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Bikers Bring Memorial Day Message to Washington; Relief Efforts in Indonesia; Pope Benedict Visits Auschwitz

Aired May 28, 2006 - 16:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Help on the way to Indonesia after that deadly earthquake. We'll bring you a live update on the relief efforts.
One hundred thousand bikers bringing their Memorial Day message to Washington. I'll talk with the founder of Rolling Thunder.

And an overseas arrival for baby Brangelina. We'll take you live to South Africa for the celebrity birth announcement.

Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All that and more after this check of the headlines.

Pope Benedict XVI wraps up his four-day visit of Poland with a visit to Auschwitz, the infamous Nazi death camp. The German-born pope and former conscript in the Nazi army met camp survivors and prayed for those who died there. More on the pope's Auschwitz's visit straight ahead.

Gang violence in East Timor has Australia beefing up its security presence on the tiny island nation. The Australian defense force has boosted its ground force to 1,300 troops. The unrest began in March with the firing of 600 East Timorese soldiers who were complaining of discrimination.

More violence in and around Baghdad today where police say two Iraqi officials were killed. An Iraqi soldier and policeman were also killed plus seven more bodies were found in various Baghdad neighborhoods. All apparently executed and showing signs of torture.

Rolling Thunder has rolled into the nation's capital. The group wants to highlight veterans rights during this Memorial Day weekend. We'll talk with the founder of Rolling Thunder in about 30 minutes from now.

The long-awaited Brangelina baby has arrived. A baby girl for a star couple, Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Shiloh Nouvel Jolie-Pitt was born late yesterday in Namibia. A Namibian doctor says mother and doctor are doing well. The latest in a live report coming up.

Our top story this hour. The South Pacific's shaky ring of fire. Two more earthquakes have hit the region since yesterday's deadly trembler in Indonesia. Today's quakes hit Papua New Guinea and Tonga within 10 minutes of one another. There are no reports of damage or casualties so far. But that's not the case in Indonesia where a worldwide humanitarian effort is underway. More than 4,000 people are dead. And thousands more may perish if desperately needed help doesn't arrive soon. CNN's Dan Rivers is on the ground and has the latest.

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DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Picking their way through a shattered landscape, the survivors of Indonesia's latest strategy. This is all that remains of the village of Mbulus Kulon, near the earthquake's epicenter. I met one survivor, Saratman (ph), clambering across the debris. Ninety-five percent of the houses here have been destroyed.

He vividly describes the moment he was jolted awake in terror. We went to the skeleton of his house, where he relived the awful moment he found his father's body crushed beneath the rubble. The trauma of this disaster is raw and painful.

(on camera): Saratman's (ph) house is completely destroyed and you come in here and it's just full of the debris of everyday life. Bookcase full of CDs and children's toys. And this is where Saratman's (ph) father died and miraculously, he, his wife and his two children somehow managed to escape.

(voice-over): Across this province, the injured are continuing to arrive in overwhelmed hospitals. Many in agony after being crushed in the collapsing homes. The Indonesian army continues to recover the dead. Village after village has been flattened by this earthquake, which struck just before dawn as this rural population slept.

Back in Mbulus Kulon, Saratman (ph) takes me on a tour of what remains of the main street in his community, now just a collection of splintered homes. Like so many of the survivors, Saratman (ph) is now living in a tent. It's barely waterproof, but for now this is home for some 30 survivors, including Saratman's grieving mother, Wagona (ph).

She is 75-years-old and suddenly a widow. I leave him as a collection of freshly dug graves. Saratman's (ph) father, his aunt and his two cousins have all just been buried. They all perished in an instant, changing his world forever. Dan Rivers, CNN, Mbulus Kulon, Indonesia.

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WHITFIELD: And the U.N. is mobilizing emergency relief as we speak. Joining us live by phone from Norway is Jan Egeland. He's is the U.N.'s undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief. So glad you're able to be with us. So Jan, after at least three significant disasters to hit that area in the past year and a half, how committed are neighboring nations to help out?

JAN EGELAND, U.N. UNDERSECRETARY GENERAL (on phone): There is again an instant outpouring of assistance from first and foremost the Indonesian society themselves, the government, the army, the public opinion is sending massive relief to the area. Also the neighboring countries are giving from southeast Asia, North America, Europe, the rest of Asia. I think this will be a very large operation. We are counting some 100 international relief groups and organizations already involved.

WHITFIELD: And as we look at some of the video of the relief efforts there as you speak, we're seeing them use everything from shovels to spoons, likely from their kitchens to try to get through the debris. So what are some of the challenges you're hearing from aide workers on the ground there?

EGELAND: We are now ending -- we've ended the second day and of course now is the time to dig out the last surviving people. An earthquake like this is usually wounding and severing the limbs of three times more people than it kills immediately. The tragic problem we have is that it takes time to get in the big heavy lifting international and national relief apparatus. It's really neighbors, it's the local authorities that uncover most of the wounded and most of the bodies. There will be more and more coming in from the international community. We must now do what we can to avoid that those who are wounded are not going to join those who are killed.

WHITFIELD: Jan, it's taking time and it's obviously going to take a lot of great coordination, too because so many organizations from so many different places will be on the ground. How do you go about trying to coordinate so that everyone can work together to get to those in greatest need?

EGELAND: The government is now the chief coordinator of this effort and by far the largest effort will be organized by the Indonesian government itself and its president is leading this. The United Nations has met today with some 50 nongovernmental organizations and all of our relief organizations within the U.N. system are also leasing with the Red Cross and Red Crescent system. And we are committed to make this a better coordinated effort than even the tsunami relief effort was. It was more difficult. This is an area where it is easier to reach. Infrastructure is making it easy for us to reach people faster.

WHITFIELD: Jan Egeland, U.N.'s undersecretary general for humanitarian affairs and emergency relief. Thanks so much for joining us from Norway and best wishes on the colossal efforts underway.

And if you would like to help, the Indonesian government is desperately seeking aid. Here's one way: you can call 1-800-RED-CROSS or go to their Web site, redcross.org. Again that's redcross.org.

Praying for all the lost souls. Pope Benedict XVI visited the Nazi death camp Auschwitz today. He stopped in the cell where a Franciscan friar was killed praying before a candle placed there by John Paul II, back in 1979. Our Tim Lister looks at what the visit means for the German-born pope.

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TIM LISTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A moment of great poignancy for Pope Benedict XVI, as he entered Auschwitz beneath its infamous motto, work shall set you free. When this was a place of evil, he was an unwilling recruit into the Nazi army.

As church bells filled in the background, the pope walked between the prisoner blocks, where about 1.5 million people spent their last days and weeks. He stopped to pray at the place where tens of thousands were killed as part of the final solution, the wall of death.

And he placed a candle at the well in their memory. And then Pope Benedict met 32 aging survivors of Auschwitz, many of them frail. Some wearing the blue and white scarves with the prisoner's uniform. One offered him a photograph. Others somehow managed to smile in the place that had inflicted so much horror.

The pope appeared moved as he visited the cell where a Franciscan monk starved to death after voluntarily taking the place of a condemned prisoner with a family. At nearby Birkenau, where prisoners were led straight from trains to gas chambers in crematorium, the pope paused in the drizzle for memorial to the dead.

And then a rainbow suddenly illuminated the scene. Addressing a crowd of several thousand, the pope said he had come as a son of Germany. To speak in this place of horror, he said, in this place where unprecedented mass crimes were committed against God and man, is almost impossible. And it's particularly difficult for a Christian, for a pope from Germany, he said.

He added that in trying to exterminate the Jews, the Nazis ultimately wanted to tear up the roots of the Christian faith. Earlier on this final day of his tour of Poland, a more joyous event as the pope greeted nearly a million Poles at a three-hour mass near Krakow. He told the crowd that Poland became a special place when his predecessor John Paul II was elected pope. And urged Poles to be a beacon of faith in an ever more secular world. A day of contrast for Benedict XVI, one that both celebrated and challenged the human spirit. Tim Lister, CNN, Atlanta.

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WHITFIELD: And this program note. Holocaust survivor and Nobel Peace Prize winner Elie Wiesel will be a guest tonight at 10:00 Eastern on "CNN SUNDAY NIGHT."

On this Memorial Day, thousands of bikers roll into the nation's capital with a message. I'll talk with the president of Rolling Thunder straight ahead.

Plus, want to bag the lines at the airport? Well one airport has come up with a solution to save you time and possibly improve security. We're watching your security coming up next.

And later, a superstar birth has the paparazzi scrambling. A live report from Johannesburg on baby Brangelina straight ahead.

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REYNOLDS WOLF, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hi, folks. I'm meteorologist Reynolds Wolf and it's time for the allergy report. Aren't you glad? All right folks, we've got high increases of pollen in the atmosphere, reports into the four corners, into the Central Plains, also into the southern half of the Mississippi Valley and into the southeast. So you have be hacking, wheezing, sneezing, that kind of thing. But in the Northern Plains, conditions are not that bad. And in southern and central Texas, it is a little better, too. That is the latest on your allergy report.

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WHITFIELD: Gas prices on a wild ride this year. The average price of a gallon of gas is now $2.85. That's down seven cents from last month. But look at last year's price, a bargain at $2.10. Even with the higher prices, the number of travelers is expected to be slightly higher this year.

AAA predicts a whopping 37.6 million Americans will travel by car this Memorial Day weekend. That's 84 percent of all travelers. Just where are they going? Big cities are the most popular destinations and amazingly beaches came in third.

Well perhaps you are heading to the airport this holiday weekend. Allow plenty of time to get your bags checked in. CNN's Susan Candiotti has a way you can avoid the wait, however. Her report is from "AMERICAN MORNING."

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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If mom Tiffany Larsen, struggling with baby in tow, could avoid standing in line to check her luggage...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, yes. For sure.

CANDIOTTI: She and a business traveler Hal Wheeler (ph) would jump at the chance.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Absolutely, 100 percent.

CANDIOTTI: Now travelers at McCaran Airport in Las Vegas can check in their luggage at a hotel as early as 12 hours before a flight. The Venetian Hotel is the first to offer the service, called Speed Check Advance. A less secure service was offered prior to the 9/11 attacks.

PAUL PUSATERI, VENETIAN HOTEL: When this idea came across my desk, it was a no-brainer. We believe that this just provides another convenience for our customers.

CANDIOTTI: Guests can take the bags to a hotel kiosk, and at a cost of $20 for up to three bags, get baggage claim checks and a boarding pass.

(on camera): So someone uses the system, how will they avoid all of this?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They won't come to this location at all.

CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Instead, travelers go straight to security and on to their gate. By that time, their bags have been taken from the hotel and loaded onto a truck. The truck is padlocked, sealed and driven to a cargo loading dock away from the main passenger terminal where those bags are X-rayed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the speed, 37 miles per hour.

CANDIOTTI: Each truck is tracked by global-positioning satellites. A green dot when the truck is moving. Red when it isn't.

KEITH WIATER, BAGS TO GO: It'll be tracked how fast it goes, what streets is taken, and when it gets to the facility. If the truck it deviates, we can stop this truck.

CANDIOTTI (on camera): From a security standpoint, airport officials say, X-raying bags off site is a plus, because if a piece of luggage is pulled aside as a risk, passenger terminal operations could continue without disruption.

WIATER: We actually think it's even more secure than the system that we have today.

CANDIOTTI (voice-over): So far, only Southwest Airlines is onboard. But other airlines and Las Vegas hotels are expected to join soon.

The Transportation Security Administration suggests it'd like to see the service in other cities.

KIP HAWLEY, TSA ADMINISTRATOR: We certainly want to make it easy for people to adopt it, because it helps us with our processing.

CANDIOTTI: And when travelers spend less time at the airport, hotels are convinced they'll spend more money with them.

(on camera): What would you do with the extra time?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Spend it on the tables.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That's the plan, right?

CANDIOTTI (voice-over): Even in Las Vegas, that's a safe bet.

Susan Candiotti, CNN, Las Vegas.

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WHITFIELD: And that story comes from "AMERICAN MORNING." Join Soledad and Miles weekdays at 6:00 a.m. Eastern and remember, always count on CNN for the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. An FBI raid of a congressman's office had both Democrats and Republicans united in fury. But now one senator is changing his tune. A live report from the White House in 12 minutes.

Also, letters to Iraq. How a girl from upstate New York won a Purple Heart using paper and pen.

But first, we're live in Johannesburg with the latest on baby Brangelina.

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WHITFIELD: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are basking in the joy of the arrival of the new addition to their family, daughter Shiloh. She was born yesterday in Namibia. Well what does Shiloh mean? In Hebrew, it means peaceful one. It also has a strong American history connection. Shiloh was the scene of one of the fiercest battles of the civil war fought in Tennessee.

Namibia's government has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect the couple's privacy. Police surrounded the hospital, they've even arrested photographers and confiscated film. Our Robyn Curnow is in Johannesburg, and boy, the buzz is just reaching everywhere. How do we -- how do we understand the mother and baby are doing?

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, as you said, there's been some intense media speculation. One of the most eagerly awaited celebrity births of the year. And of course it's all happened in this sort of remote country called Namibia, which is on the border of South Africa where I am.

Now the latest we're getting, now this a good day since the baby was born. We're only hearing now that mother and child are doing well. We're also only just hearing that the baby was born in a private hospital in Namibia. It wasn't born at the hotel where they have been staying for the past six weeks. According to a doctor at the hospital, he said the birth was uncomplicated. So all in all, good news all around.

WHITFIELD: Well that's good news. And so, as a whole, how are Namibians responding to all of this?

CURNOW: Well I think there's been quite a lot of fascination and excitement. Many Namibians perhaps proud that one of the most famous couples in the world, celebrity couples in the world, have chosen Namibia as the place for the birth of their first biological child. There was quite a fun, informal radio survey in Namibian recently. And 52 percent of the listeners actually voted for a public holiday to be declared on the day that Angelina Jolie gave birth. Some people even suggesting it should be called Labor Day. So we'll wait to see if May 27th turns out to be Labor Day in Namibia.

WHITFIELD: Oh, boy. Well that is something else.

CURNOW: I think generally Namibians have been supportive. WHITFIELD: Supportive in a big way. I mean, to the extent of the government going to great lengths to protect the privacy. Why -- do we know why the government has decided to make such an allegiance to this couple to protect their privacy the way they have?

CURNOW: You know, I think there are a lot of answers to that question. I think essentially the Namibians -- they actually put out a press release saying that they were constitutionally obliged not only to protect the privacy of their own citizens, but also of that of visitors.

So that was the stance of the Namibian government from the beginning, that they were going to help this couple. Also I think the Namibians realize this has been a great publicity opportunity for the country. Tourism authorities say they couldn't have paid enough money for the kind of publicity Namibia has got as a country.

I think many Americans would never have heard of Namibia and wouldn't have been able to point it out on a map. And now of course, it's just slipping off everyone's tongues. So I think the Namibians are aware that it's done great things for perhaps tourism. It's a beautiful country, great wildlife, great scenery. And of course now, it has one of its most famous daughters, little Shiloh Nouvel Jolie- Pitt.

WHITFIELD: All right, Robyn Curnow, thanks so much, from Johannesburg. Well Brad and Angelina aren't the first to pick a rather uncommon name for their child. Some babies are simply born to be different. Coming up, find out which names are hot among the rich and famous these days.

Also a live report from the White House on the latest over the FBI raid on a congressman's office. Also on this Memorial Day, remembering those left behind. My conversation with the founder of Rolling Thunder next.

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WHITFIELD: Now in the news, a race against time in Indonesia. Search crews scramble to find survivors from yesterday's deadly earthquake. The death toll is now more than 4,000. Emergency relief supplies have started arriving in the disaster zone, 200,000 people are believed to be homeless.

A somber stop for Pope Benedict XVI on the final day of his four- day visit to Poland. He visited the Auschwitz Concentration Camp; hundreds of thousands of Jews were put to death there during World War II.

A dramatic rescue off the coast of Massachusetts. A coast guard helicopter rescued five Canadian men from a battered sailboat off Nantucket. The boat with stood days of gale force winds before the captain radioed for help yesterday. The coast guard says the five are in good shape.

This just in, we have a winner in this year's Indianapolis 500, Sam Hornish came from behind to beat out Marco Andretti grand son of racing great Mario Andretti on the final lap just before the finish line. It is the second closest finish ever at the brick yard.

Follow-up today on the bad blood in Washington over the FBI raid on the office of a member of Congress. With that story now from the White House here is CNN's Ed Henry. Hello Ed.

ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon Fred. That's right, today Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist broke with the house Republican colleagues declaring that the raid on Democratic Congressman Bill Jefferson's office was OK with him. Frist last weekend raised questions about whether this violated the separation of powers but he now says he's fine with the raid on Jefferson who has been accused of accepting bribes including some $90,000 that was kept in his home freezer. Take a listen to Senator Frist.

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SENATOR BILL FRIST, (R) MAJORITY LEADER: There's no individual in the house or senate that can be or should stand above the law. It's a matter of how the law enforcement is carried out. And I think it is appropriate as I see it today.

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HENRY: Now, while Frist's camp deny as senior Republican strategist denies the change of heart is all about Bill Frist running for president. That he's afraid of a public backlash for standing up for a congressman who is under a cloud right now. A top house Republicans insist they are not excusing the conduct of Congressman Jefferson instead they say they are standing up for an important principle here. Take a listen to House Judiciary Chairman James Sensenbrenner.

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REP. JAMES SENSENBRENNER, (R) WISCONSIN: I don't think it would be right for a house committee to issue a subpoena to the president's office and send the capitol police rummaging through files taking everything and then decides what wasn't relevant by themselves and returning it to the president and that's what the capitol -- what the FBI did in Congressman's Jefferson's office two weeks ago. Separation of powers and checks and balances is very important.

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HENRY: Now three top officials including the attorney general threatened to resign if President Bush buckled to Republican pressure and gave the seized documents back to Republican congressional leaders. President defused that somewhat for now by ordering a 40-day cooling-off period. Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right. We say that for now even after that cooling-off period or those documents are sealed, yet another order or perhaps ruling could ensue. HENRY: The documents right now are with the U.S. Solicitor General. What the president was trying to do was to get tempers to come back down. But on Tuesday Congressman Sensenbrenner is going to be holding a hearing. The title of that hearing is called reckless justice did the Saturday night raid of Congress trample the constitution.

WHITFIELD: Ed Henry thank you so much from the White House.

Remembering those left behind. Mia and POWs are the focus of the Rolling Thunder ride for freedom. And event held every Memorial Day weekend about 200,000 bikers road from the Pentagon to the Lincoln and the Vietnam Memorials. Earlier today the founder of the Rolling Thunder ride Artie Muller talked with me about his group's mission.

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ARTIE MULLER, FOUNDER "ROLLING THUNDER:" We're not here for Vietnam POWs and MIAs. We're here to let the government know we're not happy on the whole issue not only Iraq and Afghanistan but it's also Vietnam, South Korea, World War II, the government knowingly left live Americans behind. We want them to finally do something on the live issue. We want all the Michael Scott and the Matt Maupin. Michael Scott he is missing from the first Gulf War. Matt Maupin is missing from the war in Iraq right now.

Our government knows enough to bring back live Americans after the war. We want remains and live. We want live before they are all dead.

WHITFIELD: And what about the general public as a whole? Is it your feeling that the general public has a true understanding of what this holiday weekend means? And the significance of it? Or does it concern you that perhaps an awful lot of people look at this holiday as an opportunity for fun gatherings, grilling out, et cetera?

MULLER: Well the significance is between all wars. It's live Americans that our government has turned their back on. We're fed up with it. It's not only the P.O.W. issue but after a war is over the government is complaining about balancing the budget and they never seem to have enough money to take care of the veterans. Their needs but when a war is going on they find all the money in the world to support it. Now they are looking at cutting Social Security from disabled veterans that are collecting 100 percent disability. They are looking to take veterans that spent 25, 30, 35 years in the military devoting their whole life to that career, risk their life for the government. Now they want to pay more money a month for their health care. Haven't the veterans of this country done enough? Didn't they spill enough blood so they could keep -- have a decent life?

WHITFIELD: This weekend and every Memorial Day weekend is often eclipse by the Rolling Thunder biking across America. This year is there any new significance to it or anything particularly memorable about this year's bike ride that you can make note of?

MULLER: We have like normal a got lot of goals. We have a lot of nurses that came out and wanted to ride with us for the issues. We have Matt Maupin's mother and father here. His mother is going to speak for him this afternoon at the reflection pool. They are looking for answer from the government and they are not getting answers. They are just saying that you got to keep everything quiet. Don't make any waves. And that's the same thing they asked the veterans during the Vietnam War.

WHITFIELD: Artie Muller of Rolling Thunder. Thanks so much for your time.

MULLER: Thank you.

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WHITFIELD: Paying the ultimate price, men and women who give their lives to serve the country. Private Deago Rincon. He is one of those falling hero's. He joined the army after the 9/11 attacks. Remembering Private Rincon in the words of his father now.

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JORGE RINCON, FATHER: He was ready to (INAUDIBLE) I was so proud because always he was my big boy, you know. That's Deago right there, another picture of my baby in his beautiful uniform. But I miss my baby big time. One day he was playing Nintendo. The next day he was in the middle of the war, 20 years old. They are not ready to do things like this. They want to have fun. Deago no. He was in something for everybody in this country.

DEAGO RINCON: I do solemnly swear I will support --

J. RINCON: He decided to go into the army because after what happened on September 11 you know and changed his life, I think. He say, dad, I have to do something for my country. It's my country to defend. I don't want to be here sitting around waiting for somebody to kill us here, you know. He was in the middle of nowhere. It was raining you see here he was smiling, no matter what he was happy all the time. You know why he was happy all the time? Because he was for you, America, for us and for everybody, this is Diego Rincon. See the face right here. I was asking why you don't go to the army and be in the kitchen? He say no, let me go be in the front. He said no, dad, I want to be with the best ones.

Coming to this country, giving everything. Not even being a United States citizen and giving his own life for this country was only a hero stood out. And he died with Diego the same day. No matter what I'm strong and I'm going to be OK. I don't want to take my son out of the picture of my life. He's going to be in the picture of my life forever. I'm praying for every single family in Iraq. I'm lonely now because they deserve to live a free life and they deserve to have a free country like we have here in United States.

For me every single red color in this flag is the blood of my son. This is not for free. We pay for this. And we pay this big time, you know. Only to leave some people a nice country to live.

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WHITFIELD: The arrival of baby Brangelina got us thinking. There's a laundry list of unusual celebrity names out there. Frank Zappa may have gotten it all started a few years ago when he named his daughter Moon Unit along with her brother's Dweezil and Ahmet. And last year actor Nicolas Cage and his wife named their baby boy Kal-el. Which is also, happens to be the birth name of Superman. Then there is Tom Kat You will remember Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes baby girl born earlier this year by the name of Suri. Actors Rachel Griffith from "Six Feet Under" has a son by the name of Banjo Patrick and Jason Lee from the TV show "My Name is Earl" well his son is named Pilot Inspektor and earlier this month Penn half of the magic duo Penn and Teller welcomed a new baby boy named Zolten Penn. Jillette also has a young daughter named Moxie Crimefighter.

Celebrity obsession an insatiable curiosity about the lives of Hollywood royalty. For photographers it's more like a big game hunt. Here is CNN's Kyra Phillips.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A couple of the guys were doing the stakeout at the Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's house in Malibu and apparently Jolie is on the move.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR (voice over): The hunt is on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to get on the 405.

PHILLIPS: The prey is red hot actress Angelina Jolie.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Copy that. Keep me updated.

PHILLIPS: Then a 26-year-old photographer works for one of the biggest paparazzi agencies in Hollywood. Bower Griffin is asked us not to use his last name.

BEN: Probably nothing. Absolutely nothing. No cops anywhere. The 405 is right here. The 10 is going to be right here. She is like right here on the 10 going this way. I'm trying to catch up as fast as I can. You guys past west channel yet?

PHILLIPS: Ben is coordinating with two other paparazzi hot on Angelina's tail he finally catches up but he's on the wrong side of the freeway.

BEN: There's all the competition right there. I just saw you guys go by.

PHILLIPS: Paparazzi's aren't the only ones desperately seeking Angelina. She's not fitting into her clothes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Not fitting into the clothes. She hates the hormones raging, she is very uncomfortable. PHILLIPS: "Star" Magazine's Bonnie Fuller is chasing down any tidbits on the actress, her Hollywood hunk boyfriend, and the girl next door he left behind.

BONNIE FULLER, "STAR" MAGAZINE: I like this Jennifer is turning to hypnosis, therapy to get over Brad. That's fabulous. How can you not be noisy about people that are fascinating to look at and as Jen a Brad and an Angelina? How can you not?

PHILLIPS: Over at "People" Magazine the managing editor Larry Hackett is salivating over a scoop Jolie's camp is promising.

LARRY HACKETT, MANAGING EDITOR, "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE:" I got the call in the morning that something was going to be discussed and then I got the call about what was being discussed. I was thrilled.

PHILLIPS: And Mark Lusonta (ph), the blogger behind the Internet gossip site, is snarking about an official word that Angelina is pregnant.

MARK LUSONTA (ph): Once you get publicists real name on something it then becomes reality and we can start rejoice and knitting the baby booties.

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WHITFIELD: We'll come along for the ride as the paparazzi set the sights on Angelina Jolie. It's a special edition of CNN reports chasing Angelina tonight at 8:00 Eastern.

Find out how a girl from upstate New York won a purple heart using paper and pen. That's coming up.

In the next hour of CNN LIVE SUNDAY if you buy certified organic food at the grocery store it may cost you a little more. But guess what? That could soon change. But is it a good thing? We'll take a closer look.

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WHITFIELD: A middle school student in upstate New York has earned herself a purple heart. The medal bestowed for a wound suffered in war belongs now to a 13-year-old Fatima Faisal. How Fatima got it say as lot about her. A lot about a sergeant who fought in Iraq, as well. Perhaps even more about supporting the troops overall. To tell us their story from Syracuse Sergeant Phillip Charles Trackey of the United States army. Good to see you. And 13-year-old Fatima Faisal. Good to see you as well.

Fatima let me begin with you. Yours was a contest-winning letter chosen out of 300 in your age category, which won a lot of praise. What was your message?

FATIMA FAISAL, ESSAY CONTEST WINNER: Basically just that we support the soldiers and we care for them. And we love them and we hope they come back home safely. WHITFIELD: Could you read a couple lines from your letter? I understand you have that with you.

FAISAL: Yes. Dear Service Member. I just want to say thanks for everyone. You have given me the ability to fall asleep at night knowing that I'll be safe and sound the next day. I give you great respect because you had a choice to join the military. Because of your bravery and courage you decided to join. I know it must be hard serving so far away without your family and friends. You have to be strong. I know whoever and wherever your family is they love you and pray for you every day.

I appreciate everything you have done for the Katrina victims. Without you, all the states that had been hit by the hurricane cannot get back on track as fast. You should know that you do so much. You risk your lives for others. You fight for our country's protection and you do all this with pride and dignity. Your loyalty and justice show how hard you work for the country.

WHITFIELD: Sorry. So sergeant, I want to get you in here before we run out of time with our satellite window. When you received letters just like that from other young people while abroad how did it make you feel?

SGT. PHILIP CHARLES TRACKEY, U.S. ARMY: Extremely good, it's a good morale booster and pickup especially when you work 48, 72 hours straight and you're tired. Come in and all after sudden you have mail and you open it and you read it. It makes you feel really good.

WHITFIELD: And from kids you don't even know with such heartfelt messages just like Fatima's. Then you received a purple heart because of head and arm injuries. While you were in Iraq and then when you came back and had an opportunity to meet the winner of this contest' letter writing of young people. What did you do?

TRACKEY: After a long thought, I decided to give her my purple heart. I was the only one that knew about it. My family didn't know about it as well as the other service members that were with me at the middle school. And it -- it mean as lot.

WHITFIELD: It really does mean a lot. What a generous gesture and gift that you then received. What was that like for you? What was your reaction when the sergeant gave you his purple heart?

FAISAL: At first I was speechless. I mean it's such a gracious thing to do. And it was such an honor. I mean it's priceless possession for him to give me it. It was -- it was the best gift I ever received in my life.

WHITFIELD: So you're relationship and this story of the letter writing has really I imagine inspired a lot of people. Both sergeant and Fatima. Not only the letter writing campaign but being able to convey to so many people the importance of what it is like to be a soldier abroad and receive letters from someone you don't even know. Well we really appreciate both of you sharing your story with us. Sergeant Philip Trackey and Fatima. Thanks so much. TRACKEY: Thank you.

FAISAL: Thank you.

WHITFIELD: An update on the top stories straight ahead including the latest on the deadly earthquake overseas. But first hitting the beach this Memorial Day weekend, Reynolds Wolf takes a look at beach erosion in our "Changing Earth Report."

WOLF: Some of our best vacations and most valuable real estate are on the beach. But coastlines are made to be moved, wind and waves are constantly eroding old beaches moving sand along with the currents to build new ones. The Cape Hatteras light house was moved a quarter mile inland in 1999 to save it from the encroaching ocean. This view of the New Jersey shoreline shows the impact of efforts to save the beach. Critics say the annual effort to restore beaches wastes millions of dollars. But supporters say it's essential to protect beach communities. Reynolds Wolf, CNN.

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