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Chuck Hadad
AC360° Producer
It’s 2pm on Saturday and I’m doing 60 on the Long Island Expressway. The sun is shining, people are heading to the beach but I’m so tired that no matter how hard I try, my eyes will just not stay open. Although I know I have many hours to go before my final destination, I’m afraid I’ll have an accident so I pull off an exit, find a quiet suburban street to park the car, roll down the windows and immediately pass out for two, fitful hours of sleep.
As I descend into slumber, I think, “How did I get here?” but in reality, I have no one to blame but myself. Well, myself, and CNN.
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Gabe Falcon
AC360° Writer
Tonight, Brian Steinhauer is in a coma and his alleged attacker is across the Atlantic, a fugitive from justice, and he may stay that way forever.
On the night of May 4th, Steinhauer was in a bar in upstate New York. So was fellow student Miladin Kovacevic, a towering 6-foot-9, 280 pound man who was recruited from Serbia to play basketball for Binghamton University.
Sometime that evening, Steinhauer asked a young woman who knew one of Kovacevic’s friends to dance. Police say Kovacevic responded with brutal force; attacking Steinhauer and repeatedly kicking him in the head until he lay motionless on the floor.
Kovacevic and two other men were arrested and charged with gang assault. Steinhauer suffered severe internal injuries and to this day, remains in critical condition.
Program Note: When it all began, he was the superstar with the big crowds and big bucks. He had the title she wanted: President Clinton. They both may be down now, but they’re certainly not out. Watch a special hour, “Clintons Never Quit.” Tonight, 10 ET
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Tom Foreman
AC360° Correspondent
Sen. Hillary Clinton once told 60 Minutes "I'm not sitting here...some little woman standing by my man like Tammy Wynette." And she didn’t. She fought long and hard for the Democratic nomination and it would be easy to write her off now that she lost. But there are at least 18 million reasons that can’t happen. That's about how many voters chose Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama and according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. poll four out of ten democrats still wish she were the nominee.
It’s something the Obama camp is probably considering in the search for his running mate. As CNN Political Analyst Carl Bernstein put it: "I think that if Obama is to choose Hillary Clinton, it will be because he sees he can not win this election clearly, unless he picks her."
Program Note: Watch a special hour, “Clintons Never Quit.” Tonight, 10 ET
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Tom Foreman
AC360° Correspondent
When it all began he was the superstar. He drew big crowds and big bucks. He had the title she wanted: President Clinton. But as the race for the nomination dragged on a curious thing happened. Sen. Clinton’s public approval rating fitfully improved over the long battle while the former president’s got decidedly worse. Hillary Clinton's numbers are now better than his across the board. As former Clinton adviser, David Gergen, put it “one of the enduring mysteries of this campaign has been...Bill Clinton's sometimes erratic behavior.”
He insulted reporters (remember what he called Vanity Fair writer Todd Purdum?) and accused the Obama campaign of playing the race card. "The rage he exhibited at the end of this campaign did not go unnoticed,” said CNN’s Jessica Yellin, “Not only by the media, but by average people, average voters who were sort of astounded by it.”
Program Note: When it all began, he was the superstar with the big crowds and big bucks. He had the title she wanted: President Clinton. They both may be down now, but they’re certainly not out. Watch a special hour, “Clintons Never Quit.” Tonight, 10 ET
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Tom Foreman
AC360° Correspondent
There can be no other childhood in America that quite compares to growing up in the White House. Many children have had the experience and not one adult can rightfully say he or she knows what it would be like. But in this election, a great many people who remembered that little girl from the Clinton White House, were impressed to see Chelsea Clinton as a young woman on the campaign trail.
James Carville is a close friend of the Clinton family: “The whole country has watched her grow, and it's so nice to see a success story like this and to see, you know, somebody we knew as a girl, you know, turn into a really kind of mature, bright, articulate, successful young woman. And i think it's good for other children, particularly young girls, to see."
David M. Reisner
AC360° Digital Producer
What's up everybody! It’s time for ‘Beat 360°!’ (It's web-only tonight, but I couldn't leave you without a Friday challenge!)
Everyday we post a picture – and you provide the caption. Our staff will get in on the action too.
Tune in every night at 10p ET to see if you are our favorite! Can you Beat 360°?
Here is the ‘Beat 360°’ pic of the day: We went into the archives...
A June 4, 2007 file photo shows Sen. Barack Obama, laughing after saying goodbye to Rev. Jesse Jackson, reflected left, after Obama addressed the Rainbow PUSH Coalition's annual conference breakfast in Rosemont, Ill.
Have fun with it.
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