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TSA Agents Allegedly Let Drugs Through; Transplant Surgeon Gets A Transplant; Massive Blast Rocks Syria; Costco Mortgages; Costco Mortgages; K-9 Dog Loses Job; Styx: Find The Joy In Each Day; Testing For Mad Cow Disease; Media Mogul Grilled On Power, Influence; Seeing Your Child Grow Up in Seconds; The Prince And The Babe

Aired April 26, 2012 - 14:00   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: "Rapid Fire." Let's go.

First up here, the Secret Service bracing for yet another sex scandal. This one involves strippers and prostitutes in El Salvador. An unidentified U.S. government contractor is talking to CNN's Seattle television affiliate KIRO telling them that he was with about a dozen Secret Service agents at a strip club in San Salvador. The agents, he says, were there in March of 2011 as an advance team right before the president arrived.

And media mogul Rupert Murdoch back in the hot seat in Britain. This was day two here of testimony before a British inquiry into media ethics. At the center of this whole thing, phone hacking at one of Murdock's London based newspapers. He did apologize for the scandal today. But I want you to listen here as he denies a cover-up.

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RUPERT MURDOCH, CHAIRMAN AND CEO, NEWS CORP.: There was no attempt, either at my level or several levels below me, to cover it up.

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BALDWIN: Murdoch gets a little testy when a union official quizzes him. We're going to hear that exchange in just a couple of moments.

Also this.

Wow, percussion bombs, pepper spray, mayhem. These are the streets of Montreal. And all of this is happening after talks had broken down between the Quebec government and students over the Canadian province tuition crisis. Dozens there were arrested.

And a battle between Catholics and conservative budget guru Paul Ryan. Ryan is a Catholic. But some Catholic organizations are critical of his budget plan, calling it harmful to the poor. Here's what the congressman had to say to those critics during a speech just today at Georgetown University.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. PAUL RYAN (R), WISCONSIN: I suppose if there are some Catholics who, for a long time, thought they had a monopoly of sorts. Not exactly on heaven, but on the social teaching of our church. Of course there can be differences among faithful Catholics on this. The work I do, as a Catholic holding office, conforms to the social doctrine as best I can make of it.

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BALDWIN: Coming up next hour, we're going to talk with one of those Catholic critics, Georgetown Senior Fellow Thomas Reese. Again, that's next hour.

Madeleine Albright, she will be receiving the Congressional Medal of Freedom. She was the first woman to serve as U.S. secretary of state. She was also U.S. ambassador to the United Nations. The Medal of Freedom is the nation's highest civilian honor. Albright will receive it in a ceremony at the White House later this year.

And it may be April, and football on TV only a mere memory, but tonight we are entering hallowed football ground. Folks, this is the beginning of a three-day stretch when the National Football League drafts the most promising, best college talent. It begins in a matter of hours. And get ready for the football fans in your life to just kind of disappear into what has really become a cultural obsession.

And take a look at this. This comes from a Texas Rangers baseball game. You got to see this and you have to hear it. Take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here's what happened. (INAUDIBLE) tossed the ball. Oh, my God, they can't give it to the kid? Wow. They're actually like rubbing it in the kid's face.

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BALDWIN: Oh, come on, give it to the kid. You hear one of the announcers there. It's pretty clear how he felt about the couple's choice to keep the ball. All's well that ends well here, though. Someone from the Rangers dugout actually tossed the kid another ball. He gets to go home happy. So, forget that sad face that we saw there. And the couple now finding infamy in viral video land.

And we've got a lot more for you the next two ours. Watch this.

You can't bring a big bottle of shampoo, but somehow Coke, pot, meth, all made it through security at one of our nation's busiest airports. And according to the feds, TSA agents took bribes to do it. I'm Brooke Baldwin. The news is now.

Catholics take on a fellow Catholic.

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REP. PAUL RYAN (R), WISCONSIN: Of course there can be differences.

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BALDWIN: I'll speak live with one priest who's not to happy with Paul Ryan.

Plus, the warlord behind the rapes, the beatings, and the murders of tens of thousands. Today, the blood diamond boss learns his fate.

And, a child's life in two minutes. A dad tapes his daughter every week for 12 years. I'll speak with him, live.

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BALDWIN: All right, listen to this. Cocaine was referred to as "white girls," marijuana referred to as "Green Bay Packers," and methamphetamine simply "crystal." These are code words supposedly used by the TSA agents at L.A. International Airport. And while passengers like you and I, who've taken off our shoes and putting shampoo into baggies, screeners were allegedly letting drug smugglers through. Four current and former TSA agents are under arrest this hour, accused of looking the other way essentially in exchange for thousands of dollars in bribes.

And I want to bring in Victoria Kim. She is a reporter with "The Los Angeles Times," who really helped blow this story wide open.

And, Victoria, I read your article this morning and I have so many questions for you. The first one is, it seems to me this process was very orchestrated. Walk me through how exactly it worked, including the pass through.

VICTORIA KIM, REPORTER, "LOS ANGELES TIMES": It appears to have been a pretty straightforward scheme. If you had something that you wanted to get through LAX, you would call one particular former TSA employee, who's the lead defendant in the indictment that was unsealed yesterday, and he would arrange for the drug courier and the screener, who would be on duty, to meet ahead of time so that they would know what they're looking for when they got to the airport. And then oftentimes the person who was coordinating would give the screener a cell phone to communicate with the courier. The night before or the morning of, they would get a text or a phone call that told them which terminal, which lane to go to and they would simply show up, put it through the x-ray, and then the screener would just, you know, see it or not see it and then let it right through.

BALDWIN: Yes, turn the blind eye allegedly. They would want to get the right screener in the right lane.

And I do want to talk numbers here. I mean how many times is this to have happened? How many drugs at once go through?

KIM: That's a trickier question to answer. The indictment outlines about half a dozen cases documented in the earlier part of 2011. But the authorities were aware of this scheme before the incidents that are laid out in the indictment. But these were the ones that they felt that they could prove beyond a reasonable doubt as required in federal court.

BALDWIN: So, give me an idea. I know you've seen this indictment. This 40 page indictment. How much drugs, whether you want to use, you know, cocaine or meth, would get how much in terms of dollars and cents for this TSA agent?

KIM: In terms of pricing, it appears to have been per pass through regardless of what the package was. It was between $1,000 and $1,200 per pass through. There was one instance where the payment was $2,400, but that appears to have been for more than one pass through. There were -- you know, the loads varied. Anything from five kilos of cocaine, 20 kilos of cocaine, to about eight pounds of methamphetamine, which is apparently a lot of methamphetamine.

BALDWIN: Yes, that sounds like quite a chunk of drugs.

And not only that, as part of these details, the -- in one case the screener allegedly told the courier, hey, tell the airport you have a pacemaker. Why was that key?

KIM: Apparently, I -- and I haven't confirmed this with TSA officials, but apparently if you say you have a pacemaker, instead of going through the metal detector, you would be given a hand pat-down. And that would eliminate the possibility of a random search of the bags. And that's what this screener was trying to avoid.

BALDWIN: So how did they get caught? Was this just dumb luck?

KIM: They were tipped off to the presence of this scam. There was one of the first instances that was laid out in the indictment was a botched delivery attempt where a courier was told to come to a particular terminal and then take an underground terminal to the adjacent one so that they could go through the station of the courier -- the screener that was actually being paid. But instead he went right to the terminal where his flight was taking off and put the drugs through the screener and apparently this TSA employee was doing their job and caught the 5 kilos of cocaine. But apparently authorities tell me that they were aware of this scheme before even this person was caught.

BALDWIN: OK. And, again, you know, these are all allegations. I want to read something though. You quote this in your article. The U.S. attorney says the case represents, quote, "a significant breakdown of the screening system." This time it's drugs. Next time it could have been, you know, something like guns. What actions are the feds taking here to make sure this doesn't happen ever again?

KIM: We haven't really heard from TSA other than that they are cooperating with the investigation and that they regret that such a thing has happened. In terms of any corrective measures, we'll have to see going forward. And the U.S. attorneys' hoping that this and the hefty sentence that it could carry could be deterrent enough for the TSA officials who may be attempted.

BALDWIN: Victoria Kim, we'll follow it right along with you. Victoria's with "The L.A. Times." We appreciate it. Appreciate your reporting.

And here's a place I bet you've been one or two times. You can get bulk paper towels here, large screen TVs and apparently now a mortgage. Costco wants your banking business. More on that.

Also, a little girl disappears from her bedroom in the middle of the night and now her parents are pleading for her safe return.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To the person or persons who have Isabel, tell us your demands. Tell us what you want. We will do anything for her.

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BALDWIN: We're going to hear more on that later this hour.

But first, you have heard the saying, doctors are the worst patients. But getting a transplant was the best thing for one transplant surgeon. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has his story.

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DR. CARLOS ZAYAS, TRANSPLANT DOCTOR, CANCER SURVIVOR: We just came back from Paris. We celebrated 15 years of wonderful marriage at the Eiffel Tower.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For Dr. Carlos Zayas, this wedding anniversary celebration almost didn't happen. You see, three years ago, this transplant surgeon made a shocking discovery. His lymph nodes were swollen and he suspected he had cancer. His fears were confirmed and the diagnosis, a rare form of blood cancer called Peripheral T-Cell Lymphoma.

ZAYAS: It's difficult to treat and has a poor prognosis.

GUPTA: When grueling chemotherapy failed, the transplant doctor need a transplant himself. A bone marrow transplant. Now, with bone marrow, a near perfect match is necessary for the treatment to be effective. And that's more likely from a donor of the same ethnicity. But the pool of potential donors for Hispanics in the United States is very small. They only represent about 10 percent of a national bone marrow registry. In Dr. Zayas' case, a very close match was found, but then the donor backed out.

ZAYAS: People joined the registry for people that they love or they know. But when they get a call about a complete stranger, their answer is, I am afraid I can't do this.

GUPTA: So doctors took another look at his siblings. And while his brother Hector wasn't a perfect match, Zayas got the transplant anyway. Hector's bone marrow started killing the cancer cells and today he's in complete remission, back helping patients find organs. Zayas says it was his faith that helped him through the difficult times and the experience has overall made him a better doctor.

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BALDWIN: And want you to join Sanjay this weekend. He has a new time. Watch "Sanjay Gupta MD," 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time on Saturday afternoon.

Be right back.

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BALDWIN: A huge explosion has killed dozens of people in Syria. And you know we have witness now some horrific sights in this country. But what we're seeing here today, this is death and destruction on perhaps a whole new level. Syria's opposition claims the blast in Hama killed more than 70 people and opposition figures say the explosion was caused by a terrorist group that was building a bomb. Whatever it was, it was clearly a very big explosion. CNN's Arwa Damon has spent significant time inside of Syria. She now joins me on the phone from Beirut. And I'm wondering, Arwa, to your knowledge, has anyone extracted parts of a missile from this bombed out section of Hama? I mean, if so, it would bolster the claims being made here by the opposition.

ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): It most certainly would. But according to opposition activists, the U.N. monitoring team, and that is only a two person team at this point that is based in the city of Hama itself, was unable to reach the site where that explosion is said to have taken place.

But opposition activists are claiming that it was caused by a rocket attack that was carried out by Syrian government forces. And they're saying that the reason why it caused so much widespread damage is because the buildings in that particular area were very poorly constructed. And video posted to YouTube does appear to show bodies being pulled out from underneath the rubble. And most certainly, incredibly devastating images.

The Syrian government, for its part, is claiming that these particular buildings were something of a bomb-making facility and they're saying that terrorist groups are trying to put together a bomb that then appears to have exploded. But at this point in time it is incredibly difficult because we are not being allowed access inside the country itself to ascertain exactly what may have taken place. And most certainly it's proven to be difficult for those handful of U.N. monitors that are in Syria right now to even get credible information.

BALDWIN: You know back to your point about rockets. What types of rockets would the Syrian government just have at its disposal? And why would is resort to such a massive show of force in this particular town?

DAMON: Well, Brooke, historically we've been seeing the Syrian government using whatever artillery it has at its disposal to try to silence these various voices of decent. If you remember back to when they were pounding the neighborhood in Baba Amr and Homs, they were using every single piece of artillery that they possibly could from tank rounds, to 16 (ph) millimeter, 120 millimeter, 155 millimeter mortar rounds, so on and so forth. But they most certainly do have the artillery at their disposal and opposition activists say that this is quite simply the Syrian government's way of sending them a message that even though the U.N. monitors are in country, even though they're supposed to increase in number in country, the Syrian government is still going to try to stamp out this opposition to it because, at the end of the day, this is a fight for its very own survival. But, of course it does create an incredibly complex dynamic inside the country itself. And at the end of the day, it is innocent civilians that are paying the price.

BALDWIN: You witnessed some of the slaughter, I know, first-hand when you were reporting from within the country. We witnessed this for months and months now. And when, you know, Bashar al-Assad agreed to this cease-fire, people, I'm sure, around the world thought, yeah, right.

DAMON: And that's the big problem right now at this point in time. I mean a cease-fire does not exist. And to talk of a cease-fire at this point would be ludicrous. One just has to look at the death toll and what's happening inside the country, no matter who is to blame for it. What is undeniable is that people are continuing to die and without the semblance of a cease-fire there can be no peace plan. And even if, hypothetically speaking, there were some sort of cease- fire that was eventually put into place, getting those sides of this conflict to a negotiating table at this point in time, it's very unfeasible because so much blood has actually been shed. And, again, both sides are in this for their very own survival. And all of it paints an incredibly bleak picture, not just for Syria, but potentially for the entire region.

BALDWIN: Arwa Damon in neighboring Beirut, Lebanon.

Arwa, we appreciate your reporting there.

Meantime, many police departments say four legged officers are essential to hunting down criminals. But in one New York village, the mayor says the dog is a luxury and has to go.

And then later, watching your children grow up. One filmmaker -- this is just too cool -- gets his daughter on camera every week for 12 years. We're going to talk to this dad coming up.

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BALDWIN: It's now going on one week and there is still no sign of this little girl who disappeared from her bedroom in Tucson, Arizona. The parents of Isabel Celis are saying they won't give up. Isabel is six years of age and police have called her case a possible abduction, but they still don't have a suspect. Here are Isabel's parents.

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BECKY CELIS, MOTHER OF MISSING GIRL: We don't want the focus to be taken off Isabel by us being in front of the cameras or by the media. We are here today to plead for a safe return of our baby girl Isabel. SERGIO CELIS, FATHER OF MISSING GIRL: We are cooperating to the fullest extent with the investigation. We are increasing the reward. Just please, please, to the person or persons who have Isabel, tell us your demands. Tell us what you want. We will do anything for her. We are looking for you.

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BALDWIN: Since Isabel vanished last Friday night into Saturday morning, police and volunteers have focused on this three mile circle right around the child's home. Authorities also have been looking for clues in a Tucson landfill and they have been through the Celis' home repeatedly. FBI behavioral analysts studied the home on Tuesday and authorities say they have not ruled out anyone as a possible suspect.

Media tycoon Rupert Murdoch testifying one again here before a British inquiry into the phone hacking scandal.

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RUPERT MURDOCH: And there was no attempt, either at my level or several levels below me, to cover it up.

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BALDWIN: And during your next visit to Costco, once you grab the toilet paper and the bottled water, hey, why not get a mortgage as well. Yep, we're going to go live to the stock exchange and talk to Alison Kosik about this new move, coming up.

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BALDWIN: Everyone knows you can get just about anything at Costco, and get it in bulk. But a mortgage? Sure. Why not? Let's bring in Alison Kosik.

Alison Kosik, I heard this and I kind of did a double take. Please explain.

ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, why not? A 64 pack of toilet paper, you know, a mortgage, why not? Yes. And something you may not realize, actually. Costco's been testing this mortgage lending program for a year now. But today it is announced that it is rolling this out to all of its members and this is actually going to be done through its web site.

What it is doing is partnering up with First Choice Bank. That's a bank in New Jersey and ten other lenders. In fact, so far 10,000 people have gotten mortgages through Costco and what it is. It's a lot like lending tree.

Because what it does is it gathers quote from different lenders and the difference here with Costco, your identity, the borrower's identity, it is not revealed until you actually select officially a lender.

And that means you're less likely to be bombarded through e- mail or mail by all those marketing materials, you know, from the bazillion lenders that you're looking out for so that's one plus.

BALDWIN: OK, as people are listening and they're thinking, all right, maybe I will do this. I mean, do they offer better deals? That will get them to try it out.

KOSIK: Maybe, possibly. Because Costco is just so big, you know, they're not really going to corner the mortgage market at this point but they have a bigger footprint.

So you know, Costco may be able to actually squeeze these great deals out of vendors because bigger companies like Wal-Mart, you know, they tend to negotiate with suppliers to get better deals and suppliers are more willing to play ball because of having more exposure with the big company.

So keep in mind, this is still very new to Costco. Costco has only been doing this for a year. So you really want to make sure you do the homework, still compare other offers and also keep in mind this is online only.

So if you're kind of hands on, face-to-face person when you get a mortgage, you're not going to get that with this Costco service. It is something to keep in mind -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: Interesting. Alison Kosik, thank you. Alison, are you a dog fan?

KOSIK: I love dogs.

BALDWIN: OK, I like dogs, too. So watch this one with me. This is something I never thought I would actually be saying. It looks like man's best friend is headed to the unemployment line, at least one little guy.

This is Roscoe, a 5-year-old Belgian shepherd and spent the last four years with the New York Police Department as part of the canine unit. Well, he has been involved in 50 cases in and around town including solving a break in at an apartment complex.

But despite his, I guess, mad fetching skills it looks likes in his heroics, the town feels the $4,500 annual expense for Roscoe is one it can no longer afford.

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MAYOR RICHARD HATHEWAY, GENESEO, NEW YORK: We had to make some cuts. The dog situation was one area that we felt was perhaps a perk or a luxury.

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BALDWIN: Well, no more for the perk here. Roscoe's last day on the job is June 1st. Growing up gracefully, it's what we all hope to do, right?

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not necessarily the wrinkles on your face or if your body is breaking down in some manner. It is how engaged you are in what you're doing.

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BALDWIN: Just ahead, the rock group, Styx, finds their magic by staying on the stage.

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BALDWIN: All right, you watch the show enough you know I love music. I want to talk about rock bands, but specifically rock bands and I know many Americans grew up watching they are some of them still taking the stage.

It is really proof that age doesn't matter when it comes to doing something you love. Kyra Phillips sat down with members of Styx.

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When Styx made this music video in 1981, the career clock was counting down. Now more than 2,000 shows later time has been nothing but good to Styx, especially when so many 70s rock bands have become extinct.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The dinosaurs have come back.

PHILLIPS: James "JY" Young, the Godfather at 62. Tommy Shaw, an ageless 58, Ricky Phillips, sultry 59, Todd Zuckerman, they call him Sweet Baby at 42.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Rock music.

PHILLIPS: Chuck Pinazzo, all class at 63.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He wants to know if there is a restroom.

PHILLIPS: And Lawrence Gowan in as class of his own at 55. A band of boomers redefining what it means to grow older.

LAWRENCE GOWAN, STYX: It is not necessarily the wrinkles on your physician or if your body is breaking down. It is how engaged are you in what you are doing.

I am very close to the 15-year-old that I was dreaming of doing this. That person is not someone way in the distant past. He is completely alive again when we hit the stage.

PHILLIPS: They got here surviving hard living and hard times.

JAMES "JY" YOUNG, STYXZ: I think it shaped me more as a human being having a sister in her 20s when I was in my teens become a quadriplegic. And I learned so many lessons from the way my parents responded to that.

PHILLIPS (on camera): What did you learn?

YOUNG: You have to take care of your own. All these things can go wrong, will wrong in rock and roll. It's just the way it is, but I always able to sit back and say I can still walk around and do all of these things my sister can't do so I don't complain. I find the joy in each day.

PHILLIPS: Jack, you're such an inspiration to me and so many people living with AIDS. You battled prostate cancer. Why not retire?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This band means a lot to me. My twin brother was part of the band until he passed away. There is a lot of emotion in the band for me.

PHILLIPS: Is it music that keeps you living?

CHUCK PANOZZO, STYX: Totally. This is as good as the best was and I have continuing for the last two years and it just gave me the strength to go on and to be here today.

TODD SUCHERMAN, STYX: Being in a band with these guys, great example and great role models because being that I am younger than everyone, if I was in a band that partied like crazy and threw television sets out the window, it could be very easy to go, this looks like fun. Then all of a sudden you get caught up in the life where the music becomes secondary.

RICKY PHILLIPS, STYX: I will throw down a little bit of something from my own experience and get a lot more done when you stop all of that. You will actually do more quality work. You might think that you are writing your best stuff when you are doing whatever, but that isn't the case at all.

TOMMY SHAW, STYX: I don't smoke anymore. I gave up the booze and all the party favors quite some time ago thank goodness.

PHILLIPS (on camera): Tell me about this healthy living. Where did this come from? Why do you live this way?

SHAW: We have discovered there is great ways to eat healthy.

PHILLIPS: A discovery that stem from his garden.

SHAW: Here is our black big tree.

PHILLIPS: And his wife, Jeanie, now branching off to the road.

SHAW: The bus food has become, you know, little by little. It is little by little the cokes have gone away and the ruffle ruffles.

PHILLIPS: Be honest, guys, is his food tasty? UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is great.

SHAW: Here, drink this. What's in it? It's 27 things. OK. Sure.

YOUNG: Being on a tour bus rolling down the highway at 100 miles an hour and the knives chopping, it is quite impressive, really. He still has nine fingers. It's quite amusing.

PHILLIPS (voice-over): Healthy food and humor, the elixir that keeps this band of renegades young at heart.

(on camera): How would you describe yourself now?

SHAW: Grateful. I have to go with grateful.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Joyful, blessed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thankful.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You we all dig what we are doing.

PHILLIPS: Grateful, joyous, blessed, thankful. Nobody said sexy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were hoping you might say that.

PHILLIPS (voice-over): They're seasoned veterans in a young man's game.

YOUNG: That is the fountain of youth for all of us to get up there and just celebrate the joy of the music. That's the key to our sort of longevity and then good health.

PHILLIPS: Pushing back the boundaries of aging still nowhere near the final encore.

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BALDWIN: Right on. Kyra Phillips, thank you.

One film maker wanted to show his children growing up, so that's precisely what he did. Take a look at this video. Each and every week he popped his daughter in front of the camera, took videos and did this for more than a decade.

We'll talk about the feedback he has been getting. You wouldn't believe how many click this is video is getting on YouTube.

Also in a couple of minutes a Catholic congressman gets an unfriendly welcome from some college students. Paul Ryan says his Catholic faith influenced him in making up his budget plan. We're going to talk to a Jesuit priest at Georgetown and get his perspective coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) BALDWIN: We have mad cow disease back in the news here. Brian Todd looked into the testing and the feeding of cows and you might be surprised actually at the link between chicken and beef.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the wake of the discovery of the fourth case of mad cow disease in the U.S., the agriculture secretary reassures Americans their food supply is safe. How does he know for sure?

TOM VILSACK, AGRICULTURE SECRETARY: We know because of taking out of the feed and out of the food supply those parts of the animal that could potentially cause the mad cow disease in humans.

TODD: Tom Vilsack means they make sure the nervous system material of the cow, the brains, the spinal columns, don't get into the food system. Those are the parts that can transfer the agents in a cow's body, which carry the disease.

Also, the government no longer allows feed from dead, ground up cows to be used to feed other cows. That's prevented potential transmission of mad cow disease. But the government does allow dead cows to be ground up and fed to chickens.

Chickens eat it and excrete it. Experts say that chicken extremity has nutritional value and sometimes it is ground up and fed to other animals like cows. I asked Patty Lovera of the non-partisan advocacy group, "Food and Water Watch" about that.

(on camera): Should the U.S. government ban cow feed from being given to chickens?

PATTY LOVERA, FOOD AND WATER WATCH: We think so. We think that if we didn't allow the cattle parts to be in any animal feed, it would really lower the risk of accidents happening and contamination and accidently having the cattle part get fed back to cows.

TODD: But you don't need to worry about getting mad cow from eating chicken. Experts say even if a chicken eats feed from a sick cow, the agent that transfers mad cow disease doesn't infect chickens, doesn't contaminate the meat.

(voice-over): We asked Dr. Richard Raymond, a former undersecretary at the Department of Agriculture who over saw safety in the meat industry why take chances.

There is still a slim chance infected proteins could make their way through the chicken population back to cows or ruminants as they're referred to in the industry.

DR. RICHARD RAYMOND, FORMER USDA UNDERSECRETARY FOR FOOD SAFETY (via telephone): I do not believe on poultry litter to ruminants is necessary at this time. I don't believe there is scientific evidence our heard is at risk from eating poultry litter and the fact that the ruminant ban has been so effective I think that shows that we have this situation well under control.

TODD: So far the safe guards have been effective from a peak of over 37,000 cases of mad cow disease worldwide in 1992 only 29 cases were reported last year.

The Agriculture Department says in this case the animal tested positive for a very rare form of the disease account not generally associated with an animal consuming infected feed.

Still, we called the FDA, which handles feed bans to ask why the government doesn't ban the feed from dead cow from being used to feed chickens.

We didn't hear back. The USDA is still investigating how this one cow actually got the disease. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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BALDWIN: Now to more of the testimony from media mogul, Rupert Murdoch here for a second day. Murdoch appeared before a judicial inquiry in Britain and here is the answer to a question about how his media holdings influenced politics in Britain.

At center of is, of course, is that phone hacking scandal, but today Murdoch, notoriously antiunion had to answer questions about union busting in Britain. Here is a little bit of that exchange.

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JOHN HENDY, NATIONAL UNION OF JOURNALIST: This is a journalist of 30 years experience, I work for the "News of the World" for over three years, and there was tremendous pressure. Everyone talked about the by line count, reporters had to do what they need to get the story.

Another journalist with six years experience, during my time at the "News of the World" I experienced pretty much constant bullying. My section editor would find fault and so on. So clear evidence that at the "News of the World" at least there was a culture of bullying.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why didn't she resign?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think the problem with that might be that she needs a job.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As far as you are aware, there has been no investigation within News International of allegations of bullying of staff.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I never heard of it. Strike me as a happy crowd.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do you accept that worthy permitted to represent members in News International titles that would be at least one step towards the eradication or prevention of unethical story gathering practices, which Lord Justice Levinson heard about?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Why not?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I am sure people that have been arrested were once members of NUJ.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, didn't stop them doing what they did.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: But if the NUJ had a presence, it would be somewhere for a journalist to turn should they feel they were under pressure to do something unethical.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It didn't work out that way when the NUJ was there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That embellishment is referred to in trade union circles as the NESA clause. What I want to suggest to you is that you had some discussion or people in News International had some discussion with Mr. Blair or officials on his side to ensure that that provision was in the legislation so that at the NUJ and any other union could not make an application for recognition for collective bargaining at News International.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sure about that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That can either be no or I don't know anything about this. Which is it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I know that I had never approached Mr. Blair or spoke to Mr. Blair about it. Otherwise I have no knowledge.

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BALDWIN: As for the hacking scandal, Murdock was contrite.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All I can do is apologize to a lot of people including all the innocent people in News of the World who lost their jobs.

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BALDWIN: Murdoch's media empire stretches from his native Australia to Britain and the U.S. where he owns "Wall Street Journal" and of course, Fox News.

Now to this story, a child's life in two minutes. The father shoots video of his daughter each and every week for 12 years. Here is what I want to know. How did he get her to sit still all those years? We're going to talk to him live coming up next.

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BALDWIN: William and his wife, Katherine were honoring servicemen when the wife of a sergeant asked the prince to hold little Baby Hugo.

All of this feeding into the pregnancy speculation that's been swirling around the world, a couple who celebrate can you believe just about a year, the first wedding anniversary this upcoming Sunday.

And listen to this, this one little girl's childhood flashing before her father's eyes. Sound familiar to you parents? This is what's trending today, not exactly what you are thinking. In little more than two minutes you watch this little girl, her name is Latte, grow up from birth to 12 years of age. Check it out.

I love the story. People have clicked on her video now more than 2 million times. I know. I am thinking if you are a parent you are thinking I wish I had done that. What exactly did it take?

Let me ask here. Joining me now from the Netherlands by phone is the dad, Frans Hofmeester, and my first thought, I watched this whole two minutes and 45 seconds. My question is how hard was it to get her to sit still for when she was itty-bitty to 12?

FRANS HOFMEESTER, FILMMAKER: Well, she didn't sit still. You can see it in the film. Yes, when she was two weeks old she was sitting still of course and that's when I started this project.

The reason was because I saw a change from two weeks, two days old and two weeks old, and I thought, well, I have to remember what she looked like. Then I filmed her again a couple of days later and a week later and then I started developing this rhythm of every week, every week, every week.

BALDWIN: Why? Why every week, every week? I mean, so many parents want to record of course the sort of evolution aging of their children but to do this every week, why?

HOFMEESTER: Yes. It was to keep my memory intact, I think. It was important to keep my memory intact, of how she looked like and how she changed over time because every moment in a child's life I think is special for parents.

And other people might make a photo book, but I decided to film. I kept the baby blankets in the background as a constant factor. We still use the baby blanket and nowadays when we film.

BALDWIN: So is the baby blanket that's the one consistent thing through all of these photos and you can see she isn't fully standing still and is talking. Does she understand now, how old is she now and understand why you are doing this?

HOFMEESTER: Yes, she is 12 and a half and both children are well aware of what I am doing and I discuss everything with them, like if you don't like to be filmed, then, well, let's do something else or just say nothing.

Like they start when they start to develop talking, of course, they had to tell little stories or they told me little stories from ten second stories, but I mean, I made an extended version of the film of about 30 minutes.

But it is not suitable for internet, I think, more for gallery or museum. Short film makes it much more intense, I think in the way I presented it to the world.

BALDWIN: Frans, we mentioned that this video has been clicked on more than 2 million times. I am just curious what kind of feedback you have gotten from people, I am sure all around the world.

HOFMEESTER: Yes. At this moment on video it is, I think, 4.1 million times viewed and, well, it is like 99 percent of the people positive in their reactions and they are amazed. They're like I am flabbergasted.

Some people are also, and so it is overwhelming, all of these reactions, and they come in every five minutes or every minute and when now it is YouTube as well so also all of those reactions are e-mailed to me. It is hard to believe that it gets this kind of exposure.

BALDWIN: Yes. Now on national television here in the United States.

HOFMEESTER: Yes, that's right.

BALDWIN: I am just curious, we should point out you are in film. What do you, is this something like a video scrapbook for you, you mentioned maybe putting a longer piece in the gallery. What's the goal and how long do you do it?

HOFMEESTER: What do you mean? Sorry?

BALDWIN: What is the end goal of some of these images, some of these are your son as you point out. What's the end goal? Do you plan to have put this in a museum, part of a gallery, a longer video?

HOFMEESTER: Yes, yes. I have this exhibition in 2013 in a museum in Holland, and they want to show the longer versions and part of it on national TV as well.

I said I think a museum is more suitable. You can sit on a chair, dark environment and on the wall there is a film displayed and you see slowly the change from a baby, two weeks old into in Lottie's case 12 years and, yes, like I said on internet, yes, people don't watch 30-minute film, I think.

BALDWIN: Sure.

HOFMEESTER: You can hear her talk also in the longer versions.

BALDWIN: You can. Time flashes before our eyes. This is proof to that. Thank you. Thank you so much, Frans Hofmeester joining me on the phone here from the Netherlands, stunning pictures there.

HOFMEESTER: Thank you.

BALDWIN: Thank you. It's an honor for me as well. Now this.

Hour two, I am Brooke Baldwin. Welcome back. We begin with a developing story about a possible terror threat in the United States.

I want to go straight to the Pentagon to Chris Lawrence. Chris, what are the feds saying?

CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Brooke, they're warning against an increased threat to western aviation. The Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, and the U.S. military's northern command put out this intelligence bulletin and sent it around to various law enforcement agencies.

Again, warning about the threat to aviation, specifically from al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula. That is the most active al Qaeda group. They have already tried to attack two U.S. bound jetliners in the last few years.

President Obama also met with his national security team today. He was briefed on some of these potential threats heading into next week.

BALDWIN: As you mentioned next week, is this all coming up now because next week it will have been a year since the death of bin Laden?

CARROLL: That's right.

There have been various postings on some of the violent extremist Web sites. One talked about talking the Pentagon on May 2 and later about targeting Defense Secretary Leon Panetta. But, overall, they feel that these plots right now are just aspirational, not specifically in the works.

As for the homegrown extremists, those that are already right here in the United States, the intelligence estimates say this date, this anniversary, so to speak, may hold some value to them, but they don't think it is enough to make them accelerate their plots.

In other words, if they got some plot and they're on a timetable, they're not going to scrap their timetable just to make this deadline.

BALDWIN: OK. Chris Lawrence at the Pentagon, Chris, appreciate it.