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Will Israeli Troops Enter Gaza This Week?; Will Washington Act on Immigration Crisis?; Sex in the Silicon Valley; The Hunt for Criminals; Cleveland Welcomes LeBron Back; Preview to MLB's All-Star Game; Hank Aaron's Candid Conversation; City of Tomorrow, Solving Energy Crisis; Interview with Buzz Aldrin

Aired July 13, 2014 - 18:00   ET

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MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN ANCHOR: You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Miguel Marquez in New York.

This hour, we are fast-forwarding to the week ahead, we'll take a look at all the stories you'll be talking about and hearing about coming up this week. Let's begin with our five questions for the week ahead.

Question number one: will Israeli troops cross the border near Gaza this week? It certainly looks possible. Israel today warned that more scenes like this could happen at any time.

This is what's left of the house belonging to the chief of police in Gaza. An Israeli airstrike destroyed it last night, killing the police chief and we are told, his entire family, 18 people in all were killed. Israel warned everybody in northern Gaza today to stay away from all Hamas sites for their own safety.

Question number two, will Washington take action to address the immigration crisis? Tens of thousands of children have shown up at the U.S. border with Mexico in recent months. President Obama has proposed a $3.7 billion spending bill to ease the crisis but Republicans say the bulk of any new spending should be used for deportations and to beef up border security.

Question number three, what will its prostitute accused of killing a Google executive say to the judge? Alix Tichelman will be in court on Wednesday accused of manslaughter after allegedly injecting heroin into Forrest Hayes. And Georgia police say she may have done it before. Tichelman's ex-boyfriend died of a heroin overdose, but it was ruled an accident.

And question number four, can a salvage team successfully move the Costa Concordia? The process is being called -- a complex operation never before attempted. It's been two years since the deadly accident off the Italian coast. And ten months since the doomed cruise ship was brought upright and secured.

Question number five: with the World Cup over, will Americans still care about soccer? Interest ramped up when the U.S. did better than expected in the early rounds and plenty of Americans followed the months long competition through today's final between Germany and Argentina, but will it be enough to sustain interest in this sport in the months and years ahead?

By the way, Germany just won. It's a picture of the German chancellor.

CNN's top story today and the question that will dominate international news this week, will Israel take this latest Middle East conflict to the next level and cross into Gaza? So far, the fighting has been in the air back and forth across the border. Rockets launched from Gaza landing inside Israel, triggering Israeli airstrikes that Palestinian officials now say have now killed 168 people and wounded 1,100.

CNN's Ben Wedeman is in Gaza City for us, where families are deciding that their homes are no longer safe.

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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The clock is ticking. It's time to go. Israel ordered the inhabitants of this area in northern Gaza to leave by 2 p.m. Sunday. Hamas told them to stay put.

"I don't answer to them," says Ahmed, "I do what's best for us." He is sending his family to safer ground in Gaza City, relatively safer, that is, although he will stay behind. Luckily, he caught a taxi to take them away and not a moment too soon.

These children have heard the crash of shelling and air strikes for days now. But it still terrifies them. This is the third time in the last five years Ahmed's family has had to flee their home.

(on camera): Like everybody in this area, we're leaving, too. It's dangerous. There's shelling there. There's some people staying behind, basically to guard their houses, but as the men back there told me, 80 percent of the people in this area have already left and at this time, the deadline to leave ends in 35 minutes.

(voice-over): On the drive into Gaza City, empty streets and rubble from the Israeli airstrikes. By taxi or mostly by foot, the people fleeing the north are heading to United Nations' schools, more than 1,000 in this school alone.

Food has yet to be provided. The only source of sustenance, a water tanker.

Um Jamaa and her family of 15 fled their home at 2:00 in the morning.

"We told the kids, get up, get up," she tells me. "We walked all the way here. This baby needs milk, but we don't have any. We have nothing. Not even safety."

There's little to do here but wait until the fighting stops and they can go back to their homes, if they're still there.

Ben Wedeman, CNN, Gaza City.

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MARQUEZ: That's our Ben Wedeman in Gaza City for us. Thank you.

Back now to immigration, our second question for the week ahead, no easy answers to the growing crisis along the Mexican border and no shortage of talk in Washington about what should the -- the U.S. should do and what it should not do about it.

CNN's Erin McPike has more from the White House.

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ERIN MCPIKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Miguel, both Republicans and the Obama administration are looking to take action on the border crisis in the coming couple of weeks. Well, this week, we could see a clearer picture of the concessions each side will have to make.

Listen here to Arizona Senator John McCain on "STATE OF THE UNION" this morning discussing his assessment of the situation.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: We need to spend about $6 billion to have our borders secured. The president wants 3.7 billion. If this keeps up, he will ask for another $3.7 billion next year. It's got to come to a halt.

MCPIKE: And that is why we're seeing renewed calls for comprehensive immigration reform.

To that end, McCain is also trying to team again with New York Senator Chuck Schumer. He is a Democrat, as well as Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, to maybe bring up comprehensive immigration reform again before the midterm elections.

Now, separately, Texas Senator John Cornyn, a Republican, is partnering with a Democrat, though in the House, Henry Cuellar, also of Texas, to introduce legislation of their own to address the border crisis. And part of that legislation would basically be to speed up deportations along the Texas border back to home countries for these undocumented minors.

In addition to that, a group of House Republicans traveled to Guatemala over the weekend and this week, they are due to present their findings to House Speaker John Boehner. The trick is going to be encouraging House Republicans to bring a bill to the House floor and see what they may do in terms of agreeing with President Obama on this $3.7 billion as a separate matter. Now, to that end, Republican Bob Goodlatte, he's a congressman from Virginia, made some comments of his own this morning.

Take a listen here.

REP. BOB GOODLATTE (R-VA), JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN: I would definitely pass emergency funding targeted for what's necessary, but most of the money that the president's asking for is to continue the process of further transporting these children and adults, by the way, further into the United States and that, I think, is what the American people don't like to see.

MCPIKE: So, as you heard there, there is some momentum from both sides to of the aisle to fix the border crisis, do something about this current problem, and we will probably see some developments on that this week.

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MARQUEZ: All right. Erin McPike for us -- thank you very much.

The possible murder of a Google exec has exposed the seedy side of Silicon Valley. Lots of men, lots of money and sex for sale, a possibly poisonous combination in the heart of the tech industry.

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MARQUEZ: Everyone likes a song and dance, but are you ready for this one? "Clinton, The Musical" debuts in New York this Friday. The political satire follows former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Hillary, as they try to save the presidency after his infamous affair. Also making appearances, characters based on Monica Lewinsky, Eleanor Roosevelt and Newt Gingrich.

Our next question, can a salvage team successfully move the Costa Concordia? The ill-fated Italian ship has floated again, a phrase many thought they would never hear, the process to float the giant cruise liner is both tricky and dangerous, but doable, according to engineers.

CNN's Erin McLaughlin shows us what tomorrow's process will be like.

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ERIN MCLAUGHLIN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Costa Concordia was an incredible sight to behold. Over 100,000 tons of water-locked wreckage pulled upright onto massive underwater steel platforms. The maneuver was hailed as feat of modern-day maritime engineering. Now, it's finally set to float again.

For the past ten months, engineers have been hard at work, attaching metal boxes to either side of the Concordia. When the final checks are complete and the weather right, they will be able to drain the water from the boxes. In its place, they will pump compressed air, causing the ship to float.

At first, they will raise it just two meters. It's a dangerous and tricky procedure. The ship is rotting and there's a real risk the bottom of it could give way.

They will then tug the Concordia about 30 theaters in the east and lower some of the metal box on the starboard side of the ship. They'll then attach more chain and cables to help reinforce the bottom. Then, the full refloat begins, lifting the Concordia up, deck by deck, clearing any debris along the way.

Once the ship is completely floated, they will tow it, slowly and carefully, 240 kilometers to the Italian port of Genoa to be dismantled.

Erin McLaughlin, CNN, London.

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MARQUEZ: What an unbelievable technical feat that is.

The World Cup is over and done. The party just beginning, but what about Americans' love affair with the beautiful game? Is it finished, too?

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MARQUEZ: A California executive is dead after an encounter with a California prostitute, but he is not the only one to indulge in Silicon Valley.

CNN's Laurie Segall joins me now.

Laurie, there's been an uptick in tech workers looking to sex workers. What have you found out?

LAURIE SEGALL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Unbelievable. You know, Miguel, about a year ago, stated talking with sex workers in the valley who say they were seeing an uptick in their business. Fast forward to this year, I spoke to a lot of the same women, they say that business now is just so lucrative with all the money going into the valley.

I actually spoke with one sex worker who went on the record and talked about it. Listen to this.

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MAXINE HOLLOWAY, SEX WORKER: I think it's really interesting that we have this increase of tech employees coming to the Bay Area. You know, they are working really long, intense hours, which is giving them this disposable income. But along with that lifestyle, it doesn't always leave room for traditional dating.

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SEGALL: You know, it's pretty unbelievable, these women are actually marketing to where the money is in silicon valley. One woman actually showed me, had a collection of t-shirts she wears in these ads that have geeky references, like "Game of Thrones" references and things that say "Geeks make better lovers." You are looking a it the there, and that's to appeal to the wealthy engineers.

And, you know, right now, what we are seeing with this case with the alleged prostitute and the death of a Google executive is we are really seeing the curtain pulled back on this dark side of Silicon Valley, Miguel. MARQUEZ: And on the Alix Tichelman case, what can we expect this

coming week?

SEGALL: Tichelman's going to appear in court on Wednesday. She hasn't entered a plea yet, being charged with manslaughter. So, we're going to hear more about that obviously, a lot of folks interested in what she's going to have to say.

And also, I should mention, police reopened an investigation into her former boyfriend's death. He died in a very similar way to the Google executive. So, obviously, they are very suspicious. They are reopening that. So, we could have further details on that coming up this week, Miguel.

MARQUEZ: A lot of roots, a lot of stems in this story. Very, very interesting.

Laurie Segall, thanks very much.

SEGALL: Thank you.

MARQUEZ: Now to question number five, will Americans still care about soccer now that the World Cup is over? Germany's defeat of Argentina was the first time in World Cup history the European country has won the cup in South America.

But will the excitement that's built up over the past month be enough to make soccer more popular in the U.S.?

CNN's Amanda Davies is live in Rio de Janeiro.

Amanda, I'm -- and ho, Matt Besler for the USA team, he is on the phone, he's going to be right up with us.

But, Amanda, I want to go with you first. You were there outside the stadium, or inside the stadium, I take it you think that soccer's going to be a little more popular in the U.S. after this.

AMANDA DAVIES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, I think absolutely, Miguel. There's no doubt that the impact of Jurgen Klinsmann and what his team USA have achieved over the last few weeks has massively raised the bar and the attention levels of soccer in the U.S.

It was Jurgen Klinsmann, of course, still very much widely quoted in the papers in the buildup to this final because of his links with Germany. He put it right once again said his former team were going to lift the 2014 World Cup trophy. They did exactly that. The Christ the Redeemer statue just in front of me here is lit in the colors of the German flag.

It was a fantastic final. As you said, Germany claiming the World Cup on South American soil, very much a first for European team, despite the great array of attacking talent on the pitch. It finished goalless after 90 minutes. It went into extra time.

In the end, it was a stunning volley from Mario Goetze who made the difference. So, it's Germany celebrating. They did exactly as they did in the semifinal, despite being outnumbered in the stadium, it's Argentina fans flooding the streets here. They stepped up and it's them going home with the trophy.

MARQUEZ: What an amazing, amazing match.

I want to go to Matt Besler now, who was just what, last week, two weeks ago, was in Brazil, playing for the U.S. team there, until we lost to Belgium, unfortunately.

I'm sorry for that. You guys should have been there for that.

Matt, watching this game, these guys looked like they were about to pass out on that field. How tough was this match?

MATT BESLER, TEAM USA (via telephone): Yes, it was a bit odd to be watching from back home, because I felt like I was still in Brazil. You know, I had the buzz of still being in the country and it did feel like we still should have been there.

So, watching on TV was a little bit different, but nonetheless, you could definitely see the exhausting levels of the players and especially since the game went into extra time. We certainly experienced that in our match against Belgium, falling up a little short.

MARQUEZ: I can't imagine how tough it is on you guys and the level that you have to play at once you get to the world cup. You play for the KC team. You are, think, in Montreal right now, on the road. Do you think this is going to have a big impact on the crowds you see and the number of people watching your games on television, listening on radio?

BESLER: I do. I really do and we have already experienced it. The support that we received, you know, while we were in Brazil from back home and actually in Brazil, what was unbelievable. And it was something that I've never experienced before as a player and we certainly hope that when we come back to the states and for the rest of our season in MLS, that the fans, you know, keep up the support level.

And I would just challenge the fans that watched the world cup to pick an MLS team and pick sporting Kansas City, if they want, and start following us, because it's a good level as well.

MARQUEZ: I love the shameless plug there, Matt Besler. We will root for KC. Why not? Why the heck not?

Amanda, do you think the Americans who went to Brazil for this competition will come home for fired up for the sport?

DAVIES: Absolutely, Miguel. Yeah. We have seen hundreds of U.S. fans here who a lot of whom who traveled to Brazil without tickets. They just wanted to be part of the World Cup experience. And they traveled around, some following the U.S. team who had one of the toughest schedules, travel-wise and distance-wise here in the groups, particularly, along with this German team, which means their achievement is all the greater, because they have taken victory here despite those grueling first few weeks.

But certainly, a fantastic atmosphere amongst the American outlaws and of course, a lot of the players we have seen here have now gone back, are playing in the MLS, the likes of Tim Cahill, one of the stars here for Australia's, scored one of the best goals of the tournament. He's back in action in the States already and has been garnering more and more support through his Twitter account with Tim Cahilling, which has been a hashtag used with his fantastic reaction to Brazil's incredible defeat by Germany.

So I think soccer in the U.S. and MLS and players to really pick up the mantel and carry on getting the enthusiasm of the U.S. people and certainly, it's just going to get bigger around bigger from here.

MARQUEZ: All right. Amanda Davies for us in Rio, thank you very much.

Matt Besler, I want you to promise us now, in four years time, you will score the winning goal in the final at the World Cup.

BESLER: Oh, my gosh, I don't know if I can promise that. I hope you're right. That would be amazing. I promise we will be playing in the final. How's that?

MARQUEZ: Excellent. I love it. I love that. We'll see you there.

John Walsh's passion is bringing criminals to justice and he is bringing "THE HUNT" to CNN. But what does he make of some of the crazy cases we've seen in the news lately? We will ask him about it.

And Christmas came early for Cleveland this year, a hometown hero coming home. Perhaps you have heard. Maybe not.

Wednesday, a second court appearance scheduled for a New York mother accused of killing her own son. According to investigators, Lacey Spears used to write about her 5-year-old son Garnett's health battles on Facebook and use social media to elicit sympathy. Police say Spears poisoned garnet with salt through a feeding tube in January.

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MARQUEZ: There are several stories around this week that had us all asking what is wrong with people? Is the world just going to hell in a hand basket?

Unfortunately, we are going to be hearing lot more of them in the week ahead. In Georgia, the heartbreaking story of the death of a toddler left in a hot car continues as investigators performed a heat test, replicating conditions of that day. Those tests aimed to back up the testimony the temperatures soared well over 100 degrees inside this car, all taking plays this a Home Depot parking lot where Justin Ross Harris alleges to have forgotten his son, Cooper, in the few minutes between getting breakfast and pulling up at work. In Michigan, details finally released in the case of a kid who was

missing for 11 days and ended up being found safe in his basement. The 12-year-old told police he faced physical and verbal abuse from his step -- from his father and stepmother who would often discipline him by beating him with a PVC pipe. Unbelievable.

And in New York, a mother riding a subway pushes a stroller carrying her 10-month-old onto a subway platform and then continues her commute like nothing happened, essentially abandoning the baby.

I want to bring in John Walsh, he is the host of CNN's new and original series "THE HUNT."

John, you are a guy who knows crime, who knows the criminal mind. Let's -- can we start with some of these other cases? Talk about your show in a second, talk about the other cases, the Georgia case, just as a guy who has experienced so much in your life. What do you make of this case?

JOHN WALSH, "THE HUNT": It's appalling. I mean, all the headlines seem to be such bad news. The Georgia case is so disturbing because it seems as though, and again this is my opinion, not CNN's opinion, this guy seems to be so disconnected to the fact that his son died in a car.

MARQUEZ: Well, this is the thing. We don't want to believe that it is possible for somebody to do something so horrific, is it?

WALSH: Oh, absolutely. Absolutely it is, and you're talking to a guy who is the father of a murdered child. My son was 6-year-old when he was kidnapped in south Florida and murdered. I know how I acted. I almost went crazy. I lost 30 pounds. I'm not a big guy. I could not deal with the grief. I was building a $26 million hotel on Paradise Island with three of my friends, our dream project, I couldn't go to work, I couldn't stop throwing up, I could not deal with the fact that my son had been murdered.

And I watched this guy, like everybody else in America, sit in that courtroom like he's bored to death, he doesn't appear to be grieving. To me, you don't have to cry every minute. You don't have to throw up every minute.

MARQUEZ: So not even the evidence, the circumstantial evidence that's sort of mounted against him got you, just watching his demeanor in the courtroom was --

WALSH: I mean, if you really love your child, it is an event that is if someone came and tore your heart out of your chest, but you just don't die. You're still functioning. You're still walking around. You're still -- your blood is circulating, but I don't understand the reaction.

MARQUEZ: Detroit's 11-year-old who was missing for several days, suddenly found in the family's basement. All of that seen on CNN live as the father who was being interviewed on Nancy Grace. I'm sure somebody who you're familiar with. And then relates -- somewhat related case of this young woman who left her baby on a subway platform here.

At what point does bad parenting, perhaps really bad parenting, become illegal and criminal?

WALSH: We don't teach people how to be good parents. I applaud the lady who left her child down the subway. In Florida we have a law, if you don't want your child, you can leave your child at a fire house, not kill your child, not let them roast to death in a car because you're sick of having a child and it's an encumberment. Remember Susan Smith who drove into the water and killed two of her children?

So I applaud that children. But I don't think people are good parents. I really don't think we as a nation teach people how to parent.

MARQUEZ: All right. Let's get on to your new endeavor, "THE HUNT WITH JOHN WALSH." You are a long-time advocate for victims of crime. You are somebody who knows not only crime but the criminal mind as well. This show, tell us about it.

WALSH: It's -- I'm saddling back up. "America's Most Wanted" was a great run. I loved working for FOX for 25 years. We caught 1231 guys all over the world in 45 countries, 17 off the FBI's 10. We recovered 61 missing children, one of them being Elizabeth Smart. We won an Emmy for excellence in TV.

I sort of thought that was the end of that chapter. I realized that I got really good at catching bad guys. We were good at it and the FBI and the marshals have said to me, saddle back up.

MARQUEZ: So we're familiar with your previous show.

WALSH: Right.

MARQUEZ: How does this differ? What will I experience as a viewer?

WALSH: Very, very different. Very, very different viewing experience. I used to do a lot of guys, missing children, will still do those, but it was kind of frantic. "America's Most Wanted" was -- it became jammed in the later years, I'm going to look at one case at a time.

MARQUEZ: Really dig in?

WALSH: Really dig in. Maybe two guys in a story, really engage people, talk about the victims. There is all -- people always said to me you never tell us the backstory, you never told us what happened. It will be a very lush production. I think people will be surprised.

MARQUEZ: That is the frustrating part, we spend so much time. There are so many shootings and the horrors that people do --

WALSH: The bad guys get --

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MARQUEZ: They all get the publicity. So you're going to really focus more on the victims and --

WALSH: And try to motivate people to -- no matter how tough it is, I still guarantee you can remain anonymous, go to the Web site, CNN.com/thehunt, leave us your tip. I don't care what your name is, where you came from, call that hotline, we guarantee your anonymity. We might take some of these cowards off the streets.

MARQUEZ: John Walsh, saddled up and kicking butt. Thank you very much. Good to see you.

WALSH: Thank you.

MARQUEZ: Take care.

And be sure to check out John's show "THE HUNT" premiering tonight at 9 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

Now this week, CNN's "The SIXTIES" takes a look at the space race. Earlier today, I was a very lucky guy, lucky enough to talk to a pioneer in that competition, Buzz Aldrin. And later, hammering Hank Aaron smashed a homerun record and is now baseball's elder's statesman. So what does he think of the game now?

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MARQUEZ: Well, this week will feel a little bit like a holiday for Cleveland. The city is celebrating the return of the king, LeBron James, the world's best basketball player, will play for the Cavaliers next season. Sometime this week the team will likely introduce the hometown hero from nearby Akron, Ohio.

CNN's Rachel Nichols explains why LeBron's return means so much for the city where he started his career 11 years ago.

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RACHEL NICHOLS, CNN HOST, "UNGUARDED": Even if you don't know what you're going to do, what have you learned from the last time that you switched teams that will inform how you handle things this time?

LEBRON JAMES, TWO-TIME NBA CHAMPION: You learn from your mistakes. If I'm in that position again I'll be able to handle it much better.

NICHOLS (voice-over): That was LeBron James before the free agency circus that's consumed the NBA these past weeks. At the time, he promised me this decision wouldn't be anything like the decision back in 2010. Back then there was the television special that earned the scorn of the nation.

JAMES: And this I'll take my time to South Beach and I'm joining Miami Heat.

NICHOLS: And broke hearts all over Cleveland.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the terrible. This is the worst thing that could ever happen to Cleveland. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I hope he never wins anything in Miami.

NICHOLS: But four years and two NBA titles later, a much more mature LeBron stuck to the different approach he'd promised. Instead of a TV extravaganza, a 952-word essay published in "Sports Illustrated."

And remember those gaudy predictions of multiple titles he made back when he came to Miami?

JAMES: Not two, not three, not four, not five, not five, not six, not seven.

NICHOLS: This time LeBron was much more modest, writing, quote, "I'm not promising a championship. We're not ready, no way." He also spoke from the heart comparing his stint in Miami to go into college noting, quote, "These past four years helped raise me to who I am." It's a concept he'd spoken to me about earlier. How even though he was already 25 years old when he joined the Heat, it was his first time truly away from home.

JAMES: Even though I played for Cleveland for seven years, I still lived in my hometown of Akron, so I was in Akron for 25 straight years. And that's all I knew. I didn't know how difficult it was to learn new streets, learn new culture, learn new people, be around different things that I hadn't been around. And you know, that was very challenging for me.

NICHOLS: Now he says that growing up process is what made him finally understand his attachment and his responsibilities to the place he grew up. Cleveland fans haven't celebrated a championship in any major sport in 50 years and his loyalty to them earned praise from many corners, even the White House.

JOSH EARNEST, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: I think it's a pretty powerful statement about the value of a place that you consider home.

NICHOLS: Yes, this time around things are different. Back in 2010 Cavaliers owner, Dan Gilbert posted a now infamous public letter to LeBron on the team's Web site calling his departure, quote, "A cowardly betrayal and shocking act of disloyalty." On Friday, well, Gilbert tweeted, "My 8-year-old son said, Daddy, does this mean I can finally wear my LeBron jersey again? Yes, it does, son," he wrote, "Yes, it does."

For CNN, I'm Rachel Nichols.

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MARQUEZ: Amazing.

Buzz Aldrin is a household name for walking on the moon but he also is a pretty funny guy, so I found out. I talked to him today about the space race. That conversation ahead.

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MARQUEZ: Well, time to talk a little more sports and get a preview of this week's Major League Baseball All-Star Game.

Terence Moore is here, CNN.com sports contributor and columnist for mlb.com.

Terence, we have more of that fantastic interview you did with Hank Aaron coming up in a moment but first, the biggest names in baseball gather in Minnesota this week. What can we expect from the all-star game?

TERENCE MOORE, CNN.COM SPORTS CONTRIBUTOR: Well, I tell you what, Miguel, this, no matter what happens, is going to be Derek Jeter's all-star game. Derek Jeter announced before the season began that this is his last year in baseball, so you know that something unique is going to happen on Tuesday in Minnesota. And we know that because you always have these magical moments in baseball's all-star game.

I was fortunate enough to be there in 1999 in Boston at Fenway Park when you had Ted Williams around the pitcher's mound and you all the living legends, at least a lot of them in baseball gathered around them for that. Two years later, I was there in Seattle at the all- star game, the last all-star game for Cal Ripken Jr., when he went out to play third base before the first pitch, and then, Alex Rodriguez at shortstop, told him let's change positions here to put Ripken at his original spot at shortstop.

And on top of that, Ripken, the first pitch he sees in his first at- bat in an all-star game hits a homerun. And then we had last year, Mariano Rivera, his last all-star game, Citifield in New York. He goes out to take the mound to start the eighth inning and unbeknownst to him, his teammates stayed back in the dugout so he gets the singular, thunderous ovation. I'm still getting chills from that.

MARQUEZ: Wow. It's going to be very, very emotional. Derek Jeter, wow, it's going to be incredible.

You know, I love the Hank Aaron interview that aired yesterday. If anyone missed it, please check it out on CNN.com, well worth watching. But you -- we have one more bit of the conversation with Hammering Hank, you got him to open up about Barry Bonds as well as the declining number of African-Americans in the major leagues.

MOORE: Yes, and I tell you what's interesting about this is that we're going to see a lot of fascinating tapes of him on this subject. I really got a chance to know Hank Aaron back in 1982 when I worked for the "San Francisco Examiner" and I was doing a five-part series on what was going on with African-Americans in baseball.

Hank and I talked at length about this. And because in the mid-1970s, the percentage was about 25 percent African-Americans in baseball, and had dropped down to 18 percent in 1982, now it's down to 8 percent. So this is what Hank Aaron says about that, in addition to Barry Bonds.

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MOORE: A lot of people are talking about right now what's happening to blacks in baseball and when you broke Babe Ruth's record on April 8th, 1974, there were approximately 25 percent to 26 percent African- Americans in the Major Leagues. Right now, we're down to 8 percent. All kind of theories as to what's going on here.

Do you have a favorite theory as to why there aren't that many African-Americans around anymore?

HANK AARON, BASEBALL HALL OF FAMER: Well, you know, you can take that even further, you know? You talk about the African-Americans. You don't have that many whites, if you think about it, you know, really, I mean, this game has become now a World Series, a World Series, this is a World Series all over Mexico, all over the world.

You know? You don't have many white players playing anymore. You know, every player you see is either from the Dominican, from some other place other than the United States. So the decline as far as African-Americans is going down, so as white Americans playing baseball in this country is going down, too.

MOORE: Barry bonds to me is not the legitimate homerun king. You are the legitimate homerun king.

AARON: Well, thank you.

MOORE: For various reasons. And -- but throughout that entire run, you never said anything negative about Barry Bonds and that's something that a lot of people couldn't do during that stretch. You were able to hold it in.

AARON: Well, it wasn't anything -- I wasn't trying to hold anything in. It was just the way I am, you know? Really, I felt like, you know, that I had been through an awful lot, you know, chasing Babe Ruth record. And I knew exactly what -- some guy wrote me a letter and asked me, said, Hank, if you can -- without calling it a name, he said, if you can come and follow Barry for the next four, five days before he hit a homerun, we give you $300,000 for each game. You know, each game.

MOORE: I think I'm going to take that.

AARON: I told them, I don't think I want it. Forget about it, I don't need it, I don't want it. Because I don't want -- I didn't want to get involved in it. This was Barry's time to shine. It was his time to -- for people to look at him as being who he was. And I was not going to take any away from him, you know? And I said no. So I decided I wasn't going to take it, you know? But, no, I refuse to get involved in that. And for a lot of reasons, you know really.

And for one reason I just mentioned. And I think the other reason was that, you know, I know that, you know, that not only Barry, some other players and all the rest of the players were involved in doing some shady things, you know, but I had no -- I had no concrete evidence about it and I wasn't going to get involved in it, you know. I was waiting for people to make that judgment.

(END VIDEOTAPE) MARQUEZ: Such a controversial thing in baseball, Terence. I'm sure a lot of fans agree with you about Barry Bonds, but Hank Aaron seems content to let others do the criticism of Bonds. He just won't go there, will he?

MOORE: No. What we just saw right there is Hank Aaron prefers class over revenge. And we know that because outside of Jackie Robinson, no other player in the history of not only baseball but of athletics took as much abuse as Hank Aaron did just to play the game. He survived all that and not painting all white people as he probably could have and we know he doesn't because one of his best friends in life is Bud Selig, who happens to be white and also who happens to be the commissioner of baseball.

MARQUEZ: Not a bad friend to have.

Terence Moore, thank you so much.

MOORE: Thank you.

MARQUEZ: A giant wind farm in London is now the biggest in the world. Could it be the answer to the future energy crisis? We will have that coming right up.

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MARQUEZ: And now the "Way, Way Forward," giving you a major heads up about something coming not this week but sooner enough to start thinking about. In roughly 15 years, 60 percent of the world will live in cities, which means that more need for energy.

CNN's Rachel Crane says London is already doing something about it.

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RACHEL CRANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the London Array. It's the world's largest offshore wind farm. And this is what it helps power.

The farm has 175 giant wind turbines capable of generating enough electricity to power 500,000 homes, and it's quite possibly the answer to London's growing energy needs.

MIKE O'HARE, GENERAL MANAGER, LONDON ARRAY: We expect about 900,000 tons of carbon dioxide to be saved per year that would otherwise be put into the atmosphere. That's about equivalent of just under 300,000 cars a year taken off the road.

CRANE: Approximately 8.3 million people live here. And by 2031, that number is expected to climb to 10 million. A growing population means a growing need for energy

(On camera): London, one of the most historic cities in the world, knows that in order to keep up with future energy demands they need to update and diversify their energy portfolio. O'HARE: It's really about how to get a more cleaner future, reliable

energy sources. And that's really what the London Array is about, is moving from that, you know, old coal, gas, nuclear, to more, you know, renewable offshore winds.

CRANE (voice-over): The U.K. is one of the world's leaders in offshore wind power. There are over 1,000 turbines dotting the waters.

These things are massive. Each turbine is larger than the London Eye. And it takes a little as a 10-mile-per-hour gust to spin these.

Until recently, the Array was said to expand by possibly 57 more turbines, but construction was halted to save a rare breed of bird called the red- throated diver.

O'HARE: They're a rare species of birds in the U.K. and they come down in the winter and they feed there.

CRANE: The fear is that the construction of the second phase would displace the birds.

(On camera): Is that a bit of a disappointment that it's not in the near future for you?

O'HARE: I think as an engineer I always like to build things, so of course I would like things to go ahead. But you know, having said that, you've got to be realistic. I work with offshore winds because winds because I care about the environment.

CRANE (voice-over): The future will present more obstacles than a bird. But one thing is certain, more of these means more of this.

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MARQUEZ: Now the mission, historic, the men, legends, but now, Apollo 11 astronaut Buzz Aldrin says it's time to make history again.

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BUZZ ALDRIN, APOLLO 11 ASTRONAUT: That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

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MARQUEZ (voice-over): That was 45 years ago when the moon was the finish line, but Buzz Aldrin says there are new finishes lying ahead.

I talked with Aldrin about everything from comedy to his famous moonwalk to his mission for U.S. veterans.

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MARQUEZ: Of all the things I imagined this -- how this conversation would go, I doubted that we would start with comedy. I didn't realize you were such a good comedian. ALDRIN: You need to break the ice. In a tense situation, everybody

tends to freeze up, unless they are relaxed, unless there's maybe a little humor involved.

MARQUEZ: And I will say reading the histories of you guys as you made history, there was a lot of shenanigans. You guys were a funny bunch.

ALDRIN: Well, we didn't start out that way. Yes, I didn't think when I started out at West Point and became a fighter pilot in combat that I would end up being the chairman -- national chairman for mental health, but I ended up that way. And a few other things.

MARQUEZ: Yes.

ALDRIN: Kind of happened that I can -- I can understand much more, especially since my concern today is for veterans, 22 suicides a day. My grandfather committed suicide, my mother did the year before I went to the moon and I inherited it some.

MARQUEZ: This is something near and dear to you?

ALDRIN: Mm-hmm. And we are trying to do some things for PTSD and I agree with the former president that we don't need the (INAUDIBLE) posttraumatic stress.

MARQUEZ: Yes.

ALDRIN: Not a disorder. It kind of happens to everyone in some way or another.

MARQUEZ: Let's not start at the beginning but from the beginning of where America became aware of Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. This picture right here.

ALDRIN: That was my --

MARQUEZ: That was your ordinary name. I know, I know you've changed it. This is -- this is you on the moon.

ALDRIN: Right.

MARQUEZ: Forty-five years ago. What were you thinking as a young man sitting in that space suit? Looking out at your partner?

ALDRIN: It was spontaneous, if you see the previous picture, I was walking this way. And Neil said, oh, hold it, look. And I stopped. And that -- that little thing hanging down, that was swinging and I was holding onto it, so he took the picture, totally unrehearsed.

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MARQUEZ: What a treat to chat with him. You can hear the rest of that interview next weekend about the space race and the events that defined America. Join us as we look back with the CNN's original series, "THE SIXTIES, THE SPACE RACE," Thursday night 9 p.m. Eastern -- 9:00 Eastern and Pacific right here on CNN. That's our fast forward look at the week ahead. Dr. Sanjay Gupta is

up next. But first, the headlines.

Israel is warning people who live in Gaza to stay clear of buildings used by Hamas because they could be hit at any time. It's not an empty warning. So far Israel has struck what they call terror targets inside Gaza for several days. According to the Palestinians, 168 people have been killed, more than 1100 injured. Last night, an airstrike demolished a house where Gaza's chief of police was with his family, 18 people were killed.

And in Rio de Janeiro, a huge win for Germany. The World Cup finally comes to an end against Argentina. It was scoreless for almost two hours before Germany made the one and only goal of the game. What a goal it was. It was the first time a European team had won the World Cup in South America. Germany's last World Cup win, 1990.

Actor Tracy Morgan is finally home after a devastating limo accident last month. Good luck to him. We left rehab center yesterday and it will continue to do recovery at home from broken legs and broken ribs.

I'm Miguel Marquez in New York. Thanks for watching. "WEED: DR. SANJAY GUPTA REPORTS" begins right now.