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Iraqi Electoral Commission Expected to Certify Results Today; Hockey Players, Owners Will Have to Chill Out for Rest of Season

Aired February 17, 2005 - 05:00   ET

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KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Straight ahead on DAYBREAK, the nation's top spy chief issues a warning. Those low-tech car bombs in Baghdad could be coming to Main Street, USA.
Plus, the cold nature of business -- the demise of the hockey season is being felt far beyond the ice rink.

And a quick smile and a wink, but that won't get you out of trouble in Nashville. Kid Rock will have to face the music.

It is Thursday, February 17, and this is DAYBREAK.

And good morning.

From the Time Warner Center in New York, I am Kelly Wallace, in today for Carol Costello.

Now in the news, terrorists are targeting the U.S. again. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to tell members of Congress today that terrorists are reorganizing and getting ready for another attack. He goes today before the committees working on the defense budget.

We could learn today President Bush's choice for a new director of national intelligence. The job was created by the Intelligence Reform Bill, signed into law back in December. The nominee must be confirmed by the Senate.

He's beaten a brain tumor, heart surgery and attempts to unseat him. Now Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania says he'll beat Hodgkin's Disease, as well. Specter says he has the disease, which affects the lymph nodes.

And pop star Michael Jackson is out of the hospital. He left last night. Jackson was admitted Tuesday with a flu-like sickness. It brought jury selection to a halt in his child molestation trial.

Time now to check the forecast.

In today for Chad Myers, Rob Marciano -- Rob, it is you and me today.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I know, the B Team there.

WALLACE: Exactly.

Good to see you.

MARCIANO: Always nice to see you, Kelly.

And good morning, everybody.

(WEATHER REPORT)

WALLACE: More now on our top story, the warning of potential terrorist attacks on the United States. That warning coming from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Listen to this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: I think the people who follow the intelligence closely have seen a series since September 11, seen a series of very real intelligence that reflected al Qaeda planning for further attacks on the United States.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: The defense secretary also says successful elections in Iraq and Afghanistan don't preclude attacks on this country.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RUMSFELD: Just because we've had a success -- a very successful election in Iraq and just because Afghanistan was able to get through their elections and just because we've been fortunate in this country and not seen another attack since September 11, that does not mean that it's over. It isn't over.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: And Rumsfeld went on to say that terrorist groups are reorganizing, but quoting here, he said: "so are we."

And speaking of those elections in Iraq, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a moderate Shiite Muslim and leader of the Dawa Party is considered to be a leading candidate for interim prime minister. Al-Jaafari opposes an early withdrawal of U.S. troops and any attempts to break up Iraq to create a separate region. He joined the Dawa Party in 1966 and left Iraq back in 1980, when Saddam Hussein cracked down on party leaders. The party leader fled Iraq through Syria and spent 10 years in Iran.

Ahmed Chalabi also is a candidate for prime minister.

The selection by top Shiite politicians will come in a secret ballot.

Let's get more now on those elections. The Iraqi Electoral Commission is expected to certify results today.

For more on this, we go to Nic Robertson in Baghdad -- Nic, good to see you.

Are we expecting any change, ultimately, in the outcome when these results are finalized?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What we're going to see is probably that all the parties involved seeing their seat numbers boosted over those original estimates. What happened is a lot of people didn't make the grade. Their votes didn't count. There's an overall adjustment, and therefore everybody gets their seats bumped up.

But will it make a big difference to the final complexion of the government? No. What it will mean, though, it will mean the very real trigger for all these political deals to be worked out, to be accelerated. Everyone will know categorically how many seats they've got, what their strengths are, how they can play those strengths.

But what I am hearing, what I am being told is that this process of political horse trading is very slow. It's going with great difficulty and there are some serious differences between some of the key players at this time -- Kelly.

WALLACE: And, Nic, talk to us a little bit about Ibrahim al- Jaafari.

What would it mean for the United States, for U.S. policy in Iraq, if he ultimately does become the new interim prime minister?

ROBERTSON: He's seen as a unifying figure. When he was in exile, he was the chairman of one of the exiled committees trying to get the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. For that reason, he is likely and believed to be able to form a very cohesive government. And perhaps that's critical for the United States, because a cohesive government means less problems, it means a unified front tackling all the terror attacks, it means a unified front in terms of building up a strong security infrastructure, which means ultimately that U.S. troops can go home quicker.

So a unified government here is the best thing that the United States can look for and certainly what we are being told is Jaafari really is the man who can bring that sense of unity and really bring that focus -- Kelly

WALLACE: Nic, are you also picking up, though, from some Sunni parties when they question whether they will do any deal making and have any involvement in the government, some appear to be saying they won't do that without a fixed timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

What are you hearing?

ROBERTSON: That's one of their issues and they -- that was one of their primary issues for calling for the boycott. They told a lot of their fellow Sunnis, you can't get involved in the elections while U.S. troops are in the country. And that seems to be why they're tying it to -- tying their involvement now to U.S. troops setting a firm time frame.

The debate seems to be centering around now the conditions for the U.S. troops to withdraw. And that's where Jaafari really is, perhaps, one of the bridge builders here, with some of his fellow politicians. They're saying look, U.S. troops should leave as soon as the security conditions are ready, as soon as Iraqi security forces can do the job. And that seems to be the direction that some of these Sunni politicians are going.

And what we're hearing is, is that perhaps the Sunni hard-liners are going to stay on the margins, but some of the more moderate politicians are being drawn into drafting the constitution and drawn into calling on Sunnis to get involved in the next round of elections -- Kelly.

WALLACE: All right, Nic, thanks so much.

We'll check in with you a little bit later here on DAYBREAK.

Nic Robertson reporting from Baghdad.

"News Across America" this morning.

Kid Rock has been arrested for allegedly attacking a D.J. at a Nashville, Tennessee strip club. He was released on a $3,000 bond. Kid Rock, whose real name is Bob Ritchie, was in town to perform at a memorial service for country songwriter Merle Kilgore.

A traveling memorial for victims of the war in Iraq is on display in Austin, Texas. The Eyes Wide Shut exhibit features pairs of boots from U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens killed during that conflict. Austin is the 40th city to host the memorial.

An Orlando, Florida high school chemistry teacher has been arrested for teaching students how to make this bomb in class. David Pieski faces a felony charge after also admitting to making several bombs himself. Police were tipped off after a student made a videotape of his class project exploding on a golf course.

News now about hockey. Hockey players and owners will have to chill out for the rest of the season and work toward their goal of playing next year. Many question if the fans will ever come back to the sport.

Our Larry Smith has more.

(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)

LARRY SMITH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The day that all hockey fans have dreaded has arrived. For the first time in the history of American pro sports, an entire season will be canceled due to a labor dispute.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dejection, disappointment, frustration, all of the above.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess my hopes were high, hoping that there would still be a bit of a season left. But unfortunately not.

SMITH: Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, who now runs the Phoenix Coyotes, was equally dismayed.

WAYNE GRETZKY, HOCKEY HALL OF FAMER: And we all felt strongly that they seemed to be getting together on the same page and it looked very optimistic that hockey was going to start in the next 10 days. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

MICHAEL FARBER, "SPORTS ILLUSTRATED" WRITER: A league that had become a niche league in recent years is now off the radar screen. We won't have hockey for minimum a season and a half. And I don't think the NHL can take that time off. It's just not that strong.

SMITH: NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman disagrees.

GARY BETTMAN, NHL COMMISSIONER: We will be back and we will be back better than ever, and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

SMITH: A more pressing question facing the NHL may not be when are you coming back, but does anyone even care? A January poll showed 67 percent of sports fans wouldn't be disappointed at all if the season was canceled.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's a lot of other things to do. I think people found a lot of different alternative entertainment forms.

FARBER: When the baseball strike wiped out the World Series in 1994, fans screamed I'm never going back, I'm never going to go to another major league game. What's even more worrying than that is this time we don't hear any voices raised.

SMITH: It took four years and an historic home run chase in 1998 between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa for baseball to reconnect with its fans.

Larry Smith, CNN, Atlanta.

(END VIDEO TAPE)

WALLACE: And that brings us to our DAYBREAK E-Mail Question of the Day.

Is greed spoiling professional sports? Let us know what you think at daybreak@cnn.com. We'll read your thoughts throughout the next two hours.

So, is it homegrown terrorism, as the FBI labeled it? The Bureau is tracking a shadowy group that appears organized and yet has no apparent organization. Ted Rowlands has that in six minutes.

How much does it hurt and where? Too often that question goes unanswered. Dr. Sanjay Gupta on living with chronic pain in 39 minutes. And as we were talking about, there is no around the ice rinks. And it's not just the owners and players losing paychecks. Mary Snow in 45 minutes on the others caught in the NHL season finale.

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

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

WALLACE: Your news, money, weather and sports.

It's about 15 minutes after the hour and here is what is all new this morning.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warns that terrorists are preparing for a new attack against the United States and he says the best defense is for the House Armed Services Committee to approve the president's $419 billion military and anti-terror budget. Secretary Rumsfeld will testify again today on Capitol Hill.

This message for broadcasters -- clean it up or get ready to pay big. The U.S. House has approved legislation raising the fine for indecent programming to half a million dollars. Right now, it is $32,500.

In money, Swedish retailer Ikea is opening its first warehouse in the southeastern United States this summer. The store in Atlanta will be the company's third largest in the U.S.

In culture, Ashley Olsen is suing the "National Enquirer" for at least $40 million. Her libel suit against the tabloid claims she was inaccurately linked to a drug scandal. Ashley's sister Mary Kate spent time in a rehab facility last year for an eating disorder.

In sports, Lance Armstrong plans to try for -- get this -- his seventh straight Tour de France title. There had been speculation that he'd skip the Tour after taking extra time off following win number six. The Tour gets underway in early July.

Time to check again with Rob.

Seven times, Rob.

Could it be possible?

MARCIANO: Well, we'll see. We'll see. He seems unstoppable at this point and he's got the pop culture behind him, too.

WALLACE: He sure does.

(WEATHER REPORT)

WALLACE: And those are the headlines. Ryan Lewis appears in court today accused of planting firebombs at a construction site in Auburn, California. It is the latest of what authorities believe are so-called ecoterror incidents in communities east of Sacramento.

CNN's Ted Rowlands has details.

(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He may not look dangerous, but the FBI thinks that 21-year-old Ryan Lewis is a terrorist. Lewis was arrested last week in Northern California for allegedly planting unexploded bombs at a construction site.

KEITH SLOTTER, FBI AGENT: And the bottom line is this is terrorism, no matter how you look at it. Terrorism is not just al Qaeda and international groups wanting to do this country harm. There's homegrown domestic terrorism and that's what this is, ecoterrorism.

ROWLANDS: Lewis is suspected being a member of the environmental group Earth Liberation Front, or ELF. The group is believed to be responsible for a string of attempted bombings near Sacramento over the past three months, including the discovery of a pipe bomb at a DMV office on Tuesday.

The FBI is analyzing a letter, signed ELF, which takes responsibility for the attacks, saying they are: "a statement against work and the horror of the cubicle." The letter, which also promises more attacks, was sent to, among others, Sam Stanton, a Sacramento newspaper reporter who's been tracking ELF for years.

SAM STANTON, REPORTER, "SACRAMENTO BEE": Well, nobody knows who they are. The group itself doesn't have a hierarchy or an organization. It uses a Web site to announce its activities.

ROWLANDS: Over the years, ELF has claimed responsibility for millions of dollars of property damage. Targets have included housing developments, construction sites and car dealerships. Messages claiming responsibility are often left behind, like this banner, saying, "If you build it, we will burn it," which was found when the smoke cleared at a housing development fire in San Diego.

The ELF mission is to stop development and save the environment. Members, as can be heard on this old training tape, are encouraged to act on an individual basis on behalf of the group.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP, ELF VIDEO)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take initiative, form your own cell and do what needs to be done to protect all life on this planet.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

ROWLANDS: Ryan Lewis is scheduled to make his first court appearance in Sacramento tomorrow. Ted Rowlands, CNN.

(END VIDEO TAPE)

WALLACE: Finding the source of your pain. It is a big question. What happens when doctors can't find it? Ahead, our Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains what makes treating pain such a pain?

And it's like a scene from a movie, but it happened in real life. The story behind this amazing video straight ahead.

You are watching DAYBREAK for a Thursday morning, February 17.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

WALLACE: And welcome back.

Time now for our DAYBREAK "Eye Opener."

And we're going to show you some great new video connected to a story we told you about yesterday. What you are watching is an Amtrak passenger train hitting a tractor-trailer filled with strawberries. Luckily, no one was seriously injured in the incident, but needless to say, the strawberries were a total loss. It's not known why the truck was stopped on the tracks.

Police near Portland, Oregon have busted a gnome napping ring. But that's of little comfort for one woman whose yard gnomes weren't among those recovered. But she does receive regular postcards and pictures of her gnomes from different places around the country. But that's nothing new. In fact, the practice is so popular that a leading travel Web site even uses a traveling gnome as, get this, its spokesgnome. Yes, that's right.

And attention bird lovers -- paintings by legendary naturalist John Audubon are going on display at the New York Historical Society. The more than three dozen original watercolors were purchased from Audubon's widow more than 140 years ago.

Well, we've been talking about it this morning -- hockey. It is a distant fourth in popularity as far as major league sports go. So news that the season is canceled didn't exactly rock the sports world, as Jay Leno delicately points out in our look at "Late Night Laughs."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP FROM "THE TONIGHT SHOW WITH JAY LENO," COURTESY NBC)

JAY LENO, HOST: Well, because of a labor dispute between the players and the owners, the entire hockey season has been canceled. The entire season canceled. Canceled. The whole season. I didn't even know it was on NBC. That's amazing.

Canceling hockey, I just hope there are no riots in South Central, L.A. tonight. It's going to be a tinder box when people find out there's -- what, no hockey!

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: Well, Rob, Leno seems to think no one's that upset about it. I don't know, people like hockey, right?

MARCIANO: Well, they certainly do in Canada. And I think if you got reaction from our Canadian friends, they might be a little bit more upset.

WALLACE: Exactly. And my brother-in-law, who's a big Islanders fan.

But, you know, it was our E-mail Question of the Day and we are hearing from our viewers. We've been getting great responses to our question. The question is, is greed spoiling professional sports?

I want to read a couple. We have someone, Ray, from Sour Lake, Texas. He says: "No. Greed isn't destroying professional sports, it did that a long time ago."

And listen to this one, Rob.

MARCIANO: All right.

WALLACE: James, Nick, actually, Nick Mason. He says: "Well, I'm a huge sports fan," he says. "But greedy? Is that really the right word to use? Stupid, insane, unbelievable. Need I say more?"

MARCIANO: Well, there's a lot of arguments. The capitalistic argument is, as Gordon Gecko would say, greed is good. But you get unions involved and then you get the owners kind of getting their own little union together and that's where you get a bit of an impasse. And the bottom line is a lot of folks in the U.S., at least, have lost their interest for hockey a long time ago.

It's a great game to watch in person, a great game to play. But to get it on TV is a tough go.

WALLACE: And it seems...

MARCIANO: What else do you?

WALLACE: And, yes, it seems to be the theme here -- money, money, money.

We've got another. Gabe Lopez. He writes: "Hell, yes. The true soul of sports seems to be almost gone from some pro sports. Show me the money has replaced the love of the game for many players."

And we have this one. Kevin Roach (ph). He writes in: "I love professional sports, but I think over the last 10 years, the players have really lost touch with reality and the fan-player relationship ain't what it used to be. Ticket prices are through the roof. I can't afford to attend a game anymore and these guys are fighting over $2 billion. It just doesn't make sense."

It'll be very interesting, Rob, to see what the ramifications are, if we look ahead to a new season for the hockey players, what happens with the fans, with the players, you know, what are the consequences of this?

MARCIANO: Well, we'll know next year, I guess.

WALLACE: We sure will. We sure will.

All right, Rob, we'll check in with you in a few minutes.

And here's what's all new in the next half hour.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PORTER GOSS, CIA DIRECTOR: It may be only a matter of time before al Qaeda or another group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: The new intelligence chief delivers an alarming warning on Capitol Hill. Find out who else Porter Goss thinks poses a threat to U.S. security.

Plus, it's not as easy as taking your temperature. I'm talking about measuring the amount of pain you feel. Ahead, our Sanjay Gupta looks at the complexities of pain.

This is DAYBREAK for a Thursday.

We'll be right back.

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Aired February 17, 2005 - 05:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Straight ahead on DAYBREAK, the nation's top spy chief issues a warning. Those low-tech car bombs in Baghdad could be coming to Main Street, USA.
Plus, the cold nature of business -- the demise of the hockey season is being felt far beyond the ice rink.

And a quick smile and a wink, but that won't get you out of trouble in Nashville. Kid Rock will have to face the music.

It is Thursday, February 17, and this is DAYBREAK.

And good morning.

From the Time Warner Center in New York, I am Kelly Wallace, in today for Carol Costello.

Now in the news, terrorists are targeting the U.S. again. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is expected to tell members of Congress today that terrorists are reorganizing and getting ready for another attack. He goes today before the committees working on the defense budget.

We could learn today President Bush's choice for a new director of national intelligence. The job was created by the Intelligence Reform Bill, signed into law back in December. The nominee must be confirmed by the Senate.

He's beaten a brain tumor, heart surgery and attempts to unseat him. Now Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania says he'll beat Hodgkin's Disease, as well. Specter says he has the disease, which affects the lymph nodes.

And pop star Michael Jackson is out of the hospital. He left last night. Jackson was admitted Tuesday with a flu-like sickness. It brought jury selection to a halt in his child molestation trial.

Time now to check the forecast.

In today for Chad Myers, Rob Marciano -- Rob, it is you and me today.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I know, the B Team there.

WALLACE: Exactly.

Good to see you.

MARCIANO: Always nice to see you, Kelly.

And good morning, everybody.

(WEATHER REPORT)

WALLACE: More now on our top story, the warning of potential terrorist attacks on the United States. That warning coming from Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld.

Listen to this.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: I think the people who follow the intelligence closely have seen a series since September 11, seen a series of very real intelligence that reflected al Qaeda planning for further attacks on the United States.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: The defense secretary also says successful elections in Iraq and Afghanistan don't preclude attacks on this country.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

RUMSFELD: Just because we've had a success -- a very successful election in Iraq and just because Afghanistan was able to get through their elections and just because we've been fortunate in this country and not seen another attack since September 11, that does not mean that it's over. It isn't over.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: And Rumsfeld went on to say that terrorist groups are reorganizing, but quoting here, he said: "so are we."

And speaking of those elections in Iraq, Ibrahim al-Jaafari, a moderate Shiite Muslim and leader of the Dawa Party is considered to be a leading candidate for interim prime minister. Al-Jaafari opposes an early withdrawal of U.S. troops and any attempts to break up Iraq to create a separate region. He joined the Dawa Party in 1966 and left Iraq back in 1980, when Saddam Hussein cracked down on party leaders. The party leader fled Iraq through Syria and spent 10 years in Iran.

Ahmed Chalabi also is a candidate for prime minister.

The selection by top Shiite politicians will come in a secret ballot.

Let's get more now on those elections. The Iraqi Electoral Commission is expected to certify results today.

For more on this, we go to Nic Robertson in Baghdad -- Nic, good to see you.

Are we expecting any change, ultimately, in the outcome when these results are finalized?

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What we're going to see is probably that all the parties involved seeing their seat numbers boosted over those original estimates. What happened is a lot of people didn't make the grade. Their votes didn't count. There's an overall adjustment, and therefore everybody gets their seats bumped up.

But will it make a big difference to the final complexion of the government? No. What it will mean, though, it will mean the very real trigger for all these political deals to be worked out, to be accelerated. Everyone will know categorically how many seats they've got, what their strengths are, how they can play those strengths.

But what I am hearing, what I am being told is that this process of political horse trading is very slow. It's going with great difficulty and there are some serious differences between some of the key players at this time -- Kelly.

WALLACE: And, Nic, talk to us a little bit about Ibrahim al- Jaafari.

What would it mean for the United States, for U.S. policy in Iraq, if he ultimately does become the new interim prime minister?

ROBERTSON: He's seen as a unifying figure. When he was in exile, he was the chairman of one of the exiled committees trying to get the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. For that reason, he is likely and believed to be able to form a very cohesive government. And perhaps that's critical for the United States, because a cohesive government means less problems, it means a unified front tackling all the terror attacks, it means a unified front in terms of building up a strong security infrastructure, which means ultimately that U.S. troops can go home quicker.

So a unified government here is the best thing that the United States can look for and certainly what we are being told is Jaafari really is the man who can bring that sense of unity and really bring that focus -- Kelly

WALLACE: Nic, are you also picking up, though, from some Sunni parties when they question whether they will do any deal making and have any involvement in the government, some appear to be saying they won't do that without a fixed timetable for the withdrawal of U.S. forces from Iraq.

What are you hearing?

ROBERTSON: That's one of their issues and they -- that was one of their primary issues for calling for the boycott. They told a lot of their fellow Sunnis, you can't get involved in the elections while U.S. troops are in the country. And that seems to be why they're tying it to -- tying their involvement now to U.S. troops setting a firm time frame.

The debate seems to be centering around now the conditions for the U.S. troops to withdraw. And that's where Jaafari really is, perhaps, one of the bridge builders here, with some of his fellow politicians. They're saying look, U.S. troops should leave as soon as the security conditions are ready, as soon as Iraqi security forces can do the job. And that seems to be the direction that some of these Sunni politicians are going.

And what we're hearing is, is that perhaps the Sunni hard-liners are going to stay on the margins, but some of the more moderate politicians are being drawn into drafting the constitution and drawn into calling on Sunnis to get involved in the next round of elections -- Kelly.

WALLACE: All right, Nic, thanks so much.

We'll check in with you a little bit later here on DAYBREAK.

Nic Robertson reporting from Baghdad.

"News Across America" this morning.

Kid Rock has been arrested for allegedly attacking a D.J. at a Nashville, Tennessee strip club. He was released on a $3,000 bond. Kid Rock, whose real name is Bob Ritchie, was in town to perform at a memorial service for country songwriter Merle Kilgore.

A traveling memorial for victims of the war in Iraq is on display in Austin, Texas. The Eyes Wide Shut exhibit features pairs of boots from U.S. soldiers and Iraqi citizens killed during that conflict. Austin is the 40th city to host the memorial.

An Orlando, Florida high school chemistry teacher has been arrested for teaching students how to make this bomb in class. David Pieski faces a felony charge after also admitting to making several bombs himself. Police were tipped off after a student made a videotape of his class project exploding on a golf course.

News now about hockey. Hockey players and owners will have to chill out for the rest of the season and work toward their goal of playing next year. Many question if the fans will ever come back to the sport.

Our Larry Smith has more.

(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)

LARRY SMITH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The day that all hockey fans have dreaded has arrived. For the first time in the history of American pro sports, an entire season will be canceled due to a labor dispute.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Dejection, disappointment, frustration, all of the above.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I guess my hopes were high, hoping that there would still be a bit of a season left. But unfortunately not.

SMITH: Hockey legend Wayne Gretzky, who now runs the Phoenix Coyotes, was equally dismayed.

WAYNE GRETZKY, HOCKEY HALL OF FAMER: And we all felt strongly that they seemed to be getting together on the same page and it looked very optimistic that hockey was going to start in the next 10 days. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

MICHAEL FARBER, "SPORTS ILLUSTRATED" WRITER: A league that had become a niche league in recent years is now off the radar screen. We won't have hockey for minimum a season and a half. And I don't think the NHL can take that time off. It's just not that strong.

SMITH: NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman disagrees.

GARY BETTMAN, NHL COMMISSIONER: We will be back and we will be back better than ever, and hopefully as soon as possible. Don't give up on the game. It's too good.

SMITH: A more pressing question facing the NHL may not be when are you coming back, but does anyone even care? A January poll showed 67 percent of sports fans wouldn't be disappointed at all if the season was canceled.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's a lot of other things to do. I think people found a lot of different alternative entertainment forms.

FARBER: When the baseball strike wiped out the World Series in 1994, fans screamed I'm never going back, I'm never going to go to another major league game. What's even more worrying than that is this time we don't hear any voices raised.

SMITH: It took four years and an historic home run chase in 1998 between Mark McGwire and Sammy Sosa for baseball to reconnect with its fans.

Larry Smith, CNN, Atlanta.

(END VIDEO TAPE)

WALLACE: And that brings us to our DAYBREAK E-Mail Question of the Day.

Is greed spoiling professional sports? Let us know what you think at daybreak@cnn.com. We'll read your thoughts throughout the next two hours.

So, is it homegrown terrorism, as the FBI labeled it? The Bureau is tracking a shadowy group that appears organized and yet has no apparent organization. Ted Rowlands has that in six minutes.

How much does it hurt and where? Too often that question goes unanswered. Dr. Sanjay Gupta on living with chronic pain in 39 minutes. And as we were talking about, there is no around the ice rinks. And it's not just the owners and players losing paychecks. Mary Snow in 45 minutes on the others caught in the NHL season finale.

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

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

WALLACE: Your news, money, weather and sports.

It's about 15 minutes after the hour and here is what is all new this morning.

Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warns that terrorists are preparing for a new attack against the United States and he says the best defense is for the House Armed Services Committee to approve the president's $419 billion military and anti-terror budget. Secretary Rumsfeld will testify again today on Capitol Hill.

This message for broadcasters -- clean it up or get ready to pay big. The U.S. House has approved legislation raising the fine for indecent programming to half a million dollars. Right now, it is $32,500.

In money, Swedish retailer Ikea is opening its first warehouse in the southeastern United States this summer. The store in Atlanta will be the company's third largest in the U.S.

In culture, Ashley Olsen is suing the "National Enquirer" for at least $40 million. Her libel suit against the tabloid claims she was inaccurately linked to a drug scandal. Ashley's sister Mary Kate spent time in a rehab facility last year for an eating disorder.

In sports, Lance Armstrong plans to try for -- get this -- his seventh straight Tour de France title. There had been speculation that he'd skip the Tour after taking extra time off following win number six. The Tour gets underway in early July.

Time to check again with Rob.

Seven times, Rob.

Could it be possible?

MARCIANO: Well, we'll see. We'll see. He seems unstoppable at this point and he's got the pop culture behind him, too.

WALLACE: He sure does.

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WALLACE: And those are the headlines. Ryan Lewis appears in court today accused of planting firebombs at a construction site in Auburn, California. It is the latest of what authorities believe are so-called ecoterror incidents in communities east of Sacramento.

CNN's Ted Rowlands has details.

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TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He may not look dangerous, but the FBI thinks that 21-year-old Ryan Lewis is a terrorist. Lewis was arrested last week in Northern California for allegedly planting unexploded bombs at a construction site.

KEITH SLOTTER, FBI AGENT: And the bottom line is this is terrorism, no matter how you look at it. Terrorism is not just al Qaeda and international groups wanting to do this country harm. There's homegrown domestic terrorism and that's what this is, ecoterrorism.

ROWLANDS: Lewis is suspected being a member of the environmental group Earth Liberation Front, or ELF. The group is believed to be responsible for a string of attempted bombings near Sacramento over the past three months, including the discovery of a pipe bomb at a DMV office on Tuesday.

The FBI is analyzing a letter, signed ELF, which takes responsibility for the attacks, saying they are: "a statement against work and the horror of the cubicle." The letter, which also promises more attacks, was sent to, among others, Sam Stanton, a Sacramento newspaper reporter who's been tracking ELF for years.

SAM STANTON, REPORTER, "SACRAMENTO BEE": Well, nobody knows who they are. The group itself doesn't have a hierarchy or an organization. It uses a Web site to announce its activities.

ROWLANDS: Over the years, ELF has claimed responsibility for millions of dollars of property damage. Targets have included housing developments, construction sites and car dealerships. Messages claiming responsibility are often left behind, like this banner, saying, "If you build it, we will burn it," which was found when the smoke cleared at a housing development fire in San Diego.

The ELF mission is to stop development and save the environment. Members, as can be heard on this old training tape, are encouraged to act on an individual basis on behalf of the group.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take initiative, form your own cell and do what needs to be done to protect all life on this planet.

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ROWLANDS: Ryan Lewis is scheduled to make his first court appearance in Sacramento tomorrow. Ted Rowlands, CNN.

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WALLACE: Finding the source of your pain. It is a big question. What happens when doctors can't find it? Ahead, our Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains what makes treating pain such a pain?

And it's like a scene from a movie, but it happened in real life. The story behind this amazing video straight ahead.

You are watching DAYBREAK for a Thursday morning, February 17.

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WALLACE: And welcome back.

Time now for our DAYBREAK "Eye Opener."

And we're going to show you some great new video connected to a story we told you about yesterday. What you are watching is an Amtrak passenger train hitting a tractor-trailer filled with strawberries. Luckily, no one was seriously injured in the incident, but needless to say, the strawberries were a total loss. It's not known why the truck was stopped on the tracks.

Police near Portland, Oregon have busted a gnome napping ring. But that's of little comfort for one woman whose yard gnomes weren't among those recovered. But she does receive regular postcards and pictures of her gnomes from different places around the country. But that's nothing new. In fact, the practice is so popular that a leading travel Web site even uses a traveling gnome as, get this, its spokesgnome. Yes, that's right.

And attention bird lovers -- paintings by legendary naturalist John Audubon are going on display at the New York Historical Society. The more than three dozen original watercolors were purchased from Audubon's widow more than 140 years ago.

Well, we've been talking about it this morning -- hockey. It is a distant fourth in popularity as far as major league sports go. So news that the season is canceled didn't exactly rock the sports world, as Jay Leno delicately points out in our look at "Late Night Laughs."

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JAY LENO, HOST: Well, because of a labor dispute between the players and the owners, the entire hockey season has been canceled. The entire season canceled. Canceled. The whole season. I didn't even know it was on NBC. That's amazing.

Canceling hockey, I just hope there are no riots in South Central, L.A. tonight. It's going to be a tinder box when people find out there's -- what, no hockey!

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WALLACE: Well, Rob, Leno seems to think no one's that upset about it. I don't know, people like hockey, right?

MARCIANO: Well, they certainly do in Canada. And I think if you got reaction from our Canadian friends, they might be a little bit more upset.

WALLACE: Exactly. And my brother-in-law, who's a big Islanders fan.

But, you know, it was our E-mail Question of the Day and we are hearing from our viewers. We've been getting great responses to our question. The question is, is greed spoiling professional sports?

I want to read a couple. We have someone, Ray, from Sour Lake, Texas. He says: "No. Greed isn't destroying professional sports, it did that a long time ago."

And listen to this one, Rob.

MARCIANO: All right.

WALLACE: James, Nick, actually, Nick Mason. He says: "Well, I'm a huge sports fan," he says. "But greedy? Is that really the right word to use? Stupid, insane, unbelievable. Need I say more?"

MARCIANO: Well, there's a lot of arguments. The capitalistic argument is, as Gordon Gecko would say, greed is good. But you get unions involved and then you get the owners kind of getting their own little union together and that's where you get a bit of an impasse. And the bottom line is a lot of folks in the U.S., at least, have lost their interest for hockey a long time ago.

It's a great game to watch in person, a great game to play. But to get it on TV is a tough go.

WALLACE: And it seems...

MARCIANO: What else do you?

WALLACE: And, yes, it seems to be the theme here -- money, money, money.

We've got another. Gabe Lopez. He writes: "Hell, yes. The true soul of sports seems to be almost gone from some pro sports. Show me the money has replaced the love of the game for many players."

And we have this one. Kevin Roach (ph). He writes in: "I love professional sports, but I think over the last 10 years, the players have really lost touch with reality and the fan-player relationship ain't what it used to be. Ticket prices are through the roof. I can't afford to attend a game anymore and these guys are fighting over $2 billion. It just doesn't make sense."

It'll be very interesting, Rob, to see what the ramifications are, if we look ahead to a new season for the hockey players, what happens with the fans, with the players, you know, what are the consequences of this?

MARCIANO: Well, we'll know next year, I guess.

WALLACE: We sure will. We sure will.

All right, Rob, we'll check in with you in a few minutes.

And here's what's all new in the next half hour.

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PORTER GOSS, CIA DIRECTOR: It may be only a matter of time before al Qaeda or another group attempts to use chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons.

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WALLACE: The new intelligence chief delivers an alarming warning on Capitol Hill. Find out who else Porter Goss thinks poses a threat to U.S. security.

Plus, it's not as easy as taking your temperature. I'm talking about measuring the amount of pain you feel. Ahead, our Sanjay Gupta looks at the complexities of pain.

This is DAYBREAK for a Thursday.

We'll be right back.

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