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Atlanta Imposes Water Restrictions; David Copperfield Under Investigation for Sexual Assault; Kids and Cold Medicine
Aired October 20, 2007 - 07:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: Well, good morning, everybody, from the CNN center in Atlanta, Georgia. This is CNN SATURDAY MORNING and I'm T.J. Holmes.
BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Hey, good morning, T.J..
HOLMES: Hello, there.
NGUYEN: Good morning everybody. I'm Betty Nguyen. Thanks for starting your day with us. Well, a big talker this morning, law enforcement sources say master magician David Copperfield is under investigation for sexual assault. Find out what the FBI found when they raided his warehouse.
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PETER FROST,DOUGLAS COUNTY, GA WATER AUTHORITY: If property owners want the water back on in the morning, it's a thousand dollars.
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HOLMES: Yes, they will shut your water off, extreme drought, extreme measures. If you get caught wasting water, you will pay a hefty fine, so bad in some parts that people are turning in their own neighbors.
NGUYEN: You better not tell on me, T.J..
HOLMES: Well, Betty, don't waste water, OK?
NGUYEN: I'm adhering to the rules.
Just in time for the cold and flu season, there's new guidance from the FDA regarding kids and cold medicine. The details ahead on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
HOLMES: But first, less than 90 days until Atlanta's water pipes run dry. It's a major drought crisis. Georgia Governor Sonny Purdue wants to reduce the amount of water his state is sending to Florida and Alabama and he's asking a Federal judge to make that happen.
Governor Purdue is talking about the water crisis at 10:30 this morning. We'll bring you that live when it happens and for now, residents are under strict watering laws. No more making sure that grass stays green by putting water on it. That's not a priority right now folks. Things are getting pretty intense and in some areas they will shut your water off completely if you get caught.
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HOLMES: Michael Griggs is on patrol. He's on the lookout for green grass, a sign that people are watering their lawns.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like this yard here, really, really green.
HOLMES: He's also checking water meters.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There should be no use on your irrigation (ph) meters.
HOLMES: Douglas County in suburban Atlanta is under a total outdoor watering ban. It's Griggs' job to find violators and take action immediately, shutting their water off. So far, nearly 20 households have had their water turned off.
PETER FROST, DOUGLAS COUNTY, GA WATER AUTHORITY: If property owners want the water back on in the morning, it's a thousand dollars. If not, if they want to wait until we were able to schedule for the turn on, then they'll only have to pay the trip charge, which is $25.
HOLMES: Future violations only get more expensive. A second violation is at least $350 and a third is $1,000. Peter Frost, the executive director of the local water and sewer authority, says these drastic steps are necessary.
FROST: We're trying to stop the -- our reservoir from getting into a critical condition.
HOLMES: This is the county's reservoir or what's left of it. And like most in the southeast U.S., it's drying up. Because of the low levels, the water district is now piping in 60 percent of its water from a neighboring county, but that water supply is also nearly gone. For now, authorities are making plans and doing what they can to keep the water they have going from going down the drain.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE) don't need to be on right now.
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NGUYEN: Absolutely not.
HOLMES: Make it clear though, folks, we're not just talking about if he sees your water on, he'll go and turn the faucet off. They are shutting people's water off to the house.
REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It's going to happen when you're in the shower and you got your shampoo.
NGUYEN: Shampoo and everything.
WOLF: What happened? Where did the water go?
NGUYEN: Your back yard is looking pretty green, Reynolds. We're not going to talk about that? Spray paint, right?
WOLF: It's all Astroturf (INAUDIBLE) in the backyard. You're right though. We're talking about desperate situations.
NGUYEN: Serious.
WOLF: Long-range computer models look like it's going to stay fairly dry through much of not only winter, but possibly spring as well. And just to give you an idea of what some people are facing, take a look at this. This is what lake-front property looks like when the region gets enough rain.
Take a look. Great shot. Everything is perfect on the left-hand side of the screen. These photos were taken by CNN producer Rick Martin. Now when you look at the other side, that's the current situation. That's the east point reservoir in Douglas County, Georgia and it's barely a trickle these days.
NGUYEN: So that is the same area. I thought those were originally two different areas. The water is just gone.
WOLF: It's ridiculous isn't it?
NGUYEN: My goodness.
WOLF: I mean shows you just what dire straits we're really in at this point, so very, very dry conditions we've been dealing with. And we're really not the only place in the nation that's been dealing with the dry conditions. Out west, there's a big fire threat. In fact, take a look at this. Strong northwesterly winds redevelop in southern California just overnight and today those Santa Ana winds will begin to develop as the wind switched east northeast.
Now what we can anticipate that those wind gusts are really going to intensify anywhere from 60 to 70 miles per hour through those mountain passes of Los Angeles, as well as the Ventura County area up in the San Gabriel Mountains. Not really the best thing you want to deal with during these fire seasons. You've got a lot of dry foliage out there. We're talking about humidity levels that are going to be in the single digits.
When you have the low humidity and then you have those strong winds, what can happen is if anyone sets a fire by accident or intentionally, those flames can spread and spread quickly. That's going to be a huge issue for many people today in parts of the west coast. Soon we're going to be dealing with not just for today but through much of the weekend along many places in, say, the L.A. basin area, as far north as Big Bear, perhaps even up into Ventura and into L.A.
Meanwhile, we are seeing some scattered showers. We don't have a complete drought across the nation. Some places are getting some decent rainfall this morning, especially in central Florida. You can take a look at Orlando here along parts of I-75, even into I-4, scattered showers building now, drifting off to the east. Nothing severe at this point, but certainly you may be hearing a rumble of thunder this morning.
As we make our way out west, we're seeing not only some rain drops but even some snowflakes in spots like Boise, in fact over to Salt Lake City, even into Pocatello. That's going to last much of the morning and midday hours. That's a look at your forecast. Wish I could say things were going to be better in the southeast in terms of the rain, but we got to deal with what we have.
Let's send it back to you at the news desk.
NGUYEN: And what we have so far is not that great, Reynolds.
WOLF: Not at all.
NGUYEN: So keep working, would you?
WOLF: You bet.
NGUYEN: All right, thank you.
There is new video this morning out of Manila in the Philippines. Check it out, police there now say a bomb is to blame for a deadly shopping mall explosion. Nine people are dead, as many as 92 are injured. So far, no one has claimed responsibility for that bombing.
In central Pakistan, a new attack this morning at a bus station. At least seven people were killed in that explosion. As many as 20 others were injured.
Meanwhile, U.S. agents are now in Pakistan assisting police investigating the suicide bomb targeting former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. Bhutto escaped injury, but 136 people were killed in that explosion. Police believe they may soon have a sketch of the suspected bomber to pass around for identification.
We're going to have much more on Bhutto's controversial return to Pakistan. That is tonight on "This Week at War." Host Tom Foreman also is looking at changes on the ground in Iraq. That's "This Week at War." It airs tonight at 7:00 Eastern.
HOLMES: New this morning, U.S. Army soldier who was head of the prison where Saddam Hussein was held is sentenced to two years in prison. Lieutenant Colonel William Steel was found guilty for unauthorized possession of classified material, but he was acquitted on the charge of aiding the enemy. He had been accused of possibly lending his cell phone to some of Saddam Hussein's confidants.
Also new this morning, more legal fallout from the death of 24 civilians in Haditha, Iraq, two years ago. According to the general overseeing the case, Marine Lance Corporal Steven Tatum (ph) will be court-martialed for involuntary manslaughter but not murder. Also, Lt. Colonel Jeffrey (INAUDIBLE) will be court-martialed in connection with his investigation and also a report of the incident. No decisions have been made on charges against several other Marines.
New development to tell you about this morning in the Blackwater investigation on Capitol Hill. Blackwater allegedly once tried to take two Iraqi planes out of the country and refused to give them back when Iraqi officials found out. A congressional committee investigating Blackwater was told of the allegation by an unnamed U.S. military official. The panel is now attempting to find out if Blackwater took the planes and if so, what happened to them.
NGUYEN: Well, magic man David Copperfield is under Federal scrutiny this morning. A Seattle woman says Copperfield sexually assaulted her. But Copperfield strongly denies that allegation.
CNN's Ted Rowlands has more now from Las Vegas.
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TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The first sign of trouble came when FBI agents searched the Las Vegas warehouse of magician David Copperfield where he keeps his collection of magic props and more. The agents took a computer hard drive and camera memory chips CNN affiliate KLAS reported, as well as $2 million that had been stashed inside a safe. Federal agents also searched the MGM hotel where Copperfield has been performing.
DAVID CHESNOFF, COPPERFIELD'S ATTORNEY: He's dealing with it in the proper way. He even performed his show the other evening while all that was occurring because he said he wasn't going to disappoint his fans. But he's very, very concerned in the sense that his reputation is being impugned.
ROWLANDS: Law enforcement sources tell CNN the FBI is investigating sexual assault allegations against Copperfield. His lawyer says he's confident that whoever is making the claims is making them up.
CHESNOFF: We haven't even been told officially through the law enforcement the name of anybody, but since it wouldn't matter really what the name is because it's categorically denied as a false accusation, an impossible kind of claim.
ROWLANDS: Seattle police say a woman claims the incident took place this summer in the Bahamas. Police there say they have no record of a complaint against Copperfield.
(on-camera): Copperfield lives part-time here in Las Vegas performing at the MGM Grand. His next performance, though, is scheduled for next week in Indonesia. According to his lawyer, nobody has told him he can't leave the country during this investigation.
(voice-over): The FBI declined to comment on the investigation, saying only that the Las Vegas searches are part of a Seattle-based investigation. Copperfield's lawyer says he's confident that when the FBI concludes their investigation, the accusations will disappear.
Ted Rowlands, CNN, Las Vegas.
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NGUYEN: Well, nobody knows where it comes from. A super bug that is resistant to antibiotics.
HOLMES: One child survived, another died. So, what is it? Information this morning you need to know. That is straight ahead.
WOLF: And over the last 48 hours, we've had plenty of tornadoes across parts of the nation. Coming up, we're going to share some of those images with you from the I-reports, plus we're also going to let you know what more is in store for later today. That's coming up in just a few moments.
NGUYEN: Also, a new warning for parents this morning. Why you may not want to give your child cough and cold medicine. We'll explain.
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HOLMES: Well, do you know a child that has a case of the sniffles? You better think twice before reaching for that cold medicine.
NGUYEN: An advisory panel for the Food and Drug Administration says children under the age of six should not be taking over-the- counter cold and cough medicines. For one thing, they haven't been proven to be effective, but more importantly, they haven't been proven safe for that age group.
HOLMES: The panel says it is not appropriate to apply information from adult studies to children under the age of 12. The vote was nonbinding but will be taken into consideration by FDA regulators.
In medical shorthand it is called MRSA, which is a super bug that defies almost every antibiotic in our current arsenal.
HOLMES: MRSA infections are now responsible for more U.S. deaths each year than AIDS. It can be treated if it's caught in time, but as Keith Oppenheim reports, that's a big "if."
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KEITH OPPENHEIM, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over) Twelve-year-old Pharon Cowser lies in a hospital bed next to his mom. Less than a month ago, he truly thought he was going to die.
PHARON COWSER, MRSA PATIENT: I told my mom, I don't want to be here no more. She was like what do you mean? I said I want to go with God. I can't be here.
OPPENHEIM: Pharon was fighting a staph infection known as MRSA, a strain of bacteria that's highly resistant to most antibiotics.
INDA COWSER, PHARON'S MOM: He had a fever for like 35 days straight, 102. And he was in excruciating pain. I mean, the screams was worse than a horror scream I've ever heard.
OPPENHEIM: The question is -- how did this nasty bug get into Pharon's body? The answer is no one's quite sure. The bug might have gotten into his system from the scrape he got when he fell off his bike. He might have gotten it later when he went to the emergency room. However it got in, the super bug acted fast, pain in his legs, excruciating pain and a fever.
DR. ROBERT DAUM, UNIV. OF CHICAGO PEDIATRICS: Patients like him, once it's in the bloodstream, sometimes get showers of organisms, bacteria all over their body and this is when things get out of control for us very quickly.
OPPENHEIM: Dr. Robert Daum of the University of Chicago says it was once thought MRSA was contracted mostly in hospitals. Now that's changed.
DAUM: The community is where the epicenter is now.
OPPENHEIM: And it's most likely contact in the community that led to 17-month-old Simon Sparrow catching the bug three years ago.
EVERLY MACARIO, SON DIED OF MRSA: I still can't believe it.
OPPENHEIM: Everly Macario is Simon's mom.
MACARIO: He just did not look like himself at all. Just had his -- whole body had just transformed into something else.
OPPENHEIM: In less than a day after going to the hospital, Simon died. The doctors say most cases are not nearly as extreme, that MRSA can be treated.
DAUM: If you scrape your knee and start -- get a fever a couple days later that doesn't look like a cold, go see the doctor.
OPPENHEIM: In Pharon's case, it took nine surgeries and 47 days in the hospital to get to this point.
P. COWSER: I feel like a whole new boy.
OPPENHEIM: Some indications that a super bug, powerful as it may be, can be stopped.
Keith Oppenheim, CNN, Chicago.
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NGUYEN: Boy, is that frightening. Today on "HOUSE CALL," there's critical information that you need to know about the super bug, plus more on those new guidelines about young children and cough and cold medicine and new information on breast cancer. All of that ahead in "HOUSE CALL" with CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta at 8:30 Eastern.
HOLMES: The presidential nomination may be riding on one state. Why Iowa appears to be setting the stage for voters in other states.
NGUYEN: And this dance video from Thailand is just one that made it into our water cooler this morning. Now, I don't think you have moves like that, T.J. HOLMES: You haven't seen my moves on the dance floor, Betty.
NGUYEN: We're going to show you why everybody is clicking on this.
HOLMES: I don't have that, though.
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HOLMES: A major drought crisis happening in the southeast. Georgia's lieutenant governor tells CNN there's no way to conserve ourselves out of this.
NGUYEN: And that's why every little bit helps. What about those who don't (ph) concern though? Well, reporter Rebecca Schramm with our Atlanta affiliate WGCL has that part of the story.
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HERMAN BRYANT, DOUGLAS CO. WATER AUTHORITY: We've actually caught them sprinkling.
REBECCA SCHRAMM, WGCL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Herman Bryant has heard every excuse in the book.
BRYANT: I don't want my grass to die. I spent thousands of dollars.
SCHERAMM: He's the project superintendent for the Douglas County water authority. For months, he and his colleagues have been handing out warnings and fines to violators of the outdoor watering ban. Now they're kicking it up a notch.
PETER FROST, DOUGLAS CO. WATER AUTHORITY: The minute we see it, if it's in the middle of the night, we're not going to knock on their door. We're not going to do any of that. We're just going to turn it off.
SCHRAMM: Already 15 homeowners and business owners have had their water shut off. That leaves them two options.
FROST: They can either wait for us to get out there and have to pay a trip charge or if they want it on right away, it's $1,000.
BRYANT: People watching the news and looking in the paper and they know that it's illegal and I assume that they're figuring that they're not going to get caught.
SCHRAMM: Herman wants violators to see this, the nearly empty reservoir that supplies drinking water to Douglas County.
BRYANT: A lot of (INAUDIBLE) are concerned about the water shortage and we're running out. We just have those that just don't care, and I don't know what they think they're going to do when we do run out of water, if we do, God forbid.
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NGUYEN: I think we're all just trying to be a little more mindful about it to prevent that thousand-dollar fee. I know now, when I'm brushing my teeth, definitely shut that thing off in between.
HOLMES: Everywhere you go around Atlanta, that's what everybody is talking about. Just go into a store, grocery store, shopping, whatever, everybody is talking about rain and we need the water and things they're doing trying to conserve just a little. So people are getting the message.
NGUYEN: Even restaurants are not going to serve you water unless you request it. It's to that point.
We want to let you know a little about that CNN bug there at the bottom left-hand side of your screen. It is not red. It is green today, because this is all in conjunction with our "Planet in Peril." We're also really becoming very environmentally friendly. We're dealing with a lot of stories on what you can do so that our planet isn't in peril. We're going to have much more on that throughout the morning. But want to let you know that we have gone green.
HOLMES: Gone green for now. And our Reynolds Wolf keeping an eye on the planet for us, as well, as always. Certainly the U.S. and the drought conditions, also storms, a little bit of everything going on. It's not all good.
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NGUYEN: All right. We've been talking about the drought here along the southeast, especially here in Georgia. There are some strict rules that have been put in place and people are taking it very seriously.
HOLMES: Take a listen here, folks. People are I guess doing the right thing, you could say. They're turning in their neighbors for wasting water. Listen to a couple of the calls here to come into the water center here in Georgia.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They water the lawn every day. Every day they're watering that lawn.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I live in the neighborhood, and I see the sprinkler system going off every other day.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the water is in the yard just flowing and running all down the street.
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NGUYEN: Just telling on their neighbors. But, you know, it is a big deal and if you are busted, like we heard in that piece just minutes ago, you can be charged $1,000 for them to turn it back on. HOLMES: And they are shutting water off folks. I want to make that clear. They're not going to turn off your faucet if you're using a sprinkler like that. They are shutting water off to your house. It's a serious thing.
There are a couple things -- people have been kind of making light of the shorter showers and things like that, but it is a serious deal here in Georgia and around the southeast right now. But some people maybe prefer - maybe just go tell your neighbor.
NGUYEN: Give them a warning first before you turn them in.
HOLMES: Cost them $1,000.
NGUYEN: Talk about keeping them honest, these neighbors are making sure they are keeping them honest. And speaking of, Josh Levs is keeping some folks honest as well. What you got cooking this morning?
JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: (INAUDIBLE) a little bit, but first of all, I feel a little guilty showering a little longer in the morning. Is that a bad thing?
NGUYEN: Yeah, it is. Haven't you been listening to the news?
LEVS: I have.
HOLMES: Don't admit that right now.
NGUYEN: I'm going to call him in.
LEVS: Another thing. Is bottled water now a good thing if we're getting it from springs? This is not coming out of the water supply. Maybe there goes T.J.'s guilt. It's good water right.
HOLMES: Good water.
LEVS: Another topic, folks. Here's the deal. I want to take a look this morning at a claim we're hearing a lot in the political world. Hillary Clinton way ahead on the Democratic side, 30 points ahead, no comparison.
Meanwhile, Barack Obama says if he wins Iowa, he's going to clinch the nomination. So we're wondering, does it really work that way? Do Americans change their minds based on what one state says? We actually do have the answer to that and we're going to bring it to you coming up in just a few minutes guys.
HOLMES: All right, thank you, kind sir. We'll see you shortly.
And also, call hear bionic dolphin. How a prosthetic fin is helping her swim again. Stick around folks.
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NGUYEN: Welcome back, everybody, on this Saturday morning. I'm Betty Nguyen.
HOLMES: Hello, everybody. I'm T.J. Holmes.
NGUYEN: Well, some quick hits for you now on what is happening this morning. Parts of the southeast are scrambling to find ways to deal with an epic drought. Officials in Georgia say Atlanta has less than 90 days of drinking water left. The governor will hold a news conference in about three hours. Of course, we're going to bring you the latest on that.
And this -- did David Copperfield sexually assault a woman? That's what investigators are looking into. The FBI raided Copperfield's Las Vegas warehouse this week.
And rapper T.I. is still behind bars. A federal judge in Atlanta will decide next week whether to release him on bail. If that is granted, bail is expected to include 2 million cash, plus the equity in his homes. The rapper, whose real name is Clifford Harris, pleaded not guilty yesterday to weapons charges.
HOLMES: The polls are open right now across Louisiana. Voters there choosing their next governor. There are a dozen candidates vying to replace Kathleen Blanco. She announced earlier this year she would not run again. The clear front-runner right now appears to be Republican Congressman Bobby Jindal. He finished second to Blanco last time. If no candidate gets more than 50 percent of the vote, there will be a runoff election next month.
There's one less candidate to keep track of in the Republican presidential race -- still got plenty more to keep track of thought -- but Kansas Senator Sam Brownback is out.
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SEN. SAM BROWNBACK (R) FMR. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I leave this stage a better man, and hopefully America a better place. And I'm amazed at such a wonderful nation, a powerful nation, that could allow the son of a Kansas farmer, even a dream, he could live it and lead it.
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HOLMES: Earlier this week, the conservative Republican announced he brought in less than a million dollars in the third quarter fund- raising. He hasn't endorsed any of the other remaining Republican candidates.
Christian conservatives gathering in Washington this weekend to make their presidential choice. All of the Republican front-runners are making appearances. And the so-called Value Voter Summit features a straw poll vote this afternoon. That summit is sponsored by the conservative Family Research Council.
Our Josh Levs is here.
And Josh, you know, it's hard to believe that we're only just a couple months away from voting in this presidential race.
LEVS: I know. It's all going to kick off in Iowa.
NGUYEN: Yeah.
LEVS: Hawkeye and the Hawkeye -- yes, the very beginning of January. We're down to a week's count now. We don't have to go by months anymore. It's so early this year.
NGUYEN: They've started early as well. Candidates were out there in full force months and months in advance.
LEVS: Some of them are still shifting their dates, so we don't know how many there will be right after Iowa. It's all over the place. Yeah, we're bouncing.
And one thing we keep hearing all the time is that Iowa is so critical, right? So I had to check if that's honest or not. Because some of these assertions are really dramatic. That Hillary Clinton could have a 30-point lead on the Democratic side but still lose based entirely on Iowa? Well, folks, you know what, the upcoming election will put that to the test.
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LEVS (voice over): Her standing is the envy of all the other presidential candidates in both parties.
The latest poll from CNN, and Opinion Research Corporation, shows Hillary Clinton with 51 percent of Democrats, 30 points ahead of Barack Obama. But he says it's all about the Iowa caucuses.
BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If we win Iowa, I'll be the nominee.
LEVS: Can that be true? If Iowa picks someone other than the front-runner, do voters say, forget what I thought, I want what Iowa wants? Some extent, yes. In 2004, just before the Iowa caucuses, Howard Dean was at 26 percent nationally, John Kerry at 9 percent. Then Kerry beat dean big time in Iowa and turned tables. The next national poll, even before the New Hampshire primary, found Kerry on top. Some voters switched camps, and some undecided voters lined up behind Kerry. America loves a winner.
Of course, it wasn't just the Iowa vote that turned some off to Dean. Let's not forget --
HOWARD DEAN, FMR. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Ah!
LEVS: Still, this state with 1 percent the U.S. population can act as a reset button for race. But it doesn't always. In 1988, Michael Dukakis and George Bush came in third in their respective races in Iowa, but went on to clinch the nominations. Hillary Clinton isn't about to take that risk, hence the push for every possible supporter in the Hawkeye State.
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I'll do my best for you. God bless you.
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LEVS: They choose their candidates based not just on the national issues as they're considering who to vote for. They also really look at state issues. And all these candidates go to Iowa and make promises to caucus goers that are really specific to Iowa, which makes it all that much more dramatic, Betty and T.J., that in the end, Iowa can have so much power on a national scale.
HOLMES: A lot of power because this is a place the lesser-knowns can make a name for themselves.
NGUYEN: Right.
LEVS: Right.
HOLMES: And it's also a place where the front-runners can falter. Quite naturally, I guess we can assume who has a lot to lose here. But who, really, the names of those are those that have a lot to lose and a lot to gain?
LEVS: A lot to gain, yeah, it's interesting because it's so different on the two sides. I mean, on the Democratic side, the theory about Hillary Clinton is that what she really needs to do is clench this sense of inevitability. That if she gets Iowa it helps to establish her as inevitable. And she's leading in the polls right there.
Over on the GOP side, totally different story. What you have there is in our latest poll Giuliani leading nationally, but what we're seeing out of the Iowa polls is that Romney is leading there.
So, what people want out of Iowa, what these big names want out of Iowa on the GOP side, is a sense of even being a front runner in the first place, which guys, right now, doesn't exist the same way it does on the Democratic side.
HOLMES: Even finishing second or third for some of those second- tier candidates, as well, can be a big boost.
NGUYEN: Yeah.
LEVS: Like you're saying, it will put them on the map, and then they have the chance to prove themselves in New Hampshire manages to be the first primary.
HOLMES: All right.
NGUYEN: Reality Check, thank you.
LEVS: Right.
NGUYEN: Appreciate it, Josh.
HOLMES: We're going to turn back over to Reynolds now, going to continue to follow a lot of weather going on. We were talking about the drought conditions, also, but some storms and what not has been happening across the country as well.
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HOLMES: Coming up here, folks, you can call it a fish tale with a happy ending.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's just like a human going physical therapy, our dolphin is in physical therapy every day.
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HOLMES: OK, it's a dolphin, we know it's not a fish. Still, you have to see this to believe it. A fitted plastic tail for a dolphin named Winter.
NGUYEN: And baseball isn't just a man's sport anymore, oh, no. You may be surprised at just how many women are getting in on the game. And find out how advertisers are trying to lure them in.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And the crib had flipped over and the mattress was the only thing that saved the baby. The mattress was on top of the baby. But, I mean, there was thousands of pounds of stuff wrapped over this baby. I don't know how he made it.
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HOLMES: Storms swept across Michigan and left one family searching for their young son. Can you believe that? Find out more about Blake, the miracle baby, coming up here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING>
Lights out in San Francisco. Tonight at 8 o'clock. It doesn't sound right, but they're going to do this in San Francisco, at 8 o'clock, for one hour, city officials will shut the lights off at landmarks all across the city, including, yes, the Golden Gate Bridge, part of a campaign to conserve energy. Streetlight, however, will stay on for obvious reasons.
NGUYEN: Yeah, of course, for safety.
Talking about the environment, though, we asked if you believe in the theory of global warming and what you think causes it. Well, a new CNN poll shows that more than half of you think global warming is real, and caused by pollution from cars and power plants. But 21 percent of you think it is a natural occurrence. While 21 percent don't believe there's enough evidence to support the theory.
HOLMES: Well, you can call her the bionic dolphin. A couple years ago, Winter lost her tail in a crab trap. Now with the help of a prosthetic she's learning to swim and jump like a dolphin should. Our John Zarrella has the story.
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JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): She swims like a fish, side to side. That's great if you're a fish, but not if you're a dolphin. The problem is Winter, a bottle-nosed dolphin, doesn't have a choice because Winter doesn't have a tail.
DIANE YOUNG, ANIMAL CARE DIRECTOR: We didn't give her much of a chance at all. She showed us all up and said I'm going to survive, and she did.
ZARRELLA: In 2005, Winter was found near Titusville, Florida, tangled in crab trap line. A couple months old, Winter was dehydrated and near death. Circulation to her tail had been cut off by the trap line. Veterinarians knew it needed to be amputated. She was brought here, to the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, where teams of volunteers kept her alive.
Fast forward, now two years later.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today she's doing remarkably well. She's adjusted to not having a tail.
ZARRELLA: Winter is the center of attraction at the aquarium. She swims, plays, even makes a valiant effort to jump. And someday, Kevin Carroll, hopes to reward her.
KEVIN CARROLL, HANGER ORTHOPEDIC GROUP: We get an up and down motion now.
ZARRELLA (on camera): Right?
CARROLL: Get natural side-to-side motion and full control of the tail.
ZARRELLA: Carroll is vice president of prosthetics for Hanger Orthopedic Group. The moment he heard the dolphin's story, Carroll wanted to help.
CARROLL: My thought was, you know, I could go down there and fit that little dolphin with a tail, thought I could do it in a couple weeks. Little did I know it would take a couple of years to get to where we're at today.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She's doing really good.
ZARRELLA: Nearly every day trainers working with Winter fit the dolphin with a prosthetic tail made of plastic and gel-like material. The latest is many designs removed from the original, different material, a little bigger. For 20, 30 minutes at a time, they teach her how to swim with a tail, like a dolphin.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We're teaching her when you move it up and down, and she'll feel the resistance, which she hasn't felt since she was born, since she was two months old. CARROLL: Just like a human going to physical therapy, our dolphin is in physical therapy every day.
ZARRELLA: Winter can never be returned to the wild, but one day Carroll believes the little dolphin will be swimming and jumping with her new tail, just as nature intended. John Zarrella, CNN, Clearwater, Florida.
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NGUYEN: That is a great story. I mean, technology and what it can do.
HOLMES: And we hope, Betty, that Winter won't swim her tail off, OK?
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NGUYEN: You just had to say that.
HOLMES: No, said it, but you make the point. Hope it doesn't get to the point where that thing flies off.
NGUYEN: They're working on it.
HOLMES: They're working on it.
HOLMES: Well, coming up here, folks it's the right to work versus the right to enforce regulations.
NGUYEN: Day laborers are the subject of controversy in one New Jersey town. And some say leave them alone, while others say it is time to crack down.
HOLMES: Also, a famous image from the Vietnam era is re-created with Oreo cookies of all things. Stick around for this one.
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NGUYEN: In today's "WaterCooler," some remarkable video to show you that has been making the rounds on the Internet.
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NGUYEN: Check it out. It may look like mirrors and tricky cameras, but it's really a line of Thai dancers. That's how they're making those hands appear.
HOLMES: They are calling this, quite appropriately, the 1,000 Hands Dance. It features about 20 women standing back to front. Precise moves create this illusion. We found it at metacafe.com. If you want to watch the whole thing for yourself.
NGUYEN: That is kind of cool, though. Check it out. Something else interesting you can find on the Internet, as well. This guy, a performance artist, Phil Hanson; he has posted another piece of his so-called "Good-Bye Art". His subject was a famous 1963 photograph of a Buddhist monk settings himself on fire.
NGUYEN: Hanson chose to recreate that image using Oreo cookies of all things. This time-lapse video shows him preparing each cookie to capture just the right shading.
HOLMES: OK, his pieces don't usually last that long. This one ended up in the garbage, actually, when he finished it. You can find an impressive archive of his works at philinthecircle.com.
NGUYEN: And we're going to talk to Rick Harrow next, about women playin with the boys when it comes to baseball.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Retired people don't want to see these people on the sidewalk over here. They're hanging around all day long.
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HOLMES: So, looking for work, or causing trouble. The debate over illegal immigration plays out on the street corners of one New Jersey neighborhood.
NGUYEN: And oil prices, they are on the rise again. What could this mean though for your home heating bills this winter? We'll look into it.
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HOLMES: All right. World Series just about set. The Colorado Rockies are waiting to see who they'll be playing in the World Series. Cleveland Indians might be able to hold on, or the Red Sox might have another comeback in them. Rick Harrow, Pretty Ricky, is what they call him. He is here with us, joining us from West Palm Beach this morning.
Sir, always a pleasure to see you. What you got there?
RICK HORROW, SPORTS BUSINESS ANALYST: First, you're killing my image with that Pretty Ricky stuff. I'm going to strangle you when I see you.
HOLMES: I thought I was helping your image.
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HORROW: I'm a front-runner, you know, that, so I've been drinking out of this the for back half of this week.
HOLMES: OK?
HORROW: But then I had to take this one, the Boston Red Sox '04 World Series Championship out of mothballs, because you never know what's going to happen at the end of this weekend. But you do know this, the winner plays the Rockies with the best baseball winning streak almost in history, and that's a story, too.
HOLMES: OK. That's a story. But does anybody really care that much? And no disrespect to Colorado, no disrespect to Cleveland. Even though Major League Baseball might not admit this publicly, do they really want to see the smaller market teams with the smaller-named guys, not the big-name superstars, matching up in the World Series?
HORROW: Yeah. You know, I care. And a lot of people who appreciate parity care. And it's the age old debate. Do you want a dynasty or do you want competition? Nine of the last 11 years a new team from the National League has gone to the World Series. Seven of the teams in this year's playoffs weren't in last year, and the two teams with the bottom payrolls in the National League fought for the championship this year.
And so, the bottom line is the revenue distribution, and the revenue sharing, the commissioner is getting his wish. Now, if the Red Sox win, they're the third-highest valued team, way over $700 million. Then you have that dynasty in the World Series. But it's David versus David, maybe, if not David versus Goliath.
HOLMES: I hear that story, but it comes down to money and ratings and does it have the same interest. I know, you and I, sports guys, people paying attention, the real hardcore fans, it might be of interest. But that wider, broader scope and those big numbers they want to see for the World Series, will that be that same interest if you've got the Colorado Rockies versus the Cleveland Indians?
HORROW: Well, let's look at the long-term picture on that. A lot of people don't know Colorado is in an incredible streak. And so it may be one of those World Series that relatively low rated, if those two teams get in. But you have long-term TV contracts. TBS has a billion-dollar deal. And so, baseball is doing just fine, understanding that almost, you know, any given Sunday, let's say -- any given year, a new team could rise to the top of the pack. And I think that's pretty good for baseball overall.
All right. Baseball must be doing all right. The fan base must be broadening because you can't go into a sports store, and you can't go into a sports stadium with -- no matter what color your team is -- you've got pink. It comes in pink these days. They're marking more and more to women. What's going on here?
HORROW: Well, 41 percent of the fans are women, and if it's like my household, make about 215 percent, as we know, of the buying decisions. So corporations lover to do that. Seventeen official baseball corporations, they call it activate, meaning they go to the World Series, and they have hospitality, and they all appeal to women. This is the all-star hat from the all-star game in San Francisco this year. As you know, my head -- a set up for you -- is much bigger than this hat, like any hat I would wear.
HOLMES: A good look, Rick. HORROW: Quiet. Quiet, OK, ? Here's the bottom line. This is exactly what Major League Baseball is attempting to do. And Coors is a big-time sponsor. They just merged with Miller, and Coors Field is where the Series is going to be. Well, 6 billion gallons of beer were consumed by the American public last year. I'm not sure what percentage was women. But corporations love the idea of taking their dollars and spreading it out for promotion and marketing.
HOLMES: We know a good percentage of that was consumed by this woman to my right.
NGUYEN: Oh, please.
HORROW: Don't get me in trouble. Just ask the questions, and be quiet. I'll take it from there.
NGUYEN: I must say, you do look pretty in pink, though. That is your color.
HORROW: Wow.
HOLMES: And that's why we call you Pretty Ricky.
Rick Horrow, always a pleasure to see you, sir.
HORROW: Great series. Tune in.
HOLMES: All right.
NGUYEN: All right. Thank you.
HOLMES: Thanks so much, Rick.
NGUYEN: The immigration debate is heating up across America. In Fairview, New Jersey, police patrol the areas where day laborers stand, and the workers say they've been fined for feeding pigeons, and even blocking the sidewalk. CNN's Allan Chernoff has the story.
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ALLAN CHERNOFF, CNN SR. CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Manuel Estrano and other immigrants from Guatemala, many undocumented, line up every morning in front of the Anderson Mini Mart hoping a contractor will pick them up for a day of work at $8 to $10.
Right across the street is a policeman watching their every move. Manuel says he recently got a ticket from an officer. For what? He has no idea.
MANUEL ESTRANO, GUATAMALAN DAY LABORER (through translator): No, they didn't tell me why. They just said, go.
CHERNOFF: Two others were ticketed that day, say the men, one for littering -- he was feeding pigeons -- another for allegedly blocking the sidewalk in front of the market. MUSTAFA ABUALLI, SALES CLERK: I understand they're immigrants and they have not papers, but you know, they're not doing anything wrong. They're just trying to get a job.
CHERNOFF: Fairview, New Jersey's police chief says the men have a right to work, and he has the right to enforce quality of life regulations.
(On camera): Are you targeting the immigrants --
CHIEF JOHN PINZONE, FAIRVIEW, NEW JEERSEY POLICE: No.
CHERNOFF: The illegal immigrants ...
PINZONE: Not at all.
CHERNOFF: ... who are here trying to find work?
PINZONE: Targeting, no, we're not. If they're breaking the ordinance and it's a quality of life-type situations, which we're pursuing, then they will receive a summons like anybody else would.
CHERNOFF: Enforcement, the Chief Pinzone says, has been stepped up following a recent crime wave, including a rape in this alley for which three illegal immigrants face criminal charges.
Fairview is split on the issue of immigration day laborers, particularly at the Italian-American Calabria Club, located next door to where the men wait for work.
VINCENT LEUZZI, MEMBER, CALABRIA CLUB: For people that walk on the sidewalk, it don't look so good.
CHERNOFF: Don't look good? Is that a crime?
LEUZZI: Retired people don't want to see these people on the sidewalk over here. They're hanging around all day long.
CHERNOFF: One man's dislike is another's pleasure. Fellow Calabria Club member Rocco Calabresi is a landscaper.
CHERNOFF: Do you hire them?
ROCCO CALABRESI, CALABRIA CLUB MEMBER: Yes, I do.
CHERNOFF: Good workers?
CALABRESI: Great workers. We cannot do without them. They work, they never say no to anything you ask them.
CHERNOFF: A microcosm of the national debate in a town of immigrants ambivalent about the newest immigrants, who are here trying to make a buck.
Allan Chernoff, CNN, Fairview, New Jersey.
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NGUYEN: Good morning, everybody. From the CNN Center right here in Atlanta, Georgia , it is Saturday, October 20th. I'm Betty Nguyen.
HOLMES: Hello there, everybody. I'm T.J. Holmes. So glad you could be with us this morning.
First, here's some shocking allegations against that guy -- magician David Copperfield. The FBI is searching his warehouse in Las Vegas. We'll show you what they found.
NGUYEN: Plus, there is global outrage over a Nobel Prize winning scientist suggesting that white people are smarter than black people. The controversial statements and the backlash ahead, on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
HOLMES: But up first here, magician David Copperfield under investigation. Federal agents carrying out raids in Las Vegas. Our Brian Todd has the story.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A serious allegation against a superstar illusionist. Two law enforcement sources tell CNN David Copperfield is accused of sexual assault. Seattle police tell us a woman filed a police report over the summer and that the alleged incident took place in the Bahamas.
A top Bahamian police official told us there's no official record there of any incident involving Copperfield. The performer's attorney won't say whether he was in the Bahamas over the summer, but he responded emphatically to the allegation.
DAVID CHESNOFF, DAVID COPPERFIELD'S ATTORNEY: We haven't even been told officially through the law enforcement the name of anybody, but since it wouldn't matter, really, what the name is because it's categorically denied as a false accusation, an impossible kind of claim.
TODD: FBI officials tell CNN Federal agents from Seattle and Las Vegas raided a Las Vegas warehouse owned by Copperfield this week. CNN affiliate KLAS, citing a source close to the investigation, reports the agents took a computer hard drive and a memory chip from a digital camera system along with $2 million in cash that was inside a safe.
KENT ALEXANDER, FORMER U.S. ATTORNEY: Federal authorities have to be really careful and it looks like they are being careful. There is no charge against David Copperfield and to sully his name or image with rumors and innuendos would be absolutely unfair.
TODD: A spokeswoman for the MGM Grand hotel in Las Vegas tells CNN Federal agents also searched the theater there where David Copperfield performs. She says the search took place the same evening as the FBI raid on Copperfield's warehouse. The spokeswoman does not know what, if anything, the agents took from the theater. Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.
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NGUYEN: Rapper T.I. is still in jail this morning, will stay there for at least until Friday. A Federal judge in Atlanta denied an immediate release on bond yesterday. T.I., whose real name is Clifford Harris, was arrested last week on weapons charges. He's already a convicted felon and not allowed to own guns. The judge indicated if he does grant bond, T.I. must post more than $2 million in cash, plus the equity in his home and agree to home confinement. Another hearing is set for Friday.
HOLMES: Well, a bad smell leading to a grizzly discovery in British Columbia. Police there investigating six adults found dead in a single apartment. The bodies were found by firefighters and hazardous materials teams. They were called to building by residents who had originally thought they smelled a gas leak. Police haven't ruled out a murder/suicide.
A call to action in Philadelphia this weekend, organizers there hoping to enlist 10,000 men to patrol tougher parts of the city to act as somewhat of a visual deterrent to crime. It's in response to the growing rate of violent crime in that city, especially homicides, now among the worst in the country. There have been 321 murders there so far this year. We will have more on Philly's call to action later on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
Not just about walking the streets, we'll talk to Norm Bond about a grassroots plan to change the dynamic in a troubled community. That's coming your way at 9:00 Eastern.
NGUYEN: We have some new video this morning out of Manila in the Philippines. Police there now say a bomb is to blame for a deadly shopping mall explosion. Nine people are dead and as many as 92 are injured. So far, no one is claiming responsibility for that bombing.
In Pakistan, a bomb blast near a bus station this morning killed at least seven people. As many as 20 others are injured. No one has claimed responsibility for that attack.
HOLMES: Updating to you here now on the violent storms that punished parts of the country. We got aerial video here shot yesterday over Owensboro, Kentucky. Michigan and Kentucky got hit the worst here. At least six confirmed dead as a result of these storms.
Got a bright spot here for you, some good news. A 14-month-old boy in Michigan found alive still in his crib. A neighbor heard his whimper beneath a pile of debris about 40 feet from the house. So, some good stories coming out of all of this devastation.
Also from tornadoes, we turn to what everybody has been talking about in the southeast, the drought in the middle of a serious water shortage in the southeast. Georgia's Governor Sonny Perdue (ph) talking about it this morning in a live press conference at 10:30 a.m. Eastern. We will bring that to you live. Perdue has gone to court in an attempt to prevent the Army Corps of Engineers from releasing water from Lake Lanier, which is the primary source of fresh water for the Atlanta metro area. The lake is down at least 15 feet and going down more each time the corps releases water downstream.
Take a look at this. This gives you some perspective, an idea of what some people are facing. This is what lakefront property looks like when the region gets enough rain. That's on the left side. You could say you got lakefront property there. Not exactly lakefront on the right side.
These photos taken by CNN producer Rick Martin, the same image, same spot just at different times, the east point reservoir at Douglas County, Georgia, barely a trickle, as you can see, these days. But wow, what a gorgeous sight to have that lakefront property you used to have on the left. You never think the lake is going to go away.
NGUYEN: It just illustrates just how bad the situation is here in Georgia. I mean people are really rationing water, making sure that they don't use too much when it's not needed. How long did it take for it to get to this point? I know we haven't had a lot of rain, but months and months for it to reach this area.
WOLF: You could argue that last year we were a little behind normal, but, I mean, it's been pretty much building up as we made our way through the summer and through the fall, we've been waiting for that big, great rainfall to show up and it never really did. We're in a situation now, we're in a spot where it's going to take not months, but possibly years to recover from this. The only thing could really save the situation is if we had say a tropical storm or a tropical depression come in, stall out and just dump a lot of rain, but even then, we're not going to fix all the plans. We're not going to save a lot of these ...
NGUYEN: Years and years?
WOLF: Two or three years to really start building back up. Even then, you can't just catch up instantly. It's just not going to happen.
NGUYEN: Then you have flooding.
WOLF: There you go.
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HOLMES: We appreciate it as always. See you again soon.
NGUYEN: New this morning, word that a boat has capsized in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Mexico and a search is underway for bodies about 200 miles from the Guatemalan border. There are conflicting reports on the casualties, though. One state official says two dozen bodies washed ashore yesterday, but an official government statement says three people are confirmed dead, 20 others missing and one person did survive. That boat is believed to have been carrying Central American migrants.
HOLMES: Well, of course you want to help them feel better, you know, the babies, the kids, but a Federal panel says cold and cough medicines won't do young children much good and it could be dangerous.
NGUYEN: Also, an unhappy anniversary for Wall Street. Is Friday's sell off a sign of worse to come?
HOLMES: Also here, kind sir, the one on the left. You want to stop the car. It's confusing. Gas, brake, gas, brake, sometimes but the one on the left, an extremely unexpected makeover home edition. That's next on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
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NGUYEN: All right. We do have a warning for parents this morning. A key FDA advisory panel is now recommending children under six years old should not take common cold medicine, especially those over the counter and that includes medicines containing antihistamines, decongestants, antitussins and expectorants. The panel concluded that the medicines have not been proven to be beneficial to children that young.
HOLMES: Money worries rippling across the country and that is not good news for Wall Street. The Dow dropped almost 367 points yesterday. That tumble just so happened to come on the 20-year anniversary of the Black Monday stock market crash. This time, concern over the credit crunch, rising oil prices and lackluster corporate earnings are to blame. Top finance officials meeting in Washington yesterday called for calm and they promised to do all they can to limit damage to the global economy.
NGUYEN: OK, so if you're running around today in that big SUV, just listen to this -- oil prices briefly topped $90 a barrel yesterday. That is the highest it has ever been and it scares some people.
CNN's Ali Velshi has a reality check on the worldwide impact of high oil prices.
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ALI VELSHI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This most recent spike in oil is being driven by speculation that critical oil supplies in the Middle East could be cut off, that's if tensions between Turkey and Iraq escalate and draw other countries in.
But even without Mideast turmoil, oil prices are up because of good, old-fashioned demand. The U.S. economy might be slowing down, but many of the world's economies are growing and using more oil faster than producers can pump it. The obvious effect is already being felt. Gasoline prices are up an average of five cents just this week.
PETER BEUTEL, OIL ANALYST: If you've seen a nickel already, say, in the last week, then you've got 15 cents coming. VELSHI: And if you heat your home with oil, expect your heating bills to be about a third higher than last year.
BEUTEL: I honestly expect that some people may have trouble picking this winter between heating their home and keeping their home or paying the mortgage on it.
VELSHI: Beyond gasoline and heating oil, higher oil means inflation. Everything that needs to be shipped to a U.S. port or trucked to a store is going to cost more and factories that need energy to heat their plants or power their equipment will likely pass those costs on to consumers.
Over the last 50 years, oil price strikes have triggered recessions nine out of 10 times. A small but growing band of people are now predicting that possibility. And what might be more important is that a CNN Opinion Research Corporation poll shows that almost half of Americans feel that we're already in a recession.
Ali Velshi, CNN, New York.
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NGUYEN: Well, you just heard Ali Velshi say heating costs are expected to go up this winter. They are actually, we're going to provide you with some specific things that you can do right now to protect your home and save you some money. We'll give you those tips -- well, you're going to have to wait a minute for it. It's in the next hour of CNN.
HOLMES: Betty, my goodness.
NGUYEN: You may have noticed something a little different at the bottom of your screen today. It's over there. That green CNN logo.
HOLMES: I was wondering what was going on.
NGUYEN: It's all about being environmentally friendly.
HOLMES: We're going green over the next week, digging deeper on environmental issues, covering stories that affect all of us from the air we breathe to the fuel we use.
NGUYEN: And it all coincides with the premiere of "Planet in Peril," which is a special report from Anderson Cooper and Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet's Jeff Corwin. That is next Tuesday and Wednesday, 9:00 Eastern only on CNN.
An unexpected houseguest. Florida police say an elderly man driving in his car went to make a turn but pressed the gas instead of a brake and quickly found himself airborne. Yep, he landed right there in that house.
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MIKE DELGAUDIO, HOMEOWNER: He managed to jump my pool. He flew over my pool, through the sliders in the back.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Took out the living room.
DELGAUDIO: Took out my living room, took out my kitchen and lodged his car into my garage.
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NGUYEN: I guess it's a good thing that he jumped the pool. No one was home at the time. The driver was taken to a nearby hospital for a check-up. He will likely be ticketed. Yeah, you think?
HOLMES: What is that violation?
NGUYEN: I don't know, but he's got a big bill on his hands. I don't know if this home owner's insurance takes care of that or will he be responsible?
HOLMES: We should peek into that a little more because we obviously have a lot of questions.
NGUYEN: We're going to keep them honest.
HOLMES: Reality check.
NGUYEN: That too.
HOLMES: Folks, stay here because a prize-winning scientist made such a jaw-dropping comment. Does he really believe that one race is smarter than another?
NGUYEN: And from super bugs to beating breast cancer, our Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the medical news that you need to know.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thanks, guys. We're looking at how your world can affect your health today on "HOUSE CALL." From a deadly antibiotic-resistant super bug found in some schools to a nightmare of pollution, a terrifying look at what might be in the water. Also some advice from Olivia Newton John and Jaclyn Smith, how they fought breast cancer and won. All that's coming up on "HOUSE CALL" at 8:30.
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NGUYEN: Take a look at this. It was a scary scene in Vancouver, British Columbia. A small plane crashes into a 15-story apartment building. It happened shortly after takeoff. The pilot was killed. At least two people in the building were injured. Witnesses said the plane was making some weird noises and investigators are still trying to determine what caused that crash.
HOLMES: Also new this morning, replacing troops in Iraq. Army officials say five of the seven National Guard brigades told they will likely be deployed to Iraq next year and in 2009 have done combat tours there before. All together, the deployment totaled about 18,000 soldiers to replace forces already in Iraq. They do not represent an increase in the size of the force.
Wildlife conservation is on the agenda today for President Bush. He's visiting Maryland's eastern shore this morning. Just a few minutes from now, the president set to take a tour of a complex for endangered migratory birds, then he'll speak at an event on protecting striped bass and other fish.
NGUYEN: First, she was outed as a CIA operative and now Valerie Plame is speaking out. Plame spoke to CBS' "60 Minutes" about her ordeal of suddenly having her cover blown after 20 years. She says she is particularly upset President Bush never fired anyone because of it. Plame also tells Katie Couric that the leak had an almost immediate negative impact on agents around the world.
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KATIE COURIC, ANCHOR, CBS "60 MINUTES": Is it safe to say people were put in danger?
VALERIE PLAME WILSON, FMR. CIA OPERATIVE: There was a damage report done by the CIA. I never saw it. I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask them how they're doing, although I would have liked to have.
COURIC: You probably can speculate about the damage, though.
PLAME WILSON: Mm-hmm.
COURIC: If you had to write your own damage assessment, knowing what you know ...
PLAME WILSON: Uh-huh.
COURIC: How serious would it be?
PLAME WILSON: It would be serious.
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NGUYEN: And you can see the full interview tomorrow night on "60 Minutes" on CBS and on Monday night at 9:00 p.m. Eastern, Plame will be on CNN's "Larry King Live."
Listen to this next story. A well-respected scientist may not be so well respected anymore. That's because of the lack of respect that he is showing for others.
HOLMES: Now trying to take a step back just a bit, saying what he said wasn't really what he meant. CNN's Mary Snow explains this one to us.
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MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Dr. James Watson has been called the godfather of DNA. But the Nobel prize-winning scientist is now at the center of a racial controversy for suggesting black people are not as intelligent as whites. Watson says he's sorry and that his comments were misconstrued, but it hasn't quelled the outrage among fellow scientists.
HENRY KELLY, FEDERATION OF AMERICAN SCIENTISTS: This is really one of the icons of American science and it's extremely painful to have to have a conversation like this about him.
SNOW: Watson sparked a furor when the UK's "The Sunday Times" quoted him saying, I'm inherently gloomy about the prospect of Africa, adding, all our social policies are based on the fact that their intelligence is the same as ours, whereas all the testing says not really. And that wasn't all.
Watson was quoted as saying he hopes everyone is equal, but, quote, people who have to deal with black employees find this not true. Watson says he was misquoted, but "The Sunday Times" tells CNN its taped interview with Watson supports the quotes used. The London science museum canceled an event with Watson and at least one UK organization demanded he retract his words.
KOZU ADOMDZA, DIRECTOR, 1990 TRUST: We call on him to actually give an unqualified apology to Africa and all descendants of African heritage.
SNOW: Watson apologized saying to all those who have drawn the inference from my words that Africa as a continent is somehow genetically inferior, I can only apologize unreservedly. That is not what I mean. More importantly from my point of view, there is no scientific basis for such a belief. But some scientists say the apology doesn't go far enough.
KELLY: He really hasn't rebutted the notion that people of color have lower intelligence, whatever that statement meant.
SNOW: Watson is no stranger to controversy. He once suggested that skin color is linked to sexual prowess and he defended the idea that women should be allowed to abort their babies if a test could show they are gay. We contacted Watson's home, but a family member says he declined comment.
Mary Snow, CNN, New York.
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HOLMES: All right. California cops -- we'll move on quickly here -- California police thought a 911 call was a crock. Got there, turned out it was actually a gator. How in the world this guy made his way to Thousand Oaks and how in the world did they get him out.
NGUYEN: Plus, can someone help cut the crime rate in Philly? How about 10,000 someones? We have more on a massive call to action. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.
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NGUYEN: All right, talk of the water cooler, a bombshell of sorts from Harry Potter author J.K. Rowling. She revealed to a packed audience at Carnegie Hall in New York that the headmaster of Hogwarts is gay.
HOLMES: She outed Albus Dumbledore. Of course, we're all familiar with him.
NGUYEN: Of course we are.
HOLMES: Albus Dumbledore, she was asked a question from a young man about whether the master wizard ever finds true love. She responded Dumbledore actually fell hard for one of his wizard rivals who he defeated in a battle of good and evil.
NGUYEN: So now you know.
HOLMES: Now you know.
NGUYEN: And police in Miami had to become cowboys shall we say for a few hours the other night to round up a wayward bull. What they couldn't figure out, though, is how exactly to do that.
HOLMES: They eventually discovered that the roaming bad boy had found a gap in the barbed wire fence just down the road and I guess they eventually rather caught up with this guy.
NGUYEN: They chased him in the squad car.
HOLMES: Slow chase.
NGUYEN: Nice.
HOLMES: I think they have a helicopter -- no. But they eventually rounded him up.
NGUYEN: A very slow-speed chase.
Well, a 911 call about loose gators may be routine in Florida, but in California, it is considered a crank call.
HOLMES: First, the 911 dispatcher in Thousand Oaks did not believe the alligator story, but police did indeed find a 2 1/2-foot reptile wandering along the road. Not that big but still scary nonetheless.
NGUYEN: And we're going to show you some video of where a deputy actually managed to get the gator's mouth taped shut. And then all the men -- actually we don't have that video, but you can imagine it. Just imagine it.
Maybe you prefer some Backstreet Boys instead. Snowball, the cockatoo does. Look at this little guy go, my goodness, to the Backstreet Boys of all things.
HOLMES: OK. Snowball here.
NGUYEN: Rocking his body. HOLMES: Bouncing to the beat. This has been all over the web (INAUDIBLE) in the last couple days. It looks like he might know the lyrics to the song as well. Look at the feet and doing the bouncing stuff.
He'll be (INAUDIBLE) in a minute. We got this one on the viral (ph) videochart.com. It's worth watching for Snowball's big finale when he actually takes a bow. Is that it?
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