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Look at Possible Paths of Hurricane Jeanne; Examining Remarks on Elections by Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi
Aired September 24, 2004 - 05:00 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Here we go again. Grab the plywood, the hammer, the nails -- another hurricane is threatening Florida.
It is Friday, September 24.
This is DAYBREAK.
And good morning to you.
From the CNN Global Headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Costello.
Now in the news, word overnight of another kidnapping at this office building in Baghdad. Two Egyptian engineers are being held by kidnappers who burst in after tying up the guards.
We'll get a new CIA director just about four hours from now. President Bush will swear in Florida Congressman Porter Goss. The Senate approved Goss for the post earlier this week.
Later today, the president makes campaign appearances in Wisconsin before flying to his ranch in Texas. He'll spend the weekend studying for Thursday's first presidential debate with Senator John Kerry.
And Kerry is on the road, as well. In Philadelphia, he was at a 12:00 Eastern rally at the University of Pennsylvania. CNN will bring that to you live. And then later, Kerry returns to Boston.
To the forecast center now and Chad for more on this hurricane.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Jeanne, Jeanne, the dancing machine. Remember that from "The Gong Show?" I'd like to gong this thing.
COSTELLO: Yes.
MYERS: Here it is, folks, now making its way toward the northern and central Bahamas. Actually, hurricane warnings were just posted for the northern Bahamas. And actually it's going to make a big hard right hand turn and on up the East Coast. The big question is when does that right turn occur.
Some of the computer models are actually taking that right turn before it hits Florida and continuing that right turn completely off shore, just making a wave maker. Now, other models are actually taking it farther inland, actually through southern Florida -- or central Florida -- back out across Tampa, into the Gulf and then back up almost the same way that Frances ran.
Now, the good news is this is not quite as strong as Frances. A borderline category three as it makes landfall. Winds of about 115 miles per hour. Obviously, Frances was a much larger storm than that. Don't let your guard down. A small category three is still a big hurricane.
Here you go. Rain showers here from Shreveport back to Lake Charles. This is the remnants of Ivan. Ivan is actually forecast to turn to the left. I'm sorry, that would be left, yes, all the way down by Sunday morning, all the way down by Corpus Christi. So really just a rainmaker for Texas and not really anything else. And that rain is really only scattered at this point.
Warm weather in D.C., New York, all the way down to Atlanta today. Temperatures there in the 80s, or at least even the middle 80s -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Chad.
MYERS: You're welcome.
COSTELLO: Well, Jeanne is coming, as you know, after all those other storms lashed Florida.
As Amanda Ober of CNN affiliate WESH tells us, facing Jeanne will be awfully difficult for those who have suffered through all those other storms.
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MARY MUSER: Now the roof was all off, you know, the carport and that. And the back shed.
AMANDA OBER, WESH CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mary Muser (ph) just moved to Barefoot Bay from Michigan. She says evacuating for hurricane Frances took such a toll on her ill health, if Jeanne comes, she's staying put.
MUSER: I mean I can take a lot, because I've been through a lot.
OBER (on camera): But this has pushed you over the edge?
MUSER: This has really pushed me. I'm not going to evacuate. If they say come and you have to go, take me to jail then. Go ahead and take me to jail, because I can't take another trip.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You heard that?
OBER (voice-over): Adding to Mary's stress, her daughter, son- in-law and three grandkids are now living in her mobile home. Frances left them homeless.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And we just weren't prepared. Not even close. And that kills me. OBER (on camera): Mary's daughter and grandkids lived in this house, but it was condemned after hurricane Frances. Not only have they had to bunk in with their mother, but a note on the door begs for a visit from an insurance adjuster.
(voice-over): The stress hurricane Frances and now Jeanne have put on this one family is tremendous. And the fact that grandma is refusing to evacuate is another worry.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She makes her own decisions. I mean I stand by them.
MUSER: If my heart doesn't get me evacuating again, the hurricane will get me. So be it.
OBER: Hopefully the rest of Barefoot Bay won't feel that way if Jeanne threatens a visit.
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COSTELLO: Haiti is still struggling to deal with the devastation left by Jeanne. U.N. peacekeepers are forced to guard aid workers after several violent incidents at distribution centers. Tens of thousands of people lost their homes to the floods. More than 1,100 people have died. Another 1,200 are still missing. Countless unidentified bodies are now being dumped into mass graves.
And let's not forget that never say die storm, Ivan. After pounding the Southeast and then looping into the Atlantic and back into the Gulf of Mexico, it's now bringing torrential rains along the Texas-Louisiana border. You heard Chad talk about that. Already Louisiana's Grand Isle has water on some roads. Ivan could dump as much as 10 inches of rain on the region.
Ivan, Jeanne, you can keep up with the projected paths of these storms on our Web site. You can also check links to emergency information and get tips for what to do in a hurricane. The address, cnn.com/hurricanes.
The visit by Iraq's interim prime minister to the United States has opened a can of worms. At issue, his statement that democracy is taking hold in Iraq despite relentless violence.
Here's more from CNN's Andrea Koppel.
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AYAD ALLAWI, IRAQ'S INTERIM PRIME MINISTER: Go from Basra to Nasiriyah to Kut.
ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Addressing skeptics head on, Prime Minister Allawi said the vast majority of Iraq could hold elections as soon as tomorrow.
ALLAWI: The Iraqi elections may not be perfect, they may not be the best elections that Iraq will ever hold, but they will take place and they will be free and fair.
KOPPEL: But with only four months left before election day, privately U.S. and U.N. officials fear Iraq has neither the security nor the logistics in place for elections to go forward.
President Bush says it's up to the United Nations to make sure Iraq is ready.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Prime Minister Allawi and I have urged the U.N. to send sufficient personnel to help ensure the success of Iraqi elections.
KOPPEL: Fewer than 10 U.N. election advisers are now in Baghdad and Secretary General Kofi Annan has told Mr. Bush he won't send any more until the security situation is stabilized and additional protection for U.N. staff is provided. So far, only the former Russian republic of Georgia has offered to contribute to a U.N. protection force.
But even if security improves, experts say, Iraq still has a lot to do to prepare a credible framework for elections, establish a list of eligible voters among Iraq's 27 million people, set up an estimated 30,000 polling sites, train about 130,000 election workers and educate voters. Another complicating factor? Ensuring broad-based participation among Iraq's feuding ethnic and religious groups.
LES CAMPBELL, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE: If Iraqis, Sunni, Kurd, Shia, Christian and otherwise, are to feel that they are fully invested in a new Iraq, a democratic Iraq, they are going to have to have the opportunity to walk into a polling place and cast their vote for their leadership.
KOPPEL (on camera): Despite the positive words from Bush and Allawi, some U.S. officials behind the scenes acknowledge more pessimism, that in reality it may be difficult to go ahead with elections as early as January, and if they did, worry whether Iraqis would accept the results as legitimate.
Andrea Koppel, CNN, New York.
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COSTELLO: John Kerry is among those with raised eyebrows after hearing Prime Minister Allawi's rosy assessment about Iraq's move toward democracy.
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SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The prime minister and the president are here, obviously, to put their best face on the policy. But the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story.
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COSTELLO: Sticking to the presidential race, President Bush can claim two more states in the all important electoral college. Bush has moved ahead of Kerry in both Iowa and in New Hampshire. A CNN weekly analysis now shows if the election were held today, the president would win 301 electoral votes. Senator Kerry would get 237. A candidate needs 270 votes to win the presidency. This means that even if Kerry wins Florida, he won't have enough electoral votes to win the presidency.
Speaking of Florida, a new CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll shows the race there is a statistical dead heat. Forty-nine percent of likely voters would choose Bush, 46 percent Kerry, 2 percent would pick Ralph Nader. Among registered voters, 47 percent would pick Bush, 45 percent Kerry. Nader still gets 2 percent. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In other news across America this morning, in Utah, Mark Hacking is on a fast track to a murder trial. He's waived his right to a preliminary hearing. That means he acknowledges the state has enough evidence against him to justify a trial. Hacking is charged with murdering his wife Lori after she learned he lied to her about being enrolled in medical school. Her body still hasn't been found. A trial date will be set at the next hearing on October 29.
A small problem for the Los Angeles Police Department. The head of their counter-terrorism unit tried to board a plane with a loaded handgun. John Miller was briefly detained and his police issued gun was confiscated. Police Chief William Bratton, the man you're seeing here, says Miller is extraordinarily embarrassed.
Police in Philadelphia are vowing to make a quick arrest after the attempted murder of six patients at a nursing home. Someone crept into their rooms and cut their feeding tubes. All six people survived the attacks, but police say it's unlikely that the victims will be able to identify their attacker.
The Florida Supreme Court rules the governor and the state legislature have no business butting into a right to die case. The decision clears the way for a man who for years has been fighting to have his brain damaged wife's feeding tube removed.
Here's more for you from CNN's John Zarrella.
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JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the past 14 years, Bob and Mary Schindler have been fighting to keep their daughter Terri alive on life support. They have always believed their daughter, who was 26 years old when her heart failed, could be rehabilitated.
MARY SCHINDLER, TERRI'S MOTHER: I have always thought there was hope. When I go in there, you know, and she responds to me, she knows I'm there.
ZARRELLA: But court decisions have almost always gone against the Schindlers. This time, Florida's Supreme Court ruled that the law allowing Terry Schiavo to be kept alive by a feeding tube is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.
Last year, a Florida circuit court ruled there was no evidence that therapy would lead to any form of recovery. That cleared the way for Schiavo's husband Michael to have her removed from the feeding tube.
MICHAEL SCHIAVO, TERRI'S HUSBAND: She didn't want to be kept alive on anything artificial. She didn't want any tubes. She didn't want to be a burden to people.
ZARRELLA: Within days, the Florida legislature passed a bill that gave Governor Jeb Bush the power to trump the court and order Terri's feeding tube reinserted, which he did. The Florida high court's ruling is not what the governor hoped to hear.
GOV. JEB BUSH (R), FLORIDA: In my heart, I believe we did what was right. But I'm respectful of the Supreme Court's decision.
ZARRELLA: The ACLU applauded the ruling.
LARRY SPALDING, ACLU SPOKESMAN: It was a powerful statement affirming judicial independence.
ZARRELLA: The governor has not decided whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
John Zarrella, CNN, Miami.
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COSTELLO: And this riveting story brings us to our e-mail Question of the Morning. Should the government get involved in life and death medical decisions? E-mail us with what you think. The address, daybreak@cnn.com. That's daybreak@cnn.com.
And, we'll talk about this legal dilemma in the Terry Schiavo case near the top of DAYBREAK'S next hour. Our CNN legal analyst, Kendall Coffey, will be with us 10 after the hour.
Also coming up on the legal front, the Scott Peterson case. Jurors see home video of a happy Laci Peterson and the nursery she'd prepared for her unborn son. That comes your way five minutes from now.
Plus, this is the eighth day of captivity for British hostage Ken Bigley in Iraq. His family and his country on edge. We'll take you live to London and Bigley's home town of Liverpool just after the half hour.
And later, we'll take you away from it all with a ride that feels out of this world. Doesn't that look fun? That comes your way at 55 minutes past the hour.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Friday morning.
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COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports.
It is 5:15 Eastern.
Here's what's all new this morning.
A Tennessee couple is under arrest after police found a retired South Carolina businessman frozen in a rented storage unit. James Dale Cockman went missing on September 14 and police believe he died during a bungled carjacking.
People in Florida are stocking up and boarding up once again. Hurricane Jeanne is threatening to make landfall in an already frustrated Florida. The Kennedy Space Center cleared out all non- essential personnel in preparation for the storm.
In money news, the nation's emergency oil reserve is being tapped because of Ivan. The hurricane caused supply disruptions that have raised prices at the gas pump. It's the first time in two years that the strategic reserve has been used.
In culture, "Seinfeld" is coming back to TV, but only for one show. And I'm not talking about the reruns, either. A special Thanksgiving Day retrospective is planned to coincide with the release of the series on DVD.
In sports, number four ranked Miami had little trouble getting past the University. The Hurricanes ran their record to 3-0 for the year, but their defense did allow its first touchdown of the season.
To the forecast center now and Chad.
MYERS: Good morning, Carol.
We've switched over to the Vipir system now this morning. We want to show you where the rainfall was. This is not a picture of where the rainfall is. In fact, this is where it was. We can zoom into a couple of spots. New Orleans, back over to about Port Arthur and even over toward Beaumont, some of these areas here very heavy rainfall. And as I zoom in, we'll put a couple of numbers on here for you. Twelve inches there, 10 there, six, all the way down to about five there.
Now, where is this? Let me take the radar off and you can actually see it a little bit better. It is the coast of Texas and also the bayou there in Louisiana. So those numbers, right around Port Arthur yesterday, very heavy rainfall. That obviously was from Ivan.
That is Jeanne. Jeanne making its way to the west, 100 mile per hour winds right now, going to 115 before it makes landfall. And that looks like very, very close to Cape Canaveral.
Carol -- back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Chad.
Jurors in the Scott Peterson trial were given a visual journey through the case. Among the more important images were surveillance photos of a blonde Scott Peterson and home video of Laci Peterson during happier times.
CNN's Ted Rowlands reports from Redwood City, California.
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TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Video of Laci Peterson preparing food while entertaining friends was shown in court, effectively bringing to life for a few moments the victim and reason for this trial. The home video, which was stolen from the Peterson house and later retrieved, also showed a still unaccounted for diamond encrusted watch. Scott Peterson claims his wife was wearing this watch when she disappeared. The defense claims the watch was later sold at a Modesto pawn shop by someone possibly involved in Laci's murder.
Jurors also saw video of the inside of the Peterson home, including shots of the nursery awaiting the birth of their first child.
DEAN JOHNSON, LEGAL ANALYST: That's one of those things that you always want to see as a prosecutor in a homicide case. You want to impress upon the jury that this was a living, vibrant human being.
ROWLANDS: Craig Grogan, the lead detective who's been on the stand for four days, testified about Scott Peterson's altered appearance, dyed hair and a goatee, at the time of his arrest. Grogan said before pulling him over, agents trialed Peterson for four hours as he erratically drove around southern California. These photos were taken when Peterson stopped for gas shortly before they pulled him over.
Grogan said Peterson cried when on the drive back to Modesto he was told that DNA tests confirmed his wife and son were dead.
(on camera): On cross-examination, Peterson's attorney, Mark Geragos, attacked Detective Grogan's 41 reasons that he says points toward guilt in the case. Grogan is expected to be back on the stand when court resumes on Monday.
Ted Rowlands, CNN, Redwood City, California.
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COSTELLO: What's hot on the Web straight ahead.
Plus, the Rocket Man verbally pounds the paparazzi. But what's really behind this Elton John outburst?
And our e-mail Question of the Morning. Should the government get involved in life and death medical decisions? We want to hear from you this morning. The address, daybreak@cnn.com. That's daybreak@cnn.com.
You are watching DAYBREAK for a Friday.
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COSTELLO: We're always interested in what you're clicking onto on cnn.com.
The number one clicked on story of the morning, "Body of Missing Sara Lee Executive Found Frozen." This is a grizzly tale.
MYERS: He was trying to sell his '96 Suburban to two guys or a guy and a girl. And it was just ugly. I don't know, it was just...
COSTELLO: Well, they carjacked him.
MYERS: They tried. They put duct tape over his mouth and according to those two, or witnesses or whatever it might be, that he couldn't breathe and...
COSTELLO: He suffocated. That's what police believe.
MYERS: Yes, he did. Right.
COSTELLO: And then they put him in a storage locker, which was like a freezer.
MYERS: A freezer.
COSTELLO: And they found him there later.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: This is an amazing story. The number two clicked on story on the Web, "Study Finds Dogs Can Smell Cancer." This is amazing.
MYERS: Dogs can smell 100,000 times better than a person.
COSTELLO: That's true. And during this test, which was performed by doctors, they showed that when urine from bladder cancer patients was set out among samples from healthy people or those with other diseases, the dogs, ordinary dogs, were able to identify cancer urine almost three times more often than would be expected by chance alone. And these are just typical dogs. These were the pets of the people who put on the tests.
MYERS: Right, right.
COSTELLO: A cocker Spaniel, a Labrador and just a mutt.
MYERS: Well, and, of course, the longer the snout, the more receptors are in the dog's...
COSTELLO: Really?
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: I didn't know that.
And the third most clicked on story has to do with Michael Jackson. And we're going to have more on this later in our show. Apparently police also raided Michael Jackson's personal assistant's home. And, of course, the Michael Jackson team now wants items taken from that home back.
MYERS: Wouldn't you think that by now everything that might have been there would be gone anyway?
COSTELLO: I don't know. I don't know. But they're going to release documents that so we'll get to see what exactly was taken.
MYERS: OK. Next?
COSTELLO: Time for our DAYBREAK "Eye Opener" right now.
Why were these women wearing their pajamas in the middle of the day you ask? The old-fashioned pajama party was part of a fundraiser for breast cancer research. More than 1,000 women put on their jammies to join in. Similar parties will be held in other cities, including Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
MYERS: Go.
COSTELLO: Great Falls, Montana, a stray moose kept people off the streets for the better part of the afternoon.
MYERS: Moose!
COSTELLO: It took game wardens six shots from their tranquilizer gun to bring down the mischievous moose. The animal was taken off into the woods, where it no doubt rejoined Rocky the flying squirrel for another wacky adventure.
MYERS: He didn't look mischievous to me. He was just standing there.
COSTELLO: He was mischievous, Chad.
MYERS: Oh.
COSTELLO: This plant looks harmless now, but just wait for it to bloom.
MYERS: Oh, no, not another one of these.
COSTELLO: Yes. It's accurately nicknamed the corpse flower because of the horrible smell. Experts say it smells like dead animals that have been out in the sun for a few days. Others say it smells like rotten eggs. The plant can grow up to nine feet tall, but thankfully it can go about 20 years between blooms. Ireland is looking for a way to deal with a sticky situation. The government is considering a 10 percent tax on chewing gum. The money would go to scrape the chewed gum off the ground. Ireland's two year old tax on plastic shopping bags has raised around $5 million, so I think they've got something there.
MYERS: Elton not happy.
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ELTON JOHN: Don't touch me.
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JOHN: Don't touch me. Yes (OBSCENE WORD OMITTED) touch you.
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COSTELLO: We beeped it. He also called the people vile pigs. But Sir Elton John was not talking about Ireland's chewing gum tax. He was very upset with the crowd of photographers who surrounded him in Taiwan. But the singer didn't let the problematic paparazzi keep him from performing. He's still cursing. John went on with his show, but told the crowd that the photographers were the rudest people he has met anywhere in the whole world.
MYERS: And we only saw a portion of that. We didn't see what led up to that, obviously.
COSTELLO: I enjoyed it.
MYERS: So, whatever.
COSTELLO: Britney Spears is pretty darned upset that people are saying she's not really married.
MYERS: You've got to get a license.
COSTELLO: Yes. Here's what David Letterman had to say.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM "THE LATE SHOW WITH DAVID LETTERMAN, COURTESY CBS/WORLDWIDE PANTS)
DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST: According to reports now, the Britney Spears wedding over the weekend was a hoax.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh.
LETTERMAN: We've been punked. That's right. The wedding was a fake. However, the divorce will go on as scheduled. So that's good. And by the way, I want to tell you something, if that wedding was phony, Britney, and I'm not kidding about this, if that wedding was phony, I want my toaster back.
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MYERS: Have you seen the pictures of her gown?
COSTELLO: No. I just can't get into Britney Spears. I guess I'm too old. I don't know.
MYERS: Maybe.
COSTELLO: But she's very cute.
MYERS: She is very beautiful. She was beautiful at the wedding, like yourself.
COSTELLO: Oh, Chad, thanks.
Here's what's all new in the next half hour of DAYBREAK.
What goes up, of course, must come down. If you ever wanted to float like an astronaut, your chance is here. But the cost will lighten your wallet and your stomach. Stay tuned.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Most days, you probably feel tied to your computer. How would you like to wear it all the time? Well, Thad Starner has worn his modified PC nearly every day since 1993 and he thinks eventually many of us will do the same. A pioneer in the wearable computing field, Starner points to the explosion of mobile gadgets like cell phones and PDAs.
THAD STARNER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTING, GEORGIA TECH: Last year, in 2003, there were actually three times as many on body computing devices sold than laptops and desktops combined.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His goal is to make voice controlled wearable computers that are interactive without being intrusive, like being able to update your daily calendar or giving you helpful reminders all while on the go.
STARNER: What we've been looking at is systems that can use speech that you normally would say to help control your computer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Starner believes wearable computers, in one form or another, will one day replace the desktop as we know it and change how we communicate with each other.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Here we go again. Grab the plywood, the hammer, the nails -- another hurricane is threatening Florida.
It is Friday, September 24.
This is DAYBREAK.
And good morning to you.
From the CNN Global Headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Costello.
Now in the news, word overnight of another kidnapping at this office building in Baghdad. Two Egyptian engineers are being held by kidnappers who burst in after tying up the guards.
We'll get a new CIA director just about four hours from now. President Bush will swear in Florida Congressman Porter Goss. The Senate approved Goss for the post earlier this week.
Later today, the president makes campaign appearances in Wisconsin before flying to his ranch in Texas. He'll spend the weekend studying for Thursday's first presidential debate with Senator John Kerry.
And Kerry is on the road, as well. In Philadelphia, he was at a 12:00 Eastern rally at the University of Pennsylvania. CNN will bring that to you live. And then later, Kerry returns to Boston.
To the forecast center now and Chad for more on this hurricane.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Jeanne, Jeanne, the dancing machine. Remember that from "The Gong Show?" I'd like to gong this thing.
COSTELLO: Yes.
MYERS: Here it is, folks, now making its way toward the northern and central Bahamas. Actually, hurricane warnings were just posted for the northern Bahamas. And actually it's going to make a big hard right hand turn and on up the East Coast. The big question is when does that right turn occur.
Some of the computer models are actually taking that right turn before it hits Florida and continuing that right turn completely off shore, just making a wave maker. Now, other models are actually taking it farther inland, actually through southern Florida -- or central Florida -- back out across Tampa, into the Gulf and then back up almost the same way that Frances ran.
Now, the good news is this is not quite as strong as Frances. A borderline category three as it makes landfall. Winds of about 115 miles per hour. Obviously, Frances was a much larger storm than that. Don't let your guard down. A small category three is still a big hurricane.
Here you go. Rain showers here from Shreveport back to Lake Charles. This is the remnants of Ivan. Ivan is actually forecast to turn to the left. I'm sorry, that would be left, yes, all the way down by Sunday morning, all the way down by Corpus Christi. So really just a rainmaker for Texas and not really anything else. And that rain is really only scattered at this point.
Warm weather in D.C., New York, all the way down to Atlanta today. Temperatures there in the 80s, or at least even the middle 80s -- Carol.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Chad.
MYERS: You're welcome.
COSTELLO: Well, Jeanne is coming, as you know, after all those other storms lashed Florida.
As Amanda Ober of CNN affiliate WESH tells us, facing Jeanne will be awfully difficult for those who have suffered through all those other storms.
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MARY MUSER: Now the roof was all off, you know, the carport and that. And the back shed.
AMANDA OBER, WESH CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mary Muser (ph) just moved to Barefoot Bay from Michigan. She says evacuating for hurricane Frances took such a toll on her ill health, if Jeanne comes, she's staying put.
MUSER: I mean I can take a lot, because I've been through a lot.
OBER (on camera): But this has pushed you over the edge?
MUSER: This has really pushed me. I'm not going to evacuate. If they say come and you have to go, take me to jail then. Go ahead and take me to jail, because I can't take another trip.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You heard that?
OBER (voice-over): Adding to Mary's stress, her daughter, son- in-law and three grandkids are now living in her mobile home. Frances left them homeless.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And we just weren't prepared. Not even close. And that kills me. OBER (on camera): Mary's daughter and grandkids lived in this house, but it was condemned after hurricane Frances. Not only have they had to bunk in with their mother, but a note on the door begs for a visit from an insurance adjuster.
(voice-over): The stress hurricane Frances and now Jeanne have put on this one family is tremendous. And the fact that grandma is refusing to evacuate is another worry.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She makes her own decisions. I mean I stand by them.
MUSER: If my heart doesn't get me evacuating again, the hurricane will get me. So be it.
OBER: Hopefully the rest of Barefoot Bay won't feel that way if Jeanne threatens a visit.
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COSTELLO: Haiti is still struggling to deal with the devastation left by Jeanne. U.N. peacekeepers are forced to guard aid workers after several violent incidents at distribution centers. Tens of thousands of people lost their homes to the floods. More than 1,100 people have died. Another 1,200 are still missing. Countless unidentified bodies are now being dumped into mass graves.
And let's not forget that never say die storm, Ivan. After pounding the Southeast and then looping into the Atlantic and back into the Gulf of Mexico, it's now bringing torrential rains along the Texas-Louisiana border. You heard Chad talk about that. Already Louisiana's Grand Isle has water on some roads. Ivan could dump as much as 10 inches of rain on the region.
Ivan, Jeanne, you can keep up with the projected paths of these storms on our Web site. You can also check links to emergency information and get tips for what to do in a hurricane. The address, cnn.com/hurricanes.
The visit by Iraq's interim prime minister to the United States has opened a can of worms. At issue, his statement that democracy is taking hold in Iraq despite relentless violence.
Here's more from CNN's Andrea Koppel.
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AYAD ALLAWI, IRAQ'S INTERIM PRIME MINISTER: Go from Basra to Nasiriyah to Kut.
ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Addressing skeptics head on, Prime Minister Allawi said the vast majority of Iraq could hold elections as soon as tomorrow.
ALLAWI: The Iraqi elections may not be perfect, they may not be the best elections that Iraq will ever hold, but they will take place and they will be free and fair.
KOPPEL: But with only four months left before election day, privately U.S. and U.N. officials fear Iraq has neither the security nor the logistics in place for elections to go forward.
President Bush says it's up to the United Nations to make sure Iraq is ready.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Prime Minister Allawi and I have urged the U.N. to send sufficient personnel to help ensure the success of Iraqi elections.
KOPPEL: Fewer than 10 U.N. election advisers are now in Baghdad and Secretary General Kofi Annan has told Mr. Bush he won't send any more until the security situation is stabilized and additional protection for U.N. staff is provided. So far, only the former Russian republic of Georgia has offered to contribute to a U.N. protection force.
But even if security improves, experts say, Iraq still has a lot to do to prepare a credible framework for elections, establish a list of eligible voters among Iraq's 27 million people, set up an estimated 30,000 polling sites, train about 130,000 election workers and educate voters. Another complicating factor? Ensuring broad-based participation among Iraq's feuding ethnic and religious groups.
LES CAMPBELL, NATIONAL DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTE: If Iraqis, Sunni, Kurd, Shia, Christian and otherwise, are to feel that they are fully invested in a new Iraq, a democratic Iraq, they are going to have to have the opportunity to walk into a polling place and cast their vote for their leadership.
KOPPEL (on camera): Despite the positive words from Bush and Allawi, some U.S. officials behind the scenes acknowledge more pessimism, that in reality it may be difficult to go ahead with elections as early as January, and if they did, worry whether Iraqis would accept the results as legitimate.
Andrea Koppel, CNN, New York.
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COSTELLO: John Kerry is among those with raised eyebrows after hearing Prime Minister Allawi's rosy assessment about Iraq's move toward democracy.
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SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The prime minister and the president are here, obviously, to put their best face on the policy. But the fact is that the CIA estimates, the reporting, the ground operations and the troops all tell a different story.
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COSTELLO: Sticking to the presidential race, President Bush can claim two more states in the all important electoral college. Bush has moved ahead of Kerry in both Iowa and in New Hampshire. A CNN weekly analysis now shows if the election were held today, the president would win 301 electoral votes. Senator Kerry would get 237. A candidate needs 270 votes to win the presidency. This means that even if Kerry wins Florida, he won't have enough electoral votes to win the presidency.
Speaking of Florida, a new CNN/"USA Today"/Gallup poll shows the race there is a statistical dead heat. Forty-nine percent of likely voters would choose Bush, 46 percent Kerry, 2 percent would pick Ralph Nader. Among registered voters, 47 percent would pick Bush, 45 percent Kerry. Nader still gets 2 percent. The margin of error is plus or minus 4 percentage points.
In other news across America this morning, in Utah, Mark Hacking is on a fast track to a murder trial. He's waived his right to a preliminary hearing. That means he acknowledges the state has enough evidence against him to justify a trial. Hacking is charged with murdering his wife Lori after she learned he lied to her about being enrolled in medical school. Her body still hasn't been found. A trial date will be set at the next hearing on October 29.
A small problem for the Los Angeles Police Department. The head of their counter-terrorism unit tried to board a plane with a loaded handgun. John Miller was briefly detained and his police issued gun was confiscated. Police Chief William Bratton, the man you're seeing here, says Miller is extraordinarily embarrassed.
Police in Philadelphia are vowing to make a quick arrest after the attempted murder of six patients at a nursing home. Someone crept into their rooms and cut their feeding tubes. All six people survived the attacks, but police say it's unlikely that the victims will be able to identify their attacker.
The Florida Supreme Court rules the governor and the state legislature have no business butting into a right to die case. The decision clears the way for a man who for years has been fighting to have his brain damaged wife's feeding tube removed.
Here's more for you from CNN's John Zarrella.
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JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For the past 14 years, Bob and Mary Schindler have been fighting to keep their daughter Terri alive on life support. They have always believed their daughter, who was 26 years old when her heart failed, could be rehabilitated.
MARY SCHINDLER, TERRI'S MOTHER: I have always thought there was hope. When I go in there, you know, and she responds to me, she knows I'm there.
ZARRELLA: But court decisions have almost always gone against the Schindlers. This time, Florida's Supreme Court ruled that the law allowing Terry Schiavo to be kept alive by a feeding tube is an unconstitutional violation of the separation of powers.
Last year, a Florida circuit court ruled there was no evidence that therapy would lead to any form of recovery. That cleared the way for Schiavo's husband Michael to have her removed from the feeding tube.
MICHAEL SCHIAVO, TERRI'S HUSBAND: She didn't want to be kept alive on anything artificial. She didn't want any tubes. She didn't want to be a burden to people.
ZARRELLA: Within days, the Florida legislature passed a bill that gave Governor Jeb Bush the power to trump the court and order Terri's feeding tube reinserted, which he did. The Florida high court's ruling is not what the governor hoped to hear.
GOV. JEB BUSH (R), FLORIDA: In my heart, I believe we did what was right. But I'm respectful of the Supreme Court's decision.
ZARRELLA: The ACLU applauded the ruling.
LARRY SPALDING, ACLU SPOKESMAN: It was a powerful statement affirming judicial independence.
ZARRELLA: The governor has not decided whether to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.
John Zarrella, CNN, Miami.
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COSTELLO: And this riveting story brings us to our e-mail Question of the Morning. Should the government get involved in life and death medical decisions? E-mail us with what you think. The address, daybreak@cnn.com. That's daybreak@cnn.com.
And, we'll talk about this legal dilemma in the Terry Schiavo case near the top of DAYBREAK'S next hour. Our CNN legal analyst, Kendall Coffey, will be with us 10 after the hour.
Also coming up on the legal front, the Scott Peterson case. Jurors see home video of a happy Laci Peterson and the nursery she'd prepared for her unborn son. That comes your way five minutes from now.
Plus, this is the eighth day of captivity for British hostage Ken Bigley in Iraq. His family and his country on edge. We'll take you live to London and Bigley's home town of Liverpool just after the half hour.
And later, we'll take you away from it all with a ride that feels out of this world. Doesn't that look fun? That comes your way at 55 minutes past the hour.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Friday morning.
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COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports.
It is 5:15 Eastern.
Here's what's all new this morning.
A Tennessee couple is under arrest after police found a retired South Carolina businessman frozen in a rented storage unit. James Dale Cockman went missing on September 14 and police believe he died during a bungled carjacking.
People in Florida are stocking up and boarding up once again. Hurricane Jeanne is threatening to make landfall in an already frustrated Florida. The Kennedy Space Center cleared out all non- essential personnel in preparation for the storm.
In money news, the nation's emergency oil reserve is being tapped because of Ivan. The hurricane caused supply disruptions that have raised prices at the gas pump. It's the first time in two years that the strategic reserve has been used.
In culture, "Seinfeld" is coming back to TV, but only for one show. And I'm not talking about the reruns, either. A special Thanksgiving Day retrospective is planned to coincide with the release of the series on DVD.
In sports, number four ranked Miami had little trouble getting past the University. The Hurricanes ran their record to 3-0 for the year, but their defense did allow its first touchdown of the season.
To the forecast center now and Chad.
MYERS: Good morning, Carol.
We've switched over to the Vipir system now this morning. We want to show you where the rainfall was. This is not a picture of where the rainfall is. In fact, this is where it was. We can zoom into a couple of spots. New Orleans, back over to about Port Arthur and even over toward Beaumont, some of these areas here very heavy rainfall. And as I zoom in, we'll put a couple of numbers on here for you. Twelve inches there, 10 there, six, all the way down to about five there.
Now, where is this? Let me take the radar off and you can actually see it a little bit better. It is the coast of Texas and also the bayou there in Louisiana. So those numbers, right around Port Arthur yesterday, very heavy rainfall. That obviously was from Ivan.
That is Jeanne. Jeanne making its way to the west, 100 mile per hour winds right now, going to 115 before it makes landfall. And that looks like very, very close to Cape Canaveral.
Carol -- back to you.
COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Chad.
Jurors in the Scott Peterson trial were given a visual journey through the case. Among the more important images were surveillance photos of a blonde Scott Peterson and home video of Laci Peterson during happier times.
CNN's Ted Rowlands reports from Redwood City, California.
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TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Video of Laci Peterson preparing food while entertaining friends was shown in court, effectively bringing to life for a few moments the victim and reason for this trial. The home video, which was stolen from the Peterson house and later retrieved, also showed a still unaccounted for diamond encrusted watch. Scott Peterson claims his wife was wearing this watch when she disappeared. The defense claims the watch was later sold at a Modesto pawn shop by someone possibly involved in Laci's murder.
Jurors also saw video of the inside of the Peterson home, including shots of the nursery awaiting the birth of their first child.
DEAN JOHNSON, LEGAL ANALYST: That's one of those things that you always want to see as a prosecutor in a homicide case. You want to impress upon the jury that this was a living, vibrant human being.
ROWLANDS: Craig Grogan, the lead detective who's been on the stand for four days, testified about Scott Peterson's altered appearance, dyed hair and a goatee, at the time of his arrest. Grogan said before pulling him over, agents trialed Peterson for four hours as he erratically drove around southern California. These photos were taken when Peterson stopped for gas shortly before they pulled him over.
Grogan said Peterson cried when on the drive back to Modesto he was told that DNA tests confirmed his wife and son were dead.
(on camera): On cross-examination, Peterson's attorney, Mark Geragos, attacked Detective Grogan's 41 reasons that he says points toward guilt in the case. Grogan is expected to be back on the stand when court resumes on Monday.
Ted Rowlands, CNN, Redwood City, California.
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COSTELLO: What's hot on the Web straight ahead.
Plus, the Rocket Man verbally pounds the paparazzi. But what's really behind this Elton John outburst?
And our e-mail Question of the Morning. Should the government get involved in life and death medical decisions? We want to hear from you this morning. The address, daybreak@cnn.com. That's daybreak@cnn.com.
You are watching DAYBREAK for a Friday.
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COSTELLO: We're always interested in what you're clicking onto on cnn.com.
The number one clicked on story of the morning, "Body of Missing Sara Lee Executive Found Frozen." This is a grizzly tale.
MYERS: He was trying to sell his '96 Suburban to two guys or a guy and a girl. And it was just ugly. I don't know, it was just...
COSTELLO: Well, they carjacked him.
MYERS: They tried. They put duct tape over his mouth and according to those two, or witnesses or whatever it might be, that he couldn't breathe and...
COSTELLO: He suffocated. That's what police believe.
MYERS: Yes, he did. Right.
COSTELLO: And then they put him in a storage locker, which was like a freezer.
MYERS: A freezer.
COSTELLO: And they found him there later.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: This is an amazing story. The number two clicked on story on the Web, "Study Finds Dogs Can Smell Cancer." This is amazing.
MYERS: Dogs can smell 100,000 times better than a person.
COSTELLO: That's true. And during this test, which was performed by doctors, they showed that when urine from bladder cancer patients was set out among samples from healthy people or those with other diseases, the dogs, ordinary dogs, were able to identify cancer urine almost three times more often than would be expected by chance alone. And these are just typical dogs. These were the pets of the people who put on the tests.
MYERS: Right, right.
COSTELLO: A cocker Spaniel, a Labrador and just a mutt.
MYERS: Well, and, of course, the longer the snout, the more receptors are in the dog's...
COSTELLO: Really?
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: I didn't know that.
And the third most clicked on story has to do with Michael Jackson. And we're going to have more on this later in our show. Apparently police also raided Michael Jackson's personal assistant's home. And, of course, the Michael Jackson team now wants items taken from that home back.
MYERS: Wouldn't you think that by now everything that might have been there would be gone anyway?
COSTELLO: I don't know. I don't know. But they're going to release documents that so we'll get to see what exactly was taken.
MYERS: OK. Next?
COSTELLO: Time for our DAYBREAK "Eye Opener" right now.
Why were these women wearing their pajamas in the middle of the day you ask? The old-fashioned pajama party was part of a fundraiser for breast cancer research. More than 1,000 women put on their jammies to join in. Similar parties will be held in other cities, including Chicago and Portland, Oregon.
MYERS: Go.
COSTELLO: Great Falls, Montana, a stray moose kept people off the streets for the better part of the afternoon.
MYERS: Moose!
COSTELLO: It took game wardens six shots from their tranquilizer gun to bring down the mischievous moose. The animal was taken off into the woods, where it no doubt rejoined Rocky the flying squirrel for another wacky adventure.
MYERS: He didn't look mischievous to me. He was just standing there.
COSTELLO: He was mischievous, Chad.
MYERS: Oh.
COSTELLO: This plant looks harmless now, but just wait for it to bloom.
MYERS: Oh, no, not another one of these.
COSTELLO: Yes. It's accurately nicknamed the corpse flower because of the horrible smell. Experts say it smells like dead animals that have been out in the sun for a few days. Others say it smells like rotten eggs. The plant can grow up to nine feet tall, but thankfully it can go about 20 years between blooms. Ireland is looking for a way to deal with a sticky situation. The government is considering a 10 percent tax on chewing gum. The money would go to scrape the chewed gum off the ground. Ireland's two year old tax on plastic shopping bags has raised around $5 million, so I think they've got something there.
MYERS: Elton not happy.
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ELTON JOHN: Don't touch me.
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JOHN: Don't touch me. Yes (OBSCENE WORD OMITTED) touch you.
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COSTELLO: We beeped it. He also called the people vile pigs. But Sir Elton John was not talking about Ireland's chewing gum tax. He was very upset with the crowd of photographers who surrounded him in Taiwan. But the singer didn't let the problematic paparazzi keep him from performing. He's still cursing. John went on with his show, but told the crowd that the photographers were the rudest people he has met anywhere in the whole world.
MYERS: And we only saw a portion of that. We didn't see what led up to that, obviously.
COSTELLO: I enjoyed it.
MYERS: So, whatever.
COSTELLO: Britney Spears is pretty darned upset that people are saying she's not really married.
MYERS: You've got to get a license.
COSTELLO: Yes. Here's what David Letterman had to say.
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DAVID LETTERMAN, HOST: According to reports now, the Britney Spears wedding over the weekend was a hoax.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh.
LETTERMAN: We've been punked. That's right. The wedding was a fake. However, the divorce will go on as scheduled. So that's good. And by the way, I want to tell you something, if that wedding was phony, Britney, and I'm not kidding about this, if that wedding was phony, I want my toaster back.
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MYERS: Have you seen the pictures of her gown?
COSTELLO: No. I just can't get into Britney Spears. I guess I'm too old. I don't know.
MYERS: Maybe.
COSTELLO: But she's very cute.
MYERS: She is very beautiful. She was beautiful at the wedding, like yourself.
COSTELLO: Oh, Chad, thanks.
Here's what's all new in the next half hour of DAYBREAK.
What goes up, of course, must come down. If you ever wanted to float like an astronaut, your chance is here. But the cost will lighten your wallet and your stomach. Stay tuned.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Most days, you probably feel tied to your computer. How would you like to wear it all the time? Well, Thad Starner has worn his modified PC nearly every day since 1993 and he thinks eventually many of us will do the same. A pioneer in the wearable computing field, Starner points to the explosion of mobile gadgets like cell phones and PDAs.
THAD STARNER, ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF COMPUTING, GEORGIA TECH: Last year, in 2003, there were actually three times as many on body computing devices sold than laptops and desktops combined.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His goal is to make voice controlled wearable computers that are interactive without being intrusive, like being able to update your daily calendar or giving you helpful reminders all while on the go.
STARNER: What we've been looking at is systems that can use speech that you normally would say to help control your computer.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Starner believes wearable computers, in one form or another, will one day replace the desktop as we know it and change how we communicate with each other.
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