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GOP Floods Iowa; Will Sarah Palin Run?; Stopping Pimps in Anaheim; Philadelphia Imposes Curfew on Teenagers; Meteor Shower Expected; Court Releases Warren Jeffs Sex Tapes; Somalia Famine Worsening; Straw Poll 101

Aired August 12, 2011 - 16:00   ET

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: Meantime, just about the top of the hour for me here in Atlanta. Watch this.

Those Republicans who are hoping to become president are all together in one state that could make or break them. Already, the sparks are flying. We'll take you there live.

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BROOKE BALDWIN, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Brooke Baldwin. The news is now.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I would define him as pretty much a slave owner.

BALDWIN (voice-over): CNN goes undercover during a sex sting.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When you can get back out, let's jam him.

BALDWIN: An inside look at how teams bust pimps and the young girls they're selling. See a stakeout play out in real time.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Do you remember me? Do you remember my son?

BALDWIN: Her teenager killed himself after a judge hands down a severe sentence for a minor charge. Now that judge is in big trouble. Wait until you hear why.

Plus, it's like a tattoo. Only, this sees inside of you, yes, electronic skin. Welcome to the future.

And the sky is falling tonight. A meteor storm is a coming.

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BALDWIN: Welcome back to the second hour here of this CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Brooke Baldwin.

The question as we look up at the Big Board here, hallelujah, by the way. We are ending the week well, very much so into positive territory, Dow up 126, as those numbers continue to settle. You know, we began the week down, up Tuesday, down Wednesday, up Thursday, and ending up here on this Friday.

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BALDWIN: And let's talk politics, shall we?

You know what? you need a scorecard today just to keep up with all the GOP presidential hopefuls -- a scorecard or maybe a map.

Here you go, Des Moines, Iowa, ground zero ahead of tomorrow's straw poll, Des Moines, Iowa, flooded with Republican candidates. Plus, this woman, there she is, Sarah Palin. Yes, she turned up, got there just a short time ago. No, she's not in the race, at least not officially, but why else would she be in Des Moines, Iowa?

So, here you have Sarah Palin in Iowa, but not the front-runner. No, Mitt Romney left Iowa. He has bolted Iowa. And today he popped up in New Hampshire. And Mark Preston, he is going to join us shortly from there to tell us why.

Also, look at another state, South Carolina, awaiting Rick Perry, the Texas governor set to announce tomorrow in Charleston that he is getting into the race. And that, my friends, will make this a whole new ball game.

But let's go back, Des Moines, Iowa.

I have Shannon Travis, I have Peter Hamby, these two guys, standing by for me.

And, Peter, let me begin with you. I know you were there today when Sarah Palin shows up there at the state fair. It's odd, the timing. She's not in the straw poll tomorrow. Obviously, we know she's not in the race, but there she is. Poof, she's there and the media followed.

PETER HAMBY, CNN POLITICAL PRODUCER: They do follow. We do follow.

She commands that kind of attention. She commands that kind of attention more than anybody else in the Republican field. And she doesn't even have to tell us where she's going to be. Her aides were tight-lipped all week. They usually are about her appearances. But she just showed up in the hall of champions cattle barn, a little ways away from here.

And word ricocheted around the fairgrounds here that she was making an appearance. And we all went and talked to her. She insists that this is just a coincidence. She was invited here. She's not crashing the presidential party and she said she's going to leave before the straw poll so she doesn't steal the spotlight from that, Brooke.

BALDWIN: Do we have -- do we have Sarah Palin sound, guys, that we want to throw to?

Yes, let's listen, Sarah Palin earlier today. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SARAH PALIN (R), FORMER ALASKA GOVERNOR: I don't think I'm stealing any spotlight. In fact, if anybody thinks I'm stealing the spotlight, go, go find the other folks and say hello.

Very thankful to have been invited to the state fair and to get to be with my family and highlight this all-American venue. And this is part of our One Nation Tour road trip. And we will get to do some more historical events. And I consider the Iowa State Fair quite historical.

QUESTION: So, listen, why haven't you decided? Why haven't you declared?

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PALIN: -- that I'm not the only one who has not decided yet and not ready to announce --

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PALIN: -- yet. There's still a lot of contemplation that needs to go into such a earth-shattering, life-changing decision.

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HAMBY: Now, you heard Palin say she still has time. She says late September is the timeline for her. She is laying a little bit of groundwork, I can tell you, Brooke. She was escorted around the grounds by an Iowa political operative. And she had a private meeting with Iowa Republican activists to lay some groundwork in the state in case she does decide to run for president next month.

BALDWIN: Gosh, you have to throw some elbows just to get close to Sarah Palin with that crowd around her.

Hamby, stand by.

Shannon Travis, my next one is for you. We talked about this yesterday, tomorrow's Iowa straw poll. It could claim some casualties in one, possibly more campaigns. And we have talked a lot about Tim Pawlenty. He has put a lot of eggs in the Iowa basket and he needs a strong finish. Someone else in need of a strong finish is Rick Santorum.

And, Shannon, I understand that he talked about that to one of our own reporters. What did he say?

SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN POLITICAL PRODUCER: He absolutely did, Brooke.

I mean, while everybody is paying attention to Sarah Palin, it seems that Rick Santorum, the former Pennsylvania senator, seems that he can't catch a break. You're right, he spoke with Candy Crowley a short while ago about what he needs to do Saturday, tomorrow, in this crucial contest in Ames.

Recently, in our most recent CNN/OCR International poll, he ranked 2 percent in the polls and he's been ranking very low recently. But again, what might he do if he has a very weak finish in Ames? Take a listen at what he told Candy Crowley just a short while ago, Brooke.

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CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: Five is the number you picked here.

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CROWLEY: What if it's sixth or seventh or eighth?

RICK SANTORUM (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I think we're running eighth or ninth. I think we have to be in the top five.

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SANTORUM: If we are not in the top five, I think this tells me we don't have the organizational ability to get this thing done.

And, you know, we are -- you know, we were hoping that this is a marathon, but, you know, we have got to show that we have got some momentum, we're building a team. So I sort of am drawing the line there.

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TRAVIS: A stark admission, Brooke, from Rick Santorum. Could he be a casualty after this contest is over tomorrow? Could be.

You heard him say it right there. A point of fact, this has happened before. In 2007, four years ago, this Ames contest claimed a casualty in former Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: OK, he has to finish top four, top five to want to stay in this thing.

Peter Hamby, I'm finishing with you here, because other than Sarah Palin, you have this other elephant in the room, an elephant who we learned wears cowboy boots each and every day, thanks to Wayne Slater of "The Dallas Morning News," Rick Perry, Texas governor. He's set to enter the race tomorrow, we know, down in Charleston, South Carolina.

What are folks out there saying about the Texas governor and how will he shake up this race?

HAMBY: Well, what folks here in Iowa interestingly are saying is they're kind of -- some Republican insiders out here are a little offended by the fact that Governor Perry is announcing his campaign on Saturday on the same day as the Ames straw poll, which is a huge fund- raiser for the Iowa Republican Party. It's a big day for them. They think it's kind of a swaggering sort of Texas move to just kind of bigfoot what they're doing. And they're saying he's got to come out here and actually lay some groundwork. But I can tell you, Brooke, the Perry campaign, the future Perry campaign is doing their due diligence.

They have lined up money. They're planning a big two weeks ahead and Perry will come right out here to Iowa on Sunday and spend some time here, then go to New Hampshire. He will come back. He is going to hit all of these early states. So you're totally right. Rick Perry, because of his conservatism and his ability to raise a lot of money and a pretty respectable jobs record in Texas, he has the potential to fundamentally reshape this race. But the next two weeks will be critical for him to kind of maintain the buzz and momentum that he's got so far, Brooke.

BALDWIN: What a race. It's getting more interesting, tomorrow even more so. Shannon Travis and Peter Hamby, guys, thanks so much. Enjoy those Twinkies. Doing Twinkies on us here with those guys standing there at the state fair.

All right, focus on Iowa, we have got that. The front-runner Mitt Romney here, he has pulled an end run, bolted the Hawkeye State for New Hampshire.

Mark Preston ahead of the story. Of course, he is.

Mark Preston, my question is this. What is Mitt Romney doing in New Hampshire, the state where he announced his campaign not too long ago for president?

MARK PRESTON, CNN POLITICAL EDITOR: Well, look, Brooke, there's no question that Mitt Romney has to win New Hampshire if he is to win the Republican nomination.

In fact, in a couple of hours he will be at a house just behind me talking to New Hampshire voters. The Romney campaign made a calculation that it wasn't worth the money, the time or the effort to try to woo the Iowa caucus voters, the reason being the Iowa caucus voters tend to be social conservatives. Mitt Romney is running his campaign solely on the economy.

So, that's why we're seeing Mitt Romney not playing in the Iowa straw poll, not committing the millions of dollars that it would take to put a strong organization on the ground there, and, instead, focusing all his of efforts here on the streets of Manchester, New Hampshire -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: Mark, we were just talking about how Rick Perry is throwing his hat in the ring tomorrow in Charleston, South Carolina. My question is, what are the Romney folks saying about Perry now entering the race, the governor?

PRESTON: Well, we're not going to hear much from the Romney folks talking about Rick Perry. We can kind of take a cue from what we have seen Romney do in the last two debates. He never went negative on his opponents. He did weather some attacks. He did them very well. Instead, he focused all of his concentration, though, on President Obama. We saw that last night in the debate up in Ames, Iowa.

What we could see, though, Brooke, is we could see a battle break out, a multimillion-dollar battle break out here on the airwaves in New Hampshire. The reason being is that we have these super PACs that have been created by forces that are aligned or at least supportive with Rick Perry as well as forces that are aligned and supportive with Mitt Romney.

So what you could see is that after the Ames straw poll tomorrow, the battle is going to move here. You will see all the presidential candidates start to spend a lot of time here in New Hampshire. A lot of the candidates had been forsaking New Hampshire. However, we will see these outside groups try to attack each other. Specifically look for the pro-Perry groups to go after Mitt Romney and expect the Romney groups to try to defend themselves here in New Hampshire -- Brooke.

BALDWIN: That's where they're headed, as you said.

Thanks for getting out ahead of the story. Mark Preston, thank you very much.

Now this:

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Undercover investigator Mike has taken a girl's phone and he's texting the driver to pick her up. Mike and the driver text back and forth for more than an hour, playing the cat-and- mouse game.

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BALDWIN: CNN goes undercover during a sex sting.

Coming up next, an inside, behind-the-scenes look at how the feds bust pimps. We're riding along for the stakeout, the hunt and the dramatic ending. You have to see this. This is an exclusive here.

Stay right there.

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BALDWIN: Ritzy neighborhoods, swanky hotels, Disneyland. When you talk of Anaheim, California, you think of those things, right? Well, underneath all that glamour lies the seedy world of prostitution, and our own Martin Savidge joins undercover investigators trying to bust a prostitution ring. And they say, if you can go to the sources, you can catch the pimps. It is easier to shut down an operation than just arresting the girls.

Let's watch how it's done.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They just said we can party without them. (EXPLETIVE DELETED) it. We got our (INAUDIBLE).

MARTIN SAVIDGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Anaheim police vice unit working human trafficking has just made a bust, but it's only the beginning of this case.

They're questioning a 17-year-old girl who agreed to have sex with an undercover investigator for $160, but she's not the team's main focus. In fact, she's not even under arrest. The person they really want is the man she says dropped her off at the hotel, her possible pimp.

SGT. CRAIG FREISEN, ANAHEIM, CALIFORNIA POLICE: I would define a pimp as pretty much a slave owner. It is someone who has people under his control that forces women and men, at times, to work as prostitutes where they go out and they commit acts of prostitution for money and all of the money goes to the pimp.

SAVIDGE: The man who dropped the juvenile off is now driving around the area waiting for her to finish.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, just FYI for the units on the outside, I'm talking to this guy now as her.

SAVIDGE: Undercover investigator Mike has take on the girl's phone and is texting the driver to pick her up. Mike and the driver text back and forth for more than an hour, playing cat and mouse game. Mike tries to get the driver to pick the girl up, the driver tries to get the girl to come to him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You ask him if he's going to be at the 7- Eleven?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No, he said to go to the 7-Eleven.

SAVIDGE: Finally, Mike draws the suspected pimp to a fast food restaurant while other investigators drive around looking for him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'll set up in here. When you can get back out, let's jam him.

SAVIDGE: Sergeant Craig Friesen, the head of the vice unit and the only one whose face we can show you, grabs one of the men in the car, but the driver has already fled. He's caught a block later with the help of an FBI agent who works with the vice unit and brought back to the station.

FRIESEN: I think if the word spreads that, hey, in Anaheim if you're a pimp, the police just aren't out here arresting your girls and you're free to upgrade. We've changed our whole focus to where we're focusing on the pi pimps because they're the real suspects in this.

SAVIDGE: And yet, the case doesn't end with the arrest. FRIESEN: My crew came in and started tying things together through interviews and through the different technologies that we use and we were able to locate another victim today on the Internet.

SAVIDGE: Another victim is found through the accused pimp's cell phone. The squad sets up a date with the erotic woman through an erotic website.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, Mike's door is open and he's out. All right. Go ahead.

SAVIDGE: The woman is not a juvenile like the first victim, which is how the vice unit refers to all prostitutes. She is not arrested, but she is considered the witness in the case. And victim services gets to work to try to get her off the street.

HEIDI THI, CSP VICTIM ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS: I think with trafficking survivor one of the most important thing we can do is give them choices. The situation that they come from, they've been told, you know, where to go and what to do when they get there and when to do it, and down to like minor daily things like eating and using the restroom, going to sleep and waking up. And so, the more choices that we can give them, it helps them practice that self-determination.

SAVIDGE: Two very successful days for Anaheim's vice unit.

SHANE, ANAHEIM VICE INVESTIGATOR: Taking them out of that situation and when they actually have this light bulb moment where they get to see the situation for what it is and realize, wait a minute, I'm taking all the danger, I'm taking all the risk but I get nothing in return. It's pretty rewarding to see that learning moment occur.

SAVIDGE: A moment that encourages this team to try again tomorrow.

With the CNN Freedom Project, I'm Martin Savidge.

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BALDWIN: Martin, thank you very much.

Take a look at these pictures. I know you know why they are now by now. The trio of siblings behind bars. We're getting new pictures in. They spent days on the run until their violent crime spree came to an end. Those new images, that's ahead and also this.

Also, this --

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I would like him to go to hell and rot there forever! You know what he told everybody in court, they need to be held accountable for their actions. You need to be. You remember me? Do you remember me? Do you remember my son?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: Her son killed himself after a judge gave him a pretty harsh sentence for a drug charge, but now that judge is in big trouble for what he is accused of doing after sentencing kids. Got to say, these are stunning accusations, that's next.

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BALDWIN: Well, we are not quite finished telling you about the gun-toting, alleged bank robbing Florida siblings captured this week in Colorado. Take a look at this new images showing the Dougherty gang in jail.

Big sis Lee Grace smiling while her little brothers, Ryan and Dylan, don't look so happy. All of them face multiple felony charges in Colorado, Georgia, Florida. They're being held on more than $1 million each.

Word out of Colorado, where the siblings' alleged crime spree came to a crashing halt, is that big sister is talking. According to statements on her arrest affidavit, Lee Grace Dougherty told police, and I quote, "I pointed a gun at the cop. I deserve to get shot."

But after she got shot, she tells police, quote, "Instantly I let go of the gun. The pain was through my body."

Take a look at this before and after picture now. It appears the Doughertys changed their appearance a little bit. Let's sit on this, you can see hair color, all three, maybe they're sharing the same blonde dye. I don't know, not much of a disguise, especially since they kept the same white car.

Now to this, a mother screaming for justice.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My kid's not here! He's dead! Because of him! He ruined my (EXPLETIVE DELETED) life. I would like him to go to hell and rot there forever.

No. You know what he told everybody in court? They need to be held accountable for their actions. You need to be!

Do you remember me? Do you remember me? Do you remember my son? All-star wrestler. He's gone! He shot himself in the heart! You scumbag!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: Justice for her son who killed himself last year after a Pennsylvania judge sentenced him to serve time in a youth detention center. That was six months ago.

Now, former Judge Mark Ciavarella is heading to federal prison for 28 years on corruption charges. He was found guilty of taking nearly $1 million from a developer who built a detention facility. Not only that, the same judge also sentenced youngsters for, listen to this, stealing a jar of nutmeg, posting Web page jokes about a school official just to fill up the detention centers. This whole "kids for cash" scheme, that's how it's being called, it left many victims wondering why they were being punished.

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KEVIN WILLIAMSON, SENTENCED BY JUDGE MARK CIAVARELLA: I was, honestly, expecting like some form of some simple probation or some type of fine. The last thing I expected was to get sent away.

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BALDWIN: The victim's families say he will have a chance to think about what he's done, just like he asked his victims to do when he was a judge.

Coming up next, the U.S. blasting this report here, suggesting that American drones have killed hundreds of civilians in Pakistan, many of them children. Find out what sources are telling CNN about these top secret strikes.

Plus, a glimpse into the future. Look at this. It kind of looks like a tattoo until you look a little closer. This electronic skin acting like a spy. What? We'll explain, next.

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BALDWIN: Here we go -- if it's interesting and happening right now, you are about to see it -- "Rapid Fire." Let's go, beginning with this.

The U.S. government says drone strikes in Pakistan have mostly killed militants, but not so says the U.K.-based Bureau for Investigative Journalism which includes British and Pakistani journalists. It claims that, since 2004, CIA drones killed more than 2,000 people, 385 of them civilians, nearly 200 children.

A senior U.S. official and the State Department dismiss this report. They say, since 2001, air strikes have killed an estimated 2,000 militants and 50 civilians.

Listen to this one. You're used to hear about people breaking out of prison, right? Not breaking back in. Talk about going the wrong way. Cameras caught 48-year-old ex-inmate Marvin Youseri (ph) trying to break into the new Folsom prison grounds. Why, you ask? Well, investigators say the only thing he's them is that he wanted to reminisce.

Those unpleasant visits to the hospital may be a little less unpleasant for us in the near future in part to this new electronic skin technology, that's what they're calling it. According to this new study, the extremely thin device can be used to monitor a patient's vital signs here. The wireless patch, similar to a temporary tattoo, can measure your heart rate, your brain activity, even your muscle contractions. Researchers say it can also be used in other medical applications.

And if you have ever wanted a piece of Bernie Madoff, consider this iPad cover. It is made from a pair of Madoff's pants. You see this? There is also apparently a Madoff iPad collection. This is the brain child of an entrepreneur who bought the disgraced financiers clothes at auction. The Madoff collection doesn't come too cheap. A cover made from a pair of Madoff's khakis from Banana republic is going for $250.

Can an extreme couponing craze be behind this recent rise in newspaper thefts? According to reports, popular TV shows like TLC's "Extreme Couponing" may be to blame for this recent trend. The thieves primarily target the Sunday paper, usually filled with all those coupons. But one reporter says some thieves started taking entire newspaper vending machines, the whole thing, which isn't light, like 100 pounds heavy. Police are warning these thieves can face fines up to $1,000 over a paper that might have cost you two quarters.

In Hawaii, a 10-year-old boy has some serious bragging rights. Look at this thing. OK, so, he's got this unusual catch. This is an octopus, but it's not just any octopus. It has webbing between four of its arms and tentacles, kind of like jelly fish. He's handling it like it's his pet dog. The Waikiki Aquarium director thinks it might be a blanket octopus. Apparently seeing one in the wild is extremely rare.

Now, this.

Hours from now tough enforcement of a curfew beginning in one of America's biggest cities in this drastic attempt to stop violent flash mobs. But will teenagers in this certain city rebel? We're live on the streets of Philadelphia, next.

Also, tonight, the sky is falling. Did you ever read that? Well, it really will be. A meteor shower will light the sky, but something might spoil your show. Chad Myers and I will talk meteor showers coming up.

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BALDWIN: Get ready for a big meteor shower tonight, and one of America's biggest cities cracking down on violence. Time to play reporter roulette. Susan Candiotti, let's begin with you there in Love Park in Philadelphia. I know you're following the story, these multiple teen flash mobs attacking people at random. And so we know now the mayor of the city is doing something about it hours from now. Explain.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Brooke. Because of an uptick in these so-called flash mobs and teen attacks, they are strengthening a curfew that is already in place. So, tonight's the night, the very first night that they're going to bump up the start of that curfew one hour to begin at 9:00. That means that anyone under the age of 18 in two parts of the city, one area of downtown and another area of the city just west of here, if you're not home and off the streets by 9:00 tonight, you could be in big trouble.

And you're not the only ones. Police are also putting parents on notice that they're not going to put up with any trouble from their kids, that if they find those kids are not off the streets, they could come after the parents with a warning and possibly fines of up to $500.

And police are also engaging citizens to put together sort of volunteer patrols to be out with police to send out the message that they're not going to put up with any shenanigans, and with good reason, because one of the most recent attacks allegedly involved an attacker who was only 11-years-old, Brooke. We'll be here all weekend watching to see what happens.

BALDWIN: We'll watch all weekend and see if it's effective. Quickly, Susan, 9:00 tonight, how long is it in effect?

CANDIOTTI: Until midnight. And they've also opened up some recreation centers to give other kids a place to go with activities.

BALDWIN: Got it. Susan Candiotti, thank you so much. Next here on reporter roulette is a big night for star gazers. Chad Myers is here. Chad, this is the Perseid meteor shower. Where do we look?

CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: To the northeast and they will be falling out of the sky. And there may actually be some big, long streaks. Not just a quick poof, poof, poof. The big long ones are the ones that everybody loves to take pictures of, as well.

BALDWIN: There is a "but" here.

MYERS: There is. The best time to look will be 4:00 a.m.

BALDWIN: Are you getting up at 4:00 a.m.?

MYERS: No. The reason why is the moon will rise in the east at the same time that the sun sets in the west. So you'll have the moon in your face where you're trying to focus on the meteors coming in. All of a sudden, it will blind you. You have to wait until the morning when the moon is in the western sky, but the little shuttle, the little things coming out, the little meteors, they're still coming from the northwest.

BALDWIN: OK, so we'll wait.

MYERS: I'll call you at 3:30.

(LAUGHTER)

BALDWIN: If you do, I will come find you Monday morning and pinch you, Chad Myers. Thank you so much.

MYERS: You're welcome.

BALDWIN: And that is your reporter roulette for this Friday. Now to this here, switching gears just a tad. Before he raped them, Warren Jeffs told girls, and I'm quoting this man, "Don't think about the pain. You're going to heaven," end quote. Well, now for the first time we're actually hearing those audiotapes, those recordings and giving a look inside his temple of child brides. You'll see and hear a lot, coming up. Casey Jordan is on the case. She's next.

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BALDWIN: We have now these audiotapes that help convict polygamist leader Warren Jeffs on those child rape charges. And Sunny's off today, so Casey Jordan we get you here on the case. Casey, I want you to stand by. But before we hear some of these audio recordings that are very disturbing, I want to show you this picture here. This is a photograph taken inside Jeffs' temple back in 2008 when they raided his compound. It shows right here this perfectly white temple bed. And it's here where prosecutors say Jeffs forced his underage wives to have sex with him.

So, this is the bed. Keep this bed in mind when you hear this first piece of audio. You'll hear Warren Jeffs as he gives sexual training to his underage wives.

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WARREN JEFFS, CONVICTED POLYGAMIST: You have to know how to be excited sexually and to be exciting to administer that comfort and strength. And you have to be able to assist each other and no one just stands around, everyone assists. And you have to be prepared to be trained to do this against the time I would need your help, the lord's help through you. So, listen carefully as the lord intended that my ladies, all of my ladies, be trained.

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BALDWIN: Casey, all of these ladies, we should say, girls, had to be trained, help each other, not just standing around. And the way in which Warren Jeffs did it was all cloaked in religion, wasn't it?

CASEY JORDAN, CONTRIBUTOR, "IN SESSION" ON TRUTV: Yes, and what you're seeing and hearing there is just the breakdown of their normal psychological defenses. Isn't this strange? How could this be real? He gives a number of themes. Number one, it's god's will. Number two, you are a chosen recipient of my attention. Not every woman gets this. But you, you're special. I am the prophet and you must assist me. He is directing his own pornographic scene. It's really just a turn on for his own sexual fantasy.

BALDWIN: It's disgusting. We should be clear with our viewers. Look these tapes get very, very bad and very descriptive. We're not going there. I want to make that clear. But I do want to play one more section of the tape where Jeffs gets down to the details of hygiene and sex. And let's keep in mind, he's talking about girls reported to be as young as 12. Listen to this piece.

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JEFFS: You always come in my area already showered, already ready in case you're called to assist. This is a training of words with some works to break down your false traditions. I repeat to you, this is not to be known. And this is the lord establishing the former -- and my family, because no other man is that large serpent called upon to go throughout the atonement. For other men to do this, the lord not appointing it, they would lose priesthood. Their wives would lose their place. For you to do any of this without my direct appointment, you could lose your place.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BALDWIN: Oh, it's not just even the words "You need to shower before coming to me," Casey, it's also the cadence of how she speaks. It's so eerie, isn't it?

JORDAN: It really is. And it's almost hypnotic. Now, there's a number of themes, even if you just want to look at the content there. It's almost as if he is a pedophile grooming, and that is exactly what he's doing. When we talk about grooming, we're talking about psychological breakdown, these threats that you don't want to lose your place. If you don't behave and aren't obedient, you won't get into heaven. No other man is worthy, only I get to do this.

But really what creeps people out the most is that when he instructs them to shave their underarms and their pubic areas, it is to keep them, even as they get older, looking like prepubescent girls because that is what his sexual interest is. He always wants to perceive them as young children.

BALDWIN: Disgusting.

JORDAN: Completely disgusting.

BALDWIN: You just can't help but say that as I talk about this man. So these girls are young and impressionable and some parts of these audiotapes we hear Jeffs talking to them as if God is talking through him.

You can hear him telling them that having group sex is biblical. Here's that.

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JEFFS: When more than one woman is with me at a time. When Sarah administered unto Abraham the fullness of the law she was with Abraham, sexually together. And that is the fullness of the law of Sarah.

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BALDWIN: I mean, it's all cloaked in religion as justification, isn't it?

JORDAN: Everything he did was cloaked in religion. He really argued that not only am I telling you that I'm a messenger of God, but there is biblical precedence for this. Let's look in the bible and talk about Sara both servicing Abraham.

In fact, that whole basically woman-on-woman lesbian concept is what turned him on. That was forbidden at the FLDS unless it was for his purpose. If these women wanted to sexually excite each other to service him and comfort him and, you know, help him be of assistance to him, then it was OK.

Again, it's all just a sexual aberration in which the rules belong to Warren Jeffs and these young women had all their psychological defenses broken down with essentially indoctrination and brainwashing over time for the sole purpose of his sexual satisfaction.

BALDWIN: OK, enough of this. Let's just remind that the jury deliberated for four hours and this man is away for a very long time. Casey Jordan, thank you so much for coming on today on the case.

Coming up next, we'll give you a little sneak peek behind what we are calling behind the scenes of the show. Be right back.

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BALDWIN: I know that these are tough times for a lot of people. Just this week, we watched the Dow take a nose dive more than once right after our country's credit rating took a hit.

A lot of people don't have jobs. You know, there's just a lot of uncertainty here in this country. So some Americans don't pay close attention when we talk about the famine in Africa.

But just do me this favor and hang in there with me for just a moment because I have to show you some of these pictures and it's overwhelming to look at and it's gut wrenching. Many people are starving and many people are dying and so many more will die in the near future. What can we do?

Isn't that the question we ask? What can we do? Well, there is a place where you can get some ideas. Go to your computer and check out our website. It is cnn.com/impact. This is impact your world and it is filled with ways you can help.

Maybe you're feeling ambivalent for inspiration consider this on this Friday, two Oregon kids, they are selling snow cones this summer. You know, they planned to earn a little spending money themselves.

But when they found out about the hunger crisis in the horn of Africa, they decided their profits should go to famine relief. From the minds of children, just a little lesson for all of us on how to help.

And now to Wolf Blitzer in Washington with a look at what he has coming up on his show in a couple minutes.

Wolf Blitzer, what do you have coming on? WOLF BLITZER, HOST, CNN'S "THE SITUATION ROOM": I was really happy, Brooke, that Anderson Cooper and Sanjay Gupta and the entire team, they went to the horn of Africa and they showed the world what was going on.

We're one of the few news organizations in the world that's put the spotlight on this awful, awful situation. Within a matter of only a few weeks, Brooke, as you well know, the World Food Program, they say they're going to run out of food to give hundreds of thousands of people, including hundreds of thousands of children food, minimum amount of food just to stay alive.

They're going to starve if they don't get some help. That's why you just did. Tell people to go to cnn.com/I cnn.com/impact. They could really impact our world if they go there and do something about it. Did you see their coverage this week?

BALDWIN: Of course, I did. This Islamic militant organization and you think about this aid and relief workers trying to help and it's very difficult for them too. It's very important, just something to think about here on this Friday. What do you have, what do you have, sir?

BLITZER: We're all blessed here. Whatever problems we have here are minimal compared to what we have going on over there. But we're going through all the important news. Spend a lot of time in the world of politics.

It's a huge weekend in the world of politics. Rick Perry is announcing he's running for president, the governor of Texas. As you know, Sarah Palin, she's roaming around Iowa right now. We don't know if she'll run for the Republican presidential nomination.

We do know there was an important debate last night. We're moving the story forward. We have all of our reporters on the scene, our analysts. We'll take a closer look at what's going on in the world of politics.

All the other important news of the day, that's coming up in a few minutes. Brooke, right here in "THE SITUATION ROOM." I want to make sure you have a fabulous, fabulous weekend.

BALDWIN: Thank you so much. Same to you, Wolf as always. We'll see you in a couple minutes.

You know, Wolf mentioned the GOP race, of course, here taking off in Iowa. We'll have a little more on that with "Political Pop.

Also, each and every Friday, I let you now turn the tables and ask me some questions and I answer them in this behind the scenes video that we're releasing. You can check it out, go to my Twitter page or Facebook @brookebcnn. Here's a preview of what we're calling the week wind down.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BALDWIN: Hi, CNN tour. They're not waving back. Sad. I feel like we're at the zoo. We're the animals. Yes. So, Angie, my wing woman is off this week. Guess who I'm stuck with.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sorry.

BALDWIN: This is Eric. We love Eric.

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BALDWIN: If you would like to become a rock star nowadays will take you more than a pair of drums, maybe 90. Take a look at this. You have to see this.

Holy drum set. Mark plays the set with 90 drums, 90 symbols officially making this the world's biggest drum set and you think he has to have a really huge garage to put these bad boys in, no, just on stage at some local gym.

We've all seen that person who drives around with their gas cap open. Well, take a look at this. Take a look at the dark station wagon in the back of a gas station here. The driver starts to pull away and nozzle still attached.

You see the gas pump totally come off base and then little bit of a fire. Thankfully no explosion and no one was injured and workers put this thing out. The customer came back just a little embarrassed and apologized and left his insurance information.

Now to this. A lot of people, you know, you're wondering and hearing about this Iowa straw poll, it happens tomorrow. But they don't really actually understand what it is and if it's truly significant or not.

So, we asked someone who definitely knows a thing or two about this. Joe Johns here and, Joe, just give me a quick read on how this works for tomorrow.

JOE JOHNS, CNN SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: All right, well, this thing has been called part county fair, part political convention, Brooke. I used to make fun of the Iowa straw poll but every time I do, somebody gets mad. I'm not going to.

It's actually a lot of fun, old fashion Midwestern politics. People listening to some speeches and then cast a straw vote. The first thing that is cool is there's entertainment. And I mean not just any entertainment, as well.

Mike Huckabee, who actually came in second in the straw poll in 2007, he's not competing in the straw poll this year, but he's still going to be there. Huckabee plays bass guitar. He's a member of a group called "Capital Offense". And we hear he's actually going to be performing, we think, for some of the other candidates who shelled out bucks for tent space, Tim Pawlenty, maybe, Herman Cain, Rick Santorum.

And you know what is funny is that if Huckabee was actually running for president this time around. He might be ahead in the polls against some of the guys he is playing music for.

BALDWIN: So, he will be pulling out his base and playing for some of these guys and gal who would like to become president. That's the buzz. That's part of the buzz. What about, though, you know the straw poll in terms of bragging rights. Is that really what this is about?

JOHNS: Yes, certainly that's what it is about.

BALDWIN: And money.

JOHNS: Right, and OK, number one, people have to pay to get in. So, OK, it's not a real vote and it's not going to count anywhere. The straw poll is not binding. It's more than anything else to show presidential candidates organizational skills and how good a campaign and a candidate are actually running their operation.

Can they get their supporters to show up because next time around when it's the first in the nation Iowa caucuses are going to be doing this in the dead of winter and the pressure will certainly be on to get your voters out to the caucuses.

BALDWIN: When you look, though, as we did at some of the past winners here of the straw poll. Let's just say the batting average, not stellar.

JOHNS: No, not really. Mitt Romney won the straw poll four years ago. He didn't even win the Iowa caucuses and he did not get the republican nomination.

But if your name is Bush, you got a pretty good track record at the caucuses. I'm sorry, at the poll. In 1999, George W. Bush won the straw poll and went all the way to the White House. So, you know, little bit of this and little bit of that.

BALDWIN: OK, tomorrow, we'll be watching. Remember we're also watching Texas Governor Rick Perry eventually declaring in Charleston. We have players in New Hampshire, because that's where the story is next. CNN ahead of the story, as always. Joe Johns, thank you so much. A wonderful weekend to you, sir.

JOHNS: You, too.

BALDWIN: Thank you very much. That's it for me. Thanks so much for watching. I'm Brooke Baldwin.

Let's go now to Washington, D.C., and "THE SITUATION ROOM" starts right now.