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New Air Attacks on Iraqi Insurgent Positions; More Tough Talks on Iraq at the White House; Zacarious Moussaoui Loses Right To Defend Self

Aired November 14, 2003 - 19:00   ET

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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): As they wait for one verdict, families of the sniper victims prepare for yet another trial.

David versus Goliath? Illegal workers go after Wal-Mart for alleged racketeering.

Our special series, "Sleepless in America." Tonight, I get wired for sleep.

Tom DeLay's charity donation request: helping kids or a high rollers convention extravagance?

And this weekend's hot Hollywood tickets.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.

COOPER: And a good Friday to you. Thanks for joining us on 360. A lot of stories to cover tonight.

Hundreds evacuated in Rhode Island. At least five people reported hurt as a massive, wind-driven fire -- look at those images -- rages out of control. We're going to have that report coming up very shortly.

But first, we want to take you to Iraq, where U.S. forces continue to hammer away at Iraqi insurgents. The U.S. blasted Baghdad targets for a third night, and near Tikrit a U.S. gun ship killed seven people suspected of trying to prepare a rocket attack on an American base. Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours, roadside bombs have killed three U.S. soldiers in two separate attacks.

Today, we also saw evidence of the damage the U.S. as inflicted with Operation Iron Hammer. A former Republican Guard facility hit last night, a place the U.S. says was a staging ground for new attacks. And President Bush today vowed to stand firm in Iraq, telling reporters, "We will stay there until the job is done."

Tonight, we have Matthew Chance on the ground in Baghdad, as well as Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. We begin with Matthew Chance.

Matt, what targets did U.S. forces strike today in Baghdad?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, the increase in casualties on the ground from U.S. forces is being matched by a stepping up of their attacks against the insurgents carrying out those incidents. Operation Iron Hammer now in its third successive night. There have been more strikes on U.S. forces on suspected militant targets. Five in the area of Baghdad Airport were hit by U.S. mortars suspected to have been used by militants as positions to fire rockets at U.S. forces.

A warehouse in the Abu Ghraib area of Baghdad was also hit by an AC-130 aerial gun ship believed to have been a storage center for weapons used by those insurgents. No reports of casualties as a result of both of those incidents, but the U.S. force is saying their aim is to deprive the insurgents of any safe havens.

What is not clear though, Anderson, is whether this operation is having any success, whether it is actually curbing the activities of those militants, or whether simply the big use of firepower is going to anger more Iraqis and drive them to the militant cause -- Anderson.

COOPER: That is the danger. Matthew Chance in Baghdad. Thanks, Matthew.

At the White House, more tough talk on Iraq. The focus, Saddam Hussein. The name Osama bin Laden also came up today. Let's go live to Washington and White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, President Bush offered his condolences to the Italian president at the Oval Office today after that deadly attack on Wednesday, that terrorist attack that killed 18 Italians in Nasiriya. President Bush also outlined this new aggressive strategy inside of Iraq. The highlights being, as terrorists change their tactics, the U.S. military will change its response to recruit more Iraqis, to gather intelligence, to get more Iraqis on the front lines of security, and when the U.S. finds actual intelligence to strike fast. Mr. Bush also pledged that U.S. troops would remain in Iraq until Saddam Hussein is either captured or killed.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A free and peaceful Iraq will have historic consequences. And we'll find Saddam Hussein. The goal is for a free and peaceful Iraq. And by being strong and determined we will achieve that objective.

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MALVEAUX: Now, Anderson, this presents a possible quandry for the administration if the Iraqi government says get out before Saddam Hussein is caught. But White House officials would not discuss the legal or political negotiations that might happen in such a scenario. They say first thing's first, let's get those Iraqis back into power -- Anderson. COOPER: Well, under this plan it would seem that the U.S. would be handing over power while keeping U.S. troops on the ground. Is there any precedent for this?

MALVEAUX: Well, actually, there's a precedent in Afghanistan, because it was part of deal to actually turn over power back to Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. And the Afghans, that they would allow U.S. troops to have some sort of presence while they go after Osama bin Laden. It is something that they could work out with the Iraqis as well.

COOPER: All right. Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thanks very much.

That brings us to today's buzz question. It's a controversial one. Has Iraq become a quagmire? We want to hear from you.

Vote now at cnn.com/360. We'll have the results at the end of program.

Accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has lost the right to represent himself at his upcoming trial. Now, the presiding judge today read him the Riot Act, essentially saying Moussaoui had repeatedly ignored instructions on how to conduct himself.

Wolf Blitzer filed this report.

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WOLF BLITZER, "WOLF BLITZER REPORTS" (voice-over): The judge has had enough. Zacarias Moussaoui, the man prosecutors say conspired with the September 11 hijackers, will no longer be allowed to represent himself. A year ago last summer, federal Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Moussaoui permission to act as his own lawyer. Ever since, from his Virginia prison cell he's filed hundreds of handwritten motions, insulting the judge as wicked, attacking the government, the news media, even the lawyers assigned to help him.

The judge warned him repeatedly. And now she says his latest motions include contemptuous language that would never be tolerated from an attorney and will no longer be tolerated from this defendant.

What he actually said remains sealed. The judge says from now on she'll deal only with Moussaoui's standby lawyers. They include Frank Dunham. Moussaoui once called him a bloodsucker.

FRANK DUNHAM, STANDBY LAWYER: Obviously, in one of the most complex and difficult criminal cases in the history of the United States, to have a defendant untrained in the law trying to deal with these issues was not good for him at all.

BLITZER: No comment from the government. And Moussaoui, the judge gave him 10 days write an appeal.

Wolf Blitzer, CNN, Washington.

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COOPER: A news note for you on this case. Zacarias Moussaoui's trial has been delayed indefinitely, while a court of appeals rules on Moussaoui's access to three al Qaeda witnesses. Now, in October, a lower court handed the prosecution a setback by making Moussaoui ineligible for the death penalty.

Prosecutors had accused Moussaoui of being the 20th 9/11 hijacker, something he always denied. But this month, two U.S. officials told "USA Today" they know who the 20th hijacker is and that it is not Moussaoui.

We move on now to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where a massive mill fire spread into a neighborhood, destroyed homes. For more on the battle against the flames, let's go live to the scene to Krea Sakakeeny of affiliate WLNE -- Krea.

KREA SAKAKEENY, PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND: Hi. That's right. The fire began at around 2:45. When we arrived, the building, which was an abandoned fabrics warehouse, was still standing. People say, however, they heard an explosion and immediately the building began to crumble.

We can take a look at some footage from today. What the firefighters were battling were extremely high winds that was sending that fire to houses. About 10 houses finally caught flame. Some burned completely to the ground, some were still standing.

They did evacuate at least five blocks, five north, five south. They sent people to a nearby junior high school where they were staying. They say all of the people were basically in shock. Cell phones were glutted, towers were burned down. A lot of people were just consoling each other.

Five people were taken to a nearby hospital. One firefighter and at least four other people for smoke inhalation. They say there were construction crews working earlier doing some asbestos removal, although the mayor of Pawtucket was not sure whether that was part of the reason why this building caught flames.

It was supposed to be a Super Stop & Shop, and that's what it was headed for. But still, no one knows exactly why this happened. They do know that the extreme winds were part of the reason why this fire, this intense fire spread to neighboring homes so close by. Again, people will be staying at a nearby junior high school, and people are evacuated at least 10 blocks surrounding the area. And a few people are at the hospital.

The mayor of Pawtucket says this is one of the largest fires he remembers in recent history here in this area. Back to you, Anderson.

COOPER: Krea, just unbelievable images that we've been looking at really all day now. The status of the fire right now? Everything's out or everything's under control?

SAKAKEENY: No. If you can see, there are flames behind me that you can see, but deep down this building went down several layers into the ground. They say that's where firefighters are working right now.

The house that did catch on fire have been put out. However, they are making sure that embers don't catch on to houses. So they've surrounded the area, they've wet several houses that are in direction of the wind to make sure that there's no chance of their catching again. But firefighters do not expect to be going home any time tonight --anytime soon that is.

COOPER: It is definitely going to be a long night. We can tell just by looking at you. The wind is blowing there, so let's hope that doesn't fan any of those embers.

Krea Sakakeeny, appreciate it. Thank you.

We are following a number of other stories tonight "Cross Country."

Des Moines, Iowa: cash and Kerry. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is borrowing a page from the Howard Dean play book, saying no to public financing to bankroll his bid for the White House. Now, unlike Dean, Kerry says he will old primary spending to the $45 million limit imposed by the public financing system.

Washington: talk-a-thon ends. After an almost 40-hour gabfest, Senate Republicans were not able to break a Democratic filibuster on three GOP judicial nominees. Now, afterwards, Georgia's Democratic senator, Zell Miller, equated his party's opposition to a black judicial nominee to a lynching. Miller is now under fire from some civil rights activists, but he refuses to apologize.

Montgomery, Alabama: Exxon Mobil verdict. A jury orders the oil giant to pay nearly $12 billion in punitive damages, a state record, after finding that the company cheated the state out of natural gas royalties. The word from Exxon Mobil? They say they did not commit fraud and the verdict was excessive. Expect an appeal.

And in Virginia Beach, Virginia, no verdict yet. Jurors in the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad will have the weekend to think about things. They started their work this morning, went home after four hours after asking to review some evidence. We'll talk more about this trial coming up in "Justice Served."

And that is a look at stories right now "Cross Country."

Coming up, a lot ahead. Accusations of racketeering at Wal-Mart. Were thousands of undocumented workers duped into working at the retail giant? That's what some of them are saying. We'll take a closer look at that, however.

Also, our weeklong series: "Sleepless in America." Hey, who is that freak? That's me. Spend the night with me at a sleep clinic, won't you?

Plus, we'll talk to a dream therapist about how to interpret all those strange things you think about when you're asleep. All right.

And rescue on the high seas. Take a front-row seat as the Coast Guard goes into action. Some incredible video I want you to see.

But first, let's take a look "Inside the Box" tonight at the top story on this evening's network newscasts.

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COOPER: Friday night in New York. Welcome.

Not the easiest of times these days for Wal-Mart. First, federal agents rounded up dozens of illegal workers at the nation's largest retailer last month, then the company blamed the subcontractor. Now nine of those detained workers are suing, staking a claim against Wal- Mart before they could be sent back to Mexico.

CNN's Maria Hinojosa talked with some of them.

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MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN URBAN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Zavala family eating breakfast on a typical suburban morning. Not long ago, the working class American dream appeared within their reach. Even with no legal immigration status, they were janitors at America's largest retailer, Wal-Mart.

VICTOR ZAVALA JR., SUING WAL-MART: I was excited because Wal- Mart is a big company.

HINOJOSA: But today they're running scared. Federal immigration agents raided Wal-Marts in 21 states and detained 250 undocumented workers.

ZAVALA (through translator): I know I'm illegal. I have no rights. But I do the kind of dirty work no one wants to do. I'm willing to work 60 hours a week. I am not here to hurt anyone.

HINOJOSA: All of these former janitors face deportation as the investigation of Wal-Mart and the subcontractor continues.

ZAVALA (through translator): They saved themselves a lot of money on my back.

HINOJOSA: But these immigrants aren't finished with Wal-Mart. They've sued them, claiming they got paid $350 a week for cleaning floors overnight, seven days a week, with no overtime or workers' compensation, in violation of labor laws.

GILBERTO GARCIA, ZAVALA'S LAWYER: We are saying Wal-Mart acted as a mobster by shielding itself from liability, thus creating subcontracting layers that ultimately hired my clients with the knowledge that they were undocumented.

HINOJOSA: The workers allege a company with $245 billion dollars of annual revenue had to know you can't get subcontracted workers this cheap without breaking the law.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They betrayed us. They never made me fill an application. They never asked me for no I.D. They never said that I could get in trouble.

HINOJOSA: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Zavala says one of the subcontractors allegedly involved recently offered him another job at Wal-Mart, saying no legal resident would work for so little money. But their hopes for decent work are gone now.

EUNICE ZAVALA, SUING WAL-MART (through translator): My dreams were finally coming true because all I wanted was to work so I can give my children what they needed.

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HINOJOSA: Wal-Mart says it is conducting its own internal investigation and says this lawsuit has no merit. Wal-Mart claims that these employees never worked directly for them, but for subcontractors who signed a legal agreement saying that they would verify their immigration status and that they would also abide by wage rules.

Now, CNN also contracted the subcontractors that the Zavalas say employed them. When we called, someone answered the phone and said, "No comment," and then hung up -- Anderson.

COOPER: All right. Maria Hinojosa, interesting case. Thanks very much.

Campaign finance reform has forced both Democrats and Republicans to get, well, pretty creative if they want to keep raising money. And critics, mostly Democrats, are saying that House Republican Leader Tom DeLay is using a charity for kids a way to raise cash.

National Correspondent Bob Franken has the details.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Speaker...

BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To his Democratic enemies, Tom DeLay's hard political edge was softened by his devotion to damaged children.

REP. TOM DELAY (R), MAJORITY LEADER: We need to build a system that gives them a stable home.

FRANKEN: But now DeLay's critics charge he's using his charitable foundation for blatant political purposes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a scam.

FRANKEN: Celebrations for children, says the brochure. It promises special VIP access at the next Republican National Convention for donations up to $500,000, special golf tournaments with DeLay, as well as yacht cruises, private dinners, charitable contributions not limited by new campaign finance laws.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We love this guy. FRANKEN: DeLay's associates point out he has hosted charity events for years.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's using this charity for his own political purposes. It's just clear as can be.

FRANKEN (on camera): Supporters of Tom DeLay say he is being singled out for the kinds of events that others in the political world sponsor, like Senate Republican leader Bill Frist.

SEN. BILL FRIST (R), MAJORITY LEADER: Well I think that is both appropriate -- I encourage people to come.

FRANKEN (voice-over): The IRS still has to decide whether donations to these events are tax deductible charity or too political.

Bob Franken, CNN, Washington.

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COOPER: Well we're following a couple of international stories we want you to know about. Let's check tonight's "UpLink."

Tbilisi, Georgia: political crisis. Up to 20,000 protestors have surrounded the offices of President Edward Shevardnadze demanding that he step down. Soldiers are keeping a close eye on the crowd. The protesters, who are being led by an opposition party leader, say a parliamentary election that happened earlier this month, well, they say it was a fraud.

Rome, Italy: wounded returned. About 20 Italians wounded in Wednesday's bombing of the Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriya, Iraq, well, they were flown home today. They were taken to a military hospital and reunited with their families. The bodies of 18 of their comrades will arrive in Italy tomorrow. The state funeral will be held on Tuesday.

Tokyo, Japan: meet and greet. There it is. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds talks with Japan's prime minister. Subject: Iraq, high on the agenda. Japan says before committing troops it wants to send a fact-finding group to assess the security situation in Iraq.

And that is tonight's "UpLink."

So what happens to you when you sleep? Well, I spent the night in a sleep clinic to see what is going to in the slumbering brain. Not much in mine, it turns out. You won't believe what some people do, though, when they're asleep.

Plus, interpreting dreams. What am I doing there rocking back and forth? We'll answer some of your e-mails of the questions that keep you up at night. All right. Enough of that video.

Also tonight, Coast Guard in action. You'll see a daring rescue on the high seas. And...

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BUGS BUNNY: What's up, doc?

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COOPER: Family fun at the box office this weekend. A look at what is hot for kids big and small at the multiplex.

We'll be right back.

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COOPER: Well, most of us think of sleep as a time when our bodies shut down, but truth is a lot is going on in our brains and our muscles even while we slumber. Tonight, in our final installment of our weeklong series, "Sleepless in America," I foolishly offered myself up as a guinea pig for a night inside a sleep clinic. And as I found out, the first step is getting yourself all hooked up.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: These are the electrodes that will be going over your head.

COOPER (voice-over): The night begins by getting wired up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You shouldn't feel anything at all.

COOPER (on camera): This is going to make sleeping easy.

(voice-over): The electrodes measure breathing, muscle movement, eye movement, brain waves, even pulse. All of which will tell doctors if I have any sleeping disorders.

(on camera): It's one of those things that seemed like a good idea in the office.

(voice-over): With so many cable cables attached to me, frankly, I didn't think I'd be able to fall asleep.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. You can try to get some sleep right now. Good night.

COOPER: But surprisingly, it didn't take long. Sleep may seem like a restful time, but there's actually a lot going on inside your head.

All of us go through several stages of sleep, often in 90-minute cycles that repeat throughout the night. Stage one is the transition from being awake to asleep. It starts off when your eyes slowly begin to roll.

Stage two, your heart rate slows and body temperature drops. Stages three and four are the deep sleep periods, when your body carries out most of its repair work.

REM sleep is the final stage of the sleep cycle. REM stands for rapid eye movement. It's the time of night we have the most vivid dreams. During REM sleep, your body's skeletal muscles shut down so you don't act out your dreams. But some people's muscles keep working. They suffer from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, which means they can dangerously act out their dreams.

Sleep clinics are used to observe many sleep disorders, like Restless Leg Syndrome and sleep walking. Thankfully, my sleep was not so exciting. Dr. Gary Zamet (ph) monitored my sleep cycles, which turns out are pretty normal.

DR. GARY ZAMET: I detect mild snoring here but nothing of great...

COOPER (on camera): That I deny.

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COOPER: I deny I snore. That is just simply not true.

Those gadgets might tell us when we're dreaming, but they certainly cannot explain our dreams at all, like the one where, you know, you're sailing the Riviera with your best buddy, P. Diddy, chilling with some Kristol (ph), then in walks the president and your fifth grade teacher and you realize, oh, no, I'm not wear anything pants. You know, those kind of dreams.

We are joined now by someone who helps people decipher their dreams for a living, dream analyst Gayle Delaney, author of "All About Dreams."

Gayle, good to meet you. Thanks for being with us.

GAYLE DELANEY, DREAM ANALYST: Well, thank you. How was your night's sleep?

COOPER: I actually slept well. Better than I actually sleep at home. Don't ask me why.

Let's talk about dreams, though. What do dreams tell us about ourselves?

DELANEY: When we dream, we think about our lives. All of the major concerns, the conflict, the hopes, the problems we want to solve. And every single night we get a chance to work on that for a reason that we don't understand. We seem to be less defensive while we're sleeping, and so our dreams offer us a lot of insight.

COOPER: You know, it used to be people would say, oh, if you're dreaming about water it means one thing. If you're dreaming about -- is that the thought now, or is it sort of -- has dream analysis sort of evolved?

DELANEY: It has evolved. Modern dreamwork understands that your dream images mean something to you, the individual. If you dream about a dog, it depends upon whether you like dogs or hate dogs or are allergic to them what they'll mean. It depends upon whether the dog in your dream is chewing on you or saving your life. So you have to ask yourself to describe the images of your dream, and then say, how is my dream a metaphor or a parable about what's going on in my life the day before the dream?

COOPER: Are there some things that can be -- I mean, we have a lot of e-mail from people who wanted their dreams analyzed.

DELANEY: I'll bet.

COOPER: I know it's a little unfair to just sort of ask you, but we've got one. Veronica in Austin says, "Every few months, I have the same recurring dream. My teeth are falling off, one by one, until I am left toothless."

You probably have heard -- this seems pretty common.

DELANEY: It's probably a dream we've all head at some point. So what you do if you have this dream is personalize it. It's a common dream, but it's a personal meaning. So say to yourself, how do I feel in the dream about losing my teeth and how would I feel if I lost my teeth?

Now most people would say -- not everyone -- most will say, you know, I would feel embarrassed. I'd look awful. I would look bad.

So ask yourself, where in my life am I worried about looking bad, losing face? And the dream will usually be triggered by one of those events in your life.

COOPER: I'm going to read you one more. And I think the answer is probably the same. But this is from Lisa.

She says, "I keep having recurring dreams that someone kills me. It's usually a different person, but it's almost every night." What about recurring dreams?

DELANEY: Recurring dreams are very important because they're showing you about some situation in your life that recurs and is usually a problem. And in the case of when you have someone killing you, there's something destructive going on in your life. The person in your dream who is trying to kill you could be someone in your life metaphorically killing you, emotionally killing you.

Or, it could be part of your own personality. And the way you interpret the dream is you say, who is this aggressor in my dream? What is he like? What did does he remind me of in my life? What am I running away from that is like that aggressor?

COOPER: Interesting.

DELANEY: You have to personalize all of the meanings to yourself.

COOPER: That's the key. All right. Gayle Delaney, fascinating to talk to you. Thanks very much for being with us.

DELANEY: Thank you, Anderson.

COOPER: Before she left, also Gayle gave us a recommendation about how you might want to try to use your dreams to actually solve a particular problem or answer a question. She says it's possible. And the way she suggests is write down the question you have before going to sleep, then repeat it to yourself as you fall asleep.

When you wake up, write down any dreams you may remember. And read your notes later to see if they form a kind of metaphor or parable that might shed light on your problem. See if it works.

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COOPER (voice-over): Families face their loved ones' alleged killers in the sniper trials.

And what are you doing this weekend? We've got some ideas.

We'll be right back.

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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): As they wait for one verdict, families of the sniper victims prepare for yet another trial.

David versus Goliath? Illegal workers go after Wal-Mart for alleged racketeering.

Our special series, "Sleepless in America." Tonight, I get wired for sleep.

Tom DeLay's charity donation request: helping kids or a high rollers convention extravagance?

And this weekend's hot Hollywood tickets.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.

COOPER: And a good Friday to you. Thanks for joining us on 360. A lot of stories to cover tonight.

Hundreds evacuated in Rhode Island. At least five people reported hurt as a massive, wind-driven fire -- look at those images -- rages out of control. We're going to have that report coming up very shortly.

But first, we want to take you to Iraq, where U.S. forces continue to hammer away at Iraqi insurgents. The U.S. blasted Baghdad targets for a third night, and near Tikrit a U.S. gun ship killed seven people suspected of trying to prepare a rocket attack on an American base. Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours, roadside bombs have killed three U.S. soldiers in two separate attacks.

Today, we also saw evidence of the damage the U.S. as inflicted with Operation Iron Hammer. A former Republican Guard facility hit last night, a place the U.S. says was a staging ground for new attacks. And President Bush today vowed to stand firm in Iraq, telling reporters, "We will stay there until the job is done."

Tonight, we have Matthew Chance on the ground in Baghdad, as well as Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. We begin with Matthew Chance.

Matt, what targets did U.S. forces strike today in Baghdad?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, the increase in casualties on the ground from U.S. forces is being matched by a stepping up of their attacks against the insurgents carrying out those incidents. Operation Iron Hammer now in its third successive night. There have been more strikes on U.S. forces on suspected militant targets. Five in the area of Baghdad Airport were hit by U.S. mortars suspected to have been used by militants as positions to fire rockets at U.S. forces.

A warehouse in the Abu Ghraib area of Baghdad was also hit by an AC-130 aerial gun ship believed to have been a storage center for weapons used by those insurgents. No reports of casualties as a result of both of those incidents, but the U.S. force is saying their aim is to deprive the insurgents of any safe havens.

What is not clear though, Anderson, is whether this operation is having any success, whether it is actually curbing the activities of those militants, or whether simply the big use of firepower is going to anger more Iraqis and drive them to the militant cause -- Anderson.

COOPER: That is the danger. Matthew Chance in Baghdad. Thanks, Matthew.

At the White House, more tough talk on Iraq. The focus, Saddam Hussein. The name Osama bin Laden also came up today. Let's go live to Washington and White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, President Bush offered his condolences to the Italian president at the Oval Office today after that deadly attack on Wednesday, that terrorist attack that killed 18 Italians in Nasiriya. President Bush also outlined this new aggressive strategy inside of Iraq. The highlights being, as terrorists change their tactics, the U.S. military will change its response to recruit more Iraqis, to gather intelligence, to get more Iraqis on the front lines of security, and when the U.S. finds actual intelligence to strike fast. Mr. Bush also pledged that U.S. troops would remain in Iraq until Saddam Hussein is either captured or killed.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A free and peaceful Iraq will have historic consequences. And we'll find Saddam Hussein. The goal is for a free and peaceful Iraq. And by being strong and determined we will achieve that objective.

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MALVEAUX: Now, Anderson, this presents a possible quandry for the administration if the Iraqi government says get out before Saddam Hussein is caught. But White House officials would not discuss the legal or political negotiations that might happen in such a scenario. They say first thing's first, let's get those Iraqis back into power -- Anderson.

COOPER: Well, under this plan it would seem that the U.S. would be handing over power while keeping U.S. troops on the ground. Is there any precedent for this?

MALVEAUX: Well, actually, there's a precedent in Afghanistan, because it was part of deal to actually turn over power back to Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. And the Afghans, that they would allow U.S. troops to have some sort of presence while they go after Osama bin Laden. It is something that they could work out with the Iraqis as well.

COOPER: All right. Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thanks very much.

That brings us to today's buzz question. It's a controversial one. Has Iraq become a quagmire? We want to hear from you.

Vote now at cnn.com/360. We'll have the results at the end of program.

Accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has lost the right to represent himself at his upcoming trial. Now, the presiding judge today read him the Riot Act, essentially saying Moussaoui had repeatedly ignored instructions on how to conduct himself.

Wolf Blitzer filed this report.

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WOLF BLITZER, "WOLF BLITZER REPORTS" (voice-over): The judge has had enough. Zacarias Moussaoui, the man prosecutors say conspired with the September 11 hijackers, will no longer be allowed to represent himself. A year ago last summer, federal Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Moussaoui permission to act as his own lawyer. Ever since, from his Virginia prison cell he's filed hundreds of handwritten motions, insulting the judge as wicked, attacking the government, the news media, even the lawyers assigned to help him.

The judge warned him repeatedly. And now she says his latest motions include contemptuous language that would never be tolerated from an attorney and will no longer be tolerated from this defendant.

What he actually said remains sealed. The judge says from now on she'll deal only with Moussaoui's standby lawyers. They include Frank Dunham. Moussaoui once called him a bloodsucker.

FRANK DUNHAM, STANDBY LAWYER: Obviously, in one of the most complex and difficult criminal cases in the history of the United States, to have a defendant untrained in the law trying to deal with these issues was not good for him at all.

BLITZER: No comment from the government. And Moussaoui, the judge gave him 10 days write an appeal.

Wolf Blitzer, CNN, Washington.

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COOPER: A news note for you on this case. Zacarias Moussaoui's trial has been delayed indefinitely, while a court of appeals rules on Moussaoui's access to three al Qaeda witnesses. Now, in October, a lower court handed the prosecution a setback by making Moussaoui ineligible for the death penalty.

Prosecutors had accused Moussaoui of being the 20th 9/11 hijacker, something he always denied. But this month, two U.S. officials told "USA Today" they know who the 20th hijacker is and that it is not Moussaoui.

We move on now to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where a massive mill fire spread into a neighborhood, destroyed homes. For more on the battle against the flames, let's go live to the scene to Krea Sakakeeny of affiliate WLNE -- Krea.

KREA SAKAKEENY, PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND: Hi. That's right. The fire began at around 2:45. When we arrived, the building, which was an abandoned fabrics warehouse, was still standing. People say, however, they heard an explosion and immediately the building began to crumble.

We can take a look at some footage from today. What the firefighters were battling were extremely high winds that was sending that fire to houses. About 10 houses finally caught flame. Some burned completely to the ground, some were still standing.

They did evacuate at least five blocks, five north, five south. They sent people to a nearby junior high school where they were staying. They say all of the people were basically in shock. Cell phones were glutted, towers were burned down. A lot of people were just consoling each other.

Five people were taken to a nearby hospital. One firefighter and at least four other people for smoke inhalation. They say there were construction crews working earlier doing some asbestos removal, although the mayor of Pawtucket was not sure whether that was part of the reason why this building caught flames.

It was supposed to be a Super Stop & Shop, and that's what it was headed for. But still, no one knows exactly why this happened. They do know that the extreme winds were part of the reason why this fire, this intense fire spread to neighboring homes so close by. Again, people will be staying at a nearby junior high school, and people are evacuated at least 10 blocks surrounding the area. And a few people are at the hospital.

The mayor of Pawtucket says this is one of the largest fires he remembers in recent history here in this area. Back to you, Anderson.

COOPER: Krea, just unbelievable images that we've been looking at really all day now. The status of the fire right now? Everything's out or everything's under control?

SAKAKEENY: No. If you can see, there are flames behind me that you can see, but deep down this building went down several layers into the ground. They say that's where firefighters are working right now.

The house that did catch on fire have been put out. However, they are making sure that embers don't catch on to houses. So they've surrounded the area, they've wet several houses that are in direction of the wind to make sure that there's no chance of their catching again. But firefighters do not expect to be going home any time tonight --anytime soon that is.

COOPER: It is definitely going to be a long night. We can tell just by looking at you. The wind is blowing there, so let's hope that doesn't fan any of those embers.

Krea Sakakeeny, appreciate it. Thank you.

We are following a number of other stories tonight "Cross Country."

Des Moines, Iowa: cash and Kerry. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is borrowing a page from the Howard Dean play book, saying no to public financing to bankroll his bid for the White House. Now, unlike Dean, Kerry says he will old primary spending to the $45 million limit imposed by the public financing system.

Washington: talk-a-thon ends. After an almost 40-hour gabfest, Senate Republicans were not able to break a Democratic filibuster on three GOP judicial nominees. Now, afterwards, Georgia's Democratic senator, Zell Miller, equated his party's opposition to a black judicial nominee to a lynching. Miller is now under fire from some civil rights activists, but he refuses to apologize.

Montgomery, Alabama: Exxon Mobil verdict. A jury orders the oil giant to pay nearly $12 billion in punitive damages, a state record, after finding that the company cheated the state out of natural gas royalties. The word from Exxon Mobil? They say they did not commit fraud and the verdict was excessive. Expect an appeal.

And in Virginia Beach, Virginia, no verdict yet. Jurors in the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad will have the weekend to think about things. They started their work this morning, went home after four hours after asking to review some evidence. We'll talk more about this trial coming up in "Justice Served."

And that is a look at stories right now "Cross Country."

Coming up, a lot ahead. Accusations of racketeering at Wal-Mart. Were thousands of undocumented workers duped into working at the retail giant? That's what some of them are saying. We'll take a closer look at that, however.

Also, our weeklong series: "Sleepless in America." Hey, who is that freak? That's me. Spend the night with me at a sleep clinic, won't you?

Plus, we'll talk to a dream therapist about how to interpret all those strange things you think about when you're asleep. All right.

And rescue on the high seas. Take a front-row seat as the Coast Guard goes into action. Some incredible video I want you to see.

But first, let's take a look "Inside the Box" tonight at the top story on this evening's network newscasts.

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COOPER: Friday night in New York. Welcome.

Not the easiest of times these days for Wal-Mart. First, federal agents rounded up dozens of illegal workers at the nation's largest retailer last month, then the company blamed the subcontractor. Now nine of those detained workers are suing, staking a claim against Wal- Mart before they could be sent back to Mexico.

CNN's Maria Hinojosa talked with some of them.

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MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN URBAN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Zavala family eating breakfast on a typical suburban morning. Not long ago, the working class American dream appeared within their reach. Even with no legal immigration status, they were janitors at America's largest retailer, Wal-Mart.

VICTOR ZAVALA JR., SUING WAL-MART: I was excited because Wal- Mart is a big company.

HINOJOSA: But today they're running scared. Federal immigration agents raided Wal-Marts in 21 states and detained 250 undocumented workers.

ZAVALA (through translator): I know I'm illegal. I have no rights. But I do the kind of dirty work no one wants to do. I'm willing to work 60 hours a week. I am not here to hurt anyone.

HINOJOSA: All of these former janitors face deportation as the investigation of Wal-Mart and the subcontractor continues.

ZAVALA (through translator): They saved themselves a lot of money on my back.

HINOJOSA: But these immigrants aren't finished with Wal-Mart. They've sued them, claiming they got paid $350 a week for cleaning floors overnight, seven days a week, with no overtime or workers' compensation, in violation of labor laws.

GILBERTO GARCIA, ZAVALA'S LAWYER: We are saying Wal-Mart acted as a mobster by shielding itself from liability, thus creating subcontracting layers that ultimately hired my clients with the knowledge that they were undocumented.

HINOJOSA: The workers allege a company with $245 billion dollars of annual revenue had to know you can't get subcontracted workers this cheap without breaking the law.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They betrayed us. They never made me fill an application. They never asked me for no I.D. They never said that I could get in trouble.

HINOJOSA: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Zavala says one of the subcontractors allegedly involved recently offered him another job at Wal-Mart, saying no legal resident would work for so little money. But their hopes for decent work are gone now.

EUNICE ZAVALA, SUING WAL-MART (through translator): My dreams were finally coming true because all I wanted was to work so I can give my children what they needed.

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HINOJOSA: Wal-Mart says it is conducting its own internal investigation and says this lawsuit has no merit. Wal-Mart claims that these employees never worked directly for them, but for subcontractors who signed a legal agreement saying that they would verify their immigration status and that they would also abide by wage rules.

Now, CNN also contracted the subcontractors that the Zavalas say employed them. When we called, someone answered the phone and said, "No comment," and then hung up -- Anderson.

COOPER: All right. Maria Hinojosa, interesting case. Thanks very much.

Campaign finance reform has forced both Democrats and Republicans to get, well, pretty creative if they want to keep raising money. And critics, mostly Democrats, are saying that House Republican Leader Tom DeLay is using a charity for kids a way to raise cash.

National Correspondent Bob Franken has the details.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Speaker...

BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To his Democratic enemies, Tom DeLay's hard political edge was softened by his devotion to damaged children.

REP. TOM DELAY (R), MAJORITY LEADER: We need to build a system that gives them a stable home.

FRANKEN: But now DeLay's critics charge he's using his charitable foundation for blatant political purposes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a scam.

FRANKEN: Celebrations for children, says the brochure. It promises special VIP access at the next Republican National Convention for donations up to $500,000, special golf tournaments with DeLay, as well as yacht cruises, private dinners, charitable contributions not limited by new campaign finance laws.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We love this guy.

FRANKEN: DeLay's associates point out he has hosted charity events for years.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's using this charity for his own political purposes. It's just clear as can be.

FRANKEN (on camera): Supporters of Tom DeLay say he is being singled out for the kinds of events that others in the political world sponsor, like Senate Republican leader Bill Frist.

SEN. BILL FRIST (R), MAJORITY LEADER: Well I think that is both appropriate -- I encourage people to come.

FRANKEN (voice-over): The IRS still has to decide whether donations to these events are tax deductible charity or too political.

Bob Franken, CNN, Washington.

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COOPER: Well we're following a couple of international stories we want you to know about. Let's check tonight's "UpLink."

Tbilisi, Georgia: political crisis. Up to 20,000 protestors have surrounded the offices of President Edward Shevardnadze demanding that he step down. Soldiers are keeping a close eye on the crowd. The protesters, who are being led by an opposition party leader, say a parliamentary election that happened earlier this month, well, they say it was a fraud.

Rome, Italy: wounded returned. About 20 Italians wounded in Wednesday's bombing of the Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriya, Iraq, well, they were flown home today. They were taken to a military hospital and reunited with their families. The bodies of 18 of their comrades will arrive in Italy tomorrow. The state funeral will be held on Tuesday.

Tokyo, Japan: meet and greet. There it is. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds talks with Japan's prime minister. Subject: Iraq, high on the agenda. Japan says before committing troops it wants to send a fact-finding group to assess the security situation in Iraq.

And that is tonight's "UpLink."

So what happens to you when you sleep? Well, I spent the night in a sleep clinic to see what is going to in the slumbering brain. Not much in mine, it turns out. You won't believe what some people do, though, when they're asleep.

Plus, interpreting dreams. What am I doing there rocking back and forth? We'll answer some of your e-mails of the questions that keep you up at night. All right. Enough of that video.

Also tonight, Coast Guard in action. You'll see a daring rescue on the high seas.

And...

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BUGS BUNNY: What's up, doc?

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COOPER: Family fun at the box office this weekend. A look at what is hot for kids big and small at the multiplex.

We'll be right back.

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COOPER: Well, most of us think of sleep as a time when our bodies shut down, but truth is a lot is going on in our brains and our muscles even while we slumber. Tonight, in our final installment of our weeklong series, "Sleepless in America," I foolishly offered myself up as a guinea pig for a night inside a sleep clinic. And as I found out, the first step is getting yourself all hooked up.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: These are the electrodes that will be going over your head.

COOPER (voice-over): The night begins by getting wired up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You shouldn't feel anything at all.

COOPER (on camera): This is going to make sleeping easy.

(voice-over): The electrodes measure breathing, muscle movement, eye movement, brain waves, even pulse. All of which will tell doctors if I have any sleeping disorders.

(on camera): It's one of those things that seemed like a good idea in the office.

(voice-over): With so many cable cables attached to me, frankly, I didn't think I'd be able to fall asleep.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. You can try to get some sleep right now. Good night.

COOPER: But surprisingly, it didn't take long. Sleep may seem like a restful time, but there's actually a lot going on inside your head.

All of us go through several stages of sleep, often in 90-minute cycles that repeat throughout the night. Stage one is the transition from being awake to asleep. It starts off when your eyes slowly begin to roll.

Stage two, your heart rate slows and body temperature drops. Stages three and four are the deep sleep periods, when your body carries out most of its repair work.

REM sleep is the final stage of the sleep cycle. REM stands for rapid eye movement. It's the time of night we have the most vivid dreams. During REM sleep, your body's skeletal muscles shut down so you don't act out your dreams. But some people's muscles keep working. They suffer from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, which means they can dangerously act out their dreams. Sleep clinics are used to observe many sleep disorders, like Restless Leg Syndrome and sleep walking. Thankfully, my sleep was not so exciting. Dr. Gary Zamet (ph) monitored my sleep cycles, which turns out are pretty normal.

DR. GARY ZAMET: I detect mild snoring here but nothing of great...

COOPER (on camera): That I deny.

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COOPER: I deny I snore. That is just simply not true.

Those gadgets might tell us when we're dreaming, but they certainly cannot explain our dreams at all, like the one where, you know, you're sailing the Riviera with your best buddy, P. Diddy, chilling with some Kristol (ph), then in walks the president and your fifth grade teacher and you realize, oh, no, I'm not wear anything pants. You know, those kind of dreams.

We are joined now by someone who helps people decipher their dreams for a living, dream analyst Gayle Delaney, author of "All About Dreams."

Gayle, good to meet you. Thanks for being with us.

GAYLE DELANEY, DREAM ANALYST: Well, thank you. How was your night's sleep?

COOPER: I actually slept well. Better than I actually sleep at home. Don't ask me why.

Let's talk about dreams, though. What do dreams tell us about ourselves?

DELANEY: When we dream, we think about our lives. All of the major concerns, the conflict, the hopes, the problems we want to solve. And every single night we get a chance to work on that for a reason that we don't understand. We seem to be less defensive while we're sleeping, and so our dreams offer us a lot of insight.

COOPER: You know, it used to be people would say, oh, if you're dreaming about water it means one thing. If you're dreaming about -- is that the thought now, or is it sort of -- has dream analysis sort of evolved?

DELANEY: It has evolved. Modern dreamwork understands that your dream images mean something to you, the individual. If you dream about a dog, it depends upon whether you like dogs or hate dogs or are allergic to them what they'll mean. It depends upon whether the dog in your dream is chewing on you or saving your life. So you have to ask yourself to describe the images of your dream, and then say, how is my dream a metaphor or a parable about what's going on in my life the day before the dream?

COOPER: Are there some things that can be -- I mean, we have a lot of e-mail from people who wanted their dreams analyzed.

DELANEY: I'll bet.

COOPER: I know it's a little unfair to just sort of ask you, but we've got one. Veronica in Austin says, "Every few months, I have the same recurring dream. My teeth are falling off, one by one, until I am left toothless."

You probably have heard -- this seems pretty common.

DELANEY: It's probably a dream we've all head at some point. So what you do if you have this dream is personalize it. It's a common dream, but it's a personal meaning. So say to yourself, how do I feel in the dream about losing my teeth and how would I feel if I lost my teeth?

Now most people would say -- not everyone -- most will say, you know, I would feel embarrassed. I'd look awful. I would look bad.

So ask yourself, where in my life am I worried about looking bad, losing face? And the dream will usually be triggered by one of those events in your life.

COOPER: I'm going to read you one more. And I think the answer is probably the same. But this is from Lisa.

She says, "I keep having recurring dreams that someone kills me. It's usually a different person, but it's almost every night." What about recurring dreams?

DELANEY: Recurring dreams are very important because they're showing you about some situation in your life that recurs and is usually a problem. And in the case of when you have someone killing you, there's something destructive going on in your life. The person in your dream who is trying to kill you could be someone in your life metaphorically killing you, emotionally killing you.

Or, it could be part of your own personality. And the way you interpret the dream is you say, who is this aggressor in my dream? What is he like? What did does he remind me of in my life? What am I running away from that is like that aggressor?

COOPER: Interesting.

DELANEY: You have to personalize all of the meanings to yourself.

COOPER: That's the key. All right. Gayle Delaney, fascinating to talk to you. Thanks very much for being with us.

DELANEY: Thank you, Anderson.

COOPER: Before she left, also Gayle gave us a recommendation about how you might want to try to use your dreams to actually solve a particular problem or answer a question. She says it's possible. And the way she suggests is write down the question you have before going to sleep, then repeat it to yourself as you fall asleep.

When you wake up, write down any dreams you may remember. And read your notes later to see if they form a kind of metaphor or parable that might shed light on your problem. See if it works.

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COOPER (voice-over): Families face their loved ones' alleged killers in the sniper trials.

And what are you doing this weekend? We've got some ideas.

We'll be right back.

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COOPER: Time now for a look at some of our top stories. Here's "The Reset." Washington D.C. standing firm. President Bush vowed again today that the U.S. will remain in Iraq until the country is free and peaceful. U.S. forces continued an offensive against Iraqi insurgents today and a roadside bomb in Iraq killed another American.

Alexandria, Virginia, muzzling Moussaoui. The judge who will preside over the trial over accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has revoked his right to represent himself saying Moussaoui violated court orders by repeatedly filing disrespectful motions. The judge ordered legal advisers to take over as the attorneys of record.

Sacramento, California, it is official. The California secretary of state has certified Arnold Schwarzenegger as the official winner of the recall election. Schwarzenegger is to be sworn in as governor on Monday. CNN plans live coverage.

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, mill fire. A fire that started at a former textile mill spread through a neighborhood, destroying at least five homes. Several injures are reported, none appear to be serious.

And that's a look at "The Reset" tonight.

Time now for justice served. Day 10 of the Scott Peterson preliminary hearing. It was another day of police testimony inside the Modesto, California, courtroom and intense speculation outside about Peterson's former mistress. David Mattingly has details.

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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Prosecutors decided they had no need to call Amber Frey to the witness stand in Scott Peterson's preliminary hearing. The former girlfriend was expected to recount damaging details of her affair with Scott, his lies about his wife and their many phone conversations after Laci disappeared. No one expected that the defense might want her to testify. GLORIA ALLRED, AMBER FREY'S ATTORNEY: Prior to this date, I've never heard anything that the defense would be having a reason to call her.

MATTINGLY: But the question of will she or won't she suddenly took on new light with papers served by the defense Thursday to Frey's attorney Gloria Allred. It happened during this awkward moment as Allred spoke to reporters.

ALLRED: Is that the same Mark that's covered by the gag order?

MATTINGLY: Jokes aside, Allred would not comment on the contents. If Peterson defense attorney, Mark Geragos wants to put Amber on the stand, he'll have to convince the judge to allow it. Already Geragos has hammered away at Modesto detectives, questioning their relentless pursuit of Scott Peterson and their handling of key evidence.

Questioning of Frey could be equally tough, attacking her character. Though her attorney claims she'll be prepared to take the stand if called.

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MATTINGLY: If Amber Frey does go on the stand expect to hear a lot of questions about phone conversations she may have recorded between her and Scott Peterson. Mark Geragos raised a lot of eyebrows in court earlier this week when he asked questions about a detective for the Modesto police who was on the stand said, he didn't know anything about them.

And also, just a short time okay, Anderson, Gloria Allred said what was on that paper that was handed to her while she was on camera yesterday. She said, it is a notice from the defense who wants to see more of Amber Frey's phone records -- Anderson.

COOPER: All right, interesting. David Mattingly, thanks very much.

A lot of interesting elements in this case. Let's bring in our 360 analyst, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom who also joins us from Modesto, California. Kimberly, good to see you.

Why would the defense want Amber Frey to testify?

KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE NEWSOM: Really, the answer to that is, why wouldn't they? It would be fantastic for them to have the opportunity to get her on the stand, cross examine her and ask all kinds of questions about her relationship with Scott. Specifically, they want to get to the bottom of this issue that was raised by the defense on cross of detective Brocchini that she was surreptitiously taping phone conversations between herself and Scott Peterson prior to Laci's disappearance.

So we expect them the delve into that, because keep in mind, the Modesto Police Department claims no knowledge of those tapes or those activities.

COOPER: Well let's talk about the Modesto Police Department. The defense has just been hammering them, attacking their motives and handling the chains of evidence. Has the defense made headway in instilling doubt about the motives of the police department?

NEWSOM: Well, they've broadened some of their strategies and now we're seeing the sloppy police work tactic is what they're doing in the courtroom, suggesting that this was a rush to judgment, that the Modesto Police Department basically focused on Scott Peterson to the exclusion of all other possible suspects in this case.

We heard testimony today on cross-examination, Mark Geragos pointed out that there was a key witness, Miss Campos that claims to have seen Laci Peterson alive walking the dog at 10:45 in the park. This does conflict with the prosecution's timeline and would be damaging evidence if believed.

COOPER: You know, Kimberly, so much of this case about little details. I understand that some paint found on the boat of Scott Peterson does not match the paint on a buoy outside of the marina. How significant was this?

NEWSOM: It's very significant, because earlier reports had suggested that they were going to be able to match up this paint, some red markings on the right side, the front portion of the boat, that this would be consistent or match up with one of the buoys. The idea is that Laci was transported in that boat, that Scott Peterson would tie the boat in order to dump her body in the bay.

Now, today we didn't see evidence that came forward that was actually corrected. That was any kind of match whatsoever so that is damaging for the prosecution.

COOPER: All right. Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom. Thank you so much, Kimberly.

NEWSOM: Thank you

COOPER: As we reported jury deliberations resumed Monday in the trial of accused Washington area sniper John Allen Muhammad. Now Muhammed and his alleged accomplice, Lee Malvo are of course accused of killing ten people over a three-week period last year, but Muhammad's current trial involves only the death of one man, Dean Harold Meyers. There he is gunned down at a Manassas, Virginia, gas station.

Bob Meyers is the brother of the victim and he's attended this trial. I spoke with him from his home in Pennsylvania earlier today and I asked him if some portions of the trial were especially difficult for him to watch.

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BOB MEYERS, BROTHER OF SNIPER VICTIM: The photographs and the testimony that depicted the damage that was done to Dean physically was expected to a certain degree, but you can never really fully prepare for what really comes, I suspect.

COOPER: Certainly. Did Muhammad look at you at all?

MEYERS: Not that I ever saw. I did feel that there was some rough shod experiences there on several occasions where my brother's military record was being discussed or some of his virtues might have been being discussed and there were objections raised and unfortunately they ended up being sustained so maybe from a judicial standpoint it was appropriate, but it just seemed a little crass to me.

COOPER: Your brother, Dean, was shot in Vietnam, shot in the arm. Did -- what kind of a guy was he? Tell us about him.

MEYERS: Well, he was very kind and gentle. He was certainly not a macho military man.

COOPER: And I know he had a big impact on your life, your kids' lives and a lot of lives of the people around him. Is it important for you to continue going -- are you going to go to Malvo's trial? Is it important for you to go? To be there?

MEYERS: At this point we don't necessarily have plans to do that. It's not that it wouldn't be important, but there's only so much time that you can spend away from your responsibilities, especially with the distance that is involved, but we do expect to visit the Muhammad trial for the next few days that it runs.

COOPER: You know, people talk about closure. I lost an older brother. I don't think there really is such a thing as closure ultimately. Is it helpful for you to go to these trials? Does it help you in some way?

MEYERS: As you say, it helps, and it certainly moves you toward closure, but I, too, agree with you that there will always be an open wound. Full closure is going to be an elusive thing.

COOPER: Bob, we appreciate you coming in and talking about your brother Dean and we wish you strength in the time ahead, in the trial ahead. Bob Meyers, thank you very much.

COOPER: Thank you very much.

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COOPER: Well, still to come this evening, a daring rescue at sea. People trapped and a Coast Guard helicopter struggling to save them in the face of just some terrible conditions. You do not want to miss this. Some remarkable video.

Also tonight, they are not conjoined twins, they just seem that way. Yes, I am talking about the inseparable and irrepressible Olson twins. We'll tell you their latest hijinx in "The Current."

And Russell Crowe unleashes hell again, this time on the high seas in "Master and Commander," one of the many movies we'll talk about tonight in "The Weekender."

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COOPER: Just checking some of your e-mails now. A couple of items from the gilded world of celebrities to tell you about. Let's check the "Current."

Michael Jackson's father Joe tells the BBC that he never beat his son. Joe Jackson explains that beatings are done with a stick, and all he did was whip Michael with a switch and a belt. And while the statute of limitations may have expired for child abuse, apparently being clueless lasts forever.

"Variety" reports Brian Wilson will perform songs from the legendary lost Beach Boys album "Smile" next year, and then record it as an album more than 30 years after a fire destroyed the original tapes. "Smile" is perhaps the most famous lost album, after the fabled "Shatner and Cooper Sing Broadway's Greatest Hits." I don't know, you probable don't have that.

Reclusive author Thomas Pynchon will play himself on an upcoming episode of "The Simpsons." "Entertainment Weekly" reports he will be drawn with a paper bag over his head. The episode does not air until January, so if someone can please send us a picture of Pynchon by then, we would very much appreciate it.

Mary Kate and Ashley Olson, also known as Ashley and Mary Kate Olson, have announced their plans to move from direct-to-video movies up to big screen major releases. According to one Biblical interpretation, their next step will be to unify the world and brand everyone with their mark.

Now to a real-life drama at sea. Those wild winds that have hit the Northeast wreaked havoc on a sail boat in the Atlantic. The Coast Guard got the call for help only to face the same brutal elements. CNN's Jason Carroll reports on the daring rescue.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A dangerous rescue operation at sea, 100 miles from Rhode Island's shore. The viewpoint, a Coast Guard helicopter. Seventy-five feet below, five people are trapped, their sail boat's mast ripped off by 90 mile-per- hour wind, their vessel is filling with water.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was crazy, totally crazy. And then I said, OK, guys, we're just calling the Coast Guard.

CARROLL: The distress call came from the Lady Samantha 2:30 Thursday afternoon. The weather was so severe it took the Coast Guard three and a half hours to find her. By then, the situation was grave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All five were on the boat at this time. They tried to deploy a life raft. The life raft basically blew back on the boat, so that was of no use. CARROLL: The only way to rescue the crew members, send Coast Guard divers into the churning water and lower a basket to retrieve the crew. Winds made a boat rescue impossible, so each crew member jumped in the water and had a diver get them into the basket, and to safety.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These guys are really, really awesome, great.

CARROLL: All were rescued. All are Italian citizens who say they were surprised just how quickly America's waters can turn on a sailor.

Jason Carroll, CNN, New York.

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COOPER: I hope they were also impressed how quickly the Coast Guard got there.

Ready for the return of Russell Crowe? Huh? Well, he's not just the master, he's also the commander, I'm told. But does this new movie belong in the crow's nest? You get it? You get it? Or on the poop deck? There you go. We'll get some answers on that.

Also tonight, as the parties ramp up their fund-raising, has someone taken political financing to "The Nth Degree?" If not, we will, so stay with us.

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TUPAC SHAKUR, RAPPER: I always felt like I'd be shot. Somebody would try to do me some harm because a lot of people don't like me.

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COPPER: That's a look at the new Tupac Shakur movie "Resurrection," documentary about his life. Just one of the movies opening this weekend. It is a weekend for heavy hitters, familiar faces to at least some audiences out there. As you'll see in tonight's edition of "The Weekender," you've got something for your rebellious kids, something for the rebellious kids who have outgrown Bugs Bunny and even something for the period piece crowd as long as though don't mind a couple of explosions along the way. Take a look.

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COOPER (voice-over): In movie, "Master and Commander" has something for just about everyone. Russell Crowe leads the swashbuckling action, directed by Peter Weir.

RUSSELL CROWE, ACTOR: You can be as hysterical as you'd like.

COOPER: Perhaps you prefer your heroes animated.

BRANDON FRAZIER, ACTOR: Hit me.

DAFFY DUCK, ANIMATED CHARACTER: So did you miss me.

COOPER: Not as much as we missed Mel Blank in "Looney Toons: Back in Action," but the toons do get back to their transgressive roots in this one.

PORKY PIG, ANIMATED CHARACTER: It's a pain in the butt being politically correct.

SPEEDY GONZALEZ, ANIMATED CHARACTER: You're telling me.

COOPER: If you want really transgressive, the posthumously prolific Tupac Shakur.

SHAKUR: Half of my fans are white. The ones that have approached me have been genuine fans.

COOPER: Is back in "Resurrection," a documentary that uses his own words for narration.

In music, the remaining Beatles have resurrected "Let It Be," as "Let It Be, Naked" as it was first recorded without the lavish post production.

Britney Spears' new CD "In The Zone" leaves little doubt about where exactly the zone is.

And Cindy Lauper is also returning, recasting herself as an interpreter of classics, Including some that aren't so old unless you are too young to remember Cindy Lauper.

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COOPER: Who's too young to remember Cindy Lauper? Joining us with his thoughts on the options is film critic Elvis Mitchell.

Elvis, great to see you back from your Italian vacation.

ELVIS MITCHELL, "NEW YORK TIMES": We're going to need some gelato in here, it's cold enough to keep.

COOPER: It is nice and cold in here. It's like David Letterman cold in here. Let's talk "Master and Commander." I so want to see this movie.

MITCHELL: What is so great about this, is it's great to see a movie by David Weir whose so -- I (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and command of the medium. But you really feel like there's an authority figure running a movie. And Russell Crowe really kind of inhabits the center of the picture, but there's great interplay between he and Paul Bettany. It's really an amazing movie. An old fashioned movie too.

COOPER: Let's take a look at the clip.

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RUSSELL CROWE, ACTOR: Down! all heads down! down! down!

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COOPER: That's like a two tub of popcorn movie in my opinion.

MITCHELL: Are you a fan of Russell Crowe?

COOPER: No, no, no, that's what I would eat while watching it.

MITCHELL: You can't say that about him. What if he's watching him.

COOPER: Peter Weir, I'm a huge fan of. Directed "Picnic at Hanging Rock," "Witness."

MITCHELL: "The Year Of Living Dangerously" and this has the same spiritual center that those movies had. It's a move you feel you know you're with someone who knows what he's doing.

COOPER: Let's talk about the Tupac Shakur movie "Resurrection." It's a documentary. He's incredibly prolific. Although he's dead.

MITCHELL: Were you one of the white boy fans.

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MITCHELL: Give me West Side.

COOPER: I'm not all that down with Tupac, but I give him props, if you will.

MITCHELL: You read that right.

COOPER: This was at Sundance. It's not being widely released, but is it good? It's interesting.

MITCHELL: It's BEGALA: interesting, because it's really this kind of kiss -- this farewell testament is from his mother. It feels like it's an MTV movie, because most of the clips come from MTV appearances. They leave out the Suge Knight stuff, a lot of the other, sort of more controversial things.

But it's really his mother attempting to reclaim his legend. It's very sweet and odd. You realize you're watching a movie about a man who led his entire life as an entertainer in front of the camera.

COOPER: Very quickly. DVD, MGM is releasing all of the Bond movies on DVD? Is this true?

MITCHELL: What are you reading?

COOPER: This is the first I heard about this. This is exciting.

MITCHELL: These great, three-volume set, six DVDs each, you can sort of suffer through the Roger Moore years. See Timothy Dalton, the best actor who played James Bond, who unfortunately to play the safe sex, designated driver James Bond.

COOPER: Timothy Dalton, the best actor who played James Bond, I challenge you on that, but we've got to go.

MITCHELL: Can I have it instead.

COOPER; Attention, rich people. Got a quarter mill burning hole in your pocket? We may have just the thing, stay tuned. And Monday, Rush Limbaugh is back. We'll find out what he's been doing his first day back on the air. We'll be right back.

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COOPER: Time now for "The Buzz." We asked you, what do you think? Has Iraq become a quagmire?" We got a lot of email on this one. 88 percent of you said yes. 12 percent of you voted no. Certainly this is not a scientific poll. Just viewer buzz.

Tonight, taking charity to the "Nth Degree." The "New York Times" and "Roll Call" reported that House Majority Leader Tom Delay is launching an unusual new charity initiative. Delay is soliciting donations to help some of society's most needy, such as abused children, neglected children and the Republican National Convention.

The way it works, if a donor gives $10,000 they get access to elected officials while their donation goes on help needy kids as well as fund parties to the GOP convention next year.

See, next year is the first time the national conventions will be restricted by new campaign finance laws. So both parties are brainstorming, trying to come up with creative fund-raising methods. Now, some groups criticized Congressman Delay for mingling politics and charity. But if he's so hard pressed to raise money, rather than criticize, wouldn't you be rather part of the solution?

That's right. With just a small donation, $10,000 or more, you can help feed cash-starved politicians from the comfort of your home or if you give $25,000 from the comfort of a yacht, actually, even if you give half a million dollars, that works out to just pennies a day, less than the price of a cup of coffee every day for the next 1,300 years.

Please, do it for the kids, don't delay.

That wraps up our program tonight. Coming up next, "PAULA ZAHN NOW."

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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): As they wait for one verdict, families of the sniper victims prepare for yet another trial.

David versus Goliath? Illegal workers go after Wal-Mart for alleged racketeering.

Our special series, "Sleepless in America." Tonight, I get wired for sleep.

Tom DeLay's charity donation request: helping kids or a high rollers convention extravagance?

And this weekend's hot Hollywood tickets.

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ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.

COOPER: And a good Friday to you. Thanks for joining us on 360. A lot of stories to cover tonight.

Hundreds evacuated in Rhode Island. At least five people reported hurt as a massive, wind-driven fire -- look at those images -- rages out of control. We're going to have that report coming up very shortly.

But first, we want to take you to Iraq, where U.S. forces continue to hammer away at Iraqi insurgents. The U.S. blasted Baghdad targets for a third night, and near Tikrit a U.S. gun ship killed seven people suspected of trying to prepare a rocket attack on an American base. Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours, roadside bombs have killed three U.S. soldiers in two separate attacks.

Today, we also saw evidence of the damage the U.S. as inflicted with Operation Iron Hammer. A former Republican Guard facility hit last night, a place the U.S. says was a staging ground for new attacks. And President Bush today vowed to stand firm in Iraq, telling reporters, "We will stay there until the job is done."

Tonight, we have Matthew Chance on the ground in Baghdad, as well as Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. We begin with Matthew Chance.

Matt, what targets did U.S. forces strike today in Baghdad?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, the increase in casualties on the ground from U.S. forces is being matched by a stepping up of their attacks against the insurgents carrying out those incidents. Operation Iron Hammer now in its third successive night. There have been more strikes on U.S. forces on suspected militant targets. Five in the area of Baghdad Airport were hit by U.S. mortars suspected to have been used by militants as positions to fire rockets at U.S. forces.

A warehouse in the Abu Ghraib area of Baghdad was also hit by an AC-130 aerial gun ship believed to have been a storage center for weapons used by those insurgents. No reports of casualties as a result of both of those incidents, but the U.S. force is saying their aim is to deprive the insurgents of any safe havens.

What is not clear though, Anderson, is whether this operation is having any success, whether it is actually curbing the activities of those militants, or whether simply the big use of firepower is going to anger more Iraqis and drive them to the militant cause -- Anderson.

COOPER: That is the danger. Matthew Chance in Baghdad. Thanks, Matthew.

At the White House, more tough talk on Iraq. The focus, Saddam Hussein. The name Osama bin Laden also came up today. Let's go live to Washington and White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, President Bush offered his condolences to the Italian president at the Oval Office today after that deadly attack on Wednesday, that terrorist attack that killed 18 Italians in Nasiriya. President Bush also outlined this new aggressive strategy inside of Iraq. The highlights being, as terrorists change their tactics, the U.S. military will change its response to recruit more Iraqis, to gather intelligence, to get more Iraqis on the front lines of security, and when the U.S. finds actual intelligence to strike fast. Mr. Bush also pledged that U.S. troops would remain in Iraq until Saddam Hussein is either captured or killed.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A free and peaceful Iraq will have historic consequences. And we'll find Saddam Hussein. The goal is for a free and peaceful Iraq. And by being strong and determined we will achieve that objective.

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MALVEAUX: Now, Anderson, this presents a possible quandry for the administration if the Iraqi government says get out before Saddam Hussein is caught. But White House officials would not discuss the legal or political negotiations that might happen in such a scenario. They say first thing's first, let's get those Iraqis back into power -- Anderson. COOPER: Well, under this plan it would seem that the U.S. would be handing over power while keeping U.S. troops on the ground. Is there any precedent for this?

MALVEAUX: Well, actually, there's a precedent in Afghanistan, because it was part of deal to actually turn over power back to Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. And the Afghans, that they would allow U.S. troops to have some sort of presence while they go after Osama bin Laden. It is something that they could work out with the Iraqis as well.

COOPER: All right. Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thanks very much.

That brings us to today's buzz question. It's a controversial one. Has Iraq become a quagmire? We want to hear from you.

Vote now at cnn.com/360. We'll have the results at the end of program.

Accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has lost the right to represent himself at his upcoming trial. Now, the presiding judge today read him the Riot Act, essentially saying Moussaoui had repeatedly ignored instructions on how to conduct himself.

Wolf Blitzer filed this report.

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WOLF BLITZER, "WOLF BLITZER REPORTS" (voice-over): The judge has had enough. Zacarias Moussaoui, the man prosecutors say conspired with the September 11 hijackers, will no longer be allowed to represent himself. A year ago last summer, federal Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Moussaoui permission to act as his own lawyer. Ever since, from his Virginia prison cell he's filed hundreds of handwritten motions, insulting the judge as wicked, attacking the government, the news media, even the lawyers assigned to help him.

The judge warned him repeatedly. And now she says his latest motions include contemptuous language that would never be tolerated from an attorney and will no longer be tolerated from this defendant.

What he actually said remains sealed. The judge says from now on she'll deal only with Moussaoui's standby lawyers. They include Frank Dunham. Moussaoui once called him a bloodsucker.

FRANK DUNHAM, STANDBY LAWYER: Obviously, in one of the most complex and difficult criminal cases in the history of the United States, to have a defendant untrained in the law trying to deal with these issues was not good for him at all.

BLITZER: No comment from the government. And Moussaoui, the judge gave him 10 days write an appeal.

Wolf Blitzer, CNN, Washington.

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COOPER: A news note for you on this case. Zacarias Moussaoui's trial has been delayed indefinitely, while a court of appeals rules on Moussaoui's access to three al Qaeda witnesses. Now, in October, a lower court handed the prosecution a setback by making Moussaoui ineligible for the death penalty.

Prosecutors had accused Moussaoui of being the 20th 9/11 hijacker, something he always denied. But this month, two U.S. officials told "USA Today" they know who the 20th hijacker is and that it is not Moussaoui.

We move on now to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where a massive mill fire spread into a neighborhood, destroyed homes. For more on the battle against the flames, let's go live to the scene to Krea Sakakeeny of affiliate WLNE -- Krea.

KREA SAKAKEENY, PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND: Hi. That's right. The fire began at around 2:45. When we arrived, the building, which was an abandoned fabrics warehouse, was still standing. People say, however, they heard an explosion and immediately the building began to crumble.

We can take a look at some footage from today. What the firefighters were battling were extremely high winds that was sending that fire to houses. About 10 houses finally caught flame. Some burned completely to the ground, some were still standing.

They did evacuate at least five blocks, five north, five south. They sent people to a nearby junior high school where they were staying. They say all of the people were basically in shock. Cell phones were glutted, towers were burned down. A lot of people were just consoling each other.

Five people were taken to a nearby hospital. One firefighter and at least four other people for smoke inhalation. They say there were construction crews working earlier doing some asbestos removal, although the mayor of Pawtucket was not sure whether that was part of the reason why this building caught flames.

It was supposed to be a Super Stop & Shop, and that's what it was headed for. But still, no one knows exactly why this happened. They do know that the extreme winds were part of the reason why this fire, this intense fire spread to neighboring homes so close by. Again, people will be staying at a nearby junior high school, and people are evacuated at least 10 blocks surrounding the area. And a few people are at the hospital.

The mayor of Pawtucket says this is one of the largest fires he remembers in recent history here in this area. Back to you, Anderson.

COOPER: Krea, just unbelievable images that we've been looking at really all day now. The status of the fire right now? Everything's out or everything's under control?

SAKAKEENY: No. If you can see, there are flames behind me that you can see, but deep down this building went down several layers into the ground. They say that's where firefighters are working right now.

The house that did catch on fire have been put out. However, they are making sure that embers don't catch on to houses. So they've surrounded the area, they've wet several houses that are in direction of the wind to make sure that there's no chance of their catching again. But firefighters do not expect to be going home any time tonight --anytime soon that is.

COOPER: It is definitely going to be a long night. We can tell just by looking at you. The wind is blowing there, so let's hope that doesn't fan any of those embers.

Krea Sakakeeny, appreciate it. Thank you.

We are following a number of other stories tonight "Cross Country."

Des Moines, Iowa: cash and Kerry. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is borrowing a page from the Howard Dean play book, saying no to public financing to bankroll his bid for the White House. Now, unlike Dean, Kerry says he will old primary spending to the $45 million limit imposed by the public financing system.

Washington: talk-a-thon ends. After an almost 40-hour gabfest, Senate Republicans were not able to break a Democratic filibuster on three GOP judicial nominees. Now, afterwards, Georgia's Democratic senator, Zell Miller, equated his party's opposition to a black judicial nominee to a lynching. Miller is now under fire from some civil rights activists, but he refuses to apologize.

Montgomery, Alabama: Exxon Mobil verdict. A jury orders the oil giant to pay nearly $12 billion in punitive damages, a state record, after finding that the company cheated the state out of natural gas royalties. The word from Exxon Mobil? They say they did not commit fraud and the verdict was excessive. Expect an appeal.

And in Virginia Beach, Virginia, no verdict yet. Jurors in the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad will have the weekend to think about things. They started their work this morning, went home after four hours after asking to review some evidence. We'll talk more about this trial coming up in "Justice Served."

And that is a look at stories right now "Cross Country."

Coming up, a lot ahead. Accusations of racketeering at Wal-Mart. Were thousands of undocumented workers duped into working at the retail giant? That's what some of them are saying. We'll take a closer look at that, however.

Also, our weeklong series: "Sleepless in America." Hey, who is that freak? That's me. Spend the night with me at a sleep clinic, won't you?

Plus, we'll talk to a dream therapist about how to interpret all those strange things you think about when you're asleep. All right.

And rescue on the high seas. Take a front-row seat as the Coast Guard goes into action. Some incredible video I want you to see.

But first, let's take a look "Inside the Box" tonight at the top story on this evening's network newscasts.

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COOPER: Friday night in New York. Welcome.

Not the easiest of times these days for Wal-Mart. First, federal agents rounded up dozens of illegal workers at the nation's largest retailer last month, then the company blamed the subcontractor. Now nine of those detained workers are suing, staking a claim against Wal- Mart before they could be sent back to Mexico.

CNN's Maria Hinojosa talked with some of them.

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MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN URBAN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Zavala family eating breakfast on a typical suburban morning. Not long ago, the working class American dream appeared within their reach. Even with no legal immigration status, they were janitors at America's largest retailer, Wal-Mart.

VICTOR ZAVALA JR., SUING WAL-MART: I was excited because Wal- Mart is a big company.

HINOJOSA: But today they're running scared. Federal immigration agents raided Wal-Marts in 21 states and detained 250 undocumented workers.

ZAVALA (through translator): I know I'm illegal. I have no rights. But I do the kind of dirty work no one wants to do. I'm willing to work 60 hours a week. I am not here to hurt anyone.

HINOJOSA: All of these former janitors face deportation as the investigation of Wal-Mart and the subcontractor continues.

ZAVALA (through translator): They saved themselves a lot of money on my back.

HINOJOSA: But these immigrants aren't finished with Wal-Mart. They've sued them, claiming they got paid $350 a week for cleaning floors overnight, seven days a week, with no overtime or workers' compensation, in violation of labor laws.

GILBERTO GARCIA, ZAVALA'S LAWYER: We are saying Wal-Mart acted as a mobster by shielding itself from liability, thus creating subcontracting layers that ultimately hired my clients with the knowledge that they were undocumented.

HINOJOSA: The workers allege a company with $245 billion dollars of annual revenue had to know you can't get subcontracted workers this cheap without breaking the law.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They betrayed us. They never made me fill an application. They never asked me for no I.D. They never said that I could get in trouble.

HINOJOSA: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Zavala says one of the subcontractors allegedly involved recently offered him another job at Wal-Mart, saying no legal resident would work for so little money. But their hopes for decent work are gone now.

EUNICE ZAVALA, SUING WAL-MART (through translator): My dreams were finally coming true because all I wanted was to work so I can give my children what they needed.

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HINOJOSA: Wal-Mart says it is conducting its own internal investigation and says this lawsuit has no merit. Wal-Mart claims that these employees never worked directly for them, but for subcontractors who signed a legal agreement saying that they would verify their immigration status and that they would also abide by wage rules.

Now, CNN also contracted the subcontractors that the Zavalas say employed them. When we called, someone answered the phone and said, "No comment," and then hung up -- Anderson.

COOPER: All right. Maria Hinojosa, interesting case. Thanks very much.

Campaign finance reform has forced both Democrats and Republicans to get, well, pretty creative if they want to keep raising money. And critics, mostly Democrats, are saying that House Republican Leader Tom DeLay is using a charity for kids a way to raise cash.

National Correspondent Bob Franken has the details.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Speaker...

BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To his Democratic enemies, Tom DeLay's hard political edge was softened by his devotion to damaged children.

REP. TOM DELAY (R), MAJORITY LEADER: We need to build a system that gives them a stable home.

FRANKEN: But now DeLay's critics charge he's using his charitable foundation for blatant political purposes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a scam.

FRANKEN: Celebrations for children, says the brochure. It promises special VIP access at the next Republican National Convention for donations up to $500,000, special golf tournaments with DeLay, as well as yacht cruises, private dinners, charitable contributions not limited by new campaign finance laws.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We love this guy. FRANKEN: DeLay's associates point out he has hosted charity events for years.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's using this charity for his own political purposes. It's just clear as can be.

FRANKEN (on camera): Supporters of Tom DeLay say he is being singled out for the kinds of events that others in the political world sponsor, like Senate Republican leader Bill Frist.

SEN. BILL FRIST (R), MAJORITY LEADER: Well I think that is both appropriate -- I encourage people to come.

FRANKEN (voice-over): The IRS still has to decide whether donations to these events are tax deductible charity or too political.

Bob Franken, CNN, Washington.

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COOPER: Well we're following a couple of international stories we want you to know about. Let's check tonight's "UpLink."

Tbilisi, Georgia: political crisis. Up to 20,000 protestors have surrounded the offices of President Edward Shevardnadze demanding that he step down. Soldiers are keeping a close eye on the crowd. The protesters, who are being led by an opposition party leader, say a parliamentary election that happened earlier this month, well, they say it was a fraud.

Rome, Italy: wounded returned. About 20 Italians wounded in Wednesday's bombing of the Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriya, Iraq, well, they were flown home today. They were taken to a military hospital and reunited with their families. The bodies of 18 of their comrades will arrive in Italy tomorrow. The state funeral will be held on Tuesday.

Tokyo, Japan: meet and greet. There it is. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds talks with Japan's prime minister. Subject: Iraq, high on the agenda. Japan says before committing troops it wants to send a fact-finding group to assess the security situation in Iraq.

And that is tonight's "UpLink."

So what happens to you when you sleep? Well, I spent the night in a sleep clinic to see what is going to in the slumbering brain. Not much in mine, it turns out. You won't believe what some people do, though, when they're asleep.

Plus, interpreting dreams. What am I doing there rocking back and forth? We'll answer some of your e-mails of the questions that keep you up at night. All right. Enough of that video.

Also tonight, Coast Guard in action. You'll see a daring rescue on the high seas. And...

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BUGS BUNNY: What's up, doc?

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COOPER: Family fun at the box office this weekend. A look at what is hot for kids big and small at the multiplex.

We'll be right back.

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COOPER: Well, most of us think of sleep as a time when our bodies shut down, but truth is a lot is going on in our brains and our muscles even while we slumber. Tonight, in our final installment of our weeklong series, "Sleepless in America," I foolishly offered myself up as a guinea pig for a night inside a sleep clinic. And as I found out, the first step is getting yourself all hooked up.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: These are the electrodes that will be going over your head.

COOPER (voice-over): The night begins by getting wired up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You shouldn't feel anything at all.

COOPER (on camera): This is going to make sleeping easy.

(voice-over): The electrodes measure breathing, muscle movement, eye movement, brain waves, even pulse. All of which will tell doctors if I have any sleeping disorders.

(on camera): It's one of those things that seemed like a good idea in the office.

(voice-over): With so many cable cables attached to me, frankly, I didn't think I'd be able to fall asleep.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. You can try to get some sleep right now. Good night.

COOPER: But surprisingly, it didn't take long. Sleep may seem like a restful time, but there's actually a lot going on inside your head.

All of us go through several stages of sleep, often in 90-minute cycles that repeat throughout the night. Stage one is the transition from being awake to asleep. It starts off when your eyes slowly begin to roll.

Stage two, your heart rate slows and body temperature drops. Stages three and four are the deep sleep periods, when your body carries out most of its repair work.

REM sleep is the final stage of the sleep cycle. REM stands for rapid eye movement. It's the time of night we have the most vivid dreams. During REM sleep, your body's skeletal muscles shut down so you don't act out your dreams. But some people's muscles keep working. They suffer from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, which means they can dangerously act out their dreams.

Sleep clinics are used to observe many sleep disorders, like Restless Leg Syndrome and sleep walking. Thankfully, my sleep was not so exciting. Dr. Gary Zamet (ph) monitored my sleep cycles, which turns out are pretty normal.

DR. GARY ZAMET: I detect mild snoring here but nothing of great...

COOPER (on camera): That I deny.

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COOPER: I deny I snore. That is just simply not true.

Those gadgets might tell us when we're dreaming, but they certainly cannot explain our dreams at all, like the one where, you know, you're sailing the Riviera with your best buddy, P. Diddy, chilling with some Kristol (ph), then in walks the president and your fifth grade teacher and you realize, oh, no, I'm not wear anything pants. You know, those kind of dreams.

We are joined now by someone who helps people decipher their dreams for a living, dream analyst Gayle Delaney, author of "All About Dreams."

Gayle, good to meet you. Thanks for being with us.

GAYLE DELANEY, DREAM ANALYST: Well, thank you. How was your night's sleep?

COOPER: I actually slept well. Better than I actually sleep at home. Don't ask me why.

Let's talk about dreams, though. What do dreams tell us about ourselves?

DELANEY: When we dream, we think about our lives. All of the major concerns, the conflict, the hopes, the problems we want to solve. And every single night we get a chance to work on that for a reason that we don't understand. We seem to be less defensive while we're sleeping, and so our dreams offer us a lot of insight.

COOPER: You know, it used to be people would say, oh, if you're dreaming about water it means one thing. If you're dreaming about -- is that the thought now, or is it sort of -- has dream analysis sort of evolved?

DELANEY: It has evolved. Modern dreamwork understands that your dream images mean something to you, the individual. If you dream about a dog, it depends upon whether you like dogs or hate dogs or are allergic to them what they'll mean. It depends upon whether the dog in your dream is chewing on you or saving your life. So you have to ask yourself to describe the images of your dream, and then say, how is my dream a metaphor or a parable about what's going on in my life the day before the dream?

COOPER: Are there some things that can be -- I mean, we have a lot of e-mail from people who wanted their dreams analyzed.

DELANEY: I'll bet.

COOPER: I know it's a little unfair to just sort of ask you, but we've got one. Veronica in Austin says, "Every few months, I have the same recurring dream. My teeth are falling off, one by one, until I am left toothless."

You probably have heard -- this seems pretty common.

DELANEY: It's probably a dream we've all head at some point. So what you do if you have this dream is personalize it. It's a common dream, but it's a personal meaning. So say to yourself, how do I feel in the dream about losing my teeth and how would I feel if I lost my teeth?

Now most people would say -- not everyone -- most will say, you know, I would feel embarrassed. I'd look awful. I would look bad.

So ask yourself, where in my life am I worried about looking bad, losing face? And the dream will usually be triggered by one of those events in your life.

COOPER: I'm going to read you one more. And I think the answer is probably the same. But this is from Lisa.

She says, "I keep having recurring dreams that someone kills me. It's usually a different person, but it's almost every night." What about recurring dreams?

DELANEY: Recurring dreams are very important because they're showing you about some situation in your life that recurs and is usually a problem. And in the case of when you have someone killing you, there's something destructive going on in your life. The person in your dream who is trying to kill you could be someone in your life metaphorically killing you, emotionally killing you.

Or, it could be part of your own personality. And the way you interpret the dream is you say, who is this aggressor in my dream? What is he like? What did does he remind me of in my life? What am I running away from that is like that aggressor?

COOPER: Interesting.

DELANEY: You have to personalize all of the meanings to yourself.

COOPER: That's the key. All right. Gayle Delaney, fascinating to talk to you. Thanks very much for being with us.

DELANEY: Thank you, Anderson.

COOPER: Before she left, also Gayle gave us a recommendation about how you might want to try to use your dreams to actually solve a particular problem or answer a question. She says it's possible. And the way she suggests is write down the question you have before going to sleep, then repeat it to yourself as you fall asleep.

When you wake up, write down any dreams you may remember. And read your notes later to see if they form a kind of metaphor or parable that might shed light on your problem. See if it works.

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COOPER (voice-over): Families face their loved ones' alleged killers in the sniper trials.

And what are you doing this weekend? We've got some ideas.

We'll be right back.

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ANDERSON COOPER, HOST (voice-over): As they wait for one verdict, families of the sniper victims prepare for yet another trial.

David versus Goliath? Illegal workers go after Wal-Mart for alleged racketeering.

Our special series, "Sleepless in America." Tonight, I get wired for sleep.

Tom DeLay's charity donation request: helping kids or a high rollers convention extravagance?

And this weekend's hot Hollywood tickets.

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ANNOUNCER: Live from the CNN Broadcast Center in New York, this is ANDERSON COOPER 360.

COOPER: And a good Friday to you. Thanks for joining us on 360. A lot of stories to cover tonight.

Hundreds evacuated in Rhode Island. At least five people reported hurt as a massive, wind-driven fire -- look at those images -- rages out of control. We're going to have that report coming up very shortly.

But first, we want to take you to Iraq, where U.S. forces continue to hammer away at Iraqi insurgents. The U.S. blasted Baghdad targets for a third night, and near Tikrit a U.S. gun ship killed seven people suspected of trying to prepare a rocket attack on an American base. Meanwhile, in the past 24 hours, roadside bombs have killed three U.S. soldiers in two separate attacks.

Today, we also saw evidence of the damage the U.S. as inflicted with Operation Iron Hammer. A former Republican Guard facility hit last night, a place the U.S. says was a staging ground for new attacks. And President Bush today vowed to stand firm in Iraq, telling reporters, "We will stay there until the job is done."

Tonight, we have Matthew Chance on the ground in Baghdad, as well as Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. We begin with Matthew Chance.

Matt, what targets did U.S. forces strike today in Baghdad?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, the increase in casualties on the ground from U.S. forces is being matched by a stepping up of their attacks against the insurgents carrying out those incidents. Operation Iron Hammer now in its third successive night. There have been more strikes on U.S. forces on suspected militant targets. Five in the area of Baghdad Airport were hit by U.S. mortars suspected to have been used by militants as positions to fire rockets at U.S. forces.

A warehouse in the Abu Ghraib area of Baghdad was also hit by an AC-130 aerial gun ship believed to have been a storage center for weapons used by those insurgents. No reports of casualties as a result of both of those incidents, but the U.S. force is saying their aim is to deprive the insurgents of any safe havens.

What is not clear though, Anderson, is whether this operation is having any success, whether it is actually curbing the activities of those militants, or whether simply the big use of firepower is going to anger more Iraqis and drive them to the militant cause -- Anderson.

COOPER: That is the danger. Matthew Chance in Baghdad. Thanks, Matthew.

At the White House, more tough talk on Iraq. The focus, Saddam Hussein. The name Osama bin Laden also came up today. Let's go live to Washington and White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, President Bush offered his condolences to the Italian president at the Oval Office today after that deadly attack on Wednesday, that terrorist attack that killed 18 Italians in Nasiriya. President Bush also outlined this new aggressive strategy inside of Iraq. The highlights being, as terrorists change their tactics, the U.S. military will change its response to recruit more Iraqis, to gather intelligence, to get more Iraqis on the front lines of security, and when the U.S. finds actual intelligence to strike fast. Mr. Bush also pledged that U.S. troops would remain in Iraq until Saddam Hussein is either captured or killed.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: A free and peaceful Iraq will have historic consequences. And we'll find Saddam Hussein. The goal is for a free and peaceful Iraq. And by being strong and determined we will achieve that objective.

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MALVEAUX: Now, Anderson, this presents a possible quandry for the administration if the Iraqi government says get out before Saddam Hussein is caught. But White House officials would not discuss the legal or political negotiations that might happen in such a scenario. They say first thing's first, let's get those Iraqis back into power -- Anderson.

COOPER: Well, under this plan it would seem that the U.S. would be handing over power while keeping U.S. troops on the ground. Is there any precedent for this?

MALVEAUX: Well, actually, there's a precedent in Afghanistan, because it was part of deal to actually turn over power back to Afghan leader Hamid Karzai. And the Afghans, that they would allow U.S. troops to have some sort of presence while they go after Osama bin Laden. It is something that they could work out with the Iraqis as well.

COOPER: All right. Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thanks very much.

That brings us to today's buzz question. It's a controversial one. Has Iraq become a quagmire? We want to hear from you.

Vote now at cnn.com/360. We'll have the results at the end of program.

Accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has lost the right to represent himself at his upcoming trial. Now, the presiding judge today read him the Riot Act, essentially saying Moussaoui had repeatedly ignored instructions on how to conduct himself.

Wolf Blitzer filed this report.

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WOLF BLITZER, "WOLF BLITZER REPORTS" (voice-over): The judge has had enough. Zacarias Moussaoui, the man prosecutors say conspired with the September 11 hijackers, will no longer be allowed to represent himself. A year ago last summer, federal Judge Leonie Brinkema gave Moussaoui permission to act as his own lawyer. Ever since, from his Virginia prison cell he's filed hundreds of handwritten motions, insulting the judge as wicked, attacking the government, the news media, even the lawyers assigned to help him.

The judge warned him repeatedly. And now she says his latest motions include contemptuous language that would never be tolerated from an attorney and will no longer be tolerated from this defendant.

What he actually said remains sealed. The judge says from now on she'll deal only with Moussaoui's standby lawyers. They include Frank Dunham. Moussaoui once called him a bloodsucker.

FRANK DUNHAM, STANDBY LAWYER: Obviously, in one of the most complex and difficult criminal cases in the history of the United States, to have a defendant untrained in the law trying to deal with these issues was not good for him at all.

BLITZER: No comment from the government. And Moussaoui, the judge gave him 10 days write an appeal.

Wolf Blitzer, CNN, Washington.

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COOPER: A news note for you on this case. Zacarias Moussaoui's trial has been delayed indefinitely, while a court of appeals rules on Moussaoui's access to three al Qaeda witnesses. Now, in October, a lower court handed the prosecution a setback by making Moussaoui ineligible for the death penalty.

Prosecutors had accused Moussaoui of being the 20th 9/11 hijacker, something he always denied. But this month, two U.S. officials told "USA Today" they know who the 20th hijacker is and that it is not Moussaoui.

We move on now to Pawtucket, Rhode Island, where a massive mill fire spread into a neighborhood, destroyed homes. For more on the battle against the flames, let's go live to the scene to Krea Sakakeeny of affiliate WLNE -- Krea.

KREA SAKAKEENY, PAWTUCKET, RHODE ISLAND: Hi. That's right. The fire began at around 2:45. When we arrived, the building, which was an abandoned fabrics warehouse, was still standing. People say, however, they heard an explosion and immediately the building began to crumble.

We can take a look at some footage from today. What the firefighters were battling were extremely high winds that was sending that fire to houses. About 10 houses finally caught flame. Some burned completely to the ground, some were still standing.

They did evacuate at least five blocks, five north, five south. They sent people to a nearby junior high school where they were staying. They say all of the people were basically in shock. Cell phones were glutted, towers were burned down. A lot of people were just consoling each other.

Five people were taken to a nearby hospital. One firefighter and at least four other people for smoke inhalation. They say there were construction crews working earlier doing some asbestos removal, although the mayor of Pawtucket was not sure whether that was part of the reason why this building caught flames.

It was supposed to be a Super Stop & Shop, and that's what it was headed for. But still, no one knows exactly why this happened. They do know that the extreme winds were part of the reason why this fire, this intense fire spread to neighboring homes so close by. Again, people will be staying at a nearby junior high school, and people are evacuated at least 10 blocks surrounding the area. And a few people are at the hospital.

The mayor of Pawtucket says this is one of the largest fires he remembers in recent history here in this area. Back to you, Anderson.

COOPER: Krea, just unbelievable images that we've been looking at really all day now. The status of the fire right now? Everything's out or everything's under control?

SAKAKEENY: No. If you can see, there are flames behind me that you can see, but deep down this building went down several layers into the ground. They say that's where firefighters are working right now.

The house that did catch on fire have been put out. However, they are making sure that embers don't catch on to houses. So they've surrounded the area, they've wet several houses that are in direction of the wind to make sure that there's no chance of their catching again. But firefighters do not expect to be going home any time tonight --anytime soon that is.

COOPER: It is definitely going to be a long night. We can tell just by looking at you. The wind is blowing there, so let's hope that doesn't fan any of those embers.

Krea Sakakeeny, appreciate it. Thank you.

We are following a number of other stories tonight "Cross Country."

Des Moines, Iowa: cash and Kerry. Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry is borrowing a page from the Howard Dean play book, saying no to public financing to bankroll his bid for the White House. Now, unlike Dean, Kerry says he will old primary spending to the $45 million limit imposed by the public financing system.

Washington: talk-a-thon ends. After an almost 40-hour gabfest, Senate Republicans were not able to break a Democratic filibuster on three GOP judicial nominees. Now, afterwards, Georgia's Democratic senator, Zell Miller, equated his party's opposition to a black judicial nominee to a lynching. Miller is now under fire from some civil rights activists, but he refuses to apologize.

Montgomery, Alabama: Exxon Mobil verdict. A jury orders the oil giant to pay nearly $12 billion in punitive damages, a state record, after finding that the company cheated the state out of natural gas royalties. The word from Exxon Mobil? They say they did not commit fraud and the verdict was excessive. Expect an appeal.

And in Virginia Beach, Virginia, no verdict yet. Jurors in the trial of sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad will have the weekend to think about things. They started their work this morning, went home after four hours after asking to review some evidence. We'll talk more about this trial coming up in "Justice Served."

And that is a look at stories right now "Cross Country."

Coming up, a lot ahead. Accusations of racketeering at Wal-Mart. Were thousands of undocumented workers duped into working at the retail giant? That's what some of them are saying. We'll take a closer look at that, however.

Also, our weeklong series: "Sleepless in America." Hey, who is that freak? That's me. Spend the night with me at a sleep clinic, won't you?

Plus, we'll talk to a dream therapist about how to interpret all those strange things you think about when you're asleep. All right.

And rescue on the high seas. Take a front-row seat as the Coast Guard goes into action. Some incredible video I want you to see.

But first, let's take a look "Inside the Box" tonight at the top story on this evening's network newscasts.

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COOPER: Friday night in New York. Welcome.

Not the easiest of times these days for Wal-Mart. First, federal agents rounded up dozens of illegal workers at the nation's largest retailer last month, then the company blamed the subcontractor. Now nine of those detained workers are suing, staking a claim against Wal- Mart before they could be sent back to Mexico.

CNN's Maria Hinojosa talked with some of them.

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MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN URBAN AFFAIRS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Zavala family eating breakfast on a typical suburban morning. Not long ago, the working class American dream appeared within their reach. Even with no legal immigration status, they were janitors at America's largest retailer, Wal-Mart.

VICTOR ZAVALA JR., SUING WAL-MART: I was excited because Wal- Mart is a big company.

HINOJOSA: But today they're running scared. Federal immigration agents raided Wal-Marts in 21 states and detained 250 undocumented workers.

ZAVALA (through translator): I know I'm illegal. I have no rights. But I do the kind of dirty work no one wants to do. I'm willing to work 60 hours a week. I am not here to hurt anyone.

HINOJOSA: All of these former janitors face deportation as the investigation of Wal-Mart and the subcontractor continues.

ZAVALA (through translator): They saved themselves a lot of money on my back.

HINOJOSA: But these immigrants aren't finished with Wal-Mart. They've sued them, claiming they got paid $350 a week for cleaning floors overnight, seven days a week, with no overtime or workers' compensation, in violation of labor laws.

GILBERTO GARCIA, ZAVALA'S LAWYER: We are saying Wal-Mart acted as a mobster by shielding itself from liability, thus creating subcontracting layers that ultimately hired my clients with the knowledge that they were undocumented.

HINOJOSA: The workers allege a company with $245 billion dollars of annual revenue had to know you can't get subcontracted workers this cheap without breaking the law.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They betrayed us. They never made me fill an application. They never asked me for no I.D. They never said that I could get in trouble.

HINOJOSA: (UNINTELLIGIBLE) Zavala says one of the subcontractors allegedly involved recently offered him another job at Wal-Mart, saying no legal resident would work for so little money. But their hopes for decent work are gone now.

EUNICE ZAVALA, SUING WAL-MART (through translator): My dreams were finally coming true because all I wanted was to work so I can give my children what they needed.

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HINOJOSA: Wal-Mart says it is conducting its own internal investigation and says this lawsuit has no merit. Wal-Mart claims that these employees never worked directly for them, but for subcontractors who signed a legal agreement saying that they would verify their immigration status and that they would also abide by wage rules.

Now, CNN also contracted the subcontractors that the Zavalas say employed them. When we called, someone answered the phone and said, "No comment," and then hung up -- Anderson.

COOPER: All right. Maria Hinojosa, interesting case. Thanks very much.

Campaign finance reform has forced both Democrats and Republicans to get, well, pretty creative if they want to keep raising money. And critics, mostly Democrats, are saying that House Republican Leader Tom DeLay is using a charity for kids a way to raise cash.

National Correspondent Bob Franken has the details.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Mr. Speaker...

BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): To his Democratic enemies, Tom DeLay's hard political edge was softened by his devotion to damaged children.

REP. TOM DELAY (R), MAJORITY LEADER: We need to build a system that gives them a stable home.

FRANKEN: But now DeLay's critics charge he's using his charitable foundation for blatant political purposes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a scam.

FRANKEN: Celebrations for children, says the brochure. It promises special VIP access at the next Republican National Convention for donations up to $500,000, special golf tournaments with DeLay, as well as yacht cruises, private dinners, charitable contributions not limited by new campaign finance laws.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We love this guy.

FRANKEN: DeLay's associates point out he has hosted charity events for years.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's using this charity for his own political purposes. It's just clear as can be.

FRANKEN (on camera): Supporters of Tom DeLay say he is being singled out for the kinds of events that others in the political world sponsor, like Senate Republican leader Bill Frist.

SEN. BILL FRIST (R), MAJORITY LEADER: Well I think that is both appropriate -- I encourage people to come.

FRANKEN (voice-over): The IRS still has to decide whether donations to these events are tax deductible charity or too political.

Bob Franken, CNN, Washington.

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COOPER: Well we're following a couple of international stories we want you to know about. Let's check tonight's "UpLink."

Tbilisi, Georgia: political crisis. Up to 20,000 protestors have surrounded the offices of President Edward Shevardnadze demanding that he step down. Soldiers are keeping a close eye on the crowd. The protesters, who are being led by an opposition party leader, say a parliamentary election that happened earlier this month, well, they say it was a fraud.

Rome, Italy: wounded returned. About 20 Italians wounded in Wednesday's bombing of the Italian military police headquarters in Nasiriya, Iraq, well, they were flown home today. They were taken to a military hospital and reunited with their families. The bodies of 18 of their comrades will arrive in Italy tomorrow. The state funeral will be held on Tuesday.

Tokyo, Japan: meet and greet. There it is. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld holds talks with Japan's prime minister. Subject: Iraq, high on the agenda. Japan says before committing troops it wants to send a fact-finding group to assess the security situation in Iraq.

And that is tonight's "UpLink."

So what happens to you when you sleep? Well, I spent the night in a sleep clinic to see what is going to in the slumbering brain. Not much in mine, it turns out. You won't believe what some people do, though, when they're asleep.

Plus, interpreting dreams. What am I doing there rocking back and forth? We'll answer some of your e-mails of the questions that keep you up at night. All right. Enough of that video.

Also tonight, Coast Guard in action. You'll see a daring rescue on the high seas.

And...

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BUGS BUNNY: What's up, doc?

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COOPER: Family fun at the box office this weekend. A look at what is hot for kids big and small at the multiplex.

We'll be right back.

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COOPER: Well, most of us think of sleep as a time when our bodies shut down, but truth is a lot is going on in our brains and our muscles even while we slumber. Tonight, in our final installment of our weeklong series, "Sleepless in America," I foolishly offered myself up as a guinea pig for a night inside a sleep clinic. And as I found out, the first step is getting yourself all hooked up.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: These are the electrodes that will be going over your head.

COOPER (voice-over): The night begins by getting wired up.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You shouldn't feel anything at all.

COOPER (on camera): This is going to make sleeping easy.

(voice-over): The electrodes measure breathing, muscle movement, eye movement, brain waves, even pulse. All of which will tell doctors if I have any sleeping disorders.

(on camera): It's one of those things that seemed like a good idea in the office.

(voice-over): With so many cable cables attached to me, frankly, I didn't think I'd be able to fall asleep.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: OK. You can try to get some sleep right now. Good night.

COOPER: But surprisingly, it didn't take long. Sleep may seem like a restful time, but there's actually a lot going on inside your head.

All of us go through several stages of sleep, often in 90-minute cycles that repeat throughout the night. Stage one is the transition from being awake to asleep. It starts off when your eyes slowly begin to roll.

Stage two, your heart rate slows and body temperature drops. Stages three and four are the deep sleep periods, when your body carries out most of its repair work.

REM sleep is the final stage of the sleep cycle. REM stands for rapid eye movement. It's the time of night we have the most vivid dreams. During REM sleep, your body's skeletal muscles shut down so you don't act out your dreams. But some people's muscles keep working. They suffer from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, which means they can dangerously act out their dreams. Sleep clinics are used to observe many sleep disorders, like Restless Leg Syndrome and sleep walking. Thankfully, my sleep was not so exciting. Dr. Gary Zamet (ph) monitored my sleep cycles, which turns out are pretty normal.

DR. GARY ZAMET: I detect mild snoring here but nothing of great...

COOPER (on camera): That I deny.

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COOPER: I deny I snore. That is just simply not true.

Those gadgets might tell us when we're dreaming, but they certainly cannot explain our dreams at all, like the one where, you know, you're sailing the Riviera with your best buddy, P. Diddy, chilling with some Kristol (ph), then in walks the president and your fifth grade teacher and you realize, oh, no, I'm not wear anything pants. You know, those kind of dreams.

We are joined now by someone who helps people decipher their dreams for a living, dream analyst Gayle Delaney, author of "All About Dreams."

Gayle, good to meet you. Thanks for being with us.

GAYLE DELANEY, DREAM ANALYST: Well, thank you. How was your night's sleep?

COOPER: I actually slept well. Better than I actually sleep at home. Don't ask me why.

Let's talk about dreams, though. What do dreams tell us about ourselves?

DELANEY: When we dream, we think about our lives. All of the major concerns, the conflict, the hopes, the problems we want to solve. And every single night we get a chance to work on that for a reason that we don't understand. We seem to be less defensive while we're sleeping, and so our dreams offer us a lot of insight.

COOPER: You know, it used to be people would say, oh, if you're dreaming about water it means one thing. If you're dreaming about -- is that the thought now, or is it sort of -- has dream analysis sort of evolved?

DELANEY: It has evolved. Modern dreamwork understands that your dream images mean something to you, the individual. If you dream about a dog, it depends upon whether you like dogs or hate dogs or are allergic to them what they'll mean. It depends upon whether the dog in your dream is chewing on you or saving your life. So you have to ask yourself to describe the images of your dream, and then say, how is my dream a metaphor or a parable about what's going on in my life the day before the dream?

COOPER: Are there some things that can be -- I mean, we have a lot of e-mail from people who wanted their dreams analyzed.

DELANEY: I'll bet.

COOPER: I know it's a little unfair to just sort of ask you, but we've got one. Veronica in Austin says, "Every few months, I have the same recurring dream. My teeth are falling off, one by one, until I am left toothless."

You probably have heard -- this seems pretty common.

DELANEY: It's probably a dream we've all head at some point. So what you do if you have this dream is personalize it. It's a common dream, but it's a personal meaning. So say to yourself, how do I feel in the dream about losing my teeth and how would I feel if I lost my teeth?

Now most people would say -- not everyone -- most will say, you know, I would feel embarrassed. I'd look awful. I would look bad.

So ask yourself, where in my life am I worried about looking bad, losing face? And the dream will usually be triggered by one of those events in your life.

COOPER: I'm going to read you one more. And I think the answer is probably the same. But this is from Lisa.

She says, "I keep having recurring dreams that someone kills me. It's usually a different person, but it's almost every night." What about recurring dreams?

DELANEY: Recurring dreams are very important because they're showing you about some situation in your life that recurs and is usually a problem. And in the case of when you have someone killing you, there's something destructive going on in your life. The person in your dream who is trying to kill you could be someone in your life metaphorically killing you, emotionally killing you.

Or, it could be part of your own personality. And the way you interpret the dream is you say, who is this aggressor in my dream? What is he like? What did does he remind me of in my life? What am I running away from that is like that aggressor?

COOPER: Interesting.

DELANEY: You have to personalize all of the meanings to yourself.

COOPER: That's the key. All right. Gayle Delaney, fascinating to talk to you. Thanks very much for being with us.

DELANEY: Thank you, Anderson.

COOPER: Before she left, also Gayle gave us a recommendation about how you might want to try to use your dreams to actually solve a particular problem or answer a question. She says it's possible. And the way she suggests is write down the question you have before going to sleep, then repeat it to yourself as you fall asleep.

When you wake up, write down any dreams you may remember. And read your notes later to see if they form a kind of metaphor or parable that might shed light on your problem. See if it works.

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COOPER (voice-over): Families face their loved ones' alleged killers in the sniper trials.

And what are you doing this weekend? We've got some ideas.

We'll be right back.

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COOPER: Time now for a look at some of our top stories. Here's "The Reset." Washington D.C. standing firm. President Bush vowed again today that the U.S. will remain in Iraq until the country is free and peaceful. U.S. forces continued an offensive against Iraqi insurgents today and a roadside bomb in Iraq killed another American.

Alexandria, Virginia, muzzling Moussaoui. The judge who will preside over the trial over accused terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has revoked his right to represent himself saying Moussaoui violated court orders by repeatedly filing disrespectful motions. The judge ordered legal advisers to take over as the attorneys of record.

Sacramento, California, it is official. The California secretary of state has certified Arnold Schwarzenegger as the official winner of the recall election. Schwarzenegger is to be sworn in as governor on Monday. CNN plans live coverage.

Pawtucket, Rhode Island, mill fire. A fire that started at a former textile mill spread through a neighborhood, destroying at least five homes. Several injures are reported, none appear to be serious.

And that's a look at "The Reset" tonight.

Time now for justice served. Day 10 of the Scott Peterson preliminary hearing. It was another day of police testimony inside the Modesto, California, courtroom and intense speculation outside about Peterson's former mistress. David Mattingly has details.

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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Prosecutors decided they had no need to call Amber Frey to the witness stand in Scott Peterson's preliminary hearing. The former girlfriend was expected to recount damaging details of her affair with Scott, his lies about his wife and their many phone conversations after Laci disappeared. No one expected that the defense might want her to testify. GLORIA ALLRED, AMBER FREY'S ATTORNEY: Prior to this date, I've never heard anything that the defense would be having a reason to call her.

MATTINGLY: But the question of will she or won't she suddenly took on new light with papers served by the defense Thursday to Frey's attorney Gloria Allred. It happened during this awkward moment as Allred spoke to reporters.

ALLRED: Is that the same Mark that's covered by the gag order?

MATTINGLY: Jokes aside, Allred would not comment on the contents. If Peterson defense attorney, Mark Geragos wants to put Amber on the stand, he'll have to convince the judge to allow it. Already Geragos has hammered away at Modesto detectives, questioning their relentless pursuit of Scott Peterson and their handling of key evidence.

Questioning of Frey could be equally tough, attacking her character. Though her attorney claims she'll be prepared to take the stand if called.

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MATTINGLY: If Amber Frey does go on the stand expect to hear a lot of questions about phone conversations she may have recorded between her and Scott Peterson. Mark Geragos raised a lot of eyebrows in court earlier this week when he asked questions about a detective for the Modesto police who was on the stand said, he didn't know anything about them.

And also, just a short time okay, Anderson, Gloria Allred said what was on that paper that was handed to her while she was on camera yesterday. She said, it is a notice from the defense who wants to see more of Amber Frey's phone records -- Anderson.

COOPER: All right, interesting. David Mattingly, thanks very much.

A lot of interesting elements in this case. Let's bring in our 360 analyst, Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom who also joins us from Modesto, California. Kimberly, good to see you.

Why would the defense want Amber Frey to testify?

KIMBERLY GUILFOYLE NEWSOM: Really, the answer to that is, why wouldn't they? It would be fantastic for them to have the opportunity to get her on the stand, cross examine her and ask all kinds of questions about her relationship with Scott. Specifically, they want to get to the bottom of this issue that was raised by the defense on cross of detective Brocchini that she was surreptitiously taping phone conversations between herself and Scott Peterson prior to Laci's disappearance.

So we expect them the delve into that, because keep in mind, the Modesto Police Department claims no knowledge of those tapes or those activities.

COOPER: Well let's talk about the Modesto Police Department. The defense has just been hammering them, attacking their motives and handling the chains of evidence. Has the defense made headway in instilling doubt about the motives of the police department?

NEWSOM: Well, they've broadened some of their strategies and now we're seeing the sloppy police work tactic is what they're doing in the courtroom, suggesting that this was a rush to judgment, that the Modesto Police Department basically focused on Scott Peterson to the exclusion of all other possible suspects in this case.

We heard testimony today on cross-examination, Mark Geragos pointed out that there was a key witness, Miss Campos that claims to have seen Laci Peterson alive walking the dog at 10:45 in the park. This does conflict with the prosecution's timeline and would be damaging evidence if believed.

COOPER: You know, Kimberly, so much of this case about little details. I understand that some paint found on the boat of Scott Peterson does not match the paint on a buoy outside of the marina. How significant was this?

NEWSOM: It's very significant, because earlier reports had suggested that they were going to be able to match up this paint, some red markings on the right side, the front portion of the boat, that this would be consistent or match up with one of the buoys. The idea is that Laci was transported in that boat, that Scott Peterson would tie the boat in order to dump her body in the bay.

Now, today we didn't see evidence that came forward that was actually corrected. That was any kind of match whatsoever so that is damaging for the prosecution.

COOPER: All right. Kimberly Guilfoyle Newsom. Thank you so much, Kimberly.

NEWSOM: Thank you

COOPER: As we reported jury deliberations resumed Monday in the trial of accused Washington area sniper John Allen Muhammad. Now Muhammed and his alleged accomplice, Lee Malvo are of course accused of killing ten people over a three-week period last year, but Muhammad's current trial involves only the death of one man, Dean Harold Meyers. There he is gunned down at a Manassas, Virginia, gas station.

Bob Meyers is the brother of the victim and he's attended this trial. I spoke with him from his home in Pennsylvania earlier today and I asked him if some portions of the trial were especially difficult for him to watch.

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BOB MEYERS, BROTHER OF SNIPER VICTIM: The photographs and the testimony that depicted the damage that was done to Dean physically was expected to a certain degree, but you can never really fully prepare for what really comes, I suspect.

COOPER: Certainly. Did Muhammad look at you at all?

MEYERS: Not that I ever saw. I did feel that there was some rough shod experiences there on several occasions where my brother's military record was being discussed or some of his virtues might have been being discussed and there were objections raised and unfortunately they ended up being sustained so maybe from a judicial standpoint it was appropriate, but it just seemed a little crass to me.

COOPER: Your brother, Dean, was shot in Vietnam, shot in the arm. Did -- what kind of a guy was he? Tell us about him.

MEYERS: Well, he was very kind and gentle. He was certainly not a macho military man.

COOPER: And I know he had a big impact on your life, your kids' lives and a lot of lives of the people around him. Is it important for you to continue going -- are you going to go to Malvo's trial? Is it important for you to go? To be there?

MEYERS: At this point we don't necessarily have plans to do that. It's not that it wouldn't be important, but there's only so much time that you can spend away from your responsibilities, especially with the distance that is involved, but we do expect to visit the Muhammad trial for the next few days that it runs.

COOPER: You know, people talk about closure. I lost an older brother. I don't think there really is such a thing as closure ultimately. Is it helpful for you to go to these trials? Does it help you in some way?

MEYERS: As you say, it helps, and it certainly moves you toward closure, but I, too, agree with you that there will always be an open wound. Full closure is going to be an elusive thing.

COOPER: Bob, we appreciate you coming in and talking about your brother Dean and we wish you strength in the time ahead, in the trial ahead. Bob Meyers, thank you very much.

COOPER: Thank you very much.

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COOPER: Well, still to come this evening, a daring rescue at sea. People trapped and a Coast Guard helicopter struggling to save them in the face of just some terrible conditions. You do not want to miss this. Some remarkable video.

Also tonight, they are not conjoined twins, they just seem that way. Yes, I am talking about the inseparable and irrepressible Olson twins. We'll tell you their latest hijinx in "The Current."

And Russell Crowe unleashes hell again, this time on the high seas in "Master and Commander," one of the many movies we'll talk about tonight in "The Weekender."

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COOPER: Just checking some of your e-mails now. A couple of items from the gilded world of celebrities to tell you about. Let's check the "Current."

Michael Jackson's father Joe tells the BBC that he never beat his son. Joe Jackson explains that beatings are done with a stick, and all he did was whip Michael with a switch and a belt. And while the statute of limitations may have expired for child abuse, apparently being clueless lasts forever.

"Variety" reports Brian Wilson will perform songs from the legendary lost Beach Boys album "Smile" next year, and then record it as an album more than 30 years after a fire destroyed the original tapes. "Smile" is perhaps the most famous lost album, after the fabled "Shatner and Cooper Sing Broadway's Greatest Hits." I don't know, you probable don't have that.

Reclusive author Thomas Pynchon will play himself on an upcoming episode of "The Simpsons." "Entertainment Weekly" reports he will be drawn with a paper bag over his head. The episode does not air until January, so if someone can please send us a picture of Pynchon by then, we would very much appreciate it.

Mary Kate and Ashley Olson, also known as Ashley and Mary Kate Olson, have announced their plans to move from direct-to-video movies up to big screen major releases. According to one Biblical interpretation, their next step will be to unify the world and brand everyone with their mark.

Now to a real-life drama at sea. Those wild winds that have hit the Northeast wreaked havoc on a sail boat in the Atlantic. The Coast Guard got the call for help only to face the same brutal elements. CNN's Jason Carroll reports on the daring rescue.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A dangerous rescue operation at sea, 100 miles from Rhode Island's shore. The viewpoint, a Coast Guard helicopter. Seventy-five feet below, five people are trapped, their sail boat's mast ripped off by 90 mile-per- hour wind, their vessel is filling with water.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It was crazy, totally crazy. And then I said, OK, guys, we're just calling the Coast Guard.

CARROLL: The distress call came from the Lady Samantha 2:30 Thursday afternoon. The weather was so severe it took the Coast Guard three and a half hours to find her. By then, the situation was grave.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All five were on the boat at this time. They tried to deploy a life raft. The life raft basically blew back on the boat, so that was of no use. CARROLL: The only way to rescue the crew members, send Coast Guard divers into the churning water and lower a basket to retrieve the crew. Winds made a boat rescue impossible, so each crew member jumped in the water and had a diver get them into the basket, and to safety.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These guys are really, really awesome, great.

CARROLL: All were rescued. All are Italian citizens who say they were surprised just how quickly America's waters can turn on a sailor.

Jason Carroll, CNN, New York.

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COOPER: I hope they were also impressed how quickly the Coast Guard got there.

Ready for the return of Russell Crowe? Huh? Well, he's not just the master, he's also the commander, I'm told. But does this new movie belong in the crow's nest? You get it? You get it? Or on the poop deck? There you go. We'll get some answers on that.

Also tonight, as the parties ramp up their fund-raising, has someone taken political financing to "The Nth Degree?" If not, we will, so stay with us.

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TUPAC SHAKUR, RAPPER: I always felt like I'd be shot. Somebody would try to do me some harm because a lot of people don't like me.

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COPPER: That's a look at the new Tupac Shakur movie "Resurrection," documentary about his life. Just one of the movies opening this weekend. It is a weekend for heavy hitters, familiar faces to at least some audiences out there. As you'll see in tonight's edition of "The Weekender," you've got something for your rebellious kids, something for the rebellious kids who have outgrown Bugs Bunny and even something for the period piece crowd as long as though don't mind a couple of explosions along the way. Take a look.

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COOPER (voice-over): In movie, "Master and Commander" has something for just about everyone. Russell Crowe leads the swashbuckling action, directed by Peter Weir.

RUSSELL CROWE, ACTOR: You can be as hysterical as you'd like.

COOPER: Perhaps you prefer your heroes animated.

BRANDON FRAZIER, ACTOR: Hit me.

DAFFY DUCK, ANIMATED CHARACTER: So did you miss me.

COOPER: Not as much as we missed Mel Blank in "Looney Toons: Back in Action," but the toons do get back to their transgressive roots in this one.

PORKY PIG, ANIMATED CHARACTER: It's a pain in the butt being politically correct.

SPEEDY GONZALEZ, ANIMATED CHARACTER: You're telling me.

COOPER: If you want really transgressive, the posthumously prolific Tupac Shakur.

SHAKUR: Half of my fans are white. The ones that have approached me have been genuine fans.

COOPER: Is back in "Resurrection," a documentary that uses his own words for narration.

In music, the remaining Beatles have resurrected "Let It Be," as "Let It Be, Naked" as it was first recorded without the lavish post production.

Britney Spears' new CD "In The Zone" leaves little doubt about where exactly the zone is.

And Cindy Lauper is also returning, recasting herself as an interpreter of classics, Including some that aren't so old unless you are too young to remember Cindy Lauper.

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COOPER: Who's too young to remember Cindy Lauper? Joining us with his thoughts on the options is film critic Elvis Mitchell.

Elvis, great to see you back from your Italian vacation.

ELVIS MITCHELL, "NEW YORK TIMES": We're going to need some gelato in here, it's cold enough to keep.

COOPER: It is nice and cold in here. It's like David Letterman cold in here. Let's talk "Master and Commander." I so want to see this movie.

MITCHELL: What is so great about this, is it's great to see a movie by David Weir whose so -- I (UNINTELLIGIBLE) and command of the medium. But you really feel like there's an authority figure running a movie. And Russell Crowe really kind of inhabits the center of the picture, but there's great interplay between he and Paul Bettany. It's really an amazing movie. An old fashioned movie too.

COOPER: Let's take a look at the clip.

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RUSSELL CROWE, ACTOR: Down! all heads down! down! down!

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COOPER: That's like a two tub of popcorn movie in my opinion.

MITCHELL: Are you a fan of Russell Crowe?

COOPER: No, no, no, that's what I would eat while watching it.

MITCHELL: You can't say that about him. What if he's watching him.

COOPER: Peter Weir, I'm a huge fan of. Directed "Picnic at Hanging Rock," "Witness."

MITCHELL: "The Year Of Living Dangerously" and this has the same spiritual center that those movies had. It's a move you feel you know you're with someone who knows what he's doing.

COOPER: Let's talk about the Tupac Shakur movie "Resurrection." It's a documentary. He's incredibly prolific. Although he's dead.

MITCHELL: Were you one of the white boy fans.

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MITCHELL: Give me West Side.

COOPER: I'm not all that down with Tupac, but I give him props, if you will.

MITCHELL: You read that right.

COOPER: This was at Sundance. It's not being widely released, but is it good? It's interesting.

MITCHELL: It's BEGALA: interesting, because it's really this kind of kiss -- this farewell testament is from his mother. It feels like it's an MTV movie, because most of the clips come from MTV appearances. They leave out the Suge Knight stuff, a lot of the other, sort of more controversial things.

But it's really his mother attempting to reclaim his legend. It's very sweet and odd. You realize you're watching a movie about a man who led his entire life as an entertainer in front of the camera.

COOPER: Very quickly. DVD, MGM is releasing all of the Bond movies on DVD? Is this true?

MITCHELL: What are you reading?

COOPER: This is the first I heard about this. This is exciting.

MITCHELL: These great, three-volume set, six DVDs each, you can sort of suffer through the Roger Moore years. See Timothy Dalton, the best actor who played James Bond, who unfortunately to play the safe sex, designated driver James Bond.

COOPER: Timothy Dalton, the best actor who played James Bond, I challenge you on that, but we've got to go.

MITCHELL: Can I have it instead.

COOPER; Attention, rich people. Got a quarter mill burning hole in your pocket? We may have just the thing, stay tuned. And Monday, Rush Limbaugh is back. We'll find out what he's been doing his first day back on the air. We'll be right back.

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COOPER: Time now for "The Buzz." We asked you, what do you think? Has Iraq become a quagmire?" We got a lot of email on this one. 88 percent of you said yes. 12 percent of you voted no. Certainly this is not a scientific poll. Just viewer buzz.

Tonight, taking charity to the "Nth Degree." The "New York Times" and "Roll Call" reported that House Majority Leader Tom Delay is launching an unusual new charity initiative. Delay is soliciting donations to help some of society's most needy, such as abused children, neglected children and the Republican National Convention.

The way it works, if a donor gives $10,000 they get access to elected officials while their donation goes on help needy kids as well as fund parties to the GOP convention next year.

See, next year is the first time the national conventions will be restricted by new campaign finance laws. So both parties are brainstorming, trying to come up with creative fund-raising methods. Now, some groups criticized Congressman Delay for mingling politics and charity. But if he's so hard pressed to raise money, rather than criticize, wouldn't you be rather part of the solution?

That's right. With just a small donation, $10,000 or more, you can help feed cash-starved politicians from the comfort of your home or if you give $25,000 from the comfort of a yacht, actually, even if you give half a million dollars, that works out to just pennies a day, less than the price of a cup of coffee every day for the next 1,300 years.

Please, do it for the kids, don't delay.

That wraps up our program tonight. Coming up next, "PAULA ZAHN NOW."

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