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Stewart Released; It's a Good Thing; Security Watch; Your Business

Aired March 04, 2005 - 05:30   ET

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KELLY WALLACE, CNN ANCHOR: Good Friday morning to you, and welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. From the Time Warner Center in New York, I'm Kelly Wallace, in today for Carol Costello.
"Now in the News."

Martha Stewart is home. The domestic diva was released just about five hours ago from a federal prison in West Virginia. Stewart was taken to her home in New York aboard her private jet. She'll be under house arrest for five months.

President Bush will head for New Jersey and Indiana today, trying to shore up support for his plans to reform Social Security. The trip is part of a 60-day blitz to push his reform plan.

In the Mideast, more pressure today on Syria. Now it is Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah telling Syria's President Asad to get his troops out of Lebanon. The Crown Prince wants the withdrawal carried out soon.

Gunmen killed a police chief in southern Iraq today. The Al- Anbar (ph) police chief was gunned down outside his home. One woman was wounded in the shooting. The gunmen escaped.

Time to check in again with Chad.

And, Chad, Carol gets to sleep in just a little bit later again today, but she doesn't have the day off.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: What, is she working for Soledad again?

WALLACE: She's working on "AMERICAN MORNING" for Soledad.

MYERS: OK. You know, hey, I have to work "AMERICAN MORNING." I don't see why she can't do both shows.

WALLACE: Right.

MYERS: But we're happy to have you, don't get me wrong.

WALLACE: Yes.

(WEATHER REPORT)

WALLACE: You know the whole DAYBREAK team is very impressed about how you did on that math sample SAT question.

MYERS: Don't make me do it again.

WALLACE: So the pressure is on on the verbal.

MYERS: OK.

WALLACE: That's coming up in a few minutes -- Chad.

MYERS: All right.

WALLACE: We'll talk to you then.

MYERS: Sure.

WALLACE: Well as we've been telling you all morning, Martha Stewart was released from a federal prison in West Virginia early this morning.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick is at Greenbriar Valley Airport near Lewisburg, West Virginia, and that's where Stewart flew off in her private jet.

And, Deborah, quite a difference, her departure from prison, as compared to her entrance, right?

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well absolutely. The interesting thing is that Martha Stewart didn't give anybody an opportunity to snap a picture of her near the prison entrance. That's not the image she wanted everybody to remember. The image she wanted everyone to remember was the very image that we all saw, that is walking elegantly, relaxed, casually to her plane. And that was 40 feet. It's not as if the SUV couldn't have pulled up right in front of the door so she could have gotten onboard.

But her company had actually set up a flatbed truck. There were dozens of cameras waiting to take those pictures of her, and a small crowd of people cheering. She seemed almost delighted that they would be there at 1:00 in the morning on a very frigid West Virginia morning.

And when she boarded the plane, she sort of looked back, even giving sort of an impromptu kiss to one of the crew members. And having covered the trial for six weeks last year, that was certainly not the Martha we saw then, that's the Martha we see now -- Kelly.

WALLACE: Deb, and you covered, you covered everything from the trial, the sentencing, going into prison. Give us a sense now of what you're hearing as you talk to people about what life in prison has been like for her and whether it has transformed her in any way.

FEYERICK: By all accounts it has transformed her. And when I say by all accounts, we spoke to the CEO of her company, Susan Lyne. We also spoke to -- or we read an editorial that was posted by the editor of her magazine, "Martha Stewart Living." They're really creating an image around Martha, an image of somebody who fit into the prison culture, who befriended some of the women there.

You know in the editorial, one woman said that the people that she met actually could have been future Kmart shoppers, if in fact they weren't incarcerated. So she seems to have connected with these women on a very deep level.

We are told that she was running yoga classes. She was teaching these women how to start up a small business. She really seems to have made a significant impact, at least on some of the women at that facility.

WALLACE: Sounds like. Even some of the inmates gave her a potluck dinner as a goodbye party, right?

FEYERICK: That's what we understand. From the commissary you're allowed to get ingredients and whip up whatever you can create inside of a microwave. We heard some reports that maybe there was some sort of a pineapple cheesecake. That what you sell in a commissary to make a cheesecake, I don't really know, although I guess there's cream cheese in it. But aside from that, yes, it seems like she did make some good friends.

And even in the statement that she released at 1:00, just as the plane was taking off, she said that in fact she would stay in touch with the people there, that she would not forget the women. And I think that's probably very important to the women who are at Alderson right now, because, on some level, she really did raise their spirits. Now that she's gone, it's going to be a little difficult. They return back to the way life was before she arrived.

WALLACE: All right, Deb, we'll be talking to you throughout the morning on DAYBREAK.

Deborah Feyerick reporting from West Virginia for us. Thanks so much.

It is a good thing Martha Stewart got out of prison, because she's got a very busy schedule ahead of her.

Allan Chernoff now on Stewart getting back down to business.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Doing time at the Alderson prison camp appears to have been good for Martha Stewart's body, mind, and image. "I have had time to think, time to write, time to exercise," Stewart says on her Web site, Marthatalks.com. She's lost weight, say friends, and turned prison into a positive experience.

RICHARD FEIGEN, FRIEND OF MARTHA STEWART: She has gained from it. She's grown. She's been in dialogue with these women that are incarcerated. And I think she's really learned a lot about them.

CHERNOFF: Feigen, an old friend, says Stewart will likely become an advocate for prison reform. "I beseech you all to think about these women," Stewart urges on her Web site.

In her second act post prison, Martha Stewart is likely to return a more sympathetic character. Even in Alderson, home to many prison employees, the talk of town is that Martha Stewart has been a popular inmate.

CATHY LEGG, ALDERSON, WEST VIRGINIA RESIDENT: She's got friends that they all like to go and sit with her and eat at the tables. And it's kind of like going around about, taking turns doing it and getting to talk to her. But she gets along very well with everyone.

CHERNOFF: Those friendships, says the new chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, may give Stewart new business insights.

SUSAN LYNE, CEO, MARTHA STEWART OMNIMEDIA: These are women who might very well be Kmart shoppers, were they at home. And it's a useful thing, probably would be a useful thing for all of us.

CHERNOFF: Business, in fact, has been very good to Martha Stewart during imprisonment. NBC has announced it will air two Martha Stewart television shows, a new version of "The Apprentice," and a daytime lifestyle show. Her magazine is promoting Stewart's return as a columnist.

(on camera): While she's been in prison, Martha Stewart's company has been losing money, but the stock price has doubled as investors have been anticipating her return. As a result, at least on paper, Martha Stewart will be leaving prison about $500 million wealthier than she entered, once again a billionaire.

Allan Chernoff, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WALLACE: And this program note for you, CNN's "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS" with Paula Zahn looks at the life of this billionaire home fashion star tonight. Be sure to catch it tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 5:00 p.m. Pacific, only here on CNN.

More news "Across America" now.

Two painters were left dangling 10 floors above a downtown Los Angeles street after their scaffolding broke. It took rescuers about 40 minutes to pull them through a window. Luckily, they were both wearing their safety harnesses. Neither was seriously injured.

A California man is in critical condition after being attacked by two chimpanzees. The two chimps escaped from their cages at an animal sanctuary and attacked the man and his wife. A worker at the animal haven ran, was forced to kill both chimps to stop the attack.

Texas Border Patrol agents successfully delivered a baby after picking up the immigrant mother. The 27-year-old woman was just six months pregnant. Authorities say the woman had been abandoned by an immigrant smuggler because she couldn't keep up. The baby is in intensive care at a Corpus Christi hospital.

And a special memorial exhibit has opened at Syracuse University. The "Faces of the Fallen" exhibit features pictures of more than 1,400 American soldiers killed in Iraq. Creators of the show intend to eventually send the original portraits of the soldiers to their families.

And airport screeners, you know, play a very important role for all of us. Well now some of them at one of the world's busiest airports say they're not getting the help they need to do the job right. Details at 41 past the hour.

And later, the key to small business success, a good plan. We'll meet a couple of guys with boxing gloves, a dream and a plan.

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

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

WALLACE: And now time for a CNN "Security Watch."

Airport screeners can be the first line of defense between terrorists and another attack from the air. But now some federal screeners say they are not getting the training they need to keep us safe.

Our Jeanne Meserve has the story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): More people fly through Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport than any other airport in the world. Some screeners say the heavy workload is preventing them from getting the required weekly training.

JOHN SUMMEROUR, SECURITY SCREENER: Well we're required to have three hours, and I'm getting about 25 minutes a week.

MESERVE: Security experts say that training is critical for screeners to keep up with the latest terrorist methods for concealing weapons.

CLARK KENT ERVIN, SECURITY ANALYST: We all know that terrorists will try to sneak weapons past the screener work force. They are going to do so in the most innovative way that they can think of. So the training is absolutely essential.

MESERVE (on camera): Do you think that it puts the traveling public at risk if screeners aren't having this recurrent training?

ERVIN: Absolutely.

MESERVE (voice-over): The Transportation Security Administration says in Atlanta last year only 3 screeners out of 1,100 failed their re-certification exam, an indication that training is adequate. It is not always done in a classroom or at a computer.

MARK HATFIELD, TSA SPOKESMAN: But some of that takes place actually on the job where they are being tested by computer projected images of threat items while they're working the X-ray machine, while they're being tested by covert operatives who attempt to get items through the checkpoint. And so all of those various things, the morning meetings when they have roll call.

MESERVE: But the screeners maintain the definition of training should be much narrower.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How to recognize a prohibited item, what to look for, but we're not being trained on it.

MESERVE: The screeners also allege that they are asked to sign paperwork saying that they have gotten the required training even when they feel they have not.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you don't train, if you don't sign, they threaten you and saying that you know something may happen to you, you may lose your job.

MESERVE: TSA officials say no Atlanta screener has ever been ordered to falsify a document or has been threatened with discipline or dismissal.

The three screeners with whom we spoke are all members of the American Federation of Government Employees. They acknowledge the training issue could help recruit new members. But they say their real concern is the safety of more than the 83 million people who fly through Hartsfield each year.

For CNN's America Bureau, Jeanne Meserve, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WALLACE: And be sure to stay with CNN day and night for the very latest and the most reliable security watch information.

Well your news, money, weather and sports. It's about 46 minutes after the hour, and here is what is all new this morning.

Martha Stewart is back from prison. A private jet whisked her home to New York overnight. She now begins serving five months under house arrest.

Motorist beware, gas prices could jump 24 cents a gallon in the next few days, that's according to "USA Today."

In money, "The Gates" were great for New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the art project generated more than $250 million for the city.

In culture, Robert Deniro is looking for a good film. The legendary actor has joined with American Express and Amazon.com for a new online film contest. The best short film will win $50,000. In sports, Phil Mickelson grabbed the early lead after the first round of the Ford Championships at Doral. Lefty is tied with three others at the top of the leader board. Tiger Woods is one shot back.

To the Weather Center and Chad.

Chad, are they going to have good weather this weekend?

MYERS: It looks like it'll be pretty good. There's really no big organized area of any bad weather across the country for this weekend. There are small areas, don't get me wrong, and we'll get to those.

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WALLACE: All right, Chad, we'll talk to you then.

So you're thinking about starting a small business or you already have one and it is struggling. Well, we've got just the advice you need.

Joining us today, DAYBREAK contributor Ali Velshi.

Ali, great to see you.

ALI VELSHI, CNN DAYBREAK CONTRIBUTOR: Great to see you -- Kelly.

WALLACE: I think I'm surprised that so many small businesses don't have a plan.

VELSHI: It is unbelievable. It's almost universal. I've been traveling across the country with this new show, "The TurnAround," that we're going to small businesses and trying to help them out for a few days to figure out what they need to get them turned around. And it's almost universal, the lack of a business plan.

And this is because you get excited about the business that you want to do and you get going in it and you kind of never remember. So whether or not you have a business going right now or you're thinking about one or you know somebody who has a business, think about a business plan.

Now business plan is your road map. I mean I kind of get on the road without one and I kind of try and wing it and that's what the problem is. It's mainly something that forces you to take a look at your financials. It keeps you on track and it forces you to do the stuff in your business that maybe you otherwise wouldn't do.

Now first thing you've got to do is think about what goes into it. And a good business plan has at least a cash flow statement, a sense of how much money you're bringing in, how much you'll have, because so much of a success of a business depends on its cash flow.

A basic income statement, a balance sheet, a sense of what the return on your investment is going to be. Because if someone is going to invest in your company, they want to know that they can earn more by doing so than by putting their money in the stock market or the bank.

And an interest coverage statement. In most cases, you're either paying interest to someone or to a bank. In many cases with a small business, it's your personal credit that you're using to run your business.

Now the question is how do you do this? Where do you go for this? One of the best places to start is with books. There are great books around. And an author I've become familiar with over the years is Ed Rogoff. He's written a book called "Bankable Business Plans." Here's his advice on what a business plan is useful for.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

EDWARD G. ROGOFF, AUTHOR, "BANKABLE BUSINESS PLANS": It's something that the entrepreneur often needs for him or herself as a way to think through the issues of starting and operating their business and to begin to work out the financials. It helpfully gets you closer to reality and it increases the probability of your business being successful because you're able to deal with issues on paper before you have to deal with them in reality.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

VELSHI: Doesn't have to be complicated. It's really that simple.

WALLACE: Yes, got to get some information.

Can we say congratulations to you...

VELSHI: Thank you.

WALLACE: ... on your new show?

VELSHI: Thank you.

WALLACE: And we want -- what's -- a little quickly, what are we going to hear this weekend?

VELSHI: This weekend is a boxing gym. Two Irish immigrants in San Francisco who don't have a business plan or didn't have a business plan.

WALLACE: And then they saw you and their luck has improved. Well don't forget to watch "THE TURNAROUND WITH ALI VELSHI." That is Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern, 8:00 a.m. Pacific.

But first, we have been talking about the new SAT test this morning. At 6:00, we will explore why some say it will be much more difficult for your kids this year. But for now, we have been testing you. So time for our second question. This time in verbal aptitude.

OK, fill in the blank here. Having inherited a staff known for "blank" resources, the new chairman had no choice but to introduce a number of more efficient practices. Is the answer a) defining, b) harboring, c) neglecting, d) bolstering, e) squandering?

Chad, do you have your thinking cap on?

MYERS: I do. I think the most important word is efficient. You have to find the opposite of that.

WALLACE: Hints, hints, everyone. Chad Myers giving you a hint. And I think Ali is playing along here, too. So we will have an answer right after this. We'll be right back.

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WALLACE: And before the break we asked another sample question from the SAT. Here it is. Having inherited a staff known for "blank" resources, the new chairman had no choice but to introduce a number of more efficient practices. Is the answer a) defining, b) harboring, c) neglecting, d) bolstering, e) squandering?

OK, Chad, you're up first, what did you pick?

MYERS: You know originally I liked c) neglecting, but then I went to that word efficient and I think squandering is more opposite of efficient, so I went with E.

WALLACE: Give him a round of applause. But before we do, Chad, you're correct. Let's see how Ali did -- Ali.

VELSHI: I have been a business reporter for a number of years, so I thought it was bolstering, because the chairman comes in, finds out that the staff has been bolstering resources. He says this can't be.

MYERS: That's right.

VELSHI: Let's have a scandal. Fire everybody.

WALLACE: All right. All right.

MYERS: Yes, Ali, I would have to agree with you. I'll give you half credit.

VELSHI: Thank you.

WALLACE: All right, you get half there.

Well, as we were saying, if you said E you would be correct. And according to Webster's dictionary, squandering defined as -- quote -- "to spend extravagantly or foolishly." And we should point out that Governor Gaston Caperton from the College Board, which produces the SAT, will join us live next hour to talk about all these changes creating a lot of anxiety, we know, for high schoolers around the country.

Well, "Health Headlines" for you now this morning.

More and more HIV patients in Britain are in danger of running out of treatment options. Researchers say their virus has become resistant to the drug combinations they have been taking and further treatment could depend on development of new drugs.

The U.S. Senate has voted to overturn a Bush administration plan to allow imports of cattle from Canada. Those imports have been restricted because of concerns over Mad Cow disease. And in effect, the senators voted to keep those restrictions in place.

And a Finish neurologist says regular exercise and a healthy diet, especially regular exercise, can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's. The doctor cites a study showing middle-aged people who exercise at least twice a week can cut their Alzheimer's risk by 50 percent.

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

Well Martha Stewart may have been behind bars for the last five months, but no worries, she'll get plenty of TV face time again soon. All new in the next hour of DAYBREAK, we dish about the diva's next domestic project.

Also ahead, we're going live to California for details on who will take the stand today in the Michael Jackson trial.

You are watching DAYBREAK for a Friday morning. We'll be right back.

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Aired March 4, 2005 - 05:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KELLY WALLACE, CNN ANCHOR: Good Friday morning to you, and welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. From the Time Warner Center in New York, I'm Kelly Wallace, in today for Carol Costello.
"Now in the News."

Martha Stewart is home. The domestic diva was released just about five hours ago from a federal prison in West Virginia. Stewart was taken to her home in New York aboard her private jet. She'll be under house arrest for five months.

President Bush will head for New Jersey and Indiana today, trying to shore up support for his plans to reform Social Security. The trip is part of a 60-day blitz to push his reform plan.

In the Mideast, more pressure today on Syria. Now it is Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Abdullah telling Syria's President Asad to get his troops out of Lebanon. The Crown Prince wants the withdrawal carried out soon.

Gunmen killed a police chief in southern Iraq today. The Al- Anbar (ph) police chief was gunned down outside his home. One woman was wounded in the shooting. The gunmen escaped.

Time to check in again with Chad.

And, Chad, Carol gets to sleep in just a little bit later again today, but she doesn't have the day off.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: What, is she working for Soledad again?

WALLACE: She's working on "AMERICAN MORNING" for Soledad.

MYERS: OK. You know, hey, I have to work "AMERICAN MORNING." I don't see why she can't do both shows.

WALLACE: Right.

MYERS: But we're happy to have you, don't get me wrong.

WALLACE: Yes.

(WEATHER REPORT)

WALLACE: You know the whole DAYBREAK team is very impressed about how you did on that math sample SAT question.

MYERS: Don't make me do it again.

WALLACE: So the pressure is on on the verbal.

MYERS: OK.

WALLACE: That's coming up in a few minutes -- Chad.

MYERS: All right.

WALLACE: We'll talk to you then.

MYERS: Sure.

WALLACE: Well as we've been telling you all morning, Martha Stewart was released from a federal prison in West Virginia early this morning.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick is at Greenbriar Valley Airport near Lewisburg, West Virginia, and that's where Stewart flew off in her private jet.

And, Deborah, quite a difference, her departure from prison, as compared to her entrance, right?

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well absolutely. The interesting thing is that Martha Stewart didn't give anybody an opportunity to snap a picture of her near the prison entrance. That's not the image she wanted everybody to remember. The image she wanted everyone to remember was the very image that we all saw, that is walking elegantly, relaxed, casually to her plane. And that was 40 feet. It's not as if the SUV couldn't have pulled up right in front of the door so she could have gotten onboard.

But her company had actually set up a flatbed truck. There were dozens of cameras waiting to take those pictures of her, and a small crowd of people cheering. She seemed almost delighted that they would be there at 1:00 in the morning on a very frigid West Virginia morning.

And when she boarded the plane, she sort of looked back, even giving sort of an impromptu kiss to one of the crew members. And having covered the trial for six weeks last year, that was certainly not the Martha we saw then, that's the Martha we see now -- Kelly.

WALLACE: Deb, and you covered, you covered everything from the trial, the sentencing, going into prison. Give us a sense now of what you're hearing as you talk to people about what life in prison has been like for her and whether it has transformed her in any way.

FEYERICK: By all accounts it has transformed her. And when I say by all accounts, we spoke to the CEO of her company, Susan Lyne. We also spoke to -- or we read an editorial that was posted by the editor of her magazine, "Martha Stewart Living." They're really creating an image around Martha, an image of somebody who fit into the prison culture, who befriended some of the women there.

You know in the editorial, one woman said that the people that she met actually could have been future Kmart shoppers, if in fact they weren't incarcerated. So she seems to have connected with these women on a very deep level.

We are told that she was running yoga classes. She was teaching these women how to start up a small business. She really seems to have made a significant impact, at least on some of the women at that facility.

WALLACE: Sounds like. Even some of the inmates gave her a potluck dinner as a goodbye party, right?

FEYERICK: That's what we understand. From the commissary you're allowed to get ingredients and whip up whatever you can create inside of a microwave. We heard some reports that maybe there was some sort of a pineapple cheesecake. That what you sell in a commissary to make a cheesecake, I don't really know, although I guess there's cream cheese in it. But aside from that, yes, it seems like she did make some good friends.

And even in the statement that she released at 1:00, just as the plane was taking off, she said that in fact she would stay in touch with the people there, that she would not forget the women. And I think that's probably very important to the women who are at Alderson right now, because, on some level, she really did raise their spirits. Now that she's gone, it's going to be a little difficult. They return back to the way life was before she arrived.

WALLACE: All right, Deb, we'll be talking to you throughout the morning on DAYBREAK.

Deborah Feyerick reporting from West Virginia for us. Thanks so much.

It is a good thing Martha Stewart got out of prison, because she's got a very busy schedule ahead of her.

Allan Chernoff now on Stewart getting back down to business.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Doing time at the Alderson prison camp appears to have been good for Martha Stewart's body, mind, and image. "I have had time to think, time to write, time to exercise," Stewart says on her Web site, Marthatalks.com. She's lost weight, say friends, and turned prison into a positive experience.

RICHARD FEIGEN, FRIEND OF MARTHA STEWART: She has gained from it. She's grown. She's been in dialogue with these women that are incarcerated. And I think she's really learned a lot about them.

CHERNOFF: Feigen, an old friend, says Stewart will likely become an advocate for prison reform. "I beseech you all to think about these women," Stewart urges on her Web site.

In her second act post prison, Martha Stewart is likely to return a more sympathetic character. Even in Alderson, home to many prison employees, the talk of town is that Martha Stewart has been a popular inmate.

CATHY LEGG, ALDERSON, WEST VIRGINIA RESIDENT: She's got friends that they all like to go and sit with her and eat at the tables. And it's kind of like going around about, taking turns doing it and getting to talk to her. But she gets along very well with everyone.

CHERNOFF: Those friendships, says the new chief executive of Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, may give Stewart new business insights.

SUSAN LYNE, CEO, MARTHA STEWART OMNIMEDIA: These are women who might very well be Kmart shoppers, were they at home. And it's a useful thing, probably would be a useful thing for all of us.

CHERNOFF: Business, in fact, has been very good to Martha Stewart during imprisonment. NBC has announced it will air two Martha Stewart television shows, a new version of "The Apprentice," and a daytime lifestyle show. Her magazine is promoting Stewart's return as a columnist.

(on camera): While she's been in prison, Martha Stewart's company has been losing money, but the stock price has doubled as investors have been anticipating her return. As a result, at least on paper, Martha Stewart will be leaving prison about $500 million wealthier than she entered, once again a billionaire.

Allan Chernoff, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WALLACE: And this program note for you, CNN's "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS" with Paula Zahn looks at the life of this billionaire home fashion star tonight. Be sure to catch it tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 5:00 p.m. Pacific, only here on CNN.

More news "Across America" now.

Two painters were left dangling 10 floors above a downtown Los Angeles street after their scaffolding broke. It took rescuers about 40 minutes to pull them through a window. Luckily, they were both wearing their safety harnesses. Neither was seriously injured.

A California man is in critical condition after being attacked by two chimpanzees. The two chimps escaped from their cages at an animal sanctuary and attacked the man and his wife. A worker at the animal haven ran, was forced to kill both chimps to stop the attack.

Texas Border Patrol agents successfully delivered a baby after picking up the immigrant mother. The 27-year-old woman was just six months pregnant. Authorities say the woman had been abandoned by an immigrant smuggler because she couldn't keep up. The baby is in intensive care at a Corpus Christi hospital.

And a special memorial exhibit has opened at Syracuse University. The "Faces of the Fallen" exhibit features pictures of more than 1,400 American soldiers killed in Iraq. Creators of the show intend to eventually send the original portraits of the soldiers to their families.

And airport screeners, you know, play a very important role for all of us. Well now some of them at one of the world's busiest airports say they're not getting the help they need to do the job right. Details at 41 past the hour.

And later, the key to small business success, a good plan. We'll meet a couple of guys with boxing gloves, a dream and a plan.

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

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

WALLACE: And now time for a CNN "Security Watch."

Airport screeners can be the first line of defense between terrorists and another attack from the air. But now some federal screeners say they are not getting the training they need to keep us safe.

Our Jeanne Meserve has the story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): More people fly through Atlanta's Hartsfield Airport than any other airport in the world. Some screeners say the heavy workload is preventing them from getting the required weekly training.

JOHN SUMMEROUR, SECURITY SCREENER: Well we're required to have three hours, and I'm getting about 25 minutes a week.

MESERVE: Security experts say that training is critical for screeners to keep up with the latest terrorist methods for concealing weapons.

CLARK KENT ERVIN, SECURITY ANALYST: We all know that terrorists will try to sneak weapons past the screener work force. They are going to do so in the most innovative way that they can think of. So the training is absolutely essential.

MESERVE (on camera): Do you think that it puts the traveling public at risk if screeners aren't having this recurrent training?

ERVIN: Absolutely.

MESERVE (voice-over): The Transportation Security Administration says in Atlanta last year only 3 screeners out of 1,100 failed their re-certification exam, an indication that training is adequate. It is not always done in a classroom or at a computer.

MARK HATFIELD, TSA SPOKESMAN: But some of that takes place actually on the job where they are being tested by computer projected images of threat items while they're working the X-ray machine, while they're being tested by covert operatives who attempt to get items through the checkpoint. And so all of those various things, the morning meetings when they have roll call.

MESERVE: But the screeners maintain the definition of training should be much narrower.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How to recognize a prohibited item, what to look for, but we're not being trained on it.

MESERVE: The screeners also allege that they are asked to sign paperwork saying that they have gotten the required training even when they feel they have not.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you don't train, if you don't sign, they threaten you and saying that you know something may happen to you, you may lose your job.

MESERVE: TSA officials say no Atlanta screener has ever been ordered to falsify a document or has been threatened with discipline or dismissal.

The three screeners with whom we spoke are all members of the American Federation of Government Employees. They acknowledge the training issue could help recruit new members. But they say their real concern is the safety of more than the 83 million people who fly through Hartsfield each year.

For CNN's America Bureau, Jeanne Meserve, Washington.

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WALLACE: And be sure to stay with CNN day and night for the very latest and the most reliable security watch information.

Well your news, money, weather and sports. It's about 46 minutes after the hour, and here is what is all new this morning.

Martha Stewart is back from prison. A private jet whisked her home to New York overnight. She now begins serving five months under house arrest.

Motorist beware, gas prices could jump 24 cents a gallon in the next few days, that's according to "USA Today."

In money, "The Gates" were great for New York City. Mayor Michael Bloomberg says the art project generated more than $250 million for the city.

In culture, Robert Deniro is looking for a good film. The legendary actor has joined with American Express and Amazon.com for a new online film contest. The best short film will win $50,000. In sports, Phil Mickelson grabbed the early lead after the first round of the Ford Championships at Doral. Lefty is tied with three others at the top of the leader board. Tiger Woods is one shot back.

To the Weather Center and Chad.

Chad, are they going to have good weather this weekend?

MYERS: It looks like it'll be pretty good. There's really no big organized area of any bad weather across the country for this weekend. There are small areas, don't get me wrong, and we'll get to those.

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WALLACE: All right, Chad, we'll talk to you then.

So you're thinking about starting a small business or you already have one and it is struggling. Well, we've got just the advice you need.

Joining us today, DAYBREAK contributor Ali Velshi.

Ali, great to see you.

ALI VELSHI, CNN DAYBREAK CONTRIBUTOR: Great to see you -- Kelly.

WALLACE: I think I'm surprised that so many small businesses don't have a plan.

VELSHI: It is unbelievable. It's almost universal. I've been traveling across the country with this new show, "The TurnAround," that we're going to small businesses and trying to help them out for a few days to figure out what they need to get them turned around. And it's almost universal, the lack of a business plan.

And this is because you get excited about the business that you want to do and you get going in it and you kind of never remember. So whether or not you have a business going right now or you're thinking about one or you know somebody who has a business, think about a business plan.

Now business plan is your road map. I mean I kind of get on the road without one and I kind of try and wing it and that's what the problem is. It's mainly something that forces you to take a look at your financials. It keeps you on track and it forces you to do the stuff in your business that maybe you otherwise wouldn't do.

Now first thing you've got to do is think about what goes into it. And a good business plan has at least a cash flow statement, a sense of how much money you're bringing in, how much you'll have, because so much of a success of a business depends on its cash flow.

A basic income statement, a balance sheet, a sense of what the return on your investment is going to be. Because if someone is going to invest in your company, they want to know that they can earn more by doing so than by putting their money in the stock market or the bank.

And an interest coverage statement. In most cases, you're either paying interest to someone or to a bank. In many cases with a small business, it's your personal credit that you're using to run your business.

Now the question is how do you do this? Where do you go for this? One of the best places to start is with books. There are great books around. And an author I've become familiar with over the years is Ed Rogoff. He's written a book called "Bankable Business Plans." Here's his advice on what a business plan is useful for.

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EDWARD G. ROGOFF, AUTHOR, "BANKABLE BUSINESS PLANS": It's something that the entrepreneur often needs for him or herself as a way to think through the issues of starting and operating their business and to begin to work out the financials. It helpfully gets you closer to reality and it increases the probability of your business being successful because you're able to deal with issues on paper before you have to deal with them in reality.

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VELSHI: Doesn't have to be complicated. It's really that simple.

WALLACE: Yes, got to get some information.

Can we say congratulations to you...

VELSHI: Thank you.

WALLACE: ... on your new show?

VELSHI: Thank you.

WALLACE: And we want -- what's -- a little quickly, what are we going to hear this weekend?

VELSHI: This weekend is a boxing gym. Two Irish immigrants in San Francisco who don't have a business plan or didn't have a business plan.

WALLACE: And then they saw you and their luck has improved. Well don't forget to watch "THE TURNAROUND WITH ALI VELSHI." That is Saturday morning at 11:00 a.m. Eastern, 8:00 a.m. Pacific.

But first, we have been talking about the new SAT test this morning. At 6:00, we will explore why some say it will be much more difficult for your kids this year. But for now, we have been testing you. So time for our second question. This time in verbal aptitude.

OK, fill in the blank here. Having inherited a staff known for "blank" resources, the new chairman had no choice but to introduce a number of more efficient practices. Is the answer a) defining, b) harboring, c) neglecting, d) bolstering, e) squandering?

Chad, do you have your thinking cap on?

MYERS: I do. I think the most important word is efficient. You have to find the opposite of that.

WALLACE: Hints, hints, everyone. Chad Myers giving you a hint. And I think Ali is playing along here, too. So we will have an answer right after this. We'll be right back.

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WALLACE: And before the break we asked another sample question from the SAT. Here it is. Having inherited a staff known for "blank" resources, the new chairman had no choice but to introduce a number of more efficient practices. Is the answer a) defining, b) harboring, c) neglecting, d) bolstering, e) squandering?

OK, Chad, you're up first, what did you pick?

MYERS: You know originally I liked c) neglecting, but then I went to that word efficient and I think squandering is more opposite of efficient, so I went with E.

WALLACE: Give him a round of applause. But before we do, Chad, you're correct. Let's see how Ali did -- Ali.

VELSHI: I have been a business reporter for a number of years, so I thought it was bolstering, because the chairman comes in, finds out that the staff has been bolstering resources. He says this can't be.

MYERS: That's right.

VELSHI: Let's have a scandal. Fire everybody.

WALLACE: All right. All right.

MYERS: Yes, Ali, I would have to agree with you. I'll give you half credit.

VELSHI: Thank you.

WALLACE: All right, you get half there.

Well, as we were saying, if you said E you would be correct. And according to Webster's dictionary, squandering defined as -- quote -- "to spend extravagantly or foolishly." And we should point out that Governor Gaston Caperton from the College Board, which produces the SAT, will join us live next hour to talk about all these changes creating a lot of anxiety, we know, for high schoolers around the country.

Well, "Health Headlines" for you now this morning.

More and more HIV patients in Britain are in danger of running out of treatment options. Researchers say their virus has become resistant to the drug combinations they have been taking and further treatment could depend on development of new drugs.

The U.S. Senate has voted to overturn a Bush administration plan to allow imports of cattle from Canada. Those imports have been restricted because of concerns over Mad Cow disease. And in effect, the senators voted to keep those restrictions in place.

And a Finish neurologist says regular exercise and a healthy diet, especially regular exercise, can reduce the risk of developing Alzheimer's. The doctor cites a study showing middle-aged people who exercise at least twice a week can cut their Alzheimer's risk by 50 percent.

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

Well Martha Stewart may have been behind bars for the last five months, but no worries, she'll get plenty of TV face time again soon. All new in the next hour of DAYBREAK, we dish about the diva's next domestic project.

Also ahead, we're going live to California for details on who will take the stand today in the Michael Jackson trial.

You are watching DAYBREAK for a Friday morning. We'll be right back.

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