that being said, now 18-year-old dawn loggins did rise above all those challenges and plans on being a biology major at harvard and wanted to let us know it is a merit-based scholarship. she ll be working at the university to continue paying her own way. heather: congratulations to her. an inspiration to many. thank you so much. gregg: what a great story. good for her. all right. we should continue to follow her. strong reaction from the white house to growing controversy over a string of highly sensitive intelligence leaks. president obama saying he s offended by claims that his white house is involved. here is the president from yesterday. people, i think, need to have a better sense of how i approach this office and how the people around me here approach this office. gregg: liz trotta is an author journalist, fox news contributor and joins us with her commentary. hi, liz. good afternoon, gregg.
about the four years ahead of her. my teacher is going to be great. i know it is. harvard is going to make that happen, but also it s stability. i m not going to have to worry about where my meals are coming from, or where i m going to sleep at night. and i m going to have so many opportunities. what loggins wants people to know is she s really not alone. studies show more than 2 million high school students across the nation at one period or another are homeless. one school counselor who we spoke with says it s an incredible challenge for any young individual. just overcoming the idea of never knowing what you were going home to or where home was because they ve been evicted so many times or they were trying to outrun some law enforcement.
. from cnn saturday morning it s saturday, june 9, 2012. i m randi kaye. making their case could prove challenging. a teacher hosting a loud party is shot dead. the shooter says it was self-defense under the stand your ground law. you be the judge. we ll show you the incident as it was all caught on tape. and from homeless to harvard, we ll bring you the inspire uing story of a young woman who defied the odds to reach the ivy leagues. up first, thousands of people sickened in the aftermath of the 911 attacks are hailing a federal recommendation that could make them eligible for compensation. the ruling could add 50 types of cancers to the list of sicknesses covered by the massive fund of victims. earlier i spokesman with cnn s nick valencia. previously they had ruled there was no direct link between cancer and the 99/11 attacks. federal health officials ruling that the federal institute for occupational safety and health that oversees the 9/11 program, that s a
many nights sleeping on park benches. his pillow was his book bag. the books inside were his ticket to somewhere else. i saw that as the way out. way to escape and the way to secure that these types of things don t continue to happen in my family. shepard: this north carolina girl had a similar thought. when i was younger, i looked around at my family and i saw the neglect, the drug abuse, the overall bad choices and i saw my family living from paycheck to paycheck and i just made a decision for myself that i wasn t going to end up like my parents. shepard: parents who abandoned her and left her homeless. dawn loggins worked as a janitor at her school to make money. she s well on her way. after graduating yesterday. she earned a partial scholarship to harvard where she just might run into boone. he got a full ride to the ivy league school and while the two are focused on their own education, they could teach all of us a little about
crashing an outdoor graduation. caught rhett handed and rhett faced. a robber sprased and spanked. you re going to see it. good morning, everybody. who love this is one. i love that one, too. bang, bang, don t come back. it s nice to have you here. i m ashleigh banfield. and zoraida. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east so let s get started for you. up first bill clinton getting back on script and back in step with the white house at least for now. in an exclusive interview with wolf blitzer, the former president doing a lot of apologizing after praising mitt romney s sterling business record and suggesting he would be open to extending the bush tax cuts with the wealthy, a position directly at odds with president obama. here s clinton yesterday on the situation room. i m very sorry about what happened ned. i thought something had to be done on the fiscal cliff before the election. apparently nothing has to be done until the first of the year. he should just stick with his