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FBI Searching Basement in NYC; Ted Nugent Faces Secret Service; Being Green While Boating; President Welcomes Alabama Football Team; Summitt Getting Medal of Freedom; Summitt Leaving Lady Vols; Trucker In Mexican Jail After Crossing Border; Breaking Multiple Sclerosis Stereotypes; Hip Hop Musician Battles MS; Romney "Veepstakes"; Richard Gere's New Project; Remembering Dick Clark

Aired April 19, 2012 - 14:00   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Suzanne, thank you so much.

Here we go. I am Brooke Baldwin. Let's catch you up on everything making news this hour. "Rapid Fire." Let's begin.

First up I want to begin with the statement that won't start any argument here. There will never be another Pat Summitt. She can now counted the Presidential Medal of Freedom, which the White House made official just this afternoon, among her many honors. The legendary Tennessee Lady Vols head basketball coach retires officially today. Summitt is the winningest basketball coach in all of college history. I'm talking 1,098 victories, eight national titles. But, sadly, a diagnosis of Alzheimer's.

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PAT SUMMITT, RETIRING TENNESSEE BASKETBALL COACH: I can tell you I have loved my work at the University of Tennessee. It's been awesome. And I can say for almost four decades it has been a privilege to make an impact on the lives of 161 women who have worn the orange. I am so proud of them, the Lady Vol student athletes.

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BALDWIN: Pat Summitt's long time assistant coach, Holly Warlick, is going to be the one taking over. We're going to have much more a little later, including hearing from a former player.

Also this. Minutes ago in Tampa another rally for the unarmed Florida teenager shot and killed by a neighborhood watch volunteer. That was late February. Emotions, more than a month later, still very raw. George Zimmerman is charged with second degree murder. He claims self-defense. Now Florida's gun law may change because of what happened that night. Here's the governor.

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GOV. RICK SCOTT, FLORIDA: I am a firm supporter of the Second Amendment. I also want to make sure that we do not rush to conclusions about the Stand Your Ground law or any other laws in our state. We look forward to hearing from the citizens of our state about their concerns and recommendations for keeping our state safe.

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BALDWIN: Jail overcrowding led to a much more serious problem in Kansas. The manhunt is now revving up for a convicted murder and another inmate. It's happening right now. In all here four got away from a county jail -- this is Minneapolis, Kansas -- after they were transferred from a state prison that was apparently overcrowded. And police did catch one almost immediately. The father of the second prisoner persuaded him to surrender. Two are still on the lamb.

And it isn't easy to listen to, a social worker's desperate call to save two children in a burning home.

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CALLER: How long will it be?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know, ma'am. They have to respond to emergency, life-threatening situations first. The first available deputy --

CALLER: Well, this could be life-threatening. He went to court on Wednesday and he didn't get his kids back. And this is really -- I'm afraid for their lives.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: It's tough to listen to, isn't it? Now we know the 911 dispatcher who took that call has been reprimanded for taking too long to send help. You can hear why. Inside that home, Josh Powell, the Utah man suspected in the disappearance of his wife, and two season sons. The social worker brought the children for a court ordered visit and she had no idea Powell was intended on murdering them and committing suicide in the process.

Joseph Kony is running out of places to hide now and some U.S. senators are on the hunt for him. The Ugandan war lord is already wanted by the International Criminal Court for brutalizing many of his people and now the likes of Senator Johnny Isakson of Georgia speaking out, saying Kony's days are numbered. The senator says his arrest, quote, "will be a good day for Africa."

India launching a long range intercontinental ballistic missile capable of carrying a nuke.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three, two, one. (INAUDIBLE) one, two, three.

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BALDWIN: This was just a test launch and a huge success. This is according to Indian officials. They say the blastoff -- here you go -- and flight went precisely as planned. The missile reportedly has a 3,000 mile range. Right now only five countries have ICBMs. And here's something you rarely see in Iran. Look at this. See the person on and all those people around this car. Surrounded by a sea of noisy people is Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, leader of the country. Many are complaining to the Iranian president that they're hungry, though just some wanted to shake his hand. It happened as he was driving here in this motorcade. President Ahmadinejad later posted pictures of happy waving supporters there.

And the White House releases a photo of President Obama reflecting on a civil rights icon. Just look at this. This is the president sitting on a vintage bus. The very Alabama bus on which Rosa Parks took her historic stand by refusing to give up her seat to a white man and move to the back of the bus. The president later told campaign donors he, quote, "sat there for a moment and pondered the courage and the tenacity of those who insisted on their share of the American dream."

And after 148 million miles of travel, Discovery lands at its permanent home. America's longest serving shuttle, now the premier attraction at a Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in Chantilly, Virginia. Its arrival just this morning kicks off this four-day celebration. Among its greeters, John Glenn, the former senator and the oldest astronaut to fly on board that shuttle.

And we have a lot more for you in the next two hours. Watch this.

A teenage girl goes missing. Then suddenly she's spotted in this cell phone video that goes viral. In it police say a group of boys and young men rape her and then laughed.

I'm Brooke Baldwin. The news is now.

If Ted Nugent wants to, quote, chop heads in November, the Secret Service says, we want to talk.

An American trucker crosses the border. His cargo, 268,000 bullets.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I feel sorry for him, because he has no clue of what the mess he's in.

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BALDWIN: And nuns going rogue. The Vatican investigates a group of American nuns challenging the church's ways. I'll speak live with one of these so-called radical nuns.

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BALDWIN: All right, we have some breaking news here out of New York City. We're talking lower Manhattan. Soho specifically. Take a look at these aerials here. The FBI now there. Police. Several dozen in all. They're reportedly digging. Digging into the floor of a basement searching for something, quite possibly human remains. This building -- this is lower Manhattan. It's steps away from the former home of Etan Patz, six years old when he disappeared all the way back in 1979. Do you remember this story? Etan Patz missing 33 years. He was officially declared dead in 2001. And this young boy was one of the very first missing children whose likeness appeared on a milk carton. Susan Candiotti is on the scene there in lower Manhattan with a little bit more.

Susan, just start with what do you know, what are you seeing and do we know, are they looking for the remains of Etan Patz?

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That is what they're looking for. The question is, will they find it at this location, Brooke. It's quite a scene out here. It is being led by the FBI with help from the New York Police Department. The FBI leading this investigation because years ago it was suspected that that little boy had been kidnapped, might have crossed state lines, possibly even having left the country. And that's why the FBI is leading the scene here.

But the district attorney's office got a search warrant and right now the FBI is leading a team of experts that are down in the basement of that red brick that you can see over my shoulder. They're about to start using jackhammers to start digging up the cement floor and look into the walls, cinderblock walls and the like, to see whether they can find any indication that that little boy might have been killed there or his body might have been disposed there.

Here is what the police spokesman is saying.

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PAUL BROWNE, NEW YORK POLICE: We're looking for human remains, clothing or other personal effects of Etan Patz in a -- in trying to find out where he disappeared -- why he disappeared and where.

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CANDIOTTI: Now, to give you an idea of where we are standing and where the boy disappeared and why this is an important spot. He used to live in an apartment with his parents about half block or so down in this direction. And he was walking toward a bus stop about the same distance in this direction. So this was in the path where he was walking to school that day. The first time that he had asked his parents if he could walk by himself.

Police tell me they did look at this building at the time, but they don't have specific information about what they did at that time. Again, the basement is vacant. There was a business in the first floor at that time. And we are told also at that time from a law enforcement source that that basement area was some place where people were known to have sex. Not prostitutes, but they were known to have -- get together and have sex there in that basement or in that area at that time. Whether that's important here, we don't know.

BALDWIN: So you are confirming that. Let me jump in.

CANDIOTTI: That's right. BALDWIN: Right. Because "The New York Times," and obviously you're confirming that with your sources, saying that, you know, in this basement there was a wood shop -- there was a wood shop at the time when he was a little boy and it was sort of this area that was known for sexual liaisons. And so perhaps that could be a connection.

CANDIOTTI: It could be. They're not revealing exactly what it was and they might have said more in the search warrant, but that's under seal right now.

But this has attracted quite a crowd, as you can imagine. And, Brooke, they are planning on being here for five straight days and working around the clock to cover every inch of that basement space, which measures about 13 by 62 feet. They have a lot of work ahead of them.

BALDWIN: So they're about to begin the jackhammering process, as you point out here, going underneath, you know, the cinderblock, within the drywall, looking possibly for remains. You mentioned, Susan, that there is quite a crowd here in this Soho area. Do they remember this case from 33 years ago? What are people saying?

CANDIOTTI: Oh, a lot of people remember it. And they're shocked when they hear that now they're looking at this same area again. When this happened at that time, I am told, wasn't here at the time, but people said they were afraid to walk outside with their children, or leave their children out of their sight.

BALDWIN: Wow.

CANDIOTTI: And certainly not allow them to walk to school by themselves after this happened. And, Brooke, if you look over my shoulder, you might be able to make out that blue tent. That is where the FBI has set up protection so that if they find evidence from that basement area and bring it outside, it will be kept from public view.

BALDWIN: OK.

CANDIOTTI: This is considered a possible crime scene. They don't know whether they'll find anything yet, but they sure hope that they'll be able to bring closure to these parents, who were informed, I am told, before the search began.

BALDWIN: OK. So for the next five days, working 24 hours around the clock, they will be looking for these remains. Susan Candiotti, let us know if you learn any more details, we appreciate it, there in lower Manhattan.

Also, let's talk about Ted Nugent and his remarks about what will happen if President Obama gets re-elected. That now has the Secret Service interviewing the singer today. We're going to take you live to Oklahoma. A little bit more on that meeting when we come back.

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BALDWIN: Rocker Ted Nugent meeting with the Secret Service today. They want to talk to him about his angry comments aimed at the president during the NRA convention last weekend. His critics say some sounded threatening, violent undertones. In case you didn't hear it, here's part of what Ted Nugent said.

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TED NUGENT, MUSICIAN, ACTIVIST: And if you want more of those kinds of evil, anti-American people in the Supreme Court, then don't get involved and let Obama take office again. Because I'll tell you this right now, if Barack Obama becomes the president in November, again, I will either be dead or in jail by this time next year.

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BALDWIN: "Dead or in jail," he says. Ed Lavandera for us in Ardmore, Oklahoma, covering this meeting between Ted Nugent, Secret Service.

Ed, what do you know about the meeting? What kind of trouble could he be in?

ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we're trying to snoop around on that as we speak here, Brooke. We're in Ardmore, Oklahoma, here at this concert hall. It fits about 3,000 people. His band is inside already starting the sound check. They have a concert coming up here tonight.

But, still, we have seen no signs of Ted Nugent. We were trying to talk to his folks here and figure out if that meeting is indeed going on now. We understand that it's supposed to be going on somewhere here in the Ardmore area, if not here at this concert venue, sometime today before tonight's concert. And whether or not Ted Nugent will talk about that meeting afterwards, we'll wait and see.

The Secret Service is saying that it will have nothing to say, won't provide any detail or any kind of information as to what goes on in that meeting. So what they're thinking isn't exactly clear. And we're not expecting to get any details from them, Brooke.

BALDWIN: Right. I guess sort of difficult to snoop around when it comes to the Secret Service. But, you know, big picture here. We know, Ted Nugent, he's a member of the NRA. We saw Mitt Romney speaking at their annual convention in St. Louis last Friday. I know earlier in the week Mitt Romney kind of distanced himself from some of those comments from Ted Nugent. Do we know if, you know, camp Romney has said anything since or even the NRA?

LAVANDERA: Yes, I think you saw a lot of that -- at least from like Mitt Romney, as you mentioned, kind of distancing himself. There's also a great deal of people who look up and admire Ted Nugent and follow him closely and what he has to say. And he also has a large number of critics out there as well.

As far as he's been saying, he's not backing down from his comments. He's had several chances to do that. Doesn't seem like he's intending to do that in any way. We'll see if the chat with the Secret Service changes that in any way and whether or not he'll talk again about this issue here at some point today. But he's had chances to back away from that.

You know, the comments, Brooke, were also kind of vague enough they kind of left you thinking, what exactly was he trying to say and what was he meaning through all of that? And perhaps that's one of the reasons the Secret Service wanted to come out here and speak with him, to kind of get back to, you know, what exactly he was trying to say. And he did go on to say in that interview as well, and in that talk, that he wasn't capable of harming anyone, causing any violence towards anyone. But obviously the Secret Service very concerned about what others might do because of those statements. And that's one of the things that they would probably question him about.

BALDWIN: All right, let us know if you see him. Ed Lavandera, thank you.

Kids and cool cars. They go together. But now one mother is raising the red flag when it comes to an alleged child molester on a pit crew. We're tracking that story next.

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BALDWIN: Here is a perfect example as to why parents shouldn't think twice about snooping into what your kids are up to online. Want you to take a good look at this guy. This is Joel Alexander. He is 35. He's from Snohomish, Washington. And police in Washington state arrested him Sunday in a bathroom in a public park. The officers say Alexander came there to meet up with what he thought was going to be an 11-year-old boy to have sex. Good thing the 11-year-old's mother monitored her son's FaceBook account. And that is where she found he was talking with an older guy. She thought the chat was inappropriate. She picked up the phone and called police. And they continued the chat with Alexander, the police pretending to be this boy, which led them to the bathroom in the park and the arrest. And listen to this.

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LT. RONO MEAD, WASHINGTON STATE PATROL: We believe, based on conversation with the suspect and evidence we've uncovered since the arrest, that there are additional victims out there.

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BALDWIN: Additional victims. There are more. Alexander is a level two sex offender, which means he's been caught and convicted before. And this is what's of such a huge concern to authorities right now. Alexander worked for a Sprint car pit crew. He travels to races across the northwest. Kids come up to these crews. They want pictures. They want autographs. They want to meet the guys behind the fast cars. Here, again, Washington state police.

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MEAD: He groomed these boys with the intent -- specific intent of violating them. (END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: For now, Alexander remains in jail on a million dollar bail and the 11-year-old's mother is thankful she did that snooping. Want you to listen closely to her voice when she talks about how close her son came.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He came 200 miles to meet with what he thought was my son, you know, and ended up running into detectives who detained him. However, what if I had never seen this message, then all of my son's innocence would have been lost for a lifetime.

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BALDWIN: Sounds like her son has plenty to be thankful for as well.

Join me tomorrow when Todd Bridges talks to me about protecting kids from pedophiles. The big brother on the TV show "Different Strokes." He has his own story of abuse to tell as he pushes for this new piece of legislation to help child actors today. Todd Bridges joins me live on TV on this show tomorrow.

A legendary coach says she is honored her Lady Vols have grown up to be such successful, amazing women. Just ahead, Pat Summitt officially retires, but challenges the fans and boosters to support her replacement.

And then later, from the early days of "American Bandstand" to "Rockin' New Year's Eve," Dick Clark did it all. We're going to look back.

But first, Earth Day. Earth Day is this Sunday. And just a reminder to all of you, if you enjoy the blue waters, you should be green when you go boating. Photojournalist Dave Ruff shows us how.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's going to be fabulous. It's a little chilly this morning, but it's going to heat up fast.

You ask my wife what I do now and she'll tell you nothing.

My name's Ronnie Shafer. I live in Edge Water, Maryland. I've been down here for 25 years.

We're looking for striped bass. It's about the only thing we're going to catch. So hopefully there's some large striped bass.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And we have about just under 200,000 registered boats in Maryland. A lot of boats.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My kids learned to water ski right in here. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You've got your novice boaters. You've got your family boaters, sailors, power boaters. You've got really experienced cruisers, fishermen.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow, that's a huge fish. OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Clean boating and all that we do within the watershed, be it at home or anywhere else --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's serious fish.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It all goes downstream. And if you enjoy what comes out of the water --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a 38 inch fish.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You need to care about what goes in the water. I think a very common thing, if you have to fuel up your boat --

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: About how much do you think it will take?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Don't top it off because fuel expands when it heats up. A lot of times it's coming from a cold, underground tank. It hits your warm boat and it will keep expanding.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. Have a good day, guys.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And then it leaks out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's very, very sad to come out here and see plastic bags.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Plastic won't degrade, you know, in my lifetime or anybody's lifetime that's here today.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is that floating?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Try not to generate so much trash. Put stuff in reusable plastic containers or glass containers, things that you can reuse, that way you don't have trash anyway. Boaters use what we call antifoulant (ph) bottom paints, but there are some great new e- paints out there. Environmental paints or greener paints.

PAUL PHIPPS, PHIPPS BOAT WORKS: This is Pacifica Plus and it's got econea (ph) instead of the regular copper, which controls the barnacles, zebra mussels and stuff like that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When you're going to go clean your body, it's real simple. If you wouldn't put it in a fish tank, don't -- you know, don't hose it off the side of the boat. If you hose off the boat after they come in and you've got the wrong kind of soap on there, you could really be harming the aquatic life that you may not even be able to see.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's a big fish. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's a nice fish.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All these things add up and it may seem like, oh, I'm just doing one little thing with a great big bay, but it's a lot of little things.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Without clean water, there's no boating, there's no marinas. People don't want to go out and enjoy it if they can't catch a fish, if they can't swim. Then, you know, that whole industry could go away.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here we go.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So it's really important to take care of it.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA: My pleasure to welcome the Alabama Crimson Tide back to the White House. And congratulate them on winning their 14th national championship, their second in three years. Roll tide.

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BALDWIN: Roll tide indeed at the White House. You're looking at live pictures of the president flanked by the chancellor of the University of Alabama. A lot of red there as he is welcoming the Alabama football team.

The Crimson Tide in case you don't know won the Bowl championship series. This was back in January, of course, as he mentioned the 14th national championship for Alabama.

And did you know the team actually got their championship rings just this past Monday, but they got this trophy, a beautiful, $30,000 Waterford crystal trophy. There it was.

Apparently, one of the players' dads knocked it over. That shattered. At least, they're at the White House. President Obama is also going to recognize the Alabama team forgiving back to the city of Tuscaloosa after the horrendous tornado ripped through the area last April.

And from football to basketball, she won more games than any other men's or women's coach in college basketball history. But now facing the biggest challenge of her own life off the court, Pat Summitt is calling it quits.

Earlier, CNN broke the news that the White House is awarding Pat Summitt the nation's highest civilian honor. They're going to be giving her the presidential Medal of Freedom and her time as head coach for the University of Tennessee Lady Vols will go down in history.

In 38 years, she led the team to nearly 1,100 wins and eight national championships. Eight months ago, Summitt revealed that she has early onset Alzheimer's and she says the time has simply come for her to step aside.

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PAT SUMMITT, STEPPING DOWN AS LADY VOLS HEAD COACH: I have loved my work at the University of Tennessee. It has been awesome. I can say for almost four decades it has been a privilege to make an impact on the lives of 161 women who have worn the orange.

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BALDWIN: Summitt's players, both past and present, are intensely loyal to her. Let me run through a couple of tweets we're seeing here.

This is from Candice Parker, now a forward for the L.A. Sparks, four years removed from UT, I still hear Parker rebound in my head during games. Thanks, Coach Pat. I love you. Once a Lady Vol, always a Lady Vol.

Nikki McCray tweets, quote, "Pat Summitt is truly a special person. I am so grateful for you in my life and everything you have taught me the greatest truly blessed."

And we have another one of Summitt's former players, Kelly Cain, is on the phone with us from Turkey. I don't know if this is your vacation before you head home and join the WNBA.

We appreciate you calling in. I know the New York Liberty drafted you two days ago, huge congrats on that. Can you tell me first how much credit you give to Coach Summitt for your obvious successes?

KELLY CAIN, FORMER PLAYER FOR COACH SUMMITT (via telephone): Obviously, I live a lot of credit to coach because she helped me grow not only playing as a young lady and she is just instilled so much discipline myself and former Lady Vols former and present and I just know I am a better person because of her.

BALDWIN: A better person and to that point, I ran through the amazing stats on the court, off the court. A lot of people may not realize in terms of graduation rate here the coach has a 100 percent graduation rate for the Lady Vols. Tell me more about who she is as a person with the coach hat off.

CAIN: Well, like I said, she is definitely a mother figure to all of us, and one particular instance I remember is a few times she's asked me do I need to stay back from going on a away trip to a game to go to class.

Not because I am failing or anything because we miss as athletes, student athletes, miss a fairly good amount of classes, and she knows, she knew I need these classes to graduate and she wanted me to continue to do well in them and would ask me, do I need to stay back and I must admit I was shocked.

don't know how many coaches who actually say that to a player, you can stay away from a game and go to class because I know you need it, and I would say, yes, because I definitely need to go and it would show that to my teachers that I am not just trying to get over, really I am actually trying to learn and do well in your class.

BALDWIN: You are an athlete and you're a student as well and she saw that as a priority. I know you just graduated in 2011. What kind of role does Coach Summitt have from we know after graduation, does she say, keep in touch with me? What was it she said to you?

CAIN: Definitely. She wants to keep in touch with all the players and know how we're doing in life in general and whether we're still playing basketball or not, and like she is our family. She is our extended family and truly loves us, and I know my family loves her.

BALDWIN: Kelly, how did you find out that she has Alzheimer's?

CAIN: I was actually at home and one of the girls on the team texted me, and it was heartbreaking and just I know telling my mom, she cried a little bit.

And it is so sad to have somebody like that and to go through that, but Pat is the type of approximate earn that doesn't want your pity. She is strong inside and out. She says she is going to fight through it, and I believe her.

BALDWIN: So not only were you shocked and I am sure emotional over the news, but you're telling me your mother, your mother cried when she heard about the coach.

CAIN: Yes. That's how close we are.

BALDWIN: Wow. Kelly Cain, thank you for calling in all the way from turkey. Good luck. Good luck with WNBA. We'll be watching you. Thank you, Kelly.

CAIN: Thank you.

BALDWIN: Just ahead, an American trucker arrested and held in Mexico. His truck allegedly carrying more than 200,000 rounds of ammunition, was the trucker there because of a wrong turn? That's next.

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BALDWIN: A U.S. truck driver sitting right now in prison in Juarez, Mexico. Here is what we know. Our affiliate KVIA is reporting that this driver from the Dallas area is being held by Mexican authorities after crossing the board carrying more than 2,000 pounds of ammunition right in his truck. Mexican authorities, they say they told him they had to inspect the vehicle where they discovered the ammunition, seized it, and arrested Bogan. Bogan's boss tells KVIA that Bogan simply took a wrong turn leaving El Paso on a one-way bridge straight to Mexican border and they say customs waived the truck through and told him to make a u-turn.

He is now being held for 48 hours by Mexican authorities as they decide whether or not to press charges. KVIA is also reporting an American console has visited Bogan, reports he is frightened and unharmed. We'll keep you updated as we learn more about his status.

Multiple sclerosis, oftentimes hits middle aged women. But Noah Shebib known as "40" is a young man that produced music with Drake, Little Wayne, Alicia Keys and now he is on a mission to teach his generation about the disease. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the story in today's "Human Factor."

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Noah Shebib doesn't miss a beat or a chance to perform.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am your best friend, remember?

GUPTA: His life in showbiz began on TV as a child actor including an episode of TV's "Goose Bumps" and the cult classic film, "The Virgin Suicides."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I told you she had a capped tooth.

GUPTA: For teenaged years it was music that proved to be his true calling.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everyone in the studio fell asleep and would make up in the morning and I would still be sitting in front of the computer. They started calling me 40 days and 40 nights because I didn't sleep.

GUPTA: As a go-to sound engineer in Toronto, 40 soon attracted the attention of hip hop up and comer Drake. Now a Grammy nominated recording artist.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We worked together for a couple days in the studio, I think. I charged him a little bit of money and by the third day we sort of agreed that we were going to take over the world together.

GUPTA: Then a monumental setback, 40 found himself celebrating his 22nd birthday in the hospital.

NOAH SHEBIB, MUSIC PRODUCER: I woke up one day and all the temperature in my body was distorted. The sense of hot and cold and what it meant to my brain was very confusing thing.

GUPTA: The diagnosis, multiple sclerosis. 40 spent the next two years trying to get back on his feet. Two years later another setback for the Shebib family, Noah's mom was also diagnosed with MS, which is not directly inherited.

SHEBIB: I have this disease. I am going to live with it. I am going to win with it and my story will be that much better when I get there.

GUPTA: Today, he is there. Right there on a massive electronic billboard in New York City's Times Square. He is in a campaign for the National M.S. Society.

SHEBIB: As long as I am on my feet I will continue to run until somebody stops me.

GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.

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BALDWIN: Great story, Sanjay. Thank you. This spring many of are you climbing back on your bicycles and this weekend on Sanjay Gupta, M.D. will look at the rules of the road. Tune in Saturday and Sunday morning 7:30 Eastern Time.

Mitt Romney, he is considering who should be his running mate and our Gloria Borger, she has her own thoughts in this CNN op-ed as to who it should be or who it shouldn't be next.

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BALDWIN: Now the Republicans have decided on Mitt Romney, Romney has the decision everyone will be watching. Who will be his vice presidential nominee?

The latest CNN/ORC poll puts Condoleezza Rice at the top followed by Rick Santorum, Chris Christie, tied with Marco Rubio for third and while we don't know who will win the VP states, it is likely he is learning from the past.

CNN chief political analyst, Gloria Borger, she joins me now. She writes the cnn.com article today. I want to quote her here. She says she writes, quote, "It is worth mentioning that the Romney campaign faces some of the deficits that plagued McCain.

And a lack of enthusiasm among much of the conservative base, it will be easy to pull a Palin circa 2012. Well, that is look for an appealing conservative female poll to excite the unexcited except that it won't and shouldn't happen that way.

How does Mitt Romney not to quote you pull a Palin?

GLORIA BORGER, CNN CHIEF POLITICAL ANALYST: He is not going to pull a Palin because they've learned from history and also he is not John McCain. His campaign is not as chaotic and dysfunctional as the John McCain campaign was at this point.

I mean, when you think of John McCain, you think of the sort of fearless, risk averse fighter pilot, right? Then you have Mitt Romney. Mitt Romney is much more comfortable in front of a spreadsheet in a conference room somewhere, financial analyst, and that's not the kind of choice he is going to make.

He is not likely to make that Hail Mary pass and by the way, while there are similarities to the problems the campaign suffered, 2012 is not 2008, which means that they're going to be at financial parody.

They will be able to raise an awful lot of money. They're running against an incumbent president in a bad economy. They do have some advantages so they may not seem as desperate as the McCain campaign was.

BALDWIN: So then ultimately what does it come down to in the end?

BORGER: It comes down to Mitt Romney's comfort level, sure. You know, the first rule of picking a vice president, do no harm. Maybe help you a little bit. Maybe help you win a state, an important battle ground state like Florida or Ohio.

Maybe be a good balance for you, the way Joe Biden might be for President Obama. But in the end it comes down to the comfort level of the candidate and I also believe because of Sarah Palin and the questions, the real questions.

And the legitimate questions about her qualifications, the American public now is going to look at a vice presidential candidate and say, you know what, could that person become president in a minute?

BALDWIN: Right. That's obviously one of the priorities as this entire Romney camp looks for that person. But, you know, we showed the CNN/ORC poll, we saw Condoleezza Rice. We saw Rick Santorum and I was reading the political ticker.

Of course, more came up here. They're saying, no, Marco Rubio is beating back those vice-presidential rumors. Who do you think? Who do you think? Put you on the spot.

BORGER: Well, you know, I tell you what, I don't think it is going to be somebody who is just famous like Condoleezza Rice, OK. I think her name is up there in the poll because people know who she is and they like her and she is a woman and she is smart and everything else.

But I do think Mitt Romney is going to look at this very analytically and going to say, OK, could somebody like a Senator Rob Portman of Ohio help me actually win the state of Ohio, which Republicans need to win if they're going to win the presidency. Could Marco Rubio help me with his Hispanic voters and also in the state of Florida?

BALDWIN: So even though Marco Rubio is still saying no, no, no, he could say yes, yes, yes. BORGER: And by the way, all of the no, no, nos, people doing the search put to one side. They understand that. But again, in the end, I think Mitt Romney is going to say I am not going to make this Sarah Palin mistake.

I am going to look for somebody who is qualified to become president, somebody I am comfortable with, somebody I believe could be a really trusted advisor of mine.

But I do believe it is going to end up being somebody more well known, more sort of stable in a way, you know, somebody people understand where they're coming from. I don't think it is going to be a shock or a surprise.

BALDWIN: No Hail Marys.

BORGER: No, no Hail Marys.

BALDWIN: We shall see.

BORGER: Not from the Romney team.

BALDWIN: Gloria Borger, always a pleasure. Thank you.

Coming up, the Vatican says 50,000 nuns need to stop what they're doing or maybe what they're not saying here. The church says the group is pushing, quote, "radical feminist themes." We're going talk to one of these nuns next hour.

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BALDWIN: Did you know this? Actor Richard Gere has a new project he is unveiling and you're invited to visit right along here with our own Richard Quest.

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RICHARD QUEST, CNN INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT (voice- over): Forty miles outside the bustle of New York City is the calm and peace of the Bedford Post Inn. Here the actor Richard Gere and his wife almost by accident found they owned a hotel.

(on camera): We all had this ambition, dream, whatever you want to call it that we know we would start a B & B someday.

RICHARD GERE, ACTOR: I never had one. I still don't.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is an English thing, I think.

QUEST: All right.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You did, too.

GERE: A faulty, faulty towers dream.

QUEST: So why did you do it? GERE: It was a beautiful old building, and it was just heartbreaking to see this thing fall apart.

QUEST: You admitted you didn't know what you were doing.

GERE: It is like child birth. You don't know until you know, but you don't really know until it happens.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We had traveled enough and we had stayed in enough beautiful places and hotels that we knew what we liked, what we just did it by what we liked.

QUEST: What was your idea in here?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Just to make it sort of like --

GERE: Sex basically, sex. Every choice we made was about sex.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, it was about making it like somebody's living room.

QUEST: We need to do the test. What are you suggesting?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Back to the sex.

QUEST: Are you a meddler?

GERE: No, absolutely not.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Not a meddler, the more of a control freak.

GERE: She said no in the beginning. She said absolutely not.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Absolutely not of -- it was a crazy thought and to take it all on, and then as I recall Richard had to go off and shoot three movies.

QUEST: Here we go.

GERE: I am going to keep walking now. I had to pay for this.

QUEST: Leave him alone. So he basically abandoned you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He basically abandoned me.

GERE: Thank you, Richard. Thank you very much.

QUEST: How much is the give factor a factor in its success?

GERE: I think clearly the fact that we were doing this gave it some focus and notoriety at this.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You're not guaranteed to see Richard when you come to the site.

GERE: Guaranteed I will be here and picking up your bags from the car to your room.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. The most challenging part has been finding really strong employees. It is about the people. It is about the people that like to serve other people. It is a gift.

QUEST: When does the Bedford post rest.

GERE: This is it. Read my lips. No more taxes. It won't happen.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You never know. You never know.

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BALDWIN: It has been nearly 24 hours since we learned of the passing of Dick Clark. He died of a heart attack at the age of 82 when his heir apparent on New Years' Rocking Eve Ryan Seacrest says, quote, "I am deeply saddened by the loss of my dear friend, Dick Clark. He has truly been one of the greatest influences in my life."

Joan Rivers took to Twitter and tweeted this, very sad to hear about dick clark. What a great life. What a great career relevant until the end. He will be missed.

And our own Kareen Wynter takes a look back at Clark's incredible career.

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KAREEN WYNTER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He was known as the world's oldest teenager. Dick Clark began his career on the weekly dance party that would later be known as "American Bandstand" in Philadelphia in 1956. The show became a national and later an international sensation after it was picked up by ABC one year later.

In spite of racial attitudes at the time, Clark was a pioneer in promoting African-American artists including Percy Sledge, the Silhouettes, the Supremes, and Gladys Knight and the Pips.

An appearance on the "American Bandstand" launched many a career and from Jerry Lee Lewis to Janet Jackson, they all wanted Dick Clark to give their record a spin.

DICK CLARK: If you look at the history of "American Bandstand," it covers everything from popular music back to the big band days when we started in 1952. And it was very Como and Eddie Fisher and four as and so forth through the rock and roll period, country music, rhythm and blues, rap, heavy metal, it is everything.

WYNTER: But music wasn't his only beat. He proved a prolific businessman and television icon hosting the game show the $25,000 pyramid, TV's bloopers and practical jokes and of course the annual New Year's rocking eve broadcast. He turned the Dick Clark productions into a multi-million dollar media empire. He created the American music awards in 1987 as a rival to the Grammys. Clark also had a hand in the global fund raising live aid and in the grassroots farm aid. He was inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame in 1993.

CLARK: A nice beat. You said the magic word.

WYNTER: From the early days of rock to the present, Dick Clark had a way of bringing us the tunes that had a good beat or easy to dance to and memories of Saturday afternoon sock hops.

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