doubled to 28%. and in ohio, more than one in four is chronically absent, and the lawmaker insists it s worth the cost of the payments. fit works, it s a win-win, changing the culture of attendance. if it doesn t work, we need to be trying other things because this is an emergency. but critics, of course, say paying parents for school attendance is like paying someone to obey the law. this is just a state bill that s been proposed. it still has to go through committee. unclear whether it will actually pass, john. back to you. john: sounds like the slippery slope there that you just articulated. almost makes you want to go back to school. now this. one aspect of the plan to stop the houthis is have china pressure them to stop. does the administration have any indication that china has sway with the houthis and interest in applying such pressure? china has influence over tehran, in iran, so what we have said we would welcome a constructive role by china. using the inf
for 30 years. tom, first of all, of course, many of us are sorry about the loss, but what an incredible life, what an incredible career. did i understand that he passed away in a care facility. did you and many others know that his condition or his ailment was, you know, he was waning? yes, we knew that mike was not doing well in recent years. but he had fought a very gallant battle for some time. as much as he had been an extraordinary force throughout much of his professional and personal career. so many remember him for these kind of dogged interviews, but at the same time, they remember the kind of softness, the gentler side. we saw early this morning his good friend, morely safer gave a beautiful tribute to him on face the nation this morning, and he talked about how for mike wallace, one of miss most famous interviews was of a pianist, vladimir horowitz. what was it about that softer side of mike wallace that most people didn t seem to be as accustomed to seeing
unemployment. later, are you ready for a computer display that gets up close and personal? google s new invention wants to get inside your head. cnn saturday morning starts right now. good morning, everyone. it is 8 a.m. on the east coast. let s get right to the manhunt in tulsa, oklahoma. three people are dead, police, the fbi, and the u.s. marshals are all on the case looking for what they think is lone shooter. the suspect drove up to ask directions and started shooting. there have been four incidents. it started friday morning with the first shooting in a predominantly african-american neighborhood. the first person shot later died. judge u. just three minutes later another shooting and two men shot in that incident. both survived and may be helping the police investigation. about 50 minutes after the first shooting we had our second death, 54-year-old bobby clark was shot and died at the hospital and finally, more than seven hours after the first killing, we have the f
ends and michael holmes joins us from the region with a live report. and did gas prices go up overnight? we ll look at pump prices around the nation and see who is paying the most and why it s going up, up, up. from cnn s world headquarters, bringing you news and analysis from around the globe. live from studio 7, this is cnn saturday morning. former president nelson mandela is in the hospital right now. officials are calling it an abdominal complaint. the 93-year-old s health has declined in recent years and he was largely kept out of sight, shunning public appearances. first of all, what are you hearing? what is going on? well, deborah, the presidency and the international public congress has been very, very adamant that mr. mandela is okay, that there is no need to panic. they re trying to reassure a very panicked public because the last they heard is that mr. mandela is suffering from abdominal ailments that really needed a specialist s attention. but the anc is say
the right. a new television ad that labels him as a fake. why? because he s a fake. while i was fighting to save the olympics you were fighting to save the bridge to nowhere. we re going to stay with cnn, full highlights from last night s republican debates live from phoenix in just a moment. and gas prices have jumped again. up 3% three cents, rather, overnight, according to aaa. average is $3.61. it is still going up. economists say the gas could jump to 4 or even $5 a gallon by the summer. you re going to hear from president obama on gas prices and energy policy. that s happening later today. president obama is apologizing for the burning of korans by nato troops in afghanistan. now, this incident set off protests across the country. after again president hamid karzai said president obama sent a letter calling the burning an inadvertent error. he also promised to take steps to avoid any reoccurrence. two u.s. troops were killed by someone wearing an afghan army