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Idaho Investigation Continues; Aruba Suspects Released; Tropical Storms Threaten

Aired July 05, 2005 - 19:00   ET

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

RUDI BAKHTIAR, CNN ANCHOR: Thank you, Kitty.
Good evening, everyone. Breaking news out of Idaho. New information puts suspected kidnapper Joseph Duncan at the scene where three were murdered. It's 7:00 p.m. on the East Coast, 4:00 on the West.

360 starts right now.

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ANNOUNCER: Stunning new details from the kidnapped girl in Idaho. What she says she saw before she and her brother were kidnapped.

Justice for Natalee. Two brothers held 25 days and now released. But the mother of missing American teen Natalee Holloway fears they could escape justice.

BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, MOTHER OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: I'm asking all mothers and all fathers in all nations to hear my plea. I implore you: Do not allow these two suspects, the Kalpoe brothers, to enter your country until this case is solved.

ANNOUNCER: And great balls of fire. With Americans driving more this summer, we're reminded of what can go wrong at the pumps. How this driver escaped, and what you need to know to avoid danger at the pump.

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BAKHTIAR: Good evening. And welcome, everyone. I'm Rudi Bakhtiar, in tonight for Anderson Cooper.

We begin with some breaking news. There are new details in the shocking case of a little girl lost and then found in Idaho and the appearance today in court of the man accused of stealing her away, along with her brother, who is still missing.

CNN's Rusty Dornin is standing by live in Coeur d'Alene.

Rusty, what can you tell us?

RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Rudi, we have some very disturbing details about what little Shasta Groene, eight years old, has been telling investigators from the hospital the last few days. Now, these were papers that were part of the criminal complaint that was released today from Kootenai County. And it talks about an interview that she had, which is part of the probable cause and the reason they were able to file the kidnapping charges against Joseph Duncan. In it, she talks about the night that her mother woke her up from bed, that she went to the living room. Her mother took her to the living room, where the man, Joseph Duncan, was. She had never met him before, she told police.

Apparently, her family was bound. She and her brother were bound. They were put into the back of a pickup. She says they were taken from the pickup and put into that red Jeep that we've seen that Joseph Duncan was driving. They were taken to two different sites in Montana. And that's when the little girl described to investigators how she saw her brother raped and was also raped by that man repeatedly.

Very disturbing details. It was apparently done in a videotaped interview that was given to the judge, and that's why they were able to come forward with those first-degree kidnapping charges.

In the meantime, as you know, he did appear in court today. There was no plea. There is no bail for him. He is charged with two first- degree counts of kidnapping, which, in the state of Idaho, he could -- if he gets the maximum penalty and is convicted, it could be the death penalty or life in prison.

Rudi?

BAKHTIAR: Rusty, this is the first time that we're hearing of Duncan being actually there on the scene of the murders. Do we know any more details about that? Did the family actually know this man?

DORNIN: No. And she actually told investigators that she had never seen this man before. She didn't think her family knew him.

Investigators -- when we've asked, is there any link? Was Joseph Duncan linked to these murders? -- they've been very tight-lipped about it. They have only been saying that she's been providing useful information, but they had never said that she did place this man at the home the night of May 15, May 16, when those three people, including her mother, brother, and her mother's boyfriend, were bludgeoned to death.

BAKHTIAR: All right, Rusty. We'll be following this story for you all night long. Rusty Dornin in Coeur d'Alene. Thank you.

Turning now to the case of Natalee Holloway in Aruba. The search goes on. The investigation goes on, but so does the gnawing mystery of what's become of her. There has been a development, though. Two brothers who'd been detained for questioning now are out of jail.

CNN's Chris Lawrence reports in tonight's "World in 360."

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CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When Deepak and Satish Kalpoe arrived home after 26 days in jail, two mothers had almost opposite reactions.

NADIRA RAMIREZ, MOTHER OF KALPOE BROTHERS: I can't even explain how happy I am to see them, to hug them.

LAWRENCE: Nadira Ramirez called her sons innocent. Natalee Holloway's mother called them criminals.

BETH HOLLOWAY TWITTY, MOTHER OF NATALEE HOLLOWAY: Help me by not allowing these two to get away with this crime to travel.

LAWRENCE: Beth Twitty asked Aruban officials to notify the U.S. State Department if the brothers leave the island.

TWITTY: I'm asking this in the name of my beautiful, intelligent and outstanding daughter who I haven't seen for 36 days and for whom I will continue to search until I find her.

LAWRENCE: The judge ruled there's not enough evidence to keep the Kalpoes. They can leave the country, but their mother says they won't. She's even cancelled a family trip to Suriname.

Natalee's family is getting some help from a virtual eye in the sky. Holland has sent three F-16s to Aruba rigged with infrared sensors and sonar equipment. After a test flight Tuesday, they'll start searching the entire island tomorrow.

Natalee's friends say they last saw her five weeks ago leaving a bar with the three young men. On the Sunday afternoon before their latest court hearing, police had all three reconstruct what happened the night Natalee disappeared. Step-by-step, investigators took them to several spots on the island, including the beach where Joran Van Der Sloot says he left Natalee alive and well sometime after 2:00 a.m.

JOSSY MANSUR, "EL DIARIO" NEWSPAPER: They wanted to know for sure that Joran would take them exactly to the places that he said he took Natalee to that night.

LAWRENCE: Prosecutors won't say why the judge detained Van Der Sloot and let the Kalpoes go. They say all three changed their stories, and other evidence does not support those stories. An attorney for one of the brothers says the longer you keep someone in jail, the stronger your evidence should be.

RUDY OOMEN, DEEPAK KALPOE'S ATTORNEY: My client's case was the other way around. The longer they stayed in detention, the more proof came out that they didn't have to do anything with the disappearance itself.

LAWRENCE: That leaves Joran Van Der Sloot as the last suspect still in custody and the question of what happened to Natalee Holloway unanswered.

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LAWRENCE: But Aruban investigators have stripped away a lot of the suspects who've turned out to have nothing to do with the disappearance. Everything in this investigation now centers around one young man, the Dutch teenager who was the last known person to see Natalee Holloway. Tonight, Joran Van Der Sloot has two more days to appeal his detention.

Rudi?

BAKHTIAR: Thank you. Chris Lawrence out of Aruba.

Now, part of the problem for Americans in understanding the intricacies of the Holloway case is that Aruba, as a dependent of the Netherlands, operates under the Dutch legal system which has features in common with the U.S. system, but has some significant differences as well, not least in terms of when people may be detained for questioning, on what grounds, for how long.

Well, joining us now in Aruba to help us through that unfamiliar legal territory is attorney Arlene Ellis Schipper who once worked in the prosecutor's office there on the island herself.

Thanks for joining us, Arlene.

ARLENE ELLIS-SCHIPPER, ATTORNEY IN ARUBA: You're welcome.

BAKHTIAR: Let's start with the Kalpoe brothers. They've changed their story to authorities at least once. Why wasn't that enough evidence to keep them in jail?

SCHIPPER: Well, what I have understood from the prosecuting office, what they have actually confirmed, is that, indeed, they admitted to lying that they dropped off Natalee at the Holiday Inn. But after that, the story appears to be consistent that they have dropped Joran Van Der Sloot and Natalee together off at a beach nearby the Marriott Hotel. I have not heard of any changes after that.

BAKHTIAR: Now, the brothers were held for nearly a month, even though no charges were filed. What kind of rights, if any, do they have? Could they sue the government for this?

SCHIPPER: Well, at this point, it's very hard to say. If indeed -- I don't think so, in their case, because there was enough reasonable suspicion for to rule them a suspect in the first place to begin with.

You can only sue a government, or actually the prosecution office -- indeed the government later on -- if it wasn't rightful to be ruled as a suspect to begin with or you were held much too long. But in this case, I don't think that will apply.

BAKHTIAR: Over this time, we've been learning a lot about Aruban law. There's a fairly low standard, it seems, to keeping suspects in custody. So how bad does it look that these brothers have been released? How bad does that look for the prosecution?

SCHIPPER: Well, bad, you know -- it doesn't have to look bad, indeed. Because you have to understand that the assessment, the first assessment, ruled that there was enough grounds for to keep them. If the investigation moves along and some evidence has been ruled out or diminishes, actually you're focusing in on somebody. So that also could mean progress.

BAKHTIAR: In 60 days or so, Joran Van Der Sloot could also walk free. The same thing could happen to him. What would it take to keep him in jail?

SCHIPPER: Well, again, the same as it would keep -- what it means to keep the Deepak brothers in jail, probable cause and enough serious objections to the release of the suspect.

BAKHTIAR: Arlene, you've probably heard the prosecution has admitted that there's no physical evidence of Natalee's disappearance or even death. Let's talk about your personal opinion. Do you think that a crime has been committed here?

SCHIPPER: Well, it's very hard to say, actually, because it's very thin to begin with. There is a suspicion of a criminal offense, and you have a suspect of that suspected crime. So it's very thin. At this point, it just remains a big mystery to me, also.

BAKHTIAR: OK. Thank you very much. We appreciate your...

SCHIPPER: Thank you.

BAKHTIAR: Arlene Ellis Schipper, we appreciate you talking to us this evening.

And coming ahead on 360, more on that new videotape on an Idaho girl and her alleged kidnapper. Even more chilling tonight after she talks about her ordeal. And the disturbing details in another live report.

Plus, Elizabeth Smart's father weighing in on the case and talking about what Shasta Groene may face in the days ahead.

And also, a Ferrari in flames at the gas pump. What you need to know so this doesn't happen to you and your wheels.

And guess what? Karl Rove is under scrutiny. Is he the one who revealed the identity of a CIA operative? We'll tell you.

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BAKHTIAR: Down in the Gulf of Mexico, off the shores of Louisiana, there is some trouble brewing. A tropical storm -- the third of the season -- named Cindy is barreling toward Bayou country and it'll likely make landfall sometime tonight. Behind Cindy, there's another threat, and the name of that one is Dennis. And it's just July, folks.

Last year, we didn't see our first named storm until August. So could this be a sign of things to come? Joining me from Atlanta is meteorologist Steven Lyons of the Weather Channel.

Thank you for joining us. Four tropical storms already and it's only July 5. Let's start with Tropical Storm Cindy. Tell us what's going on with her right now.

STEVE LYONS, METEOROLOGIST: Well, right now, it's heading toward the Louisiana coastline, and it's moving fairly quickly. It should be on shore by about 11:00 to midnight, Central Daylight Time. Let me show you the information that we have on that circulation. Right now, winds are 70 miles-per-hour. And that's fairly close to hurricane strength, moving to the north at 14 miles-per-hour. And that general track is expected to continue the next 24 hours.

If we look at the radar, you can see the circulation center starting to come very close to the coastline. It's going to come over the mouth of the Mississippi and then head in the general direction of Biloxi and then inland to Alabama, weakening as it goes inland over the next 24 hours.

Our expected impacts are primarily going to be the rainfall, the heavy is the main threat, although we can see wave action and surge- producing water level rises to the coast as high as two to three feet, maybe locally four feet. And the wind along the coastline could be a problem as well, locally along the coast where we can see some sporadic power outages, particularly from Biloxi to the mouth of the Mississippi. And some isolated power outages a little farther north and as far east as Pensacola, and maybe a few isolated areas in the greater New Orleans area.

BAKHTIAR: Dr. Steve, what areas are going to be most affected, hardest hit? And what should people do there?

LYONS: Well, right now, we expect that the coastline is probably going to be the mouth of the Mississippi down toward Sulfur Springs area where water rise could cut off some roads briefly. Biloxi could see some heavy rain.

But the real threat is inland flooding. And let me show you an example of what that's going to look like over the next 24 to 36 hours and beyond. First of all, here's the projected path of the circulation and the timing. As it goes inland, we don't expect it to be a tropical storm well inland. It's going to weaken quickly, but it's going to drag a lot of tropical moisture with it.

And here's our projection of where we expect some localized flooding, likely in green here. Not all of those areas are going to get flooding, but somewhere in there we're going to see some flooding action. And there's still the possibility of localized flooding in the lighter green. And that extends all the way up into the Atlanta area over the next 24 to 36 hours. This is due Thursday a.m.

So it could be a widespread isolated flooding event. Not catastrophic, but the rainfall flooding is the biggest threat.

BAKHTIAR: All right. Let's talk about Tropical Storm Dennis now, the fourth named storm of the season on its way. This is the earliest we've seen so many of these storms. Why is that?

LYONS: Well, we've seen a very active tropical cycle and season so far from the standpoint of thunderstorms and rain around the tropics. And typically, when we see a lot of rain, the atmosphere is unstable. When we start to see disturbances like tropical waves forming, all of a sudden those tropical waves take on a lot of thunderstorm action and then they develop. So that's been the story this year. We've had a couple of very heavy rain events from tropical moisture coming over Florida early in the season. And so now we're starting to see the disturbances in their developing.

BAKHTIAR: Steve Lyons from the Weather Channel. Thank you very much.

Still to come here on 360, an alleged kidnapper in court. What he may have done to a young girl and her family. More details tonight of the alleged horror. We're going to have all the latest for you.

And a little later, a regular fill-up erupts into a fireball. Find out easily this sort of thing can happen to you.

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BAKHTIAR: All right. First, let's go to Sophia Choi from HEADLINE NEWS. She's joining us with several stories tonight.

Hello, Sophia.

SOPHIA CHOI, CNN HEADLINE NEWS ANCHOR: Hi there, Rudi. The bodies of two missing Navy SEALs have been found in eastern Afghanistan. U.S. forces are still searching for one SEAL while another was rescued. The four-man team was reported missing in the Afghan mountains last week.

That's after a U.S. military chopper sending reinforcements to the team went down, killing 16 service members. Insurgents are expected of shooting down that chopper.

Copenhagen, Denmark, a big thanks from President Bush for sending troops to Iraq. The president stopped in Denmark on his way to Scotland for the G-8 Summit of world leaders. The three-day summit which starts tomorrow will focus on aid to Africa and global warming.

Near Potocari, Srebrenica, 77 pounds of explosives found near the site where 8,000 Bosnian Muslim men and boys were killed 10 years ago. The discovery comes just days before a memorial service marking the anniversary of the massacre.

And in the latest edition of "Vanity Fair" magazine, a confession of sorts from Martha Stewart. Her nickname in prison, "M. Diddy." Hmm, I wonder what P. Diddy thinks of that.

And, Rudi, apparently in that same article, she makes another admission. She says she snuck out some seed pods and she planted them, and they're already growing up into trees.

BAKHTIAR: Oh, Martha. That Martha.

CHOI: What are we going to do with her?

BAKHTIAR: Thank you, Sophia. See you again in about 30 minutes. CHOI: Sure.

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ANNOUNCER: Parents, look at this video. A kidnapped girl in public with a sex offender. Disturbingly familiar? Think of the Elizabeth Smart case last summer. Why don't they run or call for help? Tonight, Elizabeth Smart's father helps us understand. Plus, how to protect your kids.

And great balls of fire. With Americans driving more this summer, we're reminded of what can go wrong at the pumps. How this driver escaped, and what you need to know to avoid danger at the pump.

360 continues.

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BAKHTIAR: Back to our developing story out of Idaho. We've learned gruesome details about the horrors eight-year-old Shasta Groene says she went through at the mercy of her kidnapper.

CNN's Rusty Dornin joining us from Coeur d'Alene with the latest.

Rusty?

DORNIN: I think, Rudi, many of us only imagining the trauma this poor girl's been through. Now, we see, in a written report that was released here by the court here in Kootenai County, it's part of the probable cause, the reason why they were able to charge Joseph Duncan with kidnapping, the story that Shasta Groene has been telling investigators over the last few days.

She said on May 15 she was awoken by her mother. She was taken into the living where a man that she identified as Joseph Duncan bound the family. She says she and her brother, Dylan, were bound and put into a pickup truck. They were later transferred to that red Jeep that we've seen Joseph Duncan driving and taken to two different sites in Montana where they did some camping.

She also described to investigators that she and her brother were raped repeatedly, and she saw that happen to her brother.

Now, meantime, Joseph Duncan appeared -- made his first court appearance today via closed-circuit television. You can see the judge in the lower right-hand of the screen.

He was not allowed to make a plea. He was not given bail. He was charged with two counts of kidnapping, first-degree kidnapping, which carries a maximum penalty of death or life imprisonment here in Idaho.

This is a man, Joseph Duncan, with a very troubled past. He was convicted of a sex crime at a very early age, and it was a very brutal crime.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) DORNIN (voice-over): It seems innocent enough. A man identified as Joseph Duncan walks into a convenience store in Kellogg, Idaho, with a little girl that could be his daughter. Disturbing truth: Shasta Groene, missing for seven weeks, walks past several adults. She says nothing. Her alleged abductor off by himself, reading the paper.

Eight minutes after entering the store, they leave. Six hours later, in a Denny's in the little girl's hometown only 40 miles away, Groene is recognized. Duncan is arrested, not for the first time in his 42 years.

On this street in Lakewood, Washington, Joseph Duncan's career as a criminal began. He was 16, according to police records. It was 1980. He broke into a neighbor's home and stole handguns and ammunition, but he wasn't done that day.

ED TROYER, PIERCE COUNTY SHERIFF: He came across a 14-year-old boy he didn't know. He kidnapped the boy at gunpoint, brought him into the woods out in the Lake City area by Fort Lewis, and took him out there and raped him repeatedly. During that, he also beat him with a stick, burned him with a cigarette, and dry-fired the gun.

DORNIN: No bullets, but he pulled the trigger twice, making the boy think he was going to kill him. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 20 years. He served 14 and was released in 1994, but violated his parole and was back in prison by '97.

One week after his release in 2000, Duncan moved to Fargo, North Dakota. He enrolled at North Dakota State University. There, according to his student Web site, he described himself as an honor student and a go-getter who likes karate, skiing and scuba diving. He claimed he worked for several companies, some during the time he was in prison in the late-'90s.

In March of this year, Duncan was arrested for molesting a seven- year-old boy in Minnesota. In April, the judge granted him bail. The judge told a Minnesota TV reporter this week he isn't sure whether he knew that Duncan was a level-three sex offender when he granted him that bail.

Duncan then disappeared. Police believe he stole this red Jeep in May in Minnesota. Until early May, police say he was an active blogger. He denied being a pedophile, but wrote: "Because of my appearance and family circumstances, I was molested so often and by so many different people that up until the time of my offense, I thought it was normal."

In this Web log, he also unveiled his battles with his so-called demons. "The demons have taken over" -- this entry five days before the triple murder in Idaho. "My intent is to harm society as much as I can, then die."

And what about his connection to the triple murders here in Idaho? Investigators say Duncan is still their primary investigative lead.

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DORNIN: That's very obvious from this report. Remember, this places Joseph Duncan, according to Shasta Groene, which she told investigators, at the crime scene, but she did not describe, at least in this report to investigators, that she saw any of the murders, nor did she describe that she saw the murder of her brother.

Rudi.

BAKHTIAR: All right, Rusty Dornin in Coeur d'Alene, thank you.

It's hard to imagine what would drive a person to do these horrific acts on a young child, but our next guest knows all too well. Jake Goldenflame is a convicted child molester, who molested his own three-year-old daughter and had sex with countless boys he didn't know. He's joining us me now from San Francisco.

Jake, thank you for joining us.

JAKE GOLDENFLAME, CONVICTED PEDOPHILE: Thank you for having me on, Rudi.

BAKHTIAR: You've been out of prison for 14 years now. Have you had the urge to molest?

GOLDENFLAME: I've had the sexual urge toward many people who have walked by. I suspect it's the same kind of urge that other people have, except that mine is towards boys and theirs is towards girls, and it reacts -- it goes the same way, it doesn't go anyplace. The urge comes up, and I don't fantasize on it, I don't build on anything. I notice it going past and let it go.

BAKHTIAR: How do you quell those urges?

GOLDENFLAME: Well, the training that I've had is to couple an urge with a negative consequence. So if I see a 14-year-old boy that strikes me as being particularly attractive, immediately what comes up, it's automatic, yes, but do you want to ruin his life? And now I'm looking at something that's not pleasant, so I let the whole thing go rather than dwell on it. That's part of the conditioning that we get in therapy.

BAKHTIAR: The accused in Idaho actually wrote that the demon is in me. Do you understand that?

GOLDENFLAME: That he what?

BAKHTIAR: That the demon is in me.

GOLDENFLAME: Yes.

BAKHTIAR: Inside me.

GOLDENFLAME: Yes, you'll find that commonly with those of us who have molested children or have raped women, especially serial rapists, you'll find that we often describe the feeling that the forces that are controlling us are outside of ourself and are demonic. It isn't until you get in therapy you find that the root of those forces is in fact within you. In the beginning, it feels demonic, yes.

BAKHTIAR: Can you stop it?

GOLDENFLAME: Yes, can you.

BAKHTIAR: How?

GOLDENFLAME: You know, well, first of all, you've got to be absolutely committed you want to stop it. I mean, committed to the point where it means more to you than your life, that you're really going to stop this in favor of serving something higher in your life than your sexual gratification, or your lust for power or whatever you want to call it.

And secondly, you have to have some help. You have to go get treatment.

And the, thirdly, you have to have support. And the support that you get will be in your treatment group, or hopefully, in your community. I've been fortunate. I've lived in San Francisco since '96. That's 10 years now. And I've had a very supportive community, and I believe it's a partnership between the former offender and the community that makes recovery last.

BAKHTIAR: Jake Goldenflame, author of "Overcoming Sexual Terrorism," thank you for joining us this evening.

GOLDENFLAME: Thank you.

BAKHTIAR: Well, as we've seen from surveillance video, Shasta Groene had several opportunities to tell someone she was kidnapped, but she didn't. Her kidnapper had that much control over her.

Earlier, I had a chance to speak with Ed Smart, father of Elizabeth Smart, who was held captive herself for almost nine months. He told me how kidnappers are able to take control of the children.

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BAKHTIAR: Ed, let's take a look at this video. We see Shasta Groene with her abductor in this store surveillance video. There's no gun or knife pointed at Shasta. In fact, she's freely walking around the store. She doesn't run, though. She doesn't yell. She doesn't even speak up.

Now, your daughter, Elizabeth, was in a similar situation. She also didn't run away from her abductors.

What is going on inside of children's heads when they're in situations like these?

ED SMART, ELIZABETH SMART'S FATHER: Well, I think first, you have to think of what Shasta had been through. You know, her mother, her mother's boyfriend, her brother, all of those were killed. And she was with this predator for some period of time. And I think that the real threat of "I'm going to kill you," or "I'm going to kill your family," acts as good as any kind of weapon that you could ask for out there.

BAKHTIAR: You can't ever fully prevent something like this from happening, but there are things that parents can do to protect their children. You yourself recommend a three-pronged approach.

SMART: Absolutely.

BAKHTIAR: Prepare, educate and communicate. Let's talk about prepare. What are the most important things parents can do to prepare their children?

SMART: You know, I think the first thing that parents can do is to check the sex offender registry. If you don't know where these predators are in your neighborhood, you may be subjecting your children to potential abduction or abuse.

BAKHTIAR: Let's go to number two, which is educate. You said there are five key parts to that. Tell me about those.

SMART: Well, those key parts involve, you know, it's not enough to just talk to your children. You have to role-play with them. You have to bring them into something. You can't just tell them, when you think about playing a game, whether you're teaching football or whatever, you know, you can't really get them to play it and know how to react without playing through it, rather than just telling.

Secondly, you know, if there's a possibility of enrolling them in some kind of a preventative program, there's one out there called radKIDS, which represents resist aggression intensively, that goes through and teaches children. It gives them options.

Then, there's the buddy system. I think that children should not go anywhere without either a sibling or a friend.

Fourthly, you know, when children are approached by a stranger, you know, that stranger may invade their personal space. They need to -- if they feel uncomfortable, they need to get away, whether that's yelling, screaming. If a guy grabs them, they need to bite, yell, do everything that they can to bring as much attention as possible to that issue.

It's also very important for children to have a code word with their family, so if an adult has to pick a child up that's not someone familiar, they know that code word, and if they can't give it, don't go away with them.

BAKHTIAR: And I can't let you go before asking you how your beautiful daughter is doing? I know our viewers will want to know.

SMART: Elizabeth is doing remarkably well. I thank God every day. She's just doing so well, going forward, putting this behind her. It's just a wonderful blessing in our lives.

BAKHTIAR: What a happy ending to such a difficult time for you guys. We hope more parents can have that happy ending. Thank you. Thank you, Ed.

SMART: I certainly hope so, too.

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BAKHTIAR: Ahead on 360, did President Bush's top political adviser leak the name of a CIA officer? Washington has been buzzing over the new developments this weekend. We're going to have the latest for you.

Also tonight, feeling the pain after a weekend under the sun. We're going to tell you how you can best care for those awful sunburns. Part of our special series.

Plus, a car erupts in a fireball at the gas station. How easily could this happen to you? You're going to be surprised.

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BAKHTIAR: The calendar says Tuesday, but for most of us today felt like a Monday. The first day at work after a busy July 4th weekend. A lot of you are back from a trip, according to AAA Auto Club. An estimated 40.3 millions Americans traveled this weekend. Those taking to the roads got burned at the pump, though. Gas prices have been averaging a whopping $2.23 for just a gallon of regular unleaded; 31 cents higher than a year ago.

And speaking of getting burned at the pump, look at this -- look at this. This guy was refilling his Ferrari, Sunday, in Belleview, Washington, when he became engulfed in a fireball. A security camera caught the whole thing on tape. Investigators believe leaking gas or vapors hit the car's exhaust pipe, sparking the fire.

Fortunately though, this guy escaped without any injury, though his Ferrari is toast. And of course, these kinds of things, you've seen it, we've seen it -- it has happened before.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer taking a look at the danger you face at the pump.

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WOLF BLITZER, HOST, WOLF BLITZER REPORTS (voice-over): Teresa Lopez was filling up her car at a gas station near her Houston home when something truly unexpected happened.

Surveillance video recorded the horrifying scene as a fireball erupted and engulfed Lopez. She says her first though was to move her car.

THERESA LOPEZ, GAS STATION FIRE VICTIM: Just to get it out the way out of the other thing; like the gas station thing. To get it out of the way, because if not, everything was going to explode.

BLITZER: Amazingly, Lopez was treated only for burns on her hands and her right leg. It's not clear what caused the fire. Firefighters reported finding a lighter nearby. Lopez says she doesn't know what happened.

LOPEZ: I didn't have no lighter in my hand. I didn't have a cigarette. I didn't have anything with me, it just -- the car just like, started on fire.

BLITZER: Her roommate, who was with Lopez, says the car's gas gauge wasn't working. As a result, they over-filled the tank and the gas overflowed.

PRISCILLA CALDERON, GAS STATION FIRE VICTIM: The thing is, the car hasn't been well, the meter doesn't work on the gas.

BLITZER: The Petroleum Equipment Institute has been tracking these kinds of fires for more than a decade. It says the most common culprit is static electricity. And in most cases, the motorist cased it to build up by getting back in the car while fueling, then returning to the pump where a minute spark ignites the gas vapors.

A more obvious cause -- smoking at the pump.

The institute says concern over cell phones is unwarranted. It says of the hundreds of pump fires it's investigated, not one was found to have been caused by a mobile phone.

Wolf Blitzer, CNN, Washington.

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BAKHTIAR: Now, to Sophia Choi with HEADLINE NEWS for some of the other stories we're following for you.

Sophia?

CHOI: Hi there, Rudi.

Well, al Qaeda in Iraq claims it kidnapped Egypt's top diplomat in Baghdad. On a Web site, it says Ihab al-Sharif was taken from his home on Saturday, but CNN cannot confirm if that claim is true. Diplomats say insurgents may have kidnapped Shariff to pressure Arab countries not to deepen ties to the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad.

U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will visit four Asian countries this week, but she's being criticized for skipping a key security meeting in Southeast Asia later this month. Rice leaves Friday and will travel to China, Thailand, Japan and South Korea. A key focus of her visit -- to persuade North Korea to rejoin the six- party talks and give up its nuclear weapons program.

A ship carrying food to thousands of tsunami survivors in Somalia has been hijacked and apparently, is being held for half-a-million dollars in ransom. The United Nations has suspended its humanitarian shipments to the east African country until the ship and its crew are released.

And in Edinburgh, Scotland, protesters clash with police as they try to step up the pressure on leaders of the world's richest nations, the G-8, to end African poverty. The city -- the center was brought to a stand still and businesses were forced to close. The G-8 Summit opens tomorrow in Scotland and runs through Friday.

And those are the headlines at this hour. Rudi, back to you.

BAKHTIAR: Thank you, Sophia. See you in 30 minutes.

Up next on 360: Did Karl Rove break the law? The president's most trusted political adviser finds himself in the middle of a political mess and two reporters could end up in jail.

Also tonight: Getting burned, literally. Did you spend a little too much time in the sun this weekend? We're going to have some tips for you on how to soothe that savage sunburn -- part of "Special Summer Survival Guide."

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BAKHTIAR: Many of you probably had a lot of fun in the sun over this holiday weekend. But there's nothing fun about the sting of a nasty sunburn.

Tonight, we're going to kick-off our summer survival guide with some tips on how to soothe your sunburned skin. Early, I got advice from CNN's Medical Correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen.

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BAKHTIAR: All right, Elizabeth. Tell us, what's the best way to treat a sunburn?

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, actually the first thing you want to do, Rudi, is really quite simple. You want to put a cold compress on your skin. And here we have one that's -- they're sold like this. You fill it with icy-cold water. You can also just take a washcloth and make that cold; put that in cold water.

You want it to get the heat away from your skin. You can also use aloe vera gel. That can be very soothing and can help with pain. Hydrocortisone creams like this one can also help. And just simple over-the-counter pain relievers can help.

One thing, Rudi, you don't want to do is rub oatmeal on your sunburn. I know that sounds crazy, but that's what some people do, or rub a raw potato on your sunburn, another thing that people do. Dermatologists tell us those things won't hurt you, but they're certainly not as good as just the cold compresses or the aloe vera or some of the other things I just mentioned.

BAKHTIAR: Good to know. Getting comfortable with your sunburn is one thing, Elizabeth, let's talk about the more serious dangers though, of skin cancer. How much do sunburns increase your risk?

COHEN: They increase your risk greatly. I mean, 90 percent of all skin cancers are because of sun exposure. And you know, for adults, actually, you should be careful, but in some ways it may be a little bit too late. The damage might have already been done. Exerts estimate that 80 percent of skin damage is done before age 18. So, those burns that you got as a child, it really does make a difference. So, you should protect yourself and you should protect your child.

BAKHTIAR: All right, Elizabeth. Let's break it down. I've got some questions for you. Let's start with SPF level. Which level should you use? There are so many out there.

COHEN: I know. I think some of them go up into the billions, it seems like when you go shopping at the drugstore.

Dermatologists tell us that you have to start -- at a minimum, you need to have a 15 and that's what we have here. That's at a minimum, just for a day, maybe, where you're going to work and maybe just walking down the street a little, but really not spending the day outside.

If you're going to be spending more time outside, then you should move up to a 30, which is what this is.

And this one right here, is a 50 and that's for when you're spending the day at the beach, let's say. You're really going to be in the sun all day.

You want to reapply these every two-to-four hours. And even if they say that they're waterproof or water-resistant, you still want to put them on after they get wet and you still want to put them again every couple of hours.

BAKHTIAR: True or false: You can get sunburned on a cloudy day?

COHEN: You can. It's amazing, but you can. And that's why dermatologists say, rain or shine, you should be wearing sunscreen. Those rays can get through the clouds. They can even get through a mist. They can even get through fog.

BAKHTIAR: Yes. They sure can. I can attest to that one.

All right. What about peeling? Can you do anything to prevent peeling?

COHEN: You know what? You can't. Once you've got that sunburn, if it's going to peel, it's going to peel. There's nothing that you can do.

BAKHTIAR: All right. Elizabeth Cohen, our medical correspondent, thank you.

And coming up tomorrow on our "Summer Survival Guide:" Sunscreen, why Europe has a leg up over America when it comes to preventing sunburn and wrinkles.

All right. Right now, let's find out what's coming up at the top of the hour on PAULA ZAHN NOW.

In tonight for Paula, is Miles O'Brien. Hello, Miles.

MILES O'BRIEN, HOST, "PAULA ZAHN NOW": Good evening, Rudi. At the top of the hour we focus on a pair of family tragedies.

In Idaho, outrage today that the suspect arrested in a kidnapping and murder case is a repeat sex offender.

Then, to Aruba, where we find out why the latest developments have outraged the mother of missing teenager Natalee Holloway. We'll see you at 8:00 Eastern Time.

Rudi?

BAKHTIAR: 360 next, Karl Rove under fire. Did he reveal the name of a CIA officer? And could two journalists face jail time for not telling a judge what they knew?

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BAKHTIAR: Did Karl Rove do it?

That's the question that set off some political fireworks over this holiday weekend. Rove is President Bush's top political adviser. And Washington is buzzing that he could be the source who leaked the name of CIA operative Valerie Plame to Matt Cooper from "Time" magazine.

Now, Plame's secret identity was first published two years ago. Ever since that, the question of who just who outed her, which is illegal, has been at the center of one of the most serious legal clashes between the media and the government in decades.

Tomorrow, in fact, a federal judge who found reporters Matthew Cooper of "Time" magazine and Judith Miller of the "New York Times," in contempt for refusing to reveal their sources could actually order them to jail.

And today, the federal prosecutor in the case demanded that Cooper testify before the grand jury investigating the leak, even though "Time" magazine has handed over his e-mails and other documents in this probe.

Meanwhile, in another twist to this story, "Newsweek" is reporting that those e-mails between Cooper and his editors at "Time," show that he spoke to Karl Rove in the days before Plame's identity was revealed. What's not clear though, is just what Rove and Cooper discussed.

The question, of course, is did Rove out the CIA operative? His attorney says no. He told CNN that Rove did not disclose the agent's identity.

Now, earlier, I had a chance to speak with CNN's senior legal analyst, Jeffrey Toobin, to help us sort through this complicated story and what it means to the president, his political mastermind, and also what it means to freedom of speech.

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BAKHTIAR (on camera): So, Jeffrey, today the special prosecutor said that even though "Time" magazine turned over journalist Matt Cooper's notes, Cooper still needs to testify or be questioned.

What does that say to you?

JEFFREY TOOBIN, CNN LEGAL ANALYST: What that says to me is that is that Matt Cooper is going to jail this week and Judy Miller, of the "New York Times," is going to jail this week, because they said they weren't going to testify. They will be held in contempt.

So we have this unbelievable situation of a prosecutor in a case where he's found no crime, he's charged no one with anything, and two people are going to prison, reporters who were covering the story.

I've never seen anything like that.

BAKHTIAR: Can the magazine publicly reveal the notes, now that they've turned them over?

TOOBIN: Absolutely. A witness to a grand jury proceeding has total freedom to go on the courthouse steps and say what they told the grand jury, distribute the evidence they gave the grand jury. The prosecutor can't reveal it, but the witness certainly.

BAKHTIAR: Let's talk a little bit about Karl Rove. His lawyer told "Newsweek," that Karl Rove never knowingly disclosed classified information. To violate the law, Rove would have had to knowingly disclose information that would have revealed the covert agent's identity.

Could Rove's defense -- or anyone for that matter -- actually argue the knowingly factor?

TOOBIN: Absolutely, he could. But I mean, it's quite a concession just to get to that stage.

Remember, a big issue in this case is who did Cooper and Miller speak to? Now, we know one of the people was Karl Rove. And now his -- Rove's lawyer is saying he did not knowingly disclose anything improper.

Well, a prosecutor may view that somewhat differently. So, I would suggest that's pretty negative information about Rove. It may lead to nothing, but it certainly suggests that a prosecutor would be looking at whether Rove is telling the truth about that.

BAKHTIAR: Where do you see the investigation going from here?

TOOBIN: Well, you know, what's so puzzling about this investigation is it's not clear if any crime was committed, if there was any intentional disclosure of classified information. It's not clear that anyone committed perjury in the grand jury. All we know is that two reporters are very likely to go to prison for about three or four months this week. That's all we know. We'll see if any criminal cases come of it, but it's certainly -- when Patrick Fitzgerald was appointed, this was not the result that anyone had in mind.

BAKHTIAR: All right, Jeffrey Toobin, our senior legal analyst. Thank you.

That does it for us. I'm Rudi Bakhtiar, in for Anderson Cooper.

Tomorrow, on 360, the latest on the two tropical storms that could be -- become hurricanes, bearing down on the U.S. Gulf Coast.

Plus, we're going to continue with our "Summer Survival" series. Why are Europeans getting better sunscreen than you? We'll answer that question.

Now, CNN's primetime coverage continues with PAULA ZAHN NOW. And filling in for Paula tonight, Miles O'Brien.

Hello, Miles.

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