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GOP Candidates to Debate in Las Vegas; Las Vegas Cab Driver Tells the Story of a Tough Economy; Hair Industry Continues Growth; Finding a New Job May Be as Easy as Using Your Smartphone; Honoring a Civil Rights Icon; Women Succeeding to the Throne; The Future of Policing; Dewey Bozella Fights Tonight; Louboutin's Red Soles
Aired October 15, 2011 - 08:00 ET
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ALINA CHO, CNN ANCHOR: From the CNN Center, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
Good morning everybody. I'm Alina Cho. T.J. Holmes is on assignment. It's 8:00 a.m. in Atlanta, 5:00 a.m. in Las Vegas. That's where T.J. is right now for the upcoming presidential debate.
In fact, he's going to be with us in the next hour, so stick around. And with the debate coming up, he'll be talking about the problems in Nevada -- foreclosures, job loss and more importantly, where are all the tourists?
Plus, there's one business that is booming in this weak economy. It's literally growing. We'll show you what it is and we'll take you to the place where it's happening.
And Occupy Wall Street goes global, an important day in the movement today. Organizers are taking to Twitter to gain support. And protesters are taking to the street all over the world. We'll show you where it's happening and what's ahead.
We begin with politics. Nevada is the next stop on the GOP road to the White House. CNN and the western Republican leadership conference are sponsoring a presidential debate in Las Vegas. That debate will take place Tuesday at the Venetian resort hotel casino and preparations are underway.
But not all the GOP presidential candidates will be there. Jon Huntsman for one is boycotting the debate because he says Nevada locked in a scheduling fight with New Hampshire moved up the date of its primary.
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JON HUNTSMAN (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, we call out all of the candidates to do similarly. They should be boycotting. Unless there's some political interest in their being there, unless there's some political interest in being part of moving the schedule forward, you all have to look in to that.
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CHO: Instead of taking part in the debate, Huntsman has scheduled a town hall meeting in, you guessed it, New Hampshire.
And GOP hopeful Herman Cain tells a crowd in Tennessee his campaign brought in $2.8 million between July and September. Cain's numbers are being closely followed as a gauge of whether he can keep up his recent momentum in the polls. He's currently second.
Tuesday night's debate should tell us a lot about the Republican candidates and how they stand on economic issues. Nevada has been hit hard by the economy and it's some of the highest foreclosure and unemployment rates in the country, issues that, of course, will be critical in the next presidential election.
Our T.J. Holmes found out that one of the best ways to get the pulse of the community sometimes is to talk to a cab driver.
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LANCE OLIVIA, TAXICAB DRIVER: Living here, locals, we don't, you know, we don't go up to the Strip. We don't bother with it.
T.J. HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What was your heyday as far as driving a cab here. You've been doing it nine years here. When was it just at the height where you were just raking in cash?
OLIVIA: 2004, '05 '06.
HOLMES: When it's good in Vegas, it's good.
OLIVIA: Oh, yes. It was so good that (INAUDIBLE) my daughter, I gave her a debt free education on a bachelor's and a masters. I bought her a brand new car, took a four-year loan out on it and paid it off in 19 months. And plus paid my regular bills and still saved money. That's how good it was.
HOLMES: You did all that driving a cab here in --
OLIVIA: That's how good it was.
HOLMES: You think a lot of people outside of Las Vegas and maybe even some people in Vegas, we have this impression that, oh, that's America's playground. People go out there and just blow money. Surely they got to be awash in cash.
OLIVIA: Sixty to 65 percent of the job market is the Strip and local construction. The recession kicked in, the Strip got slow and they laid of thousands.
These thousands couldn't find work. They started losing their homes. These people lose their homes.
Local construction starts slowing down. These people start losing their jobs. They start losing their homes. Foreclosures have gotten so bad that it's now one in every seven homes in the state of Nevada.
HOLMES: You think people don't get it sometimes?
OLIVIA: They don't. They don't. The Strip will be busy to them. We know it's not. All right?
So I use an example. When we had one New Year's Eve, I tell them, if you came here and you saw a quarter of a million people, would you think it was busy? They'd say, yes, it was jam packed.
I said the year before it was 320,000. You're talking a 70,000 cut. I said, that's a lot.
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CHO: Coming up at 9:00 Eastern, our T.J. Holmes will be joining us live from Nevada. We'll be talking about the GOP presidential debate, of course, with deputy political director Paul Steinhauser.
We'll also talk to Carolyn Goodman, mayor of Las Vegas and Tim Williams, member of the executive board of the Clark County Republican party.
GOP and the White House found common ground this week -- how about that -- when both sides reached a deal on free trade agreement. The president was thankful for that in his weekly address to the nation this morning but still frustrated that both sides are divided on how to get Americans back to work.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's good to see Congress act in a bipartisan way on something that will help create jobs at a time when millions of Americans are still out of work and need them now.
But that's also why it was so disappointing to see Senate Republicans obstruct the American jobs act even though a majority of senators voted yes to advance this jobs bill. We can't afford this lack of action.
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CHO: And speaking for the GOP, California Representative Kevin McCarthy, the House majority whip, also praised the bipartisan effort.
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REP. KEVIN MCCARTHY (R), CALIFORNIA: The free trade agreements with Colombia, Panama and South Korea are one such area of common ground. They open the door to thousands of new jobs and billions more in exports across the nation. They remove job-killing barriers to trade by creating a fair playing field between America and these other nations.
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CHO: President Obama takes his jobs message on the road during a three-day bus tour through North Carolina and Virginia beginning on Monday. Occupy Wall Street movement expands beyond the U.S. to the world and today a call for unity. The website for the movement is calling on people of the world to rise up today, October 15th. But the protests haven't been entirely peaceful. Case in point, San Diego where there were clashes yesterday between police and protesters. Police had to use pepper spray to make the demonstrators comply with orders to move their tents.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ow! They (EXPLETIVE DELETED) when I was already on the ground.
ERIC HAUSER, PROTESTER: That's not right. We're trying to protect something we stand up for, we believe in, and they're coming in there with force?
CHIEF WILLIAM LANDSDOWNE, SAN DIEGO POLICE: We understand that people have a right to protest but somewhere along that line people have a right to conduct business. That's what this is all about.
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CHO: In New York, 14 arrests after protesters stage a sit-in blocking traffic.
And in Flint, Michigan, dozens of demonstrators protested in front of a Bank of America building.
Seattle, Washington, dozens more remain in a downtown park. Yesterday alone, police in riot gear arrested 41 people.
Occupy solidarity rallies are also being held in Europe, North America and Asia. In Japan, about 200 people marched on the streets of Tokyo -- one target, the Tokyo electric power company. Demonstrators are criticizing its handling of the disaster at the Fukishima Nuclear Power Plant in the wake of the earthquake and tsunami. In Canada, organizers have been drumming up support for protests in at least 15 cities there. Thousands of demonstrators are expected to turn out.
What does the weather have in store for us for this weekend? Bonnie Schneider in the severe weather center keeping an eye on all of that for us. Hey, Bonnie, what are you watching?
BONNIE SCHNEIDER, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good morning Alina. You can see the statue of liberty behind me and if you look closely, it looks like it's shaking but it's actually not. The camera is shaking. Windy weather in New York, but even more windy and actually the wind can be dangerous in parts of Michigan and across the great lakes. I'll tell you about a big storm that will impact your travel this weekend coming up.
CHO: Not the kind of news I want to hear Bonnie. All right. Thank you.
A cashier at an McDonald's in New York loses it and goes after two women with a metal rod. The brutal beating all caught on tape. We're going to show you the disturbing video and tell you what happened after the break.
And 14 years in the making, the Martin Luther King Jr. monument in D.C. will officially be dedicated this weekend after a delay courtesy of hurricane Irene. We'll hear from his children about his legacy and dedication to civil rights.
And one industry is thriving even though many of us are cutting back on spending. What people do for their hair, that story in 60 seconds.
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CHO: It got really ugly inside a McDonald's in Manhattan this week. We have to warn you that the video is graphic and disturbing but if you want to watch, take a look at this. A cashier loses it and brutally attacks two women with a metal rod after they leap over the counter.
Now, the whole thing was caught on amateur video. Take a look at that. One of the victims suffered a fractured skull and a broken arm. The other had a few cuts. The cashier is facing charges of assault and criminal possession of a weapon. Both women were also arrested.
My goodness. McDonald's says it is cooperating with the investigation.
Let's go across country for stories our affiliates are covering right now. First stop, Cave Creek, Arizona, looking remarkably like Pamplona, Spain. It is their toned down version of the running of the bulls. The bulls are better tempered it appears, a bit slower and have blunted horns. That part is key, but still, quite a terrifying run.
To Portland, Oregon now, my hometown, where disciplinary action was in order for a bus driver who ordered a mother off the bus because her baby was crying too loudly. Several passengers also filed complaints against him. He actually made an announcement on the speaker to keep the baby quiet. Drivers for that bus company are instructed to call out a supervisor when there is a problem passenger.
Despite the lousy economy, there is one area that is literally growing. We're talking about hair salons. Now while we were cutting back on our other expenses, it appears that your hair is not one of them to skimp on.
Athena Jones gives us a look at this thriving hair industry.
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ATHENA JONES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Here at Fabu-locks, a natural hair salon in suburban Maryland, business is booming. Owner (INAUDIBLE) says she didn't feel the effects of the recession and hasn't seen a drop in her clientele during the slow economic recovery.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Every year our business is better and better so this is a business to be in. It's consistent and it's growing.
JONES: In fact, she had to move to a larger space two years ago to accommodate the growing number of stylists looking to rent a booth here. Despite the sluggish economy, barbershops and hair salons like this one are growing nationwide as customers place a high priority on looking put together.
JANICE WASHINGTON, CUSTOMER: It is a necessity because I do want to keep my hair looking like it's well maintained. I don't buy new shoes anymore. I do get the hair done.
JONES: Census data show the number of barbershops in Maryland rose nearly 11 percent between 2007 and 2009 and the number of beauty salons jumped more than 17 percent. Nationwide, there were 18.6 percent more barbershops and 14.4 percent more beauty salons in 2009 than in 2007.
And in one sign of the effect the recession has had even on educated workers, seven of the nine stylists here at Fabu-locks have college degrees and spent years working in other fields.
Tarsa Scott was a real estate agent before the recession. When the housing market tumbled, she got a job at a foundation and decided to train as a stylist to help earn extra money. She now plans to quit her office job to style hair here full-time.
TARSA SCOTT, HAIR STYLIST: I'm an entrepreneur at heart and so I love having my own business.
JONES: (INAUDIBLE) sister Aisha has a master's degree in education, but lost her job at a nonprofit two years ago.
AISHA BILAL, HAIR STYLIST/TRAINER: Contracts kind of dried up for many of us and just couldn't sustain myself doing it anymore.
JONES: Now she helps train people who want to become stylists. It's an industry that can't be outsourced.
DEREK DAVIS, NATL. ASSN. OF BARBER BOARDS OF AMERICA: It is normally a community-based type industry and in every community, you have a barbershop.
JONES: Derek Davis is vice president of the National Association of Barber Boards of America. He has a barbershop that's been in his family since 1968.
DAVIS: Beauty has always been something that the public has always wanted. Everybody wants to look good and they want to feel good.
JONES: And that's why (INAUDIBLE) expects business at her salon to remain strong. Athena Jones, CNN, Capital Heights, Maryland.
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CHO: A legendary TV star reveals a very personal health battle. Larry Hagman is best known for his roles on "I Dream of Jeannie" and as JR on "Dallas." We'll tell you what's going on after the break.
Plus, take a look at this. Several tornadoes rip across the state of Virginia. We'll get the very latest of the aftermath, meteorologist Bonnie Schneider in the severe weather center coming up in just 90 seconds.
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CHO: Well, it's 17 minutes after the hour. Sorry just fixing my collar there. It's time for a check of the weather with Bonnie Schneider.
Hey Bonnie, good morning. Some pretty strong storms brewing over the great lakes, right?
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CHO: A television star is diagnosed with cancer. Larry Hagman, you know him as the blackmailing adulterous JR Ewing on "Dallas." He's battling cancer. He isn't saying what type of cancer he has, only that it's a very common and treatable form. Hagman says it will not affect his return to television in an upcoming remake of "Dallas." In fact, he reportedly begins filming on Monday.
We wish him a speedy recovery. If you want to see how celebrities are impacting your world, go to our website at CNN.com\impactyourworld.
Apple's brand new iPhone 4S didn't exactly wow the critics at first sight, but don't tell that to the customers. They're standing in long lines to buy them. We're going to find out if Apple's newest gadget can take even a bigger bite out of the competition. That story's next.
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CHO: Need to find a job or maybe you need some quick cash? We've got some tips that can help you do both and it might be as easy as your Blackberry or her iPhone. Digital lifestyle expert Mario Armstrong tells me some answers are as close as your computer or smart phone.
Hey, Mario, good morning.
And speaking of smart phones, I want to talk quickly about the new iPhone 4S that just went on sale officially. I have to tell you, I was just driving by the New York flagship Apple store yesterday on my way to the airport to come down here yesterday and the line was just snaking. It is unbelievable.
Tell me, a million of them sold in advance?
MARIO ARMSTRONG, CNN DIGITAL LIFESTYLE EXPERT: That's right.
CHO: Tell me what's so great about this new iPhone.
ARMSTRONG: Well, you know, the thing is Alina, it's one of those things, you actually hit it, a million preorders done in the first 24 hours.
When you look at last year's phone release, only 600,000 preorders were done so you can see that it certainly has exceeded expectations in the marketplace primarily because of a couple of things.
Number one, people are really excited about anything that's faster. So you get faster processor with this, a better camera. But that's not really what people are excited about. People are excited about this personal dictation service.
CHO: Yes, the digital assistant Siri.
ARMSTRONG: You can talk to it in natural language so, for example, you could say, you know, what are the closest burger joints near me? And then it will speak back to you --
CHO: Love it.
ARMSTRONG: -- with information related to that. Or you can set reminders. You can set e-mails. So a lot of people are excited about keeping their hands on the wheel and being able to still maybe be productive.
CHO: I love it. As a result of this, Apple shares jumped 3.3 percent yesterday to its highest close on record, $422 a share. That is unbelievable.
ARMSTRONG: Steve would be proud.
CHO: You know, (INAUDIBLE) really here, finding a long-term job or finding a short-term job or just to make some money obviously some big questions in this economy. So, it can be as easy as your smart phone? So what's the best way to do that?
ARMSTRONG: You know, it's because it's a challenging time for a lot of folks and many people are really having a rough time trying to find opportunity so I really wanted to make sure we put together some quick tech tips.
Number one, you need to use social media, whether it's on your smart phone, your tablet or your computer. Get your name out there using things like Twitter and specifically LinkedIn. A lot of people I talk to that are out of work right now aren't maximizing the ability of contacts that you may already have from previous schools that you went to or previous employers and other friends and contacts that you have. So this online rolodex could connect you to uncovering job opportunities if you really were to use LinkedIn very smart. Build your profile fully online with LinkedIn.
CHO: I have to be perfectly honest with you. I always get those notices like people want to get LinkedIn with me and sometimes people I know, sometimes people I don't know.
ARMSTRONG: Correct.
CHO: I don't know how to log on so you're going to have to help me, Mario.
ARMSTRONG: It is so easy. But this is it because, see, so many people can search for jobs. They don't know if there's a particular company that they're interested in you could actually go into LinkedIn - it's free to use -- and then search on that job and what you may find, you may have friends or friends of friends that work at that company that you're applying for. And so, having those interactive connections found online that can help you in the offline world are really powerful so people really need to pay attention to using services like LinkedIn.
CHO: Great. Sold. Thank you, Mario. Appreciate it.
ARMSTRONG: You're welcome.
CHO: Come home help log on, will you?
ARMSTRONG: Will do. We'll get that squared away.
CHO: Thank you, Mario. I need a lot of help.
ARMSTRONG: But you like your job. You're comfy.
CHO: You're absolutely right. I love my job, but I wouldn't mind getting LinkedIn and not feeling like -- I always feel like people think I'm ignoring them or something.
ARMSTRONG: No, absolutely.
CHO: All right.
ARMSTRONG: You could be missing out on those great relationships that you haven't rekindled in a while.
CHO: OK. That's a whole other story. Thank you, Mario.
ARMSTRONG: All right. Relationships and dating online next week. Right?
CHO: We need to stop here. All right. OK. Join us every Saturday at this time as our digital lifestyle expert Mario Armstrong gives us romance tips and also the scoop on the latest technology. Next week he's going to show you how to turn your passion into profits by setting up your own website. I'm interested in that one.
Just like the man, the Martin Luther King Jr. monument is making an impact. We're going to take you live to Washington, D.C. for more on the dedication of the King memorial.
And there's a huge championship boxing fight happening tonight but it's a 52-year-old ex-con fighting on the under card. He got a good luck phone call from, you guessed it, the president of the United States. We'll have his inspirational story in a few minutes.
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CHO: Thirty minutes past the hour. Welcome back, everybody, to CNN SATURDAY MORNING. I'm Alina Cho. Thanks for starting your day with us.
Checking our Top Stories.
The son of this man, U.S.-born militant cleric Anwar al-Awlaki is dead. A security official says he was killed in a series of drone attacks in Yemen last night. Al-Awlaki himself, once a key member of al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, was killed in a drone strike a little more than two weeks ago.
President Barack Obama is sending about 100 U.S. troops to central Africa to help hunt down leaders of the notoriously violent Lord's Resistance Army. The terrorist group was formed in the 1980s and operates around Uganda and South Sudan.
And the Catholic bishop of Kansas City faces criminal charges for failing to tell police about child pornography he found on a priest's computer. The Bishop Robert Flynn pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor. If found guilty, the Bishop could face up to a year in jail and a $1,000 fine; the diocese was also charged.
Nearly a half century after Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his iconic "I have a dream speech" thousands are expected to gather on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. tomorrow for the long-awaited dedication of the Martin Luther King National Memorial.
Athena Jones is in Washington and she joins me now. Athena good morning, this has been a long time coming, hasn't it?
JONES: Good morning.
It has been. Tomorrow is the big day. As you know, this event was originally scheduled to take place on August 28th last summer. So that would have been the 48th anniversary of the March on Washington and of Dr. King's "I have a Dream" speech.
It had to be postponed because of Hurricane Irene. And so they resettled it for tomorrow. It's going to be a huge celebration, a big event. Lots of stars coming out, you'll hear from civil rights leaders like Jesse Jackson, Andrew Young, John Lewis, people who knew King, you'll hear from his children. Martin Luther King III, and Bernice King. Actresses like Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carol, of course the President -- President Obama will be speaking. And Aretha Franklin is supposed to sing. And so it'll be a big deal down here tomorrow morning, Alina.
And you heard about -- you've seen pictures of course by now of the memorial itself. It was more than two decades in the making. It cost $120 million and the centerpiece is the statue of Dr. King emerging from this "Stone of Hope". And of course, on the walls around the site are inscribed lines from Dr. King's speeches and sermons.
And so that's what we'll be looking at tomorrow. It should be a big day.
CHO: You're very lucky to be there Athena. I wish I was up there with you. All right, Athena Jones, thank you so much for that.
You know our friend Roland Martin will be actually hosting the event. And my friend Tommy Hilfiger will be among the speakers. We may speak to him tomorrow. Today though, we are talking to the Reverend Al Sharpton about the King memorial and the march for jobs that he's organized; it's happening today in Washington. He is going to join us live in about 30 minutes at the top of the hour.
Also, much more on the dedication at the memorial tonight when T.J. has an exclusive and emotional interview with six members of Dr. King's inner circle. One of them is Congressman John Lewis.
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REP. JOHN LEWIS (D), GEORGIA: And you know when Dr. King received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he spoke about -- we cry for joy. We don't cry for pain. When the cup runs over, he cries.
The world house -- they were all living in the same house. It's one house. It's not just American house -- but the world house.
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CHO: That's "FREEDOM'S FOOT SOLDIERS", a conversation with T.J. Holmes, it's something you won't want to miss. This all happens tonight, 7:30 Eastern right here on CNN.
New rules for British royals could be coming. After 300 years of being passed over, women could get a clear path to the British throne. We'll have that story in our "Morning Passport", next.
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CHO: Equal opportunity in the royal family. That's right. Britain's Prime Minister wants to update the 300-year rules on royal's succession that some say are outdated. That's so that the monarch's oldest child would inherit the crown even if she's a girl.
Now with everybody on baby watch for Kate and William, right now a lot of people are thinking about this one. That's why our Nadia Bilchik is here talking about it in our "Morning Passport." Of course being two women this is something that caught our attention.
And you know what I did not know about these gender rules. Of course, it does make sense that it's been in place, but how about that? They're thinking about reversing it?
NADIA BILCHIK, CNN EDITORIAL PRODUCER: And it would be a good thing because it's very sexist when you really think about it. So let's look at the current royal family. So Queen Elizabeth has four children. So Charles was the first and then there was Princess Anne. The minute Andrew was born, what happened was Anne got leapfrogged by Andrew.
CHO: Wow.
BILCHIK: And then when Edward was born, she got leapfrogged again. So although Anne is the second born, she's only fourth in the line of succession and then remember that it's all the children of the boys. So it's Charles first and then Charles's children and then Andrew and Andrew's children.
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CHO: Before they even get to Anne.
BILCHIK: Of course. So Anne realized this and that's why Anne said, I don't know if you remember when Zara Phillips recently got married and said I don't care that my children have titles because they're so far down the line.
CHO: Obviously, everybody is watching Kate and William and --
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BILCHIK: Yes.
CHO: -- they're on baby watch for them. They could very well have a boy, they could very well have a girl.
BILCHIK: Exactly.
CHO: If they have a girl, then British government wants to do something about that.
BILCHIK: Well, exactly. And David Cameron will need the signatures of the 15 other realms. Now what the realms are, are places like New Zealand, Canada, Jamaica where the Queen is the head of state so he can only make this happen with the 15 other signatures.
CHO: But effectively then what would happen?
BILCHIK: Then what would happen is if Kate and William the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have a daughter, and then let's say they have a son afterwards, the son cannot leapfrog the daughter so the daughter then becomes the next in line to be the monarch.
CHO: So right now as it stands Charles, then William and then William's child provided it's a boy but if they change the rules --
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BILCHIK: It wouldn't matter.
CHO: The girl could be next in line.
BILCHIK: The idea is that in the family -- so for example, Queen Elizabeth had a sister, so because she had a sister there was no boy to overtake her or leapfrog her so to speak. But I love what "The Economist" says, because they really put this whole issue in a nutshell. They said "The idea of tweaking a centuries-old royal succession has been raised for simplicity's sake." Don't you think it's best to agree before Prince William and his wife as you said announce they're expecting a child?
CHO: Well, it seems to me that's what they're trying to do.
BILCHIK: Exactly. Because imagine if a little girl is born and then a little boy and then the boy leapfrogs the girl.
CHO: Right.
BILCHIK: So we're going to be very confused.
CHO: That's right.
BILCHIK: Now, obviously this will only apply to this generation.
CHO: Right.
BILCHIK: So it is not that suddenly Anne is going to --
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CHO: It's not retroactive.
BILCHIK: Exactly. But about time I mean, in the year 2011 to have a rule that is so sexist.
CHO: Well, good for them.
BILCHIK: And it's just showing -- I think David Cameron is saying let the royal family keep up with the times. Let's be relevant.
CHO: That's right.
BILCHIK: And that's important. But he will need the signatures of prime ministers of 15 other realms and apparently the Queen will agree. If he gets the signatures, she usually does take the advice of her prime ministers.
CHO: Well, that's good because people are high on the royal family right now because of Kate and William.
BILCHIK: Absolutely.
CHO: Nadia Bilchik, thank you very much.
A few years ago this kind of thing was sci-fi but now officers are predicting crime before it happens? We'll explain how they're looking in to the future.
But first, are you over 50 and looking to change careers? Well, CNN Money lists the top jobs for flexibility, social meaning and relatively low stress and the best part, none require an advanced degree.
At number five, tutor; private tutors in demand by parents looking to give their children an edge. Schedule sessions when you want and don't need as much training as a teacher.
At number four: online marketing writer; companies looking for writers to write and edit digital content for social media and the Internet.
Number three: energy field auditor. Homeowners hire energy auditors to check their houses for leaks and recommend improvements. This is another job where you can set your own hours. That's not bad.
I'm going to tell you the top two best jobs for people over 50 right after this.
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CHO: Before the break, I showed you some of the best jobs for people over 50 who are looking to start a new career. According to CNN Money they include tutor, online marketing writer and energy field auditor.
Now for the top two. We promised you this, the second best career for someone over the age of 50, personal trainer. Companies and communities are looking for wellness trainers and if you're in good shape, this could be the perfect job for you or if you know how to train people.
And the number one job for flexibility, relatively low stress and a sense of social meaning, grant coordinator. This is a great way to match your job skills to a cause you believe in.
Well, we can predict the weather and election outcomes sometimes. Our weather team and political unit are pros at that but what about predicting crime?
Dan Simon uncovers the future of policing in this "Start Small, Think Big".
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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In the movie "Minority Report" actor Tom Cruise tracks down would be criminals in the year 2054.
TOM CRUISE, ACTOR: Standard CPD blue and white. Set up a perimeter.
SIMON: Police in Santa Cruz, California, are turning the sci-fi future into reality. They're using an algorithm, a complicated math equation to predict crime before it happens.
ZACH FRIEND, CRIME ANALYST, SANTA CRUZ POLICE: People tend to burglarize the same area more than once even during the same types of times today or the same days of the week.
SIMON: The program generates ten hot spot maps each day letting officers know when and where a crime is likely to occur.
LT. BERNIE ESCALANTE, SANTA CRUZ POLICE: There's 60 percent likelihood of a residential burglary in this area that we're going to go to now.
SIMON: With police departments facing budget cuts across the country this system gives them another tool to fight crime.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Since 2000, we've lost about 20 percent of our overall staff. Yet, calls for service have gone up by 30 percent. If you can find a technological program that can help do more with less it makes sense to do it. ESCALANTE: 322, it's a tan Honda.
SIMON: So far, it seems to be working.
FRIEND: July of last year, versus July of this year, a 27 percent reduction of burglaries; we've also made seven arrests.
SIMON: Now, other agencies like the Los Angeles Police Department have plans to implement the program.
FRIEND: If this system works and so far it looks promising, I really just see this as the future of law enforcement.
SIMON: Dan Simon, CNN.
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CHO: Coming up, there's a huge championship boxing fight happening tonight but it's this 52-year-old ex-con fighting on the undercard who got a good luck phone call from, you guessed it, the President of the United States. His inspirational story in a few minutes.
Plus, we're heading to Vegas. They are getting ready for the next GOP presidential debate happening on Tuesday. CNN is hosting.
And at the top of the hour, my friend T.J. joining me live from Vegas with more on the debate and Nevada's economic problems.
That's next.
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CHO: Welcome back.
HLN sports anchor Joe Carter here to talk about a man who spent more than half his life in prison for a crime he never committed. And now he's stepping into the boxing ring. This is incredible. He even got a call from the President, right?
JOE CARTER, HLN SPORTS: He did. President Obama wished him luck. This is Dewey Bozella -- people may have followed his story over the last couple of years -- 52-year-old guy, you know. He boxed as an amateur when he was young and then he was convicted of murder in 1983 and was then exonerated in 2009. Twenty-six years he spent --
CHO: Unbelievable.
CARTER: -- behind bars as an innocent man and used boxing, as you would think as a way to sort of give himself therapy, you know, to give himself balance, to have good positive energy. He picked the sport back up again when he was incarcerated.
And a lot of people heard his story when he was released in 2009. It actually caught the attention of the Oscar de la Hoya camp and they decided to bring him in and he started training with him in July. And as you'll hear from him, his very thankful that the Golden Boy Productions camp actually trusted him to give him now a shot on tonight's undercard.
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DEWEY BOZELLA, EXONERATED AFTER 26 YEARS, GOES PRO AT 52: So to take the time out to, you know, to do what he did is an honor. But not only that, you know, just to, you know, to take the risk, you know, with a person like me over 50 years old, you know. And I think that, you know, I don't want to prove anybody wrong but as well as myself. That's what this whole thing is about. You know, one-shot deal -- in, out, you know.
To be able to say that I -- I went all out to say that I was a pro one time in my life and I'll be happy about that.
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CARTER: And as you said, Thursday he got a well wish from President Obama for him to do well. So his fight's tonight before the Bernard- Hopkins fight as the undercard.
CHO: The undercard again -- I've just learned. Thank you very much, Joe.
CARTER: You're very welcome.
CHO: Does he have a shot do you think? I mean --
CARTER: He's fighting a guy who hasn't won a fight, so he's got a shot. But he's 52 years old. So we'll see.
CHO: Well, 52 years young.
All right. So, a sports-related flash mob -- what's that about?
CARTER: Steve Young, hall of fame quarterback, three-time Super Bowl winner MVP. Now he's a broadcaster on ESPN but his wife wanted to surprise him for his 50th birthday. So at lunch she organized a flash mob. And I mean a giant flash mob.
I want you to hear it for a second. Take a listen.
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CARTER: You see her there, she's got the young jersey -- the number 8 jersey there.
CHO: Is he there?
CARTER: Barb's her name. You have to say this had to take a lot of coordination and organization to get this all together. I mean all those dancers -- they look pretty coordinated. He looks really surprised. That's a nice birthday present.
And you know, finally, I think a lot of people are excited. You have the NBA fighting over this money issue so we don't know when that season's going to kick off. But college basketball season officially --
CHO: That's one thing you can watch.
CARTER: Under way, yes, last way was midnight madness. I love this tradition. You know, it used to be the first practice of the year. But it's really evolved. It's turned into a huge party. You have head coach Bill Self there, University of Kansas coming out in a hog decked in leather. Then you've got Tom Izzo the head coach of Michigan State on a -- like a replica jet there.
Actually his team's going to play North Carolina, on an aircraft carrier in November. That's why he did that thing and President Obama as we talk about him again -- he actually said earlier this week that he is going to go to that game.
CHO: That's great. That's great. And that's November 11th.
Meanwhile, I want to bring Bonnie Schneider in because it's a big football weekend so I'm told.
CARTER: Yes. Yes. It is.
SCHNEIDER: Yes.
CHO: Right? This is how big of a sports fan I am. But where should we be watching the weather for the big games? And what's going to be happening?
SCHNEIDER: Well, we have to watch the wind because the wind will be impacting a lot of the games today particularly in the Great Lakes and the Midwest.
Let's take a look at the college football forecast and what we're looking at for today. We are watching for Auburn -- does that sound familiar? If Reynolds was here, he would be pretty excited.
CHO: Yes, I know.
SCHNEIDER: Yes, well, Auburn --
CHO: Where is he by the way?
SCHNEIDER: I think that's why he is off.
CARTER: I think he might be tailgating.
CHO: That's what I was going to say.
SCHNEIDER: Well, we are looking at sunshine but definitely some warm weather. Actually not so windy where Auburn is playing but we're going to be seeing that wind pick up in other locations.
The south is still enjoying some very mild conditions. You will see for LSU, which is number one, versus Tennessee, we have 3:30 today; 72 degrees, light winds out of the west.
Check this out. We are looking at some warm temperatures there also in Oxford, Mississippi. Things should be looking good 6:00 p.m.
Here's the windy weather. In East Lansing Michigan, Number 11 Michigan versus Number 23 Michigan State. The kick off at noon but look at the winds out of the west.
CARTER: That's a huge game definitely.
SCHNEIDER: Yes. It's going to be windy and kind of cool out there with 52 degrees so be looking for windy weather there. And also in Charlottesville, Virginia we're watching for another windy game and this one is Georgia Tech versus Virginia at 3:30 today, 71 degrees. And that's our last game that we're monitoring for today.
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SCHNEIDER: So it's interesting the weather really is impacting quite a few games today.
CHO: I noticed you conveniently left off my two alma maters, Boston College and Northwestern University. Is there a reason for that, guys?
CARTER: Are they playing today?
CHO: I don't know. I don't know. I'm not that big of a football fan. I just thought I'd point that out. All right. Thanks, you guys, very much.
Bonnie, this is a story you will be interested in. Joe this is a story you should be interested in.
Coming up, Christian Louboutin's amazing shoes; they have the most famous soles in the whole world -- you know the red ones. But few people know just how he came up with the concept in the first place. He calls it a happy accident.
You know I was in Paris just a couple of days ago for fashion week there and I had the pleasure of speaking to Christian Louboutin. Your "Fashion Backstage Pass" is next.
And coming up in just few a minutes, our T.J. Holmes will be joining us live from Nevada talking about the GOP presidential debate with deputy political director Paul Steinhauser.
We'll also talk to Caroline Goodman, mayor of Las Vegas and Tim Williams, member of the executive board of the Clark County Republican Party.
All of that -- coming up.
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CHO: Welcome back.
He's the man behind those iconic red-soled shoes with prices starting at $400, skyrocketing into the thousands. Christian Louboutin is the shoemaker to the stars.
I recently spoke with the fashion designer in Paris about his love for shoes and just how he came up with the idea for those famous red soles.
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CHO (voice-over): Made famous by Jennifer Lopez and "Sex and the City" --
SARAH JESSICA PARKER, ACTRESS, "SEX AND THE CITY": Hello, lover.
CHO: -- Christian Louboutin is the shoemaker to the stars. A man who doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk. The designer behind those iconic red-soled shoes.
CHRISTIAN LOUBOUTIN, SHOE DESIGNER: You have a farashism (ph), ding, and then (INAUDIBLE) and then it conforms the person from head to toe. Well, a pair of shoes, a bit like that.
CHO: They're on Oprah, Beyonce and the first lady of France. This year alone, he's sold 700,000 pairs of shoes. But don't call them comfortable.
LOUBOUTIN: The only compliment that has come out of the design, I would be unhappy. So I have nothing against the comfort, but it's not the thing I'm sort of fighting for.
CHO (on camera): So what are you fighting for?
LOUBOUTIN: Beauty. That's different.
CHO (voice-over): Beauty doesn't come cheap. Louboutin's shoes start at $395 and can skyrocket to $6,000. More if they're custom made.
CHO (on camera): These are 4,200 euros, that's nearly $6,000 U.S. dollars. Why?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why not?
CHO (voice-over): This is his laboratory. Each season Louboutin sketches 400 to 500 styles. About 150 are produced. Each pair is carefully handmade, taking anywhere from a day to a year to make. And on the walls -- mademoiselle Renee Zellweger.
LOUBOUTIN: This is a bit of a secret.
CHO: Shoe molds for his a-list clients. Louboutin is celebrating 20 years in business with a commemorative book and a lawsuit against Yves Saint Laurent, which recently came out with, you guess it, a red-soled shoe.
LOUBOUTIN: You cannot say that you can own a color. I do not own a color. I own a red lacquered -- a red lacquered solo on the back of my shoes.
CHO: Just how did he come up with the idea for the red soles? Louboutin says an assistant who happened to be painting her nails.
LOUBOUTIN: So I grabbed her nail polish and polished the sole, which became red. And immediately it became like a (INAUDIBLE). You know, it popped up.
CHO: Throw them on, but run at your own risk.
LOUBOUTIN: It's not a good thing to run through life. I appreciate life.
CHO: Appreciate shoes. Beautiful shoes.
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CHO: That was a fun interview. I also spoke with Karl Lagerfeld, Marc Jacobs and designer of (INAUDIBLE) the oldest fashion house in the world.
Don't miss my special, it's today "FASHION: BACKSTAGE PASS FROM PARIS," today at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time and 11:30 Pacific, right here on CNN.
