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Interview with Nancy Pappas Metcalf
Aired May 14, 2005 - 18:00 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Mexican leader Vincente Fox is on the hot seat tonight after he insulted African-Americans.
They fired 120 rounds at an unarmed motorist in the middle of a neighborhood. Now, the officers are taking an unusual step to face the community.
And which diet should you choose? "Consumer Reports" rates the top diets and names the best for your body type straight ahead.
It is May 14 and you're watching CNN LIVE SATURDAY.
From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin. Our top story in just a moment, but first, other stories making news right now.
A gruesome discovery south of Baghdad today, the bodies of three beheaded males. Doctors say the men were tortured before their heads were cut off.
Authorities find their victim. It turns out the girl depicted in these Internet porn shots was adopted from Russia by a man who abused her but has since adopted...
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LIN: ... come together in a lurid child pornography...
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LIN: And later...
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NANCY FLYNN, EPOLICY INSTITUTE: E-mail and instant messaging creates written records. It's not the same as standing around the water cooler gossiping about something.
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LIN: Peeved at your boss and need to vent? Don't do it on company e-mail. You're watching CNN LIVE SATURDAY and we're back in a moment.
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LIN: Among the most popular stories this hour on CNN.com, a toddler whose mom was slain found in Mexico. I'll have more on this later in the hour. You can also click on to CNN.com for more details.
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LIN: Sheriffs' deputies who fired more than 100 shots at an unarmed motorist in the Compton section of Los Angeles are apologizing and trying to explain. But as Peter Viles reports, residents aren't ready to forgive just yet.
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PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Four days after this shooting was caught on tape an unexpected twist. The deputies who fired the shots stood silently while their lawyer apologized.
GREG EMERSON, LAWYER FOR DEPUTIES: They're not hiding. They're honorable, decent individuals. They're proud professionals of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. And they're willing to stand up and tell the community that they do apologize and that each one of them, to a person that stands here today, wishes that things would have been a little bit different.
VILES: The lawyer also offered an explanation: the deputies fired because they believed the driver, Winston Hayes, had a gun and was using his vehicle as a weapon, citing this radio warning from a sheriff's helicopter.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is driving very erratically. It looks as though he actually is aiming to hit deputies.
VILES: On the streets of Compton where bullets filled the air Sunday night, residents we met were not yet ready to accept the apology.
BOBBY BROWN, COMPTON RESIDENT: It's just wrong. What can they do? You know what I'm saying. They shot the man over 100 times, I heard, at his car. There's no call for that.
VILES: Barber Joe Holiday considered my question and threw it right back at me.
JOE HOLIDAY, COMPTON BUSINESS OWNER: How would you feel if someone came over and shot up your neighborhood?
VILES (on camera): Extremely upset.
HOLIDAY: Extremely upset.
VILES (voice-over): Mark Bonner says he has relatives in law enforcement and some sympathy for the deputies.
MARK BONNER, COMPTON RESIDENT: Well, there are two sides to the stories. They're human beings also. I understand that. And they want to go home to their families, you know. There's -- they have a job to do. But the shooting was uncalled for that many times.
VILES: L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca is taking some of the blame and supporting his deputies.
SHERIFF LEE BACA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY: When have you had a peace officer come out through a representative model and say I'm concerned, I have a sense of feeling about this. I want you to know that I don't feel good about this. This has never happened in this county. And this speaks well for the integrity of these deputies.
VILES: Back in Compton, residents are disappointed their city's image has been battered once again.
BONNER: I've been living here in Compton for 39 years and Compton isn't a bad place, as everybody put it up to be.
VILES: Peter Viles for CNN, Compton, California.
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LIN: Well, the driver of the vehicle in that incident, Winston Hayes, was shot four times but the wounds are not life threatening. He was not carrying a gun and has not yet been charged with any crime.
In other news across America, police in suburban Cleveland, Ohio are looking for whoever fatally shot a Pennsylvania doctor during a highway robbery. The doctor was shot in the head on the Ohio Turnpike yesterday.
There is a dragnet across the west for the killer of a Denver police officer as well. More than 1,000 mourners gathered at a downtown cathedral yesterday to pay tribute to Detective Donald Young. Someone shot him to death while he was providing security outside a private baptismal party last weekend.
Police in San Jose, California say they now know the source of the finger in the Wendy's chili case. They say the woman charged with falsely claiming she found the finger in the chili got it from her husband. They say he, well, in turn, got it from a friend who lost it in an industrial accident. Go figure.
Still ahead on CNN LIVE SATURDAY, a family destroyed and a community in shock.
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CHRIS SMITH, DUSTIN DURGA'S FRIEND: I was just devastated. I was just speechless.
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LIN: It was designed to inflict a heavy toll on insurgents but Operation Matador also has had a big impact on the Americans fighting on it. Up next, one Ohio community bears the brunt of the loss.
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LIN: Every week we like to bring you the more personal stories from the front lines and today we have the story of an Ohio unit that has been involved in Operation Matador, hunting for insurgents in Iraq. Now, the Op has wrapped up but not before some of its members made the ultimate sacrifice. An entire Ohio town is remembering their courage. Our Tom Foreman has that story.
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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In every town on every street, at fire stations, schools, stores, the people of Ohio wait for news of their sons and daughters on the front lines of the latest assault in Iraq. Wesley Davids' parents got the visit everyone dreads.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was in making dinner and...
JODY DAVIDS, CPL. WELSEY DAVIDS' MOTHER: Yes, one minute you have a normal life with, you know, dinner cooking and the next minute everything changes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We regret to inform you...
FOREMAN: Their son died one day past his 20th birthday. His friend and fellow soldier Dustin Durga died on Mother's Day. Dustin's life-long buddy and fellow firefighter, Chris Smith, is still in shock.
SMITH: He was always so upbeat. It was just unreal. You know, he'd always make you laugh.
FOREMAN (on camera): What did you think when you heard the news?
SMITH: As you can imagine, I was just devastated. It -- I was speechless.
FOREMAN (voice-over): Back in January, 150 Marine reservists shipped out of Ohio in what was known as Lucky Lima Company, but in Iraq, the luck has been bad. Many are in the middle of Operation Matador and casualties are reportedly very high. A "Washington Post" reporter embedded with Dustin's unit says every person in the squad of 21 has been hit, at least six killed.
KEN SCHNEIDER, HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER: The last time I saw him, he was here and he was dressed in uniform.
FOREMAN: So flags are lowered at Dustin's high school. Fears are raised.
SCHNEIDER: This is the first one that has really hit home. And I think it makes it real all of a sudden.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, how are you doing?
FOREMAN: An informal network has emerged among Ohio's military families and friends. Chris Smith is working the phone too, calling in memories of Dustin.
SMITH: You know I still have some voicemails on my phone that he left.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just got a chance to call and I don't think I will for a while. We probably won't be getting to use these phones very much and I'm not going to be staying around right now. We're going to a place that won't have this stuff.
FOREMAN: Most days, many here say they live their lives unaware of what is going on in Iraq but not this group.
SMITH: He won't be forgotten around here, that's for sure, you know. So he died a hero, that's for sure.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean it was so patriotic.
FOREMAN: Many Ohioans are proud and scared and praying about a distant war that is suddenly so close to home.
Tom Foreman, CNN, Pickerington, Ohio.
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LIN: And then there is the story about a human rights worker, a very young one indeed who died. A special Capitol Hill tribute today for Marla Ruzicka. She was the 28-year-old humanitarian rights worker killed in April by a car bomb in Baghdad. Ruzicka, as you may recall, founded the Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict. She has often been praised as a crusader who sacrificed much to help others.
In the meantime, she was featured on "America's Most Wanted." The little girl in these pictures believed to be taken at a Disney World Hotel. Well, she's been found and now the FBI thinks it has the man behind the camera.
Plus, captivated by crime -- with so many fixated on forensics, universities across the nation rush to keep up with demand. Becoming a crime scene investigator, that's coming up.
And discouraged with diets? Well, we're going to sort out the good, the bad and the near impossible. That's later when CNN LIVE SATURDAY returns.
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LIN: Welcome back. Here's a quick look at what's happening right now in the news.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is due to testify Monday before the Military Base Closings Commission. The Pentagon wants to close 33 major facilities and many communities plan to fight the proposal.
Mexican President Vincente Fox is taking heat for saying Mexican immigrants, well, want to take U.S. jobs that -- quote -- "not even blacks want to do." The Reverend Jesse Jackson calls the comment a spurious comparison with ominous racial overtone.
And a cardinal at the Vatican says making Pope John Paul a saint will take time even though Pope Benedict has ordered that the process be sped up. The new pope waived the usual five-year waiting period. But the cardinal points out there are still requirements that take time to fulfill.
And there are new developments in the horrific child pornography case that has made headlines around the world. A young victim who police located this week after years of searching in states is living with a new family. A Pennsylvania federal prosecutor tells CNN the girl was adopted out of foster care and is living under a new name. Police say before she was rescued, the girl was used in hundreds of porn pictures on the Internet. They say it was her adoptive father who put her in those pictures. Now he's been in prison for nearly two years on a child porn conviction. Now, as CNN's David Mattingly reports, Florida officials want to make sure he stays behind bars for good.
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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): More than two years, countless man hours and unknown thousands of dollars in the making, the desperate international hunt for a single child pornography victim ends in a way investigators never predicted.
LT. MATT IRWIN, ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: We have located the victim in our case.
MATTINGLY: Orlando's Orange County investigators, after asking for the public's help in finding the blonde haired girl just two weeks ago, now confirm she has been identified by the FBI and is believed to now be 11 years old.
IRWIN: I say we have identified her. I don't know where she's at. We are working on getting that information. And I understand that there may be ongoing charges in Pennsylvania, which is the state that the victim is from.
MATTINGLY: The girl will remain unidentified to the public. According to the FBI, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the man responsible for putting photos of the girl on the Internet is in a federal prison in Pennsylvania serving a 15-year sentence for production and possession of child pornography. He pleaded guilty in September of 2003. He is identified by Orlando investigators as the girl's adoptive father. The Florida authorities will now pursue molestation charges of their own.
IRWIN: In Florida, based on what we have, he would probably be facing life charges.
MATTINGLY: The international search for the girl began two years ago when Toronto authorities used computers to remove the girl from her pictures so clues could be pulled from the background. Investigators at that time said tiny pieces of evidence gave them hope they could find her.
SGT. PAUL GILLISPIE, TORONTO POLICE: You can often tell when children appear to be abused or when they are abused, whether or not it's the first time or not, it's worse to see children who have just lost their spirit and they don't really react to abuse because you know this is the cost of doing business in their own personal life and that says something.
MATTINGLY: This case immediately stood out from the 50,000 other estimated child porn victims on the Internet because someone from the public was able to identify the bedspread in this photo as one used at a resort in Orlando. The victim quickly became known as the Hotel Girl as authorities pushed the envelope and publicizing previously withheld information in hopes of a break. And Orlando authorities have been told the girl may have been rescued by federal authorities more than a year before their own federal investigation began. Why they were not alerted until late Thursday, they say, is not as big a concern as the well-being of the victim.
David Mattingly, CNN, Atlanta.
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LIN: Well, I talked with Florida's Orange County investigator in this case. Lieutenant Matt Irwin talked about whether it's worth it, taking this girl public and having her testify against her abuser and why authorities didn't know the abuser was already behind bars.
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LIN: Lieutenant, this case has been in the national spotlight for more than a year. Do you have any idea why the FBI was not able to make this case until just last Thursday?
IRWIN: No, I don't have any idea. It's really not been an issue for me. While it's been ongoing for Toronto, I've only had it for a couple months. So I -- you know we're just glad that we got it solved on our end. And I haven't spoken to anybody from the FBI. I don't know any details like that.
LIN: All right. But grateful at least to know that this girl is safe. You are planning, though on pressing criminal charges against her adoptive father who is in federal custody. How are you going to pursue criminal charges and not rip this girl from her private life?
IRWIN: Well, that's obviously an issue that we have and that's why I think time is on our side at this point. We got -- we have time to discuss all these issues and see whether it's worth it or not. And hopefully, Pennsylvania is able to put him away for a long time. If they can't, if their statutes aren't sufficient, ours are, and I will intend to go forward. I think the importance of keeping this man locked up is significant enough to expose the victim to this again if we have to.
LIN: Well, is significant enough that you are willing to expose the victim, meaning that you would have her testify then against her adoptive father?
IRWIN: Well, I would certainly ask the state attorney's office to follow up on that. It wouldn't be my position to make a decision like that, but I would certainly ask the state to address it, yes.
LIN: If this girl had not been found, what were you going to do? You were awaiting a decision whether to show her face publicly because you felt that she was in enough danger.
IRWIN: You're absolutely right. And I think that law enforcement needs some leeway in statutes to -- under certain circumstance release the victim's identity like this. You know you could do it under judicial review, have a judge review the evidence in the case, and make a decision that, you know, a third party decision. There's a variety of ways to do it. But we need some discretion now.
LIN: So how close were you to actually showing her face?
IRWIN: I think that we were at least a month or two away, probably.
LIN: And it's worth it to you, knowing that it could put her in danger?
IRWIN: Well, she's already in danger. It's all -- you know everything is relative. What kind of danger, if she's being molested, you know, every day, do we let her go through with that, you know, for the rest of her life or do we try to intervene? And I lean towards intervening in that circumstance.
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LIN: As for why the FBI did not come forward sooner to reveal that they had already put the abuser behind bars, CNN's David Mattingly has been covering the story for more than a year and he is pursuing those answers from the FBI. But obviously, an example of how difficult it is to coordinate and solve many of these cases. Fifty thousand kids on the Internet in these depraved poses every day alone.
In the meantime, a toddler who disappeared from his New Mexico home has been found in Mexico. Police say a 16-month-old boy disappeared with his stepfather on Mother's Day, the same day the boy's mother was found strangled in her home. Police are still searching for the stepfather who is wanted on a felony kidnapping warrant. They won't call him a suspect in the murder case but they do say they want to question him.
Now, how do crime scene investigators sharpen their skills? Well, they head back to school, the National Forensic Academy. Crime scene investigators from all over the country come to Knoxville, Tennessee to learn new techniques to solve real-world crimes. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
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SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With the touch of dark humor, they call it The Harvard of Hellish Violence.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So how is that fire going to burn? It's going to burn like this, isn't it? It's going to be...
GUPTA: National Forensic Academy instructor Mike Dalton has spent more than 20 years fighting and investigating fires. Dalton and his co-instructor, Joanne Devlin, take the students to the burn cells for some live action.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are we ready?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're ready!
GUPTA: One structure is set on fire by lighting rolled up paper as students stand by and watch. The other building goes up faster after getting a boost from an accelerant. Volunteer firefighters stand by to stamp out the blaze. Then it's time to examine both scenes to help discover the marks of arson.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It came up and burned to spread out. OK? What's the difference in this drywall than the one I showed you a while ago out there? It's a lot more calcinated, isn't it? All the moisture has done out. Look it, I mean it's just powder.
JARRETT HALLCOX, PROGRAM DIRECTOR: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
GUPTA: Investigators also get a chance to work a fully burned house.
HALLCOX: So watch your step there.
GUPTA: Program director Jarrett Hallcox says it's all about hands on.
HALLCOX: I mean they're not trained firefighters or fire investigators, but they're oftentimes called out to a scene. So one of the things we decided to do early on in the academy was to have an arson component because they don't -- as one of our students said, you know, he wanted to be able to do more than be in the dumb end of the tape.
GUPTA: Picking through charred remains and zeroing in on burn patterns can help recreate the fire's path.
HALLCOX: But this exercise machine, it's melting from the top and it's got char on the top but none on the bottom, so the fire has come up then burned down on this.
We do a 40-hour course on blood stain...
GUPTA: Then, it's on to the blood house.
HALLCOS: We use real human blood. It's spun down red blood cells. It's been screened. It's clean. It's medic expired blood.
GUPTA: Investigators here were allowed to practice figuring out where the blood goes after certain types of violence.
HALLCOX: And they take various weaponry, baseball bats, sticks, blocks, knives, and spatter blood for themselves so they can see how blood actually travels. They can recreate exactly what went on here and how many people were involved to a tee because they've learned how to read these clues.
GUPTA: The students also get to examine a bullet-riddled car and go to the legendary research facility known as the Body Farm to recover human remains. When the course is over, CSIs walk away with better skills, more prepared to crack crimes in the real world.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.
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LIN: Well, Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at the real world of crime scene investigation on "ANATOMY OF MURDER" tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.
Well, summer is coming and lots of people are trying to get in shape for swimsuits. So what is the best diet to lose weight? We are going to go down the list but it's a short one.
And before you send your next e-mail from work, you need to watch our report on e-snooping. We are going to tell you what may set off alarms at your company.
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LIN: Checking health headlines now, experimental drugs may offer new hopes for cancer patients. They're designed to multi-task. That means they can block a cancer's multiple pathways by cutting off the blood supply to a tumor while also jamming messages for it to grow.
Millions of Americans use a class of drugs known as statins to reduce their cholesterol levels. Now, researchers are saying those same drugs can prevent a range of cancers, including breast cancer. But it's unclear exactly how they lower cancer risks.
And in other health news, confused by all the fad diets? Well, a new ranking may actually help you choose which one is best for you if you're looking to shed a few pounds. Nancy Pappas Metcalfe is the senior editor of "Consumer Reports." The magazine has rated diets from Atkins to The Zone, and she joins me now.
Nancy, it's good to have you because we want to clarify, since there are so many choices out there for people. So we've narrowed the scope of some of them from your article. Let me begin with the best diet for short-term weight loss, your article mention Slim Fast, Atkins and Weight Watchers. Why these and what does it mean short term?
NANCY PAPPAS METCALF, "CONSUMER REPORTS": Well, we looked at the scientific studies that give accurate information on weight loss and what that means is the amount of weight that people on those diets lost within the first six months, which is about as long as people can actively lose weight as a rule.
LIN: And so these were the most effective, the quickest results then?
METCALF: Yes.
LIN: All right. And then in terms of best diet for long-term weight loss, that means keeping it off, I assume?
METCALF: Well, it means how well you have maintained a weight loss at a year.
LIN: All right. So, again, Slim Fast, Ornish, Weight Watchers. Why these three do you think?
METCALF: Weight Watchers was our best overall because it is a diet that's easy to stay on. You have the constant reinforcement of the weekly meetings to keep you honest. And staying on a diet is almost as important as how fast you lose weight because the longer you stay on it, the longer you can lose weight.
LIN: All right. And in terms of what the best diet is for you, the article gives several choices but we've narrowed down a couple of the tips that you offer up. For example, cut the easiest calories first, consider personal preferences, and be flexible, be ready to switch. Let's talk about cutting the easiest calories first. What are those?
METCALF: Well, some suggestions that would work for a lot of people are switching from full sugar soda to water or diet soda. You can save several hundred calories a day that way. If you eat a big bagel in the middle of the morning, either eat a little bagel or no bagel. Look for those empty calories to cut and you might be able to get rid of 400 or 500 a day that way.
LIN: And cutting -- and watching or considering personal preferences, if I just love chocolate cake and I just know that some day I'm going to sit down and you know, eat a slice, maybe Weight Watchers is better for me because there are those choices built into the program.
METCALF: Yes. The Weight Watchers program is extremely flexible. It's the diet that we evaluated that has the most different kinds of foods and it doesn't really exclude any particular food group the way some of the other ones do.
LIN: And be ready to switch, an obvious choice. When you took a look at the research, because you took a look at, what, almost a dozen different diets, what was the common theme there? I mean if you were to give advice to your best friends and families, and they were taking a look at, you know, The Zone or Atkins or you know -- because some of them even conflict with each other. Some want more carbs. Some want less carbs. Some want no carbs. What did your research find?
METCALF: Well, all of the diets that we looked at are low enough in calories that if you can stay on them, you can lose weight. You need to consider your own personal preferences. For example, if you're a vegetarian, the Atkins Diet is probably going to be a little tough for you where as the Ornish Diet, which is an all vegetarian diet, might be a better choice. If you like to eat a lot of different kinds of foods, Weight Watchers. If portion control is a problem, Slim Fast might work because it controls portions for you.
LIN: And the people you found to be the most successful at dieting and keeping the weight off, how did they do it, do you think?
METCALF: Well, everybody does it different way. The key to being able to diet and successfully is being able to stick to the diet. So what we are saying is try a diet for three weeks. Do it very conscientiously. If at the end of the three weeks it's a diet you feel you can live with and you're losing weight, it might be a diet that works for you. If not, don't hesitate to switch.
LIN: All right, Nancy Pappas Metcalf. Good luck everybody out there. It's swimsuit season, and we all want to look good but be healthy, too. Thanks. Great advice.
LIN: Well, the next time you are tempted to slam your boss on company e-mail, you might want to think again. The links to which employers are going to spy on you and the precautions you should take, but first, here's Al Hunt to tell us what's ahead on "THE CAPITAL GANG" -- Al.
AL HUNT, CO-HOST, "THE CAPITAL GANG": "THE CAPITAL GANG" looks at the latest bump in the road towards John Bolton's confirmation, Cold War rhetoric by President Bush and Eastern Europe, and Conservatives hailing embattled Majority Leader Tom Delay. Senator John Sununu joins the gang for that and much more next on CNN.
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LIN: So you ever send an e-mail to a co-worker complaining about your boss? Well, if so, you should probably know your boss may end up reading those colorful critiques. Companies are now able to intercept employee e-mails using technology to put a red alert on written words they deem suspicious. CNN's Daniel Sieberg reports.
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"LAURA", FIRED FOR E-MAIL COMPLAINT OF BOSS: I had written an e-mail to a co-worker complaining about my boss and complaining about his behavior. And within a week of that e-mail, I was fired.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This woman asked that we only identify her as Laura. She's afraid of what this impulsive e-mail will do to future employment prospects.
"LAURA": I had said that the boss was a jerk. He had been acting a bit arrogant and pompous with me all week.
SIEBERG: An official with her former employer says Laura was let go for a number of personnel reasons and the derogatory comments in her e-mail were a factor. This official also says the company informs all employees that their e-mail is monitored.
(on camera): Did you know that your e-mail was being monitored? "LAURA": No, I had no idea.
SIEBERG: Well, how did you feel when you found out?
"LAURA": I felt a bit violated.
FLYNN: Most employees tend to think my e-mail is my business. My employer has no right to read my e-mail messages, particularly if it's a message to a friend or family member. But in reality, here in the U.S., the federal government gives employers the right to monitor all employee e-mail, instant messaging, and Internet activity.
SIEBERG (on camera): Thousands of e-mail messages fly in and out of companies all day long. While it's impossible for the boss to literally look over your shoulder, businesses are turning to technology, computers that can read every word of every e-mail and raise red flags.
PAUL JUDGE, CTO, CIPHERTRUST: We've taken the approach of, you know, having machines and algorithms that can go out and understand what's the vocabulary of normal legitimate business e-mail and then what are the anomalies to that. What's the vocabulary that's used in jokes or used in chain letters.
SIEBERG (voice-over): Ciphertrust helps companies sort through the flood of e-mail, running ever message through a series of filters, looking for key words, some of them are so offensive we can't show them to you. The company can then decide whether to respond or let it go.
JUDGE: I've seen many that set up a rule that says notify human resources and notify the labor department. Or an organization may set up a rule that says just block that message; do not let it go out of network.
SIEBERG: And while it might not get out, it could well come back. Most employees don't realize e-mail is forever.
FLYNN: What everybody needs to be aware of is that e-mail and instant messaging creates written records. It's not the same as standing around the water cooler gossiping about somebody.
SIEBERG: For "Laura", the experience left her angry and frustrated. But right now, at least she doesn't have to worry about her e-mail. She's currently self-employed.
Daniel Sieberg, CNN, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
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LIN: Well, that's all the time we have for this hour but coming up next, "THE CAPITAL GANG." And I'll be back at 10:00 Eastern. Tonight, the lure to the side of the road story, a doctor shot on an Ohio Freeway as his family watched. Much more on this story tonight and a check of the hour's headlines and then "THE CAPITAL GANG."
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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What is America's favorite music: classical, country, rap or rock?
NINA ZAGAT, ZAGAT SURVEY: We recently published our first ever survey of music. Over 10,000 people participated. And 50 percent of the people who participated listened to rock 'n' roll more than any other genre of music. Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" came in at the No. 1 most popular album of all time.
CALLAWAY: And rounding out the top three most popular albums, The Beatles with Abbey Road and Sergeant Pepper.
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Mexican leader Vincente Fox is on the hot seat tonight after he insulted African-Americans.
They fired 120 rounds at an unarmed motorist in the middle of a neighborhood. Now, the officers are taking an unusual step to face the community.
And which diet should you choose? "Consumer Reports" rates the top diets and names the best for your body type straight ahead.
It is May 14 and you're watching CNN LIVE SATURDAY.
From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin. Our top story in just a moment, but first, other stories making news right now.
A gruesome discovery south of Baghdad today, the bodies of three beheaded males. Doctors say the men were tortured before their heads were cut off.
Authorities find their victim. It turns out the girl depicted in these Internet porn shots was adopted from Russia by a man who abused her but has since adopted...
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LIN: ... come together in a lurid child pornography...
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LIN: And later...
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NANCY FLYNN, EPOLICY INSTITUTE: E-mail and instant messaging creates written records. It's not the same as standing around the water cooler gossiping about something.
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LIN: Peeved at your boss and need to vent? Don't do it on company e-mail. You're watching CNN LIVE SATURDAY and we're back in a moment.
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LIN: Among the most popular stories this hour on CNN.com, a toddler whose mom was slain found in Mexico. I'll have more on this later in the hour. You can also click on to CNN.com for more details.
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LIN: Sheriffs' deputies who fired more than 100 shots at an unarmed motorist in the Compton section of Los Angeles are apologizing and trying to explain. But as Peter Viles reports, residents aren't ready to forgive just yet.
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PETER VILES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Four days after this shooting was caught on tape an unexpected twist. The deputies who fired the shots stood silently while their lawyer apologized.
GREG EMERSON, LAWYER FOR DEPUTIES: They're not hiding. They're honorable, decent individuals. They're proud professionals of the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department. And they're willing to stand up and tell the community that they do apologize and that each one of them, to a person that stands here today, wishes that things would have been a little bit different.
VILES: The lawyer also offered an explanation: the deputies fired because they believed the driver, Winston Hayes, had a gun and was using his vehicle as a weapon, citing this radio warning from a sheriff's helicopter.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He is driving very erratically. It looks as though he actually is aiming to hit deputies.
VILES: On the streets of Compton where bullets filled the air Sunday night, residents we met were not yet ready to accept the apology.
BOBBY BROWN, COMPTON RESIDENT: It's just wrong. What can they do? You know what I'm saying. They shot the man over 100 times, I heard, at his car. There's no call for that.
VILES: Barber Joe Holiday considered my question and threw it right back at me.
JOE HOLIDAY, COMPTON BUSINESS OWNER: How would you feel if someone came over and shot up your neighborhood?
VILES (on camera): Extremely upset.
HOLIDAY: Extremely upset.
VILES (voice-over): Mark Bonner says he has relatives in law enforcement and some sympathy for the deputies.
MARK BONNER, COMPTON RESIDENT: Well, there are two sides to the stories. They're human beings also. I understand that. And they want to go home to their families, you know. There's -- they have a job to do. But the shooting was uncalled for that many times.
VILES: L.A. Sheriff Lee Baca is taking some of the blame and supporting his deputies.
SHERIFF LEE BACA, LOS ANGELES COUNTY: When have you had a peace officer come out through a representative model and say I'm concerned, I have a sense of feeling about this. I want you to know that I don't feel good about this. This has never happened in this county. And this speaks well for the integrity of these deputies.
VILES: Back in Compton, residents are disappointed their city's image has been battered once again.
BONNER: I've been living here in Compton for 39 years and Compton isn't a bad place, as everybody put it up to be.
VILES: Peter Viles for CNN, Compton, California.
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LIN: Well, the driver of the vehicle in that incident, Winston Hayes, was shot four times but the wounds are not life threatening. He was not carrying a gun and has not yet been charged with any crime.
In other news across America, police in suburban Cleveland, Ohio are looking for whoever fatally shot a Pennsylvania doctor during a highway robbery. The doctor was shot in the head on the Ohio Turnpike yesterday.
There is a dragnet across the west for the killer of a Denver police officer as well. More than 1,000 mourners gathered at a downtown cathedral yesterday to pay tribute to Detective Donald Young. Someone shot him to death while he was providing security outside a private baptismal party last weekend.
Police in San Jose, California say they now know the source of the finger in the Wendy's chili case. They say the woman charged with falsely claiming she found the finger in the chili got it from her husband. They say he, well, in turn, got it from a friend who lost it in an industrial accident. Go figure.
Still ahead on CNN LIVE SATURDAY, a family destroyed and a community in shock.
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CHRIS SMITH, DUSTIN DURGA'S FRIEND: I was just devastated. I was just speechless.
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LIN: It was designed to inflict a heavy toll on insurgents but Operation Matador also has had a big impact on the Americans fighting on it. Up next, one Ohio community bears the brunt of the loss.
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LIN: Every week we like to bring you the more personal stories from the front lines and today we have the story of an Ohio unit that has been involved in Operation Matador, hunting for insurgents in Iraq. Now, the Op has wrapped up but not before some of its members made the ultimate sacrifice. An entire Ohio town is remembering their courage. Our Tom Foreman has that story.
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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In every town on every street, at fire stations, schools, stores, the people of Ohio wait for news of their sons and daughters on the front lines of the latest assault in Iraq. Wesley Davids' parents got the visit everyone dreads.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I was in making dinner and...
JODY DAVIDS, CPL. WELSEY DAVIDS' MOTHER: Yes, one minute you have a normal life with, you know, dinner cooking and the next minute everything changes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We regret to inform you...
FOREMAN: Their son died one day past his 20th birthday. His friend and fellow soldier Dustin Durga died on Mother's Day. Dustin's life-long buddy and fellow firefighter, Chris Smith, is still in shock.
SMITH: He was always so upbeat. It was just unreal. You know, he'd always make you laugh.
FOREMAN (on camera): What did you think when you heard the news?
SMITH: As you can imagine, I was just devastated. It -- I was speechless.
FOREMAN (voice-over): Back in January, 150 Marine reservists shipped out of Ohio in what was known as Lucky Lima Company, but in Iraq, the luck has been bad. Many are in the middle of Operation Matador and casualties are reportedly very high. A "Washington Post" reporter embedded with Dustin's unit says every person in the squad of 21 has been hit, at least six killed.
KEN SCHNEIDER, HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER: The last time I saw him, he was here and he was dressed in uniform.
FOREMAN: So flags are lowered at Dustin's high school. Fears are raised.
SCHNEIDER: This is the first one that has really hit home. And I think it makes it real all of a sudden.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hey, how are you doing?
FOREMAN: An informal network has emerged among Ohio's military families and friends. Chris Smith is working the phone too, calling in memories of Dustin.
SMITH: You know I still have some voicemails on my phone that he left.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just got a chance to call and I don't think I will for a while. We probably won't be getting to use these phones very much and I'm not going to be staying around right now. We're going to a place that won't have this stuff.
FOREMAN: Most days, many here say they live their lives unaware of what is going on in Iraq but not this group.
SMITH: He won't be forgotten around here, that's for sure, you know. So he died a hero, that's for sure.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I mean it was so patriotic.
FOREMAN: Many Ohioans are proud and scared and praying about a distant war that is suddenly so close to home.
Tom Foreman, CNN, Pickerington, Ohio.
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LIN: And then there is the story about a human rights worker, a very young one indeed who died. A special Capitol Hill tribute today for Marla Ruzicka. She was the 28-year-old humanitarian rights worker killed in April by a car bomb in Baghdad. Ruzicka, as you may recall, founded the Campaign for Innocent Victims of Conflict. She has often been praised as a crusader who sacrificed much to help others.
In the meantime, she was featured on "America's Most Wanted." The little girl in these pictures believed to be taken at a Disney World Hotel. Well, she's been found and now the FBI thinks it has the man behind the camera.
Plus, captivated by crime -- with so many fixated on forensics, universities across the nation rush to keep up with demand. Becoming a crime scene investigator, that's coming up.
And discouraged with diets? Well, we're going to sort out the good, the bad and the near impossible. That's later when CNN LIVE SATURDAY returns.
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LIN: Welcome back. Here's a quick look at what's happening right now in the news.
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is due to testify Monday before the Military Base Closings Commission. The Pentagon wants to close 33 major facilities and many communities plan to fight the proposal.
Mexican President Vincente Fox is taking heat for saying Mexican immigrants, well, want to take U.S. jobs that -- quote -- "not even blacks want to do." The Reverend Jesse Jackson calls the comment a spurious comparison with ominous racial overtone.
And a cardinal at the Vatican says making Pope John Paul a saint will take time even though Pope Benedict has ordered that the process be sped up. The new pope waived the usual five-year waiting period. But the cardinal points out there are still requirements that take time to fulfill.
And there are new developments in the horrific child pornography case that has made headlines around the world. A young victim who police located this week after years of searching in states is living with a new family. A Pennsylvania federal prosecutor tells CNN the girl was adopted out of foster care and is living under a new name. Police say before she was rescued, the girl was used in hundreds of porn pictures on the Internet. They say it was her adoptive father who put her in those pictures. Now he's been in prison for nearly two years on a child porn conviction. Now, as CNN's David Mattingly reports, Florida officials want to make sure he stays behind bars for good.
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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): More than two years, countless man hours and unknown thousands of dollars in the making, the desperate international hunt for a single child pornography victim ends in a way investigators never predicted.
LT. MATT IRWIN, ORANGE COUNTY SHERIFF'S DEPARTMENT: We have located the victim in our case.
MATTINGLY: Orlando's Orange County investigators, after asking for the public's help in finding the blonde haired girl just two weeks ago, now confirm she has been identified by the FBI and is believed to now be 11 years old.
IRWIN: I say we have identified her. I don't know where she's at. We are working on getting that information. And I understand that there may be ongoing charges in Pennsylvania, which is the state that the victim is from.
MATTINGLY: The girl will remain unidentified to the public. According to the FBI, and Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, the man responsible for putting photos of the girl on the Internet is in a federal prison in Pennsylvania serving a 15-year sentence for production and possession of child pornography. He pleaded guilty in September of 2003. He is identified by Orlando investigators as the girl's adoptive father. The Florida authorities will now pursue molestation charges of their own.
IRWIN: In Florida, based on what we have, he would probably be facing life charges.
MATTINGLY: The international search for the girl began two years ago when Toronto authorities used computers to remove the girl from her pictures so clues could be pulled from the background. Investigators at that time said tiny pieces of evidence gave them hope they could find her.
SGT. PAUL GILLISPIE, TORONTO POLICE: You can often tell when children appear to be abused or when they are abused, whether or not it's the first time or not, it's worse to see children who have just lost their spirit and they don't really react to abuse because you know this is the cost of doing business in their own personal life and that says something.
MATTINGLY: This case immediately stood out from the 50,000 other estimated child porn victims on the Internet because someone from the public was able to identify the bedspread in this photo as one used at a resort in Orlando. The victim quickly became known as the Hotel Girl as authorities pushed the envelope and publicizing previously withheld information in hopes of a break. And Orlando authorities have been told the girl may have been rescued by federal authorities more than a year before their own federal investigation began. Why they were not alerted until late Thursday, they say, is not as big a concern as the well-being of the victim.
David Mattingly, CNN, Atlanta.
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LIN: Well, I talked with Florida's Orange County investigator in this case. Lieutenant Matt Irwin talked about whether it's worth it, taking this girl public and having her testify against her abuser and why authorities didn't know the abuser was already behind bars.
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LIN: Lieutenant, this case has been in the national spotlight for more than a year. Do you have any idea why the FBI was not able to make this case until just last Thursday?
IRWIN: No, I don't have any idea. It's really not been an issue for me. While it's been ongoing for Toronto, I've only had it for a couple months. So I -- you know we're just glad that we got it solved on our end. And I haven't spoken to anybody from the FBI. I don't know any details like that.
LIN: All right. But grateful at least to know that this girl is safe. You are planning, though on pressing criminal charges against her adoptive father who is in federal custody. How are you going to pursue criminal charges and not rip this girl from her private life?
IRWIN: Well, that's obviously an issue that we have and that's why I think time is on our side at this point. We got -- we have time to discuss all these issues and see whether it's worth it or not. And hopefully, Pennsylvania is able to put him away for a long time. If they can't, if their statutes aren't sufficient, ours are, and I will intend to go forward. I think the importance of keeping this man locked up is significant enough to expose the victim to this again if we have to.
LIN: Well, is significant enough that you are willing to expose the victim, meaning that you would have her testify then against her adoptive father?
IRWIN: Well, I would certainly ask the state attorney's office to follow up on that. It wouldn't be my position to make a decision like that, but I would certainly ask the state to address it, yes.
LIN: If this girl had not been found, what were you going to do? You were awaiting a decision whether to show her face publicly because you felt that she was in enough danger.
IRWIN: You're absolutely right. And I think that law enforcement needs some leeway in statutes to -- under certain circumstance release the victim's identity like this. You know you could do it under judicial review, have a judge review the evidence in the case, and make a decision that, you know, a third party decision. There's a variety of ways to do it. But we need some discretion now.
LIN: So how close were you to actually showing her face?
IRWIN: I think that we were at least a month or two away, probably.
LIN: And it's worth it to you, knowing that it could put her in danger?
IRWIN: Well, she's already in danger. It's all -- you know everything is relative. What kind of danger, if she's being molested, you know, every day, do we let her go through with that, you know, for the rest of her life or do we try to intervene? And I lean towards intervening in that circumstance.
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LIN: As for why the FBI did not come forward sooner to reveal that they had already put the abuser behind bars, CNN's David Mattingly has been covering the story for more than a year and he is pursuing those answers from the FBI. But obviously, an example of how difficult it is to coordinate and solve many of these cases. Fifty thousand kids on the Internet in these depraved poses every day alone.
In the meantime, a toddler who disappeared from his New Mexico home has been found in Mexico. Police say a 16-month-old boy disappeared with his stepfather on Mother's Day, the same day the boy's mother was found strangled in her home. Police are still searching for the stepfather who is wanted on a felony kidnapping warrant. They won't call him a suspect in the murder case but they do say they want to question him.
Now, how do crime scene investigators sharpen their skills? Well, they head back to school, the National Forensic Academy. Crime scene investigators from all over the country come to Knoxville, Tennessee to learn new techniques to solve real-world crimes. Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
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SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): With the touch of dark humor, they call it The Harvard of Hellish Violence.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So how is that fire going to burn? It's going to burn like this, isn't it? It's going to be...
GUPTA: National Forensic Academy instructor Mike Dalton has spent more than 20 years fighting and investigating fires. Dalton and his co-instructor, Joanne Devlin, take the students to the burn cells for some live action.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are we ready?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're ready!
GUPTA: One structure is set on fire by lighting rolled up paper as students stand by and watch. The other building goes up faster after getting a boost from an accelerant. Volunteer firefighters stand by to stamp out the blaze. Then it's time to examine both scenes to help discover the marks of arson.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It came up and burned to spread out. OK? What's the difference in this drywall than the one I showed you a while ago out there? It's a lot more calcinated, isn't it? All the moisture has done out. Look it, I mean it's just powder.
JARRETT HALLCOX, PROGRAM DIRECTOR: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
GUPTA: Investigators also get a chance to work a fully burned house.
HALLCOX: So watch your step there.
GUPTA: Program director Jarrett Hallcox says it's all about hands on.
HALLCOX: I mean they're not trained firefighters or fire investigators, but they're oftentimes called out to a scene. So one of the things we decided to do early on in the academy was to have an arson component because they don't -- as one of our students said, you know, he wanted to be able to do more than be in the dumb end of the tape.
GUPTA: Picking through charred remains and zeroing in on burn patterns can help recreate the fire's path.
HALLCOX: But this exercise machine, it's melting from the top and it's got char on the top but none on the bottom, so the fire has come up then burned down on this.
We do a 40-hour course on blood stain...
GUPTA: Then, it's on to the blood house.
HALLCOS: We use real human blood. It's spun down red blood cells. It's been screened. It's clean. It's medic expired blood.
GUPTA: Investigators here were allowed to practice figuring out where the blood goes after certain types of violence.
HALLCOX: And they take various weaponry, baseball bats, sticks, blocks, knives, and spatter blood for themselves so they can see how blood actually travels. They can recreate exactly what went on here and how many people were involved to a tee because they've learned how to read these clues.
GUPTA: The students also get to examine a bullet-riddled car and go to the legendary research facility known as the Body Farm to recover human remains. When the course is over, CSIs walk away with better skills, more prepared to crack crimes in the real world.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.
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LIN: Well, Dr. Sanjay Gupta looks at the real world of crime scene investigation on "ANATOMY OF MURDER" tomorrow at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.
Well, summer is coming and lots of people are trying to get in shape for swimsuits. So what is the best diet to lose weight? We are going to go down the list but it's a short one.
And before you send your next e-mail from work, you need to watch our report on e-snooping. We are going to tell you what may set off alarms at your company.
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LIN: Checking health headlines now, experimental drugs may offer new hopes for cancer patients. They're designed to multi-task. That means they can block a cancer's multiple pathways by cutting off the blood supply to a tumor while also jamming messages for it to grow.
Millions of Americans use a class of drugs known as statins to reduce their cholesterol levels. Now, researchers are saying those same drugs can prevent a range of cancers, including breast cancer. But it's unclear exactly how they lower cancer risks.
And in other health news, confused by all the fad diets? Well, a new ranking may actually help you choose which one is best for you if you're looking to shed a few pounds. Nancy Pappas Metcalfe is the senior editor of "Consumer Reports." The magazine has rated diets from Atkins to The Zone, and she joins me now.
Nancy, it's good to have you because we want to clarify, since there are so many choices out there for people. So we've narrowed the scope of some of them from your article. Let me begin with the best diet for short-term weight loss, your article mention Slim Fast, Atkins and Weight Watchers. Why these and what does it mean short term?
NANCY PAPPAS METCALF, "CONSUMER REPORTS": Well, we looked at the scientific studies that give accurate information on weight loss and what that means is the amount of weight that people on those diets lost within the first six months, which is about as long as people can actively lose weight as a rule.
LIN: And so these were the most effective, the quickest results then?
METCALF: Yes.
LIN: All right. And then in terms of best diet for long-term weight loss, that means keeping it off, I assume?
METCALF: Well, it means how well you have maintained a weight loss at a year.
LIN: All right. So, again, Slim Fast, Ornish, Weight Watchers. Why these three do you think?
METCALF: Weight Watchers was our best overall because it is a diet that's easy to stay on. You have the constant reinforcement of the weekly meetings to keep you honest. And staying on a diet is almost as important as how fast you lose weight because the longer you stay on it, the longer you can lose weight.
LIN: All right. And in terms of what the best diet is for you, the article gives several choices but we've narrowed down a couple of the tips that you offer up. For example, cut the easiest calories first, consider personal preferences, and be flexible, be ready to switch. Let's talk about cutting the easiest calories first. What are those?
METCALF: Well, some suggestions that would work for a lot of people are switching from full sugar soda to water or diet soda. You can save several hundred calories a day that way. If you eat a big bagel in the middle of the morning, either eat a little bagel or no bagel. Look for those empty calories to cut and you might be able to get rid of 400 or 500 a day that way.
LIN: And cutting -- and watching or considering personal preferences, if I just love chocolate cake and I just know that some day I'm going to sit down and you know, eat a slice, maybe Weight Watchers is better for me because there are those choices built into the program.
METCALF: Yes. The Weight Watchers program is extremely flexible. It's the diet that we evaluated that has the most different kinds of foods and it doesn't really exclude any particular food group the way some of the other ones do.
LIN: And be ready to switch, an obvious choice. When you took a look at the research, because you took a look at, what, almost a dozen different diets, what was the common theme there? I mean if you were to give advice to your best friends and families, and they were taking a look at, you know, The Zone or Atkins or you know -- because some of them even conflict with each other. Some want more carbs. Some want less carbs. Some want no carbs. What did your research find?
METCALF: Well, all of the diets that we looked at are low enough in calories that if you can stay on them, you can lose weight. You need to consider your own personal preferences. For example, if you're a vegetarian, the Atkins Diet is probably going to be a little tough for you where as the Ornish Diet, which is an all vegetarian diet, might be a better choice. If you like to eat a lot of different kinds of foods, Weight Watchers. If portion control is a problem, Slim Fast might work because it controls portions for you.
LIN: And the people you found to be the most successful at dieting and keeping the weight off, how did they do it, do you think?
METCALF: Well, everybody does it different way. The key to being able to diet and successfully is being able to stick to the diet. So what we are saying is try a diet for three weeks. Do it very conscientiously. If at the end of the three weeks it's a diet you feel you can live with and you're losing weight, it might be a diet that works for you. If not, don't hesitate to switch.
LIN: All right, Nancy Pappas Metcalf. Good luck everybody out there. It's swimsuit season, and we all want to look good but be healthy, too. Thanks. Great advice.
LIN: Well, the next time you are tempted to slam your boss on company e-mail, you might want to think again. The links to which employers are going to spy on you and the precautions you should take, but first, here's Al Hunt to tell us what's ahead on "THE CAPITAL GANG" -- Al.
AL HUNT, CO-HOST, "THE CAPITAL GANG": "THE CAPITAL GANG" looks at the latest bump in the road towards John Bolton's confirmation, Cold War rhetoric by President Bush and Eastern Europe, and Conservatives hailing embattled Majority Leader Tom Delay. Senator John Sununu joins the gang for that and much more next on CNN.
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LIN: So you ever send an e-mail to a co-worker complaining about your boss? Well, if so, you should probably know your boss may end up reading those colorful critiques. Companies are now able to intercept employee e-mails using technology to put a red alert on written words they deem suspicious. CNN's Daniel Sieberg reports.
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"LAURA", FIRED FOR E-MAIL COMPLAINT OF BOSS: I had written an e-mail to a co-worker complaining about my boss and complaining about his behavior. And within a week of that e-mail, I was fired.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This woman asked that we only identify her as Laura. She's afraid of what this impulsive e-mail will do to future employment prospects.
"LAURA": I had said that the boss was a jerk. He had been acting a bit arrogant and pompous with me all week.
SIEBERG: An official with her former employer says Laura was let go for a number of personnel reasons and the derogatory comments in her e-mail were a factor. This official also says the company informs all employees that their e-mail is monitored.
(on camera): Did you know that your e-mail was being monitored? "LAURA": No, I had no idea.
SIEBERG: Well, how did you feel when you found out?
"LAURA": I felt a bit violated.
FLYNN: Most employees tend to think my e-mail is my business. My employer has no right to read my e-mail messages, particularly if it's a message to a friend or family member. But in reality, here in the U.S., the federal government gives employers the right to monitor all employee e-mail, instant messaging, and Internet activity.
SIEBERG (on camera): Thousands of e-mail messages fly in and out of companies all day long. While it's impossible for the boss to literally look over your shoulder, businesses are turning to technology, computers that can read every word of every e-mail and raise red flags.
PAUL JUDGE, CTO, CIPHERTRUST: We've taken the approach of, you know, having machines and algorithms that can go out and understand what's the vocabulary of normal legitimate business e-mail and then what are the anomalies to that. What's the vocabulary that's used in jokes or used in chain letters.
SIEBERG (voice-over): Ciphertrust helps companies sort through the flood of e-mail, running ever message through a series of filters, looking for key words, some of them are so offensive we can't show them to you. The company can then decide whether to respond or let it go.
JUDGE: I've seen many that set up a rule that says notify human resources and notify the labor department. Or an organization may set up a rule that says just block that message; do not let it go out of network.
SIEBERG: And while it might not get out, it could well come back. Most employees don't realize e-mail is forever.
FLYNN: What everybody needs to be aware of is that e-mail and instant messaging creates written records. It's not the same as standing around the water cooler gossiping about somebody.
SIEBERG: For "Laura", the experience left her angry and frustrated. But right now, at least she doesn't have to worry about her e-mail. She's currently self-employed.
Daniel Sieberg, CNN, Phoenixville, Pennsylvania.
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LIN: Well, that's all the time we have for this hour but coming up next, "THE CAPITAL GANG." And I'll be back at 10:00 Eastern. Tonight, the lure to the side of the road story, a doctor shot on an Ohio Freeway as his family watched. Much more on this story tonight and a check of the hour's headlines and then "THE CAPITAL GANG."
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CATHERINE CALLAWAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What is America's favorite music: classical, country, rap or rock?
NINA ZAGAT, ZAGAT SURVEY: We recently published our first ever survey of music. Over 10,000 people participated. And 50 percent of the people who participated listened to rock 'n' roll more than any other genre of music. Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run" came in at the No. 1 most popular album of all time.
CALLAWAY: And rounding out the top three most popular albums, The Beatles with Abbey Road and Sergeant Pepper.
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