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Police Carry Out Two Controlled Explosions Outside Hospital in Glasgow; U.S. Airport Security; New Enemy in Iraq

Aired July 02, 2007 - 11:00   ET

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TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning again, everyone. You are in the CNN NEWSROOM.
I'm Tony Harris.

BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Yes, and I'm Betty Nguyen, in for Heidi Collins today.

There are developments that keep coming into the CNN NEWSROOM on this Monday, July 2nd.

Here's what's on the rundown for you.

Police carrying out controlled explosions outside the Scottish hospital just a short time ago. Part of their investigation into the Glasgow and London terror plots.

We have the latest on that in the NEWSROOM.

HARRIS: And let's begin our coverage in Scotland, where police just performed another controlled explosion outside a Glasgow hospital.

CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson is there and he joins us on the phone.

And Nic, this is the second such controlled detonation in minutes.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN SR. INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Two detonations just minutes apart, Tony. The police still keeping the hospital here cordoned off.

They forced journalists and people visiting patients and workers within the hospital, forced them back from the hospital grounds about an hour ago. So two controlled detonations, two short, sharp blasts.

It was interesting. We didn't hear a follow-on explosion from either of those detonations, an indication perhaps that whatever it was that they were making safe, there were no explosives, no secondary explosion coming up from that.

The police rushed in here with a bomb disposal team about an hour ago, closing down the roads, closing down the area around the hospital. Interesting, because in the last couple of hours, the police here have been focusing on a search of the doctors' accommodations here at the hospital.

We do know that one of the patients inside the hospital here is one of the attackers from Saturday. One of the attackers at the airport who received severe burns during that attack bought to this hospital for treatment. The police still keeping at this time, Tony -- still keeping this hospital and the roads around it closed, keeping the public out and well away.

HARRIS: And Nic, if you would, let's take a sort of broader view of the investigation to this point. Bring us up to speed on the arrest and the latest information as it has been unfolding before your eyes, really, throughout the day in Glasgow.

ROBERTSON: Well, very dramatic developments here.

Earlier on this morning, we learned two men not far from the hospital, a 25-year-old man and a 28-year-old man, were arrested by police. They had been taken to the police station in the center of Glasgow.

Not clear if the arrest of these men led to the police just a few hours later going to the doctors' accommodations in the hospital and searching that accommodation. But as we view what's happened here in the past 48 hours, several threads are beginning to emerge. And they fit in with the national picture of the investigation, the linking of the London attempted bombings with the bombing of the Glasgow airport here, the suspicion by the police that the attackers -- the attackers or the would-be attackers in London are the same as the men who attacked the airport here in Glasgow.

The police have been investigating a house very close to the Glasgow airport, rented recently, according to the renting agency, by two foreign men. That was their description. One of those men, according to the owner of the property, a doctor at the hospital here. Now the police following up and searching the doctors' accommodation.

Of course, we can't draw conclusions from what the police are telling us this time, but the working assumption here is that the house is the house that the two men who attacked the airport were living in, and that one of them was a doctor. And the police have been searching through those doctors' accommodations here at the hospital -- Tony.

HARRIS: Our senior international correspondent, Nic Robertson, for us.

Nic, thank you.

NGUYEN: Let's bring you back here to the United States. The terror alert level is unchanged, but travelers are seeing more security at U.S. airports.

CNN's Jim Acosta is at LaGuardia airport in New York.

And Jim, want to ask you, especially in light of all that's been happening in this investigation, what has changed here in the U.S. for travelers?

JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's that they're going to see greater visibility in terms of law enforcement. No major requirements in terms of, you know, last year, when we had to start putting our bottles of shampoo, all of our liquids, we had to take that out of our carry-on baggage and put that through the x-ray machine. Nothing major in terms of requirement changes for travelers.

What they will see at the airport is greater visibility in law enforcement. They're going to see more police officers carrying assault rifles, they're going to see more bomb-sniffing dogs.

When they pull up in front of the departure area at the terminal, the police might come along and hustle them through a little faster than before. They won't be able to linger in front of those departure doors quite as long as before. So that is one component in this, greater visibility.

The other component, security officials say, is they want the public to be more vigilant, they want the public to be the eyes and ears that they can't have everywhere. So if you do see something, say something, as the old adage goes. And I was talking to one security official over the weekend. He said if vigilant citizens can foil a car bomb plot in London, which is what we saw over in London, they could do it here too.

NGUYEN: All right. CNN's Jim Acosta, joining us live from LaGuardia airport today in New York.

Jim, thank you.

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NGUYEN: Well, this just in to CNN. We have learned that there's been an explosion at an ancient temple in Yemen. It occurred in the northeast province of Marib. And there are reports that as many as 10 people have been killed so far in this explosion. It happened late Monday afternoon.

There's very little information that is still coming in to CNN, but what we know at this point is that an explosion has rocked a tourist site of an ancient temple in Yemen's northeast province of Marib, and at this point there are reports that say as many as 10 people have been killed.

We're going to stay on top of this story and bring you the information as it becomes available to us.

HARRIS: In the meantime, Great Britain on its highest terror alert right now. New developments to tell you about in a morning of swift developments. Just moments ago, our Nic Robertson reported that police have carried out a controlled explosion at a Glasgow hospital. One suspect linked to both the London and airport attacks is believed to have worked there. Nic will have details in just a couple of minutes.

Two of the seven people in custody are said to be medical doctors. Here in the United States, tighter security is in place at airports, but the overall terror alert level in the U.S. unchanged.

NGUYEN: Well, there is a new enemy operating in Iraq. The U.S. military confirming a story first reported right here on CNN. Hezbollah fighters from Lebanon aligning with Iraq's Quds Force Special Operations Unit to coordinate attacks on U.S. troops.

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BRIG. GEN. KEVIN BERGNER, MULTINATIONAL FORCE-IRAQ SPOKESMAN: The Quds Force, along with Hezbollah instructors, train approximately 20 to 60 Iraqis at a time, sending them back to Iraq organized into these special groups. They're being taught how to use EFPs, mortars, rockets, as well as intelligence, sniper and kidnapping operations.

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NGUYEN: Well, CNN's Michael Ware first broke this story and has exclusive details.

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MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): These men are masters at guerrilla warfare, Lebanon's Hezbollah. Last year, they claimed victory over the might of the Israeli defense force. Now believed to be fighting another war in Iraq.

U.S. intelligence sources say they've carried one of Hezbollah's top special operations commanders. Ali Mussa Daqduq, said to be an expert with these roadside bombs, his role in Iraq was so covert there are no known pictures, save for his prison mug shot and a confession which coalition forces have not released.

Captured on March 20 in the southern city of Basra, the Americans say he and the Iraqi militia commanders he trained and led admitted working with Iran's elite Quds Force Special Operations Unit. Documents, forensic evidence and the personal effects of dead American soldiers seen by members of the Iraqi government and shown to CNN support their claims.

After months of interviews with Shia militia members in Iraq, as well as Iraqi government and intelligence officials, CNN sought the U.S. military's comment. But it was not until today that the military confirmed the arrest.

BERGNER: He is Lebanese-born and has served for the past 24 years in Lebanese Hezbollah. He was in Iraq working as a surrogate for Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps Quds Force operatives involved with special groups. WARE: Senior U.S. intelligence officials say their confirmation of Hezbollah's long-rumored involvement in Iraq began with this: the January 20 attack on American soldiers in Karbala, a well-planned attempt to kidnap five GIs that went horribly wrong, ending with a soldier's execution.

Senior U.S. military officials tell CNN that after the attack, the order came to hunt down the men responsible and kill or capture them. That mission has been a stunning success.

A few weeks ago, during a raid in Baghdad's Sadr City slum, American and Iraqi forces killed this man, Azhar al-Dulaimi, said to the mastermind who led the Karbala attack. While Mehdi army militiamen mourned his death in this memorial in Sadr City filmed by CNN, coalition operations across the country had already seen most of those behind the kidnap attempt killed or imprisoned.

Early results in the U.S. investigation led to this man, Qais Khazali, seen here in 2003 when he was the spokesman for rebel cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi army. By the time of his March arrest, he had left the Mehdi army and come to head one of the most feared organizations in the country known as the Special Groups, a well- trained, well-financed and efficient paramilitary unit modeled on Hezbollah, and, according to U.S. intelligence, sponsored by Iran's Quds Force. A claim Hezbollah's Daqduq and the Iraqi leader Khazali have apparently admitted during their interrogations.

Looking for Khazali, the coalition troops found more than even they had hoped -- computer documents detailing the planning, training and conduct of the failed kidnap. What they didn't know is they had also scooped up Hezbollah's adviser to the Iraqi Special Groups.

Originally pretending to be deaf and mute, Daqduq's real identity was not revealed for weeks. Once uncovered, though, American officials say he began to talk. The Americans now believe his role was crucial to the Karbala attack.

What remains a mystery is why Lebanese Hezbollah's leadership would risk sending advisers to Iraq. American intelligence officers suspect Hezbollah had no choice, indebted to Iran's Quds Force for its decade of military and financial support.

Contacted by CNN, a Hezbollah spokesman in Lebanon said he would not dignify the U.S. allegations with a response. And though representatives of Iraq's Mehdi army militia and cleric Muqtada al- Sadr say they share some of Hezbollah's ideals, they deny receiving any military aid.

"I say clearly that we do not accept any logistic, financial or any other kind of support from anyone outside the borders of Iraq," says this adviser to Sadr. The Iraqi government declined to comment.

And though Tehran has repeatedly denied arming or aiding any militia forces in Iraq, Daqduq's arrest and the weight of Washington's new evidence of Hezbollah's presence in Iraq may just demand fresh answers from Iran. Michael Ware, CNN, Baghdad.

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HARRIS: U.K. terror suspect badly burned in the Glasgow airport attack. Is he also one of the men behind the unexploded car bombs in London? New developments this morning. An active investigation, including two controlled explosions at Royal Alexandra Hospital in Glasgow.

An update in minutes in the NEWSROOM.

REGGIE AQUI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Do not touch the water. That's the official word from people here in Coffeyville, Kansas. It's been flooded out for a couple of days.

I'm Reggie Aqui. We'll show you why officials are giving out that warning, when CNN NEWSROOM continues.

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HARRIS: Floodwaters on the rise in the American heartland today. Parts of Kansas, Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas all reeling from days of heavy rain.

CNN's Reggie Aqui is in Coffeyville, Kansas.

And Reggie, if you would, sort of step out of the shot, perhaps, and give us a look at just how bad the situation is there in Coffeyville.

AQUI: Yes. Well, you can see all the water. I mean, these folks back here, they were trying to get their cars repaired, and they may have more repairs because of the water that crept up while they were sitting there.

You can also see, Tony, the trash bins that are now behind there -- now tipped over, that I'm assuming floated here from some of the houses down the street. I'll tell you what, trash is just about the least of their concerns out here, because when I walk you over to this water, take a look down at it.

You'll see there's sort of a film on it. Discolored portions of it. Here's what we're being told by the city.

There is a local refinery just about a half-mile from where I am. This river water flooded that refinery, along with all the houses in this area of town, and took with it some oil that spilled out of some of the tanks there. We don't know how much oil, because not even the refinery managers can get into that portion of the refinery because it's so flooded out.

We'll show you some pictures that we have, some aerial pictures of what the town looks like and where this refinery is. And as we show you that, I'll tell you, the fire department right now, they are out there in the east side of town where we're told initially at least 2,500 people were evacuated.

They're out there doing a welfare check. They want to make sure that there's no one stuck out there, because here's what happened last night. There was a person who tried to swim back to his house to pick up some pets he wasn't able to get. We're told by the city manager's office that he ended up being stuck in a tree for hours last night until the fire department was able to get a boat out to him and bring him to safety.

So, today, the Coffeyville authorities are saying two things. Stay out of this neighborhood. It is not safe because of obviously the water being able to sweep you away.

Second, don't even get close to this water, not because it's too deep, but because it's too dangerous. They don't know really what's in it, and until the EPA is able to clear this -- and yes, we don't know.

HARRIS: Hey, Reggie -- yes. Well, it just brings to mind with all these home now that have been contaminated, is there any kind of a decontamination plans for these homes? These folks can't go back in until those homes have been cleaned out.

AQUI: Oh, no. Oh, no. And I was actually talking to the mayor, Tony, last hour, and he lives over here, past these railroad tracks.

So his house is now completely under water. He doesn't even know when he's going to be able to go get back, much less the rest of the citizens here, because it's not healthy right now.

They can't say with any certainty that this is not a health risk. Beyond that, you're right, we're talking about these contaminated waters potentially getting into people's homes and soaking everything.

A lot of these people do not have any sort of flood insurance. And this is -- as I was described by the mayor, an economically challenged area.

HARRIS: To begin with.

AQUI: So it's not as if this is a place that has a lot of money.

HARRIS: All right. CNN's Reggie Aqui for us in Coffeyville, Kansas. That is a real mess.

Reggie, thank you.

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HARRIS: So here we are, bottom of the hour. Welcome back, everyone, to the CNN NEWSROOM. Good morning. I'm Tony Harris.

NGUYEN: Yes, hi there. I'm Betty Nguyen, in for Heidi Collins today.

We do have some more information on that explosion at a temple in Yemen. Here is what we know so far. It was a car bomb that exploded at that temple in the ancient area of Marib, killing eight people. This temple is a popular tourist site. At least seven are wounded. All of this according to the Associated Press. Now police in that province of Marib, the province that is, say that six of the dead were tourists, believed to be from Spain.

So, again, the explosion, we understand now, was the result of a car bomb at an ancient temple in northeast Yemen, killing eight people. It is a popular tourist site. At least seven people have been wounded. It is in the province of Marib. And of the six dead, they are believed to be mainly from Spain. The other two, we are still waiting to find out their origin.

But of course we're following this story very closely and will bring you new developments as soon as we get them.

HARRIS: Great Britain on its highest terror alert right now. Here are some the new developments this morning, just a short time ago. CNN's Nic Robertson reported a bomb unit carried out at least two controlled explosions on a suspicious device at a hospital near Glasgow. That's where one of the suspects in the airport attack is being treated. two of the seven people arrested are said to be medical doctors. Last hour, new British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said police have searched at least 19 locations so far as part of the terror investigation.

And here in the United States, tighter security is in place at airports, but the overall terror alert level in the U.S. is unchanged.

Developments coming in at a quick pace all morning. More on the terror investigation now in Britain.

CNN's Phil Black joining us live from London.

Phil, good morning to you.

PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Tony.

Yes, a very intriguing picture is beginning to form of OF this overall terror plot. Sources very close to this investigation have confirmed that police now believe the two men who were responsible for driving that flaming vehicle into that airport terminal building in Glasgow are the same people who planted car bombs in London the day before. So following that theory, these two men have driven into London, planted those vehicles in front of a nightclub, near Trafalgar Square. Somehow, fortunately, they have failed to detonate them. They have been, however, driven back up to Glasgow, where we believe they live, and mounted essentially for what was supposed to be a suicide attack on that facility, on Glasgow Airport there the following day -- Tony.

HARRIS: CNN's Phil Black for us in London following developments there.

Phil, thank you.

NGUYEN: The threat level has not been raised here in the U.S., but Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff says Michael Chertoff says some increased security is in place. He says the U.S. has seen increased activity by al Qaeda, but there has been nothing about a specific plot.

Now speaking earlier on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING, Chertoff said the U.S. is closely monitoring events in Britain.

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MICHAEL CHERTOFF, HOMELAND SECURITY SECY.: We are in close touch with British authorities. Obviously any information that we get from them we factor into our own analysis. If that means very to make adjustments with respect our to security or be on the lookout for particular people we'd take those steps immediately.

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NGUYEN: The airport terror alert level is at orange. It's the second highest. The alert level remains at yellow, in the middle- level stage, for the rest of the country as a whole.

HARRIS: And we want to show you pictures just into the CNN NEWSROOM. Just a short time ago, as you know, President Bush is meeting with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin, there at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine.

Take a look at this, President Bush and President Putin on a boat together. Wait a minute. Is that the Russian president at the helm there?

NGUYEN: It looks like it.

HARRIS: OK, there he is.

NGUYEN: Aren't you supposed to be steering?

HARRIS: I think he's looking at the camera. That's not the direction. Turn around, face forward. And I understand that maybe in another picture here we will get some video of it. It looks beautiful, doesn't it?

NGUYEN: Uh-huh.

HARRIS: Of the two men. I guess that's the Russian president doing a little fly fishing this morning. Plenty for the men to talk about when they get down to talks -- Washington's plans for a missing- defense shield in Europe, Mr. Bush's criticism that Russia is backsliding on Democratic reforms. Things seem to be going swimmingly at this point. We understand the two men are meeting right now. These pictures are from earlier this morning. And we may hear from the two leaders a bit later today, right here in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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NGUYEN: Well, Tony, they are banning the butt.

HARRIS: Huh?

NGUYEN: Just listen. England now putting smokers -- I don't know what you were thinking -- out on the street. How much of a hardship will it be? Well, New Yorkers are weighing in.

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HARRIS: The U.S. military today announcing the deaths of five troops killed in Iraq on Sunday. Two soldiers and one Marine were killed during operations in the volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad. Details have not been released. Two other soldiers were killed in separate incidents in Baghdad. Their deaths bring the U.S. toll in Iraq to 3,582.

Let's talk now about Baghdad's Haifa Street, once the city's most notorious shooting gallery. Well, now the area is being rehabilitated with the help of American soldiers and dollars.

CNN's Arwa Damon has more.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's safe here.

ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Yes?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After the operation here, it's safe.

DAMON (voice-over): Definitely not the words you'd expect to hear on Haifa Street, nor is this a sight you would expect to see. Behind 9-year-old Mustafa's bubbly demeanor is the ingrained memory of what Haifa Street once was.

This was Haifa Street back then. There was no such thing as walking through these streets.

(on camera): Back in January, some of the heaviest fighting during the battles for Haifa Street was concentrated right in this area. Walking through here would have been unimaginable. (voice-over): The focus now is on reconstruction, the sewage plan is the functioning, water and electric not far behind, and plans to re-open a hospital, erasing the scars of Haifa Street's past.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the girl's school. This is one contractor.

DAMON: A new facelift, including fresh paint. The director of the school says, it's a big change from January when a third-grader was gunned down and the school closed.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was like Stalingrad the first time we rolled through here.

Today, the battle damage remains, but there is also a semblance of life in these streets.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to clean all this up, spackle, paint and all that kind of stuff.

DAMON: To turn Haifa around, Major Chip Daniel says, the residents need to see improvements.

MAJ. CHIP DANIELS, U.S. ARMY: I think initially they were questioning what we were really going to do there. And now that they see projects going, they understand that we're serious about it.

DAMON: Daniel says the Iraqi government has yet to spend any money here. So the cash to rescue Haifa Street is coming out of America's pocket, this unit alone pouring $17.5 million into projects in the area.

DANIELS: 1.5 megawatts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 1.5. The next four are 1.57 megawatt.

DANIELS: Generators are set to arrive. Solar lights are being set up. This shop owner re-opened in February, and now, he says, it's safe enough to stay open until 9:00 p.m.

Haifa Street may be turning around, but the Americans are paying for it. And most of the Iraqis we speak to here say if the U.S. military left this street, Haifa would go back to what it is best known for, violence.

Arwa Damon, CNN, Baghdad.

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HARRIS: Doh!

Still to come in the NEWSROOM this morning, 10 years after the British...

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The people in Hong Kong, we're satisfied, even though we look for more democracy and more room for our freedom.

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NGUYEN: The masters of Hong Kong in a battle for the hearts and minds of its people.

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NGUYEN: Welcome back. Great Britain on its highest terror alert right now. Here are some of the new developments this morning.

Just a short time ago, CNN's Nic Robertson reported a bomb unit carried out at least two controlled explosions on a suspicious device at a hospital near Glasgow. Now, that's where one of the suspects in the airport attack is being treated. Two of the seven people arrested are said to be medical doctors. And last hour, new British Home Secretary Jacqui Smith said police have searched 19 locations so far as part of the terror investigation. And here in the United States, there is tighter security in place at airports. But the overall terror alert level in the U.S. has not changed.

HARRIS: Scorching heat and low humidity, a recipe for disaster in the bone-dry west. Right now, firefighters have their hands full with this raging wildfire in northeastern Utah. It has raced across almost 50 square miles, and it is blamed for three deaths.

Hundreds people have fled their homes in southern California. The first heat wave of the summer doesn't bode well for firefighters there. Big blazes are already burning near Santa Barbara and San Diego.

NGUYEN: Alright so do you ever wish you could keep track of your teenage driver? Now you can. That's right. CNN's Greg Hunter tells us how.

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GREG HUNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Imagine I'm a teenage boy and I don't have very good judgment. Now, enter Mobile Teen GPS. A GPS system that will pinpoint where you are and how fast you're going. So when I'm doing 45 miles per hour in a parking lot, you'd get an e-mail showing where I was and how fast I was going.

And this is the technology that parents are using to help their kids be better drivers. This teenage driver was talking on her cell, without a seat belt, when she drove off the road. A dashboard camera from Drivecam captured the moment. She wasn't injured, but it may have scared her into driving better.

Seventeen-year-old Katie Baldwin is getting a similar lesson. She's enrolled in American Family Insurance's teen safe driver program which provides Drivecams in Wisconsin, Indiana and Minnesota. The Drivecams record teens continuously. Catching them without seat belts, texting and taking their eyes off the road.

UNIDENTIFIED TEEN DRIVER: Ah!

KATIE BALDWIN, TEENAGE DRIVER: It feels like my parents are always there, 24/7 with me. Always watching how I'm driving and catching me at the worst moments.

HUNTER: Parents are notified via e-mail only when there are incidents, and see the ten seconds before and after. Like this one, when Katie accidentally ran a red light and was almost hit by oncoming traffic. She says Drivecam has made her a safer driver.

BALDWIN: I've learned from it, and been able to actually see what I did wrong.

HUNTER: Katie's dad, Dale, agrees.

DALE BALDWIN, TEENAGE DRIVER'S FATHER: There's a lot less goofing around in the car, there's a lot more paying attention to the road.

HUNTER: Drivecam is not the only high-tech method helping parents. Mobile teen GPS deploys tracking units. So, Angela Williamson, a Georgia mom, gets a text message when her 16-year-old son, Sawyer, drives faster than 45 miles per hour or strays beyond a certain area. Sawyer says that GPS is like big brother.

(on camera): You don't like it.

SAWYER WILLIAMSON, TEEN DRIVER: But it makes me a better driver.

HUNTER: Dave Flower, Mobile Teen GPS. And, Dave, nobody got hurt in that story, but that's not always the case when teens are behind the wheel.

DAVE FLOWER, MOBILE TEEN GPS: You are right, Greg, almost 6,000 teen drivers leave home every year and don't return. It's a public health crisis.

HUNTER: Cost?

FLOWER: About $400.

HUNTER: Good tool? FLOWER: Excellent coaching tool to help teens develop safe driving habits.

HUNTER: OK, let's hope it catches on across the country.

Greg Hunter, CNN, Atlanta.

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HARRIS: Ripples across the ocean, how the terror attacks in Great Britain could affect your Fourth of July holiday travel plans, right here in the NEWSROOM.

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HARRIS: England's wide-ranging smoking ban is now in effect. That includes the country's trademark pubs. Brother! How will they make do? CNN's Richard Roth with a view from a city that's seen its own smokeout.

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RICHARD ROTH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The great indoor New York City smokeout began four years ago.

MAYOR MICHAEL BLOOMBERG, NEW YORK: This local law, that we are proposing, will prohibit smoking in all indoor workplaces, including bars and restaurants.

ROTH: Bar owners weren't cheering, predicting business would collapse. Now that the smoke has cleared ...

PAUL HURLEY, UNITED TAVERN AND RESTAURANT OWNERS: I was totally against it, because I thought we'd lose out on a lot of business, a lot people, a lot of customers. It's completely opposite. It's increased on every.

ROTH: Since smoking was banned in bars, New York City says impact has been minimal. Restaurants have flourished, but a lower Manhattan club owner disputes the rosy comparisons.

DAVID RABIN, CLUB OWNER: Unfortunately, they measure their statistics based on the years immediately following 9/11 and the dotcom recession. So of course business went up.

ROTH: But patrons can breathe.

UNIDENTIFIED RESTAURANT PATRON: I love it. My hair smells great, my clothes don't stink.

ROTH: Others are crying in their beer over the prospect of London drinkers having to endure the indignities that are now part of life in New York.

UNIDENTIFIED PUB PATRON: The one thing I loved about London is that you could smoke in pubs. Being a smokes, it's much easier to have a beer, sit down, have a cigarette.

ROTH: This American bar owner says the British should stage a revolution.

MICHAEL MCKEE, BAR OWNER: Let them smoke. Stick together.

ROTH: They'll fight it.

MCKEE: Definitely fight it.

ROTH: England beware, friendships will be tested.

UNIDENTIFIED SMOKER: It starts with smoking, and then it will end up something else. You can't do anything anymore, you know? I understand some people, they don't like it but ...

ROTH: You're his friend. How you hang out with him?

UNIDENTIFIED NON-SMOKER: He has every right to smoke, just not around me. So you go outside. He'll be back in five minutes and we'll still be friends.

UNIDENTIFIED SMOKER: Drink to that.

ROTH: People who live above or near pubs may have the most to worry about in English cities.

RABIN: The bars are caught in this catch 22 situation. If they allow smoking inside, the Department of Health can fine them out of existence. If they push their smokers outside, as they are supposed to, they create great tension and anger from their neighbors.

ROTH: This time, the former colonies serve as a model for England.

HURLEY: People of London, don't be scared. Go for it, it's great. It's a great law.

ROTH: Richard Roth, CNN, New York.

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