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President Bush Responds to Domestic Spying Allegations; National Guard Troops Proposed for Mexico's Border; Moussaoui Arrives at Prison McCain Mending Fences?

Aired May 13, 2006 - 16:00   ET

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BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN ANCHOR: On the defensive. In his radio address today, President Bush alludes to recent reports about the NSA secretly collecting millions of phone numbers. He says all the intelligence activities he has authorized for tracking terrorists are legal.
Violence in Iraq leaves three dead today. A U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad. Elsewhere, two Iraqi soldiers were killed in fighting in Diala Province. Twelve others were wounded in that battle.

And anti-war protesters are marching on the nation's capital today. Conscientious objectors from around the world are gathering in Washington for what they called "Operation Refuse War."

In intensive care but sleeping separately, doctors say the Carlson sisters are doing well at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota. The formerly conjoined twins underwent marathon separation surgery yesterday, and today Abigail and Isabel are in separate beds, breathing with the aid of ventilators.

First this hour, President Bush's tougher line on illegal immigration. All signs are he'll propose deploying troops to bolster the southern border when he addresses the nation Monday. Still to be explained, just how many troops, how long, how much money? And a host of other questions. To tell us what she knows from the White House, CNN's Elaine Quijano.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: The president's decision to deliver a prime time Oval Office address on the topic of immigration comes at a time when he is facing intense pressure from conservative Republicans in the House. They have been calling for tougher measures on border security.

Now, a senior Bush administration official says that border security will be a main focus during the president's remarks. One plan the president is considering, according to the senior Bush aide, is enhancing the role of the National Guard in protecting the U.S. border with Mexico.

The official says no decision will be made that jeopardizes missions overseas or domestically such as preparing for hurricane season. The president is also expected to repeat a call to Congress for comprehensive immigration legislation that includes not only border security and interior enforcement but also a temporary guest- worker program as well. Yet, critics continue to call that amnesty, because it could provide some illegal immigrants a path to citizenship. President Bush's address is set for Monday at 8:00 p.m. eastern time. Elaine Quijano, CNN, the White House.

KEILAR: Even before it's official, the border troops' plan is being panned in California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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GOV. ARNOLD SCHWARZENNEGER (R), CALIFORNIA: There are soldiers that are coming back from Iraq, for instance, and they have spent a year and a half over there and now they are coming back, I think they should let them go to work, back to work again. I think what we should do is press the federal government, it's their responsibility, not the state's responsibility.

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KEILAR: New Mexico's Governor Bill Richardson says he needs his National Guard for emergencies. But the governors of Texas and Arizona both favor deploying the guard to their southern frontiers.

And our coverage of President Bush's will start with Wolf Blitzer on Monday at 7:00 eastern and after the speech we'll hear from CNN's Lou Dobbs, followed by "LARRY KING LIVE" and continued coverage throughout the evening.

It's an angry mountain on the pacific rim and could blow its top at any time. By the thousands, people living on the slopes of an Indonesian volcano are getting out of Dodge, and they only have to look upward for motivation. CNN's Annand Naidoo has more.

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ANNAND NAIDOO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Thousands of people live and work in the shadow of the volcano, many of them villagers who have so far refused to heed warning signs from the notorious volcano. Experts now say an eruption appears imminent, and officials are not taking any chances, calling for mandatory evacuations. Women, children and the elderly are being involved to shelters in schools and government buildings elsewhere in this province of Jokjakarta.

ANNOUNCER (through translator): I have ordered the people who live within six kilometers away from Mt. Merapi to be evacuated.

NAIDOO: But many thousands of people remain in harm's way, and some of them say they'll never leave their land and livestock. Merapi has been relatively quiet in recent years, the last time it erupted some 12 years ago, at least 66 people were killed, and many of them after coming into contact with scorching volcanic gases.

About a month ago, Merapi began rumbling and belching out smoke, but scientists didn't raise the alert status to its highest level, until they noticed the formation of a lava dome and increasing tremors, signs that the crater is about to blow. Annand Naidoo, CNN, Atlanta.

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KEILAR: Parts of Florida are on alert for new wildfires. There have been a lot of blazes in East Central Florida the last few weeks. The smoke and fires got so bad this week that I-95 had to be shut down for several days and Floridians are hoping for some relief from this.

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KEILAR: Zacarias Moussaoui has arrived at his new home, and it's not very home like, but it's a place where he'll very likely spend the rest of his days. The admitted and convicted 9/11 conspirators one- way trip ended today at the maximum security federal prison in Florence, Colorado. Laura Main of and our Denver affiliate, KWGN, has more.

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LAURA MAIN, KWGN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is Zacarias Moussaoui's new home. The federal prison complex in Florence. He'll be able to see a patch of sky and maybe hear the birds, but that's it. His cell will have no view of the outside world and the outside world views that as a good thing.

RAY KOWALEWSKI, FLORENCE RESIDENT: I'm tired of hearing his name, Alcatraz of the Rockies is one of the safest prisons in the United States. That's a good place for him.

MAIN: For folks who live in Florence, his arrival is not really a big deal. Moussaoui is just one more famous name in the worst of the worst club. If you're into explosives, Florence's Supermaxx Prison a notorious, whos-who. Shoebomber Richard Reid, Unabomber Ted Kaczynski, Oklahoma City bombing co-conspiritor Terry Nichols, Olympic Park bomber Eric Rudolph and 1993 World Trade Center Bomber, Sheik Omar Abdel-Rahman are already incarcerated here.

KOWALEWSKI: He isn't a part of our conversation.

MAIN: Folks in town don't think twice about it.

KOWALEWSKI: You forget. You forget. You just -- it doesn't really play an interest except for the economy, because a lot of people work out there.

MAIN: Moussaoui's the talk of town today, but only because Florence is back in the headlines, not because anybody is scared. Since the $60 million prison was built 12 years ago, there hasn't been a single escape or even a serious attempt.

PAULA WALKER, RESIDENT: They're not very nice people. And they are there for a reason, and I've been here 34 years, and we have plenty of security. MAIN: Residents' only concern and what might roll into town.

BOWIE GREGG, RESIDENT: Somebody trying to really get him out, but, you know, he's been locked up for how many years now and nobody has tried to get him out, so I don't feel too bad about the reputation around here.

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KEILAR: That was Laura Main from our Denver affiliate, KWGN. And if Moussaoui is like other inmates, he'll get a choice of books to read, including The Koran, also soft flexible pens to write with, and between one and four phone calls a month. He'll also been able to exercise alone for 90 minutes a day.

Now, Monday's deadline is looming and there's not much time left for seniors who haven't signed up for the new Medicare prescription drug coverage. The government estimates that about six million people eligible for the coverage still have not signed up. Critics say the enrollment process is complicated and hard to understand, but the Medicare administrator says there is still time for seniors to get on board.

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DR. MARK MCCLELLAN, MEDICARE ADMINISTRATOR: It's completely understandable that a lot of people will have a lot of questions. This is the most important new benefit in Medicare in 40 years, but it's -- there are three simple steps that can help people take advantage of the coverage. Number one, make a list of your drugs or put your pill bottles in front of you. Number two, have your Medicare card handy because it's got your Medicare number, and we can use that to give you personalized help, and number three, call us at 1-800- MEDICARE or go to more than one of 1,000 events taking place all over the country.

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KEILAR: Democrats are calling on the administration to extend the Monday deadline, but the president has rejected calls for an extension.

More on the new Medicare prescription drug coverage tomorrow on CNN Sunday, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt will be the guest.

Hoping for redemption and political traction, presidential hopeful John McCain embraces a former foe, all in the name of politics.

Plus, some good news for college grads. Why that job hunt may not be as hard as they thought this year.

And later, you don't know who they are, and unless you are famous, you don't know they exist. Just ahead, we'll give you a peek inside the world of the Hollywood paparazzi as they go chasing Angelina.

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KEILAR: News across America now. Two former presidents address the graduates of Tulane University today. Bill Clinton and George Herbert Walker Bush told the students, faculty and guests in New Orleans they were an inspiration, not just to America, but to the world.

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BILL CLINTON, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: If you look at Katrina and the enormous response it provoked, from all around the world, 60,000 contributors just to our little fund and people not just in America, but lots of countries came and gave us money to help you.

GEORGE H.W. BUSH, FORMER U.S. PRESIDENT: The floodwaters may have breached the levees that surrounded this city, they have may have destroyed home after home, block after block, but today, we also know they couldn't break the spirit of the people who call this remarkable, improbable city home. The courage of the people in New Orleans is just fantastic.

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KEILAR: Meanwhile, a picket line kept Democratic National Chairman Howard Dean from addressing the graduates of the University of California at Berkeley's law school. Dean canceled his keynote speech today to honor a picket by the janitors union. Janitors are angry over the vast disparity of their pay versus the millions in perks for university executives.

And college grads may have an easier time transitioning from the classroom to the boardroom. This summer could offer up one of the best job markets in years, but some fields are generating more sizzle than others.

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(voice-over): Graduation time at Howard University. Nerve- racking for some seniors, but not Aso Aidoo. Since September, she's had a job lined up as a financial analyst at the New York City office of Goldman Sachs.

ASSO AIDOO, HOWARD UNIV. GRADUATING SR: It was a relief, it was a blessing.

KEILAR: And thousands of seniors are finding a similar success. The National Association of Colleges and Employers predicts that hiring of college grads this year will be up 14.5 percent from 2005.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We are seeing more opportunities in just about every field.

KEILAR: The areas of technology, accounting, consulting, and finance are particularly hot right now, picking up more grads like Aso and sparing them from a senior year of job hunting.

AIDOO: That's a second job in itself, just trying to network and build relationships.

KEILAR (on-camera): Finding a job might be less difficult this year, but that still doesn't mean making the move from campus to career is easy.

KATHERINE STAHL, AMERICAN UNIV. CAREER CTR.: It's never easy to find a job, even in a hot job market.

BRIAN JACKSON, HOWARD UNIV. GRADUATING SR.: If I was the host of College Game Day that would be like a dream come true almost.

KEILAR (on camera): Brian Jackson, another Howard grad with three internships under his belt is pursuing a lifelong dream to become a TV sports anchor.

JACKSON: I'm willing to go anywhere and everywhere from Alaska to Arkansas.

KEILAR: He's been on the hunt for two months now. So far no job, but he's not panicking.

JACKSON: Something will come up eventually. I'm very confident.

KEILAR: In the in the meantime, it's a countdown to graduation and the real world.

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And it's boom time on the last frontier. How one state may be getting more than its fair share of your tax dollars.

Plus, no link, why defense attorneys involved in the Duke rape case say the DNA evidence is on their side.

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KEILAR: Pain at the pump, your feeling it, gas prices are hovering at near record levels. The national average today is $2.88 a gallon. Last month it was $2.69 a gallon, and a year ago, the national average was $2.17 a gallon.

Some gas thieves in California are moving beyond siphoning fuel, they are actually drilling holes in gas tanks and draining them dry. The repair is expensive for car owners, about $600 to replace the tank. And the theft can also be dangerous. One tiny spark from a power drill can cause a big explosion.

The state of Alaska is cashing on the big run-up in oil prices. At the same time, it seems to have struck gold in the halls of Congress. CNN's John Johns brought the situation to light on CNN's "ANDERSON COOPER 360."

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JOE JOHNS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's boom time on the last frontier. Thanks to the trans-Alaska pipeline, the state is awash in oil money. And thanks to you. Why? Those high prices you're paying at the pump. Alaska takes a cut of every barrel of oil that flows out of the state. And with gas prices so high, that's adding up to big bucks, $4 billion this year, so much that the state budget is expected to run a huge $1.4 billion surplus.

And get this. Some of the oil money goes into a special fund, now worth $35 billion. They use the interest alone on that to send a check to every person in Alaska, $855 each last year.

With all that money, you might think Alaska wouldn't ask as much of federal taxpayers, but you'd be wrong. Despite its own huge cash surplus, Alaska gets more per person than any other state in the nation, $12,038 federal dollars per Alaskan in 2004. So, they profit not only from today's high gas prices, but also from the Federal Treasury.

In fact, remember those symbols of Washington waste, the bridges to nowhere? Alaska wanted hundreds of millions in federal money for them, and you'll recall Congress killed them, right? Well, yes, but Congress did give Alaska a lot of money for its highways, and there's little to prevent the state from using that.

Keeping them honest, we asked why a state like this, flush with money, is still cashing in on the federal fast buck. And we're not the only ones.

SEN. JOHN McCAIN (R) ARIZONA: I think every state that gets more than what they send to Washington in the form of taxes should only get their fair share. It happens that Alaska is the most egregious example, but it's all related to members of the Appropriations Committee.

JOHNS: Translation -- talk to Ted Stevens, Alaska's senior senator, former chairman of the Appropriations Committee, which controls the federal purse strings. We caught up with Stevens in the crowded halls of the Congress.

(on camera): Alaska gets a lot of money from the Federal government. Given the fact that the oil revenues now are so high and so much money's coming into the state from oil, doesn't it make sense to cut back on the amount of Federal money?

SEN. TED STEVENS (R) ALASKA: Well, that would be nice if we could increase the production of oil. You've got to remember, oil production is declining. Even though the price is going up, the amount we're producing is going down.

JOHNS (voice-over): Senator Lisa Murkowski says federal dollars are still needed because Alaska is so huge and connecting those communities costs a fortune. But with the U.S. taxpayer now feeling a double squeeze from federal spending and at the gas pump, the notion that Alaska is undeveloped and needs the cash is likely to meet even more resistance. Joe Johns, CNN, Washington.

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KEILAR: Get a fresh perspective on the day's top stories from Anderson Cooper. Join "A.C. 360" weeknights at 10:00 p.m. Eastern.

Extending the political olive branch, Arizona Senator John McCain is reaching out to religious conservatives like the Reverend Jerry Falwell. McCain's speech at Falwell's university today took on a decidedly different tone.

CNN's Kyung Lah reports.

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KYUNG LAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In front of a crowd of graduates from the Christian Liberty University, Senator John McCain, hoping for redemption and political traction.

SEN. JOHN MCCAIN (R), ARIZONA: The doctor of humanities degree is hereby conferred...

LAH: Reverend Jerry Falwell, a warm greeter at the conservative college he leads.

JERRY FALWELL, CHANCELLOR, LIBERTY UNIVERSITY: And so we today pay tribute to a great American.

LAH: This would have been a hallucination six years ago. McCain, 2000: a maverick outsider, hitting the road on the straight- talk express. Angry at the conservative Christian base, lashed out after losing the South Carolina primary.

MCCAIN: Neither party should be defined by pandering to the outer reaches of American politics in the agents of intolerance, whether they be Louis Farrakhan or Al Sharpton on the left, or Pat Robertson or Jerry Falwell on the right.

LAH: McCain, 2000, lost.

MCCAIN: Thank you. Thank you.

LAH: McCain, 2008: the Republican frontrunner, flush with cash, now finds the intolerable tolerable. McCain told the graduates about being a rash youth.

MCCAIN: I had opinions on everything, and I was always right. I loved to argue, and I could become understandably belligerent with people who lacked the grace and intelligence to agree with me.

LAH: The overall theme of McCain's speech was civility on national issues, a theme reflective of his uneasy past with the religious right.

MCCAIN: Americans deserve more than tolerance from one another. We deserve each other's respect. Whether we think each other right or wrong on our views, as long as our character and our sincerity merit respect...

FALWELL: If he continues on the track he's on now, he could, in fact, co-opt the religious conservatives of the country in the same way the George Bush did to help him to the White House.

MCCAIN: The crowd of 10,000 appeared receptive, many unwilling to hold a grudge.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I was really moved. I was surprised that I appreciated it as much as I did. I really was.

DAVID WINSTON, REPUBLICAN POLLSTER: He had to do it. He had to explain that statement if he was going to engage in a Republican primary.

LAH: Republican pollster David Winston says McCain 2000 learned you can make some of the religious right angry, but you need some of them to win. It's a dangerous line to walk.

WINSTON: His sort of trademark of the straight-talk express. And now all of a sudden, he's straddling as a politician. And they are very conflicting images, and how he manages that is critical.

LAH (voice-over): The Democratic National Committee released a statement saying that McCain isn't just mending fences, he's changing positions. McCain has repeatedly said he hasn't changed, he's just learned the lessons of the past.

Kyung Lah, CNN, Washington.

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KEILAR: Is there safety in numbers? With millions of calls, billions of phone numbers, how does the government sort through it all to find a terrorist?

And tons of trash coming into the U.S. Where is it coming from and why could it be a threat to your security? We'll get to the bottom of this mess, coming up.

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KEILAR: Here are the latest stories.

President Bush is said to be considering the use of National Guardsmen to help patrol the U.S./Mexican border. The president is expected to formally announce the plan Monday night, and you can watch it right here live on CNN at 8:00 p.m. Eastern.

Convicted al Qaeda terrorist Zacarias Moussaoui has been moved to the nation's supermax prison in Florence, Colorado. He was sentenced to life in prison without patrol for his role in the 9/11 attacks.

And Florida wildlife officials believe they found the alligator that killed a 28-year-old woman earlier this week. The nine-foot gator had two human arms in its belly when it was destroyed. It was found in the same spot as the victim's dismembered body.

A typhoon has whipped through the northwesten Philippines, killing dozens of people. Thousands evacuated their homes before the storm made landfall. Forecasters say it could continue to cause bad weather for at least another day.

CIA nominee Michael Hayden could get a rough ride on Capitol Hill. Some feel the furor over the government's tracking of phone calls may hurt his chances of confirmation. Hayden was in charge of the NSA during the controversial program, but President Bush is standing by his man.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Americans expect their government to do everything in its power under our laws and constitution to protect them and their civil liberties. That is exactly what we are doing, and so far we have been successful in preventing another attack on our soil. The men and women of the CIA are working around-the-clock to make our nation more secure. I am confident that General Hayden will strengthen the CIA and integrate its vital work with our other intelligence agencies so we can defeat the terrorists of the 21st century.

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KEILAR: Experts say it's difficult to determine the success of the program. CNN's Drew Griffin has that part of the story.

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DREW GRIFFIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Millions of phone call records, hundreds of millions, or even billions of digits. All loaded into massive computers at the National Security Agency outside Washington. No names, no addresses, no conversations, just the numbers of who called who. So what good is that, for finding a terrorist? No good at all, says Internet security expert Bruce Schneier.

BRUCE SCHNEIER, SPYWARE EXPERT: The conceit is there is some magical system by which terrorists communicate so you could pick it out if you saw everybody. A simple one would be all terrorists talk at 8:00 p.m. Of course, that's nonsense, but the idea that there's something like that we can somehow pick the terrorists out of the crowd, by looking at communication patterns. That's really utterly ridiculous. The false alarms on that kind of system is just overwhelming.

GRIFFIN: What the NSA apparently is trying to do is find terrorists who might be buried deep in American society. By looking at all of the phone calls, maybe they could pick out patterns.

RICHARD FALKENRATH, FORMER HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR: This data might help the government identify a communication link between the known or suspected al Qaeda operative aboard and one at home, that had multiple cutouts within it. Meaning, there was not a direct communication between terrorist A and terrorist B, but they worked through a series of intermediaries, C, D, E and F.

GRIFFIN: So if terrorist A the Middle East calls Mr. C in California who calls D in Iowa who calls E in Illinois who calls F in New York and F calls terrorist B in Florida, that pattern might be traced through the other calls made by C, D, E and F.

That sounds good, but the problem is it focuses just on numbers and not on the callers. Schneier says that makes it meaningless.

SCHNEIER: I can't imagine any use this would have picking terrorists out of the crowd. The crowd's way too big. And finding a terrorist is finding a needle in a haystack and dumping more hay on to the problem which is kind of what this system is doing isn't going to get you anywhere.

GRIFFIN: What bothers Schneier is where else the NSA might be searching. With so much information out there to analyze, phone records, emails, cell phones, bank transactions, education records, credit cards, library books, searching all of those would be a big waste of time and money with no terrorists in sight.

SCHNEIER: At best what the system will do is it will drain resources that could be actually better used fighting terrorism.

GRIFFIN: Experts agree that it is the NSA's job to get information, and if the agency wants to find out something, it will. The only comfort for ordinary Americans, says Schneier, is that there is privacy in numbers. Whether it's millions of people or hundreds of millions of phone calls. The problem is, that is also comforting to terrorists.

SCHNEIER: You are in a sea of 300 million good guys. The odds of you being found through this are so small, you don't have to worry about it.

GRIFFIN: Add to that the probability that every time we come up with a technological advance to use against terrorists, the terrorists look for ways to get a round it. Small wonder, experts believe, al Qaeda now relies more on old-fashioned communication, by word-of-mouth. Drew Griffin, CNN, Atlanta.

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KEILAR: Wolf Blitzer delves into the phone records controversy tomorrow morning on LATE EDITION. He'll talk to national security advisor Stephen Hadley, that's Sunday starting at 11:00 a.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

And now we're going to talk some trash. Michigan's senior senator wants Canada to stop shipping its trash into the Great Lakes state. He says it's a security risk but Canada says that's a load of garbage. In a report first scene on AMERICAN MORNING, homeland security correspondent Jeanne Meserve has the story.

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JEANNE MESERVE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Michigan is making a stink over Canadian garbage. Trash picked up in Toronto is compacted into tractor-trailer trucks which hit the road for the U.S. border.

(on camera): Every day, about 350 of these trucks crammed full of trash come over bridges into Michigan.

(voice-over): About 700,000 tons of trash a year. All bound for U.S. landfills.

SEN. CARL LEVIN, (D) MI: We don't need trash from Canada. Canada should take care of their own bloody trash. It's that simple.

MESERVE: But Levin is concerned about more than garbage. He is concerned about security. He believes terrorists could conceal weapons of mass destruction in trash shipments and successfully smuggle them into the U.S. He cites a recent government report which concludes the likelihood of finding prohibited items is limited, because compacted trash hinders the effectiveness of high-tech screening and low-tech searches.

Trash-filled trucks are run through radiation detection portals, twice in Toronto and again at the U.S. border, where some trucks are pulled aside for a closer look, by customs agents, dogs, scanning machines. A gamma ray scan recently revealed stowaways in a truckload of Styrofoam trays. Customs and border protection wouldn't show us the image of compacted trash. Senator Levin does.

LEVIN: With trash, it's one black glob on the x-ray. There's no way to look at that big black spot there, that's a biological weapon or that's a chemical weapon or that's an illegal drug. You can't determine it.

MESERVE: But customs and border protection insists agents can use the scans.

ROBERT PEREZ, U.S. CUSTOMS AND BORDER PROTECTION: They are accustomed to seeing what those images of the waste should look like. And if something isn't quite right, it will alert them to look at it again or more closely with that technology or follow it to the municipal waste site.

MESERVE: A very few trucks get that kind of inspection. As they unload, customs agents poke around for illegal or dangerous items. Canadian officials say the theory that terrorists might conceal valuable weapons in trash trucks is, frankly, garbage.

MAYOR DAVID MILLER, TORONTO: The idea that there's a security risk in Toronto's garbage is simply false, it's not true.

MESERVE: Canadians point out that toxic waste and other dangerous items come into their country from the U.S.

SHELLY CARROLL, TORONTO CITY COUNCIL: The biggest problem facing the city of Toronto right now is young men killing each other, and they are killing each other from guns that the were purchased legally in the United States and find their way illegally across the border northward. So if you want to talk about security, we've got an issue here.

MESERVE: On both sides of the border, the solution seems to be an old one -- don't throw your trash in my backyard. Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Toronto, Canada.

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KEILAR: CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night.

Time to go to global headlines from around the world now. In Seoul, South Korea, thousands turn out to protest a planned relocation of U.S. military bases relocation in the country. Police estimate as many as 6,000 protestors took part. It was the largest anti-American demonstration this year in Seoul.

And today the Vatican marked the 25th anniversary of the failed assassination attempt on the late Pope John Paul II. The late pontiff believed he survived the shooting by divine intervention from the Madonna of Fatima.

And Nigerian government officials believe that theft may have been the root cause of a deadly pipeline explosion yesterday. Between 150 people were killed while trying to siphon off gasoline from the conduit. The government says it's nearly impossible to secure all the nation's pipelines.

Inside the cloak of celebrity, as the world awaits the birth of Baby Brangelina, we'll take you on a wild ride as the paparazzi pursues the red-hot actress.

And then we turn to a life of crime, of sorts, from bank heists to serial killers we're on the "Crime Beat" with best selling author Michael Connelly.

Among the most popular stories this hour on cnn.com, General Motors pulls the plug on the original Hummer. Citing weak sales, the automaker says the last H-1 will roll off the assembly line in June.

Number one online this hour, how an education law is leaving children behind. Not a single state will have a highly qualified teacher in every core class this school year, as promised by President Bush's education law.

And on this Mother's Day weekend, the most popular baby names, Emily and Jacob take their respective top spots. To see who rounded out the top 10, click on cnn.com for details.

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KEILAR: In the Duke rape probe, the next move is up to a local district attorney. Lawyers for the students accused in the case say a second round of genetic tests is good news for them. CNN's Jason Carroll reports.

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JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Defense attorneys representing several Duke lacrosse players gathered late Friday to say exactly what they thought of the results of the second round of DNA tests.

JOE CHESIRE, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: We can say to you, categorically, that this report shows no conclusive match between any genetic material taken on, about, in, or from the false accuser and any genetic material of any Duke lacrosse player.

CARROLL: While they say the results are inconclusive, the report does name a third lacrosse player. Someone whose DNA material was found on the alleged victim's fake fingernail. Defense attorneys argue, the nail was found in a trash can in the bathroom of the lacrosse house, and, therefore, is tainted. Even more importantly, they say the report shows semen was found in the alleged victim, but it does not match any of the players.

CHESIRE: They did retrieve male genetic material from a single source, a single male source, from vaginal swabs. And that that source has been named in this report is a person known to the Durham police department, to put it very simply. It appears that this woman had sex with a male, but it also appears with certainty that it wasn't a Duke lacrosse player.

CARROLL: Durham's district attorney, Michael Nifong did not return calls about the second round of tests. He has said in the past it's his moral obligation to pursue anyone that he believes guilty of a crime.

The second round of tests Nifong ordered were done by a private will be, the first round done by a state lab, showed no match between the players and the alleged victim. The young woman, an exotic dancer and student, says three players raped her during a lacrosse party. So far, two have been charged. Reade Seligmann and Collin Finnerty.

(on camera): The question now -- will the new DNA results lead to a third arrest? Defense attorneys believe the district attorney will pursue another indictment. The next chance he'll get to do that is when the grand jury meets on Monday. Jason Carroll, CNN, New York.

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KEILAR: When it comes to crime, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. And my next guest will certainly attest to that. Before he was a best-selling author, he was a newspaper reporter covering crime in Los Angeles and Florida. And he's collected his best clips into a new book, "Crime Beat, a Decade of Covering Cops and Killers."

Michael Connelly joins us now from Tampa, Florida. Michael, thanks for being with us. And your goal from the very beginning was to be a crime fiction writer, right, not to be a crime beat reporter. MICHAEL CONNELLY, AUTHOR: Yes, you are right. I kind of saw being a reporter a hopeful means to an end. I wanted to get on the police beat and see how they did it, maybe talk to some killers and victims and some cops and put it all together later in my fiction.

KEILAR: Obviously you've pulled a lot from reality into some of the stories or some of the books, the many books that you've written, but I'm just curious, can you tell us what some of the most fascinating or disturbing crimes have been that you covered?

CONNELLY: Well, there have been a few different ones. And some of them are in this book. I covered Christopher Wilder who is a serial killer, who led police on a cross-country chase, and unfortunately, you could map his movements by the victims in his wake. And that was a story that just totally captured the media. I was part of that. I was along for the ride. And it's something that has certainly stayed with me. It became the basis of a novel I wrote almost 10 years later. So I think that's an indication of how some of these stories kind of stay with you.

KEILAR: And is that the -- that's probably not the only crime that you've sort of pulled from reality and put into fiction. Can you tell us about some of the others?

CONNELLY: Oh, sure. There's several stories in this collection, which are quite obviously the baselines of the novels that would come after. I can think of four or five. One case where I went with homicide detectives down to Mexico, became a book about a homicide detective that goes down to Mexico, and it kind of went like that.

I think, probably more importantly, is the character stuff I've pulled from these stories and from the real-life detectives and killers that I dealt with on the police beat. And I think, there are almost like nuances and little windows into how people will tick, what makes them tick, and I think the book is full of those.

KEILAR: What's different now about how you approach a story?

CONNELLY: Well, I have a little bit more freedom, because the bottom line is I get to make it up. But I still very much like a journalist. I go out with my notebook, I go out and talk to cops and I go out and do physical research of the locations that are going to be in my books and so I still feel the journalism bug or the journal -- journalism still is in my blood, and it shows up in my books. I really like these books to be grounded in the reality. Yes, they are fiction, but they tell a true story, hopefully.

KEILAR: I know you've said that writing fiction gives you more latitude. But do you ever have any desire to go back on to the crime beat?

CONNELLY: Not really. I mean, I guess the story I like to tell is that right before I quit, I helped train someone to take my place, and then I saw him in the giant crowd of reporters outside of O.J. Simpson's house on the day he took his slow-motion chase across Los Angeles, and I was really happy I was not in that crowd, and I've kind of kept that as my story.

So as I say, I'm a reporter. It shows up in my books. My books are about a real place, called Los Angeles, and I think whenever I get out of writing these novels is enough for me. I don't think you'll find me back in the newsroom.

KEILAR: And I want to ask you, what's next for you, but first, let's take a look at something. This is back to where it all started for you. We have video of -- there it is, your press pass.

CONNELLY: Man, you had to show that, right?

KEILAR: You were a little younger there, Michael, I have to say.

CONNELLY: Yeah, I look pretty wide eyed there.

KEILAR: Yeah, what's next for you?

CONNELLY: I'm writing -- I'm trying to get that off the television, that's the next thing I want to do. And I'm finishing a book called "Echo Park" which is another novel, set in Los Angeles in a new part of the city I haven't explored yet in my fiction.

KEILAR: Well, we'll look forward to that. Michael Connelly, thanks for being with us. And Carol Lin is now here with a preview of what's to come. What do you have for us coming up?

LIN: I grew up near Echo Park, so I know exactly what he's talking about.

KEILAR: Oh, OK.

LIN: Very interesting.

Coming up at 5:00 I'm going to be talking with vulcanologist about what exactly is happening at that volcano, Merapi, that is about to erupt. How soon, how many people are in danger and what are they looking for as the signs. So we're going to be watching that tonight.

And also talking to a "Money Magazine" reporter about specific tips for seniors, if they are trying to make a decision on signing up for the drug benefit under Medicare, and then at 6:00, I'm actually talking to the chief of Medicare. The big guy who has made all the decisions and is trying to sell the plan. Is it, you know, some seniors are saying, well, the administration is trying to make it look good by getting people to sign up, but we're still confuse. So we'll see what he has to say at 6:00.

KEILAR: Definitely go right to the top there.

LIN: You bet.

KEILAR: Well, we'll look forward to that. Thanks, Carol.

LIN: All right. KEILAR: And coming up here, the lengths the paparazzi must go to get the goods. We're chasing Angelina next. And guess who is coming to dinner? You'll never believe who is helping Senator Hillary Clinton raise money for her reelection. A hint, some of his companies have blasted her over the years. Stay with us. You're watching CNN LIVE SATURDAY.

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KEILAR: We Americans, well, we just really love our celebrities and these days no actress is hotter than Angelina Jolie, CNN PRESENTS takes us on a wild ride during the paparazzi's pursuit of the actress through the streets of L.A. Here's CNN's Kyra Phillips.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A couple of guys were doing a stake out at Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt's house in Malibu and apparently Jolie is on the move.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The hunt is on.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm going to get on the 405 and go 405 south. Are you still south PCH?

PHILLIPS: The prey? Red-hot actress Angelina Jolie.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Copy that.

PHILLIPS: Then, a 26-year-old photographer works for one of the biggest paparazzi agencies in Hollywood, Bower Griffin (ph), and he's asked us not to use his last name.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's absolutely nothing. I'm coming behind you. No cops anywhere. The 405 is right here, and the 10's going to be right here, and she's like right here on the 10 going this way. I'm trying to catch up as fast as I can. Just give me a location. Have you passed West Channel yet?

PHILLIPS: Ben is coordinating with two other paparazzi from his agency, hot on Angelina's tail. He finally catches up. But he's on the wrong side of the freeway.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's all the competition right there. Copy that, I just saw you guys go by. That's funny.

PHILLIPS: Paparazzi aren't the only ones desperately seeking Angelina.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She's not fitting into her clothes?

BONNIE FULLER, "STAR MAGAZINE": That happens.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She hates the hormones raging. She's very uncomfortable. PHILLIPS: "Star Magazine's" Bonnie Fuller is chasing down any salacious tidbit on the actress, her Hollywood hunk boyfriend and the girl next door he left behind.

FULLER: I like, this Jennifer's turning to hypnosis.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yep.

FULLER: Therapy to get over Brad. That's fabulous.

I mean, how can you not be nosey about people that are fascinating to look at? As a Jen, a Brad, and an Angelina. How can you not?

PHILLIPS: Over at "People Magazine," managing editor Larry Hackett is salivating over a scoop that Jolie's camp is promising.

LARRY HACKETT, "PEOPLE MAGAZINE": I got the call in the morning that something was going to be discussed, and then I got the call about what was being discussed. I was thrilled.

PHILLIPS: And Mark Lisanti, the blogger behind the Internet gossip site, defamer.com is snarking about official word that Angelina is pregnant.

MARK LISANTI, DEFAMER.COM: Once you get a publicist's real name on something, it then becomes reality and we can all rejoice and start knitting the baby booties.

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KEILAR: And that's just the beginning of our behind-the-scenes look at celebrity, watch CNN PRESENTS, "Chasing Angelina, Paparazzi and Celebrity Obsession." Today and tomorrow at 8:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

From the CNN global headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Brianna Keilar. And Carol Lin is up next, with a look at your top stories, including a look at the killer volcano overseas. That and much more, right after this quick break.

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LIN: The Pentagon says the president may be ordering the National Guard to the U.S./Mexico border.

And wounded warriors on the mend. We are going to take you inside an extraordinary marine medical unit.

And are you and your parents confused about the Medicare drug plan? Well, I'm going to try to help with some special guests. The deadline is looming Monday at midnight midnight. Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SATURDAY. I'm Carol Lin, and here's what's happening right now in the news.

Well, we want to show you some interesting pictures coming up out of Indonesia, because Mt. Merapi, it's a volcano, and volcano experts fear a major eruption at this time. Take a look at all that white smoke coming out of it right now.

We're talking about 22,000 people who live around that volcano and they've been ordered to evacuate but there is nowhere to go. We're going to have a live report in just a minute.

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