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Aired September 17, 2007 - 11:00   ET

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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: You're with CNN, you're informed. Hi, everybody. I'm Heidi Collins. Tony Harris is off today.
Developments keep coming into the CNN NEWSROOM on this Monday, the 17th day of September. Here's what's on the rundown. s O.J. Simpson scheduled for a court appearance in Las Vegas soon. The one-time murder defendant now accused of armed robbery.

Within the last half hour, President Bush revealing his choice for attorney general. Just who is Michael Mukasey?

An American security company accused in the killing of Iraqi civilians. Blackwater blacklisted in the NEWSROOM.

O.J. Simpson behind bars and apparently caught on tape. He is charged in an armed robbery. You can hear that confrontation for yourself, but before we play that audio some details for you on this case. Police say Simpson was among an armed group of men who burst into a hotel room and demanded the return of his sports memorabilia. Simpson has said no guns were involved and the incident was not a robbery. We do warn you though, the language in this tape pretty raw.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (EXPLETIVE DELETED) you. Mind your own business.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at this (EXPLETIVE DELETED).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get over there.

O.J. SIMPSON: You think you can steal my (EXPLETIVE DELETED)?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Backs to the wall.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was trying to get past you.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Walk your ass over there.

SIMPSON: Think you can steal my (EXPLETIVE DELETED)?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mike took it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You, against the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) wall.

SIMPSON: I know (EXPLETIVE DELETED) Mike took it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Search him.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And I know what Brian's trying to prove.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm cool. I am.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stand up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So, so...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get your (EXPLETIVE DELETED) asses up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stand the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) up.

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COLLINS: Raw indeed.

Let's go to Las Vegas now where Simpson is in jail. CNN's Chris Lawrence is following the story for us. Hi there Chris.

CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi Heidi. Even though you heard the commotion and the cursing in that audiotape, police concede that no one was roughed up inside that hotel room at the casino, although they do say a gun was pointed at one of the men in the room. O.J. Simpson says that there was no threat or force involved in that confrontation. Now there has been some confusion about when O.J. Simpson would make his first appearance in court.

The website first reported that it would be tomorrow, then today. We haven't been able to confirm that. It doesn't look like anything is happening today but at some point in the next few days, O.J. Simpson will have a probable cause hearing. They will determine if he's eligible for bail, and if so, how much he'll have to pay to get out of jail. The big thing is the two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon that he faces. Each of those carries a maximum sentence of 30 years in jail. When you factor in the idea that O.J. Simpson is now a 60- year-old man, these alleged crimes have the possibility of sending him to prison for the rest of his life. Again, there is a dispute about what happened inside that room. Simpson's attorney says there are conflicting statements from witnesses, and he promises to try to get O.J. Simpson released from prison and fight these charges. Heidi?

COLLINS: Ok, CNN's Chris Lawrence reporting for us on the O.J. Simpson case from Las Vegas. Chris thank you.

New this morning now, President Bush naming his choice for the next attorney general. He is retired federal judge Michael Mukasey. CNN's Kathleen Koch is joining us now from the White House for more on this. We just heard the president speak from the rose garden.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Yes Heidi, and the man who the president has named as his third attorney general now is considered to be a consensus candidate, a consensus nominee. 66-year- old retired federal judge Michael Mukasey, he's described by those who know him and have worked with him as thoughtful, independent, a conservative but not a right-wing ideologue. Now the bulk of his experience comes as chief judge in the southern district of New York, while there he dealt with several very high-profile terrorism cases. President Bush this morning cited the judge's antiterrorism credentials in naming his nominee.

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BUSH: Judge Mukasey's clear-eyed about the threat our nation faces. As a judge and a private lawyer he's written on matters of constitutional law and national security. He knows what it takes to fight this war effectively. And he knows how to do it in a manner that is consistent with our laws and our constitution. When confirmed by the senate as attorney general he will work to ensure that our law enforcement and intelligence officers have the tools they need to protect the United States and our citizens.

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KOCH: Now what was very striking was that in contrast to precedent, outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was not at this morning's rose garden ceremony. That, perhaps, a dramatic sign from the White House that it is indeed turning the page here. Now the president though did mention Gonzales, saying he is an honorable and decent man who served with distinction, a trusted adviser saying he would miss him. Also Mukasey mentioned the attorney general said he'd gotten a call from him this morning and that he appreciated his support. And the president finally is urging congress to approve his nominee quickly by the time the senate goes out on recess October 8th. Heidi?

COLLINS: Any idea when that might happen Kathleen? Probably completely not a fair question.

KOCH: He does have support from both sides of the aisle. Again, a Republican conservative, but still winning praise from liberals, like senator -- democratic senator Chuck Schumer of New York who said that he is someone who would put the rule of law first. So independence from the White House. So praise from both sides of the aisle, so it's likely something Heidi that wouldn't take too long. The White House pointed out that when Janet Reno was nominated by President Bill Clinton, that the Republican senate confirmed her in just 13 days.

COLLINS: 13 days, all right. Kathleen Koch outside the White House for us, thank you Kathleen.

KOCH: You bet.

COLLINS: The State Department planning to investigate a gun battle involving Blackwater private security guards in Baghdad. The company's license to operate in Iraq yanked by the Iraqi interior ministry over yesterday's deadly incident. We want to go live now to Barbara Starr at the Pentagon. Good morning to you Barbara.

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Good morning Heidi. Well, the State Department spokesman Sean McCormack has announced that there will be an investigation of this gun battle in Baghdad yesterday, both the State Department and the U.S. military forces in Baghdad will get together and try and figure out what happened. A gun battle in western Baghdad by the time it was all over, according to all of the reports, there were eight civilians killed and 14 wounded. Apparently a convoy including Blackwater security personnel, a private company, was moving through Baghdad when gunfire broke out and they obviously returned fire. The Iraqi government, very upset, has basically pulled Blackwater's license to operate in that country.

Now what should be understood is the private security business in Iraq is huge. Maybe some 25,000 contractors, according to some estimates. And they, too, have come under fire. A couple of hundred of them killed in their line of duty. They guard facilities, they provide diplomatic protection, protection for VIPs. But this has been a growing controversy about the rules in which these private militias, all heavily armed, operate in this very dangerous environment and apparently yesterday, by all accounts, something terribly went wrong. The State Department and the U.S. military now investigating. Heidi?

COLLINS: And that has been the question all along, a couple for you Barbara. Who Blackwater answers to? Somewhat independently acting in doing what they do. Also the Iraqi ministry, can they really do this, can they pull that license?

STARR: Well, let's take the first one. Who do private security contractors really report to? What is their liability? They are heavily armed, they operate alongside the U.S. military in many cases. But they are not members of the U.S. military. Now congress did pass some legislation -- or looked at some legislation, I should say, trying to get them to fall under the uniform code of military justice. But the regulations implementing all of that by all accounts have never been written. It is a murky area of law at this point. We've spoken to a couple of government officials this morning. They can fall under the Justice Department, the FBI, the U.S. criminal statutes, if there is a case of wrongdoing. They can be prosecuted under that.

The question is can they be prosecuted under the sovereign government of Iraq. That apparently has not been tested. The government of Iraq has pulled the license of Blackwater to operate, and what happens now? That's an open question by all accounts. The State Department says it hasn't been notified officially that the license has been yanked. It may be reinstated. It's just hard to tell where it all goes from here. Heidi?

COLLINS: All right, CNN's Barbara Starr from the pentagon for us on this latest story with Blackwater. Thanks so much Barbara for that.

Also we want to talk with Aneesh Raman, he is our correspondent in Baghdad. We're going to have him up in just a few minutes.

More about this decision could already be affecting reconstruction efforts. As you know, Blackwater provides quite a bit of security for contractors and people working on some of these rebuilding efforts in the country. We'll bring that to you shortly.

Also, raging wildfires have chased hundreds of people out of their homes this morning in California. The largest blaze burning more than 15,000 acres in the San Bernardino National Forest. Two main roadways closed, schools have canceled classes. But cooler weather is now helping firefighters this morning. Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for San Bernardino County. A smaller 1300 acre fire in San Diego County is said to be 60 percent contained.

And, it's cleanup Monday in southwest Florida's Cape Coral. A tornado there damaged more than 40 homes, apartments and other buildings in a two-block area, also knocked down trees and power lines, tossed several cars around. One person was slightly injured by flying debris. About 3,500 homes lost power. Electricity to most customers is now back on. City officials say though 12 families are homeless after this storm. Both coasts have some pretty serious weather there.

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COLLINS: Meanwhile, I want to show you this, a horrifying crash. Dozens of people were able to escape. Now investigators of course are looking for answers in Thailand.

Open wide and say ah, America. Hillary Rodham Clinton today unveiling her plan for mandatory health care for all Americans.

Plus, the well-respected money man, his views on the Bush administration's big spending ways. Alan Greenspan gets tough.

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COLLINS: You are in the CNN NEWSROOM, I'm Heidi Collins. 600 pounds of terror. This man on a stretcher came face to face with it. He walked away without an arm.

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I come to the bank and ran up to a picnic area where a lot of people were picnicking. They saw what was happening and called 911.

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COLLINS: Find out how a picnic plays a critical role in this awful attack.

And she's not chasing grandkids. She's pursuing justice. And she caught it in the form of a slow-footed bad guy.

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COLLINS: The nation's health care system on the radar this hour for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton. CNN's Candy Crowley part of the best political team coverage on television. She's joining us now from Des Moines, Iowa. Hi there, Candy. CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: How are you, Heidi? Listen, this is actually Hillary Clinton's third leg of her plan. It deals with the uninsured. So what she will propose is similar to what other candidates have proposed. First, a mandate that everybody have health insurance, federal subsidies to help those in a lower income who can't afford those premiums and some restrictions on health care insurance companies. For instance, under the Clinton plan, insurance companies must insure anyone who applies and they cannot charge sick people more than they charge healthy people for those premiums. So those are sort of the mainstays of this particular Clinton plan.

COLLINS: Ok. Candy, sorry, I have a little bit of trouble hearing you here. Obviously this is not the first time that Hillary Clinton has proposed some of these ideas. I'm sure people are wondering what is flagrantly different this time around.

CROWLEY: Well, first of all, Hillary Clinton spends a lot of time on the campaign trail. Okay, I learned a lot from 1993, 1994 when President Clinton put her in charge of coming up with a health care plan. One of the things she learned is that everyone pretty much has to be in the table, has to be on board. Otherwise you do get strong special interest groups, the insurance companies, the pharmaceutical companies, coming up against your plan.

This is a very carefully laid-out plan taking in mind some of those interests. There is not, for instance, last time around Hillary Clinton said that -- put a cap on what premiums could be at insurance companies. That's not there anymore, although she would have some rule, some exclusivity here for insurance companies to have to accept anyone that wants insurance and to charge sick people the same way they charge healthy people. But there is no cap on what they can charge for those premiums so there is some drawing back from what was seen as this big bureaucratic mess that she proposed before, and much more relying on the existing system from which to build rather than just throwing out the old system and putting in a new one.

COLLINS: Candy, can you get a sense of whether people will understand this better? I mean the average American, the average consumer?

CROWLEY: Look, it's tough. I mean if you look across the board at Barack Obama or John Edwards or Hillary Clinton, there is a lot more similarities than there are differences to their plans. But I think when you say to people, look, under the Clinton plan or the Edwards plan, or the Edwards plan or for that matter, the Obama plan, insurance companies could not discriminate on the basis of health or have to accept you. If you want health insurance from them, I think people understand that, because those are day-to-day problems that they have. But I think they understand that low-income people can't afford health insurance, so putting out federal subsidies would help put them into the pool. So I think there are sort of broad things that people out there really can relate to.

COLLINS: Will there be people who will say this is socialism? CROWLEY: Well, you know certainly I think you will hear the conservatives come out and say this is getting the government into health care, we ought to let the private sector deal with this. Any time you mandate something, conservatives tend not to like it. So all three of these plans in some way or form would put further restrictions and mandates on the health care system, pharmaceuticals, as well as health insurance companies. So, that's always something that conservatives tend to attack.

I suspect since Hillary Clinton has this history with health care -- in fact we're already seeing the Republican National Committee come out and talk about Hillary-care as they used to derisively call it, so this is a huge battle between how far people want to go and getting the federal government involved. Of course, the Clinton campaign points out that we are in a very different place in 2007 than she was in 2003 and '04. There are more uninsured, people are more fed up by the health care system. They think the time is right for this sort of proposal.

COLLINS: All right, CNN's Candy Crowley, watching the story for us out of Des Moines, Iowa. Candy, thank you for that. I just want to let everybody know, if you are interested in Hillary Clinton's speech on health care, the plan, you can watch the entire thing live on cnn.com.

A Louisiana town on edge after a racial incident. Now a conviction tossed. A district attorney plots the next move in the case of the Jena 6.

Looking for Maddie. Her parents turning to the media in an effort to find their little girl and clear themselves as suspects.

And black day for Blackwater. A leading U.S. security firm working in Iraq now told to close its doors there.

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COLLINS: A racially charged case again grabbing national attention this week in Jena, Louisiana. A huge legal victory for Mychal Bell, he is one of six African-American students charged in connection with the beating of a white classmate. An appeals court judge has overturned his conviction. The judge says Bell, who was 16 at the time of the beating, should have been tried as a juvenile. The district attorney says he plans to appeal.

Another story we are closely watching for you this hour, Blackwater gets the boot. The U.S.-based security firm's license to operate in Iraq revoked today by Iraq's interior ministry. CNN's Aneesh Raman joining us now live from Baghdad. Aneesh, some of the fallout there, what are you hearing?

ANEESH RAMAN: Yeah, Heidi, this is a fast-moving story. We've just heard word out of the state department back in D.C. that secretary of state Condoleezza Rice will shortly be calling Iraq's Prime Minister Nuri al Maliki to discuss this situation. It comes on the heels this morning, as you mentioned, of Iraq's interior ministry revoking the license of Blackwater. Essentially telling them they have to leave the country. It's the first time a major western private security firm has had their license revoked and it stems from an incident that took place now just over a day ago. Midday yesterday in western Baghdad, a predominantly Sunni area, reports of clashes came out.

Sources within the interior ministry told us it was between armed men and western private security workers. The U.S. embassy has confirmed a State Department convoy was in the area reacting to a car bomb, then engaged in a gun battle. There are a lot of questions about what exactly happened. But in the end, eight Iraqi civilians were killed, some 14 other Iraqis were wounded. It led to the Iraq's Prime Minister to call for an investigation for those involved to be brought to trial and for the company involved to be banned. That's exactly what we saw happen this morning in terms of Blackwater getting its license revoked. The big question is what happens now? We had a conference call with a spokesman for the U.S. embassy.

We asked point blank is Blackwater operating today. They protect American diplomats, American reconstruction projects. No comment from here, the State Department is saying they've gotten no official word yet from Iraq's government about the license being revoked but this is a huge issue. Because at the heart of it Heidi, is how much sovereignty, how much power does Iraq's government really have over those operating within its borders.

COLLINS: I think that's the question when you talk about a private security firm. Obviously the Iraqi ministry would not be able to do that when we're talking about the U.S. military. However, Blackwater as private does not answer to the U.S. military.

RAMAN: Exactly. They're in this gray area, both legally and on the ground in a security sense. The undercurrent to all of this Heidi, from the street view in Baghdad is at best mistrust, at worst abject fear among many Iraqis about these security workers, these contractors. They're known to barrel down the streets as they protect a convoy. There have been a number of incidents where Iraqi civilians have been killed. There has been little to no recourse legally on the ground and in some instances the westerners involved have left the country within a matter of hours if not days. Iraqis themselves passed around DVDs with videos of these attacks. There is a great deal of fear between Iraqis and this company. The government probably reacting to that with eight civilians killed yesterday but they have now forced the question is Iraq's ministry of interior going to be able to do this, going to be able to get Blackwater out. And the answer to that could be uncomfortable for everyone.

COLLINS: It seems like a catch-22 though Aneesh as well. Because we know that as you mentioned and make a good point about the reconstruction projects, Blackwater also protecting people trying to rebuild portions of the country.

RAMAN: Yeah, it would put essentially U.S. efforts to some degree in paralysis if this were to take immediate effect. It's clearly why there will be some pushback from the secretary of state now involved, expected to speak shortly with the prime minister. Because a lot of U.S. interest on the ground would be immediately affected. This would be a very, very big deal. But again, the implications of it are one of two things, either this doesn't get resolved and Blackwater doesn't change its mandate which means the ministry of interior really doesn't have the authority to revoke their license, which legally they do, or this does happen and has huge implications for American interests. How this plays out in the next few hours, the next few days, is very important.

COLLINS: And ultimately some Iraqi interests as well. All right, CNN's Aneesh Raman for us live from Baghdad today. We'll continue to follow that story.

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COLLINS: Looking for Maddy. Her parents turning to the media now in an effort to find their little girl and clear themselves as suspects.

Also, a horrifying crash. Dozens of people able to escape. Now investigators are looking for answers in Thailand.

Amazing pictures of a fiery crash on the track. The driver launched into the air. But able to walk away.

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COLLINS: A mystery disease. Some doctors thought was all in your head. Turns out it could all be in your stomach. We'll hear from our Elizabeth Cohen in just a moment.

And it's a wild ride that comes to a sudden -- and I mean sudden -- stop, about 105 miles an hour to zero in just a couple seconds. Stick around for (INAUDIBLE) in just a minute.

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COLLINS: More than a million people are estimated to suffer from chronic fatigue syndrome in this country. It's a mystery ailment that can leave you too lethargic to really function very well. New research, though, suggests it could be a stomach virus.

More now from medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen.

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: There was a time when people with chronic fatigue syndrome were told it was all in their heads. Well, we've come a long way since then. Researchers in California say that they have found a virus that could possibly be at the root of chronic fatigue syndrome.

What they did was they took stomach tissue samples from people with chronic fatigue, and more than 80 percent of them had very high levels of the virus in their stomachs. When they looked at people who didn't have chronic fatigue syndrome, they didn't find levels that were nearly this high.

Now, you can't go and get this test right now. It is not quite there yet. But what you can do, if you think you have chronic fatigue, is go to your doctor and talk about your symptoms. Certain symptoms could mean chronic fatigue. The most important one is severe fatigue that lasts for longer than six months. This is really crucial. Fatigue that's so bad that you can rest as long as you want, are you still tired and it goes on for more than six months. Also, doctors will look for memory impairment, sore throat, swollen lymph nodes, muscle and joint pain, and also poor sleep and malaise. In other words, even though you're exhausted you feel like you're not sleeping well, and you also just don't feel well.

Now again, you can't go out and get this stomach virus test right now, but doctors think that in the future it could possibly lead to better treatments for chronic fatigue.

Back to you.

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COLLINS: To get your daily dose of health news online, you can always log on to our Web site. There you'll find the latest medical news, a health and information on diet and fitness. The address, CNN.com/health.

"YOUR WORLD TODAY" is on right after our program. Let's go ahead check in with Hala Gorani for a sneak peek.

Hi there, Hala.

HALA GORANI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Heidi.

You know, every time you have that daily dose segment, the hypochondriac in me always think I have every single ailment. I know.

All right, top of the hour, "YOUR WORLD TODAY," Heidi. Hope you can join us.

We'll be speaking about the Blackwater incident in Baghdad. We'll speak to a private contractor who is the CEO of a private security agency live in Baghdad. Hope you join us for his take on what happened.

Also, France is upping the ante. Now the French may not have walked hand in hand with the Americans in Iraq, but it seems like they are doing so with Iran. This the French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner. He says negotiations regarding Iran's nuclear program are still possible. But if those fail, conflict could be what we see on the horizon there. We'll analyze that and go to Paris.

Also, the United States is known for having a very high proportion of obese people. WEll, seems like globalization when it comes to food, well, it's having an impact in Japan, a nation of people who are traditionally slender. We're going to be looking at that story as well. One of the consequences of globalization, people are getting fatter, it seems.

Heidi, back to you. Hope you can join us.

COLLINS: You know, I really would have never have looked at it quite that way. All right, Hala, thanks so much.

And, hey, want to show you this, Hala. I had a really, really interesting weekend. I had the opportunity to fly on this plane. It's a C-2, from Norfolk out to the USS Eisenhower, somewhere off the coast of Virginia or North Carolina. We never really did know exactly where we were.

But there is the captain of the ship. His name is Dan Cloyd, just a terrific host to us. What they do is they take influential folks, sometimes the media, usually business people as well, just sort of show people what the U.S. Navy is doing. These are their flight ops, as they call them, that go on all day long. They launch those F- 18s off of there. They've got Super Hornets and Rhinos, two different types of models here. That's the catapult system. Launching that thing right off the end, as you may have seen before. A shotgun comes to mind. Every 60 seconds they do that, and they do an arrested landing, which is, you know, those cables that slow down the planes, every 45 second. So this is up inside the captain's quarters where we learned quite a bit about the operations there.

Really terrific hosts and an interesting scenario. It's all that goes on on that flight deck. There is no talking; it's all hand signals because of course it's so loud so they have quite a ballet going on, if you will. Fascinating trip. Appreciate their service, of course.

Meanwhile, the well-respected money man. His views on the Bush administration's big spending ways. Alan Greenspan gets tough. We'll tell you about that.

And the best in primetime television. The Emmys are handed out. Was everybody singing Soprano? We'll take a look.

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COLLINS: Alan Greenspan speaking out in his new memoir. The former chairman of Federal Reserve takes issue with the Bush administration while offering some kind words for a couple of former presidents. Greenspaan is a self-described Libertarian Republican. He says, quote, "I would say that Nixon and Bill Clinton were by far the smartest presidents I have worked with." But Greenspan wasn't so kind with his assessment of the current president. He spoke about it on CBS's "60 Minutes."

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ALAN GREENSPAN, FMR. FEDERAL RESERVE CHAIRMAN: He was much less focused on restraining spending than I would have liked.

LESLEY STAHL, 60 MINUTES: Well, actually Cheney has said deficits don't matter. GREENSPAN: Well, I think he was mistaken on that.

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COLLINS: And this also from his book, Greenspan says quote, "I made no secret of my view that President Bush ought to reject a few bills. It would send a message to Congress that they did no the have carte blanche on spending. But the answer I received from a senior White House official was the president didn't want to challenge House Speaker Dennis Hastert."

For more with Alan Greenspan, be sure to check out CNNmoney.com. Greenspan sat down for a special interview with Fortune Magazine's Andy Serwer.

Microsoft is licking its wounds after a major court ruling. Susan Lisovicz is at the New York Stock Exchange now with how it could affect PC users. Hi there, Susan.

SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Heidi. A European court has handed a major setback to Microsoft by upholding a landmark antitrust ruling against the company from 2004. In doing so the court also upheld a fine of more than $600 million. The issue centers on the way Microsoft bundles its software with its operating system.

The court says because Microsoft includes a program like Windows Media Player, that plays streaming audio and video, it thwarts competitors such as Reel Networks. By doing that the court says Microsoft hinders innovation and thus hurts consumers. Microsoft says it is still looking at the ruling to determine what to do next.

Microsoft was plagued, many of us recall this, by many of the same issues here in the U.S. before settling with the government. Microsoft shares one of the most actively traded issues on the NASDAQ, and down about 1.25 percent. The market overall is lower as well, ahead of tomorrow's federal reserve decision on Alan Greenspan's successor, Ben Bernanke.

The fed widely expected to cut rates for the first time in four years because of the housing downturn and the credit crunch. Right now the Dow industrials coming off a terrific week, down 63 points. Or about .5 percent. The NASDAQ is down one percent. That's a quick look at what's happening on Wall Street. Heidi, back to you.

COLLINS: All right, Susan. Thanks so much. The Emmy Awards, the chance to honor the best in prime-time television. CNN Entertainment Correspondent Brooke Anderson opens the envelopes.

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BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: "30 Rock" scored a solid win taking home the top comedy prize, best series. But it was "Ugly Betty" that looked particularly beautiful winning three awards, including one for its leading lady, America Ferrara.

AMERICA FERRARA, BEST ACTRESS DRAMA: The award is just -- I think it symbolizes all of the wonderful, wonderful blessings that I've had in the past year.

ANDERSON: "Extras" star Ricky Gervais, was comedy's best lead actor. In the supporting comedy categories, Jamie Presley's good karma led her to her first Emmy for "My Name Is Earl" while "Entourage's" Jeremy Piven won for the second year in a row.

JEREMY PIVEN, BEST ACTOR, COMEDY: I never thought I'd be the people's favorite in anything. Anything.

ANDERSON: Al Gore now has an Emmy to go with his Oscar. The former vice president received a special award for his cable network and online venture, "Current TV."

AL GORE, WON EMMY: It really is part of a transformational movement to try to open up the television medium.

ANDERSON: In the dramatic supporting categories, Terry O'Quinn found his first Emmy for "Lost" as did Katherine Heigl of "Gray's Anatomy." Drama's top actress trophy went to "Brothers and Sisters" star, Sally Fields, who gave yet another memorable acceptance speech which did not make it past the censors. Here's what TV viewers saw and heard.

SALLY FIELD, LEAD ACTRESS, DRAMA: If the mothers ruled the world there would be no --

ANDERSON: Here's what really happened.

FIELD: If the mothers ruled the world there would be no god damn wars in the first place.

ANDERSON: CNN reached out to Fox for a comment. As of yet, they haven't responded. "Boston Legal's" James Spader beat out "Sopranos" star James Gandolfini for lead dramatic actor, and boy did he know it.

JAMES SPADER: I feel like I just stole a pile of money from the mob. And they're all sitting right over there.

ANDERSON: But, the big question of the night was, would the "The Sopranos" nab the best drama series prize, or would it get whacked by upstarts like "Grey's Anatomy" or "Heroes." Historically shows don't fare well that inn that category once they are off the air.

ANDERSON: Leave it to the tough guys of "The Sopranos" to buck the trend. It was their Emmy swan song, and what a sweet one it turned out to be.

DAVID CHASE, CREATOR, "THE SOPRANOS": The best part of it was the huge standing ovation that our cast got. That was really amazing. And that was just really fitting.

ANDERSON: Brooke Anderson, CNN, Hollywood.

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COLLINS: Attacked by an alligator an living to tell the tale. One man's story of survival.

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COLLINS: Swimming in dangerous waters attacked by an alligator, surviving thanks to some nearby nurses believe it or not. To get the story from Nicole Johnson of affiliate WCSC in Charleston, South Carolina.

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NICOLE JOHNSON, WCSC REPORTER: People picnicking at short stay say they saw the man snorkeling in Lake Moultrie before the alligator attacked.

JEROME BIEN: Saw the commotion. We saw a guy right here. He's bleeding profusely and we thought he was just kidding.

JOHNSON: But what happened to Bill Hedden was no joke. A 12-foot long, 600-pound gator bit his left arm off, ripping it from the shoulder socket.

CAPT. BILL SALISBURY, BERKELEY COUNTY RESCUE: He was able to come to the bank and ran up to a picnic area where a lot of people were picnicking and they say what was happening and called 911.

JOHNSON: Luckily at least five registered nurses were part of the group nearby, they knew exactly what to do to stop the bleeding.

JO MASAUDING: One of the members to -- keep on encouraging him to breath and -- because he was turning blue.

JOHNSON: The nurses took care of Hedden until EMS arrived and medevaced him to the hospital.

MASAUDING: He was very conscious and he was just asking for his wife -- call his wife, and to make sure that she knew what happened to him.

JOHNSON: DNR agents killed the gator and they say they removed the arm from the animal's stomach. The arm was placed in an ice cooler, and taken to the hospital where doctors would determine whether it could be reattached.

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COLLINS: Singer Jim Croce warned you don't tug on Superman's cape. Remember? Well apparently you also don't snatch this grandma's purse. The 85-year-old Miami woman bolted out after a man we he snatched her purse. Police nabbed him and returned her purse. The bad guy apparently didn't know who he was messing with. She was on the track team in Cuba back in the 1930s. Good for her.

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