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Travelers Hit Road on Busy Day; Michael Richards Apologizes Again; Outrage After New York City Shooting; Chaos in India Over Brangelina; Where do Seized Airport Items Go?

Aired November 26, 2006 - 19:00   ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Heading home, millions of travelers hit the roads and airports. Will they make it on time?
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MICHAEL RICHARDS, COMEDIAN: The African-American community has -- I mean, the leadership has opened up the healing, and for that, I'm grateful.

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LIN: Another mea culpa from comedian Michael Richards, this time to Jesse Jackson. Is it going to help him?

Now in New York, a rally for a young man shot by police. It is 7:00 p.m. in Atlanta, 4:00 p.m. in Los Angeles and you're in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Carol Lin. Let's catch you up on the headlines right now.

I want to show you a plume of smoke above Baghdad from a fire at a U.S. military post that was struck today by mortars. No casualties are being reported fortunately. And north of the capital, Iraqi security forces fought battles with Sunni insurgents.

A NATO soldier is killed in fighting in central Afghanistan. The alliance says troops were attacked by insurgents. NATO called in air strikes and claimed at least 50 insurgents were killed.

And Israel says it is abiding by the Gaza cease-fire, despite rocket attacks by Palestinian militants. President Mahmoud Abbas has reportedly ordered thousands of security forces to deploy near the border to prevent violations from the Palestinian side.

Led by the Reverend Al Sharpton, New Yorkers vented anger today at the police shooting Saturday morning. Undercover cops launched a hail of gunfire, killing a groom-to-be outside of a strip club, and wounding two of his friends. Five officers are now on administrative leave.

To our top story now, everyone it seems is trying to get home after Thanksgiving. Take a look at this live shot, a series of them. They've packed up and left all the leftover turkey and put away the pumpkin pie. Millions of Americans heading home after the Thanksgiving holiday. Right now you're looking at live traffic cameras from freeways across the country. They call them highways in most places as well. Today is one of the busiest travel days of the year. So right now, Jacqui Jeras scanning the skies, looking at the weather, seeing if there's anything that's going to get in your way. Jacqui, how is it looking?

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LIN: And folks are probably noticing the difference on our screen, we're trying to help folks with your travel plans, delays out of airports as well as the forecast across your screen tonight. So I hope it does help you indeed. In the meantime, Jacqui was talking about complications out west. Well, travel plans, you might want to hold tight there in a city where city employees are striking. They're crowding around L.A.'s international airport. Our own Kareen Wynter is standing by there. Kareen, first of all I know you're going to tell us who's striking, or protesting, but is it causing any delays?

KAREEN WYNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: No delays yet, and actually, Carol it's been quite uneventful out here at Los Angeles International Airport. All day long up to this point, and that's because a strike involving city of Los Angeles employees, the union representing architects and engineers are holding a strike directly below where we're standing at this terminal.

It's actually the entrance to the airport, but it hasn't been disruptive up to this point. We have some video that we're hoping to turn around for you, Carol.

Let me tell you what it's regarding. It's a matter of wages, city workers say they're fighting for an increase in wages, and so what the union did was basically stage a protest on one of the busiest travel days of the year, one of the nation's busiest airports, and so, so far it's been, by and large, peaceful.

You have people carrying signs, they're walking back and forth along the pedestrian areas, adhering the traffic laws and really not causing too much of a disturbance. A nuisance, some passengers say because it's making the situation here a lot more crowded. So we're keeping an eye on that. They'll be out here for another few hours.

Besides that, we've had the beautiful weather out here, not much in terms of delays. Smooth sailing, for those traveling in and out of Los Angeles International Airport. Travelers say they really couldn't have picked a better day to fly. It is indeed true. Nothing in terms of security breaches here at all, so it's just been quite, quite uneventful.

That's probably not the right word to say, but that's what passengers have been using all day long, Carol, and you know what? They'll take it on a day like today. Very quiet, back to you.

LIN: Uneventful sometimes can make news, you know, Kareen.

WYNTER: Absolutely.

LIN: We like it quiet on a travel day, thanks so much. Well retailers are crunching some pretty impressive numbers from Black Friday sales. More than 140 million shoppers have hit the stores since Friday, each spending on average more than $360. That is up 18.9 percent from last year. Now, industry experts say seeing these high numbers so soon hints at a robust holiday sale season.

In New York, community leaders want answers in the latest shooting.

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REV. AL SHARPTON, CIVIL RIGHT ACTIVIST: We are not anti-police. Many of us have police in our families. We are anti-police brutality. There is a difference between good cops and bad cops.

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LIN: Police response? We'll get that straight ahead.

And comedian Michael Richards goes on Reverend Jesse Jackson's radio show. Is it going to help him? You know all that stuff you surrender at the airport, by the way, guess what happens to it? You're going to find out. Of course you're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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LIN: Now that the shootings that have many New Yorkers, they're up in arms. As of today, five undercover cops are on administrative leave as the police department seeks answers and community leaders demand them. Here's CNN's Mary Snow.

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SHARPTON: How many shots?

CROWD: Fifty.

SHARPTON: How many shots?

CROWD: Fifty.

MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The crowd, led by the Reverend Al Sharpton, counted to 50 to mark the number of shots fired by New York City police officers, killing one man and injuring two others early Saturday morning -- 23-year-old Sean Bell was killed just hours before he was to be married. His two friends, one seen here, received multiple gunshot wounds. Police say no weapons were recovered. And outraged members of the community are demanding answers.

SHARPTON: All of these rumors don't answer the question of why three unarmed men were shot down with 50 shots in our community.

SNOW: Early Saturday, the three men left a bachelor party at a Queens strip club that was under surveillance. New York City police commissioner Ray Kelly says undercover officers were watching the men, and there were suspicions one may have had a gun. Kelly says a plain- clothed officer on foot approached the men's car and was struck before the car hit an unmarked police van, adding that the officer was treated and released for an abrasion on the shin.

RAY KELLY, POLICE COMMISSIONER: The officer was struck and the mini-van was hit, just about the same time. And then the officer opened fire.

SNOW: In all, Kelly says five officers opened fire, including one officer, who fired 31 shots, meaning he had to reload his .9 millimeter.

MALCOLM SMITH, NEW YORK STATE SENATE: We're united in our pursuit for justice.

SNOW: That has prompted one state senator to get involved, demanding a full investigation.

SMITH: Why would that happen, when there's no return fire at all? That's the biggest question.

SNOW: As the community waits for answers, Bell's fiancee and family members joined in a vigil. One of Bell's friends is calling for calm.

MIKE JONES, SEAN BELL'S FRIEND: Let's have warm hearts, but don't have hot heads because hot heads is how this incident happened in the first place. We got to do this in a way that will respect Sean's memory.

SNOW (on camera): The shooting is being reviewed by the Queens district attorney who is promising a full and fair investigation. Mary Snow, CNN, New York.

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LIN: News across America now: the FBI has called off the ground search for two missing boys on a Minnesota Indian reservation. The brothers, ages two and four, disappeared four days ago and with night temperatures dropping into the 20s, the boys' chances of survival seem pretty slim right now.

And Chicago police are searching for a missing college student, 20-year-old Jesse Ross disappeared Tuesday. He was attending a party at a Sheraton hotel, but never returned to his home -- actually his room.

And a group of parents in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin want a book by U.S. poet laureate Maya Angelou banned. The group says "I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings" contains graphic descriptions of rape and unwanted pregnancy and they want it removed from the high school curriculum.

All right, showing you pictures from around the country right now. Oklahoma City, Denver, Atlanta, and Heavenly Valley, California, where the snow is coming down pretty fast and furious. We are going to be showing you on the screen tonight your holiday travel report, in case you're expecting loved ones or you're about to hit the road. And also any airport delays and temperatures around the country, hoping to do our part to ease your trip home.

In the meantime we've taken a look at the situation out west. LAX, it was pretty calm. Now let's look here in the east, let's go to Reagan National Airport. Our Zain Verjee was there today, checking out the scene.

ZAIN VERJEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This is one of the busiest travel days of the year. According to the Air Transport Association of America, more than two million people are traveling this day. But as you take a look around Reagan National Airport, it's actually really not that busy right now.

One official that we spoke to moments ago said the flow today has been steady, but moderate. He said people either left early today or they came back earlier. He said that actually Saturday afternoon was much busier than expected. He said that there were really no major problems encountered today, but the people here that we talked to seemed fairly relaxed. They really were not that stressed out. Few of them had any complaints.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was a little slower than usual because of the number of the people, but other than that, it wasn't a big deal.

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VERJEE: Former President Bill Clinton and his wife, Senator Hillary Clinton were also here a little earlier today. If you are traveling though the airlines say that it is a busy day to come early, plan properly. Know what you're supposed to take and what you're not and expect to be standing in line a little longer than usual.

But the official that we did speak to here at Reagan National Airport said that by and large, it seems that most people are taking their advice, they're coming in early and they're listening to what they're supposed to do. So things are running pretty smoothly. Zain Verjee, CNN, Reagan National Airport, Washington.

LIN: Now the news of the day. President Bush prepares for his meeting with Iraq's prime minister this week. Ed Henry reports on the problems already facing the president.

And closer to home, Michael Richards tries another apology for his racist remark. Do you think it's going to work?

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LIN: Well, getting a handle on the raging violence in Iraq. Iraq's prime minister will tell President Bush his opinion on how to do that, when the two meet in Jordan this week. More now from CNN White House correspondent Ed Henry. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ED HENRY, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fresh killings and kidnappings in Baghdad just as President Bush preps for a midweek summit with Iraqi prime minister Nouri al-Maliki. But the host of the talks, Jordan's King Abdullah, is warning that Lebanon and the Gaza Strip may also soon be engulfed in sectarian violence.

KING ABDULLAH II, JORDAN: We could possibly imagine going into 2007 and having three civil wars on our hands.

HENRY: In a sign of the urgency, Vice President Cheney engaged in shuttle diplomacy in Saudi Arabia over the weekend, setting the stage for the president's face-to-face meeting with the Iraqi prime minister.

ABDULLAH: We hope that there will be something dramatic. The challenges obviously in front of both of them are immense.

HENRY: The radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr is threatening to boycott parliament if al-Maliki goes ahead with the Bush meeting.

DR. MOWAFFAK AL-RUBAIE, IRAQI NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISER: This is all political posturing. It's all red herring. It's an anti-threat. This is a very stable government.

HENRY: Mr. Bush faces competing pressure within his own party, with Republican Chuck Hagel Sunday calling for a phased pullout of U.S. troops, declaring, "We have misunderstood, misread, misplanned and mismanaged our honorable intentions in Iraq with an arrogant self- delusion reminiscent of Vietnam."

Other Republicans are urging a massive increase in U.S. troop levels.

SEN. JOHN CORNYN (R), TEXAS: We're talking about 20,000 to 50,000 additional troops to embed them with the Iraqis so that when we clear areas we can actually secure them. Then we need to disarm the militias, we need to arrest al-Sadr.

HENRY: But leading Democrats scoff at that idea and are skeptical about the president's summit.

SEN. JACK REED (D), RHODE ISLAND: What I'm afraid of, it's going to be a photo session, they'll talk, they'll leave, and nothing will be done consistently. We've got to follow up on that meeting.

HENRY (on camera): This summit will also give the president another chance to take a measure of Prime Minister Maliki. Mr. Bush has repeatedly expressed confidence in him, but in recent months U.S. officials have grown concerned that perhaps al-Maliki is not stepping up. Ed Henry, CNN, the White House.

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LIN: Defeating the insurgency is just one challenge facing Iraqi leaders. To achieve real lasting peace, they say their country's religious leaders must be on board. Here's CNN's Arwa Damon.

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ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Marching in military formation, thousands of supporters of radical Shia cleric Muqtada al- Sadr took to the streets in Najaf, carrying mock coffins, flags and banners to commemorate the death of al-Sadr's father, a revered Shia cleric.

The show of force a reminder of al-Sadr's power, the same power that helped give Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, the country's top job. But now al-Sadr's political bloc is threatening to suspend its activities in the government if al-Maliki meets U.S. President George W. Bush next week in Jordan.

The Iraqi prime minister, trying to stop his nation and government from disintegrating, held a joint press conference with his fellow Shia, Kurdish and Sunni leaders. And for the first time, echoed what we have long been hearing from the Iraqi people.

NOURI AL-MALIKI, IRAQI PRIME MINISTER (through translator): Let's be totally honest. The security situation is a reflection of political disagreement.

DAMON: Coming from the man who usually insists his government is one of national unity, this signals a shift in the Iraqi government's public face. And with that, comes an acknowledgement.

AL-RUBAIE: Last year, have our constitution ratified. And we hoped that would have been the national contract, if you like. But now obviously we need to review that.

DAMON: More than just a review, the Iraqi people are demanding action from their government.

AL-RUBAIE: If they don't agree and the level of violence gets worse, then the country will split. So they have to get their act together. The political leaders, the religious leaders, they need to get their act together and agree on a formula how to divide the economic and political power.

DAMON: And he warned that now was the time for the government to take unpopular decisions before everything slips away.

(on camera): According to Iraqi officials, dozens of fellow Shias pelted the prime minister's convoy with stones as he was visiting the relatives of bombing victims in Sadr City. And the government curfew has done little to curb the violence, which has now escalated into a mortar war between Sunni and Shia neighborhoods.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Baghdad.

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LIN: The tenth anniversary of the death of Princess Diana is coming up next year. Find out how her two sons plan to honor her. And this:

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RICHARDS: The African-American community has -- I mean, the leadership has opened up the healing. And for that, I'm grateful.

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LIN: Damage control for comedian Michael Richards. Reaction from the head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference next, right here in the CNN NEWSROOM.

Also, the long ride home after a week filled with turkey, dressing and football. Another look at your travel forecast coming up.

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LIN: Happening now in the news, black smoke poured from inside a U.S. military base in Baghdad just hours ago. Military officials say insurgents fired two mortar rounds from Sadr City this morning. So far, we don't have any word on any casualties.

And in Afghanistan, 50 Taliban and a NATO soldier are dead after a fire fight between coalition soldiers and Taliban militants. It happened yesterday in southern Afghanistan's Uruzgan Province.

And Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says Israel is practicing restraint after Palestinian militants fired a rocket in Israel -- 13,000 Palestinian security forces were sent to the border to enforce the Gaza cease-fire.

And the Sunday after Thanksgiving is always one of the most busiest of travel days of the year. And today is no exception. We're monitoring cities such as Denver and Oklahoma City, Atlanta and some others there. CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras is tracking any weather that could impact your travels. She's going to be joining us with the very latest in just a few minutes. And we're also giving you forecasts and travel alerts on your screen.

In the meantime, Michael Richards is trying to do more damage control today. He spoke on the Reverend Jesse Jackson's radio show, apologizing again for his racist rant at an L.A. comedy club. Our Brooke Anderson was there. And this word of warning, some viewers may find the language in this story disturbing.

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RICHARDS: I know I have hurt them very, very deeply. And now I can -- I can -- I can say I am deeply sorry for this.

BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Michael Richards is apologizing once again for his racist rant at a comedy club in Los Angeles.

RICHARDS: I'm shattered by it. The way this came through me was like a freight train.

(on camera): Richards came here to Premiere Radio Networks to sit face to face with Reverend Jesse Jackson on his nationally syndicated radio show "Keep Hope Alive" to personally ask for forgiveness from the African-American community.

REV. JESSE JACKSON, RADIO TALK SHOW HOST: You used the word "Nigger," and then the -- then the lynching scene. I mean, have you been here before?

RICHARDS: No, no, no, no, no. It's a first time for me to talk to an African-American like that. That's a first time for me.

ANDERSON: But this isn't the first time he said "I'm sorry." This latest act of contrition comes nearly a week after Richards' appearance on the "The Late Show With David Letterman."

It wasn't well received.

SINBAD, COMEDIAN: That apology is -- it was a piece of trash. You can't go on "Letterman." That's the punk way out.

ANDERSON: CNN was the only media outlet allowed in to Jackson's radio show, which included a call from Al Sharpton and featured comic Paul Mooney and two NAACP leaders in studio. We were asked to film the interview, but at the very last minute before the show went on the air, Richards became extremely uncomfortable with the presence of the cameras and we were told they were no longer permitted. Richards did allow brief filming only during a commercial break.

(on camera): Do you see yourself as a symbol of this bigger issue now?

RICHARDS: Perhaps a voice that got it in motion.

ANDERSON (voice over): Following the show, Richards spoke exclusively to CNN about what he plans to do next.

RICHARDS: Personal work. Deep personal work.

ANDERSON (on camera): As in therapy, psychiatry? What?

RICHARDS: Yes, to get to the depths of my -- of anger, the issues of anger. I'm seeing someone now. The African-American community is -- I mean, the leadership has -- has opened up the healing. And for that I'm grateful.

ANDERSON (voice over): Community leaders hope the healing extends to everyone, not just Michael Richards.

WILLIS EDWARDS, NAACP: We have to begin at home, too, within our own community. And begin today stamping out using that word, called the "N" word. We hope that everybody across America would join us in never allowing their children, allowing themselves to use the "N" word.

RONALD HASSON, NAACP: This word has no place in our society.

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ANDERSON: Carol, I was the only reporter allowed inside Reverend Jackson's radio show this morning. The atmosphere was extremely tense and Michael Richards seemed very anxious and uncomfortable. Richards did say during the interview that he does have a lot of love for the African-American community and that he grew up in a mostly black neighborhood until he was 11-years-old. He said he's working to regain trust and he was adamant that he had never spoken the "N" word before -- Carol?

LIN: So Brooke, where does he go from here? I mean, are we going to be seeing Michael Richards issuing a string of apologies?

ANDERSON: Well, when I spoke with him after the show, he did not indicate that another public apology was forthcoming. But Carol, he did say he hopes to meet with the two men who were the targets of his tirade. Those two men have actually hired high profile lawyer Gloria Allred to represent them and she has publicly called for a meeting between them with a private judge. It remains to be seen if or when that will happen.

LIN: All right, thanks very much, Brooke.

You know, obviously comedian Michael Richards seems remorseful for his his racist rant, but it is enough in light of what he said? Well president and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Charles Steele joins me now for more on Richards' racist remarks. I think it's fair to say that they were racist and that he has now said that he's shattered that this was the first time he had ever uttered something like this to an African-American. Do you believe him?

CHARLES STEELE, SCLC PRESIDENT: I do. I have to, Carol. First of all that's the first step in the healing process. We feel, as being presidents of the SCLC and our organization internationally, that we have the moral authority to reach out to Mr. Richards.

I heard him on Reverend Jackson's show this morning, and I'm more convinced than ever before, that we have a conflict resolution center that we're establishing all over the world. Our first one was established over two years ago in the Middle East. We're on our way to Europe, primarily, Italy, within a few days to establish the second one along with Mississippi Valley State University.

People who really want to better themselves, mentally, in terms of the background, racial prejudice or being hateful in their behavior, can actually study this type of program through our curriculum.

LIN: But where does that come from? Where do those angry words come from? Where does he reach in order to say something like that, to talk about a lynching in public and to use the "N" word?

STEELE: Well first of all, he's been exposed to it. And we're in a state of denial. Here in this country, more so than ever before, we are in a state of denial in terms of these problems that we have. We know at SCLC that our mission is to eradicate racism, classism and also to better understand each other in society, and to bring about great leadership.

So this is where we are. This is where we're going with our conflict resolution centers. People can actually major and get an undergraduate degree in our curriculum at Mississippi Valley State.

LIN: Well, he needs a lot more than that. What fundamental thing...

STEELE: ... But that's a start. We have varying degrees that one can certify themselves, you can get certified.

LIN: Right, but let's talk about Michael Richards.

STEELE: Sure.

LIN: Where does his healing begin? How do you take someone who can say something that hateful and he wasn't trying to be funny. He admits that it was out of anger.

STEELE: It's embedded in him. What we're saying that we have the resolution to the problem. I have a young man with me by the name of Dr. Bernard Lafayette (ph), who's a professor at the University of Rhode Island. He goes all over the world with me training people, just in this negativity act of behavior. Dr. Lafayette has established centers all over the world.

We need to reach out to Mr. Richards, first of all, he made the first step. He admitted that he did something terribly wrong. He apologized. We have to accept that, but it goes deeper and farther than that, and not only with Mr. Richards. There are others, once they are pressurized and made to feel uncomfortable, then this comes up. And we can make this word so accessible as we have. It's too relaxed in our society, even in the African-American community.

LIN: Well the message is loud and clear, not acceptable. Including Michael Richards also saying that on the air today. Charles Steele, thank you very much.

STEELE: Thank you Carol.

LIN: I know you'll be reaching out to him.

STEELE: We will.

LIN: We haven't spoken to him, but let's see how open he is. Let us know.

STEELE: Thank you so much.

LIN: Thank you. In the meantime, we want to hear from you. Do you accept Michael Richards' explanation? Give us a call at 1-800- 807-2620. And we're going to air some of your responses in our 10:00 prime-time program. In the meantime, let's move on to the Middle East now, and a shaky cease-fire between Israel and Palestinians in Gaza -- 13,000 Palestinian security forces are heading to enforce the truce. As CNN's Paula Hancocks reports, some question the timing of the cease- fire.

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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Sunrise over Gaza bringing a new day and fresh hope of a suspension in violence. Israel pulled all of its tanks and troops out of the Gaza Strip early Sunday. And Palestinian militant leaders said no more rockets would be fired into Israel.

With just one hour into the cease-fire, the Israeli town of Sderot once more came under attack. The mayor says nothing has changed.

MAYOR ELI MOYAL, SDEROT, ISRAEL: They took in a lot. But we are seeing right now at least four attacks in Sderot since the cease-fire was enforced. So there is no cease-fire if you ask me.

HANCOCKS: Hamas and Islamic Jihad cells claimed responsibility, but Hamas leaders are insistent the rockets will stop if Israeli operations stop.

Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh says all the Palestinian people are looking for is their freedom, rights and dignity, and they want to live like the rest of the people of this world in an independent state with a governing power.

Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert has called for his military to show restraint. He said Sunday, "This could be the beginning of a serious, true and open direct negotiations between us and the Palestinian Authority."

Up to 13,000 members of President Mahmoud Abbas' security forces are patrolling the border with Israel to try and prevent further rogue rocket attacks.

This cease-fire, agreed by Olmert and Abbas in a telephone call Saturday night, could spell the end of five months of Israeli military action in Gaza. It started in late June when Palestinian militants kidnapped an Israeli soldier. Gilad Shalit is still in captivity.

More than 300 Palestinians were killed in that time. Some of them civilians. And five Israelis also died.

(on camera): Some of the Israeli media are speculating that the timing of this cease-fire is no coincidence, coming just days before U.S. President George W. Bush visits neighboring Jordan. Now, there are no plans at this stage for Bush to meet with either the Palestinians or the Israelis, but some hope that that may change if the cease-fire holds. In any case, it does improve the chances of Prime Minister Olmert and President Abbas meeting sooner rather than later. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Jerusalem.

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LIN: And when we come back, we're going to take to you India, and the latest from Brangelina.

SHANON COOK, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Shanon Cook. They're heirs to the throne and now concert promoters. Coming up how two royal sons are planning a musical salute to their mother. We'll be right back.

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LIN: We have just learned that a Honolulu police officer injured while escorting President Bush's motorcade last week has died. Steve Favela and two other officers crashed their motorcycles during the president's visit at Hickam Air Force Base. Favela had suffered internal injuries and was in critical condition after the crash.

Also, former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi is under observation in the hospital after he fainted during a speech. Shanon Cook has more details in our "World Wrap." Shanon?

COOK: Thanks so much, Carol. Berlusconi's aides are really trying to downplay this incident, but it's fueling speculation that Berlusconi may step down as the leader of the opposition center right party. We have video, which shows us what happened. Take a look at this. You can see that Berlusconi is kind of slumping over at the podium. His aides had to step in and give him some support there. He later blamed his near collapse on exhaustion and on antibiotics he was taking for knee surgery. But there are reports around that he has been diagnosed with a minor heart complaint. Not long after the incident, Berlusconi said he was feeling fine, but would spend 24 hours in a hospital in Milan as precaution.

Well July 1st of next year would have been Princess Diana's 46th birthday. And a memorial concert is being organized to celebrate her life. As ITV Romilly Weeks reports, it may feature some of music's biggest names.

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ROMILLY WEEKS, ITV CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): William and Harry share the stage with their father at a prince's trust concert this autumn. Now they're considering planning an even bigger event in memory of their mother. The new Wembley Stadium has been ear-marked as the venue, the date is most likely to be July the 1st, what would have been Diana's 46th birthday.

The princess famously loved music and dancing. In 1985, she and Prince Charles were guests of honor at the Live Aid concert at the old Wembley. William and Harry wouldn't have many problems persuading starts to perform. The princess was friends with singers like Phil Collins. There's already speculation that there could be an emotional return to the stage for Elton John, and the song he played at her funeral. ELTON JOHN, SINGER: Good-bye English rose, from the country.

WEEKS: Next year marks the 10th anniversary of Diana's death. The princes have said to hope that the concert would be a positive way of focusing attention away from the endless speculation surrounding the way she died and onto the contribution she made in her life.

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COOK: That report there from Romilly Weeks from ITV.

Finally, I want to fill you in on a story out of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. A bus load of British tourists got the fright of their lives when the bus was raided by a group of thieves. You see them all getting off the bus here. Four men armed with rifles and grenades posed as policemen to get on this bus, and they took off with the tourists' luggage, passports and cash. The robbery, Carol, is the latest in a wave of violent crimes that have plagued Rio. Of course everybody wants to go to Rio on vacation, but unfortunately, it's just not the safest place to go.

LIN: Yes, it is really popular and a beautiful place, and I was really surprised to see the passengers so calm as they were getting off the bus. Was anybody hurt?

LIN: Well actually one person got extremely courageous and tried to resist these thieves, but that person ended up getting hit in the head with the butt of a rifle. But the police say that that person was not seriously injured. So everyone seemed to get off the bus unscathed, but with no possessions.

LIN: Well, a good reason to go shopping maybe in Rio. All right, thanks very much, Shanon. Good that nobody was too badly hurt.

Now tens of thousands of protesters took to the streets today in Istanbul and they denounced Pope Benedict as the enemy of Islam. And heightened tensions surrounding the pope's planned visit to Turkey this week. CNN's Delia Gallagher has more from Istanbul.

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DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN FAITH AND VALUES CORRESPONDENT: A crowd of about 10,000 have gathered here in central Istanbul to protest Pope Benedict's upcoming visit to Turkey. They are members of a conservative Islamic party upset about the pope's remarks in Regensburg when he connected Islam to violence.

They are wearing headbands saying, "Pope, go home," and "No to the crusader alliance." There are signs here saying, "We have accepted Jesus as a prophet. Why don't you accept Mohammed?"

So a voice being heard here in Turkey in advance of the pope's visit. He still isn't due to arrive until Tuesday. But certainly these people are making themselves heard that they do not welcome his presence here.

Delia Gallagher, CNN, Istanbul.

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LIN: Anderson Cooper is live in Turkey following the pope's visit and I'm going to talk to him tonight at 10:00 p.m. about what he is seeing there right on the ground.

And you can catch Anderson's week-long series beginning tomorrow night at 10:00 p.m. Eastern. And then starting at 6:00 a.m. Tuesday, CNN will have a full day of special coverage "When Faiths Collide: Christianity and Muslim." That's all day Tuesday, right here only on CNN.

Well Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are in India shooting a movie and try as they might, Hollywood star couple just can't seem to get any privacy. Here's CNN's Seth Doane.

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SETH DOANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Visitors might describe India as chaotic. But if you're Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, chaotic is an understatement.

The public hasn't seen much of the star couple, but not because the paparazzi hasn't tried. Lots of video of cars driving off, presumably carrying the Hollywood royalty. But here's Angelina quietly reading and here she looks a lot like Mariane Pearl, the role she's playing in the film "A Mighty Heart," about the life of Daniel Pearl, the "Wall Street Journal" reporter slain in Pakistan.

To onlookers, the film almost seems like afterthought. There have been mixups outside a Mumbai school landing three of the couple's body guards in court, a bike accident reportedly caused by one of their drivers or this, or this, a member of the paparazzi apparently being strangled by one of Brangelina's body guards.

POONAM SAXENA, HINDUSTAN TIMES T.V. CRITIC: You cannot come here and do what you want. I mean, if you're going to come here and shoot a film, you do it nicely and you should be good to people, and don't behave like you own this place, because you don't.

DOANE (on camera): It has been one eventful trip for Brangelina, from alleged death threats by al Qaeda due to the political nature of the film, to scuffles to being mobbed by the media. But at the end of the day, do Indians really care?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We definitely care more about the Bollywood stars because we see them every day, we watch their movies and we have kind of grown up with their movies.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Then you compare to Amita Bachan (ph) or Sharu Kandis (ph), there's just no comparison, because we talk about Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, we're just talking about a minuscule population who knows about them.

DOANE: So then why all the media fuss? SAXENA: For Indian newspapers and magazines, it flows more out of oh, my god, we better do this because if we don't, somebody else will do it. And maybe they'll get a picture and we won't, and then we'll look silly, so we better track them. I think it's more of that rather than, you know, any sort of overpowering interest in what they're doing.

DOANE (voice-over): Somehow, Angelina found time for her role as good will ambassador for the UNHCR, visiting a refugee from Myanmar. Also visiting a center for seek Afghan refugees in West Delhi. Jolie is known for her political activism and at least from her time in India, a very busy schedule. Seth Doane, CNN, New Delhi.

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LIN: Well traveling is frustrating enough, without having to hand over necessities. You'll be even more frustrated when you hear where your things end up. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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LIN: Finally, every flyer knows it's frustrating to travel these days, waiting in long lines, removing shoes and belts and there's the chance you'll have to hand over things you've packed at the airport security checkpoints. As Zain Verjee reports, if you want those items back, you're going to have to buy them.

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VERJEE: Hand it over. Out go to the guns, no knives or razors, lighters, nope. And sorry, no scissors.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I used to be a hairdresser and I was traveling, I had my scissors, an $800 pair of scissors and they took it away.

VERJEE: Ever wondered whether the stuff you surrender at the airport goes? It's boxed up and transported to a warehouse like this one in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania that received items from 14 airports in several northeast states. Government agencies can look for bargains in person, like police corporal Robert Wolf (ph), who comes here once a month.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to use the knives in the break room.

VERJEE: This program started in July of 2004.

KEN HESS, PA OFFICE OF SUPPLIES AND SURPLUS OPS: That's what I call a fish hook.

VERJEE: Ken Hess directs the operation and oversees a small staff that sorts the items from the obvious.

HESS: Pocket knives, scissors. We're getting a lot more silverware as you can see, cork screws.

VERJEE: To the obnoxious.

HESS: Shocks, shock absorbers for vehicles, four of them. We had an antique sausage grinder.

VERJEE: It gets weirder.

HESS: We get quite a variety of S&M materials, whips, handcuffs. I'm not even sure with what some of the things are to be honest with you. A rambo knife. Don't leave home without your chainsaw. This was the infamous machete and that's not plastic.

VERJEE: Most of these items will end up online.

HESS: The bulk of our sales is eBay.

VERJEE: Here's a wine set we wanted to track on eBay. After four days, there have been seven bids. The latest one at $6.59. Take a look at the sellers other items, all of the stuff that you gave up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think that's right at all. They're selling something that's not theirs.

VERJEE: The TSA doesn't have a problem with it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once the security issue is done, it's then their business.

VERJEE (on camera): And business is good. They've made $280,000 in profits since it started, most of it through eBay. The money goes to the state of Pennsylvania. It goes into a general fund that's used by different agencies. In one case, tutoring kids off to school. Zain Verjee, Reagan National Airport, Washington.

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LIN: All right, look at all of the folks who are trying to get out of the airport at Los Angeles International, although it looks like a pretty sunset going on there. Jacqui Jeras has been tracking everything that can affect your travel tonight so Jacqui, what's up?

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LIN: We'll take another look at the headlines coming up and at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, watch "CNN PRESENTS: Autism is a World." At 9:00 p.m. Eastern "LARRY KING LIVE" and Larry's guest tonight is the intense and outspoken Alec Baldwin.

And on the 10 p show, sexy church ads from Canada. Will they attract more people? Yep, that's whipped cream. The hour's headlines when we come back and then "CNN PRESENTS."

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