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Fake Badges; The Nose Knows?; Scott's Poetry; Rolling Stones

Aired May 11, 2005 - 05:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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."

Six more bombings across Iraq this morning, 54 Iraqis dead, 100 wounded. It is the latest in a string of deadly insurgent attacks. Officials say many of the dead were lined up to join the Iraq army.

President Bush's speech in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia could have turned tragic. Authorities there say they found a grenade about 100 feet from the stage where the president stood, but they say the grenade did not contain explosives.

The man accused of killing his 8-year-old daughter and her 9- year-old friend in Zion, Illinois has a bond hearing this morning. Authorities say Jerry Hobbs has a long criminal history. He could face the death penalty.

And check out this massive twister. The National Weather Service says at least a dozen tornadoes touched down in central Nebraska. No injuries or deaths reported, but there was some damage, and, wow, what a spectacle.

To the Forecast Center, Rob in for Chad this morning.

Good morning -- Rob.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Carol. Always makes for a good storm chase when you get great video, see a monster storm like that and nobody gets hurt. That's the ideal situation.

(WEATHER REPORT)

COSTELLO: Thank you.

MARCIANO: All right.

COSTELLO: In the news this morning, another deadly day across Iraq where six separate bombings leave scores dead, many more wounded. There were three car bombings in Baghdad, including one outside of a police station. At least six Iraqis were wounded in that suicide attack.

A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy also exploded in Baghdad, wounding four Iraqis.

And 20 civilians lined up to join the Iraqi army were killed by a man who had explosives hidden underneath his clothes in a small town west of Kirkuk.

The most deadly bombing, though, was in the town of Tikrit where at least 30 people were killed and 40 more wounded. The car bomb exploded at a busy intersection where crowds of Iraqi workers gather each morning to be picked up for a day of labor.

U.S. forces are staging a major offensive at Al Anbar Province. They're battling insurgents near Iraq's border with Syria. We've been telling you about this. It's called Operation Matador. And the U.S. troops are encountering uniformed fighters. Uniformed fighters whose gear indicate the better trained opposition than U.S. troops are used to facing.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The ayes are 100, the nays are 0, the conference report is agreed to.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: In our "Security Watch" this morning, the Senate unanimously passes a massive spending bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the bill also makes it harder to get a driver's license in the United States. The tougher license rules were tacked on to the war bill, and that has democratic senators complaining they never really got a chance to debate the license rules.

OK, now for the rules. They call for states to issue more uniform driver's licenses and for stronger proof of citizenship or legal status. It means when you go to the DMV you're going to have to have the original birth certificate, your Social Security number or your Social Security card, rather, and some utility bills.

The measures are aimed at preventing illegal immigrants from getting licenses, but critics say it ends up creating the equivalent of a national ID card. And states say putting the measures in place would stick them with a big bill. Some say that bill could wind up being $500 million.

Federal agents have made a very disturbing find in New York, more than 1,000 fake law enforcement badges were found at the home of a Russian man.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick has more on the bust.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For federal agents, this is one of their biggest fears, the possibility terrorists may buy phony badges intending to pose as real agents.

MARTIN FICKE, FBI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE: It could be devastating for someone to use this to potentially get access to various areas that they would have clearly no reason to be in.

FEYERICK: Special Agent Martin Ficke heads up U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement in New York City. He says the counterfeits seized in a Bronx apartment are as good as they come. He even showed us how his own badge, the one on the left, compares.

FICKE: For someone who is not a law enforcement official, to see something like this, it's very, very good.

FEYERICK: Agents found more than 1,300 phony badges representing 35 different federal agencies. They include FBI, Air Marshals, Drug Enforcement, Secret Service, Customs and U.S. Marshals.

JOHN MCCALLUM, U.S. MARSHAL: I was stunned, to be honest with you, when seeing the variety and the amount of -- well, federal identification, which is unusual.

FEYERICK: At least one box of badges was shipped from Taiwan through San Francisco. A Customs agent discovered it and alerted New York agents. U.S. Marshals arrested Sergio Khorosh, a native Russian living in the U.S. as a permanent resident. Police officials say he's been arrested more than a dozen times in the last 15 years, mostly on weapons charges.

His lawyer calls the badges "collectibles." They sell for about 50 bucks. Also confiscated, several semiautomatic weapons, police radios, NYPD jackets and packets of marijuana and cocaine. Agents are now scrambling to track down anyone who may have bought the fake badges.

JOSEPH GUCCIONE, U.S. MARSHAL: We don't want people going around impersonating federal officers, especially in today's day of -- with a terrorist threat.

FEYERICK: Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

We've got sex on the brain this morning. There's a new study out and it's very interesting. It may mean the way you're wired determines who you are sexually attracted to, as in a man or a woman. A fascinating story. We'll talk with a researcher from Sweden.

And the Rolling Stones get started up and never stop. They just keep going and going and going. We'll tell you what's ahead for Mick and the guys at six before the hour.

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

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Does the nose know? A new study is fueling a debate that's been raging for decades: homosexuality, is it something that's learned or something biological? Now Swedish researchers say the sexual area of a gay man's brain works a lot like a woman's when exposed to certain smells.

Joining us now from Stockholm is Dr. Ivanka Savic who headed the studies.

Good morning -- doctor.

DR. IVANKA SAVIC, KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE: Good morning.

COSTELLO: How many people were involved in this study?

SAVIC: We investigated 12 homosexual men, 12 heterosexual men and 12 heterosexual women, so 36 people all together.

COSTELLO: And you took the smell of a certain sweat gland and you exposed that smell to these people. Tell us about the gland and the...

SAVIC: No.

COSTELLO: OK, well you explain it better than I can. Go ahead.

SAVIC: Right. This is not exactly what we did. We used compounds, which are manufactured, so they are science synthetic (ph) compounds, and there are no proof that these compounds are pheromones. That has to be emphasized. They're candidates for pheromones. OK. And these two compounds were exposed to subjects that didn't know what they were smelling and we measured the changes in cerebral blood flow during smelling of these compounds.

COSTELLO: What's the significance of these compounds?

SAVIC: They are steroids. One of them, the so-called made (ph) compounds, resembles the softeron (ph). And the other one is resembling in the chemical structure estrogen. They are like -- they are similar to sex hormones but not identical.

COSTELLO: OK, similar to sex hormones, which means when straight women smell these things that kicks in their sexual desire or their sexual attraction to something. Is that correct?

SAVIC: That's not correct. Now the only...

COSTELLO: Man, I'm striking out.

SAVIC: Yes. The only thing we really showed was that these compounds, when smelled, activate the brain in different areas than the common odors. This is the only thing that we can really firmly state.

COSTELLO: OK, well tell us what you...

SAVIC: It doesn't -- sorry.

COSTELLO: Tell us what you found out in this study.

SAVIC: What we found out in the study is that the reaction in homosexual man to the two futa (ph) pheromones is more like, not identical, but more like that of heterosexual women than the heterosexual man.

Secondly, the reaction in all the subjects to this specific compounds is in the areas of the brain that are regulating release of sex hormones in humans.

And thirdly, the common odors that were also exposed to our subjects did activate the old factory brain, which is not the same area as these two specific compounds that we were investigating.

COSTELLO: And what is the significance of your findings?

SAVIC: Well, actually the significance is, first of all, that it gives a further circumstantial evidence or argument, not evidence, but argument, for existence of human pheromones. It may, we have not proven it, but there is a further argument for possible existence of human pheromones. That's one significance.

The second is that these compounds, somehow their activation shows a link between our sexual behavior in certain areas of the brain.

Now what is very important to emphasize, we have not proven that homosexuality is biological. This study does not show whether the brain of homosexual men is hardwired. For the result of the findings we see are secondary to the exposure to, in this case, undrastedinol (ph), which is a testosterone-like compound.

COSTELLO: But it's just a piece of the puzzle, in other words?

SAVIC: Right. It's a piece of the puzzle. And, first of all, we need to repeat the studies. We didn't expect an expected (ph) population of subjects. We also need to investigate homosexual women, of course, and other population of subjects to know more. There is a lot more to do. We have not proven the cause-effect question. That we have no answer to, but this is a piece of information.

COSTELLO: All right. Ivanka Savic, joining us live this morning from Stockholm, thank you very much.

Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:45 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.

It's been an extremely violent day in Iraq. There have been six bombings, killing at least 54 Iraqis and wounding nearly 100 more.

A dud in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. No, not the U.S. president, but a hand grenade used in training. It was left about a hundred feet from the stage where President Bush spoke yesterday. Authorities say it contained no explosives.

In money news, United Airlines employees stand to lose thousands of dollars in pension benefits. A bankruptcy judge has approved the airline's plan to end its employees pension plans. It's the largest corporate pension default in American history.

In culture, roll out the red carpet and bring on the young starlets in their skimpy suits. The 58th Cannes Film Festival opens today in the French Riviera.

In sports, the Miami Heat is sizzling. It shot better than 57 percent in beating the Wizards 108 to 102 last night. The Heat leads the best of seven NBA Eastern semifinals two games to none -- Rob.

MARCIANO: Carol, in an effort to localize our forecast a little bit more, we'll give you the five-day for some selected cities around the country.

(WEATHER REPORT)

Carol, back over to you.

COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Rob.

That's a look at the latest headlines.

Just like their mega hit, once they get started up, they never stop. We'll check in with the Rolling Stones. They're in their 60s now. Maybe one of them is in their 70s, for all I know. But we'll tell you about their new tour coming up on DAYBREAK.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Makes me want to sip hot coffee and be in my living room; but I'm here with you, and I am happy about that. I am, really.

Grammy winning singer and songwriter Jill Scott has tried her hand at a new form of writing, "The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours." It's a book of poetry Scott called from her personal journals. It's very spicy. You should read it.

I had a chance to talk to her about her work.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

Some of the things I found most interesting are the poems about hip-hop women, because, frankly, that really annoys me. Like when I see videos like "The Candy Store."

JILL SCOTT, RECORDING ARTIST: I think that there needs to be a balance. We talk a lot about sexual aspects in music, and that's fine, because we are human beings and we're sexual beings. But I really feel that there's another side to relationships, a huge side to relationships that gets missed out on because we focus a lot of the music only on sexual aspects or the thrills of sexual activity. But there's more to a relationship than that.

COSTELLO: So when you write do me, screw me, tease me, oh God where are the love songs,... SCOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: ... that's what you're saying?

SCOTT: That's exactly what I'm saying. I miss love songs. You know I'm glad when a love song comes out.

COSTELLO: But why are women writing those songs and not men?

SCOTT: Well you have to understand we're in a market that sells sex, the kind of music out.

COSTELLO: But think back to Marvin Gaye.

SCOTT: Sure.

COSTELLO: Talk about love songs.

SCOTT: Sure.

COSTELLO: And beautiful music.

SCOTT: But he also sang "Let's Get It On," which was still, to this day, you know -- the thing, the difference is with a song like "Let's Get It On" from Marvin Gaye, it was very poetic.

COSTELLO: OK, I'm going to read you something you've been quoted as saying. You said I think we kind of got the feminist movement jacked up.

SCOTT: I do, I think we got it jacked up. It began with you know we're confident and we are capable of earning the same amount of money, doing the same kinds of jobs, we're intelligent enough and it's not fair that we don't have the same wages.

And what it's become is I'm strong and I don't need anybody. I don't need you to help me, I don't need you to look after me, I don't need anybody, and that's just not true. We fall into a role, as well, sometimes I've noticed that the ideal we fall into it being the woman who can cook and clean and iron and be baby faithful (ph) and that's it. That's all we become.

You know that's good for some women; but for me, I feel that it's more important to be everything that I am. I'm a writer, I'm a singer, I'm an actress, I'm a philanthropist. There are so many things that I don't even know about myself yet that I'm open to. I cannot just be my husband's wife.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Jill Scott. I apologize for the audio problems on that piece. Hopefully you could hear her better than I could.

Here's what we're working on for you that's all new in the next hour of DAYBREAK.

Traffic is not just a big city problem anymore. We'll tell you where the backup is happening and what smaller cities can do about it.

And your boss, is he or she a bully? We're going to tell you how to deal with a less than super supervisor.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: An industry icon is about to rock the world again. The Rolling Stones are going on tour.

CNN's David Haffenreffer reports the Stones will roll to a city near you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Rolling Stones starting everyone up and strutting their stuff in New York City and "ShowBiz Tonight" was there. Sixty-one-year-old Mick Jagger and the ageless band announcing yet another world tour more than 40 years after the Stones first rocked the world. The tour will kick off at Boston's Fenway Park August 21.

MICK JAGGER, ROLLING STONES: And we're very upbeat about the tour and it's going to be a great summer.

HAFFENREFFER: The media all lined up at the Juilliard School of Music where hundreds of lucky fans heard the band play at a press event, for the first time in nearly 30 years, knocking out three songs, "Start Me Up," "Brown Sugar" and even one diehard fans probably haven't heard yet.

JAGGER: We're going to do a new song for you now that we've just written. So this one's called "Oh No, Not You Again."

HAFFENREFFER: That song is part of a new album, which Jagger says is 85 percent finished.

Thirty-five dates have already been announced in the United States and Canada. The band will then hit Mexico, South America, the Far East and then Europe. A lot of travelling for four guys whose combined age is 242 years old.

(on camera): The last time the Stones were on the road was for the 2002-2003 Licks Tour, a concert tour that grossed nearly $300 million.

(voice-over): And this tour could make even more. Ticket prices are going up 10 percent to about 100 bucks a pop. The band says it's still putting the finishing touches on the tour, like drawing up set lists and picking their opening acts. But this is no Cher farewell tour. Mick says the Stones will keep on rolling.

JAGGER: We never say this is going to be our last tour. We never think about it. We take each tour as it comes.

(END VIDEOTAPE) COSTELLO: You know they could charge a hundred bucks a ticket because their audience is old and wealthy now and not the same as it used to be when the Rolling Stones first came into the public eye.

You can get more entertainment news every night on "ShowBiz Tonight." That's at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on Headline News.

It is time for our e-mail "Question of the Day," and time to read some of your responses. We're asking you what the solution is to the traffic problems across this country. We're going to be talking to an expert in the next hour to ask him if things like HOV lanes really work.

A lot of people said high gas prices would cut down on traffic. Isn't that interesting?

MARCIANO: Yes, a lot of the e-mails I've seen are market driven. And you know you look at countries around the world gas prices there are way up, much higher than here, and that may be one of the reasons that Europe doesn't use cars as much.

This one from Terri (ph) in Fayetteville, North Carolina says just that, if gasoline was priced at over $5.00 a gallon, people would do what they should, carpool, mass transit, bike, walk, telecommute. We've known that all along, but just keep feeding the elephant in the room and insisting it doesn't exist.

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Aired May 11, 2005 - 05:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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."

Six more bombings across Iraq this morning, 54 Iraqis dead, 100 wounded. It is the latest in a string of deadly insurgent attacks. Officials say many of the dead were lined up to join the Iraq army.

President Bush's speech in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia could have turned tragic. Authorities there say they found a grenade about 100 feet from the stage where the president stood, but they say the grenade did not contain explosives.

The man accused of killing his 8-year-old daughter and her 9- year-old friend in Zion, Illinois has a bond hearing this morning. Authorities say Jerry Hobbs has a long criminal history. He could face the death penalty.

And check out this massive twister. The National Weather Service says at least a dozen tornadoes touched down in central Nebraska. No injuries or deaths reported, but there was some damage, and, wow, what a spectacle.

To the Forecast Center, Rob in for Chad this morning.

Good morning -- Rob.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good morning, Carol. Always makes for a good storm chase when you get great video, see a monster storm like that and nobody gets hurt. That's the ideal situation.

(WEATHER REPORT)

COSTELLO: Thank you.

MARCIANO: All right.

COSTELLO: In the news this morning, another deadly day across Iraq where six separate bombings leave scores dead, many more wounded. There were three car bombings in Baghdad, including one outside of a police station. At least six Iraqis were wounded in that suicide attack.

A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy also exploded in Baghdad, wounding four Iraqis.

And 20 civilians lined up to join the Iraqi army were killed by a man who had explosives hidden underneath his clothes in a small town west of Kirkuk.

The most deadly bombing, though, was in the town of Tikrit where at least 30 people were killed and 40 more wounded. The car bomb exploded at a busy intersection where crowds of Iraqi workers gather each morning to be picked up for a day of labor.

U.S. forces are staging a major offensive at Al Anbar Province. They're battling insurgents near Iraq's border with Syria. We've been telling you about this. It's called Operation Matador. And the U.S. troops are encountering uniformed fighters. Uniformed fighters whose gear indicate the better trained opposition than U.S. troops are used to facing.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The ayes are 100, the nays are 0, the conference report is agreed to.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

COSTELLO: In our "Security Watch" this morning, the Senate unanimously passes a massive spending bill to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, but the bill also makes it harder to get a driver's license in the United States. The tougher license rules were tacked on to the war bill, and that has democratic senators complaining they never really got a chance to debate the license rules.

OK, now for the rules. They call for states to issue more uniform driver's licenses and for stronger proof of citizenship or legal status. It means when you go to the DMV you're going to have to have the original birth certificate, your Social Security number or your Social Security card, rather, and some utility bills.

The measures are aimed at preventing illegal immigrants from getting licenses, but critics say it ends up creating the equivalent of a national ID card. And states say putting the measures in place would stick them with a big bill. Some say that bill could wind up being $500 million.

Federal agents have made a very disturbing find in New York, more than 1,000 fake law enforcement badges were found at the home of a Russian man.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick has more on the bust.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For federal agents, this is one of their biggest fears, the possibility terrorists may buy phony badges intending to pose as real agents.

MARTIN FICKE, FBI SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE: It could be devastating for someone to use this to potentially get access to various areas that they would have clearly no reason to be in.

FEYERICK: Special Agent Martin Ficke heads up U.S. Immigration and Customs enforcement in New York City. He says the counterfeits seized in a Bronx apartment are as good as they come. He even showed us how his own badge, the one on the left, compares.

FICKE: For someone who is not a law enforcement official, to see something like this, it's very, very good.

FEYERICK: Agents found more than 1,300 phony badges representing 35 different federal agencies. They include FBI, Air Marshals, Drug Enforcement, Secret Service, Customs and U.S. Marshals.

JOHN MCCALLUM, U.S. MARSHAL: I was stunned, to be honest with you, when seeing the variety and the amount of -- well, federal identification, which is unusual.

FEYERICK: At least one box of badges was shipped from Taiwan through San Francisco. A Customs agent discovered it and alerted New York agents. U.S. Marshals arrested Sergio Khorosh, a native Russian living in the U.S. as a permanent resident. Police officials say he's been arrested more than a dozen times in the last 15 years, mostly on weapons charges.

His lawyer calls the badges "collectibles." They sell for about 50 bucks. Also confiscated, several semiautomatic weapons, police radios, NYPD jackets and packets of marijuana and cocaine. Agents are now scrambling to track down anyone who may have bought the fake badges.

JOSEPH GUCCIONE, U.S. MARSHAL: We don't want people going around impersonating federal officers, especially in today's day of -- with a terrorist threat.

FEYERICK: Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

We've got sex on the brain this morning. There's a new study out and it's very interesting. It may mean the way you're wired determines who you are sexually attracted to, as in a man or a woman. A fascinating story. We'll talk with a researcher from Sweden.

And the Rolling Stones get started up and never stop. They just keep going and going and going. We'll tell you what's ahead for Mick and the guys at six before the hour.

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

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Does the nose know? A new study is fueling a debate that's been raging for decades: homosexuality, is it something that's learned or something biological? Now Swedish researchers say the sexual area of a gay man's brain works a lot like a woman's when exposed to certain smells.

Joining us now from Stockholm is Dr. Ivanka Savic who headed the studies.

Good morning -- doctor.

DR. IVANKA SAVIC, KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE: Good morning.

COSTELLO: How many people were involved in this study?

SAVIC: We investigated 12 homosexual men, 12 heterosexual men and 12 heterosexual women, so 36 people all together.

COSTELLO: And you took the smell of a certain sweat gland and you exposed that smell to these people. Tell us about the gland and the...

SAVIC: No.

COSTELLO: OK, well you explain it better than I can. Go ahead.

SAVIC: Right. This is not exactly what we did. We used compounds, which are manufactured, so they are science synthetic (ph) compounds, and there are no proof that these compounds are pheromones. That has to be emphasized. They're candidates for pheromones. OK. And these two compounds were exposed to subjects that didn't know what they were smelling and we measured the changes in cerebral blood flow during smelling of these compounds.

COSTELLO: What's the significance of these compounds?

SAVIC: They are steroids. One of them, the so-called made (ph) compounds, resembles the softeron (ph). And the other one is resembling in the chemical structure estrogen. They are like -- they are similar to sex hormones but not identical.

COSTELLO: OK, similar to sex hormones, which means when straight women smell these things that kicks in their sexual desire or their sexual attraction to something. Is that correct?

SAVIC: That's not correct. Now the only...

COSTELLO: Man, I'm striking out.

SAVIC: Yes. The only thing we really showed was that these compounds, when smelled, activate the brain in different areas than the common odors. This is the only thing that we can really firmly state.

COSTELLO: OK, well tell us what you...

SAVIC: It doesn't -- sorry.

COSTELLO: Tell us what you found out in this study.

SAVIC: What we found out in the study is that the reaction in homosexual man to the two futa (ph) pheromones is more like, not identical, but more like that of heterosexual women than the heterosexual man.

Secondly, the reaction in all the subjects to this specific compounds is in the areas of the brain that are regulating release of sex hormones in humans.

And thirdly, the common odors that were also exposed to our subjects did activate the old factory brain, which is not the same area as these two specific compounds that we were investigating.

COSTELLO: And what is the significance of your findings?

SAVIC: Well, actually the significance is, first of all, that it gives a further circumstantial evidence or argument, not evidence, but argument, for existence of human pheromones. It may, we have not proven it, but there is a further argument for possible existence of human pheromones. That's one significance.

The second is that these compounds, somehow their activation shows a link between our sexual behavior in certain areas of the brain.

Now what is very important to emphasize, we have not proven that homosexuality is biological. This study does not show whether the brain of homosexual men is hardwired. For the result of the findings we see are secondary to the exposure to, in this case, undrastedinol (ph), which is a testosterone-like compound.

COSTELLO: But it's just a piece of the puzzle, in other words?

SAVIC: Right. It's a piece of the puzzle. And, first of all, we need to repeat the studies. We didn't expect an expected (ph) population of subjects. We also need to investigate homosexual women, of course, and other population of subjects to know more. There is a lot more to do. We have not proven the cause-effect question. That we have no answer to, but this is a piece of information.

COSTELLO: All right. Ivanka Savic, joining us live this morning from Stockholm, thank you very much.

Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:45 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.

It's been an extremely violent day in Iraq. There have been six bombings, killing at least 54 Iraqis and wounding nearly 100 more.

A dud in the Georgian capital of Tbilisi. No, not the U.S. president, but a hand grenade used in training. It was left about a hundred feet from the stage where President Bush spoke yesterday. Authorities say it contained no explosives.

In money news, United Airlines employees stand to lose thousands of dollars in pension benefits. A bankruptcy judge has approved the airline's plan to end its employees pension plans. It's the largest corporate pension default in American history.

In culture, roll out the red carpet and bring on the young starlets in their skimpy suits. The 58th Cannes Film Festival opens today in the French Riviera.

In sports, the Miami Heat is sizzling. It shot better than 57 percent in beating the Wizards 108 to 102 last night. The Heat leads the best of seven NBA Eastern semifinals two games to none -- Rob.

MARCIANO: Carol, in an effort to localize our forecast a little bit more, we'll give you the five-day for some selected cities around the country.

(WEATHER REPORT)

Carol, back over to you.

COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Rob.

That's a look at the latest headlines.

Just like their mega hit, once they get started up, they never stop. We'll check in with the Rolling Stones. They're in their 60s now. Maybe one of them is in their 70s, for all I know. But we'll tell you about their new tour coming up on DAYBREAK.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: Makes me want to sip hot coffee and be in my living room; but I'm here with you, and I am happy about that. I am, really.

Grammy winning singer and songwriter Jill Scott has tried her hand at a new form of writing, "The Moments, The Minutes, The Hours." It's a book of poetry Scott called from her personal journals. It's very spicy. You should read it.

I had a chance to talk to her about her work.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

Some of the things I found most interesting are the poems about hip-hop women, because, frankly, that really annoys me. Like when I see videos like "The Candy Store."

JILL SCOTT, RECORDING ARTIST: I think that there needs to be a balance. We talk a lot about sexual aspects in music, and that's fine, because we are human beings and we're sexual beings. But I really feel that there's another side to relationships, a huge side to relationships that gets missed out on because we focus a lot of the music only on sexual aspects or the thrills of sexual activity. But there's more to a relationship than that.

COSTELLO: So when you write do me, screw me, tease me, oh God where are the love songs,... SCOTT: Yes.

COSTELLO: ... that's what you're saying?

SCOTT: That's exactly what I'm saying. I miss love songs. You know I'm glad when a love song comes out.

COSTELLO: But why are women writing those songs and not men?

SCOTT: Well you have to understand we're in a market that sells sex, the kind of music out.

COSTELLO: But think back to Marvin Gaye.

SCOTT: Sure.

COSTELLO: Talk about love songs.

SCOTT: Sure.

COSTELLO: And beautiful music.

SCOTT: But he also sang "Let's Get It On," which was still, to this day, you know -- the thing, the difference is with a song like "Let's Get It On" from Marvin Gaye, it was very poetic.

COSTELLO: OK, I'm going to read you something you've been quoted as saying. You said I think we kind of got the feminist movement jacked up.

SCOTT: I do, I think we got it jacked up. It began with you know we're confident and we are capable of earning the same amount of money, doing the same kinds of jobs, we're intelligent enough and it's not fair that we don't have the same wages.

And what it's become is I'm strong and I don't need anybody. I don't need you to help me, I don't need you to look after me, I don't need anybody, and that's just not true. We fall into a role, as well, sometimes I've noticed that the ideal we fall into it being the woman who can cook and clean and iron and be baby faithful (ph) and that's it. That's all we become.

You know that's good for some women; but for me, I feel that it's more important to be everything that I am. I'm a writer, I'm a singer, I'm an actress, I'm a philanthropist. There are so many things that I don't even know about myself yet that I'm open to. I cannot just be my husband's wife.

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COSTELLO: Jill Scott. I apologize for the audio problems on that piece. Hopefully you could hear her better than I could.

Here's what we're working on for you that's all new in the next hour of DAYBREAK.

Traffic is not just a big city problem anymore. We'll tell you where the backup is happening and what smaller cities can do about it.

And your boss, is he or she a bully? We're going to tell you how to deal with a less than super supervisor.

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COSTELLO: An industry icon is about to rock the world again. The Rolling Stones are going on tour.

CNN's David Haffenreffer reports the Stones will roll to a city near you.

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DAVID HAFFENREFFER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Rolling Stones starting everyone up and strutting their stuff in New York City and "ShowBiz Tonight" was there. Sixty-one-year-old Mick Jagger and the ageless band announcing yet another world tour more than 40 years after the Stones first rocked the world. The tour will kick off at Boston's Fenway Park August 21.

MICK JAGGER, ROLLING STONES: And we're very upbeat about the tour and it's going to be a great summer.

HAFFENREFFER: The media all lined up at the Juilliard School of Music where hundreds of lucky fans heard the band play at a press event, for the first time in nearly 30 years, knocking out three songs, "Start Me Up," "Brown Sugar" and even one diehard fans probably haven't heard yet.

JAGGER: We're going to do a new song for you now that we've just written. So this one's called "Oh No, Not You Again."

HAFFENREFFER: That song is part of a new album, which Jagger says is 85 percent finished.

Thirty-five dates have already been announced in the United States and Canada. The band will then hit Mexico, South America, the Far East and then Europe. A lot of travelling for four guys whose combined age is 242 years old.

(on camera): The last time the Stones were on the road was for the 2002-2003 Licks Tour, a concert tour that grossed nearly $300 million.

(voice-over): And this tour could make even more. Ticket prices are going up 10 percent to about 100 bucks a pop. The band says it's still putting the finishing touches on the tour, like drawing up set lists and picking their opening acts. But this is no Cher farewell tour. Mick says the Stones will keep on rolling.

JAGGER: We never say this is going to be our last tour. We never think about it. We take each tour as it comes.

(END VIDEOTAPE) COSTELLO: You know they could charge a hundred bucks a ticket because their audience is old and wealthy now and not the same as it used to be when the Rolling Stones first came into the public eye.

You can get more entertainment news every night on "ShowBiz Tonight." That's at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on Headline News.

It is time for our e-mail "Question of the Day," and time to read some of your responses. We're asking you what the solution is to the traffic problems across this country. We're going to be talking to an expert in the next hour to ask him if things like HOV lanes really work.

A lot of people said high gas prices would cut down on traffic. Isn't that interesting?

MARCIANO: Yes, a lot of the e-mails I've seen are market driven. And you know you look at countries around the world gas prices there are way up, much higher than here, and that may be one of the reasons that Europe doesn't use cars as much.

This one from Terri (ph) in Fayetteville, North Carolina says just that, if gasoline was priced at over $5.00 a gallon, people would do what they should, carpool, mass transit, bike, walk, telecommute. We've known that all along, but just keep feeding the elephant in the room and insisting it doesn't exist.

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