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Baghdad Shooting; Skydiving Crash in Washington State; Woman, Young Boy Caught on Tape Stealing Donations

Aired October 09, 2007 - 10:59   ET

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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: You're with CNN, I'm Heidi Collins.
Developments keep coming in to the CNN NEWSROOM on Tuesday, the 9th of October.

Here's what's on the rundown.

He says he was kidnapped and tortured by the CIA. New this morning, the Supreme Court blocks his lawsuit.

And searchers comb through a rugged crash site in Washington State. Nine skydivers and their pilot feared dead.

Televangelist Richard Roberts taking fire. Did he finance a lavish lifestyle with school money?

Scandal at Oral Roberts University -- in-depth with our guest in the NEWSROOM.

This just in to us now, an admitted kidnapper pleading guilty again this morning. Michael Devlin, in front of a judge in Washington County, Missouri, pleading guilty to kidnapping, sexually assaulting, and attempting to murder a teenage boy. The judge giving him three life terms plus 60 years.

The plea comes one day after Devlin pleaded guilty to kidnapping another teen. For that, he was also sentenced to life. Devlin is expected to also plead guilty in other jurisdictions.

Word today of another deadly shooting involving a private security company in Iraq.

CNN's Alessio Vinci has been working the story. He joins us now live from Baghdad with the very latest.

Hello, Alessio.

ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello to you, Heidi.

Again, two sources within the Iraqi Interior Ministry are telling us that a western private security contractor, a convoy belonging to a western private security contractor, was involved in a shooting incident in which two women were killed. We understand from these two sources that there was a four-car convoy, four sports utility vehicles driving in the Karada district of Baghdad, and we understand that during a shooting incident, as many as 19 bullets hit the car, killing innocently the two women on board.

We do not have any information yet which private security contractor has been involved in this shooting incident. We do know, however, that, first of all, Blackwater has already said they were not involved in this incident, and the U.S. Embassy is also saying that none of the U.S. diplomats were involved in this incident. So we're still trying to figure out which of the many companies that operate here in Iraq this convoy belonged to.

But again, two women killed this afternoon here in Baghdad, as a result, again, of a shooting incident involving these private security teams who are very much at the center of controversy here in Baghdad -- Heidi.

COLLINS: So Blackwater has said that they are not involved in this. Who will then get to the bottom of it? Will it be the Iraqi Interior Ministry, Alessio?

VINCI: Absolutely. The Iraqi Interior Ministry is going to take the lead into this investigation, of course. And we're still waiting to hear back from them once we are going to have more details. But this is an incident that involves Iraqis. It's Iraqi soil, and Iraqi investigators will be -- are investigating.

COLLINS: OK. Very well. Understood.

I want to talk for a minute before we let you go here, Alessio, about the Iraqi investigation, though, into the Blackwater incident, a separate incident. They have some new finding and some new recommendations.

VINCI: That is correct. The Iraqi investigation, the Iraqi side of the investigation, is basically complete. And according to reports that we got from a senior Iraqi official, basically the Iraqis are calling the actions by Blackwater employees as "premeditated murder," and they want Blackwater to pay up to $8 million for each of the 17 victims that were killed during that incident. And they want the U.S. Embassy basically to hand over the Blackwater guards that were involved in the shooting incident.

That is something that the Iraqis are demanding. We don't know, of course, whether that will happen.

We know, however, that Blackwater operates in this country with a State Department contract, basically giving Blackwater guards immunity from prosecution. So it's quite unclear this time whether or not these security guards will ever seek a trial here in Iraq.

We do know, however, that on the U.S. side, the FBI is taking the lead on the investigation. So it is possible that if indeed Blackwater guards are found to be guilty of improper conduct, they might be tried back in the U.S. But as far as the Iraqis are concerned, both officials and civilians here with whom we spoke, including some survivors of that incident, they don't really want money.

They want ensure that those responsible are being held accountable here in Iraq. They want them to be tried here in Iraq.

COLLINS: All right.

CNN's Alessio Vinci coming to us live from Baghdad this morning.

Alessio, thanks so much for the update on both of those stories.

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COLLINS: Wreckage found. A search resuming this morning. Crews find seven bodies after a plane crashes in Washington's Cascade Mountains. Hope for those missing all but gone.

Katherine Barrett is in White Pass, Washington, for us this morning now.

Katherine, can you update us on the search efforts?

Well, good morning to you, Heidi.

KATHERINE BARRETT, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, good morning to you, Heidi.

Yes, you can see behind me some of the gear that rescuers are laying out, staging, if you will, to take up the mountains to that crash site again later today. They have got chainsaws, litters, shovels. The terrain is said to be extremely rugged -- steep cliffs, heavy timber, heavy brush. They've got hacksaws. They may well have to hack their way through.

Today will offer the first glimpse of that crash site and the wreckage in daylight. When searchers found the plane split in half late last night in the dark they actually had to use not their eyes but their noses.

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DEPUTY DAN CYPHER, YAKIMA COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE: The search teams were up in the areas with the coordinates that we were providing to them. They did smell an odor of fuel and they did follow that odor and came across the wreckage.

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BARRETT: Again, seven bodies located, confirmed deceased last night. Three remain unfound at this hour, but authorities say they think it is unlikely anyone survived the crash.

The plane seemed to have crashed at high speed. Family members and friends, loved ones of those nine skydivers and a pilot aboard the plane, received that news last night. We met them as they were leaving a Red Cross family assistance center in a slow, somber and very tearful procession -- Heidi.

COLLINS: I'm sure it was.

All right. CNN's Katherine Barrett.

Katherine, thanks so much.

A possible motive now for a mass killing in Wisconsin. New details this morning.

A friend of Deputy Tyler Peterson tells a Wisconsin newspaper Peterson went to his ex-girlfriend's house hoping to patch up their relationship. They argued and Peterson lost control after her friends started ridiculing him, calling him a "worthless pig".

Police say Peterson stormed out of the house, got a rifle, went back inside and fired 30 shots. Six people were killed. The state attorney general says Peterson died later during a shootout with police.

New this morning, a fourth person is now in custody in the fatal shooting of a University of Memphis football player. This time it is another student. Twenty-one-year-old Taylor Bradford was shot while walking to his car last week. Police call it a botched robbery.

They have now detained a classmate. Three other men, none of them students also face charges. A plot to rob Bradford allegedly began with rumors of him winning big at a casino.

A surprising crime caught on tape -- donations stolen. Police now searching for an unlikely pair of thieves.

More now from Kimberly Bookman of CNN affiliate WMUR in Salem, New Hampshire.

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KIMBERLY BOOKMAN, REPORTER, WMUR (voice over): You have to see it to believe it. A boy no older than 10 morphs into a full fledged thief right before our eyes. It's all caught on this Salem liquor store surveillance video.

DET. STEVE MALISOS, SALEM, NEW HAMPSHIRE POLICE: He's very young. He looks 6 to 7, 8 years old. And she is teaching him basically how to commit thefts and commit crimes.

BOOKMAN: Watch as the boy sticks close to this woman in the store. Together, they approach an unmanned register, fidget with the trinkets near the checkout, then the woman pockets the charity canister filled with cash.

MALISOS: It appeared as though the young boy was acting as a lookout.

BOOKMAN: Well, it may be the first time, but take a look at this. The duo hit another empty register in the store moments later. This time, the boy takes a more active role, actually moving the donation canister closer to the woman, and she slips it right into her pocketbook.

MALISOS: The most disturbing part is that the young boy was there.

BOOKMAN: Some would argue it's equally disturbing that they stole contributions to MADD, a nonprofit organization of adults teaching children good lessons, like not to drink and drive.

MALISOS: To steal from a charitable organization is really disappointing.

BOOKMAN: A spokesperson from the organization says, "We are saddened by this alleged theft and hope this incident will not deter those who have donated to our cause from donating in the future."

What this crime could do is send the woman to jail for up to one year for theft. She could also face charges of endangering a child. As for the little boy, who was clearly an accomplice, police will handle him with kid gloves.

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COLLINS: Insight from a family friend. We'll talk with Bishop Carlton Pearson about the Oral Roberts University Scandal. He's a one-time protege of Oral Roberts and an evangelical mega-star in his own right

Big and bulky, but they can save your life. So, what if ultrasound machines were so small they could fit in your palm? Now they are, and our Dr. Sanjay Gupta shows us.

Plus, when wedded bliss turns to marital misery. A loveless marriage can break your heart in more ways than you might think.

And here's the story of the day. An unexpected entrant joins car race in Australia. Quick, quick, quick. Escaping injury, but disqualified for taking a shortcut.

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COLLINS: Oral Roberts University under fire. A lawsuit alleges the school's president, Oral Roberts' son, used university money to finance a lavish lifestyle.

Here to talk about it more now, Bishop Carlton Pearson. He's a former protege of Oral Roberts.

Bishop, thanks for being with us today.

I do know that you were a protege of Oral Roberts. In fact, you have said that he was sort of a spiritual father to you. But how well do you know Richard?

BISHOP CARLTON PEARSON, FMR. PROTEGE OF ORAL ROBERTS: I have known Richard for 36 years as a perfectionist, a man who is under incredible stress to try to live up to the huge image of his father, walking in those footsteps, standing under that shadow, the father still alive. He's a good man. He -- but he has some distractions that normal people in his position don't have. COLLINS: Distractions like what?

PEARSON: And he's trying to -- well, trying to live up to all these high images.

Richard was born into privilege. What we're calling extravagance is not so much extravagance to him, because when I met him he was driving a very nice car, and that was 36 years ago. I was 18 years old right out of California. I think he was driving a little Mercedes then. So what others may call extravagance he may not see it as extravagance, but he's rich...

COLLINS: How are -- sorry, how are Richard and his father different?

PEARSON: Well, his daddy, his father, came up out of poverty and lack and has an incredible sense of compassion for hurting people. I'm not saying Richard doesn't, but Richard can't relate to poverty and lack of education and the kind of circumstances that Oral Roberts grew up out of. And people like me grew up in.

So I don't know that he has quite -- because you can't teach what you don't know and you can't lead where you don't go. Doesn't have quite the sense of compassion and maybe mercy that his father -- his father was always for the underdog.

COLLINS: I know you haven't spoken...

PEARSON: Richard is...

COLLINS: I'm so sorry. It sounds like we have a bit of a delay here.

So, I just want to ask you, I know you haven't really spoken to the Roberts since the death of Oral's wife and Richard's mother, Evelyn. You were very close, though, to Oral Roberts, as you have been saying.

What do you think is going on here? What did you think when you first heard these allegations?

PEARSON: Well, I was disappointed but I'm not surprised. These kinds of things are common among family owned and operated businesses and ministries.

They don't cross every T and dot every I as carefully as -- people will do what you -- won't do what you expect but they'll do what you inspect. And when you don't inspect you find problems.

This is sad. It's -- we love this university. This is Tulsa, it is an icon here, it's an institution. And the whole city is greatly concerned.

And those of us who love the university -- and there are thousands of us -- and love Oral Roberts and love Richard and Lindsey, this is very bothersome, very hurtful. And we hope that some positive resolve will come ultimately.

If it's a criminal thing, it will be dealt differently. Those are allegations. If it's just moral and ethical, there will be some severe adjustments made to answer those kinds of allegations, as well.

COLLINS: If you did have the opportunity to speak with Richard, what would you say to him?

PEARSON: I would tell him to hone it in, to be kinder and gentler. And the abrupt releases of people who are good Christians and who love God and serve and follow Christ, as most of the faculty do, and most of the students, as well, to be gentle and to be Christ- like in everything we do -- all of our responses, all of our reactions.

I'm trying to be that way. I'm not always quite there. But we try to be as responsive to the Christ principle, if not always the Christ person.

And my advice to him would be to listen to the advice of the tremendous men and women surrounding him, both faculty, staff, and, of course, the board of regents. Some very capable men and women, very wise, very spiritual, many of them, who offer good advice. He just needs to listen to it, and I think he will this next time. I think he's listening now.

COLLINS: Yes. And I know that you're no longer affiliated with Oral Roberts, or the university, for that matter, but I do want to get your opinion on what stories like this -- and again, they are just allegations at this point, important to point that out. What happens to the Christian churches? What happens to the church itself when stories like this come to light?

PEARSON: It's not only humbling, it's humiliating. But it's also a wake-up call.

I think Christianity incorporated has gone awry in most ways. I think if Christ was here, he'd be -- he would shake his head in shame with what many of we Christians have done to his name and to his notoriety.

We've made it big business. We have been insensitive and arrogant. And a lot of the ministries are ego-driven rather than love-driven.

We call it purpose-driven. I like that concept, but sometimes there's a lot of ego in there.

And, you know, dentists get cavities and mechanics cars break down, too. So we all need help. And when it comes -- I think this is more than judgment. This is the correction of the universe.

The universe correcting itself through these kinds of stunning allegations that make us wake up and say, wait a minute, I have gotten out of hand, I need to humble myself, I need to pray and really repent. Christians like to talk about repent for the sinner. We Christians ought to repent.

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COLLINS: That's a pretty big statement to make, though, saying that the Christian religion has become perverse in some ways. Surely you mean just portions of it. Or do you mean to say most of it?

PEARSON: Say -- I didn't get that last part.

COLLINS: I'm wondering if you're saying that as a whole the Christian religion, in your opinion, is becoming more and more perverse?

PEARSON: As a whole. From the huge Catholic scandals -- and that's the biggest expression of Christianity on the planet, over a billion people -- to these mega-ministries and these very charming gifted preachers and teachers and singers and motivational speakers, we need to get -- we need to be very carefully.

Your greatest strength will always be your greatest weakness. Your greatest asset is usually our greatest liability.

So this is a time for us to really go within, humble ourselves, get less -- I mean, I'm a bishop. We have to wear -- we have bishops' rings and we have things that we have to do. And sometimes these things can be trappings. And...

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COLLINS: Do you not believe in what you're wearing and what you're preaching?

PEARSON: I believe in what I'm preaching. You know, this is a uniform. I got stop by a cop this morning for speeding -- I mean, for not wearing my seat belt. I know about -- I know better than that.

He had his uniform on. This is my uniform when I'm Bishop Carlton Pearson. But this is a title. This is not who I am.

And president of the university is a performance, it's a function. A preacher, evangelist, these guys perform things. But you can be a public success and a private failure, and that's what Christianity is morphing into.

Evangelical Christianity, fundamentalism, from the great falls of the Jimmy Swaggarts and the Jim Bakkers. And those are my friends. I know most of the men personally -- and women -- who ware doing what we consider huge things for God. But there's so many trappings, and I think this is going to make every ministry dot every I, cross every T, be careful about nepotism and eagle-driven pride, reaction -- prideful reactions and arrogance and insensitivity and intolerance. This judgmental spirit, putting everybody down, slamming gays, slamming abortionists, slamming anything...

COLLINS: Well, I venture a guess you would get quite a bit of pushback from some people who say that unfortunately they're not seeing that at their own church. I'm sure that you would understand that.

PEARSON: Yes.

COLLINS: Meanwhile, we appreciate your time here today very much.

Bishop Carlton Pearson, a former protege of Oral Roberts.

Thanks so much.

PEARSON: Thank you.

COLLINS: Just announced, tonight, "LARRY KING LIVE," he's going to be talking with Oral Roberts' son and university president Richard Roberts himself. It is his first interview on the Oral Roberts University spending scandal and it is a CNN exclusive. Once again, "LARRY KING LIVE" tonight, 9:00 Eastern, on CNN.

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COLLINS: Bad marriage, bad heart? New research suggests a stressful marriage can raise your risk of heart disease. The British study found people in troubled relationships were 34 percent more likely to have heart attacks or ailments.

The studied followed up on participants during a 12-year period. A health expert in the U.S. raises doubts though about the findings. He says they make intuitive sense but don't really prove bad relationships can cause heart disease.

Harnessing the power of an ultrasound in the palm of your hand. New technology means the machine can go where it's never gone before.

Our Dr. Sanjay Gupta had a demonstration a little bit earlier in the NEWSROOM.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: We're talking about a portable ultrasound machine here. Let me show you here. I don't know if you can see the image there. What you're looking at on the screen there is actually an image of someone's beating heart, and it was actually done through this tiny machine here.

This is what's known as a transducer. And basically, you just place this on someone's chest or someone's abdomen and you can get these images back pretty quickly to try and determine if something is wrong. Particularly useful in potential trauma situations.

What's pretty neat about it, though, Heidi, you can see how small it is. You can literally just put this around your neck and it can almost be sort of like a visual stethoscope that doctors wear and carry around with them, and can quickly get an idea if something is wrong by carrying this device around with them personally, as opposed to wheeling in an ultrasound machine -- Heidi. COLLINS: So obviously that's why they want it to be so small. I mean, it's just convenient. You can take it anywhere you want on to go.

GUPTA: Yes, that's sort of the biggest thing. You know, ultrasound machines can be pretty big. You've got to wheel them in. But also, one of the big concerns is potentially on ambulance runs, for example.

So you're on out in the field and you're concerned that someone might have blood -- have been bleeding into their abdominal cavity. You don't know for sure. You can actually just take this tiny ultrasound machine and place it on their belly and determine pretty quickly, or if there is fluid around their heart, for example.

There are some good uses potentially for this. Not everyone has it yet, but -- this is a pretty new device -- but the fact that it's so small makes it pretty advantageous.

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COLLINS: Sanjay says you may soon find these devices in your hospital, but they are not being marketed to individual consumers.

To get your "Daily Dose" of health news online, log on to our Web site. You'll find the latest medical news, that picture of Sanjay we always talk about, and a health library, plus information on diet and fitness.

The address, CNN.com/health.

He says he was snatched by the CIA, tortured for months. If it happened, the Bush administration may never pay for the mistake.

We'll explain what happened at the Supreme Court this morning.

Changing the way we vote. Some senators pushing a new plan to stop states from jockeying for early primary positions.

We'll tell you what that is all about.

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COLLINS: We are following a developing story out of Iraq this morning. Word that people traveling in a private security convoy opened fire on a car in Baghdad, killing two women. This coming to us from two sources in Iraq's interior ministry. One of those sources says as many as 19 bullets possibly hit the women's vehicle. Other details are not clear, though. We don't know which security firm was involved, nor the events that may have precipitated this.

Blackwater USA under scrutiny in another shooting, saying it had nothing to do with this latest incident.

British troops preparing for a new smaller role in Iraq now. Here's CNN's senior international correspondent Nic Robertson. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the future of British soldiers in Iraq, mentoring, helping Iraqi forces, their role now not fighting militias, but fixing Iraq's security forces, so they can take over as British troops scale down.

Two-and-a-half thousand soldiers by spring. No surprise for the commander here, who agreed the drawdown with British Prime Minister Gordon Brown when he was here last week.

MAJ. GEN. GRAHAM BINNS, COMMANDER: I don't need surprises, and I believe what is left -- what will be left in the spring of next year will be a militarily coherent force which is capable of conducting all the tasks required both by our U.S. corps commander.

ROBERTSON: No surprises, but plenty of happy soldiers.

BOMBARDIER GEORGE MCLAUGHLIN, BRITISH ARMY: It means a lot to me. I'm actually a reservist. After spending 13 years in the military, so it means hopefully, eventually I won't have to deploy, so I'll be left alone to go on with civilian life hopefully.

GUNNER DAVID WILKINSON, BRITISH ARMY: It make me feel good that we're going home, and the fact that other people are not going to have to come here because the Iraqis are able to take over their own country.

ROBERTSON: But how far and how fast the reduction will go, all dependent on security. One of the biggest threats, Iranian interference, still an unknown.

BINNS: We haven't seen it manifest itself to great effect in recent months. So I think it has reduced. Whether it will stay that way is too hard to predict at the moment.

ROBERTSON (on camera): Perhaps not too hard to predict, Iraq's militias would want their say on Gordon Brown's announcement. That came in the form of thee missiles fired on this base less than an hour after the prime minister's statement. A reminder that although attacks are down significantly, the troops here are still far from out of danger.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Basra, Iraq.

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COLLINS: Disgraced Idaho Senator Larry Craig. He say he will not seek re-election. A decision expected today from a man thinking about replacing him.

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COLLINS: Idaho looking ahead to replacing embattled Senator Larry Craig. Lieutenant Governor Jim Risch says he'll announce plans today for a possible Senate run. You may recall Craig pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in an airport bathroom sex sting. Craig says he plans to stay in the Senate for the rest of his term. It ends in January of 2009. He says he will not seek re-election.

Overhauling the primary system. Some want to change the way we choose the next president. Here now, CNN's special correspondent, Frank Sesno, part of the best political team on television.

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FRANK SESNO, SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What if we change this crazy primary system we've got? Well three senators, Republican Lamar Alexander, Independent Joe Lieberman and Democrat Amy Klobuchar have a bill they say would make it better. Primary colors, with a regional hue.

SEN. AMY KLOBUCHAR, (D) MINNESOTA: You would start in one area, then go to the next, the next, the next, and then the four years later, you would rotate in a different way.

SESNO: Senator Klobuchar, who's from Minnesota, has been on the job less than a year, but already wants to change the system.

KLOBUCHAR: This way, you know what the rules are, you know when you can get in, and it just will bring more order to the process.

SESNO: What if there were just four big regional primaries, Iowa and New Hampshire the only exceptions? Well, candidates could campaign, travel, raise money more efficiently, Klobuchar says. Voters would benefit. Maybe an entire region that goes last might barely matter. Talk about late to the party. And this would really change the candidate calculus (ph).

Example, what if John Edwards, the only southerner in the pack, faced a primary season where all southern states voted first? His prospects might change dramatically.

'Til now, the primary rules have been up to the parties in the states.

(on camera): Up to that point, what if somebody comes up to you and says Senator, this is a lovely idea, but this actually is none of your business?

KLOBUCHAR: They've already said that.

SESNO: The Senate and the Congress should stay out of this?

KLOBUCHAR: Well, they've already said that.

SESNO: And mess or otherwise, it's our politics and our party? KLOBUCHAR: They've said that, but the problem is you have 50 states and you have parties with operations in 50 different states and someone has to bring order to this.

SENSO (voice-over): As far as she's concerned, the problem is, what if nothing's done.

KLOBUCHAR: I believe it's chaos, it's a primary arms race, and we can do better.

SESNO: Frank Sesno, CNN, Washington.

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COLLINS: Well, you did it once, now it's time for history to repeat itself. Go to CNN.com/youtubedebates and post your questions for the Republican presidential candidates. The debate Wednesday, November 28th. Your voice will be heard only on CNN, your home for politics.

Hey, under your wallet, especially if you live in the northeast. Winter is coming and so are the heating bills.

Susan Lisovicz is at the New York Stock Exchange to tell us about the outlook for homeowners. But according to Rob, it might be a little while before the really, really cold weather comes, right?

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COLLINS: Marion Jones is giving back her medals. The track and field star has also agreed to forfeit any victories dating back to September of 2000. That could cost her more than a million dollars if event organizers go after her winnings. Last week, Jones admitted being on steroids when she won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics. She could be facing prison time for lying to a federal agent during a steroid investigation. Sentencing is scheduled for January 11th.

In just a few minutes, "YOUR WORLD TODAY" is up next on CNN. Hala Gorani us here now to talk more about it.

Hi there, Hala.

HALA GORANI, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Hi, Heidi.

At the top of the hour, join Michael Holmes and myself. We're going to be taking you to Iraq. Two women have been shot by what the Interior Ministry in Iraq says was a Western security company. This, of course, amid the Blackwater controversy. We'll be going live to Baghdad.

Also, we are going to be taking you to Jerusalem and we're going to be talking about Google Earth and what you can see with this computer program. Now, the Demona military facility in Israel is normally very much off limits. Our Ben Wedeman has a story about what you can see from high, high above that has some in Israel very worried.

Also, he once wanted to kill as many people as possible on a battlefield in Africa. This man, a rap artist, rap star around the world, was a child soldier. Today, he says music has saved him and can be an influence on others. He has a very, very nice quote in that piece, it's the Jill Dougherty package, Heidi. He says, "Music is the only thing that enters your mind and your soul without your permission." So, it can have that kind of impact.

COLLINS: Wow.

GORANI: So, hope you can join us for that. Heidi, back to you.

COLLINS: Quite (ph) a story.

All right, we'll be looking forward to seeing that. Hala Gorani, thank you.

First, he loses his son. Now, he may lose the rest of his family.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh my gosh, what else can this man do for this country? What else can he give? He's given his son.

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COLLINS: Soldier son, killed in action. Dad faces deportation.

But first, "Fortune" magazine just released a list of the 50 most powerful women in the country. Throughout the week, we'll be highlighting some of these top executives.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She sold makeup door to door and has climbed the corporate ladder at Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale's. Now, she heads up one of the largest female-run firms in the country. So, who's the woman who transforms beauty into bucks? We'll tell you after the break.

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UNDENTIFIED FEMALE: Coming in ninth on "Fortune" magazine's most powerful Women in Business list, Andrea Jung, Chairman and CEO of Avon Products. She's given Avon a makeover by targeting teens and launching new products. Stocks are up 15 percent this year. And with Reese Witherspoon as the new face of Avon, Jung plans on bringing more attention to women's issues, such as breast cancer and domestic violence.

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COLLINS: A soldier/son not coming home. Now, his father faces a future without the rest of his family.

CNN's Ed Lavandera reports.

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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Nobody could talk Armando Soriano out of joining the army after he graduated from high school. This American-born son of illegal immigrants believes serving in the military would bring honor to his family. Then, three years ago, the 20-year-old army private was killed in a convoy accident in Iraq.

The pain still haunts his parents, the family living room is a shrine to the fallen soldier and now, the family is facing yet another tragedy. Armando's father, Enrique Soriano's American dream can crumble any day.

(on camera): How does the rest of your family feel about you being in this situation?

He says that my son fought and died for this country, and it would help him rest in peace knowing that his family was taken care of and that they had the papers that they needed to be here legally.

(voice-over): Enrique Soriano has lived illegally in the United States since 1982. But in cases like this, the federal government has often looked the other way and allowed the immediate families of servicemen who have died in Iraq to get legal status. Enrique's wife is now a legal permanent resident, but immigration officials argue that because Soriano was deported in 1999, and re-entered the country illegally, he's not eligible for this form of amnesty.

(on camera): He says, often times, he's at a loss for words to explain how he feels but he feels very sad. It's already hard enough losing a son in this war and then now, being threatened to be separated from his family makes it even more difficult.

Enrique Soriano doesn't know how much longer he'll be living here in the neighborhoods of Pasadena, Texas. We tried asking officials with Immigration and Customs Enforcement, but they refused our request for an interview, saying it wouldn't be appropriate for them to talk about his case while it's in the hands of an immigration judge.

DAVID LEOPOLD, IMMIGRATION ATTORNEY: And my gosh, what else can this man do for this country? What else can he give? He's given his son.

LAVANDERA (voice-over): But immigration attorneys say Enrique Soriano is a victim of a technicality, and that the federal government has the power to keep his family together.

LEOPOLD: This could be fixed tomorrow. All that has to happen, despite the technicalities in the law, is for the Department of Homeland Security to do the right thing and to allow this man to stay in the United States.

LAVANDERA: Soriano says he can't imagine being separated from his wife and five children.

(on camera): He says that if he does get deported, that he really has no other option. He feels like that he has to try to come back. He's crossed illegally twice before, and he'll do it again to be with his family.

(voice-over): And to be near his son's grave site, where Enrique Soriano comes once a week to find peace.

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