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Delay in Start of Testimony in Scott Peterson Murder Trial

Aired July 14, 2004 - 13:35   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.


CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Taking a look now at stories in the news. Senate Republicans say it's not over. Those who want to change the Constitution to ban gay marriage didn't get enough votes today, and that means it's probably dead for this election year. John McCain broke from the GOP leadership and said the proposal was un-Republican.
And now Senator John Edwards is campaigning by himself for the first time without his running mate. In about a half an hour, he's going to rally on the steps of the Iowa statehouse, and we're going to take you there live.

And President Bush is taking questions from voters in Wisconsin, which went to Al Gore in 2000. Many of his comments today have focused on the war on terror.

Well, there's a delay in the start of testimony in the Scott Peterson murder trial today.

Joining us with developments from Redwood City, California, CNN's Rusty Dornin.

Rusty, what's the deal?

RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, you know, the doors remained closed to the public and the media many times during this court trial. Reporters and even legal experts have remarked on the frequency that it's happened.

Today, attorneys for the news media argued that they should keep the hearing open that was supposed to be closed to the press and to the public. They did score a partial victory. The judge admitted he was on the horns of a dilemma. But apparently, they will argue partially in open court a motion by the defense for a dismissal.

Defense attorney Mark Geragos is alleging misconduct on the part of prosecutors. That's been no secret all along. He's been accusing them of even lying outright on stand, and also not sharing discovery many times with the defense and just presenting it in court.

The jury is not going to be back until later this afternoon. What's expected to happen today is they are going to be showing interviews with Diane Sawyer and some other interviews Scott Peterson did with the press to see whether or not that will be shown to the jury. Those are the things that are going to be argued this morning. This motion for dismissal, it looks like, that's not going to take place until next week some time. As I said, part of it will be discussed in open court. Some of the things may be sensitive, and they maybe go back into closed chambers.

On the stand this afternoon, Detective Dodge Handee. He was on the stand for most of yesterday. He found much of the key evidence implicating Scott Peterson in the case. He found suspected blood drops. We never found out whether they were tested as blood in Scott Peterson's truck. He also found cement anchors and signs that other anchors were made perhaps in Scott Peterson's warehouse. That's what the prosecution is alleging. He also found that very controversial hair in the pliers at the bottom of Scott Peterson's boat. Prosecutors will continue their questioning of Handee this afternoon.

But when Mark Geragos begins his cross-examination, it's likely to get very contentious -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: As you were starting to talk about some of that evidence, we were seeing a number of pictures there, Rusty. There was a bucket with cement. Is that one of the pictures that we saw there? We saw the pliers. We saw some of the hair samples there.

DORNIN: Well, they found one cement anchor. But there were signs, you can see in some of those pictures, of a lot of powder, powerderish-looking stuff, well that it was cement powder, that apparently, they're claiming there were imprints of other anchors that Scott Peterson may have made there. There was also a plastic container they believe he made the anchors with there. That was the contain that was shown. So it's going to be up to the jurors to decide whether they believe that this was used that way.

PHILLIPS: Rusty Dornin, Redwood City, thanks so much.

LIN: Kyra, there's a different case of life or death when it comes to how much the world cares about what it's going to do about an epidemic. Right now, most of the world is fighting about it at the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. One thing they seem to agree on, blaming the United States.

CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: The United States doesn't typically get a very warm welcome at the International AIDS Conference. Secretary Thompson gave a speech two years ago. You couldn't hear a word of it. His aids chief, Randall Tobias, was sent this time around, and was benched in less than two minutes. He did ultimately finish his speech, but the criticism was heard loud and clear. Many critics accuse the U.S. of barely showing up at the aids conference.

LAURIE GARRETT, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: AWOL, absent without...

GUPTA (on camera): Didn't show up? GARRETT: Didn't show up.

GUPTA (voice-over): Two years ago, the U.S. sent 230 people. This year, only 50.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... cost issue and it was also a relevance issue of trying to make a call of what is the most appropriate use of the resources that are valuable and who really needs to be here.

GUPTA (on camera): It's costly, they say.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How much does it cost to send one person over? $4,000, $5,000? How much does it cost to send -- how much did it cost to send Tommy Thompson on a tour of Africa? Two, three hundred thousand dollars? I think that's not an argument.

GUPTA (voice-over): The U.S. cannot be accused of not spending money. The pledge of $15 billion over five years to fight AIDS in other countries is the largest of any nation.

But it's more of a question as to where the money can be spent. For instance, the money cannot be used to purchase most generic drugs. That's accord to the government's own accounting office. U.S. officials say the drugs must meet FDA approval before they pay for them. That's a process that could take years.

Critics charge this is no different than setting up a slush fund for U.S. drug companies.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People are making that up. We're talking two to six weeks.

GUPTA: And there is the injection of morality into monetary decision. Abstinence only programs given preferential funding, also draws criticism.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are people who, here at this conference who have wanted to characterize the president's emergency plan as being opposed to condoms. And that's simply not true.

GUPTA (on camera): And the criticism coming not just from protester. President Chirac of France accused the United States of promoting brand name drugs over generics to developing countries. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the money the United States spent on Iraq should have been spent on AIDS instead.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Bangkok.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Lance's chances. Our daily update on Lance Armstrong's chances to win his sixth Tour de France. Today included the hardest climb so far in the 147-mile stage that end in St. Flour. The 32-year-old Texan was sixth in the stage. Richard Virenque won the race today, the 14th Frenchman to win, of course, on Bastille Day. No to the darker side of sports. The Senate is considering a bill that would ban over the counter sales of certain performance enhancing drugs. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken takes a look now at just how widespread the steroid problem is.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He didn't want to be identified, didn't want the major college where he played football four years to be identified. But he did want the problem of performance enhancing drugs identified.

"JOHN DOE," FORMER COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER: It became evident that many players on my football team were using steroids at some point during their career.

FRANKEN: Senators were addressing the ominous cloud over the world of U.S. athletics, a cloud turning into a storm because of efforts to weed out users.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going after 'em. We're going after the drug cheats -- and that's what they are.

FRANKEN: Various investigations have touched major league baseball All Stars, including slugger Barry Bonds, who denies using any performance enhancer; as do several track and field superstars, some of whom are now failing to qualify for the Olympics.

But it's a problem that has spread downward. The latest studies estimate that nearly 3 percent of high school students are users and that doping is even showing up in grade school.

Many experts blame win at all cost coaches.

"DOE": The coaches encouraged me to make more strength and weight gains as rapidly as I could.

FRANKEN (on camera): The senators are trying to design legislation that will keep everyone ahead of the game, ahead of the performance drugs that distort the game.

Bob Franken, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: Now a different way to build you up. We really want to keep you watching CNN. But the truth is, it's nap time. And if you think naps are just for little kid, then wake up to the latest trend. Jeanne Moos shows you how to catch 40 winks in style.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Flooding in Japan tops our news from around the world. Torrential rains left at least six people dead, four others missing. People in 20,000 homes had to leave. "Lion King" lawsuit. An impoverished South African family is suing Disney. They're the children and grandchildren of Solomon Linda who reportedly wrote the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1939. It became a hit and was featured in "The Lion King." The family says it's lost out on millions of dollars in royalties.

LIN: Talk about a "hairy" story. We warn you now these pictures may not be suitable for any hair dresser to watch. This 73-year-old Vietnamese grandfather hasn't trimmed his hair in more than 30 years. His long locks are vying for a spot in "The Guinness Book of World Record" now. He says hair is 20 feet long. No official confirmation though. Since he hasn't washed hair in a couple years, we decided not to check ourselves.

And in a city that never sleeps, they power nap. Folks who work near New York's Empire State building are stretching out for comfort. CNN's Jeanne Moos takes up napping.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When your head starts to droop, when your mouth starts to gape, maybe it's time to slip into something a little more comfortable.

(on camera) I wonder if people snore.

(voice-over): High above New York City in the Empire State Building, people are napping like peas in eight pods.

That's white noise. The pleasantly restful atmosphere feels like a cross between a gym and a funeral home.

Welcome to Metronaps.

ARSHAD CHOWDHURY, CO-FOUNDER, METRONAPS: Well, Metronaps is a place to power nap. It's a place where people can recharge.

MOOS: Cofounder Arshad Chowdhury offers 20-minute naps for $14. Some who have napped don't lose sleep over the price.

ALLEN JENNE, NAPPER: Nice doze. Twenty minutes is a nice doze.

MOOS (on camera): That's OK with you? Fourteen bucks?

JENNE: It's less than $1 a minute. What are you going to get for $1 a minute these days?

MOOS (voice-over): Parking, perhaps?

At Metronaps, they hand you a blanket...

(on camera) No napster has used this previously?

CHOWDHURY: Everything is cleaned after every user.

MOOS (voice-over): And tuck you in. CHOWDHURY: The pod itself is designed to wake you up in about 20 minutes.

MOOS: It gently vibrates and the lights come on.

Some are so out of practice they need napping instructions.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just lay? I feel like I'm in a spaceship.

MOOS: The sleeping modules in "2001: A Space Odyssey" were more advanced, but at least at Metronaps they don't murder you in your sleep as Hal, the computer, did in the movie.

The first Metronaps pod was designed by a team that specialized in race cars. It's like being under a hair dryer in a double-wide dentist chair that's capable of dizzying positions.

Metronaps' founders dreams of one day seeing their pods sprout all over.

CHOWDHURY: Airports, highway rest stops, in corporate offices, bus stations and train stations. Anywhere.

MOOS: Post-nap, nappers proceed to the wake station for towelettes and mints.

Our favorite Metronapping rule: pods are for single occupancy only.

But getting 40 winks in 20 minutes can be a challenge.

(on camera) How am I supposed to sleep if you're looking at me?

(voice-over): Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)

PHILLIPS: Still ahead, what will John Edwards say when John Kerry isn't around? Well, we're about to find out.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)

LIN: Also coming up in our second hour of LIVE FROM, all alone and on his own for the first time, at least since he joined the apparent Democratic presidential ticket. John Edwards' first solo campaign stop is coming up live from Iowa, in just a few minutes.

LIVE FROM's hour of power begins right after this.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) PHILLIPS: Live pictures now of vice presidential candidate John Edwards. He's attending a rally in Des Moines, Iowa. It's his first solo campaign appearance since he was named John Kerry's running mate last week. We'll take you there live in just a few minutes.

LIN: Also from "da Bears" to da Senate? Does former NFL coach Mike Ditka have a chance to score if he decides to run?

PHILLIPS: A massive bomb in Baghdad, and an Iraqi governor assassinated in the worst violence since the U.S. handover of sovereignty. We're live from Baghdad.

LIN: And a family portrait. The Bush twins make a fashion statement and political splash in an upcoming "Vogue" magazine spread.

from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin, in for Miles O'Brien.

PHILLIPS: And I'm Kyra Phillips. This hour of CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

LIN: A suicide bombing in Baghdad, another official assassinated, a country under fire on a holiday celebrating a coup that killed a king. July 14th, that's what I'm talking about. It's a famous date for Iraqis, and this year, it brings the deadly ambush of a regional governor, and bloodiest single insurgent attack since the return of self-rule.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com


Aired July 14, 2004 - 13:35   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Taking a look now at stories in the news. Senate Republicans say it's not over. Those who want to change the Constitution to ban gay marriage didn't get enough votes today, and that means it's probably dead for this election year. John McCain broke from the GOP leadership and said the proposal was un-Republican.
And now Senator John Edwards is campaigning by himself for the first time without his running mate. In about a half an hour, he's going to rally on the steps of the Iowa statehouse, and we're going to take you there live.

And President Bush is taking questions from voters in Wisconsin, which went to Al Gore in 2000. Many of his comments today have focused on the war on terror.

Well, there's a delay in the start of testimony in the Scott Peterson murder trial today.

Joining us with developments from Redwood City, California, CNN's Rusty Dornin.

Rusty, what's the deal?

RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, you know, the doors remained closed to the public and the media many times during this court trial. Reporters and even legal experts have remarked on the frequency that it's happened.

Today, attorneys for the news media argued that they should keep the hearing open that was supposed to be closed to the press and to the public. They did score a partial victory. The judge admitted he was on the horns of a dilemma. But apparently, they will argue partially in open court a motion by the defense for a dismissal.

Defense attorney Mark Geragos is alleging misconduct on the part of prosecutors. That's been no secret all along. He's been accusing them of even lying outright on stand, and also not sharing discovery many times with the defense and just presenting it in court.

The jury is not going to be back until later this afternoon. What's expected to happen today is they are going to be showing interviews with Diane Sawyer and some other interviews Scott Peterson did with the press to see whether or not that will be shown to the jury. Those are the things that are going to be argued this morning. This motion for dismissal, it looks like, that's not going to take place until next week some time. As I said, part of it will be discussed in open court. Some of the things may be sensitive, and they maybe go back into closed chambers.

On the stand this afternoon, Detective Dodge Handee. He was on the stand for most of yesterday. He found much of the key evidence implicating Scott Peterson in the case. He found suspected blood drops. We never found out whether they were tested as blood in Scott Peterson's truck. He also found cement anchors and signs that other anchors were made perhaps in Scott Peterson's warehouse. That's what the prosecution is alleging. He also found that very controversial hair in the pliers at the bottom of Scott Peterson's boat. Prosecutors will continue their questioning of Handee this afternoon.

But when Mark Geragos begins his cross-examination, it's likely to get very contentious -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: As you were starting to talk about some of that evidence, we were seeing a number of pictures there, Rusty. There was a bucket with cement. Is that one of the pictures that we saw there? We saw the pliers. We saw some of the hair samples there.

DORNIN: Well, they found one cement anchor. But there were signs, you can see in some of those pictures, of a lot of powder, powerderish-looking stuff, well that it was cement powder, that apparently, they're claiming there were imprints of other anchors that Scott Peterson may have made there. There was also a plastic container they believe he made the anchors with there. That was the contain that was shown. So it's going to be up to the jurors to decide whether they believe that this was used that way.

PHILLIPS: Rusty Dornin, Redwood City, thanks so much.

LIN: Kyra, there's a different case of life or death when it comes to how much the world cares about what it's going to do about an epidemic. Right now, most of the world is fighting about it at the International AIDS Conference in Bangkok. One thing they seem to agree on, blaming the United States.

CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta has more.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: The United States doesn't typically get a very warm welcome at the International AIDS Conference. Secretary Thompson gave a speech two years ago. You couldn't hear a word of it. His aids chief, Randall Tobias, was sent this time around, and was benched in less than two minutes. He did ultimately finish his speech, but the criticism was heard loud and clear. Many critics accuse the U.S. of barely showing up at the aids conference.

LAURIE GARRETT, COUNCIL ON FOREIGN RELATIONS: AWOL, absent without...

GUPTA (on camera): Didn't show up? GARRETT: Didn't show up.

GUPTA (voice-over): Two years ago, the U.S. sent 230 people. This year, only 50.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... cost issue and it was also a relevance issue of trying to make a call of what is the most appropriate use of the resources that are valuable and who really needs to be here.

GUPTA (on camera): It's costly, they say.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How much does it cost to send one person over? $4,000, $5,000? How much does it cost to send -- how much did it cost to send Tommy Thompson on a tour of Africa? Two, three hundred thousand dollars? I think that's not an argument.

GUPTA (voice-over): The U.S. cannot be accused of not spending money. The pledge of $15 billion over five years to fight AIDS in other countries is the largest of any nation.

But it's more of a question as to where the money can be spent. For instance, the money cannot be used to purchase most generic drugs. That's accord to the government's own accounting office. U.S. officials say the drugs must meet FDA approval before they pay for them. That's a process that could take years.

Critics charge this is no different than setting up a slush fund for U.S. drug companies.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: People are making that up. We're talking two to six weeks.

GUPTA: And there is the injection of morality into monetary decision. Abstinence only programs given preferential funding, also draws criticism.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are people who, here at this conference who have wanted to characterize the president's emergency plan as being opposed to condoms. And that's simply not true.

GUPTA (on camera): And the criticism coming not just from protester. President Chirac of France accused the United States of promoting brand name drugs over generics to developing countries. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said the money the United States spent on Iraq should have been spent on AIDS instead.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Bangkok.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: Lance's chances. Our daily update on Lance Armstrong's chances to win his sixth Tour de France. Today included the hardest climb so far in the 147-mile stage that end in St. Flour. The 32-year-old Texan was sixth in the stage. Richard Virenque won the race today, the 14th Frenchman to win, of course, on Bastille Day. No to the darker side of sports. The Senate is considering a bill that would ban over the counter sales of certain performance enhancing drugs. CNN national correspondent Bob Franken takes a look now at just how widespread the steroid problem is.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He didn't want to be identified, didn't want the major college where he played football four years to be identified. But he did want the problem of performance enhancing drugs identified.

"JOHN DOE," FORMER COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYER: It became evident that many players on my football team were using steroids at some point during their career.

FRANKEN: Senators were addressing the ominous cloud over the world of U.S. athletics, a cloud turning into a storm because of efforts to weed out users.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going after 'em. We're going after the drug cheats -- and that's what they are.

FRANKEN: Various investigations have touched major league baseball All Stars, including slugger Barry Bonds, who denies using any performance enhancer; as do several track and field superstars, some of whom are now failing to qualify for the Olympics.

But it's a problem that has spread downward. The latest studies estimate that nearly 3 percent of high school students are users and that doping is even showing up in grade school.

Many experts blame win at all cost coaches.

"DOE": The coaches encouraged me to make more strength and weight gains as rapidly as I could.

FRANKEN (on camera): The senators are trying to design legislation that will keep everyone ahead of the game, ahead of the performance drugs that distort the game.

Bob Franken, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: Now a different way to build you up. We really want to keep you watching CNN. But the truth is, it's nap time. And if you think naps are just for little kid, then wake up to the latest trend. Jeanne Moos shows you how to catch 40 winks in style.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Flooding in Japan tops our news from around the world. Torrential rains left at least six people dead, four others missing. People in 20,000 homes had to leave. "Lion King" lawsuit. An impoverished South African family is suing Disney. They're the children and grandchildren of Solomon Linda who reportedly wrote the song "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" in 1939. It became a hit and was featured in "The Lion King." The family says it's lost out on millions of dollars in royalties.

LIN: Talk about a "hairy" story. We warn you now these pictures may not be suitable for any hair dresser to watch. This 73-year-old Vietnamese grandfather hasn't trimmed his hair in more than 30 years. His long locks are vying for a spot in "The Guinness Book of World Record" now. He says hair is 20 feet long. No official confirmation though. Since he hasn't washed hair in a couple years, we decided not to check ourselves.

And in a city that never sleeps, they power nap. Folks who work near New York's Empire State building are stretching out for comfort. CNN's Jeanne Moos takes up napping.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When your head starts to droop, when your mouth starts to gape, maybe it's time to slip into something a little more comfortable.

(on camera) I wonder if people snore.

(voice-over): High above New York City in the Empire State Building, people are napping like peas in eight pods.

That's white noise. The pleasantly restful atmosphere feels like a cross between a gym and a funeral home.

Welcome to Metronaps.

ARSHAD CHOWDHURY, CO-FOUNDER, METRONAPS: Well, Metronaps is a place to power nap. It's a place where people can recharge.

MOOS: Cofounder Arshad Chowdhury offers 20-minute naps for $14. Some who have napped don't lose sleep over the price.

ALLEN JENNE, NAPPER: Nice doze. Twenty minutes is a nice doze.

MOOS (on camera): That's OK with you? Fourteen bucks?

JENNE: It's less than $1 a minute. What are you going to get for $1 a minute these days?

MOOS (voice-over): Parking, perhaps?

At Metronaps, they hand you a blanket...

(on camera) No napster has used this previously?

CHOWDHURY: Everything is cleaned after every user.

MOOS (voice-over): And tuck you in. CHOWDHURY: The pod itself is designed to wake you up in about 20 minutes.

MOOS: It gently vibrates and the lights come on.

Some are so out of practice they need napping instructions.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I just lay? I feel like I'm in a spaceship.

MOOS: The sleeping modules in "2001: A Space Odyssey" were more advanced, but at least at Metronaps they don't murder you in your sleep as Hal, the computer, did in the movie.

The first Metronaps pod was designed by a team that specialized in race cars. It's like being under a hair dryer in a double-wide dentist chair that's capable of dizzying positions.

Metronaps' founders dreams of one day seeing their pods sprout all over.

CHOWDHURY: Airports, highway rest stops, in corporate offices, bus stations and train stations. Anywhere.

MOOS: Post-nap, nappers proceed to the wake station for towelettes and mints.

Our favorite Metronapping rule: pods are for single occupancy only.

But getting 40 winks in 20 minutes can be a challenge.

(on camera) How am I supposed to sleep if you're looking at me?

(voice-over): Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)

PHILLIPS: Still ahead, what will John Edwards say when John Kerry isn't around? Well, we're about to find out.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)

LIN: Also coming up in our second hour of LIVE FROM, all alone and on his own for the first time, at least since he joined the apparent Democratic presidential ticket. John Edwards' first solo campaign stop is coming up live from Iowa, in just a few minutes.

LIVE FROM's hour of power begins right after this.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) PHILLIPS: Live pictures now of vice presidential candidate John Edwards. He's attending a rally in Des Moines, Iowa. It's his first solo campaign appearance since he was named John Kerry's running mate last week. We'll take you there live in just a few minutes.

LIN: Also from "da Bears" to da Senate? Does former NFL coach Mike Ditka have a chance to score if he decides to run?

PHILLIPS: A massive bomb in Baghdad, and an Iraqi governor assassinated in the worst violence since the U.S. handover of sovereignty. We're live from Baghdad.

LIN: And a family portrait. The Bush twins make a fashion statement and political splash in an upcoming "Vogue" magazine spread.

from the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Carol Lin, in for Miles O'Brien.

PHILLIPS: And I'm Kyra Phillips. This hour of CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

LIN: A suicide bombing in Baghdad, another official assassinated, a country under fire on a holiday celebrating a coup that killed a king. July 14th, that's what I'm talking about. It's a famous date for Iraqis, and this year, it brings the deadly ambush of a regional governor, and bloodiest single insurgent attack since the return of self-rule.

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com