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Impact Your World: Caitlin Crosby's Mission; Lamar Odom Still in Hospital; New "Star Wars" Movie Hits Theaters in December. Aired 8:30-9a ET
Aired October 20, 2015 - 08:30 ET
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[08:33:38] MICHAELA PEREIRA, CNN ANCHOR: All right, here we go with the five things to know for your NEW DAY.
Starting at number one, a brand new CNN/ORC poll this morning shows nearly half of Republicans throwing their support behind Donald Trump and Ben Carson. Trump has 27 percent support to Carson's 22 percent. Carly Fiorina losing 11 points in the last month.
Joe Biden expected to announce whether he's running for president any time now. The vice president met last night with top advisers. A source tells CNN, aides are already setting up interviews for campaign staff positions.
A group of hackers calling themselves CWA taking credit for a breach of CIA Director John Brennan's personal e-mail, as well as the account of Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson.
Canada's liberal party sweeping the country's general election and ending nine years of conservative rule. Justin Trudeau, the son of late Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau, poised to become Canada's next prime minister.
Oscar Pistorius now under house arrest after being released from prison. This move comes less than one year after he was convicted of killing his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp.
For more on the five things to know, be sure to visit newdaycnn.com.
Now to an actress and singer who is definitely in the right key. Caitlin Crosby has turned giving into a fashion statement with an idea inspired by a New York hotel key. Check out her story in this edition of "Impact Your World."
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[08:35:00] CAITLIN CROSBY, ACTRESS AND SINGER: Giving yourself away and save that pillow -
PEREIRA (voice-over): Actress and singer Caitlin Crosby says she just wants to help others.
CROSBY: I just am obsessed with people and wanting to spread hope and encouragement, whether it be through a song or an Instagram post. Like whatever it is.
PEREIRA: Like sharing inspiring words on old keys.
CROSBY: I had an old hotel key from New York that I thought was cool. And then I went to a locksmith and asked him the engrave inspiring words like love, hope, fearless. At first it was just - I wanted to create a cool, inspiring product that - that different people could buy on tour. And these stories started pouring in like, so and so had cancer, so I gave them my "fight" key. So I thought to myself, I need to make a website where the stories are being shown. And then I started thegivingkeys.com.
PEREIRA: Crosby had no idea this would be the key to opening doors for those without a home.
CROSBY: We now hire people that are trying to transition out of homelessness to engrave keys. We've partnered up with Crisolis (ph). They screen the people for us to make sure we're hiring people that are really trying to change their lives and make sure that they're ready for this change.
PEREIRA: And giving people like Giovani (ph) a new beginning.
GIOVANI: Thank you for not judging me based on my past, but where I'm striving to go in my life.
CROSBY: High five.
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[08:40:13] PEREIRA: Well, this morning, Lamar Odom, the NBA star, is in a Los Angeles hospital receiving treatment after he was found unconscious in a Las Vegas brothel last week. This morning, there are some new images that are emerging from his time inside the love ranch, reportedly taken the day before his collapse. What happens next for Odom? This is the discussion we want to have with our addiction specialist and host of HLN's "Dr. Drew." Dr. Drew Pinsky is here.
DREW PINSKY, HOST, HLN'S "DR. DREW": Yes.
PEREIRA: This is a conversation that the three of us are often anxious to have because we know how the topic of addiction touches so many lives in America. It's a hard topic to discuss. We're all searching for answers. But I want to talk specifically about Lamar Odom. We know that - we don't know what exactly was all involved. We know there was cocaine apparently involved here.
PINSKY: Well, let me - let me just start with that. I mean he has a long standing cocaine history. I mean so this - you know, let's just - guess what cocaine addicts do? They do cocaine. So just count on that. And here's when they get into complications what happens, they either have a heart attack or a cardiac arrhythmia, they have a stroke or intracranial bleed, or they start adding other things in. And typically in my patients, in cases like what Lamar seemed to have been, they've added in pills or heroin. That's almost always the case. And that's when - when they die, that's what they die of, pills. It's unbelievable. These days, people don't die of illicit drugs very often, it's the addition of benzodiazepine and opiates.
ALISYN CAMEROTA, CNN ANCHOR: We couldn't believe that he didn't die. And the reason was because the first reports said that there was blood coming from his nostrils and he was foaming at the mouth. How often have you seen people come back from that and to go on to be healthy, as he appears to be on the mend?
PINSKY: Often, often because he was - he was snorting and gasping. He was in the death throes, but he wasn't dead. He hadn't stopped breathing yet. So he was still oxygenating his tissue, but he was within minutes of being in big, big trouble. So in a young person who get resuscitated while they're still - hu, hu, hu - still in that agonal state, they can recover fully.
CHRIS CUOMO, CNN ANCHOR: Now, the real point of having your expertise here today is that as horrible as it looks with what Lamar Odom is going through physically, that's the easy part.
PINSKY: Yes.
PEREIRA: Yes.
PINSKY: I agree with you. I think that is the easy part and it's the least time consuming part, frankly. The really difficult part about addiction is, you have to stop your life for a long period of time and literally rewire your brain. It takes months or years. You have to focus on doing nothing but your recovery. A lot of people can't afford that. A lot of people can't leave work for that period of time. And so we - you know, it's really a serious conundrum when we're treating folks.
PEREIRA: Well, and you add to it, so many people will say, I just got to get back to doing what I love.
PINSKY: Well -
PEREIRA: That will make me happy and then -
PINSKY: A thousand percent and, Michaela, that's - that's what -
PEREIRA: But that's not the right answer, right?
PINSKY: That's not the right answer. And it's the single greatest contributor to celebrities sabotaging their own recovery. They make lots of money. They love what they do. They have people around them want to get them back to work.
PEREIRA: Back in that world.
PINSKY: They go back too soon. I've been - I've been walking around lately saying, Robert Downy Jr.'s a great example of how that works. If you remember, back in the day, he had a terrible addiction. He went back to work. He relapsed back. He relapsed - CUOMO: Went to jail.
PINSKY: Jail, relapsed and then he went away. You didn't hear for him for years.
PEREIRA: Yes.
PINSKY: People forget about this. He contemplated that he would never work again, just focused on his recovery, and now he has a large career and a great recovery.
CUOMO: Well, you have to change - you have to change, as you've taught us, you have to change the people, places and things in your life. And you have to do what's even harder than that, because that's just about your quotidian routine, it's about why you were addicted in the first place.
PINSKY: Well, two things. You know, I've always said, if somebody has bad enough addiction, they need to see me, this two phenomenon always. One is the biology of the brain phenomenon of addiction, which is a burden in and of itself. It's enough. But in my world, childhood trauma. So it's childhood trauma that creates the dysregulation that results in people turning to drugs and alcohol, typically during adolescence, and then it takes off after that. They have to rebuild not only around the addictive process and that motivational disturbance we call addiction, but they also have unregulated emotions from trauma. Now that takes a long time to treat. It's a very slow - we call it slow (INAUDIBLE). It's a slow go process. And it's an interpersonal process.
And, by the way, here's the other conundrum. You have two conundrums. One is, you have a brain that's saying, do not stop this.
PEREIRA: Right.
PINSKY: And you have a childhood trauma, an experience of life that says the interpersonal space is dangerous. And, guess what, this is where you heal, is in the interpersonal context. So we have two conundrums, get the participation of the person who is so resistant and bring them into a space that they don't want to go into. It's very hard.
PEREIRA: Well - well, and then you also bring in the family notion -
PINSKY: Of course.
PEREIRA: Because these things, right, conventional wisdom is family is your first line of defense. They are a great support network. Family can really complicate this.
PINSKY: Well, what I tell people is that the - did you ever see "The Little Shop of Horrors"? OK, the Audrey Two (ph), the plan. That - the - "Audrey Two" is the perfect model for diction. If you go in the room with the plant, what happens?
CAMEROTA: It eats you. PINSKY: It eats you. And that's exactly what happens with addiction.
You go near it, you're going in. And even me. I have so many years of experience treating addicts, I always bring somebody with me to pull me out when I start going in -
PEREIRA: Interesting.
[08:44:57] PINSKY: But it's an interpersonal disease and it takes advantage of all the brains around it, in addition to the brain that it's - it's cannibalizing. So the person with the disease will start to affect people around and you go in the plant unless you have someone going, ah, ah, ah, you're going in, relax here, come back out.
CUOMO: Can he - can recover and play?
PINSKY: Play basketball? That's -- I don't know. I don't know the answer to that. I mean, I don't know what his status is as a professional athlete. There is no reason he couldn't. No reason he couldn't.
PEREIRA: First thing's first - Let's get him on the road.
PINSKY: If indeed he's - Has that kind of -- He's older.
CUOMO: Right. But the reason I ask is that is his identity and very often, you know, he's going to have to deal with who he is and what he wants. We had Darryl Strawberry on the show the other day -
PINSKY: Darryl is awesome.
CUOMO: At the end of it - Yeah, no, he's great and look, he's living his recovery, which is the necessity. But at the end, I just want to end on a light note. His team's in there. The Mets is where he was best known for. He says I don't like baseball. I don't watch baseball anymore. And a lot of people were thrown by that, but if you've read his books or understand anything about him, he saw it as one of the things that fed disregulation in himself.
CAMEROTA: Right.
PINSKY: He was his disease. It doesn't have to be that way, but some people will see that as their disease.
PEREIRA: Dr. Drew, great to have you here.
PINSKY: You got it (ph).
PEREIRA: We love it.
PINSKY: Good questions.
CAMEROTA: Thanks so much. All right. Meanwhile the hype awakens. "Stars Wars" --
CUOMO: You've got to say it differently.
CAMEROTA: How do I say it?
CUOMO: You got to go - You got to go --
CAMEROTA: Oh, the hype awakens,
CUOMO: -- there it is -- strong.
CAMEROTA: Feel the force.
CUOMO: Ooh that's good.
CAMEROTA: Reaction to the "Star Wars" frenzy, that's next.
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[08:50:21] PEREIRA: Ah, the full-length trailer of the latest "Star Wars" installment is out. The film hits theaters December 18th. I have plans for December 18th. fans are already buzzing about "The Force Awakens." Take a look.
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PEREIRA: Let it be known, I am mad for Chewie. OK? Joining us now, Brian Stelter, CNN senior media correspondent and host of "RELIABLE SOURCES." Nischelle Turner, all the way from the West Coast, "Entertainment Tonight" host and CNN contributor.
You guys, I thought that I was done. I thought I was good on "Star Wars" and they sucked me back in.
BRIAN STELTER, CNN SENIOR MEDIA CORRESPONDENT: It worked. The trailer worked.
PEREIRA: It worked. It worked.
STELTER: In some ways it was the least necessary, least important trailer ever because who is not going to go see "Star Wars" anyway? But on the other hand - On the other hand - you were on the fence?
PEREIRA: I was on the fence.
STELTER: Were you?
PEREIRA: I was like I'm good.
STELTER: Well now we are seeing so many hints of what is going to be in the new movie. And that is why the trailer does matter. It's two months until the premiere. Tickets went on sale last night. And now we know Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, but who we don't see is Mark Hamill. We know he's in the movie, we know he's in - But we don't know - We know, you know, of course he famously played Luke Skywalker. We didn't see him in the trailer and that's got a lot of people speculating about a big plot twist.
PEREIRA: Can we do a little fun Harrison Ford and Carrie Fisher before and after? Because they do make appearances. Nischelle, look at this. I mean -
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PEREIRA: HE looks fantastic and then let's show Carrie Fisher side-by- side. Also another appearance. Both of them are great. I mean, the music, the mood, it takes us back. It is not just nostalgia. There's something more to it that is drawing us in, isn't there?
NISCHELLE TURNER, HOST, ENTERTAINMENT TONIGHT: Absolutely. And I think that's what they really have been trying to do with this franchise is blend the old and then bring us into the new. Keep those fans like us who have been diehard "Star Wars" fans for so many years, but then capture that new generation.
You know, it has some of the diehard "Star Wars" fans -- if I'm being honest, kind of bristling just a little bit. But I think this is going to be fantastic. Look at this. Who doesn't get goose bumps from seeing that trailer and seeing the new evil darkside who says I'm going to pick up where Darth Vader left off and wreak havoc. I'm ready. 58 days.
PEREIRA: Look - And people are ready. We understand there were already people trying to buy tickets. There were major issues with online pre sales. Like Fandango had major outages.
STELTER: Absolutely.
PEREIRA: But that's going to give you a little buzz, too. That's got to be pretty good marketing in the end -
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STELTER: (INAUDIBLE) happened in the U.K. this time yesterday then last night. Tickets were put online a little earlier than expected, so people rushed to get them. It was actually a little easier to go in person to the box office than it was to buy them online. A lot of people by the end of the day, though, despite the server problems, were able to get the tickets for the night before the official opening. So that's the night, December 17th, when you'll see lots of people at theaters before the December 18th official opening.
PEREIRA: It's been awhile since we've seen something like this when you see that kind of sales already pre - in advance. You know what I mean?
STELTER: Yeah. Two months ahead of time is almost unheard of, yes.
PEREIRA: Right.
TURNER: And it's -
PEREIRA: Go ahead, Nischelle.
TURNER: And it is not just ticket sales. It's toy sales are already skyrocketing. All of the merchandising is way up. By the way, those websites that were having problems are back up this morning. I don't know how long it will last. But when you look at them you see so many of the seats already blacked out. There is a lot of buzz and a lot of advanced sales already. It is going to be hard to get a ticket. And on eBay if you look, they are already being resold for hundreds of dollars.
PEREIRA: No way. Okay, one, I have to delve into the (INAUDIBLE) because there is a little bit of controversy going on. There is actually a boycott "Star Wars" hashtag, Nischelle.
TURNER: Yes.
PEREIRA: What is this craziness?
TURNER: Yes. It's really upsetting to see. And I'm sorry his name just left me, that plays Finn in the movie, is a an African-American lead in the movie and there is this online kind of surge happening with people protesting having a black lead in the movie.
PEREIRA: Come on now.
TURNER: It's really been disheartening. I hate to even talk about it, because it's meaning to me.
PEREIRA: Me too.
TURNER: But there is that faction of people out there who are saying, you know, this isn't what we want to see from "Star Wars" and this isn't what is real. But did you forget about Billy D. Williams?
PEREIRA: Oh come on now.
TURNER: Did you forget?
PEREIRA: No. D. Billy D. Okay, let me go onto something else that is also nostalgia for all of us '80s kids. Tomorrow is an important day. Brian Stelter, what day is tomorrow?
STELTER: It is "Back to the Future" Day.
[08:55:00] PEREIRA: It also is October 21st, 2015 which is the day that Marty McFly went to the future in "Back to the Future II". Fans are going to celebrate this in a big way tomorrow.
STELTER: Yeah, their 30th anniversary. I mean, I don't know if the world is exactly what we thought it was going to be 30 years ago, Nischelle.
PEREIRA: Do you think it is, Nischelle?
TURNER: Listen, there are hover boards.
STELTER: Sure.
TURNER: I'm kind of freaked out about the similarities that have actually happened in the movie. Of course a lot of it is farfetched, but I'm like wow, there were some forethought in "Back to the Future." But by the way, guys, if you would like to buy a Ford Focus or a Ford Fiesta, you can get one with a flux capacitor this week apparently.
PEREIRA: Come on now. I know what to get you for Christmas.
STELTER: "Star Wars" is back, maybe it's time for another "Back to the Future."
TURNER: Maybe it is.
PEREIRA: Look, we're all - all us aging '80s kids, we love that nostalgia in our movies and it's fun to talk about it, that's for sure, with you, Brian and with Nischelle out in New York. Thank you so very much to both of you.
STELTER: Thanks.
PEREIRA: "NEWSROOM" with Carol Costello will pick up right after this quick break.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): Happening now in the "NEWSROOM."
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Woo, go Donald!
COSTELLO: Donald Trump riding high in a brand new CNN poll.
DONALD TRUMP (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: How can you say you were safe under his brother when we just had the worst attack in the history of our country?
COSTELLO: And those comments on George Bush and 9/11? Not swaying his supporters.
