sandwiches. a delta spokesperson says the needles were found in sandwiches in flights from amsterdam to minneapolis and seattle and two flights to atlanta. two of the needles were found by passengers and one was discovered by an air marshall when delta found out about the needles in the food, the airline said it notified all 18 flights from amsterdam to stop serving the sandwiches. here's what one passenger who got one of contaminated sandwiches said when he spoke to kstp. >> i bit down on it so i wasn't biting down on the sharp side but the flat side. it could have been, you know, a bad injury orally, but had i taken a big swallow and swallowed that down, i'd have a needle inside. that would be very concerning to me. >> gate gourmet provided the sandwiches to delta. a spokesperson says this is a terribly upsetting situation. first and foremost is the safety of the traveling public. there's nothing more important than the safety of the passenger and crews. gate gourmet says it's fully cooperating with the fbi and local authorities in the netherlands and conducting its own full scale investigation and the company says it does provide food to other airlines but have received no reports or complaints. soledad? >> sandra endo, thanks so much. we appreciate it. let's get right to the rest of the top stories, zoraida has a look at that. >> rush hour traffic as usual at the ambassador bridge, a bomb threat shut down the busy span for five hours last night. it was reopened after security sweeps failed to turn up any explosives. a bomb threat last week forgsed the shutdown of a nearby tunnel that also connects detroit and windsor. in a desperate search continues in iowa for a pair of young cousins, 8-year-old elizabeth collins and lyric cook were last seen by their grandmother before they went on a bicycle ride. crews have started draining a nearby lake for a sign of girls. lyric's mother telling anderson cooper both were always a joy to be around. >> they smile a lot. they are pretty persistent in the things they want. they are great. they are really great. you know what i mean? >> yes, they are. >> we look forward to what they had to offer in their future and the life that god had for them. >> we will have a live report on the search from iowa at the bottom of the hour. we're also going to hear more from the family there. new reaction from both sides two a stunning twist in the trayvon martin trial. a female witness in this case only identified as witness number fine, is accusing zimmerman of molesting her when they were both children. the accusations released in an audio stap from the state's attorney office. >> it started when i was six. he's -- he's about almost two years older than i am. he would reach under the blankets and try to do things and i would try to push him off but he was bigger and stronger and older. >> she also said zimmerman and his family flat out said they didn't like black people unless they acted like white people. zimmerman's attorney mark o'mara has identified the woman as zimmerman's cousin and tells cnn the allegations would not be admissible in court but will complicate things for the defense. three more men are now coming forward telling police they were abused by jerry sandusky in the 1970s or 1980s. they are the first people to accuse him of abuse before the 1990s and it could mean the 68-year-old coach began preying on children in his early 20s. there's no mention of victims before the 1990s in the report. former fbi director louis freeh did. it's one of first signs that penn state may be moving past joe paterno after the freeh report, according to state college.com the university is changing the name of a student camp ground outside beaver stadium from paternoville to nittaniville as in the team's nickname, the nittany lions. it was a heart stopping save by an offduty new york city bus driver. cell phone video. take a look at this, shows a 7-year-old girl jumping up and down on an air conditioning on the third floor apartment wind dough. when steve saint bernard sprang into action. >> when i got there she was still sanding there and i just like positioned myself hopefully i would catch her. >> oh, he did. bernard suffered a muscle tear in his arm but says he will be okay. the nypd says the parents will not be charged with the crime. as far as being called a hero, steve says, that's a sandwich, back to you, soledad. >> oh, my goodness, what a catch, the moment you needed to do it. >> can you imagine her mother? >> no. no, i cannot. >> who was watching the child on the air conditioning unit on first place. all right, appreciate it. mitt romney is on the offense trying to paint president obama as a pay for play president. take a listen. >> there's no question, but when billions of upon billions of dollars are given by the obama administration to the businesses of campaign contributors, that's a real problem. particularly at a time when the middle class is really suffering in this country. >> and all day yesterday including here on our show, the am he issage from the romney camp th don't want to talk taxes or bain capital. take a listen. >> let's move on and talk about the cronyism of the white house. >> he's giving favors to his friends. look at solyndra, what happened there. it's a shame. because our tax dollars were used to go to companies often donors of the president's. >> senator ron johnson is a republican from wisconsin, a member of the budget appropriations committee and also a supporter of mitt romney. thanks for talking with us. >> good morning, soledad. >> good morning, there's clearly an effort to move away from conversations about bain and taxes and start talking about crony capitalism. what exactly is that? >> well crony capitalism is taking taxpayer money and funneling that to the people that have supported you in the campaign and that's exactly what president obama and his administration has done. look at solyndra over a half billion dollars invested in a company that's now bankrupt. it was supported by people who supported president obama. that's a dlasic example. >> inserting solyndra back into the conversation. back in may of 2012, here's what mitt romney said about solyndra. listen. >> an independent inspector general looked at this investment and concluded that the administration had steered money to friends and family to campaign contributors. >> so that statement we now know is not accurate, fact check.org said this about that, so far there's nothing except a year old statement that the inspector general was looking into it. the ad suggests cases have already been discovered. and that's not true. the "washington post" which did a similar analysis, said records do not establish that anyone pressured the energy department to approve the solyndra loan to benefit political contractors. seems that is not correct about solyndra. >> solyndra, doesn't make the investment a good investment, still a half billion dollars of taxpayer money squandered. there's $35 billion of these energy loans that have been guaranteed to different companies, 16 billion of it went into one program where you've only created 2300 jobs, which if those loans go bad like solyndra's went bad, that would be a cost over $16 million per job. that's really the main problem here, that president obama simply doesn't understand that it's the free enterprise systems, the private sector, productive sector, not the government sector that creates long sustainable jobs. all of his efforts are towards growing government. take a look at the soviet union, venezuela's economic basket case, is anyone moving to the island paradise of cuba? >> you're sure now not suggesting that the idea and concept between solyndra and other green energies like solyndra is comparable to the soviet union in cuba, right? >> no, i am suggesting that. when you take taxpayer money and you invest that into businesses, that's the taxpayer money put at risk. let's face it, the lesson on the soviet union, governments are poor allocators of capital. it's an economic model that doesn't work. >> didn't it work in massachusetts? isn't that exactly what governor romney did in massachusetts in green energy when he was the governor of massachusetts? >> listen, the path we need to take this country on is with free enterprise system, the private sector that creates long term self-sustaining jobs and that's exactly what governor romney would do as president romney. >> and -- >> we have got to take a look at the fact that we are bankrupting this country. president obama in his four years have added $5.3 trillion to our nation's debt and backs of our children and grandchildren. we've been spending it a week talking about bain and tax returns. what the american people, when i travel around wisconsin, nobody is asking questions about bain or governor romney's tax returns. people aren't questioning his integrity but qestioning this president's policies that are crushing businesses all the regulations and threatened new taxes. that's what people are concerned about. that's what this campaign has to be about. and that's really -- i didn't come to washington to play games and that's all we're doing in the senate is playing games. we need to start solving and saving social security and medicare. we need to start figuring how do we put our country on a path towards financial solvency rather than do small little political tactics and games that president obama's campaign is engaging in. >> there are plenty of people that would agree with you it seems like on both sides of the aisle people are playing games sometimes in congress. you don't think the american people care about bain and don't care about taxes? >> part of the reason i believe personally that we have seen so much of mitt romney who has come out and been on virtually every show and talking about taxes and tax returns is because he feels he has to address the issue. am i wrong about that? >> soledad, i never hear it. when i travel around america, nobody talks about those issues, they are talking about what can we do to get unemployment below the 8% that this administration when it spent $800 billion in stimulus said unemployment would never go above 8%. it's been above 8% for 41 weeks. according to their estimates it should be 5.6%. people are concerned about their job and how are they going -- when their children graduate from college, how do they get a job? half of recent college graduates are unemployed or underemployed, that's a real problem and directly related to this president's policies that have incurred more debt that have burdened our businesses with regulation and this president doesn't understand that. take a look at the most recent comments about, if you build a business, you didn't build the business, somebody else did. dismissive of the hard work of small to medium size business owners. he doesn't have a clue how to create jobs and that's really what the campaign should be about. how do we get our economy going? how do we create jobs? >> isn't some of that about bain? every time people start talking about jobs and not just -- i think you're right on the educational, those things are part of a conversation, but the minute you talk about jobs, as david axelrod said yesterday to anderson, listen, this then bain backs part of the conversation. here's what he told anderson last night. >> in isn't something new, it's part of the discussion. he entered it into the discussion and we're engaging in that discussion. wait, don't talk about my business experience, he can talk about it but he doesn't want us to talk about his business experience. >> isn't that part of the challenge when we were talking about the green energy investments, suddenly the record in massachusetts becomes relevant and it's hard to kind of navigate that. you can't talk about it without talking about a record in massachusetts and can't talk about business without talking about bain, isn't that a challenge? >> well, if you talk about bain, i would first take a look at some company that bain invested in like staples, highly successful. if you're going to have a free enterprise system, you have to have individuals willing to risk private capital. that's a big difference between what president obama has done, he risks capital, doesn't do it in a prudent way. romney did with bain, risked private capital to be able to invest in successful companies like staples. sometimes you win and sometimes you lose in that. quite honestly risk is an absolutely necessary part of a free enterprise system, so is failure. that's how you ferret out what are successful and unsuccessful organizations. if it's part of the conversation, it should be about what made america great and what drives an economy and that's the private or productive sector that creates long term self-sustaining jobs. governor romney understands that, president obama doesn't have a clue. >> would you advise governor romney to release for of his tax records? he said he's done what he has to do under the law. would you tell him, maybe five years or more? >> he's already released 500 pages. he can release 10,000, they would ask 20,000. at some point in time you draw the line and say american people have enough information -- >> you really believe that? >> that two years is more than plenty or do you think by not doing it it will drag out the conversation? >> as you know many people -- republicans are saying, what's if them if he's not releasing three years? >> i don't hear from people talking to me, i don't really believe most americans question governor romney's integrity or the fact he fully paid his taxes. >> i don't think that's the question at all. >> of successful -- success in the private sector of government service, of leading a very successful business to go save the olympics, i think people view governor romney as a real man of integrity. like i say, he can release 10,000 pages and they would ask for 20,000, it's a never-ended process. we need to get back about talking what do we need to do to get the economy going and put the country back on a path of success rather than a path of failure it's on right now. >> you know the question isn't did he somehow not fully pay his taxes, right? the question becomes why not release more than the bare minimum when his father was the person who called for complete transparency and even in his conversation when he was running against ted kennedy, he insisted that ted kennedy release his -- calling for it. he felt it was necessary. they ended up both not releasing taxes, partly because the wealth of both men, right? isn't that part of the conversation? i don't think anybody thinks he didn't pay his taxes in full. >> soledad, the question is why does this administration, why does president obama run from his record? why is he unwilling. >> that's a different question. a question on the gop side. >> that is the question that americans are asking, how do we get our economy moving and again, i really don't think people -- i do not hear questions about bain or governor romney's tax returns. i hear questions about senator johnson, how, please get govern regulators off our backs. how can we borrow money? what is with keeping the smaller banks making loans to businesses they've been making loans to for 25 years? 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welcome back, a couple of quick headlines, google's marisa mayor is taking over as ceo of yahoo!. she was one of the first two dozen employees at google. hsbc regulators taking the hot seat on capitol hill. a new senate report says the global banking giant failed to review billions of dollars worth of transactions with ties to drug cartels and terrorist groups. soledad, back to you. zoraida, thanks, at any moment now the fda is eected to announce he is going to approve a brand-new weight loss pill called qnexa. elizabeth cohen is with us this morning. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> how does this work? >> the drug is actually a combination of two different drugs, soledad, i don't know if you remember the phen phen drugs, one is an appetite suppressant and the other called topiramate, an anti-seizure medication that people are taking for epilepsy and migraines. i spoke to one woman in the clinical trials for the new drug and she said she just sometimes had to remind herself to eat. she said you know, before if someone offered her a chocolate chip cokie, she couldn't resist. while she was on the drug, she could say, eh, and pass it up. >> which sounds good if you're trying to diet and lose some weight. i guess the big question is, how much does it work? 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