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Tropical Storm Arlene; Michael Jackson Trial Update; Aruba Search

Aired June 10, 2005 - 19:00   ET

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening everyone. Tropical Storm Arlene bearing down hard on Florida. 360 starts now.
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COOPER (voice-over): Tropical Storm Arlene on target to hit the U.S., high winds, torrential rain -- tonight, what you need to know about when and where this storm will strike.

Searching for Natalee, her family clinging to hope. Tonight, the seedy underbelly of Aruba. Does this hidden side of the island hold clues to what happened to a missing American?

Are you having trouble sticking to your diet? Tonight, the top five diet blunders, mistakes you shouldn't make if you want to lose weight once and for all.

A rare glimpse inside the Michael Jackson trial. Tonight, meet the sketch artist whose watched it all unfold in the courtroom. What has he learned by watching Jackson up close?

And, a little girl's brave battle against cancer. She sold lemonade to help find a cure. Now, this weekend, lemonade stands across the country are joining the fight.

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

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: And a good Friday evening to you. On this Friday evening, the last thing Florida residents want to hear is that a storm is headed their way, but it is. After suffering billions of dollars in cumulative storm damage last hurricane season, the first named storm of this season is barreling down on the Gulf coast and the panhandle. That is a shot from space. The swirling mass of white clouds, a storm headed straight for Florida.

It is not a hurricane, not yet at any rate. But her winds are picking up speed as they head toward land. CNN's John Zarrella is standing by live there on the storm, weary and now yet again, storm leery Florida coast -- John.

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, what, we're not even a week and a half into hurricane season, and already the first named storm of the season. We're in Haulover Beach, which is on the north end of Miami-Dade County. I'm standing up in the lifeguard stand here. The life guards have gone home for the evening, but it has been a busy day for them and for everyone else here on the southeast Florida coast.

You can see down the beach there, there are lots of surfers that are going in the water, have been in and out of the water all day. Very, very rough surf all along the southeast Florida coast today. It's been tough keeping people out of the water.

There are probably two to three dozen surfers still in the water here this evening as we start to approach nightfall. And it's not good, because Arlene has already claimed at least one fatality indirectly. A woman down on South Beach this morning, about 10 miles from here, was in the water. She got caught in the rip currents. Another woman went in to try and save her. She got caught as well. It took 20 minutes for Miami Beach Fire Rescue to get out there and to get the two women out. By the time they did, the woman who was initially in trouble, her lungs had filled with water and she was pronounced dead.

So it is a very dangerous situation, even though we're several hundred miles away from the storm on the Atlantic Coast, with the storm over in the Gulf of Mexico. But you're right, storm-weary Floridians didn't need this so soon, although it is a season that is expected to be as active if not more so, than last year -- Anderson.

COOPER: John, I wish that mother out there with her little kid running around in the water, I wish she heard your report about the person who drowned. I wish she wouldn't be letting her kid in the water at this point.

What time is the storm expected? How bad is it expected to be?

ZARRELLA: Well, right now they expect that the storm should make landfall in the panhandle of Florida, which was hit last year by Hurricane Ivan. So people up there preparing, a state of emergency declared by the governor. Probably sometime late tomorrow afternoon into the evening hours. Perhaps crossing the threshold to a Category one hurricane. But really there's not a whole lot of difference between a strong tropical storm and a category -- a small category one hurricane.

The big issue here is going to be lots of rainfall in an area of the state that really is still trying to dig out from last year's pounding from Hurricane Ivan -- Anderson.

COOPER: Yes, it's just incredible when you think about it. Now you've got idiots dancing behind you.

John, we'll let you go. We'll check in with you a little bit later on. Small idiots, anyway, they're having fun.

Let's find out exactly where Arlene is now and where she's headed. We turn to CNN's Jacqui Jeras in Atlanta. Jacqui, where is this storm? JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, it's just about 350 miles south of Pensacola, Florida at this time. It has picked up some strength late this afternoon and this evening. A strong tropical storm now with the winds of 65 miles per hour, but we're seeing gusts already at hurricane force.

It's also picked up a little bit of forward speed, and that's very important, Anderson, because the timing of landfall we think is going to be a little earlier now, could possibly be in the early afternoon hours now rather than the later afternoon hours.

We do anticipate some additional strengthening, possibly a category 1. But right now we're still thinking probably a tropical storm. But like John Zarrella just said, not a whole heck of a lot of difference between 70 miles an hour and 74 miles per hour, right?

One of the biggest impact is going to be flooding. Heavy, heavy rainfall. We've already seen the showers and thunderstorms. And as the storm moves inland, it's going to be moving across parts of the Tennessee valley and into the Appalachians and you get up into those higher elevations and you tend to get a lot of rainfall.

Right now, we're thinking widespread rainfall amounts, about three to five inches. But locally, heavy rainfall between five and ten inches will be possible, particularly north and east of the storm.

The center of circulation, somewhere in this neighborhood, but you can see all the colors on the satellite picture here. That's what we call the bright cloud tops. This is where the heavy showers and thunderstorms are in the storm. So if you're on the west side of the storm, doing pretty OK.

Tornado watch in effect for Southern Florida into the Keys. Keys right now could be seeing some strong gusts around Key West, around 40, maybe 50 miles per hour as those thunderstorms move on through. And tropical storm warnings are in effect from Grand Isle, Louisiana all the way over to the Steinhatchee River.

Anderson, back to you.

COOPER: All right. Jacqui Jeras, thanks for the update. Appreciate it. We're going to be following the storm all throughout the hour. If any major developments, we'll let you know.

Also, meantime in the midwest, the tornado season -- it's has already begun. A couple of twisters caused damage around western Kansas late last night, and several tornado watches are in effect right now. Given half a chance a tornado is something most of us would make every effort to from, but then there are those who do the opposite. They head at high speed right toward them. Here's some spine-tingling tape of the spectacle yesterday in Kansas made -- well, it's made by a couple of storm-chasing cowboys. You can hear them hooping and hollering in the background. Listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tornado on the ground west! Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Whoo!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, man!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good enough, isn't it? I mean -- whoo!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Same time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want to head towards that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE; We got to be sure we're on that thing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one's getting included.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Wow.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you still recording?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. I might need you to work some...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can't let you lean across me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If that crosses the road we could get cut off, so we've got to be sure that we can...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, it's a grid out here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. The next one's going to happen soon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we've got to get north now.

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COOPER: Remember, don't try that at home. Those are storm- chasing professionals.

The world's most famous defendant in the world's most covered trial won't know his fate, at least for this week. Seven days after getting the case, the jury in the Michael Jackson trial has not reached a verdict yet. Deliberations again resume Monday. Today they had a question for the judge. CNN's Ted Rowlands is live at the courthouse. Ted, what did they want to know?

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, we don't know exactly what they wanted to know, but we do know that it was a very active day for jurors. Sources close to the case are telling us that jurors asked several questions of the judge and that they asked for several portions of the testimony to be read back to them. We also understand from sources close to the case that attorneys for both sides met with the judge at least three separate times. So clearly a very active day. It was a day that many people thought there may be a verdict, thinking the jurors would want to avoid carrying this into the weekend. That wasn't the case. There still was no verdict.

Meanwhile, fans continued to stand outside the courthouse, waiting for word, one way or another, as to Michael Jackson's fate. We had one arrest, a woman paint painting a dove on the sidewalk at Neverland Ranch.

Michael Jackson is said to be resting comfortably and waiting nervously with his family members. They'll have to wait until sometime next week.

Jurors are not sequestered. They will go home, be with their families, and presumably be at it again 8:30 on Monday morning -- Anderson.

COOPER: As you will be as well. Ted Rowlands, thanks very much. Appreciate it.

Coming up next on 360 -- take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't care if she's, you know, in a crack house somewhere and she's been drugged up for, you know, seven days or whatever. We can work with that. We can fix her. We can do whatever to get her back.

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COOPER: We wanted to see, are there crack houses in Aruba? A journey into the seedy underbelly of the island. You don't see this in the tourist brochures.

Also ahead tonight, top five dieting mistakes. Find out what you shouldn't do if you want to keep off the weight.

And turning lemonade into hope. This is a story you're not going to want to miss. A little girl turns her battle with cancer into inspiration, and it could help the lives of millions of people.

All that ahead. First, your picks. Most popular stories on CNN.com right now.

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COOPER: It has been 12 days now since anyone saw 18-year-old Natalee Holloway alive and well on the island of Aruba. Five men are in custody, but there's been no sign of her, no sign at all. Her stepfather hopes she's still alive. George Twitty has said, quote, "I don't care if she's in a crack house and been drugged up for seven days; we can work with that and fix her, do whatever to get her back." They just want her back. There are even rumors she might have been sold into the sex trade. There are rumors just floating all around on the island of Aruba. It is a sunny vacation island, a peaceful place normally, a vacation spot. We wanted to look, though, are there really such places in such a beautiful place, places dark enough to have swallowed a young girl whole, evil enough somehow still to be holding her captive? Well, the answer, we found, is yes, there are. Even paradise has a seamy side. CNN's Karl Penhaul takes us to the seamy side of paradise.

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ANDREI GOMEZ: Sweet.

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's sucking in a $3 hit outside a drug den in the backstreets of San Nicolas. This man, Andrei Gomez, Aruban born and raised, agreed to take me into his murky underworld.

GOMEZ: I'm choler number one.

PENHAUL: Choler is Aruba's name for crackheads. I wanted to ask him if he's seen any sign of Natalee. Does he really think she might be being held against her will?

(on camera): What you're saying is that if she had ended up in a chola house, if somebody had brought her to a chola house, if she'd ended up at the chola house...

GOMEZ: Never, never, never.

PENHAUL: ... then the people here would have treated her well?

GOMEZ: No, no.

PENHAUL (voice-over): Police sources describe the crack cocaine problem as very limited. But there are several crack dens known to the locals around the island, some in houses and others in derelict stores like this.

Here, there were only a handful of addicts; most politely and without any threat of violence, asked us not to videotape them. They don't trust strangers.

These addicts have their own code of silence and a deep dislike of the police.

Even the promise of the $55,000 reward offered for Natalee may not loosen their tongues.

As he lets me inspect his last rock of crack, 42-year-old Andrei tells me he drifted into drugs more years ago than he can remember. He knows he's destroying his body with the drugs and too much cheap wine they call the night train express.

(on camera): It smells a bit like gasoline, Andrei. GOMEZ: (INAUDIBLE).

PENHAUL: It tastes like it. Cheers, mate.

GOMEZ: Sweet, huh? You want more?

PENHAUL: It's not very nice. It's not very nice, Andrei. It's not the best drink I've had in my life.

(voice-over): A block away, Aruba's red light district. Prostitution is legal here. The government imposes strict health and hygiene controls. But it's a slow night, and Gabrielle takes time out from turning tricks.

She came in from Colombia a week ago and has been following the hunt for Natalee on the news. I ask her in Spanish whether she and her fellow prostitutes are taking extra safety measures.

GARBIELLE (through translator): We look after each other, and we don't go off with just any man. There's good people and bad.

PENHAUL: Some of the theories surrounding Natalee's disappearance, she says, are absurd.

GABRIELLE (through translator): No, there's no white slave trade here. We work here. And I've never known anything like that.

PENHAUL: Gabrielle says she's a regular visitor to Aruba. She peddles her charms for around $30 an hour.

GABRIELLE (through translator): I work real hard here to earn what I earn here on this island. In three months, I'd have to work three years in Colombia.

PENHAUL: Whether this part of the island brings opportunity or despair, for Natalee's family it's a desperate hope. For even finding her here alive would be a blessing.

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PENHAUL: Aruba's prime minister has said that he will not tolerate anything that harms the American visitors to Aruba, and he's pledged to take full responsibility for the outcome of this investigation, Anderson.

COOPER: Karl, just to reiterate something you pointed out in that piece, this is a very small slice of island life. The great majority of the island is a beautiful place to be. And that's why a lot of tourists head there. Where, I mean, at this point where is the search? Are there every day still people searching for Natalee?

PENHAUL: There are. There are both volunteer searchers and the specialist searchers by the search and rescue teams. We were talking to members of the search and rescue teams today, and they say that they've been looking primarily on soft, sandy areas, because those would be the easiest places to dig. They've also been looking at ocean currents that sweep around this island that could carry off heavy objects, Anderson.

COOPER: All right, Karl Penhaul, great report. Thanks, Karl.

Erica Hill from HEADLINE NEWS joins us with the latest about 17 past the hour. A good Friday evening to you, Erica.

ERICA HILL, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: And a good Friday right back at you, Anderson. Unfortunately, we're starting off with some rather somber news. A deadly day for Marines in Iraq. Five were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb yesterday in Anbar province. Today, the U.S. military said the Marines were conducting combat operations; 1,690 U.S. troops have been killed since the war began in Iraq.

On to Boca Raton, Florida. A school bus crash. Look at that. As many as 25 kids were hurt, five seriously, when a tractor-trailer truck collided with the bus on the Florida Turnpike. Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the cause. No charges have been filed yet.

In New York City, an enormous settlement. Citigroup agreeing to pay $2 billion to settle a class action lawsuit related to its work for Enron. Now, investors had accused Citigroup of helping Enron in a massive accounting fraud that led to its collapse. Citigroup denies any wrongdoing.

And duh-duh, duh-duh. You can finish that anyway. Just in time for the 30th anniversary of the movie "Jaws," check that out. It's a great white shark snagged off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida. And it was all caught on tape. No tall tales here. Local fisherman Tom Trout -- that's not a tall tale, either, that's his real name -- says he felt something big yanking his fishing pole, but he never expected it to be a 16-foot-long shark. Trout says he let it swim around the boat for a while before he cut it loose.

And you know, there was a "Jaws" 30th anniversary festival in Martha's Vineyard last weekend, I believe.

COOPER: Was there really?

HILL: There was.

COOPER: Do you think his real name is Tom Trout?

HILL: That's what he says.

COOPER: It just seems -- it's too much.

HILL: It is too much, but you never know. Maybe he had it legally changed, so it is really his name but it wasn't the name he was born with.

COOPER: I guess so. To bring in the tourists? I guess.

HILL: Could work.

COOPER: All right, I guess if you're going to go fishing, might as well go fishing with a guy named Tom Trout.

HILL: This is what I'm saying.

COOPER: You think subconsciously you're going to catch a lot of fish.

HILL: Hey, Tom caught a 16-foot shark, all right?

COOPER: And he let it go. Erica Hill, thanks very much. See you again in about 30 minutes.

Coming up next, just how bad is this hurricane season going to be? Some turtles may be giving us a clue. Do they actually sense something we don't? We'll find out.

Also ahead tonight, Michael Jackson and the jury still has not made up their minds. Tonight, more on the wait, and you're also going to meet the courtroom artist who's been drawing it all every day, the trial. What has he learned about Jackson from watching him up close and very personal? Find out.

And a little later, also, have you tried to lose weight and failed? I mean, just about everybody has. You may be making one of the top five dieting blunders. We'll find out what they are ahead. Covering all the angles. We'll be right back.

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COOPER: All this week, we've been looking at inspiring stories of people who went to extra measures or extreme measures to lose weight. In our special dieting series called "Choose to Lose," we've looked at surgeries, at liquid diets, even faith-based diets. Now you're thinking about losing weight, and who isn't? There's more than enough to choose from. But choose wisely, or you may find yourself back on the same rollercoaster ride.

To show us the five most common diet blunders to watch out for I spoke earlier to Bonnie Taub-Dix, registered dietitian and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.

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COOPER: Let's talk about diet blunder number one, carb deprivation. At the height of the low-carb craze, the Atkins craze, the South Beach diet, I read that 27 million Americans were on some kind of low-carb diet. About half of those have dropped off. That's incredible.

BONNIE TAUB-DIX, REGISTERED DIETITIAN: That's wonderful. I'm really happy about that, because the whole low-carb craze was really pretty ridiculous. Any diet that says no something, you know is already bad news. So the key is really adding carbohydrates to your diet. It's not only important for energy, but carbs actually are the brain's feel-good chemical. Makes you feel good.

COOPER: Serotonin. TAUB-DIX: Yes, because it raises serotonin levels. So when you add carbohydrates to your diet, you get that ah factor where you feel like you've actually had something that you enjoy.

COOPER: But so you say any diet that says -- that eliminates an entire food group is not going to work?

TAUB-DIX: Right, you know that's bad news, because that has nothing to do with real life. After being on a high-fat, high-protein diet for a while, even a dry cracker looks good. So the important thing is to have balance in your diet. Every nutrient is important. No food should be left out. But you have to watch your portion sizes and balance foods throughout the (INAUDIBLE)...

COOPER: And that's really what it's about, portion size?

TAUB-DIX: Yeah, always. Always comes down to that.

COOPER: Let's talk diet blunder number two. You say pigging out on so-called diet foods, or light foods.

TAUB-DIX: Yes.

COOPER: Why is that a problem?

TAUB-DIX: I'll give you an example. Light olive oil, for example, means lighter color, lighter flavor, same calories as the regular oil.

COOPER: Oh, is that true?

TAUB-DIX: Absolutely.

COOPER: I didn't know that.

TAUB-DIX: So the thickest, richest olive oil you can find, the better off you are, because you can actually taste it.

COOPER: And olive oil has a lot of calories, which I mean, most people think, oh, it's a diet thing, but it's got healthy fats, right?

TAUB-DIX: Right, healthy fats, but that doesn't mean that fat is healthy if you're very overweight. So you have to be careful about the amount of fat you eat as well as the kind of fat you eat.

COOPER: Diet blunder number three, getting on the scale every day. Why is that a problem?

TAUB-DIX: Bad news. Because the scale doesn't only weigh fat, which most people think; it also measures the fluid in your body. So if you eat dinner out, and half of our food dollars goes to restaurants, is salt acts like a magnet to water. So salt increases the fluid in your body, so you can weigh yourself after having two pickles which are only 10 calories each, and be two pounds up.

COOPER: You say you should weigh yourself, what, twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays?

TAUB-DIX: Yes, Fridays and Mondays. Friday because that's before the weekend. If you weigh a little more than you thought, then you may cut back a little over the weekend. And Mondays, because if you lost weight on Friday, you won't fool around too much on the weekend because you know Monday you have to weigh yourself.

COOPER: Diet blunder number four, thinking liquids don't count. Frozen margueritas got, what, 650 calories? A bottle of vitamin water has like 128 or so?

TAUB-DIX: It could. It could. You just have to check the labels. Some of these vitamin waters actually have no calories, but many do. And a lot of people think that because you don't chew that it doesn't have any calories, and that's just not true. We have a huge problem with obesity with kids nowadays, and kids drink a lot of fruit juices. So again, just because something is healthy doesn't mean that it's low in calories.

COOPER: All right, what about like things like jamba juice or smoothies? I mean, I have one every day for lunch. Is that a good diet choice?

TAUB-DIX: Well, we'll talk after about your smoothie...

COOPER: Oh, really?

TAUB-DIX: But they could be loaded with calories. So it really depends on what's in it.

COOPER: Diet blunder number five, you say failure to reward yourself. Why is it important to reward yourself?

TAUB-DIX: Well, you know, losing weight is a very dynamic process. You know, when your clothing's getting bigger and people are complimenting you, you actually feel the motivation to keep on, but once you're at the wait that you want to be or you're not losing that much weight anymore, sometimes the motivation falls off. So you have to remember that you need to reward yourself for all that you've done, because studies show now that even just losing 5 to 10 percent of your body weight, which could only be 10 to 15 pounds, could dramatically improve blood sugar, blood pressure, high cholesterol levels. So what a lot of people do is they make the mistake by rewarding themselves when they lose weight with food that's high in calories. That usually turns into a punishment, not a reward.

COOPER: Bonnie, thanks very much. Good advice.

TAUB-DIX: You're so welcome.

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COOPER (voice-over): Tropical Storm Arlene, on target to hit the U.S. High winds, torrential rain. Tonight, what you need to know about when and where the storm will strike.

A rare glimpse inside the Michael Jackson trial. Tonight, meet the sketch artist who's watched it all unfold in the courtroom. What has he learned by watching Jackson up close?

And a little girl's brave battle against cancer. She sold lemonade to help find a cure. Now, this weekend, lemonade stands across the country are joining the fight. 360 continues.

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COOPER: They range in age from 20 to 79 -- one is a clerk, another a horse trainer -- and collectively the 12 men and women hold the fate of Michael Jackson in their hands. A full week after getting the case, the jury is yet to reached reach a verdict. They went home for the weekend. Deliberations pick up again on Monday.

They're not sequestered, as we pointed out before. A lot of people thought a verdict would come down today. Among them defense attorney Anne Bremner, who joins us live outside the courthouse in Santa Maria, California.

Anne, what happened?

ANNE BREMNER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, you know, I thought for sure it was going to come down today. I said, you know, the end is near. Just like the signs we have out in front of the courthouse, you know, we have people carrying signs saying the end is near, you know, the end of the world, everything else. And Michael Jackson, I thought the end of it was today.

But the jurors had some questions, and they wanted some read backs, and of course they're going to be really careful. I still think the end's near, even though it wasn't today.

COOPER: And what -- do you read anything -- I know you don't know what they asked the judge. We don't know what they asked to have read back. The fact that they're asking -- I mean, what do you think are the most difficult counts for this jury to reach?

BREMNER: Without a doubt, conspiracy. The thought of someone like Michael Jackson, who's, you know more like a wounded sparrow than a vulture, the thought of him conspiring with people to do anything criminal is kind of foreign, given what we know about the evidence in Michael Jackson and his demeanor. He's so child-like and naive.

And not only that, it took the judge a half hour to read those instructions, just the conspiracy instructions. And they're very convoluted. And they require all kinds of different steps. And there are 28 overt acts alleged.

So that by far would be the most difficult count for the jury to reach a verdict on. COOPER: But he could be found not guilty on the conspiracy charges and still be found guilty of having molested this boy, is that correct?

BREMNER: Absolutely. And I think that the molestation counts and the alcohol count are probably the easiest for conviction, because keep in mind the molestation doesn't require touching private parts. It simply requires a touching for sexual gratification, pretty low standard in California for a felony count.

COOPER: Jeffrey Toobin has said -- CNN legal analyst -- has said he thought it was a mistake to kind of muddy the waters with these conspiracy counts that kind of took away from the real heart of this case, which is the molestation. What do you think?

BREMNER: Well, yes. I think he's very smart, and he's right. I do some of the pool press briefings here as a legal analyst. And I've done that since the beginning of the trial. And I said before they call the mother they shouldn't call her. And also they shouldn't have the conspiracy counts, because they needed the mother for those.

And you know, there was a circus outside court. You know, circus in court. And a circus in her head. She was the whole defense case. They said if you don't believe her beyond a reasonable doubt you have to acquit.

So that really what they gained by calling the mother and having conspiracy, I think it really was outweighed by what was taken away. And she may undermine the entire state's case and the conspiracy counts may do the same.

COOPER: I read something today. Jackson's home, Neverland Ranch, is pretty close to a school, less than a quarter of a mile away from a school. I didn't realize that. If he's convicted of molestation, could he actually be prohibited from living there when and if he got out of jail?

BREMNER: Anderson, it's right across the street. It's unbelievable. There's the gates to Neverland, and with the gatehouse, and you just drive a few feet, and right on the right is a school.

So yes, he could be precluded from living at Neverland. It's 2700 acres. So the question is is it the residence itself when you look at the distance, or the gates? And I'm sure he'll fight that if he's out on probation.

COOPER: Of course it may not even be an issue. He may have to sell the house to make up some of this money that he's in debt for. It all depends. We'll see.

Anne Bremner, thanks. Good to talk to you. You have a good weekend. We'll see you again Monday.

BREMNER: Same here. Thank you.

COOPER: How do seven days of deliberations compare to other high-profile trials? That's what it's been, seven days so far.

Let's put it in perspective, however. It took the jury in the O.J. Simpson trial just three hours to acquit him of murder. Scott Peterson was found guilty of murder after seven hours of deliberations. And actor Robert Blake was found innocent of killing his wife after nine days in the jury room. And then he went catboying -- cowboying, excuse me.

The joy of some and the chagrin of others, there were no cameras to tract action inside the Jackson courtroom. Can you imagine what a circus it would have been if there were cameras inside? Oy. That would have been a whole other mess.

Without cameras, TV networks turned to good old-fashioned pen and paper and the courtroom skill of Bill Robles.

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BILL ROBLES, COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST: This has been in 35 years, the most trial difficult trial I've had to cover, because of the deadline part of it.

COOPER (voice-over): For Bill Robles, covering the trial of Michael Jackson is as much about meeting deadlines as it is about the drawings.

ROBLES: We have to have drawings every hour and a half that are complete. And we have ten minutes in which to run out to the media tent, where we have easels set up to post the artwork, squeeze in a bathroom break, and get back into court within ten minutes.

COOPER: Robles is a courtroom sketch artist. And it's his job to offer audiences a look at the characters who make the case for and against Michael Jackson.

ROBLES: It's usually the attorney at the podium and the witness, and there's always a Jackson in there. Occasionally, you know, once or twice a week I get a solo Jackson shot. But you know, for the most part I put out maybe two per half hour.

COOPER: And in a camera-free courtroom, with his $400 per day, per news outlet fee, he can pull in more than $5,000 each day court is in session.

ROBLES: I've had up to 12, 13, 14 stations waiting to shoot. For the arraignment I think I had 27 people.

COOPER: He's the consummate courtroom observer, capturing the quirks of all the players. From the lawyers...

ROBLES: What's interesting is all the lawyers have a different stance, and they never vary from that.

COOPER: To the jurors, who he's allowed to draw without faces. But of course the person he finds most fascinating is the defendant himself. ROBLES: I've seen him smile a lot. And for the most part, he has, you know, kind of a -- kind of a pleasant look about him. You know, even through the stressful testimony, even when the accuser was on. I remember a few times where he dabbed his eyes with a Kleenex.

But he has these quick mannerisms where he picks up a Kleenex to blow his nose and it's very fast.

COOPER: He's taken a visual measure of Michael Jackson for more than three months now. And even this courtroom veteran is surprised by what he's seen.

ROBLES: From the start of the trial, he used to come in and do like dance -- dancer exercises before court started in the court area. As the trial wore on, less and less of that. And he grew more serious, a lot more serious. And a lot -- he didn't give the angles to his face like he used to at the start of the trial. But -- and he's gotten much thinner. So I'm sure the stress is getting to him.

COOPER: Bill Robles has covered courthouses for decades. In his portfolio, pictures, a who's who of high-profile defendants. But this is the first time the man on trial has actually asked to see his artwork.

ROBLES: I showed him a drawing that I just had completed that was on the air the day before of Michael Jackson with his three lawyers and facing forward as they anticipate the jury coming in to the -- the jury pool coming into the courtroom. And he saw the drawing and lit up like a candle, like a little kid. I'll never forget that. That was quite interesting.

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COOPER: Interesting perspective.

360 next, Tropical Storm Arlene barreling towards Florida. We'll have a live report from Miami. That's a live shot there at the beach. A lot of surfers out.

Also tonight, a little girl's wish for a lemonade stand and the people from all over the country who this weekend are keeping her dream alive.

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COOPER: We are tracking the first named storm of the hurricane season, Tropical Storm Arlene. CNN's John Zarrella is in Miami with the latest -- John.

ZARRELLA: Anderson, Arlene is currently in the Gulf of Mexico making its way north. Top sustained winds about 65 miles an hour. Headed for landfall tomorrow somewhere perhaps up in the Florida Panhandle, same area that was hit a year ago by Hurricane Ivan. Here on the east coast, we've been dealing with wind and rain and high surf all day from the storm. A little bit of a break right now, and perhaps a little while ago actually we saw some sunshine peering through. But it has been a blustery, ugly day here.

And you know, it's interesting, because we, despite all of our technology, we think we can predict these things. But the fact of the matter is, animals may be able to predict natural disasters like hurricanes even better and far more in advance than humans can. The latest predictors of hurricanes -- the Loxahatchee turtles.

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ZARRELLA (voice-over): Lyle Thomas. Friends call him Wild Lyle -- we won't go there -- has spent decades here on the edge of the Everglades.

LYLE THOMAS, LOXAHATCHEE EVERGLADES TOURS: Hold on. Here we go.

ZARRELLA: He operates Loxahatchee Everglades tours, air boat rides that bring tourists face to face with animals not far removed from Jurassic Park.

THOMAS: On your right down in the water.

ZARRELLA: But these days one of his favorite conversation pieces are the holes dug in the side of the earthen levy, holes dug by nesting turtles.

THOMAS: They've been nesting higher and higher. This year, it's the highest that I've ever seen them. They can't nest any higher here. That's, I mean, they're right up next to the skyline.

ZARRELLA: Lyle first noticed the turtles building higher last year, before the four hurricanes hit Florida. After the storms, Lyle says the water level rose out here, but the nests had been built high enough to stay dry.

And this year, the nests are higher still.

THOMAS: They sure are. Fact.

ZARRELLA (on camera): And you think that the animals know something instinctively?

THOMAS: Instinctively, they do. Instinctively, they have to.

ZARRELLA (voice-over): That turtles might be predictors of hurricanes on the horizon makes absolute sense to Ron Magill.

RON MAGILL, MIAMI METRO ZOO: He's chewing.

ZARRELLA (on camera): He's got a mouthful of celery.

(voice-over): Magill is a wildlife expert at Miami's Metro Zoo. He vividly remembers the morning before Hurricane Andrew tore through south Miami and flattened the zoo.

MAGILL: But one thing I noticed which was really strange was you couldn't see one native animal around here, whereas the park is normally surrounded by ibis and mockingbirds and grackles, all kinds of native wildlife. I didn't see one living native wildlife animal. It's like it all left town.

ZARRELLA: Animal premonition is more, Magill believes, than just coincidence. Last summer, reef sharks were documented taking off for deep water before the hurricanes. There are stories of elephants and antelope running for higher ground before the tsunamis hit Southeast Asia.

A highly developed sixth sense is nature's way, Magill says, to give animals a fighting chance.

MAGILL: It's all part of nature's survival of the fittest. They fine-tune these senses to live in a world that has all kinds of conflicts. You know, they don't -- animals have to worry about not only being eaten but being destroyed by all kinds of disasters, all kinds of ecological things going on.

ZARRELLA: It's a no-brainer, says Lyle Thomas. If turtles are nesting higher than anyone can remember, maybe we should pay attention.

(on camera): Well, that kind of worries me. I don't know about you.

THOMAS: I'm in the boat business, you know. Maybe that's why they call me Wild Lyle, you know.

ZARRELLA (voice-over): And if the turtles are right, we might need an ark.

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ZARRELLA: Now, if you want to look at the positive side to that story, it may be that the turtles are just building higher because they fear for a lot of rain, not necessarily hurricanes, tropical storms like Arlene. That would be a positive spin to it. That's the way we want to look at it, anyway -- Anderson.

COOPER: Yeah, if only we spoke turtle, we would know. John Zarrella, thanks. Stay safe there in the winds as they increase.

Erica Hill from HEADLINE NEWS joins us with the latest at about 14 to the hour. Erica, good evening.

HILL: Hello again, Anderson. President Bush and the president of South Korea say they are united on the issue of North Korea's nuclear ambitions. They met in Washington today. Both leaders agree North Korea should return to talks it walked away from a year ago. Now, those talks include leaders in the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan and Russia. They want North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.

In Corpus Christi, Texas medical tests revealed today show a 12- year-old cancer patient whose parents were fighting radiation treatment has cancer again. In a videotaped statement recorded by her parents, the girl, who has already had chemotherapy, had said she's feeling better and doesn't need radiation. Child welfare officials have since taken the girl away from her parents.

Yermo, California now: 100 miles east of Los Angeles is where you'll find it, and at least 100 residents living near a train yard there have been evacuated. That happened today after it was discovered that the lock on a railroad car carrying a rocket motor for a Trident D-5 missile was tampered with.

And who says Japan isn't on the cutting edge of fashion? In this case, perhaps you'd call it the clucking edge. These are pictures from what's being billed as the first ever fashion show for chickens. (INAUDIBLE) 12 hens and three roosters strutting down the catwalk in designer clothes. It's like a jailbird suit right there.

COOPER: Oh, Erica. Oh, Erica.

HILL: Oh, Anderson.

COOPER: This is the stupidest story I think I've ever heard in my life.

HILL: It doesn't really count as a cute animal Friday story, doesn't it?

COOPER: It doesn't even make any sense. I mean, a chicken fashion show? What?

HILL: Maybe it doesn't make sense to you, but I mean, I mean, what does make sense, a bear jumping on a trampoline, a smoking chimp? I mean...

COOPER: Yes. OK. In the world of smoking chimps, I guess the chicken fashion show makes just as much sense as anything.

HILL: If we spoke turtle, maybe we'd get it, I don't know. Or chicken.

COOPER: You just used that against me. Erica Hill, thank you very much. We'll see you again in about 30 minutes. Actually, I won't, but, you know.

HILL: Have a great weekend.

COOPER: You too.

Coming up on 360, how a horse running in Belmont is trying to keep a little girl's legacy alive, and what a legacy it is.

Also ahead tonight, celebrating the man who created some of the rock n'roll's signature sounds. Certainly helped Neil Young. We'll introduce you to him.

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COOPER: Going to introduce you now to a little girl you will never forget: Alex Scott is her name. Last summer she was 8-years- old. She's from Philadelphia. And she died of cancer.

She left behind a legacy, however, a legacy that lives to this day. It was a lemonade business aimed at helping all children afflicted with the deadly disease.

In tonight's "Weekender," we look at tomorrow's Belmont stakes and how a race horse competing there is helping this little girl's lemonade legacy live on.

ANDERSON: Come on, guys.

Obviously, we're having a problem bring us that report. We'll try to get it to you in the next couple of minutes.

Still to come this evening on 360, a birthday salute to the man whose name is on more guitars than you can count. And whose music has influenced everybody including that guy right there. Stay tuned for some fine listening.

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COOPER: This is the story of a remarkable little girl named Alex Scott who turned a battle with cancer into a fight to help all kids. This weekend at the Belmont Stakes, her battle goes on.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is a story about a little girl, Alex Scott, her dream and her spirit. And this is the young race horse who some believe is Alex's kindred spirit.

JAY SCOTT, ALEX'S FATHER: He wouldn't give up. And that's the way -- that's the way our Alex was. She wouldn't give up.

CARROLL: When Alex was a year old, doctors diagnosed her with a rare form of cancer. At 4 she drew a picture of her dream, a lemonade stand.

LIZ SCOTT, ALEX'S MOTHER: I asked her why she was so insistent, and she said it's because she was going to donate the money to her hospital.

CARROLL: Thanks to the local paper running a story, Alex raised $2,000 her first day. Every summer for the next few years her stand grew in ways few expected.

L. SCOTT: We started receiving letters from people saying that they had a lemonade stand. Lots of letters from kids.

CARROLL: Last year children across the country helped Alex raise $1 million. The same year she finally succumbed to cancer. She was 8-years-old.

L. SCOTT: It was peaceful. She was home. And she was comfortable. And we were all here with her. J. SCOTT: When Alex passed away, probably the lemonade stand would go away. But we started getting more letters and more e-mails, by the hundreds and thousands of people that said, you know, you need to carry this on.

CARROLL: One call came from the co-owner of a young race horse, also named Alex, Afleet Alex. Chuck Zackney reached out to Alex's parents after hearing about her story.

CHUCK ZACKNEY, AFLEET ALEX'S CO-OWNER: I said, you know, we have a horse named Afleet Alex. She wasn't aware of it. It was only a 2- year-old and had only a couple races. And they said as he races we'd like to contribute.

CARROLL: Alex's parents saw something special in the horse, something familiar.

ANNOUNCER: But Afleet Alex is taking -- he blew the turn, and Afleet Alex almost fell out of the saddle!

CARROLL: During the Preakness, Afleet stumbled, but remarkably righted himself and won the race.

L. SCOTT: And it did remind me very much of Alex and the way that she would often stumble. I could just picture her, you know, running across the back yard and, you know, her knee buckling and her popping back up and just keep going and going faster.

CARROLL: Afleet Alex's jockey says he felt a spiritual connection.

JEREMY ROSE, AFLEET ALEX'S JOCKEY: Alex Scott's the only thing I can think of. Somebody was there, there's no reason I should have stayed on, there's no reason he should have stayed up. Something kept my butt in the saddle.

CARROLL: On Saturday, Afleet races in the Belmont Stakes. His odds are good. And odds are also good that a million dollars will be raised from Alex's lemonade stands set up this weekend in her honor.

Jason Carroll, CNN, Elmont, New York.

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COOPER: A little girl who has already changed the world.

Tonight, taking influence to "The Nth Degree." There was this kid on guitar once upon a time, a 17-year-old about to be high school dropout from Wakeesha, Wisconsin. He was just sitting in with Rube Tronson's Cowboys one night, you know, out there in the midwestern sticks, but people could tell he had something and still does more than seven decades later.

Les Paul celebrated his 90th birthday this week. He continues to play a regular gig every Monday night at a jazz club here in New York. But that's just icing on the musical cake. Which musical cake, by the way, he himself entirely baked just about single-handed.

Well, OK, he is a guitarist. He used both hands and his head. No kidding. It is literally true that modern American music, which is now the music of the whole world, would not be what it is without Les Paul -- musician, tinkerer, thinker about sound, how to make it, how to record it, how to loop it, feed it back, layer it, build it up into something thicker than it had ever been before.

Les Paul was one of the fathers of the solid body electric guitar, which is the instrument of our time, hands down, and the inventor of multitracking, of overdubbing, of sounds we now hear all day, every day but which no one had ever heard before he came along.

No music ever has reverberated as long as Les Paul's has. But then, that is not surprising. He invented reverb. Happy birthday, Les. You're not just a musician, you are, well, the source.

I'm Anderson Cooper. Thanks for watching 360. Have a great weekend. CNN's primetime coverage continues right now with PAULA ZAHN. Hey, Paula.

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: Good evening everyone. Tropical Storm Arlene bearing down hard on Florida. 360 starts now.
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COOPER (voice-over): Tropical Storm Arlene on target to hit the U.S., high winds, torrential rain -- tonight, what you need to know about when and where this storm will strike.

Searching for Natalee, her family clinging to hope. Tonight, the seedy underbelly of Aruba. Does this hidden side of the island hold clues to what happened to a missing American?

Are you having trouble sticking to your diet? Tonight, the top five diet blunders, mistakes you shouldn't make if you want to lose weight once and for all.

A rare glimpse inside the Michael Jackson trial. Tonight, meet the sketch artist whose watched it all unfold in the courtroom. What has he learned by watching Jackson up close?

And, a little girl's brave battle against cancer. She sold lemonade to help find a cure. Now, this weekend, lemonade stands across the country are joining the fight.

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

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ANDERSON COOPER, CNN ANCHOR: And a good Friday evening to you. On this Friday evening, the last thing Florida residents want to hear is that a storm is headed their way, but it is. After suffering billions of dollars in cumulative storm damage last hurricane season, the first named storm of this season is barreling down on the Gulf coast and the panhandle. That is a shot from space. The swirling mass of white clouds, a storm headed straight for Florida.

It is not a hurricane, not yet at any rate. But her winds are picking up speed as they head toward land. CNN's John Zarrella is standing by live there on the storm, weary and now yet again, storm leery Florida coast -- John.

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Anderson, what, we're not even a week and a half into hurricane season, and already the first named storm of the season. We're in Haulover Beach, which is on the north end of Miami-Dade County. I'm standing up in the lifeguard stand here. The life guards have gone home for the evening, but it has been a busy day for them and for everyone else here on the southeast Florida coast.

You can see down the beach there, there are lots of surfers that are going in the water, have been in and out of the water all day. Very, very rough surf all along the southeast Florida coast today. It's been tough keeping people out of the water.

There are probably two to three dozen surfers still in the water here this evening as we start to approach nightfall. And it's not good, because Arlene has already claimed at least one fatality indirectly. A woman down on South Beach this morning, about 10 miles from here, was in the water. She got caught in the rip currents. Another woman went in to try and save her. She got caught as well. It took 20 minutes for Miami Beach Fire Rescue to get out there and to get the two women out. By the time they did, the woman who was initially in trouble, her lungs had filled with water and she was pronounced dead.

So it is a very dangerous situation, even though we're several hundred miles away from the storm on the Atlantic Coast, with the storm over in the Gulf of Mexico. But you're right, storm-weary Floridians didn't need this so soon, although it is a season that is expected to be as active if not more so, than last year -- Anderson.

COOPER: John, I wish that mother out there with her little kid running around in the water, I wish she heard your report about the person who drowned. I wish she wouldn't be letting her kid in the water at this point.

What time is the storm expected? How bad is it expected to be?

ZARRELLA: Well, right now they expect that the storm should make landfall in the panhandle of Florida, which was hit last year by Hurricane Ivan. So people up there preparing, a state of emergency declared by the governor. Probably sometime late tomorrow afternoon into the evening hours. Perhaps crossing the threshold to a Category one hurricane. But really there's not a whole lot of difference between a strong tropical storm and a category -- a small category one hurricane.

The big issue here is going to be lots of rainfall in an area of the state that really is still trying to dig out from last year's pounding from Hurricane Ivan -- Anderson.

COOPER: Yes, it's just incredible when you think about it. Now you've got idiots dancing behind you.

John, we'll let you go. We'll check in with you a little bit later on. Small idiots, anyway, they're having fun.

Let's find out exactly where Arlene is now and where she's headed. We turn to CNN's Jacqui Jeras in Atlanta. Jacqui, where is this storm? JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Well, it's just about 350 miles south of Pensacola, Florida at this time. It has picked up some strength late this afternoon and this evening. A strong tropical storm now with the winds of 65 miles per hour, but we're seeing gusts already at hurricane force.

It's also picked up a little bit of forward speed, and that's very important, Anderson, because the timing of landfall we think is going to be a little earlier now, could possibly be in the early afternoon hours now rather than the later afternoon hours.

We do anticipate some additional strengthening, possibly a category 1. But right now we're still thinking probably a tropical storm. But like John Zarrella just said, not a whole heck of a lot of difference between 70 miles an hour and 74 miles per hour, right?

One of the biggest impact is going to be flooding. Heavy, heavy rainfall. We've already seen the showers and thunderstorms. And as the storm moves inland, it's going to be moving across parts of the Tennessee valley and into the Appalachians and you get up into those higher elevations and you tend to get a lot of rainfall.

Right now, we're thinking widespread rainfall amounts, about three to five inches. But locally, heavy rainfall between five and ten inches will be possible, particularly north and east of the storm.

The center of circulation, somewhere in this neighborhood, but you can see all the colors on the satellite picture here. That's what we call the bright cloud tops. This is where the heavy showers and thunderstorms are in the storm. So if you're on the west side of the storm, doing pretty OK.

Tornado watch in effect for Southern Florida into the Keys. Keys right now could be seeing some strong gusts around Key West, around 40, maybe 50 miles per hour as those thunderstorms move on through. And tropical storm warnings are in effect from Grand Isle, Louisiana all the way over to the Steinhatchee River.

Anderson, back to you.

COOPER: All right. Jacqui Jeras, thanks for the update. Appreciate it. We're going to be following the storm all throughout the hour. If any major developments, we'll let you know.

Also, meantime in the midwest, the tornado season -- it's has already begun. A couple of twisters caused damage around western Kansas late last night, and several tornado watches are in effect right now. Given half a chance a tornado is something most of us would make every effort to from, but then there are those who do the opposite. They head at high speed right toward them. Here's some spine-tingling tape of the spectacle yesterday in Kansas made -- well, it's made by a couple of storm-chasing cowboys. You can hear them hooping and hollering in the background. Listen.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tornado on the ground west! Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Whoo!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, man!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good enough, isn't it? I mean -- whoo!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Same time.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We want to head towards that.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE; We got to be sure we're on that thing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one's getting included.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Wow.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you still recording?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. I might need you to work some...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can't let you lean across me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If that crosses the road we could get cut off, so we've got to be sure that we can...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, it's a grid out here.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. The next one's going to happen soon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we've got to get north now.

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COOPER: Remember, don't try that at home. Those are storm- chasing professionals.

The world's most famous defendant in the world's most covered trial won't know his fate, at least for this week. Seven days after getting the case, the jury in the Michael Jackson trial has not reached a verdict yet. Deliberations again resume Monday. Today they had a question for the judge. CNN's Ted Rowlands is live at the courthouse. Ted, what did they want to know?

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Anderson, we don't know exactly what they wanted to know, but we do know that it was a very active day for jurors. Sources close to the case are telling us that jurors asked several questions of the judge and that they asked for several portions of the testimony to be read back to them. We also understand from sources close to the case that attorneys for both sides met with the judge at least three separate times. So clearly a very active day. It was a day that many people thought there may be a verdict, thinking the jurors would want to avoid carrying this into the weekend. That wasn't the case. There still was no verdict.

Meanwhile, fans continued to stand outside the courthouse, waiting for word, one way or another, as to Michael Jackson's fate. We had one arrest, a woman paint painting a dove on the sidewalk at Neverland Ranch.

Michael Jackson is said to be resting comfortably and waiting nervously with his family members. They'll have to wait until sometime next week.

Jurors are not sequestered. They will go home, be with their families, and presumably be at it again 8:30 on Monday morning -- Anderson.

COOPER: As you will be as well. Ted Rowlands, thanks very much. Appreciate it.

Coming up next on 360 -- take a look.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't care if she's, you know, in a crack house somewhere and she's been drugged up for, you know, seven days or whatever. We can work with that. We can fix her. We can do whatever to get her back.

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COOPER: We wanted to see, are there crack houses in Aruba? A journey into the seedy underbelly of the island. You don't see this in the tourist brochures.

Also ahead tonight, top five dieting mistakes. Find out what you shouldn't do if you want to keep off the weight.

And turning lemonade into hope. This is a story you're not going to want to miss. A little girl turns her battle with cancer into inspiration, and it could help the lives of millions of people.

All that ahead. First, your picks. Most popular stories on CNN.com right now.

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COOPER: It has been 12 days now since anyone saw 18-year-old Natalee Holloway alive and well on the island of Aruba. Five men are in custody, but there's been no sign of her, no sign at all. Her stepfather hopes she's still alive. George Twitty has said, quote, "I don't care if she's in a crack house and been drugged up for seven days; we can work with that and fix her, do whatever to get her back." They just want her back. There are even rumors she might have been sold into the sex trade. There are rumors just floating all around on the island of Aruba. It is a sunny vacation island, a peaceful place normally, a vacation spot. We wanted to look, though, are there really such places in such a beautiful place, places dark enough to have swallowed a young girl whole, evil enough somehow still to be holding her captive? Well, the answer, we found, is yes, there are. Even paradise has a seamy side. CNN's Karl Penhaul takes us to the seamy side of paradise.

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ANDREI GOMEZ: Sweet.

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's sucking in a $3 hit outside a drug den in the backstreets of San Nicolas. This man, Andrei Gomez, Aruban born and raised, agreed to take me into his murky underworld.

GOMEZ: I'm choler number one.

PENHAUL: Choler is Aruba's name for crackheads. I wanted to ask him if he's seen any sign of Natalee. Does he really think she might be being held against her will?

(on camera): What you're saying is that if she had ended up in a chola house, if somebody had brought her to a chola house, if she'd ended up at the chola house...

GOMEZ: Never, never, never.

PENHAUL: ... then the people here would have treated her well?

GOMEZ: No, no.

PENHAUL (voice-over): Police sources describe the crack cocaine problem as very limited. But there are several crack dens known to the locals around the island, some in houses and others in derelict stores like this.

Here, there were only a handful of addicts; most politely and without any threat of violence, asked us not to videotape them. They don't trust strangers.

These addicts have their own code of silence and a deep dislike of the police.

Even the promise of the $55,000 reward offered for Natalee may not loosen their tongues.

As he lets me inspect his last rock of crack, 42-year-old Andrei tells me he drifted into drugs more years ago than he can remember. He knows he's destroying his body with the drugs and too much cheap wine they call the night train express.

(on camera): It smells a bit like gasoline, Andrei. GOMEZ: (INAUDIBLE).

PENHAUL: It tastes like it. Cheers, mate.

GOMEZ: Sweet, huh? You want more?

PENHAUL: It's not very nice. It's not very nice, Andrei. It's not the best drink I've had in my life.

(voice-over): A block away, Aruba's red light district. Prostitution is legal here. The government imposes strict health and hygiene controls. But it's a slow night, and Gabrielle takes time out from turning tricks.

She came in from Colombia a week ago and has been following the hunt for Natalee on the news. I ask her in Spanish whether she and her fellow prostitutes are taking extra safety measures.

GARBIELLE (through translator): We look after each other, and we don't go off with just any man. There's good people and bad.

PENHAUL: Some of the theories surrounding Natalee's disappearance, she says, are absurd.

GABRIELLE (through translator): No, there's no white slave trade here. We work here. And I've never known anything like that.

PENHAUL: Gabrielle says she's a regular visitor to Aruba. She peddles her charms for around $30 an hour.

GABRIELLE (through translator): I work real hard here to earn what I earn here on this island. In three months, I'd have to work three years in Colombia.

PENHAUL: Whether this part of the island brings opportunity or despair, for Natalee's family it's a desperate hope. For even finding her here alive would be a blessing.

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PENHAUL: Aruba's prime minister has said that he will not tolerate anything that harms the American visitors to Aruba, and he's pledged to take full responsibility for the outcome of this investigation, Anderson.

COOPER: Karl, just to reiterate something you pointed out in that piece, this is a very small slice of island life. The great majority of the island is a beautiful place to be. And that's why a lot of tourists head there. Where, I mean, at this point where is the search? Are there every day still people searching for Natalee?

PENHAUL: There are. There are both volunteer searchers and the specialist searchers by the search and rescue teams. We were talking to members of the search and rescue teams today, and they say that they've been looking primarily on soft, sandy areas, because those would be the easiest places to dig. They've also been looking at ocean currents that sweep around this island that could carry off heavy objects, Anderson.

COOPER: All right, Karl Penhaul, great report. Thanks, Karl.

Erica Hill from HEADLINE NEWS joins us with the latest about 17 past the hour. A good Friday evening to you, Erica.

ERICA HILL, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: And a good Friday right back at you, Anderson. Unfortunately, we're starting off with some rather somber news. A deadly day for Marines in Iraq. Five were killed when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb yesterday in Anbar province. Today, the U.S. military said the Marines were conducting combat operations; 1,690 U.S. troops have been killed since the war began in Iraq.

On to Boca Raton, Florida. A school bus crash. Look at that. As many as 25 kids were hurt, five seriously, when a tractor-trailer truck collided with the bus on the Florida Turnpike. Florida Highway Patrol is investigating the cause. No charges have been filed yet.

In New York City, an enormous settlement. Citigroup agreeing to pay $2 billion to settle a class action lawsuit related to its work for Enron. Now, investors had accused Citigroup of helping Enron in a massive accounting fraud that led to its collapse. Citigroup denies any wrongdoing.

And duh-duh, duh-duh. You can finish that anyway. Just in time for the 30th anniversary of the movie "Jaws," check that out. It's a great white shark snagged off the coast of St. Augustine, Florida. And it was all caught on tape. No tall tales here. Local fisherman Tom Trout -- that's not a tall tale, either, that's his real name -- says he felt something big yanking his fishing pole, but he never expected it to be a 16-foot-long shark. Trout says he let it swim around the boat for a while before he cut it loose.

And you know, there was a "Jaws" 30th anniversary festival in Martha's Vineyard last weekend, I believe.

COOPER: Was there really?

HILL: There was.

COOPER: Do you think his real name is Tom Trout?

HILL: That's what he says.

COOPER: It just seems -- it's too much.

HILL: It is too much, but you never know. Maybe he had it legally changed, so it is really his name but it wasn't the name he was born with.

COOPER: I guess so. To bring in the tourists? I guess.

HILL: Could work.

COOPER: All right, I guess if you're going to go fishing, might as well go fishing with a guy named Tom Trout.

HILL: This is what I'm saying.

COOPER: You think subconsciously you're going to catch a lot of fish.

HILL: Hey, Tom caught a 16-foot shark, all right?

COOPER: And he let it go. Erica Hill, thanks very much. See you again in about 30 minutes.

Coming up next, just how bad is this hurricane season going to be? Some turtles may be giving us a clue. Do they actually sense something we don't? We'll find out.

Also ahead tonight, Michael Jackson and the jury still has not made up their minds. Tonight, more on the wait, and you're also going to meet the courtroom artist who's been drawing it all every day, the trial. What has he learned about Jackson from watching him up close and very personal? Find out.

And a little later, also, have you tried to lose weight and failed? I mean, just about everybody has. You may be making one of the top five dieting blunders. We'll find out what they are ahead. Covering all the angles. We'll be right back.

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COOPER: All this week, we've been looking at inspiring stories of people who went to extra measures or extreme measures to lose weight. In our special dieting series called "Choose to Lose," we've looked at surgeries, at liquid diets, even faith-based diets. Now you're thinking about losing weight, and who isn't? There's more than enough to choose from. But choose wisely, or you may find yourself back on the same rollercoaster ride.

To show us the five most common diet blunders to watch out for I spoke earlier to Bonnie Taub-Dix, registered dietitian and spokesperson for the American Dietetic Association.

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COOPER: Let's talk about diet blunder number one, carb deprivation. At the height of the low-carb craze, the Atkins craze, the South Beach diet, I read that 27 million Americans were on some kind of low-carb diet. About half of those have dropped off. That's incredible.

BONNIE TAUB-DIX, REGISTERED DIETITIAN: That's wonderful. I'm really happy about that, because the whole low-carb craze was really pretty ridiculous. Any diet that says no something, you know is already bad news. So the key is really adding carbohydrates to your diet. It's not only important for energy, but carbs actually are the brain's feel-good chemical. Makes you feel good.

COOPER: Serotonin. TAUB-DIX: Yes, because it raises serotonin levels. So when you add carbohydrates to your diet, you get that ah factor where you feel like you've actually had something that you enjoy.

COOPER: But so you say any diet that says -- that eliminates an entire food group is not going to work?

TAUB-DIX: Right, you know that's bad news, because that has nothing to do with real life. After being on a high-fat, high-protein diet for a while, even a dry cracker looks good. So the important thing is to have balance in your diet. Every nutrient is important. No food should be left out. But you have to watch your portion sizes and balance foods throughout the (INAUDIBLE)...

COOPER: And that's really what it's about, portion size?

TAUB-DIX: Yeah, always. Always comes down to that.

COOPER: Let's talk diet blunder number two. You say pigging out on so-called diet foods, or light foods.

TAUB-DIX: Yes.

COOPER: Why is that a problem?

TAUB-DIX: I'll give you an example. Light olive oil, for example, means lighter color, lighter flavor, same calories as the regular oil.

COOPER: Oh, is that true?

TAUB-DIX: Absolutely.

COOPER: I didn't know that.

TAUB-DIX: So the thickest, richest olive oil you can find, the better off you are, because you can actually taste it.

COOPER: And olive oil has a lot of calories, which I mean, most people think, oh, it's a diet thing, but it's got healthy fats, right?

TAUB-DIX: Right, healthy fats, but that doesn't mean that fat is healthy if you're very overweight. So you have to be careful about the amount of fat you eat as well as the kind of fat you eat.

COOPER: Diet blunder number three, getting on the scale every day. Why is that a problem?

TAUB-DIX: Bad news. Because the scale doesn't only weigh fat, which most people think; it also measures the fluid in your body. So if you eat dinner out, and half of our food dollars goes to restaurants, is salt acts like a magnet to water. So salt increases the fluid in your body, so you can weigh yourself after having two pickles which are only 10 calories each, and be two pounds up.

COOPER: You say you should weigh yourself, what, twice a week, on Mondays and Fridays?

TAUB-DIX: Yes, Fridays and Mondays. Friday because that's before the weekend. If you weigh a little more than you thought, then you may cut back a little over the weekend. And Mondays, because if you lost weight on Friday, you won't fool around too much on the weekend because you know Monday you have to weigh yourself.

COOPER: Diet blunder number four, thinking liquids don't count. Frozen margueritas got, what, 650 calories? A bottle of vitamin water has like 128 or so?

TAUB-DIX: It could. It could. You just have to check the labels. Some of these vitamin waters actually have no calories, but many do. And a lot of people think that because you don't chew that it doesn't have any calories, and that's just not true. We have a huge problem with obesity with kids nowadays, and kids drink a lot of fruit juices. So again, just because something is healthy doesn't mean that it's low in calories.

COOPER: All right, what about like things like jamba juice or smoothies? I mean, I have one every day for lunch. Is that a good diet choice?

TAUB-DIX: Well, we'll talk after about your smoothie...

COOPER: Oh, really?

TAUB-DIX: But they could be loaded with calories. So it really depends on what's in it.

COOPER: Diet blunder number five, you say failure to reward yourself. Why is it important to reward yourself?

TAUB-DIX: Well, you know, losing weight is a very dynamic process. You know, when your clothing's getting bigger and people are complimenting you, you actually feel the motivation to keep on, but once you're at the wait that you want to be or you're not losing that much weight anymore, sometimes the motivation falls off. So you have to remember that you need to reward yourself for all that you've done, because studies show now that even just losing 5 to 10 percent of your body weight, which could only be 10 to 15 pounds, could dramatically improve blood sugar, blood pressure, high cholesterol levels. So what a lot of people do is they make the mistake by rewarding themselves when they lose weight with food that's high in calories. That usually turns into a punishment, not a reward.

COOPER: Bonnie, thanks very much. Good advice.

TAUB-DIX: You're so welcome.

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COOPER (voice-over): Tropical Storm Arlene, on target to hit the U.S. High winds, torrential rain. Tonight, what you need to know about when and where the storm will strike.

A rare glimpse inside the Michael Jackson trial. Tonight, meet the sketch artist who's watched it all unfold in the courtroom. What has he learned by watching Jackson up close?

And a little girl's brave battle against cancer. She sold lemonade to help find a cure. Now, this weekend, lemonade stands across the country are joining the fight. 360 continues.

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COOPER: They range in age from 20 to 79 -- one is a clerk, another a horse trainer -- and collectively the 12 men and women hold the fate of Michael Jackson in their hands. A full week after getting the case, the jury is yet to reached reach a verdict. They went home for the weekend. Deliberations pick up again on Monday.

They're not sequestered, as we pointed out before. A lot of people thought a verdict would come down today. Among them defense attorney Anne Bremner, who joins us live outside the courthouse in Santa Maria, California.

Anne, what happened?

ANNE BREMNER, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, you know, I thought for sure it was going to come down today. I said, you know, the end is near. Just like the signs we have out in front of the courthouse, you know, we have people carrying signs saying the end is near, you know, the end of the world, everything else. And Michael Jackson, I thought the end of it was today.

But the jurors had some questions, and they wanted some read backs, and of course they're going to be really careful. I still think the end's near, even though it wasn't today.

COOPER: And what -- do you read anything -- I know you don't know what they asked the judge. We don't know what they asked to have read back. The fact that they're asking -- I mean, what do you think are the most difficult counts for this jury to reach?

BREMNER: Without a doubt, conspiracy. The thought of someone like Michael Jackson, who's, you know more like a wounded sparrow than a vulture, the thought of him conspiring with people to do anything criminal is kind of foreign, given what we know about the evidence in Michael Jackson and his demeanor. He's so child-like and naive.

And not only that, it took the judge a half hour to read those instructions, just the conspiracy instructions. And they're very convoluted. And they require all kinds of different steps. And there are 28 overt acts alleged.

So that by far would be the most difficult count for the jury to reach a verdict on. COOPER: But he could be found not guilty on the conspiracy charges and still be found guilty of having molested this boy, is that correct?

BREMNER: Absolutely. And I think that the molestation counts and the alcohol count are probably the easiest for conviction, because keep in mind the molestation doesn't require touching private parts. It simply requires a touching for sexual gratification, pretty low standard in California for a felony count.

COOPER: Jeffrey Toobin has said -- CNN legal analyst -- has said he thought it was a mistake to kind of muddy the waters with these conspiracy counts that kind of took away from the real heart of this case, which is the molestation. What do you think?

BREMNER: Well, yes. I think he's very smart, and he's right. I do some of the pool press briefings here as a legal analyst. And I've done that since the beginning of the trial. And I said before they call the mother they shouldn't call her. And also they shouldn't have the conspiracy counts, because they needed the mother for those.

And you know, there was a circus outside court. You know, circus in court. And a circus in her head. She was the whole defense case. They said if you don't believe her beyond a reasonable doubt you have to acquit.

So that really what they gained by calling the mother and having conspiracy, I think it really was outweighed by what was taken away. And she may undermine the entire state's case and the conspiracy counts may do the same.

COOPER: I read something today. Jackson's home, Neverland Ranch, is pretty close to a school, less than a quarter of a mile away from a school. I didn't realize that. If he's convicted of molestation, could he actually be prohibited from living there when and if he got out of jail?

BREMNER: Anderson, it's right across the street. It's unbelievable. There's the gates to Neverland, and with the gatehouse, and you just drive a few feet, and right on the right is a school.

So yes, he could be precluded from living at Neverland. It's 2700 acres. So the question is is it the residence itself when you look at the distance, or the gates? And I'm sure he'll fight that if he's out on probation.

COOPER: Of course it may not even be an issue. He may have to sell the house to make up some of this money that he's in debt for. It all depends. We'll see.

Anne Bremner, thanks. Good to talk to you. You have a good weekend. We'll see you again Monday.

BREMNER: Same here. Thank you.

COOPER: How do seven days of deliberations compare to other high-profile trials? That's what it's been, seven days so far.

Let's put it in perspective, however. It took the jury in the O.J. Simpson trial just three hours to acquit him of murder. Scott Peterson was found guilty of murder after seven hours of deliberations. And actor Robert Blake was found innocent of killing his wife after nine days in the jury room. And then he went catboying -- cowboying, excuse me.

The joy of some and the chagrin of others, there were no cameras to tract action inside the Jackson courtroom. Can you imagine what a circus it would have been if there were cameras inside? Oy. That would have been a whole other mess.

Without cameras, TV networks turned to good old-fashioned pen and paper and the courtroom skill of Bill Robles.

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BILL ROBLES, COURTROOM SKETCH ARTIST: This has been in 35 years, the most trial difficult trial I've had to cover, because of the deadline part of it.

COOPER (voice-over): For Bill Robles, covering the trial of Michael Jackson is as much about meeting deadlines as it is about the drawings.

ROBLES: We have to have drawings every hour and a half that are complete. And we have ten minutes in which to run out to the media tent, where we have easels set up to post the artwork, squeeze in a bathroom break, and get back into court within ten minutes.

COOPER: Robles is a courtroom sketch artist. And it's his job to offer audiences a look at the characters who make the case for and against Michael Jackson.

ROBLES: It's usually the attorney at the podium and the witness, and there's always a Jackson in there. Occasionally, you know, once or twice a week I get a solo Jackson shot. But you know, for the most part I put out maybe two per half hour.

COOPER: And in a camera-free courtroom, with his $400 per day, per news outlet fee, he can pull in more than $5,000 each day court is in session.

ROBLES: I've had up to 12, 13, 14 stations waiting to shoot. For the arraignment I think I had 27 people.

COOPER: He's the consummate courtroom observer, capturing the quirks of all the players. From the lawyers...

ROBLES: What's interesting is all the lawyers have a different stance, and they never vary from that.

COOPER: To the jurors, who he's allowed to draw without faces. But of course the person he finds most fascinating is the defendant himself. ROBLES: I've seen him smile a lot. And for the most part, he has, you know, kind of a -- kind of a pleasant look about him. You know, even through the stressful testimony, even when the accuser was on. I remember a few times where he dabbed his eyes with a Kleenex.

But he has these quick mannerisms where he picks up a Kleenex to blow his nose and it's very fast.

COOPER: He's taken a visual measure of Michael Jackson for more than three months now. And even this courtroom veteran is surprised by what he's seen.

ROBLES: From the start of the trial, he used to come in and do like dance -- dancer exercises before court started in the court area. As the trial wore on, less and less of that. And he grew more serious, a lot more serious. And a lot -- he didn't give the angles to his face like he used to at the start of the trial. But -- and he's gotten much thinner. So I'm sure the stress is getting to him.

COOPER: Bill Robles has covered courthouses for decades. In his portfolio, pictures, a who's who of high-profile defendants. But this is the first time the man on trial has actually asked to see his artwork.

ROBLES: I showed him a drawing that I just had completed that was on the air the day before of Michael Jackson with his three lawyers and facing forward as they anticipate the jury coming in to the -- the jury pool coming into the courtroom. And he saw the drawing and lit up like a candle, like a little kid. I'll never forget that. That was quite interesting.

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COOPER: Interesting perspective.

360 next, Tropical Storm Arlene barreling towards Florida. We'll have a live report from Miami. That's a live shot there at the beach. A lot of surfers out.

Also tonight, a little girl's wish for a lemonade stand and the people from all over the country who this weekend are keeping her dream alive.

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COOPER: We are tracking the first named storm of the hurricane season, Tropical Storm Arlene. CNN's John Zarrella is in Miami with the latest -- John.

ZARRELLA: Anderson, Arlene is currently in the Gulf of Mexico making its way north. Top sustained winds about 65 miles an hour. Headed for landfall tomorrow somewhere perhaps up in the Florida Panhandle, same area that was hit a year ago by Hurricane Ivan. Here on the east coast, we've been dealing with wind and rain and high surf all day from the storm. A little bit of a break right now, and perhaps a little while ago actually we saw some sunshine peering through. But it has been a blustery, ugly day here.

And you know, it's interesting, because we, despite all of our technology, we think we can predict these things. But the fact of the matter is, animals may be able to predict natural disasters like hurricanes even better and far more in advance than humans can. The latest predictors of hurricanes -- the Loxahatchee turtles.

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ZARRELLA (voice-over): Lyle Thomas. Friends call him Wild Lyle -- we won't go there -- has spent decades here on the edge of the Everglades.

LYLE THOMAS, LOXAHATCHEE EVERGLADES TOURS: Hold on. Here we go.

ZARRELLA: He operates Loxahatchee Everglades tours, air boat rides that bring tourists face to face with animals not far removed from Jurassic Park.

THOMAS: On your right down in the water.

ZARRELLA: But these days one of his favorite conversation pieces are the holes dug in the side of the earthen levy, holes dug by nesting turtles.

THOMAS: They've been nesting higher and higher. This year, it's the highest that I've ever seen them. They can't nest any higher here. That's, I mean, they're right up next to the skyline.

ZARRELLA: Lyle first noticed the turtles building higher last year, before the four hurricanes hit Florida. After the storms, Lyle says the water level rose out here, but the nests had been built high enough to stay dry.

And this year, the nests are higher still.

THOMAS: They sure are. Fact.

ZARRELLA (on camera): And you think that the animals know something instinctively?

THOMAS: Instinctively, they do. Instinctively, they have to.

ZARRELLA (voice-over): That turtles might be predictors of hurricanes on the horizon makes absolute sense to Ron Magill.

RON MAGILL, MIAMI METRO ZOO: He's chewing.

ZARRELLA (on camera): He's got a mouthful of celery.

(voice-over): Magill is a wildlife expert at Miami's Metro Zoo. He vividly remembers the morning before Hurricane Andrew tore through south Miami and flattened the zoo.

MAGILL: But one thing I noticed which was really strange was you couldn't see one native animal around here, whereas the park is normally surrounded by ibis and mockingbirds and grackles, all kinds of native wildlife. I didn't see one living native wildlife animal. It's like it all left town.

ZARRELLA: Animal premonition is more, Magill believes, than just coincidence. Last summer, reef sharks were documented taking off for deep water before the hurricanes. There are stories of elephants and antelope running for higher ground before the tsunamis hit Southeast Asia.

A highly developed sixth sense is nature's way, Magill says, to give animals a fighting chance.

MAGILL: It's all part of nature's survival of the fittest. They fine-tune these senses to live in a world that has all kinds of conflicts. You know, they don't -- animals have to worry about not only being eaten but being destroyed by all kinds of disasters, all kinds of ecological things going on.

ZARRELLA: It's a no-brainer, says Lyle Thomas. If turtles are nesting higher than anyone can remember, maybe we should pay attention.

(on camera): Well, that kind of worries me. I don't know about you.

THOMAS: I'm in the boat business, you know. Maybe that's why they call me Wild Lyle, you know.

ZARRELLA (voice-over): And if the turtles are right, we might need an ark.

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ZARRELLA: Now, if you want to look at the positive side to that story, it may be that the turtles are just building higher because they fear for a lot of rain, not necessarily hurricanes, tropical storms like Arlene. That would be a positive spin to it. That's the way we want to look at it, anyway -- Anderson.

COOPER: Yeah, if only we spoke turtle, we would know. John Zarrella, thanks. Stay safe there in the winds as they increase.

Erica Hill from HEADLINE NEWS joins us with the latest at about 14 to the hour. Erica, good evening.

HILL: Hello again, Anderson. President Bush and the president of South Korea say they are united on the issue of North Korea's nuclear ambitions. They met in Washington today. Both leaders agree North Korea should return to talks it walked away from a year ago. Now, those talks include leaders in the U.S., South Korea, China, Japan and Russia. They want North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons.

In Corpus Christi, Texas medical tests revealed today show a 12- year-old cancer patient whose parents were fighting radiation treatment has cancer again. In a videotaped statement recorded by her parents, the girl, who has already had chemotherapy, had said she's feeling better and doesn't need radiation. Child welfare officials have since taken the girl away from her parents.

Yermo, California now: 100 miles east of Los Angeles is where you'll find it, and at least 100 residents living near a train yard there have been evacuated. That happened today after it was discovered that the lock on a railroad car carrying a rocket motor for a Trident D-5 missile was tampered with.

And who says Japan isn't on the cutting edge of fashion? In this case, perhaps you'd call it the clucking edge. These are pictures from what's being billed as the first ever fashion show for chickens. (INAUDIBLE) 12 hens and three roosters strutting down the catwalk in designer clothes. It's like a jailbird suit right there.

COOPER: Oh, Erica. Oh, Erica.

HILL: Oh, Anderson.

COOPER: This is the stupidest story I think I've ever heard in my life.

HILL: It doesn't really count as a cute animal Friday story, doesn't it?

COOPER: It doesn't even make any sense. I mean, a chicken fashion show? What?

HILL: Maybe it doesn't make sense to you, but I mean, I mean, what does make sense, a bear jumping on a trampoline, a smoking chimp? I mean...

COOPER: Yes. OK. In the world of smoking chimps, I guess the chicken fashion show makes just as much sense as anything.

HILL: If we spoke turtle, maybe we'd get it, I don't know. Or chicken.

COOPER: You just used that against me. Erica Hill, thank you very much. We'll see you again in about 30 minutes. Actually, I won't, but, you know.

HILL: Have a great weekend.

COOPER: You too.

Coming up on 360, how a horse running in Belmont is trying to keep a little girl's legacy alive, and what a legacy it is.

Also ahead tonight, celebrating the man who created some of the rock n'roll's signature sounds. Certainly helped Neil Young. We'll introduce you to him.

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COOPER: Going to introduce you now to a little girl you will never forget: Alex Scott is her name. Last summer she was 8-years- old. She's from Philadelphia. And she died of cancer.

She left behind a legacy, however, a legacy that lives to this day. It was a lemonade business aimed at helping all children afflicted with the deadly disease.

In tonight's "Weekender," we look at tomorrow's Belmont stakes and how a race horse competing there is helping this little girl's lemonade legacy live on.

ANDERSON: Come on, guys.

Obviously, we're having a problem bring us that report. We'll try to get it to you in the next couple of minutes.

Still to come this evening on 360, a birthday salute to the man whose name is on more guitars than you can count. And whose music has influenced everybody including that guy right there. Stay tuned for some fine listening.

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COOPER: This is the story of a remarkable little girl named Alex Scott who turned a battle with cancer into a fight to help all kids. This weekend at the Belmont Stakes, her battle goes on.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is a story about a little girl, Alex Scott, her dream and her spirit. And this is the young race horse who some believe is Alex's kindred spirit.

JAY SCOTT, ALEX'S FATHER: He wouldn't give up. And that's the way -- that's the way our Alex was. She wouldn't give up.

CARROLL: When Alex was a year old, doctors diagnosed her with a rare form of cancer. At 4 she drew a picture of her dream, a lemonade stand.

LIZ SCOTT, ALEX'S MOTHER: I asked her why she was so insistent, and she said it's because she was going to donate the money to her hospital.

CARROLL: Thanks to the local paper running a story, Alex raised $2,000 her first day. Every summer for the next few years her stand grew in ways few expected.

L. SCOTT: We started receiving letters from people saying that they had a lemonade stand. Lots of letters from kids.

CARROLL: Last year children across the country helped Alex raise $1 million. The same year she finally succumbed to cancer. She was 8-years-old.

L. SCOTT: It was peaceful. She was home. And she was comfortable. And we were all here with her. J. SCOTT: When Alex passed away, probably the lemonade stand would go away. But we started getting more letters and more e-mails, by the hundreds and thousands of people that said, you know, you need to carry this on.

CARROLL: One call came from the co-owner of a young race horse, also named Alex, Afleet Alex. Chuck Zackney reached out to Alex's parents after hearing about her story.

CHUCK ZACKNEY, AFLEET ALEX'S CO-OWNER: I said, you know, we have a horse named Afleet Alex. She wasn't aware of it. It was only a 2- year-old and had only a couple races. And they said as he races we'd like to contribute.

CARROLL: Alex's parents saw something special in the horse, something familiar.

ANNOUNCER: But Afleet Alex is taking -- he blew the turn, and Afleet Alex almost fell out of the saddle!

CARROLL: During the Preakness, Afleet stumbled, but remarkably righted himself and won the race.

L. SCOTT: And it did remind me very much of Alex and the way that she would often stumble. I could just picture her, you know, running across the back yard and, you know, her knee buckling and her popping back up and just keep going and going faster.

CARROLL: Afleet Alex's jockey says he felt a spiritual connection.

JEREMY ROSE, AFLEET ALEX'S JOCKEY: Alex Scott's the only thing I can think of. Somebody was there, there's no reason I should have stayed on, there's no reason he should have stayed up. Something kept my butt in the saddle.

CARROLL: On Saturday, Afleet races in the Belmont Stakes. His odds are good. And odds are also good that a million dollars will be raised from Alex's lemonade stands set up this weekend in her honor.

Jason Carroll, CNN, Elmont, New York.

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COOPER: A little girl who has already changed the world.

Tonight, taking influence to "The Nth Degree." There was this kid on guitar once upon a time, a 17-year-old about to be high school dropout from Wakeesha, Wisconsin. He was just sitting in with Rube Tronson's Cowboys one night, you know, out there in the midwestern sticks, but people could tell he had something and still does more than seven decades later.

Les Paul celebrated his 90th birthday this week. He continues to play a regular gig every Monday night at a jazz club here in New York. But that's just icing on the musical cake. Which musical cake, by the way, he himself entirely baked just about single-handed.

Well, OK, he is a guitarist. He used both hands and his head. No kidding. It is literally true that modern American music, which is now the music of the whole world, would not be what it is without Les Paul -- musician, tinkerer, thinker about sound, how to make it, how to record it, how to loop it, feed it back, layer it, build it up into something thicker than it had ever been before.

Les Paul was one of the fathers of the solid body electric guitar, which is the instrument of our time, hands down, and the inventor of multitracking, of overdubbing, of sounds we now hear all day, every day but which no one had ever heard before he came along.

No music ever has reverberated as long as Les Paul's has. But then, that is not surprising. He invented reverb. Happy birthday, Les. You're not just a musician, you are, well, the source.

I'm Anderson Cooper. Thanks for watching 360. Have a great weekend. CNN's primetime coverage continues right now with PAULA ZAHN. Hey, Paula.

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