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O.J. Simpson Jailed; Student Tasered; Contractors At War; Microscopic Killer
Aired September 18, 2007 - 10:00 ET
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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: Instead, this college student got tasered. He is heading to court.
It is Tuesday, September 18th. You are in the NEWSROOM.
O.J. Simpson waking up in jail, looking ahead to a court hearing that could set him free. But first, another arrest. CNN's Chris Lawrence has developments in :as Vegas this morning.
Now, Chris, tell us the latest about this arrest.
CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Heidi, it was a man named Clarence Stewart (ph). He was one of the men who went into that hotel room with O.J. Simpson. And we've now learned that he has been released on bond. So he is free. And that makes two. Because there -- the first person who was arrested on Saturday, he was allowed to leave on his own recognizance later that same night. So two people arrested, both of them already released. Police expect a third suspect to turn himself in today.
COLLINS: Chris, Simpson, though, is being held without bail. What's the deal on that?
LAWRENCE: Well, it's because after he was initially arrested, the judge, who was looking at the case, looked at it and said, O.J. Simpson doesn't have any family in Las Vegas, he doesn't have a job here, he doesn't have a home here and he felt that Simpson could just as well up and leave Las Vegas.
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CHIEF JUDGE DOUGLAS E. SMITH, LAS VEGAS TOWNSHIP JUSTICE COURT: I determined that -- the fact that a weapon was used in a crime, or alleged, that it was a serious enough crime that I would hold him without bail if he met the other criteria. That is, is he a flight risk. And I had no information that he had any contacts with Las Vegas.
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LAWRENCE: Now O.J. Simpson's attorney says, when you look at some of the other suspects who have been released, he says if his client was anybody else, he'd already be out of jail. He says that he will ask the judge to release O.J. Simpson on his own recognizance.
Heidi. COLLINS: Try to follow all of this. It's getting a little bit complicated now, Chris, and we are hearing that possibly there's going to be a fourth arrest later today?
LAWRENCE: Yes, that's right. We're hearing that one of the men -- again, there was this -- O.J. Simpson and four other people went into that room. We're hearing that police have been in contact with one of those suspects and that he is expected to turn himself in at some point today.
COLLINS: All right. We'll be following all of it alongside you. Chris Lawrence in Las Vegas this morning.
Chris, thank you.
And Simpson facing a new legal challenge from the family of Ron Goldman this morning. The Goldmans going to court today. They want the memorabilia at the center of the current case. It could help satisfy a civil judgment. Ron Goldman was killed alongside Simpson's ex-wife.
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KIM GOLDMAN, SISTER OF RON GOLDMAN: I think karma tapped him on the shoulder and I think, you know what, he has believed that he is above the law and that he dances to a different beat and that he doesn't have to live by the same set of rules that we do. And I hope that if in fact he did do this, I hope, in fact, that he is held accountable for it.
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COLLINS: Although Simpson was acquitted of the murders, he lost a wrongful death suit in 1997. A court ordered Simpson to pay millions of dollars to the Goldmans and the family of Nicole Brown Simpson.
A college student refuses to stop asking Senator John Kerry questions and gets the shock of his life. Tasered by police. National correspondent Susan Candiotti is in Miami now this morning.
Susan, any student reaction expected today to the events that unfolded?
SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Not surprisingly, yes, there is some reaction planned. In fact, at noon time today, some students who disagree with what happened are planning a protest to march over to the campus police department to voice their disapproval.
You know what, the question is this, did cops overdo it by tasering a University of Florida student who just wouldn't shut up? Andrew Meyer, at a student forum with Senator John Kerry, peppering him with questions. Let's take a look. Lot of cameras rolling when this happened. Listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) ANDREW MEYER, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA STUDENT: Get the (BLEEP) off me, man. I didn't do anything. (BLEEP) tase me, bro. Don't tase me. I didn't do anything! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get back!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get back now.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why? Why? Why are you doing that?
MEYER: Oh, my God.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Back up! Back up!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why are you doing this?
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CANDIOTTI: Now this young man was surrounded by at least five police officers, by our count. Witnesses say that Meyer went on for several minutes, he wouldn't give up the microphone. University police officers tried to take him away. He struggled. One officer even appears to hoist him up by his waist band and carry him out to the back of the room. Senator Kerry is heard saying at one point while the struggle is going on, that's all right, let me answer his question. Again, he struggles on the floor. And that's when he is tasered.
The student, Meyer, is charged with resisting arrest with violence. That's a third degree felony. And disturbing the police.
Now there is a meeting this morning being held by the president of the university. They say they're looking into this to see whether excessive force was used. And these students are making three demands. They're weighing in. They want to drop all the charges. They want the officers suspended while the investigation is going on. And they want to ban taser use on the campus. They say they just don't want any part of tasers.
Now a court this morning has ordered Meyer, the student, to be released on his own recognizance while this investigation and while the case goes on.
Heidi.
COLLINS: Susan, just curious. Not sure if you've been able to check into any of this. But the university police are the ones who were responsible for this incident. Completely separate from whatever city police in that area of the university, right?
CANDIOTTI: That's right. And they have their own rules and regulations and protocol to follow. So that's why the president of the university is able to weigh in on this.
COLLINS: OK. Thanks so much, Susan. We just want to thank our i-Report that we got in with all of that. That's from Clusive Jessip (ph). She's a student at the University of Florida.
Thank you, Susan Candiotti.
Also want to let you know, next hour we're going to be talking with someone from the University of Florida about what happened and where the investigation goes from here.
Meanwhile, concerns about the economy. Today the Federal Reserve may step in to help. For the first time in four years, the Fed is expected to cut a key interest rate. Most economists predict a quarter point cut. That could make it cheaper for people to finance certain credit card debt and help some homeowners with adjustable rate mortgages. The expected Fed move is seen in part as a way to keep the housing slump from pushing the country into a recession.
Another lettuce recall to tell you about this morning. It comes after Canadian investigators found E. Coli contamination in a bag of "Dole's Hearts Delight" bagged salad mix. You see what the label looks like there. The company now recalling thousands of bags. They were sold in Illinois, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Quite a long list there. Also in parts of Canada. The suspect lettuce was processed at the Dole plant in Springfield, Ohio, and carries the "best if used by" date of September 19th. Dole says no reports so far of anyone getting sick.
Meteorologist Jacqui Jeras is keeping an eye on a typhoon that's headed toward China.
Give us an update on that right now, Jacqui, thank you.
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COLLINS: Knicks coach in four trouble. A former team executive accuses Isaiah Thomas of using a vulgar term. He denies it. What Thomas said about the bad word coming your way.
ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Aneesh Raman live in Baghdad.
As Iraq's government looks to boot out Blackwater, do they even have the authority to do that? The head of another private security firm in Iraq tells me no. That story coming up.
COLLINS: And it came from the bottom of the lake. It killed three kids.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So this thing is just there, it's working like, you know, some deadly thing in the water which can take our children's lives and we all have to be aware.
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COLLINS: Not a monster but an ameba to tell you about.
And a deadly plane crash. A search for answers. Were strong winds a factor? The latest on the investigation ahead in the CNN NEWSROOM.
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COLLINS: You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Heidi Collins.
Sports memorabilia and money. O.J. Simpson faces a new legal fight with the Goldmans.
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COLLINS: A series of deadly attacks in Baghdad today. At least 21 people are dead, more than 60 wounded. As many as four bomb attacks taking place in different parts of the Iraqi capital. At least two bombs targeted areas near the Iraqi interior ministry.
A shootout involving U.S. contractors in Baghdad raising questions today from a man who knows the business. CNN's Aneesh Raman reports.
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ANEESH RAMAN, CNN ANCHOR: As head of the private security company AISG, Carter Andress knows well the difficulties of working in Iraq. He's the author of the book "Contractor Combatants" and we spoke with Andress following Sunday's shooting involving contractors from Blackwater that left eight Iraqis dead, all of whom the Iraqi government says were civilians.
CARTER ANDRESS, AMERICAN-IRAQI SOLUTION GROUP: These guys are continuing their lives as soldiers. And as a soldier, you know, your job in this mission we have here is to put your life at risk before you put the Iraqi civilians' lives at risk and your clients's lives at risk, too. And I get the feeling here that that wasn't -- that standard wasn't met.
RAMAN: Are you -- are they, Blackwater, legally accountable to anyone?
ANDRESS: Well, that's a very -- that's a big gray area. And so as a result of the extra judicial (ph) relationships established by the U.S. military and DOD contractors, the likelihood of these guys ever being prosecuted on a criminal basis is minute from my assessment.
RAMAN: And the likelihood of their license being revoked having any impact on their day to day operations is what?
ANDRESS: In real terms, their relationship as a Department of State, you know, under the U.S. Department of Defense, relationship with the Iraqi government, in an Iraqi theater of operations, that contract status trumps the minister of interior's licensing factor.
RAMAN: Sunday's shooting in the Sunni-dominated area of western Baghdad happened when State Department officials, being protected by a Blackwater convoy like this one, were fired upon by gunmen. So far, few details of the shootout have been released. But Andress says private security contractors in Iraq are essential.
ANDRESS: What we primarily do, most of us, is protect convoys, protect sites where reconstruction is being undertaken, too.
RAMAN: Over the past four years, there have been several violent incidents involving western security contractors. But this is the first time the government has reacted so severely.
ANDRESS: This is a natural collision here that was going to take place.
RAMAN: And it forces a debate that's been brewing for years over what rules private security contractors must follow and for what purposes they should be used.
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COLLINS: Aneesh Raman joining us now live from Baghdad.
Aneesh, some people would say that the Iraqis really can't get these guys to leave. We heard some of that in your piece. What is this really all about?
RAMAN: Yes, there doesn't seem to be much legal standing for Iraq to kick out Blackwater. But as we mentioned, this has been brewing for years. This debate. And as Andress called it, a natural collision.
It seems on Sunday, Iraq's government decided to force this all back into the public arena. At best, what they could try and get is some sort of legal wording that puts these private contractors to some degree under Iraqi law. There was a July report to Congress that said these contractors cannot be brought before Iraqi courts.
It might be Iraq's government is trying to at least get that concession. But realistically, can they kick Blackwater out given how essential Blackwater is to the U.S. interest here? No. Can they forcibly do it? Highly unlikely.
But what they are doing is upping the pressure, forcing this diplomat dialogue between Secretary Rice and Prime Minister Maliki, which we've already seen, to try, and it seems at the least, get that concession. It's up in the air whether they'll be able to do so.
Heidi.
COLLINS: I wonder of the Iraqis that you've been able to talked with, Aneesh, what do they think of security firms like this?
RAMAN: There will be support for what the government has done because among Iraqis there is a great deal of anger around these private security details. They've decreased their presence really out on the streets over time, but they're known to sort of barrel down the road. Their reputation, fair or not, among Iraqis is that they shoot first and ask questions later. And there have been a number of incidents where Iraqi civilians have died but there hasn't been any legal recourse followed on the ground. And in some instances, the westerners have left within a matter of hours, if not days.
So the key issue, one is of sovereignty and Iraq's government really doesn't have it in this case. But the second is, trying to get them to some degree under Iraqi law. Iraqis have been asking for that for some time and they will likely fully support the government's desire to see that as well.
Heidi.
COLLINS: CNN's Aneesh Raman live from Baghdad this morning.
Aneesh, thanks for that.
Another story now. New York Knicks coach Isaiah Thomas in the spotlight today for his comments in a sexual harassment trial. A former team executive claims Thomas repeatedly called her by a vulgar term. He denies it. In a videotaped deposition played for the jury, Thomas suggested a distinction about the use of the "b" word.
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ISIAH THOMAS, NEW YORK KNICKS COACH: A white male calling a black female a (BLEEP) is highly offensive.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Would you find it also offensive for a black male to call a black woman a (BLEEP)?
THOMAS: Not as much.
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COLLINS: Outside the courtroom, Thomas had this to say.
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THOMAS: Please don't miss characterize the video that was shown in court today. I don't think it's right for any man to ever call a woman a (BLEEP). I didn't do it and I wouldn't do it.
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COLLINS: The former executives' lawsuit claims that she was fired for going public about Thomas' alleged vulgarity and unwanted advances. Thomas has denied the allegations.
The McCanns keeping the spotlight on their daughter. The parents of four-year-old Madeleine make a new move to get their story out.
And the traffic. Who doesn't love it? The absolute worst cities to drive in coming your way next.
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COLLINS: All right. We are looking at the big board I guess. Here we go. Hey, we're to the positive. Sixty-five points up, resting at 13,469 now. That's interesting.
As you know, the main story of the day is going to be interest rate cuts. We're expecting the Fed to do just that. Not sure by how much, but it's going to be happening, that meeting around 2:00, 2:15 or so and then the announcement shortly after that. So we will all know how our wallet is going to be feeling.
The Nasdaq also to the positive six points today. You see it there on the bottom right of your screen. We'll follow the business stories for you and bring in Susan Lisovicz in just a few minutes.
Meanwhile, an update now on a story that we have been following. We told you about a man who had his arm ripped off by an alligator while swimming in a South Carolina lake. His brother now says doctors have decided against re-attaching the arm. The man and his family are offering thanks to the picnickers who prevented him from bleeding to death -- they were nurses, if you remember -- immediately after the attack.
It's lurking in lakes. Two tiny to be seen by the human eye, but deadly nonetheless. CNN's John Zarrella reports.
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JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): Eleven-year-old Will Sellars loved the water and being outside. So, naturally, his dad was surprised one weekend when Will didn't feel like doing much and complained of headaches.
STEVE SELLARS, WILL'S FATHER: And then that was on a Saturday. And Sunday morning. And then Monday rushed him to the hospital. And then two days later he's passed away. It's like a nightmare.
ZARRELLA: Will died a little over a week after he went swimming in this lake near Orlando. Health department officials say he's one of three boys to die here in Orlando this summer from a microscopic amoeba that has lived for aeons in the sediment and muck of fresh- water bodies.
DR. KEVIN SHERIN, DIRECTOR, ORANGE CO. HEALTH DEPT.: So this thing is just there, it's lurking like, you know, some deadly thing in the water, which can take our children's lives and we all have to be aware.
ZARRELLA: The amoeba, which attacks and kills the brain, thrives in hot summer months, especially when the water goes above 80 degrees. It is rare. Only 24 cases in the U.S. in the past 20 years. It is almost always fatal. It starts innocently enough, like the flu -- fever, chills, a stiff neck. MANDI SELLARS, WILL'S MOTHER: Acted like the flu. And, just, you never would have suspected that he would passed away just a few days later.
ZARRELLA: And it's not just in Florida. Two people died this summer of it on Lake LBJ in Austin, Texas. In Orlando, the health department has posted signs at dozens of lakes warning people of the danger, warnings that have fallen largely on deaf ears.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We didn't see the warning. Did you see a warning?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I did not see it.
ZARRELLA: Frustrating for health official who know, in the dead of summer, the water is simply too inviting.
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COLLINS: O.J. Simpson in jail. And at the center of the storm, another arrest. And critical arguments headed to court.
A deadly plane crash. A search for answers. Were strong winds a factor? The latest on the investigation.
And Hillary Rodham Clinton's ambitious health plan. It dictates health coverage for all Americans.
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SEN. HILLARY CLINTON, (D) PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: This is not government-run health care.
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COLLINS: The right prescription or a tough pill to swallow? We'll take a look after a quick break.
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COLLINS: Mandatory health insurance for all Americans, the backbone of Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's $110 million health care plan. The goal includes covering the 47 million Americans without health insurance. The proposal would mean a publicly funded health plan. Tax credits would help pay for it. Insurers would no longer be able to deny coverage to anyone deemed a poor health risk. Those happy with their current plans could keep them.
Senator Clinton spoke with CNN's AMERICAN MORNING earlier today.
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SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D-NY), PRES. CANDIDATE: You know, this is not government-run health care. We're not creating any new bureaucracy. We're trying to build on what works and fix what's broken in our system. And that means if you're satisfied with the health care coverage you have, you get to keep it, no questions asked. But if you're one of the 47 million uninsured, or the millions more who can barely afford the coverage they have, or it doesn't cover what they need, you'll be able to go into the same plan that members of Congress have, and you'll get financial help by getting tax credits from the government to be able to afford it in conjunction with your employer.
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ROBERTS: Now some of your critics, and in fact some of your colleagues on the Democratic side are a little skeptical about this whole thing, calling it a giveaway to health insurance companies because of this so-called individual mandate that everyone, as they do with car insurance, would have to have health insurance.
Here's what Senator John Edwards said about that yesterday.
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JOHN EDWARDS (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I don't believe you can sit at a table with drug companies, insurance companies and their lobbyists and negotiate an insurance plan for America.
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ROBERTS: Senator Clinton, you are the biggest recipient among all the candidates of health care dollars. What do you say to people who say that is a give away to the part of the industry that's supporting your campaign?
CLINTON: Well, all of the critique of that I suppose is politics as usual, because the plan, of course, does have both an individual mandate and insurance reform, and I think you have to have both. I'm asking for shared responsibility. Individuals have to do our part, the drug and insurance companies have to change the way they do business, employers have to contribute and the government has to help. I think that's the American way to have everybody working and doing their part and taking responsibility.
And I don't think I'm going to be nominated for insurance woman of the year. I've been taking on the insurance companies and the drug companies for 15 years.
But I also know that we've got to have a plan that reflects what Americans want, and a lot of Americans are very satisfy with the health care that they have. And as far as I know, most of the people who have looked at this on the Democratic side believe that an individual mandate is a very important way of getting to universal coverage. You help people that cannot afford to do it on their own. You help small businesses that cannot afford to make the contributions without a tax credit. You limit the amount that an individual has to pay as a percentage of income, and you also reform the system by modernizing it through electronic medical records and making it more efficient. So I feel very good and quite confident that the parts of the plan that I have put together will find a lot of favor among people who know what we have to do to get to universal coverage.
ROBERTS: There are some people who are critical still of this idea of mandating this individual mandate. The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, for example, has declared it a war on the middle class.
But further to that, your cost estimate is of $110 billion. Can you hold it to that cost? how do you know that you're not just going to develop and create here another huge entitlement that is going to grow with double-digit inflation?
CLINTON: Well, because we're also going to control costs by doing things like electronic medical records, which is estimated would save us $77 billion a year. I mean, John, it's just hard to believe that 16 percent of our economy is still in the pen and paper era instead of being part of the 21st century, like everything else, from finance to anything you can do on the Internet.
So there's a lot we can do. Chronic-care management. Ten percent of Americans account for 70 percent of our health care costs. We can certainly do a better job incentivizing prevention. You know, why would we pay to have a diabetic's foot amputated, but not pay to send him to a podiatrist so that you can avoid that expense. There's so much we can do better, and I'm excited and looking forward to doing that.
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COLLINS: Other universal health care proposals have come from Democratic presidential candidates. Senators John Edwards and Barack Obama. Obama's plan would not require mandatory health coverage. Criticism of Clinton's plan is already coming in from Republican presidential candidates Rudy Giuliani and Mitt Romney.
COLLINS: Make sure your voice is heard on health care and other issues. You can go to CNN.com/youtube debate and post your questions for the Republican presidential candidates. That debate, Wednesday, November 28th. Your voice will be heard, only on CNN, your home for politics.
Sports memorabilia and money. O.J. Simpson faces a new legal fight with the Goldmans.
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COLLINS: New this morning. The college student who was tasered after refusing to stop asking senator John Kerry questions. Now Andrew Myers is headed to court facing charges of disturbing the peace and resisting police.
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ANDREW MYERS, U. OF FLORIDA STUDENT: Get the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) up off me, man! I didn't do anything! Don't (EXPLETIVE DELETED) tase me, bro! Don't tase me, man! I didn't do anything.
Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Ow! Let me go! Let me go!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get back!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No! why are you doing that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my God!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Back up! Back up!
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Why are you doing this? Let him go!
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COLLINS: The event started pretty calm. Look at these shots, though. Kerry was speaking to students at the university of Florida. Then came the Q&A. Then some things got ugly. Meyer hammering Kerry, wanting to know why he never contested the 2004 election, and refusing to leave the mic.
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MYERS: I'll ask my question. Thank you very much. He's been talking for two hours. I'll ask my question. Thank you very much.
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COLLINS: Kerry's request to answer the questions were ignored. Police attempts to escort Myers failed. Then the scuffle and the tasering. Now everything is under investigation.
Next hour we're going to be talking with someone from the University of Florida about what happened and where the investigation goes from here.
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COLLINS: Ah, traffic. Who doesn't love it? The absolute worst cities to drive in, still ahead.
And a spectacular car crash last year in Malibu. And now a passenger gets a jail sentence.
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COLLINS: Sports memorabilia still an important source of income for one-time football star O.J. Simpson.
CNN's David Mattingly has a look.
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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the same way he racked up yards as a running back, people familiar with his assets say O.J. Simpson counts his annual gains by the thousands.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you profiting from this at all in signing these autographs?
O.J. SIMPSON: I'm not doing it for my health.
MATTINGLY: O.J. remains a popular figure at sports memorabilia shows where public appearances can be lucrative.
ROGER SANDLER, PHOTOJOURNALIST: They say hello, how are you. He signs the jersey. If he has time, he'll say a few words with them. I've seen 30, 40 people in line waiting to talk to him. It's amazing.
MATTINGLY (on camera): But what does that mean in dollars? Attorneys for the Ron Goldman family say it's a mystery. They believe O.J. could be making up to a quarter a million a year in added income, but they're not sure. They've been unsuccessfully trying to claim the money in court as part of their $33 million civil judgment against him. But without court backing, they say keeping track of O.J.'s income is almost impossible.
DAVID COOK, GOLDMAN COLLECTIONS ATTORNEY: You need to be Johnny- on-the-spot. You need to be there to intercept that money when it goes into Mr. Simpson's hands. And it could be in any one of 50 states here. And -- so, that's tough.
MATTINGLY (voice-over): Goldman attorney David Cook says O.J.'s Las Vegas arrest raises new questions about the value of O.J. belongings, like personal photos and clothing worn during his trial, all of it potential income for the former star.
COOK: We found, on our own with a couple hours of work, close to 24 separate individual dealers selling this stuff. And again, it's unclear whether they own it themselves or Mr. Simpson put it there on consignment or it's his product.
MATTINGLY: In 2004, when O.J. was accused of hiding income from the Goldmans, he was defiant.
SIMPSON: If I have to work to pay them, I won't work. It's that simple.
MATTINGLY: And for the most part, he doesn't have to work. His net worth is estimated at over $3 million. There's the house O.J. owns in south Florida, purchased for a $500,000 in 2000, it has since doubled in value, all protected from seizure by Florida law. Then, Goldman attorneys say there are the O.J. pensions from his years in pro football and in the movies. Plus, a personal fund, collectively paying about $400,000 a year. This is also protected by state and federal law. The Goldmans can't touch it.
So, their attorneys will be back in a California court Tuesday, seeking the items seized in Las Vegas and the money O.J. may be continuing to earn from his celebrity.
David Mattingly, CNN, Atlanta. (END VIDEOTAPE)
COLLINS: A Las Vegas jail cell, this is home for O.J. Simpson. The latest in his case, a preview of what's going on in court in just a few minutes.
And a rowdy college Q&A. An outspoken student, police armed with tasers. Up next, the outcome.
And will the Fed take a butterknife or a meat cleaver to a key interest rate? A rate cut widely anticipated in just a few hours. Why your wallet will be smiling.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A Thai airliner that crashed after veering off a runway in Phuket Sunday, killed nearly 100 people. Our i- Reporters captured images from the scene.
Ted Gugelyk sent this photo of emergency workers at the site looking for survivors. He says debris was scattered 200 yards from the aircraft. I-Reporter Manoj Rana rode his motorcycle to the airport and took these shots. You can see smoke pouring out of the plane's fuselage while people work near the tail section in the rain. You can also see lots of debris near the plane and emergency vehicles lined up at the site. William McConaghy took this aerial photo last September of the runway at Phuket Airport.
And you can share your pictures and video with us through i- Report by going to our Web site, at CNN.com.
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