as you mentioned, this is the field near mirro mar where he grew up, spent his time since he was 5 years old playing ball here and then when he finished playing ball when he went into high school he ran the concession stands literally up till the time of that tragic night. i'm joined by coach carter. coach, you've been here ten years you were telling me. so you knew trayvon pretty well. >> yeah, trayvon was a young handsome hard working kid. since his dad brung him to us, he trusted us to coach him and build him up and build his self-esteem up and just keep him, you know, doing the right things in school and he's always been a hard working player, ever since he left north dade and came to miramar. he gave you his all. that's all he knew, was to play his all. we had a super bowl. and we was the underdogs. north side was predicted to beat us to death. and this kid came to me and coach jerome and told us that, coach, you guys will leave super bowl champions today. i'm not going to give up till the end. and we were super bowl champions. and i owe him my gratitude -- gratitude toward him is just heart warming because this kid did all he could to win me a super bowl. >> reporter: how long ago was that? >> that was in 2005. >> reporter: that's a while ago now. you got a group of people here, probably 150 so far. this is a special night though. we've been saying this. because many of the people here, in fact, probably most of them, knew trayvon. not like a lot of other marches where there were a lot of people not closely connected. >> yeah, most of these people out here basically raised trayvon, you know, trayvon when he came out, he was knew to the park and basically he became like your son. that's like my son. that's my second son. i have one son, carter jr., who's 13, who trayvon really taught him, you know, we would always put the big kids up against the little kids. my son would be like, dad, he's killing me. but i said, it's going to help you out in the long run. trayvon was just that type of kid. he loved everybody. he loved you. he would come to you. there's probably some things he told me he wouldn't even tell his dad, you know, being that the respect, that he knew i would give him the best advice i could. >> reporter: coach, thanks so very much for taking the time. again, don, just getting started here. still awaiting trayvon's parents who are on their way and should be here momentarily. don. >> john zarrella thank you very much. tempers are flaring across the country over the martin shooting but one of the most heated conversation, about us took place right here on our air. cnn's piers morgan going head to head with culture commentator turray. take a listen. >> another black person unarmed and innocent and not doing anything wrong has been killed. this is incredibly painful and goes back before you were born and before your father was born and before my grandfather was born. so these are things that hurt as an american very deeply and you are too new to this situation to fully understand what's really going on here and what's really at stake for america. >> what a load of factous nonsense you speak, you think you have the only right to speak about what's serious in america. you think i don't have the right as somebody from britain who spent the last six years here to address a story -- >> six whole years? you have the right -- >> -- the responsibility -- >> you have the right -- >> yeah -- >> that discussion blew up into an outride war between those two. we're going to show you more of that, much more of that. and i'm going to talk with two guests about the way racial tensions are simmering around this case and the country. what's going on here? we're going to do that at the half hour. make sure you stay tuned. mega millions lottery frenzy over for most but we know there were three winners last night. they'll divide the massive $656 million jackpot. that means each of them will get about $218 million. lottery officials say the winners are from maryland, illinois, kansas. nobody has come forward yet. in the kansas and maryland, we may never know who the real winners are. >> maryland is one of the few states that does not require publicity of its lottery winners. so we had two powerball jackpot winners last year and neither one of them decided to do any publicity so we'll have to see what happens. >> at least 42 people matched five of the six numbers. that means a payout of about $125,000 each. time to talk some presidential politics. it is wisconsin's turn at the center of the republican universe. the top candidates are attending a gop dinner at the same place where a different event was held earlier today. our political reporter shannon travis is there. two different events in the same day at the same site. why all the attention on wisconsin now? >> reporter: obviously, 42 delegates at stake, don, here in wisconsin, for the candidates, but also something else that's pretty important. let's talk about the story line. this is seen as the last opportunities to change the arc of the story line. in terms of mitt romney's path towards getting candidates. there's a lot of mitt romney supporters that he probably is going to win this. even some of the other candidates have conceded they probably won't get to those 1,144 delegates. depending on the outcome here, it may be time for others to actually get out of this race. mitt romney earlier today was at the same place at a different event but at a campaign stop after he left here, he'll be back here for dinner together. he talked about what might happen should he win wisconsin. let's take a listen. >> i've got a ways to go before i get 1,144 delegates, so i'm not counting the delegates before they hatch, but i'm going to work very hard and hope i get a good strong sendoff from wisconsin. i've got a good boost from the folks in illinois. and if i can get that boost also from wisconsin, i think we'll be on a path that will get me the nomination well before the convention, sure hope so, thank you, thanks. >> reporter: on a potential path to the nomination. he's going to have -- he's looking pretty good here in wisconsin. the latest nbc news poll shows him seven points ahead of rick santor santorum. >> mitt romney leading in the poll. traveling with wisconsin representative paul ryan. i just want to know, can we read anything into his recent endorsement here? >> yeah, i mean, he got a trio of big endorsements just this past week. marco rubio, the rising florida republican senator. as you just mentioned, paul ryan, the house budget chairman. and president george h.w. bush. all three of them endorsing them. pretty much saying this primary process is pretty much over. the other candidates again having acknowledged that getting to 1,144 will be hard, if not impossible. so the republican establishment saying it's time to come together and acknowledge this race is over and get behind romney. you hear a lot of conservatives on the ground, activists, everyday voters saying, we're not going to let the establishment tell us what to do, so we'll see what happens. >> we'll see, shannon, thank you, sir, appreciate it. in the last month, we've heard many versions of what happened the night trayvon martin was killed. why conversations between dispatchers and police may need to be released. and i thought "i can't do this, it's just too hard." then there was a moment. when i decided to find a way to keep going. go for olympic gold and go to college too. 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>> you can tell the communication that happened between the police officer and the dispatcher. on there, there will be notations when they wanted an ambulance, when they were they scene, what they were seeing at the scene, requesting crime scene, requesting someone to come take photographs. all that is documented, exactly what the police did while they were there. or at least the assistance they asked for. >> they have not been released, the c.a.d. reports have not been released to the media. why not? >> very few. the only ones that have been released talk about the conversations between zimmerman and the dispatcher. they show the actual dispatching of the initial units but that's it. >> okay, so listen, many people are critical of the sanford police department, demanding that george zimmerman be arrested. last week we saw the surveillance video of zimmerman walking into the police station. he was in handcuffs. then we saw the video there. was that, in fact, an arrest? >> that would be what i would have thought is an arrest. when you are unable to leave, you are not free to leave, you are arrested. he was handcuffed. he was policed in the back of a police car. that's as good of an arrest as it gets. whether when he got there he was charged is a different story. but he was arrested. they walk him into the building, put him in an interview room and shut that door. that's an arrest. >> okay. zimmerman's brother spoke to cnn's piers morgan last week. >> we're confident the medical records are going to ex-palestinian all of george's medical history. both how he was treated at the scene and how he was not. to me, his nose looks swollen in that video. i'm his brother. >> the initial report only mentions zimmerman injuries in one line. zimmerman was placed in the rear of the police vehicle and given first aid. this seems very contradictory. is that contradictory or not? i don't know, i'm not sure. >> it does seem contradictory. the police arrived on the scene at 7:17. the video stamp at the bottom was 7:52. there wasn't a lot of time for them to get there, search the scene, find him, search him for officer's safety, handcuff him, put him in the police car, let him get medical treatment and get him to the police station. i want to know what happened in those few minutes. that's what would matter to me. and it does seem suspicious because it doesn't say "took photographs of the injuries." law enforcement officer, even your first responding officer, the best thing you do is document every single step that you made. one of the officers in the report said, i did nothing further. he wanted it to be known he stood there, had a contamination crime scene list, people coming on to the scene, he did nothing further. so he can look, say, this is all that i did. the the two initial responding officers reportses should have been more. mind you, it's a partial report. >> what do you mean should have been more? this is the first time -- i've heard from law enforcement people saying that they thought the investigation was handled poorly. what do you mean it should have been more? >> there probably is. on the police report we have, it says it's a partial report. there's very little these initial officers said in their report. maybe two, three -- well, two sentences really, a paragraph. two or three sentences. and that's it. there should have been a much longer report. they got there. a lot more happened than them just looking around the scene, placing zimmerman under arrest. who they saw, what time they got there, what other assistance they needed. hindsight's 20/20. and also say, like i did last time, maybe i've played basketball longer than lebron james but it doesn't mean i'm better than him. i was an officer long enough to know this is not enough in a report. i'm hoping and trusting that they have more of a detailed report. >> and are those reports a long longer, more detailed report, usually released to the media? there are also summary reports as well. do you think there's a longer report? if this is it, that's trouble. >> if this is it, this is trouble. this is definite trouble. there should be. a lot of times, they'll say it's still under investigation. and that's fine. because they don't want to distort it. obviously, jury pools, things like that. so there could be more. even some of the other police report s from the other 911 call said public police report, public copy. because there's some things in there, if they're minor children, stuff like that, you don't necessarily want released. i'm hoping there is more than this. and aside from the horrible tragedy that happened to trayvon, if this is all they've done, and i'm really hoping they're not, because they seem to be a very good police department, that is the tragedy. the focus needs to be on the job they either did or did not did. he was under arrest. he appeared to be under arrest. why they let him go or unarrested him i have no idea. >> alex manning, thank you. good stuff. on to other stories now. if you use credit or debit cards, you may want to check your accounts to make sure it is correct. we'll tell you why right after this break. 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is everybody apart from you lying? are you abreast of more information that anybody else in america right now? >> one thing i notice is obviously the zimmerman family is banning together to try to keep george out of jail for the rest of his life. so that's quite obvious what their motivation are to say the things they're saying. i also noticed between robert, george and the father, and the attorney, there are not consistent stories being told. so we're not getting a consistent story that we can wrap our heads around. i mean, we have not heard before that he was actually going to target instead of on the neighborhood watch. you know, he's sort of reading some of the story from the orlando sentinel and making some of the other story up. i don't understand why it's not clearer to you why this is a witness who needs to be treated a little more -- and pushed back a little more and why other people are not rushing to have him on their air waves. because he doesn't know george zimmerman that well. they haven't spoken about this. which also joe oliver who you quote has admitted he's not spoken to george zimmerman about this. when he too has not spoken. these individuals are not -- >> toure -- >> -- and this is not helping america at an incredibly difficult moment. >> yeah, if i could just point out two things. one, brian williams, i think you're aware of him, he's the face of nbc news, through his "rock center" show, they are trying to get robert zimmerman on the show. are you aware of that? >> that's not the information i had 30 minutes ago. >> okay. maybe news has taken over for you. secondly, you tweeted this, this was on the 19th of march. new slang, you're zimmermanning me equals you're killing me. that's pretty serious responsible piece of journalism, isn't it? >> in the first days and the first weeks of the situation, what many people were doing, what i was trying to do in that, was to pile on and to say, hey, look this guy is not doing the right thing. this guy has harmed somebody in our community. some people misconstrued that and i'm sorry about that. but this is an incredibly serious situation. and i understand -- >> so serious you felt -- so serious you felt the need to -- >> again, you don't really understand america because what i was trying to do there -- >> i understand america very, very well -- >> -- something you might call black humor, not african-american humor but black humor, dark humor. these are things that are common in america, sort of bluesy laugh to keep from crying. because once again another black person who is unarmed and innocent and not doing anything wrong has been killed. and this is incredibly painful and goes back before you were born and before your father was born and before my grand father was born. so these are things that hurt as an american very deeply. and you are too new to this situation to fully understand that's really going on here and what's really at stake for america. >> what a load of factous nonsense you speak. you think you have the only right to speak about america? you think i don't have the right as somebody from britain who's spent the last six years -- >> six whole years. you have the right. >> -- the responsibility -- as much right as you do to have a comment on this -- >> -- understand what's going on here -- >> what don't i understand? >> -- six whole years in america allows you to speak about our most difficult -- >> what don't i understand about america that relates to this story? >> you don't understand the depth of the pain in the american soul that is at play in this situation. >> what a load of nonsense. absolute nonsense. you clearly don't watch my show. you don't have to. no one's forcing you to. if you had watched my show, you'd have seen exactly the seriousness and responsibility that i brought to our coverage in the last week. >> i'm not saying you take this case lightly -- >> -- fascinating new information -- >> i'm not saying you take this case lightly, but there are notes, subtleties, nuances, there's a depth of history within this, that you can't possibly understand. >> do you believe that george zimmerman murdered trayvon martin? >> yes. >> so you've already tried him, you've convicted him, you found him guilty of murder. >> you asked me what i think -- >> you call me -- >> i hear a 911 call -- >> you call me an irresponsible journalist? professional journalism -- >> -- i hear a 911 call in which george zimmerman is clearly showing repeatedly racist biess against a person who he does not know and has never seen before and is -- all these kind of stereotypes. this is before we get to coon. they always get away. he thinks they always get away. he's up to no good. he's got his hands in his pants. he's on drug. it's a 17-year-old boy, walking down the street, talk to his girl on the phone. none of those things are true. but he's already said all those things. and then we have the other 911 call. which i imagine will probably be extraordinarily damaging if we ever get to a court of law, where we hear someone screaming, which clearly sounds like a young boy and not a 200-something pound 28-year-old man with a gun. a person, however, is screaming. there's a gunshot. and there's no more screaming. that sounds to me pretty damning. and it reminds me of the face of emmett till bashed in in the coffin where we see, here is evidence of a black body being destroyed wrongfully, innocently, and the justice system of course not coming to his aid. >> well, i raise many questions about the justice system, the legal process, as anyone who's watched the show in the last week knows. what i haven't done is convict george zimmerman. you berate me for lack of professional journalism. you just said you believe he murdered him. you have a very biased one side opinion of this based on your assessment of limited amount of facts we have. that is your prerogative. i don't challenge you. i simply say that is a fact. you also think it's okay to do stupid dumb jokes mocking what did you call it zimmermanning me, you're killing me? so we are different people. i like to think i'm a professional journalist. i think you are something else. i appreciate you joining me tonight. >> i think that last bit said -- spoke volumes. i think it's safe to say conversations similar to this are taking place across the country. i want to welcome goldie taylor, political analyst and managing editor of the goldie taylor project. and our guest from the miami herald. that last bit, the silence, spoke volumes. leonard, i'm going to go to goldie first, then you. goldie what did you make of that? is that -- and i think those conversations are being -- we just had a very similar one in our newsroom. >> i think everybody's having conversations but i think what we just witnessed here was probably one of the most unfortunate displays of -- well, the lack of journalism tonight so i -- that's my short answer for that, is that i think there are some culpability on both sides with this. i was one of the people who wanted to see the show last night because i wanted to see what were the disagreements were. as it unfolded, i just sighed, yeah. >> leonard? 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>> i think there were two things. i think our twitter friends and people who watch us on various networks have seen us come to disagreement over any number of things. where i agreed with him was that i saw the interview. i saw the piers morgan interview. mr. zimmerman's brother. and i thought that there could have been stronger follow-up. i thought that there were inconsistencies in the family's various stories that could have been hit maybe a little more dead on. i think that it was as if we were visiting oprah's couch. i thought that was a very tough thing for me to watch. but as a colleague, am i going to pull his coattail out on twitter with everybody, i don't know. that's a call for toure to make. but after that, the unraveling between the two of them went some place that was probably most unfortunate. >> the inconsistencies as you said with some of the people. this joe oliver -- i saw an interview not on this network with someone else challenging him. for in, it made me question his credibility. i didn't see it -- that sort of interview anyone else. joe oliver doesn't really know this man that well. in that interview, it came about -- it's obvious, it's no lie, he even said that. on every other place, it's been said he say close friend. and i said, why are we saying he's a close friend of this man when he's admitted somewhere else he's not? >> i've seen it a number of places where he was nailed down on whether or not he was a close friend of george zimmerman's. he had to admit on air on a number of networks he, in fact, was not. so that's put to rest. >> leonard, did you want to comment on anything we've said so far? can i go on? >> no, go on. >> you're good, okay. you wrote a column on tuesday about this case. it's titled, privilege is about the color white. the very first sentence is, i'm here to explain why george zimmerman is white. why is that so important to write or to define george zimmerman as white when he is self-proclaimed on his voter i.d. he's hispanic? >> that was written in response to -- a large number of reader responses to an earlier column. they were upset i referred to him as white. i pointed out there's two answers to that question of why he's white. short answer is the census bureau will tell you hispanic is not a race. the longer answer which i spent the bulk of the column making has to do with the idea of privilege. i submit it is inconceivable to believe a dark-skinned individual could shoot a lighter-skinned, pale-skinned individual, under the dubious questionable circumstances that trayvon martin was shot and the darker-skinned individual would walk away. he would not have that privilege. i believe that privilege is de facto what it means to be white in america. >> when you -- all of this talk about race, about black, white, it's gotten a lot of people riled up and some people ticked off and everyone's going in their own corners. just being an honest person, there's so much that's so obvious about this case and then there are other things that are nebulous and not as obvious. to see people taking sides like this and some of the ugliness that it has brought about in the country is just disturbing to me. speaking as a journalist now, it's just sort of disturbing to me as a human being, leonard. >> i don't know that it has brought about ugliness so much as it has revealed ugliness that has been there all along. that i think is where i draw distinction with you. we keep hearing people say that we need to not rush to judgment. with regard to this case. i believe that was mr. morgan's point also. and certainly that's good advice. certainly there's history of african-americans having rushed to judge something as racially motivated when it turned out nobody to the or turned out to be otherwise. there's also history of our white american countrymen, countrywomen, refusing to call a thing a racial issue, even when it becomes glaringly obvious that it is. and i think that, you know, we need to -- if we're going to have this discussion, there needs to be some honesty about it. >> yeah, i just had this conversation, this very similar conversation. i have to ask you this, leonard. i know we need to move on. and if you know me, if any of you know me, i'm always seeking for diversity in every single thing we do here on television, and in my life. and inthoug and i thought the best two people to talk about this were you two. i didn't think whether you were write or black, just someone as professionals. someone tweeted me and said, how about more diversity with your guests? you will look up on the television and see people who are of one ethnicity all the time, and so why is that such an issue for people there are three african-americans sitting on television talking about race? >> i suspect that having too many african-americans on any given program is not generally a problem for cnn or any other network. so, you know, this rare confluence of events -- i would suggest that the viewer or viewers deal with it. that's a silly -- that's a silly thing to say. it reminds me frankly of a time when i was looking at television during the last campaign and the issue was whether or not barack obama was black enough. you had a panel discussion of three or four white journalists having that debate. no one seemed to have any problems with that then. >> i think the same is true when we talked about women's health care and contraceptives and we had panels full of men talking about, you know, those things. i don't think anyone complains when you've got, you know, on a particular program you've got all white commentators and a host. i think on one program i watched, i counted 12 people on a set who were all white and no one issued a complaint about the diversity on that particular show. i think, you know, your asking myself and mr. pitts to be here tonight was about a viewpoint you wanted to hear you thought might be interesting. whether we are white or hispanic or african-american, you know, what have you, i think really is largely irrelevant and should be irrelevant. >> thank you, great conversation. that's all we want here is to, number one, facts, but to get people talking and open their mind and that's what we did in there particular segment. leonard, thank you. goldie, really appreciate you joining us as well. >> you're very welcome, thank you for having me. here's a preview of what we have ahead tomorrow on "cnn newsroom" with fredricka whitfield. >> a new study showing that 1 in the 88 children have a form of autism. tomorrow, we're going to examine the enormous financial strain on families. join me sunday, 2:30 eastern, right here in the "cnn newsroom." next, i'm going to ask dr. sanjay gupta while autism callses in children are so much higher than previously thought. 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with still don't know. >> reporter: researchers have discovered many genes linked to autism but in most cases genes are only one part of the equation and genes alone wouldn't change that fast in just ten years. there is something else that triggers the problem. >> we're talking about infections. we're talking about social conditions. and we're talking about exposures to toxins, things in the environment. >> reporter: researchers are still looking for answers. but what they do know is diagnosing children early is critical. as was the case with frankie sanders. >> frankie was diagnosed when he was 15 months old. he immediately began to get speech therapy and occupational therapy and physical therapy. he was placed with a group with kids that were typically developing. >> reporter: all that hard work is paying off. frankie is now 15. he attends a regular high school and plays on the football team. >> we can diagnose autism at 2 years of age almost always, ag. about 90% of the children. by 3 certainly. and we actually can diagnose it at 18 months in many children. >> reporter: but aconsidereding to this new report, most cases are diagnosed late, after age 2 or 3. that's when therapy has been shown to help the most, especially with speech and communication. >> parents need to be aware of their children and how their children are interacting. >> reporter: and then they need to seek help. >> if you as a parent are concerned about your child, talk to your doctor, talk to your school system to see if they should be assessed. get them assessed. >> i also asked dr. gupta why researchers think the number of autism cases has gone up so much. >> everyone seems to believe it's a combination of genes and environment. that's the answer you hear for most things. but i put forth this, that you know, the numbers have really increased a lot over the last decade, 78%. your genes don't change that fast. we as human beings, our genes don't change that fast. so i think it puts more of the onus of this cause for the increase on the environment. not just after a child is born but also in the mother's womb. are there certain toxins, are there infections, are there exposures that are leading to this increase. >> let's talk a little more about causes. you said researchers are still looking for a cause. is there anything a parent can do -- you and i talked as this story was going on. is there a test that you can do prenatally -- is there anything that a parent can do? >> it's interesting because i'm used to being able to order a blood test or a scan. and we may get to the point where scanning, for example, the brain can make the diagnosis early. we're not there yet. what everything seems to point to, and i think it's more than just platitudes, is that the early diagnosis does make a difference. so around 18 months even, which i have young children -- 18 months, it's very hard to pib pin down a child's behavior at that age for sure. but a child who's not recognizing hz or her name, a child who does not seem engaged with you, does not keep eye contact, those types of things. those are not exact -- every kid's going to develop differently. but you take at a list there, and some of those things sort of make sense for your child. at a young age, again, even before age 1, it's imperative to get it checked out. early intervention does make a difference, as you saw with frankie sanders. >> a child who doesn't reach out, doesn't want attention. because most children are very clingy, they want mommy or daddy most of the time, right? >> that's right. a lot of times those children don't even want that. there's sort of a lot of self-awareness, a lot of it's directed inward, and that's you why see some of the symptoms you just saw there on the screen. >> thank you, dr. gupta. up next, comedian lewis black rates president obama's leadership. he apparently doesn't think it is a laughing matter. ot about s. it's about support where you find it most comfortable. the magic of this bed is that you're sleeping on something that conforms to your individual shape. this is your body there. you can see a little more pressure in the hips. now you can feel what happens as we raise your sleep number setting and allow the bed to ... fill in to the contours of your body. wow! that feels really good. it's hugging my body. with our bed, you change the setting to something you like. in less than a minute i can get more support. if you change your mind once you get home you can adjust it. your body changes over time. the bed can adapt with you. not only does it work for you today, but it's going to work for you 20 years from now. so whatever you feel like, the sleep number bed's going to provide it for you. discover the amazing sleep number bed, only at a sleep number store .... where during the final days of our semi-annual sleep sale, save $400 to $700 on our most popular bed sets. sale ends march 31st. there are 400 sleep number stores nationwide, where queen mattresses start at just $699. stand-up comedian lewis black is famous for his quick wit and stark raving mad opinions. he is relentless when attacking social issues and both sides of the political aisle. on both sides of the political aisle. we caught up with lewis black on the road to get his take on the current presidential race and president obama's time in the white house. >> as far as i can tell, i don't feel that he reached out as much as he could have. i think he's aloof. and i don't think that really is good. i think he's kind of standoffish. there's a sense he doesn't want to get his hands dirty. he's left too much up to congress at times. there are times when the way it works is the president says something, this is what we're going to do and puts his, you know, hand around their throat and then they respond and they kind of work it to the point where then they -- you know, you kind of have to sit down and work on it. i don't think he's found that balance. i think he's been aloof when he should have been on top of them and he's been on top of them when he should stand away. it's weird. i didn't expect as much as everybody else did. i thought if he could get americans to listen to someone actually speak in paragraphs that was what we would get over the four years. and that's really what we got. dwl and he is just warming up. lewis black also has a few choice words for the gop presidential candidates. >> i think that after listening to the republicans literally go into a panic for four years as if something was being stolen from them, that -- i can't say it. >> oh, but he does say it, and much, much more. make sure you join us tonight at 10:00 eastern for lewis black, no holds barred, his views on politics, the '50s, and even mood rings. hmm. that's coming up tonight. i'm don lemon at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. cnn presents special report: beyond trayvon, race and justice," is next. ♪ wow... ♪ [ female announcer ] sometimes, all you need is the smooth, creamy taste of werther's original caramel to remind you that you're someone very special. ♪ werther's original caramels. on december 21st, polar shifts will reverse the earth's gravitational pull and hurtle us all into space, which would render retirement planning unnecessary. but say the sun rises on december 22nd and you still need to retire, td ameritrade's investment consultants can help you build a plan that fits your life. we'll even throw in up to $600 when you open a new account or roll over an old 401(k). so who's in control now, mayans? 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