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Britain Terror Arrests; 'Coffey Talk': Letourneau Released From Prison
Aired August 04, 2004 - 06:30 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're learning more about what led to the heightened terror alert, and much of it is based on old surveillance conducted by al Qaeda before September 11, 2001.
Homeland security chief Tom Ridge is having to defend his decision to raise the alert level. He says some of the reconnaissance information was updated recently, and that al Qaeda likes to update its information just before an attack.
Anti-terror officials got the bulk of their information from a suspected al Qaeda computer expert, who was arrested in Pakistan.
And speaking of arrests, we also have word there have been more than a dozen arrests in Britain. Are they connected to those computers found in Pakistan? You know, the same ones that pushed the terror alert level to orange in some places?
Our senior international editor, David Clinch, is here to look at the possibilities.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, Carol. And that's all it is at the moment: a possibility.
British police arrested 13 men yesterday all around Britain, including in London. Those men are all being interrogated right now. Under British law they can be held for a couple of weeks before they're even charged.
They didn't identify them. They didn't even give their nationalities; that is, the police. But locals are telling us, the eyewitnesses to the arrests, that they were all Asian. People are describing them as Pakistani. Again, as you say, opening up the possibility not just of the timing but also their nationality that it might be connected to the events in Pakistan. No evidence to confirm that right now, but we're continuing to look into it.
We do know already from looking at this story in Pakistan that officials there have been telling us there were references to targets in Britain and the suggestion of attacks on Britain in the information, although British officials have said there was nothing specific in Pakistan.
We also know that this computer expert, Noor Khan is his name, has traveled many times to Britain. His father works for Pakistan Airlines. He got free tickets. He could fly whenever he wanted to. He lived there a long time ago, but has been there many times recently.
So, officially, no connection, but obviously that's something we're going to be looking at very closely.
But it also points out what we were talking about earlier, the different tactics that the two countries take. In the United States, we've seen, based on what we now know is fairly old information, a heightened terror alert and lots of questions about that.
In Britain, we don't see heightened terror alerts; we see arrests. We've seen hundreds of them since 9/11. Very few of them have led to convictions, but that's what the British are doing. They get information. They act on it immediately. And they act on it by arresting people. And then they don't say anything for quite some time.
So, we'll be watching very closely to see if anything more comes out in Britain today.
COSTELLO: All right, David Clinch, many thanks.
CLINCH: All right.
COSTELLO: Mary Kay Letourneau is out. She was released from prison a few hours ago under the cover of darkness.
You remember her. She's the former sixth grade teacher convicted of rape for her admitted affair with a 12-year-old student. She even had two children by him.
Now after spending seven and a half years behind bars, she is going home. But it's not quite the home she left back in 1997.
Joining us now on the phone to talk more about this for some "Coffey Talk" this morning, Kendall Coffey.
Good morning -- Kendall.
KENDALL COFFEY, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Hey, good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: So, what's her life going to be like on the outside?
COFFEY: Well, obviously it's going to be even stranger than before. She has, of course, seen herself as a sort of obsessive pursuer of a forbidden love. The law sees her as a child molester.
And so, in addition to facing a ban of any kind of contact, for example, with the alleged victim, wherever she goes, wherever she moves, she will be signing in with the sheriff as a registered sex offender.
COSTELLO: But what if he wants to see her?
COFFEY: Well, if he wants to see her, he could apply to the court to have the no contact order lifted. I think that the state of Washington at that point would really have something to say about it. But the only possibility for any future contact will be if the alleged victim, who is now 21, decides that some contact would be appropriate on the view that, after all, she is the mother of his two children.
COSTELLO: I was just going to ask you about that. How is that custody going to work out? Because she's going to have to have some contact with him if she visits the children.
COFFEY: Absolutely. I mean, it doesn't get any stranger than this, Carol. During the criminal proceeding, it had been held by the sentencing judge that any contact with her two minor children should be supervised by a responsible adult.
On appeal, the court said, look, she may have done a lot of things wrong. There is no evidence she's a pedophile. We're not going to limit her contact with her own natural children if there are going to be some conditions imposed other than excluding, of course, contact between her and the father.
That condition, those limitations are going to have to be imposed by a family or a juvenile court.
COSTELLO: She's also going to become a registered sex offender. So tell us what that would entail.
COFFEY: What that means is wherever you go, you have to sign in with the sheriff's office, and you list certain specified information: age, social security number, where you're working, things like that. True of all sexual offenders.
So, as tough as it might be for her to get any sort of quiet now, it's going to be all the tougher. Her address, wherever she goes, will be a matter of public record.
COSTELLO: And the media will always be able to find her. And I'm sure they're chasing her right now, at least some of them.
COFFEY: As we speak.
COSTELLO: Kendall Coffey live on the phone from Miami, thank you very much.
If you're looking to buy a new car, it may be a good time. Next, the cash incentives one auto giant is offering to lure consumers, as in you, into the showroom.
Plus, the top 10 foods you may want to consider including in your diet. We'll tell you why ahead.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Wednesday morning.
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COSTELLO: The Dow Jones took a plunge at the closing yesterday. The Dow opens this morning nearly 59 points down. The Nasdaq is lower by about 33 points. S&P 500 is down almost 7 points this morning.
It's time for a little business buzz now. In the market for a new car? Well, General Motors is out with some very big incentives.
Carrie Lee has what they are, live from the Nasdaq Marketsite.
Good morning.
CARRIE LEE, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol.
Big incentives, but it looks like there is a catch here. General Motors offering rebates on 2005, the model cars, of up to $2,500; however, GM says it's also raising prices by about 1 percent for these models across the board. And we could see further price increases for 2005 models as the year goes on.
Also, GM is cutting the basic cash rebate on most of its 2004 model cars by $500 to $3,500.
Now, carmakers have been doing what they can to boost sales. Yesterday, in fact, we got July sales in the U.S. and worldwide across the board, and we did see a bit of a pickup from June. So that's good news.
General Motors and Ford both said that July was the best month for U.S. sales so far this year. However, these big two U.S. automakers did under-perform in the industry, and they sold fewer cars than they did last July.
So bottom line here, Carol, U.S. carmakers in some cases are still struggling against Japanese and other counterparts, names like Toyota and Nissan.
So, that is the latest from here.
Back to you.
COSTELLO: Oh, a quick look at the futures before you go.
LEE: Yes. Things are looking a bit weak for today's session. Part of the reason: high oil prices. We hit another overnight 21- year high. That's weighing on some investors' minds.
One stock we're watching today: Cigna. The insurance giant is reporting profits for the recent quarter. Wall Street is looking for a $1.25 a share on the bottom line.
COSTELLO: Thank you. Carrie Lee live from the Nasdaq Marketsite.
Now here's some news for you frequent fliers out there. It's about a subject you know a lot about: airline flight delays.
The problem at Chicago's O'Hare Airport is commonplace and getting worse. The transportation secretary is holding a meeting today to talk about flight cutbacks. The FAA says it wants no more than 86 arrivals per hour. Slowdowns at O'Hare cause a ripple effect, creating backups elsewhere.
We wanted to hear from you this morning. Is the solution to the airport delay problem a public or a private one? And many of you have e-mailed us this morning.
The e-mail address, by the way: Daybreak@CNN.com.
But this e-mail is from Sean. He says: "Leave it private. Look at how fine a job the government is doing with airport security. The government is big enough."
This is from Mike in Newark, Delaware. He says: "The airport delays are just another example of how the airlines don't care about efficiency. So in my opinion, the government has to step in and take control and make mandates on their operations to alleviate delays and problems."
And this one is from David from Vancouver Island. He says: "I don't know whether the government should get involved, but how about speeding things up by shortening the name to O'Hare-port?"
I just had to read it.
We know we should watch what we eat, but with busy schedules sometimes it's easy to reach for another cup of coffee instead of a plate of vegetables. But there are certain foods that can give you more nutritional bang for your bite.
It's time for "Breakfast with Daybreak." Lisa Drayer joins us live from New York.
Good morning, Lisa.
LISA DRAYER, REGISTERED DIETITIAN: Good morning, Carol.
And we now have an official list of the top 10 antioxidant-rich foods.
COSTELLO: Yea!
DRAYER: Yea! So, you may want to consider adding these to your shopping list if you are drinking more coffee than you are eating vegetables.
But this list was compiled by USDA researchers, and it reveals the foods that contain the highest levels of these antioxidants, which are beneficial compounds that may help protect against diseases like heart disease and cancer.
So, let's take a look at the list now. We see red beans, small red beans. This tops the list, No. 1 here. Now, these are dried, but I've been told that the cooked red beans will still offer a lot of these beneficial antioxidants. Wild blueberries are second on the list. Red kidney beans and pinto beans. Cultivated blueberries, these are not as sweet as the wild type. Cranberries, cooked artichoke hearts, blackberries, prunes, and raspberries. And as you can see, the ranking is based on portion sizes that individuals typically eat.
Now, Carol, there were some that didn't make this top 10 list, but are definitely worth mentioning. Let's take a look at these now.
Pecans, walnuts and hazelnuts, these ranked highest in the nut category. Ground cloves, ground cinnamon and oregano, these have the highest antioxidant activity among the spices studied. And I've been told that one teaspoon would give benefits. And ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, like granola and toasted oatmeal squares, these ranked the highest in the grain category.
So, there you have it.
Now, Carol, I just want to say these chemicals, these antioxidants are known as flavonoids. They can help capture these free radicals, as they're called, that can help protect against DNA mutations that lead to cancer and cholesterol buildup that leads to heart disease.
But this being said, it is important to note that these chemicals were looked at in test tubes, not in humans. So, we now know that these foods are good sources of these beneficial compounds, but their ability to fight disease was just not tested in humans in this particular study.
COSTELLO: So, what if you cook them or freeze them, does that affect the chemicals in them?
DRAYER: That's a great question. Actually, cooking can enhance these beneficial compounds. For example, cooking tomatoes increases the availability of the antioxidant lycopene. We've heard about lycopene and reduced risk of prostate cancer. But overcooking vegetables, like carrots, can actually cause the levels of these compounds to drop.
Now, freezing is beneficial. This is pretty interesting. Freezing vegetables, oftentimes the vegetables are blanched first. This is heat treatment that helps to preserve these beneficial chemicals.
Now, all of this being said, if you simply peel your fruits and vegetables, this can cause the antioxidant activity to drop. And indeed, in this study when the skins of the apples and the cucumbers were peeled, their antioxidant levels went down significantly. So, you don't want to peel your fruits and vegetables to get the maximum benefits.
COSTELLO: So eat the peelings. So, give me a bottom line here. If I start eating my big cup of red beans every day, how much does that reduce my risk of a heart attack or getting cancer?
DRAYER: Well, it's definitely a good idea, Carol. We can't yet say that if you definitely have your red beans with your rice or your salad everyday that you will definitely avoid a heart attack or reduce your odds significantly of getting cancer. But certainly the epidemiological studies that have been done so far look very promising.
So, the USDA researchers are telling us it's really a good idea to include these top 10 fruits and vegetables and beans in our diets on a regular basis.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Lisa Drayer reporting live from New York for us.
DRAYER: Thanks.
COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It is 6:45 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.
The judge in the Scott Peterson murder trial is allowing testimony about his TV viewing habits. A witness says Peterson added two explicit adult channels to his satellite service two weeks after his wife disappeared.
Some people might call this a miracle. A steeple on a Philadelphia sanctuary came crashing down. Ninety-four people were at a shelter in the church, but none of them appeared to have been hurt.
In money news, don't expect a break at the gas pump anytime soon, as if you were. Oil prices are at a new record high: $44 a barrel. OPEC says there is no spare oil to bring down prices.
In culture, Dave Chappelle is rich, rich, rich. Comedy Central signed the comedian to a $50 million deal. Chappelle will also do a movie based on the life of funk superstar, Rick James.
In sports, the Oakland A's pounded the New York Yankees 13 to 4. Athletics pitcher Mark Mulder notched his Major League leading 15th win.
And, you know, Rob, the Yankees are so far in first place that it doesn't even matter.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: That's an excellent point, but I have noticed, Carol, that when I work this show, we always show the Yankees losing.
COSTELLO: Well, we like to poke you.
MARCIANO: OK. Well, we'll see what happens in October.
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COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Rob. Those are the latest headlines for you.
Let's head live to New York to check in with Bill and Heidi Collins, who is in for Soledad, to see what's coming up on "AMERICAN MORNING."
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, Carol.
HEMMER: Are you still married, Carol?
COSTELLO: Yes.
HEMMER: Yes?
COSTELLO: I can't believe it. But it's been great.
HEMMER: Hang in there.
Listen, we've got a packed show this morning, and news out of the Pentagon today possibly of Zarqawi and bin Laden. Are the indications the two have reached out to one another? Also, amid these terror warnings, we'll look into that again today. And what connection is there to the new warnings? A live report from the Pentagon on all of that stuff coming up in a matter of moments on "AMERICAN MORNING."
COLLINS: We have some new information there. Also, dueling campaigns. Kerry and Bush campaign just a few blocks away from each other today. So why is Davenport, Iowa, still important? We'll be talking about that, too.
HEMMER: Good question. Also, the Lori Hacking case, too.
COLLINS: Yes.
HEMMER: Court documents, a stunning confession from Mark Hacking, a surveillance videotape of both Lori and Mark apparently the night before Lori turned up missing. We'll talk to a Salt Lake City guest this morning covering that case as well. So, we'll have it all for you.
COLLINS: Yes, we will. Yes, that's it, Carol.
HEMMER: Yes.
COSTELLO: I waiting for more.
HEMMER: Well, Jack is here, too, yes.
COLLINS: Yes, Jack, yes.
HEMMER: He wants to know if you're still married also, by the way.
COLLINS: I'm telling you, it's been a tough three weeks. This marriage thing is hard.
HEMMER: Really? Why?
COLLINS: And he lives in another state.
HEMMER: Oh. COLLINS: Well, that is really hard.
COSTELLO: It is. But no, we're doing fine. Just kidding. Thank you very much. We'll see you in 10 minutes.
HEMMER: All right.
COLLINS: See you, Carol.
COSTELLO: Brits and beer. Women in the U.K. are not only drinking more beer, but are also managing the companies that brew it. We'll have more on that story when DAYBREAK returns.
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COSTELLO: We're starting a new segment on DAYBREAK. We're interested in our Web site, because it gets so many hits. I think it gets the most hits of any Web site in the galaxy.
MARCELLINO: And a lot of them are viewers, hopefully. So we need to see what they're interested in.
COSTELLO: A lot of them are our viewers, yes. But what's interesting to us is that the most clicked-on stories are sometimes not the stories that we lead with in our newscasts. So, we want to go to our Web site right now to see what the most popular stories were on our Web site.
Mary Kay Letourneau takes the No. 1 spot. Of course, she was released from prison this morning for having an affair with her 12- year-old student.
The second most popular clicked-on story today: "Al Qaeda Suspect Reveals Communication Strategy." This was the guy arrested in Pakistan with the documents that sparked the increased terror alert in New York, Washington and Newark.
And he's telling interrogators about how they communicate with one another within al Qaeda. He says they use Web sites and e-mail addresses in Turkey, Nigeria and tribal areas of Pakistan to pass messages amongst themselves. And you can read more on our Web site, a very interesting story.
MARCELLINO: Wow! He's selling out (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
COSTELLO: Oh, yes.
The third most clicked-on story, Rob: "Grandparents Killed in Rural Georgia." Granddaughter, 15 years old, is arrested for stabbing the grandparents to death, along with a 16-year-old friend. The girls were 250 miles away when authorities finally tracked them down and arrested them.
MARCELLINO: That's awful.
COSTELLO: Those are the most popular stories on our Web site today at this time, right now.
So what do you think? Want to see more coverage of a story? Think we're doing a good job? Shoot us an e-mail and let it all out. The address: Daybreak@CNN.com.
Who is brewing the brewskies in Britain?
MARCELLINO: I don't know.
COSTELLO: Well, let me tell you.
MARCELLINO: OK.
COSTELLO: The beer industry has been a male-dominated world for generations, but that is all changing. From London, Meara Erdozain. She serves up that story for us.
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MEARA ERDOZAIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The familiar stereotype of the beer-guzzling male. He's on one side of the bar and she's on the other. Until recently, most women in the beer industry pulled pipes. Now, they're moving into management positions, even brewing the beer itself.
Moyra Williams is one of the judges at this year's Great British Beer Festival in London. She's a female brewer, or brewster. She got a degree in brewing at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where now more than half the doctorate students are women.
MOYRA WILLIAMS, BREWSTER: So I remember coming when I first came into the south of England to work, going to a brewing dinner in London, and there were about two females. And it was sort of you felt a little bit intimidated slightly. But now we're still very much the minority, but we're definitely increasing in number.
ERDOZAIN: Moyra Williams says women now account for around 10 percent of senior positions.
(on camera): Despite the growing number of women working within the brewing industry, beer still has a bit of an image problem amongst female consumers. Many women feel that drinking a pint is unhealthy and a little unladylike.
(voice over): But times have changed. These days, women are often seen drinking a pint or two alongside the men.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fantastic, as long as they don't drink too many. But if they enjoy it, great.
ERDOZAIN: And for the beer companies, the challenge is to convince more women to join the beer brigade.
PAULA WATERS, CHAIRMAN, CAMRA: The dark ones are the most fantastic blackberry and black current flavors. If you just swirl it around in your glass and have a sniff, I don't know if (UNINTELLIGIBLE), you should be able to smell the black currents and the blackberry coming off. And then you have a little taste, and it's very -- you've got a little chocolate, because of the dark malt in there.
ERDOZAIN: Experts say the key to attracting women drinkers and women managers is to focus on quality. Say a glass of good ale should be no less special than a good glass of wine. After all, they say, it's no more fattening.
Meara Erdozain, CNN, London.
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COSTELLO: Interesting.
MARCELLINO: Do you want to have a pint now? Does it make you want to have a pint?
COSTELLO: I'm going to run right out after the show.
MARCELLINO: Sounds like a good idea.
COSTELLO: The mug winner will be announced in two minutes -- coffee mug that is. But first, this is DAYBREAK for a Wednesday morning.
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COSTELLO: It is coffee mug time.
MARCELLINO: It's my favorite time. I'm still without a coffee mug, but it's time to reveal the coffee mug winner of today.
On Tuesday, we asked you: How old is the Statue of Liberty? And the answer is 117 years old. The second question we asked is a highly-anticipated video game will be in stores Tuesday. What's the name of the game? And that is "Doom 3."
And today's winner is J.C. Ramos of Paris, Tennessee.
COSTELLO: Congratulations.
MARCELLINO: You're the winner of a brand spanking new CNN DAYBREAK coffee mug.
Here's your chance now to win a coffee break mug. Today's question is: How many of Lance Armstrong's "live strong" bracelets have been sold since May? And the second question -- you have to get both: Name at least two of the top 10 food antioxidants that offer the most nutritional value. And the hint is it just in the last segment with Lisa Drayer.
COSTELLO: Yes. Daybreak@CNN.com. Daybreak@CNN.com. Of course, we'll have the winner for you tomorrow.
From the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Costello, along with Rob Marciano. "AMERICAN MORNING" starts right now.
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Aired August 4, 2004 - 06:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We're learning more about what led to the heightened terror alert, and much of it is based on old surveillance conducted by al Qaeda before September 11, 2001.
Homeland security chief Tom Ridge is having to defend his decision to raise the alert level. He says some of the reconnaissance information was updated recently, and that al Qaeda likes to update its information just before an attack.
Anti-terror officials got the bulk of their information from a suspected al Qaeda computer expert, who was arrested in Pakistan.
And speaking of arrests, we also have word there have been more than a dozen arrests in Britain. Are they connected to those computers found in Pakistan? You know, the same ones that pushed the terror alert level to orange in some places?
Our senior international editor, David Clinch, is here to look at the possibilities.
DAVID CLINCH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL EDITOR: Yes, Carol. And that's all it is at the moment: a possibility.
British police arrested 13 men yesterday all around Britain, including in London. Those men are all being interrogated right now. Under British law they can be held for a couple of weeks before they're even charged.
They didn't identify them. They didn't even give their nationalities; that is, the police. But locals are telling us, the eyewitnesses to the arrests, that they were all Asian. People are describing them as Pakistani. Again, as you say, opening up the possibility not just of the timing but also their nationality that it might be connected to the events in Pakistan. No evidence to confirm that right now, but we're continuing to look into it.
We do know already from looking at this story in Pakistan that officials there have been telling us there were references to targets in Britain and the suggestion of attacks on Britain in the information, although British officials have said there was nothing specific in Pakistan.
We also know that this computer expert, Noor Khan is his name, has traveled many times to Britain. His father works for Pakistan Airlines. He got free tickets. He could fly whenever he wanted to. He lived there a long time ago, but has been there many times recently.
So, officially, no connection, but obviously that's something we're going to be looking at very closely.
But it also points out what we were talking about earlier, the different tactics that the two countries take. In the United States, we've seen, based on what we now know is fairly old information, a heightened terror alert and lots of questions about that.
In Britain, we don't see heightened terror alerts; we see arrests. We've seen hundreds of them since 9/11. Very few of them have led to convictions, but that's what the British are doing. They get information. They act on it immediately. And they act on it by arresting people. And then they don't say anything for quite some time.
So, we'll be watching very closely to see if anything more comes out in Britain today.
COSTELLO: All right, David Clinch, many thanks.
CLINCH: All right.
COSTELLO: Mary Kay Letourneau is out. She was released from prison a few hours ago under the cover of darkness.
You remember her. She's the former sixth grade teacher convicted of rape for her admitted affair with a 12-year-old student. She even had two children by him.
Now after spending seven and a half years behind bars, she is going home. But it's not quite the home she left back in 1997.
Joining us now on the phone to talk more about this for some "Coffey Talk" this morning, Kendall Coffey.
Good morning -- Kendall.
KENDALL COFFEY, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: Hey, good morning, Carol.
COSTELLO: So, what's her life going to be like on the outside?
COFFEY: Well, obviously it's going to be even stranger than before. She has, of course, seen herself as a sort of obsessive pursuer of a forbidden love. The law sees her as a child molester.
And so, in addition to facing a ban of any kind of contact, for example, with the alleged victim, wherever she goes, wherever she moves, she will be signing in with the sheriff as a registered sex offender.
COSTELLO: But what if he wants to see her?
COFFEY: Well, if he wants to see her, he could apply to the court to have the no contact order lifted. I think that the state of Washington at that point would really have something to say about it. But the only possibility for any future contact will be if the alleged victim, who is now 21, decides that some contact would be appropriate on the view that, after all, she is the mother of his two children.
COSTELLO: I was just going to ask you about that. How is that custody going to work out? Because she's going to have to have some contact with him if she visits the children.
COFFEY: Absolutely. I mean, it doesn't get any stranger than this, Carol. During the criminal proceeding, it had been held by the sentencing judge that any contact with her two minor children should be supervised by a responsible adult.
On appeal, the court said, look, she may have done a lot of things wrong. There is no evidence she's a pedophile. We're not going to limit her contact with her own natural children if there are going to be some conditions imposed other than excluding, of course, contact between her and the father.
That condition, those limitations are going to have to be imposed by a family or a juvenile court.
COSTELLO: She's also going to become a registered sex offender. So tell us what that would entail.
COFFEY: What that means is wherever you go, you have to sign in with the sheriff's office, and you list certain specified information: age, social security number, where you're working, things like that. True of all sexual offenders.
So, as tough as it might be for her to get any sort of quiet now, it's going to be all the tougher. Her address, wherever she goes, will be a matter of public record.
COSTELLO: And the media will always be able to find her. And I'm sure they're chasing her right now, at least some of them.
COFFEY: As we speak.
COSTELLO: Kendall Coffey live on the phone from Miami, thank you very much.
If you're looking to buy a new car, it may be a good time. Next, the cash incentives one auto giant is offering to lure consumers, as in you, into the showroom.
Plus, the top 10 foods you may want to consider including in your diet. We'll tell you why ahead.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Wednesday morning.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: The Dow Jones took a plunge at the closing yesterday. The Dow opens this morning nearly 59 points down. The Nasdaq is lower by about 33 points. S&P 500 is down almost 7 points this morning.
It's time for a little business buzz now. In the market for a new car? Well, General Motors is out with some very big incentives.
Carrie Lee has what they are, live from the Nasdaq Marketsite.
Good morning.
CARRIE LEE, CNN FINANCIAL NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol.
Big incentives, but it looks like there is a catch here. General Motors offering rebates on 2005, the model cars, of up to $2,500; however, GM says it's also raising prices by about 1 percent for these models across the board. And we could see further price increases for 2005 models as the year goes on.
Also, GM is cutting the basic cash rebate on most of its 2004 model cars by $500 to $3,500.
Now, carmakers have been doing what they can to boost sales. Yesterday, in fact, we got July sales in the U.S. and worldwide across the board, and we did see a bit of a pickup from June. So that's good news.
General Motors and Ford both said that July was the best month for U.S. sales so far this year. However, these big two U.S. automakers did under-perform in the industry, and they sold fewer cars than they did last July.
So bottom line here, Carol, U.S. carmakers in some cases are still struggling against Japanese and other counterparts, names like Toyota and Nissan.
So, that is the latest from here.
Back to you.
COSTELLO: Oh, a quick look at the futures before you go.
LEE: Yes. Things are looking a bit weak for today's session. Part of the reason: high oil prices. We hit another overnight 21- year high. That's weighing on some investors' minds.
One stock we're watching today: Cigna. The insurance giant is reporting profits for the recent quarter. Wall Street is looking for a $1.25 a share on the bottom line.
COSTELLO: Thank you. Carrie Lee live from the Nasdaq Marketsite.
Now here's some news for you frequent fliers out there. It's about a subject you know a lot about: airline flight delays.
The problem at Chicago's O'Hare Airport is commonplace and getting worse. The transportation secretary is holding a meeting today to talk about flight cutbacks. The FAA says it wants no more than 86 arrivals per hour. Slowdowns at O'Hare cause a ripple effect, creating backups elsewhere.
We wanted to hear from you this morning. Is the solution to the airport delay problem a public or a private one? And many of you have e-mailed us this morning.
The e-mail address, by the way: Daybreak@CNN.com.
But this e-mail is from Sean. He says: "Leave it private. Look at how fine a job the government is doing with airport security. The government is big enough."
This is from Mike in Newark, Delaware. He says: "The airport delays are just another example of how the airlines don't care about efficiency. So in my opinion, the government has to step in and take control and make mandates on their operations to alleviate delays and problems."
And this one is from David from Vancouver Island. He says: "I don't know whether the government should get involved, but how about speeding things up by shortening the name to O'Hare-port?"
I just had to read it.
We know we should watch what we eat, but with busy schedules sometimes it's easy to reach for another cup of coffee instead of a plate of vegetables. But there are certain foods that can give you more nutritional bang for your bite.
It's time for "Breakfast with Daybreak." Lisa Drayer joins us live from New York.
Good morning, Lisa.
LISA DRAYER, REGISTERED DIETITIAN: Good morning, Carol.
And we now have an official list of the top 10 antioxidant-rich foods.
COSTELLO: Yea!
DRAYER: Yea! So, you may want to consider adding these to your shopping list if you are drinking more coffee than you are eating vegetables.
But this list was compiled by USDA researchers, and it reveals the foods that contain the highest levels of these antioxidants, which are beneficial compounds that may help protect against diseases like heart disease and cancer.
So, let's take a look at the list now. We see red beans, small red beans. This tops the list, No. 1 here. Now, these are dried, but I've been told that the cooked red beans will still offer a lot of these beneficial antioxidants. Wild blueberries are second on the list. Red kidney beans and pinto beans. Cultivated blueberries, these are not as sweet as the wild type. Cranberries, cooked artichoke hearts, blackberries, prunes, and raspberries. And as you can see, the ranking is based on portion sizes that individuals typically eat.
Now, Carol, there were some that didn't make this top 10 list, but are definitely worth mentioning. Let's take a look at these now.
Pecans, walnuts and hazelnuts, these ranked highest in the nut category. Ground cloves, ground cinnamon and oregano, these have the highest antioxidant activity among the spices studied. And I've been told that one teaspoon would give benefits. And ready-to-eat breakfast cereals, like granola and toasted oatmeal squares, these ranked the highest in the grain category.
So, there you have it.
Now, Carol, I just want to say these chemicals, these antioxidants are known as flavonoids. They can help capture these free radicals, as they're called, that can help protect against DNA mutations that lead to cancer and cholesterol buildup that leads to heart disease.
But this being said, it is important to note that these chemicals were looked at in test tubes, not in humans. So, we now know that these foods are good sources of these beneficial compounds, but their ability to fight disease was just not tested in humans in this particular study.
COSTELLO: So, what if you cook them or freeze them, does that affect the chemicals in them?
DRAYER: That's a great question. Actually, cooking can enhance these beneficial compounds. For example, cooking tomatoes increases the availability of the antioxidant lycopene. We've heard about lycopene and reduced risk of prostate cancer. But overcooking vegetables, like carrots, can actually cause the levels of these compounds to drop.
Now, freezing is beneficial. This is pretty interesting. Freezing vegetables, oftentimes the vegetables are blanched first. This is heat treatment that helps to preserve these beneficial chemicals.
Now, all of this being said, if you simply peel your fruits and vegetables, this can cause the antioxidant activity to drop. And indeed, in this study when the skins of the apples and the cucumbers were peeled, their antioxidant levels went down significantly. So, you don't want to peel your fruits and vegetables to get the maximum benefits.
COSTELLO: So eat the peelings. So, give me a bottom line here. If I start eating my big cup of red beans every day, how much does that reduce my risk of a heart attack or getting cancer?
DRAYER: Well, it's definitely a good idea, Carol. We can't yet say that if you definitely have your red beans with your rice or your salad everyday that you will definitely avoid a heart attack or reduce your odds significantly of getting cancer. But certainly the epidemiological studies that have been done so far look very promising.
So, the USDA researchers are telling us it's really a good idea to include these top 10 fruits and vegetables and beans in our diets on a regular basis.
COSTELLO: Thank you, Lisa Drayer reporting live from New York for us.
DRAYER: Thanks.
COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It is 6:45 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.
The judge in the Scott Peterson murder trial is allowing testimony about his TV viewing habits. A witness says Peterson added two explicit adult channels to his satellite service two weeks after his wife disappeared.
Some people might call this a miracle. A steeple on a Philadelphia sanctuary came crashing down. Ninety-four people were at a shelter in the church, but none of them appeared to have been hurt.
In money news, don't expect a break at the gas pump anytime soon, as if you were. Oil prices are at a new record high: $44 a barrel. OPEC says there is no spare oil to bring down prices.
In culture, Dave Chappelle is rich, rich, rich. Comedy Central signed the comedian to a $50 million deal. Chappelle will also do a movie based on the life of funk superstar, Rick James.
In sports, the Oakland A's pounded the New York Yankees 13 to 4. Athletics pitcher Mark Mulder notched his Major League leading 15th win.
And, you know, Rob, the Yankees are so far in first place that it doesn't even matter.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: That's an excellent point, but I have noticed, Carol, that when I work this show, we always show the Yankees losing.
COSTELLO: Well, we like to poke you.
MARCIANO: OK. Well, we'll see what happens in October.
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COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Rob. Those are the latest headlines for you.
Let's head live to New York to check in with Bill and Heidi Collins, who is in for Soledad, to see what's coming up on "AMERICAN MORNING."
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, Carol.
HEMMER: Are you still married, Carol?
COSTELLO: Yes.
HEMMER: Yes?
COSTELLO: I can't believe it. But it's been great.
HEMMER: Hang in there.
Listen, we've got a packed show this morning, and news out of the Pentagon today possibly of Zarqawi and bin Laden. Are the indications the two have reached out to one another? Also, amid these terror warnings, we'll look into that again today. And what connection is there to the new warnings? A live report from the Pentagon on all of that stuff coming up in a matter of moments on "AMERICAN MORNING."
COLLINS: We have some new information there. Also, dueling campaigns. Kerry and Bush campaign just a few blocks away from each other today. So why is Davenport, Iowa, still important? We'll be talking about that, too.
HEMMER: Good question. Also, the Lori Hacking case, too.
COLLINS: Yes.
HEMMER: Court documents, a stunning confession from Mark Hacking, a surveillance videotape of both Lori and Mark apparently the night before Lori turned up missing. We'll talk to a Salt Lake City guest this morning covering that case as well. So, we'll have it all for you.
COLLINS: Yes, we will. Yes, that's it, Carol.
HEMMER: Yes.
COSTELLO: I waiting for more.
HEMMER: Well, Jack is here, too, yes.
COLLINS: Yes, Jack, yes.
HEMMER: He wants to know if you're still married also, by the way.
COLLINS: I'm telling you, it's been a tough three weeks. This marriage thing is hard.
HEMMER: Really? Why?
COLLINS: And he lives in another state.
HEMMER: Oh. COLLINS: Well, that is really hard.
COSTELLO: It is. But no, we're doing fine. Just kidding. Thank you very much. We'll see you in 10 minutes.
HEMMER: All right.
COLLINS: See you, Carol.
COSTELLO: Brits and beer. Women in the U.K. are not only drinking more beer, but are also managing the companies that brew it. We'll have more on that story when DAYBREAK returns.
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COSTELLO: We're starting a new segment on DAYBREAK. We're interested in our Web site, because it gets so many hits. I think it gets the most hits of any Web site in the galaxy.
MARCELLINO: And a lot of them are viewers, hopefully. So we need to see what they're interested in.
COSTELLO: A lot of them are our viewers, yes. But what's interesting to us is that the most clicked-on stories are sometimes not the stories that we lead with in our newscasts. So, we want to go to our Web site right now to see what the most popular stories were on our Web site.
Mary Kay Letourneau takes the No. 1 spot. Of course, she was released from prison this morning for having an affair with her 12- year-old student.
The second most popular clicked-on story today: "Al Qaeda Suspect Reveals Communication Strategy." This was the guy arrested in Pakistan with the documents that sparked the increased terror alert in New York, Washington and Newark.
And he's telling interrogators about how they communicate with one another within al Qaeda. He says they use Web sites and e-mail addresses in Turkey, Nigeria and tribal areas of Pakistan to pass messages amongst themselves. And you can read more on our Web site, a very interesting story.
MARCELLINO: Wow! He's selling out (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
COSTELLO: Oh, yes.
The third most clicked-on story, Rob: "Grandparents Killed in Rural Georgia." Granddaughter, 15 years old, is arrested for stabbing the grandparents to death, along with a 16-year-old friend. The girls were 250 miles away when authorities finally tracked them down and arrested them.
MARCELLINO: That's awful.
COSTELLO: Those are the most popular stories on our Web site today at this time, right now.
So what do you think? Want to see more coverage of a story? Think we're doing a good job? Shoot us an e-mail and let it all out. The address: Daybreak@CNN.com.
Who is brewing the brewskies in Britain?
MARCELLINO: I don't know.
COSTELLO: Well, let me tell you.
MARCELLINO: OK.
COSTELLO: The beer industry has been a male-dominated world for generations, but that is all changing. From London, Meara Erdozain. She serves up that story for us.
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MEARA ERDOZAIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The familiar stereotype of the beer-guzzling male. He's on one side of the bar and she's on the other. Until recently, most women in the beer industry pulled pipes. Now, they're moving into management positions, even brewing the beer itself.
Moyra Williams is one of the judges at this year's Great British Beer Festival in London. She's a female brewer, or brewster. She got a degree in brewing at Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, where now more than half the doctorate students are women.
MOYRA WILLIAMS, BREWSTER: So I remember coming when I first came into the south of England to work, going to a brewing dinner in London, and there were about two females. And it was sort of you felt a little bit intimidated slightly. But now we're still very much the minority, but we're definitely increasing in number.
ERDOZAIN: Moyra Williams says women now account for around 10 percent of senior positions.
(on camera): Despite the growing number of women working within the brewing industry, beer still has a bit of an image problem amongst female consumers. Many women feel that drinking a pint is unhealthy and a little unladylike.
(voice over): But times have changed. These days, women are often seen drinking a pint or two alongside the men.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fantastic, as long as they don't drink too many. But if they enjoy it, great.
ERDOZAIN: And for the beer companies, the challenge is to convince more women to join the beer brigade.
PAULA WATERS, CHAIRMAN, CAMRA: The dark ones are the most fantastic blackberry and black current flavors. If you just swirl it around in your glass and have a sniff, I don't know if (UNINTELLIGIBLE), you should be able to smell the black currents and the blackberry coming off. And then you have a little taste, and it's very -- you've got a little chocolate, because of the dark malt in there.
ERDOZAIN: Experts say the key to attracting women drinkers and women managers is to focus on quality. Say a glass of good ale should be no less special than a good glass of wine. After all, they say, it's no more fattening.
Meara Erdozain, CNN, London.
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COSTELLO: Interesting.
MARCELLINO: Do you want to have a pint now? Does it make you want to have a pint?
COSTELLO: I'm going to run right out after the show.
MARCELLINO: Sounds like a good idea.
COSTELLO: The mug winner will be announced in two minutes -- coffee mug that is. But first, this is DAYBREAK for a Wednesday morning.
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COSTELLO: It is coffee mug time.
MARCELLINO: It's my favorite time. I'm still without a coffee mug, but it's time to reveal the coffee mug winner of today.
On Tuesday, we asked you: How old is the Statue of Liberty? And the answer is 117 years old. The second question we asked is a highly-anticipated video game will be in stores Tuesday. What's the name of the game? And that is "Doom 3."
And today's winner is J.C. Ramos of Paris, Tennessee.
COSTELLO: Congratulations.
MARCELLINO: You're the winner of a brand spanking new CNN DAYBREAK coffee mug.
Here's your chance now to win a coffee break mug. Today's question is: How many of Lance Armstrong's "live strong" bracelets have been sold since May? And the second question -- you have to get both: Name at least two of the top 10 food antioxidants that offer the most nutritional value. And the hint is it just in the last segment with Lisa Drayer.
COSTELLO: Yes. Daybreak@CNN.com. Daybreak@CNN.com. Of course, we'll have the winner for you tomorrow.
From the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Costello, along with Rob Marciano. "AMERICAN MORNING" starts right now.
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