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Shut it Down?; Missing in Aruba; Debt Cancellation
Aired June 13, 2005 - 05:00 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is Monday, June 13. More calls to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. A harsh interrogation leads to an even tougher question. What does the future hold for Guantanamo?
Also, fueling trade, fighting AIDS and forgiving debt. President Bush has Africa on the agenda.
And two leading plane makers stretch their wings. We'll take you on a first class trip.
ANNOUNCER: From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.
COSTELLO: And good morning to you. We'll have more on the Gitmo debate in just a minute.
Also ahead, five people in custody but no formal charges. We'll bring you the latest on the search for that missing Alabama teenager, Natalee Holloway.
And later, will we get a verdict in the Michael Jackson case, tomorrow, this week, ever? It is all up to the jury.
But first, "Now in the News," jury selection starts today on a 41-year-old case that became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He allegedly led a mob that killed three civil rights workers in 1964.
We are keeping a close eye on the Supreme Court, which could hand down some decisions about five hours from now. The court could rule on church-state questions surrounding the display of The Ten Commandments on government property.
Communications antennas bent like twigs. This after thunderstorms pounded much of Oklahoma. The storms also damaged buildings, uprooted trees and blew over tractor trailers. No reports of injuries, though.
Jacqui Jeras in for -- we are so happy you're with us this morning.
JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I am so glad to be here. Thanks for having me.
COSTELLO: We're glad to have you.
JERAS: Pretty nasty pictures out of Oklahoma, hey?
COSTELLO: Oh, you're not kidding.
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COSTELLO: Thank you, Jacqui.
JERAS: Yes.
COSTELLO: New controversy breaks down to the U.S. prison camp for terror suspects. We begin our coverage this morning with a renewed debate over Guantanamo Bay. It comes on the wake of a "TIME" magazine report detailing one inmate's ordeal. And wait until you hear it.
CNN Congressional Correspondent Joe Johns tells us about it.
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JOE JOHNS, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Spotlight on the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, where government designated enemy combatants are taken and interrogated. The question, should the place be closed? Even some congressional Republicans are starting to wonder.
SEN. CHUCK HAGEL (R), NEBRASKA: This can't be a situation where we just hold them forever and ever until they just die of old age. What are our plans here?
JOHNS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez asked of Florida also asked over the weekend whether the political costs of the camp are starting to outweigh the benefits.
But the view of many in the party controlling the Congress is that a prisoner at Gitmo gets pretty good treatment.
REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R), CALIFORNIA: We're going to serve him rice pilaf. We're going to serve him oven fried chicken. We're going to serve him three types of fruit and pita bread, and he's going top that all off with a glass of tea.
JOHNS: Among the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed al- Kahtani, a suspected 20th hijacker who never made it to the plane on September 11.
A new report in "TIME," magazine, citing a secret interrogation diary, says the government used stress strategies on him like standing for prolonged periods, isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair, playing on individual phobias, such as dogs." Interrogation techniques that are not new and some say are not over the line.
REP. PETE KING (D), NEW YORK: Quite frankly, if it's going to save American lives just by shaving someone's hair or by holding him in isolation, I think we have to keep this in context and not be so quick to criticize the military. JOHNS: A Pentagon statement said Guantanamo provides valuable intelligence information and said al-Kahtani's interrogation "was guided by a very detailed plan and conducted by trained professionals." The administration has been clear on its views of the Guantanamo detainees.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: They're enemy combatants for a reason, because they seek to do harm to the American people.
JOHNS: But the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee calls Guantanamo a legal black hole.
SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D), VERMONT: I think Guantanamo Bay has become a black eye for the United States. We have people there held under dubious reasons. We won't -- we are unwilling to follow even our own rules in holding them. We ought to either charge these people or release them.
JOHNS (on camera): The problem is, there's no clear alternative to Guantanamo right now. And as long as that's true, they say it's a waste of time to debate shutting it down.
Joe Johns, CNN, the White House.
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COSTELLO: But that debate shows no sign of dying down, and top administration officials are also weighing in. Vice President Cheney tells FOX News, "The important thing here is to understand that the people at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists, for the most part. We've already screened the detainees there and released a number, sent them back to their home countries. But what's left is hard core."
Some lawmakers say it's way too soon to think about closing Guantanamo. Others say it cannot come soon enough.
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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: I think that would be overreaction. We need a place like Guantanamo Bay to house people we take off the battlefield in the war on terror, to interrogate them, to get information to make us safer as a nation, and to hold them accountable. We've had problems at Guantanamo Bay, but I don't think we need to close it.
We'll need a place like it. Nobody's going to say move it to Florida, South Carolina or Vermont. So I think Cuba is as good a place as any.
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SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D), CALIFORNIA: There is some evidence, I think, that the Geneva Conventions have not always been followed. I think what Guantanamo does to us abroad negatively is enormous. And that has to be taken into the equation. So we will begin hearings on Wednesday in the Judiciary Committee on this subject.
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COSTELLO: The Senate's Foreign Relations Committee is also planning hearings on Guantanamo later this month.
On the Caribbean island of Aruba, searchers will be added again today. For two weeks now, they've been looking for 18-year-old Natalee Holloway. Five people now in custody, but no charges filed.
Karl Penhaul brings us up to date.
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KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Law enforcement sources close to the investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway have told CNN that a sample resembling blood and taken from one of the cars of the suspects confiscated on Thursday were sent to an FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis. Those sources also told CNN that the sample has proved negative. It wasn't blood, as first suspected.
On Saturday, a judge ordered three suspects detained on Thursday to be held in custody for a further eight days while police and prosecutors gather more evidence to find out clues about the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway and what happened to her. Those three suspects are the three young men last seen in Natalee Holloway's company on May the 30th, the day she disappeared, two weeks ago now.
Defense lawyers for the three had this to say...
DAVID KOCK, SATISH KALPOE'S ATTORNEY: My client states, keeps on stating that he's not guilty. And he hasn't -- he is not the one that I've been reading in the press that has confessed or something. Up till now, that I know, nobody has.
PENHAUL: Despite all the searches, despite all the interrogations, though, there's still no clue as to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway or her possible remains. And this week the police and prosecutors will continue those interrogations of a total of five suspects now, and continue to hunt for evidence as to what happened to Natalee Holloway.
Karl Penhaul, reporting from Palm Beach, Aruba.
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COSTELLO: In other news "Across America" now, five young children are dead after their house caught fire in downtown Philadelphia. Two adults suffered serious injuries after jumping out of the home's second-floor windows. Investigators are looking into whether iron security bars on the windows prevented those children from getting out.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I saw the flames coming out of the front door and stuff, and him and her jumping out the windows. But I didn't see no children. They was in a back room, all of them.
DENISE FLYNN, PHILADELPHIA POLICE: We pulled up with Engine 25. The flames were shooting out the front door, the downstairs. The mother screaming, "My babies are inside! My babies are inside!"
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Several attention-grabbing aftershocks followed a moderate earthquake in southern California. You can see some of the shaking going on in this store surveillance video. The quake, centered near Palm Springs, was felt as far away as Los Angeles and San Diego, and that's about 75 miles away. There are no reports of serious injuries or damage from the 5.6 magnitude quake.
It looks like there was a pretty good turnout for this year's Puerto Rican Day parade in New York City. The procession down 5th Avenue brought out marching bands, beauty queens and Mayor Bloomberg. Police say there were only a few arrests.
On the nation's roads and interstate highways the need for speed is a killer. Thirty-eight states have increased their speed limits since 1994, and as speed limits have increased, so, too, have speed- related fatalities. State troopers tend to give us a 10-mile-per-hour cushion before pulling someone over for speeding. So 55 is really 65, and 70 can be 80.
Transportation officials from around the nation are in Washington this week to try to find a way to get Americans to ease up on the pedal. Of course that seems an impossibility -- Jacqui.
JERAS: Yes, it does. Are you a speeder?
COSTELLO: Of course not.
JERAS: Admit it. You do. You do, don't you?
COSTELLO: I do drive 10 miles over the speed limit on a highway. I will admit to that.
JERAS: Yes, I agree. It seems like 70 here in Atlanta seems to be the threshold. Even if it's 55 or it's 65, as long as you're going 70, you seem to be OK and not get pulled over.
COSTELLO: That's true. And you sort of have to do that because everyone else is traveling that fast...
JERAS: Right.
COSTELLO: ... and you'll just get run over.
JERAS: I don't know if it's necessarily the speed. It seems to me that drivers are so much more aggressive these days. Wouldn't you say?
Everybody's in a hurry, everybody's running late. Traffic makes you even later already.
So all this leads us to our "Question of the Day," Carol. Life in the fast lane, do we need a national maximum speed limit? Email us at DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
COSTELLO: And we ask the question that way because, as you know, Jacqui, it depends on what part of the country you're in what the speed limit is.
JERAS: Right. Congress passed that 10 years ago.
COSTELLO: In some places -- right. In some places it's 70, some places it's 65. And those people in Washington are trying to say, wait a minute, speeds are too high because the higher the speed limit the more the accident rate.
JERAS: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: So they want to institute maybe 55 miles per hour throughout the country again. We don't know.
What do you think? DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
Still to come, the presidents of five African nations are guests at the White House today. While the president has pledged humanitarian aid, the African leaders are concerned about aid of another kind. Our Jeff Koinange live in Lagos this morning.
JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, I am Jeff Koinange in Lagos, Nigeria. Coming up, debt relief at last as huge amounts of (INAUDIBLE) giving debt relief to some 13 African countries with some $30 billion.
Stay with CNN.
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COSTELLO: Thank you, Jeff.
Also ahead, after six days without a verdict, the Michael Jackson jury gets back to work today. In 24 minutes we'll tell you what they're up against.
And people along the Gulf Coast over the weekend said, here we go again. But the tempest called Arlene turned out to be tepid. We'll take a look in 38 minutes.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday.
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COSTELLO: Time now for a quick market check. It's been a good day so far in the international markets. Japan's Nikkei up seven points. Britain's FTSE is up nearly 10. The German DAX is up about 11 points.
Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:16. Here's what's all new this morning.
A U.S. military reconstruction team comes under attack in southern Afghanistan this morning. Four team members have been wounded in an apparent roadside bombing.
Alabama teen Natalee Holloway has been missing in Aruba for two weeks now. Sources say the FBI tested a substance found in the car of one of the suspects of the case. It turns out that substance is not blood.
In money news, you're paying a bit less at the pump. Gas prices dropped more than a penny over the past three weeks, to an average of $2.13 a gallon.
In culture, the legendary rock band Pink Floyd is reuniting to play next month's Live 8 concert in London. It will be the first time Pink Floyd's lineup has included founder Roger Waters since he walked away from the band in 1981.
Ooh, that's awesome.
In sports, it was a bang-up day at the Pocono 500 in Pennsylvania. But Carl Edwards made his way through all of the problems to notch his second win of the season. It was the first time he'd ever run a race at the track.
To the forecast center and Jacqui.
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COSTELLO: That's a look at the latest headlines for you.
President Bush puts Africa at the top of his agenda today. The president is meeting with the leaders of five African nations at the White House. Specifically, the presidents of Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Nambia and Niger.
The focus on Africa comes at a time when the continent has become a global concern, triggered by humanitarian issues, worries about the spread of HIV and AIDS, and about poverty. The White House meeting comes as the world's richest nations agreed to write off debt owed by the world's poorest countries, including nations in Africa.
World finance ministers meeting in London have agreed to cancel $40 billion worth of debt for 18 countries. So what does it mean for those countries?
Let's go live to CNN's Jeff Koinange. He's in Lagos, Nigeria. He's the bureau chief there.
Good morning, Jeff. KOINANGE: Good morning there, Carol.
What does this mean for these African countries? Well, a lot of Africans are waking up this Monday morning to find that the countries have literally no debt. It's all been wiped out. That means that a lot of the money that was being taken to pay the foreign loan, the interest, well, they will now go to things like health, education, the will to make sure that the citizens of those countries do enjoy those benefits.
That's really, really important. So a lot of Africans very pleased about. The (INAUDIBLE), that's only part of the problem, and will still have to be increased as British Prime Minister Tony Blair says, to Africa in the next -- by the end of this decade, to like $60 billion., and by 2015, by $100 billion, just to make sure that publicly (ph) alleviation is reached at that stage.
Now, Carol, there's been more than that. Some African countries who were left out of this debt relief program have been a little bit (INAUDIBLE) immediately with Kenyan newspaper, (INAUDIBLE), that said, "Kenyans Shocked by Denial of Foreign (INAUDIBLE)."
Nigeria, as well, has been excluded, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo. So some countries are obviously -- and many others -- just hoping that in the second round of talks they will be included in some kind of debt relief -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jeff Koinange, live in -- live in Nigeria this morning.
Still to come on DAYBREAK, one is leaner, the other larger. But which is the better? Airbus and Boeing take their rivalry to Paris.
Did Arlene live up to expectations? Here's a hint: you will not hear Gulf Coast communities complaining.
You are watching DAYBREAK for Monday, June 13.
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JERAS: The DAYBREAK question of -- hey, if you haven't e-mailed us, get online, do it right now. Life in the fast lane: do we need a national maximum speed limit? Let us know what you think.
COSTELLO: I think the first part of your audio was cut off. It's DAYBREAK...
JERAS: It was?
COSTELLO: ... DAYBREAK -- you know, I'm here to save you, baby. DAYBREAK@CNN.com. That's DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
We're talking the speed limit this morning because there's a group of folks in Washington lobbying to having national speed limits. So maybe no more 65 on the highway for you.
Time for our DAYBREAK "Eye Opener" now.
More than a thousand people from across the country took part in the annual Chesapeake Bay Swim in Maryland. Six hundred of them tried to finish the four-and-a-half mile course that's known of one of the nation's top open water challenges. The event raised more than $120,000 for charity.
About 100 people took part in a naked bike ride in London. That's got to hurt.
JERAS: Those are pictures I don't want to see this morning. I just woke up.
COSTELLO: I know, Jacqui. But we like to, like, snap our viewers away quickly. And this will do it. These people dropped their drawers to protest the world's dependence on oil, as well as increasing pollution. You get that ride...
JERAS: Sometimes there are people that are naked that you don't want to see naked.
COSTELLO: Isn't that the way? This was also the start of National Bike Week in London.
From free humans to free little animals. Look how cute.
These are frisky little wolves. They are the latest addition to the Berlin Zoo. They're actually quadruplets that are just about a month old, and already they're fighting with the grownups over wanting to stay up late and howl at the moon.
JERAS: Sibling rivalry.
COSTELLO: How cute is that?
Australia out-clipped the world in the 17-nation sheep sheering competition. Competitors were judged on speed and on lack of nicks, even around those heavy neck wrinkles. We're told top sheerers can de-flock (ph) more than 200 sheep a day.
JERAS: The deadly neck wrinkle? Is that what it was?
COSTELLO: Neck wrinkles.
JERAS: I sheered a sheep before.
COSTELLO: Did you?
JERAS: I did, yes.
COSTELLO: How did it go?
JERAS: Had a family that grew up on a farm. So it was all right. It's not like I did the whole thing. Just, you know, a little buzz, buzz, and that was about it. Kind of fun.
COSTELLO: Braggart.
Here's what's all new in the next half-hour of DAYBREAK.
Airbus or Boeing? The worlds two biggest airline manufacturers go head to head in Paris with their latest machines.
Plus, jurors in the Michael Jackson case return to their deliberations today. What's happening behind closed doors? A look at the possibilities as DAYBREAK continues.
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ANNOUNCER: From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.
COSTELLO: And good morning to you. Thank you for waking up with us. Welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK.
Coming up in the next 30 minutes, thankfully its bark was much worse than its bite. Still, Tropical Storm Arlene made for a weary weekend for many residents of the Florida Panhandle.
And celebrities often try to get attention, but can the paparazzi go too far trying to get an exclusive shot? We'll take a look.
But first, "Now in the News," President Bush hosts five African presidents at the White House today. He recently pledged $15 billion to battle HIV and AIDS in Africa. In turn, African leaders will press Bush for a significant increase in economic aid, and to back a British plan for debt reduction.
Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles goes before an immigration judge today. He faces charges of illegally entering the U.S. earlier this year. Posada is accused of planning the deadly bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 in Caracas. Venezuela wants to retry him as a terrorist.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger goes on TV tonight to call for a special election. Irked by the slow pace of the legislature, Schwarzenegger wants voters to approve his initiatives that also give him broad new powers.
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Aired June 13, 2005 - 05:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is Monday, June 13. More calls to close the prison at Guantanamo Bay. A harsh interrogation leads to an even tougher question. What does the future hold for Guantanamo?
Also, fueling trade, fighting AIDS and forgiving debt. President Bush has Africa on the agenda.
And two leading plane makers stretch their wings. We'll take you on a first class trip.
ANNOUNCER: From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.
COSTELLO: And good morning to you. We'll have more on the Gitmo debate in just a minute.
Also ahead, five people in custody but no formal charges. We'll bring you the latest on the search for that missing Alabama teenager, Natalee Holloway.
And later, will we get a verdict in the Michael Jackson case, tomorrow, this week, ever? It is all up to the jury.
But first, "Now in the News," jury selection starts today on a 41-year-old case that became a rallying point for the civil rights movement. Edgar Ray Killen goes on trial in Philadelphia, Mississippi. He allegedly led a mob that killed three civil rights workers in 1964.
We are keeping a close eye on the Supreme Court, which could hand down some decisions about five hours from now. The court could rule on church-state questions surrounding the display of The Ten Commandments on government property.
Communications antennas bent like twigs. This after thunderstorms pounded much of Oklahoma. The storms also damaged buildings, uprooted trees and blew over tractor trailers. No reports of injuries, though.
Jacqui Jeras in for -- we are so happy you're with us this morning.
JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I am so glad to be here. Thanks for having me.
COSTELLO: We're glad to have you.
JERAS: Pretty nasty pictures out of Oklahoma, hey?
COSTELLO: Oh, you're not kidding.
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COSTELLO: Thank you, Jacqui.
JERAS: Yes.
COSTELLO: New controversy breaks down to the U.S. prison camp for terror suspects. We begin our coverage this morning with a renewed debate over Guantanamo Bay. It comes on the wake of a "TIME" magazine report detailing one inmate's ordeal. And wait until you hear it.
CNN Congressional Correspondent Joe Johns tells us about it.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JOE JOHNS, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Spotlight on the prison camp at Guantanamo Bay, where government designated enemy combatants are taken and interrogated. The question, should the place be closed? Even some congressional Republicans are starting to wonder.
SEN. CHUCK HAGEL (R), NEBRASKA: This can't be a situation where we just hold them forever and ever until they just die of old age. What are our plans here?
JOHNS: Republican Senator Mel Martinez asked of Florida also asked over the weekend whether the political costs of the camp are starting to outweigh the benefits.
But the view of many in the party controlling the Congress is that a prisoner at Gitmo gets pretty good treatment.
REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R), CALIFORNIA: We're going to serve him rice pilaf. We're going to serve him oven fried chicken. We're going to serve him three types of fruit and pita bread, and he's going top that all off with a glass of tea.
JOHNS: Among the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, Mohammed al- Kahtani, a suspected 20th hijacker who never made it to the plane on September 11.
A new report in "TIME," magazine, citing a secret interrogation diary, says the government used stress strategies on him like standing for prolonged periods, isolation for as long as 30 days, removal of clothing, forced shaving of facial hair, playing on individual phobias, such as dogs." Interrogation techniques that are not new and some say are not over the line.
REP. PETE KING (D), NEW YORK: Quite frankly, if it's going to save American lives just by shaving someone's hair or by holding him in isolation, I think we have to keep this in context and not be so quick to criticize the military. JOHNS: A Pentagon statement said Guantanamo provides valuable intelligence information and said al-Kahtani's interrogation "was guided by a very detailed plan and conducted by trained professionals." The administration has been clear on its views of the Guantanamo detainees.
SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: They're enemy combatants for a reason, because they seek to do harm to the American people.
JOHNS: But the top Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee calls Guantanamo a legal black hole.
SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D), VERMONT: I think Guantanamo Bay has become a black eye for the United States. We have people there held under dubious reasons. We won't -- we are unwilling to follow even our own rules in holding them. We ought to either charge these people or release them.
JOHNS (on camera): The problem is, there's no clear alternative to Guantanamo right now. And as long as that's true, they say it's a waste of time to debate shutting it down.
Joe Johns, CNN, the White House.
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COSTELLO: But that debate shows no sign of dying down, and top administration officials are also weighing in. Vice President Cheney tells FOX News, "The important thing here is to understand that the people at Guantanamo are bad people. I mean, these are terrorists, for the most part. We've already screened the detainees there and released a number, sent them back to their home countries. But what's left is hard core."
Some lawmakers say it's way too soon to think about closing Guantanamo. Others say it cannot come soon enough.
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SEN. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R), SOUTH CAROLINA: I think that would be overreaction. We need a place like Guantanamo Bay to house people we take off the battlefield in the war on terror, to interrogate them, to get information to make us safer as a nation, and to hold them accountable. We've had problems at Guantanamo Bay, but I don't think we need to close it.
We'll need a place like it. Nobody's going to say move it to Florida, South Carolina or Vermont. So I think Cuba is as good a place as any.
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SEN. DIANNE FEINSTEIN (D), CALIFORNIA: There is some evidence, I think, that the Geneva Conventions have not always been followed. I think what Guantanamo does to us abroad negatively is enormous. And that has to be taken into the equation. So we will begin hearings on Wednesday in the Judiciary Committee on this subject.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: The Senate's Foreign Relations Committee is also planning hearings on Guantanamo later this month.
On the Caribbean island of Aruba, searchers will be added again today. For two weeks now, they've been looking for 18-year-old Natalee Holloway. Five people now in custody, but no charges filed.
Karl Penhaul brings us up to date.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Law enforcement sources close to the investigation into the disappearance of Natalee Holloway have told CNN that a sample resembling blood and taken from one of the cars of the suspects confiscated on Thursday were sent to an FBI lab in Quantico, Virginia, for analysis. Those sources also told CNN that the sample has proved negative. It wasn't blood, as first suspected.
On Saturday, a judge ordered three suspects detained on Thursday to be held in custody for a further eight days while police and prosecutors gather more evidence to find out clues about the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway and what happened to her. Those three suspects are the three young men last seen in Natalee Holloway's company on May the 30th, the day she disappeared, two weeks ago now.
Defense lawyers for the three had this to say...
DAVID KOCK, SATISH KALPOE'S ATTORNEY: My client states, keeps on stating that he's not guilty. And he hasn't -- he is not the one that I've been reading in the press that has confessed or something. Up till now, that I know, nobody has.
PENHAUL: Despite all the searches, despite all the interrogations, though, there's still no clue as to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway or her possible remains. And this week the police and prosecutors will continue those interrogations of a total of five suspects now, and continue to hunt for evidence as to what happened to Natalee Holloway.
Karl Penhaul, reporting from Palm Beach, Aruba.
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COSTELLO: In other news "Across America" now, five young children are dead after their house caught fire in downtown Philadelphia. Two adults suffered serious injuries after jumping out of the home's second-floor windows. Investigators are looking into whether iron security bars on the windows prevented those children from getting out.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I saw the flames coming out of the front door and stuff, and him and her jumping out the windows. But I didn't see no children. They was in a back room, all of them.
DENISE FLYNN, PHILADELPHIA POLICE: We pulled up with Engine 25. The flames were shooting out the front door, the downstairs. The mother screaming, "My babies are inside! My babies are inside!"
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Several attention-grabbing aftershocks followed a moderate earthquake in southern California. You can see some of the shaking going on in this store surveillance video. The quake, centered near Palm Springs, was felt as far away as Los Angeles and San Diego, and that's about 75 miles away. There are no reports of serious injuries or damage from the 5.6 magnitude quake.
It looks like there was a pretty good turnout for this year's Puerto Rican Day parade in New York City. The procession down 5th Avenue brought out marching bands, beauty queens and Mayor Bloomberg. Police say there were only a few arrests.
On the nation's roads and interstate highways the need for speed is a killer. Thirty-eight states have increased their speed limits since 1994, and as speed limits have increased, so, too, have speed- related fatalities. State troopers tend to give us a 10-mile-per-hour cushion before pulling someone over for speeding. So 55 is really 65, and 70 can be 80.
Transportation officials from around the nation are in Washington this week to try to find a way to get Americans to ease up on the pedal. Of course that seems an impossibility -- Jacqui.
JERAS: Yes, it does. Are you a speeder?
COSTELLO: Of course not.
JERAS: Admit it. You do. You do, don't you?
COSTELLO: I do drive 10 miles over the speed limit on a highway. I will admit to that.
JERAS: Yes, I agree. It seems like 70 here in Atlanta seems to be the threshold. Even if it's 55 or it's 65, as long as you're going 70, you seem to be OK and not get pulled over.
COSTELLO: That's true. And you sort of have to do that because everyone else is traveling that fast...
JERAS: Right.
COSTELLO: ... and you'll just get run over.
JERAS: I don't know if it's necessarily the speed. It seems to me that drivers are so much more aggressive these days. Wouldn't you say?
Everybody's in a hurry, everybody's running late. Traffic makes you even later already.
So all this leads us to our "Question of the Day," Carol. Life in the fast lane, do we need a national maximum speed limit? Email us at DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
COSTELLO: And we ask the question that way because, as you know, Jacqui, it depends on what part of the country you're in what the speed limit is.
JERAS: Right. Congress passed that 10 years ago.
COSTELLO: In some places -- right. In some places it's 70, some places it's 65. And those people in Washington are trying to say, wait a minute, speeds are too high because the higher the speed limit the more the accident rate.
JERAS: Absolutely.
COSTELLO: So they want to institute maybe 55 miles per hour throughout the country again. We don't know.
What do you think? DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
Still to come, the presidents of five African nations are guests at the White House today. While the president has pledged humanitarian aid, the African leaders are concerned about aid of another kind. Our Jeff Koinange live in Lagos this morning.
JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, I am Jeff Koinange in Lagos, Nigeria. Coming up, debt relief at last as huge amounts of (INAUDIBLE) giving debt relief to some 13 African countries with some $30 billion.
Stay with CNN.
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COSTELLO: Thank you, Jeff.
Also ahead, after six days without a verdict, the Michael Jackson jury gets back to work today. In 24 minutes we'll tell you what they're up against.
And people along the Gulf Coast over the weekend said, here we go again. But the tempest called Arlene turned out to be tepid. We'll take a look in 38 minutes.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday.
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COSTELLO: Time now for a quick market check. It's been a good day so far in the international markets. Japan's Nikkei up seven points. Britain's FTSE is up nearly 10. The German DAX is up about 11 points.
Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:16. Here's what's all new this morning.
A U.S. military reconstruction team comes under attack in southern Afghanistan this morning. Four team members have been wounded in an apparent roadside bombing.
Alabama teen Natalee Holloway has been missing in Aruba for two weeks now. Sources say the FBI tested a substance found in the car of one of the suspects of the case. It turns out that substance is not blood.
In money news, you're paying a bit less at the pump. Gas prices dropped more than a penny over the past three weeks, to an average of $2.13 a gallon.
In culture, the legendary rock band Pink Floyd is reuniting to play next month's Live 8 concert in London. It will be the first time Pink Floyd's lineup has included founder Roger Waters since he walked away from the band in 1981.
Ooh, that's awesome.
In sports, it was a bang-up day at the Pocono 500 in Pennsylvania. But Carl Edwards made his way through all of the problems to notch his second win of the season. It was the first time he'd ever run a race at the track.
To the forecast center and Jacqui.
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COSTELLO: That's a look at the latest headlines for you.
President Bush puts Africa at the top of his agenda today. The president is meeting with the leaders of five African nations at the White House. Specifically, the presidents of Botswana, Ghana, Mozambique, Nambia and Niger.
The focus on Africa comes at a time when the continent has become a global concern, triggered by humanitarian issues, worries about the spread of HIV and AIDS, and about poverty. The White House meeting comes as the world's richest nations agreed to write off debt owed by the world's poorest countries, including nations in Africa.
World finance ministers meeting in London have agreed to cancel $40 billion worth of debt for 18 countries. So what does it mean for those countries?
Let's go live to CNN's Jeff Koinange. He's in Lagos, Nigeria. He's the bureau chief there.
Good morning, Jeff. KOINANGE: Good morning there, Carol.
What does this mean for these African countries? Well, a lot of Africans are waking up this Monday morning to find that the countries have literally no debt. It's all been wiped out. That means that a lot of the money that was being taken to pay the foreign loan, the interest, well, they will now go to things like health, education, the will to make sure that the citizens of those countries do enjoy those benefits.
That's really, really important. So a lot of Africans very pleased about. The (INAUDIBLE), that's only part of the problem, and will still have to be increased as British Prime Minister Tony Blair says, to Africa in the next -- by the end of this decade, to like $60 billion., and by 2015, by $100 billion, just to make sure that publicly (ph) alleviation is reached at that stage.
Now, Carol, there's been more than that. Some African countries who were left out of this debt relief program have been a little bit (INAUDIBLE) immediately with Kenyan newspaper, (INAUDIBLE), that said, "Kenyans Shocked by Denial of Foreign (INAUDIBLE)."
Nigeria, as well, has been excluded, South Africa, Democratic Republic of Congo. So some countries are obviously -- and many others -- just hoping that in the second round of talks they will be included in some kind of debt relief -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jeff Koinange, live in -- live in Nigeria this morning.
Still to come on DAYBREAK, one is leaner, the other larger. But which is the better? Airbus and Boeing take their rivalry to Paris.
Did Arlene live up to expectations? Here's a hint: you will not hear Gulf Coast communities complaining.
You are watching DAYBREAK for Monday, June 13.
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JERAS: The DAYBREAK question of -- hey, if you haven't e-mailed us, get online, do it right now. Life in the fast lane: do we need a national maximum speed limit? Let us know what you think.
COSTELLO: I think the first part of your audio was cut off. It's DAYBREAK...
JERAS: It was?
COSTELLO: ... DAYBREAK -- you know, I'm here to save you, baby. DAYBREAK@CNN.com. That's DAYBREAK@CNN.com.
We're talking the speed limit this morning because there's a group of folks in Washington lobbying to having national speed limits. So maybe no more 65 on the highway for you.
Time for our DAYBREAK "Eye Opener" now.
More than a thousand people from across the country took part in the annual Chesapeake Bay Swim in Maryland. Six hundred of them tried to finish the four-and-a-half mile course that's known of one of the nation's top open water challenges. The event raised more than $120,000 for charity.
About 100 people took part in a naked bike ride in London. That's got to hurt.
JERAS: Those are pictures I don't want to see this morning. I just woke up.
COSTELLO: I know, Jacqui. But we like to, like, snap our viewers away quickly. And this will do it. These people dropped their drawers to protest the world's dependence on oil, as well as increasing pollution. You get that ride...
JERAS: Sometimes there are people that are naked that you don't want to see naked.
COSTELLO: Isn't that the way? This was also the start of National Bike Week in London.
From free humans to free little animals. Look how cute.
These are frisky little wolves. They are the latest addition to the Berlin Zoo. They're actually quadruplets that are just about a month old, and already they're fighting with the grownups over wanting to stay up late and howl at the moon.
JERAS: Sibling rivalry.
COSTELLO: How cute is that?
Australia out-clipped the world in the 17-nation sheep sheering competition. Competitors were judged on speed and on lack of nicks, even around those heavy neck wrinkles. We're told top sheerers can de-flock (ph) more than 200 sheep a day.
JERAS: The deadly neck wrinkle? Is that what it was?
COSTELLO: Neck wrinkles.
JERAS: I sheered a sheep before.
COSTELLO: Did you?
JERAS: I did, yes.
COSTELLO: How did it go?
JERAS: Had a family that grew up on a farm. So it was all right. It's not like I did the whole thing. Just, you know, a little buzz, buzz, and that was about it. Kind of fun.
COSTELLO: Braggart.
Here's what's all new in the next half-hour of DAYBREAK.
Airbus or Boeing? The worlds two biggest airline manufacturers go head to head in Paris with their latest machines.
Plus, jurors in the Michael Jackson case return to their deliberations today. What's happening behind closed doors? A look at the possibilities as DAYBREAK continues.
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ANNOUNCER: From the Time Warner Center in New York, this is DAYBREAK with Carol Costello and Chad Myers.
COSTELLO: And good morning to you. Thank you for waking up with us. Welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK.
Coming up in the next 30 minutes, thankfully its bark was much worse than its bite. Still, Tropical Storm Arlene made for a weary weekend for many residents of the Florida Panhandle.
And celebrities often try to get attention, but can the paparazzi go too far trying to get an exclusive shot? We'll take a look.
But first, "Now in the News," President Bush hosts five African presidents at the White House today. He recently pledged $15 billion to battle HIV and AIDS in Africa. In turn, African leaders will press Bush for a significant increase in economic aid, and to back a British plan for debt reduction.
Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles goes before an immigration judge today. He faces charges of illegally entering the U.S. earlier this year. Posada is accused of planning the deadly bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 in Caracas. Venezuela wants to retry him as a terrorist.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger goes on TV tonight to call for a special election. Irked by the slow pace of the legislature, Schwarzenegger wants voters to approve his initiatives that also give him broad new powers.
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