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Two Men Held in Teen's Disappearance in Aruba; Underground Bunker Discovered in Iraq

Aired June 05, 2005 - 17:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Is an island paradise becoming a crime scene? The search for a missing Alabama teen in Aruba leads to the detention of two suspects. We will have a live report on today's developments. The head of the CIA gets the cold shoulder from the White House. Why Porter Goss will have to wait for an invite when it comes to National Security Council meetings.
Plus, another rough day for the Midwest. We'll tell you where twisters could be touching down tonight.

Hello and welcome to CNN SUNDAY. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All that and more after a look at the headlines.

U.S. Marines uncover a massive underground insurgent hideout in central Iraq extending over an area equal to nearly nine football fields. The bunker holds a cache of weapons, ammunition and supplies. Twelve such bunkers have been found near Fallujah in the past four days. We'll more from Iraq later this hour.

Democratic Senator Joseph Biden says the U.S. should close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. And majority whip McDonald - Mc Connell (ph) tells CNN the Senate could hold hearings on activities at the center. Last week, the U.S. military admitted some intentional and inadvertent abuse of the Koran at Guantanamo. It also said Muslim inmates themselves tried to flush one copy of the Koran down a toilet.

A tennis teen wins his grand slam at the French open. Number four seed Rafael Nadar is king of the clay. The Spanish sensation beat Argentina's Marino Puerta (ph) in rousing play. The win earned Nadar a hand shake from front row fan King Juan Carlos of Spain.

We begin this hour in Aruba with new developments in the search for Natalee Holloway, a teenager who has been missing now for six days. Two suspects in custody headline the latest details. Less than two hours ago, police held a news conference. CNN's Karl Penhaul is there and joins us by video phone. Karl?

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: (INAUDIBLE) Fredricka, the frustrating piece of news to come out of this press conference is still that there's no sign or any clue as to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway. She, as you know, has been missing now for six days and nights. That will complete her week since she disappeared from a Carlos 'N Charlie's club where she left in the company of three men. The good news is though that earlier today, two men were arrested.

Now, a prosecutor at the press conference has told us that those two men are being charged. They're being charged with crimes connected to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, although the prosecutor didn't want to specify exactly what those charges were. Earlier in the day in an extensive search on a windswept eastern edge of the island, Dutch marines were in action there along with a group of police and a blood stained mattress was found.

Now, though, in the afternoon press conference, police have told us that that mattress has been ruled out of the investigation. The blood stains on that mattress were found to have contained animal blood, not human blood. Also, in the raids on the two suspects' homes this morning, three cars were seized and also, a number of possessions from the houses of those two men, but nothing belonging to Natalee. None of her belongings, none of her clothing was found in that place either.

Now, additionally in terms of the investigation, the police and prosecutors are very clear that this investigation is continuing, that the arrests today don't really put them off course or on course for anything else. The two men will be interrogated for a third of two days now and police have said is, they're trying to call in assistance for a FBI team of specialized divers. Those divers, police say, will be used in some of the more difficult shorelines of the island where some of the currents are strong. They will be called in to help with the search for clues about Natalee's whereabouts, Fredericka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Karl Penhaul in Aruba, thanks so much. The story now takes us to Natalee Holloway's hometown near Birmingham, Alabama, and that's where we find CNN's Rick Sanchez.

RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fred, tough situation here for a lot of these students. They have been coming here to this community church daily for a prayer vigil and you can only imagine how difficult it's been for them. They left as a group, like so many other high school students, on their graduation trips. There were about 140 of them. But suddenly on the very day when they were getting ready to come back on a Delta plane to come back, one of them was missing, just not there.

By talking to them, we hear in this community have been able to get a pretty good sense of the time line of what happened in those final hours. In fact, some of these students have actually shown me pictures of Natalee when she was in the club at Carlos 'N Charlie's dancing with one particular young man who has been called by police as you know now a person of interest.

It was with that young man that Natalee had befriended. She had gone with him that night. The club -- when they left the club sometime around 1:00 a.m. We are talking going from Sunday into Monday. It was about 1:00 a.m. that she left with him. He told police that he and several other young men dropped her back off at the Holiday Inn and police have questioned him several times. And, police now make arrests not of him or of the other two young men, but of two other people interestingly enough.

So who are those other two people as we were hearing in Karl Penhaul's report? This is where it becomes very confusing. They're two security guards who worked at a Allegra Hotel. Natalee was staying at the Holiday Inn. The Allegra was a hotel that was almost next door. So what happened when they dropped her off as they say they did and it does appear that police have confirmed that, sometime around 2:00 a.m. And then she may have come in contact with these other two young men. At this point, it is not known. This is one of the questions that obviously police are trying to figure out.

It has a lot of people here in this community town scratching their heads, as well, trying to figure out how this could have happened. But every person we talked to here and we should state this unequivocally, Fred, every single person that we've talked to says Natalee is responsible. She was a straight A student, an honor student. She's someone who had just in fact accepted a scholarship to go to the University of Alabama. We are going to be following it. Fred, back to you.

WHITFIELD: All right. The folks there holding out their prayers for her. All right. Rick Sanchez, thanks so much.

As the first director of national intelligence, John Negroponte is apparently consolidating his power with the subtlety of a master spook. The story of how the White House quietly demoted CIA Director Porter Goss just days after Negroponte was sworn in is laid out in the new issue of "Time" magazine. "Time" magazine correspondent Tim Burger is here to explain what's been going on behind closed doors. Hello, Tim.

TIM BURGER, TIME MAGAZINE: Hi, how are you doing?

WHITFIELD: I'm doing pretty good. All right. Well, before the appointments were made, it was said that this new national intelligence director would likely be the one in the White House at these daily meetings and no longer the CIA director. So this really doesn't come as much of a surprise, does it?

BURGER: In some ways it is not a surprise at all that once you had the new director of national intelligence, he would take over as the principle adviser. What happened, though, that may have surprised some people is that to take the step of going out of the way to say OK, the CIA director no longer will be the standing invite to the National Security Council definitely is of interest.

WHITFIELD: So it certainly has weakened in one sense the CIA director's role?

BURGER: There's no question about that. On the other hand, the role of the CIA is to have developed human intelligence and to analyze intelligence. So, one might argue that this gives Porter Goss a lot more time to go work on those facets of intelligence because, you know, the CIA has been found by many commissions and studies to need some work in those areas.

WHITFIELD: As you put it in your article, the CIA has been at the pinnacle of intelligence gathering. So now, with this reshuffling, involving the intelligence director now, the new intelligence director, does this mean that it's likely that this role is going to be a constant even after the Bush administration or do you suppose this really is a trial and error kind of an appointment?

BURGER: Well, it's the beginning for the director of national intelligence position. With another administration, unless there's a huge problem found with the new structure, one would expect them to keep it. I mean, the CIA director as we mentioned was the top intelligence person in the United States for about 60 years. It is after huge problems like 9/11 and Iraq that this was changed.

WHITFIELD: So if the national intelligence director appointment was supposed to bring some cohesion between all the intelligence agencies, is your feeling as you have talked with a number of people within these intelligence agencies that this will indeed help promote that or if anything, it will bring a greater divisiveness?

BURGER: I hate to say the jury is out but it really is because it will really depend on how Negroponte handles things, if he proves to be a good manager. He doesn't have certain powers that some people thought he should have to task the staff and employees of the other agencies. He does have budgeting power. Sorry, go ahead Fred.

WHITFIELD: Now, is he sort of considered an outsider by a number of people in the intelligence community?

BURGER: Well, it is his first time apparently in a direct intelligence role. But as a career diplomat and an ambassador, he's dealt a lot with the CIA because as we know, the CIA often, it tends to have stations in embassies, so he's dealt with intelligence a great deal. So although he's outside the intelligence system formally, he's got a great deal of experience and obviously the president has faith in him.

WHITFIELD: So what are the rumblings within the CIA perhaps if any about the fact that Porter Goss will no longer be a part of the day-to-day operations and if that feels like a snub on the part of the entire or affecting the entire agency of the CIA?

BURGER: Well, there's no way that people can't feel a little strange about it. The CIA director was having daily contact with the president, which is a heady thing, gives him a lot of influence potentially, but it also depends on how Negroponte treats the agency going forward. If he gives them what they need, shows them respect and how Porter Goss goes back to the agency and says, OK guys, let's get to work. I don't have to go to all these meetings now. I'm all yours. How do we fix the things we need to fix?

WHITFIELD: So the president has to invite from here on out. It's not necessarily going to be a case of him being able to invite himself even?

BURGER: Well, on the other hand, if Porter Goss as CIA director has a message he has to get to the president, this president will want to hear it. So, I'm sure that there are ways set up and, you know, for Porter Goss to make sure that that happens.

WHITFIELD: All right. Tim Burger of "Time" magazine, thanks so much. We'll be looking for that article. BURGER: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: Well stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

Well, just days after being convicted of killing an 18-year-old girl, the defendant in the case is a free man today. We'll explain why and what it has to do with jury instructions, statute of limitations and legal technicalities.

And more tornadoes on the way for the Midwest. A check of the nation's stormy forecast coming up. And still to come, Hollywood's invasion of the great white way.

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WHITFIELD: A wild and wooly weekend across many parts of the country. Violent weather was reported yesterday from Wisconsin to Texas and this funnel cloud was spotted near Marlo, Oklahoma. And this was the scene in one Kansas City neighborhood. Altogether about 30 twisters were sighted. That makes it the first official tornado swarm of the season. Let's check in with Jacqui Jeras and find out what else these folks can expect. Jacqui.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Severe weather again for today, but some of the areas that got it yesterday will have a quieter evening although in parts if you live across parts of Wisconsin, it was a rough night last night. Tonight, a rough night, as well. There you can see the watch boxes in place. It does include Wisconsin, much of lower Michigan and then down on into Indiana.

The two tornado watches you can see in Wisconsin and Michigan. The yellow boxes there are severe thunderstorm watches. Big line of severe, broken weather here across lower Michigan and into Indiana, extending on just to the south of the Indianapolis area. A couple of tornado warnings. These are radar indicated tornadoes. You can see them highlighted in red and the lower parts of Michigan, Tuscola (ph) and Huron Counties, moving northeast at 30 miles per hour.

And you can also see a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings across the central part of the state, damaging winds, large hail associated with those. Severe thunderstorm warning in Minnesota includes you in Duluth and then we also have a tornado warning right there for Iron, Price and Ashland Counties. Possible tornado right now near Park Falls. That's moving up to the northeast, still kind of right into the three county area pushing up to the northeast pretty quickly, about 40 miles per hour.

And then we want to take one more trip on down to the south into Indiana. A line of severe thunderstorms just to the west of the Indianapolis area. There you see Indianapolis off to your west. The storms are moving east/northeast. So Indianapolis, you're going to get hit with some strong, possibly severe thunderstorms within the next half an hour or so. Isolated severe storms will be possible this afternoon and into the evening hours again into Oklahoma. But Kansas looking a lot better as well as Nebraska and northern parts of Missouri. Fredericka?

WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks a lot Jacqui.

A glitch in the law sets a convicted killer free and leaves the victim's family confused and enraged. Forty-three year-old Mark Ferrara (ph) was accused of using a hammer to beat an 18-year-old girl to death in 1983. CNN's Alina Cho explains the loophole that allowed Ferrara to walk.

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ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mark Ferrara is a convicted killer. A jury on Thursday found him guilty in the 23-year- old beating death of the 18-year old Rosy Lorincz, yet today, Ferrara is a free man. Kathy Lorincz is Rosy's sister.

KATHY LORINCZ, VICTIM'S SISTER: He got a slap on the wrist. We got a slap in the face.

CHO: Back in 1982, when the crime was committed, there was a five-year statute of limitations on manslaughter charges. It has since been overturned. Ferrara was charged with murder but the jury ultimately convicted him of aggravated manslaughter. The jurors were not told he could go free even with a guilty verdict. That's because jurors in New Jersey are not allowed to be told about potential sentences before they decide guilty or not. That law is still in effect today. Julie Golden, Rosy Lorincz's other sister, believes the jury would have found Ferrara guilty of murder, which does not have a statute of limitations, had they known he could walk free on the lesser charge because it was subject to such a statute.

JULIE GOLDEN, SISTER OF VICTIM: You know, when you go into court and you take the stand, they tell you to put your hand on the bible and tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Well, I feel like they should have told the jurors.

CHO: From the time of her disappearance in 1982 until the killer's sister came forward 20 years later, Rosy Lorincz was listed as a missing person. Phyllis Anne Ferrara said her brother forced her to help him dispose of Rosy's body in the Hudson River. She says she didn't come forward earlier because she didn't feel safe.

PHYLLIS ANN FERRARA, SISTER OF CONVICTED KILLER: There's no closure. There's no closure. They told me he'd go to jail for a long time and he's walking free after what he did to her.

CHO: Repeated attempts to reach Mark Ferrara have been unsuccessful, although at trial he continued to maintain his innocence. But for the Lorincz family, their search for closure continues.

LORINCZ: My sister's still not going to rest in peace. Because we feel that we didn't get any justice for her. And the only -- the only thing we could think of is when we left the courtroom is going to her grave and apologizing to her, that we tried.

CHO: Alina Cho, CNN, North Bergen, New Jersey.

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WHITFIELD: Remembering one of America's most decorated soldiers.

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BRIG GEN. JOHN HOWARD, U.S. ARMY (RET): He was utterly fearless. And as a result, many of the junior officers and noncommissioned officers did everything they could to emulate him.

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WHITFIELD: Why Colonel David Hackworth was celebrated by some, but criticized by others. It is a story you don't want to miss.

Plus, getting big cities to go green, what can you make - what, rather, can you do to really make a difference? Find out when CNN SUNDAY returns.

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WHITFIELD: Now for a quick look at some of the stories we'll be covering in the week ahead. Monday, a decision is expected in a trial challenging the results of Washington State's 2004 gubernatorial election. At issue, what to do with illegal votes, including those cast by some felons who are banned from voting under state law. Democrat Christine Gregoire (ph) won the race by only 129 votes.

Also Monday, jurors in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial resume deliberations. The jury got the case Friday after a day and a half of closing arguments. The pop star will stay at his Neverland ranch as the jury weighs his fate. The judge says he'll allow an audio feed from the courtroom so that news organizations might broadcast the reading of the verdict when it comes.

On Tuesday, the first in a series of public hearings on the military's proposed down sizing of bases around the country. The first hearings take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, and St. Louis, Missouri. The government says the closing could save it nearly $49 billion over 20 years.

Well, eight purple hearts, 10 silver stars, two distinguished service crosses, all awarded to one man. Colonel David Hackworth, one of America's most decorated soldiers. Hackworth died last month from cancer at the age of 74. Tuesday, he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. CNN's Brian Todd has more on this consummate military leader who wasn't afraid to take on anyone, not even the Pentagon.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A fitting final tribute. Full military honors for one of America's most decorated warriors, described by a fellow soldier as the quintessential combat commander. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was a bona fide war hero.

TODD: Colonel David Hackworth, a born adventurer who lied about his age to enlist in the Army in his mid teens. Patrolled still unsettled borders in post World War II Europe. And in Korea, won a battlefield commission while barely in his 20s, earning his first serious commendations. But it was in Vietnam where his prowess became legend. General John Howard served under Hackworth in the deadly central highlands.

BRIG GEN. JOHN HOWARD, U.S. ARMY (RET): He was utterly fearless. And as a result, many of the junior officers and noncommissioned officers did everything they could to emulate him.

TODD: By the end of his final tour in Vietnam, Hackworth had accumulated two distinguished service crosses, 10 silver stars, eight bronze stars, eight purple hearts, a reputation for thinking like the enemy, consistently beating him and pushing the bounds of military convention.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I ran for my soldiers a house of ill repute because my doctor told me it was the best way to control VD.

TODD: But that maverick disposition would also lead to disillusionment. In a 1971 network interview, Hackworth said Vietnam could not be won and the U.S. should get out. Incensed at such comments from a serving officer, the Pentagon forced him to retire. Hackworth gave up his medals in protest and went into self imposed exile in Australia. He eventually got the medals back but later, as a journalist, became an unyielding critic of military leadership. Sparing nothing in an interview with CNN, as the first Gulf war was under way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's really a bitch to cover because the military here has so restricted the press. It's not like Korea or Vietnam. The press is really restricted to staying around international hotels and sucking on each other like a lot of vultures. It is hard to get the truth.

TODD: Even as he was losing his final battle with cancer, Hackworth and the Pentagon never completely reconciled. In a CNN interview last year, he questioned accountability in the Abu Ghraib scandal.

You can have only one captain of the ship. You can't have two. And if you and I were running that prison, I said, look, buddy. Anderson, are you running it or I'm running?

TODD: To the end, an emotional divide in the military community between those that view Hackworth as a self promoter and unshakable allies like his widow.

EILHYS ENGLAND-HACKWORTH, WIDOW: He glowed with honesty and with love for his troops. I mean, all he cared about was making sure that American troopers, kids out at the tip of the spear, received the right training, leadership and equipment. TODD: David Hackworth's farewell fitting for another reason, hundreds of mourners at his graveside, not one member of the top brass among them. Brian Todd, CNN, Arlington, Virginia.

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WHITFIELD: A massive insurgents' bunker is found in Iraq and new details about Saddam Hussein's impending trial are revealed. The latest developments from Iraq straight ahead.

Plus, could the Bush administration change its strategy for dealing with North Korea? We'll have a live report from Crawford, Texas, when CNN LIVE SUNDAY continues.

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WHITFIELD: An update of stories making news now. Authorities in Aruba have charged two men in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager. They were arrested this morning, but officials won't reveal the specific charges. Police say they haven't given up hope that 18-year-old Natalee Holloway will be found alive.

A top Democrat says the Senate probably will confirm John Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador. Democrats have been trying to force the White House to turn over classified documents concerning Bolton before any vote is taken but today, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Joseph Biden, acknowledged that he expects Bolton to win confirmation anyway.

U.S. Marines on patrol west of Baghdad noticed a solitary building by an old rock quarry in the desert. Inside was an electric freezer. When they moved the freezer, they made one of the most astonishing discoveries thus far in the war, they say. CNN's Jennifer Eccleston has the details.

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JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As part of a continuing anti-insurgency operation in Anbar province, the center of the Sunni Arab resistance, American Marines and Iraqi soldiers uncovered an elaborate series of underground bunkers with large stores of heavy weapons, ammunitions and supplies. It was located not far from the troubled town of Fallujah. And a bunker was found on Thursday. It was one of a dozen weapon caches uncovered in the area in recent days.

There were no insurgents in the compound, but it does appear to have been recently used as there was fresh food in a makeshift kitchen and it also had furnished living quarters. It had a shower and it also had air conditioning. Now, the Marine spokesman said the bunkers were built into an old rock quarry and totaled about roughly half a million square feet making it, according to the spokesman, one of the largest underground insurgent hideouts to be discovered this year, or if not during the entire war.

Now, the spokesman also today for Iraq's prime minister said the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will face 12 documented cases against him when he comes to court. But there are likely to be more than 500 cases against him. Of course, as you know, Saddam Hussein heard seven charges against him during a July 2004 court appearance. He is facing a litany of accusations from his more than two decades of power, including the 1988 chemical attack on the Kurdish village of Fallaja (ph), the repression of the 1991 Shiite rebellion and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The prime minister's spokesman also today said that he believed the trial could begin within two months. Jennifer Eccleston, CNN, Baghdad.

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WHITFIELD: The United States may ask the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against North Korea. Officials say the Bush administration is weighing the option and a decision is likely within the next few weeks. CNN's Elaine Quijano is at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas with more on that. Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello to you Fredricka. That word from a senior U.S. defense official and the word was that the Bush administration could make a decision within the next few weeks about whether they should refer the North Koreans to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

Now just hours after that, though, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice walked that statement back a bit telling CNN this afternoon, quote, I think that the idea that within weeks we're going to decide one way or another is forward leaning. And she added, we still believe there is life in the sixth-party talks. Now, at the same time, she reiterated that all options, including referral to the Security Council are on the table. That, in fact is the same position articulated by President Bush himself during a news conference at the rose garden back on Tuesday of last week.

Now, the president was asked specifically about the U.S.'s approach in handling North Korea, an approach that's counting on North Korea's neighbors primarily to apply pressure on Pyongyang to return to those talks and he said at that time he believed that the U.S. still had, quote, a ways to go, end quote, in using the diplomatic approach with North Korea.

Now, the White House over the past month has continually tried to send a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that it believes North Korea should return to the talks, that the only way to move forward is within that six-party framework. Those talks of course involve not only North Korea, South Korea, as well, also, Japan, China, Russia and the United States. But there's been no word of any movement. In fact, it was a year ago that the North Koreans last sat down for those negotiations.

Now, looking ahead as for what lies ahead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld later this week will be meeting with Chinese officials in the region, and President Bush himself will be sitting down with South Korea's president in Washington. Fredericka?

WHITFIELD: All right. Elaine Quijano in Crawford, thanks so much.

Checking other headlines around the world now, an eight-mile tunnel connecting France and Italy will remain closed for no more than a year following a fiery crash that killed two people. Italian authorities say it was caused by a collision between two trucks, including one carrying automobile tires. Officials say a criminal probe is now under way.

In Havana, Cuban leader Fidel Castro is among those calling for the extradition of a former CIA operative to Venezuela. At a gathering billed as an anti-terrorism conference, Latin American officials say the Cuban exile who is now 77, is the prime suspect in the 1976 bombing of a jet near Barbados that killed 73 people. The U.S. will hold an immigration hearing for the man on June 13th.

And in south Lebanon, Hezbollah is heavily favored in today's round two of national elections. Voting will take place in other parts of the country over the next two Sundays.

While Lebanon decides whether to support a Syrian-backed government, Syria itself is said to be undergoing political change. Free local elections, a market economy, and reform are all on the table. But as CNN senior international correspondent Brent Sadler explains, it probably won't be enough to ease U.S. pressure.

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BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Its country faces a relentless barrage of American condemnations. But Syrian President Bashar Assad is expected to offer renewed hopes for change, though not the kind of change the United States demands, specifically, aboard (ph) a crack down to stop insurgents using Syria as a base to plan and facilitate attacks on Iraq, halting support for what the U.S. calls anti-Israeli terror groups. Lebanon's Hezbollah as well as Palestinian militants, Islamic jihad and Hamas. This Syria-based American academic, who writes on the Internet, explained why Syria's president won't deliver what the U.S. wants.

JOSHUA LANDIS, SYRIACOMMENT,COM: To turn into a democracy, to stop the border, to give up the struggle with Israel, to stop supporting Hezbollah, he can't do those things. The whole regime and the logic of the regime will implode.

SADLER: Instand, Assad it's widely reported, may play a new tune, paving the way, it's hoped, for a package of political and economic reforms.

DAHI HASSAN, ARAB NEWS: There are a lot of mistakes, definitely, a lot of mistakes here and there and a lot of weaknesses here and there. And I think they're going to address them.

SADLER: Admitting mistakes, rectifying them is something the Syrian president has recently done in neighboring Lebanon with surprising speed, ending a decade's long military presence after international pressure. If Syria's leaders expected any U.S. reward for pulling troops from Lebanon, they were disappointed. If anything, since that withdrawal, there's been a deepening rift between the two nations. But Syria say Congress organizers is portrayed negatively because America never credits them with anything positive.

BOUTHAINA SHAABAN, BAATH PARTY CONGRESS: Syria is expected to do reforms as if we have not started. I can tell you that this is our daily business, but not as a response to U.S. pressure.

SADLER: If there's no give and take on the U.S. side, says this analyst, there's little incentive for President Bashar al Assad to play ball on big, U.S. security issues.

LANDIS: Bashar's refrain has been countries are not charitable organizations. You give us something and these problems can be resolved. So it's a test of wills.

SADLER: And a test of patience for many Syrians, yearning for a new program of progress and prosperity inside this long enduring Baath party state. Brent Sadler, CNN, Beirut.

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WHITFIELD: Helping the world's urban jungles go green. Find out why San Francisco played host to mayors from around the world this week. Plus this.

From the Hollywood hills to the great white way. Why fans of film and television need to head to Broadway to see their favorite stars.

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WHITFIELD: All right. Just over 15 minutes from now, Carol Lin takes over. What you got on tap?

CAROL LIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we're following up on the Aruba search for this high school girl. I'm going to be talking to an eyewitness who actually saw the police go in and arrest these two men. She's going to tell me what she saw and what this may all mean.

Also at 10:00 tonight, we're going to be taking your e-mail questions on the Michael Jackson trial. We've got our regular rap sheet section with two very noted attorneys. One a prosecutor, one a defense attorney. They can explain some of the nature of the case and also, I'm sure we're going to get some pretty spicy e-mails about whether people think he's guilty or innocent.

WHITFIELD: We will indeed. All right. We'll be watching.

LIN: Thanks.

WHITFIELD: Thanks a lot Carol.

The United Nations world environment day conference is in its final day in San Francisco. It's a first time the annual event has been hosted in the U.S. This year, mayors from around the world have been given an aggressive agenda to make their cities green. Those goals include greater use of renewable energy, reduced green house gases, reduced toxic waste, more recycling programs and improved public transportation.

Well, talking is one thing. Doing is something else. Here to explain more about turning words into action is Dan Roth, who's co- chair of the youth team of U.S. Partnerships and Van Jones, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human rights. Good to see both of you.

DAN ROTH, U.S. PARTNERSHIP: Good to see you.

Good to see you.

WHITFIELD: All right. Dan, let me begin with you. What has been most impressive about this conference?

ROTH: It's been amazing how many young people and people of all generations have come together in San Francisco to see the green cities accords being developed and signed by mayors from around the world.

WHITFIELD: And so, Van, in your opinion, do you feel like it's fairly encouraging that more and more cities are on board or is this really the tip of the iceberg in terms of trying to bring some resolution to making more cities green?

VAN JONES, ELLA BAKER CTR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Well, I mean, first of all, this is an absolutely historic event. We have never had this many mayors talking about the concept of green cities so one of the most important things I think that's happening is that you have 68 mayors who are leaving here not only with a to-do list but with a network of other mayors they're going to be able to interact with and support. And I think when you have 68 mayors who can hold each other accountable, help each other, you're going to have more results, but also you had an incredible number of young people who were brought here by the partnership to influence that process, who interacted to engage and we also had a number of grassroots organizations that my organization helped to bring forward and so it was a very dynamic process and I think this conversation is well under way now.

WHITFIELD: This conference was really an opportunity for San Francisco and other bay area cities to kind of showcase what they're doing right. Did anything novel or particularly interesting stand out for you, Van?

JONES: Well, I think so. I mean, one of the things that you have to give credit to our Mayor Gavin Newsome. He's been out on the forefront trying to bring solar energy, recycling to San Francisco and to make sure that local residents are given jobs in these industries. One of the things that we are talking about a green city and a green city agenda. That's new technologies. It's new services. It's new industries, that means new jobs. Our organization in particular wants to make sure that those new jobs go to the people who most need them, at risk youth, formerly incarcerated people. Let's make sure this new green wave lifts all boats.

WHITFIELD: And Dan, when they talk about green jobs, green employment, what exactly do we mean?

ROTH: Well, these are jobs that not only provide for a livelihood for a family and provide financial security, but these are jobs that empower people to engage them in the community and to really enhance the environmental and the health of their communities. It's not just about economic security. It is beyond economic security and to really helping create health and well being in our communities through the environment and through services.

WHITFIELD: And so Dan, is it costly for cities to go green? Because if not, then it sure seems like a lot more cities would be doing it.

ROTH: Well, as cities are moving toward this idea of a green city, they're beginning to take a very long range plan and looking at how they can develop the health and the well being of their cities for the future and the many generations to come and when you look at that perspective, this is absolutely the most cost effective strategy that you can take.

WHITFIELD: And so, Van, something that made this conference rather user friendly is that with each day, came a theme like flower power or a city on the move. So what exactly happened on these particular days?

JONES: Well, I mean, it was not your ordinary sort of United Nations kind of gab fest where you have people pontificating from the stage. These mayors sat down around small tables every morning. They talked about very practical issues. If we close the incinerators, what's going to happen to the workers? What companies can I use that I can really rely on to bring solar power? They got down to the nitty- gritty and then they spent time with the community, learning from the community people and in that regard, I think it was very unusual. We expect real action. We expect these mayors to follow up on their commitment and I believe based on what I saw they're willing to do so.

WHITFIELD: So both of you felt pretty encouraged about what took place over the last few days?

ROTH: Very. This was one of the most exciting adventures that a young person my age really could be part of and I look forward to working with the Ella Baker Center within the U.S. Partnership in this U.N. decade of education for sustainable development in 2005 to 2014.

WHITFIELD: All right. Dan Roth, co-chair of the youth sector team and Van Jones, executive director of the Ella Jackson Center for Human Rights. Thanks to both of you gentlemen for joining us.

ROTH: Thank you.

JONES: Thank you for your interest in this (INAUDIBLE).

WHITFIELD: Thank you. Well, it's the summer of big name stars on Broadway. Up next, why the great white way is going Hollywood.

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WHITFIELD: Other stories across America this weekend, angler Corky Taylor has bragging rights to a South Carolina state record because this one didn't get away. The blue marlin tipped the scales at, get this, 881.8 pounds. That beat the previous state record set in 1993 by 130 pounds. Out west, two adventurous gals from Alberta, Canada are slowly making their way south to Wyoming by mule. Their destination is the annual mule festival in Ralston (ph). They set out on April 18th and plan to cover the 850 miles by June 12th.

And how many paper loops does it take to set a world record? A lot. Volunteers in Franklin, Virginia linked up 54 miles of loops to make the longest paper chain. The rules required making the entire thing in 24 hours, of course. They beat the previous record by more than two miles.

Broadway's biggest stars are gathering for this year's Tony awards. The nationally televised ceremony begins at 8:00 Eastern at New York's Radio City Music Hall. While the musical comedy "Spam a Lot" is tonight's front runner, CNN's Karyn Bryant reports that Broadway theater goers have a wide change of choices this season.

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KARYN BRYANT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The sweet, the rotten, little women, angry men. New York's theater district, three dozen shows crammed into 11 city blocks. Broadway, baby! If you like plays, you say? Let's start with some classics. Denzel is doing Julius Caesar, yeah, Shakespeare is here. So is Tennessee Williams times two.

HUGH JACKMAN: The audience seems to be laughing. I think they're quite relieved to discover that this is not a heavy, heavy, heavy classic thing.

BRYANT: Christian Slater fronts "The Glass Menagerie" with Jessica Lange. And "A Streetcar Named Desire" has got Natasha Richardson this go round.

NATASHA RICHARDSON, "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE": It's an extraordinary play. One of the great plays ever written.

BRYANT: "Glen Garry, Glen Ross" is back, so is "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" with Kathleen Turner. Need new drama in your life? Theater critic Adam Feldman has some picks.

ADAM FELDMAN, THEATER CRITIC: I would say two plays. "Doubt" and "The Pillow Man." Very different shows, both about child abuse but in a different way.

BRYANT: Familiar stories which began on Broadway are being reinvented. "On Golden Pond" is one.

FELDMAN: The twist is that it has an all-black cast.

BRYANT: "Steel Magnolias" is another. With eight live shows a week, Christine Ebersol (ph) is clocking a lot of time at the crossroads of the world.

We want to talk musicals now, big shows, the choice is overwhelming. We need guidance. Help, Christine! There are some great long running shows like "Chicago." You can't go wrong with that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can't go wrong with that show. (INAUDIBLE) running for a long time.

BRYANT: And "La Cage."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's a fantastic show and now Robert Goulet (ph) is in it.

BRYANT: Bob Goulet.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Robert Goulet, younger than springtime.

FELDMAN: We had 11 new book musicals open on Broadway this year. That' more than we've had actually in almost 20 years.

BRYANT: And a few of those, some spun from films, are already summer must sees. There's "Sweet Charity" starring Christina Applegate or "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," along with the hands down hottest show in town --

FELDMAN: "Spamalot" is new this year. It's been a huge success and sold out so if you can get tickets for it, good luck.

BRYANT: When you have a night off, what show do you want to go see?

FELDMAN: From the newer crop of musicals, "Spamalot" or "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" are both old fashioned good Broadway musicals.

BRYANT: Karyn Bryant, CNN, New York.

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WHITFIELD: Well, when it comes to airline security, there's always room for improvement. Up next, we have got details about a confidential new report that looked at what needs to change at the nation's airports.

Plus, we'll go back live to Aruba for the latest on the search for a missing Alabama teen.

I'm Fredericka Whitfield. Carol Lin is up next.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Is an island paradise becoming a crime scene? The search for a missing Alabama teen in Aruba leads to the detention of two suspects. We will have a live report on today's developments. The head of the CIA gets the cold shoulder from the White House. Why Porter Goss will have to wait for an invite when it comes to National Security Council meetings.
Plus, another rough day for the Midwest. We'll tell you where twisters could be touching down tonight.

Hello and welcome to CNN SUNDAY. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All that and more after a look at the headlines.

U.S. Marines uncover a massive underground insurgent hideout in central Iraq extending over an area equal to nearly nine football fields. The bunker holds a cache of weapons, ammunition and supplies. Twelve such bunkers have been found near Fallujah in the past four days. We'll more from Iraq later this hour.

Democratic Senator Joseph Biden says the U.S. should close the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay Cuba. And majority whip McDonald - Mc Connell (ph) tells CNN the Senate could hold hearings on activities at the center. Last week, the U.S. military admitted some intentional and inadvertent abuse of the Koran at Guantanamo. It also said Muslim inmates themselves tried to flush one copy of the Koran down a toilet.

A tennis teen wins his grand slam at the French open. Number four seed Rafael Nadar is king of the clay. The Spanish sensation beat Argentina's Marino Puerta (ph) in rousing play. The win earned Nadar a hand shake from front row fan King Juan Carlos of Spain.

We begin this hour in Aruba with new developments in the search for Natalee Holloway, a teenager who has been missing now for six days. Two suspects in custody headline the latest details. Less than two hours ago, police held a news conference. CNN's Karl Penhaul is there and joins us by video phone. Karl?

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: (INAUDIBLE) Fredricka, the frustrating piece of news to come out of this press conference is still that there's no sign or any clue as to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway. She, as you know, has been missing now for six days and nights. That will complete her week since she disappeared from a Carlos 'N Charlie's club where she left in the company of three men. The good news is though that earlier today, two men were arrested.

Now, a prosecutor at the press conference has told us that those two men are being charged. They're being charged with crimes connected to the disappearance of Natalee Holloway, although the prosecutor didn't want to specify exactly what those charges were. Earlier in the day in an extensive search on a windswept eastern edge of the island, Dutch marines were in action there along with a group of police and a blood stained mattress was found.

Now, though, in the afternoon press conference, police have told us that that mattress has been ruled out of the investigation. The blood stains on that mattress were found to have contained animal blood, not human blood. Also, in the raids on the two suspects' homes this morning, three cars were seized and also, a number of possessions from the houses of those two men, but nothing belonging to Natalee. None of her belongings, none of her clothing was found in that place either.

Now, additionally in terms of the investigation, the police and prosecutors are very clear that this investigation is continuing, that the arrests today don't really put them off course or on course for anything else. The two men will be interrogated for a third of two days now and police have said is, they're trying to call in assistance for a FBI team of specialized divers. Those divers, police say, will be used in some of the more difficult shorelines of the island where some of the currents are strong. They will be called in to help with the search for clues about Natalee's whereabouts, Fredericka.

WHITFIELD: All right. Karl Penhaul in Aruba, thanks so much. The story now takes us to Natalee Holloway's hometown near Birmingham, Alabama, and that's where we find CNN's Rick Sanchez.

RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fred, tough situation here for a lot of these students. They have been coming here to this community church daily for a prayer vigil and you can only imagine how difficult it's been for them. They left as a group, like so many other high school students, on their graduation trips. There were about 140 of them. But suddenly on the very day when they were getting ready to come back on a Delta plane to come back, one of them was missing, just not there.

By talking to them, we hear in this community have been able to get a pretty good sense of the time line of what happened in those final hours. In fact, some of these students have actually shown me pictures of Natalee when she was in the club at Carlos 'N Charlie's dancing with one particular young man who has been called by police as you know now a person of interest.

It was with that young man that Natalee had befriended. She had gone with him that night. The club -- when they left the club sometime around 1:00 a.m. We are talking going from Sunday into Monday. It was about 1:00 a.m. that she left with him. He told police that he and several other young men dropped her back off at the Holiday Inn and police have questioned him several times. And, police now make arrests not of him or of the other two young men, but of two other people interestingly enough.

So who are those other two people as we were hearing in Karl Penhaul's report? This is where it becomes very confusing. They're two security guards who worked at a Allegra Hotel. Natalee was staying at the Holiday Inn. The Allegra was a hotel that was almost next door. So what happened when they dropped her off as they say they did and it does appear that police have confirmed that, sometime around 2:00 a.m. And then she may have come in contact with these other two young men. At this point, it is not known. This is one of the questions that obviously police are trying to figure out.

It has a lot of people here in this community town scratching their heads, as well, trying to figure out how this could have happened. But every person we talked to here and we should state this unequivocally, Fred, every single person that we've talked to says Natalee is responsible. She was a straight A student, an honor student. She's someone who had just in fact accepted a scholarship to go to the University of Alabama. We are going to be following it. Fred, back to you.

WHITFIELD: All right. The folks there holding out their prayers for her. All right. Rick Sanchez, thanks so much.

As the first director of national intelligence, John Negroponte is apparently consolidating his power with the subtlety of a master spook. The story of how the White House quietly demoted CIA Director Porter Goss just days after Negroponte was sworn in is laid out in the new issue of "Time" magazine. "Time" magazine correspondent Tim Burger is here to explain what's been going on behind closed doors. Hello, Tim.

TIM BURGER, TIME MAGAZINE: Hi, how are you doing?

WHITFIELD: I'm doing pretty good. All right. Well, before the appointments were made, it was said that this new national intelligence director would likely be the one in the White House at these daily meetings and no longer the CIA director. So this really doesn't come as much of a surprise, does it?

BURGER: In some ways it is not a surprise at all that once you had the new director of national intelligence, he would take over as the principle adviser. What happened, though, that may have surprised some people is that to take the step of going out of the way to say OK, the CIA director no longer will be the standing invite to the National Security Council definitely is of interest.

WHITFIELD: So it certainly has weakened in one sense the CIA director's role?

BURGER: There's no question about that. On the other hand, the role of the CIA is to have developed human intelligence and to analyze intelligence. So, one might argue that this gives Porter Goss a lot more time to go work on those facets of intelligence because, you know, the CIA has been found by many commissions and studies to need some work in those areas.

WHITFIELD: As you put it in your article, the CIA has been at the pinnacle of intelligence gathering. So now, with this reshuffling, involving the intelligence director now, the new intelligence director, does this mean that it's likely that this role is going to be a constant even after the Bush administration or do you suppose this really is a trial and error kind of an appointment?

BURGER: Well, it's the beginning for the director of national intelligence position. With another administration, unless there's a huge problem found with the new structure, one would expect them to keep it. I mean, the CIA director as we mentioned was the top intelligence person in the United States for about 60 years. It is after huge problems like 9/11 and Iraq that this was changed.

WHITFIELD: So if the national intelligence director appointment was supposed to bring some cohesion between all the intelligence agencies, is your feeling as you have talked with a number of people within these intelligence agencies that this will indeed help promote that or if anything, it will bring a greater divisiveness?

BURGER: I hate to say the jury is out but it really is because it will really depend on how Negroponte handles things, if he proves to be a good manager. He doesn't have certain powers that some people thought he should have to task the staff and employees of the other agencies. He does have budgeting power. Sorry, go ahead Fred.

WHITFIELD: Now, is he sort of considered an outsider by a number of people in the intelligence community?

BURGER: Well, it is his first time apparently in a direct intelligence role. But as a career diplomat and an ambassador, he's dealt a lot with the CIA because as we know, the CIA often, it tends to have stations in embassies, so he's dealt with intelligence a great deal. So although he's outside the intelligence system formally, he's got a great deal of experience and obviously the president has faith in him.

WHITFIELD: So what are the rumblings within the CIA perhaps if any about the fact that Porter Goss will no longer be a part of the day-to-day operations and if that feels like a snub on the part of the entire or affecting the entire agency of the CIA?

BURGER: Well, there's no way that people can't feel a little strange about it. The CIA director was having daily contact with the president, which is a heady thing, gives him a lot of influence potentially, but it also depends on how Negroponte treats the agency going forward. If he gives them what they need, shows them respect and how Porter Goss goes back to the agency and says, OK guys, let's get to work. I don't have to go to all these meetings now. I'm all yours. How do we fix the things we need to fix?

WHITFIELD: So the president has to invite from here on out. It's not necessarily going to be a case of him being able to invite himself even?

BURGER: Well, on the other hand, if Porter Goss as CIA director has a message he has to get to the president, this president will want to hear it. So, I'm sure that there are ways set up and, you know, for Porter Goss to make sure that that happens.

WHITFIELD: All right. Tim Burger of "Time" magazine, thanks so much. We'll be looking for that article. BURGER: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: Well stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

Well, just days after being convicted of killing an 18-year-old girl, the defendant in the case is a free man today. We'll explain why and what it has to do with jury instructions, statute of limitations and legal technicalities.

And more tornadoes on the way for the Midwest. A check of the nation's stormy forecast coming up. And still to come, Hollywood's invasion of the great white way.

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WHITFIELD: A wild and wooly weekend across many parts of the country. Violent weather was reported yesterday from Wisconsin to Texas and this funnel cloud was spotted near Marlo, Oklahoma. And this was the scene in one Kansas City neighborhood. Altogether about 30 twisters were sighted. That makes it the first official tornado swarm of the season. Let's check in with Jacqui Jeras and find out what else these folks can expect. Jacqui.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Severe weather again for today, but some of the areas that got it yesterday will have a quieter evening although in parts if you live across parts of Wisconsin, it was a rough night last night. Tonight, a rough night, as well. There you can see the watch boxes in place. It does include Wisconsin, much of lower Michigan and then down on into Indiana.

The two tornado watches you can see in Wisconsin and Michigan. The yellow boxes there are severe thunderstorm watches. Big line of severe, broken weather here across lower Michigan and into Indiana, extending on just to the south of the Indianapolis area. A couple of tornado warnings. These are radar indicated tornadoes. You can see them highlighted in red and the lower parts of Michigan, Tuscola (ph) and Huron Counties, moving northeast at 30 miles per hour.

And you can also see a couple of severe thunderstorm warnings across the central part of the state, damaging winds, large hail associated with those. Severe thunderstorm warning in Minnesota includes you in Duluth and then we also have a tornado warning right there for Iron, Price and Ashland Counties. Possible tornado right now near Park Falls. That's moving up to the northeast, still kind of right into the three county area pushing up to the northeast pretty quickly, about 40 miles per hour.

And then we want to take one more trip on down to the south into Indiana. A line of severe thunderstorms just to the west of the Indianapolis area. There you see Indianapolis off to your west. The storms are moving east/northeast. So Indianapolis, you're going to get hit with some strong, possibly severe thunderstorms within the next half an hour or so. Isolated severe storms will be possible this afternoon and into the evening hours again into Oklahoma. But Kansas looking a lot better as well as Nebraska and northern parts of Missouri. Fredericka?

WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks a lot Jacqui.

A glitch in the law sets a convicted killer free and leaves the victim's family confused and enraged. Forty-three year-old Mark Ferrara (ph) was accused of using a hammer to beat an 18-year-old girl to death in 1983. CNN's Alina Cho explains the loophole that allowed Ferrara to walk.

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ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Mark Ferrara is a convicted killer. A jury on Thursday found him guilty in the 23-year- old beating death of the 18-year old Rosy Lorincz, yet today, Ferrara is a free man. Kathy Lorincz is Rosy's sister.

KATHY LORINCZ, VICTIM'S SISTER: He got a slap on the wrist. We got a slap in the face.

CHO: Back in 1982, when the crime was committed, there was a five-year statute of limitations on manslaughter charges. It has since been overturned. Ferrara was charged with murder but the jury ultimately convicted him of aggravated manslaughter. The jurors were not told he could go free even with a guilty verdict. That's because jurors in New Jersey are not allowed to be told about potential sentences before they decide guilty or not. That law is still in effect today. Julie Golden, Rosy Lorincz's other sister, believes the jury would have found Ferrara guilty of murder, which does not have a statute of limitations, had they known he could walk free on the lesser charge because it was subject to such a statute.

JULIE GOLDEN, SISTER OF VICTIM: You know, when you go into court and you take the stand, they tell you to put your hand on the bible and tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth? Well, I feel like they should have told the jurors.

CHO: From the time of her disappearance in 1982 until the killer's sister came forward 20 years later, Rosy Lorincz was listed as a missing person. Phyllis Anne Ferrara said her brother forced her to help him dispose of Rosy's body in the Hudson River. She says she didn't come forward earlier because she didn't feel safe.

PHYLLIS ANN FERRARA, SISTER OF CONVICTED KILLER: There's no closure. There's no closure. They told me he'd go to jail for a long time and he's walking free after what he did to her.

CHO: Repeated attempts to reach Mark Ferrara have been unsuccessful, although at trial he continued to maintain his innocence. But for the Lorincz family, their search for closure continues.

LORINCZ: My sister's still not going to rest in peace. Because we feel that we didn't get any justice for her. And the only -- the only thing we could think of is when we left the courtroom is going to her grave and apologizing to her, that we tried.

CHO: Alina Cho, CNN, North Bergen, New Jersey.

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WHITFIELD: Remembering one of America's most decorated soldiers.

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BRIG GEN. JOHN HOWARD, U.S. ARMY (RET): He was utterly fearless. And as a result, many of the junior officers and noncommissioned officers did everything they could to emulate him.

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WHITFIELD: Why Colonel David Hackworth was celebrated by some, but criticized by others. It is a story you don't want to miss.

Plus, getting big cities to go green, what can you make - what, rather, can you do to really make a difference? Find out when CNN SUNDAY returns.

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WHITFIELD: Now for a quick look at some of the stories we'll be covering in the week ahead. Monday, a decision is expected in a trial challenging the results of Washington State's 2004 gubernatorial election. At issue, what to do with illegal votes, including those cast by some felons who are banned from voting under state law. Democrat Christine Gregoire (ph) won the race by only 129 votes.

Also Monday, jurors in Michael Jackson's child molestation trial resume deliberations. The jury got the case Friday after a day and a half of closing arguments. The pop star will stay at his Neverland ranch as the jury weighs his fate. The judge says he'll allow an audio feed from the courtroom so that news organizations might broadcast the reading of the verdict when it comes.

On Tuesday, the first in a series of public hearings on the military's proposed down sizing of bases around the country. The first hearings take place in Salt Lake City, Utah, and St. Louis, Missouri. The government says the closing could save it nearly $49 billion over 20 years.

Well, eight purple hearts, 10 silver stars, two distinguished service crosses, all awarded to one man. Colonel David Hackworth, one of America's most decorated soldiers. Hackworth died last month from cancer at the age of 74. Tuesday, he was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery. CNN's Brian Todd has more on this consummate military leader who wasn't afraid to take on anyone, not even the Pentagon.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A fitting final tribute. Full military honors for one of America's most decorated warriors, described by a fellow soldier as the quintessential combat commander. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He was a bona fide war hero.

TODD: Colonel David Hackworth, a born adventurer who lied about his age to enlist in the Army in his mid teens. Patrolled still unsettled borders in post World War II Europe. And in Korea, won a battlefield commission while barely in his 20s, earning his first serious commendations. But it was in Vietnam where his prowess became legend. General John Howard served under Hackworth in the deadly central highlands.

BRIG GEN. JOHN HOWARD, U.S. ARMY (RET): He was utterly fearless. And as a result, many of the junior officers and noncommissioned officers did everything they could to emulate him.

TODD: By the end of his final tour in Vietnam, Hackworth had accumulated two distinguished service crosses, 10 silver stars, eight bronze stars, eight purple hearts, a reputation for thinking like the enemy, consistently beating him and pushing the bounds of military convention.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I ran for my soldiers a house of ill repute because my doctor told me it was the best way to control VD.

TODD: But that maverick disposition would also lead to disillusionment. In a 1971 network interview, Hackworth said Vietnam could not be won and the U.S. should get out. Incensed at such comments from a serving officer, the Pentagon forced him to retire. Hackworth gave up his medals in protest and went into self imposed exile in Australia. He eventually got the medals back but later, as a journalist, became an unyielding critic of military leadership. Sparing nothing in an interview with CNN, as the first Gulf war was under way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's really a bitch to cover because the military here has so restricted the press. It's not like Korea or Vietnam. The press is really restricted to staying around international hotels and sucking on each other like a lot of vultures. It is hard to get the truth.

TODD: Even as he was losing his final battle with cancer, Hackworth and the Pentagon never completely reconciled. In a CNN interview last year, he questioned accountability in the Abu Ghraib scandal.

You can have only one captain of the ship. You can't have two. And if you and I were running that prison, I said, look, buddy. Anderson, are you running it or I'm running?

TODD: To the end, an emotional divide in the military community between those that view Hackworth as a self promoter and unshakable allies like his widow.

EILHYS ENGLAND-HACKWORTH, WIDOW: He glowed with honesty and with love for his troops. I mean, all he cared about was making sure that American troopers, kids out at the tip of the spear, received the right training, leadership and equipment. TODD: David Hackworth's farewell fitting for another reason, hundreds of mourners at his graveside, not one member of the top brass among them. Brian Todd, CNN, Arlington, Virginia.

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WHITFIELD: A massive insurgents' bunker is found in Iraq and new details about Saddam Hussein's impending trial are revealed. The latest developments from Iraq straight ahead.

Plus, could the Bush administration change its strategy for dealing with North Korea? We'll have a live report from Crawford, Texas, when CNN LIVE SUNDAY continues.

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WHITFIELD: An update of stories making news now. Authorities in Aruba have charged two men in connection with the disappearance of an Alabama teenager. They were arrested this morning, but officials won't reveal the specific charges. Police say they haven't given up hope that 18-year-old Natalee Holloway will be found alive.

A top Democrat says the Senate probably will confirm John Bolton's nomination to be U.N. ambassador. Democrats have been trying to force the White House to turn over classified documents concerning Bolton before any vote is taken but today, the ranking Democrat on the Senate Foreign Relations committee, Joseph Biden, acknowledged that he expects Bolton to win confirmation anyway.

U.S. Marines on patrol west of Baghdad noticed a solitary building by an old rock quarry in the desert. Inside was an electric freezer. When they moved the freezer, they made one of the most astonishing discoveries thus far in the war, they say. CNN's Jennifer Eccleston has the details.

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JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: As part of a continuing anti-insurgency operation in Anbar province, the center of the Sunni Arab resistance, American Marines and Iraqi soldiers uncovered an elaborate series of underground bunkers with large stores of heavy weapons, ammunitions and supplies. It was located not far from the troubled town of Fallujah. And a bunker was found on Thursday. It was one of a dozen weapon caches uncovered in the area in recent days.

There were no insurgents in the compound, but it does appear to have been recently used as there was fresh food in a makeshift kitchen and it also had furnished living quarters. It had a shower and it also had air conditioning. Now, the Marine spokesman said the bunkers were built into an old rock quarry and totaled about roughly half a million square feet making it, according to the spokesman, one of the largest underground insurgent hideouts to be discovered this year, or if not during the entire war.

Now, the spokesman also today for Iraq's prime minister said the former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein will face 12 documented cases against him when he comes to court. But there are likely to be more than 500 cases against him. Of course, as you know, Saddam Hussein heard seven charges against him during a July 2004 court appearance. He is facing a litany of accusations from his more than two decades of power, including the 1988 chemical attack on the Kurdish village of Fallaja (ph), the repression of the 1991 Shiite rebellion and the 1990 invasion of Kuwait. The prime minister's spokesman also today said that he believed the trial could begin within two months. Jennifer Eccleston, CNN, Baghdad.

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WHITFIELD: The United States may ask the U.N. Security Council to impose sanctions against North Korea. Officials say the Bush administration is weighing the option and a decision is likely within the next few weeks. CNN's Elaine Quijano is at the Bush ranch in Crawford, Texas with more on that. Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello to you Fredricka. That word from a senior U.S. defense official and the word was that the Bush administration could make a decision within the next few weeks about whether they should refer the North Koreans to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions.

Now just hours after that, though, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice walked that statement back a bit telling CNN this afternoon, quote, I think that the idea that within weeks we're going to decide one way or another is forward leaning. And she added, we still believe there is life in the sixth-party talks. Now, at the same time, she reiterated that all options, including referral to the Security Council are on the table. That, in fact is the same position articulated by President Bush himself during a news conference at the rose garden back on Tuesday of last week.

Now, the president was asked specifically about the U.S.'s approach in handling North Korea, an approach that's counting on North Korea's neighbors primarily to apply pressure on Pyongyang to return to those talks and he said at that time he believed that the U.S. still had, quote, a ways to go, end quote, in using the diplomatic approach with North Korea.

Now, the White House over the past month has continually tried to send a message to North Korean leader Kim Jong Il that it believes North Korea should return to the talks, that the only way to move forward is within that six-party framework. Those talks of course involve not only North Korea, South Korea, as well, also, Japan, China, Russia and the United States. But there's been no word of any movement. In fact, it was a year ago that the North Koreans last sat down for those negotiations.

Now, looking ahead as for what lies ahead, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld later this week will be meeting with Chinese officials in the region, and President Bush himself will be sitting down with South Korea's president in Washington. Fredericka?

WHITFIELD: All right. Elaine Quijano in Crawford, thanks so much.

Checking other headlines around the world now, an eight-mile tunnel connecting France and Italy will remain closed for no more than a year following a fiery crash that killed two people. Italian authorities say it was caused by a collision between two trucks, including one carrying automobile tires. Officials say a criminal probe is now under way.

In Havana, Cuban leader Fidel Castro is among those calling for the extradition of a former CIA operative to Venezuela. At a gathering billed as an anti-terrorism conference, Latin American officials say the Cuban exile who is now 77, is the prime suspect in the 1976 bombing of a jet near Barbados that killed 73 people. The U.S. will hold an immigration hearing for the man on June 13th.

And in south Lebanon, Hezbollah is heavily favored in today's round two of national elections. Voting will take place in other parts of the country over the next two Sundays.

While Lebanon decides whether to support a Syrian-backed government, Syria itself is said to be undergoing political change. Free local elections, a market economy, and reform are all on the table. But as CNN senior international correspondent Brent Sadler explains, it probably won't be enough to ease U.S. pressure.

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BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Its country faces a relentless barrage of American condemnations. But Syrian President Bashar Assad is expected to offer renewed hopes for change, though not the kind of change the United States demands, specifically, aboard (ph) a crack down to stop insurgents using Syria as a base to plan and facilitate attacks on Iraq, halting support for what the U.S. calls anti-Israeli terror groups. Lebanon's Hezbollah as well as Palestinian militants, Islamic jihad and Hamas. This Syria-based American academic, who writes on the Internet, explained why Syria's president won't deliver what the U.S. wants.

JOSHUA LANDIS, SYRIACOMMENT,COM: To turn into a democracy, to stop the border, to give up the struggle with Israel, to stop supporting Hezbollah, he can't do those things. The whole regime and the logic of the regime will implode.

SADLER: Instand, Assad it's widely reported, may play a new tune, paving the way, it's hoped, for a package of political and economic reforms.

DAHI HASSAN, ARAB NEWS: There are a lot of mistakes, definitely, a lot of mistakes here and there and a lot of weaknesses here and there. And I think they're going to address them.

SADLER: Admitting mistakes, rectifying them is something the Syrian president has recently done in neighboring Lebanon with surprising speed, ending a decade's long military presence after international pressure. If Syria's leaders expected any U.S. reward for pulling troops from Lebanon, they were disappointed. If anything, since that withdrawal, there's been a deepening rift between the two nations. But Syria say Congress organizers is portrayed negatively because America never credits them with anything positive.

BOUTHAINA SHAABAN, BAATH PARTY CONGRESS: Syria is expected to do reforms as if we have not started. I can tell you that this is our daily business, but not as a response to U.S. pressure.

SADLER: If there's no give and take on the U.S. side, says this analyst, there's little incentive for President Bashar al Assad to play ball on big, U.S. security issues.

LANDIS: Bashar's refrain has been countries are not charitable organizations. You give us something and these problems can be resolved. So it's a test of wills.

SADLER: And a test of patience for many Syrians, yearning for a new program of progress and prosperity inside this long enduring Baath party state. Brent Sadler, CNN, Beirut.

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WHITFIELD: Helping the world's urban jungles go green. Find out why San Francisco played host to mayors from around the world this week. Plus this.

From the Hollywood hills to the great white way. Why fans of film and television need to head to Broadway to see their favorite stars.

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WHITFIELD: All right. Just over 15 minutes from now, Carol Lin takes over. What you got on tap?

CAROL LIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, we're following up on the Aruba search for this high school girl. I'm going to be talking to an eyewitness who actually saw the police go in and arrest these two men. She's going to tell me what she saw and what this may all mean.

Also at 10:00 tonight, we're going to be taking your e-mail questions on the Michael Jackson trial. We've got our regular rap sheet section with two very noted attorneys. One a prosecutor, one a defense attorney. They can explain some of the nature of the case and also, I'm sure we're going to get some pretty spicy e-mails about whether people think he's guilty or innocent.

WHITFIELD: We will indeed. All right. We'll be watching.

LIN: Thanks.

WHITFIELD: Thanks a lot Carol.

The United Nations world environment day conference is in its final day in San Francisco. It's a first time the annual event has been hosted in the U.S. This year, mayors from around the world have been given an aggressive agenda to make their cities green. Those goals include greater use of renewable energy, reduced green house gases, reduced toxic waste, more recycling programs and improved public transportation.

Well, talking is one thing. Doing is something else. Here to explain more about turning words into action is Dan Roth, who's co- chair of the youth team of U.S. Partnerships and Van Jones, executive director of the Ella Baker Center for Human rights. Good to see both of you.

DAN ROTH, U.S. PARTNERSHIP: Good to see you.

Good to see you.

WHITFIELD: All right. Dan, let me begin with you. What has been most impressive about this conference?

ROTH: It's been amazing how many young people and people of all generations have come together in San Francisco to see the green cities accords being developed and signed by mayors from around the world.

WHITFIELD: And so, Van, in your opinion, do you feel like it's fairly encouraging that more and more cities are on board or is this really the tip of the iceberg in terms of trying to bring some resolution to making more cities green?

VAN JONES, ELLA BAKER CTR FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: Well, I mean, first of all, this is an absolutely historic event. We have never had this many mayors talking about the concept of green cities so one of the most important things I think that's happening is that you have 68 mayors who are leaving here not only with a to-do list but with a network of other mayors they're going to be able to interact with and support. And I think when you have 68 mayors who can hold each other accountable, help each other, you're going to have more results, but also you had an incredible number of young people who were brought here by the partnership to influence that process, who interacted to engage and we also had a number of grassroots organizations that my organization helped to bring forward and so it was a very dynamic process and I think this conversation is well under way now.

WHITFIELD: This conference was really an opportunity for San Francisco and other bay area cities to kind of showcase what they're doing right. Did anything novel or particularly interesting stand out for you, Van?

JONES: Well, I think so. I mean, one of the things that you have to give credit to our Mayor Gavin Newsome. He's been out on the forefront trying to bring solar energy, recycling to San Francisco and to make sure that local residents are given jobs in these industries. One of the things that we are talking about a green city and a green city agenda. That's new technologies. It's new services. It's new industries, that means new jobs. Our organization in particular wants to make sure that those new jobs go to the people who most need them, at risk youth, formerly incarcerated people. Let's make sure this new green wave lifts all boats.

WHITFIELD: And Dan, when they talk about green jobs, green employment, what exactly do we mean?

ROTH: Well, these are jobs that not only provide for a livelihood for a family and provide financial security, but these are jobs that empower people to engage them in the community and to really enhance the environmental and the health of their communities. It's not just about economic security. It is beyond economic security and to really helping create health and well being in our communities through the environment and through services.

WHITFIELD: And so Dan, is it costly for cities to go green? Because if not, then it sure seems like a lot more cities would be doing it.

ROTH: Well, as cities are moving toward this idea of a green city, they're beginning to take a very long range plan and looking at how they can develop the health and the well being of their cities for the future and the many generations to come and when you look at that perspective, this is absolutely the most cost effective strategy that you can take.

WHITFIELD: And so, Van, something that made this conference rather user friendly is that with each day, came a theme like flower power or a city on the move. So what exactly happened on these particular days?

JONES: Well, I mean, it was not your ordinary sort of United Nations kind of gab fest where you have people pontificating from the stage. These mayors sat down around small tables every morning. They talked about very practical issues. If we close the incinerators, what's going to happen to the workers? What companies can I use that I can really rely on to bring solar power? They got down to the nitty- gritty and then they spent time with the community, learning from the community people and in that regard, I think it was very unusual. We expect real action. We expect these mayors to follow up on their commitment and I believe based on what I saw they're willing to do so.

WHITFIELD: So both of you felt pretty encouraged about what took place over the last few days?

ROTH: Very. This was one of the most exciting adventures that a young person my age really could be part of and I look forward to working with the Ella Baker Center within the U.S. Partnership in this U.N. decade of education for sustainable development in 2005 to 2014.

WHITFIELD: All right. Dan Roth, co-chair of the youth sector team and Van Jones, executive director of the Ella Jackson Center for Human Rights. Thanks to both of you gentlemen for joining us.

ROTH: Thank you.

JONES: Thank you for your interest in this (INAUDIBLE).

WHITFIELD: Thank you. Well, it's the summer of big name stars on Broadway. Up next, why the great white way is going Hollywood.

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WHITFIELD: Other stories across America this weekend, angler Corky Taylor has bragging rights to a South Carolina state record because this one didn't get away. The blue marlin tipped the scales at, get this, 881.8 pounds. That beat the previous state record set in 1993 by 130 pounds. Out west, two adventurous gals from Alberta, Canada are slowly making their way south to Wyoming by mule. Their destination is the annual mule festival in Ralston (ph). They set out on April 18th and plan to cover the 850 miles by June 12th.

And how many paper loops does it take to set a world record? A lot. Volunteers in Franklin, Virginia linked up 54 miles of loops to make the longest paper chain. The rules required making the entire thing in 24 hours, of course. They beat the previous record by more than two miles.

Broadway's biggest stars are gathering for this year's Tony awards. The nationally televised ceremony begins at 8:00 Eastern at New York's Radio City Music Hall. While the musical comedy "Spam a Lot" is tonight's front runner, CNN's Karyn Bryant reports that Broadway theater goers have a wide change of choices this season.

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KARYN BRYANT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The sweet, the rotten, little women, angry men. New York's theater district, three dozen shows crammed into 11 city blocks. Broadway, baby! If you like plays, you say? Let's start with some classics. Denzel is doing Julius Caesar, yeah, Shakespeare is here. So is Tennessee Williams times two.

HUGH JACKMAN: The audience seems to be laughing. I think they're quite relieved to discover that this is not a heavy, heavy, heavy classic thing.

BRYANT: Christian Slater fronts "The Glass Menagerie" with Jessica Lange. And "A Streetcar Named Desire" has got Natasha Richardson this go round.

NATASHA RICHARDSON, "A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE": It's an extraordinary play. One of the great plays ever written.

BRYANT: "Glen Garry, Glen Ross" is back, so is "Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf" with Kathleen Turner. Need new drama in your life? Theater critic Adam Feldman has some picks.

ADAM FELDMAN, THEATER CRITIC: I would say two plays. "Doubt" and "The Pillow Man." Very different shows, both about child abuse but in a different way.

BRYANT: Familiar stories which began on Broadway are being reinvented. "On Golden Pond" is one.

FELDMAN: The twist is that it has an all-black cast.

BRYANT: "Steel Magnolias" is another. With eight live shows a week, Christine Ebersol (ph) is clocking a lot of time at the crossroads of the world.

We want to talk musicals now, big shows, the choice is overwhelming. We need guidance. Help, Christine! There are some great long running shows like "Chicago." You can't go wrong with that.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You can't go wrong with that show. (INAUDIBLE) running for a long time.

BRYANT: And "La Cage."

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's a fantastic show and now Robert Goulet (ph) is in it.

BRYANT: Bob Goulet.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Robert Goulet, younger than springtime.

FELDMAN: We had 11 new book musicals open on Broadway this year. That' more than we've had actually in almost 20 years.

BRYANT: And a few of those, some spun from films, are already summer must sees. There's "Sweet Charity" starring Christina Applegate or "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," along with the hands down hottest show in town --

FELDMAN: "Spamalot" is new this year. It's been a huge success and sold out so if you can get tickets for it, good luck.

BRYANT: When you have a night off, what show do you want to go see?

FELDMAN: From the newer crop of musicals, "Spamalot" or "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels" are both old fashioned good Broadway musicals.

BRYANT: Karyn Bryant, CNN, New York.

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WHITFIELD: Well, when it comes to airline security, there's always room for improvement. Up next, we have got details about a confidential new report that looked at what needs to change at the nation's airports.

Plus, we'll go back live to Aruba for the latest on the search for a missing Alabama teen.

I'm Fredericka Whitfield. Carol Lin is up next.

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