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Pakistan in Crisis: President Bush to Address Topic Today; Film & TV Writers on Strike; Oprah Winfrey Talks About Abuse Allegations at Her School in South Africa

Aired November 05, 2007 - 11:00   ET

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HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: You're with CNN. You're informed.
Hi, everybody. I'm Heidi Collins.

Developments keep coming in to the CNN NEWSROOM on Monday, the 5th day of November.

Here's what's on the rundown.

Crackdown in Pakistan. President Bush set to talk about the situation soon and it's impact in the fight against terror.

Script writers now a part of the plot twist. They're on strike today. Does it mean an endless parade of TV reruns?

And a reveal 3,000 years in the making. King Tut goes public. A face only a mummy could love -- in the NEWSROOM.

A U.S. ally in crisis this morning. Arrests and violence on the streets of Pakistan. The fallout felt right here at home.

Elaine Quijano is following that angle from the White House for us this morning. But first, what's happening right now in Pakistan and what may happen next?

CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh has the very latest.

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ALPHONSO VAN MARSH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Pakistan's security forces used tear gas and batons to beat down lawyers protesting President Pervez Musharraf's declaration of emergency rule. When the tear gas settled, the protesters among more than the 1,500 opposition activists detained or placed under house arrest.

AFTAB AHMED KHAN SHERPAO, PAKISTANI INTERIOR MINISTER: Section 144, which prohibits taking out processions and (INAUDIBLE). And they were trying to do that, and these arrests have been made, but in due course they would be released.

VAN MARSH: General Musharraf says he's suspending the contusion for emergency rule because of terrorism and judicial activism. The political intrigue comes as Pakistan's supreme court was set to determine if General Musharraf's own third-term reelection is valid. Justices who did not support his emergency declaration are under house arrest.

Over the weekend, Pakistan's prime minister said parliamentary elections set for January may be delayed up to a year.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We are committed to making sure that elections are held. Now, as a result of what has happened, there could be some timing differences.

VAN MARSH: But opposition politicians like Miran Khan (ph), who's under house arrest himself, say they are being targeted.

General Musharraf's most prominent opponent, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto, who recently returned to Pakistan from self- imposed exile, is not under house arrest.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have seen the 2.4, 2.5 million people turned out to receive her. If he would put her hand on her, I'm sure he's going to have a very severe backlash countrywide.

VAN MARSH: Pakistan pulled the plug on privately-owned TV stations, and security forces raided a printing press belonging to Pakistan's biggest selling newspaper. Pakistan's prime minister explained the new guidelines to journalists.

SHAUKAT AZIZ, PAKISTANI PRIME MINISTER: You will be sensitive to people's sensitivities, and you will follow a basic code of conduct which will not ridicule or malign.

VAN MARSH: Western leaders indicate that it's democracy being maligned in Pakistan.

ROBERT GATES, DEFENSE SECRETARY: We urge President Musharraf to return his country to law-based, constitutional and democratic rule as soon as possible.

VAN MARSH: Washington is reviewing its financial aid package to Islamabad, and a scheduled meeting between U.S. and Pakistan officials is postponed. Britain and the European Union are also criticizing Pakistan's extra constitutional declaration.

Ambassadors from the United States and other countries close to Pakistan met with General Musharraf on Monday, but there is no word on what was discussed.

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COLLINS: And CNN's Alphonso Van Marsh is joining us now live.

Sorry, Alphonso -- from London. Just want to make sure people know where you are, because earlier when we checked in with our correspondent there, there were quite a few protesters on the streets. But things look pretty quite now.

VAN MARSH: They do look pretty quiet now. About 20 minutes ago, we should say, there were about 100, 150 protesters here outside the Pakistan High Commission here in London. These protesters saying that they will come back, and they will let the people know they want the high commission staff here to know that they do not agree with what's been going on, and they will keep protesting until democracy returns to their home country -- Heidi.

COLLINS: All right. Alphonso, we know you will be watching that situation from London.

Now we want to get to Elaine Quijano, who is standing by at the White House with more reaction from the Bush administration as to what is going on in Pakistan today.

In fact, Elaine, we are going to be hearing directly from the President a little bit later today.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's right. And this morning, White House Press Secretary Dana Perino, Heidi, said that the United States is deeply disturbed by the emergency proclamation in Pakistan. At the off-camera briefing, Perino told reporters that the U.S. cannot support emergency rule or what she called the extreme measures being taken during the emergency. She said such actions are not in Pakistan's best interests and damages the progress that Pakistan has made on its path to democracy. Now, Perino said that President Bush has not spoken directly with General Pervez Musharraf since that emergency proclamation was made on November 3rd. But the President has been briefed, of course, by top U.S. officials, including Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.

Now, asked about the possibility of the U.S. cutting aid to Pakistan, Perino said that a review was under way, but she did not have any kind of time frame on when that review might conclude or what criteria specifically might be used in making that determination.

She did stress that U.S. aid to Pakistan is not limited solely to counterterrorism efforts. She said that the U.S. assists Pakistan on a number of other fronts as well, including education, health, and economic development initiatives. But Heidi, as you mentioned, the President is expected to address the situation in Pakistan. He's expected to make some comments to reporters after a scheduled Oval Office meeting that he has here later this afternoon with the prime minister of Turkey -- Heidi.

COLLINS: Hey, Elaine, I might be putting you on the spot, but any idea of the time of that today?

QUIJANO: Well, looking at possibly the 2:00 hour. The meeting takes place at 1:15, and then pool reporters are going to be allowed in after that. It's typical that these meetings last half an hour, 45 minutes. The pool will be allowed in after that. But certainly a difficult situation with this White House struggling to balance the needs to fight the war on terrorism with the president's own declared push for democracy around the world -- Heidi.

COLLINS: All right. CNN's Elaine Quijano for us this afternoon -- or this morning, I should say.

Elaine, thank you. COLLINS: Investigators sorting through hundreds of tips now this morning. A toddler found dead in a plastic box, washed up near Galveston, Texas.

Police are calling her "Baby Grace," but no one really knows who she is. Forensics show this much -- she was between 2 and 3 years old, and she'd been dead for at least two weeks. Her skull was fractured. A lot of people in Texas are involved in this investigation now. It's hitting them hard.

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LOIS GIBSON, "BABY GRACE" SKETCH ARTIST: And I want to get her identified because I want to get justice for her.

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COLLINS: Words from the woman who did the sketches that you saw just a moment ago. And there was a vigil for "Baby Grace" yesterday. A cross laid near the spot where she was found.

Some people have been asking police if the child might be Madeleine McCann, and that's the little girl who went missing in Portugal six months ago. Investigators do not believe it's her. They are still working with the FBI before ruling it out.

But as we just mentioned earlier today, and speaking with a detective on the case, Raymond Tuttomondo (ph), he had been speaking with the authorities in England, and they are quite certain, in his words, that it is not Madeleine McCann.

A sixth grade teacher in federal custody, nabbed south of the border with a boy. . Twenty-five-year-old Kelsey Peterson faces a judge in California today. She was found in Mexico with a 13-year-old former student. She is facing a federal charge of taking the teen across the border for sex. Back home in Nebraska, she faces kidnapping and child abuse charges.

The pair disappeared last week when investigators started looking into their alleged affair. But the boy won't be coming home just yet. It turns out he was an illegal immigrant.

Reruns on the menu. Film and TV writers putting down their pens and putting on their walking shoes.

Our Jim Acosta is with striking writers on the picket line in New York this morning.

Jim -- oh, there they are in the background. I was going to say it looks a little bit more calm than last time we checked in with you.

JIM ACOSTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Definitely so, but, you know, it may not be calm tonight, at least not on the phone lines to the various networks, because people may be calling in and expressing their displeasure -- we'll just put it that way -- with the fact that there will be reruns on tonight. We've already talked to a writer from "The Daily Show With Jon Stewart." He says they're going to be in a rerun tonight. And we also talked to some performers from "Saturday Night Live," saying unless something is worked out, "Saturday Night Live" will not be live this Saturday night.

And as you mentioned, yes, the writers are on strike. This began sometime after midnight.

The big point of contention is this issue of new media. The writers say they are not being fairly compensated for what is basically the downloading of TV shows now, TV shows that appear in DVD form. You can buy them at the video store.

You know, the entire season, the writers say, they are not getting the kind of cut that they want out of that money, and they're getting some big name support out here. We were just in this picket line a few moments ago talking to some big name performers from "Saturday Night Live," Tina Fey and Seth Myers, who were out here supporting their writing brethren.

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TINA FEY, "30 ROCK": ... the residuals off that Internet stuff. And, you know, the big producing companies, they know that that's going to be at the source of their revenues, because you can tell they're already trying to circle the wagons and lay claim to all of it. And we are just asking for a reasonable share of that so that we can keep our pension plan going, keep our health fund going. Otherwise, you know, our unit will just disappear in the next 30 years.

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SETH MYERS, "SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE": Well, it's really hard. (INAUDIBLE) like this. I don't think anybody is obviously telling (INAUDIBLE). But, you know, I think the issues we're talking about in new media, it's very easy right now to be able to see the future totally change with new media. So, if it is something that's going to take five months, I think it will be worth it. I think the writers that are out here today are certainly (INAUDIBLE).

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ACOSTA: And it's not those live shows or those live to tape shows as you're looking at the picketers here at Rockefeller Center outside the NBC studios here in New York City. Some of the big drama shows that are out there on TV, "Law & Order," we talked to one of the writers for that show, and he said "Law & Order" could be affected perhaps by Thanksgiving. So this is serious business.

The writers -- many of these writers are paid to be funny, but they're saying right now that this is very much serious. The last writers' strike lasted almost five months and cost the entertainment industry $500 million -- Heidi.

COLLINS: All right. Jim Acosta for us, live from New York this morning.

We know you'll be watching that one for us. Thank you, Jim.

Want to take a moment to get directly to Barbara Starr now at the Pentagon. Some new information this morning about the situation in Pakistan.

Barbara, we know that there's been a nationwide state of emergency called by President Pervez Musharraf, and that he has suspended the constitution. What does it mean for the Pentagon this morning?

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT: Well, Heidi, by the hour this story continues to unfold here as the U.S. military is assessing what is at stake for its relationship with Pakistan and in the war on terror. A few minutes ago, a top Pentagon official confirmed to CNN what we were tracking, which is this -- over half of all the logistic support, supplies, equipment, all of it for the war in Afghanistan, next door, over half of it flows through Pakistan.

That is really something that's hitting them between the eyes here this morning as they look at these scenes of violence on the streets in Pakistan and begin to realize the very delicate situation the U.S. military is in. The military doesn't do business with people -- with countries that pull their dissidents off the street like this, these pictures that we have been seeing. But the U.S. is heavily dependent on Pakistan to conduct and prosecute the war on terror.

So they can't really walk away from it. So this is a problem.

What are some of the things at stake? Well, billions of dollars in U.S. arms sales to Pakistan. Topping the list, a $3 billion arms sale of about 36 F-16 fighter aircraft. That's going to be something they're looking at. About $35 million a year in things like narcotics control, law enforcement, and anti-terrorism funding.

And consider this, Heidi. The U.S. spends $80 million a month reimbursing Pakistan for costs in the war on terror for its efforts to go after the al Qaeda and the Taliban, and that's been one of the big complaints of Congress, as well as top U.S. military commanders, that the Pakistani government isn't even doing enough there, of course, even as the U.S. is paying them $80 million a month.

All of this now under review, looking at it very closely. Secretary Gates is saying it's all under review, but that he doesn't want to do anything to disrupt the war on terror.

Whether they're going to be able to walk that balance between working with the Pakistanis on the war on terror but not supporting the kind of emergency powers and emergency government that General Musharraf has instituted is really going to be the delicate question -- Heidi.

COLLINS: Yes. And just a quick reminder to everyone. We are going to be hearing from the president later today. Expected to address the situation in Pakistan and possibly that assistance program that you are talking about, Barbara.

Thanks so much for the update.

Oprah Winfrey speaking out today.

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OPRAH WINFREY, TALK SHOW HOST: This has been one of the most devastating, if not the most devastating, experience of my life.

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COLLINS: Children allegedly abused at Oprah's school for girls. We're on the story live from South Africa.

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COLLINS: She says it's one of the most devastating experiences of her life. Oprah Winfrey just this morning talking about abuse allegations at her school in South Africa.

Live to Robyn Curnow in Johannesburg now, where a former dorm worker has been freed on bail.

Robyn, give us the latest.

ROBYN CURNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there.

Well, Oprah spoke to a press conference here via satellite from Chicago here in Johannesburg. And like you said, she said it was one of the most devastating experiences of her life, that these abuse allegations had shocked her and shattered her to the core. What she said, that she had spent a lot of time and money building walls and putting up security to protect these 150 girls from the dangers of the outside world, but ironically the danger came within from someone that she had hired to look after the girls that she calls her daughters.

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WINFREY: What I know is that no one, not the accused, nor any persons, can destroy the dream that I have held and the dream that each girl continues to hold for herself at this school. And I am prepared to do whatever is necessary to make sure that the Oprah Winfrey Leadership Academy for Girls becomes the safe and nurturing and enriched setting that I had envisioned.

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CURNOW: So what Oprah says she's also done is that she's going to be buying all of the girls cell phones so that they will always be able to contact her directly. Of course, one of the concerns from the scandal has been that the girls seem to have been making complaints and shouting out that they were concerned about behavior of some of these dorm mothers, that even told the head mistress that they were worried about the behavior of one of these dorm mothers and the head mistress has done nothing. So Oprah's saying, I am going to give you phones so you can call me directly if there's ever any concerns about your safety again.

COLLINS: All right. CNN's Robyn Curnow live for us from Johannesburg this morning.

Robyn, thank you.

Baby won't take a bottle, so mama puts an ad in the paper: "Breast milk for sale. All offers considered."

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COLLINS: The final hour of THE SITUATION ROOM moves to 6:00 p.m., and tonight you'll here from presidential candidate John Edwards. THE SITUATION ROOM tonight, from 4:00 until 7:00 p.m. Eastern Time.

A survival story now you will have to see to believe. A soldier called to the scene of an explosion in Baghdad. Then something bizarre happened.

Our medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen has the incredible story, but a warning to you. Some of these images are disturbing.

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ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): If there are average days in Iraq, July 2nd of this year started out as one for the 118th Military Police Company. Sergeant Dan Powers led his squad of 13 men to the scene of yet another explosion on the streets of Baghdad. They finished questioning the Iraqi police and were walking back to their trucks, when all of a sudden...

SGT. DAN POWERS, 118TH MILITARY POLICE COMPANY: It was like, "bam!" It was really loud, and I had blood all over my armor.

COHEN: At first Powers thought he'd been shot, but it was no bullet. It was this -- a nine-inch knife had gone halfway through his head. Another MP wrestled down the attacker and Powers kept doing his job.

(on camera): So you have a knife sticking out of your head and you're watching this guy who stabbed you.

POWERS: I was covering him with my M-4.

COHEN: You have a knife sticking out of your head, and yet you have got your gun aimed at this prisoner?

POWERS: Mm-hmm.

COHEN (voice over): Powers said he had no idea he had a knife in his head until his buddies pointed it out. After bandaging the wound, they whisked him to the Green Zone and then rushed him by helicopter to a state-of-the-art military hospital 50 miles north of Baghdad. They called ahead, warning a stabbing victim was on the way.

LT. COL. DR. RICHARD TEFF, NEUROSURGEON: We had no idea that it was going to be such a big, shiny German knife.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Our neurosurgeon is on his way down. OK?

COHEN: Lieutenant Colonel Richards Teff was one of the neurosurgeons in the operating room, and you're getting a first-hand look.

Here is Powers just as he arrived in the O.R. Amazingly, he chatted with his doctors.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's very lucky to be alive. I know that.

COHEN: But an extra x-ray revealed his situation was really quite dire. The knife had miraculously just missed his brain, settling in his sinus cavity. But the tip of the knife nicked his carotid artery, and it was like a finger in a dike. Remove it and he could bleed to death.

The surgeon's only option was to slowly pull the knife out and see what happened.

TEFF: We just prayed and pulled it out. And frankly, I was a little surprised. I didn't think it was going to bleed the way it did, but when it started bleeding, we had to act quickly.

COHEN: Powers lost 40 percent of the blood in his body.

TEFF: That was the moment when I -- they call that a heart attack moment, when I was concerned that he might die right there on the table in front of us.

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COLLINS: Unbelievable.

COHEN: Isn't it incredible? And Sergeant Powers says that he owes his life to so many different people that helped him at different stages. But he said two were especially key.

One, there was a medic who did not pull the knife out at the scene.

COLLINS: Yes.

COHEN: If he had pulled that knife out at the scene, he would be dead right now.

And secondly, the doctor who you met in the story, Dr. Teff, he got on the phone immediately with a vascular surgeon friend of his who was in Washington. This guy, this vascular surgeon, was driving on the beltway in Washington.

He pulled over. He flipped up his laptop. The doctor in Iraq e- mailed him images so that he could be of assistance. He got on his cell phone and he talked him through the surgery while looking at the images that had been e-mailed from Iraq. COLLINS: You have got to be kidding me.

COHEN: So, I mean, talk about it takes a village. It took, yes, from Washington to Iraq.

COLLINS: Yes, the technology, too. Amazing.

So is he OK? Sergeant Powers completely OK now?

COHEN: Well, you noticed there was sort of that dent in his head. You pointed it out to me when we were watching.

COLLINS: That's because it's a little swollen.

COHEN: Right. It's a little swollen and a little bit indented. He still has to have a 10 centimeter piece of bone put right back in his head, sort of like right -- kind of around here. And in January he will have that surgery.

And the doctors have been clear with him -- you know, you're not completely out of the woods. They told Sergeant Powers you may have seizures later in life, there may be issues. But so far he says nothing.

COLLINS: I hardly know what to say.

COHEN: I know.

COLLINS: I mean, that is one of the most dramatic x-rays for sure, and then to actually see the knife still in there...

COHEN: It's incredible.

COLLINS: Unbelievable. And fighting away he was doing. In fact, what happened to the guy who stabbed him?

COHEN: The guy who stabbed him was taken into custody by the Iraqis, and the Iraqis tried him. And Sergeant Powers actually testified by video from his hospital bed, and Sergeant Powers says he doesn't know exactly what happened to this guy, but he was definitely found guilty. So the Iraqis will do with him what they see fit.

COLLINS: Unbelievable. All right.

CNN's Elizabeth Cohen.

Thank you for that one.

COHEN: Isn't it amazing?

COLLINS: It is. It really is. All right, Elizabeth. Thanks.

Forced out by the floods. Residents in southern Mexico now returning to waterlogged homes looking to fend off looters.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) COLLINS: You are in the CNN NEWSROOM. I'm Heidi Collins. Tony Harris is off today. State of emergency for a U.S. ally. Just this morning we learned President Bush will address the issue today.

But here's what's happening right now. Police stepping up their enforcement of President Pervez Musharraf's emergency declaration. The nation's jails now overflowing with thousands of lawyers, journalists, and opposition figures. They took to the streets after Pakistan's president suspended the constitution on Saturday. He cited the growing threat of terrorism. Critics say the Pakistani president is looking to hold onto power.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice called to Pakistan to return to constitutional rule.

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CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECY. OF STATE: So much has happened over the last several years to try and pull Pakistan away from extremism, to try to launch Pakistan on a Democratic path, to launch Pakistan on a path toward the return to civilian rule. And our disappointment is that this is a setback for that path.

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COLLINS: In flooded parts of Mexico today, some people are ignoring the warnings and going home to fend off looters.

CNN's Harris Whitbeck has more.

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HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A boat is launched into a newly formed river on what was once a busy street in downtown Villahermosa. It is filled with neighborhood residents and rescue workers. These days boats are the best way to get around parts of the capital of Villahermosa. After a week of rains, the city landscape is more of a seascape.

(on camera): Water levels are still high, and they're expected to remain so for several day, but many residents of these neighborhoods have decided to come back and to stay in their homes to protect them from looters. The Hernandez family, brothers and cousins, are armed with nothing more than their bare hands. They say they are ready to fend off anyone who might try to invade their home.

"It is the thieves we fear the most," says Ricardo. "We don't want them to steal what little we have."

The occasional military boat drifts by. The calling of birds one of the few signs of life.

A few blocks away on higher ground, much of the neighborhood has taken up residence in the parking garage of a shopping mall. We found a spot and our neighbor suggested we come here, says Sonia Lopez (ph). She and her husband hope to return home in a few days. Meanwhile, hundreds in the shelter pass the time catching you on school work, watching television or just wondering when things will get back to normal.

Harris Whitbeck, CNN, Villahermosa, Mexico.

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COLLINS: You wish you looked this good after 3,000 years? King Tut shows his face, in the NEWSROOM.

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COLLINS: I want to quickly get you some breaking news coming out of Boston this morning. A bizarre story about a U.S. Airways plane that's been diverted.

Our Dan Lothian is calling in to us with more information on this.

Dan, it looks like five crew members from this plane are sick, sick enough to have to divert to Logan.

DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Indeed. I mean, this really is a bizarre incident. What we are hearing from an official out at Logan Airport is that this flight, this U.S. Airways flight 2022, he told me that this flight initially was scheduled to go from Washington to Boston. Five crew members, as you mentioned, did get sick, but all of the passengers on the flight, I was told by this official, have been removed from the flight.

Now, I asked him whether or not this had had anything to do with this particular flight, in terms of them getting sick, and he said that the early indication is that these five crew members were onboard another flight prior to getting onto this one and had complained about some kind of an odor on that plane. They were reassigned to this flight, and then subsequently got ill. So just presuming here they believe that perhaps this had something to do with the flight that they were on before they got onto this one.

Nonetheless, they're being September on the plane right now. They're being checked out. Emergency officials are on the plane right now working with the five crew members, and we hope to get more details as they become available.

COLLINS: OK. And you may not know the answer to any of these questions. Bear with me, Dan. But as you say, crew members, we only know five crew members. Are we talking about the pilot, the co-pilot, and flight attendants? Do we know which crew members in specific?

LOTHIAN: Yes, we don't know that. I mean, we can sort of surmise -- guess here based on how many people typically work a flight that it might involve some pilots here. But all I was told is there are five crew members who are ill at this point, and they're being checked out.

COLLINS: Interesting, too, because we always think about, obviously, food that they eat. Important to point out that they never really eat the same meals, the pilot and the copilot...

LOTHIAN: Right, but in this particular case, if it does turn out to be something connected to the other flight, again, I just want to point out that they were complaining about something having to do with odor.

COLLINS: Yes.

LOTHIAN: So perhaps there was something on that other flight that caused them to get sick, and then that just sort of carried over onto this flight. By the way, this flight was supposed to turn around and turn into flight 2029 departing from Boston. That flight now has been canceled.

COLLINS: OK. Very good. And I'm sorry, Dan, I may have missed it, but did you say they are investigating that other aircraft, or was it on the same plane, just different flights?

LOTHIAN: It was on a different aircraft. So they are going back to look at that other aircraft. It was a different airplane that they were complaining about this odor on, and then they were brought to this one, this U.S. Air flight 2022. So different airplane here. So no doubt the investigation will also go back to that other plane where they first complained about the odor.

COLLINS: OK, understood. We know you will be following this one for us today. Dan Lothian coming to us from Boston watching five crew members that have gotten sick and had to divert to Boston's Logan Airport there coming out of D.C.'s Ronald Reagan Airport. All right, we'll stay on top of that one for you. Kind of bizarre.

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COLLINS: A mystery 3,000 years in the making -- the face of King Tut revealed. CNN's Aneesh Raman reports.

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ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's been dead for 3,000 years, but on Sunday, for the first time ever, the world got to see how King Tut was holding up. Gone were the casings and covers as the boy king was unveiled with, yes, bare hands, a low-tech approach that faced some precarious moments going up the stairs. In the end, Tut didn't look too bad, tucked away in his new bed, a climate- controlled Plexiglas container. It's meant to minimize damage done by thousands of visitors who every day pour in to see King Tut;s tomb.

ZAHI HAWASS, EGYPTIAN GOVT.: The mummy divided into 18 pieces. (INAUDIBLE), and therefore I thought the humidity and heat that 5,000 people a day entered the tomb, that (INAUDIBLE) will change the mummy to a powder. The only good thing in this mummy is the face. We need to preserve the face.

RAMAN: And if the face doesn't look familiar, try this one -- King Tut's golden mass that is an icon of Egypt's pharonic past. It was exactly 85 years ago this week that right here in the Valley of the Kings, Howard Carter, a British archaeologist, discover the entrance to King Tut's tomb. It was the first found to have virtually everything inside intact. And because of that the discovery catapulted a little-known king, who ruled in the mid-1300s B.C. and who died at 19, to modern day prominence, even giving him a hit song.

And 85 years later the boy king is now baring it all.

JEFF RANKID, BRITISH TOURIST: I was very impressed with it. It's something that just took my breath away. It's unbelievable.

RAMAN: Maybe, but for others, it's a bit too much.

BOB PHILPOTTS, BRITISH TOURIST: I saw him, too, but really I think he ought to be left alone, just left quietly at peace, and leave him here where he was buried.

RAMAN: If only. For eight decades King Tut has been a mystery, especially how he died. His body has been X-rayed three times, most recently in 2005. Was it murder? Was it an accident? The debate will now rage again as visitors pour in to see King Tut in his newfound glory.

Aneesh Raman, CNN, Cairo.

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COLLINS: "YOUR WORLD TODAY" comes on next right here on CNN. We want to check in with Hala Gorani now to see what they're working on. No doubt you'll be talking about the situation in Pakistan.

HALA GORANI, CNN ANCHOR: Absolutely. The world watches with concern, Heidi, as this nuclear power is engulfed in further crisis. We're going to be taking you to Pakistan. Police are using clubs and are firing tear gas at demonstrators, many of them lawyers. Democracy is on hold there. Elections in January postponed indefinitely. We'll also be speaking to a former American diplomat who served that Pakistan.

Also, we're going to be talking about that scandal in Chad. The latest on the alleged mass kidnapping of more than 100 African children. We'll tell you who among those who were arrested is now free, who' s still in custody in Chad and the latest on this story.

Also, Gisele Bundchen, you know her, she's fabulously gorgeous and she earns $30 million a year. Well, guess what, Heidi, she now wants to be paid in euros. That's the European currency. Why? Because the dollar is so weak these days. We're also going to tell you who -- what other big hitters want to be paid in euros right now because the dollar is at -- one euro is 1.41. I remember when the euro launched, a euro was worth 89 cents. Now it's at $1.41. Everybody was making fun of the common currency. Well, how times have changed.

COLLINS: Is it David Beckham, by any chance, who wants to be paid in euros?

GORANI: I'm trying to think in the top three. No, he's not in there. Although David Beckham would be paid in pound, and the pound now is also going through the roof. So I mean the Galaxy team he plays for I'm sure pays him in dollars. But I don't think he's hurting.

COLLINS: No, not a bit.

GORANI: Absolutely.

COLLINS All right, Hala, we'll be watching. Thank you.

Baby won't take a bottle, so ma puts an ad in the paper: "Breast milk for sale. All offers considered."

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COLLINS: Want to quickly get you back to this breaking news we were telling you about just a few minutes ago. Kind of a strange story here. We have learned, according to our Dan Lothian, who is there in Boston reporting on the story for us now, that five crew members from a U.S. Airways flight that originated at Ronald Reagan Airport in D.C. headed to Boston, got very sick and have now been removed from the plane as well as the other people. It was flight number 2022. We don't know which crew members. Obviously when you're talking about a pilot, a co-pilot, some flight attendants. Not exactly sure of the breakdown there.

But we know something interesting -- they were on the same flight prior to this flight, again, originating from D.C. And heading to Boston. And so they reported smelling a very strange odor on that other flight, so we believe that the investigation will obviously have to go back to that other aircraft. That's the one now that has been evacuated, so he will stay on top of this one.

But again, five crew members getting sick on a flight, and they have now landed. We will go ahead and continue that story for you throughout the day here.

Meanwhile, overflowing with breast milk. An Iowa woman puts hers up for sale. Martha Heller took out an ad in the Tiffin, Iowa newspaper, 100 ounces for $200. That's about $2 an ounce, or you can just make an offer, and she'd consider it. Containers are filing up in the freezer because, she says, her new baby won't drink from a bottle. An Iowa health official says there's no law against it, but he doesn't really recommend it.

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SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Time Warner shares are bucking the trend this morning. They are up 3 percent, and one of the most actively traded issues here at the NYSE, following a CNBC report that CEO Dick Parsons will announce today that he will step down early next year. Parsons' contract expires next May. Previous reports said he would leave early to expedite the transition to his expected successor, current COO Jeff Bewkes, who many analysts think will downsize the company to boost Time Warner's flagging stock.

And Time Warner is the parent of this network, CNN. Heidi, back to you.

COLLINS: Yes, it is. All right, CNN's Susan Lisovicz. Susan, thank you.

LISOVICZ: You're welcome.

COLLINS: Well, hey, it's showtime, but are you holding a bogus ticket? Police say they busted a big counterfeiting ring. We'll tell you the story in just a moment.

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COLLINS: Counterfeit tickets. Police in Indianapolis say they've arrested three men in a huge scam. They found several hundred fake tickets. Some looked incredibly real, too. Many of them were for yesterday's Patriots/Colts football game. A very popular game. Police say the phony tickets were selling for as much as $275 a piece. The police believe the ring is based out of Atlanta. Those three the suspects there.

He plays to a packed arena every Sunday. Pastor Joel Osteen leads the largest church in the United States, with 47,000 people attending services regularly. And today he is in the CNN NEWSROOM to talk more about his bestselling book and why so many people are following his message.

CNN NEWSROOM continues one hour from now. Meantime, "YOUR WORLD TODAY" is next, with news happening across the globe and right here at home. I'm Heidi Collins. Have a great day, everybody.

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