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What would you do if your sixth grade daughter was the target of a vicious internet video? Beth Smith is living that nightmare. Her daughter’s classmates, aged 11 and 12-years-old, made the clip called the “Top Six Ways to Kill Piper,” taking cyber- bullying to a disturbing new level.

What are school officials and police doing about it? Kiran Chetry spoke with Piper Smith and her mom Beth and asked how they first found out this video was online.

Beth Smith: My daughter perceived this girl as a friend of hers at school. They were friendly. And so we had no idea… Totally side-swiped by the idea that she would be this hateful. Piper came home from school on Wednesday the 6th and told me, “You know Mom, the kids are being mean at school. And I heard there's a video like this out there about me.”

I said, “You're kidding. That can't be.” The more we looked online and... Dad came home from work. He made the phone calls. And it was the first parent, the dad who said… he was busy making dinner and he'd get back to us.

Kiran Chetry: Let me ask Piper – what was your reaction when you knew this video was made?

Piper Smith: I guess I was really shocked that someone would do that to me. ‘Cause I thought we were really good friends and then she was two-faced to me. And they did this behind my back and I just didn't know of it until I actually saw the video and then I just couldn't believe that that was happening. I felt really, really numb.

Chetry: And Piper, you've since been back to school. Have you talked to any of these girls? Did they apologize? What's the relationship now?

Piper: Well, one of them called me and she told me “sorry” and I actually listened to it. But the other two, I was either in the shower or I was going to bed by then and I didn't really want to talk to them anyways.

• See related: "How to Kill Piper"

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When I first read about this story over the weekend, it sure sounded like a case of childhood bullying taken to a new extreme. I had to know more, so I asked our producers to call on the story. They booked Piper Smith and her mom Beth for our show.

I spoke earlier today with Piper Smith and her mom Beth about a video posted on YouTube titled "6 ways to kill Piper" made by some 11 and 12-year-old girls in Piper's class. Like any parent would be, Beth is outraged and claims the school district and the local sheriff and even the girls' parents aren't taking this seriously. Piper told us she is intimidated and so shaken up by the whole thing that she doesn't feel comfortable in her classes anymore. Here's a clip:

You can hear all of what they had to say and how the school district and sheriff's department responded tomorrow on CNN's "American Morning" 6-9am ET.

As always we'd like to hear your thoughts. Talk to us on Twitter @amFIX and @kiranchetrycnn

Kiran

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From CNN’s Bob Ruff

Who on earth would post a video on YouTube on how to kill a 6th grade girl?

Turns out… it would be her classmates.

The 11 and 12-year-old girls are students at the Elk Plain School of Choice in Spanaway, Washington. The video, which the girls made away from school, details the “Top Six Ways to Kill Piper.” (YouTube has since removed the video.)

Their suggested methods? Everything from using a gun on Piper, to pushing her off a cliff, to forcing her to commit suicide by hanging from a tree.

The girl, Piper Smith, and her mother are angry and going public. Watch "American Morning" Wednesday for an interview with Piper and her mom.

Earlier Piper told CNN affiliate KING5-TV that “It really, really hurts my feelings. I mean, if somebody hated me that much just to make a video about me like that, it would make me feel really bad.” Her mother, Beth Smith, was “horrified. I would hope to find kids making jokes, and it wasn’t. It was death.”

So far the local Piece County, Washington Sheriff’s Department has not pressed charges against the girls.

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NEW YORK (CNN) — American radio talk show host Michael Savage wants an apology from Britain’s home secretary and wants his name removed from a list of people banned from entering the United Kingdom, he told CNN’s “American Morning.”

“I’ve heard from British attorneys who are salivating to set the record straight and win quite a large settlement should she not remove my name from the list,” Savage said in an interview broadcast Thursday.

He was referring to Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, whose office recently excluded 22 people, including Savage, from entering the country because the government feels they have been “stirring up hatred.”

Savage — who is on the list under his real name, Michael Alan Weiner — is cited by the British government for “seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.”

He has made controversial statements against homosexuality, illegal immigrants from Mexico, and Islam. Savage said “borders, language, and culture is the real message of the Savage Nation,” his radio talk show.

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From CNN's Bob Ruff

You’ve all seen them. Those ubiquitous TV ads where a simple little pill transforms a man suffering from erectile dysfunction, or ED, into a virile tiger who puts a smile on the face of his now beaming wife.

Well, Representative Jim Moran (D-VA) has seen them too, and you’d be hard pressed to see a smile on his face when he talks about the ads.
“A number of people,” he says, “have come up, including colleagues, and said I’m fed up. I don’t want my three or four-year old grandkid asking me what erectile dysfunction is all about. And I don’t blame them.”

Enter H.R. 2175. That’s a bill that Rep. Moran introduced last month that would prohibit any ED ads from airing on broadcast radio and TV between 6AM and 10PM. The bill advises the Federal Communications Commission to treat these ads as “indecent” and instruct stations to restrict their broadcast to late night and overnight hours.

So, could it be adios to all of those “Viva Viagra” commercials that play on network television on weekends and during the evening? Could the same be said for the Cialis couple sitting in outdoor tubs looking out at the sunset? And could Levitra also be shunned to the overnight hours?

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