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Frightening Torture or Fair Treatment?; Civil Rights Activists Look for Justice More Than 40 Years After Brutal Crime
Aired June 13, 2005 - 06:00 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is Monday, June 13.
Frightening torture or fair treatment? The debate over Gitmo heats up again. Should Gitmo go? One inmate's ordeal has the U.S. prison camp under a harsh spotlight this morning.
Also, civil rights activists look for justice more than 40 years after a brutal crime.
And it looks like Mike Tyson won't be doing much more of this. The former champ is down and he says he's out.
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 apparent end of Mike Tyson's civil rights in just a moment.
Also ahead, live to Japan, where an American who deserted during Vietnam is prepared to travel Stateside for the first time in 40 years.
But first, now in the news, evacuating the wounded in southern Afghanistan. This after a roadside bomb struck a U.S. military reconstruction team this morning. Four members were hurt. The teams performed small rebuilding projects and provide security for other aid workers.
The jurors in the Michael Jackson trial will be back at work today. They're set to begin their second week of deliberations in the molestation case.
And debt relief, trade and fighting AIDS -- those issues will top the agenda as President Bush meets with five African leaders today. The meeting comes as humanitarian issues in Africa spark global worries.
To the Forecast Center now.
Jacqui Jeras is here for Chad -- good morning, Jacqui.
JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, good morning, Carol.
And good morning, everybody. (WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: A tough interrogation leads to even tougher questions. Our top story this morning, Guantanamo Bay gets some unwanted attention in the wake of a "Time" magazine report.
(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)
COSTELLO (voice-over): Long and grueling interrogations, "Time" magazine says that's what Mohammad al-Kahtani faced at Guantanamo. U.S. officials believe he planned to be the 20th hijacker on 9/11, but he couldn't get into the country. He was turned away by an immigrations agent in August of 2001 as he tried to enter the country through the airport in Orlando, Florida.
The log book obtained by "Time" details daily question sessions that sometimes lasted 20 hours. It says al-Kahtani was forced to stand for long periods without a bathroom break. He was also forced to have his facial hair shaved. Pictures of scantily clad women were hung around his neck. And if he dozed off, interrogators woke him up by playing Christina Aguilera songs.
The report is sparking fresh debate about whether Guantanamo should be shut down.
SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D), VERMONT: We're the country that tells people that we adhere to the rule of law. We want other countries to adhere to the rule of law. And at Guantanamo, we are not.
REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R), CALIFORNIA: Nobody treats prisoners better than the United States. Even the people who tried to murder and did murder 5,000 Americans at 9/11 and killed lots of our soldiers on the battlefield, we treat them better than any other country in the world.
COSTELLO: So what now?
Vice President Cheney says there are no plans to close the prison at Guantanamo. But some analysts say shutting it down could solve a P.R. problem, but could also lead to terror suspects being housed under poorer conditions and with fewer legal rights.
(END VIDEO TAPE)
COSTELLO: In the meantime, the Pentagon says interrogators got valuable information from Mohammad al-Kahtani, including details on Osama bin Laden's health.
Now to a mother's anguish and desperate hope for her missing daughter. It has been two weeks since 18-year-old Natalee Holloway disappeared on the Caribbean island of Aruba. The search goes on and five suspects have been arrested. Holloway's mother says two former security guards being detained are innocent and they should be set free. But she has her suspicions about the three suspects who were with Natalee the night she disappeared, telling the Associated Press: "All three of those boys know what happened to her. They all know what they did with her that night."
In the meantime, local leaders say they're doing everything they can to find the missing teen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
NELSON ODUBER, ARUBAN PRIME MINISTER: Something has happened with one young girl with a bright future and we have an obligation to show the world that we care about people, and this case must be solved.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Natalee Holloway's mother says she appreciates everything the authorities have done, but won't be satisfied until she gets her daughter back.
An American Army deserter leaves his home in Japan to return to the United States for the first time in 40 years. He wants to see his 91-year-old mother, who lives in North Carolina.
Let's get more from CNN's Atika Shubert.
She's in Tokyo this morning -- hello, Atika.
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Charles Jenkins is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. It's bound to be a very emotional journey, as you say. It's been more than four decades since he stepped back in the United States. That's before 1965, when he made the fateful decision to desert his post in South Korea and cross into North Korea.
Now, as you know, he only left North Korea last year, when he surrounded himself to a military court -- excuse me -- military authorities here in Japan and was tried by a military court. He was found guilty of desertion and after serving a very brief sentence, he now has settled in northern Japan. And he says he wants to go see his family in the United States, particularly, as you mentioned, his aging mother.
And in a written statement to the press, he asked for privacy in what he said would be a very personal and emotional journey -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Because he hasn't seen his mother since he was in his 20s, right?
SHUBERT: That's right. It's been literally decades since he's seen his mother, anybody from his family. Really, he's been living in seclusion and isolation in North Korea for more than 40 years. So, as you can imagine, it's going -- there's a lot of catching up to do. But, also, it could be quite a shock for him to see how much the United States has changed in the last four decades.
COSTELLO: Boy, you're not kidding.
We'll keep following the story.
Atika Shubert live in Tokyo this morning.
Thank you.
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 jpg 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.
The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed by one of the family's pit bulls says she had to shut the child in the basement to protect him while she was out running errands. She locked the child in the basement, not the dog. The mom tells the "San Francisco Chronicle" she was worried about how one of the dogs was behaving. But she also says her kids got along great with the dogs and, as you know, the child got out of the basement and the dog killed the child.
Nearly 4,000 patients at two North Carolina hospitals were operated on with surgical instruments washed in hydraulic fluid instead of detergent. An agency investigating the incidents last year says patients were put in immediate jeopardy because the problem wasn't handled right away. The mix-up apparently occurred after an elevator company drained hydraulic fluid into detergent barrels, which were mistakenly supplied to the hospital.
New York City's Olympic dreams may be fading, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn't ready to give up yet. He announced a Plan B to try and lure the 2012 Games to the city. It involves a new stadium to be built next to Shea Stadium in Queens.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, NEW YORK: The Olympic stadium will be just 16 minutes from the Olympic Village and 24 minutes from the main hotel complex. We will move quickly to present detailed plans to the IOC and the two international sports federations to ensure that the stadium meets the highest Olympic standards in all technical venue requirements.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: The financing failure of the proposed Manhattan stadium deal may have scuttled New York's chances at the Games. The 2012 host site will be announced on July 6.
Still to come this hour, when they write the history books, his name will probably be right there with the likes of making Muhammad Ali. So why is Mike Tyson calling it quits?
And when your favorite TV show premiers this fall, you may see fewer diaper and toothpaste commercials. We'll tell you why.
And then later, the murders that shocked a community, inspired a film and four decades later are set to fill a courtroom.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: A fiery tragedy in Philadelphia. Investigators are trying to find out what sparked a fast moving house fire that killed five children. Let's head live to Philadelphia now, where Amy Buckman from our affiliate WPVI has the latest -- good morning, Amy.
AMY BUCKMAN, WPVI CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
If you take a look behind me, you can see the house where this fire occurred yesterday morning. It's a fire that firefighters had under control in just nine minutes. But that was not quickly enough to save the lives of five young children, all under the age of five, who were trapped inside.
Neighbors tell us that on Saturday night, the three sisters who lived here, along with their two little cousins who were visiting, had spent the evening playing outside in a wading pool. And by Sunday morning, all five of those children were dead.
The parents jumped out of the front second floor windows. The mother suffering burns over more than two thirds of her body. The father was treated at a hospital and released. Both firefighters and police rushed into the burning home yesterday morning to try to rescue the children. Some of the police officers carried the children to their cars to rush them to the hospital. But, again, all were pronounced dead on arrival.
The three sisters were ages five, four and two. Their cousins, a 5-year-old girl and a little boy who wasn't even one. And now fire investigators and detectives are trying to determine the cause of this blaze -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Yes, because the house went up so quickly. In nine minutes it was totally on fire.
Why was that?
BUCKMAN: Well, we talked to the fire commissioner about that yesterday. And he said that as many older homes in this area do, this house had wood paneling on the inside. And the fire, it seems, became trapped between the wood paneling and the wall. There was air in there that fueled the fire and that caused the whole house to just go up like kindling.
COSTELLO: But, you know, the other thing is, we had an interview on earlier from a police officer in Philadelphia. She was in tears. I mean this really upset her. And, you know, we always forget about how emotionally tough, you know, these jobs are, being a police officer and firefighter in these circumstances.
BUCKMAN: Well, our police commissioner said yesterday he had spent many years working as a homicide detective. But there's something about the deaths of children that gets to even the most hardened officers who deal with these kinds of situations all the time. And, in fact, both the police and fire departments have therapists coming into the districts and to the fire stations that were involved in this scene yesterday to try to help those officers cope with what they saw, especially because all of their efforts came to naught and all five of these children did die.
COSTELLO: Amy Buckman reporting live for us from Philadelphia.
Thank you.
Your news, money, weather and sports.
It's 6:14 Eastern.
Here's what's all new this morning.
Authorities in Aruba are not giving up hope that Natalee Holloway is still alive. It's now two weeks since she vanished. Searchers will be out again today. Five people in custody. No charges have been filed.
In money news, you're paying a bit less at the pump. Gas prices dropped more than a $0.01 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 Eight 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.
In sports, it was a bang-up day at the Pocono 500 in Pennsylvania. But Carl Edwards made his way through all the problems -- whoo -- to notch his second win of the season. It's the first time he'd ever run a race at this track.
To the Forecast Center -- and he was one happy man, Jacqui.
JERAS: I would say so. Nice back flip. He could have kept his knees together a little more, though, hey?
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COSTELLO: That's a look at the latest headlines for you.
Still to come on DAYBREAK, 44 knockouts later, Mike Tyson may be staying out of the ring for good. Hear his heartfelt good-bye to the sport -- I guess he loves it, he hates it. It was just, well, no. We're going to talk to an expert about Mike Tyson's psychological state. But first, we want to say good morning to St. Louis, Missouri and the Gateway Arch.
DAYBREAK will be right back.
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COSTELLO: Time now for a little "Business Buzz."
T-Mobile says its network of wireless Internet access points known as Hot Spots is growing at a rapid pace. The company says in the past three months, about three million people logged in at a T- Mobile hot spot compared to eight million during all of last year. T- Mobile hot spots are located in such places are Starbucks, FedEx and Borders.
Shoes like Nike's Air Force One low tops may help give the shoe maker a leg up in the markets. "Barron's" financial weekly projects shares of Nike should surpass $100 in a year.
The biggest TV advertiser may be cutting its ad spending.
Carrie Lee tells us why Procter & Gamble is cutting back -- good morning, Carrie.
CARRIE LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol.
This is potentially a very big deal. Procter & Gamble, one of the biggest consumer products companies in the world, makes Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste, Pampers diapers. The company is cutting the amount of money it's spending in advance on television advertising. This, according to the "Wall Street Journal."
Currently, TV networks are now in the so-called up front season, when the networks try to sell ad time for the fall. But as of now, the "Journal" reports P&G will spend 25 percent less on advertising on cable and about 5 percent less on its network advertising. Now, these numbers aren't final. There's still time for it to buy more ads before the fall season actually starts. But consider that in 2004, P&G was the biggest buyer of TV ads, spending about $2.5 billion. That's over 80 percent of its ad budget.
Many company have expressed concern about the effectiveness of television ads lately, though. Popular digital video recorders like TiVo have hurt these ads, because viewers can skip right on through the commercials. So that's led a lot of big companies to move into product placement, the use of a company's products in a TV show.
Now, this could be a ploy for P&G. They could try to get in on the ad space later when prices might come down. But still, not boding very well for television advertising.
COSTELLO: I know, because times are changing. I mean soap operas...
LEE: They really are.
COSTELLO: Soap operas exist because, you know, the soap companies used to sponsor the entire program.
LEE: Exactly. And now it's kind of going full circle. Remember the old quiz shows, when they would have the name of the company right there with the contestants?
COSTELLO: Yes.
LEE: So we'll see what happens. But an interesting story in today's "Journal."
COSTELLO: Definitely.
A quick look at the futures?
LEE: Yes. The futures looking mixed right now. We've seen some lackluster trading lately, I have to say. A slew of economic data coming out this week. That's going to drive the sessions. So summer doldrums pretty much last week. But looking mixed at this point.
COSTELLO: OK, thank you, Carrie Lee.
LEE: Sure.
COSTELLO: Mike Tyson was once the most feared man in America. But now the once mighty fighter says he's ready to quit and possibly turn his attention to missionary work in Africa. Talk about a career change.
It came after Saturday night's loss to little known Kevin McBride.
Afterward, Tyson had some harsh words for himself and for boxing fans.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
MIKE TYSON, BOXER: My career has been over since 1990, you know? I'm willing to look on that stuff. Your guys defined me from fighting. Your guys, you know, when I look at my fans, they don't love me. They don't know me well enough to love me. They love what I do as a professional. They come to be entertained. I'm an entertainer. I'm a performer. I entertain them.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Joining me more to -- joining me to talk more about Tyson's troubles is the host of Showtime boxing, Nick Charles.
Good morning, Nick.
NICK CHARLES, HOST, SHOWTIME BOXING: Hi, Carol.
COSTELLO: You know, at first I, you know, I don't know how I felt when I heard this interview from Mike Tyson.
CHARLES: Well, I'll tell you how I felt. I've interviewed Mike Tyson probably more than any other athlete and I've been in the business for 30 years and I've spent probably 50, 75 hours with him and covered him for CNN, every one of his major fights.
I've heard this before. I know, though, this is a good sign for him in terms of this cathartic thing he's got to go through. Because his self-esteem is on the floor. I've never, never talked to a person with a worse opinion of themselves over the years. And that's really been Tyson's problem. These are words that -- I'm not saying he's mimicking, but at least lately he's been getting some psychological counseling. If you read that -- after the ear biting incident, he was interviewed by six doctors in Massachusetts. And I read the 100-page conclusions they came to. You know, he was still in denial at that time, saying well, I told these guys what they wanted to hear. This is -- I fed them these lines and such.
I think he's finally owning up and taking some responsibility for his actions in a way and...
COSTELLO: Maybe so. In the "Boston Globe" there was an interesting commentary. It says: "He'd had enough of being hit for a living, enough of seeing everyone around him leave with his money while he was left holding the bag, enough of being beaten, now even by someone with the rudimentary skills of McBride."
Tyson said: "I was tired. I just don't have it in my gut anymore."
CHARLES: Well, he did two weeks ago, Carol. You know, he was talking about training and how this is his refuge and this is where he defines himself and absolutely feels tangible.
So now he comes up against a guy -- and not to disparage Kevin McBride -- a guy who absolutely did nothing to win that fight. Tyson did everything to lose it. Tyson was absolutely a shot fighter. I mean he came to the realization hey, it's not that I don't want to do this anymore, it's that I can't do it anymore.
I don't want to get too technical for the audience, but short guys who expend so much energy to get into the position to succeed, to have to go inside and blow away guys, he should have eviscerated Kevin McBride in the old days. He's right about one thing, -- his last really great performance -- and I was there -- was against Razor Ruddock in Las Vegas in 1991. That's a long time ago.
COSTELLO: You know, we've all heard about how much money he's spent and how he's pretty much broke.
Can he afford to stop boxing?
CHARLES: He has no choice. You know, he owes the United States government millions of dollars in taxes. There was that bankruptcy settlement, Carol?
But they can't make him fight. This is a very dangerous game. You can't say well, I'm going to do this part-time, I'm a lawyer, I think I'll work a little bit, or I'm a mother with grown children, I'm going to go back and work maybe some weekends now. It's very dark in that ring. It is absolutely -- it's cruel and unforgiving. And that's what we saw. And the cold reality, Tyson's lost three of his last four fights. He's finished flat on his back bleeding against Lennox Lewis. Last year we saw him dangling helplessly on the ropes.
And in this fight Saturday night against a guy he should have just, as I said, evaporated, he was asking the referee almost to pick him up off the floor. He looked horrible.
So he can't fight anymore. It would be injurious to his own health, perhaps. He doesn't have it anymore. What else is he going to do? It's a real dilemma.
I understand the missionary work. I've had a soft spot for Mike Tyson for a long time. I think deep, dark, underneath this lost soul there's a decent person. I know he's a convicted rapist. He's done his time.
But he's in a real dilemma. The art of living the rest of his life, Carol, it could be a good thing for him, the missionary work and everything else. But it's going to be a colossal challenge for him. And how is he going to generate income? He is broke.
COSTELLO: Nick Charles joining DAYBREAK this morning.
Thanks.
CHARLES: OK, Carol.
COSTELLO: Now a look at some stories you might have missed over the weekend.
It wasn't another Ivan, that's for sure. Tropical storm Arlene kicked off the Atlantic hurricane season. It made landfill Saturday near the Florida-Alabama state line. The storm brought lots of rain and 60 mile an hour winds, but little damage. One person died, though, in a riptide in Miami.
A whole lot of shaking going on in southern California. A couple of aftershocks followed a moderate 5.6 magnitude earthquake in southern California. Here's what it looked like on a store surveillance camera. See it there? The quake, centered near Palm Springs, was felt as far away as Los Angeles and San Diego. That's about 75 miles.
Three decades after they were airlifted out of Vietnam, some war orphans are heading back home. Their trip marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Baby Lift, in which 3,000 Vietnamese children were airlifted to the United States during the fall of Saigon in April, 1975.
When we come back, Mississippi, 1964 -- a member of the Ku Klux Klan and three civil rights workers. What happened that night in a southern town will all come back to a judge and jury this week. We'll look at that case.
Plus, the mystery of a missing teenager from Alabama. And what did her mother say about three suspects? Live to Aruba when DAYBREAK returns.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: It is Monday, June 13.
Frightening torture or fair treatment? The debate over Gitmo heats up again. Should Gitmo go? One inmate's ordeal has the U.S. prison camp under a harsh spotlight this morning.
Also, civil rights activists look for justice more than 40 years after a brutal crime.
And it looks like Mike Tyson won't be doing much more of this. The former champ is down and he says he's out.
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 apparent end of Mike Tyson's civil rights in just a moment.
Also ahead, live to Japan, where an American who deserted during Vietnam is prepared to travel Stateside for the first time in 40 years.
But first, now in the news, evacuating the wounded in southern Afghanistan. This after a roadside bomb struck a U.S. military reconstruction team this morning. Four members were hurt. The teams performed small rebuilding projects and provide security for other aid workers.
The jurors in the Michael Jackson trial will be back at work today. They're set to begin their second week of deliberations in the molestation case.
And debt relief, trade and fighting AIDS -- those issues will top the agenda as President Bush meets with five African leaders today. The meeting comes as humanitarian issues in Africa spark global worries.
To the Forecast Center now.
Jacqui Jeras is here for Chad -- good morning, Jacqui.
JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, good morning, Carol.
And good morning, everybody. (WEATHER REPORT)
COSTELLO: A tough interrogation leads to even tougher questions. Our top story this morning, Guantanamo Bay gets some unwanted attention in the wake of a "Time" magazine report.
(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)
COSTELLO (voice-over): Long and grueling interrogations, "Time" magazine says that's what Mohammad al-Kahtani faced at Guantanamo. U.S. officials believe he planned to be the 20th hijacker on 9/11, but he couldn't get into the country. He was turned away by an immigrations agent in August of 2001 as he tried to enter the country through the airport in Orlando, Florida.
The log book obtained by "Time" details daily question sessions that sometimes lasted 20 hours. It says al-Kahtani was forced to stand for long periods without a bathroom break. He was also forced to have his facial hair shaved. Pictures of scantily clad women were hung around his neck. And if he dozed off, interrogators woke him up by playing Christina Aguilera songs.
The report is sparking fresh debate about whether Guantanamo should be shut down.
SEN. PATRICK LEAHY (D), VERMONT: We're the country that tells people that we adhere to the rule of law. We want other countries to adhere to the rule of law. And at Guantanamo, we are not.
REP. DUNCAN HUNTER (R), CALIFORNIA: Nobody treats prisoners better than the United States. Even the people who tried to murder and did murder 5,000 Americans at 9/11 and killed lots of our soldiers on the battlefield, we treat them better than any other country in the world.
COSTELLO: So what now?
Vice President Cheney says there are no plans to close the prison at Guantanamo. But some analysts say shutting it down could solve a P.R. problem, but could also lead to terror suspects being housed under poorer conditions and with fewer legal rights.
(END VIDEO TAPE)
COSTELLO: In the meantime, the Pentagon says interrogators got valuable information from Mohammad al-Kahtani, including details on Osama bin Laden's health.
Now to a mother's anguish and desperate hope for her missing daughter. It has been two weeks since 18-year-old Natalee Holloway disappeared on the Caribbean island of Aruba. The search goes on and five suspects have been arrested. Holloway's mother says two former security guards being detained are innocent and they should be set free. But she has her suspicions about the three suspects who were with Natalee the night she disappeared, telling the Associated Press: "All three of those boys know what happened to her. They all know what they did with her that night."
In the meantime, local leaders say they're doing everything they can to find the missing teen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
NELSON ODUBER, ARUBAN PRIME MINISTER: Something has happened with one young girl with a bright future and we have an obligation to show the world that we care about people, and this case must be solved.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: Natalee Holloway's mother says she appreciates everything the authorities have done, but won't be satisfied until she gets her daughter back.
An American Army deserter leaves his home in Japan to return to the United States for the first time in 40 years. He wants to see his 91-year-old mother, who lives in North Carolina.
Let's get more from CNN's Atika Shubert.
She's in Tokyo this morning -- hello, Atika.
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Carol.
Charles Jenkins is about to embark on the journey of a lifetime. It's bound to be a very emotional journey, as you say. It's been more than four decades since he stepped back in the United States. That's before 1965, when he made the fateful decision to desert his post in South Korea and cross into North Korea.
Now, as you know, he only left North Korea last year, when he surrounded himself to a military court -- excuse me -- military authorities here in Japan and was tried by a military court. He was found guilty of desertion and after serving a very brief sentence, he now has settled in northern Japan. And he says he wants to go see his family in the United States, particularly, as you mentioned, his aging mother.
And in a written statement to the press, he asked for privacy in what he said would be a very personal and emotional journey -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Because he hasn't seen his mother since he was in his 20s, right?
SHUBERT: That's right. It's been literally decades since he's seen his mother, anybody from his family. Really, he's been living in seclusion and isolation in North Korea for more than 40 years. So, as you can imagine, it's going -- there's a lot of catching up to do. But, also, it could be quite a shock for him to see how much the United States has changed in the last four decades.
COSTELLO: Boy, you're not kidding.
We'll keep following the story.
Atika Shubert live in Tokyo this morning.
Thank you.
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 jpg 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.
The mother of a 12-year-old boy killed by one of the family's pit bulls says she had to shut the child in the basement to protect him while she was out running errands. She locked the child in the basement, not the dog. The mom tells the "San Francisco Chronicle" she was worried about how one of the dogs was behaving. But she also says her kids got along great with the dogs and, as you know, the child got out of the basement and the dog killed the child.
Nearly 4,000 patients at two North Carolina hospitals were operated on with surgical instruments washed in hydraulic fluid instead of detergent. An agency investigating the incidents last year says patients were put in immediate jeopardy because the problem wasn't handled right away. The mix-up apparently occurred after an elevator company drained hydraulic fluid into detergent barrels, which were mistakenly supplied to the hospital.
New York City's Olympic dreams may be fading, but Mayor Michael Bloomberg isn't ready to give up yet. He announced a Plan B to try and lure the 2012 Games to the city. It involves a new stadium to be built next to Shea Stadium in Queens.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, NEW YORK: The Olympic stadium will be just 16 minutes from the Olympic Village and 24 minutes from the main hotel complex. We will move quickly to present detailed plans to the IOC and the two international sports federations to ensure that the stadium meets the highest Olympic standards in all technical venue requirements.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
COSTELLO: The financing failure of the proposed Manhattan stadium deal may have scuttled New York's chances at the Games. The 2012 host site will be announced on July 6.
Still to come this hour, when they write the history books, his name will probably be right there with the likes of making Muhammad Ali. So why is Mike Tyson calling it quits?
And when your favorite TV show premiers this fall, you may see fewer diaper and toothpaste commercials. We'll tell you why.
And then later, the murders that shocked a community, inspired a film and four decades later are set to fill a courtroom.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday. (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: A fiery tragedy in Philadelphia. Investigators are trying to find out what sparked a fast moving house fire that killed five children. Let's head live to Philadelphia now, where Amy Buckman from our affiliate WPVI has the latest -- good morning, Amy.
AMY BUCKMAN, WPVI CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Carol.
If you take a look behind me, you can see the house where this fire occurred yesterday morning. It's a fire that firefighters had under control in just nine minutes. But that was not quickly enough to save the lives of five young children, all under the age of five, who were trapped inside.
Neighbors tell us that on Saturday night, the three sisters who lived here, along with their two little cousins who were visiting, had spent the evening playing outside in a wading pool. And by Sunday morning, all five of those children were dead.
The parents jumped out of the front second floor windows. The mother suffering burns over more than two thirds of her body. The father was treated at a hospital and released. Both firefighters and police rushed into the burning home yesterday morning to try to rescue the children. Some of the police officers carried the children to their cars to rush them to the hospital. But, again, all were pronounced dead on arrival.
The three sisters were ages five, four and two. Their cousins, a 5-year-old girl and a little boy who wasn't even one. And now fire investigators and detectives are trying to determine the cause of this blaze -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Yes, because the house went up so quickly. In nine minutes it was totally on fire.
Why was that?
BUCKMAN: Well, we talked to the fire commissioner about that yesterday. And he said that as many older homes in this area do, this house had wood paneling on the inside. And the fire, it seems, became trapped between the wood paneling and the wall. There was air in there that fueled the fire and that caused the whole house to just go up like kindling.
COSTELLO: But, you know, the other thing is, we had an interview on earlier from a police officer in Philadelphia. She was in tears. I mean this really upset her. And, you know, we always forget about how emotionally tough, you know, these jobs are, being a police officer and firefighter in these circumstances.
BUCKMAN: Well, our police commissioner said yesterday he had spent many years working as a homicide detective. But there's something about the deaths of children that gets to even the most hardened officers who deal with these kinds of situations all the time. And, in fact, both the police and fire departments have therapists coming into the districts and to the fire stations that were involved in this scene yesterday to try to help those officers cope with what they saw, especially because all of their efforts came to naught and all five of these children did die.
COSTELLO: Amy Buckman reporting live for us from Philadelphia.
Thank you.
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Here's what's all new this morning.
Authorities in Aruba are not giving up hope that Natalee Holloway is still alive. It's now two weeks since she vanished. Searchers will be out again today. Five people in custody. No charges have been filed.
In money news, you're paying a bit less at the pump. Gas prices dropped more than a $0.01 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 Eight 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.
In sports, it was a bang-up day at the Pocono 500 in Pennsylvania. But Carl Edwards made his way through all the problems -- whoo -- to notch his second win of the season. It's the first time he'd ever run a race at this track.
To the Forecast Center -- and he was one happy man, Jacqui.
JERAS: I would say so. Nice back flip. He could have kept his knees together a little more, though, hey?
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COSTELLO: That's a look at the latest headlines for you.
Still to come on DAYBREAK, 44 knockouts later, Mike Tyson may be staying out of the ring for good. Hear his heartfelt good-bye to the sport -- I guess he loves it, he hates it. It was just, well, no. We're going to talk to an expert about Mike Tyson's psychological state. But first, we want to say good morning to St. Louis, Missouri and the Gateway Arch.
DAYBREAK will be right back.
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COSTELLO: Time now for a little "Business Buzz."
T-Mobile says its network of wireless Internet access points known as Hot Spots is growing at a rapid pace. The company says in the past three months, about three million people logged in at a T- Mobile hot spot compared to eight million during all of last year. T- Mobile hot spots are located in such places are Starbucks, FedEx and Borders.
Shoes like Nike's Air Force One low tops may help give the shoe maker a leg up in the markets. "Barron's" financial weekly projects shares of Nike should surpass $100 in a year.
The biggest TV advertiser may be cutting its ad spending.
Carrie Lee tells us why Procter & Gamble is cutting back -- good morning, Carrie.
CARRIE LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Carol.
This is potentially a very big deal. Procter & Gamble, one of the biggest consumer products companies in the world, makes Tide detergent, Crest toothpaste, Pampers diapers. The company is cutting the amount of money it's spending in advance on television advertising. This, according to the "Wall Street Journal."
Currently, TV networks are now in the so-called up front season, when the networks try to sell ad time for the fall. But as of now, the "Journal" reports P&G will spend 25 percent less on advertising on cable and about 5 percent less on its network advertising. Now, these numbers aren't final. There's still time for it to buy more ads before the fall season actually starts. But consider that in 2004, P&G was the biggest buyer of TV ads, spending about $2.5 billion. That's over 80 percent of its ad budget.
Many company have expressed concern about the effectiveness of television ads lately, though. Popular digital video recorders like TiVo have hurt these ads, because viewers can skip right on through the commercials. So that's led a lot of big companies to move into product placement, the use of a company's products in a TV show.
Now, this could be a ploy for P&G. They could try to get in on the ad space later when prices might come down. But still, not boding very well for television advertising.
COSTELLO: I know, because times are changing. I mean soap operas...
LEE: They really are.
COSTELLO: Soap operas exist because, you know, the soap companies used to sponsor the entire program.
LEE: Exactly. And now it's kind of going full circle. Remember the old quiz shows, when they would have the name of the company right there with the contestants?
COSTELLO: Yes.
LEE: So we'll see what happens. But an interesting story in today's "Journal."
COSTELLO: Definitely.
A quick look at the futures?
LEE: Yes. The futures looking mixed right now. We've seen some lackluster trading lately, I have to say. A slew of economic data coming out this week. That's going to drive the sessions. So summer doldrums pretty much last week. But looking mixed at this point.
COSTELLO: OK, thank you, Carrie Lee.
LEE: Sure.
COSTELLO: Mike Tyson was once the most feared man in America. But now the once mighty fighter says he's ready to quit and possibly turn his attention to missionary work in Africa. Talk about a career change.
It came after Saturday night's loss to little known Kevin McBride.
Afterward, Tyson had some harsh words for himself and for boxing fans.
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MIKE TYSON, BOXER: My career has been over since 1990, you know? I'm willing to look on that stuff. Your guys defined me from fighting. Your guys, you know, when I look at my fans, they don't love me. They don't know me well enough to love me. They love what I do as a professional. They come to be entertained. I'm an entertainer. I'm a performer. I entertain them.
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COSTELLO: Joining me more to -- joining me to talk more about Tyson's troubles is the host of Showtime boxing, Nick Charles.
Good morning, Nick.
NICK CHARLES, HOST, SHOWTIME BOXING: Hi, Carol.
COSTELLO: You know, at first I, you know, I don't know how I felt when I heard this interview from Mike Tyson.
CHARLES: Well, I'll tell you how I felt. I've interviewed Mike Tyson probably more than any other athlete and I've been in the business for 30 years and I've spent probably 50, 75 hours with him and covered him for CNN, every one of his major fights.
I've heard this before. I know, though, this is a good sign for him in terms of this cathartic thing he's got to go through. Because his self-esteem is on the floor. I've never, never talked to a person with a worse opinion of themselves over the years. And that's really been Tyson's problem. These are words that -- I'm not saying he's mimicking, but at least lately he's been getting some psychological counseling. If you read that -- after the ear biting incident, he was interviewed by six doctors in Massachusetts. And I read the 100-page conclusions they came to. You know, he was still in denial at that time, saying well, I told these guys what they wanted to hear. This is -- I fed them these lines and such.
I think he's finally owning up and taking some responsibility for his actions in a way and...
COSTELLO: Maybe so. In the "Boston Globe" there was an interesting commentary. It says: "He'd had enough of being hit for a living, enough of seeing everyone around him leave with his money while he was left holding the bag, enough of being beaten, now even by someone with the rudimentary skills of McBride."
Tyson said: "I was tired. I just don't have it in my gut anymore."
CHARLES: Well, he did two weeks ago, Carol. You know, he was talking about training and how this is his refuge and this is where he defines himself and absolutely feels tangible.
So now he comes up against a guy -- and not to disparage Kevin McBride -- a guy who absolutely did nothing to win that fight. Tyson did everything to lose it. Tyson was absolutely a shot fighter. I mean he came to the realization hey, it's not that I don't want to do this anymore, it's that I can't do it anymore.
I don't want to get too technical for the audience, but short guys who expend so much energy to get into the position to succeed, to have to go inside and blow away guys, he should have eviscerated Kevin McBride in the old days. He's right about one thing, -- his last really great performance -- and I was there -- was against Razor Ruddock in Las Vegas in 1991. That's a long time ago.
COSTELLO: You know, we've all heard about how much money he's spent and how he's pretty much broke.
Can he afford to stop boxing?
CHARLES: He has no choice. You know, he owes the United States government millions of dollars in taxes. There was that bankruptcy settlement, Carol?
But they can't make him fight. This is a very dangerous game. You can't say well, I'm going to do this part-time, I'm a lawyer, I think I'll work a little bit, or I'm a mother with grown children, I'm going to go back and work maybe some weekends now. It's very dark in that ring. It is absolutely -- it's cruel and unforgiving. And that's what we saw. And the cold reality, Tyson's lost three of his last four fights. He's finished flat on his back bleeding against Lennox Lewis. Last year we saw him dangling helplessly on the ropes.
And in this fight Saturday night against a guy he should have just, as I said, evaporated, he was asking the referee almost to pick him up off the floor. He looked horrible.
So he can't fight anymore. It would be injurious to his own health, perhaps. He doesn't have it anymore. What else is he going to do? It's a real dilemma.
I understand the missionary work. I've had a soft spot for Mike Tyson for a long time. I think deep, dark, underneath this lost soul there's a decent person. I know he's a convicted rapist. He's done his time.
But he's in a real dilemma. The art of living the rest of his life, Carol, it could be a good thing for him, the missionary work and everything else. But it's going to be a colossal challenge for him. And how is he going to generate income? He is broke.
COSTELLO: Nick Charles joining DAYBREAK this morning.
Thanks.
CHARLES: OK, Carol.
COSTELLO: Now a look at some stories you might have missed over the weekend.
It wasn't another Ivan, that's for sure. Tropical storm Arlene kicked off the Atlantic hurricane season. It made landfill Saturday near the Florida-Alabama state line. The storm brought lots of rain and 60 mile an hour winds, but little damage. One person died, though, in a riptide in Miami.
A whole lot of shaking going on in southern California. A couple of aftershocks followed a moderate 5.6 magnitude earthquake in southern California. Here's what it looked like on a store surveillance camera. See it there? The quake, centered near Palm Springs, was felt as far away as Los Angeles and San Diego. That's about 75 miles.
Three decades after they were airlifted out of Vietnam, some war orphans are heading back home. Their trip marks the 30th anniversary of Operation Baby Lift, in which 3,000 Vietnamese children were airlifted to the United States during the fall of Saigon in April, 1975.
When we come back, Mississippi, 1964 -- a member of the Ku Klux Klan and three civil rights workers. What happened that night in a southern town will all come back to a judge and jury this week. We'll look at that case.
Plus, the mystery of a missing teenager from Alabama. And what did her mother say about three suspects? Live to Aruba when DAYBREAK returns.
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