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Huge Opening Weekend for 'Da Vinci Code'; Family Focus Night in California; Beginning of Hurricane Preparedness Week; Country Singer Billy Walker Died in Car Accident
Aired May 21, 2006 - 17:00 ET
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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Ahead this hour, round two for New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin. Plus, new strains of a mysterious, sometimes deadly illness. Doctors say you could be a carrier and not even known it. Also, children forced into military training. It's a story you'll see here only here on CNN.
Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY, I'm Brianna Keilar. All that and more after this check of the headlines.
Now in the news, police say five people are dead after a gunman opened fire at a church in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Four people were killed at the church. The fifth victim was the suspect's wife. Police say he abducted her and shot her at another location. The suspect, being identified as Anthony Bell, is in custody.
A Kentucky community is lost in grief reeling from the worst mining disaster in that state in nearly two decades. Five miners were killed in an underground explosion early yesterday. One survived. Investigators won't be able to get into the mine until tomorrow to try to determine the cause.
Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro is in surgery right now for what vets are calling life threatening injuries. The colt broke three bones in his right rear ankle at the start of yesterday's Preakness.
And a bit of relief at the pump. Gas prices fell nearly 1.5 cents during the last two weeks. That's according to the Lundberg Survey. The national average for self-serve regular $2.39 or pardon me, 93 cents a gallon.
On the big screen, a huge opening weekend for "The Da Vinci Code" despite church protests and critical pans. The film has pulled in $224 million in the first three days of its worldwide opening. That's the second biggest debut ever at the global box office.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin and his final election opponent are both calling for unity. Nagin defeated Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu in a close run off race yesterday. Nagin bagged 52 percent of the vote. Landrieu got 48 percent and Nagin now wins four more years to lead the hurricane damaged city. Our Gulf coast correspondent Susan Roesgen joins us live now from New Orleans with the latest. Susan?
SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN GULF COAST CORRESPONDENT: Brianna, today Mayor Nagin said he knows what it feels like to face goliath with a slingshot. He felt that he was the underdog all along in this race. So today, he thanked God for the victory. He thanked the voters and he thanked Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu. He also talked about his hopes for the future of this city.
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MAYOR RAY NAGIN, (D) NEW ORLEANS: Oh, I see New Orleans after the next three years being a pretty vibrant city. I am serious and I bet my opponent a buck on one of the debates I will bet anybody in here a dollar that at the end of the year New Orleans will have at least 300,000 people living and working in this city. I see it. There's the number of permits that are open and been approved and this city is going to be vibrant at the end of the day.
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ROESGEN: After weeks of campaigning, this is how the mayor spent his Sunday afternoon, in church, his church, an old Catholic African- American church. He was there with his wife and his 6-year-old daughter and a joyful congregation. The mayor today is savoring the moment because of course tomorrow it's back to work. Here now is what some New Orleans voters have to say about the election results.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's a good mayor. He runs a beautiful city and I'm so proud of him. Go Ray Nagin.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just hope he can bring the city up to standards where we can get you know large companies to come back into town.
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ROESGEN: It was a very polarizing race and polarizing election. So the mayor has got to mend a lot of fences Brianna to try to bring everybody back together.
KEILAR: Susan, were people surprised by the outcome of this election?
ROESGEN: Many were. Many were. You saw how close it was all night. So certainly the Mitch Landrieu supporters couldn't believe it. And actually the way Mayor Nagin talks about his victory today, he feels as if he can't really believe it. He told me before the election that this was going to be a shocker, that the election results were going to be a shocker that would be studied for years to come. Guess what? I think he's right. He is the winner. He did he win. But again, he has to bring the city together to try to get the city back on track.
KEILAR: Susan Roesgen live for us in New Orleans. Thanks for that report Susan.
With home front discontent growing over the war in Iraq, President Bush is making the most of the latest progress in Baghdad. Our Ed Henry is live at the White House with the latest.
ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good evening Brianna. That's right, tomorrow the president in fact is heading to Chicago in the morning to deliver a speech on the war on terror. And with the war already dragging his poll numbers down to historic lows, the president is pouncing on some good news out of Iraq this weekend. With the Iraqi parliament approving a new cabinet. This morning with the first lady at his side the president made some rare Sunday morning remarks touting some of the optimism coming out of Iraq. Take a listen to what he had to say.
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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The United States will continue to assist Iraqis in the formation of a free country. Because I fully understand that a free Iraq will be an important ally in the war on terror, will serve as a devastating defeat for the terrorists and al Qaeda and will serve as an example for others in the region who desire to be free.
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HENRY: But violence on the ground still threatens to overshadow the formation of this new government. Over the weekend, more Iraqis killed in a spate of attacks in Baghdad. Critics also noting that the new Iraqi cabinet still has three posts that need to be filled. A couple of them are critical. Take a listen to Democratic Senator Ron Wyden appearing today on CNN's "Late Edition" with Wolf Blitzer.
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SEN. RON WYDEN (D) OREGON: Sectarian violence over the last three months has been higher than at any time in the last couple of years. The Iraqi police, we saw stories about this today, clearly doesn't have things under control.
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HENRY: Now, the White House is fully aware that it has to be careful about being overly optimistic about some of this good news, some of the progress coming out of Iraq. That's why the president did not mention any sort of a timetable for bringing U.S. troops home, despite these positive developments going on on the ground in Iraq. Another reason of course is the fact that now there are rumbles in Italy and Japan that they may bring their troops home, a sign clearly U.S. troops, U.S. boots on the ground may be needed now more than ever. Brianna.
KEILAR: Ed, thank you very much. Ed Henry part of the best political team on television and that team joins the King of talk live from Washington tomorrow night. Don't miss "LARRY KNIG LIVE" Monday night at 9:00 Eastern.
President Bush's parents were busy today advising the leaders of tomorrow. Former President George Bush and his wife Barbara delivered the keynote address for George Washington University at the national mall.
Meanwhile Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts laid out his expectations for a fresh crop of law students. They graduated from Georgetown law center in Maryland today.
And in Massachusetts, cycling legend Lance Armstrong spoke to the graduating class of Tufts University with a jersey under his robe. It's the first commencement speech the seven-time tour de France chomp, champ pardon me, has ever delivered.
And brace for what could be a bumpy ride. Today marks the start of hurricane preparedness week and tomorrow National Hurricane Center director Max Mayfield announces the outlook for the 2006 season. What can we expect? Lessons from the past may hold the clue. Here is CNN's meteorologist Bonnie Schneider.
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BONNIE SCHNEIDER, CNN METEOROLOGIST (voice-over): Last year for the first time ever, they ran out of names for the Atlantic hurricane season. Twenty eight tropical storms and hurricanes, including a few brutal ones. Dennis, Rita, Wilma and the unparalleled destruction of Katrina. This year a new list of names, but expectations of more extreme weather.
(on-camera): And some of the extremes from past years. The earliest hurricane to ever form occurred in March 1908 but it never made landfall. The earliest hurricane to strike the U.S. , that was hurricane Alma back on June 9, 1966.
(voice-over): The last major storm of 2005, Wilma, went down in history as the most intense ever, reaching category five status in the Caribbean Sea with the lowest pressure ever recorded for an Atlantic storm. Though the season starts June 1, it doesn't usually peak until August or September. The first big storm to reach the U.S. last year was Dennis, which came ashore at Pensacola, Florida in mid-July. And the 1992 season didn't get started until late August when the A storm, Andrew tore through south Florida and Louisiana becoming one of the most destructive in U.S. history. Bonnie Schneider, CNN.
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KEILAR: Coming up it's 7:00 Eastern, Jeff Flock talks hurricanes. His years of reporting, covering storms for CNN makes him a powerful voice on the subject. Learn what you can expect and what you need to know. And we want to remind you CNN is your hurricane headquarters when hurricane season gets underway, you can tune in day or night for the latest forecast and other news you need to know.
And ahead this hour, a story you'll see only on CNN. War forced these children from home and now they are forced to fight. Our Nic Robertson has the story.
Plus this is one bug you definitely don't want to catch. Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells us how easy it is to get a staph infection.
And later is your family too busy to eat together? We'll tell you about one town that wants to reclaim dinnertime.
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KEILAR: In other news across America, reduced to rubble in seconds. Demolition crews destroyed the cooling tower at Oregon's only commercial nuclear plant. The plant closed back in 1993.
It's bad enough being on fire and instead of putting you out, people just cheer you on. But then this guy jumps over the edge of a waterfall and he's all right so that's good. But it happened in northeast Ohio. Ted Batchelor took the flaming plunge on the 30th anniversary of the first time he did it. Don't worry about him though. He's a professional stunt man.
Toni Morrison's novel "Beloved" picks up top honors in the "New York Times" book review survey. It is considered the best work of fiction written in the last quarter century. Published in 1987, The Pulitzer prize winning novel looks at the legacy of slavery.
And every week at this time, we like to bring you the very best of CNN. We begin with a bad bug that seems to keep getting worse. It started out as a sometimes deadly bacteria that lurked in hospitals preying on those who were already sick. Now it's spreading outside the hospital doors. Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the story in this best of CNN report.
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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For April Frans, it began with small mysterious bumps on her skin. She had no idea where they could have come from. No recent scrapes or scratches could explain them. But soon they grew to become painful boils on her legs.
APRIL FRANS, MRSA PATIENT: I was embarrassed to go to the doctor because I thought they would tell me it was an STD.
GUPTA: A possible sexually transmitted disease, but she was happily married, not at high risk. Her doctors first concluded that she had a simple staph infection. Treatment was simple. Drain it, clean it and take antibiotics. But it simply didn't work. And it was only the beginning of what would be a two and a half year ordeal. April's mysterious ailment only got worse. During that time, she gave birth to her son Owen. She continued to develop painful new boils every month, some as big as golf balls.
FRANS: I had been through about 20 doctors. Most of them diagnosed it with an ingrown hair, a spider bite, acne.
GUPTA: All of them wrong, all mistaken diagnoses. It wasn't until last November when April's condition was finally identified. It's true name community-acquired mithicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus or MRSA. It's a long name for a brand new kind of illness or bug if you will, one that doctors know surprisingly little about.
FRANS: I had some doctors say well it's serious and others doctors say, oh everybody has that.
GUPTA: Confused by the mixed messages, April took her diagnosis and went in search of facts. She learned her super bug MRSA could be lethal. While the vast majority of patients will develop skin infections, at least 6 percent will suffer from serious effects from the disease such as infections of the blood, bone or muscle, pneumonia, even death.
Take a look at this CT scan. You can see part of this man's abdominal wall had to be removed after it was destroyed by the infection. It is only treatable by rarer often more expensive antibiotics. In many cases IV lines and isolation are required. Similar antibiotic resistant staph infections were once found only in hospitals where antibiotics are used in abundance. Now these new kinds of MRSA are spreading fast even in people who rarely use antibiotics. For medical researchers it's an urgent challenge.
DR. SUSAN RAY, EMORY DIV OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES: We don't know how it's made the jump. The germ develops this resistance in the community and separate from the hospital.
GUPTA: One theory points to the misuse of antibiotics.
DR. JONOTHAN JACOBS, NY PRESBYTERIAN, WEILL CORNELL: I don't think the spread of MRSA is surprising at all. Every time we use antibiotics inappropriately, they see what we can use against them and the resistant ones tend to flourish.
GUPTA: And new strains with ominous names such as USA-300 can spread quickly. Interestingly, people could be carriers and infect others without showing any signs of illness themselves. Outbreaks have been reported in prisons, day care centers, military barracks, gyms and locker rooms, places where people live in close quarters and potentially have poor hygiene and broken skin.
RAY: (INAUDIBLE) We'd like to know for sure so that we could stop it. Having active skin lesions is probably the most important risk factor for spreading to others.
GUPTA: No doctor can tell April if she will ever be truly cured. But she tries to contain the MRSA by washing her hands, wiping down surfaces, spraying disinfectant on door knobs and toys. But despite her disinfecting rituals at home, her one-year-old developed boils. He was hospitalized for three days.
FRANS: My friends cannot come over without wearing a gown and a glove to hold my son which was very hard for me. Actually what went through my mind at that point was it was all my fault.
GUPTA: In fact experts say spreading this new kind of staph super bug is common among families.
RAY: These are not parents that are neglecting their children or doing a bad job. This is just a very strong germ.
GUPTA: So how did April get infected in the first place? No one knows. Both her husband and their older child, seven-year-old Kathy have been tested. Doctors say it didn't come from them.
FRANS: It's kind of hard because I don't really know what it is. And you know there's no real answer on what causes it or how I got it.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.
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KEILAR: Dr. Sanjay Gupta is part of the team covering the world for Anderson Cooper 360. You can join AC 360 weeknights at 10:00 Eastern.
Are you spending enough time with your kids between school, sports, and PTA meetings? How can you? Up next, we'll hear about one California town that's taking a day off.
And later we'll meet a darling of the critics in Cannes, Penelope Cruz. She's starring in a new film. Will an academy award nomination be next for the actress? CNN LIVE SUNDAY continues after this.
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KEILAR: A town in southern California is calling time out, evening meetings canceled. Supporting events called off. Ballet, forget about it. In the town of Poway, tomorrow brings family focus night. The message to families, take a big deep breath and chill out together. One of the driving forces behind the idea is Poway's Amanda Newby. She's a married mother of three and Amanda, your kids are between the ages of six and 12. You work two jobs, three if you include being a mom. You've got Daisy (ph) scouts. You've got little league. You've got PTA. So how is tomorrow night going to be different from the average Monday night for your family?
AMANDA NEWBY, POWAY FAMILY FOCUS NIGHT: Well, hi Brianna, first I want to thank you for having me on. And tomorrow night is going to be a breath of fresh air. I'm really looking forward to tomorrow evening having a night off, not that I don't enjoy the scouting and the PTA. I absolutely love it. But tomorrow, I am looking forward to having a nice dinner and playing some games with the kids and just relaxing.
KEILAR: What would you normally be doing on a Monday night?
NEWBY: Normally, Monday, gosh either going to little league, we have daisy scout as couple times a month on Mondays and homework. You know just the typical American household.
KEILAR: Of course this isn't just your family. These are families all over Poway that are going to be participating in this. How did you get businesses, churches, other organizations to officially sanction this?
NEWBY: Well Brianna, we started back in the fall September or October a big group of community members and we started e-mailing, sending out letters and when we weren't -- we'd get a lot of responses, but not 100 percent, of course. And once we -- once we got through the letters and the e-mails, we also started getting on the phone and giving a lot of the business leaders calls, the different little leagues calls. We actually went out to places, went to PTA meetings and talked with community and asked them if this was something that, you know, they would like for our community.
KEILAR: So when you get so busy and the kids they get so busy, what do you feel like you're missing out on as a family?
NEWBY: You know I feel like I'm pretty conscious about my time and our family time. I do feel like I'm missing out on some of the good conversations with the kids because you're running back and forth and you're not getting to talk to them as much as you would like. When they were littler, we were very conscious of our family time. You have those family Friday night game nights. So I think tomorrow night is more of an awareness, just to kind of remind us all, please don't put those family nights aside. They are so important. I'm guilty of it as well. I think we all are a little bit. So you know I just -- I kind of miss out on all those great family talks that you get at the dinner table.
KEILAR: What inspired you to put this together, this family focus night?
NEWBY: One of our council women (INAUDIBLE) she's just incredible. She was a community member and mother first before she became council woman and this was on her to-do list and she had asked me to chair this. I was very privileged to do that and very privileged to be part of this event that we're having here in Poway. I love our city. We have wonderful families in Poway. I just really think that this is something that was very well needed for our city and hopefully some other cities will catch on.
KEILAR: So more than this being just about one night. This is kind about awareness as you said. How do you think people can integrate this idea into their everyday week or month of the year?
NEWBY: I think we just need to prioritize it. I think as I said before, I'm guilty of this as well. I think we need to make family dinner time first. And then the little league, the homework, the daisy scouts. You know I just -- we have an incredible city with incredible families and I know they are all very family-oriented, but again I think sometimes we just forget and we need to be reminded that you know don't set this family time aside. Don't say we'll do it next week. Make it a priority.
KEILAR: We hope you and your kids and your husband have a great time tomorrow night. Amanda Newby, the chairwoman of Poway family focus night. Thanks so much for joining us.
NEWBY: Thank you Brianna. I really appreciate it.
KEILAR: And later a story you'll see only on CNN. Our Nic Robertson --
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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: This is the marketplace where the Sudanese rebels began the three-day recruitment. It was the weekend. It was busy and there very few aide officials around to see what was going on.
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KEILAR: Nic Robertson takes us into the world of children forced to fight. It's an incredible story you won't want to miss. That's next so stay with us.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I'm out trying to make a living doing it the honest way and someone else is shortcutting, the rules then it makes it very difficult for me as a business owner. It's going to be a challenge as an employer to verify that the paperwork is true and accurate. The more illegals we have, the tougher it will become as a legitimate business owner to run a business.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Many employers in businesses like landscaping, construction, food service, struggle to stay legit in arenas flooded with illegal workers. How can employers protect themselves and stay afloat?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We have 12 million people in this country whose names we don't even know.
O'BRIEN: Just one reason why Tamar (INAUDIBLE) of the Manhattan Institute says immigration reform is vital for employers as well as immigrants.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why are we forcing them to be in the black market when we could have them on the right side of the law enhancing our security, enhancing our rule of law and actually enhancing workplace relationships.
O'BRIEN: Right now employers can use a government Web site to ensure job seekers are legal. But of 5.5 million employers in the country, a mere 5,000 are enrolled in the program.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The databases are not as accurate as they should be. Right now it's an experiment on the way to the program that we need.
O'BRIEN: If current reform bills become law, the verification system would include biometric ID cards to prevent fraud and would make it mandatory for all U.S. employers to screen their workers from mega corporations to families with household help.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Once you make sure that these -- you can't get a job if you're illegal, that's how you're going to control who comes and who doesn't come.
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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) KEILAR: New information coming in now to CNN on that deadly coal mine explosion in eastern Kentucky yesterday. An early autopsy says three of the five miners killed likely survived the blast but then died of carbon monoxide poisoning. The other two died from blunt force trauma and heat-related injuries probably because they were closer to the site of the blast.
Louisiana police now say five people are dead after a church shooting in Baton Rouge. The suspect who is now in custody allegedly killed four at the church before abducting his wife and killing her at another location. No word yet on a motive.
New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin now has a four-year mandate after winning a hard fought reelection bid. Nagin barely fended off the challenge from Louisiana's Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landrieu yesterday. Nagin won by less than 6,000 votes.
And a sad story now. Kentucky Derby-winner Barbaro is in Pennsylvania. He is undergoing potentially life saving surgeries at one of the world's most respected equine hospitals. Barbaro suffered fractures to a rear ankle yesterday during the Preakness Stakes.
To Africa now. What some call the worst humanitarian crisis in the world today could escalate. That's because boys from Sudan's Darfur region are now being forced to fight. Refugee camps in Chad have become recruiting grounds for Sudanese rebels. Our senior international correspondent Nic Robertson blows the lid off this story. It's a report you'll only see here on CNN.
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ROBERTSON (voice-over): We have been traveling across Chad covering the plight of refugees from over the border in the Darfur region of Sudan. We've been told about deteriorating security and of a new and troubling development inside the refugee camps here in Chad.
(on camera): We're on our way towards the border with Sudan. And we're chasing a story about young boys being recruited, forcibly recruited in refugee camps, taken back to Sudan and forced to fight in the war there.
(voice-over): We get to our first camp. Almost 20,000 people live here. All refugees from Darfur. It's about 40 miles, 60 kilometers from the border. It's here we meet Abdul. He's 16 and as we begin talking I can see Abdul is scared. We agreed to hide his face because what he says could cost him his life.
He and his friends reveal how about a hundred Sudanese rebels came into this refugee camp about two months ago. They say they have no choice. Had to go along.
"When I saw them beating some of the people, I was afraid. That's why I couldn't refuse to go," he says. "I'm not a volunteer. I was forced."
Forced into military training. At a camp close to the border with Sudan. A camp with little food or water. Before they escaped the harsh conditions they were given political indoctrination and training with automatic weapons. They were told they would have to go fight for their homeland against the Janjaweed militia backed by the Sudanese government. The same militia that had forced them to flee Darfur.
(on camera): This is the marketplace where the Sudanese rebel began their three-day recruitment. It was the weekend, busy, and there were very few aide officials around to see what was going on.
(voice-over): But it's not until I meet the refugee camp leader that I learn the full scale of the Sudanese rebel's activities.
"They talk about 4,000. Some as young as 13," he says. He shows me where he was beaten for refusing to help the rebels. He told me he feared that militarizing the camp would leave the refugees here open to Janjaweed attack.
CLAIRE BOURGEOIS, HEAD, UNHCR, EASTERN CHAD: So it is something really, really serious for us, as I mentioned earlier we are really afraid that today the camp might become a target.
ROBERTSON: As I piece together the details it is clear that the Sudanese rebels are operating well inside Chad. It also becomes clear the rebels aren't working alone.
(on camera): One of the darkest details I learned here is so sensitive no one will speak about it publicly. They say behind closed doors that not only did the Chadian authorities know that the recruitment was going on, that they supported it and even now people here say it is common knowledge the recruitment continues.
(voice-over): I go to meet the local top Chadian official who by international law is responsible for the security of the refugees. His office is on the edge of the camp. Outside military police sit passing the time. The official refuses an on camera interview but agrees to talk with me off camera.
In the camp people say more than 4,000 people were recruited. This is a big thing. And they didn't see anything here? The official explains his men saw nothing out of the ordinary. UNHCR says reality is very different.
BOURGEOIS: We have interviewed a lot of refugees that came back from Darfur. It is a fact that that happened. And no one has tried to stop it. It means that also the authorities know it has happened and for any reason -- they let them go.
ROBERTSON: The next day, in Chad's capital, I track down the elusive Sudanese rebel commander who recently signed a peace deal with Sudan's government. I asked him point blank if his SLA, Sudanese Liberation Army rebels, were involved with the forced recruitment of young men. He denies it but confirms other rebel groups are recruiting inside refugee camps.
MINNI MINNAWI, SUDANESE LIBERATION ARMY COMMANDER: They are there. Yesterday they are there, yes, because I have all the information. And they are one of the ex-SLA commanders. He flee from the SLA, he came here.
ROBERTSON: When we come back fears the rebel recruiting will bring reprisal raids against the refugee camps as the Sudanese government sponsored militias raids deeper and deeper into Chad.
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KEILAR: The war in Sudan's Darfur region has spilled into pars of neighboring Chad where both residents and refugees are on the razor's edge from life and death. More now from Nic Robertson.
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ROBERTSON (voice-over): For next journey we hitch a ride on a UN plane. We fly south, still near the border just 50 miles, 80 kilometers from Sudan.
(on camera): We have come to the hospital in Gospieda (ph). The doctor here told us that there are a lot of people here sick who have been injured by the Janjaweed. He leads me into a ward that is conspicuously devoid of medical equipment.
Who shoots him? The Janjaweed did this.
(voice-over): On a rusting bed he shows me a Chadian man he says was shot twice in the thigh a week ago by men of the Sudanese government sponsored Janjaweed militia. The wounded man explains the Janjaweed surrounded him and his three friends as they herded their cattle, then opened fire. The three friends were killed.
This is the field where the attack happened. Well inside Chad. The local Chadian security official shows me where the men died.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is where they are buried.
ROBERTSON: He tells me he asked his government for help with security but so far has received nothing.
(on camera): This is where the herders were living and right after the attack, villagers say, the Janjaweed made off with the cattle to the border with Sudan. It struck a fresh wave of fear in the people living around here. It's the 12th such attack in the last two months.
(voice-over): On the dirt streets of his village the official explains they have had to organize their own defense from what little resources they have. They have no cars or pickup trucks. Just six motorcycles. He tells me they have no guns. As we talk his point is emphasized when we meet villagers carrying bows and arrows.
(on camera): This is what they have to defend themselves with, bows and arrows. Quite literally bows and arrows. And a really beaten up old knife here.
Can you show me how this works?
(voice-over): The local policeman introduces himself and explains the problem isn't only with Sudanese rebels. All his government issued guns were stolen by Chadian rebels during a coup attempt a month ago. I am quickly learning Chadians can't even secure themselves, never mind protect the thousands of refugees they are sheltering.
Inside the nearby Gozamir (ph) refugee camp, rebel recruitment is sparking fear. Tribal leader Yaqoub Abu explains in the past three weeks Sudanese SLA rebels have started brazenly entering the camp in uniform.
YAQOUB ABU, TRIBAL LEADER: If everyone discovers that we have a relationship with the SLA and the refugee camps, we must be attacked and nobody can protect us. For this reason, we explain to them, no, don't try this operation again.
ROBERTSON: But under a tree on the other side of the camp Katuma Osmi (ph) tells me her son was recruited by the Sudanese rebels with her blessing. And she is encouraging other young men to go.
"We lost everything in Darfur," she explains. "My parents, brothers and sisters. We have to defend Sudan."
The United Nations is fighting recruitment on two fronts. Telling the refugees not to take part and telling the Chadian government they must keep the rebels away from the refugees.
HELENE CAUX, UNHCR SPOKESWOMAN: We have been reminding the Chadian government of the civilian character of the camps, of the refugee camps. The refugee camps shouldn't be reservoirs for recruits.
ROBERTSON: But even those calls may now be too late for some. At the first camp we visited Abdul and his two friends seemed to have accepted the rebels' calling. If the rebels have food and guns they say, they will go back to fight. Nic Robertson, CNN, eastern Chad.
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KEILAR: A new arrest in connection with the disappearance of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway. Sources tell CNN police in the Netherlands have arrested an acquaintance of Joran Van der Sloot. Van der Sloot was the focus of the investigation when Holloway first vanished in Aruba last year. He was one of three young men last seen with her. The Dutch arrest is the eighth made in the case but all the others including Van der Sloot have been released.
Flashes of hope now. The click of a photograph captures forever the powerful fight for survival of a terminally ill child. CNN's Judy Fortin has the story.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JUDY FORTIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is no ordinary photo shoot. It's taking place at a children's hospital.
AMY GREEN, FLASHES OF HOPE: We do want to photograph as many children with cancer and other life threatening illnesses as we can.
FORTIN: Amy Green runs the Atlanta chapter of Flashes of Hope, a nonprofit group that photographs ill children. It provides those portraits for free. Professional photographers, assistants and makeup artists donate their time and set up shop right next door to treatment rooms.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it's good to record the good and the bad.
FORTIN: Niki Foster's (ph) his eight-month-old son Roland was born with a cancerous tumor on the leg. She is hoping the pictures will help her never forget how far he has come during the treatment.
(on camera): Some of the families say the portraits help them cope with their child's illness.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I see joy and courage. I don't see pain, I don't see fear.
FORTIN (voice-over): Margaret Sherman's daughter Florence was diagnosed with leukemia in February. She was photographed before and after chemotherapy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I look kind of funny in that picture.
GREEN: Many times a lot of these families this is the first professional portrait they ever had of their child and sometimes unfortunately it's the last.
FORTIN: Amy Green considers them more than just snapshots. She calls them moving, powerful portraits. Windows to the soul. Judy Fortin, CNN.
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KEILAR: And Carol Lin joins us now to tell us what is coming up at 6:00 p.m. Eastern.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: A couple of really interesting stories. in the next hour it's a new film called "Baghdad E.R." It's airing on HBO, it is incredibly gripping, it is very bloody, it is two months inside a Baghdad emergency room where soldiers and insurgents are treated. If you can imagine the drama there and the camaraderie.
Then in the next hour a story about adoption. A soldier's life that completely changes once he comes back home from Iraq and the little boy he took home with him.
KEILAR: That's amazing. What a nice story.
LIN: Single father but this kid needed him. They bonded. It was like love at first sight in a war zone.
KEILAR: That's so cute. Looking forward to that, Carol.
And straight ahead here, the sun, the sand and the stars up next. We'll hear from Penelope Cruz, star of new Spanish film that is taking Cannes by storm. Stay with us.
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KEILAR: The Cannes Film Festival has been dominated by talk of "The Da Vinci Code." But if you can imagine there are lots of other films debuting at the festival including "Volver" starring Penelope Cruz and our Brooke Anderson sat down with the actress.
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BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Penelope Cruz is here in Cannes to promote her new Spanish movie "Volver." Now, in the film she plays a woman coping with family issues, including sexual abuse and also the death of her husband. The actress greeted press and throngs of fans this weekend for the movie's premier. Now I sat down with Penelope and she told me this movie is the most important one of her entire career. Take a listen.
PENELOPE CRUZ, ACTRESS: For me the movie is like a beautiful homage to life. It's really the most important movie for my career until now. I read and it felt so much magic. I felt it was the most beautiful script I ever read. A very peaceful feeling that you experience after you watch the movie. Is full of hope.
ANDERSON: This is Cruz's fifth time at the Cannes Film Festival and she told me it's also her favorite one yet. She said that Cannes is a true celebration of cinema.
CRUZ: Everyone is here for the same reason. There is -- there is still something pure about it which is that everyone here loves movies. Loves cinema. I don't really party when I'm here. I don't party anywhere. I'm more like (inaudible). But I am obsessed with work. I work all the time and when I'm here I'm working all day. You cannot go and party all night even if sometimes it's tempting in Cannes.
ANDERSON: "Volver" is already a huge hit in Spain. OK. Coming to Cannes this week, "Marie Antoinette" starring Kirsten Dunst, directed by Sophia Coppola, also "X-Men: the Last Stand" featuring Ian McKellan, Halle Berry and Hugh Jackman. Back to you.
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KEILAR: And last night at Cannes, Sir Elton John with a few choice words for the press corps. John was presenting a trophy to a young Canadian actor and when photographers kept interrupting well, he unloaded.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ELTON JOHN: I sincerely believe that she will be a huge star and a great actor for many, many years to come. I am talking, you (BLEEP). You (BLEEP) photographers should be shot. You should all be shot. Thank you.
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KEILAR: Not the first time Elton John has had some tough words for the press. But, hey, at least he said thank you. Right?
Some sad news now out of the world of country music. Grand Ol' Opry singer Billy Walker is dead. He was killed in a traffic accident near Ft. Deposit, Alabama today. The 77 year old Walker was driving a Chevy van with four others inside. Walker's wife and two passengers were also killed in the accident. A 21-year-old passenger survived.
Walker is best known for the hits with the "Willie the Weeper," "Heart Be Careful" and "The Morning Paper."
I'm Brianna Keilar. Thanks so much for watching and there's still much more ahead tonight with Carol Lin. Stick around when CNN LIVE SUNDAY continues after this.
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