She’s staying in the race despite an overwhelming defeat in North Carolina and a narrow
victory in Indiana. Sen. Hillary Clinton vowed to campaign until the democrats have a nominee. Why doesn’t she give up? What is she fighting for? Will she be able to convince superdelegates she'd be a better match up against Sen. John McCain?
Tragedy in Myanmar where 100 thousand people could be dead after Friday’s cyclone but the military government is keeping relief out. We've got the pictures they don't want you to see.
It's called the Bishop’s list and it’s a record of the fathers, wives and children of Warren Jeff's polygamist ranch. Is this the evidence the state needs to make its case?
We’ve got a lot tonight and want to hear what you think. We’ll start posting comments at 10p ET and stop at 11p ET.
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David Mattingly, 360 Correspondent
I've been on television more than half my life. I spent a decade anchoring and reporting in local television before working the last 16 years at CNN. But I have to say that at no time have my wife and mom been more impressed with me than today when I appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show.
I was invited to speak about the Texas polygamy case, a story I've covered closely for AC360. It was on AC360 that I became the first correspondent to report live from inside the FLDS sect's compound.
But somehow that big moment paled next to talking about it with Oprah.
Don't get me wrong, my wife is a huge Anderson fan. But there's just something about Oprah. (Obama got a big bounce from her attention...does that mean I will too? Hmmmmm).
In all honesty, it was a great thrill to get the call...thank you very much Oprah!
Erica Hill
360° Correspondent
Happy Wednesday, my friends! Wow, talk about a weird night…it seemed every time I left the room and came back, something had changed in Indiana. My in-laws have said how exciting it’s been the past few weeks to really matter this time around – something they haven’t felt in decades. Confirmation last night that Hoosier votes DO matter in this primary. What a ride…
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I can’t stop reading about the creepy man in Austria who confessed to holding his daughter captive as his sex slave for nearly a quarter century. The latest? Josef Frtizl doesn’t like the way he feels he’s being portrayed in the media. He says he’s not a monster, and that the coverage was “unfair”, noting he didn’t kill anyone while he held them prisoner and that, in fact, if it weren’t’ for him, his 19 year old daughter/granddaughter may have died. Riiiight, so now he’s a thoughtful humanitarian? These delusional comments make me even more upset.
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Toddlers smoking pot? And cigarettes?
Kids don’t just find a joint and decide to fire it up – someone has to teach them how, especially a 2 year old. Whoever did (allegedly) teach these kids to smoke deserves every available punishment and then some. There is NO excuse for harming a child like this.
Sadly, it’s not the first time this has happened...
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David Reisner
360° Digital Producer
A U.S. diplomat says the Myanmar cyclone death-toll may top 100,000…
It’s hard to fathom just how many people 100,000 really amounts to.
How do we take in the death of that many people at once?
Here's one way to look at it: Imagine any one of these U.S. cities disappearing - overnight.
That drives it home for me, what about for you?
Source: U.S. Census Bureau 2006
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Anderson Cooper
The numbers are shocking. 10,000 dead. Then yesterday 50,000. Now a top U.S. diplomat inside Burma suggests the death toll could be as high as 100,000. The truth is we don’t know. We may never fully know.
We’ve heard reports of bodies being dumped into rivers. We’ve seen this before. In Rwanda in 1994 I stood on a bridge over a river and saw dozens of bodies float downstream. They would collect at the base of a waterfall, caught in the swirling water, terribly bloated. I can still smell them. How many people in Burma will simply disappear?
What has happened in Burma is a natural disaster, but what is happening now is a man-made outrage. The government of Burma has been slow to allow aid groups in. I have been trying to get a visa for days now, but have not been granted one yet.
It is frustrating, to say the least. It’s important for journalists to be allowed in to convey the true scale of the catastrophe. It’s even more important that international aid groups be granted immediate access to the hardest hit areas.
CNN has a correspondent in Burma who is working around the clock to get information out. He is doing a great job. Many of us here at CNN wish we could join him. It is not for lack of trying.
Burma has seen so much suffering, so much pain, but what’s happening now should not be about politics or positions. It should be about getting aid to those in need, and preventing the spread of disease. We will be bringing you the latest from Burma tonight, in addition to the latest on politics here in the US.
100,000 dead. 50,000. 10,000. Their stories deserve to be told.
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Eyewitness reports on the devastation and suffering left in the wake of Tropical Cyclone Nargis in Myanmar trickled out Wednesday by way of Web sites and blogs.
"This is indeed a very sad moment for all Myanmar people," blogger Myat Thura wrote from neighboring Thailand.
More than 22,000 people have died, according to estimates from Myanmar's state-run media. Another 40,000 are believed to be missing, according to the estimates, and 1 million have been left homeless since the storm hit last weekend in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma.
"They are my people and it hurts me so much. Why our Burmese people have to suffer such kind of hardship? Why us?" Myat Thura wrote.
Another blogger, who calls herself May Burma, blamed the storm's devastation on corruption and dissipation in Myanmar society.
"Burmese used to say that our country never had natural disaster since we have our religion, culture and so many arhats [spiritual practitioners], pure monks and sayadaws [senior monks]. This is not the case anymore lately," she wrote.
A blogger called Rule of Lords claimed to translate reports from Thai television station Yoma 3 into English.
According to Rule of Lords, the station quoted eyewitnesses who said refugees were pouring into Laputta, even though the storm flattened the city of 50,000
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