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Will It be a Sweep for John Kerry?; President Bush Marks One- Year Anniversary of Homeland Security Department
Aired March 02, 2004 - 11:29 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Daryn Kagan in Los Angeles. Let's check the headlines at this hour. A series of near-simultaneous explosions rip through two cities in Iraq today, killing at least 143 people. The attack targeted Shiites on one of their holiest days of the year. Iraqi officials see the bloodshed as an attempt to start a civil war between Iraq's religious groups.
A San Franciso newspaper reports Barry Bonds and other professional ballplayers received steroids from Balco. The chronicle cites government documents in the investigation of the lab. The paper also names Major Leaguers Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, as well as Oakland Raider Bill Romanowski. All have denied using steroids. Four people have been indicted in the Balco probe, including Bonds' personal trainer.
The Senate this hour is taking the first of several votes on a controversial gun bill. The legislation would give gunmakers immunity from many lawsuits. Democrats are trying to include an extension of the 1994 assault weapon ban. The vote is said to be close, so close in fact that Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards came in from the campaign trail to place their votes.
And sources say that federal charges will be announced this afternoon against former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers. He's expected to face conspiracy and securities fraud counts in the $11 billion collapse of the telecom giant back in 2002.
Will it be a sweep for John Kerry, or can John Edwards come from behind? it's all up to the voter now as they head to the polls in the Super Tuesday elections; 1,151 delegates up for grab in the 10 states holding election today.
Our national correspondent is Bob Franken, and he is in one of the states, joining us from Annapolis, Maryland.
Bob, good morning.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATL. CORRESPONDENT: We're in Maryland, because it's one of the states that is up for grabs. That 1,151 delegates represents 53 percent of all the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. Of course nobody is going to win all of them, but size of the victory is going to determine whether this is a Super Tuesday or whether it's a less than a decisive Tuesday.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
FRANKEN (voice-over): He's the front-runner, the favorite once again, so pity John Kerry.
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I need your help.
FRANKEN: Kerry needs all the help he can get if he wants to avoid another night of winning, but not winning big enough.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I plan to be in this (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
FRANKEN: John Edwards still gets to play by the better-than- expected rules. In fact, he's already released a schedule for visiting Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas -- the southern states that hold their elections the week after Super Tuesday. Of course, reality might intrude sooner or later.
EDWARDS: Of course. Of course. At some point, I've to start getting more delegates or I'm not going to be the nominee.
FRANKEN: Super Tuesday accounts for 1,151 delegates. Kerry already has a wide lead, and he's campaigning as if he is the nominee (UNINTELLIGIBLE) on the general election opposition.
KERRY: If he came here, I think he could straighten out his fuzzy math, because the numbers don't add up. He's not multiplying the jobs. He's trying to divide America. And so, I think our solution, we ought to subtract George Bush from the political equation of the United States.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
FRANKEN: Now, just minutes ago, Senator Kerry finished his speech on the Senate floor. He returned to Washington to participate in the vote on the extension of the assault weapons ban. It will be an amendment to other legislation, and Senator Edwards is going to be making a similar move on the Senate floor a little bit later. This of course is an issue near and dear to Democrats hearts. We'll find out at the end of the evening which of the candidates is near and dear to the Democrats hearts, one of them or both of them -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Bob Franken in Maryland, thank you for that.
Well, California is the biggest prize at stake in today's election.
Joining us to talk about the race here and the primaries in general, Dick Rosengarten, editor of the newsletter "California Political Week."
Dick, always good to have you along here when I stop by in town.
DICK ROSENGARTEN, "CALIFORNIA POLITICAL WEEK": It's always a pleasure to be here, Daryn.
KAGAN: Three hundred and seventy of the delegates at stake. You would not know it, though, I got to tell you, being here in Southern California, you really can't tell that there's a primary, that this is a presidential race.
ROSENGARTEN: Yes, it's very, very low key. I think everything is being pumped into proposition 57 and 58; 57 is the $15 billion bond that Governor Schwarzenegger is pushing.
KAGAN: This is -- he's pretty much invested in this.
ROSENGARTEN: His whole career on line. I mean, last night, he was on Jay Leno pumping it, and who walk out on stage, Gray Davis, the former governor that Schwarzenegger beat, and they're both saying, yes, we got to have 57 and 58.
KAGAN: Basically, 57 says California can sell a bunch of bond to help its fiscal crisis. 58 says in the future, though, you have to balance the California budget.
ROSENGARTEN: Absolutely, and it goes further than that. And it also is supposed to prevent any further borrowing or anything like that.
KAGAN: Is it going to pass?
ROSENGARTEN: Well, 58 sure will pass, because people like that. 57, it's really, really close. I heard of some polling up in Sacramento over the weekend, I think it came out on Friday or Saturday, 49 in favor, 42 against. But now here we've had all these days that have gone by and people are getting phone calls. One of my friend up in Sacramento said he got an automated phone call from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. What they're doing is their targeting Democrats, because the campaign is pretty sure Republicans will go for it, because they don't want to embarrass Governor Schwarzenegger, but it's the Democrats who normally would vote for a bond, who are getting a little bit squishy.
KAGAN: Interesting.
Let's look ahead here. How is California -- and basically a primary -- Kerry pretty much going to win here?
ROSENGARTEN: He's going to win here. If Edwards cracks 30 percent it will be great for him. Right now, your polling shows him at 24 percent, 26 percent. He might get to 30 percent.
KAGAN: All right, as we look ahead, how do you think that California, now with a Republican governor, is going to been play into the bigger general election come November?
ROSENGARTEN: California probably at this point still leans Democratic. But I think the Republicans, particularly Bush/Cheney 2004, out here in California is going to pump a lot of money, just as they did in 2000, against Gore and Lieberman.
KAGAN: And now that they have a Republican governor, that...
ROSENGARTEN: That will help them to some extent. But the thing is that California has always been in the last 10, 15 years, a Democratic state, and it will be very, very difficult for Bush and Cheney to carry California. But they're forced to spend money here, and that's money that they can't spend in West Virginia, Ohio, wherever else, Florida.
KAGAN: Real quickly, I have to ask you about this, because as if recalling the governor wasn't enough, there is now a new campaign here in California to recall another state official.
ROSENGARTEN: Yes, it's the attorney general. Last time I was on the show, I said that, you know, it was Lockyer's fault because -- about this gay marriage thing, that he hasn't acted quickly enough. Well, evidently, Ted Costa, the guy who launched the recall against Governor Davis last time, has launched forces with Howard Fallugian (ph), who is one of the U.S. Senate candidates, and they're try to do the same thing to Bill Lockyer, claiming that he didn't act quickly enough to enforce California prop 22.
KAGAN: Only in California.
ROSENGARTEN: Oh, yes.
KAGAN: Dick, this is your job, covering it. Thanks for letting us peek into your political world. Appreciate it. Dick Rosengarten.
Well, CNN is your election headquarters for Super Tuesday coverage. Wolf Blitzer kicks off our primetime coverage this evening at 7:00 Eastern. Larry King picks up the ball at 9:00, with live updates from the campaign trail. And 10:00 Eastern, Wolf will be back with another two hours and new results and reaction from California.
A special edition of LARRY KING LIVE begins at midnight. And then at 1:00 a.m. Eastern, we're going to put it all in perspective with a special edition of "NEWSNIGHT WITH AARON BROWN."
KAGAN: Just about an hour ago, President Bush wrapped up a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Homeland Security Department.
Our Kathleen Koch is live at the White House with more on the president' speech.
Good morning, Kathleen.
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn.
The president's speech here in Washington today really served a dual purpose. First of all, the president wanted to thank the roughly 180,000 employees of the Department of Homeland Security for what he said was a job well done. That, though, the president himself initially opposed the creation of this massive new bureaucracy.
And then secondly, the president wanted to sound what has become one of his main campaign themes, and is that his administration is winning the war on terror, and that the security of the nation is actually at stake when Americans go to the polls in November. The president this morning outlined just some of the improved security measures that have been put in place since 9/11.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Department of Homeland Security is strengthening control of all our borders and ports of entry, to keep out terrorists and criminals and dangerous materials. We're using technology to allow law-abiding travelers to cross the border quickly and easily, while our officials concentrate on stopping possible threats.
We've increased the number of border inspectors and approved access to sophisticated databases. DHS personnel are checking ships and analyzing manifests to prevent high-risk cargo from entering our nation by sea.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KOCH: Though critics insist the Department of Homeland Security in many areas has fallen short, the U.S. Conference of Mayors Meeting in Washington last week, complaining that only 42 percent of the nation's ports have received promised grants to help with security, that three quarters of cities have not received the money -- their part of $1.5 billion it was promised to help fund and equip first responders in this country.
And then there's been much criticism leveled at the color-coded alert system by cities, saying that it's not specific enough, and that they are forced, every time the alert level is raised, to spend millions on additional security.
But the administration insists that it has made significant progress since 9/11 on security. The president insisting that protecting the American people is his highest responsibility -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Kathleen Koch at the White House. Kathleen, thank you for that.
We have health news coming up in just a bit. Yoga, it's tough. So is lifting weights. So what happens when you combine the two? We'll show you next in our "Daily Dose" of health news. And California's new governor gets a major surprise on late-night television. We will show it to you just head, as CNN LIVE TODAY from Los Angeles returns.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KAGAN: Doing a little combining here this morning. We're going to take the strength and flexibility of yoga and the toning and sculpting of weight training and put it together in the same workout. It's the idea behind something that's called "iron yoga." Our medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows us this pumped up version of power yoga. It's our "Daily Dose" of health news.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tree pose with military press and hammer curl. Familiar sounds you'll here in a not so familiar yoga class. In this New York health and racket club, the ancient art of yoga is pumped up. I decided to take the challenge, and as I found, it doesn't take long to work up a sweat.
ANTHONY CARILLO, CREATOR, IRON YOGA: With your left foot and leg, take a long step back, at least one leg length apart.
GUPTA: Combining weights with yoga is the idea of nationally ranked triathlete Anthony Carillo. He was the first to use weights with familiar yoga poses. Like many well-trained athletes, he wanted to challenge himself further.
CARILLO: I was in a warrior two pose that we did today in class. And as I'm in this pose, I'm thinking, OK, what weight training exercise that I normally do in the weight room can I add to warrior two? So it just made sense that I'm holding dumbbells. One arm could do a lateral raise, and the other arm could do a bicep curl.
GUPTA: Carillo started the pump-up yoga over a year ago. And these days, similar programs are popping up all around the country.
Dozens of health clubs have begun offering yoga classes with weights, bands, balls, and other resistance tools, all designed to draw a wider range of participants.
CARILLO: Some who are serious into the weight training, and circuit training and body sculpting, they sometimes feel that a yoga class won't give them the challenge. And I think now with this new dimension of adding dumbbells and weight training exercises to yoga, it's been able to attract that audience.
GUPTA: With iron yoga, every movement is done with the breath.
CARILLO: Everything's super safe because it's super slow. We're taking four to five seconds concentrically working positively, we're taking four to five seconds eccentrically working negatively.
GUPTA: And after the iron phase of this workout, you'll no doubt look to the cooldown.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAGAN: To get your "Daily Dose" of health news online. Log on to our Web site. The address is cnn.com/health.
A month ago, it was MyDoom. Now there's a new computer worm that millions need to look out for. We'll tell you how you can avoid it coming up next.
First, though, some helpful tax tips.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARION ASNES, "MONEY": New this year is a tuition credit of up to $3,000 in tuition if you're going to college or a qualified post- secondary institution.
There are three other kinds of credits. You can now take a credit for interest on a student loan or you can take the Hope credit, which you can take for the first two years only of post-secondary education.
The last credit, the life-time learning credit, you can take any year and every year you are going to post-secondary school, but you have to be going at least half time.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KAGAN: A new computer worm has been landing in e-mail boxes throughout the world. The bug is known as Net Sky D. It arrives with an attached program information file. Experts say they don't think the new virus is as big as the earlier MyDoom worm because fewer people use pif files. They warn that computer users should not open attachments from unknown users. And that is 101 in dealing with your e-mail.
(MARKET UPDATE)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KAGAN: (AUDIO GAP) now claiming that he is in charge of the rebel -- he is in charge of the country's military armed forces in Haiti. And this comes after his supporters drove into the country's capital of Port-au-Prince. We'll have more from Haiti. Our Lucia Newman and her crew on the ground there.
Also here in the states, of course this is Super Tuesday. And one of the states holding primaries today, here in California, not only the presidential primary, but some key bond measures on the ballot. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger betting his financial future for the state on two propositions. He even went on "The Tonight Show" last night trying to get some support for the propositions.
When he was there with Jay Leno, a bit of a surprise for Governor Schwarzenegger. Take a look.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GRAY DAVIS (D), FRM. GOVERNOR OF CALIF.: I talked to Arnold a little bit about some of the state problems, but he's helped me a lot with acting. Particularly with my pronunciation.
JAY LENO, "THE TONIGHT SHOW": Really, really?
(LAUGHTER)
GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA: I know there would be a cheap shot. Thanks. OK. Go ahead, guys.
LENO: I heard you talking. You foolishly say "California" which of course is ridiculous.
DAVIS: And I didn't know how to say...
SCHWARZENEGGER: What? That's actually the right way to pronounce it. In Spanish it's "Cali-for-ney-yah" not "California."
(CROSSTALK)
DAVIS: I used to think I knew how to say "I'll be back." Now I know it's "I'll be back."
LENO: The big issue is the gay marriage thing. What's your position in this? How do you deal with this what do you do here?
(LAUGHTER)
LENO: Seriously.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Are you try to ask me?
LENO: No, no, no, I'm not trying to ask you.
(LAUGHTER)
SCHWARZENEGGER: Be honest, Jay. Come on, you can admit it.
LENO: It's a big issue. All right, I admit it, I'm in love with you, all right, fine.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Finally. Give him a big hand.
LENO: Thank you very much.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: All right, some fun moments there. Of course, that was the former governor of California Gray Davis showing up to poke a little bit of fun at the current governor. The two sat down there and had a little bit of fun.
For the record, though, on the gay marriage issue, Governor Schwarzenegger said if the courts or voters changed state law to make same-sex marriage legal that would be OK with him.
(WEATHER REPORT)
KAGAN: And that's going to do it for me, Daryn Kagan, from here in Los Angeles. I'll see you in a couple days from back at my post in Atlanta.
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Aired March 2, 2004 - 11:29 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Daryn Kagan in Los Angeles. Let's check the headlines at this hour. A series of near-simultaneous explosions rip through two cities in Iraq today, killing at least 143 people. The attack targeted Shiites on one of their holiest days of the year. Iraqi officials see the bloodshed as an attempt to start a civil war between Iraq's religious groups.
A San Franciso newspaper reports Barry Bonds and other professional ballplayers received steroids from Balco. The chronicle cites government documents in the investigation of the lab. The paper also names Major Leaguers Jason Giambi and Gary Sheffield, as well as Oakland Raider Bill Romanowski. All have denied using steroids. Four people have been indicted in the Balco probe, including Bonds' personal trainer.
The Senate this hour is taking the first of several votes on a controversial gun bill. The legislation would give gunmakers immunity from many lawsuits. Democrats are trying to include an extension of the 1994 assault weapon ban. The vote is said to be close, so close in fact that Democrats John Kerry and John Edwards came in from the campaign trail to place their votes.
And sources say that federal charges will be announced this afternoon against former WorldCom CEO Bernie Ebbers. He's expected to face conspiracy and securities fraud counts in the $11 billion collapse of the telecom giant back in 2002.
Will it be a sweep for John Kerry, or can John Edwards come from behind? it's all up to the voter now as they head to the polls in the Super Tuesday elections; 1,151 delegates up for grab in the 10 states holding election today.
Our national correspondent is Bob Franken, and he is in one of the states, joining us from Annapolis, Maryland.
Bob, good morning.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATL. CORRESPONDENT: We're in Maryland, because it's one of the states that is up for grabs. That 1,151 delegates represents 53 percent of all the delegates needed to clinch the Democratic nomination. Of course nobody is going to win all of them, but size of the victory is going to determine whether this is a Super Tuesday or whether it's a less than a decisive Tuesday.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
FRANKEN (voice-over): He's the front-runner, the favorite once again, so pity John Kerry.
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I need your help.
FRANKEN: Kerry needs all the help he can get if he wants to avoid another night of winning, but not winning big enough.
SEN. JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I plan to be in this (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
FRANKEN: John Edwards still gets to play by the better-than- expected rules. In fact, he's already released a schedule for visiting Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas -- the southern states that hold their elections the week after Super Tuesday. Of course, reality might intrude sooner or later.
EDWARDS: Of course. Of course. At some point, I've to start getting more delegates or I'm not going to be the nominee.
FRANKEN: Super Tuesday accounts for 1,151 delegates. Kerry already has a wide lead, and he's campaigning as if he is the nominee (UNINTELLIGIBLE) on the general election opposition.
KERRY: If he came here, I think he could straighten out his fuzzy math, because the numbers don't add up. He's not multiplying the jobs. He's trying to divide America. And so, I think our solution, we ought to subtract George Bush from the political equation of the United States.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
FRANKEN: Now, just minutes ago, Senator Kerry finished his speech on the Senate floor. He returned to Washington to participate in the vote on the extension of the assault weapons ban. It will be an amendment to other legislation, and Senator Edwards is going to be making a similar move on the Senate floor a little bit later. This of course is an issue near and dear to Democrats hearts. We'll find out at the end of the evening which of the candidates is near and dear to the Democrats hearts, one of them or both of them -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Bob Franken in Maryland, thank you for that.
Well, California is the biggest prize at stake in today's election.
Joining us to talk about the race here and the primaries in general, Dick Rosengarten, editor of the newsletter "California Political Week."
Dick, always good to have you along here when I stop by in town.
DICK ROSENGARTEN, "CALIFORNIA POLITICAL WEEK": It's always a pleasure to be here, Daryn.
KAGAN: Three hundred and seventy of the delegates at stake. You would not know it, though, I got to tell you, being here in Southern California, you really can't tell that there's a primary, that this is a presidential race.
ROSENGARTEN: Yes, it's very, very low key. I think everything is being pumped into proposition 57 and 58; 57 is the $15 billion bond that Governor Schwarzenegger is pushing.
KAGAN: This is -- he's pretty much invested in this.
ROSENGARTEN: His whole career on line. I mean, last night, he was on Jay Leno pumping it, and who walk out on stage, Gray Davis, the former governor that Schwarzenegger beat, and they're both saying, yes, we got to have 57 and 58.
KAGAN: Basically, 57 says California can sell a bunch of bond to help its fiscal crisis. 58 says in the future, though, you have to balance the California budget.
ROSENGARTEN: Absolutely, and it goes further than that. And it also is supposed to prevent any further borrowing or anything like that.
KAGAN: Is it going to pass?
ROSENGARTEN: Well, 58 sure will pass, because people like that. 57, it's really, really close. I heard of some polling up in Sacramento over the weekend, I think it came out on Friday or Saturday, 49 in favor, 42 against. But now here we've had all these days that have gone by and people are getting phone calls. One of my friend up in Sacramento said he got an automated phone call from U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein. What they're doing is their targeting Democrats, because the campaign is pretty sure Republicans will go for it, because they don't want to embarrass Governor Schwarzenegger, but it's the Democrats who normally would vote for a bond, who are getting a little bit squishy.
KAGAN: Interesting.
Let's look ahead here. How is California -- and basically a primary -- Kerry pretty much going to win here?
ROSENGARTEN: He's going to win here. If Edwards cracks 30 percent it will be great for him. Right now, your polling shows him at 24 percent, 26 percent. He might get to 30 percent.
KAGAN: All right, as we look ahead, how do you think that California, now with a Republican governor, is going to been play into the bigger general election come November?
ROSENGARTEN: California probably at this point still leans Democratic. But I think the Republicans, particularly Bush/Cheney 2004, out here in California is going to pump a lot of money, just as they did in 2000, against Gore and Lieberman.
KAGAN: And now that they have a Republican governor, that...
ROSENGARTEN: That will help them to some extent. But the thing is that California has always been in the last 10, 15 years, a Democratic state, and it will be very, very difficult for Bush and Cheney to carry California. But they're forced to spend money here, and that's money that they can't spend in West Virginia, Ohio, wherever else, Florida.
KAGAN: Real quickly, I have to ask you about this, because as if recalling the governor wasn't enough, there is now a new campaign here in California to recall another state official.
ROSENGARTEN: Yes, it's the attorney general. Last time I was on the show, I said that, you know, it was Lockyer's fault because -- about this gay marriage thing, that he hasn't acted quickly enough. Well, evidently, Ted Costa, the guy who launched the recall against Governor Davis last time, has launched forces with Howard Fallugian (ph), who is one of the U.S. Senate candidates, and they're try to do the same thing to Bill Lockyer, claiming that he didn't act quickly enough to enforce California prop 22.
KAGAN: Only in California.
ROSENGARTEN: Oh, yes.
KAGAN: Dick, this is your job, covering it. Thanks for letting us peek into your political world. Appreciate it. Dick Rosengarten.
Well, CNN is your election headquarters for Super Tuesday coverage. Wolf Blitzer kicks off our primetime coverage this evening at 7:00 Eastern. Larry King picks up the ball at 9:00, with live updates from the campaign trail. And 10:00 Eastern, Wolf will be back with another two hours and new results and reaction from California.
A special edition of LARRY KING LIVE begins at midnight. And then at 1:00 a.m. Eastern, we're going to put it all in perspective with a special edition of "NEWSNIGHT WITH AARON BROWN."
KAGAN: Just about an hour ago, President Bush wrapped up a speech marking the one-year anniversary of the Homeland Security Department.
Our Kathleen Koch is live at the White House with more on the president' speech.
Good morning, Kathleen.
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn.
The president's speech here in Washington today really served a dual purpose. First of all, the president wanted to thank the roughly 180,000 employees of the Department of Homeland Security for what he said was a job well done. That, though, the president himself initially opposed the creation of this massive new bureaucracy.
And then secondly, the president wanted to sound what has become one of his main campaign themes, and is that his administration is winning the war on terror, and that the security of the nation is actually at stake when Americans go to the polls in November. The president this morning outlined just some of the improved security measures that have been put in place since 9/11.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The Department of Homeland Security is strengthening control of all our borders and ports of entry, to keep out terrorists and criminals and dangerous materials. We're using technology to allow law-abiding travelers to cross the border quickly and easily, while our officials concentrate on stopping possible threats.
We've increased the number of border inspectors and approved access to sophisticated databases. DHS personnel are checking ships and analyzing manifests to prevent high-risk cargo from entering our nation by sea.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KOCH: Though critics insist the Department of Homeland Security in many areas has fallen short, the U.S. Conference of Mayors Meeting in Washington last week, complaining that only 42 percent of the nation's ports have received promised grants to help with security, that three quarters of cities have not received the money -- their part of $1.5 billion it was promised to help fund and equip first responders in this country.
And then there's been much criticism leveled at the color-coded alert system by cities, saying that it's not specific enough, and that they are forced, every time the alert level is raised, to spend millions on additional security.
But the administration insists that it has made significant progress since 9/11 on security. The president insisting that protecting the American people is his highest responsibility -- Daryn.
KAGAN: Kathleen Koch at the White House. Kathleen, thank you for that.
We have health news coming up in just a bit. Yoga, it's tough. So is lifting weights. So what happens when you combine the two? We'll show you next in our "Daily Dose" of health news. And California's new governor gets a major surprise on late-night television. We will show it to you just head, as CNN LIVE TODAY from Los Angeles returns.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KAGAN: Doing a little combining here this morning. We're going to take the strength and flexibility of yoga and the toning and sculpting of weight training and put it together in the same workout. It's the idea behind something that's called "iron yoga." Our medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows us this pumped up version of power yoga. It's our "Daily Dose" of health news.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Tree pose with military press and hammer curl. Familiar sounds you'll here in a not so familiar yoga class. In this New York health and racket club, the ancient art of yoga is pumped up. I decided to take the challenge, and as I found, it doesn't take long to work up a sweat.
ANTHONY CARILLO, CREATOR, IRON YOGA: With your left foot and leg, take a long step back, at least one leg length apart.
GUPTA: Combining weights with yoga is the idea of nationally ranked triathlete Anthony Carillo. He was the first to use weights with familiar yoga poses. Like many well-trained athletes, he wanted to challenge himself further.
CARILLO: I was in a warrior two pose that we did today in class. And as I'm in this pose, I'm thinking, OK, what weight training exercise that I normally do in the weight room can I add to warrior two? So it just made sense that I'm holding dumbbells. One arm could do a lateral raise, and the other arm could do a bicep curl.
GUPTA: Carillo started the pump-up yoga over a year ago. And these days, similar programs are popping up all around the country.
Dozens of health clubs have begun offering yoga classes with weights, bands, balls, and other resistance tools, all designed to draw a wider range of participants.
CARILLO: Some who are serious into the weight training, and circuit training and body sculpting, they sometimes feel that a yoga class won't give them the challenge. And I think now with this new dimension of adding dumbbells and weight training exercises to yoga, it's been able to attract that audience.
GUPTA: With iron yoga, every movement is done with the breath.
CARILLO: Everything's super safe because it's super slow. We're taking four to five seconds concentrically working positively, we're taking four to five seconds eccentrically working negatively.
GUPTA: And after the iron phase of this workout, you'll no doubt look to the cooldown.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAGAN: To get your "Daily Dose" of health news online. Log on to our Web site. The address is cnn.com/health.
A month ago, it was MyDoom. Now there's a new computer worm that millions need to look out for. We'll tell you how you can avoid it coming up next.
First, though, some helpful tax tips.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MARION ASNES, "MONEY": New this year is a tuition credit of up to $3,000 in tuition if you're going to college or a qualified post- secondary institution.
There are three other kinds of credits. You can now take a credit for interest on a student loan or you can take the Hope credit, which you can take for the first two years only of post-secondary education.
The last credit, the life-time learning credit, you can take any year and every year you are going to post-secondary school, but you have to be going at least half time.
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KAGAN: A new computer worm has been landing in e-mail boxes throughout the world. The bug is known as Net Sky D. It arrives with an attached program information file. Experts say they don't think the new virus is as big as the earlier MyDoom worm because fewer people use pif files. They warn that computer users should not open attachments from unknown users. And that is 101 in dealing with your e-mail.
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KAGAN: (AUDIO GAP) now claiming that he is in charge of the rebel -- he is in charge of the country's military armed forces in Haiti. And this comes after his supporters drove into the country's capital of Port-au-Prince. We'll have more from Haiti. Our Lucia Newman and her crew on the ground there.
Also here in the states, of course this is Super Tuesday. And one of the states holding primaries today, here in California, not only the presidential primary, but some key bond measures on the ballot. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger betting his financial future for the state on two propositions. He even went on "The Tonight Show" last night trying to get some support for the propositions.
When he was there with Jay Leno, a bit of a surprise for Governor Schwarzenegger. Take a look.
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GRAY DAVIS (D), FRM. GOVERNOR OF CALIF.: I talked to Arnold a little bit about some of the state problems, but he's helped me a lot with acting. Particularly with my pronunciation.
JAY LENO, "THE TONIGHT SHOW": Really, really?
(LAUGHTER)
GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA: I know there would be a cheap shot. Thanks. OK. Go ahead, guys.
LENO: I heard you talking. You foolishly say "California" which of course is ridiculous.
DAVIS: And I didn't know how to say...
SCHWARZENEGGER: What? That's actually the right way to pronounce it. In Spanish it's "Cali-for-ney-yah" not "California."
(CROSSTALK)
DAVIS: I used to think I knew how to say "I'll be back." Now I know it's "I'll be back."
LENO: The big issue is the gay marriage thing. What's your position in this? How do you deal with this what do you do here?
(LAUGHTER)
LENO: Seriously.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Are you try to ask me?
LENO: No, no, no, I'm not trying to ask you.
(LAUGHTER)
SCHWARZENEGGER: Be honest, Jay. Come on, you can admit it.
LENO: It's a big issue. All right, I admit it, I'm in love with you, all right, fine.
SCHWARZENEGGER: Finally. Give him a big hand.
LENO: Thank you very much.
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KAGAN: All right, some fun moments there. Of course, that was the former governor of California Gray Davis showing up to poke a little bit of fun at the current governor. The two sat down there and had a little bit of fun.
For the record, though, on the gay marriage issue, Governor Schwarzenegger said if the courts or voters changed state law to make same-sex marriage legal that would be OK with him.
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KAGAN: And that's going to do it for me, Daryn Kagan, from here in Los Angeles. I'll see you in a couple days from back at my post in Atlanta.
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