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Picking a New Pope; Crews To Demolish Sinkhole House; Biden to Join Marches in Selma; Bleacher Report; Cardinals Prepare to Choose New Pope; Interview with Fitness and Nutrition Expert Mark MacDonald

Aired March 03, 2013 - 06:00   ET

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: From CNN world headquarters in Atlanta this is EARLY START WEEKEND.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The mission has changed because we can no longer sustain a rescue effort.

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KEILAR: The Florida sinkhole that has swallowed one life is so dangerous it is threatening an entire neighborhood. Wait until you see what authorities are doing to the houses there.

And it's the first Sunday without a pope. Now the cardinals are descending on the Vatican to elect the next holy father. We'll take you live to Rome.

And accused murder Jodi Arias expected back on the stand Monday as her attorneys take back questioning. But, can they undo the damage of a scathing cross examination.

It's Sunday, March 3rd. Good morning, everyone. I'm Brianna Keilar, in for Randi Kaye this morning.

It's been a busy morning for crews at the International Space Station. About 30 minutes ago, they grabbed the Dragon cargo vehicle. The next step is to lock it down to the station. That's set to happen later this morning around 9:40 Eastern Time. There was some glitches when Dragon launched Friday and that delayed its arrival by about a day, but SpaceX, that's the company that owns Dagon, says everything is working now. The unmanned capsule is carrying more than 1,200 pounds of supplies for the station crew and their experiments.

And at the Vatican, there will be no customary Angelus prayer on this Sunday and the windows of the now sealed papal apartment will remain firmly closed. The highly secret election to pick former Pope Benedict XVI 's successor has yet to begin. Our senior international correspondent Ben Wedeman joining us now from outside the Vatican.

So, Ben, are all of the cardinals who will elect the new pope at the Vatican already or are some still making their way?

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Some are still making their way. But tomorrow morning at 9:30, the congregation of cardinals, which include 207 cardinals, those who will -- the 115 that will participate in the conclave, the remainder are over the age of 80. They're expected at 9:30 in the morning. They'll be holding two sessions tomorrow. The afternoon one begins at 5:00. And we don't know how long these meetings of cardinals will actually go.

Obviously, one of the important points on their agenda will be to set a date for the conclave. But they're also discussing a variety of issues of importance to the church. Obviously, the agenda has not been made public, but we're told they'll be talking about governance or management of the church, financial issues, questions of pedophile priests. So lots to discuss, in addition to the conclave, which they have to set a date for.

Brianna.

KEILAR: Ben, can you -- and I know that we do have some familiarity since it hasn't been that long, but walk us through this process of picking the new pope, which will be such a big part of this conclave.

WEDEMAN: Well, once the conclave date is set, all the sort of wheels will be set in motion. There's 115 cardinals who will be taking place -- taking part in the conclave. They will be in a special state, in a special hostile within the Vatican City where they will have no access to cell phones, land lines, Internet, Blackberry, newspapers, radio, television. They'll be in a completely sealed bubble. And they will walk every day from that hostile to the Sistine Chapel, which will be prepared for them. And there in the Sistine Chapel, on the first day they will vote once. And after that, it's four votes a day until they come up with a successor to Benedict.

Now, obviously, all of this in complete secrecy. The only -- we will know when they have made a decision when you see that white smoke coming out of the chimney over the Sistine Chapel. Now, last time, when Benedict was elected in 2005, it took a day and a half to elect a pope. Back in the 13th century, however, it took two years, nine months and two days. So it could be anything between those two spans of time. So, no idea, really, how long the process will take.

KEILAR: Well, Ben, as you sit there waiting for that white smoke, we do hope that it take less long than perhaps that second option there. Ben, we'll be checking in with you as this process goes forward. Thanks for that.

Now back here at home, most of the people chased out of their homes by a fast, intense brush fire are back at home this morning. Firefighters near Daytona Beach, Florida, say they've got it 75 percent contained now. At one point there were about 300 families who had to leave. A stretch of I-95 back open now as well. It was closed because of the thick smoke. So far, there are no injuries -- no reports of injuries and only a barn and a chicken coup have burned down.

Searchers outside of Tampa have given up on finding a man who disappeared when a sinkhole opened under his bed. Authorities say the ground is so unstable that it's just too dangerous to look for Jeff Bush's body. Later this morning, demolition crews will start tearing down the house. Here's more from CNN's John Zarrella.

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JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: County officials here saying they wish they could have done more, but they simply could not risk any more lives. And with that, the official search for Jeff Bush's body has ended.

Now, the reality is, that no one had been inside that house since Thursday when the sinkhole opened up. But what they were doing was around the periphery testing with electronic devices, listening devices, ground penetrating radars to see if they could find where there was stability. If there was enough stability to get back into the house to search for the body. But that did not happen.

So, what they are doing now is moving to what they are calling a demolition phase. They'll bring in some heavy equipment and they will start the demolition process of that house. Now, one of the engineers here said that -- and he is a sinkhole expert, as well -- said that this was a very, very unique sinkhole.

ROSS MCGILLIVRAY, ARDEMAN & ASSOCIATES: This is an incredibly unusual condition. I've been doing this for a long time and I've never seen one like this condition.

ZARRELLA: Right now it measures about 20 feet wide and about 50 feet deep they are saying. But if t here is any good news, they are saying that beyond the initial house where the sinkhole was and the houses on either side of them, they do not believe from their testing of the soil that any other houses would be compromised. But, they said, that it is very unlikely that any of the people living in those three houses will ever go inside them again.

John Zarrella, CNN, Seffner, Florida.

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KEILAR: A county official says the ground is just so dangerous that crews will have to tear down the house from a distance even and they won't even go past the sidewalk.

Now just in to CNN, former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak will be retried on April 13th. In June, a judge convicted Mubarak for ordering the killing of hundreds of protesters during the Arab Spring. The former president was sentenced to life in prison, but in January a Cairo court granted Mubarak a retrial. Also on trial will be Egypt's former interior minister and several top security chiefs. The former president is currently being held at a military hospital.

Anger is erupting in Egypt at the U.S. and its top diplomat. Secretary of State John Kerry is meeting with President Mohamed Morsi in Cairo before heading to Saudi Arabia later today. Earlier, protesters held up anti-Kerry signs outside of the ministry of foreign affairs building. Kerry says Washington wants to support democracy in Egypt, but does not favor any one party. Egypt has been engulfed in clashes ahead of next month's parliamentary elections.

Well, a seven-year-old thought that he was just doing something harmless with his breakfast pastry. That is, until his teacher saw him.

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JOSH WELCH, STUDENT: She was pretty mad and I think I was in big trouble.

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KEILAR: Oh, he was in trouble all right. Getting a punishment that his father calls insanity.

And, preparing to make the march from Selma to Montgomery all over again. We are live for today's momentous occasion.

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KEILAR: Good morning, New York. We've got a live look at the big apple this morning. Going to be a chilly day there today. About 4 2 degrees. And definitely still winter there. We're expecting some snow flurries.

Talk about team work. Dozens of neighbors in Deerfield, Florida, banded together to rescue a badly injured manatee. They helped fish and wildlife officials pull the heavy nine-foot long manatee from a canal. They think it actually got hit by a boat, which, as you know, happens a bit with manatees. And this one was taken to the Miami Sea Aquarium, where it has been -- or is being cared for. It is right now in critical condition.

Who would ever think that a pop tart would get a kid in such hot water with his teacher?

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JOSH WELCH, STUDENT: She was pretty mad and, I think, I was in big trouble.

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KEILAR: All right. He sure was. Seven-year-old Josh Welch of Baltimore was eating a strawberry pop tart at school. He says he was trying to shape it to look like a mountain. But his teacher thought that it looked more like a gun and the school suspended Josh for two days.

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B.J. WELCH, JOSH'S FATHER: I would say -- I almost call it insanity. I mean with all the potential, you know, issues that could be dealt with in school, you know, real threats, you know, bullies, I mean, whatever the issue is, I mean it's a -- it's a pastry, you know.

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KEILAR: The school sent other students home with a letter that said a student used food to make inappropriate gestures and even offered counseling for any students who may have been troubled by the incident.

Vice President Joe Biden will join marchers gathering in Selma, Alabama, today to remember Bloody Sunday. It was 48 years ago this month when Alabama State Troopers and others attacked a peaceful group that was marching in Selma to Montgomery in support of what would become the Voting Rights Act. Fast forward to now and the Voting Rights Act is, again, front and center. And our very own Victor Blackwell is live in Selma.

So, Victor, voting rights back in the news now with this case before the Supreme Court. Do we expect that -- do we expect that the vice president will address it when he's in Selma today?

VICTOR BLACKWELL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. The vice president's office says that part of the reason he's coming here is to recognize this area's role in the civil rights movement, but undoubtedly he will mention this today. You know, last week the Supreme Court heard oral arguments over a portion of the 1965 Voting Right Act, section five, which gives the federal government open-ended oversight over the voting laws in certain states, certain cities. And one area here in Alabama, Shelby County, says that those -- that oversight is unwarranted and burdensome. The federal government saying that those laws are still needed to make sure that everyone has a part of the franchise and is able to vote freely.

So, we will hear that from him today. You know, the vice president said just a few days ago that he had no idea that America would be fighting and refighting so many fights that he thought had already been settled. So that will be part of what he's going to talk about today, but also recognize this area's role in the civil rights movement.

KEILAR: Victor, do we have a sense of how big these crowds are going to be today and how they might compare to other years?

BLACKWELL: Well, historically, there have been thousands of people here at what's called the Bridge Crossing Jubilee in Selma. It's a time when so many people come here to recognize what happened in 1965 on March 7th when about 600 peaceful protesters tried to make that 54-mile walk from Selma to Montgomery, but got as far as the bridge, which is still in Selma, the Edmond Pettus Bridge, when they were beaten down. Seventeen had to go to the hospital. One was Congressman John Lewis. He will be here today. In the past, we've seen presidents. President Clinton, in the last few months of his administration, he was here in 2000. And then in 2007, then Senators Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were here at the start of the 2008 presidential campaign. So, political leaders, civil rights leaders and thousands of people honoring the work done here in 1965. Those are the people expected to be here today.

KEILAR: Victor Blackwell in Selma, Alabama. Thanks, Victor. It's a race that brings out some of the toughest, hardiest, most ferocious athletes in the world and most of the competitors, they aren't even human. It could mean nothing else but Alaska's great Iditarod.

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KEILAR: And a good morning, where the sun is just starting to rise there in Washington, D.C., over the Capitol. All eyes, of course, on Washington this week as forced spending cuts get underway. Washington, you're looking at partly cloudy. Kind of a chilly day, 42 degrees.

It's been called the last great race.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three, two, one, go.

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KEILAR: The legendary Alaskan Iditarod kicked off yesterday with the ceremonial start in Anchorage. The nearly 1,000-mile journey starts today and it covers some of the roughest terrain on earth. Each team there powered only by 64 booted paws and a musher's desire to be the first to reach the finish line on the Bearing Sea coast.

And in North Carolina, Duke senior Ryan Kelly returned from injury and had one of the greatest games in history. Coach K called it a performance for the ages. And Joe Carter joining us now with more on today's "Bleacher Report."

It was a good one, huh?

JOE CARTER, "BLEACHER REPORT": It was. Good morning to you, Brianna.

Coach K, you know, he's college basketball's all-time winningest coach and you think of all the star players that have come through that program over the years. So for him to call Ryan Kelly's performance one for the ages certainly says a lot about Ryan Kelly. And he missed 13 games going into last night. He had no basketball underneath his feet for two months because he had a pretty severe foot injury. And, Miami, the fifth ranked team in the country, their coach said that he thought his team was prepared for Ryan Kelly's return, but obviously they were not prepared for this kind of return. The senior absolutely torched Miami for 36 points. Duke, really just with this win, proves that there is still a title threat to the rest of the college basketball landscape. And Coach K, after the game, really praised Kelly for doing essentially it all.

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MIKE KRZYZEWSKI, DUKE BASKETBALL HEAD COACH: Me saying spectacular or whatever doesn't do his performance justice. One for the ages. Probably as good a performance as any player has had, a Duke player has had in the camera (ph).

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CARTER: All right, so you talk about performance. What a difference a week makes. After reporting the fastest lap time at Daytona last week, Danica Patrick, she's simply struggling in Phoenix this week. She qualified with one of the slowest times in the field, finishing 40th out of 43 cars. And her practice runs have been pretty slow, as well. But it's not all bad for Danica. Last year she started 37th in this race. She finished 17th, which was her best cup series finish of the season. So she certainly has her work cut out for her today. But if there's one track she knows best, it's this one in Phoenix.

So instead of settling for the overtime session for Baylor, they decided to go for the big win over number 13 Kansas State. The plan was to get the ball inbounds to one of their teammates. Instead, it goes out of bounds. The clock doesn't stop. Which means, yes, Kansas State gets the ball back and they get a chance to win this game. And what would they do? Well, they would shoot the three-pointer at the buzzer and they would end up getting the win. I mean it's one of those things where you say, oh, we should have gone for overtime and settled it there, but instead we give it to the team and let them pull off the awesome win. And 64-61 was the final.

And when the rankings come out tomorrow, you can expect Gonzaga -- yes, Gonzaga to be the nation's new number one team. But the question is, is a healthy Duke team with the addition of Ryan Kelly the best in the country? They debate about it at bleacherreport.com.

Brianna, I can tell you, come the end of March, when the tournament starts and you fill out your bracket, no number one is safe. It has been one of those whacky, whacky years in college basketball. So it's going to be fun watching all the crazy upset wins come March Madness.

KEILAR: Well, that's good, because I generally do my bracket like this. So, perfect.

CARTER: Yes, me too.

KEILAR: And back to Danica, I have to say, I was very excited to see her last week in Daytona. But this is kind of her problem, right? She's sort of -- she's inconsistent. It was a big showing last week, but --

CARTER: Which is surprising because she owns a home in Phoenix. So she's resting in her own bed. She knows this track really well because she raced for years on it in the Indy car circuit. So people are surprised that she's not doing that well so far this week in Phoenix.

KEILAR: I actually bet mentally it's tough coming off a good performance like last week and maybe that has something to do with it. We'll see.

CARTER: A lot of pressure.

KEILAR: A lot of pressure. All right, Joe Carter, thanks for that. Appreciate it.

KEILAR: Disgraceful, disgusting and troubled. Those are just some of the comments that flooded on to Twitter after this t-shirt appeared on Amazon's U.K. website. Find out what the t-shirt's red faced maker is saying.

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KEILAR: Welcome back and thanks for starting your morning with us. And a special welcome to our troops watching on the American Forces Network. I'm Brianna Keilar, in for Randi Kaye. It is now half past the hour. About 28 past the hour, actually. And we have five stories that we're watching for you this morning, among others.

Searchers have given up on finding a Florida man who vanished into a giant sinkhole. The ground below Jeff Bush's home will be his grave. Demolition crews will tear the house down later this morning from a distance because the ground is just that unstable. Families have left the houses next door because the sinkhole could spread to their homes.

Most of the people chased out of their homes by a brush fire are back this morning. Firefighters near Daytona Beach, Florida, say they've got it about 75 percent contained, but at one point about 300 family had to leave. Winds and low humidity had been feeding the fire. Those same conditions, actually, expected today.

And number three, this t-shirt, maybe you're not surprised, is causing a whole lot of outrage on Twitter over what it says -- "keep calm and hit her." It appeared on Amazon's U.K. retail site. Solid Gold Bomb (ph), the U.S.-based company that prints the shirts, says it's removed the listing and is apologizing. Says the slogan was computer generated and was not intentionally created.

At number four, the man the U.S. says is one of the deadliest terrorists in North Africa is dead. That's according to Chad's military. It says troops killed Moktar Belmoktar in Mali. He led January's deadly attack and capture of a sprawling gas facility in Algeria. More than three dozen hostages, including several Americans, died in that attack.

Vice President Joe Biden will join marchers gathering in Selma, Alabama, today to remember Bloody Sunday. He'll give the keynote speech later today commemorating the hundreds of activists that were attacked 48 years ago by state and local police while marching in Montgomery.

And today is the first Sunday without a pope. That means no weekly Angelus prayer from the pope's window. And it's not clear when there will be a new pope since the election hasn't been set yet. In fact, some of the cardinals who are supposed to vote aren't even at the Vatican yet, in the Vatican. But those top secret meetings are supposed to start tomorrow. John Allen joining us now from Rome. He's CNN senior Vatican analyst and a senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter. John, what is the mood like there without a pope? This must be kind of strange.

JOHN ALLEN, CNN SENIOR VATICAN ANALYST: Yeah, Brianna, this is a sort of a weird, in between time. In one way I would say, the mood is sort of quiet. You know, in this town, the pope is more or less the star of the show. So, when there's no pope, in a sense, there's no show. But on the other hand, this is also campaign season for the Catholic Church. And so, there's also a lot of excitement in the Roman air about what might be going on behind those closed doors when the cardinals get together and, of course, ultimately, who the next pope is going to be.

KEILAR: So, there's a lot going on, there will be a lot of meetings, there's a whole lot to do. Who is running things in the Vatican? I mean I am assuming the lights are still on.

ALLEN: Yes, there is continuity of power in the Vatican. Don't worry about it. What happens, is when there is no pope, when there's what's called a sede vacante, that is the empty seat, power to govern the church resides in the college of cardinals. Now, of course, that's a body of 207 guys as of today. So, there is a smaller group composed of the dean of the college of cardinals and an official, called the camerlengo, basically the chamberlain and a couple of other Vatican officials that who are sort of the executive committee that will make day-to-day decisions. But it should be stressed, that this is basically no more than routine maintenance. All the important policy decisions, things like issuing teaching documents or naming bishops, all of that is on hold until there is a new pope in charge.

KEILAR: And we know that's why they want to have a new pope by Easter. Are they rushing the process along to make sure that happens, John?

ALLEN: Well, I think there is a certain rush spirit in the air, not only because they want to have a new pope in place for Holy Week, which begins with Palm Sunday on the 24th, but, also, of course, because they don't want to project an image of being disunified and paralysis and gridlock and chaos to the world. So, I think, you know, all of the cardinals feel some degree of pressure to get this done. On the other hand, none of them can actually control how long this is going to take because there is no shot clock in a papal election. The way this works, they have to keep going, keep balloting until someone passes that magic two-thirds threshold, which in this case, will be 77 votes to become the next pope. Shortest conclave in history took about two hours, the longest was almost three years. So the truth of it is, as much as they might like to speed this along, ultimately no one, including the cardinals, knows exactly how long it's going to take.

KEILAR: No shot clock in a papal election, although that would be very interesting, I have to say. John Allen for us in Rome, thank you for that. There is been a big rendezvous in space this morning. About an hour ago, the crew of the international space station grabbed the Dragon cargo vehicle. The next step is to dock it and lock it. That should happen later this morning around 9:40 Eastern time. And there were some glitches when Dragon launched initially on Friday and that delayed its arrival by about a day. But SpaceX, the company that owns Dragon, says everything is working just fine now. The unmanned capsule is carrying more than 1,200 pounds of supplies for the station crew and experiments up there in space.

Two cell phones could become smoking guns in the Oscar Pistorius murder trial. A Paralympian is accused of intentionally killing his girlfriend at his home in South Africa. He claims he mistook her for an intruder. CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson explains how the phones could hold the real story.

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MAGISTRATE DESMOND NAIR: He does not verify the cell phone information of the deceased.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: During Oscar Pistorius' bail hearing, the magistrate frustrated with the police investigation. Two cell phones found near the murder weapon, no checks made. Well, the magistrate in this courtroom here castigated the police for not tracing the phone calls made from those cell phones. The phones themselves may contain vital data for propping up or punching holes in Pistorius' testimony, mainly the precise location of the phones as they moved through the house. To learn how, I came to top private investigator, Kyle Condon, an expert on global positioning, GPS, cell phone technology.

KYLE CONDON, D&K CONSULTANT: GPS capability on cell phones in today's age would allow you to precisely know what has happened with that particular handset. There's no doubt that the complete history and movement of that phone is available to the investigators.

ROBERTSON (on camera): So, an investigator would know if we just walked downstairs in the house to a different room?

CONDON: He would know - he would know within a meter of where that phone has been.

ROBERTSON (voice over): Evidence powerful enough, he says, to make or break Pistorius' case.

CONDON: In this particular case, the phone could become the smoking gun, so to speak.

ROBERTSON: It wouldn't be the first time a cell phone was the smoking gun. In 2006, popular musician and theater director Talik (ph) Petersen was shot dead. His wife convicted after her cell phone tracked her precise movements. Downstairs making calls when she said she was asleep in bed. Today cell phone technology is even more sensitive. Pistorius' movements already on public record. Pistorius' affidavit was read out from here in the courtroom and it precisely narrates his movements that night. At 10:00 p.m., he said he was in the bedroom. In the early hours of the morning going to the balcony, then hearing a noise, going to the bathroom, firing the shots, then going back to the bedroom to put on his prosthetic legs, then going back to the bathroom, finding the fatally wounded Steenkamp and carrying her downstairs. Plenty here for investigators to cross reference. Nick Robertson, CNN, Johannesburg, South Africa.

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KEILAR: It happens even to royalty. Queen Elizabeth sick with a stomach bug this weekend. This has some people wondering, though, if the queen ever fell seriously ill, would she give up the throne? Well, the answer is probably no, we'll tell you why.

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KEILAR: This weekend Queen Elizabeth became so ill that she had to cancel her appearance at a military ceremony in Wales. The queen is 86 years old now, some people have wondered if she will ever give up the throne, perhaps. But she is renown for her stamina, her fortitude and for honoring her commitment. So, canceling an appearance is pretty unusual for her and this has some people wondering certainly how she's doing and with us to talk about that is Nadia Bilchik, our editorial producer. So, what exactly is wrong with the queen? Do we know?

NADIA BILCHIK, CNN EDITORIAL PRODUCER: The queen has gastroenteritis, which in of itself is not serious.

KEILAR: What does that mean, exactly?

BILCHIK: That means, in essence, she has the trots.

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BILCHIK: So, she is not going to be going out.

KEILAR: It happens even to royalty.

BILCHIK: As you said. Got it. But the reality is for her to cancel a commitment is very unusual ...

KEILAR: Yeah.

BILCHIK: And she knows how much trouble these people go to, and especially at such short notice. But we understand she's not desperately ill, but she is uncomfortable.

KEILAR: OK, so, it is a bit of a big deal. It's unusual. She is in her ...

BILCHIK: 80s,

KEILAR: 86 now. She is about the same age, actually, as the pope that just abdicated. But do you think we would ever see her step down?

BILCHIK: Never. You'll never see Queen Elizabeth abdicate or step down. In fact, the very word is to boo in the palace. Now, you have to remember that Queen Elizabeth was ten years old when her uncle, Edward VIII did abdicate. He was the first British monarch to abdicate in over 1,000 years. And for her it was shocking, and for the entire palace at the time it was traumatic, it was a horrible abdication, it caused enormous rifts in the monarchy and that's how her father, George, became king. But she remembers the trauma well and the dishonor it brought on the family.

KEILAR: But what if, I actually thought that was covered pretty interestingly in the king's speech. Which some people maybe familiar with, you kind of get the sense of just how horrific it would have been from her perspective, but what happens if she does become really ill or she is incapacitated?

BILCHIK: Right. So, if she is incapacitated, what happens is, she appoints a regent. So, one assumes Charles would become regent, but she would still retain the title of the queen. When she had her coronation in 1953, then she took an oath under God to reign England and the commonwealth countries. And for her that is absolutely sacred duty above all else --

KEILAR: She takes it very seriously. But what about, you know, in Holland recently, Queen Beatrice. She recently abdicated. So did her mother. Why can they get away with that? Different rules? This is different?

BILCHIK: In the Netherlands ...

KEILAR: Different culture about it.

BILCHIK: Different culture, different customs, different rules. In the Netherlands is you are not monarch for life, but for Queen Elizabeth she is the monarch, the sovereign for life and, eventually, one assumes Charles will then become king and after that William and then, of course, Kate and William being pregnant right now, whether they have a son or daughter will become the next monarch. And what's happening as we speak, is the 16 commonwealth countries are going to approve the fact that it may be a daughter becoming the next monarch.

KEILAR: Oh, interesting. Very interesting. But it sound like, even if, for instance, she were to get even farther up in years and it would all become too much for her. That she remains the monarch. Charles effectively takes over.

BILCHIK: She may delegate some of her duties, which she has already done.

KEILAR: Yes.

BILCHIK: But you will see Queen Elizabeth as queen until the day she dies.

KEILAR: All right. Nadia Bilchik, thank you very much for that. You know, this week's CNN hero spent 13 years delivering babies before a back injury forced her to stop. It didn't really stop her, though. Now she's found a new way to bring babies and mothers safely through child birth. She calls it, the solar suitcase. Meet Dr. Laura Stachel.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There is a traditional African saying when you become pregnant that you have one foot in the grave. There are so many women dying in child birth in many communities. Pregnancy is feared.

DR. LAURA STACHEL, CNN HERO: In the last month recorded, four women actually died from pregnancy complications.

When I went to Africa and I saw these women one after another coming in with complications and we didn't have even have adequate light to treat them.

Welcome to the world!

STACHEL: A lot of the clinics don't have any electricity. Midwives use kerosene lanterns, they may use candles, they use their cell phones to deliver babies. Once I witnessed the things that I saw, I had to do something about it.

My name is Laura Stachel. I am helping to provide a simple and reliable light solar lighting and power source so that mothers and babies can be save during child birth.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's very, very nice.

STACHEL: Hospitals and clinics receive the solar suitcase for free. So, the charge controller is very important. Solar suitcase provides medical quality lighting, it charges cell phones, it has a small battery charger for head lamps and for the fetal Doppler that we include.

(on camera): Perfect. That's it!

(voice over): Mothers are now eager to come to the clinics. It's just shifted the morale of the health care worker.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This light is going to bring good changes. It keeps me going.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Turn this on. There you go!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you so much!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You are so welcome.

STACHEL: I really want a world where women and their families get to celebrate birth and I would love to be part of making that happen.

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KEILAR: The tough cross-examination might be over, but Jodi Arias' time on the stand isn't over yet. This week, her defense team goes into damage control mode.

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KEILAR: Let's take a look at what's in store for us this week, I should tell you. On Monday, this is the bizarre trial, the murder trial of Jodi Arias. It will resume. This will be her 14th day on the stand.

And then on Tuesday the Senate Intelligence Committee will be voting on the nomination of John Brennan as the CIA director. That is expected on Tuesday. This was a vote that had been scheduled for Thursday. Then on Thursday Facebook will unveil a new look for its news feed. You know what that is. That's the place where the ads and the updates from friends appear. No word yet, though, on exactly what those changes will be. So, we have to stay tuned. Friday, you've got your February jobs report. That's released and you can watch us right here on CNN for all of the latest on the employment situation. And, of course, it's Friday, right, so we'll have to end on something fun. That's going to be, if I can get my post-it note to show up. Oh, here we go, South by Southwest. That's the annual music, film and tech festival there in Austin. It's going to kick off on Friday and all next weekend we'll be bringing you lots of very cool interviews with the guests out there.

But Jodi Arias, she cracked under pressure from the prosecution. The tears were rolling down as the prosecutors grilled her. He asked if she cried like that when she stabbed her ex-boyfriend Travis Alexander. Arias claimed she killed him in self-defense. Tomorrow, the defense will do some damage control.

In sessions, Jean Casarez has a preview.

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JEAN CASAREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Cross-examination may be over for Jodi Arias, but she is still on the stand and this next week will be the redirect examination of Jodi. This is where her own attorney Kirk Nurmi tries to rehabilitate her story from all the points that the prosecutor made on cross-examination. He will most likely emphasize the fog she was in, what she doesn't really remember happening, and also that terror that she thought she was being killed at the hands of Travis Alexander. Following that will be the defense expert witnesses. We believe an expert in domestic violence and also a psychologist to testify and understanding a meaning to all of the testimony of Jodi Arias. Reporting from Phoenix, Arizona, I'm Jean Casarez.

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KEILAR: So, was Jodi Arias a domestic abuse victim was she a cold blooded killer? Watch the "AC 360" special report 'Sex, Lies and Audiotape"- the Jodi Arias' trial. That's tonight at 9:00 eastern on CNN.

There are a ton of myths about sleep and how it affects your health. So, what's true and what's not? We'll ask our fitness and nutrition expert.

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KEILAR: Well, this might wake you up a little bit this morning. A scary fact, a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates, 15 to 33 percent of fatal crashes involve tired drivers. Being sleep deprived slows down our reaction time and one of the biggest myths about sleep is that everyone needs a solid eight hours to function. I know, I believe that. I said that about myself, but we wonder what some of the other facts and myths are behind sleep. So, let's try to break this down with our fitness and nutrition expert Mark MacDonald. So, OK, let's do this one first.

MARK MACDONALD, FITNESS AND NUTRITION EXPERT: OK.

KEILAR: You go out for dinner, you have a nice dessert, do I want coffee with my dessert? People say it stimulates digestion.

MACDONALD: So, it's true. It does stimulate digestion, but it - that works against your sleep. Because coffee is a stimulant, it's going to increase your hormone, your adrenaline, which is your energy hormone, and that it actually affects your sleep cycle.

KEILAR: OK, and just break down some of the effects of sleep. Obviously, we see driving. You know, what are some of the other effects if you don't get enough sleep?

MACDONALD: Well, if you don't get enough sleep you're going to store fat, you're going to (inaudible) the hormone cortisol. That's going to affect your energy. So, look at sleep as like your body's battery charger. And just like your cell phone, you plug it into the outlet and it recharges your battery, your sleep does the same thing. So, if you don't get enough sleep, your body isn't working, and it directly affects negatively your metabolism.

KEILAR: OK, so let's get back to our myths and facts.

MACDONALS: OK.

KEILAR: Is it true that the hours of sleep before midnight are more important than the hours after midnight, for all of you people who like to keep late hours and go to the club.

MACDONALD: Completely false.

KEILAR: Really?

MACDONALD: As long as your sleep is consistent, you're in a quiet environment, in a dark environment, you can sleep any time. So you don't have to go to bed before midnight.

KEILAR: So you are telling me, I can't say to my boss, no, I can't get up at 3 a.m. and go to work? I can't say that, is that what you are saying?

MACDONALD: No, as long as it is in a dark environment, because that affects your sleep rhythm.

KEILAR: He'll say go me, well, just go to sleep at 7:00 p.m.

MACDONALD: That's true.

KEILAR: You shouldn't have said that. OK.

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KEILAR: Let's see, also, what about metabolism? This is something - and you hear so many people talk about this. Everyone is always trying to, you know, watch what they eat, keep off the weight and when they do, they wonder how sleep is affecting their metabolism.

MACDONALD: So the biggest thing, is we think we are what we eat, we actually - w are what we metabolize. So, sleep, when you get a lack of sleep you increase your stress hormone cortisol. And that makes you store body fat. So, the biggest thing is this. Everyone thinks they love the snooze button, but when you hit the snooze button and, let's say, you keep in that light sleep for the next 30 minutes, that makes you store more body fat. So by simply not hitting the snooze button and getting that 30 quality minutes of sleep that will help you lose weight. Because it directly affects your metabolism.

KEILAR: And does it actually make you, you call it useless sleep.

MACDONALD: Yes. It's all light sleep.

KEILAR: Then, why do we want to do it? Why do - because I mean I did it this morning - I got seven extra minutes of sleep.

MACDONALD: Yeah, because what happens is, we want to wake up, then we take on our day and then we calm down. So that wake-up time is like light sleep. It doesn't rejuvenate your body, so deep sleep regenerates your body, REM-sleep rejuvenates your mind. And we do 90- minute cycles. So, that light sleep, it might feel good, but it actually works against you. You need that quality sleep, so you just wake up and right when that alarm goes off, wake up and don't hit that snooze button.

KEILAR: Mark, all helpful stuff. It was really appreciated. Mark MacDonald.

MACDONALD: Thanks, Brianna.

KEILAR: I think I will be implementing that in the next day, even.

MACDONALD: Get your metabolism rocking!

KEILAR: I know. I can get up at 3:00 a.m.

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KEILAR: Will he sequester forced spending cuts, whatever you want to call them, they were fair game for the crew at "Saturday Night Live" last night. Take a look.

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AARON HEFFERNAN: I want to show you some of the everyday men and women these cuts are going to affect. People like our air traffic controllers and our border patrol agents.

OK. How will your department handle the budget cuts?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, before we can look at our radar screens we have to watch a 20-second ad for Doritos ...

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: ... and we no longer have full-body scanners at the security lines, so we are asking everyone to take the photo down the front of their pants and just text that to us.

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HEFFERNAN: And - and border patrol?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to have to let every tenth Mexican just run across the border.

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HEFFERNAN: Thank you.

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HEFFERNAN: The cuts also affect our space program. And astronauts like Major Lindsay Fulton.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thanks to the budget cuts, our space helmets will no longer have glass.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So when we go outside to repair the ship, we'll just have to hold our breath.

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HEFFERNAN: Thank you, major.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See you in space.

And some employees will be outright let go, including inner city public school teachers. Like Miss Bain (ph) here. So, who worked in one of Philadelphia's worst school districts. This must be so hard for you. UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: This is the greatest day of my entire life.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good luck reading bail work, you monsters.

HEFFERNAN: And, of course, these cuts will affect our military. Our civil servants, that old construction partners, even grants to Native Americans.

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KEILAR: Thanks for starting your morning with us, we've got much more ahead on "CNN Sunday Morning" which starts right now.