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Flooding Disaster in Britain; African-American Voters to Play Big Role in South Carolina Primary; Colorado Resort Town Buried by Mud

Aired July 23, 2007 - 11:00   ET

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TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning, everyone. You're with CNN. You're informed.
I'm Tony Harris.

HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Hi there, everybody. I'm Heidi Collins.

Developments keep coming into the CNN NEWSROOM on this Monday, July 23rd.

Here's what's on the rundown.

Banks burst, towns cut off. Record rainfall causing misery in England.

HARRIS: Happening right now, Atlantic police piecing together an apparent murder-suicide. Four people dead and a 3-year-old clinging to life.

COLLINS: Plus, concerns over canned meat. A recall expands to more than 90 brands.

What you need to know in the CNN NEWSROOM.

HARRIS: At the top of this hour, a troubling story we've been following in south Atlanta. Police investigating what they believe to be a murder-suicide. Four people found shot dead, including the alleged gunman. A 3-year-old child fighting for his life.

Judy Pal with the Atlanta Police Department described the scene.

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JUDY PAL, ATLANTA POLICE DEPT.: Around 7:00, we were called to a person shot call. When police arrived, we found in a single dwelling home -- we found four people dead. Two others were rushed to hospital after an apparent murder-suicide.

One of the persons deceased, we believe, is the man who was the shooter. He's 52 years of age. Also deceased at the scene were two of the victims. One was 26 years of age and the other victim's age is still unknown. We believe them to be in their 20s.

Two of the other victims were taken to Grady Hospital, where a 28-year-old died. And there is another victim, age 27, who remains there in critical condition. And I think a lot of the media were talking about a 3-year-old boy.

HARRIS: Yes.

PAL: He has been taken to Eggleston Children's Hospital in critical condition.

We did locate a weapon at the scene. All of the victims are believed to be related.

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HARRIS: That police spokeswoman says police and detectives at the scene recovered the gun they believe was used as the murder weapon.

COLLINS: The biological mother of a baby girl abducted at gunpoint faces kidnapping charges. Police say 5-month-old Madison Erickson (ph) was snatched from her adoptive mother during a home invasion in Mississippi. She was found later unharmed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

Under arrest, Jamie Kiefer, the girl's biological mother, and the baby's aunt, Rikki Swann. Authorities are looking for a third woman and a man they say took part in the kidnapping.

HARRIS: A flooding disaster in Britain. Thousands of people trapped by rising waters, and they're now running out of food and drinking water.

We get more on this story from ITN's James Blake.

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JAMES BLAKE, REPORTER, ITN (voice over): Already, thousands have been evacuated, tens of thousands are now without water or electricity this lunchtime, and it may get worse. Floodwaters are just 30 centimeters from the top of the main barriers surrounding the River Severn at Gloucester, and emergency workers are racing to put up makeshift defenses around a nearby power station.

They've even asked local builders for giant sandbags to help the effort. If the power goes, it would affect hundreds of thousands of people.

In Tewkesbury, the Severn Trent Water Company sent 250 mini tankers to the town, a first response to deal with water shortages. The company warns Cheltenham itself is just 24 hours from having its water cut off.

The shortage has been caused by a water treatment plant completely flooded.

DAVID WICKENS, SEVERN TRENT WATER: Pumping is an essential part of treatment, and the pumps are under water. They run on electricity, and you get to a point where they submerge, when you can't carry on running them at all. So, in order to get it up and running, we need -- first of all, we need the river water to drop. We then need to pump it out, and the army are going to help us pump it out.

BLAKE: In Gloucestershire, the army has been drafted in to take food, water and medical supplies to towns and villages completely cut off by the rising waters. In Gloucester itself, the River Severn has swamped whole neighborhoods. Residents say it's the worst flooding they've ever experienced.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) floods when I was a little kid. It's pretty bad down there at the moment.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We haven't been told anything. All they said is just evacuate, you know, and we pulled like different bits from the road outside that now apparently we have to move, though. So we don't know.

BLAKE: The prime minister came to Gloucester for a whistle stop tour of the affected areas this morning. He promised a review of flood defenses and drainage and more money for emergency relief work.

GORDON BROWN, BRITISH PRIME MINISTER: What we saw was something that was quite unprecedented in the amount of rainfall that happened. That put enormous pressure on the water and the electricity services. And what we've seen is a magnificent effort by local people and the emergency services using resources from all over the country, including water pumps being brought from all over England. And at the same time, of course, the armed forces being brought in.

BLAKE: It was the worst flooding here for 60 years, and in most of the affected areas, it is still raining today, with more wet weather expected on Wednesday and again at the weekend.

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COLLINS: Here at home, a muddy mess in a Colorado mountain town. The Alpine area reeling this morning from mudslides triggered by heavy rains. Mud in parts of the region six feet deep.

More than two dozen homes reportedly were damaged. Cars smashed. At least 125 people fled their homes. And right now there is no word of any injuries. But authorities say it could take weeks to clean up the mess.

HARRIS: In Texas, a chance to dry out. That's what thousands of people there are hoping for right now.

Rescue teams pulled dozens of people to safety after creeks and rivers spilled their banks. Torrents of rain trapping people in their homes and cars. The most serious flooding in south and central Texas. Almost a foot and a half of rain fell in some areas over the weekend. So far, no word of any serious injuries.

COLLINS: Wildfires causing some big problems out West. Right now, a big blaze in central Utah is still spreading. Spotty rain giving firefighters there a bit of relief, but it's not nearly enough to put out the flames.

Blazing heat over the weekend helped the fire grow to almost 30 square miles. It's about 15 percent contained.

In California, Santa Barbara County, crews are making progress against a week-old blaze in the Los Padres National Forest. It scorched almost 50 square miles. Right now, it's about half contained.

HARRIS: Jacqui Jeras, do you have enough on your plate?

COLLINS: I guess so.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: No. Bring me more. No.

HARRIS: Bring you more.

JERAS: It was a busy weekend, guys.

HARRIS: Yes.

JERAS: Unbelievable. You know, lots of little things all over the place just scattered across the USA, although the Northeast, what a fabulous weekend you guys had, didn't you? Well, you're making up for it today here.

Unfortunately, really ugly conditions. You know, it's not exactly what I would call extreme weather other than extreme headache weather, because travel is really troublesome here. It was a tough commute in early this morning. The winds are strong to go along with the rain.

It's cool. It's just kind of a dreary, yucky day, unfortunately. But the good news out of all of this, it's probably just going to be a one-dayer (ph) for you. Things should be clearing out a little bit better for tomorrow.

In the meantime, go like this if you don't want to look, because it's really ugly. Here are the airport delays.

We have got a ground stop right now at LaGuardia. The departure delays are increasing, now well over an hour out of JFK. Delays about two hours at Newark.

At national, Washington National, we've got over an hour there. San Francisco also getting in on the action out West.

Two pages -- two pages of delays. Teterboro, 45 minutes; Baltimore, Philadelphia and Tampa Bay with the showers and thunderstorms. So you know when you kick off the day like this, this early, this bad, it usually continues throughout the afternoon and evening.

We may even see some flight cancellations. So make sure you call ahead. Well, with that cool, wet weather in the East, we have got the extreme conditions out West in terms of temperatures. Look at the highs today -- Billings, 100 degrees; 97 in Denver.

We have got a huge ridge of high pressure in place here, and that's really just helping to bait the heat. And we've got a sharp cutoff right in the nation's midsection, where the cool temperatures and the warm temperatures are colliding. And so we do think we'll see some severe thunderstorms across the nation's midsection as a result.

But guys, this is kind of it for the week. Expect hot and dry out West and wet and cool across much of the East.

Back to you.

COLLINS: We can handle that. That's a little bit easier to take.

HARRIS: Yes.

COLLINS: All right, Jacqui. Thank you.

Tonight's CNN/YouTube debate. Democrats field voters' questions in South Carolina. It's the site of the first southern primary, a testing ground for candidates, a proving ground for the African- American vote.

Senior Political Correspondent Candy Crowley explains.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you like the food?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good. Your food is good.

CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): At Mac's on Main in Columbia, Barry Walker serves up soul food, peach cobbler and a fair amount of politics. This year, scrambled politics.

BARRY WALKER, RESTAURANT OWNER: You know, Bill Clinton was one of my greatest presidents. I loved him. I supported him. Hillary Clinton, I'm supporting her, too. But I'm not really sure that I want to go with another Clinton in the White House right now. Barack Obama, to me, is a bright star.

CROWLEY: It's like that in South Carolina right now. An abundance of riches for African-Americans who make up 40 to 50 percent of the Democratic primary vote.

Coming after Iowa, Nevada and New Hampshire, this first southern primary also offers the first truly diverse set of voters, which is to say the state can make or break the candidates who get this far.

REP. JAMES CLYBURN (D), SOUTH CAROLINA: I think that Democrats in South Carolina, want to be with a winner. They want to really be able to say we did launch this campaign. CROWLEY: Every year, Congressman Jim Clyburn has a fish fry in Columbia, more food and politics. Democratic candidates dare not miss this occasion, because few are more influential and more attuned to South Carolina politics than Jim Clyburn.

CLYBURN: Hillary has an opportunity to be the first woman president. And that plays well with black women as well. Obama, an opportunity to be the first African-American president, and that plays with black people, male and female. You got Edwards, born in the state, and carried the state the last time. And being a home boy means a lot to people, black and white.

CROWLEY: In the latest snapshot, a poll by CNN/Opinion Research Corporation found that black South Carolinians favor Hillary Clinton over Barack Obama by 16 points. A sizable gap, explained in part by our husband's popularity among blacks and by overwhelming numbers showing blacks believe she's more experienced, more electable and better understands community problems.

Obama opened his Charleston headquarters this week. There is time yet, and work to be done.

TODD SHAW, PROFESSOR, UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA: What he really does have to do is to give all voters and African-American voters in particular a certain level of surety that his newness really does speak to new ideas, is sort of breaking out of a mold.

CROWLEY: Politicos in South Carolina think Clinton's lead is nowhere near the last word in a state and community still in flux over the '08 election. At Mac's on Main, Barry Walker has proof of that at home with his two 18-year-olds.

WALKER: He's a Barack Obama supporter. He believes that this guy looks like him, is young like him and represents what he believes in. I have another 18-year-old who is totally different. She's behind Hillary because she's a woman and she's a woman, and she says this is what we want in America.

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COLLINS: Anderson Cooper hosts tonight's first-of-its-kind debate, live and interactive on TV and online. The CNN/YouTube Democratic debate tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern. You will see the Republican candidates debate on Monday, September 17th.

HARRIS: Cutting corners and taking lives. A Chinese drug maker's deadly prescription.

COLLINS: Native Americans using their ancestral skills.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You have to go out and look for the deer. You have to go hunt the buffalo. You have to go where they are. And once we feel like we find something, you know, we call in the rest of the pack. (END VIDEO CLIP)

COLLINS: Smugglers on the border beware the Shadow Wolves.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: And I'm Rob Marciano in the center of the Colorado Rockies, where it's sunny today. But Saturday night it was raining big time. Mud buried a town just up this canyon.

A live report is coming up in the NEWSROOM.

HARRIS: Traffic and gridlock. A vintage plain hogs the road after making an emergency landing.

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COLLINS: A resort area buried by thick, gooey mud. Dozens of people around Alpine, Colorado, out of their homes this morning after heavy rains triggered mudslides.

CNN's Rob Marciano is there.

Hey, Rob. Any word now on when those people can return back to their homes?

MARCIANO: Well, they're hoping that they can get back in there today. They were allowed back in yesterday for a very limited amount of time, but now residents certainly want to get back in there to start digging out and cleaning things up.

What happened Saturday afternoon and evening was a torrential rainstorm, a thunderstorm that often bubbles up in the Colorado Rockies this time of the year, and it happened just up this canyon about two miles away. Had to evacuate over 100 people, 31 homes damaged, and now those people are going to have to start cleaning up their lives.

But look at this landscape behind me. You really get an idea of just how rugged this terrain is.

These are called the chalk cliffs because they look chalky. But also, the consistency of the soil, because there are natural hot springs under here that kind of bubble up, loosen up the soil, make this area even more susceptible to flashfloods and mudslides like we -- like we saw over the weekend.

So they'll get in there hopefully today. If not today, over the next couple of days to dig out, to start to clean up. But the issue is, is that we're just now getting into the monsoon or the summer thunderstorm season for the Colorado Rockies. So this will be an ongoing threat for the next month, month and a half, Heidi.

One good thing is that we did get rather lucky in that there are literally hundreds, thousands of people across the world that are killed every year by flashfloods and mudslides. And there wasn't anybody even hurt with this particular situation. So you need to count our blessings that way and certainly count the sunrays here so folks can get back in and start digging out their muddy homes today -- Heidi.

COLLINS: Yes. I was just going to say it's incredible that people were not hurt. And what a gorgeous day you are standing there in the middle of.

Rob Marciano watching the situation for us in Colorado.

Thank you, Rob.

HARRIS: Traffic alert -- war bird on the highway. The World War II-era plane made an emergency landing last night in Fond du Lac, Wisconsin.

Thank you, Jacqui Jeras.

Did I get the pronunciation right?

COLLINS: Fond du Lac.

HARRIS: No, no, no, no, no. She told me that wasn't it.

The pilot and his son...

COLLINS: Fond du Lac.

HARRIS: That's right, you spent like years in Wisconsin, didn't you?

COLLINS: It's OK.

HARRIS: It's one of the...

COLLINS: It's a great story. Look at that.

HARRIS: Well, yes. They were heading to this week's mega air show in Oshkosh.

I think I got that one right.

COLLINS: Yes. They make overalls, too.

HARRIS: OK.

No one hurt. And that's the good news in all of this. But traffic, as you can imagine, gridlock for hours.

COLLINS: Trouble at this Georgia food plant triggers a massive recall, and new warnings today about botulism.

Medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen checks in with some information you need to know.

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COLLINS: Tens of thousands of people across England watching their towns literally washed off the map. More major rivers near the breaking point, ready to add to the already historic flooding.

CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh is live in waterlogged Tewkesbury, England.

Good morning to you, Alphonso.

ALPHONSO VAN MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Heidi. It's a very wet morning here, as you mentioned.

Unprecedented floods, some of the worst in more than 60 years, according to officials here. Two and a half times the amount of rain that they would normally get in this part of the country at this time of the year. At this point, officials saying there are some 50,000 homes without electricity, some 150,000 homes without water.

We're actually here, as you mentioned, in Tewkesbury, known as a historic riverside town. But it certainly seems today that the river is running through it, as it were.

The prime minister telling people today that they're going to put some $1.6 billion into flood relief to help. To give you some context, there's some five million people living in risk areas for flooding here.

It's a long, long weekend. Officials saying that it seems the worst may be yet to come, that some of the largest rivers here, the Thames and the Severn, may burst at the banks. Again, people here just saying here that they need to hold out, wait for emergency forces to do what they can.

Let's listen to a little bit about what one emergency services person had to say about the situation here.

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ROBIN GOODLAD, RNLI RESCUE UNIT: Personally, I've never seen anything -- anything like this at all. I mean, I've been in the RNLI's rapid response unit for six years now, and this is the first time I've seen anything such as this really. So it's incredible to see.

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VAN MARSH: Now, as we speak, there are officials from the Royal Air Force, the navy, fire services, desperately trying to stop potential flooding at a power station which could put half a million people at risk of losing power. Again, there are some five million people living in areas that are at risk of flooding. The prime minister saying that the 19th century infrastructure that was built to protect people just simply is struggling to keep up with the pace of rain -- Heidi.

COLLINS: And the weather projections not very good for the area, either.

Alphonso Van Marsh. Thanks so much.

HARRIS: Dragged to his death trying to save the woman he loved. A community in shock.

More now from Holly Haerr of affiliate News 12 Long Island.

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NICK MONTANINO, WITNESS: And he was hanging somewhat like this here, I guess reaching into the car.

HOLLY HAERR, REPORTER, NEWS 12 (voice over): Nick Montanino saw the drama unfold outside his home in Centereach Saturday night. A man hanging out a car door as the car drove up Tree Road. He and his wife had looked outside when they heard a woman screaming.

IRENE MONTANINO, WITNESS: As I was walking to the door, he said, "Get the phone. Call 911. A guy is beating up a girl."

HAERR: But then Nick says he realized it looked like she was fighting him as he tried to take her keys away.

N. MONTANINO: And he was trying to stop her from driving, yelling, "You're going to get arrested! You're going to get arrested!"

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Then came the fatal ride. You can see the bloodstains next to some of the black skid marks on the road.

N. MONTANINO: When the door opened, he was hanging on to the car, and she went speeding up the block. And she was definitely trying to throw him off, because she was zigzagging all the way up.

HAERR (on camera): He apparently fell off by that intersection behind me. That's where the skid marks and the trail of blood begin. They continue down the road and end by that intersection with the tree on the corner.

(voice over): Suffolk Police say the person under the car, 26- year-old Louis Wieder (ph) from Westbury, was killed. The driver, apparently his girlfriend, was Jesenia Vega (ph). She's been charged with drunk driving.

Neighbors say the two had been at a block party nearby, and after the crash some say she appeared to be in shock.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was sitting down and she was hysterical. She was crying.

HAERR: Many on this end of the street did not want to speak on camera but said they'll never forget the sight of him under the car.

In Centereach, Holly Haerr, Long Island.

(END VIDEOTAPE) HARRIS: The woman pleaded not guilty. The district attorney will decide whether to file more charges.

COLLINS: Another deadly day in Baghdad. People targeted by car bombs where they shop and work.

HARRIS: Getting ready for tonight's one-of-a-kind Democratic debate.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There clearly are questions that we, the journalists in mainstream media, would never think to ask in a presidential debate.

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HARRIS: Picking the questions you want answered -- the CNN/YouTube debate.

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COLLINS: Good morning once again, everybody.

I'm Heidi Collins.

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COLLINS: Good morning, once again, everybody. I am Heidi Collins.

HARRIS: And, good morning, I'm Tony Harris. Welcome back everyone to the CNN NEWSROOM.

We are listening to the people. Tonight, Democratic presidential candidates answer your questions, but just how are the questions for tonight's CNN/YouTube debate being chosen? CNN's Tom Foreman has a behind-the-scenes look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What is your opinion of America's image abroad?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: After attending various campaign events ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What will you do to counteract the ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My question is this ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If elected, how would you use your power?

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Hundreds of questions from all over to be seen ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I sort of like that. FOREMAN: And sorted ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's certainly different.

FOREMAN: And selected.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You like this one?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I like this one a lot. Absolutely.

FOREMAN: High inside our New York offices locked away in this private room, this small group is taking on that task. Led by Senior Vice President David Bohrman.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just think it's a little touchy-feely.

FOREMAN: And Sam Feist (ph), our political director, both delighted at the quantity and quality of questions.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, my question is, what are you going to do ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (singing): Are you going to help stop ...

FOREMAN: A small number of submissions involve special productions.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want to be sure that your health care plans are just ...

FOREMAN: Most are simply people talking to a camera.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Women are not included in the United States constitution.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How often do your religious beliefs impact ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's bring this question out into the open.

DAVID BOHRMAN, CNN SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT: We're finding these questions to camera from senior citizens and middle aged people and young people from all around the country. So the -- because it's so simple and easy to do, we're getting a really broad spectrum.

FOREMAN: They are all graded, some for cleverness, others for earnestness ...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I really liked that one.

FOREMAN: Some because they ought to be asked.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My fear is that it just lends itself to a stump speech.

FOREMAN: Some because they haven't been asked before. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It puts candidates on a bind on No Child Left Behind.

BOHRMAN: There clearly are questions that we, the journalists, mainstream media, would never think to ask in a presidential debate.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like what?

BOHRMAN: I'm not going to tell you.

FORMEMAN: He's smiling.

BOHRMAN: Really, I'm not.

FOREMAN: But not kidding.

(on camera): Only about 50 videos will make it into the debate and exactly how they are being chosen is a secret. Even around here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The focus is with some context, right?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's a vein of questions in a lot of these ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the questions that we're getting on health care ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He asked this and then they're going to ...

FOREMAN (voice over): And when the selection is done, only these folks, host Anderson Cooper, and a handful of others will know which of your questions will be heard by someone who might become president.

BOHRMAN: That is a really good question.

FOREMAN: Tom Foreman, CNN, New York.

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HARRIS: And another reminder for you. Anderson Cooper hosts tonight's first of it's kind debate, live and interactive on TV and online. The CNN/YouTube Democratic debate tonight at 7:00 p.m. Eastern time. You can see the Republican candidates debate on Monday, September 17th.

COLLINS: Four bomb blasts, at least 16 people killed in Baghdad today, 40 others were injured in the car bomb attacks. Iraqi officials say the blast went off in the mostly Shiite district of Karada (ph). Two striking a popular shopping area and the government facility where ID cars are issued. The casualties include both civilians and Iraqi police.

HARRIS: Deadly floods engulfing large parts of southern China, flooding and landslides have killed at least 150 people since last week's severe storms expected to bring even more flooding to the area. At least 400 people have been killed in flooding since China's rainy season began about two months ago now.

COLLINS: A Chinese drug maker fined for cutting corners, putting out tainted drugs that cost one family their daughter. CNN's John Vause explains.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): They thought they were doing the right thing. They thought the Chinese-made antibiotic prescribed by their doctor would help their little girl's tonsil infection but the Liu's (ph) were wrong. Dead wrong.

GAO PING, LIU SHICHEN'S MOTHER (through translator): Twenty minutes after using the antibiotic she started to shiver and her temperature went up. I felt my daughter shivering very fiercely. Her lips turned purple and her face changed color, and she told me a lot of times she felt cold.

VAUSE: As 6-year-old, Liu Schichen, their only child, fell into a coma, her parents rushed her to this hospital. Three days later, she was dead, and the last words she ever said ...

PING: Mama, it really hurts.

VAUSE: That was a year ago this month, and every day since her parents have lived with the guilt that the medicine they gave her killed her.

PING: If I hadn't tried to cure my daughter, hadn't given her that medicine, she would have got better by herself. She wouldn't have died.

VAUSE: But it wasn't her fault. Government investigators found the state-controlled manufacturer Shanghai World Best Pharmaceutical had cut corners. Reducing the time and lowering the temperature at which the drug was sterilized, allowing it to become contaminated. The Liu's cling to the bottle, still half filled with the drug that killed their daughter.

PING: Every time I look at that medicine, I'm filled with hate.

VAUSE (on camera): The government investigation found that Liu Shichen was among 11 people who died after taking the tainted medication. Even so, the drug maker is still in business today, no longer allowed to produce antibiotics and it was fined, but no criminal charges have ever been made.

(voice over): According to the company's website, it still makes vitamin C. And the company says those ingredients are also exported to "foreign countries including the United States." This is the pile of legal documents the Liu's have filed during a year-long search for justice.

Earlier this year the drug maker gave them about $2,700 U.S. dollars compensation. Much less, they say, than their expenses so far and twice the courts have turned down their appeals. PING: There is no happiness, no hope, no future for this family. We have no meaning in our lives.

VAUSE: When the pain gets too much, the Liu's go to the river their daughter loved, and they throw pebbles on the water. They believe that will help Shichen find her way to heaven. Their little girl is gone and all that's left now is agony, despair and memories.

John Vause, CNN, Harbin.

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HARRIS: A Hawaiian vacation turns into a scary situation. A tourist gets attacked by a tiger shark. How he got out of the grip.

COLLINS: Also, line drive death. A minor league first base coach is killed by a foul ball during a game.

HARRIS: He pinched the chips and then flew the coop. Brazen bird with the munchies, it's all caught on tape. And I promise you we're going to show it to you.

SUSAN LISCOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Susan Lisovicz at the New York Stock Exchange. The publish of "Harry Potter" is also flying high after a record-breaking weekend performance. The numbers next. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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HARRIS: Boy, this is a tough one. A tragedy on the baseball diamond. A minor league coach killed by a foul ball. It happened in North Little Rock, Arkansas last night. Mike Coolbaugh of the Tulsa Drillers was standing in the first base coach's box. A hard hit ball, a line drive, absolutely smoked, hit him in the head.

He was given CPR, but later died. Coolbaugh had a brief major league career. He was just 35 years old. He is survived by two young sons and his wife expecting their third child in October.

COLLINS: South Korea in negotiations with Muslim extremists. Twenty-three South Korean Christian aid workers taken hostage in Afghanistan last week. Now their lives on the line. Here is CNN's Phil Black.

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PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Waiting, powerless to help, desperate for news of their loved ones' safety. They are the relatives and friends of the South Korean hostages being held in Afghanistan. A mother clinging to hope.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I feel nervous. I can't do anything. I have to wait calmly for any good news.

BLACK: A brother fighting old regrets. UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): I will do for you, my sister, what I could not do for you in the past. I will do my best. Just come back safely.

BLACK: For many South Koreans, this is a traumatic reminder of the kidnapping and beheading of their countryman, Kim Sun-Il (ph), in Iraq three years ago.

HWANG DAHN-BEE, SEOUL RESIDENT (through translator): I want the government to try harder before they are sacrificed like Kim Sun-Il.

BLACK: These latest hostages are Christian aid workers, captured by the Taliban Thursday, while traveling by bus to the southern Afghan city of Kandahar. Demands for their release are reported to include freeing 23 Islamic militants held by the Afghan government and the withdrawal of South Korea's 200 military personnel.

The South Korean government said it was already planning to pull out of Afghanistan this year, but it is now negotiating with the Taliban.

CHO HEE-YOUNG, SOUTH KOREAN FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): We are contacting the armed militants through several ways and we expect that the current situation will be specified soon.

BLACK: The body of a German engineer kidnapped by the Taliban last week has been recovered. The Afghan foreign ministry says it believes a second German hostage is still alive.

Phil Black, CNN, London.

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HARRIS: "Your World Today" coming up at the top of the hour right here on CNN. There he is, Jim Clancy standing by with a preview for us. Morning, Jim.

JIM CLANCY, "YOUR WORLD TODAY" HOST: Good morning to you, Tony. And you know, we'll have an update on that South Korea hostage story.

Also, we'll take you live to Britain where hundreds of thousands of people are without water, clean drinking water, that is. Every place else too much water. Entire towns completely cut off by the flooding.

Then we'll take you to Iraq where a flood of tears cannot bring back a husband murdered in sectarian violence. The story of a widow and her children who don't know what the future of their country will be, and they fear they have no future at all.

Plus, man on a mission impossible. Tony Blair takes up the cause of Middle East peace amid skepticism by Arabs that he won't do enough. And concerns by Israelis he may try to do too much.

A survey of global news beginning at the top of the hour here, Eastern time. "Your World Today," hope to see you then, Tony. HARRIS: Absolutely. Thanks, Jim.

COLLINS: Thanks, Jim.

Well, "Harry Potter" worked his way into the history books over the weekend. Susan Lisovicz is at the New York Stock Exchange with a look at the boy wizard's magical sales numbers. Boy, isn't that the truth? How much was it?

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COLLINS: Today's Daily Dose, a botulism outbreak triggers a massive recall. The FDA expanding its warning about canned products produced at Castleberry Foods in Georgia. Our Medical Correspondent Elizabeth Cohen Is joining us with some new information, here today.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right. I just got off the phone. They had a press conference, Castleberry, the company that's announced this recall. And they said there's been no new cases of botulism since the four cases that were announced earlier. Two that they definitely know are linked, and two that are possibly linked but they said they are playing it safe. They have shut down the entire Augusta, Georgia, plant where these products were manufactured.

Now, you might wonder, golly, how did this happen? This is so huge. First let's talk about exactly what happened. You can see on the Castleberry website that if you scroll through it, it's more than 80 products that have been affected by this recall. That is a lot of products and the trick is, is that they don't all say Castleberry on them. So you can't just look for that because it's sold under different names.

Now, of course, I'm not going to read all of these 80-something products however, if you go to CNN.com you can get a link to this list and some of them are pet foods. So dog and cat owners should know this as well.

So, how did this happen? What they say is that there was underprocessing. That was the term they used. There was underprocessing on one of the lines, but they haven't just shut down that one line. They shut down the whole plant.

COLLINS: Well, I guess better safe than sorry in a case like this.

COHNE: Absolutely.

COLLINS: But let's back up for a second and talk a little bit about botulism in case people are not very familiar. What are some of the signs?

COHEN: Right. This isn't something you hear about all the time. You hear about salmonella, you hear about e. Coli, you don't hear a lot about botulism. And botulism, the signs are very different. It's not the usual gastrointestinal things that you think of. It's things like drooping eyelids, it's things like double vision and slurred speech. So things you really wouldn't think about. If someone has those symptoms, whether or not it's food poisoning, you definitely need to go to a doctor anyhow because it could be something ...

COLLINS: Right.

COHEN: ... else that's also really horrible. Those are the signs that you want to look for when it comes to botulism.

COLLINS: And as we're getting all this information in, as you said you just got off that conference call. Any idea, at this point, how it all happened?

COHEN: They just keep saying underprocessing. We really don't know what that means.

COLLINS: Didn't finish it, maybe.

COHEN: Guess so. Started to cook, didn't finish. That's what it sounds like, but they didn't give anymore details than that.

COLLINS: OK. We know you are following this one for us.

COHEN: That's right.

COLLINS: Thanks so much, Elizabeth Cohen.

COLLINS: And to get your Daily Dose of health news online, log on to our website and you'll find the latest medical news, a health library, and the information on diet and fitness. That address is CNN.com/health.

HARRIS: And still to come, a baby girl reunited with her parents. Police say she was kidnapped at gunpoint from her adoptive mother. New details coming in this morning.

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HARRIS: New developments now on a story we've been following all morning for you. Police say 5-month-old Madison Erickson is back in the arms of her adoptive parents.

Her biological mother faces kidnapping charges. Police say the baby girl was grabbed at gunpoint during a home invasion in Mississippi. She was later found unharmed during a raid on an apartment in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. Under arrest Jamie Kiefer, the girl's biological mother, and the baby's aunt, Rikki Swann. Authorities are looking for a third woman and a man they say took part in the kidnapping.

COLLINS: They're known as shadow wolves, native Americans armed with ancestral skills, tracking smugglers along the southern border. Here is CNN's Kara Finnstrom.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) KARA FINNSTROM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): We're in the village of Sales, Arizona, about 70 miles west of Tucson, Arizona. The front line in the war on drug and immigrant smuggling. Sloan Satepauhoodle is a member of an elite customs unit of native Americans, the Shadow Wolves.

SLOAN SATEPAUHOODLE, SHADOW WOLVES: Yes, we have the night vision, yes, you have the sensors. But it's not going to show you a footprint. That's when it all just comes down to the person having to get out and look and see what's there.

FINNESTROM: And it's what the Shadow Wolves see that leads them to major drug busts. At least 60,000 pounds of illegal drugs every year. Their patrol, the Tohono O'Odham Reservation, (ph) an area the size of Connecticut.

(on camera): Just a few miles to the south of us is Mexico. We're here in the U.S. in what could either be a smugglers paradise or a smugglers hell. A smugglers paradise because of all this open space that smugglers have to sneak into the country. A smugglers hell, because in these extreme conditions, they can die out here.

(voice over): The smugglers, fighting dehydration and trying to hide always leave clues.

SATEPAUHOODLE: This one in the Pedialyte.

FINNESTROM: Clues like fresh condensation on blistering bottles.

SATEPAUHOODLE: What caught my eye, is this right here. It's a shoe print.

FINNESTROM: Now Satepauhoodle is on a trail.

SATEPAUHOODLE: Those fine lines defined. If it was older, it would have been wiped out.

FINNESTROM: She's one of 14 Shadow Wolves tracking smugglers on native American lands. To join their ranks, you must be from a federally recognized tribe. Their strength, ancestral hunting techniques.

ALONZA PENA, IMMIGRATION AND CUSTOMS ENFORCEMENT: These native Americans, they bring skills that they have honed for generations with the dedication that they're protecting their tribal land.

SATEPAUHOODLE: You have to go out and look for the deer. You have to go hunt the buffalo. You have to go where they are. And once we feel like we find something, you know, we call in the rest of the pack.

FINNESTROM: The smugglers counter the Shadow Wolves' techniques with tricks of their own, carpet walking, strapping carpet to shoes to wipe away prints, or snapping camouflage onto stolen SUVs filled with drugs. The Shadow Wolves just look harder.

SATEPAUHOODLE: It would be great if we saw, like, a little bitty fiber.

FINNESTROM: Satepauhoodle searches for threads from backpacks used to carry drug loads.

SATEPAUHOODLE: Now, this is good, too, because the toe digs are deep. So if you're carrying something heavy, you know, you're going to leave a toe.

FINNESTROM: To catch the world's craftiest smugglers, the smartest weapon yet may be time-honored methods used one step at a time.

Kara Finnstrom for CNN, southern Arizona.

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HARRIS: Online and off-the-script questions posted on the internet and posed to presidential candidates. Tonight's big debate.

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COLLINS: On the lookout for a suspicious character. Description? Short with white wings, a little yellow beak, likes to hang out on ledges near the beach. Well, he's got a thing for Doritos, too. Take a look. The seagull steals a bag of chips from an Aberdeen, Scotland, grocery. It looks like he makes a pretty clean getaway except for being caught on tape, of course. Little rascal. But they are tasty, aren't they?

HARRIS: Well, the bird has an account in that store, that's what we are missing.

COLLINS: CNN NEWSROOM continues in just an hour from now.

HARRIS: "Your World Today" is next with news happening across the globe and here at home. I'm Tony Harris.

COLLINS: And I'm Heidi Collins.

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