star-spangled banner yet wave ♪ ♪ oer the land of the free ♪ and the home of the brave we move on to the top of the hour. welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. i want to begin with whitney houston and her death. here is what we know right now. police in beverly hills, they are not conducting a homicide investigation. we heard from a lieutenant just a moment ago. but we do know that the autopsy is complete, but it's just too

early to tell what killed her. that's, of course, all pending the toxicology results. don lemmon is covering the story for us just outside the l.a. county coroner's office. don, bring us up to speed. you and i were listening to the press conference, our viewers were as well. beverly hills police, you also spoke with the assistant county coroner there in l.a. what do you know as of this moment? >> reporter: well, you heard some of it, brooke. you heard them say that their investigation at the hotel -- pardon me; we're right outside the coroner's office where there is an ambulance coming through here -- but you heard me say the investigation at the hotel was over. whitney houston's body has been released, and the coroner told our producer here just a short time ago that to the best of his knowledge, whitney houston's body has been removed from the coroner's office and it will be on a private flight soon back to the east coast, back to new

jersey. what we also know, brooke, is what lieutenant mark rosen said in that press conference is that he said there were prescription drugs in the hotel room, but to his knowledge, not out of the ordinary. it didn't seem anything out of the ordinary for a normal person. that's according to him. what he did say was that whitney houston's body was found in the bathtub by what he believes is a member of her staff, was removed from the tub to try to resuscitate her, and of course, they couldn't, and by the time paramedics, emts, fire department got there, she was unconscious on the floor. 3:55 p.m. pronounced dead. whitney houston's body going back to new jersey, and there will be a funeral service to be held sometime this weekend, brooke. >> a lot of people have been asking about where is bobby brown and also about their daughter, so i just want to tell you that he's back in tennessee.

went ahead and performed saturday night. a very emotional ireport. take a listen to what he said that night. >> i want you all to do me a favor, just say a prayer for my daught daughter. say a prayer for my mother, and if you can find the time, please say a prayer for me cuz i'm going to need it. >> however you want to characterize the marriage of whitney houston and bobby brown, obviously he had a tough time, right, getting through that performance on saturday. we now know he is back in los angeles. i do want to ask you, though, about their daughter bobbi kristina. she went to the hospital. how is she? >> reporter: she did go to the hospital, brooke, and it's interesting because right after -- saturday right when her mom died, reports started coming

out about bobbi kristina. people were concerned about her because she was with her mom to go to the grammys and the festivities surrounding the grammys, the clive davis party the night before. she wasn't in the room when it happened. when she found out about it, she rushed back to the room to see her mom. police wouldn't let her in. she became hysterical, they had to take her to the hospital, brooke. she was released from the hospital the next day, became hysterical again. she had to go back to the hospital, was released. because, you know, she's 18 years old, brooke. her mom just died. imagine that, imagine being 18 years old and hearing about your mom dying from someone else. and then going up to the room and not being allowed -- that's what happened, and that's why bobby brown. what you showed was from mississippi, right, bobby brown? >> that's right. he did not go on to play in nashville. >> reporter: >> reporter: right, right. he came here to take bobbi kristina back to the east coast to be with her family. she's all right now.

>> she's okay. no surprise we're not hearing from her or bobby brown or her mother in new york. you mentioned her body being flown privately to new york for a funeral friday or saturday. but do you know who we are hearing from? from colleagues. people from the music industry and beyond. we've pulled something from lie necessari -- lionel richie, one of the people who knew whitney houston the best. he pulled a quote on how dangerous sane can be. but first, a serial killer draws a map behind bars that leads police to disturbing discoveries, discoveries that could solve many cold cases, with all of this starting from the drawings he sent to this n man, leonard padilla. there he is. up next. to a great hot dog. i knew it was going to be a success.

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my money. my choice. my meineke. for more than 12 years, one california killer has the chance to relive -- excuse me, relieve -- some of the anguish for the families of dozens of murder victims. leslie tine was silent on where he buried bodies. silent until tine drew them a map. what was his motivation? not guilt, but apparently greed. money so he could pay off a prison debt that will allow him to buy items at the prison store. so far investigators have uncovered 400 bone fragments and proof that some of the remains

belonged to 16-year-old chevy wheeler who disappeared back in 1975. in fact, here is her mother. >> so i can bring her home. and there will never be real closure, but we'll have her. her remains. >> joining me now is bounty hunter leonard padilla who is helping leslie tine get all that money. i have to ask, what's in it for you? why reach out to a guy on death row? >> my partner and i started on this in '98, right after they were arrested, and we've been working on it continuously. the situation was revived some time back by scott smith, who started looking into it and actually went and visited sherman tine. subsequently we started butting heads with the county sheriff's

office because they felt that, hey, the case is a cold case, you guys don't know what you're doing. i said, look, i made an arrangement with sherman tine to pay off his $13,000 restitution and another $15,000 so he can buy headstones for his mother and father's grave. and i contacted someone i worked with for about 20 years, and he and matt boettcher and a parole agent actually went down and talked face to face with sherman tine who gave them a location on several occasions. subsequently they shut down bringing the man out here to look at these locations. >> let me jump in, leonard, because there's so many parts to the story. >> there is, yes. >> when you told us about bounty, what is the price tag here, and how much ultimately would sherman tine, this convicted serial killer, how much would he get? >> i told him i would pay him $33,000 if he gave me two

bodies, chevy wheeler and cindy benderheiden, and any bodies after that we would negotiate a figure on them. he's not going anywhere. i don't get anything. there's no rewards on these. excuse me? >> so why do this? >> because nobody else can do it. the sheriff of san joaquin county and the other county sheriff's office haven't been able to do it. chevy wheeler's parents now will have her remains while the sheriff of san joaquin county has been sitting there trying to figure out how to get news media attention for his reelection campaign. i've been out there with my partner rob dick, jeff reinich, karen and these other folks busting our butts getting information the hard way. we have had the sheriff's office chase us off of property where they found chevy wheeler last week. >> leonard, how did you even get him? was it your idea to draw maps with body locations? was he pretty amenable to that idea?

>> exactly. what happened is, i finally told him, look, you're not going anywhere. i read him a letter of complete immunity on any other cases found. i said, here's what i need. i need to sit down with you and get some exact locations because we think we know what we're doing. he finally drew the map for me, but i had already known that eventually the sheriff would look at it. if they started thinking, they would look at it because all mail that comes out of a prison they look at. what we did was took it to diver dog based on information he gave me over the telephone, and we went up there and got good hits on two locations. based on that, we knew that we had the information. subsequently, when they read the letter, they believed it because all of a sudden, here it is. it's sherman tine's handwriting, he's specifically citing locations, he's drawing pictures, he's making a map. so they went right out there after we had been out there, and sure as hell, now we got all the

help in the world we've been asking for for all these months, and they're actually coming up with the bodies. >> this is my final question for you, and i understand chevy wheeler, the mother, she talks about finally getting closure if that really exists when you lose your child -- >> it doesn't exist but it's a thought. >> it's a thought. but my other question would be, if i'm a parent and i'm realizing this man, this convicted killer who took the life of my child, is getting $33,000, and i know you say he's not going anywhere, he's on death row, but the fact he's cashing in on the killings could infuriate someone. >> well, it does. gun benderheiden, cindy's dad, when i first offered him $20,000, he was very mad i was offering him money. but as a bounty hunter, i can tell you it's a shortcut for information. why let the victims' relatives suffer any longer when i'm the one putting up the money? i'm the one funding a lot of this, myself and my partner,

we've been out there day and night. for years and years we've been out there. now we're on the cusp of finding these bodies. we know where there's a couple other bodies. somebody has to do it. >> we'll follow it. maybe 20 bodies i read. >> there will be a total of 30 before it's over. before it's over, there will be 30 bodies. none less. next, one activist says troops are going door to door in syria taking people right out of their own homes. this as the united nation general assembly gets ready to vote on a strongly ordered resolution. but will it make a difference? also big news today involving apple. the company hits a big number, showing just how dominant it is. , aches, fevers. tylenol: and i relieve nasal congestion. nyquil (stuffy): overachiever. anncr vo: tylenol cold multi-symptom nighttime relieves nasal congestion... nyquil cold & flu doesn't.

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before we talk apple stock, let's take a look at the dow, shall we? it's in the green, just about 80 points. that 13,000 mark, we haven't seen that since before the financial crisis in 2008, so we're hoping for that. allison kosik live as always from the new york stock exchange. allison, ow. big time apple today. >> for the first time apple is trading above $5 a share right now. it was just less than six months ago it hit $400 a share? in that time it spiked $100. reports lats week that the ipad 3 is on its way, and it could come out next month. that announcement coming out right after apple reported super strong earnings with

record-breaking ipad, iphone sales. and get this. analysts call apple stock a bargain. >> a bargain! >> here's why they say it's a bargain, which makes me laugh. earnings for apple, they've shot out much faster than the stock price. you look at its profit. apple's profit is up about 120% over the past year. it's just incredible that this company continues to grow at this pace, and how could it not? it's got so many people that buy its products, that know it and love its products. and you know what? it's people like me, i don't know about you, if you have an ipad or iphone, we're helping apple's bottom line, and we're watching this stock now at $500. >> what's it going to do, sing, dance, do my taxes? >> it might make my dinner. if it makes my dinner, i'm buying it. >> i'm with you, allison kosik. thank you so much from new york. i want to stay in new york. we continue with the story in syria and once again what's

happening there. there's been new discussion at the united nations today. the syrian army forces resumed shelling in the city of homs. two more people have died in army attacks in the neighborhood of baba amer. as far as how to respond, the consensus has eluded the u.n. they're proposing some sort of peace-keeping mission for syria? is there any momentum behind that? >> brooke, we face an uncertain future here at the u.n., because both russia and china seem to be leaning on syria's side, and they said before it's approved, there has to be permission by syria, the home country, and there has to be a cease fire. so it doesn't appear that's going to happen. this is an interesting idea by the security council to improve on a resolution by the arab

peace plan. >> it's a failure because of the vetoes two weeks ago. is there any indication they might eventually be brought on board? >> i would think if only there was further carnage with bloody pictures, then perhaps russia might be forced to, but right now inside the general assembly -- believe it or not, nothing has moved them so far. syria is the target of dozens of countries which have been denouncing what's going on there, but the syrian ambassador says it's terrorist groups, countries on the outside, including those on the gulf who are fermenting the trouble there, and he opposes what the u.n. chief just said which there might be crimes performed years back, and hundreds of babies have been killed. another disturbing report presented, but the situation doesn't change here at the u.n.,

major countries really blocking further action, thinking the u.n. is not supposed to get involved in every country's dilemma. >> 6,000. that's the number we've been reporting, 6,000 deaths since last march. coming up next, police rush out an alert after a teenage girl disappears from a hospital. she had just gotten a kidney transplant and now we're hearing where she went and who took her. sunny hostin is on the case. she's next. ♪ [ male announcer ] why do we grow quaker oats?

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after a week of some pretty riveting testimony, the murder trial of a former university of virginia lacrosse player is now entering week number 2. friday testimony included a video of defendant george huguely being told about the victim's death, and he continues to deny that he did anything that would have killed his ex-girlfriend yeardley love. sunny hostin is on the case, as always, with us. sunny, set us up.

what should we expect to see in court this week there? >> well, the judge here has not released the witness list, so we don't know exactly which witnesses, brooke, will be coming, but if it's any indication of what we've seen before, i think what is missing so far is really the testimony from the medical examiner. because we heard evidence of motive, brooke, we've heard about e-mail exchanges in which george huguely allegedly said, i should have killed you. we heard from some crime scene detectives, and the jury has seen some photographs of the crime scene. and so what really is at issue at this point is the cause of death, and that typically comes in with the medical examiner. we know that the prosecution in this case says that the cause of death was blunt head trauma, blunt force trauma, but the defense says not so. the defense says, brooke, that this is just an accident and that she may have died from positional asphyxiation, meaning

she just laid on her bed and perhaps suffocated on her pillow. or they've also floated this theory that there could have been an alcohol or prescription drug overdose. she was taking aterol for stress disorder, so i believe the answer to some of those questions will be found during this week. >> cause of death, we'll be watching the trial there in charleston, west virginia. i want to turn our attention to this 14-year-old girl. she is safe now. she's reunited with her father. she had a kidney transplant, had to go back for some further treatment. she was placed in the treatment of family services two years ago because she wasn't getting adequate care from her father, so why would they allow her to go back with him? >> that's the question, and i don't think she was allowed to go back with him. this went out as an amber alert,

brooke. it was initially reported as a parental abduction, so he took her from the hospital. that's what we are hearing. we don't know if he is going to be charged with anything, but we do know that he has been in police custody since yesterday, and potential charges, folks are saying, could be kidnapping, could be child endangerment, because as you mentioned, doctors felt that she was not being taken care of appropriately, she was not being given her medication, and she had just received this transplant. so we're looking at it closely to find out if her father, indeed, will be charged. >> she had been abducted, which we knew, from the hospital, so in that period of time when she was taken away, she had never gone back to her father; is that correct? >> that's my understanding at this point, that's right. >> sunny hostin, thank you. now this. it was enough just to stop

traffic. you see whitney, i talked to her, how you doing, are you okay? you keep hoping for the best. >> candid revelations from lionel richie, one of the people who knew whitney houston the best. hear what he says about fame and the dangers of it. plus, new details into the investigation of houston's death. we're back in 60 seconds. to develop its suspension system? or what if we told you that ferrari borrowed technology from cadillac to develop its suspension system? magnetic ride control -- pioneered by cadillac, perfected in the 556-horsepower cts-v. we don't just make luxury cars. we make cadillacs.

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else. we also learned from police that it was perhaps a member of houston's personal staff who found the singer in a bathtub in her hotel room. we're told that person removed houston from the bathtub. a short time later paramedics arrived on the scene. they tried administering cpr, but we're told houston was unresponsive, unconscious, and given the nature of houston's history of drug abuse, there was so many questions raised today by reporters as to whether or not that may have played a role. and all those reports that they were perhaps prescription bottles, drugs of some kind, found in houston's room. investigators would not elaborate on that. they say right now this is an active investigation, a death investigation, not a criminal investigation, and the case that's now in the hands of the coroner's office. brooke? >> kareen winter, thanks for being there at beverly hills police. houston spent her life in front of the cameras and they outline

what happens to you when you're in front of the spotlight. lionel richie says sometimes your worst enemy is yourself. >> what if you didn't have the voice you had, say, ten years ago? what an amazing psychological pressure that can be on top of it, to be excellent every night, to be excellent every time you perform on record. it's just devastating. now on top of that let's put now we have to live our lives in the press every day. so on top of just the vocals, it's, what are our personal tragedies? what are we going to do personally as, i bet you can't top yourself. can you beat the last performance you had? then they bring the next thing in. a young singer just came along that could be the next you. can you imagine how that sounds in your head if you're an artist? there used to be a time when all you had to do was survive your own crap. they didn't know anything about

your personal life. we didn't know about elvis in the background. we didn't know about all these tragedies happening. all of a sudden now we have every single day, there is a tweet, a blog, a blurb about some part of your personal life. from the standpoint of an artist, we are a bit of a psych. how can we hold ourselves together and still maintain the voice, the psych, of who we are? and how do we maintain that? can you imagine the pressure now of trying to be who you want to be and still with all this swirling around your personal life, you know, the tragedy of your personal life, and you're trying to overcome that and they say, walk on stage now and do your best song. it's the hardest thing to overcome. >> lionel richie. coming up next, a man waves a

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in beijing in two weeks. the talk of gas around the nation is on the rise again. 12 cents. that's just in the last three weeks. according to the limb berg survey, the price of gas jumping to $3.51. a judge rules jerry sandusky can see eight of his grandkids and leave his home to meet with his lawyers. the former penn state football coach is under house arrest. he is accused of victimizing ten boys. the three grandchildren sandusky cannot see? they're part of a custody dispute. >> when she comes home from visiting grandchildren and tells me that one of them said, the only thing i want for my birthday is to be able to see pop, i'm sad for that. also, a development today

about tim curley, penn state's now ex athletic director. he wants them to drop a charge. paterno's death makes it so they no longer have a second witness to talk about the case. the 82 year-old mobster is accused of murder iing 80 peopl between 1988 and 2005. they are preparing for a trial. a man walks into a bar with a chain saw. this is no joke, folks. surveillance cameras caught a man wielding a chain saw at patrons inside an english pub last year. apparently the man was asked to leave for smoking, and leave he did, but he came back moments later with a chain saw. yikes. now this. you're seeing here in this soup kitchen people who, just a

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flare-up. she joins me from athens on the phone. joanna, set up this image for me when we see the fire and the gas. these are young people. grandparents are out there and they're angry because why? >> they're angry because their living standards have dropped so much in the last two years. two years ago, things were okay. they weren't perfect but they were getting by. since austerity has been taken, 20% employment, at least. some figures show 21, and half of homeowners are saying they can't pay their mortgages, salaries are being cut left and right, hospitals are having operating problems because they don't have money, so people have seen scenes of mass poverty all around, and they're very, very angry. >> i, of course, read your piece in time, and you talked to this 40-something bank worker in athens. as she sits there wiping tear gas from her eyes, she says, quote, i don't know what the solution is anymore, whether we

should stick to the euro. all i know is what they're doing to us is terrorism. that's a strong word. is that how -- >> it is a strong word, you're right, it is a strong word. but i do feel -- i think some people really feel like they're backed into a corner economically right now because they have two choices, and both of the choices they face are very bad. they see a road that leads down the road to austerity but to the euro, and then they see the dogma, which is a whole other chaos involved. there would be problems because they have to convert currency, nobody would be able to buy gas, and so these are two horrible choices. imagine if you feel you're being terrorized by the very people who are governing you. >> we saw images, let's pull images up from the soup lines. these were once members of the

middle class, and from what i understand, some of them are afraid to show their faces they're just so embarrassed they're standing in these lines asking for something as simple as soup. >> yeah. it's embarrassing. i think all of us would feel bad if we lost our place in the middle class after working for it. >> hmm. nearly two dozen greek lawmakers didn't support the plan. is there any other solution at all on the horizon here? >> i think no. right now greece has really no other option at this point. this is it. otherwise they don't have money and they're going to go into default next month, and that's the last thing this needs right now. i think the thing that people are concerned with is a sense of uncertainty because elections may be coming up in april, there isn't a set date yet, and we just don't know who the next government will be right now. this is a caretaker government. a central banker is supposed to get this bailout taken care of plus the debt deal that's

supposed to significantly decrease grooeeks' debt. the polls show they're all over the place and no party seems to be getting a sure majority. >> other side of the coin, won't this still mean big losses for people in institutions who invested in greece's bond? could they be convinced to take a big cut here? >> could you repeat the question? i didn't hear you. >> the question is essentially what about the people, you know, who have invested in greece, big losses for people, institutions, government bonds. >> right now greece is not a great investment opportunity, that's true. right now the country is also in crisis mode and so many things are going wrong. it's like trying to put out multiple fires at the same time. >> so multiple fires, joanna, in greece. help to speak to the viewer here in the united states who is dealing with putting a roof over their own heads and putting dinner in front of their own

children, why should the average american care? >> because i think that everybody could be in this situation. imagine if you had a house and you had a life, you have a job, you're taking care of your kids, you know, you're having a normal life. once in a while you maybe had some money to go on a vacation. people here, there are a lot of people here who weren't rich, they weren't poor, but they got by just fine. i think it's a situation that anybody can identify with. when you lose something like your house or your pride, it's a very hard thing for somebody to go through. especially when you're a parent and you have children and you have to face them and tell them sorry, the country is going to be dysfunctional for the next ten years and you're not going to have a future. it's an incredibly psychologically damaging thing to go through. >> and they and their children just wait for soup in line and wait for that time to pass. joanna from time magazine. i encourage everyone to read her article. thank you so much for calling in

from athens. all right. even if you aren't as fortunate, you probably have now heard of jeremy lin. he's a harvard grad who a couple weeks ago was sleeping on his brother's sofa without a guaranteed contract. he is now an overnight sensation. you have to hear the excitement he is stirring up. that's next. home protector plus, from liberty mutual insurance, where the costs to both repair your home and replace your possessions are covered. and we don't just cut a check for the depreciated value -- we can actually replace your stuff with an exact or near match. plus, if your home is unfit to live in after an incident, we pay for you to stay somewhere else while it's being repaired. home protector plus, from liberty mutual insurance. because you never know what lies around the corner. to get a free quote, call...

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he's only 6'3". only because we're talking professional basketball here, jeremy lin is a standout on the nba even before he stepped foot on a pro ball court. else the only american asian with a harvard degree playing on the league. now all eyes are on him not only because of his pedigree but

because of his playing. >> reporter: jeremy lin is now a real life urban legend. from the last man on the knicks' bench to overnight star. >> we're seeing in new york something i have never seen and we haven't seen for generations, really. >> reporter: it was saturday night lin fever in frigid minneapolis as lin helped the traveling knicks to their fifth straight win. ratings on television have soared. >> my friends have become very interested in basketball, suddenly. >> reporter: these sports bars seemed a little extra crowded. why are you here tonight? >> obviously to check out the linsanity. >> reporter: the first chinese american nba player, lin is drawing in newcomeres to the sport. >> my fiancee saw a couple plays last night and said, he's

amazing. >> this is going to revitalize not only the knicks but the entire league. >> reporter: the whole country seems to still be buzzing about friday night when lin scored 38 points and drove the knicks to a victory over the lakers. >> look at the knicks, have you followed them the last ten years? this guy shows up and knows how to play the game. you have to be excited. >> reporter: kobe bryant concedes lin's work ethic is a good example for young kids. >> who is your favorite player? >> jeremy lin. >> what do you like about him? >> that he's a beast. >> we can't put him in the hall of fame yet. lin's numbers dropped in the second half saturday and he was glad the team would be off for two days. >> i feel like i'm in a dream

right now. >> he's not the only one now dreaming. >> what do you like best about lin? >> tall and dreamy. >> richard wall, cnn, new york. >> as we mentioned, he was crashing on his brother's sofa not too long ago. have you noticed lately the first lady chatting it up on nickelodeon, showing the lighter side. cnn will take a look at michelle obama's revolution, next. the 38 1/2 inches of legroom... and the reclinable, heated napa leather seats inside the jeep grand cherokee, just wait until we tell you about the heated and ventilated front seats. ♪ ♪

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president obama released his 2013 federal budget. >> we don't need tax breaks, you need them. you're the one seeing your wages stall, you're the one who has cost everything from college to groceries has gone up. you're the ones who deserve a break. >> so we ran through the highlights. if you want a more thorough breakdown of the budget, we can do that for you. just go to cnnmoney.com. it's not every day the first lady answers your questions, but she did for a few very lucky ireporters. michelle obama field aed a wide

range of questions from all over the world, even letting us know what the president likes to snack on. >> i like the snacks of goldfish. what is president obama's favorite snack? >> the president, one of his favorite snacks is guac guac and nau nacho chips. if he's watching a game, he can eat a whole bowl of guac guac and nachos. i think that's one of his favorite snacks. thanks for asking and keep eating your vegetables. >> guac guac. now you know, little man. if you want to know more from the first lady, go to cnn/opinion. and yes, we know the first lady is certainly an advocate for fitness and style, and it's been

quite an evolution for michelle obama. >> reporter: first lady michelle obama sells her name, face and behind the scenes influence fill the pages of books and the covers of magazines. >> the administration is doing everything they can to keep her out there in the public eye and keep reminding americans why they like this family in the first place. >> but even mrs. obama admits the image isn't always positive, as she recently pointed out on cbs. >> there will always be people who don't like me. that's been an image that people have tried to paint of me since the day barack announced i'm some angry black woman. >> first ladies are always risk targets. >> no matter what any first lady does, they get attacked.

>> mrs. obama beamed with pride and then caused some so question her favoritism. >> for the first time in my adult lifetime, i'm really proud of my country. >> she endured an unflattering portrayal on the cover of the new yorker, sporting military combat boots like activist angela davis. since then, the first lady has carved out a place for herself as a strong american family. she does jumping jacks and push-ups. pressures big time entertainers to eat their veggies. >> it's a veggie pizza. it's a good way for people who don't like their vegetables to incorporate them. mmm. >> she's now promoting her initiative. mrs. obama has used the public spotlight to pull the curtain back on her softer side, whether it's talking about her role as mom or trying her hand at acting

like the cameo appearance on the nick nickelodeon appearance "i, carly." the first lady holds a unique role in american society. we don't expect them to have the same gravitas as the president, so you can be in photos and do things the president can't do because of the gravity of his office. >> but the first lady is also seen as an asset to the president's reelection campaign. >> political hacks like me would like to use her all the time. she's real, she's authentic. >> her road trips often take her to key battleground states where hermes saj rai-- her message ras cash for campaigns. mrs. obama, balancing her role as wife, mother an