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Critical Report on U.S. Intelligence Out; 'Paging Dr. Gupta'
Aired March 31, 2005 - 08:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Another beautiful day here in New York City. We can thank Kyra Phillips for that. We're giving you all the credit, girl, you and Mother Nature.
Good morning, everybody. I'm Bill Hemmer.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Kyra Phillips, very tight with Mother Nature. I'm in for Soledad today.
We're going to get back to Terri Schiavo in just a second. Sanjay is back with us, putting the legal battles in perspective, alongside the medical realities. We're going to talk about her condition after nearly two weeks without food or water.
HEMMER: Also from Washington, a few minutes ago, a very critical bipartisan report coming out, focusing on U.S. intelligence before the war in Iraq, says America was, quote, "dead wrong." We'll find out what else it says, too, down to the White House in a few moments on that.
In the meantime, back to the headlines and back to Kelly Wallace. Good morning.
KELLY WALLACE, CNN ANCHOR: Great to see both of you. Good morning, everyone.
Here are some other stories now in the news. Terri Schiavo has now been without food or water for almost two weeks. Father Frank Pavone saw Terri Schiavo on Wednesday.
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FATHER FRANK PAVONE, SCHINDLER FAMILY SUPPORTER: Dying peacefully and with dignity -- there is no dying with dignity when someone's being starve and dehydrated as she is obviously is. She is breathing very rapidly and shallowly. She is obviously very gaunt and drawn, and her face is sunken. And this is just the face of inhumanity. And anyone who thinks this is dying with dignity has lost their conscience.
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WALLACE: Meanwhile, the legal options for her parents are running out. The U.S. Supreme Court once again rejected pleas to intervene in the case.
A U.S. Army captain is awaiting sentencing for shooting a wounded Iraqi suspect. Captain Roger Manulet (ph) had said he shot the man to end his suffering. But a military court has found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Manulet faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
In Texas now, where a former high-ranking Boy Scout official is awaiting sentencing on a child pornography charge. Douglas smith has pleaded guilty. He acknowledged receiving and sending more than 500 images over the Internet. Smith faces up to 20 years in prison without parole, and a quarter-of-a-million dollar fine. He'll remain free until sentencing this summer.
And Britain's Prince Charles posing for the cameras, you can say. But the soon to be groom was caught by microphones mumbling underneath his breath while at a Swiss ski resort with his sons. He called reporters and photographers, quote, "bloody people," and said, "I hate doing this." The prince is expected to wed his longtime lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, next week. If he's unhappy with all the reporters, think how he's going to feel next week.
HEMMER: Can't blame him, though.
WALLACE: I know. I mean, everywhere he goes.
HEMMER: Kind of a drag.
PHILLIPS: Those vultures -- oh, wait.
WALLACE: Oh wait, that's us.
HEMMER: Thank you, Kelly.
Want to get to D.C. Right now. A critical report on U.S. intelligence is now out, commissioned by the president, released about 30 minutes ago in fact. Calls for a major overhaul. Elaine Quijano has been watching this. Elaine, good morning. How critical is that report.
ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, one Bush administration official described it as harsh and hard hitting. That's certainly how it appears to be.
In fact here is a copy of the report. It is nearly 600 pages long, divided up into 13 chapters, as well as a conclusion. And taking a look at the letter put forth by the WMD Commission to President Bush, it is quite strong in its language against the intelligence community, talking about the failures, saying, quote, "We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This was a major intelligence failure. Its principal causes were the intelligence community's inability to collect good information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what information it could gather, and a failure to make clear just how much of its analysis was based on assumptions rather than good evidence."
Now, the report also includes more than 70 recommendations. But of course, this commission was created by President Bush to investigate the failures of intelligence in trying to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That of course, a major credibility issue for the United States.
But also, President Bush tasked this commission with taking a broader look at the nation's intelligence community as a whole. As a result, some of the recommendations that have come out include taking a look at the new director of national intelligence, outlining in more detail what they believe will be powers necessary in order for that person to be effective in that job. Of course, President Bush has selected John Negroponte for that. Also things like bringing the FBI more within the intelligence community.
But what White House officials have said is that while the president will look at these recommendations, carefully consider them and act on them, they believe they have already made progress. They believe they have already taken steps to reform the intelligence community. They point to the creation of a DNI. They also point to what they say is a more focused mission by the FBI on terrorism. So that is what they -- their early reaction has been to some of the criticisms that we should point out are not necessarily new. Also want to tell you that what is not in the unclassified version, largely left out, intelligence on North Korea and Iran. A U.S. official saying essentially, of course, they do not want to tip their hand. Much of that remains in the classified version.
HEMMER: Elaine, let's just be clear about this. A lot of information there. This is not a new branch of government in any way, this is not a new cabinet position; it's just a new department within the Justice Department, is that right? And how would they function with the rest of the things happening now?
QUIJANO: Well, my understanding of that is that the Justice Department already has people working within it who take a look at counter-terrorism, who take a look at the counter-intelligence efforts, but what they're talking about is offering a more streamlined group, a more streamlined organization, if you will, within the Justice Department, so they can better manage some of the information.
One of the criticisms that we have continued to hear is that there is not enough intelligence sharing within the community. Things like the National Counterterrorism Center, which had been set up essentially to try to streamline some of those efforts, so you could have a lot of agencies under one roof. This report finds that not information sharing as it should be going on, that you sometimes will have people sitting right next to each other who don't necessarily have access to the same information. So that's one of the criticisms they say that needs to be addressed.
HEMMER: Intelligence sharing, getting and keeping people on the page, too, in D.C., not always easy. Elaine, thanks for that. We'll get announcement from the president at 11:40 a.m. Eastern Time. We'll have it live for you from D.C. when it happens -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: Keeping our eye on your security, 500 agents will be added to Arizona's border with Mexico. The Department of Homeland Security announced its manpower increase just as hundreds of volunteers are set to take up positions along same border. More than half the illegal aliens caught last year crossed into Arizona from Mexico.
Jeanne Meserve reports.
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JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Just seven minutes into flight, a Border Patrol helicopter finds what it is looking for.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I've got bodies.
MESERVE: Illegal aliens hiding in the desert scrub.
Border Patrol agent Brad Rubenoff (ph) jumps from the hovering chopper to round them up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Brad is away.
MESERVE: There are nine, including three women. They say they crossed the border two nights ago. They have walked almost 50 miles into the United States before being detected. After processing, they will be taken back.
JOHN KIMMEL, BORDER PATROL AGENT: They'll probably be back in Mexico by 4:00 or 5:00 this evening. It's now 12:00.
MESERVE (on camera): And then when will they try to cross the border again?
KIMMEL: Probably this evening.
MESERVE (voice-over): With about half of the country's illegal immigration coming across the Arizona border, homeland security is injecting new resources into its year-old Arizona Border Control Initiative, or ABCI. Wednesday, the department announced a nearly 25- percent increase in the number of permanently assigned Border Patrol agents and the temporary deployment of 23 additional aircraft.
ROBERT BONNER, U.S. CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION: The Department of Homeland Security is determined to gain control of our borders. And we're going to do it, and we're going to keep at it until we get the job done.
T.J. BONNER, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL BORDER PATROL COUNCIL: I think it largely is a publicity stunt by the government. Sorry to say that, but I think the government is trying to pull a fast one on the public.
MESERVE (on camera): Though the Department of Homeland Security vehemently denies it, some believe that ABCI being augmented now to counter potential bad publicity from a protest action beginning Friday: the Minuteman Project.
(voice-over) Based in the legendary town of Tombstone, organizers expect as many as 1,500 volunteers. Stationed at intervals along 50 miles of the Mexico/Arizona border, they will attempt to detect and report anyone crossing illegally, to highlight what they perceive as the inadequacy of current border protection efforts.
CHRIS SIMCOX, MINUTEMAN PROJECT: We're a neighborhood watch group. Nothing more than a neighborhood watch group, who are doing nothing but what the president and the Department of Homeland Security ask Americans to do. You can't find any more suspicious illegal activity in this country than coming across this border through our backyards.
MESERVE: Though even critics like the Minutemen welcome the bolstering of ABCI, they believe it will push illegal immigration elsewhere and divert Border Patrol resources at a time when the president's budget funds only 210 new agents for the entire country.
BONNER: They're essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul at a time when they should be hiring as many people as possible.
MESERVE: But Border Patrol pilot John Kimmel is more optimistic.
KIMMEL: I've done as much as one pilot can do. So I -- all of us are doing our parts, and it is making a difference.
MESERVE: Kimmel believes more agents will mean more arrests and more progress against the tide of illegal immigration.
For CNN's American bureau, Jeanne Meserve, over the southern Arizona desert.
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PHILLIPS: One-hundred and fifty 150 of the 500 Arizona agents will be recruited from other areas, 350 will be new hires. Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
HEMMER: Twenty minutes before the hour. Checking this video from Seattle, Washington. Lightning striking the famous Space Needle there. It's 605 feet tall, well prepared, 25 lightning rods there. Those bolts landed while some people were eating lunch. There's a restaurant up there. A few of them, in fact, at the top of the Space Needle on Tuesday. They didn't seem too bothered by it. Some said taking the hit was spectacular. They took some photos along the way. Some of them actually said it was fun, too.
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PHILLIPS: Well, doctors tell hundreds of patients to get tested for HIV after a possible mistake at just one hospital. We'll explain.
HEMMER: Also the latest on Terri Schiavo. That condition, too, in this new videotape we're watching today for the first time. Two weeks now without food or water. How much longer can she survive? Dr. Sanjay Gupta has some insight after the break.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) HEMMER: Throughout the morning here, we've been watching these videotapes, new videotapes, for the first time seen by the public. This is Terri Schiavo with her mother and with doctors back in the summer of 2002. We're trying to learn more with Dr. Sanjay Gupta about what we can learn from these tapes.
Many questions still out there, Sanjay. Good morning to you.
One of the questions is this, we're right at that 14-day mark for Terri Schiavo, without water, without nourishment. For a normal person, a human being, in a normal state, that would be thrown into a condition like this, how could they last normally?
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, a normal healthy person, we're talking about the upper limits now of what you'd expect most people to last. But every individual is going to be a little bit different. We've been doing some homework on this, Bill, find that people, for example, in terminal-cancer situations. There've been reports of people surviving several weeks even without food and water, sort of remarkable to a lot of people. Typically, there's not a lot of studies on this sort of thing. You hear about people who are being trapped underneath buildings, and you try and look at their survival without water. That's a very different situation. What I think this really speaks to is how healthy Terri Schiavo was before all of this happened.
And still, short of her brain, all of her organs functioned pretty well. Most likely what's going to happen here, Bill, is we're starting to see signs of it already, the kidneys starting to shut down; she's not making urine anymore. You can see that. Also as the toxins start to build up in the body, she will become increasingly sleepy, more lethargic, and what ultimately will happen, probably there will be an abnormality in the electrolytes in her blood. That will causing her heart to not function probably, and that probably will be the cause of death -- Bill.
HEMMER: Let's go back 24 hours. On our program, I believe you said at the time, if that feeding tube were inserted yesterday, you believe she could make a recovery from that. Do you still feel that way today?
GUPTA: Yes, you know, I think it's fair to say, given the technology that we have in the medical community right now, even before she's dead, up until the point she actually dies, you can still probably save her life. Now, what kind of life that would be in terms of organ function, we obviously already know about her brain function, but in terms of her organ function, would she need dialysis still to get her kidneys through all of that. Would she need other sort of life-support mechanisms so that she could survive.
Also, if she was to be refed at this point -- and no one's obviously saying that's going to happen -- but if she were, it would have to be done very slowly. She'd have to be given a certain chemical mix of the tube feedings to not throw her body into organ failure as well -- Bill.
HEMMER: Can we attach the word extraordinary yet to her condition, the fact that she has survived for two weeks now?
GUPTA: Yes, you know, It's a difficult thing. Obviously not a lot of studies done on this sort of thing. She's in a very controlled environment. Again, somebody who's trapped in a building or an earthquake or something outside, they're having lots of insensible losses, through sweating, things like that. She is in a very controlled situation. Hard to say exactly how long she will last. Again, we've talked to end-of-life experts who say they've had patients go even three, three and a half weeks before. So it is extraordinary in so many ways. She was a young, healthy woman short of her brain before this -- Bill.
HEMMER: Suggestion by many that this is a sign of her strength, too, internally. Sanjay, thanks for that. We'll talk again next hour.
GUPTA: Thank you. All right.
HEMMER: Here's Kyra.
PHILLIPS: About 200 patients who had colonoscopies at a Pennsylvania hospital are being encouraged to undergo hepatitis HIV testing. The lab staff at Forbes Regional Hospital, near Pittsburgh, recently discovered its new scopes may not have been cleaned properly. The hospital say the patients' risk to a blood-borne virus was low.
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DR. JOE GRENNAN, FORBES REGIONAL HOSPITAL: This scope had an auxiliary channel, and we did not specifically attach the nozzle to clean that channel out. The rest of the scope was properly cleaned though.
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PHILLIPS: The hospital says it offered patients free HIV and hepatitis screenings now, and again in six months.
HEMMER: Break here in a moment. Andy's back "Minding Your Business." And if you think CEO perks are out of control, wait until you hear what one boss is getting just for walking in the door. Andy has that, also back with Jack right after this, live in New York City on a Thursday morning.
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HEMMER: All righty. Here's Jack. Welcome back.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Hewlett Packard's new chief's getting a huge signing bonus. Here with that and some other stuff that you ought to pay attention, Andy Serwer, "Minding Your Business." Good morning.
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" COLUMNIST: Pay attention. Thank you, Jack. Here's a new expression for you -- a golden hello. First I've ever heard of this. Mark Hurd is the new CEO of Hewlett Packard. He gets $20 million for walking in the door. Sounds like one of those Lotto jackpots. $2 million for a signing bonus, $2.5 million for relocation bonus, $6.9 million in options, $8 million restricted stock. And you know, the ironic thing is, one wag pointed out, this is exactly what Carly Fiorina got and he said, and look what that did. I'll do it for $10 million.
Let's talk about HealthSouth. Richard Scrushy, Jack, you know, is one of my favorite guys out there, the CEO of HealthSouth, is on trial down in Birmingham. A couple of really interesting things from the trial. First of all, the fraud hotline at HealthSouth, a witness described -- he said it's manned by an employee who reported directly to Scrushy. So if you called up, you can see the problem with that.
And then also, another detail revealed. He said there was a huge security force and they carried guns. And the judge said no, don't pay any attention to that. He disallowed that point for some reason. What a long, strange trip it's been for Richard Scrushy.
We found a couple pictures. The A.P. just appeared here. This from 1995 when he was headlining Dallas County Line. A band -- I got that album. One of the songs is "You're Too Good Looking to Still be Looking." I thought it was pretty funny. And check this picture out from late March. Now, look at this closely. That's Richard and his wife Leslie, apparently making a donation to an AIDS charity. Now, if I were that woman holding the cup, I would be real careful to make sure that he was putting money in instead of taking money out.
CAFFERTY: Taking it out, that's right. You can reach right in that can and rob you blind.
SERWER: OK. It's possibly true. Just quickly, yesterday, a good one for investors, Jack. But we can see here this morning -- this is something that you dug up. The price of oil, according to Goldman Sachs, could go to $105 a barrel, they're saying. Calling it a super spike. You know, that has some technical reason to it. Price of oil is up this morning, probably on that news.
CAFFERTY: And they're suggesting that the oil prices are going to stay much higher for a long period of time. They're saying several years, until we diminish the demand because of high prices and build up some sort of reserve.
SERWER: And look for other sources of energy, too.
CAFFERTY: Thanks, Andy.
SERWER: You're welcome.
CAFFERTY: Time for "The Cafferty File." It's a good thing. Get ready for more wardrobe malfunctions during this year's major sporting events. The Lingerie Bowl is expanding to baseball's world series and the NBA finals. Available on Pay-Per-View, the Lingerie Bowl has aired during the last two Super Bowl halftimes and features, as you could figure out from the title, lingerie-clad models playing touch football. Teams include the New York Euphoria, the Los Angeles Temptations, the Dallas Desire and the Chicago Bliss. Casting for the new lingerie series begins in October. They're going to have training camps all across the country.
SERWER: We're going to have live coverage.
PHILLIPS: Live reports from Jack Cafferty.
CAFFERTY: You think the Grape Fruit League draws, wait until they turn up to watch this thing.
Here's something the world is crying out for. Cable channel E! doubling the length of its Michael Jackson trial program. It will air for a full hour instead of just 30 minutes, Monday through Thursday. The program features actors doing this stupid reenactment of the previous day's testimony. It's just awful.
The cable channel says the program has averaged 100,000 viewers most nights. That does not exactly qualify it as a runaway hit. We're not talking must-see-TV here, OK? E! says the additional half hour is added because of the trial's content and expanded scope, including the judge's recent decision to allow evidence of five other alleged cases of child abuse by Jackson.
Here's a poll in which there are absolutely no surprises. A majority of women say their pets are more affectionate than their partners. According to a survey by Biz Rate Research (ph), 45 percent of women also think their pets are better-looking than their partners, which might explain the first finding. The poll goes on to show that a majority of men and women are more inclined to date or marry a fellow pet owner and their pets make them happier than their jobs do.
PHILLIPS: Do you own any pets, Jack?
CAFFERTY: I have several, actually.
PHILLIPS: Really. Are they attractive pets?
CAFFERTY: They're terrific. I prefer them, actually, to people.
PHILLIPS: Excellent.
CAFFERTY: Which also may not come as any surprise to you.
SERWER: We're going to get some pictures of some of your pets sometime. Can we do that?
CAFFERTY: I don't take pictures.
HEMMER: Great idea. What was the name of that country song again?
SERWER: "You're Too Good Looking to Still Be Looking."
HEMMER: Correct. PHILLIPS: You could sing us to break.
HEMMER: Let's get a break, here, in a moment. Critics say drug companies put profits before patients, but now a new film tackling that topic. It comes from a former drug company insider. Her motivation behind this film, still to come on AMERICAN MORNING.
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BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Another beautiful day here in New York City. We can thank Kyra Phillips for that. We're giving you all the credit, girl, you and Mother Nature.
Good morning, everybody. I'm Bill Hemmer.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Kyra Phillips, very tight with Mother Nature. I'm in for Soledad today.
We're going to get back to Terri Schiavo in just a second. Sanjay is back with us, putting the legal battles in perspective, alongside the medical realities. We're going to talk about her condition after nearly two weeks without food or water.
HEMMER: Also from Washington, a few minutes ago, a very critical bipartisan report coming out, focusing on U.S. intelligence before the war in Iraq, says America was, quote, "dead wrong." We'll find out what else it says, too, down to the White House in a few moments on that.
In the meantime, back to the headlines and back to Kelly Wallace. Good morning.
KELLY WALLACE, CNN ANCHOR: Great to see both of you. Good morning, everyone.
Here are some other stories now in the news. Terri Schiavo has now been without food or water for almost two weeks. Father Frank Pavone saw Terri Schiavo on Wednesday.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
FATHER FRANK PAVONE, SCHINDLER FAMILY SUPPORTER: Dying peacefully and with dignity -- there is no dying with dignity when someone's being starve and dehydrated as she is obviously is. She is breathing very rapidly and shallowly. She is obviously very gaunt and drawn, and her face is sunken. And this is just the face of inhumanity. And anyone who thinks this is dying with dignity has lost their conscience.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
WALLACE: Meanwhile, the legal options for her parents are running out. The U.S. Supreme Court once again rejected pleas to intervene in the case.
A U.S. Army captain is awaiting sentencing for shooting a wounded Iraqi suspect. Captain Roger Manulet (ph) had said he shot the man to end his suffering. But a military court has found him guilty of voluntary manslaughter. Manulet faces a maximum of 10 years in prison.
In Texas now, where a former high-ranking Boy Scout official is awaiting sentencing on a child pornography charge. Douglas smith has pleaded guilty. He acknowledged receiving and sending more than 500 images over the Internet. Smith faces up to 20 years in prison without parole, and a quarter-of-a-million dollar fine. He'll remain free until sentencing this summer.
And Britain's Prince Charles posing for the cameras, you can say. But the soon to be groom was caught by microphones mumbling underneath his breath while at a Swiss ski resort with his sons. He called reporters and photographers, quote, "bloody people," and said, "I hate doing this." The prince is expected to wed his longtime lover, Camilla Parker Bowles, next week. If he's unhappy with all the reporters, think how he's going to feel next week.
HEMMER: Can't blame him, though.
WALLACE: I know. I mean, everywhere he goes.
HEMMER: Kind of a drag.
PHILLIPS: Those vultures -- oh, wait.
WALLACE: Oh wait, that's us.
HEMMER: Thank you, Kelly.
Want to get to D.C. Right now. A critical report on U.S. intelligence is now out, commissioned by the president, released about 30 minutes ago in fact. Calls for a major overhaul. Elaine Quijano has been watching this. Elaine, good morning. How critical is that report.
ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, one Bush administration official described it as harsh and hard hitting. That's certainly how it appears to be.
In fact here is a copy of the report. It is nearly 600 pages long, divided up into 13 chapters, as well as a conclusion. And taking a look at the letter put forth by the WMD Commission to President Bush, it is quite strong in its language against the intelligence community, talking about the failures, saying, quote, "We conclude that the intelligence community was dead wrong in almost all of its prewar judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. This was a major intelligence failure. Its principal causes were the intelligence community's inability to collect good information about Iraq's WMD programs, serious errors in analyzing what information it could gather, and a failure to make clear just how much of its analysis was based on assumptions rather than good evidence."
Now, the report also includes more than 70 recommendations. But of course, this commission was created by President Bush to investigate the failures of intelligence in trying to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That of course, a major credibility issue for the United States.
But also, President Bush tasked this commission with taking a broader look at the nation's intelligence community as a whole. As a result, some of the recommendations that have come out include taking a look at the new director of national intelligence, outlining in more detail what they believe will be powers necessary in order for that person to be effective in that job. Of course, President Bush has selected John Negroponte for that. Also things like bringing the FBI more within the intelligence community.
But what White House officials have said is that while the president will look at these recommendations, carefully consider them and act on them, they believe they have already made progress. They believe they have already taken steps to reform the intelligence community. They point to the creation of a DNI. They also point to what they say is a more focused mission by the FBI on terrorism. So that is what they -- their early reaction has been to some of the criticisms that we should point out are not necessarily new. Also want to tell you that what is not in the unclassified version, largely left out, intelligence on North Korea and Iran. A U.S. official saying essentially, of course, they do not want to tip their hand. Much of that remains in the classified version.
HEMMER: Elaine, let's just be clear about this. A lot of information there. This is not a new branch of government in any way, this is not a new cabinet position; it's just a new department within the Justice Department, is that right? And how would they function with the rest of the things happening now?
QUIJANO: Well, my understanding of that is that the Justice Department already has people working within it who take a look at counter-terrorism, who take a look at the counter-intelligence efforts, but what they're talking about is offering a more streamlined group, a more streamlined organization, if you will, within the Justice Department, so they can better manage some of the information.
One of the criticisms that we have continued to hear is that there is not enough intelligence sharing within the community. Things like the National Counterterrorism Center, which had been set up essentially to try to streamline some of those efforts, so you could have a lot of agencies under one roof. This report finds that not information sharing as it should be going on, that you sometimes will have people sitting right next to each other who don't necessarily have access to the same information. So that's one of the criticisms they say that needs to be addressed.
HEMMER: Intelligence sharing, getting and keeping people on the page, too, in D.C., not always easy. Elaine, thanks for that. We'll get announcement from the president at 11:40 a.m. Eastern Time. We'll have it live for you from D.C. when it happens -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: Keeping our eye on your security, 500 agents will be added to Arizona's border with Mexico. The Department of Homeland Security announced its manpower increase just as hundreds of volunteers are set to take up positions along same border. More than half the illegal aliens caught last year crossed into Arizona from Mexico.
Jeanne Meserve reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Just seven minutes into flight, a Border Patrol helicopter finds what it is looking for.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I've got bodies.
MESERVE: Illegal aliens hiding in the desert scrub.
Border Patrol agent Brad Rubenoff (ph) jumps from the hovering chopper to round them up.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Brad is away.
MESERVE: There are nine, including three women. They say they crossed the border two nights ago. They have walked almost 50 miles into the United States before being detected. After processing, they will be taken back.
JOHN KIMMEL, BORDER PATROL AGENT: They'll probably be back in Mexico by 4:00 or 5:00 this evening. It's now 12:00.
MESERVE (on camera): And then when will they try to cross the border again?
KIMMEL: Probably this evening.
MESERVE (voice-over): With about half of the country's illegal immigration coming across the Arizona border, homeland security is injecting new resources into its year-old Arizona Border Control Initiative, or ABCI. Wednesday, the department announced a nearly 25- percent increase in the number of permanently assigned Border Patrol agents and the temporary deployment of 23 additional aircraft.
ROBERT BONNER, U.S. CUSTOMS & BORDER PROTECTION: The Department of Homeland Security is determined to gain control of our borders. And we're going to do it, and we're going to keep at it until we get the job done.
T.J. BONNER, PRESIDENT, NATIONAL BORDER PATROL COUNCIL: I think it largely is a publicity stunt by the government. Sorry to say that, but I think the government is trying to pull a fast one on the public.
MESERVE (on camera): Though the Department of Homeland Security vehemently denies it, some believe that ABCI being augmented now to counter potential bad publicity from a protest action beginning Friday: the Minuteman Project.
(voice-over) Based in the legendary town of Tombstone, organizers expect as many as 1,500 volunteers. Stationed at intervals along 50 miles of the Mexico/Arizona border, they will attempt to detect and report anyone crossing illegally, to highlight what they perceive as the inadequacy of current border protection efforts.
CHRIS SIMCOX, MINUTEMAN PROJECT: We're a neighborhood watch group. Nothing more than a neighborhood watch group, who are doing nothing but what the president and the Department of Homeland Security ask Americans to do. You can't find any more suspicious illegal activity in this country than coming across this border through our backyards.
MESERVE: Though even critics like the Minutemen welcome the bolstering of ABCI, they believe it will push illegal immigration elsewhere and divert Border Patrol resources at a time when the president's budget funds only 210 new agents for the entire country.
BONNER: They're essentially robbing Peter to pay Paul at a time when they should be hiring as many people as possible.
MESERVE: But Border Patrol pilot John Kimmel is more optimistic.
KIMMEL: I've done as much as one pilot can do. So I -- all of us are doing our parts, and it is making a difference.
MESERVE: Kimmel believes more agents will mean more arrests and more progress against the tide of illegal immigration.
For CNN's American bureau, Jeanne Meserve, over the southern Arizona desert.
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PHILLIPS: One-hundred and fifty 150 of the 500 Arizona agents will be recruited from other areas, 350 will be new hires. Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
HEMMER: Twenty minutes before the hour. Checking this video from Seattle, Washington. Lightning striking the famous Space Needle there. It's 605 feet tall, well prepared, 25 lightning rods there. Those bolts landed while some people were eating lunch. There's a restaurant up there. A few of them, in fact, at the top of the Space Needle on Tuesday. They didn't seem too bothered by it. Some said taking the hit was spectacular. They took some photos along the way. Some of them actually said it was fun, too.
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PHILLIPS: Well, doctors tell hundreds of patients to get tested for HIV after a possible mistake at just one hospital. We'll explain.
HEMMER: Also the latest on Terri Schiavo. That condition, too, in this new videotape we're watching today for the first time. Two weeks now without food or water. How much longer can she survive? Dr. Sanjay Gupta has some insight after the break.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) HEMMER: Throughout the morning here, we've been watching these videotapes, new videotapes, for the first time seen by the public. This is Terri Schiavo with her mother and with doctors back in the summer of 2002. We're trying to learn more with Dr. Sanjay Gupta about what we can learn from these tapes.
Many questions still out there, Sanjay. Good morning to you.
One of the questions is this, we're right at that 14-day mark for Terri Schiavo, without water, without nourishment. For a normal person, a human being, in a normal state, that would be thrown into a condition like this, how could they last normally?
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, you know, a normal healthy person, we're talking about the upper limits now of what you'd expect most people to last. But every individual is going to be a little bit different. We've been doing some homework on this, Bill, find that people, for example, in terminal-cancer situations. There've been reports of people surviving several weeks even without food and water, sort of remarkable to a lot of people. Typically, there's not a lot of studies on this sort of thing. You hear about people who are being trapped underneath buildings, and you try and look at their survival without water. That's a very different situation. What I think this really speaks to is how healthy Terri Schiavo was before all of this happened.
And still, short of her brain, all of her organs functioned pretty well. Most likely what's going to happen here, Bill, is we're starting to see signs of it already, the kidneys starting to shut down; she's not making urine anymore. You can see that. Also as the toxins start to build up in the body, she will become increasingly sleepy, more lethargic, and what ultimately will happen, probably there will be an abnormality in the electrolytes in her blood. That will causing her heart to not function probably, and that probably will be the cause of death -- Bill.
HEMMER: Let's go back 24 hours. On our program, I believe you said at the time, if that feeding tube were inserted yesterday, you believe she could make a recovery from that. Do you still feel that way today?
GUPTA: Yes, you know, I think it's fair to say, given the technology that we have in the medical community right now, even before she's dead, up until the point she actually dies, you can still probably save her life. Now, what kind of life that would be in terms of organ function, we obviously already know about her brain function, but in terms of her organ function, would she need dialysis still to get her kidneys through all of that. Would she need other sort of life-support mechanisms so that she could survive.
Also, if she was to be refed at this point -- and no one's obviously saying that's going to happen -- but if she were, it would have to be done very slowly. She'd have to be given a certain chemical mix of the tube feedings to not throw her body into organ failure as well -- Bill.
HEMMER: Can we attach the word extraordinary yet to her condition, the fact that she has survived for two weeks now?
GUPTA: Yes, you know, It's a difficult thing. Obviously not a lot of studies done on this sort of thing. She's in a very controlled environment. Again, somebody who's trapped in a building or an earthquake or something outside, they're having lots of insensible losses, through sweating, things like that. She is in a very controlled situation. Hard to say exactly how long she will last. Again, we've talked to end-of-life experts who say they've had patients go even three, three and a half weeks before. So it is extraordinary in so many ways. She was a young, healthy woman short of her brain before this -- Bill.
HEMMER: Suggestion by many that this is a sign of her strength, too, internally. Sanjay, thanks for that. We'll talk again next hour.
GUPTA: Thank you. All right.
HEMMER: Here's Kyra.
PHILLIPS: About 200 patients who had colonoscopies at a Pennsylvania hospital are being encouraged to undergo hepatitis HIV testing. The lab staff at Forbes Regional Hospital, near Pittsburgh, recently discovered its new scopes may not have been cleaned properly. The hospital say the patients' risk to a blood-borne virus was low.
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DR. JOE GRENNAN, FORBES REGIONAL HOSPITAL: This scope had an auxiliary channel, and we did not specifically attach the nozzle to clean that channel out. The rest of the scope was properly cleaned though.
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PHILLIPS: The hospital says it offered patients free HIV and hepatitis screenings now, and again in six months.
HEMMER: Break here in a moment. Andy's back "Minding Your Business." And if you think CEO perks are out of control, wait until you hear what one boss is getting just for walking in the door. Andy has that, also back with Jack right after this, live in New York City on a Thursday morning.
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HEMMER: All righty. Here's Jack. Welcome back.
JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Hewlett Packard's new chief's getting a huge signing bonus. Here with that and some other stuff that you ought to pay attention, Andy Serwer, "Minding Your Business." Good morning.
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" COLUMNIST: Pay attention. Thank you, Jack. Here's a new expression for you -- a golden hello. First I've ever heard of this. Mark Hurd is the new CEO of Hewlett Packard. He gets $20 million for walking in the door. Sounds like one of those Lotto jackpots. $2 million for a signing bonus, $2.5 million for relocation bonus, $6.9 million in options, $8 million restricted stock. And you know, the ironic thing is, one wag pointed out, this is exactly what Carly Fiorina got and he said, and look what that did. I'll do it for $10 million.
Let's talk about HealthSouth. Richard Scrushy, Jack, you know, is one of my favorite guys out there, the CEO of HealthSouth, is on trial down in Birmingham. A couple of really interesting things from the trial. First of all, the fraud hotline at HealthSouth, a witness described -- he said it's manned by an employee who reported directly to Scrushy. So if you called up, you can see the problem with that.
And then also, another detail revealed. He said there was a huge security force and they carried guns. And the judge said no, don't pay any attention to that. He disallowed that point for some reason. What a long, strange trip it's been for Richard Scrushy.
We found a couple pictures. The A.P. just appeared here. This from 1995 when he was headlining Dallas County Line. A band -- I got that album. One of the songs is "You're Too Good Looking to Still be Looking." I thought it was pretty funny. And check this picture out from late March. Now, look at this closely. That's Richard and his wife Leslie, apparently making a donation to an AIDS charity. Now, if I were that woman holding the cup, I would be real careful to make sure that he was putting money in instead of taking money out.
CAFFERTY: Taking it out, that's right. You can reach right in that can and rob you blind.
SERWER: OK. It's possibly true. Just quickly, yesterday, a good one for investors, Jack. But we can see here this morning -- this is something that you dug up. The price of oil, according to Goldman Sachs, could go to $105 a barrel, they're saying. Calling it a super spike. You know, that has some technical reason to it. Price of oil is up this morning, probably on that news.
CAFFERTY: And they're suggesting that the oil prices are going to stay much higher for a long period of time. They're saying several years, until we diminish the demand because of high prices and build up some sort of reserve.
SERWER: And look for other sources of energy, too.
CAFFERTY: Thanks, Andy.
SERWER: You're welcome.
CAFFERTY: Time for "The Cafferty File." It's a good thing. Get ready for more wardrobe malfunctions during this year's major sporting events. The Lingerie Bowl is expanding to baseball's world series and the NBA finals. Available on Pay-Per-View, the Lingerie Bowl has aired during the last two Super Bowl halftimes and features, as you could figure out from the title, lingerie-clad models playing touch football. Teams include the New York Euphoria, the Los Angeles Temptations, the Dallas Desire and the Chicago Bliss. Casting for the new lingerie series begins in October. They're going to have training camps all across the country.
SERWER: We're going to have live coverage.
PHILLIPS: Live reports from Jack Cafferty.
CAFFERTY: You think the Grape Fruit League draws, wait until they turn up to watch this thing.
Here's something the world is crying out for. Cable channel E! doubling the length of its Michael Jackson trial program. It will air for a full hour instead of just 30 minutes, Monday through Thursday. The program features actors doing this stupid reenactment of the previous day's testimony. It's just awful.
The cable channel says the program has averaged 100,000 viewers most nights. That does not exactly qualify it as a runaway hit. We're not talking must-see-TV here, OK? E! says the additional half hour is added because of the trial's content and expanded scope, including the judge's recent decision to allow evidence of five other alleged cases of child abuse by Jackson.
Here's a poll in which there are absolutely no surprises. A majority of women say their pets are more affectionate than their partners. According to a survey by Biz Rate Research (ph), 45 percent of women also think their pets are better-looking than their partners, which might explain the first finding. The poll goes on to show that a majority of men and women are more inclined to date or marry a fellow pet owner and their pets make them happier than their jobs do.
PHILLIPS: Do you own any pets, Jack?
CAFFERTY: I have several, actually.
PHILLIPS: Really. Are they attractive pets?
CAFFERTY: They're terrific. I prefer them, actually, to people.
PHILLIPS: Excellent.
CAFFERTY: Which also may not come as any surprise to you.
SERWER: We're going to get some pictures of some of your pets sometime. Can we do that?
CAFFERTY: I don't take pictures.
HEMMER: Great idea. What was the name of that country song again?
SERWER: "You're Too Good Looking to Still Be Looking."
HEMMER: Correct. PHILLIPS: You could sing us to break.
HEMMER: Let's get a break, here, in a moment. Critics say drug companies put profits before patients, but now a new film tackling that topic. It comes from a former drug company insider. Her motivation behind this film, still to come on AMERICAN MORNING.
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