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FBI Raid On The Hill; New Treasury Secretary; News Crew Attacked; Indonesian Quake

Aired May 30, 2006 - 10:00   ET

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Your money, his choice. President Bush nominates a new treasury secretary. We'll take a closer look how Wall Street lead to Pennsylvania Avenue.

Then from an Iraqi street attack to a safe landing in Germany. A CBS reporter battles to survive the explosion that killed her colleagues. The latest from her doctors ahead on CNN LIVE TODAY.

And good morning, everyone. I'm Tony Harris, in for Daryn Kagan.

A skeptical atmosphere on Capitol Hill this morning. Right now lawmakers are looking into the FBI raid on a colleagues office. Many feel the search crossed the constitutional line that separates the presidency and the Congress. Live pictures now of the hearing as it goes on right now. CNN Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash is on Capitol Hill this morning.

Dana, good morning.

DANA BASH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Tony.

And as you see there, the panel has just begun giving their opening statements. The panel of this hearing is made up of experts, constitutional experts, called by the House Judiciary Chairman, James Sensenbrenner, to come and testify about what -- in this hearing which he called reckless justice. Did this Saturday night raid of Congress trample the Constitution. That gives you a very clear sign of where the chairman of the Judiciary Committee is coming from in holding this hearing.

We did hear opening statements from some of the members of Congress who broke from their congressional recess to come back for this hearing. And there does seem to be, at least so far, unanimity in that idea, that Democrats and Republicans so far who have spoken do think that perhaps that the FBI, the Justice Department, crossed the constitutional line in raiding a sitting lawmaker's office. Even the ranging Democrat on the committee called the raid sloppy at best, reckless at worst.

But one interesting point here, Tony, is that Democrats are, while they're agreeing on that particular point so far, they're also trying to make the point that they believe there were other areas where the Bush Justice Department crossed the line, citing the NSA wiretapping issues, citing other issues over the past six years or so where they think that the Bush administration went a little bit to far and the Republicans in control of Congress have not held oversight hearings until it has happened on their own turf.

HARRIS: And, Dana, all of that will be brought up in this hearing today, you suspect?

BASH: It already has been. It will be interesting to see how the Democrats -- for example John Conyers is the ranking Democrat on this committee. He brought this up and others as well in their opening statements, making it pretty clear that they are going to try to pull this kind of issue out of the experts who were on the panel through their questioning.

Tony.

HARRIS: And, Dana, Henry "Hank" Paulson named to replace John Snow as Treasury secretary. What do we know about him?

BASH: Well, I'll tell you, we know that the White House is very happy at this early stage in the process. Of course, he's going to have to -- his nomination is going to have to be formally sent here to Congress and the Senate will have to confirm him. A pretty important Democrat on the banking committee, Senator Chuck Schumer, was the very first to put out a statement and this is why the White House will going to be happy. He said of Paulson, "his experience, intelligence and deep understanding of national and global economic issues make him the best pick America could have hoped for." So so far that is certainly good news for the White House.

But an interesting, sort of political note on this whole issue of the Bush economic team, you heard, Tony, the president in nominating him this morning saying that he's the chief spokesman for him on the economy. That is such a crucial point for members of Congress, Republicans here, because they have been very frustrated because they believe the economy is actually doing well and voters, who they really need this election year, simply don't see it. You talk to Republican strategists, they say the perception of the economy doesn't match the reality and senior Republicans here blame the Bush economic team for what they say is their poor communication skills for letting that happen. So they are really looking to somebody who's going to be in that job, now, of course, Henry Paulson, to try to change that perception.

HARRIS: That's right. Congressional Correspondent Dana Bash for us. Dana, appreciate it. Thank you.

Let's go to the White House now and White House Correspondent Ed Henry.

Ed, talk to us about this mean, Henry. The president called him Hank a lot. Hank Paulson.

ED HENRY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Good morning, Tony.

The president immediately referring to him as Hank Paulson, a familiar name, obviously. That's his nickname on Wall Street. And we're told that Hank Paulson is somebody who's very close to the former commerce secretary, Don Evans, who you'll remember spent the weekend at Camp David with the president. A lot of people thought that maybe meant Don Evans would getting this job. But instead Don Evans was talking to the president about it, selling him on it a bit.

And also Josh Bolten, we're old, the chief of staff, was working very hard to convince Henry Paulson that this was the right time for him to take this job. A lot of people on Wall Street weren't sure they wanted this job because it's been considered downgraded in the Bush administration. As Dana noted, and a lot of people feel that they have not done a good job of selling this economy. But the president made clear he think Henry Paulson's the right man for the job.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: As Treasury secretary, Hank will be my principal advisor on the broad range of domestic and international economic issues that affect the well-being of all Americans. Hank shares my philosophy that the economy prospers when we trust the Americans people to save, spend, and invest their money as they see fit.

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HENRY: That's an important point there, the president saying that Hank Paulson will be his key advisor. There have been a lot of question about whether or not John Snow, as Treasury secretary, really had a seat at the table, whether or not policy was really being shaped at the White House. And John Snow was relegated to really just being salesman in chief. We'll have to see whether or not Henry Paulson got better assurances that, in fact, he will have a seat at the table and will be shaping policy, not just selling it.

Tony.

HARRIS: I see. White House Correspondent Ed Henry. Ed, thank you.

Let's take a closer look now at the nominee. CNN Financial News Correspondent Susan Lisovicz joins us now.

And, Susan, I heard this man described this morning, Henry Paulson, as experienced and accomplished.

SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I think that would be, at the very least, an accurate description of Hank Paulson. First of all, he's worked on the Street for 33 years heading one of the most fabled and powerful investment banks in the world, Goldman Sachs. It's literally right down the street from where I sit here on Broad Street, Tony. And there's no question that he gives the Bush administration more credibility.

In really one of the bright spots that Dana mentioned, you know, the economy. The U.S. economy is strong and resilient. You see it in the low unemployment rate. You see it with strong economic growth, the president noted that, 5.3 percent in the last quarter. You see it in spectacular corporate profits, 11 consecutive quarters of double digit growth.

The real question, as Ed mentioned, is how much influence he'll have. Because we really haven't seen the Treasury secretary in a policy-making role, at least in this administration, where you have seen it with President Clinton, with Robert Rubin, highly respected, also from Goldman Sachs, with Treasury secretary James Baker in the first Bush administration, with Don Regan in the Reagan administration. So that's really the question.

But Henry Paulson, President Bush's choice for Treasury secretary. It will be the latest former Goldman Sachs executives to come to Washington. White House Chief of Staff Joshua Bolten worked at the firm in Europe and, of course, Robert Rubin came from Goldman as well.

Paulson has spent two decades working as an investment banker at Goldman's Chicago office before becoming chief operating officer in 1984. In 1988, he joined Jon Corzine, now the Democratic governor from New Jersey, as co-senior partner. Following Goldman Sachs' initial public offering in 1999, he became chairman and CEO.

Paulson is known on Wall Street for his support of environmental causes. He's chairman of the Nature Conservancy and the chairman emeritus of the Peregrine Fund. He graduated from Dartmouth College, as the president noted. Received his MBA from Harvard Business School before joining Goldman Sachs. He served as a junior official in the Nixon administration. And so he has very accomplished credentials and, of course, he's well-known and highly regarded here on Wall Street.

HARRIS: Susan, it sounds like you can go on and on about this guy. You really know him. And it sounds . . .

LISOVICZ: Well . . .

HARRIS: Yes.

LISOVICZ: Yes, I mean, you know, there's only a handful of investment banks that really have the power and the prestige of Goldman Sachs. And, Tony, and you know the other thing is that reportedly the president was working on Paulson for months to get him to take this job. Remember, he earned $38 million last year. That's his reported compensation in one year. So, you know, it was a big catch for them.

HARRIS: Man. OK, Susan, appreciate it. Thank you.

LISOVICZ: You're welcome.

HARRIS: Critically wounded but responsive and likely to survive. That's the latest medical update on CBS Correspondent Kimberly Dozier. The same roadside bomb that wounded her yesterday also killed two colleagues. She's being treated at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. And CNN's Chris Burns is there with the latest word on her condition. He joins us by videophone.

And, Chris, what's the latest information?

CHRIS BURNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Tony, Kimberly Dozier remains sedated and on a ventilator, as she did when she arrived here this morning on a medevac plane from Iraq. Iraq was where she had two bouts of surgery to remove shrapnel from her head. She also has severe leg injuries and doctors are looking at all of that here to take another look at the wounds and see what else has to be done, what has to be done here at Landstuhl Medical Center. That is the largest U.S. military hospital outside the states and processes many of the U.S. soldiers who are wounded in Iraq and other hot spots. So they'll be looking very closely at that.

The doctors say that she is -- they want to watch her for the next 24 to 72 hours to make sure that she's stable. Stable enough to be able to be flown back to the states to rejoin her family. Some of her family members are coming tomorrow to meet with her. They'll also be talking with the doctors to decide exactly when she should go back. And the head of this hospital said that he had saw, and other doctors saw, some promising signs when she came here.

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COL. W. BRIAN GAMBLE, LANDSTUHL REGIONAL MEDICAL CENTER: I was present when they unloaded the bus carrying her into Landstuhl today and she was moving her toes. Furthermore, the comments that came back to me was that she was responsive, opening her eyes to command during the flight, which is a good sign. It's really hard right now to ascertain how much of a recovery period she will need or what the extent of her rehabilitation needs will be. It's really too early into the, you know, process of the trauma to know that right now.

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BURNS: Colonel Gamble says that the kevlar body armor and helmet were really a life and death question for Miss Dozier, that that's really what saved her life. She was wearing that. She was outside of the Humvee at the time, but wearing that body armor saved her life.

Tony.

HARRIS: CNN's Chris Burns for us. Chris, appreciate it. Thank you.

Still ahead, a slow and painstaking process in Indonesia, cleaning up from Saturday's big earthquake and the death toll still climbing. The latest from the disaster zone coming up. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

The Black Eyed Peas giving a shutout to Soweto. Ahead, the free concert meant to inspire.

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HARRIS: And this just in to CNN. The Supreme Court has made it harder for government employees to file lawsuits claiming they were retaliated against for going public, whistle-blowers, with allegations of official misconduct. The vote was five to four and the justices saying that the nation's 20 million public employees do not have carte blanche free speech rights to disclose government inner workings. That decision just being offered up by the Supreme Court. Once again, the Supreme Court making it harder for government employees, whistle- blowers, to file lawsuits claiming they were retaliated against. That just in from the Supreme Court.

When a lawmaker becomes a lawbreaker, the Bush administration wants to know if that's the case with Congressman William Jefferson. Right now the House Judiciary Committee is looking into the FBI's raid on Jefferson's office, but the hearing is not about the congressman's guilt or innocence, rather it's focusing on the constitutional divide between the president and Congress, the separation of powers. For once, the divisions are not along party lines. Doyle McManus is the Washington bureau chief for the "L.A. Times", the "Los Angeles Times."

And, Doyle, good to see you. Thanks for taking the time to talk to us.

DOYLE MCMANUS, "L.A. TIMES," WASHINGTON BUREAU CHIEF: Good morning, Tony.

HARRIS: Well, let's start with the political implications of this -- of the raid. It is more political or legal?

MCMANUS: Well, actually, it's a mixture of both. It's striking to note that never before has the FBI ever raided the office of a congressman on Capitol Hill. So there is a serious constitutional question here about whether that oversteps the bounds.

But there's no question, at the same time, that this is political. This is a year where a lot of members of Congress are under the sights of the FBI. Not only Mr. Jefferson who is a Democrat, but several Republicans, of course, including Congressman Duke Cunningham of California, who has already been convicted of bribery. And the House leadership does not like the idea at all of seeing lots more news clips of FBI agents busting through the doors of Congress.

HARRIS: Yes. Well, Doyle, the Senate majority leader didn't initially like the idea very much. And then he has a meeting last Friday with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and then over the weekend here's what he has to say as he has a change of heart.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SEN. BILL FRIST, (R) MAJORITY LEADER: After discussions with the DOJ, Department of Justice, after discussions with my staff, with discussions with the legal counsel, I'm very comfortable that this is not a separation of power issue, that there is no individual in the House or Senate that can be or should stand above the law.

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HARRIS: And, Doyle, you make the point that this is -- this has never, never -- and you've done the research, this has never happened before, has it?

MCMANUS: It hasn't. But Republicans are in a tough spot here because they look bad either way. They, you know, on the basic legal argument, members of the House leadership don't want more of these raids, so they'd like for this to stop. But as Senator Frist noted, and as some other Republicans have noted, it looks real bad for Republican leaders to be out there saying that members of Congress should appear above the law.

HARRIS: Sure. So, Doyle, what are we really witnessing here? Are we talking about something of a split within the Republican party on a whole host of issues. OK, not this, and then there's immigration, of course, stem cell research. Dr. Frist again standing in opposition to the president's position. Is that what we're watching here, just a sort of fragmenting of the Republican party?

MCMANUS: Tony, that's exactly what we're seeing. And one of the reasons we are seeing it, a big reason, is the pressure Republicans, especially House Republicans, are under in this election year. You know it only takes a 15 seat swing to deliver the House of Representatives back to the Democrats.

And as you look at the polls today and the way they're going, boy, that House majority is right on a knife edge. So that has divided House Republicans among themselves and it's also divided the House Republican leadership from the White House, especially on the issue of immigration, but also on this issue.

Speaker Denny Hastert is beginning to feel that the White House has its agenda, but his members of Congress who are trying to eek (ph) out their re-election have a different agenda. And that is causing fractures all across the landscape.

HARRIS: Put yourself in the place of the president. You can't be happy that you have a situation here where your FBI director and your attorney general, in arguing on this point have, in essence, put you essentially on the head of a pin with little room to maneuver.

MCMANUS: You can't be happy about much of anything in this picture. You can't be happy about the fact that your ally, the speaker of the House, has demanded that the FBI give back criminal evidence. That's the issue that Attorney General Gonzales and FBI Director Mueller said they might have to walk on.

Well, imagine what those pictures would looks like, FBI agents, another unprecedented raid, carrying the evidence back up to Congress and giving it back to Mr. Jefferson. This is a bad spot for both sides to be in. I think the president did something very smart in freezing this whole issue for 45 days and giving the lawyers a chance to work out some kind of compromise.

HARRIS: Doyle McManus, we appreciate it. Thanks for your time. Good to see you.

MCMANUS: Thank you.

HARRIS: Well, it was considered a model of success for the U.S., but now is the situation in Afghanistan falling apart? You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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HARRIS: Let's see if we can make some sense of this? The president last hour names Henry Hank Paulson, chairman, CEO of Goldman Sachs, to be the next Treasury secretary. And look what happens? No, no, no, no, I'm not making ties and links here. The Dow down 88 points, just about an hour into trading. And the Nasdaq down 18 points.

In Indonesia, hopes of finding more survivors from last weekend's earthquake are fading fast. The death toll now above 5,400. Thousands of people are still missing. The latest now from CNN's Dan Rivers in one of the hardest hit areas of the island of Java.

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DAN RIVERS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well the aid effort is underway here, but there are problems with the coordination of that aid effort. Thousands of boxes of equipment, of supplies, of food, of water have been arriving. The main airport is now open in Yogyakarta, which is helping to get all this stuff in.

But once it's in, the problem is getting it out to the people who need it. And we're being told by some aide workers that there are trucks sitting around empty with no supplies, and then in other places there are supplies and no trucks. So clearly there needs to be a bit more focus on trying to get those two things together and get them out to the people.

We've been to one village today where 49 of the 50 houses in that village were completely leveled in this earthquake. There was only one that was left standing and the people are having to camp out in that village amid all the rubble and ruins of their homes. So far they haven't received any help at all. The Indonesian government is, obviously, doing its best. It saying it's going to give 12 kilograms of rice per family to tide them over in the short terms and $21 each for clothing and other materials.

The World Food Program is -- well (ph), it's setting up a big two month feeding program to feed 80,000 people in the first month and then 50,000 in the second month? But for the people who are on the ground living amid the rubble, like the rubble behind me, this is the fourth night now since this earthquake that they're having to camp outside.

Dan Rivers, CNN, Yogyakarta, Indonesia.

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HARRIS: Bloodbath in western Iraq. Are U.S. Marines to blame. The investigation coming up. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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HARRIS: Brake failure, the U.S. military says, that looks like the cause of a traffic accident. The wreck ignited deadly riots in Afghanistan. A military truck plowed into civilian vehicles in the capitol of Kabul on Monday. That sparked the worst violence since the fall of the Taliban. The Afghan health ministry says at least eight people were killed in the riots. More than 100 others injured. The U.S. military says a preliminary investigation found the driver tried to slow the truck by hitting several unoccupied parked cars but he was unable to avoid hitting occupied vehicles and a group of pedestrians.

Critically wounded but responsive and likely to survive. That's the latest medical update on CBS Correspondent Kimberly Dozier. The same roadside bomb that wounded her yesterday also killed two colleagues. She's being treated at Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. One emergency room worker says the CBS reporter likely she would have died if she had suffered such gruesome injuries in the United States. That's because of the extraordinary abilities at the Baghdad emergency room where she was rushed. This is where her life was likely saved.

CNN just happened to be shooting a documentary there when she arrived. Here are some of the comments from the medical staff in the moments after that treatment.

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CAPT. TIFFANY FUSCO, U.S. MILITARY HOSPITAL BAGHDAD: Her blood pressure dropped to a point where we could barely see what it was anymore. We could barely assess it. Basically, it means that she was going down. And she did, pretty hard. But we were able to get her back by giving her fluids and medications.

LT. COL. BOB MAZUR, U.S. MILITARY HOSPITAL BAGHDAD: At one point -- her pulse stopped. She didn't have a heartbeat. She was as sick as you get. The fact that she's alive, of course, is great. It's a miracle pretty much. She's lucky to get to the tenth cache. She's lucky the tenth cache is here.

MAJOR SAM MEHTA, U.S. MILITARY HOSPITAL BAGHDAD: If this severe trauma would have happened back home in the States, she would have probably died. I think, for me, Memorial Day will never be the same. While I do remember those who have died for our country in past wars and previous conflicts, for me, this will also be a day that I remember as the memory of people who have lived. Because we, our team, saved the life, I believe, of seven soldiers and Miss Dozier.

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HARRIS: Men, women and children, gunned down in cold blood. That's the allegation. U.S. troops are now under investigation for the bloodshed. We're monitoring the Pentagon's probe into the alleged atrocity last fall. It happened in the city of Haditha in western Iraq. U.S. marines are suspected of killing two dozen unarmed civilians, accusations of a cover-up also part of the mix.

Democratic Congressman John Murtha has been briefed on what happened. The Pentagon critic and decorated war veteran had this to say on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING.

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REP. JOHN MURTHA (D), PENNSYLVANIA: The military says this, the military says that. Look, this happened six months ago. This happened November 19th. They knew the day after what had happened, so they keep spending it to try to make it look like it was something that happened during action. This is -- they keep saying well, the -- six months, Soledad, this has been going on. We've got to get it out, we've got to get it over with.

We have to make the troops -- and I give General Hagee, the commandant of the Marine Corps, credit. He's over there right now telling the troops we've got to protect non-combatants. The rules of engagement insist that you don't fire unless you're in danger. And I understand the pressure that troops are under, but that's not the point. The point is we can't let something like this go on.

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HARRIS: Murtha calls the alleged atrocity as bad as the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal, if not worse.

What really happened on that November day in Haditha in Western Iraq? CNN's senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre is keeping a close watch on the story. He gives us a closer look at how events that day may have unfolded.

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JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN SR. PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When CNN caught up with the Third Battalion First Marine regiment in Haditha last October, the unit it was thick in the fight against insurgents, capturing weapons and uncovering roadside bombs. Just over a month later, these civilians, videotaped by an Iraqi journalism student, would die in what U.S. military investigators now strongly suspect was a rampage, by a small number of Marines who snapped after one of their own was killed by a roadside bomb.

GEN. PETER PACE, JOINT CHIEFS CHAIRMAN: There are two ongoing investigation. One investigation has to do with what happened. The other investigation goes to, why didn't we know about it sooner than we knew about it. MCINTYRE: At first, the U.S. military simply refused to believe villagers who accused the Marines of murdering unarmed civilians, even when presented by credible evidence assembled by "Time" magazine in February.

BOBBY GHOSH, "TIME" MAGAZINE: They were incredibly hostile. They accused us of buying into enemy propaganda, and they stuck to their original story, which was that these people were all killed by the IED.

MCINTYRE: But that story fell apart in the wake of an investigation. That sources tell CNN will likely result in charges of murder against some Marines and dereliction of duty against others.

Sources say between four and eight Marines from Kiyo (ph) company were directly involved, but some Marines from different units say they knew what happened, because they helped document the aftermath.

Lance Corporal Ryan Briones told "The Los Angeles Times" he took pictures of at least 15 bodies, and is still haunted by the memory of picking up a young girl who was shot in the head. "I held her out like this," he said, demonstrating with his arms extended, "but the head was bobbing up and down, and the insides fell on my legs."

Briones mother CNN he is now suffering from post-traumatic stress.

SUSAN BRIONES, MARINE'S MOTHER: That's what affects Ryan the most, is that he had to pick up this child's body to put her in a body bag.

MCINTYRE: A timeline put together by "Time" magazine and confirmed for CNN by Pentagon sources shows the sequence of events in Haditha on November 19th. After a roadside bomb killed 20-year-old Lance Corporal Miguel Terazes (ph) at 7:15 in the morning, the Marines immediately suspected four Iraqi teenagers in a taxi, and shot them along with the driver when the marines say they failed to lie on the ground as ordered. The hunt for bombers moved to a nearby house where seven people, including two women and one child, were killed. Then eight people, including six women, were shot next door, while a group of women in a third house were not harmed. But in a fourth house four men were killed.

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HARRIS: I want to take you back to Washington now, where the House Judiciary Committee is looking into the FBI's raid on Congressman William Jefferson's office. Chairman James Sensenbrenner leading this hearing today. But here's the thing. The hearing is not about the Congressman's guilt or innocence. That's to be determined later down the road. The focus of the hearing today is on the constitutional divide between the separation of powers between the president and Congress. We'll keep an eye on this hearing for you.

(WEATHER REPORT) HARRIS: For dinosaur lovers everywhere, we have a big no for you. The biggest story ever from Utah. You know those scientists who spend a lot of time going through dirt with a toothbrush? Well, they have uncovered something really, really big.

Reporter Ed Yeates of our affiliate KSL reports.

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ED YEATES, KSL REPORTER (voice-over): Take the three foot forearm of this armored dinosaur and stretch it up to six feet. Pull it from head to tail so it's longer, up to 25 feet. Pack it with full armor and spikes, even over the hips. Now you've got a palanchathid (ph) weighing five tons.

As we said before...

DR. REESE BARRICK, PREHISTORIC MUSEUM DIRECTOR: It will be the largest, heaviest armored dinosaur found on the planet so far.

YEATES: College of Eastern Utah paleontologists found it right here in Utah, which seems to be unraveling more graves of armored dinos than anywhere in the world.

(on camera): This is three times the size and weight of this armored dinosaur, called gastonia (ph). A delicious meal for a Utah raptor here? I don't think so.

(voice-over): Utah raptor, as portrayed in "Jurassic Park," wouldn't have been able to get its teeth anywhere in this armor. And if it tried to pry open the tightly fused seams, bye-bye claws.

BARRICK: So its best defense is just to stand there or maybe even kneel down so that it -- there's no way for an animal to actually get to where the soft underbelly would be.

YEATES: At more than ten thousand pounds, even a pack of Utah raptors couldn't turn over this thing. Look at the size of this rib, even though it was broken right here before the animal died. As a new species, if it gets a name...

BARRICK: It will certainly be something that includes tank or monster or mountain or something.

YEATES: A slow, heavy-moving, dim-witted tank nature decided needed a lot of help.

Ed Yeates, Price, Utah.

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HARRIS: And we want to take you to Chicago now, and this just into CNN. This is the scene of a really bad accident. Multiple ambulances on the scene of a crash on interstate 57. This involving a bus carrying senior citizens? No immediate word on the number of injuries and how serious those injuries may be. But once again, this is i-57, the site of a really bad accident, another vehicle involved in this crash. And senior citizens were on that bus there, some being removed now, as you can see. And the most seriously injured, obviously, being taken to a hospital for treatment. That just in, those pictures just in, thanks to our Chicago affiliate for those pictures.

Still ahead, gator grabs your dog, what are you going to do? Not a rhetorical question for this Florida man.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It had my dog like this, and I was hitting the gator on the top of the head.

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HARRIS: And coming up, what it took to save his dog from a gator's grip.

We'll be right back.

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HARRIS: Video of the day on Memorial Day, a great way to show your patriotic pride. This was the scene in the skies over Albany, New York. Navy veteran Greg Bishop jumped out of an airplane and then unfurled a huge American flag. The banner is 1,800 square feet. Man!

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HARRIS: A modern day Rambo. That's what some people in Atlanta are calling a former Marine who fended off a group of alleged robbers? Atlanta police say the Marine was leaving his job waiting tables late last night. They say a car approached them, and five people jumped out, one wielding a shotgun, the other had a pistol. Police say the Marine pulled a knife from his backpack, killing one of his attackers and wounding another. The dead victim turned out to be a pregnant teenage girl. Police say the attackers were suspected of other robberies as well. They were arrested at the hospital. Police say the Marine suffered minor injuries and won't be charged.

The Black Eyed Peas giving a shoutout to Soweto. Ahead, a free concert meant to inspire.

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HARRIS: Well, they've got a couple of Grammys, but, hey, he's got a Nobel Peace Prize on his mantel. You'll have to forgive Nelson Mandela if he thinks the Black Eyed Peas are a vegetable. The hip hop supergroup spent a few moments with the former South African president in Johannesburg. Mandela, going strong at 87, admits he's not a -- I don't know, not hip to Will.I.Am and Fergie, but he played along anyway.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) NELSON MANDELA, FMR. SOUTH AFRICAN PRESIDENT: It's a great honor. They are a famous group. And for them to meet an old man like myself, it's a wonderful custom, because (INAUDIBLE).

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HARRIS: It's just odd, how the Peas are promoting their new children's charity, the Pea Pod Foundation. They gave a free concert for South Africa's poorest, who they hope to inspire.

Here's CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh in Johannesburg.

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VAN MARSH (voice over): Bruno Majola and guitarist Fistos Kakweve (ph) are aspiring musicians, but they hit their musical stride in one of the more unlikely places: prison.

BRUNO MAJOLA, ASPIRING MUSICIAN: See, I was involved in gangsterism, and we were like terrorizing, you know, robbing people, you know, stuff like that, stealing

VAN MARSH: Bruno just finished a six-year sentence. He says music keeps him on a straight path.

MAJOLA: I just need to take my pen and paper and write maybe. That's what keeps me going actually. So it like distances me from doing bad things.

VAN MARSH: One of Bruno's musical idols, the American group the Black Eyed Peas. And like Bruno, members of the Peas came from rough backgrounds.

(on camera): This is a return trip to South Africa for the Black Eyed Peas. They performed here a few years ago but said that they were surprised to see so few black in the audience.

WILL.I.AM, THE BLACK EYED PEAS: Not that I have -- not that I have a thing about performing in front of white people. I love Switzerland. I didn't think I was going to come to Switzerland in Africa.

VAN MARSH (voice over): So this time the band made it a point to meet fans in impoverished Soweto township, where they handed out tickets to their free concert in Johannesburg. The Peas' aim was to bring South Africans together through music.

FERGIE, THE BLACK EYED PEAS: It would be selfish of us to see all this and not do anything about it, to see the dichotomy of, you know, the richest of the rich living next to the poorest of the poor, and the poorest of the poor not being able to come see our shows.

VAN MARSH: For Bruno, it was a rare chance too meet one of his musical inspirations.

MAJOLA: For me being here actually with them, it really showed me that maybe some other time I'll be there overseas, maybe like them, doing same thing like Black Eyed Peas here.

VAN MARSH: The concert didn't disappoint fans, black and white, as well as a self-described reformed convict-turned-musician, who until recently could only watch the Black Eyed Peas from a prison TV.

Alphonso Van Marsh, CNN, Johannesburg.

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