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U.S. Troop Detained in Afghan Shootings; Remembering Japan's Devastating Earthquake; Santorum Wins in Kansas
Aired March 11, 2012 - 06:00 ET
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RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR: From CNN Center, this is "Weekend Early Start." It's 6:00 a.m. in the east, 3:00 a.m. in the west. Good morning, everyone. I'm Randy Kaye.
Here's what's happening right now. Breaking news out of Afghanistan where a U.S. service member is detained for shooting civilians. We'll have a live report from the capital of Kabul.
Tears, prayers and a moment of silence as Japan marks the one- year anniversary of a massive earthquake, and in the Republican race for the White House, one candidate wins Kansas, but another touts delegate gains.
Let's get an update on that breaking story now out of Afghanistan where a U.S. service member has opened fire on civilians. Sara Sidner is in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sara, what can you tell us at this point?
SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Randi. At this point there's a lot of conflicting information, depending who you ask, which has been par for the course in this conflict. What we're hearing from the International Service Assistance Force is that they are saying, "Look, this was one soldier who went off base. It was not a part of any kind of a mission. The soldier left base, walked off the base, and eventually opened fire injuring several civilians." Those civilians are being treated at a coalition medical facility.
Now, that is now being disputed by the Taliban and by a villager that we were able to get a hold of in the area. This is happening in an area that has been heavily targeted because it is filled with the Taliban, and so it's an area that has seen quite a bit of action, but we need to mention that the Taliban is saying that they believe this was many soldiers who attacked one particular village. They're claiming that there are dozens of people who have been killed, although they are known to exaggerate the number of dead when it comes to any incident involving coalition forces.
ISAF has disputed that saying this is simply one soldier who went on his own and then returned to base and turned himself in. There is now an investigation underway, as you might imagine. NATO officials and Afghan officials are looking into this incident, but there is a big difference between what ISAF is saying, what the Taliban is saying, and what a villager is saying in that area. Randi.
KAYE: Are there reports of bodies there and how many if so?
SIDNER: There have been reports. We've heard everything from three to 17 people killed. The Taliban is saying 50, but, again, you have to keep this in mind that they often exaggerate numbers, the Taliban. But we are hearing from this particular villager that he himself saw several bodies in the back of trucks. He said he saw several men in the back of trucks and a few children as well.
We have not been able to independently confirm ourselves, and we've not seen any pictures or video out of the area, so still, a lot of conflicting information coming out, but ISAF has been pretty pointed in saying this was one soldier acting on his on, not by any kind of order. He was on his own. There was no mission. And he has been detained, and there is an investigation going on.
So at this point we haven't ourselves seen any video or any evidence, but there are a lot of different voices, conflicting voices, on this particular story, Randi.
KAYE: Sara Sidner for us in Kabul, Afghanistan. Sara, thank you very much. And of course, we'll continue to keep an eye on this story throughout the morning and bring you the very latest.
Now, exactly one year ago today everything changed in Japan and the world could only watch in horror.
A massive under sea earthquake struck Japan. The 9.0 quake was so powerful it shifted the earth's axis. What happened next was even worse. The quake triggered a giant tsunami that roared on to Japan's northeast coast. The towering wave washed away nearly everything in its path.
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KAYE: Terrified residents fled in panic as the wall of water chased them. In this amateur video you can hear the man screaming at others to get to higher ground before the wave swallows them up. The tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, sparking a meltdown and unleashing dangerous radiation that forced thousands to flee. The quake and tsunami killed nearly 16,000 people and leveled entire towns. The disaster caused at least $300 billion in damage.
In Japan's capital and across the country, people gathered today to mark the anniversary and to remember the loved ones that they lost. CNN's Kyung Lah is in the city of Ishinomaki where more than 3,000 people died in the disaster.
Kyung, Ishinomaki also paused in a moment of silence today?
KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It did. This is one of the hardest hit communities all along the tsunami zone, and it was one of many that did pause at 2:46 local time here in Japan to mark what happened a year ago. And people here say it was an extraordinarily important moment. They wanted to turn the page. They wanted to mark the date and then try to look ahead to the future and what the future is is it's very uncertain.
For a town like this, you can see all the rubble behind me, Randi. It is massive and it goes on for miles, and it's this way along 350 square miles of coastline here in northeastern Japan that is still flattened. There's still no rebuilding, and a lot of people here are hoping that the coming years will certainly be better than this last one they've seen. Randi.
KAYE: Kyung, Ishinomaki may compared to the others, that really was one of the hardest hit areas.
LAH: It absolutely was because the area that I'm standing in right now - and it's a little too dark to show you right now but it was completely flattened. The entire downtown is gone. People still are wandering through here, and there's still nothing here. There are no homes or businesses. What happened in this town was that the entire infrastructure went away along with the homes and the lives here.
So you're absolutely right. It was very hard hit because for many people they lost absolutely everything including their loved ones.
KAYE: And as you talk to people there, I mean, do they have any hope that their community, their town will eventually be rebuilt?
LAH: It really depends on who you speak with. There are some people who are optimistic, but they have to look many years down the line. There are talks of seven, eight, 10-year rebuilding plans. This is not going to happen very quickly. So people who say, yes, we're optimistic, but they're looking 10 years down the road. They're not optimistic about tomorrow. The people who are thinking about tomorrow, they've left this area, and that's really one of the big challenges for communities here along the northeastern coast is trying to keep the survivors here.
There are certain parts of Ishinomaki, certain little neighborhoods that are completely vacated, and there has been absolutely no pulling away the rubble because people have simply given up on those communities.
KAYE: That's so terrible still for them even after this one year. Kyung Lah, thank you very much. Appreciate that.
In Damascus former U.N. chief Kofi Annan is set to meet with Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad for the second straight day to try to halt the bloodshed in Syria. Annan wants Mr. Al Assad to agree to a cease-fire, release detainees and allow access to aid agencies. In the very capital where the talks are on-going, New violence broke out in the capital. Opposition activists say rebel fighters clashed with Syrian troops on the outskirts there.
To politics now, Rick Santorum is celebrating another big win this morning. He won yesterday's Kansas caucuses picking up twice as many votes as Republican rival Mitt Romney. He also picked up 33 more delegates along the way. Candidates are all now looking to Tuesday's primaries and caucuses which could be the make or break day. Alabama and Mississippi both have primaries while American Samoa and Hawaii both have caucuses.
Political reporter Shannon Travis in Overland Park, Kansas, has more for us. Shannon.
SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Senator Rick Santorum was expected to win the Kansas caucuses, and he did that. He will get the lion's share of the 40 delegates at stake here in this contest. The center wasn't here in Kansas when the results were announced. He was in Missouri. But take a listen at him talking about his win in this Kansas contest.
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RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We are doing well out here in the Midwest.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you give us any more thoughts on Kansas?
SANTORUM: Great win. Awesome win. Feeling great.
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TRAVIS: The Santorum campaign is going one step further. Hogan Gidley, who is Santorum's national communications director said, "This is a great win for the campaign and further evidence that conservatives and Tea Party loyalists are uniting behind Rick as the true consistent conservative in this race." The Santorum campaign certainly hopes that's the case as they move ahead. Look ahead towards Tuesday's contest in Mississippi and Alabama. They certainly hope to do well there, although there are some polls suggesting that Santorum has an uphill climb.
One other thing of note. Hawaii also has a contest on Tuesday and Santorum is sending his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, there to campaign.
Shannon Travis, CNN, Overland Park, Kansas.
KAYE: And here's the current delegate count. Mitt Romney's campaign won the most delegates this past week, but the magic number a candidate needs to win the Republican presidential nomination is 1,144. All right. So here's the breakdown. Mitt Romney needs 686 more delegates to clinch the nomination. Rick Santorum needs 941. Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul have a long way to go. Both candidates would need a majority of the 1,441 unallocated delegates to win.
And you can play politics too with us. Just visit CNN.com/election and click the primaries and caucuses tab, and then you can predict how many delegates the Republican presidential contenders will win in each state with our delegate calculator. Other news now, a gunman on the run since Friday is finally in custody this morning after a courthouse shooting and stabbing. Police arrested 34-year-old Steven Kravitz without incident yesterday. An unlikely source led deputies to the suspect. Kravitz's mother called police after seeing media records. SWAT teams and snipers surrounded her home and took Kravitz into custody. As you can imagine, neighbors are relieved.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was terrified. Just because it's like all these guys have big guns. I don't know what's going on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You never really know who is next door. Especially when they're kind of a recluse.
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KAYE: It happened after police say a deputy approached Kravitz inside the Gray's Harbor County Courthouse. He then allegedly stabbed the deputy, shot her with her own gun and then stabbed the judge who (INAUDIBLE) the deputies aid before escaping through the front of the courthouse.
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JUDGE DAVE EDWARDS, GRAY HARBOR SUPERIOR COURT: When I went to assist the deputy, he had a weapon in his hand. A knife or something. He was stabbing at her.
He got away from the deputy and pop, pop. He looked at me, and then he went out the front door of the courthouse with the gun in his hand.
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KAYE: Both the deputy and the judge are doing OK.
Well for all of you Apple fans counting down to the day that your new iPad arrives, your wait just got a little bit longer. Preorders for the new tablet will now ship by March 19th, according to the company's web site. That's three days after it hits the stores. The "Wall Street Journal" reporting that Apple previously said the new iPad would arrive at customers' homes by the March 16th release date. Guess not.
All right. Here's a rundown of what's ahead. Some unlikely pawn shop customers. Why the wealthy are cashing in their Rolexs and diamond necklaces. And one year after the deadly earthquake and tsunami that ravaged Japan, a wave of garbage thousands of miles long is getting close to our shores.
Then a coach attacked after a youth basketball game, and part of his ear is bitten off.
And in about 30 minutes top secret photographs from the crisis in Syria have been released to CNN. We'll be right back.
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KAYE: So you might think only people down on their luck pawn their stuff, well, CNN Money's Poppy Harlow has found the wealthy are turning in their Rolexs and diamond necklaces to get some cash too.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) arrested and autographed album I have by Elvis Presley.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Really?
POPPY HARLOW, CNN MONEY (voice-over): Maybe it's the TV shows like "Hard Core Pawn."
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This thing is worth some bucks.
HARLOW: Or maybe it's the economy.
JOSE CARA, US. GOLD BUYERS: Well, this is a beautiful Tiffany's pin.
HARLOW: But even rich folks are pawning their stuff these days.
CARA: We did a 20,000 loan on this.
HARLOW (on camera): Who is coming in here and trying to get a loan from things like this?
CARA: You know, a lot of people like to call them the one percent. We call them our client base.
HARLOW: These are rich people.
CARA: These are people who are well off who have extraordinary toys but unfortunately are not liquid enough to keep them.
HARLOW (voice-over): And it's more expensive stuff than you might expect.
GENE FURMAN, OWNER, PAWN.COM: This is a Rolex. It's about $90,000. Platinum Rolex.
HARLOW: There's Cognac, coin collections, and (INAUDIBLE).
FURMAN: This is actually 250-year-old Torah.
HARLOW: Yes, the holy scroll.
FURMAN: This is one of the most outrageous items we have ever loaned against. We are nothing more than your neighborhood branch of Chase, which is easier to get a loan from.
HARLOW: Lender Jose Cara says the average loan they give out is $20,000.
(on camera): What do they need the cash for?
CARA: I've heard everything from estate maintenance. They have to pay the butlers. They have to pay the groundskeepers.
HARLOW (voice-over): Rich folks just trying to keep up with the Jones's. And then there are the entrepreneurs, like Howard Motola.
(on camera): Did you ever think that you would be pawning your grandmother's diamond necklace to start a seafood restaurant?
HOWARD MOTOLA, ENTREPRENEUR: No, no, but it's not easy being an entrepreneur starting your own business these days, and it was difficult for me to get a small business loan.
HARLOW (on camera): It's appraised at about $54,000. The loan you gave out -
FURMAN: $30,000.
HARLOW: $30,000. That's what he needed.
(voice-over): Motola will pay $3,600 in interest at the end of his four-month loan. Here's the upshot. No credit checks, no extensive applications and no knocks to your credit report if you default.
CARA: Just because you own a Ferrari and you have an estate with acres does not mean you have 700 credit or 800 credit.
HARLOW: But it will cost you. Four percent a month that the two lenders we visited. The maximum interest by law here in New York. That's 48 percent APR a year. But in other states like Alabama, Nevada, and Georgia, it's much higher, as much as 25 percent per month. Experts warn treat it as a negotiation and never make the first offer. Don't tell the lender how much you paid for the item, and make sure you know the actual value before lending it.
FURMAN: The main thing we tell our clients, do not borrow more than you need. Do not go deeper into the debt. Just borrow what you need and borrow what you can afford to pay back.
HARLOW: Poppy Harlow, CNN Money, New York.
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KAYE: Disaster debris from Japan is making its way around the world and getting closer and closer to our shores. Just how close? Find out next.
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KAYE: Welcome back. Today marks the one-year anniversary of the deadly earthquake and tsunami that ravaged parts of Japan. The disaster also sent a wave of garbage into the sea. It's thousands of miles long still floating in the ocean and it's now getting closer and closer to our shores. I want to bring in Alexandra Steele for much more on this. Alexandra, you're tracking this thing.
ALEXANDRA STEELE, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, we're talking debris like rooves and trucks and cars and anything you can possibly imagine. So here's a look. We're going to show you what it is and talk about what's happening. So the wreckage, 23 million metric tons of material was displaced. You know, we just showed that live picture from Japan, and you know it was leveled. There's nothing there. So all that debris did go somewhere.
Now, most of it did sink to the ocean floor, but still, about 900,000 metric tons is floating out there, supposedly somewhere. So what we've seen so far is this debris field has traveled about 2,000 miles just in the last year. This is, of course, the year anniversary. What scientists have done is they've simulated the path of this debris field, of course, because of the currents and the weather all plays a role, so here's a look at that simulated path.
Now, it's really difficult to know what has sunk and what hasn't because it's now difficult to see that debris field on satellite. That's why this is the computer model projection. Now, there on the right side of your screen is the western east coast - the west coast, and, of course, the left of your screen is Japan. In the middle there are the Hawaiian Islands.
So again what's happened is it's all been kept in motion by the weather and the ocean currents, but the plant's radioactive core was washed out to sea, so some of the problems that we're looking at, there are certainly many, but it's the contaminated oceans and the food chain that we have seen, and, of course, that could remain toxic for hundreds of years potentially, Randi.
KAYE: That's amazing, and the size of it, 900,000 metric tons. All right. Alexandra, thank you very much.
STEELE: You're welcome.
KAYE: So did you know that there's a mini gold rush going on right now? In about one minute I'll tell you where you can make this cash the old-fashioned way.
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KAYE: Welcome back. Let's take a look now at a few stories making news cross-country. We'll start in the golden state.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: United we'll never be divided.
KAYE (voice-over): The 3,000 mile march from San Francisco to the nation's capital has begun. Supporters of the so-called Dream Act are planning to visit 285 cities and towns nationwide to raise awareness for legislation aimed at providing a path to citizenship for undocumented college students. They call it the Campaign for the American dream. They expect to reach the U.S. capital in October.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm fighting for them because I believe that they deserve - that they deserve a future.
KAYE: No, it's not 1849, but there's a gold rush in California. OK. A mini one. Ideal conditions including a dry, warm winter plus a rise in the price of gold are bringing people out to auburn waters in search of gold.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) go down to the river and make better than minimum wage.
KAYE: Gold panners say if conditions get dryer, the gold rush will only get bigger.
A round of applause for Vietnam veteran Robert Roach. For the past eight years, he has been living without something very important to him, his stolen Purple Heart. But this weekend American Legion host 11-11 teamed up with his choir to honor the hero presenting him with a new Purple Heart.
ROBERT ROACH, VIETNAM VETERAN: I expected to cry, but I was able to just enjoy the situation with the people.
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KAYE: We have stunning video to show you this morning from West Liberty, Kentucky. It captures the moment of impact from last weekend's deadly tornado. These images taken from several surveillance cameras in the area capture the EF-3 tornado as it ripped through the town. You can see the damage there transforming West Liberty into what the governor of Kentucky called a war zone. The tornado packed winds of 140 miles per hour. At least 21 people were killed in Kentucky alone.
Amid all the devastation from last weekend's tornado outbreak, a CNN hero is hard at work offering help to complete strangers in West Liberty. CNN's Rob Marciano talks to Tad Agolia.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Take it away from us. Take it, lord.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As the fierce storms tore through the Midwest and south last weekend taking 40 lives emergency recovery teams scrambled to respond to devastated communities across 10 states.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Keep pushing it forward. Doing good.
MARCIANO: Among the relief workers heading into the destruction zone was CNN hero Tad Agolia and his first response team of America.
TAD AGOLIA, CNN HERO: Let's go ahead and get this debris cleared enough so we can get the grapple claw in here. We got here just a few hours after the tornado struck this community. We've cleared the road. We've provided the light towers. We powered up the grocery store. We powered up the gas station to provide the essentials that this community needs.
MARCIANO: Since 2007 Agolia's team has crisscrossed the country providing recovery assistance to thousands of people at 40 disaster sights for free. This week they worked tirelessly for days restoring services and clearing tons of debris.
AGOLIA: See if you can grab the claw, actually cut the roof right in half. It's very hard for traditional equipment without the claws to actually grab this debris. That's why he you need specialty equipment like this.
MARCIANO (on camera): What do you do with it?
AGOLIA: We remove it from the community, but time is of the essence. There's a lot of people that want to get back in here. They're looking for anything they can salvage.
MARCIANO: Why do you do this? Why did you choose this road?
AGOLIA: When I'm watching those super cells go right over these small communities, I want to be there to help.
MARCIANO: You get to work. You do good stuff.
AGOLIA: Thank you.
MARCIANO: Thanks, Tad.
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KAYE: And, of course, you can nominate a CNN hero. Just go to cnnheroes.com, and right there you can nominate someone that you think is making a difference in your community.
Top secret photographs of the crisis in Syria released to CNN. The evidence shows civilians are being targeted by the government's brutality. Details just ahead.
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KAYE: Welcome back to WEEKEND "Early Start," and thanks for starting your morning with us. I'm Randi Kaye.
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KAYE (voice-over): Hundreds gathering in Japan today to mark the one-year anniversary of a devastating earthquake and tsunami. Japan's emperor and prime minister joining others in a ceremony in Tokyo, while a nationwide moment of silence was observed at the exact time of the incident.
A 9.0 magnitude quake and subsequent tsunami caused an estimated $300 billion in damages. Nearly 16,000 people died. Another 3,000 still remain missing.
Rick Santorum adds another win in his bid to become the Republican presidential nominee, easily taking the Kansas caucuses, but Mitt Romney's campaign is shrugging off the results, saying the former Massachusetts governor actually won more delegates this weekend. The focus now shifts back to the South, with two key primaries in Alabama and Mississippi taking place on Tuesday.
There are some angry and upset parents in Springfield, Massachusetts. Listen to this. A man is accused of attacking a basketball coach after his children's team lost. Police say the man punched the winning youth team's coach, then bit off part of his ear. The man hasn't been arrested, but authorities say they know who they're looking for.
And if quarterback Peyton Manning is going to choose a team, well, he better do it soon. The NFL's free agent period opens Tuesday. Manning, who was released by the Indianapolis Colts last week, has already met with Denver. He reportedly will also meet with Arizona and Miami.
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KAYE: To Syria now, where special U.N. Envoy Kofi Annan is meeting for a second day with that country's president, Bashar al- Assad. Annan is trying to get al-Assad to stop the bloodshed there and allow the Red Cross in to deliver much need aid.
Meanwhile, newly released images from the U.S. State department show evidence that al-Assad has a firm grip on power still in Syria. Here's Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.
BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: We've all seen the videos on television, but now we have newly declassified imagery from the State Department.
This is the kind of critical intelligence that the U.S. is looking at frame by frame to assess the Syrian military. It shows widespread damage across many neighborhoods and cities, ore than just what a camera can capture on the street, the real evidence of Syrian artillery and tanks on the move.
U.S. officials say the Syrian regime claims it's aiming at its enemies, but plenty of evidence that civilians, men, women and children are being killed. Evidence of mosques, hospitals and even playgrounds are being struck.
U.S. intelligence analysts tell us the evidence shows Assad right now has a firm grip on power. He is directing these assaults. They see no evidence any of the military defections or movements by the elite to get their money and relatives out of Syria, none of this is part of his inner circle.
And unless he believes that he is at risk or that his inner circle is cracking, he has no incentive to step aside. U.S. officials believe that Bashar al-Assad will hang on to power for some time to come.
KAYE: Thank you, Barbara. CNN's Arwa Damon, by the way, and her team were inside the besieged Syrian city of Homs. It is one of the most dangerous places in Syria right now, and you can join us tonight as Arwa gives us an eye-opening account, a CNN special, "72 Hours Under Fire." That's tonight at 8:00 Eastern only on CNN.
We have breaking news this morning from Afghanistan, where a U.S. service member has been detained after opening fire on civilians. The incident took place in the Kandahar province. And earlier I spoke with CNN's Sara Sidner, who is in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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SARA SIDNER, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: What we're hearing from the International Service Assistance Force is that they are saying, look, this was one soldier who went off base. It was not a part of any kind of a mission. The soldier left base, walked off the base and eventually opened fire, injuring several civilians.
Those civilians are being treated at a coalition medical facility. Now, that is now being disputed by the Taliban and by a villager that we were able to get hold of in the area. This is happening in an area that has been heavily targeted because it is filled with the Taliban, and so it's an area that has seen quite a bit of action.
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KAYE: A spokesman for the NATO-led coalition says an investigation is underway, the motive for the shooting still unknown. Of course, stay with CNN for new developments on this story.
Japan's stunning transformation -- we'll show you dramatic images from last year's deadly earthquake and tsunami and what the hardest hit cities look like today.
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KAYE: Welcome back. It is time for this morning's "Passport" with Nadia Bilchik. All right, so what's this about a village, the whole village, in France for sale?
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NADIA BILCHIK, EDITORIAL PRODUCER: (Inaudible), which is in the Limousin region, around 234 miles from Paris, so a whole village. It's around 22 kilometers, so it's not massive, 19 buildings. But it does have a 13th century church and remains of a castle. So it has a lot of history.
You are seeing the horse stalls (ph). It was predominantly a cattle farming region, so in the '70s when there was the decline of farming, so the village started to decline, and since then it's had so many different owners, and right now it's up for auction for around $440,000. KAYE: I guess that's a pretty good price for a whole village, right? Why -- is there something wrong with it or -- ?
BILCHIK: Well, it's quite far from Paris. We said around 234 miles. But also, the actual building needs so much restoration and so much work, and people have tried various things. They've tried a resort. They've tried having youth camps there, but it hasn't quite worked out.
So I was thinking, well, you know, yesterday we did the piece on the Chinese prefabricated buildings that go up in less than a month. Maybe we need to find something like that and build it. But there's the swimming pool. You just saw the famous village swimming pool and the --
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KAYE: It looks like it needs some work. I get why they have the price tag at $440,000.
BILCHIK: But it looks like -- if you take a look at it all, if some builder, you know, went in there and really worked on it, it could be something quite magnificent, because it's very pretty around there.
KAYE: It's beautiful. Yes, it has -- it has what you need. I mean, it has the core. You just need to do a lot of work.
BILCHIK: They are not selling individual homes. They are selling the entire village. So you were telling me you sent the article to your husband --
KAYE: I did. I said maybe we could invest, but I guess we would have to buy the whole thing. You can't just invest.
BILCHIK: Yes. Darling, here's your birthday, here's a little village. But while CNN was visiting the village, somebody did come and show interest in turning it into a cattle farm once again. So we'll watch and see what happens to Courbefy.
KAYE: So is it deserted? I mean, nobody lives there?
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BILCHIK: Right now it's deserted. Absolutely no one lives there. The last resident was around 2008, so since then it's been completely vacant and available and open to vagrants and other things. So they -- hopefully, in April or May, when the next auction happens, Courbefy will be sold, and the Limousin region will have a lovely habitable area.
KAYE: I mean, it actually has a lot of potential, I think. I think we can do it. What do you think?
BILCHIK: (Inaudible) very quickly. Yes, we can go in and revamp. It really is a revamper's dream, isn't it? KAYE: Yes, it's definitely a work in progress there. But we could play the Powerball or something and, you know, try and find (inaudible).
BILCHIK: It's actually -- how much money do you think it would take? Let's do that to turn Courbefy into a living, vital village.
KAYE: You let me know. We'll do it. Thank you, Nadia.
Whitney Houston's daughter has been keeping pretty quiet since her mother died a month ago. But now she is sitting with Oprah. Up next, we'll talk about the controversy surrounding that interview.
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KAYE: Investigators say they're close to completing Whitney Houston's toxicology report. They've already contacted all of the doctors and pharmacies with ties to her. Sources say so far nothing seems to be criminal.
Officials are still hoping to speak with Houston's daughter, Bobbi Kristina, before they make a final ruling. Houston was found dead last month in a California hotel's bathtub.
Bobbi Kristina may not be speaking to investigators, but she is talking with Oprah Winfrey, and it's not without controversy. Some critics say it's too soon for her to be giving interviews. Let me bring in entertainment journalist Jawn Murray.
Jawn, welcome to the show this morning. What's your take on this whole thing? Do you think it's too early? I mean, should she be talking at this point?
JAWN MURRAY, "TOM JOYNER MORNING SHOW": You know, Randi, grieving the loss of a loved one is an individual process, and so I think everyone comes to terms on their own basis.
You know, I never thought I would be quoting La Toya Jackson, but I saw her on "The Talk" recently, and she referenced Michael Jackson's kids, and she said they faced similar criticism when they had them talk to Oprah Winfrey, but she said the kids processed his death a lot quickly.
They were already listening to his music, and they ultimately helped the adults in the family cope with his death as well.
KAYE: And what about Houston's sister? I mean, she also talked with Oprah Winfrey. Let's listen to that, and then I want to ask you about that interview.
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OPRAH WINFREY, TV PERSONALITY: Were you afraid that she would be gone too soon?
PATRICIA HOUSTON, WHITNEY HOUSTON'S SISTER: If things hadn't changed. But things were changing. It wasn't about substance abuse or anything like that, relative to the latter days or anything like that. I think it was -- it was just more of lifestyle. I was afraid for other things.
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KAYE: That's just a snippet, sort of a tease of that interview, Jawn, but what is it that you think that you want to hear? What are you waiting to hear from that interview?
MURRAY: You know, I'm looking forward to hearing Bobbi Kristina talk about Whitney Houston, the mother. You know, she's the ultimate guardian of her mom's legacy, so hearing from her is very, very important.
And her mom trusted Oprah Winfrey, which is why she chose to talk to Oprah Winfrey. She was a family friend. And so it's going to be very interesting to hear her speak about her mom and the bond that they had.
KAYE: Yes. I'm sure it will be, although we haven't seen any of those clips yet, but we're looking forward to that one.
Listen, there are -- there are critics, though, who are accusing the talk show queen of nabbing the Houstons' 19-year-old daughter to help boost her own sagging ratings on the network OWN. Do you think that's fair, I mean -- and do you think this would even help the network?
MURRAY: Well, you know, Oprah has never had a problem getting exclusives. We know that over the years. Whitney Houston, when she did her comeback CD in 2009, the only exclusive interview gave was to Oprah Winfrey. So Oprah, you know, these interviews are great for her network.
Of course, it will have stellar ratings, but she has other shows that are performing well as well. Her "Next Chapter" series, her life class, and even a show called "Welcome to Sweetie Pie's," that she's not even on. The ratings are really good for that show as well. So, yes, it's going to help the ratings, but I don't think this was a ratings decision. I think this was a Houston family decision.
KAYE: Mmm. All right. Let me get your take on another topic. I want you to take a look at this viral video. Two Florida state representatives using rapper Jay-Z's lyrics on the legislative floor. Listen.
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ALAN WILLIAMS (D), FLORIDA STATE HOUSE: I think Jay-Z said it best, and I'm going to quote for you. "I know my rights, so you are going to need a warrant for that." And they even went further to say aren't you sharp as a tack, you a lawyer or something?
DEAN CANNON (R), FLORIDA STATE HOUSE SPEAKER: I would respectfully disagree with the correction, Representative Williams. "In the song, it was the officer who said, 'Aren't you sharp as a tack?' or something. 'You should try for lawyer or something,' so I got you on that.
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KAYE: I mean, really. Are they arguing about Jay-Z's lyrics? What do you make of that?
MURRAY: That's funny. Well, here's the deal. Both of them were right, Randi. Cannon had the line about the lawyer and the cop right; Williams had the lyrics right, but my suggestion is they leave the hip-hop to the professionals. Though they may think they are Eminem and 50 Cent, to this, fellows, I say, not so much.
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KAYE: Well, I hope they're watching this morning, because you'll probably get some emails from the two of them calling them not hip. But, Jawn, thank you very much. Great to see you.
MURRAY: Any time.
KAYE: All right. Take a look at this. Five starving artists sharing one guitar. Well, actually it's the Canadian band Walk of the Earth, showing off their skills at the South by Southwest conference in Austin, Texas. Look at that. That is so cool, but also kind of weird, same time (ph).
Japan's stunning transformation. We'll show you dramatic images from last year's deadly earthquake and tsunami and what the hardest hit cities look like now. Back right after this.
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KAYE: Japan is remembering one year ago today, when it faced an unbelievable triple disaster: a massive earthquake, a devastating tsunami and a nuclear crisis. Since March 11th, 2011, Japan has been struggling to recover. We want to show you some pretty stunning before-and-after pictures that really show what Japan has been through.
Take a look, here on the left of your screen there, an image taken just one week after the tsunami. The man is surrounded by what's left of his home. You can see it's just debris. And then to your right 12 months later, that same street -- pretty remarkable.
Here in the same stricken city on the left, you see a woman looking at her ruined street one week after the tsunami tore through there. And you can see the boat washed ashore, and then to the right the same street, some buildings gone, but so is the ship and so is the debris.
And now look at this from the city of Minamisanriku, on March 16th of last year. In the second image, the same street this month. The rubble is completely gone, but the area looks deserted and eerily empty. And take a look at this haunting image. Days after the tsunami struck, a woman digs mud out of what was left of her house. You can see a boat stuck in the debris behind her. One year later, the debris is gone. The boat is still there.
It all started when a powerful 9.0 earthquake struck at 2:46 pm local time off Japan's coast. At that moment, no one knew what would happen next. CNN iReporters captured history unfolding for us. Take a look.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It is still going. Oh, my God. The building is going to fall.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The ground was shaking so much. It was unreal. I can't describe it. It was just -- it was -- it felt like someone was just pulling you back and forth, like side to side, as hard as they could.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It just blew up. Whoa. Whoa. This is crazy.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You couldn't even stand up. I mean, literally at the peak of these waves that were washing over the ground, you literally could not stay on your feet.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have earthquake right now, and this is actually moving. Can you see the crack is moving?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Been awake about 35 hours, and that's because every time I lie down to go to sleep or rest, there's a big aftershock.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: IReporter Aaron Lace (ph), who was attending a college graduation at a theater in Tokyo when the earthquake hit, and, Aaron, just describe for us the moment of the earthquake when all of this -- essentially this pandemonium broke out.
AARON RACE (PH), IREPORTER: It was an absolute horrific event, obviously, because lives were lost. The aftershocks are coming extremely regularly. They're coming literally every hour at least, and they're coming in doses that are extremely strong.
And it's something that you would not wish upon your worst enemy. And the way the Japanese people, in a dignified manner and in an absolute civilized manner have handled the aftermath of this, there has been absolutely no loss of law or order, no loss of any kind of civilized decorum of a people.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can see my house just looks like a bomb hit it. You can see there's some damage here. My -- all my pictures are screwed up. And my kitchen's a little bit in disarray. I think we're OK there. My wife's office is pretty much destroyed.
(END VIDEO CLIP) KAYE: More people might be lining up at Apple stores to get their hands on the new iPad instead of waiting for it to arrive at their home. Details on a shipping delay, though, just ahead.
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I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, and this morning we're going to look at how to keep your memory sharp and possibly even hold off Alzheimer's disease. As I have learned, there are simple things you can do that are proven to work, and I'll share them with you. That and more at the bottom of the hour.
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KAYE: Nearly 70 million people have watched the 30-minute YouTube video called "Kony 2012." The organization that produced it says the goal is to stop Joseph Kony. He is a warlord who has kidnapped thousands of kids, raped them and taught them to kill their own parents in Uganda.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Arresting Joseph Kony will prove that the world we live in has new rules, that the technology that has brought our planet together is allowing us to respond to the problems of our friends.
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KAYE: Evelyn Apoko, a survivor, escaped Kony's Lord's Resistance Army when she was just 13. And while in captivity, an explosion actually blew off part of her face, which impedes her speech today. She shares some of her thoughts about the video with our Don Lemon.
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EVELYN APOKO, LRA SURVIVOR, STRONGHEART FELLOW: I feel really hurt because -- I don't know. It's not easy to be a survivor, but I'm glad I was able to escape. Maybe the purpose is why I am sitting here, and it's very painful for me to hear that Joseph Kony is, right now in the United States, he's a celebrity, and I ask myself what is a celebrity? The kids the ones supposed to be a celebrity, because they been through a lot.
Joseph Kony right now is no longer in Uganda. He is no longer in Sudan. But he is in Democratic Republic of Congo. On the video, what I didn't like about it, on what I saw, they're still including Uganda in there. They're supposed to be focused more -- is -- in the Congo is where the issues still continuing there.
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KAYE: And next hour we'll talk with an international journalist who says "Kony 2012" is misrepresenting what's really happening in Uganda. She'll explain why she believes the campaign could be doing more harm than good for the cause.
Also coming up at 8:00 am, Uganda isn't the only place where women and children have fallen victim to war criminals like Joseph Kony. I'll speak to a member of a U.N. refugee agency for a closer look at the worldwide problem and what is being done today to try and end it.
And then at 7:00 pm tonight, Don Lemon will speak with Invisible Children co-founder and film narrator, Jason Russell, about the video's sudden fame and the controversy that has come along with it.
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KAYE: From CNN Center, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING. It is Sunday, March 11th. Good morning, everyone. Glad you are with us. I'm Randi Kaye. Here's what's happening right now.
Breaking news out of Afghanistan, where a U.S. service member is detained for shooting civilians. We'll have a report from the capital of Kabul.
It's been one year since a devastating earthquake and tsunami hit Japan, and a huge debris field is it still out in the ocean. Where will it hit?
And companies and retailers could be tracking where you shop online and even what you buy. And guess what they do next? Well, they adjust their prices accordingly.
ANNOUNCER: From CNN's world headquarters, bringing you news and analysis from across the nation and around the globe -- live from Studio 7, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING.
KAYE: Breaking news now out of Afghanistan, where a U.S. service member has been detained after opening fire on civilians in the province of Kandahar.
Let's bring in Sara Sidner for much more on the story. She's in the capital city of Kabul.
Sara, what can you tell us about what happened?
SIDNER: Randi, there's a lot of conflicting reports coming out of Afghanistan, depending on which side you speak to.
ISAF say that one person, one soldier was involved in this incident. It was not a part of any official mission. That the soldier acted on his own, walked off the base, went out into the public domain and ended up opening fire on civilians. Several civilians were wounded, and those civilians are being cared for at a coalition medical facility. Now, that is ISAF's version of what has happened.
We've now heard from the Taliban and from a villager who was in the area, who both claimed that there was actually more soldiers in the area in western Kandahar province, and that it resulted in the death of several people. The Taliban is claiming 50 people were killed, though they often exaggerate the numbers of casualties.
The person that we were able to speak with who went into that village said that there were several bodies that he did not count, but saw several bodies in the backs of trucks, including men and children. That story, however, is being disputed by ISAF who was saying this was a single soldier who acted on his own, left the base, and committed this incident, and then came back to the base and turned himself in.
There is an investigation, obviously, that is going on now with NATO officials and Afghan officials, and we're hoping to hear more on that investigation in the coming hours -- Randy.
KAYE: And, Sara, this is especially concerning that it happened in Kandahar, because that is also the site where the U.S. troops mistakenly burned the Koran, and there was much violence following that. Do you think we can expect more violence now as a result of this?
SIDNER: We are certainly already seeing the Taliban saying that, you know, this is another incident that shows that the coalition forces should get out of Afghanistan as soon as possible. I mean, you're certainly going to hear more pressure from groups asking for coalition forces to leave sooner than later.
This could result in more violence, and we've seen other things happening, and it comes after several incidents. One, U.S. soldiers with the photos of them urinating on Afghan bodies, Afghan casualties. This comes after, like you mentioned, the Koran burning where U.S. soldiers mistakenly burned Koran and other religious materials that sparked protests, particularly in Kandahar.
And also, Kandahar, this area, where this allegedly happened basically is an area known to be a very strong presence of Taliban in the area, and it's seen a lot of action. There's a lot of anger that we were hearing from the villager who went in and said that he believes people are being lied to about what happened.
But, again, we're hearing from ISAF that they're pretty adamant that this is one person acting alone. And so, it's very difficult on the ground there to know exactly what's going on. We have seen no video or no pictures from that area depicting what may have happened. So, we're still waiting to see if any of that comes down as well, Randi.
KAYE: Sara Sidner for us in Kabul, Afghanistan, watching this. Sara, thank you.
People in Japan gathered to mourn and reflect and pray today. Exactly one year ago, the country endured a triple nightmare that stunned the world.
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KAYE: First, a massive undersea earthquake stroke off Japan. The 9.0 quake was so powerfully, it actually shifted the earth's access. But what happened next was even worse. (VIDEO CLIP PLAYS)
KAYE: The quake triggered a giant tsunami that roared into Japan's northeast coast. The towering wave washed away nearly everything in its path.
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KAYE: Terrified residents fled in panic as the wall of water chased them, and then this amateur video. You heard it there, that man screaming at others to get it higher ground before the wave swallows them.
The tsunami crippled the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, sparking a meltdown and unleashing dangerous radiation that forced thousands to flee. The quake and tsunami killed nearly 16,000 people and leveled entire towns. The disaster caused at least $300 billion in damage.
One year later, Japan is still actually trying to recover. One of the hardest hit cities was Ishinomaki, on the tsunami battered coast. More than 300,000 people died there.
Kyung Lah is in Ishinomaki for us today for the remembrances.
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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: At 2:46 local time here in Japan to mark what happened a year ago, and people here say it was an extraordinarily important moment. They wanted to turn the page. They wanted to mark this date and then try to look ahead to the future. And what the future is, is it's very uncertain.
For a town like this, you can see all the trouble behind me, Randi. It is massive, and it goes on for miles, and it is this way along 350 square miles of coastline here in northeastern Japan that is still flattened. There's still no rebuilding, and a lot of people here are hoping that the coming years will certainly be better than this last one they've seen, Randi.
KAYE: And, Kyung, Ishinomaki, I mean, compared to the others, that really was one of the hardest hit areas.
LAH: It absolutely was, because the area that I'm standing in right now and it's a little too dark to show you right now, but it was completely flattened. The entire downtown is gone. And people still are wandering through here and there's still nothing here. There are no homes. There are no businesses.
So, what happened in this town was that the entire infrastructure went away along with the homes and the lives here. So, you're absolutely right. It was very hard hit because for many people they lost absolutely everything, including their loved ones.
KAYE: And as you talked to people there, I mean, do they have any hope that their community, their town will eventually be rebuilt? LAH: It really depends on who you speak with. There are some people who are optimistic, but they have to look many years down the line. There are talks of seven, eight, 10-year rebuilding plans. This is not going to happen very quickly.
So, people who say, yes, we're optimistic, but they're looking 10 years down the road. They're not optimistic about tomorrow. The people who are thinking about tomorrow, they've left this area.
And that's really one of the big challenges for communities here along the northeastern coast, is trying to keep the survivors here. There's certain parts of Ishinomaki, certainly in little neighborhoods, that are completely vacated. And there has been absolutely no clearing away of the rubble because people have simply given up on those communities.
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KAYE: Kyung Lah, thank you very much.
And now to politics. Rick Santorum is celebrating another big win this morning. He won yesterday's Kansas caucuses, picking up twice as many votes as Republican rival Mitt Romney. He also picked up 33 more delegates along the way.
The candidates are all now looking to Tuesday's primaries and caucuses, which could be the make or break day. Alabama and Mississippi both have primaries, while American Samoa and Hawaii have the caucuses.
Political reporter Shannon Travis is in Overland Park, Kansas, and he has much more for us -- Shannon.
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SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN POLITICAL REPORTER: Senator Rick Santorum was expected to win the Kansas caucuses, and he did that. He'll get the lion's share of the 40 delegates at stake here in this contest. The senator wasn't here in Kansas when the results were announced. He was in Missouri, but take a listen to him talking about his win in this Kansas contest.
RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We honestly hope to. We're doing well out here in the Midwest.
REPORTER: Can you give us any more thoughts about Kansas?
SANTORUM: Great win. Awesome win. Feeling great.
TRAVIS: The Santorum campaign is going one step further. Hogan Gidley, who is Santorum's national communications director, says, quote, "This is a great win for the campaign and further evidence that conservatives and Tea Party loyalists are uniting behind Rick as the true consistent conservative in this race."
The Santorum campaign certainly hopes that's the case as they move ahead, look ahead towards Tuesday's contest and Mississippi and Alabama. They certainly hope to do well there, although there are some polls suggesting that Santorum has an uphill climb. One other thing of note, Hawaii also has a contest on Tuesday, and Santorum is sending his eldest daughter, Elizabeth, there to campaign.
Shannon Travis, CNN, Overland Park, Kansas.
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KAYE: Thank you, Shannon.
Well, if you shop online, tweet, or update your facebook status, you're going to want to listen up. Companies may be tracking your shopping habits and your comments, even your likes on Facebook -- and then using that info to charge you more. I'll explain, next.
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KAYE: Welcome back.
We want to update the breaking news that we've been following. The shooting in Afghanistan, in the province of Kandahar. We're just getting word from the government of Kandahar here into CNN, 15 dead there in that shooting.
As we've been telling you this morning, a U.S. service member has detained in this shooting. Our Sara Sidner is in Kabul, Afghanistan, watching this for us. As soon as we can get her to give us new information, some more information that she's been gathering from her sources, we will bring her to you and bring that information to you.
But just again, we can confirm 15 killed in this incident from the Kandahar government office. A delegation has been sent to investigate the incident, and from the U.S. embassy, 15 killed and wounded. The United States, from the U.S. embassy, is saying that it extends its deepest condolences to the families of the victims of today's tragic shooting in the Kandahar province.
So, we'll keep an eye on this, and we'll get new information to you as soon as we can.
Meanwhile, in other news, if you shop online, you'll want to listen to this. Every month, I go to the same Web site to buy my vitamins. So, this next story, well, it got me pretty concerned. It turns out that there is actually a growing trend online. It's called behavioral pricing.
Companies and retailers could be tracking where you shop online and what you buy and then, guess what they do next? They actually adjust their prices maybe, even hike their prices. For example, if they know I'm going to buy my monthly vitamins, they could hike up the price because they know that I'm a loyal customer and I'll buy them.
I spoke to our financial analyst Clyde Anderson and tech columnist and digital marketer Allen Gannett earlier to find out exactly how it works. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CLYDE ANDERSON, FINANCIAL ANALYST: They're really looking to see -- they discriminate, basically, on what you are buying online. They track you to determine exactly what you are buying. So, your behaviors online will determine how they charge for certain goods or services.
KAYE: And so, this has been going on, what, for some time?
ANDERSON: Going on for some time. I mean, really, a lot of the technology was used to look at your competitors, to see what your competitors were charging and make sure that you are charging accordingly, or maybe beating their prices so you can track the competition. Now, they're really tracking you more. So, it's really developing and 2012 is becoming huge.
KAYE: It's very big brother-ish.
ANDERSON: Yes.
KAYE: Yes.
Allen, let me bring you in here. You believe that this behavioral pricing online is in its infant stage. But why is that and where do you see it going over the next few weeks?
ALLEN GANNETT, DIGITAL MARKETER: So, over the last few years, we have seen two real trends emerge. On one hand, we're seeing all this data being stored about you on online database. So, who you are, your demographics, what you do online, what you tweet. And it is being repackaged and sold to advertisers so they can better target ads to it.
At the same time, like Clyde said, companies are getting really, really smart about how about do we optimize our prices online. It's going to become really tempting over the next few years to take all of this data we have about you in data banks, and use this to better price your products.
So, for example, let's say you've been tweeting about how excited you are to go on a trip to Miami and soak up the sun -- they're going to know you are going to be willing to pay more money for a trip to Miami.
KAYE: And also, so, whatever -- I mean, are you telling me that I shouldn't like anything or anything on Facebook as well? I mean, is that an example of how these companies could be tracking you?
GANNETT: Sure. So, it's definitely a possible way it could happen. But it's still very nascent, right? So, we're not your house to develop.
I mean, last week, we saw a really interesting example of actually good side of this where Clout, which is a start up, which analyzes how influential you are in social media, partnered with (INAUDIBLE), electronic shopping site, and give you discounts for how influential you are on social media. So, it really cuts both ways.
KAYE: So, Clyde, you think -- I mean, should we question every price we see?
ANDERSON: Well, I think you should. I mean, just because you are in the store, you are looking at prices, you compare prices. And one price may be different when you're logging on from one computer versus another computer now. So, that's what we really got to look at.
I mean, the whole thing comes down to data is so key right now. And so, he who holds the gold makes the rule. And right now, the gold is the data. And in this case, they are setting the prices.
KAYE: Yes.
So, Allen, I mean, I find this whole thing kind of creepy, actually. I mean, is this sort of a similar to or the same thing when you, you know, say I serve for, I do an Internet search for -- I'm looking to buy a couch or something. And then my next page, I'm looking at something else. But, all of a sudden, and there's an ad for a furniture store.
I mean, is that the same type of tracking that's going on?
GANNETT: Absolutely. It's cookie-based tracking, right? So, looking at how you've interacted online and then take the information and target ads to you better. And now, we are going to start seeing that being used for pricing.
So, if you are looking at couches a lot and you go to a competitor's site, they are going to take that information in and decide how to price you based on that.
KAYE: And, Allen, is there any way for a consumer to know that they're being tracked?
GANNETT: Yes. So, there's a lot of resources including browser extension which can show you what cookies are tracking you right now. If people want to check it out, there's one by Mozilla Firefox that will show what cookies are tracking your behavior and where they are sending that information.
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KAYE: And our thanks to Clyde and Allen on that one as well.
And we want to just let you know -- we are watching this shooting in Kandahar, in the province there in Afghanistan. Fifteen dead and wounded, we're being told from the Kandahar government. A U.S. service member has been detained. We'll have the latest for you right after this break.
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KAYE: Updating now that the breaking news from Afghanistan where U.S. service member has been detained after opening fire on civilians. Our Sara Sidner is in the capital city of Kabul with some new information for us.
Sara, bring us up-to-date.
SIDNER: A couple of things -- one, the U.S. embassy saying that they are actually looking into the facts of this case. ISAF, actually, has been saying that, yes, there is an investigation going on.
But the latest thing is coming from the government of Kandahar, their media office has sent us a bit of a confusing e-mail saying that 15 people killed and wounded. What we're trying to determine now is if it's 15 people total and some of them have died and some of them are wounded, we have not been able to get that information just yet. But we are getting word now from Afghan government sources in Kandahar saying that there were definitely some deaths and some people who were wounded.
This is being investigated as we said earlier, and there is one U.S. member of the services that has been detained, and the ISAF officials are saying this person acted alone. The Taliban is refuting that, saying this was a part of a larger mission with more people involved, but ISAF obviously refuting those statements from the Taliban.
But right now, what we're hearing is from the Kandahar government that 15 people killed and wounded. We're trying to get a more specific on exactly the true number of dead and wounded. But clearly now we're getting some official word from the government in Afghanistan that there are some people who have died in this incident involving a U.S. member of the troops -- Randi.
KAYE: And, Sara, with the service member now being detained -- I mean, is there any word coming out at all in a possible motive or possibly how many other troops might have been with this U.S. service member at the time?
SIDNER: Yes. ISAF officials being very adamant that it was one person acting on their own, left the base, went out, opened fire, and then came back and turned themselves in, but the motive is very unclear. I this that is what the investigation is trying to ascertain, exactly what was behind this, why it happened, and that's what they are in the middle of now.
KAYE: And why is this such a sensitive area? Just remind us why Kandahar is so sensitive.
SIDNER: Very sensitive for many reasons. Most recently, it's sensitive because this is where the U.S. soldiers accidentally burned -- or U.S. troop members accidentally burned Korans and other religious materials. That blew up. There were protests all over the place. Many people killed, including members of the United States military.
You also saw scenes of violence just among Afghans who are angry about what had happened. This is also in a place where the Taliban is known to be -- to be in large numbers. A place that's seen a lot of action, a place that is sort of very easily -- easily injured when it comes to this sort of thing.
So, they see this -- a lot of people in the area. And we spoke with the villager there. They really believe that they're being lied to. They believe that U.S. troops and the coalition forces should go out of Afghanistan.
The Taliban being pretty adamant that they believe there are many people killed, that civilians were targeted.
And the Taliban tends to exaggerate numbers. They're saying 50 people were killed. We have not been able to confirm that number with anyone, including the Afghan government.
But a lot of tension in that area as you know, and there has been a lot of action by coalition forces. So, this is not at all good news. The U.S. embassy has said that they're very saddened to see some of the Afghani civilians killed, that this is, you know, a terrible thing to have happened, and that they are sorry about this incident. They're continuing to look into it, Randi.
KAYE: Sara, I know you have lots of work to do, and some work in your sources there as well. So, we'll let get you back to that. Sara Sidner, thank you very much.
We'll be right back after this.
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KAYE: Checking top stories.
The Afghan government says 15 people have been killed and wounded in a shooting blamed on a U.S. service member. The incident happened in a Kandahar province. Officials telling CNN the service member acted alone and was not part of any mission, but walked off base and committed the shooting and then that service member turned himself in. A motive for the shooting is not known and an investigation is now underway.
A Canadian skier has died following a crash during the World Cup ski cross in Switzerland. Officials say the 29-year-old man died from severe head injuries after hitting his head on the course's safety netting. Organizers have canceled the rest of the World Cup event.
And for all of you Apple fans, counting down to the day that your new iPad arrives, your wait just got a little but longer. Preorders for the tablet will now ship by March 19th, according to the company's Web site. That is three days after it hits stores.
"The Wall Street Journal" reporting that Apple previously said the new iPad would arrive at customers' homes by the March 16th release date.
We'll have more top stories at the top of the hour -- but, first, slowing down the progression of Alzheimer's disease. More as "SANJAY GUPTA, M.D." starts right now.
