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Missing Teen; Landslide Damage
Aired June 03, 2005 - 05:00 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.
VALERIE MORRIS, CNN ANCHOR: It's Friday, June 3. A bulldozer chase in Arizona lands a teenager in the hospital. DAYBREAK starts right now.
Fifteen police cruisers chase a runaway bulldozer with a teenager at the controls.
Also ahead, Woodward and Bernstein tells us how they got scooped by "Vanity Fair."
And it's barbecue season. We're going to tell you how to have a safe and tasty cookout.
ANNOUNCER: From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.
MORRIS: Good morning, everyone. I'm Valerie Morris, in today for Carol Costello.
We're going to have more on the bulldozer chase story from Arizona in a moment.
Also ahead, an Alabama teenager goes missing in Aruba after celebrating her high school graduation. The very latest details on this desperate search coming up.
And imagine watching your house crumble right before your eyes. It happened in California, and we'll talk with residents of Laguna Beach who just want to go home.
But first, ""Now in the News."
An Arizona teen was shot by police after he allegedly stole a bulldozer and led them on a 15-mile slow speed chase. The 14-year-old is in critical condition this morning. Police say they shot the boy after he turned the bulldozer and drove toward them.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Singapore for a major conference on security and terrorism in Asia. The nuclear threat in North Korea is also expected to be the main topic of discussion among the more than 20 countries in attendance.
And here's a sight for those of you who miss winter. Up to six inches of snow has fallen across parts of central Montana, but it could be worse. Just three years ago, as many as eight feet accumulated in Montana in early June.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Oh. Valerie, hey, good morning.
MORRIS: Well, hello. Good morning. Nice to see you.
MYERS: Welcome to the morning show.
MORRIS: Thank you so much. I'm wondering if you made that Montana storm just for me since I'm a former Montana resident.
MYERS: Oh, is that right? I did not know that.
MORRIS: Great Falls, Montana.
MYERS: Yes? How long did you live there?
MORRIS: Six years.
MYERS: Is that five years too long, or was it good?
MORRIS: Actually, it was a very nice experience. But...
MYERS: Oh, good. Good.
MORRIS: ... the chill, still in my bones.
MYERS: Yes. And you know what? You get up in the mountains like that and the temperatures get very cold in the overnight hours. And the rain came in, it changed over to snow, and there was significant snow there yesterday. The storm really did move out of British Columbia and into Montana.
Talk to you in a second, Valerie.
(WEATHER REPORT)
MORRIS: Not a good thing. Those backups, they just mount.
MYERS: They do. And then they -- it's one after another after another.
MORRIS: Right. We'll check back with you a little later. Thanks, Chad.
MYERS: Fair enough.
MORRIS: There is still no sign of a missing Alabama teenage girl in Aruba. Natalee Holloway was on vacation with graduating classmates, but she didn't show up for a flight home Monday. Tiffany Bittner of CNN affiliate WBRC in Birmingham has the very latest.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TIFFANY BITTNER, REPORTER, WBRC (voice-over): Natalee Holloway's uncle, Paul Reynolds, says local Aruba authorities are continuing in their search.
PAUL REYNOLDS, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S UNCLE: Yes, we've had a lot of assistance down here today. They've gotten the military involved, and they've been doing a search of the island. I mean, my understanding -- you know, I can't give it to you as a fact, but my understanding is they've expanded the search to the water.
BITTNER: Reynolds says the locals on the island have been more than helpful.
REYNOLDS: Been donating four-wheelers. And a lot of visitors and people that live here have donated their time. They've been out searching, passing out posters. It's just a tremendous outpouring of support.
BITTNER: Details are still few in the case. Holloway has been missing since Monday. Her family says she was last seen leaving a local bar with three men.
Meanwhile, Natalee's friends and family continue to gather at a local church to pray for her return.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And we want everybody, as many people as we can, to pray for Natalee. I talked to her mom today. She said could feel that everybody was praying for her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hope. We're not doing anything, but we have the highest of hopes that we are going -- we're going to find her. We've got FBI involved, and hopefully things will move fast and we can -- we can bring this child home.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
MORRIS: Again, that report from Tiffany Bittner of WBRC in Birmingham.
The girl's mother has been in Aruba searching for her daughter.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, MOTHER: She was seen leaving Carlos and Charlie (ph) at approximately 1:30 a.m. Monday morning, and her -- she was here on a senior trip. And there were approximately -- I don't know, they could have been 20 to 40 of her classmates in Carlos and Charlie's (ph) periodically, but at least 10 of them saw her leave in a small four-door car. Not sure of the make, bluish-gray color, and there were three locals in the car with her.
Natalee, you can reach me on your cell phone. I have it, and it's set up for international use now. It's 205-447-0140. And I also have my cell phone, and it's set up for international use. So please call me, 205-999-3679. And I will stay here until I find you, Natalee.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MORRIS: Natalee Holloway's family is offering a reward for her safe return.
And now news "Across America."
Police in Richmond, Virginia, captured a suspect in three murders that took place within 15 minutes of each other, but now they say none of the killings appears to be racially motivated. Police say David Bohler (ph) allegedly held a personal grudge against all three victims. He could be charged in all three murders as early as Monday.
Longtime Republican supporters have joined other civic leaders in calling for the resignation of Spokane, Washington, mayor, Jim West. It's been alleged he used his positions of trust over the years to develop sexual relations with boys. But West says he hasn't done anything wrong and won't step down. He has opposed gay rights legislation in Spokane but has admitted to having sex with young men.
"Con artists" and "predators," those are the words the prosecution and defense used to describe the principals in the Michael Jackson molestation trial. They're expected to finish up closing arguments and rebuttals today. The jury is then expected to begin deliberating.
Many of the 1,000 evacuees in Laguna Beach, California, have been allowed to return home. Their homes are now considered safe from the landslides that damaged nearly three dozen homes the day before. But as CNN's Sean Callebs reports, some people are still locked out, possibly forever.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Controlled chaos in the narrow streets of Bluebird Canyon in Laguna Beach. And for 74- year-old Albert Trevino, concern that the saying could be true, that you can't go home again.
ALBERT TREVINO, RESIDENT: I have asthma for my wife and diabetes and heart medicine in my home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Where's...
TREVINO: 1015 Madison Place.
CALLEBS: But just as Trevino fears, his neighborhood was hit hardest.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Madison, nobody's allowed on Madison at all, whether it be for medication or not.
CALLEBS: We went with Trevino as close as he could get to his home, a neighbor's deck. Trevino's home is the one with the fireplace hanging on the edge of the cliff.
It all happened early Wednesday, as this landscape developer was answering e-mails.
TREVINO: And then I heard this shake, and the house cracking. And looked around, walked to the corner, looked down, and the earth just opened up in front of me. CALLEBS: On paper, Trevino was a millionaire yesterday before the slide. His home was worth at least $1.8 million. But Trevino says, like all other homeowners here, he cannot get insurance for devastating earth slides caused by nature.
(on camera): So is this a total loss?
TREVINO: Yes, for -- it's a total loss. And that's why you place your hopes that maybe five years, 10 years from now, there'll be some ingenious way to rebuild all of that land that has sloughed off.
CALLEBS (voice-over): Trevino built the first home in these hills more than 40 years ago, paying $750 down for the land. That's right, $750 for this view. And you guessed it, he wants to rebuild.
TREVINO: We don't have any -- you know, any great amounts of money. So I have to -- I can't afford to pay, you know, a couple million for a house.
CALLEBS: For the time being, Trevino, and his wife, Delores, gaze at their home on the front page of the newspaper and try to stay focused, at times doing little things, like buying a cell phone charge so they can talk with their 11 children. This is the family a couple of months ago in happier times, at their 50th wedding anniversary. Right now, it's the personal treasures they dearly want to recover, photos, birth certificates, and mementos from Trevino's service in both the Nixon and George W. Bush administrations, working for HUD.
Even though he risks losing everything, Trevino calls himself a lucky man.
(on camera): You know, how can you be so upbeat?
TREVINO: It's not being upbeat. It's just the realities are -- look at that view. I mean, look at this climate.
CALLEBS: An overwhelming number of the thousand or so residents forced to evacuate began streaming back home Thursday evening. But for the families like the Trevinos, whose homes were damaged or destroyed, it could be weeks or months before they go back home. Or, worst case scenario, never.
Sean Callebs, CNN, Laguna Beach, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
MORRIS: I have a follow-up for you now on the Georgia runaway bride-to-be story. Jennifer Wilbanks has plead -- has pleaded, rather, no contest to a felony charge of making false statements to police. SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R), PENNSYLVANIA: part of the plea deal, Wilbanks has been sentenced to two years probation and 120 hours of community service.
You may recall, and how could any of us not recall, because there's been so much coverage on this, Wilbanks disappeared just before her April wedding. She surfaced days later in New Mexico, telling police in Georgia and her fiance that she'd been abducted. An audiotape of the conversation with her husband was released yesterday.
(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)
JENNIFER WILBANKS, RUNAWAY BRIDE: (INAUDIBLE)
FIANCE: Are you sure you are not in Duluth?
WILBANKS: No, I'm not in Duluth.
FIANCE: Are you in Georgia?
WILBANKS: I don't know.
FIANCE: OK. That's OK, sweetie. That's OK. We're just trying to figure out how to come find you.
WILBANKS: (INAUDIBLE) they cut my hair.
FIANCE: They cut your hair?
WILBANKS: Uh-huh.
FIANCE: And that's all they did to you? Well, that's great.
WILBANKS: It was a man and a woman.
FIANCE: It was a man and a...
WILBANKS: It was a Spanish man and a Caucasian woman.
(END AUDIO CLIP)
MORRIS: Wilbanks was also ordered to continue mental health treatment and to pay the sheriff's office more than $2,500.
The city of Oakland, California, is trying a new way that's actually a century's old way of fighting the world's oldest profession. They're trying to shame people out of prostitution.
The city of 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco has started putting up billboards. And these billboards show pictures of men arrested for soliciting sex. Other signs invite prostitutes to quit by calling a help line.
What do you think, Chad?
MYERS: Well, that's our "Question of the Day." Do you think this is a good type of punishment, or is this a maybe medieval punishment? Effective deterrent or medieval punishment? E-mail us your answers at DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
We understand some of the billboards are already up. The first ones, though, have the pictures of the -- the -- I'll say...
MORRIS: Johns.
MYERS: ... the accused.
MORRIS: I thought it was generic Johns.
MYERS: It could -- but they're fuzzed out a little bit. So you can't really tell who they are. But as they go on and on, they're actually going to get these more in focus so people actually can tell who -- what these people look like and who they are.
MORRIS: OK. Interesting question. Interesting question.
MYERS: DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
MORRIS: All right. Thanks, Chad.
MYERS: You bet.
MORRIS: Still to come, Larry King talks to the dynamic duo of Woodward and Bernstein about the man who was Deep Throat. We'll take you beyond the sound bites.
And if you can't wait to fire up that grill and get cooking, make sure you at least wait until Dr. Gupta tells you how to do it safely. That's at 12 before the hour.
And he's been called the human version of Sea Biscuit. We're going to learn more about the real man behind this weekend's movie release about a depression-era prize fighter who just wouldn't give up.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Friday morning.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
MORRIS: Time now for our market report.
The international markets are in positive territory this morning. Japan's Nikkei closes up 20 points. Britain's FTSE 100 is trading up six points. And the German DAX is up nearly 11 points.
Your news, money, weather and sports. Right now it is 5:18. And here's what's all in the news this morning.
Israeli security sources confirm Syria has test-fired three scud missiles. "The New York Times" first reported the missiles were fired last Friday. Israel says one of them broke up over Turkey.
A big success. Maryland State police experimented with night vision binoculars to help catch people who don't buckle up after dark. They caught and fined more than 110 motorists in just a four-hour period last night.
In money, Dreamworks has been hit with a lawsuit over DVDs of the movie "Shrek II." Shareholders allege the company overestimated how many they'd sell, and that's a miscalculation for profits. Dreamworks calls the suit baseless. In culture, actress Denise Richards gave birth to a baby girl this week. "PEOPLE" magazine reports that estranged husband Charlie Sheen was in the delivery room for the birth of their daughter. Richards filed for divorce from Sheen three months ago.
In sports, the Miami Heat moved within one game of their first NBA finals with an 88-76 win over the Detroit Pistons. The Heat leads the series three games to two. Game six tips off tomorrow in Detroit.
MYERS: Yes. They're going to have to go back to Auburn Hills to get that game four. Detroit might make a little problem for that.
Good morning, Valerie. Good morning, everybody.
(WEATHER REPORT)
MORRIS: Thanks, Chad.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says despite the billions of dollars spent in trying to combat AIDS, the effort is falling short.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
KOFI ANNAN, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL: It is now clear that the epidemic continues to outrun our efforts to contain it. If we are to reach the millennium development goal of reducing by 50 percent and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV-AIDS by 2015, then we must do much more. We must do much, much more.
We know what works. We know it's possible to break the cycle of infections. We know it's possible to halt the spread of the disease.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MORRIS: Annan says the AIDS epidemic is accelerating on every continent. Annan also says that the fight against AIDS is starting to show promise, especially in places like Africa. But on a global scale, he says there were more new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths last year than ever before.
Still to come this morning, think you can spell better than an eighth grader? Not this one. We're going to tell you what word made him a champ next.
You're watching DAYBREAK for Friday, June 3.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
MORRIS: Time now for our DAYBREAK "Eye Opener."
Now, take a look at this. This little guy seems to be enjoying his new digs a lot better than his old home. The sea otter pup, he was found on the beach near Tacoma, Washington.
It was illegally removed from the beach by a well-meaning couple who turned it over to the Tacoma Zoo. That was good. The zoo there said -- has said that they will take care of the three-week-old otter until a new home can be found.
It was quite a struggle to save this wayward sea lion in northern California. This one is the second sea lion in the last few months to make it nearly 20 miles inland, up the Petaluma River. It took a while, but he was safely captured and will eventually be returned to the water.
Now, here's something that you don't see every day, an orangutan named Gypsy with a knack for cleanliness. She even likes gardening in her area at the Tokyo Zoo.
And you never know, pretty soon she could be starring in one of those home makeover shows on TV, don't you think, Chad?
MYERS: Yes. I love that. Oh, come on. That's a classic.
MORRIS: I mean, stylish. Did you notice no gloves. No gardening gloves necessary.
MYERS: No, no. But she was washing her hands about 10 times.
MORRIS: I know.
MYERS: That looks like a Palmolive commercial waiting to happen. It keeps your hands nice and clean.
MORRIS: OK, Chad, I have a question for you.
MYERS: OK.
MORRIS: It's a spelling question.
MYERS: Yes. Yesterday, I spelled mug, M-U-G. And I used it in a sentence.
MORRIS: And it was we give good mugs here?
MYERS: Well, "Chad is about to give away a coffee mug," but yes.
MORRIS: OK. Spell appoggiatura.
MYERS: I...
MORRIS: I'm going to help you out a little bit.
MYERS: Use it in a sentence. There you go.
MORRIS: OK. It means a melodic tone. And the clock is ticking now.
MYERS: And it starts with what letter?
MORRIS: A.
MYERS: And the next one is P?
MORRIS: You got it.
MORRIS: Is it a single P or a double P?
MYERS: It's just a single P.
MORRIS: No, you're wrong. See, already -- when we were on the conference call last night...
MYERS: That was the winning question?
MORRIS: ... I actually spelled it, but I didn't do double P or double G.
MYERS: Ah.
MORRIS: OK?
MYERS: And that was the winning -- that was the winning word?
MORRIS: The word was no trouble, though, for the spelling champ. I mean, this one was doing just fine.
Anurag Kashyap from Poway, California, this 13-year-old is the newest National Spelling Bee winner.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ANURAG KASHYAP, SPELLING BEE WINNER: Appoggiatura. Language of origin?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Latin to Italian.
KASHYAP: Appoggiatura. Appoggiatura. A-P-P-O-G-G-I-A-T-U-R-A?
(APPLAUSE)
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MORRIS: Yes, that's the correct spelling. Now, that's the first-place winner, and we always celebrate that. But the second place winner is no slouch either. And we've got him as our guest here in the next hour of CNN DAYBREAK.
MYERS: Oh, awesome.
MORRIS: And now here's what's all the news in the next half- hour.
With summer almost upon us, many of you will be grabbing the spatula for your backyard cookout, but don't have to grill -- doesn't have to make you or your guests ill. Dr. Sanjay Gupta with some healthy food for thought on grilling safely.
Plus, an aging prize fighter's one last shot. Russell Crowe goes one on one with Sibila Vargas, talking about his latest film, "Cinderella Man." Stay with us.
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Aired June 3, 2005 - 05:00 ET
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VALERIE MORRIS, CNN ANCHOR: It's Friday, June 3. A bulldozer chase in Arizona lands a teenager in the hospital. DAYBREAK starts right now.
Fifteen police cruisers chase a runaway bulldozer with a teenager at the controls.
Also ahead, Woodward and Bernstein tells us how they got scooped by "Vanity Fair."
And it's barbecue season. We're going to tell you how to have a safe and tasty cookout.
ANNOUNCER: From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.
MORRIS: Good morning, everyone. I'm Valerie Morris, in today for Carol Costello.
We're going to have more on the bulldozer chase story from Arizona in a moment.
Also ahead, an Alabama teenager goes missing in Aruba after celebrating her high school graduation. The very latest details on this desperate search coming up.
And imagine watching your house crumble right before your eyes. It happened in California, and we'll talk with residents of Laguna Beach who just want to go home.
But first, ""Now in the News."
An Arizona teen was shot by police after he allegedly stole a bulldozer and led them on a 15-mile slow speed chase. The 14-year-old is in critical condition this morning. Police say they shot the boy after he turned the bulldozer and drove toward them.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is in Singapore for a major conference on security and terrorism in Asia. The nuclear threat in North Korea is also expected to be the main topic of discussion among the more than 20 countries in attendance.
And here's a sight for those of you who miss winter. Up to six inches of snow has fallen across parts of central Montana, but it could be worse. Just three years ago, as many as eight feet accumulated in Montana in early June.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Oh. Valerie, hey, good morning.
MORRIS: Well, hello. Good morning. Nice to see you.
MYERS: Welcome to the morning show.
MORRIS: Thank you so much. I'm wondering if you made that Montana storm just for me since I'm a former Montana resident.
MYERS: Oh, is that right? I did not know that.
MORRIS: Great Falls, Montana.
MYERS: Yes? How long did you live there?
MORRIS: Six years.
MYERS: Is that five years too long, or was it good?
MORRIS: Actually, it was a very nice experience. But...
MYERS: Oh, good. Good.
MORRIS: ... the chill, still in my bones.
MYERS: Yes. And you know what? You get up in the mountains like that and the temperatures get very cold in the overnight hours. And the rain came in, it changed over to snow, and there was significant snow there yesterday. The storm really did move out of British Columbia and into Montana.
Talk to you in a second, Valerie.
(WEATHER REPORT)
MORRIS: Not a good thing. Those backups, they just mount.
MYERS: They do. And then they -- it's one after another after another.
MORRIS: Right. We'll check back with you a little later. Thanks, Chad.
MYERS: Fair enough.
MORRIS: There is still no sign of a missing Alabama teenage girl in Aruba. Natalee Holloway was on vacation with graduating classmates, but she didn't show up for a flight home Monday. Tiffany Bittner of CNN affiliate WBRC in Birmingham has the very latest.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
TIFFANY BITTNER, REPORTER, WBRC (voice-over): Natalee Holloway's uncle, Paul Reynolds, says local Aruba authorities are continuing in their search.
PAUL REYNOLDS, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S UNCLE: Yes, we've had a lot of assistance down here today. They've gotten the military involved, and they've been doing a search of the island. I mean, my understanding -- you know, I can't give it to you as a fact, but my understanding is they've expanded the search to the water.
BITTNER: Reynolds says the locals on the island have been more than helpful.
REYNOLDS: Been donating four-wheelers. And a lot of visitors and people that live here have donated their time. They've been out searching, passing out posters. It's just a tremendous outpouring of support.
BITTNER: Details are still few in the case. Holloway has been missing since Monday. Her family says she was last seen leaving a local bar with three men.
Meanwhile, Natalee's friends and family continue to gather at a local church to pray for her return.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And we want everybody, as many people as we can, to pray for Natalee. I talked to her mom today. She said could feel that everybody was praying for her.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hope. We're not doing anything, but we have the highest of hopes that we are going -- we're going to find her. We've got FBI involved, and hopefully things will move fast and we can -- we can bring this child home.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
MORRIS: Again, that report from Tiffany Bittner of WBRC in Birmingham.
The girl's mother has been in Aruba searching for her daughter.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, MOTHER: She was seen leaving Carlos and Charlie (ph) at approximately 1:30 a.m. Monday morning, and her -- she was here on a senior trip. And there were approximately -- I don't know, they could have been 20 to 40 of her classmates in Carlos and Charlie's (ph) periodically, but at least 10 of them saw her leave in a small four-door car. Not sure of the make, bluish-gray color, and there were three locals in the car with her.
Natalee, you can reach me on your cell phone. I have it, and it's set up for international use now. It's 205-447-0140. And I also have my cell phone, and it's set up for international use. So please call me, 205-999-3679. And I will stay here until I find you, Natalee.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
MORRIS: Natalee Holloway's family is offering a reward for her safe return.
And now news "Across America."
Police in Richmond, Virginia, captured a suspect in three murders that took place within 15 minutes of each other, but now they say none of the killings appears to be racially motivated. Police say David Bohler (ph) allegedly held a personal grudge against all three victims. He could be charged in all three murders as early as Monday.
Longtime Republican supporters have joined other civic leaders in calling for the resignation of Spokane, Washington, mayor, Jim West. It's been alleged he used his positions of trust over the years to develop sexual relations with boys. But West says he hasn't done anything wrong and won't step down. He has opposed gay rights legislation in Spokane but has admitted to having sex with young men.
"Con artists" and "predators," those are the words the prosecution and defense used to describe the principals in the Michael Jackson molestation trial. They're expected to finish up closing arguments and rebuttals today. The jury is then expected to begin deliberating.
Many of the 1,000 evacuees in Laguna Beach, California, have been allowed to return home. Their homes are now considered safe from the landslides that damaged nearly three dozen homes the day before. But as CNN's Sean Callebs reports, some people are still locked out, possibly forever.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Controlled chaos in the narrow streets of Bluebird Canyon in Laguna Beach. And for 74- year-old Albert Trevino, concern that the saying could be true, that you can't go home again.
ALBERT TREVINO, RESIDENT: I have asthma for my wife and diabetes and heart medicine in my home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Where's...
TREVINO: 1015 Madison Place.
CALLEBS: But just as Trevino fears, his neighborhood was hit hardest.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. Madison, nobody's allowed on Madison at all, whether it be for medication or not.
CALLEBS: We went with Trevino as close as he could get to his home, a neighbor's deck. Trevino's home is the one with the fireplace hanging on the edge of the cliff.
It all happened early Wednesday, as this landscape developer was answering e-mails.
TREVINO: And then I heard this shake, and the house cracking. And looked around, walked to the corner, looked down, and the earth just opened up in front of me. CALLEBS: On paper, Trevino was a millionaire yesterday before the slide. His home was worth at least $1.8 million. But Trevino says, like all other homeowners here, he cannot get insurance for devastating earth slides caused by nature.
(on camera): So is this a total loss?
TREVINO: Yes, for -- it's a total loss. And that's why you place your hopes that maybe five years, 10 years from now, there'll be some ingenious way to rebuild all of that land that has sloughed off.
CALLEBS (voice-over): Trevino built the first home in these hills more than 40 years ago, paying $750 down for the land. That's right, $750 for this view. And you guessed it, he wants to rebuild.
TREVINO: We don't have any -- you know, any great amounts of money. So I have to -- I can't afford to pay, you know, a couple million for a house.
CALLEBS: For the time being, Trevino, and his wife, Delores, gaze at their home on the front page of the newspaper and try to stay focused, at times doing little things, like buying a cell phone charge so they can talk with their 11 children. This is the family a couple of months ago in happier times, at their 50th wedding anniversary. Right now, it's the personal treasures they dearly want to recover, photos, birth certificates, and mementos from Trevino's service in both the Nixon and George W. Bush administrations, working for HUD.
Even though he risks losing everything, Trevino calls himself a lucky man.
(on camera): You know, how can you be so upbeat?
TREVINO: It's not being upbeat. It's just the realities are -- look at that view. I mean, look at this climate.
CALLEBS: An overwhelming number of the thousand or so residents forced to evacuate began streaming back home Thursday evening. But for the families like the Trevinos, whose homes were damaged or destroyed, it could be weeks or months before they go back home. Or, worst case scenario, never.
Sean Callebs, CNN, Laguna Beach, California.
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MORRIS: I have a follow-up for you now on the Georgia runaway bride-to-be story. Jennifer Wilbanks has plead -- has pleaded, rather, no contest to a felony charge of making false statements to police. SEN. ARLEN SPECTER (R), PENNSYLVANIA: part of the plea deal, Wilbanks has been sentenced to two years probation and 120 hours of community service.
You may recall, and how could any of us not recall, because there's been so much coverage on this, Wilbanks disappeared just before her April wedding. She surfaced days later in New Mexico, telling police in Georgia and her fiance that she'd been abducted. An audiotape of the conversation with her husband was released yesterday.
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JENNIFER WILBANKS, RUNAWAY BRIDE: (INAUDIBLE)
FIANCE: Are you sure you are not in Duluth?
WILBANKS: No, I'm not in Duluth.
FIANCE: Are you in Georgia?
WILBANKS: I don't know.
FIANCE: OK. That's OK, sweetie. That's OK. We're just trying to figure out how to come find you.
WILBANKS: (INAUDIBLE) they cut my hair.
FIANCE: They cut your hair?
WILBANKS: Uh-huh.
FIANCE: And that's all they did to you? Well, that's great.
WILBANKS: It was a man and a woman.
FIANCE: It was a man and a...
WILBANKS: It was a Spanish man and a Caucasian woman.
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MORRIS: Wilbanks was also ordered to continue mental health treatment and to pay the sheriff's office more than $2,500.
The city of Oakland, California, is trying a new way that's actually a century's old way of fighting the world's oldest profession. They're trying to shame people out of prostitution.
The city of 400,000 across the bay from San Francisco has started putting up billboards. And these billboards show pictures of men arrested for soliciting sex. Other signs invite prostitutes to quit by calling a help line.
What do you think, Chad?
MYERS: Well, that's our "Question of the Day." Do you think this is a good type of punishment, or is this a maybe medieval punishment? Effective deterrent or medieval punishment? E-mail us your answers at DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
We understand some of the billboards are already up. The first ones, though, have the pictures of the -- the -- I'll say...
MORRIS: Johns.
MYERS: ... the accused.
MORRIS: I thought it was generic Johns.
MYERS: It could -- but they're fuzzed out a little bit. So you can't really tell who they are. But as they go on and on, they're actually going to get these more in focus so people actually can tell who -- what these people look like and who they are.
MORRIS: OK. Interesting question. Interesting question.
MYERS: DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
MORRIS: All right. Thanks, Chad.
MYERS: You bet.
MORRIS: Still to come, Larry King talks to the dynamic duo of Woodward and Bernstein about the man who was Deep Throat. We'll take you beyond the sound bites.
And if you can't wait to fire up that grill and get cooking, make sure you at least wait until Dr. Gupta tells you how to do it safely. That's at 12 before the hour.
And he's been called the human version of Sea Biscuit. We're going to learn more about the real man behind this weekend's movie release about a depression-era prize fighter who just wouldn't give up.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Friday morning.
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MORRIS: Time now for our market report.
The international markets are in positive territory this morning. Japan's Nikkei closes up 20 points. Britain's FTSE 100 is trading up six points. And the German DAX is up nearly 11 points.
Your news, money, weather and sports. Right now it is 5:18. And here's what's all in the news this morning.
Israeli security sources confirm Syria has test-fired three scud missiles. "The New York Times" first reported the missiles were fired last Friday. Israel says one of them broke up over Turkey.
A big success. Maryland State police experimented with night vision binoculars to help catch people who don't buckle up after dark. They caught and fined more than 110 motorists in just a four-hour period last night.
In money, Dreamworks has been hit with a lawsuit over DVDs of the movie "Shrek II." Shareholders allege the company overestimated how many they'd sell, and that's a miscalculation for profits. Dreamworks calls the suit baseless. In culture, actress Denise Richards gave birth to a baby girl this week. "PEOPLE" magazine reports that estranged husband Charlie Sheen was in the delivery room for the birth of their daughter. Richards filed for divorce from Sheen three months ago.
In sports, the Miami Heat moved within one game of their first NBA finals with an 88-76 win over the Detroit Pistons. The Heat leads the series three games to two. Game six tips off tomorrow in Detroit.
MYERS: Yes. They're going to have to go back to Auburn Hills to get that game four. Detroit might make a little problem for that.
Good morning, Valerie. Good morning, everybody.
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MORRIS: Thanks, Chad.
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan says despite the billions of dollars spent in trying to combat AIDS, the effort is falling short.
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KOFI ANNAN, U.N. SECRETARY-GENERAL: It is now clear that the epidemic continues to outrun our efforts to contain it. If we are to reach the millennium development goal of reducing by 50 percent and beginning to reverse the spread of HIV-AIDS by 2015, then we must do much more. We must do much, much more.
We know what works. We know it's possible to break the cycle of infections. We know it's possible to halt the spread of the disease.
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MORRIS: Annan says the AIDS epidemic is accelerating on every continent. Annan also says that the fight against AIDS is starting to show promise, especially in places like Africa. But on a global scale, he says there were more new HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths last year than ever before.
Still to come this morning, think you can spell better than an eighth grader? Not this one. We're going to tell you what word made him a champ next.
You're watching DAYBREAK for Friday, June 3.
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MORRIS: Time now for our DAYBREAK "Eye Opener."
Now, take a look at this. This little guy seems to be enjoying his new digs a lot better than his old home. The sea otter pup, he was found on the beach near Tacoma, Washington.
It was illegally removed from the beach by a well-meaning couple who turned it over to the Tacoma Zoo. That was good. The zoo there said -- has said that they will take care of the three-week-old otter until a new home can be found.
It was quite a struggle to save this wayward sea lion in northern California. This one is the second sea lion in the last few months to make it nearly 20 miles inland, up the Petaluma River. It took a while, but he was safely captured and will eventually be returned to the water.
Now, here's something that you don't see every day, an orangutan named Gypsy with a knack for cleanliness. She even likes gardening in her area at the Tokyo Zoo.
And you never know, pretty soon she could be starring in one of those home makeover shows on TV, don't you think, Chad?
MYERS: Yes. I love that. Oh, come on. That's a classic.
MORRIS: I mean, stylish. Did you notice no gloves. No gardening gloves necessary.
MYERS: No, no. But she was washing her hands about 10 times.
MORRIS: I know.
MYERS: That looks like a Palmolive commercial waiting to happen. It keeps your hands nice and clean.
MORRIS: OK, Chad, I have a question for you.
MYERS: OK.
MORRIS: It's a spelling question.
MYERS: Yes. Yesterday, I spelled mug, M-U-G. And I used it in a sentence.
MORRIS: And it was we give good mugs here?
MYERS: Well, "Chad is about to give away a coffee mug," but yes.
MORRIS: OK. Spell appoggiatura.
MYERS: I...
MORRIS: I'm going to help you out a little bit.
MYERS: Use it in a sentence. There you go.
MORRIS: OK. It means a melodic tone. And the clock is ticking now.
MYERS: And it starts with what letter?
MORRIS: A.
MYERS: And the next one is P?
MORRIS: You got it.
MORRIS: Is it a single P or a double P?
MYERS: It's just a single P.
MORRIS: No, you're wrong. See, already -- when we were on the conference call last night...
MYERS: That was the winning question?
MORRIS: ... I actually spelled it, but I didn't do double P or double G.
MYERS: Ah.
MORRIS: OK?
MYERS: And that was the winning -- that was the winning word?
MORRIS: The word was no trouble, though, for the spelling champ. I mean, this one was doing just fine.
Anurag Kashyap from Poway, California, this 13-year-old is the newest National Spelling Bee winner.
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ANURAG KASHYAP, SPELLING BEE WINNER: Appoggiatura. Language of origin?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Latin to Italian.
KASHYAP: Appoggiatura. Appoggiatura. A-P-P-O-G-G-I-A-T-U-R-A?
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MORRIS: Yes, that's the correct spelling. Now, that's the first-place winner, and we always celebrate that. But the second place winner is no slouch either. And we've got him as our guest here in the next hour of CNN DAYBREAK.
MYERS: Oh, awesome.
MORRIS: And now here's what's all the news in the next half- hour.
With summer almost upon us, many of you will be grabbing the spatula for your backyard cookout, but don't have to grill -- doesn't have to make you or your guests ill. Dr. Sanjay Gupta with some healthy food for thought on grilling safely.
Plus, an aging prize fighter's one last shot. Russell Crowe goes one on one with Sibila Vargas, talking about his latest film, "Cinderella Man." Stay with us.
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