$138.888 Kardashian Wedding Price per Day of Marriage; Bracelets Used for Smoking Pot; Study Says Happy People Live Longer
ROMANS: Nice clear morning in Atlanta. About 40 degrees now. But, Carol, it will be sunny and 68 later today.</s>COSTELLO: There you go.</s>ROMANS: Atlanta has the greatest weather.</s>COSTELLO: I know, except when it doesn't.</s>ROMANS: When it is hot and steamy. Welcome back. This morning's "Romans' Numeral," a number in the news today, the number $138,888. That is the price tag if you prorate Kim Kardashian's wedding costs --</s>ROMANS: -- over the length of her entire 72-day marriage.</s>ROMANS: 138 grand a day it was that -- 72 days! Can you believe that?</s>COSTELLO: Well, I'm just surprised everybody thought that was a real wedding.</s>COSTELLO: Like, with real love shared between the two. Everybody is like, oh, she took us for a ride. Well, duh!</s>ROMANS: Oh, gosh. Well, Kim Kardashian did release a statement about her divorce from the basketball player, Kris Humphries, saying it was not an easy decision, Carol --</s>ROMANS: -- after 72 days, that prorates to 138 grand a day to cover the cost of the wedding, and that sometimes, quote, "things don't work out as planned." I will also point out that the cost of that wedding was covered by other people.</s>COSTELLO: Didn't they make something like $17 million off the wedding?</s>ROMANS: Yes. I mean -- yes, everything was sponsored and --</s>COSTELLO: I read the real reason was he wanted to move back to Minnesota and live a quiet life and she said, oh, no way, I'm a career girl.</s>COSTELLO: That's just like ridiculous.</s>COSTELLO: Anyway, moving along, school officials now warning parents about new bracelets that kids are wearing that are a lot more than just a fashion craze. When you take the bracelets off, it actually turns into a pipe. A pipe used to smoke pot.</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: Looks like a bracelet maybe or a necklace.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But, it -- it --</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: Or --</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: But it must have something to do with drugs.</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: Yes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a cap that you undo and the entire thing --</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: Becomes a pipe.</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: If I saw that on one of my friends, I would not think twice about it. I would be like, oh, a new bracelet.</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: Honestly, it's smart.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes.</s>UNIDENTIFIED GIRL: I mean, they would have never figured it out. It's really smart.</s>COSTELLO: Whoa. And these things have been popping up all over central Florida. Schools are now suspending students just for having them. And they're expelling kids if they've been used to store or take any drugs.</s>ROMANS: All right, in "A.M. House Call," and here's a nice reason to smile this morning. A new study shows people who report feeling happy don't just live better, they may actually live longer. He, who laughs last laughs, longest, and best. Senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, joins us more from Atlanta with more. Are you feeling happy this morning, Elizabeth?</s>ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: I am feeling happy because I've learned how useful it is to feel happy.</s>ROMANS: It is. And you can gleefully enjoy that your mean boss will not live as long as you.</s>COHEN: That's right. That's an excellent point. I hadn't thought about that.</s>ROMANS: I don't know if revenge makes you feel -- last longer.</s>COHEN: Maybe because I love my boss. So I don't -- so I didn't think about that. But, yes, that is an excellent point. This is such an interesting study that they did in England. They looked at 4,000 people, ages 52 to 79, and they measured their happiness. What they found is that if they were happy, they were 35 percent less likely to die during the five-year course of the study. So, there you go. There seems to be a relationship between happiness and long life.</s>COSTELLO: How happy exactly do you need to be to live longer?</s>COHEN: You need to be ecstatic!</s>COSTELLO: OK, happy and satisfied. That's all it took.</s>ROMANS: And how did they determine if they were happy?</s>COHEN: What they did is they asked the people to rate their happiness four times a day. When they woke up in the morning and then when they went to bed at night and two times in between, and they asked them to rate how happy they were feeling.</s>COSTELLO: It's just -- I understand why there would be a connection. You know, the power of positive thinking and all that. But I can't understand how they would actually link the two. So they studied a number of people over a certain number of years and they've answered those questions you were talking about. But then -- really?</s>COHEN: Really. And there seems to be a biological mechanism here. One of the mechanisms might be that when you're happier you have fewer stress hormones circulating throughout your body. And stress hormones are bad for your cardio vascular system as well as other parts of your body, so --</s>COSTELLO: OK. So what if I am a negative person? Which I admit that I am, OK?</s>COHEN: I don't think so.</s>COSTELLO: At what point do I need to become really, really happy --</s>COHEN: I want to make a distinction here between someone who is a critical thinker, such as yourself, Carol Costello --</s>COSTELLO: -- I kind of like that.</s>COHEN: -- between someone who wants to make sure that they do a good job and they're aware that they want to perform well. You know, that's not an unhappy person. That's a person who wants to do their job well. That's something different. So, we're talking about unhappiness versus happiness. And to answer your question, it's never too late to be happy. You could -- doctors say that you can get positive medical outcomes by becoming happier later in life. And, in fact, some people that doctors, at your annual checkup, ought to acquire as to your level of happiness because that's an important part of your health.</s>COSTELLO: Well, OK. I'll work on being happier more often.</s>ROMANS: Thanks, Elizabeth.</s>COHEN: Thank you.</s>COSTELLO: Well, I exercise and eat right so I might as well add that into the mix too.</s>ROMANS: You do smile when you're --</s>COSTELLO: Better than a multivitamin.</s>ROMANS: At mile five, just remember to smile.</s>COSTELLO: Yippee!</s>ROMANS: We had a lot of thoughtful comments. Top stories when we turn. Plus, it's Governor Rick Perry like you've never seen him before. The unusual speech in New Hampshire that has now gone viral.</s>COSTELLO: It is unusual. And JetBlue respond after their flight to New Jersey leaves travelers stranded on the tarmac for seven hours. Well, we're going to let you hear JetBlue's apology for yourself. It's five minutes until the top of the hour.