Live Blog from the Anchor Desk 4/1/08
Happy April Fool's Day. I've seen a few good stories that almost got me today. It's always fun to get sucked in for a few minutes, then realize what day it is. None of that tonight.
We will bring you an update on a story we've been following. Wal-Mart has told a brain-damaged former employee that she can keep the money it had paid for her care after a semi-truck plowed into her minivan eight years ago. READ RANDI'S KAYE'S POST
We'll also spend some time on John McCain's remarkable comeback to become the presumptive Republican nominee.
And please check out a post from today that may be helpful if you wonder why some comments get posted while others do not. LINK TO COMMENTS POST
And be sure to check out our new live web camera from the 360° studio. The shot features Anderson and Erica behind the scenes on the set. We'll turn the camera on at 945p ET and turn it off at 11p ET. LINK TO THE BLOG CAMERA
We'll start posting comments to this blog at 10p ET and stop at 11p ET.
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Goodnight to all, see ya tomorrow!
Good show tonight! This is my first time using the live blog and I love it. Don't know how you guys do it and put on the show though...
Great show, night fellow bloggers. 😀
There we go! Cameramen doing the robot, it was all worth it.
I am glad that Judge Arrington posted his position on the blog so that we could all draw our own conclusions.
Great show tonight. Goodnight, have a good one.
Gator footage? I guess it's time to bid a goodnight to all. Poor gator in a death roll..what else can you say about that.
Thanks for the follow up on the Wal Mart story! It is great to have such a happy ending for the family. They deserve it! Great show tonight!
That was a heck of a shot! Now I know what a death roll looks like! Yikes!
Great show tonight! Thanks everyone! Good night!
Don't feed the alligators!
I think judge has the right idea. We need some of that attitude/action here in Durham. Kid after kid commits a crime, gets on probation and then does something worse- usually murder. And they are all African American teenagers. Something has to wake them up.
Hello Anderson, Erica.
This webcam is cool.
Wal Mart story is very good. A++. Great news.
ouf... the gator... scary...
good night all.
The bottom line to me is, you cannot have double standards. Equality is just that, equality. There is nothing wrong with his message, but in a public courthouse, he should not have cleared people out based on their color of skin.
If he wanted to speak privately with the men, do so after session.
I support the judge's discression to clear the courtroom of non AA, to me its the same as his having a closed session within his chamber. He felt he needed to have the "real talk with the defendent", which would have been looked upon in a different light by someone not of the same race as the defendent. I'm tired of things being blown out of proportion when it related to African Americans. There are numerous things done and said by some other people that do not come to the light of day. Besides not everyone has the same opinion about the same circumstance.
so the word of the night is dippity do – U too can learn something new on ac360 every nite
Saera,
Thanks so much! Congrats Joey and Marc! way to go!!!!!!!! Yay! Good night Anderson, Erica, and Bloggers!!!!!!!! See you later!
Erica: I get verklempt too when I'm reading the Dow. It's understandable.
Not sure I want to see the death roll....so with that I'll be corny and say later gaters!
Great show as usual!
I missed the cut-off time last night, so I just want to say this early tonight: Thanks for everyone who's participating, and thanks to you both, Erica and Anderson, as well as the entire CNN crew (including the cameraman who waved and gave us a look into his viewfinder... a bird's eye view of a bird's eye view?) for inviting us on here, and heck, even reading our comments!
Greg S, In most traditions when you have to talk to "people of your own" pointedly, you do so in a little privacy. It's true the judge chose the wrong place but what is clear is that he had some very tough words for those defendants and would rather not utter them infront of whites for reasons he didn't say on AC 360
Nice British accent there Anderson.
Gator death roll? Did I hear that right? Sounds scary!
in british accent ac and erica....
Oh, by the by Mr. Anderson Cooper,
Thank you for making me feel so middle-aged, so old. I too, am 40 years old and until I heard you refer to yourself on last week, I had never thought of myself as middle-aged. When you said those words, it stopped in my strackes. YIKES! Where did time go?
Boots is a chemist (drugstore), not a grocery store. Come on guys...get it right!
nice accent Erica! Anderson, don't you ever watch the Croc Hunter? You should know what a death roll is!
the alligator in Florida is protesting the disenfranchising of it's voters
I think he was being honest and he admitted it was a mistake. I do not think racism is a part of this story.
Nice British accent there Anderson. 😛
LOVE LOVE LOVE your accents! hilarious!
About the charges of racism......
The problem is: The Judge just does not get it. He showed racial preference in the courtroom, which has to be the worst possible kind of racism.
Wow. Whats up with all these awful airplane stories? Seems like terrorists are the least of our worries when it comes to flying safely.
Perhaps, the judge thought his good advice would be taken by the defendants as a humiliating lecture if stated in an open court room.
I'm not sure it was the right move to make, but I do believe this judge had the best of intentions at the time.
The "death roll" is a technique crocodiles use to tear off chunks of meat from zebras, gnus, etc. They take a bite, then roll over and that helps remove a chunk of meat.
Hi Anderson and Erica
The webcam images from the set of 360 in new york are very cool
Were you Anderson playing with a turttle a few minutes ago?
I admire the Judge. His message appears to be about right and wrong and basic human decency. Hopefully, next time, he'll open the doors to everyone: everyone could be reminded these lessons.
People make mistakes and this judge seems like a genuine person that wants to help black youths. Give him a break. People have a hair trigger when it comes to race.
The live cam is awesome. the behind the scene stuff is so refreshing.