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Interview with Barry Minkow; Interview with Darlene Baines; California Teacher's Union Disappointed With Gov. Schwarzenegger

Aired March 05, 2005 - 18:00   ET

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RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR: Searching for one of the world's most wanted men. This is how we've known bin Laden's top man in Iraq but what does he look like now? CNN has exclusive, new pictures ahead.
It's called the Tooth Fairy Project and it's anything but a fantasy. But can a study of baby teeth tell us whether there's more radiation near your home? The controversy is ahead.

You're watching CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

From CNN's global headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Randi Kaye. Carol Linn is off tonight. Here's what's happening right now in the news.

It's not enough, says the State Department, about Syria's vow today to pull its troops out of Lebanon. Syria's president said the troops would be relocated to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and eventually pulled back to the Syrian side of the border, but he gave no timetable. More on this story in just a moment.

Tight security today for the funeral of the murdered husband of a federal judge. Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow found the bodies of her husband and her mother in the basement of her home Monday night. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information that could help the investigation.

Now to the war on terror. Pakistani troops arrested 11 suspected al Qaeda members near the Afghan border today. Two suspects described as foreigners were killed in a gunfight with the troops. The troops also seized a large number of weapons in the remote hideout.

Syria says it's a plan that will satisfy international demands. The U.S. State Department says it's not enough. Now the world is waiting to see what exactly will happen to thousands of Syrian troops inside Lebanon, the tiny neighbor Syria has dominated for decades. CNN's Brent Sadler reports.

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BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Syrian president's promise of a troop withdrawal beamed live into Beirut's Martyr Square. Anti-Syrian demonstrators glued to a giant TV screen, relaying President Bashar al-Assad's Damascus speech. Demands here, Syrian troops be given the immediate order of the boot, and thumbs down to a speech that promised withdrawal but gave no timetable.

BASHAR AL-ASSAD, SYRIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): We will not stay one extra day if there is Lebanese consensus on withdrawal.

SADLER: With no timeline, the street reacted negatively at first.

NASSIB LAHOUD, OPPOSITION M.P.: That's what made me very angry. I was angry and deceived because I want to know when.

SADLER: But some opposition leaders reacted positively. The streets warming up to Syria's news, honking horns, waving Lebanese flags, claiming victory of sorts, sensing perhaps, the start of a withdrawal.

Well, if this is not what is an offer, what is the point of that speech? I think that President Assad will leave in the next few days to put his deeds where his words were.

SADLER: Suspicion, too among some observers that President Assad's not so convincing words, they claim, can't be taken at face value.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The mechanisms are unclear. There is no time table. Ambiguity in every single word.

SADLER: Still, this was a night when many Lebanese converged on the capital, displaying joy, expressing hope that Syria's intentions are reliable.

(on camera): There may be feel-good factor here, but the United States insists the Syrian president has not done enough, failing to satisfy international calls for an immediate and complete withdrawal of Syrian force said, including its intelligence network

Brent Sadler, CNN, Beirut.

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KAYE: The Bush administration is closely watching Syria's actions. President Bush focused on the country today in his weekly radio address. CNN's Elaine Quijano is at the White House with details -- Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Randi, the White House says that what the Syrian president described is not enough. A spokeswoman today reiterating what President Bush has already said, that Syria needs to withdraw from Lebanon fully and immediately.

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QUIJANO (voice-over): President Bush left no doubt where Syria stands with his administration. In his weekly address, delivered before Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's speech, Mr. Bush made clear, he sees Syria as a destabilizing element in the region.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Syria has been an occupying force in Lebanon for nearly three decades and Syria's support for terrorism remains a key obstacle to peace in the broader Middle East.

QUIJANO: The White House says President Assad did not give the U.S. and the international community what they were looking for, compliance with U.N. Security Resolution 15-59, calling for a full withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon.

FLYNT LEVERETT, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: He certainly gave no indication that he was planning on withdrawing all Syrian forces from Lebanon. He talked about the redeployment, he talked about the withdrawals that have already taken place, but he didn't give a timetable for the redeployment, and he said nothing about further withdrawals except that if there is a Lebanese consensus at some point that Syrian troops should leave, they would leave.

QUIJANO: Even before Syria's announcement, President Bush made known he and other world leaders, including French President Jacques Chirac, would reject anything less than a full and immediate pull out.

BUSH: There's no half measures involved. When the United States and France and others say withdraw, we mean complete withdrawal, no half hearted measures.

QUIJANO: A senior State Department official says President Assad's argument for a gradual withdrawal to ensure stability does not make sense. The official points to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as evidence, the official says, there's no order in Lebanon now.

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QUIJANO: U.S. officials have also criticized President Assad's statement that he will consult with Lebanese leaders on the withdrawal. A senior U.S. State Department official saying that statement rings hollow because -- quote -- "He is not consulting with the Lebanese in the streets. He is consulting with the leadership he appointed" -- Rande.

KAYE: Elaine, the Syrian president's message not exactly clear today. Any talk there at the White House that that was no accident?

QUIJANO: Nothing that we're really getting as far as the commenting on what else any other officials of Syria had to say. Really what the Bush administration is doing is looking at what the president himself said. But certainly, that does -- there are a lot of questions that are still very much open at this time. Nevertheless, the Bush administration remaining firm, not changing from its position. U.S. officials really trying to isolate Syria to keep that international pressure on until it complies -- Randi.

KAYE: All right. Elaine Quijano at the White House for us tonight, thank you.

Investigators on the hunt for one of the most wanted men in the world have a new tool to aide in their search. There are photographs obtained exclusively by CNN of the man considered to be enemy number one in Iraq. Andrea Koppel has the story. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): CNN has obtained new pictures of a man believed to be terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. Sources confirmed to CNN that the man is in fact al Zarqawi, but it's unclear when the six photographs were taken. They show striking differences from the only other known photographs of the terrorist leader. The new photos show a much older and beaded al Zarqawi. He appears relaxed and looks as if he's sitting on the floor against a wall. In a few shots, he's seen chatting with unknown people.

These are also pictures of al Zarqawi, taken at a wedding several years ago. When compared to these new photographs, they portray a striking difference in his appearance. Al Zarqawi is considered by the United States to be a top lieutenant in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. In fact, U.S. intelligence officials say bin Laden recently solicited the help of al Zarqawi to stage attacks outside of Iraq. Al Zarqawi is believed to be living somewhere in Iraq. He's claimed responsibility for dozens of killings and attacks in the country, primarily against United States forces and supporters of the U.S. led war.

The United States is offering a $25 million reward for his capture.

Andrea Koppel, CNN, Atlanta.

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KAYE: The U.S. death toll in Iraq is growing again. Military officials say four soldiers assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were killed yesterday in the volatile Al Anbar Province. U.S. forces have been conducting Operation River Blitz in the area for the past two weeks. The Marines say it ended today, netting weapons caches and 400 suspected insurgents.

The Italian journalist who spent a month in captivity in Iraq is back home. Giuliana Sgrena arrived in Rome today. She was taken to a hospital to recover from a shooting incident that left her wounded and killed an Italian security agent. It happened Friday as the woman was being whisked to Baghdad airport after her release. The U.S. military says the car was speeding and refused to stop at a checkpoint but man Italians are outraged over this incident. About 100 demonstrators gathered outside the U.S embassy in Rome. President Bush has expressed his regrets about the shooting and is promising a full investigation.

The mystery behind the murder of a federal judge's husband and mother, no suspects are being named, but could it possibly be linked to domestic terrorism? We'll explain.

Plus, is the political honeymoon for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over? Why critics are crying foul over broken campaign promises.

And still to and, the inspirational story of a Marine who lost a leg in war but ended up gaining a new mission in life.

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KAYE: A somber day today in Evanston, Illinois. Hundreds of mourners turned out amid tight security to pay their final respects to Michael Lefkow. He's the husband of federal judge Joan Lefkow. He was found shot dead along with his wife's mother inside his home this week. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the killers. Judge Lefkow and her daughters were at today's service. They remain under federal protection.

The Lefkow killing investigation is to be featured tonight on the hit television show, "American's Most Wanted." One of the theories authorities are looking into is whether the case is linked to Matthew Hale, a white supremacist who is no stranger to Judge Lefkow. CNN's Aaron Brown takes a closer look at Hale and his highly controversial past.

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AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Matt Hale liked to make himself out as a sort of Renaissance man of hate, an intellectual racist. He called himself Ponofix Maximus (ph) and he was the supreme leader of the grandiosely named World Church of The Creator.

MATTHEW HALE, WHITE SUPREMACIST: Our morals, our beliefs, or horizon is white.

BROWN: Mark Potok monitors hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

MARK POTOK, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: They're neo-Nazis. They believe that Jews are behind every evil, that they manipulate the world.

BROWN: Hale once claimed to have 80,000 followers. In reality, Potok's group says there were more like a hundred. But if there were few, they could be deadly. In 1999, Hale was denied a law license by Illinois authorities who felt oddly enough that he didn't possess sufficient moral character. One of Hale's followers then went on a killing spree, randomly shooting people, apparently, because they were not white.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have to then ask you if you do not some way feel some responsibility.

HALE: No, we don't for the same reasons that the pope in Rome does not feel responsible for abortion clinic bombings.

BROWN: Hale evaded prosecution that time. But in 2001, he was caught on tape soliciting the murder of Judge Lefkow, White House had ordered his church to change its name as a result of a copyright dispute. Here's Hale responding to a man named Tony Evola, about getting the judge's address. What he does not realize is that Evola is an FBI plant.

TONY EVOLA, FBI PLANT: I got a way of getting it. When we get it, we're going to exterminate the rat?

HALE: Well, whatever you want to do.

BROWN: Matt Hale was convicted this time and was already in jail awaiting his sentence when this week's murders in Chicago took place. Potok says that if -- and he emphasizes the if -- this is a case of domestic terrorism, he thinks it would be a case of one of Hale's followers acting on his own. In Potok's world, they call that sort of person a loan wolf.

POTOK: And this is a threat that has absolutely not gone away since 9/11.

BROWN: He points to Timothy McVeigh as the prime example as of the loan wolf and says just because there is more emphasis on stopping al Qaeda these days, the threat from these homegrown terrorists is still very real.

In fact, he warns that the disintegration of groups like Hale's or others like the Area Nations or the National Alliance may put the rest of us in greater danger.

POTOK: And as ironic as that might seem, leaders of event he most extreme groups have in many instances, in effect, acted as a break on members in the groups. You know they tend to say things like, you know, yes, we're going to kill all the Jews, but that will be next week, you know, keep your guns holstered this week.

BROWN: Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.

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KAYE: Hale has denied any involvement in the murder of Lefkow's husband and mother.

Lessons learned in school that can save a life. Still to come, I'll speak with a 4-year-old girl about her 911 call that helped save her mother's life.

But first...

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BRIAN HORN, RETURNED FROM IRAQ: No, it is great. It's a touch of home. I mean it was everything from Raviolis, the baby wipes, obviously, toothpaste, just the stuff that I couldn't get my hands on.

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KAYE: One Maryland family's online grassroots campaign to send U.S. troops in Iraq a piece of home.

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KAYE: Every week, we bring you the more personal stories from the front-lines. Today, one family's efforts to bring some of the comforts of home to troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. As Beth Nissen explains, the show of support is having an unexpected benefit in the battle for hearts and minds.

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BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When it comes to supplying an Army in the fields, there are thousands of material specialists, quartermasters, and supply officers, and then there are the special forces like the Horn family in Laplata (ph), Maryland.

SUE HORN, ANYSOLDIER.COM: We're a family-run effort that's just trying to show our support and we got a little more involved than most people.

NISSEN: Their involvement began in 2003 when their son Brian was deployed to Iraq, a forward location with no running water, eating only military rations. He soon grew dirty, thin, haggard.

MARTY HORN, ANYSOLDIER.COM: He finally sent us a couple of pictures. When I showed Sue the pictures, she gasped.

NISSEN: They sent him baby wipes so he could clean his weapon and himself, sent more food and favorite snacks, sent enough for him to share with his unit. Brian, home between deployments, remembers that first shipment.

B. HORN: No, it is great. It's a touch of home. I mean it was everything from Raviolis, you know, the baby wipes, obviously, toothpaste, just the stuff that I couldn't get my hands on.

NISSEN: Stuff that most troops and combat units far from the nearest PX still struggle to get their hands on. The Horns devised a plan to get more of these comfort items to more troops by getting the word out on just what troops needed and how to get to them. Marty Horn, a 20-year Army veteran now retired built a website, Anysoldier.com. He began collecting the names of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who would accept mailed packages and distribute them to their unit. For security reasons, all boxes sent to troops must be addressed to a specific person.

M. HORN: We currently have almost 1,000 contacts over there. Those contacts tell us what they need.

NISSEN: Those posted notes are a window on the war. A soldier with the 10th Special Forces asked for DVDs to distract from the sounds of bombing. A sergeant working the night shift in a combat support hospital in Baghdad asks for coffee, chocolate, "things to help us stay awake."

The requests show how eager the troops are for distraction, how young many are, how lonely they are. "We don't need anything special just someone to write to," noted a sergeant with the 1st Calvary, "a simple letter will do."

From the first, the Horns were struck by how often troops asked for items they could give to local children, especially toys, especially Beanie Babies.

M. HORN: The soldiers love them because they weigh almost nothing. They fit into a knapsack or a rucksack or their baggy uniform pants. And then as the kids show up, they just whip one out and toss it to the kid and it changes everything.

NISSEN: A Beanie Baby changed everything for one Marine convoy in Iraq.

M. HORN: As they're going, there's this like four or 5-year-old little girl standing in the middle of the road. Now they had met this girl a couple days before and given her some toys, Beanie Babies. She's standing with the Beanie Baby in her hand. The convoy stops, like why's this kid in the middle of a road. They walked up to her and she points. There's an IED in the road.

S. HORN: She saved their lives.

NISSEN: The Horns don't know who sent that Beanie Baby, don't know how many donors there are. Most of them mail letters in boxes directly to the contact addresses listed on the website. Others opt to buy preassembled treat boxes. But the Horns, their five children, their childrens' friends and their friends assemble, pack, and package in the family's suburban ranch house.

S. HORN: Pretty much, they always need hygiene items, especially the women. I send a package of toilet paper in every single kit. Everybody needs to have cookies and candy and peanuts, beef jerky, Slim Jims, you know, stuff that they can throw in their pocket when they go out on a mission. And I think more than anything, it's a taste of home.

NISSEN: Getting something from home, hearing from someone back home keeps the troops going. The website is full of photos and messages that make that clear.

M. HORN: This is about support, not just stuff. You can't have an Army fight something as ugly as this and have bad morale. Anything that improves moral is going to help get these folks back home.

NISSEN: It might give them some measure of comfort until they are.

Beth Nissen, CNN, Laplata (ph), Maryland.

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KAYE: Redemption for white collar criminals, how can Martha Stewart repair her image in her post prison life? I'll speak with another former CEO who spent years behind bars.

Plus, the legal troubles facing some teens caught on tape taking out some holiday decorations.

And still to come, one doctor's search for a possible link between nuclear plants and kids with cancer, why his research is sparking a medical controversy.

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KAYE: Well, welcome back. Here's what's happening now in the news. Syrian President Assad says he'll pull all of his country's troops in Lebanon back to the border, buts he doesn't say when. A Syrian cabinet minister later confirmed to CNN the president meant the Syrian side of the border.

CNN has obtained new pictures of the man believed to be terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi. His network in Iraq is behind widespread attacks on Iraqi and U.S. targets and it has links to al Qaeda. It's unclear how recent those images are.

A planned royal wedding is turning into a royal pain for the loving couple. British citizens have filed nine formal objections against Prince Charles' pending marriage to his longtime companion, Camilla Parker Bowles. A local registry official says to expect a ruling soon. And the British government has already declared the ceremony legal.

It was one year ago today that Martha Stewart was convicted on charges she lied about the sale of her ImClone stock shares. Now that Stewart has served her 5-month stint in prison, she's back home under house arrest. How will this cramp Stewart's style? CNN's Adaara Udoji has a look.

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ADAORA UDOJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Martha Stewart, a trendsetting icon, guest at the hottest parties, hanging with the rich and famous. But after her stint in prison, you won't see her as much out on the town.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: House arrest is punishment. There's no question about it. And she'll be wearing an ankle bracelet all the time.

UDOJI (on camera): That's not all. No luxury shopping at her favorite designer stores here on 5th Avenue, no lunching at this exclusive Four Seasons Hotel, not unless her probation officer says she can.

(voice-over): For five months, she's on lockdown at her sprawling Bedford, New York estate, to some, not hard time at all. But she can literally not leave her house, not to walk the grounds, not to feed her animals. She is allowed to leave 48 hours a week to work, go grocery shopping, see the doctor, and attend church. Anything more, say taking off to Los Angeles, she has to talk to the judge first.

(on camera): She's going to have to be accountable to someone just about every minute of her day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's no question about it. I mean when she leaves, assuming she's got to attend a meeting, she has to call her probation officer and say I'm going to be out from 10:00 to 6:00 and this is where I'll be so they could turn off the device.

UDOJI (voice-over): She had such great plans before prison.

MARTHA STEWART, DOMESTIC DIVA: I would like to be back as early in March as possible in order to plant the new spring garden and to truly get things growing again.

UDOJI: Now, she knows planting will have to wait. The woman who built an empire will have curfews and weekly schedules approved by federal officers. But she'll still be making lots of money, free to begin work on a mega TV deal, two new shows.

MARK BURNETT, TV PRODUCER: And I cannot wait until she comes out of jail and we can work together.

UDOJI: Free to have lavish parties, looking good with the help of friends like celebrity hairstylist, Frederick Vaki (ph). She can't leave, but her famous buddies can visit, say federal officials, party until the wee hours of the night as long as they don't have criminal records. House arrest brings the domestic diva one step closer to making good on that prediction, fulfilling an all-American comeback.

Adaora Udoji, CNN, New York.

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KAYE: A comeback is exactly what America expects of Martha Stewart. Our next guest can talk all about that. Barry Minkow, the author of "Cleaning Up: One Man's Redemptive Journey Through The Seductive World of Corporate Crime," turned his life around after he was convicted of engineering one of the biggest frauds in U.S history. Today, he works with the FBI to help uncover white collar fraud.

Barry, good to have you with us.

BARRY MINKOW, AUTHOR, "CLEANING UP": Thank you.

KAYE: You were once a Wall Street whiz kid. Tell us briefly how you ended up in prison.

MINKOW: I lied about what I owed and I lied about what I earned, and that's white collar crime. That's what corporate criminals do. I was kind of the first of the bad CEOs to do that publicly with a publicly traded company. The company was evaluated at $300 million. I owned most of the stock, so the victim impact much to my shame of my crime was $26 million. But essentially, I lied about what I earned and I lied about what I owed, much like you see Health South, WorldCom, Tyco, all of those trials that are happening now, the same thing. We lie about what we owe. We lie about what we earn. Not the case with Martha.

KAYE: And what are you doing about this today to help clean up financial fraud?

MINKOW: Well, thank you for asking. I hope to some extent I am with working undercover with the government and we've uncovered 10 cases, about a billion dollars in fraud, 10 different cases, uncovering financial crimes in progress that the government wasn't aware of. We went, infiltrated, gathered the evidence, and the government shut them down. That includes the longest and largest running ponzi (ph) scheme in American business history, financial advisory consultants with 5,400 investors, an $814 million fund. We went undercover and got that shut down last year. So, yes -- and you know what that is? Use what I did to do evil and kind of flip it on its back and use those talents to help the very community I once hurt. And that's what I want to do.

KAYE: Well, you spent quite a bit of time in a maximum security prison. Did it change you? And do you think prison changed Martha Stewart?

MINKOW: That's a great question. Yes, I didn't want to fail jail. I didn't want to leave the same way I came. And I don't think Martha has left jail the same way she came. Even though I did eight Super Bowls -- I counted Super Bowls, most people count birthdays. I counted Super Bowls. I did eight Super Bowls in federal prison. Martha did five months. However, I think we all leave prison different than the way we came. We don't want to fail jail and that's what comeback is based on. When she didn't go and wait for the appeal bond and went to prison not pending appeal, she just went. That's acceptance of responsibility. Then she comes out of prison. Comeback begins with exactly that, acceptance of responsibility, do the time, move on. And I see great things for Martha Stewart in this come back. And she's paid her price. Look at the impact...

KAYE: What do you see for Martha Stewart? What do you see for her?

MINKOW: I see a brilliant woman.

KAYE: A changed woman?

MINKOW: Absolutely. I think she's brilliant. I think she's paid the price of her crimes. I -- This is a woman who literally built a company from nothing without lying and cheating. I can't make that claim, allegedly, neither can Bernie Ebbers, allegedly neither can Jeff Skilling, but Martha Stewart can. She built this company out of hard work, out of sweat and tears, and she's going to use that same tenacity. Only now, I think she's got a little bit more compassion.

Look at the place where the inmates stay to go visit that prison. She's completely revamped it. She's written letters on behalf of inmates. I'm telling you this, when you go into prison and you meet these people that you never would meet ordinarily, it changes your life. You become more humble, you become more real, and you become more loving. And I see that -- and I pray that that's the case in Martha and I think it is.

KAYE: I have to ask. Have you have sent her a copy of your book? Do you plan to? And what advice would you give her?

MINKOW: Well, first of all, I'm not allowed to associate with her because I'm a convicted felon, so I'm one of those people that would be excluded. Listen, I love Martha. She doesn't need me. She's got my prayers. That's what she needs most. She's going to do great. And I haven't sent her a copy of the book. I would in a minute, but she doesn't -- I need her book. She's the one who's successful. I'm the one who is the crook. So...

KAYE: All right, Barry Minkow joining us today, the author of "Cleaning Up: One Man's Redemptive Journey Through The Seductive World of Corporate Crime."

Stay tuned for tonight's encore presentation of "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS," Martha's makeover. It includes exclusive video of Martha Stewart inside prison and looks at what the homemaking maven will be dishing up next. That's tonight at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific.

Elsewhere across America, three more drill instructors are under suspension as the Marine Corps investigates the drowning of a recruit at Paris Island, South Carolina. Five Marines had already been suspended. Jason Tharp died in a training pool last month, one day after a local TV news crew videotaped a drill instructor grabbing and striking him.

Police in Bricktownship, New Jersey say the arrested three teens for vandalizing Christmas displays after homemade videos of the incidents turned up on a website. The images set to music show vandals smashing decorations at homes in three neighborhoods. The teenagers face charges of criminal mischief.

State officials plan to appeal a sharp legal blow to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In November, Schwarzenegger delayed implementing a state law requiring hospitals to have at least one nurse for every five patients. A judge has now ruled his delay illegal.

He campaigned as a straight-talking anti-politician. Detractors say Arnold Schwarzenegger has quickly learned one of the oldest political tricks in the book, the flip-flop. Peter Viles reports from Los Angeles.

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PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He still draws a crowd, but now, the California governor also draws protests, even boos. One reason charges that Arnold Schwarzenegger has broken his word, flip-flopped on big issues, first, education.

GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA: I have said from day one that we have to do everything that we can to protect education.

VILES: Last year, the governor cut a deal with educators, give up some money now, you'll get back next year. The governor's new budget does restore some money but the Teacher's Union says it's $2 billion less than promised.

HARRY KEILEY, CALIFORNIA TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION: Where we are is a disappointment that the governor would go back on his word. RAPHAEL SONNENSHEIN, POLITICAL ANALYST: It makes it very difficult to cut any deal in which the governor has to get something from you today in return for something he will give tomorrow. I think those deals may be over.

VILES: Special interest money, Candidate Schwarzenegger said he didn't need it.

SCHWARZENEGGER: As you know, I don't have to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself.

VILES: But as governor, he's been a fundraising machine. He raked in more than $24 million last year and plans to raise $50 million this year, mainly from business interests.

ALLAN HOFFENBLUM, REPUBLICAN POLITICAL ANAYLST: They're not giving that money that -- so he gets reelected as governor. They're getting it because they support what he's attempting to do on his ballot measures.

VILES: Another issue, fiscal responsibility.

SCHWARZENEGGER: The politicians of this state would never ever begin -- spent more money than the state takes in.

VILES: Democrats say the governor broke that promise when he proposed new borrowing to balance his new budget. Schwarzenegger is still popular in his post honeymoon period. A recent poll showed his job approval rating at 55 percent, but that is down from 65 percent six months ago.

Peter Viles for CNN, Los Angeles.

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KAYE: A tooth fairy with a medical mission, why a scientist researching cancer thinks answers can be found inside a child's tooth.

Plus, hear from a 4-year-old about her quick thinking, how it helped save her mother's life.

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KAYE: Checking health headlines now. New fears about bird flu, British scientists are worried the avian flu can survive in fecal material on bird feathers. Imports of Chinese poultry is already banned in Britain, but chicken, duck and turkey feathers used in pillows are still allowed. The British government is now considering a ban.

A jury verdict favoring the tobacco industry, a Los Angeles jury has cleared Phillip Morris in wrongful death lawsuit. It found the company did not fraudulently conceal the dangers of smoking from a longtime Marlboro smoker. The company was cleared of negligence and misrepresentation last August, but a verdict on the final claim was not decided until yesterday. Now to a controversial study that may even have the tooth fairy frowning. Researchers are using baby teeth to see if there's a connection between nuclear facilities and cancer in kids. As our Claire Leka explains, findings of the Tooth Fairy Project are generating more grimaces than grins.

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CLAIRE LEKA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Scientist Joe Mangano heads up the Radiation & Public Health Project and he has been painstakingly collecting baby teeth for seven years. He uses them like little Geiger counters.

JOE MANGANO, RADIATION & PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECT: What our baby tooth study is doing is collecting teeth from children with cancer, and testing them for a particular chemical, strontium 90, only found in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, and seeing whether or not kids with cancer have higher levels than healthy kids.

LEKA (on camera): It's called the Tooth Fairy Project and to say it's controversial would be an understatement. His latest study completed in November 2004 was based on 52 baby teeth from New Jersey. It found higher levels of strontium 90 in children's teeth with cancer who live in counties closest to nuclear plants.

(voice-over): But 52 baby teeth is not an adequate sample size according to medical scientists. Mangano is collecting more teeth for further studies.

DR. JOSHUA LIPSMAN, WESTCHESTER COUNTY HEALTH COMMISSION: The problem with the study is that it's junk science, that they are -- they're jumping to conclusions, the way they measure things. They don't tell us how they're doing it. It's not scientifically valid.

LEKA: Mangano's study stems from the original one done back in 1959 by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, using a sample size of 85,000 baby teeth. The researchers determined that from 1945 to 1965, strontium 90 levels had risen 50 fold, a finding used as a successful push for a nuclear test ban.

The nuclear test industry flatly denounces Mangano's findings, saying there is no evidence linking higher levels of strontium 90 and nuclear power plants.

ANGIE HOWARD, NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE: The way that this program has gone forward, they cherry pick data, they use extraordinarily small samples and there's no statistical evidence to prove it.

LEKE: Howard also points to numerous studies, including a National Cancer Institute study from the 1990's, which found no general increased risk of death from cancer for people living near nuclear reactors. Manganos' previous work has been published in just a handful of peer review journals, including "Archives of Environmental Health." Mangano was asked to deliver his project's new findings before an already skeptical New Jersey Radiation Protection Commission hearing last month. For now, Mangano waits for the Commission's recommendations and hopes that will translate into more state funding for his research.

Claire Leka, CNN, New York.

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KAYE: Now, to a child making medical news for very different reasons. A 4-year-old California girl is being called a heroin. She saw her mother having a seizure, so she did just what she was taught to do at school and at home. She dialed 911 and saved her mom's life. Here's a portion of that phone call.

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UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: What's wrong?

DESIRAE FIELDS, CHILD HEROINE: My mommy's having a seizure.

UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: Your mommy's having a seizure.

FIELDS: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: OK, and is that your mommy in the background? Is that your mommy I hear?

FIELDS: In the room.

UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: In the room. OK. Are you the only one there?

FIELDS: Yes.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

KAYE: Four-year-old Desirae Fields and her mom, Darlene Baines, join us now from Los Angeles.

Welcome to both of you.

If you would, Darlene -- if you could sort of just set the scene for us from that day at your apartment there in California. Were you about to leave the apartment and how did the seizure begin?

DARLENE BAINES, MOTHER: I was in the bedroom and I discovered I had sharp chest pains and I thought that maybe I had stomach indigestion, and I tried to use home remedies, which didn't work, and I found myself going into two small seizures, but she was still asleep at the time. And after that, I had come out of the seizures, and she was up, asking me was I OK. And at that time, I told her, just go in the living room and go watch cartoons. She went, but she came back, and at the time, I had went on the floor, because I was hurting very bad, like having contractions. KAYE: And could she -- could your daughter understand just how serious this was and how much trouble you were in?

BAINES: Yes, because she's used to me having seizures but she didn't know at the time that I was having a seizure. She just thought it was, but I wasn't.

KAYE: And Desirae, if you could just -- if you could tell me, what did you think when you saw your mom on the floor? Were you scared because you knew your mom was hurting?

FIELDS: No.

KAYE: No, you weren't?

FIELDS: No.

KAYE: And you ended up calling 911, Desirae. Can you tell me how you knew to call that number?

FIELDS: No.

KAYE: You can't? OK. All right, well, maybe your mom can tell us. Darlene, can you tell us?

BAINES: Yes, she had learned through her Head Start school, Mill Center. Her teacher is Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Morris had taught her how to do it just a couple of days before I had actually had the seizure. And I had also told her when I first moved in my apartment how to in case I was in a seizure, and we were the only ones there, and that she can call in case she don't get a response from me.

KAYE: And how was it you could hear your daughter on the phone with the 911 operator? How was it that she was able to direct them to your apartment? Had you gone over the address there or how did she get them there?

BAINES: She -- well, I think it automatically came up on the dispatcher, but I had already told her where we stayed and she knew her ABCs. So she know A as in apple and that's what got them a little farther to where we were.

KAYE: Well, Desirae Fields, certainly a hero even if she's awfully modest about it, doesn't want to talk with CNN about it. We understand. And nice job, Desirae, on saving your mom's life. Thank you both for being with us today.

BAINES: You're welcome.

KAYE: He had lost his leg serving his country. Now, a former Marine is serving as inspiration to other amputee veterans. We'll show you how next.

But first, here's Al Hunt to tell us what's ahead on "THE CAPITAL GANG" -- Al. AL HUNT, CO-HOST, "THE CAPITAL GANG": Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska joins the gang to look at the approach of the social security showdown, signs of big changes in Syria, Lebanon and the Middle East, and is decision day coming for Tom DeLay. All that and more next on CNN.

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KAYE: Many soldiers and Marines wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have ended up losing limbs; still, some are on a fast track to recovery thanks to their own determination and some special help. Kathleen Koch reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On your mark, get set, go.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Call it Running 101, a class for those who have lost a leg.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get set, go.

KOCH: Many soldiers and Marines, like 22-year-old Jeff Sanders, injured six months ago by a roadside bomb near Baghdad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're the man, baby. Yes!

KOCH: He's had a new prosthetic leg for just a week and never expected to learn how to run this soon.

JEFF SANDERS, U.S. MARINE CORPS: It felt good. I mean it's so hard to deal with all of the losses of things you take for granted, and to get one of those things back. And it's not like it's one of those little things. It's about as big as it gets.

KOCH: Twenty-two-year-old Nick Theriault decided to join the class at Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital in Rockville, Maryland. He's a Marine, too, and had served in Afghanistan until a roadside bomb blew apart his left foot. Nick's want advice on improving the use of his leg designed especially for running.

NICK THERIAULT, U.S. MARINE CORPS: It pulls and it pushes back and it sends one hip forward. And it's a lot of muscle control.

KOCH (on camera): This program is not just about instructing but motivated amputees, many whose losses were very recent.

DR. TERRENCE SHEEHAN, ADVENTIST REHAB HOSPITAL: Often they come in demoralized, feeling that this loss is so devastating that they will not achieve.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This isn't no pain, no gain. Pain is no good.

KOCH: Seeing others succeed, say those teaching and supporting them, can make all the difference. MIKE CORCORAN, PROSTHEIST ORTHOIST: You know if he can do it, I can do it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Especially for amputees that have come -- just lost their leg. They get to see what the future is, you know. They get to see the possibilities.

KOCH: Nick, who went turkey hunting on crutches, just months after his injury, is motivated. He says the other key to moving ahead is acceptance.

THERIAULT: It's what you got. I mean you don't have -- you don't have a choice. You can either, you know, sit in your room and cry about it for the rest of your life or you can put a leg on and look like everybody else and go out there and live just like everyone else.

KOCH: Kathleen Koch, CNN, Rockville, Maryland.

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KAYE: That's all the time we have for this hour. Coming up next, "THE CAPITAL GANG," then at 8:00 Eastern, "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS" takes an in depth look at Martha Stewart. Tune in for exclusive video of the domestic diva inside prison. Larry King was the last person to interview Stewart before she went behind bars. You can catch that exclusive interview at 9:00 Eastern. And I'll be back at 10:00 Eastern. We'll go on tour with U2 and their official photographer for a behind-the-scenes look at Bono, his band, and his family.

A check of the headlines right after this.

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KAYE: "CAPITAL GANG" in just a moment, but first at what's happening now in the news.

It's not enough, says the State Department about Syria's vow today to pull its troops out of Lebanon. Syria's president said the troops would be relocating to Lebanon's Bakaa Valley and eventually pulled back to the Syrian side of the border, but he gave no timetable.

Tight security today for the funeral of the murdered husband of a federal judge, Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow found the bodies of her husband and her mother in the basement of her home Monday night...

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It's not enough, says the State Department, about Syria's vow today to pull its troops out of Lebanon. Syria's president said the troops would be relocated to Lebanon's Bekaa Valley and eventually pulled back to the Syrian side of the border, but he gave no timetable. More on this story in just a moment.

Tight security today for the funeral of the murdered husband of a federal judge. Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow found the bodies of her husband and her mother in the basement of her home Monday night. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information that could help the investigation.

Now to the war on terror. Pakistani troops arrested 11 suspected al Qaeda members near the Afghan border today. Two suspects described as foreigners were killed in a gunfight with the troops. The troops also seized a large number of weapons in the remote hideout.

Syria says it's a plan that will satisfy international demands. The U.S. State Department says it's not enough. Now the world is waiting to see what exactly will happen to thousands of Syrian troops inside Lebanon, the tiny neighbor Syria has dominated for decades. CNN's Brent Sadler reports.

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BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Syrian president's promise of a troop withdrawal beamed live into Beirut's Martyr Square. Anti-Syrian demonstrators glued to a giant TV screen, relaying President Bashar al-Assad's Damascus speech. Demands here, Syrian troops be given the immediate order of the boot, and thumbs down to a speech that promised withdrawal but gave no timetable.

BASHAR AL-ASSAD, SYRIAN PRESIDENT (through translator): We will not stay one extra day if there is Lebanese consensus on withdrawal.

SADLER: With no timeline, the street reacted negatively at first.

NASSIB LAHOUD, OPPOSITION M.P.: That's what made me very angry. I was angry and deceived because I want to know when.

SADLER: But some opposition leaders reacted positively. The streets warming up to Syria's news, honking horns, waving Lebanese flags, claiming victory of sorts, sensing perhaps, the start of a withdrawal.

Well, if this is not what is an offer, what is the point of that speech? I think that President Assad will leave in the next few days to put his deeds where his words were.

SADLER: Suspicion, too among some observers that President Assad's not so convincing words, they claim, can't be taken at face value.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The mechanisms are unclear. There is no time table. Ambiguity in every single word.

SADLER: Still, this was a night when many Lebanese converged on the capital, displaying joy, expressing hope that Syria's intentions are reliable.

(on camera): There may be feel-good factor here, but the United States insists the Syrian president has not done enough, failing to satisfy international calls for an immediate and complete withdrawal of Syrian force said, including its intelligence network

Brent Sadler, CNN, Beirut.

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KAYE: The Bush administration is closely watching Syria's actions. President Bush focused on the country today in his weekly radio address. CNN's Elaine Quijano is at the White House with details -- Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Randi, the White House says that what the Syrian president described is not enough. A spokeswoman today reiterating what President Bush has already said, that Syria needs to withdraw from Lebanon fully and immediately.

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QUIJANO (voice-over): President Bush left no doubt where Syria stands with his administration. In his weekly address, delivered before Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's speech, Mr. Bush made clear, he sees Syria as a destabilizing element in the region.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Syria has been an occupying force in Lebanon for nearly three decades and Syria's support for terrorism remains a key obstacle to peace in the broader Middle East.

QUIJANO: The White House says President Assad did not give the U.S. and the international community what they were looking for, compliance with U.N. Security Resolution 15-59, calling for a full withdrawal of Syrian forces from Lebanon.

FLYNT LEVERETT, BROOKINGS INSTITUTION: He certainly gave no indication that he was planning on withdrawing all Syrian forces from Lebanon. He talked about the redeployment, he talked about the withdrawals that have already taken place, but he didn't give a timetable for the redeployment, and he said nothing about further withdrawals except that if there is a Lebanese consensus at some point that Syrian troops should leave, they would leave.

QUIJANO: Even before Syria's announcement, President Bush made known he and other world leaders, including French President Jacques Chirac, would reject anything less than a full and immediate pull out.

BUSH: There's no half measures involved. When the United States and France and others say withdraw, we mean complete withdrawal, no half hearted measures.

QUIJANO: A senior State Department official says President Assad's argument for a gradual withdrawal to ensure stability does not make sense. The official points to the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri as evidence, the official says, there's no order in Lebanon now.

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QUIJANO: U.S. officials have also criticized President Assad's statement that he will consult with Lebanese leaders on the withdrawal. A senior U.S. State Department official saying that statement rings hollow because -- quote -- "He is not consulting with the Lebanese in the streets. He is consulting with the leadership he appointed" -- Rande.

KAYE: Elaine, the Syrian president's message not exactly clear today. Any talk there at the White House that that was no accident?

QUIJANO: Nothing that we're really getting as far as the commenting on what else any other officials of Syria had to say. Really what the Bush administration is doing is looking at what the president himself said. But certainly, that does -- there are a lot of questions that are still very much open at this time. Nevertheless, the Bush administration remaining firm, not changing from its position. U.S. officials really trying to isolate Syria to keep that international pressure on until it complies -- Randi.

KAYE: All right. Elaine Quijano at the White House for us tonight, thank you.

Investigators on the hunt for one of the most wanted men in the world have a new tool to aide in their search. There are photographs obtained exclusively by CNN of the man considered to be enemy number one in Iraq. Andrea Koppel has the story. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): CNN has obtained new pictures of a man believed to be terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi, the most wanted terrorist in Iraq. Sources confirmed to CNN that the man is in fact al Zarqawi, but it's unclear when the six photographs were taken. They show striking differences from the only other known photographs of the terrorist leader. The new photos show a much older and beaded al Zarqawi. He appears relaxed and looks as if he's sitting on the floor against a wall. In a few shots, he's seen chatting with unknown people.

These are also pictures of al Zarqawi, taken at a wedding several years ago. When compared to these new photographs, they portray a striking difference in his appearance. Al Zarqawi is considered by the United States to be a top lieutenant in Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda network. In fact, U.S. intelligence officials say bin Laden recently solicited the help of al Zarqawi to stage attacks outside of Iraq. Al Zarqawi is believed to be living somewhere in Iraq. He's claimed responsibility for dozens of killings and attacks in the country, primarily against United States forces and supporters of the U.S. led war.

The United States is offering a $25 million reward for his capture.

Andrea Koppel, CNN, Atlanta.

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KAYE: The U.S. death toll in Iraq is growing again. Military officials say four soldiers assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force were killed yesterday in the volatile Al Anbar Province. U.S. forces have been conducting Operation River Blitz in the area for the past two weeks. The Marines say it ended today, netting weapons caches and 400 suspected insurgents.

The Italian journalist who spent a month in captivity in Iraq is back home. Giuliana Sgrena arrived in Rome today. She was taken to a hospital to recover from a shooting incident that left her wounded and killed an Italian security agent. It happened Friday as the woman was being whisked to Baghdad airport after her release. The U.S. military says the car was speeding and refused to stop at a checkpoint but man Italians are outraged over this incident. About 100 demonstrators gathered outside the U.S embassy in Rome. President Bush has expressed his regrets about the shooting and is promising a full investigation.

The mystery behind the murder of a federal judge's husband and mother, no suspects are being named, but could it possibly be linked to domestic terrorism? We'll explain.

Plus, is the political honeymoon for Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger over? Why critics are crying foul over broken campaign promises.

And still to and, the inspirational story of a Marine who lost a leg in war but ended up gaining a new mission in life.

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KAYE: A somber day today in Evanston, Illinois. Hundreds of mourners turned out amid tight security to pay their final respects to Michael Lefkow. He's the husband of federal judge Joan Lefkow. He was found shot dead along with his wife's mother inside his home this week. The FBI is offering a $50,000 reward for information leading to the killers. Judge Lefkow and her daughters were at today's service. They remain under federal protection.

The Lefkow killing investigation is to be featured tonight on the hit television show, "American's Most Wanted." One of the theories authorities are looking into is whether the case is linked to Matthew Hale, a white supremacist who is no stranger to Judge Lefkow. CNN's Aaron Brown takes a closer look at Hale and his highly controversial past.

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AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Matt Hale liked to make himself out as a sort of Renaissance man of hate, an intellectual racist. He called himself Ponofix Maximus (ph) and he was the supreme leader of the grandiosely named World Church of The Creator.

MATTHEW HALE, WHITE SUPREMACIST: Our morals, our beliefs, or horizon is white.

BROWN: Mark Potok monitors hate groups for the Southern Poverty Law Center.

MARK POTOK, SOUTHERN POVERTY LAW CENTER: They're neo-Nazis. They believe that Jews are behind every evil, that they manipulate the world.

BROWN: Hale once claimed to have 80,000 followers. In reality, Potok's group says there were more like a hundred. But if there were few, they could be deadly. In 1999, Hale was denied a law license by Illinois authorities who felt oddly enough that he didn't possess sufficient moral character. One of Hale's followers then went on a killing spree, randomly shooting people, apparently, because they were not white.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have to then ask you if you do not some way feel some responsibility.

HALE: No, we don't for the same reasons that the pope in Rome does not feel responsible for abortion clinic bombings.

BROWN: Hale evaded prosecution that time. But in 2001, he was caught on tape soliciting the murder of Judge Lefkow, White House had ordered his church to change its name as a result of a copyright dispute. Here's Hale responding to a man named Tony Evola, about getting the judge's address. What he does not realize is that Evola is an FBI plant.

TONY EVOLA, FBI PLANT: I got a way of getting it. When we get it, we're going to exterminate the rat?

HALE: Well, whatever you want to do.

BROWN: Matt Hale was convicted this time and was already in jail awaiting his sentence when this week's murders in Chicago took place. Potok says that if -- and he emphasizes the if -- this is a case of domestic terrorism, he thinks it would be a case of one of Hale's followers acting on his own. In Potok's world, they call that sort of person a loan wolf.

POTOK: And this is a threat that has absolutely not gone away since 9/11.

BROWN: He points to Timothy McVeigh as the prime example as of the loan wolf and says just because there is more emphasis on stopping al Qaeda these days, the threat from these homegrown terrorists is still very real.

In fact, he warns that the disintegration of groups like Hale's or others like the Area Nations or the National Alliance may put the rest of us in greater danger.

POTOK: And as ironic as that might seem, leaders of event he most extreme groups have in many instances, in effect, acted as a break on members in the groups. You know they tend to say things like, you know, yes, we're going to kill all the Jews, but that will be next week, you know, keep your guns holstered this week.

BROWN: Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.

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KAYE: Hale has denied any involvement in the murder of Lefkow's husband and mother.

Lessons learned in school that can save a life. Still to come, I'll speak with a 4-year-old girl about her 911 call that helped save her mother's life.

But first...

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BRIAN HORN, RETURNED FROM IRAQ: No, it is great. It's a touch of home. I mean it was everything from Raviolis, the baby wipes, obviously, toothpaste, just the stuff that I couldn't get my hands on.

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KAYE: One Maryland family's online grassroots campaign to send U.S. troops in Iraq a piece of home.

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KAYE: Every week, we bring you the more personal stories from the front-lines. Today, one family's efforts to bring some of the comforts of home to troops stationed in Iraq and Afghanistan. As Beth Nissen explains, the show of support is having an unexpected benefit in the battle for hearts and minds.

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BETH NISSEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When it comes to supplying an Army in the fields, there are thousands of material specialists, quartermasters, and supply officers, and then there are the special forces like the Horn family in Laplata (ph), Maryland.

SUE HORN, ANYSOLDIER.COM: We're a family-run effort that's just trying to show our support and we got a little more involved than most people.

NISSEN: Their involvement began in 2003 when their son Brian was deployed to Iraq, a forward location with no running water, eating only military rations. He soon grew dirty, thin, haggard.

MARTY HORN, ANYSOLDIER.COM: He finally sent us a couple of pictures. When I showed Sue the pictures, she gasped.

NISSEN: They sent him baby wipes so he could clean his weapon and himself, sent more food and favorite snacks, sent enough for him to share with his unit. Brian, home between deployments, remembers that first shipment.

B. HORN: No, it is great. It's a touch of home. I mean it was everything from Raviolis, you know, the baby wipes, obviously, toothpaste, just the stuff that I couldn't get my hands on.

NISSEN: Stuff that most troops and combat units far from the nearest PX still struggle to get their hands on. The Horns devised a plan to get more of these comfort items to more troops by getting the word out on just what troops needed and how to get to them. Marty Horn, a 20-year Army veteran now retired built a website, Anysoldier.com. He began collecting the names of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who would accept mailed packages and distribute them to their unit. For security reasons, all boxes sent to troops must be addressed to a specific person.

M. HORN: We currently have almost 1,000 contacts over there. Those contacts tell us what they need.

NISSEN: Those posted notes are a window on the war. A soldier with the 10th Special Forces asked for DVDs to distract from the sounds of bombing. A sergeant working the night shift in a combat support hospital in Baghdad asks for coffee, chocolate, "things to help us stay awake."

The requests show how eager the troops are for distraction, how young many are, how lonely they are. "We don't need anything special just someone to write to," noted a sergeant with the 1st Calvary, "a simple letter will do."

From the first, the Horns were struck by how often troops asked for items they could give to local children, especially toys, especially Beanie Babies.

M. HORN: The soldiers love them because they weigh almost nothing. They fit into a knapsack or a rucksack or their baggy uniform pants. And then as the kids show up, they just whip one out and toss it to the kid and it changes everything.

NISSEN: A Beanie Baby changed everything for one Marine convoy in Iraq.

M. HORN: As they're going, there's this like four or 5-year-old little girl standing in the middle of the road. Now they had met this girl a couple days before and given her some toys, Beanie Babies. She's standing with the Beanie Baby in her hand. The convoy stops, like why's this kid in the middle of a road. They walked up to her and she points. There's an IED in the road.

S. HORN: She saved their lives.

NISSEN: The Horns don't know who sent that Beanie Baby, don't know how many donors there are. Most of them mail letters in boxes directly to the contact addresses listed on the website. Others opt to buy preassembled treat boxes. But the Horns, their five children, their childrens' friends and their friends assemble, pack, and package in the family's suburban ranch house.

S. HORN: Pretty much, they always need hygiene items, especially the women. I send a package of toilet paper in every single kit. Everybody needs to have cookies and candy and peanuts, beef jerky, Slim Jims, you know, stuff that they can throw in their pocket when they go out on a mission. And I think more than anything, it's a taste of home.

NISSEN: Getting something from home, hearing from someone back home keeps the troops going. The website is full of photos and messages that make that clear.

M. HORN: This is about support, not just stuff. You can't have an Army fight something as ugly as this and have bad morale. Anything that improves moral is going to help get these folks back home.

NISSEN: It might give them some measure of comfort until they are.

Beth Nissen, CNN, Laplata (ph), Maryland.

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KAYE: Redemption for white collar criminals, how can Martha Stewart repair her image in her post prison life? I'll speak with another former CEO who spent years behind bars.

Plus, the legal troubles facing some teens caught on tape taking out some holiday decorations.

And still to come, one doctor's search for a possible link between nuclear plants and kids with cancer, why his research is sparking a medical controversy.

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KAYE: Well, welcome back. Here's what's happening now in the news. Syrian President Assad says he'll pull all of his country's troops in Lebanon back to the border, buts he doesn't say when. A Syrian cabinet minister later confirmed to CNN the president meant the Syrian side of the border.

CNN has obtained new pictures of the man believed to be terrorist leader Abu Musab al Zarqawi. His network in Iraq is behind widespread attacks on Iraqi and U.S. targets and it has links to al Qaeda. It's unclear how recent those images are.

A planned royal wedding is turning into a royal pain for the loving couple. British citizens have filed nine formal objections against Prince Charles' pending marriage to his longtime companion, Camilla Parker Bowles. A local registry official says to expect a ruling soon. And the British government has already declared the ceremony legal.

It was one year ago today that Martha Stewart was convicted on charges she lied about the sale of her ImClone stock shares. Now that Stewart has served her 5-month stint in prison, she's back home under house arrest. How will this cramp Stewart's style? CNN's Adaara Udoji has a look.

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ADAORA UDOJI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Martha Stewart, a trendsetting icon, guest at the hottest parties, hanging with the rich and famous. But after her stint in prison, you won't see her as much out on the town.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: House arrest is punishment. There's no question about it. And she'll be wearing an ankle bracelet all the time.

UDOJI (on camera): That's not all. No luxury shopping at her favorite designer stores here on 5th Avenue, no lunching at this exclusive Four Seasons Hotel, not unless her probation officer says she can.

(voice-over): For five months, she's on lockdown at her sprawling Bedford, New York estate, to some, not hard time at all. But she can literally not leave her house, not to walk the grounds, not to feed her animals. She is allowed to leave 48 hours a week to work, go grocery shopping, see the doctor, and attend church. Anything more, say taking off to Los Angeles, she has to talk to the judge first.

(on camera): She's going to have to be accountable to someone just about every minute of her day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's no question about it. I mean when she leaves, assuming she's got to attend a meeting, she has to call her probation officer and say I'm going to be out from 10:00 to 6:00 and this is where I'll be so they could turn off the device.

UDOJI (voice-over): She had such great plans before prison.

MARTHA STEWART, DOMESTIC DIVA: I would like to be back as early in March as possible in order to plant the new spring garden and to truly get things growing again.

UDOJI: Now, she knows planting will have to wait. The woman who built an empire will have curfews and weekly schedules approved by federal officers. But she'll still be making lots of money, free to begin work on a mega TV deal, two new shows.

MARK BURNETT, TV PRODUCER: And I cannot wait until she comes out of jail and we can work together.

UDOJI: Free to have lavish parties, looking good with the help of friends like celebrity hairstylist, Frederick Vaki (ph). She can't leave, but her famous buddies can visit, say federal officials, party until the wee hours of the night as long as they don't have criminal records. House arrest brings the domestic diva one step closer to making good on that prediction, fulfilling an all-American comeback.

Adaora Udoji, CNN, New York.

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KAYE: A comeback is exactly what America expects of Martha Stewart. Our next guest can talk all about that. Barry Minkow, the author of "Cleaning Up: One Man's Redemptive Journey Through The Seductive World of Corporate Crime," turned his life around after he was convicted of engineering one of the biggest frauds in U.S history. Today, he works with the FBI to help uncover white collar fraud.

Barry, good to have you with us.

BARRY MINKOW, AUTHOR, "CLEANING UP": Thank you.

KAYE: You were once a Wall Street whiz kid. Tell us briefly how you ended up in prison.

MINKOW: I lied about what I owed and I lied about what I earned, and that's white collar crime. That's what corporate criminals do. I was kind of the first of the bad CEOs to do that publicly with a publicly traded company. The company was evaluated at $300 million. I owned most of the stock, so the victim impact much to my shame of my crime was $26 million. But essentially, I lied about what I earned and I lied about what I owed, much like you see Health South, WorldCom, Tyco, all of those trials that are happening now, the same thing. We lie about what we owe. We lie about what we earn. Not the case with Martha.

KAYE: And what are you doing about this today to help clean up financial fraud?

MINKOW: Well, thank you for asking. I hope to some extent I am with working undercover with the government and we've uncovered 10 cases, about a billion dollars in fraud, 10 different cases, uncovering financial crimes in progress that the government wasn't aware of. We went, infiltrated, gathered the evidence, and the government shut them down. That includes the longest and largest running ponzi (ph) scheme in American business history, financial advisory consultants with 5,400 investors, an $814 million fund. We went undercover and got that shut down last year. So, yes -- and you know what that is? Use what I did to do evil and kind of flip it on its back and use those talents to help the very community I once hurt. And that's what I want to do.

KAYE: Well, you spent quite a bit of time in a maximum security prison. Did it change you? And do you think prison changed Martha Stewart?

MINKOW: That's a great question. Yes, I didn't want to fail jail. I didn't want to leave the same way I came. And I don't think Martha has left jail the same way she came. Even though I did eight Super Bowls -- I counted Super Bowls, most people count birthdays. I counted Super Bowls. I did eight Super Bowls in federal prison. Martha did five months. However, I think we all leave prison different than the way we came. We don't want to fail jail and that's what comeback is based on. When she didn't go and wait for the appeal bond and went to prison not pending appeal, she just went. That's acceptance of responsibility. Then she comes out of prison. Comeback begins with exactly that, acceptance of responsibility, do the time, move on. And I see great things for Martha Stewart in this come back. And she's paid her price. Look at the impact...

KAYE: What do you see for Martha Stewart? What do you see for her?

MINKOW: I see a brilliant woman.

KAYE: A changed woman?

MINKOW: Absolutely. I think she's brilliant. I think she's paid the price of her crimes. I -- This is a woman who literally built a company from nothing without lying and cheating. I can't make that claim, allegedly, neither can Bernie Ebbers, allegedly neither can Jeff Skilling, but Martha Stewart can. She built this company out of hard work, out of sweat and tears, and she's going to use that same tenacity. Only now, I think she's got a little bit more compassion.

Look at the place where the inmates stay to go visit that prison. She's completely revamped it. She's written letters on behalf of inmates. I'm telling you this, when you go into prison and you meet these people that you never would meet ordinarily, it changes your life. You become more humble, you become more real, and you become more loving. And I see that -- and I pray that that's the case in Martha and I think it is.

KAYE: I have to ask. Have you have sent her a copy of your book? Do you plan to? And what advice would you give her?

MINKOW: Well, first of all, I'm not allowed to associate with her because I'm a convicted felon, so I'm one of those people that would be excluded. Listen, I love Martha. She doesn't need me. She's got my prayers. That's what she needs most. She's going to do great. And I haven't sent her a copy of the book. I would in a minute, but she doesn't -- I need her book. She's the one who's successful. I'm the one who is the crook. So...

KAYE: All right, Barry Minkow joining us today, the author of "Cleaning Up: One Man's Redemptive Journey Through The Seductive World of Corporate Crime."

Stay tuned for tonight's encore presentation of "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS," Martha's makeover. It includes exclusive video of Martha Stewart inside prison and looks at what the homemaking maven will be dishing up next. That's tonight at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific.

Elsewhere across America, three more drill instructors are under suspension as the Marine Corps investigates the drowning of a recruit at Paris Island, South Carolina. Five Marines had already been suspended. Jason Tharp died in a training pool last month, one day after a local TV news crew videotaped a drill instructor grabbing and striking him.

Police in Bricktownship, New Jersey say the arrested three teens for vandalizing Christmas displays after homemade videos of the incidents turned up on a website. The images set to music show vandals smashing decorations at homes in three neighborhoods. The teenagers face charges of criminal mischief.

State officials plan to appeal a sharp legal blow to California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. In November, Schwarzenegger delayed implementing a state law requiring hospitals to have at least one nurse for every five patients. A judge has now ruled his delay illegal.

He campaigned as a straight-talking anti-politician. Detractors say Arnold Schwarzenegger has quickly learned one of the oldest political tricks in the book, the flip-flop. Peter Viles reports from Los Angeles.

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PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He still draws a crowd, but now, the California governor also draws protests, even boos. One reason charges that Arnold Schwarzenegger has broken his word, flip-flopped on big issues, first, education.

GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER (R), CALIFORNIA: I have said from day one that we have to do everything that we can to protect education.

VILES: Last year, the governor cut a deal with educators, give up some money now, you'll get back next year. The governor's new budget does restore some money but the Teacher's Union says it's $2 billion less than promised.

HARRY KEILEY, CALIFORNIA TEACHER'S ASSOCIATION: Where we are is a disappointment that the governor would go back on his word. RAPHAEL SONNENSHEIN, POLITICAL ANALYST: It makes it very difficult to cut any deal in which the governor has to get something from you today in return for something he will give tomorrow. I think those deals may be over.

VILES: Special interest money, Candidate Schwarzenegger said he didn't need it.

SCHWARZENEGGER: As you know, I don't have to take any money from anybody. I have plenty of money myself.

VILES: But as governor, he's been a fundraising machine. He raked in more than $24 million last year and plans to raise $50 million this year, mainly from business interests.

ALLAN HOFFENBLUM, REPUBLICAN POLITICAL ANAYLST: They're not giving that money that -- so he gets reelected as governor. They're getting it because they support what he's attempting to do on his ballot measures.

VILES: Another issue, fiscal responsibility.

SCHWARZENEGGER: The politicians of this state would never ever begin -- spent more money than the state takes in.

VILES: Democrats say the governor broke that promise when he proposed new borrowing to balance his new budget. Schwarzenegger is still popular in his post honeymoon period. A recent poll showed his job approval rating at 55 percent, but that is down from 65 percent six months ago.

Peter Viles for CNN, Los Angeles.

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KAYE: A tooth fairy with a medical mission, why a scientist researching cancer thinks answers can be found inside a child's tooth.

Plus, hear from a 4-year-old about her quick thinking, how it helped save her mother's life.

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KAYE: Checking health headlines now. New fears about bird flu, British scientists are worried the avian flu can survive in fecal material on bird feathers. Imports of Chinese poultry is already banned in Britain, but chicken, duck and turkey feathers used in pillows are still allowed. The British government is now considering a ban.

A jury verdict favoring the tobacco industry, a Los Angeles jury has cleared Phillip Morris in wrongful death lawsuit. It found the company did not fraudulently conceal the dangers of smoking from a longtime Marlboro smoker. The company was cleared of negligence and misrepresentation last August, but a verdict on the final claim was not decided until yesterday. Now to a controversial study that may even have the tooth fairy frowning. Researchers are using baby teeth to see if there's a connection between nuclear facilities and cancer in kids. As our Claire Leka explains, findings of the Tooth Fairy Project are generating more grimaces than grins.

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CLAIRE LEKA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Scientist Joe Mangano heads up the Radiation & Public Health Project and he has been painstakingly collecting baby teeth for seven years. He uses them like little Geiger counters.

JOE MANGANO, RADIATION & PUBLIC HEALTH PROJECT: What our baby tooth study is doing is collecting teeth from children with cancer, and testing them for a particular chemical, strontium 90, only found in nuclear weapons and nuclear reactors, and seeing whether or not kids with cancer have higher levels than healthy kids.

LEKA (on camera): It's called the Tooth Fairy Project and to say it's controversial would be an understatement. His latest study completed in November 2004 was based on 52 baby teeth from New Jersey. It found higher levels of strontium 90 in children's teeth with cancer who live in counties closest to nuclear plants.

(voice-over): But 52 baby teeth is not an adequate sample size according to medical scientists. Mangano is collecting more teeth for further studies.

DR. JOSHUA LIPSMAN, WESTCHESTER COUNTY HEALTH COMMISSION: The problem with the study is that it's junk science, that they are -- they're jumping to conclusions, the way they measure things. They don't tell us how they're doing it. It's not scientifically valid.

LEKA: Mangano's study stems from the original one done back in 1959 by researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, using a sample size of 85,000 baby teeth. The researchers determined that from 1945 to 1965, strontium 90 levels had risen 50 fold, a finding used as a successful push for a nuclear test ban.

The nuclear test industry flatly denounces Mangano's findings, saying there is no evidence linking higher levels of strontium 90 and nuclear power plants.

ANGIE HOWARD, NUCLEAR ENERGY INSTITUTE: The way that this program has gone forward, they cherry pick data, they use extraordinarily small samples and there's no statistical evidence to prove it.

LEKE: Howard also points to numerous studies, including a National Cancer Institute study from the 1990's, which found no general increased risk of death from cancer for people living near nuclear reactors. Manganos' previous work has been published in just a handful of peer review journals, including "Archives of Environmental Health." Mangano was asked to deliver his project's new findings before an already skeptical New Jersey Radiation Protection Commission hearing last month. For now, Mangano waits for the Commission's recommendations and hopes that will translate into more state funding for his research.

Claire Leka, CNN, New York.

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KAYE: Now, to a child making medical news for very different reasons. A 4-year-old California girl is being called a heroin. She saw her mother having a seizure, so she did just what she was taught to do at school and at home. She dialed 911 and saved her mom's life. Here's a portion of that phone call.

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UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: What's wrong?

DESIRAE FIELDS, CHILD HEROINE: My mommy's having a seizure.

UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: Your mommy's having a seizure.

FIELDS: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: OK, and is that your mommy in the background? Is that your mommy I hear?

FIELDS: In the room.

UNIDENTIFIED DISPATCHER: In the room. OK. Are you the only one there?

FIELDS: Yes.

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KAYE: Four-year-old Desirae Fields and her mom, Darlene Baines, join us now from Los Angeles.

Welcome to both of you.

If you would, Darlene -- if you could sort of just set the scene for us from that day at your apartment there in California. Were you about to leave the apartment and how did the seizure begin?

DARLENE BAINES, MOTHER: I was in the bedroom and I discovered I had sharp chest pains and I thought that maybe I had stomach indigestion, and I tried to use home remedies, which didn't work, and I found myself going into two small seizures, but she was still asleep at the time. And after that, I had come out of the seizures, and she was up, asking me was I OK. And at that time, I told her, just go in the living room and go watch cartoons. She went, but she came back, and at the time, I had went on the floor, because I was hurting very bad, like having contractions. KAYE: And could she -- could your daughter understand just how serious this was and how much trouble you were in?

BAINES: Yes, because she's used to me having seizures but she didn't know at the time that I was having a seizure. She just thought it was, but I wasn't.

KAYE: And Desirae, if you could just -- if you could tell me, what did you think when you saw your mom on the floor? Were you scared because you knew your mom was hurting?

FIELDS: No.

KAYE: No, you weren't?

FIELDS: No.

KAYE: And you ended up calling 911, Desirae. Can you tell me how you knew to call that number?

FIELDS: No.

KAYE: You can't? OK. All right, well, maybe your mom can tell us. Darlene, can you tell us?

BAINES: Yes, she had learned through her Head Start school, Mill Center. Her teacher is Mrs. Anderson and Mrs. Morris had taught her how to do it just a couple of days before I had actually had the seizure. And I had also told her when I first moved in my apartment how to in case I was in a seizure, and we were the only ones there, and that she can call in case she don't get a response from me.

KAYE: And how was it you could hear your daughter on the phone with the 911 operator? How was it that she was able to direct them to your apartment? Had you gone over the address there or how did she get them there?

BAINES: She -- well, I think it automatically came up on the dispatcher, but I had already told her where we stayed and she knew her ABCs. So she know A as in apple and that's what got them a little farther to where we were.

KAYE: Well, Desirae Fields, certainly a hero even if she's awfully modest about it, doesn't want to talk with CNN about it. We understand. And nice job, Desirae, on saving your mom's life. Thank you both for being with us today.

BAINES: You're welcome.

KAYE: He had lost his leg serving his country. Now, a former Marine is serving as inspiration to other amputee veterans. We'll show you how next.

But first, here's Al Hunt to tell us what's ahead on "THE CAPITAL GANG" -- Al. AL HUNT, CO-HOST, "THE CAPITAL GANG": Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska joins the gang to look at the approach of the social security showdown, signs of big changes in Syria, Lebanon and the Middle East, and is decision day coming for Tom DeLay. All that and more next on CNN.

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KAYE: Many soldiers and Marines wounded in Iraq and Afghanistan have ended up losing limbs; still, some are on a fast track to recovery thanks to their own determination and some special help. Kathleen Koch reports.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: On your mark, get set, go.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Call it Running 101, a class for those who have lost a leg.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get set, go.

KOCH: Many soldiers and Marines, like 22-year-old Jeff Sanders, injured six months ago by a roadside bomb near Baghdad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're the man, baby. Yes!

KOCH: He's had a new prosthetic leg for just a week and never expected to learn how to run this soon.

JEFF SANDERS, U.S. MARINE CORPS: It felt good. I mean it's so hard to deal with all of the losses of things you take for granted, and to get one of those things back. And it's not like it's one of those little things. It's about as big as it gets.

KOCH: Twenty-two-year-old Nick Theriault decided to join the class at Adventist Rehabilitation Hospital in Rockville, Maryland. He's a Marine, too, and had served in Afghanistan until a roadside bomb blew apart his left foot. Nick's want advice on improving the use of his leg designed especially for running.

NICK THERIAULT, U.S. MARINE CORPS: It pulls and it pushes back and it sends one hip forward. And it's a lot of muscle control.

KOCH (on camera): This program is not just about instructing but motivated amputees, many whose losses were very recent.

DR. TERRENCE SHEEHAN, ADVENTIST REHAB HOSPITAL: Often they come in demoralized, feeling that this loss is so devastating that they will not achieve.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This isn't no pain, no gain. Pain is no good.

KOCH: Seeing others succeed, say those teaching and supporting them, can make all the difference. MIKE CORCORAN, PROSTHEIST ORTHOIST: You know if he can do it, I can do it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Especially for amputees that have come -- just lost their leg. They get to see what the future is, you know. They get to see the possibilities.

KOCH: Nick, who went turkey hunting on crutches, just months after his injury, is motivated. He says the other key to moving ahead is acceptance.

THERIAULT: It's what you got. I mean you don't have -- you don't have a choice. You can either, you know, sit in your room and cry about it for the rest of your life or you can put a leg on and look like everybody else and go out there and live just like everyone else.

KOCH: Kathleen Koch, CNN, Rockville, Maryland.

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KAYE: That's all the time we have for this hour. Coming up next, "THE CAPITAL GANG," then at 8:00 Eastern, "PEOPLE IN THE NEWS" takes an in depth look at Martha Stewart. Tune in for exclusive video of the domestic diva inside prison. Larry King was the last person to interview Stewart before she went behind bars. You can catch that exclusive interview at 9:00 Eastern. And I'll be back at 10:00 Eastern. We'll go on tour with U2 and their official photographer for a behind-the-scenes look at Bono, his band, and his family.

A check of the headlines right after this.

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KAYE: "CAPITAL GANG" in just a moment, but first at what's happening now in the news.

It's not enough, says the State Department about Syria's vow today to pull its troops out of Lebanon. Syria's president said the troops would be relocating to Lebanon's Bakaa Valley and eventually pulled back to the Syrian side of the border, but he gave no timetable.

Tight security today for the funeral of the murdered husband of a federal judge, Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow found the bodies of her husband and her mother in the basement of her home Monday night...

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