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Bush Defends War Against Terror Policies; Deadline Extended for Filipino Hostage; Peterson Prosecution's Star Witness May Appear Soon; Researcher Continue Work on AIDS Vaccine; Web Site Tracks Political Contributions

Aired July 12, 2004 - 13:00   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.


(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Every potential adversary now knows that terrorism and proliferation carry serious consequences.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KYRA PHILLIPS, ANCHOR: President Bush speaking out in Tennessee, but not speaking to the NAACP.

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Ted Rowlands, live in Redwood City, California, where prosecutors are moving closer in the Scott Peterson double murder trial to bringing out his former mistress, Amber Frey. We'll have a live report coming up.

PHILLIPS: Staying true to your significant other. New animal research suggests it has nothing to do with true love.

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips. Miles is off. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

Up first this hour, an Oak Ridge Boy takes center stage in the war against terror. Make that an honorary, temporary Oak Ridge Boy. President Bush at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in East Tennessee, forcibly defending U.S. tactics in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.

CNN's Kathleen Koch has the latest now -- Kathleen.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, the president made a very strong and very forceful speech in the war on terror today, really taking on point by point the issues that have been raised by the Kerry-Edwards campaign.

They, alleging that Iraq, what the U.S. action in Iraq, U.S. action in Afghanistan, that those have made the world a more dangerous place, made Americans less safe.

But President Bush again today a very tough speech and he took those on point by point, saying that what the U.S. had done, again, what his administration had done over the last three years since taking office did make America a safer place.

And talked about what actions not only in Afghanistan, also talked about Libya. Here at Oak Ridge is where many, many pounds of equipment, tons of equipment that Libya has turned over from its abandoned nuclear weapons program is stored. The president talked about U.S. successes in getting Libya to give up that program.

And the U.S. -- and President Bush insisted the U.S. was right to go to war in Iraq.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BUSH: Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq.

We removed a declared enemy of America who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder, and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them. In the world after September 11, that was a risk we could not afford to take.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: President Bush, before his speech, toured some of the storage facilities here in Oak Ridge National Laboratories, where some 525 plus tons of Libyan nuclear equipment was stored. The president saying it was sobering evidence of a great danger.

The president also spoke out on the Senate Intelligence Committee report, saying that it did identify some shortcomings and that the report will help us in our reform -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, from sobering evidence to sobering reality, mechanical issues with his aircraft taking off today?

KOCH: Yes, indeed. The president flew here from Andrews Air Force to the Tennessee -- the Knoxville, Tennessee, area on board his usually 747, Air Force One.

But at some point -- we don't know if it was while the plane was in midair or upon landing -- it was discovered that a flap on one wing was off the tracks.

So while the president was speaking here at Oak Ridge National Laboratory a smaller aircraft, a 757, was flown in. The president has a variety of these smaller aircrafts up at Andrews Air Force Base that he uses on shorter trips, uses when he's flying into smaller airports. And one of those was brought in, and the president is now headed back to Andrews aboard that aircraft.

PHILLIPS: All right. Kathleen Koch, thanks so much.

Well, as you heard, Mr. Bush says that ousting Saddam was worth it, even if no weapons of mass destruction are ever found in Iraq. But the absence, in light of pre-war intelligence predicting otherwise, will long be a sore point politically, militarily and diplomatically.

The man who led the U.N. and U.S. search teams predicted back in January that no WMDs would come up. And today David Kay talked to CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING: about that blistering Senate condemnation of the CIA.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DAVID KAY, FORMER U.N./U.S. WEAPONS INSPECTOR: This report documents pretty directly what happened. There was an abuse of authority at the very top, that is the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, withheld information from other elements of the intelligence agency, particularly true in the nuclear area, but also true with regard to biological weapons; withheld information from policymakers; and quite frankly, didn't come clean with Congress.

It's a broken culture; bad trade craft (ph). No collection -- didn't really -- no human intelligence collection in Iraq at all after '98.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Iraq's new president says the occupation is over, so the resistance ought to end, too.

Ghazi al-Yawer says if insurgents don't back down he'll use, and we quote, "a very sharp sword" to fight back.

The European Union hopes that doesn't mean the death penalty. The E.U. is meeting with Iraq's foreign minister over reconstruction aid and security gaps.

Speaking of which, there's been another mortar attack at Abu Ghraib prison. The sixth such attack in less than three months wounded one person. We don't yet know whether it was a detainee, guard or somebody else.

But more than 2,300 Iraqis are still being held at Abu Ghraib, where numerous Iraqis apparently, allegedly, were mistreated by their American captors.

Now, among the accused, Private First Class Lynndie England, whose case comes up any minute now at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is not the hearing to determine whether England faces court- martial, but it could decide how much time her lawyers have to prepare.

England faces 13 counts of abusing detainees.

It appears the group that kidnapped and threatened to kill a Filipino truck driver has extended its deadline to the Philippines to agree to pull out of Iraq.

CNN's Maria Ressa has the latest now from Manila.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARIA RESSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In an effort to try to limit any confusion and conflicting information, the Philippine government has designated one spokesperson on the hostage crisis. That's the foreign affairs secretary, Delia Albert. A short while ago, she issued a carefully worded statement. It had three main points: first that the Philippine government will continue to try negotiating for the safe release of 46-year-old Angelo De la Cruz.

Two, it verified that he is alive. It says, quote, "We are thankful Mr. Angelo De la Cruz remains alive and, as we understand it, will be treated under existing civilized rules."

Finally, it made apparent reference to the extension of a deadline without referring to the actual number specifically. The statement says, quote, "Through the efforts of our close friends and contacts who, like us, hope to resolve this matter with no loss of life, additional time has been obtained within which discussions can continue."

As this is going on, Angelo De la Cruz's wife and brother were flown to the Middle East by the Philippine government at their request. His relatives have been broadcasting appeals on radio and television for his life in the hopes that the kidnappers will listen.

At this point, the Philippine government says it will remain steadfast to its international commitments and policies, but will continue to try to work for the safe release of the Filipino hostage.

This is Maria Ressa, CNN, Manila.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: The U.S. Marine who vanished from Fallujah and turned up in Beirut three weeks later is said to be cooperating with his debriefers in Germany.

Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun is undergoing medical and psychological testing at the U.S. Army base in Landstuhl, a process the military calls repatriation.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LT. COL. SALLY HARVEY, PSYCHOLOGIST: Repatriation is an operational mission. It involves a large number of people from the intelligence community, from the survival, evasion, resistance and escape community. There's medical folks available. There's chaplain and there's a psychologist.

The goal is to gather the important information that he has, to gather lessons learned from his experience so that we can share that with folks in the field, but most importantly to give him a chance to rest, recuperate, get his head on his shoulders, get his feet on the ground, and help him place this experience into perspective.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Hassoun, seen here with his mother, hasn't yet spoken to criminal investigators who want to corroborate his account of being kidnapped June 19. Nine days later he turned up blindfolded and helpless in a video clip.

It's still unclear how he made it back to his native Lebanon.

Other news across America now.

An emotional dedication in Boston: a memorial to the Massachusetts victims killed in the 9/11 attacks was unveiled this morning. Many of the victims were aboard two hijacked airliners that left Boston and crashed into the World Trade Center.

She did it. The lawyer of a New Jersey woman accused of killing her brother-in-law and spiking his drink with antifreeze says that she's confessed. The lawyer says she only intended to hurt a relative so she could take control of his fitness. Maryann Neabor was arrested last night. She faces formal charges later today.

Singer Bobby Brown free on bond. The R&B star posted $2,000 bail in Atlanta last night in connection to charges that he hit his wife, Whitney Houston, back in December. The charge is just the latest in a series of legal troubles for Brown.

Some of the most intriguing testimony yet could come this week in the Scott Peterson trial. Amber Frey, Peterson's former mistress and the prosecution's key witness, may take the stand.

CNN's Ted Rowlands is covering the trial live from Redwood City, California -- Ted.

ROWLANDS: Kyra, it's unclear when Frey will take the stand. We have been given an idea that it will not take place today. But all bets are off for the rest of the week.

Earlier, we had heard that it was going to be at least a week from this week's -- next week but really, it has been herky-jerky, if you will, on the prosecution side. They're bringing different types of witnesses in, and the witness lists are not being made public.

So safe to say people are intrigued, and the rumors are flying that Frey could be coming sooner than later. She is, of course, considered to be the prosecution's, if not most important, one of their most important witnesses, because she worked with investigators in the days after Laci Peterson's disappearance.

She tape recorded conversations between herself and Scott Peterson, and in those tape recorded conversations, according to the prosecution in opening statements, Peterson lied not only about where he was -- He said he was in Europe traveling -- but he also lied about his marital status.

And he tried to actively continue his relationship with Frey, despite the fact that his wife was missing, and not only his community, but people around the country were actively looking for her.

The bulk of this morning's testimony has been centered on the San Francisco Bay and the searches that were conducted for evidence before and after Laci and Connor Peterson's remains were found.

The prosecution is trying to establish that the conditions in the San Francisco Bay were so treacherous that it would be OK to assume that they did not find any other evidence in the bay, investigators, that linked Scott Peterson to his wife's murders or to the bodies that were recovered.

The defense is saying that the technology that was utilized and the man force that was -- workforce that was utilized should have come up with something, if indeed something was there.

Right now, jurors are watching a videotape of the Peterson home that was taken when they served a search warrant in late December, the first search warrant at that home. That tape is expected to take up the rest of the morning session -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Ted Rowlands, thanks so much.

Well, Ron Reagan has a speaking engagement at the Democratic National Convention, raising the political stakes of controversial stem cell research.

And is an AIDS vaccine any closer to becoming a reality? Our Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the latest from the International AIDS Conference.

And that's got to hurt. Just ahead, why some folks are taking home some lasting souvenirs from the running of the bulls.

ANNOUNCER: You're watching LIVE FROM on CNN, the most trusted name in news.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(WEATHER REPORT

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Stay tuned. The World AIDS Conference in Thailand, the focus of this year's meeting is prevention, now that a record five million people contracted HIV in just the past year.

But progress on an AIDS vaccine is less than encouraging. CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains from Bangkok.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Since 1981, we've been talking about AIDS. For almost as long, we've also been talking about a vaccine. Twenty-three years later the number of AIDS patients still grows, but the enthusiasm for a vaccine wanes.

SETH BERKELLY, MYI: Obviously at the end of the day we'd like a vaccine that is oral, used once in a lifetime and would protect against all strains of the virus. We may not get there.

GUPTA: Right now, we're not even close. Currently around the world there are 30 small-scale vaccine trials in 19 countries on six continents. Despite the truly effort, these trials are all strikingly similar to one another. If one doesn't work, there's a good chance none of them will. And we won't know for sure until at least 2007.

Still, researchers hope for the best.

DR. ROBERT SCHOOLEY, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: That the point, I don't think we know. I think we all have to be hopeful. We all have to continue to engage in and support AIDS vaccine research, because it's a very important goal.

But we have to understand that, just like the cure of cancer in 1969 that Richard Nixon announced, it sometimes takes longer than we'd like it to take.

GUPTA: And researchers say it will need a change of mind-set to come up with the right formula.

HELEN GAYLE, AIDS RESEARCHER: Given that we are now 20 years into HIV vaccine research, there's a great sense from the researchers themselves that, if we keep doing things the way we're doing them, we could be 20 years from now saying the same thing.

GUPTA (on camera): In the meantime, the focus has to remain on getting treatment to those who need it the most. There are six million people around the world who have full-blown AIDS, and they don't have time to wait.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Bangkok.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Other news around the world now.

In Israel, joining forces: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon proposes a new unity government. The opposition Labor Party appears poised to accept, but his position appears shaky, barely surviving three no confidence votes.

The new government would implement Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. Sharon warns if hard liners try to block that plan he may call early elections.

An American is among eight people gored today in one of the bloodiest bull runs ever held in Pamplona, Spain. Ten other people were injured in falls or stampedes. That run ends July 14.

Traffic was thrown into chaos; millions of people sweltered in 100-degree heat when the power when out in Athens, Greece. That blackout comes one month before the summer Olympics are due to begin. The government says that a major substation may have failed.

Want to know which candidate your co-worker supports? Well, a new web site allowing anyone to track how much money you give to a campaign is raising some questions about privacy in politics.

Ron Reagan speaking out about stem cell research at the DNC. Could it affect the race for the White House? We'll debate it.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Before you contribute money to a political candidate, would it bother you to know that anybody with access to the Internet may be able to track your donation? It could happen.

CNN's Alina Cho explains just now.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Easy as typing in your name. In this case, Patty Kennedy finds her address and a record of her $1,250 donation to Joseph Lieberman on the web site FundRace.org, political contribution, part of the public record.

(on camera) You like Kerry?

PATTY KENNEDY, CONSULTANT: I do. I like Kerry. I don't think he's perfect.

CHO: Kennedy traditionally votes Democratic; also gave money to Wesley Clark.

KENNEDY: I don't mind letting people know where I stand politically and who I've contributed to. I'm happy to talk about it.

CHO: What about celebrities? Jerry Seinfeld may not publicize it but he gave $2,000 each to Kerry and Clarke.

JERRY SEINFELD, COMEDIAN: Why do people always say that? I hate everybody. Why would I like him?

CHO: There's the $2,000 to Dennis Kucinich, courtesy of Matt Damon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you like them apples?

CHO: Then there's Donald Trump.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's covered all of his bases: John Kerry, George Bush. There you go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Check out your neighbors, and check out your co-workers and your boss and see who they're giving to is something that is the kind of thing that people will do.

CHO (on camera): Fund Race was created to get people politically involved. It has blossomed into a voyeuristic thrill, getting 200,000 hits a day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can keep track of everybody. It's good for the media.

CHO (voice-over): At this Internet cafe...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think that's anybody else's business.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just don't think there's any expectation of privacy when you do that kind of thing.

CHO: Privacy experts say blame it on the Internet.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Most of us are used to the idea that we're in control of who we tell about our political views, but those days are over.

CHO (on camera): Well, your money's out there.

KENNEDY: My money's there. I put my money where my mouth was. Let's hope it counts.

CHO (voice-over): Whether the information is public or not.

Alina Cho, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: From the lap of luxury to a life in prison, another corporate criminal has turned herself in. Rhonda Schaffler joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange with that story -- Rhonda.

(STOCK REPORT)

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Aired July 12, 2004 - 13:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Every potential adversary now knows that terrorism and proliferation carry serious consequences.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KYRA PHILLIPS, ANCHOR: President Bush speaking out in Tennessee, but not speaking to the NAACP.

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Ted Rowlands, live in Redwood City, California, where prosecutors are moving closer in the Scott Peterson double murder trial to bringing out his former mistress, Amber Frey. We'll have a live report coming up.

PHILLIPS: Staying true to your significant other. New animal research suggests it has nothing to do with true love.

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips. Miles is off. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

Up first this hour, an Oak Ridge Boy takes center stage in the war against terror. Make that an honorary, temporary Oak Ridge Boy. President Bush at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in East Tennessee, forcibly defending U.S. tactics in Iraq, Afghanistan and beyond.

CNN's Kathleen Koch has the latest now -- Kathleen.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, the president made a very strong and very forceful speech in the war on terror today, really taking on point by point the issues that have been raised by the Kerry-Edwards campaign.

They, alleging that Iraq, what the U.S. action in Iraq, U.S. action in Afghanistan, that those have made the world a more dangerous place, made Americans less safe.

But President Bush again today a very tough speech and he took those on point by point, saying that what the U.S. had done, again, what his administration had done over the last three years since taking office did make America a safer place.

And talked about what actions not only in Afghanistan, also talked about Libya. Here at Oak Ridge is where many, many pounds of equipment, tons of equipment that Libya has turned over from its abandoned nuclear weapons program is stored. The president talked about U.S. successes in getting Libya to give up that program.

And the U.S. -- and President Bush insisted the U.S. was right to go to war in Iraq.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

BUSH: Although we have not found stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, we were right to go into Iraq.

We removed a declared enemy of America who had the capability of producing weapons of mass murder, and could have passed that capability to terrorists bent on acquiring them. In the world after September 11, that was a risk we could not afford to take.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: President Bush, before his speech, toured some of the storage facilities here in Oak Ridge National Laboratories, where some 525 plus tons of Libyan nuclear equipment was stored. The president saying it was sobering evidence of a great danger.

The president also spoke out on the Senate Intelligence Committee report, saying that it did identify some shortcomings and that the report will help us in our reform -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, from sobering evidence to sobering reality, mechanical issues with his aircraft taking off today?

KOCH: Yes, indeed. The president flew here from Andrews Air Force to the Tennessee -- the Knoxville, Tennessee, area on board his usually 747, Air Force One.

But at some point -- we don't know if it was while the plane was in midair or upon landing -- it was discovered that a flap on one wing was off the tracks.

So while the president was speaking here at Oak Ridge National Laboratory a smaller aircraft, a 757, was flown in. The president has a variety of these smaller aircrafts up at Andrews Air Force Base that he uses on shorter trips, uses when he's flying into smaller airports. And one of those was brought in, and the president is now headed back to Andrews aboard that aircraft.

PHILLIPS: All right. Kathleen Koch, thanks so much.

Well, as you heard, Mr. Bush says that ousting Saddam was worth it, even if no weapons of mass destruction are ever found in Iraq. But the absence, in light of pre-war intelligence predicting otherwise, will long be a sore point politically, militarily and diplomatically.

The man who led the U.N. and U.S. search teams predicted back in January that no WMDs would come up. And today David Kay talked to CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING: about that blistering Senate condemnation of the CIA.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DAVID KAY, FORMER U.N./U.S. WEAPONS INSPECTOR: This report documents pretty directly what happened. There was an abuse of authority at the very top, that is the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, withheld information from other elements of the intelligence agency, particularly true in the nuclear area, but also true with regard to biological weapons; withheld information from policymakers; and quite frankly, didn't come clean with Congress.

It's a broken culture; bad trade craft (ph). No collection -- didn't really -- no human intelligence collection in Iraq at all after '98.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Iraq's new president says the occupation is over, so the resistance ought to end, too.

Ghazi al-Yawer says if insurgents don't back down he'll use, and we quote, "a very sharp sword" to fight back.

The European Union hopes that doesn't mean the death penalty. The E.U. is meeting with Iraq's foreign minister over reconstruction aid and security gaps.

Speaking of which, there's been another mortar attack at Abu Ghraib prison. The sixth such attack in less than three months wounded one person. We don't yet know whether it was a detainee, guard or somebody else.

But more than 2,300 Iraqis are still being held at Abu Ghraib, where numerous Iraqis apparently, allegedly, were mistreated by their American captors.

Now, among the accused, Private First Class Lynndie England, whose case comes up any minute now at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. This is not the hearing to determine whether England faces court- martial, but it could decide how much time her lawyers have to prepare.

England faces 13 counts of abusing detainees.

It appears the group that kidnapped and threatened to kill a Filipino truck driver has extended its deadline to the Philippines to agree to pull out of Iraq.

CNN's Maria Ressa has the latest now from Manila.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MARIA RESSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: In an effort to try to limit any confusion and conflicting information, the Philippine government has designated one spokesperson on the hostage crisis. That's the foreign affairs secretary, Delia Albert. A short while ago, she issued a carefully worded statement. It had three main points: first that the Philippine government will continue to try negotiating for the safe release of 46-year-old Angelo De la Cruz.

Two, it verified that he is alive. It says, quote, "We are thankful Mr. Angelo De la Cruz remains alive and, as we understand it, will be treated under existing civilized rules."

Finally, it made apparent reference to the extension of a deadline without referring to the actual number specifically. The statement says, quote, "Through the efforts of our close friends and contacts who, like us, hope to resolve this matter with no loss of life, additional time has been obtained within which discussions can continue."

As this is going on, Angelo De la Cruz's wife and brother were flown to the Middle East by the Philippine government at their request. His relatives have been broadcasting appeals on radio and television for his life in the hopes that the kidnappers will listen.

At this point, the Philippine government says it will remain steadfast to its international commitments and policies, but will continue to try to work for the safe release of the Filipino hostage.

This is Maria Ressa, CNN, Manila.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: The U.S. Marine who vanished from Fallujah and turned up in Beirut three weeks later is said to be cooperating with his debriefers in Germany.

Corporal Wassef Ali Hassoun is undergoing medical and psychological testing at the U.S. Army base in Landstuhl, a process the military calls repatriation.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LT. COL. SALLY HARVEY, PSYCHOLOGIST: Repatriation is an operational mission. It involves a large number of people from the intelligence community, from the survival, evasion, resistance and escape community. There's medical folks available. There's chaplain and there's a psychologist.

The goal is to gather the important information that he has, to gather lessons learned from his experience so that we can share that with folks in the field, but most importantly to give him a chance to rest, recuperate, get his head on his shoulders, get his feet on the ground, and help him place this experience into perspective.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Hassoun, seen here with his mother, hasn't yet spoken to criminal investigators who want to corroborate his account of being kidnapped June 19. Nine days later he turned up blindfolded and helpless in a video clip.

It's still unclear how he made it back to his native Lebanon.

Other news across America now.

An emotional dedication in Boston: a memorial to the Massachusetts victims killed in the 9/11 attacks was unveiled this morning. Many of the victims were aboard two hijacked airliners that left Boston and crashed into the World Trade Center.

She did it. The lawyer of a New Jersey woman accused of killing her brother-in-law and spiking his drink with antifreeze says that she's confessed. The lawyer says she only intended to hurt a relative so she could take control of his fitness. Maryann Neabor was arrested last night. She faces formal charges later today.

Singer Bobby Brown free on bond. The R&B star posted $2,000 bail in Atlanta last night in connection to charges that he hit his wife, Whitney Houston, back in December. The charge is just the latest in a series of legal troubles for Brown.

Some of the most intriguing testimony yet could come this week in the Scott Peterson trial. Amber Frey, Peterson's former mistress and the prosecution's key witness, may take the stand.

CNN's Ted Rowlands is covering the trial live from Redwood City, California -- Ted.

ROWLANDS: Kyra, it's unclear when Frey will take the stand. We have been given an idea that it will not take place today. But all bets are off for the rest of the week.

Earlier, we had heard that it was going to be at least a week from this week's -- next week but really, it has been herky-jerky, if you will, on the prosecution side. They're bringing different types of witnesses in, and the witness lists are not being made public.

So safe to say people are intrigued, and the rumors are flying that Frey could be coming sooner than later. She is, of course, considered to be the prosecution's, if not most important, one of their most important witnesses, because she worked with investigators in the days after Laci Peterson's disappearance.

She tape recorded conversations between herself and Scott Peterson, and in those tape recorded conversations, according to the prosecution in opening statements, Peterson lied not only about where he was -- He said he was in Europe traveling -- but he also lied about his marital status.

And he tried to actively continue his relationship with Frey, despite the fact that his wife was missing, and not only his community, but people around the country were actively looking for her.

The bulk of this morning's testimony has been centered on the San Francisco Bay and the searches that were conducted for evidence before and after Laci and Connor Peterson's remains were found.

The prosecution is trying to establish that the conditions in the San Francisco Bay were so treacherous that it would be OK to assume that they did not find any other evidence in the bay, investigators, that linked Scott Peterson to his wife's murders or to the bodies that were recovered.

The defense is saying that the technology that was utilized and the man force that was -- workforce that was utilized should have come up with something, if indeed something was there.

Right now, jurors are watching a videotape of the Peterson home that was taken when they served a search warrant in late December, the first search warrant at that home. That tape is expected to take up the rest of the morning session -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Ted Rowlands, thanks so much.

Well, Ron Reagan has a speaking engagement at the Democratic National Convention, raising the political stakes of controversial stem cell research.

And is an AIDS vaccine any closer to becoming a reality? Our Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the latest from the International AIDS Conference.

And that's got to hurt. Just ahead, why some folks are taking home some lasting souvenirs from the running of the bulls.

ANNOUNCER: You're watching LIVE FROM on CNN, the most trusted name in news.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(WEATHER REPORT

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Stay tuned. The World AIDS Conference in Thailand, the focus of this year's meeting is prevention, now that a record five million people contracted HIV in just the past year.

But progress on an AIDS vaccine is less than encouraging. CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains from Bangkok.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Since 1981, we've been talking about AIDS. For almost as long, we've also been talking about a vaccine. Twenty-three years later the number of AIDS patients still grows, but the enthusiasm for a vaccine wanes.

SETH BERKELLY, MYI: Obviously at the end of the day we'd like a vaccine that is oral, used once in a lifetime and would protect against all strains of the virus. We may not get there.

GUPTA: Right now, we're not even close. Currently around the world there are 30 small-scale vaccine trials in 19 countries on six continents. Despite the truly effort, these trials are all strikingly similar to one another. If one doesn't work, there's a good chance none of them will. And we won't know for sure until at least 2007.

Still, researchers hope for the best.

DR. ROBERT SCHOOLEY, UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO: That the point, I don't think we know. I think we all have to be hopeful. We all have to continue to engage in and support AIDS vaccine research, because it's a very important goal.

But we have to understand that, just like the cure of cancer in 1969 that Richard Nixon announced, it sometimes takes longer than we'd like it to take.

GUPTA: And researchers say it will need a change of mind-set to come up with the right formula.

HELEN GAYLE, AIDS RESEARCHER: Given that we are now 20 years into HIV vaccine research, there's a great sense from the researchers themselves that, if we keep doing things the way we're doing them, we could be 20 years from now saying the same thing.

GUPTA (on camera): In the meantime, the focus has to remain on getting treatment to those who need it the most. There are six million people around the world who have full-blown AIDS, and they don't have time to wait.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Bangkok.

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PHILLIPS: Other news around the world now.

In Israel, joining forces: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon proposes a new unity government. The opposition Labor Party appears poised to accept, but his position appears shaky, barely surviving three no confidence votes.

The new government would implement Sharon's plan to withdraw from Gaza and parts of the West Bank. Sharon warns if hard liners try to block that plan he may call early elections.

An American is among eight people gored today in one of the bloodiest bull runs ever held in Pamplona, Spain. Ten other people were injured in falls or stampedes. That run ends July 14.

Traffic was thrown into chaos; millions of people sweltered in 100-degree heat when the power when out in Athens, Greece. That blackout comes one month before the summer Olympics are due to begin. The government says that a major substation may have failed.

Want to know which candidate your co-worker supports? Well, a new web site allowing anyone to track how much money you give to a campaign is raising some questions about privacy in politics.

Ron Reagan speaking out about stem cell research at the DNC. Could it affect the race for the White House? We'll debate it.

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PHILLIPS: Before you contribute money to a political candidate, would it bother you to know that anybody with access to the Internet may be able to track your donation? It could happen.

CNN's Alina Cho explains just now.

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ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Easy as typing in your name. In this case, Patty Kennedy finds her address and a record of her $1,250 donation to Joseph Lieberman on the web site FundRace.org, political contribution, part of the public record.

(on camera) You like Kerry?

PATTY KENNEDY, CONSULTANT: I do. I like Kerry. I don't think he's perfect.

CHO: Kennedy traditionally votes Democratic; also gave money to Wesley Clark.

KENNEDY: I don't mind letting people know where I stand politically and who I've contributed to. I'm happy to talk about it.

CHO: What about celebrities? Jerry Seinfeld may not publicize it but he gave $2,000 each to Kerry and Clarke.

JERRY SEINFELD, COMEDIAN: Why do people always say that? I hate everybody. Why would I like him?

CHO: There's the $2,000 to Dennis Kucinich, courtesy of Matt Damon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How do you like them apples?

CHO: Then there's Donald Trump.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's covered all of his bases: John Kerry, George Bush. There you go.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Check out your neighbors, and check out your co-workers and your boss and see who they're giving to is something that is the kind of thing that people will do.

CHO (on camera): Fund Race was created to get people politically involved. It has blossomed into a voyeuristic thrill, getting 200,000 hits a day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You can keep track of everybody. It's good for the media.

CHO (voice-over): At this Internet cafe...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think that's anybody else's business.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I just don't think there's any expectation of privacy when you do that kind of thing.

CHO: Privacy experts say blame it on the Internet.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Most of us are used to the idea that we're in control of who we tell about our political views, but those days are over.

CHO (on camera): Well, your money's out there.

KENNEDY: My money's there. I put my money where my mouth was. Let's hope it counts.

CHO (voice-over): Whether the information is public or not.

Alina Cho, CNN, New York.

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PHILLIPS: From the lap of luxury to a life in prison, another corporate criminal has turned herself in. Rhonda Schaffler joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange with that story -- Rhonda.

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