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SpaceX Failed; G8 Summit at Camp David

Aired May 19, 2012 - 9:00   ET

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RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning everyone. I'm Randi Kaye. It is 9:00. Thanks for waking up with us. Let's get you caught up on the news.

President Obama hosts the world's most powerful leaders today for the G-8 Summit at Camp David but planned protests have local law enforcement preparing for riots and even flash mobs. We'll have a live report.

Plus a bride stabbed to death in her bath tub; the suspect, her new husband. Now an international manhunt as the FBI follows leads to Mexico.

And this.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Four, three, two, one. And lift off -- we've had a cut-off.

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KAYE: A space launch failed. The first mission by a private company is aborted as Space X's Dragon 9 rocket suffers a computer problem.

Now to the G8 summit. President Obama and other world leaders have a lot on their plate. First and foremost they're tackling the crumbling economies in Europe which could boomerang on the U.S. if they don't improve fast.

CNN White House correspondent Brianna Keilar is at Camp David, joining us this morning. Brianna, good morning to you. So what do we expect out of this gathering today?

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You know, today, Randi, is going to be all about the economy. We expect President Obama to kick things off shortly with some welcoming remarks and then there are going to be a series, five different working sessions. So kind of discussions as these world leaders talk about really the number one issue here which is the European economic crisis.

It's threatening right now as it goes into its third year to possibly spill over into a global economic crisis and that's something that would affect the U.S.. Europe has really sort of with Germany setting the tone, has really done a lot of belt tightening. And by that, I mean cutting government spending in some of the eurozone nations and they've seen their growth stagnate. So Europe is really at a crossroads trying to decide how to move forward.

President Obama, you can see this setting behind me. This is Camp Round Meadow which is just down the road from Camp David. It is very serene here. And that was sort of the point. President Obama picked this locale for really its serenity. A lot of G8 summits tend to be in sort of not necessarily flashy but certainly popular resort towns and are really buttoned up affairs. They don't really lend themselves to the kind of conversations that world leaders might be able to have here, Randi, as they have a whole lot on their plate.

A lot of times they're trying to find time on the sidelines of these kind of conventions, if you will and this is certainly more of a quiet, intimate affair.

KAYE: Well, as you said the economy certainly front and center. But there must be some other key issues, right, that the leaders are going to be tackling.

KEILAR: Yes, a number of key issues. Iran and Syria. And this was - a lot of this was done last night during the dinner that they had. They were focusing more on sort of world affairs. Today's more of the economy, last night was more talking about Iran, talking about Syria. There are talks coming up in Baghdad that Iran will participate in along with a number of other nations including the U.S. as the U.S. and other nations try to discourage Iran from moving forward with its alleged nuclear weapons program and then Syria as well. Because the casualties are continuing to mount there as the Syrian government takes on an armed opposition. So a lot of discussion there. And really some differences here as well among some of the people specifically Russia, Randi.

KAYE: Yes. Did anything actually come out of that dinner, any firm proposals?

KEILAR: It seemed, a lot of this is about you sort of wonder, you know, what do they really take away from this? And really this is sort of about making sure that everyone is on the same page as they go in to these talks coming up in Baghdad so on Iran according to a senior administration official it seems like everyone, there is sort of a cohesion around what the goal is there.

When it comes to Syria though there is a bit of a difference and this is where you'll really see a difference, you know, particularly between the U.S. and Russia because you've heard the administration say that Bashar al-Assad, who is in charge of Syria, that, you know, he must go. He has lost his legitimacy. Russia doesn't feel that way. They think something needs to be done but there is a big difference on exactly what needs to be done.

KAYE: Brianna Keilar for us, watching it all. Thank you, Brianna.

And again, we are standing by for remarks from President Obama. He is expected to speak at any moment now. We'll bring it to you live once that happens.

After Camp David President Obama heads to Chicago for another summit. Protesters have already taken to the streets ahead of Sunday's meeting of NATO leaders. Extra police were brought in from as far away as Philadelphia and Charlotte. There is a major anti-war protest planned for Sunday. The war in Afghanistan is at the top of NATO's to do list.

The hunt for a man accused of killing his bride on their wedding night has moved to Mexico. That's where the FBI believes Arnaldo Jimenez has fled. His parents actually live there. It has been exactly a week now since police say Jimenez stabbed his new bride in his Illinois apartment. She was found in the bath tub. Jimenez' phone was tracked to the Texas-Mexico border and he is charged with first-degree murder.

A blind Chinese activist who hid out at the U.S. embassy in Beijing is on his way to the U.S.. That is the motorcade. You see it there heading to the airport. Chen Guangcheng, his wife and two children have been cleared by U.S. authorities. Their flight out of Beijing was delayed for a couple hours but it is now on its way. After a lot of diplomatic back and forth China agreed to let Chen leave the country to study abroad. He has been invited to study at New York University.

We'll have to wait until at least Monday for a verdict in the John Edwards' trial. The jury got the case Friday but hasn't come to a conclusion. Edwards faces 30 years in prison. He is accused of misusing campaign funds to cover up an extra-marital affair. He denies he did anything wrong. Edwards and his mistress Rielle Hunter did not take the stand.

A delay this morning for what was supposed to be an historic launch from Cape Canaveral.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Four, three, two, one, zero. And lift off. We've had a cutoff.

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KAYE: Yes, it was a no-go. The computers found a problem in one of the Falcon rocket's nine engines just a half second from the launch. The rocket carrying the dragon spacecraft was supposed to carry cargo to the International Space Station. It would have been the first private mission of its kind. They're now shooting for a Tuesday launch.

We were all waiting to see how high Facebook stock would go when their IPO launched Friday. Well, it didn't go very far. It was a roller coaster ride for the social network. Mark Zuckerberg rang the opening bell but in the end the stock gained just 23 cents for the day ending at $38.23. Still, Facebook is expected to make around $18 billion on the stock sale.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) DAVID KIRKPATRICK, AUTHOR "THE FACEBOOK EFFECT": If the stock drops below 38 next week, you know, it could really be a sort of ugly situation. If the stock starts really dropping significantly, it's really going to raise a lot of questions. I think a lot of people were sort of looking to the Facebook IPO thinking, you know, we got Europe and Greece and all this awful stuff with JPMorgan's loss and everything. Maybe Facebook is going to turn the markets toward a little happier attitude and it really did not happen.

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KAYE: In fact, the stock market had a really bad week. All three indices suffered their worst week of the entire year. You see it there. The Dow, NASDAQ, and the S&P 500 not a pretty picture.

Having trouble sticking to your diet? A 12-year-old North Carolina boy says it is not just what you put on your plate. It's how much you put on your plate. That's not all. He joins us next with his secrets to long lasting weight loss and a healthier life. So before you eat that breakfast keep it here.

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KAYE: We're standing by for remarks from President Obama as he kicks off the G8 summit today. He is expected to speak any moment now. We'll bring that to you live right her eon CNN when it happens.

In other news though if you're overweight and feeling uninspired about losing it, well, my next guest might just change that. Marshall Reid was just 10 years old when he decided to do something dramatic to lose weight. Teased at school for being heavy, Marshall came up with what you might call a plan of action posting videos on Youtube of his progress.

He was even an i-reporter for CNN sending in this video when he began the plan. What is his plan? Well, it is al about portion. Marshall and his mother Alexandra, join me now from Raleigh, North Carolina. Good morning to both of you.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning.

KAYE: So you are coauthors of this new cookbook called "Portion Size Me." It's a kid driven plan to a healthier family. I love this. We are very excited about having you both on to talk about it. Marshall, you're 12 now. Tell me about that moment a couple years ago when you had the breakthrough. You were watching a documentary, right?

MARSHALL REID, AUTHOR: Yes. I think the night before we had watched the documentary "Super Size Me" and a kid that next day at school started bullying me and I really just got tired of it because it all started to add up. And so sort of like in a heat of the moment decision I went to my mom and said, "Mom, let's do something to, you know, fix ourselves." Because we were all eating really bad. And after I thought about it for a couple minutes I thought that was a really good idea.

KAYE: Yes, it was a really good idea. But mom, Alexandra, I want to ask you what was your reaction. You have Marshall coming to you telling you not only does he want to change what he is eating but he wants to change the whole way your entire family eats.

ALEXANDRA REID, MOTHER: It was, I had a kind of a two-fold response. My first response was I was hurt and shocked that he was hurting so much. I kind of wasn't really tuned into his emotions at the time. And then the second thing was I was actually excited about doing a family project together. It gave us an activity and responsibility to each other over the summer. It was really fabulous.

KAYE: Marshall, you lost like 36 pounds right?

MARSHALL REID: Yes.

KAYE: What is the plan though? It's not just about portion size right?

MARSHALL REID: Yes, it actually starts with six goals. We all sat down to sort of come up with easy, smaller goals to help achieve one big goal. And all these goals go into, you know, eating real foods, reading ingredients, exercising. And we noticed a lot of the time like we go into the grocery store and buy a can of peas. And it ends up there's high fructose corn syrup in a can of peas and (INAUDIBLE) corn syrup is like a fake sugar. We wanted to stay away from fake sugar.

ALEX REID: We wanted to take the opportunity to view food differently and make it part of our life instead of just a reaction in our life. We wanted to view food as fuel and we didn't want to, as a parent I didn't want to put this measurement of weight or a specific, you know, that type of definite goal. Mostly I wanted to be able to step back and view food as nutrition and have a healthy relationship with it. That's why we developed these six goals to have a healthy relationship long term with food.

KAYE: And I love when you talk about portions because it's really incredible what a true portion is. Isn't it? When you actually look at what it might be. I mean, obviously this is one of your goals but making sure that you watch the portion sizes and you get moving as you were saying. Alexandra, you're a busy mom with a couple kids. At the time of all of this your husband was stationed in Iraq. You were eating out a lot. So how has it been for your family and how much weight have you lost?

ALEX REID: That's not fair to ask on TV.

KAYE: I'm sorry. It's motivating though. Very motivating.

ALEX REID: I will say I have dropped pounds but mostly we all have a lot more energy. We have a lot more endurance, more stamina, and we're happier. I don't know exactly, I'm not a nutritionist or a doctor. I don't know how you end up being happier when you have good food. But it's true. Now it's fun to cook. Like it's fun to get the kids in the kitchen. It's fun to create things. It is fun to explore and look for new things. We all love convenience and look for convenience but we just want to make sure that it's healthy for us.

KAYE: Right.

ALEX REID: So even with school lunches and stuff like that we're - some companies now are actually getting onboard with making healthier foods and portioning them down to the right size. You just have to open your eyes to them and explore for them.

MARSHALL REID: So one good example of some of these companies is our portions. They're perfectly portioned pieces of cheese and we looked at them and they're all natural. So that is just one example of the millions of companies shrinking portion sizes to make them proper.

KAYE: Right. So Marshall, what is the typical breakfast for you? I mean I think a lot of kids or even a typical dinner because they think about vegetables and anything that isn't sugary and they turn their nose up at it.

MARSHALL REID: Well, for breakfast it's lately been omelets. Lots and lots of omelets.

KAYE: Whole eggs or egg whites?

MARSHALL REID: Whole eggs. Because we actually have chickens in our backyard and that's one thing that started us was we have chickens so we don't have to buy store bought eggs. And the first thing we noticed is we cracked a store bought egg and one of our chicken's eggs and the color in the yolk was completely different.

KAYE: Oh, yes.

ALEX REID: They're farm eggs.

KAYE: Yes.

MARSHALL REID: Our eggs were a lot more colorful and vibrant. And actually tasted better than the store bought eggs.

KAYE: Before I let you go though what would you say to another child who might be watching who is thinking about eating healthier, maybe wants to lose some weight. What is your advice?

MARSHALL REID: Do it. I mean, when I first started this like within three days I didn't like the idea of it. Day four I loved the idea because I had already started to see changes. And now that I look back at the original 31 days I was amazed. I mean it changed so much and so much changed that is positive. You know, more energy. We all feel better. We talk to each other better. I can focus better on tests.

KAYE: Yes, it's amazing when you get that junk out of your system, right. Congratulations to both of you. I think what you've done at home is wonderful.

ALEX REID: Thank you.

KAYE: Marshall, I'm a big fan. Nicely done.

MARSHALL REID: Thank you.

KAYE: Thank you very much.

And once again their new cookbook is called "Portion Size Me." It's a kid driven plan to a healthier family.

But first, profiling a man who creates a breathtakingly beautiful work of art in silver.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I do believe the biggest gift we have is to converse with a work of art. In recent years with the great computer age we are losing in a certain way interaction with real objects. The computer doesn't feel any pain. It doesn't feel any joy. It cannot suffer. Those things can only be learned through human contact.

Art can communicate all of those things in a very quick and easy way. Just look at them. Look at the work of art. Communicate with it. They are talking to you. Just listen and answer.

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KAYE: And we want to take you live now to Camp David where President Obama is beginning his remarks. He is kicking off the G8 summit today with a group of world leaders. We promised we'd bring it live when it happens.

Let's listen in for just a moment.

All right.

We'll keep an eye on this. When the president starts speaking we'll bring it to you.

Obviously the economy is a big issue that he is going to discuss with the world leaders and concern about the eurozone and how it affects your money here at home. So we'll bring it to you once again when he begins.

Meanwhile $83 million in presidential campaign cash that is how much President Obama and Mitt Romney raised in April. So how are they using that money? On television ads. CNN political editor Paul Steinhauser has more on the competing commercials.

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PAUL STEINHAUSER, CNN POLITICAL EDITOR (on camera): Good morning, Randi. Have you wondered what Mitt Romney would do if elected president on his first day in the White House? A new campaign commercial spells it out.

ANNOUNCER: Day one, President Romney approves the Keystone pipeline, creating thousands of jobs that Obama blocked. President Romney introduces tax cuts and reforms that reward job creators, not punish them. President Romney issues orders to begin replacing Obama care with common sense health care reform, that is what a Romney presidency will be like.

STEINHAUSER: The ad which hit TV stations in key battleground state yesterday, is the first general election spot by Romney and it pretty much stays positive. It seems right now Romney is letting others do the dirty work on TV.

ANNOUNCER: President Obama's agenda promised so much.

BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We must help millions of homeowners facing foreclosure.

ANNOUNCER: Promise broken. One in five mortgages are still under water.

STEINHAUSER: That is a new ad out this week by independent pro- Republican group, Crossroads. They say they're spending big bucks to run the spot.

ANNOUNCER: His mother got him up before dawn to do school work. She knew what it meant for his future, with hard work and student aid, his life was transformed.

STEINHAUSER: President Obama's reelection team is also staying pretty much positive.

ANNOUNCER: He doubled funding for college grants, capped federal student loan payments, passed the largest college tax credit ever.

STEINHAUSER: This new spot began hitting TV stations yesterday, it's part of a huge ad buy this month by the reelection team. But they, as well as an independent pro-Obama group, are spending some money to attack Romney.

ANNOUNCER: They closed it down. They filed for bankruptcy without any concern for the families of the communities.

STEINHAUSER: The plant that employed those steel workers was bought and then years later shut down by the private equity firm that Romney confounded. All those ads in just a week. Guess what? We've got five and a half months to go. For those of you living in battleground states watch out. Randi?

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KAYE: Thank you very much, Paul Steinhauser. We wanted to take you back now where the president has started speaking at Camp David certainly addressing the European economy, the eurozone mess, trying to find some solutions along with the world leaders. Let's listen. BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: ... but we agreed and I expect this will be reflected in our communique that the (INAUDIBLE) plan has to be fully implemented and that a political process has to move forward in a more timely fashion to resolve that issue.

We also have a chance to discuss the situation in North Korea. All of us agree that North Korea's violating its international obligations and that there is a path for them to rejoin the international community but that path is not going to be - or that objective will not be achieved if they continue with the provocative actions they have shown over the last several months.

And on a brighter note, we had the opportunity to discuss Burma and all of us are hopeful that the political process and transition, transformation that is beginning to take place there, takes root. Many of us have taken action to open up trade and investment with Burma for the first time in many years. And we have had discussions with the leadership there.

Our hope is that this process will continue and we're going to do everything that we can to encourage that process. Finally, we had a brief discussion around the issue of women's empowerment where we agreed that both, when it comes to economic development, and when it comes to peace and security issues, empowering women to have a seat at the table and get more engaged and more involved in these processes can be extraordinarily fruitful and this is something that we will also be introducing during the G20.

So I want to thank all the leaders, despite the fact that at least those coming from across the Atlantic ended up staying up I guess until 6:00 in the morning their time. The discussions were very fruitful. This morning we're going to be spending a lot of time on economic issues. Obviously the eurozone will be one topic and all of us are absolutely committed to making sure that both growth and stability and fiscal consolidation are part of an overall package that all of us have to pursue in order to achieve the kind of prosperity for our citizens that we're looking for.

We'll also be talking about uncertainty in the energy markets and how we can help to resolve some of those issues and we'll be spending time talking about development in the northeast and north Africa and our capacity to sustain economic development in Afghanistan and in Chicago during the NATO meeting we'll spend more time talking about security matters but here we want to make sure that we recognize the need for Afghanistan to be able to sustain a development agenda moving forward as we begin to transition out of war.

So again I want to thank all the leaders for being here. So far this has been a frank and useful conversation and it gives me great optimism about our ability to meet these challenges in the future. All right? Thank you very much, everybody.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank you.

KAYE: And you've been listening to just a little bit of the president's remarks there at Camp David. You can of course tune in to "CNN SATURDAY MORNING" at 10:00 a.m. for complete coverage of President Obama's remarks and the G8 summit. But "YOUR BOTTOM LINE" starts right now.