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'What's on Tap'
Aired October 09, 2002 - 06:21 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Joining us now on the phone is our "Washington Morning" producer, Paul Courson. He has a look at what's on tap there today -- good morning, Paul.
PAUL COURSON, "WASHINGTON MORNING" PRODUCER: Hi, Carol.
Here's a trivia question. "Watchtower," at least three different major artists did that besides Hendrix.
COSTELLO: Really?
COURSON: Do you remember whom?
COSTELLO: No, I don't.
COURSON: It was written by Bob Dylan and Dave Mason also did a version of that.
COSTELLO: Oh, cool.
COURSON: It's one of my favorite songs, too.
COSTELLO: See, Paul has all sorts of information for us this morning.
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We need him on our show more often.
COSTELLO: You need to come here to Atlanta.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Hey first...
COURSON: Well, good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: Good morning.
Can you bring us up to date on the sniper investigation first off this morning?
COURSON: Well, as Jeanne Meserve reported at the top of the hour, there is what she called a tantalizing bit of information that's come out overnight, this tarot card development. I don't follow fortune cards either, the ouija board or reading tea leaves, for that matter. But if you remember the James Bond movie, I think it was Roger Moore vintage, "Live and Let Die," all throughout the plot of that movie you had tarot cards showing up to kind of foreshadow what might be developing next.
What you're seeing is the number 12 card. It's the walking skeleton card. Police emphasize that this might have nothing to do with the shooting out in Prince Georges County at the middle school in Bowie. It might have been dropped there afterward by a prankster. There is a briefing about an hour from now where Prince Georges County Police Chief Gerald Wilson will probably be accompanying the Montgomery County counterpart out there and maybe might have some more information for us then.
COSTELLO: Understand.
Thank you for filling us on that. Very interesting.
Let's talk about Iraq and the issues on the Hill. There was that letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee from George Tenet.
COURSON: Yes, we had that. We also have under way House debate. It's kind of a marathon debate on the wording of a possible resolution that Congress might come up so that the United States could send it to the United Nations and demand some sort of military action against Iraq.
But also, separately, but somewhat related to it, there is a report coming out of the Pentagon today about some secret testing that we did back during the cold war, chemical and biological weapons. It was called Project 112 and the details that are coming out today have to do with whether there were any health risks and how many military personnel might have been exposed to it.
The project apparently included some ship board personnel towing a tugboat with animals on board, testing during the 1960s, as well as some possible land based testing. And they're trying to find out exactly what the extent of any health risk was from that. This is ahead of a hearing tomorrow on Capitol Hill about the same subject.
COSTELLO: So did that testing take place in the United States?
COURSON: Some of it reportedly did, in the San Francisco Bay Area, some of it in the New York subway. It supposedly involved some dummy test chemicals, the sort of thing that might be used to measure disbursement in winds and sort like that. But there might have been some unanticipated health problems related to what were thought to be benign chemicals used there.
COSTELLO: All right, let's talk about President Bush and what he has on tap today.
COURSON: President Bush has only one public event today. It's remarks in the East Room for Hispanic Heritage Month. We also have some Supreme Court action today, a couple of arguments there before the High Court. One of them involves copyright protections and the rising popularity of publishing on the Internet and whether that copyright law ought to be updated to reflect the Internet publishing.
COSTELLO: All right, Paul Courson, thank you very much. We'll let you get back to work down at the Washington bureau and we'll check back with you tomorrow.
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Aired October 9, 2002 - 06:21 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Joining us now on the phone is our "Washington Morning" producer, Paul Courson. He has a look at what's on tap there today -- good morning, Paul.
PAUL COURSON, "WASHINGTON MORNING" PRODUCER: Hi, Carol.
Here's a trivia question. "Watchtower," at least three different major artists did that besides Hendrix.
COSTELLO: Really?
COURSON: Do you remember whom?
COSTELLO: No, I don't.
COURSON: It was written by Bob Dylan and Dave Mason also did a version of that.
COSTELLO: Oh, cool.
COURSON: It's one of my favorite songs, too.
COSTELLO: See, Paul has all sorts of information for us this morning.
CHAD MYERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: We need him on our show more often.
COSTELLO: You need to come here to Atlanta.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Hey first...
COURSON: Well, good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: Good morning.
Can you bring us up to date on the sniper investigation first off this morning?
COURSON: Well, as Jeanne Meserve reported at the top of the hour, there is what she called a tantalizing bit of information that's come out overnight, this tarot card development. I don't follow fortune cards either, the ouija board or reading tea leaves, for that matter. But if you remember the James Bond movie, I think it was Roger Moore vintage, "Live and Let Die," all throughout the plot of that movie you had tarot cards showing up to kind of foreshadow what might be developing next.
What you're seeing is the number 12 card. It's the walking skeleton card. Police emphasize that this might have nothing to do with the shooting out in Prince Georges County at the middle school in Bowie. It might have been dropped there afterward by a prankster. There is a briefing about an hour from now where Prince Georges County Police Chief Gerald Wilson will probably be accompanying the Montgomery County counterpart out there and maybe might have some more information for us then.
COSTELLO: Understand.
Thank you for filling us on that. Very interesting.
Let's talk about Iraq and the issues on the Hill. There was that letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee from George Tenet.
COURSON: Yes, we had that. We also have under way House debate. It's kind of a marathon debate on the wording of a possible resolution that Congress might come up so that the United States could send it to the United Nations and demand some sort of military action against Iraq.
But also, separately, but somewhat related to it, there is a report coming out of the Pentagon today about some secret testing that we did back during the cold war, chemical and biological weapons. It was called Project 112 and the details that are coming out today have to do with whether there were any health risks and how many military personnel might have been exposed to it.
The project apparently included some ship board personnel towing a tugboat with animals on board, testing during the 1960s, as well as some possible land based testing. And they're trying to find out exactly what the extent of any health risk was from that. This is ahead of a hearing tomorrow on Capitol Hill about the same subject.
COSTELLO: So did that testing take place in the United States?
COURSON: Some of it reportedly did, in the San Francisco Bay Area, some of it in the New York subway. It supposedly involved some dummy test chemicals, the sort of thing that might be used to measure disbursement in winds and sort like that. But there might have been some unanticipated health problems related to what were thought to be benign chemicals used there.
COSTELLO: All right, let's talk about President Bush and what he has on tap today.
COURSON: President Bush has only one public event today. It's remarks in the East Room for Hispanic Heritage Month. We also have some Supreme Court action today, a couple of arguments there before the High Court. One of them involves copyright protections and the rising popularity of publishing on the Internet and whether that copyright law ought to be updated to reflect the Internet publishing.
COSTELLO: All right, Paul Courson, thank you very much. We'll let you get back to work down at the Washington bureau and we'll check back with you tomorrow.
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