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Missing Teen; Road Rate; "Lords of Dogtown"

Aired June 09, 2005 - 05:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


VALERIE MORRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everyone, I'm Valerie Morris, in today for Carol Costello. And welcome to the second half- hour of DAYBREAK.
Coming up in the next 30 minutes, as the search continues for Natalee Holloway, a judge in Aruba says there is sufficient evidence to hold two suspects for another eight days. We'll bring you the very latest.

And would you pay $2 a mile just to drive through town? In Britain, it may soon be a reality.

But first, "Now in the News."

A fifth member of Lodi, California's Pakistani community is now behind bars as part of the ongoing terror investigation. Authorities say the suspect is the 19-year-old son of a local Muslim leader who is also being detained. Both are being held on immigration charges.

British Foreign Minister Jack Straw made an unannounced visit to Baghdad today. He and two European Union officials discussed a conference on developing Iraq at a meeting set for Brussels later this month.

The Senate, it's expected to vote today on the federal appeals court nomination of Judge William Pryor. He's the last of three nominees that Democrats said could have a final vote as part of the agreement on filibusters.

And Arizona firefighters are battling a fast-moving brushfire. It has charred about 1,000 acres and forced the evacuation of at least 30 people from their homes near the town of Wickenburg.

And, Chad, being from that Tucson, Arizona area, I know how those fires can move through so quickly.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Certainly.

MORRIS: Is the weather going to complicate conditions there?

MYERS: Not really, not today, but there is a low pressure area moving through. It's called a big low pressure trough, and sometimes little low pressures can slide along that. It's almost like the highway and these lows are moving along the highway. So when that gets there, when those little storms get there, this will be tomorrow, it could really pick up some wind. So we're going to have to try to get those flames out today. Those guys out there are going to do their best, and ladies, of course.

(WEATHER REPORT)

Back to you.

MORRIS: All right, Chad. Checking back with you shortly. Thank you.

MYERS: Great. OK.

MORRIS: In Aruba, nine days and still no sign of Natalee Holloway. Two former security guards arrested in the disappearance of the Alabama teenager still have not been charged. The suspects' families profess their innocence to CNN's Karl Penhaul.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Say, Lord, I cry unto thee.

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ann John spends a day reading her Bible and watching the news. This image haunts her, the moment her 30-year-old son, Mickey, was dragged handcuffed from the home they share on Aruba's eastern tip.

ANN JOHN, SUSPECT'S MOTHER: If I saw him do it, I don't worry, he has to take his finale (ph). But I'm saying my son knows nothing, nothing, concerning this girl.

PENHAUL: Security guard Mickey John and workmate Abraham Jones are accused of murder, manslaughter and kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of teen Natalee Holloway. This is the picture mother Ann prefers to keep in her mind happier times a few Christmases ago.

JOHN: I know to myself my son will never, will never, will never put himself in this kind of a situation.

PENHAUL: She says her son likes playing soccer, occasionally plays the slot machines at a local casino, but doesn't drink or smoke. Sitting out on a porch, Ann can't remember if her son went out the night Natalee disappeared.

Her other son, 10-year-old Jonathan (ph), still remembers vividly the moment a police squad burst into their home to arrest Mickey last Sunday. They seized him around 7 a.m., rousting him from sleep, and confiscated items from his room. Ann hasn't felt up to going in there until now.

John was back in handcuffs again Wednesday after a judge ordered him and Jones to be held for eight more days while prosecutors gather more evidence against them. Jones' mother, Cynthia (ph), was outside the courtroom, though the hearing was eventually held at a police station.

CYNTHIA, JONES' MOTHER: God is above. God knows my son is innocent! And I will go down for it! PENHAUL: Jones has a 5-year-old daughter. His girlfriend, whose name is also Cynthia, says the couple went to a soul music festival on the night Natalee disappeared, then they went home together.

CYNTHIA DE GRAF, SUSPECT'S GIRLFRIEND: He's always spending time with his daughter, with me. He's not going to do anything wrong to anyone. I don't know even why, why pick him?

PENHAUL: John's mother believes she has the answer, Natalee had been staying in the glitzy west end of Aruba and was last seen with three young men from well-to-do families. John and Jones are from black immigrant families in the poor industrial east end of the island dominated by white Dutch descendants.

JOHN: The problem is here, and I will say it plain, they have a color question in Aruba. Because once you're black -- I'm in Aruba 26 years, I'm not Aruban, and I cannot and will not. They will call us strong ears (ph).

PENHAUL: There's another question, too. These men are accused of a killing, yet, so far, there's no public evidence to indicate that Natalee is dead.

Karl Penhaul, CNN, St. Nicholas, Aruba.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MORRIS: The nightclub where Natalee Holloway was last seen has added $5,000 to the $50,000 reward that's already been established. The general manager of Carlos 'N' Charlie's says the club has contacted Holloway's family about adding to the reward fund.

Meanwhile, in Holloway's hometown of Mountain Brook, Alabama, residents are keeping the missing teen in their thoughts and in their prayers. Supporters put up a "wall of hope" outside her church. Classmates have been gathering every day to pray.

And Chris Lejuez, the defense attorney for one of the suspects, will be a guest on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING." Stay with us for that at 7:00 a.m. Eastern.

News "Across America" this morning.

Eastern Illinois University is being sued over the morning after pill. A former nurse at the school says she was denied a promotion after balking at agreeing to hand out the birth control pill. Andrea Need (ph) says the birth control pill is morally wrong. She's claiming the school discriminated against her and violated her constitutional rights.

The nation's largest movie theater chain will make it easier for people in wheelchairs to see the screen. Regal Theaters is altering its theaters as part of an agreement with the Justice Department. A lawsuit filed four-and-a-half years ago accused Regal of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. A student shot in the head during a shooting spree at Red Lake High School in Minnesota has been released from the hospital. Jeffrey May says he's looking forward to getting back to school and playing sports. He was shot by 16-year-old Jeff Weise who killed five students, a guard and a teacher before taking his own life.

Still to come on DAYBREAK, imagine having to pay a congestion toll for driving on crowded roads. That's what may happen in England. And we will go there live next.

And later, how the Z-Boys of Dogtown paved the way for extreme sports.

But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Thursday morning.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

MORRIS: OK, here's a frightening thought, every road you drive on suddenly becomes a toll road. The idea is to reduce traffic congestion. And Great Britain is all set to rollout the scheme, but it's getting a close look in a lot of other places.

Joining us now from our London bureau is Tony Grayling. He is the former British Transportation Adviser now with the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Thanks so much for joining us.

TONY GRAYLING, PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: It's a pleasure, good morning.

MORRIS: All right, let's talk a little bit about this. London recently enacted these tolls to alleviate traffic. Has it helped or has it hurt, in your opinion?

GRAYLING: Yes, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has introduced in Central London a congestion charge. So if you want to drive between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, you have to pay about $9 a day to -- and that has helped. It's reduced traffic levels by about 15 percent and traffic delays by about 30 percent. Central London was previously the most congested place in the country.

MORRIS: You know I actually lived in London. I'm an Air Force brat, so I remember that. Even though I haven't been back in recent years, I know that the congestion there can be a problem. Who do you think this is going to impact most, cab drivers, the everyday commuters, who?

GRAYLING: Well the plan is to now consider introducing a national scheme that would apply to all roads across the whole of Great Britain. It's probably going to take about 10 years. And I guess the people who would be most affected would be commuters who are driving on congested motorways or in urban areas trying to get to work. And the charges, as you mentioned earlier in the program, could be as much as $2 a mile on the most congested stretches of road. But on the other hand, they could be as little as 3 cents a mile in a quiet rural road.

MORRIS: So, Tony, how is the collection of this being made? Are you going to be installing tollbooths then throughout your highway system?

GRAYLING: No, it won't involve tollbooths. The technology that will be used will be similar to existing traffic navigation services, so they'll be a black box fitted to every car which will track the position of the car with reference to global positioning satellites and record the journey. And then the charge could be either levied within the vehicle itself on a SmartCard or that information could be transmitted back to a central office and you could be billed monthly according to the journeys that you have made.

MORRIS: Everybody could be on a roll in London soon.

Tony Grayling, thanks so much for stopping by.

GRAYLING: You're welcome.

MORRIS: Your news, money, weather and sports. It is now 5:46, and here is what's all new this morning.

A fifth person has been detained in connection with a terror investigation in California. Authorities say a 19-year-old is being held on immigration charges. The investigation led to the arrest of a father and son who allegedly trained at an al Qaeda camp in Pakistan.

Michael Jackson spent two hours at a hospital for treatment of a back problem overnight. Meanwhile today, jurors in his trial will only spend part of the day deliberating. That's because some jury members have to attend a local graduation ceremony.

In money, the home shared by June and Johnny Cash, it's up for sale. Eighteen rooms, a lake, a swimming pool, seven bedrooms and more, all for $2.9 million bucks. The home, of course, is near Nashville.

In culture, former President Bill Clinton is back on the road. He's on a tour promoting the paperback edition of his autobiography, "My Life."

In sports, the NHL could be closer to ending the lockout that spoiled last season. "The Toronto Globe and Mail" reports the owners and players union have agreed on a salary cap, which was a major obstacle in their labor talks.

MYERS: Valerie.

MORRIS: Yes -- Chad.

MYERS: In a much bigger sports story, the lady Wolverines- Oklahoma City, they won yesterday the softball championship across the country. They beat the Bruins. I watched that softball game last night. I couldn't stop watching it.

MORRIS: You seem passionate about this, so let's give a shout out of congratulations.

MYERS: Congratulations all. Go blue!

(WEATHER REPORT)

MORRIS: OK, Chad.

Still to come on DAYBREAK, surfers turned skaters. That's what "Lords of Dogtown" is really all about. We're going to introduce you to the Z-Boys who inspired the film.

And don't forget our e-mail "Question of the Day," government and airlines: bail out or stay out? E-mail us at DAYBREAK@CNN.com.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

MORRIS: Now a follow-up on two Florida trials involving airplanes.

Jurors in Orlando have cleared a Learjet of wrongdoing in the 1999 plane crash that killed golfer Payne Stewart. His family was suing for $200 million. They claimed a cracked adapter caused the plane to lose pressure. It flew for hours with all aboard presumably unconscious until it crashed in South Dakota.

Meanwhile, Miami jurors have convicted two former America West pilots of operating an aircraft while drunk. Testimony indicated that the two men went on an all-night drinking binge before entering the cockpit on July 1, 2002. A judge ordered them held without bail until their sentencing later this month.

All right, Chad, we have been waiting. Have those e-mails been rolling in?

MYERS: They have. They have, and on both sides. A lot of folks saying, yes, we should give money to the airlines because they run basically the Transportation Department of this country. And more people flying now than ever before. The government and airlines: bail out or stay out? That was our "Question of the Day" talking about do we need to keep these planes running or do we just let the chips fall where they may.

Mike (ph) from Connecticut said it's best to let the free market go to work and have the government stay out.

But Doug (ph) says the government should not be bailing out failing companies where CEOs make more in one year than I make in a lifetime.

And M.L. (ph) from Falls Church says bail out is a given. All it would take is one more terrorist event involving an airline and this entire industry goes belly up. I'm not for government control of private industry, but in this case, I think we must. The transportation industry is too important for us to let go of it -- Valerie.

MORRIS: All right. And everybody, keep those e-mails coming.

MYERS: Please.

MORRIS: You're watching DAYBREAK on CNN.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

MORRIS: OK, are you ready, here are some headlines, "Entertainment Headlines" for you this morning.

"Batman" is sporting a milk mustache in the latest Got Milk campaign. It's part of the promotion for the new movie "Batman Begins" which opens next week at a theater near you. And the new man donning the cape and cowl is actor Christian Bale.

Comedian Dave Chappelle has met with Comedy Central execs for the first time since his unscheduled spiritual retreat in South Africa. It forces ascension (ph) of the third season of his show, and there is no word yet on when or if the funnyman will return to the network.

Sexy singer Shakira has returned to her roots. The 28-year-old Columbia native has a new Spanish language album out this week. And she's following that up with an English CD later this year. The crossover star says singing in Spanish is important to her.

These days skateboarding is not only a multimillion-dollar activity, it is also an extreme sport. But it wasn't always that way.

As CNN entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas reports, a new movie looks at how it was all changed by some crazy kids from a place called Dogtown.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Judgment day, boys.

SIBILA VARGAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The summer of 1975, a band of surfers and skateboarders hit upon a revolution.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Check these out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With these you can do the same hard turns that you do on your surfboard.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow!

VARGAS: A new way to ride their board that would eventually become the birth of extreme sports. These kids from the streets of Venice, California's Dogtown were known as the Z-Boys.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We surf and we skate every day.

VARGAS: The story of how these rebels unwittingly planted the seeds for a cultural revolution that would grow into a multimillion- dollar industry is told in "Lords of Dogtown." The Dogtown story was first brought to the big screen in 2001 through the acclaimed documentary "Dogtown & Z-Boys" by writer/director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys.

STACY PERALTA, WRITER/DIRECTOR: The documentary was us talking about what happened 30 years ago. And this feature film is showing what we did as kids growing up and living through this.

VARGAS: For the documentary drew from an archive of photographs and super 8 footage. One of the biggest challenges for the feature film was finding actors to play the Z-Boys. To do that, another original Z-Boy, Tony Alva, was tasked with training the cast to perform the same radical moves he helped pioneer 30 years ago.

TONY ALVA, FORMER Z-BOY: It was a major training program and it revolved around stretching and, you know, just getting ready, warmed up to surf and skate in a position to where they could actually get from point a to point b.

VARGAS: For the cast of up and comers, it meant rising to a whole new level as performers.

JOHN ROBINSON, "STACY PERALTA": Obviously we had huge respect for these guys. And we wanted to do justice, you know.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Huge. Huge.

ROBINSON: And especially, you know, we watched their footage of them skating, and they're unreal. Their talent is ridiculous.

VARGAS: Skate actors, or skactors, were then brought in to perform some of the more challenging stunts. Still, director Catherine Hardwicke at times calls on Alva and Peralta to recreate their signature styles for the camera.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This wave breaks 24 hours a day every day. And you know what, bros, we're going to be the first to ride it.

VARGAS: Ultimately "Lords of Dogtown" is a story of reckless youth who stumble upon their future in the concrete ruins of a forgotten town.

PERALTA: Skateboarding saved our lives. I don't know where I'd be and I don't know where Tony would be if it wasn't for skateboarding. I mean it just opened up the world to all of us.

ALVA: The surfing and skating lifestyle for us was something that we helped unknowingly, unwittingly create. It's an amazing feat when I look back now.

VARGAS: Sibila Vargas, CNN, Los Angeles.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MORRIS: And you can get more entertainment news every night on "ShowBiz Tonight." That's at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on Headline News.

The next hour of DAYBREAK begins right now.

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Aired June 9, 2005 - 05:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
VALERIE MORRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everyone, I'm Valerie Morris, in today for Carol Costello. And welcome to the second half- hour of DAYBREAK.
Coming up in the next 30 minutes, as the search continues for Natalee Holloway, a judge in Aruba says there is sufficient evidence to hold two suspects for another eight days. We'll bring you the very latest.

And would you pay $2 a mile just to drive through town? In Britain, it may soon be a reality.

But first, "Now in the News."

A fifth member of Lodi, California's Pakistani community is now behind bars as part of the ongoing terror investigation. Authorities say the suspect is the 19-year-old son of a local Muslim leader who is also being detained. Both are being held on immigration charges.

British Foreign Minister Jack Straw made an unannounced visit to Baghdad today. He and two European Union officials discussed a conference on developing Iraq at a meeting set for Brussels later this month.

The Senate, it's expected to vote today on the federal appeals court nomination of Judge William Pryor. He's the last of three nominees that Democrats said could have a final vote as part of the agreement on filibusters.

And Arizona firefighters are battling a fast-moving brushfire. It has charred about 1,000 acres and forced the evacuation of at least 30 people from their homes near the town of Wickenburg.

And, Chad, being from that Tucson, Arizona area, I know how those fires can move through so quickly.

CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Certainly.

MORRIS: Is the weather going to complicate conditions there?

MYERS: Not really, not today, but there is a low pressure area moving through. It's called a big low pressure trough, and sometimes little low pressures can slide along that. It's almost like the highway and these lows are moving along the highway. So when that gets there, when those little storms get there, this will be tomorrow, it could really pick up some wind. So we're going to have to try to get those flames out today. Those guys out there are going to do their best, and ladies, of course.

(WEATHER REPORT)

Back to you.

MORRIS: All right, Chad. Checking back with you shortly. Thank you.

MYERS: Great. OK.

MORRIS: In Aruba, nine days and still no sign of Natalee Holloway. Two former security guards arrested in the disappearance of the Alabama teenager still have not been charged. The suspects' families profess their innocence to CNN's Karl Penhaul.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Say, Lord, I cry unto thee.

KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Ann John spends a day reading her Bible and watching the news. This image haunts her, the moment her 30-year-old son, Mickey, was dragged handcuffed from the home they share on Aruba's eastern tip.

ANN JOHN, SUSPECT'S MOTHER: If I saw him do it, I don't worry, he has to take his finale (ph). But I'm saying my son knows nothing, nothing, concerning this girl.

PENHAUL: Security guard Mickey John and workmate Abraham Jones are accused of murder, manslaughter and kidnapping in connection with the disappearance of teen Natalee Holloway. This is the picture mother Ann prefers to keep in her mind happier times a few Christmases ago.

JOHN: I know to myself my son will never, will never, will never put himself in this kind of a situation.

PENHAUL: She says her son likes playing soccer, occasionally plays the slot machines at a local casino, but doesn't drink or smoke. Sitting out on a porch, Ann can't remember if her son went out the night Natalee disappeared.

Her other son, 10-year-old Jonathan (ph), still remembers vividly the moment a police squad burst into their home to arrest Mickey last Sunday. They seized him around 7 a.m., rousting him from sleep, and confiscated items from his room. Ann hasn't felt up to going in there until now.

John was back in handcuffs again Wednesday after a judge ordered him and Jones to be held for eight more days while prosecutors gather more evidence against them. Jones' mother, Cynthia (ph), was outside the courtroom, though the hearing was eventually held at a police station.

CYNTHIA, JONES' MOTHER: God is above. God knows my son is innocent! And I will go down for it! PENHAUL: Jones has a 5-year-old daughter. His girlfriend, whose name is also Cynthia, says the couple went to a soul music festival on the night Natalee disappeared, then they went home together.

CYNTHIA DE GRAF, SUSPECT'S GIRLFRIEND: He's always spending time with his daughter, with me. He's not going to do anything wrong to anyone. I don't know even why, why pick him?

PENHAUL: John's mother believes she has the answer, Natalee had been staying in the glitzy west end of Aruba and was last seen with three young men from well-to-do families. John and Jones are from black immigrant families in the poor industrial east end of the island dominated by white Dutch descendants.

JOHN: The problem is here, and I will say it plain, they have a color question in Aruba. Because once you're black -- I'm in Aruba 26 years, I'm not Aruban, and I cannot and will not. They will call us strong ears (ph).

PENHAUL: There's another question, too. These men are accused of a killing, yet, so far, there's no public evidence to indicate that Natalee is dead.

Karl Penhaul, CNN, St. Nicholas, Aruba.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

MORRIS: The nightclub where Natalee Holloway was last seen has added $5,000 to the $50,000 reward that's already been established. The general manager of Carlos 'N' Charlie's says the club has contacted Holloway's family about adding to the reward fund.

Meanwhile, in Holloway's hometown of Mountain Brook, Alabama, residents are keeping the missing teen in their thoughts and in their prayers. Supporters put up a "wall of hope" outside her church. Classmates have been gathering every day to pray.

And Chris Lejuez, the defense attorney for one of the suspects, will be a guest on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING." Stay with us for that at 7:00 a.m. Eastern.

News "Across America" this morning.

Eastern Illinois University is being sued over the morning after pill. A former nurse at the school says she was denied a promotion after balking at agreeing to hand out the birth control pill. Andrea Need (ph) says the birth control pill is morally wrong. She's claiming the school discriminated against her and violated her constitutional rights.

The nation's largest movie theater chain will make it easier for people in wheelchairs to see the screen. Regal Theaters is altering its theaters as part of an agreement with the Justice Department. A lawsuit filed four-and-a-half years ago accused Regal of violating the Americans with Disabilities Act. A student shot in the head during a shooting spree at Red Lake High School in Minnesota has been released from the hospital. Jeffrey May says he's looking forward to getting back to school and playing sports. He was shot by 16-year-old Jeff Weise who killed five students, a guard and a teacher before taking his own life.

Still to come on DAYBREAK, imagine having to pay a congestion toll for driving on crowded roads. That's what may happen in England. And we will go there live next.

And later, how the Z-Boys of Dogtown paved the way for extreme sports.

But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Thursday morning.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

MORRIS: OK, here's a frightening thought, every road you drive on suddenly becomes a toll road. The idea is to reduce traffic congestion. And Great Britain is all set to rollout the scheme, but it's getting a close look in a lot of other places.

Joining us now from our London bureau is Tony Grayling. He is the former British Transportation Adviser now with the Institute for Public Policy Research.

Thanks so much for joining us.

TONY GRAYLING, PUBLIC POLICY RESEARCH: It's a pleasure, good morning.

MORRIS: All right, let's talk a little bit about this. London recently enacted these tolls to alleviate traffic. Has it helped or has it hurt, in your opinion?

GRAYLING: Yes, the Mayor of London, Ken Livingstone, has introduced in Central London a congestion charge. So if you want to drive between the hours of 7:00 a.m. and 6:30 p.m. Monday to Friday, you have to pay about $9 a day to -- and that has helped. It's reduced traffic levels by about 15 percent and traffic delays by about 30 percent. Central London was previously the most congested place in the country.

MORRIS: You know I actually lived in London. I'm an Air Force brat, so I remember that. Even though I haven't been back in recent years, I know that the congestion there can be a problem. Who do you think this is going to impact most, cab drivers, the everyday commuters, who?

GRAYLING: Well the plan is to now consider introducing a national scheme that would apply to all roads across the whole of Great Britain. It's probably going to take about 10 years. And I guess the people who would be most affected would be commuters who are driving on congested motorways or in urban areas trying to get to work. And the charges, as you mentioned earlier in the program, could be as much as $2 a mile on the most congested stretches of road. But on the other hand, they could be as little as 3 cents a mile in a quiet rural road.

MORRIS: So, Tony, how is the collection of this being made? Are you going to be installing tollbooths then throughout your highway system?

GRAYLING: No, it won't involve tollbooths. The technology that will be used will be similar to existing traffic navigation services, so they'll be a black box fitted to every car which will track the position of the car with reference to global positioning satellites and record the journey. And then the charge could be either levied within the vehicle itself on a SmartCard or that information could be transmitted back to a central office and you could be billed monthly according to the journeys that you have made.

MORRIS: Everybody could be on a roll in London soon.

Tony Grayling, thanks so much for stopping by.

GRAYLING: You're welcome.

MORRIS: Your news, money, weather and sports. It is now 5:46, and here is what's all new this morning.

A fifth person has been detained in connection with a terror investigation in California. Authorities say a 19-year-old is being held on immigration charges. The investigation led to the arrest of a father and son who allegedly trained at an al Qaeda camp in Pakistan.

Michael Jackson spent two hours at a hospital for treatment of a back problem overnight. Meanwhile today, jurors in his trial will only spend part of the day deliberating. That's because some jury members have to attend a local graduation ceremony.

In money, the home shared by June and Johnny Cash, it's up for sale. Eighteen rooms, a lake, a swimming pool, seven bedrooms and more, all for $2.9 million bucks. The home, of course, is near Nashville.

In culture, former President Bill Clinton is back on the road. He's on a tour promoting the paperback edition of his autobiography, "My Life."

In sports, the NHL could be closer to ending the lockout that spoiled last season. "The Toronto Globe and Mail" reports the owners and players union have agreed on a salary cap, which was a major obstacle in their labor talks.

MYERS: Valerie.

MORRIS: Yes -- Chad.

MYERS: In a much bigger sports story, the lady Wolverines- Oklahoma City, they won yesterday the softball championship across the country. They beat the Bruins. I watched that softball game last night. I couldn't stop watching it.

MORRIS: You seem passionate about this, so let's give a shout out of congratulations.

MYERS: Congratulations all. Go blue!

(WEATHER REPORT)

MORRIS: OK, Chad.

Still to come on DAYBREAK, surfers turned skaters. That's what "Lords of Dogtown" is really all about. We're going to introduce you to the Z-Boys who inspired the film.

And don't forget our e-mail "Question of the Day," government and airlines: bail out or stay out? E-mail us at DAYBREAK@CNN.com.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

MORRIS: Now a follow-up on two Florida trials involving airplanes.

Jurors in Orlando have cleared a Learjet of wrongdoing in the 1999 plane crash that killed golfer Payne Stewart. His family was suing for $200 million. They claimed a cracked adapter caused the plane to lose pressure. It flew for hours with all aboard presumably unconscious until it crashed in South Dakota.

Meanwhile, Miami jurors have convicted two former America West pilots of operating an aircraft while drunk. Testimony indicated that the two men went on an all-night drinking binge before entering the cockpit on July 1, 2002. A judge ordered them held without bail until their sentencing later this month.

All right, Chad, we have been waiting. Have those e-mails been rolling in?

MYERS: They have. They have, and on both sides. A lot of folks saying, yes, we should give money to the airlines because they run basically the Transportation Department of this country. And more people flying now than ever before. The government and airlines: bail out or stay out? That was our "Question of the Day" talking about do we need to keep these planes running or do we just let the chips fall where they may.

Mike (ph) from Connecticut said it's best to let the free market go to work and have the government stay out.

But Doug (ph) says the government should not be bailing out failing companies where CEOs make more in one year than I make in a lifetime.

And M.L. (ph) from Falls Church says bail out is a given. All it would take is one more terrorist event involving an airline and this entire industry goes belly up. I'm not for government control of private industry, but in this case, I think we must. The transportation industry is too important for us to let go of it -- Valerie.

MORRIS: All right. And everybody, keep those e-mails coming.

MYERS: Please.

MORRIS: You're watching DAYBREAK on CNN.

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MORRIS: OK, are you ready, here are some headlines, "Entertainment Headlines" for you this morning.

"Batman" is sporting a milk mustache in the latest Got Milk campaign. It's part of the promotion for the new movie "Batman Begins" which opens next week at a theater near you. And the new man donning the cape and cowl is actor Christian Bale.

Comedian Dave Chappelle has met with Comedy Central execs for the first time since his unscheduled spiritual retreat in South Africa. It forces ascension (ph) of the third season of his show, and there is no word yet on when or if the funnyman will return to the network.

Sexy singer Shakira has returned to her roots. The 28-year-old Columbia native has a new Spanish language album out this week. And she's following that up with an English CD later this year. The crossover star says singing in Spanish is important to her.

These days skateboarding is not only a multimillion-dollar activity, it is also an extreme sport. But it wasn't always that way.

As CNN entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas reports, a new movie looks at how it was all changed by some crazy kids from a place called Dogtown.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Judgment day, boys.

SIBILA VARGAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The summer of 1975, a band of surfers and skateboarders hit upon a revolution.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Check these out.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: With these you can do the same hard turns that you do on your surfboard.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow!

VARGAS: A new way to ride their board that would eventually become the birth of extreme sports. These kids from the streets of Venice, California's Dogtown were known as the Z-Boys.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We surf and we skate every day.

VARGAS: The story of how these rebels unwittingly planted the seeds for a cultural revolution that would grow into a multimillion- dollar industry is told in "Lords of Dogtown." The Dogtown story was first brought to the big screen in 2001 through the acclaimed documentary "Dogtown & Z-Boys" by writer/director Stacy Peralta, one of the original Z-Boys.

STACY PERALTA, WRITER/DIRECTOR: The documentary was us talking about what happened 30 years ago. And this feature film is showing what we did as kids growing up and living through this.

VARGAS: For the documentary drew from an archive of photographs and super 8 footage. One of the biggest challenges for the feature film was finding actors to play the Z-Boys. To do that, another original Z-Boy, Tony Alva, was tasked with training the cast to perform the same radical moves he helped pioneer 30 years ago.

TONY ALVA, FORMER Z-BOY: It was a major training program and it revolved around stretching and, you know, just getting ready, warmed up to surf and skate in a position to where they could actually get from point a to point b.

VARGAS: For the cast of up and comers, it meant rising to a whole new level as performers.

JOHN ROBINSON, "STACY PERALTA": Obviously we had huge respect for these guys. And we wanted to do justice, you know.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Huge. Huge.

ROBINSON: And especially, you know, we watched their footage of them skating, and they're unreal. Their talent is ridiculous.

VARGAS: Skate actors, or skactors, were then brought in to perform some of the more challenging stunts. Still, director Catherine Hardwicke at times calls on Alva and Peralta to recreate their signature styles for the camera.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This wave breaks 24 hours a day every day. And you know what, bros, we're going to be the first to ride it.

VARGAS: Ultimately "Lords of Dogtown" is a story of reckless youth who stumble upon their future in the concrete ruins of a forgotten town.

PERALTA: Skateboarding saved our lives. I don't know where I'd be and I don't know where Tony would be if it wasn't for skateboarding. I mean it just opened up the world to all of us.

ALVA: The surfing and skating lifestyle for us was something that we helped unknowingly, unwittingly create. It's an amazing feat when I look back now.

VARGAS: Sibila Vargas, CNN, Los Angeles.

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