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Barry Bonds Beats Babe Ruth's Home-Run Record; Organic Food Going Mainstream; Ariel Sharon Moved to Long-Term Facility in Tel Aviv

Aired May 28, 2006 - 17:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead this hour, aid arrives as parts of the South Pacific try to dig out. We'll have the latest on the deadly earthquake.
Plus some unforgettable pictures from a security camera. They show a man setting fire to his estranged wife. Ahead, why she says a judge helped make that attack possible.

And then how a haircut became a show of camaraderie, support and friendship. Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All that and more after this check of the headlines.

The death toll from Indonesia's devastating earthquake is now 4,611. At least 200,000 people are homeless. Many are spending a second straight night outside in makeshift shelters. We'll have the latest on the status of the emergency aid straight ahead.

Pope Benedict XVI says words cannot express the horror at Auschwitz. The German-born pontiff visited the former Nazi concentration camp on the final day of a four-day trip to Poland. He paid tribute to the more than one million people, mostly Jews, killed at Auschwitz in World War II.

At least four Iraqis were killed in Baghdad today. Iraqi policeman say gunmen shot dead two government officials, a soldier and a police officer. Authorities also found seven bodies. They had been shot and apparently tortured.

Israel has agreed to Lebanon's request for a cease-fire. The decision follows cross border battles earlier today between Israeli troops and Hezbollah militants. Despite the truce agreement, the situation along the Israel-Lebanon border remains tense.

It's fleet week in New York this Memorial Day weekend. We're looking at a live picture right now across the country. Millions of Americans are honoring the nation's veterans and remembering the men and women who have given up their lives to defend the U.S.

First, a race against time in Indonesia. Survivors of yesterday's devastating earthquake are homeless and living in makeshift tent ski cities. Now the world gears up for a massive relief effort. Emergency food has started to arrive. CNN's Dan Rivers is in the quake zone in central Java.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: You join me right in the epicenter of this disaster zone. You can hear about me there are children crying. Just beside me there's this old gentleman who has got a really nasty break on the leg. He's already been to hospital but they were unable to deal with him. Look at his face. He's covered in cuts and scars from the earthquake which has flattened lots of buildings around here. About 50 percent of the houses in this area have been completely destroyed.

The residents of this one small village are beginning to pick through the debris of what used to be their homes. You can see this house has been totally flattened and all the contents inside pretty much destroyed. If you look around here, here's another house that has got these huge great fissures across it, massive cracks and you can see the roofline has been dented where the whole building has almost falling over. And look at this. This is the entire front wall of the house has just simply fallen out and the window frame and clearly this building is going to have to be knocked down. No one can live in that. Most of the survivors are now having to camp out in the debris around their homes. This woman is typical, cooking a meal with pots and pans she salvaged from the rubble and food that she's salvaged.

It rained last night and they had a very uncomfortable night underneath this temporary shelter that they built. And all of them are still obviously in deep shock, in deep trauma at what happened. They've only buried the loved ones that died here less than 24 hours ago and all this is just beginning to sink in. Desperate situation and the fact that none of them here have received any help whatsoever. Dan Rivers CNN, Bantul province, Indonesia.

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WHITFIELD: And the U.S. is sending $2.5 million in assistance to quake victims in Indonesia. In a statement, President Bush says the U.S. will offer financial and material support and is standing by to offer additional assistance as needed.

And you can log on to CNN.com for the very latest information about the Indonesian earthquake, relief efforts and how you might be able to donate.

Treading infamous ground sanctified by horror and loss. Pope Benedict XVI honored holocaust victims today visiting Auschwitz. The German-born pope prayed for the estimated 1.5 million people murdered at the camp during World War II. It was an emotional day. Here's our faith and values correspondent Delia Gallagher.

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DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN FAITH AND VALUES CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To appreciate the significance of this pope's trip to Poland, you have to understand the terrible history of this country so marked by the Nazi occupation. And nowhere is more a reminder of that terror than here in Auschwitz and Birkenau, site of the Nazi extermination camps. Pope Benedict said it was a trip he couldn't fail to make, though he admitted it is particularly difficult for a German pope. He said he came as a son of Germany to ask for reconciliation with God and with the men and women who suffered here. Where was God during those days, he asked and why did he remain silent?

TRANSLATOR: In a place like this, it is hard to find the words and perhaps the only thing that is possible is silence. And a silence -- interior silence which is a cry to the Lord, why have you been silent?

GALLAGHER: The pope met with the victims of the holocaust and the German language once again was heard in these camps, this time in a prayer for peace, offered by a German pope. Delia Gallagher, CNN, Birkenau, Poland.

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WHITFIELD: And tonight at 10:00 Eastern, Holocaust survivor and Nobel peace prize winner Elie Wiesel will share his experiences with CNN. He recently went back to Auschwitz with Oprah Winfrey. It's a special interview you don't want to miss.

Talk about a turf war. President Bush remains stuck between his law enforcement team and his Republican allies in Congress. The issue, an FBI raid on Capitol Hill. For a while there it seemed as though everyone in Washington was royally miffed at the White House and all for different reasons. But as CNN's Ed Henry now reports, Mr. Bush may have found himself a friend.

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ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Senate Majority Bill Frist broke with senior House Republicans declaring the raid of Democratic Congressman William Jefferson's office was OK.

SEN. BILL FRIST (R) MAJORITY LEADER: There is 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.

HENRY: different from what Frist said at the beginning of the confrontation.

FRIST: The Constitution has a speech and debate clause in it and the whole idea of separation of powers does need to be addressed. So I remain concerned --

HENRY: While the Frist camp denies it, a senior Republican strategist charged the change of heart is quote, all about Bill Frist running for president afraid of a public backlash standing up for a congressman under a cloud. House Republicans insist they are not excusing the conduct of Congressman Jefferson, accused of keeping $90,000 in bribes in his home freezer.

REP. JAMES SENSENBRENNER (R) JUDICIARY CHAIRMAN: I don't think that 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 deciding what wasn't relevant by themselves and returning it to the president and that's what the capitol -- what the FBI did in Congressman Jefferson's office two weeks ago. Separation of powers and checks and balances is very important.

HENRY: CNN has confirmed three top Bush officials, Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez, FBI Director Robert Mueller and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty threatened to resign if the president forced them to give the documents back to Congress. The president defused the tension somewhat by ordering a 45-day freeze on the documents while the legal issues are sorted out. But Republican Chuck Hagel charged the Bush administration handled the raid awkwardly and says his party is upset about the White House being cavalier with Congress on other issues like the NSA domestic surveillance program.

SEN. CHUCK HAGEL (R) NEBRASKA: There's some frustration. Sure, there is and I think that you're seeing that played out on both sides.

HENRY: But the heat is still on the White House with Congressman Sensenbrenner planning a Tuesday hearing entitled reckless justice, did the Saturday night raid on Congress trampled the constitution, a title that suggests House Republicans not about to back down. Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right, Ed Henry at the White House. Thanks so much.

Well first a restraining order is removed, then a woman is set on fire. Is a judge to blame? We've got the story straight ahead.

Plus caught at the border and sent back to Mexico but wait, there's a twist. We'll explain.

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And latest reports out of Namibia here in southern Africa say that Angelina Jolie and her new born daughter are doing just fine. I'm Robyn Curnow. I'll bring you more news on baby Shiloh just after this short break.

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WHITFIELD: A star is born. One of Tinseltown's most beautiful couples, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are celebrating the birth of their daughter Shiloh. It's one of the most anticipated births of the year. Security is tight in Namibia where mom and daughter are said to be doing well. Our Robyn Curnow is in Johannesburg with the very latest. Robin.

CURNOW: Well, that is the latest we're hearing one day after the birth of little Shiloh. A doctor at the clinic where she was born in Baltis (ph) Bay, which is quite near to the hotel where the couple have been staying for the past six weeks. Doctors saying that the baby is healthy, that the birth was uncomplicated and that mother and daughter as you said are doing fine.

WHITFIELD: So what is the story, Robyn, behind the name Shiloh Nouvel? CURNOW: Well, I have been doing a bit of Googling Fredricka. I think the only way you are going to shed any light on this. Now there are two options. First Shiloh means peaceful in Hebrew. But there's also another connotation. The battle of Shiloh was one of the bloodiest and one of the most controversial battles in the American civil war where about 20,000 men died. So I think if - I'm not sure about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie's military history knowledge. But I think I'd probably go for the fact that they are going for peaceful in Hebrew.

WHITFIELD: OK. Of course the delivery of their baby and perhaps them trying to get out of the country is going to be anything but peaceful because I know folks are going to be chasing them for a long time until they get that first shot.

CURNOW: Absolutely. Well, word we're hearing is that the price for the first pictures of baby Shiloh is about $5 million U.S. dollars. So the paparazzi are absolutely. That's what we are hearing. Paparazzi are camped outside the hospital we're told. The police have arrested some and have confiscated film. That's according to some "A.P" reports. But they have been very good so far about avoiding the media. The Namibians have helped them to maintain their privacy. So I think we're just going to have to see whether they are going to be staying in Namibia while mother and child recuperate or whether they aim to jet out in the next few days. We don't know that yet. But I think for the moment you probably can just imagine a big happy family in the Pitt-Jolie household.

WHITFIELD: All right, well, Robyn Curnow, thanks so much and maybe they will follow the lead of Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick who just came out and showed everybody at one time their new son so that there wasn't this crush of photographers, but we'll see. All right, thanks so much.

Well, flashbulbs and photographers, two things Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt both know a lot about. Well, coming up tonight at 8:00 Eastern, "CNN PRESENTS: Chasing Angelina." It's a look at the paparazzi and their obsession with getting those one of a kind shots of celebrities.

Other headlines making news across America. A dramatic rescue off the coast of Massachusetts. A Coast Guard helicopter rescued five Canadian men from a battered sailboat off Nantucket. The boat withstood days of gale force winds before the captain radioed for help yesterday. The Coast Guard says the five are in good shape.

Gunshots ring out at a crowded shopping mall in Oklahoma City. A 15-year-old boy was shot and wounded. The teen suspect was then shot and killed by an off duty sheriff's deputy. Police say they have found no obvious motive in that shooting.

Border security, the Minutemen have begun building a 10-mile long security fence on private property along the Arizona border. The civilian border patrol group plans to install a combination of barbed wire, razor wire and in some spots steel rail barriers. Every week at this time, we like to profile the very best of CNN. We begin with the story of a woman who endured a horrifying attack by her estranged husband. You may remember the story of Yvette Cade. Now the judge who refused to help her is in trouble with the law himself. CNN's Jason Carroll has an update. His report is from "PAULA ZAHN NOW."

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A surveillance camera at a T-Mobile store captured the most terrifying moment in Yvette Cade's life. It was the moment her estranged husband Roger Hargrave tried to kill her. Hargrave entered the store and doused Cade with gasoline. She ran into the parking lot. He caught her and used a match to set her on fire. The camera shows as the flames consumed her, Cade rushed back inside for help. A co-worker called 911.

CALLER: Lay down! Lay down! She's on fire. She's on fire. Lay down. Lay down. She's on fire. She's on fire.

DISPATCHER: They set her on fire?

CALLER: They set her on fire.

CARROLL: Earlier that same morning, Cade called 911 telling an operator Hargrave had been making threatening calls. One in particular was a frightening clue into her fate.

YVETTE CADE: It sounds like he would burn somebody just like Crisco -- I don't like getting involved in this kind of stuff. I want it to be over.

CARROLL: Cade's family says story of what happened to her actually began several weeks before the brutal attack before any threatening calls. It started when Cade went to Prince George's County district court judge Richard Palumbo (ph) to ask him to keep a restraining order in place against Hargrave.

MICHAEL HAYNESWORTH, YVETTE CADE'S COUSIN: Nothing she said mattered to the Judge Palumbo. She was trying to plead her case. She let it be known that she was in fear of her life.

CARROLL: Her family says instead of getting help from Judge Palumbo, she got insults. Listen to the courtroom exchange that day.

CADE: He's still contacting me. He's intimidating my daughter and he's vandalizing other peoples' property. I want an immediate and absolute divorce.

JUDGE: Well, I'd like to be six foot five, but that's not what we do here. You have to go to divorce court for that.

CARROLL: Judge Palumbo's disparaging comments didn't end there.

CADE: He was trying to force me to go to marriage counseling. JUDGE: Might not be a bad idea if you want to save the marriage.

CADE: I don't want to because --

JUDGE: Then you're in the wrong place. Get a lawyer and go to divorce court.

CARROLL: Cade left the courtroom dejected and humiliated and worse, Judge Palumbo removed the restraining order against Hargrave. Several weeks later, after the horrific crime, Judge Palumbo said the removal was a clerical error. But now a new development since we originally covered this story. Maryland's judicial commission has filed misconduct charges against Palumbo, alleging he demonstrated insensitivity not only towards Cade, but other women in separate domestic violence cases, as well.

Repeated calls to Palumbo and his attorney were not returned. The state's attorney Glenn Ivey was so angered by Cade's story he personally prosecuted the case against her estranged husband and got a conviction for attempted first degree murder. Ivy says Judge Palumbo should have done more.

GLENN IVEY, MARYLAND STATE'S ATTORNEY: I think we have to make sure that at every step along the way, the system doesn't let down victims like this, people who are reaching out that need help.

CADE: Despite Cade's slow and painful recovery she wanted more people, especially women, to know how she was treated in Palumbo's court. So she told her story on the "Oprah Winfrey Show."

OPRAH WINFREY: I think that's awful, don't you? So despite Yvette's desperate plea for help, the protective order was lifted. And just -- I mean you were just dismissed, literally dismissed.

CADE: I thought I was leaving and that it would remain the same. I didn't understand the dismiss meaning --

WINFREY: that the protective order was removed.

CADE: I didn't know that.

CARROLL: Domestic abuse counselor Denise McCaine says she sees insensitivity from judges toward women in abuse cases all the time. Why? She says they simply don't take the cases seriously enough. McCain thinks Palumbo will likely get a written reprimand rather than the punishment she says he really deserves.

DENISE McCAINE, DOMESTIC VIOLENCE COUNSELOR: I think that he should be removed from the bench. His behavior was completely appalling and no one should ever be faced with a situation like that ever.

CARROLL: Cade and her family also say Judge Palumbo should be removed from the bench. He remains on administrative duty until August when he will be judged himself at hearings on his conduct. Jason Carroll, CNN, Upper Marlboro, Maryland. (END VIDEOTAPE)

WHITFIELD: And you can see more stories like Jason's on "PAULA ZAHN NOW." Watch weeknights at 8:00 Eastern, 5:00 Pacific.

And this just in. We're hearing out of San Francisco that heavy hitter right there Barry Bonds of the San Francisco Giants has now just hit his 715th home run, beating Babe Ruth's record of 714. It happened at Giants stadium as they were playing the Colorado Rockies there in San Francisco. No word yet on what kind of reaction is coming from the baseball or sporting community.

Organic food isn't just for hippies. It's going mainstream. Even Wal-Mart is getting into the organic game. But is that a good thing for the industry?

And later, we'll meet a veteran who also happens to be an illegal immigrant. Will he be deported? That story still to come. We'll be right back.

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WHITFIELD: In New York City thousands of sailors are in town. It's fleet week after all and the festivities continue. Among today's activities, Navy chefs participate in best chow competition. And sailors are escorting visitors through the 11 ships moored on Manhattan's west side.

And on the road, bikers, hundreds of thousands of them taking part in the traditional Memorial Day weekend event, the rolling thunder ride for freedom in the nation's capital. The motorcycle's caravan went to the Lincoln and Vietnam memorials to pay tribute to veterans and to bring attention to the POW/MIA issue. There trip wasn't a short one. They began their ride 10 days ago on the west coast.

And now the story of one family's ultimate sacrifice. Their 24- year-old son was killed in Iraq three years ago. Here's a look back at life of Army Second Lieutenant James Kaylor in the words of his mother.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He went to Radford for his first year of his freshman year, got involved in the ROTC department because he was nominated for the emerging leadership scholarship. So he went ahead and joined ROTC at Radford just to try it out. He completed out his next three years (INAUDIBLE) and graduated with a military distinction. I think he just really enjoyed the field experiences, you know that they went through.

He also married his best friend at VT (ph). She was also in the corps cadets and she was also an Army ROTC. And they got married in July right after his basic and she was going into her basic which was military police. So they got married pretty quickly because they knew he was going to get deployed to Kuwait. He wrote an e-mail to us and said listen, mom, dad, everybody, it looks like I'm not going to be able to come home in February (INAUDIBLE) extension here. And until we find out what is going to happen, what the decision to go to war. My last e-mail from him was on February 26. And he didn't really elaborate on what his mission was going to be. He says I hope you get my drift. This will be my last e-mail to you and that was it.

He was very typical boy and but he was a very compassionate, very cuddly boy. You know I think he was very compassionate with animals, felt sorry for people's -- as far as their desperation or some kind of -- if they were very moody. He was a good person to talk with about problems. I think people came to him. He was also a great leader. I think that's why I said people would come to him for advice or to just talk with. He gave them some good sound advice. So you know I think I did a good job with him as far as teaching him some good values.

If I wanted to tell the American people anything, about this war, is that there are close to 1400 families here in the United States that have felt a direct impact to this war. They have sacrificed a loved one for this particular invasion of Iraq. The rest of America has no ownership in this particular mission. You don't feel the pain that it is happened to all the families.

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WHITFIELD: Here is what's happening now in the news. A staggering death toll from that massive earthquake in Indonesia. Officials now say more than 4,600 people have been killed. Hundreds of thousands are injured and left homeless. Emergency food aid arrived today in two hard hit areas. And rescuers continue to search for people trapped under the rubble.

An emotional trip to Auschwitz by Pope Benedict XVI. The German- born pontiff asked how god could tolerate the quote, "unprecedented mass crimes of the Holocaust." And the pope said as a German the visit was particularly difficult for him. A million and a half people, most of them Jews, were killed at Auschwitz and its neighboring camp, Birkenau.

Move over Babe Ruth. Barry Bonds is now the number two home run hitter in major league baseball history. This picture isn't the big hit. But shortly before it, Bonds hit number 715 against Colorado before his hometown fans in San Francisco.

Motorcycles on a mission in the nation's capital today. The annual Rolling Thunder ride sent tens of thousands of bikers through the streets of Washington to honor veterans including prisoners of war and Americans missing in action. It's just one of the many Memorial Day weekend events.

He's a single father with a full-time job. He's also a veteran of the U.S. military. And he's here illegally and faces deportation now. Allan Chernoff has this look at the best of CNN.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DAVID DEJONG, IMMIGRANT: Turn around.

ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN CORRESPONDENT: David Dejong is a single father of three. A veteran who served overseas in the army then worked on a U.S. military base in Germany.

DEJONG: Have a good day.

CHERNOFF: He lives in Farmingville, Long Island, a New York suburb packed with legal immigrants whoever morning wait at street corners for a day's work. But it is David who is facing deportation back to his native Canada.

DEJONG: A little frustrating. They don't have to worry about being deported. I do.

CHERNOFF: When David was 12 his mother married an American and moved the family from Canada to Long Island. David graduated high school there. Enlisted in the U.S. military and was stationed in Germany. It was there he met and married a German woman, had a child and planned to come home to the U.S. But when his son was born with a heart defect requiring surgery, David stayed in Germany using the country's socialized healthcare.

DEJONG: For working on base I honestly believed my status as being maintained.

CHERNOFF: But David failed to fill out paperwork necessary to keep his legal residency. David and his wife got divorced. He gained custody of their three children and moved back to the U.S. to be closer to his family.

DEJONG: I'm a single father with custody of my three children. And I need that family support to be able to work, raise my children and go to school full time all at the same time.

CHERNOFF: David's attorney says immigration policy should be flexible especially for a veteran.

DONALD BIRNBAUM, DEJONG'S ATTORNEY: Every case should be looked at on an individual basis. He has done more for this country than most Americans have done.

CHERNOFF: David has gained support from local officials including his congressman.

REP. TIMOTHY BISHOP, (D) NY: He's being vigorously pursued by immigration with the threat of deportation. And yet we have thousands and across the country millions of people who are here without proper documentation who don't get anywhere near the same level of scrutiny.

CHERNOFF: The Bureau of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement told CNN, "We're aware of the situation and we're looking into it."

David hopes the government will soon grant him an exception in return for his service so he can remain in the country that he considers home. Allan Chernoff, CNN, Farmingville, New York.

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WHITFIELD: And Dejong's next court hearing is in September. Look for more stories from the immigration debate every weekday on "AMERICAN MORNING" beginning at 6:00 a.m. Eastern.

News around the world now. Thousands flee the capital of East Timor. Rival gangs have been burning homes and fighting each other for a third straight day. Australia is sending ground troops and military helicopters to try to stop the violence.

In Israel, Ariel Sharon is in a long-term facility in Tel Aviv. The former Israeli prime minister was move there earlier today. The 278-year-old has been in a coma since suffering a massive stroke in January.

Rescue teams in east China are searching for two missing workers after a landslide at a quarry. One worker was pulled out alive. Four others were killed.

Illegally crossing the border is difficult and dangerous but it's a risk people take every day. Just imagine taking that risk when you don't have to. Our Rick Sanchez was there when one border crosser found out he was already a U.S. citizen. It's a story you first saw on "ANDERSON COOPER 360."

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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Wilfredo Garza has been sneaking across the Rio Grande for most of his 35 years.

That's where I cross, he shows us, as he explains how he would change into dry clothes that he'd carried over his head.

Wilfredo and his brother, Jose, say that Border Patrol here in Brownsville, Texas, has been cracking down. That's why the Garza brothers bought a small ramshackle house on the U.S. side. So they wouldn't have to keep crossing back and forth.

Here for 15 years they've eked out a living on odd jobs like fixing cars, while constantly looking over their shoulder.

Four times Wilfredo's been caught by Border Patrol. He explains to us how Border Patrol pulled him down from the fence. Each time he was caught, he was bused back to Mexico. And each time he swam back across the river. The cycle would have continued except Wilfredo met Jaime Diez, an immigration lawyer.

JAIME DIEZ, IMMIGRATION LAWYER: People walk into my office all the time. Probably 80 percent of them I have to turn away.

SANCHEZ: But with Wilfredo Garza, it was a different story.

You had good news for him?

DIEZ: I have good news for him, good news for his brother.

SANCHEZ: Jaime told Wilfredo that because his father was born and worked in Texas, that meant Wilfredo was actually a U.S. citizen.

(on camera): Were you surprised?

Completely surprised.

(voice-over): Attorney Jaime Diez says each week at least three to four people like Wilfredo, walk into his office, not knowing they're actually U.S. citizens.

Unlike many of them, Wilfredo had the papers to prove it -- his father's birth certificate and work records. With that in hand, his attorney was able to give Wilfredo what he never thought he'd have -- certificate of citizenship. (On camera): You feel good?

(voice-over): The news is just sinking in for him. And the changes it will bring.

(on camera): So you no longer have to get wet when you go into Mexico or come back? Never.

Wilfredo already has his first job lined up. Starts next week as a mate on a shrimp boat. As we pass the U.S. flag, I ask him what he's thinking. I can't believe, he responds, I'm actually an American.

Rick Sanchez, CNN, Brownsville, Texas.

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WHITFIELD: Anderson Cooper has more stories from the border. Watch "AC 360" weeknights at 10:00 Eastern.

And you may want to buy fresh healthy food, right? Does the label "organic" mean that you'll have to give up more green at the register? We'll take a look.

Hurricane forecasters can't evacuate when a Cat 4 is on the way. So where do they ride out the storm? We go to Key West, Florida to find out.

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WHITFIELD: Organically grown, a phrase that mean as whole lot to many Americans who want their foods grown without pesticides. The only problem organic food often costs more. Now Wal-Mart says it is going to sell it cheaper, a change some say may not be for the greater good. Here is CNN's Brianna Keilar.

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Gus Neshawat and his family run a small farm in Howard County, Maryland, where they grow USDA certified organic produce. GUS NESHAWAT, ORGANIC GROWER: We're not using any chemical-based fertilizers. Not using any herbicides, pesticides. It's better because you're not introducing any foreign things into your body.

KEILAR: Consumers are hungrier than ever for these products. The Food Marketing Institute, which represents the largest supermarket chains says organic food sales jumped 17 percent in 2004.

NESHAWAT: Organically grown you have to do most of the work by hand.

KEILAR: That has usually meant it costs more. But a move by the world's biggest retailer could change that.

(on camera): Wal-Mart says Supercenters will carry more organic items and promises prices for those products will be more affordable. In some cases just 10 percent more than the equivalent non-organic item.

MICHAEL POLLAN, AUTHOR, "THE OMNIVORE'S DILEMMA": They reach all of America. And they can single-handedly democratize organic food by standing behind it.

KEILAR: But writer Michael Pollan, author of the best selling book, "The Omnivore's Dilemma," also says mass marketing organic products could degrade the strict definition of organic.

POLLAN: I worry that when big companies like Wal-Mart are in organic the best lobbyists on K Street will be in there trying to do what companies always do which is lighten their regulatory burden.

KEILAR: Wal-Mart declined to give us an on camera interview but told CNN in a written statement about their organic offerings, "Regarding the type of fresh produce can select, we are proud to carry only USDA certified organic products."

Organic farmers have a different concern that big companies like Wal-Mart will not do business with small organic operations.

NESHAWAT: If they are going to be doing any kind of big bulk purchases it's going to be coming from overseas somewhere where the labor is very cheap compared to here.

KEILAR: A Wal-Mart spokesperson told CNN by phone its stores do not sell organic produce from overseas but also says this does not mean Wal-Mart won't in the future. A possibility that has Gus Neshawat worried locally grown chemical free produced could get squeezed out when organic gets mass produced. Brianna Keilar, CNN, Washington.

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WHITFIELD: And more of CNN LIVE SUNDAY straight ahead with Carol Lin. Hello?

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Really interesting stories coming up. At 6:00 we're going to explore this criminal trial up in New York where they are testing whether the use of the n-word in an attack on a black man constitute as hate crime. The defense says, come on. It's in hip hop, it's in rap, it's slang. It's not a hate crime. We're going to be talking a little bit about that.

And I'm talking with comedian Paul Mooney as well. Then at 7:00, Jamie McIntyre did a terrific investigative report, two parts, on what exactly happened to army ranger Pat Tillman, former NFL player, went to fight the war on terror in Afghanistan and was killed.

The circumstances around his death. Still so many questions. And Jamie McIntyre just jumped right into it. So we've got a terrific great special report on that.

WHITFIELD: Unveiled some great, gripping details. All right. Thanks a lot. Carol, we'll be watching.

LIN: OK.

WHITFIELD: Well a Category 5 hurricane bears down, residents evacuate, right. Forecasters, well, they can't. Now some have a fortress where they can track the storm safely they say. CNN's John Zarrella filed this report for "ANDERSON COOPER 360."

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JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Sloppy Joe's bar, the southernmost point in the U.S., a postcard sunset -- all are must- sees for anyone visiting Key West. And now, this...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ahead on the far left corner is the new location of the National Weather Service in Key West.

ZARRELLA: The new weather service bunker has made the famed constrained tour.

MATT STRAHAN, METEOROLOGIST-IN-CHARGE: I wake up in the middle of the night thinking about hurricanes. It's become such an obsession down here, and rightfully so.

ZARRELLA: The $5 million structure is designed to allow Matt Strahan and his staff of 21 to continue gathering data right through a category five hurricane.

JOHN RIZZO, METEOROLOGIST: We can't even hear, for the most part, that the storm is going on outside.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good evening. And the launch from the corner of White Street and United is approved.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Thank you very much. Launching in one minute.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Roger. ZARRELLA: Sending up last-minute data-gathering balloons, analyzing changes in the storm. It's the kind of information that emergency managers say could save lives here in the Keys if people listen.

BILLY WAGNER, MONROE COUNTY EMERGENCY MANAGER: And I can assure you, if they don't pay attention to this, we're going to lose thousands of people if we have a three, four or five make landfall down here.

ZARRELLA: The bunker is made of concrete and steel. The windows are made to withstand winds of 165 miles an hour. If that's not enough, 500-pound storm shutters add protection.

(on camera): Now, if for whatever reason, this outer area should fail, the forecasters can retreat inside here. This is the safe room. The walls are 13 inches thick, poured concrete, steel reinforced. The door weighs 450 pounds. It opens to the inside so that it can't be blocked by debris. The entire room is designed to withstand winds of 255 miles an hour.

(voice-over): On one wall are pictures drawn by schoolchildren who went through Hurricane Wilma last October. One child wrote, my house had two feet of water. My room was destroyed.

Another said, Wilma destroyed everything.

But Wilma wasn't the big one. Forecasters say if the big one does hit, though, they'll be here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The forecast for the lower and middle keys, including Key West in Marathon.

ZARRELLA: Tracking the storm, even if they're in the middle of it.

John Zarrella, CNN, Key West.

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WHITFIELD: And keep watching Anderson Cooper for hurricane coverage this season. Join "AC 360" weeknights at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.

And remember, CNN is your hurricane headquarters. We'll bring you everything you need to know on every storm this hurricane season.

A movie about Ireland's struggle for independence has won top honors at Cannes film festival. British director Ken Loach won the prestigious Palme D'Or award for his film "The Wind that Shakes the Barley." It topped 19 other contenders. The head of the star studded nine-member jury says the decision was unanimous.

Creating quite the buzz with a simple hairstyle. Why less is more for one group of friends. That story next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) WHITFIELD: Taking it all off, not clothes, but locks of hair. Coming off like crazy in Tennessee. Kids are getting buzz cuts to help a friend in need. Here is Amy Rao from CNN affiliate WTVF in Nashville.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: School's out.

AMY RAO, WTVF CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The last day of school.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi, America.

RAO: Might as well be a party. For the first day of summer.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hi.

RAO: With very little work to concentrate on the focus is on friends. Even the one who couldn't make it on this last day.

JOSH HOUSLEY, BATTLING CANCER: Well, I haven't gone to the last day so I will get -- I will get the last day in fifth grade when it comes.

RAO: That's because Josh is at home fighting cancer and undergoing aggressive chemotherapy. Although he can't enjoy time with his friends he's not too far from their thoughts.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I am very proud of my kids.

RAO: Just look around.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When they turn around you can't tell them apart.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We didn't want to leave Josh out and we thought it would be pretty good to support him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If he's losing all of his hair I'm shaving mine because we're best friends.

RAO: In fact, 30 boys all got their buzz cuts.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He has lots of friends.

RAO: To show Josh he is not alone.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Your head is not very hot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It feels so smooth.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The back of it feels like a baby and the front ...

RAO: Little did Josh know he's created a whole new source of entertainment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Feels good.

HOUSLEY: I think I just -- made a new fashion statement at the school for boys.

RAO: Fashion, maybe. But a statement for sure. His class says it's one of courage and for Josh they've made quite an impact, too.

HOUSLEY: If they want to make me happy, they just did it.

RAO: Amy Rao, News Channel 5.

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WHITFIELD: Too sweet. Stay with us. Still much more ahead. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. You're watching CNN. The most trusted name in news.

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