Return to Transcripts main page
CNN Live At Daybreak
Terror Suspects Arrested; Anti-Semitism; MLB Season Opener Under Way; Sleep Deprivation
Aired March 30, 2004 - 05:30 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.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Philippine government says a bomb plot that rivaled the Madrid train bombings has been foiled. Four people arrested, 80 pounds of explosives confiscated. President Arroyo says the terrorists were targeting shopping malls and commuter trains.
Saudi Arabia's oil minister says OPEC will stick to its plan to cut production by a million barrels a day starting this week. OPEC ministers meet tomorrow in Vienna.
Israeli police are on alert today on the 28th anniversary of Land Day. Palestinians have called a general strike and will hold demonstrations and parades to mark the day.
Let's head to the Forecast Center and Chad for a first look at the weather this morning.
It's pretty nice across much of the country.
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: On to news that's happening right now. British police have arrested a number of terror suspects after a series of early morning raids.
CNN's Sheila MacVicar live in London with more on this story.
Put this in perspective for us -- Sheila.
SHEILA MACVICAR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, first off, we have had a very unusual news conference this morning by the deputy assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, the man in charge of the counterterrorism forces here in the U.K. It is not normal practice for U.K. police to appear on camera to make a statement in the wake of arrests such as these.
This morning, Peter Clarke saying that eight men, all British nationals, aged between 17 and 25 years old, have been taken into custody in a series of early morning raids. He told us that a number of premises, 25 in all, are currently being searched and acknowledged that police had recovered what he described as a significant quantity of ammonium nitrate.
Now ammonium nitrate is a fertilizer. It's also the material that was used in the Oklahoma City bomb and has been used elsewhere. Mr. Clarke also said that there is no relation to Irish Republican terrorism or indeed to the Madrid bombing. But he made very clear that the suspects in custody are related to Islamist extremists -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Can you tell us anything more about this fertilizer that was found? Where it was found? What it might have been used for?
MACVICAR: Well, ammonium nitrate, as I said, has been used in a number of bombs. And of course you remember the terrible explosive effect that it had in Oklahoma City. This fertilizer was found in a self-storage locker. The kind of locker that somebody might rent to store documents or extra furniture or in this case, ammonium nitrate. Police say, of course, that they are looking very carefully into what possible use that these people could have had for the ammonium nitrate and will also be considering precisely what their plans are.
Now it has to be said, Carol, we've had a lot of arrests under the Terrorism Act 2000, especially since September 2001. Most often there are no charges laid under this act. I think given the nature of the news conference this morning, we can see just how serious the police are viewing this particular series of arrests -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Sheila MacVicar, live from London, many thanks to you.
David Clinch is joining us now to further put this in perspective.
Sheila mentioned the Terrorism Act of 2000. This has been going on a long time this...
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Right.
COSTELLO: ... rounding up of terror suspects in Britain.
CLINCH: It has been going on a long time. The focus on it, of course, has become even more extreme in the wake of the attacks in Madrid.
And we were talking about this earlier. Just a couple of weeks ago, a top policeman in Britain was quoted very publicly as saying that a big terrorist attack in London was inevitable. Well that caused a sort of a surge of not quite panic but very deep concern in Britain. Of course the newspapers, as we well know, over there grab everything like that if it's front page news.
So now I think that's interesting that we see this press conference today. These are significant arrests. That is a significant find, half a ton of explosive material, or what could be used as explosive material. But to immediately go on television, explain what they found, say what they found, limit the...
COSTELLO: Of course that's not so unusual here in the United States. CLINCH: No, it's not. But in Britain where laws are very, very strict about what you can say about who has been arrested and why they have been arrested because of later pending cases, it is unusual, but interesting that they are getting into that habit now because of these panic concerns that happen.
COSTELLO: With all of the terror suspects that British authorities have rounded up in light of this Terrorism Act, how many remain in custody? I know you don't know exact numbers, but...
CLINCH: Right. Quite a few do. Many have been arrested and let go, but quite a few. I'll have to check on the exact number.
But of course you know always in these cases when people are arrested and are gone and are being questioned, we sort of forget about them. And it's always the case in terrorism, as we have learned here in the U.S., that the successes are not the news. You know when they arrest people and they are put away, that's forgotten about very quickly. As we remind people and the police and investigators remind people all of the time, the terrorists only have to be right once, as we saw in Madrid. So following up on the story in Madrid, as well, following in London. All day today that's going to be a big story for us.
Some sad news from London today, we've been reporting that BBC reporter Alistair Cooke died. This is somebody, as we have been reporting, is known here for presenting "Masterpiece Theater" and other things. But you know for somebody who grew up in the British Isles listening to him reporting on the radio, on the BBC, from America, just a remarkable effect on many people, especially those of us that became journalists, of explaining life in the United States to British people, to people in the British Isles. He will be sorely missed. He just retired a few weeks ago and died last night.
COSTELLO: Well he was loved here, as well, so...
CLINCH: He was. So following that. And of course the baseball season, the American baseball season, has started in Japan just a few minutes ago. We're following it over here. Can't show it to you, of course, because we don't own the rights to it, but we'll bring it to you when it's finished. The Yankees playing in Japan. So watching that very closely. Kind of strange, but...
COSTELLO: It is strange.
CLINCH: ... that's an international story, but it is.
COSTELLO: Certainly so. David Clinch, many thanks to you.
CLINCH: All right.
COSTELLO: Now to the war against Iraq. The fighting, bloodshed and disorder may be having an unintended consequence.
As CNN's Walter Rodgers reports, anti-Semitism is on the rise.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
WALTER RODGERS, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A fire-breathing Muslim cleric leads believers in a chorus of "Down with Israel." In Iraq, hatred of Israel, Zionists and Jews has become more, not less poisonous, since the American occupation. Many Iraqis now see last year's war as an Israeli-American plot to keep Iraq weak and divide the nation into separate Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish enclaves. Even Iraqi intellectual believe it.
SAAD JAWAD, POLITICAL ANALYST: Whatever is happening here in Iraq is not in the interest even of the United States, this chaos and instability and security. In fact, it's in the interest of Israel.
RODGERS: Israel's assassination of Palestinian Sheik Ahmed Yassin in Gaza fueled the hatred. And any tragedy like this recent car bomb is suspected of being a Jewish plot on Baghdad's streets.
DR. OMAR AL-RAWI, SURGEON: They are kill the Muslims. They are destroy the Muslims' country. They're -- all the war that happen here in Iraq or in Palestine or anywhere, this is directed and pushed through the Jewish people.
RODGERS: Iraqi newspapers fan the anti-Semitism. One recently published these allegations, that: "Israel has 560 spies here, some disguised as American soldiers; 200,000 Israeli Jews buying up prime real estate to recolonize Iraq. Another claim, that Israel and the United States plan to expand the Jewish state into Iraq.
"How can they come back with all the blood on their hands? We know they're buying houses here," she says. Specialists on anti- Semitism say Iraq has long been fertile ground.
ROBERT WISTRICH, HEBREW UNIVERSITY: In Iraq, you had an older tradition of anti-Semitism, going back to the Nazi influence in the 1930s and '40s.
RODGERS: The American experiment in Iraq was not supposed to work like this.
(on camera): A year ago, the Bush administration openly envisioned a new, more liberal and tolerant Iraq. Instead, Iraqis seem more xenophobic now and there are growing fears one possible outcome here might just as easily be an Islamic state as a democracy.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
RODGERS: A year ago, the Bush administration openly envisioned a new, more liberal and tolerant Iraq. Instead, Iraqis now seem more xenophobic than ever. And there are growing fears in this part of the world that one possible outcome here might just as easily be an Islamic state in Iraq as a new democracy -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Walter Rodgers live from Baghdad this morning.
Well all of you baseballs fans out there, get out the peanuts, the crackerjacks and the sushi. We'll tell you about a preseason opener making headlines 7,000 miles away.
And Microsoft is slashing prices. We'll tell you what's going on sale.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: Mothers killing their own children is something we can't even begin to imagine, but it does happen. You may recall the case of Susan Smith convicted of murdering her two sons by driving her car into a pond with them strapped inside.
Her husband reflected on that on CNN's "LARRY KING LIVE."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LARRY KING, HOST: Didn't you ever think, David, that something had to be wrong with Susan mentally to do what she did?
EX-WIFE, SUSAN, KILLED THEIR 2 CHILDREN: Oh, absolutely. I mean, something was surely wrong with her. There's no doubt. But to me, there still was no reason or excuse or anything to murder your children. I mean, they -- you know, Michael and Alex did nothing wrong. Why did they have to give up the ultimate gift that we have, which is life?
KING: Was it especially worse that she lied and said the car was carjacked and everything...
SMITH: Absolutely, because...
KING: ... and the pictures of the two of you on television?
SMITH: Absolutely, because to me, she was, you know, trying to get away with it. You know, she was trying to cover it up, and she did that for nine days, trying to get away it.
KING: So that added to your not only hurt but anger?
SMITH: Right. Of course.
KING: So you think, had she come forward right away, and not knowing why she did such a thing and had been more disturbed, you might have been more compassionate?
SMITH: More sympathetic, yes.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: You can watch "LARRY KING LIVE" every night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
Your news, money, weather and sports, it is 5:45 Eastern Time. Here is what is all new this morning.
Jury deliberations in the Tyco trial enter their ninth day. Judge refused to declare a mistrial after one of the jurors was identified in Published Reports.
A Syrian accused of planting one of the Madrid train bombs has been charged with 190 counts of murder. Fourteen people have been charged in the case so far.
In money, it will take less money to pick up an Xbox video game system. Microsoft has dropped the price 30 bucks in an effort to spur sales.
In sports, NFL owners have agreed to extend the contract of Commissioner Paul Tagliabue for as many as three years. Tagliabue has been commissioner since 1989.
In culture, veteran British broadcaster Alistair Cooke has died. He died at his New York home at the age of 95. He was best known here in the United States as host of PBS' "Masterpiece Theater."
MYERS: And in weather, the Yanks are up two nothing. No, wait, no that's sports. Hey, rain showers from Cleveland down to Cincinnati down to Charleston. Rain showers continue down to Atlanta. Could see some airport delays there. More on that in 10 minutes.
COSTELLO: You're interested in the Yankees, stick around, Chad, because the Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays are going at it right now more than 7,000 miles away from home. Major League Baseball's season opener under way in Tokyo.
Our Atika Shubert live on the phone from Tokyo.
Well we heard the score from Chad, Atika, what else is going on there?
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well this is exactly what the fans have been gearing up for as the Japanese fans are really excited to see the Yankees play the Devil Rays. There's been hype for weeks and thousands of fans crowding into the Tokyo Dome.
The game actually started with the Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi throwing the first pitch together with New York -- former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani to wild applause, again, from the fans. But of course all eyes were on hometown hero Hideki Matsui, known here as Godzilla. He is now playing with the Yankees, so it's a big thrill for fans to see him come home.
And for advertisers, it's also been a field day with Matsui. In between all of the plays, there have been ads running over and over again showing Matsui's face, promoting everything from ice cream to airlines.
COSTELLO: I bet he is making a lot of money. I bet. You know baseball is so big in Japan, why is this such a big deal?
SHUBERT: Well, Japanese have been huge fans of baseball ever since it was brought over from the States and it's actually celebrated a lot like it is in the -- in the States, which is a great excuse to have a lot of fun. Each national team has its own following, special cheers. And instead of hot dogs and beers, it's actually fried noodles and beers here. But otherwise, it's pretty much the same.
COSTELLO: Fried noodles. We kept saying sushi all morning, but I guess not.
SHUBERT: No, unfortunately, just noodles.
COSTELLO: Just noodles.
Atika Shubert, many thanks to you, live on the front from Tokyo.
And, Chad, we can't show any of the game because we don't have the rights.
MYERS: I know.
COSTELLO: But we're going to show it later.
MYERS: No, but at least they still have beer. And you know and they have those big beers, which are probably like $15, you know.
COSTELLO: Probably so.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Well it's...
MYERS: Anyway.
COSTELLO: ... no apple a day, but it's just what the doctor ordered. We'll tell you why regular exercise could help you fight cancer.
And we know most of us need eight hours of sleep per night. Do you get eight hours of sleep per night -- Chad?
MYERS: No.
COSTELLO: I don't either. We'll tell you what a new study warns us about not getting enough shuteye.
We'll be right back.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: I was waiting for that spicy DAYBREAK music and there it came. 5:50 Eastern Time.
Exercise, it's just what the doctor orders and that tops our 'Health News' this morning. We have always heard exercise can reduce the chance of getting cancer. Now a new study suggests exercise also may be important to recovering from cancer surgery. The study finds women who exercise, even moderately, after breast cancer cut their chance from dying from the disease by one quarter to one half.
A new rapid AIDS test is on the market. The government has approved the first oral test for HIV and it gives results in just 20 minutes. It's called OraQuick. Health officials collect cells from the lining of the mouth with a swipe of a cotton swab.
Sleep, it helps us feel better, look better, act better, yet so many of us get too little of it and that's a bad thing.
CNN's Christy Feig tells us what new research discovered -- was discovered about sleep deprivation.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CHRISTY FEIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For Gwyn Hicks, juggling 3-year-old Maggie (ph) and 6-month-old Hunter (ph) with work means sleep gets sacrificed. She says she usually only gets between five and six hours a night, often interrupted by the kids.
GWYN HICKS, SLEEP DEPRIVED MOM: I really could probably fall asleep, or at least I think I could, fall asleep pretty much anywhere, anytime.
FEIG: But for many Americans, like Gwyn, that could be doing more than just making you tired. Research shows it can actually increase your risk of certain diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and even obesity.
DR. THOMAS LO RUSSO, SLEEP DIAGNOSTIC CENTER: And when you don't sleep well, you may have a diminished metabolism and therefore, you don't -- you don't burn the calories that perhaps someone with a good eight hours of sleep may do.
FEIG: It's not just adults getting too little rest. A new study from the National Sleep Foundation says increasingly children also aren't sleeping enough. Toddlers need about 12 to 14 hours of sleep a day, preschoolers 11 to 13 hours and school aged children 10 to 11. But on average, the study says kids sleep about 30 minutes to an hour a night less. It might not sound like much, but it adds up and can mean problems with attention and schoolwork.
Experts say getting to bed and up at the same time every day, limiting caffeine and keeping TVs out of the bedroom can all help you get some extra Z's.
In Washington, I'm Christy Feig.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: For more on this or any other health story, head to our Web site, the address CNN.com/HEALTH.
In Santa Barbara, California, a grand jury is being kept hidden while they decide whether there is enough evidence to indict pop star Michael Jackson on child molestation charges.
Miguel Marquez looks at some of the evidence before that grand jury.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the King of pop, it is a new legal front. A grand jury will hear and see evidence on Michael Joe Jackson.
ARTHUR BARENS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Either they have a case against him based on the testimony of the victim, or they don't.
MARQUEZ: Arthur Barens, an L.A. defense attorney, knows high profile cases. He says in taking this case to a grand jury, Santa Barbara's district attorney is trying prove publicly that the charges he's already filed against Jackson will stick.
BARENS: It tells me in this instance that they're looking for public endorsement on the filing of the complaint.
MARQUEZ: Reportedly, the grand jury will hear testimony from Jackson's now 14-year-old accuser. It has also been reported that testimony will be heard from Jackson's 1993 molestation case, which was settled out of court.
BARENS: Normally, a settlement agreement cannot protect anyone from the issue of a valid subpoena and a request to testify before a trial proceeding or a grand jury.
MARQUEZ: Jurors are also likely to see evidence from the 18 search warrants issued so far. The searches have netted, among other things, 32 computer hard drives, 127 videotapes and disks, and more than 500 pages of phone records.
The affidavit for the latest search of a storage unit north of Los Angeles indicates police believe that Jackson may have tried to hide evidence. Investigators want unedited videotape of Jackson, hoping to further establish a relationship between him and presumably the alleged victim.
(on camera): The grand jury will hear evidence for approximately two weeks. If at the end of that time it indicts Mr. Jackson, he'd have to be re-arraigned, which means he'd have to reappear in court to plead guilty or not guilty.
Miguel Marquez, CNN, Santa Barbara, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: And we will get much more on the Michael Jackson case a little later with our legal analyst Kendall Coffey. That's coming up in the next hour of DAYBREAK.
MYERS: Carol, time for 'Front Page News' this morning.
COSTELLO: Yes.
MYERS: Some Hampton Roads this morning from "The Virginian- Pilot," a war of words intensifies.
COSTELLO: Yes, you can see Condoleezza Rice on the cover there. And I think that expression says it all. And as we have been telling you, the White House is now actively pursuing a compromise under which National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice would testify privately for a second time before the 9/11 Commission. The bulk of her remarks would be made part of the public record, but she would not be under oath. She would not be testifying publicly. Of course that's still being worked out. We will keep you posted.
MYERS: Carol, on the left side of that picture, you can barely see it, trees felled by Isabel pose danger. We'll have to watch out for a fire season from that Isabel.
COSTELLO: Because it's so dry out there?
MYERS: All those trees that were knocked down, and now they are all turning into timber, and it's going to be tough for the firefighters to fight those fires over North Carolina and parts of Virginia this week and summer (ph).
COSTELLO: Well good luck to them in the future.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: This is from the "Albuquerque Journal." You see studies in security. At the University of New Mexico, I guess it's New Mexico State University, they are offering courses on intelligence. So you can be like a spy.
MYERS: Almost, you know.
COSTELLO: You can go to college and get a Master's degree in history with a concentration in intelligence studies.
MYERS: The grants from this project, get this, $87 million.
COSTELLO: And they come from the Defense Department, so you're paying for it.
MYERS: A lot of it does.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Mr. Public, Ms. Public.
Smoke spies to mount secret checks on pubs. This is from the "Irish Independent." OK, this is from Ireland, not from the United States.
MYERS: I know.
COSTELLO: But they are sending smoke spies into pubs,...
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: ... because there's a new smoking law in effect that you can't smoke anywhere in Ireland except in mental institutions and prisons.
MYERS: How long do you think that's going to last? COSTELLO: I think it will last a long time, they're serious about it.
MYERS: Yes, I don't think it's going to last that long (ph).
COSTELLO: I thought it was interesting that in Ireland they call people who go to pubs publicans.
MYERS: True.
COSTELLO: Love that.
In the next hour of DAYBREAK, Tyco in turmoil, a motion for a mistrial is denied. Can the jury work together to reach a verdict? Legal eagle Kendall Coffey brings us his perspective in the next hour.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: Half a ton of explosives found this morning as British police conduct raids to root out terrorists.
And good morning to you, from the CNN Global Headquarters in Atlanta, this is DAYBREAK for March 30. I'm Carol Costello.
Let me bring you up to date now.
A half ton of the same mixture used in the Oklahoma City bombing, British police uncover it this morning, along with eight suspects. Police say the suspects are connected to possible Islamist
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
Aired March 30, 2004 - 05:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Philippine government says a bomb plot that rivaled the Madrid train bombings has been foiled. Four people arrested, 80 pounds of explosives confiscated. President Arroyo says the terrorists were targeting shopping malls and commuter trains.
Saudi Arabia's oil minister says OPEC will stick to its plan to cut production by a million barrels a day starting this week. OPEC ministers meet tomorrow in Vienna.
Israeli police are on alert today on the 28th anniversary of Land Day. Palestinians have called a general strike and will hold demonstrations and parades to mark the day.
Let's head to the Forecast Center and Chad for a first look at the weather this morning.
It's pretty nice across much of the country.
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: On to news that's happening right now. British police have arrested a number of terror suspects after a series of early morning raids.
CNN's Sheila MacVicar live in London with more on this story.
Put this in perspective for us -- Sheila.
SHEILA MACVICAR, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, first off, we have had a very unusual news conference this morning by the deputy assistant commissioner of Scotland Yard, the man in charge of the counterterrorism forces here in the U.K. It is not normal practice for U.K. police to appear on camera to make a statement in the wake of arrests such as these.
This morning, Peter Clarke saying that eight men, all British nationals, aged between 17 and 25 years old, have been taken into custody in a series of early morning raids. He told us that a number of premises, 25 in all, are currently being searched and acknowledged that police had recovered what he described as a significant quantity of ammonium nitrate.
Now ammonium nitrate is a fertilizer. It's also the material that was used in the Oklahoma City bomb and has been used elsewhere. Mr. Clarke also said that there is no relation to Irish Republican terrorism or indeed to the Madrid bombing. But he made very clear that the suspects in custody are related to Islamist extremists -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Can you tell us anything more about this fertilizer that was found? Where it was found? What it might have been used for?
MACVICAR: Well, ammonium nitrate, as I said, has been used in a number of bombs. And of course you remember the terrible explosive effect that it had in Oklahoma City. This fertilizer was found in a self-storage locker. The kind of locker that somebody might rent to store documents or extra furniture or in this case, ammonium nitrate. Police say, of course, that they are looking very carefully into what possible use that these people could have had for the ammonium nitrate and will also be considering precisely what their plans are.
Now it has to be said, Carol, we've had a lot of arrests under the Terrorism Act 2000, especially since September 2001. Most often there are no charges laid under this act. I think given the nature of the news conference this morning, we can see just how serious the police are viewing this particular series of arrests -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Sheila MacVicar, live from London, many thanks to you.
David Clinch is joining us now to further put this in perspective.
Sheila mentioned the Terrorism Act of 2000. This has been going on a long time this...
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Right.
COSTELLO: ... rounding up of terror suspects in Britain.
CLINCH: It has been going on a long time. The focus on it, of course, has become even more extreme in the wake of the attacks in Madrid.
And we were talking about this earlier. Just a couple of weeks ago, a top policeman in Britain was quoted very publicly as saying that a big terrorist attack in London was inevitable. Well that caused a sort of a surge of not quite panic but very deep concern in Britain. Of course the newspapers, as we well know, over there grab everything like that if it's front page news.
So now I think that's interesting that we see this press conference today. These are significant arrests. That is a significant find, half a ton of explosive material, or what could be used as explosive material. But to immediately go on television, explain what they found, say what they found, limit the...
COSTELLO: Of course that's not so unusual here in the United States. CLINCH: No, it's not. But in Britain where laws are very, very strict about what you can say about who has been arrested and why they have been arrested because of later pending cases, it is unusual, but interesting that they are getting into that habit now because of these panic concerns that happen.
COSTELLO: With all of the terror suspects that British authorities have rounded up in light of this Terrorism Act, how many remain in custody? I know you don't know exact numbers, but...
CLINCH: Right. Quite a few do. Many have been arrested and let go, but quite a few. I'll have to check on the exact number.
But of course you know always in these cases when people are arrested and are gone and are being questioned, we sort of forget about them. And it's always the case in terrorism, as we have learned here in the U.S., that the successes are not the news. You know when they arrest people and they are put away, that's forgotten about very quickly. As we remind people and the police and investigators remind people all of the time, the terrorists only have to be right once, as we saw in Madrid. So following up on the story in Madrid, as well, following in London. All day today that's going to be a big story for us.
Some sad news from London today, we've been reporting that BBC reporter Alistair Cooke died. This is somebody, as we have been reporting, is known here for presenting "Masterpiece Theater" and other things. But you know for somebody who grew up in the British Isles listening to him reporting on the radio, on the BBC, from America, just a remarkable effect on many people, especially those of us that became journalists, of explaining life in the United States to British people, to people in the British Isles. He will be sorely missed. He just retired a few weeks ago and died last night.
COSTELLO: Well he was loved here, as well, so...
CLINCH: He was. So following that. And of course the baseball season, the American baseball season, has started in Japan just a few minutes ago. We're following it over here. Can't show it to you, of course, because we don't own the rights to it, but we'll bring it to you when it's finished. The Yankees playing in Japan. So watching that very closely. Kind of strange, but...
COSTELLO: It is strange.
CLINCH: ... that's an international story, but it is.
COSTELLO: Certainly so. David Clinch, many thanks to you.
CLINCH: All right.
COSTELLO: Now to the war against Iraq. The fighting, bloodshed and disorder may be having an unintended consequence.
As CNN's Walter Rodgers reports, anti-Semitism is on the rise.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
WALTER RODGERS, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A fire-breathing Muslim cleric leads believers in a chorus of "Down with Israel." In Iraq, hatred of Israel, Zionists and Jews has become more, not less poisonous, since the American occupation. Many Iraqis now see last year's war as an Israeli-American plot to keep Iraq weak and divide the nation into separate Shiite, Sunni and Kurdish enclaves. Even Iraqi intellectual believe it.
SAAD JAWAD, POLITICAL ANALYST: Whatever is happening here in Iraq is not in the interest even of the United States, this chaos and instability and security. In fact, it's in the interest of Israel.
RODGERS: Israel's assassination of Palestinian Sheik Ahmed Yassin in Gaza fueled the hatred. And any tragedy like this recent car bomb is suspected of being a Jewish plot on Baghdad's streets.
DR. OMAR AL-RAWI, SURGEON: They are kill the Muslims. They are destroy the Muslims' country. They're -- all the war that happen here in Iraq or in Palestine or anywhere, this is directed and pushed through the Jewish people.
RODGERS: Iraqi newspapers fan the anti-Semitism. One recently published these allegations, that: "Israel has 560 spies here, some disguised as American soldiers; 200,000 Israeli Jews buying up prime real estate to recolonize Iraq. Another claim, that Israel and the United States plan to expand the Jewish state into Iraq.
"How can they come back with all the blood on their hands? We know they're buying houses here," she says. Specialists on anti- Semitism say Iraq has long been fertile ground.
ROBERT WISTRICH, HEBREW UNIVERSITY: In Iraq, you had an older tradition of anti-Semitism, going back to the Nazi influence in the 1930s and '40s.
RODGERS: The American experiment in Iraq was not supposed to work like this.
(on camera): A year ago, the Bush administration openly envisioned a new, more liberal and tolerant Iraq. Instead, Iraqis seem more xenophobic now and there are growing fears one possible outcome here might just as easily be an Islamic state as a democracy.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
RODGERS: A year ago, the Bush administration openly envisioned a new, more liberal and tolerant Iraq. Instead, Iraqis now seem more xenophobic than ever. And there are growing fears in this part of the world that one possible outcome here might just as easily be an Islamic state in Iraq as a new democracy -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Walter Rodgers live from Baghdad this morning.
Well all of you baseballs fans out there, get out the peanuts, the crackerjacks and the sushi. We'll tell you about a preseason opener making headlines 7,000 miles away.
And Microsoft is slashing prices. We'll tell you what's going on sale.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: Mothers killing their own children is something we can't even begin to imagine, but it does happen. You may recall the case of Susan Smith convicted of murdering her two sons by driving her car into a pond with them strapped inside.
Her husband reflected on that on CNN's "LARRY KING LIVE."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
LARRY KING, HOST: Didn't you ever think, David, that something had to be wrong with Susan mentally to do what she did?
EX-WIFE, SUSAN, KILLED THEIR 2 CHILDREN: Oh, absolutely. I mean, something was surely wrong with her. There's no doubt. But to me, there still was no reason or excuse or anything to murder your children. I mean, they -- you know, Michael and Alex did nothing wrong. Why did they have to give up the ultimate gift that we have, which is life?
KING: Was it especially worse that she lied and said the car was carjacked and everything...
SMITH: Absolutely, because...
KING: ... and the pictures of the two of you on television?
SMITH: Absolutely, because to me, she was, you know, trying to get away with it. You know, she was trying to cover it up, and she did that for nine days, trying to get away it.
KING: So that added to your not only hurt but anger?
SMITH: Right. Of course.
KING: So you think, had she come forward right away, and not knowing why she did such a thing and had been more disturbed, you might have been more compassionate?
SMITH: More sympathetic, yes.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: You can watch "LARRY KING LIVE" every night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern.
Your news, money, weather and sports, it is 5:45 Eastern Time. Here is what is all new this morning.
Jury deliberations in the Tyco trial enter their ninth day. Judge refused to declare a mistrial after one of the jurors was identified in Published Reports.
A Syrian accused of planting one of the Madrid train bombs has been charged with 190 counts of murder. Fourteen people have been charged in the case so far.
In money, it will take less money to pick up an Xbox video game system. Microsoft has dropped the price 30 bucks in an effort to spur sales.
In sports, NFL owners have agreed to extend the contract of Commissioner Paul Tagliabue for as many as three years. Tagliabue has been commissioner since 1989.
In culture, veteran British broadcaster Alistair Cooke has died. He died at his New York home at the age of 95. He was best known here in the United States as host of PBS' "Masterpiece Theater."
MYERS: And in weather, the Yanks are up two nothing. No, wait, no that's sports. Hey, rain showers from Cleveland down to Cincinnati down to Charleston. Rain showers continue down to Atlanta. Could see some airport delays there. More on that in 10 minutes.
COSTELLO: You're interested in the Yankees, stick around, Chad, because the Yankees and Tampa Bay Devil Rays are going at it right now more than 7,000 miles away from home. Major League Baseball's season opener under way in Tokyo.
Our Atika Shubert live on the phone from Tokyo.
Well we heard the score from Chad, Atika, what else is going on there?
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well this is exactly what the fans have been gearing up for as the Japanese fans are really excited to see the Yankees play the Devil Rays. There's been hype for weeks and thousands of fans crowding into the Tokyo Dome.
The game actually started with the Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi throwing the first pitch together with New York -- former New York Mayor Rudi Giuliani to wild applause, again, from the fans. But of course all eyes were on hometown hero Hideki Matsui, known here as Godzilla. He is now playing with the Yankees, so it's a big thrill for fans to see him come home.
And for advertisers, it's also been a field day with Matsui. In between all of the plays, there have been ads running over and over again showing Matsui's face, promoting everything from ice cream to airlines.
COSTELLO: I bet he is making a lot of money. I bet. You know baseball is so big in Japan, why is this such a big deal?
SHUBERT: Well, Japanese have been huge fans of baseball ever since it was brought over from the States and it's actually celebrated a lot like it is in the -- in the States, which is a great excuse to have a lot of fun. Each national team has its own following, special cheers. And instead of hot dogs and beers, it's actually fried noodles and beers here. But otherwise, it's pretty much the same.
COSTELLO: Fried noodles. We kept saying sushi all morning, but I guess not.
SHUBERT: No, unfortunately, just noodles.
COSTELLO: Just noodles.
Atika Shubert, many thanks to you, live on the front from Tokyo.
And, Chad, we can't show any of the game because we don't have the rights.
MYERS: I know.
COSTELLO: But we're going to show it later.
MYERS: No, but at least they still have beer. And you know and they have those big beers, which are probably like $15, you know.
COSTELLO: Probably so.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Well it's...
MYERS: Anyway.
COSTELLO: ... no apple a day, but it's just what the doctor ordered. We'll tell you why regular exercise could help you fight cancer.
And we know most of us need eight hours of sleep per night. Do you get eight hours of sleep per night -- Chad?
MYERS: No.
COSTELLO: I don't either. We'll tell you what a new study warns us about not getting enough shuteye.
We'll be right back.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: I was waiting for that spicy DAYBREAK music and there it came. 5:50 Eastern Time.
Exercise, it's just what the doctor orders and that tops our 'Health News' this morning. We have always heard exercise can reduce the chance of getting cancer. Now a new study suggests exercise also may be important to recovering from cancer surgery. The study finds women who exercise, even moderately, after breast cancer cut their chance from dying from the disease by one quarter to one half.
A new rapid AIDS test is on the market. The government has approved the first oral test for HIV and it gives results in just 20 minutes. It's called OraQuick. Health officials collect cells from the lining of the mouth with a swipe of a cotton swab.
Sleep, it helps us feel better, look better, act better, yet so many of us get too little of it and that's a bad thing.
CNN's Christy Feig tells us what new research discovered -- was discovered about sleep deprivation.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CHRISTY FEIG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For Gwyn Hicks, juggling 3-year-old Maggie (ph) and 6-month-old Hunter (ph) with work means sleep gets sacrificed. She says she usually only gets between five and six hours a night, often interrupted by the kids.
GWYN HICKS, SLEEP DEPRIVED MOM: I really could probably fall asleep, or at least I think I could, fall asleep pretty much anywhere, anytime.
FEIG: But for many Americans, like Gwyn, that could be doing more than just making you tired. Research shows it can actually increase your risk of certain diseases like diabetes, hypertension, heart disease and even obesity.
DR. THOMAS LO RUSSO, SLEEP DIAGNOSTIC CENTER: And when you don't sleep well, you may have a diminished metabolism and therefore, you don't -- you don't burn the calories that perhaps someone with a good eight hours of sleep may do.
FEIG: It's not just adults getting too little rest. A new study from the National Sleep Foundation says increasingly children also aren't sleeping enough. Toddlers need about 12 to 14 hours of sleep a day, preschoolers 11 to 13 hours and school aged children 10 to 11. But on average, the study says kids sleep about 30 minutes to an hour a night less. It might not sound like much, but it adds up and can mean problems with attention and schoolwork.
Experts say getting to bed and up at the same time every day, limiting caffeine and keeping TVs out of the bedroom can all help you get some extra Z's.
In Washington, I'm Christy Feig.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: For more on this or any other health story, head to our Web site, the address CNN.com/HEALTH.
In Santa Barbara, California, a grand jury is being kept hidden while they decide whether there is enough evidence to indict pop star Michael Jackson on child molestation charges.
Miguel Marquez looks at some of the evidence before that grand jury.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MIGUEL MARQUEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the King of pop, it is a new legal front. A grand jury will hear and see evidence on Michael Joe Jackson.
ARTHUR BARENS, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Either they have a case against him based on the testimony of the victim, or they don't.
MARQUEZ: Arthur Barens, an L.A. defense attorney, knows high profile cases. He says in taking this case to a grand jury, Santa Barbara's district attorney is trying prove publicly that the charges he's already filed against Jackson will stick.
BARENS: It tells me in this instance that they're looking for public endorsement on the filing of the complaint.
MARQUEZ: Reportedly, the grand jury will hear testimony from Jackson's now 14-year-old accuser. It has also been reported that testimony will be heard from Jackson's 1993 molestation case, which was settled out of court.
BARENS: Normally, a settlement agreement cannot protect anyone from the issue of a valid subpoena and a request to testify before a trial proceeding or a grand jury.
MARQUEZ: Jurors are also likely to see evidence from the 18 search warrants issued so far. The searches have netted, among other things, 32 computer hard drives, 127 videotapes and disks, and more than 500 pages of phone records.
The affidavit for the latest search of a storage unit north of Los Angeles indicates police believe that Jackson may have tried to hide evidence. Investigators want unedited videotape of Jackson, hoping to further establish a relationship between him and presumably the alleged victim.
(on camera): The grand jury will hear evidence for approximately two weeks. If at the end of that time it indicts Mr. Jackson, he'd have to be re-arraigned, which means he'd have to reappear in court to plead guilty or not guilty.
Miguel Marquez, CNN, Santa Barbara, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: And we will get much more on the Michael Jackson case a little later with our legal analyst Kendall Coffey. That's coming up in the next hour of DAYBREAK.
MYERS: Carol, time for 'Front Page News' this morning.
COSTELLO: Yes.
MYERS: Some Hampton Roads this morning from "The Virginian- Pilot," a war of words intensifies.
COSTELLO: Yes, you can see Condoleezza Rice on the cover there. And I think that expression says it all. And as we have been telling you, the White House is now actively pursuing a compromise under which National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice would testify privately for a second time before the 9/11 Commission. The bulk of her remarks would be made part of the public record, but she would not be under oath. She would not be testifying publicly. Of course that's still being worked out. We will keep you posted.
MYERS: Carol, on the left side of that picture, you can barely see it, trees felled by Isabel pose danger. We'll have to watch out for a fire season from that Isabel.
COSTELLO: Because it's so dry out there?
MYERS: All those trees that were knocked down, and now they are all turning into timber, and it's going to be tough for the firefighters to fight those fires over North Carolina and parts of Virginia this week and summer (ph).
COSTELLO: Well good luck to them in the future.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: This is from the "Albuquerque Journal." You see studies in security. At the University of New Mexico, I guess it's New Mexico State University, they are offering courses on intelligence. So you can be like a spy.
MYERS: Almost, you know.
COSTELLO: You can go to college and get a Master's degree in history with a concentration in intelligence studies.
MYERS: The grants from this project, get this, $87 million.
COSTELLO: And they come from the Defense Department, so you're paying for it.
MYERS: A lot of it does.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Mr. Public, Ms. Public.
Smoke spies to mount secret checks on pubs. This is from the "Irish Independent." OK, this is from Ireland, not from the United States.
MYERS: I know.
COSTELLO: But they are sending smoke spies into pubs,...
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: ... because there's a new smoking law in effect that you can't smoke anywhere in Ireland except in mental institutions and prisons.
MYERS: How long do you think that's going to last? COSTELLO: I think it will last a long time, they're serious about it.
MYERS: Yes, I don't think it's going to last that long (ph).
COSTELLO: I thought it was interesting that in Ireland they call people who go to pubs publicans.
MYERS: True.
COSTELLO: Love that.
In the next hour of DAYBREAK, Tyco in turmoil, a motion for a mistrial is denied. Can the jury work together to reach a verdict? Legal eagle Kendall Coffey brings us his perspective in the next hour.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: Half a ton of explosives found this morning as British police conduct raids to root out terrorists.
And good morning to you, from the CNN Global Headquarters in Atlanta, this is DAYBREAK for March 30. I'm Carol Costello.
Let me bring you up to date now.
A half ton of the same mixture used in the Oklahoma City bombing, British police uncover it this morning, along with eight suspects. Police say the suspects are connected to possible Islamist
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
