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It's the Economy; Prison Tales; Japan's Typhoon; Red Sox Nation; Shot Shortage
Aired October 21, 2004 - 05:30 ET
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, and welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. From CNN Global Headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin in for Carol Costello.
Right "Now in the News," there could be yet another crisis over flu vaccines next year. The current crisis over a lack of flu shots have left vaccine maker Chiron Corporation in jeopardy. Chiron's chief executive says he cannot guarantee the company will be ready to meet next year's demand for flu shots.
And aviation investigators are reviewing the flight data recorders from the fatal crash of a commuter plane in Kirksville, Missouri. Just 2 of 15 people on board survived Tuesday's crash.
In California, rescue crews resumed searching this morning for eight missing hikers. They were caught in a blizzard that swept the Sierra Nevada.
And just about three-and-a-half hours from now, American gymnast Paul Hamm will learn if he gets to keep his Olympic gold medal. The Court of Arbitration for Sports will announce whether the gold medal stays with Hamm or goes to a South Korean gymnast.
Orelon, I don't know, have you been following that story? It's pretty controversial.
ORELON SIDNEY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, I saw a little bit of it during the Olympics, but unfortunately, I haven't kept up with it since then.
LIN: Yes.
SIDNEY: But from what I could see at the time, hey, I think it ought to stand.
LIN: Yes, well Hamm says you know, hey, nobody has asked me to give it back or give it away.
SIDNEY: Yes.
LIN: So somebody has got to tell me what it is. So we're going to find out today.
SIDNEY: Well I'll tell you what, if the Astros, Cardinals or the other -- what's the other team?
LIN: Boston Red Sox.
SIDNEY: Yes, them.
LIN: Those guys.
SIDNEY: If they happen to win the World Series, they're not going to give it back.
LIN: Good point.
(WEATHER REPORT)
LIN: All right, sounds good. Thanks -- Orelon.
SIDNEY: You're welcome.
LIN: A mere dozen days before Americans pick a new president. The election is Tuesday, November 2.
And we're going to go on the political trail today. President Bush starts his day in Washington signing a measure aimed at preventing suicide on college campuses. It's then on to Pennsylvania for a day of rallying the party faithful.
Senator John Kerry has a busy day ahead. He starts in Ohio where he's going to be hunting for geese on private property and making a few campaign stops. Later, he's got a rally in Minneapolis.
And as we close in on the election, we're going to spend some time focusing on core issues, the ones that matter to you.
Today, CNN's Aaron Brown looks at where the candidates stand on the economy.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Perhaps this year, with terrorism and war in the equation, it may not be the deciding factor. But in every election, the economy is always at the forefront.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Think about what we've been through as an economy, recession, attack, corporate scandal. And yet the economy is strong and it's getting stronger.
BROWN: President Bush argues that our current economic recovery is due to tax cuts, tax cuts he's pushed through every year he's been in office and is working to make permanent.
To encourage job growth, he favors declaring opportunity zones, where tax credits would go to businesses that create new jobs in depressed areas. He talks about increased funding to prepare workers for the new 21st century jobs and long-term improvements in education sought by the No Child Left Behind act. Bush says mandatory limits on spending and a line-item veto would cut the record federal deficit in half within five years. SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We can bring back jobs, bring back opportunity, bring back the promise that has kept the hope in the hearts of Americans for so many generations.
BROWN: John Kerry says the Bush tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit corporations and the rich. He says he would repeal cuts for families making more than $200,000 a year, but keep the increased exceptions for children and other benefits for lower- and middle-class families.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Offshore the CEOs.
BROWN: Kerry proposes to close what he calls loopholes in corporate taxes, including tax benefits for companies that send jobs overseas and, with those savings, give most companies in the country a 5 percent income tax cut.
To raise wages and lower unemployment, the Democrats would fund homeland security and transportation projects, give a new job tax credit to manufacturing companies, and raise the minimum wage to $7 an hour.
Finally, Kerry proposes to cut the deficit in half in four years, through increased tax revenues, automatic spending cuts and a line- item veto.
The nonpartisan Concord Coalition has looked at both plans and scored them about even. Each would raise the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next decade.
Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LIN: Our series continues tomorrow morning on DAYBREAK when we put education on the table. We're going to look at what the candidates are proposing and how much it's going to cost.
We'll call it a gentlemanly political discussion in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Ardent Kerry (ph) and her supporters came close to coming to blows at a showing of the anti-Kerry documentary "Stolen Honor."
And as presidential polls go, this one's not so much, but here it goes. If Bush wins, more than half of Kerry's backers, well, they would be pretty upset. And if Kerry wins, a lot of Bush supporters won't be too happy either. Duh! I'll try to get an explanation as to why we even showed that to you.
In the meantime, please be watching us tonight. "PAULA ZAHN NOW" takes to the road for a town hall meeting in Springfield, Ohio. Hear what voters think in one of the crucial states in this election. That's at 8:00 tonight right here on CNN.
In the meantime, there are hundreds of jokes made about what Martha Stewart would actually do in prison, everything from her redecorating her cell to replanting the exercise yard. But as CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports, the early indications are that prison life for Stewart isn't so bad.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Inside the college-like campus of Alderson Prison, inmate 55170054 is getting along. Martha Stewart, writing on her Web site, "The best news, everyone is nice," and that "the camp is like an old-fashioned college, without the freedom, of course."
In fact, it seems Stewart is quite popular. On another Web site, Prison Talk Online, an Internet user who goes by the name Still Mommy's Girl says her mother recently got out of Alderson, and that a friend told her Stewart is "very, very cool and a sweet and nice person." The writer also says Stewart "walks the track" with other inmates, spends time "in the library typing in her journal," eats in the chow hall and "complains about the food just like the rest."
The writer says Stewart has made friends. "Everyone loves her there and follows her around," and that "the ladies help her stay out of the spotlight," protecting Stewart from photographers. Alderson inmates do not have access to the Internet, but the prison Web site is used by former inmates who stay in touch with women on the inside.
Prison officials would not confirm reports on the Web site that Stewart offered to provide name-brand sheets to her Alderson pals.
Stewart will finish up orientation this week and be assigned a job, which could include gardening, cooking, or baking.
Like other inmates, she can walk around the grounds when the workday ends at 3:30. A prison official says it's a rumor that Stewart was picking crabapples to cook.
Stewart, who nabbed a choice bottom bunk, has been living in a two-story cottage with 80 women.
FEYERICK (on camera): Stewart was busy last week meeting with her appeals lawyer. He believes there are at least five major issues, including juror misconduct, which could be grounds for reversing Stewart's conviction. By the time a judge decides, Stewart could already be out of prison.
Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LIN: A tenacious typhoon pounds Japan, unleashing high winds and heavy rains on the country's main island. This morning, weary residents try to pick up the pieces. In four minutes, we're going to get the latest from Tokyo.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Thursday morning.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
LIN: In Japan, this year has been hit by the largest number of typhoons in decades. The 10th so far is among the worst. At least 39 people have been killed and dozens more are still missing.
We're going to get more on the powerful storm from CNN's Atika Shubert in Tokyo.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Typhoon Tokage was a monster of a storm. Tokage, lizard in Japanese, spanned an 800 kilometer or 500 mile wide radius, plowing up the archipelago with surprising speed, causing widespread destruction.
The biggest and deadliest storm to hit Japan in decades, killing dozens, injuring hundreds. Police are still assessing the death and destruction Tokage has left behind. Heavy rains triggered landslides, sweeping away homes, residents still inside. Rescue workers dug through the mud and wreckage hoping to find survivors.
One tour bus filled with elderly passengers was caught in a severe flood. Passengers were trapped on the roof of the bus until they were finally rescued by police using helicopters and rowboats.
Winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour or 90 miles an hour uprooted trees and took the roof off of several homes. High waves battered Japan's coastline, swallowing several beachside homes. Emergency workers trying to find the missing residents.
Transportation was also severely disrupted. One train jumped the tracks when floodwaters washed away the rail line.
Tokage is the 10th typhoon to hit Japan this year, setting the record for the most typhoons in one season. More than 130 people have been killed this season by powerful storms. Meteorologists say it's not over yet, they warn another typhoon is forming in the Pacific.
Atika Shubert, CNN, Tokyo.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LIN: Your news, money, weather and sports. It's now 45 past the hour. And here's what's new this morning.
The company that makes flu vaccines reportedly cannot guarantee it will be able to produce the vaccine for the U.S. next year. That means another flu shot shortage is possible.
Cuban President Fidel Castro took a tumble and may have broken his leg. The 78-year-old Castro was finishing up a graduation speech when he tripped. You can see it in a spot -- at the spot shadow. Castro told the startled crowd that he thought he broke his knee and his arm.
And in money, Qwest Communications has reportedly agreed to pay $250 million to settle a fraud investigation by the SEC. The AP reports Qwest was being investigated for allegedly inflating revenue and trying to cover it up.
In culture, Wal-Mart has a problem with Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show." "America: The Book," which was written by "The Daily Show's" writers, will not be sold at Wal-Mart stores because it includes nudity. The book has fake nude pictures of the Supreme Court justices.
And in sports, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Houston Astros to force a game seven in the National League Championship Series. Jim Edmunds launched an extra inning home run to tie the series at three games apiece.
All right, three is the magic number. Boston Red Sox up from 3-0 to go into the World Series.
Orelon Sidney, anything that exciting in weather?
SIDNEY: Well, not much today, and that's good news.
(WEATHER REPORT)
LIN: Thanks, Orelon.
Well the winner of tonight's Cardinals-Astros game gets to face the Red Sox, the hot Red Sox. Boston accomplished the mission impossible. They overcame a three games to none deficit to win the American League Championship Series, and that's the first time it's ever happened in Major League history, four straight wins, a date with destiny.
With the hated Yankees out of the way, now the Red Sox Nation must set its sights on the next challenge, the World Series.
So let's check in with Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier, the WOKQ Morning Wake Up Crew in Portsmouth-Manchester, New Hampshire.
Morning -- guys.
DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning.
MARK ERICSON, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning -- Carol.
LIN: All right, we've been talking to you ever since the primaries, and now we've dragged you into sports. So what do you think? What does this say? I mean can you imagine a match up between the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox in this election year?
ERICSON: Well that would make it a Texas-Massachusetts contest, and we could forego that whole voting process, we'll just use this.
CARRIER: We'll just take this, yes.
LIN: There you go. I mean that's one way to decide a democracy.
CARRIER: We would have no problems with voting.
LIN: How many lawsuits do you think would spring up over that one?
(LAUGHTER)
LIN: Good heavens!
ERICSON: Well, I have to tell you, Red Sox Nation is dreaming the impossible dream this morning, but we're mostly doing that dreaming because we're all asleep. This has been a grueling week for everybody.
LIN: Yes.
CARRIER: We're all exhausted, but you know...
LIN: Really?
CARRIER: I mean if you just listen to some of the fans from Red Sox Nation, I mean everybody, especially on TV last night, all of the stations, all of the fans, they never lost their belief in the Red Sox.
ERICSON: Hey, Carol, you want to hear a funny story?
LIN: Sure.
ERICSON: According to "The Boston Herald," this morning,...
CARRIER: I love this.
ERICSON: ... baseball great Yogi Berra, the man most famous for saying it ain't over until it's over,...
LIN: Right.
ERICSON: ... left Yankee Stadium during the eighth inning.
CARRIER: In the eighth inning.
LIN: It was too painful.
CARRIER: Poor Yogi.
(LAUGHTER)
LIN: Oh my gosh!
CARRIER: Love it.
LIN: So the curse of the Bambino, you think it's over?
ERICSON: We're hoping. We are hoping. We are so looking forward to next week. Of course we'll see who it is we're taking on. If it is the Astros, aside from that whole presidential thing, there's the Rocket Roger element, which would be fun.
CARRIER: Absolutely. But you know what, in all honesty, both teams, the Cardinals and Astros, very tough teams. It's going to be a great series.
LIN: What are you looking for this weekend?
ERICSON: Wins. Just wins everywhere.
CARRIER: Just wins and home runs and Johnny Damon and Manny and Poppy (ph). I mean we're just looking for everything to just blow out this weekend.
LIN: All right. Well thanks -- guys.
ERICSON: All right -- Carol.
LIN: All right, baseball and the elections all tied into one. Thanks much, Mark and Danielle.
All right, up next on DAYBREAK,...
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GLADYS MUSGRAVE, BLOOMFIELD RESIDENT: This is America. We're supposedly the best of the best and with this we're not.
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LIN: Coming up, as America continues to seek the flu vaccine, one small town has come up with a way to provide temporary relief for a long-term problem.
This is DAYBREAK.
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LIN: The flu vaccine shortage has set off a scramble to prevent a repeat of this year's calamity. And some older Americans have been standing in lines to get flu shots. In Connecticut, tickets just to get flu shots were given out to seniors. But while about 30 people were in line, only 10 tickets were handed out.
Our Mary Snow tells us how Bloomfield, New Jersey is handling things.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I'm sorry, we don't have the vaccine at this time.
MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Calls for flu shots haven't let up in Bloomfield, New Jersey since the town decided last week to hold a lottery to ration 300 doses of the flu vaccine. Since then, Bloomfield has become the poster child for the flu shot shortage, even finding its way into the presidential campaign.
KERRY: And just today we learned that a town in New Jersey is being forced to use a lottery system to decide who is going to get a flu shot.
BUSH: I know there are some here who are worried about the flu season. I want to assure them that our government is doing everything possible.
MAYOR RAYMOND MCCARTHY, BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY: We never anticipated this. This was just a thing that we thought was a normal procedure, let's go. We put it together.
SNOW: Bloomfield's town officials held a strategy session ahead of its unusual vaccine lottery. Unlike neighboring towns, Bloomfield does not buy its vaccines from Chiron, the vaccine maker forced to halt production because of contamination concerns, it gets them from Aventis, the only other vaccine supplier to the U.S. And the first shipment came in before the public health crisis began. The town didn't want to have long lines of senior citizens, like other places, and decided a lottery was being fair.
TREVOR WEIGLE, BLOOMFIELD HEALTH DIRECTOR: It's sad that we have to do this, but good, maybe this is a wake-up call, you know. Maybe we have to do some better planning in our health care system here in America.
SNOW: But some of Bloomfield's 8,000 seniors don't see the lottery working either.
RITA LYNCH, BLOOMFIELD RESIDENT: Never won anything in my whole life. I don't know that I'd win anything medical either.
MUSGRAVE: This is America, we're supposedly the best of the best. And with this, we're not.
SNOW: Some 60 million flu vaccines are expected to be produced by January, compared to last year's 87 million. And health experts say the shortage will continue to drive demand.
IRWIN REDLENER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: And I think there's no turning back now. We're going to see a whole new dynamic about the demand for flu vaccine from now on like we've never seen before in this country.
Mary Snow, CNN, Bloomfield, New Jersey.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LIN: Other "Health Headlines" for you this morning.
A German study gives new meaning to the killer commute concept. Turns out people stuck in traffic were found to be three times more likely to suffer a heart attack. The study looked at hundreds of heart attack victims. And moms to be, here's a reason you may want to opt for natural childbirth. A study has found that cesarean birth may raise your baby's risk of suffering from food allergies. A German study found babies delivered by C-section were twice as likely to have allergies than infants born naturally. Obviously most women don't have a choice.
And a Coke-Pepsi taste test reveals much more than just the winning beverage. Researchers found that when people know which one they are drinking, it influences their preference. Plus, knowing the brand name of the beverage appears to activate different types of brain activity. And that suggests that branding affects the brain.
OK, for more on this or any other health story, you just head to our Web site. The address is CNN.com/health.
Move over Yankees, there's a new boss in town. Coming up in the next hour of DAYBREAK, we're going to show you the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as Boston clinches the American League's top prize.
This is DAYBREAK.
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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, and welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK. From CNN Global Headquarters in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin in for Carol Costello.
Right "Now in the News," there could be yet another crisis over flu vaccines next year. The current crisis over a lack of flu shots have left vaccine maker Chiron Corporation in jeopardy. Chiron's chief executive says he cannot guarantee the company will be ready to meet next year's demand for flu shots.
And aviation investigators are reviewing the flight data recorders from the fatal crash of a commuter plane in Kirksville, Missouri. Just 2 of 15 people on board survived Tuesday's crash.
In California, rescue crews resumed searching this morning for eight missing hikers. They were caught in a blizzard that swept the Sierra Nevada.
And just about three-and-a-half hours from now, American gymnast Paul Hamm will learn if he gets to keep his Olympic gold medal. The Court of Arbitration for Sports will announce whether the gold medal stays with Hamm or goes to a South Korean gymnast.
Orelon, I don't know, have you been following that story? It's pretty controversial.
ORELON SIDNEY, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, I saw a little bit of it during the Olympics, but unfortunately, I haven't kept up with it since then.
LIN: Yes.
SIDNEY: But from what I could see at the time, hey, I think it ought to stand.
LIN: Yes, well Hamm says you know, hey, nobody has asked me to give it back or give it away.
SIDNEY: Yes.
LIN: So somebody has got to tell me what it is. So we're going to find out today.
SIDNEY: Well I'll tell you what, if the Astros, Cardinals or the other -- what's the other team?
LIN: Boston Red Sox.
SIDNEY: Yes, them.
LIN: Those guys.
SIDNEY: If they happen to win the World Series, they're not going to give it back.
LIN: Good point.
(WEATHER REPORT)
LIN: All right, sounds good. Thanks -- Orelon.
SIDNEY: You're welcome.
LIN: A mere dozen days before Americans pick a new president. The election is Tuesday, November 2.
And we're going to go on the political trail today. President Bush starts his day in Washington signing a measure aimed at preventing suicide on college campuses. It's then on to Pennsylvania for a day of rallying the party faithful.
Senator John Kerry has a busy day ahead. He starts in Ohio where he's going to be hunting for geese on private property and making a few campaign stops. Later, he's got a rally in Minneapolis.
And as we close in on the election, we're going to spend some time focusing on core issues, the ones that matter to you.
Today, CNN's Aaron Brown looks at where the candidates stand on the economy.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Perhaps this year, with terrorism and war in the equation, it may not be the deciding factor. But in every election, the economy is always at the forefront.
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Think about what we've been through as an economy, recession, attack, corporate scandal. And yet the economy is strong and it's getting stronger.
BROWN: President Bush argues that our current economic recovery is due to tax cuts, tax cuts he's pushed through every year he's been in office and is working to make permanent.
To encourage job growth, he favors declaring opportunity zones, where tax credits would go to businesses that create new jobs in depressed areas. He talks about increased funding to prepare workers for the new 21st century jobs and long-term improvements in education sought by the No Child Left Behind act. Bush says mandatory limits on spending and a line-item veto would cut the record federal deficit in half within five years. SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We can bring back jobs, bring back opportunity, bring back the promise that has kept the hope in the hearts of Americans for so many generations.
BROWN: John Kerry says the Bush tax cuts overwhelmingly benefit corporations and the rich. He says he would repeal cuts for families making more than $200,000 a year, but keep the increased exceptions for children and other benefits for lower- and middle-class families.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Offshore the CEOs.
BROWN: Kerry proposes to close what he calls loopholes in corporate taxes, including tax benefits for companies that send jobs overseas and, with those savings, give most companies in the country a 5 percent income tax cut.
To raise wages and lower unemployment, the Democrats would fund homeland security and transportation projects, give a new job tax credit to manufacturing companies, and raise the minimum wage to $7 an hour.
Finally, Kerry proposes to cut the deficit in half in four years, through increased tax revenues, automatic spending cuts and a line- item veto.
The nonpartisan Concord Coalition has looked at both plans and scored them about even. Each would raise the deficit by more than $1 trillion over the next decade.
Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LIN: Our series continues tomorrow morning on DAYBREAK when we put education on the table. We're going to look at what the candidates are proposing and how much it's going to cost.
We'll call it a gentlemanly political discussion in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. Ardent Kerry (ph) and her supporters came close to coming to blows at a showing of the anti-Kerry documentary "Stolen Honor."
And as presidential polls go, this one's not so much, but here it goes. If Bush wins, more than half of Kerry's backers, well, they would be pretty upset. And if Kerry wins, a lot of Bush supporters won't be too happy either. Duh! I'll try to get an explanation as to why we even showed that to you.
In the meantime, please be watching us tonight. "PAULA ZAHN NOW" takes to the road for a town hall meeting in Springfield, Ohio. Hear what voters think in one of the crucial states in this election. That's at 8:00 tonight right here on CNN.
In the meantime, there are hundreds of jokes made about what Martha Stewart would actually do in prison, everything from her redecorating her cell to replanting the exercise yard. But as CNN's Deborah Feyerick reports, the early indications are that prison life for Stewart isn't so bad.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Inside the college-like campus of Alderson Prison, inmate 55170054 is getting along. Martha Stewart, writing on her Web site, "The best news, everyone is nice," and that "the camp is like an old-fashioned college, without the freedom, of course."
In fact, it seems Stewart is quite popular. On another Web site, Prison Talk Online, an Internet user who goes by the name Still Mommy's Girl says her mother recently got out of Alderson, and that a friend told her Stewart is "very, very cool and a sweet and nice person." The writer also says Stewart "walks the track" with other inmates, spends time "in the library typing in her journal," eats in the chow hall and "complains about the food just like the rest."
The writer says Stewart has made friends. "Everyone loves her there and follows her around," and that "the ladies help her stay out of the spotlight," protecting Stewart from photographers. Alderson inmates do not have access to the Internet, but the prison Web site is used by former inmates who stay in touch with women on the inside.
Prison officials would not confirm reports on the Web site that Stewart offered to provide name-brand sheets to her Alderson pals.
Stewart will finish up orientation this week and be assigned a job, which could include gardening, cooking, or baking.
Like other inmates, she can walk around the grounds when the workday ends at 3:30. A prison official says it's a rumor that Stewart was picking crabapples to cook.
Stewart, who nabbed a choice bottom bunk, has been living in a two-story cottage with 80 women.
FEYERICK (on camera): Stewart was busy last week meeting with her appeals lawyer. He believes there are at least five major issues, including juror misconduct, which could be grounds for reversing Stewart's conviction. By the time a judge decides, Stewart could already be out of prison.
Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LIN: A tenacious typhoon pounds Japan, unleashing high winds and heavy rains on the country's main island. This morning, weary residents try to pick up the pieces. In four minutes, we're going to get the latest from Tokyo.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Thursday morning.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
LIN: In Japan, this year has been hit by the largest number of typhoons in decades. The 10th so far is among the worst. At least 39 people have been killed and dozens more are still missing.
We're going to get more on the powerful storm from CNN's Atika Shubert in Tokyo.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ATIKA SHUBERT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Typhoon Tokage was a monster of a storm. Tokage, lizard in Japanese, spanned an 800 kilometer or 500 mile wide radius, plowing up the archipelago with surprising speed, causing widespread destruction.
The biggest and deadliest storm to hit Japan in decades, killing dozens, injuring hundreds. Police are still assessing the death and destruction Tokage has left behind. Heavy rains triggered landslides, sweeping away homes, residents still inside. Rescue workers dug through the mud and wreckage hoping to find survivors.
One tour bus filled with elderly passengers was caught in a severe flood. Passengers were trapped on the roof of the bus until they were finally rescued by police using helicopters and rowboats.
Winds of up to 144 kilometers per hour or 90 miles an hour uprooted trees and took the roof off of several homes. High waves battered Japan's coastline, swallowing several beachside homes. Emergency workers trying to find the missing residents.
Transportation was also severely disrupted. One train jumped the tracks when floodwaters washed away the rail line.
Tokage is the 10th typhoon to hit Japan this year, setting the record for the most typhoons in one season. More than 130 people have been killed this season by powerful storms. Meteorologists say it's not over yet, they warn another typhoon is forming in the Pacific.
Atika Shubert, CNN, Tokyo.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
LIN: Your news, money, weather and sports. It's now 45 past the hour. And here's what's new this morning.
The company that makes flu vaccines reportedly cannot guarantee it will be able to produce the vaccine for the U.S. next year. That means another flu shot shortage is possible.
Cuban President Fidel Castro took a tumble and may have broken his leg. The 78-year-old Castro was finishing up a graduation speech when he tripped. You can see it in a spot -- at the spot shadow. Castro told the startled crowd that he thought he broke his knee and his arm.
And in money, Qwest Communications has reportedly agreed to pay $250 million to settle a fraud investigation by the SEC. The AP reports Qwest was being investigated for allegedly inflating revenue and trying to cover it up.
In culture, Wal-Mart has a problem with Jon Stewart and "The Daily Show." "America: The Book," which was written by "The Daily Show's" writers, will not be sold at Wal-Mart stores because it includes nudity. The book has fake nude pictures of the Supreme Court justices.
And in sports, the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Houston Astros to force a game seven in the National League Championship Series. Jim Edmunds launched an extra inning home run to tie the series at three games apiece.
All right, three is the magic number. Boston Red Sox up from 3-0 to go into the World Series.
Orelon Sidney, anything that exciting in weather?
SIDNEY: Well, not much today, and that's good news.
(WEATHER REPORT)
LIN: Thanks, Orelon.
Well the winner of tonight's Cardinals-Astros game gets to face the Red Sox, the hot Red Sox. Boston accomplished the mission impossible. They overcame a three games to none deficit to win the American League Championship Series, and that's the first time it's ever happened in Major League history, four straight wins, a date with destiny.
With the hated Yankees out of the way, now the Red Sox Nation must set its sights on the next challenge, the World Series.
So let's check in with Mark Ericson and Danielle Carrier, the WOKQ Morning Wake Up Crew in Portsmouth-Manchester, New Hampshire.
Morning -- guys.
DANIELLE CARRIER, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning.
MARK ERICSON, WOKQ MORNING WAKING CREW, PORTSMOUTH & MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: Morning -- Carol.
LIN: All right, we've been talking to you ever since the primaries, and now we've dragged you into sports. So what do you think? What does this say? I mean can you imagine a match up between the Houston Astros and the Boston Red Sox in this election year?
ERICSON: Well that would make it a Texas-Massachusetts contest, and we could forego that whole voting process, we'll just use this.
CARRIER: We'll just take this, yes.
LIN: There you go. I mean that's one way to decide a democracy.
CARRIER: We would have no problems with voting.
LIN: How many lawsuits do you think would spring up over that one?
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LIN: Good heavens!
ERICSON: Well, I have to tell you, Red Sox Nation is dreaming the impossible dream this morning, but we're mostly doing that dreaming because we're all asleep. This has been a grueling week for everybody.
LIN: Yes.
CARRIER: We're all exhausted, but you know...
LIN: Really?
CARRIER: I mean if you just listen to some of the fans from Red Sox Nation, I mean everybody, especially on TV last night, all of the stations, all of the fans, they never lost their belief in the Red Sox.
ERICSON: Hey, Carol, you want to hear a funny story?
LIN: Sure.
ERICSON: According to "The Boston Herald," this morning,...
CARRIER: I love this.
ERICSON: ... baseball great Yogi Berra, the man most famous for saying it ain't over until it's over,...
LIN: Right.
ERICSON: ... left Yankee Stadium during the eighth inning.
CARRIER: In the eighth inning.
LIN: It was too painful.
CARRIER: Poor Yogi.
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LIN: Oh my gosh!
CARRIER: Love it.
LIN: So the curse of the Bambino, you think it's over?
ERICSON: We're hoping. We are hoping. We are so looking forward to next week. Of course we'll see who it is we're taking on. If it is the Astros, aside from that whole presidential thing, there's the Rocket Roger element, which would be fun.
CARRIER: Absolutely. But you know what, in all honesty, both teams, the Cardinals and Astros, very tough teams. It's going to be a great series.
LIN: What are you looking for this weekend?
ERICSON: Wins. Just wins everywhere.
CARRIER: Just wins and home runs and Johnny Damon and Manny and Poppy (ph). I mean we're just looking for everything to just blow out this weekend.
LIN: All right. Well thanks -- guys.
ERICSON: All right -- Carol.
LIN: All right, baseball and the elections all tied into one. Thanks much, Mark and Danielle.
All right, up next on DAYBREAK,...
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GLADYS MUSGRAVE, BLOOMFIELD RESIDENT: This is America. We're supposedly the best of the best and with this we're not.
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LIN: Coming up, as America continues to seek the flu vaccine, one small town has come up with a way to provide temporary relief for a long-term problem.
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LIN: The flu vaccine shortage has set off a scramble to prevent a repeat of this year's calamity. And some older Americans have been standing in lines to get flu shots. In Connecticut, tickets just to get flu shots were given out to seniors. But while about 30 people were in line, only 10 tickets were handed out.
Our Mary Snow tells us how Bloomfield, New Jersey is handling things.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: No, I'm sorry, we don't have the vaccine at this time.
MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Calls for flu shots haven't let up in Bloomfield, New Jersey since the town decided last week to hold a lottery to ration 300 doses of the flu vaccine. Since then, Bloomfield has become the poster child for the flu shot shortage, even finding its way into the presidential campaign.
KERRY: And just today we learned that a town in New Jersey is being forced to use a lottery system to decide who is going to get a flu shot.
BUSH: I know there are some here who are worried about the flu season. I want to assure them that our government is doing everything possible.
MAYOR RAYMOND MCCARTHY, BLOOMFIELD, NEW JERSEY: We never anticipated this. This was just a thing that we thought was a normal procedure, let's go. We put it together.
SNOW: Bloomfield's town officials held a strategy session ahead of its unusual vaccine lottery. Unlike neighboring towns, Bloomfield does not buy its vaccines from Chiron, the vaccine maker forced to halt production because of contamination concerns, it gets them from Aventis, the only other vaccine supplier to the U.S. And the first shipment came in before the public health crisis began. The town didn't want to have long lines of senior citizens, like other places, and decided a lottery was being fair.
TREVOR WEIGLE, BLOOMFIELD HEALTH DIRECTOR: It's sad that we have to do this, but good, maybe this is a wake-up call, you know. Maybe we have to do some better planning in our health care system here in America.
SNOW: But some of Bloomfield's 8,000 seniors don't see the lottery working either.
RITA LYNCH, BLOOMFIELD RESIDENT: Never won anything in my whole life. I don't know that I'd win anything medical either.
MUSGRAVE: This is America, we're supposedly the best of the best. And with this, we're not.
SNOW: Some 60 million flu vaccines are expected to be produced by January, compared to last year's 87 million. And health experts say the shortage will continue to drive demand.
IRWIN REDLENER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: And I think there's no turning back now. We're going to see a whole new dynamic about the demand for flu vaccine from now on like we've never seen before in this country.
Mary Snow, CNN, Bloomfield, New Jersey.
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LIN: Other "Health Headlines" for you this morning.
A German study gives new meaning to the killer commute concept. Turns out people stuck in traffic were found to be three times more likely to suffer a heart attack. The study looked at hundreds of heart attack victims. And moms to be, here's a reason you may want to opt for natural childbirth. A study has found that cesarean birth may raise your baby's risk of suffering from food allergies. A German study found babies delivered by C-section were twice as likely to have allergies than infants born naturally. Obviously most women don't have a choice.
And a Coke-Pepsi taste test reveals much more than just the winning beverage. Researchers found that when people know which one they are drinking, it influences their preference. Plus, knowing the brand name of the beverage appears to activate different types of brain activity. And that suggests that branding affects the brain.
OK, for more on this or any other health story, you just head to our Web site. The address is CNN.com/health.
Move over Yankees, there's a new boss in town. Coming up in the next hour of DAYBREAK, we're going to show you the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat as Boston clinches the American League's top prize.
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