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Winter Storm Warning In Western PA; AAA: 43 Million Travellers This Holiday; File Complaints Against The TSA On Your Phone; Mayor's Post-Arrest Jailhouse Tirade; Seth Rogen and James Franco Spoof Kanye, Kardashian Video

Aired November 26, 2013 - 14:30   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Bottom of the hour. I'm Brooke Baldwin.

A lot of you on the move this week because of Thanksgiving. I can tell you that Atlanta, the rest of the southeast, they are getting drenched with rain right now. And farther north, the arctic air turning that moisture into snow and ice. Chad Myers is watching all things travel across the country for us here and Shannon Travis in western Pennsylvania, pretty near Pittsburgh there, and a lot of snow (INAUDIBLE) a winter storm warning.

So, Shannon, clearly you drew the short straw today. At least it looks like those cars are flying past you, so the roads are pretty clear.

SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Brooke, I know you're concerned. We are on an interstate, but we are pretty OK. I can't say much about the rain. It's falling on us pretty steadily. Just a few moments ago, maybe about an hour or so ago, it was snowing. So right now we're getting rain. We're getting that kind of wicked mix of rain and snow.

I just want to show you, though, what some of that rain is doing. You'll see on this side of where we are on the street, we have accumulation of snow. But over here, literally at my feet, you have some of that rain already washing some of that snow away. Certainly some of the people here hope that continues.

Also want to show you the road conditions. We're on Interstate 76. This is the thoroughfare. Right now we're in Irwin, Pennsylvania, about 20 miles outside of Pittsburgh. So this road will take you clear, but just take look, Brooke. Basically right here you'll see the cars. Not even a mile down, it's almost like they disappear because the visibility, the fog, this rain that's coming down is just so dense. The visibility is pretty low.

A lot of people will be seeing this on the roads across these affected states. I spoke with the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. A spokeswoman tells me in this county, in these counties, in this region, they'll have 80-plus trucks, about 135 people splitting in 12- hour shifts to basically make sure all these roads are clear well into tomorrow -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: They have got their work this week. It sounds like cut out for them. Shannon Travis, stay warm, stay safe, thank you so much for that in Pennsylvania. Chad Myers, when will we see the worst of this and where?

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: After dark tonight when the sun sets. I know it doesn't appear like the sun is out there because it's cloudy, but the sun is warming the ground a few degrees. As soon as sunset, 5:00, 6:00, all of that is going to freeze instantaneously. I don't care if you have 1,000 salt trucks, you can't get to every road. They all freeze at the same time. That's what's going to go on.

That's when it gets the worst. The low pressure is here. It's pushing up moisture and warm air here. This is going to be the rain side of the storm, all rain all through here. This cold air wraps on this side and changes all this rain back over to snow. It's a developing stock market. It's still going. It's still going to take a couple hours for it to get bigger and bigger.

We even have tornado watches on the south side of this storm. So warm weather, tornadoes on this side, snow, snowstorm up on this side. Raining in D.C., Richmond, all the way back toward Roanoke. It was icy across the piedmont. That ice will return tonight after dark and in the morning because temperatures, although now 33, 34, will go back down to 32, that magic number. Be off the road by the time it gets down to 31 because people will be slip sliding away.

BALDWIN: Hang on, hang on, tornadoes?

MYERS: Tornado watch, yes. I know we have tornado, one at least touched down about 45 miles southwest of Tallahassee, a small one. But that's what you get. You get the warm on one side and the cold on the other and severe weather is possible.

BALDWIN: My goodness. Chad Myers, thank you so much. We'll check back in with you in a couple minutes. Weather has forced the big story this week and more than 3 million Americans taking to the skies this week for the Thanksgiving holidays, as you know, with flying comes the inevitable security checks.

Today amid concerns over some racial profiling and discrimination among TSA check points, there's a civil rights group, and they are showing off this new app that lets you report a complaint right there on your smart phone. Samuel Burke with CNN Money is tracking this one for us today. So Samuel, first up, just explain this app. How does it work?

SAMUEL BURKE, CNN MONEY CORRESPONDENT: So about two years ago, the Sikh coalition grew frustrated with what they perceived to be religious profiling at airports across the nation. Brooke, so they created this free mobile app for Android and for IOS. It allows you to report an incident from your smartphone, from the app. It goes directly to the TSA.

But they were upset because they felt like over the past year, those numbers hadn't been shared with Congress. So what they did today was update this app. Now version 2.0 not only sends your report directly to the TSA, Brooke, it also sends it to your member of the House of Representatives as well as your two senators - Brooke. BALDWIN: Wow. So not just the TSA, it goes to the person who's representing you, your congressman. Then the information is logged on the group's web site for anyone in the world to see, correct?

BURKE: That's right. You can go on to the app or you can go to fly- rights.org. Every single airport has a number with the amount of complaints there. Now, I spoke with the TSA earlier today. I want to tell you -- show you what they told me. They said the TSA has a zero- tolerance for racial profiling and employs multiple checks and balances to ensure unlawful profiling doesn't occur.

Profiling is not only discriminatory, they say, but it's an ineffective way to identify someone intent on doing harm. The TSA says they investigated 386 complaints last year of this type, 142 of which came from this mobile app. So I've already downloaded it just in case.

BALDWIN: Samuel Burke, thank you so much for us in London. And speaking of all this travel, everything you need to know, this is pretty cool. CNN is giving you a fascinating behind the scenes look at the world's busiest airport. So what we did, we sent more than three dozen of our journalists to Atlanta's airport.

They went on the tarmac, rode the trains, got this behind the scenes access to planes so you can check the whole thing out. Go to cnn.com/atl24. Coming up, a mayor handcuffed inside his own police station goes off in a pretty disturbing rant. Here he is. Now the pressure is mounting for him to resign. What's going on here? We've got the back story.

Also, a man accused of attacking young girls wanted to blame his identical twin brother, but today a big twist in his story. That's next.

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BALDWIN: Some people now in the town of Monticello, New York, are calling for their mayor to step down after video of this angry, jailhouse rant was released. Here it is for yourself. Mayor Gordon Jenkins was arrested back on November 16th on suspicion of drunken driving. What followed is what you're looking at, including profanity, tossing this clock, and ultimately the mayor being slapped in handcuffs to this wall. Here is Steve Langford from affiliate WCBS.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MAYOR GORDON JENKINS, MONTICELLO, NEW YORK: I'm the one that hired you in this job, man.

STEVE LANGFORD, REPORTER, WCBS (voice-over): The mayor of Monticello, New York, arrested and handcuffed to a wall in his own police headquarters on suspicion of drunk driving. Throwing that clock leads to another charge against Mayor Gordon Jenkins, whose DWI arrest is the latest episode in a history of hostility between the police here and the mayor, according to his attorney. MICHAEL SUSSMAN, MAYOR'S ATTORNEY: People in Monticello who formed his base have suffered indignities at the hands of the same police officers. And they understand what he was saying.

JENKINS: Don't call me sir. Don't call me sir.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mayor, is that better?

JENKINS: Don't call me mayor. Call me -- because that's what I am.

LANGFORD (on camera): There's more, much more. Hours of video released of the mayor not happy with his arrest.

JENKINS: What are you going to do? Put me in jail for five years? I'll get out in five years and I'm going to -- tell you what the -- you did to me, and you're going to -- and I'm going to come back to you.

LANGFORD (voice-over): Monticello Village Trustee Carmen Rue filed the request to release these videos of the mayor in custody.

CARMEN RUE, MONTICELLO VILLAGE TRUSTEE: He really needs help. He needs to step down for the good of the community.

LANGFORD: The mayor's attorney doesn't dispute the fact his client uses bad language here, but he does challenge the DWI charge.

SUSSMAN: He doesn't sound drunk to me. He sounds very coherent to me, even if very angry.

JENKINS: (Inaudible) and trying to do their -- that's what I try to fight for.

LANGFORD: The head of the local PBA says handcuffing the mayor to the wall or most of the night was not unusual treatment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The way he was acting, how intoxicated he was. He was treated the way everybody else is treated.

LANGFORD: On the cold streets of Monticello, serious questions about the mayor's latest behavior.

JOHN RIEGLER, MONTICELLO POLICEMEN AND BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION: It's not a good example for a person in that position to be setting for the public.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's not fit to be a mayor. What mayor would do something like what he does?

LANGFORD: The mayor's meltdown for all the world to see.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BALDWIN: Steve Langford reporting from WCBS. CNN reached out to Mayor Gordon Jenkins. We have yet to hear any kind of response. According to our TV affiliate there, Jenkins pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. As for the future of this mayor, it will likely come up at the next Monticello Village Trustee's meeting and that is on December 6th.

A rape defendant who pointed the finger at his identical twin has pleaded guilty to multiple counts of luring and attacking young girls. Aaron Gregory Lucas admitted to four counts of child sex assault in a Colorado courtroom today. He also pleaded guilty to other charges of enticing kids and exposing himself to them.

Investigators say DNA evidence linked Lucas to the crimes, but his defense attorneys had said the DNA belonged to his twin, Brian. Aaron Lucas could get life in prison. His sentencing is set for February.

Coming up here on CNN, this local fisherman catches this massive sea creature. Look at this thing. Find out how he snagged the sting ray and why it is so incredibly rare.

Also this -- Kanye West and Kim Kardashian showing their affection, shall we say, in this new video. But two celebrity jokesters decided to spoof it. You will see the video that nearly left me in tears coming up next.

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BALDWIN: You think you've caught the big fish? There are catches and then there's this. Look at this haul. I feel like the picture really doesn't do it justice. Just imagine standing next to it. It's a huge sting ray caught off Miami Beach over this weekend. The man who caught it is a local deep water fisherman. He said at first he had no idea what he was reeling in.

Actually, he thought it was some kind of dinosaur. That was his quote. "Turns out these kinds of sting rays are rarely seen. They typically stay deep down at the ocean floor." It took four hours imagine four hours just to bring this thing to the surface. The fisherman estimates it weighed about 800 pounds. After some quick pictures such as these documenting the prize catch, it was set free. Just, you know, something to think about the next time you're swimming in Miami.

Actor Seth Rogen and James Franco have taken their bromance to a new level. The two spoof on Kanye West's new video for the song "Bound 2," which features a topless Kim kardashian. In case you missed the original, let's show that.

I'm sorry. I'm just already laughing knowing the parody - Nischelle Turner.

NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: First of all, I hope we can get through this report.

BALDWIN: I don't know if we can, fair warning.

TURNER: Let's let folks at home know that. It might be a problem. But if you know the two guys, Seth Rogen and James Franco, you know they're anything goes types of guys. They're buddies from way back. In fact, Seth Rogen told me earlier this summer when he was making a movie "This Is The End" with James Franco and a bunch of their other friends, that Franco was the only one besides himself that had absolutely no limits on what they would do.

Of course, they went there with this parody. It's the fruits of that. We just saw Kanye's original video. You showed us that. The motionless motorcycle, white horses, topless Kim Kardashian, but now let's introduce everybody to "Bound 3," the James Franco and Seth Rogen version.

BALDWIN: Roll it.

TURNER: What is he doing?

BALDWIN: There was so much more goodness. Let it roll, guys.

TURNER: We can just talk about this. James Franco is playing Kanye West, by the way. That very luscious Seth Rogen --

BALDWIN: Luscious, I like it.

TURNER: -- is Kim Kardashian.

BALDWIN: Let's listen. Hang on.

TURNER: OK.

BALDWIN: OK. Pick up where you were, Nischelle.

TURNER: I love seeing them on the bike together. Apparently these two, Brooke, they felt inspired to create this when they were making their new movie "The Interview."

BALDWIN: They're on the set of the movie, right?

TURNER: Yes. If you watch both videos, they remade this shot by shot of the original. That's what makes it so darn funny. They did every single thing that you see going on in that first video.

BALDWIN: I mean, frame for frame, just about down to what they're wearing. Do we know - have Kim or Kanye commented?

TURNER: Kim has, yes. She got a good laugh out of this. I'm glad she did. She retweeted the video on Twitter to her 18 million followers. She said, you nailed it, so funny. "Bound 3," enjoy. So she definitely did. I literally have been crying. Tears have been coming out of my eyes all day.

BALDWIN: Sheer awesomeness.

TURNER: Take time to watch it.

BALDWIN: Yes, Nischelle Turner, thank you very much.

TURNER: Sure. BALDWIN: And now to this. You will remember the young woman who captured the world's attention with her cover of Katy Perry's song "Roar."

Goose bumps. We have just learned that Olivia Wise, a teenager who refused to let an inoperable brain tumor kill her spirit, has passed away. Katy Perry tweeted this, Olivia Wise, I can hear you singing with the angels now. Your spirit and strength have inspired me and so many others, may you rest in peace.

Olivia Wise died Monday at home surrounded by family and her mother told CNN that she did not want people crying at her funeral but instead celebrate life.

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BALDWIN: Every now and then you may have heard about someone who survived a brush with death and then told of returning from a place they couldn't quite explain, heaven? This Sunday, Anderson Cooper brings us the fascinating stories of these people who came very close to clinical death and say they did go somewhere or at least felt something profound or other worldly.

Ben Breedlove was one of those people. His story is told here by CNN's Randi Kaye.

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RANDI KAYE, CNN INVESTIGATIVE CORRESPONDENT: What was it about making videos your brother loved so much?

ALLY BREEDLOVE, BEN'S SISTER: His strong connection to people. That's the reason he gravitated toward giving advice to teens. He genuinely wanted to help them out. He became a little bit of a local celebrity, especially with the girls.

BEN BREEDLOVE: It doesn't matter how a person looks, if they have braces or acne or anything like that. What matters is their personality. I have a really big challenge in my life. I have a heart condition. I have a pacemaker.

KAYE: Do you remember that day you got the diagnosis, what you felt?

DEANNE BREEDLOVE, BEN'S MOTHER: Yes, I do, because it was very scary. The doctor just very clearly stated he has this condition, there's no cure. We'll have to be careful throughout his life.

KAYE: How nervous were you that he could die?

DEANNE BREEDLOVE: I was afraid every day that I'd go downstairs or go to his bedroom and he may have passed away in the middle of the night.

ALLY BREEDLOVE: I remember the paramedics gathering around Ben and measuring all types of vitals and that sort of thing. The ambulance arrived, and today put him into the back of the ambulance with my mom.

KAYE: There was a moment there where you just let go.

DEANNE BREEDLOVE: There was a point in there where I realized that the answer to my prayer maybe was going to be I'm going to take him home to heaven. Finally they were wheeling him from the E.R. to a regular room, and I was walking alongside the gurney holding Ben's hand. His warm little hand, which I was loving at the moment.

Ben was looking straight up and said, mom, do you see that light? No, I don't see anything. He said, but it's there. Can you see it? And he told me that it made him feel really good and he thought it was an angel.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

BALDWIN: Randi Kaye reporting. Watch Anderson Cooper's special report "To Heaven and Back." It airs on Sunday at 7:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. right here on CNN.

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