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"Talk of CNN": Remembering 9/11; Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes

Aired September 10, 2002 - 06:42   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Time for our "Talk of CNN" segment. We want to know what people are talking about across the land, and today radio D.J.s from "The Bert Show" on Q100 right here in Atlanta join us live by phone. Eventually they're going to have a Web cam up and running but not yet.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We were so close today. We were so close.

COSTELLO: But no cigar, as they say.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: As a radio station, we're still right around 1992, but we're getting close.

COSTELLO: I understand.

Hey, I want to talk a little bit about 9/11. We've been getting e-mails from viewers about what they're going to do tomorrow. Some of them are very interesting.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

COSTELLO: This is from Nelson (ph) and Michelle (ph). They're going to buy 800 bucks worth of airline tickets on September 11. They figure that's patriotic. Justin (ph) from New York is going to swim across Long Island -- the Long Island Sound on September 11. And this couple from Newport News, Virginia, Suzy (ph) and Chris (ph), are going to Disney World.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Is that right?

COSTELLO: Yes. What are you guys going to do?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well we're still really confused on what to do. And here is, you know, September 10 now and we're very confused on what to do tomorrow morning. So what we're doing is we're turning it over to the listeners. We are asking them today exactly e-mail us and tell us exactly what you want us to do on the 11th. What stories do you want to hear about? What updates do you want from 9/11, and we're going to run with it from there.

Yesterday one of the topics that came up, and I suspect will come up again tomorrow, is how far have we really come from 9/11? You know it seemed like right after 9/11 happened we were all a little bit more compassionate for each other, a little bit more patient, a little kinder, gentler nation. And a year later, we were -- we were wondering yesterday if anything really has changed with American attitudes. COSTELLO: You mean you think it's all back to normal?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's all back to normal.

COSTELLO: Really?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really do.

MELISSA CARTER, Q100, "THE BERT SHOW": I think it's -- it is for people who were not directly affected by 9/11. I think that if you knew someone or were, again, affected directly in New York or D.C. by the tragedy, no, life has changed completely for the rest of your life. But I think for, you know, someone who is detached from the situation, I think that it's only natural to assume that once their lives, you know, TV gets back to normal, their, you know, conversation around the water cooler is no longer 9/11, that they're going to start getting back in the same habits that they had before the tragedy.

COSTELLO: So guys, did we learn anything from 9/11?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In reflecting back yesterday, the pessimistic view is I'm not really sure. I mean I was just watching -- in fact I was watching CNN just last week when they were interviewing a guy that was really, really upset that his son was being patted down before he went into a football game. Well this is the climate that we live in now but we don't have the patience for it. So have things really changed in a year?

COSTELLO: Got you. Well we'll be interested to hear what you guys cover tomorrow. Of course we're going to be covering all aspects of 9/11 and it's going to be quite a wonderful program, a series of programs here on CNN.

Let's talk about Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes for a second before I have to let you guys go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Actually, TLC is coming out with an album and that has two of the, you know, the surviving members of TLC and then contributions from Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes. That's an album coming out November 12.

But then Suge Knight's The Row Records is also coming out with an album that has -- that Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes made before she passed away, but it's actually under the name of Nina, which is new identity not applicable, and that's going to come out sometime in mid -- about mid-October. So we all should be looking forward to that.

COSTELLO: And that's what she was working on, right, she was sort of becoming a solo artist?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Absolutely. That's actually what she was doing. She got frustrated because she put out an album called "Supernova." This is sometime before her death in April. And she put out this album. And it was released all over, but not so much in the United States. So she started working with Suge Night and this is what she was coming out with next. It's her solo recordings. I'm really excited. I'm looking forward to hearing it. And it's not really clear how much of the album was finished before her death and what the music will be like, if it'll be like, you know, TLC or if it'll be something different. But it's going to be interesting nonetheless.

COSTELLO: It'll be sad, too.

Thanks so much.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, Carol, we'll talk to you next week.

COSTELLO: OK. Bye.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Bye now.

COSTELLO: Bye to Q100 "The Bert Show" from right here in Atlanta.

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