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Fight for Iraq; Jackson Jury; Air War; Shutterbugged
Aired June 13, 2005 - 05:29 ET
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CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning to you, thank you for waking up with us. Welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK.
Coming up in the next 30 minutes, thankfully its bark was much worse than its bite. Still, Tropical Storm Arlene made for a weary weekend for many residents of the Florida Panhandle.
And celebrities often try to get attention, but can the paparazzi go too far trying to get an exclusive shot? We'll take a look.
But first, "Now in the News."
President Bush hosts five African presidents at the White House today. He recently pledged $15 billion to battle HIV and AIDS in Africa. In turn, African leaders will press Bush for a significant increase in economic aid and to back a British plan for debt reduction.
Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles goes before an immigration judge today. He faces charges of illegally entering the U.S. earlier this year. Posada is accused of planning the deadly bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 in Caracas. Venezuela wants to retry him as a terrorist.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger goes on TV tonight to call for a special election. Irked by the slow pace of the legislator, Schwarzenegger wants voters to approve his initiatives that also give him broad new powers.
To the Forecast Center and Jacqui, in for Chad today, good morning.
JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good morning. Did you feel it this morning when you walked out your door?
COSTELLO: You mean that wave of humidity hitting me in the face?
JERAS: So heavy, isn't it? Yes, weather you can wear out there this morning, definitely.
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COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Jacqui.
There has been an attack today on members of a U.S. military reconstruction team in Afghanistan. A military official says four members of the team were injured by an improvised explosive device near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. One of them is said to be seriously hurt.
And there is more grim news out of Iraq this morning, dozens of bodies are found outside of Baghdad and more American troops are killed in bombings.
Let's go live to CNN's Jennifer Eccleston for the latest from the war zone.
Hello -- Jennifer.
JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Carol. Well Iraqi police made a series of grizzly discoveries around Baghdad this weekend, the bodies of 28 men, all showing signs of torture. They were bound, they were shot and then they were hastily buried.
Now police are not able to identify all of the bodies, because they are in various stages of decomposition and there also was no ID on the bodies. And the mysterious deaths come just days after 21 men were found dead in Kiam (ph) on the lawless Syrian border, rather. It's feared that these bodies are those of missing Iraqi soldiers.
Now staying in Iraq's frontier with Syria in the rest of Anbar Province, Marine airstrikes on Saturday killed some 40 insurgents. The Marines said the insurgents were stopping vehicles at gunpoint and threatening the civilians there. So jets and helicopters targeted the armed men and leveled one of their compounds. The Marines said that no one was hurt and there were no Marine casualties.
Now hours earlier, a suicide bomber killed three members of an Iraqi elite police unit. Now the Iraqi official said the target of that attack was the commander of the Shiite-dominated Wolf Brigade, who escaped unharmed, but it was carried out by a former member of the commando unit who bypassed security because he was wearing a police uniform. So outlined there the challenges, again, facing the Iraqi police.
And in another attack south of Baghdad over the weekend, gunmen killed 10 people on a minibus. They were all laborers at a U.S. military base. And also this weekend, U.S. death toll continues to rise, four American Marines were killed in two separate incidents. Both involved the detonation of those improvised explosive devices near their convoys -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jennifer Eccleston, reporting live from Baghdad this morning, thank you.
To CNN's "Security Watch" now.
You do remember the 9/11 Commission. Well, nearly a year ago, it made several recommendations for increasing security against terrorist attacks. Now the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, the panel composed of former commission members, meets in about four hours. They'll discuss the new director of National Intelligence post and just how it's implementing the commission's recommendations.
A decision expected today on a controversial research paper that critics call a road map for terrorists. The paper details how terrorists can contaminate the nation's milk supply. The government asked the National Academy of Sciences not to publish the research.
Since 9/11, the nation's immigration laws are being used as a sweeping anti-terrorism weapon. Immigration law violations have been filed against more than 500 people who have shown up on the radar of national security investigators. Muslim and civil liberty activists complain the immigration violations targets Arabs and Muslims.
Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
So, what do you think, is today verdict day in the Michael Jackson molestation trial? I bet you hope it is. Jurors get back to work later this morning.
Chris Lawrence has more on that.
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CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If Michael Jackson's fans had their way, jurors would have needed six minutes to deliberate, not the six days it's taken so far. But the jury has to consider what 141 witnesses said and try to come to a unanimous decision on all 10 counts.
Sources tell CNN they passed several questions to the judge on Friday and asked to have portions of the teenaged accuser's testimony read back to them. The attorneys also had three meetings with the judge.
DEBRA OPRI, JACKSON FAMILY ATTORNEY: It could mean anything. Nine days to acquit Robert Blake, so many hours to convict someone else.
LAWRENCE: Prosecutors accuse Jackson of sexually molesting a 13- year-old cancer survivor, giving the boy alcohol and conspiring to keep him and his family captive. Jackson denied the charges and pleaded not guilty. In deciding who they believe, jurors have had about 28 hours of deliberation so far.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If they took two weeks, if they took three days, I would trust in it, because they're the ones that have been sitting in there every day.
LAWRENCE: The first full week is over, a second about to begin.
(on camera): And those jurors are being guided by nearly 100 pages of jury instructions. It's a lot of very detailed legal jargon, but the judge wanted to cover all his bases to lessen the chances of any appeal.
Chris Lawrence, CNN, Santa Maria.
(END VIDEOTAPE) COSTELLO: Still to come on DAYBREAK, one is bigger, the other leaner, but which is better? Boeing and Airbus show off their latest creations in Paris.
And later, a new breed of paparazzi is taking extreme, even life- threatening measures, to get up close and personal with Hollywood's elite.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday.
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COSTELLO: We are on our way to a beautiful 92 degree day with, what, 100 percent humidity in New York? Hey, but it's better than the month of May.
On to the news now.
The clash of the titans of the skies flies over the 2005 Paris Air Show, but the story behind that story is Boeing has retaken the lead at lost (ph) Airbus after 9/11. Boeing is now leading in new aircraft orders and has hired back thousands of laid off and new employees.
Things are always up in the air for Simon Calder, author and Travel Editor of the "Independent." He joins us now live from London.
Good morning.
SIMON CALDER, TRAVEL EDITOR, "INDEPENDENT": Good morning.
COSTELLO: First of all, what can we expect to see at the Paris Air Show?
CALDER: We're not actually going to see a great deal in terms of new aircraft.
The big story over in Europe, of course for the first half of this year, has been the Airbus A380. This double-deck jumbo, superjumbo it's called, which is far larger than the 747, which is the existing biggest commercial airliner used for passengers. And Airbus has been making a great fuss about this. They say this is the future, everyone will be flying in these gigantic aircraft, rather than in the smaller aircraft, which is where Boeing is putting its money on the 787 Dreamliner, which is going to promise a far better passenger experience.
And the betting looks like this, that Boeing is saying we believe people will want to fly point to point. We don't believe there's much of a future for the mega hubs that we've got in places like London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo. We think people will want to fly from A to B and the Dreamliner is the aircraft that is going to do it for them.
So we're not actually going to see that many new aircraft. But already in Paris, there's a great sense of the conflict between these two huge companies, Airbus and Boeing. And certainly Boeing appears to be regaining ground.
COSTELLO: Well, exactly, I was just going to say that. Boeing seems to have made the right decision in those smaller, sleeker planes, because we want to show you a graph now, because this is pretty impressive. Boeing received 277 aircraft orders in the first five months of 2005. That matched its total from all of 2004. So Boeing seems to be going in a more energy efficient way. Airbus a massive way. So was that a mistake on Airbus' part?
CALDER: Well Airbus and Boeing have been trying to guess how the market will move. Airbus actually has the Airbus A350, which is basically its response to the 787. And they are going to be, hopefully, rolling that out within a few months.
They're in a position to announce that they've got advanced orders. Those aren't quite the same as firm orders for the new aircraft, because there's been terrible internal political problems at Airbus, this multinational company, which brings out some of the best and some of the worst of European internal politics.
But what Boeing has been doing is after the terrible events of 9/11, it's just gone back and thought, OK, how are we going to do this, where is the future lying? And I think that they're believing now that the 787 is going to be a huge success and that will help the company find its way back to domination of the world airline market.
COSTELLO: Well you know, it's funny, because I was talking about this to someone the other day that the government really helps out the airline industry, as far as airline manufacturers in Europe. Here it's not quite the same. And everybody thought, well, that's really going to hurt the American airline manufacturing business, because it doesn't get that added help. But maybe it's hurting Europe now.
CALDER: Well there are all kinds of international arguments about who gets -- which manufacturers get support from their governments. And it is a very, very complicated business, which is likely to lead, I think, in the next few months possibly to some real stand up bar fights between Boeing and Airbus and between the governments in Europe and the U.S. government.
But behind that you've actually got to look at what the passenger is demanding. And certainly in terms of the low cost airlines, which is where you're seeing rapid, rapid growth in the U.K. and in the rest of Europe, Boeing has been slightly losing out to Airbus. It's got some important orders from Ryan Air, but Airbus has actually grabbed Easy Jet, which is the second giant European airline.
However, Boeing is saying, look, we have the solution to long- haul flying in 10, 20 years from now. It's the 787 Dreamliner. We believe we've got it right.
COSTELLO: Well, we'll see. Simon Calder, thank you for joining DAYBREAK this morning, we sure appreciate it.
CALDER: Thank you -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:44 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.
Aruba's prime minister says his government is doing all it can to find out what happened to Natalee Holloway. Holloway, as you know, is the 18-year-old Alabama teenager who has been missing since May 30. Five men in custody, none charged.
She spent five months as a hostage in Iraq, and now a French journalist is home again. She and her Iraqi assistant were freed on Saturday.
In money news, there was plenty of interest from moviegoers in the relationship between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Their movie, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," tops at the box office with $51 million in ticket sales.
In culture, Johnny Carson's alma mater found a good way to honor the late entertainment icon. The University of Nebraska renamed its Theater Department after him. They had already discussed the idea with Carson before his death in January.
In sports, it's now a two games to nothing advantage for the San Antonio Spurs. In the NBA finals, the Spurs dominated the Detroit Pistons 97-76. Game three in Detroit tomorrow -- Jacqui.
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COSTELLO: So be careful out there. This is dangerously hot weather.
JERAS: Yes, definitely in the southwest and the northeast today.
COSTELLO: Thanks, Jacqui.
Those are the latest headlines for you this morning.
Pro golfer Annika Sorenstam is on quite a run. She's won the LPGA's second major of the year, the LPGA Championship. Sorenstam has now won both of the LPGA's majors this year. She is the first to do that in 19 years. Add to that she's won the LPGA Championship three straight times. That makes her the first to win the same major three straight times since 1939.
We'll be right back.
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COSTELLO: Jacqui, it's time to read some e-mail, and they're coming in hot and heavy this morning.
JERAS: Yes, they are answers to our e-mail question, life in the fast lane: do we need a national maximum speed limit? What do you got, Carol, you got any answers yet?
COSTELLO: Well a lot of people are saying -- yes. You want to go first?
JERAS: Sure, if you'd like me to.
COSTELLO: OK. Sure.
JERAS: Kind of a humorous one. Actually, we'll start there. My answer to your "Question of the Day" is an emphatic no. It does depend on where you are located in the country. In Oklahoma, it's quite spacious and it would not make sense to drive 55 miles per hour when the only thing you see is a cow and occasional TV tower blowing Cailou (ph). That's from Rita Lynn (ph) in Broken Arrow, I assume in Oklahoma there.
COSTELLO: This is from Steven (ph) in San Jose, yes, we do need a national speed limit. I work the auto body repair industry. And even though cell phones are bringing us lots of high profit small repair jobs, it is disturbing to see the really bad hits come in, especially when they have biohazard stickers on the windshield because of all the blood inside. So pay attention.
JERAS: Yes, this one coming in from Whitney Newburn (ph) in Tennessee. I couldn't imagine having a national speed limit of possibly 60 or 55. I live in Tennessee and might drive for 30 minutes and never see a soul. I am all for safe driving, and especially having a realistic speed limit in populated areas, but driving on those empty highways at 60, no way.
COSTELLO: Whoa.
This is from Julian (ph). He says what we need, just better drivers. We have great technology in automobile manufacturing. Driving at 75 or 80 miles an hour today should not be a cause for an increment in accidents.
And you know if you think about that, those racecars, they crash at speeds of, what, 200 miles per hour and the person inside survives?
JERAS: See, now you need Chad, not me. I don't know.
COSTELLO: But they do, because the car is constructed in a certain way. Why aren't cars we travel in every day constructed in that way?
JERAS: Constructed better. Good question. We've got airbags. That helps.
COSTELLO: Exactly, but you know, apparently we need more, who knows?
All new in the next hour of DAYBREAK, remember the Virgin Mary cheese sandwich and the Mother Theresa cinnamon buns? Well we've got another one for you. This time it's on a slice of ham. Stick around to find out whose face this is supposed to be. Can you tell? I can now. Interesting.
Also, what drove Mike Tyson to say the final bell has tolled on his boxing career?
We'll be right back.
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COSTELLO: In "Entertainment Headlines" for you this morning, Microsoft's popular Xbox video game series "Halo" may hit the big screen. The game is about a warrior who battles aliens. Microsoft has shopped around a home version of the movie of the script. Word is two Hollywood studios have teamed up to buy the movie rights.
Actor Sean Penn is taking a new role as journalist. He's in Iran ahead of Friday's presidential elections covering events for the "San Francisco Chronicle." Penn was spotted taking notes at a Friday prayer service at Tehran University. He may be one of the most recognizable faces here in the United States, but Penn went unrecognized by thousands over there.
MTV is out with its new fall lineup, and it includes some returning favorites, such as the celebrity prank show "Punked." It's also adding three new reality series. One of them is called "Parental Control." It's a daily show where parents, fed up with their kids' love interests, get to choose new dates.
Part of being a celebrity is dealing with the throngs of photographers known as the paparazzi. But now over aggressive picture takers have caused stars and police to think about changing the rules.
CNN's Karyn Bryant has more for you.
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KARYN BRYANT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Authorities are worried about a new dangerous breed of paparazzi.
PAT LALAMA, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": I call it gorilla warfare, the sort of the new celebrity terrorist.
BRYANT: Willing to take potentially deadly risks to get celebrity photographs.
LALAMA: Now what they're doing is pinning in celebrities in their cars, swarming their car so that they can't leave, ramming their cars, trying to get inside their gated communities.
BRYANT: It's caused L.A. authorities to consider a new way to combat this aggressive breed, slapping them with felony conspiracy charges.
LALAMA: What L.A.P.D. is thinking about in this new investigative unit that they have is, hey, a lot of times the paparazzi travel in packs. You see them as groups, you know, marching down the street, running down the street chasing after a celebrity. Well that's perhaps a conspiracy, because the pack mentality and acting as a pack mentality translates into possibly a conspiracy, which means a felony.
BRYANT: And a felony could put some paparazzi shuttered behind bars.
LINDSAY LOHAN, ACTRESS: And, guys, be careful of the paparazzi.
BRYANT: Lindsay Lohan jokes about it at the MTV Movie Awards, but she had a real scare when a photographer allegedly ran her off the road.
LOHAN: It sounds bad now, hope it doesn't happen again, but I feel good that it happened to me when I wasn't with my family. And I'm thankful that my friend is OK. And I can now make a stand and I can say something for any other actress who might have their kids in the car.
BRYANT: And now stars are taking a stand, going on the offense.
LALAMA: What's happening now is that Cameron Diaz and Reese Witherspoon and Justin Timberlake, they're working as a group to say enough is enough. When it comes to protecting themselves and their families, they have a right. And I think they're starting to work as a coalition now to get these guys off their backs.
BRYANT: But celebrity attorney Harland Braun tells "ShowBiz Tonight" he doesn't agree with the conspiracy charges.
HARLAND BRAUN, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY: To create a whole new law of conspiracy to favor celebrities over other people, it would be a very bad idea. Celebrities make millions of dollars becoming famous. And for them to go out in the public, they should expect the people to be interested in them. And paparazzi are just people trying to earn a living.
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COSTELLO: That was CNN's Karyn Bryant.
You can get more entertainment news every night on "ShowBiz Tonight." That's at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on Headline News.
And the next hour of DAYBREAK starts right now.
It is Monday, June 13.
Frightening torture or fair treatment? The debate over GITMO heats up again. Should GITMO go? One inmate's ordeal has the U.S. prison camp under a harsh spotlight this morning.
Also, civil rights activists look for justice more than 40 years after a brutal crime.
And it looks like Mike Tyson won't be doing much more of this. The former champ is down and he says he's out.
And good morning to you, we'll have more on the apparent end of Mike Tyson's career in just a moment.
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning to you, thank you for waking up with us. Welcome to the second half-hour of DAYBREAK.
Coming up in the next 30 minutes, thankfully its bark was much worse than its bite. Still, Tropical Storm Arlene made for a weary weekend for many residents of the Florida Panhandle.
And celebrities often try to get attention, but can the paparazzi go too far trying to get an exclusive shot? We'll take a look.
But first, "Now in the News."
President Bush hosts five African presidents at the White House today. He recently pledged $15 billion to battle HIV and AIDS in Africa. In turn, African leaders will press Bush for a significant increase in economic aid and to back a British plan for debt reduction.
Cuban exile Luis Posada Carriles goes before an immigration judge today. He faces charges of illegally entering the U.S. earlier this year. Posada is accused of planning the deadly bombing of a Cuban airliner in 1976 in Caracas. Venezuela wants to retry him as a terrorist.
California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger goes on TV tonight to call for a special election. Irked by the slow pace of the legislator, Schwarzenegger wants voters to approve his initiatives that also give him broad new powers.
To the Forecast Center and Jacqui, in for Chad today, good morning.
JACQUI JERAS, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Good morning. Did you feel it this morning when you walked out your door?
COSTELLO: You mean that wave of humidity hitting me in the face?
JERAS: So heavy, isn't it? Yes, weather you can wear out there this morning, definitely.
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COSTELLO: All right, thank you, Jacqui.
There has been an attack today on members of a U.S. military reconstruction team in Afghanistan. A military official says four members of the team were injured by an improvised explosive device near Kandahar in southern Afghanistan. One of them is said to be seriously hurt.
And there is more grim news out of Iraq this morning, dozens of bodies are found outside of Baghdad and more American troops are killed in bombings.
Let's go live to CNN's Jennifer Eccleston for the latest from the war zone.
Hello -- Jennifer.
JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Carol. Well Iraqi police made a series of grizzly discoveries around Baghdad this weekend, the bodies of 28 men, all showing signs of torture. They were bound, they were shot and then they were hastily buried.
Now police are not able to identify all of the bodies, because they are in various stages of decomposition and there also was no ID on the bodies. And the mysterious deaths come just days after 21 men were found dead in Kiam (ph) on the lawless Syrian border, rather. It's feared that these bodies are those of missing Iraqi soldiers.
Now staying in Iraq's frontier with Syria in the rest of Anbar Province, Marine airstrikes on Saturday killed some 40 insurgents. The Marines said the insurgents were stopping vehicles at gunpoint and threatening the civilians there. So jets and helicopters targeted the armed men and leveled one of their compounds. The Marines said that no one was hurt and there were no Marine casualties.
Now hours earlier, a suicide bomber killed three members of an Iraqi elite police unit. Now the Iraqi official said the target of that attack was the commander of the Shiite-dominated Wolf Brigade, who escaped unharmed, but it was carried out by a former member of the commando unit who bypassed security because he was wearing a police uniform. So outlined there the challenges, again, facing the Iraqi police.
And in another attack south of Baghdad over the weekend, gunmen killed 10 people on a minibus. They were all laborers at a U.S. military base. And also this weekend, U.S. death toll continues to rise, four American Marines were killed in two separate incidents. Both involved the detonation of those improvised explosive devices near their convoys -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Jennifer Eccleston, reporting live from Baghdad this morning, thank you.
To CNN's "Security Watch" now.
You do remember the 9/11 Commission. Well, nearly a year ago, it made several recommendations for increasing security against terrorist attacks. Now the 9/11 Public Discourse Project, the panel composed of former commission members, meets in about four hours. They'll discuss the new director of National Intelligence post and just how it's implementing the commission's recommendations.
A decision expected today on a controversial research paper that critics call a road map for terrorists. The paper details how terrorists can contaminate the nation's milk supply. The government asked the National Academy of Sciences not to publish the research.
Since 9/11, the nation's immigration laws are being used as a sweeping anti-terrorism weapon. Immigration law violations have been filed against more than 500 people who have shown up on the radar of national security investigators. Muslim and civil liberty activists complain the immigration violations targets Arabs and Muslims.
Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.
So, what do you think, is today verdict day in the Michael Jackson molestation trial? I bet you hope it is. Jurors get back to work later this morning.
Chris Lawrence has more on that.
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CHRIS LAWRENCE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If Michael Jackson's fans had their way, jurors would have needed six minutes to deliberate, not the six days it's taken so far. But the jury has to consider what 141 witnesses said and try to come to a unanimous decision on all 10 counts.
Sources tell CNN they passed several questions to the judge on Friday and asked to have portions of the teenaged accuser's testimony read back to them. The attorneys also had three meetings with the judge.
DEBRA OPRI, JACKSON FAMILY ATTORNEY: It could mean anything. Nine days to acquit Robert Blake, so many hours to convict someone else.
LAWRENCE: Prosecutors accuse Jackson of sexually molesting a 13- year-old cancer survivor, giving the boy alcohol and conspiring to keep him and his family captive. Jackson denied the charges and pleaded not guilty. In deciding who they believe, jurors have had about 28 hours of deliberation so far.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If they took two weeks, if they took three days, I would trust in it, because they're the ones that have been sitting in there every day.
LAWRENCE: The first full week is over, a second about to begin.
(on camera): And those jurors are being guided by nearly 100 pages of jury instructions. It's a lot of very detailed legal jargon, but the judge wanted to cover all his bases to lessen the chances of any appeal.
Chris Lawrence, CNN, Santa Maria.
(END VIDEOTAPE) COSTELLO: Still to come on DAYBREAK, one is bigger, the other leaner, but which is better? Boeing and Airbus show off their latest creations in Paris.
And later, a new breed of paparazzi is taking extreme, even life- threatening measures, to get up close and personal with Hollywood's elite.
But first, here's a look at what else is making news this Monday.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
COSTELLO: We are on our way to a beautiful 92 degree day with, what, 100 percent humidity in New York? Hey, but it's better than the month of May.
On to the news now.
The clash of the titans of the skies flies over the 2005 Paris Air Show, but the story behind that story is Boeing has retaken the lead at lost (ph) Airbus after 9/11. Boeing is now leading in new aircraft orders and has hired back thousands of laid off and new employees.
Things are always up in the air for Simon Calder, author and Travel Editor of the "Independent." He joins us now live from London.
Good morning.
SIMON CALDER, TRAVEL EDITOR, "INDEPENDENT": Good morning.
COSTELLO: First of all, what can we expect to see at the Paris Air Show?
CALDER: We're not actually going to see a great deal in terms of new aircraft.
The big story over in Europe, of course for the first half of this year, has been the Airbus A380. This double-deck jumbo, superjumbo it's called, which is far larger than the 747, which is the existing biggest commercial airliner used for passengers. And Airbus has been making a great fuss about this. They say this is the future, everyone will be flying in these gigantic aircraft, rather than in the smaller aircraft, which is where Boeing is putting its money on the 787 Dreamliner, which is going to promise a far better passenger experience.
And the betting looks like this, that Boeing is saying we believe people will want to fly point to point. We don't believe there's much of a future for the mega hubs that we've got in places like London, Frankfurt, Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo. We think people will want to fly from A to B and the Dreamliner is the aircraft that is going to do it for them.
So we're not actually going to see that many new aircraft. But already in Paris, there's a great sense of the conflict between these two huge companies, Airbus and Boeing. And certainly Boeing appears to be regaining ground.
COSTELLO: Well, exactly, I was just going to say that. Boeing seems to have made the right decision in those smaller, sleeker planes, because we want to show you a graph now, because this is pretty impressive. Boeing received 277 aircraft orders in the first five months of 2005. That matched its total from all of 2004. So Boeing seems to be going in a more energy efficient way. Airbus a massive way. So was that a mistake on Airbus' part?
CALDER: Well Airbus and Boeing have been trying to guess how the market will move. Airbus actually has the Airbus A350, which is basically its response to the 787. And they are going to be, hopefully, rolling that out within a few months.
They're in a position to announce that they've got advanced orders. Those aren't quite the same as firm orders for the new aircraft, because there's been terrible internal political problems at Airbus, this multinational company, which brings out some of the best and some of the worst of European internal politics.
But what Boeing has been doing is after the terrible events of 9/11, it's just gone back and thought, OK, how are we going to do this, where is the future lying? And I think that they're believing now that the 787 is going to be a huge success and that will help the company find its way back to domination of the world airline market.
COSTELLO: Well you know, it's funny, because I was talking about this to someone the other day that the government really helps out the airline industry, as far as airline manufacturers in Europe. Here it's not quite the same. And everybody thought, well, that's really going to hurt the American airline manufacturing business, because it doesn't get that added help. But maybe it's hurting Europe now.
CALDER: Well there are all kinds of international arguments about who gets -- which manufacturers get support from their governments. And it is a very, very complicated business, which is likely to lead, I think, in the next few months possibly to some real stand up bar fights between Boeing and Airbus and between the governments in Europe and the U.S. government.
But behind that you've actually got to look at what the passenger is demanding. And certainly in terms of the low cost airlines, which is where you're seeing rapid, rapid growth in the U.K. and in the rest of Europe, Boeing has been slightly losing out to Airbus. It's got some important orders from Ryan Air, but Airbus has actually grabbed Easy Jet, which is the second giant European airline.
However, Boeing is saying, look, we have the solution to long- haul flying in 10, 20 years from now. It's the 787 Dreamliner. We believe we've got it right.
COSTELLO: Well, we'll see. Simon Calder, thank you for joining DAYBREAK this morning, we sure appreciate it.
CALDER: Thank you -- Carol.
COSTELLO: Your news, money, weather and sports. It's 5:44 Eastern. Here's what's all new this morning.
Aruba's prime minister says his government is doing all it can to find out what happened to Natalee Holloway. Holloway, as you know, is the 18-year-old Alabama teenager who has been missing since May 30. Five men in custody, none charged.
She spent five months as a hostage in Iraq, and now a French journalist is home again. She and her Iraqi assistant were freed on Saturday.
In money news, there was plenty of interest from moviegoers in the relationship between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie. Their movie, "Mr. and Mrs. Smith," tops at the box office with $51 million in ticket sales.
In culture, Johnny Carson's alma mater found a good way to honor the late entertainment icon. The University of Nebraska renamed its Theater Department after him. They had already discussed the idea with Carson before his death in January.
In sports, it's now a two games to nothing advantage for the San Antonio Spurs. In the NBA finals, the Spurs dominated the Detroit Pistons 97-76. Game three in Detroit tomorrow -- Jacqui.
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COSTELLO: So be careful out there. This is dangerously hot weather.
JERAS: Yes, definitely in the southwest and the northeast today.
COSTELLO: Thanks, Jacqui.
Those are the latest headlines for you this morning.
Pro golfer Annika Sorenstam is on quite a run. She's won the LPGA's second major of the year, the LPGA Championship. Sorenstam has now won both of the LPGA's majors this year. She is the first to do that in 19 years. Add to that she's won the LPGA Championship three straight times. That makes her the first to win the same major three straight times since 1939.
We'll be right back.
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COSTELLO: Jacqui, it's time to read some e-mail, and they're coming in hot and heavy this morning.
JERAS: Yes, they are answers to our e-mail question, life in the fast lane: do we need a national maximum speed limit? What do you got, Carol, you got any answers yet?
COSTELLO: Well a lot of people are saying -- yes. You want to go first?
JERAS: Sure, if you'd like me to.
COSTELLO: OK. Sure.
JERAS: Kind of a humorous one. Actually, we'll start there. My answer to your "Question of the Day" is an emphatic no. It does depend on where you are located in the country. In Oklahoma, it's quite spacious and it would not make sense to drive 55 miles per hour when the only thing you see is a cow and occasional TV tower blowing Cailou (ph). That's from Rita Lynn (ph) in Broken Arrow, I assume in Oklahoma there.
COSTELLO: This is from Steven (ph) in San Jose, yes, we do need a national speed limit. I work the auto body repair industry. And even though cell phones are bringing us lots of high profit small repair jobs, it is disturbing to see the really bad hits come in, especially when they have biohazard stickers on the windshield because of all the blood inside. So pay attention.
JERAS: Yes, this one coming in from Whitney Newburn (ph) in Tennessee. I couldn't imagine having a national speed limit of possibly 60 or 55. I live in Tennessee and might drive for 30 minutes and never see a soul. I am all for safe driving, and especially having a realistic speed limit in populated areas, but driving on those empty highways at 60, no way.
COSTELLO: Whoa.
This is from Julian (ph). He says what we need, just better drivers. We have great technology in automobile manufacturing. Driving at 75 or 80 miles an hour today should not be a cause for an increment in accidents.
And you know if you think about that, those racecars, they crash at speeds of, what, 200 miles per hour and the person inside survives?
JERAS: See, now you need Chad, not me. I don't know.
COSTELLO: But they do, because the car is constructed in a certain way. Why aren't cars we travel in every day constructed in that way?
JERAS: Constructed better. Good question. We've got airbags. That helps.
COSTELLO: Exactly, but you know, apparently we need more, who knows?
All new in the next hour of DAYBREAK, remember the Virgin Mary cheese sandwich and the Mother Theresa cinnamon buns? Well we've got another one for you. This time it's on a slice of ham. Stick around to find out whose face this is supposed to be. Can you tell? I can now. Interesting.
Also, what drove Mike Tyson to say the final bell has tolled on his boxing career?
We'll be right back.
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COSTELLO: In "Entertainment Headlines" for you this morning, Microsoft's popular Xbox video game series "Halo" may hit the big screen. The game is about a warrior who battles aliens. Microsoft has shopped around a home version of the movie of the script. Word is two Hollywood studios have teamed up to buy the movie rights.
Actor Sean Penn is taking a new role as journalist. He's in Iran ahead of Friday's presidential elections covering events for the "San Francisco Chronicle." Penn was spotted taking notes at a Friday prayer service at Tehran University. He may be one of the most recognizable faces here in the United States, but Penn went unrecognized by thousands over there.
MTV is out with its new fall lineup, and it includes some returning favorites, such as the celebrity prank show "Punked." It's also adding three new reality series. One of them is called "Parental Control." It's a daily show where parents, fed up with their kids' love interests, get to choose new dates.
Part of being a celebrity is dealing with the throngs of photographers known as the paparazzi. But now over aggressive picture takers have caused stars and police to think about changing the rules.
CNN's Karyn Bryant has more for you.
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KARYN BRYANT, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Authorities are worried about a new dangerous breed of paparazzi.
PAT LALAMA, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": I call it gorilla warfare, the sort of the new celebrity terrorist.
BRYANT: Willing to take potentially deadly risks to get celebrity photographs.
LALAMA: Now what they're doing is pinning in celebrities in their cars, swarming their car so that they can't leave, ramming their cars, trying to get inside their gated communities.
BRYANT: It's caused L.A. authorities to consider a new way to combat this aggressive breed, slapping them with felony conspiracy charges.
LALAMA: What L.A.P.D. is thinking about in this new investigative unit that they have is, hey, a lot of times the paparazzi travel in packs. You see them as groups, you know, marching down the street, running down the street chasing after a celebrity. Well that's perhaps a conspiracy, because the pack mentality and acting as a pack mentality translates into possibly a conspiracy, which means a felony.
BRYANT: And a felony could put some paparazzi shuttered behind bars.
LINDSAY LOHAN, ACTRESS: And, guys, be careful of the paparazzi.
BRYANT: Lindsay Lohan jokes about it at the MTV Movie Awards, but she had a real scare when a photographer allegedly ran her off the road.
LOHAN: It sounds bad now, hope it doesn't happen again, but I feel good that it happened to me when I wasn't with my family. And I'm thankful that my friend is OK. And I can now make a stand and I can say something for any other actress who might have their kids in the car.
BRYANT: And now stars are taking a stand, going on the offense.
LALAMA: What's happening now is that Cameron Diaz and Reese Witherspoon and Justin Timberlake, they're working as a group to say enough is enough. When it comes to protecting themselves and their families, they have a right. And I think they're starting to work as a coalition now to get these guys off their backs.
BRYANT: But celebrity attorney Harland Braun tells "ShowBiz Tonight" he doesn't agree with the conspiracy charges.
HARLAND BRAUN, CELEBRITY ATTORNEY: To create a whole new law of conspiracy to favor celebrities over other people, it would be a very bad idea. Celebrities make millions of dollars becoming famous. And for them to go out in the public, they should expect the people to be interested in them. And paparazzi are just people trying to earn a living.
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COSTELLO: That was CNN's Karyn Bryant.
You can get more entertainment news every night on "ShowBiz Tonight." That's at 7:00 p.m. Eastern on Headline News.
And the next hour of DAYBREAK starts right now.
It is Monday, June 13.
Frightening torture or fair treatment? The debate over GITMO heats up again. Should GITMO go? One inmate's ordeal has the U.S. prison camp under a harsh spotlight this morning.
Also, civil rights activists look for justice more than 40 years after a brutal crime.
And it looks like Mike Tyson won't be doing much more of this. The former champ is down and he says he's out.
And good morning to you, we'll have more on the apparent end of Mike Tyson's career in just a moment.
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