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Georgia Honors Coretta Scott King; International Atomic Energy Agency Votes To Report Iran To United Nation's Security Council; Red Sea Ferry Disaster; Jazzfest 2006 Will Go On In New Orleans; Security for NFL Championship in Detroit; Iraq's Professionals Leaving the Country; Donald Rumsfeld Compares Hugo Chavez to Adolf Hitler; Xernona Clayton Interview; How Far Is Too Far For Police; WWII Airman Identified

Aired February 04, 2006 - 12:00   ET

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: These pictures just in to CNN, showing how anger turns to violence in Syria's capital as protestors set fire to the Danish embassy. The protest stems from published cartoons in Denmark depicting the profit Mohammed. One drawing pictures Mohammed wearing a turban shaped like a bomb with a burning fuse.
While the Danish paper that first published the cartoon has apologized, the fury is still spreading. This is the scene in London this morning where thousands of people turned out for a demonstration. Islam forbids any depiction of the profit Mohammed, favorable or otherwise.

The nuclear showdown with Iran takes a new serious turn. The International Atomic Agency has voted to report Iran to the U.N. Security Council. In Tehran and anger response, officials there say they will resume full enrichment activities without restrictions, a live report ahead.

In New Jersey a terrifying ordeal for dozens of people on a tourist bus. The vehicle with 53 passengers onboard crashed and slid down an embankment. More than three dozen were injured, about 15 of them remain in the hospital.

Foreign American family has a sense of closure after a mystery is solved. The frozen body of a War World II airman found at the bottom of a California glacier has been identified as that of Leo Mustonen. He was one of four cadets aboard a training flight that crashed in 1942. A closer look at this remarkable story coming up.

Wedding bells will not be ringing as planned for a world champion cyclist and a rock star. Lance Armstrong and Sheryl Crow have broken up. In a statement they say they still love and respect each other and they're asking that their privacy be respected.

It's ,a historic day at Georgia's capital building in Atlanta. You're looking at a live picture right now. The body of the woman considered the first lady of the civil rights movement is lying in state there. We'll have live coverage throughout the day of the tribute to Coretta Scott King. Meantime, tensions rise in Egypt. Police clash with angry family members, awaiting word of possible survivors from a sunken Red Sea passenger ferry. Will the situation worsen as more news trickles out?

And it's on. Despite Hurricane Katrina, the sound of jazz and blues and everything else doesn't die in New Orleans. We'll hear from the Big Easy's jazz festival organizer on what it took to keep the music playing, planned for this spring. Welcome to CNN LIVE SATURDAY I'm Fredricka Whitfield.

In life, Coretta Scott King was the wife and widow of the legendary civil rights leader. In death, she's receiving an honor denied her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr. This hour, Mrs. King is lying in the state -- lying in state, rather, at the state's capital in Georgia, here. CNN's Drew Griffin is outside the capitol rotunda where King's relatives, some of the state's most powerful officials and ordinary citizens are all gathering there -- Drew.

DREW GRIFFIN, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Yes, they're having a ceremony -- a brief ceremony inside, Fredricka, and there will be a half hour of visitation by the dignitaries, the political delegation from the state of Georgia and then all of these people. All these hundreds and hundreds and perhaps thousands by now Georgians who have lined up will pass by that casket and pay their respects.

The casket arrived 20 minutes to 12:00 here at the capital steps met by the Governor Sonny Perdue and his wife Mary, and was carried up the steps by an honor guard to be placed in the rotunda, first African-American, first woman to officially lie in state here in the state of Georgia. Coming a long way in the 40 years or so since her husband passed away and was denied such recognition.

A bit of a festive atmosphere, although it's becoming somber, it's a very cold, Fredricka, but nonetheless, people continue to come here and line up to take their turn and wait to pass by the casket of Coretta Scott King -- Fred.

WHITFIELD: And Drew, this really is the beginning of what will be a series of events over the next couple of days celebrating the life of Mrs. King. Can you give us a synopsis of the things that are going to be taking place?

GRIFFIN: Yes, it's actually four days of mourning. A break tomorrow, but Ebenezer Baptist Church where her husband preached will be the site of an all-day visitation, and then there will be another celebration at a church in Lithonia, Georgia, one of the largest black churches in the state of Georgia where Dr. King and Mrs. King's youngest daughter, Bernice is a minister there and that's where the funeral will take place.

We do now know that Coretta Scott King will be laid to rest eventually next to her husband at the King Center, but at least temporarily in the gardens just in front of where Dr. Martin Luther King is laid to rest.

WHITFIELD: All right, Drew Griffin, thank you so much from the capital rotunda, there, outside the capital state building, that is.

Well, the public viewing of Mrs. King will be underway in less than 30 minutes from now and we'll continue until 8:00 p.m. Eastern. In lieu of flowers, the King family is asking donations to be made to the Coretta Scott King Scholarship Fund, Antioch College. Later this hour we'll hear from a longtime friend of Mrs. King.

A prominent republican senator adds his voice suggesting military force can't be ruled out against Iran. Earlier today, in Vienna, the International Atomic Energy Agency voted to report Iran's nuclear plans to the U.N. Security Council for possible sanctions. In response, Iran says it will resume its nuclear enrichment program without inspections. Less than an hour ago, Senator John McCain spoke with CNN from Munich, Germany, about Iran.

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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: What I'm saying is that there's an option of military action, but that can't be taken off the table, but we have a myriad of options to explore before that and one of them, we are about to do now, and that's go to the United Nations Security Council.

It is a very bad option, it's the worst of all options, except for allowing Iran to have nuclear weapons which is would de-stabilize the entire Middle East, and, by the way, maybe help them fulfill their commitment to the eradication of the state of Israel. It's the last option but cannot be taken off the table. But I emphasize last. We're keeping an eye on that, but I think also I hope that it convinces them that we are serious.

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WHITFIELD: CNN's senior international correspondent, Matthew Chance is follow the events, live from Vienna, Austria.

And Matthew, it was a nearly unanimous decision to send this proposal to the U.N. Security Council. So, what is next?

MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Well, what the resolution actually says is that it's going report this matter to the United Nation's Security Council, Iran's controversial nuclear program. But, it's asking the Security Council not to take any action for at least a month, to wait instead for a conclusive report by the director general of the IAEA, Mohamed ElBaradei, into what Iran has done answer the various questions that still need to be answered about the nature of that program.

So, basically that buys a month grace period for Iran to show that it is heard this very strong message and to show it is willing and able to take action. If it doesn't, though, and if we're in the same position next month as we are now, then it will be calling on the Security Council to decide what kind of measures it's going to take. At its disposal it has a range of options at the moment, including putting a travel ban on Iranian officials, for instance. As far as imposing economic sanctions on Iran, what's not being discussed right now, thought, what's not on anybody's agenda, according to any of the diplomats that I've spoken to, including those from the United States, from Britain, from other countries that back this resolution, is military action. That is not on anybody's agenda at this stage -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, Matthew Chance in Vienna, thank you so much.

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

Well, hopes of finding anymore survivors from the Red Sea ferry disaster are fading. Nearly 400 survivors have been plucked from the water, but hundreds of other people are still missing and feared dead. And as they wait for word of their loved ones, some of the passengers' families are angry. The latest now from CNN's Ben Wedeman in Safaga, Egypt -- Ben.

BEN WEDEMAN, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Thousands of people have actually come to this town from throughout southern Egypt, desperate for news of their relatives, their loved ones, who were on that ship that went down almost 48 hours ago.

Earlier today, nerves really became frayed and people rushed to the riot police who were guarding the main entrance to the Safaga port. They threw rocks and bottles at the police. Police responded in kind, also used their batons to try to keep back the crowd.

And actually, throughout the day and evening as well we've watched the ambulances have come and gone from the main entrance of the port. Earlier today, I spoke with the Egyptian transport minister who told me at this point they've been able to find about 380 survivors, including 22 that were picked up by the Saudi Arabian authorities. Also earlier in the day, Egyptian president, Hosny Mubarak, came to visited some of the survivors in the hospital.

WHITFIELD: And what, if anything, was said? What did Mubarak say to some of these victims?

WEDEMAN: It was a fairly brief visit, extensively covered, of course, by Egyptian television. He expressed his happiness at those who were able to survive this ordeal and expressed his condolences to those who lost loved ones.

It's important to note that even though almost 400 people have been found, a thousand remain missing, and not very many bodies have actually been pulled out of the water. (UNINTELLIGIBLE) many people have come here over from the southern part of Egypt in micro buses and cars. They -- everybody wants to know what had happened. And one of the problems on the...

WHITFIELD: All right. That was Ben Wedeman reporting from Safaga, Egypt, and obviously some technical problems from that report, via video phone. Well, CNN's coverage of the Egyptian ferry catastrophe will continue throughout the day as well as today's other big developing story, Iran's nuclear plans.

Also, celebrating the life of the late Coretta Scott King. We'll have live coverage all day of Georgia's tribute to the widow of the late Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Plus, it's a festival like none other. Jazz Fest 2006 will go on in New Orleans. Who is going to be there and why it almost didn't happen. That next.

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BONNIE SCHNEIDER, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I'm CNN meteorologist Bonnie Schneider with a look at your "Cold and Flu Report" for Saturday. As we check things out across the country, you will find cases of the flu pretty much coast to coast. Sporadic outbreaks in Louisiana and local activity across much of the northern tier of the country.

One state that was reporting no activity, South Carolina is now reporting regional cases of the flu so far this season. You'll find local activity across the Midwest, including Illinois and Indiana. That's a look at your "Cold and Flu Report" for Saturday. I'm meteorologist Bonnie Schneider. Enjoy your weekend.

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WHITFIELD: Other video just now coming in of a raging fire in New Orleans, engulfing three homes there, along with quite a few cars. You're looking at the video of the firefighters trying to get these blazes under control. We don't know if these houses were inhabited, but we do know that there have been no reported injuries.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If not on this vote, the yays are 95, nay one. The vote has passed.

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WHITFIELD: "Security Watch" Congress gives the Patriot Act a 35- day extension. President Bush signed the measure hours before key parts of the law would have expired. He wants to make many of the provisions permanent, but senators democrats, and a few republicans, filibustered they want more time to look at the law's impact on civil liberties.

Super Bowl XL, the Steelers and Seahawks fight for the NFL championship at Detroit's Ford Field tomorrow night. Off the field, super security. CNN's Brian Todd shows us.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): From divers in the water. to air patrols, police everywhere, and dog teams on the prowl. Detroit seems like a city in lockdown. But along with cops and canines, cameras are also on virtually every corner. We had federal agents tail me from a command post with one of their so-called pan, tilt, and zoom cams.

(on camera): There are hundreds of surveillance cameras in Detroit just for this event and this is a typical sequence that someone will go through being surveilled on a Detroit city street. I walked a couple hundred yards from one surveillance camera shot, just picked up by a second surveillance camera and walking down Michigan Avenue. This is a typical sequence. I'm going to turn a corner onto Cass Street, a third surveillance camera is picking me up.

(voice-over): Cameras are also in the air and people in and around the stadium will be watched not just by stationary cameras.

CHIEF ELLA BULLY-CUMMINGS, DETROIT POLICE: There will be members of law enforcement member that is have the capability to video feed real-time information that is being picked up through cameras.

TODD: Detroit's police chief is talking about undercover plain clothed agents, federal and local, wearing hidden cameras. They can send images of suspects back to command centers where profiles can be matched. Also, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms has its own surveillance teams.

VALERIE GODDARD, ATF SPECIAL AGENT IN CHARGE: You could capture somebody actually in the act of committing some type of crime, whether it's leaving a package, whether it's perhaps being involved in a shooting.

TODD: The technologies will do more than just try to preempt attacks. One top law enforcement official tells CNN they have devices which they can't give much detail about, that can detect any abnormalities in air quality. If something goes off, if the normal air quality has been tampered with, security officials will get signals that is will tell them if they need to respond.

Brian Todd, CNN, Detroit.

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WHITFIELD: And be sure to stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

Dangerous assignment. ABC News offers a new look at anchor Bob Woodruff and cameraman Doug Vogt just before they were wounded in Iraq. We'll show it to you after the break.

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WHITFIELD: New video showing ABC anchorman Bob Woodruff and photographer Doug Vogt moments before a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in Iraq, last Sunday. The tape first aired on ABC's "World News Tonight." The explosion itself was not taped. Both journalists were seriously wounded and are recovering at the National Navel Medical Center Bethesda, Maryland.

Iraq's professionals are leaving the country in droves. The exodus of scientists, doctors, and teachers is resulting in a brain drain that mean fear will have repercussions. CNN's Michael Holmes reports form Baghdad, now.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You wouldn't think being a pharmacist would be considered a dangerous profession, risking your life, but this is Iraq.

ANMAR AL DABBAGH, PHARMACIST (through translator): Less than a month ago the husband of one of my colleagues was kidnapped because she's a pharmacist. She had to pay a ransom. I don't want to expose my family to this risk.

HOLMES: And so Anmar is leaving his country and not the only one.

DABBAGH (through translator): About half the people I know in my profession have left the country, some of them for good, all because of the situation in Iraq.

HOLMES: That situation includes criminal kidnaps for ransom but, also, more sinister insurgent related killings, threats, and intimidations.

(on camera): Academics, scientists, professionals, there are no precise statistics, but it's thought that thousands have fled this country fearing kidnapping or death. And of course, those who are most financial able to leave are those that Iraq can least afford to lose, the brains of this country.

MAHMOUD OTHMAN, IRAQI POLITICAL: It's quite a dangerous problem. It is very dangerous socially from the point of education, rebuilding the country and I think this is one of the very serious problems.

HOLMES (voice-over): Prominent Kurdish politician, Mahmoud Othman, believes it is an insurgent tactic to drive out Iraq's best and brightest to weaken the country.

OTHMAN: They want to bring down the country to zero. It's very, very dangerous. Any government should give a big priority to the issue of how to deal with it.

HOLMES: Dr. Al Harith Abdul Hamid is one of his country's best known psychiatrists. He is staying put for now. Colleagues, however, have left in droves.

DR. AL HARITH ABDUL HAMID, PSYCHIATRIST: Definitely doctors, in particular, physicians, hundreds of good, the famous and the most intelligent physicians, they had to leave the country.

HOLMES: After the Americans invaded, many here hoped exiles, talented people would return. They did, some of them. But now that trickle has reversed and professionals say it is a flood.

Dr. Hamid has considered joining the exodus, but he's staying for the patients.

HAMID: One of my patients threatened me with suicide, you know. And he said, well, "I'll commit suicide if you leave the country." This affect me quite a lot. I think about it. I dream about it.

DABBAGH (through translator): Although we used to live under political tension with Saddam, it was safe enough to stay in the pharmacy until midnight. Now, we close at 6:00, before dark.

HOLMES: And so Anmar Al Dabbagh is packing his bags.

DABBAGH: I decide to leave Iraq. Leave the troubles in Iraq. And I work, I will need to sleep safely.

HOLMES: Michael Holmes, CNN Baghdad.

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WHITFIELD: Washington is looking south with some concerns. Socialists won recent elections in Chile, Bolivia, and Venezuela. Major oil power is run by a strident U.S. citric. Now, president Hugo Chavez is trading insults with a top American official. CNN's Lucia Newman reports from Havana where Mr. Chavez is visiting.

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LUCIA NEWMAN, CNN NEWS CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Venezuela's fiery leftist leader was in Havana where he responded publicly for the first time to strong attacks on Washington, referring specifically to U.S. defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, and national intelligence director, John Negroponte.

"Worried, yes, they have every reason to be worried. They know it, and so do we. They'll try by every means possible to preserve the United States empire. We will do everything in our power to tear that American empire to shreds," said the Venezuelan leader.

Chavez, who was in Cuba to receive a UNESCO award named after Cuba's national hero, Jose Marti was reacting to Rumsfeld's comparison, Thursday, of the Venezuelan leader to Adolf Hitler.

DONALD RUMSFELD, DEFENSE SECRETARY: We've got Chavez in Venezuela with a lot of oil money. He's a person who was elected legally, just as Adolf Hitler was elected legally, and then consolidated power and now is, of course, working closely with Fidel Castro.

NEWMAN: With Cuban leader Fidel Castro by his side, Chavez said he was flattered to be insulted by the likes of the U.S. administration. He did not refer, though, to Washington's expulsion Friday of a Venezuelan diplomat, this in retaliation for Chavez's expulsion of the U.S. Naval attache accused of spying while based at U.S. embassy in Caracas. While launching an international book fair earlier with his close friend and political mentor, Fidel Castro, Chavez preferred to read poetry and remind the world of how much he loved Cuba, even as the war of words with the United States escalates.

(on camera): Hugo Chavez has come to Havana at least 15 times and as one observer put it, the closer he gets to Cuba and its president, the further he gets from Washington.

Lucia Newman, CNN, Havana.

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WHITFIELD: Tough talk over nuclear ambitions. The world watches Iran and wonders what comes next for its nuclear program. We're following this developing story.

And remembering the life and legacy of Coretta Scott King as the state of Georgia honors the first lady of the civil rights movement. We'll have live continuing coverage on CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

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WHITFIELD: Our top stories now in the news. A showdown over Iran's nuclear program ratchets up. Earlier today the International Atomic Energy Agency referred the matter to the U.N. Security Council.

In retaliation, Iran says it will resume full nuclear enrichment activities, a necessary step in weapons production. Senator John McCain says possible military action against Iran cannot be dismissed.

This hour in Washington, anti-war protesters are gathering to deliver a message to the president. They want Mr. Bush to, quote, "step down and take your program with you." You are looking at live pictures right now. The Reverend Al Sharpton will be among the speakers before the demonstrators march around the White House.

In Safaga, Egypt, grief-stricken relatives demand answers in a tragedy at sea that may have claimed a thousand lives. Rescue crews have plucked about 400 survivors from the Red Sea. Witnesses say the ferry capsized after an onboard fire forced the captain to turn the ship around in high winds.

In and around Boston, the search continues for a teenager suspected of a grisly attack inside a gay bar. 18-year-old Jacob Robida is accused of using a hatchet and a handgun to wound three bar goers, one critically. Police have labeled the attack a hate crime.

In Austin, Texas, an early morning fire has gutted a two-story building that housed two nightclubs and a radio station. As many as 75 firefighters helped bring the blaze under control. One person was rescued from inside the building.

Throughout the morning we've been following the tribute to Coretta Scott King in her adopted hometown of Atlanta. Mrs. King is now lying in state at the Georgia Capitol, an honor that was denied her husband, Martin Luther King, Jr.

You are looking at a few pictures, seeing that the general public is now being allowed to file past the casket, where earlier it was reserved just for close family members and friends. Well, earlier on CNN SATURDAY MORNING, our Rick Sanchez spoke to one Xernona Clayton, one of Mrs. King's closest friends.

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RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: What do some of the young people who maybe didn't live through the civil rights movement need to know about her?

XERNONA CLAYTON, TRUMPET AWARDS FOUNDER: Her commitment. You know, a lot of us can have some ideas and some ideals, but if you don't have a commitment to see them through, then they're almost for naught.

SANCHEZ: And that point was made that it wasn't a commitment that began when she met this man who was committed to this. I mean going back in her past, the way her mother raised her.

CLAYTON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: A mother who actually one day decided my daughter is not going to walk five miles to go to school. I'm going to get a bus and I'm going to take her and the rest of the children around here, too. In the 1930s, a black woman doing that must have been amazing.

CLAYTON: Well, I guess she had the spirit inside of her. And, also, you know, she knew that from the economic status of her family, she probably was not going to go to college. But she was determined and she got assistance along the way and got a scholarship to go to school.

But she was so determined. Everybody saw that determination. And then they were willing to help her. And I think young people can show us today that if you've got the determination, help will come.

SANCHEZ: Tell me this. You are probably one of the few people who got to spend time with her toward the end.

What did she say? What was it like?

CLAYTON: Well, during the end, she wasn't talking. You know, the stroke impaired her speech. But what I remembered is that she had that broad smile. She was just such a warm person.

When I went to see her in the hospital right after the stroke -- in August, I guess it was -- she had a broad smile when I walked into the room. And she was paralyzed on the right side, but she had her left hand mobile. And she reached out to me and grabbed me with such force and held on.

And she was planning to come to my birthday, which was going to be, you know, a week or two after this. And we knew then she was not going to be able to make it. But she -- although she had not had any audible signs at all, she said, "Happy Birthday."

SANCHEZ: You know what's amazing? Governor Perdue has signed a proclamation that allows her to lie in state. And we're looking at live pictures now of where the procession will begin, as it goes to, eventually, the state capital for the funeral.

He signs a declaration saying that she will get an honor that her husband did not get because at the time in Georgia, Governor Lester Maddox, who wasn't particularly keen or kind to the movement, decided that he didn't want Martin Luther King to lie in state. It was an honor he was not willing to give.

So she becomes the first African-American, as I understand it, and the first woman to lie in state in this state.

What does that say to you?

CLAYTON: Well, first, let me just say this about the governor. He called me immediately and initiated this. And he said this is not a political move. And I want people to know that because I think he didn't confer with politicians to see if this was politically correct or not.

He called immediately after we got the news that she had died. He called me to ask me to convey this offer to the family that he was offering this spot for her. But the signs have changed.

But Dr. King said until all of us are free, none of us are free. So he fought and worked and died to free America to have the spirit to give us the promise of America.

SANCHEZ: And there's an irony that his wife ends up getting a tribute that he, himself didn't get bestowed upon her.

CLAYTON: Yes.

SANCHEZ: Well, Xernona, thanks so much for being with us.

You know, we're going to be following this all morning long and we certainly appreciate your time and your wisdom.

CLAYTON: Thank you.

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WHITFIELD: The public viewing of Mrs. King is now underway and will continue until 8:00 p.m. Eastern. In lieu of flowers, the King family is asking donations be made to the Coretta Scott King Scholarship Fund at Antioch College.

And as we celebrate Coretta Scott King's life today in Atlanta, in New Orleans there will be a celebration of a very different kind soon enough. Do you hear that? Well, that's just some of what you'll be hearing at this year's Jazz Fest in New Orleans. I will speak with the festival's organizer about how it almost didn't happen.

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WHITFIELD: Well, let the music play, New Orleans. Organizers announced this week the 2006 Jazz Fest will go ahead. The only announced act is New Orleans native Fats Domino for now. He is featured on the 2006 Jazz Fest poster, hunched over his piano in the French Quarter. Quint Davis is the long-time producer of the New Orleans Jazz Fest. He joins me now from Los Angeles. Good to see you, Quint.

QUINT DAVIS, PRODUCER, NEW ORLEANS JAZZ FEST: Good morning, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: I wish we could do a nice wide shot because I'm certain you probably have some wild pants on, as you always due during the Jazz Fest.

DAVIS: Thank you for that.

WHITFIELD: Well, good to see you. Well, let's talk about, you know, this big picture of a big thing called Jazz Fest. Saw already there are still a lot of people who don't have places to live, tourism isn't what it used to be in New Orleans. So what came together to make you all decide that you know what? We can pull this together, Jazz Fest?

DAVIS: There was quite a few elements. Obviously the city got behind it. The hotel industry -- oddly enough we'll have more hotel rooms this year for Jazz Fest than normal because the first major convention is in June, and typically Jazz Fest is hosting also New Orleans a major convention at that time. So one of the pieces was having enough hotel rooms.

The other was some unique corporate support. Shell stepped forward to present the festival along with American Express and Tenant. So we had financial underwriting to go forward with us, not knowing how many people would come.

The last piece was Churchhill Downs Fairgrounds Racetrack which sustained damage from end to end. But the Churchhill folks came in, even though they're not racing, and said you tell us what it takes. Whatever it takes we're going to rebuild that fairgrounds. So at that point, all the pieces came together and we're going forward.

WHITFIELD: So a lot has to be done, doesn't it, still for the fairgrounds to get it ready? Because when folks to go this Jazz Fest, they really get down and dirty at fairgrounds. Sometimes they're walking and barefoot, you know, and sometimes they're laying down, sitting down in the grass on the fairgrounds.

And there have been a lot of concerns about any kind of residual contaminates from the floodwaters and the fairgrounds was one of those places that is was partially, if not most of it, underwater.

DAVIS: Well, no it -- you know, the grass on the infield, it grows very quickly, particularly when you get to the spring. Certainly there was some dead grass on the infield. But, you know, the groundspeople tell me you have to mow it and rake it and then new grass grows back.

We, you know, are dealing with getting the electrical system back up, getting the lights back on. Actually, the fairgrounds in Churchhill were embarking on a renewal project for the fairgrounds that would have enhanced the facility before the flood came.

So now we're getting new barns, new lights, repaired kitchens and things that we didn't have before. But certainly there's a lot of stuff out there that's going to be fixed. But it's really moving along very, very well.

WHITFIELD: All right. Obviously the big appeal to the Jazz Fest are the artists, the very well known and the lesser known ones that commit themselves to Jazz Fest. So right now, Fats Domino. How difficult is it to try to coax a lot of other artists to get on the bandwagon?

DAVIS: I'll tell you, the most difficult coax so far was Fats. It will be his first public appearance, his first public performance since he was plucked out of the water at his home. But I shouldn't say it was that hard. I mean, everyone is rallying around the Jazz and Heritage Festival.

You know, in New Orleans, you can't stop us from dancing. You can take our homes away. You can do a lot of stuff to us. But we're music people. Music means more to us than just entertainment. And when we first called Fats Domino and said we need you to lead this parade and bring the spirit that lives in the music back, he agreed, he agreed quite easily.

WHITFIELD: Well, can people expect that it will still be on a smaller scale, that perhaps you won't have as many artists as you usually do? And will it be the two longer weekends back to back? What is going to be different about it this year?

DAVIS: Yes. We are coming back with two weekends. That was a big sort of tipping point for us when we looked to see if we had enough funding in place. It will be six days: Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, April 28, 29, 30; and the following Friday, Saturday, Sunday, May 7, 8, and 9.

And when you walk out on that field, you will pretty much see the whole Jazz and Heritage Festival as you know it. We're still working on, you know, some of the fine points of where we're placing the food and maybe we're going to combine a couple of the stages. But pretty much it will be the full scale Jazz and Heritage Festival. And we hope within a couple of weeks to announce the full talent line-up.

WHITFIELD: All right. Quint Davis, thanks so much. I know a lot of people are really excited to hear the announcement and are so quick to already try and book their tickets, trying to figure how can I negotiate my way there, just in time for Jazz Fest. Good to see you.

DAVIS: Thank you very much, Fredricka. You all come. WHITFIELD: All righty. Well, want to go? Here's how you get the tickets. Log on to the Jazz Fest's Web site. It is N-O- Jazzfest.com. Tickets run 20 to $40 a day. Kids get in for $5. Tickets are also available at the New Orleans Arena box office and at Ticketmaster.

Coming up on CNN SATURDAY MORNING, a number of police confrontations are making headlines all across the country, causing outrage and reigniting debate. How much force is too much?

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WHITFIELD: Recent shootings have reignited the debate over the use of force by police officers. But before we go any further, we have to warn you that some of the images you are about to see are disturbing.

One case involves the fatal shooting of a 16-year-old boy. The teen allegedly tried to break into a liquor store and officers opened fired after he drove the car toward them. Officers maintain they fired the shots to avoid being run over.

And earlier this week an officer shot an unarmed Iraq war vet following a car chase. He survived and is recovering. CNN's Chris Lawrence has that story.

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ELIO CARRION: I'm here to tell you ...

CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's now up to the FBI to clear up the confusion in this dark and grainy home video.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get up.

CARRION: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get up.

CARRION: I'm going to get up.

LAWRENCE: Airman Elio Carrion survived six months of duty in Iraq and then got shot by a sheriff's deputy near his hometown. Agents are analyzing the tape to find out why.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shut the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) up. Shut the (EXPLETIVE DELETED) up. You don't (EXPLETIVE DELETED) get up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You told him to get up.

LAWRENCE: Investigators are trying to find out if there was a third person talking, adding to the confusion.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You told him to get up.

LAWRENCE: Carrion is a security officer in the Air Force. A husband, home visiting family in California. Sunday night he was a passenger in this car, which police say was speeding. The deputy had to chase it for a few minutes before it crashed. The driver was arrested, then released a couple days later. Seconds before the shooting, Carrion tries to tell the deputy I'm on your side.

CARRION: I mean you no harm. I served more time than you in the police. In the military, OK?

LAWRENCE: The deputy tells Carrion to get up. But is that what he really meant?

DR. BRUCE BERG, POLICE TRAINING EXPERT: When we played it again, it sounded like he could have said don't get up.

LAWRENCE: Dr. Bruce Berg is a police training expert. He says the adrenaline's pumping after the chase. There's two suspects and all kinds of background noise, and the deputy may have mangled the instruction to get down and shut up.

BERG: One could interpret that if you've just told someone stay down, stay down, shut up, stay down, and they move to get up while you're watching the other suspect, you see out of the side of your eye someone getting up, you're going to turn and reflectively you're going to fire.

CARRION: OK.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get up.

CARRION: I'm going to get up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey.

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LAWRENCE: Dr. Bruce Berg is a police training expert. He says the adrenaline is pumping after the chase. There is two suspects and all kinds of background noise and the deputy may have mangled the instruction to get down and shut up.

BERG: One could interpret that, if you just told someone to stay down, stay down, shut up, stay down, and they move to get up while you're watching the other suspect, you see out of the side of your eye someone getting up. You will turn and reflectively you will fire.

LAWRENCE: You hear the shots clearly. There was so much on that tape that is impossible to understand. Other times it's complete silence. Authorities say it would be unfair to make any judgment now before they get all the facts, but they did place that deputy on leave until the local and federal agents and finish their investigation. Chris Lawrence, CNN, Los Angeles.

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WHITFIELD: Meantime the family of the airman is demanding the arrest of the deputy. They're outraged he was only placed on paid leave pending the outcome of the FBI investigation.

Up next a story you will only see on CNN. A cold case thaws out. The frozen airman whose remains were discovered high in the mountains last October has finally been identified. You'll meet his family and learn about the short life of airman Leo Mustonen in a moment.

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WHITFIELD:: For an American family, a six-decade long wait is over. The frozen body of a World War II airman found at the bottom of a California glacier has been identified as of that of Leo Mustonen. And for his family members, the identification brings a big sense of closure. The story from CNN's Thelma Gutierrez.

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THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It was a stunning discovery last October that opened up a World War II cold case unsolved for more than six decades.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's teeth.

GUTIERREZ: Here, entombed in a grave of ice and granite, 14,000 feet high in the Sierra Nevada mountain range, climbers found this 22- year-old frozen Army airman, still wearing a World War II uniform and an unopened silk parachute.

For 63 years, this young cadet remained in his icy grave. It would take the nation's top forensic scientists four months to unravel the mystery. They determined the airman must have been on one of more than two dozen military test flights that went down over the Sierra during World War II. The location of the remains told them the airman was one of four men whose flight disappeared back in 1942.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: You are having a brother missing in action. And we are doing a DNA testing.

GUTIERREZ: Before the frozen airman could be identified, scientists would first have to collect blood samples from the families of the four missing men, then wait several more weeks for results.

Finally, one family we have been following in Jacksonville, Florida, heard the news they had hoped to hear.

ONA LEA MUSTONEN, NIECE OF LEO MUSTONEN: OK, fine. It -- would it be inappropriate to ask if it is my uncle?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The preliminary is that it -- it is your uncle.

O. MUSTONEN: OK.

(LAUGHTER)

O. MUSTONEN: Thank you. Wow. OK. That's really great.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And if there's -- if there's anything else, (INAUDIBLE) You have my number.

O. MUSTONEN: OK. Thanks, Captain. OK, bye-bye.

I didn't think that would happen. It is him.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It is him? Oh, my gosh.

O. MUSTONEN: Yes.

GUTIERREZ: It was literally a once-in-a-lifetime moment for Ona Lea and Leane Mustonen. The man who called them was from the Defense Department.

It turns out, the young man who had spent 63 years in ice at the bottom of a glacier was, in fact, Ona Lea and Leane's uncle, Leo Mustonen, an Army cadet who was 22 when his plane disappeared.

O. MUSTONEN: It's filling a pain and just bringing it all together. Just to know how somebody died or what happened to them, it stops the question mark.

GUTIERREZ: Their mother, Louella Mustonen, was married to Leo's brother.

LOUELLA MUSTONEN, SISTER-IN-LAW OF LEO MUSTONEN: Yes. He had a big smile.

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O. MUSTONEN: .. smile.

MUSTONEN: Big, from ear to ear.

(LAUGHTER)

GUTIERREZ: She says he enlisted in the Army during his senior year in high school. He was training to become a navigator. His disappearance back in 1942 left such a void, his mother, Anna (ph), never got over it.

MUSTONEN: She cried every day. She waited for months, but there was nothing coming.

GUTIERREZ: Louella and her daughters, Ona Lea and Leane (ph), say they finally have answers after so many years.

O. MUSTONEN: A lot of joy for him, and for mom, for the whole family. And -- and I think and I think that's the one thing that has really gone through, just the sense of closure, that we know what happened to him. Maybe we have something from him, something as -- to remember him by and -- and, perhaps, a burial.

GUTIERREZ: And, so, the young cadet who spent 63 years buried in the Sierra will finally be laid to rest, along with the mystery of the frozen airman.

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GUTIERREZ: Leo Mustonen's remains and a folder containing his personal belongings that he had with him when his plane went down, his shaver, fountain pen, the 51 cents he had in his pockets, and even his black plastic comb, will be returned to his family, within the next several days.

Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Los Angeles

A remarkable story.

Much more ahead on CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

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