any country and say you re smart, great in science, pick a different career, go into technology. right. it s another for technovation to come up with this cool contest. every high school girl has a cell phone. they say to them look around you, what problem do you see and how would you solve it? and all of a sudden they re like i m 15 or i m 16, really? what do i think? and these guys are just a perfect example of how excited these girls, you know, in addition to all of their sports and basketball stars and everything else, and get up at 7:00 in the morning and work on their apps. it s really important. crystal, one of the things that stood out to me is one of the girls from the other teams said it s hard to get excited about what you can t see and you don t see many girls encoding so it s hard to get excited and tell people this is what i want to do.
killed in two days. allegedly by students. i m about to speak live here in studio with one teacher who was confronted by a 12-year-old in school with a loaded gun. her story, you will never forget. that s coming up. but first, in cases of gun violence, it s tough to train for the unexpected, but in emergency rooms, doctors and nurses are using these high-tech dummies to prepare for saving lives. take a look at this technovation. i m alert. i m alert. two liters of fluid. 84/56. the sights and sounds of an emergency room. how are you feeling? conditions that trauma doctors like robert benjamin are trained to handle, but this is not an average work day. i had no idea that this was going to be that intense. the trauma team is training. their patient is bleeding. and has rapidly changing vital signs. but he s not in danger of dying
levels. investigators believe someone broke into the plant last friday. and tiny robots called quad rotors told big promise in the future. in time the technology in these autonomous mini aircraft could be used for surveillance, and it actually may save lives. we took a trip to the university of pennsylvania to check them out in this edition of technovation. they navigate through windows, fly in formation and take off and land with ease. and these tiny unmanned aerial vehicles called quad rotors are doing it on their own. this is a robot that completely is autonomous. and by that i mean there is no remote control in the background. reporter: most of these test flights are done here at the university of pennsylvania s lab decked out with a state-of-the-art motion capture system. students give the quad rotors simple commands via computers but the vehicles decide how they will go from point a to point b on their own. we have the bicon system or
mohammed is watching from neighboring lebanon, and he joins us live. good to see you. what can you tell us about the latest violence? well, syrian opposition activists told us today that they are begging the international community for their help, for their intervention, after this barbaric massacre, that s what they re calling it, that happened yesterday in the town in homs province. now, they described intense shelling, mortars raining down on the town, and then as you mentioned, they said the pro regime militias went in and started indiscriminantly slaughtering men, women, and children. we have seen gruesome, stubbing videos today. what we have heard from opposition activists corroborate what we have seen on the videos. women and children in blankets on the floors of rooms in houses. we have seen horrible videos of children which they appear that their heads have been bashed in, their lifeless bodies strewn across floors in the houses. horrifyi horrifying. we know the u.
electrified fences until they die. extreme words from a pastor yes, a pastor in north carolina. we re going to play the tape for you on cnn this hour. good morning, everyone. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. look who s here. i m christine romans. zoraida sambolin is on assignment today. it s 5:00 a.m. in the east. let s get you started. it could be a day that brings a brand new era in the middle east, but we re not sure what kind of era it s going to be because this is election day in egypt. millions of people going to the polls for a historic vote. their first chance to cast a free vote for a leader in that country in its 5,000 years of existence. this is what they fought for last year in tahrir square. remember these images, the people toppling their leader, hosni mubarak? there s so many unknown ins this story? will women have more freedom? will egypt go to the islamists? will the attitude toward israel change for the better or the worse? and one of t