>> there's no nose. there's just a hole there. so when it rains, it puts it is head down and the rain hits the back of the head and it doesn't go -- exactly. >> world wildlife fund. we'll check that out. top of the hour, here we go. welcome back. hour two, i'm brooke baldwin. a couple stories we're working for you. and we are talking about purple heart blunder. time to play "reporting roulette." david mattingly, i know you've been talking to a number of vets, soldiers, iraq war vets. what was the response to hearing the president speak today? >> there was a lot of cheering today, especially when the president came out with the simple words marking what he calls a very profound moment for

this country when he said to the troops here, welcome home. he repeated that several times. the cheer went up in the crowd and there was so many people walking away today with big smiles on their faces, a sense of the satisfaction of the war that has been done in iraq. they are also satisfied that the the troops wanted to hear a commitment from the president that the country will continue to stand by them for their needs as their year goes on, whatever problems that they have from their service in iraq. the president and first lady both saying very strongly that the country will stand by them the way that the troops have stood up for the country. brooke? >> i'm sure they are thrilled to be home in time for the holidays as the president had promised but they have to be. some of these men and women have to have some concerns and what are they, david? >> well, the concerns would be long-term problems like posttraumatic stress, depression. they also have to transition, if they are getting out of the

military, there's always that transition back into the civilian sector and the economy's not very good right now. they are concerned about budget cuts on the federal level that might somehow affect the safety net of services that they have. there's a lot on their minds. as you said, they are out of iraq. there's nothing at the moment that will make them go back. that's a huge relief for some of them coming home so close to the holidays. >> david mattingly in ft. bragg. let's go to chris lawrence. that's a mighty idea, to brighten the idea with purple hearts. but this should be filed right under the execution file. >> right. it was a case of purple heart gone wrong. what happened is they sent out about 9,000 of these very special christmas ornaments with be purple heart logo, so to speak. what it was designed to do was

to honor or show respect for the men and women that received a purple heart at christmastime. the problem is, the list of recipients didn't distinct wish between those living and deceased. so more than 1,000 families got this ornament at christmastime addressed to the names of their loved ones. as you can imagine, really tough to take any time of year, but especially this time of year so close to christmas, dozens of families called saying wha, wha going on here? they have said, there's no excuse for this. we take full responsibility. the man in charge of the wounded warrior program is calling some families, sending an apology letters to others. bottom line, there is nothing malicious about this.

just a mistake, plain and simple. >> chris lawrence, thanks. next, we'll go to capitol hill where kate bolduan is. we talked about this yesterday. the house passed the bill but harry reid said that the senate is not going to go for it. where do things stand now. >> reporter: not going to go for it. it's almost like groundhog day. despite the urging from both sides, things are really at a standstill at this moment. there are no votes scheduled and no real negotiations happening as things have kind of fallen apart into more of a blame game rather than coming closer together to try to reach a compromise. the most recent development that we can report, senate democratic leaders left to go to the white house to meet with the president and safe to assume they are going to be talking about how to assume the payroll tax cut or

how to find their path forward. at the moment, it seems both sides are retreating to their rooms. and they are not compromising. >> this is leading into friday being the final day to extend the funding of the government through, what, september? it's intertwined? where do we go from here? >> reporter: it wasn't intertwined before. it is intertwined now as they are trying to get out before their holiday break. dates to remember, the government runs out of funding unless they can pass the massive bill that they have been trying to pass for weeks. or they pass some sort of short-term stop gap funding measure. with the fact that they still have not reached any kind of a compromise on how to move forward to extend the payroll tax cut, they are staring each other down at the moment. with the pending deadline, these deadlines, as you know, can move

mountains. we're watching for possible movement or nods to some type of a path forward. we do not see it yet. there is more and more work. >> kate, thank you so much on capitol hill. that's reporter roulette. still ahead, the first time it happened, no one helped that little girl after she was hit by a girl. you remember? now new video of another little girl and another accident. you'll see how bystanders reacted this time around. into plus this -- >> by friday, in the end, we'll get it. >> that was russell simmons talking to me yesterday after the company pulled its advertising from this tv show about muslims in america. so far this week we talk to both sides and we'll speak live with the mayor of dearborn michigan. a city that is 30% ara arab-american.

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growing outrage and fallout over two receipts that two asian customers received. the company fired the employee. they typed the word ching and chong not using the customers' real names. come on back. you need to see this here. we can show you these pictures because we can tell you that everyone is orveg. this pickup truck crashed into a convenience store with several people inside. this happened on friday in columbia, tennessee. >> i'm right behind him. he drives all the way down and i see him go across that curb and take that tree out and at that point i'm on the phone with 911 and i see him hit the white cadillac and drive through the store and i'm like, oh, my god, he just drove through the store. >> police say that the truck was actually aiming for someone inside, aiming for a woman.

he's been charged with attempted murder and incredibly, thank goodness, no one was hurt. monkeys being used to measure radiation levels. remember the nuclear crisis at this plant in japan following the earthquake and tsunami there? scientists want to see how far the radiation actually went. they are putting gps collars on monkeys and hope to get the results a month later. search engine google is fighting slavery. they estimate the money will help free about 12,000 people. so in total, google is giving away $40 million this holiday season. and then there's this -- >> i've never seen nothing except on video games. i didn't run a car up the pole but not in real life. >> this is not a video, folks. an awkward predictment for a police officer in miami. give him points for placement, i

suppose. perfectly balanced against the wire so it didn't tip over. the officer, not hurt, momentarily took his eyes off the road to pick up a pen that he had dropped. i can already see the smoke coming out of alec baldwin's ears over this one. the faa has approved the use of ipads containing charts and graphs in the cockpit and can use them during takeoffs and landing. if you fly, you've got to turn anything with an on-off switch off. no criminal charges for this wild brawl. this was saturday. this was cincinnati's xavier gave. he believes the teams will deal with it better than the justice system. the fight left a bad cut under kenny's eye. cincinnati player apologized for

funching freeze and freeze accepted. now this. this is what they put inside the ied to kill us. >> this is what every soldier fears. a homemade bomb exploding out of nowhere as troops head home we're getting a fascinating look as to how troops prepare for these weapons of murder. plus, attention, running quite high in the firestorm over a tv show of muslims in america, coming up next, we're going to take you live to dearborn, michigan. how is this controversy going on the ground level? we're going to speak live with the mayor. good to see you, sir. don't miss this interview. the spark card earns double miles... so we really had to up our game. with spark, the boss earns double miles on every purchase, every day. that's setting the bar pretty high. owning my own business has never been more rewarding.

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all week long we've been following the decision from home improvement giant lowe's pulling their ads from the show featuring muslim americans. it's called all-american muslims and follows the lives of families in dearborn, michigan. lowe's decided to pull their ads. one of the reasons is because of the conservative family florida association complaining about the show calling it propaganda. then yesterday i talked with entertainment mogul russell simmons who wants the ceo to apologize by saturday. mr. mayor, thanks for coming on. i know lowe's obviously is taking a lot of heat. there is not an actual lowe's

store in dearborn proper, although there is one south of you near alan park. do you know, have you got contacts there? >> not that i'm aware of. it's so close to dearborn it's probably not even half a mile from the border and obviously i've been there on occasion. i mean, i've got to do the same chores that everybody else does, brooke. >> so no huge flap that you see that is obvious to the visual eye? >> not that i heard of. again, we wouldn't get the police calls because that would go to allen park. >> as i mentioned, this past monday i talked to the head of the florida group. got this controversy going over this boycott. and i want to play a piece of sound. this is david king. you've heard some of what he said. he told me about how in his view it portrays muslims inaccurately. here. take a look. >> i beg you to find an iman in

this country in the leadership that would come back and say that, you know, they are -- they do not believe in sharia. the true total focus of islam. >> so mr. mayor, what do you make of his comments, a, and then you know dearborn, born and raised there, you know a lot of people on the show. what do you think about the way muslim-americans are portrayed on the show? >> first, he has no idea of what he's talking about? and i know a number of imams and that is not part of their religion or their interpretation of their religion nor any of the people that i've grown up with. these people are just promoting fear because fear then gets people's emotions up and then you can get them to donate money because you're the one that's going to remove the cause of the fear. it's just a phony -- really a

business for the people trying to make money off of it. >> is tlc portraying these five families accurately? you know them. >> well, they are portraying these five families just as they are and i'm amazed how frank is gets. i know all of them in some fashion. none of them are strangers. and there is a lot of frankness and openness and you begin to realize that they are going through the same issues and confronting the same problems and same self image that everybody else does because that's what we know. muslims in america and dearborn are just like everyone else who comes here from somewhere else or is a generations removed from coming here. they are all-american. >> well, you know who is walking in all of this, doesn't live in dearborn, that's russell simmons and i talked to him yesterday. i want you to hear what he says about companies pulling ads from the show. >> it's a normal muslim family.

it's a good depiction of the muslim community. and it shows how islamic-phobic they are. >> if a company wants to pull ads, they can pull ads. do you think russell simmons is going too far? he's asking for an apology from the ceo and if that doesn't happen he's asking for his head. >> lowe's is a business and they make decisions. i'm not excusing it. the real issue are these people promoting falsities about a religion and a people that they are trying to vilify them, make them essentially evil. it's just not true and there's no basis for it. so we need to focus on the real issue here is why would a

corporate entity feel that there is enough reason that they could be threatened financially if they don't do it? because these people seem to be able to get a lot of people to activity motion nally and on that emotion make demands that are really unamerican. >> well, you know, here we are. you and i had this conversation on live national television as a result of all this. do you think they did muslim americans a favor, sparking this national conversation? >> every time that conversation comes up, because in reality, the question is, we need to examine, you know, what have we been talking about? we are talking about humans. humans behave as humans. the human element is the human element and so what we're seeing on tlc are friends who are behaving like every other human

group. >> and finally you mentioned these five families on the show. they are not strangers to you. how has she reacted? has this strengthened her even further? how does she feel? >> she's going to be strong. i know her mother for a long time and got to know her through a family tie. but they are great at charities. she's always been a very professional woman. to see her exposed, that's really interesting. you know, in a characterization, and it's a feeling that many women have and she's expressing that. am i going the wrong course. i'm 30 years old. should i have a family? these are real issues that people think about and she's exposing that and it shows, these are just like everybody else. their goals, ambitions, and their interpretation of their religion. i don't care what religion, brooke. everybody says, this is my faith but they have their own subtle

differences in how they practice. >> mayor of dearborn, jack, thank you so much. >> thank you, brooke. i'm happy to do that. now this -- >> they walk away leaving her in the middle of the road. moments later she's struck by a car. >> this stunning video shot after another car ran over another little girl in china and no one helped. find out if this time it's any different. plus, less than three weeks to go before the iowa caucuses and the voters begin to have their say in the republican presidential race. but here's a question in iowa. is ron paul the x-factor? what happens if he pulls off a shocker? john king is standing by in the thick of things. let's ask him what he's seeing with his own eyes. stay right there. ♪ [ boy ] looks like our work is done here. i'm heading home. vaaa vrooom!

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unscathed. she was taken to the hospital and released without serious injury. a lot of comment on chinese social media. one writes, thank you for letting us see the good human nature has not totally disappeared. another writes, thank god the girl is alive. what is wrong with this mom? how can she leave the child alone in the middle of the road? all of this brings back the hour rick give scenes in october then a young toddler was struck not once but twice and people left her alone no one following her to and later that child died of her injuries. she lives to tell the tale. iowa caucus is less than three weeks away now.

i keep hearing whispers about a ron paul surge. here's what we're seeing right now with ron paul running at 17% tied with mitt romney but certainly trailing nut gingrich. this poll is consistent with many other surveys. i want to bring in john king of k.k.usa. here's my question. is 7%, john king, really a surge or are you truly seeing something with your own eyes to indicate that ron paul is surging? >> ron paul is for real. bank on it. he has 20 days to prove that he can deepen and grow his organization. will he be a factor? absolutely. we are at the iowa state university campus here. i just had a conversation with students and the ron paul community, when he came here to

speak a week ago they couldn't fit anybody else in the room. ron paul was the libertarian group for candidate back in 1988. he's run for the republican nomination twice now. he has an older base and then this very energetic young base who they organized aun. they approach you on the street and say, why isn't ron paul getting more coverage? will it be will muddled? most people think not. without a doubt he will be an impact player and newt is starting to come down. you can sense a plateauing in the gingrich momentum. ron paul could be the one to take advantage of that. that's fascinating. >> you talk about the students coming up to you. you hear about these ron paul fans and they are fanatic. just a week ago today i talked to ron paul and i want you to listen to what i asked him and then i'll ask you the another

question on the other side of this. >> a poor group of supporters and because you are so committed and so libertarian, you're forever unlikely to garner mass appeal? >> america is in a box. we're in a financial crisis. america is in a box. i'm not in a box. what's going snon. >> do you feel like you've boxed yourself in so come time for the rest of the day to vote for you, you're not going to have that support in mass? >> i think you have it backwards. american people are boxed in and want out. >> he told me ultimately american people are boxed in. theoretically, john, ron paul could stage a shock ner iowa but as far as expanding his base, is ron paul locked in nationally simply because of his ideology?

>> ron paul is out of what we would define as the republican mainstream but i would add this caveat. the american family is changing. we had the tea party in 2010. they were rebelling against not just president obama and obama care, the tea party was rebelg against george w. bush saying that you ran up record deficits. you didn't prove that you were competent after katrina. ron paul is less out of the mainstream now than he was four years ago. is he going to win the republican nomination, i'm going to get a lot of ron paul fans angry and saying, most likely he won't do that. here's another question. a lot of his supporters, if he doesn't win the nomination, wants him to run as an independent. he has not completely slammed the door on that. he said probably not but a lot of the supporters may stay home if they feel upset at the end of this.

>> let's talk iowa. iowa is considered the test of organization. ron paul is a great organization, newt gingrich, not so much. if he wins iowa with no organization, could iowa lose relevance in terms of a presidential test track? >> you are asking the defining question that many iowa republicans are asking. if you look at national polls and iowa has surprises. this year because the debates have been so important, gingrich hasn't been here as much as rick santorum or michele bachmann. the two candidates in the poll seems to be gingrich and ron paul. a lot of people are questioning whether because of technology, because of the debates, the character of the iowa caucuses is beginning to slip. trust me, iowa republicans are worried about that. if you had a big gingrich win here, he's been here 51, 52

days. that's a decent amount. no more like huckabee or rick santorum. there are people questioning whether because of the changes in our business, the media business, the big emphasis on the debates, that iowa will be a little less important and what might that mean next cycle which is one of the reasons that they say over the next three weeks what iowa republicans are telling you, don't believe the polls just yet. we may change our mind again. they want some love and attention, brooke. >> that's great for you. michele bachmann, coming up, your show, 6:00 eastern, we'll be watching, john king. americans tossed in jail without being charged. why the government is raising all sorts of questions about your rights. plus, this -- >> henry had been put in a different baby's crib and so they brought back heng ree's crib to me but it was a different baby. >> a mom gives birth, breast

feeds her baby and then finds out it's not hers. you're going to find out why and how often this happens. sunny hostin is on the case. she's next.

the number of illegal immigrants arrested along the u.s.-mexican border is half of what it was three years ago.

legal americans are being tossed in jail. the honda and mer sad des executives that were retained under a legal immigration law but u.s. citizens being thrown in jail, what is the recourse? >> certainly it's not legal because certainly it's -- it would be a wrongful arrest. you can sue for wrongful arrest but while you're being detained, your recourse is not that great. it's a problem. we don't know the exact numbers because these numbers aren't being written down or

documented. he the number of people is quite high. >> i want to move on to this next story. in wisconsin hospital staff brought the wrong baby to a mother at feeding time. she was told about the error after she nursed the baby and changed his diaper. >> they hadn't checked the bands. henry had been put in a different baby's crib and they brought the baby back to me it was not henry. >> the mom says she doesn't know

where her baby this whole time. >> this is everyone mother's nightmare. the hospital says it was a breach in protocol. the wrong crib was brought in with the wrong baby. >> what is the hospital saying? >> the hospital says, in order for us to be in compliance with hippa regulations, it would be inappropriate for us to comment or release information about anyone who may or may not have been a patient at any of our hospitals. it's sort of a noncomment. with hippa regulations, they have to say nothing. but she breast fed and changed the other baby. there are all sorts of health

concerns involved and she's hoping that her story being covered will find the other mother and get information about who had her baby during that time. >> is this just a cautionary story or is she suing the hospital? >> well, she is suing the hospital and i remember when i had my children, my husband, who is a doctor, insisted on checking the bracelets which made us both very paranoid. how american troops deal with homemade bombs in war zones. weapons designed to kill. this is a fascinating cnn report. you'll see it right here, next. get the technology they love,

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you can call it the signature weapon, the ied. it's an acronym. they were cheap and easy to make and in iraq ichlt eds are responsible for most of the deaths and injuries of the war. take a look at this. the american experience in iraq.

>> i got blown like 20 feet from the humvee and i remember looking up thinking, oh, god, oh, god. >> the ied is a poor man's weapon of mass destruction. it's immediate, it's cheap, it doesn't require a large well-trained military force and it takes even fewer people to hide the bomb. that's why it's become such an effective weapon. >> wow. this is what they put inside the ieds to kill us. this is what does our casualties right here.

>> we're driving by and all of a sudden, boom. >> we went into the war designed with one type of warfare. by the end of the war, our tactics, techniques, and our procedures were greatly modified because of the peresence of ied on the medical field. >> people were hurt. >> they were everywhere and the ieds got more and more sophisticated as the years went on. the u.s. military got more sophisticated and it went on in a cycle like that. it was a battle between the ieds and the u.s. military's machine in trying to pump out protection

for them. >> see how the dirt is a different color? how it's freshly dug? it's a perfect sign that one has been planted there recently. >> it's clear that like bobby traps in vietnam, they are going to be present in iraq for some time and afghanistan some time, no matter the technological advantages and technological advances that we bring to this fight, they will be persistent on the battlefield and our troops need to be ready to confront them. >> i don't know. i just don't really think about it. >> i think about it but it is nerve racking. [ male announcer ] does your prescription medication

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just into us here at cnn, another school district, more suspected hazing. george howell, we talked on the phone last hour. you're now back in the studio. set it up for me. >> basically, i just spoke with walter woods, the media spokesperson for dekalb county schools. after looking into business strict bans over the last few months, the superintendent

decided to suspend all band activities in dekalb county. that's a big deal because there's a famed school here, southwest dekalb high and that's a major feeder school into the band at famu. so simply looking over things that have happened over the last few months, walter woods says that there was one situation of inappropriate behavior that tha district to make this call. >> so, just to back up. big picture. so, this school system, specifically this one high school, big feeder into the famed band. we know it's happened there. it's come out in the past couple of weeks. is anyone there directly been making the connection that these incidents of hazing begin in high school and continue through college? >> no direct connection, but it is important to point out that robert champion went to southwest dekalb high school -- >> the drum major who died. >> november 19th. making the decision in light of

what happened to review its bans. 20 within the district and that means 20 bands now suspended as far as band activity, however, four bands will participate in martin luther king day celebrations, but the entire district will not be participating! thank you very much. this just in. take a look at these live pictures. monte bellow, california. take a look at that massive, clouds of black smoke, fire, oil tankers. this is an oil tanker on fire. clearly -- paramount overpass. what i'm being told in my ear right now. so obviously, this highway shut off as they have that foam out trying to snuff out some of the fire and these crews inch precariously close to this thing, obviously engulfed in flames. see how this happened. i don't know if this is just one

tanker involved, another car, another trailer. live pictures. ktla. let's go to wolf blitzer in washington. wolf blitzer, i know you have ron paul on the show today. >> we're going to talk to him about many of the most important issues facing the country and as you know, you spoke with him earlier in the week. he's got a lot of momentum, especially in iowa right now and a lot of folks are looking at the most recent polls. he could surprise a lot of people by actually winning the iowa caucuses. that would be a severe setback to newt gingrich, who's been doing dramatically well over these past few weeks. some of the other candidates have gone down, down, down, but if he wins iowa, that shapes the political picture up dramatically. we'll talk to him at length and we're going to get some good questions to him. a whole bunch of issues. i'm looking forward to that.

also, rick stangle, the managing editor of "time" magazine. lot of politics coming up. lots of news happening around the world. important news happening in afghanistan. you remember that woman who was raped and then sent to jail because she was raped? it's a shocking story. but good news now. thanks to all of the reporting of nick peyton walsh and our team on the ground in afghanistan, this woman has been freed. we've got a full report on this story as well. going to be a big two hours in "the situation room." >> truly kudos to nick for exposing that and how that affects all the women in that particular prison in afghanistan. as we go to break, back to those live pictures in california. oil tanker engulfed in flames. trying to put this out. tell me again the name of the

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take a look at these pictures. fewer flames here and what appears to be a double tanker here. this is the 60 east. so, west coast, this is lunchtime. you want to avoid this. this is a 60 eastbound.

this is just about ten miles east of downtown los angeles. this is montebello, california. oil tanker on fire. fire crews there. you see the foam all out so that tells me they've been there a while trying to put this thing out. you see the water back in it again. from last time we checked on it, fewer black clouds, so hopefully, they'll get this thing out. now, to politics. mitt romney makes a huge bet and democrats are firing back for all of new york to see today. here's what mitt romney originically said at a republican date over the weekend. >> i'll tell you what. 10,000 bucks? $10,000 bet? >> i'm not in the betting business -- >> okay. >> well, now the democrats are betting right back by flying a plane towing an anti romney banner. dare i ask? what does the banner say? >> you know what? i think we just need to take a look at the video.

apparently, we just got it in. i haven't seen it myself. >> there it is. >> romney was in new york city today and it's basically telling people to sort of bet mitt romney's out of temperature. he's probably going to get the last laugh any way, but new york democrats decided to pull this stunt and put the plane aloft with the banner. if you can see at the very end trailing, there was a little attachment that told people a website they could go to to learn more. it was apparently to talk about mitt romney's wealthy background, so if there's any city in the world where you would expect a stunt like this to be pulled, there you go. new york city is it. >> does kind of beg the question how much it take to fly the banner there. >> exactly. >> just saying. >> exactly.

the obama campaign has sent out a fund raising letter jokingjok jokedjok jokingly asking voters to contribute to whom? >> to democrats. >> in honor of? >> your favorite conservative who's causeded a problem or got you all upset on social media. actually, this is a kind of idea both sides can try. very easily. i'm sure it won't be long before republicans start doing this kind of thing. not just democrats. inspired by political postings on social media. whatever your political inclination, you can probably see how this would work. the idea is juliana smoot came up with this idea. she says basically what you have to do is -- tell anybody who's gotten annoyed by something a conservative wrote on social media, i'm going to donate a certain amount of money