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Fun City; Base Closures; Graphic Designer; Coldplay Heats Up

Aired June 06, 2005 - 05:30   ET

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


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


(WEATHER REPORT)
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you -- Chad.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You're welcome.

COSTELLO: A huge underground bunker in central Iraq, about the size of nine football fields, has been destroyed. Did you hear about this? The military says it was used as an insurgent hideout. The Marines stumbled upon this bunker last Thursday when they spotted a lone building in the middle of the desert while looking for weapons. Inside they found a hidden entrance to an underground quarry system. The military says the bunker had a kitchen, two showers, an air conditioner, some of the rooms contained a weapons cache, including rockets, mortars and machine guns.

Even though there are more than 500 possible cases against him, Iraqi government officials say Saddam Hussein will be tried on the 12 well-documented charges when his case finally goes to trial. A government spokesman says the trial for the ousted dictator will likely begin within the next two months.

Most of the pictures we see out of Iraq are of bomb attacks, death and sorrow; but there is another side to life in Iraq. This next report shows you images you don't often see, families putting their fears aside and having fun.

CNN's Jennifer Eccleston has that for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's Gazi Mihssen's first family outing in months. Each trip outside of their family home is fraught with danger, given Iraq's indiscriminate and escalating violence. But the 51-year-old healthcare worker said halas (ph) or enough to his fears. It's Friday, the kids are out of school, the weather is relatively mild at 110 degrees, so it's time for a little fun.

GAZI MIHSSEN, BAGHDAD RESIDENT (through translator): Fun City is the only safe place to relieve ourselves. We know that there are other places to have fun, but those places are near to streets and you know the situation now. So maybe this place is more safe for children to have fun.

ECCLESTON: Fun City is an expansive amusement park developed three decades ago in eastern Baghdad. Closed during the U.S.-led war to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein, it's coming back to life, if not at a dizzying pace.

The rides, a little tired with age, are like those of any fairground across the world, with flying teacups, a Ferris wheel and a rickety, but effective, roller coaster. One of the most popular rides, the scary tunnel, with its fake skulls and painted images of death, as if life in Baghdad weren't scary enough.

Children run freely amidst ice cream stands and picnic grounds, and young couples share a private moment. Both images are a rarity in today's Baghdad.

A cable car has the best view of the capital skyline. And a boat ride allows visitors, like the Mohammed (ph) family, a slight breeze and a cool touch in the summer heat.

(on camera): It is a much needed break from the chaos which lies just outside of the park's fortified gates where Baghdad residents live in near constant fear of car bombings, hijackings and checkpoint shootings.

(voice-over): But the reality of the deadly spasm of violence in the capital is never far from Nora Talib's (ph) mind, a 20-year-old who is unemployed and spends most of her time inside the family home.

NORA TALIB, BAGHDAD RESIDENT (through translator): We cannot forget what's going on outside of Fun City because it's a very difficult situation. But maybe this place helps to relieve some of our depression.

ECCLESTON: That relief, albeit temporary, is precisely what Sarah Gazi, a 16-year-old student and daughter of Musang (ph) Gazi, was wanting.

SARAH GAZI, BAGHDAD RESIDENT (through translator): I like this place. People are happy. It feels quiet and there are no explosions.

ECCLESTON: Jennifer Eccleston, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: In news "Across America" now, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a tough new parental consent law for abortions, but he didn't sign it in the State House, and said he approved the bill during a rally at the Christian Academy in Fort Worth. The law requires girls under the age of 18 to get written permission for abortion. It also blocks most late-term abortions after the 26th week of pregnancy.

Her parents thought she was murdered seven years ago. But as it turns out, Brandi Star (ph), a missing college student from Texas, is alive and well and working at a Sam's Club in Kentucky. She used her own Social Security number to get the job. Privacy laws prevented police from tracking her with the number.

The mayor of San Francisco says he will consider restrictions on pit bulls after a family pet mauled a 12-year-old boy to death. Mayor Gavin Newsom will meet with Animal Control experts today, but the city is not considering a ban on the dog. An Animal Control spokeswoman says last week's mauling prompted several pit bull owners to turn their dogs into shelters.

Still ahead on your Monday DAYBREAK, possible base closures have communities doing everything they can to save their livelihoods. We'll go live to one such town to see how they're doing to dodge the financial bullet.

And a little later, the band is called Coldplay, and boy, they're hot, but their record label is a little worried about just how hot their latest studio offering could be. The story behind the music coming up.

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

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: The military's Base Realignment and Closure Commission visits installations in Utah and Indiana today. Commissioners will visit Hill Air Force Base in Utah and the Crane Naval Service Warfare Center and the Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana.

In New Hampshire, yellow T-shirts are more than just a fashion statement in Portsmouth these days. The shirts, emblazoned with save our shipyard, tell a 62-year-old story.

Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier of the Waking Crew at WOKQ FM in Portsmouth join us live to talk about the Base Closing Commission's visit to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

MARK ERICSON, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Good morning, it must be a nervous time.

ERICSON: It's a very nervous time. There were four members of the Base Realignment and Closure Committee that stopped by last Wednesday. About 7,000 people, by everyone's best reckoning, turned out to show support for the yard and all the folks who work there.

COSTELLO: Something of a surprise came out of this meeting, didn't it?

ERICSON: Well the Base Closure and Realignment Committee in the Pentagon released a whole bunch of reports and information last week. And as people started gleaning through all this hundreds and hundreds of pages, it has now come out that if Portsmouth stays on the list and if Portsmouth should be targeted for closure, they actually want to start the process in 2006 and have it wrapped up extensively by 2008. But nobody sees this as a two-year deal.

COSTELLO: Well it just seems quick to me. They're going to start it in 2006, if it closes that is.

ERICSON: If it closes. And the cleanup, according to the Department of Defense, would be much longer than that.

DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Yes, they said the cleanup would probably end in 2013.

COSTELLO: So what does the governor think?

ERICSON: Well the governor still is questioning some of the figures that the Department of Defense is using, saying that the economic impact and the number of jobs that will be lost in the area, if you project out to the future. He's questioning the figures that the Department of Defense is using.

The congressional delegations from both New Hampshire and Maine, because this does sit basically on the bay right between the two states, everybody is questioning an awful lot of the numbers that the Department of Defense and the Pentagon came up with.

COSTELLO: So what are the chances?

ERICSON: Well the folks that we talked to who were on the inside during the tour last week tell us that the Base Realignment and Closure Committee was very impressed with what they saw at the yard and was also extremely impressed with the public outpouring.

In some areas, you mentioned Utah and Indiana, in some areas, we're talking hundreds and hundreds of jobs. Here it's literally thousands of jobs that are on the line. So the public support that they saw last Wednesday when they came to town was pretty impressive.

COSTELLO: Mark and Danielle, good luck to all of you out there, because I know it's a hard time.

Mark and Danielle from WOKQ joining us this morning.

Still to come on DAYBREAK, a long anticipated album finally hit stores today, but it's already been on the Web.

And we want to hear from you this morning, our e-mail "Question of the Day," should GITMO be closed? E-mail us at DAYBREAK@CNN.com. That's Coldplay, but our e-mail question, should GITMO be closed? There it is. E-mail us DAYBREAK@CNN.com. That's DAYBREAK@CNN.com.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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

Medical marijuana and the 10 Commandments, we are waiting to find out if the Supreme Court will hand down rulings on those controversial issues. The court convenes in about four-and-a-half hours.

It's been a year since the 9/11 Commission released its report, so any progress yet? That's what the successor group to the panel will talk about a few hours from now. It'll meet to see how far intelligence reform has gone. In money news, later today, Apple Computers is expected to announce it's changing chips. Apple is dropping a long-standing deal with Power PC chips in favor of Intel processors for its Macintosh computers.

In culture, the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Vice President Al Gore, former vice president that is. The award recognizes the pivotal role Gore played in the development of the Internet. And we say that tongue-and-cheek.

In sports, an eighth inning three-run home run gave the Washington Nationals a come-from-behind 6-3 win over the Florida Marlins. It is the first time since 1933 a team called Washington is in first place in the NL East, much to the delight of Washingtonians, because the stadium there is packed -- Chad.

MYERS: It's hard even to get in there, Carol. I have a lot of fans up there that live up there that want to get tickets. It's very difficult. The toughest ticket in town, as they say.

(WEATHER REPORT)

COSTELLO: Thank you, Chad.

That's a look at the latest headlines for you this morning.

An entrepreneur who got rich selling humorous and often offensive T-shirts has had a change of heart.

CNN's Jeanne Moos has the story. But since this is a story about a man who sells offensive T-shirts, some of you might find portions of it objectionable, which, of course, will only make others want to watch it more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You may be less than tickled by these T-shirts from help stop rape consent, to I surfed the tsunami. They deserve to go to T-Shirt Hell, which is where you can find them on the Web.

AARON SCHWARZ, TSHIRTHELL.COM: This is our most popular shirt.

MOOS (on camera): Really?

SCHWARZ: A lot of men have gotten free lap dances from the I support single mom shirts.

MOOS (voice-over): T-Shirt Hell is one of the most popular T- shirt sellers on the Internet. There are baby shirts with adult humor, ranging from potty head to they shake me.

For reasons of taste, we can only show you the more tepid T- shirts.

SCHWARZ: I only support gay marriage if both chicks are hot. MOOS (on camera): Do you?

SCHWARZ: I support gay marriage across the board.

MOOS (voice-over): It figures Aaron Schwarz would have an open mind, wide open. He's been called the Howard Stern of T-shirts.

(on camera): Have the T-shirts made you rich?

SCHWARZ: Yes.

MOOS (voice-over): He has the file of letters asking him to cease and desist. The Anti-Defamation League didn't like the T-shirt proclaiming what about all the good things Hitler did? The folks at Pizza Hut didn't appreciate what he did to their name. Even 9/11 wasn't off limits.

SCHWARZ: That's been our all-time worst shirt. Thousands and thousands of hate mails, death threats.

MOOS: But it took an actual brush with death...

SCHWARZ: My mouth was starting to foam.

MOOS: ... to change Aaron's taste in T-shirts.

SCHWARZ: They said it was a drug-induced poison overdose.

MOOS: Aaron was hanging out one night with various people, some of whom he didn't really know. After he got home, he started having seizures and convulsions.

SCHWARZ: My body, my hands were like this, my body was shaking like this.

MOOS (on camera): This is very hard to believe.

SCHWARZ: I feel uncomfortable, because I feel like you're -- a number of times you've made comments that it's hard to believe the story and stuff like that. But you want it.

MOOS (voice-over): And off Aaron stalked, searching for paperwork to back up the story, paperwork from the ambulance.

SCHWARZ: Receipt from that night.

MOOS: Bills from the hospital where he was told a toxicology report showed he'd been poisoned, perhaps by a substance in his drink.

SCHWARZ: And I was going through a moment where I thought I was going to die. I thought what's the one thing that I'm doing wrong in my life that could be considered wrong, and it was the T-shirts.

MOOS: Convinced someone had poisoned him over his T-shirts, Aaron wants it known that he's taking down his most offensive shirts, a section called worse than hell. The removing them has prompted angry fans to refer to him as...

SCHWARZ: Dear gutless.

MOOS: And tail-between-your-legs sellout.

SCHWARZ: They're offended that we're no longer offensive.

MOOS: Partly out of guilt and partly out of fear, Aaron says he'll donate 30 percent of his profits for the next two years to charities that help those he's offended.

Still, the remaining T-shirts are bad enough. As Aaron told disappointed fans your mom will probably still refuse to put your T- Shirt Hell T-shirt in with the rest of the laundry.

SCHWARZ: Afraid it will corrupt the socks.

MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: I always wondered who would wear those T-shirts, but you see them everywhere.

MYERS: Well the one that says I cry -- daddy drinks because I cry. I was like I want to see if I can get that one.

COSTELLO: Time to get to our e-mail "Question of the Morning." We have some pretty good responses.

MYERS: We do.

COSTELLO: We're asking you this morning, should GITMO be closed, because Senator Joe Biden says maybe it should be closed.

MYERS: Well not just because of that.

COSTELLO: Others are calling for a congressional hearing because of alleged abuses taking place at GITMO.

MYERS: Sure. And you know it's just bad PR for a lot of folks what they're saying.

So here we go.

Miguel (ph) from Pembroke Pines, I feel GITMO should remain open. They must go through the process, then convict. They must pay for their participation in 9/11.

Harry (ph) from Los Angeles says Biden is correct about the threat to the image that Guantanamo Bay poses to America. GITMO either needs to be closed or transformed into something more multilateral and transparent. The prisoners do not need to be in the hands of the U.S. alone.

And Dana (ph) from Charlotte, give the whole place to the CIA. I wonder what they would do with those terrorists.

William (ph) in Minnesota says no, it should be expanded. For some reason people don't seem to understand the difference between and Army and terrorists. Armies wear uniforms. These are part of an organized military belonging to a country. Terrorists, however, are neither of these therefore the rules do not apply. They do not apply to terrorists.

The Geneva Convention, the (INAUDIBLE) agreement nothing. Terrorist rules anything goes. We are simply playing by their rules. And holding prisoners without charge in a facility for an indefinite period of time reminds me of the regimes that we are working so hard to bring democracy to. We'll look back at GITMO now like we think of the internment camps of World War II. The place is an important process. We just need to work it out. Joey (ph) in Rochester -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Wow, a lot of good opinions this morning.

MYERS: Yes.

COSTELLO: Of course we'll be hearing a lot more of this throughout the day on CNN because of what Senator Joe Biden says. And you know maybe there will be congressional hearings, we'll see.

Here's a look at what we're working on at the top of the hour.

The pitfalls of click and paste when you are a college student, how universities are cracking down on the growing problem of plagiarism.

Plus, the Big Apple's big chance to lure the Olympic Games rides on a vote for a new stadium. We'll take you live for a preview on that and more. That's ahead in the next hour of DAYBREAK.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: In "Entertainment Headlines" for you this morning.

Two Englishmen face charges of trying to sell a stolen copy of the new Harry Potter book a month before its release date. The suspects wanted $90,000 for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Pre-orders for the book already made it a top seller in both the United States and Britain.

Raggaeton sells, first record stores and now radio. Look at this week's billboard top Latin albums chart, 4 of the top 10 releases come from the raggaeton genre. And just recently, three major market radio stations have made the switch to the raggaeton beat with promising ratings. One radio exec calls raggaeton the format of the future.

Remember Tom Cruise's very public profession of love for his girlfriend Katie Holmes on Oprah? Well, Katie paid him back Saturday night at the MTV Movie Awards, dropping on one knee and asking the crowd should I go get him? Cruise was there to receive a lifetime achievement award and the first ever given out by the cable network. You can get more entertainment news every night on "ShowBiz Tonight." That's at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on Headline News.

The much-anticipated new album from platinum selling band Coldplay has already hit the Internet. It's called X & Y. It's not available here until tonight at midnight, but many are already listening to pirated versions leaked onto the Web. Coldplay's record label has a lot riding on this release and hopes the leak will not hurt the bottom line.

CNN's Malika Kapur reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MALIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It took them 18 months to make this. Coldplay's third album X & Y released Monday after a three-month delay.

BEN JONES, VIRGIN RADIO: Coldplay on this show in around about half an hour.

KAPUR: Was it worth waiting for?

JONES: Definitely. Definitely worth the wait. I don't think it's a real delay. I think that you know there's people probably at the record company going come on, where is it? But no, to us, the fans, and to radio stations like us all over the world, there isn't really a delay. And the reaction has been fantastic.

KAPUR: Was it worth it for EMI? Depends how you look at it. Given Coldplay's track record, 20 million records sold worldwide, EMI has got good reason to hold out for its next set of hits. But the delay did manage to do some damage. It led to a 13 percent fall in EMI's annual profits following a profit warning in February and a sharp drop in its share price. A setback for investors, but not for Coldplay.

Lead singer Chris Martin recently told Reuters I don't really care about EMI. I'm not concerned about that. I think shareholders are the greatest evil of this modern world.

TERESA WISE, ACCENTURE: The profit warning clearly did take people by surprise. It seems now to have -- the market seems to have settled. And provided that Coldplay now delivers and EMI continues to be profitable and to capitalize on the digital music revolution, it should not have a long-term effect on EMI's success.

KAPUR: Increasingly the fortunes of music labels are tied to the success or failure of one or two huge names on the roster. For Warner Music it's Madonna. For Universal Music it's U2. For EMI it's Coldplay and Robbie Williams.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS, SINGER: I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams. His Greatest Hits was a best selling album during EMI's last financial year, selling six million units. EMI is no doubt hoping X & Y beats that. JONES: I think probably somewhere they're going thank God. Because you never quite know what a band is up to when they go off to their studios, wherever they may be, and you give them the check to go and do it and they've already, you know, sort of proven themselves.

Coldplay have put out two albums, which were multimillion sellers. I think their first album was seven or eight million. A Rush of Blood to the Head was 11 million. So they're looking for 10 million-plus with this CD. And I think they're going to get it.

KAPUR: But their competition is stiff. Coldplay's "Feet of Sound (ph)" lost the top single spot to this in its first week.

Malika Kapur, CNN, London.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: The next hour of DAYBREAK starts right now.

It is Monday, June 6.

The mystery deepens around a high school graduate who went missing in Aruba one week ago. Natalie Holloway's family desperately seeking answers this morning, instead they are facing more questions.

Also, which way will the U.S. go when it comes to North Korea? We are getting some mixed messages this morning.

And the Michael Jackson trial is proving to be a real pain in the back.

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Aired June 6, 2005 - 05:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(WEATHER REPORT)
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you -- Chad.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: You're welcome.

COSTELLO: A huge underground bunker in central Iraq, about the size of nine football fields, has been destroyed. Did you hear about this? The military says it was used as an insurgent hideout. The Marines stumbled upon this bunker last Thursday when they spotted a lone building in the middle of the desert while looking for weapons. Inside they found a hidden entrance to an underground quarry system. The military says the bunker had a kitchen, two showers, an air conditioner, some of the rooms contained a weapons cache, including rockets, mortars and machine guns.

Even though there are more than 500 possible cases against him, Iraqi government officials say Saddam Hussein will be tried on the 12 well-documented charges when his case finally goes to trial. A government spokesman says the trial for the ousted dictator will likely begin within the next two months.

Most of the pictures we see out of Iraq are of bomb attacks, death and sorrow; but there is another side to life in Iraq. This next report shows you images you don't often see, families putting their fears aside and having fun.

CNN's Jennifer Eccleston has that for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's Gazi Mihssen's first family outing in months. Each trip outside of their family home is fraught with danger, given Iraq's indiscriminate and escalating violence. But the 51-year-old healthcare worker said halas (ph) or enough to his fears. It's Friday, the kids are out of school, the weather is relatively mild at 110 degrees, so it's time for a little fun.

GAZI MIHSSEN, BAGHDAD RESIDENT (through translator): Fun City is the only safe place to relieve ourselves. We know that there are other places to have fun, but those places are near to streets and you know the situation now. So maybe this place is more safe for children to have fun.

ECCLESTON: Fun City is an expansive amusement park developed three decades ago in eastern Baghdad. Closed during the U.S.-led war to topple the regime of Saddam Hussein, it's coming back to life, if not at a dizzying pace.

The rides, a little tired with age, are like those of any fairground across the world, with flying teacups, a Ferris wheel and a rickety, but effective, roller coaster. One of the most popular rides, the scary tunnel, with its fake skulls and painted images of death, as if life in Baghdad weren't scary enough.

Children run freely amidst ice cream stands and picnic grounds, and young couples share a private moment. Both images are a rarity in today's Baghdad.

A cable car has the best view of the capital skyline. And a boat ride allows visitors, like the Mohammed (ph) family, a slight breeze and a cool touch in the summer heat.

(on camera): It is a much needed break from the chaos which lies just outside of the park's fortified gates where Baghdad residents live in near constant fear of car bombings, hijackings and checkpoint shootings.

(voice-over): But the reality of the deadly spasm of violence in the capital is never far from Nora Talib's (ph) mind, a 20-year-old who is unemployed and spends most of her time inside the family home.

NORA TALIB, BAGHDAD RESIDENT (through translator): We cannot forget what's going on outside of Fun City because it's a very difficult situation. But maybe this place helps to relieve some of our depression.

ECCLESTON: That relief, albeit temporary, is precisely what Sarah Gazi, a 16-year-old student and daughter of Musang (ph) Gazi, was wanting.

SARAH GAZI, BAGHDAD RESIDENT (through translator): I like this place. People are happy. It feels quiet and there are no explosions.

ECCLESTON: Jennifer Eccleston, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

COSTELLO: In news "Across America" now, Texas Governor Rick Perry signed a tough new parental consent law for abortions, but he didn't sign it in the State House, and said he approved the bill during a rally at the Christian Academy in Fort Worth. The law requires girls under the age of 18 to get written permission for abortion. It also blocks most late-term abortions after the 26th week of pregnancy.

Her parents thought she was murdered seven years ago. But as it turns out, Brandi Star (ph), a missing college student from Texas, is alive and well and working at a Sam's Club in Kentucky. She used her own Social Security number to get the job. Privacy laws prevented police from tracking her with the number.

The mayor of San Francisco says he will consider restrictions on pit bulls after a family pet mauled a 12-year-old boy to death. Mayor Gavin Newsom will meet with Animal Control experts today, but the city is not considering a ban on the dog. An Animal Control spokeswoman says last week's mauling prompted several pit bull owners to turn their dogs into shelters.

Still ahead on your Monday DAYBREAK, possible base closures have communities doing everything they can to save their livelihoods. We'll go live to one such town to see how they're doing to dodge the financial bullet.

And a little later, the band is called Coldplay, and boy, they're hot, but their record label is a little worried about just how hot their latest studio offering could be. The story behind the music coming up.

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

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

COSTELLO: The military's Base Realignment and Closure Commission visits installations in Utah and Indiana today. Commissioners will visit Hill Air Force Base in Utah and the Crane Naval Service Warfare Center and the Newport Chemical Depot in Indiana.

In New Hampshire, yellow T-shirts are more than just a fashion statement in Portsmouth these days. The shirts, emblazoned with save our shipyard, tell a 62-year-old story.

Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier of the Waking Crew at WOKQ FM in Portsmouth join us live to talk about the Base Closing Commission's visit to the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard.

MARK ERICSON, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Good morning, it must be a nervous time.

ERICSON: It's a very nervous time. There were four members of the Base Realignment and Closure Committee that stopped by last Wednesday. About 7,000 people, by everyone's best reckoning, turned out to show support for the yard and all the folks who work there.

COSTELLO: Something of a surprise came out of this meeting, didn't it?

ERICSON: Well the Base Closure and Realignment Committee in the Pentagon released a whole bunch of reports and information last week. And as people started gleaning through all this hundreds and hundreds of pages, it has now come out that if Portsmouth stays on the list and if Portsmouth should be targeted for closure, they actually want to start the process in 2006 and have it wrapped up extensively by 2008. But nobody sees this as a two-year deal.

COSTELLO: Well it just seems quick to me. They're going to start it in 2006, if it closes that is.

ERICSON: If it closes. And the cleanup, according to the Department of Defense, would be much longer than that.

DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Yes, they said the cleanup would probably end in 2013.

COSTELLO: So what does the governor think?

ERICSON: Well the governor still is questioning some of the figures that the Department of Defense is using, saying that the economic impact and the number of jobs that will be lost in the area, if you project out to the future. He's questioning the figures that the Department of Defense is using.

The congressional delegations from both New Hampshire and Maine, because this does sit basically on the bay right between the two states, everybody is questioning an awful lot of the numbers that the Department of Defense and the Pentagon came up with.

COSTELLO: So what are the chances?

ERICSON: Well the folks that we talked to who were on the inside during the tour last week tell us that the Base Realignment and Closure Committee was very impressed with what they saw at the yard and was also extremely impressed with the public outpouring.

In some areas, you mentioned Utah and Indiana, in some areas, we're talking hundreds and hundreds of jobs. Here it's literally thousands of jobs that are on the line. So the public support that they saw last Wednesday when they came to town was pretty impressive.

COSTELLO: Mark and Danielle, good luck to all of you out there, because I know it's a hard time.

Mark and Danielle from WOKQ joining us this morning.

Still to come on DAYBREAK, a long anticipated album finally hit stores today, but it's already been on the Web.

And we want to hear from you this morning, our e-mail "Question of the Day," should GITMO be closed? E-mail us at DAYBREAK@CNN.com. That's Coldplay, but our e-mail question, should GITMO be closed? There it is. E-mail us DAYBREAK@CNN.com. That's DAYBREAK@CNN.com.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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

Medical marijuana and the 10 Commandments, we are waiting to find out if the Supreme Court will hand down rulings on those controversial issues. The court convenes in about four-and-a-half hours.

It's been a year since the 9/11 Commission released its report, so any progress yet? That's what the successor group to the panel will talk about a few hours from now. It'll meet to see how far intelligence reform has gone. In money news, later today, Apple Computers is expected to announce it's changing chips. Apple is dropping a long-standing deal with Power PC chips in favor of Intel processors for its Macintosh computers.

In culture, the Webby Lifetime Achievement Award will be presented to Vice President Al Gore, former vice president that is. The award recognizes the pivotal role Gore played in the development of the Internet. And we say that tongue-and-cheek.

In sports, an eighth inning three-run home run gave the Washington Nationals a come-from-behind 6-3 win over the Florida Marlins. It is the first time since 1933 a team called Washington is in first place in the NL East, much to the delight of Washingtonians, because the stadium there is packed -- Chad.

MYERS: It's hard even to get in there, Carol. I have a lot of fans up there that live up there that want to get tickets. It's very difficult. The toughest ticket in town, as they say.

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COSTELLO: Thank you, Chad.

That's a look at the latest headlines for you this morning.

An entrepreneur who got rich selling humorous and often offensive T-shirts has had a change of heart.

CNN's Jeanne Moos has the story. But since this is a story about a man who sells offensive T-shirts, some of you might find portions of it objectionable, which, of course, will only make others want to watch it more.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You may be less than tickled by these T-shirts from help stop rape consent, to I surfed the tsunami. They deserve to go to T-Shirt Hell, which is where you can find them on the Web.

AARON SCHWARZ, TSHIRTHELL.COM: This is our most popular shirt.

MOOS (on camera): Really?

SCHWARZ: A lot of men have gotten free lap dances from the I support single mom shirts.

MOOS (voice-over): T-Shirt Hell is one of the most popular T- shirt sellers on the Internet. There are baby shirts with adult humor, ranging from potty head to they shake me.

For reasons of taste, we can only show you the more tepid T- shirts.

SCHWARZ: I only support gay marriage if both chicks are hot. MOOS (on camera): Do you?

SCHWARZ: I support gay marriage across the board.

MOOS (voice-over): It figures Aaron Schwarz would have an open mind, wide open. He's been called the Howard Stern of T-shirts.

(on camera): Have the T-shirts made you rich?

SCHWARZ: Yes.

MOOS (voice-over): He has the file of letters asking him to cease and desist. The Anti-Defamation League didn't like the T-shirt proclaiming what about all the good things Hitler did? The folks at Pizza Hut didn't appreciate what he did to their name. Even 9/11 wasn't off limits.

SCHWARZ: That's been our all-time worst shirt. Thousands and thousands of hate mails, death threats.

MOOS: But it took an actual brush with death...

SCHWARZ: My mouth was starting to foam.

MOOS: ... to change Aaron's taste in T-shirts.

SCHWARZ: They said it was a drug-induced poison overdose.

MOOS: Aaron was hanging out one night with various people, some of whom he didn't really know. After he got home, he started having seizures and convulsions.

SCHWARZ: My body, my hands were like this, my body was shaking like this.

MOOS (on camera): This is very hard to believe.

SCHWARZ: I feel uncomfortable, because I feel like you're -- a number of times you've made comments that it's hard to believe the story and stuff like that. But you want it.

MOOS (voice-over): And off Aaron stalked, searching for paperwork to back up the story, paperwork from the ambulance.

SCHWARZ: Receipt from that night.

MOOS: Bills from the hospital where he was told a toxicology report showed he'd been poisoned, perhaps by a substance in his drink.

SCHWARZ: And I was going through a moment where I thought I was going to die. I thought what's the one thing that I'm doing wrong in my life that could be considered wrong, and it was the T-shirts.

MOOS: Convinced someone had poisoned him over his T-shirts, Aaron wants it known that he's taking down his most offensive shirts, a section called worse than hell. The removing them has prompted angry fans to refer to him as...

SCHWARZ: Dear gutless.

MOOS: And tail-between-your-legs sellout.

SCHWARZ: They're offended that we're no longer offensive.

MOOS: Partly out of guilt and partly out of fear, Aaron says he'll donate 30 percent of his profits for the next two years to charities that help those he's offended.

Still, the remaining T-shirts are bad enough. As Aaron told disappointed fans your mom will probably still refuse to put your T- Shirt Hell T-shirt in with the rest of the laundry.

SCHWARZ: Afraid it will corrupt the socks.

MOOS: Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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COSTELLO: I always wondered who would wear those T-shirts, but you see them everywhere.

MYERS: Well the one that says I cry -- daddy drinks because I cry. I was like I want to see if I can get that one.

COSTELLO: Time to get to our e-mail "Question of the Morning." We have some pretty good responses.

MYERS: We do.

COSTELLO: We're asking you this morning, should GITMO be closed, because Senator Joe Biden says maybe it should be closed.

MYERS: Well not just because of that.

COSTELLO: Others are calling for a congressional hearing because of alleged abuses taking place at GITMO.

MYERS: Sure. And you know it's just bad PR for a lot of folks what they're saying.

So here we go.

Miguel (ph) from Pembroke Pines, I feel GITMO should remain open. They must go through the process, then convict. They must pay for their participation in 9/11.

Harry (ph) from Los Angeles says Biden is correct about the threat to the image that Guantanamo Bay poses to America. GITMO either needs to be closed or transformed into something more multilateral and transparent. The prisoners do not need to be in the hands of the U.S. alone.

And Dana (ph) from Charlotte, give the whole place to the CIA. I wonder what they would do with those terrorists.

William (ph) in Minnesota says no, it should be expanded. For some reason people don't seem to understand the difference between and Army and terrorists. Armies wear uniforms. These are part of an organized military belonging to a country. Terrorists, however, are neither of these therefore the rules do not apply. They do not apply to terrorists.

The Geneva Convention, the (INAUDIBLE) agreement nothing. Terrorist rules anything goes. We are simply playing by their rules. And holding prisoners without charge in a facility for an indefinite period of time reminds me of the regimes that we are working so hard to bring democracy to. We'll look back at GITMO now like we think of the internment camps of World War II. The place is an important process. We just need to work it out. Joey (ph) in Rochester -- Carol.

COSTELLO: Wow, a lot of good opinions this morning.

MYERS: Yes.

COSTELLO: Of course we'll be hearing a lot more of this throughout the day on CNN because of what Senator Joe Biden says. And you know maybe there will be congressional hearings, we'll see.

Here's a look at what we're working on at the top of the hour.

The pitfalls of click and paste when you are a college student, how universities are cracking down on the growing problem of plagiarism.

Plus, the Big Apple's big chance to lure the Olympic Games rides on a vote for a new stadium. We'll take you live for a preview on that and more. That's ahead in the next hour of DAYBREAK.

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COSTELLO: In "Entertainment Headlines" for you this morning.

Two Englishmen face charges of trying to sell a stolen copy of the new Harry Potter book a month before its release date. The suspects wanted $90,000 for "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince." Pre-orders for the book already made it a top seller in both the United States and Britain.

Raggaeton sells, first record stores and now radio. Look at this week's billboard top Latin albums chart, 4 of the top 10 releases come from the raggaeton genre. And just recently, three major market radio stations have made the switch to the raggaeton beat with promising ratings. One radio exec calls raggaeton the format of the future.

Remember Tom Cruise's very public profession of love for his girlfriend Katie Holmes on Oprah? Well, Katie paid him back Saturday night at the MTV Movie Awards, dropping on one knee and asking the crowd should I go get him? Cruise was there to receive a lifetime achievement award and the first ever given out by the cable network. You can get more entertainment news every night on "ShowBiz Tonight." That's at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on Headline News.

The much-anticipated new album from platinum selling band Coldplay has already hit the Internet. It's called X & Y. It's not available here until tonight at midnight, but many are already listening to pirated versions leaked onto the Web. Coldplay's record label has a lot riding on this release and hopes the leak will not hurt the bottom line.

CNN's Malika Kapur reports.

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MALIKA KAPUR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It took them 18 months to make this. Coldplay's third album X & Y released Monday after a three-month delay.

BEN JONES, VIRGIN RADIO: Coldplay on this show in around about half an hour.

KAPUR: Was it worth waiting for?

JONES: Definitely. Definitely worth the wait. I don't think it's a real delay. I think that you know there's people probably at the record company going come on, where is it? But no, to us, the fans, and to radio stations like us all over the world, there isn't really a delay. And the reaction has been fantastic.

KAPUR: Was it worth it for EMI? Depends how you look at it. Given Coldplay's track record, 20 million records sold worldwide, EMI has got good reason to hold out for its next set of hits. But the delay did manage to do some damage. It led to a 13 percent fall in EMI's annual profits following a profit warning in February and a sharp drop in its share price. A setback for investors, but not for Coldplay.

Lead singer Chris Martin recently told Reuters I don't really care about EMI. I'm not concerned about that. I think shareholders are the greatest evil of this modern world.

TERESA WISE, ACCENTURE: The profit warning clearly did take people by surprise. It seems now to have -- the market seems to have settled. And provided that Coldplay now delivers and EMI continues to be profitable and to capitalize on the digital music revolution, it should not have a long-term effect on EMI's success.

KAPUR: Increasingly the fortunes of music labels are tied to the success or failure of one or two huge names on the roster. For Warner Music it's Madonna. For Universal Music it's U2. For EMI it's Coldplay and Robbie Williams.

ROBBIE WILLIAMS, SINGER: I'm rich beyond my wildest dreams. His Greatest Hits was a best selling album during EMI's last financial year, selling six million units. EMI is no doubt hoping X & Y beats that. JONES: I think probably somewhere they're going thank God. Because you never quite know what a band is up to when they go off to their studios, wherever they may be, and you give them the check to go and do it and they've already, you know, sort of proven themselves.

Coldplay have put out two albums, which were multimillion sellers. I think their first album was seven or eight million. A Rush of Blood to the Head was 11 million. So they're looking for 10 million-plus with this CD. And I think they're going to get it.

KAPUR: But their competition is stiff. Coldplay's "Feet of Sound (ph)" lost the top single spot to this in its first week.

Malika Kapur, CNN, London.

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COSTELLO: The next hour of DAYBREAK starts right now.

It is Monday, June 6.

The mystery deepens around a high school graduate who went missing in Aruba one week ago. Natalie Holloway's family desperately seeking answers this morning, instead they are facing more questions.

Also, which way will the U.S. go when it comes to North Korea? We are getting some mixed messages this morning.

And the Michael Jackson trial is proving to be a real pain in the back.

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