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Yemen Leader in Saudi Arabia; AIDS: 30 Years Later; Kevorkian Dies; Lawrence Eagleburger Dies; Day 10 in Casey Anthony Trial
Aired June 04, 2011 - 19:00 ET
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Right now on CNN --
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LEMON: Violent protests in Yemen; and an assassination attempt at the palace injures the country's president, sending him to Saudi Arabia for treatment.
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DONALD TRUMP, BUSINESSMAN: Thank you very much. Wow.
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LEMON: He's back. That's Donald Trump joining other top GOP stars at the freedom forum in D.C. We hear he brought down the house, but was any new ground broken?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was just excruciating pain.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let me ask the question everybody is thinking. What were you thinking?
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LEMON: That is a good question for this magician whose stunt went awry at a car race.
And I want you to check this out. This is the AIDS Memorial Quilt. It's right here in our studio.
This weekend marks the 30th anniversary of the first reported cases of AIDS. We'll talk about this quilt and we'll also talk to an HIV positive woman who lost her mom and her son to the disease. You don't want to miss that.
I'm Don Lemon at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. There's a lot of news right now, so let's get you caught up.
And we're going to begin right now in Syria where protesters marched to demand an end to alleged killing of children by security forces. This is the response they got.
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LEMON: OK. This is what witnesses are saying -- that troops shot into the crowd in the city of Hama on Friday. It's not clear how many died, but human rights groups put the toll at 80. That's not silencing the protest, though. There had been more violent clashes even today.
A violent attack on the presidential palace in Yemen has driven the president of out of his country. Here's what sources are telling CNN: that President Ali Abdullah Saleh has arrived in Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. His vice president is taking over in his absence.
And CNN's Mohammed Jamjoom is following the development for us from our bureau in Abu Dhabi -- Mohammed.
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MOHAMMED JAMJOOM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Don, it was another chaotic day in Yemen as protesters gathered, violence continued, and speculation grew as to where exactly the country's president was. In Sanaa, tens of thousands of demonstrators congregated on Saturday, all continuing to demand the ouster of Yemen's embattled president, Ali Abdullah Saleh. According to eyewitnesses, massive crowds of anti-government protesters poured out on the streets, even as explosions echoed throughout the city and clashes continued between government forces and the tribal factions they are battling.
Amidst this chaotic backdrop, confusion reigned when it came to the exact location of Yemen's president, Saleh, who was injured yesterdays when his presidential palace was shelved. By late Saturday, a source close to the government of Saudi Arabia told CNN that a plane carrying Saleh had arrived in Riyadh and Saleh was being taken to a Saudi hospital for treatment. But Yemeni officials continued to maintain that Saleh was being treated in Yemen.
Meanwhile, Abdu Janadi, Yemen's deputy minster of information, told CNN that Yemen's vice president would take on the responsibilities of President Saleh starting Saturday night -- Don.
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LEMON: All right. Mohammed, thank you very much.
Meantime, a militant group in Pakistan says the man often described as al Qaeda's military brain is dead. Ilyas Kashmiri reportedly was killed by a drone air strike Friday night inside Pakistan. But officials in both Pakistan and the USA, they have not been able to confirm his death. Kashmiri has been described as one of the most dangerous men in the world and a top planner of major al Qaeda attacks.
And there's word tonight that long time U.S. diplomat Lawrence Eagleburger has died. Eagleburger is the only career foreign service officer to rise to the post of secretary of state and he served American presidents going all the way back to Richard Nixon. His career included the first Gulf War and the collapse of the Soviet Union.
Eagleburger served as secretary of state during the final months of the George H.W. Bush administration. Mr. Bush today called Eagleburger a tireless and dedicated patriot.
Lawrence Eagleburger, dead at the age of 80.
Let's go now to the weather -- and our country continues to be in the headlines. This time, it's fires and flood causing so much anxiety.
And our meteorologist Jacqui Jeras is here with the severe weather.
Jacqui, Arizona is seeing some of the worst wildfires in history.
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, there are all over the state, Don. And right now, one of the largest is in eastern parts of Arizona. It continues to rage at this hour.
Check out the pictures. This has consumed now 140,000 acres and that makes it the third largest wildfire in Arizona history. About 2,500 people have been evacuated. This thing is continuing to grow. Very dry weather and extreme heat, along with gusty winds, making conditions worse. Smoke is visible 200 miles away in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Let's move on to the floods now and that's where 180-mile stretch to the Missouri River has been closed, from about Sioux City along on southward. This is along the Missouri River where a record release of water is expected in the coming days and weeks ahead.
So, hundreds people had to evacuate ahead of that. Many small towns are expected to be flood. These waters should stay high through the month of July.
June 1st is the start of hurricane season and we are continuing to track conditions in the tropics right now. Take a look at this map and this big cluster of thunderstorms. And the western Caribbean, there's a medium chance that this could become our first tropical depression in the next 24 to 48 hours. This is going to be very slow to move -- Don.
LEMON: All right. Jacqui, thank you very much.
Isn't it humbling having that in our studio?
JERAS: It's very impressive.
LEMON: It's beautiful. This weekend marks the 30th anniversary, 30 years really since the first case of HIV/AIDS is reported. The disease has affected tens of millions of people around the world and the memory of many of those who have died live on through the AIDS Memorial Quilt. And part of it, there you see it right here in our studio.
I'm going to talk to the executive director of the NAMES Project Foundation and a quilt maker. That's coming up next. Many of you have been sending us questions and asking for information through social media. You can reach out to us on Twitter, on Facebook and CNN.com/Don. Also on Foursquare.com as well. We're back in moments.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm trying to understand why nobody wants to hear that we are dying. Why nobody wants to help. Why my own brother doesn't want to help.
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LEMON: That was the scene from the acclaimed Broadway play "The Normal Heart," an emotional journey back 30 years ago when the first AIDS cases started to show up. The play is written by Larry Cramer, the original AIDS activist and founder of the coalition called Act Up.
And this is one of the ways people around the world are marking today, our Sundays, I should say, solemn 30th anniversary of the first reported case or cases of HIV/AIDS. And that was on June 5th, 1981, when U.S. health officials first reported a rare form of pneumonia in a Los Angeles gay community. Other cases followed. And by 1982, it had a name -- and we are talking about AIDS.
Well, today, AIDS and HIV infect more than 30 million people in the world and of the million who have died from the diseases, many are remembered in these hand-stitched panels, and many of these, and it's called the AIDS Memorial Quilt. This is just one of them.
And with me now, Julie Rhoad is the executive director of the NAMES Project Foundation; and quiltmaker Stephanie Laster.
Thank you so much for joining us here.
And it's an important anniversary. It's an important anniversary. And we say we're making it. We want more progress.
How has this helped, this AIDS quilt, and the fight against HIV/AIDS and awareness?
JULIE RHOAD, EXEC. DIR., NAMES PROJECT FOUNDATION: I think that the quilt in its original founding was a place where people could come together to mourn and to heal and it gathered the community together outside of the gay community, parents, mothers, fathers -- and it mobilized the kind of action through artistic expression. And now, today, it's really transformed into one of the most compelling pieces of prevention, education that we have.
LEMON: Tell me about this particular piece of the quilt, Julie.
RHOAD: Well, I think why we selected this one was for several reasons. Mainly because we can see that HIV and AIDS has affected Middle America, Southern America, the globe, with this particular piece. This woman was a nurse.
LEMON: Helen Margaret Mitt (ph), right?
RHOAD: And her children are here which we can't see in the shot, but these are her children. And I think that what we see is not only the caregiver, but we see where she gave care.
LEMON: It says this panel was made for my sister Helen, an intensive care nurse and her two small children, Daniel (ph) and Amanda. AIDS took everything from Helen.
She lost everything. It's not just gay men. It's people used to think -- it's everyone.
RHOAD: It is everyone. And I think that the reality is that we are each other's keepers. And what the quilt does for us it is demonstrates that this is a disease that is not just my personal disease, it's everyone's, and my response affects everyone else's response.
LEMON: Stephanie, I want you tell me about these. You've made six panels and you brought a couple. You are HIV positive.
STEPHANIE LASTER, QUILTMAKER: Yes, I am.
LEMON: And you are a grandmother and your mom
LASTER: Yes, and my mom.
LEMON: Your mom and your son both died from complications of the disease.
LASTER: Yes. What I do when I make the panels, I make them so in the statistics where we hear about it's 30 million people every day or whatever, each panel represents a person.
LEMON: Right.
LASTER: And I make the quilt so that we'll know it's not just a number. This was a person in my life that I loved.
LEMON: And this is Ricardo, someone that you loved.
LASTER: Yes.
LEMON: Let's take a look at this one, which one. What is this one?
RHOAD: I'll take Ricardo.
LASTER: This is a brother and a sister. This is mom and my uncle. This shows pictures of when they were kids. They have grown up.
LEMON: You seem like you get emotional when you talk about it. Why?
LASTER: I do, because not only is it putting a face to the number, but it's also a healing process. And what we have to do is we've got to get away from the fear and the stigma that keeps us from talking about HIV because that's what continues to keep it rampant in our communities, because it's such a shush thing and we got to talk more about it.
LEMON: I'm glad you said that. So, listen, how many -- there are thousands of panels. Will you ever get all of these panels together again? Will you be able to do that?
RHOAD: We would love to. I think it's the most asked question. When will you bring the entire quilt back to D.C.?
And the truth is, at 25 years old, next year the quilt will be 25 years old, we have to look at care of the quilt and how the quilt goes out and travels and really what it does to break down this barrier of stigma.
LEMON: And you have resources. What's the Web site where people can go to find out and also to help with the resources?
RHOAD: Absolutely. AIDSQuilt.org.
LEMON: Yes, thank you. These are beautiful. Thank you so much. God bless you.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: God bless you, too.
LEMON: Thanks for coming in. Appreciate it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you. Appreciate it.
LEMON: We have much, much more coming up here on CNN. Including this, a gathering of Christian conservatives in Washington this weekend is a big draw for almost every Republican presidential candidate. Up next, see how the Faith and Freedom Coalition is a chance to attract new supporters.
But, first, I want to tell you about this. Bill Gates calls Khan Academy the start of a revolution. The online site provides more than 2,000 video tutorials from calculus to chemistry all for free.
And CNN education contributor Steve Perry introduces us to the pioneer and voice behind the videos in today's "Perry's Principles."
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STEVE PERRY, CNN EDUCATION CONTRIBUTOR (voice-over): In a small Silicon Valley office, Salman Khan is using simple illustrations and lingo to explain math, science, history, and even business concepts.
SALMAN KHAN, KHAN ACADEMY: If this does not blow your mind, then you have no emotion.
PERRY: The 10 to 20-minute tutorials on KhanAcademy.org are free to anyone, anywhere.
(on camera): You've opened up the world of learning to the world. KHAN: The best way to get at the core of most issues, whether it's, you know, poverty, health care, whatever, is just -- even democracy -- is making sure you have an educated population.
DEAN BRETTLE, HOMESCHOOLS HIS CHILDREN: Instead you got 31, I said negative 31?
PERRY (voice-over): Dean Brettle uses Khan Academy as a tool for homeschooling his two children.
BRETTLE: What I like about it and what I think the kids like about it is that you can work at your own pace. They don't (INAUDIBLE) it, they can pause it, they can rewind it, they can watch it multiple times.
PERRY: And with Khan, you have to master all the material before moving on, with only hints to help you.
BRETTLE: If you're struggling with something in a regular school and you don't get it, but you take the test, and you get a C on the test.
PERRY (on camera): Can't move on with a C here.
BRETTLE: That's right.
PERRY (voice-over): Richard Julian is a 5th grade teacher in Los Altos, California. He uses Khan videos in math class. The software tracks each student's progress.
RICHARD JULIAN, COVINGTON ELEMENTARY SCHOOL: By doing that, it allows the teacher to know their students very well. It allows them to know their strengths. It allows them to know their weaknesses.
PERRY: Khan Academy is a non-profit but it's backed by Bill Gates and Google.
(on camera): You're doing this for free, partner. What gives?
KHAN: You know, if Khan Academy was for profit, it would limit the number of kids who would use it.
Hopefully, when I'm 80, I can say, wow, there's a billion kids that use it and maybe will continue to use it.
PERRY (voice-over): Steve Perry, Mountain View, California.
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JON HUNTSMAN (R), FORMER UTAH GOVERNOR: I do not believe the Republican Party should focus on the economic life to the neglect of our human life. That is a trade we should not make. If Republicans ignore life, the deficit we will face is one that is much more destructive. It will be a deficit of the heart and of the soul.
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LEMON: Well, that is former Utah Governor Jon Huntsman, sounding a common theme at this weekend's gathering of conservative activists in Washington. It's called the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference -- a chance for candidates to court right-leaning activists from around the country.
And our political producer Shannon Travis is there.
Shannon, good to see you.
It seems like every Republican even thinking about a presidential run showed up. What's the goal here?
SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN POLITICAL PRODUCER: Well, you almost have to, Don. You almost have to come to events like this because this is where like committed grassroots conservative activists, they come to these things. They want to test out the candidates and see what the messages are, see what they're talking about, and see what their appeal is.
I just was out in the hallway a few moments ago. Herman Cain is about to speak within moments. He always excites the crowd. Last night, you had a roster of candidates yesterday. And they're all here because again, they wanted to seek support.
But, also, this conference is a way for economic conservatives to come together with cultural conservatives and a way basically to say, hey, you know what? We need to forge ties if we want to beat the Democrats and President Obama, Don.
LEMON: OK, Shannon, I got to ask you about Donald Trump because I thought he quit the White House race. He said I'm not going to run. But I've been seeing him on television everywhere and appearances. And he showed up and got a great reception.
TRAVIS: You can never be too sure about Donald Trump, Don. You are absolutely right. I mean, a few weeks ago, he said, hey, I'm not going to get into the presidential race after flirting with it yet again. And then last night, he shows up here. I was here for the speech.
He got a rousing ovation from a lot of people. He rambled through a lot of disparate thoughts and ideas, a lot of it again -- there was a lot of red meat to the conservative activists that are here.
But I don't think we want to go as far to say that he's flirting with it, but he's not -- he hasn't closed the door on jumping in at some point in the future. Some words that he's made that are raising people's eyebrows. So, I don't know if we can say we've seen the last Donald Trump yet, Don.
LEMON: Yes. And I think Mike Huckabee hasn't closed the door, either, even though he said he's not going to run. Shannon Travis, appreciate it.
Testimony in the Casey Anthony murder trial sounded a little like something out of the TV show "CSI." She is charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee in 2008. Coming up: find out how a hair is at the center of the prosecution's case.
But, first, I want to tell you about a special show coming up Sunday night. It's a "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS" special on how innovation is needed to get our economy moving. One aspect of this is governmental innovation. Fareed will highlight a team of scientists at the Pentagon called DARPA that has a history of success.
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FAREED ZAKARIA, FAREED ZAKARIA GPS: The high stakes of providing sound technology for soldiers in combat motivates the DARPA team to create the best technology in the world.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They simply must work in all number of austere situations, life and death. And that kind of urgency, it focuses on the mind and it inspires greater genius.
ZAKARIA: Most famously, DARPA funded the first version of the Internet then called ARPANET. In 1969, computer hubs called nodes were able to send messages to each other over a phone line.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That original investment is $150 million. And that gave birth to the Internet, now, about $300 billion later.
ZAKARIA: These days, DARPA is working on a slew of exciting innovations, including Big Dog, a groundbreaking project in robotics. The idea is to create a robot with animal-like capacities and strength that can go with soldiers on combat missions in rough terrain.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When you watch the Big Dog video, what you'll see is that it really looks like a dog, moving. And it has all sorts of other attributes that make it resilient and difficult in environments.
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LEMON: Much, much more on this on the "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS" special, "Restoring the American Dream: How to Innovate." That's Sunday night, 8:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN.
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CASEY ANTHONY, DEFENDANT: I helped in every way that I possibly can since the day I got here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You are the one in control of everything.
ANTHONY: Please. I completely - UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not trying to get you upset. I'm trying --
ANTHONY: No, I am upset now. I am completely upset. One, the media is going to have a freaking field day with this.
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LEMON: The Casey Anthony murder trial has wrapped up its tenth day. Anthony is charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter, Caylee, in 2008. Testimony today focused on hair recovered from the Anthony's car.
FBI technician Karen Lowe testified the hair could have come from her daughter, likely from a decomposing body. Anthony's defense attorney called the testimony unreliable opinions.
Make sure you join us for a one-hour special report on the trial. It's coming up tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, right here on CNN.
Let's get you caught up on the top stories right now.
The man often described as al Qaeda's military brain is dead. That's the word from a militant group inside Pakistan. Ilyas Kashmiri reportedly was killed by a drone airstrike Friday night in Pakistan. But the U.S. and Pakistani governments say they have not been able to confirm that report. Kashmiri has been described as one of the most dangerous men in the world.
As violent and protests in Gulf parts of Yemen, a source tells CNN the country's president is now in neighboring Saudi Arabia. President Ali Abdullah Saleh is being treated for injuries he suffered when his presidential palace was shelled on Saturday. And the source says warring sides in the capital, Sanaa, have tentatively agreed to a ceasefire.
Multiple wildfires have burned more than 250,000 acres across the state of Arizona. The largest, the wallow fire, is in the east central part of the state. More than 1,000 people are battling the blaze. But, so far, no containment. Twenty-five hundred people have been evacuated. Smoke and ash are reaching Albuquerque some 200 miles away.
The man called "Dr. Death" was often asked about how he viewed his own death. Now, the world is reflecting on the life of Jack Kevorkian who passed Friday from a blood clot in his heart at the age of 83. Kevorkian was known for helping more than 130 people kill themselves to end their pain. His views on death were not his only controversial thoughts.
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DR. JACK KEVORKIAN, ADVOCATE FOR ASSISTED SUICIDE: Schopenhauer said it nicely, "What crime has this child committed that it should be born?"
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: It's a profound -- it's a deeply pessimistic thing to hear?
KEVORKIAN: It's very sensible.
GUPTA: Is there some virtue in simply being alive?
KEVORKIAN: No. I always said all my life that if I wasn't born and they give the question, I'd say I don't want to be born.
MAYER MORGANROTH, KEVORKIAN'S ATTORNEY: History is going to say that he sacrificed a great deal for people and that he was right.
LARRY KING, HOST, CNN "LARRY KING LIVE": By going to jail? The sacrifice.
MORGANROTH: Sacrificing and going to jail and not earning a living most of his life. Money meant nothing to him. He never charged for his services. Buys his clothes at Salvation Army. He has lived a life of sacrifice in every which way.
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Kevorkian always said that when he was little, he wanted to be a baseball announcer.
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JOHN EDWARDS, FMR. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There is no question that I have done wrong. And I take full responsibility for having done wrong.
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LEMON: Right now, Edwards is facing criminal charges and maybe even jail time. Up next, we will have more on the relationship between Edwards and Hunter.
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EDWARDS: There is no question that I have done wrong. And I take full responsibility for having done wrong. And I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I have caused to others. But I did not break the law and I never ever thought I was breaking the law.
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LEMON: John Edwards outside of a court to answer for sexual indiscretion that turned his personal and political life upside down. He pleaded not guilty to using campaign money to cover up his affair with Rielle Hunter, the mistress who later had his child. Edwards has already been vilified over this, but now it could mean jail time too.
We want to bring in Maureen O'Connor, staff writer for gawker.com. Hello, Maureen. So what happened between Edwards and Hunter - MAUREEN O'CONNOR, STAFF WRITER, GAWKER.COM: Hi, Don.
LEMON: - since the scandal broke?
O'CONNOR: So Edwards and Hunter have been living together, raising the child they had together as well as Edwards's two other children who are still children that he had with Elizabeth. He also had an adult daughter. Now the question is whether close to $1 million that Edwards received from two of his most prominent donors which he used to pay for Rielle's living expenses, whether that violated campaign finance laws or as Edwards argues whether they were just personal gift from a friend that he was using to hide his mistress from his wife. Essentially, what Edwards is trying to say to defend himself is I was a bad husband, but not a bad politician.
LEMON: So they are all living together, including Elizabeth Edwards' children.
O'CONNOR: Her two children he still has custody of. So, I mean, I don't know how much time exactly. They've been keeping a low profile. They bought a house on the shore, North Carolina, in a very sort of hidden area, specifically to stay away from the press.
LEMON: OK. Maureen, so you know, he's facing criminal charges, but I don't know, is it safe to say that a lot of people want to see him pay for moral reasons. Cheating on his cancer-striken wife, trying to make his advisor take the fall and all the while lying about all of it.
O'CONNOR: It's a risky move because he refused to take a plea deal. He wants to be cleared of everything. And the public sentiment is very much against him. He probably cheated on his wife in one of the worst ways imaginable and the worst circumstances and on top of that he was using from donors to turn Rielle Hunter into a kept woman. But the question is just whether or not he actually broke the law and it's not clear whether the Justice Department is going to prove that part. But you know, regardless, he certainly isn't going to have a public career again.
LEMON: All right. You know, this kind of thing politicians, you hear about it a lot. And Edwards is not the only politician who has a lot of explaining to do this week. I want you to take a listen and we'll talk about it.
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WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: Have you ever taken a picture like this of yourself?
REP. ANTHONY WEINER (D), NEW YORK: I can tell you this that there - I have photographs and I don't know what photographs out there in the world of me and I don't know what things have been manipulated and doctored and we're going to try to find out what happened.
(END VIDEO CLIP) LEMON: OK. So that's New York Congressman Anthony Weiner stumbling to explain how a picture of a male crotch was sent from his twitter account. So why doesn't he just deny it? Why aren't these explanations satisfying? Go ahead, Maureen.
O'CONNOR: It's so strange. Him saying "Oh, I don't know. Maybe. It's been manipulated." It's like he's saying "It's kind of looks like a picture I took of my crotch, but I don't quite remember very well." It's in - what I think is he doesn't want to say anything certain because he doesn't want to be caught in a lie. If he doesn't want to be caught in a lie, then you to wonder does that mean that there is a chance that he really did this? Or does, you know, he's just sort of (INAUDIBLE) things. What's amazing is Weiner gave so many interviews, he just didn't stop talking about this.
LEMON: That's what I was going to ask you. Like if you wanted to go away, why don't you just stop talking about it.
O'CONNOR: I know. He keeps saying I don't want to talk about this, and yet you get to interview for five and six? You have to wonder do you really don't want to talk about this, Anthony Weiner?
LEMON: All right. Let's move out of politics now, in the world of advertising. I want you to check out this new ad. It's from Cadbury that says "Move over, Naomi. There's a new diva in town." An apparent reference to model Naomi Campbell, what's the response been to this?
O'CONNOR: So as soon as Naomi Campbell saw this ad from Cadbury, an ad for chocolate, she contacted her lawyers and made a statement that she thought it was inappropriate to compare a black woman to chocolate. She said she wanted to sue and do whatever it would take. Cadbury issued a response this weekend and they apologized. So Naomi still unhappy with it though, she said it's evidence that companies need to have greater diversity in their hiring so something like that doesn't reach the public. That somebody says "Wait a minute, that is not an appropriate thing to do" before it, you know, shows up in a bunch of magazines.
LEMON: Yes, some people are saying it's more about her reputation than about race. All right. Maureen O'Connor, thank you very much. We appreciate it.
So I have a question for you. Have you heard about this? It's called cloud commuting or the cloud? Apple is rolling out a new service that is supposed to simplify your life by getting rid of hardware and software that you use right now. We will tell you all about it. That's coming up next.
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LEMON: Hi. Welcome back, everyone. Some pretty sneaky and smart hackers in the U.K. pulled off a sweet cyber attack on an Al Qaeda web site. Hackers working for the British intelligence agency, MI-6, modified the code for an online Al Qaeda magazine called "Inspire," replacing the site's bomb recipe with cupcake recipes. So when followers downloaded 67 pages of instructions on how to make a bomb. All they got were instructions on how to make Rocky Road and Carmel Apple cupcakes. The recipes came from the "Ellen Degeneres Show." Thought you should know.
It's supposed to change everything about the way you get your entertainment. It's called cloud computing or simply, the cloud. Maybe you've heard these buzzwords over the last couple of months. We even talked about it a little bit here. Only a handful of people are using the cloud for now, but an event on Monday could turn it into a huge mainstream trend.
Brian Tong is a senior editor for the tech news web site, CNET. He joins us now. Brian, welcome to the show. So tell us what you are looking forward to on Monday.
BRIAN TONG, SENIOR EDITOR, CNET: Yes, Don. WWDC, which is the Worldwide Developers Conference is happening on Monday and Steve Jobs will be taking the stage in his dramatic fashion. But what we really expect to see is Apple announcing the new I-cloud service and if you are not familiar with cloud computing, really what it is is think about a hard drive or a disk in the sky connected to the internet that you can use your laptop or phone or any device and connect to it and pool files from it.
So this can be anything like music, documents, movies but as long as you have an internet connection, you can access what we call this cloud or cloud computing. It's not completely there yet because really you have to have internet connection everywhere you go. But Apple is planning to link their iTunes service with like cloud service.
LEMON: I want to bring in this very high tech graphic that we have of how the cloud works -
TONG: I've seen it.
LEMON: And explain it a little bit. You talked about it a little bit. Explain to us what are people using Apple for again.
TONG: So right now what they're using it for is your laptop from Apple, your phone, maybe your music player like an iPod or an iPod Touch. So as long as it has a wi-fi connection or a wireless connection, you will be able to in this graphic, you see that little cloud that says internet on it. Through the internet, you will be able to access some storage space or like a disk in the internet that has all your files. So wherever you go you may have a phone and have no files on it whatsoever. The promise is that I can listen to my music wherever I go, wherever I want because I am connected to this disk that's in the sky.
LEMON: So you can do anything on it. It's not just music or video from companies that have deals with Apple?
TONG: Yes, there are companies like Google and Amazon that already have established a cloud service to put your music there. The main difference with Apple is they are kind of really bringing this to the mainstream. Because they signed on to four major music labels. We're talking about EMI, Sony, Universal, and Warner. The other services have not. So we are hoping to see what type of differences or what will make this really compelling. Will we really be able to get our music or access our music and movies wherever we go? So that's the promise. I am waiting to see if it pans out.
LEMON: How much money are we talking here?
TONG: According to reports right now, the service will start out at free but it will be probably a yearly subscription fee that you have to pay. $25 for the year, not that bad as long as you know, you really can access all the files and get your media wherever you want, however you want. That's the main thing. It works in some places and in some places it doesn't. For example, my cell phone, I don't get cell phone reception everywhere. Then you're not going to get access to your music collection everywhere as well.
LEMON: OK. Real quickly, speaking of Apple and the frenzy the company's products, tell us about the story - there's a story out of China this week.
TONG: Oh, man. Yes, so I mean, it sounds crazy but it's also kind of sad to show how, you know, how obsessed people are with Apple products. A teenage boy, a 17-year-old young man -
LEMON: Oh, yes.
TONG: - went on the internet and through a broker connected with someone that offered him approximately about U$3,000 to have a kidney, his kidney taken out of his body. You know, there is a big black market for organs over in China. But he had this surgery in exchange for cash and he used that cash to buy an Ipad 2. I don't know about that one. People are waiting in lines what 10 hours.
LEMON: Yes but I mean - come on.
TONG: It's crazy.
LEMON: That's as they say, as my grandmother would say that's a horse of another color. That is crazy. OK. Brian Tong, CNET. Thank you, sir. Appreciate it.
TONG: All right. Thank you.
LEMON: You know, we have all seen it, magicians appearing to narrowly escaping death and if you ever wondered if those magic tricks are real. We got the answer for you.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three, two, one!
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LEMON: Coming up, here how this stunt was supposed to go from the magician himself. Ouch. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
LEMON: We want to catch you up on today's top stories. Robert Gates returned to Afghanistan on his last visit there as defense secretary before he retires. President Hamid Karzai presented Gates with a medal named after an Afghan military leader who fought the Soviets. And despite continued deadly attacks on NATO forces, well, Gates said he still thinks the increased capacity of Afghan troops will allow the U.S. to consider modest drawdowns beginning in July.
Long time U.S. diplomat Lawrence Eagleburger has died. He is the only career foreign service officer to rise to the post of secretary of state and he served American president's from Richard Nixon to George H.W. Bush. Mr. Bush today called Eagleburger "a tireless and dedicated patriot."
In Orlando, Florida, the Casey Anthony murder trial has wrapped its tenth day. Casey is charged with killing her two-year-old daughter, Caylee, in 2008. Testimony today focused on hair recovered from Anthony's car. An FBI technician testified the hair did not belong to Casey Anthony but could have come from her daughter's decomposing body. Anthony's defense attorney called Lowe's testimony unreliable opinion. A special report on the trial coming up 10:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.
So I have to warn you the video you're about to see is really hard to watch. It is a magic act that goes horribly wrong. If you are squeamish, close your eyes.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Three, two, one!
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LEMON: I should have closed my eyes. It happened Thursday night at the Atlanta Motor Speedway. Michael Anthony Moony who goes by the stage name Moodini was supposed to slip out of his handcuffs while blindfolded and chained to a race car. And despite having done it twice before, this time he ended up getting dragged down the track.
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MICHAEL "MOODINI" MOONEY, MAGICIAN: I was crying. It was just excruciating pain.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let me ask the question everybody is thinking when they see it. What were you thinking?
MOONEY: Well, I have been entertaining for a long time. It's like anything else. You take it for granted.
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LEMON: As you can see he got pretty banged up including some broken bones. He said he'll keep doing magic though, he says, you know, he'll probably drop this stunt from his act. Probably a good idea.
R&B star Rihanna has a lot of people talking about her new video and all the talk isn't good. Straight ahead, find out why her new video for her song "Man Down" has the Parents Television Council up in arms to say the least.
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JOHN RALEY, LABELLE ACCUSOR'S ATTORNEY: He was completely taken by surprise. No one could have seen this coming. Even watching the videotape now for the - I don't know how many times we've watched it, it still is surprising the violence and the suddenness and the brutality of this attack.
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LEMON: This video is burning the internet. A sour note for singer Patti LaBelle. A West Point told our Houston affiliate, KTRK, that her body guards beat him up at the airport leaving him bleeding and now Richard King is suing the performer. There is also question over how Houston police handled the confrontation since no charges were filed. But LaBelle took photos with at least one officer on the scene and West Point told KTRK that the cadet is now leaving the academy.
Houston police reports say that King was intoxicated and harassing Labelle's group. We'll definitely going to follow up on that.
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LEMON: All right. So you recognize the face and the voice. Singer Rihanna's new music video "Man Down" has the Parents Television Council all fired up. "Man Down" begins with the pop star shooting a man in the head and ends with viewers learning the man raped her. It's all dramatization, of course, but the parents group say it's inexcusable.
So for the latest on that and other Hollywood headlines, let's check in with CNN entertainment reporter Shanon Cook. Shanon, hello.
SHANON COOK, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Don.
LEMON: OK. So we see make believe murder every day on television. So why is the Parents' Council so upset over this video?
COOK: Well, you know, I stopped watching "CSI" a couple of years ago because I found it to violent. But this video, I didn't think it's that big a deal really compared to something really like "CSI," but you're right. The Parents' Council is completely up in arms as well as a couple of other TV watch dog groups. They are actually appealing to the network, B.E.T., which has been airing this video all week and asking them to stop airing the music video there.
Their concern is that B.E.T.'s youthful audience is going to see the message in the video which it's OK to take revenge your attacker by killing him or her. Now Rihanna is basically saying, Don, "Everybody just chill out." Although I don't think she actually used those words. She is basically saying that this video is a cautionary tale for young women. And she went on B.E.T. on Thursday to defend the video. We have actually have a snippet from that interview. So why don't we take a little listen.
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RIHANNA, SINGER: I personally don't condone violence or murder, you know. I have been abused in the past. You don't see me running around killing people in my spare time. You know, I just want girls to be careful. I want them - you know, have fun, be flirtatious, be sassy, be innocent and be sweet. Be everything that you are. But just try not to be naive.
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LEMON: OK.
COOK: There you go, Don. I think it's safe to assume that the video was perhaps inspired by the events in 2009 when Rihanna was physically attacked by her then boyfriend, Chris Brown. I don't know. What do you think? Do you think it's over the top?
LEMON: You know, I don't know actually. I haven't even really seen the video. I think it's probably going to be good for her record sales. Any controversy is going to be good for her popularity in record sales. So I'm sure she's taking it all in, as is her record company.
Hey, real quickly, can we go over, talking about the "Jersey Shore" shooting in Italy? The nation is not so happy with the reality cast. Why is that?
COOK: Yes. Who better to serve as a cultural ambassador to the U.S. than the boozy cast of "Jersey Shore"? I mean, can you think of any one better. Here is what happened, the entire cast is in Florence, Italy to shoot the fourth season of the MTV reality.
Boozy, I love the word, boozy. It's a very Aussie word.
Anyway, here's what happened. Snooki, you know, one of the biggest stars of the show, she was out driving (INAUDIBLE) in her car and she rammed into a traffic cop car. She was OK. Her passengers were OK, but the two police officers in the car actually had to go to hospital with whiplash. They are OK now. But what's kind of interesting here is that the car that she rammed into was actually a police escort trying to protect her and her crew. So kind of like, "Oh, gee, thanks for looking out for us, now I'm going to try and kill you." I hope that when she gets her license back - because it was taken away for a couple of weeks.
LEMON: Yes.
COOK: I hope she's a little bit safer. LEMON: Yes, you know, it's interesting. Because I thought she got in trouble for riding a bike. She can't ride a bike, why is she driving a car overseas? All right. That's it. We're done. We got to get out of here, Shanon.
Thank you.
COOK: OK. I'll let you go. Go have a margarita.
LEMON: Yes. Thank you very much.
OK. Serious face now. Tonight at 10:00 p.m. Eastern, Be sure to join us for "CNN Newsroom" special report on the Casey Anthony trial from the death of little Caylee to the investigation, the evidence, the accusations of molestation and even the public's fascination with the case. We're going to go in depth tonight. So joining us will be a prosecutor, psychologist and even a former FBI criminal profiler who worked on that case. It's a CNN NEWSROOM special report, the Casey Anthony trial, tonight, 10:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN. Make sure you join us.
I'm Don Lemon at CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. Thank you so much for joining us. "Murder Abroad: the Amanda Knox Story" is going to begin in just moments but we leave you with a beautiful site of the AIDS memorial quilt.
Thanks for joining us.
