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Over 90 Killed in Iraqi Insurgent Attacks; NASA Reinvention

Aired June 24, 2004 - 15:00   ET

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

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


KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome up, or welcome back. I guess welcome up, too.
(LAUGHTER)

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Up is good.

PHILLIPS: Welcome up here to the last half-hour of LIVE FROM. I'm Kyra Phillips.

WHITFIELD: And I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here's what is happening at this hour.

A wave of insurgent bombings and ambushes across Iraq have left at least 92 people dead and more than 300 injured. Three U.S. soldiers are among those killed. Terror mastermind Abu Musab al- Zarqawi has emerged as the key suspect for some or all of those actions. The attacks come just six days before the June 30 transfer of power.

Terror in Istanbul, ahead of next weekend's NATO summit. Police say an explosion there today killed four people, including the 20- year-old bomber. More than a dozen other people were wounded. Police say the bomber was headed for another location when the explosion occurred. Earlier, another bomb blast in front of the Hilton Hotel in Ankara, where President Bush plans to stay on Saturday, that explosion wounded three people, including a police officer. President Bush is among the world leaders scheduled to attend the summit in Istanbul.

Iran has released eight British sailors and Marines who were detained for crossing into Iranian waters. The servicemen were held three days. The Iranian navy confiscated their weapons and maps, along with their boats. The men will stay at the British Embassy in Tehran until arrangements are made to fly them out.

Vice President Cheney wins round one in a legal battle over the release of internal documents. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Cheney does not have to release the files of an emergency energy policy task force he headed. The group met behind closed doors. A lawsuit claims he made improper contacts with executives when formulating government policy that benefited their businesses.

PHILLIPS: First this hour, the insurgent attacks in Iraq. More than 90 people are dead, including three Americans, in closely timed assaults in Iraq's Sunni Triangle and a deadly spate of suicide bombings in Mosul to the north.

From Baghdad now, Christiane Amanpour reports on a sudden spasm of terror just days before the country gets its sovereignty back.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Simultaneous attacks sent shockwaves through the country, as insurgents stepped up their assault on Iraq's security forces.

And from Mosul and Baquba in the north to Ramadi in the west, scores of people were killed and many more injured in suicide attacks and car bombs. The casualties were Iraqi troops, policemen, and civilians and three American soldiers. Emergency wards were overwhelmed as doctors fought to deal with the dead and save the wounded.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The wounded people have multiple injuries, some to the chest and head.

AMANPOUR: The doctor said two children were among the dead. In Ramadi in the violent Sunni Triangle, the hotbed of anti-American insurgence, it was the same.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): This morning, we heard a big explosion. And all the doctors ran into the emergency room. Most of the wounded were policemen.

AMANPOUR: Also in the Sunni Triangle, pitched battles broke out between U.S. Marines and insurgents on the outskirts of Fallujah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The Americans tried to enter Fallujah from the east using all kinds of weapons, including artillery and helicopters. But the mujahedeen stopped them from entering the city.

AMANPOUR: U.S. Marines say one of their helicopters was hit by small-arms fire, but made a safe emergency landing back at base. In Fallujah, the U.S. has twice this week launched airstrikes on safe houses said to belong to the al Qaeda suspect Abu Musab Zarqawi. The U.S. claims to have killed more than 20 foreign fighters.

Mosul, which suffered the heaviest casualties, has extended an overnight curfew. In Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing five people. Iraq's interim government is discussing emergency measures to crack down on what ministers call a serious threat.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They are determined to derail our political transition in Iraq. Equally so, I can tell you that the government is determined to win this battle with the help of the international community.

AMANPOUR: The government won't say exactly how it plans to crack down. Its own forces are unable to do the job alone, according to the U.S. here.

(on camera): Meantime, the constant violence has so traumatized the Iraqi people that they long for even marshal law or some kind of harsh measure to crush the militants.

Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And this reminder that, tomorrow on CNN, we'll bring you a live town meeting on the subject of Iraq and the impending handover. That's at 1:00 Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific. Sure hope you'll join us.

Well, at the White House today, President Bush was questioned by the special prosecutor who's in charge of finding who blew the cover of a CIA operative. You may remember this story. The White House says that Mr. Bush answered questions for more than an hour and was not under oath, but was accompanied by his newly hired private lawyer.

This is the probe into the outing of agent Valerie Plame, whose diplomat husband criticized the rationale for going to war with Iraq.

WHITFIELD: A pair of legal decisions impacting death row inmates. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn more than 100 death sentences imposed by judges rather than juries. The court had previously ruled that jurors were the only ones who could impose the death penalty. But in today's decision, they say that does not apply retroactively.

And, separately, New York's highest court has ruled that a provision of the state's capital punishment law violates the state's constitution. That decision appears to invalidate the death sentences of four inmates on death row in New York.

More news across America now.

In Los Angeles, the roughing up of a suspect has sparked a slew of investigations. The suspect appeared to surrender after allegedly leading police on a chase in a stolen car, then fleeing on foot before getting kicked and hit with a baton, their flashlights.

Authorities in Detroit are trying to find the gunman who shot nine people at a fireworks show. Two of the people hit remain in critical condition. Police say the shooting followed an argument and the victims got in the way.

And police in western Nevada say a man who shot his wife and kidnapped his teenage daughters was shot and killed by one of the girls. The three girls were found on an isolated road after an Amber Alert was issued -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, nine months after an Oregon softball coach and a teenage player disappeared, they've turned up more than 2,000 miles away.

CNN's Kimberly Osias brings us the latest now live from Beaverton -- Kimberly.

KIMBERLY OSIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Kyra. Well, authorities found the pair in Knoxville, Tennessee. But it was here in Beaverton, Oregon where Mimi, Michelle "Mimi" Smith, was last seen. You see, she was a sophomore here at Beaverton High School. And back in September, she passed a note to one of her friends explaining her plans to run away, also telling her not to worry, that she'd be OK.

She ran away with her softball coach, 39-year-old Andrew Garver. For a time, Garver coached Mimi and his own daughter. In fact, Mimi even lived with Garver and his family for two years. Police say Garver stole a blue Nissan Murano in Oregon back in the fall. Last night, he was in an accident in the same car with stolen tags in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Police say he called one of his ex-wives from the wreck, telling her he had the girl and that he would have to turn himself in.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DEPUTY CHIEF DON GREEN, KNOXVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT: Officer Jennette (ph), who had responded to the call based on a citizen complaint, was approached by Mr. Garver and advised that he was a fugitive and wanted by the FBI. Along was the female, the female that was accompanying him, who was Ms. Smith.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OSIAS: Garver is being held in a Knoxville jail facing federal and state charges, including custodial interference. As for Mimi, she is in custody in Tennessee right now, awaiting a reunion everybody hopes -- certainly, her family does -- with her family here in Oregon -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Kimberly Osias, thanks so much.

Well, four months after a brutal attack during an NHL game, Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi is charged with assault. The charge stems from this incident back in March. You'll remember, it left Colorado's Steve Moore with neck injuries and a concussion. Well, Bertuzzi, who tearfully apologized for punching Moore, was suspended for the rest of the season. He goes before a judge in Vancouver July 9.

WHITFIELD: It's tough to look at that tape every time.

Well, will it be a major makeover for NASA? Changes in the wind for America's space agency. We'll have details coming up.

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(WEATHER UPDATE)

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PHILLIPS: Well, NASA IS poised for a major overhaul. The agency is under pressure to return to space, improve safety, and fulfill President Bush's vision for exploring the moon and mars.

Space correspondent and my partner most of the days, Miles O'Brien, talked one on one with the NASA administrator about the changes. He's here with the details.

See, we told folks you were on assignment.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT: Well, I am on assignment. It's just upstairs. I've been busy.

PHILLIPS: Thanks for coming down and visiting. I missed you all week.

O'BRIEN: Yes. Yes. It's going to be great when it's done. That's all I can say.

Let's talk about NASA, though, and reorganizing. It's interesting it comes on the same week that we saw SpaceShipOne out in the Mojave Desert, Burt Rutan and company, flying to the absolute doorstep of space with a privately funded venture, an entrepreneurial effort, a newly minted private astronaut by the name of Mike Melvill.

Now, the question is, how do you get from this to what NASA proposes, which is a rather grandiose scheme to go to the moon, set up a colony there, and then onward to Mars eventually? That's the president's vision from January 14. Figuring out how to get there from here has been what NASA has been all about in the past six months.

Now, I'm not going to make your eyes glaze over with the flowchart changes. Let me run through this quickly, however, for you. Essentially, the agency is being reorganized around four general areas, science, exploration systems, space operations, running the shuttle and so forth, aeronautics research, making better planes.

Quickly, I'll show you how the centers are going to be lined up, according to all that. Basically, the field centers, they're 10 of them all around the country basically to -- you're not going to shut down those centers, because that would upset too many people in Congress. Goddard, Ames, and Jet Propulsion will do science. Next slide, please.

And we'll go to the funding and the organization for aeronautics research, Langley, Glenn, and Dryden. And finally, let's move it along, next slide, because this is too boring. Next slide. Never mind.

(LAUGHTER)

O'BRIEN: I need some reorganization.

(LAUGHTER)

O'BRIEN: In any case, I had a chance to talk to Sean O'Keefe yesterday and asked him if in fact all of this, when you put it all in perspective, can NASA get to the moon and Mars with this sort of pay- as-you-go approach?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEAN O'KEEFE, NASA ADMINISTRATOR: What the president's articulated here is a strategy, a direction, a focus, that you build on one step at a time. And the goal is not a destination. The goal is to build capability in order to explore, informed by the science, you know, looking at a wide range of opportunities that can be developed as you discover them along the way.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'BRIEN: So, necessity a bit of the mother of invention here. NASA is charged with doing some big things on a very scanty budget. The question is, launching a new organization, will that help? Well, it's a good place to start. The can-do agency needs to think differently if it's going to do what it did. It's not like the old days of Apollo, where they got a big, fat blank check and said, go to the moon, yes.

PHILLIPS: Go for it.

Well, on sort of a side note, are you on the list?

O'BRIEN: Am I on the list, you mean over there in Mojave?

PHILLIPS: Yes.

O'BRIEN: Well, I asked Burt Rutan if I could go. He said, well, you'll be right behind me.

PHILLIPS: All right, maybe he'll help split the cost.

O'BRIEN: And I said, well, there's two other seats. Let's take a ride on that X prize and we'll be there. So I'll let you know.

PHILLIPS: When are you coming back, pal?

O'BRIEN: What, from the...

PHILLIPS: No, here.

O'BRIEN: Oh. Well, I've got to go out and do Cassini next week and then I'll be back.

PHILLIPS: OK.

O'BRIEN: All right, Cassini, you've heard about that one, right?

PHILLIPS: Quick plug. Come on.

O'BRIEN: Entering the orbit of Saturn. Cassini will enter the orbit of Saturn next week.

PHILLIPS: OK. O'BRIEN: It's going to be very exciting and very perilous. The ring of Saturn is just a bunch of rocks and they're going to fly right through it twice.

PHILLIPS: Cool stuff.

O'BRIEN: And hopefully live to tell the tale.

PHILLIPS: All right, stay tuned.

O'BRIEN: All right. See you.

PHILLIPS: All right.

WHITFIELD: I still like the idea of Miles going to space. That would certainly grab lot of attention and make you happy.

O'BRIEN: Well, as Sandy (ph) says at home, a one-way trip would be preferable.

(LAUGHTER)

(CROSSTALK)

WHITFIELD: We want round-trip.

PHILLIPS: Please.

WHITFIELD: All right, well, maybe you're looking for another way to get some attention. Well, just roll with it. That's what this guy did. We'll tell you why. This guy right here. Yes, there he is. He's rolling. Why is he doing that? We'll explain.

And will it be the Boss vs. the boss this summer? Could Bruce Springsteen be next in line to go up against President Bush?

LIVE FROM continues right after this.

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PHILLIPS: Yes, you've seen and heard all the hype over the new book. Now you get a chance to ask the questions. Former President Bill Clinton is tonight's guest on "LARRY KING LIVE." It's President Clinton's first live prime-time interview since the debut of "My Life." Tune in 9:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

WHITFIELD: They've lined up for the books and they've lined up for the movie. Filmmaker Michael Moore says he hopes to influence the November presidential election with his new documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." There was a star-studded turnout for the film's debut in New York last night.

And Jason Carroll tells us all about it.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's got all the hype of a summer blockbuster. Kudos at Cannes, celeb arrivals in Los Angeles, New York, voices on the left and right strutting the same red carpet. All for a documentary? You bet.

Michael Moore is back, taking aim at President Bush and his administration in Fahrenheit 9/11. MICHAEL MOORE, FILMMAKER: You're going to laugh a lot. You're going to cry. And you're going to leave, I think, feeling that, damn it, you know, this is a great country and it's ours, and we should do something about it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're trying to get members of Congress to get their kids to enlist in the Army, and go over to Iraq.

CARROLL: Its premise: the United States is led by an incompetent president who led the country into a war that should not have been fought. So controversial, Disney backed off from distributing it and made Miramax do the same.

It's R-rated, despite a personal plea from former New York Governor Mario Cuomo for a more appealing PG-13.

MOORE: I encourage teenagers everywhere to sneak in and see this movie.

CARROLL: Challenging with biting humor. It's more style, and there's plenty of it in Fahrenheit 9/11.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

CARROLL: Famed sci-fi author Ray Bradbury isn't laughing, upset the film's title borrows from his classic book about book burning, Fahrenheit 451.

RAY BRADBURY, AUTHOR: It's very simple; I'd like him to return my title.

CARROLL: Critics say the documentary is less about facts, more about politics, but ultimately audiences will decide.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think Moore presents himself in a very one- sided way.

CARROLL (on camera): Did the film change anyone's opinion after seeing it? I mean, did you go in -- did anyone here go in with...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It wasn't a question of changing. It revealed the truth.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'd love to see Bush see it and see what he has to say about it. I would love that.

CARROLL (voice over): A spokesman for the president called it typical Hollywood, and in response to Moore's hope his film will sway the election, he says, the voters want fact not fiction when they cast their ballots.

Another controversial filmmaker put it in perspective.

SPIKE LEE, FILMMAKER: It's not that you have to agree with everything that's in the film. That's not the point. The point is that issues are raised, and people come out of the theater talking and discussing about what they just saw.

CARROLL: Plenty of that going on already.

Jason Carroll, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

WHITFIELD: From Michael Moore to now the Boss taking on the president. Well, a concert promoter wants the rocker to promote his -- or, rather -- would rather promote the rocker's headline concert meant to steal the spotlight during the Republican National Convention.

The promoter has set up DraftBruce.com, an online petition to convince Springsteen to do the concert on the same night. The concert would take place the same day that President Bush would accept his party's nomination.

And Billy Crystal call plans to look marvelous on Broadway. The comedian/actor will make his Broadway debut in "700 Sundays." The autobiographical one-man show will hit the Broadhurst Theater in December. The show won't be all stand-up shtick, but more about Crystal's personal life.

PHILLIPS: Well, while we're on a role here, we thought we'd introduce you to a guy who is really on a roll.

WHITFIELD: Rolling, rolling, rolling.

PHILLIPS: Cue Fred. Cue Fred.

WHITFIELD: The man is rolling.

PHILLIPS: The holy man is known as the Rolling Seer, and he's tossing and turning from his hometown in India all the way to Islamabad, Pakistan, in an effort to bring peace between the two countries.

Well, during the roll, he does not eat. He only takes sips of water, smokes the occasional smoke. Wonder if he rolls his own. Lest you think he's not able to go the distance, he holds the rolling world record. Ten years ago, he made a distance of 2,485 miles.

WHITFIELD: And they worry about people who can walk and chew. He can drink and roll. How does he do that?

PHILLIPS: Sip, drink, roll. It's that like drop, roll ex- advertisement for putting out a fire.

WHITFIELD: Oh, boy.

PHILLIPS: All right, well, that wraps up this Thursday edition of LIVE FROM.

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Aired June 24, 2004 - 15:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome up, or welcome back. I guess welcome up, too.
(LAUGHTER)

FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: Up is good.

PHILLIPS: Welcome up here to the last half-hour of LIVE FROM. I'm Kyra Phillips.

WHITFIELD: And I'm Fredricka Whitfield. Here's what is happening at this hour.

A wave of insurgent bombings and ambushes across Iraq have left at least 92 people dead and more than 300 injured. Three U.S. soldiers are among those killed. Terror mastermind Abu Musab al- Zarqawi has emerged as the key suspect for some or all of those actions. The attacks come just six days before the June 30 transfer of power.

Terror in Istanbul, ahead of next weekend's NATO summit. Police say an explosion there today killed four people, including the 20- year-old bomber. More than a dozen other people were wounded. Police say the bomber was headed for another location when the explosion occurred. Earlier, another bomb blast in front of the Hilton Hotel in Ankara, where President Bush plans to stay on Saturday, that explosion wounded three people, including a police officer. President Bush is among the world leaders scheduled to attend the summit in Istanbul.

Iran has released eight British sailors and Marines who were detained for crossing into Iranian waters. The servicemen were held three days. The Iranian navy confiscated their weapons and maps, along with their boats. The men will stay at the British Embassy in Tehran until arrangements are made to fly them out.

Vice President Cheney wins round one in a legal battle over the release of internal documents. The U.S. Supreme Court ruled Cheney does not have to release the files of an emergency energy policy task force he headed. The group met behind closed doors. A lawsuit claims he made improper contacts with executives when formulating government policy that benefited their businesses.

PHILLIPS: First this hour, the insurgent attacks in Iraq. More than 90 people are dead, including three Americans, in closely timed assaults in Iraq's Sunni Triangle and a deadly spate of suicide bombings in Mosul to the north.

From Baghdad now, Christiane Amanpour reports on a sudden spasm of terror just days before the country gets its sovereignty back.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN CHIEF INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Simultaneous attacks sent shockwaves through the country, as insurgents stepped up their assault on Iraq's security forces.

And from Mosul and Baquba in the north to Ramadi in the west, scores of people were killed and many more injured in suicide attacks and car bombs. The casualties were Iraqi troops, policemen, and civilians and three American soldiers. Emergency wards were overwhelmed as doctors fought to deal with the dead and save the wounded.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The wounded people have multiple injuries, some to the chest and head.

AMANPOUR: The doctor said two children were among the dead. In Ramadi in the violent Sunni Triangle, the hotbed of anti-American insurgence, it was the same.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): This morning, we heard a big explosion. And all the doctors ran into the emergency room. Most of the wounded were policemen.

AMANPOUR: Also in the Sunni Triangle, pitched battles broke out between U.S. Marines and insurgents on the outskirts of Fallujah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): The Americans tried to enter Fallujah from the east using all kinds of weapons, including artillery and helicopters. But the mujahedeen stopped them from entering the city.

AMANPOUR: U.S. Marines say one of their helicopters was hit by small-arms fire, but made a safe emergency landing back at base. In Fallujah, the U.S. has twice this week launched airstrikes on safe houses said to belong to the al Qaeda suspect Abu Musab Zarqawi. The U.S. claims to have killed more than 20 foreign fighters.

Mosul, which suffered the heaviest casualties, has extended an overnight curfew. In Baghdad, a suicide bomber blew himself up, killing five people. Iraq's interim government is discussing emergency measures to crack down on what ministers call a serious threat.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They are determined to derail our political transition in Iraq. Equally so, I can tell you that the government is determined to win this battle with the help of the international community.

AMANPOUR: The government won't say exactly how it plans to crack down. Its own forces are unable to do the job alone, according to the U.S. here.

(on camera): Meantime, the constant violence has so traumatized the Iraqi people that they long for even marshal law or some kind of harsh measure to crush the militants.

Christiane Amanpour, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And this reminder that, tomorrow on CNN, we'll bring you a live town meeting on the subject of Iraq and the impending handover. That's at 1:00 Eastern, 10 a.m. Pacific. Sure hope you'll join us.

Well, at the White House today, President Bush was questioned by the special prosecutor who's in charge of finding who blew the cover of a CIA operative. You may remember this story. The White House says that Mr. Bush answered questions for more than an hour and was not under oath, but was accompanied by his newly hired private lawyer.

This is the probe into the outing of agent Valerie Plame, whose diplomat husband criticized the rationale for going to war with Iraq.

WHITFIELD: A pair of legal decisions impacting death row inmates. In a 5-4 decision, the U.S. Supreme Court refused to overturn more than 100 death sentences imposed by judges rather than juries. The court had previously ruled that jurors were the only ones who could impose the death penalty. But in today's decision, they say that does not apply retroactively.

And, separately, New York's highest court has ruled that a provision of the state's capital punishment law violates the state's constitution. That decision appears to invalidate the death sentences of four inmates on death row in New York.

More news across America now.

In Los Angeles, the roughing up of a suspect has sparked a slew of investigations. The suspect appeared to surrender after allegedly leading police on a chase in a stolen car, then fleeing on foot before getting kicked and hit with a baton, their flashlights.

Authorities in Detroit are trying to find the gunman who shot nine people at a fireworks show. Two of the people hit remain in critical condition. Police say the shooting followed an argument and the victims got in the way.

And police in western Nevada say a man who shot his wife and kidnapped his teenage daughters was shot and killed by one of the girls. The three girls were found on an isolated road after an Amber Alert was issued -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, nine months after an Oregon softball coach and a teenage player disappeared, they've turned up more than 2,000 miles away.

CNN's Kimberly Osias brings us the latest now live from Beaverton -- Kimberly.

KIMBERLY OSIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Kyra. Well, authorities found the pair in Knoxville, Tennessee. But it was here in Beaverton, Oregon where Mimi, Michelle "Mimi" Smith, was last seen. You see, she was a sophomore here at Beaverton High School. And back in September, she passed a note to one of her friends explaining her plans to run away, also telling her not to worry, that she'd be OK.

She ran away with her softball coach, 39-year-old Andrew Garver. For a time, Garver coached Mimi and his own daughter. In fact, Mimi even lived with Garver and his family for two years. Police say Garver stole a blue Nissan Murano in Oregon back in the fall. Last night, he was in an accident in the same car with stolen tags in Knoxville, Tennessee.

Police say he called one of his ex-wives from the wreck, telling her he had the girl and that he would have to turn himself in.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DEPUTY CHIEF DON GREEN, KNOXVILLE POLICE DEPARTMENT: Officer Jennette (ph), who had responded to the call based on a citizen complaint, was approached by Mr. Garver and advised that he was a fugitive and wanted by the FBI. Along was the female, the female that was accompanying him, who was Ms. Smith.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OSIAS: Garver is being held in a Knoxville jail facing federal and state charges, including custodial interference. As for Mimi, she is in custody in Tennessee right now, awaiting a reunion everybody hopes -- certainly, her family does -- with her family here in Oregon -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Kimberly Osias, thanks so much.

Well, four months after a brutal attack during an NHL game, Vancouver Canucks forward Todd Bertuzzi is charged with assault. The charge stems from this incident back in March. You'll remember, it left Colorado's Steve Moore with neck injuries and a concussion. Well, Bertuzzi, who tearfully apologized for punching Moore, was suspended for the rest of the season. He goes before a judge in Vancouver July 9.

WHITFIELD: It's tough to look at that tape every time.

Well, will it be a major makeover for NASA? Changes in the wind for America's space agency. We'll have details coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(WEATHER UPDATE)

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PHILLIPS: Well, NASA IS poised for a major overhaul. The agency is under pressure to return to space, improve safety, and fulfill President Bush's vision for exploring the moon and mars.

Space correspondent and my partner most of the days, Miles O'Brien, talked one on one with the NASA administrator about the changes. He's here with the details.

See, we told folks you were on assignment.

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT: Well, I am on assignment. It's just upstairs. I've been busy.

PHILLIPS: Thanks for coming down and visiting. I missed you all week.

O'BRIEN: Yes. Yes. It's going to be great when it's done. That's all I can say.

Let's talk about NASA, though, and reorganizing. It's interesting it comes on the same week that we saw SpaceShipOne out in the Mojave Desert, Burt Rutan and company, flying to the absolute doorstep of space with a privately funded venture, an entrepreneurial effort, a newly minted private astronaut by the name of Mike Melvill.

Now, the question is, how do you get from this to what NASA proposes, which is a rather grandiose scheme to go to the moon, set up a colony there, and then onward to Mars eventually? That's the president's vision from January 14. Figuring out how to get there from here has been what NASA has been all about in the past six months.

Now, I'm not going to make your eyes glaze over with the flowchart changes. Let me run through this quickly, however, for you. Essentially, the agency is being reorganized around four general areas, science, exploration systems, space operations, running the shuttle and so forth, aeronautics research, making better planes.

Quickly, I'll show you how the centers are going to be lined up, according to all that. Basically, the field centers, they're 10 of them all around the country basically to -- you're not going to shut down those centers, because that would upset too many people in Congress. Goddard, Ames, and Jet Propulsion will do science. Next slide, please.

And we'll go to the funding and the organization for aeronautics research, Langley, Glenn, and Dryden. And finally, let's move it along, next slide, because this is too boring. Next slide. Never mind.

(LAUGHTER)

O'BRIEN: I need some reorganization.

(LAUGHTER)

O'BRIEN: In any case, I had a chance to talk to Sean O'Keefe yesterday and asked him if in fact all of this, when you put it all in perspective, can NASA get to the moon and Mars with this sort of pay- as-you-go approach?

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEAN O'KEEFE, NASA ADMINISTRATOR: What the president's articulated here is a strategy, a direction, a focus, that you build on one step at a time. And the goal is not a destination. The goal is to build capability in order to explore, informed by the science, you know, looking at a wide range of opportunities that can be developed as you discover them along the way.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

O'BRIEN: So, necessity a bit of the mother of invention here. NASA is charged with doing some big things on a very scanty budget. The question is, launching a new organization, will that help? Well, it's a good place to start. The can-do agency needs to think differently if it's going to do what it did. It's not like the old days of Apollo, where they got a big, fat blank check and said, go to the moon, yes.

PHILLIPS: Go for it.

Well, on sort of a side note, are you on the list?

O'BRIEN: Am I on the list, you mean over there in Mojave?

PHILLIPS: Yes.

O'BRIEN: Well, I asked Burt Rutan if I could go. He said, well, you'll be right behind me.

PHILLIPS: All right, maybe he'll help split the cost.

O'BRIEN: And I said, well, there's two other seats. Let's take a ride on that X prize and we'll be there. So I'll let you know.

PHILLIPS: When are you coming back, pal?

O'BRIEN: What, from the...

PHILLIPS: No, here.

O'BRIEN: Oh. Well, I've got to go out and do Cassini next week and then I'll be back.

PHILLIPS: OK.

O'BRIEN: All right, Cassini, you've heard about that one, right?

PHILLIPS: Quick plug. Come on.

O'BRIEN: Entering the orbit of Saturn. Cassini will enter the orbit of Saturn next week.

PHILLIPS: OK. O'BRIEN: It's going to be very exciting and very perilous. The ring of Saturn is just a bunch of rocks and they're going to fly right through it twice.

PHILLIPS: Cool stuff.

O'BRIEN: And hopefully live to tell the tale.

PHILLIPS: All right, stay tuned.

O'BRIEN: All right. See you.

PHILLIPS: All right.

WHITFIELD: I still like the idea of Miles going to space. That would certainly grab lot of attention and make you happy.

O'BRIEN: Well, as Sandy (ph) says at home, a one-way trip would be preferable.

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WHITFIELD: We want round-trip.

PHILLIPS: Please.

WHITFIELD: All right, well, maybe you're looking for another way to get some attention. Well, just roll with it. That's what this guy did. We'll tell you why. This guy right here. Yes, there he is. He's rolling. Why is he doing that? We'll explain.

And will it be the Boss vs. the boss this summer? Could Bruce Springsteen be next in line to go up against President Bush?

LIVE FROM continues right after this.

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PHILLIPS: Yes, you've seen and heard all the hype over the new book. Now you get a chance to ask the questions. Former President Bill Clinton is tonight's guest on "LARRY KING LIVE." It's President Clinton's first live prime-time interview since the debut of "My Life." Tune in 9:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.

WHITFIELD: They've lined up for the books and they've lined up for the movie. Filmmaker Michael Moore says he hopes to influence the November presidential election with his new documentary, "Fahrenheit 9/11." There was a star-studded turnout for the film's debut in New York last night.

And Jason Carroll tells us all about it.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) JASON CARROLL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's got all the hype of a summer blockbuster. Kudos at Cannes, celeb arrivals in Los Angeles, New York, voices on the left and right strutting the same red carpet. All for a documentary? You bet.

Michael Moore is back, taking aim at President Bush and his administration in Fahrenheit 9/11. MICHAEL MOORE, FILMMAKER: You're going to laugh a lot. You're going to cry. And you're going to leave, I think, feeling that, damn it, you know, this is a great country and it's ours, and we should do something about it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're trying to get members of Congress to get their kids to enlist in the Army, and go over to Iraq.

CARROLL: Its premise: the United States is led by an incompetent president who led the country into a war that should not have been fought. So controversial, Disney backed off from distributing it and made Miramax do the same.

It's R-rated, despite a personal plea from former New York Governor Mario Cuomo for a more appealing PG-13.

MOORE: I encourage teenagers everywhere to sneak in and see this movie.

CARROLL: Challenging with biting humor. It's more style, and there's plenty of it in Fahrenheit 9/11.

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive.

CARROLL: Famed sci-fi author Ray Bradbury isn't laughing, upset the film's title borrows from his classic book about book burning, Fahrenheit 451.

RAY BRADBURY, AUTHOR: It's very simple; I'd like him to return my title.

CARROLL: Critics say the documentary is less about facts, more about politics, but ultimately audiences will decide.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think Moore presents himself in a very one- sided way.

CARROLL (on camera): Did the film change anyone's opinion after seeing it? I mean, did you go in -- did anyone here go in with...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It wasn't a question of changing. It revealed the truth.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'd love to see Bush see it and see what he has to say about it. I would love that.

CARROLL (voice over): A spokesman for the president called it typical Hollywood, and in response to Moore's hope his film will sway the election, he says, the voters want fact not fiction when they cast their ballots.

Another controversial filmmaker put it in perspective.

SPIKE LEE, FILMMAKER: It's not that you have to agree with everything that's in the film. That's not the point. The point is that issues are raised, and people come out of the theater talking and discussing about what they just saw.

CARROLL: Plenty of that going on already.

Jason Carroll, CNN, New York.

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WHITFIELD: From Michael Moore to now the Boss taking on the president. Well, a concert promoter wants the rocker to promote his -- or, rather -- would rather promote the rocker's headline concert meant to steal the spotlight during the Republican National Convention.

The promoter has set up DraftBruce.com, an online petition to convince Springsteen to do the concert on the same night. The concert would take place the same day that President Bush would accept his party's nomination.

And Billy Crystal call plans to look marvelous on Broadway. The comedian/actor will make his Broadway debut in "700 Sundays." The autobiographical one-man show will hit the Broadhurst Theater in December. The show won't be all stand-up shtick, but more about Crystal's personal life.

PHILLIPS: Well, while we're on a role here, we thought we'd introduce you to a guy who is really on a roll.

WHITFIELD: Rolling, rolling, rolling.

PHILLIPS: Cue Fred. Cue Fred.

WHITFIELD: The man is rolling.

PHILLIPS: The holy man is known as the Rolling Seer, and he's tossing and turning from his hometown in India all the way to Islamabad, Pakistan, in an effort to bring peace between the two countries.

Well, during the roll, he does not eat. He only takes sips of water, smokes the occasional smoke. Wonder if he rolls his own. Lest you think he's not able to go the distance, he holds the rolling world record. Ten years ago, he made a distance of 2,485 miles.

WHITFIELD: And they worry about people who can walk and chew. He can drink and roll. How does he do that?

PHILLIPS: Sip, drink, roll. It's that like drop, roll ex- advertisement for putting out a fire.

WHITFIELD: Oh, boy.

PHILLIPS: All right, well, that wraps up this Thursday edition of LIVE FROM.

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