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Aired September 09, 2007 - 19:00   ET

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TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: I'm going to tell you something, she's no hurricane, but she's sure packing a mean punch. Tropical Storm Gabrielle whipping her way up the Carolina coast, look at these pictures, we'll take you there live and tell you where she's headed next. Plus a man breaks into a house, allegedly trying to rape a nine-year-old boy. We'll tell you what happened when the child's father walked in. And take a look at the mangled mess. And elderly woman gets stuck on a train track, with the train fast approaching when a teenage boy jumps in to help. Saving the woman's life. We'll talk to that young man coming up in 20 minutes. And then --
Young neo-Nazis kicking and punching people. Their ethnicity and the country in which they're doing this will absolutely shock you. We'll take you there in the CNN NEWSROOM.

Good evening, everyone, I'm Tony Harris in for Rick Sanchez. First up tonight Tropical Storm Gabrielle putting some real pressure on the North Carolina coast right now. CNN's John Zarrella live in Atlantic Beach, North Carolina. John, good to see you. Man, it's whipping up behind you. What are your feeling out there right now, John?

JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I tell you, Tony, since about 3:00 this afternoon, it started to kick up. So for about four hours now, it's been like this. Just nonstop, relentless rain. We've seen just about everything here in the last four hours, the wind, the rain, some beach erosion down by the surf, and you can certainly see the waves kicking up behind me. We've had lightning, we've had thunder. But you know what, it sure as heck could be a lot worse. But it's a good night for the folks along the North Carolina coast. Just stay put, stay indoors. There's -- there's begun to be ponding on the roadways, we've seen a lot of that out there on the streets driving up and down.

So it's not a good night to be out. If you're on the Carolina coast. The best advice, stay indoors, pop a little popcorn and relax by the TV, just stay out of this nasty weather, because it's -- it certainly doesn't show any signs of letting up anytime soon. Now, it wasn't this bad earlier in the day when the storm was at the closest approach to where we were in Atlantic Beach. The sun actually peaked out a little bit. A steady, but a very light rain. Maybe a mist, a little bit of wind. But again the worst of the weather moved in here after the storm went past us during the past four hours, and it has just been nonstop every since.

And, you know, Tony, an interesting fact. Tomorrow, the climatological height of hurricane season, which means over the course of the last 125 years, on September 10, there have been more tropical storms and hurricanes in the Atlantic, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Caribbean than any other day of the year. So Gabrielle is letting us know, firsthand, that we're approaching that peak of hurricane season.

And wouldn't you know it, there's a couple of systems out there off of Africa that the National Hurricane Center is keeping an eye on. So we're far from done with this hurricane season. And again, Tony, a reminder to the folks out there, if you're watching us, tonight, you live along the Carolina coast, stay indoors, it's a mess out here. Tony.

HARRIS: I love that tidbit. It reminds me that you know enough about these storms from covering them to know that tidbit and much more. John Zarrella for us, Atlantic Beach, North Carolina, John, good to see you. Thank you.

All right. Let's get to our severe weather center right now, Jacqui Jeras is standing by tracking the path of Gabrielle and the intensity. Jacqui, good to see you.

JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Hi, good to see you, Tony.

Yeah, right where John is, that's where the worst of the weather is and it's been there for hours. And they're just getting lashed and our concern about flooding is increasing. You know, you said you've seen ponding on the road. Well, Doppler radar here estimating as much as three inches has fallen already. And we could maybe double that number. The storm looks like it's been slowing down perhaps a little bit in forward speed. It's been moving on up to the north of the center of circulation is way up here. We're expecting to start to take a turn on up to the north and east and go out over the open waters. But until that happens, we're going to be seeing some heavy rain coming down. Now these are the current wind speeds, sustained winds. You can see in Hatteras, up to 30 miles per hour just a few hours ago. They were also reporting wind gusts at 50 miles per hour. So gusts between 40 and 50 can be common and expected here over the next several hours in the Outer Banks.

We think once we get past 10:00 tonight we'll watch for improvement.

It's still a tropical storm holding that status. Maximum sustained winds are at 50. But gusts are a little bit beyond that up to 65 miles per hour. And also the other thing that John mentioned is we have a couple of tropical waves out there, two of which that we're watching, one down here towards the Leeward Islands, another one right down here off of the coast of Africa. And both of those systems have a little bit of potential in the next couple of days to develop into a tropical depression. So we'll watch those very, very closely.

Tony?

HARRIS: Don't like that word -- potential. They have potential.

JERAS: It's not definitive.

HARRIS: Right. OK. Jacqui, good to see you. Thank you.

CNN i-Reporter Douglas Hoff sharing his brush with Gabrielle on the phone with us live now from Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. Douglas Good to talk to you. How are you? How are you holding up?

DOUGLAS HOFF, I-REPORTER: Doing well. Things are going well for us.

HARRIS: All right, describe your experience with this tropical storm.

HOFF: It's been light down here. It's really not been that bad. We have not seen a whole lot of rain yet. It's been primarily contained to the south. We're still waiting for the rain to come in. There are a lot of heavy waves out there to look at tonight. It was really nice to watch that.

HARRIS: Got to ask you, were you a bit concerned - are you still a little bit concerned about what might be out there yet to come?

HOFF: As always, we're going to keep an eye to the weather, but no, no it so much I don't think. I think the wind is the thing to look for. Not so much about the water right now.

HARRIS: How about the pictures, beautiful, the white caps on the waves. Nice job shooting the pictures, Douglas.

HOFF: Appreciate that. Looking at Mother Nature and the awesome force it has is pretty revealing. I enjoy going down there doing that. I appreciate it.

HARRIS: As you look forward, what are you thinking here? Is the worst over for you? Is there still something out there that you're on the lookout for?

HOFF: Well, we're looking for the winds to pick up tonight, maybe come in to the Kitty Hawk area. But they reported earlier they don't anticipate any damage -- damage to homes or trees down, or anything of that nature. They anticipate it to come through, dump a lot of rain on us. Some high winds, but no damage, and then everything will be a normal day tomorrow.

HARRIS: You have everything you need? You and your family?

HOFF: We're ready.

HARRIS: Douglas, I understand you're going try to get more pictures for the 10:00 p.m. Eastern newscast. We appreciate it.

HOFF: No problem.

HARRIS: Stay safe, stay safe.

HOFF: Thank you, Tony, have a good evening.

HARRIS: You too. Now to the top story on cnn.com, the return to England of the family of Madeleine McCann. Portuguese officials allowed the family to leave even though the parents were named suspects on Friday in the four-year-old's disappearance. The story from ITN reporter Robert Moore.

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ROBERT MOORE, ITN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They walked the final steps back home, tightly clutching the twins, Amelie in Kate McCann's arms and Gerry holding Sean. But it's the four-year-old who has not returned that makes this homecoming so pungent.

There were hugs inside, upstairs, Madeleine's bedroom has been left untouched. Within moments of landing in Britain, Gerry McCann once again insisted that neither he nor Kate had any idea of what happened on May 3.

GERRY MCCANN, FATHER OF MADELINE: While we have returned to the U.K. without Madeleine, it does not mean we're giving up our search for her. As parents, we cannot give up on our daughter until we know what has happened. I return with the full agreement of the Portuguese authorities and police. Portuguese law prohibits us from commenting further on the police investigation. Despite there being so much we wish to say, we're unable to do so, except to say that we have played no part in the disappearance of our lovely daughter, Madeleine.

MOORE: The chronology of their journey today provides a glimpse into the pressure they're under and the maelstrom of emotions they must be enduring. Kate was gripping Gerry's knee as they left their rented villa just after dawn. Their journey to the airport was tracked every mile of the way. And then they boarded a flight, leaving behind a country that's still debating whether Kate and Gerry McCann are anguished parents or, as the police believe, suspects in the possible death of their daughter.

We flew with them back to East Midlands Airport, many passengers on the plane openly sympathetic and offering support.

(on camera): The McCann's are about to step on British soil but they're far from over. They're still suspects. And of course the Portuguese police may ask them to return at any time.

(voice-over): They came down the aircraft steps a family of four, but it was impossible today not to recall those mobile phone images of Madeleine climbing the steps on her way to a dream holiday in Portugal.

The great uncertainty over Kate and Gerry McCann has not receded, they're still suspects and there's substantial and incriminating forensic evidence from both the holiday apartment and from the car they hired nearly a month later.

BRIAN KENNEDY, KATE MCCANN'S UNCLE: They're not going to come out. It's an emotional time to come back. MOORE: The family wants some respite from the media's scrutiny. But as they begin to unpack, the question hangs in the air, what will the Portuguese detectives do next? Will they seek to arrest Gerry and Kate McCann?

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HARRIS: I don't know to what extent you've been following the various twists and turns in this case. Let's take a moment here and give you a look at the timeline of the Madeleine McCann case. May 3, her parents report her missing. The very next day, the local police are criticized for a slow response. Now days later, the police say they've investigated hundreds of leads haven't gotten any useful information. A week later, police identify a suspect. But they say, there's not enough evidence to file charges. August 10, the McCann's say they won't leave Portugal until their daughter is found.

That brings us to Thursday, Madeleine's mother faces 11 hours of questioning, then Friday, the revelation that Portuguese police consider both parents suspects. But as we just reported, the family was allowed to return to England today.

Back here in the States now, a father wakes up to a parent's worst nightmare. He goes to check on his children. What does he find? Keith Daniels from affiliate WBFF in Baltimore explains.

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KEITH DANIELS, WBFF CORRESPONDENT: A bold crime -- a man breaks into a home and attempts to rape a nine-year-old boy while his six- year-old sister slept in the bedroom.

BILL TOOHEY, BALTIMORE CO. POLICE: This man was seen in the neighborhood. The six year old girl saw him outside of the house two day's previous. That day she called the father and said there's this man in the yard.

DANIELS: Brian Jarrell and his wife Melinda believe that same man came back to the home.

BRIAN JARRELL, FATHER: At thirst I thought he was burglar. I didn't know he was after my son.

DANIELS: Police charged 49-year-old Richard Marks (ph) with attempted sex offense against a minor and other charges. Investigators say he slipped through the Jarrell unlocked back door 2:00 early Monday morning. Police say he found the children's room.

MELINDA JARRELL, MOTHER: I was shocked. My husband is the one who discovered him. Thank god he woke up when he did.

DANIELS: Jarrell says he found Marks hiding in the children's room after smelling a chemical odor. He says Marks ran out of the house but he caught him and held him until police arrived.

B. JARRELL: The only thought was I couldn't let him get away. DANIELS: Later they found two rags with a chemical smell in the children's room and the little boy lethargic and confused. Police believe the father interrupted what could have been a much more brutal attack.

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HARRIS: Again, that was reporter Keith Daniels of Baltimore affiliate WBFF.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ran up to her car and started pounding on the windows and said, ma'am, you know, you've got to get out of this vehicle.

HARRIS: An elderly woman stuck on a train track in a Lexus. It just wouldn't go. We talked to the young man who pulled her to safety before she could become part of this -- this mangled mess.

Plus ...

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This place rocks, I tell you. You never know who you're going to run into next. It's a celeb fest.

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HARRIS: What do you know? The president in the NEWSROOM. Of course, not the real one, but a pretty darn good carbon copy. The best from the impersonator convention in Florida. Who else is being duplicated? We will take you there.

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HARRIS: Rain, winds, waves -- what a mess. Tropical Storm Gabrielle slams ashore along North Carolina's vacation hot spots. Maximum winds, 50 miles per hour. Not enough to scare some vacationers from the shore and surfers from the beach. Gabrielle is the second tropical storm to make landfall on the U.S. mainland this season.

President Bush back in Washington, ready for a renewed fight with Congress over the war in Iraq. The president returned from the Asia- Pacific Summit in Sydney, Australia. Early this morning.

He plans a nationally televised address this week. The president says he will lay out a vision about the U.S. future role in Iraq. And while the politicians and the White House debate the war, Anderson Cooper is in Iraq keeping them honest. Watch AC 360 live from Iraq all this week at 10:00 Eastern Time.

Let's get you to some other news across America right now. A plane -- take a look at this -- makes an emergency landing on top of a warehouse after the pilot reports engine troubles. How do you stick this landing?

Check this out. In Columbia, South Carolina. An emergency management spokesman said three people were inside the small plane. They were all taken to a local hospital in good condition, if you can believe that.

Another false alarm in the search for missing billionaire Steve Fossett. Rescuers in Nevada thought they had spotted his wreckage not far from the airstrip where they took off on Monday. But they announced a short time ago it wasn't Fossett's plane. Air and ground crews have narrowed the search to a 50-mile radius of that airstrip.

A gray whale killed off the coast of Washington State reportedly by Makah cause tribe members. Whaling is illegal, but the Makahe have subsistence fishing rights and can hunt them. However, authorities believe this one was killed illegally without tribal permission. The Coast Guard has handed five suspects over to Makah police.

A woman narrowly escapes death when a train slams into her car. We will meet the young man. We'll call him a hero -- who saved her in just about three minutes.

Plus a young man missing for a week found alive trying to drag himself from a ditch. The full story in 15 minutes. You're in the CNN NEWSROOM.

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HARRIS: To the rescue -- a real superman here. Two trains turn a car into scrap metal with a quick-thinking teenager the only thing that kept it from being a death trap as well. 17-year-old Thomas Foust joining us live from Chicago. Thomas, good to see you, good to talk to you, young man?

THOMAS FOUST, PULLED DRIVER FROM CAR: Good to see you too, how are you doing?

HARRIS: I'm outstanding, you have an S on your chest there?

FOUST: Yeah.

HARRIS: Part that shirt there. You have an s on your chest, don't you?

FOUST: Of course I do.

HARRIS: Yes, you do. Tell me about what happened and why you decided that you had to do something. It's one thing to think you had to do something, but to actually come up with the nerve to step in. What did you see? Talk us through this.

FOUST: Well, I basically was driving behind her. She pulled on to the tracks and I pulled up and saw the train lights coming. I basically pulled over and my friends and I ran out to the car and we were like, we were just pounding on the window and just like, bam, you know, you've got to get out of this car. And she, up, basically unlocked the door, we opened it, and I unclipped her seat belt and pulled her out. And seconds later, she.

HARRIS: How much time did you have here, Thomas?

FOUST: I had - It took us a while to get her to finally unlock the door.

HARRIS: She didn't know who the heck you guys were and if you had ill intent or what?

FOUST: Yeah. She didn't know. But she finally locked the door and we opened it and we unclipped her seat belt and pulled her to safety in about -- my friends are saying like five, six seconds later, the train just crushed the car.

HARRIS: What was the problem with her vehicle? Did she stall? Did she get -- What happened with her car?

FOUST: The car was -- the tracks were higher than the wheelbase of the car, I guess. So the car couldn't move because it was up in the air.

HARRIS: So you literally had seconds before the impact?

FOUST: Yeah. That image just keeps replaying in my mind of the car just getting slammed by the train and how close it was.

HARRIS: What did you hear from the train? Did you hear sort of the squealing ...

FOUST: I heard the horn, I heard the brakes, the dinging of the guardrails, I heard everything. And then just -- it was just such a -- such a big -- just slam. And then hit the second train too. And it was a lot of noise and glass and just debris flying everywhere.

HARRIS: Here's what I want you to do. Here's what I want you to do. I want you to explain to us the impulse. You see this scene this scene developing around you. What is the impulse that says, no, I'm not just going to call 911, not just going to -- I'm actually going to get out of my car and go help. What is that impulse where you put yourself at great risk?

FOUST: I've had -- I'm a life guard. So, you know, I just -- my -- my impulse is to help people. And that is what I was going to do. I didn't want to see anybody get hurt. That's what I was thinking when I was just acting. I didn't think. I just acted upon what I thought needed to be done.

HARRIS: What's the woman's name, do you know?

FOUST: I do not know. We picked the woman up, and walked her over to the curb, waited for the police and paramedics to come. I haven't seen her since.

HARRIS: You consider yourself a hero?

FOUST: That's what everybody says.

HARRIS: Let me ask you this way. If you heard this story and somebody else was involved, would you consider that person a hero?

FOUST: I think I would.

HARRIS: Tom, guess what, S on the chest, you're a hero. Thanks for your time this evening, Tom.

FOUST: Thank you, have a great night.

HARRIS: Man. Well, after seven days missing, he turns up last night, bleeding on the side of a road. That story -- what is the story behind the disappearance and reappearance of a Maryland college student? That's coming up in just a couple of minutes.

And Nazis in Israel? Alleged members of a neo-Nazi gang are arrest in the Jewish state. Police say, it's the first for them. Our report from Jerusalem in about 20 minutes. You near the CNN NEWSROOM.

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HARRIS: Tonight's Democratic presidential debate in South Florida is guaranteed to be a trail blazer. It is the first ever to be broadcast nationally in Spanish. Whatever the language, though, the message is pretty clear. Hispanics, now more than ever, are affecting the modern day political landscape. Juan Carlos Lopez is CNN en Espanol's senior correspondent. He joins us live from the debate on the campus of the University of Miami.

Juan Carlos, good to see you. Tell me, please tell me, as you set the scene this evening, that this will be a debate about more than one issue, that issue being immigration?

JUAN CARLOS LOPEZ, CNN EN ESPANOL SENIOR CORRESPONDENT: Well, that's what the organizers hoped would happen. And we have already had some interesting things happen tonight. Senator Joe Biden was a no-show. He was the only one to not come to this meeting of the eight Democrats who want to be the presidential candidate for the party.

And Governor Bill Richardson of New Mexico, the only Hispanic in the group was upset because the rules do not allow him to speak Spanish. And he scolded Univision for not letting him speak Spanish in a Spanish-language network.

We've heard that they first asked him about why they were coming to this debate. They've asked about immigration. One question that I heard a couple of minutes ago, was why some of them supported -- some of the candidates supporting building a wall on the border with Mexico and not on the border with Canada. It's a very touchy subject among Hispanics.

So that's what we've heard so far. But it's going to be 90 minutes, Tony, and we're going to have probably time to hear a lot of different topics of interest to Hispanics in the U.S.

HARRIS: OK. Juan Carlos, I know you will be watching that for us. Appreciate it, thank you. Good to see you.

Meanwhile, former Tennessee Senator Fred Thompson is in New Hampshire, his first trip there as an official presidential candidate. Thompson making a couple of campaign stops in Nashua and Manchester where he is playing catch-up to the rest of the GOP field. Thompson formally announced his candidacy this past Wednesday.

Oprahbama (ph) -- is that how we're saying that? Oprahbama is in the books. Oprah Winfrey hosting a celebration last night at her California mansion for the Illinois senator and his quest for the White House. Tickets went off at a cool $2,300 apiece with an estimated 1,500 in attendance, bringing an estimated $3 million. The Associated Press says Senator Obama has raised nearly $58 million so far for his candidacy. Time to bring in our bloggers. On the left, Ann Friedman with feministing.com. And on the right, Robert Bluey from robertbluey.com.

Good to see you both. Hey, Robert, let me start with you. What do you think of Oprah-Obama and what kind of an impact do you think she really will have on his campaign, other than raising money and significant amounts of cash?

ROBERT BLUEY, ROBERTBLUEY.COM: Well, clearly she's going to do that. But I think just the fact that she can personalize Obama, put his name and face out there among an audience that is very influential. You'll remember back in 2000 when George Bush went on the Oprah Winfrey show, it really transformed his campaign and gave him a good boost heading into the fall.

HARRIS: Ann, what do you think of this, what about the Oprah effect on the Obama campaign?

ANN FRIEDMAN, FEMINISTING.COM: Well, I think the Bush example is a little misleading in that, you know, his poll numbers are in the upswing.

HARRIS: Ann, do you have your microphone on?

FRIEDMAN: I believe I do.

HARRIS: I don't think you have your microphone on. All right. While you get your microphone on or at least we check it, let's go back to Robert for a moment. Robert, so you think that there is something here, you think that she can sort of -- you know, she can make him more of a household name, hard to imagine that folks out there don't know him. But they may not really know him. But can she -- depending on what kind of a role she chooses to play in the campaign, can she make a significant difference in closing the gap with Senator Clinton?

BLUEY: I really do, because the audience that Oprah reaches are all these women who, you know, are tuning in every day and, you know, that's a key constituency that Hillary has an advantage over. And Barack Obama needs to play catch-up on that one area. And you'll recall that George W. Bush did win the white women vote over Al Gore. And I would attribute that little bump on Oprah as to having somewhat of an impact.

HARRIS: Ann Friedman, you OK now?

FRIEDMAN: I'm with you now.

HARRIS: You with us?

FRIEDMAN: Well, I wanted to say that, you know, I don't think Bush really got that big of a bump. I mean, his numbers were already on the upswing when he went on Oprah. And I don't think one appearance on the show makes a huge difference.

That said, having Oprah as an ally, you know, she has a lot of wealthy and powerful friends, is not going to be a negative for Obama.

HARRIS: Hey, Ann, where are we in this new order of things that a talk show host is thinking about not only actually joining the campaign in some way, shape, or form, this feels like new territory?

FRIEDMAN: I mean, yes and no. I mean, I think you kind of always had celebrity endorsements. But Oprah has this amazing platform and I think that's the reason why everyone is talking about her. I mean, she's renowned as an opinion maker, not just as a celebrity. And that's the difference here.

HARRIS: OK. Robert, let's talk about Fred Thompson. He's in the race now finally. What do you think of the first couple of days?

BLUEY: Well, I think so far, everybody has to be impressed. I mean, Fred Thompson is clearly a solid...

HARRIS: Are you kidding when you say that or do you really mean that?

BLUEY: No, I really do. I mean, he's talking about the issues that conservatives care about. He's another conservative who is trying to put the whole package together. We have several candidates on the Republican side who have a variety of different attributes that are appealing. But Fred Thompson is trying to put the whole package together.

HARRIS: Does he change the game in any significant way?

BLUEY: Absolutely he does. You know, he's -- there's a lot of excitement that has built up over the last few months about Fred Thompson. He is already placing second in some of these opinion polls even before he's in the race. So absolutely he's going to be a factor. And I think he's going to be an exciting addition to the field.

HARRIS: Ann, what do you think?

FRIEDMAN: I mean, I think he's kind of like this Wesley Clark figure. He's like this blank slate that Republicans who are dissatisfied with their other options can sort of project all of their ideal candidate qualities on, which means that even though he's another like old white guy who looks it same and has a lot of the same substance-free talking points, he has still got a great chance because he's set up as this conservative savior. You know, that said, I'm really just happy we're not talking about his sex appeal anymore.

HARRIS: There you go, all right. Well, let's leave it there. Ann Friedman and Robert Bluey, thanks for your time this evening. We appreciate it, thank you.

BLUEY: Thank you.

HARRIS: For seven days, Julian McCormick's family waited and worried. He'd gone missing. They knew something was terribly wrong. But they never would have guessed the 18-year-old was trapped in his wrecked car off of a Maryland highway.

CNN's Kathleen with Julian's amazing survival story.

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KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A deep ravine just a stone's throw from a major highway, that's where police found the overturned car where missing 18-year-old Bowie State University student Julian McCormick had been trapped for a week. He was last seen September 1st on his way to pick up his girlfriend. Finally, McCormick managed to free himself, telling family he crawled through a creek bed under a bridge and up an embankment to a road where Saturday two women spotted him.

LEIGH ANN HESS, PASSERBY: I ran up to him, and I said, are you OK? And he said, I got in a car accident. I said, hold on, you're going to be OK. We're going to have an ambulance come. And I ran up and I flagged my mom, yes, get them to come. Get them to come. Get them to come.

KOCH: The disoriented teenager asked what day it was.

HESS: He did have a movie ticket in his pocket or something he gave one of the observers that said this is the last thing he had the remembered seeing.

KOCH: The date on the ticket, September 1st. The police responded immediately.

LT. ROXANNE BROWN-ANKEY, U.S. PARK POLICE: They found a young gentleman suffering from cuts, abrasions, some burns, dehydration.

KOCH: McCormick's aunt says he told his family he survived by dipping his shoe into the creek and eating what fish he could catch while he worked to tear the seat belt. Police confirm it was evident from the crash scene, McCormick had been trapped in the car for days. The teenager is being treated for non-life-threatening injuries.

PEGGY MCCORMICK, JULIAN'S MOTHER: He says, I love you, mom, I love you, mom. I was so scared.

KOCH: Worried friends had created a Facebook page and were headed to a Saturday night vigil for McCormick when they got the news.

EMILY SPRINGER, FRIEND: At first, I kind of thought it was a joke. But then you know, she said he was OK. So I came over here as fast as I could.

MCCORMICK: Julian is well. He's still having medical treatment. We are just so happy.

KOCH: His family says McCormick should be released from the hospital in a few days.

Kathleen Koch, CNN, Washington.

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HARRIS: Unfortunately, it looks like a somber ending in the case of another missing college student out in Utah. Police say a body found today in a canyon is believed to be Brigham Young senior Camille Cleverly. She disappeared August 30th during a hike. We'll bring you more on this as soon as we get it.

A violent gang arrested in Israel after attacks on Jews, gays, and foreigners. Oh, they're suspected neo-Nazis. The full story in just a few minutes.

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HARRIS: And "Going Global" with headlines from around the world now. A restless crowd led to some tense moments at a stadium where Afghan President Hamid Karzai was speaking today in Kabul. Police fired their guns into the air, which prompted more worry than calm. Mr. Karzai abruptly ended his speech. And some spectators started to flee. But no injuries were reported.

A looming showdown in Pakistan. The country's former prime minister left London today saying good-bye to seven years of exile and hello to an uncertain fate. Nawaz Sharif is headed to Islamabad where he has vowed to topple the government of Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf. Sharif may be arrested upon arrival. Many of his supporters are already under arrest.

Low expectations in Jerusalem for the next meeting between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. Some sources say that meeting could come as early as tomorrow, others say it won't happen until Tuesday. Both leaders have resumed regular talks in recent months ahead of November's International Peace Conference in Washington.

Mixed reviews of the pope's three-day pilgrimage in Austria, which just ended. The turnout was low, crowds numbered only in the tens of thousands, far shy of the hundreds of thousands of Catholics that live there. And wet chilly weather didn't help much either as Pope Benedict XVI urged Austrians not to discard their faith. Well, you think you've heard it all, then listen to this, police in Israel say they busted their first ever gang of Israeli neo-Nazis. And the arrests could have serious implications for the country's immigration laws.

CNN's Atika Shubert has the story.

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ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Brutal attacks recorded on home video and set to music. Police say it is a bizarre case, the first of its kind, a home grown neo-Nazi gang in the Jewish state of Israel. Police say they confiscated this video and other photos from suspect's homes, finding also explosives, weapons and Nazi propaganda material. Police say they have been investigating the group for more than a year.

MICKEY ROSENFELD, ISRAELI POLICE: They planned and were involved in carrying out attack against innocent people, Jewish people wearing yarmulkes, Asians, foreigners, and had strong ties with neo-Nazi cells overseas as well.

SHUBERT: Police have arrested eight alleged members of the gang, bringing them to court on Sunday. They covered their faces, but at least one remained defiant. All between the ages of 16 and 21, all Israelis, immigrants from the former Soviet Union. They came to Israel by the Law of Return, a policy that grants citizenship to any Jew that chooses to immigrate to Israel, that includes anyone who has Jewish parents or grandparents, even though they themselves may not necessarily be Jewish.

Now at least one Israeli lawmaker is demanding the suspects have their Israeli citizenship revoked. Another is threatening to change the Law of Return, allowing only Jews and not their non-Jewish kin to immigrate. But some Israelis dismiss the group as nothing more than a violent, misguided group of teens.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Beating up homeless people, they're thugs. I don't take it seriously.

SHUBERT: But as these pictures play across televisions nationwide, Israelis are left to wonder, how it could happen here of all places.

Akita Shubert, CNN, Jerusalem.

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HARRIS: And this just in to CNN. We have learned that Senator Larry Craig of Idaho will file court documents. Been wondering when this might actually happen that he will actually file court documents tomorrow asking to withdraw his guilty plea in that sex sting in a Minneapolis bathroom. You'll recall he pleaded guilty in August to disorderly conduct following that sting in the men's room. Attorney Billy Martin is quoted as saying the request to withdraw that plea would be filed tomorrow, but you should know that such requests are rarely granted. We will continue to follow the story and have updates, of course, tomorrow for you here in the CNN NEWSROOM.

JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, busy news night for us. But I'll tell you what, we've got a lighter change of pace coming up. The business of celebrity impersonations, how much money you could get your hands on so easily not by being famous, but just faking it for a little bit. I'm Josh Levs, I'm going to have that in just a couple of minutes, along with this guy who could not have an impersonation, because he is the inimitable Tony Harris.

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HARRIS: Josh, see you in a couple of moments.

All right. Let's look at a little air guitar going on here. Take a look, you heard it, you're watching it, air guitar championships in Finland. We'll tell you about this year's version in about 10 minutes or so. You're watching CNN, the most trusted name in news.

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HARRIS: You know they look the part, act the part, but in fact they're just playing a part, impersonators who have got imitating down to an art form. But even they need to hone their skills.

A network reporting from an impersonator's convention in Florida, Jackie Shutack from our affiliate Central Florida News 13.

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PAUL RATZ, HOWARD STERN IMPERSONATOR: If you tell me that Laura is hot, I'm going to have to like re-evaluate an entire brain cell.

JACKIE SHUTACK, CENTRAL FLORIDA NEWS 13 REPORTER (voice-over): Where can you have breakfast with George W. Bush and Howard Stern? Observe Dr. Phil giving advice to Ozzie Osbourne. Spend a day with these celebrity impersonators at the Sunburst convention and they'll have you in hysterics.

"BORAT": They have met President Bush. The president is here!

"GEORGE W. BUSH": This place rocks, I'll tell you. You never know who you're going to run into next, it's a celeb fest.

RATZ: We've got like 57 Kenny Rogers and about 37 Joan Rivers, I would like to put them all in some kind of a pool and have them just fight it out.

SHUTACK (on camera): A lot of the impersonators have traveled the country. W. here was third runner up on the show "The Next Best Thing."

"BUSH": That's right. I got beat out by two Elvises and a Frank Sinatra.

SHUTACK (voice-over): Dozens of impersonators are meeting agents and networking. Johnny Martino was a real actor, he played Paulie in "The Godfather" and he's obviously impressed with this pool of talent.

JOHNNY MARTINO, ACTOR: I like Stallone. I did a movie called "Capone" with him. And the gentleman right here reminds so much of Sylvester Stallone, it's amazing.

SHUTACK: Non-celebs are amazed by the wit and shocking realistic appearance of these icons, and the way they talk to each other.

Keep an eye out for these guys, you may catch one as a body double in a movie or a comedy act on late night TV some time soon.

"BUSH": You all ready to go on vacation?

SHUTACK: In Orlando, Jackie Shutack, Central Florida News 13.

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HARRIS: That's good stuff. OK. Impersonators make people laugh. But they also make themselves a lot of cash. Josh Levs right here talking about the real cash involved in pretending to be someone else. How much money are these folks making here, Josh?

LEVS: You're going to be surprised by some of these figures. I mean, you think of it as something that people just do on the side a little bit, but there's some real money in there. I spoke with the owner of something called Celebrity Impersonator Conventions, that one of the biggest groups in the industry.

She told me impersonators can get up to a few thousand dollars per appearance. But it depends on who they're playing. Some get just a couple 100. But there are some that command bigger bucks. Then if you look at it across a year, you can get between $35,000 and $50,000 pretty frequently.

But the folks who are playing the big characters that are really in demand, (INAUDIBLE) more. Check this out. They can make six- figure salaries impersonating other people. There are a bunch of them out there that make more than $100,000 a year.

HARRIS: Well, let's focus in on that category a little bit. Who is hot right now? What are the characters to pay if you want to move into that cash realm?

LEVS: Yes, first of all, you have got to be lucky, because you've got to kind of look like these people. You can't fake it too far out. Oh, you could pull off Denzel, like you were saying. Usually people are a little closer than that.

All right. The biggest ones usually are the presidents, right? So if you're lucky to look like one of them -- President Bush or President Clinton, if you look like one of those faces right there, you may be in the money. Also Elvis and Marilyn are perennial favorites. Paris Hilton is big right now. Angelina Jolie is big, so is Tom Cruise, and so is Cher and also Madonna.

But you know what, they don't have to be real people. We were seeing Borat before. And you know who one of the biggest ones is right? Jack Sparrow, that's the guy that Johnny Depp played in the whole franchise.

HARRIS: Oh, Johnny Depp, yes, yes, yes.

LEVS: Huge, everybody wants Jack Sparrow.

HARRIS: Let's flip the coin a little bit. Who is not hot?

LEVS: You know lost it? Interesting day to talk about her, Britney. Used to be everybody wanted to be a Britney look-alike. And they're paying less for her. They're ordering her less. There's a lot less demand. Maybe that will change in, what, like an hour-and-a- half...

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HARRIS: Well, is she performing in the VMAs or something? Is that what is happening tonight?

LEVS: Yes. It's the beginning of what she's hoping will be this big career comeback. If so, if you have got that face out there or something like it, then you may be in the money all over again.

HARRIS: How many people are in this industry, do we know?

LEVS: Yes. Check this out, OK. So I was looking at those figures. Now this woman that I talked to at the convention, she told me there were more than 50,000 Elvis look-alikes alone.

HARRIS: Just Elvises?

LEVS: More than 50,000 Elvises and Elvi (ph)? Elvises, whatever. In this country then on top of that, you've got tens of thousands of other people. She said you can't get a total figure because a lot of these people have other jobs, they're farmers, they're businessmen, they do whatever. Then on the side, they make a few thousand dollars in one appearance looking like somebody.

HARRIS: Are there awards?

LEVS: Oh, there are, there are. The Oscars of their industry are called the "Real" awards. You know, it's great. I have a ballot here, let me show you.

HARRIS: Do they really?

LEVS: Yes. You can see this ballot online -- yes, check it out. You can just type in "ballot" for the Real Awards. This is some of the categories here: They've got lifetime achievement and impersonation. Who's making you feel good? The impersonator you want to work with the most. There's even humanitarian award for the look- alikes at the Real Awards. It's really fun. It's not the Oscars, but it's something.

HARRIS: Wow, OK. You ready to go to Finland? Air guitar. LEVS: Yes. Why does that always take me back to seventh grade when you hear about air guitar?

HARRIS: I love that, yes, yes.

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LEVS: ... the competition back then?

HARRIS: (INAUDIBLE) he is pretend Ace Frehley. You're not Ace Frehley! Get off the stage. You're not Ernie Isley, get off of the stage. The air guitar championships in Finland coming up for you right here. Wait, wait, wait, you do it.

LEVS: At least its exercise.

HARRIS: Yes.

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HARRIS: So you say you want to be a guitar god, but you can't play a lick? Well, just pick up an air guitar. Here are the pictures from this year's championship in Finland. What is that move? Find out who won in about a minute here in the CNN NEWSROOM.

Things make you go, hmm? Well, these stories probably will. Lovely move there. In Finland a rock show without guitars or real zingers. It is the Air Guitar World Championships. The three-day championships. The three-day contest, real contestants, can you believe this from (INAUDIBLE), of course you can.

And for the second year in a row, this performer from Japan, Mosh Pit, take a dive. He won it all. What did he get? Oddly enough, a real guitar that he probably can't play.

Nice, two pet monkeys safe and sound in their Tennessee home after being monkey-napped back in May. Police say a burglar snatched the animals and sold them to a pet store for $250 and that's where they were found. A suspect was indicted this week on charges of aggravated burglary and theft.

And finally, six scuba divers in Italy will try to do what no human has done before, live underwater for two entire weeks. The divers will live in an underwater housing complex 49 feet below anchored to the seabed with weights, cables, and hoses. The point of all of this? Good question. To prove it's physically possible for people to colonize the seabed.

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