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Serial Killer Suspect; Philippines Typhoon; Beyond the Soundbite; AIDS in Russia

Aired December 02, 2004 - 05:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning to you. Welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. Let's check the headlines now.
Explosions rocked central Baghdad this morning. One person is killed, a dozen wounded. You're looking at video just in to us this morning from one of those blast sites. Police say the explosions were caused by at least five mortar rounds.

This could be a decisive day in the Ukraine. The supreme court is expected to rule on an appeal by the opposition to invalidate the results of the bitterly contested presidential election. That could open the door for a revote.

On his first day home from Canada, President Bush will focus today on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. He'll meet in the White House with Nigeria's president, who is chairman of the African Union, which has peacekeeping troops in Darfur.

And the man who stabbed Sweden's Foreign Minister to death last year will be jailed for life. That's the ruling from Sweden's supreme court. It overturned an appeals court ruling that would have sent the confessed killer to a mental hospital.

To the Forecast Center now and Rob Marciano in for Chad today.

Good morning.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Carol.

(WEATHER REPORT)

MARCIANO: Good luck in the fall or early winter day for you up there in New York, Carol, enjoy it.

COSTELLO: All right, thank you -- Rob.

MARCIANO: You bet.

COSTELLO: It's the defense team's turn in the penalty phase of Scott Peterson's double murder trial. The same jury that convicted Peterson of first and second degree murder now decides if he lives in prison or dies. Peterson's father was the first defense witness. He was on the stand for almost three hours and said he can't imagine anything worse than the death penalty. Peterson called his son -- quote -- "A perfect infant and a sunny and motivated teenager." Defense testimony is expected to take the rest of the week. Texas Governor Rick Perry has given Frances Newton a four-month reprieve. She was to be executed last night for the shooting deaths of her husband and two young children in 1987. Governor Perry granted a stay of execution to allow for retesting of evidence.

And a convicted rapist already serving time in California will be arraigned today on multiple murder charges. DNA tests apparently link Chester Dwayne Turner to at least 12 murders spanning a decade.

CNN's Donna Tetheault tells the story of two women and two daughters forever linked by two murders.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JERRI JOHNSON, DAUGHTER MURDERED: We made friends from the bowling alley. You know there are some people you just click with.

DONNA TETHEAULT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mildred White and Jerri Johnson have been bowling together for over 30 years, sharing good and bad times. But one strike they never expected to share was the deaths of their daughters. Annette Ernest murdered in 1987 and Andrea Triplett five years later.

JOHNSON: Not only was my daughter a victim of a serial killer, but my friend's daughter was the victim of the same person.

TETHEAULT: Los Angeles cold case homicide detectives have linked their daughters' murders, as well as 10 other women and an unborn baby, to this man, Chester Dwayne Turner.

JOHNSON: Andrea had a laugh and a beautiful smile and she was a good mother, she loved her children.

MILDRED WHITE, DAUGHTER MURDERED: She was a kind hearted girl.

TETHEAULT: Police describe Turner as one of the most prolific serial killers in Los Angeles' history. Detectives say DNA evidence from Turner, already in prison for a sexual assault, matched evidence found on the women all brutally assaulted, strangled and dumped near downtown.

JOHNSON: I have ran my daughter's last minutes through my mind so many times.

TETHEAULT: Not only would these mothers lose their daughters together, they would raise the grandchildren left behind.

JOHNSON: I was left with a 7-year-old granddaughter and a 10- year-old grandson, and I had to become a mother the second time around.

WHITE: When I got those children, I had to give up my job and I had to give up a lot. But it was a sacrifice I was willing to make.

TETHEAULT: Now these two grandmothers will forever be connected as their lives continue down parallel lanes. WHITE: Now we have something else to go through, you know. So that says to me this friendship will never end. She's a Godsend to me and I'm a Godsend to her.

TETHEAULT: Donna Tetheault for CNN, Los Angeles.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Scrambling for higher ground. At 40 minutes past, how residents of the Philippines are coping with their latest natural disaster. We'll get you a live report from Manila.

At 5:50, the state of AIDS in Russia and why the country is declining treatment to some HIV victims.

And our DAYBREAK Question of the Day, should TV networks broadcast advocacy ads?

But first, a look at what else is making news this Thursday morning.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Were Colombian rebels plotting to assassinate President Bush? The rebels say there's no truth to the Colombian government's accusation. Colombia's Defense Minister says a Marxist rebel group was plotting to carry out the attack during the president's brief visit to Kardian (ph) last week. Security was extremely tight for that four-hour stop.

President Bush is back at the White House this morning. He's fresh from a two-day fence-mending mission to Canada where he was not always welcomed warmly. An important part of the trip was the president's visit to Nova Scotia. He thanked Canadians there for helping more than 30,000 stranded U.S. airline passengers after the 9/11 attacks and he talked about the war in Iraq.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Sometimes even the closest of friends disagree. And two years ago we disagreed about the best course of action in Iraq. Yet, as your prime minister made clear in Washington earlier this year, there is no disagreement at all with what has to be done in going forward.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: And looking forward right now, President and Mrs. Bush will light the national Christmas tree this afternoon at 5:00 Eastern, 2:00 Pacific Time. You can watch it live right here on CNN.

The State Department says it welcomes the Senate's investigation of the U.N.-Iraq Oil-For-Food scandal, but it's not joining in the call for Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign. Annan is under fire, in part, because his son, Kojo, was a consultant for a firm involved in the Oil-For-Food program. Throwing the Palestinian political scene into turmoil, Marwan Barghouti has changed his mind and now says he will run for president to replace Yasser Arafat. Barghouti is serving five life prison sentences for attacks on Israelis. His wife registered Barghouti as an independent candidate.

An already flood-ravaged Philippines is the target of yet another powerful typhoon. People in Florida can certainly identify with this. Devastating winds and rains are whipping parts of the Philippines.

Let's go there now to Manila and journalist Jeannette Ifurung.

Hello -- Jeannette.

JEANNETTE IFURUNG, JOURNALIST: Yes, Carol, the Philippines, as you know, was already hit by a storm last weekend and the death toll from that is now at 407 with 142 more people missing. And now this new typhoon, Typhoon Namandol, is expected to hit land anytime within the next three hours. It's going to make landfall in the province of Aurora (ph), one of the provinces already hardest hit by the previous storm.

Many places are already experiencing heavy rains and strong winds. It has winds of up to 220 kilometers an hour. And even here in the Philippines, which sees about 20 typhoons a year, it's being called a super typhoon.

Thousands of families have been evacuated from their homes, electricity has been shut off in many places, flights cancelled, schools and offices closed. And officials have been airing appeals throughout the day for donations of food, drinking water, medicine, blankets and even body bags.

Some towns are still isolated and health conditions are becoming a serious worry for local officials. In Real, the town hardest hit by the previous typhoon, bodies that were recovered are laid out in the evacuation center and residents are unable to bury their dead because the rain just hasn't let up -- Kathy (ph).

COSTELLO: Jeannette, is there any place safe for people to go?

IFURUNG: Well evacuation centers have been designated by officials, but last Monday an evacuation center was hit by a landslide. So the best thing that people right now can do is just leave coastal towns and low-lying areas and move to the evacuation centers and just hold tight -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Jeannette Ifurung, reporting live from Manila this morning, thank you.

Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:41 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.

Five mortar rounds target the heart of Baghdad leaving 1 person dead and at least 12 others wounded. Fifteen hundred U.S. troops are getting the call up from the Pentagon. They'll be told they'll be heading to Iraq. The government is also extending the stays of more than 10,000 other U.S. forces already there.

In money news, weak car sales in November have hurt General Motors and Ford. The carmakers say they will cut production more than expected.

In culture, the Miramax film "Finding Neverland" has been named best film of the year by the National Board of Review, stories that fictionalize the account of the creation of Peter Pan.

And in sports, one day after Notre Dame football coach Tyron Willingham was fired, the team voted to play in the Insight Bowl at Phoenix. Willingham says he blames himself for failing to develop a winning program.

To the Forecast Center now and -- Rob.

MARCIANO: Hey, Carol.

(WEATHER FORECAST)

MARCIANO: Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: Thank you, Rob.

Those are the latest headlines for you this morning.

I'm sure you've heard the latest about Ken Jen. Ken Jennings is returning to private life with $2.5 million and a record 74 consecutive wins on one of TV's hottest game shows. That would be "Jeopardy." This week, Jennings brought new meaning to the words Final Jeopardy when he met his match and fell to a taxing question.

We go beyond the soundbite now with part of an interview from CNN's Anderson Cooper.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KEN JENNINGS, JEOPARDY CHAMPION: The question came up, and I could immediately hear Nancy next to me start writing her answer. You know you can hear the little pen clicking on the tablet. And I thought, oh my gosh, she knows this. And I had no idea.

And at that point I sort of realized that you know that's the ball game. And there was sort of a little twinge of disappointment, because you know you play to win, you know, you don't like to lose, even if you've already won.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Just a twinge, that was it after all these...

JENNINGS: Well, I mean, 74 wins, you know you've got to be ready to lose sometime. I felt like my number had been up long ago. (END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: But Jennings may still win big, there's speculation now that he may be featured in some H&R Block ads. That's just crazy.

The state of AIDS in Russia, not enough drugs to go around, who gets them, who doesn't?

Plus, our Question of the Morning, should TV networks broadcast advocacy ads? We're reading your e-mails.

You're watching DAYBREAK for Thursday, December 2.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Health Headlines for you this morning.

A warning this morning for women pregnant with twins, triplets or quadruplets. The Canadian study finds those women are almost 13 times more likely to have heart failure and more than twice as likely to have blood clots in their legs and lungs.

There are safety concerns this morning about a testosterone patch for women that increases sexual desire. Procter & Gamble wants FDA approval, but the FDA has doubts. The agency is asking an advisory panel to see if more studies are needed.

And there are concerns today about a resurgence of HIV infections in gay and bisexual men in the United States. The CDC says infections from 2000 to 2003 rose 11 percent.

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

All week long we've been focusing on the different aspects of AIDS. This morning we take you to Russia for a look at how people there view the disease and what's being done to fight it.

Ryan Chilcote has the story for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RYAN CHILCOTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A line of coffins is carried to a government building in St. Petersburg in protest against a shortage of medicine to treat people infected with HIV. Russia's second largest city has more than 30,000 people known to be HIV positive, but it just has two hospitals to cope with them.

Drugs can delay or prevent HIV developing into AIDS, but hospital managers say they have only half of what they need. That forces doctors to decide who's worth saving.

DR. ELENA VINOGRADOYA, ST. PETERSBURG AIDS CENTER: First and foremost we have to -- who are born HIV positive and their (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to keep them alive. CHILCOTE: Drug users are the lowest priority. Sharing dirty needles is still the biggest cause of new HIV cases in Russia. Jenga (ph) says he no longer shares needles and says more people are aware of the dangers now but the problem continues.

JENGA, DRUG USER: This is the usual things that they're around 15 people and there is one needle for them all.

CHILCOTE (on camera): Fifteen people. Wow!

JENGA: And the AIDS going around. They have no money to buy new.

CHILCOTE (voice-over): Drug users can swap old needles for new at St. Petersburg's only exchange point, but many are suspicious. Natashia (ph) helps herself and many others to keep clean.

NATASHIA, DRUG USER: They're afraid of coming to the bus, they ask me.

CHILCOTE: Across town, St. Petersburg's biggest support group for its HIV positive population is marking its second anniversary. The celebrations provide a happy break from the battle many of them are waging to stay alive. Amid the happiness there is anger.

ALEXANDER RUMYANTGEV, HIV POSITIVE ACTIVIST: It's genocide when doctors -- and who doesn't get medicine is a (ph) death sentence because they don't have enough.

VINOGRADOYA: I can't take the pills away from a child and give them to someone who's using drugs. The day a junkie (ph) needs to take his pills he shoots up and is in a state of oblivion he skips the pill.

CHILCOTE: Tonya (ph) is a prostitute. She says 90 percent of the girls she knows who sell sex for money shoot drugs, but she believes HIV is no threat to her.

TONYA, PROSTITUTE: I don't know one person who died from it. Even though they run around shouting that there are dead people living all over the place.

CHILCOTE: Officials predict sex will soon overtake drug use as the main source of transmission, spreading the problem into the general population. Without increasing the amount of drugs available, doctors will face even more difficult choices.

Activists demanding that increase on this day had their protests ignored. They promise to return again and again until someone does care.

Ryan Chilcote, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Here's what's all new in the next hour of DAYBREAK. Big brother at work, is your boss watching you and is there anything you can do about it?

Plus, no more whining. The high court is about to take on how you can buy wine. More importantly, how you can ship wine. Our Ali Velshi is here to explain.

And today's history question, are you ready, put your thinking cap on, I know it's early, but put it on. Here's the question, who did the United States Senate condemn in 1954 for conduct unbecoming a Senator?

This is DAYBREAK for Thursday.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: All right, our history trivia question for the morning, here it is once again, who did the United States Senate condemn in 1954 for conduct unbecoming a senator? The answer is that would be Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.

Time for our DAYBREAK Eye-Opener now.

Something for wealthy martini lovers, see what the waiter is putting in that martini? It's a diamond. It's a diamond. New York's Algonquin Hotel has just begun offering the drink, but it requires a 72 hour notice, that's so the buyer can meet with the jeweler to select a gem. So far though, no takers. And no wonder, this martini costs $10,000.


Aired December 2, 2004 - 05:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning to you. Welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. Let's check the headlines now.
Explosions rocked central Baghdad this morning. One person is killed, a dozen wounded. You're looking at video just in to us this morning from one of those blast sites. Police say the explosions were caused by at least five mortar rounds.

This could be a decisive day in the Ukraine. The supreme court is expected to rule on an appeal by the opposition to invalidate the results of the bitterly contested presidential election. That could open the door for a revote.

On his first day home from Canada, President Bush will focus today on the crisis in Sudan's Darfur region. He'll meet in the White House with Nigeria's president, who is chairman of the African Union, which has peacekeeping troops in Darfur.

And the man who stabbed Sweden's Foreign Minister to death last year will be jailed for life. That's the ruling from Sweden's supreme court. It overturned an appeals court ruling that would have sent the confessed killer to a mental hospital.

To the Forecast Center now and Rob Marciano in for Chad today.

Good morning.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Carol.

(WEATHER REPORT)

MARCIANO: Good luck in the fall or early winter day for you up there in New York, Carol, enjoy it.

COSTELLO: All right, thank you -- Rob.

MARCIANO: You bet.

COSTELLO: It's the defense team's turn in the penalty phase of Scott Peterson's double murder trial. The same jury that convicted Peterson of first and second degree murder now decides if he lives in prison or dies. Peterson's father was the first defense witness. He was on the stand for almost three hours and said he can't imagine anything worse than the death penalty. Peterson called his son -- quote -- "A perfect infant and a sunny and motivated teenager." Defense testimony is expected to take the rest of the week. Texas Governor Rick Perry has given Frances Newton a four-month reprieve. She was to be executed last night for the shooting deaths of her husband and two young children in 1987. Governor Perry granted a stay of execution to allow for retesting of evidence.

And a convicted rapist already serving time in California will be arraigned today on multiple murder charges. DNA tests apparently link Chester Dwayne Turner to at least 12 murders spanning a decade.

CNN's Donna Tetheault tells the story of two women and two daughters forever linked by two murders.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JERRI JOHNSON, DAUGHTER MURDERED: We made friends from the bowling alley. You know there are some people you just click with.

DONNA TETHEAULT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mildred White and Jerri Johnson have been bowling together for over 30 years, sharing good and bad times. But one strike they never expected to share was the deaths of their daughters. Annette Ernest murdered in 1987 and Andrea Triplett five years later.

JOHNSON: Not only was my daughter a victim of a serial killer, but my friend's daughter was the victim of the same person.

TETHEAULT: Los Angeles cold case homicide detectives have linked their daughters' murders, as well as 10 other women and an unborn baby, to this man, Chester Dwayne Turner.

JOHNSON: Andrea had a laugh and a beautiful smile and she was a good mother, she loved her children.

MILDRED WHITE, DAUGHTER MURDERED: She was a kind hearted girl.

TETHEAULT: Police describe Turner as one of the most prolific serial killers in Los Angeles' history. Detectives say DNA evidence from Turner, already in prison for a sexual assault, matched evidence found on the women all brutally assaulted, strangled and dumped near downtown.

JOHNSON: I have ran my daughter's last minutes through my mind so many times.

TETHEAULT: Not only would these mothers lose their daughters together, they would raise the grandchildren left behind.

JOHNSON: I was left with a 7-year-old granddaughter and a 10- year-old grandson, and I had to become a mother the second time around.

WHITE: When I got those children, I had to give up my job and I had to give up a lot. But it was a sacrifice I was willing to make.

TETHEAULT: Now these two grandmothers will forever be connected as their lives continue down parallel lanes. WHITE: Now we have something else to go through, you know. So that says to me this friendship will never end. She's a Godsend to me and I'm a Godsend to her.

TETHEAULT: Donna Tetheault for CNN, Los Angeles.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Scrambling for higher ground. At 40 minutes past, how residents of the Philippines are coping with their latest natural disaster. We'll get you a live report from Manila.

At 5:50, the state of AIDS in Russia and why the country is declining treatment to some HIV victims.

And our DAYBREAK Question of the Day, should TV networks broadcast advocacy ads?

But first, a look at what else is making news this Thursday morning.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Were Colombian rebels plotting to assassinate President Bush? The rebels say there's no truth to the Colombian government's accusation. Colombia's Defense Minister says a Marxist rebel group was plotting to carry out the attack during the president's brief visit to Kardian (ph) last week. Security was extremely tight for that four-hour stop.

President Bush is back at the White House this morning. He's fresh from a two-day fence-mending mission to Canada where he was not always welcomed warmly. An important part of the trip was the president's visit to Nova Scotia. He thanked Canadians there for helping more than 30,000 stranded U.S. airline passengers after the 9/11 attacks and he talked about the war in Iraq.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Sometimes even the closest of friends disagree. And two years ago we disagreed about the best course of action in Iraq. Yet, as your prime minister made clear in Washington earlier this year, there is no disagreement at all with what has to be done in going forward.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: And looking forward right now, President and Mrs. Bush will light the national Christmas tree this afternoon at 5:00 Eastern, 2:00 Pacific Time. You can watch it live right here on CNN.

The State Department says it welcomes the Senate's investigation of the U.N.-Iraq Oil-For-Food scandal, but it's not joining in the call for Secretary-General Kofi Annan to resign. Annan is under fire, in part, because his son, Kojo, was a consultant for a firm involved in the Oil-For-Food program. Throwing the Palestinian political scene into turmoil, Marwan Barghouti has changed his mind and now says he will run for president to replace Yasser Arafat. Barghouti is serving five life prison sentences for attacks on Israelis. His wife registered Barghouti as an independent candidate.

An already flood-ravaged Philippines is the target of yet another powerful typhoon. People in Florida can certainly identify with this. Devastating winds and rains are whipping parts of the Philippines.

Let's go there now to Manila and journalist Jeannette Ifurung.

Hello -- Jeannette.

JEANNETTE IFURUNG, JOURNALIST: Yes, Carol, the Philippines, as you know, was already hit by a storm last weekend and the death toll from that is now at 407 with 142 more people missing. And now this new typhoon, Typhoon Namandol, is expected to hit land anytime within the next three hours. It's going to make landfall in the province of Aurora (ph), one of the provinces already hardest hit by the previous storm.

Many places are already experiencing heavy rains and strong winds. It has winds of up to 220 kilometers an hour. And even here in the Philippines, which sees about 20 typhoons a year, it's being called a super typhoon.

Thousands of families have been evacuated from their homes, electricity has been shut off in many places, flights cancelled, schools and offices closed. And officials have been airing appeals throughout the day for donations of food, drinking water, medicine, blankets and even body bags.

Some towns are still isolated and health conditions are becoming a serious worry for local officials. In Real, the town hardest hit by the previous typhoon, bodies that were recovered are laid out in the evacuation center and residents are unable to bury their dead because the rain just hasn't let up -- Kathy (ph).

COSTELLO: Jeannette, is there any place safe for people to go?

IFURUNG: Well evacuation centers have been designated by officials, but last Monday an evacuation center was hit by a landslide. So the best thing that people right now can do is just leave coastal towns and low-lying areas and move to the evacuation centers and just hold tight -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Jeannette Ifurung, reporting live from Manila this morning, thank you.

Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:41 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.

Five mortar rounds target the heart of Baghdad leaving 1 person dead and at least 12 others wounded. Fifteen hundred U.S. troops are getting the call up from the Pentagon. They'll be told they'll be heading to Iraq. The government is also extending the stays of more than 10,000 other U.S. forces already there.

In money news, weak car sales in November have hurt General Motors and Ford. The carmakers say they will cut production more than expected.

In culture, the Miramax film "Finding Neverland" has been named best film of the year by the National Board of Review, stories that fictionalize the account of the creation of Peter Pan.

And in sports, one day after Notre Dame football coach Tyron Willingham was fired, the team voted to play in the Insight Bowl at Phoenix. Willingham says he blames himself for failing to develop a winning program.

To the Forecast Center now and -- Rob.

MARCIANO: Hey, Carol.

(WEATHER FORECAST)

MARCIANO: Carol, back to you.

COSTELLO: Thank you, Rob.

Those are the latest headlines for you this morning.

I'm sure you've heard the latest about Ken Jen. Ken Jennings is returning to private life with $2.5 million and a record 74 consecutive wins on one of TV's hottest game shows. That would be "Jeopardy." This week, Jennings brought new meaning to the words Final Jeopardy when he met his match and fell to a taxing question.

We go beyond the soundbite now with part of an interview from CNN's Anderson Cooper.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KEN JENNINGS, JEOPARDY CHAMPION: The question came up, and I could immediately hear Nancy next to me start writing her answer. You know you can hear the little pen clicking on the tablet. And I thought, oh my gosh, she knows this. And I had no idea.

And at that point I sort of realized that you know that's the ball game. And there was sort of a little twinge of disappointment, because you know you play to win, you know, you don't like to lose, even if you've already won.

ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Just a twinge, that was it after all these...

JENNINGS: Well, I mean, 74 wins, you know you've got to be ready to lose sometime. I felt like my number had been up long ago. (END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: But Jennings may still win big, there's speculation now that he may be featured in some H&R Block ads. That's just crazy.

The state of AIDS in Russia, not enough drugs to go around, who gets them, who doesn't?

Plus, our Question of the Morning, should TV networks broadcast advocacy ads? We're reading your e-mails.

You're watching DAYBREAK for Thursday, December 2.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Health Headlines for you this morning.

A warning this morning for women pregnant with twins, triplets or quadruplets. The Canadian study finds those women are almost 13 times more likely to have heart failure and more than twice as likely to have blood clots in their legs and lungs.

There are safety concerns this morning about a testosterone patch for women that increases sexual desire. Procter & Gamble wants FDA approval, but the FDA has doubts. The agency is asking an advisory panel to see if more studies are needed.

And there are concerns today about a resurgence of HIV infections in gay and bisexual men in the United States. The CDC says infections from 2000 to 2003 rose 11 percent.

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

All week long we've been focusing on the different aspects of AIDS. This morning we take you to Russia for a look at how people there view the disease and what's being done to fight it.

Ryan Chilcote has the story for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RYAN CHILCOTE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A line of coffins is carried to a government building in St. Petersburg in protest against a shortage of medicine to treat people infected with HIV. Russia's second largest city has more than 30,000 people known to be HIV positive, but it just has two hospitals to cope with them.

Drugs can delay or prevent HIV developing into AIDS, but hospital managers say they have only half of what they need. That forces doctors to decide who's worth saving.

DR. ELENA VINOGRADOYA, ST. PETERSBURG AIDS CENTER: First and foremost we have to -- who are born HIV positive and their (UNINTELLIGIBLE) to keep them alive. CHILCOTE: Drug users are the lowest priority. Sharing dirty needles is still the biggest cause of new HIV cases in Russia. Jenga (ph) says he no longer shares needles and says more people are aware of the dangers now but the problem continues.

JENGA, DRUG USER: This is the usual things that they're around 15 people and there is one needle for them all.

CHILCOTE (on camera): Fifteen people. Wow!

JENGA: And the AIDS going around. They have no money to buy new.

CHILCOTE (voice-over): Drug users can swap old needles for new at St. Petersburg's only exchange point, but many are suspicious. Natashia (ph) helps herself and many others to keep clean.

NATASHIA, DRUG USER: They're afraid of coming to the bus, they ask me.

CHILCOTE: Across town, St. Petersburg's biggest support group for its HIV positive population is marking its second anniversary. The celebrations provide a happy break from the battle many of them are waging to stay alive. Amid the happiness there is anger.

ALEXANDER RUMYANTGEV, HIV POSITIVE ACTIVIST: It's genocide when doctors -- and who doesn't get medicine is a (ph) death sentence because they don't have enough.

VINOGRADOYA: I can't take the pills away from a child and give them to someone who's using drugs. The day a junkie (ph) needs to take his pills he shoots up and is in a state of oblivion he skips the pill.

CHILCOTE: Tonya (ph) is a prostitute. She says 90 percent of the girls she knows who sell sex for money shoot drugs, but she believes HIV is no threat to her.

TONYA, PROSTITUTE: I don't know one person who died from it. Even though they run around shouting that there are dead people living all over the place.

CHILCOTE: Officials predict sex will soon overtake drug use as the main source of transmission, spreading the problem into the general population. Without increasing the amount of drugs available, doctors will face even more difficult choices.

Activists demanding that increase on this day had their protests ignored. They promise to return again and again until someone does care.

Ryan Chilcote, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Here's what's all new in the next hour of DAYBREAK. Big brother at work, is your boss watching you and is there anything you can do about it?

Plus, no more whining. The high court is about to take on how you can buy wine. More importantly, how you can ship wine. Our Ali Velshi is here to explain.

And today's history question, are you ready, put your thinking cap on, I know it's early, but put it on. Here's the question, who did the United States Senate condemn in 1954 for conduct unbecoming a Senator?

This is DAYBREAK for Thursday.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: All right, our history trivia question for the morning, here it is once again, who did the United States Senate condemn in 1954 for conduct unbecoming a senator? The answer is that would be Senator Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin.

Time for our DAYBREAK Eye-Opener now.

Something for wealthy martini lovers, see what the waiter is putting in that martini? It's a diamond. It's a diamond. New York's Algonquin Hotel has just begun offering the drink, but it requires a 72 hour notice, that's so the buyer can meet with the jeweler to select a gem. So far though, no takers. And no wonder, this martini costs $10,000.