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More Corpses Discovered at Home of Convicted Rapist; How Does World Grade Obama One Year Later?; Israel Seizes Weapons Ship; Bus Driver Feeds the Hungry
Aired November 04, 2009 - 13:00 ET
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DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you very much, Tony Harris.
He was potentially dangerous before. Ten corpses later, Anthony Sowell is deemed incredibly dangerous. He's locked away in Cleveland, but his alleged secrets are still spilling out.
And supplies are -- fall far short of demand here, so why would anybody throw out thousands of doses of swine flu vaccine? We have the cold, hard facts for you.
Hello, everyone. I'm Don Lemon, in today for Kyra Phillips, live in the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.
And we begin with two mind-blowing crime stories today, all the more incredible for where they happened. Right under the noses of police.
Jaycee Dugard was allegedly held for 18 years in the backyard of a convicted rapist who was supervised, supposedly, by parole officers. Next hour, in California, the state inspector general fills us in on two -- a two-month-long investigation into how Phillip Garrido managed to hide so much in plain sight.
And then there's Anthony Sowell, a convicted rapist in Cleveland who was also was on authority's radars, but his house in the past few days has yielded ten bodies and one skull. He is being held now without bond.
And we also learn more about the Cleveland case when the coroner meets with reporters under three hours from now. Meantime, CNN's Susan Candiotti brings us up to date on the story.
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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): As if the scene weren't gruesome enough, it appears at least one victim was decapitated.
CHIEF MICHAEL MCGRATH, CLEVELAND POLICE: The skull was discovered wrapped in a paper bag in a bucket in the basement.
CANDIOTTI: And in the backyard, investigators dug up the remains of four more people, bringing the total now to ten. Six of them are described as African-American women, and at least five of them appear to have been strangled. They were all found in and around the house of convicted rapist, 50-year-old Anthony Sowell.
MCGRATH: It appears that this man had an insatiable appetite that he had to fill.
CANDIOTTI: Police went to the house last week to arrest Sowell on new rape charges. He wasn't there, but they found the first bodies. A week earlier, neighbors reported seeing a naked woman fall from the second floor, but no charges were filed.
The sheriff also made at least one surprise visit to check up on Sowell, who's a registered sex offender. By law, police aren't allowed to go in the house, but neighbors said you didn't have to go inside to know something was wrong.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You could smell it. I come around the corner, and I smelled it. You could smell the dead bodies, so how you going to tell the people in the neighborhood they don't smell that?
CANDIOTTI: Some thought the smell came from Ray's Sausage, which sits right next to Sowell's house. It got so bad the owner of Ray's replaced a sewer line and grease traps, thinking they were the source of the odor.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We used to think that it was coming from out of Ray's Sausage, but you smell these smells, and I live right there. And I used to be in the house, like, "Oh." We used to come out here, like, oh, the smell just be horrible.
MAYOR FRANK JOHNSON, CLEVELAND: And I can imagine how families feel who have reported a missing person. And anxiety that they're going through, and we want to assure them as soon as we know something, they will be the first to know.
CANDIOTTI: Susan Candiotti, CNN, Cleveland, Ohio.
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LEMON: And we're going to talk more about the crimes that should be detected, even prevented, when they aren't. Next hour my guest is Andy Kahan (ph) of the crime's victim's office in Houston.
The kids of Richmond High want the world to know they are not a bunch of thugs, and they're as horrified as we are about their classmate's brutal gang rape at a homecoming dance. An emotional rally and vigil last night on the campus, the very scene of that crime. The community support for the 15-year-old girl coming through again and again, in music, dance, and also in speech.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The world is evil, not because bad people do bad things, but because good people refuse to take a stand.
MAYOR GAYLE MCLAUGHLIN, RICHMOND, CALIFORNIA: Together, we will heal further, and we will help the young woman and her family know that they are embraced and we are here for them. (END VIDEO CLIP)
LEMON: But truly the most powerful words coming from the victim herself, her very first comments since the attack delivered by her family pastor.
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REV. JIM WHEELER, FAMILY SPOKESMAN: Violence is always a wrong choice. We realize people are angry about this. But let the anger cause change, change that is necessary to keep our children, our neighbors, and our friends safe.
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LEMON: Well, safety also the focus of a school-board meeting right after the rally. The board accepted bids to install security cameras on the Richmond campus.
A dark night, a hazy lake, and eyes on the skies. They probably never saw it coming. Police in North Dakota say the three college students found dead yesterday apparently drove straight into ten feet of water.
All softball players for Dickinson University, they disappeared Sunday night after going for a drive to look at the stars.
Dickinson canceled classes and is working on a memorial today. The women's families planning a visit today and to that pond where they were found.
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BOB MCDONNELL (R), GOVERNOR-ELECT, VIRGINIA: ... of governor of Virginia. But I pledge to you over the next four years, action and results.
CHRIS CHRISTIE (R), GOVERNOR-ELECT, NEW JERSEY: Tomorrow we're going to take back New Jersey for the least fortunate among us who do not want the government to fix every problem. They just want to give a hand up so they can build opportunity for themselves.
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LEMON: Well, "The Washington Post" headline pretty much nailed it: "For Democrats, It's Not 2008 Anymore." Virginia puts a Republican in the governor's mansion for the first time in 12 years; Bob McDonnell beating Creigh Deeds in a race that wasn't really that close.
In New Jersey, it was even tighter. But voters booted Democratic incumbent Jon Corzine out of Trenton. Chris Christie becomes the first Republican elected to the statewide office there in 12 years.
But the Dems did manage to pick up a congressional seat. New York's 23rd went with Bill Owens over conservative Doug Hoffman. That race even more newsworthy for revealing a split in the Republican Party between moderates and conservatives.
And we're going to hear pundits debate this question over and over and over. Was last night a Republican renaissance, as RNC chairman Michael Steele calls it? A rebuff of President Obama? Was it? Well, it has been a year since his election, and we were curious to know how the world thinks he's done so far.
So, let's use CNN's wide reach to get you some feedback here from Kenya to Afghanistan to Pakistan. Take a look.
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REZA SAYAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Reza Sayah in Islamabad. Here's how many Pakistanis define success when it comes to President Obama's first year in office. People here said they wanted to see peace in a country that hasn't seen it in years. They also said they wanted respect. And an overall change in tone. "A," "B," "C," "D," "F," Mr. Obama, here's your year-one report card from Pakistan.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Mr. President, I'm giving you this "C" grade because I think that you are not fulfilling your promises.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You have promised that you will shape a new relations between Pakistan and America. But I think after expiry of one year, there are no new things.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm giving you "A" for your first year, because you are conscious of the difficulties which we are expressing.
SAYAH: Mr. President, Naim (ph), Isram (ph), Abdul (ph), Rahman (ph) and Abdul (ph) give you an "F," because they say you're no different than the rest.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I give you grade "B," because I think you have brought in a lot of fresh ideas.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If you want that we will support you, please, do something which brings all nation of the world -- bring closer.
SAYAH: All right, there you have it: our version of a report card for Mr. Obama's first year in office. I'd say the grades averaged out to a "C." A lot of people think he hasn't delivered on his promises, but they haven't given up hope.
SARA SIDNER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Sara Sidner in Kabul, Afghanistan.
The general opinion about Mr. Obama on the anniversary of his first year in office is one of disappointment. People here say that they are simply disappointed with his policies, and are concerned about the situation here because the security situation has gotten worse, not better, and the war rages on.
They know that Mr. Obama did not start the war here in Afghanistan, but they certainly consider it his war now. (MUSIC PLAYING)
DAVID MCKENZIE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm David McKenzie in Nairobi, Kenya. This is an organized protest, protesting that President Obama must do more to fight malaria and AIDS in Africa.
Of course, President Obama has a strong connection to the continent because his family comes from Kenya. But many Kenyans have been surprised that over the past few months his administration has had tough talk and strong action against what they say could be corrupt leadership in Africa.
But, still, the people here, the on-the-ground people, really are a huge fan of President Obama and some of his policies.
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LEMON: David McKenzie in Kenya, Sara Sidner in Kabul and Reza Sayah in Islamabad.
And we're waiting to hear it straight from the source's mouth. Carly Fiorina, fired CEO OF Hewlett-Packard, wants to be hired by the people of California for a job in the U.S. Senate. We're expecting official word this hour.
And if she wins the Republican primary in June, Fiorina would challenge Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. Fiorina was an economic adviser to John McCain's presidential campaign.
Talk about a boatload of trouble. Israel says this ship was more like a floating armory packed with deadly gifts from Iran.
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LEMON: A little sarcasm here, but don't you just love it when your co-worker sneezes all over your stuff or coughs up a lung, the cubicle right over, right next to you? Well, that's what happens when you literally can't afford a sick day. Now Congress is working on a cure for the swine-flu blues.
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LEMON: A ship loaded with hundreds of tons of weapons allegedly bound for Hezbollah fighters in Lebanon now seized by Israeli commandos. The Israeli military says the weapons are from Iran, and CNN's Paula Hancocks joins us now from Jerusalem with the very latest on this.
Paula, what are your sources telling you?
PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Don, this certainly looks like it's a huge relief for the Israeli navy, but it has to be said it is also a huge stroke of luck.
What we're being told by the Israeli navy is this was a routine patrol that stumbled upon hundreds of tons of arms and ammunitions on a freighter that Israel says originated in Iran, was on its way to Syria, and those weapons would have ended up in the hands of Hezbollah.
Now, they didn't give us any direct evidence to prove exactly how they would end up with Hezbollah, but they said that the -- the ammunition that was there -- the rockets, the Katyushas, the missiles, the grenades, the ammunition -- was the sort of weapons that would go into terrorists' hands and would not be given to a particular army.
Now, we've had a response from the Syrians, a source at the Syrian foreign ministry saying that there were no weapons on this ship. So we have some discrepancy there.
But Israel has been very open about this. They've been very public. They have been showing the press 40 caskets of this kind of ammunition. And one of the brigadier generals that we spoke to said that they reckoned this was enough material for Hezbollah to be able to fight Israel for one month.
So, certainly the Israeli navy, the Israeli military, the Israeli politicians are very relieved at this, but, of course, the Syrians saying this is not necessarily what had happened, at least one source telling us that -- Don.
LEMON: So, listen, the question is, have they seized anything like this before in the past?
HANCOCKS: Yes, back in 2002, they seized a ship, Kareen A (ph), which Israel says was on its way to Gaza. It had about 50 tons of ammunition and arms on before it was intercepted.
But this is the biggest naval seizure ever. If this is the case, this just blows that out of the water. Fifty tons compared to hundreds of tons.
And the interesting fact is, as the Israelis tell us, it was just by fluke. On Tuesday evening, they boarded the ship. They asked some questions. They looked at some documents. And they opened a couple of caskets. And lo and behold, there was ammunition in those caskets, rather than the commercial goods that they were expecting. That's how they caught it, and that's why they're very lucky today -- Don.
LEMON: Paula Hancocks in Jerusalem. Thank you, Paula.
You want to look at a CNN hero in his natural habitat, feeding the country every night. Plus, he has a day job.
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LEMON: You may not think about it this late in the year, but we have a reminder for you. We are still in hurricane season, Chad Myers.
CHAD MYERS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Yes.
LEMON: And there's a tropical depression; you're keeping an eye on it. Where is it?
MYERS: It is very close to being a Tropical Storm Ida, too. Tropical depression way down here. Here's Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua.
I haven't been able to show you all our fancy new stuff we have for hurricane season. The hurricane hunter aircraft a couple of hours ago left Keesler Air Force Base right there. That's Mobile Bay. Here's New Orleans here. It took off, and it's flying south across the Gulf of Mexico, all the way across the Yucatan Peninsula.
There's Cozumel and Cancun. And now that guy is all the way down there, into the southern sections of the Caribbean, almost down to the equator. But obviously, not quite because hurricanes can't happen on the equator. Not too close, anyway.
Tropical depression number 11, it's 35 miles per hour. There's Panama. Here's Nicaragua. And there is the spin of the storm, getting very impressive right now. I do believe that the hurricane hunter aircraft will find that this thing is probably already a tropical storm, and it will get named this afternoon.
There it goes. It does become a storm, even in the forecast. Becomes a storm, moves over Nicaragua, Honduras, and then turns into a storm again after losing some identity over the mountains.
Getting back up here. This would be the Quintana Roo, Cozumel, Cancun over here, and this could sneak up into the Gulf of Mexico. It's not -- certainly not too late, because the water up here in the Gulf of Mexico is still warm enough to get this thing stronger than what we see right now.
Certainly don't want to see any late land-falling hurricane this time of year, but it's still possible. That's why it's still hurricane season until the end of November, not the beginning, Don.
LEMON: All right, Chad Myers, thank you very much for that.
MYERS: You got it. Sure.
LEMON: All right, want to give you some of the top stories right now. After tweaking their health-care reform bill over and over again, House Democrats are almost ready to put it to a floor vote. And that could come as early as Saturday.
The $1.2 trillion plan includes dozens of last-minute changes. Among other things, it cracks down harder on insurance companies.
In Maine a stinging defeat for supporters of same-sex marriage. Voters have repealed a law allowing for such unions. Five states have legalized gay marriages, but they did it through legislation or the courts, not through a popular vote. It's been voted down in 31 states where it's been on the ballot.
Huge crowds in Tehran, as Iranians marked the 30th anniversary of the storming of the U.S. embassy. During the state-sanctioned rally, security forces clashed with anti-government protestors. The protest rallies were the opposition's first major show of force on Tehran's streets in nearly two months.
Well, he is a godsend in a lot of people's eyes. Jorge Nunez is a school-bus driver in Queens, New York, who feeds dozens of needy people every single day. And through a program he started several years ago, Nunez says he has served more than 70,000 meals, probably more than that now that he's a hero.
No wonder he's one of our top ten heroes, and he joins us now on the phone.
Good to talk to you again. We had a conversation this weekend. You are out doing your thing. You are out doing it again. So, what's going on today? Tell me how you're being received and if people are recognizing you as one -- as a top ten hero.
JORGE NUNEZ, FEEDS THE HUNGRY (via phone): Hi, how are you, Don? It's a great honor. It's a great honor to, you know, go out and talk to the people, people who said what I'm doing is OK. And thanks to CNN, a lot of people voting and, thank God, we go to L.A.
LEMON: Yes. We said -- I said 70,000 meals. Has it been more now?
NUNEZ: Yes, since March, since CNN did the interview, we go up to more than 90,000 right now.
LEMON: Ninety thousand meals. So, how do you feel about what you've accomplished here by becoming a hero?
NUNEZ: Great. Great honor, believe me. Not only for me, my family. People from my country that are so excited because I one of the nominees. Just to be in the top ten is a great honor, believe me.
LEMON: This was a family undertaking, was it not?
NUNEZ: Yes. It's, like, a family project, Don.
LEMON: Yes, tell me about that. Tell me how it came about, Mr. Munoz.
NUNEZ: OK. Five years ago, 5 1/2 years ago now, these people try and get food from the garbage, and it can't happen. And I go back home and I tell my mom if she can help me out to, you know, finish the cooking. Because I know the people out there who need it. And she was agreed. And that's what the -- starting from that point. And then the ideas come because, you know (INAUDIBLE) and you just affect it and that's it.
LEMON: Listen, in the past couple years, I would imagine, since the economy has sort of, you know, gone southward that you have seen even more of a need. Talk to me about that.
NUNEZ: Oh, wow. For the last year, there was -- a year ago it was, like, 85, 90, and from that point up to now, the jump to 130, 140, sometimes 145. They labor in the home to sign up, because the economy is literally hard for them right now.
LEMON: What do you say to the people who are watching about the need out there and to get them to understand what's going on and why they may have to help people like you or do something similar themselves?
NUNEZ: What I say is share. Sharing is a beautiful thing. When you bring something to someone who didn't eat anything during the day, and you didn't have a meal at 9:30 at night, and you see their smile, it's a great feeling inside. That's a feeling like God using you to help somebody like that who need it.
LEMON: What's next for you?
NUNEZ: I don't know. Just I got a project to get -- try to get, like, a local or get a state or any place we can -- they can, you know, not eat standing on their feet, just eat sitting down and, you know, taking a shower, clean themselves. Too many things I want to do, but thanks to God I'm going to L.A. And it's going to help me a lot.
LEMON: Listen, congratulations. And you are indeed a unique individual, and you are a hero. We appreciate you joining us here on CNN, and we appreciate what you do. Best of luck come November, OK?
NUNEZ: Thank you so much, Don. Thanks a lot.
LEMON: If you want to find out more about Jorge or vote for the top ten CNN heroes, the finalists here, just go to CNN.com/heroes. Plus watch our all-star tribute hosted by our very own Anderson Cooper. That's on Thanksgiving night, only here on CNN.
OK, so you get in line. You wait for hours. Only to be told there aren't enough doses to go around. What's up with the H1N1 vaccine? And when can we get more?
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LEMON: Hey, want to get you now live to Madison, Wisconsin, and you see the Dane County Regional Airport. And that, of course, is Air Force One.
The president about to deplane and then head over to James C. Wright, the James C. Wright School there, middle school. And he's going to talk about how schools around the country can qualify for more than $4.5 billion in aid to try to get schools back on track. It's called Race to the Top. He's making this announcement today.
He's going to be joined by some school kids and some administrators there in Wisconsin.
Air Force One, Dane County Regional Airport. The president will get off the plane in just a bit, and then we will bring his announcement, his speech, to you live once he goes to the middle school to make that speech. Meantime, some tough questions today about the swine flu vaccine. A House committee is digging into the government's response to the H1N1 outbreak. They want this to know why vaccine production is lagging behind schedule and when more is expected.
And if you don't know it by now, the swine flu has swept the country. At least 48 states are reporting widespread activity, meaning lots of cases in hospitals, doctors' offices, and people really suffering at home.
So, with the H1N1 vaccine in high demand, well, you would think it would be treated with special care, right? But 5,000 doses were trashed in Pennsylvania. Five thousand doses trashed in Pennsylvania, after they were stored at too low a temperature in a school refrigerator and couldn't be used.
So, let's bring in our senior medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen. Elizabeth, very odd. So, why is the storage temperature so important? You would think it would have to be cold, right, to keep it? No?
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, they want to it to be cold but not too cold.
LEMON: Not too cold.
COHEN: Right. This is how it works, is that the makers of the vaccine, Sanofi Pasteur in this case, they tested the efficacy of the vaccine in a certain temperature range, so they know that it works when it's stored in that range.
Well, the school in Pennsylvania, they kept it a few degrees below that range, so Sanofi Pasteur says, well, we don't know if it's still effective or not. We asked a question about this to Dr. Thomas Freiden, the head of the CDC.
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DR. THOMAS FREIDEN, DIRECTOR, CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL: Keeping the cold chain at the right temperature in any vaccination program is extremely important. And it's obviously frustrating, and we regret it when there's any loss of vaccine. But when you think about the fact that we've now had 30 million doses out there, and there really have been only a few examples of improper handling that have led to vaccine having to be discarded.
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COHEN: So, this vaccine that they had to throw away in Pennsylvania, it might still have been good. It might have worked. But you know what, better safe than sorry. If it falls below that range, you've got to get rid of it.
LEMON: All right, so we talked about what happened in Pennsylvania. What about the overall distribution of the vaccine? Where are we were that? COHEN: We are behind on that. That's the easiest way to put it. We are behind. Take a look at these numbers. This pretty much says it all. The federal government had said that they intended to get 41 million doses out to Americans by the end of October. Look at what really happened, 32 million doses by November 3rd.
Now, the new prediction, or the new intention, is to have 10 million new doses coming out every week. And, Don, I'll have to get back to you next week to see if that one turned out to be true. Ten million new doses every week, that's what they're hoping for.
LEMON: All right. We hope they'll get it out. Thank you. And store it in the right temperature, right?
COHEN: That's very important.
LEMON: Thank you, Elizabeth. We appreciate it.
You know, we want to continue to push forward on the H1N1 -- on H1N1 by looking at how it's playing out in the workplace. Many infected employees are hit with a dilemma -- call in sick or tough it out and go to work.
And we've explored this topic earlier in the week, and we got a very huge viewer response, reaction, every time we do this. Now Congress is taking up the issue as well. So, we want to go to Susan Lisovicz. She's in New York with details on this.
Susan, what is the latest?
SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Don. Well, yes, you know, and the previous story really sets this up perfectly. The concern about vaccine shortages is just one of the reasons why there's such interest in paid sick leave.
So, listen to this one. This is a proposal from two California Democrats, representatives George Miller and Lynn Woolsey, which basically guarantees five paid sick leaves if your boss tells you either to stay home or to go home, because of an infectious illness such as h1n1.
Interestingly enough, Don, if you choose to stay home yourself, it doesn't cover that. But this is something that would expire -- it would be intact for two years and basically would try to prevent this kind of petri dish that is, as you know, the workplace that we know it. The CDC says that for every one sick worker, there are 10 others infected, which is why there's a congressional committee meeting on this very subject later this month -- Don.
LEMON: Yes, you know, it's amazing, in this environment, people don't want to call in sick. So many people are losing their jobs, it's tough to call in sick, so, you know, a lot of people will probably go to work sick. And a lot of workers, Susan, already get paid sick days. So, how big of an issue is this?
LISOVICZ: Well, that's the surprising thing. We're lucky that we're covered. But there are literally tens of millions. The sponsors say actually 50 million private-sector workers don't get sick -- any kind of sick leave.
So, and what kind of workers are we talking about? Oftentimes lower-paid workers. What kind of businesses are they in? Well, they're in the restaurant business, the hospitality business, in the retail business. Businesses where there's a lot of interaction with other people. So, it's a huge concern, especially at this time with such a contagious illness.
And the government has already put up dozens of proposals for all sorts of businesses, whatever size. And one of them is to have flexible, nonpunitive policies for those workers who are sick. Of course, there's many others, including putting sanitizing stations all over the workplace, things like that. But one of them is a nonpunitive policy for those workers who are sick, because it can do so much damage to the rest of the workforce.
LEMON: Absolutely. Susan Lisovicz, thank you very much. Susan Lisovicz.
LISOVICZ: You're welcome.
LEMON: I want to remind you right there at the bottom of your screen, you see President Barack Obama, he's on the tarmac in Madison, Wisconsin, at the Dane County Regional Airport. He's going to be making some remarks about his initiative to try to better the schools in America. More than $4 billion he's going to talk about schools will be eligible for if they qualify.
Meantime, let's get back to the swine flu. If you're sick with the swine flu, and you can't take it any more, you dial 911, right? Well, you could get a surprise if you're in San Antonio, Texas. Here's why. A cabbie instead of an ambulance driver.
Emergency responders determine by phone if the caller's life is in danger. If not, they send a cab. Now, the city picks up the tab. And last month, nearly 20 percent of San Antonio's emergency calls were from people with flu-like symptoms. The city says the system saves them money.
Gaza is bracing for the swine flu. Right now there are no cases, but there are no vaccines, either, which means even one sick person could unleash a nightmare.
Our Paula Hancocks takes a look.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Around 4,000 people per square kilometer, Gaza is one of the most densely populated areas on the planet. Disease here can spread like wildfire.
Swine flu is not yet in Gaza. Some joke it's the only good thing about Israel's blockade on the territory. MOAIN KARIRI, DIRECTOR OF HEALTH EDUCATION, MOH: It might not be here nowadays, but it could be tomorrow or the day after so, you know, there is no borders among the bacteria and viruses.
HANCOCK: No swine flu, but no vaccines either. Just posters telling people to wash their hands and an educational film to try and educate Gazans to the dangers of H1N1.
Gaza and the West Bank have been promised 20,000 initial vaccinations for a population of some 4 million, but they haven't arrived yet. The focus right now is on Gaza's border and screening the few people that are still allowed to cross.
(on camera): This is the Rafah crossing between Egypt and Gaza. Everyone who crosses through here comes through this metal detector, but now there's a new machine to try and target swine flu.
Every passenger will be picked up on this thermal imaging camera, and if any part of my body heat is more than 37 degrees, it will be detected on this monitor, in which case I'll be taken to the clinic to be tested.
(voice-over): The highest risk, 4,000 pilgrims who will be leaving soon for Mecca and the haj (ph). When they return to Gaza, doctors say they will be closely monitored.
DR. MAJDI DHAIR, DIRECTOR, PREVENTATIVE MEDICINE, MOH: To follow them, to checking them, to examining them at the border and to follow them for the whole incubation period, which means seven days at their homes.
HANCOCKS: Gaza's Health Ministry is ready to close schools if the virus spreads. These schoolgirls are being taught how to lower the risk of catching the disease. These younger children are being taught the art of washing their hands and faces. In the absence of medical vaccines, there really is little more they can do.
One of the teachers says, "We have gifts for the cleanest child in the kindergarten, and we tell stories about personal hygiene."
Lessons on personal hygiene may be a fun game for these children, but the message is serious. Living in such close proximity means it could take just one case for the virus to torch a pandemic here.
Paula Hancocks, CNN, Gaza.
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LEMON: All right, a tale of two cities. These are your run-of- the-mill anti-American protesters in Tehran. Not far away, the really brave protesters, denouncing the dictators of their own government.
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LEMON: It is a civil war, and that is why American troops shouldn't be fighting in Afghanistan. That's the assessment from Matthew Hoh, the first person to resign from the State Department in protest over U.S. policy in Afghanistan. Hoh, a former Marine who fought in Iraq, tells CNN that he's gotten support both from Afghan Americans and U.S. troops.
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MATTHEW HOH, FORMER STATE DEPARTMENT CIVILIAN OFFICER: I've received a tremendous amount of support from Afghan Americans who are saying, Matt, you get it, this is a civil war. You understand (INAUDIBLE) structures. You understand this concept of valleyism (ph).
And equally important, I've gotten a lot of support from active- duty military. Some of them are friends of mine, but a lot of them are men and women I don't know. And a lot of them are in Afghanistan and are saying, Matt, keep this up. We're not sure what we're doing here. We're not sure why we're here. This doesn't make sense. What we're doing is not going to defeat al Qaeda, it's not going to stabilize Pakistan, and we're being committed to a war that really doesn't make sense to us.
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LEMON: Hoh served as a civilian officer with the State Department in a Taliban stronghold. He resigned after only six months on the job.
Angry Iranians in the streets of Tehran, protesting their own government, not the United States. Many shouting "death to the dictator" and "Obama, either you're with us or you're with them." Riot police responded, firing tear gas and beating people with batons.
Outside the former U.S. Embassy, pro-government crowds shouted "death to America." All this coming on the 30th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover by Iranian students during the Islamic revolution. Fifty-two Americans held hostage for 444 days. The leader of the takeover spoke to CNN's Christiane Amanpour about their motives.
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EBRAHIM ASGHARZADEH, ORGANIZER OF U.S. EMBASSY TAKEOVER: We were not radical students. We were revolutionary students, in the sense that we were defending our country, our people, our nation.
But once the shah was expelled from the country, no country accepted him, because the world public opinion could not accept the behavior of a dictator. That meant that they recognized the Iranian revolution. However, step by step, the shah brought himself closer to the United States, and once he entered America, we felt threatened.
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LEMON: I want you to take a listen now at what one of the former hostages had to say about the ordeal and its lasting impact.
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JON LIMBERT, FORMER HOSTAGE: We certainly didn't expect it to last that long. They have said they didn't expect it to last that long. But what they did, in effect, was to create a climate of lawlessness and mob rule that they and their compatriots are today the greatest victims.
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LEMON: For more on the takeover anniversary, be sure to watch Christiane's new show, "AMANPOUR," this Sunday at 2:00 p.m. Eastern, only here on CNN.
Time now for a check of your top stories. He allegedly lived among 10 corpses. Today, a Cleveland judge ordered convicted rapist Anthony Sowell held without bail. Prosecutors say he is an incredibly dangerous threat to the public. Sowell's been in jail since last week after police recovered the bodies of six women from his home. Four more bodies and a skull were discovered just yesterday.
The terrifying case of Jaycee Dugard's kidnapping. California officials are set to release results of a two-month investigation into the handling of that case. One of the biggest questions: How did her alleged kidnapper and rapist, Phillip Garrido, manage to keep her hidden for 18 years? Dugard has reunited with her family -- was reunited with her family back in August.
A ruling against the CIA's rendition program and President Bush's war on terror. An Italian judge convicts 24 Americans of the alleged kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric six years ago. All of the Americans were tried in absentia. Their lawyers entered pleas of not guilty and they are now considered fugitives from Italian justice.
Happy news for the newlyweds whose interracial relationship so offended a justice of the peace. Their wedded bliss outlasting his bluster. We're going to explain next, straight ahead.
But, first, we want to tell you this. An effort to level the playing field. You probably surf the Internet anytime you like. But in many corners of the globe, there's no World Wide Web.
Our Kyra Phillips looks at one company and what it's doing to change that in today's "Edge of Discovery."
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Africa, a continent of nearly 1 billion people, but many of them have no Internet access. So, for those people in Africa and other parts of the world, O3b Networks has a plan.
GREG WYLER, O3B NETWORKS LIMITED: O3b stands for the other 3 billion who are not on the Internet today.
PHILLIPS: Fiber-optic cables that connect most of the world to the Internet are pretty much nonexistent in Africa. O3b is taking its technology to the sky.
The company plans to launch 16 strategically placed satellites into orbit. As the satellites circle the earth, they will pass along Internet signals wirelessly. O3b says by mid-2011, it hopes to provide inexpensive Internet access to billions of people in remote parts of the world.
WYLER: What O3b is designed to do is to bridge the gap between the rural, the remote, the regional, the metropolitan, the urban areas, to level the playing field so they all have equal access.
PHILLIPS: And it's not just about adding Facebook friends or watching YouTube. Wyler says the technology can connect businesses, hospitals and schools.
WYLER: Children in these markets can develop applications and tools, just as if they were in the U.S. or in Europe.
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LEMON: All right, remember this story? A Louisiana justice of the peace finally saying "I do" to calls for his resignation. We first told you about Keith Bardwell last month. This is a guy who refused to marry an interracial couple, you know, over hypothetical concerns, he said, for their hypothetical future children, insisting all the while he's not a racist.
Well, with a discrimination case and possible censure looming, Mr. Bardwell's, well, he has decided to step down. But no regrets over how he treated the couple who are now newlyweds. Quote, "I'd probably do the same thing again. I found I can't be a justice of the peace and have a conscience."
Dead bodies in the backyard, the basement, a house of horrors hidden in plain sight. We're pushing forward on Cleveland's suspected serial killer next hour, profiling the perps who do this kind of thing all the time, and the police and parole officers who have to stop them.
And President Barack Obama races to Wisconsin to talk about his race to the top, a plan to get American kids the education they deserve.
All right, so this guy went from jackpot to really getting jacked around and saying "What The...?" faster than you can say "computer glitch."
Florida's Bill Seebeck was playing slots Sunday when his machine went wild, saying he won 166 million bucks. But casino officials soon busted down the prize, saying the machine malfunctioned, and they wouldn't pony up the payout. Bill and the casino have since settled, but nowhere near his fleeting multimillion-dollar fortune.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) BILL SEEBECK, HARD-LUCK GAMBLER: They make you think you won, and they make everybody around you think you won, and then at the end of it, you know, an hour after it, they're saying, you know, well, you know, we've got to investigate this, and you're -- you know, it's probably a malfunction.
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LEMON: Boy, oh, boy. Can you imagine the letdown there? The casino says the slot's top prize is $99,000. No word on the cash settlement figure.
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LEMON: Are you a citizen of the United States? The seemingly innocent question is igniting a firestorm of controversy. One U.S. senator doesn't want illegal immigrants to be counted in next year's census.
As CNN's Carol Costello reports, it is a costly question to ask and to answer.
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Don, six Louisiana lawmakers are urging the U.S. Census Bureau to add a question to the 2010 U.S. census. That question: Are you a U.S. citizen? Turns out the answer to that isn't so simple.
COSTELLO (voice-over): In a few months, the 2010 census form will arrive by mail at every U.S. household. It will ask: How many people are living in this house? And what is the person's sex, age? What it won't ask is this: Are you a U.S. citizen?
Republican Senator David Vitter says it should. He's pushing an amendment to force the Census Bureau to add that question to the 2010 census.
SEN. DAVID VITTER (R), LOUISIANA: It simply says, sure, count everybody but ask if this person is a citizen or a non-citizen so we simply know what we're dealing with.
COSTELLO: The Constitution says the government must count the whole number of persons in each state. It's important the census get an accurate count because it determines how many lawmakers represent each state.
Vitter, who represents Louisiana, says his state is projected to lose one of its seven seats in the House of Representatives after the 2010 census. He says it's because Louisiana has few illegal immigrants, and states like California have a lot. He says that's not fair.
VITTER: We don't put the population of France into the count or the population of Brazil, so why would we factor in non-citizens in determining how many U.S. House members every state gets? COSTELLO: Some Democratic lawmakers say Vitter's effort is unconstitutional and immoral.
REP. BARBARA LEE (D), CALIFORNIA: But we cannot allow lawmakers to use divisive tactics to scare people into not participating in the 2010 census.
ANNOUNCER: It's 1920, and census time in the United States.
COSTELLO: Counting all people has long been a struggle for the U.S. Census Bureau. Many minorities, legal and illegal, mistrust the government. This urging minorities to participate came out in the old newsreel days.
ANNOUNCER: (INAUDIBLE) checks citizens of Japanese extraction, and somewhere else, (INAUDIBLE) Chinese population is added to total. Looks like this little fellow would be a bit happier in Hong Kong.
ROBERT GROVES, DIRECTOR, U.S. CENSUS BUREAU: A lot of the forms are already...
COSTELLO: Dr. Robert Groves heads up the U.S. Census Bureau.
COSTELLO (on camera): But would you object to that question on the 2010 census form?
GROVES: We can't do a census with that question.
COSTELLO (voice-over): Not because he necessarily objects to it, but because 425 million 2010 census forms have already been printed up. Groves says Senator Vitter's request comes too late.
GROVES: My problem is we have an April 1, 2010 census date. We can't meet that deadline with a change in the questionnaire.
COSTELLO: Still, the senator is not giving up, even if it will cost taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars to add that simple question: Are you a U.S. citizen?
(on camera): Senator Vitter has talked with constitutional scholars about this issue because, as I told you, the Constitution says the government is to count the whole number of persons in each state. It doesn't say anything about being a U.S. citizen.
But Senator Vitter says the Founding Fathers' intent was to count citizens, and he's willing to make a move to change the Constitution to make that clear - Don.
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LEMON: Carol, thank you very much for that.
