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Fellow Democrats Want Weiner to Resign; Arizona Fire May Take Out Power; Assault Recorded on Cell Phone; Soldiers Win Battle Over Bag Fees; Your Digital Debris; Part Three of 'Sissy Boy Experiment' Report; U.S. Airstrikes Against Al Qaeda in Yemen; Man's New Best Friend

Aired June 09, 2011 - 13:00   ET

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RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR: Well, her family has testified against her. Her car trunk, computer, even her own words have been used to paint Casey Anthony as a monster. The killer of her 2-year-old daughter. Now crime scene photographs of the brutalized Caylee Anthony are the focus of Casey's murder trial and the latest complication for the defense. You may recall Caylee's remains were found six months after she was last seen alive in some woods near her grandparents' home. The heart rending images, including a tiny skull wrapped in duct tape are not being broadcast but their impact in the courtroom is clear.

And that's where I want to begin this hour with Steve Helling, he's covering this trial for "People" magazine. And we're glad he's with us again today on the phone from Orlando. Steve, I have to ask you, what did it feel like in that courtroom when those pictures of Caylee's remains were shown to the jury and the lab tech went into her testimony?

STEVE HELLING, "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE: Well, you know, this was not the first time that those pictures have been shown. In the opening argument, the jurors did see a picture of Caylee's skull. But you know, it was only on the screen for a few minutes back then.

And then today, it was on for, you know, they were showing these pictures and they were showing several pictures. And you know, there were jurors who were sniffling, there were a lot of people looking over at Caylee -- or excuse me, Casey. And then, of course, Casey was crying and would refuse to look at the pictures of her daughter's remains.

KAYE: What did you make of Casey's reaction?

HELLING: Well, you know, Casey has never seen these pictures of her daughter. She's never seen Caylee's remains. And so because of that, I know it was a shock to her just to see them. No matter what her involvement was, or what -- you know, whether she ultimately turns out to be guilty or innocent, you know, seeing these remains is a very gruesome thing and it would be very tough for anybody.

KAYE: Yes.

HELLING: So, she really didn't look at the screen while she -- while those pictures were being shown. What I'd make of it was probably that she was just seeing them for the first time.

KAYE: I want to play a sound bite from the crime tech, Jennifer Welch, who was on the stand, and then I have some more questions for you.

HELLING: Sure.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Can you orient us to the items in the photograph and tell us what is happening at this juncture?

JENNIFER WELCH, ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: Yes. In this photograph, the black plastic bag, the red plastic Disney bag, in this photograph is the skull with duct tape present, and in this photograph the chief medical legal investigator, Steven Hanson, is picking up the skull to remove it from the scene.

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KAYE: Steve, do you think that this has more emotional impact than legal impact from your vantage point?

HELLING: You know, absolutely yes because they're never going to be able to explain exactly how Caylee Anthony died. But you can look at these pictures and you can understand that, this is a 2-year-old girl who is dead now and, you know, that's going to sink in with the jurors and these pictures are going to remain with them throughout the rest of the trial.

KAYE: What else does the prosecution have to do here? I mean, this case is supposed to go on for, what, another five weeks. So, what else do they have up their sleeve? I mean, what's expected next for them?

HELLING: Well, they're going to have to connect some of the dots. I mean, we know right now that there were searches on the computer for chloroform. And we also know that chloroform was found in the trunk. But whether or not the prosecution wins or not, they're going to have to explain kind of the middle step, where was the chloroform gotten and what did -- you know, how was it applied and that type of thing we haven't heard yet. So, there's still some gaps in the theory -- the theory of the prosecution and they have weeks left to prove it.

KAYE: All right, Steve Helling from "People" magazine for us in Orlando watching this trial. Steve, thank you again for your time today.

HELLING: Thank you.

KAYE: And we want to know what you think. Should Casey Anthony take the stand in this case? Join the conversation on our blog, CNN.com/Ali. You can also post on either Ali's or my Facebook and Twitter pages as well.

And our sister network, HLN, is your destination for complete coverage of the Casey Anthony trial. There you can watch special coverage of the trial throughout the day.

Our "Sound Effect" today is the ever increasing loneliness of Anthony Weiner. The New York Congressman who admits tweeting raunchy photographs of himself to female followers is rapidly losing his own following on Capitol Hill. At least six of Weiner's fellow Democratic representatives are publicly urging him to give up his office as are two Democratic senators. Here's one of each.

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REP. ALLYSON SCHWARTZ (D), PENNSYLVANIA: His behavior was, again, unacceptable. To me it was appalling. Again, as a woman, as a colleague of his, it just -- this really does violate his relationship, I think, with his constituents and calls -- I call for his resignation.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you think about Congressman Weiner, should he resign?

SEN. MARK PRYOR (D), ARKANSAS (via telephone): It would be fine with me if he did. I mean, ultimately that's up to him and his constituents and his family, but I think at this point it would probably be a good thing if he would go ahead and resign.

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KAYE: Technically, Weiner can be expelled, but it's generally -- it's the views of his constituents that really matter most. And as we reported yesterday, a poll shows 51 percent want Weiner to hang on. But get this, Weiner's district will almost certainly be eliminated when the maps are redrawn based on the 2010 census. He had been seen as a favorite in the 2013 race for the mayor of New York.

We're also watching the raging wildfires in Arizona which are now threatening power supplies to hundreds of thousands of people. You're looking at a satellite image of the wallow fire, the second-worst wildfire in Arizona's history. We're talking about a fire about half the size of Rhode Island, if that puts it in some perspective for you. It has destroyed 389,000 acres, burning what looks like a giant bear paw in eastern Arizona.

Fire officials say the wallow fire is expanding and is dangerously close to taking out transmission lines. A Tucson Electric spokesman says the fire is just eight miles from some of their main lines. Firefighters are hoping to gain an upper hand with winds dying down just a little bit today, but they still have an uphill battle.

I'm about to show you some remarkable video. The next 13 seconds are critical to an incredibly quick thinking and brave sexual assault victim who used her cell phone to capture this.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Will you please leave? How did you get in here?

(END VIDEO CLIP) KAYE: What's amazing about this is the woman captures the suspect as the man -- you see there -- is burglarizing her home in Oakland, California. You see the box he's carrying? Police say that box is filled with the women's stolen electronics and there he is on his way out. But most importantly, it's taken moments before the man then sexually assaults the woman recording this video.

I want you to take a very good look at his face. The suspect is described at a bald black male in his early 40s, about five foot nine, weighing 160 pounds. We take a much closer look at that video and the woman behind it in our next hour.

U.S. military personnel traveling on orders will now be able to check more bags for free on Delta flights, the policy change takes place immediately. It follows the outrage stirred up by two U.S. soldiers returning from Afghanistan who vented that Delta charged them hundreds of dollars in bag fees and posted it on YouTube.

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ROBERT O'HAIR, STAFF SERGEANT, UNITED STATES ARMY: We had actually to end up paying out of pocket our own money to allow that fourth bag to be taken on the plane.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How much you pay?

O'HAIR: Two hundred dollars per bag.

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KAYE: In all, they played about $2,800 together. Military personnel will now be able to carry four bags in coach an five bags in first and business class for free on Delta. United Continental has made similar changes, an American Airlines will now allow five free checked-in bags for the military.

You punch something into your browser, you view a Web page and you think it's gone forever. Right? If you hit delete? Well, the murder trial of the decade is proving that almost everything you do on a computer does leave a trail. We look into this right after the break. Don't touch your computer or cell phone until you hear this.

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KAYE: Now we'll look at some high-tech testimony from the Casey Anthony trial. Prosecutors called a witness who said someone conducted key word searches on chloroform and neck breaking using a desktop computer in the home Anthony shared with her parents. Well, the searches were found on the computer's hard drive and that indicated they had been deleted, but still fully retrievable.

Lance Ulanoff, editor and chief of PCMag.com joins us now. Lance, help us understand, if you will, what this all means. I mean, if these files were deleted no matter who did that, because we certainly don't know at this point, but how can deleted files be retrieved? LANCE ULANOFF, EDITOR IN CHIEF OF PCMAG.COM: Well, you have to understand how storing digital data actually works, how computers work, and very simply, when you delete something, it doesn't mean that the computer has wiped it out, scrubbed it away. It only means that you've said, look, this space is open for you to store something else. The problem is, hard drives today are massive, so usually that stuff never gets overwritten, and if you work hard enough, you can you find it.

KAYE: So, break down for us then what happens when we send an e-mail or a text or a tweet, where does it go?

ULANOFF: Boy, it goes so many places. So, obviously if you send out a tweet, it's hitting that Twitter server, it's also going to the person who received the tweet, right? So, you've got it on your desktop, you've got it on the servers, you've got it with someone else.

But what if maybe you sent it in what's called a direct message, that means it's a private message. Everything's fine, right? Not really because someone can simply copy that message, copy the link you sent them and make it public with one click, the private in the digital world becomes public. And this is something people really don't seem to understand.

KAYE: So, we do leave a trail then, nothing is really private.

ULANOFF: We leave a trail everywhere we go. We leave a trail on our hard drives, we leave a trail on our -- on the server. So, say if you take photos of something and you share it privately, well it's still on that server somewhere and, for example, Twitter has all of your tweets. Even though you can't see all of them, they have all of them. So, they could be subpoenaed and someone could have to show those tweets to the world.

KAYE: Oh, boy, that's very good to know. All right Lance, I want you to hang with me here because I want your help on this next story.

A British group owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch is fighting accusations it hacked the phones of the royal family and top politicians. British media named Tony Blair and Kate Middleton as possible victims. If Blair and Middleton are vulnerable, what information about us, Lance, can be obtained by hacking a cell phone? That's my concern.

ULANOFF: You know, smart phones are simply computers that we hold in our hands, right? So, they work very similarly, everything you do there is stored on there. You know, lots of times people say I've been texting and I ran out of space. Why did you run out of space? Because all of that stuff is stored on your phone.

Now typically, the only way to really get that information off the phone is if you can get your hands on the phone. For example, some police officers, it was a case in Michigan where they were taking the phone from stopped drivers, they were plugging it in to something and basically downloading everything that was on there. That's one way. There's also sort of a digital reader like over the air reader that can possibly grab information over the air. And I know that's something they used to do in England a while ago, but it's illegal to sell those devices now. But there are a variety of ways to do it, and if you lose your cell phone and everything's not encrypted, certainly people with access it and find everything that you've done there.

KAYE: So, anyone watching right now is probably wondering, well, if the royal family can get hacked, I mean, is there a way to keep our information safe from hackers?

ULANOFF: Not if they're aggressive enough. I mean, if they truly want to hack you, they're going to hack you if they want to. I mean, look, we just heard about Citibank, right - Citigroup, they just -- how many -- 200,000 records from customers that were basically stolen from them? It can be done for your phone, it can be done for your desktop.

So really, it's about -- thinking about what do you store, how do you store it, how do you keep track of it, when you throw out your computer, what do you do with the hard drive? Do you just simply throw it out with it? No, you take that hard drive out an run a nail through it or you keep it stored with you so you have to make sure you understand how easy it is for people to access this data and to get at it, you know, basically any way they want.

KAYE: Wow, that's some interesting information and certainly important information for all of us to know in this digital age.

Lance Ulanoff, thank you so much.

ULANOFF: My pleasure.

KAYE: Well, some car dealers are jacking up prices by $20,000. Yes, you heard me right, $20,000. But that's not all they're doing. Find out what else they're doing. Stay with us.

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KAYE: With high gas prices, many consumers are changing their driving habits. And, in some cases, their mode of transportation. Hybrid an electric cars have become an alternative. But when demand goes up, well, so does the price. Take the Chevy Volt, for example. Because of heavy demand for GM's first hybrid electric vehicle, dealers have marked the price up as high as $20,000. Also, there are reports of dealers buying and selling the cars among themselves. That way they can claim the tax credit on the vehicle and buyers are left with a used car that is ineligible for that credit.

Exxon Mobil has announced a big discovery in the Gulf of Mexico. The company says it has found the equivalent of 700 million barrels of oil about 250 miles south of New Orleans. Exploratory drilling started in 2009, but was halted last year after the BP oil spill. Drilling resumed under stricter rules in March. Exxon says the size of this new field may actually increase as drilling continues. Citigroup has alerted its customers of a major security breach. The breach occurred last month and affects about 200,000 customers. Roughly 1 percent of Citi bank card customers. Hackers had access to information such as name, account number and contact info, such as e- mails addresses and phone numbers. The company says other information, such as Social Security numbers, date of birth and security codes was not compromised.

And be sure to join Christine Romans for "Your Bottom Line" each Saturday morning at 9:30 Eastern. And don't miss "Your Money" with Ali Velshi, Saturdays at 1:00 p.m. Eastern and Sundays at 3:00.

It's time right now, about 20 minutes past the hour, and here's a look at the top stories this hour.

Alabama Governor Robert Bentley has signed into law an immigration bill considered by both supporters and critics as the toughest in the nation. Among the measures in the bill, businesses must use the e- verify database to confirm the immigration status of new employees. If any business knowingly employs an illegal immigrant, it will be subject to fines and possibly a revocation of its license.

As a number of people in Congress continue to call for Rep. Anthony Weiner to resign, his office says that option is not on the table. A Weiner spokesman says polling indicates a majority of the voters in his district want him to remain in office. The married congressman has come under fire as lewd texts and other electronics transmissions have come to light between him and several females he met online.

Jurors at the murder trial of Casey Anthony were shown pictures today of the skeletal remains of her two-year-old daughter. The photographs from the crime scene investigator brought Anthony to tears. You can see it there. The investigator also described other items found at the crime scene, including duct tape, a black plastic bag and clothing remnants.

Up next, Candy Crowley takes a look at the Republican men and women who are trying to unseat President Obama. It's part of our "Contenders" series. And we'll have it for you right after the break.

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KAYE: Since our "Contenders" series began in February, one of the things we've followed is the Republican ride of the race to the White House. What we have seen taking shape is a contest without a front- runner or a real marquee name. Our Candy Crowley sizes up a wide-open field that's moving toward its first real test.

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CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): No arguing the field has breadth. There is Mitt Romney, the former Republican governor of liberal Massachusetts, who needed to convince primary doubters of his core conservatism.

MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Now we're going to return the responsibility and authority to the states for dozens of government programs. And that will begin with a complete repeal of Obamacare.

CROWLEY: And there is Texas Congressman Ron Paul on his third run at the Oval Office. Sometimes referred to as the intellectual godfather of the Tea Party, he'll need to convince doubters he's more than a conversation mover.

RON PAUL (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: There are many who would like to belittle this effort. But let me tell you, there is an old saying, three's the charm.

CROWLEY: It's largely a field of formers, not a contemporary marquee name, nor a perfect fit in the bunch.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When are you going to announce?

NEWT GINGRICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: 9:00 tonight.

CROWLEY: Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, a conservative big-idea guy, who often careens of message and carries some personal baggage.

TIM PAWLENTY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If we want a new and better direction, we're going to need a new and better president.

CROWLEY: Former Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty, chief executive material, he maneuvered his way through two terms in one of the bluest states in the country, but he'll have to defend some of that record to a conservative base and work on upping his campaign skills to the national level.

RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Who are you, Mr. President, to say that you and your administration should take 40 cents out of every dollar and borrow it from future generations to prop you up?

CROWLEY: Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, a fave of social conservatives whose first pressing problem is convincing people he has a shot at powerhouse team Obama.

HERMAN CAIN (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

CROWLEY: And the former CEO of Godfather's Pizza, Herman Cain, a conservative radio host, dismissed by Republican stalwarts as entertainment, he has, nonetheless, found some poll traction.

Almost 40 percent of Republicans say they're not satisfied with this field. Critics have called it weak, but a top Republican strategist thinks it's more like wide-open -- American style.

ED GILLESPIE, REPUBLICAN STRATEGIST: People like to have a lot of choices. When they go into the grocery store and they're looking at cereals, they want a lot of -- a big array of, you know, choices. The same is true for, you know, activists and others. They want lots of choices. And that will be the case, you know, until things are settled.

CROWLEY: Tea Party star Congresswoman Michele Bachmann and former Utah Governor and U.S. Ambassador to China John Huntsman are two of the premier unsettled pieces of the Republican puzzle. But they need to get in now, if not earlier. People are choosing sides, campaign money is finite, and time is almost up.

GILLESPIE: (INAUDIBLE) straw poll is less than three months away, which is, you know, the first, you know, real event of the primary cycle. So, yes, time's, you know, beginning to -- the calendar's beginning to accelerate.

CROWLEY: Just 516 days until the 2012 election.

Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.

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KAYE: One of the first big tests for the GOP field will occur Monday. That's when CNN will host the New Hampshire presidential debate. Join us as the Republican hopefuls gather to size one another up and debate the issues. New Hampshire Republican presidential debate, next Monday night, only on CNN.

A horrible scene in an Indian city Thursday morning when an elephant goes on a rampage. We'll have the rest of this video when we come back.

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KAYE: We are nearing the bottom of the hour. Here's a look at the stories you might have missed.

In the capital murder trial of Casey Anthony, jurors were shown two photos of her daughter's skeletal remains. Anthony cried as the photos were displayed. A crime scene technician who responded to the scene described what was found along with the remains, including a red plastic Disney bag and duct tape, which could be seen on the skull.

As wildfires continue to burn in Arizona, a red flag alert has been lifted for the eastern part of the state. Power companies are now planning for the possibility of fires affecting transmission lines with the fire just eight miles from power lines in Tucson. Tucson Electric serves about 400,000 customers. Firefighters have been aided today by calmer win in the area.

Rapper Flo Rida has been arrested in Miami on suspicion of DUI and driving on a suspended license. Police say the rapper was pulled over early today when he was spotted driving his 2008 Bugatti erratically through the streets of South Beach. The rapper, real name Tramar Dillard, blew a .185 on the breathalyzer test, more than twice the legal limit. Flo Rida made it big in 2007, you may recall, with his hit single "Low."

We have to warn you, this next video we're about to show you is very graphic. Take a look here. Residents in the Indian city of Mansour were stunned when two wild elephants stormed in to the city. The elephants kept police and forest officials at bay for about six hours yesterday before they were knocked out by tranquilizers. At least one person was killed, three others were injured. Police believe the elephants came from a nearby forest.

Still ahead, part two of our investigation. The Sissy Boy Experiment uncovering the truth. Today we confront the psychologist, this woman you're about to see, blames for her brother's suicide.

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MARIS MURPHY, SISTER OF KIRK MURPHY: This was a little boy who deserved protection, respect, and unconditional love.

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KAYE: In part two of our investigation the Sissy Boy Experiment, Uncovering The Truth, I want to show you a picture of Kirk Andrew Murphy taken in the early 1970s. That was a year before he was enrolled in a government-funded study aimed at making effeminate boys more masculine. His brother says it is the last time he remembers Kirk happy.

Kirk was just five-years-old when he was treated at UCLA's Gender Identity Clinic under a pseudonym to conceal his real name. The man who ran the study was George Rekers, a graduate student at the time. Rekers called Kirk's treatment, which his family says involved beatings at home, a success.

Well, decades later the research that was done on Kirk is still being cited by those who think kids can be prevented from becoming gay. And that's what infuriates Kirk's family. They say the treatment that Rekers calls a success literally destroyed Kirk. They want you to know what he went through and the impact it had on the rest of his life.

In today's report, we confront Rekers with their allegations.

CNN's Anderson Cooper reports.

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MARIS MURPHY: Kirk, what do you think of your nephew?

KIRK MURPHY, SUBJECTED TO GENDER IDENTITY EXPERIMENT: Are we on camera?

MARIS MURPHY: Yes.

KIRK MURPHY: Are you taking pictures?

COOPER (voice-over): Kirk Murphy killed himself nearly six months after this video was taken in 2003. He was 38 years old and had struggled with being gay for most of his life, a struggle his family blames on experimental therapy that Kirk was subjected to as a 5-year- old child. Experimental therapy that identified him as effeminate, a so-called "sissy boy", and tried to fundamentally change his behavior.

Kirk's mother enrolled him in the experimental therapy at UCLA in 1970 because of concerns he was playing with girls' toys.

KAYTEE MURPHY, MOTHER OF KIRK: And I trusted these people because they were the experts.

MARIS MURPHY: What they really told him was that the very core of who he was, was broken.

K. MURPHY: I think my husband and I and Kirk were manipulated by this program. I think Kirk would have been better off if I hadn't taken him.

COOPER: Kirk's family had no idea George Rekers has, for the last three decades, used Kirk as an example of a child whose effeminate behavior was successfully altered. In numerous publications, Rekers has written about Kirk, calling him Kraig to hide his identity.

K. MURPHY: I blame them for the way his life turned out. If one person causes another person's death, I don't care if it's 20 or 50 years, it's the same as murder in my eyes.

COOPER: Of course, the actual reason someone commits suicide is difficult, if not impossible, to know. Kirk's family's allegations that George Rekers' therapy caused Kirk to take his own life are just that, allegations.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: From CNN. I'd like to talk about your therapy that you did with Kraig.

COOPER: George Rekers didn't respond to CNN's repeated request for an interview, so our producers tracked him down in Florida to ask him about the Murphy family's allegations.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Can you just talk to us for a second about your therapy with the patient named Kraig?

GEORGE REKERS, CONDUCTED EXPERIMENT: It's published.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've interviewed Kraig's family recently. They say that the therapy you did with him as a child led directly to his suicide as an adult. What do you say about that?

REKERS: I didn't know that. That's too bad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're not aware of his suicide?

REKERS: No.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What do you say to the family if they say that the therapy that you did with him as a child led to his suicide as an adult?

REKERS: Well, I think scientifically, that would be inaccurate, to assume that it was the therapy.

But I do grieve for the parents now that you've told me that news. I think that's very sad. COOPER: Rekers pointed out that his work with Kirk took place decades before his suicide.

REKERS: That's a long time ago. You have a hypothesis that positive treatment back in the 1970s had something to do with something happening decades later. That hypothesis needs a lot of scientific investigation to see if it's valid.

Two independent psychologists with me had evaluated him and said he was better adjusted after treatment. So it wasn't my opinion.

COOPER: One of those psychologists has since died. The other, Larry Ferguson, told us he did evaluate Kirk Murphy as a teenager. He told us the family was well-adjusted and he didn't see any red flags when evaluating Kirk.

But a psychiatrist who followed up with Kirk when he was 18, Dr. Richard Green, wrote that Kirk told him he tried to kill himself the year before because he didn't, quote, "want to grow up to be gay".

COOPER: Rekers insists the therapy was intended to help Kirk and his parents.

REKERS: I only meant to help. The rationale was positive, to help children, help the parents who come to us in their distress, asking questions: "What can we do to help our child be better adjusted?"

COOPER: George Rekers has had a nearly three-decade career as a champion of the anti-gay movement. In addition to being a founding member of the Family Research Council, he was also a board member of the National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality or NARTH, an organization whose members attempt to treat those who struggle with what they call unwanted homosexuality.

Just last year, however, in a surprising twist, George Rekers' days as a prominent anti-gay activist abruptly ended. Rekers was caught with a young male escort he'd hired to accompany him on a trip to Europe. This photograph was taken of them in the airport in Miami. Rekers says he's not gay and denies any sexual contact with the escort. He says he hired him to help him carry his luggage. The escort says he gave Rekers sexual massages while in Europe.

Rekers resigned from NARTH after the scandal, and the Family Research Council said in a statement they haven't had contact with him in over a decade.

Rekers' reputation among those who oppose homosexuality may be tarnished, but his research is still being cited. In this book he co- authored, "Handbook of Therapy for Unwanted Homosexual Attractions", he continues to cite his work with Kirk, whom he calls Kraig, as a success. He writes that the case was, quote, "the first experimentally-demonstrated reversal of a cross-gender identity with psychological treatment". The book was published in 2009, six years after Kirk Murphy took his own life.

MARIS MURPHY: The research has a postscript to it that needs to be added, and that is to acknowledge that Kirk Andrew Murphy was Kraig, and he was gay, and he committed suicide.

COOPER (on camera): What do you want people to -- to remember about Kirk, to know about Kirk?

MARIS MURPHY: That this was a little boy who deserved protection, respect, and unconditional love. And I don't want him to be remembered as a science experiment. He was a person.

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KAYE: And tomorrow, part three of the Sissy Boy Experience. What happened to Kirk Andrew Murphy isn't just a piece of history, it turns out. Today all around the country, children whose families are concerned they may be gay are being sent to therapy based, in part, on George Rekers' research.

It happened to Ryan Kendall when he was 14.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I thought there was some legitimacy to this idea that I was an evil sinner who was going to burn in hell. And for years, I thought that God hated me because I was gay.

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KAYE: Ryan says the therapy he was forced to get drove him to drugs and into a very deep depression.

Well, tonight in part three of our investigation, I'll share Ryan's story on "ANDERSON COOPER 360." You'll hear from Ryan and the psychologist who treated him who says he's kept hundreds of children from growing up to be gay.

KAYE: Despite mounting calls from colleagues, Representative Anthony Weiner gives no indication that he will resign. Dana bash will join us right after the break and she'll tell us what Weiner's wife, Huma Abedin is advising him to do.

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KAYE: Time now for a CNN political update. Our senior congressional correspondent Dana Bash joins me now from Capitol Hill.

Dana, you've been covering this Weiner controversy since day one.

What is the very latest today?

DANA BASH, CNN SENIOR CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, Randi, we were reporting yesterday about a stepped up effort by Weiner's colleagues to try to get him to resign. But we understand that that is not in the cards, at least from his perspective.

I talked to a source describing a conversation that Weiner had with one of his New York colleagues, a Democratic Congresswoman, Congressman from the House, who said that the way that Weiner was talking is that he said that he's not going to resign and he actually explained the reason for that by saying that he does not believe that his wife Huma Abedin wants him to resign, that she wants him to stay in Congress. And, he cited some polling from New York this week that says the majority of New Yorkers want him to stay in office.

The source described him as dug-in, that he has no plans to go anywhere. And, in fact, the "New York Post" just caught up with the Congressman in New York City and he basically said something very similar.

Listen to this.

REP. ANTHONY WEINER (D), NEW YORK: Look, I've betrayed a lot of people and I know it and I'm trying to get back to work now and try to make amends to my constituents and, of course, to my family, of course.

QUESTION: Where are you headed today?

WEINER: I'm going back to my community office, try to get some work done.

QUESTION: That's where you're headed now?

WEINER: I don't know whether to tell you or not. But, yes, yes, yes.

QUESTION: But you said you're not planning on resigning?

WEINER: I'm not.

QUESTION: Are there any more pictures out there that you think are going to come forward?

WEINER: As I've said in my -- when I spoke at the press conference on Monday, that I, you know, exchanged in appropriate things with people and I, you know, I think that I've now got to deal with those consequences. But I was completely honest on Monday after I hadn't been for a while.

QUESTION: How -- I'm sorry, what was that? That last part?

WEINER: I said I was completely honest on Monday after I had not been for a while.

QUESTION: What about the wife and your pregnancy? How are you feeling about that?

WEINER: I have no comment.

QUESTION: Do you know if it is a boy or girl?

WEINER: See you soon.

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BASH: Now, as you saw, Randi, obviously the congressman is back in New York. The House is not in session, it hasn't been all week long, but there are some meetings going on today. And one of the members of Anthony Weiner's Democratic leadership, Jim Clyburn, was just talking to reporters, including our Deirdre Walsh, and said that he's not going to comment on whether or not he believes Weiner should resign. But he did say that the Democratic Caucus will have something to say about it at some point when they come back.

He wasn't specific about what that meant but very interesting, even if Anthony Weiner's saying he's not going to resign now, Congress has not been here, at least the House, and when he comes back next week, it's going to be pretty intense for him with his colleagues here.

KAYE: It is interesting just to watch him. He certainly seems comfortable answering whatever questions that reporter from the "Post" was throwing at him. So that is nice to see.

All right, Dana Bash, thank you so much.

A key U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda engulfed in political turmoil. We'll tell you why U.S. airstrikes have resumed in Yemen after a pause of nearly a year right after this.

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KAYE: The United States has resumed air strikes against al Qaeda targets in Yemen after nearly a year-long pause. A U.S. military official says that a top al Qaeda commander may have been killed in a recent attack.

Yemen President Ali Abdullah Saleh has been a solid U.S. ally in the fight against al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, which is based in the country. But a violent political conflict has left him struggling to cling to power. He fled the country last week for medical treatment in Saudi Arabia after rebels attacked his presidential compound.

CNN's Nic Robertson is following developments in Abu Dhabi and joins us now.

Nic, what can you tell us about these new U.S. airstrikes and what some call really a secret campaign against al Qaeda in Yemen?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Randi, it's very interesting. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton was here a little earlier meeting at a contact group on Libya, and she was asked that question about these bombing runs in Yemen, and she offered no answer at all. She said, I'm not going to comment on operations. It certainly gives the impression that those operations may be ongoing.

There have been drone strikes in the past. They have targeted al Qaeda leaders. Anwar Awlaki the Yemeni cleric who inspired a number of attacks inside the U.S. and other parts of the world, there were strikes against him. What's happened in the past, though, sometimes they've missed, it's angered the Yemeni population.

But right now, it seems al Qaeda, particularly in some of the southern provinces, is trying to take advantage of the sort of fighting in the rest of the country to take territory for weakened government forces. And by targeting them now, if that's what's happening, as they come at them in the open is easier than it has been in the past where forces have been better hidden and less well easy to see, Randi.

KAYE: And talking about al Qaeda, let's stick with that for a moment, any idea of the strength of al Qaeda there? And is it really trying to take advantage of the political crisis?

ROBERTSON: Absolutely. There are towns that would like to be able to take control over, at least in the interim to put pressure on the governors of certain provinces, if they can, because they would like to be able to operate more freely.

Al Qaeda is an undisputed danger for any Yemeni government. It's undisputed danger for Saudi Arabia that borders it. But some of the bigger dangers are for the international community, because Yemen and al Qaeda and Yemen are able to use the space they have available there to develop new weapons.

And we've seen them putting a bomb in a printer and then sending that by air cargo. We've seen them putting bombs in underpants, so-called underpants bomber Christmas 2009, almost blew up a plane over Detroit.

So they are a great danger to the rest of the world because they have the space to train and to operate and come up with new bomb making techniques. So that's the concern now, that they can take control of towns, villages, take the pressure of them in their camps and wherever they develop these weapons, Randi.

KAYE: Nic Robertson for us in Abu Dhabi. Nic, thank you.

It's 52 minutes past the hour. Checking some of our top stories.

A new development in allegations that Libyan Leader Moammar Gadhafi's security forces are using Viagra-type drugs to rape women. The chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court in the Netherlands says he's become more convinced that Gadhafi decided to punish women by using rape as a weapon. He says his office is investigating reports that, in some areas, 100 women were raped by security forces.

Scores of Syrians are fleeing across the border into turkey, ahead of a feared government shutdown. Turkey says more than 1,000 crossed the border overnight. The refugees say they fear a revenge attack from the Syrian military after the government claimed that 120 security forces were killed by what it called armed gangs.

In northwestern Pakistan now, some 100 militants stormed a security post today killing eight soldiers and wounding 12. At least 12 insurgents were killed. The attack near the Afghan border happened the day after a U.S. drone strike killed 23 suspected militants at a training camp.

Well, here's a question for you: What do bedbugs and the George Foreman Spin Fryer have in common? It may be something every home wanted in the future. We will show you what it is after the break.

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KAYE: Bedbugs. Yes, the name sounds kind of cute, but if you've had them, you hate them. The blood-sucking pests can infest anyone's home, leaving behind itchy bite marks on that skin of yours, and you can't wait for the critters to die since they can live for one year without eating.

Historically, only trained dogs have been used to sniff them out for extermination, but my next guest created an electronic dog nose that anyone can use to locate the agitating creatures. "Popular Science" named it one of the top inventions of the year. Chris Goggin, creator of the Bedbug Detector, joins me now.

Chris, your resume includes everything from military missile electronics to the George Foreman Spin Fryer. So what on Earth inspired you to make this?

CHRIS GOGGIN, INVENTOR: Well, hi. Good afternoon, Randi. Nice to speak to you.

Well, you know, my background, you know to keep fresh, I get bored easily. So I have a very eclectic collection of projects that I work on. And the reason for that is actually for inventors is a very good one, and that means you can draw in all kinds of different ideas, concepts, technologies from all different seemingly eclectic, odd, you know, non-connected areas and bring fresh ideas, basically out-of-the- box ideas into this.

But this originally started several years ago as a termite detector project and a low-cost version of that. And the local exterminators, local exterminators, Clegs (ph) -- by the way, they've been cooperative in helping in developing this product, they're a local exterminating company here in North Carolina.

KAYE: Well, tell me you have been able, though, to get a machine to sniff out what trained dogs can.

GOGGIN: Well, inspiration came from our dog, Nina, our cocker spaniel. And it started out as a basic elemental gas detector detecting methane and carbon dioxide, gases that all living things give off. The problem with that was that was we needed something that would identify specifically what you're looking for, because all living things, you and I, other animals give things off.

KAYE: So can you show how it works here, quickly.

GOGGIN: Oh, sure, absolutely. This is the unit here that you see in "Popular Science." It's basically just one switch here in the back. I'm just going turn it on, and display will come up, and it goes through a short little warm-up cycle here, in a few seconds it will be ready to go and that's it.

It's pretty much designed to just like our iPhones and the things we expect to use these days. It's a user-friendly device. It's got a graphic -- flat-panel graphic display here that steers you through.

KAYE: Does this sniff out bedbugs or can it get some of those other critters, too?

GOGGIN: Well, at the moment, it's programmed just for bedbugs, but what we're doing is endeavoring to make this pretty much an identifying tool so that if you're near bedbugs, you'll see bedbugs; if you're near German cockroaches, you'll -- if they're nearby, it'll pick those up; et cetera.

So it's -- right now it's just specifically bedbug detecting tool.

KAYE: Very cool.

GOGGIN: And what it's doing now is -- yes, it's been a fun project. It's sniffing right now and it's taking in air samples and it's reporting pheromones --

KAYE: Chris, we'll continue to follow that product and keep an eye on it when it gets to market. Thanks for joining us today.

GOGGIN: Oh, thank you.

KAYE: And, of course, for much more about the Electronic Bedbug Detective, you can check out our blog at CNN.com/Ali.

And don't forget to tune in tomorrow, as always, we like to say, same "Big I" time, same "Big I" channel.