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Bunker Standoff in Seattle; Future of Our Food; Identity Theft on the Rise; Man Finds Himself on Missing Poster; Billionaires Plan to Mine Asteroids
Aired April 28, 2012 - 07:00 ET
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RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR: Thanks for starting your morning with us. We've got much more ahead on CNN SATURDAY MORNING which starts right now.
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KAYE (voice-over): From CNN Center, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
Ahead this hour: Police say he murdered his wife and daughter, then tried to burn down his house, but that didn't work. Now, a Seattle SWAT team is staking out this underground bunker where police think the suspect is hiding out.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This isn't a hole in the ground. This is a large built-up structure but hidden. It took some time to find it.
Also ahead: the future of our food. Wait until you see how some Americans are shaking up their eating habits in a big way. Are you on the bandwagon yet?
And on a mission for money -- the newest frontier in mining one of the most precious and pricey metals on earth.
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KAYE: Good morning, everyone. I'm Randi Kaye. It's 7:00 on the East Coast, 4:00 on the West. I've got a lot to tell you about this morning. So, let's get to it.
We start with the standoff near Seattle -- a man accused of murdering his wife and daughter is now holed up in a homemade underground bunker. A SWAT team pumped in tear gas in an effort to force Peter Keller out. It's believed that he is well-armed and that the bunker is well-stocked. So, police are being cautious and patient.
But one friend of Keller's wife isn't being so deliberate.
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SALLY FRENCH, MURDER VICTIM'S FRIEND: I hope he resists. Because I want him to know what a bullet feels like. You know? I can't stop being angry.
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KAYE: We get more now from Jim Forman of affiliate KING who filed this story.
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SGT. CINDI WEST, KING CO., WASHIGNTON SHERIFF'S OFFICE: It doesn't matter how long it takes. If it takes a day, a month, a week, we're going to wait it out. The most important thing is our officer's safety.
JIM FORMAN, KING REPORTER (voice-over): As sunset nears, another SWAT team moves in to take up their position. The first units have been at it since 5:00 a.m., with night fall coming, commanders want to bring in fresh people. Sheriff's deputies now all but certain Peter Keller is inside his deep underground bunker, a lair which could be booby trapped, a hide out equipped for survival and a long stand off.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This isn't a hole in the ground. This is a large built up structure, but hidden. It took some time to find it. And, in fact, our tactical team smelled the wood smoke coming before they actually saw it.
FORMAN: The break in the case comes straight out of "CSI". Detectives found the bunker from this fuzzy photo, enhancing it, then triangulating the location.
The picture supposed to burn in Keller's home where he is accused of killing his wife and daughter, then setting the fire to cover the crime.
ERIN MCCULLUM, RESIDENT: It's a little unnerving, I'm working from home today to make sure my kids are OK, and it's been an interesting Friday. Needless to say.
FORMAN: Veteran law enforcement believe Keller may be building his end of the world fortress for eight years, making this more of a military- style operation.
WEST: The fort appears to be amazingly fortified. They said that it's unbelievable, that pictures don't do it justice.
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KAYE: The report was from Jim Forman of affiliate KING in Seattle. We'll keep an eye on this developing story throughout the morning and bring you any update as they happen.
The Secret Service now has a new code of conduct coming in the wake of the prostitution scandal in Columbia. The new rules say that agents on assignment in other countries have to act like they are still in the United States. Also, they are forbidden from having anyone else in their room, there will be a list of places they have to stay away from and no drinking alcohol within 10 hours of reporting for duty.
Meanwhile, sources with knowledge of the Colombia investigation tell CNN that Arthur Huntington is the agent at the center of that scandal. He is the one who had the pay dispute with a prostitute that brought the whole thing to light. Huntington, we are told, has left the agency.
A former aide for John Edwards said that he feared for his life when dealing with the senator and two big campaign donors. Andrew Young called the situation bizarre when describing his role in allegedly helping Edwards conceal nearly a million dollars in campaign contributions.
Prosecutors say Edwards used the money to conceal an affair with a mistress. It was the third day on the stand for Young.
Edwards faces up to 30 years in prison. He has denied doing anything wrong and we'll have much more on the trial a little bit later on.
A teacher at the center of a bullying scandal says she did nothing wrong. Kelly Altenburg is accused of being one of the teachers who verbally abused a boy with autism. The boy's father Stuart Chaifetz taped some of the interaction. Listen to this.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What'd you in the library yesterday?
AKIAN: Looked at the sculpture.
UNIDENTIFEID FEMALE: You looked at the sculpture, that's what you did? Did you look at books? Yes.
Did you go to see any books in the library or you just looked at sculptures?
(CRYING)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, Akian, you are a bastard.
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KAYE: The Cherry Hill, New Jersey School District says none of the teachers involved work for them anymore. But Altenburg's attorney says his client's voice isn't one of the ones on that tape.
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MATTHEW B. WIELICZKO, KELLY ALTENBURG'S ATTORNEY: The point today is not to attack the father of the student. I start the conference off by saying we respect his advocacy. But at the point, there had to be a time when he said that the comments that he is saying my client made are simply inaccurate.
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KAYE: The attorney says Altenburg was transferred to another school in the district, but is now on leave. There is a manhunt underway in Denver, police are looking for two suspects made a violent robbery this week. This is new surveillance video of the Thursday night robbery. The suspects demanded the clerk open the cash register and then shot him at close range in the arm. Wow!
They then fired a couple shots at customers in the store before leaving. None of the customers was hurt. Police say the pair may be responsible for a string of recent robberies.
Wondering what your weather is going to be like today? Well, lots of folks are.
So, it's good thing we have Reynolds with us.
Good morning, Reynolds.
REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Randi.
We're watching some scattered showers moving through parts of Chicago this morning, even into Milwaukee and eventually over towards Detroit. But it's going to be one of those intermittent things. We're going to have a band of showers go through. A little bit of a break and then more moving into the area.
Let's show you what's happening on radar. Even back to one corner of the screen, left hand sort of the screen, you can see a little bit of a pink popping up. That's because we got freezing layer of air right at the surface. The overrunning moisture is giving you a little bit of sleet, really not heavy snow fall. And we also have a chance of severe weather in the Ohio Valley and into the Southern Plains.
We've got a lot to talk about weather-wise this morning. And we're going to get you caught up on all coming up very soon, Randi. But keep the umbrellas handy through the Great Lakes, certainly during this weekend.
KAYE: Yes. Looks like some folks are going to get soaked.
WOLF: Oh, yes.
KAYE: All right. Thank you.
WOLF: You betcha.
KAYE: And here's a rundown of some of the stories that we're working on for you this hour. First, it's been a year since one of the worst tornado outbreaks in U.S. history. We look back on how the hard-hit college town of Tuscaloosa, Alabama, is recovering.
Plus, identity theft is on the rise. We'll run down what you need to do to protect yourself.
And imagine coming across your own face on a missing child poster. You'll hear from a man who made a shocking discovery after more than three decades. And at 45 after the hour, one of the coolest stories of the day: asteroid mining. The world's billionaires are teaming up to find earth's most precious metals in space. Pretty cool.
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KAYE: Wow, if you are just waking up with us here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING, you should take a look at this right now on your television. What a beautiful shot over Atlanta this morning. You see the sun peeking through there, through some of the buildings and some gorgeous clouds in the sky. It's going to be a beautiful day for folks in Atlanta today.
It is about 10 minutes past the hour.
It may be springtime but parts of the Northeast are waking up to a big chill this morning.
Reynolds, what's up with that?
WOLF: Just get a little bit of cold air, kind of like what we had in Atlanta last weekend, where it felt almost like Boston here. Highs were in the 60s, some places in the lower 70s, it was perfect.
But now, we're going to warm up in parts of the Southeast. It's going to remain fairly cool for you in parts of the Northeast and another place around the country. You have a hodgepodge of good weather/bad weather and, of course, your delays. Take a look at some of them.
In Cleveland, in Atlanta, we've got a mix of rain and fog. Some of that fog dissipating as we speak in Atlanta. Miami, some scattered showers. Minneapolis, you've got the rain. And Chicago, you've got a combination of both the rain and the wind.
Proof positive is right here in this radar, you can see that boundary moving through parts of Chicago and the top half of the system, moving in the Northern Plains, and back into the Rockies, where you're seeing not rain but snow. And some of the snow may get especially heavy, in fact, the higher up you go, the more cold air that moisture will interact with and that is where it's going to stack up above 4,000 feet, could see anywhere from eight to 16 inches of snow fall. Also down along parts of 90 south of Billings and into Wyoming, could see up to 16 inches of snow fall there as well.
But we also have two areas of potential severe weather, strong thunderstorms may be some flash flooding, perhaps, even some tornadoes, in parts of the Ohio Valley, but also especially in Texas, and right into portions of the Red River Valley, back into Oklahoma. So, just keep that in mind, minus some delays in Dallas, as the weather gets rough in the afternoon.
As we wrap things up, plenty of sunshine in the Northeast, although is' gong to be cooler there, plenty of sunshine toward the West with high temperatures for you in Seattle, 61 degrees with showers, 69 in San Francisco, 62 in Denver, 86 in Memphis. The high today in New York, only 60, in Boston, 59 is the expected high. Randi, that is the latest from your forecast. Let's send it right back to you.
KAYE: OK, Reynolds. And I know this weekend, lots of folks there are remembering what happened just over what a year ago, right, one of the deadliest tornado outbreaks occurred, killing hundreds of people. You have vivid memories because you covered it.
WOLF: Absolutely. I was first national correspondent on the scene for any network. And, unfortunately, Alabama really caught the brunt of it. It's my home state. And we got to see some of the damage firsthand.
And what's interesting is it's similar to Katrina in some ways that if you have been in New Orleans, and I know you have, you have kind of a demarcation point in life -- things before and after Katrina.
KAYE: Sure, absolutely.
WOLF: Well, in Alabama, it's basically the same thing. You have a before and after the tornado. And yes, they are still recovering.
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TERRI BREWER, ASSISTANT NEWS DIRECTOR, WVUA-TV: I believe I'm in the company of thousands countless other people. Who believe their life has been changed. We can honor the memory of those lost and honor those who served by never for getting what we learned one year ago today and always recognizing the gift of each day.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE)
Everything was going all around. I think I was in the eye of the storm.
GOV. ROBERT BENTLEY, ALABAMA: It was almost like post traumatic stress syndrome when people have almost died, and so many stories that I hear, miraculous stories where people were -- they were in a closet, that was the only thing saved was the closet. That is only God can take care of people like that.
DEPUTY MACARTHUR BROWN, TUSCALOOSA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: After it was over, just seeing people walking around that had lost everything and seeing kids that some was hurt, some were just mainly scared, but they didn't know what they were going to do or where they were going to go.
People came back together, and they worked with each other and they stood up and say, we have been knocked down once but we're going to stand up and we're going to fight and we're going to come back together.
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KAYE: That is the mentality, right? Stand up, fight together. WOLF: It truly is. I mean, that's one of the amazing things about it. I mean, when the sun came up the next day, you could already hear the sounds of chain saws and hammers and people already starting to build things back together. Obviously, they've got a long way to go, not only of course, physically but spiritually. It's going to take some time. And they're doing a pretty good job, as what can be expected.
KAYE: I'm sure. Reynolds, thank you very much for bringing us that.
WOLF: You bet.
KAYE: So, all natural or organic? Is there a difference? Is one better for you than the other? We'll break down some popular food terms that could be causing confusion, at the grocery store.
Stay with us.
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KAYE: Lady Liberty already this morning, taking in a little bit of sunshine there, in the New York harbor. What a beautiful shot. Good morning, New York.
So, this morning, we're talking a lot about food -- organic or all natural, cage-free or free-range? It can get confusing for people looking for the best alternatives. So, we're focusing on that what we put on the table and in our mouths, from the latest trends to food safety.
And who better to guide us than Kat Kinsman, the managing editor of CNN.com/Eatocracy, what a fabulous part of our Web site that is.
Kat, good morning to you.
You have a new blog that's coming up this weekend. And I want to talk to you about it. It's about getting past the confusion of some of the food terms, specifically the difference between organic and certified organic.
I mean, is there really a difference?
KAT KINSMAN, MANAGING EDITOR, EATOCRACY.CNN.COM: There actually is in terminology. Now, organic is a term that has gotten a bad rap, people think that it's going to be expensive, not taste very good, and that has to be hand picked by a guy in a sweat listen to a grateful dead record. None of these are true.
You can go into your backyard right now and put some seeds into some soil that hasn't had any artificial fertilizer in it, and raise it in a particular way not using artificial -- sort of artificial ingredients and chemicals and you can have it organic in your backyard.
Now, for something to be certified USDA organic, it has to have a seal from that department or a trusted agency that is allowed to carry the seal. So, produce raised in that particular way has to be also not used synthetic fertilizers and has to be not genetically modified, and there are certain other criteria.
But you can go to your local farmer and they might not have gotten USDA organic certification because it's an incredibly expensive process. But if you can speak to the farmer directly or just have some conversations and find out it's being raised in that really --
KAYE: Right.
KINSMAN: -- way, it just might not have the official seal on it.
KAYE: All right. Let's talk quickly here about eggs. What are the three types we need to know about them. I mean, I see different eggs, cage-free, omega-3.
You know, what should we know?
KINSMAN: Right. So, there was a lot of scrutiny on the egg industry after the salmonella outbreak a couple years ago. A lot of people started looking at the term free-range. That's a lovely term and a lot of people think that it means that the chickens are wandering around in the sunlight.
All it means that there has to be a door to the outside in the facility. The hens may or may not go outside because they are herd animals, they're flocks animals and they might be scared to go outside. So, there is a good chance it probably is actually living inside, you know, just among a lot of other chickens.
People also look at cage-free, and that means they are not kept in a battery change, which is this little cage that the industry is actually going to be abandoning in the next couple decades. It's considered cruel by a lot of people because a hen can't exhibit animal characteristics and actual spread her wings.
Now, your best bet is to go organic, because they really do have to be treated infinitely more humane way, not treated with antibiotics, instead only organic fed, which means that those crops we were talking about earlier that were not genetically modified, and not using synthetic fertilizers, that that's what those hens are eating.
And they're generally, this is another thing where you can be a smart shopper, and get to know the producers of the eggs in your supermarket.
KAYE: Right.
KINSMAN: And most of them have Web sites, and you can track --
KAYE: Let me just jump in here because I want to ask you about the term vegetarian as well. I mean, I eat like a vegetarian. But it's really not a blanket terms, right? I mean, there is different levels, flexitarian and all those other levels.
KINSMAN: This is true. I was actually discussing with a colleague. It's really self-policing. And it's usually vegetarians criticizing other vegetarians. All vegetarian really means is that you are paying some sort of eye attention to the amount of animal product that you're consuming. If somebody is, say, an ovo-lacto vegetarian, it means that they'll still eat and dairy products.
There's this term flexitarian that people are using. We'll have that friend who says, oh, I'm a vegetarian and you'll catch them chowing down on a baconator at Wendy's.
So, there are all different degrees. There's pescetarian, they eat fish.
Actually, one of the great things of flexitarianism, is people are paying attention, to what they're doing. Great example of that is the meatless Mondays campaign, where people just don't eat on Monday, to pay attention to the amount of animal products that they are consuming.
Yes. And then you can go all the way to veganism, which, you know, may or may not be a moral and ethical health choice, but you won't be involving animal products in your life you won't have leather furniture in your home. You won't wear leather clothing. You might not eat refined sugar because some of it is used -- using animal bones.
You might not necessarily, if there is like beer and wines and things, because they use products from inside animal stomachs.
KAYE: Wow. Well, I hope our viewers were taking notes, Kat, because that was a wealth of information. So, thank you very much.
KINSMAN: Thanks. It will all be on the site.
KAYE: Of course. And hear much more from Kat and the rest of the Eatoccracy crew. You can be sure to check out our Web site, Eatocracy.CNN.com. As I said it's a really great site and a great resource for lots of folks in this sort of things.
Well, we've got more ahead as we focus on your food. Coming up next hour, we'll talk with a food safety expert about that mad cow scare and find out if the food safety system was as successful as health officials say.
Plus, identity theft is on the rise, and millions of people have fallen victim. We'll tell you how you can protect yourself, next.
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KAYE: Welcome back, everyone. Yes, I'm tweeting this morning so keep me company, send me a few tweets here and there @RandiKayeCNN.
All right. So, listen to this. Over 11 million people were victims of ID theft in 2011. That is up 13 percent since 2010. Perhaps you were one of them.
Financial analyst Clyde Anderson is joining me now to talk more about this. So, good morning.
CLYDE ANDERSON, FINANCIAL ANALYST: Good morning.
KAYE: Why are we seeing such an increase?
ANDERSON: Well, right now. I mean, think about it, everybody is making purchases online. So, with innovation comes new thieves, and news ways, innovative ways to steal your money or steal your identity. So, they're actually out there lurking.
KAYE: The thieves are getting smarter.
ANDERSON: They have to.
KAYE: As the technology gets cooler many.
ANDERSON: Yes.
KAYE: So, what are some ways that we can protect our information then?
ANDERSON: Well, one is the interesting company called Acculynk. Acculynk has produced this technology called PaySecure. And what PaySecure does, it allows you to use your pin. It's called pin debit technology, use it online like in a grocery store or any other store, credit or debit, you can go ahead and put your pin number in there.
Of course, it's more secure to put your pin number instead of saying credit because, again, of having you sign as opposed actually having the pin number that only you have.
KAYE: And is there something else also where your pin gets scrambled?
ANDERSON: Yes. Actually, every time you go in and put one number in it scrambles. So, it actually doesn't remember it. It goes in and it really remembers actually each number you do to scramble, so it doesn't get log in to that system where someone else, where a thief can't take your information.
KAYE: That's pretty much. That's some cool technology right there.
ANDERSON: Cool technology and more and more companies are using that.
KAYE: And what Web sites? You know, I always wonder. I go on a Web site and making a purchase. How do I know that my information is secure on that Web site?
ANDERSON: Well, one of things -- you want to go to Web sites that you're comfortable with, that you're familiar with, that are names you know or have been recommended to. One of the key signs is looking at the top the web address -- http is not a secure site. Https is a secure site. The s is the security site and has SSL technology and it's one of the things you want to look at.
As well as knowing it's something you're familiar with, a company that you've used before. KAYE: So, if it doesn't have the "s," should you not make a purchase there? I mean, what can happen?
ANDERSON: You probably don't want to make a purchase there, because, again there are thieves out there, there's malware, there's all types of programs that they can use to go in and just pull your information right down. It's become a lot easier, because, you know, with all technology as it grows, a lot of companies have to take more time to add different levels of security, sometimes it costs more to that as companies don't invest the money.
KAYE: And one thing I know, you should never send your passwords like in an e-mail, right?
ANDERSON: Never passwords in an email.
KAYE: Scramble it.
ANDERSON: Yes, scramble it. I mean, it's hard right now and we keep these mobile phones.
KAYE: Yes. Well, that's what I was going to say. Those are a big one, right, the thieves are able to crack those even more than anything else, right?
ANDERSON: Well, you think about it. It's like your new wallet, you know?
We keep more information in those mobile phones than we do in our wallets a lot of times.
KAYE: But aren't they protected? There's not way?
ANDERSON: Well, a lot of times, what you have to do is always make sure you keep the software updated. A lot of times, we ignore some of the updates that our carrier providing for us.
Make sure you're downloading the updates and make sure you have the most secure technology. You know, make sure you have it locked with a pin number. Make sure you keep it in secure places.
It's hard a lot of times, but you really have to get out here and make sure you're protecting your data and they are working on new technology and new ways that you can actually to make sure the mobile phone is secure since again, it's your new mobile wallet.
KAYE: I'll tell you, because anyone who has ever had their identity stolen knows how hard it is to fix that.
ANDERSON: That's one of the worst crimes ever.
KAYE: It is. It's tough stuff.
All right, Clyde. Thank you very much. Appreciate that.
ANDERSON: Thank you very much. My pleasure. KAYE: And you can, of course, join us every Saturday at this time with our financial analyst Clyde Anderson gives us his latest money saving tips.
So, now, some top stories:
Secret Service employees have a new code of conduct this morning as the agency tries to prevent future bad behavior.
This all comes as we learn the named of the agent who sparked a prostitution scandal in Colombia. He's identified as Arthur Huntington. And sources say he had a dispute over pay with an escort in a Colombian hotel. Huntington, a married father of two, is among those who left the Secret Service after the scandal broke.
It is known as the nerd prom, but don't expect to see people with pocket protectors and calculators. The annual White House correspondents' dinner is strictly A-list. They are mixed of power players from Washington and Hollywood.
Comedian Jimmy Kimmel had this to say about hosting the big event.
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JIMMY KIMMEL, COMEDIAN: Obviously, the Secret Service thing is something that I'm going to talk about, but not necessarily going to do 30 jokes about it. Probably stop at 20.
I have never been in the White House, I will probably never be asked back, either. It's really very cool, actually.
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KAYE: And tune in to CNN tonight. We'll have live coverage of the dinner beginning at 9:30 p.m. Eastern.
It's a night Defense Secretary Leon Panetta called tense and nerve- racking. A raid that captured and killed Osama bin Laden. In the year since the former al Qaeda's death, Panetta says the nation is better off.
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LEON PANETTA, DEFENSE SECRETARY: They said that they had KIA with Geronimo and confirmed that, in fact, that it happened. So, that was the moment when we knew that al of the work that had been done was paying off.
I think the one thing all of us feel good about that were involved in this operation is that as a result of what we did, America is safer.
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KAYE: But even without bin Laden as leader, Panetta says the threat of al Qaeda still remains, saying there is no, quote, "silver bullet" to destroy the terror network. Ramping up the attacks, Mitt Romney is moving ahead after another big week in the Republican race but President Obama has a few things to say as well. We'll break down the busy political week, next.
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KAYE: Welcome back. Things are heating up in the presidential race with the Republican primary season pretty much in the rearview mirror now.
We'll get more on the battle from CNN political editor Paul Steinhauser.
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PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN POLITICAL EDITOR: Good morning, Randi.
From the campaign trail --
MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Because he has failed, he will run a campaign of diversions and distractions and distortions.
STEINHAUSER: -- to the air waves --
AD NARRATOR: Big oil pledged $200 million to help Mitt Romney and Romney's pledged to protect their profits.
STEINHAUSER: -- it's getting ugly in the race for the White House.
After sweeping Tuesday's five primaries, Romney all but declared himself the nominee.
ROMNEY: That you have given me a great honor and solemn responsibility.
STEINHAUSER: The last day, word that one of his last remaining Republican rivals, Newt Gingrich, would soon exit the race.
NEWT GINGRICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There are times when the mountain gets bigger than your ability to climb it.
STEINHAUSER: Romney started looking for a running mate.
ROMNEY: The process for selecting a vice presidential running mate is just beginning.
STEINHAUSER: Teaming up with someone who may be high on his list. But popular freshman Senator Marco Rubio is keeping quiet.
SEN. MARCO RUBIO (R), FLORIDA: I'm not talking about that process anymore.
STEINHAUSER: While Romney was pretty much tying a bow around the nomination, President Barack Obama was reaching out to younger voters, touring three college campuses to push for extension of low interest rate for some student loans. BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I got to tell you the Republicans who run the House of Representatives have not yet said whether or not they'll stop your rates from doubling.
STEINHAUSER: But since all three stops were in battleground states that are crucial to the president's reelection, Republicans cried foul.
But the biggest buzz from the trip may have been Mr. Obama's slow jamming the news on late night TV.
OBAMA: Now is not the time to make school more expensive for young people.
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JIMMY FALLON, COMEDIAN: Oh, yes. You should listen to the president, or as I like to call him, the preesy the united steezy.
STEINHAUSER: A major Republican super PAC was quick to criticize, going up with a web ad.
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STEINHAUSER: Meanwhile, with the one year anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden just days away, the reelection team used former President Clinton to praise President Obama's decision.
BILL CLINTON, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: He had to decide and that's what you hire our president to do. You hire the president to make calls when no one else can do it.
STEINHAUSER: And questions if Romney would have made the same call.
JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: What would Governor Romney do? Well, the truth is, we don't know for certain.
STEINHAUSER: Wow, all that in just a week. And we've got six-and-a- half months to go -- Randi.
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KAYE: Good point, Paul. Thank you very much.
Well, a man who was adopted 30 years ago wanted to know more about his past and what he found was a missing person's photo with his face on it.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think, oh my God, that really looks like me. It really does. I mean, it's pretty much the spitting image.
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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) KAYE: You know those age progression photos that are use to help find missing children who have grown up? Well, a man looked at one, and what he saw shocked him, a spitting image of his own face.
It turns out he was a missing child and had been for more than three decades.
Our national correspondent Susan Candiotti has more.
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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Steve Carter has lived a happy life. Adopted when he was 4, he had little reason to search for his biological parents.
STEVE CARTER: I didn't really care where else I came from.
CANDIOTI: Yet, he always had some nagging questions about his past. When he was six months old, he was put in an orphanage in Hawaii but he never knew why. Then he saw a CNN story about a woman who discovered she was a missing child and started his own Internet search.
CARTER: Pulled up Hawaii, male, missing for 34 years, and lo and behold, they post a picture of Marx Panama Moriarty Barnes pops up.
CANDIOTTI: Marx Panama Moriarty Barnes had been reported missing by his father in Hawaii after his mom left with their baby and never came back. The report included a sketch of what he might look like grown up.
CARTER: I think, oh my God , that looks like me. It really does. I mean, it's pretty much the spitting image.
CANDIOTTI: He contacted authorities, took a DNA test and got a phone call.
CARTER: He said, you know, you are Marx Panama Moriarty Barnes.
CANDIOTTI: Now knowing he is that missing child, he learned his biological father lives in California. They haven't yet met but spoke by phone.
CARTER: He was convinced my mother had taken me and taken me and raised me somewhere else. And I'm thinking, one of the first questions to me was, where is your mother? And I said that's a fantastic question, I have the same one for you. And I think he was dumbfounded by that response.
CANDIOTTI: He hopes to meet him in person this year.
CARTER: I think face-to-face meeting will be very emotional.
CANDIOTTI: Carter still has not found his biological mom and still doesn't know how he wound up in an orphanage, one of many confusing aspects of his life. CARTER: Ten names, three birth certificates and two birthdays. I do celebrate both birthdays, that's been a really nice plus for it.
ERNIE ALLEN, CEO, NATL. CENTER FOR MISSING & EXPLOITED CHILDREN: Just because it has been a week or month or year, or 10 years or 34 years, there's hope, there are more missing children out there who can be identified and can be brought home.
CARTER: People need to have hope, especially about missing people.
CANDIOTTI: Carter says he's always known who he is and thanks to this sketch, now knows more about who he was.
Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.
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CANDIOTTI: Carter now lives in Philadelphia, he says he still wants to know what happened in that three-week period between his reported disappearance and his arrival at the orphanage. His mother's whereabouts are unknown.
Well, they're already super rich and they're hoping to add more to the wealth by mining asteroids. Yes, you heard me right. See who is behind this new venture, coming up next.
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REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Oh, yes, Steve Miller. One of my absolute favorites, "The Joker."
As we're taking a great shot, a wonderful shot near pier 39 in San Francisco -- wow, great shot, absolutely.
All right. We're going to let Steve Miller fade off and we're going to tell you a story that sounds like something out of a sci-fi film, but folks, I promise, every single bit of it is true.
A few billionaires are putting up their money to mine -- wait on it -- asteroids.
But first, let me show you who the rich guys are who happen to be putting money up. They're not scientists. These are guys who know really well how to make money. In fact, as we take a look of the list. Let's pop them up.
And here they are, you'll notice, you're recognizing the names. James Cameron, he's the A-list director. Google chairman Eric Schmidt, Google CEO Larry Page, and billionaire with a very familiar name Ross Perot -- Ross Perot, Jr., to be exact.
They are hoping to find platinum on these asteroids, one of the most precious metals on earth. You use it every day, you don't even know it, many of you. And many of you might wonder is it really necessary for us to launch a rocket to go all the way in space to get it?
We're lucky to have Stephen Fleming. He is the vice president and executive director of Enterprise Innovation Institute at Georgia Tech.
Steven, you have to understand, there are going to be people that are skeptical. This sounds like something out of "Star Trek." It sounds like really science fiction.
Is this -- is this worth doing, you think?
STEPHEN FLEMING, EXEC. DIR., ENTERPRISE INNOVATION INSTITUTE AT GA.TECH: It's past time to be doing it. We should have been doing this 20 years ago.
WOLF: Well, you know, we think of mining. We think about mining in Pennsylvania. We think about West Virginia, maybe even Oklahoma.
Mining in space on an asteroid, can you walk us through how this would happen?
FLEMING: Well, it's a lot harder, it's a lot harder. But the asteroid belt is a bunch of rocks which look like the rocks here on the surface of the earth. They happen to be busted up in little pieces that are orbiting the few million miles away.
So, rather than drilling holes in the ground to go find precious minerals, precious metals or other things, which helpful to talk about, you can simply drive up next to one, and pull these materials off the surface.
WOLF: What type of minerals do we hope to find on some of these asteroids?
FLEMING: There's really two categories. There's things like the platinum group metals, platinum palladium. Those are very expensive here on earth. That's easy to make a business case for to get them there, bring them here, use them here. Platinum has industrial uses in your catalytic converter in your car, in making better batteries, fuel cells, things like that.
So, there's clearly an economic case for those valuable metals. There's another category of materials that don't cost that much down here, water, nitrogen, iron, cobalt, things like that, which are incredibly valuable in space because you don't have to launch them from here.
WOLF: I see. Now, when you're talking about this in terms of a time frame, how far out could you see actually becoming a reality?
FLEMING: They could be launching their surveillance satellites, or they're prospecting satellites within a couple years. Those will stay in orbit and they'll have telescopes on them to look at these steroids and identify the first candidates. Actually going out and parking next to one and starting operations, probably within 10 years.
WOLF: OK. Now, when we think about the mars rover, how long it took for that to reach the surface, how much time, what is the time frame in terms of launching from say, like Cape Canaveral or Brandenburg Air Force Base, and actually landing on an asteroid, how long would that journey actually take?
FLEMING: Probably about a year. But remember, these are all robotic missions. There's no people on board. So, a year is no big deal.
WOLF: But in terms of cost, any guesstimate? Again, I know we're a long way out, how much would this cost each time you would have one of these missions out to one of those asteroids?
FLEMING: The reason we're able to do this now is we're finally getting to the point where launch costs, the costs to get a pound something from the earth's surface into orbit is about to come down very dramatically. Right now, that cost is about $10,000. If you've got a crescent wrench that weighs a pound, that's a $10,000 crescent wrench once you're in orbit.
Because we retire the shuttle, because the private sector is now taking over the launch business from NASA, we expect to see that cost come down by about a factor of 100. So, instead of being a $10,000 crescent wrench, that's now $100 crescent wrench. We know how to work with $100, crescent wrench. That's what it costs to have one in the oil platform out in the middle of Gulf.
So, we're seeing that by changing the launch dynamics, we'll be able to get large amounts of material up in orbit relatively cheaply.
WOLF: Unbelievable. When did this idea first come up? Who was the person who came up with this, the grandfather of this project?
FLEMING: You have to look back in the annals of science fiction. Science fiction authors have been talking about minding the asteroid belts since the 1940s. Certainly Isaac Asimov wrote about it. Certainly, Robert A. Heinlein wrote about it. Those are both form the 1940s.
Some engineering studies started being done in the '70s about doing it for real, had recontinued on the path we were on after the Apollo missions, rather than going with shuttle, which was the decision made in 1971, 1972, we could have been doing this sort of asteroid mining in the 1990s.
WOLF: I see. Unbelievable.
Amazing things, very enjoyable for viewers to hear this, just spell- binding, no doubt about it.
Thank you so much for your time. Appreciate your time for us this morning.
FLEMING: Appreciate.
WOLF: Folks, we have an action-packed show that we've got. Some newer things coming right ahead.
Including things like -- well, you don't hear much about Kazakhstan in the news. Remember, it was actor Sacha Baron Cohen who put her with the map with the movie, "Borat." You remember that one? Oh, yes, I do, too.
Kazakhstanis banned it. But now they say they love it. Why the change of heart? We'll let you know coming up in just a moment.
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KAYE: Welcome back. Remember the movie "Borat"? Actor Sacha Baron Cohen plays fake journalist from Kazakhstan.
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SACHA BARON COHEN, ACTOR: My name Borat. I journalist from Kazakhstan. My government send me to US and A to make a movie film. Please, you look.
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KAYE: Well, Kazakhstan turns out, banned the movie because of how it mocked its people. But now, the country is showing it some love.
And Nadia Bilchik is joining me to talk about this. So, the Kazakh government changed their mind?
NADIA BILCHIK, CNN EDITORIAL PRODUCER: Exactly. Huge turnaround. Foreign Minister Kazykhanov said just this week, we thank you Borat because tourism has increased ten-fold.
KAYE: Who knew there was tourism there in Kazakhstan?
BILCHIK: It's now. In fact, the foreign minister said the following. He said with the release of this film, the number of visas issued by Kazakhstan grew tenfold. I am grateful to Borat for helping attract tourists to our country, Kazakhstan.
KAYE: I find this really funny because they banned the film. And then you had that whole situation, with the huge embarrassing situation when wrong anthem was sung at some Kuwaiti sporting event.
BILCHIK: And it's the Olympic event in March of this year, they played the Borat version, which is (INAUDIBLE) of the anthem lauds pimps and prostitution.
So, there it is, let's take a look.
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BILCHIK: The first ones who probably was the athlete herself.
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BILCHIK: We are Kazakhstan proud of pimps and prostitution. But it has been rectified. I'm happy to tell you that is not going to happen again.
KAYE: No, I don't think so.
So, I guess if Kazakhstan can benefit. There must be some other places that benefit when movies are done?
BILCHIK: Oh, yes. I mean, "Twilight." Don't you want to go to Forks, Washington, on the "Twilights Tour"?
KAYE: Oh, for the movie, "Twilight." Yes.
BILCHIK: The rainiest city in the country and you watch Bella. And you might see a werewolf or a vampire.
KAYE: You think?
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BILCHIK: You can go to 150 different places in new Zealand on the official "Lord of the Rings" tour and see middle earth.
KAYE: So, if you wanted to do this, how do you find out about it?
BILCHIK: There are web sites, but there's one in particular that is movie-location.com. It will give you any movie you want to see or any movie location you want to see. And there it is.
So, for example, if you are dying to know where the "Sound of Music" was shot -- that is the number one most favorite location.
KAYE: Really?
BILCHIK: Off to Austria.
KAYE: Let's go. All right, Nadia, thank you very much. That was fun.
A suspect tried to make off with a woman's purse, but the woman's 8- year-old son said, no way, not so fast. Find out how he bravely stopped that crook, next.
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KAYE: Time now to a look at stories that are making headlines cross country.
A group of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans will finish at the last league of 100k bike ride today. Former President George W. Bush led them through 30 miles of a rugged Texas canyon for the second leg of the trip yesterday. Some of the vets have been seriously wounded in battle. Some lost limbs, others have post-traumatic stress disorder.
Now to the nation's capital, where a family says a funeral home cremated their father but gave them someone else's remains. The box they received had someone else's name on them. The funeral home claims it delivered the right remains but label them wrong. Now, the family wants to do a DNA test to be sure.
And in Kansas, an 8-year-old boy helps stop a burglary. Cade Hall was playing video games when a stranger came in to his house, grab his mom's purse. His dad chased after the suspect. The man ran into a busy highway and was hit by a car. His now in the hospital. And, by the way, that purse had no money in it.
Thanks for starting your money with us. We've got much more ahead on CNN SATURDAY MORNING which starts right now.
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