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Joplin's First New Building Emerges; Goodbye Food Pyramid; Inside Libya's "Hospital in Hell"
Aired May 28, 2011 - 22:00 ET
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DREW GRIFFIN, CNN ANCHOR: The top stories now on CNN.
A suicide bombing in northern Afghanistan, renewing concern about that country's security when U.S. troops eventually withdraw. Taliban militants said the bomber infiltrated a high-level NATO meeting with Afghan officials. A German commander of NATO forces in the region was injured. He will survive. But seven people were killed including an influential Afghan police chief and two NATO soldiers.
Former Honduran President Manuel Zelaya got a boisterous welcome home from thousands of supporters today, returning to his homeland two years after being ousted in a coup. In his trademark cowboy hat you see there, he urged supporters to pursue peaceful democratic change. Zelaya had been in exile in the Dominican Republic, but reached a deal with the Honduran government which allowed him to return.
Well, out with the food pyramid, in with the dinner plate. That is the brand new icon of healthy eating that the agriculture department is going to unveil this coming Thursday. What's prompting the makeover and what does it mean? We'll tell you about that ahead in this newscast.
And a quick sports note for you from overseas. Barcelona defeated Manchester United 3-1 today to capture European football's biggest prize at London's Wembley Stadium. American soccer, of course, and true fans know that regardless of what you call it, it's a huge win victory for Barcelona in the Champions League's final.
Just hours from now, President Obama will be on the ground in Joplin, Missouri. It will be his first look at what's left of that devastated city. 142 people lost their lives in last Sunday's terrible tornado. Another 100 are still missing. Yet, amid those widespread destruction, CNN's Casey Wian found people already starting to rebuild.
CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Drew, it's difficult to find signs of hope amide so much death and destruction, but one man is already starting to rebuild his wife's business.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is America and we're going to rebuild this.
WIAN (voice over): Four days after a historic tornado demolished much of Joplin, Missouri --
DARREN COLLINS, CONTRACTOR: You cut these and put them underneath.
WIAN: Contractor Darren Collins started construction on the first new building to emerge from the rubble.
COLLINS: At some point, we're going to have to stop scratching our heads and standing and staring at the rubble and roll up our sleeves and get things back to some sort of normalcy.
WIAN: He's rebuilding his wife's beauty salon which he built once before 17 years ago. On Tuesday, Collins discussed the idea with shocked city officials. Wednesday, they gave him the OK to start and Thursday construction began.
COLLINS: We've had just an enormous outpouring of generosity and help to get prepared to get back to this point. The city has been great. The city of Joplin has allowed us a permit in record time.
WIAN: There's still no electricity in this part of Joplin. The substation across the street remains in ruins. So, a generator powers the tool.
COLLINS: Time to roll up our sleeves and do what we can do to move on with our lives.
WIAN: Passers by continually stop to offer encouragement and support.
COLLINS: I just had two police officers stopped by and said we want to shake your hand, the first glimmer of hope that we've really seen towards the town rebuilding.
WIAN: Four nearby homes that Collins built in the past year are in ruins. Already, he has at least six projects waiting to be rebuilt.
COLLINS: My heart first goes out to everyone that did lose loved ones. And I hate for it to come to something like this to bring business to the area. But I believe everyone around here will surprise everyone in the country with the rate that we can come back.
WIAN: After so much tragedy and so much devastation, Collins takes solace in the cross that remains standing in the rubble of St. Mary's Church across the street and the support he's received from his community.
COLLINS: I thank God to live in such a place.
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WIAN: Now, all of those pictures were shot Thursday afternoon, the day he began construction. We went by the site again today and shot new pictures of just how far he's come. He's already got a roof on that structure. He hopes to be back in business in 45 days. Drew?
GRIFFIN: Casey Wian, thanks.
And I want to show you these images from our iReporters on the ground in Joplin, Missouri. Brian Smith shot these and he's following the severe tornado devastating his town. Here's what he wrote. "It was very surreal, almost as if a bomb had exploded and destroyed everything. Neighbors looking out for each other and some had taken shelter with each other from Monday's storms and what was left of their storms." Residents, he said, seemed confused and eager for any information that I had.
In Atlanta today, a routine flight turned scary for people on board a Delta flight out of Pittsburgh. An MD88 with more than 40 passengers and five crew members on board caught fire shortly after landing at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The airline says nobody hurt. George Howell of our affiliate WSB talked with one of the passengers on board.
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GEORGE HOWELL, WSB REPORTER (voice over): Emergency crews responded to Delta flight 2284 from Pittsburgh after officials say the brakes overheated on the taxi way causing the fire.
KATHLEEN HARRISON, DELTA FLIGHT #2284 PASSENGER: I just thought we needed to get off the plane. They kept telling us they're assessing the situation and then I think the fire broke out, they opened the doors and we all went down the emergency chute.
HOWELL: Kathleen Harrison was one of the 43 passengers on board.
HARRISON: The pilot was able to control the plane and got it stopped. But then there was a burning smell and then the right side of the plane caught on fire.
HOWELL: Harrison says it was a bumpy landing. Passengers were evacuated on the taxi way and bussed to the terminal. Investigators say the plane will be taken to be examined at a maintenance facility.
HARRISON: I'm lucky. I had my stuff with me and I'm going home. But there are people that were flying to Paris and other places and it's going to be a long time until they get their luggage. They said it's a National Safety Board investigation.
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GRIFFIN: The FDA is unveiling a new food pyramid to help consumers with their health. We're going to have a live report with that next.
And take a look at this. Snow? On Memorial Day weekend? Almost June, folks. We're going to tell you where it is and why it's part of a whacky weather system.
First, though, a quick note for some of our troops overseas this Memorial Day weekend.
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STAFF SGT. AMANDA FORD, U.S. ARMY: Hey, there. This is Staff Sergeant Amanda Ford in Baghdad, Iraq. I just want to give a shout out to my husband, currently located at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. And I also want to say thank you to all those serving in the military and words cannot express the gratitude I feel for those who had given the ultimate sacrifice serving today in Iraq and Afghanistan. Thank you so much.
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GRIFFIN: An evacuation order has been lifted tonight for people living near a chemical plant in North Carolina after the plant seemed to explode this afternoon. Take a look at this huge fireball erupting from the chemical coatings plant in Hudson. That's about 70 miles northwest of Charlotte. It prompted an evacuation of homes and businesses within two miles. Kay Johnson with affiliate WBTV is at the scene right now joining us by phone.
Kay, is the danger over?
KAY JOHNSON, WBTV REPORTER (via telephone): It is. That is the case. The evacuation has been lifted. Air quality around the area has checked out. Roads are also -- they were closed earlier, also being opened back up. This fire was really contained to the storage portion of the plant. I'm told by the fire chief here that this could have been a whole lot worse because of the chemicals that they were dealing with here at this plant.
GRIFFIN: I assume nobody has been hurt. Do they know why it started?
JOHNSON: That is also under investigation. No one was hurt. The plant was not operating at the time. But two firefighters did have to be treated for heat-related illnesses.
GRIFFIN: All right, Kay, thank you so much.
That was Kay Johnson with WBTV, our affiliate in Charlotte. Thank you so much.
Well, a lot of us grew up with that food pyramid as a guide post for healthy eating, but now it's getting a radical makeover. Let's find out from our senior medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen who joins us by phone.
What's this all about?
ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Well, Drew, there's been a lot of complaints about the food pyramid and so now the federal government is coming up with a new icon. And we're told by the USDA that it is a plate, like a dinner plate. We presume that it will be divided into sections that will show you how much of different types of food you should be eating.
GRIFFIN: What was wrong with the pyramid?
COHEN: You know, the pyramid -- to put it gently, it's not considered a great public health success. You don't look at it and think, oh, I get it, now I know how to eat right.
It was confusing and divided into lots of intricate sections. And one of the biggest criticisms is that the stuff you weren't supposed to eat so much of like sweet and sugar were at the top of the pyramid, which is sort of counterintuitive.
GRIFFIN: Yes. So, what is the next step? They are supposed to roll this out and who do they roll it out to?
COHEN: You know, they roll it out to the American public later this week and it's supposed to replace the food pyramid in the same way that the food pyramid many years ago replaced the four good groups that many of us grew up with.
GRIFFIN: I know this thing has been around, Elizabeth, but I got to ask you. I don't think I've ever made a meal or made a food decision based on a food pyramid. I doubt I'm ever going to do it on a food plate.
What the heck is this for?
COHEN: You know, Drew, with the cynicism I'm hearing in your voice, I think that it is warranted. People are saying -- I've heard people say, you know, what does it matter what the federal government does. The epidemic of obesity is an icon. Is the design really going to make a difference?
And I think the hope is, is that if you can look at this plate and if you can see, oh, I'm supposed to be eating more fruits and vegetables, which, of course, a lot of people know. But if you can be reminded of it in a big and obvious way, there is hope that that will help us especially with school children. And that's where they really used the pyramid. It's with school children. And I know my kids have brought home food pyramids they colored in over the years. And I can also tell you I don't know that they really understood what that food pyramid was trying to tell them. Hopefully, it will be different with the plate.
GRIFFIN: You know now I'm looking at the food pyramid. I think it has something to do with an Egyptian burial tomb. But, anyway, Elizabeth Cohen, senior medical correspondent on this breaking news coming from the FDA and the agriculture department. They are going to replace the food pyramid with a plate.
Elizabeth, thanks so much.
COHEN: Thank you.
GRIFFIN: All right. Well, you know, even though this weekend kicks off the summer travel season, in the mountain west, record amount of snow means no camping, no hiking, no driving.
Take a look at this picture. This is Yellowstone. Words like epic and monster being used to describe the snowpack that's covering the mountains in almost every western state. The red on this map shows where the snow records are being broken. We're going to get to that.
And people trying to get to the national parks or mountain resorts like Yellowstone, the Tetons, parts of Yosemite are finding the roads blocked by snow. It is almost June. That's the Memorial Day weekend officially kicking off summer vacation plans.
And, you know, parts of the country still covered in snow. I can't believe it, Bonnie Schneider. But I flew over the mountains this week and sure enough, boy, the snowpack is incredible.
BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It is. The snowpack is incredible because right now, Drew, looking at our Google Earth, I've imposed the snowpack and it covers nine states right now have snow and some of it very heavy. I also added Yellowstone National Park and Yosemite just to show you that those are some of the areas covered with snow, particularly Yellowstone. As you saw, some road closures there and some limitations because the snow has been so severe and so heavy.
And down at Yosemite and to the Sierra Nevada, what's happening now is that there is some snow melt and it's causing those waterfalls to rush an even higher volume of water than they normally do. Makes for a pretty picture but it can be treacherous for campers.
Now, one of the reasons we're seeing this, of course, is the temperatures this spring season have been colder than normal. We've seen the cold air plunge a little bit further south and linger longer than it would normally do this time the year. Normally, it's a little bit more mild.
Unfortunately with this set up, we have a brand new storm system that's working its way across the Mountain West. And this is important to note for the holiday weekend and for the thousands of you that are going to be traveling. Look for five inches of snow in the higher elevations in the Sierra Nevada all the way down into California. You can see some heavy snow. These advisories are in place now. They'll go through tomorrow.
However, as we head further off eastward, look what's happening. Not only are we looking at wintry weather in terms of snowfall accumulation, five to nine inches in the mountains, and then three to six in the valley as well. Down further to the south here into Utah, we're looking at very strong winds that will blow the snow around. Northwesterly winds 15 to 20 miles per hour. Gusts ever higher than that.
So, that's going to make travel more treacherous and limit visibility. So while the snow, Drew, it's great news for those of you that are looking and get some spring skiing, unfortunately getting there isn't going to be so easy.
GRIFFIN: Yes, that's very true. Bonnie, thanks a lot.
SCHNEIDER: Sure.
GRIFFIN: In Libya, trauma workers fighting a war of the wounded.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In the last three months, maybe 50 cases like this case.
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GRIFFIN: And wait a minute, inside Libya's war zone, going behind-the-scenes at a war-zone hospital.
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GRIFFIN: There's been a series of blasts around the Libyan capital of Tripoli this morning. NATO continuing to carry out airstrikes against Moammar Gadhafi's forces. Rebels are fighting the Libyan military on the ground and the casualties are heavy.
In Misrata, our Ben Wedeman visited what's been called the "hospital in hell." Doctors battle death and often lose. We want to warn you, some of the pictures you're about to see are very graphic.
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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice over): The doctors and nurses at Misrata's al-Hikma Hospital have seen too many days like this. The ward is crowded with the wounded. Doctors struggling to piece back together bodies torn apart by bombs, bullets and rockets on the front lines.
Doctor Mohammed Abu Shahmeh just removed what was left of 25- year-old Muhammed Shalufa's (ph) left eye, pierced by shrapnel.
WEDEMAN (on camera): How many of these operations have you done in the last three months?
DR. MOHAMMED ABU SHAHMEH, AL-HIKMA HOSPITAL: In the last three months, maybe 50 cases like this case.
WEDEMAN (voice over): Ahmed Saudawi (ph) has multiple wounds, a fractured femur and severe facial injuries. Part of his jaw is gone.
Doctor Abdel Qader Mukhtar says Ahmed, his nephew, was taking a break for lunch up in the front when a rocket landed nearby.
DR. ABDEL QADER MUKHTAR, AL-HIKMA HOSPITAL: He needs a plastic surgery.
WEDEMAN (on camera): And do you have a plastic surgeon?
MUKHTAR: Lost skin, bone and muscles.
WEDEMAN: And do you have a plastic surgeon here? No?
On this day, this hospital received nine dead so far, treated more than 40 wounded from the front lines. And as bad as that might seem, it is by no means this hospital's worst day.
WEDEMAN (voice over): When the fighting in Misrata was at its worst, the wards were crammed, the wounded were treated in the hallways, even in the parking lot.
Opposition fighter Ahmed Abu Fanaz (ph) is breathing his last breaths. He has massive abdominal injuries from a mortar wound. The doctor who operated on him asked us to obscure his face because he has relatives in Tripoli.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think he's going make it. Unfortunately, we've done everything for him, but this is -- his heart rate now is about 25. Actually zero now as you see it now. And medico-legally in this place, they don't want to stop the ventilator until he is completely flat lined which is no heart rate. As long as there's a heart beating, they are going to continue. But the chance for this gentleman to make it is almost zero.
WEDEMAN: Shortly afterwards, the line goes flat. Nurses detach Ahmed's body from the life support equipment and cover his face.
Ben Wedeman, CNN, Misrata, Libya.
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GRIFFIN: President Obama arrived back at the White House tonight, wrapping up a six-day trip to Europe. He ended in Poland where memories of the old Soviet Union are still strong. Here's our White House correspondent Ed Henry from Warsaw.
ED HENRY, CNN SR. WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: On this final stop in Poland, the U.S. president has really hit two big themes, the first, trying to reassure the Polish people that America will be there to defend it. There's a lot of mistrust here in Poland about the intentions of Russia. This former Soviet bloc nation concerned about Russia blocking that missile defense shield for this region. Concerns that maybe Russia's got bad intentions.
So, the president trying to reassure Poland that even as a young member of NATO, he said basically there's no such thing as a new member of NATO, that they are all treated alike and the U.S. and its allies will rush to Poland's defense no matter what.
The other big theme picks up on something the president talked about in France at the G-8 summit, where he was basically saying he sees some similarities, some parallels between the Arab spring playing out right now in the Middle East and North Africa, and what happened here in Central and Eastern Europe after the crumbling of the Berlin Wall, the fall of the Soviet Union, the struggle, the transition to democracy. There may be some lessons learned from the past that could be pivotal now in the Middle East and North Africa.
And along the way at this joint news conference with the Polish prime minister, the president made an impassioned plea to the American people.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Even at a time when we have fiscal constraints, even at a time when I spend most of my day thinking about our economy, I want the American people to say we've got to leave room for us to continue our tradition of providing leadership when it comes to freedom, democracy, human rights.
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HENRY: After returning to the White House Saturday night, it's right back to work for the president on Sunday. He's heading to Missouri to attend a memorial service and to try to comfort some of the people devastated by those tornadoes in Joplin.
Ed Henry, CNN, Warsaw.
GRIFFIN: There was some emotional testimony in the Casey Anthony murder trial this week. "In Session" legal analyst Sunny Hostin will tell us about it. That's next.
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VOICE OF JOSE BAEZ, CASEY ANTHONY'S ATTORNEY: And you can never bring Caylee back for Casey, but you can help end this nightmare by sending her home. I'll ask you all individually and collectively to render a verdict of not guilty.
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GRIFFIN: That is Anthony's -- that is Casey Anthony's defense attorney addressing jurors in a Florida courtroom this week. Casey Anthony is accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter Caylee back in 2008. Her mother and her ex-boyfriend testified today. The defense team has launched a stunning defense strategy that includes allegations of incest in the family, fear and an accidental drowning of a little girl.
I got some reaction from Sunny Hostin, contributor to "In Session" on our sister network, truTV.
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SUNNY HOSTIN, LEGAL CONTRIBUTORR, "IN SESSION", TRUTV: I think, Drew, over these past couple of years that this case has been in the media, the past couple of years, we all wondered how do you defend a case like this, given the fact that this young mother didn't report her little girl missing for 31 days. How do you defend that?
Well, now we know you defend it by saying she is the victim of incest, the victim of childhood sexual abuse. Child abuse changes you and that is why she acted this way.
This defense has really pointed the finger at George Anthony. The case has become all about George Anthony. He's been on the stand not once, not twice, but three times already and it's the first week. That has been just unbelievable for me.
But let's face it, Drew, this is a circumstantial case. There is not one witness that's going to testify to the fact that they saw Casey Anthony murder her child. Not one witness is going to testify that they saw Casey Anthony put little Caylee into a trunk of a car.
And so interestingly enough, while the defense is a stretch, the prosecution's story doesn't make a lot of sense either.
So, first week, we've got at least probably seven to eight weeks left of this trial. We'll see what happens.
GRIFFIN: Well, it's really got a lot of twist and turns. We will, of course, continue to follow that. It's just been wild from the start.
Let's talk about a case that we'll probably not going learn a lot about and that is this mega church pastor Bishop Eddie Long. He is based here in Atlanta. A couple of guys came out months ago and accused him of basically wining and dining and bribing him for sex. Now we learn that everything has gone away, everything has settled and we're all supposed to what, ignore anything went on?
HOSTIN: Isn't that interesting? I mean both sides issued statements this case has been resolved.
What does that tell me? That tells me that perhaps part of the settlement deal was that no one could say anything. So will we learn what could have happened? What really happened? I don't think so. This case is resolved. It's done. We're not going hear anything else about it.
GRIFFIN: Sunny, I want to ask you one more quest -- one more case, really, and this is Amanda Knox, the American college student convicted of murder over in Italy. She is appealing her case. Says she didn't do it. The Italian legal system seems to be going through this appeal, where a lot of holes in the original prosecution are appearing and now Italian lawmakers are coming to Amanda Knox's defense, saying perhaps we need to open an investigation on the prosecutor over there.
Where does this case stand now, and is it likely any kind of Italian political involvement could spring Amanda Knox?
HOSTIN: I think so. I think it is extremely significant that policymakers are saying this doesn't smell right, there is something wrong, we need to investigate this. We know that she is -- her trial is now on appeal, and in Italy, that's almost like getting a new trial. And what we're hearing from Italy is that there were experts that found that the evidence was not credible.
And so, you know, I wonder then, that part of it, the appeal finding that perhaps the evidence isn't credible and now you have lawmakers also saying we don't like the way this investigation was done.
That is going to certainly put the pressure on the appellate court, on the Italian judicial system and we may see Amanda Knox coming home.
GRIFFIN: Sunny Hostin joins us here on CNN every week at this time to discuss legal issues, and you can watch her weekdays during "In Session" on truTV.
There's been another attack on NATO forces in Afghanistan. The Taliban taking credit. That report next.
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GRIFFIN: Some of the top stories tonight. Taliban militants say they deliberately target at a high-level meeting between NATO and Afghan officials in northern Afghanistan today. Seven people there were killed, nine others hurt when a suicide bomber blew himself up. Among the injured, the head of NATO's Northern Afghanistan Command. He is said to be in stable condition.
A scary landing for passengers aboard a Delta airlines flight. Pittsburgh to Atlanta was the route of Flight 2284. More than 40 passengers, five crew on board. Caught fire shortly after touching down at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport here in Atlanta. Fire crews called and doused the plane. The passengers had to be evacuated on to the taxiway using the emergency slides. Delta says no reports anyone was hurt.
Well, just in time for your Memorial Day road trip. Gas prices falling throughout the country. The national average now at 3.81 a gallon, down from 3.99 just a couple of weeks ago. But it's still a lot more than what we paid for last year, about a dollar higher than it was last year.
Rare images of one of Hollywood's sexiest women, Marilyn Monroe, made public. Only a handful of people have ever seen them. You will see them next.
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MARILYN MONROE, ACTRESS, "THE SEVEN YEAR ITCH": Isn't it delicious?
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GRIFFIN: That's the image most of us have of Marilyn Monroe, "The Seven Year Itch." Remember that?
But nearly 50 years after her death, we're getting exclusive look at never before seen photos of her before she was Hollywood's most legendary sexpot. And the story of how these photos were discovered is pretty amazing. We get it from CNN's Wire Entertainment Editor Alan Duke in Los Angeles.
Alan, tell us the story.
ALAN DUKE, CNN WIRE ENTERTAINMENT EDITOR: Well, it's one of those interesting mysteries of some photographs apparently taken 60 years ago. You know, I've broken a couple of stories in the past few months about these kind of photo finds and one begets another. And the latest is Anton Fury's story. I met with him at a Beverly Hills gallery this week. We taped the conversation, I supposed. Maybe we could show some of that. You'll hear his explanation of what happened.
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ANTON FURY, DISCOVERED MARILYN MONROE NEGATIVES: In 1980, I was a fledgling photographer but I was also collecting toys. So every Thursday, Friday, Saturday, I would go out and hit all the garage sales in my area in New Jersey. I found an envelope with negatives. Didn't know what they were but I realized they were old. They were two and a quarter by two and a quarter. So, they were medium format negatives.
You can't really see what they were. But being a photographer I said what heck for -- I think I paid them a dollar, $2 for the package. And I took it home, put them on the light board with a loop and -- needless to say, I mean, these are Marilyn's. So, that was probably my greatest garage sale discovery ever.
DUKE: So what we have is a big mystery here. These photos of this iconic face before it was an icon.
Let's bring David in. David whose gallery were in right now. You brought these to him just this week.
David, what did you think when you saw these?
DAVID W. STREETS, BEVERLY HILLS ART DEALER AND APPRAISER: I know they were taken here in Los Angeles. And that we can really come across from the backgrounds that we see in the photos. You see Hollywood hills, Hollywood 1950s architecture. We know that Marilyn was here working. She had been photographed in the 40's by Bernard of Hollywood. She was working here. And this is probably somewhere around 1950. And so, I've looked for early photographs, early shots, test shots, magazine shots, books and haven't been able to find anything yet. So the mystery, we're just beginning to unravel.
DUKE: As we unravel it and perhaps somebody will see these on CNN...
STREETS: That's what we want. DUKE: ...And say my -- let's say my Uncle Earl took these pictures and they want to claim these pictures, what's going to happen?
FURY: That's kind of what we're trying to figure out.
We don't -- there's way more questions than there are answers at this point. So, we don't know where this is going to lead.
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DUKE: It's going to be fun as we do research. And as David Streets done his research into where these photos were taken, who took them, why they ended up at the garage sale, maybe we'll report back and let you know what we find out. But certainly they are a refreshing different look at Marilyn just as she was on the start of her fame.
GRIFFIN: You know, I'm looking at the big screen over here, Alan, because I'm looking more at the house than at her because if that house still exists certainly somebody is going to know it just from, hey that's my house, that's my neighbor's house. Odds are the house may exist from what I'm seeing.
DUKE: We have some theories and a lot of calls are out. And we'll find out whose house that was. But it was 1950 just before "Asphalt Jungle" and "All About Eve" when she was a very much unknown actress model.
GRIFFIN: All right. Alan Duke from Los Angeles. Great story. Thanks for being it to us, Alan.
A movement known as Slut Walk is going global. It's latest stopping point is Australia. Here's what is it about.
Women are posting on Facebook urging others to join them in these slut walks to demand the right to wear what they want. Why? It all started in Canada last month in response to a police officer who said women should quote, "avoid dressing like sluts in order not to be victimized." A march was planned in Melbourne for today and then Sidney and Brisbane.
Coffee lovers in Cuba are getting an unwelcome jolt these days. A good old cup of Joe is becoming harder and harder to find.
CNN's Shasta Darlington explains why from Havana.
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SHASTA DARLINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Cuban coffee, these days a little more bitter with less of a jolt. That's because beginning this month the coffee offered on the communist country's ration card is mixed with roasted peas, a combination that Cubans thought they left behind in 2005. But the soaring price of coffee imports made the government change its mind. Some, like this car park guard welcome the change. "The first time I had coffee it was mixed with peas," he says. "I liked it, and I'll keep on liking it."
But most Cubans are not nearly as complacent. "Undeniably the mixed coffee is inferior quality," he says. You don't have to be a scientist to know that.
"The quality just isn't the same for those who like to have good, pure coffee," says another woman. In fact, the new mixture is only 50 percent java. The rest is roasted peas.
President Raul Castro himself said the government would no longer pay $47 million a year to subsidize Cuban's demand for imported coffee. And while the global price of coffee is up 69 percent, peas have only risen 30 percent.
On the bright side, the new four-ounce bag offered at ration card stores is just four pesos, the equivalent of a few cents. But Mylene, like so many Cubans, says she has to mix it with expensive coffee from the supermarket. "On its own it plugs up the coffee maker," she says, "or just comes out tasteless."
DARLINGTON (on camera): But the only way to know for sure is to try it for yourself. I'm going to cook up a mocha pot here. This is what most Cubans use to make their coffee. But I've been told I have to be careful, and that's because apparently chicharos peas expand a lot faster than coffee and these can explode. Now for the real test. It's definitely very bitter.
DARLINGTON (voice-over): Cafes and restaurants still serve the pure cafesitos that Cuba is famous for. But the Caribbean Island once a net exporter of the aromatic beans now imports more than half of its annual consumption.
Shasta Darlington, CNN, Havana.
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GRIFFIN: In addition to our war dead this Memorial Day weekend, we're also remembering thousands of widows across this country.
One young woman who became a widow at age 21 ran to built a sisterhood for those like her. It's an uplifting story and it's next.
But first, another shout out from one of our soldiers now overseas.
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SGT. TRACY FRAZIER: Hello. This is Sgt. Frazier, currently serving in Baghdad, Iraq. I want to wish everyone a Happy Memorial Day. Give a shout out to Jeff Gordon. Hope you take it this weekend. God bless.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) GRIFFIN: On this Memorial Day weekend, Americans remember our fallen heroes but, you know, for thousands of widows across this country every day is their Memorial Day.
Taryn Davis lost her husband at 21. Then she went on to build a sisterhood for those like her. She's determined to turn grief into triumph and survival, and that is why she is this week's CNN Hero.
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TARYN DAVIS, CNN HEROES: My husband, Corporal Michael Davis, was killed in Baghdad, Iraq. You know, even four years later, people still don't really know how to react when you say, hi, I'm Karen, and I am a widow. After the funeral, I felt ostracized. Everybody liked to write off my grief due to my young age. They would say, at least you're young, you can get remarried.
I come bearing widows!
I just wanted to talk about it with other widows. They're not going to judge you if you're laughing. They're not going to tell me that I'm grieving wrong. I just wanted to create what I was searching for and just hope there were others out there that could come and help me build it, too.
I'm Taryn Davis and I invite a new generation of military widows to share their love, their sacrifice, and their survival.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Follow me, guys.
DAVIS: You see when we have all these events because they step outside of that comfort zone.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: His impact will continue to affect for the rest of our lives.
DAVIS: There are moments where they can all reflect. Followed by that time where they feel like they're living life to the fullest.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My little sister wrote Taryn. She didn't know how to get me through the loss and so she wanted me to find other sisters.
From my first event, I went from going completely alone to not anymore at all.
DAVIS: You get up that high, you see the world a different way. And I think as widows we see our life a different way when we land, too.
These military widows, they have given me a life again. They teach me so much. And show me how far I've come in, you know, one day another widow is going to come along and they're going to be the one that's changing that widow's life. I mean, that's pretty amazing.
(END VIDEOTAPE) GRIFFIN: Taryn's organization has connected nearly 800 widows through her online community and retreats. To nominate someone you know is making a big difference in your community, you can go to CNNHeroes.com and tell us about it.
You know, two years ago, Air France Flight 447 crashed in the Atlantic Ocean killing all 228 people on board. It was a big mystery until now. A new report is out shedding light on why the plane went down.
Our Richard Quest has seen the report and breaks it down for us.
Richard?
RICHARD QUEST, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The findings of fact from the French investigators have really told us an enormous amount about the last terrifying moment of Flight 447 ever since the pitot tubes probably became clogged with ice, the speed sensors failed, the auto pilot disengaged, the auto throttles clicked out and the entire aircraft then went into an emergency situation.
We know that pilots were aware of what was happening. What's not clear is why one of the pilots or the pilot flight brought the nose up because that seemed to be contrary to everything pilots ever taught.
Having recovered from this initial or at least stabilized aircraft, they called the captain back from his rest break in the emergency -- obviously, that's the first thing you would do. And then a second stall, more serious actually does take hold of the plane.
And by that once again for some reason, maybe they didn't understand the severity of the situation or the attitude of the aircraft, but all the indications from the data show the pilot pulled back on the side stick and the nose came up.
And in fact as did it so, the angle of attack to the wing reached 40 degrees, the pitch attitude 16 degrees, the horizontal stabilizer stayed at 13 degrees. This plane was almost in takeoff configuration of direction when, of course, it should have been going pointing down to try to build up speed to defeat the storm.
They never managed to do that and the plane continued to fall out of the sky. In fact, it fell at a horrifying 10, 11,000 feet a minute which is just about unimaginable for what the passengers on board were suffering until it finally hit the water.
The numbers and the results and what we've heard so far will all be analyzed and compiled into the final report in some month's time. We know a lot more about what happened. But it will be up to the final report, we may never know why the cockpit crew continued to keep the nose up when every pilot from Cessna to jumbo jets understands and is taught that when the plane stalls you have to lose height, to gain speed to save the aircraft.
Richard Quest, CNN, London.
GRIFFIN: Here in this country, the FDA unveiling a new food pyramid to help consumers with their health. That report in next.
And a new sport that actually uses a kite to propel surfers across the water. Well, it is catching on big. We're going to show you how this works.
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GRIFFIN: A decades old icon that a lot of us grew up with getting a dramatic makeover. The Agriculture Department is trading in the food pyramid for a food plate. The move is aimed at making it easier for Americans to make healthier eating choices. Many nutritionists said the pyramid was just too confusing.
The evacuation order lifted tonight for people living near a chemical plant in North Carolina. The plant seemed to explode this afternoon. A huge fireball, crop in these pictures, erupting from the chemical coatings plant in Hudson, 70 miles northwest of Charlotte. It prompted an evacuation of homes and businesses within two miles of the plant. Authorities say it shut down a highway as well. No report of injuries. The fire right now is out.
A scary landing for passengers aboard a Delta Airlines flight from Pittsburgh to Atlanta. 2284 is the flight number. More than 40 passengers and crew members of five on board. It caught fire shortly after landing in Atlanta. Fire crews were called, the plane doused. The passengers evacuated through the emergency slides but Delta says no reports of injuries.
The human rights group Amnesty International is celebrating its 50th anniversary. That group was founded by a British lawyer who wrote an article defending two students in Portugal who had been jailed for raising their glasses in a toast to freedom. Amnesty now claims more than 3 million supporters in more than 150 countries.
And in the Netherlands, the so called drug tourism, it may be on the way out. The infamous coffee houses in Amsterdam and other cities well known as purveyors of legal marijuana, well, now, the Dutch government wants to make them off limits to tourists. Part of a campaign to curb drug use and crime. And under the new policy, even Dutch citizens could have their access severely restricted.
Forget wind surfing. Why not? Reach higher. Try kite boarding this summer. A rapidly growing sport that actually uses a kite to propel surfing across the water.
Take a look.
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BILL BOSCH, OWNER, GOOD BREEZE KITEBOARDING: I'm Billy Bosch right here in Cocoa Beach at the Ron Jon Surf School. I mean, we teach people how to kite board. We get a lot of professionals, doctors, lawyers. Most we get is pilots and engineers. It's a form of flying and sailing, and some pilots are already kind of in touch with that. UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're pumping up the kites and we got a bar in here. We're going to set the lines on to the kite. How it works is push and pull. So what I'll do is I'll turn and I'll push with my outside and pull with the other, and that's what directs the kite and makes the kite steer left and right. When I pull in on the bar, it creates more power and it wants to pull me. When I release the bar, it depowers the kite.
HARRY ANDREWS, KITEBOARDING ENTHUSIAST: We get a lot of exercise. It keeps you -- you burn a lot of good calories out there during the day and it keeps you young because, I mean, you got to carry all your kite gear out. You got to pump all price up. Carry your boards. And then you got to battle the ocean. And it's a lot of fun. If you're not in shape, it will get you in shape.
OLIVER BERLIC, KITEBOARD INSTRUCTORS: Full body workout. You got your legs, your core, shoulders, Arms.
STEPHANIE BERLIC, KITEBOARD INSTRUCTORS: Everything.
O. BERLIC: Everything.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's a life changing experience to fly kites in the water. It's incredible.
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GRIFFIN: That will do it on this Memorial Day Saturday. I'm Drew Griffin at the CNN World Headquarters in Atlanta. I hope to see you back here tomorrow night, 6, 7, 8 and 10. All new newscasts for you. See you then.
