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anderson cooper. listen, i saw the picture that you tweeted. >> yeah. >> that's very scary stuff with your eyes. what exactly happened to you? >> i was on assignment for "60 minutes," and i'm in portugal in a beautiful spot doing a story on the water. and it was a windy day. i was only on the water for like two hours, it was an overcast day, and i burned my eyeballs. i didn't even know this was possible, but i woke up that night, like eight hours later, with excruciating pain, and i couldn't see. >> is it because your eyes are blue? i'm not trying to be funny, but i've heard it happens -- >> subsequently i read people are lighter eyes have a greater issue with this but you can burn your eyes just like you can burn your skin. >> what did you do to burn your eyes? >> i don't know. i don't think i did anything different. i was on a crew team in college, i was on the water every day of my life. i don't know if it's because i am older or because -- the doctors said because it was really windy, might have h

and anderson cooper's shocker. he actually went blind. >>> and good morning, everybody. we begin this wednesday with breaking news out of los angeles. a deal to end a crippling strike at the busiest port -- one of the busiest ports in america. a walkout with a multibillion dollar impact around the country. >> 10,000 workers will be back on the job at the ports of los angeles and long beach today, which handle about half the cargo coming into the u.s. an overnight contract agreement ends an eight-day walkoff that kept billions upon billions of dollars in cargo from getting to warehouses nationwide. crucial merchandise in these days before christmas. they estimated it was about $1 billion a day that this strike was going on. >> it's over now. that's the good news out of l.a. this morning. >>> now, we turn to the battle over how to keep the nation from going over that so-called fiscal cliff. the clock is ticking now. 27 days to go. >> and president obama and congressional republicans are making plenty of sound bytes about it all. but very little progress. abc's tahman bradl

cnn's anderson cooper explains how it unfolded moment by moment. >> all units, the individual i have on the phone is continuing to hear what he believes to be gun shots. >> reporter: the first word was chilling. it only got worse. >> they're reporting multiple fatalities involved in this shooting at the elementary school. >> reporter: with each new report, the horror deepened. >> reports say the number of dead closer to 30 than to 20, and sadly, most of them are children. >> reporter: every detail, every fact brought more sadness. each fresh piece of information a part of the picture, a school, kindergarten through fourth grade, a sanctuary that was supposed to be a place of safety torn apart. >> she heard the intercom came on the school and she heard a scream and she heard a gun shot -- two gun shots. and then the school went into lockdown. >> reporter: a student's teenage big brother describing the sounds of a gunman on the loose at sandy hook elementary. >> on and off duty troopers responded to the school, and with newtown police immediately upon arrival entered the school and beg

anderson cooper is with us as well. anderson? >> and we, of course, will be bringing you this entire service. we anticipate it lasting about two hours or so. we will bring you the entire service uninterrupted without commentary, but we are just awaiting the start of it which we believe is just a minute or two away. let's listen in again as we see more responders arriving. let's listen to the crowd applaud. [ applause ] for many this is the first time they have seen some of these first responders since friday. president obama is already on scene in the high school, has been meeting individually and privately with family members of those who have lost their children and also family members of the teachers and the school administrators who also lost their lives, the six adults, the 20 children killed in that school. our jessica yellin is also standing by, our chief white house correspondent. there is an overflow room for people who were not able to get into that auditorium, jessica. >> there's an overflow room and a group of people

anderson cooper and kathy griffin. the two will host as the new year is welcomed around the world. they're here to tell us what's in store for us. >> i'm here with kathy griffin, kathy, the funny thing is we're on cnn weekend right now. if they're wondering who their typical viewer is, it's you, because all you're doing during the weekend is watch cnn, right? >> i am a cnn super fan, i know the entire slate, the reporters, i'm so excited to be doing two years with candy crowley. two women, she clearly did the best debate out of any of the cnn reporters. >> she's not doing new year's with you. you're doing it me again. >> woman and blitz-griffin? >> no. i thought you were busy going to andy cohen's new year's eve party? >> no. i put aside all parties. because i want to spend it with you. >> are you going to come on the rise and do like ten minutes and then you're out? >> yes. i will fiscally be there, mentally i will be in my safe place. >> all right. just out of curiosity, this year we're on for two and a half hours. obviously you don't know what's going to happen. even more than a

you can spend the final hours of 2012 and beginning of 2013 with anderson cooper and cath ay griffin. that is always fun to watch. kathy griffin and anderson cooper together, you can't beat it. >>> two parent face a financial hurdle as they prepare for their infant daughter's surgery. that's when an officer steps in to help. our affiliate kotv is in albuquerque with the story. >> reporter: the afternoons have been more than chilly in albuquerque lately. on thursday around 4:30 p.m., it was about 35 degrees and someone called the cops when they noticed a couple panhandling at a bus stop with their baby. >> the caller was concerned that the baby was out in the cold weather. >> reporter: the baby a 2 1/2-year-old girl bundled in blankets and looking up at officer hernandez with her big blue eyes. >> the first thing i thought when i saw her from the simpsons, she looked like little star all bundled up. >> reporter: why panhandle in the cold with a young child. their story checked out and tugged at officer hernandez's heart strings. >> they were panhandling to get enough money for one of t

cnn's new year's eve live with anderson cooper and kathy griffin starts at 10:00 p.m. eastern from times square. >>> and as 2012 draws to a close, we are counting down the top ten ridiculists of the year based on your votes. tonight, your choice for number seven. it involves the arrest of a man whose name is quite a mouthful, to say the least. here is anderson's take on it from back in january. >> time now for the ridiculist. tonight, we're adding a gentleman who for the sake of genes i'm going to initially refer to at mr. bop-bop. he is the man who got arrested in a park in madison, wisconsin, after police found marijuana, drug paraphenalia and a knife on him. according to court records, his name used to be jeffrey drew wilschke. kind of a tongue twister. i am guessing he got tired of people mispronouncing it because back in october he legally changed his name to beezou. doo-doo zoppity zop bop bop. some call him zoppity bop bop bop. some bop-bop. some beezoy. clearly that's his first anymore. doo-doo his middle name. zopitty bop bop bop his last name. if he marries s

anderson cooper and kathy griffin are getting their celebration on. this is year number six. every year kathy manages to surprise anderson. last year when she stripped down to her underwear. what surprises are in store this time? anderson and kathy join us now. do you stay up at night, kathy, thinking, dreaming of ways to make him sweat or giggle that little anderson cooper giggle? >> first of all, where are you, and who's soledad? >> soledad is taking a much needed day off. >> you're not black in america. you're not latina in america. >> i'm so iowa. there's a palace coup, and i'm here but only for today. my dear, do you stay up at night wondering how to make him giggle? >> i have many, many things up my sleeve, which i don't feel anderson needs to know about. >> it's like a wizard's sleeve. >> anderson, tell christine about the typical conversation we have the day before where you call me in my hotel and usually start with like, oh, and then you basically say what? >> i don't know what you're referring to. >> first of all, either you're scared of ryan seacrest pause you're

. >> more in the anderson cooper of your co-host challenge. she is one of five finalists from across the country. the winner will be chosen by viewers. that voting in at midnight tonight. get the voting in now. >> dillon read this noon -- adamas but with a final look [ female announcer ] for those whoho love sweets your season is here. let's just call it the baking time of year. you need special ingredients. you need the staples. that's a given. you need safeway sugar for just $1.97. and that magic thing that makes everyone want another -- only $2.99 for land o'lakes butter. and when hands get messy quite surely they'll say, "yum! wow! yay! what a sweeter holiday." safeway. ingredients for life. >> it is kobe. >> that was it. that was the celebration. only four other nba players -- kareem all tool to bar, michael jordan, while chamberlain have scored more points. kobe has -- he has taken, believe it or not over 40,000 shots in his nba career. >> of course. >> a bumpy temperature forecast the next few days. take a look at the next seven days. t

anderson cooper, anderson, if you're listening, dress warmly. and kathy griffin will be here for their annual show that gets under way at 10:00 p.m. eastern. and when mayor bloomberg presses that button at 11:59 that signals the ball drop, he'll be joined by the radio city rockets, all 36 of them. that is 72 legs in all. one final thing, the times square alliance actually put out a survey. they said that 26% of respondents actually have nobody to kiss tonight. 15% will kiss whomever is standing next to them. 11% will kiss a family member. get this, 3% will actually lock lips with their pet. >> well, alina, we're going to get back to you. we want to know who you're going to kiss tonight. that's going to be part of the story tomorrow. >> reporter: i'd tell you, but i'd have to kill you. >> way to rock that hat. i know it's cold out there. we'll be checking in with you in a little bit. thanks, alina. >>> tonight is going to be a wild night. they're all right here. cnn's new year's eve live with anderson cooper and kathy griffin starting at 10:00 ea

anderson cooper, we watched these faiths, they were well representative. we can only hope and pray that those who now mourn will get at least a little bit of comfort from what we just saw. >> and the president toward the end of his remarks asking if we are, all of us as a society, doing all we can to protect our children. he said he felt we are not and he said we can do better. very powerful words from president obama ending this ceremony, and now people in the audience greeting one another, hugging one another. first responders are still inside. wolf, very moving moment when the first responders came into the room shortly before the service began, there was a standing ovation for them. no doubt many people now approaching those first responders, just wanting to thank them, shake their hand, hug them, perhaps share a tear with them. a lot of people who were watching in overflow rooms and outside huddled under blankets given by the red cross are slowly walking away, past the location where we are, past a makeshift memorial, which is outside the high school,

i've got to beat anderson cooper. finally, let's come to the car accident you had. >> yes. >> a strange case, where you had taken an ambien sleeping pill in the morning. >> i reached for my thyroid medication and took the wrong pill. i did it at 7:30 in the morning. i did what tom brokaw did. i took the wrong pills. i was on my way to the gym. got into the car. got into a car accident. but there was no alcohol in my blood. that's what happened. >> the case in general. >> yes. >> good luck with that. >> thank you. >> let's talk about taylor swift before you go. she's the hot woman at the moment. she's dating a british rock star. she was honored at the rfk centers gala. >> and incidentally, you can get one direction tickets, too, on the -- >> well, there you go. is she nice, taylor swift? >> so fantastic. such an amazing woman. she spoke. she gave about a 20-minute speech, sang 4 songs the other night. very deep, very moving. >> good for her. she's the most hated woman in britain, thanks to her fling with harry styles.

. >> anderson cooper will reveal our top ten heroes of 2012. >> michelle counting down her top political turkeys of the year. >> counting down the top acts for holiday shopping. >> the top fashionista of the 2012. >> special top ten showbiz countdown of the year's most explosive reality shows. >> stephen: as always the number one explosive reality show, bomb stars where eight celebrities live in a beach house and are blown up. folks, i love numbered lists so much that i have compiled my top ten lists of favorite numbers one through ten. coming in at number one for the second year in a row, five! (cheers and applause) and now the five that is number one, number five is, of course, seven. as in the phrase slap me a high seven, my number five man. (laughter) of course my top ten numbers list always make my yearly list of favorite lists's lists. unfortunately my list of favorite lists lists did not make this year's list. but one list maker that always makes my list is "time" magazine. this year once again i'm a contender on their person of the year list. (cheers and applause) now in previous

anderson cooper and miss kathy griffin. >> that wasn't kathy griffin on the pole. that was a backup dancer. >> kathy griffin lee. have we corrected this? >> also -- >> i did talk to lil wayne. >> okay. >> see, see -- >> what? >> you're about to talk about the pole? >> there was a woman upside down grinding on a pole behind him that we had to blur out part of the pole, the whole thing was ridiculous. we decided -- >> it turns out i'm really the angel one on cnn. i'm really the one you can count on to be classy. >> that's right, yes, you keep it classy. >> i think if this is an indication of how this 2012 nears it will be an interesting one. ringing in 2013 with you two, i can't wait. i'll be in new orleans. i'll see you two there. and everyone else. see you guys on new year's eve. >> thanks, brooke. >> see you there. >> anderson and kathy will be live from new york and brooke will be live in new orleans, for the countdown to 2013 starting 10:00 p.m. eastern here on cnn. >>> i'm don lemon. brooke is off today. the time is now for that last ditch effort to avert the f

either that, or anderson cooper is terrible at faking a sick day. "oh, yeah, i got a sunburn on my eyeball, so i can't make it to work. bye." last night was the big "victoria's secret fashion show" over at cbs, or as husbands call it, "oh, hey, honey, i was just looking for the lifetime channel. meredith baxter birney." more tv news. disney just lost its case against the company that produces "who wants to be a millionaire?" even more embarrassing, they lost it on the easiest question. [ light laughter ] you guys hear about this? in a new interview, mike tyson says in 1998, he found brad pitt in bed with his ex-wife, robin givens. of course, pitt has evidence to refute that. the fact that he still has both ears. [ laughter ] this never happened. >> yeah. >> jimmy: and finally, pizza hut in canada is releasing 100 bottles of limited edition pizza hut perfume. [ light laughter ] yeah. it's the perfect way to tell that special someone in your life, "i'm probably high right now." [ laughter ] we have a great show tonight. give it up for the roots! [ che

cnn's new year's eve live with anderson cooper and kathy griffin starts at 10:00 p.m. eastern from times square. we are counting down the top ten ridiculous stories. we asked you to vote on-line. number ten and nine are posted on our website at ac360.com and tonight we reveal number eight on the list. the exercise equipment that, how should i put it, let's just say it leaves a lasting image. >> time for the ridiculist. it is a piece of exercise equipment and it follows very closely in the, shall we say, suggestive footsteps as the thigh master and shake weight. let's take a look, shall we? hey now! wow! that's not just suggestive. there's a language barrier, of course, but what we can gather this piece of exercise equipment finally addresses a common problem, that problem being when you desperately want to ride a horse in your living room but when you try to mimic the motion without any equipment you are likely to fall down. >> see, problem solved. finally a way to pelvic thrust your way to fitness without the risk of falling on the floor that always happens to me and

anderson cooper's on the scene. i don't foe what else to say after hearing a dad like that. >> yeah. it's all just beyond words really. and i said this last night, i feel like all of the words that we speak and all of the words that can be spoken are just -- it seems so small in the face of this horror. >> he works in a hospital. he's a physician's assistant. he deals with saving people's lives. he's at work and all of a sudden he gets a call. there's a problem. >> unimaginable. >> you know, all day long here people have been gathering and in spots, impromptu spots, public vigils, other times on a street corner. everybody wants to talk about where they were, what they heard, who they knew. and it's really extraordinary feeling here right now. i mean this is a community which -- it sound cliche -- but it's a community trying to come together, trying to help one another. and it's an extraordinary thing to witness. >> it happens the week before christmas. you know, people have to say to themselves, how could this happe

aspercreme. >>> did you know that anderson cooper and kathy griffin are teaming up this year to usher in the new year on cnn right from time square. >> wouldn't be the same, would it? >> without them? of course. let's just say things got a little weird last night. >> putting it mildly. >> on the "situation room" when the two were promoting their new year's eve special. look at this. >> somebody tells me, and i'm not sure this is true. somebody tells me you're obse obsessed with wolf blitzer. and yet every year it's me talking to you guys because i'm doing blitzer's show. is that -- do you take it personally? do you think there's something to this? >> i think wolf is wise to stay away from kathy griffin. i once -- i don't know if you know this story, candy. i lent -- kathy griffin asked to come to my house on long island. and like a nice guy, i sent her a key because she wanted to go there a day in advance, and that night -- >> to clean up the place. >> no, just to go -- first of all, she arrived. i think she thought it was going to be a house like downton abbey. >> the chef was late.

"anderson cooper 360" starts right now. >>> john, thanks. we begin tonight with breaking news about your paycheck, your unemployment check, your defense job, the entire economy, you name it. all of it is at stake if the country goes over the fiscal cliff. it's a cliff that lawmakers built. they set the tuesday deadline, they knew it was coming for more than a year. but even now, they have done little to agree to a package before that time. keeping them honest, the people in this building have known what's coming on tuesday, yet they're only returning to this building to get back to work just now. senators came back yesterday. house members, well, they woet be back until sunday. this afternoon, house and senate leaders met with president obama at the white house. they talked for about an hour. afterwards, president obama said he was modestly optimistic. bypassing house speaker john boehner who had trouble getting his fellow republicans to agree to anything, the president called on senate majority and minority leaders harry reid and mitch mcco

now, last night, a former cia officer, robert bear, was speaking to anderson cooper. he described what the use of sarin could do. here's more of what he had to say. >> one round and the dispersion on that could be -- depends on the wind -- but you could take out, let's say a city like homs, you could take out a third of the city in the first couple of hours. anderson, this is a highly toxic liquid. it's a persistent agent. it's absolutely completely deadly. >> reporter: now, we've heard repeatedly from u.s. administration officials, u.s. president barack obama, u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton that the use of chemical weapons in syria was a red line for which syria and the bashar al assad regime would face severe consequences if they ever did cross that red line and utilize chemical weapons against the people of syria. >> and we have no idea what those severe consequences would be, right? >> reporter: that's right, we don't. you know, people speculate that this would mean some type of military intervention, but we also know that a lot of world powers have not w

anderson cooper 360 starts right now. >>> john, thanks. we begin tonight keeping them honest. it's a phrase we use a lot on this program and one we're passionate about. we feel it's important to point out dishonesty. perhaps never more important than the story we're bringing you tonight. last week as we were covering the shooting in newtown, connecticut, anderson learned something that frankly made us all sick to our stomachs. that people were actually attempted to capitalize on the tragedy, fraudulently trying to raise money in the victims' names. thanks to reporting by anderson, drew griffin, and our producer, tonight, a woman has been arrested in connection with one of those alleged scams. drew will join me with the details in just a moment, but first, here's how we got to this

leading our coverage from times square, anderson cooper and kathy griffin. they will host as the new year is welcome around the world. the countdown begins at 10:00 p.m. eastern time tomorrow night. >>> from new york city it to washington, d.c., the nation's capital is just as busy today with a little less fanfare and lots of fiscal decisions made there today. we'll check in after the break. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have six grams of sugars. with fifteen grams of protein to help manage hunger... look who's getting smart about her weight. [ male announcer ] glucerna hunger smart. a smart way to help manage hunger and diabetes. time for citi price rewind. because your daughter really wants that pink castle thing. and you really don't want to pay more than you have to. only ci

cnn's anderson cooper spoke with the mother of 6-year- old shooting victim noah pozner. >> they were here, and they mattered. they all had families and they mattered. and so did all of the educators who died that day. they all mattered. they all had families, they all had friends. they all had - you know, if i asked everybody in this world who has ever loved someone, who has ever had a human being in their life who was essential to their well being to raise their hand, i don't think there would be many hands down in this world. and every one of those hands is a reason why those weapons should not be out in the general public. >> while the president has promised "real reforms" on gun laws, the n-r-a pushes to have an armed security guard in every school. and for the very latest on the gun control debate, chris monzingo has the details. >> reporter: as the last of the newtown school shooting victims are buried today a renewed debate about gun control has heated back up. late friday new jersey gov chris christie came out against posting armed guards in schools.. >> "i'm not someone who

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former republican majority leader trent lott told cnn's anderson cooper how he had a working relationship with his democratic counterpart tom daschle. the two did something called compromise. a concept that facilitates law foreign in today's congress. watch. >> i had a red phone where when i picked up that phone, it rang only one place. on tom daschle's desk. and when he picked it up, i knew i was talking to tom daschle. not his staff. not my staff. sometimes he and i lead when our conferences were not ready to move. i remember i called one time i called him, i stepped out from a conference meeting and tom you know we need to do this, i'm having problem and he said i am too, let's go, i will see you on the floor. we went up on the floor of the senate, we called the bill up and passed it by sundown. you got to do that every now and then even though you might catch a little flash from those in your conference. it is called leadership, anderson. >> just to clarify, a red phone was on republican leader trent lott's desk and a red phone was on leader tom daschle desk. when the red phone rang o

. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome anderson cooper. >> good evening, everyone and welcome to cnn heroes, "an all-star tribute" the men, the women and the children you are going to meet tonight are taking aim at some of humanity's gravest challenges they come here not only to accept our gratitude but to inspire us to take action in our own lives. with us this even, as you would expect at a fancy awards show are music you tv, sports stars, but here is the difference they didn't is didn't come to be honored. they came to generously lend their support to heroes as well as the remarkably talented harvey keitel. we want to thank you for getting involved. you can get involved tonight. you can see twice interact and donate on screen during the performances tonight during the show, you will see some stuff down over here, you will see some stuff over here on your screens, hopefully not right here because that's my face, that's the moneymaker. [ laughter ] we've got ten incredible here these we are honoring this year around later tonight, one of them is going to be named the 2012 cnn hero o

he defended himself on cnn's "anderson cooper 360." >> in retrospect, do you feel you should have done something different or could have done something different? >> it is very hard to say and in hindsight, i would say that i would have said, mr. han, run the other direction. in looking at the image on it, there were only about three cars into the station and all he had to do was outrun three cars and he would have lived. >> his wife said he had been drin drinking and some alcohol was found on him, as well. >> i am not aware of that and i'm not aware of his interaction with his wife. >> for you, what has this been like? not only to wince an event like this is horrific and then to come under the kind of criticism that you had come under from people who were not there. what is that like? >> they were not there and i look at them as arm chair critics and when you are in a situation, you realize what it is and it was a very fluid situation. the photographs are still. you see the train and you see mr. han at one spot, but in reality, the train is moving towards him. i do not know what speed

this is anderson cooper special. bullying stops here. at one time how many kids were bullying you? >> 40. >> 40 kids. you could identify 40 kids. and joined up with facebook and explain the app. >> it's a great program and kids and adults can take a pledge and stop bullying so we can all make a difference. >> we're going to lead the way but we're challenging every governor in every state to do their part and for every citizen to step up. stop bullying. speak up. >> stop bullying. >> speak up. >> stop bullying. speak up. >> stop the video. [applause] so we have the honor of working with a stellar group of advisers from the academic side, from community based organizations, amazing partners across the time warner family of brands and my partner at facebook and as bullying is unfortunately a global problem we're beginning to expand our u.s. reach. this past spring we launched in south america and in brazil. all of our materials for the educators and the community based organizations in the room, all of the education rights have been cleared. everything on the website and long form and