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New Orleans Prepares for Mardi Gras; Powerball Jackpot Hits $365 million; Mudslide Buries a Village in the Phillipines

Aired February 18, 2006 - 14:00   ET

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JACK CAFFERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Hope to see you back here next weekend, Saturday at 1:00, Sunday at 3:00. Join us if you can. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: A cold and drizzly day here in New Orleans as the city prepares to usher in Mardi Gras nearly six months after Katrina. We'll have that coming up.

GARY NUREMBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Three hundred and sixty-five million dollars. This is Gary Nuremberg in Washington. We'll have more on the biggest lotto jackpot in American history.

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: All right, and welcome to CNN LIVE SATURDAY. I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Those live reports straight ahead but first these top stories.

A developing story this hour. A tour bus accident on Oklahoma's Interstate 35. State police tell us one person is dead and at least two critically injured. The storm glazed roads with sleet, snow and ice.

Bitter cold temperatures and fierce winds are making for a miserable weekend in much of the Midwest and Northeast. A live forecast is straight ahead.

And hundreds of people are missing after a mudslide buried a village in the Philippines. Just a few dozen people have been found alive.

The U.S. military says it has accounted for 10 marines missing off the coast of Djibouti All were in two helicopters that crashed. No word on whether the troops now accounted for survived. Two other crew members were rescued yesterday and are in stable condition.

In the Mid-East. Dozen of Hamas members have taken their seat in the new Palestinian parliament. The group controls 74 of 132 seats.

Let's begin in New Orleans. A city of contrasts. Where the glitter of Mardi Gras masks shattered dreams. A House report this week called, quote, "a failure of initiative," indicted every level of government for what it calls the dismal response to Hurricane Katrina and homeland security chief Michael Chertoff admitted his department prolonged the suffering of people along the Gulf Coast. That along with complaints about a web of red tape from former FEMA director Michael Brown has some lawmakers calling for the two organizations to part ways.

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REP. WILLIAM JEFFERSON, (D) LA: We shouldn't have national disasters in Homeland Security. FEMA should be a separate agency reporting to the president. That's an argument that says Secretary Chertoff should not be in charge of FEMA, should not be in charge of the natural disaster part of this whole problem.

REP. CHARLES "CHIP" PICKERING, (R) MS: It will take congressional legislative reform to put FEMA outside, independent, as a coequal, directly reporting to the president with equal emphasis and resources to natural disaster preparation and response.

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WHITFIELD: Now, for the time being, New Orleans will push aside some of the pain, put on its masks and embrace a 150-year-old tradition. Its most lavish party is getting under way right now and CNN's Sean Callebs is right in the middle of it all as it just gets started. In Mardi Gras from the Crescent City. Sean?

CALLEBS: Indeed, Fredricka. We are right here on St. Charles Ave. The street was closed not terribly long ago. We can tell you, there are going to be five different crews, those are the various floats that will be coming through this city over the next hour and a half or so. We have a shot up there from above. We just want to show you how this is unfolding. Just about an hour ago or so there was hardly anybody out here on this street. It has really filled up significantly in the last bit of time. It is a cold, rainy, somewhat nasty day here in the city. And you know what? Nothing has been easy for New Orleans over the past six months. So why should they usher in Mardi Gras in an effortless fashion? Well, they are certainly trying to.

We want to take you to Metairie in Jefferson Parish, neighboring parish here from Orleans. Last night, a neighborhood party got under way. One of the first here in Mardi Gras. This is the Excalibur crew. CNN was one of the people on this float last night tossing beads to the crowd here. But this year certainly. Because of Katrina, there has been so much attention on how this should unfold. Should they even have Mardi Gras?

Well, the city expects to bring in $300 million if everything goes well. That compares to about a billion dollars that this party has brought in in years past. We know there are 38,000 available hotel rooms. All of those, basically, are taken up. About 10,000 of which are taken up by emergency officials. But the tourism industry expects a lot of the people here working trying to rebuild this area are going to bring their families in for the next several days. So, they hope to get a little spin off of that, as well.

We're waiting for the first floats to begin coming down the street. There have been a number of emergency vehicles coming down this way, Fredricka, and I can tell you, what you're going to see here, over the next couple hours, people standing up, saying, throw me something, mister. Throw me something. And that's the way it works. It's that simple. Simple as that. All right. Try to have a little fun in the midst of some pretty hard times for a lot of folks there. Thanks so much, Sean Callebs, in New Orleans.

Well, New Orleans isn't the only city wondering about its future right now. After Hurricane Katrina, our own Kathleen Koch took us on a tour of her hometown in Mississippi. The storm left Bay St. Louis in shambles. Six months later, Kathleen Koch discovered not much has changed.

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KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's been nearly six months since the worst natural disaster in U.S. history, and not a single destroyed home, not a single grocery store, not a single business on Beach Boulevard has been rebuilt in Bay St. Louis.

Some places it's as if time stood still. And there is a growing sense of betrayal here in Bay St. Louis among residents who have been paying for home insurance for years. Now many of these insurance companies are refusing to pay.

TOMMY KIDD, BAY ST. LOUIS RESIDENT: I've talked to people who have not seen an adjuster yet. And they're not asking for what's not the theirs. All they want is to be put back whole. He paid the insurance. It's due them.

KOCH: Even Bay St. Louis's congressman, who like so many here lost everything is fighting his insurance company.

REP. GENE TAYLOR, (D) MS: I had a tin roof on my house. There are pieces of my tin roof 20 to 30 feet up in trees behind where my house used to be kind of wrapped around it sort of like a taco shell. When they came back with my claim and said there was no wind damage to my house, and I pointed to the tin, they just kind of shrugged.

KOCH: So, he's suing.

TAYLOR: There ought to be a national registry of child molesters and insurance company executives because I hold them in the same very low esteem.

KOCH: He's not alone. In fact, the state of Mississippi is suing the insurance companies on behalf of all its resident. No insurance company we contacted would talk to us on camera so I went to see a spokesperson for the industry.

(on camera): It sounds like many insurance companies are trying to say this is the first hurricane that came with no wind, that sustained 125 mile an hour wind cans do no damage. I've stood in 70 mile an hour winds and watched a roof blow off a hotel. How can they say 125 mile an hour winds can do no damage?

CAROLYN GORMAN, INSURANCE INFORMATION INSTITUTE: I think they do know there was a 28 foot storm surge that came through also ...

KOCH: During hours after the 125 mile an hour sustained winds.

GORMAN: Well, it's a difficult situation.

KOCH: Of course, insurance isn't the only problem. Small business loans are being granted as a snail's pace. And after all this time there are still residents waiting for FEMA trailers. Almost everyone here is waiting for something to make their lives whole again.

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WHITFIELD: And what you've just seen is only part of Kathleen Koch's emotional trip home. Watch her entire report in a special CNN PRESENTS, "Saving My Town." Tonight and Sunday night at 8:00 here on CNN.

And if you live in the Midwest or Northeast, you may want to stay indoors this weekend. Biting cold plus fierce winds are slamming both regions. At least four storm-related deaths are reported. Three in New York and one in Massachusetts. In Washington State, blustery winds also caused some problems, knocking out powers to thousands of customers there. Meteorologist Monica McNeal checks in now with the very latest on this very nasty weather weekend. Monica?

MONICA MCNEAL, CNN METEOROLOGIST: It is really nasty, Fredricka. Some of the coldest air mass that we've seen in a decade is over the Midwest, over the Rockies, over the Northeast, and making its way down to the Deep South.

And taking a look at the temperatures, you can see it's 14 below in Minneapolis. This is what it feels like on the skin. All you need is for it to be 10 below and frostbite sets in. So if you are outside for an extended period of time and your fingers start to feel a little bit numb, it takes about three minutes and you may be in big trouble. So you may want to watch out for that.

It feels like 15 below in Chicago. Right now it feels like zero in buffalo and it feels like 17 in New York. And it feels like seven below in Cleveland. Some of the coldest air that we've seen in a long time. That cold Arctic blast has extended all the way as far south as parts of Arkansas, back into Tennessee. They're dealing with a blanket snow across this region. All across the Deep South, they're dealing with a wintry mix. Parts of Alabama, there's a quarter of an inch of ice on the ground.

And now, when you have the ice on the ground, it creates big problems in terms of traveling. And temperatures will continue to drop across the Deep South. So, driving is really going to be treacherous. We're having some problems at the Atlanta airport. About 30 minute delay also in New York and in Newark Airport they're dealing with some delays as well.

Now, not much relief for tomorrow. Take a look at Dallas, high temperature only 30 degrees. Twenty eight in St. Louis. In Chicago, a high temperature of 25. So, very, very cold weekend. Fredricka?

WHITFIELD: That's some tough stuff. Thanks so much, Monica. Checking out security watch now. Two men are jailed today in New Mexico, accused by federal agents of being quote, "domestic terrorists." Marshals say brothers Gregory and Jeffrey Rose had been on the run for 15 years. Agents say the men had illegal firearms and enough explosives to bring down a building.

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GORDON EDEN, U.S. MARSHAL: They had these weapons, the military gear, the body armor, the ballistic helmets, as well as the explosives. We believe these are the same kinds of people as you would find with the Timothy McVeighs and those other kinds of people that would like to cause harm to the United States.

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WHITFIELD: The marshal went on to describe the Rose brothers as survivalists. He says they are aligned with white supremacist and anti-government groups.

U.S. military forces say joint exercises with soldiers from the Philippines will go on despite an explosion near a military base in the southern part of that country. The blast at a karaoke bar injured 20 people, six of them seriously. American troops taking part in exercises are staying at the base.

Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

Meantime, rescue workers in the southern Philippines, to be exact, found no survivors today in the mud. Hundreds of villagers are missing and feared buried under an avalanche of earth. Days and days of heavy rains caused the mountain to disintegrate and wash away those villages. CNN's Hugh Rimington is on the scene.

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HUGH RIMINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When a village is annihilated, take pity on the survivors. Asisa Mundaro (ph) was out of town when the storm hit. She's just found her sister dead. Her parents, four nieces and nephews and her own six-year-old daughter are lost in the mud.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (through translator): I'm confused. I'm lost. I don't know what to do. I've lost my family.

RIMINGTON: Through a long and bitter day, rescue efforts continued, despite pauses for more downpours and ominous rumblings from the earth. But today, no one came out alive.

(on camera): So few of those who were in the village of the time of the landslide have yet been found. With every new body that is brought into this primitive open air morgue, family members crowd in in the hope that their worst fears will not be realized.

(voice-over): But sometimes they are. Juan Garcia (ph) was away from home working. He's just identified his wife and three-year-old daughter. His three other children are missing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): My wife is gone. My children are gone. Now I'm alone.

RIMINGTON: Despite it all, reports that signs of life have been detected at the village school where 240 children were buried.

MARIUS CORPUS, UNDERSECRETARY FOR INTERNAL AFFAIRS: Just this afternoon, I got some reports there were some knocking noises from beneath the rubble and I wish we had the equipment right now.

RIMINGTON: Mountain rescue experts confirm the possibility.

ROSETTE LERIAS, PROVINCIAL GOVERNOR: It's possibility that the heavy, the rocks just passed by the building and it's possible that what is on top of the building is just soil.

RIMINGTON: As the search resumes with new purpose, officials have appealed for more specialist equipment and helicopters to bypass roads now almost impassable.

The fear of more mud avalanches saw the people of a dozen other villages crowding into the nearest main town. The evacuees finding comfort in the numbers. Hugh Rimington, CNN, southern Leyte, the Philippines.

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WHITFIELD: Now, with its justice system in disarray, the Big Easy is facing a crucial constitutional problem. What to do with all those prisoners waiting to stand trial. Our legal eagles debate the issues, coming up next.

Getting inside the mind of a dictator. Hear what newly released audio tapes recorded before Saddam Hussein's fall reveal about his regime.

And is pornography going portable? How the high tech world could become the adult industry's biggest cash cow.

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WHITFIELD: A child killer begs for mercy. Joseph Smith, the man who abducted, raped and killed 11-year-old Carlie Brucia pleads for his life in a Florida courtroom. He says he is sorry. And in New Orleans, some alleged felons could walk free because there's no money for public defenders. We'll put these cases before our legal eagles, Avery Friedman and Richard Herman. Good to see both of you gentlemen.

AVERY FRIEDMAN, CIVIL RIGHTS ATTORNEY: Hi Fredricka.

RICHARD HERMAN, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Hi, Fred.

WHITFIELD: All right. Let's begin with the Carlie Brucia case. Joseph Smith saying to the court, I'm sorry, asking for the court to spare his life. But in cases like this, Avery, hasn't the court made up its mind about sentencing? Well, actually the court hasn't, Fredricka. What the court's obligated to do is give great weight - that's the law of Florida -- to the decision of the jury. But next week, the -- both parties will be filing pre-sentence briefs and on the 15th of March, the judge will make the decision. If there are any other consideration that compel the judge to say he shouldn't be put to death, he has to consider it. But the fact is, Judge Andrew Owens is very likely to agree with the jury here.

WHITFIELD: So, Richard, how influential do you see this kind of plea to be?

HERMAN: You know, Fred, like in ancient antiquity, the 15th of March was not a good day for Gaius Julius Caesar. This guy is going to get the death penalty that day. No question about it. However, we're looking at probably 15 years of appeals. This judge is a state judge. He has to run for office. That video of the abduction is just embedded in the minds of everybody. And it's just going to be virtually impossible for him not to at least give a judgment for the death penalty.

WHITFIELD: Do you see this case in any way sort of setting some precedents now from this point forward on how the state or how in of the state cases might be handled when it comes down to child abductions, molestations and murders?

HERMAN: You know, this is so horrific, this crime, this young girl, being kidnapped, raped and killed, it's just so horrific that if you are going to have a death penalty in your state, this is the case for the death penalty, I mean, this is it. It really is.

WHITFIELD: Avery, how influential do you see this case to be? How closely is it being watched? How it is handled all the way down through sentencing phase.

FRIEDMAN: Any kind of case that involves a capital case, where there's a death penalty involved is always studied carefully, but the fact is, these facts are so overwhelming, little Carlie, you can see it on the video, in this NASA camera, by the way, so enhanced that the facts are so overwhelming that on one level, because it's a capital case, people watch it. But on the other hand the facts were so overwhelming. I think Judge Owens is going to have little trouble ordering a death penalty here.

WHITFIELD: All right.

Let's move onto New Orleans. As if that city didn't have enough to deal with. Now, you're talking about the case of so many folks who are held awaiting trial who just may have to be released at least in the New Orleans -- Orleans Parish, because the legal system doesn't have the capacity to carry it through. So, Avery, are we talking about potentially, is a thought that maybe these cases or maybe these suspects would have to be absorbed into another jurisdiction, or can you not do that?

FRIEDMAN: Can't do that. This, in my judgment, is the constitutional blockbuster case of the year. This is a legal Katrina. And let me explain why. Under the 6th Amendment, these defendants, 4,000 of them, roughly, are entitled to legal counsel. And we're talking about, among others, rapists and murders.

HERMAN: Alleged.

WHITFIELD: Alleged.

FRIEDMAN: Unless the state does something, these people may very well be released in the streets of New Orleans.

WHITFIELD: So, Richard, how do you see this playing out? How significant of a problem is this for this city?

HERMAN: Well, it's a very significant problem. But let me just correct the professor here. These are alleged rapists and other forms of criminals, and I have got to tell you, Fredricka, the criminal justice system, the public defender system is a absolute disgrace in New Orleans, and they should adopt what most states have, at least I know we have it in New York, where private attorneys can get hired and respect these defendants.

Also, it's in the federal system with the CJA counsel. But New Orleans has been turned upside down. Nine feet of water in the courthouse. The chief judge had to take a boat there.

WHITFIELD: A lot of the records destroyed.

HERMAN: Evidence, records destroyed. And more importantly, in New Orleans prior to Katrina, the population was about 70 percent black. Now, because they haven't returned, it's 95 percent white. Jury of your peers.

WHITFIELD: So with those extenuating circumstances, then you have to wonder, Richard, why wouldn't this be a situation, unprecedented as it is, that perhaps some of jurisdiction can absorb the cases or be able to come to the rescue, or the aid if you will, of some of these defendants?

HERMAN: Fred, these crimes were committed in Louisiana, and the laws in Louisiana, as Avery will tell you are much different than the laws throughout the United States. They are very different. They are tweaked in special ways. Other counsel are incompetent to defend and prosecute them.

FRIEDMAN: Let's clarify one thing. First of all, you don't have to correct me. I'm aware they're accused. But the bottom line is they are entitled to counsel. That's the law of America for 43 years. And the bottom line, if the legislature doesn't do something, these individuals, rapists, accused, and murderers, accused will be set free. Something's got to be done.

WHITFIELD: All right, Avery Friedman, Richard Herman, thank you so much gentlemen and hope to see you next weekend.

FRIEDMAN: Nice to see you. Take care. HERMAN: Have a good day.

WHITIFIELD: All right. Have a good weekend.

Well, now, here's the question. Is there growing evidence that members of the Iraqi police force might be to blame for some of the deadly attacks in Iraq? That story coming up next.

And a revealing look at Saddam Hussein before his fall. We've got details of newly released audio tapes of the former dictator. CNN LIVE SATURDAY continues right after this.

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WHITFIELD: Out of south central Oklahoma, more now on a deadly tour bus accident. Mark Opgrande is a reporter for KOCO. He is on the line with us. And Mark, what's your understanding about what happened?

MARK OPGRANDE, KOCO CORRESPONDENT (on phone): Well, Fredricka, these roads around here are pretty slick with the winter storm we had coming in. Apparently, this bus was headed southbound on Interstate 35, about 70 miles north of the Texas-Oklahoma border. Lost control, flipping on its side and right now, it is on the west side of the freeway, faced northbound, just up on its side. And traffic is being diverted off the roads. Of course the roads are already slick anyway so it is causing a traffic nightmare to go away.

But what we understand, there have been two come firmed fatalities in this accident. An eight-year-old boy, firefighters tell me, was trapped underneath the bus. And they were trying frantically to try to get the bus to raise it to get the kid out of there, and apparently he expired at the scene. They said they took him to the hospital, and he died shortly afterwards.

Also, a woman inside, they did not reveal her age. She also died. We're told, there were 41 people on board this bus. We don't -- can't tell what kind of bus it is. It is a tour bus, but we don't know whose tour bus it is. They tell me it was people of Hispanic decent were headed southbound, don't know where they were from or where they were going. But they have all been taken to an area hospital around here, and that hospital, as I understand, is pretty full right now. And they are going to try to transfer the more seriously injured people to probably up to Oklahoma City or Norman which is about 50 or 60 miles north of this area, Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right, Mark Opgrande, with KOCO, thanks for joining us from Pauls Valley, Oklahoma, on that deadly accident.

Roadside bombs target police, soldiers and civilians in Iraq. Police in Baghdad say three Iraqi officers were killed in a blast along a highway. They were securing oil tankers when the attack took place. A U.S. soldier was killed in a separate attack. Officials say his vehicle was stuck by an improvised explosive device in eastern Baghdad and in Baquba, one civilian was killed in an explosion there.

Well, not to Iraq's sectarian divide. It's no secret

Byline: Aneesh Raman, Octavia Nasr, Brad Huffines

WHITFIELD: one civilian was killed in an explosion there.

Well, now to Iraq's sectarian divide. It's no secret that there are death squads operating in both Shia and Sunni communities. But new evidence unearthed by U.S. forces indicates that members of the death squads may also be hiding as members of security forces.

CNN's Aneesh Raman reports.

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ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The human cost of Iraq's sectarian strike. Last November a prominent Sunni sheikh and his three sons were gunned down in their Baghdad home. Their assailants allegedly wore Iraqi security force uniforms and grieving relatives were quick to accuse.

"The Iraqi National Guard shot them," screams this women. The government denied the security forces were involved. But it is hard to ignore the emergence of death squads on both sides of the divide.

In cities and villages throughout the country Shia murdering Sunni, Sunni killing Shia, and now there is for the first time evidence a Shia death squad may have infiltrated Iraq's security forces. The Iraqi Interior Ministry is investigating an alleged plot in which 22 security personnel were planning to kill a prominent Sunni.

SALEH MUTLAG, SUNNI POLITICAL LEADER: These groups are inside the Ministry of the Interior, which is becoming worrying to everybody. Today I have been told that many accidents happened in the same way, also a group wearing uniforms. They went to the houses. They took the people, and they killed them.

RAMAN: It was U.S. forces here that first uncovered the plot. And this is not the first time that Iraqi security forces have been accused of human rights abuses or worse.

Just a few months ago a bunker was found in an Interior Ministry compound in the Judria (ph) neighborhood of Baghdad where detainees, mostly Sunnis, were being tortured by Iraqi security forces, resulting in calls for the resignation of Iraq's interior minister because of his alleged ties to the country's biggest Shia militia, the Badr Organization, something he and his ministry deny.

(on camera): With virtually every political party here in control of a militia, building security forces that are loyal only to the country is one of Iraq's biggest hurdles and has the potential to either keep the country together or help tear it apart.

Aneesh Raman, CNN, Baghdad.

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WHITFIELD: Inside the mind of a dictator. Audio recordings of Saddam Hussein and his advisors have now been released. They provide some insights into the workings of his regime in the early to mid-90s.

Our senior editor for Arab affairs, Octavia Nasr, joins me now with more on these tapes, and you have to wonder how significant is the finding of these tapes are. What's on them?

OCTAVIA NASR, CNN SR. EDITOR ARAB AFFAIRS: Well, 12 long hours of tape. I mean, that's long time to go through any audio. But what it does offer you is certainly a look inside of the workings and the meetings of Saddam Hussein. Of course, to watch these, to hear the tapes around this time is very interesting because this is the time when Saddam Hussein is behind bars and facing charges in a court of law.

So the comparison is just very, very chilling to hear him on those audios. He's the boss, he's telling people what to do, everybody talking to him, mentioning him your excellency, sir, my master, and so forth. So, the parallel is very interesting.

Now, what's on the tape that could be damning for Iraq, as far as weapons of mass destruction or acquiring chemical of biological weapons, this is definitely not a smoking gun. What it does show is that Saddam Hussein did indeed look into the possibility of his country developing weapons of mass destruction, and chemical weapons and biological weapons.

But from the dialogues, when you hear him and his aides and his consultants, at times you can certainly tell that they really were way behind the rest of the world on that subject.

And there's a lot of talk, a lot of scientists showing up and giving lectures about -- for example, one very interesting one about plasma and the uses of plasma both in industrial and in military.

Very interesting, but again, at the end of the day, when you listen to Saddam Hussein answering questions or asking questions himself, you really get a sense of how much he didn't know about all these things.

WHITFIELD: So, it's really more talk, more dialogue, maybe even kind of scare tactics that Saddam Hussein and some of his lieutenants might be using to say, hey, let's explore this but not necessarily saying hey, we have this.

NASR: Right. Absolutely right. As a matter of fact, there is one person, Saddam Hussein's son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, he does talk about Iraq having the nuclear capability. It's very interesting when you listen to him. He's standing there, basically putting on a show, talking about what they have and saying that no one knows how much they have, or where they have it, how many scientists, the locations. So basically giving some information and at the same time, not giving any information at all.

So if you're listening to these audiotapes, for example, prior to the war on Iraq in 2003, you might very well get the impression that Iraq is well ahead in its plans for developing nuclear weapons. You listen to them now, you have a totally different sense of what is going on.

So, in hindsight, everything looks different. We always say that, but this is a perfect example of how some people believe that some of the tapes -- not all of them -- some of then are gritty. They sound like a real meeting. Some of them could be a ploy, basically sending out a message to scare people off.

Interesting. All right, Octavia Nasr, thanks so much.

Well the questions are still being asked. Where are the weapons of mass destruction. Did they ever exist? And the persisting question, how could intelligence have been so wrong leading up to the war in Iraq? Find out at the top of the hour, when "CNN PRESENTS: Dead Wrong."

But, first, when CNN LIVE SATURDAY continues ...

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The market has gotten ten times bigger. And it's effecting a much different group. Now, we have a lot of college kids, young couples that you would not see going to an adult theater.

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WHITFIELD: How the convenience of iPods, PDAs, and cell phones is revolutionizing the adult entertainment industry.

BRAD HUFFINES, CNN METEOROLOGIST: I'm meteorologist Brad Huffines with your "Cold and Flu Report." As we are continuing to see the activity widespread at least in the red states, regional activity and local in the blue and purple.

You notice though, from last week that flu activity has peaked and it is starting now to lessen just a bit. But remember, it's your personal habits that make a difference. Wash your hands, no matter where you are in the country, whether you're in a state that has no activity or widespread activity.

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WHITFIELD: Pornography is a 21 billion dollar a year industry in the U.S. Surveys show 40 million Americans regularly access adult material on the Web and now, Tom Foreman explains, in a "Technofile" report, you can get your porn to go. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Three things Americans generally agree on when it comes to porn. It's improper, it's immoral and it's impossible for some of us to get enough of it. And in Miami, at the Mobile Adult Content Congress, that's a porn convention, all the talk was about how this business is getting much bigger because porn is getting smaller, with the help of these, personal video players in mobile phones, iPods and PDAs. Call it pocket porn.

TINA SOUTHALL, VODAPHONE GROUP: Oh, it's a huge -- it's a really huge topic.

JOHN CONLON, VIRGIN MEDIA: You talk to people about it, they're like, yes, we really want to get access to it.

HARVEY KAPLAN, XOBILE: It's flesh-colored crack. That's all that really is.

FOREMAN: Harvey Kaplan, a pocket porn marketer, says for the first time ever, consumers aren't being embarrassed by walking into adult video stores, renting movies in hotels or even having porn stored on their home computers. This technology puts downloads into the consumer's pocket, fast and anonymously.

KAPLAN: It's a device where people can download their content, feel safe and secure that no one else is going to gain access to it.

FOREMAN: This is huge. Since the video iPod was unveiled in October, Apple says 12 million regular videos have been downloaded on their Web site. But in the same period, this skin site called Suicide Girls says they saw 10 million downloads, about one a second. Some videos are free, some for sale. So it's not an apples to apples comparison, but how about them apples?

RON JEREMY, PORN STAR: It's between you and your little cell phone, you know? It's kind of like a marriage made in heaven.

FOREMAN: Porn legend Ron Jeremy used to be known only to the late-night adult theater crowd. Not anymore. Pocket porn has him being mobbed.

JEREMY: The market has gotten 10 times bigger and it's affecting a much different group. Now we have a lot of college kids, young couples, that you would not see going to an adult theater.

FOREMAN (on camera): Certainly this is terrible news for those who oppose pornography, who say it degrades people and promotes violence. But this trend is undeniably real. It is unsettlingly rapid and it may be unstoppable.

(voice-over): Because some of the biggest communications companies in the world are getting involved.

KAPLAN: This is about hard, cold dollars. FOREMAN: And they're expecting profits that are almost obscene. Tom Foreman, CNN, Washington.

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WHITFIELD: Well, it is thousands of miles away from where you live, but what's happening to these ice sheets could have a powerful effect on your weather. Still to come, why you need to know what's happening to Greenland's environment.

GARY NUREMBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT: $365 million. This is Gary Nuremberg in Washington. When we come back, more on the biggest jackpot in American Lotto history.

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WHITFIELD: The last minute scramble is on for Powerball tickets. Tonight's jackpot is the large nest U.S. Lottery history, $365 million. Gary Nuremberg is in Washington with tickets in hand. Boy, they are busy, huh? They just want to shut the door and open it on you all day long.

NUREMBERG: Fredricka, it's been like this all day long. Our job, envy this, has been to stand between the people in this line and tickets that are potentially worth $365 million. We haven't seen violence so far, but the day is young. It has, however, been going on for hours with an unrelenting line that started before the sun came up this morning.

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(voice-over): Lines started forming at 6:00 a.m. First inside, then at a special lotto window outside, as well.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You always have to be positive there's always the chance that it just might happen to you.

NUREMBERG: Tickets have been popping out of busy printers all day. Customers hopeful, even though their chances of winning are less than being hit by lightning twice.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm playing because I want to be hit by lightning. I want to be hitting that Powerball. Definitely. I could use it.

NUREMBERG: The little parking lot was so crowded, John General was hired to keep it moving in an orderly fashion.

JOHN GENERAL, PARKING LOT WORKER: Well, they're not pleased with taking directions and little orders or what have you about where to park.

NUREMBERG: Red, white and blue balloons next to the busy street advertise tickets are available, and the traffic just keeps coming.

(END VIDEOTAPE) Only 28 states sell Powerball tickets. That means in lines like these, there are people that have come in from other states. Washington does sells them, but the adjacent states of Maryland and Virginia do not. We have seen a lot of people in this line who have driven substantial distances for the chance at $365 million. Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: And that explains why you are at Tenley Circle. If you live in Virginia or in Maryland, it's easy to get to there in D.C. So, you had two tickets, you said in hand, a couple hours ago. Has the fever inspired you to get any more?

NUREMBERG: No, but I'll make a deal with you. If they don't win, you can have them tomorrow for a buck.

WHITFIELD: Well what a bargain that is, how funny. Gary Nuremberg, thanks so much.

Well, face it the odds of winning the Powerball cash are something like one in gazillion. Here's CNN's Kyra Phillips with a Powerball fact check.

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR (voice-over): The odds of winning the grand prize in the Powerball Lottery with a single ticket are one in 146,107,962. Compare that to some other odds. The odds of dating a supermodel are one in 88 thousand. The odds of being on a plane with a drunk pilot are one in 117. The odds that a celebrity marriage will last a lifetime are one in three.

You may think your odds of winning are much better when you buy a bunch of tickets. But if you bought 50 ticket as week, statistics show you would still only be likely to win once every 30,000 years.

Some say you can't win if you don't play. But what about the drive home. Statistics show if you drive a mile to the store and a mile driving back, the odds of being killed in a car accident are five times higher than the odds of hitting the jackpot.

There's at least one thing that's less likely to happen than winning the lottery. Your odds of being killed by a shark are one in 300 million. Remember that the next time you go to the beach.

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WHITFIELD: It is grand, it is icy, and it's melting. Up next, why Greenland's changing landscape could spell trouble for world's sea levels.

And at the top of the hour, "CNN PRESENTS: Dead Wrong." Go inside the intelligence blunders that led the Bush administration to argue for the U.S. heading to war in Iraq.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) WHITFIELD: Chilling news from Greenland. Its ice sheets are melting much faster than anyone thought. CNN meteorologist Jacqui Jeras looks at the consequences for our planet.

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JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST (voice-over): It may be called Greenland, but much of the world's largest island is actually white. More than 80 percent of it is covered with ice. And, according to a new study, more and more of that ice is winding up in the Atlantic.

ERIC RIGNOT, CAL TECH: The most direct impact this evolution of Greenland has is on sea level rise.

JERAS: Rignot and his partners studied the flow of Greenland's glaciers over 10 years. They say it has increased, especially in the southeastern part of the country. And as the glaciers flow faster, they dump more of their ice into the ocean.

RIGNOT: Glaciers are speeding up as a result of climate warming. This is especially true in eastern part of Greenland, where it has been a pronounced warming of air temperatures in the last 20 years.

JERAS: The study says that's resulted in the rate of which Greenland's glaciers are losing mass, doubling between 1996 and 2005. And they say that trend means Greenland will be a bigger factor in rising sea levels, possibly becoming responsible for as much as 17 percent of the annual increase, now about one-tenth of an inch per year.

But not everyone agrees. Pat Michaels of The Cato Institute says the study ignored other critical research that Greenland's glaciers are actually growing.

PAT MICHAELS, THE CATO INSTITUTE: When you average over Greenland, over the huge land area, you see a net gain in ice. That's water that is being taken out of the atmosphere and not going into the ocean. Certainly the sea level rise is being muted by the increasing ice in Greenland.

JERAS (on camera): And the reason why all of this is so important is because if that continues to happen, it could affect weather patterns all across the globe. As that freshwater is released into the ocean, it can change the amount of salt in the water and also can affect the temperature. Those two things could change the circulation of the ocean currents and that could have a dramatic impact on weather in the United States and all across the globe.

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WHITFIELD: And that was Jacqui Jeras.

It was a case for war in Iraq, but intelligence gathered by the Bush administration on Saddam Hussein's alleged weapons of mass destruction was dead wrong. Up next, "CNN PRESENTS" investigates what mistakes were made leading up to the war.

As Powerball fever sweeps the nation, we want to focus on realistic ways you can become a millionaire.

Coming up at 4:00 p.m. eastern, find out what simple steps you can take to make your bank account reach the seven figure range.

And in order to help keep his school open, one Arkansas boy sacrificed his dream to see Yankees Stadium. But the kid's generosity hit a soft spot in George Steinbrenner's heart. Coming up at 5:00 eastern, find out what the Yankees owner is doing for the Bronx Bombers biggest fan.

A check of the headlines coming up next, and then, CNN PRESENTS.

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WHITFIELD: Hello, I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here's a check of what's happening right now. Two brothers were jailed today in New Mexico, accused by federal agents of being, quote, domestic terrorists. Marshals say Gregory and Jeffrey Rose had enough explosives to bring down a building. Agents link them to anti- government groups.

Cold blustery weather is bringing a lot of misery to much of Midwest and the Northeast today. At least four deaths, three in New York and one in Massachusetts, are blamed on high winds. Tens of thousands of people in the region are also without power.

Almost six months after Hurricane Katrina, five Mardi Gras parades are rolling through New Orleans today. Residents and city leaders are hoping Mardi Gras will jump start the economy devastated by the powerful storm.

A mad Powerball scramble. Betters in 28 states, the nation's capital and the U.S. Virgin islands Are snapping up tickets in hopes winning the record $365 million jackpot. Long lines have formed at many places ahead of tonight's drawings.

Want to become a millionaire perhaps another way? All you have to do is follow a few simple guidelines. Coming up on CNN Saturday at 4:00 p.m. eastern we'll talk to an expert who has great tips. I'm Fredricka Whitfield at the CNN center in Atlanta. "CNN PRESENTS" begins right now.

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