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Connection Between Series of Quakes?; Powerball Winner Reveals Identity; Angelina Jolie Goes to Washington

Aired June 16, 2005 - 08:30   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.


SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Skate boarder there.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: One way to commute, huh?

O'BRIEN: Fumbled a little in his moment of glory, but that's all right.

HEMMER: 8:30, everybody. We'll give him another shot next hour.

Coming up, a question for the geologists in our audience today. Why so many earthquakes this week? And it's only Thursday. We'll get to that. Could they be related perhaps?

O'BRIEN: Also this morning, the lucky person who won the $220 million power ball jackpot.

HEMMER: There he is.

O'BRIEN: There he is. He's smiling. Look how happy he is. He's the big winner. He's finally come forward. He's live in our studio. We'll find out why it took so long to reveal his identity.

HEMMER: 80 million smiles for that guy.

First to the headlines. Here's Carol Costello watching those today. Good morning, Carol.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. Good morning to all of you.

"Now in the News," we've just gotten word of a high level al Qaeda capture in Iraq. Abu Talha is described as al Qaeda's leader in Mosul. That's in northwestern Iraq. A U.S. military official says he was captured on Tuesday.

A judge in Aruba is expected to rule today on motions filed by lawyers for three young men held in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. In the meantime, police seized two cars and bagfuls of items from the home of a local judge whose son is one of the three suspects. Authorities did not say what led them to search the home or what exactly they took. Holloway has been missing since May 30th.

An Illinois senator is refusing to apologize for his criticism of alleged abuses at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. On the Senate floor Tuesday, Senator Dick Durbin said some might believe such actions were carried out by, quote, "Nazis, the Soviet and their gulags or some mad regime." Illinois Republican party chair asked Durbin to apologize, but Durbin issued a statement saying the Bush administration should apologize to Americans for abandoning the Geneva Conventions.

President Bush is attending a Hispanic prayer breakfast this morning. He is delivering remarks at the event right now in Washington. These are live pictures for you. Later, the president will focus on Medicare. He'll speak at the Department of Health and Human Services this afternoon.

And, they can see the light in southeast Texas. Nearly 100,000 customers temporarily lost power last night. The power company now saying high winds caused several transmission lines to fail at the same time. A power plant was then shut down as a precaution. In the meantime, authorities are trying to determine if several house fires are related to this power outage.

(WEATHER REPORT)

O'BRIEN: Earthquake anxiety, a fact of life for many Californians. A series of quakes, in fact, just this week has raised some new concerns about a possible seismic connection. Here's CNN's Peter Viles.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sunday a 5.2 magnitude earthquake shakes the California desert. Monday, it's a 7.8 shaker in Northern Chile. Tuesday morning, a swarm of quakes in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the biggest a 6.8. And then Tuesday night, tsunami fears after a 7.2 quake off the coast of Northern California.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Come here, let's get in the car.

VILES: What's going on here? Is this all a coincidence or a dangerous pattern in the giant quake and volcano zone that's known as the Ring of Fire? The official government explanation from the U.S. Geological Survey is that it's all a coincidence. But other experts aren't so sure.

Kate Hutton is known as the Earthquake Lady in southern California.

KATE HUTTON, CALTECH: And Crescent City is right in here.

VILES: She says it's possible that these quakes are actually triggering each other.

HUTTON: Where one very large earthquake such as the 7.8 in Chile yesterday sends out very strong seismic waves that pass through the crust. If it encounters a fault, which is about ready to break anyway, it might set it off. And we're looking into that to explain why we've had so many earthquakes in the last day.

VILES; And at the University of Southern California -- which helped produce this model of a quake underneath downtown L.A. -- one expert says it's possible the quakes are all part of a single event up and down the massive Pacific Plate.

TOM HENYEY, USC GEOPHYSICIST: These three earthquakes that have occurred recently are all along the margin of the Pacific Plate. And it's possible that the Pacific Plate has moved as a unit very suddenly all at once. And these earthquakes occurred where the stresses happen to be high.

VILES (on camera): Now, both this trigger theory and this Pacific Plate theory are just that -- they're just theories. And even if they're true, they don't really help us answer the question that most of us answered. And that is, what, if anything, does this cluster of earthquakes tell us about whether a bigger earthquake is on the way?

Peter Viles for CNN, Los Angeles.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

O'BRIEN: A tsunami warning that was issued shortly after Tuesday's quake was later canceled and there have been no reports of any damage or injuries -- Bill.

HEMMER: Let's talk dreams, Soledad. Everyone's dream to win the lottery. And the dream came true last month, at the end of May, for a powerball player in Idaho when the lucky numbers he had been playing for four years finally hit and boy, did he hit in a big way. Until today, the winner has refused to reveal his identity. Why the mystery?

Let's get some answers and say good morning to powerball winner Brad Duke out of Boise, Idaho. Rub some of that good luck on me, my friend. Good morning to you. Why did you choose to stay anonymous for three weeks? What were you trying to do in that period?

BRAD DUKE, POWERBALL WINNER: Well, I knew I had to protect myself with a legal team, get a financial team together and a public relations team and make sense to do that first before announcing, other than being in the spotlight. I thought I could do that more -- with a more clear head.

HEMMER: You sound like as if you had expected this or you had been prepared for this victory?

DUKE: I thought about it a lot, yes. In fact, when I called my father when I won, he said, well, if you're not getting married, then you won the Lottery. He guessed it right off the bat.

HEMMER: What's your dad's name?

DUKE: John.

HEMMER: He gives advice, doesn't he? Thank you, Mr. Duke. Winning numbers, 5, 7, 24, 28, 39. The powerball winner was 36. Had you played those numbers before?

DUKE: Oh, yes. Yes, I've played those off and on for a few years.

HEMMER: What do they mean to you? I had a system. I put together a system I thought would better my odds. And, actually, had screwed up on the system and picked two lines almost exactly the same and ended up winning on both of them. So I won the big -- the jackpot and another $5,000 on the very next line with those numbers.

HEMMER: Boy, that's some system, isn't it? We should all be so lucky. I hear you want to meet Metallica?

DUKE: Yes.

HEMMER: You're a fan?

DUKE: Yes.

HEMMER: I guess you could pay -- he could buy the band at this point, couldn't you?

DUKE: I don't know.

HEMMER: Or buy all their music.

DUKE: I'll check into it.

HEMMER: You apparently during your high school -- high school senior year, right? You grew up in Idaho. Which town?

DUKE: Salmon.

HEMMER: In Salmon, Idaho. And you wrote in yearbook that you wanted to be a millionaire by the age of...

DUKE: By the time I retired.

HEMMER: And how old are you?

DUKE: 33.

HEMMER: You beat it by a few years, didn't you?

DUKE: Yes.

HEMMER: Tell me how you're going to use the money, Brad?

DUKE: Well, the first thing that I always thought that I would do and am doing is taking care of my family. And so that took -- that was part of that two-week time frame, too, was getting all the trusts in place and figuring all the details out for my family.

HEMMER: How big is your family?

DUKE: I come from a family -- total of six and, of course, I want to take care of their families, as well.

HEMMER: You got a lot of friends? DUKE: I do have a lot of friends. I suppose I'm going to have much more.

HEMMER: Oh, boy, I guarantee you that. That list is going to grow. On the screen, I want you to watch this. $220 million was the jackpot. You chose the lump sum payment of what -- just over $84 million. So after taxes that's what you take home. And what you pay taxes, $125 million above that?

DUKE: Mmm hmm.

HEMMER: Why did you arrive at that? You wanted the money now to do what with it?

DUKE: I have a goal to -- in 15 years to reach a billion in total assets. And in order to do that I need more money to work with investments and in a quicker amount of time, so I can grow up quicker that way.

HEMMER: I read that today, $80 million will be transferred by wire in your account. Is today the day?

DUKE: Today's the day.

HEMMER: Wow.

DUKE: I know.

HEMMER: How does that make you feel, waking up this morning?

DUKE: I was nervous to meet you this morning.

HEMMER: Well, listen, I'm available here if you need to shed, you know, a million or two of your cash.

Nice to see you.

DUKE: Thank you.

HEMMER: All right. Going to play those winning numbers again? .

DUKE: Absolutely.

HEMMER: Yes?

DUKE: Yes.

HEMMER: Good deal. Enjoy Boise, OK.

DUKE: Thank you.

HEMMER: Brad Duke, identity revealed. The Powerball winner here -- Soledad.

O'BRIEN: I'm available, too, for a couple mil here or there, you know, if he's just giving it away. We can talk later.

HEMMER: Get in line.

O'BRIEN: Still to come on AMERICAN MORNING, actress Angelina Jolie talks about her labor of love.

Plus, we're "Paging Dr. Gupta" about what dads can do to protect their kids from danger at home. Those stories ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

Stay with us.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

O'BRIEN: Welcome back, everybody.

You've been hearing this lately: It is a seller's market in real estate these days. Joining us this morning, a couple tips on how to protect your greatest asset, Gerri Willis. She's in for Andy Serwer, and she's "Minding Your Business" this morning.

Good morning.

GERRI WILLIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Soledad.

Yes, you can make a mess in the housing market, but you're going to have to work really hard. The devil's in the details. Just number one, you've got to have some curb appeal going on. You want to give the people who come to see your house the warm and fuzzies. So make sure that you put some pretty plants out front, that you repaint your door, and then once you get inside the house, make sure that you do those special things like, you take away the family photographs, so that the family coming in can imagine their own photographs in the house.

O'BRIEN: I would imagine you put a little bit of money into cleaning it up, and that actually reaps some big benefits at the end of the day.

WILLIS: You bet.

O'BRIEN: So to paint, kind of cheap.

WILLIS: Yes, very cheap.

O'BRIEN: You say know the market, too. It's a good market?

WILLIS: It's a good market, but some places are better than others. You need to understand the comps in your neighborhood. How much are houses selling for per square foot? And you can make comparisons as well. Know the days on market, for example. This is a critical number that the professionals look at. This is simply the number of days it takes the average house to sell. Now if that number is moving south, you know that that's a hot market. If it's getting longer for houses to sell, you may take a while to sell your own house. You want to price it appropriately. O'BRIEN: Yes, and then people start thinking, if it's been on the market for four months, I don't have to make them a good offer; I can make a bad offer.

WILLIS: Absolutely.

O'BRIEN: Interesting. Put on a price tag. What does that mean.

WILLIS: You know, the price tag is the single most important thing you'll do when you sell your house. You've absolutely got to get it right. You can have a realtor do it for you or you can do it yourself. Keep in mind, though, that realtors they want to make as much money as they can, so they may put a pretty rich price on it.

O'BRIEN: Sell it yourself then. That just sounds to me like so much work.

WILLIS: It is so much work. You're absolutely right. But there are a lot of people who want to do it, and it makes sense for them. You know, not every market is seeing growth of 15 percent year over year. Some markets like Michigan, where selling on your own is very popular, growth has only been like 5 percent over the last year, which sounds big, but you may want to take that realtor's commission yourself of 6 percent, market it yourself. There's Web tools do it these days. It's a lot easier than you think.

O'BRIEN: You say get an agent on the cheap. How do you to that? You mean you can negotiate really all these things?

WILLIS: It's negotiable, believe it or not. In fact, the average commission is no longer six percent. It's south of that. It's five and change. So you've got to be able and willing to negotiate with your realtor, and I think what you'll find if you check out the averages for your area, it can be cheaper than you think.

O'BRIEN: Those percentage points really mean seriously real money.

WILLIS: That's right.

O'BRIEN: Gerri Willis, thanks. Great tips -- Bill.

WILLIS: You're welcome.

HEMMER: Fourteen minutes before the hour now.

Angelina Jolie, starring in the new movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" with Brad Pitt in case you have not heard. Angelina Jolie goes to Washington this week, and Andrea Koppel sat down with her, talking about her labor of love and also her wish for more children.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With her latest movie a box office smash, the real life "Mrs. Smith" came to Washington. But unlike the character she plays on screen, Angelina Jolie used her passion, not her punches, to win over this audience.

ANGELINA JOLIE, UNHCR GOODWILL AMBASSADOR: The people we speak about today are no different from us. And in fact they are us, and often they are the best of us.

KOPPEL: The people Jolie is talking about are an estimated 17 million refugees around the world. Last year the U.S. resettled 52,000 of them and contributed over $250 million to the U.N.'s work with refugees. A good start, said Jolie, but still not enough.

JOLIE: As much as America gives the most, they say -- can say they give the most money. When it's the percentage of what we have that we give, we actually give the least.

KOPPEL: For the last four years, the Oscar winning Jolie has left Hollywood's red carpet far behind and in between filming movies, traveled to refugee camps around the world as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency.

As art sometimes imitates life, for Jolie it was her role as an international aid worker in the movie "Beyond Borders" which inspired her to get involved.

In an interview with CNN, Jolie remembered the first time she saw a child die in a refugee camp.

JOLIE: And you know it was my first trip and my first moment and my thought was, being somebody from the states and had a bit of money, I thought well we'll just airlift him and take him to the hospital. And I can solve this in a second.

And then you suddenly would sound -- you know there's that moment where you look around and you realize that there are you know hundreds of thousands of people in the exact same situation and that a lot of these kids were going to die. And then I went home and I thought I should have at least taken one. And I'll always kick myself for not trying with just that one.

KOPPEL: A few years ago Jolie did adopt a Cambodian child, Maddox. And says she hopes to adopt again soon, perhaps from Africa.

Andrea Koppel, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HEMMER: About 12 minutes before the hour. Our special series, "Just For Dad," comes up in a moment here. Today the new dad Dr. Sanjay Gupta has advice on protecting your children from hidden dangers at home. Sanjay and his wife, Rebecca, gave birth just yesterday to baby girl. Nice story.

Back in a moment.

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O'BRIEN: Guess what? It's already father's day for our very own Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay and his wife Rebecca are the proud parents of a new baby girl. Her name is Sage Ila Gupta (ph). She was born on Wednesday at about seven and a half pounds.

And so, our series "Just for Dads" continues this morning and Sanjay shows us the steps that he's taking to get his home ready for baby Sage.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: If you had to say, pick one room in the house that was the most dangerous, what would it be?

MISTY CROFT, SAFETY EXPERT: Really either the kitchen or the bathroom. Those two places really have lots of things that kids can harm themselves with.

GUPTA: Let's go over to the stove, because that's always a concern. There are kids pulling stuff down. Is that right?

CROFT: Absolutely. And that's why we suggest to put some type of guard on your stove. And when you're cooking, you use the back burners and turn the handles toward the back.

GUPTA: I'm going to go down to child level here for a second, because immediately -- I'm down here and I'm -- you know, everything is exciting.

CROFT: My best suggestion is really to get rid of all the stuff that's underneath the cabinet that could be dangerous to a child.

GUPTA: So I'm cruising around the kitchen still and immediately, as a child, my attention is focused on the socket over here.

CROFT: These are actually not recommended, because children usually by the time they're two can figure out how to get those out and they can become choking hazards.

GUPTA: Straight to the mouth.

CROFT: Absolutely.

GUPTA: Plants are lovely, but maybe not such a good idea?

CROFT: No, because plants -- most are them poisonous. And if the plant isn't, the topsoil likely is.

GUPTA: Well, stairs seem like a real obvious concern. Kids can go tumbling down them. So how do you prevent that from happening?

CROFT: Well, we do recommend for there to be a gate at the top and bottom of the stairs.

GUPTA: Will this do the trick?

CROFT: That would. You just want to look for any type of gate that actually screws in. The other concern about the stairs are the banisters. These banisters -- if you can fit a coke can through, then your child can get through.

GUPTA: This is bad?

CROFT: Right.

GUPTA: This can go around the neck?

CROFT: Right. That and it could be choked on. These little pieces.

GUPTA: Stick it in the mouth?

CROFT: Yes.

GUPTA: One of the rooms that the child's going to spend a lot of time in is the nursery. What comes to your mind as you enter here?

CROFT: One thing about the crib is bumper pads are not recommended.

GUPTA: Not recommended?

CROFT: No.

GUPTA: Why is that? It seems like that would be a good idea.

CROFT: At first, it's a SIDS issue. They could actually suffocate on the bumper pads. And then, after they start to pull up, them they could step on it and use it to get out of the crib.

GUPTA: Do a little Houdini.

CROFT: Right. This whole area is a no no. We have lots of things that your child could poison themselves with.

GUPTA: Yes, I mean, again...

CROFT: There's medication down there. There's creams, baby oil.

GUPTA: OK, Missy, so is it important to baby proof every room in the house?

CROFT: Not necessary. If there are rooms that you don't go in very often, you can shut the door and put a lock on there and it's fine.

GUPTA: Average size house, how much is this going to cost somebody?

CROFT: It can range you anywhere between $200, all the way up to thousands.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

GUPTA: Tomorrow in the final part of our series "Just for Dad," the controversy over cameras in the delivery room. That's coming up tomorrow right here on AMERICAN MORNING.

HEMMER: I'm going to take you to Washington state quickly here. A kitten finding itself in a headlock. Look at this. Fire fighters Wednesday rescuing the kitten. It was stuck in a steel pipe. The owner found the kitten crying for help. Took fire fighters two hours working carefully with a saw. The owner said the kitten, named Knucklehead, is doing OK.

O'BRIEN: Was the kitten named Knucklehead before the pipe incident or after the pipe incident?

HEMMER: I think at this point, it's times two, huh? Knucklehead. Knucklehead. Also, a runaway dog snarling rush hour traffic on a Florida interstate on Wednesday. Love these chases here. The dog's a chow. Eluded state troopers, animal control officers, darting in and out of traffic, between lanes on Interstate 95 near Miami. The HOV lane sporadically shut down for about an hour. Officials finally captured the dog, which was sent to animal control for some treatment.

O'BRIEN: So happy endings all around.

HEMMER: I would say. Remember that dog out here on what, the LIE? In and out of traffic, back and forth.

O'BRIEN: Oh, it's scary.

HEMMER: Phew.

In a moment here, another security scare for Britain's royal family. This time Prince Harry is at the center of it. We'll get you live to London, ahead here on AMERICAN MORNING.

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Aired June 16, 2005 - 08:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Skate boarder there.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: One way to commute, huh?

O'BRIEN: Fumbled a little in his moment of glory, but that's all right.

HEMMER: 8:30, everybody. We'll give him another shot next hour.

Coming up, a question for the geologists in our audience today. Why so many earthquakes this week? And it's only Thursday. We'll get to that. Could they be related perhaps?

O'BRIEN: Also this morning, the lucky person who won the $220 million power ball jackpot.

HEMMER: There he is.

O'BRIEN: There he is. He's smiling. Look how happy he is. He's the big winner. He's finally come forward. He's live in our studio. We'll find out why it took so long to reveal his identity.

HEMMER: 80 million smiles for that guy.

First to the headlines. Here's Carol Costello watching those today. Good morning, Carol.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning. Good morning to all of you.

"Now in the News," we've just gotten word of a high level al Qaeda capture in Iraq. Abu Talha is described as al Qaeda's leader in Mosul. That's in northwestern Iraq. A U.S. military official says he was captured on Tuesday.

A judge in Aruba is expected to rule today on motions filed by lawyers for three young men held in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. In the meantime, police seized two cars and bagfuls of items from the home of a local judge whose son is one of the three suspects. Authorities did not say what led them to search the home or what exactly they took. Holloway has been missing since May 30th.

An Illinois senator is refusing to apologize for his criticism of alleged abuses at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp. On the Senate floor Tuesday, Senator Dick Durbin said some might believe such actions were carried out by, quote, "Nazis, the Soviet and their gulags or some mad regime." Illinois Republican party chair asked Durbin to apologize, but Durbin issued a statement saying the Bush administration should apologize to Americans for abandoning the Geneva Conventions.

President Bush is attending a Hispanic prayer breakfast this morning. He is delivering remarks at the event right now in Washington. These are live pictures for you. Later, the president will focus on Medicare. He'll speak at the Department of Health and Human Services this afternoon.

And, they can see the light in southeast Texas. Nearly 100,000 customers temporarily lost power last night. The power company now saying high winds caused several transmission lines to fail at the same time. A power plant was then shut down as a precaution. In the meantime, authorities are trying to determine if several house fires are related to this power outage.

(WEATHER REPORT)

O'BRIEN: Earthquake anxiety, a fact of life for many Californians. A series of quakes, in fact, just this week has raised some new concerns about a possible seismic connection. Here's CNN's Peter Viles.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sunday a 5.2 magnitude earthquake shakes the California desert. Monday, it's a 7.8 shaker in Northern Chile. Tuesday morning, a swarm of quakes in Alaska's Aleutian Islands, the biggest a 6.8. And then Tuesday night, tsunami fears after a 7.2 quake off the coast of Northern California.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Come here, let's get in the car.

VILES: What's going on here? Is this all a coincidence or a dangerous pattern in the giant quake and volcano zone that's known as the Ring of Fire? The official government explanation from the U.S. Geological Survey is that it's all a coincidence. But other experts aren't so sure.

Kate Hutton is known as the Earthquake Lady in southern California.

KATE HUTTON, CALTECH: And Crescent City is right in here.

VILES: She says it's possible that these quakes are actually triggering each other.

HUTTON: Where one very large earthquake such as the 7.8 in Chile yesterday sends out very strong seismic waves that pass through the crust. If it encounters a fault, which is about ready to break anyway, it might set it off. And we're looking into that to explain why we've had so many earthquakes in the last day.

VILES; And at the University of Southern California -- which helped produce this model of a quake underneath downtown L.A. -- one expert says it's possible the quakes are all part of a single event up and down the massive Pacific Plate.

TOM HENYEY, USC GEOPHYSICIST: These three earthquakes that have occurred recently are all along the margin of the Pacific Plate. And it's possible that the Pacific Plate has moved as a unit very suddenly all at once. And these earthquakes occurred where the stresses happen to be high.

VILES (on camera): Now, both this trigger theory and this Pacific Plate theory are just that -- they're just theories. And even if they're true, they don't really help us answer the question that most of us answered. And that is, what, if anything, does this cluster of earthquakes tell us about whether a bigger earthquake is on the way?

Peter Viles for CNN, Los Angeles.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

O'BRIEN: A tsunami warning that was issued shortly after Tuesday's quake was later canceled and there have been no reports of any damage or injuries -- Bill.

HEMMER: Let's talk dreams, Soledad. Everyone's dream to win the lottery. And the dream came true last month, at the end of May, for a powerball player in Idaho when the lucky numbers he had been playing for four years finally hit and boy, did he hit in a big way. Until today, the winner has refused to reveal his identity. Why the mystery?

Let's get some answers and say good morning to powerball winner Brad Duke out of Boise, Idaho. Rub some of that good luck on me, my friend. Good morning to you. Why did you choose to stay anonymous for three weeks? What were you trying to do in that period?

BRAD DUKE, POWERBALL WINNER: Well, I knew I had to protect myself with a legal team, get a financial team together and a public relations team and make sense to do that first before announcing, other than being in the spotlight. I thought I could do that more -- with a more clear head.

HEMMER: You sound like as if you had expected this or you had been prepared for this victory?

DUKE: I thought about it a lot, yes. In fact, when I called my father when I won, he said, well, if you're not getting married, then you won the Lottery. He guessed it right off the bat.

HEMMER: What's your dad's name?

DUKE: John.

HEMMER: He gives advice, doesn't he? Thank you, Mr. Duke. Winning numbers, 5, 7, 24, 28, 39. The powerball winner was 36. Had you played those numbers before?

DUKE: Oh, yes. Yes, I've played those off and on for a few years.

HEMMER: What do they mean to you? I had a system. I put together a system I thought would better my odds. And, actually, had screwed up on the system and picked two lines almost exactly the same and ended up winning on both of them. So I won the big -- the jackpot and another $5,000 on the very next line with those numbers.

HEMMER: Boy, that's some system, isn't it? We should all be so lucky. I hear you want to meet Metallica?

DUKE: Yes.

HEMMER: You're a fan?

DUKE: Yes.

HEMMER: I guess you could pay -- he could buy the band at this point, couldn't you?

DUKE: I don't know.

HEMMER: Or buy all their music.

DUKE: I'll check into it.

HEMMER: You apparently during your high school -- high school senior year, right? You grew up in Idaho. Which town?

DUKE: Salmon.

HEMMER: In Salmon, Idaho. And you wrote in yearbook that you wanted to be a millionaire by the age of...

DUKE: By the time I retired.

HEMMER: And how old are you?

DUKE: 33.

HEMMER: You beat it by a few years, didn't you?

DUKE: Yes.

HEMMER: Tell me how you're going to use the money, Brad?

DUKE: Well, the first thing that I always thought that I would do and am doing is taking care of my family. And so that took -- that was part of that two-week time frame, too, was getting all the trusts in place and figuring all the details out for my family.

HEMMER: How big is your family?

DUKE: I come from a family -- total of six and, of course, I want to take care of their families, as well.

HEMMER: You got a lot of friends? DUKE: I do have a lot of friends. I suppose I'm going to have much more.

HEMMER: Oh, boy, I guarantee you that. That list is going to grow. On the screen, I want you to watch this. $220 million was the jackpot. You chose the lump sum payment of what -- just over $84 million. So after taxes that's what you take home. And what you pay taxes, $125 million above that?

DUKE: Mmm hmm.

HEMMER: Why did you arrive at that? You wanted the money now to do what with it?

DUKE: I have a goal to -- in 15 years to reach a billion in total assets. And in order to do that I need more money to work with investments and in a quicker amount of time, so I can grow up quicker that way.

HEMMER: I read that today, $80 million will be transferred by wire in your account. Is today the day?

DUKE: Today's the day.

HEMMER: Wow.

DUKE: I know.

HEMMER: How does that make you feel, waking up this morning?

DUKE: I was nervous to meet you this morning.

HEMMER: Well, listen, I'm available here if you need to shed, you know, a million or two of your cash.

Nice to see you.

DUKE: Thank you.

HEMMER: All right. Going to play those winning numbers again? .

DUKE: Absolutely.

HEMMER: Yes?

DUKE: Yes.

HEMMER: Good deal. Enjoy Boise, OK.

DUKE: Thank you.

HEMMER: Brad Duke, identity revealed. The Powerball winner here -- Soledad.

O'BRIEN: I'm available, too, for a couple mil here or there, you know, if he's just giving it away. We can talk later.

HEMMER: Get in line.

O'BRIEN: Still to come on AMERICAN MORNING, actress Angelina Jolie talks about her labor of love.

Plus, we're "Paging Dr. Gupta" about what dads can do to protect their kids from danger at home. Those stories ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

Stay with us.

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O'BRIEN: Welcome back, everybody.

You've been hearing this lately: It is a seller's market in real estate these days. Joining us this morning, a couple tips on how to protect your greatest asset, Gerri Willis. She's in for Andy Serwer, and she's "Minding Your Business" this morning.

Good morning.

GERRI WILLIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Soledad.

Yes, you can make a mess in the housing market, but you're going to have to work really hard. The devil's in the details. Just number one, you've got to have some curb appeal going on. You want to give the people who come to see your house the warm and fuzzies. So make sure that you put some pretty plants out front, that you repaint your door, and then once you get inside the house, make sure that you do those special things like, you take away the family photographs, so that the family coming in can imagine their own photographs in the house.

O'BRIEN: I would imagine you put a little bit of money into cleaning it up, and that actually reaps some big benefits at the end of the day.

WILLIS: You bet.

O'BRIEN: So to paint, kind of cheap.

WILLIS: Yes, very cheap.

O'BRIEN: You say know the market, too. It's a good market?

WILLIS: It's a good market, but some places are better than others. You need to understand the comps in your neighborhood. How much are houses selling for per square foot? And you can make comparisons as well. Know the days on market, for example. This is a critical number that the professionals look at. This is simply the number of days it takes the average house to sell. Now if that number is moving south, you know that that's a hot market. If it's getting longer for houses to sell, you may take a while to sell your own house. You want to price it appropriately. O'BRIEN: Yes, and then people start thinking, if it's been on the market for four months, I don't have to make them a good offer; I can make a bad offer.

WILLIS: Absolutely.

O'BRIEN: Interesting. Put on a price tag. What does that mean.

WILLIS: You know, the price tag is the single most important thing you'll do when you sell your house. You've absolutely got to get it right. You can have a realtor do it for you or you can do it yourself. Keep in mind, though, that realtors they want to make as much money as they can, so they may put a pretty rich price on it.

O'BRIEN: Sell it yourself then. That just sounds to me like so much work.

WILLIS: It is so much work. You're absolutely right. But there are a lot of people who want to do it, and it makes sense for them. You know, not every market is seeing growth of 15 percent year over year. Some markets like Michigan, where selling on your own is very popular, growth has only been like 5 percent over the last year, which sounds big, but you may want to take that realtor's commission yourself of 6 percent, market it yourself. There's Web tools do it these days. It's a lot easier than you think.

O'BRIEN: You say get an agent on the cheap. How do you to that? You mean you can negotiate really all these things?

WILLIS: It's negotiable, believe it or not. In fact, the average commission is no longer six percent. It's south of that. It's five and change. So you've got to be able and willing to negotiate with your realtor, and I think what you'll find if you check out the averages for your area, it can be cheaper than you think.

O'BRIEN: Those percentage points really mean seriously real money.

WILLIS: That's right.

O'BRIEN: Gerri Willis, thanks. Great tips -- Bill.

WILLIS: You're welcome.

HEMMER: Fourteen minutes before the hour now.

Angelina Jolie, starring in the new movie "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" with Brad Pitt in case you have not heard. Angelina Jolie goes to Washington this week, and Andrea Koppel sat down with her, talking about her labor of love and also her wish for more children.

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ANDREA KOPPEL, CNN STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With her latest movie a box office smash, the real life "Mrs. Smith" came to Washington. But unlike the character she plays on screen, Angelina Jolie used her passion, not her punches, to win over this audience.

ANGELINA JOLIE, UNHCR GOODWILL AMBASSADOR: The people we speak about today are no different from us. And in fact they are us, and often they are the best of us.

KOPPEL: The people Jolie is talking about are an estimated 17 million refugees around the world. Last year the U.S. resettled 52,000 of them and contributed over $250 million to the U.N.'s work with refugees. A good start, said Jolie, but still not enough.

JOLIE: As much as America gives the most, they say -- can say they give the most money. When it's the percentage of what we have that we give, we actually give the least.

KOPPEL: For the last four years, the Oscar winning Jolie has left Hollywood's red carpet far behind and in between filming movies, traveled to refugee camps around the world as a goodwill ambassador for the United Nations Refugee Agency.

As art sometimes imitates life, for Jolie it was her role as an international aid worker in the movie "Beyond Borders" which inspired her to get involved.

In an interview with CNN, Jolie remembered the first time she saw a child die in a refugee camp.

JOLIE: And you know it was my first trip and my first moment and my thought was, being somebody from the states and had a bit of money, I thought well we'll just airlift him and take him to the hospital. And I can solve this in a second.

And then you suddenly would sound -- you know there's that moment where you look around and you realize that there are you know hundreds of thousands of people in the exact same situation and that a lot of these kids were going to die. And then I went home and I thought I should have at least taken one. And I'll always kick myself for not trying with just that one.

KOPPEL: A few years ago Jolie did adopt a Cambodian child, Maddox. And says she hopes to adopt again soon, perhaps from Africa.

Andrea Koppel, CNN, Washington.

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HEMMER: About 12 minutes before the hour. Our special series, "Just For Dad," comes up in a moment here. Today the new dad Dr. Sanjay Gupta has advice on protecting your children from hidden dangers at home. Sanjay and his wife, Rebecca, gave birth just yesterday to baby girl. Nice story.

Back in a moment.

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O'BRIEN: Guess what? It's already father's day for our very own Dr. Sanjay Gupta. Sanjay and his wife Rebecca are the proud parents of a new baby girl. Her name is Sage Ila Gupta (ph). She was born on Wednesday at about seven and a half pounds.

And so, our series "Just for Dads" continues this morning and Sanjay shows us the steps that he's taking to get his home ready for baby Sage.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: If you had to say, pick one room in the house that was the most dangerous, what would it be?

MISTY CROFT, SAFETY EXPERT: Really either the kitchen or the bathroom. Those two places really have lots of things that kids can harm themselves with.

GUPTA: Let's go over to the stove, because that's always a concern. There are kids pulling stuff down. Is that right?

CROFT: Absolutely. And that's why we suggest to put some type of guard on your stove. And when you're cooking, you use the back burners and turn the handles toward the back.

GUPTA: I'm going to go down to child level here for a second, because immediately -- I'm down here and I'm -- you know, everything is exciting.

CROFT: My best suggestion is really to get rid of all the stuff that's underneath the cabinet that could be dangerous to a child.

GUPTA: So I'm cruising around the kitchen still and immediately, as a child, my attention is focused on the socket over here.

CROFT: These are actually not recommended, because children usually by the time they're two can figure out how to get those out and they can become choking hazards.

GUPTA: Straight to the mouth.

CROFT: Absolutely.

GUPTA: Plants are lovely, but maybe not such a good idea?

CROFT: No, because plants -- most are them poisonous. And if the plant isn't, the topsoil likely is.

GUPTA: Well, stairs seem like a real obvious concern. Kids can go tumbling down them. So how do you prevent that from happening?

CROFT: Well, we do recommend for there to be a gate at the top and bottom of the stairs.

GUPTA: Will this do the trick?

CROFT: That would. You just want to look for any type of gate that actually screws in. The other concern about the stairs are the banisters. These banisters -- if you can fit a coke can through, then your child can get through.

GUPTA: This is bad?

CROFT: Right.

GUPTA: This can go around the neck?

CROFT: Right. That and it could be choked on. These little pieces.

GUPTA: Stick it in the mouth?

CROFT: Yes.

GUPTA: One of the rooms that the child's going to spend a lot of time in is the nursery. What comes to your mind as you enter here?

CROFT: One thing about the crib is bumper pads are not recommended.

GUPTA: Not recommended?

CROFT: No.

GUPTA: Why is that? It seems like that would be a good idea.

CROFT: At first, it's a SIDS issue. They could actually suffocate on the bumper pads. And then, after they start to pull up, them they could step on it and use it to get out of the crib.

GUPTA: Do a little Houdini.

CROFT: Right. This whole area is a no no. We have lots of things that your child could poison themselves with.

GUPTA: Yes, I mean, again...

CROFT: There's medication down there. There's creams, baby oil.

GUPTA: OK, Missy, so is it important to baby proof every room in the house?

CROFT: Not necessary. If there are rooms that you don't go in very often, you can shut the door and put a lock on there and it's fine.

GUPTA: Average size house, how much is this going to cost somebody?

CROFT: It can range you anywhere between $200, all the way up to thousands.

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GUPTA: Tomorrow in the final part of our series "Just for Dad," the controversy over cameras in the delivery room. That's coming up tomorrow right here on AMERICAN MORNING.

HEMMER: I'm going to take you to Washington state quickly here. A kitten finding itself in a headlock. Look at this. Fire fighters Wednesday rescuing the kitten. It was stuck in a steel pipe. The owner found the kitten crying for help. Took fire fighters two hours working carefully with a saw. The owner said the kitten, named Knucklehead, is doing OK.

O'BRIEN: Was the kitten named Knucklehead before the pipe incident or after the pipe incident?

HEMMER: I think at this point, it's times two, huh? Knucklehead. Knucklehead. Also, a runaway dog snarling rush hour traffic on a Florida interstate on Wednesday. Love these chases here. The dog's a chow. Eluded state troopers, animal control officers, darting in and out of traffic, between lanes on Interstate 95 near Miami. The HOV lane sporadically shut down for about an hour. Officials finally captured the dog, which was sent to animal control for some treatment.

O'BRIEN: So happy endings all around.

HEMMER: I would say. Remember that dog out here on what, the LIE? In and out of traffic, back and forth.

O'BRIEN: Oh, it's scary.

HEMMER: Phew.

In a moment here, another security scare for Britain's royal family. This time Prince Harry is at the center of it. We'll get you live to London, ahead here on AMERICAN MORNING.

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