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Spain in Mourning; Utah Mother Facing Murder Charge in Death of Stillborn Twin

Aired March 12, 2004 - 06:30   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The death toll in the Madrid bombings reaches 198. More than 1,400 are injured. The Basque separatist group, ETA, is still getting official blame, but al Qaeda involvement is now considered a possibility.
Jamaica's prime minister expects former Haitian President Jean- Bertrand Aristide to arrive next week. He says Aristide, now in exile in Africa, is coming to Jamaica for a reunion with his two children.

In Massachusetts, lawmakers stopped just short of final approval for a constitutional amendment. It would ban same-sex marriage, but approve civil unions for same-sex couples. The debate resumes on March 29.

It has been a year since Elizabeth Smart was found. The Utah teenager was abducted from her home nine months earlier. Police are celebrating the anniversary of her return with a safety awareness campaign.

We update our top stories every 15 minutes. The next update comes your way at 6:45 Eastern.

Extra security at train stations across the United States. You will see more police, more bomb-sniffing dogs this morning; this, in light of those attacks on Spain's train system. Nearly 200 dead now, more than 1,400 wounded by a series of blasts on four commuter trains.

With Spain in mourning, who is to blame? Spanish authorities initially thought it was the internal terrorist group, ETA, but now al Qaeda is a possible suspect.

Let's head live to Madrid for the latest and Al Goodman.

Hello -- Al.

AL GOODMAN, CNN MADRID BUREAU CHIEF: Hello, Carol.

Well, a lot of bombs on Thursday causing that death toll of nearly 200 and the 1,400 injured. And here, just behind me, in the last few minutes, another bomb threat. They evacuated a significant part of the Atocha rail station, and people came running out, sirens, police running toward a scene of confusion.

And just at the same time -- this was at the noon hour locally -- there was a planned demonstration to protest the violence. It blocked off the street. We had quite a lot of unfortunate excitement here in the last few minutes.

You can still see behind me the traffic jams as things are trying to get back to normal.

Now, Spaniards have woken up with a lot of grief, very somber mood here. They've come out traditionally after terrorist attacks in Spain of the Basque separatist ETA variety. ETA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States.

There are demonstrations at public buildings at noon, at 12:00 sharp, on this following day. But this day, the prime minister has called for Spaniards to turn out massively in the streets on Friday evening across the country to show their revulsion at these attacks.

And the investigation continues, and, as you say, it could be the Basque group, ETA. It could be al Qaeda or some other group. The government is now investigating both lines; the prime minister confirming that in a news conference just a few minutes ago -- Carol.

COSTELLO: I want to get a little more into that before we let you go as for who's to blame. You said before that the Spanish people are beginning to think that it was indeed al Qaeda because of the kind of attack it was. Can you get into that and some more about the van they found?

GOODMAN: OK, well, all through Thursday in the hours after this attack, as people were rushing to hospitals and to the grim task of pulling bodies out of the trains were going on, the investigation was under way. The government said it's the Basque group, ETA. They said they found remains of dynamite, traces of dynamite at the bombing scene that matched dynamite used by ETA in other attacks. They said the dynamite was stolen.

And suddenly on Thursday afternoon, the interior minister came out and he said police had found a van east of the capital along the same rail line that was bombed, this commuter rail line. In there, they found a tape in Arabic citing Quranic verses. No threats on the tape, they said. You could buy in a store, they said. But there were also seven or eight detonators in that van. They said, we're going to open a new line of investigation.

Now, in the hours succeeding, there's been a lot of criticism. The largest circulation newspaper says it hopes -- in its lead editorial, it says, it hopes the government is giving out the right information, is not leading people astray.

The prime minister clearly a bit under pressure in that news conference. He said they were going to try to get to the bottom of this -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Al Goodman reporting live from Madrid, Spain, this morning.

There is extra security in place around the world in light of those terrorist attacks, here in the United States and in Britain.

So let's head live to London and Robyn Curnow to tell us more.

Robyn -- you took a ride on the Metro there. What are people saying?

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I rode into central London from the suburbs this morning, and like much of across -- like much of Europe, there were no security checks or even security guards at any of the stations or on any of the trains as I came into central London.

Now, Londoners say -- and, of course, many Europeans say -- that that's what they like. Train travel is easy. It's flexible. And you can literally get from one side of the continent to the other. And that is what Europeans like. And I think many of whom I spoke to said that they would be very reluctant with the airport-style security jamming up their commute as such.

But, of course, that's the whole big problem. Security experts are saying that it's very, very difficult to protect and to police these miles and miles of train tracks crisscrossing Europe. And this is why commuters, particularly after this week's Madrid bombings, are aware of just -- security experts and commuters are aware of just how vulnerable they are in this light. Because literally it's miles and miles of track to protect, and that the police say that they just can't do it.

COSTELLO: Robyn Curnow live from London.

And we're going to take you live to Washington a little later to talk about security on our own Amtrak trains at the Metro stations in Washington, D.C.

In Salt Lake City this morning, a mother is facing a murder charge in the death of one of her twins. The baby was stillborn after she rejected having a cesarean section when the doctors recommended the surgery.

Sandy Riesgraf of CNN affiliate KFTU in Salt Lake City has more for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MELISSA ANN ROWLAND, CHARGED WITH MURDER: Pretty scared. I don't feel that I did anything wrong.

SANDY RIESGRAF, CNN AFFILIATE KFTU REPORTER (voice-over): Melissa Ann Rowland can't believe she's being charged with murder. By phone from jail, she denied doing anything to harm her twin. But could she have saved the one who died by having a C-section two days before she gave birth?

ROWLAND: I don't have any comment on that right now.

RIESGRAF: Prosecutor Kent Morgan says his office has never filed murder charges in a case like this. But, he says, Melissa Rowland knew one baby could die if she didn't have a C-section. Morgan says she also ignored other vital medical prenatal care.

KENT MORGAN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Doctor after doctor, hospital after hospital, nurse after nurse told her, this is the only way you're going to save this child. This is what you have to do.

RIESGRAF: The charging document says Rowland told one doctor, a C-section would -- quote -- "ruin her life." That she would rather "lose one of the babies than be cut like that."

Did she say it?

ROWLAND: No, I did not. I deny that.

MORGAN: What is happening here is balancing the procedure necessary to save the life that she alone could do against her interest in vanity. She allowed vanity to win out.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Sandy Riesgraf reporting from Salt Lake City this morning.

We want to pass along a DAYBREAK programming note. Next week, we will be focusing in-depth on the crisis in Haiti -- the U.S. troops there, the families there, the fight for food and what life is really like for Haitians.

Father Paul Carrier from Fairfield University in Connecticut will be in Haiti. He's leaving Saturday. And he will be calling us every day next week and sending us pictures. He's worked for a long time in Haiti with the people there. He'll be giving us an inside look at the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

What's life like for the children there? What's a typical night like? Look for his special reports every day next week right here on DAYBREAK.

We're back in a moment.

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COSTELLO: Those terrorist attacks in Spain have affected the world. The death toll is nearly 200, and authorities throughout the world are wondering how they can protect those of us who ride the rails.

In Washington, D.C., you will see extra security at Amtrak.

To tell us more, on the phone live from Washington is Judlyne Lilly of WTOP News Radio.

Good morning, Judlyne. What are they doing in Washington to protect those who ride the trains?

JUDLYNE LILLY, WTOP NEWS RADIO ANCHOR: Well, Carol, there is no obvious increase in security, but there is. They have cameras on post watching the boarding area. Police dogs are checking the luggage of passengers.

And Amtrak police did a security check with police dogs prior to the opening of at least one of Washington's suburban stations.

The northeast corridor in the Washington area -- Washington to New York to Boston -- is extremely popular. A lot of passengers get on those trains going back and forth. So, there is some concern about who is on those trains.

However, passengers do tell WTOP Radio that their comfort level is pretty high with security. And, in fact, when one of our reporters was doing an interview, police came over and checked her bag just to make sure that she was on the up-and-up.

COSTELLO: Interesting. And I also heard that they removed trash cans from the Metro stations in...

LILLY: Right, they...

COSTELLO: Go ahead.

LILLY: Right, they removed the Metro stations. Now after September 11, they removed the trash cans that were in the stations in all of those stations and replaced them with imploding -- bomb- imploding trash cans. In other words, if someone did put something dangerous in there and they wanted it to blow up, then the trash can would supposedly catch the explosion and not make as much damage as it possibly could.

COSTELLO: You know, but when you talk to authorities, they will tell you it is impossible to protect the rails, because so many people ride them.

LILLY: And there are various and sundry reasons there. You just get on the train. There is no one really checking your bags and things like that unless, of course, you check them. And that's when the police dogs come in.

There is electronic surveillance of bridges and tunnels, which has been intensified since the Spain bombings.

COSTELLO: Interesting. Judlyne Lilly, many thanks -- joining us live on the phone from Washington, D.C., this morning.

Your news, money, weather and sports now. It is 6:42 Eastern Time. Here are the latest headlines.

John Kerry is refusing to apologize for an off-the-cuff comment made while campaigning. Kerry met with Democrats on Capitol Hill Thursday. He said his comments that "these guys are crooked, lying," refer to GOP attack dogs and not Republicans in general.

At Maryland General Hospital, more than 400 patients may have been given the wrong results for HIV and hepatitis tests. A hot line has been set up for people who were tested over the past 14 months so they can come back and get retested. And a Maryland woman has been charged with working as an Iraqi agent. Susan Lindauer is also accused of delivering documents to an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a Libyan intelligence officer.

Your money, $2.36 trillion of it to be exact, that's the budget approved by the Senate. It would trim the deficit faster than the president proposed, but not as quickly as Democrats want.

In sports, Saint Joseph's went into the Atlantic 10 basketball quarter finals undefeated. It came out with an 87-67 loss to Xavier. At one point, Saint Joseph's trailed by 37 points.

In culture, hats off to Dr. Seuss, the author, whose real name was Theodore Geisel. He gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He would have been 100 this month.

And in weather, the skies look pretty clear across most of the nation. Some clouds or rain in Texas and parts of the Northeast.

Those are the headlines. Your next update is on "AMERICAN MORNING." That comes your way at the top of the hour.

Speaking of "AMERICAN MORNING," let's head to New York like now to check in with Bill and Soledad.

And I understand you have Christiane Amanpour reporting from Madrid this morning.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, we certainly do, Carol. We'll be in touch with her throughout the morning on our program, the latest out of Spain that you've been watching, Carol. Covering all fronts Christiane is there.

Also whether or not there is a connection to al Qaeda. Peter Brooks, Heritage Foundation, is one of our many guests today. We'll look into that possibility today. So stay tuned for that.

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Some evidence indicates yes; some evidence indicates maybe no.

HEMMER: Yes.

O'BRIEN: Also this morning, we're talking about campaign 2004. We'll be talking with Bush advisor Mary Matalin; also, Kerry advisor Ted Devine (ph) on the opposing strategies from both camps.

HEMMER: And it was a week ago today...

O'BRIEN: That's right.

HEMMER: ... when the verdict came down. You're going to be talking with someone, a friend of Martha Stewart.

O'BRIEN: A good friend of Martha Stewart's, who has worked as her stylist -- her hairstylist for seven or eight years. She says she's a good friend. She looks to Martha Stewart as a role model. She's going to talk to us a little bit about who Martha is doing. She's in contact with her practically every day.

HEMMER: We'll have it all for you. It's Friday. Friday version here. You know we love that.

Also, Jack has -- we're going to look deeper into our e-mail question today regarding this possible link with al Qaeda in Spain, so we'll have it for you.

Have a great weekend -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Oh, I'm going to. And to you -- both of you, too.

HEMMER: You got it.

O'BRIEN: Thank you.

COSTELLO: We'll see you in about what? Fifteen minutes.

(WEATHER BREAK)

COSTELLO: Are you working out on the treadmill? We have a better way. We'll be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: We are starting something new on DAYBREAK to help you shape up for summer. We're calling it "Eight Weeks to a Better Body." First up: a better treadmill workout.

If you are on the treadmill right now, slow jogging for 30 minutes, there's a better way to burn more calories in less time. It's called interval training, and 20 minutes is good enough.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: OK, I'm ready to get on this humongous treadmill.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, good. Let's see what you've got today.

COSTELLO (voice-over): What I've got is 20 minutes. I feel like I'm cheating, but I remember what trainer Steve told me earlier.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That spending hours is totally unnecessary.

COSTELLO: Awesome! But you've got to work it. We start slowly at two miles per hour for two minutes. Then we double the speed to four.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let your arms flows. If you pump your arms, you're getting a little bit more cardio going.

COSTELLO: After two more minutes, it gets crazy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, we're going to go to a 10-percent incline to start.

COSTELLO: I'm breathing harder now and feel my glutes working.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It makes your body work right. It's going uphill.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes. After five minutes, we killed the incline and increased the speed to a slow job. After just nine minutes, I'm starting to sweat.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Try and concentrate on your breathing. A lot of people let their breathing get out of rhythm and start breathing too fast. You want a nice controlled breathing in through the nose, out through the mouth.

COSTELLO: By now, you get the idea. Mix it up. Shock your body. After that vicious incline, Steve increases my speed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're faster than a jog.

COSTELLO (on camera): It's a 10-minute mile.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's right.

COSTELLO (voice-over): We finished the 20 minutes alternating between running, walking and hill climbing.

(on camera): This is so much fun.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What you've done in this amount of time is already more beneficial than walking at a level of three for 30 minutes.

COSTELLO (voice-over): Translation? I have burned 300 calories in just 20 minutes, and I don't feel like a cheat.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

Thanks to Steve Urea (ph), who is a certified personal trainer that helped us out with that story.

And another note: It does not matter how you mix it up, just so you're working on that treadmill. You're sweating. Your heart is beating. Remember, if you can read the paper while you're on the treadmill, you are not working hard enough.

Next week, design your own home gym. We'll tell you how to do it cheap.

Time for a little business buzz right now. Are you worried that the IRS will audit you? Chances are it won't.

Oh, that's such good news -- Carrie Lee.

CARRIE LEE, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS: Well, chances are you're not going to get audited, Carol, but audit rates are on the rise.

According to the IRS, if you make over $100,000 a year -- and this is adjusted gross income figures -- your chances of getting audited last year were 1 in 94. It doesn't sound too bad, but that's up 24 percent from 2002. For taxpayers whose AGI's were under $100,000, 1 in 164 filers were audited, and that's an increase of 12 percent over 2002.

The reason? Well, we're seeing more correspondence audits. Those are audits that come in the mail rather than that dreaded representative knocking on your door.

Interesting, Carol, because in the 1990s, the IRS was more focused on customer service, if you can believe that, and took their eye off of the ball, one might say, in terms of audits. But now the Bush administration is earmarking $490 million for the IRS for 2005. Most of that money is going to go to enforcement activity, which is something that people should keep in mind as the tax deadline looms for 2003.

COSTELLO: Don't lie to your tax preparer. Thank you, Carrie Lee.

Chad joins me for "The Lightning Round" coming up, but first, the latest headlines.

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COSTELLO: Liza Minnelli and James Taylor are sort in the same age bracket.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, happy birthday, J.T.

COSTELLO: I never realized that.

MYERS: Yes.

COSTELLO: All right, Chad, it is time for "The Lightning Round."

MYERS: All right.

COSTELLO: Who makes you laugh?

MYERS: Jon Stewart.

COSTELLO: Well, that's one of them. But according to "Entertainment Weekly," Chris Rock is the funniest man in America. He's been doing comedy for 21 years.

MYERS: Oh, excellent.

COSTELLO: But Jon Stewart did come in No. 2.

MYERS: All right.

COSTELLO: And then I think Will Farrell's on that list, too. He's No. 3. So there you go.

MYERS: All very funny.

COSTELLO: Another very funny lady in a far different way, Tonya Harding. She's heading back out onto the ice, but not on figure skates. No. She is going to play for the Indianapolis Ice Tonight. That's a minor league hockey team. They're taking on the Colorado Eagles. How do you think she'll do?

MYERS: I think she'll do just fine. I just checked Ticketmaster. There are still tickets available. It is guaranteed fight night. If there are no fights tonight, you get a free ticket to the Sunday game.

COSTELLO: Oh, man! OK, let's move on to Tokyo.

MYERS: I hope so.

COSTELLO: Because if a rhino goes on a rampage in the Tokyo Zoo, workers there are prepared to deal with the situation. What the heck was that?

MYERS: If a paper mache...

COSTELLO: This is a drill.

MYERS: If a paper mache rhino goes on attack, we know what to do.

COSTELLO: This is a drill. This is a drill. I feel safer now if I ever go to Tokyo and there's an earthquake or something and rhino escapes, I'll know that I'm safe.

MYERS: They can't stop from laughing. They're supposed to...

COSTELLO: I can't even go on.

MYERS: They're supposed to be injured, and they can't stop laughing.

COSTELLO: I can't go on. I think we should end "The Lightning Round" right now, don't you? Because we can't top this. We cannot top that.

MYERS: That's pretty good. It's pretty good, though.

COSTELLO: All right, everyone have a wonderful weekend. I'm Carol Costello with Chad Myers. "AMERICAN MORNING" starts right now.

MYERS: We'll see you Monday.

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Aired March 12, 2004 - 06:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: The death toll in the Madrid bombings reaches 198. More than 1,400 are injured. The Basque separatist group, ETA, is still getting official blame, but al Qaeda involvement is now considered a possibility.
Jamaica's prime minister expects former Haitian President Jean- Bertrand Aristide to arrive next week. He says Aristide, now in exile in Africa, is coming to Jamaica for a reunion with his two children.

In Massachusetts, lawmakers stopped just short of final approval for a constitutional amendment. It would ban same-sex marriage, but approve civil unions for same-sex couples. The debate resumes on March 29.

It has been a year since Elizabeth Smart was found. The Utah teenager was abducted from her home nine months earlier. Police are celebrating the anniversary of her return with a safety awareness campaign.

We update our top stories every 15 minutes. The next update comes your way at 6:45 Eastern.

Extra security at train stations across the United States. You will see more police, more bomb-sniffing dogs this morning; this, in light of those attacks on Spain's train system. Nearly 200 dead now, more than 1,400 wounded by a series of blasts on four commuter trains.

With Spain in mourning, who is to blame? Spanish authorities initially thought it was the internal terrorist group, ETA, but now al Qaeda is a possible suspect.

Let's head live to Madrid for the latest and Al Goodman.

Hello -- Al.

AL GOODMAN, CNN MADRID BUREAU CHIEF: Hello, Carol.

Well, a lot of bombs on Thursday causing that death toll of nearly 200 and the 1,400 injured. And here, just behind me, in the last few minutes, another bomb threat. They evacuated a significant part of the Atocha rail station, and people came running out, sirens, police running toward a scene of confusion.

And just at the same time -- this was at the noon hour locally -- there was a planned demonstration to protest the violence. It blocked off the street. We had quite a lot of unfortunate excitement here in the last few minutes.

You can still see behind me the traffic jams as things are trying to get back to normal.

Now, Spaniards have woken up with a lot of grief, very somber mood here. They've come out traditionally after terrorist attacks in Spain of the Basque separatist ETA variety. ETA is listed as a terrorist organization by the United States.

There are demonstrations at public buildings at noon, at 12:00 sharp, on this following day. But this day, the prime minister has called for Spaniards to turn out massively in the streets on Friday evening across the country to show their revulsion at these attacks.

And the investigation continues, and, as you say, it could be the Basque group, ETA. It could be al Qaeda or some other group. The government is now investigating both lines; the prime minister confirming that in a news conference just a few minutes ago -- Carol.

COSTELLO: I want to get a little more into that before we let you go as for who's to blame. You said before that the Spanish people are beginning to think that it was indeed al Qaeda because of the kind of attack it was. Can you get into that and some more about the van they found?

GOODMAN: OK, well, all through Thursday in the hours after this attack, as people were rushing to hospitals and to the grim task of pulling bodies out of the trains were going on, the investigation was under way. The government said it's the Basque group, ETA. They said they found remains of dynamite, traces of dynamite at the bombing scene that matched dynamite used by ETA in other attacks. They said the dynamite was stolen.

And suddenly on Thursday afternoon, the interior minister came out and he said police had found a van east of the capital along the same rail line that was bombed, this commuter rail line. In there, they found a tape in Arabic citing Quranic verses. No threats on the tape, they said. You could buy in a store, they said. But there were also seven or eight detonators in that van. They said, we're going to open a new line of investigation.

Now, in the hours succeeding, there's been a lot of criticism. The largest circulation newspaper says it hopes -- in its lead editorial, it says, it hopes the government is giving out the right information, is not leading people astray.

The prime minister clearly a bit under pressure in that news conference. He said they were going to try to get to the bottom of this -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Al Goodman reporting live from Madrid, Spain, this morning.

There is extra security in place around the world in light of those terrorist attacks, here in the United States and in Britain.

So let's head live to London and Robyn Curnow to tell us more.

Robyn -- you took a ride on the Metro there. What are people saying?

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, I rode into central London from the suburbs this morning, and like much of across -- like much of Europe, there were no security checks or even security guards at any of the stations or on any of the trains as I came into central London.

Now, Londoners say -- and, of course, many Europeans say -- that that's what they like. Train travel is easy. It's flexible. And you can literally get from one side of the continent to the other. And that is what Europeans like. And I think many of whom I spoke to said that they would be very reluctant with the airport-style security jamming up their commute as such.

But, of course, that's the whole big problem. Security experts are saying that it's very, very difficult to protect and to police these miles and miles of train tracks crisscrossing Europe. And this is why commuters, particularly after this week's Madrid bombings, are aware of just -- security experts and commuters are aware of just how vulnerable they are in this light. Because literally it's miles and miles of track to protect, and that the police say that they just can't do it.

COSTELLO: Robyn Curnow live from London.

And we're going to take you live to Washington a little later to talk about security on our own Amtrak trains at the Metro stations in Washington, D.C.

In Salt Lake City this morning, a mother is facing a murder charge in the death of one of her twins. The baby was stillborn after she rejected having a cesarean section when the doctors recommended the surgery.

Sandy Riesgraf of CNN affiliate KFTU in Salt Lake City has more for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MELISSA ANN ROWLAND, CHARGED WITH MURDER: Pretty scared. I don't feel that I did anything wrong.

SANDY RIESGRAF, CNN AFFILIATE KFTU REPORTER (voice-over): Melissa Ann Rowland can't believe she's being charged with murder. By phone from jail, she denied doing anything to harm her twin. But could she have saved the one who died by having a C-section two days before she gave birth?

ROWLAND: I don't have any comment on that right now.

RIESGRAF: Prosecutor Kent Morgan says his office has never filed murder charges in a case like this. But, he says, Melissa Rowland knew one baby could die if she didn't have a C-section. Morgan says she also ignored other vital medical prenatal care.

KENT MORGAN, DISTRICT ATTORNEY: Doctor after doctor, hospital after hospital, nurse after nurse told her, this is the only way you're going to save this child. This is what you have to do.

RIESGRAF: The charging document says Rowland told one doctor, a C-section would -- quote -- "ruin her life." That she would rather "lose one of the babies than be cut like that."

Did she say it?

ROWLAND: No, I did not. I deny that.

MORGAN: What is happening here is balancing the procedure necessary to save the life that she alone could do against her interest in vanity. She allowed vanity to win out.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Sandy Riesgraf reporting from Salt Lake City this morning.

We want to pass along a DAYBREAK programming note. Next week, we will be focusing in-depth on the crisis in Haiti -- the U.S. troops there, the families there, the fight for food and what life is really like for Haitians.

Father Paul Carrier from Fairfield University in Connecticut will be in Haiti. He's leaving Saturday. And he will be calling us every day next week and sending us pictures. He's worked for a long time in Haiti with the people there. He'll be giving us an inside look at the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere.

What's life like for the children there? What's a typical night like? Look for his special reports every day next week right here on DAYBREAK.

We're back in a moment.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Those terrorist attacks in Spain have affected the world. The death toll is nearly 200, and authorities throughout the world are wondering how they can protect those of us who ride the rails.

In Washington, D.C., you will see extra security at Amtrak.

To tell us more, on the phone live from Washington is Judlyne Lilly of WTOP News Radio.

Good morning, Judlyne. What are they doing in Washington to protect those who ride the trains?

JUDLYNE LILLY, WTOP NEWS RADIO ANCHOR: Well, Carol, there is no obvious increase in security, but there is. They have cameras on post watching the boarding area. Police dogs are checking the luggage of passengers.

And Amtrak police did a security check with police dogs prior to the opening of at least one of Washington's suburban stations.

The northeast corridor in the Washington area -- Washington to New York to Boston -- is extremely popular. A lot of passengers get on those trains going back and forth. So, there is some concern about who is on those trains.

However, passengers do tell WTOP Radio that their comfort level is pretty high with security. And, in fact, when one of our reporters was doing an interview, police came over and checked her bag just to make sure that she was on the up-and-up.

COSTELLO: Interesting. And I also heard that they removed trash cans from the Metro stations in...

LILLY: Right, they...

COSTELLO: Go ahead.

LILLY: Right, they removed the Metro stations. Now after September 11, they removed the trash cans that were in the stations in all of those stations and replaced them with imploding -- bomb- imploding trash cans. In other words, if someone did put something dangerous in there and they wanted it to blow up, then the trash can would supposedly catch the explosion and not make as much damage as it possibly could.

COSTELLO: You know, but when you talk to authorities, they will tell you it is impossible to protect the rails, because so many people ride them.

LILLY: And there are various and sundry reasons there. You just get on the train. There is no one really checking your bags and things like that unless, of course, you check them. And that's when the police dogs come in.

There is electronic surveillance of bridges and tunnels, which has been intensified since the Spain bombings.

COSTELLO: Interesting. Judlyne Lilly, many thanks -- joining us live on the phone from Washington, D.C., this morning.

Your news, money, weather and sports now. It is 6:42 Eastern Time. Here are the latest headlines.

John Kerry is refusing to apologize for an off-the-cuff comment made while campaigning. Kerry met with Democrats on Capitol Hill Thursday. He said his comments that "these guys are crooked, lying," refer to GOP attack dogs and not Republicans in general.

At Maryland General Hospital, more than 400 patients may have been given the wrong results for HIV and hepatitis tests. A hot line has been set up for people who were tested over the past 14 months so they can come back and get retested. And a Maryland woman has been charged with working as an Iraqi agent. Susan Lindauer is also accused of delivering documents to an undercover FBI agent who was posing as a Libyan intelligence officer.

Your money, $2.36 trillion of it to be exact, that's the budget approved by the Senate. It would trim the deficit faster than the president proposed, but not as quickly as Democrats want.

In sports, Saint Joseph's went into the Atlantic 10 basketball quarter finals undefeated. It came out with an 87-67 loss to Xavier. At one point, Saint Joseph's trailed by 37 points.

In culture, hats off to Dr. Seuss, the author, whose real name was Theodore Geisel. He gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. He would have been 100 this month.

And in weather, the skies look pretty clear across most of the nation. Some clouds or rain in Texas and parts of the Northeast.

Those are the headlines. Your next update is on "AMERICAN MORNING." That comes your way at the top of the hour.

Speaking of "AMERICAN MORNING," let's head to New York like now to check in with Bill and Soledad.

And I understand you have Christiane Amanpour reporting from Madrid this morning.

BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, we certainly do, Carol. We'll be in touch with her throughout the morning on our program, the latest out of Spain that you've been watching, Carol. Covering all fronts Christiane is there.

Also whether or not there is a connection to al Qaeda. Peter Brooks, Heritage Foundation, is one of our many guests today. We'll look into that possibility today. So stay tuned for that.

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Some evidence indicates yes; some evidence indicates maybe no.

HEMMER: Yes.

O'BRIEN: Also this morning, we're talking about campaign 2004. We'll be talking with Bush advisor Mary Matalin; also, Kerry advisor Ted Devine (ph) on the opposing strategies from both camps.

HEMMER: And it was a week ago today...

O'BRIEN: That's right.

HEMMER: ... when the verdict came down. You're going to be talking with someone, a friend of Martha Stewart.

O'BRIEN: A good friend of Martha Stewart's, who has worked as her stylist -- her hairstylist for seven or eight years. She says she's a good friend. She looks to Martha Stewart as a role model. She's going to talk to us a little bit about who Martha is doing. She's in contact with her practically every day.

HEMMER: We'll have it all for you. It's Friday. Friday version here. You know we love that.

Also, Jack has -- we're going to look deeper into our e-mail question today regarding this possible link with al Qaeda in Spain, so we'll have it for you.

Have a great weekend -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Oh, I'm going to. And to you -- both of you, too.

HEMMER: You got it.

O'BRIEN: Thank you.

COSTELLO: We'll see you in about what? Fifteen minutes.

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COSTELLO: Are you working out on the treadmill? We have a better way. We'll be right back.

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COSTELLO: We are starting something new on DAYBREAK to help you shape up for summer. We're calling it "Eight Weeks to a Better Body." First up: a better treadmill workout.

If you are on the treadmill right now, slow jogging for 30 minutes, there's a better way to burn more calories in less time. It's called interval training, and 20 minutes is good enough.

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COSTELLO: OK, I'm ready to get on this humongous treadmill.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, good. Let's see what you've got today.

COSTELLO (voice-over): What I've got is 20 minutes. I feel like I'm cheating, but I remember what trainer Steve told me earlier.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That spending hours is totally unnecessary.

COSTELLO: Awesome! But you've got to work it. We start slowly at two miles per hour for two minutes. Then we double the speed to four.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let your arms flows. If you pump your arms, you're getting a little bit more cardio going.

COSTELLO: After two more minutes, it gets crazy.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, we're going to go to a 10-percent incline to start.

COSTELLO: I'm breathing harder now and feel my glutes working.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It makes your body work right. It's going uphill.

COSTELLO: Oh, yes. After five minutes, we killed the incline and increased the speed to a slow job. After just nine minutes, I'm starting to sweat.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Try and concentrate on your breathing. A lot of people let their breathing get out of rhythm and start breathing too fast. You want a nice controlled breathing in through the nose, out through the mouth.

COSTELLO: By now, you get the idea. Mix it up. Shock your body. After that vicious incline, Steve increases my speed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're faster than a jog.

COSTELLO (on camera): It's a 10-minute mile.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's right.

COSTELLO (voice-over): We finished the 20 minutes alternating between running, walking and hill climbing.

(on camera): This is so much fun.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What you've done in this amount of time is already more beneficial than walking at a level of three for 30 minutes.

COSTELLO (voice-over): Translation? I have burned 300 calories in just 20 minutes, and I don't feel like a cheat.

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Thanks to Steve Urea (ph), who is a certified personal trainer that helped us out with that story.

And another note: It does not matter how you mix it up, just so you're working on that treadmill. You're sweating. Your heart is beating. Remember, if you can read the paper while you're on the treadmill, you are not working hard enough.

Next week, design your own home gym. We'll tell you how to do it cheap.

Time for a little business buzz right now. Are you worried that the IRS will audit you? Chances are it won't.

Oh, that's such good news -- Carrie Lee.

CARRIE LEE, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS: Well, chances are you're not going to get audited, Carol, but audit rates are on the rise.

According to the IRS, if you make over $100,000 a year -- and this is adjusted gross income figures -- your chances of getting audited last year were 1 in 94. It doesn't sound too bad, but that's up 24 percent from 2002. For taxpayers whose AGI's were under $100,000, 1 in 164 filers were audited, and that's an increase of 12 percent over 2002.

The reason? Well, we're seeing more correspondence audits. Those are audits that come in the mail rather than that dreaded representative knocking on your door.

Interesting, Carol, because in the 1990s, the IRS was more focused on customer service, if you can believe that, and took their eye off of the ball, one might say, in terms of audits. But now the Bush administration is earmarking $490 million for the IRS for 2005. Most of that money is going to go to enforcement activity, which is something that people should keep in mind as the tax deadline looms for 2003.

COSTELLO: Don't lie to your tax preparer. Thank you, Carrie Lee.

Chad joins me for "The Lightning Round" coming up, but first, the latest headlines.

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COSTELLO: Liza Minnelli and James Taylor are sort in the same age bracket.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, happy birthday, J.T.

COSTELLO: I never realized that.

MYERS: Yes.

COSTELLO: All right, Chad, it is time for "The Lightning Round."

MYERS: All right.

COSTELLO: Who makes you laugh?

MYERS: Jon Stewart.

COSTELLO: Well, that's one of them. But according to "Entertainment Weekly," Chris Rock is the funniest man in America. He's been doing comedy for 21 years.

MYERS: Oh, excellent.

COSTELLO: But Jon Stewart did come in No. 2.

MYERS: All right.

COSTELLO: And then I think Will Farrell's on that list, too. He's No. 3. So there you go.

MYERS: All very funny.

COSTELLO: Another very funny lady in a far different way, Tonya Harding. She's heading back out onto the ice, but not on figure skates. No. She is going to play for the Indianapolis Ice Tonight. That's a minor league hockey team. They're taking on the Colorado Eagles. How do you think she'll do?

MYERS: I think she'll do just fine. I just checked Ticketmaster. There are still tickets available. It is guaranteed fight night. If there are no fights tonight, you get a free ticket to the Sunday game.

COSTELLO: Oh, man! OK, let's move on to Tokyo.

MYERS: I hope so.

COSTELLO: Because if a rhino goes on a rampage in the Tokyo Zoo, workers there are prepared to deal with the situation. What the heck was that?

MYERS: If a paper mache...

COSTELLO: This is a drill.

MYERS: If a paper mache rhino goes on attack, we know what to do.

COSTELLO: This is a drill. This is a drill. I feel safer now if I ever go to Tokyo and there's an earthquake or something and rhino escapes, I'll know that I'm safe.

MYERS: They can't stop from laughing. They're supposed to...

COSTELLO: I can't even go on.

MYERS: They're supposed to be injured, and they can't stop laughing.

COSTELLO: I can't go on. I think we should end "The Lightning Round" right now, don't you? Because we can't top this. We cannot top that.

MYERS: That's pretty good. It's pretty good, though.

COSTELLO: All right, everyone have a wonderful weekend. I'm Carol Costello with Chad Myers. "AMERICAN MORNING" starts right now.

MYERS: We'll see you Monday.

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