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Controversial Port Contract on Hold; Unusual Daytime Curfew in Baghdad

Aired February 24, 2006 - 08:00   ET

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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning.
I'm Soledad O'Brien.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Miles O'Brien.

That controversial port contract on hold for now. The political storm over the deal still going strong, though.

S. O'BRIEN: An unusual daytime curfew in Baghdad. Some drastic steps to try to stop the escalating violence there.

And a state of emergency this morning in the Philippines, as the government deals with massive protests and also a possible coup attempt.

M. O'BRIEN: A call for attention -- the mayor of one Gulf Coast city warns recovery after Katrina is slow going. And he's getting kind of short about it, if you will.

S. O'BRIEN: So to speak.

And Sasha Cohen stumbles early on, but she takes the silver. A closer look at what happened yesterday with Scott Hamilton.

That's ahead on this AMERICAN MORNING.

M. O'BRIEN: We begin with a CNN Security Watch.

A new development in that controversial port deal involving a state-run business in the United Arab Emirates. Dubai Ports World has apparently agreed to delay taking control of six major U.S. ports.

CNN's Elaine Quijano at the White House to tell us more as we do our "Security Watch" here -- Elaine, what caused this, it seems like a last minute turnaround here?

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, in a phrase, Miles, pressure from Capitol Hill.

You're right, this was an unexpected development that happened overnight. In fact, that pressure coming not just from Democrats, but even members of the president's own party, Republicans, who came out hard against President Bush on this deal.

Now, the lawmakers argued that the move could jeopardize national security, while the Bush administration had said that this deal was properly vetted.

Nevertheless, lawmakers had threatened to pass legislation to block the deal. At the same time you had President Bush saying that he would use his veto pen if there were to happen. And then, interestingly, Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, saying yesterday that the White House might accept some kind of delay in order to give lawmakers what he called "a comfort level."

And then, finally, overnight, word from the company itself, Dubai Ports World, that, in fact, it would hold off on the U.S. portion of the deal. In a statement issued last night, a spokesman said: "We need to understand the concerns of the people in the U.S. who are worried about this transaction and make sure they are addressed to the benefit of all parties. Security is everybody's business."

So, Miles, no word, though, from company officials on how long they plan to continue with this postponement -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: Elaine, I was talking to Congressman Peter King just a little while ago, Republican, Long Island, of New York. Very vocal against the deal. And he is definitely taking a wait and see approach to this. He would like to continue to delve into this corporation heavily. I got the sense he had sort of made up his mind.

Do you get the sense that this delay is really going to end the debate?

QUIJANO: Well, that's a very good question.

At this point, one of the main complaints, as you know, from both sides of the aisle, really, has been a lack of communication from the White House. Unclear if this will change things.

As you know, though, Congressman King saying earlier on AMERICAN MORNING that he viewed this as essentially a positive first step, but also saying that he still has a lot of unanswered questions.

M. O'BRIEN: Elaine Quijano, thank you very much.

Stay with CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: Take a look at this.

It's just after 4:00 in the afternoon in Baghdad.

That daytime curfew meant to stop sectarian violence is ending just now. We'll take a look and see if it's worked and if Iraqis, in fact, are returning to the streets.

Let's go to Aneesh Raman.

He is in the capital city this morning -- hey, Aneesh, has the violence subsided yet?

ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Soledad, good morning. No major incidents to report, a welcome pause in the violence we've seen, the sectarian attacks, since Wednesday morning's bombing of that sacred Shia mosque.

No break, though, in the demonstrations.

In the southern Iraqi city of Basra, thousands took to the streets demonstrating Wednesday morning's attacks. Amid the demonstrations, though, there were calls for unity from local Basra city officials, saying the country cannot and should not be dragged into a civil war.

Also, in the Shia holy city of Najaf, where the Shia spiritual leader of the country, the Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, resides, demonstrations, as well, there. We've seen them daily in both those cities since Wednesday morning's attack.

And in Sadr City, a neighborhood of the capital, dispute the curfew that you mentioned that was in place until just now, there were demonstrations. And, again, no major incidents.

So it seems that the curfew has worked, but it has just ended. It is unclear how many Iraqis are now coming into the streets, whether this is going to be a longer period of pause than just simply the time that the curfew is in place.

But it was a drastic measure the government simply had to take given that in the two days since Wednesday morning's attack, at least 132 people were killed here -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: A drastic measure. We'll see if it actually has a long-term effect.

Aneesh Raman for us this morning.

Aneesh, thanks a lot.

Headlines now.

Kelly Wallace is filling in for Carol -- hey, Kelly, good morning again.

KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello again to you, Soledad.

And good morning, everyone.

The president of the Philippines declaring a state of emergency. She says security forces squashed a plot to overthrow her. Under that state of emergency, there is a ban on rallies. Dispute that, thousands of protesters marched in Manila today. They're calling for the president's resignation. Today is also the 20th anniversary of the People Power revolution. That revolt forced former dictator Ferdinand Marcos into exile.

In Phoenix, Arizona, a man who took nine people hostage at gunpoint is now in custody. Authorities say he surrendered after a seven hour stand-off. The hostages celebrating when police secured their release last night. Police say the whole thing may have had to do with a job complaint.

Olympic figure skater Sasha Cohen looked like America's golden girl just a couple of days ago. Well, now she has to settle for silver. Cohen slipped up at the start of her long program, which ultimately cost her the gold. She had been in the lead.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SASHA COHEN, OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATER: I was a little bit in shock in the beginning, but I was really, you know, I found some strength really deep inside to be able to start attacking and coming back with the rest of the program. And, you know, I enjoyed the end of it and I was really proud of that. But, you know, I got off to a rocky start.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

WALLACE: And the surprise first place finish for Japan's Shizuka Arakawa. It was Japan's first gold medal, first medal of all, in these Olympics Games. In third place, the other favorite for a gold, Russia's Irina Slutskaya.

And a warm and fuzzy story for you on this Friday. At Salt Lake City Zoo, a baby orangutan is bonding with her mom for the very first time. She was born nine months ago, but zoo staff have been taking care of her separately. They've been holding her in a special vest, teaching her how to cling to her mom -- Miles, that's awfully cute.

M. O'BRIEN: Everybody's so cute.

WALLACE: So, so sweet.

M. O'BRIEN: Does that get your kind of maternal thing going in the...

WALLACE: I was thinking it does, actually. Yes. Yes.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes.

S. O'BRIEN: OK, that is not a cute baby.

Kelly is having a cute baby.

That is an orangutan.

M. O'BRIEN: Well...

S. O'BRIEN: That's a face only a mother could love.

WALLACE: Well, I'll tell the child we were comparing you on national television to an orangutan.

S. O'BRIEN: That Miles was going to (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

M. O'BRIEN: How did I do that? How did I even get close to that?

WALLACE: I don't know.

S. O'BRIEN: Man.

M. O'BRIEN: You know...

WALLACE: I went with you, though, Miles. I went right with you there.

M. O'BRIEN: All right. All right.

S. O'BRIEN: Oh.

M. O'BRIEN: You'd better go. I'm not going to say anymore.

S. O'BRIEN: Bonnie?

M. O'BRIEN: Bonnie?

S. O'BRIEN: Bonnie?

M. O'BRIEN: Bail us out, please.

BONNIE SCHNEIDER, ATS METEOROLOGIST: Good morning.

S. O'BRIEN: Good morning.

M. O'BRIEN: I'm in trouble.

S. O'BRIEN: Good morning.

SCHNEIDER: I think you just called Kelly's baby to be an orangutan.

M. O'BRIEN: No, I did not. I did not, let the record show.

S. O'BRIEN: That's what I heard, but whatever.

M. O'BRIEN: Pull the transcript, will you?

(WEATHER REPORT)

S. O'BRIEN: Here's kind of an unusual story, a health story -- two couples swapping kidneys. Surgeons at a Chicago hospital are taking a kidney from one woman. They're giving it to the husband of another woman. OK, here's the weird part. The wife of the man getting the kidney also needs a kidney. She's getting her kidney from the other woman's husband.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

ALFREDA TORRES: I prayed and, you know, God gave us this answer and we take it.

PAULETTE CHANDLER, KIDNEY DONOR: The odds was one in a million, if you ask me. But I got the one.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

S. O'BRIEN: She got the one. She got the one. She's right.

M. O'BRIEN: Wow!

S. O'BRIEN: It's an unusual swap, but it was critical, of course, because neither of the husbands or the wives had the same blood type, so it's sort of like crisscrossing surgery.

Those surgeries, by the way, will take place today. And, obviously, we wish them the best of luck in that.

M. O'BRIEN: Hopefully it's not a game of Three Card Monte kind of thing and sort of like that, you know, quick, follow the kidney. Where is it going?

S. O'BRIEN: Well, and that the doctors keep everybody like...

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, keep the kidneys straight, docs, all right?

S. O'BRIEN: ... keep everybody in order there.

M. O'BRIEN: You're over there, you're over there, that goes this way.

S. O'BRIEN: Yes.

M. O'BRIEN: All right, be sure to stay with us for our next hour. We're going to have a special hour long compilation of our health series, "30-40-50," or I like to call it 120. It's simpler that way.

But we'll be talking about men's and women's health issues, including heart health, fertility, memory. Maybe we can do kidney swaps. Sanjay Gupta can answer any question.

If you have a question, do us a favor, send us an e-mail now. You can go to the Web site and do that, cnn.com/am or am@cnn.com. Or, we're trying out AOL Instant Messaging this morning, CNN AM is our handle. If you've got something that's on your mind, send it to us and we will get it to the appropriate person. That would be Sanjay Gupta or Elizabeth Cohen, coming up in a little bit.

S. O'BRIEN: We've got a story to tell you about, a kind of an unusual protest. It's being pulled off by the mayor of a town that was utterly decimated by Hurricane Katrina.

Here's a guy who was left with nothing but shorts. Now he says this is what he's wearing until things get fixed, even if he's meeting with the president. We've got his story just ahead.

M. O'BRIEN: Also, that -- you remember this from yesterday.

S. O'BRIEN: Oh, I love this story. M. O'BRIEN: Yes, the Rudy story.

The team manager turned high school hoop star, a teen with autism, sits on the bench. He's the manager. He gets four minutes of play and is stellar. We'll get to meet him today. Soledad is going to talk to him.

S. O'BRIEN: And his coach, too.

M. O'BRIEN: And the coach. And we'll ask why the coach wasn't putting him in sooner.

S. O'BRIEN: He's a starter now, huh?

And let's talk about Sasha Cohen, if we can, for a moment.

In Torino, things did not go as planned. But she walked away with the silver medal.

This morning we talk to Scott Hamilton about just what happened.

That's ahead.

Stay with us.

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M. O'BRIEN: As New Orleans gets ready to party next week, a lot of Gulf Coast residents don't want you to forget they are still suffering, though.

One of them is the mayor of Bay St. Louis -- or Bay St. Louis, I guess, Mississippi.

He's got a way to make sure everyone can understand his town's pain. All they have to do is look at what he's wearing.

CNN's Kathleen Koch is live from Bay St. Louis with more -- Kathleen, I didn't mean to mangle the name of your hometown there. I apologize.

Tell us about the fashion statement. It's kind of a, I guess you could say, Bermuda triangle, right?

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Sort of, Miles.

You know, I just want to point out, you know, obviously, as you can see behind me, the City of Bay St. Louis has got a long ways to go before things are back to normal. And so the mayor is understandably very concerned. But he is, like so many people here, very upbeat, very determined. And he's staging his own form of very subtle protest.

(BEGIN VIDEO TAPE)

KOCH (voice-over): A hug, not a handshake, is how Eddie Favre greets most folks.

MAYOR EDDIE FAVRE, BAY ST. LOUIS, MISSISSIPPI: You all take care.

If you all need something, holler.

KOCH: The affable mayor of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi lost his home and most of his town in Hurricane Katrina. It left him with just a shirt and a pair of shorts. And that's how he has decided to stay until his town is put back together -- no long pants, even in winter, even with the president.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I arrive here at this important school and he's got short pants on. Eddie, I like a man who sticks to his guns.

FAVRE: The second time I met the president, I was still in shorts. The governor on several occasions, and quite a few other folks. They've offered to send long pants. It's like no.

It sends a signal that everything is OK and everything is not OK. And until such time as everything is OK here, I'll wear my shorts.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: So we're now residents of Charleston, South Carolina.

FAVRE: No, no, no, no, no, no, no. No, no, no, no, no.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What we...

FAVRE: You are visitors to Charleston.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Charleston, South Carolina.

FAVRE: OK?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're temporary -- well...

KOCH: Item one in bringing the town of 8,000 back, getting FEMA trailers for residents.

FAVRE: That the faster we can get the temporary housing situation addressed, the better chances we're going to have of keeping our people here and getting them to come back and rebuild.

KOCH: It has been a struggle.

FAVRE: This is where we spend the nights, right here.

KOCH: Favre himself slept for months in the firehouse and finally gave up.

FAVRE: As of the other night, it's still denied. So, we went out and got our own.

KOCH: In council meetings, Favre presides over critical debates about how high to set new building codes to keep homes safe from hurricane damage.

FAVRE: It's going to be hot!

KOCH: But the five-term mayor is most in his element with his citizens, helping feed volunteers building a playground. Weighing heavily on his mind now six months after Katrina, 70 percent of the businesses are still closed, 20 percent of the residents gone. So the town is running on empty.

FAVRE: We can rebuild all we want to and if we don't have the money to maintain it once it's rebuilt, it didn't do a whole lot of good to rebuild it.

KOCH (on camera): You can't run the town.

FAVRE: That's it.

KOCH (voice-over): Favre predicts he'll be bearing his legs for quite a while.

FAVRE: Maybe, and hopefully next year at this time, we'll have put our long pants on. Hopefully.

(END VIDEO TAPE)

KOCH: Now, we would have Mayor Eddie Favre here with us in person, but right now he is in Leesburg, Virginia, where he is preparing food for a huge fundraiser, raising money for a group of doctors, the Loudoun Medical Group. They have been here since just about a week after the storm providing medical care for the people of Bay St. Louis, Waveland and Hancock County. They have treated more than 12,000 people -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: It's kind of cold in Leesburg. I hope he's doing OK up there with the shorts on.

A couple of things...

KOCH: It's going to be chilly.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, it will.

Kathleen, this is your hometown and we've talked a little bit about the documentary, which first aired this past weekend, "SAVING MY TOWN." It's going to re-air this weekend, "CNN PRESENTS," 8:00 p.m. Eastern Saturday and Sunday.

I understand as part of all of your reconnection with your town under these unfortunate circumstances, you have a special distinction and a special outfit of your own.

Tell us about that.

KOCH: I do, Miles. I am -- have been invited to be the grand marshal, at 1:00 p.m. Eastern today, of the Children's Parade here in Bay St. Louis. All of the kids in -- from every school in town will be participating. I will be wearing this...

M. O'BRIEN: Very nice.

KOCH: ... among other things. Let's see, if I -- if it doesn't -- if I don't lose it in the wind here.

M. O'BRIEN: Excellent.

KOCH: Also, I've been given a pair of very special glasses to wear. But, it's a celebration. And people here really believe that the kids, everyone needs -- they need something to smile about, you know? It's been a -- it's been a real rough six months. So, we hope there will be a lot of smiles. We'll be throwing a lot of beads today. So, tune in and join us.

S. O'BRIEN: Good.

M. O'BRIEN: Kathleen Koch will not take the boa off until everyone in America watches her documentary, "SAVING MY TOWN."

KOCH: That's right.

I'll be wearing this.

M. O'BRIEN: There you go.

Kathleen, good work. And good luck with the parade today. I hope you put a few smiles on people's faces today. I'm sure you will.

KOCH: Great.

We'll do our best.

M. O'BRIEN: All right.

And we want to let you know that we are headed down to the Gulf Coast next week. Actually, I'm getting on a plane today, assuming the wind allows it. We will look at Mardi Gras, the parades, as well as the continued effort to get people back on their feet. It's really quite a mixed bag. It's a story that is of -- a celebration of life and it's also a statement about how things remain, in many respects, the same, unfortunately -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: Interesting to see, though, as you always see, that debate over, you know, if things are not yet back to normal, should you have a parade? I mean, like the mayor says, I'm not going to wear long pants until things are back to normal. And yet there is a parade.

Let's talk a little more about this debate over whether Mardi Gras should even go on.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If this was Christmas, would you not have Christmas because you lost your home? (END VIDEO CLIP)

S. O'BRIEN: Ahead this morning, we're going to talk about whether now is the right time to be partying in New Orleans.

Then later, that follow-up story to a story we told you about on Thursday, the high school team manager. The coach just gives him four minutes to kind of realize his hoop dreams. Boy, did he make the most of his four minutes. He joins us live, along with his coach, just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

We're back in a moment.

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S. O'BRIEN: Oh, take a look. She was just beautiful. Japanese skating sensation Shizuka Arakawa jumped her way -- I mean look at that -- right to Olympic gold, and, also, now, into the international spotlight.

The American, Sasha Cohen, had the spotlight after the short program, dimmed a little bit, kind of a shaky performance off the start yesterday. She still, though, got the silver.

Olympic champion himself, Scott Hamilton, was right at rink side for last night's finale.

He joins us from Torino.

Nice to see you, as always.

Thanks for talking with us.

SCOTT HAMILTON, NBC OLYMPIC ANALYST: Oh, thank you.

S. O'BRIEN: It must have been pretty...

HAMILTON: Oh, my pleasure. It's...

S. O'BRIEN: It was exciting, huh, last night?

HAMILTON: It was bizarre. It was really way unexpected, we thought with, you know, the diverse talents of the three medal contenders that it was going to be a really difficult decision. But, you know, someone, as we were talking last night and they said they'll separate themselves under this Olympic pressure, and they did.

I mean Shizuka came out on top with a very memorable and beautiful performance. And Sasha just fought for every step after those first two incidents in the beginning of her program.

So, it was an exciting competition and I think the result was, it was fair.

S. O'BRIEN: Yes, Shizuka really, to a large degree, I thought, you know, she -- she just was solid all the way through, you know, looked beautiful, was very solid, nailed everything she had to do. Sasha Cohen, a shaky start.

But you think she kind of pulled it together after that?

HAMILTON: She never gave up in the performance and I was so proud of her for that. I mean when you're in first place after the short program and you make a couple of mistakes off the top, it's easy to kind of give up. But she never gave up on the performance and she got stronger as it went along and I was really proud of her. I thought that she really represented the country and the Olympic movement very well.

S. O'BRIEN: You know, she even said that she thought the silver medal was a gift.

Do you think that's a fair way to put it?

HAMILTON: Oh, no, not when you look at the entire performance. And especially the rest of the field. A lot of skaters struggled last night under that Olympic pressure and she just, you know, embodied the Olympic spirit. And for her to make those two mistakes and not give up, she absolutely, you know, looking at all the performances, deserved the silver medal.

S. O'BRIEN: You know, a lot of people made a lot out of the fact that she skipped practice, you know, the day before the big skating program.

Give me a sense, from your perspective, is that a big deal? I mean is it just that we make a big deal? Like I don't know. I don't know if skipping practice is a big deal?

HAMILTON: Yes.

S. O'BRIEN: Is it nerves? It is normal? I don't -- was it -- was it a big deal?

HAMILTON: Well, it's just something for the media to talk about, it's like oh, she's not here. What can we do?

S. O'BRIEN: That's our lead.

HAMILTON: As you were saying. You know, she has, you know, she has every right to run her Olympics the way she wants it. She knows her body. She knows how she can recover. She knows, you know, it's her Olympics. And I thought she handled it extremely well.

The first one is about learning. That's 2002. The next one is about trying to win a medal and it's a different whole approach.

So I was really proud of the way that she handled herself and I thought no big deal. She can miss a practice if she wants to.

S. O'BRIEN: I was watching Emily Hughes and I was watching it with my daughters, who are four and five. And, you know, she has this book called "I Am A Skater," for -- made for little kids.

HAMILTON: Yes.

S. O'BRIEN: So they were so excited to see the actual girl from the book on TV.

I thought she did, even with a, you know, even with some stumbles, a really fine job for someone who's a, you know, a real novice at this.

HAMILTON: Well, you know, she just made the one mistake of falling on the triple loop, the same one that she fell on at the U.S. National Championships. So I joked last night that that's one element she'll be working very hard on this summer. You know, you look at her and...

S. O'BRIEN: No more triple loops.

HAMILTON: No, now you're going to work on them. You're going do a thousand, 10,000 triple loops. But she, you know, she came here as an alternate. Michelle Kwan stepped aside and allowed her to come, which I thought really embodied the Olympic spirit. And she -- she never had a bad day. She was solid in practice. She was great with the media. She handled all that scrutiny extremely well, weathered it to deliver two really solid performances. And I was really proud of her.

S. O'BRIEN: Before I let you go, let's talk about Irina Slutskaya, which is a name I just love saying, but she had some trouble yesterday.

HAMILTON: Yes, she, you know, I was really surprised. I said halfway through her program, when she was in the bonus, that now is the time. This is her Olympics, right here. These three jpg passes. If she made it past those jpg passes, she made a really solid effort at winning that gold medal. And she just, you know, she made those two mistakes and it cost her even a silver.

So she came in as the favorite. They were talking about a Russian sweep of all the gold medals. I thought it was unlikely, I just didn't expect it to be Slutskaya or Arakawa and, you know, I really think that her program will stand the test of time and she was reporting live wonderful.

But, again, the ladies...

S. O'BRIEN: I like the way you slid...

HAMILTON: ... event...

M. O'BRIEN: I like the way you slid that in. I thought it was unlikely and I was absolutely right.

HAMILTON: And, you know, it was terrific. But it really embodied the Olympic spirit.

And remember, the Olympic Spirit Award, they're voting on it now -- dhl-usa.com. Vote for your favorite athlete -- men, women, team -- and be part of the Olympic dream, because it's all about what makes this different than any other sporting event, the Olympic spirit.

S. O'BRIEN: You are exactly right.

And, gosh, the pressure is absolutely just brutal.

Scott Hamilton, always great to see you.

Thanks for talking with us this morning.

HAMILTON: My pleasure.

Thank you.

S. O'BRIEN: And, you know, as Scott was talking about, the opportunity to vote for your favorite athlete for the 2006 Olympic spirit, and, also, the Paralympic Spirit Awards, as he said, go to dhl-usa.com.

I'm voting for Emily Hughes. I don't want that to influence anybody, but I love that girl -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: Who was that, what, the snowboarder, the little snowboarder, the half pipe girl we had in here? Hannah?

S. O'BRIEN: Woman. Young woman.

M. O'BRIEN: I'm sorry.

Young lady. Young lady.

S. O'BRIEN: Yes?

M. O'BRIEN: Hannah Teter.

S. O'BRIEN: Yes.

M. O'BRIEN: She gets my vote all the way.

S. O'BRIEN: OK.

All right.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes.

And I -- did I say that wrong? Young lady.

S. O'BRIEN: Yes, there you go.

M. O'BRIEN: Right.

S. O'BRIEN: Perfect.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes, OK.

All right, China has got a new public enemy -- the Teletubbies. The Teletubbies. We'll explain. Plus, don't have time to go to the gym? What if your boss put a Stairmaster or some weights right next to your desk? Would you consider that a hint maybe? A new fitness trend ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

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