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'Cafferty File'

Aired April 28, 2003 - 08:23   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: This is Jack Cafferty over here. Here is Daryn Kagan as well. Welcome again. Good morning.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Some viewer wrote in and described this arrangement as a "rose between two thorns," referring to the fact that you're in the middle between the two of us.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: That's sweet. Thank you.

CAFFERTY: Probably something (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

An important election to tell you about, we open the "File," the canine world hero to be chosen by Internet voters beginning next month. There are six canine nominees. The winning dog will be recognized in August in Washington with a cement paw print at a canine "walk of fame."

KAGAN: Love that.

CAFFERTY: Don't want be missing that. Set the VCR when that comes along. One of the top U.S. contenders is Jake, a black lab from Utah, who searched the rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11. In addition to the U.S. nominee, Puerto Rico and nine other countries have chosen their own hero dogs. You can vote for these at www.pedigree.com.

City councilmen in Charleston, South Carolina want sunbathers in a downtown park to cover up. Wendell Gilliard (ph) says women in Marion Square, many of them students at a college of Charleston, are causing traffic jams, because drivers slow down to look. Gilliard (ph) says some of the bikinis are so skimpy, they are inappropriate for a place surrounded by churches. This is in South Carolina. Why am I not surprised at this? He wants police to see if the bikinis violate Charleston's indecent exposure laws.

HEMMER: Get back to us on that.

CAFFERTY: This guy is getting a salary from the taxpayers for this kind of stuff.

Cleveland Indians pitchers Carl Sadler and Brian Anderson don't have a save between them on the field so far, but off the field, they made a huge one on Saturday night on the streets of San Francisco. The two Major League ballplayers witnessed a purse snatching at a San Francisco restaurant, and took off after the suspects. They caught up with them a couple of blocks later after dodging traffic the whole way. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BRIAN ANDERSON, CLEVELAND INDIANS: It was like something out of a movie, because it was -- the sidewalks were packed at that point and a lot of traffic. And, you know, we ran up the sidewalk in and out of people and then, you know, ran across the street, you know, not looking for any kind of a crosswalk, which is kind of stupid I guess.

CARL SADLER, CLEVELAND INDIANS: She didn't realize it was stolen. Her back was turned, and, you know, we were like, hey, your purse just got snatched. And she was in a shock; she couldn't say anything. Then after we caught them, she was thanking us. And I was like, hey, you don't have to thank us. I mean, that's -- you would have done it for us if the shoes were on the other feet.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CAFFERTY: We'll have more of these interviews for you on the next hour on AMERICAN MORNING.

HEMMER: You like that, don't you? There's more, yes!

CAFFERTY: And next hour, we'll hear from the shortstop.

Oh, the thing about spam. Chuck Schumer in New York wants to outlaw spam. We're asking this morning, do you think there should be punishment for people who send this stuff. And if so, what should it be? And you can e-mail us at am@cnn.com.

HEMMER: All right.

KAGAN: Well, you know, we give ballplayers such a hard time, like when there was a potential strike and all of that, and labor negotiations all about ballplayers and money. Nice to see they're running after somebody else's money.

CAFFERTY: It is. The mistake was interviewing them after they caught them.

KAGAN: Twice.

HEMMER: And running (UNINTELLIGIBLE), we'll do another. Thanks.

CAFFERTY: Yes.

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Aired April 28, 2003 - 08:23   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: This is Jack Cafferty over here. Here is Daryn Kagan as well. Welcome again. Good morning.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Some viewer wrote in and described this arrangement as a "rose between two thorns," referring to the fact that you're in the middle between the two of us.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: That's sweet. Thank you.

CAFFERTY: Probably something (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

An important election to tell you about, we open the "File," the canine world hero to be chosen by Internet voters beginning next month. There are six canine nominees. The winning dog will be recognized in August in Washington with a cement paw print at a canine "walk of fame."

KAGAN: Love that.

CAFFERTY: Don't want be missing that. Set the VCR when that comes along. One of the top U.S. contenders is Jake, a black lab from Utah, who searched the rubble of the World Trade Center after 9/11. In addition to the U.S. nominee, Puerto Rico and nine other countries have chosen their own hero dogs. You can vote for these at www.pedigree.com.

City councilmen in Charleston, South Carolina want sunbathers in a downtown park to cover up. Wendell Gilliard (ph) says women in Marion Square, many of them students at a college of Charleston, are causing traffic jams, because drivers slow down to look. Gilliard (ph) says some of the bikinis are so skimpy, they are inappropriate for a place surrounded by churches. This is in South Carolina. Why am I not surprised at this? He wants police to see if the bikinis violate Charleston's indecent exposure laws.

HEMMER: Get back to us on that.

CAFFERTY: This guy is getting a salary from the taxpayers for this kind of stuff.

Cleveland Indians pitchers Carl Sadler and Brian Anderson don't have a save between them on the field so far, but off the field, they made a huge one on Saturday night on the streets of San Francisco. The two Major League ballplayers witnessed a purse snatching at a San Francisco restaurant, and took off after the suspects. They caught up with them a couple of blocks later after dodging traffic the whole way. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BRIAN ANDERSON, CLEVELAND INDIANS: It was like something out of a movie, because it was -- the sidewalks were packed at that point and a lot of traffic. And, you know, we ran up the sidewalk in and out of people and then, you know, ran across the street, you know, not looking for any kind of a crosswalk, which is kind of stupid I guess.

CARL SADLER, CLEVELAND INDIANS: She didn't realize it was stolen. Her back was turned, and, you know, we were like, hey, your purse just got snatched. And she was in a shock; she couldn't say anything. Then after we caught them, she was thanking us. And I was like, hey, you don't have to thank us. I mean, that's -- you would have done it for us if the shoes were on the other feet.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CAFFERTY: We'll have more of these interviews for you on the next hour on AMERICAN MORNING.

HEMMER: You like that, don't you? There's more, yes!

CAFFERTY: And next hour, we'll hear from the shortstop.

Oh, the thing about spam. Chuck Schumer in New York wants to outlaw spam. We're asking this morning, do you think there should be punishment for people who send this stuff. And if so, what should it be? And you can e-mail us at am@cnn.com.

HEMMER: All right.

KAGAN: Well, you know, we give ballplayers such a hard time, like when there was a potential strike and all of that, and labor negotiations all about ballplayers and money. Nice to see they're running after somebody else's money.

CAFFERTY: It is. The mistake was interviewing them after they caught them.

KAGAN: Twice.

HEMMER: And running (UNINTELLIGIBLE), we'll do another. Thanks.

CAFFERTY: Yes.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.