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Teenager Dead After School Shooting Incident; Ariel Sharon Slowly Recovering From Stroke; U.S. Attempts to Kill al Zawahiri May Hove Gone Tragically Awry

Aired January 14, 2006 - 18:00   ET

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

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCOR: The late longtime Minnesota senator was remembered at a service at the Washington National Cathedral. McCarthy died last month at age of 89.
And Shelley Winters has died, from chorus girl to Broadway to two-time Oscar winner. Shelley winters was an always working entertainment staple since the early 1940s. She was 85.

Those were the headlines but this is our top story. The brother of Christopher Penley, the middle schoolboy who took a classmate hostage yesterday tells CNN, the 15 is dead. The A.P., though, is reporting that Penley is brain-dead, but is being kept alive while his organs are harvested. Police shot Christopher piney yesterday after he pointed what looked like a handgun at an officer. For a time Penley held 13-year-old Maurice Cotey hostage. Today Cotey described his harrowing experience. CNN's J.J. Ramberg has more from Longwood, Florida.

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MAURICE COTEY, 7TH GRADER: We were in the classroom, and we were about to do a test, and one of my classmates said this kid has a gun.

J.J. RAMBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In this exclusive firsthand account to an Orlando television station, CNN affiliate WKMG. Thirteen-year- old Maurice Cotey and his mother recount his frightening encounter on Friday. When eighth grader Christopher Penley entered his class.

COTEY: He went to the lights and turned them off and everyone was starting to be scared and everyone ran out of the classroom except for me and this one girl, we were walking and he said, you stay, so the girl, she ran out of the classroom, and he told me to get up against the black board, and I did, and it put the gun to my back, and then I told him please don't shoot, me please don't shoot me.

RAMBERG: Police say Penley was waving around a pellet gun, but one modified to look like a real gun.

COTEY: So he said, go towards the closet and I was walking, then he got me to the closet door and turned me around and started to point the gun at me, so I started to grab for it, and he pulled it away, and then, I grabbed for it one more time because he pointed it at me for a little while, so I grabbed it and twisted it, and I pointed it at him, and he still had the gun in his hand, though, and I pointed it near his legs. And he kicked me into the closet, and I still had the gun twisted, and then he -- he ran into the closet and that got me up, and then I pushed him and I ran out of classroom.

RAMBERG: Chased by a deputy and others, Penley ducked into a rest room. Officers say the teen was threatening to kill himself or die somehow, and refused calls to drop the gun. The sheriff says Penley aimed at police who shot him.

Maurice Cotey is just grateful that the gun was fake.

COTEY: I feel like it was a good thing that it wasn't a real gun, but if it was, I probably would have been dead.

RAMBERG: J.J. Ramberg, CNN, Longwood, Florida.

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LIN: I'm going to be talking with Maurice and his father coming up tonight in our prime-time show at 10:00.

In the meantime, there was a huge catch for the FBI. After months of searching, agents have arrested accused Chicago mobster, Joseph "The Clown" Lombardo. The FBI says the 77-year-old is linked to more than a dozen murder plots stretching back to the 1970s. The top agent in charge compared Lombardo's arrest to that of another captured fugitive.

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ROBERT GRANT, FBI SPECIAL AGENT: The evidence from this arrest indicated that he had been moving from place to place which we would call the equivalent of spider holes for the mob. Most our investigation involved looking over a long history with Mr. Lombardo, looking over all of his associates, all his contacts and checking what we call the spider holes, and we caught him in one of those spider holes.

Appears he had been in that residence for a couple of weeks, had with him at the time of the arrest, a suitcase with clothes. He has very long hair down to his shoulders. He has a very long beard. Wore a baseball cap. Had a lot of cash, for all intents and purposes, the agent said he looks like Saddam Hussein.

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LIN: Lombardo's attorney says his client is upbeat and that he expects Lombardo will be acquitted.

So the CIA used an air strike to take a shot at what it thought was the number two man in al Qaeda. Well, 18 people are reported dead, but Pakistani villagers say Ayman al Zawahiri was never there. Our senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre standing by with more. Jamie, what happened here? Did the CIA get it wrong?

JAMIE MCINTYRE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's too early to say, Carol. Even with the best intelligence it's difficult to target an individual from the air, and at this point, it's not at all clear, the U.S. was operating with the best intelligence. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MCINTYRE (voice-over): What began as what the CIA apparently believed was a good shot at taking out Osama bin Laden's chief deputy may be turning into an embarrassing example of the limitations of targeting individuals from the air. At least 18 people died Friday morning in what knowledgeable source tell CNN was a CIA-ordered air strike in northwestern Pakistan. Among the dead, women and children. According to a Pakistani intelligence official apparently not the intended target.

Al Qaeda's number two, Ayman al Zawahiri. Once that became clear, Pakistan filed a formal complaint with the U.S. ambassador, protesting the use of force within Pakistan's border.

SHEIKH RASHID AHMAD, PAKISTANI INFORMATION MINISTER: We deeply regret that civilian lives have been lost in an incident in Bajorajinsy (ph). While this act is highly condemnable, we have been for a long time, striving to rid all our tribal areas of foreign intruders.

MCINTYRE: This is the third time in two months the U.S. has pulled the trigger inside Pakistan. On December 3rd, intelligence source say the CIA sent missiles into a house in North Waziristan an area where sympathy for al Qaeda is known to be high. U.S. officials privately claim the CIA reportedly killed a top al Qaeda planner Hamza Rabia, even though Pakistan's government officially maintained Rabia died in a bomb making accident. Last Saturday, U.S. helicopters reportedly attacked a house in the same ungoverned tribal area, killing eight people.

Pakistan leaders lodged a protest with the U.S. military in Afghanistan who denied operating in the area. If it's confirmed innocent civilians were killed this time, experts say Pakistan may be under pressure to reel in the CIA to show its sovereignty is intact.

PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: My guess is that probably the CIA will decide here on a case-by-case basis if it's worth doing something or not. And public apologies will be made. But I don't think the agency is going to suddenly say OK, we're never going to go off to high level members of al Qaeda, if there's a risk of killing civilians.

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MCINTYRE (on camera): Experts also say it's too soon to say none of the dead are terrorists and say that even if it turns out that Zawahiri wasn't there, other senior al Qaeda leaders may have been killed. The FBI is standing by to provide DNA testing assistance to the Pakistani government if the Pakistani government asks. Carol?

LIN: Jamie, do you know if Egypt in fact has a DNA sample from Zawahiri's brother who apparently is jailed in Egypt, and if so, whether that would be used in DNA testimg.

MCINTYRE: Where do they get the DNA for the tests? And it doesn't have to be from the person himself. It can be from a close relative. And in fact, Zawahiri's brother is in a jail in Egypt. Egypt an ally of the United States, and it's my understanding that they have provided DNA samples, so that the U.S. could compare those and try to make a positive identification.

LIN: Still unclear how the DNA testing would be conducted, right? They would have to get samples from the tribal territories and Pakistan would have to agree to it, right.

MCINTYRE: Right. Well, again, at the request from the Pakistani government. Pakistan could conduct a test or it could ask the U.S. for its expertise in this area, but one way or another, they'll test the bodies and determine for certain whether one of them is Zawahiri.

LIN: Jamie, you're great. Thank you so much. Zawahiri's role as Osama bin Laden's top adviser makes him a prime target for the U.S. Investigators believe he was the key architect of the 9/11 terror attacks. He's also thought to play a key role in the deadly 1998 bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa.

Now, the U.S. State Department offered a $25 million reward for his capture, and four years ago, the U.S. bombed his home, killing his wife and children.

Well, in just a few minutes I'm talking with CNN's Nic Robertson. He's our senior international correspondent, and we're going to be talking about the latest attempt to kill Zawahiri and whether it's going to make it harder to track his movements in the future.

And remember to stay tuned to CNN, day and night, for the most reliable news about your security.

So much for mild weather for those of you in the Southeast. You've been enjoying it lately. Overnight, a stormy cold front rolled over Alabama, Georgia and the Carolinas. Plenty of rain, hail, sleet, very high winds and reports of at least one tornado. At least 25,000 homes lost power. And in Alabama, one person was killed in a house collapse blamed on the weather.

So plenty of people hunkering down in the South, wondering what they can expect. More winter storms, perhaps, Monica?

MONICA MCNEAL, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yeah, it definitely could see more in the future. But for right now things remain relatively quiet with the exception of the wind. Carol, you're going to be amazed when I show you some of these wind gusts. But I do want to point out something to you.

Richard Turk (ph) from Level Plains, Alabama, sent this picture, this is what's left of his chicken houses. He believes it was a tornado, according to the National Weather Service they say it was very, very strong wind damage. Across the Southeast, things are quiet that's what's left of the storm system as it continues to dump rainfall across parts of Boston back into Portland, Maine. You can see on the backside of the system it's starting to switch over to snow, across Upstate New York you are seeing snow heading down into parts of Pennsylvania as well. Temperatures very chilly, 29 degrees right now in Detroit, 35 in Cincinnati, 36 in Washington. But notice New York, 47 and 55. The cold air has not made it into your neck of the woods as of just yet. Take a looked at some of these wind gusts, Carol. Winds are gusting right now - winds are out of north and west at 28 miles per hour in Wilmington, gusting up to about 35 to 40 miles per hour. So some very, very dangerous weather.

Tomorrow how are things going to shape up for us? Well, the trough across the middle of the country, the southern plains, it's going to really intensify and those fire dangers again. It will be cold across the Southeast and windy in the Northeast. Carol?

LIN: Not good news for the Palo Pinto folks in Texas near Dallas. They have got a fire burning there.

MCNEAL: You're absolutely right. I thought about that and was thinking more troubles for them.

LIN: All right. Monica. Thank you so much.

Well, flu symptom sufferers, listen up. The Centers for Disease Control says two widely described medications - hope (inaudible) -- will do you no good at all this flu season. It has to do with a particular strain of flu making its way around the world. Amantadine and rimantadine ineffective according to the CDC against the dominant bug. Two other common prescriptions still get the thumbs up, Tamiflu and Relenza.

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DR. JULE GERBERDING, CDC DIRECTOR: Ninety-one percent of the flu strains are resistant to amantaidne and rimantadine, two of the important drugs that we have available to treat influenza. This is a contrast to the situation in the recent past where very few isolates were resistant to these drugs.

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LIN: Well, the ineffectiveness means there will likely be a rush on the medications that do work against this year's flu. Doctors recommend choosing your medications carefully.

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DR. MARC SIEGEL, NYU MEDICAL SCHOOL: Relenza has limitation because it's inhaled. So you really can't use it easily in asthmatics or people having respiratory difficulties. Tamiflu can be used in everyone and is useful for influenza a and influenza b. It's better tolerated than the older drugs because it doesn't cause irritability or insomnia or anxiety. But I would caution that if we're busy stockpiling Tamiflu on a personal basis, worrying about pandemic, we might not have enough available for use for a regular garden variety yearly flu which is currently in its throes right now.

(END VIDEO CLIP) LIN: And right now there's a bird flu scare in Western Europe. A man who turned up in a Brussels hospital with suspicious symptom has initially tested negative for the deadly strain, but he's going to have more tests this weekend. Doctors were concerned because he had recently returned from affected areas of Turkey.

The intelligent design debate heats up at a Southern California school. Why supporters of whether God created man and the world, whether it can survive a legal challenge. That's the class and the risk (ph).

And risking her life to bridge two worlds, how an Iraqi woman is making a difference for U.S. troops in Iraq.

And how do the rich and famous stay so thin? Well, we're going to reveal one doctor's realistic dietary plan. You're watching CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

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Across America today. Volcanic ash is falling on towns on Alaska's Kenai Peninsula. The now awakened Mount Augustine sent up a plume of steam and ash and dirt this morning. Scientists expect more frequent and more significant eruptions in the coming days.

And it's a holiday in Greenville County, South Carolina. That is the last county in the state to make Dr. Martin Luther King's birthday an official celebration. Black community leaders point to the overwhelmingly conservative population there for opposing the King holiday in so long.

And still in critical condition, Randy McCloy, the only man to survive the explosion at a West Virginia coal mine. He remains in a coma long after carbon monoxide exposure. Doctors still don't know the severity of his brain damage.

And there's a special memorial service for victims of that mine disaster. We are goingto carry it live on CNN. Join us tomorrow afternoon at 2:00 Eastern. And then later, Larry King speaks to the families of those killed. That's at 9:00 p.m. eastern.

A fault line over intelligent design in California. That's just a fancy way of saying creationism. A group of parents has filed a lawsuit, they are challenging the teaching of the controversial theory that God created the world in a public school. Dan Simon has that story.

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DAN SIMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Lebec, California. A tiny town an hour's drive north of Los Angeles hardly looks like a place filled with turmoil. But at a school board meeting Friday, the friction was more than evident.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You are paying for this and I am paying for this. SIMON: More than a hundred people packed a meeting room because of a controversial new class offered at Frazier Mountain High School. A class that teaches intelligent design which challenges Darwin's theory of evolution that man, for example, evolved from apes.

(on camera): Intelligent design holds the belief that nature is so complicated that it must have been created by a higher power. Opponents say it is OK if you want to teach it, just don't do it in public schools.

KATHY HINTLIAN, INTELLIGENT DESIGN OPPONENT: If they want to learn about it, learn through their church.

ROBERT DELOACH, INTELLIGENT DESIGN OPPONENT: I think that the government should remain neutral in matters of religion.

SIMON: That simple?

DELOACH: That simple.

SIMON (voice-over): Parents are suing the school district and its board which narrowly approved the course, claiming it brings religion into the classroom. The group Americans United for Separation of Church and State file the papers on their behalf.

REV. BARRY LYNN, GROUP FILED LAWSUIT: What's unfortunately happening in California is there is an effort to displace good science with a particular religious viewpoint.

SIMON: But supporters of intelligent design disagree.

BRENT FREDEIKSEN, PARENT: This particular class is my son's choice to explore the possibility of origin of life.

SIMON: Brent Fredeiksen said his son makes the decision to take the course. The 15-year-old freshman says the teacher isn't shoving anything down her student's throats.

CHRISTIAN FREDEIKSEN, STUDENT: She hasn't told us any of her opinions and she just lets us think for ourselves.

SIMON: Senior Sam Alexander would be devastated if the course went away.

What have you learned?

SAM ALEXANDER, STUDENT: I've learned that evolution has become, over the years, more and more -- more and more people decide that it's not completely true and that there has to be another belief or another thing that replaces it.

SIMON: And what is that?

ALEXANDER: That is an intelligent designer.

SIMON: Meaning God? ALEXANDER: Yes, God, the Christian God who created earth in 6 days.

SIMON: Frazier High isn't the first school offering an intelligent design course. A school in Dover, Pennsylvania required it in a biology class. But a judge nixed that idea, saying it was unconstitutional because it promoted religion in the schools. But supporters of the course in Lebec say their course is optional.

In any case a judge in California will have to make a similar call, a call on whether kids should be exposed to alternative theories how the world came to be. Dan Simon, CNN, Los Angeles.

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LIN: The CIA strikes a target in hopes of taking out an al Qaeda leader. Why would the agency think he was there? And what does this strike mean for the war on terror?

And in Iraq.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For lack of a better way of putting it, she's got more guts than the men interpreters than we've got.

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LIN: How a young Iraqi woman is risking her life to help U.S. troops.

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LIN: Every week we like to bring you the more personal stories from the front lines and today we're going to tell you the story of a young Iraqi woman. She's small in stature but big on courage, and doing one of the most dangerous jobs in Iraq. Our Michael Holmes has her story.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): There are no shortages of war stories in Iraq, nor close calls. Take this one.

"SARAH", TRANSLATOR: They start shooting, and they were shooting mortars at us, I got injured from mortars, I got scars. You want to see scars?

HOLMES: She's on patrol with the U.S. military except Sarah is no soldier. In a country full of dangerous jobs, one of the riskiest is hers, being an Iraqi translating for American soldiers.

SARAH: I live this life three years, this become my life. I can't just leave it.

HOLMES: Most Iraqi translators like ODB here cover their faces, recognition on television or indeed on the streets could mean death for them or their families, but they say it's worth it. The diminutive Sarah might be short on height but she is long on courage say her U.S. friends who asked us to hide her face, even if she won't.

SARAH: I'm serving my country, I'm serving the U.S. Army, it's fun, but dangerous at the same time, but I like it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: For lack of a better way to put, it she's got more guts than a lot of the men interpreters we got.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Stay here.

HOLMES: There are at least 4,000 Iraqi translators working for the U.S., military, up to 150 have died doing so. Sarah stands out for all kinds of reasons. Just 19 years old, she's been doing this three years already, and has braved too many encounters with insurgents to count.

1ST LT. WILLIAM PHILLIPS, U.S. ARMY: I admire her courage, it's hard to say you're scared of something when you have a 19-year-old girl half your size who is unafraid of anything that is going on.

HOLMES (on camera): This is a crucial job, these people are not only dealing in words but people's lives, American and Iraqi. For example, Iraqis have died because they have not understood orders shouted to them in English or because their actions have been misunderstood.

SARAH: I feel like I'm responsible because -- one word from me, a guy can live or can get shot.

HOLMES (voice-over): On this patrol, one of hundreds Sarah has been on, house searchers, Sarah explaining to locals why and what to do. Part of Sarah's popularity is not just the way she does her job, but the way she can make these guys laugh, even in the back of a Bradley fighting vehicle in an area infamous for roadside bombs.

SPEC. GERARD CALLOWAY, U.S. ARMY: She's the best there is, she does good on questioning people and she knows when the dirty man's around, she's a big help and a big asset to the team. That's what she is. She's a part of our team.

HOLMES: Sarah says her unit, her military base is her home now. She says she can't go back to her old life, and that life isn't important now.

SARAH: I'm not scared. Only God can take my soul.

HOLMES: Michael Holmes, CNN near Baghdad.

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LIN: And the hunt for al Qaeda leaders. What does the government do to track terror suspects in some of the world's most remote regions?

SHANNON COOK, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, I'm Shannon Cook, I'll tell you why doctors are slightly optimistic about Ariel Sharon's latest test results. Carol?

LIN: And exercising isn't the only thing need to take off the holiday pounds, one doctor tells us what we need to eat to whittle that waist away. You're watching CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

Happening right now in the news, there is still no word on the fate of Ayman al Zawahiri. U.S. sources say Osama bin Laden's number two was the target of a CIA air strike in a village in Pakistan. And Pakistan has lodged a protest against the attack which killed 18 people. Nic Robertson is going to have more on this in just a moment.

In the meantime, the brother of the boy who took a classmate hostage yesterday tells CNN the 15-year-old is dead. The A.P. is reporting, however, that Penley is brain-dead, but is being kept alive while his organs are harvested. Police shot the eighth grader when he pointed a gun at officers who didn't know it was a pellet gun.

Bad news for flu sufferers this year. The Centers for Disease Control say two drugs, commonly used to treat symptoms, will not work on this year's flu. Two other drugs, Tamiflu and Relenza, do work.

A NASA probe has been gathering dust for seven years, that's a good thing. The Stardust spacecraft is expected to land in Utah early tomorrow, carrying dust it collected from a comet and other parts of space.

More now on the air strike believed to have targeted Ayman al Zawahiri. The number two leader in al Qaeda. CNN Senior International Correspondent Nic Robertson with more on this air strike. First of all, we don't know if it was the number two man in al Qaeda, do we yet?

NIC ROBERTSON, SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Pakistani officials are indicating it doesn't appear to be him from the bodies they've looked at. They say the investigation is still going on, there say the indications are there were foreigners in the area, but no, it doesn't look as if it was him.

LIN: If it was him, how did the CIA track him down?

ROBERTSON: Again, that's very, very difficult to know. There have been reports from people, locals in the area, local Pakistanis in the area they heard spy aircraft flying overhead for the last three days. Perhaps he was being tracked by Predator aircraft, having a visual lock on him.

Perhaps Pakistani intelligence officials have been able to bribe somebody in the area that perhaps knew Zawahiri was in the area. Bribe someone to tell them where he was staying. Perhaps from some of these videotapes that Zawahiri's been releasing, one just over a week ago.

LIN: Does it show that the reward, there is a $25 million reward on his head, that money will go a long way anywhere in the world. Does it prove that that reward incentive might be working?

ROBERTSON: It's very, very difficult to say. One of the things that reward incentive has to work against in that area Pakistan are these very strong tribal loyalties. So while you might get that $25 million and you might take your family who knows where, out of the country, somewhere else, start a new life. Your extended family, your tribe could come under attack, could come under threat, what would happen to them? there are a lot of big implications.

So while it's a large amount of money, there are some other very strong bonds that has to work again. But, yes, money certainly talks in the area and certainly talks for some people. But Zawahiri, bin Laden, very, very careful, we understand, about who is in their inner circle, who really knows where they are.

LIN: If the tapes provided information, do you think we're likely to see another tape or not?

ROBERTSON: What's Zawahiri going to take away from all of this? Did he realize that there is somebody in the inner circle he can't trust. Did somebody burn him say, he's going to be in this village on this day the go look for him.

If that was the case, perhaps he may lay off for a while. Perhaps, he may realize that somebody has been able to track this tape handoff. People familiar with how this works and the type of investigation, trying to track down such waves of people hand off videotapes, they say it's motorcycles on a busy street, somebody passes it off, you lose the trail breaks.

LIN: And secrets are kept in that part of the world.

ROBERTSON: Very busy town, if you're following somebody on foot, they make a quick move, gone.

LIN: Nic, are we safer as a result of this air strike, or are we as Americans in more danger?

ROBERTSON: I think with every air strike that impacts and kills Pakistanis without a positive result it's hard for United States ally President Musharraf to continue to allow this type of activity in his country. He doesn't broadcast it, but essentially he does.

It does make it harder for that effort to find Osama bin Laden and Ayman al Zawahiri in this area. It makes it kind of politically harder. Are we safer? Very, very difficult to tell. The ideology is out, and that's what really the fight against terrorist is fighting against, the ideology.

Perhaps Zawahiri and bin Laden are not effected in getting operations off the ground on a weekly, daily basis.

LIN: We're waiting for DNA testing results and we'll see what happens. Thank you very much, Nic.

On the terror watch in Afghanistan, the Taliban killed one of their own. A former Taliban government official was shot and killed in Kandahar today. The Taliban claimed responsibility, pointing to his support of the U.S. backed government in Afghanistan.

And in Spain, a judge releases an Islamic terror suspect, while keeping seven others in jail. They are part of a group arrested this week, linked to al Qaeda. They're charged with recruiting an Algerian suicide bomber who killed 19 Italians in Iraq. Twelve other suspects will be arraigned tomorrow.

Other stories make headlines around the world. Ten days after suffering a massive stroke, Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remains comatose. For more we're going to turn to Shannon Cook. Still no signs that Sharon might wake up.

SHANNON COOK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Doctors today say Sharon has shown no signs of emerging from his coma even though they began reducing his sedatives early this week. Doctors do say that tests show activity in both sides of Sharon's brain, so that's encouraging. The 77-year-old remains in serious condition in Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem. Sharon has undergone 13 hours of surgery to reduce bleeding in his brain. One doctor says his recovery could take months.

Let's turn our attention to Haiti, actors Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie paid a visit to the country Friday. They were there to celebrate the anniversary of a charity that supports food and scholarship distribution. Jolie, who's a goodwill ambassador for the U.N., has helped raise money for this charity in the past. The couple recently, by the way, announced they are expecting a baby this summer.

And speaking of babies, in Spain, a special baptism for a special little girl, two-month-old Princess Leonor. She is the first born from Crown Prince Felipe and Princess Letizia. The royal baby was baptized at the king's palace in Madrid today. The archbishop of Madrid performed the ceremony. Apparently the baby flinched but she didn't cry. Princess Leonor is second in line to inherit the throne after her father.

Now, Carol, I have an interesting animal story. We all like an animal story on a Saturday.

LIN: Bring it on.

COOK: You are familiar with the phrase pigs might fly? We know it hasn't happened yet. Three pigs in Taiwan glow in the dark.

LIN: Glow in the dark?

COOK: How about that. Taiwanese researchers have bred pigs that are tinted fluorescent green, their eyes mouths and feet are particularly green. How do you make a pig green?

We're told researchers injected the animal's embryos with fluro (ph) green protein taken from jellyfish.

LIN: Why would they do something like this? Why do they need to make a pig glow and be green?

COOK: That is such a good question. It's all in the name of stem cell research. Pigs are commonly used to help in research with human diseases. In this case researchers say they're going to monitor tissue changes overtime, and being green apparently helps that. I should point out, there are partially green pigs elsewhere. This is a unique pig, because it's not only green on the outside, but researchers say it's green on the inside. All the organs, totally green. Hot green.

LIN: My gosh. Not hard to find in the dark.

COOK: Gives new meaning to green eggs and ham.

LIN: You read that book too?

COOK: Yes.

LIN: Thanks, Shannon.

COOK: Thanks, Carol.

LIN: What can middle America learn from Park Avenue when it comes to losing weight. I'm going to talk with a diet doctor to find out how the rich lose all those pounds.

And she's in the running for a Golden Globe, what Shirley Maclaine thinks about her nomination and acting and what she wants to do next.

First, here's what's coming up at the top of the hour on CNN's "ON THE STORY."

ALI VELSHI, CNN ANCHOR: We are "ON THE STORY" at The George Washington University in the nation's Capitol. Christiane Amanpour is reporting from Iran as it restarts its nuclear program. Suzanne Malveaux talks about the White House reaction, Ed Henry is on the big political story of the week, the Samuel Alito hearings. And Zain Verjee on her exclusive interview with the first lady.

All that is coming up. All "ON THE STORY."

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LIN: Welcome back. We just got some new developments on the shooting down in Longwood, Florida. The 15-year-old boy, Christopher Penley, who was shot by a S.W.A.T. police officer after Christopher Penley allegedly pointed that gun at that police officer. We've heard reports that Penley has passed away, that he died, but also reports that he may be brain damaged. Let's hear from a family friend, Bucky Hurt, who talked to reporter a short time ago.

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JENNINGS "BUCKY" HURT: The one thing is that his boy is brain- dead at this point. But Ralph wanted him kept alive all day so that they can donate his organs, and that process is under way.

They'll take him to surgery and remove all his organs and then what happens is, they fly in from all around the country and get the organs tonight and fly back to save other children elsewhere. That's what he wanted, was for other children to live if his son had to die.

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LIN: The Penley family clearly grieving after their 15-year-old son Christopher Penley went to school on Friday with a doctored up pellet gun to look like a real nine millimeter handgun, which is why police opened fire on the boy.

A short time ago we heard from another family friend, Mark Nation, who described what happened that day from the family's point of view.

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MARK NATION, PENLEY FAMILY ATTORNEY: Ralph, Christopher's father spoke with the police, before Ralph was shot and told them he does not have a gun. It's a pellet gun that's been painted black, and he was on his way there to help talk his son out of this situation. When he got to the school, they would not let him in, and he was later told ...

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LIN: That was Mark Nation, he is the Penley family attorney, describing from the father's point of view what happened. He tried to reach police to tell them it was not a real gun.

I'm going to be interviewing a little boy, a 13-year-old boy, who was held hostage briefly and managed to try to wrestle that gun away from Christopher Penley, a dramatic scenario in a classroom. We'll hear his side of the story tonight, in our prime time show, at 10:00.

We've got much more straight ahead, including an interview that will give us a little break from the terrible news of the day. How the rich stay thin. You've seen the pictures, now can you look like them, coming up.

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LIN: In your "Health Watch," they say you can never be too thin or too rich. If you can't be rich, then perhaps you can be thin, let's hope you're healthy. The fact is there's a new book out, "How the Rich Get Thin." Jana Klauer, it's author, is a Park Avenue diet doctor, and she's here to give us some tips.

Dr. Klauer, you've seen them, right? You've seen it all when it comes to Park Avenue as to how these women stay so thin and beautiful. Tom Wolfe once wrote about these women, and he described them as social x-rays in his book "Bonfire of the Vanities." So how thin is thin enough?

JANA KLAUER, "HOW THE RICH GET THIN": I think that's a very interesting point that you make. I think too thin is never good. You do not want to be unhealthfully thin. You want to be thin in a healthy way. It is all about health, and, in fact, excessive weight is associated with a great many diseases, as we know in this country and is growing rapidly.

LIN: It's so hard to stay thin, you've got the parties, you've got social circuit, you've got these clothes that you need to fit into. How do the rich do it?

KLAUER: You're right. In my practice, what I see are individual who have a plan for every aspect of their life. But like many of us, they struggle with their weight and I give them a plan. I think it is having a plan, planning ahead for that hunger crunch and certain kind of nonnegotiable principles.

LIN: Like what?

KLAUER: Well, number one is daily exercise.

LIN: Like with a personal trainer kind of exercise? Or can you just take a walk.

KLAUER: No! you do not have to have a personal trainer. This isn't just a diet for the rich. Yes, can you take a walk. Yes, you should, you should walk with purpose, you should walk with your shoulders back and down, that's one thing.

Also, another thing we've seen is that by starting the day with protein, weight is lost faster. So rather than having cereal in the morning, why not have some beautiful yogurt and you'll get a little calcium with that too and some fruit or eggs, the wonderful omega three eggs. High quality protein in the morning actually will help to you lose weight faster.

LIN: What about when you go out?

KLAUER: When you go out. What a wonderful question, yes, you must plan ahead for that. First of all, don't go out when you're starving, have a little something to eat. Have a hard boiled egg is almost a perfect snack.

LIN: Because you say the rich, they look at a social party as a networking opportunity, not an eating opportunity.

KLAUER: They do. Often they do. I think a lot of people who are kind of success-oriented are driven in that aspect that every social occasion has a function. They are sure to target the people that they want to talk with to accomplish a donation to a charity or to make a business project succeed, and that's social networking. So it may look like they're partying, but often that's business, too.

LIN: It sounds like eat with purpose. Get the protein early and you mentioned calcium. Does calcium have beneficial effects like making you less hungry or doing something to your system to burn calories more? I hear things now with calcium and weight loss.

KLAUER: Beautiful question. It absolutely does. In 1982 Dr. David McLaren (ph) showed us that calcium can help individuals control their blood pressure. It also is a -- dairy products specifically. It is also associated with reduced risk for colon cancer, and now, new studies out of the University of Tennessee have shown that dairy products help us to lose weight faster and they target that very harmful fat around the middle.

LIN: Dr. Klauer, a new plan for the new year. Sounds like a lot of yogurt is going to be involved. Thanks so much.

KLAUER: Great, Carol.

LIN: Look forward to reading more on the book.

In the meantime, the Hollywood award season, if you want to see skinny bodies, that season is off and running. The Golden Globes are being handed out on Monday and CNN Entertainment Correspondent Sibila Vargas is standing by with one of the nominees is legendary actress Shirley Maclaine, Sibila?

SIBILA VARGAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: That's right. Before there was Julia Roberts, there was Shirley Maclaine. Her firey red hair and bright smile made her one of America's sweethearts. Now at 71, Maclaine is being recognized at The Golden Globes for her supporting role in "In Her Shoes." I sat down with the actress to talk about the honor.

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SHIRLEY MACLAINE, NOMINEE I guess after being absent for 20 years, I can't expect to you have a relationship with me.

VARGAS: You've gotten all sorts of awards, you're not a stranger to it, what does it mean to you?

MACLAINE: I think the foreign press people stick together with senior citizen. That's what it means to me, a lot of them are as old or older than I am.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm really terrible at numbers. Adding and stuff.

MACLAINE: Well, I'm good with them, I can help.

VARGAS: You did a great job in "In Her Shoes." What was it like playing that character?

MACLAINE: I like the speech being subtle and underdone and really each little thought playing about the safe, that's what I love.

VARGAS: I have to ask you, when you're acting, at this point, because you're so unbelievably natural, what is going through your head? Is it work?

MACLAINE: I can't describe that little mystery. Can't do it. Never have been able to. Don't know anything about acting. Couldn't teach it in a million years.

VARGAS: Do you feel you've accomplished everything that you have set out to do as an entertainer? MACLAINE: People call me overachieving, but I'm not very ambitious. I don't go out and make things happen. Probably what got me into metaphysics because I'm on the receiving end of something that seems to have been orchestrated from another place.

VARGAS: You've played almost every genre, is there a genre of film that you like to do, or a role that you'd like to do?

MACLAINE: I'd like to do something important in metaphysics, but those scripts are very hard to come by. It sounds like proselytizing, it sounds like preaching.

VARGAS: Do you feel blessed?

MACLAINE: Absolutely. That's what I mean. I didn't have to be ambitious, it just all happened.

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VARGAS: And Shirley has picked up Golden Globes for her work on "Madame Zuzaska" and "Terms of Endearment," just to name two. She also got a Cecil B. DeMille award, one of the highest honors given by the Hollywood foreign press. Carol, clearly, they like her.

LIN: She so comfortable in her own skin, this woman has done it all.

VARGAS: She sure has.

LIN: Much more ahead on CNN. Up next, at 7:00 "ON THE STORY." And at 8:00, "CNN PRESENTS" takes you inside the secretive world of North Korea. And Larry King's exclusive interview with the author of "A Million Little Pieces," James Frey. He answers critics who say his memoir is filled with lies.

And I'll be back at 10:00 eastern tonight. Hear my interview with the 13-year-old boy held hostage during a Florida school shooting. A check of the hour's headlines next and then "ON THE STORY."

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