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G8 Summit; Remembering Reagan; Pullout Approved; Cancer Treatment

Aired June 07, 2004 - 05:30   ET

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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Radio channel on Sirius Satellite Radio this summer. Maxim officials say they are confident of success, even though they can't show pictures of women in scanty -- women scantily clad, I should say, that are a staple of the magazine.
In sports, Ken Griffey Jr. of Cincinnati homered twice against Montreal. His career total is now two short of 500. Griffey has 9 home runs in his last 14 games.

In culture, the best on Broadway picked up their Tony Awards last night. "Avenue Q," featuring puppets and four letter words, got the Tony for best new musical. "I Am My Own Wife" was named best drama -- Chad.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And good morning, Carol.

(WEATHER REPORT)

COSTELLO: Thank you, Chad.

Coastal Georgians are preparing to welcome world leaders for this week's G8 Summit. President Bush arrived at Sea Island last night after attending D-Day commemoration ceremonies in France. Security, do I even need to say it, it's extra tight for this upcoming summit.

Our national security correspondent Jeanne Meserve takes a look at that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Georgia's Golden Isles, renowned for their tranquility, are about to lose it.

ASA HUTCHINSON, UNDERSECRETARY DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY: It's obviously a very important venue when you have the leaders of the eight economic powers coming to the United States. We want to make sure security is at a top level.

MESERVE: Police here will be on the lookout for individuals the FBI wants to question (INAUDIBLE) terrorism is just one concern. Massive, sometimes violent, demonstrations have sometimes greeted the G8. In Italy three years ago, one protester was killed. Since then, organizers have favored remote locations. Sea Island, for instance, is more than 70 miles from Savannah, the nearest large city in Georgia. Close to the conference site has some local officials are looking at the bright side.

MAYOR BRAD BROWN, BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA: It's the kind of advertising you could not buy.

MESERVE: But the intense security has some residents fed up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Close down the streets. Bring in the Patriot missiles. What? Going to do a conference call.

MESERVE: The Secret Service is coordinating dozens of federal, state and local agencies for this sprawling national special security event. Flight restrictions are being imposed in a 30-mile ring around Savannah and a 40-mile ring around St. Simons Island. Some local airports are being shut to general aviation. Military radars will detect intruders. Combat air patrols will police the skies.

The single causeway leading to Sea Island will be closed to everyone but residents and meeting participants. And recreational boating will be banned in a 120 square mile security zone near Sea Island. Commercial traffic will be restricted.

(on camera): Security forces are already swarming all over this part of Georgia, but as of now, protesters are few and far between.

Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Savannah, Georgia.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: And starting at 3:00 Eastern this afternoon, Americans begin filing past the casket holding the body of former President Ronald Reagan. Viewing is expected to go on throughout the night.

Our Candy Crowley looks at the legacy, the accomplishments and the failures of the Reagan White House.

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CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Inside the shadow of death, eulogies by definition are glowing. History is written from a distance with a cooler eye. It will tell the story of a president of great accomplishments and failure. A president who cut taxes, and nearly doubled the deficit. Which came up a lot when the new tax- cutting president came to town.

SEN. TOM DASCHLE, (D) SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: We are repeating in many cases, the same mistakes made in 1981 and 1982. I fear that we are going to see deficits every bit as large as the ones created in 1982.

CROWLEY: History will say that Reagan was the president who began the end of the Cold War, but stumbled at start of a new kind of war.

RONALD REAGAN: If there is to be blame, it properly rests here in this office, and with this president. And I accept responsibility for the bad as well as the good.

CROWLEY: In October of '83, 241 marines died in a single moment on his watch. Killed by a truck bomb while serving as part of a peacekeeping force Mr. Reagan sent to Beirut. A defense department report said later there was poor security despite warnings of an attack. And that the military was neither equipped, not trained to fight terrorism.

REAGAN: I will to the best of my ability...

CROWLEY: Reelected a year later, Mr. Reagan continued to strengthen the military and promise the U.S. would never negotiate with terrorists. And then as an effort to secure the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, the U.S. sold arms to Iran. The profits were funneled to anti-government forces in Nicaragua.

REAGAN: As angry as I may be about activities undertaken without my knowledge, I am still accountable for those activities.

CROWLEY: Aids say President Reagan never understood why some people did not believe him about Iran-Contra. Critics, who dubbed him the Teflon President, never understood why so many people always believed him. Ronald Reagan left office with the highest popularity of any president of the modern age. Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.

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COSTELLO: And people on both the East and West Coast will be given a chance to pay their last respects to the former president. Today and tomorrow, President Reagan will lie in repose at the Reagan Library in the Simi Valley. And then his body departs for Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

When it arrives there, President Reagan will be put on a horse drawn gun carriage and taken down Constitutional Avenue to the Capitol. Thousands are expected to walk past the casket as the president lies in state in the Capitol rotunda. He is just the 10th president to be given that honor.

On Friday, a service will be held at the National Cathedral. And after that service, President Reagan will be taken back to California for burial at the Reagan Library.

And be sure to tune in later this afternoon for a "CNN SPECIAL REPORT: REMEMBERING RONALD REAGAN." Judy Woodruff and Anderson Cooper look back at the president and his legacy. That comes your way today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern.

In other stories 'Across America' this Monday, anguish turns to joy in Newport News, Virginia. A 6-year-old boy recovering this morning. And, boy, he's lucky to be alive. Divers rescued him from under a boat in the James River nearly three hours after his boat capsized. The Coast Guard says Darryl Baker (ph) was wearing a life jacket.

In Cincinnati, the wreckage of a tour bus after it crashed into a vacant building. Authorities say the brakes failed. The driver was the most seriously hurt. Most passengers had cuts and bruises.

In Houston, the first Enron criminal trial begins today. Six former Enron and Merrill Lynch executives are accused of cooking Enron's books in 1999. Enron went bankrupt more than two years ago when it was revealed the energy giant's financial success was a sham.

Israel's cabinet has approved Ariel Sharon's plan to pull out of Gaza and four Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The 14 to 7 vote comes just a few days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fired two cabinet ministers who opposed his plan.

We take you live to Jerusalem and CNN's John Vause.

Hello -- John.

JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.

This certainly was an historic vote by the Israeli cabinet. And just after that vote was taken, Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, addressed a group of Jewish teenagers from around the world. There he proudly declared that the disengagement has started. That's not entirely accurate.

To get his plan through cabinet, he had to present a watered down version of his original disengagement plan. So under this new plan, any decision to evacuate those settlements in the Gaza Strip, and also those four settlements in the West Bank, must be put to another cabinet vote and that could come next year in March. So if two weeks in Israeli politics is a long -- is a long time, then nine months is nothing short of an eternity.

So in the meantime, before that next vote is held next year, the Israeli government will make preparations for the dismantlement of those settlements. The best analogy was written in an Israeli newspaper this morning. One commentator said that a couple has announced their engagement, they are going out to buy the ring, book the hall, but they are yet to say when the marriage will actually take place.

And the political problems continue for Ariel Sharon. He's already lost one coalition partner over the disengagement plan. A second coalition partner is meeting and will decide sometime this week whether or not to quit the government. If that party does quit the government, Ariel Sharon could be left with a minority in the Israeli Parliament -- Carol.

COSTELLO: John Vause reporting live from Jerusalem this morning.

Also out of Israel this morning, it may be a while before we see Marwan Barghouti again. The Palestinian faith leader has been sentenced in Israel to five life prison terms, plus an additional 40 years behind bars. An Israeli court convicted Barghouti of murder in three shooting attacks that killed five people. Barghouti refuses to recognize the court's jurisdiction, calling it a court of occupation.

One nation under God, you have heard the words, even recited them, I'll bet, but do they violate the separation of church and state? In the next hour of DAYBREAK, our legal eagle Kendall Coffey takes on the war of words with 'Coffey Talk.'

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I remember the Beirut disaster, so it really hurt me. He was a great president, and we'll all miss him.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: Mourning Ronald Reagan at home and abroad. Up next, we'll get some insight into his political career.

This is DAYBREAK for Monday.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It is 5:43 Eastern. Here is what's all new this morning.

President Bush is at an island resort off the Georgia coast this morning. He'll meet with world leaders there tomorrow as the G8 Summit gets under way.

In Iraq, one U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in a mortar attack in an Army base in Bala. That's north of Baghdad. It happened over the weekend. The soldiers were assigned to the Army's 13th Corps Support Command.

In money news, the New York Stock Exchange will shorten its trading session by two minutes as a tribute to former President Ronald Reagan. Traditionally, the exchange observes two minutes of silence in trading when former presidents die.

In sports, the Lightning and Flames face off tonight in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. It is the third time in the last four years the finals have gone to a Game 7.

In culture, the Pope's latest book is coming to the United States this fall. "Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way" recounts John Paul II's early days before he became Pope. The book is already available throughout Europe -- Chad.

MYERS: And good morning, Carol.

(WEATHER REPORT)

MYERS: Back to you.

COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Chad.

Those are the latest headlines for you.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every time you looked at him, put a smile on your face no matter how bad things were. Politics aside, he was a man who cared about the country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A fantastic president. Probably the last president I actually voted for, to be honest with you. And the two terms he served, did a fantastic job. A great American, and I'm sure he is going to be missed by millions of people.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I think that he gave our country several very positive things, as well as some negatives. But he's fought a long and very difficult battle. And personally, I'm grateful that his battle is finished and that he can be at peace now.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: And we want to get more reaction to the passing of Ronald Reagan from the WOKQ Morning Waking Crew in Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire. Our old friends, Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier join us.

Good morning -- guys.

DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning.

MARK ERICSON, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Good morning -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Good morning. So New Hampshire, it was really special to Ronald Reagan and vice versa.

ERICSON: Well I think all the way around. I mean New Hampshire has always been somewhat of a Republican hot bed. And even though President Reagan's first term didn't start until 1981, New Hampshire Republicans were trying to coax him into running as early as 1967.

COSTELLO: Wow, when he was running for governor?

ERICSON: Yes.

CARRIER: Yes.

ERICSON: Actually, it got in the way of his plans for the next term as governor of California. And he had to, through his spokespeople, ask Granite State Republicans to please sort of back off and settle down.

COSTELLO: Unbelievable. What has been the reaction in New Hampshire? You know President Reagan's body will soon be in Washington, D.C., not so far away, I suppose, will a lot of people go, do you think, from New Hampshire?

ERICSON: I think certainly...

CARRIER: I think so.

ERICSON: ... there will be a contingent of some of the Republican elite, if you will, in the state of New Hampshire who definitely will be making the trek to Washington, D.C. to pay their respects to Ronald Reagan. He meant an awful lot to this state. And we'd like to think that the state meant a fair amount to him as well.

And for those of us that are not part of the political machinery of the state of New Hampshire, it's important to remember that President Reagan was the man who was president in 1986. On January 28 he was scheduled to deliver the State of the Union Address that night. Instead, however, he spoke of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the explosion that happened that morning that claimed the life of New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

COSTELLO: I remember that so well. That was such a -- I do remember that so well. You're right. So many memories come back when you're thinking of Ronald Reagan. And I don't know why that happens, and maybe it just happens because a great man has died, but it just seemed that the '80s were, well, they were an interesting time in our history because...

CARRIER: Memories, yes, they were an impactful time in our history.

COSTELLO: Yes, and -- go ahead.

ERICSON: And also from our standpoint here in the radio station, we remember too that Ronald Reagan actually was a sports radio announcer.

CARRIER: He was on -- yes, I couldn't believe this. I read this first this morning. I'm like he was on radio. He was on WHO Radio in Iowa. And actually his son, Michael, is now a radio talk show host himself. They have actually set up a Web site called RememberRonaldReagan.com as well for people who would like to just check out the history behind that great man.

COSTELLO: Can they send messages, too?

ERICSON: There's a click to send messages to the family. And there are some statements from some folks that worked for Mr. Reagan through the years, as well as a letter from Michael Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan, to the public as they make their thoughts known and express their condolences to the Reagan family.

COSTELLO: Mark and Danielle, thanks so much, from WOKQ. Thanks for joining DAYBREAK this morning.

There's more on the Alzheimer's that affected the former president. Hear about that from President Reagan's doctor John Hutton. That will come your way in the 9:00 Eastern hour of "AMERICAN MORNING" will Bill and Soledad.

And here's a look back at a moment from the life of Ronald Reagan.

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RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate.

(APPLAUSE)

REAGAN: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

(APPLAUSE)

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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COSTELLO: Some 'Health Headlines' for you this morning.

A new book contends that children of divorce end up OK as adults. In "We're Still Family," sociologist Constance Ahrons writes that Norman Rockwell images of family life are now obsolete. Ahrons researched children of divorce who are now adult. She finds that 79 percent of those surveyed say they feel their parents' decision to split was a good one.

So called toxic dust from your computer may be linked to reproductive and neurological disorders. The problem, according to a coalition of environmental groups, it's fire retardant chemicals used on computer processors and monitors. But independent researchers who studied the findings say the levels aren't high enough to cause serious problems. Even so, for the past few years, electronic companies have been cutting back on the use of those chemicals.

Cholesterol drugs called statins may reduce or even prevent various cancers. Two studies found that men who took statins cut the risk of developing colon and prostate cancer by more than half. Statins reduce how much cholesterol the body makes.

And a new wave in cancer treatment is called targeted therapies. They are smart bombs that zero in on malignant cells.

As our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reports, this is a big step toward what's known as personalized cancer treatment.

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the standard treatment today for cancer, a one-size fits all drip for chemotherapy or a blast of radiation. But the latest approaches are treatments that are individualized for each patient and targeted to kill cancer cells and spare healthy tissue. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Targeted therapies, which we have talked a lot about for the last couple of years, are really coming to fruition.

COHEN: The current treatments, chemotherapy and radiation, can't distinguish between normal cells and cancer cells, which is why patients often have debilitating side effects. Several new approaches attack just the cancer, some by looking for specific markers on malignant cells, others by cutting off the blood supply to tumors. So far, these new approaches have shown success at shrinking tumors, prolonging life for a few months and with fewer side effects. And some of these new treatments are in pill form.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a drug that an individual can take by mouth, a pill, and compared to the standard treatments that are available to us today, a survival advantage is imparted to that group of individuals. Moreover, not only does that group of patients survive longer, they do so with limited amount of side effects.

COHEN: Another new development in cancer treatment, a patient's genes can determine if certain drugs will work for them. The hope one day is that cancer patients will get genetic testing first to see which drugs will work best.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: PharmacoGenetics will permit physicians to personalize medicine in a very specific way. It will allow us to select drugs that work more effectively against the cancer that that particular patient has and avoid, hopefully, the side effects that are unique to that particular drug.

COHEN: Individualized treatments for cancer patients, taken as a pill at home that kill only cancer cells are not the medical reality right now but the hope for the future.

Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Atlanta.

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COSTELLO: For more on this or any other health story, head to our Web site. The address, CNN.com/health.

The life and times of Ronald Reagan, he was Dutch to some, The Gipper to others, all the while leaving a lasting impression on the nation and the world. We'll have more on the political giant in a live report.

This is DAYBREAK.

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COSTELLO: Mourners will gather at this quiet presidential library today to remember a leader, a citizen, their friend.

It is Monday, June 7. This is DAYBREAK.

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Aired June 7, 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 ANCHOR: Radio channel on Sirius Satellite Radio this summer. Maxim officials say they are confident of success, even though they can't show pictures of women in scanty -- women scantily clad, I should say, that are a staple of the magazine.
In sports, Ken Griffey Jr. of Cincinnati homered twice against Montreal. His career total is now two short of 500. Griffey has 9 home runs in his last 14 games.

In culture, the best on Broadway picked up their Tony Awards last night. "Avenue Q," featuring puppets and four letter words, got the Tony for best new musical. "I Am My Own Wife" was named best drama -- Chad.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And good morning, Carol.

(WEATHER REPORT)

COSTELLO: Thank you, Chad.

Coastal Georgians are preparing to welcome world leaders for this week's G8 Summit. President Bush arrived at Sea Island last night after attending D-Day commemoration ceremonies in France. Security, do I even need to say it, it's extra tight for this upcoming summit.

Our national security correspondent Jeanne Meserve takes a look at that.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Georgia's Golden Isles, renowned for their tranquility, are about to lose it.

ASA HUTCHINSON, UNDERSECRETARY DEPT. OF HOMELAND SECURITY: It's obviously a very important venue when you have the leaders of the eight economic powers coming to the United States. We want to make sure security is at a top level.

MESERVE: Police here will be on the lookout for individuals the FBI wants to question (INAUDIBLE) terrorism is just one concern. Massive, sometimes violent, demonstrations have sometimes greeted the G8. In Italy three years ago, one protester was killed. Since then, organizers have favored remote locations. Sea Island, for instance, is more than 70 miles from Savannah, the nearest large city in Georgia. Close to the conference site has some local officials are looking at the bright side.

MAYOR BRAD BROWN, BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA: It's the kind of advertising you could not buy.

MESERVE: But the intense security has some residents fed up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Close down the streets. Bring in the Patriot missiles. What? Going to do a conference call.

MESERVE: The Secret Service is coordinating dozens of federal, state and local agencies for this sprawling national special security event. Flight restrictions are being imposed in a 30-mile ring around Savannah and a 40-mile ring around St. Simons Island. Some local airports are being shut to general aviation. Military radars will detect intruders. Combat air patrols will police the skies.

The single causeway leading to Sea Island will be closed to everyone but residents and meeting participants. And recreational boating will be banned in a 120 square mile security zone near Sea Island. Commercial traffic will be restricted.

(on camera): Security forces are already swarming all over this part of Georgia, but as of now, protesters are few and far between.

Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Savannah, Georgia.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: And starting at 3:00 Eastern this afternoon, Americans begin filing past the casket holding the body of former President Ronald Reagan. Viewing is expected to go on throughout the night.

Our Candy Crowley looks at the legacy, the accomplishments and the failures of the Reagan White House.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Inside the shadow of death, eulogies by definition are glowing. History is written from a distance with a cooler eye. It will tell the story of a president of great accomplishments and failure. A president who cut taxes, and nearly doubled the deficit. Which came up a lot when the new tax- cutting president came to town.

SEN. TOM DASCHLE, (D) SENATE MAJORITY LEADER: We are repeating in many cases, the same mistakes made in 1981 and 1982. I fear that we are going to see deficits every bit as large as the ones created in 1982.

CROWLEY: History will say that Reagan was the president who began the end of the Cold War, but stumbled at start of a new kind of war.

RONALD REAGAN: If there is to be blame, it properly rests here in this office, and with this president. And I accept responsibility for the bad as well as the good.

CROWLEY: In October of '83, 241 marines died in a single moment on his watch. Killed by a truck bomb while serving as part of a peacekeeping force Mr. Reagan sent to Beirut. A defense department report said later there was poor security despite warnings of an attack. And that the military was neither equipped, not trained to fight terrorism.

REAGAN: I will to the best of my ability...

CROWLEY: Reelected a year later, Mr. Reagan continued to strengthen the military and promise the U.S. would never negotiate with terrorists. And then as an effort to secure the release of U.S. hostages in Lebanon, the U.S. sold arms to Iran. The profits were funneled to anti-government forces in Nicaragua.

REAGAN: As angry as I may be about activities undertaken without my knowledge, I am still accountable for those activities.

CROWLEY: Aids say President Reagan never understood why some people did not believe him about Iran-Contra. Critics, who dubbed him the Teflon President, never understood why so many people always believed him. Ronald Reagan left office with the highest popularity of any president of the modern age. Candy Crowley, CNN, Washington.

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COSTELLO: And people on both the East and West Coast will be given a chance to pay their last respects to the former president. Today and tomorrow, President Reagan will lie in repose at the Reagan Library in the Simi Valley. And then his body departs for Washington, D.C. on Wednesday.

When it arrives there, President Reagan will be put on a horse drawn gun carriage and taken down Constitutional Avenue to the Capitol. Thousands are expected to walk past the casket as the president lies in state in the Capitol rotunda. He is just the 10th president to be given that honor.

On Friday, a service will be held at the National Cathedral. And after that service, President Reagan will be taken back to California for burial at the Reagan Library.

And be sure to tune in later this afternoon for a "CNN SPECIAL REPORT: REMEMBERING RONALD REAGAN." Judy Woodruff and Anderson Cooper look back at the president and his legacy. That comes your way today at 2:00 p.m. Eastern.

In other stories 'Across America' this Monday, anguish turns to joy in Newport News, Virginia. A 6-year-old boy recovering this morning. And, boy, he's lucky to be alive. Divers rescued him from under a boat in the James River nearly three hours after his boat capsized. The Coast Guard says Darryl Baker (ph) was wearing a life jacket.

In Cincinnati, the wreckage of a tour bus after it crashed into a vacant building. Authorities say the brakes failed. The driver was the most seriously hurt. Most passengers had cuts and bruises.

In Houston, the first Enron criminal trial begins today. Six former Enron and Merrill Lynch executives are accused of cooking Enron's books in 1999. Enron went bankrupt more than two years ago when it was revealed the energy giant's financial success was a sham.

Israel's cabinet has approved Ariel Sharon's plan to pull out of Gaza and four Israeli settlements in the West Bank. The 14 to 7 vote comes just a few days after Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon fired two cabinet ministers who opposed his plan.

We take you live to Jerusalem and CNN's John Vause.

Hello -- John.

JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.

This certainly was an historic vote by the Israeli cabinet. And just after that vote was taken, Ariel Sharon, the Israeli Prime Minister, addressed a group of Jewish teenagers from around the world. There he proudly declared that the disengagement has started. That's not entirely accurate.

To get his plan through cabinet, he had to present a watered down version of his original disengagement plan. So under this new plan, any decision to evacuate those settlements in the Gaza Strip, and also those four settlements in the West Bank, must be put to another cabinet vote and that could come next year in March. So if two weeks in Israeli politics is a long -- is a long time, then nine months is nothing short of an eternity.

So in the meantime, before that next vote is held next year, the Israeli government will make preparations for the dismantlement of those settlements. The best analogy was written in an Israeli newspaper this morning. One commentator said that a couple has announced their engagement, they are going out to buy the ring, book the hall, but they are yet to say when the marriage will actually take place.

And the political problems continue for Ariel Sharon. He's already lost one coalition partner over the disengagement plan. A second coalition partner is meeting and will decide sometime this week whether or not to quit the government. If that party does quit the government, Ariel Sharon could be left with a minority in the Israeli Parliament -- Carol.

COSTELLO: John Vause reporting live from Jerusalem this morning.

Also out of Israel this morning, it may be a while before we see Marwan Barghouti again. The Palestinian faith leader has been sentenced in Israel to five life prison terms, plus an additional 40 years behind bars. An Israeli court convicted Barghouti of murder in three shooting attacks that killed five people. Barghouti refuses to recognize the court's jurisdiction, calling it a court of occupation.

One nation under God, you have heard the words, even recited them, I'll bet, but do they violate the separation of church and state? In the next hour of DAYBREAK, our legal eagle Kendall Coffey takes on the war of words with 'Coffey Talk.'

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I remember the Beirut disaster, so it really hurt me. He was a great president, and we'll all miss him.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: Mourning Ronald Reagan at home and abroad. Up next, we'll get some insight into his political career.

This is DAYBREAK for Monday.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It is 5:43 Eastern. Here is what's all new this morning.

President Bush is at an island resort off the Georgia coast this morning. He'll meet with world leaders there tomorrow as the G8 Summit gets under way.

In Iraq, one U.S. soldier was killed and another injured in a mortar attack in an Army base in Bala. That's north of Baghdad. It happened over the weekend. The soldiers were assigned to the Army's 13th Corps Support Command.

In money news, the New York Stock Exchange will shorten its trading session by two minutes as a tribute to former President Ronald Reagan. Traditionally, the exchange observes two minutes of silence in trading when former presidents die.

In sports, the Lightning and Flames face off tonight in Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. It is the third time in the last four years the finals have gone to a Game 7.

In culture, the Pope's latest book is coming to the United States this fall. "Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way" recounts John Paul II's early days before he became Pope. The book is already available throughout Europe -- Chad.

MYERS: And good morning, Carol.

(WEATHER REPORT)

MYERS: Back to you.

COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Chad.

Those are the latest headlines for you.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Every time you looked at him, put a smile on your face no matter how bad things were. Politics aside, he was a man who cared about the country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A fantastic president. Probably the last president I actually voted for, to be honest with you. And the two terms he served, did a fantastic job. A great American, and I'm sure he is going to be missed by millions of people.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I think that he gave our country several very positive things, as well as some negatives. But he's fought a long and very difficult battle. And personally, I'm grateful that his battle is finished and that he can be at peace now.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: And we want to get more reaction to the passing of Ronald Reagan from the WOKQ Morning Waking Crew in Portsmouth and Manchester, New Hampshire. Our old friends, Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier join us.

Good morning -- guys.

DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning.

MARK ERICSON, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Good morning -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Good morning. So New Hampshire, it was really special to Ronald Reagan and vice versa.

ERICSON: Well I think all the way around. I mean New Hampshire has always been somewhat of a Republican hot bed. And even though President Reagan's first term didn't start until 1981, New Hampshire Republicans were trying to coax him into running as early as 1967.

COSTELLO: Wow, when he was running for governor?

ERICSON: Yes.

CARRIER: Yes.

ERICSON: Actually, it got in the way of his plans for the next term as governor of California. And he had to, through his spokespeople, ask Granite State Republicans to please sort of back off and settle down.

COSTELLO: Unbelievable. What has been the reaction in New Hampshire? You know President Reagan's body will soon be in Washington, D.C., not so far away, I suppose, will a lot of people go, do you think, from New Hampshire?

ERICSON: I think certainly...

CARRIER: I think so.

ERICSON: ... there will be a contingent of some of the Republican elite, if you will, in the state of New Hampshire who definitely will be making the trek to Washington, D.C. to pay their respects to Ronald Reagan. He meant an awful lot to this state. And we'd like to think that the state meant a fair amount to him as well.

And for those of us that are not part of the political machinery of the state of New Hampshire, it's important to remember that President Reagan was the man who was president in 1986. On January 28 he was scheduled to deliver the State of the Union Address that night. Instead, however, he spoke of the Space Shuttle Challenger, the explosion that happened that morning that claimed the life of New Hampshire schoolteacher Christa McAuliffe.

COSTELLO: I remember that so well. That was such a -- I do remember that so well. You're right. So many memories come back when you're thinking of Ronald Reagan. And I don't know why that happens, and maybe it just happens because a great man has died, but it just seemed that the '80s were, well, they were an interesting time in our history because...

CARRIER: Memories, yes, they were an impactful time in our history.

COSTELLO: Yes, and -- go ahead.

ERICSON: And also from our standpoint here in the radio station, we remember too that Ronald Reagan actually was a sports radio announcer.

CARRIER: He was on -- yes, I couldn't believe this. I read this first this morning. I'm like he was on radio. He was on WHO Radio in Iowa. And actually his son, Michael, is now a radio talk show host himself. They have actually set up a Web site called RememberRonaldReagan.com as well for people who would like to just check out the history behind that great man.

COSTELLO: Can they send messages, too?

ERICSON: There's a click to send messages to the family. And there are some statements from some folks that worked for Mr. Reagan through the years, as well as a letter from Michael Reagan, son of Ronald Reagan, to the public as they make their thoughts known and express their condolences to the Reagan family.

COSTELLO: Mark and Danielle, thanks so much, from WOKQ. Thanks for joining DAYBREAK this morning.

There's more on the Alzheimer's that affected the former president. Hear about that from President Reagan's doctor John Hutton. That will come your way in the 9:00 Eastern hour of "AMERICAN MORNING" will Bill and Soledad.

And here's a look back at a moment from the life of Ronald Reagan.

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RONALD REAGAN, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: General Secretary Gorbachev, if you seek peace, if you seek prosperity for the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, if you seek liberalization, come here to this gate. Mr. Gorbachev, open this gate.

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REAGAN: Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall.

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COSTELLO: Some 'Health Headlines' for you this morning.

A new book contends that children of divorce end up OK as adults. In "We're Still Family," sociologist Constance Ahrons writes that Norman Rockwell images of family life are now obsolete. Ahrons researched children of divorce who are now adult. She finds that 79 percent of those surveyed say they feel their parents' decision to split was a good one.

So called toxic dust from your computer may be linked to reproductive and neurological disorders. The problem, according to a coalition of environmental groups, it's fire retardant chemicals used on computer processors and monitors. But independent researchers who studied the findings say the levels aren't high enough to cause serious problems. Even so, for the past few years, electronic companies have been cutting back on the use of those chemicals.

Cholesterol drugs called statins may reduce or even prevent various cancers. Two studies found that men who took statins cut the risk of developing colon and prostate cancer by more than half. Statins reduce how much cholesterol the body makes.

And a new wave in cancer treatment is called targeted therapies. They are smart bombs that zero in on malignant cells.

As our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen reports, this is a big step toward what's known as personalized cancer treatment.

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the standard treatment today for cancer, a one-size fits all drip for chemotherapy or a blast of radiation. But the latest approaches are treatments that are individualized for each patient and targeted to kill cancer cells and spare healthy tissue. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Targeted therapies, which we have talked a lot about for the last couple of years, are really coming to fruition.

COHEN: The current treatments, chemotherapy and radiation, can't distinguish between normal cells and cancer cells, which is why patients often have debilitating side effects. Several new approaches attack just the cancer, some by looking for specific markers on malignant cells, others by cutting off the blood supply to tumors. So far, these new approaches have shown success at shrinking tumors, prolonging life for a few months and with fewer side effects. And some of these new treatments are in pill form.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is a drug that an individual can take by mouth, a pill, and compared to the standard treatments that are available to us today, a survival advantage is imparted to that group of individuals. Moreover, not only does that group of patients survive longer, they do so with limited amount of side effects.

COHEN: Another new development in cancer treatment, a patient's genes can determine if certain drugs will work for them. The hope one day is that cancer patients will get genetic testing first to see which drugs will work best.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: PharmacoGenetics will permit physicians to personalize medicine in a very specific way. It will allow us to select drugs that work more effectively against the cancer that that particular patient has and avoid, hopefully, the side effects that are unique to that particular drug.

COHEN: Individualized treatments for cancer patients, taken as a pill at home that kill only cancer cells are not the medical reality right now but the hope for the future.

Elizabeth Cohen, CNN, Atlanta.

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The life and times of Ronald Reagan, he was Dutch to some, The Gipper to others, all the while leaving a lasting impression on the nation and the world. We'll have more on the political giant in a live report.

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COSTELLO: Mourners will gather at this quiet presidential library today to remember a leader, a citizen, their friend.

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