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Yemeni President at Saudi Hospital; Floods Separate People, Pets; Li Na Wins French Open Singles; CNN Hero of the Week Patricia Sawo; Case Against Casey Anthony; The Financier and the Hotel Maid; Apple to Release iCloud Tomorrow; Sweet Potato Bonanza; Goolsbee: Private Sector Boost Needed; Lady Gaga's Hot Selling Album
Aired June 05, 2011 - 14:00 ET
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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: You're in the CNN NEWSROOM. It's Sunday, June 5th. I'm Martin Savidge in for Fredricka Whitfield. It's great to be with you.
Here's what's happening. Anger and violence bubbling over in the Middle East today. This is the border between Syria and the Golan Heights. Throngs of people mass (ph) there and march on a day that is marking the anniversary of the Six Day War. Israeli troops did open fire warning shots according to the army, but a report on Syrian Television said 20 people were killed, more than 325 hurt.
Elsewhere, in Syria, more violence today in that month-long anti- government uprising. Human rights groups now say 25 protesters have been killed since yesterday when the Syrians Security Forces fired into a crowd of protestors. That same group says more than 80 people died Friday in Hama.
And now to the volatile situation in Yemen. The country's vice president now in charge after President Ali Abdullah Saleh flew to Saudi Arabia for medical treatment. There is a lot of uncertainty surrounding Saleh's condition and whether he will ever return to power.
Let's bring in our Senior State Department Producer Elise Labott. Elise, let's start with Saleh's medical condition. What have you learned?
ELISE LABOTT, CNN SENIOR STATE DEPARTMENT PRODUCER: Well, Marty, as we know, President Saleh flew to Saudi Arabia last night after the tribes of Sadiq al-Ahmar, the main tribe that's fighting his government troops stormed the palace, and not only injured President Saleh, but the Prime Minister, deputy prime ministers, Speaker of Parliament. It was a really bad scene yesterday in Sana'a.
But today, we understand that President Saleh did receive some very bad severe bruises, burns from U.S. officials telling us he also received shrapnel wounds, so we're not sure if his condition is life threatening, but certainly it's very serious, Marty.
SAVIDGE: Well, obviously his condition could determine whether or not he returns. But say he does become healthy again, is this a temporary leave of absence or is he gone for good? LABOTT: Well, from my understanding from sources in Yemen, they don't have any anticipation that he wouldn't be back. This is just like in the United States when the president undergoes surgery or some kind of medical procedure and is unconscious that he transfers power to the vice president and that will be the understanding (ph).
But certainly, there's a lot of pressure under President Saleh to sign this agreement that would basically have him resign and have elections in the country. This is what really supposed to happen that he's supposed to transfer power to the vice president, so the Saudis are really putting a lot of pressure on him. And now that he's in Saudi Arabia, we understand that they'll certainly be urging him to step down.
We understand that there is a truce right now. We've seen over the last couple of days that the government troops and the troops of the tribe of al-Ahmar have been really fighting in the capital, and this is what led to that skirmish at the palace yesterday. We understand that the vice president has offered a truce to the troops of al-Ahmar and he has accepted and ask his troops to withdraw from government building.
So we see probably a little but more quiet in Sana'a today, but certainly the future of President Saleh is unclear at this point.
SAVIDGE: Well, I saw some of the images, the photographs coming from the capital of Yemen and people there seem to be in - in jubilant celebration, so they seem to think that this is somehow a permanent change.
LABOTT: Well, I think it's a little bit of wishful thinking. Right now, President Saleh's family is firmly in control of a lot of the positions of the Minister of the Interior and other ministers. So, although we understand that there has been this truce and we understand that President Saleh has transferred power temporarily, I think it's just a little bit of wishful thinking right now that this is the end of President Saleh.
U.S. officials I've spoken anticipate that he wouldn't be back, but in Yemen they're saying he's not going anywhere, and he's just as much in control now as if he was when he was in the country.
SAVIDGE: Real quick, we want to talk about the violence we've seen on the Syria-Golan Heights border. What's going on today?
LABOTT: Well, we saw that there were a lot of protests because of the anniversary of the Six-Day War and there's been some gunfire, people trying to cross the border in the Golan Heights from Syria into Israel, and Israel has been warning, firing shots.
This is really related to what we've been seeing going on in the Capital of Damascus and all of the protests going on throughout the country against President al-Assad, understanding that he's really trying to send a message that if I'm weak and if you're to make trouble for me within the country and you're going to support me, I can make trouble outside the country. So we - it seems to be that he's really if not masterminding that certainly encouraging it, because nobody can really get over that border without a Syrian authority's permission -Marty.
SAVIDGE: Right. You need the government itself to get there.
LABOTT: Certainly.
SAVIDGE: All right. Elisa, we'll talk to you a little later about new developments surrounding Eman Al-Obeidy - excuse me. And that is Libyan woman who allegedly (INAUDIBLE) by Moammar Gadhafi's security forces that was after she claimed that Libyan troops had gang raped her. A-Obeidy managed to flee Libya and she was in Qatar. But then she was deported back to Libya.
Well, we're told that she's on the move again. And Elisa Labott will have the details about where she's headed, and will be at 4:00 P.M. Eastern Time.
It is his last trip to Afghanistan as Defense Secretary. Robert Gates spoke to U.S. troops today in Kandahar answering questions about the war and this summer's withdrawal of forces from Afghanistan. And then - then it got personal.
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ROBERT GATES, U.S. DEFENSE SECRETARY: I just want you to know I think about you every day. I feel your hardship and your sacrifice and your burden and that of your families more than you can possibly know. You are, I believe, the best our country has to offer, and you will be in my thoughts and prayers every day for the rest of my life. Thank you.
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SAVIDGE: The emotion very honest by the Secretary of Defense Gates, as he leaves his job as Pentagon Chief later this month.
President Obama's top economic adviser says that people shouldn't read too much into last month's less than stellar job numbers. The economy gained 54,000 jobs in May that was far less than predicted. But Austan Goolsbee says that over the past six months, one million jobs have been created.
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AUSTAN GOOLSBEE, CHIEF ECONOMIST, ECONOMIC RECOVERY BOARD: There is a plan. It has been working. We have been adding jobs significantly over the course of this year. We faced a stiff headwind and this was a - this was a tough month, but I don't think that we should abandon the idea that what we need to do now is get the private sector stood up.
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SAVIDGE: Goolsbee says that corporations now should use money that is sitting on their balance sheets to help strengthen the fragile economy.
Thousands of people in Arizona, they are on the run from massive wildfires and hundreds more have been told to pack up and get ready to leave their homes. One of the biggest fires is closing in on the resort Town of Greer. That's in Northeast Arizona. It is one of the biggest blazes in that state's history.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'd like to hear that we can go home.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We want to go home.
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SAVIDGE: In the last few days, wildfires across Arizona have burned more than a quarter of a million acres.
Investigators are trying to determine the cause of a fire that destroyed the home of Trace Adkins. The country music singer's mansion near Nashville was gutted by flames yesterday. He was on a flight to Alaska at the time. His wife, their kids and the nanny are all said to be OK.
Thirteen people were injured in Long Island, New York when three bounce houses - take a look at this - took off with children inside. High winds sent the inflatable structures tumbling across the soccer field yesterday.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The wind blew everything down.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: (INAUDIBLE) grabbing my neck and they were dragging me.
MARIANNA RHATIGAN, EYEWITNESS: I was getting hot dogs, and I just happened to turn around and I saw the slide blowing in the wind. And I just - I couldn't believe it. It was like something out of a movie.
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SAVIDGE: Fortunately, none of the injuries are considered serious.
Well, it didn't seem likely at first, but James Tate and his date made it to the Shelton High School Prom in Connecticut last night. Tate was initially banned, you will remember, from the dance for taping a giant prom invitation on the school entrance. Well, that ban attracted national media attention. The school officials finally backed down, agreeing to let Tate and his date attend the prom after all.
Now, on the weather front, we have seen just about everything this season. Fires, floods and massive tornadoes. We'll check in with meteorologist Jacqui Jeras to find out what's going on.
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SAVIDGE: Record floods, massive wildfires, even tornadoes in Massachusetts. This spring's weird weather has a lot of folks scratching their heads and just wondering what's next. Maybe locusts and asking a climate change maybe it look like (ph).
We turn now to our weather expert Jacqui Jeras and -
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Locusts? I haven't heard that one yet.
SAVIDGE: Oh, it's a biblical idea that something is up. So what is up? I mean, do we look at climate change?
JERAS: Well, some people are looking at climate change already -
SAVIDGE: Yes.
JERAS: -- and they say that, you know, the more the earth warms unnaturally that the more frequent storms we're going to have and the more extreme storms we're going to have. But I think that this year in particular, while we've had a lot of extremes, we've had a lot of records broken, tornadoes, floods as well as droughts, it's too soon to pinpoint and say this year alone is due to climate change. We're going to have to go back and analyze everything.
But there's a couple of things that we can see already. OK. So the temperatures have been way below average across parts of the north -
SAVIDGE: Below average?
JERAS: -- below average. Well, they've been above average across parts of the south. (INAUDIBLE) Mexico water temperatures have been very warm, and so all of that warmth and moisture has been coming up from the south, connecting with that dryer, cooler air from the north and then we have a very strong jet stream that's been riding in and bringing these storms in.
So some of those things together along with the extreme drought kind of combine to make these major tornado outbreaks that we've been having. Now, you can see, you know, Tuscaloosa, we've had - we had at Joplin, we had five EF-5 tornadoes.
SAVIDGE: And about that, the EF-5's, I don't remember having so many so back to back.
JERAS: Right.
SAVIDGE: Is that an indication of something here?
JERAS: Right now my thinking is it has more to do with the fact that they've hit populated areas.
SAVIDGE: And why is that? That - that's just the luck of the draw?
JERAS: It's the damage scale. EF-5 is a damage scale. So an EF-5 could hit nothing and you don't know that it was an EF-5. It actually has to hit something for you to be able to analyze how strong the storms actually were. This has been a record year. We've had about 1,300 reports of tornadoes so far. In an average year, we have about 1,274. So we've got seven months to go and we're already way above.
But what is so striking is the number of deaths that we've had this year, and that's 522. So that's the worst that we've seen since reliable records have been kept since 1950. I mean, we know that there have been more deadlier tornadoes, like 1925, the Tri-State tornado outbreak, but for fatalities this year has just been terrible.
SAVIDGE: Has been - having seen it firsthand, yes. Jacqui, thanks very much.
Well, this spring's flooding has brought just (ph) heartbreak. Up and down the Mississippi River, thousands of people have felt the impact, losing homes, businesses and farms. But there's also another loss. The flood waters have separated a lot of people from the pets they love and some animal shelters are overwhelmed.
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SAVIDGE (voice-over): Meet the latest victim made homeless by the flood. The Warren County Humane Society in Vicksburg these days is pretty noisy and busy.
GEORGIA LYNN, VICKSBURG-WARREN HUMANE SOCIETY: I don't know who it belongs to, but it was pulled out of the water.
SAVIDGE: The 2011 Mississippi flood has Georgia Lynn and her staff of volunteers looking after a modern day Noah's Ark. Goats, miniature horses, cats, dogs, chickens and, Cherokee, a sweet tea-swigging mare.
SAVIDGE (on camera): How did this habit begin?
LYNN: She's the most brilliant horse in the whole world.
SAVIDGE (voice-over): The animals get here two ways, they're either rescued or they're dropped off by evacuating families. Lynn takes care of them all for free.
LYNN: It's bad enough being displace and your life ripped apart and a lot of people here, there's a lot of emotions that come with being separated from your pet.
SAVIDGE: The same flood water is flushing pets into shelters are pushing wild animals into places they normally wouldn't be. The images can be startling and amazing. Critters and creatures of all sorts, just as scared as humans, trying to get to high ground. To find out where the wild things are -
SGT. CHARLIE GROSS, MISSISSIPPI WILDLIFE, FISHERIES AND PARKS: There is no - no graceful feat to get in there. I promise you, it's not.
SAVIDGE: Sgt. Charles Gross of Mississippi Wildlife and Fisheries and I head out into the backwaters of the flood. GROSS: They lived, but stressed out. A lot of the animals, especially land animals, are very stressed out.
SAVIDGE: It wasn't long before I was feeling some stress.
GROSS: Some of them have never seen, have never, you know, have never seen a human, get curious. Some of them are going to be afraid of us. There he goes. Yes. He is a bit fast.
SAVIDGE (on camera): (INAUDIBLE).
GROSS: Now, considering, he's about average size. And (INAUDIBLE) all the time.
SAVIDGE (voice-over): And then, there are the snakes.
GROSS: And we've been also telling people, be mindful of what's over here, because the snakes that don't swim, they don't like water at all. Rattlesnakes and copperheads and things like that, all of those are ran ahead of the water.
They were trying to get out of the way of the water, and a lot of them were still stuck in trees. They weren't able to get down. They're going to be hungry.
SAVIDGE: Back in the Humane Society, Georgia Lynn's comforted by the fact that most of her animals will leave with their owners when the waters recede, while Sgt. Gross' concerned about the other animals people, they find, have moved in while they were gone.
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SAVIDGE: And while those flood water start to recede along the Mississippi River, there is of course news - new concern because the flood of the Missouri River is just starting. Other areas upstream could send high waters back into those areas along the Mississippi that have already flooded, and yes, more animals on the move.
Changing people's attitudes towards AIDS. It's a lifelong commitment for our CNN Hero. Stay there.
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SAVIDGE: In Paris today, Rafael Nadal claimed his sixth French Open title in a victory over Roger Federer. Nadal's four set win draws him equal to Bjorn Borg. He's a name of the past who also won a sixth title.
The victory of Nadal's French grand slam success means that he remains number one in the world.
And then, how about this. On the women's side of the (INAUDIBLE), historic moment. China's Li Na won the French Open yesterday, becoming the first Asian player to win a grand slam singles title.
CNN's Kate Giles talked to the 29-year-old there. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KATE GILES, CNN SPORTS: Talk us through that match, because there was a point there when it almost looked like Schiavone could come back, but then in that tie breaker you were so, so strong. What switched for you? What clicked, to say, I can do this?
LI NA, 2011 FRENCH OPEN WOMEN'S CHAMPION: I mean, I know it was a tough match, of course. I mean, she's an amazing (INAUDIBLE). I know if I come to the finals set, not easy to win. So - so I just tell myself, OK, hold and stand up, I guess. Try your best. I mean, if you win, you win. If you lose, you lose (ph). But I was happy, finally, when I win the match.
GILES: And you're at China, the first grand slam winner. How did that feel? And how do you think it's going to impact back home?
NA: Of course, it was exciting. You know, after I laid down and (INAUDIBLE) oh, this is true. Not a dream. And I know how big the news now in china because I know how many people is watching this match.
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SAVIDGE: You can bet the folks at home were pretty proud. Li moves up to fourth in the world rankings after that victory, which equals the best ranking ever by an Asian player.
An estimated 2,500 young people are newly infected with HIV. That according to a recent World Health Organization report. Patricia Sawo is making sure that her community and her country get accurate information to stop the spread of that terrible disease. That's why she is our CNN Hero of the Week.
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PATRICIA SAWO, COMMUNITY CRUSADER: Back in the 1990s, I believed that AIDS was a punishment from God. When I personally tested HIV positive, it was, "Oh, my God. How could this happen to me?"
I fasted and prayed for years, hoping that I would be healed.
When I went public, I lost my job. My husband lost his job. The landlord wanted us out of his house. The stigma was terrible. I realized that I'd been wrong.
My name is Patricia Sawo. My mission is to change people's attitudes about HIV.
All that you need is accurate, correct information.
As church leaders, we need to shepherd the people. HIV is not a moral issue, it is a virus.
I do a lot of counseling. When I'm helping somebody else who is HIV- positive, I want them to know that you can rise above this.
The 48 children at the center, most of them saw their parents dying of AIDS. My HIV status brings some kind of a bond. I provide that motherly love and all their basic needs. HIV, it's making me a better person. We want to be there for people. So if we have it, we share it out.
It's what I want to do, because it's what I'm meant to do. God has his own ways of healing, so for me, I'm healed.
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SAVIDGE: We, of course, always want to hear from you to tell us about heroes that are in your own community. Send your nominations to CNN.com/heroes.
Casey Anthony caught in a pattern of lies? What forensic evidence is revealing about the case. Our legal guides weigh in.
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SAVIDGE: Until recently, he was one of the most powerful men in the world of business. She was struggling to make ends meet. We will look at the financier, the hotel maid and charges of attempted rape, after these top stories.
Anger and violence (INAUDIBLE) over in the Middle East today. This is the border between Syria and the Golan Heights. Crowds of people masked there and marched on the day that is marking the anniversary of the Six-Day War.
Israeli troops did open fire warning shots - that, according to the army. But a report on Syrian television said 20 people were killed and more than 325 were hurt.
Runoff day in Peru. Voters began casting their votes this morning in the second round of that presidential election. It is down to two candidates, a former army officer who was linked to a 2005 military uprising, and the daughter of a former president who is in prison for corruption. The most recent polls showed the two are neck and neck.
The U.S. Airways jet known for its famed miracle on the Hudson is now on its way to a new home. The jet, piloted by Captain Sully Sullenberger, is on its way to a museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The flight splashed down, as you'll remember, and who can forget it, in the Hudson River after it was hit by a flock of geese in 2009.
Along the Missouri River, it's a nervous wait as floodwaters rise. Right now levees along the rivers in South Dakota, they are holding, and sandbags are in place in a lot of areas as the floods rise toward record levels. Hundreds of homes are threatened.
In Iowa, there is word of a levee breach on the Missouri River near Hamburg, but night - right now, that is, no reports of any injuries or damage. Expect to hear more expert testimony tomorrow when Casey Anthony's murder trial resumes. Yesterday a forensic scientist testified that hair taken from a trunk of the defendant's car was similar to that of Anthony's daughter, Caylee. Three-year-old Caylee Anthony was reported missing three years ago, then found dead.
Our legal guide discussed the case with Richelle Carey yesterday.
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AVERY FRIEDMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: The fact is that the burden of proof beyond reasonable doubt, Richelle, is overwhelming. And the fact is that the lack of Casey Anthony's credibility is clearly -
RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: What trial are you watching, Avery?
RICHELLE CAREY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Richard, wait a second.
FRIEDMAN: Clearly a factor.
I'm watching the same trial every day, and the fact is that despite whatever problem there is with the defense counsel, it is her behavior introduced methodically, carefully by the prosecution that's going to do this defendant in.
And the very point that's been made that, well, you know, when she takes the stand, puts her hand on the Bible - let me tell you something - and a lot of people disagree with this, Richelle, but they're going to have to put Casey Anthony on the stand for a variety of reasons, not the least of -
CAREY: You think so?
FRIEDMAN: Not the least of which the jury will see that there's clearly something wrong with her, and that's what the strategy is here.
CAREY: OK, Avery -
HERMAN: Richelle - Richelle - Richelle -
CAREY: Go ahead.
HERMAN: They have to prove, in order to get the premeditated murder, that Casey was the one that put the duct tape on her face, on her mouth and her nose. They have not proven that. They are not going to be able to prove that.
They do not have a cause of death in this case, and, therefore, they should not and should not put her on the stand in the case in chief because the jury is just going to hate her worse and she's going to get convicted and probably get sentenced to death.
FRIEDMAN: Wow.
HERMAN: They have to save her for the mitigation phase.
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SAVIDGE: You can catch our legal guys every Saturday at noon Eastern Time.
Also tomorrow Dominique Strauss-Kahn is scheduled to be arraigned on sex crimes charges. A look at his word and his accuser's from CNN's Richard Roth.
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RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He was a renowned international banker. She was an immigrant employed as a hotel maid.
BILL HELMREICH, PROFESSOR OF SOCIOLOGY: What happens is when worlds collide, this whole thing with Strauss-Kahn happened in a nano second.
ROTH: This is Place des Vosges, an upscale Paris neighborhood. Dominique Strauss-Kahn maintains two homes in the French capital alone. And this is the High Bridge neighborhood in the shadow of fame Yankee stadium in the South Bronx, New York.
It is where the woman who accuses the French financier of sexually attacking her lived with a daughter in an apartment before moving to avoid the spotlight. Serious allegations have been made and denied.
(on camera): No one knows the eventual outcome of this case, but it's clear the events on that Saturday afternoon in a hotel room has brought two together two people from extremely different surroundings.
HELMREICH: The worlds that these two people inhabit are so separate from each other as to make the situation in a none funny way, almost comical. These are two people who would never meet except for the circumstances of her cleaning his room.
ROTH (voice-over): Strauss-Kahn as leader of the International Monetary Fund distributed billions of dollars in aid to struggling African countries. The unidentified accuser was grateful for a job, coming here from Guinea in West Africa.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's crazy. I mean, things just happened like that and blink about.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Paris is actually a beautiful place and is way more people than here.
ROTH: Strauss-Kahn married into wealth.
EMMANUEL SAINT MARTIN, FRANCE 24 CORRESPONDENT: He had the reputation for loving money so he has always been around a lot of rich people.
ROTH: His accuser is described as a woman of dignity and faith. JEFFREY SHAPIRO, ATTORNEY FOR ALLEGED VICTIM: She recognizes that in this country, the law doesn't differentiate between the rich and powerful and the poor and the weak. That's not the case everywhere else in the world.
ROTH: In Strauss-Kahn's Paris neighborhood, people didn't want to talk about their star resident. In the Bronx, a local pastor preached a one world concept.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (Inaudible) they come from.
ROTH: Richard Roth, CNN, New York.
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SAVIDGE: It's the latest innovation for your computer. It's called the cloud, but do you need it?
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SAVIDGE: You have probably heard about sourcing jobs, but have you ever heard about sourcing your computer programs? It's a bit confusing. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout explains the latest innovation. It's called "Cloud Computing."
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT, CNN INTERNATIONAL (voice-over): Onlive is a gaming service with a difference. You're playing games on your computer, but the game isn't actually running on your computer. It's running on a computer back at Onlive data center.
You're playing the game by remote, sending commands to a computer far away, which streams the video games back to you. That means you don't need a powerful computer to play the latest game, just a screen and an internet connection.
(on camera): Onlive is part of a popular movement in the technology industry. It's called "Cloud Computing." Sounds futuristic, but what is it?
XENI JARDIN, BOING BOING: Cloud computing is like outsourcing. Yes, it's very much like what manufacturers say here in the U.S. do with tasks, you know, like producing goods and services.
Why should you have to store everything locally and process everything locally, when, you know, with faster internet speeds, you could rely on the far greater processing power or storage space available at some offline site?
STOUT: And it's very likely you've been doing some Cloud computing without even knowing it. Flicker, an online home for your photo library, Google Docs keeping our work online, Hotmail has been hosting our e-mail on the Cloud since 1996.
By keeping all of this in one place that means our different devices, phones, laptops and tablets can have access to the same information.
(voice-over): You don't need to store any of it on any of those devices. You just grab what you need when you need it over the internet, but what happens when your internet connection fails?
JARDIN: Well, one of the great vulnerabilities in Cloud computing is the fact that all of this for us is built on the assumption that internet speeds will remain fast and that connectivity will we main reliable.
And as anybody who has ever, you know, walked around in San Francisco or New York with an iPhone knows you can't always count on mobile data being fast or reliable.
STOUT (on camera): Now another worry about Cloud computing is security. You're willingly handing over your information to another company, and relying on someone else can cost you.
When some of amazon.com's Cloud server suffered a brief outage, a tip down the social network Foursquare. Worries aside, the shift to the Cloud was coming.
(voice-over): Next week, laptops running Google's Chrome are set to go on sale. They are remarkable because they contain just 16 gigabytes of storage space. About the same as an iPod Nano that holds 4,000 songs.
(on camera): So why still little space, well, Chrome Books are designed for all your data including your apps to live remotely on the company servers. Google is convinced that we, the computing masses, are ready to live in the Cloud.
Kristie Lu Stout, CNN, Hong Kong.
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SAVIDGE: And Cloud-based music services could be the new way to store our digital music selections. Apple is set to release its version called iCloud tomorrow to compete with Google and Amazon's Cloud-based services.
But are we really ready to put our music in a Cloud? Mashable.com's Chris Taylor joins us, and he is not buying into the hype. Hello, Chris. Why are you not buying into this?
CHRIS TAYLOR, SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU CHIEF, MASHABLE.COM: Well, Martin, I think that music is something different. I mean, I have all my e- mail and Gmail. I have documents in Google Docs, but my music is something personal to me.
It's something I want to have with me at all times and that's why I keep it on my iPod. I keep it on my hard drives at home and I want to know where it is. I want to know that it will always be there in case of a data outage.
And you know, I don't want to have to pay twice for it or access to it by the Cloud through paying through data services on my cell phone or paying the fees that are supposed to be associated with these Cloud music services over the long run.
SAVIDGE: We pointed out, you know, Apple coming out tomorrow with this iCloud. Tell us exactly what it is and how is it different from the other music programs that are out there Cloud wise?
TAYLOR: Well, we don't know, I mean, fundamentally. Of course, this is Apple and they like to keep things secret until the very last minute when Steve Jobs walks out on stage. They have told us that they're launching something called iCloud.
We are supposed to believe that it is a music streaming service. We've heard that they've done deals with all the major music labels. But the big question is, are they going to be allowing us to upload all of our music or give us access to all of our iTunes music in the cloud, or is it just going to be music that we've already bought on iTunes?
So that's what we don't know yet. If it's the former, I think it would be a really formidable Cloud service. The other rumor is that it will cost $25 a year, that part I'm not sure about myself.
I think, again, you know, iTunes users are going to balk at the idea of having to pay for this stuff twice when they already have it on their iPods and iPhones.
SAVIDGE: Before we run out of time thought, since you maybe skeptic regarding Cloud for music, what about using Cloud technology otherwise?
TAYLOR: Otherwise, absolutely. I mean, there is a great service called "Drop Box" that I use to store just about everything that I want to send to other people. It's a very good transmission device.
It's a very good way of backing up your data and it's a very good way of keeping your documents safe for all time, really, as you move from computer to computer.
I just think the music is a little bit different. It's a little more personal than all these things. We'll have to wait and see.
SAVIDGE: Yes, I think a lot of people will be waiting and seeing. All right, Chris Taylor, mashable.com. Thanks so much for joining us.
TAYLOR: Thanks very much, Martin.
SAVIDGE: If you want more on high tech ideas/reviews, well, you can find them all. Just go to cnn.com/tech and look for the gaming and gadgets tab.
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SAVIDGE: They are good and good for you, one of the reasons they're called pure gold. We're talking about sweet potatoes. Our Tom Foreman tells us how that simple food is helping build up America. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's like watching a magic trick. A tractor rolls over the bare dirt, cutting furrows, a planter drags behind, and there they are, the green shoots of sweet potatoes. There is no more wonderful sight for Jerome Vick.
JEROME VICK, SWEET POTATO FARMER: We have approximately 50 percent of net farm income on this farm.
FOREMAN: And right now, they are pure gold for many in this state.
SUE LANGON, NORTH CAROLINA SWEET POTATO COMMISSIONER: Right here in this field is the capital. North Carolina is the capital of sweet potatoes, bar none.
FOREMAN: The North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission says this year about 400 farmers will plant 60,000 acres of sweet potatoes worth about $182 million to the state economy. That's a record.
LANGON: We grow almost half of the sweet potatoes that are produced in the United States.
FOREMAN: They are selling all over the world. Sweet potato producers are cashing in on the healthy eating craze by aggressively advertising that this native American plant can help with everything from digestion to joint pain to heart disease. That's pushing demand for sweet potato fries, chips and pies.
LANGON: Currently about 20 percent of the sweet potatoes produced in North Carolina are being exported and that looks to rise to even more.
FOREMAN: How much more? Hard to say, but this year Vick expects to grow enough on his farm to meet the sweet potato needs of 4 million people.
VICK: You might as well say that we got 4 million people eating at our dinner table, which is perfectly all right with me.
FOREMAN: And next year they hope to be breaking records again. Tom Foreman, CNN.
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SAVIDGE: We hear about the kidnappings taking place in Mexico all the time, but today we finally hear from a victim and he's got a warning.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This now has become an international network of terrorists.
SAVIDGE: His amazing story of survival is next in the NEWSROOM.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Life was pretty perfect. We were madly in love, and we could never imagine being apart from each other for a second.
RAFAEL ROMO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Along with their three children, life in this beautiful region was perfect. Then one summer morning in 2007, after dropping the kids off at school, it all changed.
JAYNE GARCIA VALSECA, KIDNAPPING VICTIM: We were ambushed. Our windows were smashed and we were pulled from the karat gunpoint. My brain didn't even have time to register what was actually happening.
ROMO: A group of gunmen attacked their car. They let Jayne go, but took Eduardo then the captors sent Jayne an e-mail with the message, if you want to ever see your husband alive again, give us $8 million.
EDUARDO GARCIA VALSECA, KIDNAPPING VICTIM: They thought that I had a lot of money cash that I could give them and I did not.
ROMO: His father used to own a chain of newspapers, and the kidnappers thought there was a lot of family money. When they couldn't come up with the ransom fast enough, the brutal beatings began.
And as time passed, the beatings turned even more violent. The captors shot Eduardo in the leg and then in the arm.
VALSECA: There were many times where I wanted to lose it, but honestly as a mother, that's too much of a luxury when going through something like that. You've got to be strong for your kids.
ROMO: Eduardo also stayed strong despite torturous conditions. He tells me the kidnappers kept him in a wooden cage barely big enough for Eduardo to stand up and lie down. With the lights turned on and music blaring 24 hours a day.
(on camera): When the kidnappers realized that no amount of torture was going to produce the $8 million they wanted, they began to considerably scale down their demands. The amount they finally accepted for in exchange for Eduardo's release remains a closely guarded secret.
(voice-over): This is what Eduardo Garcia Valseca looked like when he returned home after seven and a half months in captivity.
VALSECA: To see him there and then to pull him into my arms and literally feel this human being that was cold like a corpse and just felt like skin over bones.
ROMO: The family eventually moved to the United States and launch a crusade to create awareness about how organize crime is affecting innocent lives on both sides of the border. VALSECA: How is it possible that one human being or a group of human beings could do this to another human? It just seemed the most incredible thing.
ROMO: And the culprits aren't just Mexican, Eduardo says the chief captor spoke English with an American accent. The others spoke South American Spanish.
EDUARDO: This now has become an international network of terrorism. This is why it's so dangerous to the United States because they're coming to Mexico.
ROMO: A threat, they say, that knows no boundaries. Rafael Romo, CNN, Atlanta.
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SAVIDGE: Time for a CNN Equals Politics update. We're keeping an eye on all the latest headlines at the CNNPolitics.com desk and here is what is crossing right now.
President Obama's top economic adviser says that private business needs to be the driver of the economic recovery. Austin Goolsbee says that you shouldn't get hung up on the latest economic report on job creations. Only 54,000 jobs were created in May.
Goolsbee says that 1 million jobs were created in the past six months and he adds that private corporations are seeing profits again, and those profits should be reinvested in the economy.
GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul says that his long-time stance on reducing the deficit is gaining traction. In fact, this congressman says that people are weary of the country's mounting debt problems.
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RON PAUL (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I came into Congress many years ago and my goal was to shrink the size of government, balance the deficit, pay the bills, have some money and live within our means and mind our own business. I haven't done a very good job. It seems like we're going in the wrong direction.
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SAVIDGE: Former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is apologizing for stealing the media spotlight during her one nation tour. The former vice presidential candidate says she did not mean to divert attention from Mitt Romney's presidential announcement in New Hampshire. They were both there on the same day.
And for the latest political news, you know where to go. I'll tell you just in case, CNNPolitics.com.
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SAVIDGE: A rough week from Wall Street to Main Street, a look at what happened and what's ahead. First to Alison Kosik in New York.
ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Martin. A brutal week on Wall Street, the major averages all fell about 2 percent because of litany of worrisome economic reports.
Consumer confidence fell, manufacturing growth slowed down, home prices dropped to 2002 levels and the icing on the cake, anemic job growth. The economy added just 54,000 jobs last month.
The government is moving out of the car business, at least when it comes to Chrysler. The U.S. Treasury will sell its remaining 6 percent stake in Chrysler.
This closes the book on the $12 billion bailout Chrysler got two years ago. Taxpayers will have recouped all, but a billion dollars of that money. Felicia --
FELICIA TAYLOR, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Hundreds of Gmail accounts were hacked this past week. Google says its e-mail system was the target of a massive fishing scheme that it claims originated in China. Google notified the victims, which included some senior U.S. government officials. The FBI is investigating.
Lady Gaga's newest album debut with a bang. More than 1 million copies of "Born This Way" were sold in the U.S. during its first week. It's the fastest selling album of the year. Poppy Harlow has a look at what's coming up in business news. Poppy --
POPPY HARLOW, CNNMONEY.COM: Thanks so much, Felicia. Well, Apple CEO Steve Jobs will make news this coming week. Technically, he's still on medical leave.
So it was a surprise when the usually tight lipped company said that Jobs will give the keynote speech on Monday at the developers' conference.
Apple will unveil Steve jobs will release iCloud, a music streaming service that will likely add on to what Google and Amazon already offer.
And after just in an abysmal week of economic news, Wall Street will be paying pretty close attention to a speech from Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on Monday as well as federal courts this coming week on consumer credit.
And also regional economic activity, of course, looking for any signs of a pickup in activity across the country, we'll follow it all. Martin, back to you.
SAVIDGE: Thank you, ladies, and remember, you can get your financial fix every day on cnnmoney.com.
Lots of teargas and gunfire on the border separating Syria and Golan Heights. Crowds of people advance on the Syrian side of the border today in a protest that was kind of mark the anniversary of the six- day war. Israeli troops did open fire warning shots that according to the army, but a report on Syrian television said 20 people were killed and more than 325 hurt.
There are conflicting reports on the condition of Yemen's president. Ali Abdullah Saleh is receiving treatment in Saudi Arabia after an attack on his palace. A senior U.S. official says that Saleh suffered shrapnel wounds and severe burns.
And western diplomatic sources report that he is having brain surgery, but Saleh party spokesman says the president is simply getting a checkup. Yemen's vice president is in charge while Saleh is absent.
In Paris today, Rafael Nadal claimed his sixth French open title with a four set victory over Roger Federer. Nadal's win (inaudible) who also won six titles. The victory, Nadal's tenth grand slam success means he remains number one in the world of tennis.
National unemployment remains above 9 percent. What can experienced workers do to get back on the job? In one hour, we'll give you four easy tips to reclaim your career.
In the meantime, stay with CNN. "YOUR MONEY" starts now.
