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Pullout From Rafah; Malaria Malaise; Both Sides Now; Men's & Women's Brains
Aired May 21, 2004 - 05:30 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Israel's military incursion, is it over? In two minutes, we will take you live to Gaza.
It is Friday, May 21. This is DAYBREAK.
Good morning to you, and welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. From the CNN Global Headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Costello.
Here are the latest headlines for you now.
After three days of daily clashes with Palestinians, the Israeli military is redeploying in Gaza. In other words, it's getting out. Palestinian sources say 40 Palestinians were killed, 107 injured since Tuesday. Israel says it destroyed tunnels used for smuggling guns and explosives.
In Iraq, close to 500 more Iraqis are being released today from the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison. About 3,000 Iraqis remain at the prison where some U.S. guards are accused of abuse.
In money news, Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate are postponing a vote on a $2.4 trillion budget. That's after avoiding what could have been an embarrassing election year defeat of the measure.
In sports, at the PGA's Colonial Tournament, Craig Perks opens slate (ph) today in the lead. He had a bogie-free six-under par-64 in the opening round to take a one-stroke lead over Jesper Parnevik.
In culture, you can own a piece of the "Man in Black." Sotheby's plans a September auction of Johnny Cash items. More than 650 instruments, hand written lyrics, jackets, even his pick up, black, of course. Cash died last September -- Rob.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hey, Carol.
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MARCIANO: Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Rob.
Israeli troops began pulling out this morning after a bloody three-day sweep of the Rafah Refugee Camp in southern Gaza. The incursion left 39 Palestinians dead and brought a torrent of international criticism of Israel.
CNN's Matthew Chance live on the phone for us from Rafah to bring us up to date.
Hello -- Matthew.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
And I am talking to you from the Rafah Refugee Camp where there has been, of course, fierce fighting amid a very intensive Israeli military operation over the course of the past three days. For the moment, the military curfew that's been very tight and has been testing force here for about three days now has been lifted in some areas of the Rafah Refugee Camp.
But the Israeli forces that I have spoken to and are saying that they are not pulling out at this stage. They are saying they are simply redeploying their forces. And I can tell you there are still Israeli forces inside the Rafah Refugee Camp as we speak. Helicopter gunships are circling overhead. Intermittently, there are bursts of heavy machinegun fire as well, which sends the people who have come out onto the streets for the first time in several days running back into their houses. Some of those houses have, of course, been demolished. Many of them have been damaged quite severely by the recent days of military action.
Israel says, of course, it's been coming in to Rafah. It's been embarked on this operation in order to crack down on militants and on weapons smugglers who used tunnels underneath the Egyptian border, which is right next to the Rafah Refugee Camp, to bring in weapons into the Gaza Strip that are used against their forces here. But hundreds, if not thousands, of people have been made extremely uncomfortable. Hundreds have been made homeless, we can say, according to the United Nations. And so the humanitarian cost of this operation has been very acute indeed -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Matthew Chance live from the Rafah Refugee Camp this morning.
It is something the Bush administration and the Pentagon don't need right now, more pictures, apparently showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners by their American guards. "Washington Post" has new images this morning of apparent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison. These pictures on the front pages. "The Post" says it also obtained a video showing a soldier slapping a prisoner.
This picture appears to show a U.S. soldier with a baton apparently ordering a naked and dirty detainee walk a line with his ankles handcuffed. In another, a U.S. soldier uses both hands to apparently restrain a dog, and you see the dog is facing the detainee. The detainee appears to be handcuffed.
Going to talk much more about the prisoner abuse photos later, but right now we have a bit of breaking news to tell you about. A bomb found in Bangladesh.
Eli Flournoy, our senior international editor, is here to tell us more about that.
ELI FLOURNOY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: That's right, Carol, we're just getting information from our stringers in Bangladesh today. The historic shrine in northeastern Bangladesh, a hand grenade, at least one hand grenade was thrown into the busy mosque. Of course this is Friday prayers this morning, many people at the mosque. And we have confirmation of at least one person killed, dozens injured, including the British high commissioner, who is a Muslim and was attending services there with some of his entourage, who were also injured, we're told.
COSTELLO: We don't know if he might be a target or not?
FLOURNOY: We don't know the motive. We don't know if he may be a target or what the motive in general may be. But we're getting more information by the minute, and we'll get to that as soon as we get it.
COSTELLO: What else do you have on tap?
FLOURNOY: Well, of course back to Iraq. We have another prison release as we have been -- have been reporting. We have got video now. Busloads of prisoners are being released today. Some 472, they say, are going to be released by the end of today and that will bring the prison total down to about 3,000. And that's down from a high of 6,000 prisoners at one point in Abu Ghraib Prison.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Eli Flournoy, our senior international editor.
FLOURNOY: Thanks.
COSTELLO: U.S. forces in Iraq have faced very different threats than many of them expected, and the military may be slow to face another serious threat to the troops and the threat begins and ends here in the United States. In collaboration with UPI investigative reporter Mark Benjamin, our own investigative unit has been working this story.
Here's CNN's Jonathan Mann.
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JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Bill Manofsky and his wife, Tori, are looking for a new home.
TORI MANOFSKY, WIFE OF CMDR. BILL MANOFSKY: Appliances, the cabinetry.
MANN: They aren't moving because of a new job, but because Bill can't do his old one. Manofsky, a commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves, is relocating near San Diego for medical care.
CMDR. BILL MANOFSKY, U.S. NAVAL RESERVE: My ears ring. They're ringing now, mostly in my right ear.
MANN: Manofsky'S problems began when he was sent to Kuwait in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Like thousands of others, he was given a drug called Lariam to prevent malaria.
B. MANOFSKY: I lost it. I literally went nuts. I was talking to myself.
MANN: When he returned to the U.S., his wife encountered a very different man.
T. MANOFSKY: The panic attacks began so acute, we had to rush him to the emergency hospital five different times.
MANN: After civilian doctors determined his symptoms were related to his use of Lariam, Manofsky finally found a military doctor who also recognized the link.
DR. MICHAEL HOFFER, U.S. NAVY: It's usually more in this area here. And he's way down here.
MANN: Navy Dr. Michael Hoffer is treating him for a range of balance problems.
HOFFER: And because Mr. Manofsky reported the Lariam exposure and did not report any other toxic exposure, we, again, with all medical likelihood, related it to the Lariam.
MANN: Mark Benjamin, an investigative reporter for UPI, has pored through hundreds of pages of reports on Lariam and the people who have taken it.
MARK BENJAMIN, UPI: Soldiers in the field are handed Lariam routinely with no warning, no written warning, no verbal warning. And when they suffer the side effects, that's one of the reasons why they don't know.
MANN: The company that makes Lariam, Roche Pharmaceuticals, says it has been used safely by more than 20 million people. But Roche's literature warns users that in rare cases, Lariam can cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, depression, and paranoia.
Roche would not provide a spokesperson on camera, but replied to CNN's questions in an e-mail: "Roche has made Lariam medication guides available to the four pharmacy consultants for the services, who in turn sent the information to military pharmacies." Bill Manofsky says that information never made it to him.
(on camera): Researchers have been raising their concerns about Lariam for years in medical journals here in the United States and overseas. But it wasn't until this year that the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs finally ordered the Pentagon's own investigation.
WILLIAM WINKENWERDER, ASST. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR HEALTH AFFAIRS: Any service member that is taking a medication ought to know why he or she is taking that medication. And they ought to have some sense of whether there are side effects or concerns with respect to taking that medication.
MANN (on camera): Were you warned about the side effects?
B. MANOFSKY: No I was not.
MANN (voice-over): Manofsky intends to sue Lariam's makers. Meanwhile, his 17-year military career has been cut short while he tries to recover.
Jonathan Mann, CNN, San Diego.
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COSTELLO: And "NEWSNIGHT" will conclude this two-part series with more questions about the physical and psychological effects of Lariam. That's at 10:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN.
In the next hour of DAYBREAK, a rough wake-up call for a man once considered America's good friend. What caused the reversal of fortune for Ahmed Chalabi?
Plus,...
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ARMANDO FIGUEROA, STAFF SGT., USMC: Put it this way, now I know how women feel when their husbands leave.
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COSTELLO: Juggling duties on the home front, a Marine staff sergeant becomes Mr. Mom while his staff sergeant wife goes off to war.
This is DAYBREAK for Friday.
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COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It is 5:44 Eastern Time. Here's what's all new this morning.
A bus ride and $25 in cash, that's what almost 500 Iraqi prisoners are getting today. The U.S. military is dropping them off near their homes as they cut the number of inmates at the Abu Ghraib Prison.
Israel is redeploying its troops in Gaza today. On Tuesday, Israel launched a major operation to destroy tunnels used to smuggle weapons. Forty Palestinians have been killed in those clashes.
In money news, the pain for a little shady gain. Richard Strong, the founder and former CEO of Strong Financial, has agreed to pay a $60 million fine. He was accused of making nearly $2 million from improper mutual fund trading.
In sports, Eric Musselman is out as coach of the Golden State Warriors. A Pac-10 source says Stanford basketball coach Mike Montgomery will be the Warriors new coach. In pop culture, checking "Billboard" magazine's weekly best sellers, Alicia Keys hits the hot R&B hip hop single sales with her "If I Ain't Got You." Bad grammar, but, boy, is it a great song -- Rob.
MARCIANO: And she's got a little shake and sizzle and a good looking dress there, I guess, too, Carol.
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MARCIANO: Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Rob.
Those are the latest headlines for you.
The Pentagon estimates more than 74,000 women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many are married, with children, and each one has a story of families left behind.
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez tells us one of those stories.
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THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Armando Figueroa, the daddy.
Staff Sergeant Figueroa, the drill instructor.
The tenderness of a father.
The patience of a mother.
The nurturing and love of both parents.
This is the story of Staff Sergeant Armando Figueroa and his wife Angelina. Marine Staff Sergeant Angelina.
By day, Figueroa is a drill instructor who trains marine recruits.
By night, he is mom and dad to three young children. Damien, Christian, and two-year-old Isabel. The Figueroas have reversed roles. Last February, Armando sent his wife off to war.
ARMANDO FIGUEROA, STAFF SGT., USMC: Put it this way, now I know how women feel when their husbands leave.
GUTIERREZ: On the other side of the world, in Iraq, Staff Sergeant Angelina Figueroa fixes weapons. She doesn't know when she'll see her kids again. It's not easy on the children. This is the second time mom has gone to war.
DAMIEN FIGUEROA, EIGHT YEARS OLD: She left in February and it's May.
GUTIERREZ: When is she coming home?
D. FIGUEROA: Hopefully September.
CHRISTIAN FIGUEROA, SIX YEARS OLD: She missed one of my birthdays. Now she's in Iraq.
GUTIERREZ: Figueroa's parents have had to step in to help while their daughter-in-law is away. Ogar (ph) Figueroa says it's bad that so many women are going to war and leaving children behind. She says it's very hard on the kids because they miss their mother.
GUTIERREZ: What do you tell all the nay-sayers? People who said she shouldn't be going to war?
A. FIGUEROA: I say, they have a father. I can take care of my kids as well as she can. I can give them the comfort their mother gives them. She would say the same thing.
D. FIGUEROA: I like that she's in the Marines Corps, it's just that -- it's just that sometimes she always goes on trips and we never see her for a long, long, long time.
GUTIERREZ: It's a sacrifice for the whole family. And until mom comes home, they will have to make do with a video to see her face. And her recorded message of love in this Teddy bear.
Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Mira Mesa, California.
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COSTELLO: And welcome back to DAYBREAK. Some 'Health Headlines' for you this morning.
A breakthrough in obesity surgery? Researchers say a type of stomach surgery called the lap band procedure is effective and can be performed on an outpatient basis. The lap band is a band placed around your stomach to limit the amount of food you can eat. Doesn't seem that you have to go to a doctor to do that, does it?
MARCIANO: Carol.
COSTELLO: I'm sorry. What if -- I may put a belt around your waist, how hard is that?
Want to prevent a stroke, get treatment for your high blood pressure. A report in the "Medical Journal-Stroke" says one-quarter of all bleeding strokes could be prevented if patients with high blood pressure would get treatment.
The FDA has issued new rules for tissue banks that take donated sperm, cartilage and other transplant tissues and cells. Blood and organs already are strictly regulated. Now tissue banks must reject anyone who tests positive for infectious diseases.
Ladies, do you ever wonder why men refuse to stop and ask directions when they are lost -- Rob?
MARCIANO: We do not do that.
COSTELLO: Yes, you do.
MARCIANO: I ask -- we ask all the time.
COSTELLO: No, you don't. It may have something to do with the difference between men's and women's brains.
CNN medical correspondent Holly Firfer has more for you.
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HOLLY FIRFER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For thousands of years, men and women have baffled each other by their differences.
DR. RUBEN GUR, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: We are still the same animals. We haven't changed physically since we were roaming the savannahs. We haven't really changed in our brain. So all those differences that we were evolved into are still here.
FIRFER: These differences are the results of the hard wiring of our brains. Why is it that women seem to do all the talking and why are men considered the strong, silent types?
Dr. Ruben Gur of the University of Pennsylvania has been studying gender differences in the brain for more than 20 years. He says while men's brains can be 10 to 15 percent larger in size, some research suggests women have more fibers that connect the two sides of the brain together in an area called the corpus colosum (ph). That would mean...
GUR: That there is more tissue available for transferring information between the two sides of the brain. That's why we think that women have better inter-hemispheric communication.
HELEN FISHER, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: And I think that this was, is a woman's tool.
FIRFER: Anthropologist Helen Fisher has written many books on how men and women use these differences to survive.
FISHER: I think that women's ability at communication evolved millions of years ago on the grasslands of Africa as women held that baby in front of their face, cajoling it, reprimanding it, educating it with words.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As far as Leo stopping to ask directions, he'd say well, we're just going to go a little further, just a little further, just a little further. How many miles do we go out of the way?
FIRFER: Ever wonder why men refuse to stop and ask directions? Well, researchers say males have an internal compass that tells them where they are in relation to where they need to be. GUR: Men are organized so they within each hemisphere can move information more easily from the front to the back, because they have more white matter inside the hemisphere, and less likely to have the two sides of the brain cooperate.
FISHER: I mean for millions of years they set out just about every morning to go out, to surround and track and follow and kill and then bring home the wooly mammoth. And if they lost their way home, certainly they were dead and their family might have died out, too. So spatial ability was essential to men's hunting skills.
FIRFER: In fact, over 80 percent of engineers and 90 percent of mechanics are men. The majority of architects are men, as well, a translation to today's society.
Holly Firfer, CNN.
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COSTELLO: Somehow that makes me feel better, but I don't quite know how.
MARCIANO: It makes me feel better.
COSTELLO: To know you have more white matter than me in the back of your brain.
You can watch more of the series, "Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain," tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. That would be on "ANDERSON COOPER 360."
For more on this or any other health story, head to our Web site. The address, CNN.com/Health.
MARCIANO: I have always felt that you know if you need to explain something, the difference between men and women, you just go back to the caveman days and you kind of figure it out there. At least that's what I tell my wife when I'm pulling her by the hair. No, I'm kidding.
What are we talking about next, Carol? Come on, it's Friday.
COSTELLO: My goodness!
MARCIANO: It's Friday. "Shrek."
COSTELLO: All right. We're going to talk about "Shrek 2" the movie, something happy and green.
MARCIANO: Did you see the first one?
COSTELLO: I did.
MARCIANO: It's a pretty cool movie.
COSTELLO: I loved it. And this one has gotten mixed reviews, actually.
MARCIANO: Really?
COSTELLO: Some reviewers says it's very good. Some reviewers says, you know, it's OK. But it can't equal the first one, because the first one was so darn good.
MARCIANO: Mike Myers is a man.
COSTELLO: He is. And Antonio Banderas, the Puss 'n' Boots character, is supposed to be absolutely fabulous.
MARCIANO: You know all the characters, too.
COSTELLO: I know. It's sickening, isn't it?
MARCIANO: It's great stuff. And you don't have kids, either.
COSTELLO: I know.
MARCIANO: You must really be into this movie.
COSTELLO: Which says something about my maturity level.
MARCIANO: Are you going to see this movie? That's it.
COSTELLO: Yes, I am, and I'm going with another adult, so go figure.
MARCIANO: Can I come?
COSTELLO: But we're going -- yes, come along, you can be our kid.
MARCIANO: That could be easily done.
COSTELLO: Yes, I thought so.
MARCIANO: I don't have to role-play.
COSTELLO: Yes. Our movie reviewer Tom O'Neil will be in later to tell us more about the movie "Shrek" and other movies coming out this weekend.
MARCIANO: And they're going to make a ton of money off of all the gizmos and gadgets that they sell before.
COSTELLO: A record amount. A record amount.
MARCIANO: Dolls and...
COSTELLO: Burger King toys and all that kind of stuff.
MARCIANO: ... video games.
COSTELLO: Sweet release in Iraq, new pictures, actually, prisoners are being released this morning. We're going to show you more and we're going to show you what they get as they head on their way to freedom from the Abu Ghraib Prison.
We'll be right back.
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COSTELLO: More Iraqis come home from prison as more photos of abuse surface at Abu Ghraib.
This is DAYBREAK for Friday, May 21.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Israel's military incursion, is it over? In two minutes, we will take you live to Gaza.
It is Friday, May 21. This is DAYBREAK.
Good morning to you, and welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. From the CNN Global Headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Costello.
Here are the latest headlines for you now.
After three days of daily clashes with Palestinians, the Israeli military is redeploying in Gaza. In other words, it's getting out. Palestinian sources say 40 Palestinians were killed, 107 injured since Tuesday. Israel says it destroyed tunnels used for smuggling guns and explosives.
In Iraq, close to 500 more Iraqis are being released today from the notorious Abu Ghraib Prison. About 3,000 Iraqis remain at the prison where some U.S. guards are accused of abuse.
In money news, Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate are postponing a vote on a $2.4 trillion budget. That's after avoiding what could have been an embarrassing election year defeat of the measure.
In sports, at the PGA's Colonial Tournament, Craig Perks opens slate (ph) today in the lead. He had a bogie-free six-under par-64 in the opening round to take a one-stroke lead over Jesper Parnevik.
In culture, you can own a piece of the "Man in Black." Sotheby's plans a September auction of Johnny Cash items. More than 650 instruments, hand written lyrics, jackets, even his pick up, black, of course. Cash died last September -- Rob.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hey, Carol.
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MARCIANO: Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Rob.
Israeli troops began pulling out this morning after a bloody three-day sweep of the Rafah Refugee Camp in southern Gaza. The incursion left 39 Palestinians dead and brought a torrent of international criticism of Israel.
CNN's Matthew Chance live on the phone for us from Rafah to bring us up to date.
Hello -- Matthew.
MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
And I am talking to you from the Rafah Refugee Camp where there has been, of course, fierce fighting amid a very intensive Israeli military operation over the course of the past three days. For the moment, the military curfew that's been very tight and has been testing force here for about three days now has been lifted in some areas of the Rafah Refugee Camp.
But the Israeli forces that I have spoken to and are saying that they are not pulling out at this stage. They are saying they are simply redeploying their forces. And I can tell you there are still Israeli forces inside the Rafah Refugee Camp as we speak. Helicopter gunships are circling overhead. Intermittently, there are bursts of heavy machinegun fire as well, which sends the people who have come out onto the streets for the first time in several days running back into their houses. Some of those houses have, of course, been demolished. Many of them have been damaged quite severely by the recent days of military action.
Israel says, of course, it's been coming in to Rafah. It's been embarked on this operation in order to crack down on militants and on weapons smugglers who used tunnels underneath the Egyptian border, which is right next to the Rafah Refugee Camp, to bring in weapons into the Gaza Strip that are used against their forces here. But hundreds, if not thousands, of people have been made extremely uncomfortable. Hundreds have been made homeless, we can say, according to the United Nations. And so the humanitarian cost of this operation has been very acute indeed -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Matthew Chance live from the Rafah Refugee Camp this morning.
It is something the Bush administration and the Pentagon don't need right now, more pictures, apparently showing abuse of Iraqi prisoners by their American guards. "Washington Post" has new images this morning of apparent prisoner abuse at Abu Ghraib Prison. These pictures on the front pages. "The Post" says it also obtained a video showing a soldier slapping a prisoner.
This picture appears to show a U.S. soldier with a baton apparently ordering a naked and dirty detainee walk a line with his ankles handcuffed. In another, a U.S. soldier uses both hands to apparently restrain a dog, and you see the dog is facing the detainee. The detainee appears to be handcuffed.
Going to talk much more about the prisoner abuse photos later, but right now we have a bit of breaking news to tell you about. A bomb found in Bangladesh.
Eli Flournoy, our senior international editor, is here to tell us more about that.
ELI FLOURNOY, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: That's right, Carol, we're just getting information from our stringers in Bangladesh today. The historic shrine in northeastern Bangladesh, a hand grenade, at least one hand grenade was thrown into the busy mosque. Of course this is Friday prayers this morning, many people at the mosque. And we have confirmation of at least one person killed, dozens injured, including the British high commissioner, who is a Muslim and was attending services there with some of his entourage, who were also injured, we're told.
COSTELLO: We don't know if he might be a target or not?
FLOURNOY: We don't know the motive. We don't know if he may be a target or what the motive in general may be. But we're getting more information by the minute, and we'll get to that as soon as we get it.
COSTELLO: What else do you have on tap?
FLOURNOY: Well, of course back to Iraq. We have another prison release as we have been -- have been reporting. We have got video now. Busloads of prisoners are being released today. Some 472, they say, are going to be released by the end of today and that will bring the prison total down to about 3,000. And that's down from a high of 6,000 prisoners at one point in Abu Ghraib Prison.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Eli Flournoy, our senior international editor.
FLOURNOY: Thanks.
COSTELLO: U.S. forces in Iraq have faced very different threats than many of them expected, and the military may be slow to face another serious threat to the troops and the threat begins and ends here in the United States. In collaboration with UPI investigative reporter Mark Benjamin, our own investigative unit has been working this story.
Here's CNN's Jonathan Mann.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Bill Manofsky and his wife, Tori, are looking for a new home.
TORI MANOFSKY, WIFE OF CMDR. BILL MANOFSKY: Appliances, the cabinetry.
MANN: They aren't moving because of a new job, but because Bill can't do his old one. Manofsky, a commander in the U.S. Naval Reserves, is relocating near San Diego for medical care.
CMDR. BILL MANOFSKY, U.S. NAVAL RESERVE: My ears ring. They're ringing now, mostly in my right ear.
MANN: Manofsky'S problems began when he was sent to Kuwait in the run-up to the war in Iraq. Like thousands of others, he was given a drug called Lariam to prevent malaria.
B. MANOFSKY: I lost it. I literally went nuts. I was talking to myself.
MANN: When he returned to the U.S., his wife encountered a very different man.
T. MANOFSKY: The panic attacks began so acute, we had to rush him to the emergency hospital five different times.
MANN: After civilian doctors determined his symptoms were related to his use of Lariam, Manofsky finally found a military doctor who also recognized the link.
DR. MICHAEL HOFFER, U.S. NAVY: It's usually more in this area here. And he's way down here.
MANN: Navy Dr. Michael Hoffer is treating him for a range of balance problems.
HOFFER: And because Mr. Manofsky reported the Lariam exposure and did not report any other toxic exposure, we, again, with all medical likelihood, related it to the Lariam.
MANN: Mark Benjamin, an investigative reporter for UPI, has pored through hundreds of pages of reports on Lariam and the people who have taken it.
MARK BENJAMIN, UPI: Soldiers in the field are handed Lariam routinely with no warning, no written warning, no verbal warning. And when they suffer the side effects, that's one of the reasons why they don't know.
MANN: The company that makes Lariam, Roche Pharmaceuticals, says it has been used safely by more than 20 million people. But Roche's literature warns users that in rare cases, Lariam can cause hallucinations, suicidal thoughts, depression, and paranoia.
Roche would not provide a spokesperson on camera, but replied to CNN's questions in an e-mail: "Roche has made Lariam medication guides available to the four pharmacy consultants for the services, who in turn sent the information to military pharmacies." Bill Manofsky says that information never made it to him.
(on camera): Researchers have been raising their concerns about Lariam for years in medical journals here in the United States and overseas. But it wasn't until this year that the assistant secretary of defense for health affairs finally ordered the Pentagon's own investigation.
WILLIAM WINKENWERDER, ASST. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE FOR HEALTH AFFAIRS: Any service member that is taking a medication ought to know why he or she is taking that medication. And they ought to have some sense of whether there are side effects or concerns with respect to taking that medication.
MANN (on camera): Were you warned about the side effects?
B. MANOFSKY: No I was not.
MANN (voice-over): Manofsky intends to sue Lariam's makers. Meanwhile, his 17-year military career has been cut short while he tries to recover.
Jonathan Mann, CNN, San Diego.
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COSTELLO: And "NEWSNIGHT" will conclude this two-part series with more questions about the physical and psychological effects of Lariam. That's at 10:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN.
In the next hour of DAYBREAK, a rough wake-up call for a man once considered America's good friend. What caused the reversal of fortune for Ahmed Chalabi?
Plus,...
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ARMANDO FIGUEROA, STAFF SGT., USMC: Put it this way, now I know how women feel when their husbands leave.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Juggling duties on the home front, a Marine staff sergeant becomes Mr. Mom while his staff sergeant wife goes off to war.
This is DAYBREAK for Friday.
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COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It is 5:44 Eastern Time. Here's what's all new this morning.
A bus ride and $25 in cash, that's what almost 500 Iraqi prisoners are getting today. The U.S. military is dropping them off near their homes as they cut the number of inmates at the Abu Ghraib Prison.
Israel is redeploying its troops in Gaza today. On Tuesday, Israel launched a major operation to destroy tunnels used to smuggle weapons. Forty Palestinians have been killed in those clashes.
In money news, the pain for a little shady gain. Richard Strong, the founder and former CEO of Strong Financial, has agreed to pay a $60 million fine. He was accused of making nearly $2 million from improper mutual fund trading.
In sports, Eric Musselman is out as coach of the Golden State Warriors. A Pac-10 source says Stanford basketball coach Mike Montgomery will be the Warriors new coach. In pop culture, checking "Billboard" magazine's weekly best sellers, Alicia Keys hits the hot R&B hip hop single sales with her "If I Ain't Got You." Bad grammar, but, boy, is it a great song -- Rob.
MARCIANO: And she's got a little shake and sizzle and a good looking dress there, I guess, too, Carol.
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MARCIANO: Carol, back to you.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Rob.
Those are the latest headlines for you.
The Pentagon estimates more than 74,000 women have served in Iraq and Afghanistan. Many are married, with children, and each one has a story of families left behind.
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez tells us one of those stories.
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THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Armando Figueroa, the daddy.
Staff Sergeant Figueroa, the drill instructor.
The tenderness of a father.
The patience of a mother.
The nurturing and love of both parents.
This is the story of Staff Sergeant Armando Figueroa and his wife Angelina. Marine Staff Sergeant Angelina.
By day, Figueroa is a drill instructor who trains marine recruits.
By night, he is mom and dad to three young children. Damien, Christian, and two-year-old Isabel. The Figueroas have reversed roles. Last February, Armando sent his wife off to war.
ARMANDO FIGUEROA, STAFF SGT., USMC: Put it this way, now I know how women feel when their husbands leave.
GUTIERREZ: On the other side of the world, in Iraq, Staff Sergeant Angelina Figueroa fixes weapons. She doesn't know when she'll see her kids again. It's not easy on the children. This is the second time mom has gone to war.
DAMIEN FIGUEROA, EIGHT YEARS OLD: She left in February and it's May.
GUTIERREZ: When is she coming home?
D. FIGUEROA: Hopefully September.
CHRISTIAN FIGUEROA, SIX YEARS OLD: She missed one of my birthdays. Now she's in Iraq.
GUTIERREZ: Figueroa's parents have had to step in to help while their daughter-in-law is away. Ogar (ph) Figueroa says it's bad that so many women are going to war and leaving children behind. She says it's very hard on the kids because they miss their mother.
GUTIERREZ: What do you tell all the nay-sayers? People who said she shouldn't be going to war?
A. FIGUEROA: I say, they have a father. I can take care of my kids as well as she can. I can give them the comfort their mother gives them. She would say the same thing.
D. FIGUEROA: I like that she's in the Marines Corps, it's just that -- it's just that sometimes she always goes on trips and we never see her for a long, long, long time.
GUTIERREZ: It's a sacrifice for the whole family. And until mom comes home, they will have to make do with a video to see her face. And her recorded message of love in this Teddy bear.
Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Mira Mesa, California.
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COSTELLO: And welcome back to DAYBREAK. Some 'Health Headlines' for you this morning.
A breakthrough in obesity surgery? Researchers say a type of stomach surgery called the lap band procedure is effective and can be performed on an outpatient basis. The lap band is a band placed around your stomach to limit the amount of food you can eat. Doesn't seem that you have to go to a doctor to do that, does it?
MARCIANO: Carol.
COSTELLO: I'm sorry. What if -- I may put a belt around your waist, how hard is that?
Want to prevent a stroke, get treatment for your high blood pressure. A report in the "Medical Journal-Stroke" says one-quarter of all bleeding strokes could be prevented if patients with high blood pressure would get treatment.
The FDA has issued new rules for tissue banks that take donated sperm, cartilage and other transplant tissues and cells. Blood and organs already are strictly regulated. Now tissue banks must reject anyone who tests positive for infectious diseases.
Ladies, do you ever wonder why men refuse to stop and ask directions when they are lost -- Rob?
MARCIANO: We do not do that.
COSTELLO: Yes, you do.
MARCIANO: I ask -- we ask all the time.
COSTELLO: No, you don't. It may have something to do with the difference between men's and women's brains.
CNN medical correspondent Holly Firfer has more for you.
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HOLLY FIRFER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For thousands of years, men and women have baffled each other by their differences.
DR. RUBEN GUR, UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA: We are still the same animals. We haven't changed physically since we were roaming the savannahs. We haven't really changed in our brain. So all those differences that we were evolved into are still here.
FIRFER: These differences are the results of the hard wiring of our brains. Why is it that women seem to do all the talking and why are men considered the strong, silent types?
Dr. Ruben Gur of the University of Pennsylvania has been studying gender differences in the brain for more than 20 years. He says while men's brains can be 10 to 15 percent larger in size, some research suggests women have more fibers that connect the two sides of the brain together in an area called the corpus colosum (ph). That would mean...
GUR: That there is more tissue available for transferring information between the two sides of the brain. That's why we think that women have better inter-hemispheric communication.
HELEN FISHER, RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: And I think that this was, is a woman's tool.
FIRFER: Anthropologist Helen Fisher has written many books on how men and women use these differences to survive.
FISHER: I think that women's ability at communication evolved millions of years ago on the grasslands of Africa as women held that baby in front of their face, cajoling it, reprimanding it, educating it with words.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As far as Leo stopping to ask directions, he'd say well, we're just going to go a little further, just a little further, just a little further. How many miles do we go out of the way?
FIRFER: Ever wonder why men refuse to stop and ask directions? Well, researchers say males have an internal compass that tells them where they are in relation to where they need to be. GUR: Men are organized so they within each hemisphere can move information more easily from the front to the back, because they have more white matter inside the hemisphere, and less likely to have the two sides of the brain cooperate.
FISHER: I mean for millions of years they set out just about every morning to go out, to surround and track and follow and kill and then bring home the wooly mammoth. And if they lost their way home, certainly they were dead and their family might have died out, too. So spatial ability was essential to men's hunting skills.
FIRFER: In fact, over 80 percent of engineers and 90 percent of mechanics are men. The majority of architects are men, as well, a translation to today's society.
Holly Firfer, CNN.
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COSTELLO: Somehow that makes me feel better, but I don't quite know how.
MARCIANO: It makes me feel better.
COSTELLO: To know you have more white matter than me in the back of your brain.
You can watch more of the series, "Unlocking the Secrets of the Brain," tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. That would be on "ANDERSON COOPER 360."
For more on this or any other health story, head to our Web site. The address, CNN.com/Health.
MARCIANO: I have always felt that you know if you need to explain something, the difference between men and women, you just go back to the caveman days and you kind of figure it out there. At least that's what I tell my wife when I'm pulling her by the hair. No, I'm kidding.
What are we talking about next, Carol? Come on, it's Friday.
COSTELLO: My goodness!
MARCIANO: It's Friday. "Shrek."
COSTELLO: All right. We're going to talk about "Shrek 2" the movie, something happy and green.
MARCIANO: Did you see the first one?
COSTELLO: I did.
MARCIANO: It's a pretty cool movie.
COSTELLO: I loved it. And this one has gotten mixed reviews, actually.
MARCIANO: Really?
COSTELLO: Some reviewers says it's very good. Some reviewers says, you know, it's OK. But it can't equal the first one, because the first one was so darn good.
MARCIANO: Mike Myers is a man.
COSTELLO: He is. And Antonio Banderas, the Puss 'n' Boots character, is supposed to be absolutely fabulous.
MARCIANO: You know all the characters, too.
COSTELLO: I know. It's sickening, isn't it?
MARCIANO: It's great stuff. And you don't have kids, either.
COSTELLO: I know.
MARCIANO: You must really be into this movie.
COSTELLO: Which says something about my maturity level.
MARCIANO: Are you going to see this movie? That's it.
COSTELLO: Yes, I am, and I'm going with another adult, so go figure.
MARCIANO: Can I come?
COSTELLO: But we're going -- yes, come along, you can be our kid.
MARCIANO: That could be easily done.
COSTELLO: Yes, I thought so.
MARCIANO: I don't have to role-play.
COSTELLO: Yes. Our movie reviewer Tom O'Neil will be in later to tell us more about the movie "Shrek" and other movies coming out this weekend.
MARCIANO: And they're going to make a ton of money off of all the gizmos and gadgets that they sell before.
COSTELLO: A record amount. A record amount.
MARCIANO: Dolls and...
COSTELLO: Burger King toys and all that kind of stuff.
MARCIANO: ... video games.
COSTELLO: Sweet release in Iraq, new pictures, actually, prisoners are being released this morning. We're going to show you more and we're going to show you what they get as they head on their way to freedom from the Abu Ghraib Prison.
We'll be right back.
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COSTELLO: More Iraqis come home from prison as more photos of abuse surface at Abu Ghraib.
This is DAYBREAK for Friday, May 21.
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