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The Nuclear Showdonn With Iran Takes a Serious New Turn; Rioters Torch Buildings in Syria; Police Brutality Being Accused in Two Separate Cases
Aired February 04, 2006 - 16:00 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Ahead this hour, the nuclear showdown with Iran takes a serious new turn and in our security watch, the high stakes involved in securing the Super Bowl, plus remembering the life of Coretta Scott King, the woman many consider the First Lady of the civil rights movement.
Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SATURDAY, I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All that and more after this check of the headlines.
The Danish and Norwegian embassies in Damascus, Syria go up in flames. Protestors torched the buildings, angry about a cartoon of the Prophet Muhammad. Furor over the controversial images only seems to be growing despite calls for calm. We'll have much more than this straight ahead.
Anger and anguish in Egypt. Relatives demand answers in the search for hundreds of passengers who were aboard a ferry that sank in the Red Sea. Now there is word that a fire may be at the root of the disaster. We'll have reaction straight ahead.
And honoring a civil rights icon. Mourners are standing in line for hours here in Atlanta to pay their respects to Coretta Scott King. A live report from the state capitol just minutes away.
A critical new development today in the diplomatic standoff over Iran's disputed nuclear program. The UN's nuclear watch dog agency voted to report Iran to the UN Security Council. Undeterred, Iran vowed to resume full nuclear enrichment activities. And end cooperation with the IAEA. Our Matthew Chance has the latest from the emergency meeting in Vienna.
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MATTHEW CHANCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Inside the lofty towers of the UN's nuclear watch dog, a decision that could itself prove monumental. Reporting Iran the Security Council over its controversial nuclear program has long divided nations, but no longer it seems.
GREG SCHULTE, U.S. AMBASSADOR, IAEA: Today we have done what our statute requires. We've requested the director general to report to the UN Security Council. An overwhelming majority of board members voted for this report. And only three countries, themselves isolated, were willing to vote with Iran and it's own isolation. CHANCE: It's the prospect of Iran building nuclear weapons that has so many countries worried. Tehran says its nuclear activities are for peaceful purposes only, but there were just too many unanswered questions, say diplomats. For absolute confidence. The IAEA resolution calls on Iran to "reestablish full and sustain suspension of all enrichment-related activities."
Iran began small scale enrichment last month provoking this latest crisis. It also says, Iran should implement transparency measures, including access to documents and individuals that so far have been denied to UN inspectors. If there's no progress by match, diplomats say the Security Council should bring additional pressure to bear on Iran. That pressure could include economic sanctions.
Reaction from the Islamic Republic has been predictably defiant. It's outspoken president has already ordered industrial scale uranium enrichment to resume, voluntary cooperation with UN inspectors will be stopped. And the Russian compromise to enrich uranium for Iran is being cast under renewed doubt.
JAYAD VAEEDI, IRANIAN DEPUY NEGOTIATOR: The government will start full scale enrichments according to parliament law. We'll have to see how we can consider the Russian proposal in the new context.
CHANCE: If, as diplomats say, this was a resolution intended to encourage Iran to comply, it may for the moment have the opposite effect.
(on camera): This is the sternest ever resolution passed by the United Nations on Iran's controversial nuclear program. Diplomats say the reports of the Security Council is meant to send the strongest possible message. The question, though, is the Islamic Republic prepared to listen? Matthew Chance, CNN, at the IAEA in Vienna.
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WHITFIELD: Senator John McCain is weighing in on Iran. While much of Europe has shied away from talk of a military showdown, the Arizona Republican says the military option can't be removed from the table. And he adds that a wild card remains. China and Russia, major trading partners with Iran.
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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN, (R) AZ: It's very clear now that the United Nations Security Council will have to take up this issue. What's the -- what is the dilemma? What will Russia and China do? I hope that Russia and China at the United Nations Security Council level will understand that we have to impose sanctions or the Iranians stop this effort.
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WHITFIELD: President Bush is monitoring all of the developments from his Texas ranch. Our Bob Franken is in Crawford with the details. Bob? BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Fredricka, the comments by Senator McCain underscore the very delicate nature of what's going on. In effect, there's going to be a 30-day hiatus to give Iran a chance to reflect on all that's going on. And the comments that are being coordinated, both here at the president's ranch in Crawford, Texas, and in Washington, are very carefully calibrated to try to give pause to the people who are in Tehran. First of all, no statement yet from the president. There might be one later but we have heard from the secretary of state. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice put out a statement saying, "We hope that the Iranian regime will heed this clear message. The world will not stand by if Iran continues on path to a nuclear weapons capability."
And then to underscore the resolve that is suggested in that statement, the undersecretary of state Nicholas Burns held a long briefing for reporters. It was on the record, which itself is significant. He went on to say that what the action in Vienna shows, or rather the action overseas shows is that "Iran is very much isolated -- has miscalculated."
As for that 30-day waiting period, there was a word of pessimism. He went on to say, "I cannot say that we are filled with hope that Iran is going to do the right thing."
But what suggestion is that there has been an escalation here. And of course Iran has responded with an escalation. Saying it is pulling out of the moratoria that had been imposed by the international community before. So right now, you do have a war of words. That right now is escalation. But the thing to remember about diplomacy is things are rarely what they seem to be. Fredricka?
WHITFIELD: All right, Bob Franken in Crawford, Texas. Thank you so much.
Well, two western embassies went up in flames today amid growing rage in the Muslim world over cartoon images of the Prophet Muhammad. In Damascus, Syria, thousands of demonstrators first set fire to the embassy of Denmark, the country where the images were first published. Flames shot from the building before firefighters put the blaze out.
The mob then made its way the embassy of Norway, and set it on fire after breaking through a police line. Later, Syrian riot groups defused a situation outside of the French embassy by turning water hoses on a crowd there. And scores of police were deployed as a precaution outside the United States embassy. Also today, Iran announced it will review trade ties with countries that have published the image and dozens of Palestinians try to storm the office of the European Union in Gaza.
In death, she is being honored the way she lived her life, with quiet dignity. Many are remembering Coretta Scott King today. Paying respects at her casket at Georgia's state capital in Atlanta. Our Drew Griffin is there. Drew?
DREW GRIFFIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, by 3:00 p.m., state police, capitol police here in Atlanta, estimate that 10,000 people have passed through those doors of the capitol and into the rotunda where Coretta Scott King's body lies in state. She, a woman who continues to break racial barriers, even in death.
This morning, 20 minutes to 12:00 when her body was carried into the rotunda. Being escorted by the governor of the State of Georgia. She became the first African American and the first woman to officially lie in state under the gold dome of the state capitol of Georgia.
There are thousands and thousands of people still in line. It takes about two hours to get through that line but they are waiting patiently. Many holding American flags. Some with pictures of late Dr. Martin Luther King. All wanting to pay respects to this woman, who many of them knew as a neighbor. And certainly as a fellow Atlantan and who also made great strides in their own lives and helped them so tremendously in her work and in the works of supporting her husband.
The viewing here will be completed about 8:00 tonight. And then there will be another service, a viewing at Ebenezer Baptist Church, that's on Monday followed by Coretta Scott King's funeral, Fred, which will happen Tuesday.
WHITFIELD: And, Drew, I know even though you mentioned the viewing today at rotunda is until 8:00 p.m., I also understand instructions from officials there that, if people are still in line on their way into the rotunda by 8:00 p.m. and they have not quite made it into the rotunda, they won't be denied access is that your understanding?
GRIFFIN: That's what we understand. Nobody will be allowed to join the line arch 8:00 but anybody still in line will certainly be able to walk past the casket and pay their last respects. It's a very orderly crowd, Fred. And it is moving pretty fast. Although you do have to wait in a bitter chill for about an hour and a half to two hours.
WHITFIELD: And can you describe for us, Drew, some of folks that you've seen coming out? Are you seeing a lot of families? A lot of young people? Or people ...
GRIFFIN: Yeah, you know.
WHITFIELD: Go ahead.
GRIFFIN: It began Tuesday, really. I was over at the King Center when parents would come with their children an say we're going to mark history together. You need to know about this lady and you certainly know already about her husband. But we've seen families coming. Some in their Sunday best -- some joggers joining the line. Just people of all different colors and faiths, it looks like who have come here it pay respects. And to also, quite frankly to be part of history for some of them.
WHITFIELD: Drew Griffin at the Georgia state capitol. Thank you very much. Well this footnote in lieu of flowers the king family wants to send donations to the Coretta Scott King Scholarship Fund, Antioch College, 795 Livermore Street, Yellow Springs, Ohio, 45387. And this just in. The woman credited with laying the groundwork for the modern feminist movement is dead. Betty Friedan died today on her 85th birthday. CNN's Mary McAnn take a look at her remarkable life and her legacy.
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MARY ANN MCGANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In 1963 when Betty Friedan wrote her revolutionary book "The Feminine Mystique" describing entrapped housewives, it became a catalyst for what was to become the feminine movement. And she, its spokesperson.
BETTY FRIEDAN, FEMINIST: My gut, I knew it was important. But that the book itself would help bring about the consciousness that led to the woman's movement. No. I couldn't possibly have predicted that.
MCGANN: Although she didn't predict it. Her book was a rallying cry. A call to action.
To help fight for that equality, Friedan founded the National Organization for Women in 1966. NOW lobbied for and won laws that guaranteed equal pay for equal work.
MARLENE SANDERS, TV JOURNALIST: She opened the doors for women to do whatever we could do as individuals.
LYNN SHERR, TV JOURNALIST: Betty is the reason that most of us have our jobs right now.
MCGANN: In 1993, Friedan wrote "The Fountain of Age." This was her attempt to liberate the elderly from nursing homes the way she had liberated women from the kitchen.
FRIEDAN: We are the first ones to have a 25-year, 30 years of possibly healthy vigorous vital life after we're 50. And that new third of life, that's the unmapped territory.
MCGANN: She lived her life as she advised others to, productively. Born Betty Naomi Goldstein on February 4th, 1921 in Peoria, Illinois, she went on to marry and have three children. In 1969 after 22 years of marriage, she and husband Carl divorced. She became an intellectual vagabond traveling the world to fight for women's issues.
FRIEDAN: This is the only place in the world where women's concern, women's equality. Women's access to technology are being debated.
Friedan divided her time between her Manhattan apartment, a Long Island house and a California condo. She taught and created a think- tank focusing on a variety of social issues. She also wrote books and magazine articles and even had time to be very social. Her influence was felt by women in all walks of life.
SHARON STONE, ACTRESS: I thank Ms. Friedan for the shocking freedom with which I have been able to move through my life with female courage, and female strength, and female outspokenness.
Friedan said witnessing her mother's frustration led to her life's work.
FRIEDAN: I feel -- ongoing commitment to women's movement which I helped start and which I think has been enormously liberating for women.
MCGANN: Her goal she said was to make women feel better about being women. Mary Ann McGann, CNN, New York.
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WHITFIELD: And the entertainment world is mourning the loss of actor Al Lewis. You may not know him by name but his face you will certainly remember. Lewis is best known for his role with Grandpa Munster in the classic television comedy "The Munsters." In his later years, hosted a radio show and even ran for New York governor. Lewis died after years of failing health. He was 83 years old.
Super size security for the Super Bowl. How fans and players will be kept safe. That story straight ahead. And later, the Winter Olympics are just days away. But is Torino, Italy ready? We get a behind the scenes look. CNN LIVE SATURDAY will be right back.
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WHITFIELD: Stories across America now. An all-out search presses on for a Massachusetts teenager wanted in a bloody attack at a gay bar. Police say 18-year-old Jacob Robida attacked three people at a New Bedford lounge Thursday night. His weapons of choice? A gun and hatchet.
Rain didn't keep about a thousand anti-Bush demonstrators from protesting on the National Mall today. Protesters said the march was aimed at calling attention to the president's dangerous policies.
And more devastation in New Orleans. Flames engulfed three homes in the historic Marni (ph) neighborhood today. The fires burned for about two hours. No one was reported injured. This comes two days after a tornado damaged several homes in the hurricane-battered city.
And rewards totaling $10,000 are being offered for information about a series of church fires in Alabama. Flames tore through five Baptist churches late Thursday. And Friday as well in Bibb County. Arson is expected. The FBI has joined in the investigation.
A terror attack on the Super Bowl? In 1977 it was a hit movie. Remember "Black Sunday"? Well, today the threat is all too real and security ahead of Super Bowl Sunday is extraordinary. And this year it's a multinational effort.
CNN's Brian Todd reports from Detroit.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When's the last time you saw a helicopter try to steer away a plane in mid-flight? Or one speedboat nearly collide on the other on the border of the U.S. and Canada? This is what awaits terrorists, should they attempt to target Super Bowl XL in Detroit.
(on camera): Just to give why you an idea of the huge security concerns for the super bowl. Look how close Ford Field is to the Detroit River. The U.S. border with Canada runs up the middle of that river, and then hundreds of miles north through adjoining rivers and lakes.
(voice-over): We flew in joint air space along with commander Bob Makowski (ph) of the U.S. Coast Guard, who explained his challenge heading off pilots who violate air space.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And unfamiliar pilot. We don't know what they're going to do. They don't know what we're going to do.
TODD: This year, U.S. security officials have partners. Coordinating like never before with their Canadian counterparts. Both countries are under the North America Aerospace Defense Command, NORAD, that will have fighter jets and helicopters enforcing a 30 mile flight restriction on Super Sunday. On the water, just for this event, heavily armed American boats can cross into Canadian waters.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What channel you are guys on now?
TODD: American officers can board Canadian vessels to chase suspect. The Canadians can do the same.
CURTIS TAFT, USCG: Look for anything out of the usual, such as small vessels traveling at a high rate of speed, that don't appear to be acknowledging that you have a zone in place.
TODD: With the sheer mileage of open border space on the water, we asked Coast Guard Admiral Robert Pap (ph), coordinator of all U.S. Homeland Security agencies for the Super Bowl, where the vulnerabilities are.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These are the places, though that we have the biggest challenge, where you have virtually a couple of hundred yards. A boat can get across in five minutes.
TODD: That potential threat is why homeland security officials have set up a tight security zone along the Detroit waterfront. That doesn't cover the hundreds of miles of open border over the adjacent rivers and lakes. But right now, officials tell CNN, they have no specific credible threats to the Super Bowl. Brian Todd, CNN, Detroit.
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WHITFIELD: And stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
The athletes are primed, but is Torino ready to host the winter games? We'll take a closer look at Italian city.
And later, these are the front lines on the war terror. No guns here. Just medical aid. That story's still to come on CNN LIVE SATURDAY (COMMERCIAL BREAK)
WHITFIELD: With less than a week until the start of the Winter Olympics, the pressure is starting to mount and not just on the athletes. The Italian City of Torino is learning firsthand of what other cities have learned before it. As CNN's Alessio Vinci reports, a lot happens at the very last minute.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... Winter Olympic Games in 2006 is Torino.
ALESSIO VINCI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The clock started ticking in 1999. Since then, the city has gone through a transformation worth more than $3.5 billion. To prepare stadiums and create infrastructure for 2,500 athletes, 1,400 Olympic officials, 10,000 journalists and a million visitors.
VALENTINO CASTELLANI, PRESIDENT, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: We know that a responsibility that we have. We are completely aware of the fact that the quality, the quality of the games depends, as I said on many, many details.
VINCI: As officials, rarely admit, the devil is in the details. All around Torino and up in the mountains, workers are still carrying out what they say are just last-minute finishing touches, what the mayor of Torino calls the dressing.
MAYOR SERGIO CHIAMPORINO, TORINO, ITALY: Now there is the rush, the final rush for the dressing. As usual, the dressing will finish one hour before the Olympics start.
VINCI: That said, the main venues are ready. The Olympic stadium, brand new ice hockey arena and a state of the art ice palace for speed and figure skating.
(on camera): City officials acknowledge some of the projects will not be ready by the time the games begin but these are non Olympic works, for example this new subway system and the plan, they say is to cover this area with large colorful banners and to project an image of a city in transformation.
(voice-over): Of the one million tickets, about a third have yet to be sold. Officials, though, insist they are not worried. Saying Italian, notoriously buy tickets at the last minute.
EVELINA CHRISTILLIN, VP, ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: But we will be selling tickets even game time. So not close the selling before the game. So we are very confident in selling even more than that famous 80 percent which is the corresponding to our budget forecast.
VINCI: And speaking of forecasts, the weather is finally playing along. With plenty of snow adding its own finishing touch, at long last. Alessio Vinci, CNN Torino, Italy.
(END VIDEOTAPE) WHTIFIELD: Looks beautiful. Well, violence erupts on the streets of Damascus, Syria. What sparked these fires and would you believe a controversial cartoon? And the nuclear ambitions of Iran. Why the United States is so concerned.
CNN LIVE SATURDAY will be right back.
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WHITFIELD: Here are the latest developments. Iran's president signaled new defiance today. He ordered resumption of uranium enrichment at the country's nuclear facilities. He also ordered an end to snap U.N. inspections of the plant. The move came after the U.N.'s nuclear watch dog agency, the IAEA, voted to report Tehran to the U.N. Security council for its nuclear program.
And the public viewing of Coretta Scott King's body is underway in Atlanta. She's the first African-American and first woman to lie in state at the Georgia State Capitol. King died Monday at an alternative medical clinic in Mexico. Her funeral is set for Tuesday.
One of the founders of the feminist movement, author and activist, Betty Friedan died today of congestive heart failure. Her book, "The Feminine Mystique," became a best seller in the 1960s. Friedan was 85.
And you may not know his name but you know his face. Actor Al Lewis who played Grandpa on the TV series "The Munsters" also died today. Al Lewis was 83.
Pursuing tougher diplomatic option over Tehran's nuclear program, the IAEA voted today to report Iran to the U.N. Security council. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is among those welcoming the move, but Iran's president retaliated, ending cooperation with the IAEA inspectors.
Europe and the U.S. want Iran to prove its plans are peaceful and some lawmakers aren't afraid of flexing a little military might if needed.
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SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R-AZ) ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE: What I'm saying is that there is an option out there of military action, but that can't be taken off the table but we have a myriad of options to explore before that.
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WHITFIELD: One of those options includes possible economic sanctions. But what would the impact be? And Iran's president is an unpredictable factor. My next guest is a nuclear proliferation expert. Charles Ferguson is a science and technology fellow with the counsel of foreign relations. Good to see you.
All right, there are some 30 days before the U.N. Security Council actually takes action. What could potentially happen?
CHARLES FERGUSON, NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION EXPERT: Well, what could happen is Iran could decide that they're taking rash action. They announce the day they're going to end these snap inspection and they could realize it's in their interest to bring those inspections back into play and to perhaps even just resuspend its sensitive nuclear activities and it could also pursue a deal with Russia, to actually have Russia conduct those activities within Russia and provide Iran nuclear fuel.
That is a compromise that President Bush is actually supporting.
WHITFIELD: So, when Iran says it is resuming nuclear activities, what's your interpretation of what that really means?
FERGUSON: Well, they're trying to do two things. They're trying to obviously send a political signal to the west, the United States, European Union especially. And they are also trying to resolve technical problems with their nuclear program. And this hasn't really been reported widely enough. Iran still has to solve certain technical issues before they can even cross the threshold to either make nuclear fuel or even material for nuclear bombs.
WHITFIELD: So the president of Iran had made it clear once before that this nuclear exploration has everything to do with nuclear power. How believable is that? Why are there so many world leaders skeptical of that?
FERGUSON: Well, there are some suspicions. We haven't seen the so-called smoking gun that they have a nuclear weapons program. One outstanding suspicion rose in November of last year when the IAEA reported that Iran obtained a document from the A.Q. Khan network operating out of Pakistan.
They obtain a document that would show how to convert uranium into hemispherical shapes, the kind of shapes you would need if you were making an actual nuclear warhead.
WHITFIELD: So when you talk about this president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, taking himself from being unknown to now renowned, do you take him seriously? Are these theatrics to perhaps get the world's notice? Or perhaps to be perceived as one to fear?
FERGUSON: Well, I think we've seen this in many politicians the world around, that they tend to play to domestic audiences as well as international audiences. And Ahmadinejad is a novice when it comes to foreign affairs. And he's been making what we would consider some mistakes.
He seems to be almost playing into the western hands and giving us reasons to find suspicions with their program. He's saying that he's against Israel. He's denying the holocaust.
WHITFIELD: In the end, might he be winning the respect of the Iranians, which I would guess that might be one his objectives. FERGUSON: That's right. He's kind of playing to his base, his political base, and trying to make sure he stays in power. We need to keep in mind here that he does not have ultimate control of Iran's nuclear program. That the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei really has the final say here.
WHITFIELD: All right, Charles. So in the end, quickly, what's the timetable if this country were indeed to build a nuclear weapon?
FERGUSON: Well, there are a number of estimates. The U.S. government estimate is five to ten years. The worst case credible estimate I've seen recently, as my colleague David Albright has said, three, three and a half years, and I find that a fairly pretty credible estimate assuming Iran can solve technical problems with its program.
That means we still have time for diplomacy to work.
WHITFIELD: Charles Ferguson of the science and technology wing of the Council of Foreign Relations. Thank you very much.
FERGUSON: Thank you very much.
WHITFIELD: Well, up to 1,000 people are feared dead after disaster in The Red Sea. A ferry carrying 1,400 people capsized off of the coast of Egypt yesterday and relatives of those on board are increasingly frustrated and angry. CNN's Paula Hancocks is in Safaga, Egypt.
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PAULA HANCOCKS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hundreds of Egyptians here in Safaga are spending a second tense and anxious evening, trying to find out any information they can on their relatives who were on the ferry that sunk in The Red Sea.
Now there has been some angry outbursts this Saturday as relatives were frustrated and desperate at the lack of information that they were getting from the authorities earlier on this Saturday. There were rocks thrown and bottles thrown.
Police and the riot police came out and form a cordon around the actual court itself so that relatives could not get any further. There have been frustrations that they have not been privy to the information that they believe that the authorities have had.
It has been a little less chaotic as the day has gone on. The authorities have come out with a loudspeaker and named lists of the survivors so that those relatives here could listen out and see if their loved one were on that particular list.
There have been survivors, 389 we understand. And many of them going up to Hurghada(ph) Hospital. And also this morning, President Mubarak went to that hospital so that he could give his condolences and show his support for those who have been injured in this incident. Also he said there would be compensation for the relatives of those who had died and also those who had been injured.
Some additional information coming out this Saturday about the incident itself. We heard from the transport ministry that there was a fire on the ferry. It did start, they believe, on one the vehicles that was on the lower deck of the ferry itself. Then when the crew was trying to put it out, the captain turned the boat around, but it was very bad weather conditions. And the boat was caught in high winds and then that's when they believe that it did overturn.
But they say that it was just an initial report that gave them that indication. They don't know as yet whether or not that fire did lead to the sinking. Paula Hancocks, CNN, Safaga, Egypt.
WHITFIELD: Two western embassies went up in flames today amid growing rage in the Muslim world over cartoon images of the Prophet Mohammed. In Damascus, Syria, thousands of demonstrators first set fire to the embassy of Denmark, the country where the images were first published. Flames shot from the building before firefighters were able to put it out.
The mob then made its way to the embassy of Norway and set it on fire after breaking through a police line. Later, Syrian riot troops diffused a situation outside the French embassy by turning water hoses on the crowd and scores of police were deployed as a precaution outside the United States embassy.
Also today, Iran announced it will review trade ties with countries that have published the image. And dozens of Palestinians try to storm the office of the European Union in Gaza.
Combating terrorism. The U.S. is devoting tons of resources to fight terrorists world wide. A big focus right now is on Africa where al Qaeda gets some of its support and recruits. CNN's Barbara Starr brings us an up close and personal look at the battle from the African front lines.
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BARBARA STARR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Horn of Africa -- we have come to this desperately poor, largely Islamic region. Fourteen hundred U.S. troops are here, fighting to keep al Qaeda at bay. The commander tells us of his weapons -- medicine, education, clean water.
MAJOR GENERAL TIMOTHY F. GHORMLEY, U.S. CENTRAL COMMAND: Instead of sending out a -- a rifleman, I send out a doctor.
STARR: The slums of Djibouti, where thousands of refugees from Somalia are living.
(on camera): It is in refugee ghettos like this one -- they are all over the region -- that the U.S. worries, al Qaeda may be recruiting.
(voice-over): The northern edge of Somalia, a country where al Qaeda openly recruits. The U.S. military does not enter Somalia, but here there is no border. We, and potentially al Qaeda, can walk freely.
Back at Camp Le Monier, a torrential downpour turns everyone into a makeshift engineer, draining the mini-flash flood.
(on camera): These are the living quarters here for the U.S. troops in the Horn of Africa. It's pretty rugged, but it's all the conveniences of home. This is my shower towel. I have a big curtain put up for some privacy. And, if you follow me in here, this is where one spends the night when you sleep here.
(voice-over): In Yemen, we are at the ancient Bar-el (ph), Yemen, souk. This is a country where al Qaeda has attacked, where Westerners have been kidnapped. There are few tourists.
We travel with the U.S. special operations team. They do not wear uniforms. We are escorted by Yemeni security forces through a stunning landscape, dotted by mountain villages -- a brief stop at the spot where terrorists bombed the USS Cole. Yemen wants the U.S. to believe the country now is safe.
But it is here in southern Ethiopia, in the town of Gode, the children grab your heart with their smiles. Here, the children run up to U.S. soldiers in delight. They play. Everyone laughs.
Radios are a major source of information. Food is not plentiful. In the outlying villages, there is drought.
At this medical clinic the soldiers run, the story we have sought about the war on terror being fought with medicine and care.
CAPTAIN KAREN LANDMANN, U.S. ARMY: By us being here, we're trying to avoid having to send 150,000 troops into -- into another country.
STARR: This place of peaceful farmers and quiet rivers, a place the U.S. is determined terrorism will not take hold.
Barbara Starr, with cameraman Tomas Etzler, CNN, Gode, Ethiopia.
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WHITFIELD: Well, does sitting in traffic make you angry. You're not alone but will your anger land you in the emergency room? We'll investigate straight ahead.
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WHITFIELD: Live pictures we're about to show you now. In the rotunda the Georgia State Capitol as Coretta Scott King's body lies in state there, and a number of the general public is able to go by and pay their last respects to the woman known as the first lady of the civil rights movement. And that viewing will be going on until 8:00 p.m. eastern time this evening.
Meantime, her funeral is scheduled for Tuesday at the New Birth Missionary Baptist Church, where their youngest daughter, Bernice, is a minister, at the same time, we're now hearing the president the United States, George W. Bush, along with his wife Laura Bush will be in attendance at that funeral and, we understand, the president will also have an opportunity to give some remarks during that funeral scheduled now for Tuesday.
Now coming up in next hour of CNN LIVE SATURDAY as we continue, Randy Kaye in for Carol Lin. What's on tap.
RANDI KAYE, CNN ANCHOR: Coming up at 5:00 Fred, we're going to take you inside minds of suicide bombers. We are going to speak with a film maker who spent some time with would-be suicide bombers from an Israeli prison.
He heard from them why they want to be a suicide bomber. And one of these women actually scared him. And we'll tell you what she said to him.
And coming up at 6:00, we're going to talk about economics of Olympics. We're not talking about the price of tickets. We're talking about what it costs when athletes actually follow their dream. Believe it or not, training for an Olympic skater for life can cost up to one million dollars.
WHITFIELD: Wow. And that is why --
KAYE: A lot of people are quitting. They just can't afford it. Some of them obviously are and we are hearing from some them.
WHITFIELD: And that's why it's so important for so many of these athletes to get the sponsorship that they need. All right, we'll be looking for that. Thanks a lot, Randi. Sorry to step on you there.
All right, time now talk living well with Dr. Bill Lloyd. Our talking point today the new study that shows that if your temper starts to rise, you could be at greater risk of getting hurt especially if you're a man.
Our Dr. Bill Lloyd is here right now. Dr. Bill, all right, good to see you. Well, this study certainly also indicates, not only the danger of being angry but are we also discovering that too many of us are much more angry than what would be the normal human response?
DR. BILL LLOYD, SURGEON: We live in a pretty angry society, Fredricka. About a third in the people in the study that we'll talk about in a moment, claimed to have had a serious bout of anger preceding their injury. Anger is a healthy, normal reaction typically related to some form frustration.
Doctors from the University of Missouri interviewed about 2,500 patients that have sustained serious injuries, and they went back in time and asked, tell me over the past 24 hours, were you angry? They categorized three different groups of anger and then they went to an equal group that wasn't injured. And lo and behold, they found out, if you're angry, you're at a greater risk of suffering a personal injury.
WHITFIELD: So how do you know when you have got a serious problem.
LLOYD: Yes, it has to do with losing control, I would say. Anger is not good for you from a medical perspective for your body or psychologically as well.
People who have meltdowns have trouble with high blood pressure. So you'll know when you are becoming irritable or not. Prolonged anger can lead to depression and of course angry people have headaches and complain of headaches all the time.
As I mentioned, you are at a greater risk of being involved in an injury, particularly, one involving physical violence, either inflicting it or having one inflicted on you. There can be problems with damaged relationships and around the household of course, people who are angry set a bad examine for other family members.
WHITFIELD: It does underscore the need of how you channel your anger. What you do with that anger before you kind of blow your stack.
LLOYD: You're right. Anger is an emotion. What is your reaction to that emotion? You can go one of three different pathways. You can either express that anger, suppress that anger or decompress that anger. People who express their anger in an assertive way can get to a constructive resolution problem. Whereas if they fly off of the handle, of course, they are taking a giant step back.
Occasionally at worked or in other social situation, it's probably important to suppress that anger. But serenity now it'll pay for it down the road. And it will be worthwhile for you to learn how to solve those problems.
And then, finally, decompress that anger. And when we talk about that, Fredricka, think about, where else could I be? What other way could I solve this problem? Can I put myself in a different environment? Such as leave the room. Go get a breath of fresh air before I react.
You may be surprised of how just 60 seconds can make all of the difference in how you manage that anger.
WHITFIELD: Serenity now for all those "Seinfeld" fans. Dr. Bill Lloyd, thanks so much.
LLOYD: We'll talk again soon.
WHITFIELD: From the big screen to the extra small screen. These days movies come in all sizes. Straight ahead, Jeanne Moos tackles the smallest yet. The cell phone film.
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WHITFIELD: Call it a new film genre. Movies made by people using their cell phones are no longer going unnoticed. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports on a film festival in New York that puts the cell in celluloid . (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Calling all movie directors. At the CellFlix festival, there is no red carpet to roll out. No one will ask you...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Who are you wearing?
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Prada.
MOOS: You can skip the three-hour epics. We're talking 30- second movies, shot with a cell phone.
(on camera): Mike, what was your budget for this film?
MIKE POTTER, DIRECTOR, "CHEAT": It started at zero.
MOOS (voice-over): Speaking, where else, on a cell phone, festival winner Mike Potter said his movie "Cheat" took half-an-hour to shoot. It stars his grandparents, Fred and Rosemary.
POTTER: They have a very endearing relationship.
MOOS: "Cheat" was one of 178 submissions to Ithaca College's CellFlix festival. Finalists planted their cell phone cameras on escalators and under trains.
But Mike Potter's 30-second love story won the $5,000 prize. Here is the film in its entirety.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have this game we play on Sunday, my Rosemary and I. I call out a headline. Rosemary, Bruschi's not gonna play on Sunday. And if she correctly guesses the headline, I give her a kiss.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, that's true.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I gotta tell you something, sometimes I cheat.
MOOS: OK, so they had to do the kiss three times to get it just right, and shooting with a cell phone invites complications.
(on camera): Mike, you never missed any cell phone calls while you were shooting, did you?
POTTER: I had it ring once. I think it was my girlfriend.
MOOS: How can you shoot yourself and know what you got?
(voice-over): Some of us have enough trouble making a phone call, let alone a movie.
And talk about multitasking with your cell. A Dutch comedy show foresees cell phones that shave, cell phones that iron, cell phones you can make grilled cheese in, even cell phones that you can order to self-destruct.
This may be Mike Potter's first movie-making award, but already he's issuing a challenge.
POTTER: I challenge Mr. Steven Spielberg, the great storyteller, to a cell phone film battle.
MOOS: Even ET didn't know how to use a cell phone.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ET, phone home.
MOOS: Steven Spielberg, phone Mike Potter.
POTTER: Let's take away the budget. Let's take away the big- name actors, and let's compete on a smaller screen.
MOOS: Smaller pictures. Now, that's something Norma Desmond knew a thing or two about.
WILLIAM HOLDEN, ACTOR: You used to be in silent pictures. Used to be big.
MOOS (on camera): I am big! It is the pictures that got small!
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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WHITFIELD: A movie coming to a dial near you. Still so much more ahead on CNN. Randi Kaye is ahead next with more on CNN LIVE SATURDAY after this.
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Plus, they blow themselves up because they say they're on a mission to kill. We will take you inside the minds of Hamas suicide bombers.
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