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Where Will All the Oil Go?; Arizona Facing Boycotts Due to Controversial New Laws; Teacher Fired After Assaulting Student; New Miss USA is Crowned; GM Reports Better than Expected Profits Last Quarter
Aired May 17, 2010 - 15:00 ET
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RICK SANCHEZ, HOST: All right. Thanks a lot, Richard.
Politics and primaries, primaries, primaries -- we are all over them. How about that Arlen Specter ad? Let's do the list!
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SANCHEZ (voice-over): Here is what is making the list today.
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SANCHEZ: Are you concerned that you may be throwing out the baby with the bath water here?
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SANCHEZ: The heat continues in Arizona. The state now assembles a task force to battle the bad pub and the tens of millions they're losing on tourism and the convention business.
Will Major League Baseball now pull the all-star game?
The moment when parts of Nashville went under water.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This incident is the result of a lot of poor management and staffing in terms of --
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SANCHEZ: Remember this video? This teacher hitting a student? Why is her attorney blaming the school after she apologizes?
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SHERI LYNN DAVIS, FORMER TEACHER: I am very regretful and sorry that this incident has ever occurred.
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SANCHEZ: The leak is sealed, like so. Or is it? But now, where's the oil that already got out? Coming to a beach near you? Florida Keys? Eastern seaboard? We're drilling down.
For those of you who picture this when you think of women from the Middle East, look who just won the Miss USA Pageant.
The lists you need to know about. Who is today's most intriguing? Who landed on the list you don't to be on? Who is making news on Twitter?
It's why I keep a list. Pioneering tomorrow's cutting-edge news -- right now.
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SANCHEZ: And here we go. I'm Rick Sanchez. Welcome to RICK'S LIST.
Topping the list -- finally, a fix? Well, maybe it's a partial fix.
Watch this. Look at this animation we put together for you, all right? You see that submersible there? It's taking this insertion tube down, slipping it into the leak or area of leak. It sucks the oil out, while hopefully plugging the rest of it up, and then whoops -- sending it all the way up to a ship that's on shore, or up on the surface, I should say.
Now, B.P. says this thing is working well. But then again, we've heard B.P. say a lot of things, haven't we?
All right. Let's get away from that animation for a moment because there's another animation I want to show you, and I want to come over here. And to do that, I want to talk to Chad.
How are you, sir?
CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Sir, fine.
SANCHEZ: All right. Look at this. All right?
That is -- I grew up right there. That's where I grew up as a small child, right there, see? Little Ricky.
This is the Gulf Stream.
MYERS: OK.
SANCHEZ: And this is important, because when I was fortunate enough to go and fish with my uncles, we would put a boat right about there, OK? Right about where that X is right there. And you know what would happen, Chad?
MYERS: Yes?
SANCHEZ: I'd sit there, and there was like a river under us. It was unbelievable. We're sitting in the middle of the ocean, and there's like a river going underneath our boat.
MYERS: Correct.
SANCHEZ: It's -- if you've never experienced this, trust me, it's one of the most fascinating things you could ever experience. It's like a river going through the ocean.
MYERS: And there is mahi-mahi in there. And there's wahoo in there.
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SANCHEZ: It's great fishing.
MYERS: You weren't out there just to look at the water.
SANCHEZ: But here's what you and I are going to talking about. Here's where I want you to explain to me. I'm thinking out loud here. If there is a whole bunch of oil right there --
MYERS: Yes.
SANCHEZ: -- somewhere under the water. Will that stuff ever get picked up and sent in here and into this area or even into this area up here?
MYERS: There's no question.
SANCHEZ: Take it away.
MYERS: There is no question, although at least for now, Rick, the oil is only here. Not quite in this loop current, although little eddies are breaking off. And --
SANCHEZ: And what about the stuff under because I keep -- and I don't mean to interrupt, but I keep reading and hearing from some of the folks at NOAA that we're seeing a little bit of the water of this oil on the surface, but there may be a ton of this stuff just sitting where nobody can see it.
MYERS: Maybe. Maybe.
SANCHEZ: OK.
MYERS: Did you read Dr. Lochenko's (ph) the latest thing?
SANCHEZ: No. Go ahead.
MYERS: He says, hey, the media is way off base on this. We don't know anything yet. Step back, take a deep breath, let us figure this out. Yes, there was a ship, yes they did some soundings on there, and yes they found something.
They have those samples. They brought them to the surface and they're analyzing to see what they are. Are they dispersants? Are they oil? Is this something completely different? They don't know yet.
But literally, if all of this is under the water, as well, then there may be a couple ways it got there. It may be trapped because oil just can't get through some of the thermal clines.
SANCHEZ: Right.
MYERS: It may have gone to the surface originally, evaporated and then sunk back down. Or it may be just on its way up. It always takes time for oil to go -- you shake a bottle of oil and vinegar, it doesn't separate right away.
SANCHEZ: Right.
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SANCHEZ: Well, that's what worries me. I mean, look, there is a place called here you're familiar with, this is called John Penny Camp. John Penny Camp is -- and Biscayne National Park, one of the only underwater national parks in the Continental United States.
MYERS: Right.
SANCHEZ: I hate like hell to have a place like that suddenly full of oil. It'd ruin it. It would ruin that part of Florida.
MYERS: Let's just make this a little bit easier to understand.
SANCHEZ: All right.
MYERS: Shall we?
SANCHEZ: Go.
MYERS: Let's go with what's called the loop current. We talk about the loop current during hurricane season. If brings up water from the Yucatan Channel, all the way up into the Gulf of Mexico, turns it and then it turns into the Gulf Stream that you used to fish in right there.
SANCHEZ: Right.
MYERS: This -- there is no question that oil is going to get into this Gulf Stream and eddy its way up along the east coast.
SANCHEZ: Really?
MYERS: There is no question --
SANCHEZ: So, it's so it's a question of quantity.
MYERS: Exactly.
SANCHEZ: All right.
MYERS: It may be three months. It could be three years. But oil will eventually make its way up here. The oil doesn't go anywhere. Yes, the microorganisms eat it, but there's a lot of oil here, millions and millions of gallons here.
This is going to go somewhere. It could even go to Europe. I mean, this thing goes all way over to England.
SANCHEZ: Yes. Right.
MYERS: Right? So that's part of the loop current. And that's what we're showing here.
So, I didn't want people think there is some kind of snake in the Gulf of Mexico. But this literally is the warm water that we follow for the hurricane. Katrina got right there in the loop current, and exploded.
SANCHEZ: And it is like a river. I mean, literally.
MYERS: Absolutely.
SANCHEZ: A river in the ocean.
MYERS: It's a current. It's a river of water.
SANCHEZ: One more thing before I let you go. Hey, would you be able to show us that animation one more time? Of that tube -- that insertion tube, as we called it? Have you got that, Rog? Put that up. I just want Chad to give us a little take on what he's got on this.
The viewers are looking at it now, Chad. There it is.
MYERS: You remember the video last week of the oil and natural gas pouring out of the end of that -- out of that pipe.
SANCHEZ: Right.
MYERS: Well, now, they inserted a smaller pipe into the pipe. So they can't get it all, but they think they're getting 20 percent to 30 percent of it, which means some is still coming out. But any drop is better than none. They're going to try to make this better, more efficient, and try to get more than that.
But it's not the only leak. There's still another leak on the riser.
SANCHEZ: Exactly.
MYERS: You know -- once you plug one, you make more pressure here, you make more pressure there.
SANCHEZ: Even if they took everything out of this one area where they're inserting that tube, you've still got more oil coming out the other end.
MYERS: Yes, the other end, upstream. The other hole is upstream. So, the more you plug this up and the more pressure there is upstream and it comes out upstream even harder.
SANCHEZ: You do good explanations.
MYERS: You know.
SANCHEZ: I'll come back and we'll talk again, OK?
MYERS: OK.
SANCHEZ: In the meantime, what I want to do is I want to catch the viewers up on what else is going on.
Do me a favor. Take a look at this piece of sound right here.
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REP. JOE SESTAK (D), PENNSYLVANIA SENATORIAL CANDIDATE: I authorized this message.
SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (D), PENNSYLVANIA: My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.
ANNOUNCER: For 45 years, Arlen Specter --
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SANCHEZ: OK. Did you just see what Arlen Specter said there? Will those words cause Arlen Specter to lose his seat? Does it prove he's out of parties to belong to?
By the way, there's a little fancy editing when they put that wonderful ad together that I'm going to take you through, as well.
And this -- the alleged Times Square terrorist wrote e-mails, and I've got them for you. And I'm going to share them with you. And you're going to learn something from them. Well, we all are.
We'll be right back.
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SANCHEZ: I want to take you as close as we can to inside the mind of a suspected terrorist. Let me take you through some of these e-mails from Faisal Shahzad, the man police say tried to set off that car bomb in Times Square. Yes, he still is talking to authorities, but we've gotten our hands on some of the e-mails that he had had written -- and it looks like he was pretty frustrated with what he perceived as attacks on the Muslim world.
Listen to what he said in an e-mail that was written more than four years ago. This is telling -- quote, "Can you tell me a way to save the oppressed? And a way to fight back when rockets are fired at us and Muslim blood flows? In Palestine, Afghan, Iraq, Chechnya and elsewhere." It is pretty intense stuff.
Look at this next one now. "If you don't have the right teacher, then Satan should become your sheikh." "If you don't have the right teacher, then Satan should become your sheikh. I bet when it comes to defending the lands, his opinion would be that we should do dialogue -- which is not the proven way from history, and has not worked in current time."
Now, this is interesting, because it seems to be where he was starting to formulate some of the obvious anti U.S., anti-western thoughts that may have caused him to do what he is alleged to have done. CNN got the e-mails from a Connecticut doctor who's active with an American-Muslim peace initiative. He said that he made them public as a way to help people understand what Shahzad's motivations were.
The FBI has talked to at least one recipient of the original e- mails thus far.
All right. We told you about this guy. He lied to be on a high school basketball team, right? He'd already been on a high school basketball team. He's 22 years old.
Well, guess what happens when you're 22 years old and you're fraternizing with young girls who are still in high school. He's now been charged with statutory rape of a 15-year-old. We're all over that story. It's a follow-up.
Also, he is a doctor, and he's a Paul -- but not Ron Paul. He's Rand Paul, and he's on fire in Kentucky. How could Mitch McConnell end up being the loser in this one? Well, I'm going to put it together for you. No, better yet, Jessica Yellin is in Kentucky. She is going to put it together for you, because she's got this at the top of her list.
We're going to be right back.
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SANCHEZ: Welcome back. This is RICK'S LIST -- and time to do some politics. My favorite.
Remember what happened to Senator Robert Bennett out in Utah? We covered this for you last week. Bennett, conservative through and through, rejected by Utah Republicans. Perhaps the strongest sign yet that 2010 is potentially open season for all incumbents.
OK, what about the Democrats? OK, we saw Republican incumbent that was defeated. Could the same thing happen to Blanche Lincoln in Arkansas who is being challenged by Lieutenant Governor Bill Halter tomorrow?
And what about Arlen Specter? He's in a bit of a pickle. You want to know why?
All right. I want to show you an ad. It's put out by his opponent -- his opponent, Congressman Joe Sestak, who obviously didn't pay enough to the people who put this thing together. Watch it.
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REP. JOE SESTAK (D), PENNSYLVANIA SENATORIAL CANDIDATE: I'm Joe Sestak, the Democrat. I authorized this message.
SPECTER: My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.
ANNOUNCER: For 45 years, Arlen Specter has been a Republican politician.
GEORGE W. BUSH, FMR. U.S. PRESIDENT: Arlen Specter is the right man for the United States' Senate. I can count on this man. See, that's important. He's a firm ally.
ANNOUNCER: But now --
SPECTER: My change in party will enable me to be re-elected.
ANNOUNCER: Arlen Specter switched parties to save one job. His. Not yours.
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SANCHEZ: That's one hell of an ad, isn't it? By the way, there may have been some fancy editing in the way they stopped that sound bite where he says, "to be elected." In fact, he kept on going. We'll get to that in a little bit.
Number three. What may be the most compelling primary election of all tomorrow, which you will watch unfold right here on RICK'S LIST because we're going to be all over it. Who am I talking about now?
Well, none other than Ron Paul's little boy, libertarian/Republican/tea party candidate Rand Paul. He has zoomed way ahead of Trey Grayson who just happens to be Mitch McConnell's personal choice to succeed Republican Senator Jim Bunning. And when I say Mitch McConnell, that's kind of shorthand for the Republican establishment. So this is interesting.
Jessica Yellin has been watching this race for us. She is in Bowling Green, Kentucky.
Jessica, Bob Bennett loses to really a tea party challenge in Utah. If Rand Paul wins tomorrow, what will be the message to the GOP establishment?
JESSICA YELLLIN, CNN NATIONAL POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rand Paul himself says, if he wins, it will be a sign that the tea party can elect someone. And that's clearly the message that the tea party would like his victory, if there is one, to deliver.
You know, there's a lot of belief that Rand Paul, who, as you say, is the insurgent candidate running against the hand-picked guy that the establishment chose, could overturn this idea that I incumbents can anoint someone in the state and can prove that the tea party is a force to be reckoned with in November. But that is still a big question, Rick, because while deliver, it looks like in a primary, can they deliver in a general election where there will be more moderates voting? Should the Republican establishment embrace the tea party, or is that a risk? It's still an open question, Rick, even if there is a big victory here.
SANCHEZ: Well, but, you know -- I said the other day about President Obama referring to the Gulf Coast, you break it, you own it, and to a certain extent, he owns this mess in the Gulf.
YELLIN: Yes.
SANCHEZ: When it comes to what Republicans are dealing with right now -- you know, I remember during the health care debate, they were, you know -- jumping up and down, because things looked so good for them, because the tea party were like all going in their direction, and they were all one big giant party. Be careful what you wish for, right? Because to a certain extent, it looks like the tea party, as much as it cut into the Dems, they're also cutting into the GOP.
YELLIN: Right. What they're -- what they're working on is anger at Washington in general. And it applies to Republicans, too. And so in a way, the Republican message has gotten away from them to some extent, because the message of purism that the tea party candidates are proposing hurts all incumbents. This idea that you can never in your career ever vote for an earmark or you're out would eliminate many, many in the party, too.
So, yes, live by the sword, die by the sword. A lot of Republicans are worried that their incumbents will die by the sword this November because of the movement that this has spawned.
SANCHEZ: How big is tomorrow going to be? I mean, you know, I know there are primaries from time to time. This is kind of a triple, so it's pretty cool. I mean, you know, you've got Blanche Lincoln, you got Arlen Specter, and you got Rand Paul. And their opponents, obviously, which I left out, but they're the big names in this.
What's your take on what tomorrow is going to be like, and why it should be very meaningful for Americans?
YELLIN: Well, the story line the media is watching going in is -- is the establishment getting thrown out? So, you're looking at Democratic races in Arkansas and in Pennsylvania as the top races where we're going to look at some incumbents, will they get tossed. And then here in Kentucky, the question is: will an establishment candidate, Trey Grayson get defeated by this insurgent, which would speak to an intense anti Washington fury that would tell every politician running this year that that is what they have to capitalize on to win in November -- no matter your party, you have to fight the establishment.
That's what we're expecting, but we're often wrong, so we could see an upset. And Rand Paul's race is certainly one to watch. He is so dynamic, and energetic. It will be fascinating.
SANCHEZ: Oh, yes. Well, not to mention, he's Ron Paul's son, duh, right?
YELLIN: Right.
SANCHEZ: Which makes is a big party of the story.
YELLIN: And some interesting positions he embraces.
SANCHEZ: Well, some people would say he was going to be popular even before the tea party because of the fact he is a Paul. But do this for me, tomorrow -- I know that son of gun Wolf Blitzer is going to want to lock you into his show. Tomorrow is a big political day here.
YELLIN: Yes.
SANCHEZ: I'm going to want to have you on our air during RICK'S LIST as much as possible. So, make your promise to me right now.
YELLIN: Are you exacting a pledge on air?
SANCHEZ: Yes.
YELLIN: I will be here for you, Rick. I will be here for you. Yes, of course. Wolf is good at sharing.
SANCHEZ: I appreciate it.
All right. Let's take a look at this.
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DAVIS: I am very regretful and sorry that this incident has ever occurred.
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SANCHEZ: Oh, this is tough. This is -- you see her right there? That's the first time we see her, the teacher accused of beating the student apologizes. But here's what's interesting -- her attorney is suggesting that it was the school that was to blame.
And then some people think of -- when they think of a Muslim world, and specifically Muslim women, they don't think of this. That's right. Meet the new Miss USA. I will tell you who she is.
And this just in -- we have a viewer question for Chad. They were watching our segment just a little while ago, so they asked this question. Shoot it, if you would. Shoot that question, guys. Can we get that?
Let's turn that camera around and zoom in there. Go ahead, Rog.
All right. You're looking at Chad there. "Ocean temperatures are rising, possibly making for an active hurricane season." All right. If all of had happens, right, "What happens to the spill, the oil spill, if there's a hurricane surge that hits?"
It's kind of a futuristic question, but a very salient one, so, we're going to have Chad give us an answer to that -- when we come back on your national conversation. Your list. RICK'S LIST.
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SANCHEZ: This is where you get to involve yourself in our newscast. Good question. And we want to ask our meteorologist about it.
Let's go to the question once again for those of you who missed it. We began the show by showing you exactly what the chances are that that big massive oil could end up somehow off the coast of Florida and maybe beyond that, maybe going all the way up the eastern seaboard.
So somebody was watching that explanation that Chad and I were doing, and she asks this: "Ocean temperatures are rising, possibly making for an active hurricane season. What happens to the oil spill if hurricanes surge hits?"
Well, you know what, that's an interesting question. So let me walk over to my friend, Chad Myers.
Pardon me, folks. I didn't mean to give you my back there. But --
MYERS: You're in the dark, anyway.
SANCHEZ: It was? OK. So, I did, the chair turned (ph).
MYERS: Yes.
SANCHEZ: All right. It's an interesting question.
MYERS: It is.
SANCHEZ: If the oil ends up off the coast of Florida and we get a gully washer, as they say, of a hurricane coming through there, will it create more problems?
MYERS: You know, I don't care if it's Florida or Louisiana or Mississippi or Alabama.
SANCHEZ: I do.
MYERS: I know you do. But if we get a storm surge that takes this water and pushes it inland, we can also put storm surge, OK, whatever -- usually we just knockdown buildings with that water.
SANCHEZ: Right.
MYERS: Now, all of a sudden, we have polluted and killed the land that those homes were on.
SANCHEZ: Oh.
MYERS: So now you have -- you have oil on the land, not just on the beach. You're now killing the dunes, because that oil will -- is like round-up, right? I mean, it's just -- it's just going to poison the soil. So things won't be able to live on it, plants and also the fauna and flora. So, everything is going to -- what she was talking about -- let's step back for just a second because --
SANCHEZ: What is that?
MYERS: This is the ocean temperature map for the United States --
SANCHEZ: Oh, OK.
MYERS: -- and then Africa.
SANCHEZ: All right.
MYERS: Temperatures right here are four degrees warmer than they should be right now.
SANCHEZ: Yes.
MYERS: The last time that happened, June, '05. What happened in '05, Rick?
SANCHEZ: June of '05 we have --
MYERS: What happened in '05? What happened later on when this little storm came up here called Katrina?
SANCHEZ: Katrina.
MYERS: Big storm, lots of big storms. Twenty-eight named storms when it was this hot last time. It doesn't mean -- it doesn't mean we're going to have that many hurricanes, but part of the ingredients of all of this big hurricane season were in here.
Now, the -- one of the parts here. So what happens if the water pushes up and on shore? Then you get oil farther inland. You get oil into Morgan City. You get oil into other places. Where we have it now off the shore and then all along, and shores are a relative term for Louisiana, because you can't walk right there.
SANCHEZ: Right.
MYERS: OK? The farther you go toward the Gulf of Mexico, the deeper the water gets as you try to get there.
SANCHEZ: It's a swamp.
MYERS: Air boats go through here.
SANCHEZ: Right.
MYERS: And so, we are still going to be killing everything here, whether we get a hurricane or not. But the big thing is, then if you push the water up river, you push the water up into the higher elevations where there's aqua culture, we're not going to have crabs -- you may not have craw fish, we may not have a lot of things. As you push the water up into the higher estuaries and, of course, maybe even up into the towns (ph).
SANCHEZ: How long will this oil -- and I know there's a lot of "ifs" here -- but if, in fact, there is a huge amount of oil that wraps around Florida and the Keys and goes up to the eastern seaboard, how long would it be there before the Earth or the oceans naturally absorb it?
MYERS: No question, years.
SANCHEZ: Years.
MYERS: No question about it.
SANCHEZ: OK.
MYERS: You know, you've seen these tar balls --
SANCHEZ: It could be there as soon as a month from now or a couple weeks from now?
MYERS: Oh, of course. They need to get this stopped. The longer it goes, the longer it's going to keep going up to shore. The quicker we get it stopped, the more they can kind of contain it.
SANCHEZ: All right. Thanks a lot. Appreciate it. And I'm sure the viewer who just asked that question appreciates it, as well. That's what we're here for, folks.
Let's do this, we're going to switch gears here but I want to show you this now.
Take a listen to this piece of sound here.
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CROWD: To the people!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Power!
CROWD: To the people!
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SANCHEZ: Ethnic studies -- the newest Arizona argument. Should it be banned? Now, the state is trying to find a way to stop the bleeding. They're losing millions in tourism because of boycotts and convention cancellations. So what are they doing? That's next.
And the president of the United States may not have -- well, he may not have enough to do these days. How else would you describe his newest cause? Getting LeBron James in a Chicago Bulls' uniform? Please. That's next.
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SANCHEZ: You know, a lot of airports around the country, especially the little regional airports, they start off really in the middle of nowhere. But then as the population increases, cities grow around airports, and that's when problems happen.
Time now for our list of best videos, something that Brooke Baldwin would tell you we call "Fotos del Dia."
SANCHEZ: This is a close call in Clearwater, Florida. Even a two-car garage isn't big enough for this single-engine plane. The aircraft, well, it crashed during a takeoff en route to Haiti with relief supplies, and believe it or not, no one was killed. Amazing.
Listen now to this.
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SANCHEZ: Well, look at that -- Clevelanders for LeBron James. All famous folks, right? I don't know.
I guess it is a group of -- wondering if that was a commercial. A group of local celebrities recorded a spoof on "We are the World" begging LeBron James to stay in Cleveland as other cities -- you know what, we should probably listen to some of this, right? Because all we heard were bells ringing in the beginning. And this doesn't make any sense to me, either, Brooke. Hey, Roger, let's listen to some of them singing.
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SINGING: We really need you. No bigger heart will love you half as much as we do.
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SANCHEZ: Oh, my goodness. I could do better in my bathtub! That's not so good. But anyway, the intentions are wonderful.
It features well-known -- well-known Ohioans, including Governor Ted Strickland -- can't sing. Senator Sharon Brown -- can't sing, and CNN contributor A.B. Friedman, who definitely can't sing. At one point, the group jokingly offers to name all of the city streets after him. Talk about hometown support.
Now number three.
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SANCHEZ: From one musical tribute to another now. This one features a car. It's the "swagger wagon." It's a Toyota ad for the Sienna minivan. The gangster rap beat contrasts with family oriented lyrics and parents doing their best to keep their straight faces during the spoof.
To give you an example, the word "mother-father" replaces a common expletive. Yes.
By the way, we provide these for you every day. We call them the best videos, which we tend to say in Spanish, "Fotos del dia" on my blog, CNN.com/RickSanchez.
The violence in Thailand is not letting up. Hundreds of people are refusing to leave the Bangkok streets, and now the general who is shot in public, remember that we showed you last week? He has died. Will he now become a Thai martyr, intensifying fighting these street scenes?
Also, when you're 22-years-old and lie your way through high school, you may get charged with a crime if you're dating a girl in high school, who happens to be 15. The charge -- statutory rape. Brooke Baldwin hazard today's trending topics, and she is going to be joining me here to talk about that, and maybe about singing, or lack thereof.
BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That was so you with the minivan taking kids to school, right?
SANCHEZ: Yes, four kids the dog, you've got to. We'll be right back, folks.
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SANCHEZ: Mick Jagger is going to be on Larry!
BALDWIN: It's kind of awesome.
SANCHEZ: His face is like plastic. No, I don't mean in a mean -- I don't mean because of plastic surgery.
BALDWIN: You're like, "it's like plastic!"
SANCHEZ: Even when he was young, he has one of those malleable --
BALDWIN: One of those faces. Anyhow.
SANCHEZ: Anyhow, time for Brooke Baldwin with trending topics. And Brooke is here to tell us about that teacher?
BALDWIN: The teacher video. BALDWIN: Yes, she came out and spoke.
BALDWIN: She came out and spoke, and that's really the news today. You showed the video. I felt like we kind of owned this story last week, so we went to the viewers to give them an update. And here is the update as we show the video one more time that really sparked outrage nationwide.
For an entire minute, a Texas teacher -- that's the person in the blue t-shirt, slapped and kicked a 13-year-old student at school. We're talking about Sherry Davis. We should say she is a former teacher now. She was fired for a school at at-risk youth in Houston. She is speaking out.
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SHERRI DAVIS, FORMER TEACHER: I apologize for the pains that the result of this situation has brought us to. I apologize for this particular incident. And I am very regretful and sorry that this incident has ever occurred.
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BALDWIN: You can hear the pictures clicking. There was quite a media presence there. So she gave the statement, but didn't take questions. Her attorney did. He was kind of blaming the school. Listen to this.
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CHIP LEWIS, ATTORNEY: Children assault other children. Children assault teachers, and they're not even expelled. Or if they are expelled, they're returned to the school. Teachers shouldn't have to be teaching in that environment.
And more importantly, students shouldn't be trying to learn in an environment where we've got total chaos. Fights, assaults on teachers, students using language to teachers that would make me blush.
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BALDWIN: Well, the mother of that 13-year-old is suing Davis and suing the school. No charges have been filed yet, but the sheriff's office is investigating. Meantime, listen to this. We just found out today there were reports that another teacher who witnessed the attack who was caught has since resigned.
SANCHEZ: You know what's interesting? I mean, look, a teacher doesn't need to take abuse from the students. And the school should not create a situation if what he is saying is true.
BALDWIN: If there is a culture of violence.
SANCHEZ: But still, it just seems to me, a teacher should never lay her hands on a child, period -- male, female, whatever. That's just not your job.
BALDWIN: Right.
SANCHEZ: Security job, maybe. Teacher, no.
BALDWIN: Not so much.
Story number two -- last week, he was on the list you don't want to be on. OK? We're talking about Guerdwich Montimere. Remember the 16-year-old sophomore basketball player from Texas, who, wait a second --
SANCHEZ: He's not 16.
BALDWIN: He's not 16 but really a 22-year-old naturalized citizen from Haiti. He was arrested this week, charged -- rather, this was the original story, was charged with presenting false identification to a peace officer, lied to a school, teammates, basketball coach. That was the story last week.
The story doesn't end here. He's back behind bars, arrested and charged with sex assault. Police say when Montimere had posed as a 15-year-old, he met a 15-year-old girl.
SANCHEZ: Who was really 15.
BALDWIN: Who was really 15, started having sex with her. He was really 21. So that is a second degree felony. His bond has been set for $50,000. So whoops, two times over.
SANCHEZ: That's interesting. Well, he was playing the role of a kid in high school. So he dated the girls in the high school.
BALDWIN: That's a no-no when you're 21.
SANCHEZ: And they thought he was 15 or 16, and, yes -- what a story.
BALDWIN: How about that?
SANCHEZ: Interesting. Yes, good stuff.
BALDWIN: Two good follow-ups today.
SANCHEZ: Thank you.
BALDWIN: Thank you.
SANCHEZ: And no singing, not yet.
BALDWIN: No.
SANCHEZ: Maybe in the next hour.
BALDWIN: No, no.
SANCHEZ: Take a look at this.
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JOE SESTAK, (D) PENNSYLVANIA SENATE CANDIDATE: I'm Joe Sestak, the Democrat. I authorized this message.
SEN. ARLEN SPECTER, (D) PENNSYLVANIA: My change in party will enable me to be reelected.
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SANCHEZ: Enable him to be reelected. Arlen Specter, out of parties to join. Will he lose his seat because of that ad?
By the way, is that ad fair? Or was there a little tricky editing going on there? I have seen the entire sound bite before it was turned into an ad, and that's not what Arlen Specter was saying. Just to be fair.
Also, some of the Muslim world would have real problems with this Muslim woman. Meet the new Miss USA! Intriguing? We think so. She is next.
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SANCHEZ: This is the story many around the country are talking about and will likely continue to talk about. She is the most intriguing person in the news today. And she is making headlines from Cairo, that's in Georgia, to Cairo, that's in Egypt. Here we go.
She is 24 years old, her hometown is in Deer Born, Michigan. This woman is the most intriguing not so much because of what she has done, but because of what she represents. Here is some quotes from her. "I was picked on a lot in school, had a very shy personality." She also says, "I don't think I would have reached so high and come such a long way had I not gone through the pain that I did growing up."
She is Arab-American. She is a Muslim. She is the new Miss USA, crowned last night in Vegas.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oklahoma, which leaves Miss USA 2010 is Michigan!
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SANCHEZ: There she is, Miss Michigan, now Miss USA. Her name is Rima Fakih, a graduate of the University of Michigan. She has a degree in economics with a minor in this business. Miss USA -- definitely most intriguing.
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SANCHEZ: The heat continues in Arizona. The state has started a task force to battle bad publicity. They are losing tens of millions in tourism dollars, and what are they doing? Well, I'm going tell you.
Also, we put together a list of the U.S. cities that are boycotting Arizona right now. You would be surprised at who is on this list.
Ahead -- the TSA chief. Jeanne Meserve is going to join us with this. We'll be right back.
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LARRY KING, CNN ANCHOR: How do you account for the longevity of the Stones as a success?
MICK JAGGER, SINGER/MUSICIAN: Well, I think the stones are very lucky. You always need a lot of luck, and I think they were in the right place at the right time, and they -- we -- were quite -- when we work, we work very hard. So I think you need all of those things. It's no good just working unless it's a lot of hard work. You've got to be hard working on your game and be lucky.
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SANCHEZ: Even my 17-year-old son Robby is excited about this interview tonight, the rest of Larry's conversation with Mick Jagger. This is a primetime exclusive. You're going to see it tomorrow night at 9:00 eastern, only on CNN.
All right, so is the leak sealed, like so? Do we have it? Let's show that, Roger. No, wrong animation. Let's try the other one. Let's try the one where you actually see that pipe going underground. We have that one? We don't. OK.
So, where is the oil going to go that isn't sealed? Now, that's the right animation. You see that right there? The oil that already got out could possibly be coming to a beach near you -- Florida Keys, maybe eastern seaboard. That is ahead.
Also, remember how much I questioned and criticized the U.S. auto manufacturers? Guess what? One of them has kind of proved everybody wrong. We're possibly even making money as a result of what they've done right. Poppy's got them on her list, and she's coming up in a little bit. Stay right there. There's poppy. We'll be right back.
POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM: Hey, Rick.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) SANCHEZ: And Welcome back to "RICK'S LIST." I'm Rick Sanchez.
We're talking about the car companies, companies that we own a 61 percent stake in, has been making in money. You'd think that's good news for us, and it very well may be. In fact, of the big three, one of them never took the money. This one took the money but now is going to be maybe paying us back.
When all is said and done, as much as I griped and you griped and we all gripe about the 50 billion or something that we gave them, we may not end up making out so badly, right, Poppy?
HARLOW: That's right. This is very, very welcome news to each and every person watching this, because all of you and you, Rick, and me, we all paid for GM to help it survive through bankruptcy.
SANCHEZ: And we complained.
HARLOW: And we complain a lot. But GM, to their credit, really turning things around. And one of our top stories on the top of the "CNN Money List" today, GM back in the black. The company this morning, Rick, said that it made $856 million dollars in the first quarter. That is an improvement, a vast improvement over the $6 billion that this company lost a year ago.
Why do you really care about that if you don't work in GM or aren't affected by this? You are because they got a bailout from taxpayers to the tune of $50 billion. They have paid back $6.7 billion of that.
But what happens now, Rick, is once this company starts turning a profit quarter after quarter, they're going to go public. GM will go public again as new company. And the rest of the money of that $50 billion we invested in GM, we're going to make that back, hopefully, once they go public. We, the government, own shares in general motors. When they go public, depending how well they do, that's how we get back, Rick, the money back. And that's why that matters.
This number, this $865 million number is a great, great surprising profit from GM this morning, Rick.
SANCHEZ: You know what was really good for American manufacturers of automobiles this last couple of months?
HARLOW: What?
SANCHEZ: Toyota.
HARLOW: Toyota. That played a huge part in this. You're right. Because when Toyota sales fell people looked at other brands, and they looked at Ford, which has done very well, which you know didn't get the bailout. And they looked at General Motors as well, that helped them as well.
But, Rick, I found this fascinating 00 GM sales in China were up 71 percent in the quarter from a year ago. SANCHEZ: Wow. There you go.
HARLOW: That's 71 percent. The Chinese love their Buicks.
SANCHEZ: So tell me, oh, wise one. The market today, after a really bad finish last week opened, how?
HARLOW: They did. Let's look at the big board, if we can pull it up. We're a minute and a half away from the closing bell. Take a look at stocks for the day, higher in the open, and then in the red all day. The DOW went down 184 points, Rick. Talk about a rally, up about 10 points now. That is great, great news for investors.
The talk all day today was the worries about Europe's debt concerns. Will the nearly $1 trillion bailout enough to help the markets? That was the question that all day. In the past few minutes we turned in positive territory.
Bank stocks are higher now, a lot of volume and movement on the street now, which is a great way to start the week. We're hoping we can end in the black, but we're up about three points now for the Dow Industrial. We'll see what that mean for tomorrow.
Big day tomorrow. We have housing numbers coming up, a lot of major earnings including Wal-Mart and watch the automakers.
SANCHEZ: Looking better, comparatively speaking, better than they were.
HARLOW: A little better.
SANCHEZ: Unemployment, that is where things get a little iffy, but little by little, we're told. Poppy, thanks so much. Look forward to seeing you again tomorrow.
HARLOW: We'll see you tomorrow.
