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Obama's sister revists mother in new childrens book
President Barack Obama’s half sister Maya Soetoro-Ng presents her childrens book “Ladder to the Moon” on American Morning today. The book sprang from a wish that her own mother had lived to meet her granddaughter.
Soetoro-Ng describes the memories of her mother that inspired her book. “It’s so important to realize the value of the words of our elders,” she tells AM.
Abby Sunderland's story of courage on high seas
Abby Sunderland was just 16 years old when she set sail in January 2010, hoping to become the youngest person to sail solo around the world. But three months into her journey, a 50-foot wave damaged her sailboat, leaving Abby stranded in the middle of the Indian Ocean and the focus of a dramatic search and rescue.
Abby was found safe and sound, and she tells her story in her new book "Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas." She joined Ali Velshi and Christine Romans on "American Morning" to explain what being stranded on open ocean was like.
Rep Clyburn: Instead of ideological debates, we should be working on getting people back to work
The next big issue facing Congress is dealing with 14.28 trillion dollar debt. Rep. James Clyburn, assistant minority leader in the House says the ideological debates and idealistic approaches to governance should end and the focus should be on bringing down the debt, eliminating these deficits, and putting the house on fiscal sound footing. He speaks to CNN's American Morning about his priorities on raising the debt limit.
Should college athletes get paid?
You’ll see it tonight in the stands at the NCAA Men’s Basketball Championship. Thousands of fans spending money to watch college athletes play ball and wearing t-shirts with the athletes’ numbers and names on their backs. With so much money to be made in college sports should the stars of the programs, the actual student athletes, get paid for their success?
“Absolutely,” they should get paid, CNN education contributor Steve Perry tells AM’s Christine Romans on today’s American Morning. College athletes earn about $120,000 a year if you factor in training, medical help and tutoring, but Perry says that is not enough. He explains why athletes should at least be able to earn money off their own images through endorsements.
Remember the Ohio State football players suspended in December for selling memorabilia from their winning games? What do you think, should colleges pay their athletes?
Blind fan's remarkable trek to Yankee Stadium
Jane Lang is a hard-core Yankees fan.
For more than 200 games, she has made the 3-hour trek from home to Yankee Stadium by herself.
Jane has also been blind since birth.
CNN's Rob Marciano profiles a Yankees fan who won't let anything get in the way of seeing her favorite team.
Baby bald eagles to hatch on live web feed
Three baby bald eagles are about to hatch...live on the web.
The Raptor Resource Project, an Iowa-based non-profit, set up two cameras perched 80 feet high in a cottonwood tree where the mother eagle has her nest. The group will provide live streaming of the nest through all three eggs hatching.
The group says at such high resolution, viewers should be able to see cracks forming in the eggs before they hatch.
You can check it out now on Ustream.com. Watch the mother eagle waking up on "American Morning" this morning.
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