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Sharon Surgery; British Muslim Protest; Turin Olympics; Mobile Homes in Arkansas?; A Daughter's Goodbye; RX: Help; Identity Damaged by Clerical Error; Sleep of Champions
Aired February 11, 2006 - 16:00 ET
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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Well, ahead this hour, a storm is brewing, blizzard conditions are predicted for the Northeast and snow is already being in parts of the South. We'll have the latest.
Plus, why these trailers you see in this shot, meant to house victims of Hurricane Katrina, are sitting empty in Arkansas.
And then, looking for love in all the wrong faces, how facial features could determine who is the right match for you.
Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SATURDAY. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All of that and more after this look at the headlines.
Stable but critical. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon undergoes another round of emergency surgery. The trouble that prompted his operation and the latest on his prognosis, straight ahead live this hour.
Peaceful persuasion. Demonstrators angry about illustrations of the Prophet Mohammed calmly protest in London's Trafalgar Square. Missing from today's rally was the fury and unrest that's erupted across the globe over the controversy.
And a developing story in Rhode Island. A car has crashed into a mill releasing an unknown chemical into the air. Homes have been evacuated. We'll bring you more details as we get them.
Sign up, President Bush is urging Americans to register for Medicare's new prescription drug plan. In his weekly radio address, Mr. Bush acknowledged problems early on with the program but said the drug benefits are helping a large majority of elderly Americans.
Back in the history books. Steve Fossett breaks the record for the longest nonstop flight in history, but today's feat came closer to disaster. We'll explain.
We begin in Jerusalem where Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is said to be out of danger after emergency surgery. He's in stable condition, but doctors say this latest setback isn't a good sign. CNN's Guy Raz is in Jerusalem.
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GUY RAZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In political and in military life, Ariel Sharon made something of a career of defying the naysayers, once again he is defying the odds, struggling to survive.
(voice-over): This after a day when doctors had initially declared Ariel Sharon may not survive this day. He did in fact survive after undergoing four hours of invasive surgery. Surgery to remove about 20 inches of his large intestine. This after doctors carried out an abdominal scan overnight. They discovered extensive damage to his digestive tract and it need to be operated on immediately.
This was the fourth major surgery Ariel Sharon has undergone in the 39 days he has been here at Hadassah Hospital. He underwent three major surgeries after initially being admitted to this hospital on January 4th to relieve pressure from his brain. Of course after having suffered a massive stroke on the 4th of January. Since that time and for the past 39 days, Ariel Sharon has been in a coma. A coma he has not yet awakened from, but in fact, just as it seemed his life was about to come to an end, Ariel Sharon once again defied the odds, not yet ready to give up on life.
(on camera): Guy Raz, CNN, outside Hadassah Hospital, Jerusalem.
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WHITFIELD: Ariel Sharon's health crisis is helping make an impact beyond the Middle East. Here in the U.S. the Bush administration official is closely monitoring the developments in Israel. CNN's Kathleen Koch is at the White House. Kathleen?
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Fredricka, Ariel Sharon has been a critical partner in President Bush's efforts to end the violence and turmoil in the Middle East and eventually establish a Palestinian state. So the White House is very carefully following his declining health. The White House spokesman Scott McClellan this morning saying, quote, "The White House is closely following the situation and keeping Prime Minister Sharon in our thoughts and prayers."
Now, in January when Sharon suffered that massive stroke, President Bush spoke out personally at that time. Saying he was, quote, "A good man. A strong man with the vision for peace."
Now the two men took office at virtually the same time or within about two weeks of one another back in 2001. And have since then met nearly a dozen times. At least one visit being held at President Bush's ranch in Crawford. And so Ariel Sharon is literally the only Israeli leader that President Bush has dealt with on a continuing basis since taking office. But the two men do not always see eye to eye. Ariel Sharon having very little enthusiasm for direct peace negotiations with the Palestinians. Instead preferring to take more of a unilateral approach.
The White House, for its part, still continuing to advance the all-important roadmap for peace though. Though President Bush largely backing Sharon's efforts, including the unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. Now with Sharon being comatose since January, the White House has had basically been operating under the assumption that someone will eventually be filling his shoes, taking his place. The question now is, who will that that be? Elections come up next month and will that be strong enough to help craft Middle East peace.
Back to you.
WHITFIELD: All right. Kathleen Koch at the White House, thank you.
Well, the White House is also closely watching Muslim outrage over cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. Thousands gathered in London today to denounce their publication but was also a chance to condemn the violence that has marred other protests. CNN's Jim Boulden reports.
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JIM BOULDEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Saturday's rally in London's Trafalgar Square brought out people from across Britain's moderate Muslim community. While men young and old prayed, and young girls giggled, people listened to speaker after speaker condemn what they say is the rise of Islamophobia across the world.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We just want to be treated with dignity. We want to be treated with respect.
BOULDEN: Saturday's gathering was in sharp contrast to the violence which broke out in the Middle East when Western newspapers publish cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammed. A small group of British Muslims angrily demonstrated in front of the Danish embassy in London two weeks ago. Some called for death of those who published the cartoons. Saturday's peaceful rally was organized to counter that image.
ANAS ALTIKRITI, MUSLIM ASSOCIATION OF BRITAIN: To incite, to kill, to behead and to glorify certain terrorist acts as the 7th of July and the such, is totally un-Islamic and totally defeats the cause. We are telling people, do not incite against Muslims or any other. So for Muslims to incite is absolutely ludicrous.
BOULDEN: The rally also condemned the invasion of Iraq. Many here have protested it against the war in this very square. Including this small boy, says his mother.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are against the war and (inaudible) because he is -- They are the future. And I believe they should, you know, he's part of that change.
BOULDEN: For these British-born teenager, this demonstration was about showing how hurt they were by the cartoons.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's important to us and he's our role model so we all feel strongly about him. We are all coming here because we continue. Because when they're insulting him and insulting us too.
BOULDEN: Organizers had hoped for 10,000 people to pack this historic square. The police say the number was half that. But fears that extreme elements might disrupt the events proved unfounded.
(on camera): The organizers of this rally called for a peaceful demonstration and they were successful. The police recorded no arrests. Jim Boulden CNN, London.
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WHITFIELD: Snow, sleet, ice and frigid temperatures -- all the makings for one colossal winter mess and the worst may be yet to come. A powerful nor'easter, Snow already is make the drive difficult in eastern Tennessee and northern Georgia, of all places, today. The storm could send blinding, blowing snow across New York to Maine tonight and tomorrow morning. Blizzard warnings are posted all along the Eastern Seaboard, where more than a foot of snow is expected.
Meteorologist Monica McNeal in the weather center. Keeping a close watch on all of this. A big brewing storm.
MONICA MCNEAL, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is a big brewing mess. I tell you what. Northeast winds will increase tonight, Fredricka, causing drifting and blowing snow blizzard-like conditions across most the Northeast.
As we take a look at radar and show you what's going on. This area of low pressure will intensify and continue to move its way up the coast. By tomorrow morning, the storm will be very close to the New Jersey coast. Creating big problems.
As we zoom in and show you where the snow is, you can certainly see, some heavy snowfall coming down into parts of Washington, right around Manassas and also into Baltimore and Columbia and see how this cold air starting to really overtake the moisture and pushing the rain farther toward the east and bringing in that heavy snowfall.
Philadelphia, you're reporting all snow at this point and New York, the snow is on your heels. I give you about another hour and that snow will be in your neighborhood too.
Let's talk about the snowfall totals. What are we expecting here? Washington, DC, you're looking at anywhere from 8 to 14 inches of snow once this storm is all said and done and that's right until tomorrow. We're talking about at least a 12 to 14-hour event for us. Philadelphia, you're looking at about 8 to 13. New York City up to 12 inches and Boston, you're looking at anywhere from 10 to 14 inches snowfall into your forecast, too.
Temperatures are very cold and will remain that way. Within the last hour, temperature in New York has already dropped three degrees and these temperatures will continue to plunge overnight. So much so that we're expecting with these very cold temperatures, blizzard-like conditions. And when we talk about that, we've got very, very strong winds. Winds could gust up to about 50 miles per hour at times, Fredricka. So to sum everything up for you. Here is the area of low pressure that we've been talking about. This will continue to track its way up the coast. On the back side of that system, some very cold air that's locked in place. And that's what creating the wintry mess. WHITFIELD: Wow, big mess indeed.
MCNEAL: Big mess.
WHITFIELD: Thanks so much, Monica.
Well, coming up, snow is what they want. Lots of it in fact in Torino, Italy. We'll have a live update of the first day of Olympic competitions straight ahead.
And hockey's greatest caught in a betting scandal? What will the fallout be for Wayne Gretzky and his wife?
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WHITFIELD: The United States is golden. The U.S. won its first gold at the Olympics today. Fans including First Lady Laura Bush are celebrating.
CNN's Larry Smith is in Torino with all of the details. Larry?
LARRY SMITH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, hi, Fredricka. It is evening now here in Torino. Every year at the winter Olympics, at every Olympic Games always one hero who stands out each year and that could be Chad Hedrick. What a phenomenal performance as he won the men's 500 meter speed skate to, as you mention, grab the first gold medal. First medal of any kind for the United States. He was so dominating in this event, that for a while he flirted with world record, this on a track that was considered to be slow ice.
Instead he comes up 200ths of a second short of the Olympic record set four years ago at the Salt Lake games. As he is trying to win five gold. That would tie the record for most gold medals ever won at a single Winter Games. That's set by Eric Heiden. The U.S. speed skater back in 1980.
Now, figure skating, Michelle Kwan, the question is, will she compete when it comes time for figure skating? Well, we are waiting and seeing right now. The nine time U.S. champion, five time world champion cutting her practice short today after she struggled through some jumps. Really had problems. Did not run through her short program.
Still obviously nursing that groin injury that kept her out of nationals and keep in mind, she needed to put on a special private workout for the committee members just to get a medical exemption to be part of this U.S. team that's here in Torino now as she tries to win her first ever Olympic gold medal.
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MICHELLE KWAN, OLYMPIC FIGURE SKATER: It's been a struggle for me this year. I've gotten -- I've gone through a lot of injuries and just -- I'm just really happy to be here. But I think taking one thing at a time for me is important. Listening to my body's important. (END VIDEO CLIP)
SMITH: Well, Michelle Kwan, if she cannot go, the International Olympic Committee would step in and choose her replacement for her on the U.S. team. Fredricka?
WHITFIELD: Well, despite all that, she's awfully poised there. Well, she's not the only American who had a tough day. Tell us about what happened to some of the other athletes.
SMITH: You're right. And that's the freestyle skiing women's moguls we thought would do this. Led by the 19-year-old Hanna Carney (ph) of Vermont. She was the 2005 World Cup champion. But they struck out. They failed to medal at all as Jennifer Heil (ph) of Canada took gold. So Canada one gold, U.S. one gold. Germany getting two golds here in first day competition and for the ladies, try better next time, I guess. Better luck next time. Let's go back to you.
WHITFIELD: It's early yet. All right. Thanks a lot.
SMITH: That's true. OK.
WHITFIELD: Well, it takes more than training and conditioning to keep these Olympians in shape. Later, Dr. Sanjay Gupta will explain the importance that athletes put on sleep in their quest for gold.
And not all of the news out of Italy is good today. The country's health minister says five dead swans were found infected with the killer h5n1 bird flu strain in southern Italy. The cases are the first in Italy. No human cases are report. Greek authorities also confirmed three wild swans in northern Greece have tested positive for bird flu.
Steve Fossett does it again. The American adventurer broke the record for the longest nonstop flight today traveling more than 26,000 miles over three days. But he didn't go exactly as planned. Minutes after setting the new record, Fossett was forced to make an emergency landing in England.
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STEVE FOSSETT, AVIATOR: A lot went on in this flight. I think it was a difficult flight. And really lucky to make it to the end and get credit for the record and then right after that, then I had a problem with the generator of the plane and had to make an emergency landing. So it was a lot going on.
WHITFIELD: All of that but he's happy now still. Four years ago Fossett became the first person to circle the globe by balloon.
On the record, hockey great Wayne Gretzky is vehemently denying any involvement in a gambling scandal that's rocked the NHL. Hockey players as well as celebrities, such as Gretzky's wife, have had their names linked to the operation. We get the very latest now from CNN's Mary Snow.
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ANNOUNCER: ... pressured. Gretzky in front.
MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: With a nickname like "The Great One" and four Stanley Cup title, Wayne Gretzky has always enjoyed royalty status in the hockey world. His actress and model wife, Janet Jones Gretzky added to his fame. With questions about an alleged gambling ring involving one of his coaches and headlines like "Betzky," the hockey star is facing the sort of attention he's never had in his career.
WAYNE GRETZKY, PHOENIX COYOTES HEAD COACH: I didn't bet. Didn't happen. It's not going to happen. Hasn't happened. It's something that I've done.
SNOW: Gretzky and his wife Janet has not been accused of any wrongdoing in what New Jersey police, dubbed Operation Slapshot, an illegal sports gambling ring. Gretzky's wife's spokesman says she is a possible witness in the illegal betting investigation. The Associated Press reported but CNN has not independently confirmed that police obtained a wiretap where Gretzky asks about how his wife can avoid being implicated in the probe. Gretzky did not answer questions about the wiretaps Thursday and spoke about his future plans.
GRETZKY: I'm not going anywhere. I'm still going to coach the Phoenix Coyotes. I have done nothing wrong, or nothing that has to do with any sort of on the lines of betting.
SNOW: Gretzky's wife came to her husband's defense Thursday. She released a statement saying, "At no time did I ever place a wager on my husband's behalf." She says other than the occasional horse race, her husband doesn't bet on any sports. Among three people facing charges, including promoting gambling and money laundering, is Gretzky's assistant coach of the Phoenix Coyotes, Rick Tocchet. His lawyers say the charges are categorically false. Lawyers for all three men say they will fight charges.
(on camera): The National Hockey League says it's hired a former prosecutor to conduct its own investigation into allegations made as part of Operation Slapshot. Mary Snow, CNN, New York.
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WHITFIELD: Coming up, what is a secret of true love? Face it, it may be all in your nose. Huh? We'll explain.
And sometimes you just need a fresh start. Find out how Ken is hoping to turn on the charm again.
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WHITFIELD: Well, if beauty is in the eye of the beholder, maybe love is too. Dr. Gerald Epstein is a psychiatrist and the director the American Institute for Mental Imagery. He says face reading or morphology can be your best guide it finding long-lasting love and resolving conflict. Dr. Epstein, thanks so much for joining us. DR. GERALD EPSTEIN, AMERICAN INSTITUTE FOR MENTAL IMAGERY: Thank you for having me.
WHITFIELD: All right. So break it down. Face reading, morphology, what is it?
EPSTEIN: An ancient subject. It's been with us for 5,000 years and it's a way of telling about people from their facial expressions and facial shape and facial profile and so on. So it's the ancient diagnostic medicine of western medicine in health care.
WHITFIELD: So what do we need to be reading about face shape? We know about the triangular face, the oval, the square face.
EPSTEIN: Right, all of that.
WHITFIELD: What sort of characteristics come to mind when we talk about some these face shapes?
EPSTEIN: Well, when you talk about the oval shape, you're talking about somebody who is very charismatic. Somebody who would draw people to him or her. People who work for one idea for a lifetime. One point for a lifetime. They are -- they take a position of ascendancy. They are called in the ancient tradition the sun type, which has not to do with astrology. Has to do the way that they were carved by the ancient Greek masters.
WHITFIELD: So when we talk about pairing up people, based on their face shape or these kind of characteristics, are we saying an oval shaped person needs to be attracted to another oval shaped person? Or what?
EPSTEIN: Yes. Ideally.
WHITFIELD: It's that simple?
EPSTEIN: Yes. Ideally the oval shape would go very well with the circular shape. So that's the sun and the moon and they make natural combination with each another.
WHITFIELD: All right. So let's talk about some well-known faces.
EPSTEIN: OK.
WHITFIELD: Angelina and Brad.
EPSTEIN: I think that they are a nice combination. She has a lot of strength. She's a pillar of strength and has a strong yearning and direction for family life. And I think this can help him in terms of settling down because he's an adventurous type but there's a certain soft side to him and I think that he's ready for fatherhood. So -- but she's really the pillar that he can count on. She's much stronger than would appear by the kind of what we would say sexual image that's portrayed about her or sexy image portrayed about her. There's much more to her than meets the eye. No pun intended. WHITFIELD: All right. And how Tom and Katie?
EPSTEIN: They are not so necessarily a natural connection. He's quite strong-willed. Zealous and has to be the boss and be in charge. And she's someone who needs to, at first, be given adulation, acceptance, approval, acknowledgement. She can tend to be a but quirky, eccentric and has to be accepted for that. So, they have to come to -- they have to work it out really. That he would not step across and be too demanding of her because she has to be given to first, usually people of this timer type need to be given to first before they can give.
WHITFIELD: Interesting. Then we talk about Sheryl and Lance. While they were the it couple for a while and since we've learned this past couple weeks that they've split but let's talk about them anyway about their compatibility physically.
EPSTEIN: OK, so they also have quite a nice connection to each other. He's the oval type that you were talking about before. And a very strong -- a very strong temperament. He's the one that will work for a particular idea. Nothing stops him. He won seven Tour de Frances even though he had cancer. He's indomitable and spotlight comes to him. It's not that he's yearning or craving for spotlight but by his way, things come to him.
WHITFIELD: Well, what about her, then?
EPSTEIN: And Sheryl is someone who wants the spotlight. That is, she goes out after it. Because she's the type that needs to be in the spotlight and to have people acknowledge her talents and her ability to perform and so on. And maybe one of the issues amongst many that may have been there was that they both could not share a spotlight together.
WHITFIELD: All right.
EPSTEIN: They didn't have time.
WHITFIELD: So how about, Dr. Epstein, for all of our friends out there that are on the dating scene and they are looking for love in all the wrong or right places, is the recommendation ...
EPSTEIN: All the right faces.
WHITFIELD: Yeah, hopefully the right faces now. The recommendation is they need to look at the face shapes.
EPSTEIN: The face shapes. Yes.
WHITFIELD: All right, Dr. Gerald Epstein psychiatrist and director of the American Institute for Mental Imagery. Thanks so much. That was a lot of fun.
EPSTEIN: In New York City.
WHITFIELD: In New York City, of course. Thanks so much and Happy Valentine's.
EPSTEIN: Thank you too, dear.
WHITFIELD: All right. Thanks a lot.
Well, it seems everyone is getting a makeover these days. So why not Barbie's boy toy Ken? Only Jeanne Moos could do this story justice.
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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): We've all had looks we're ashamed of and Barbie's boy toy Ken is certainly no exception, to be the lavender look or mod hair Ken.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Put a mustache on Ken. Or sideburns.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anytime he has anything with wheels on, gets a little scary to me.
MOOS Who better to give Ken a makeover than a flamboyant stylist who has dressed stars ranging from Johnny Depp to Pierce Brosnan and who readily admits he goes way back with Barbie.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Since we were a little kids, we were like this.
MOOS: Voila the new Ken.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is more urban runaround look.
MOOS: Well, actually there are two new Kens. The collector's edition in Italian jeans and leather jacket and the blonder version that will be sold in stores.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my gosh.
MOOS (on camera): Is he-manly enough for you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: A little bit femininey but then ...
MOOS: But when you see this one, it makes this one look like Mr. Butch.
(voice-over): The photos show Ken's last incarnation back when Barbie dump him two years ago. Barbie is being outsold in the U.S. by those pouty-lipped Bratz dolls.
To rejuvenate Barbie, critics say Mattel announced she and ken were splitting up. Now they're getting back together. The head of the Bratz dolls called it "stupid publicity" and told the "New York Times," "Ken is not going to save Barbie."
The new Ken is described as the kind of guy who does yoga and girls like that sensitive type.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Like a Leonardo DiCaprio.
MOOS: Oh, Leonardo DiCaprio.
Well, actually Ken's look Matthew McConaughey meets Orlando Bloom according to his stylist who made it into the "New York Times'" quotation of the day.
PHILIP BLOCK, KEN DESIGNER: Oh really, I'm the quote of the day. Wow, that's cool.
MOOS: It was cool we ran into Oscar nominated actress Virginia Madsen.
VIRGINIA MADSEN, ACTRESS: Jeanne Moos!
MOOS (on camera): It's Ken.
MADSEN: Oh my God. What's happened to you, Ken? He's come out.
I know Ken. And Ken is a gay man.
MOOS (on camera): You're sure?
MADSEN: He's got streaks in his hair, man.
MOOS: (voice-over) Jeanne, Moos, CNN, New York.
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WHITFIELD: A look now at our top story. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon remaining in a coma after emergency surgery today to remove part of his intestines. Doctors say he is in critical, but stable condition. Sharon was rushed into surgery after a CT scan -- a cat scan found gangrene in his large intestine.
Thousands of Muslims demonstrated in London today against the newspaper drawings against the drawings of Prophet Mohammad. They also denounced the violence that has erupted in other recent demonstrations in London and elsewhere.
An American Airline's pilot is under arrest in Britain on suspicion of being intoxicated. Authorities say he was taken into custody at Manchester Airport shortly before his flight was due it take off for Chicago today. American Airlines is investigating and says it's a, quote, "isolated incident."
First Lady Laura Bush says Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton's criticism of her husband, President Bush is, quote, "out of bounds and certainly politics." Mrs. Bush spoke in Torino, Italy. She is leading the U.S. Delegation at the Winter Olympics. Former First Lady Clinton has said Mr. Bush's administration is, quote, "one of the worst in history."
Coming up, much of the East Coast is huddling inside because of a winter blast. We'll have the latest forecast straight ahead.
And with so many along the gulf coast look for a place to live, why are these trailers sitting empty, parked in Arkansas?
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WHITFIELD: Just when the warmest January on record lulls everything into thinking spring can't far away, Old Man Winter throws us a curveball. A powerful Nor'easter is taking aim at eastern seaboard between tonight and tomorrow. Blinding, blowing snow could make travel treacherous, at best. People are bracing for the worst. Monica McNeal is in the weather center.
And Monica, I have a feeling this is the big one.
MONICA MCNEAL, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, this is definitely the biggest one. Maybe the biggest one we'll see all year, Fredricka.
As we take a look at the satellite and show you what's going on, you can see this plume of moisture in this area of low pressure. This is the troublemaker. And we've got some very cold air that's finally starting to make its way southward.
After the past two months when that cold air has been bottled up across parts of Canada, we're really going to focusing on the winds tonight. That's where the blizzard-like conditions are going to be coming in.
As we take a look at our live radar, to show you what's going on. Just south of Philly, right now, the winds are out of the northeast at about 15. And just to the southeast of New York, we're looking at winds right now out of the northeast at about 20 miles an hour. So it's not so bad right now.
But those winds will continue to intensify and will continue to increase and we're looking for a lot of snow -- so much snow that it's going to create problems for driving. So if you are one of those folks that you just have to get out and drive, here's just a quick winter tip for you. Make sure you've got a flashlight, extra blankets, make sure you've got canned openers and make sure you've got that cell phone in your car.
In the next 24 hours, here's the amount of snowfall that we're expecting to see across the mid-Atlantic and the Northeast. Fredricka, take a look at this. In the darker purples, we're looking for possibly up to a foot of snowfall.
WHITFIELD: Wow. That is some serious business. All right, thanks so much, Monica.
Five months after Hurricane Katrina, one of the biggest headaches for thousands of people is finding a place to live. So we wondered why thousands of FEMA mobile homes are sitting in a lot in Arkansas, hundreds of miles away from people who could use them.
CNN Gulf Coast Correspondent Susan Roesgen took a road trip to find out.
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SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN GULF COAST CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): You're looking at emergency housing for victims of Katrina. Row after row of mobile homes -- nearly 11,000. FEMA purchased so many, you can barely squeeze between them. But the problem is, this is Arkansas, not Louisiana. And this empty city of mobile homes is 450 miles away from where it should be.
The mayor of Hope, Arkansas, Dennis Ramsey, says FEMA leased this area near the airport in October.
DENNIS RAMSEY, MAYOR OF ARKANSAS: They asked what we wanted and we said $25,000 a month. And they came back a couple days later and said that's within FEMA guidelines and the contract was signed.
ROESGEN: That's right. FEMA is paying $25,000 a month to let these mobile homes sit here. A good deal for Hope, but no glory for FEMA. Arkansas Congressman Mike Ross.
REP. MIKE ROSS (D), ARKANSAS: We want them to come up here and pick these manufactured homes up -- all 11,000 of them and take them to the people who lost their homes and everything they owned in the Gulf Coast well over five months ago. This is five months past due and it's time for FEMA to get moving.
ROESGEN: Ross came down from D.C. with fellow Congressman Dennis Cardoza of California and a posse of staff to show CNN $431 million tax dollars worth of mobile homes sitting unused in an Arkansas cow pasture.
What's the holdup? How does FEMA explain the delays? Well first, FEMA says some people who could live in a mobile home, don't want one because they're much larger than the travel trailers that can fit in a driveway. Second, FEMA says some communities lack the infrastructure to support a mobile home, like hookups for water and power. And third, FEMA rules say mobile homes can't be placed in a flood plain. Their sheer size and weight make them a unique problem. Never mind that much of the Gulf region is in fact a flood plain.
DAVID PASSEY, FEMA: I think we have been surprised with this extraordinary housing mission, at the number of obstacles in placing manufactured housing.
ROESGEN: FEMA's rep in the area, David Passey, gave the congressmen a private tour to defend FEMA's operation.
PASSEY: If people want to blame us, then they can blame us. But, we need cooperation from local property owners. We need cooperation from local officials. And then we have to realize there will be some physical limitations to where we can place emergency housing.
ROESGEN: But after getting a good look at the unoccupied mobile homes in Hope, the congressmen say no excuses. FEMA must get them down to the people who need them.
REP. DENNIS CARDOZA (D), CALIFORNIA: It's outrageous that we're not breaking through those regulations to get the job done. Five months after the disaster. It's just unacceptable.
ROESGEN: Congressman, can you do that? Can you break that bureaucratic red tape?
CARDOZA: We're going to try.
ROESGEN: Susan Roesgen, CNN, Hope, Arkansas.
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WHITFIELD: And now the end of a very painful chapter for one Hurricane Katrina survivor. Denise Herbert is back in New Orleans this weekend for her mother's funeral. She had been missing since the storm. You may remember Herbert from her outburst at a gathering of displaced Louisiana residents in Atlanta last month.
DENISE HERBERT, DAUGHTER OF VICTIM: Where is my mother? And I'm angry with the world.
WHITFIELD: well, Herbert has been searching for her mother for months without success. Not long after we aired her story, a CNN viewer called to say he helped treat Herbert's mother near the Super Dome.
Officials say she died hours later. This week a morgue told Herbert her mother was among their unidentified bodies.
A look now at stories making headlines across America. Get out your beads. Mobile, Alabama is celebrating Mardi Gras. Crowds turned out for the city's first Mardi Gras parade last night. There will be lots more parades and events through Fat Tuesday on February 28. And it was supposed to be a news conference it announce his successful crime sweep in Fresno, California; but as a federal prosecutor was speaking, a fight suddenly erupted behind him. One woman rammed her car into another woman's vehicle. Police say it was over a love triangle. Officers pulled the women out of their cars and arrested one of them.
The lyric sheet in which John Lennon, with a little help from Paul McCartney, penned the Beatles' classic, "A Day in the Life" is being displayed in San Francisco this weekend. It will be auctioned next month. It's expected to fetch at least $2 million.
Coming up, a lot of Americans aren't getting the most from their prescription drugs. Straight ahead, find out some of the biggest problems patients are facing.
And this man can't get a job. Find out how one typo has ruined his life.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) WHITFIELD: Time for our "Living Well" segment. Taking your medications correctly. Half of all Americans are taking some type of prescribed drugs, but chances are you may not be doing it right.
Dr. Bill Lloyd is with us. He's with the University of California Davis Medical center out of Sacramento.
Good to see you, Dr. Bill.
DR. BILL LLOYD, SURGEON: Hi, Fredricka.
WHITFIELD: All right, why is it, even with instructions on the bottles, people get instructions from their pharmacist. So many people are still not taking their medications right?
LLOYD: It's an enormous problem and the Inspector General says over $7 billion a year of medications are wasted because people don't take those pills as they have been prescribed. And there's many good reasons. The patient may misunderstand the instructions that the doctor gives them. Or more often than not, they forget to take the medications as they've been directed. Some people don't have the sufficient finances, so they won't go back for a refill or the drug may be so expensive, they can't afford the co-pay. Or the patient may be feeling good, I don't need that medicine; or I'm not feeling good today, I'm going to skip the medicine, for one reason or the other. Many patients mistrust their doctors or their pharmacists or the drug companies. And finally, side effects from medications can also steer you away. If you have problems when you take pill, the way you treat that is get rid of the pill.
WHITFIELD: Wow. But this really is pretty dangerous, isn't it? Potentially dangerous. Whether you're an older patient or whether you're a younger one.
LLOYD: Irregardless of age, you're absolutely right. When parents get antibiotics to give to children for strep throat, they've shown that after just three days, the parents stopped giving the pills to children when they should have been taking it for 10 or perhaps 14 days because the child is getting better. You don't need the medicine.
And older people at the other end of the age spectrum, same story. They forget what they're supposed to be taking. Maybe life is a little too complicated, keeping track of the different pills.
So we have to think of some better ways to help patients comply better. You know, Fredricka, it's not always the patient's fault.
WHITFIELD: Huh. So that means people really need to pay attention of what some of resources are. Not only talking to their pharmacist, perhaps going online, getting a little bit more information.
What are some other things people need to do to make sure they're following directions properly or at least taking their medication right? LLOYD: Sure. Whenever you go to the doctor, it's always helpful to have a second person with you to help you understand and to help you remember what doctor had told you.
Doctors need to employ more physician extenders. Doctors are so busy. We need more nurses and more patient educators to help the patients understand why they're taking the medicine and what could go wrong if they skip taking the medicines.
Doctors need to be more clever in consolidating doses in the number of pills. Switching patients over, for example, to a one a day pill or a twice a day pill, rather than every four hours might be a good idea. How about alternative methods? Maybe the medicine comes in the form of a patch or an extended release like a nasal spray, where the medicine will stay on board for several days and obviate the need for taking all those pills.
By switching to generics, you can lower the cost of your medications. We don't all need those frontline, top-of-the-market pills. Many of us can get along using generics without any problems whatsoever.
And finally, another option are combination drugs. And Fredricka, they've done wonderful things in combining medications that will take care of your blood pressure and your cholesterol with just one a day pill.
WHITFIELD: Wow. All great advice. Thanks so much, Dr. Bill Lloyd.
LLOYD: We'll talk again soon.
WHITFIELD: All right, good to see you.
All right, Carol Lin is coming up next with a preview of what's to come. So we know, it is very important to always follow the instructions.
CAROL LIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely. And I want to tap into his energy source.
WHITFIELD: I love it.
LIN: Anyway, coming up at 5:00, a man who has had the hiccups 24 hours a day for years. All right, it's a great story and what some of the solutions might be.
WHITFIELD: And he has such a great sense of humor about it all. Because that's miserable.
LIN: It is. We don't even like to have it just for a few minutes. He's finding some solutions. A great story.
At 6:00, I talk to this woman who was so excited. She is an Egyptologist who was there at the big find of that intact tomb. It's the first intact tomb that they have found in Egypt in something like more than 80 years -- 84 years. And she said it was a moment that just capped her career. It's going to be a few days before they can actually get inside that tomb. But who's in there? Queens? Princesses?
WHITFIELD: It's amazing.
LIN: And she said they were buried in a very pricey neighborhood, which means they had very high status. So it's a real exciting find for her and she had a lot more it say about the dig.
WHITFIELD: Wow. We'll look forward to that.
LIN: All right. Very good.
WHITFIELD: Well, it's the kind of nightmarish scenario nobody likes to contemplate. The wrong Social Security Number mistakenly typed in a police report and an innocent man's life is turned upside down. It's affected his credit, his ability to get a job, and to find a place to live. Our Gerri Willis picks up the tale.
JERRI WILLIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Scott Lewis, a medical technician from Ohio lost his job in a downsizing; and despite several promising interviews, couldn't find another. Something seemed wrong. He had a private investigator check it out. His Social Security Number in many ways, his identity, had been confused with someone else. Confused with a person no one would hire.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We found three DUIs attached to his name and Social Security Number and we found a murder charge.
SCOTT LEWIS, IDENTITY DAMAGED: I about turned white and then I realized that's why I wasn't getting the job offers that I had before.
WILLIS: The trouble started nine years ago in an Ohio Sheriff's Office when the typist made a critical error.
LEWIS: It ended up that it was just a keystroke. They were entering -- they had arrested somebody. They had put in the first couple of digits of the Social Security Number. They looked down, they glanced at the last four of his phone number, typed those in and then I became his alias.
WILLIS: In desperation, Scott took the advice a local attorney and changed his Social Security Number. And while the initial paperwork was simple to complete, getting a new number approved is difficult. Only a few thousand people were okayed for a new number in the last year. But instead of easing his troubles, it created more. Potential employers, lenders, insurers, all were suspicious because on paper, he simply wasn't there. A man with no record, no credit score, no work history, and no verifiable education.
JAY FOLEY, ID THEFT RESOURCE CENTER: Changing your Social Security Number is similar to going into the Witness Protection Program. The difference is, the Justice Department creates a pass for you, complete with the dummy files to support it. Changing your Social Security Number, there is no created files. There's nothing to back it up. You're now a brand new babe.
WILLIS: The Social Security Administration says it's up to victims to contact the credit bureaus and transfer their credit history to their new number. Something Scott says he's been trying to do.
But nine years after he discovered the clerical error that ruined his name, Scott is still suffering. Today, he struggles to get a job. At one point, he couldn't even get hired as a bag boy at a grocery store. At age 38, he found himself divorced and had to move back in with his mom.
LEWIS: Here I am 44 and I'm still stuck here. I can't seem to break this rut. And you know, as a man it's very demeaning. You're not used to this kind of thing. You're used to being independent and having your own place, having your own family, having your own life. I actually feel like a 20-year-old starting my life all over again.
WILLIS: Scott simply wanted a new identity. But now he's left with none at all.
Gerri Willis, CNN, New York.
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WHITFIELD: Well, they are the best in the world and they're ready to go for the gold. But if you think the key to Olympic success is simply training and the workouts, think again. It may be something the athletes sleep on every night, literally.
CNN Senior Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
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APOLO OHNO, OLYMPIC SPEED SKATER: I try to get more than eight. Between eight and 10.
GRETCHEN BLEILER, OLYMPIC SNOWBOARDER: You're spinning, you're flipping, all at once. I tend to need 10 hours of sleep each night.
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SENIOR MEDICAL CORRESONDT: These Olympic athletes know something many of us don't. For peek performance, getting enough sleep is critical. Gretchen Bleiler, a champion snowboarder; and Speed Skater Apolo Ohno, a gold medalist four years ago, say all the training they do is wasted without enough sleep.
OHNO: It's crucial. It's everything. I can only recover if I'm sleeping well. It doesn't matter how hard I am training, if I'm not getting enough sleep, it's just wasted.
GUPTA: Yet most Americans manage their lives on less sleep than they need. MARK ROSEKIND: Right now our society's horribly sleep-deprived. On average, most adults need eight hours; and estimates are that most of us getting probably an hour and a half less than we need.
GUPTA: What these athletes know that many don't realize, sleep affects memory, learning and physical performance.
ROSEKIND: With optimal sleep, you could boost somebody's performance by 30 percent. So, when you think of even just the smallest improvement in reaction time for somebody where literally milliseconds means the difference between silver and gold, it's huge in U.S. Olympic athletes.
GUPTA: So huge, the Olympic Training Center took part in a promotion with Dr. Rosekind to redo athletes' bedrooms, including bigger beds and blackout curtains to help athletes get enough Zs. And the Olympic Committee sent U.S. athletes to the games in Torino, Italy, days before their competition in part it adjust to the time shift and jet lag.
STEVE ROUSH, U.S. OLYMPIC COMMITTEE: Getting their sleep pattern as close to their regular routine as possible is critical for the athlete as they travel and are competing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here she goes. (Unintelligible.)
GUPTA: Now, getting 10 hours of sleep is no guarantee that Bleiler lands her signature upside down crippler move in Torino. But not getting enough sleep will certainly hurt her performance, just as it will hurt yours. Even if your goal isn't quite as lofty.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, reporting.
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WHITFIELD: And still much more ahead on CNN. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Carol Lin is up next with more of CNN LIVE SATURDAY, right after this.
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