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Bush Offers Condolences to Spanish Ambassador; Man Arraigned for Carlie's Murder; Tulia 45 Win $5m Settlement; "Sex and the City" Clothes Sold Off
Aired March 12, 2004 - 13:30 ET
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MILES O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: All across Spain today, the mourning continues. Take a look at some of these live pictures. Truly a remarkable sight, as what amounts to a national day of mourning, a national period of silence, in the wake of those terrorist attacks, as thousands, perhaps millions, in the streets, silently remembering those killed, 199 people now killed.
Meanwhile in Washington, the president of the United States met just a short time the Spanish ambassador.
Let's listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The United States of America sends our prayers and sympathies to the Spanish people who mourn the loss of life who today weep for their loved ones, who wonder about their future, now that there's been such tragedy.
The bombings in Spain are a grim reminder that there are evil people in the world who are willing to kill innocent life.
I appreciate so very much your government's strong stand against terrorism, terrorist organizations like ETA. The United States of America stands firmly with you, as we work to make the world more peaceful and more free.
The killers try to shake our will. They try to shake our confidence in the future. The Spanish people will stand firm against this type of killing, and they'll have a friend with the American people.
Mr. Ambassador, we ask for God's blessings for the people of your great country, and thank you very much for having Laura and me here. Thank you.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: The president of the United States, having met with the Spanish ambassador at his private residence in Washington, just a few moments ago, making a comment to reporters.
That was not live. It happened just a few moments ago.
And meanwhile, the pictures that you've been seeing live from Madrid, as the mourning continues there. This, in the wake of that coordinated attack, which injured upwards of 1,500 people, killed 199 so far, and the mourning continues all throughout Spain.
Other nations, obviously, joining in, commemorating those who were lost in that attack.
It's a case no parent can forget, the abduction of Carlie Brucia. The girl's kidnapping was caught on tape. She was later found dead.
This hour, the attorney for the suspect in the case is scheduled to answer charges.
CNN's John Zarrella, joining us live now from Miami, Florida, with more on that.
Hello, John.
JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Miles.
Well, 37-year-old Joseph Smith has decided he did not want to appear in court today. He waived his right to appear in court.
But his attorney is in court, where Joseph is being arraigned on the charge of murder and kidnapping of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia.
Brucia, of course, was abducted on February 1 from behind the car wash in Sarasota, Florida. And it was, of course, captured on videotape, as so many of our viewers probably remember that video of Carlie being grabbed by the arm and led away.
It turned out that, after an extensive search for the suspect, that it was Joseph Smith, who was arrested and then charged, indicted by a grand jury in Sarasota, Florida.
The videotape was captured by a surveillance camera behind that car wash in Sarasota. It was, of course, for days, very difficult for anyone to determine exactly who the man was from that videotape.
Eventually, Carlie's body was found five days later behind a church.
Now, after Smith's arrest, he was -- it was found that he had been involved in several other cases since 1993 when he first moved to Sarasota area in Florida. He had been arrested. He had been charged with drug possession. He had been charged with aggravated battery, in and out of court, in and out of jail.
But this, of course, the latest charge, the worst, the most gruesome and grimmest of all, for both the Brucia -- and Brucia's family.
Now, at this hearing today, Joseph Smith's attorney is also going to ask for that grand jury indictment of Smith to actually be thrown out, because of all of the pretrial publicity that led up to his arrest. The judge will hear those. And then, it is also possible that Smith's attorney will ask, at the very least that because of that pretrial publicity, that the case be moved out of Sarasota.
Again, right now, at this hour, that hearing going on. And at this hour, Smith being formally arraigned on the charges of murder and kidnapping.
A third charge of rape will later be filed against him -- has already been filed, but he will have to answer, be arraigned, on that charge some time in April. That's the third charge.
So Miles, awaiting the reading out of the court today over in Sarasota, Florida -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: CNN's John Zarrella in Miami, thank you very much.
Martha Stewart wants to keep some control over the company she founded following her conviction. A source is saying Stewart is negotiating a deal to resign from the Omnimedia board of directors but to remain in a creative capacity. An announcement could come today.
Meanwhile, Stewart is receiving support from friend and fans. Her stylist spoke on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
EVA SCRIVO, FRIEND OF MARTHA STEWART: Martha is a very stoic, strong human being, who has went through a tremendous amount of adversity to build an empire of this size.
So I think that she is somewhat -- can be self-contained in the sadness, but it doesn't mean its not real and it doesn't exist. You know, she's a real person with a lot of feelings about this, and it saddens her greatly that it's come to this decision.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'BRIEN: Stewart was convicted in her obstruction of justice trial last week.
In another high-profile court case, lawyers for NBA star Kobe Bryant will get to question his accuser about her sexual history. The Colorado Supreme Court yesterday refused the prosecutor's request to intervene in the case.
Bryant accused of sexually assault a woman in Colorado last June.
Now to the case of a wrong righted in the Texas panhandle. Some 45 people wrongfully convicted on drug charges are ready to move forward with their lives.
They were awarded a $5 million settlement in their civil rights lawsuit, but the plaintiffs say it's not just about the money.
CNN's Ed Lavandera has our story. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Joe Moore spends most days just driving around Tulia, the west Texas town he's called home since 1956.
JOE MOORE, TULIA DEFENDANT: This is what I really enjoy about this town, really, and I been doing it so long.
LAVANDERA: Since Moore was released from prison last summer he's been living on a $500 a month disability payment. But for the four years he wrongly spent in prison, Moore, and 44 others, are about to receive their apologies in cash: $5 million, for the group known as the Tulia 45.
MOORE: It don't change me. I know it. And that's something I know.
LAVANDERA: Kizzie White was also imprisoned in the now infamous Tulia drug sweep that ended in 10 percent of the town's black population being arrested.
She's just happy to be around her two children again and is anxiously awaiting her third child.
KIZZIE WHITE, TULIA DEFENDANT: I'm just trying to live life you know? Because no matter how much money they give me, like I said, it's not going to bring back four years.
LAVANDERA: The $5 million settlement is being paid by the city of Amarillo, one of 29 agencies in a drug task force that supported the work of undercover officer Tom Coleman.
The Tulia 45 drug cases were built solely on Coleman's word, but his investigative work has now been thoroughly discredited, and he faces trial on perjury charges for his role in those cases.
Coleman maintains he did nothing wrong.
One of attorney representing the Tulia 45 says he's negotiating settlements with the other agencies around the Texas panhandle.
JEFF BLACKBURN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Everybody that was part of this operation shares in the blame for what happened in Tulia. Because they had the ability to say no. They had the ability to supervise. They had the duty to regulate what happened there and they didn't do it.
LAVANDERA: Joe Moore says no matter how much money he ends up with, it won't change his life much. He plans on spending the rest of his days driving the back roads of Texas, enjoying the wide-open space of freedom.
Ed Lavandera, CNN, Tulia, Texas.
(END VIDEOTAPE) O'BRIEN: We'll be back with more in a moment. As we leave you, we'll some pictures of the president of the United States just moments ago at the Spanish embassy in Washington, D.C. laying a wreath in commemoration of those killed and injured in those terror attacks.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
O'BRIEN: Leading off our news around the world, two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq Thursday night. They were riding in a convoy in the volatile Sunni Triangle region when their Humvee hit a roadside bomb.
The prime minister of Jamaica says former Haitian President Jean- Bertrand Aristide will travel to the Caribbean nation early next week. He says Aristide will come to Jamaica to see his children. Aristide has been in Africa since resigning amid the chaos in Haiti.
And push comes to shove in South Korea as the parliament there votes to impeach its president. Politicians cursed and shoved each other as 20 opposition legislators tried to remove loyalists to the president, Roh Moo-Hyun.
Several of Roh's aides have been caught up in allegations of corruption, though Roh himself hasn't been implicated.
An experimental procedure is making it easier for some couples to have children. But because the questions that are surrounding it, it's been banned in the U.S. So some would-be parents are looking overseas for help.
Our medical correspondent Holly Firfer explains.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
HOLLY FIRFER, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sharon and Paul Saarinen say 3-year-old Alana is their dream come true. But after ten years and four failed in vitro attempts, that dream was once a nightmare.
PAUL SAARINEN, FATHER: We went through tough times back then. It was really -- really tearing our marriage apart.
FIRFER: Sharon's doctors said her eggs were not vital enough to create a healthy embryo, and there was nothing more he could do.
SHARON SAARINEN, MOTHER: But there had to be another option. I wouldn't accept no.
FIRFER: So she decided to try an experimental treatment called cytoplasmic transfer.
Taking the cytoplasm from a healthy donor egg, Dr. Michael Fakih implanted it into Sharon's weaker egg to help it survive. Once it was fertilized, it was implanted in her uterus and she was pregnant.
S. SAARINEN: I was at home alone. I got the call, and I just broke down and started crying on the bed. It was the best feeling. I'd waited ten years to hear her say that.
FIRFER: The donor cytoplasm contains mitochondrial DNA which gives the egg that energy to survive, but it's not trait-related DNA.
DR. MICHAEL FAKIH, REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGIST: Ninety percent of the genetic material in the embryo is basically from the patient herself, and then maybe one percent is from the third person.
FIRFER: Some doctors say with three people's DNA in one embryo, the potential for birth defects still remains.
(on camera) When the Saarinens decided they wanted to try to have another child, they returned to Dr. Fakih's fertility center here in suburban Detroit, only to be told that in July of 2001, the FDA had sent letters to doctors informing them that cytoplasmic transfer and other so-called experimental procedures had been banned.
(voice-over) The FDA said in order to proceed, rigorous testing would need to be done to get the agency's approval.
FAKIH: Most of these women are in their late 30s, and they don't really have time. Their time is very precious.
FIRFER: So Dr. Fakih agreed to do the procedure in his clinic in Lebanon, where it's legal. The Saarinens spent another $10,000 to try it again, but this time it did not work.
S. SAARINEN: I finally in the last few months just reconciled with the fact that in my heart I have one child. I have to be happy with that.
P. SAARINEN: Whether I can give her a brother or a sister is -- it's in God's hands. But all I can do is just be the best parent that I can be for her, to give her back the joy that she gives me.
FIRFER: Holly Firfer, CNN, West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: It's a sale with no discounts so you better have the bucks. Up next, a look at the amount of dough that these folks are willing to pay for the castaways from "Sex and the City."
Plus, we've got reasons for you to munch on some dough. Even if you're trying o drop a few pounds. Our Mary Snow has the sweet story from the New York stock exchange.
Hello, Mary.
MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, miles. That's right, the anti-obesity crusade has caught up with Krispy Kreme doughnuts. We'll tell you all about it when "live from" continues, right after this break.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN: Sexy styles on sale. With "Sex and the City" off the air, fans of the show can now wear the fashions of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte.
Designer duds from the show are being sold on consignment.
CNN's Jeanne Moos did a little shopping herself.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you said good- bye to "Sex and the City," now say...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, lover.
MOOS: ... to shoes, tops, you name it, castaways from the cast of "Sex and the City."
The line outside a second-hand consignment shop wound round the block.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Armed with our heels and our credit cards, we're ready to go.
MOOS: The first one rushing the door was a law student. She ended up with a striped dress, pink sandals and a bra.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The bra, I don't know who wore it, but it's pink and pretty and it was cheap.
MOOS: Every once in a while, someone let out a scream when they recognized a piece of clothing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She wore this when they had sex first time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The furry boots. I remember when these were on.
MOOS (on camera): Anyone want Miranda's skinny jeans? Remember that episode?
(voice-over) This guy spent 325 bucks on a birthday jacket for a friend.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is sweet.
MOOS (on camera): She's going to like it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
MOOS (voice-over): Even the owner of Ina kept a little something.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I got this little sperm necklace.
MOOS: Prices ranged from 10 bucks to $5,000. This woman spent $700 on a Jacket that didn't quite fit.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's very small, but I don't care.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Carrie wore this hat in the episode where her and Charlotte are sitting and rating guys in New York City on who they would sleep with or not. So there you go.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER, ACTRESS: Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've dated plenty of men here, and they were definitely not so good.
MOOS: That probably went right over the head of the youngest shopper, Ricardo.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He watched the last episode.
MOOS (on camera): And he liked it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He loved it.
MOOS (voice-over): Now Ricardo can cuddle up and watch reruns using Carrie's bathrobe as a blankie.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: Well, we all know Hollywood has a big impact on pop culture. Now the "Global Language Monitor" is out with a new Holly- word list that includes words or phrases that influenced language during the past year.
What do you think is at the top of the list? Guess quickly. "Wardrobe malfunction," from of course, the Janet Jackson breast- baring incident at the Super Bowl.
No. 2 is "bootylicious," describing a full-figured woman with some of it showing.
And then No. 3 is "extreme makeover." That comes from the various makeover shows, of course.
And then "Gigli," which is a term now for just really bad. As in the bad movie, "Gigli" bad, and so forth.
And then No. 5, "give it up!" Which comes from "American Idol." I remember that from "The Arsenio Hall Show." That's kind of a boomerang one; it's coming back.
And No. 6, "Governator." We all know about that, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
There you have it. (STOCK REPORT)
O'BRIEN: She was once a journalist and a congressional aide, but whose side was she really on? Coming up in our next hour of LIVE FROM, all eyes are on one woman as she stands accused of spying for Iraq.
Stay with us.
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Arraigned for Carlie's Murder; Tulia 45 Win $5m Settlement; "Sex and the City" Clothes Sold Off>
Aired March 12, 2004 - 13:30 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, ANCHOR: All across Spain today, the mourning continues. Take a look at some of these live pictures. Truly a remarkable sight, as what amounts to a national day of mourning, a national period of silence, in the wake of those terrorist attacks, as thousands, perhaps millions, in the streets, silently remembering those killed, 199 people now killed.
Meanwhile in Washington, the president of the United States met just a short time the Spanish ambassador.
Let's listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The United States of America sends our prayers and sympathies to the Spanish people who mourn the loss of life who today weep for their loved ones, who wonder about their future, now that there's been such tragedy.
The bombings in Spain are a grim reminder that there are evil people in the world who are willing to kill innocent life.
I appreciate so very much your government's strong stand against terrorism, terrorist organizations like ETA. The United States of America stands firmly with you, as we work to make the world more peaceful and more free.
The killers try to shake our will. They try to shake our confidence in the future. The Spanish people will stand firm against this type of killing, and they'll have a friend with the American people.
Mr. Ambassador, we ask for God's blessings for the people of your great country, and thank you very much for having Laura and me here. Thank you.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: The president of the United States, having met with the Spanish ambassador at his private residence in Washington, just a few moments ago, making a comment to reporters.
That was not live. It happened just a few moments ago.
And meanwhile, the pictures that you've been seeing live from Madrid, as the mourning continues there. This, in the wake of that coordinated attack, which injured upwards of 1,500 people, killed 199 so far, and the mourning continues all throughout Spain.
Other nations, obviously, joining in, commemorating those who were lost in that attack.
It's a case no parent can forget, the abduction of Carlie Brucia. The girl's kidnapping was caught on tape. She was later found dead.
This hour, the attorney for the suspect in the case is scheduled to answer charges.
CNN's John Zarrella, joining us live now from Miami, Florida, with more on that.
Hello, John.
JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Miles.
Well, 37-year-old Joseph Smith has decided he did not want to appear in court today. He waived his right to appear in court.
But his attorney is in court, where Joseph is being arraigned on the charge of murder and kidnapping of 11-year-old Carlie Brucia.
Brucia, of course, was abducted on February 1 from behind the car wash in Sarasota, Florida. And it was, of course, captured on videotape, as so many of our viewers probably remember that video of Carlie being grabbed by the arm and led away.
It turned out that, after an extensive search for the suspect, that it was Joseph Smith, who was arrested and then charged, indicted by a grand jury in Sarasota, Florida.
The videotape was captured by a surveillance camera behind that car wash in Sarasota. It was, of course, for days, very difficult for anyone to determine exactly who the man was from that videotape.
Eventually, Carlie's body was found five days later behind a church.
Now, after Smith's arrest, he was -- it was found that he had been involved in several other cases since 1993 when he first moved to Sarasota area in Florida. He had been arrested. He had been charged with drug possession. He had been charged with aggravated battery, in and out of court, in and out of jail.
But this, of course, the latest charge, the worst, the most gruesome and grimmest of all, for both the Brucia -- and Brucia's family.
Now, at this hearing today, Joseph Smith's attorney is also going to ask for that grand jury indictment of Smith to actually be thrown out, because of all of the pretrial publicity that led up to his arrest. The judge will hear those. And then, it is also possible that Smith's attorney will ask, at the very least that because of that pretrial publicity, that the case be moved out of Sarasota.
Again, right now, at this hour, that hearing going on. And at this hour, Smith being formally arraigned on the charges of murder and kidnapping.
A third charge of rape will later be filed against him -- has already been filed, but he will have to answer, be arraigned, on that charge some time in April. That's the third charge.
So Miles, awaiting the reading out of the court today over in Sarasota, Florida -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: CNN's John Zarrella in Miami, thank you very much.
Martha Stewart wants to keep some control over the company she founded following her conviction. A source is saying Stewart is negotiating a deal to resign from the Omnimedia board of directors but to remain in a creative capacity. An announcement could come today.
Meanwhile, Stewart is receiving support from friend and fans. Her stylist spoke on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
EVA SCRIVO, FRIEND OF MARTHA STEWART: Martha is a very stoic, strong human being, who has went through a tremendous amount of adversity to build an empire of this size.
So I think that she is somewhat -- can be self-contained in the sadness, but it doesn't mean its not real and it doesn't exist. You know, she's a real person with a lot of feelings about this, and it saddens her greatly that it's come to this decision.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
O'BRIEN: Stewart was convicted in her obstruction of justice trial last week.
In another high-profile court case, lawyers for NBA star Kobe Bryant will get to question his accuser about her sexual history. The Colorado Supreme Court yesterday refused the prosecutor's request to intervene in the case.
Bryant accused of sexually assault a woman in Colorado last June.
Now to the case of a wrong righted in the Texas panhandle. Some 45 people wrongfully convicted on drug charges are ready to move forward with their lives.
They were awarded a $5 million settlement in their civil rights lawsuit, but the plaintiffs say it's not just about the money.
CNN's Ed Lavandera has our story. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Joe Moore spends most days just driving around Tulia, the west Texas town he's called home since 1956.
JOE MOORE, TULIA DEFENDANT: This is what I really enjoy about this town, really, and I been doing it so long.
LAVANDERA: Since Moore was released from prison last summer he's been living on a $500 a month disability payment. But for the four years he wrongly spent in prison, Moore, and 44 others, are about to receive their apologies in cash: $5 million, for the group known as the Tulia 45.
MOORE: It don't change me. I know it. And that's something I know.
LAVANDERA: Kizzie White was also imprisoned in the now infamous Tulia drug sweep that ended in 10 percent of the town's black population being arrested.
She's just happy to be around her two children again and is anxiously awaiting her third child.
KIZZIE WHITE, TULIA DEFENDANT: I'm just trying to live life you know? Because no matter how much money they give me, like I said, it's not going to bring back four years.
LAVANDERA: The $5 million settlement is being paid by the city of Amarillo, one of 29 agencies in a drug task force that supported the work of undercover officer Tom Coleman.
The Tulia 45 drug cases were built solely on Coleman's word, but his investigative work has now been thoroughly discredited, and he faces trial on perjury charges for his role in those cases.
Coleman maintains he did nothing wrong.
One of attorney representing the Tulia 45 says he's negotiating settlements with the other agencies around the Texas panhandle.
JEFF BLACKBURN, DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Everybody that was part of this operation shares in the blame for what happened in Tulia. Because they had the ability to say no. They had the ability to supervise. They had the duty to regulate what happened there and they didn't do it.
LAVANDERA: Joe Moore says no matter how much money he ends up with, it won't change his life much. He plans on spending the rest of his days driving the back roads of Texas, enjoying the wide-open space of freedom.
Ed Lavandera, CNN, Tulia, Texas.
(END VIDEOTAPE) O'BRIEN: We'll be back with more in a moment. As we leave you, we'll some pictures of the president of the United States just moments ago at the Spanish embassy in Washington, D.C. laying a wreath in commemoration of those killed and injured in those terror attacks.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
O'BRIEN: Leading off our news around the world, two U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq Thursday night. They were riding in a convoy in the volatile Sunni Triangle region when their Humvee hit a roadside bomb.
The prime minister of Jamaica says former Haitian President Jean- Bertrand Aristide will travel to the Caribbean nation early next week. He says Aristide will come to Jamaica to see his children. Aristide has been in Africa since resigning amid the chaos in Haiti.
And push comes to shove in South Korea as the parliament there votes to impeach its president. Politicians cursed and shoved each other as 20 opposition legislators tried to remove loyalists to the president, Roh Moo-Hyun.
Several of Roh's aides have been caught up in allegations of corruption, though Roh himself hasn't been implicated.
An experimental procedure is making it easier for some couples to have children. But because the questions that are surrounding it, it's been banned in the U.S. So some would-be parents are looking overseas for help.
Our medical correspondent Holly Firfer explains.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
HOLLY FIRFER, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sharon and Paul Saarinen say 3-year-old Alana is their dream come true. But after ten years and four failed in vitro attempts, that dream was once a nightmare.
PAUL SAARINEN, FATHER: We went through tough times back then. It was really -- really tearing our marriage apart.
FIRFER: Sharon's doctors said her eggs were not vital enough to create a healthy embryo, and there was nothing more he could do.
SHARON SAARINEN, MOTHER: But there had to be another option. I wouldn't accept no.
FIRFER: So she decided to try an experimental treatment called cytoplasmic transfer.
Taking the cytoplasm from a healthy donor egg, Dr. Michael Fakih implanted it into Sharon's weaker egg to help it survive. Once it was fertilized, it was implanted in her uterus and she was pregnant.
S. SAARINEN: I was at home alone. I got the call, and I just broke down and started crying on the bed. It was the best feeling. I'd waited ten years to hear her say that.
FIRFER: The donor cytoplasm contains mitochondrial DNA which gives the egg that energy to survive, but it's not trait-related DNA.
DR. MICHAEL FAKIH, REPRODUCTIVE ENDOCRINOLOGIST: Ninety percent of the genetic material in the embryo is basically from the patient herself, and then maybe one percent is from the third person.
FIRFER: Some doctors say with three people's DNA in one embryo, the potential for birth defects still remains.
(on camera) When the Saarinens decided they wanted to try to have another child, they returned to Dr. Fakih's fertility center here in suburban Detroit, only to be told that in July of 2001, the FDA had sent letters to doctors informing them that cytoplasmic transfer and other so-called experimental procedures had been banned.
(voice-over) The FDA said in order to proceed, rigorous testing would need to be done to get the agency's approval.
FAKIH: Most of these women are in their late 30s, and they don't really have time. Their time is very precious.
FIRFER: So Dr. Fakih agreed to do the procedure in his clinic in Lebanon, where it's legal. The Saarinens spent another $10,000 to try it again, but this time it did not work.
S. SAARINEN: I finally in the last few months just reconciled with the fact that in my heart I have one child. I have to be happy with that.
P. SAARINEN: Whether I can give her a brother or a sister is -- it's in God's hands. But all I can do is just be the best parent that I can be for her, to give her back the joy that she gives me.
FIRFER: Holly Firfer, CNN, West Bloomfield Township, Michigan.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: It's a sale with no discounts so you better have the bucks. Up next, a look at the amount of dough that these folks are willing to pay for the castaways from "Sex and the City."
Plus, we've got reasons for you to munch on some dough. Even if you're trying o drop a few pounds. Our Mary Snow has the sweet story from the New York stock exchange.
Hello, Mary.
MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi there, miles. That's right, the anti-obesity crusade has caught up with Krispy Kreme doughnuts. We'll tell you all about it when "live from" continues, right after this break.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) O'BRIEN: Sexy styles on sale. With "Sex and the City" off the air, fans of the show can now wear the fashions of Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte.
Designer duds from the show are being sold on consignment.
CNN's Jeanne Moos did a little shopping herself.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you said good- bye to "Sex and the City," now say...
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Hello, lover.
MOOS: ... to shoes, tops, you name it, castaways from the cast of "Sex and the City."
The line outside a second-hand consignment shop wound round the block.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Armed with our heels and our credit cards, we're ready to go.
MOOS: The first one rushing the door was a law student. She ended up with a striped dress, pink sandals and a bra.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The bra, I don't know who wore it, but it's pink and pretty and it was cheap.
MOOS: Every once in a while, someone let out a scream when they recognized a piece of clothing.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She wore this when they had sex first time.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: The furry boots. I remember when these were on.
MOOS (on camera): Anyone want Miranda's skinny jeans? Remember that episode?
(voice-over) This guy spent 325 bucks on a birthday jacket for a friend.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is sweet.
MOOS (on camera): She's going to like it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
MOOS (voice-over): Even the owner of Ina kept a little something.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I got this little sperm necklace.
MOOS: Prices ranged from 10 bucks to $5,000. This woman spent $700 on a Jacket that didn't quite fit.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's very small, but I don't care.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Carrie wore this hat in the episode where her and Charlotte are sitting and rating guys in New York City on who they would sleep with or not. So there you go.
SARAH JESSICA PARKER, ACTRESS: Men who are too good looking are never good in bed because they never had to be.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I've dated plenty of men here, and they were definitely not so good.
MOOS: That probably went right over the head of the youngest shopper, Ricardo.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He watched the last episode.
MOOS (on camera): And he liked it.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He loved it.
MOOS (voice-over): Now Ricardo can cuddle up and watch reruns using Carrie's bathrobe as a blankie.
Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.
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O'BRIEN: Well, we all know Hollywood has a big impact on pop culture. Now the "Global Language Monitor" is out with a new Holly- word list that includes words or phrases that influenced language during the past year.
What do you think is at the top of the list? Guess quickly. "Wardrobe malfunction," from of course, the Janet Jackson breast- baring incident at the Super Bowl.
No. 2 is "bootylicious," describing a full-figured woman with some of it showing.
And then No. 3 is "extreme makeover." That comes from the various makeover shows, of course.
And then "Gigli," which is a term now for just really bad. As in the bad movie, "Gigli" bad, and so forth.
And then No. 5, "give it up!" Which comes from "American Idol." I remember that from "The Arsenio Hall Show." That's kind of a boomerang one; it's coming back.
And No. 6, "Governator." We all know about that, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
There you have it. (STOCK REPORT)
O'BRIEN: She was once a journalist and a congressional aide, but whose side was she really on? Coming up in our next hour of LIVE FROM, all eyes are on one woman as she stands accused of spying for Iraq.
Stay with us.
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