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British Police Arrest Another Man Allegedly Connected To Second Bombing Attempt; Lance Armstrong Wins 7th Straight Tour de France

Aired July 24, 2005 - 16:00   ET

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

LISA SYLVESTER, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead this hour, the London terror investigation continues with one growing concern: will there be more attacks?
Plus this.

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ALEX QUADE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Four citizen soldiers with something in common, their last name: Pruitt. Four brothers deployed with four different units in Kirkuk.

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SYLVESTER: CNN's Alex Quade with a unique look at the men and women on the ground in Iraq.

And then Lance Armstrong and his long road to victory.

Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. I'm Lisa Sylvester. Fredricka Whitfield has the day off.

All that and more after this check of the headlines.

A frightening case of deja vu in Asia, a tsunami warning briefly issued in Thailand today after a magnitude 7.2 earthquake struck India's Nicobar Islands. So far, no injuries or damage. But there are reports of people panicking. The same region was battered by that giant tsunami last December.

The State Department confirms that one American was among the 84 people in yesterday's bombings in Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt. The government has not released the person's name. At least eight of the victims of the popular tourist area were said to be from other countries.

And organized labor at the crossroads. Four major unions representing millions of American workers say they'll boycott this week's AFL-CIO convention in Chicago. Union membership has been falling for decades. And critics say the federation has failed to adjust to changes like globalization and the loss of factory jobs.

Up first this hour, the latest in the London terror probe. A third person is now in custody in Thursday's attempted transit bombings. Even police say the investigation has been incredibly fast moving. And CNN's Jonathan Mann is keeping up for us in London -- Jonathan.

JONATHAN MANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Lisa, just to keep track of the details, because it's probably confusing at a distance, there were two sets of attacks hitting points all across London. But most of the progress seems to be coming with the second attack, the botched attack whose bombers all escaped and continue to represent a threat. And it's focused on one area of the city.

Police as you said, have now announced that they arrested in a man in a neighbor in a neighborhood known as "Tawes Hill" (ph). It's an immigrant working class of the city in the south, not far from where they already arrested two other men, all three of them held in connection with that second set of failed attacks. All three held under the Britain Terrorism Act in a single high security police station and being questioned for what they know.

Now, should there be a link between that second attack and the first set of attacks? That's a question that's very much in the air, because of what we know about the first set of attacks. A London newspaper, "The Daily Mirror," has already published a photo, a strange one really, of whitewater rafting, an outing that at least two of the suicide bombers who were involved in the first suicide attack took early in June. Those two men were known to have been on that river early June.

Now it is emerging from evidence collected from the scene of the second set of attacks that there may be some link between the second set of bombers and the whitewater rafting center in Wales as well. So the investigation is stretching now from South London all the way north to Wales.

Another investigation that's under way, a very different kind of investigation, into the death of a Brazilian electrician here in London, a man who was simply in the wrong place at wrong the time. John Charles de Menezes was killed by police who mistook him for a terrorist, because, they say, he emerging from a house under observation, his behavior seemed odd. He didn't respond to orders. They wrestled him to the ground and shot him dead in front of stunned onlookers at a subway station.

And so two sets of investigation, a lot of attention from both of them, but to many people's minds, it is that last man, an innocent who became, in essence, the 53rd victim these attacks, that has attracted the latest attention -- Lisa.

SYLVESTER: Jonathan, we saw those four pictures that authorities were looking for those four individuals. Do we know at all if the three people arrested are indeed those four men?

MANN: We know very little about the investigation. Details have come out very very, very sparsely from the police. They are emerging unofficially in the British media. But the indications we have are that the men being held are not among the four that police are seeking.

In other words, the four men who tried to kill themselves and so many other people in the British transit system are still at loose.

SYLVESTER: Jonathan Mann thank you very much for that update.

And now to the investigation into the bombings in Egypt. The State Department confirms an American is among the 84 victims killed in the attacks. Authorities are sweeping the Sinai Peninsula and have reportedly rounded 20 people for questioning. Our John Vause has the latest on the investigation.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Right now, 59 people are being treated in hospital here at Sharm el-Sheikh. Hospital officials say 49 of them are Egyptians. Six people are still listed in a critical condition.

Egypt's interior ministry says at least 60 of the dead were Egyptians. Among the foreign tourists who were killed, an Italian man on hi honeymoon, a Czech tourist and also two British tourists have reportedly died as well.

The hunt is now on for those responsible for these attacks. Egyptian security forces have spread out across the Sinai Peninsula. At least 20 people have been reportedly detained as material witnesses, not suspects.

Two groups have claimed responsibility for the attacks here at Sharm el-Sheikh. The previously unheard of Holy Warriors of Egypt, but the Abdullah Azam Brigades of Egypt and Syria, the same group which claimed responsibility for a similar attack in Taba on the Israeli/Egypt border in October of last year which left 34 people dead.

Many tourists here have now decided to cut short their vacation and head home. Overnight, the airport was busy and the roads out of Sharm el-Sheikh have been heavy with traffic.

John Vause, CNN, Sharm el-Sheikh, Egypt.

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SYLVESTER: And you can read more about our efforts to fight terror worldwide on our Web site CNN.com. And there you can see video about the investigations in Egypt and London and you can read about global efforts to battle terrorism.

And now to the potentially dangerous heat wave that's bringing sky high temperatures to much of the U.S. Heat advisories are being issued as far north as Wisconsin all the way south to Mississippi and Alabama. Temperatures in several cities, including Kansas City, Missouri and Chicago are expected to hover around 100 degrees today.

There is some relief in Arizona which has been suffering through its own heat wave for weeks. The high in Phoenix is expected to be 105 today. A week ago, it was a sizzling 116.

Now for more on the heat wave, we go to CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras live in the weather center -- Jacqui.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well Lisa, yeah, like you said, looking a lot better across parts of the west this hour. Phoenix, Denver, Salt Lake City all seeing much cooler temperatures. But the heat really concentrated here across parts of the Midwest extending all the way down into the deep south.

Chicago, hottest temperature of the year so far, 101 degrees right now so far. St. Louis, getting a temperature of 102. Temperature in New Orleans at 95. Atlanta, not so bad at 89 with a little bit of hazy, but you add in the humidity and it feels a lot worse. Des Moines, 104. Kansas City feels like 103. 105 in Omaha, Nebraska. Check out Chicago, 101 on the thermometer, but 106 is the temperature your body is feeling. 102 in Indianapolis.

Check out the conditions here into the Northeast. Looks great, doesn't it? But watch out, because this heat is going to be heading your way by tomorrow. In fact, excessive heat watches have already been posted for Philadelphia extending down towards Washington, D.C., and eastern parts of Virginia, because heat indices should be well beyond 100 degrees for tomorrow afternoon.

That's what you're seeing in Mobile 103. 100 in Birmingham and Memphis at 104 degrees.

Across the southwest, doing a lot better here, 97 is the temperature your body feels in Phoenix. And we do expect to see some scattered showers and thunderstorms across the four corners, including much of Arizona.

High temperatures tomorrow, looking pretty good across the west. Not too bad in the upper Midwest. 93 is still not too bad, at least comparatively speaking to what you're seeing today. 97 in Atlanta. 95 Washington, D.C., and New York City should see a high around 90.

Taking a quick check at the tropics. Tropical Storm Franklin, we've been watching this over the past couple of days. Good news is that it's continued to weaken now. 65-mile-per-hour winds and really only a marine interest at this time.

One interesting thing that tropical waves or tropical systems can do this time of the year is create dust storms. A lot of them can develop off the African coast. This is a satellite picture we got in from NASA. This was taken on July 19. And there you can see the continent. And check out all this haze that you see right here. That is dust which has been kicked up, very high up into the atmosphere from a tropical disturbance.

This down here, you can see it's a little more uniform. That's cloudiness. And this is the dust. The upper level winds can carry this thousands of miles. And that's exactly what's happening right now.

We may see a little bit of hazy and some of this dust moving into southern parts of Florida over the next couple of days. Monday, Tuesday, possibly even into Wednesday. Basically, what it's going to do for you is create a little bit of a hazy. It's going to create some spectacular sun rises and sun sets. If you do have respiratory problems, you might want to exercise a little bit more caution. But it's still a little too early to tell how dense the dust will be.

We got some reports yesterday out of the Lesser Antilles of visibility's down to five miles. And of course that's going to be reduced pretty dramatically once it makes it all the way to the United States -- Lisa?

SYLVESTER: Probably not very good news for people who suffer from allergies, though.

JERAS: Yes.

SYLVESTER: All right. Thank you very much, Jacqui.

Amazing, unprecedented, but certainly not unexpected. Lance Armstrong won his seventh consecutive Tour de France crown today. But the win is bitter-sweet, as Armstrong bids adieu to professional cycling. CNN's Jim Bittermann has the highlights from Paris.

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JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Lance Armstrong with the yellow jersey after winning his seventh Tour de France, a feat not matched in more than 100 years of Tour de France history. In fact, broke the record last year, when he won his sixth Tour de France. But this year winning the seventh put the cap on his career, because now, he says he's going retire after this race.

As he faced the crowds of tens of thousands of people along the Champs-Elysees, he says that he loved the Tour de France as a race.

LANCE ARMSTRONG, CYCLIST: This is one hell of a race. This a great sporting event. And you should stand around and believe -- you should believe in these athletes. And you should believe in these people. And I'm a fan of the Tour de France for as long as I live. And there are no secrets, this is a hard sporting event and hard work wins it. So vive la Tour, forever. Thank you.

BITTERMANN: Armstrong says center from this point, he is going to retire. He said don't expect me to sit in front of the television set and become a fat slob. I am an athlete after all. Immediately after this race, he says he's going to go along with his girlfriend Sheryl Crow and his three children to the beaches in the south of France. And he said he's going drink a little wine and relax.

Jim Bittermann, CNN, Paris.

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SYLVESTER: Sounds like a good idea. Congratulations to Lance.

Brothers in arms, one family, four sons, all serving in Iraq. We'll take a looking at their lives on the front lines.

Plus, inside the medical hospitals of Iraq: How medics are fighting for lives among some of the most difficult conditions.

And staying safe, can the technology troops use in Iraq help protect us here at home?

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SYLVESTER: Anguish in Baghdad today after dozens of people are wounded and killed in a massive attack. A suicide bomber blew up a semi truck packed with 500 pounds of explosives near a police station. 25 people were killed, some of them were police officers but most were civilians. More than 30 people were wounded.

A U.S. soldier was killed and two wounded in a separate attack on a military base near Balad. Yesterday an American marine was killed in an explosion near Ar Rutbah.

It is understandably hard for families who have a loved one serving in Iraq. It's been particularly difficult for the Pruitt family. Four brothers were all called up at the same time to go to combat. CNN's Alex Quade spent some time with them on the front lines while she was embedded with the U.S. Army.

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QUADE (voice-over): Eric, an assistant manager at a Wal-Mart.

ERIC PRUITT, U.S. ARMY: We're here. We're armed. We are ready for business.

QUADE: Jeff, a grocery store clerk.

JEFF PRUITT, U.S. ARMY: We got protect our backs.

QUADE: Evan, a bartender.

EVAN PRUITT, U.S. ARMY: I just hope nothing bad happens.

QUADE: And Greg, a missionary.

GREG PRUITT, U.S. ARMY: Just kind of hope and pray that everything is OK.

QUADE: Four citizen soldiers with something in common. Their last name: Pruitt. Four brothers deployed with different units in Kirkuk.

They've been away from home more than a year, living under constant threat and worry for each other.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was worried, you know, what's the chances of four of us coming over to Iraq where it's combat and all of us making home? So it kind of scared me at first, and I didn't like the idea. Came in over the top of us and landed about 200 meters from us.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did you see guys with AKs from that house?

QUADE: Youngest brother Jeff.

JEFF PRUITT: Those two shepherds over there said it came from that direction.

QUADE: Is on house-to-house searches.

JEFF PRUITT: It's not a raid. You just knock and then you go in.

QUADE: Training new Iraqi forces.

JEFF PRUITT: We'll let the police go in first. And we follow in behind.

QUADE: Jeff just turned 20.

JEFF PRUITT: Hey, what's your name? Good. Go to school. School is good. You go school, OK? School. I don't got chocolate. Go to school, man.

QUADE (on camera): You think your parents worry more about you because you are the youngest out here?

JEFF PRUITT: No, I think my out of her mind for every one of us. Just because we're gone and we're in a combat zone.

QUADE (voice-over): Middle brother Greg lives at the former summer home of "Chemical Ali."

GREG PRUITT: This right here is where he used to hang and torture some of his people.

QUADE: "Chemical Ali" is the king of spades in that deck of cards. He's accused of gassing a Kurdish village in the '80s. And is awaiting trial.

GREG PRUITT: When I first got here, I kind of thought a little bit about it a little bit. And it was kind of eerie thinking about it. And thinking about what he used to do here. But, you have to put all that aside and just try and focus on what we're doing here. And remember that we're trying to help change all of the past.

This is Hal comma radio checked over. Hal base, hal base, this is hal comma radio check over.

QUADE: Greg is a communication expert.

GREG PRUITT: You know, let's say this antenna goes down and we get attacked really bad. We lose communications with the outside, and we can't call for backup if we need it or anything like that.

QUADE: While we're there, a pipeline blows up near the base.

GREG PRUITT: They like to blow up the pipelines with IEDs or different types of explosives.

QUADE: In this incident, nine Iraqi security guards were killed.

GREG PRUITT: It gets a little edgy here sometimes. When you hear the mortars come in and stuff, you just kind of hope and pray that everything is OK. Now, being a radio operator, I hear everything that goes on. And so when I hear stuff is happening or hear about IEDs and stuff like that, I get a queasy feeling and say hopefully my brothers are OK, hopefully the guys out there are OK.

QUADE: Big brother Eric is a tank platoon commander who now patrols Kirkuk by humvee and on foot. He's responsible for 23 soldiers. And also trains Iraqi police.

ERIC PRUITT: Weapons at the ready? Good. Weapons on safe. No cell phones. No smoking when we are out walking. Make sure we're talking to the people being friendly, too. That's important.

QUADE: The police here are targeted by insurgents, even during funerals.

ERIC PRUITT: Is there any civilians hurt?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, two.

ERIC PRUITT: Two hurt.

QUADE: The day after we tape this, Eric's unit found an improvised explosive device here.

ERIC PRUITT: We take it personal. And that's why we've had a renewed effort to try and train these guys to keep themselves alive. Because, if it's not them, it's us.

QUADE: Which is why he needs to know the word on the street and in the mosques.

ERIC PRUITT: We're here in bulletproof vests and weapons everywhere we go. And guys pulling security even as we talk now. I mean, at any moment anything can happen, and we need to be ready for that.

QUADE (on camera): What was it like for you for the first time when you came under fire?

ERIC PRUITT: It was pretty intense.

QUADE (voice-over): An understatement. His platoon has survived five gunfights, three IEDs -- improvised explosive devices, three rocket and nine mortar attacks.

ERIC PRUITT: It's difficult, we got two mission here. We have to provide security for ourselves and the people here. But we also got to at the same time make the people feel like we're here to help them, and not just be occupiers and that sort of thing.

QUADE: And even on patrol...

ERIC PRUITT: Candy? Want a piece of candy?

QUADE: Eric never stops worrying about his brothers.

ERIC PRUITT: I'm concerned for all of us. I just have to trust that there's guys taking care of my brothers when I can't be there.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whatever the broken numbering (ph) does and we try to fix it as fast as we can.

QUADE: Evan's job is critical. He fixes the vehicles his brothers and their units use for missions and repairs those damaged by roadside bombs.

EVAN PRUITT: That keeps my brother's unit, you know, that's infantry right now, up and running. They got to go through town and all that. And if they don't have vehicles that work, they can't do their jobs.

QUADE (on camera): You're still helping your brothers?

EVAN PRUITT: Yeah, I'm helping my brothers.

QUADE: Watching they're back sides.

EVAN PRUITT: Yeah, that's how I look at it is I'm helping my brothers get through their day.

QUADE (voice-over): While we're taping, a recruiter tries to sign Evan up for six more years.

EVAN PRUITT: Would they pay for my school, is what I'm...

QUADE: But Evan's got other things on his mind like what's happened with his wife Amber since we last talked with him.

It began with an urgent e-mail from his dad. Amber's water broke, we will let you know what happens.

Evan's mom Tammy shoots home video, since he can't be here. It's Evan calling from Iraq.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Evan says he's proud of you.

Push, push, push.

QUADE: After 24 hours of labor, Evan hears his daughter's first cries by phone.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, talk to daddy. Just give him hell.

QUADE: You are seeing this video even before the new daddy has.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She's finally here.

QUADE: At least he was able to call.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He was bawling. He heard her cry.

EVAN PRUITT: I wish I could have been there. My first girl, first kids all together. I wish I could have been there.

QUADE: So for now, enlisting is on Evan's back burner.

EVAN PRUITT: The whole thought of being gone away from your family for, you know 18 months, a year, whatever it's going to be, it's tough. I just hope nothing bad happens. I just want us to be safe and all my brothers and everything and go home and be with our families.

QUADE: Evan, Eric, Greg and Jeff have not seen each other the entire time they've been in Iraq. That will change when we come back.

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SYLVESTER: We've seen the dangerous work the Pruitt brothers do every day on the front lines in Iraq. CNN's Alex Quade was able to reunite the brothers and get their family back home a long-awaited look at their lives in Iraq.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's up, bro? How are you?

QUADE: This is the first time Eric, Jeff, Evan and Greg Pruitt have seen each other in four months.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, we're a bunch of Pruitts. We can't swing at that can without a Pruitt around here.

QUADE: I arranged for the U.S. Army for a reunion.

(on camera): What is it like actually getting a chance to spend a little time together?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: To have a familiar face around us, it's priceless. It does so much for our morale.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The comfort of actually seeing each other and saying I've seen him, he looks OK.

QUADE: Do they look different?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think Eric is getting a little pudge belly. But no way. I'll still whup him.

QUADE: Between the kidding, they've share what they've seen. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Seeing all the kids and what poverty they live in, makes you think about what you've got back home. Makes you grow up, makes you more mature, more of a man.

QUADE: Evan, do you think that your little brother here has grown up and is more of a man?

EVAN PRUITT: Yes, my little brother is more of a man. But I'm still more of a man than he is. I have got a baby now. So, that's why I feel like more of a man. But, yeah, my little brother has grown up a lot since we've been deployed.

QUADE (voice-over): None of them have outgrown surprises. We deliver care packages from their mom and dad.

(on camera): One for Eric. One for Greg. And I suppose we also have one for Jeff, so. Little something from home.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Better than Christmas.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's awesome, I got a cute little Easter bunny.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sometime the holidays get lost until you get a care package, and it reminds you just what's going on in the world around us.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Purple.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I got the orange bunny.

QUADE: Now, is this something you are going to bring out on patrols? Do you need to bring an orange bunny with you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know if it will go out on patrol. But it will stay near the bed somewhere.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is just the perfect stuff to take you back just a little bit on your down time.

QUADE (voice-over): Back home in Pockatello (ph), Idaho, I share with the Pruitt family, our video.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just last night we got rocketed, but it flew over our head and we're outside, and it whoo, and then blew up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm hoping I get on see my baby take her first step. It would be an exciting thing. I missed the birth so, seeing her take her first step might be a little replacement. If not, I'll see her say her first daddy or something.

QUADE: Eric, what do you think is important for your parents to know?

ERIC PRUITT: I think that they need to know we're all doing really well. Being together, we've all got jobs to do here. And we're all doing them. And we're all happy that we can be here to serve our country, and we're proud of our parents for bringing up such fine young men.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's hard seeing them and not being able to...

QUADE: That's what they said at the end that they're proud to be there. That's what they tell us every time we talk to them. They're proud to be there. They know that they're there for a purpose. And the sacrifice that they're making is worth it.

QUADE: Their sister Emily.

EMILY PRUITT: I think Jeff looks older. I think he seems more grown-up. It's hard because we're the same age, and I feel like all's I do is play and take things for granted. And he's there seeing things that are scary and being in situations that are scary. And that's kind of hard.

QUADE: Evan's wife, Amber.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I worry that something could happen to him. And she can never know her dad. And it scares me.

QUADE: Then a phone call from Iraq. What's wrong Jeff is in a field hospital.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's sick.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's sick?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So you are still doing IVs, are they still shooting IVs into you then or you done with that part?

QUADE: But luckily, nothing more serious than food poisoning.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I love ya. You take care when you go back out on patrol, OK? I love ya, hon.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Jeff's in sick in bed for the last four days. Eric showed up, walked right up to his bed and got to take care of him. We are actually blessed to have four of them over there because they do take care of each other.

QUADE: The phone call was a reminder Jeff, Eric, Evan and Greg Pruett have been away from home more than a year.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think it's important for people to know the sacrifices that we are all making here, not only me and my brothers but each and every person that's here. Hopefully to make this place a more free society that they might share in what we have back home.

QUADE: The Pruett's of Pocatello, just one of nearly 140,000 American families with loved ones in Iraq.

(END VIDEOTAPE) SYLVESTER: That was CNN's Alex Quade. She says the four Pruett brothers are expected to come home from their 18-month deployment after the New Year.

When we return --

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In the OR, alarm red, incoming, we're under attack by mortars and rockets, and this is the most frequently attacked base in Iraq.

SYLVESTER: Saving lives under some of the most extreme conditions. Alex Quade gets unprecedented access inside the military hospitals in Iraq, coming up.

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SYLVESTER: Now in the news, British police have arrested a third man in connection with Thursday's attempted bombings of the London transit system. Scotland Yard says the man was taken into custody last night in South London near where police arrested two other suspects a day earlier.

Thailand has lifted a tsunami warning following an earthquake on India's Nicobar Islands. The magnitude 7.2 quake hit the area today. There are no immediate reports of casualties. Officials with the Pacific Tsunami Warning Center say there is no widespread threat a tsunami in the Indian Ocean.

Now the U.S., tours are now able to return to a Florida beach hit by hurricane Dennis. Pensacola Beach opened to the public today for the first time since the hurricane hit two weeks ago. Dennis damaged homes and businesses when it slammed into the beach with 120-mile-an- hour wind.

Every day is a dangerous one for U.S. troops in Iraq; unexpected attacks can shatter lives leaving military medical teams scrambling to save wounded warriors. Our Alex Quade has obtained unprecedented access to those military medics and continues her look behind the front lines.

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QUADE (voice over): At the Air Force Theater Hospital, Balad Airbase, Marine Corporal Chris Phesmyer (ph) is taken off the Medvac a mine took both his legs. He's rushed into ER. He's conscious. This will be his second operation since wounded just five hours ago.

LT. COL. DON JENKINS, SURGEON U.S. AIR FORCE: Believe it or not, he's quite fortunate to be here with us.

QUADE: In the OR, alarm red. Incoming, we're under attack by mortars or rockets, and this is the most frequently attacked base in Iraq. Despite that, surgeons continue working on Chris.

JENKINS: We've built up as best we can around the operating theaters with concrete barriers and sandbags and that sort of things are so still on alarm red. Those folks that aren't scrubbed in, in sterile gear have the opportunity, if they can get to gear safely put on a helmet and flight vests. We don't stop what we're doing because this attack is going on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chris, you're doing great buddy.

QUADE: Chris is then taken to ICU where we meet Lieutenant Colonel Tim Maxwell, who took scrapnel to his head from a motor attack. He's in critical condition in and out of consciousness. Alarm red again. Maxwell's nurse stays by his side.

CPT. DEBRA NICHOLS, NURSE, U.S. AIR FORCE: These are critical patients. So you have to stay at bedside and go ahead and perform your duties just like, if you were not in a code red. Yeah, this is heavy, and it's hot, and I can't wait to get out of it, because it hurts my back.

QUADE: Alarm red finally over, but their work here today has just begun.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Baghdad is bringing in two helicopters full.

QUADE: Full of casualties from two bombs exploding in Baghdad's green zone.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Take a deep breath; you know what you got to do. Manpower, roll them into the ER as we need be, as we deem it critical or not critical and go from there. Ready?

QUADE: The Medevac's arrive. Patient after patient, this is what's called a mass casualty. The Medevac's bring more and more, and they race to the ER. Air Force Medec Sergeant Jacklyn Hurton tries to ease them.

SGT. JACKLYN HURTON, EMT, U.S. AIR FORCE: When they come in off the chopper especially, they're disoriented, we tell them over and over again that we're going to stay with you, that you are not alone, and remind that them that we're there with them, and ask them if they need more for pain. We tell them exactly what we're doing to them so there are no surprises. Because of the fear, the magnitude of the fear they're experiencing, the unknown. That's the only comforting thing that those parents back home have is to think that somebody is over here talking to them.

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SYLVESTER: Our unprecedented look inside the medical teams serving in Iraq continues.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They bring in a patient and they're hanging onto life. We are ready for it.

SYLVESTER: Fighting for lives. The bond between soldier's means even when they're far away from loved ones they're never alone. When we return.

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SYLVESTER: The extraordinary bond between soldiers hard to comprehend, even harder to define. To watch a wounded buddy struggle for his life is not an easy thing to do. That's where U.S. medical teams step in, and under the most extreme conditions try to make a difference. Our Alex Quade continues her unprecedented look at their heroics under fire.

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QUADE: Welcome to the cache. Combat Support Hospital, Baghdad. Inside the green zone.

SPC. MARK SPEARS, U.S. ARMY: Came off the helicopter and didn't have a heart rhythm at all. He was shot in the head.

QUADE: Army Specialist Mark Spears takes over CPR from the flight medic.

SPEARS: You do chest compressions to circulate the blood, hopefully we restore the pulse.

QUADE: This is the ER. Unlike the TV show, it's real. All too real for 23-year-old Spears.

SPEARS: You keep track of all the Americans who have died on our shift while we work. All the little dots are American soldiers who were killed here in Iraq.

QUADE: He also marks the attacks on his hospital.

SPEARS: I used to keep track how many times we got bombed with lines, but we get bombed a lot more than we get dots. It probably has been around 19 times, if I kept track of that. Green zone a pretty big target for the Iraqis. They like to shoot at us. It's in the back of your mind, every time you go out side of a mortar round continues right by you and tries to kill you. We try to do our job the best we can, and hope for the best.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Head injury, right hand and right leg.

QUADE: For doctors like Captain Sudip Bose the work here is raw, dirty, gut wrenching.

CAPT. SUDIP BOSE, DOCTOR, U.S. ARMY: And most of them are explosive sort of injuries. A lot in the -- you train for that as a doctor and you're ready for it. But what's different here is does another level of attachment to your patients, which are the soldiers, because they're, like all of us, they left the states, they're hoping to go back.

QUADE: And the wounded keep coming. And coming.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We try to save everybody who comes. In of course, it's frustrating fact that we save a lot more people than we lose. QUADE: It never gets easier, just part of the job.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They bring in a patient and they're hanging onto life, we're ready for it.

QUADE: One of those patients hanging on is a soldier in intensive care. Far from home, far from family.

JASON MOORE, SQUAD LEADER: We're all we've got. Nobody goes, ever. So as long as he is here we are going to be here with him.

QUADE: Squad leader Jason Moore is talking about his Sergeant Andy Brown in a coma.

MOORE: Heading out you have normal patrols, he's out looking for the bad guys, trying to keep it safe, or the airport and hidden IED, and there was a bad one. Bad one waiting for us, and it went off. There had been a lot of damage to the vehicle. The vehicle doesn't even exist anymore. It looked like the vehicle had just been messed with, with a kid with a can opener. We got him out, actually took another Humvee and ripped the doors off with a chain, because they were blown inside the vehicle.

QUADE: Andy's nurse, Major Lisa Schneider is tending to his wounds while his buddies hover.

MAJOR LISA SCHNEIDER: They literally saved his life. When he first came in here as far as giving him the blood he needed. Because otherwise he would have died.

QUADE: Andy's doctor, Colonel Cindy Clagett.

COL. CINDY CLAGETT, DOCTOR, U.S. ARMY: We can't do anything except worry, fret, pray. And give blood. I mean they're here 24 hours a day vigil. They're sleeping in corners on the floor or not sleeping more often than not. They barely have time to eat. They know he's in a coma but they lean down and talk to him. They touch him.

PFC. DON GAVIN, U.S. ARMY: We donate blood or whatever; do whatever we can to support him.

SPC. CLARK DALE, U.S. ARMY: He's like a brother us, and we know that he would do the same for us, and we're going to do all we can to help him.

CLAGETT: He's in tough shape. He's in the fight of his life. He's is what I call as critically ill as anybody could possibly get.

QUADE: Days later, 22-year-old Sergeant Andy Brown died, but not alone.

CLAGETT: Even when things started to look like they were not quite to be able to turn around for him, his unit still, they kind of stood a vigil, and again, these were guys who, in their regular job have, to go out and be on patrol and get shot at and face the same injuries that this kid did. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They always made it very clear to us that he was very, very critical.

QUADE: Back home in Pleasant Mount, Pennsylvania, Andy's parents, Bill and Lourdes Brown.

LOURDES BROWN, SON KILLED IN IRAQ: We were really crushed that we couldn't be there with him, and the men took turns, and they stayed with him the whole time, and he was never alone, and that meant a great deal to us.

QUADE: Since they couldn't be there we shared our video of their son's last hours.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're all we've got. And nobody goes alone. As long as he's here, we're going to be here with him.

CLAGETT: Even though he's here half a world away from his family. He had a family with him, and he was incredibly cared for by virtually everybody that was around him.

L. BROWN: I know he was well taken care of.

BILL BROWN, SON KILLED IN IRAQ: It was good to see it. In my heart and my mind, I realize everyone did everything they possibly could.

L. BROWN: I'm hoping that people don't forget our men in uniform, and our women in uniform, and all the people who are there with them fighting with them and helping support them. It's not just soldiers. It's the doctors, the nurses, the Red Cross.

QUADE: It's all the military medical folks with boots on the ground, trying to get each wounded warrior home.

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SYLVESTER: The war on terror, it's a battle fought on many fronts with the Pentagon, intelligence officials and law enforcement all playing a part. But it's the first responder, local firefighters and police who will be called into action immediately if an attack occurs in the U.S. So why don't they have access to technology that would help them deal with an attack and other major medical emergencies with. That, here's CNN's Kathleen Koch.

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KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Night vision goggles. Thermal imaging. Technology developed for the military that has already been put to civilian use. Spotting criminal suspects and locating victims trapped in collapsed structures. But much technology has not been shared like global positioning satellite systems to pinpoint soldiers on the battlefield. Cities would like to have it to track firefighters in burning buildings.

CHIEF ROBERT SMALL, CLINTON, MARYLAND, FIRE DEPT: If we had that GPS technology where we could set up outside the area and know right where our firefighters were operating in a building if something did go wrong, it would be easy for us to get to the people and get them out of harm's way.

KOCH: Pentagon officials told lawmakers this week, there are limits to sharing military technology with the private sector.

PETER VERGA, DEP. ASST. SECY. OF DEFENSE: It is a bit complicated because it's not simply a question of the black box that works in D.O.D. will work in the Iowa City fire department. There's a whole process you have to go through to see. Is it maintainable? Is it sustainable?

KOCH: Congress in 2002 passed a measure ordering the Pentagon and Homeland Security Department to expedite such technology transfers. Congressman Curt Weldon was the author.

REP. CURT WELDON, (R) PENNSYLVANIA: I've offered amendment after amendment after amendment. I've had meeting after meeting after meeting. So maybe the bureaucrats are talking. I can tell you the first responders aren't seeing the results. And that is outrageous.

KOCH: Pentagon officials explain that the defense department doesn't communicate directly with cities so doesn't know the needs of first responders. They say the Pentagon has just finished setting up a system to get such information from the Homeland Security Department, and then jointly decide which technologies might be shared. Weldon believes there is plenty since the Pentagon spends $50 million a year researching new technology.

WELDON: The taxpayers have already paid for that investment once, and they certainly should get double benefit of allowing us to also protect the homeland with those dollars.

KOCH: Lawmakers say military technology can not only cut down on the number of first responders killed in the line of duty, but potentially save members of the public endangered by crime, natural disasters or even terrorist attacks.

Kathleen Koch, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE) SYLVESTER: Ahead on CNN LIVE SUNDAY, the humanitarian crisis in Africa. Thousands of refugees had to walk for 50 days just to find food and shelter. Coming up, we'll take you inside the refugee camps of Chad. It's a story you won't forget.

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