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Battle Over Bolton; Capitol Scare; Migraine Surgery
Aired April 12, 2005 - 05:30 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning to you, welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. From the Time Warner Center in New York, I'm Carol Costello, along with Chad Myers.
"Now in the News."
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq this morning. He's meeting with officials of the new Iraqi government, as well as U.S. commanders and troops.
President Bush will also be meeting with U.S. troops today and with the families of fallen soldiers, but the president will be in Fort Hood, Texas talking about the war on terror. CNN will bring that to you live at 11:20 a.m. Eastern.
Fresh from talks with President Bush at his Texas ranch, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be in Washington today to meet with U.S. lawmakers and Jewish leaders.
At least two traffic deaths blamed on flooding in northwest Louisiana. Thunderstorms dumped as much as four inches of rain on the area, flooding streets and some homes in Shreveport.
I remember you telling us about this yesterday -- Chad.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, you know we had a couple of tornadoes as well, Carol.
What happened there in northern Louisiana is what we call training, training of thunderstorms where one storm travels over the exact path that the storm before it traveled. So it's like a train, it's on a train track, one car, then another, then another. That's OK with a train, but not OK when you're adding up inches and inches and inches of rain. And it piled up there across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, now into northern Florida and even into Georgia.
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: Unbelievable.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Thank you -- Chad.
MYERS: You're welcome.
COSTELLO: Is he a tough-minded reformer or a loose cannon? Depends on who you ask at the Senate confirmation hearing for John Bolton. He is President Bush's choice to be the United Nations ambassador.
But as our Andrea Koppel reports, not everybody thinks he's the man for the job.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Determined to keep John Bolton out of the U.N., Democrats came out swinging.
SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D), DELAWARE: Some have said that sending you to New York would be like sending Nixon to China. I'm concerned it would be more like sending a bull into a China shop.
KOPPEL: Republicans countered that Bolton, an arms control specialist known for blunt talk, is perfect to push U.N. reform.
SEN. GEORGE ALLEN (R), VIRGINIA: You'll bring a credibility to the United Nations that they sorely need.
KOPPEL: Democrats laid out evidence President Bush's choice to be U.S. ambassador to the world body has for years been a U.N. basher.
SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D), CALIFORNIA: You can dance around it, you can run away from it, you can put perfume on it, but the bottom line is the bottom line.
KOPPEL: Democrat Barbara Boxer confronted Bolton with a videotaped speech he gave in 1994, when he was out of government, expressing open hostility.
JOHN BOLTON, NOMINEE FOR U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.: The Secretariat Building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
KOPPEL: In his defense, Bolton told senators he believes that for the U.N. to be effective, it requires U.S. leadership.
BOLTON: My criticisms during the 1990s were in large measure because of what I'd thought was the lack of effective American leadership.
KOPPEL: Democrats also grilled Bolton about allegations he tried to intimidate intelligence analysts at the State Department who disagreed on whether Castro's Cuba had a biological weapons program.
SEN. CHRISTOPHER DODD (D), CONNECTICUT: Trying to rob a bank and failing to do so is not -- is a crime, in my view. Trying to remove someone as an analyst from their job because you disagree with what they're saying I think is dreadfully wrong.
KOPPEL: Bolton denied trying to have anyone fired.
BOLTON: I thought in both cases, if I may say so, their conduct was unprofessional and broke my confidence and trust.
KOPPEL (on camera): Despite the Democrats' desire to call up as many as seven witnesses to testify Tuesday as to what Bolton did or did not do, so far Committee Chair Lugar has only approved one. A vote isn't expected until Thursday. And barring any last-minute surprises, Bolton's nomination appears headed for approval along party lines.
Andrea Koppel, CNN, Capitol Hill.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: Let's talk about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay now. He's taking more heat over ethics issues. This time a fellow Republican is calling for DeLay to step down.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. CHRISTOPHER SHAYS (R), CONNECTICUT: It's been harmful to Congress. I think it's been harmful to the Republican conference, a conference that ran on the highest ethical standards. And I think it's also harmful for Republicans who are up for re-election. And I can't say it any better than that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: But the White House still supports DeLay. President Bush's spokesman says the GOP leader is -- quote -- "someone the president considers a friend, and he is someone that he has worked closely with to get things done in Washington. The president looks forward to continuing working closely with the majority leader to get things done on behalf of the American people."
DeLay was admonished by the House three times last year and faces new ethics questions. He has denied knowingly breaking any law.
A 33-year-old man from China, who said he wanted to talk to President Bush, caused a security scare at the U.S. Capitol.
CNN's Bob Franken looks at how police responded to this disturbing incident.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the wake of 9/11, and the fears of the worst at the Capitol since then, the police did not take long to act.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're just putting him down.
FRANKEN: They quickly subdued and dragged away a lone man.
Shortly after noon, dressed in black, he had planted himself near a fountain on the west side of the Capitol, about 40 feet from the building. When he refused to move, police operated on the assumption he might be a suicide bomber.
They evacuated offices that faced that side of the Capitol, offices that included the Senate majority and minority leaders' suites, as well as that of the House speaker.
After the man was subdued, left behind were his two suitcases. Officers in bomb suits, using X-rays, detected wires and batteries in one and decided to blow it up. Officials had warned people inside the Capitol there would be an explosion. As for the other bag, a HazMat officer confirmed it contained nothing but clothing. Police report the wires and batteries turned out to be parts of a CD player.
As for the suspect, investigators say he recently came to the United States from China.
CHIEF TERRANCE GAINER, U.S. CAPITOL POLICE: Well we began a dialogue with the individual to see if we could get some indication of what his problem was and how dangerous he might be or not be. He only would say at first that he wanted to speak to the president.
FRANKEN: He made his stand at the spot where President Bush was inaugurated in January. Tourists, who had been hustled away from the grounds while the drama unfolded, were allowed to return to the Capitol.
(on camera): That was what they had come to see, but many had witnessed a security scare that they never had expected.
Bob Franken, CNN, Capitol Hill.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: More on security now. A new bag scanning system at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport aims to get you through lines more quickly without sacrificing safety. It started scanning on Sunday on Continental flights and will be fully up and running by August. Bags are taken from curbside into huge hi-tech scanners that sort out bags that need closer inspection. The new system is expected to cost $220 million.
Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
In other news "Across America" this morning, this is not a good sign, part of an engine cover from a Northwest Airlines plane fell off Saturday, landing in a Minnesota field. The plane was taking off from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. It was bound for Hawaii. No one was injured on the ground. The plane landed in Honolulu without incident. That thing, by the way, weighed 200 pounds. The FAA now investigating.
Looks like Martha Stewart will have to keep wearing her electronic ankle bracelet. A federal judge has denied the homemaking fashion queen's request to have her sentence reduced to time served. She was released last month from a federal prison camp and she's serving five months of home detention now. A nationwide alert has been issued for a 37-year-old ex-con suspected of killing the woman he lived with and then shooting a man to death. Police in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina say Steven Stanko is considered armed and dangerous.
Let's go "Beyond the Soundbite" now. Accused serial bomber Eric Rudolph will plead guilty tomorrow to attacks that killed two people and injured more than 120 others.
CNN's Paula Zahn spoke with the daughter and husband of a woman who was killed in Atlanta's 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Fallon, can you ever forgive Eric Rudolph for killing your mother?
FALLON STUBBS, MOTHER KILLED IN OLYMPICS BOMBING: I can and I have. It really was -- occurred to me yesterday when I was thinking about, you know, everything over again and what I was going to say, and it really occurred to me that it was not more anger, no more hate, it was just relief. He is the one who did it and he will be punished for it. And I think that the sentence they gave him is more than enough for me to sleep good at night.
ZAHN: I know both of you will be in court for Eric Rudolph's plea hearing on Wednesday. Why is it so important, John, for you to physically be there and see him?
JOHN HAWTHORNE, WIFE KILLED IN OLYMPICS BOMBING: This will be the first opportunity I have to actually see him. I didn't get a chance to see him back in 2003 when he was captured. So, it is important for me to hopefully get a chance to look him in the eye. I don't know if he'll look me in the eye, but I would like to have him look me in the eye.
ZAHN: What is going to go through your mind as you look at him eye to eye?
HAWTHORNE: Well, hopefully I can see something in his eyes that will give me an indication that maybe he has some level of remorse. I would like to see that from him, if possible.
ZAHN: And that about you -- Fallon?
STUBBS: Well, I'm basically on the same level. I just think that by actually putting a face with the man, you know, you will kind of see -- you can kind of pick up what kind of person he is.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Rudolph will escape the death penalty because he made a plea deal to disclose where he hid caches of explosives.
Much more ahead on DAYBREAK, including a surgical procedure that could spell relief for those suffering from migraines. That's in 11 minutes.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Tuesday morning.
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COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:46 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq this morning. He is warning new government leaders against corruption and he's talking to U.S. troops.
The man President Bush has picked to lead the nation's 15 spy agencies has a confirmation hearing today. John Negroponte is expected to face tough questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In money news, if you take brand name drugs it's costing you a bundle. An AARP study shows prices for name brand medicines outpaced inflation last year, but prices for generic drugs remained flat.
In culture, actor Rick Schroder is being recognized for work on the other side of the camera. He won video director of the year. It's an award for his Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss "Whiskey Lullaby" video at the Country Music Television awards ceremony.
In sports, here comes Mike. The AP is reporting that Mike Tyson will face Kevin McBride June 11 in Washington. The former heavyweight boxing champ has lost two of his last three fights -- Chad.
MYERS: I am man, hear me yawn. Oh well.
COSTELLO: You're tired of Mike Tyson?
MYERS: Anyway.
Good morning, Carol.
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: Sounds fabulous. Thank you -- Chad.
MYERS: OK.
COSTELLO: There might be some relief for those of you suffering from crippling migraines. Coming up, how a plastic surgeon stumbled upon a new surgical procedure. We'll tell you what it is.
This is DAYBREAK.
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COSTELLO: That sounds nice, doesn't it, especially if you have a migraine, which is what we're going to talk about right now. The most dominating player in women's tennis is now pushing pain relief. Serena Williams is endorsing the migraine medicine Frova. The winner of seven Grand Slam titles says she suffered excruciating menstrual migraines for five years, but she says she hasn't had a horrible headache since she began taking this drug six months ago. And she wants other women with her condition to know there is help out there.
Some migraine suffers have found relief, though, in plastic surgery.
CNN's senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has all the details for you.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The agony she was enduring every week was crippling, almost insufferable.
KATHY KRAMER, HEADACHE SUFFERER: I was pretty sure I had a brain tumor or I was having an aneurysm or something. And the pain sometimes would just make me cry.
GUPTA: Forty-eight-year-old Kathy Kramer is describing migraine headaches that ruled her life since college. The precious days she wasn't bedridden or writhing in pain were spent worrying about the next headache.
KRAMER: You don't live your life normally like other people do. It's debilitating, yes, and then you worry every day whether it's going to happen.
GUPTA: Then through the painful haze a glimmer of hope.
KRAMER: It was some kind of promo, like, we have a cure that will even actually make you look younger.
GUPTA: A promise to relieve migraines through plastic surgery.
Dr. Bahman Guyuron, a surgeon in Ohio, is the man behind the promise. He noticed an interesting side effect in patients undergoing plastic surgery, their migraines were vanishing as rapidly as their wrinkles.
DR. BAHMAN GUYURON, OHIO SURGEON: And they said not only I'm happy with what I see, I haven't had migraine headaches for a while.
GUPTA: After several studies, he and colleagues devised a surgical technique targeting muscle groups around the septum, in the forehead or frowning muscles, in the temple and the base of the skull. Places Guyuron says pressure nerves, which in turn causes migraines. The surgery's premise: remove the muscles and nerves to alleviate that pain.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here we see the muscle right in the center there.
GUPTA: The consequence of surgery, according to Guyuron's most recent study, 92 percent of patients saw at least a 50 percent dip in the frequency and intensity of their migraines.
But some neurologists, like Dr. Seymour Soloman, question those findings.
DR. SEYMOUR SOLOMON, MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: These numbers are accurate but the methodology makes them meaningless. It's completely contrary to what we know about the mechanism of migraine. Cutting a couple of muscles here should have no effect.
GUPTA: Dr. Guyuron is not claiming his surgery is a total cure, but believes it has potential.
GUYURON: We really are not eliminating that tendency for migraine headaches. But practical purposes, if the patients are symptom free and continuing to be symptom free, we have cured them from the condition.
GUPTA: Two and a half years after her operation, Kramer experiences minor headaches infrequently, but...
KRAMER: Basically I would tell you I have had zero migraines. You realize there is a freedom that I had never had in my life and you go this is life altering.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: Something it seems just about everyone is suffering from right about now is allergies. And experts say it's going to get worse towards the end of this month because tree and grass pollen seasons could overlap. We'll talk to an expert in the next hour about alternative remedies for you. How about acupressure?
For more on this or any other health story, head to our Web site. The address, CNN.com/health.
Time to read some e-mail now -- Chad.
MYERS: OK.
COSTELLO: Makeover nation: is America too obsessed with plastic surgery? That's the question we're asking this morning. And we've gotten some response.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Not great response, but some.
MYERS: Probably 20 people or so interested this morning.
Bill (ph) in Boulder says perhaps the CNN report last week that says pretty people average 5 percent more in wages has something to do with the plastic surgery boom -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Cynical, cynical, cynical.
MYERS: I got one from Florida, too, from Deerfield Beach. In a word, yes. Isn't it sad that we'll endanger our lives and ourselves for appearance sake? Imagine what the world would be like if Americans sought inner beauty with the same type of fervor that we, as a society, try to obtain the perfect appearance. What a wonderful world it would be.
COSTELLO: Well you know I'd have to agree with him. You know the other thing about plastic surgery, though, it's homogenizing our look. Everybody looks the same. If you watch those shows, like, "The Swan," they make every woman look the same. It's bizarre.
MYERS: I haven't seen that one.
COSTELLO: You haven't?
MYERS: No.
COSTELLO: It's bad.
This is from Ryan (ph) from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He says we like to think we are much more civilized than the medieval times when women wore corsets. However, now our women have their bodies sliced open and altered in order to achieve a certain look. The more things change the more they stay the same.
MYERS: Carol, it's not only women.
COSTELLO: No.
MYERS: Men are getting these things done, too.
COSTELLO: And they're getting all sorts of wacky things done, too.
MYERS: I'm not going there.
COSTELLO: That's a topic for another day, though.
(LAUGHTER)
COSTELLO: Another hour of DAYBREAK is in the gate. All new in the next hour, CNN correspondent Alessio Vinci is in America. He shares his stories from covering history in Vatican City.
Plus, why are gasoline prices soaring? "Smart Money" magazine's Jack Otter will join us to explain gas prices 101.
More DAYBREAK right after this.
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Aired April 12, 2005 - 05:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning to you, welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. From the Time Warner Center in New York, I'm Carol Costello, along with Chad Myers.
"Now in the News."
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq this morning. He's meeting with officials of the new Iraqi government, as well as U.S. commanders and troops.
President Bush will also be meeting with U.S. troops today and with the families of fallen soldiers, but the president will be in Fort Hood, Texas talking about the war on terror. CNN will bring that to you live at 11:20 a.m. Eastern.
Fresh from talks with President Bush at his Texas ranch, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon will be in Washington today to meet with U.S. lawmakers and Jewish leaders.
At least two traffic deaths blamed on flooding in northwest Louisiana. Thunderstorms dumped as much as four inches of rain on the area, flooding streets and some homes in Shreveport.
I remember you telling us about this yesterday -- Chad.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, you know we had a couple of tornadoes as well, Carol.
What happened there in northern Louisiana is what we call training, training of thunderstorms where one storm travels over the exact path that the storm before it traveled. So it's like a train, it's on a train track, one car, then another, then another. That's OK with a train, but not OK when you're adding up inches and inches and inches of rain. And it piled up there across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, now into northern Florida and even into Georgia.
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: Unbelievable.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Thank you -- Chad.
MYERS: You're welcome.
COSTELLO: Is he a tough-minded reformer or a loose cannon? Depends on who you ask at the Senate confirmation hearing for John Bolton. He is President Bush's choice to be the United Nations ambassador.
But as our Andrea Koppel reports, not everybody thinks he's the man for the job.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Determined to keep John Bolton out of the U.N., Democrats came out swinging.
SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D), DELAWARE: Some have said that sending you to New York would be like sending Nixon to China. I'm concerned it would be more like sending a bull into a China shop.
KOPPEL: Republicans countered that Bolton, an arms control specialist known for blunt talk, is perfect to push U.N. reform.
SEN. GEORGE ALLEN (R), VIRGINIA: You'll bring a credibility to the United Nations that they sorely need.
KOPPEL: Democrats laid out evidence President Bush's choice to be U.S. ambassador to the world body has for years been a U.N. basher.
SEN. BARBARA BOXER (D), CALIFORNIA: You can dance around it, you can run away from it, you can put perfume on it, but the bottom line is the bottom line.
KOPPEL: Democrat Barbara Boxer confronted Bolton with a videotaped speech he gave in 1994, when he was out of government, expressing open hostility.
JOHN BOLTON, NOMINEE FOR U.S. AMBASSADOR TO THE U.N.: The Secretariat Building in New York has 38 stories. If you lost 10 stories today, it wouldn't make a bit of difference.
KOPPEL: In his defense, Bolton told senators he believes that for the U.N. to be effective, it requires U.S. leadership.
BOLTON: My criticisms during the 1990s were in large measure because of what I'd thought was the lack of effective American leadership.
KOPPEL: Democrats also grilled Bolton about allegations he tried to intimidate intelligence analysts at the State Department who disagreed on whether Castro's Cuba had a biological weapons program.
SEN. CHRISTOPHER DODD (D), CONNECTICUT: Trying to rob a bank and failing to do so is not -- is a crime, in my view. Trying to remove someone as an analyst from their job because you disagree with what they're saying I think is dreadfully wrong.
KOPPEL: Bolton denied trying to have anyone fired.
BOLTON: I thought in both cases, if I may say so, their conduct was unprofessional and broke my confidence and trust.
KOPPEL (on camera): Despite the Democrats' desire to call up as many as seven witnesses to testify Tuesday as to what Bolton did or did not do, so far Committee Chair Lugar has only approved one. A vote isn't expected until Thursday. And barring any last-minute surprises, Bolton's nomination appears headed for approval along party lines.
Andrea Koppel, CNN, Capitol Hill.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: Let's talk about House Majority Leader Tom DeLay now. He's taking more heat over ethics issues. This time a fellow Republican is calling for DeLay to step down.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. CHRISTOPHER SHAYS (R), CONNECTICUT: It's been harmful to Congress. I think it's been harmful to the Republican conference, a conference that ran on the highest ethical standards. And I think it's also harmful for Republicans who are up for re-election. And I can't say it any better than that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: But the White House still supports DeLay. President Bush's spokesman says the GOP leader is -- quote -- "someone the president considers a friend, and he is someone that he has worked closely with to get things done in Washington. The president looks forward to continuing working closely with the majority leader to get things done on behalf of the American people."
DeLay was admonished by the House three times last year and faces new ethics questions. He has denied knowingly breaking any law.
A 33-year-old man from China, who said he wanted to talk to President Bush, caused a security scare at the U.S. Capitol.
CNN's Bob Franken looks at how police responded to this disturbing incident.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the wake of 9/11, and the fears of the worst at the Capitol since then, the police did not take long to act.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got him.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're just putting him down.
FRANKEN: They quickly subdued and dragged away a lone man.
Shortly after noon, dressed in black, he had planted himself near a fountain on the west side of the Capitol, about 40 feet from the building. When he refused to move, police operated on the assumption he might be a suicide bomber.
They evacuated offices that faced that side of the Capitol, offices that included the Senate majority and minority leaders' suites, as well as that of the House speaker.
After the man was subdued, left behind were his two suitcases. Officers in bomb suits, using X-rays, detected wires and batteries in one and decided to blow it up. Officials had warned people inside the Capitol there would be an explosion. As for the other bag, a HazMat officer confirmed it contained nothing but clothing. Police report the wires and batteries turned out to be parts of a CD player.
As for the suspect, investigators say he recently came to the United States from China.
CHIEF TERRANCE GAINER, U.S. CAPITOL POLICE: Well we began a dialogue with the individual to see if we could get some indication of what his problem was and how dangerous he might be or not be. He only would say at first that he wanted to speak to the president.
FRANKEN: He made his stand at the spot where President Bush was inaugurated in January. Tourists, who had been hustled away from the grounds while the drama unfolded, were allowed to return to the Capitol.
(on camera): That was what they had come to see, but many had witnessed a security scare that they never had expected.
Bob Franken, CNN, Capitol Hill.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
COSTELLO: More on security now. A new bag scanning system at the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport aims to get you through lines more quickly without sacrificing safety. It started scanning on Sunday on Continental flights and will be fully up and running by August. Bags are taken from curbside into huge hi-tech scanners that sort out bags that need closer inspection. The new system is expected to cost $220 million.
Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
In other news "Across America" this morning, this is not a good sign, part of an engine cover from a Northwest Airlines plane fell off Saturday, landing in a Minnesota field. The plane was taking off from the Minneapolis-St. Paul Airport. It was bound for Hawaii. No one was injured on the ground. The plane landed in Honolulu without incident. That thing, by the way, weighed 200 pounds. The FAA now investigating.
Looks like Martha Stewart will have to keep wearing her electronic ankle bracelet. A federal judge has denied the homemaking fashion queen's request to have her sentence reduced to time served. She was released last month from a federal prison camp and she's serving five months of home detention now. A nationwide alert has been issued for a 37-year-old ex-con suspected of killing the woman he lived with and then shooting a man to death. Police in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina say Steven Stanko is considered armed and dangerous.
Let's go "Beyond the Soundbite" now. Accused serial bomber Eric Rudolph will plead guilty tomorrow to attacks that killed two people and injured more than 120 others.
CNN's Paula Zahn spoke with the daughter and husband of a woman who was killed in Atlanta's 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Fallon, can you ever forgive Eric Rudolph for killing your mother?
FALLON STUBBS, MOTHER KILLED IN OLYMPICS BOMBING: I can and I have. It really was -- occurred to me yesterday when I was thinking about, you know, everything over again and what I was going to say, and it really occurred to me that it was not more anger, no more hate, it was just relief. He is the one who did it and he will be punished for it. And I think that the sentence they gave him is more than enough for me to sleep good at night.
ZAHN: I know both of you will be in court for Eric Rudolph's plea hearing on Wednesday. Why is it so important, John, for you to physically be there and see him?
JOHN HAWTHORNE, WIFE KILLED IN OLYMPICS BOMBING: This will be the first opportunity I have to actually see him. I didn't get a chance to see him back in 2003 when he was captured. So, it is important for me to hopefully get a chance to look him in the eye. I don't know if he'll look me in the eye, but I would like to have him look me in the eye.
ZAHN: What is going to go through your mind as you look at him eye to eye?
HAWTHORNE: Well, hopefully I can see something in his eyes that will give me an indication that maybe he has some level of remorse. I would like to see that from him, if possible.
ZAHN: And that about you -- Fallon?
STUBBS: Well, I'm basically on the same level. I just think that by actually putting a face with the man, you know, you will kind of see -- you can kind of pick up what kind of person he is.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Rudolph will escape the death penalty because he made a plea deal to disclose where he hid caches of explosives.
Much more ahead on DAYBREAK, including a surgical procedure that could spell relief for those suffering from migraines. That's in 11 minutes.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Tuesday morning.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:46 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Iraq this morning. He is warning new government leaders against corruption and he's talking to U.S. troops.
The man President Bush has picked to lead the nation's 15 spy agencies has a confirmation hearing today. John Negroponte is expected to face tough questions from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
In money news, if you take brand name drugs it's costing you a bundle. An AARP study shows prices for name brand medicines outpaced inflation last year, but prices for generic drugs remained flat.
In culture, actor Rick Schroder is being recognized for work on the other side of the camera. He won video director of the year. It's an award for his Brad Paisley and Alison Krauss "Whiskey Lullaby" video at the Country Music Television awards ceremony.
In sports, here comes Mike. The AP is reporting that Mike Tyson will face Kevin McBride June 11 in Washington. The former heavyweight boxing champ has lost two of his last three fights -- Chad.
MYERS: I am man, hear me yawn. Oh well.
COSTELLO: You're tired of Mike Tyson?
MYERS: Anyway.
Good morning, Carol.
(WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: Sounds fabulous. Thank you -- Chad.
MYERS: OK.
COSTELLO: There might be some relief for those of you suffering from crippling migraines. Coming up, how a plastic surgeon stumbled upon a new surgical procedure. We'll tell you what it is.
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COSTELLO: That sounds nice, doesn't it, especially if you have a migraine, which is what we're going to talk about right now. The most dominating player in women's tennis is now pushing pain relief. Serena Williams is endorsing the migraine medicine Frova. The winner of seven Grand Slam titles says she suffered excruciating menstrual migraines for five years, but she says she hasn't had a horrible headache since she began taking this drug six months ago. And she wants other women with her condition to know there is help out there.
Some migraine suffers have found relief, though, in plastic surgery.
CNN's senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has all the details for you.
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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The agony she was enduring every week was crippling, almost insufferable.
KATHY KRAMER, HEADACHE SUFFERER: I was pretty sure I had a brain tumor or I was having an aneurysm or something. And the pain sometimes would just make me cry.
GUPTA: Forty-eight-year-old Kathy Kramer is describing migraine headaches that ruled her life since college. The precious days she wasn't bedridden or writhing in pain were spent worrying about the next headache.
KRAMER: You don't live your life normally like other people do. It's debilitating, yes, and then you worry every day whether it's going to happen.
GUPTA: Then through the painful haze a glimmer of hope.
KRAMER: It was some kind of promo, like, we have a cure that will even actually make you look younger.
GUPTA: A promise to relieve migraines through plastic surgery.
Dr. Bahman Guyuron, a surgeon in Ohio, is the man behind the promise. He noticed an interesting side effect in patients undergoing plastic surgery, their migraines were vanishing as rapidly as their wrinkles.
DR. BAHMAN GUYURON, OHIO SURGEON: And they said not only I'm happy with what I see, I haven't had migraine headaches for a while.
GUPTA: After several studies, he and colleagues devised a surgical technique targeting muscle groups around the septum, in the forehead or frowning muscles, in the temple and the base of the skull. Places Guyuron says pressure nerves, which in turn causes migraines. The surgery's premise: remove the muscles and nerves to alleviate that pain.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here we see the muscle right in the center there.
GUPTA: The consequence of surgery, according to Guyuron's most recent study, 92 percent of patients saw at least a 50 percent dip in the frequency and intensity of their migraines.
But some neurologists, like Dr. Seymour Soloman, question those findings.
DR. SEYMOUR SOLOMON, MONTEFIORE MEDICAL CENTER: These numbers are accurate but the methodology makes them meaningless. It's completely contrary to what we know about the mechanism of migraine. Cutting a couple of muscles here should have no effect.
GUPTA: Dr. Guyuron is not claiming his surgery is a total cure, but believes it has potential.
GUYURON: We really are not eliminating that tendency for migraine headaches. But practical purposes, if the patients are symptom free and continuing to be symptom free, we have cured them from the condition.
GUPTA: Two and a half years after her operation, Kramer experiences minor headaches infrequently, but...
KRAMER: Basically I would tell you I have had zero migraines. You realize there is a freedom that I had never had in my life and you go this is life altering.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.
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COSTELLO: Something it seems just about everyone is suffering from right about now is allergies. And experts say it's going to get worse towards the end of this month because tree and grass pollen seasons could overlap. We'll talk to an expert in the next hour about alternative remedies for you. How about acupressure?
For more on this or any other health story, head to our Web site. The address, CNN.com/health.
Time to read some e-mail now -- Chad.
MYERS: OK.
COSTELLO: Makeover nation: is America too obsessed with plastic surgery? That's the question we're asking this morning. And we've gotten some response.
MYERS: Yes.
COSTELLO: Not great response, but some.
MYERS: Probably 20 people or so interested this morning.
Bill (ph) in Boulder says perhaps the CNN report last week that says pretty people average 5 percent more in wages has something to do with the plastic surgery boom -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Cynical, cynical, cynical.
MYERS: I got one from Florida, too, from Deerfield Beach. In a word, yes. Isn't it sad that we'll endanger our lives and ourselves for appearance sake? Imagine what the world would be like if Americans sought inner beauty with the same type of fervor that we, as a society, try to obtain the perfect appearance. What a wonderful world it would be.
COSTELLO: Well you know I'd have to agree with him. You know the other thing about plastic surgery, though, it's homogenizing our look. Everybody looks the same. If you watch those shows, like, "The Swan," they make every woman look the same. It's bizarre.
MYERS: I haven't seen that one.
COSTELLO: You haven't?
MYERS: No.
COSTELLO: It's bad.
This is from Ryan (ph) from Ann Arbor, Michigan. He says we like to think we are much more civilized than the medieval times when women wore corsets. However, now our women have their bodies sliced open and altered in order to achieve a certain look. The more things change the more they stay the same.
MYERS: Carol, it's not only women.
COSTELLO: No.
MYERS: Men are getting these things done, too.
COSTELLO: And they're getting all sorts of wacky things done, too.
MYERS: I'm not going there.
COSTELLO: That's a topic for another day, though.
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