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Debate over California Execution; Florida Teen Shot by Police is Dead; Major Protests in Pakistan Against U.S.; Preserving History in Maryland
Aired January 15, 2006 - 18:00 ET
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Right now, the headlines right here on CNN. Fire fatigue -- exhausted emergency crews across Oklahoma are still trying to get a handle on grassfires that continue to pop up. The entire state is a dry, warm, tinderbox and now under a red flag warning.
The first lady weighing in on the controversial domestic spying investigation. Laura Bush told reporters today she feels the U.S. government has a right to eavesdrop or whatever it takes to prevent terrorist attacks.
Reaction to Friday's U.S. air strike inside Pakistan. Anger at the scene of the attack. Support on Capitol Hill. Republican and Democratic lawmakers on the morning talk shows today said that terrorists must are hunted down wherever they hide.
And Coretta Scott King was warmly welcomes today at a dinner honoring her late husband, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Her appearance wasn't expected. She's been home recovering from a stroke and heart attack suffered last summer.
We begin this evening with one of the most divisive issues in this country, capital Punishment. A California death row inmate is scheduled to die early Tuesday morning, but there's a special circumstance with this case.
Now, it's not the crimes for which this man was convicted. They are horrible by anyone's definition. It's something about the man himself. CNN's Dan Simon reports.
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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Barring a last minute reprieve, early Tuesday morning, Clarence Ray Allen will go to California's death chamber, and at 76, become the oldest inmate ever executed in the golden state. One of the oldest ever put to death in the United States.
Because of his age, death penalty opponents are employing an unusual strategy to try and save his life.
He's functionally and legally blind. He's hard of hearing. He cannot walk.
SIMON: And that, according to his lawyer, Annette Carnegie, is reason enough to spare Allen's life. An execution in this instance, she argues, would amount to a cruel and unusual punishment, which the constitution forbids.
ANNETTE CARNEGIE, ATTORNEY: The lack of the medical care, the degradation, the 23 years that he has been on death row are punishment enough.
SIMON: This is Clarence Ray Allen in his younger days; a wealthy businessman who owned his owned his own airplane. But Allen also had a violent streak. He was convicted in the murder of his son's girlfriend after she helped turn him in following a robbery.
The sentence, life in prison. There was no death penalty then.
Allen may have been in prison, but his murderous ways continued. In 1980, he ordered the executions of several witnesses to the murder he was already serving time for. By then, the U.S. Supreme Court and California had re-instituted the death penalty.
And Allen's new home was death row at San Quentin prison.
Mark Class is a victim's advocate whose young daughter was murdered. He's unmoved by Allen's arguments for staying alive.
MARK CLASS, VICTIM'S ADVOCATE: He should have been executed long ago. He wasn't. He should be executed now.
SIMON: California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger shares that sentiment, denying Allen's plea for clemency.
The governor said, quote, "the passage of time does not excuse Allen from the jury's punishment."
Unless last minute appeals succeed, Clarence Ray Allen will be put to death midnight Tuesday, just one day after his 76th birthday.
Dan Simon, CNN, Los Angeles.
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LIN: And this just in to the CNN Center just in the past few minutes. Christopher Penley has been declared dead. He is the 15- year-old Orlando area student who, on Friday brought a realistic- looking toy gun into this school. Police and witnesses say Penley threatened several people with the gun and was shot by an SWAT team responder.
Penley had been kept on life support until today because his parents intended to donate his organs. Police are investigating the incident. To the heart of coal mining country now, central West Virginia. Today is not your normal Sunday there. Thousands of people, all connected to mining in some way, pause to remember a dozen men who died on the job deep underground earlier this month.
CNN's Christopher King is in Buckhannon, West Virginia. Christopher, what was the service like?
CHRISTOPHER KING, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Carol, the services, of course, very touching. The people, of course, where there was an outpouring of emotion. And the people, of course, came from all over the country for the service.
They held it here at the West Virginia Wesleyan College in Buckhannon in West Virginia. Well wishers released balloons into the sky as mourners left the Wesleyan Chapel. Family members lit candles in honor of the 12 men who died after being trapped inside a Sago Mine.
Author Homer Hickam, a West Virginia native, spoke at the service. He called the miners men of courage, honor and dignity.
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HOMER HICKAM, AUTHOR, WEST VIRGINIA NATIVE: How and why these men died will be studied. Now and in the future, many lessons will be learned. And many other miners will live because of what is learned. This is right and proper. But how and why these men lived, that is perhaps the more important thing to be studied. We know this much for certain, they were men who loved their families. They were men who worked hard. They were men of integrity and honor.
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KING: Now, work crews are still drilling at the mine. They want to vent out the toxic gases so that investigators can get inside the mine and start piecing together exactly what caused the disaster. Carol --
LIN: Christopher, there is one survivor of this disaster, Randy McCloy. What's his condition right now?
KING: That's right, Carol. Randy McCloy is in serious condition in a hospital in Morgantown. Doctors say his health is improving slowly each day. Now, he still has problems with his kidneys. He has a multitude of other problems, but he is now breathing without the help of a ventilator. Carol --
LIN: So, Christopher, it sounds like -- is there hope for some kind of recovery?
KING: Well, that remains to be seen. There is hope for some type of recovery, but it's not entirely clear when he could wake up or come out of this coma that he's in right now.
LIN: Chris, thank you. Thank you very much.
Well, tonight on a special Live Edition of Larry King: Honor, Hope and Healing. Nine family members remember the Sago miners. Plus, hear from relatives who are dealing with a tough task of reading a dying man's last words. That's tonight at 9:00 eastern.
Turning to international news right now, tensions heighten between the U.S. and Pakistan. Pakistani officials are furious over a CIA missile attack. It missed its target, the al Qaeda number two man, Ayman al Zawahiri. But killed 18 civilians in a remote village.
CNN's senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson, here to assess the fallout. Nic, what is the latest?
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, the latest, some Pakistani newspapers are saying that Ayman al Zawahiri, Osama Bin Laden's number two, was actually supposed to be at dinner in the house that was targeted. Now, we haven't been able to verify this from our intelligent sources.
People in the village deny that there were any outsiders, any foreigners, including al Zawahiri, in the village at that time.
But these attacks have bought a very, strong reaction now from the Pakistani people across the country.
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ROBERTSON (voice-over): From rain-drenched dirt alleys, close to Pakistan's border with Afghanistan were tribes are more powerful than government. To the wide well ordered affluent boulevards of the nation's capital, Islamabad, the cost of an apparent mistake in the war on terror is being paid.
One of the U.S.'s staunchest allies in that war, Pakistani President, Pervez Musharraf, is being told to step down.
QAZI HUSSEIN, OPPOSITION LEADER, PAKISTAN GOVERNMENT: The government of Pakistan should resign because they have failed to protect their territory and protect their citizens from the unjustified attack from the American forces.
ROBERTSON: The attack, initiated by the CIA, targeted al Qaeda's number two, Ayman al Zawahiri. But killed 18 Pakistanis, including women and children.
Outrage has been so strong, Musharraf's allies have, for the first time in years, joined the opposition, condemning the Pakistani leader, warning such attacks can not continue.
FAROOQ SATTAR, PRESIDENT MUSHARRAF ALLY: This is also going to affect, by and large, the war on terrorism.
ROBERTSON: Musharraf has weathered such opposition before, most notably announcing his support of the U.S. after September 11th. But he is politically weaker now, and that means catching Osama Bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri may be getting harder.
SATTAR: Time is running out for all of those who are engaged in this. And they must very seriously address the lapses and the weaknesses in the intelligence.
ROBERTSON: In the war on terror, improving intelligence is proving one of the hardest battles to win. (END VIDEOTAPE)
ROBERTSON: And, Carol, that has to be the biggest challenge right now for the CIA. And Pakistani intelligence is tightening up those loops that lead to these apparent errors.
LIN: When we talk about Musharraf's political future, how important is he to the United States? I mean, what if he were to be taken down politically?
ROBERTSON: The question mark is who would replace him? Would they be such a staunch United States ally? Would they support tracking down Osama Bin Laden?
LIN: And if they don't, then what happens?
ROBERTSON: If they don't, then this gives Osama Bin Laden somewhere to hide when the United States needs to find him. He's responsible for September 11th.
LIN: But isn't the presumption that Bin Laden is in Pakistan somewhere?
ROBERTSON: Or crossing across the border into Afghanistan. But absolutely, that's around where he's believed to be.
LIN: In terms of the missile strike, I mean, some might say that a missile strike is an act of war.
ROBERTSON: And there are certainly politicians within Pakistan who are willing to use this right now to try and bring down, try and weaken President Musharraf. Perhaps on other issues too. I mean, for them this -- there are multitudes of political issues. And for them, this is a very good one to pick up. It gets a lot of popular supporters.
I was speaking to one of the politicians today and he said, "Look, we've got onto this because there's so much anger about it, so much popular anger.
LIN: Nic, we'll see what happens. Thank you very much.
Well, earlier, I talked with our terror analyst, Peter Bergern, who knows that part of the world like the back of his hand. Did he think Pakistan's president is in jeopardy for his cooperation with the U.S. war on terror?
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PETER BERGERN, CNN TERROR ANALYST: This is really a hiccup. Obviously, if there were lots and lots of hiccups like this, this would be a problem. But I don't see this as really substantially changing Pakistani government policy on the war on terrorism.
(END VIDEO CLIP) LIN: Well, Peter Bergern has written several books on the war on terrorism, including one on the al Qaeda leader Osama Bin Laden. He interviewed family members, people who witnessed Osama Bin Laden growing up in Saudi Arabia.
So what created a terror leader? You can catch my full interview with him tonight at 10:00 eastern.
In the meantime, the Saddam Hussein trial could be thrown into disarray. The presiding judge has said he's had enough and he wants out.
So for more details, lets go to CNN's Anand Naidoo. Anand --
ANAND NAIDOO, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, Carol, thanks a lot and hello from me. Well, no word yet on whether the Iraqi government will accept the resignation of Judge Rizgar Mohammad Amin. He's the chief judge at the trial of Saddam Hussein.
Now, Amin submitted his resignation yesterday. Reports say he's fed up with the constant criticism about the way he's handling the trial. And some critics say he's let proceedings spin out of control at times. According to one official, Amin wants to remain on the tribunal, but he wants to step down as the presiding judge.
And just to remind you of what this trial has been going on, since it's been going on, two defense lawyers have been killed, and Amin's own security has, in many ways, has been compromised. He's the only judge to have is name revealed. And he appears on camera during proceedings of the trial, as we've seen before.
Now, onto Iran, and tensions are heightening there over Tehran's nuclear program. The Iranian president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, he's insisting that his country has the right to nuclear research. The west suspects he wants nuclear weapons.
Now, the E.U. and Washington want to refer this issue to the U.N. Security Council. And earlier today, the Republican Senator, John McCain, he called it the gravest crisis since the Cold War, except for terrorism. McCain says a military attack against Iran is a lost option but, quote, "cannot be taken off the table." Carol --
LIN: Anand, there was news out of Kuwait last night. We reported that the emir of Kuwait has died. He has close connections to the United States, right?
NAIDOO: That's right, Carol. The emir of Kuwait, he's Sheik Jaber al Ahmed al Sabah, is a key ally for the United States, especially in its war against Iraq. Now, you will, of course, remember that it was Iraq's invasion of Kuwait that triggered off the first Gulf War. The emir died after a long illness. He was 77. The crown prince will take over as emir.
There will be a mourning period of 40 days. And the government will be shut down for three days. The emir who died actually survived an assassination attempt in 1985. Ironically, that was because he supported Iraq in its war against Iran.
LIN: And some people might find it interesting to know that the emir supported women's rights. I mean, wasn't he the man who gave women the right to vote in Kuwait?
NAIDOO: Well, he tried. That's right. About four or five years ago, he tried to get legislation through that would give women the right to vote in Kuwait. But that legislation didn't pass. And there were very conservative hard line elements in the Kuwaiti parliament that killed it. LIN: Anand, thank you.
NAIDOO: All right, thanks.
LIN: Well, on to the Middle East as well. More surgery for Ariel Sharon. Doctors perform a tracheotomy to see if he can breathe without mechanical help. They say the operation was successful, but Sharon is still in critical but stable condition.
Now on the political front, the Israeli cabinet is trying to figure out what to do without its leader. CNN's Paula Hancocks has more on that.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Israeli acting prime minister, Ehud Olmert, passed his first political test Sunday since Ariel Sharon's stroke 11 days ago. The cabinet unanimously approved his plan to allow Palestinians in east Jerusalem to vote in parliamentary elections at the end of this month. But there are conditions.
EHUD OLMERT, ACTING PRIME MINISTER, ISRAEL (through translator): Israel will not allow Hamas to enter Jerusalem and no campaign will be allowed.
HANCOCKS: Shortly after the vote, Israeli police detained four Hamas activists trying to campaign in Jerusalem's old city. Palestinian reaction on the streets is dismissive.
UNIDENTIFIED ARAB (through translator): We don't care what Israel decides. We're Muslims and we follow our book and our traditions.
HANCOCKS: One candidate of the Palestinian party, Third Way, thinks the conditions being imposed by Israel are prejudicial.
HANAN ASHRAWI, CANDIDATE, PALESTINIAN THIRD WAY PARTY: We don't think that Israel has the right to dictate or to decide who is to run and who isn't. However, we're determined to continue to press ahead with our Democratic rights.
HANCOCKS: If opinion polls are to be believed, Hamas poses a serious threat to the ruling Fatah Party. U.S. officials warned on Saturday, millions of dollars of aid to the Palestinian authority could be in jeopardy if Hamas does join the government. Meanwhile, a lull in violence since Sharon's stroke on January 4th has been broken. Israeli forces shot dead a mother and her 20- year-old son near Nables in the West Bank, in what appeared to be a mix-up sparked by a dispute between villages. The Israeli military says soldiers came under fire first.
And Jewish settlers continued clashes with Israeli police in Hebron that have already lasted several days. The settlers are protesting the Israeli's court order to evacuate eight families from abandoned Palestinian shops and other properties in the town.
As for the condition of Ariel Sharon, he's still critical but stable and he's still in a coma. In the absence of any definitive prognosis from the doctors here at Hadassah Hospital, the attorney general, Meni Mazuz, has asked Ahud Olmert to stay on in his position as acting prime minister until the Israeli elections on March 28th.
Paula Hancocks, CNN, Jerusalem.
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LIN: We have a legacy under attack, as we remember the life of Dr. Martin Luther King, nearly 40 years after his death. You're going to hear from one of King's daughters over a scandal that has split the family.
Plus, mission accomplished. Will this capsule from space tell us where the solar system came from? Can you see that capsule?
All right, and later, blackberries, TiVo, cell phones, e-mail, they're supposed to make our lives easier, but are they actually making it worse. A closer look at multi-tasking straight ahead.
So, I hope all you're doing is watching CNN right now, right?
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LIN: In news across America, one person was killed, 18 injured in a hotel fire in Marietta, Georgia. The blaze started at 3:00 in the morning. The cause is under investigation.
And auto companies from around the world are showing off their latest at the International Auto Show in Detroit. GM features some new hybrids and Ford has a new high performance Mustang. Both companies need a big hit. They're restructuring after massive loses.
And seldom has anybody been happy to see dust. But after a three billion miles round trip, a capsule filled with space dust returns to earth. CNN technology correspondent, Daniel Sieberg, has that story.
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DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT: A coffee table sized capsule carrying precious clues to the origins of our solar system returned to earth early Sunday. Setting the record as the fastest man-made craft to ever make re-entry to earth. It wasn't without a couple of anxious moments before confirmation that the parachutes opened, then --
UNIDENTIFIED NASA EMPLOYEE: We have touchdown!
SIEBERG: Cheers all around at NASA's jet propulsion lab in Pasadena, as scientists watched the 100-pound capsule float down at 5:10 a.m. eastern time. The capsule was jettisoned from the Stardust mother ship about four hours earlier. Rocketing towards earth at 29,000 miles per hour. NASA used infrared cameras to see the descent into the pitch black Salt Flats of Utah.
TOM DUXBURY, STARDUST PROJECT MANAGER, NASA: That's a culmination of over 10 years worth of work. And to see that thing in one piece on the floor of the desert, just very moving.
SIEBERG: Stardust was launched nearly seven years ago and traveled almost 3 billion miles as it chased the comet Vilt-2 (ph).
The lightest substance in the world, aero gel was used to trap the microscopic particles from the comet's trail. It looks like solid smoke.
That interstellar dust could help further explain the theory that comets originally brought water and even life to earth.
DON BROWNLEE, PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR: Inside this thing is our treasure, our sample of the solar system that truly contains stardust, building blocks of the solar system.
SIEBERG: The canister containing the samples was removed from the capsule and will be taken to Johnson Space Center in Houston this week, where scientists will likely spend years, even decades, studying what NASA calls cosmic booty.
Daniel Sieberg, CNN, Atlanta.
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LIN: Now, we're following the furor over body armor. Could the lives of many Marines have been saved with better equipment?
Plus, preserving a piece of history. The cabin that sparked a war is soon to be immortalized.
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LIN: Every week, we like to bring you the stories from the front lines. You know, there are wives and husbands and parents wondering could a piece of metal in fabric that thick have saved their soldier's life. Well the Army and the Marine Corps are defending themselves because there are critic whose insist the Pentagon is failing to provide the U.S. troops in Iraq and Afghanistan with adequate body armor.
More now from CNN's Jamie McIntyre.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SENIOR PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Soldiers and Marines sometimes call protective body armor happy gear, a sarcastic reference to the fact that they're not always so happy to wear it. It's heavy, hot and hampers mobility.
UNIDENTIFIED MILITARY OFFICER: If I put those arms actually on, I can barely extend my arms over my head. I can't climb a six-foot wall, hop over it, hop a fence, jump through a three-foot window. There's a lot of stuff I have to do with my arms. That's the reason I choose not to wear my shoulder pads, sir.
MCINTYRE: The top Army and Marine Corps officials told member's of the Senate Armed Services Committee it's a myth troops are not getting all the body armor they need.
WILLIAM CATTO, MAJOR GENERAL, U. S. MARINE CORPS: We're fielding the best body armor and protective equipment available, we think, in the world today.
MCINTYRE: What set off some members of Congress, especially Democrats, was an Armed Forces of Pathology report showing that, in the case of 89 marine deaths in Iraq, 68 might have been prevented with additional body armor on the sides, shoulders and lower torso.
SEN. EDWARD KENNEDY, (D) MASSACHUSETTS: Our defense department is failing to provide the kind of body armor that could have protected so many of our Marines and other fighting men and women across this country.
MCINTYRE: Well, the doctor who wrote the report insists the study was intended as one factory to consider as the military makes the decisions on how much body armor is enough, but not too much.
CRAIG T. MALLAK, COMMANDER, U.S. NAVY: It was designed as a medical report only. It was not designed to give all the answers.
MCINTYRE: The army says all soldiers have access to a full suit of body armor, which includes shoulder, side and additional torso protection. It's just now sending new side armor pouches, which will add even more weight.
What does that add to the weight?
MAJ. GEN. JEFFREY SORENSON, U.S. ARMY: When you're talking about the body armor, at this point and time, we're getting up to somewhere in the area of 30-pound range in terms of adding additional weight.
MCINTYRE: And that's before you add anything else?
SORENSON: That's before you add the rifle, the ammo, the water and anything else that he's carrying.
MCINTYRE: When it comes to armor, there is a point of diminishing returns. Army officials compare it to the Middle Ages, when knights went from wearing light chain mail to suits of armor so heavy it required a squire to get them up on their horse. Jamie McIntrye, CNN, The Pentagon.
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LIN: And now, a legacy under attack. On the anniversary of his birth, the children of Martin Luther King, Jr., are divided over who should control his legacy. We have Dr. King's daughter.
Plus, some of us love of the fact we can juggle a bunch of things all at once. But there's a cost to multi-tasking.
Also, the 63rd Annual Golden Globe ceremony is tomorrow. Winners go home with gold statues. But presenters? Wow, they get a pile of treasure. Sibila Vargas takes us step-by-step through this year's $65,000 gift bag. You're watching CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
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LIN: Welcome back. I'm Carol Lin. And here's a quick look at what's happening right now in the news. Heavy hearts in West Virginia. Hundreds gather today to remember those lost in the Sago Mine disaster. The only survivor has been upgraded from critical to serious condition, but he's still in a coma.
California Senator Dianne Feinstein says she won't vote for Samuel Alito. But today, she warned fellow Democrats against filibustering his nomination to the Supreme Court.
And doctors caring for Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon say there's little change in his condition. Sharon underwent a tracheotomy today to help his breathing. He's still in a coma 11 days after suffering a massive stroke.
And history is made in Chile as it appears the country has elected its first woman president. Michelle Bachelet has taken a strong lead in the country's presidential runoff. Her opponent conceded defeat earlier today.
Dr. Martin Luther King told African-American people that they are people with the same rights as white people. He told them to resist, but peacefully. And he showed them how to make history. That's why we're celebrating his birthday tomorrow.
He would have turned 77 this year. Nearly 40 years after his death, a dispute has broken out over the future of the King Center in Atlanta. Some of his children want to sell the center to the National Park Service. Others feel strongly, it should remain independent to best carry on King's legacy and teachings.
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BERNICE KING, DAUGHTER: I think it's very important for people to begin to realize the importance of keeping the King Center as an independent vehicle of sorts. What I mean by that is my father always had an independent voice in the sense of being able to constructively critique this government. And a lot of times if you're housed in a building that's owned by the federal government, you're a little more uncomfortable doing something like that, and so you lose that essence.
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LIN: And you might be interested in knowing that Harriet Beecher Stowe's novel "Uncle Tom's Cabin" generated support for the abolition of slavery in the U.S. And now after all these years, the home of the slave who inspired the famous novel is being preserved as a museum. Louise Schiavone reports.
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LOUISE SCHIAVONE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The cabin of Uncle Tom was a small log building, close adjoining to the house. So begins chapter four of Harriet Beecher Stowe's historic novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin." But chapter one of the cabin's life in the public domain begins this week, as Montgomery County, Maryland, officially embraces the former home of the man who inspired Stowe's novel, the Reverend Josiah Henson.
JAMES HENSON SR., HENSON DESCENDANT: She thought that this man had a wonderful Christian character. And his life was filled with so much excitement. And he was a very dignified person. So I imagine she saw the character in Reverend Josiah Henson being a character that she would want to immortalize with some editorial license.
SCHIAVONE: Historians believe the character of Uncle Tom and the board story were based on Josiah Henson's autobiography, published in 1849. Henson himself endured indignities and grief, only to ultimately steal away to freedom in Canada.
Before that, this cabin was part of his homebase on a then- sprawling plantation in Maryland.
(on camera): In "Uncle Tom's Cabin," it was in this room that the slave Uncle Tom learns that he's about to be sold. Stowe writes, "He leaned over the back of the chair and covered his face with his large hands. Sobs, heavy, hoarse, and loud, shook the chair and great tears fell through his fingers on the floor. For sir, he was a man."
(voice-over): Fast forward more than a century and a half after Reverend Henson's autobiography and Stowe's novel. The bitter lessons of that experience are to be memorialized as the deed to this home will be adopted by the county for the purpose of historic preservation.
Gregory Mallet-Prevost and his family recently sold the property to the county for a million dollars. They enjoyed living in the home and its history for 40 years.
GREGORY MALLET-PREVOST, FAMILY SOLD PROPERTY: Well this was a summer kitchen for the house, so it would have been a focal point for the activity of the farm. And all of the meals would have been prepared here. The slaves that were responsible for the kitchen and for keeping the fires going in the house, so more or less the house- slaves, they would have slept here.
SCHIAVONE: The timing of the deed transfer, coinciding with the Martin Luther King holiday is deliberate.
ANITA NEAL POWELL, HISTORIAN: I see it as an important piece of this history here in Montgomery County.
SCHIAVONE: As "Uncle Tom's Cabin" ends, one character, lamenting the death of Uncle Tom says, "Think of your freedom every time you see Uncle Tom's Cabin." Louise Schiavone for CNN, Bethesda, Maryland.
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LIN: Well, the civil rights movement made history in this country, but it turns out Dr. Martin Luther King got his inspiration elsewhere. And what happened 40 years ago could change the face of politics in 2006.
As always, Carlos Watson has a fresh take. It's kind of like starting off with a riddle, Carlos, you know?
CARLOS WATSON, CNN POLITICAL ANALYST: We've got to, Carol. It's 2006, we've got to have something special for people.
LIN: You bet. And this is kind of interesting because, you know, I see the civil rights movement in the United States as being a very uniquely American story.
WATSON: Very much so when you think about it. But what was so interesting about Dr. King is if you listened to his speeches, he frequently would quote German philosophers. He would refer to Gandhi in India, he'd refer to the head of Ghana in Cruma (ph).
And similar to what happened with Dr. King 40 or 45 years ago, where there were a lot of inspirational international leaders, in this new era in 2006 with a number of new campaigns, we may once again see American political leaders, whether they're actually politicians or spiritual leaders, start to echo some of the things that we hear abroad with new leaders like Yushchenko in Ukraine, the new president of Liberia, and even some aggressive new campaigns of Latin America. Some of the international politics may spill into our backyard. Something that we haven't seen for at least for another 20, 25 years.
LIN: Well, for example, I mean you've got a female now who is the president of I think, Chile, right, and Liberia as well?
WATSON: Yes. So some of the issues you could hear more about, for example -- on the question of immigration, the political race for president in Mexico may give some new ideas to what we do.
Also on workers rights and pensions, Chile in particularly might be a place where we hear more about that. And then last but not least, we thought that after Katrina, we'd hear a lot more about anti- poverty programs, but that may still come yet, based on what some of the new leaders, not only in Africa and Latin America do, but even in places like Italy, where they have a very spirited presidential race going on right now.
LIN: Now, you've got a new twist on money, too. I mean, let's see if we've got this tape, the sound of money. All right, this was pretty critical for anybody who invested in stocks. The Dow Jones Industrial average finally stretched past that 11,000 mark, Carlos. And you're saying that's going to have a huge impact on a dramatic makeover in schools across the country.
WATSON: It really will, Carol. Remember that when you hear good news on the stock market, you think it may affect our individual pockets. But what also happens through a number of different ways is that states make up more revenue. So you have states like Washington, that were running a deficit, that now may have an extra billion or two dollars to spend.
And from New York to California, from Alabama to Vermont, every governor this year who's given a major state of the state speech has proposed significant new educational reforms -- lowering fees to go to the universities, paying teachers more, even offering new programs at community colleges for middle-school students.
So 2006 could be a big year in education reform. In fact, what No Child Left Behind was not able to do on a federal level as a federal law, the new money that's coming from a rejuvenated economy may actually show up on a state level in terms of educational change.
LIN: Wouldn't that be nice. Hey, I want our audience to take a look at this picture we dragged up from our library. Do you remember Boss Hogg?
WATSON: Boss Hogg, "Dukes of Hazzard."
LIN: OK, there he is. Now you're saying there's a new Boss Hogg in town.
WATSON: There is. Now when you see this picture of Boss Hogg, nothing says stereotypical good ole boy like a picture of a police chief. But Carol, there's a quiet revolution going on. Now almost 200 chiefs of police in major cities and counties across the country from Jackson, Mississippi to Santa Fe, New Mexico, are now women. And so you've got women like Heather Fong, who doesn't quite look like Boss Hogg. Or you've got a police chief like Lupe Valdez in Dallas, or you've got someone like Ella Bully-Cummings in Detroit.
LIN: Why do you think? What does a woman add to the equation when it comes to cracking down on crime?
WATSON: Well, you know, there's a couple of anecdotal studies that say that whenever you take a group of people who are nontraditional hires, whether you bring them as CEO's of corporations or in this case, head of police department, you get new ideas and new policies.
So we're seeing more preventative counseling for officers, hoping to lower some of the unnecessary police violence that sometimes you see. More use of technology. In a number of cases, all the women I mention have graduate degrees, and most of them, at some point, ran the technology operation before becoming chiefs. So that's fairly significant. And you're also seeing a greater embrace, if you will, of pre- teen programs in order to keep kids, if you will, of the street and out of trouble. Double-digit decreases, Carol, in the number of big cities in terms of crime, that are run right now by women.
LIN: Good to know.
WATSON: Yes.
LIN: Annie finally got her gun?
WATSON: Annie finally got her gun, the streets are a little bit safer.
LIN: All right, and perhaps a little softer as well. Carlos, good to see you, happy New Year.
WATSON: Good to see you, happy New Year to you.
LIN: All right, if you're reading the -- you want me to go with the news alert right now, guys.
We just got this news alert into the CNN Center. Representative Bob Ney, Republican from Ohio, is going to step down temporarily as chairman of the House Administration Committee during a corruption investigation, this according to his spokesperson.
Maria, we have this confirmed? CNN has this confirmed. All right, CNN has Ed Henry, our congressional correspondent, has confirmed this. Carlos Watson, are you still on the line with me?
WATSON: You bet, I'm right here.
LIN: What's your reaction to this? What do you think, why would he make this kind of move?
WATSON: Well remember, he got caught up in the Jack Abramoff scandal. Jack Abramoff was the well-connected lobbyist who was indicted recently, signed a plea agreement.
And this is another major blow for Republicans as they go into the 2006 election. You've had Tom DeLay step aside, you've had Bob Ney step aside. You had the retirement of a Southern California congressman.
But the good news, perhaps for Republicans is that some of these moves are happening early in the year. Late last year and in January and February, and they're hoping won't bleed over into the summer where voters may say, "We need to clean house and get, frankly, a more honest government in place."
LIN: Are you talking about in this particular case, I don't know the details of what allegations may be involved with this congressman, but there was funny money in campaign contributions. Give us an idea of what may be in stake here for Bob Ney, and if there were to be criminal charges, what would be the nature of those charges? WATSON: Well, Bob Ney, the congressman from Ohio, who's been in office over a dozen years and is chairman of the powerful committee, acknowledged earlier -- actually, last year that he was under investigation for part of the Jack Abramoff scandal.
Part of what we understand the government is looking into, did Abramoff make payments or do favors, if you will, favors for Congressman Ney. And in return, did Congressman Ney help get legislation and special amendments slipped into bills.
Obviously, he's innocent until proven guilty. But there's clearly a negative spotlight cast here. And one other significant thing. This isn't only a blow for Republicans nationally, but in the critical state of Ohio, there's been a ton of bad news for Republicans there, including their governor, a Republican governor, Bob Taft, having to admit to a misdemeanor crime that involved some political corruption. And this comes at a time in which one of the most the high-profile races in 2006 will be the governor's race in Ohio.
LIN: All right, Carlos Watson, very timely that we had you there.
WATSON: Good to be here.
LIN: Thank you very much. All right, we've got much more news ahead. Obviously, as the news comes in, we're going to bring it to you first. Be right back.
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LIN: If you're reading the Sunday paper and talking on the phone while you're watching this program, I have a word for you -- multi- tasking. Actually, it's two words, it looks like. But for most, it's a necessary part of modern life. But does it make you more efficient? Well here's CNN's Heidi Collins.
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TARA OOLIE, OWNER, JUST CALM DOWN: It has a fresh fruit smoothie scrub and massage. We have ...
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): ... For Tara Oolie, this is zen. At her day spa in Manhattan, Oolie has perfected the art of selling calm. The setting exudes relaxation and harmony, but she rarely stops long enough to follow her own business mantra, "Just Calm Down."
OOLIE: There's always a million things going on. And when I think I have a minute to breathe, all of a sudden, the phone rings.
COLLINS: Booking appointments, crafting gift certificates, chatting with vendors, noting payroll, and greeting her guests.
OOLIE: You can have, like, hot chocolate, hot apple cider.
COLLINS: She's multitasking, trying to be efficient, something many of us do. A recent study, done by a London university professor, found multitasking can actually reduce your I.Q. by 10 points. It's not a permanent drop, but eye-opening about what happens to your cognitive skills.
By way of comparison, it's double the I.Q. dropped after smoking marijuana. With cell phones, BlackBerry's, instant messaging, TiVo, call waiting, all of it now so easy, that, well, it's all backfiring. American companies actually lose an estimated $588 billion each year to inefficiency in the office.
DR. EDWARD HALLOWELL, AUTHOR, "DRIVEN FROM DISTRACTION": Because our technology has allowed us to access so much data and has allowed us to communicate with each other instantly, we haven't quite figured out how to control that. And so it tends to control us.
COLLINS: In this world of double-shot espressos, and BlackBerry's, and wireless Web, shouldn't doing three things at once make us more efficient?
CLAUDIA WALLIS, "TIME" MAGAZINE: In terms of both productivity and in terms of, you know, even your social life, you know, it helps you keep in touch, it helps you communicate to your colleagues and friends. But if you're trying to get something done and you need concentration, it can be a terrible curse, breaking into your thoughts, pinging and zinging just when you're, you know, coming to a collusion on something.
COLLINS: Claudia Wallis is the author of "Help, I've Lost my Focus," an article in "Time" magazine's annual "Mind and Body" issue out this week.
WALLIS: I think it has become difficult to focus on one thing. I think we're losing the habit.
COLLINS: Look around most offices today and you see people typing while talking on the phone, surfing the net, and toggling between projects. Fact is, balancing all that pinging and zinging burns up an average of 2.1 hours of our time every day. We waste more than two hours each day on unnecessary interruptions.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You drive me crazy.
COLLINS: Dr. Edward Hallowell is the author of "Delivered from Distraction" and a psychiatrist who specializes in attention deficit traits. He says we are engaged in a lot of things but doing few of them well.
HALLOWELL: If you multitask too much, you won't do anything well. And it's an illusion, because people think, "Oh, I must be working hard. I'm multitasking."
COLLINS: That said, Hallowell concedes that a good multitasker gains respect from their peers.
OOLIE: I'm sort of like the Energizer Bunny. I've learned to teach people how to multitask. COLLINS: A skill it seems many of us are still trying to master.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm so sorry. OK, you're all set.
COLLINS: Because you can't do it all and do it all well.
WALLIS: We need to reclaim the possibility of doing one thing at a time, really focusing on the job we're trying to do, the task we're trying to accomplish.
COLLINS: Dr. Hallowell does have some advice for all of us, learn to prioritize and, above all else...
HALLOWELL: Remember that you do have control, not total control, of course, but you can make some changes. And then, chief among the changes -- and this is one that most people never think of -- create a positive emotional environment. Your brain will work much better in an atmosphere of positive emotion.
COLLINS: Positive emotion is exactly what "Just Calm Down" is all about. For Tara Oolie, change is constant. She never stops moving or smiling. Luckily for her and her clients, the balancing act has worked out so far. Heidi Collins, CNN, New York.
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LIN: Well the rich and famous are probably on their cell phones, the beautiful ones too in Hollywood. What will the people who have everything, be getting at the Golden Globes this year? Sibila Vargas has a peek.
SIBILA VARGAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: If you thought getting a Golden Globe Award was fun, wait until you see what some of the presenters will be getting in their gift bags. You won't want to miss this when CNN's LIVE SUNDAY continues.
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LIN: And now, from the only in Hollywood department. The Golden Globes will be handed out tomorrow night and each of the presenters will be given a goody bag containing thousands of dollars worth of lavish gifts. CNN's entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas is live in Beverly Hills. Hey, Sibila, you've got a lot of stuff around you, share the wealth.
VARGAS: Yes, try about $65,000 worth. This is Kelly Austing from "InStyle" magazine. Now you're responsible for putting them together, these gift bags.
KELLY AUSTING, INSTYLE MAGAZINE: We do. We work with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to put the gift bag together, which may blow away today.
VARGAS: It's a little windy.
AUSTING: It's a little windy, but you know, you can't blow away $65,000 worth of merchandise.
VARGAS: Wow. OK, give me your big-ticket items.
AUSTING: The biggest-ticket item is the trip through Quark Expeditions, which is a trip to Antarctica, which is kind of how it feels right now. It's a trip to see the penguins in person, $22,000.
VARGAS: Wow. OK, talk to me about this beautiful ring.
AUSTING: It is their golden diamonds ring. It's valued at $2,000. It's absolutely gorgeous.
VARGAS: And all right, let's talk about the watch over here. This is kind of nice.
AUSTING: Philip Stein, it's a uni-sex watch, jewel face, $585, and it appeals to both the men and women presenters.
VARGAS: You've got sunglasses.
AUSTING: Sunglasses.
VARGAS: You've got to have them in L.A.
AUSTING: And these fabulous pair of jeans that are valued at $1,200, by "Denim for Immortality." And they're jeweled by Sol Raphael.
VARGAS: Twelve hundred dollars?
AUSTING: These are actual diamonds.
VARGAS: OK. I just -- I don't understand that just yet. OK, so this is all diamonds and it's $1,200. OK, tell me, who are the people that are getting these gift bags?
AUSTING: Actually, I saw it in person today. People like Gwyneth Paltrow, Leonardo DiCaprio, William Petersen, just to name a few.
VARGAS: And I heard that Gwyneth Paltrow today was so excited about getting this gift bag.
AUSTING: She wanted it in the back seat with her so she could ruffle through it right when she got back in the car.
VARGAS: She wouldn't let you guys delivers it to her home?
AUSTING: No, they get excited about this. I would get excited.
VARGAS: I have to talk about this little doggy, I'm not even sure what this is.
AUSTING: It is by Jack Rocket Wear, it's couture pet wear by Jake Dynnis.
VARGAS: Oh my god.
AUSTING: That is an actual coat for a dog, it's cashmere.
VARGAS: It looks a little expensive.
AUSTING: It is. The whole package is valued at $500.
VARGAS: So cute.
AUSTING: So adorable, so Hollywood. And this little bag over here, this would be your doggy bag, or what is this?
VARGAS: Yes, a little biscotti for dogs. In fact, I think we have a model. Where is our doggy model? Oh my gosh, here she is. This is, Carol, this is Gigi (ph) over here.
AUSTING: With the painted nails as well.
VARGAS: How beautiful. So the person who actually created this line also created things for like, Tinkerbell, for Paris -- Paris Hilton's dog.
AUSTING: Exactly. Every Hollywood diva there is.
VARGAS: And she custom makes them.
AUSTING: Custom makes, one-of-a-kind.
VARGAS: All right, well thank you so much.
AUSTING: Thanks for having me.
VARGAS: Thank you being here. And thank you, Carol. This is back to you. Could you believe this, is this amazing or what?
LIN: Yes, we're not quite sure Gigi's a dog though, but that's the Atlanta perspective.
VARGAS: They don't keep the dog, no.
LIN: All right, thanks very much, Sibila. Boy, vacuum cleaners, dog sweaters. Go figure, it's Hollywood.
There's much more straight ahead on CNN this evening. As CNN LIVE SUNDAY continues, Anderson Cooper looks at new evidence in a shocking event. What really happened to the Donner party?
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