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Deadly Amoeba; Miracle Ending; Born in an SUV

Aired September 28, 2007 - 07:00   ET

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JOHN ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: Breaking news, miracle ending.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She's here and she's alive, and that in itself is a miracle.

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ROBERTS: A husband speaking out this morning about his wife, lost for over a week, found trapped in a wreck at the bottom of a ravine.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The only way that I was able to not crumple up in a little corner was to think maybe she didn't want to be around me for a while.

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ROBERTS: Instant hurricane. Lorenzo suddenly grows right before landfall overnight.

Plus, born in an SUV? Baby number nine delivered on the floorboards. Her eight siblings in the car. Meet the whole, big, happy family on this AMERICAN MORNING.

What a terrific story. Good morning. Welcome back. And thanks for joining us on this Friday, the 28th of September. I'm John Roberts.

KIRAN CHETRY, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Kiran Chetry. They may need a new car.

ROBERTS: A bigger one at least, yes.

CHETRY: Can't get 11 in there.

Well, we begin with an incredible survival tale to tell you about this morning. A woman who was in critical condition -- this is Murphy's Law.

ROBERTS: Need me to take over?

CHETRY: Yes, please. ROBERTS: She was in critical condition, lucky to be alive after missing for eight days. There is a picture of the car down there in the ravine. Police found Tanya rider's car on its side and in a total wreck down a steep ravine off of a highway south of Seattle. Police say it plunged 20 feet, was buried in deep brush. Rescuers had to cut the roof off to get her out. They found her after tracing her cell phone signal. It was just in the nick of time for the victim, and as it turns out, for her husband as well. He talked about how he was on the police radar as a potential suspect in her disappearance earlier on AMERICAN MORNING.

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CHETRY: I imagine how relieved you must be this morning. How is your wife, Tanya, doing?

TOM RIDER, WIFE RESCUED FROM RAVINE: She's still in critical condition. They're afraid they're going to have to take one of her legs. She's fighting for her life. And the scariest part is that she didn't want me to put her under my insurance because she just started a job and she was going to get her own.

So I don't know what's going to happen from here. All I know is that she's here and she's alive, and that in itself is a miracle.

CHETRY: It really is. Tell our viewers just a little bit about how she got in that crash, and then how long it took her to be rescued.

RIDER: Well, I don't know exactly when the crash happened. All I know is she was on her way home from work and didn't get there. And I reported her missing to Belleview (ph) police. They took the report right away, but found evidence, video of her leaving work, getting into her own car. So they told me I'd have to file in King County because she was leaving their jurisdiction.

So King County I called up, and the first operator I talked to on the first day I tried to report it flat denied to start a missing person's report, because she didn't meet the criteria.

CHETRY: Wow. So you think there was delays in finding her because of just red tape?

RIDER: I know. I know there was delays because of red tape. They didn't start...

CHETRY: Now, eventually, it was her cell phone, right? The cell phone signal? How did you get them to look into that?

RIDER: I basically hounded them until they started a case. And then, of course, I was the first focal point, so I tried to get myself out of the way as quickly as possible. I let them search the house. I told them they didn't have to have a warrant for anything, just ask. This morning they called and asked for me to come sign for phone records so they could try that, and I came and I signed, and they asked me to take a polygraph test, and I, of course, immediately agreed.

And by the time he was done explaining the polygraph test to me, the detective burst into the room with a cell tower map and a big circle on it, and they started explaining for about 30 to 45 seconds about a blip they were picking up on the cell tower, and then finally announced that they had found her vehicle.

CHETRY: Are you pretty sure that she's going to be okay in the long-run?

RIDER: She's alive after eight days. If God was going to take her, he would have taken her before that.

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CHETRY: What a way to put it, right? Well, Tom Rider also says that his wife did suffer kidney failure and dehydration for being trapped so long, but he is sure she's going to be OK.

And the other unbelievable part to this story is that her cell phone battery lasted eight days.

ROBERTS: She is so fortunate. But he also said that she may need to have a leg amputated, right, as a result of that. Too bad. But at least she's alive. That's the important part.

A new push this morning to fix the problems causing airport delays. Crowded runways making this one of the worst years for airlines getting their flights to arrive on time, even depart on time. I mean, that's a real problem, sitting on the runway for hours. President Bush is putting his transportation secretary on the case, flying her to New York to begin looking for solutions.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRES. OF THE UNITED STATES: A lot of our air travelers are not only inconvenienced, their, in some cases, they're just not being treated fairly, and there's a lot of anger amongst our citizens.

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ROBERTS: President Bush says that he is working on the problem, beginning with the three busy New York City airports where congestion is the worst in the country and has a ripple effect across the nation.

Coming up in just a few minutes, we're going to speak to the woman who's leading the effort to get an airline passenger bill of rights and get her take on this new plan -- Kiran.

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CHETRY: Well, we've got some new numbers out. Doesn't look good in terms of sales of new homes, dropping to a new low now. Ali Velshi is here with more on that.

Is he? Where is Ali? There you are!

ALI VELSHI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There I am.

CHETRY: Just in the nick of time.

VELSHI: Yes, well, I don't know if we'll get a recovery in the housing market just in the nick of time. We're at the lowest level in new home sales since the year 2000. New home sales, remember we're talking about two numbers -- new home sales and existing home sales. New home sales are a much smaller part of the pie, but that's the part of the pie that employs lots and lots of people. So existing home sales, if the house doesn't sell, it kind of just affects you. When a new home isn't built, it affects you and construction workers and all sorts of other services.

New home sales in August were down 21 percent compared to last August, and the median price of a new home in the United States is about $225,000. That's the price at which half of all homes sell for more and half of all homes sell for less. It's not the same as an average, but the median is down 7.4 percent compared to last year. So it remains a buyer's market right now, assuming that you believe that in the long-term, housing prices will go up again. Some people say that could take another year or year and a half, and I've heard some estimates that it could be even longer than that. But if you've got no hurry and you've got some cash, now might be the time to buy a house -- Kiran.

CHETRY: All right, so it's good for a very small group of people, first-time home buyers who aren't trying to sell anything of their own right now. Ali, thanks a lot -- John.

ROBERTS: Coming up on 12 minutes after the hour.

It's been scary summer for some swimmers. Six children have now died after swimming in freshwater lakes. The culprit, an amoeba that enters through the nasal cavity and attacks the brain.

CNN's chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is following the story live from Washington this morning.

Sanjay, this is frightening, because it's fatal in almost every case.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, it's remarkable, and the numbers have gone up significantly, John, as you may know. There's only about 23 cases over the last decade, but then six cases just over this last year, as you mentioned. So the numbers seem to be going up, not sure exactly why, if it's the warmer temperatures, the heatwaves that we've been having.

The problem seems to be, John, is these sort of stagnant bodies of water, and you get this sediment at the bottom of the water, it gets kicked up for some reason. The amoebas like to hang out in that sediment. It gets kicked up and finds its way through someone's nasal cavities subsequently, as you mentioned, into the brain.

Now there are several different types of bodies of waters, if you will, that appear to be the highest risk. Freshwater lakes, for example, again, stagnant hot springs, poorly maintained swimming pools as well, meaning low chlorine. And even in the soil. This is a ubiquitous amoeba. It's found everywhere, and amoeba's the single- cell parasite. And it typically is just not very much of a problem, but six people have gotten the infection. Six people have subsequently died, and that's in comparison to 23 over the last decade. So it does seem to be getting worse, John.

ROBERTS: What are the signs that you have been affected by this amoeba?

GUPTA: You know, that's an interesting thing. For the most part, it seems very much just like meningitis, and if you don't know what meningitis is, basically that's an infection or an inflammation of the outer lining of the brain. So people can get awful headaches, they can get neck stiffness, they may get extreme sensitivity to the light.

What we know is, specifically with these amoebas, is that they tend to get in through the nasal cavity and affect the olfactory nerve, and that's a nerve that controls smell, so that might be affected. And then it's very progressive. You may get symptoms within a day or so after swimming in the lake. It could be up to two weeks later. And then it just continues to get worse. And the antibiotics, nothing really seems to help with this and that's why it's so fatal.

ROBERTS: So here's the thing then, by the time that you start to show symptoms, good chance is you're already dead?

GUPTA: With this particular parasitic infection, yes. There's not very good treatment for that. Yes, and unlike bacterial infections, which you can give antibiotics, or even viral infections, which will sort of run their course, an amoeba actually progressively sort of attacks the brain. So it is rare. And I think I need to emphasize, you know, we're talking about an amoeba that's found in many places around the country, around the world, and the number of infections still pretty rare. But if you get it, it's very tough to beat.

ROBERTS: So real quick, Sanjay, nose clips or something officials suggest that people use going into the water to prevent infection, because it does go in through the nose, but is that enough? And when you consider that we have now infections in Lake Havasu, Arizona, down in Lubbock, Texas, and as well in Florida, I mean, this seems to be a nationwide risk.

GUPTA: Yes. It does appear to be more affected in warmer climates, in warm-water lakes, for sure. Nose clips may sound silly as far as preventing this life-threatening infection, but they actually work by all accounts in people that we've talked to. Trying not to kick up that sediment, that seems to be a big thing. You can swim in these things, wear the nose clips, don't kick up the sediment if you can avoid that.

ROBERTS: Still, it sounds like a really incredible risk. Obviously we're going to be hearing a lot more about this. It's attracted the attention of the CDC.

Sanjay Gupta, thanks very much. We'll see you see you soon on another topic -- Kiran.

GUPTA: Thanks, John.

CHETRY: The White House was getting to work on the nation's flight delay crisis. Is it going to be enough for passengers who have been stranded on planes, late for vacation? We're going to talk to a woman leading the charge for a passenger bill of rights.

Also, the message is clear, at least on this Southern California billboard. It promotes extramarital affairs. "life is short, have an affair." And then it gives the Web site. Well, it's certainly getting plenty of attention. Some people up in arms. Much more on that ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

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ROBERTS: Coming up now to 19 minutes after the hour.

Many people will agree that flying can be an absolute nightmare. It's actually more surprising when a flight isn't delayed than when it takes off on time. Now the president is stepping in. The White House acknowledges that January to July were the worst months on record for on-time flights. Almost 30 percent of all flights nationwide canceled or substantially delayed. The president has asked his secretary of transportation to fix the system.

Well, our next guest got stuck on a delayed flight last night, but the most famous one happened back in December, when she was stuck for nine hours.

Kate Hanni from the Coalition for an Airline Passenger Bill of Rights joins us this morning.

Good morning and welcome. It's good to see you in person.

KATE HANNI, COALITION FOR AN AIRLINE PASSENGER BILL OF RIGHTS: Good morning. Thank you.

ROBERTS: So the president has stepped into the fray here.

HANNI: He has.

ROBERTS: Is he going to solve the problem? Is he going to save the air traffic system? What do you think?

HANNI: Well, what I heard him say was that he wanted her to investigate, come up with a system and see if there was something that could be done. I didn't hear the action words that I would have wanted to hear. ROBERTS: And those action words are?

HANNI: Put a timeframe for deployment, figure out a way to let people off the planes.

ROBERTS: Mr. President, with all due respect, I think you should call the executives of the airlines in right now and tell them to fix the problem.

So you think there should be a summit?

HANNI: Yes.

ROBERTS: He gets people together in one room and says, let's -- by the time that we leave this room, we're going to have a solution to this?

HANNI: Absolutely. There's always a solution.

ROBERTS: Now Mary Peters and the acting FAA administrator yesterday in a press conference said they would begin attacking the problem by looking at the congestion here in New York City and finding out some way to deal with that. Take a quick listen to what they said, and then I want to ask you something about it.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: More people are flying than ever, and more smaller planes are carrying them. And compounding this, the FAA's current system of taxes and fees provides little incentive to use the air space efficiently.

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ROBERTS: So they're saying that there aren't the measures in place right now to force the airlines to make a difference, but if they're only looking at congestion on good flying days in New York, are they leaving out a whole other component, which is was kept you on the runway for nine hours in Austin last December, which is weather?

HANNI: Well, actually, it wasn't just weather. What it was a management decision that the airline was able to make not to allow any of the 130 jets to go to gates, because where our planes were, there was no bad weather. We were diverted out of an area of bad weather but put down in good weather. And so the airlines have carte blanche to make any decision they want with their passengers, based on whatever financial benefit it gives to them at our cost, and we've become an obstacle to them.

ROBERTS: So do you think that there still needs to be, in addition to what the president is doing, an airline passengers bill of rights, to force these airlines to put down certain guidelines, I mean, to show them that there will be penalties if they continue to operate like this?

HANNI: Absolutely. There needs to be civil penalties, and these practices of overscheduling flights in a short time slot based on the best possible conditions that never show up need to be exposed as a deceptive business practice, and then they need to impose civil penalties for those deceptive business practices.

ROBERTS: So how are you coming along with your campaign here? Last week we had you on, you were down there in Washington with that simulation of what it was like to be on a flight for nine hours with overflowing toilets, and screaming babies, and no food and no water. Did you get any action out of that?

HANNI: It was remarkable. I didn't know what was going to happen, and I was very nervous beforehand. We had four congressmen actually come and come into the plane. We had one sit in the plane. It was very stinky, just like it was on our plane...

ROBERTS: But did you get their attention?

HANNI: We got their attention. In fact, we got deplanement added to the House language, and we didn't have it before that day. And now the Senate is listening, and they're very nervous, and the airlines are ratcheting up their rhetoric right now, because they didn't think we'd get it. Their lobby is so large, they thought no way is this coalition going to get what they want, and we are, we are getting it, because we are not going away. We're saying put the passengers first.

ROBERTS: Well, we're going to keep following this fight. We thank you for being here. Again, good to see you in person, Kate Hanni for the Coalition for an Airline Passengers Bill of Rights. Good to see you -- Kiran.

HANNI: Thank you.

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CHETRY: Also, some people in Southern California hoping that the life of this billboard is short, promoting extramarital affairs, and some say it's a blight on the landscape. We're going to have much more on the people behind it, the Web site, and whether they have any takers. That's ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

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CHETRY: An over the top billboard is drawing protests in L.A. It's an ad for extramarital affairs, and the company out of Canada, out of Toronto actually, an Internet dating agency called ashleymadison.com, making no apologies. Their Web site promises to connect people in a relationship with other people in a relationship.

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DARREN MORGANSTERN, FOUNDER OF ASHLEYMORGAN.COM: Lives of quiet misery, quiet desperation, and they're looking for something outside the relationship. They want to connect with somebody who is like- minded, who is also looking to potentially stray on their spouse. We feel in our hearts, minds, and pocketbooks that people who are going to stray, they're going to do it anyway, no matter what, with or without us.

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CHETRY: So they figure they'll help it along a bit. A pitch on their Web site says "When monogamy becomes monotony." Residents in the West Hollywood neighborhood where this ad is up do not like it. Many of they say it's immoral and they are fighting to have it removed, and you know, the power of the pulpit can sometimes work, because you remember the other ad we had on, where it said "life's short, get a divorce?" People did not like that at all. Eventually, because of zoning, issues it was taken down.

ROBERTS: I don't think this one's going to last long either.

Now a story coming up next half hour that you just can't miss. dad thought he had time for coffee before racing his pregnant wife and their eight children to the hospital. Well, not quite.

CHETRY: You don't have time. There is a look right now of the whole brood. Congratulations to all of you. Quite an unexpected delivery. Certainly wasn't a hospital room. No way. It was that Ford Expedition. Hello! We're going to meet the entire family. Look how chipper and wide awake they look for nine children.

ROBERTS: You have nine children, you've got to have a smile.

We'll be right back with their story and more on AMERICAN MORNING. Stay with us.

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ROBERTS: And here's a picture this morning of Detroit, at the Detroit River. Thanks to our friends at WDIV for that. Looks like a lovely day. Not a cloud in sight.

Good morning, welcome back. Thanks for joining us on this AMERICAN MORNING. It's Friday, the September 28th, 28th of September. It's been a long week. I'm John Roberts.

CHETRY: It is the September 28th. There is not going to be another one like it in 2007.

ROBERTS: I'll tell you, Bruce Springsteen is playing at "The Today Show" today and it's right in front of where I live and they were setting up the stage all night, clang, clang, clang. I didn't get much sleep.

CHETRY: Earplugs, that's the key. It will be boring, though, keep watching us.

Also new this morning, a husband speaking out after his wife turns up alive eight days after she was missing. She had crashed her car into the bottom of a 20-foot ravine. No one had heard from her. Police were ready to give him a polygraph test when they finally detected a cell phone signal that led them to the wreckage. They were able to cut her out of that car. Tom Rider says his wife is badly hurt, she's dehydrated and there are concerns she might lose a leg because she was trapped so long in one position. He spoke about it earlier on AMERICAN MORNING.

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TOM RIDER, CRASH VICTIM'S HUSBAND: She's still in critical condition. They're afraid they're going to have to take one of her legs. She's fighting for her life. She's alive after eight days. If God was going to take her, he would have taken her before that.

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CHETRY: Well, he also told us that police were inching close to possibly naming him a suspect. He just wanted to make sure that he was taken off and that all the attention was taken away from him so they could continue the search. In fact, he says he was seated and ready to take a polygraph when the news that they found her was brought to him. So just an amazing story. And, you know, we'll keep you updated on her condition. Right now she's still listed as critical, but we're going to hear how she's being treated, and hopefully, he'll make a speedy recovery.

Also a showdown is heating up in Washington over expanding health care for kids. 18 Republicans joined on to the Democrats in the Senate to pass the bill, which would expand the state children's health insurance program, despite President Bush's threats to veto it. He says it will be too expensive, that it will cover people that don't need it that can afford it themselves. The Senate has the votes to override this veto, but there are not enough votes in the house. So, we'll keep you posted on that as well.

Attorneys for Michael Bell are preparing today to take his case to juvenile court. The last of the so-called Jena Six is now out of jail after the local prosecutor dropped his challenge to moving the matter out of the adult court. It happened just a week after the 15,000-some protesters showed up in the small Louisiana town of Jena in a civil rights march that was centered on his cause.

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REV. AL SHARPTON, CIVIL RIGHTS ACTIVIST: Now is not the time for high-fiving. It's a time for contemplation and saying that we must have a nation that has one law for everybody. There should not be different laws for Michael Bell than anyone his age, of a different color, and that's why we came to Jena. And let Jena represent equal protection under the law.

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CHETRY: Well, the teenager, Michael Bell, was tried as an adult and found guilty for attacking a white classmate in Appeals Court then tossed out that conviction. John. ROBERTS: Now to developments this morning in Myanmar, where the military government is cracking down on massive national demonstrations. The government has cut off Internet access today. That has been the main link to the outside world as people there post cell phone video and blog accounts of the violence.

But there is new video coming into us today. If you look at the very center of a protest scene here, you see a man fall to the pavement there. That apparently is a Japanese journalist being shot dead, falling to the ground? It was supplied by a group called the Democratic Voice of Burma. Our CNN's state department correspondent Zain Verjee is here now with more on this, and you know, they just seem to be able to do whatever they want without anybody being able to intervene there.

ZAIN VERJEE, CNN, STATE DEPARTMENT CORRESPONDENT: It seems so. The world, though, is trying to intervene, making some pretty strong verbal statements and attacks on the government and the military rulers in Myanmar, telling them, look, just end this crackdown. But the military rulers are defiant and determined.

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VERJEE (voice-over): Soldiers reportedly firing at peaceful protesters, killing and wounding, beating up and arresting Buddhist monks who are leading the huge charge against repressive military rule. From one eyewitness in a hotel...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The military guys went upstairs... and started beating one or like five or ten people and then killed one of them and left them on the floor.

VERJEE: From another eyewitness on the street...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: In one corner they got around maybe five or seven people and started beating them so bad for almost five minutes and then they took them and they put them back in trucks; and there was just one guy laying on the floor and he was dead.

VERJEE: Monasteries have been raided, monks locked down, unable to move. International media banned from the country, limiting pictures of the carnage. But dramatic images keep pouring out. Shot on cell phones and smuggled out on the Internet.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Freedom now!

VERJEE: Triggering protests around the world, from Thailand, Sydney, Tokyo and the Philippines. The military rulers are unable to control the information revolution.

VINCENT BROSSEL, REPORTERS WITHOUT BORDERS: They are using very old style propaganda things and compared to the Burmese journalists and activists who are using Internet and blogs and youtube and all those sorts of technological ways to put their video and images and the information is going out very quickly. VERJEE: The international community has condemned the violence. The U.S. has slapped new sanctions on the military government, freezing the assets of 14 senior officials and banning them from doing business in the U.S.. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice continues to speak out.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: I can just assure you that the United States is determined to keep an international focus on the travesty that is taking place in Yangon.

VERJEE: It's unclear how much bloodier this may get or what the outcome will be as both sides face off.

BROSSEL: The government has no intention to stop this crackdown, and the demonstrators at the same time have a lot of courage, and they have been waiting for many years to demonstrate and to be able to say what they think about this government.

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VERJEE (on-screen): And Myanmar's military rulers, John, have allowed a U.N. envoy to come into the country and discuss the situation.

ROBERTS: Tell us about the monks and the saffron robes that we see on the streets of Yangon. And what kind of power do they have to mobilize the people?

VERJEE: Actually, that's really interesting. I mean, Myanmar is a deeply religious country. It's mostly Buddhists, about 90%, and you've got about 400,000 monks in Myanmar. They're very, very well respected. They're almost revered, and they really have a significant moral authority. So if they're out on the streets, people listen to what they say. People want to support them and do what they do. The reason that the government is so worried about them is because they have a sort of brotherhood. They really have an ability to organize and mobilize people. There have been reports, though, John, in the last day or so that people are seeing less and less monks out on the street. So the question now really is without having as many of the monks out there, will people really get out?

ROBERTS: And obviously, not everyone respecting the monks, because the military's gone and raided those monasteries, and we have reports that some of the monks were beaten as well. Zain Verjee for us this morning. Zain, good to see you. Thanks. Kiran.

VERJEE: Thank you.

CHETRY: All right. Thank you. Well, Lorenzo making news this morning, becoming a hurricane overnight and making landfall. Rob Marciano tracking extreme weather for us from the Weather Center. Hey, Rob.

ROB MARCIANO, CNN, METEOROLOGIST: Hey, Kiran. This thing was percolating there in the southwestern gulf for days and then all of a sudden, boom, tropical storm, then boom, hurricane. And now boom, onshore, between Veracruz and Tampico, just south of (INAUDIBLE). It is now back to tropical storm status, but it certainly flared up in a hurry. Waters there are toasty. Always a concern this time of year. Just like what we saw with Humberto. Here's Karen, kind of getting torn apart here.

So it's weakening. The forecast track has changed a little bit. Look at the last couple of days here as we put the cone of uncertainty up. Get these maps to change for me, please, at some point. Anyway, it's supposed to go northwest. And then the last couple day's kind of taking it a little bit further to the west. There you see that. So we'll watch it. It may be torn apart completely and not survive, but that jog to the west certainly keeps the U.S. still in place, and we'll watch that for you. John, back to you.

ROBERTS: All right. Rob, thanks very much. Coming up to 40 minutes to the top of the hour.

People with cancer, do they have a greater risk of their relationships ending? Sadly, it looks like it's true. Dr. Sanjay Gupta joins us next with more on this AMERICAN MORNING. Stay with us.

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CHETRY: And welcome back to the most news in the morning. There is a new study now about your health and how it affects your marriage. Researchers say that if you're diagnosed with a certain kind of cancer, you could be more likely to get divorced. We're paging Dr. Gupta for more who's in our Washington Bureau this morning. It's like adding insult to injury. You're already going through a devastating disease, and then it may cause your personal relationships to fall apart, as well.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN, CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes. This was really interesting, Kiran. It's long been believed that if a woman gets breast cancer, for example, her husband is more likely to leave her. In fact, this study found the exact opposite to be true. Those marriages actually stronger, the divorce rates were lower.

But some interesting facts emerge as they conducted this study over 17 years. They followed 215,000 cancer survivors, looking specifically at the relationships. And what they found was that there was two types of cancers in particular that really did seem to increase divorce rates. They were cervical cancer in women and testicular cancer in men and the numbers weren't subtle in terms of just how much of an impact it had with regards to cancer and divorce. Cervical cancer almost a 40 percent increase divorce rate as compared to people who didn't have cervical cancer, and in regards to testicular cancer, about a 20 percent increased divorce rate.

So again, significant findings here in terms of the impact specifically on marriage. Now, both of these cancers are very survivable. You know, testicular cancer, you can have up to a 90 percent survival rate. Lance Armstrong's probably the best-known testicular cancer survivor. He got it; he won the tour seven times after that. Cervical cancer if caught early could have a 90 percent survival rate as well. So people can live a long time with these cancers.

Now the question obviously a lot of people ask is why the increased divorce rate? They weren't sure about this, Kiran, but they had a couple of theories. These types of cancers may affect intimacy more. Because they affect people at a younger age, the bonds of their marriage may not have been cemented as strongly. And also, cervical cancer is often caused by a sexually transmitted disease, sexually transmitted virus. The question is was there infidelity? These are some theories, anyway, Kiran, as to why that may be.

CHETRY: Very interesting. Sanjay, thank you.

GUPTA: Thank you.

CHETRY: Also, by the way, join Sanjay for his own show this weekend "House Call." He takes a look at the most common mistakes that doctors can make and also some solutions for America's health insurance crisis. It airs Saturday and Sunday, 8:30 in the morning right here on CNN.

ROBERTS: A woman is rushing to the hospital to give birth to her ninth child while eight others are with her in the SUV. Does she make it? We'll talk to the parents of this big, happy family, nine strong now, ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

ROBERT: It's 46 minutes after the hour, almost 48 minutes after the hour now. Ali Velshi here "Minding your Business." What have you got for us today?

ALI VELSHI "MINDING YOUR BUSINESS": I got resumes. I got some good news finally for you. It's a bit of a buyer's market if you're looking for a job. Unemployment rates are still low and there's a lot of change in the economy right now, so I wanted to go through some resume do's and don'ts with you. We were consulting with some recruiters and talking about what to do if you're putting a resume up. Here's some standard advice we got -- be specific about your achievements on your resume. Don't just name your job. A lot of people don't know what you do. Give facts and figures, specifically what you did for your company and how, and keep your resumes tight.

There still has to be a very good reason to have a resume that's more than a page. Some of the don'ts they listed were to avoid using empty jargon and sparingly use buzzwords and show things rather than tell. Describe what you've done rather than say that you did it. I wanted to list some of those buzz words. There's some fantastic ones out there that people seem to use very regularly. Here are a few of the top five to avoid. Don't call yourself a problem-solver; don't say that you're motivated or creative. Everybody's apparently a team player. And we all should be detail-oriented. In fact, one person said the best way to show that you're detail-oriented. In fact, what one person said is the best to show that you're detail oriented is to make sure your resume is absolutely correct. We're going to be talking actually at length about this weekend on "On Your Money" which you can see right here on CNN, Saturday at 1:00 p.m. Eastern and Sunday at 3:00 p.m. Eastern.

ROBERTS: Looking forward to it.

CHETRY: No typos.

VELSHI: That would be a good indication that you're detail- oriented that, that you don't have typos on your resume.

CHETRY: Exactly. And unlike Elle Woods from "Legally Blonde," it should not be pink and scented.

VELSHI: Just regular plain paper, one page will do just fine.

ROBERTS: Ali, thanks very much. Looking forward to your show.

Also coming up this weekend at CNN NEWSROOM, you've probably been trying to keep up with all the toy recalls this year, but have you thought also about testing your kids for lead? One mother did and was surprised at the results. Now she started looking at a lot of other things in her house besides the toy box.

Also, Ebay, Craig's list, just two of the online sites where you can buy merchandise, but why shell out cold, hard cash? We'll tell you where you can get free stuff on the web. Plus this.

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ROBERTS: You have seen them marching in Myanmar, standing up to the military dictators. Just who are the Buddhist monks and how much power do they carry? They're our "Faces of Faith" this weekend. So wake up, grab some coffee, get informed with CNN Saturday and Sunday morning with Betty Nguyen and T.J. Holmes, beginning tomorrow, 7:00 a.m. Eastern. Kiran.

CHETRY: And coming up, we have a real treat for you. This is a woman who gave birth to eight children. You'd think that number nine would be a relatively routine delivery. Oh, no, not for our next guests, Dave and Sherry. They were actually on the way to the hospital, but the baby did not wait. They're going to explain what happened and how they did it on the side of the road. What I mean is deliver the baby on the side of the road. We're going to talk with the dad, the mom. We're going to talk to Caleb, Judy, Chelsea, Makiah, get some more microphones because there's Colton, Brooklyn, Alexeia and Chase, and they're all outside their home in West Virginia. See you guys in a second.

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CHETRY: Welcome back. Well, after giving birth to eight children, you'd think number nine would be relatively routine. Well, that certainly wasn't the case for Dave and Sherry Harrah. They were on their way to the hospital. She had contractions all night, and that little baby Carly. She doesn't even know how much confusion that she caused her family, as she blissfully sleeps this morning. She just couldn't wait. So she joins mom and dad, Sherry and Dave, as well as her siblings. And there they are this morning -- Caleb, Judy, Chelsea, Makiah, Colton, Brooklyn, Alexia and Chase all outside their home in West Virginia this morning. Thanks for being with us.

SHERRY HARRAH: Hello.

CHETRY: Hi, everyone. OK. Sherry, first of all, walk us through what happened. You were having contractions all night. This was Monday night. Then you said to your husband, you've got to get me to the hospital. And then he had to get a cup of coffee first? Is he in trouble this morning?

HARRAH: Oh, yes. First thing he did in the morning was put on a cup of coffee.

CHETRY: What about the morning that you went into labor? Were you guys in a big rush and panicked, thinking you had to get there? Did you think you had time?

HARRAH: I was, but he wasn't. He was taking it calm like he always does. I had my daughter wake him up and he come in for some coffee that morning. He just kind of moseyed in, said I guess we could get the kids on the school bus at 6:30 and then take it like it was supposed to be planned. I was like no, we need to go, we need to go right now.

CHETRY: So Dave, what happened after that? You changed your mind about getting the kids on the bus? You packed everyone in the car and start heading to the hospital?

DAVE HARRAH: Yes.

SHERRY HARRAH: After much persistence.

DAVE HARRAH: We got them in about as quick as we could get them in.

CHETRY: All right. So then what happened? You're driving to the hospital. It's about 25 miles away, Dave, and what happened?

DAVE HARRAH: Well, when we got about halfway, up there near that Wal-Mart store, she kind of had another major pain, I call it, and grabbed a hold of the arm rest on there, you know, and kind of raised herself back there, and said "here it comes." And I said, well, can you hold on for a few minutes and we'll be there, so.

CHETRY: And Sherry, you couldn't hold on. So when he pulled to the side of the road, walk us through what happened.

SHERRY HARRAH: Well, actually we got up (inaudible) I knew I wasn't going to make it and my water broke like right before that, and I started screaming, you know, that my water -- I said, oh, god, here it comes, here comes the water. And it wasn't shortly after that she was already coming out and I was still fully dressed. So I'm screaming at him, and I'm trying to get my, you know, my bottoms off, and next thing I know, she falls on the floor. And it's dark, and the way the road is, he swerved about the time she came out.

So she kind of rolled up against the doorway. So I couldn't find her, so I'm sitting here screaming, you know, "where's my baby?" And so he pulls off the side of the road and my son jumps out of the side of the car and he's panicked and crying, he's scared and he didn't know what to do. So he's running up, you know, like a cheerleader up the sidelines, trying to get, you know. I don't know. It was so chaotic. So I finally get her up and I'm cleaning her off and everything and then I started screaming at him because I don't know what he's thinking about pulling over. So I'm like just go, just go, just get in the car and let's go. So, I finally get them all back in the car and we head on to the hospital.

CHETRY: You're recounting this and it just seems so unbelievable. You guys are pretty calm about it. So you made your way to the hospital, you had one of your daughters run in there and tell the nurses what happened. So all's well that ends well. Carly's totally healthy and everything was fine when you got there?

SHERRY HARRAH: Oh, yes. She did great. She actually, you know, was crying and everything. So I just kind of made sure -- you know, that was my biggest fear, if she fell maybe there was something wrong with her. But they said that she did great. They didn't believe my daughter when she went in. My daughter...

CHETRY: It is an unbelievable story. It really is.

SHERRY HARRAH: My daughter --

CHETRY: You guys have a brand new Expedition, right? And it seated your family before. Can you get everyone in now?

SHERRY HARRAH: No. Well, we're still -- that's the thing, if we had been pulled over, we probably would have gotten in trouble because it still only seats eight. So it's kind of cramped in there. And the whole time I was delivering her, my 5-year-old here is kind of standing up over the dash, trying to watch. And I'm sitting here thinking great, I could just see a police officer pull up about right now. We'd not only get a ticket for being illegal, but probably indecent exposure, too.

CHETRY: Oh, you have such a great attitude about it. I guess you have to when you've got nine. Was this big family planned, are you guys done now, or are you open to more kids?

SHERRY HARRAH: I don't know. You know, like they say, when they start coming out in the car, maybe it's time to quit.

CHETRY: Well, good luck with everything. Needless to say, I know you have your hands full but you got a lot of helpers as well. Thanks for telling us your story. And best of luck to all of you. I guess you got to get a van now. Maybe upgrade to a big van and get everyone around. Dave and Sherry Harrah.

SHERRY HARRAH: That would be nice.

CHETRY: Thanks for being with us.

SHERRY HARRAH: Thank you.

ROBERTS: You know, a school bus actually may not be a bad idea.

Here's a lookdown at a story coming up that you just can't miss. You know, I thought that this has gone away, decades.

CHETRY: In the 80s, right?

ROBERTS: Yes, totally but it's back.

CHETRY: A resurgence.

That's right, they're having a competition by the way. The new world record for solving it, I think, it's under 11 seconds now. We're going to mix it up and we're going to get a couple of the Rubik's champions of the world in here. Let's see how fast they can do it. Let's see if we can stump them.

ROBERTS: You know, 30 seconds used to be fast but some people now have it down to about 15 seconds or so. Will get to them. The next of hour of AMERICAN MORNING begins right now.

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