5. A zero, you lose shingles. A 2, you lose all the windows and maybe even a wall. A 3, EF-3, you will lose a couple of walls on the outside but there will still be a part of the home standing. An EF-4, most of the home is gone but you will still see the refrigerator, a closet, and the bathroom. An EF-5, you cannot find the House. It's completely gone. We don't know how big that Fujita Scale will be, how big that tornado will be literally until after we look at the damage.

We have this, almost this triangulation that no other country in the world, no other region in the world has. We have the Rocky Mountains to our west, the Gulf of Mexico in the south. We have Canada and cold air masses coming down from the north. All of these things combine make tornado alley, typically the plants plains, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas.

The greatest threat of a tornado is being hit by something that a tornado is moving. If you're outside or if you're not protected inside, if you get hit by 140-mile-per-hour 2 x 4, you're going to be killed. You need to be inside on the lowest level, somewhere in the middle of the home, away from windows.

When you hear the word "warning" and you hear your county, that's when you need to take cover. When you hear the word "watch," that means something might happen today. Let's have a plan. When you hear the word "warning," it's too late to make a plan. You need to already have the plan. "Warning" is the long word, it's the bad one.

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MALVEAUX: Google has unveiled futuristic eyeglasses that are kind of like Smartphones for your eyes. Kind of like in those terminator movies. Terminator scans his surroundings, gets data about where he see projections on his retina. Google is now testing what they call augmented reality, for these glasses to interact with the world around you. I want to bring in Mario Armstrong to talk about the technology behind this.

What does this do, first of all, Mario? How does this work?

MARIO ARMSTRONG, HLN DIGITAL LIFESTYLE ANALYST: So ideally here, Suzanne, here is what the deal is. It's using technology called augmented reality. And that means it can take data, information, and layer that on top of the real physical world, on top of physical objects. The idea is you put on these set of glasses and you're age to scan the area and you may be able to see a map. You can be able to talk to it through your voice and give it voice commands. So maybe you're looking for the next subway to catch or you're looking for the smartest route for your travels. You can look at objects in the street and maybe get information that you would expect from mobile apps like yelp and find out about rate reviews for restaurants opinion it's the ability to be able to understand your surroundings, look at that information in the physical space, but then be able to see digital information within those glasses that reflect that area.

MALVEAUX: It seems crazy to me. Do people want this? Is there a market for this?

ARMSTRONG: Absolutely, there's a market for this. This would this would be huge. First, you can look at the defense market for this. There has been some discussions. I believe the military, specifically the Army, has put a request for proposal, for technologies similar to things like this.

There are companies that are already developing things like this. Juxtopia, located in Baltimore, doing heavy research on things where a doctor could be able to do operations and learn and look at something and be able to get that data information and still be hands free to be able to perform the operation. A lot of this is definitely something that the medical community could value from and as well as just general consumers.

MALVEAUX: And do we know how soon this could go on the market that we could actually buy one of these pair of glasses?

ARMSTRONG: That answer is about as hot as that mega lottery ticket out there. So, no, my feeling is this. Based off of my discussions and doing research in the industry and knowing Google's history and some of what Google insiders say, I hesitate to use what they say, but typically this group of people out of the Google X labs have developed other technologies. The driverless car is something else that came out of the Google X labs and we saw recently this week that is out.

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MALVEAUX: Mario, I am seeing this guy, he is driving, and he is wearing the glasses, and that doesn't seem like a good idea. If you have all of this information coming, can't be distracted or, when walking, bump into things? Really?

ARMSTRONG: Sure. A lot of people have been wondering. We already have problems with folks on the devices and in urban areas.

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So, but no, you have to have situational awareness at all times. We do have a photo of me -- I actually tested a technology about eight or 10 years ago from a company called Cybernaut (ph) that actually was a wearable computer that was over the top of my eye. I went grocery shopping to see the people's reaction and to see exactly that, could I manage walking around and still being able to deal with data. It takes a little bit of getting used to, but, absolutely, it's something we can do.

MALVEAUX: You did OK? You didn't bump into the produce or anything?

ARMSTRONG: I did not run into aisle five and into the cereal boxes. No, I was OK.

MALVEAUX: You're wearing glasses now. Would you get this?

ARMSTRONG: Absolutely, I would. I would want to limit being able to turn it on and off. But absolutely. The idea of merging something I'm going to wear that can bring the information that's relevant to me and then me be able to use my voice to send a message, set a calendar reminder or check in to a particular location, that's very powerful. It'll be interesting to see how far it goes. The idea of merging this is exactly the next logical step of where this technology should take us.

MALVEAUX: Could you use that to have a conversation with someone, a secret conversation? You're glasses talk to the other person's glasses via email?

ARMSTRONG: We have things on Apple devices now, like Facetime, Skype, others ways you can already do video conversations. There's no reason you shouldn't be -- in fact, in the Google video, they show some of that, they allude to it in a clip that you could have video conversations through the glasses.

MALVEAUX: Mario, it's such a strange world we live in.

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I don't know if I'm comfortable with all of this. But we'll see. It's kind of cool. It could work for some folks.

ARMSTRONG: If we could get beyond the consumer ideas of it and see how it helps us in medical, the health industry, things of that nature, I think a lot of people would be willing to see if technology could be proven there, and then it trickles down to consumers.

MALVEAUX: I'm looking forward to seeing your next glasses, Mario.

ARMSTRONG: They will be those.

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MALVEAUX: Good to see you.

ARMSTRONG: You too.

MALVEAUX: Just before Easter, a filmmaker says he's solved a mystery from the Bible. Did he really find the tomb of Jesus and his family?

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MALVEAUX: Easter just a few days away and a brand new controversy about the life and death of Jesus is growing. It starts with a filmmaker in Jerusalem who says he's solved one of the Bible's mysteries.

Matthew Chance reports.

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NARRATOR: An unbelievable discovery, the tomb of Jesus found.

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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There is no shortage of hype around this Easter revelation. The controversial filmmaker already identified what he said was the Jesus family tomb and now he says there is proof in a second tomb close by.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is a symbol of Christian resurrection.

SIMCHA JACOBOVICI, DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKER: I think these two things, together, may arguably not most important archaeological finds of the last couple of hundred years.

CHANCE: The bone boxes found show what Simcha Jacobovici describes as a fish swallowing a man, probably Jonah. There is also an inscription in Greek and Hebrew translated as saying, "God, rise up."

JACOBOVICI: Right over here, you have the earliest icon of Christian belief, the earliest statement of resurrection anywhere, found anywhere, even if it is not connected to Jesus. It is the earliest statement. You have something dating back earlier than the Gospels

CHANCE: The technology for accessing the tomb was 21st century. The team inserted a robotic arm into the chamber taking high definition images without disturbing the contents. It meant the tomb could be explored with minimum disruption.

(on camera): It is beneath this modern apartment block in a suburb of Jerusalem that the tomb and it's supposedly early Christian contents are located. But it doesn't end here. The true significance of this site is its proximity to another more controversial tomb, just a few hundred feet over there, about which, of course, he also made the film.

JACOBOVICI: Action.

CHANCE (voice-over): Five Easters ago, "The Lost Tomb of Jesus" made another staggering revelation -- that Christ was buried in a family tomb. And they panned the documentary. But Jacobovici says the latest work adds fresh evidence.

JACOBOVICI: Nobody argues to this day that, outside of Jerusalem, there was a family where a man named Jesus, son of Joseph, was buried with two Marys, somebody named Josie, exactly like the brother of Jesus, and nobody argues. They say it is not that Jesus, it is a different Jesus. OK. When you suddenly find the earliest signs of Christianity right next door to a Jesus, not that Jesus, it forces a reevaluation of the original find.

CHANCE: There are, of course, going to be doubters and those who believe. But this controversial Easter debate is once again being stoked at precisely the right time.

Matthew Chance, CNN, Jerusalem.

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MALVEAUX: We'll dive into the controversial debate tomorrow along with others who invited some guests to discuss whether Jesus actually existed. It will be a fascinating conversation. Tune in tomorrow at 1:45 eastern.

NEWSROOM continues with Brooke Baldwin.

Hey, Brooke.