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Civilians Murdered in Fallujah; Suspected Terrorist Arrested in Canada; Michael Jackson Visits Capitol Hill to Draw Attention to AIDS in Africa; Five Woman Sue Hooters Over Secret Videotape; Study: Dogs Often Selected to Resemble Their Owners; Civil Rights Activists Split over Gay Marriage
Aired March 31, 2004 - 13:00 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Horrific attacks in Iraq. American soldiers and civilians, the victims. Iraqis dragging bodies through the streets.
Hidden dangers: the bombs that don't go off. An inside look at the attacks U.S. forces are preventing in Iraq.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm disgusted that -- just in the way that I was violated. My privacy was invaded without my consent.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: An all too candid camera, and now some Hooters applicants say we'll see you in court.
So, are you hot for a Rot or do you dream of a Dachshund? What your pooch reveals about you. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Kyra Phillips. Miles is off today. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.
The White House is vowing to stay the course in Iraq, despite a series of insurgent attacks today that left nine Americans dead. One attack was especially gruesome.
CNN's Jim Clancy now with us live from Baghdad -- Jim.
JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good evening from Baghdad. It's just about three minutes after 9:00.
About 12 hours ago, in Fallujah, a trouble spot in the heart of the Sunni Triangle. Civilian contractors and two SUVs were making their way from a U.S. military base into that city. It has always been a dangerous city. It was a deadly one this day.
They were set upon by insurgents who were hurling grenades or firing rocket propelled grenades at their vehicle. They then sprayed them with gunfire. All four occupants were killed.
As the vehicles blazed, a crowd gathered around them, hurtling bricks and stones, shouting insults to the United States. Some people saying they hope that this was what would happen to all Americans who have come to occupy their country. The sentiments in Fallujah do run high. The U.S. officials were quick to say that they were going to stay the course in Iraq.
A lot of people comparing the incidents if Fallujah this day, of course, to what happened in 1993 in Somalia. The deaths of 17 U.S. servicemen there, triggered a pullout of U.S. troops and disengagement from that east African nation.
Meantime, a very difficult day for the 1st Infantry Division. They had only arrived a few weeks ago into Iraq. Five of their soldiers were killed. They were killed as they were driving in a convoy.
Apparently, there was a bomb that was placed in that roadway. They drove over it, losing their lives.
Three British soldiers, also wounded in southern Iraq, one of them seriously.
Kyra, back to you.
PHILLIPS: Our Jim Clancy, live from Baghdad. Thanks, Jim.
Well, reporters in Iraq call Fallujah the Wild West. Later in our show, our Baghdad bureau chief is here with some personal stories of working there and why so few journalists even go to Fallujah any more.
Terror arrest in Canada. A man is charged with activities on both sides of the Atlantic.
Carolyn Dunn of affiliate CBC has that story.
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CAROLYN DUNN, CBC CORRESPONDENT: It looks like any other house in a suburban Ottawa neighborhood. Look closer, and there are telltale signs something very much out of the ordinary happened here.
KASSIM KHAWAJA (ph), PRESENT DURING RAID: I was watching TV and the door was blown open and guys in masks and guns came in and told us to get down on the ground.
DUNN: They were RCMP officers. And police have now confirmed what they were doing here was part of an international investigation into alleged terrorist activities.
Six members of the Khawaja family were questioned. One, Momin Khawaja, a software developer who works on contract for the Department of Foreign Affairs, was arrested at his job. And he's now been charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
RCMP alleged that in Ottawa and in London, England, from last November, Khawaja did knowingly participate in or contribute to, directly or indirectly, an activity of a terrorist group.
In a separate charge, RCNP said Momin Khawaja did knowingly facilitate a terrorist activity.
Brother Kassim Khawaja (ph) says police questioned him for seven or eight hours about his family's political ideologies.
KHAWAJA: They were try to see if we had any type of terrorist mentality, stuff like that. I was just kind of shocked.
DUNN: Police are not revealing the precise allegations against Momin Khawaja. There is a court ordered publication ban on the proceedings today.
They insist the case is a matter of national security. But without specific details, there are questions.
WESLEY WARK: We don't really know with this case whether this is really something significant and the tactics employed are suitable, or whether this is yet another investigation of the kind that we've seen in the past that may not, in the end, produce very much.
DUNN: Kumar Massoud (ph) is a friend of the Khawaja family.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If it's happening to innocent people this is very tragic. And just imagine how they're going to live through this whole ordeal and after that, living in the neighborhood where there's so many eyes looking at them. It's very hard.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Well, the arrest raised concerns in Canada's Muslim community. Police deny any racial profiling.
News across America now.
Open again. Morning commuters snaked across a temporary bridge along Interstate 95 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The overpass has been closed for a week after a fiery crash caused the steel to buckle. This is the main route between New York and Boston.
A sign of changing times. After some 14 years above the Las Vegas strip, the landmark marquee promoting Siegfried and Roy is being taken down. The act was closed almost six months ago after illusionist Roy Horn was mauled by a tiger.
And President Bush puts on his baseball cap, in a manner of speaking. He's having lunch with some of the sport's finest. Today, the president is hosting baseball Hall of Famers at the White House. The president, you'll recall, was once part owner of the Texas Rangers.
President Bush's likely adversary in November is on the injured list. Senator John Kerry having surgery today to fix the rotator cuff in his right shoulder. It's an outpatient procedure, and Kerry expects to be back on the campaign trail next week.
Now, on MTV News, Kerry fielded questions about how he's different from President Bush. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They've pushed our allies away. I will bring our allies back to us.
He turned his back on global warming, walked away from a treaty that 160 nations worked 10 years on.
We haven't done what we need to do for AIDS globally. The president talks about it, but we still haven't passed the kind of comprehensive program that would help the United States lead on one of the great crises of our time.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: You can watch the entire special on MTV tonight.
It's only one five AM stations and one satellite radio channel, but Air America Radio is getting national attention for last hour's takeoff.
It's a rarity in radio: liberal talk shows. The first show features writer Al Franken and moviemaker Michael Moore. He calls it the "O'Franken Factor."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
AL FRANKEN, WRITER/COMEDIAN: This isn't about Bill O'Reilly or even about Rush Limbaugh. Which reminds me, we're planning to do this show drug free. We don't know if it's ever been done, but we're going to try.
No, this show is about taking back our country. It's about having fun. It's about relentlessly hammering away at the Bush administration until they crack and crumble this November, because don't get me wrong, friends, they are going down.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: The show is broadcast in New York, Los Angeles area, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon, as well as on the XM satellite radio channel.
Straight ahead, you and your credit card, watch the fine print. It's going to cost you big time. New fees to get you to pay more.
SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And can the King of Pop become king of the hill? Day two for Michael Jackson's visit to Washington, D.C. We'll have a live report.
PHILLIPS: And do you take you and your -- well, do you, Grandma, take your grandson? A wedding that had all of us scratching our heads. We're walking it down the aisle, ahead on LIVE FROM.
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PHILLIPS: While the Michael Jackson case is the focus of a secret grand jury session in California, Jackson is thousands of Miles away, making the rounds in Washington.
CNN's Sean Callebs has the latest now, live from the nation's capital.
Sean, you pick up the "Washington Post" and the lead story is -- or maybe I should say the lead line?
CALLEBS: It's not exactly front page. You have to go to the style section of today's "Washington Post" -- isn't that great, the style section -- to find out about Michael Jackson's visit yesterday afternoon to Capitol Hill.
Let's take a look at this. It says, "Michael Jackson, Thrill of the Hill." And the lead is priceless. It says, "He was wearing a lovely shade of coral lipstick."
And then it goes on to talk about how a number of members of the Capitol Hill press corps were simply there. You see them parading Jackson through Rayburn Building yesterday.
They were camped outside Representative Chaka Fattah's office, where Michael Jackson met with the representative, and about 12 members of the Black Caucus in Congress, as well.
But, you know, he didn't get what he wanted. He really wanted to sit down with all 39 members. That simply didn't happen. When you pressed to find out why it didn't happen, a lot of them said, well, conflicts and schedules, things of that nature.
But privately, a lot of them are telling CNN, you know, look, Michael Jackson has never come to us before. He's never visited a lot of these districts. He's never asked for our help, never donated to our cause. Now when something could benefit him, he comes to Capitol Hill. So a lot of people simply stayed away yesterday.
PHILLIPS: Interesting. So kind of mixed emotions, then, from the Black Caucus, Sean, yes?
CALLEBS: Indeed, indeed. Today -- we should talk about it a little bit more, because in about 50 minute or so he is scheduled to meet with Sheila Jackson Lee, a representative from Texas. That scheduled at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. And then after that, they're supposed to hold so many kind of news conference around 2:45.
Now awhile earlier, Representative Jackson Lee was on CNN. And she said that really, Jackson is in town also to get a humanitarian award for members of African ambassadors that Jackson has given a great deal of money and time over the years to causes in Africa.
And he is here on Capitol Hill, trying to promote concerns about AIDS in Africa. Really becoming a global problem, a global concern.
But as you mentioned, Kyra, a lot of people are really wondering if Jackson is here, trying to take some of the publicity off what's been going on in California, you know, the ugly charges that have been against him for months now.
PHILLIPS: Well, it seems wherever he is he's getting the media attention.
All right, Sean, thanks so much.
Well, is quitting under duress the same as getting fired? The Supreme Court is considering the case of a woman who quit the Pennsylvania State Police force because she says her male bosses told her dirty jokes and asked her to perform sex acts.
The woman says that she had no choice but to quit her job as a dispatcher. She wants the right to sue her former employer.
Now, the case of the Hooters hopefuls and the two candid cameras. Five women applying for jobs as Hooters girls are suing the restaurant chain, saying they were secretly taped undressing.
Details now from reporter Laura McLaughlin of KCAL in Los Angeles.
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LAURA MCLAUGHLIN, KCAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What started as a job interview has turned into a humiliating experience for these women, who say they were secretly taped while trying on a uniform like this.
Elizabeth Navarette says she thought she was alone at the time.
ELIZABETH NAVARETTE, PLAINTIFF: When I found out I was in shock, you know? You hear about these type of things happening in the news, and you don't really think it's going to happen to you.
MCLAUGHLIN: After learning detectives had found close to 200 videos of naked and partially naked women trying on Hooters uniforms during an interview process, they were outraged.
Attorney Gloria Allred is representing the five who came forward.
GLORIA ALLRED, ATTORNEY: The girls did not know they were being videotaped during the time that they were being videotaped. Some of them may have seen a camera in the room, but had no idea that it was taping them.
MCLAUGHLIN: Allred wouldn't go into detail about how the women found out they were being taped but told us one of them became suspicious while changing in the trailer near the site of a new Hooters location in West Covina.
ALLRED: In the case of one young woman, through her instincts, she thought maybe something might be wrong, and at that point, contacted the appropriate person to make that known.
MCLAUGHLIN: The women, who are suing Hooters, are also suing the man they believe taped them, a former general manager of Hooters. Hooters of America, based in Atlanta, would only say the 32-year-old Arcadia resident is no longer with the company.
The plaintiffs are also seeking an unspecified amount of money in a civil suit.
SCHEANA JANCAN, PLAINTIFF: I'm disgusted that -- just in the way that I was violated. My privacy was invaded without my consent.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I found out that this happened, I felt very dirty.
MCLAUGHLIN: A spokesperson for Hooters told me it's against company policy for uniforms to be tried on during an interview. And say they have hired over 200,000 Hooter girls in the past 20 years without a problem.
They say they are shocked and outraged and are fully cooperating with police.
Laura McLaughlin, KCAL-9 News.
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PHILLIPS: Straight ahead, culture clash. The latest twist in the legal tangle over gay marriage. What will it mean nationally?
Are you twins with your terrier? Do you favor your Frenchie? An uncanny canine study just ahead.
And she's got game. Yes, you go, girl. She slam-dunked her way to prove she's better than all those boys above the rim.
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PHILLIPS: OK. Take a look at your dog. Now look in the mirror. Have you ever noticed that some dogs actually resemble their owners?
Well, a new study suggests that people have their own traits in mind when they actually pick out a pup.
KRON's Vicki Liviakis unleashes the details.
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VICKI LIVIAKIS, KRON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Maybe it's in the droopy eyes. The voice. The wet nose. Or the double chins. But you've probably noticed people who look an awful lot like their pets.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Grand prize winner of the doggy look-alike contest.
LIVIAKIS: Well, now a new study backs it up. Researchers at U.C. San Diego say two times out of three that purebred dog is a match for its master. Gee, honey, you've got my bark. Or was that my hair?
(on camera) Sometimes it's just looks that people are attracted to in their pets, and sometimes its just, well, personality.
(voice-over) Like energy levels or friendliness.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So many people must not know they do look like their animal. And other times they don't know until someone else points it out.
LIVIAKIS: Besides canine stereotypes, there are feline matches made in heaven.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A couple of years ago, we had a 30-pound cat who was grabbing headlines all over the Bay Area and a large family came in and adopted him. And they came in and they said, "The cat's big; we're big. Everybody's happy"
LIVIAKIS: Scott Delucci (ph) of the Peninsula (ph) Humane Society doesn't look like his dog Cooper, but don't tell Cooper that.
The study says mutt owners don't fit the mold, since you can't peg what a pound puppy will grow up to look like. You'd never know that with mutt Maxine, the one with the compassionate face. Here's co-owner Lorraine, pretty close, although Larry says it's not all about looks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Looks are in the eye of the beholder. Which basically means that you can look at someone, maybe not a purebred, but have a lot of love and needs a home, has a lot of love and affection. I'd take this dog over any dog any day.
LIVIAKIS: The study found no correlation between how long an owner and a dog had been together, suggesting that man or a woman and his or her best friend don't necessarily grow to resemble one another.
In San Mateo, Vicki Liviakis, KRON 4 news.
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PHILLIPS: And yes, this is our dear Miles O'Brien and his precious dog Annie. See the resemblance? Can you see it? Can I just say that Annie is the most annoying dog I've ever met? Love you, Miles.
All right. The best from high school boys' basketball gets beat at their own game by a woman.
Candace Parker is the first female to win McDonald's All-American Slam-dunk contest. Here she goes. Boom. The judges were thrilled when the Naperville, Illinois, senior covered her eyes with one arm and jammed the ball in the hoop with the other.
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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) PHILLIPS: The battle over same-sex marriages is being played out in Georgia. Lawmakers are again debating a stalled constitutional amendment to ban the marriages. The issue is also provoking responses from some civil rights leaders and African-American pastors upset by some who link the issue to the civil rights movement.
David Mattingly explains.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marriage is our right! Equal marriage, equal rights!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marriage is our right! Equal marriage, equal rights!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marriage is our right! Equal marriage, equal rights!
DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Demonstrations, acts of civil disobedience, the emotional exchanges, they are all reminiscent of passions stirred in protests decades ago.
The comparisons drawn between the civil rights movement and the push for gay marriage provoke protests of their own.
These pastors in Atlanta, Georgia, support putting a gay marriage ban in the state's constitution.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We utterly reject the notion that same sex marriage is a civil right.
MATTINGLY: The issue has created a split among black Americans and challenged previously held ideas of what constitutes civil rights.
Supporter of gay marriage include prominent civil rights figures: Congressman John Lewis and Coretta Scott King.
(on camera) But support for gay marriage remains a minority point of view. National polling by the Gallup organization shows a clear majority of blacks, 62 percent, oppose gay marriage, the same percentage registered among whites.
(voice-over) The figures suggest ideology, not race, drives opinions, an idea disturbing to gay marriage supporters, like Reverend Antonio Jones. He is an openly gay minister for a small, predominantly black and gay church in Atlanta. And is sensitive to arguments, he says, were once used to support racial discrimination.
ANTONIO JONES, GAY MINISTER: We were told that it was God's will that we would be in slavery. We were told that it was God's will that we should have separate bathrooms and ride the back of the bus.
MATTINGLY: Critics of guy marriage suggest the civil rights link argued by supporters is only an attempt to gain undeserved political clout, from a movement that produced landmark social changes. RICHARD RICHARDSON, BLACK MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: It said that blacks and whites can marry who they choose. But still, it's a man and woman.
MATTINGLY: A description that is poised to be written into state constitutions all over the country, as the debate over gay marriage and how to define it continues.
David Mattingly, CNN, Atlanta.
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PHILLIPS: Want to take you straight to the White House briefing now. Scott McClellan addressing Iraq with reporters. Let's listen in.
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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Horrific attacks in Iraq. American soldiers and civilians, the victims. Iraqis dragging bodies through the streets.
Hidden dangers: the bombs that don't go off. An inside look at the attacks U.S. forces are preventing in Iraq.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm disgusted that -- just in the way that I was violated. My privacy was invaded without my consent.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: An all too candid camera, and now some Hooters applicants say we'll see you in court.
So, are you hot for a Rot or do you dream of a Dachshund? What your pooch reveals about you. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Kyra Phillips. Miles is off today. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.
The White House is vowing to stay the course in Iraq, despite a series of insurgent attacks today that left nine Americans dead. One attack was especially gruesome.
CNN's Jim Clancy now with us live from Baghdad -- Jim.
JIM CLANCY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good evening from Baghdad. It's just about three minutes after 9:00.
About 12 hours ago, in Fallujah, a trouble spot in the heart of the Sunni Triangle. Civilian contractors and two SUVs were making their way from a U.S. military base into that city. It has always been a dangerous city. It was a deadly one this day.
They were set upon by insurgents who were hurling grenades or firing rocket propelled grenades at their vehicle. They then sprayed them with gunfire. All four occupants were killed.
As the vehicles blazed, a crowd gathered around them, hurtling bricks and stones, shouting insults to the United States. Some people saying they hope that this was what would happen to all Americans who have come to occupy their country. The sentiments in Fallujah do run high. The U.S. officials were quick to say that they were going to stay the course in Iraq.
A lot of people comparing the incidents if Fallujah this day, of course, to what happened in 1993 in Somalia. The deaths of 17 U.S. servicemen there, triggered a pullout of U.S. troops and disengagement from that east African nation.
Meantime, a very difficult day for the 1st Infantry Division. They had only arrived a few weeks ago into Iraq. Five of their soldiers were killed. They were killed as they were driving in a convoy.
Apparently, there was a bomb that was placed in that roadway. They drove over it, losing their lives.
Three British soldiers, also wounded in southern Iraq, one of them seriously.
Kyra, back to you.
PHILLIPS: Our Jim Clancy, live from Baghdad. Thanks, Jim.
Well, reporters in Iraq call Fallujah the Wild West. Later in our show, our Baghdad bureau chief is here with some personal stories of working there and why so few journalists even go to Fallujah any more.
Terror arrest in Canada. A man is charged with activities on both sides of the Atlantic.
Carolyn Dunn of affiliate CBC has that story.
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CAROLYN DUNN, CBC CORRESPONDENT: It looks like any other house in a suburban Ottawa neighborhood. Look closer, and there are telltale signs something very much out of the ordinary happened here.
KASSIM KHAWAJA (ph), PRESENT DURING RAID: I was watching TV and the door was blown open and guys in masks and guns came in and told us to get down on the ground.
DUNN: They were RCMP officers. And police have now confirmed what they were doing here was part of an international investigation into alleged terrorist activities.
Six members of the Khawaja family were questioned. One, Momin Khawaja, a software developer who works on contract for the Department of Foreign Affairs, was arrested at his job. And he's now been charged under the Anti-Terrorism Act.
RCMP alleged that in Ottawa and in London, England, from last November, Khawaja did knowingly participate in or contribute to, directly or indirectly, an activity of a terrorist group.
In a separate charge, RCNP said Momin Khawaja did knowingly facilitate a terrorist activity.
Brother Kassim Khawaja (ph) says police questioned him for seven or eight hours about his family's political ideologies.
KHAWAJA: They were try to see if we had any type of terrorist mentality, stuff like that. I was just kind of shocked.
DUNN: Police are not revealing the precise allegations against Momin Khawaja. There is a court ordered publication ban on the proceedings today.
They insist the case is a matter of national security. But without specific details, there are questions.
WESLEY WARK: We don't really know with this case whether this is really something significant and the tactics employed are suitable, or whether this is yet another investigation of the kind that we've seen in the past that may not, in the end, produce very much.
DUNN: Kumar Massoud (ph) is a friend of the Khawaja family.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If it's happening to innocent people this is very tragic. And just imagine how they're going to live through this whole ordeal and after that, living in the neighborhood where there's so many eyes looking at them. It's very hard.
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PHILLIPS: Well, the arrest raised concerns in Canada's Muslim community. Police deny any racial profiling.
News across America now.
Open again. Morning commuters snaked across a temporary bridge along Interstate 95 in Bridgeport, Connecticut. The overpass has been closed for a week after a fiery crash caused the steel to buckle. This is the main route between New York and Boston.
A sign of changing times. After some 14 years above the Las Vegas strip, the landmark marquee promoting Siegfried and Roy is being taken down. The act was closed almost six months ago after illusionist Roy Horn was mauled by a tiger.
And President Bush puts on his baseball cap, in a manner of speaking. He's having lunch with some of the sport's finest. Today, the president is hosting baseball Hall of Famers at the White House. The president, you'll recall, was once part owner of the Texas Rangers.
President Bush's likely adversary in November is on the injured list. Senator John Kerry having surgery today to fix the rotator cuff in his right shoulder. It's an outpatient procedure, and Kerry expects to be back on the campaign trail next week.
Now, on MTV News, Kerry fielded questions about how he's different from President Bush. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: They've pushed our allies away. I will bring our allies back to us.
He turned his back on global warming, walked away from a treaty that 160 nations worked 10 years on.
We haven't done what we need to do for AIDS globally. The president talks about it, but we still haven't passed the kind of comprehensive program that would help the United States lead on one of the great crises of our time.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: You can watch the entire special on MTV tonight.
It's only one five AM stations and one satellite radio channel, but Air America Radio is getting national attention for last hour's takeoff.
It's a rarity in radio: liberal talk shows. The first show features writer Al Franken and moviemaker Michael Moore. He calls it the "O'Franken Factor."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
AL FRANKEN, WRITER/COMEDIAN: This isn't about Bill O'Reilly or even about Rush Limbaugh. Which reminds me, we're planning to do this show drug free. We don't know if it's ever been done, but we're going to try.
No, this show is about taking back our country. It's about having fun. It's about relentlessly hammering away at the Bush administration until they crack and crumble this November, because don't get me wrong, friends, they are going down.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: The show is broadcast in New York, Los Angeles area, Chicago, and Portland, Oregon, as well as on the XM satellite radio channel.
Straight ahead, you and your credit card, watch the fine print. It's going to cost you big time. New fees to get you to pay more.
SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And can the King of Pop become king of the hill? Day two for Michael Jackson's visit to Washington, D.C. We'll have a live report.
PHILLIPS: And do you take you and your -- well, do you, Grandma, take your grandson? A wedding that had all of us scratching our heads. We're walking it down the aisle, ahead on LIVE FROM.
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PHILLIPS: While the Michael Jackson case is the focus of a secret grand jury session in California, Jackson is thousands of Miles away, making the rounds in Washington.
CNN's Sean Callebs has the latest now, live from the nation's capital.
Sean, you pick up the "Washington Post" and the lead story is -- or maybe I should say the lead line?
CALLEBS: It's not exactly front page. You have to go to the style section of today's "Washington Post" -- isn't that great, the style section -- to find out about Michael Jackson's visit yesterday afternoon to Capitol Hill.
Let's take a look at this. It says, "Michael Jackson, Thrill of the Hill." And the lead is priceless. It says, "He was wearing a lovely shade of coral lipstick."
And then it goes on to talk about how a number of members of the Capitol Hill press corps were simply there. You see them parading Jackson through Rayburn Building yesterday.
They were camped outside Representative Chaka Fattah's office, where Michael Jackson met with the representative, and about 12 members of the Black Caucus in Congress, as well.
But, you know, he didn't get what he wanted. He really wanted to sit down with all 39 members. That simply didn't happen. When you pressed to find out why it didn't happen, a lot of them said, well, conflicts and schedules, things of that nature.
But privately, a lot of them are telling CNN, you know, look, Michael Jackson has never come to us before. He's never visited a lot of these districts. He's never asked for our help, never donated to our cause. Now when something could benefit him, he comes to Capitol Hill. So a lot of people simply stayed away yesterday.
PHILLIPS: Interesting. So kind of mixed emotions, then, from the Black Caucus, Sean, yes?
CALLEBS: Indeed, indeed. Today -- we should talk about it a little bit more, because in about 50 minute or so he is scheduled to meet with Sheila Jackson Lee, a representative from Texas. That scheduled at 2 p.m. Eastern Time. And then after that, they're supposed to hold so many kind of news conference around 2:45.
Now awhile earlier, Representative Jackson Lee was on CNN. And she said that really, Jackson is in town also to get a humanitarian award for members of African ambassadors that Jackson has given a great deal of money and time over the years to causes in Africa.
And he is here on Capitol Hill, trying to promote concerns about AIDS in Africa. Really becoming a global problem, a global concern.
But as you mentioned, Kyra, a lot of people are really wondering if Jackson is here, trying to take some of the publicity off what's been going on in California, you know, the ugly charges that have been against him for months now.
PHILLIPS: Well, it seems wherever he is he's getting the media attention.
All right, Sean, thanks so much.
Well, is quitting under duress the same as getting fired? The Supreme Court is considering the case of a woman who quit the Pennsylvania State Police force because she says her male bosses told her dirty jokes and asked her to perform sex acts.
The woman says that she had no choice but to quit her job as a dispatcher. She wants the right to sue her former employer.
Now, the case of the Hooters hopefuls and the two candid cameras. Five women applying for jobs as Hooters girls are suing the restaurant chain, saying they were secretly taped undressing.
Details now from reporter Laura McLaughlin of KCAL in Los Angeles.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
LAURA MCLAUGHLIN, KCAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): What started as a job interview has turned into a humiliating experience for these women, who say they were secretly taped while trying on a uniform like this.
Elizabeth Navarette says she thought she was alone at the time.
ELIZABETH NAVARETTE, PLAINTIFF: When I found out I was in shock, you know? You hear about these type of things happening in the news, and you don't really think it's going to happen to you.
MCLAUGHLIN: After learning detectives had found close to 200 videos of naked and partially naked women trying on Hooters uniforms during an interview process, they were outraged.
Attorney Gloria Allred is representing the five who came forward.
GLORIA ALLRED, ATTORNEY: The girls did not know they were being videotaped during the time that they were being videotaped. Some of them may have seen a camera in the room, but had no idea that it was taping them.
MCLAUGHLIN: Allred wouldn't go into detail about how the women found out they were being taped but told us one of them became suspicious while changing in the trailer near the site of a new Hooters location in West Covina.
ALLRED: In the case of one young woman, through her instincts, she thought maybe something might be wrong, and at that point, contacted the appropriate person to make that known.
MCLAUGHLIN: The women, who are suing Hooters, are also suing the man they believe taped them, a former general manager of Hooters. Hooters of America, based in Atlanta, would only say the 32-year-old Arcadia resident is no longer with the company.
The plaintiffs are also seeking an unspecified amount of money in a civil suit.
SCHEANA JANCAN, PLAINTIFF: I'm disgusted that -- just in the way that I was violated. My privacy was invaded without my consent.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: When I found out that this happened, I felt very dirty.
MCLAUGHLIN: A spokesperson for Hooters told me it's against company policy for uniforms to be tried on during an interview. And say they have hired over 200,000 Hooter girls in the past 20 years without a problem.
They say they are shocked and outraged and are fully cooperating with police.
Laura McLaughlin, KCAL-9 News.
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PHILLIPS: Straight ahead, culture clash. The latest twist in the legal tangle over gay marriage. What will it mean nationally?
Are you twins with your terrier? Do you favor your Frenchie? An uncanny canine study just ahead.
And she's got game. Yes, you go, girl. She slam-dunked her way to prove she's better than all those boys above the rim.
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PHILLIPS: OK. Take a look at your dog. Now look in the mirror. Have you ever noticed that some dogs actually resemble their owners?
Well, a new study suggests that people have their own traits in mind when they actually pick out a pup.
KRON's Vicki Liviakis unleashes the details.
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VICKI LIVIAKIS, KRON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Maybe it's in the droopy eyes. The voice. The wet nose. Or the double chins. But you've probably noticed people who look an awful lot like their pets.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Grand prize winner of the doggy look-alike contest.
LIVIAKIS: Well, now a new study backs it up. Researchers at U.C. San Diego say two times out of three that purebred dog is a match for its master. Gee, honey, you've got my bark. Or was that my hair?
(on camera) Sometimes it's just looks that people are attracted to in their pets, and sometimes its just, well, personality.
(voice-over) Like energy levels or friendliness.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: So many people must not know they do look like their animal. And other times they don't know until someone else points it out.
LIVIAKIS: Besides canine stereotypes, there are feline matches made in heaven.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A couple of years ago, we had a 30-pound cat who was grabbing headlines all over the Bay Area and a large family came in and adopted him. And they came in and they said, "The cat's big; we're big. Everybody's happy"
LIVIAKIS: Scott Delucci (ph) of the Peninsula (ph) Humane Society doesn't look like his dog Cooper, but don't tell Cooper that.
The study says mutt owners don't fit the mold, since you can't peg what a pound puppy will grow up to look like. You'd never know that with mutt Maxine, the one with the compassionate face. Here's co-owner Lorraine, pretty close, although Larry says it's not all about looks.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Looks are in the eye of the beholder. Which basically means that you can look at someone, maybe not a purebred, but have a lot of love and needs a home, has a lot of love and affection. I'd take this dog over any dog any day.
LIVIAKIS: The study found no correlation between how long an owner and a dog had been together, suggesting that man or a woman and his or her best friend don't necessarily grow to resemble one another.
In San Mateo, Vicki Liviakis, KRON 4 news.
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PHILLIPS: And yes, this is our dear Miles O'Brien and his precious dog Annie. See the resemblance? Can you see it? Can I just say that Annie is the most annoying dog I've ever met? Love you, Miles.
All right. The best from high school boys' basketball gets beat at their own game by a woman.
Candace Parker is the first female to win McDonald's All-American Slam-dunk contest. Here she goes. Boom. The judges were thrilled when the Naperville, Illinois, senior covered her eyes with one arm and jammed the ball in the hoop with the other.
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(COMMERCIAL BREAK) PHILLIPS: The battle over same-sex marriages is being played out in Georgia. Lawmakers are again debating a stalled constitutional amendment to ban the marriages. The issue is also provoking responses from some civil rights leaders and African-American pastors upset by some who link the issue to the civil rights movement.
David Mattingly explains.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marriage is our right! Equal marriage, equal rights!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marriage is our right! Equal marriage, equal rights!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Marriage is our right! Equal marriage, equal rights!
DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Demonstrations, acts of civil disobedience, the emotional exchanges, they are all reminiscent of passions stirred in protests decades ago.
The comparisons drawn between the civil rights movement and the push for gay marriage provoke protests of their own.
These pastors in Atlanta, Georgia, support putting a gay marriage ban in the state's constitution.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We utterly reject the notion that same sex marriage is a civil right.
MATTINGLY: The issue has created a split among black Americans and challenged previously held ideas of what constitutes civil rights.
Supporter of gay marriage include prominent civil rights figures: Congressman John Lewis and Coretta Scott King.
(on camera) But support for gay marriage remains a minority point of view. National polling by the Gallup organization shows a clear majority of blacks, 62 percent, oppose gay marriage, the same percentage registered among whites.
(voice-over) The figures suggest ideology, not race, drives opinions, an idea disturbing to gay marriage supporters, like Reverend Antonio Jones. He is an openly gay minister for a small, predominantly black and gay church in Atlanta. And is sensitive to arguments, he says, were once used to support racial discrimination.
ANTONIO JONES, GAY MINISTER: We were told that it was God's will that we would be in slavery. We were told that it was God's will that we should have separate bathrooms and ride the back of the bus.
MATTINGLY: Critics of guy marriage suggest the civil rights link argued by supporters is only an attempt to gain undeserved political clout, from a movement that produced landmark social changes. RICHARD RICHARDSON, BLACK MINISTERIAL ALLIANCE: It said that blacks and whites can marry who they choose. But still, it's a man and woman.
MATTINGLY: A description that is poised to be written into state constitutions all over the country, as the debate over gay marriage and how to define it continues.
David Mattingly, CNN, Atlanta.
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PHILLIPS: Want to take you straight to the White House briefing now. Scott McClellan addressing Iraq with reporters. Let's listen in.
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