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Broken Nose, Black Eyes, Bloody Head; John Edwards' Defense Rests After Two Days; Skechers Deceived Customers; Panicking Greeks Cash Out; "Don't Mess with Your Grandmother"; Joe Biden Hammers Republicans; TSA Under Fire on Capitol Hill; Political Ads on YouTube Target Zip Codes; Kodak Once Used Highly Enriched Uranium

Aired May 16, 2012 - 13:00   ET

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN ANCHOR: Top of the hour. I'm Suzanne Malveaux. Here is what's crossing right now in the CNN NEWSROOM.

Medical records show the man who shot Trayvon Martin had a broken nose, two black eyes, and a bloody head. Some say this evidence from George Zimmerman's family doctor could bolster Zimmerman's claim that he shot the unarmed teenager in self-defense. The exam was taken one day after the shooting. A lawyer for Trayvon Martin's family says the family has questions about this medical report.

And the man known as the butcher of Bosnia went on trial today. Former general Ratko Mladic is charged with war crimes and genocide dating back to the Bosnia war. Among other accusations, prosecutors say, he personally over jaw the massacre of 8,000 Muslim men and boys in one Muslim city.

Huge development, today, in the John Edwards' corruption trial. Defense attorneys, they rested their case just two days after they started. Closing arguments are set to are set to begin tomorrow. The jury is expected to get the case on Friday. Edwards didn't take the stand, neither did his former mistress, Rielle Hunter. We're going to have a live report at the courthouse in a few moments, but first Joe Johns takes a look at how Edwards went from rising politician to a guy who could face decades behind bars.

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JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): John Edwards, the politician, remember him?

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JOHN EDWARDS (D), FORMER VICE PRESIDENT CANDIDATE: We have much work to do, because the truth is we still live in a country where there are two different Americas.

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JOHNS: But as it turned out, Mr. Two Americas here had two very different faces himself and one of them wasn't very pretty. People close to him said it was the face of betrayal, betrayal of the people closest to him, his late wife Elizabeth, his supporters, his staffers, his contributors. Granted, Edwards was a promising politician at first, successful Democratic senator from the south. Telegenic guy, rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor, smart but homegrown, talked such a good game he got picked up as John Kerry's running mate in 2004.

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JOHN KERRY (D), FORMER PRESIDENT CANDIDATE: I have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of America.

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JOHNS: But it didn't work out so next election cycle, Edwards jumped into the race for the White House once again and by early 2008 --

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MALVEAUX: It's time for me to step aside.

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JOHNS: He was out but not before getting entangled in a messy relationship with a woman named Rielle Hunter. She eventually gave birth to Edwards' child. Edwards, at first, denied having the affair and then denied being the father, but last year, he finally admitted it. The story reached a sleazy low point when a videotape surfaced that is reported to show Edwards and hunter having sex. The tape wound up in the hands of former Edwards' staffer Andrew Young who turned it over to a court after Rielle Hunter filed a lawsuit. It took eight months before Edwards' wife, Elizabeth, suffering from terminal cancer, learned the extent of the affair, and before she died last year, she went public with her feelings in a book and numerous T.V. appearances.

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ELIZABETH EDWARDS: I wrote in this, maybe it was that 30-year investment I had in my marriage. Maybe it was that I could not separate the flawed man before me from the boy with whom I fell in love in 1975. It does not matter now.

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JOHNS: The death of Elizabeth Edwards might have been the end of the story, except for the fact there has yet to be a full public accounting. Edwards raised $43.9 million in campaign money in his bid for the White House. Where some of it came from and where it went has been carefully scrutinized. Rielle Hunter worked for the campaign and got paid as a videographer. Questions have been raised whether any of the federal campaign funds donated to support Edwards might have been used improperly, misreported, not reported at all, or used to keep the affair quiet. Andrew Young said he was persuaded to claim Rielle Hunter's child was his own, and that he went to great lengths as Edwards' aide to help conceal the affair.

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ANDREW YOUNG: This is John Edwards' idea from the beginning.

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JOHNS: Which brings us back to the golden boy, a once rising politician with so much promise. Something like this could never have been part of the plan.

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MALVEAUX: And now to the plan to keep Edwards out of jail, as we mentioned, the defense just wrapping up its case without calling Edwards or his daughter, Kate, or his former mistress, Rielle Hunter, to the stand. Diane Dimond, she's a special correspondent for "Newsweek" and "The Daily Beast." She is outside the courthouse here in Greensboro, North Carolina. So Diane, this was a pretty big day. It happened very quickly here. What do you think the strategy was behind not calling all those witnesses?

DIANE DIMOND, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT, "NEWSWEEK" AND "THE DAILY BEAST": You know, I don't know. And I don't think anybody back there knows either. It was such a surprise, Suzanne. Get this, after three weeks of the prosecution's case, the defense steps up, they have two days of testimony. There's a little bit of cross on one of their witnesses today. Two days of testimony, seven witnesses. I was -- I was stunned that it stopped so quickly and that no Kate, no Rielle, no John Edwards. I mean, this is a -- this is a man who made his bones, made his millions of dollars convincing juries of things as a civil attorney, and you just know he wanted to take the stand, but in the end, the team decided, nope.

MALVEAUX: Was the -- were the jurors as shocked as you were that they -- that they were not going to hear from him?

DIMOND: You know what? I think they were happy. I was looking at them as they came back in and the judge described to them what had happened, that there would be no more witnesses, and they all sort of looked at each other like, what? Did we hear that right? And she announced that the closings will be tomorrow, and they may, I think, be limited to just 45 minutes the way the openings were, and then the jury will get the case and start deliberating on Friday.

MALVEAUX: Wow. And so, what was Edwards' reaction here? What was his demeanor today now that he didn't have to go and explain himself?

DIMOND: Very somber. He has -- I have said this to you before but I've got to keep saying it. Every day he walks into that courtroom a little more diminished as a man. He walks very slowly. He's very thin. He's got a gray cast to his face that, you know, Suzanne, that part of this was delayed for a while, because he had a heart condition, and he doesn't look like a well man. But then again, when you're facing 30 years in prison and the likelihood of a $1.5 million fine, I guess it would get to anybody, so I don't want to read too much into it. But he was very quiet today, and by the way, Kate did not even show up in court. His parents were here as usual, but no Kate. Nowhere in sight.

MALVEAUX: Do we know why she didn't show up today?

DIMOND: Nope, I don't know. You know, she came yesterday with a friend, somebody she was calling Danielle. She was kind of dressed up and we thought, OK, today is the day.

MALVEAUX: Right.

DIMOND: Nothing. And then she didn't even show here today, so I think that probably Mr. Edwards is deferring to his defense team that said there would just be no good purpose served for her to be there, because you know if she did take the stand, it could be said that John Edwards was using his daughter in this to -- you know, in this federal case and to explain this torrid, ugly affair and that could work against him.

MALVEAUX: And Diane, I understand that it is an important aspect in the testimony, the date of the conception of the baby between John Edwards and Rielle Hunter. Can you explain why?

DIMOND: Yes. Well, that's a really good question. I'm glad you brought that up. There were stipulations read to the jury today, just both sides agree to these facts. And one of them was the date of conception of this baby, and I'll break it down for you because it was very long and complicated. But as read, the stipulation says that Rielle Hunter could not have known she was pregnant until June 3rd. This is based on her obstetrician's report. June 3rd. Really? We had testimony here from Cheri Young and Andrew Young that Rielle Hunter told them in May that she was pregnant, early May, and that that's when their plan to run away was hatched. If she couldn't have known that she was pregnant until June 3rd, Bunny Mellon started writing checks on June 5th. So, it raises a very interesting set of questions and just one of many that this jury is going to have to ponder during deliberations.

MALVEAUX: All right. Well, Diane Dimond, as always, breaking it down for us in a way that we can understand all of the legalese and the details and the flavor coming out of that courtroom. Thank you. Thank you very much.

Here is a look at what we have coming in the hour.

(voice-over): Payoff in Greece. As the world economy is on the line, why a run on the banks could affect us all.

And they make cameras, so what was weapons grade uranium doing in the basement of a Kodak plant and what if it had gotten into the hands of a terrorist?

And they promise to change your shape and drop your weight just by stepping out in a pair of their sneakers. But now, a shoe company is under fire for bogus claims.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) MALVEAUX: All right. Many of you bought into the hype. You believe those Skechers' commercials, right? Promising that if the shoes would help strengthen your butt, legs, stomach muscles, help you lose weight. Kim Kardashian, she advertises Skechers in commercial. Well, the government now says that Sketchers deceived you. Yes, you were duped. Sandra Endo, she joins us from Washington. Sandra, a lot of people we know -- I don't know if you bought Skechers. I didn't buy Skechers. I almost did though. And a lot of people have friends who bought Skechers and it just didn't live up to the hype.

SANDRA ENDO, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Suzanne. It was a little too good to be true, right? Because, you know, how can shoes really make you avoid the gym? You have to put in all that hard work and sweat after all.

MALVEAUX: You got to put in the work.

ENDO: Yes.

MALVEAUX: What did they claim?

ENDO: Well, see, the Federal Trade Commission investigated Skechers' claim that their shapeup and other toning shoes actually helped people burn calories and tone up. Well, they found those advertised claims were actually false and misleading. The investigation spanned 44 states and the District of Columbia and the company has agreed to pay $40 million in a settlement. And Skechers is considered an industry leader in toning footwear and each pair costs around $60 to $100. Listen to what the FTC had to say earlier today.

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DAVID VLADECK, DIRECTOR, FTC BUREAU OF CONSUMER PROTECTION: Skechers has advertised these shoes since 2009 with tag lines like, get in shape without ever setting foot in a gym, and make your bottom half your better half. But when comparing its toning footwear to standard fitness shoes, Skechers put its foot in its mouth by making unproven claims its toning footwear strengthens muscles, increases weight loss, reduces body fat, and improves circulation and aerobic conditioning.

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ENDO: And Skechers spent big bucks, Suzanne, trying to sell those claims, sell those shoes with commercials featuring celebrities like Kim Kardashian and Brooke Burke and one commercial even ran during last year's Super Bowl.

Now, customers who bought Skecher's shapeups or resistance runner shoes and toners, and tone-up shoes, they will be eligible for refunds either straight from the FTC or throughout a class action lawsuit -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: Yes, that's an expensive shoe there, 100 bucks. But is the government trying to spend a message about false advertising to other companies? And by the way, it was very colorful, his comments about putting their foot in their mouth there. You don't usually hear that from government officials.

ENDO: You know, you could see how passionate they are. The FTC is certainly trying to crack down on this federal offense of false advertising. Just last fall, Suzanne, Reebok forked over $25 million in customer refunds after the FTC charged that company also with deceptive advertising on toning shoes and apparel -- Suzanne.

MALVEAUX: All right. Sandra, thank you very much. Good to see you.

All his life he's been preparing to be king. Well, we're going to get an inside look at the expectations, the reality of growing up in the royal family.

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MALVEAUX: Your money could actually get hit by an economic emergency that's taking place in Greece. It's not an exaggeration. Greek people are now pulling money out of their banks. Hundreds of millions of Euros and the people are also starting to panic. Could not happen at a worse time. Greece doesn't have an elected government in charge right now. The interim prime minister is running things until new elections in about a month or so.

I want to bring in Richard Quest from London to talk about this. When you listen to what's taking place in Greece, people are panicking. They're emptying the bank accounts. It sounds like a hot mess. I mean, what are people afraid of? What are they doing?

RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I think I would suggest perhaps one step backwards from that. Yes, the number -- the amount of money being taken out of banks at the moment has risen. So the withdrawals are high. What they are afraid of is that Greece will eventually leave the Eurozone, and the euro will no longer be the currency.

Look, it is a mess, and it's a mess for this reason. Just think of yourself at the moment, Suzanne. You may well have a mortgage that's in dollars. You may have assets that are also in dollars. You may have a bank account overseas that's in euros or pounds sterling. If you're a small company, you may have debts in one currency and assets in another. What people in Greece now fear is that if the country leaves the Eurozone, well, what happens to those savings? Do they become newly devalued as a new drachma? Do their debts say in euros? It's a mess, and that is what's behind this at the moment.

MALVEAUX: And, Richard, is it possible that if they get out of the Eurozone, they go back to the original currency, would their economy just simply collapse at that point?

QUEST: Yes.

MALVEAUX: Yes. QUEST: Well, you asked a question and you got the answer. The truth is, Suzanne, yes, I put it in very strong terms like that for a deliberate reason, because I'm getting weary of pundits galore throwing around this idea that Greece is somehow going to leave the Eurozone and it's not going to be the most awful occasion for the people in Greece.

Let me speculate -- not speculate. Let me predict what happens if they leave the Eurozone. A, the banking system collapses. B, vast corporate bankruptcies as companies have to deal with debts in one currency, income in another. C, a complete collapse of incomes and prices around all sorts of things. D, possible civil unrest as pensions and welfare payments are no longer made.

There's an argument that says from this wreckage will come a new, stronger devalued but more competitive Greece. But the damage that will happen on the way in that respect is going to be quite breathtaking. For that to happen in a mature EU country, well, you can imagine.

MALVEAUX: Do you believe that that could -- there could be some good that comes out of it? You sound very skeptical about that.

QUEST: I believe that -- well, I hesitate to say good. Traditional economic theory says that if they go down this road, they will become more competitive. We saw it in Argentina, in other countries that have devalued, but in those countries they didn't have a currency that they changed. They stuck with the same currency. In Greece's case you're talking about a wholesale currency change, not just a competitive devaluation or a recession. Suzanne, I know it's complicated stuff, and I realize we are at the extremities, but I promise you this, if Greece leaves the Eurozone, it will be a mess, and it will take them a very long type to rebuild that economy again.

MALVEAUX: It sounds like a very big mess there. I want to ask you one other thing here because obviously it sounds like it could fall apart in Greece. What would the ripple effect be here? You're talking about the rest of Europe and, you know, we've got to talk about the United States, too.

QUEST: Yes. And I have no hesitation. So let's just say Greece does leave the Eurozone. Immediately the speculation becomes is Italy, Ireland, Spain, Portugal, who is next, whether valid or not, it doesn't matter. The market will speculate to its heart's content. After that you have a crisis of confidence in the Eurozone, a huge amount of trade is done between the United States and the European Union.

There's a crisis of confidence and just like that proverbial pebble in the water, out goes the ripples, and, you know, I was talking a short while ago to Congressman Barney Frank, and the Congressman was saying, you know, one of the big worries in the U.S. better than expected recovery is if there's a further crisis in the Eurozone because it will hit the United States. So anybody in middle America that thinks what's happening in Greece doesn't affect them, they are seriously mistaken. MALVEAUX: Listen up. All right. Richard Quest, thank you very much, as always.

Want you to listen to these words very carefully. You don't mess with the grandmother, especially when your grandmother has been the queen of England for 60 years. Britain's Prince Harry, they are spilling the beans about life at Buckingham Palace. They sat down for a long TV interview. Max Foster in London. Max, wow, you almost never hear these guys talk about their lives and what they're doing. What are they saying?

MAX FOSTER, ROYAL CORRESPONDENT: Particularly William. He really has what's described as a tolerance attitude toward the media. He doesn't really like doing interviews, even like appearing before the cameras. But certainly since the royal wedding him and Catherine have had this phenomenal year. Harry has been doing really well as well over the last year, and this is the year where the queen celebrates 60 years on the throne, and they really want to shine the spotlight on her as we head into the jubilee celebrations. They did this program talking about the queen to promote her. Let's listen to a few of their words.

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PRINCE HARRY: She's our grandmother.

PRINCE WILLIAM: As I learned from growing up, you don't mess with your grandmother.

KATIE COURIC, CBS CORRESPONDENT: She hasn't friended you on Facebook?

HARRY: No. Why, has she friended you?

COURIC: Hopefully after this interview she will.

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FOSTER: Katie Couric a bit confused about whether the queen does her own Facebook page. I can assure you it's a large team of people that do it, and certainly not her.

MALVEAUX: Why do you suppose they're doing this now?

FOSTER: The reason really is we're heading up to the jubilee weekend and that's just in a couple of weeks, and they want to really shine a light on that occasion looking ahead to it. And ABC has bought the U.S. rights to a big jubilee concert. William and harry have been involved in organizing that. So this is all part of the build-up really to what's turning into a global event rather than just a British one.

MALVEAUX: Are there any surprises? Do they reveal anything we didn't know or that they can dish about a little bit?

FOSTER: You have the full content of the stuff we've been given. More details will be revealed a bit later on but that's what we've been given so far. It is interesting to see them. You don't have Prince Charles or other royal in a sit down interview and Harry and William would normally do that. You're seeing them walking through Clarence house or in the garden along a walk and that's quite interesting. They're introducing I think a more informal touchy-feely interactive type of royalty. They're younger, more funky, but you can see them really defining their generation now.

MALVEAUX: All right. Great. Thank you, Max. Max is going to be part of CNN's coverage of the queen's diamond jubilee, June 3rd from London.

The security of our nation's airports coming under fire right now on Capitol Hill. We've got the details from an alarming new government report.

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MALVEAUX: President Obama meets with Congressional leaders while bickering over the budget and the debt of course heating up. After stopping by a D.C. deli to, the president was meeting with leaders from both parties over lunch. But even before the meeting, Republicans were pushing back. Republicans say the president needs to do more but he called on Congress to take action.

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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The economy is recovering, but we have a long way to go. Too many people are still out of work. We have some headwinds, the situation in Europe, and still a difficult housing market, and so we want to sustain momentum, one of the ways we can sustain momentum is for Congress to take some actions right now even though it's election season, even though there's gridlock, even though there's partnership, take some actions right now that would really make a difference.

REP. JOHN BOEHNER, (R-OH), SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE: Where is the president's plan to tackle our looming debt crisis? Where is the president's plan to stop the largest tax increase in American history from occurring on January the 1st? Where is the president's plan to replace these indiscriminate cuts to our military, which will devastate their ability to keep America secure? It's time for us to deal with the big issues that are affecting our country and our society. We've spent enough time playing small ball.

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MALVEAUX: President Obama is pushing Congress to pass his to-do list, which includes tax breaks for small businesses as well as hope and health for struggling homeowners.

A fiery Joe Biden getting loud today in Ohio. He's hammering Republicans on jobs in the heart of the Rust Belt. Want you to listen in.

(BEGIN LIVE FEED) JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Things really are starting to come back. There are signs of life and hope in the heartland.

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BIDEN: Jobs are starting to come back and the jobs that are coming back are the kinds of jobs you can build a middle class family on. There are manufacturing jobs, descent-paying jobs, so you can live in a safe neighborhood, open your home, not rent your home. If a kid wants to, be able to send your kid to college or send him to trade school --

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BIDEN: -- after school.

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BIDEN: And, by the way, and by the way, one thing I do resent, I resent when they talk about families like mine that I grew up in. I resent the fact that they think we're talking about we're envy. It's job envy, it's wealth envy, that we don't dream. My mother believed and my father believed that if I wanted to be president of the United States, I could be. I could be vice president.

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BIDEN: My mother and father believed that if my brother or sister wanted to be a millionaire, they could be a millionaire.

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BIDEN: My mother and father dreamed as much as any rich guy dreams.

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BIDEN: They don't get us. They don't get who we are. They don't understand, it seems to me. Again, they're not bad. They just don't get it.

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MALVEAUX: Vice president on a two-day tour of a critical Midwestern swing state.

And the mother of a mentally ill homeless man, she is going to get a million dollar settlement for the beating death of her son, Kelly Thomas. The city of Fullerton, California, approved this payment a week after two of its police officers were ordered to stand trial for this beating. Surveillance video -- very disturbing here -- shows these officers hitting Thomas with batons, with fists. They taser him repeatedly as he begs for mercy. Thomas died five days later. The wife of former Syracuse University assistant basketball coach, Bernie Fine, announced just last hour she's suing ESPN and two of its reporters. Laurie Fine says they destroyed her reputation. It comes after her husband was fired from Syracuse amid allegations he sexually molested two former ball boys. His wife was dragged into the scandal after ESPN aired a phone call with one of the accusers. ESPN has issued this statement saying, quote, "We haven't had an opportunity to review the clan complaint. We stand by our reporting."

Airport security coming under fire today on Capitol Hill. A new government report says TSA is now failing to adequately report, track, and even fix security breaches.

I want to bring in Lizzie O'Leary, joining us from Washington.

I understand Congress is holding a hearing on this issue and the report from the Department of Homeland Security is pretty damning. What does it say?

LIZZIE O'LEARY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It gives you a picture, Suzanne, of sort of the whole scenario of what a security breach is and how many there were. This started when there were a number of incidents at Newark Airport. And the New Jersey Senator, Frank Lautenberg, said, I want to know more, I want to look into this, things like a knife getting through a check point, a man getting passed security without going through security, even a dead dog loaded onto a plane without being screened for explosives. He asked for this report. He looked at Newark and five other airports. What they found -- I want to put up some numbers -- 42 percent of security breaches were not being accurately reported. And then only about half of those were actually being fixed -- any corrective action was taken.

And the most important thing is there really wasn't a widespread system for TSA to step back and take a 30,000-foot look at the whole picture here. That's what prompted this hearing. You are hearing lawmakers say, wait a minute, how did this all fit together? How do we do a better job? Listen to an exchange from that hearing.

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UNIDENTIFIED REPRESENTATIVE: So there's no depository where one could go and pull up all of the breaches that have occurred.

CHARLES EDWARDS, DHS INSPECTOR GENERAL: Well, first, you know, they need to have, like I said earlier and the chairman alluded to, there needs to be a clear definition of what a breach is. And then TSA needs to give clear guidance to the airports what to report and when it report, and then TSA needs to follow through that.

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O'LEARY: So you heard that, a clear definition of a clearer way to go to sort of stop this scatter-shot approach. That's really what Congress is looking at to figure out how this system works together -- Suzanne? MALVEAUX: Lizzie, do they have any suggestions on how to fix it?

O'LEARY: TSA has essentially said we agree with a lot of the parts of this report, and we are working on trying to get a better system, because that allows them to have theoretically a much more coordinated approach to this to know, for example, if there is a pattern of how security is being breached, whether it's at one airport or one specific checkpoint at an airport. That's what they're working toward doing.

We should note that a lot of these breaches are older but we still get reports of things that are happening. This is about coordinating all that information into one central place and making sure the agency acts on it.

MALVEAUX: Makes sense.

Lizzie, thank you.

A dashboard camera puts you in the driver's seat of a terrifying ride. We'll show you a car that apparently takes off by itself. The driver has no control.

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MALVEAUX: Imagine driving your car and suddenly it accelerates. You have no control. A couple says it happened to them while they were driving their Hyundai Sonata while driving in South Korea. The wild ride was caught on camera.

Paula Hancocks reports that this is not the first time for the carmaker.

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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Footage from a car crash in South Korea have gone viral. Online, there have been almost two million people watching it in just a week. It has also sparked a government-led investigation.

The 30-year-old son of the couple in the car, who only wants to be identified by their surname, Kwan, says he posted the footage of the May 6th crash online because he wanted to prove it wasn't his father's fault.

The footage is from a camera attached to the rear-view mirror, which is fairly common practice in Korea. Kwan tells CNN his parents, both in their 60s, heard a weird noise before the Hyundai Sonata accelerated. The footage shows the car swerving to avoid other vehicles and also driving through two red lights. It eventually crashed into a stationary car at a speed believed to be around 80 miles an hour or 128 kilometers.

Kwan says his mother underwent an operation for internal bleeding and is waiting for a second operation on her back. And his father has fractured ribs and finger. An official investigation is under way. The ministry of Land, Transport, and Maritime Affairs says they're currently investigating four other cases of sudden unintended acceleration.

Hyundai declined our request for an interview but sent a statement saying, "The vehicle is being investigated by the Korean National Forensic Service. There is no time estimate for the conclusion of the investigation."

Japanese carmaker, Toyota, recalled millions of cars back in 2009 due to cases of sudden unintended acceleration.

Paula Hancocks, CNN, Seoul.

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MALVEAUX: Never before has technology played such a critical part in deciding who becomes the next president. We'll show you how the campaigns are capitalizing on cyberspace.

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MALVEAUX: We know what it's like to get flooded with campaign ads on TV. Now you can see political ads the next time you watch a video on YouTube. It's a campaign strategy that targets voters by zip code.

Dana Bash has the story.

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DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Want to watch these funny moments on YouTube? First, Duracell wants to sell you batteries.

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AD NARRATOR: -- Duracell.

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BASH: How about some cool snowboarding? Wait, Chevy wants you to check out its new car.

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BASH: Now the political world is catching up to corporate America in online advertising.

(on camera): The Chamber of Commerce is using brand new technology to help seven house Republicans candidates in New York State. The technology allows them to target voters by finding their computers in specific zip codes. Like out here on Long island in 11954. Voters click on YouTube and they will see an ad against Democrat Tim Bishop.

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AD NARRATOR: Where was Congressman Bishop when they wanted to push energy bills higher?

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BASH: Voters in central New York, in a different zip code, will see a different ad, with one that promotes its Republican Congresswoman Anrie Berkell (ph).

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AD NARRATOR: Berkell (ph) is fighting Obama-care.

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BASH: This technology became available in March. Corporations used it, but it's the first time it's being used in public policy.

SCOTT REED, U.S. CHAMBER OF COMMERCE: We believe it's the first time it's being done in such an aggressive manner and such a sophisticated manner.

BASH: Long-time GOP strategist, Scott Reed, now with the Chamber of Commerce, says these ads will pop up for a two-week trial run while the same ads will be on TV.

YouTube users cannot not watch the ad. Those who do watch will be watched themselves. YouTube will gather key information, like estimated age, gender, and interest. It also tests the ad's messages.

REED: We're able to go in and look at how long people are on the ads, if they like the ads and stay to the end of the ad. They stay on more for a positive ad or a contract ad.

BASH: Dan Maffei is a Democrat, challenging an incumbent Republican the Chamber is posting ads for. He argues this new frontier in political ads won't help what he calls a flawed message.

DAN MAFFEI, (D), NEW YORK CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: You have to talk to voters. You can't just spoon feed them. They know what they're interested in. And they can see through things like this, because they know Anrie Berkell's (ph) record is one of trying to end Medicare as we know it and, again, raise taxes on working families.

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MALVEAUX: Dana Bash joins us live.

Dana, I remember it seemed pretty cutting edge, right, back in 2008, the Obama campaign started texting us all the time. And now it's taken a whole -- it's gone to a whole new level here. BASH: Yes.

MALVEAUX: First of all, is there any way that you can like stop it? You know, like if you were on YouTube and you're like, I don't want to see this ad?

BASH: That's a great question. The answer is yes. The way YouTube works with these particular ads is you have five seconds to hit close ad, and if you close it, it's done. And by the way, whomever is putting up the ad, in this case the Chamber of Commerce, they don't pay for it in that case. There's sometimes, when you click on some web sites, it's called a forced watch, not in this case.

MALVEAUX: They are actually using zip codes to figure out where we are and which district and which candidate is trying to target which voting group? How does that work?

BASH: Exactly. That is what is so knew about this particular technology. The Obama campaign back in 2008 used zip codes to contact people and to locate people and to help gather their voters list on cell phones, et cetera. Our understanding is that they have not used this technology quite yet in terms of actually putting out political ads on YouTube, but it's only a matter of time. In fact, Suzanne, our team was surfing around on YouTube to get a sense of this story, and we actually clicked on a Justin Bieber video, and up popped --

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BASH: -- it wasn't an Obama campaign ad, but it was an ad for -- against Mitt Romney on a Justin Bieber video. It was not zip code targeted, but it gives you an idea of how pervasive these ads are becoming, following the corporate world.

MALVEAUX: Yes. That's really strange. You wouldn't expect that would be the case. Yes, Justin Bieber, all the Bieber lovers or whatever, they're going to see these political ads.

BASH: Go figure.

MALVEAUX: Is it expensive for them to do? We talk about the money being poured into the campaigns.

BASH: It could ad up. We're told by Google officials that the average cost of a click is 10 cents to 15 cents a click. It doesn't sound like that much but the cost depends on how many clicks they get. The more people they get to watch the ads, the more expensive it is. It definitely does seem to be -- to have the potential to be much more cost-effective for these political campaigns and for these outside groups to do this on the web, not only because of the small cost per click, but also because they really can get, sometimes maybe a scary way for us consumers, a lot of feedback on the demographic, on the kind of person who is watching --

MALVEAUX: Right.

BASH: -- their age, gender, and also what they think about this ad depending on where they stop watching it.

MALVEAUX: Right, right. A lot of information they're able to gather.

Thank you, Dana. Really appreciate it.

We're not going to tell who went to that Bieber ad, who was the Bieber fan there.

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Thanks, Dana.

BASH: I'll admit it.

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MALVEAUX: It was you. I knew it.

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Herman Cain, remember him? The former pizza mogul and GOP candidate isn't exactly a kingmaker in the race for the White House, but it has not stopped him from coming out today to endorse Mitt Romney for president. Not surprising.

First stage of recovering is admitting you have a problem. But now there's a new definition of how much is too much when it comes to alcohol. It will make a lot of party people take a hard look in the mirror.

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MALVEAUX: Doctors are considering dramatically expanding the definition of addiction. 20 million more Americans could be classified as addicts. So things like drinking more alcohol than you intended, developing a higher tolerance, or spending a long time recovering from a hangover could land you with a, quote, "alcohol use disorder." Many addiction experts support this move.

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BOB FORREST, DRUG COUNSELOR, CELEBRITY REHAB: Why are so many of our young people abusing drugs -- alcohol to the level of, you know, 0.30 alcohol levels and being admitted to emergency rooms. Why is this encouraged and why aren't the universities stepping up and doing something about alcohol abuse on their campuses. That's what this is about. 40 percent of our college kids would now be considered alcoholic rather than just a rite of passage.

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MALVEAUX: Critics say the changes would carry a huge price tag for tax pairs and boost health care costs as well.

At-home HIV tests are one step closer to getting in stores across the country. And FDA advisory panel recommends approving these tests for sale. The tests allow people to find out if they are HIV positive by swabbing the inside of their mouths in the privacy of their own homes. The tests give instant results, much like pregnancy tests. If the FDA does approve them, they're going to be the first over-the- counter test for an infectious disease.

They were making cameras, so what was Kodak doing with the key ingredient for a nuclear weapon?

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MALVEAUX: Shocking revelations from Kodak. The camera company once used highly enriched uranium. We're talking about nuclear bomb- grade material.

Brian Todd has the details.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was kept in a subbasement cavity in an underground labyrinth near a place called Building 82, deep in the heart of a research complex. It was called the California Flux Multiplier, or CFX. About the size of a refrigerator, it utilized highly enriched uranium, the stuff nuclear bombs are made of. It wasn't at some arms factory in the old Soviet Union, but at Kodak. That's right, the company that brought us the instamatic camera.

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ALBERT FILO, SCIENTIST, FORMER KODAK EMPLOYEE: The walls surrounding it were two feet of enriched concrete. The ceiling over it was, again, two feet of concrete and then eight feet of earth. So it was really a well-shielded instrument.

TODD: Albert Filo is a scientist who worked with the device for 13 years at Kodak's research lab in Rochester, New York.

(on camera): The CFX was a nuclear reactor that produced neutrons that Kodak says was used to test chemicals and products like film for impurities. Kodak operated it for more than 30 years until it was disassembled in 2007. Kodak said it never intended to hide the CFX, but the fact that the company was handling highly enriched uranium was never highly publicized.

FILO: As soon as you mention nuclear, it sends up red flags and bells and whistles go off, and people have a natural aversion to it. So they probably didn't want to arouse the local neighborhood.

TODD (voice-over): Both Filo and a Kodak spokesman say the CFX was safe, that no radiation ever leaked out, that it wasn't in the concentrated form needed to make a weapon and it was well secured. Still --

EDWIN LYMAN, UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS: We don't want Iran to have it, it's OK for Kodak to have it?

If you have enough highly enriched uranium, you can use it to make a nuclear weapon. In smaller quantities, it might not be enough, but you can always imagine an adversary that is coordinate coordinated could steal enough in different areas to consolidate and have enough for a bomb.

TODD: Kodak had about 3.5 pounds of uranium at a time -- well, under the 45 pounds it takes to make a weapon. But a bomb that could severely damage a city doesn't have to be big.

(on camera): The scale is very modest, not too much highly enriched uranium need for a 10 kiloton bomb, right?

COL. RANDALL LARSEN, WMD CENTER: It would fit in this container.

TODD: That's all?

LARSEN: That's all you need of highly enriched uranium. What we call the improvised nuclear device, the IND, would fit in the minivan you see going down the street behind me.

TODD: Kodak is not the only non-government entity that's handled nuclear materials. There are 31 research reactors in the U.S. Most of them are at universities. But some private companies like Dow Chemical, G.E., Hitachi and Arrow Test have them.

Still, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission says most of them use lower enriched fuel.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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MALVEAUX: All right. A nod to my friend, Ashleigh Banfield.

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CNN NEWSROOM continues with you.

ASHLEIGH BANFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: I get it. I see you, Suzanne Malveaux.

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Very nice.