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Girl Falls 14 Stories Down Manhattan Chimney; Obama Shifts Policy on Offshore Oil Drilling; Furious Wave of Fighting in Gaza City; Crime on the Rise in Chicago

Aired August 02, 2008 - 22:00   ET

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SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN ANCHOR: He was against it.
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SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: We can't drill our way out of the problem.

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ROESGEN: Now, he's for it. And, hey, so is he.

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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: We need to start drilling and producing more oil at home.

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ROESGEN: Why do these two rivals now see eye-to-eye on offshore oil drilling?

It's practically a floating palace. A symbol of Iraq's richest squandered by Saddam Hussein. We'll take you on a tour of this luxurious yacht.

A Manhattan miracle. She fell down a 14-story chimney.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She came out relatively unscathed.

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ROESGEN: What saved this young girl?

And they're the ones who will pay for today's problems tomorrow.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We all are paying attention. People think we aren't paying attention but we are.

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SANCHEZ: Rick talking social security with a college crowd. The news starts right now.

And good evening. I'm Susan Roesgen filling in for Rick Sanchez this weekend.

We have just learn some new information about the man sources say was the government's chief suspect in the 2001 anthrax attack. That's Dr. Bruce Ivins, a well-respected scientist who committed suicide this weekend. Apparently, Ivins new the government was closing in.

CNN has learned that his therapist was granted a temporary protective order just days before his death. The therapist, a woman, testified that Ivins had threatened her and had a plan to kill his co- workers. According to taped testimony, Ivins' therapist, Jean Dulfy, told a judge that Ivins had been forensically diagnosed by several top psychiatrists as a sociopathic, homicidal killer.

She also testified about a therapy session she had with Ivins on July 9th, less than a month ago. She said Ivins, in her words, proceeded to describe to the group a very long and detailed homicidal plan that he had bought a bulletproof vest and had obtained a gun, and had a very detailed plan to kill his co-workers.

She says that was because he was about to be indicted on capital murder charges. In her words, he was going to go out in a blaze of glory. That's new information tonight to CNN on Dr. Bruce Ivins, the chief suspect in the anthrax scare and murders back in 2001.

Well, with all the headlines focusing on Ivins right now, we want to take a minute just to remember the five victims of the anthrax attacks. A photographer, Robert Stevens, two postal workers, Tom Morris Jr. and Joseph Curseen, a hospital worker, Kathy Nguyen and Ottilie Lundgren, a 94-year-old widow of a prominent judge.

A big sigh of relief tonight for the family of a little girl and for the police who have been looking for the man accused of kidnapping her. That man is her father, a man with some mystery. Here he is. He's apparently a wealthy man who calls himself Clark Rockefeller of the Rockefellers but the real Rockefeller Family has never heard of him. Whatever his name is, he has some explaining to do to the police.

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COMM. EDWARD DAVIS, BOSTON POLICE: At this time, Clark Rockefeller is in FBI custody in Baltimore, and facing charges which include felony custodial kidnapping, assault and battery, and assault and battery with a dangerous weapon. Investigators continue their efforts to determine Clark Rockefeller's true identity.

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SANCHEZ: In the meantime, Rockefeller's 7-year-old daughter, Reigh, is back safe with her mother tonight. The father allegedly took the girl in Boston during what was supposed to be a supervised visit, and he fled with her last weekend. FBI agents acted on a tip and they tricked him into the open today in Baltimore, by telling to him that his 26-foot catamaran was taking on water at a nearby marina. And that's when the agents were able to grab him.

And we have more gruesome details about an incident that's really horrible enough already, so brace yourself because this is pretty disturbing stuff. Canadian police talking about the decapitation of a young man on a Canadian bus, now confirm that the alleged killer cut up and ate pieces of the 22-year-old victim Tim McLean. And he did it in plain view of the officers who came to get him. Tim McLean stunned family talked to reporters in Toronto.

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ALEX MCLEAN, TIM MCLEAN'S UNCLE: He was a guy with a heart bigger than you could know. He made friends effortlessly just like no one, and accepted everyone for who they were. He was a charmer who loved to smile, could never take a plate of food away from him.

Tim spent his life traveling and meeting new people and always saw the good in everyone. He had the most infectious giggle and you could hear him laughing a mile away. It didn't matter what kind of day you were having because when you heard him laugh you couldn't help but join in.

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ROESGEN: Just a real shocker for the family. The man that witnesses say killed Tim McLean is in police custody now facing murder charges. He allegedly stabbed McLean without any warning and beheaded him while other bus passengers watched but couldn't do anything about it.

This next story is strange also, but has a better ending. A girl fell 14 stories down a Manhattan chimney with hardly a scratch. She was saved, but what was on the ground floor.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm amazed that she survived even with that powder. But that's the only thing we can explain. She made -- no, she had no scrapes, no cuts so she didn't impact the chimney going down.

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ROESGEN: That soft powder that the firefighter was talking about there was two feet of ash and soot. The girl survived with only an injured hip. She fell while she was showing her cousin the view from the roof of her apartment building.

Senator Barack Obama grabbed the wheel today and steered his campaign philosophy on offshore oil drilling closer to a compromise. Obama announced his policy shift at an appearance in Florida. His old stance on offshore drilling was flat-out no. His new stance seems to be, well, if we have to.

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SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: I remain skeptical of some of the drilling provisions. But I will give them credit that the way they crafted the drilling provisions are about as careful and responsible as you might expect for a drilling agenda.

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ROESGEN: And so Senator Obama says he might be persuaded to accept a compromise, if offshore drilling is part of a bigger plan to wean the U.S. dependence on foreign oil.

Meanwhile, the McCain team applauded Obama's new position on the possibility of offshore oil drilling. A spokesman says now, both parties are following in his words, John McCain's leadership toward an all of the above approach on energy.

Stay with CNN. You'll hear more from both candidates in a few minutes. Obama and McCain in their own words. It's a new feature we call, "What They're Saying," and that's coming up about.

In Texas, sizzling temperatures are taking a toll on a lot of people including the cops. Some Fort Worth police officers were chasing a suspect and just couldn't do it. One passed out and five had to go to the hospital. Tougher people working construction jobs, too. The high temperature there today, 104.

And you know, really, people are sweating all the way from Denver to Dallas and even beyond. Jacqui Jeras is with us now. Any relief, Jacqui?

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ROESGEN: Jacqui, development you don't mean the big "H"?

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Probably -- well, we'll see. Probably not enough time to be the big "H," but maybe a TS.

ROESGEN: A tropical storm because it's really still close to the golf course. OK. Thanks, Jacqui. We know you'll be watching it.

JERAS: You bet.

ROESGEN: Half-naked and blindfolded, Palestinians fleeing Hamas. Find out how fighters make their way into Israel. What now?

Plus, is crime taking over the streets of Chicago? Statistics show a growing problem. But do the numbers tell the real story?

And the lavish ship built for a dictator. Saddam Hussein never set foot on his floating palace, but you'll get an exclusive tour.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROESGEN: A furious wave of fighting in Gaza City, but it isn't the usual Israeli versus Palestinian border fight. It is Palestinian versus Palestinian. Hamas militants and gunman royal to Fattah fighting each other. Rifles, mortars, heavy causalities on both sides, and it led to a very unusual arrangement with Israel.

CNN's Wilf Dinnick is in Jerusalem.

Wilf, what happened there?

WILF DINNICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the most recent flare-up that started a very early today began when Hamas security officials surrounded a house and neighborhood, and that neighborhood loyal to the rival Palestinian faction of Fattah.

Hamas member said they were looking specifically for people involved in a bombing on July 25th that killed five Hamas militants and it also killed a little girl. And that triggered gun battles throughout the streets between Fattah and Hamas that deeply divided Palestinian factions.

At least four people were killed about 80 to 100 injured. Real devastating fighting here. But not unusual because this has been going on now for about a year since Hamas took control of the Gaza strip. But later on after the fighting calmed down, about 150 Palestinians were allowed to flee the Gaza strip.

The Israeli Defense Forces opening up the gates there, very rare, letting those 150 Palestinians, loyal to Fattah, go through into the state of Israel. Of course, they had to lay down their arms. Of course they were searched. The injured were taken to hospital.

Now, the last time we saw this also was back in June 2007, when Hamas took control of the Gaza strip. Those soldiers loyal to Fatah were allowed to flee, too. But it really shows the bitter divide between the Palestinians here. A divide that appears to be widening.

Susan?

ROESGEN: So, Wilf, this Fatah, that 150 fighters, they're allowed to come into Israel, the head of Fatah, Mahmoud Abbas, asked for them to be sent there. What happens next? And how does this affects the continued fighting between Fatah and Hamas?

DINNICK: Well, it's most likely those Palestinians loyal to Fatah will either be allowed to go to the West Bank, City of Ramallah, which is the stronghold of Fatah, or they'll probably go to Egypt. It's not clear exactly how many will go where.

But it really will also cement the perception or the divide between the Palestinian factions. Hamas, of course, saying that the fact Fatah can just leave Gaza and those people can just go, they're colluding with Israel and the United States. And that they're the enemy of the Palestinian people.

And, of course, Fatah saying, well, the fact that they can't live in a society controlled by Hamas just goes to show that Hamas shouldn't be in control of any party or any government that if Fatah can't live there, if Palestinians can't live there freely, then they're obviously not governing it properly. So, really cementing that divide between the two Palestinian factions, and it's clear there won't be peace between them, at least it seems, any time soon.

ROESGEN: CNN's Wilf Dinnick in Jerusalem tonight.

In Iraq, two American soldiers face murder charges. A military statement says the charges stem from the death of an Iraqi detainee back in May. In addition to murder, a staff sergeant and a first lieutenant are also accused of assault making a false statement and obstruction of justice.

The U.S. military says the lieutenant lied to investigators when he said the detainee had been released.

Crime on the rise in Chicago. Scenes like this one are so familiar now on city streets. What is driving up the violence?

Plus, a medical first. Six years after losing both arms, a German farmer gets two new ones.

And no time to waste when a pitbull clamps down. The vicious attack and how it finally ended, caught on camera.

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ROESGEN: Three words from the Illinois governor sent a whole lot of questions out. We have been telling you for some time about Chicago's crime problem. And recently, the governor of Illinois called it out of control. Those three words offering additional state police, but possibly even the National Guard, to the city of Chicago really got some people fired up. Violent crime is up, but is it really out of control? Here's CNN's Rick Sanchez.

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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): On a cold day four short months ago in Chicago, Lawrence Benson watched as his best friend was murdered not far from the front steps of Crane High School.

LAWRENCE BENSON, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENT: As I looked down the street I could see somebody fall and I'd seen it was him. I just started to cry and called him.

SANCHEZ: Friends say Ruben Ivy died over a hat. A hat. Police say Ivy's murder was gang related. Students just knew this. Another one of their classmates had been killed.

DEVERRA BEVERLY, CHICAGO COMMUNITY ACTIVIST: They came and they had told me they were not going to go back to school. You know, they were so afraid.

SANCHEZ: Neighborhood activists pulled together and started escorting students to and from school. But the crime blotter kept ticking. Chicago's murder rate is up. From January to June, 229 people have been killed. The same time last year, that number was 203. Police superintendent Jody Weis says, more than half of the murders are gang related. An amazing 40 percent of victims were age 25 or younger. There's another thing.

SUPT. JODY WEIS, CHICAGO POLICE: 90 percent of the offenders have criminal backgrounds and more than 75 percent of the victims have criminal backgrounds, too.

SANCHEZ (on camera): We've just come up on a scene here, across from a park, where police are saying that they've heard some shooting. There's about ten police cruisers that have already shown up here and more are on the way. They say whatever happened, they're sure it's gang related.

(voice-over): Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich, obviously tired of the headlines, decided to make his own. He told reporters Chicago's crime problem is out of control. And said, he's willing to assign more state troopers to the city's troubled areas.

It was an offer he did not discuss with Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, and that has some people questioning the governor's motives and asking other questions out loud.

ROBERT FIORETTI, CHICAGO CITY COUNCIL: Do we want a police officer on every block? Do we want a police officer in front of every home? The answer is no. We don't want a police state.

SANCHEZ: Rick Sanchez, CNN, Chicago.

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ROESGEN: Well, we crunched the numbers with a criminologist who says that Chicago's current crime problem does not appear to be out of control, although the number of murders is up 13 percent over last year.

Meanwhile, the Chicago police chief says he welcomes a partnership with the state police, but he declined our repeated requests to talk about it tonight. The mayor and the governor declined our requests, as well.

Instead, the governor's office directed us to a statement online saying, "The Chicago Police Department and Illinois State police have worked hand-in-hand on a number of other issues, and have done so with great results." Online it says, we expect this effort will not be any different.

Looking to the future. Social security not just an issue for baby boomers, our League of First-Time Voters weighs in.

Also, staggering numbers about HIV and the black community. And one woman is determined to battle the odds.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) ROESGEN: Well, you're never too young to think about the shaky state of social security. Just ask young voters who are more energized than ever by the presidential race.

Our Rick Sanchez sat down at an Atlanta watering hole with a group of college students. Two Democrats, two Republicans, all political activists, and Rick got an earful.

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SANCHEZ (on camera): Let's start with the youth vote. Why are people so pumped up? So many young people are really into this election. What's going on?

JADE MOREY, GEORGIA STUDENTS FOR MCCAIN: I think it has a lot to do with issues that are on the forefront these days with social security, with the war in Iraq, young troops over there.

SANCHEZ: Social security. Isn't social security --

MOREY: Absolutely.

SANCHEZ: But social security is a long way ways for you, isn't it?

MOREY: Granted, but I'm paying into it today.

SANCHEZ: You want to make sure it's there.

MOREY: Yes. I want to make sure that the money that I'm working hard to get is actually going to be there for me in the future.

CHRISTOPHER ROBERTS, GEORGIA STUDENTS FOR MCCAIN: You're paying into social security right now to cover the people that are on social security.

SANCHEZ: Right.

ROBERTS: And then, they are trying to say -- well, when you are coming time to have social security, we're going to give you back basically like a portion of it. If I took that money that I pay into social security, invested it into a savings account that I couldn't touch, I think that I'd be able to invest it a little bit better and have more and guarantee that it's there when I need it.

SANCHEZ: So, President Bush tried to get that through. He tried to essentially make social security something that's profit driven and personalized.

ROBERTS: Yes.

SANCHEZ: You like that idea?

ROBERTS: Yes.

SANCHEZ: By the way, how many people here think social security is going to be around by the time they get ready to collect. Raise your hands.

CHANCE STRICKLAND, STUDENTS FOR BARACK OBAMA: Kind of.

SANCHEZ: Kind of.

STRICKLAND: I think they'll do something about it. I'm not very confident they'll do enough. And I'm not that confident that the levels will be paid out to us will be nearly to the level where they should be.

SANCHEZ: So, you don't think social security is really going to be able to benefit you?

STRICKLAND: No, not really. But then, again, I see what my grandmother gets in the mail, and I don't think it really benefits her either.

MOREY: The amount of people that are paying into it, and the amount of money going into it, and the amount of people that are receiving it, it's way out of whack and out of balance. And that's the issues.

It's not just a personal issue. I'm not going to get my money back so much. It's going to be what's the government going to do when it comes time for a great amount of people to get their social security, and there's no money there? They'll just say well, tough luck, you're not going to get any money,

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MARU GONZALEZ, STUDENTS FOR BARACK OBAMA: And I think -- I think, you know, Republicans like to criticize Democrats for being the tax and spend party. But Republicans have just become the borrow and spend party, which, you know, ultimately is a lot worse, I think, for us.

SANCHEZ: If the government continues borrowing at the rate that it's borrowing now, how can there be any social security for anybody?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right. Right.

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STRICKLAND: That's the thing about it is the fact that Congress can't keep their hands off of the money that's going into it. And this is not a problem that rests in the Democrats' hands or the Republicans' hands, this is a problem with Congress in general, with both parties.

We've got, you know, one party that likes to keep taxes low and they put their charges on the credit card, and got another party that wants to spend the same amount of money, but then, you know, raise taxes.

SANCHEZ: Anybody comfortable with that? They think that's a great idea. We don't have to pay. We'll let the other guys pay for it later on? Good idea, bad idea?

MOREY: Terrible from a youth perspective, that's going to be us.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. And my children. I don't -- yes.

SANCHEZ: You don't like that?

MOREY: I mean, we are paying attention. People think we aren't paying attention, but we are. We see that. I mean, you don't have to be very intelligent to see that if you're in debt now and you keep spending outrageously, you're going to be in more debt.

STRICKLAND: We are acquiring more and more and more and more personal debt, and more on our credit cards and less in our bank accounts. And our government is not setting a very good example.

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ROESGEN: Well, you can get more of Rick's interviews in his "League of First-Time Voters." And if you haven't registered to vote, you can find out what each state requires. Just go to cnn.com/league, and make your voice heard.

Swimming pool, salons and even a mini submarine. This palatial floating palace once belonged to Saddam Hussein. But we'll take you on an exclusive tour and find out who owns it now.

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ROESGEN: We have word tonight that Senator John McCain has added another name to his vice presidential short list. The name is Eric Cantor. He's a Republican congressman from Virginia. A Republican source tells CNN that Cantor is among several potential ticket partners who is getting a thorough vetting this weekend.

Congressman Cantor is a four-term congressman. He's 45 years old, he's Jewish, and he is the fourth highest ranking GOP House member. Our source says Cantor on the ticket would lock up Virginia for McCain, but our source also says that he doubts that he will be McCain's choice. So, we will have to wait and see.

Their words and your choice. We're going to play more now of what the candidates are saying in their own words. It's another way to make an informed choice in this presidential race. Senators John McCain and Barack Obama talking about issue number one, the economy.

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SEN. BARACK OBAMA (D), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: If I'm elected, I will put a thousand dollar tax cut into your pocket. 95 percent of Americans will get tax relief under my plan.

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I will -- I will provide a mortgage interest deduction for people who currently don't qualify so that homeowners get a little bit of relief. We're going to eliminate income taxes. We're going to eliminate income taxes for seniors who are making $50,000 a year or less, so they get a little bit of relief.

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And I'm going to support parents who are struggling right now by expanding the child care credit.

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And making sure that families have paid sick leave, because a lot of folks don't. And we're going to make sure that we have equal pay for equal work so that every woman in America is being treated the same way that men are being treated because that's just the right thing to do.

I don't want to wait until I'm president to do it. I want it done now. So, yesterday, I announced a two-part emergency plan to help struggling families make ends meet and get our economy back on track. First, the part of my plan is to tax the windfall profits of oil companies.

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And to use some of that money to help you deal with rising gas prices by getting a rebate to you right away. Now, this is an area where my opponent and I disagree. He opposes using that money to help you pay your bills. The other day we learned that Exxon Mobil made nearly $12 billion in three months. To put it another way, they made $1500 every second. That's more than $300,000 in the time it takes you to fill up your gas tank.

Senator McCain actually wants to give oil companies, like Exxon, another $4 billion in tax cuts. I don't know about you, but I don't think we should be giving tax breaks to oil companies at a time that they are doing better than they have ever done before and you are doing worse. I think it's time to use some of those record profits to help pay for your record prices at the pump by putting a thousand dollars emergency energy rebate into your pockets right now.

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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), PRESUMPTIVE PRESIDENTIAL NOMINEE: Senator Obama and I have fundamental differences on economic policy, and many of them concern tax rates. He supports proposals to raise top marginal rates paid by small business and families, to raise tax rates on those with taxable incomes of more than 32,000 dollars, raise capital gains taxes, raise taxes on dividends, raise payroll taxes and raise estate taxes. That's a whole lot of raising. And for million s of families, individuals, and small businesses it will mean a lot less money to spend, save and invest as they see fit.

For my part, I believe that in a troubled economy, when folks are struggling to afford the necessities of life, higher taxes are the last thing we need.

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My friends, the economy isn't hurting because workers and businesses are under-taxed. Raising taxes eliminates jobs, hurts small businesses, and delays economic recovery.

Under my plan, we will preserve the current low rates as they are, so businesses large and small can hire more people. We will double the personal exemption from $3,500 to $7,000 for every dependent, in every family in America.

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We will offer every individual and family a large tax credit to buy their health care, so employers can spend more on wages, and workers don't lose their coverage when they change jobs. We will lower the business tax rate, so American companies open new plants and create more jobs in this country, not going overseas.

There are honest differences as well about the growth of government. But surely we can find common ground in the principle that government cannot go on forever spending recklessly and incurring debt. Government has grown by 60 percent in the last eight years, because the Congress and the administration have failed to meet their responsibilities, and Americans are angry about it. And they should be.

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And next year, total federal expenditures are predicted to reach over $3 trillion. That is an awful lot for us to be spending when this nation is already more than $9 trillion in debt or more than $30,000 in debt for every citizen of this country. That's a debt our government plans to leave for your children and mine to bear. And that is not only a failure of financial foresight, but of moral obligation.

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ROESGEN: Both candidates in their own words tonight. Remember, for the very latest on the presidential race, you can logon to our Web site, cnnpolitics.com, 24/7, and it is the most politics you can find on the Web.

Doctors in Germany perform a medical miracle. A man gets not one, but two new arms after losing his own in an accident.

And caught on camera. A pitbull goes on the attack, puts his jaws on another dog. But that's just the beginning of this story.

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ROESGEN: You know, it's one thing for me to tell you about a bear attack, but it's totally different to actually hear what happened from the victim herself. It's this woman here with the gray here and the blacktop. She was outside her Southern California home when she was attacked by a bear. But be warned here, what she says is pretty graphic.

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ALLENA HANSEN, BEAR ATTACK SURVIVOR: My first sensation was that a little tiny bear, but what a bully. Then I found myself down on the ground. I heard chomp, chomp, chomp. I felt it goes through my skull. I felt it bite through this eye. I heard, you know, kind of a squishy, crunchy pop. I went, there goes my eye.

Then it got a hold of my face and started shaking, you know, worrying it, and I could feel it tearing off. I could feel the blood, you know, the wetness, I could see it dripping. I could hear it whooshing. And I think the one thing that most riveted me was watching that little bugger spit my teeth out.

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ROESGEN: Note to self, stay away from bears! She got away. You saw she's scarred. Looks like she's going to be OK, but she does have an incredible story to tell.

Now, here's another animal gone wild but this is a dog. A house pet near Fort Lauderdale, Florida. A guy shot his neighbor's pitbull after the pitbull had his dog by the throat. Home surveillance video here shows the pitbull trotting through the yard and then he goes to the neighbor's fence, and watch what he does here. He latches on to the other dog whose head was poking through a hole in the fence. There he's got a hold of the other dog's head.

Now, the neighbor tried to beat the pit bull off of his dog with a ten-pound satellite dish. When that didn't work, the neighbor just grabbed his .45 and shot him. The pit bull died but the owner says he doesn't have any hard feelings, what else could you do?

Well, what you're about to see now has never been done before ever. This is a first. It is the first double arm transplant. A team of doctors in Germany attached the arms from a donor to a farmer who lost his in an accident years ago.

The donor had died shortly before the surgery. And get this, they tried this procedure twice before with artificial arms but they just didn't work. Doctors say this time with the human arms, the human transplant, so far, so good. But it could take years before the man can actually move his arms without some kind of help.

Taking her fight against HIV and AIDS out of the office and into the communities where people need it. One woman driving home the importance of testing and education to the people who need it most. You'll meet her, next.

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ROESGEN: We learned this week that HIV continues to hit the black community harder than any other racial or ethnic group in America. In fact, just over half of the new HIV cases in the U.S. are diagnosed in black Americans. But tonight, a CNN hero is trying to change that. She is Bambi Gaddist and she is on the front lines in the fight against AIDS.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This "CNN Heroes."

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BAMBI GADDIST, MEDICAL MARVEL: Here in South Carolina, HIV is a problem, particularly among African-Americans. After 27 years of AIDS, we are still combating a mentality of fear and shame.

I'm Bambi Gaddist, and I'm fighting to stop the spread of HIV/AIDS in South Carolina. Our organization has the only HIV testing mobile unit in the state. So our goal is to be in the community, testing at a nightclub, we're there when young folks are out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was my first time, very first time. I'm glad I did it. Takes time to explain things, actually break it down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE : When people that are scared see a place like this, it might make them want to go in and get tested.

GADDIST: We had a very good night. We had quite a few people decide to find out their status. We also had positives.

We got some business to handle. When we get a positive, it validates why we need to keep doing the work.

Did you get tested yet?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I did.

GADDIST: You already got it? OK. I sure appreciate you coming out.

I joke about being a 70-year-old woman giving out condoms to the children. When it's my time, I want my obituary to think that I made a difference for someone and that I saved somebody's life.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get involved, CNN.com/heroes.

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ROESGEN: And if you want to get involve with Bambi's organization or with any other CNN hero, go to cnn.com/heroes. And the most outstanding CNN heroes will be honored at an all-star tribute, thanksgiving night here on CNN.

Bathrooms with gold fixtures, eight state rooms, and a crew of 32. Saddam never knew how luxurious he had it. But now you can see the yacht he never set foot on.

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ROESGEN: You know, it's been almost two years since former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein was executed. But there is still a struggle over his property. And the latest fight stretches all the way to the French Riviera.

Here's CNN's Jim Bittermann with an exclusive look inside Hussein's floating palace.

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JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Amidst the luxury of the French Riviera, it might have gone unnoticed but when the Iraqi flag was hoisted from the stern of a 90 meter, 270-foot yacht, the Iraqi ambassador to France said it marked the end of an odyssey for the ship and the Iraqi people.

Saddam Hussein constructed the lavish yacht which has come to be known as Basrah Breeze back in 1981, laying out vast salons and dining rooms. Equipping it with eight state rooms for guests. With golden bathroom fixtures and Jacuzzis. A deck that could land a helicopter and a master bedroom suitable for a dictator.

But he never set foot aboard. When the war with Iran began, Saddam sent the ship to the king of Saudi Arabia, who then gave it to the king of Jordan. But the crew, sometimes numbering as many as 32, says no one other than they ever came aboard. Ever sat down in the ship's barber chair or needed to use the fully equipped medical bag. Still, for nearly three decades, the crew always kept the Basrah Breeze party ready.

MOWFAK ABBOUD, IRAQI AMBASSADOR TO FRANCE: I was really surprised. I didn't expect the ship to be in such luxurious standard. I mean the decoration, the equipments showed how much money spent for having such luxurious things.

BITTERMANN: Contrary to published reports, the yacht does not have bulletproof windows, surface-to-air missiles or a submarine dock. But its luxurious appointments ship broker say would cost 100 million euro, that $155,000, 000 to re-create today.

So last year, when the yacht turned up in a port near Nice, France, lawyers for the Iraqi government decided to press its case for ownership in French courts.

ARDAVAN AMIR-ASLAMI, LAWYER FOR IRAQI GOVERNMENT: This boat is symbolic in the sense that it personifies the plundering and looting that Iraq was the subject of under the reign of Saddam Hussein.

The ambassador stated that during the time that this boat was being built, millions and millions of dollars of cost, Iraqi soldiers were falling in giving him front and people were suffering from every kind of violence anyone can imagine under the dictatorship.

BITTERMANN: While the Iraqi government hasn't decided what to do with the ship, the ambassador says his preference would turn it into a floating museum so Iraqi citizens could see how the ex-president squandered their wealth while they suffered. (on camera): The yacht is not the first or the last that Saddam Hussein's overseas assets. Not so long ago, just down the coast here, lawyers were able to establish Iraqi control over a villa that belonged to Saddam Hussein and his family. And the lawyers and investigators say that they know of other assets and secret bank accounts that they estimate could be worth billions of dollars. Jim Bittermann, CNN, along the French Coast.

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ROESGEN: Lifestyles of the rich and infamous.

The summer games are just six days away now. And while we cheer our American team, consider this. Is there too much pressure on Olympic athletes to do whatever they can to get the gold?

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ROESGEN: The U.S. men's 1600 meter relay team's gold medal. The one they won in the 2000 Olympics in Sydney is gone. One of the runners on that relay team admitted that he used performance-enhancing drugs. And the question is, with so much to lose, why cheat? CNN's Betty Nguyen has the answer.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And I truly hope that people will learn from my mistakes.

BETTY NGUYEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With those words, disgraced Olympic track star Marion Jones was sentenced to six months in prison for lying to federal authorities investigating performance- enhancing drugs. Jones won three gold medals and two bronze at 2000 Sydney Games. And with that, came instant celebrity.

MIKE WISE, WASHINGTON POST SPORTS COLUMNIST: Most big-time athletes, especially in America are going to come down on the fame side because it means everything. It means money. It means sponsorships. It means a Wheaties box.

NGUYEN: Psychologists say, it's that shot at fame and fortune that prompts some to risk it all.

DR. STEVE EPSTEIN, DEPT. OF PSYCHIATRY, GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY: There are other people whose entire identity is wrapped up with success and it can be devastating to lose or to not achieve at a high level.

NGUYEN: Dominique Dawes is an Olympic gold medal winning gymnast. She says the pressure to perform is intense, and the temptation to take shortcuts is real.

DOMINIQUE DAWES, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: The outside sources, it's the people they choose to surround themselves with, feeding this information into their mind.

NGUYEN: Dawes' post Olympic life includes everything from coaching to motivational speaking.

DAWES: It was very good.

NGUYEN: And she says, whether it's at the Olympics, in school, or on the job, it's important to be able to look at one's self in the mirror and be happy with what you see.

DAWES: There are a few of us that do lie and don't do things the right. And I think it eventually comes back to bite those individuals. Either they get caught or it just eats away at their conscience.

NGUYEN: So, is there a formula for achieving success on the up and up?

DAWES: When you were young, your parents instilled certain values in you about commitment, and sacrifice, and don't cheat, and work hard, and things like that. And we all as adults need to stay true to the core values.

NGUYEN: Olympic officials are counting on those core values when the Beijing Games start, but others say the problem lies with the message society sends.

WISE: Don't finish second. Don't be number two. Be number one. And that's a powerful drug.

NGUYEN: Betty Nguyen, CNN, Atlanta.

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ROESGEN: And lots of fanfare and fireworks, but no fans yet. This is the Bird's Net. That's what they're calling Beijing's National Stadium. The site of this month's Olympic opening ceremony. It looks like the real thing but this is just a rehearsal for the big day.

And you can follow all the Olympic action on cnn.com in a special section we call the Fan Zone. It will bring CNN's global resources right to your computer. Just go to cnn.com/fanzone.

And thanks for joining us in the CNN NEWSROOM tonight. I'm Susan Roesgen, and I'll see you tomorrow.