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E. Coli Outbreak Connected to Spinach From California; Standoff Between President Bush and Senate Republicans Continues Over Interrogation Procedures; Interview With Bonnie Raitt; Hurricane Lane Threatens Santa Barbara

Aired September 16, 2006 - 16:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'll buy it again. It's just going to take a little time until they find out the problem.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: And investigators are doing just that. Details on the spinach scare in one minute.

A religious divide as Muslims protest comments by the pope.

The blues and her business, and that business is great. Bonnie Raitt joins us live later on this hour.

Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SATURDAY. I'm Fredricka Whitfield.

All that and more after this check of the headlines.

In Iraq today, a pair of car bombings killed three people and wounded 22. Police also found dozens more bodies dumped around Baghdad. Most are believed to be victims of sectarian death squads.

Back in the U.S., police in Missouri are looking for a 1-week old baby, this baby girl. The mother says a woman entered her home in Londell, south of St. Louis, slashed her throat and took the child.

A live report straight ahead.

New Mexico police still don't know whether they're dealing with a hoax or the real thing. In letters, someone is threatening to start shooting people in Las Cruces unless the city pays out a large ransom. Police are asking the public to be alert but to go about their normal routines.

The shuttle Atlantis astronauts are finishing up their mission to the International Space Station. They transferred over the last of the shuttle's cargo in preparation for tomorrow's departure.

Keeping you informed, CNN, the most trusted name in news.

Let's quickly get to our top story. Hurricane Lane, according to the National Hurricane Center, the Category 3 storm, has just made landfall on Mexico's Pacific coast. Meteorologist Jacqui Jeras is tracking the storm.

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WHITFIELD: Well, here at home, a nationwide E. coli scare has bagged spinach disappearing from the store shelves. So far the bacterial outbreak has killed one person and sickened nearly a hundred others.

Many of those people reported eating bagged spinach from a California company. And today inspectors are trying to determine if other brands or products are involved.

Meanwhile, Wisconsin's governor has some advice for consumers.

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GOV. JIM DOYLE (D), WISCONSIN: People are very concerned in Wisconsin. There is, of course, the tragic death. We've had 30 confirmed cases, and we suspect that that number will increase a fair number as we move along. We are really calling on people to get rid of any fresh bagged spinach, not to think that they can wash it or cook it, but just get rid of it.

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WHITFIELD: CNN's Jonathan Freed has more.

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JONATHAN FREED, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Investigators have connected the E. coli outbreak to spinach products packaged by a California-based company, Natural Selection Foods/Earthbound Farms.

The Food and Drug administration says the company has implemented a voluntary recall of its spinach products. The FDA traced the problem to the company through interviews with people who became sick.

In Wisconsin, health officials have confirmed a 77-year-old Manitowoc County woman died last week as a result of an E. coli infection. Officials say her death at a Green Bay hospital from kidney failure is linked to the E. coli outbreak that spread to at least 19 states. But they don't yet know if the woman ate raw spinach.

New York is the latest state with confirmed cases of E. coli illnesses, seven of them, connected to bacteria in bagged spinach. The map has become cluttered with cases stretching from coast to coast with as many as 11 in Utah, and 30 in Wisconsin. Including the one death. Wisconsin's governor says the state was the first to identify the strain and made the genetic information available to other states.

GOV. JIM DOYLE, WISCONSIN: When officials in eight other states matched the genetic marker with the Wisconsin strain we determined that this was a nationwide epidemic with a single source.

FREED: At least 17 of the Wisconsin victims are hospitalized. And at least four of them are in what Milwaukee officials call a crisis situation. With possible kidney failure.

BEVAN BAKER, MILWAUKEE COMMISSIONER OF HEALTH: And we're being very prudent in our caution to say that perhaps boiling, frying or sauteeing may lessen the likelihood of infection but it does not completely take away the likelihood of infection. And for that reason I would say abstain from consumption.

FREED: On the streets of Manitowoc even before it was known the death touched this community there was concern. So both you and your young son ate spinach in a sandwich yesterday and today how are you feeling?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Actually I do have a little bit of stomach cramping but I'm thinking maybe it's mind over matter type thing. I don't -- I'm not concerned at this point. I just think, OK, well all this scare is in me now and oh, my stomach hurts but I think I'm okay. My son is doing great.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm actually afraid to eat it because there has already been one death.

FREED: At a cooking store in town worries about a favorite ingredient.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'll buy it again. It's just going to take a little time until they find out the problem.

FREED (on camera): The FDA says it's still investigating whether or not other bagged products have been affected.

Jonathan Freed, CNN, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists.

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WHITFIELD: Tough talk on terror. President Bush not backing down from his critics.

Coping with cancer in corporate America. Getting the right attitude with the right look.

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BONNIE RAITT, SINGER: People don't stop doing good work just because they're later years.

(END VIDEO CLIP) WHITFIELD: She's always so incredible, singing new songs, soaking up the summer camp lifestyle. Bonnie Raitt's right on time, coming up on CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

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ANDY SERWER, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, "FORTUNE": Jim Buckmaster is the CEO of Craig's List, and he's kind of a very interesting story right from the get-go. He posted his resume on Craig's List, the online classified ad Web site, and the founder saw the resume and hired him. He's constantly working on the company's Web site, fixing customer complaints, answering questions.

JIM BUCKMASTER, CEO, CRAIGSLIST, INC.: I'm a programmer by trade, and despite the fact that my primary role is as CEO, I try to do programming tasks every day, because I find it makes my job more fun. And it also keeps me kind of focused, unemotional and in a creative mindset.

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WHITFIELD: Updating news you may have missed while you were out.

Former president Bill Clinton among those paying respects to Ann Richards today. The body of the former Texas governor is lying in state at the Capitol Rotunda in Austin. She died from cancer on Wednesday.

A new push for peace between two nuclear neighbors in Asia. India and Pakistan have agreed to resume peace talks that were suspended in June. The announcement was made at a meeting of non- aligned nations in Havana.

Security officials in Yemen say they've broken up an alleged terrorist cell linked to al Qaeda. Yemen's interior minister says authorities arrested four people today following a seven-hour siege. They're expected of plotting to -- or suspected, rather, of plotting to blow up targets in Yemen's capital.

That's the latest. Another -- update, rather, at 4:45.

In Washington, no one's blinking. The standoff between President Bush and a group of powerful Senate Republicans shows no signs of progress. At issue are the rules for interrogating and prosecuting suspected terrorists. The president vigorously defended his plan at a White House news conference yesterday.

CNN's Suzanne Malveaux was there.

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SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (voice over): President Bush came out swinging, offering an aggressive defense of his plan for tougher interrogations of detainees under U.S. custody, making no apologies for his request to clarify the Geneva Conventions, the international treaty which defines how prisoners of war are to be treated.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We are trying to clarify law. We are trying to set high standards, not ambiguous standards.

MALVEAUX: It's all part of the president's recent strategy to get voters to focus on national security, a Republican strength, and off of focusing on the unpopular Iraq war.

With the midterm elections now just seven weeks away, Mr. Bush is trying to push tough antiterrorism measures through Congress, banking on the belief that Americans will back him.

DAVID GERGEN, FMR. PRESIDENTIAL ADVISER: They have calculated if he puts more heat on the Congress he's more likely to get his own way. And secondly, that if they -- that if he's -- that if he's this defiant, this belligerent, it will actually help his own standing with the public, and in turn help Republicans in the -- in the fall campaign.

MALVEAUX: But what the president didn't count on was a revolt from top members of his own party, like possible 2008 presidential candidate John McCain, over just how far he could go in asserting his executive power to spy on, imprison and interrogate terrorism suspects.

Former secretary of state Colin Powell broke his loyal silence, saying altering the Geneva Conventions would throw the moral basis of the U.S.'s war on terror in doubt.

BUSH: It's flawed -- flawed logic. It's just -- I simply can't accept that. It's unacceptable to think that there's any kind of comparison between the behavior of the United States of America and the action of Islamic extremists.

MALVEAUX: Senior administration officials insist the split within the party is just a bump in the world. They say history shows the American people back the tough talk on terror.

So that's what the president doled out in his hour-long press conference, tough talk on the search for Osama bin Laden.

BUSH: We have been on the hunt, and we'll stay on the hunt until we bring him to justice.

MALVEAUX: And on his refusal to sit down with Iran's president, although the two men will be at the U.N. next week.

BUSH: No, I'm not going to meet with him.

MALVEAUX (on camera): It's unclear whether or not this strategy will work for the president, but as one GOP strategist put it to me this way, he said, "Every day the president is focusing on the war on terror, as controversial as it may be, instead of the Iraq war is a good day for this White House.

Suzanne Malveaux, CNN, the White House.

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WHITFIELD: Well, in his radio address today, Mr. Bush again urged Congress to pass the tough White House detainee interrogation plan.

CNN White House Correspondent Elaine Quijano is live in Washington with more on that.

And Elaine, what's unusual here is that we're seeing played out in public this rift in the GOP.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: You know, it is extremely rare to see this kind of public disagreement within the GOP, particularly because we're less than two months away from those all- important congressional midterm elections. Both sides are clearly digging in, and the big question now, currently, is, is there any room for compromise on either side?

From the White House's view, they say that this program is just too important for them not to do everything possible to try to come up with a resolution. At the same time, a senior Bush aide is saying that perhaps what needs to happen now is that the president and those senators who oppose his legislation might have to part ways for the time being, essentially let the House and Senate versions of this legislation go forward through Congress, and then try to come back together in a conference to try and tackle some of those difficult details -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: Elaine, what about the Democrats? Are they seizing on this?

QUIJANO: Well, you know, it's interesting. Not surprisingly, we have not heard much from the Democrats on this very issue. They've been largely content to sit back and watch all of the Republican infighting take place.

We saw some comments yesterday from some Democrats basically saying that this disagreement was a sign that the White House was isolated. But for the most part, again, they consider this a political gift at a time when the president and Republicans had been hoping to draw distinctions between themselves and Democrats on national security. Instead, we have this Republican president fighting not Democrats on this issue, but fellow Republicans -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: And so, Elaine, what really is at issue here? Where's the confusion, at least from the point of view of the White House?

QUIJANO: Right. It's Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. President Bush talked about this yesterday. It's a specific phrase in there that bans "outrages upon personal dignity." The president says that is just too vague and CIA interrogators can't do their job unless they know exactly what that means. And so he wants legislation that will clarify in the White House's view what that means.

The problem, from the senator's perspective, is that their clarification, the White House's clarification, could be looked at as a reinterpretation. And other countries, they say, might then feel as though as they can interpret Common Article 3 any way they wish. That, they say, would put U.S. personnel at risk for abuse if in fact they fell into other countries' hands -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: Elaine Quijano at the White House.

Thanks so much.

Well, President Bush's speech to rescue workers at Ground Zero is one of the memorable images of 9/11. Now, five years later, CNN's Larry King talks to many of those first responders in an emotional special report.

Here's a preview.

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LARRY KING, HOST, "LARRY KING LIVE": We're at the home of Engine 54, Ladder 4, Battalion 9, the New York City Fire Department. This firehouse lost all 15 men on duty September 11, 2001.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: 54, to my knowledge, was in the Marriott Hotel. And Ladder 4 was working in one of the towers, actually getting people out of an elevator shaft.

We had thought during the day that we had heard a report that the guys from 54 were somewhere. And when we came back here, Chief Mayer (ph) told me, "No, everybody's gone."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know, life goes on. And we're really, really proud of the families and how they have gotten through past these past difficult five years. That gives I think everybody here strength.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Each one of us is going to stop and we're going to remember where we were that day and what we did. It's always going to be a part of us.

KING: Meeting the survivors five years later was one of the most moving experiences of my life. And you'll share the experience I had tonight in a special hour.

Please join us.

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(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And it also gives women an opportunity to regain their self-esteem and confidence, which is a huge boost during a very difficult time.

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WHITFIELD: The magic makeover, it's the latest tool in the fight against cancer. Details straight ahead.

Then later, methane gas, it's dangerous. Could it push the climate to the tipping point? We go underwater to find out.

You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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WHITFIELD: A new study says people undergoing treatment for cancer are sometimes treated differently by their co-workers. Radiation and chemotherapy can alter their appearance and their self- image. A national program called Look Good... Feel Better helps them cope with those changes.

CNN's Kyung Lah has the story.

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ELIZABETH SHEPARD, CANCER SURVIVOR: And then I would grab like a little piece of it and go, "See?" I'm sorry.

KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Breast cancer patient Elizabeth Shepherd was prepared to laugh about the effects of cancer to cope with the disease. What she wasn't ready for, the effect on the people around her, especially at her job.

SHEPARD: It was hard, I have to say. I left the office on a Friday with long hair. On Wednesday, I came into the office with no hair. I'm a successful professional woman, and, you know, here I am, in this position, where people are thinking, oh, you know, hope she makes it kind of thing.

BILL MORAN, MERRILL LYNCH CO-WORKER: People wondering, you know, "Is it OK for me to go talk to her?" You know.

LAH: That affected how she coped and how she felt. The American Cancer Society says that's not unusual. In an online survey of female cancer patients, half said their friends treated them differently as their looks changed.

SUZY SCHROCK, AMERICAN CANCER SOC. VOLUNTEER: People may step back and be afraid to associate too closely with someone who is undergoing cancer treatment.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you put the wig on in the front where your hairline is.

LAH: This is one way to ease the isolation and impact of cancer, a session of Look Good... Feel Better, a free service run by the Cosmetic, Toiletry and Fragrance Association Foundation and the American Cancer Society. Patients learn how to take care of their specific and changing needs: skin, makeup, and hair loss.

(on camera): The patients also get this bag filled with $250 of free high-end makeup. This may seem like such a simple concept, teaching women how to apply makeup, but this impacts more than just a patient's appearance.

JOANNE ASSARSON, ONCOLOGY SOCIAL WORKER: It empowers women and it gives them choices. And I think women don't always know, you know, the choices that they have.

LOUANNE ROARK, COSMETICS SPECIALIST: And it also gives women an opportunity to regain their self-esteem and confidence, which is a huge boost during a very difficult time.

LAH (voice over): Makeup may seem frivolous when you're fighting for your life, but as Elizabeth Shepard learned, when she felt better about herself, she fought harder.

SHEPARD: You don't want to be shoved off in the corner, you know, while you're sick. You want to be able to stay in your life and look as normal as you possibly can, and this program really, really helps women to achieve that goal.

LAH: Kyung Lah, CNN, Washington.

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WHITFIELD: More medical news in about 10 minutes. Tired of being tired all the time? Our medical expert, Dr. Bill Lloyd, tells us how to fight fatigue.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a lot of uncertainty in the methane numbers. We don't know what's happening.

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WHITFIELD: From the depths of the ocean to the outer reaches of the atmosphere, researchers are seeking more knowledge on climate change.

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DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Dava Newman has been working for the past seven years to invent a safer spacesuit, so comfortable it actually feels like a second skin.

PROF. DAVA NEWMAN, AERONAUTICS & ASTRONAUTICS, MIT: The current suits are gas-pressurized, very massive, they don't have much mobility. And that's fine when you're floating around in space because it's weightless.

SIEBERG: But a much lighter suit that allows for more mobility is needed to explore another planet of interest.

NEWMAN: When we get to Mars, there's really incredible terrain, high mountains, deep canyons, the explorers are going to have to kind of be like extreme athletes. The biosuit (ph) system will provide them the life support that they need, the pressurization and oxygen, but they'll be able to move around.

SIEBERG: Newman hopes to have her suit ready in time for the maiden voyage to the elusive Red Planet sometime in the next few decades.

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WHITFIELD: Here's the latest now in the news. One dead, nearly 100 sickened in a spinach scare that now spans at least 19 states. Government investigators are looking at other spinach producers, after linking a California company to the current e. coli outbreak.

Protests in India about comments that the pope made about Islam. The Vatican has expressed regret over the statements, but there's still a great deal of anger. Morocco withdrew its Vatican envoy and churches in the Middle East were attacked.

A missing week-old infant is the focus of an amber alert out of east central Missouri. Police are looking for both the baby and the alleged kidnaper, who apparently slashed the mother's throat during the abduction, say police. And at this hour, the National Guard is among those looking for the baby.

Reporter Jeff Small is on the story for us from affiliate KSDK. So Jeff, what are the leads?

JEFF SMALL, KSDK CORRESPONDENT: Well, what I can tell you now is that just a couple of hours ago the National Guard went into action, about 100 members of the Guard on their normal drill weekend, they now joining forces along with two special investigative teams from the FBI, and a host of local and state law enforcement agencies.

Now of course, they are doing a very extensive grid search of the crime scene area. It is a heavily wooded area, so it's making it very difficult to follow up on leads, but police say they do have several good leads that they are checking into.

And we are expecting to get an update in about 30 minutes. We are expecting to hear from the child's grandmother and a local pediatrician. As you mentioned, this child was just seven days old when she was taken away from her mother, about 12:30 yesterday afternoon. This area is a very rural area, just over about an hour outside of St. Louis.

That mother was held at gunpoint, her throat was slashed, at which time she passed out, and when she woke up, little Abby was missing. Again, the search is under way and we will continue to bring you the very latest. Reporting live from Franklin County, Missouri, Jeff Small, News Channel 5 -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD:: All right. Thanks so much, Jeff. So the mother continuing to recover from her injuries, thanks so much.

The eye of Hurricane Lane now a Category 3 storm, has made landfall on Mexico's west coast, near El Dorado. CNN's Jacqui Jeras is tracking the developments and has the very latest.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well Fredricka, it's continuing to move north and continuing to push some nasty winds all across the Mexican coast here. Also some very heavy rain will be a big problem we think, not just today but the next two days at least as the system moves northward. We're talking about as much as a foot of rainfall, widespread with the storm and the path of it, and possibly as much as two feet in the higher elevations. So very concerned about flooding and mudslides.

Back here at home today we're also worried about some severe thunderstorms. There's a good risk of severe weather across parts of the Missouri River valley and into the upper Midwest. A tornado watch has been issued now across parts of South Dakota, extending into parts of Iowa. There you can see Sioux Falls and there you can see a couple of severe thunderstorms.

Large hail, up to three inches in diameter, damaging winds and some isolated tornadoes will be a good possibility, with the system as it continues to pull on through. It will be a rough night. The storm system will progress eastward tomorrow. It will be into Detroit, Chicago and St. Louis -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, Jacqui, thanks so much.

Well, scientists looking for a smoking gun to explain the global warming phenomenon are searching a rather unusual place, the ocean floor. CNN's Kareen Wynter tells us why.

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KAREEN WYNTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Researchers race to uncover a scientific puzzle locked within the ocean floor, one that some scientists fear could greatly impact global warming.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Let's just start plugging things in.

WYNTER: Oceanographer Ira Liffer and his team cruise along Santa Barbara's Pacific coast. They're studying potentially dangerous methane leaks, gas seeping from the ocean floor rising to the sea surface.

IRA LIFFER, OCEANOGRAPHER: The big concern is hydrates of frozen methane ice, locked at the bottom of the sea. There is -- 3,000 times the amount of methane in the atmosphere is trapped at the sea bed in these hydrates. If this was released and made its way to the atmosphere, it would have a very serious effect on climate.

WYNTER: This dramatic underwater video offers an up close look at methane seeps, or blowouts, volcanic blasts of gas on the bottom of the ocean. Scientists studied the hydrate deposits within the sea bed. They believe as the ocean warms, the ice-like deposits could melt precipitously and trigger global warming.

LIFFER: What's needed is long-term monitoring of hydrates to determine their stability. We need to fund basic research on methane. There's a lot of uncertainty in the methane numbers. We don't know what's happening.

WYNTER: Liffer wonders if this phenomenon could push the climate to the tipping point, beyond reversible effects, which could include a temperature increase as high as ten degrees and ocean levels rising, too. Experts offer this advice on minimizing the impact of global warming.

DREW SHINDELL, ATMOSPHERIC PHYSICIST, NASA: That means energy efficiency, that means changing to more use of renewable fuels. It mean limiting our greenhouse gas emissions as much as we can to increase the odds that this won't happen.

WYNTER: Some researchers believe methane gas caused the global warming that ended the last ice age, but aren't sure if the current conditions could lead to such disastrous effects.

Kareen Wynter, CNN.

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WHITFIELD: Coming up next, working longer, sleeping less? Isn't that everybody? Dr. Lloyd has some simple ways to fight fatigue, coming up next.

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And then you will want to sit back, relax, and enjoy the blues. Bonnie Raitt joins us live in 15 minutes.

VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Veronica de la Cruz at the ".Com Desk". Before summer ends, we'd like to share some of your summer vacation photos. At CNN.com/exchange, we are spotlighting the world through your eyes. We've been asking for your favorite travel snapshots and we've received some amazing photos from all around the globe.

Let's start here in the U.S. of A. Kevin Babard (ph) from San Francisco sent us a photograph of a waterfall and some utterly lush scenery in Big Sur, California.

Not we go to Gottland (ph), Switzerland. Richard Bourdrou (ph) stumbled upon a familiar rock formation. Can you make it out? If you look close enough, you might be able to recognize a dog.

And now to Germany, where Sean Kenyan (ph) captured the beauty of Berlin's Brandenburg Gate, one cold, rainy night back in March. And take a look at this, Rome's magnificent St. Peter's Basilica from a view of the Tiber River. That one is from Brian Andres (ph) of Chicago, Illinois. In Peru, this archway from pre-Inca times. It sits on Lake Titicaca. Big thank you to Roxanne Fatahhi (ph) for sending that in. And you can almost hear the bells ringing at this pristine wedding chapel on tranquil Laguna Piquet (ph) in Thailand, a vacation photo from Kaitlyn Collins (ph) in Boston.

Finally, this beautiful mountain landscape bathed in the morning light at the Grand Teton National Park in Wyoming. Now we would to thank Gary Langell (ph) for sharing that moment in his vacation. You can find them all online at CNN.com/exchange. From the ".Com Desk", I'm Veronica de la Cruz.

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WHITFIELD: So it's the last Saturday of the summer, a nice time to relax and rewind, right? You might need to. Most of us don't get enough sleep, so we could be compromising our health and even costing our company some cash. Dr. Bill Lloyd has some ways to fight fatigue. He also is joining us today from San Antonio, Texas.

DR. BILL LLOYD, UNIV. OF CALIF.-DAVIS MED. CTR.: Hi, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: Hopefully getting a little extra Zs while in San Antonio, Dr. Bill. All right, well, everybody is suffering from not enough sleep, working longer hours, shaving off their sleep time. How really potentially dangerous is this for most of us?

LLOYD: Well, it could be dangerous depending on the kind of job you do. There's many studies out recently talking about health professionals and are they getting quality sleep. And you're going to want to know that the next time you're having surgery. Go ahead and ask your doctor, how much sleep did you get last night? It affects everyone.

WHITFIELD: Maybe you don't want to know, actually.

LLOYD: It affects everyone in the family and Harvard researchers say a lot of this tiredness problem is simply due to loss of control, control of our schedule. Forgive me, 24-hour news. We have kids with day and night soccer games, et cetera.

Now, given the fact that you're really not going to get any more sleep, you have to devise intelligent strategies to put more energy into your waking hours.

WHITFIELD: And so that doesn't necessarily mean that you don't get the eight hours' sleep and so you count on that caffeinated coffee, tea, or soda to get you through the day?

LLOYD: Right, people rely on stimulants and initially it gives you a nice, little boost. But health researchers know long-term use of stimulants isn't the answer at all. First starters, those large cans, those energy drinks, they are full of empty calories. You're not going to get much nutrition.

Also, once the material wears off, once you've metabolized it, you're going to become dependent because you're going to want that next hit again of that caffeine, and also when you don't have it, you go into withdrawal. Now, caffeine increases the heart rate. It also increases your brain waves. It makes you kind of agitated. If you do it in the evening, late at night, you're going to have trouble falling asleep. We call that insomnia and tomorrow you have another lousy day.

WHITFIELD: All right, so quickly, how do we simplify our lives so that perhaps you can get more sleep or at least more rest?

LLOYD: Yes, let's break it down. First, eliminate stress as much as possible during your day. Think about relaxation techniques. Take control of your workload. Begin to say no about unimportant projects. Incorporate daily exercise, 30 minutes every day, good for your brain, good for your body as well.

Think about the smart foods, things like blueberries, lots of frozen yogurt and bananas and think about ways to recharge your brain at work. Bring along a photo album, teach yourself medication or other activities that you mix in with your daily workload to keep yourself fresh throughout the day.

WHITFIELD: I like that. Great ideas and things that everyone can do. Dr. Bill Lloyd, thanks so much.

LLOYD: We'll talk again soon.

WHITFIELD: All right and get some Zs.

Carol Lin is here with a preview of what's to come. Hopefully you're eating your Blueberries?

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Not getting enough sleep.

WHITFIELD: Getting more sleep. OK, cut out the caffeine, too.

LIN: I'm working on it. Coming up at 5:00, we are going to be covering the seven-month-old baby that's out there. There's an amber alert.

WHITFIELD: Seven-day-old?

LIN: Excuse me, seven-day-old baby. A woman broke into the mother's home and slit her throat. She's alive, but the baby is out there somewhere. So we're going to be covering the news conference that's coming in in the next hour.

And then at 10:00, did you hear about this town held hostage? Las Cruces?

WHITFIELD: Yes.

LIN: All right, so they get these anonymous notes, the police department, the mayor. The big parade, the big game is supposed to be happening in town, and this person is threatening to shoot people one by one if he doesn't get a certain amount of money. So, we're covering that tonight at 10:00, working on getting reports out of the region.

WHITFIELD: All right, we'll be looking forward to all of that.

LIN: You got it. WHITFIELD: Thanks a lot, Carol.

Well there's some singing and swinging along the Pacific Coast this weekend. CNN's Brooke Anderson is there, stirring up the pot.

BROOKE ANDERSON, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Hi, Fredricka. I'm here in Monterey, California, the 49th annual Monterey Jazz Festival. Coming up when CNN LIVE SATURDAY returns, Bonnie Raitt, legendary performer, is going to join me live. This is her first, absolutely first performance here at the Monterey Jazz Festival. She's going to tell us all about it after the break. Stay with us.

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SERWER: Jim Stevens and Bruce Nevins have uncorked the secret of youth, living their dream as winery owners in Sonoma County, California.

JIM STEVENS, CO-FOUNDER, PERRIER NORTH AMERICA: I don't feel like I'm 59. I feel I'm 39 or maybe 29. Really what's exciting is when you see people in the tasting room who love those wines. That really makes it all worthwhile.

SERWER: Friends and business partners for over 30 years, Nevins and Stevens co-founded Perrier North America and built a foundation for the bottled water business in the United States.

BRUCE NEVINS, CO-OWNER, PERRIER NORTH AMERICA: The passion for wine really evolved by being in France a good deal of the time with Perrier and having the opportunity to visit some of the wine country out there.

SERWER: Dutcher Crossing opened in 2005. It's a boutique winery that the duo is committed to keeping small and personal, showcasing the award winning wine and breathtaking landscape.

STEVENS: I just love wine country living, love the passion for wines, people say when are you going to retire? I don't think I'll ever retire.

NEVINS: This is a real windfall. I mean it's a real wonderful segue into another life.

SERWER: Andy Sewer, CNN.

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WHITFIELD: Sounds like that all over Monterey, California right now, because the 49th annual Monterey Jazz Festival is already under way. CNN's Brooke Anderson is in the thick of it all and she's actually joined live by that very artist, Bonnie Raitt, that you just saw for a nice little conversation in between her musical breaks. ANDERSON: That's right, Fredricka. I am joined by Bonnie Raitt. She is a musical powerhouse, not that I needed to tell you that. Nine Grammys, 18 albums under her belt and she's taken a little bit of time with us today. Bonnie, thanks so much for joining us. Yes, she's nodding, tapping her toes, we hear a performance behind us.

BONNIE RAITT, MUSICIAN: I've had two great bands already, I'm raring to go.

ANDERSON: They're great, aren't they.

RAITT: Yes.

ANDERSON: The music is so fantastic and so many people have told me they are really excited about seeing you here.

RAITT: Oh, I'm glad.

ANDERSON: It's your long awaited debut. You've played all over the world. Why did you choose this year to make your first performance?

RAITT: You know, we sort of booked a whole tour around a couple of, like the Minnesota State Fair and then some of it's weather- related, but the Monterey Jazz Festival offer was how we booked all of California because this has been 49 years and legendary. I'm not really a Jazz act, but they appreciate all kinds of roots music that is the roots of Jazz.

ANDERSON: Yes, today's Blues Saturday as tradition has it.

RAITT: Yes, I'm proud to be representing the women on the blues stage.

ANDERSON: And you're such a talented cross-over artist. Not only are you Rhythm and Blues, but you're folk, you're pop. But in terms of Jazz, it influences Blues as well.

RAITT: Oh, yes.

ANDERSON: Are there jazz artists who have influenced you, in terms of your own music?

RAITT: I think there's a real cross-over and, you know, the roots of Jazz and Blues are all the same, that kind of rhythmic music and really funky music out of New Orleans, and to me, they're just a seamless. I don't choose between Muddy Waters, Mississippi Wallace and Ray Charles and Cal Tjader and, you know, Dave Brubeck.

They're all just really great strains of the same root and so I'm proud to be able to dip in. We'll be doing some, we're going to do a Mo Allison (ph) song today and, you know, a Crusader's tune and, of course, double bill with Kevin. We have got a lot of R&B that we're going to add in there, too.

ANDERSON: You've been performing with them this summer on your tour. You recently released your 18th album, "Souls Alike," first CD that you're named as a producer.

RAITT: Yes.

ANDERSON: Did you want more control this time around?

RAITT: You know, actually most of this record came to me before I contacted the band or anybody else. So I'm always driving, in terms of material and musicians and I pick co-producers and engineers that really have the same vision to help me get where I want to go and keep me out of my own way.

So it was, you know, I'm always driving, but this one really came formulated before we even went in the studio, so I took the credit on it, but without my band and my co-producer and engineer, Chad Blake. Now we're --

ANDERSON: Giving them credit.

RAITT: -- very excited because we have a new record out and a live DVD of a show I did back in September that just came out.

ANDERSON: With VH1?

RAITT: And that's got Keb Mo, and Ben Harper and Norah Jones and Allison Krause on it. So that's doing well. We're going to do a bunch of these songs today, too.

ANDERSON: On the album, I love "Souls Alike," the song "I Will Not Be Broken," so much emotion, so much passion. We know that you've had a difficult time the past couple of years. Both your parents passed away, your brother battled cancer. Do you write songs to reflect what's happening in your life? Is it therapeutic in a way?

RAITT: I mean, I do on the last one because my parents' illness kind of got in the way of any kind of ability to take time out and write. I actually had found a lot of these songs before I went in the studio and before my dad took a serious turn.

So they normally, yes, your he right from experience, but the reason I called my record "Souls Alike" is because there were song writers who are represented on that record are speaking things that I wanted to say that I didn't even know until I heard the tune and I just went boy, you know, how you feel when you hear a song that resonates with you, you go how do they know my life?

So, you know, to me it doesn't matter as much, whether I write them or someone else does, as long as it's touching a nerve for me, then I feel like I can own it.

ANDERSON: I enjoy your music. I've talked to so many here who just can't wait to see you hit that stage. Bonnie Raitt, thank you so much for joining us.

RAITT: Thank you so much Brooke. Nice to see you again. Have a great festival.

ANDERSON: All right and Fredricka, more than 500 artists total will perform this weekend on seven stages. Back to you.

WHITFIELD: Wow, Brooke, if only I could get a ticket just to see Bonnie Raitt. Love, love, love her.

ANDERSON: I do, too. I love her. I've seen her in concert before. I can't wait to sneak in there and watch some of her show this time.

WHITFIELD: Well, you tell me all about it later.

ANDERSON: I will.

WHITFIELD: Thanks a lot.

So much more ahead on CNN LIVE SATURDAY. We continue to watch a story that's been developing all day, angry protests in the Muslim world over remarks by Pope Benedict XVI.

Well we also want to hear from you, do you think the Pope should apologize to Muslims? Tell us what you think. Carol Lin will read some of your responses in the next hour. Just e-mail them to WEEKENDS@CNN.com. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Have a great evening.

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