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Bad car-ma for one car owner
Combine bitter cold with a water main break on a New York City street. What do you get?
Check out what one car owner had to deal with Sunday night.
Hollywood announces Oscar nominees
We've heard them say it year after year: 'It's an honor just to be nominated'.
So, who's saying those words this year? Oscar nominations were announced Tuesday morning and many movie-goers are already hedging their bets on who will take home the gold. Kiran Chetry and T.J. Holmes sit down with Belinda Luscombe, Editor-at-Large for TIME Magazine, to get her immediate reaction to the nominees following the announcement out of Hollywood. Hear which favorites were left out and which underdogs made their way in.
Sen. Rand Paul: U.S. tax burden means 'our companies can't compete'
Senator Rand Paul, R, Kentucky, is barely a freshman in congress but he is making his mark in Washington by releasing his own proposal for tackling spending and the federal budget. Paul says that too much of our federal budget goes to to entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare and that "our companies can't compete with foreign companies because our tax burden is too high."
Later this week Senator Paul will unveil his budget proposal that he tells Kiran Chetry will save nearly $500 billion dollars in one year alone. Paul explains just how he will do it on American Morning.
Giffords’ brother-in-law sends support to brother Mark from space
Astronaut Scott Kelly was 200 miles above the earth when he heard the news of the shooting in Tucson, Arizona on the morning of January 8.
The news hit particularly close to home because Scott's twin brother, Mark, is the husband of Representative Gabrielle Gifford who was shot in the head during the attack. Kelly has been aboard the International Space Station since October but he is able to speak to his brother, Mark Kelly, 5 or 6 times a day since that day.
Scott Kelly joins American Morning from the International Space Station and gives the latest update on Giffords' condition.
CNN Heroes: Doctor fills health-care gap for homeless women
Boston (CNN) - For more than a year, Ellen O'Donnell slept on the streets, where she was the target of theft, violence and cruelty. Her situation left her neglecting chronic health problems that threatened her survival.
"It was so difficult to access [medical] services. I was totally alienated and I just couldn't relate," O'Donnell said. "I would get things stolen from me. And ... two young women tried to set me on fire. Life was just this movie and I wasn't going to bother participating anymore."
Then O'Donnell stumbled upon someone she could relate to: Dr. Roseanna Means. Since 1999, Means and her team have set up clinics inside Boston shelters to offer direct, free medical care to thousands of homeless women and children.
"The women come into the shelters to get warm, to eat, to feel safe. And we're already there," said Means, 58. There's no registration or charge for the care.
"The women learn to trust us as ambassadors of the health care system. And over time, we can teach them how to use [it] as it was intended," she said.
Means gave up a more lucrative medical career to work with Boston's homeless population. As a medical resident pursuing cardiology in 1982, she spent three months providing care in a Cambodian refugee camp and found a different calling.
Tiger kids reflect on their tiger parents
Amy Chua sparked a national debate with her book 'Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother' in which she writes about her own traditional Chinese upbringing and her determination to raise her American kids in the same fashion. She says demanding mothers breed results– in her book, Chua recounts a birthday when she rejected her kids' cards, saying they hadn't done their best.
CNN's Alina Cho talked to some grown children raised in traditional Asian households to get their opinions about the strict parenting they grew up with.
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