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May 16th, 2013
11:38 AM ET

Zoraida Sambolin: 'Many thanks' for your support

I am humbled and empowered by your many emails, tweets, phone calls and postings of support.

My goal was just to let you know I would be gone and why, yet we have started a powerful dialogue that is providing me with so much courage and joy.

My commitment to you is to keep you informed of everything I learn and to continue the dialogue here.

I will be telling more stories and whenever possible posting a little extra something here. Again, many thanks.

- Zoraida Sambolin

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For more information about breast cancer, visit http://www.CNN.com/health or http://www.CNN.com/empoweredpatient.


Filed under: Cancer • Zoraida • Zoraida Sambolin
May 23rd, 2013
11:56 AM ET

Parents of 9-year-old tornado victim, Emily Conatzer speak with CNN's John Berman

CNN's John Berman talks to the parents of Emily Conatzer, a 9-year-old victim of the tornado in Moore, Oklahoma. Parents saw daughter just before tornado.


Filed under: Oklahoma • Tornado
May 23rd, 2013
11:54 AM ET

Severe thunderstorms hit devastated Moore, Oklahoma

CNN's John Berman reports severe thunderstorms hit Moore, Oklahoma just days after an EF5 tornado caused mass destruction in the area.


Filed under: Oklahoma • storm • Tornado • Weather
May 23rd, 2013
11:48 AM ET

CNN Military Analyst Major General James "Spider" Marks on recent scandals in the military

Major General James 'Spider' Marks is on 'Starting Point' talking with Christine Romans about the newest military scandal at West Point where an Army Sgt. allegedly secretly videotaped female cadets in the showers and bathrooms.


Filed under: Military
May 23rd, 2013
11:28 AM ET

CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta breaks down what to do when tornado hits

When a monster tornado is headed your way - the wrong decision could kill you, and there's usually not much time to react. CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta breaks down what you should do in the important moments right before a tornado hits.


Filed under: Oklahoma • Tornado
May 23rd, 2013
11:16 AM ET

Arias awaits her fate; jury at impasse: HLN's Vinnie Politan weighs in on the next steps in the case

HLN's "After Dark" host Vinnie Politan is on 'Starting Point' talking with Christine Romans on the jury in the Jodi Arias trial's current impasse on whether to give Arias the death penalty or life in prison. He says a new jury could be selected to determine the single issue of life or death.


Filed under: Jodi Arias • Jodi Arias trial
May 23rd, 2013
11:13 AM ET

Protecting School Children from Tornadoes: Assistant Superindendant Robert Romines: "Very proud of faculty and staff"

Moore Public Schools Asst. Supt. Robert Romines talks with John Berman on 'Starting Point' about the heroism of teachers in schools caught in the tornado.

READ MORE: Piece of children's book reflects the loss in Oklahoma town


Filed under: Oklahoma • Tornado
May 23rd, 2013
08:48 AM ET

Nine-year-old Emily Conatzer's parents remember her as a 'fashion diva'

Nine-year-old Emily Conatzer was killed when a tornado struck her school in Moore, OK on Monday. John Berman met with her parents yesterday, shortly after they planned their daughter’s funeral.

“She was a fashion diva,” Emily’s dad Christopher Conatzer says. “She was beautiful. She always twirled around and had little ballerina dresses and she loved Lady Gaga. That inspired her to be a fashion designer and she would make stuff like this hat for me and made her own skirt.”

Emily painted her mom’s nails blue the night before the tornado. “She had it all over the place and I had to clean it up," Kristi Conatzer says. "But now I don't want to take it off.”

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Filed under: Oklahoma • Tornado
May 23rd, 2013
08:30 AM ET

HLN's "After Dark" host Vinnie Politan on Arias' fate: New jury may be selected to determine life or death for Arias

Host of HLN's "After Dark," Vinnie Politan, sheds light on day three of deliberations as Jodi Arias awaits her fate. "In Arizona, it's got to be unanimous for life or unanimous for death," Politan says. He says there is some sort of impasses as the jury has not yet reached a consensus, but he has "no idea what the split is, if it's one holdout or if it's 6-6."

It also isn't clear which way the jurors are swaying. "The bottom line here now is if they all cannot agree one way or the other, then what happens, believe it or not, is a new jury gets impanelled and they will determine that single issue...of life or death."

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Filed under: Crime • Criminal charges • Jodi Arias • Jodi Arias trial • Law
May 23rd, 2013
07:55 AM ET

Pres. Obama to deliver nat'l security speech defending drones in fight against terror – Dan Lothian reports

In just a few hours President Obama will deliver a major national security speech now that his administration is acknowledging that the U.S. killed four Americans in drone strikes. The admission was made in a letter to Congress on Wednesday. "We expect the president to announce new restrictions on how those controversial drone strikes can take place," Lothian says.

May 22nd, 2013
01:10 PM ET

Search and rescue winds down

Moore Oklahoma Fire Chief Gary Bird is on 'Starting Point' with John Berman, Chris Cuomo, and Dr. Sanjay Gupta discussing the search and rescue effort after the devastating tornado. He says he is 98% sure bodies & survivors found.


Filed under: Oklahoma • Tornado
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