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Santorum to Declare Presidential Bid; Flooding Threatens Thousands; Casey Anthony on Trial; Strauss-Kahn to be Arraigned; Bean Sprouts Blamed for E. Coli; Peru Picks a President; State of the Economy; Pentagon Agency Pushes Innovation; 'Miracle' Jet Heads to a Museum; Fire Guts Trace Adkins' Home; German Nuke Plants to Close
Aired June 05, 2011 - 17:00 ET
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MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN ANCHOR: The 2012 presidential race is starting to heat up as candidates jockey for position in a field that seems to be growing by the week. Republican candidates are now making their case to voters in public appearances and on air waves. Herman Cain and Ron Paul among them. Paul says he won't necessarily vote Republican if he doesn't win the nomination.
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REP. RON PAUL, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, if you ask me to promise that I would vote whoever the candidate is, no, I wouldn't do it. Because my supporters wouldn't understand it because they want a change. If they represent the status quo and nothing I believe in, but who knows how things may evolve.
HERMAN CAIN, (R) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There are two dynamics that have changed the political landscape. The power of the internet as well as the citizens Tea Party Movement. Those dynamics neutralized as having the most amount of money. We'll have enough money to be competitive but we don't have to have the most amount.
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SAVIDGE: Those candidates are about to get more competition. Republican Rick Santorum will announce his candidacy tomorrow. CNN Sr. political editor Mark Preston joins us from Washington. Mark what do we know about Santorum and really what do we know about his chances of success in this race?
PRESTON: Rick Santorum is a formal Senator; he served a couple of terms in the House of Representatives. He lost re-election back in 2006. But he sees this as an opportunity to perhaps get back in the national spotlight. Rick Santorum is hoping, what I'm told from people very close to him, to present himself to be the most social conservative candidate in the field of Republicans that are now running.
They see a path of victory right now, Martin, along these lines. They feel like they can reach out to social conservatives, who are very important in the whole Republican presidential primary process, bring them into their tent. They look at the Tea Party, which is really this growing movement that we've seen explode in the past couple of years. Feel like they can reach out to the Tea Party Movement, Martin, bring them in as well.
Then after that they feel like they can reach out to everybody else. Now, it is a very narrow path for victory for Rick Santorum. He's only at about 2 percent in the national polls at this point. But they feel like they can do well in a state like Iowa, perhaps South Carolina and Nevada.
You know something, Martin? If we have a field that is going to be very big and large heading into next year, it might be divided up well enough that Rick Santorum might have that small path to victory.
SAVIDGE: All right. Let's see on that one. Let's talk about Sarah Palin now. She is trying to of course present herself as an unconventional candidate. Today she was sounding pretty conventional. What did she have to say?
PRESTON: Yes, no doubt. You know, and the whole unconventional and it was really put on display when she took this bus tour up the East Coast where she didn't even tell the media what her next stop was for pretty much every hour on the hour.
But you're right. She was on Fox News today where she is a paid contributor. She talked a lot about what she thinks is wrong with the country especially when it comes to the economy. She talked a lot about energy production and how she doesn't think that President Obama would be or is doing enough, quite frankly.
She also talked about foreign policy where she has been criticized a lot. The big question right now is, Martin, do we think that she's going to run for president? She was asked that question today. This is what she had to say.
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CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: On a spectrum where zero is an absolutely not running and 100 percent is I'm in the race, where are you now? Give me a number.
SARAH PALIN (R), FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR: Still right there in the middle, Chris.
WALLACE: Fifty?
PALIN: Still trying to figure out what the lay of the land will be as these weeks and months go by.
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PRESTON: Now, we shouldn't be too surprised, there, Martin, that she is keeping us guessing at this point. But look, whether or not Sarah Palin decides to seek the Republican nomination or not, she's going to be a force in the Republican politics and certainly will have something to say heading into next year as Republicans try to consider who's going to be their nominee.
SAVIDGE: Yes, without a doubt. Mark Preston, thanks very much, as always.
PRESTON: Thanks, Martin.
SAVIDGE: In the northern plains a battle to save homes and businesses from flood waters. The Missouri River is rising toward record levels. We've heard this before.
One spillway has been opened to divert floodwaters. There's word today on a breach of one of the river levees in Iowa. Let's get an update from Jacqui Jeras. Jacqui --
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes, it sounds all too familiar, doesn't it? Just in a different location. So we're watching the Missouri River. You're saying to yourself, well, why is this a problem?
Well, a lot of this has been happening due to snow melt. We're saying, what, it's June, snow melt, seriously? Let's take a look at the Missouri River basin and if you take a look at this map it's going to show you the Missouri River.
This is the state of Montana. So this time of year that snow is melting. Now it's a little bit late in the season because temperatures have been very cool and all of this has been going through the river basin system and kind of converging here into parts of the Dakotas.
So there's all this pressure that's been building up. They're trying to release it through some of these spillways and dams. Now this is a little different than what we're talking about on the Mississippi River. This is where the spillway is where they released it.
This time it went into a lake as opposed to inundating farm land and so they're trying to control it as this all moves downstream. We're also watching the James River, which is a major flood across parts of South Dakota. That spills into the Missouri River.
So we're looking at a very serious situation. Lots of little rivers and towns along this way are preparing in advance of that release of water for where it comes. For example, one of our I-Reporters from South Sioux City, Nebraska sent us some I-Reports of people preparing, sandbagging, getting their houses ready because they know it's coming.
It's just not going to come for another couple weeks as it makes its way down that river. Now the other thing people have been wondering about, what kind of impact is this going to have on the Mississippi River?
Well, it's kind of a wait and see type of situation, but here you can see all the warnings in effect for the Missouri and then that does dump into the Mississippi. By the way, the Mississippi River is still very high from about Cape Gerardo southward. We're still looking at major flood in places like Baton Rouge, Marty. So water continues to be a big issue. This is more about the flow rate that's coming down. Real concerned about a lot of these dams along the way because they were built before they've ever seen this much pressure from water before.
So they're hoping there aren't going to be more of these breaches happening. That was in Hamburg in south western parts of Iowa right near the Nebraska state line. So we'll have to see if water makes its way downstream.
SAVIDGE: With many of the officials I was talking to out there during the flooding of the Mississippi, that was their concern. How long will the pressure be on the levees? We'll watch it. Jacqui, thanks.
Well, expect to hear more expert testimony tomorrow when Casey Anthony's murder trial resumes in Orlando. Yesterday, forensic scientists testified that hair taken from the trunk of the defendant's car was similar to that of Anthony's daughter, Caylee. She was reported missing, you'll remember, three years ago and then later found dead.
In New York tomorrow, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund is to be arraigned on sex crime charges. Let's bring in our Alison Kosik. What can we expect, Alison, on this?
ALISON KOSIK, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Martin. We are expecting Dominique Strauss-Kahn to plead not guilty to the charges. You know, although that's what really begins the legal process for him, already it's been quite an ordeal.
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KOSIK (voice-over): It's a story that created an immediate sensation.
CANDY CROWLEY, HOST, CNN'S "STATE OF THE NATION": Dominique Strauss- Kahn, the leader of the International Monetary Fund and a possible candidate for president of France, was arrested earlier this morning for the alleged sexual assault of a New York City hotel maid.
KOSIK: The allegations were sordid.
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Inside, 62-year-old Strauss-Kahn allegedly was naked in the bedroom and grabbed at the maid, chasing her through the suite. Authorities say as she tried to escape, he shut the door and allegedly forced himself on her, sexually assaulting her.
KOSIK: A late-night perp walk horrified his French countrymen. The next day his lawyers proclaimed his innocence.
BENJAMIN BRAFMAN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY FOR STRAUSS-KHAN: He denies these charges.
KOSIK: The victim's attorney says she's telling the truth.
JEFFREY SHAPIRO, ATTORNEY FOR ALLEGED VICTIM: The trauma that has taken place in her life is extraordinary.
RICHARD ROTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Serious allegations have been made and denied.
KOSIK: Since his arrest, the news media has closely tracked every move Strauss-Kahn makes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's going back to Rikers tonight.
DON LEMON, ANCHOR, CNN'S "NEWSROOM": Out on bail after his arrest for allegedly trying to rape a hotel maid.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He'll be eating normal food. He'll be sleeping in a normal bed.
KOSIK: Well, sort of normal after being rejected from the Swanky Apartment where he had hoped to stay.
WILLIAM TAYLOR, DEFENSE ATTORNEY FOR STRAUSS-KHAN: The reason that he had to move was because members of the press attempted to invade his private residence.
KOSIK: Strauss-Khan ended up at a not too shabby place recently on the market for almost $14 million.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A 6,800 square foot luxury townhouse.
JOE JOHNS, CNN ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT: Has its own gym, home theater, spa and bar.
KOSIK: A high-profile lifestyle for a man facing high stakes charges.
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SAVIDGE: So, Alison, I guess the question now is who's paying for all that luxury, the townhouse and the security, taxpayers?
KOSIK: Well, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, DSK as he's known. He is paying for -- we're standing right in front of the townhouse where he's under house arrest. We're hearing he's paying anywhere from $50,000 to $60,000 to rent the place.
And yes, he's paying for his own security. That's going for about $250,000 a month not to mention what his legal fees must be at this point, Martin.
SAVIDGE: Well, he has the money. What are his neighbors saying? I mean, what's being said on the street there?
KOSIK: You know what's interesting that you mention that, "The New York Post" actually caught a photo of actress, Kirstie Alley. She apparently was staying next door at the time this photo was taken. She did speak to "The New York Post" saying he's innocent until proven guilty.
So she was actually kind of caught talking about this. Also we're hearing that some of his neighbors are actually keeping tabs on him. They're telling us through actually the "New Yorker" that he's put up these big umbrellas to try to keep out the paparazzi and prying eyes.
He's put out these big umbrellas on his backyard to keep out the public so he can have some privacy. So he can at least go outside and get some fresh air, Martin.
SAVIDGE: Life in a fish bowl. Alison Kosik, thanks very much.
In other news, scientists say that bean sprouts from central Germany are likely the cause of that E. coli outbreak across Europe and that has killed at least 22 people. More than 2,000 have gotten ill from all of this. Officials say that there is no indication yet that the outbreak has peaked.
Melanoma patients may soon have new treatment options. Two new drugs are said to be greatly increasing the chances of survival rates of patients in clinical trials. Doctors call them a major breakthrough. Melanoma is the deadliest form of skin cancer. About 68,000 new cases are diagnosed every year.
Election day in Peru. One of the two remains candidates has a strong American connection. There's another reason voters in Peru could be making presidential history today. That's next.
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SAVIDGE: Peru's presidential election. It's runoff day today actually down there. It's been called the battle of two extremes. On one side of the battle is a former Army officer considered a close ally of Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez.
On the other side is the daughter of a former president with a strong personal connection to the United States and the reputation of embracing the extreme right. Peruvians are voting right now. Actually, it's concluded.
Ralitsa Vassileva is here from CNN International. Ralitsa, the latest poll information had shown that it was a very close race. It was neck and neck, but not close now.
RALITSA VASSILEVA, ANCHOR AND CORRESPONDENT, CNNI: We have a winner, actually. We just got some results from our CNN affiliate, "America TV," which says that the former Army officer you mentioned, the leftist presidential candidate Ollanta Humala is the probable winner of this very close election.
They're quoting exit polls, giving him 52.6 percent of the vote. His rival, Keiko Fujimori has 47.4 percent of the vote. Let me tell you just a little bit about Humala, the possible winner, a former colonel in Peruvian Army. He ran in the last presidential elections in 2006, but lost in the runoff.
The reason why he lost was because there was this perception of him being a close ally of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. He has moderated his stance since then. In these elections, he said that he favors more of the view of the ruling party in Brazil. So he has moderated his leftist views.
He doesn't want a social revolution of the type that Venezuela has had. He led interestingly enough. He led a coup attempt against his rival in this election, his runoff, Keiko Fujimori against her father.
You might remember Fujimori was the president of Peru for 10 years from 1990 to 2000 and now his daughter almost made it to the presidency. She would have been the first female president of her country had she made it. We still don't know. The probable winner is her rival, Humala.
SAVIDGE: Now she had very strong American connections.
VASSILEVA: Very interesting. She actually went to school in Boston and went to business school, Columbia. She has a business degree from there. She married a guy from New Jersey. They have two daughters. Of course, they live now in Peru.
SAVIDGE: So all of this as far as the outcome, you know, Fujimori, I think of him and I remember, you know, there was the hostage crisis that was down there. It was not enough, apparently, with that name connection for her to pull off this election.
VASSILEVA: Well, her father is still very controversial. He is serving a 25-year sentence for human rights abuses. However, there are a lot of people who credit him for improving the economy, for battling inflation, and also for bringing peace to the country.
We remember those years in which the Maoist rebels ravaged this country with their cruel insurgency. He's also been known for human rights violations, corruption. It's a mixed legacy.
The thing that was going against Keiko Fujimori was that at one point she had made a statement that if she won the presidency, she would pardon her father. She's backed away from that since then, saying she wants that to happen through an appeals process.
SAVIDGE: Thank you, Ralitsa. Always a pleasure to talk with you especially when we've got the results of an election. Thank you.
Well, would you publicly strip off your clothes for charity? A look at this novel approach to giving, just ahead in the chat room.
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SAVIDGE: All right, time to enter the chatroom for a look at some of the lighter stories that have been making news this week. Jacqui Jeras is joining here with me now.
Our first story comes from the University of Washington. You know, I thought this was an opportunity to kind of introduce gratuitous semi- nudity to the show, but it's not.
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It's not because I would never do that and I found this story, just so you know. Take a look at the video, shall we? It's all for a good cause. There they are. SAVIDGE: Stripping their clothes off. Tell us what's going on here. How is this benefiting people?
JERAS: Well, the clothes are going to the needy. It's benefiting the Salvation Army. So the whole idea is to come in the clothes that you're going to donate, take them off, put them in the box and then in your underwear you get to run.
SAVIDGE: I don't know why this hasn't been embraced by the Red Cross, but I'm sure some day.
JERAS: Perhaps, but you know, they've been doing this for the last couple of years. They're hoping to beat last year's record, which was 560 pounds of clothes, 560 pounds. That's a lot. A cotton t-shirt doesn't weigh a whole heck of a lot.
SAVIDGE: This is where again? Obviously some place warm.
JERAS: Yes, University of Washington. Not terribly warm, but, you know --
SAVIDGE: And young students, they're doing a very good thing.
JERAS: And it's not just there. They're competing against like nine other colleges around the country.
SAVIDGE: Really, so it's a growing tradition.
JERAS: Yes, it's a growing trend.
SAVIDGE: Well, I look forward to annually talking to you about this.
JERAS: We'll have to start that here next year, Georgia Tech.
SAVIDGE: OK. All right, now we want to talk about friends. Friends are always important to all of us, but now they're even more so for our size.
JERAS: Right. Who you hang out with could have an impact on your size, believe it or not. This is an official study at Harvard University. Researchers have studied and have found that you have a 57 percent chance of getting bigger if your friends are bigger.
SAVIDGE: This did not surprise me when I heard this because if you spend a lot of time with friends, they'll say, let's have some ice cream. Let's go out. You tend to copy whatever your friends may be doing. That's part of what friendship is about.
JERAS: Absolutely and I would imagine your spouse's behavior and activities also would greatly influence your size and eating habits.
SAVIDGE: I wonder which one is greater when it comes to the influence.
JERAS: I don't know. Obviously you have skinny friends and a skinny wife. SAVIDGE: Yes, yes I do. I think skinny. Finally, let's talk about the mockingbirds. I love the mockingbirds.
JERAS: So you like the mockingbirds, are you a fan of their song? They can be very loud.
SAVIDGE: They have a very -- apparently down in some parts of Florida they're not appreciated.
JERAS: Take a listen. That's not terrible. That sounds pretty good, right? Apparently people in South Florida aren't real happy about it because they're terribly loud. They're in their mating season right now. People are going crazy because apparently they can't get any sleep because the mockingbirds are singing their songs.
SAVIDGE: But I will say, you know, when I'm in Florida, that says to me I'm there. I hear that bird and I go, I already feel on vacation.
JERAS: Right and you know, a lot of people at home right now who live in South Florida are throwing eggs at their TV at you because they haven't slept in like two weeks.
SAVIDGE: All right, well, one person's pain.
JERAS: Better than an alarm clock, built right in outside your window.
SAVIDGE: Thanks, Jacqui. Appreciate it very much. As always, we'll be right back.
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SAVIDGE: One of President Obama's top economic advisers says people shouldn't, yes, shouldn't read too much into last week's less than stellar job numbers.
The economy gained 54,000 jobs and that is far less than predicted and a big drop from a year ago when 458,000 jobs were created. Austan Goolsbee says the important thing is the fact that over the past six months 1 million jobs have been added to the economy.
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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 head wind, 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 corporations should now use the money that sitting on their balance sheets to help strengthen the fragile economy. Is innovation the seed that can get the economy moving? Fareed Zakaria thinks so. He'll host a CNN special focusing on innovation tonight. Among other things, he will look at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA, a Pentagon agency that is better known as DARPA. Here's a preview.
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FAREED ZAKARIA, HOST, CNN'S "FAREED ZAKARIA GPS" (voice-over): 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 the mind and inspires greater genius.
ZAKARIA: Most famously, DARPA funded the first version of the internet then called ARPA net. In 1969, computer hubs called "Nodes" were able to send messages to each other over a phone line.
REGINA DUGAN, DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY: That original investment was about $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 ground breaking 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.
DUGAN: 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 in difficult environments.
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SAVIDGE: And that is just part of tonight's "FAREED ZAKARIA'S GPS" special. "Restoring the American Dream: How to Innovate" airs at 8:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.
Germany is phasing out nuclear power plants. What is behind that decision? That's next.
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SAVIDGE: Checking top stories, the U.S. Airways jet known for its famed miracle on the Hudson landing is on its way to a new home. The jet which was piloted by Captain Chesley Sullenberger (ph) is on its way to a museum in Charlotte, North Carolina. The aircraft splashed out of the Hudson River after it was hit by a flight of geese and that was in 2009.
A fire that gutted the home of Trace Adkins apparently started in his garage. It destroyed the country music singer's mansion near Nashville yesterday. Adkins is in Alaska for a singing gig. His wife says the kids and nanny are all OK because they followed safety tips they learned from firefighters.
A scary moment for some children attending an amateur soccer tournament in Long Island, New York, 13 people were injured yesterday when three bounce houses were blown across the field. There were kids inside playing, but 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 from the dance for taping a giant prom invitation on the school entrance. After the ban attracted national media attention, school officials backed down agreeing to let Tate and his date, she must have a name, attend the prom after all.
Overseas anger and violence bubbled in the Middle East today. This is the border between Syria and the Golan Heights. Crowds of people marched on the day that is marking the anniversary of the six-day war. Israel says it fired warning shots to push back the crowd, but a report on Syrian television said 25 people were killed. More than 300 hurt.
In other news, political leaders all over the world are weighing the pros and cons of nuclear energy in the aftermath of the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Germany has announced plans to close all of its nuclear power plants by the year 2020. CNN's Frederick Pleitgen explains.
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FREDERICK PLEITGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A site Angela Merkel has been confronted with ever since the Fukushima disaster in Japan. Protesters in front of the chancellery in Berlin called for their country to shut down all its nuclear plants.
Germany has already conducted stress tests for its 17 nuclear reactors and after Angela Merkel received the commission's report, she reacted.
We want to make sure our power supply is safe, Merkel said. At the same time, it must be reliable. Germany will shut down eight reactors immediately. The remaining nine will all be shut down by the year 2022 the government says.
That will mark the end of nuclear energy in Europe's largest economy. Germany decided to access its reactors after the meltdown in Fukushima following the earthquake and tsunami in Japan. The opposition Green Party, which has long advocated getting rid of nuclear power says the results of the German stress test were appalling.
Only two nuclear plants could deal with an earthquake and subsequent flood, the head of the Green Party said. For two others the damage and resulting problems might remain confined to just the plant itself.
The German public has long been hostile toward nuclear power, but some power companies say it's essential for energy security in Europe's largest economy. One provider says it will sue the German government over its plan to exit atomic energy. Experts say getting rid of nuclear energy in Germany is possible, but will require massive investments in renewables as well as more coal- and gas-fired power plants.
CLAUDIA KEMFERT, GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR ECONOMIC RESEARCH: We need some kind of reserve capacity when the wind is not blowing, when the sun is not shining. And there we need coal-fired power plants but also gas- fired power plants. And this will of course bring up the emissions to a very large extent.
PLEITGEN: Germany has made a decision. Now it's looking for a strategy to maintain economic growth while giving up a source of energy that until recently supplied the country with about a fifth of its energy.
Fred Pleitgen, CNN, Berlin.
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SAVIDGE: Underemployed or unemployed? We have some tips to help you find a new job, right after the break.
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SAVIDGE: With the economy still struggling, some people have been out of work for months. Some actually for years. So what can experienced workers do to find a job? Earlier I talked with Paula Caligiuri, she is the author of "Get a Life, Not a Job," and she gave us four strategies for breaking back into a tough market, starting with job retraining and education.
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PAULA CALIGIURI, HUMAN RESOURCE MGMT., RUTGERS UNIV.: Before you spend any money investing in tuition dollars, be sure you understand the placement rate for the program that you're about to invest your time and your money in. So even though you might be in your 40s or 50s, not too late to reinvest in time and talent.
The other thing you can do is, think about configuring your skills for hot jobs. Onetcenter.org is a wonderful Web site from the Department of Labor. Great opportunity to look for jobs that really match with your skills and ones that are really hot right now.
SAVIDGE: And you mentioned targeting your educational investment. By that I presume you mean make sure you find the hot job before you actually invest your time in learning about the job?
CALIGIURI: Absolutely. So right now, Martin, the STEM skills are always so hot right now, right? So science, technology, engineering, math. The class of 2011 -- interesting, class of 2011, if they went to reputable schools, those who graduated with the STEM fields, they were able to land multiple job offers, and their starting salaries were between $55,000 and almost $70,000.
So these are 20-, 21-, 22-year-olds. Not a lot of experience, but they had great skills. So STEM skills, real important. Also the skilled trades. So carpenters, engineering, plumbers, those are also in very, very high demand. Health care also very important.
But also if you think about education, again, science teachers, math teachers, real important, bilingual education, also those who can teach special needs children. All of those are real hot and will be hot for a while.
SAVIDGE: You talk about, say, take a temporary job or maybe even a volunteer job? The reason being, of course, that, what, you get your foot in the door?
CALIGIURI: You get your foot in the door, and I know this is really tough to hear at a time when people feel like they're underemployed, those who are working part-time or working in temp positions, but it's a nice way to get your foot in the door and to network within the organization in case something should become available.
What we found, again, class of 2011, those who had internships, so those who were on those temporary interning positions, 67 percent of them were offered full-time jobs. So a temporary opportunity turned into a full-time one for those interns. So a real good strategy to break in.
SAVIDGE: And as my mom always tells me, you know, it's not who you know, it's who knows you. And this goes back to what you just said. Networking. Networking, very important for people to get out there, meet, greet, and talk to folks who may have a job.
CALIGIURI: Right. Networking always critical. So networking online, networking in person, and also, too, thinking about networking if you do end up engaging in an educational opportunity, network with your professors. Network with the trainers. Network with fellow students. Network with guest speakers. Network with alums. Lots of people are interested in connecting with you.
But oftentimes students and those in training programs don't actually leverage that part of their investment. So real important to network.
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SAVIDGE: And tomorrow will mark 67 years since the D-Day invasion. Coming up, a talk with two survivors of that momentous day in history.
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SAVIDGE: The opening salvo on D-Day, the 6th of June, 1944. Thousands of Allied troops poured out on the beaches of Normandy with the aim to bring an end to Nazi Germany. Tomorrow marks the 67th anniversary of the invasion.
CNN's T.J. Holmes had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with two men who answered the call of duty on that fateful day.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: On the anniversary days, a lot of people, the government makes a big deal out of it. The media will talk about June 6th, the anniversary. What about you guys? What do you all do on the anniversary every year of D-Day?
ROBERT "PUNCHY" POWELL, WWII VETERAN: Quite often I'm asked to make talks to various groups or participate in some of the ceremonies because I was a World War II veteran there, and we're dying off pretty fast these days and there aren't many of us around.
HOLMES: Do you like being a part of that kind of stuff?
POWELL: I feel like today's generation does not know much about the history of World War II. I was introduced by an Atlanta schoolteacher as a fighter pilot from World War "11." So I determined that I was going to do my best to help educate today's generations about World War II, because it still has a tremendous impact on this country today.
HOLMES: What about you?
GUY GUNTER, WWII VETERAN: D-Day is my birthday and I celebrate that with my children.
HOLMES: How old were you on D-Day? You turned what age?
GUNTER: Twenty-five.
HOLMES: That was a hell of a way to spend it.
GUNTER: I was in a glider flying over the channel, 1:00 in the morning. It was about 12:30.
HOLMES: Both of you all, since I have been talking to you, have reeled off stuff that happened many, many years ago now. But you can tell me exact dates and you're even giving me exact times now. Does that stuff just never go away?
POWELL: We took off at 2:30 in the morning. Completely blackout takeoff. And one of our pilots crashed into the tower on takeoff because we had no lights whatsoever. And so that's -- you remember things like that.
HOLMES: What was on your mind, and maybe it was fear, maybe it was pride, maybe it was that sense of duty? Were things happening every minute that kind of put you in a different mind-frame?
POWELL: Actually, it was a break for the rest of us. We took off by the fire light of his burning aircraft. The adrenaline was running so good at that particular time I don't think we had any fear. We were just anticipating what we were getting into. I don't think you had time to fear at that point.
HOLMES: Would you agree with that assessment?
GUNTER: When you are going on an invasion, you're scared to death. You don't know what the hell is going to happen. And you're not worrying too much about that. You're worrying about flying the equipment and doing the job you're supposed to do.
POWELL: That's right.
GUNTER: The rest of it comes naturally.
HOLMES: How did your day start? And do you remember the time as well when it started?
GUNTER: Took off at 12:00 at night. And we landed around 1:00, 25 miles back of the front. So we had an easy deal. That was the easiest mission I flew. Because we didn't have -- we had the element of surprise with us. We didn't have many people shooting at us.
But the problem we had, of course, we went in with the paratroopers, as you know. But the paratroopers that went in before us were oscillating. They had that old parachute. And they would hit these poles and break their backs and their arms and their legs. It was awful. So we had it easy. We'd go in in the gliders.
HOLMES: Still amazing to hear you say you had it easy.
GUNTER: It was.
HOLMES: Did you know you were making history, I guess, I should say? Did it feel like that at the time or were you just doing your duty?
GUNTER: Doing what I was supposed to do.
POWELL: That's right.
GUNTER: They paid me. But when you sign those papers, you've got to do what you're supposed to do.
POWELL: That's right.
GUNTER: And you do the best job you can and you try to stay alive. Because when you land it's either you or that guy.
HOLMES: Stay alive. How close did you come to not making it back?
GUNTER: I had several times. I could bore you to death with -- everybody in the service has those times. But most of our action was in close. And we did what we were going to do and tried to stay alive in a matter of hours, minutes. Because when you land, you're as close as we are here to the enemy.
HOLMES: Why did you want military service anyway?
GUNTER: Well, to fight for my country, naturally. And also it's exciting. You get to fly airplanes. You get to do a lot of things that you can't do at home.
HOLMES: Now, he just said he wanted to fight for his country. Do you think over the years, from when you guys were young men to today, do you think that sentiment still exists in the soldiers who are going into the military now?
POWELL: Although they called us the "greatest generation," I think these guys today are another great generation. They're doing -- they're involved in war that we wouldn't want to fight. At least we knew our enemy. They did not. Their enemy could walk up to them and drop a grenade and blow them away.
But we -- we knew our enemy. We could see those big black crosses on the airplanes we were fighting against. So that's a big difference. We still have a great generation out there today.
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SAVIDGE: I would be remiss if I didn't say my father was at D-Day as well. We owe a great debt to all of those who were there.
Well, it is the latest innovation for your computer. It's called "the cloud." The question is, do you need it? We'll weigh in on the pros and cons.
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SAVIDGE: You have probably heard about outsourcing of jobs. But have you heard of outsourcing your computer programs? It might sound a bit confusing. CNN's Kristie Lu Stout explains the latest innovation is called "cloud computing."
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KRISTIE LU STOUT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (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's data center. You're playing a game by remote, sending commands to a computer far away which streams video of the game back to you.
That means you don't need a powerful computer to play the latest games, 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. 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 with faster Internet speeds, you could rely on the far greater processing power or storage space available at some off-line site.
STOUT: And it is very likely you have been doing some cloud computing without even knowing it. Flickr, 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. And by keeping all this information in one place, the means are 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 you're 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 remain reliable. And as anybody who has ever 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. Now you are willingly handing over your information to another company, and relying on somebody else can cost you.
Now when some of Amazon.com's cloud servers suffered a brief outage, it took down the social network foursquare. But worries aside, the shift to the cloud is coming.
(voice-over): Next week, laptops running Google's Chrome OS 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 so little space? Well, Chromebooks are designed for all your data, including your apps, to live remotely on the company's servers. Google is convinced that we, the computer 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 collections. Apple is expected to release the its iCloud tomorrow. It is supposed to compete with Google and Amazon's cloud-based services. But are we really ready to put our music in the cloud? That's what I asked Mashable.com's Chris Taylor.
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CHRIS TAYLOR, SAN FRANCISCO BUREAU CHIEF, MASHABLE.COM: 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 have already bought on iTunes?
So that's what we don't know yet. If it is the former, I think that will be a really formidable cloud service. The other rumor is that it will cost $25 a year. That part I'm not so sure about myself.
I think that, again, 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, though, since you may be a skeptic regarding cloud for music, what about using cloud technology otherwise?
TAYLOR: Oh, otherwise absolutely. I mean, there's a great service called Dropbox that I use to store just about everything that I want to send to other people. It is a very good transmission device. It is a very good way of backing up your data. And it is a very good way of keeping your documents safe for all time, really, as you move from computer to computer.
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SAVIDGE: Life in the cloud.
Don Lemon takes over the next hour of NEWSROOM. And, Don, what have you got?
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: A fascinating story that we have been following. Coming up, Marty, our special report on the Casey Anthony trial. Much of the country, as you know, and really the world, have just been riveted by the little girl dead. Her own mother accused. And I'll have one of the most provocative discussions yet on the subject right here on CNN.
The players, a former criminal profiler who actually worked on the case, Marty, an Orlando reporter who has been in the courtroom for the trial, and a prosecutor. Also a media critic who, by the way, says, much of the interest in the case can be credited to us, the media. He is saying it is a case of the tail wagging the dog.
But one heated moment came when I asked a psychologist if we could expect an insanity defense soon. Listen to this.
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LEMON: So is there the possibility, I have to ask, and maybe you can weigh in as well, Holly, of an insanity defense, is she insane?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No. No. No. Because the kind of lying, you know, the definition of insanity is the inability to understand what they did was wrong. But her lying is all about covering her butt because she clearly knew what she did was wrong. It is highly manipulative.
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LEMON: So you can see it does get heated. We are going to be covering that. You have been following it.
SAVIDGE: Oh yes, there is a lot of legal analysts weighing in on this one.
LEMON: That and the rest of the news, especially the fire that's happening in Arizona. We're going to be covering that as well, over the next two hours.
SAVIDGE: All right. Don, good to see you again, by the way.
LEMON: Thank you, sir.
SAVIDGE: Well, I'm Martin Savidge, sitting in for Fredricka Whitfield. That will do it for me. Have a great weekend.
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