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More News Surfaces In Search For Natalee Holloway; Shasta Groene Safely Recovered; Special Forces Member Rescued In Afghanistan; Interview With Healy Family; Rove Spoke To Reporter Before CIA Operative Name Was Leaked; NASA To Crash Spacecraft Into Comet; Child Sexual Exploitation Flourishing; UNICEF C-8 Conference

Aired July 03, 2005 - 17:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR, CNN LIVE SUNDAY: A suspected terrorist killed in a raid in Riyadh. Saudi Arabian security forces say the dead Moroccan militant was a high-ranking member of al Qaeda.
Also today, an abduction in Iraq. Egyptian ambassador Ihad al- Sherif was kidnapped in Baghdad. He is the first represent of an Arab government in post-Saddam Iraq.

First this hour, news coming out of Aruba in a month old search for Natalee Holloway, the missing teenager from Alabama. Let's go quickly now to the scene of the latest development with CNN's Chris Lawrence. Chris.

CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, over the course of a few hours, police took all three the suspects on what they call a locational. In this case, the point on the beach right behind me down the shoreline where all three of them say their involvement with Natalee Holloway ended at that point.

Just to give you a little bit of background, all three of these suspects initially said that they dropped her off at her hotel. Then they changed their stories. Two of the brothers in custody say they dropped off Natalee and Joran van der Sloot on that section of beach. Van der Sloot says he spent some time with her there, but at some point in the night, he wanted to go. She wanted to stay and he left her there alone and went home alone.

Now we're told that they took them there separately to see how the exact details of their stories match up with each other. They have been using techniques. Sometimes they are interrogated separately, sometimes together. We're told they have been interrogated separately all day long today.

And prosecutors are well aware that time may be running out. Come tomorrow morning, they've got to go to court and a judge will decide whether they can keep them in custody up to another two months. If he decides there's not enough evidence to do so, he can let one or all of them walk free. Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: And now Chris, what about Natalee Holloway's family? They have been there for a very long time now waiting for some sort of information. Are they being updated at all by Aruban authorities? LAWRENCE: They are being told - in fact, we talked with Natalee Holloway's step father who said he is looking forward to what happens tomorrow, because he said if one or more of the suspects are let go, he told me, sort of cryptically, he said we know more.

Apparently, the family is saying we know more than we have said publicly and if one or more of them walk out tomorrow, we will have to say what we know and he called some of the details of what they know about what happened that night, quote, sickening. So we'll just have to wait and see how that plays out and what the family, what else they may know and what they may tell us down the line.

WHITFIELD: All right. Chris Lawrence, thank you so much from Palm Beach, Aruba.

Well, joining us on the telephone right now, Aruban government spokesperson Ruben Trapenberg. Ruben, thank you so much for being with us. How unusual is this that suspects will be taken to a scene away from the area where they are held and taken to a scene and further questioned?

VOICE OF RUBEN TRAPENBERG, ARUBAN GOVERNMENT SPOKESMAN: It's not unusual at all Fredricka. It depends on the type of case naturally. But it's not something unusual. Depending on the type of case, they will be taken to a certain location, if it's one person, if it's more than one and then the stories that they may have been telling will be checked out at that point, so it's not unusual.

WHITFIELD: What do you know about the stories being told by these three individuals? Do they corroborate?

TRAPENBERG: We don't know that. Again, those are details of the investigation. Investigators don't give us any detail of how much evidence they have, how much evidence they're getting. So no, we don't know those details.

WHITFIELD: Were they just taken to that one location or were there other locations?

TRAPENBERG: Again, that again is something that only the police will know. They're not confirming or denying it.

WHITFIELD: It's already public information now that they were taken to this one location, the beach.

TRAPENBERG: Yes.

WHITFIELD: Were they taken to others?

TRAPENBERG: We were not given information on any others. We were given information from the prosecutors' office that they were given -- they were taken to one particular location so if that one location is known by now. It may be the only location, because they did mention just one.

WHITFIELD: How did this decision evolve? TRAPENBERG: The one to visit the place (ph)?

WHITFIELD: To take them away from their holding facilities and then take them to this one location, the beach?

TRAPENBERG: It's just something that the investigative team can do at any point in the investigation. Why they decided to do it at this point, it's just -- it was in their hands. It's their decision. They decided to do it today. I was informed that usually this happens either in the late night hours or early morning hours when it's still dark.

WHITFIELD: OK.

TRAPENBERG: Just seeing the fact that all bases have to be covered before they go in front of the judge and seeing that maybe the time is not much time left, they decided to do it today. But if they could have done it any other one of those days.

WHITFIELD: All right. And also apparently a couple of fighter jets are coming in from the Netherlands to help in the ongoing search for Natalee Holloway. Can you give me a sense as to whether those jets are already there, and if so, what will take place next?

TRAPENBERG: Those jets left Holland from the Royal Dutch Air Force at 12:00 noon, Dutch time. They will be arriving in Curacao, the sister island, tomorrow morning.

WHITFIELD: And how will they help?

TRAPENBERG: They will need to be flying over to Aruba after they have a 48 period of rest. There are substitute pilots coming in, extra personnel for support. So it's a big team actually coming in. We're going to hear those details by tomorrow. But the planes will start working on the island, Aruba and the surrounding waters by Wednesday.

WHITFIELD: All right. Ruben Trapenberg, spokesperson for the Aruban government, thank you so much for joining us on the telephone.

TRAPENBERG: Thanks, Fredricka.

Now to another developing story. This one in Idaho, where the six week search for two missing children took a sudden turn with a chance encounter at an all-night restaurant that led to the safe recovery of eight-year old Shasta Groene. The fate of her nine-year old brother is still a mystery. CNN's Sean Callebs is covering this for us from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. Sean?

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, we can tell you that Shasta is still in a local hospital. Authorities tell us she's in good condition considering everything she has been through over the past six weeks. There has been an outpouring of sympathy and support from this community in the form of the number of cards and stuffed animals. But without question, Shasta's spirits bolstered the greatest when she was reunited with her father Steve Groene and that happened yesterday afternoon.

Somewhat bittersweet time of course for Mr. Groene. At that time, authorities also told him that his missing nine-year-old son Dylan is presumed dead. That is the information that the authorities are working with at this time. Investigators did have somewhat extensive period of time yesterday interviewing Shasta trying to garner any type of information, any kind of leads and they're using that today. More than three dozen investigators have fanned out doing the best they can in the search for Dylan.

Now Dylan and Shasta went missing on May 16th. That was the time when authorities here discovered a brutal crime scene. Shasta and Dylan's mother and 13-year-old brother as well as the mother's boyfriend were found bludgeoned to death in a very bloody scene. Now since that time, investigators here say they've really been running a parallel investigation, searching for the two missing children and also trying to solve this triple murder.

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CAPT. BEN WOLFINGER, KOOTENAI COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPT: Investigators are still working on the triple homicide aspect of this case. There are several questions they're really working on right now. Some of those questions are, where are Duncan and Shasta and Dylan been for the last six weeks. Is Duncan involved in the triple homicide? Are there other people involved? If so, who and where are they? And why this crime occurred, I think the why is probably the biggest question a lot of us really have.

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CALLEBS: Of course, Duncan they refer to in that sound bite is Joseph Duncan. This is a case that has baffled authorities here for the past six weeks. But on the early morning hours of Saturday, Joseph Duncan went into a nearby Denny's with Shasta.

At that time, patrons as well as Denny's employees recognized the girl from a missing person's poster. They called authorities. Authorities came and Duncan has been arrested on kidnapping charges, as well as being a fugitive from justice.

This is someone who authorities describe as a sexual predator. He spent much of his adult life in prison for child molestation. Now they're also trying to find information about the vehicle that Duncan was driving. It was a 2005 red Jeep Laredo.

It was a stolen vehicle with stolen plates from Missouri. And the reason Fredricka that is so important, they hope that investigators if they get some tips from local residents, can put some kind of time line together and perhaps prove that Duncan was here over the past six weeks and that may lead to another significant break in the case.

WHITFIELD: All right. Sean Callebs, we'll be looking for that. Thanks so much from Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. CNN has learned that a special forces member missing in the Afghan mountains has been rescued. Military officials were hoping for a break like this, saying last week that the highly trained troops were adept at survival and avoiding capture. CNN's Kathleen Koch is at the Pentagon with the very latest. Kathleen?

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, word came this morning that one member of the elite ground team missing in the rugged Afghan mountains since Tuesday was found alive. Now this is -- he was a member of the special operations reconnaissance unit that had called Tuesday for helicopter backup there in the mountains when they were pinned down in a fire fight with suspected al Qaeda militants. One of those helicopters that was deployed was hit by ground fire and crashed killing 16. This elite unit had been missing since then.

A U.S. official tells CNN that the special ops member managed to evade enemy capture and was rescued by U.S. forces. The official would not give any details about the other missing members of the special operation team, nor would he discuss the circumstances of the serviceman's rescue.

But as you pointed out, these forces are trained to survive under the very harshest conditions imaginable. And he is said to be in good shape. So the search by both U.S. and Afghan forces for the remainder -- the remaining members of the team does continue there in the mountains and the hope is that they will indeed have even better information to operate under right now, what with the rescue of one of the special ops team members.

As for those killed when their MH-47 helicopter went down on Tuesday, the Pentagon has released all 16 names of the dead. Eight of them were assigned to the Army's 160th special operations aviation regiment at Hunter army airfield in Georgia. The eight other were Navy SEALS, five of them based in Virginia Beach at the Naval amphibious base Little Creek.

The base released photos of four of those Navy SEALS last night. And three of them were also part of a SEAL team based in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. And the crash Tuesday was the deadliest for American forces in Afghanistan since the war began back in October 2001. Fredricka?

WHITFIELD: All right. Kathleen Koch from the Pentagon, thank you.

The rescue of the special ops member is bittersweet because of the helicopter crash as Kathleen was explaining that killed 16 service members last week on their way to assist the team. The bodies have been recovered and are now on their way back home. One of them is a 36-year-old Navy SEAL, senior chief petty officer Daniel Healy. Here's Peter Viles who spoke with the family.

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PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): About 10 days ago, Dan Healy wrote his son a letter, an e-mail from Afghanistan. The message was simple: always try your best, never give up. JAKE HEALY, DAN HEALY'S SON: My dad always tried his best, like, at anything. If you threw anything at him, he'd always do his best, you know, just ace it.

VILES: Those who knew him, like his younger sister Jennifer, had heard that message a lot.

JENNIFER HEALY, DAN HEALY'S SISTER: That's his thing. You don't give up. You find a different way around it. You find a different way to handle it and just be true to yourself.

VILES: Dan Healy, here he is in Afghanistan, knew something about perseverance. He was a Navy SEAL for 15 years and the training to become a SEAL is so punishing, that more than half of the recruits who say they want to be SEALS drop out.

JENNIFER HEALY: He was a proud SEAL. He was a damn good SEAL and he was a damn good man.

VILES: Dan Healy was in that helicopter, shot down in Afghanistan last week. He died in those mountains along with 15 other American servicemen.

VIANNE CENTENO, DAN HEALY'S EX-WIFE: I know every other family that lost a loved one, I know what they felt. I know they thought that that man was invincible, that that man would always be there because they made you feel safe.

JENNIFER HEALY: But he was there because he wanted to be there. And he never complained.

JAKE HEALY: My dad went into the war knowing that there is a possibility of him dying. But I mean, still, he wanted to be out there for sure. That's all he wanted.

VILES: Most families in this situation want their privacy. This family wants America to know who Dan Healy was.

JENNIFER HEALY: He was just an amazing person. He made us laugh. He made us cry. He made us want to go grrrr.

CHELSEA HEALY, DAUGHTER OF DAN HEALY: I just want everybody to know that he was a hero. I don't want them to forget it.

VILES: His teenage children are poised and brave, but they miss their father.

CHELSEA HEALY: Everything, just spending time with him.

JAKE HEALY: Every moment, you know, will always be precious. Just remember everything and appreciate it.

VILES: In the letter he wrote just before he died, Dan Healy told his son, quote, give it everything you've got. You may not get another chance. Peter Viles for CNN, Bonita (ph), California.

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WHITFIELD: How much did he know? A news magazine says the president's top political adviser spoke to a reporter just days before the name of a CIA operative was leaked. More on that story next.

And a grandmother blows the lid off an enormous child sex ring in Atlanta. She joins us live later on CNN LIVE SUNDAY.

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WHITFIELD: "Newsweek" magazine is reporting that e-mails between "Time" magazine reporter Matt Cooper and his editor show that President Bush's top political adviser Karl Rove spoke to Cooper in the days before a CIA operative was revealed in the media.

It's not clear exactly what the two discussed. Rove's attorney confirms Cooper called Rove in July of 2003, but he tells CNN his client did not disclose any confidential information. A special prosecutor is investigating whether senior Bush administration officials leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to the media in retaliation after her husband wrote an opinion piece critical of the administration.

Let's bring in Frank Sesno. He is a veteran journalist in Washington, a professor at George Mason University and a CNN special correspondent. Good to see you, frank.

FRANK SESNO, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT: Good to see you.

WHITFIELD: All right. Well, a name in the know, it's a very big name. What does this tell you about where the investigation may go next?

SESNO: Well, you know, the fact of the matter is we don't know where the investigation is going to go next because "Time" Inc. has turned over these documents over the objection of Matthew Cooper, the correspondent, the reporter for "Time" magazine.

"Time" says that should obviate the need that Cooper actually does jail time. Judith Miller of the "New York Times" has not turned over the documentation. The "New York Times" says it won't. The question is whether the special prosecutor, the investigator is going to ask these two journalists questions that go beyond what these notes say. If so, they still face jail time.

WHITFIELD: Right and apparently that these notes have been handed over has not obviated the need for these two to appear in court and possibly testify and if they don't testify or talk to the judge, then they do face jail time. So why would Norman Pearlman, the editor in chief of "Time" magazine even turn over the notes if his reporter still has to talk?

SESNO: Well, I think his point is very simple and he said it in his statement. He said it publicly since then, and that is from his point of view, this is a bad thing. He thinks this will have a chilling effect on journalists. He thinks the Supreme Court and other courts have gone too far, but he says as far as he's concerned, the media are not exempt from the rulings of the court. As far as he's concerned, if anybody else, any other citizen is ordered to do something by the court, especially the Supreme Court, they need to comply.

Now the journalists in question, and many others respond that this is a different kind of case and it is a sort of civil disobedience to stand firm. Some bureau chiefs I've talked to here in Washington say that a pact between a journalist and his or her confidential source is almost sacred. And as you have seen with the journalists, they'd rather go to jail than comply. It's happened before.

WHITFIELD: And so do you see complying in the way of providing the notes will compromise "Time" magazine as a whole, perhaps all of its reporters and specifically Matthew Cooper from ever being able to secure a source or get information because these sources may feel like, you know what? Our names may be eventually revealed, too.

SESNO: There isn't a reporter I know, there isn't anybody in the news business that I've talked to who hasn't said that this will have a very serious effect on journalists who try to do their jobs and need to do their jobs by talking to sources, sometimes confidential sources, sometime very, very sensitive sources. I mean, I've had people talk to me and say just flat-out, I'll give you this information, but you need to protect me on this. When I say I'll protect you on this, I have to mean what I say, otherwise my credibility is no good.

The problem we've got here is that the public views the media with great suspicion now. There have been any number of well-known scandals, high-profile scandals in journalism and the fact of the matter is that people don't feel the media are as trustworthy, professional or unbiased as people in the media like to feel they are. So there is not exactly a deep reservoir of public support for journalists in this particular case.

WHITFIELD: The "New York Times" as well as Judith Miller not very happy that "Time" magazine would hand over these notes, even though it was against the wishes of Matthew Cooper. Could the court now say well, "Time" magazine provided these notes, in addition to your testimony, Judith Miller, we also want your notes?

SESNO: They've said that and what we don't know is what's going to happen behind closed doors with respect to Judith Miller and her notes and her information, whether she goes jail, whether the information they've gotten from Cooper, obviates Pearlstein's word the need for Judith Miller to face the music here.

Nor do we know what Bob Novak, who's the public original source of the Valerie Plame information has said or has done. He promises to explain more at the right time, although he said that these folks if they were to go to jail would not be doing so because of him.

So there's an awful lot that's been happening in this secret grand jury process that we simply don't know. But the bottom line still is that this has had and will have a chilling effect on how some journalism, especially sensitive investigative journalism or journalism that deals with national security is going to be conducted.

WHITFIELD: You see that chilling effect persisting even if Matthew Cooper and Judith Miller do not see jail time as a result of this?

SESNO: Yeah, I think it's very serious. You get on the phone, you're talking or you meet in person and we've recently had the Bob Woodward disclosures of the garage at 2:00 in the morning and all of that and this source who may be risking his or her career or more to provide some of this information, rightly or wrongly that's not the question here, but may be at great risk with the information they're providing, says protect me. What do you say? Fine, as long as I'm not subpoenaed? That's a problem.

WHITFIELD: Yeah, it's a big problem.

SESNO: It's a big problem.

WHITFIELD: All right. Frank Sesno, thank you so much for adding your point of view on this. We appreciate it.

SESNO: Pleasure.

WHITFIELD: Coming up next, a look at the new pictures of the Aruba suspects today being taken to the beach.

Also ahead, an explosive 4th of July is on tap in outer space, a closer look at NASA's plan to clip the comet.

And later this hour, I'll be speaking with writer Mickey Goodman about the secret epidemic of child prostitution in America's big cities and suburbs. We're back right after this.

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WHITFIELD: This just in now. Pictures provided to us from Aruba newspaper "Diario" of the suspects in the case of missing Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. The suspects were taken to the beach in Aruba and questioned separately, because authorities want to corroborate their stories. Now, the suspects go before a judge tomorrow to determine how much longer they will be held. Again, missing teen Natalee Holloway has been missing now from Aruba about five weeks now.

Time now to fast forward through some of the stories CNN will be following in the week ahead. Wednesday, leaders from the world group of eight industrialized nation will gather in Scotland. They'll discuss ways to relieve poverty, especially in Africa and the effects of climate change around the globe. The annual summit ends on Friday.

And we'll know on Wednesday where the 2012 summer games will be held. New York, Paris and Moscow are all just some of the cities who have made a bid to the International Olympic Committee. And on Saturday, members of the NAACP are expected to confirm Bruce Gordon as their new president. The former Verizon Communications executive will succeed Kweisi Mfume who resigned in December. The group's annual convention is being held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

If the sky tonight is clear enough and dark enough where you live, you might be able to see an unprecedented bit of space fireworks. NASA's plan is to crash a spacecraft into comet. CNN technology correspondent Daniel Sieberg has the details.

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DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This isn't the only celestial show this holiday. Look further skyward for some 4th of July fireworks courtesy of NASA, a collision with a comet. Deep Impact was launched aboard a Delta 2 rocket in January. After a long journey, 173 days and 268 million miles, the NASA spacecraft is set to intercept comet temple one at 2:00 a.m. on July 4th.

DEEP IMPACT FROM PARAMOUNT: Get the hell out of there!

SIEBERG: OK. So it's not exactly like the movie "Deep Impact," which Robert Duvall tries to blow up a comet with nuclear weapons, but the real life Deep Impact could be spectacular. Here's the plan.

When the 11-foot craft is about 500,000 miles from Temple One, it releases a small copper fortified probe into the path of the comet. Scientists back on earth then steer the mother ship into a front row position to take pictures of the impact event. It will only be about 300 miles away when the probe hits the comet's surface.

The impact (ph) the probe is on auto pilot for the final two hours, course correcting for a head-on collision, producing an explosion comparable to five tons of TNT and leaving a crater that could be as large as a football field. Though for a comet about half the size of Manhattan, it will be the equivalent of a jetliner hitting a mosquito. The fly by ship will take pictures 800 seconds worth of the collision, debris and crater.

A glimpse beneath surface of the comet is the whole purpose of the mission.

(on-camera): Scientists call comets undercooked leftovers from the sprawling cloud of dust and gas that formed our sun and planets more than 4 1/2 billion years ago. To help this up close look will provide a look back in time. Studying these ingredients of a comet could answer questions to basic questions about the origins of our solar system. Daniel Sieberg, CNN, Atlanta.

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WHITFIELD: Well, we have seen the hype and the astonishing pre- movie antics of Tom Cruise and now the numbers. Find out how "War of the Worlds" did at the box office, coming up. And live pictures right now of rehearsals for the big Independence Day show scheduled on the mall tomorrow in the nation's capitol. We'll be right back.

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WHITFIELD: Topping our news. Kenny Rogers is on the mound today as he appeals his suspension from major league baseball. The Texas Ranger starter faces a 20 game ban for attacking two cameramen Wednesday. The rangers are on the road in Seattle.

Lance Armstrong finished among the main pack of riders in today's second stage of the tour de France. Armstrong is seeking his seventh straight title and plans to call it quits after this one. He joked this afternoon that the faster he pedals, the faster he can retire.

And Switzerland's Roger Federer cruised today to his third straight title at Wimbledon. For the second straight year, American Andy Roddic was Federer's prey in the finals. The world number one eliminated Roddic in straight sets.

You can check out CNN's most popular video of the day at cnn.com. Just click on the video link at our website. Watch it as many times as you want, whenever you want. It's a whole new way to experience the power of CNN video, and best part, it's free!

It's a sad fact that child sexual exploitation has risen to alarming levels at least in part because of the Internet. Besides the disturbing presence of registered sex offenders in many communities, child prostitution is flourishing in America's cities and suburbs. That includes the city of Atlanta where a shameful secret industry is exposed in "Atlanta Magazine."

The article was written by freelance journalist Mickey Goodman. And Mickey Goodman joins me right now to talk a little bit more about this. And it had to have been really alarming to find that this is a prevalent problem, isn't it?

MICKEY GOODMAN, "ATLANTA MAGAZINE": Oh Fredricka, it was just horrifying to discover this, and I discovered it totally by accident over dinner with friends. And Stephanie Davis, who works in the mayor's office, is focusing on this problem, and when she started talking about it, we just could not believe that this was happening here in Atlanta.

WHITFIELD: Why is it, and not just Atlanta but in many major cities across the country and particularly in a lot of suburbs as well. Why is it that it's happening almost seemingly under the noses of so many, you know, and how is it that so many of these young kids are getting roped into it?

GOODMAN: There are a lot of answers, almost as many as there are children. Two big problems we have here in Atlanta. One is that it's not a problem. It's also an asset to Atlanta, Hartsfield airport has easy access and exit anywhere in the world. And predators can go on the Internet, find a site, find a pimp, who will bring them into Atlanta, meet them at the airport in a limousine, take them to a hotel or an apartment or even an office building where more than one girl or boy, young boy is housed, and then the men are home in time for dinner with their families and it's a much cheaper destination than flying to Bangkok which was the prior capital of the world.

WHITFIELD: Are there specific reasons as to why some kids are victimized more than others? Why they fall for these what seemingly are enticing invitations?

GOODMAN: One reason they fall for it, I think, is that pimps don't look like pimps anymore. They don't drive up in the fancy limousines with the gold jewelry. They're the cool kid with the fancy clothes and the coolest jeans and teenaged girls are particularly vulnerable I think to good looking young men and they are easily taken in thinking that this person is in love with them.

And it may be a teenaged girl from the suburbs who's had a terrible fight with her mother over a $200 pair of blue jeans that mom won't buy and just thinks that the world is a terrible place and she can find happiness elsewhere. And the pimp says you want jeans? I got jeans for you and they lure them in very slowly.

WHITFIELD: And then your article reveals that once some of these young people are rescued from this world of child prostitution, et cetera, they're dealing with a whole host of issues from depression to venereal diseases, et cetera, and they need safe places to go. What did you learn?

GOODMAN: I visited Angeles house, which is the only house in the southeast for girls who have been sexually abused. The crime about it is it's a fabulous facility. The sad part is that there are only six beds and that's just a minuscule drop in the bucket and that's for the southeast.

That's not just Atlanta. And the children who are not treated for the venereal diseases, for the traumas that they develop Stockholm syndrome where they identify with their predators. They have post traumatic stress syndrome like soldiers returning from war. They have a host of school problems because they haven't been in school for a year, so they're very behind.

WHITFIELD: So there need to be more facilities, safe havens like this. Are cities, jurisdictions, noticing that this really is a problem and it's happening right in their own backyards and so there is a great push perhaps to get more places like an Angeles house?

GOODMAN: I certainly hope they are looking into more places like Angeles house, but a lot of people have gotten involved. The juvenile justice fund has been at the forefront of this issue. Judges like Judge Sanford Jones here in Atlanta is very, very involved in the issue. There's a lot of push to get more places. The schools are getting involved. There are organizations that go into the schools to talk to the girls, to talk to the parents, to talk to educators. WHITFIELD: You found a lot of advocates who were willing to talk for your article. How about the kids themselves? How difficult is it to get them to open up and talk about these horrifying experiences?

GOODMAN: It's very hard and I guess because I'm a grandmother of seven, I looked like a trusting person, and when I went to Angeles house, they had initially told me that I could not -- that the girls would not talk to me, but when I was introduced to them, they were asked who would like to talk to Mrs. Goodman, and three hands went up, just me, me, me. And I was just blown over, and I just fell in love with the girls. They are wonderful girls.

WHITFIELD: I'm sure it was rather therapeutic for a lot of those young people.

GOODMAN: I hope so.

WHITFIELD: Mickey Goodman, thank you so much and your article is very sobering, at the same time very revealing and everyone should get their hands on. "Atlanta Magazine" features it.

GOODMAN: Thank you so much having me and focusing attention on this problem, because it is a big one.

WHITFIELD: It is indeed. All right. Thanks so much.

GOODMAN: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: Well, they are telling it like it is, children from the world's poorest countries. Well, they have a chance to tell their stories at the C-8 hosted by actor Ewan McGregor. Find out more coming up next.

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WHITFIELD: On top of the world. Tom Cruise is celebrating his 43rd birthday today and that coming with word that his latest action pic is tops with holiday moviegoers. "War of the Worlds" ruled at the box office, selling nearly $102 million worth of tickets in only its first five days.

Tomorrow the celebration celebrates with picnics and parades and fireworks. Will the weather cooperate? Let's check in with CNN meteorologist Bonnie Schneider. Hi, Bonnie.

BONNIE SCHNEIDER, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hi Fredricka. Well, luckily right now we're not getting any fireworks outside, just some thunderstorms happening in South Carolina because this would not be good weather for fireworks. That's for sure. It's coming down heavy and hard from Columbia all the way to the coast in Charleston. So just keep an eye on the sky if you're watching us from the southeast. We've had stormy weather here in Atlanta as well and I think we're going to see that possibly a little bit more later tonight.

The reason being is we have a front that's on its way coming through. It's stationary right now over the southeast. But in the meantime, your forecast for tomorrow still keeps that unsettled air mass for the southeast. So we could possibly see some storms. Hopefully it won't interfere with any fireworks.

One of the best places in the country to see the fireworks is the northeast. High pressures off the coast and we're seeing very pleasant conditions with a low amount of humidity. Should be beautiful all the way from New York to D.C. through Boston and Philadelphia.

On the west coast, mild conditions, a little bit of fog coming into play for your San Francisco forecast where temperatures will be comfortable, certainly very hot in much of the desert southwest and into Texas it will be really hot as well. So we're looking at overall pretty good weather to watch the fireworks tomorrow, Fredricka?

WHITFIELD: All right. Good news indeed. Thanks so much, Bonnie.

Ending global poverty has emerged as a dominant issue pushed to the forefront with help from the marathon Live 8 concerts held around the world yesterday. Just down the road from the G8 meetings this week, another conference is taking place. It's called the C-8. Here's Tim Rogers of ITV to explain.

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TIM ROGERS, ITV: In the single room she shares with her mother, this 11-year-old Aminata Palmer dreams of a better world. Her country, Sierra Leone, is one of the poorest in Africa where most people here live on less than $1 U.S. a day.

Aminata is comparatively lucky. She goes to school while many, many others here cannot. They're forced to work instead. Outside the classroom, the struggle against poverty and AIDS means that children here have to grow up quickly. There is very little time to be young. For that reason, Aminata wants her voice to be heard.

Thousands of miles from her home at a hotel in Dunblane in Scotland today, Aminata was making her voice heard again.

AMINATA PALMER, SIERRA LEONE: What were you saying?

ROGERS She's taking part in the UNICEF children's C-8 conference where the delegates are from the poorest countries in the world, hoping the heads of state from the richest will listen.

PALMER: If everybody can come together U.N. bodies and African bodies and make a world for everybody, this will be a better place to live.

ROGERS: Backing up the children today, a celebrity ambassador for the U.N., Ewan McGregor.

EWAN McGREGOR, ACTOR: This C-8 is quite a unique thing. It's quite a powerful thing and the message that could come out of it should be very powerful. It's exactly what we're talking about, make poverty history. Is exactly what they're talking about, is the people that it will affect.

ROGERS: In Sierra Leone, Aminata said she can see a future if only her country is given the support it needs. If children ruled the world, she believes it would. Tim Rogers, ITV News, Dunblane.

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WHITFIELD: The Live 8 concerts are over and the G-8 summit starts Wednesday. Both events conceive to address the poverty epidemic to much of Africa. CNN's Jeff Koinange is in Nairobi, Kenya and reports on the head of a family who earns $1 a day. And no, that's not unusual.

JEFF KOINANGE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's 5:30 in the morning on the outskirts of Kenya's capital, Nairobi and Johnsonny Omura is already up and getting ready for his dollar a day job. Omura is 34, married with three children.

He's a grade school dropout and knows if his children have to survive in today's world, they have to go to school. He's the sole wage earner in this typical African family. Organizations like the United Nations estimate that two-thirds of Africans live on less than a dollar a day.

Omura's wife is also a grade school dropout. She's a homemaker in this one-room tin shack. The rent, $30 U.S. a month. After a quick breakfast of lukewarm tea and stale bread, Omura walks his children to school. He can't afford the bus fare into the city so he has to trek for the next hour and a half to what he calls his office. It's an open air car wash, his workplace for the last 13 years.

Unlike most developed countries where car washes are a mechanized drive-through system, here it is a manual, labor intensive business. It is also highly competitive. Scores of unemployed youth in Nairobi find themselves with no choice but to wash cars for a living. In a country where unemployment hovers at around 15 percent, Omura says he sees himself as one of the lucky few who have a steady job, come rain or shine.

JOHNSONNY OMURA, CAR WASHER: You know, to get job in Kenya nowadays is so hard. I don't have any other cost.

KOINANGE: He has few skills and zero qualifications for any job other than manual labor. With rudimentary tools and a monotonous routine, everything from fetching water from a nearby dirty stream to doing what he says he does best.

He makes the equivalent of 60 U.S. cents for every exterior car wash. If the customer wants the interior cleaned as well, that's $1. And for a full wax and polish, that will cost $1.50. Lunch for Omura is a quick bite, usually maize or a corn cob. On a good day, Omura wash an average of five cars but there are not so good days as well.

OMURA: On a bad day I can go empty handed or I can make to - over 150s.

KOINANGE: That's the equivalent of $2 U.S. But this is one of the good days and Omura has washed four cars. He's even had to hire help, something he has to factor into the day's earnings. By the time he takes care of his overheads, his take-home pay for the day is just slightly more than a dollar, but he's grateful to be able to put food on the table in a country where thousands go to bed hungry every night.

OMURA: My children, they don't know when there's bad day or good day. They must keep going. That is how I survive.

KOINANGE: With his day's earnings, Omura picks up a few vegetables on his way home for dinner, before making the hour and a half trek back to a family eagerly awaiting its bread winner. Jeff Koinange, CNN, Nairobi, Kenya.

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