really? and maybe a bunch of billionaires as well. what many people are asking is to buy or not to buy? that is the question today. ali velshi and christine romans have very, very different opinions on whether you should buy in or not. i m curious. do you buy? i m on facebook. love facebook. is this going to be apple or not? remember, apple went sideways for a long time and almost went out of business first, right? it s more like google maybe. google went up. both were game changers. that s right. this is going to be history one way or the other. the way i see it, this is the second transformation of the internet. the reason i say that, remember, brooke you re probably too young to remember. when we used to get all those disks for aol, they would mail them to you. you get them at the supermarket and you get this portal? the internet was about portals where you got weather, traffic, business, sports, all these things you didn t know where to get anywhere else. google
over my body. and it ends up costing you. deadly fruit. fresh summer cantaloupe. it seemed healthy. but it caused one of the deadliest food outbreaks in u.s. history. if any one of those things would have been prevented, this tragedy probably wouldn t have occurred. how it could have been prevented and could still happen again. revealing investigations. fascinating characters. stories with impact. this is cnn presents with tonight s host, randi kaye. it is one of the worst atrocities to emerge from the war in afghanistan. in a chilling shooting rampage sergeant robert bales allegedly shot down 17 civilians. his lawyer says he may have had post-traumatic stress disorder. a diagnosis that could be used in his defense. that is a scene playing out more and more in courtrooms around the country. vets charged with violent crimes are saying ptsd made them do it. and juries are having to decide, should ptsd be a defense for murder? chris lawrence investigates. reporter:
plus, the name game. this could be a pivotal time in the world of mental health. the dsm, so called psych bible, gets an overhaul. it could mean big changes for doctors and patients alike. first, a look under the microscope. i don t want to be fat for the rest of my life. i ve got diabetes. sleep apnia. high blood pressure. everything is hurting now. you saw a clip there from the weight of the nation. a four-part film from our sister network, hbo. all of us are under the microscope this morning. our habits, our behavior, our country. this film was part of an unprecedented push by doctors and government health officials. in part what is driving this this week, we have new numbers, a projection by the year 2030, 42% of the u.s. population will be obese. not just overweight, but obese. now, in some sort of twisted way, this could count as good news. the last prediction four years ago was 51% of us would be obese. none of this is so remotely good enough. here to tal
the way back to his teenage years, that got the headlines. it is today s front page, the washington post. romney s pranks could go too far. an article that paints a young mitt romney as remembered by his classmates as something of a bully. romney was asked about it in north carolina today. well, i think i was one who did some stupid things in high school, and if anyone feels that they were offended by that, i certainly apologize for that. well, the stupid thing in question, the one getting all the attention, concerns a student at the michigan prep school romney attended. a student named john lauber who was reportedly relentlessly teased for his presumed homosexuality and for having long bleach blond hair. five of romney s classmates told the washington post what they remembered about a day in 1965, a day that, quote, they came upon lauber tackled him and pinned him to the ground. lauber, his eyes filling with tears, screamed for help and romney clipped his hair with a
the historic headline from the white house this week, the president of the united states endorses same-sex marriage. but the story behind the headlines may be just as dramatic and it culminated with vice president joe biden apologizing to president obama for forcing his hand on this hot button issue, a sore subject among some white house insiders. our chief whereas correspondent jessica yellen has been working the story for us. tell our viewers what you are hearing right now. i understand the vice president apologized to the president for putting him in a tough position on this situation and the president gave an understanding reply saying he knows that the vice president was speaking from the heart. the vice president s office also issued a statement saying it was the president who has been the leader on this issue since day one and the vice president never intended to distract from that. president obama says he was planning to say this sometime before the democratic conve