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Remembering D-Day; Congress Investigates Tuberculosis Scare; Response to GOP Debate; Olympics Logo Backlash

Aired June 06, 2007 - 15:00   ET

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ROB MARCIANO, CNN ANCHOR: The next hour of the CNN NEWSROOM starts right now.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.

MARCIANO: And I'm Rob Marciano, in today for Don Lemon.

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MARCIANO: He's out on assignment. You just saw him. He's in India.

Capitol Hill in a fever pitch over TB and Homeland Security. One man's travels show gaping holes in the government's system of red flags and green lights.

PHILLIPS: Red boxes on weather maps are never a good thing. We're watching rough storms in the northern Plains. And you're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

Who know what when, that is the focus of two congressional hearings this hour, as the case of a globe-trotting TB patient has local and federal health officials under the microscope.

You're looking at live pictures right now in that hearing room. A Senate subcommittee has been hearing from Andrew Speaker, that TB patient, as he testifies by phone from his Denver hospital room.

A lot of time and attention have been spent establishing a timeline and clarifying rules. Speaker says, May 10 was pivotal.

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ANDREW SPEAKER, TUBERCULOSIS PATIENT: When I had the much- discussed meeting on May 10, at that point, on May 10, CDC was aware of my travel plans.

While it may not have been communicated up the chain of command, that's -- that's not something I'm really privy to. But I do know that, not just my father-in- law, but numerous people at CDC knew of the travel plans.

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PHILLIPS: But federal and local health experts say that Speaker took an international flight two days earlier than planned. And that's not the only discrepancy.

CNN's Brianna Keilar has been following today's testimony. She joins us now from Washington -- Brianna.

BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, there, Kyra.

And these hearings are now over, but we saw a lot of finger- pointing and some mea culpas today on the Hill. Andrew Speaker told Congress that, even though his county health officials said they preferred he didn't travel, he insisted over and over, he said, they insisted -- or pardon me -- he insisted that they told him over and over that he was not contagious.

He said, before leaving for Europe, he was going to court, working as a lawyer, hanging out with his daughter and his fiancee, and no one told him that he posed a risk.

Speaker was asked why he changed his travel plans, leaving for Europe on May 12, without his fiancee, two days earlier than he had initially planned.

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SPEAKER: I was just told that I was going to have, you know, my right upper lung taken out, likely, that I was going to have two years of treatment, where I would have daily I.V. injections, if not every other day.

So, I wasn't go to go anywhere for probably the next two years, because I would have to have, you know, officials coming out for the I.V.s every day. My wife was busy with a -- she's in law school, and she had a trial clinic on the weekend. And I wasn't sleeping.

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KEILAR: He said his wife suggested he should leave early and get a little rest and relaxation.

Meanwhile, Dr. Julie Gerberding, head of the CDC, the Centers For Disease Control and Prevention, told the Senate subcommittee that the agency should have acted sooner, and failed to take aggressive legal action.

Also, officials with Customs and Border Protection accepted fault for allowing Speaker to cross back into the U.S. from Canada, despite a notification that he was being sought by health officials -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Now, Andrew Speaker was also pretty much lambasted on the Hill. Can you tell us more about what happened?

KEILAR: Yes, this was across the Capitol, at another hearing, this one before the House Homeland Security Committee.

Congressman Dan Lungren had harsh criticism for Speaker.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) REP. DAN LUNGREN (R), CALIFORNIA: Mr. Speaker is the person who bears the initial responsibility for here.

And I would have to disagree with you, Doctor, to say he had compelling reasons not to follow advice. He had self-absorbed reasons. He wanted to have his wedding in Europe. His first response, as reported in the press, is, "I'm an intelligent, well- educated person."

Well, evidently, intelligence and -- and good education doesn't give you common sense or concern for other individuals.

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KEILAR: Andrew Speaker told members of the Senate that he just wanted to get home from Europe. And, again, he reiterated that he did not think he was a danger to others -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right, Brianna Keilar, thanks so much.

And, tonight, Andrew Speaker, his wife and family join "LARRY KING LIVE." That's at 9:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

MARCIANO: We are getting towards the end of severe weather season. But the next couple days could be rough.

Jacqui Jeras in the Severe Weather Center with the latest.

Hi, Jacqui.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hey there, Rob.

We're getting some rough weather already across parts of Wyoming. That's going to be spreading throughout South Dakota and the panhandle of Nebraska over the next couple of hours. You can see, a tornado watch has been issued here. And that includes people in the Casper area, on up towards Rapid City.

There, you can see our level two radar, indicating some stronger storms just right on the edge there of that watch box. And you can see a lot of lightning associated with them as well. We could see some large hail and damaging winds, including the threat of tornadoes through the rest of the afternoon and on into the evening hours.

And we expect that to start spreading up to the north and to east. So, the dark red area here, basically along the I-80 corridor on northward, is where we have the greatest potential of seeing some of this severe weather.

Boy, this is a really potent storm system. It's really got a lot of oomph to it. And not only do we have the severe weather threat ahead of it. We have got some very cold, blustery conditions behind it. Snow has been falling in the Wasatch Range, around 8,000 feet and above. A good handful-plus of inches expected there.

And, as we head into Colorado, the wind gusts have just been incredible. In fact, in the -- the last two hours, we had a wind gust report in Eagle, Colorado, right here at 92 miles per hour, 92 miles per hour. That's a Category 1 hurricane, believe it or not.

And we also had, over in Steamboat Springs, 76-mile-per-hour gusts. These are sustained winds that you see here. They're coming in out of the southwest, Pueblo at 23 miles per hour. Look at Montrose at 36 miles per hour, and Denver itself about 28 miles per hour.

We have got a live picture out of the Denver area from KUSA. And look at those tree branches. Boy, winds just in the last hour at DIA gusted to 49 miles per hour. That's enough to move your lawn furniture around a little bit, folks, so a real blustery day, but, believe it or not, no airport delays being reported out of DIA. Can't imagine that with 50-mile-per-hour winds.

But those gusty winds will continue across much of Colorado, not just today, but through tomorrow, as well. We could see around those 40-mile-per-hour gusts again for tomorrow afternoon. And there you can see some of that heavy snow moving into parts of Wyoming and Montana, yes, after you have got some severe storms.

Severe storms tomorrow, then, move from Minneapolis over towards Green Bay, into Milwaukee, Chicago, and down towards Saint Louis. Tomorrow will likely be a busier day than today. And we have got a moderate risk already -- Rob, back do you.

MARCIANO: Everybody getting a little piece of this storm.

JERAS: Sure.

MARCIANO: OK, Jacqui, thanks.

Well, it's a muddy mess in British Columbia, Canada. Flooding waters are rising, as that winter storm -- snow starts to melt -- not helping, the rain, which has been falling since Monday. Dozens of families have been evacuated. Hundreds more could soon be forced to leave.

PHILLIPS: So, has a new front opened up in Iraq with new fighters?

CNN has learned that Turkish troops have crossed into northern Iraq, hoping to root out Kurdish militants blamed for attacks in Turkey, such as this one just this week. Kurdish rebels allegedly fired grenades at a Turkish military outpost. It's not clear how many Turkish troops entered Iraq, but U.S. military sources say they don't think it's a major offensive.

We're going to keep tabs on this story and bring you any new developments.

MARCIANO: Joseph Anzack Jr., 20 years old, from Torrance, California, honored and mourned today.

Anzack disappeared with two other U.S. soldiers after an attack on their unit in Iraq last month. His body was later pulled from the river south of Baghdad.

Anzack's flag-draped coffin was laid to rest today at Arlington National Cemetery. Earlier, in Torrance, a horse-drawn carriage took his body to the field where he played high school football.

The search goes on for Anzack's missing comrades, Specialist Alex Jimenez and Private Byron Fouty. That's despite a claim by Iraqi insurgents that those two soldiers are dead.

PHILLIPS: The official agenda includes climate change and AIDS in Africa, but new tensions between old rivals are threatening to overshadow the start of the G8 Summit in Germany.

Russian President Vladimir Putin says he might aim Russia's nuclear weapons at European cities if the U.S. goes ahead with a missile defense system on Russia's doorstep.

Asked whether that could spark military action by the U.S., President Bush said today -- quote -- "There needs to be no military response, because we're not at war with Russia. Russia is not a threat."

Moscow, too, is now trying to downplay the rift. A Kremlin spokesperson tells CNN that he doesn't see the slightest danger of another Cold War.

MARCIANO: And some scary moments for the pope's security detail today in Saint Peter's Square.

Not far from where John -- Pope John Paul II was shot 26 years ago, a man tried to jump into Pope Benedict's pope mobile, and was wrestled to the ground by bodyguards. He's now at a mental hospital in Rome.

The Vatican says he's a 27-year-old German student with a history of mental illness. And a spokesman says he wanted attention, didn't want to harm the pope.

PHILLIPS: A former honor student sits in a Georgia prison for breaking a law that's been changed -- ahead in the NEWSROOM, the young man's mother and his lawyer, and their fight to get him free.

MARCIANO: And the calendar says it's the anniversary of D-Day, but so does an Atlanta man's front yard.

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DAVID MADDLONE, TRIBUTE CREATOR: Thank you. It's just -- it's grossly inadequate, but thank you. And we won't forget about you.

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MARCIANO: More on this heartfelt and painstaking tribute -- ahead in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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MARCIANO: It is 3:12 Eastern time. Here are three of the stories we're working on this hour at the CNN NEWSROOM.

More troops in Iraq, but they're not American or Iraqi. They're Kurdish. CNN has learned, Kurdish -- or Turkish troops crossed the northern Iraq border to fight Kurdish militants blamed for attacks in Turkey -- no word yet on how many troops are involved there.

Kansas police are trying to trace a missing teen through signals from her cell phone. Those signals were apparently from family members trying to reach 18-year-old Kelsey Smith, seen here on a store security camera Saturday night. Later surveillance videos show her being forced into a car in the parking lot. Police are looking for a man seen on the store camera as well.

And, this morning, a Senate panel heard the tuberculosis patient who sparked a global health alert by taking two international flights. Andrew Speaker talked to senators by phone from his hotel room -- or hospital room. He says health officials told him he wasn't contagious and he was never ordered to stay put. But officials say he took his first flight earlier than planned and was told he shouldn't travel.

Just in time for the 63rd anniversary of D-Day, the USS Intrepid has a fresh coat and an overhauled keel. Today, it set sail for Staten Island, so renovations can begin on the inside. The historic carrier survived five Japanese kamikaze attacks in World War II. It's due to return to the west side of Manhattan, where it's a floating museum, on Veterans Day 2008.

PHILLIPS: It took planning, secrecy, and a lot of risk, D-Day, June 6, 1944, a day that saw more than 150,000 Allied troops sail across the English Channel and 13,000 paratroopers drop from the skies. Destination? The beaches of Normandy, France. The mission? Defeat the Germans. By nightfall, more than 9,000 Allied troops were dead or wounded.

One Atlanta man has an unusual and intricately detailed way to honor them.

David Maddlone explains why he pays tribute.

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MADDLONE: Well, it was actually inspired by "Saving Private Ryan," and scenes in it where old Ryan is back in Normandy looking at all of the crosses and bringing back all the memories of the battle.

And I started thinking how there's probably a lot of veterans around that have not been able to make the trip to Normandy, and probably can't at this stage of their life. And this would give them a little taste of what it would be like to see the monuments.

I kind of started thinking it out and thought, well, there's -- there's a similar thing that could be done for the Normandy monuments. And it kind of grew from there. And people have helped in setting it up and donating materials. And it -- it pretty much has taken on a life of its own at this point.

It seems like, every year, there's somebody who misunderstands this as an attempt to glorify a war, and World War II. And it's far from that. That was the worst carnage this world has ever known an a global level.

And this is not about honoring the conflict, but the bravery that responded in relation to that conflict. And people frequently mention that our soldiers die for our country, but these fellows and ladies died for another country. I mean, truly, they were defending the United States, but they fell on a foreign soil.

This one fellow lingered for quite a while on a Saturday, and just kept walking around and with his umbrella. And, finally, I went out and spoke with him. And I could see immediately he was with the 129th, because he was wearing a cap that had that division logo on it.

He pointed to two of the crosses in the B section there, and said, "These were my friends."

Well, the biggest, I guess, reward I get out of it is when I see an older person strolling around here. And you can just tell they're back in that time. Good, bad, or indifferent, their past is important to someone and to a community that remembers it.

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PHILLIPS: Well, Maddlone says that he plans to do this every year, and hopes that more veterans stop by for a visit.

You can actually check out his Web site, dday0606.org.

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MARCIANO: Well, millions of Americans are without bank accounts, and the world's largest retailer is looking to cash in.

Susan Lisovicz is at the New York Stock Exchange to tell us about a Wal-Mart money card.

Are you kidding me, Susan?

SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: No, I'm not kidding you.

And this is something Wal-Mart has made very clear. It sees money in that money card, in the financial -- in the financial services sector. From pharmaceuticals to pet food and even gas stations, Wal-Mart continually expands its offerings. That's one of the ways that it grows its revenue.

Its latest foray is into financial services. A report in "The Financial Times" says, Wal-Mart will soon offer a prepaid card called the Wal-Mart money card, aimed people who don't have a traditional bank account.

General Electric's banking business will reportedly partner on the Visa-branded card. Unlike a traditional gift card, this would work more like a check card, and have a $3,000 limit. Often, people without bank accounts end up paying big fees to cash their paychecks. But the money card would allow people to transfer money from their paychecks directly on to the card, reducing some fees. And it could be used just like a traditional debit card. And, you know, debit cards are very popular.

MARCIANO: Beyond that, I mean, is this the start of Wal-Mart banking, are going to get buildings and on the Internet, the whole nine yards?

LISOVICZ: Well, you know, basically, Wal-Mart should go into the hotel business at this point. You might as well just live there.

MARCIANO: Exactly.

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LISOVICZ: It offers everything, right?

MARCIANO: Might as well.

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LISOVICZ: Wal-Mart has long wanted to establish Wal-Mart-branded banks in its stores. But, after facing lots of opposition, the company withdrew a request to become a retail bank last month.

Still, "The Wall Street Journal" says, Wal-Mart is pushing ahead with plans to create separate financial services at more of its stores. These money center kiosks, as Wal-Mart calls them, offer check cashing and money transfers.

Right now, Wal-Mart has money centers in just a fraction of its stores. The rest offer financial services only at the customer service desk.

From financial services to the financial markets, well, we continue to see a broad sell-off. A report showing higher-than- expected labor costs is fueling concerns about rising inflation and interest rates. Plus, there are also fears about a major European correction, after Morgan Stanley issued a rare warning that stocks in Europe could fall 14 percent in the next six months. Morgan says it's the first time it's seen this kind of sell signal since the dot-com bust. It was called a -- a triple sell warning. And Europe did sell off.

Wall Street is selling off, too -- the Dow right now off its lows, down 117 points. The Nasdaq is down 21 points.

I will have more on what's behind day two of this pronounced sell-off when I return in about 30 minutes.

For now, I will return it to the capable hands of Kyra and Rob.

(LAUGHTER) MARCIANO: I don't know about that. Maybe Kyra.

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MARCIANO: Susan, we will see you at 4:00.

LISOVICZ: You got it.

PHILLIPS: Well, he's still doing time, despite a major change in the law under which he was convicted. Genarlow Wilson's attorneys try again to clear his name. We will tell you about it -- straight ahead from the NEWSROOM.

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PHILLIPS: Developing right now, the story of that young missing girl.

Hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips, live at the CNN world headquarters in Atlanta.

MARCIANO: And I'm Rob Marciano.

We do have breaking news out of Kansas City.

Go ahead, Kyra.

PHILLIPS: We're going to take this live picture, KMBC out of Kansas City, Missouri, a wooded area where, we are being told, authorities have found a body.

We are not sure if it is the body of that missing girl, Kelsey Smith. We're just hearing from our three affiliates now in that area that a body has been found.

You may remember, we have been covering this story for the past couple of days. Kelsey Smith -- Kelsey Smith, rather, 18 years old, had just graduated high school. She had disappeared over the weekend from a Target store in suburban Kansas City.

And what made this case intriguing was that, as she was leaving that Target, there was a man captured on videotape leaving that store right behind her, and, then, once again, possibly the same man identified on videotape in the parking lot showing him forcing her into a car.

Her car was found. Then police were looking for a pickup truck. This is that video of her coming into the Target store in suburban Kansas, buying her gift, we were told, for her boyfriend, and then leaving the Target.

Right soon after, you see videotape of a man coming out. We will show you that part of the tape in just a second. Police have been trying to -- right here, this man -- look at this videotape, looking at closeups of this videotape, trying to get through the graininess of it to figure out and identify who this man is. This was the person of interest that police were looking at.

Now we're being told that the body -- a body has been found in a wooded area -- three various live pictures coming to us from our affiliates, this one from KMBC out of Kansas City, Missouri. You can actually see authorities there tracing through the woods.

Not sure if, indeed, this is the body of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith. But, putting two and two together, looking at the location, being told they found a body, it possibly -- it could possibly be her.

There was a reward offered, up to $30,000, for any information leading to Kelsey Smith. Police said they had 500 leads -- now a body found in the woods here in Kansas City, Missouri.

We will continue to follow this and let you know if, indeed, it is linked to the missing-girl case of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith.

MARCIANO: Switching gears back to politics, which has been big in the news with all the debates the past few days, talk about the Republican Party trying to gain -- regain its momentum.

And there's a crowded field. They have got 10 candidates, likely to be 11th on the way. And that's what the Republican presidential contenders had to contend with at last night's debate in New Hampshire, home of the nation's first primary.

And if Bush, President Bush, was looking for someone to carry his banner, he didn't find it, especially in the subject of Iraq.

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MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I supported the president's decision based on what we knew at that time. I think we were underprepared and underplanned for what came after we knocked down Saddam Hussein.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The fact is that Saddam Hussein had used weapons of mass destruction before on his own people and on his enemies. And, if he had gotten them again, he would have used them again. That was his commitment and his belief, that he was going to. And we did the right thing. The problem was the mismanagement of the conflict.

RUDOLPH GIULIANI (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's unthinkable that you would leave Saddam Hussein in charge of Iraq, and be able to fight the war on terror. And the problem is that we see Iraq in a vacuum.

Iraq is part of the overall terrorist war against the United States. The problem the Democrats make is they're in denial.

TOMMY THOMPSON (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The first thing the president should do is demand the al-Maliki government to vote as to whether or not they want to United States to stay in Iraq. We've been there four years. Give the government the responsibility of voting.

If they vote yes, how are they going to help us win this war? And if they vote no, we should re-deploy our forces outside.

REP. RON PAUL (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, we've had four years to do this and it hasn't worked. The biggest incentive for them to take upon themselves the responsibility is just for us to leave. We don't need to lose 100 men and women every month, 1,000 -- more than 1,000 per year.

And so you want it done. You want them to take over. You've got to give them an incentive.

So I think we should immediately stop patrolling the streets. That's a policeman's job. It's not the work of the Army. We're not fighting a military battle. We're in a different type of warfare right now. So the sooner we recognize that, the sooner we can make sure that no more Americans will die.

SEN. SAM BROWNBACK (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: It's not about leaving and it's not about being defeated. It's about getting the situation to a point that we can turn it over to Iraqis and then us pull back from the front of the line.

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PHILLIPS: Well, we've been hearing all day what the pundits thought about last night's debate. But what about the voter? Some Republicans and Independents were giving meters to show their reactions to things that the candidates said. Red shows the response by Republicans, yellow is for Independents. Whites, the average response. And if the lines go up, that's a positive reaction, if they go down, it's negative.

CNN's Joe Johns tries to put it all together for us.

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JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): On Iraq, topic A, audience meters registered approval when candidates praised the troops. But you wouldn't call it a homerun. Look at what happened when Senator John McCain responded to a question from a woman whose brother died in Iraq.

MCCAIN: This is long and hard and tough. But I think we can succeed. And God bless you.

JOHNS: On the other hand, immigration policy brought big peeks on the meters, mostly for trashing the immigration bill before the Congress.

GIULIANI: The organizing purpose should be that our immigration laws should allow us to identify everyone who is in this country that comes here from a foreign country.

MITT ROMNEY (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: And what it allows is people who've come here illegally to stay here for the rest of their lives.

JOHNS: The peeks turned into a valley when the bill's co- sponsor, John McCain, tried to defend it.

MCCAIN: And it weeds out those who shouldn't be here, and it gives others a chance to remain in this country.

JOHNS: McCain tanked again on energy policy when he brought up nuclear power.

MCCAIN: Nuclear power is safe. Nuclear power is green.

JOHNS: Giuliani scored on what's usually a Democratic issue, global warming. In fact, he got good reactions from all-important Independent swing voters.

GIULIANI: We need a project similar to putting a man on the moon.

JOHNS: But here's a real sign of the times. Some of the stronger, more favorable reactions to what the candidates said came when one or the other was trashing Republicans, including the GOP- controlled Congress that lost power in the last election.

MIKE HUCKABEE (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: The Republican Party as a whole deserves to get beat. We've lost credibility.

JOHNS (on camera): It was a little different debate from what the viewers may have seen on TV. The people doing the research, two professors from Southern Methodist University, are comparing what the pundits say about the debates to what the people in the audience feel.

Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.

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MARCIANO: Well, the debate wasn't just politically charged. Rudy Giuliani can attest to that.

He was asked about a Catholic bishop who criticized him for supporting abortion rights. And let's just say his answer was pretty electric and left the candidates wondering whether a higher power was watching.

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GIULIANI: ... a Catholic bishop -- any...

WOLF BLITZER, CNN ANCHOR: That's the lightning that's having an effect on our system.

GIULIANI: I know.

(LAUGHTER)

GIULIANI: Look, for someone who went to parochial schools all his life, this is a very frightening thing that's happening right now.

(END VIDEO CLIP) MARCIANO: All right. Take a look at this weather map. It shows all the lightning strikes in and around Manchester, New Hampshire. Giuliani apparently wasn't singled out.

Well, if you'd like to watch the moments from the Republican or Democratic debates, just go to CNN.com's Election Center. You can also rate the candidates' performance, view an audio slide show, and much more.

The address, CNN.com/election.

PHILLIPS: A small plane crash that killed six people could still claim a seventh victim. He's a patient waiting for an organ that the plane was delivering when it went down into Lake Michigan Monday. The man is back on the waiting list for another organ, but is said to be very ill, critically ill.

Six members of the University of Michigan organ transplant team died trying to save his life. All were on that doomed flight.

Well, live pictures now once again out of Missouri, coming from our affiliate, KNBC, once again, out of Kansas City. We were telling you about the search going on right now for a missing girl. That of Kelsey Smith, 18 years old.

We're not sure if we can put these two leads together. We are told that a body has been found in this wooded area.

This live shot coming to us from the other affiliate, KSHB, out of Kansas City, Missouri. You can see authorities there on the ground. We are told a body has been found, but we are not sure yet if it is that of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith.

You'll remember that Saturday night she went to a Target store in suburban Kansas City. She was buying a gift. And she was captured on videotape. And right after she was leaving that Target store, there was -- this is her actually entering that Target.

Then it shows her buying a gift. And then you'll see as the video progresses, she's leaving that Target store, and right behind her is a man that police say became a person of interest, this man right here, because they believe he's the same man captured on videotape in the parking lot that was pushing her into a car, abducting her.

She had gone missing since Saturday. There's been an all-out search for her. About 500 tips actually came in to police. And now they have found a body in this wooded area.

Not sure if it is Kelsey Smith or not. A reward had been offered, up to $30,000, for any information leading to her. Now we're being told authorities have found a body, trying to figure out if, indeed, they have identified that body so we know if the search for this teen is over.

MARCIANO: Another frustrating story. A former honor student sits in a Georgia prison for breaking a law that's been changed.

Ahead in the NEWSROOM, the young man's mother and his lawyer and their fight to get him free.

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MARCIANO: Breaking news to tell you about out of Connecticut -- Bloomfield, Connecticut -- where a 15-year-old girl who's been missing for almost a year now has been found alive. Police they were surprised but relieved when they found this girl locked away in a hidden room in a residence in West Hartford.

Two residents of that -- of that home have been arrested and detained. There is a news conference scheduled at 4:00. We'll try to get more information. But a little bit of good news coming to you from Bloomfield, Connecticut, where a missing girl, a 15-year-old girl, for almost a year, has been found alive.

PHILLIPS: And another story that we've been following, developing news in the case of 18-year-old Kelsey Smith. Live pictures from our affiliate KSHB out of Kansas City, Missouri.

It's a fielded -- a wooded area where they believe -- or they have found a body. But not sure if it is that of Kelsey Smith yet. Police got a tip, they responded to the scene. They have found a body in this wooded area in Kansas City, Missouri. Actually, in Grandview, and haven't put everything together yet.

We're working all the details on this. But what we can tell you, not far from this area, 18-year-old Kelsey Smith went missing. It happened on Saturday night.

She was in a Target store in suburban Kansas City. And it was all caught on surveillance tape there at that Target store. You actually see her going in the Target.

You see her buying a gift, checking out, leaving the Target. And then right behind her, a man, a young man, not far behind her, this man that police said became a person of interest. And then not long after that, police came across some other surveillance tape from the parking lot showing the individual actually forcing her into a car. Not sure if it's that same man or not. Police believe it may be.

She's being forced in that car. Later on, a couple -- about a day later, her car was found, and then police were on the search for a '70s truck.

Now we're being told after about 500 tips to police, a body has been found in a wooded area right there in Grandview, Missouri. Not sure if it's the body of Kelsey Smith, but we are following it.

You can see now authorities there. Actually, more than previously thought, in addition to reporters working the story, trying to get the details to let you know if indeed that is the body of Kelsey Smith that has been found. Ten years for teen sex. Genarlow Wilson, now 21, has served two years, three months and 19 days of that mandatory prison term in Georgia. He was convicted of having consensual oral sex with a 15- year-old girl in 2003.

Now, back then it was a felony. The law has since been changed, making it a misdemeanor. But Wilson's punishment stands.

Today his attorney argued in court that his sentence is grossly disproportionate to the crime and Wilson should be set free. Later, his attorney and his mother came by to talk with us about the case and the law.

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B.J. BERNSTEIN, GENARLOW WILSON'S ATTORNEY: All 50 states have laws about teens and sex. Other states make it a felony. Some states put you on a sex offender registry. Most states make it criminal no matter what. And I think that's a shock to most parents.

PHILLIPS: What about this woman -- well, this young gal? What has happened to her, the one that he had consensual sex with? Where's she? Where's her family?

They're not the ones that pressed charges. It was the police.

BERNSTEIN: Right. The police did it. And, you know, she all along had said it was consensual. This is not an issue of this young woman saying it was not consensual.

We don't know where she is right now. You know, we haven't pushed -- a lot of people have said us e-mails, go after her. And we're saying, you shouldn't go after so hard the teens.

What should happen is intervention on education and talking to both the boy and the girl about what's right, what's wrong, the consequences of this. But not going after them, you know, in a criminal fashion, and certainly not 10 years in prison.

PHILLIPS: I wanted to ask, if your son is set free, what's he going to do? Has he talked to you about what he wants to do with his life?

JUANESSA BENNETT, GENARLOW WILSON'S MOTHER: He wants to go to school and study sociology. He wants to educate other people.

He wants to play ball, of course. I don't know to what level he wants to play. But basically just trying to teach people not to get caught up in the same way he got caught up in.

BERNSTEIN: And he's waiting for the next "Harry Potter" book. He's gotten -- he reads all the time in prison, and he said to me at a prison visit last week, "You know the next book is coming out in July." And I'm just praying that on Monday, we get a type of order so that we can be standing in line at the book store all night and get it to him that way. (END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Genarlow Wilson may know my noon Monday whether his sentence will be overturned.

MARCIANO: Simply psychedelic or a seizure-inducing eyesore? Up next in the NEWSROOM, some Londoners say that a monkey can come up with a better Olympic logo than this.

What do you think?

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PHILLIPS: Cuban leader Fidel Castro looks rested and alert in his first TV interview since his health crisis last year, but he doesn't mention any plans of returning to power in Cuba. Castro appeared on Cuban television yesterday saying he was in good spirits and he was eating better. He also discussed his "excellent recent meeting" with the Vietnamese communist leader.

Castro handed over power to his brother Raul last summer after undergoing intestinal surgery.

MARCIANO: Well, it's supposed to spark excitement about London's role as host of the 2012 Summer Olympics. Instead, it's sparked criticism, embarrassment, and in some cases, even health problems.

CNN's Phil Black has that story.

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PHIL BLACK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The Olympic rings, Big Ben, a classical Greek athlete. This is what London chose for the games the last time they were here in 1948. This is what the city will be using in 2012.

A lot can change in 60 years. Since the new logo was unveiled, lots of people in London have been talking about taste. Many think those who designed this don't have any.

(on camera): What do you make of this?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it's hideous.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think they're not trying too hard to, like, connect to young people. I don't...

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's not London.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's nothing to represent the city at all.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I don't like it.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a bit mishmashy (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's horrific. Yes. Not the best, is it?

BLACK: And there's another problem. Parts of this moving video version are so crazy and colorful, one group says it triggered fits in people suffering from epilepsy.

Here it is slowed down and safe. You get the idea.

INGRID BURNS, EPILEPSY ACTION: It can actually provoke a form of epilepsy called photosensitive epilepsy, which around 23,000 people in the U.K. have.

BLACK: More than 40,000 people have added their names to an online petition calling for the logo to be dropped. Some politicians are vowing to raise the issue in parliament.

"The Sun" newspaper made its point by asking a monkey and a blind woman to come up with their own versions. Even London's design professionals are disgusted.

JONATHAN GABAY, BRAND FORENSICS: Throughout the marketing and design industry, what most people are saying is, that's it.

BLACK: The bill for designing this was $800,000. Few here think that's good value.

GABAY: What's wrong with it is it looks so childish that it looked like anyone could have done it. Now, there's a difference between being childish and childlike.

BLACK: In the face of all this criticism, the boss of London's organizing committee is defiantly standing by his first impression.

SEBASTIAN COE, LONDON ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Wow. It's exactly what I wanted. We don't do bland.

BLACK (on camera): London's Olympic organizers want people to give this logo a chance. They insist it grows on you and with time it will inspire this city. But it looks like that's going to take a long, hard sell, because so far, few people believe them.

Phil Black, CNN, London.

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MARCIANO: Let's go for a space walk now. For the second time in a week, the two Russian cosmonauts aboard the International Space Station have ventured outside. They're installing more debris shields on their orbiter.

And back on Earth, the countdown clock is ticking for the launch of Atlantis. The shuttle with a crew of seven is set to lift off Friday evening, arriving at the space station on Sunday.

(NEWSBREAK) PHILLIPS: Well, meet California's newest millionaire.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We hit the big one, you know. Where do you go from here?

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PHILLIPS: Well, he's going to the bank. That's where he's going. See how he turns pennies into millions straight ahead from the CNN NEWSROOM.

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PHILLIPS: Remember this story that we told you about yesterday? This is Galesburg High School in Galesburg, Illinois. Five students were told they weren't going to get their diploma. Why? Because their parents were too rowdy in the crowd.

A little whistling, a little shouting, a little support. They're all excited their kids are graduating from high school.

Evidently, some rule was put into place that you had to be quiet when your son or daughter's name was announced because years past, people got a little crazy. Well, the high school said, we're not going to give you your diploma, sorry, forget about it.

Guess what? They're going to get their diplomas. Good news for those high school students.

Get that diploma and run.

MARCIANO: You hear they finally broke.

Well, how many pennies do you think you have to save in order to win $3.2 million? Well, a California man did that the easy way, with penny slots.

Seventy-year-old Robert Wilke Jr. (ph) says he put in about $245, a lot of pennies. He went home with being called the biggest penny jackpot winner over in San Diego County. Wilke (ph) and his wife say they want to pay off their house and buy a new TV and maybe some new carpets, too.

Congratulations.

PHILLIPS: Closing bell about to ring on Wall Street.

MARCIANO: Susan Lisovicz standing by with a final look at the trading day.

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