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Bride-To-Be Dead After Boating Accident In New York, Best Man Still Missing; San Diego Mayor Accused Of Sexual Harassment By Several Women; Major Flooding In Western North Carolina; New Push To Track Down Surviving Nazi Officers From WWII; "Our Nixon" Shows Never- Before-Seen Footage Shot By Nixon Aides

Aired July 27, 2013 - 15:00   ET

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PAMELA BROWN, CNN ANCHOR: It is 3:00 p.m. on the east coast, noon on the west. Welcome to the CNN NEWSROOM and thank you for spending part of your Saturday with us. I'm Pamela Brown in for Fredricka Whitfield.

And here are some of the top stories we're following today.

A bride-to-be is dead after what was supposed to be a night of fun of boating ended violently in New York. Her wedding was just two weeks away. The best man is still missing at this hour.

A mayor is accused of sexual harassment by seven women. But instead of stepping down, he seeks treatment. We asked a psychologist if staying in power gets him away from recovery.

And there is a stomach bug going around and it is a nasty one. Our senior medical correspondent takes a closer look at the virus that could land you in the hospital.

ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.

BROWN: But first, I want to get to this breaking news.

Major flooding is sweeping through towns north of Charlotte, North Carolina at this hour. A state of emergency has been declared there in Catawba County. I hope I pronounced that one right. We are going to look now -- look at this video posted on You Tube of flooding in Hickory, North Carolina. Unbelievable images coming out of North Carolina this hour. That's about an hour away from Charlotte. And this looks like somebody's backyard just completely flooded, completely submerged in water there.

Jennifer Delgado has been tracking the situation for us.

Incredible images out of North Carolina, Jennifer.

JENNIFER DELGADO, AMS METEOROLOGIST: That's right. We are looking at flash flooding coming out of counties as you say Catawba as well as Hickory County.

Now, you look at the video there and you see all the rain that's all the result of flooding there. Well, that is after -- the rain started coming down around 4:00 a.m. And by 8:00 a.m., there were already seeing reports of streets and creeks actually already overflowing. And of course, we talk about flash flooding all the time and how it's the number one weather-related killer.

Now, as we head to our radar, we want to show you some of the storms moving through North Carolina. They've really been moving very slowly, almost as if they were training on top of areas of Charlotte as well as in the Hickory and as we also said into Lincoln County. Now, what we have seen in some of these locations, anywhere between three and five inches of rainfall.

We just got off the phone with the national weather service and here are some of the totals we are seeing now. In Hickory, nearly five inches of rainfall, for Asheville as well, almost 1.6 inches of rainfall. So, these areas are going to be potentially looking at flooding even as we go through the evening hours. And we do have flash flood watches in effect. It looks like, until about midnight to some of these counties.

But this gives you an idea of some of the precipitation that came down over the last 12 hours. You can see this bull's eye, this zone here, of the heavier rain falls. As we said three to five inches, and when you see all that rain coming down in such a short period of time, it has nowhere to go but flood those streets now.

And you see some of these streets out there and you are thinking, maybe I can drive through that, but keep in mind, it only takes six inches of rainfall for your car to wash away. And that's why we have these flood watches in place you can see anywhere in green. And in blue, we also have flood warnings here and that's for flash flooding, and that includes hickory as well as into Winston Salem and all the way down to South Carolina.

Now, we have some more video in to us, and this is once again just showing you the result of this heavy rainfall.

Pamela, it's shocking to think that all this rain that's been coming down can basically turn this into what looks to be a river, but we're actually looking at a roadway that is actually just overflowing.

Now, for areas like Catawba where they have seen five inches of rainfall, we have even had reports where some people were saying eight to 10 inches. We haven't been able to confirm that yet, but this whole area is what potentially deadly and dangerous through the evening, and that's why those watches are in place.

Now, as we go back over to our graphic here, Pamela, we are not done with the rain yet. We could still see a half inch of rainfall in some of these storms that come down through North Carolina. And certainly, this danger is not over yet, you know. The national weather service says turn around, don't drown, and that is certainly some good advice.

BROWN: Yes, don't even try it if you are in North Carolina right now.

And we want to talk about how officials are handling the situation. Mark Pettit is on the phone with it. He is the assistant director of emergency services there in Catawba County, North Carolina.

Mark, tell us, what's the situation right now?

MARK PETTIT, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, EMERGENCY SERVICE, CATAWBA COUNTY (via phone): Well, in the moment, it has stopped raining at least our emergency operation center, but we are expecting more rain this afternoon. We are hoping the worst of it is behind us. We currently have approximately 52 that have been closed, six of which according to the department transportation will be closed for a minimum of three months due to the extensive damage that's been done to them. We have a number of sinkholes that have occurred due to the rain and the number of water rescues that our emergency responders handled this morning.

BROWN: Tell me about the swift water rescues. We're looking at video right now, You Tube video there in Hickory, North Carolina of someone's backyard. It looks like a river, just unbelievable to think that -- to look at this amount of flooding there. What has the situation been with the rescues, how many people? Have people been heeding warnings to stay off the roads?

PETTIT: It has gotten better as the day has progressed. I don't think anybody anticipated this happening when they got up this morning, so some people were out and about and happened to get caught. We've been very, very fortunate. We have not suffered any serious injuries because of the swift water. We did have two citizens that had to be rescued from a stream because of the swift water, but the information I have is that both of them or neither of them received any serious injuries.

BROWN: OK. Mark Pettit, thank you so much. We want to continue monitoring this situation here. We have someone else on the phone. He is actually Dion Burleson with Lincoln County, and he is going to update us on the situation now. He's a public information officer there.

Dion, what can you tell us?

DION BURLESON, PUBLIC INFORMATION OFFICER, LINCOLN NORTH CAROLINA (via phone): Right now, the Lincoln county emergency services are steadily still working to sort through the damage that we have had in this disaster area. We have had between eight and 10 inches of rain here in the western portion of Lincoln County over the past 12 hours, and this has certainly devastated this area.

There have been multiple water rescues that have taken place out here as well as roads that have washed away, and the bridges have been washed away as well. Right now, the biggest problem that we are having is trying to keep people away from driving through flooded areas. There have been a couple vehicles that have washed off the roadway and have flipped and gone downstream. Luckily those people were able to be rescued or they self-rescued themselves out of that situation.

We have no fatalities or injuries noted right now, but the damage assessment is still ongoing and it is quite substantial. Here in Lincoln County, we do have one shelter that is opened up for residents that are either cut off from their homes or they have no power or they're heavily impacted by this disaster.

BROWN: Dangerous situation there, Dion. And it seems like this would have happened suddenly. And you knew the rain was coming, but were you all expecting this kind of flooding to happen there?

BURLESON: Absolutely not. As the local forecast was, a significant chance of storms, but it seems the storm system just came and it became stationary and constant rain just continued training right across this same region. It was just heavy, torrential downpours and it was not predicted to be like this. We understand that situations like this or difficult to predict.

BROWN: Right, of course. And we are just fortunate that there aren't any serious injuries and we hope that it stays that way.

Thank you so much, Dion Burleson there in Lincoln County, North Carolina.

All right, I want to move to New York where a bride-to-be is dead and her groom is in the hospital, a very tragic story here. This all happen after their, both crashed into a barge in New York. Rescuers found the young woman's body in the Hudson River earlier this afternoon and the best man is still missing at this hour. In addition to the groom-to-be, three others were badly injured in the accident.

Alina Cho is following this story in New York.

Alina, so tragic to think the bride-to-be, her body was found two weeks before her wedding. What else do you know, Alina?

ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Since we last spoke a few hours ago, Pamela, we were able to confirm that searchers did recover the body of one of the two people missing in this boating accident. That body is that of 30-year-old Lindsay Stewart, a bride-to-be who was due to be married exactly two weeks from today, her whole life ahead of her. The search is now on and continues for the other missing person who is said to be the best man in the wedding.

We should tell you that this is officially a rescue mission, but as the hours passed, even officials admit that it becomes less and less likely that this man will be found alive.

Meanwhile, here is what we can tell you about what caused all of this, what happened last night. From what we know, a small speedboat carrying six passengers in all left a nearby Marina at about 10:00 last night; just minutes after this small boat hit a barge connected to the Tappan Zee bridge behind me. Two people were ejected. Four people suffered massive head injuries but survived. Among those survivors was the groom, who apparently at the time was knocked unconscious, and when he came to, called 911. Here's what officials said happened next.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ROBERT VANCURA, UNDERSHERIFF, ROCKLAND COUNTY: That the 911 center received a call about 10:41 last evening about -- from the boat that they had struck an unknown object in the river, and they needed help. They had two people overboard, four people on board with serious injuries. It is difficult to see barges which are low in the water and dark at night, and last night was pretty hard.

CHO: Now, this barge apparently did have lights on it both in the front and in the back, but as you just heard, it was very, very dark last night.

One final note, Pamela, I did get just off the phone with a stepfather of Lindsay Stewart who obviously was in a state of shock, and after a few minutes he told me he had to get off the phone to speak to the coroner -- Pamela.

BROWN: Just a horrific story there, Alina Cho. And as we mentioned, the best man who was supposed to be in this wedding in two weeks still missing.

So, please just let us know what happens out there. Thank you.

San Diego's mayor is hoping therapy or behavior therapy, as he calls it, will be the answer to saving his career following a flood of sexual harassment allegations. Bob Filner announced yesterday he will not step down from office, opting instead for two weeks of quote "intensive therapy." Seven women have accused Filner of groping, kissing and other inappropriate contact. And here is how one of his accusers reacted -- accusers rather, reacted to his decision to get help.

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LAURA FINK, ACCUSED MAYOR FILNER OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT: I think where you can detect whether he is sincere or not is in his commitment to action. And right now, he is committing to only two weeks of therapy to address years of reprehensible behavior. And I think if he was serious about that, he would step aside and dedicate take the time and the energy that it would requires to make a recovery or to address this behavior.

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BROWN: And just ahead, I'm going to talk to a psychologist who treats this type of addiction and ask her whether the position of power, as just mayor, stands in the way through recovery. So be sure to stick around for that.

In the meantime, I want to go over Spain now. A judge has overnight to decide whether to officially charge the engineer in the train driver on Wednesday's suddenly crashed in Spain. At least 78 people were killed in the wreck. The driver is in custody and is accused of reckless homicide.

Karl Penhaul joins us from the crash site with an update for us.

Hi, Karl.

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Pam. And I just want to set the scene for you. We are now actually down at the police station in the city of Santiago de Compostela about three miles from where the accident actually happened. And it's been a poignant scene here for part of the afternoon at least, because relatives of some of the dead and badly injured have been coming here and picking up their suitcases and other parts of their luggage. I think that's one of the things that rarely we think about after an accident of this type, what happened to the luggage? What happened to the belongings of the people that may have died?

But the other significance of this building also is this is where the train driver is being held, and this morning the police announced they were formally accusing him of reckless homicide in the case of this accident. But still, it's the judge who will decide whether to press formal charges, and he has until tomorrow evening to decide whether he would also share the interpretation of the police of the evidence and decide to press ahead with those charges. So, we have to wait and see what his decision may be.

But we have heard from the minister of the interior earlier today that he said this so far the train driver is refusing to cooperate with him. He hasn't spoken to them to give any of the details of what happened in the seconds around the crash time -- Pam.

BROWN: All right. Karl Penhaul there for us in Spain. Thank you for an update on that story.

Nearly 70 years after World War II, there is a new push to track down any surviving Nazis. We are going to have details on what's been called operation last chance.

Also ahead, new home movies of President Richard Nixon, a new documentary features a never-before-seen film taken by his aides. We are going to talk to one of the producers of that documentary right after this break.

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BROWN: Welcome back to newsroom, everybody. The mayor of San Diego is getting counseling after sexual allegations. And the man who wants to be the mayor of New York is facing more questions about his racy text messages. They are both in the middle of scandals involving their personal lives that could forever change their political careers.

Ahead, we will talk about what's next for Mayor Bob Filner and mayoral candidate Anthony Weiner. And we will take a look at a movie out this weekend about a racially charged case involving a police officer shooting an unarmed young man. Some say the story has parallels to the Martin Trayvon shooting.

And then later, a new documentary about President Richard Nixon, we will show you some home video of him that's been hidden away until now. A really, really interesting documentary there, and you will not want to miss that.

But first, across the U.S., early three million grandparents are raising their grandchildren. This week, CNN hero is addressing their unique needs, retiree suddenly force to become parents once again. Meet Sylvie de Toledo.

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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) BROWN: The race for mayor of New York seemed to have turned into a referendum of sorts on Anthony Weiner. The former congressman was the front runner for the Democratic nomination, but that was before the new revelations about his sexting habits with other women after he resigned from Congress. Now, he's trailing Christine Quinn, the head of the New York City council, so Weiner brought his wife into the mix, hoping to save his campaign.

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HUMA ABEDIN, ANTHONY WEINER'S WIFE: Anthony has made some horrible mistakes, both before he resigned from Congress and after. But I do very strongly believe that that is between us and our marriage. We discussed all of this before Anthony decided to run for mayor.

So really, what I want to say is, I love him, I have forgiven him, I believe in him, and as we have said from the beginning, we are moving forward.

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BROWN: All right. To talk about this, CNN senior political analyst Ron Brownstein, editorial director of the "National Journal: in Washington, and also Julian Epstein, a Democratic strategist and we should mention a friend of Mr. Weiner's wife. And he joins us from Miami.

Thank you both for being here with us.

I just want to start with this. There have been calls for Weiner to drop out of the race. But my question is, why, Ron, did he join the race in the first place and so soon after he was exhibiting this kind of behavior, as he admitted as recently as last summer?

RON BROWNSTEIN, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Yes. I mean, it is extraordinary. The decision, in light of the new revelations, the decision to come into the race is as reckless as the underlying behavior itself. Several centuries ago, Shakespeare wrote murder will out. In the 20th century, the rule of thumb for politics is everything will out. And you know, you have to assume that every portion of your life is going to be public. And, you know, in this case it really is an instance of bait and switch. There is no question that voters, donors, everyone in the political process would view the information that he continued this behavior after he left Congress as relevant, the family chose not to make it public. And, you know, I can imagine there are a lot of people who have supported Weiner in the early stage of this race who feel that they have been given kind of a bad deal by the family, by the candidate, even by his wife.

BROWN: Yes, Julian, what do you think about this? Because as we have heard, Weiner has come out before and said there could be more pictures, sex coming out. But he didn't come clean as to when that was happening. He didn't come clean with his donors, either.

Do you think they should feel duped, Julian? JULIAN EPSTEIN, DEMOCRATIC STRATEGIST: I think that's exactly the point. I think people are not going to give you a third chance if you are lying to them when you ask them about a second chance. And I think the likelihood of Anthony Weiner winning this election is virtually nil. His numbers are dropping very, very quickly. If in the very unlikely event he could win the primary and be forced into a runoff, the entire Democratic apparatus, the labor unions, all the different vast apparatus -- apparati of the Democratic would mobilize against him, so I think virtually there is no chance he could be the democratic nominee. In the unlikely event that would happen, I think you would see a lot of crossover votes, Democrats voting for Republicans. Remember, Democrats have not won the last six mayoral elections, so I think the likelihood of Weiner winning this race is just about nothing.

In addition to all the points I think Ron made, the kind of all of the bizarre character traits that this shows about him, his many lies on top of lies, his very poor judgment, the very stupid way in which he proceed on -- in which he behaved, he doesn't have the kind of redeeming qualities that, say, a Bill Clinton or an Eliot Spitzer had.

I was serving as chief counsel of the Judiciary Committee. He was on it. He had very few compliments as a member of Congress. He doesn't have, I don't think, very compelling political skills. And when he was on the hill, he had virtually no friends among the colleagues or amongst his staff. So, his reservoir of support would fall back on a time, but this is virtually nothing as well.

BROWN: All right, Ron. Let's talk about Weiner's wife, Houma Aberdin. I mean, arguably, she is his greatest asset, in fact, I think most agree he wouldn't be in this race if it weren't for her. She's a politically savvy woman, and for the most part, well respected, and she could have her own political aspirations. But do you think this could be damaging for her, Ron, coming out, speaking at his press conference, supporting him like this?

BROWNSTEIN: Well, I think, you know, I think there is that risk, and the story is somewhat tilted. And look the internal dynamics of a marriage, no one is going to pass judgment on. We have learned over the last 20 years and you cited the example of Bill Clinton that Americans are very reluctant to kind of get involved in casting, you know, casting the first stone. Everybody understands, everybody has done something they don't want to read on the front page of their local newspaper.

On the other hand, the fact that the indications are that she was aware that this conduct had continued after he left office, you know, was aware of that before he entered the race, you know, that really changes things, I think. As I said, I think people in New York have a reason to feel duped. There was a somewhat plausible path way for him. He was positioning himself as a candidate of the Burroughs. He put together a Bill Clintonesque kind of detailed, new Democrat reform agenda. Even then, even before this, I thought it would be very difficult for him to get all the way to the finish line with voters' focus. I think after this, I agree with Julian, I mean, his odds are pretty close to mathematical zero. And I don't think anybody as sympathetic as the wife is as a wronged person. I don't think even she comes out fully unscathed because of the nature of holding back what is clearly enormously relevant information.

EPSTEIN: Let me push back on that, because as you said in the introduction, I've been a friend of Huma for about a decade. She is a beloved figure. She is just extraordinary in so many ways, and I think she is just widely, widely loved. People will interpret this, I think, as an act of extreme loyalty, if you will. Anybody that knows when she worked for Hillary Clinton, she would put in 18, 19-hour days. She was fiercely loyal. She is loved by the Clintons. I think she gets a pass.

The problem, however, though, is that because of the connection between Huma and the Clintons, people will start asking Hillary Clinton, does she support Anthony Weiner? Where does she stand on Anthony Weiner, particularly, if he were to get into the runoff.

Similarly, in the unlikely event, Ron and I both agreed it's mathematically zero the probability of him winning, but in the event he were to get past the runoff or even get elected, then the Republican party would seek to make him the poster child of the Democratic Party.

So the Democratic Party and I think the Clintons want absolutely nothing to do with Anthony Weiner. Huma, I think, is the unfortunate victim who is caught in the crossfire, but I think at the end of the day, she still comes out as a beloved figure because she is an extraordinary woman.

BROWN: You know, it's easy for us to sit here and judge, but relationships are deeply complex, and as you said, she's a blood figure.

EPSTEIN: Yes, she is.

BROWN: So, all right, Ron Brownstein, Julian Epstein, thank you so much for your insights.

EPSTEIN: Thank you for having us.

BROWN: And moving along to other news today, San Diego's embattled mayor has a lot on the line as he seeks therapy for sexual harassment. Just ahead, I will ask a psychologist who treat sex and behavioral addict whether staying in office risk a relapse.

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BROWN: Welcome back to the NEWSROOM. San Diego's mayor is balking at calls for him to resign. Instead, Bob Filner says he's seeking two weeks of intensive counseling to treat what calls, quote, "inappropriate behavior." Seven women have come forward accusing Filner of sexual harassment. And this is how one of his accusers described an alleged incident that happened in 2009 when Filner was a Congressman.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MORGAN ROSE, ACCUSED MAYOR FILNER OF SEXUAL HARASSMENT: He got up, he came over, he sat next to me in the booth, pinning me in. And I don't remember, because it was such a suspension of time and space in my life. This was so unexpected that -- I don't remember if he directly asked for a kiss or tried to kiss me, but it became - it was very uncomfortable.

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BROWN: Joining me now to discuss this, Judy Ho. She is a licensed clinical psychologist, and she joins me from Los Angeles. Nice to see you. Thanks for being here, Judy.

JUDY HO, CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGIST: Thank you, Pamela.

BROWN: So Mayor Filner here is accused of groping, unwanted kissing, another harassment. He's saying he's going to seek therapy. But is being in a position of power like mayor, could that get in the way of healing and getting better?

HO: Absolutely, Pamela. You know, we talk a lot when we talk about behavioral treatments of things like sex addictions, and we think about triggers for those behaviors, things that might set up the individual to reoffend or participate in those behaviors once again. And for him, you know, being in the position of mayor, he has the position of power, he has access to these women. He might be able to get away with certain things. We've certainly seen that in other politicians as well throughout history. And I think it puts him at risk of reoffending because that environment is just making him so susceptible to getting into his old patterns again.

BROWN: Yes. And you know you talk about power. We've seen Anthony Weiner, Eliot Spitzer, Mark Sanford, all in trouble over sexual misconduct. Do you think this kind of behavior is fueled by power? Is it more common among people in power, or we're just hearing more of it?

HO: Well, that's a really good question, and I think it's a decision between whether or not we think the problem is really more like an addiction or is the problem more like the person has a personality disorder? So, you know, when somebody is a narcissist, we hear that term oftentimes, it's that position of power and that drive is really what fuels that behavior. It's like, what can they get away with? and they just keep escalating after that, just testing the waters.

So I'm not exactly sure which one it is for Mayor Filner, but I think with the people that he's offended, I think they would say he probably is a narcissist who is just trying to get away with it.

BROWN: OK, all right. We'll have to see what happens with him. Judy Ho, thank you so much.

HO: Thank you.

BROWN: A new film recounts a racially charged case that's drawing comparison to the Trayvon Martin case. Next up, we're going to take a look back at that shooting of a young man at a San Francisco transit station in 2009. We'll be right back.

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BROWN: The George Zimmerman trial bears a resemblance to another racially charged incident, the case of Oscar Grant. He is the subject of a new film releasing this weekend called "Fruitvale Station." That's a subway station in San Francisco where a transit police officer shot and killed Oscar Grant was shot. Kyung Lah takes a look at the incident and the fallout from that case. And just a warning for you: some of the video in this story may be difficult to watch for some viewers.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The video is shot from a distance but what happens is unmistakable.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let him go.

LAH: Multiple cell phone cameras rolled at the Fruitvale BART Station as transit police handcuffed four young men on New Year's Day 2009. The men were already seated, at least one handcuffed. Police forced 22-year-old Oscar Grant to the ground, face down, handcuffing him. Officer Johannes Mehserle draws what he says he thought was his taser but listen. It was his handgun.

CROWD: Oh!

LAH: It was his handgun.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You just shot him!

LAH: The point blank shot by the white officer into the back of the unarmed Oscar Grant killed him. Violent and fiery protest erupted in the wake of Grant's death and cries of police brutality against African-American men. The officer was arrested and charged with murder. The city was riveted by the trial and then came the verdict: guilty of a lesser charge, involuntary manslaughter. The nerve touched again.

That was 2010, and the officer is now a free man, spending less than a year behind bars.

(on camera): Here in Oakland, Oscar Grant's death represents the very worst of gun violence and racism. His case may be over, but the problem is not. Today's Oscar Grant has a new name, Trayvon Martin.

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BROWN: That was Kyung Lah reporting there.

It has been 68 years since the Holocaust, and still some Nazi camp guards are on the loose? We'll tell you about a new push to catch these surviving war criminals just ahead

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) BROWN: There is a new push to catch surviving Nazi war criminals, and Nazi hunters are asking the public to help. CNN's Dan Rivers has the details from London.

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DAN RIVERS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sixty-eight years on the hunt for the men that presided over one of the darkest chapters in human history is still on. Two thousand of these posters are being put up in Hamburg, Cologne and Berlin, offering large rewards for information leading to the capture of Nazi camp guards. The phrase, "Late, but never too late," is featured over a photo to the entrance to Auschwitz.

The horror perpetrated behind these famous gates is unimaginable. That some of those responsible may still have evaded justice is unbearable for survivors like Renee Salt. Her entire family perished; somehow she survived both Auschwitz and Belsen, but has never forgotten what she saw.

RENEE SALT, HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: Here we saw skeletons walking, their bones protruding through their raggedy remains of skin, and their eyes bulged out grotesquely out of their faces. Some were dressed in rags, others were naked, and the stench that arose from the camp is impossible to describe. The water supply had been cut off weeks before I got there. No wonder the dirt and the stench and the vermin.

RIVERS: The Simon Wiesenthal Centre, which is running the poster campaign, estimates there may still be up to 60 former Nazis living in Germany.

EFRAIM ZUROFF, DIRECTOR OF JERUSALEM BRANCH, SIMON WIESENTHAL CENTRE: We are basically turning to the public in Germany and saying please help us bring these people to justice. They don't deserve to live out their lives in piece and tranquility. And we're ready to offer a prize of up to 25,000 euros for information that will lead to a successful legal action.

RIVERS: Renee Salt thinks it should have been done earlier.

SALT: Hardly serves any purpose because they might be in their 90s now. So -- but if they can catch them, by all means. Every one is worth catching. Every one of them. But I survived only because I was together with my mother. She kept me going, and I kept her going right to the end. Unfortunately, she died 12 days after liberation.

RIVERS: Now she hopes Operation Last Chance will mean she lives to see all the men responsible for the atrocities of Nazi Germany finally brought to justice.

Dan Rivers, CNN, London.

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BROWN: Powerful to hear her story. And we're going to have more on the hunt to bring the last of the Nazis to justice tomorrow. Rabbi Marvin Hire from the Simon Wiesenthal Centre will join us live with the latest details. And we hope you'll join us then, tomorrow.

A former infantry sergeant in Vietnam was the only survivor of an attack on his platoon. His life since the war has not been easy, but he has faced his challenges with courage and started a program to help other veterans and people with disabilities. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has his story in this week's Human Factor.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was 1968. Infantry Platoon Sergeant Urban Miyares was on patrol in Vietnam.

URBAN MIYARES, VIETNAM VETERAN: As we were going out, going by the rice paddies in the delta, I hear mortar shells going off and machine guns going off. Next thing I know I found myself falling face first into a rice paddy. That's it. Two days later, I woke up in a Saigon Military Hospital. They told me I was lucky. They found me in a body bag.

GUPTA: You heard that right. Urban was put in a body bag presumed dead because he was found unconscious. An astute combat medic had discovered him still breathing.

MIYARES: The diagnosis was diabetes.

GUPTA: Urban hadn't been hit by the enemy. He passed out from the effects of the disease. He was the only soldier in his platoon to survive.

MIYARES: If it wasn't been for diabetes, I probably wouldn't be here.

GUPTA: The 45 years since had been a roller coaster ride as well. Urban has been legally blind since the '70s. He lost most of his hearing. He needed a kidney transplant, but one thing, sailing, that kept him afloat.

MIYARES: When I went to Vietnam and came back so sick and especially with the eyesight loss, I never thought I'd get into sailing again until I met two gentlemen in wheelchairs, Vietnam era veterans.

GUPTA: The three of them together started Challenged America. It's a therapeutic sailing program for people with disabilities, primarily veterans.

MIYARES: Sailing is therapy. There's nothing like being on the water, being with nature.

GUPTA: The program now has 27 modified sailboats based in San Diego. Urban's goal is to help the world see people with disabilities as equals.

MIYARES: It's nice. You get front of the line privileges, as I like to say. That's not what we're doing here. We want to be equal with you. Give us a chance to prove that we can do it, and you may be surprised.

GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.

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BROWN: Inspiring.

Well, a new movie on former President Nixon airs this Thursday on CNN. It takes a fresh look at his term in the White House with hours of never-before-seen home video footage. The co-producer of that film, Brian Frye, joins me right after this break. We'll be right back.

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BROWN: President Nixon's term in the White House will forever be overshadowed by the Watergate scandal. But a new CNN films a documentary airing next Thursday takes a look at a different side of the president. The film includes never-before-seen home movies shot by three of his aides, H.R. Haldeman, John Ehrlichman, and Dwight Chapin. In one audio clip, Nixon talks about the popular sitcom "All In The Family" and what he perceives as the show's glorification of homosexuality. Take a listen.

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RICHARD NIXON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I told Bob the other day, I was trying to tune into the damn baseball game, and then the game went off, and CBS came on with a movie. That two magnificent handsome guys and a stupid old fellow in it. They were glorifying homosexuality!

JOHN EHRLICHMAN, FORMER WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL: Was that a panel show?

NIXON: Hell no! It was a movie.

H.R. HALDEMAN, NIXON'S CHIEF OF STAFF: No, that's a regular show. It's on every week. And usually it's just set in the guy's home. It's usually just that guy, who is a hardhat.

NIXON: That's right, he's a hardhat.

HALDEMAN: And you know he just looks like a slob.

NIXON: Looks like Jackie Gleason.

HALDEMAN: And then he has this hippie son-in-law.

NIXON: Yes.

HALDEMAN: And usually the general trend of it is to downgrade him and upgrade the hippie son-in-law! And make the square hardhat out to be bad.

EHRLICHMAN: What's it called? I've never seen it.

NIXON: Archie is the guy's name.

EHRLICHMAN: Now that's real family entertainment, isn't it? NIXON: The point that I make is that (EXPLETIVE DELETED), I do not think that you glorify on public television homosexuality! You ever see what - you know what happened to the Greeks? Homosexuality destroyed them.

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BROWN: Brian Frye, co-producer, "Our Nixon," join us now from my hometown of Lexington, Kentucky. He joins us via Skype. Brian, thank you for talking with us about this.

I have to say, I watched this last night. It was truly riveting to see these home videos. And, you know, you picked up this mammoth project. You went through hundreds of reels to put this movie together. What surprised you most? What did you learn that surprised you most about Nixon?

BRIAN FRYE, CO-PRODUCER, "OUR NIXON": About Nixon? Less than about his aides, actually. You know, they have kind of become caricatures over the years, and for good reason, right? People really only knew about them only through the Watergate hearings and their conviction of various crimes. So, we really learned about them as not just criminals but as human beings, too, and tried to kind of convey a complex sense of their character.

BROWN: But just give me more of an idea of what can we learn in this movie about Nixon that we didn't already know before?

FRYE: Well, I think you learn about his relationship to his staff members and the people around him. You know, everyone knows Nixon as a public figure, but I think few people know Nixon as a person relating to other people immediately around him.

BROWN: All right. We want to actually listen quickly to a sound bite that he talks about his trip to China. Let's take a listen.

FRYE: Sure.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The thing about the flight to China was -- one of the things was that it was just kind of surreal. The plane is taking off to go to China and we've got a television set there watching us take off. I mean, everything about that trip was televised. I mean, it was a production from start to finish.

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BROWN: Looks fascinating. All right, Brian Frye, we look forward to watching this. And you can watch "Our Nixon" right here on CNN. That's this coming Thursday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern and Pacific. Thanks for joining us, Brian.

FRYE: My pleasure, thank you.

BROWN: All right. We'll be right back right after this commercial break. And we hope you stick around.

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BROWN: Now, a quick check of some of the top stories we are following today.

A young bride-to-be is dead, and her groom is in the hospital after their party boat crashed into a barge in New York's Hudson River. Rescuers found the young woman's body earlier this afternoon. And the best man is still missing at this hour. In addition to the groom, three others were badly injured in the accident.

Torrential downpours quickly started flash floods in North Carolina today. Look at these pictures we have here. States of emergency have been declared in some of the counties, but the officials we've talked to say no one has been seriously hurt.

And a judge has until tomorrow evening to decide whether to formally charge the driver of the train that crashed in Spain Wednesday, killing at least 78 people. Police have accused Jose Francisco Garzon of reckless homicide and have him in custody.

All right, well, that does it for me today. Thank you so much for spending the afternoon with us here in the NEWSROOM this Saturday. But don't go anywhere! We have Don Lemon standing by for us. He's in New York. Hi, Don, good to see you.

DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, Pamela. Good to see you. Great job today. Thank you, everyone.

BROWN: It's been fun filling in.

LEMON: All right. I'm here in New York.