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Aired April 07, 2012 - 15:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Police in Oklahoma are spending this holiday weekend hunting down a killer. Investigators say the shooter drove around Tulsa, shooting people in four different locations Friday morning. In the end, three people were dead and two others were left in critical condition.

I spoke with Tulsa's mayor, who updated us on the manhunt.

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DEWEY BARTLETT, TULSA MAYOR (via telephone): Well, they're working very, very hard. We've had at least 40 police cars cruising around the neighborhoods that are affected, going literally door to door and asking people if they've seen anything, what their opinions and their observations are.

We have a 25-person task force specially put together to bring this to an end, bring it to a conclusion quickly. We have the FBI and the U.S. Marshal's office alerted and advising us, as well. So this is an event that is unprecedented in our recent history, and it's certainly one that is very, very serious that we want to bring to an end very quickly.

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WHITFIELD: The FBI and U.S. Marshals have joined the search for the gunman. A spokesman for the police department told me the shooter approached the victims asking for directions.

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CAPT. JONATHAN BROOKS, TULSA POLICE DEPARTMENT (via telephone): It appears that all the victims were just out walking or out in the yard at this hour. And this is a residential neighborhood, predominantly single-family dwellings, you know, in that area, except for the last victim. He was found at a business.

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WHITFIELD: Police say the shootings may be classified as a hate crime since all the victims were African-American and the shooter is believed to be a white man. Community leaders are calling for calm and urging anyone with information to come forward.

No lives lost after a Navy jet slams into an apartment complex in Virginia Beach, Virginia. Both pilots ejected safely. A few people on the ground were hurt. Several apartment buildings were destroyed in the fiery aftermath. And in a news conference just a short time ago, the Navy called the outcome a miracle.

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ADM. JOHN HARVEY, U.S. NAVY: You know,I don't speak for anybody's religious beliefs, but the mayor and I both agreed that, you know, if you want to define a miracle, what happened here yesterday meets that definition for me.

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WHITFIELD: Navy investigators are working to find out what caused the jet to crash.

And more than 120 people are reported killed today in fighting and shelling across Syria, most of them in the cities of Hama and Homs. That's according to an opposition group keeping track of casualties there. The Syrian president agreed to a United Nations ceasefire deadline, promising to have all troops and tanks out of residential areas by Tuesday.

A witness in the Trayvon Martin shooting claims she heard the scuffle between shooter George Zimmerman and Martin before the teen was shot. The anonymous woman says she heard cries for help and then this.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was kind of almost kind of like a yelp. It was, like, a devastating, desperate type of yell for help, and you know, even to a sense it could even be (INAUDIBLE) been a cry (ph). The lead investigator said to me kindly, he just said, Well, if it makes you feel any better, the person that was yelling for help is alive. I really thought it was the boy crying for help, but here's the lead investigator, you know, telling me that, no, it was Mr. Zimmerman.

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WHITFIELD: So you heard there. She says police told her Zimmerman was crying for help, but she thought it was Trayvon Martin. George Zimmerman's attorneys dispute these details and they'll actually join me tomorrow in the NEWSROOM at 2:30 Eastern time.

All right, his peaceful landscapes and forest scenes are in millions of Americans homes. Painter Thomas Kinkade has died. He was known among art collectors as "the painter of light." The Kinkade family says he died at his home in California late yesterday apparently of natural causes. He was 54 years old. Next hour, I'll speak to Robert Goodwin (ph), who collaborated on a book with Kinkade.

Police in Ohio are praising two women who fought off intruders in their homes. What's amazing is that those homes were just a mile apart, and the attacks happened at about the same time. One of the women used her stilettos to fight off the attacker. Police don't think the two incidents are connected and are still searching for the attackers.

And when we say this car flies, we don't mean it's just fast on the road. It literally flies. It's called the Transition by Terrafugia. It's one of many cars on display at the New York International Auto Show, which began this week. Testing isn't complete on the Transition, but may be available for purchase next year. But you better have deep pockets. Sticker price, about $280,000.

And round three is under way at the Masters golf tournament. This guy, Fred Couples, has been in the lead so far. And get this. He is 52 years old. But Couples has just bogeyed his first hole and is now one shot off the pace. Couples last won the Masters 20 years ago.

Coming up, we'll head to Augusta for a live update on the Masters. Don't go away.

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WHITFIELD: Opposition activists in Syria say government troops killed at least 121 people today in street fighting, shelling and tank fire. It's just three days until a U.N.-imposed deadline for Syrian forces and rebels to stop fighting. Also today, we're seeing some very graphic images of people killed in the fighting.

CNN's Ivan Watson has that from Istanbul.

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IVAN WATSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): And I have to caution viewers about this next video. It emerged from the embattled city of Homs. Opposition activists say they stumbled across 13 bodies. They are laying at the foot of a wall that was a Syrian school, and you can plainly see bullet holes in the wall.

It appears these 13 men were lined up and shot to death execution- style by an impromptu firing squad. We don't know who did it, but opposition activists claim that school was appropriated by Syrian security forces, who used it as a temporary detention center.

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WHITFIELD: That was Ivan Watson reporting.

And people across Europe and the Balkans today are remembering the conflict that made the words "ethnic cleansing" familiar to generations. The Bosnian civil war began 20 years ago this weekend.

Nic Robertson covered the war for CNN. He went back to Sarajevo and found two journalists there when the first shots were fired.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Running literally for their lives, a flashback nearly 20 years, when getting to work for journalists Marija and Senad meant dodging a sniper's bullet. Today, there's no need to rush. (on camera): So it was almost 20 years ago we were running along "sniper alley" right down there with you.

SENAD GUBELIC, "OSLOBODENJE" PHOTOGRAPHER: Yes.

ROBERTSON: When you think back to it now, does that seem crazy, outlandish?

MARIJA SULLIVAN, AUTHOR, "SARAJEVO WALLS OF FATE": Definitely crazy. I wouldn't do it again.

(LAUGHTER)

ROBERTSON: No?

SULLIVAN: No!

ROBERTSON: What about you, Senad?

GUBELIC: We didn't think about it. You know, we're doing our work. We're doing our job, you know?

ROBERTSON (voice-over): Marija left the paper, is now an author.

(on camera): You have a 13-year-old daughter. How do you explain all that, doing what you did back then to her now?

SULLIVAN: Well, I think she's not ready yet. She's now into Harry Potter and she read all the books, and she reads all these "Twilight" things. And she's totally disinterested in what was happening at the time.

ROBERTSON (voice-over): At that time, Marija hoped her newspaper's multi-ethnic makeup would be a model for her daughter's generation.

SULLIVAN: There is hope for all of us not to be divided, not to be on different sides, but to be together here, as we are together inside this building.

ROBERTSON: Is that working, that model?

SULLIVAN: I'm afraid that nowadays, people with mixed backgrounds are getting to be more and more irrelevant.

ROBERTSON: But are the politics of today enshrining some of those divisions and making it harder to go back to that mixed identity?

SULLIVAN: Absolutely. Absolutely. It is.

ROBERTSON (voice-over) Senad is now "Oslobodenje's" senior photographer.

(on camera): You're preparing an exhibition for the anniversary of the war?

GUBELIC: Yes. Actually, it was, you know -- we have today a special edition in "Oslobodenje" considering this event.

ROBERTSON: I know you're doing all this because of the 20th anniversary. But do you normally these days -- do you talk about the war? Do you think about the war much?

GUBELIC: Well, actually, we have -- you know, sometimes, not all the time, because now it's different. You have a lot of work to do. There is the daily excitement (ph). And I have a lot of young photographers, as you can see, who are working with me. And sometimes we discuss about it, you know, what was in the past, but not all the time, you know?

ROBERTSON: To me now, the city has a feel of -- it's coming back. Do you...

GUBELIC: It's coming back with its, let's say, luxury looks (ph). But for the ordinary people, you know, who was during the war here, they need a lot, like, fabriks (ph). You know, they should have a lot of work, a lot of factories so they have -- could have, you know, money for the living and to pay the bills, and payments for the children so they have their, you know, school and things like that.

ROBERTSON: So jobs are the big issue?

GUBELIC: Yes.

ROBERTSON (voice-over): Once burned and bashed by shells, just yards from the front line, "Oslobodenje," like much of the rest of country, is rising from the ashes. For Marija and Senad, it's clear there's still some way to go.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina.

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WHITFIELD: And this is how people in Sarajevo marked the 20th anniversary of the start of the war. They arranged exactly 11,541 chairs, all red, each of them empty, through the streets of the Bosnian capital. The chairs represent the number of men, women and children killed during the siege of Sarajevo that began in April 1992 and ended in 1995.

Coming up in a few minutes: Watch what you say. People inside this place might soon listen to your phone calls and see what you're doing on line. We'll talk about the government's brand-new spy center being built in Utah.

And you're looking at the Masters right now, live images. We'll head there for the latest, straight ahead.

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WHITFIELD: All right, the famous Masters golf tournament is going on right now, but what caught our eye the man leading at this moment, Fred Couples. He's 52 years old and could become the oldest golfer to win a major championship. Patrick Snell is live from the Augusta National. So Patrick, Couples -- how's he doing? Still on course to be leading?

PATRICK SNELL, ANCHOR, CNN'S WORLD OF SPORT: Hi, Fredricka. Hi there. I think you just put a little curse on him. He's no longer leading.

WHITFIELD: Oh! Sorry, Fred!

SNELL: I'm sorry to tell you, for Freddie fans. Sorry, Fred! We had a 52-year-old. The (INAUDIBLE) leader has dropped a stroke already. Let me take you...

WHITFIELD: Oh!

SNELL: ... without further ado to the top of the leaderboard and I'll show you exactly what I mean, frustrating start for the 1992 champion, Couples. As we can see, he slipped to 4 under par. Jason Dufner, his compatriot, though, remains the sole leader now. The American player is at 5 under par, and he's got plenty of company, as well, at 4 under.

Lee Westwood of England, the first round leader, Justin Rose, the South African-born British player and Aaron Badley (ph), the American- born Australian, 3 under par, as well.

But one notable, Fred. Rory McIlroy, who was at 4 under par at the start of this third round, had a disastrous start, a double bogey 6 at hole number 1, just alongside us here at the famed Augusta Golf Club, and that was in front of his watching father, as well. So McIlroy sliding right down to 2 under par.

But a little more, quickly now, on Fred Couples. This is a player, 52 years young, brimming with confidence, still has great length off the tee. And that is one of the reasons why he believed he would be a factor here. He can still hit it a long way.

A lot of these young guns (INAUDIBLE) 25 years on him, they crush it a long way off the tee. But Freddie still has the length. And if he can just keep his nerve, if he can just stay calm, who knows, he could be on for a second green jacket. Of course, the first since 1992, Fred.

WHITFIELD: Wow. OK, Patrick Snell, thanks so much. And we're going to wish him well. You know, I got to root for Fred only because, you know, I like the name, too. Fred Snell (sic), all right, we're rooting for you, 52 years young. I like the way you put it, Patrick. Thanks so much. We'll check back with you at Augusta.

All right, five times bigger than the U.S. Capitol and super top secret. I'm actually talking about new U.S. government building, a big, old spy center in the making. My next guest says, unless you really live off the grid, there's nowhere you'll be able to hide.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) WHITFIELD: A look at our top stories now. Tulsa police are working with the FBI and U.S. Marshals to find a killer. Someone shot five people, killing two of them during a Friday morning rampage. The police say it may be a hate crime since all the victims were black. A police spokesman says the shooter is a white male driving a white truck. The mayor of the city says the city will come together and help bring the attacker to justice.

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DEWEY BARTLETT, TULSA MAYOR (via telephone): We understand the significance of what happened. We understand that we need to come together as a community to inform the police, to bring -- to bring information to them so they can do their job, and hopefully, Sunday, or early next week, this is all over with, and the people are put behind bars where they deserve to be.

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WHITFIELD: And then to Virginia, where Navy officials there say it's a miracle no one died after a Navy jet slammed into an apartment complex. The F-18 Hornet had just taken off with a full tank of fuel when it crashed yesterday in Virginia Beach. At least seven people are injured, and the Navy today announced an investigation is, of course, under way. The flight data recorder still has not yet been recovered.

A shake-up at Blackberry, two more top executives are leaving Research In Motion, the company that makes the brand. The company has been losing money and is going through an overhaul, which could result in the company being sold.

And it's more embarrassment for a government agency already in trouble with Congress. The HuffingtonPost released videos of skits and games played by members of the General Services Administration at a conference in Las Vegas. They make jokes and sing songs about government waste and out-of-control spending. Your tax dollars paid the almost $1 million cost of the conference. That includes a half million dollars for iPods and other gifts for government employees. The head of the GSA resigned just a few days ago.

The U.S. Army is building a massive high-tech facility in the Utah mountains. This is it, right there in the making. They broke ground last year, and the National Security Agency says from here, they will protect the country against cyber-attacks and be able to store a universe of computer data.

Critics of the place say it will be the most intrusive intelligence- gathering facility on earth.

Bob Baer is with me now from Berkeley, California. He's a former undercover CIA operative. So Bob, does this place frighten you, or does it seem completely apropos?

BOB BAER, FORMER CIA OPERATIVE: Well, you know, it's got the potential to be intrusive. Right now, the National Security Agency seeks warrants when it listens to America's conversations. But you know, in a national security crisis, could this change? Yes.

It's amazing what the National Security Agency can get into now -- broadband, e-mails, cell phone calls. And with algorithms, they can get into it very quickly and sort things out.

WHITFIELD: So what's the argument as to why a facility of this magnitude was even necessary?

BAER: Well, I mean, the National Security Agency after 9/11 has really got a lot of money, and it's gone after communications across the world. And it needs storage. It needs databases, enormous computers that take up a lot of space, and they need people working at it. You know, this is not much of a surprise.

WHITFIELD: What does it likely hold in order to justify this, you know, some $3 billion price tag?

BAER: Well, let me take a communication like Skype. There was a time -- it's broadband -- that they couldn't get into it, but now they can actually get in not only to the meta-data, calls going back and forth, but they can get into, for instance, what's called the payload. And that's the actual conversations, which are stored on hard drives, and they can be accessed at any time.

It is Big Brother, but like I said, this is the potential, and there's no evidence that the government has turned this on American citizens.

WHITFIELD: So what can it do? What would be its scope, strictly the United States, I mean, you know, observing the activities of you, me and everybody else in the U.S., or even broader than that?

BAER: It's broader than that. It's focused on -- it's focused overseas. It's focused on Afghanistan, Pakistan, Somalia and now Mali, with the problems there. So any conversation going in and out of Mali is going to be picked up, listened to, analyzed. Like I said, the algorithms are going to go through it, looking for links to al Qaeda.

It's an amazing system, and this link analysis is what it does, is very, very good, much better than we were before 9/11.

WHITFIELD: So I wonder, you know, with this facility being able to kind of infiltrate -- possibly infiltrate just about any kind of technology that, you know, any layman has, I wonder how that might potentially influence I guess the industries that make that material? If there are people who say, you know, I want to be more elusive. I want to opt out of being able to be spied upon. Would that be an option? Do you see technology or manufacturers kind of going in that direction as a result of this incredible, sophisticated place?

BAER: Fredricka, there's no way to get around the technology.

(LAUGHTER)

BAER: Seriously. If you have a Visa card, if you use an ATM, if you use a cell phone, they can find you. There's nowhere to hide. The only way to get away from this is take the route of the Unabomber and throw it all away. I mean, everything.

WHITFIELD: You saw that this was rather inevitable, that there would have to be an NSA kind of facility of this magnitude?

BAER: Oh, I think it's inevitable. And I think Americans want it. I mean, look, before 9/11, there were a lot of messages that al Qaeda was preparing something in chat rooms, and they were even more open than that. And the National Security Agency missed it, and they don't intend to do it again. So over the last decade, I -- you know, I saw this coming.

WHITFIELD: And completion? When do we expect? When's it up and running and full throttle?

BAER: You know, very soon.

WHITFIELD: Because that's a secret, too.

BAER: And there are other facilities, too.

WHITFIELD: Yes, they can't advertise everything, you know?

BAER: Exactly.

WHITFIELD: There's got to be a lot of mystery that comes with a facility like that. All right, Bob Baer, thanks so much. Appreciate your time.

BAER: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: All right, moving straight ahead now -- job growth was slow in the month of March, but there were three industries ramping up hiring. We'll tell you where those jobs are right after this.

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WHITFIELD: Before we get to your fortune brainstorm, here's a look at the new jobs report out this week. Most have already seen the numbers, 120,000 jobs added, 8.2 unemployment rate now.

Well, experts expected more new jobs and say this report is a disappointment. So we decided to take a look at where the jobs were added. Here is the top three. Here are the top three.

The leisure and hospitality industry added the most, 39,000 followed by manufacturing with 37,000 and rounding out the top three, health care with 26,000 additional jobs. The biggest job losses came in retail.

Something else to talk about on the jobs front, this past week, President Obama signed the American Jobs Act into law. The goal of the bill is to give small businesses better access to capital.

CNN's chief business correspondent Ali Velshi talks about if it will work, in this week's "Fortune Brainstorm." ALI VELSHI, CNN CHIEF BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: The co-founder of AOL now the chairman of the Startup America Partnership and chairman and CEO of Revolution, Steve Case joins me now.

He's also a member of President Obama's Jobs Council. He was at the bill signing ceremony. Steve, good to see you again. There's a point at which these start-ups get to where they start to really hire people.

What, where is that and how, what impact would this jobs bill have on creating jobs, which is really ultimately what we want to do?

STEVE CASE, CHAIRMAN, STARTUP AMERICA PARTNERSHIP: Well, there are really two sides of it. The early stage, really are start-ups. Later stage, we sometimes think as speedups. This Jobs Act really deals with both.

As I mentioned, crowd funding, primarily focused on the start-ups of the early stage of companies because there's a maximum amount of money of $1 million you can raise through crowd funding.

If you need more than that, a later stage company, the important change there is this on ramp for initial public offerings. In the 1990s, AOL went public, over 80 percent of the offerings were under $50 million. Now it's only 20 percent because of the cost and complexity of the Sarbanes-Oxley.

And Sarbanes-Oxley makes sense, but having the same rules apply to Wal-Mart and apply to a small company doesn't make sense. The Jobs Act recognizes that and puts this on ramp in place. So some companies otherwise wouldn't have gone public now can.

That's particularly important because the companies -- that some companies just don't wait until later in the life cycle and they get sold. Investors get tired, want their capital back.

And when company get sold, job growth decelerates. When it goes public, it accelerates, 92 percent of job growth happens after companies go public.

So this on ramp is very important and I think we struck the right balance in terms of giving entrepreneurs the tools they need to grow while also protecting investors in a balanced way.

VELSHI: Steve, thank you. I'm Ali Velshi with this week's "Fortune Brainstorm."

WHITFIELD: And everybody loves free stuff, and that's what we have today in gaming and gadgets. Our technology expert, Marc Saltzman joining us now via Skype from Toronto with five free smartphone and tablet apps worth grabbing for the spring.

Hi, Marc, happy Easter and Passover weekend. So if you are going on a road trip and you don't want to pay for a GPS system, apparently, there's a free alternative out there? MARC SALTZMAN, SYNDICATED TECHNOLOGY WRITER: Yes, absolutely. It's aptly named Nab-free GPS Live and it is for iPhone. Instead of spending up to $50 or $60 for a downloadable GPS solution like Tom-Tom offers for iPhone, this one is completely free to use.

So you grab this Nab-Free GPS Live for the U.S. market or to go overseas, there's one for Europe. There's also one for Canada. If you want to go north, and it's completely free. It will give you turn-by-turn directions with audio.

So you're going to be able to hear it. You know, turn left and, you know, 50 feet, that kind of thing. It's got GPS, sorry, Bing and Google search for restaurants and hotels and gas stations. So it's a full-featured, the first full-featured yet completely free GPS app for iPhone.

WHITFIELD: Cool stuff. All right, so now tell us about this very popular Instagram power tool for picture takers available on Apple's iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad. But now for Android devices too will get to enjoy?

SALTZMAN: That's right. As of last week, the 30 million or so Apple device users can share and comment and tag photos with other Instagram users on Android platforms.

So Instagram is a free app for your phone. Once you take all the photos this spring with friends and family, you can touch them up with Instagram. Sepia tone, get a little vintage look, dress them up and share them with the Instagram community.

Now it is open up to Android as well. Instagram is red hot, 30 million odd users. So definitely going to just -- getting bigger and better and completely free to use. It's a great tool for anybody that likes taking photos.

WHITFIELD: All right, more people to enjoy that. And speaking of photography, one of the hottest apps for Apple devices right now, it's called Snap Guide. Tell us more about that.

SALTZMAN: I love this. It's the featured iPhone app of the week on the iTunes app store. Snap Guide is a collection of guides on how to do, really, anything, and it's fully community driven. It's not professionals.

So I'm talking about things like how to build a birdhouse, how to make beef jerky, how to tie a tie, how to build a bicycle, just these really amazing little guides that you can create as well, and share.

So if you have a particular skill, maybe you know how to create an origami bird, or you know how to dry out a wet cell phone, you share that guide with all the other Snap Guide users. It is free to use.

You use the iPhone app itself to take the photos of your guide, or shoot video using your smartphone camera, and then put it up there. It's yours. People search and rated for guides. It's really a great, great app. WHITFIELD: All right, cool stuff. And then something else to entertain the kids or you, kids at heart, you know, while on the go. A draw something free. What's that app all about?

SALTZMAN: That's right. The last two apps we'll talk about are great to reduce the "are we there yet?" from the back seat. Draw something free is for Android and iPhones, and it is a game of kind of like pictionary.

Where you are given a word and you must draw it using your fingertip or a stylist pen if you prefer and then someone you're playing with against -- on the internet, it could be a random person or a friend has to guess what you drew.

And they'll see you create it. It's a turnbase game. So you don't have to sit and play live. You can send your drawing of say, a house or bird or -- they're sometimes challenging. You have to draw it and then they have to guess it. You earn gold coins used to buy in-game items, really a lot of fun. It's been downloaded 50 million times in 50 days.

WHITFIELD: Wow.

SALTZMAN: So it's no surprise that Binga, the company that owns Farmville and Mafia Wars bought out this small company, OMG Pop for apparently about $180 million. Really, it's really a popular game, draw something free.

WHITFIELD: OK, and tunetastic? What is that?

SALTZMAN: Yes, another great app for kids or kids at heart. Let's you create your own cartoon. Use your fingertips with these little characters on the screen or you can create your own and you animate a story.

You add the voice to it as well. So you're narrating it and animating it at the same time. It's great fun for more than one person to do together. It's ideal on an iPad for two hands.

You share that story on the internet. So kids are creating their own animated cartoon. It's really great for your imagination.

WHITFIELD: The sky is the limit. It's unbelievable. All right, Marc Saltzman, thanks so much. Good to see you. Happy Easter and Passover weekend.

SALTZMAN: Thank you, and to you, Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right, for more high-tech ideas and reviews, just go to cnn.com/tech. Look for the gaming and gadgets tab or follow Marc Saltzman on Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

All right, raising chickens these days. No longer just a country thing. Feathers are flying. City slickers are doing it, too. Don't adjust your sets. What you didn't see that furry thing, was chicken. This one you know was a chicken. Weather phenomenon is taking wing. Plus, Tim Tebow adding another gig to his resume. His job this Easter Sunday coming up.

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WHITFIELD: All right, now for the news that we'll be talking about throughout the weekend. Feathers will be flying around the world today. People are carrying out epic battle pillow fight style there.

It's International Pillow Fight Day and more than 100 cities in 39 countries are planning them in partaking. These are pictures from one of the battles out of Stockholm, Sweden. The playful fights are part of the Urban Playground Movement, public spectacles to promote free expression.

All right, you know how NFL quarterback, Tim Tebow, drops to his knee in prayer during games? Well, he's making a special church appearance Easter Sunday. Tomorrow, Tebow will speak during services at the Celebration Church in Georgetown, Texas. Church officials there say that they expect 30,000 people to attend.

And speaking of Easter, the Easter bunnies, days may be numbered. The Easter Bilby, it's a little kind of bunny like to you. Well, it's gaining popularity in Australia.

Rabbits may be cute, but Australian Wildlife experts say they are pests, and the Bilby has a lot of cute bunny-like qualities. What do you think?

I don't know. Promoting the Easter Bilby is an effort by conservationists to raise awareness for the endangered animal. There are only about 600 left in the wild.

All right, so these days, if you're hen-pecks it no longer means you're being nagged. Instead it could mean that you've been bitten by the farming bug. Raising something eggs-tra at your home.

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WHITFIELD (voice-over): This Easter, there are a lot of eggs, marshmallow, chocolate, candy, but there's another extravaganza going on, people farming their own organic eggs in their own backyards.

From the city rooftop patios to the suburban variety, is it all that it's cracked up to be or are they yolking? Not Atlanta city slicker, Laura Saunders.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Come on back.

WHITFIELD (on camera): This is serious business back here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're not yolking. There's the babies.

WHITFIELD (voice-over): In her backyard coop.

(on camera): And you've been doing this for how long? LAURA SAUNDERS, "BACKYARDER": I've had my flock for about two years, about two years now.

WHITFIELD (on camera): How did you start out? With just one hen, two?

SAUNDERS: No, six. Six came in the box, and it kind of just grew from there.

WHITFIELD (voice-over): She also runs a pet supply store selling all things organic for you and your pets, from barks to beaks.

(on camera): What are you hearing from people in general about their appetite for this?

SAUNDERS: I think that the little raising your own flock kind of frenzy has caught on, because it's just -- it's, I think, a fun way to show your kids how to take care of animals.

I mean, I have a range of different clientele that come in and buy our feed from families to single persons, to couples. You know, they just -- it's just fun.

WHITFIELD (voice-over): In Saunders' case, she's created an organic oasis, bringing the countryside to her in-town hideaway, a real scramble of all that she loves.

SAUNDERS: And this is a -- Sussex. She's a British bird. She's a bird --

WHITFIELD (on camera): As varied as their feathers are, the color of the eggs are different, too.

SAUNDERS: Different as well.

WHITFIELD: Are the flavors any different?

SAUNDERS: No difference.

WHITFIELD: My goodness?

SAUNDERS: Right, it is.

WHITFIELD (voice-over): She's driven more by her passion for pets than appetite for fresh eggs. Although, she says, once you taste farm fresh, you'll never want anything else.

SAUNDERS: To me, it tastes like there's a watered-down egg that you get at the grocery store or really deep, rich, flavorful eggs that your backyard hens will lay for you. That's my rooster, a little picker.

WHITFIELD (voice-over): Funny fowl language always welcome.

(on camera): So how did you get started? How does anyone get started with a coop? SAUNDERS: Well, this was custom. Come on in.

WHITFIELD (voice-over): The other payoff, each chicken lays on average one egg per day.

(on camera): You're not cooking all these chickens. What do you do with all these? You're not cooking up all these eggs?

SAUNDERS: No. I don't eat my birds.

WHITFIELD: What are you doing with them? You can't possibly consume that many eggs?

SAUNDERS: I give them away.

WHITFIELD (voice-over): It's unclear how many backyard coops like this are hatching around the country, but specialists in these intimate egg farms believe popularity took flight when the recession landed five years ago.

(on camera): So this is really a beautiful coop that you have here.

SAUNDERS: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: But for the typical person who says, you know what? I don't want to entertain this. I want to think about doing this. What do they need to get started?

SAUNDERS: You can either have a custom coop built or you can buy a pre-fab coop and build it yourself, assemble it yourself.

WHITFIELD (voice-over): But first, check if having backyard chickens in your city or county is legal. In all, Saunders says it could cost about $1,000 to begin and about $25 in feed monthly after that. An investment she believes more households are willing to scratch into their budget.

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WHITFIELD: It is a hard boiled business.

Next hour, the founder of the website mypetchicken.com said getting started is almost as easy as cracking an egg. She joins us in the NEWSROOM at 4:00 Eastern Time.

All right, so it is spring break and Easter weekend. So it means many folks have flown the coop. I could go on and on and on. It's just way too much fun.

How are you? People having a good time, it's beautiful weather, spring-like weather in most places, right?

BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLOGIST: On the sunny side up, Fred.

WHITFIELD: Couldn't resist. You're "cracking" me up! SCHNEIDER: I know. All right, here's what we're looking at. Great weather for Daytona Beach spring breakers, not a cloud in the sky, really just lots of sunshine, mild temperatures. If you're heading to Panama city, same holds true.

The only place we could find for spring breakers where you may have a thunderstorm is in South Country Island, Texas and that would be on Wednesday possibly Thursday.

But overall, we're looking at fabulous weather for popular spring break areas. Today not so great in Springfield, Missouri. That's where we're looking at thunderstorms that really will get a little more intense this afternoon for Oklahoma well into Texas.

We could see isolated tornadoes and large hail. But behind the system, once this front passes through, just scattered showers for Texas for Easter Sunday.

Breezy through areas of the northern tier of the U.S. possibly snow showers up into Northern New England and Canada, but really looking nice overall.

One little trouble spot for those of you traveling on Easter Sunday. The Pacific Northwest and even into Northern California, we run a risk of some rain and that will get worse as we go into the evening hours.

For those of you traveling right now, I want to tell you about one airport delay, and it's in Newark, New Jersey. So we have ground delays over an hour.

You know, tomorrow, we have busier travel day and coming up a little bit later on, we'll talk more about some of the anticipated travel delays that we have ahead for Sunday, but so far, this weekend has really looked terrific across the country.

WHITFIELD: We like that. That's perfect timing. All right, thanks so much, Bonnie.

SCHNEIDER: Sure.

All right, this just in. We know it's been sunny over there at Augusta. But we also understand now that Tiger Woods has taken a little bit of a break from the golf game at the Masters. He spoke with CNN about being behind, but having confidence to get ahead.

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TIGER WOODS, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: I don't know. I mean, I don't know what the score's going to be because it's going to be dependent on what those guys do today. You know, if somebody gets to shoots 4, 5 under par in the lead, tough to go get them.

But, anything can happen here. That's the thing. You can be 4, 5, 6 back on back 9 and still win the golf tournament. I need to put myself where I have a chance.

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WHITFIELD: All right, earlier, the cameras caught Tiger Woods kind of cracking under pressure there giving a little bit of a temper. There he seemed to be fairly calm. We can also now tell you that British player Lee Westwood is leading the Masters. American Jason Duffy is in second.

All right, attention ladies. It is spring break. You know this by now. The best reminder that beach season is just around the corner, and if you're looking to slim down, you may want to stick around, because coming up, we have a workout secret to help you get in shape. Help for her, next.

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WHITFIELD: All right, spring break is the ultimate warning that summer beach season is almost here. So ladies, if you're looking to revamp your workout routine before hitting the beach, consider weight training.

Elizabeth Cohen has more on this week's "Health for Her."

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For many women, it's just a habit, get to the gym and expect to work out on the treadmill or elliptical machine.

JESSICA MATTHEWS, AMERICAN COUNCIL ON EXERCISE: Many women have the misconception that strength training will add big bulky mass. But in reality, strength training increases resting metabolic rates, improves body composition, increases strengths, and improves overall quality of life.

If you're new to strength training, you want to begin with two to three days per week, and you can with a circuit style program, picking eight to ten exercises that target all major muscle breaks and perform 8 to 15 repetitions of each exercise, moving quickly from one station to the next about 15 to 30 seconds rest per station.

COHEN: And while free weights are a good option for some, machines maybe the better option for women just starting out. The fix path allows you to learn the movement correctly.

MATTHEWS: Breathing and proper form are key so throughout each exercise, breathe throughout the movement, exhaling on the exertion, and complete each exercise in a slow controlled fashion.

COHEN: She adds that while you're learning working with a trainer may be the best bet. With this week's "Health for Her." I'm Elizabeth Cohen.

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WHITFIELD: He's 49 years old and a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies. How Jamie Moyer can go into the history books, next. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)

WHITFIELD: All right, this is Major League baseball's opening weekend, but one amateur game at National Stadium in Washington, D.C. earlier this week continues to inspire.

The wounded warrior amputee softball team squares off against local sports and TV stars. The veterans' new mission, to travel the country, raise money for charity, and inspire through friendly competition.

When professional ball player Jamie Moyer first walked to the diamond, that was in the 1980s. Now at 49 years young, he's just found out he earned a spot as a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies.

Moyer takes to the field with the Rockies tonight. And our own Ed Lavendera has a look at the journey.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Doesn't get old walking onto the baseball field, does it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, it doesn't.

LAVANDERA (voice-over): Jamie Moyer first walked onto a Major League baseball field in the summer of 1986. Ronald Reagan was president, America was dancing to "Walk Like An Egyptian," and Ferris Bueller's day off had just premiered in movie theatres.

Jamie Moyer is 49 years old, and found out just a few days ago that he earned a spot as a starting pitcher for the Colorado Rockies, a team that didn't even exist when he broke into the Major Leagues more than 25 years ago.

(on camera): You're 49 years old, playing a kid's game, right?

JAMIE MOYER, PITCHER, COLORADO ROCKIES: That's correct.

LAVANDERA: I mean, it doesn't get any better.

MOYER: It doesn't, and sometimes I have to pinch myself, and I have been very blessed to have the opportunities, to have a long career. And at 49, still feeling like a kid.

LAVANDERA (voice-over): If Jamie Moyer wins his first game this season, he'll become the oldest pitcher in Major League history to win a game. Three of his pitching teammates were born after Moyer started his big league career. Let the old man jokes begin.

(on camera): No one has asked you if you played with Babe Ruth?

MOYER: I get that on occasion. And sometimes I kid guys that I used to play in the shoes and things like that. It breaks the ice.

LAVANDERA (voice-over): When Jamie Moyer talks, the young baby faced players listen. Moyer says most of his close baseball friends have long retired.

MOYER: When I get on the airplane last night, guys started to sit down. I went back to the bathroom, I'm thinking, my gosh, I feel like I'm, like, we're on a field trip, and I'm kind of watching over the kids.

LAVANDERA: Moyer is playing against his oldest son's friends now.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The one constant through all of the years, Ray, has been baseball.

LAVANDERA: That was James Earl Jones capturing the timelessness of baseball in the movie "Field of Dreams" just like Jamie Moyer has been a constant in baseball for more than a quarter century. Ed Lavendera, CNN, Houston.

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