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d damon harris died a couple of weeks ago. i m brooke baldwin. let s take you to washington now. the situation room with wolf blitzer starts right now. happening now, they are just about to ring a bell on a roller coaster day, almost history making day on wall street. stay right there. we re going to see how close the dow industrials come to their all-time high. also, what s wrong with this picture up on capitol hill, lawmakers are getting out of town instead of working to help the forced spending cuts that hit tomorrow. plus, look at this. dennis rodman, yes, believe it or not. dennis rodman scoring a diplomatic triumph. there he is. he is sitting right next to the leader of north korea, kim jong-un, courtside at a basketball game in pyongyang. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. all eyes are on wall street. the new york stock exchange closing on a day that saw the dow jones industrial average making a run at breaking its all-time high. our chief ....
meeting one by one with the cardinals who will choose his successor and he might be face-to-face with the next pope in just a few minutes on this last day on the throne of st. peter. good morning. welcome to this special edition of early start. i m john berman. and i m zoraida sambolin. we d like to welcome our viewers from around the world on cnn international. it s the top of the hour, thursday, february 28th. we are witnessing history in the making. no one alive has ever seen a sitting pope step down. it is all unfolding right now and by 2:00 p.m. eastern, pope benedict xvi becomes pope emeritus. but there is still a lot to do before then. the meeting at this hour with the cardinals who will ultimately choose his replacement. over 100 of them plan to be on hand. the pontiff will spended i ed a or two with each of them. and then cardinal sodano will speak. the departure of this pope after what really has been a turbulent eight-year reign leaves the catholic ....
lovers. damon harris, former member of the temptations, has passed away. according to his daughter, the 62-year-old singer had been battling prostate cancer for the last 14 years. you may remember harris joined the temptations at the ripe age of 20. replacing one of the group s original lead singers. i was telling my team today, i ll never forget it, one of my very first concerts as a little girl was seeing the four tops and the temptation, together right here in atlanta. here s a little more. you make my life brighter and that does it for me. i m brooke baldwin. live at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. let s take you to washington. the situation room with wolf blitzer begins now. brooke, thanks very much. we re standing by to hear from the house speaker john boehner and we re waiting for anyone here in washington to suggest a real actual compromise that will avoid those devastating forced budget cuts. it s one scandal after another as pope benedict begi ....
the press. i have to get to myself to a level where they can tolerate me and then maybe from there i have a shot at actually getting a positive review. do you reach out to those people who you know who have killed at the oscars, who have done it really right? i have talked to billy crystal and he was super nice guy and genuinely helpful. took a lot of time out of his schedule to sit down with me and i came out of it with some practical, practical stuff and it was, i m very grateful to him for taking his time. can you tell me one thing he told you? get comfortable with your shoes before you get on stage? that s a girl thing. we have to walk in our heels before we get on the stage. my strapies will be well worn in before i get out there. i don t know what the protocol is. good luck, break a leg, or give you a pound. i ll give you a pound. do the thing where it goes like this. you want to blow it up? that s what we should have done, just shake hands. th ....
our kids grow up with a positive body image. one young girl i spoke with started noticing a troubling pattern among her friends. girls get this idea that they need to be beautiful to be accepted and liked and to have a good life. they think to be beautiful they have to be really thin with light skin, light hair, no blemishes whatsoever. that idea comes from the media. as julia bluhm. she s making the argument, the media s ideal body image was simply impossible to achieve without photoshop. then she got seventeen magazine to change their photo retouching policy. this coming week is national eating disorders week. i want to share you with a new website where you or your kids can take a free anonymous self-assessment to gauge the risk of an eating disorder called mybodyingscreening.com. hope that helps. that s going to wrap things up. let us know what you think. cnn.com/sanjay and follow me on twitter @drsanjaygupta. from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, this is ....