Couple, Four Children Missing in Brutal Cold; Affleck: Stalker Used Paparazzi to Target Kids
COSTELLO: Checking our "Top Stories" at 49 minutes past the hour. Rescuers are desperately trying to find a couple and four missing children on a snowy Nevada mountain. The search is taking place in Pershing County in northwest Nevada where the temperatures dipped to below zero. James Glanton and Christina McIntee disappeared Sunday along with Glanton's two children and McIntee's niece and nephew. Investigators say the six went out to play in the snow and they haven't been seen since.</s>SHERIFF RICHARD MACHADO, PERSHING COUNTY, NEVADA SHERIFF'S OFFICE: The temperatures out here are very cold and we'd like to bring a successful end to this. We'd like to find them just as soon as we can.</s>JOAN WEAGANT, VOLUNTEER: We just got to find them. We've known them forever, you know. And those little tiny kids they can't be out there, none of them can be out there in the cold like --</s>COSTELLO: About a dozen search and rescue team members are helping in the search. A Navy helicopter is also involved. Earlier today, Caroline Kennedy, the newest U.S. Ambassador to Japan, visited the Nagasaki atomic bomb museum. She's also meeting with survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing which killed as many as 80,000 people. Sarah Palin going back outdoors for a new TV series. The Sportsman Channel will air "Amazing America with Sarah Palin"; that starts in April. Former Governor hosted "Sarah Palin's Alaska" on TLC a few years ago. The new show will focus on stories about hunting, fishing and shooting. Oscar winner Ben Affleck is opening up about a dangerous stalker who was threatening his family. Affleck says thanks to the gangs of paparazzi that follow his family around, this stalker was able to blend in and snap photos of his children as they were leaving preschool. CNN's Nischelle Turner has more for you.</s>NISCHELLE TURNER, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: An angry Ben Affleck is blasting the photographers who, he says, constantly follow his family, like in this Hollywood.tv video.</s>BEN AFFLECK, ACTOR/DIRECTOR: You can talk to me, don't talk to my kids. Is that clear?</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. No problem.</s>AFFLECK: Ok.</s>TURNER: In a new interview with "Playboy" magazine Affleck says a man who is allegedly stalking his actress wife Jennifer Garner and his family for years, basically used a crowd of paparazzi as a cover to standout side his daughter's preschool. He says "They used to take pictures of our children, coming out of preschool. And so this stalker, who had threatened to kill me, my wife and our kids showed up at the school and got arrested. I mean, there are real practical dangers to this." In the 2009 incident Steven Burke he was arrested for violating a restraining order when police caught him. He was found not guilty by reason of insanity and later sent to a mental hospital by a judge. Garner had been a major force behind California's new anti-paparazzi law, which increases the penalties for taking photos and invade a celebrity's right to privacy. She joined Halle Berry tearfully testifying in front of the state assembly.</s>JENNIFER GARNER, ACTRESS: I love my kids. They're beautiful and sweet and innocent and I don't want a gang of shouting, arguing, law- breaking photographers who camp out everywhere we are, all day, every day, to continue traumatizing my kids.</s>TURNER: She told CNN's Chris Cuomo she's hoping the new law will bring a change in her life.</s>GARNER: I'm looking forward to January 1st when the law will go into effect, but no, so far I haven't seen a bit of difference. The threat of it is not enough. There are ten cars outside my house every single morning.</s>TURNER: In the article Affleck says he can handle the attention but he says his kids aren't celebrities and they deserve a little privacy. He said, the tragic thing is, people who see those pictures, naturally think it's sweet. They don't see the gigantic former gang member with a huge lens standing over a four-year-old and screaming to get the kid's attention. Nischelle Turner, CNN, Hollywood.</s>COSTELLO: Still to come in the NEWSROOM --</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ditka.</s>COSTELLO: Eight degrees at Soldier Field, perfect weather for the Bears to honor a franchise legend.</s>MIKE DITKA, COACH OF BEARS: Thank you very much. Thank you. I can say thank you, thank you, thank you the whole night.