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Aired July 22, 2004 - 13:58   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)
JAMES THOMPSON, 9/11 COMMISSION MEMBER: If these reforms are not the best that can be done for the American people, then the Congress and the president need to tell us what's better.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: The 9/11 report, will it ultimately make America safer from terrorism? This hour, reaction from the White House, Capitol Hill, and from 9/11 family members.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: And live pictures from the Senate office building, where we're expecting several more senators to speak live about the next steps after seeing this report.

O'BRIEN: Chilling videotape emerges of some 9/11 hijackers setting off airport security scanners on that fateful morning. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Miles O'Brien.

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

Failures in the past, fixes for the future: 567 pages on the roots, results, and ramifications of September 11th, 2001. It comes from the independent panel that's been immersed in 9/11 for 20 months. Besides independent, the panel is bipartisan and unanimous in many conclusions, beginning with the failures of two administrations in, quote, "policy, management, capability, and above all, imagination."

Looking forward, the panel recommends, among other things, a cabinet-level chief of intelligence. And if you've been watching CNN, you've heard the members say there's no time to waste.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

THOMPSON: Everyone was caught unawares by September 11 -- the president, the Congress, the American people, law enforcement agencies. Blame, if there's blame, has to be spread all across the board, because the American people never demanded more or better.

But now we've been warned, specifically warned, and now we've been told by everyone from the president of the United States on down, "It's going to happen again." And if it happens and we haven't moved, then the American people are entitled to make very fundamental judgments about that. (END VIDEO CLIP)

O'BRIEN: Judgment calls are hit or miss, but information, the panel says, absolutely has to be gathered, shared, and acted upon. It sounds fairly basic. CNN's Sean Callebs picks up our coverage from the Commerce Department in Washington.

That communication theme, or lack thereof, comes up time and again, doesn't it, Sean?

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN, WASHINGTON: Miles, if there is one recurring, underlying theme throughout this massive 500-plus page document, it is the fact that the lack of communication really punished the United States in a very large way.

The commission pointed out that the United States was simply transformed after 9/11. It was simply a staggering blow, and that this nation just underestimated the magnitude of the outside terrorist threat.

Now, during the past 20 months or so, the 10 commission members have interviewed legions of people, they've taken a great deal of information, and for the most part, they are getting high marks from members of Congress, from the president, and the families of those who lost loved ones on that day for keeping politics out of the their efforts.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LEE HAMILTON, 9/11 COMMISSION VICE CHAIRMAN: We are recommending a national counter-terrorism center. We need effective unity of effort on counter-terrorism. We should create a national counter- terrorism center to unify all counter-terrorism and intelligence and operations across the foreign and the domestic divide in one organization.

Right now, these efforts are too diffuse across the government. They need to be unified.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CALLEBS: The commission also said the nation was shocked, but it really shouldn't have been, that the warnings were out there. Among those identified today, that there were two hijackers who were identified by the national security administration as al Qaeda, and for some time, they were on a terrorism watch-list as of August of 2001.

Now, there was a lack of information-sharing following the attack on the USS Cole, and also a lack of discovery about false statements that the terrorists made on visa applications. At the same time, the commission also said our borders are becoming very porous, allowing terrorists to come and go.

Now, for years, the commission said, Osama bin Laden built up an al Qaeda army virtually unimpeded in Afghanistan, and he raised a fortune to fund his terrorist operation. Now, even if Osama bin Laden were to be captured or killed, the commission members said his message of hatred for America and its policies will live on.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

THOMAS KEAN, 9/11 COMMISSION CHAIRMAN: We expect further attacks. Against such an enemy, there can be no complacency. This is the challenge of our generation. As Americans, we must step forward and we must meet that challenge.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CALLEBS: And Miles, one final note here. It also calls for a national intelligence director, someone who would be a cabinet-level position reporting to the president...

O'BRIEN: Sean, I'm sorry, I've got to interrupt you. I'm sorry, Sean, I've got to move our coverage down the street. Senator John McCain is responding right now. Let's listen to him for just a moment. I apologize to Sean Callebs there.

(PRESS CONFERENCE)

O'BRIEN: We were just listening to Senator Joe Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut. He was preceded by Republican of Arizona, John McCain. Reaction continuing, obviously, on Capitol Hill, and more there. We will be monitoring all that for you throughout the course of the day and bringing you some clips later.

CNN's Judy Woodruff will have a conversation with 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean and the Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton a little later today on our air.

Stay tuned for that. That's during "INSIDE POLITICS," 3:30 Eastern, 12:30 on the West Coast.

PHILLIPS: President Bush says the 9/11 panel did a really good job and came up with sound recommendations, but he isn't endorsing any one in particular. CNN's Kathleen Koch checks in now from the White House -- Kathleen.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN, WHITE HOUSE: Well, that report, Kyra, as anyone knows who listened to the press conference this afternoon, cited a failure of policy management, capability, imagination, but it did not cite a personal failure on the part of President Bush. So, in the view of the White House, he comes out a winner on this.

There had been a great deal of concern that the report would be very partisan, would be very critical. But this morning, when the chairman and the vice chairman appeared with the president in the Rose Garden to hand him his copy of the report, it was really smiles all around.

As you said, the president said the men had done a really good job. He praised them for making what he called, quote, "very solid, sound recommendations" about how to move forward. And President Bush did promise that when it came to those recommendations, his administration would, where he believed it needed to, would act.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There's still a threat, and that we in government have an obligation to do everything in our power to safeguard the American people. And the report that they are about to present to me puts out some very constructive recommendations.

And I look forward to studying their recommendations, and look forward to working with responsible parties within my administration to move forward on those recommendations.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: The White House has so far resisted saying specifically whether or not President Bush supports any one recommendation -- in particular, the recommendation for a new intelligence chief to oversee all of the intelligence agencies in the United States.

Spokesman Scott McClellan continues to say that President Bush really wants to sit down and take a look at these recommendations, read them for himself, consult with his advisors before he decides how to proceed.

The report, as I mentioned, does not fix blame. However, it's important to point out that it does say that both Presidents Clinton and Bush could have done more.

However, the commission chairman this afternoon said that he himself, after reading all of those very classified presidential daily briefs that each of the men got, believes that it was clear that they were never given a clear picture of the threat.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KEAN: Having read every single presidential daily briefing that had anything to do with this subject, under two administrations, I can tell you that the two presidents of the United States were not well served by those agencies, and they did not, in my opinion, have the information they needed to make the decisions they have to make.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: Now, just a few minutes ago, President Bush left the White House. He is on his way right now to Illinois. The president will be visiting a training session at the Northeast Illinois Public Safety Academy.

And then, later on this afternoon, in the four o'clock hour, President Bush will be making remarks on Homeland Security, and we do expect him to possibly discuss the 9/11 Commission's report -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Kathleen Koch, live from the White House, thanks -- Miles.

O'BRIEN: Lots of talk of non-partisanship today as the blue ribbon 9/11 panel released its final report. But this is an election year, and the war on terror remains a central issue, of course, on the campaign trail.

That said, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry offered a measured response on this day. Mr. Kerry spoke in Detroit, and that's where we find CNN's Frank Buckley.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Senator Kerry said that he hadn't seen the report yet, but he was briefed by telephone -- the chairman of the 9/11 Commission talking to Senator Kerry by telephone and giving him the headlines, if you will, of the 9/11 Commission report. Senator Kerry said for him the bottom line was that the time to act is now, that this is not a time for politics.

Senator Kerry declining to criticize the Bush administration and its response to 9/11. About the closest that Senator Kerry would come to that was saying that the government hasn't done enough in the three years since 9/11.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Mark my words, if I am elected president and there still has not been sufficient progress rapidly in these next months on these issues, then I will lead. I will lead immediately by convening an emergency security summit that brings together leading Democratic and Republican members of Congress, as well as the leaders of the agencies that play a vital role.

And we will put together the rapid agenda necessary, the administrative and legislative changes necessary to protect this country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BUCKLEY: Senator Kerry reiterated his call for a single intelligence chief at a cabinet level in the U.S. government. That is a recommendation included in the 9/11 Commission report.

He did not address two other specific recommendations: one, that there should be a single counter-terrorism center; and two, a single, joint congressional oversight committee.

Frank Buckley, CNN, Detroit.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

O'BRIEN: President Bush addresses the Urban League tomorrow in Detroit. CNN planning live coverage of that, bringing it to you at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, 7:00 Pacific.

Like father, like son: John Gotti, Jr. accused of hiring a hit man to wipe out an angel. We'll explain that one straight ahead.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KIMBERLY OSIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Kimberly Osias in Salt Lake City. It is day three, and search efforts continue for the 27- year-old missing runner, Lori Hacking -- but now, under a veil of suspicion. The latest just ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

O'BRIEN: Couple of items of breaking news to keep you up to date on here.

This first one comes from Gaza, where the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, as the source on this, is claiming an Israeli Apache helicopter from the Israeli defense forces fired a missile Thursday -- that would be today -- at a car in a neighborhood of Gaza City. And according to Islamic Jihad, two members of its military wing were killed in that attack.

No immediate comment, however, from the Israelis on that. But that does, of course, fit the Israeli pattern of targeted assassinations of leadership of Islamic Jihad and other similar organizations.

Meanwhile, in Turkey, a train traveling between Ankara and Istanbul derailed today. Reports of at least 14 dead. The Associated Press is saying as many as 30 dead.

We're trying to pin all that down for you right now. This comes to us via Turkish television, by the way -- one witness telling Turkish television of a horrific scene with body parts strewn all over the ground there on that train between Ankara and Istanbul.

We're watching both of those for you. We'll keep you posted -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: A two-hour delay, a bit of aggravation, and a hint of danger this morning for passengers aboard a Boston-bound Amtrak train. Transit police stopped the train in Newark, New Jersey, after a suspicious note was found in the bathroom. Well, it's unclear what it said, but officers checked all passenger IDs, had canine search teams that swept through the Washington and Boston trains area before sending it on its way.

A security breach at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport: A man in pajama bottoms walks through an alarm-equipped exit door, stole a baggage tractor and drove it into an active runway. Thirty-one-year- old Robert Buzzell was stopped by airport personnel. He's now in jail. Police say Bazell, who had a ticket for a domestic Delta flight, appeared mentally unstable.

O'BRIEN: Turning now to other news across America -- federal agents won't say what they're looking for, but they raided a Kentucky company that makes police and military gear. Several agencies, including defense and Homeland Security, were involved in yesterday's seizure of documents from Galls, Incorporated in Lexington. A Galls spokeswoman says the company is cooperating.

Apparently, Soldier Field's face-lift was a little too good. Federal officials are considering removing the home of the Chicago Bears from the National Registry of Historic Places. They say a $660 million overhaul has destroyed the stadium's historic character.

The federal government says it has the goods on John Gotti, Jr., currently serving time for racketeering. A federal indictment against the son of the late Gambino mob boss John Gotti was unsealed today. It charges him with the 1992 kidnapping and attempted murder of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.

PHILLIPS: Despite startling personal deceptions, the family and in-laws of a missing Utah woman say they don't believe her husband had anything to do with her disappearance. CNN's Kimberly Osias is in Salt Lake City with more on the search for Lori Hacking.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

OSIAS: Twists, turns, and a cloud of suspicion over the mysterious disappearance into 27-year-old runner Lori Hacking. Police confirm that her husband Mark Hacking is considered, quote, "a person of interest" in the case. He has not been called a suspect; however, nobody has been called a suspect at this point in the case.

They have questioned him several times over in the past couple of days. He has not yet been cleared in the case. Both of the couples' cars have been seized, as well as a Dumpster with some bedding from their home. Police will be running forensics tests today, searching for clues, and following up on leads. Rescue efforts continue.

Although police have covered the eight-mile canyon where she was last seen extensively several times over and have opened the area back up to the public, Lori's best friend, Rebecca Carroll, feels compelled to go back. She says Lori Hacking had no clue about her husband's web of lies, and that he never graduated from college and had not even applied to medical school. She said the pair even visited several North Carolina campuses.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REBECCA CARROLL, LORI HACKING'S BEST FRIEND: She had no clue whatsoever. I know that. We just went to dinner for a few weeks ago, and all we talked about was going to medical school and that they were trying to have a baby. And -- you know, she had no idea; we had no idea. It's just -- it's so hard to believe that. How could he pull that off for all this time?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OSIAS: There are fewer volunteers out searching today, perhaps because of this cloud of suspicion in the case. Family members say that Mark Hacking, the reason that he is not out is simply because he is too drained. He has been in a psychiatric hospital for the past several days.

His father spoke earlier about his state of mind.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DOUGLAS HACKING, MARK HACKING'S FATHER: This self deception got started, and it finally has come to an end. And he feels relieved that it's come to an end. It's like lifting a heavy load off his back.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OSIAS: Despite what appears to be years of rather complicated lies, when I asked the Hacking family if Mark had ever undergone any psychiatric treatment before, they said no.

Reporting from Salt Lake City, Kimberly Osias. Back to you.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

O'BRIEN: So, how did the 9/11 hijackers get past airport security? A surveillance tape of the hijackers gives us a little more insight about what happened. What it does and does not reveal a little bit later on LIVE FROM...

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: What's the deal? AT&T is hanging up on some customers.

O'BRIEN: Yes, as a matter of fact, they don't care about us anymore, right...

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Aired July 22, 2004 - 13:58   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JAMES THOMPSON, 9/11 COMMISSION MEMBER: If these reforms are not the best that can be done for the American people, then the Congress and the president need to tell us what's better.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: The 9/11 report, will it ultimately make America safer from terrorism? This hour, reaction from the White House, Capitol Hill, and from 9/11 family members.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: And live pictures from the Senate office building, where we're expecting several more senators to speak live about the next steps after seeing this report.

O'BRIEN: Chilling videotape emerges of some 9/11 hijackers setting off airport security scanners on that fateful morning. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Miles O'Brien.

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

Failures in the past, fixes for the future: 567 pages on the roots, results, and ramifications of September 11th, 2001. It comes from the independent panel that's been immersed in 9/11 for 20 months. Besides independent, the panel is bipartisan and unanimous in many conclusions, beginning with the failures of two administrations in, quote, "policy, management, capability, and above all, imagination."

Looking forward, the panel recommends, among other things, a cabinet-level chief of intelligence. And if you've been watching CNN, you've heard the members say there's no time to waste.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

THOMPSON: Everyone was caught unawares by September 11 -- the president, the Congress, the American people, law enforcement agencies. Blame, if there's blame, has to be spread all across the board, because the American people never demanded more or better.

But now we've been warned, specifically warned, and now we've been told by everyone from the president of the United States on down, "It's going to happen again." And if it happens and we haven't moved, then the American people are entitled to make very fundamental judgments about that. (END VIDEO CLIP)

O'BRIEN: Judgment calls are hit or miss, but information, the panel says, absolutely has to be gathered, shared, and acted upon. It sounds fairly basic. CNN's Sean Callebs picks up our coverage from the Commerce Department in Washington.

That communication theme, or lack thereof, comes up time and again, doesn't it, Sean?

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN, WASHINGTON: Miles, if there is one recurring, underlying theme throughout this massive 500-plus page document, it is the fact that the lack of communication really punished the United States in a very large way.

The commission pointed out that the United States was simply transformed after 9/11. It was simply a staggering blow, and that this nation just underestimated the magnitude of the outside terrorist threat.

Now, during the past 20 months or so, the 10 commission members have interviewed legions of people, they've taken a great deal of information, and for the most part, they are getting high marks from members of Congress, from the president, and the families of those who lost loved ones on that day for keeping politics out of the their efforts.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

LEE HAMILTON, 9/11 COMMISSION VICE CHAIRMAN: We are recommending a national counter-terrorism center. We need effective unity of effort on counter-terrorism. We should create a national counter- terrorism center to unify all counter-terrorism and intelligence and operations across the foreign and the domestic divide in one organization.

Right now, these efforts are too diffuse across the government. They need to be unified.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CALLEBS: The commission also said the nation was shocked, but it really shouldn't have been, that the warnings were out there. Among those identified today, that there were two hijackers who were identified by the national security administration as al Qaeda, and for some time, they were on a terrorism watch-list as of August of 2001.

Now, there was a lack of information-sharing following the attack on the USS Cole, and also a lack of discovery about false statements that the terrorists made on visa applications. At the same time, the commission also said our borders are becoming very porous, allowing terrorists to come and go.

Now, for years, the commission said, Osama bin Laden built up an al Qaeda army virtually unimpeded in Afghanistan, and he raised a fortune to fund his terrorist operation. Now, even if Osama bin Laden were to be captured or killed, the commission members said his message of hatred for America and its policies will live on.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

THOMAS KEAN, 9/11 COMMISSION CHAIRMAN: We expect further attacks. Against such an enemy, there can be no complacency. This is the challenge of our generation. As Americans, we must step forward and we must meet that challenge.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CALLEBS: And Miles, one final note here. It also calls for a national intelligence director, someone who would be a cabinet-level position reporting to the president...

O'BRIEN: Sean, I'm sorry, I've got to interrupt you. I'm sorry, Sean, I've got to move our coverage down the street. Senator John McCain is responding right now. Let's listen to him for just a moment. I apologize to Sean Callebs there.

(PRESS CONFERENCE)

O'BRIEN: We were just listening to Senator Joe Lieberman, Democrat of Connecticut. He was preceded by Republican of Arizona, John McCain. Reaction continuing, obviously, on Capitol Hill, and more there. We will be monitoring all that for you throughout the course of the day and bringing you some clips later.

CNN's Judy Woodruff will have a conversation with 9/11 Commission Chairman Tom Kean and the Vice Chairman Lee Hamilton a little later today on our air.

Stay tuned for that. That's during "INSIDE POLITICS," 3:30 Eastern, 12:30 on the West Coast.

PHILLIPS: President Bush says the 9/11 panel did a really good job and came up with sound recommendations, but he isn't endorsing any one in particular. CNN's Kathleen Koch checks in now from the White House -- Kathleen.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN, WHITE HOUSE: Well, that report, Kyra, as anyone knows who listened to the press conference this afternoon, cited a failure of policy management, capability, imagination, but it did not cite a personal failure on the part of President Bush. So, in the view of the White House, he comes out a winner on this.

There had been a great deal of concern that the report would be very partisan, would be very critical. But this morning, when the chairman and the vice chairman appeared with the president in the Rose Garden to hand him his copy of the report, it was really smiles all around.

As you said, the president said the men had done a really good job. He praised them for making what he called, quote, "very solid, sound recommendations" about how to move forward. And President Bush did promise that when it came to those recommendations, his administration would, where he believed it needed to, would act.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: There's still a threat, and that we in government have an obligation to do everything in our power to safeguard the American people. And the report that they are about to present to me puts out some very constructive recommendations.

And I look forward to studying their recommendations, and look forward to working with responsible parties within my administration to move forward on those recommendations.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: The White House has so far resisted saying specifically whether or not President Bush supports any one recommendation -- in particular, the recommendation for a new intelligence chief to oversee all of the intelligence agencies in the United States.

Spokesman Scott McClellan continues to say that President Bush really wants to sit down and take a look at these recommendations, read them for himself, consult with his advisors before he decides how to proceed.

The report, as I mentioned, does not fix blame. However, it's important to point out that it does say that both Presidents Clinton and Bush could have done more.

However, the commission chairman this afternoon said that he himself, after reading all of those very classified presidential daily briefs that each of the men got, believes that it was clear that they were never given a clear picture of the threat.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KEAN: Having read every single presidential daily briefing that had anything to do with this subject, under two administrations, I can tell you that the two presidents of the United States were not well served by those agencies, and they did not, in my opinion, have the information they needed to make the decisions they have to make.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: Now, just a few minutes ago, President Bush left the White House. He is on his way right now to Illinois. The president will be visiting a training session at the Northeast Illinois Public Safety Academy.

And then, later on this afternoon, in the four o'clock hour, President Bush will be making remarks on Homeland Security, and we do expect him to possibly discuss the 9/11 Commission's report -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Kathleen Koch, live from the White House, thanks -- Miles.

O'BRIEN: Lots of talk of non-partisanship today as the blue ribbon 9/11 panel released its final report. But this is an election year, and the war on terror remains a central issue, of course, on the campaign trail.

That said, presumptive Democratic presidential nominee John Kerry offered a measured response on this day. Mr. Kerry spoke in Detroit, and that's where we find CNN's Frank Buckley.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Senator Kerry said that he hadn't seen the report yet, but he was briefed by telephone -- the chairman of the 9/11 Commission talking to Senator Kerry by telephone and giving him the headlines, if you will, of the 9/11 Commission report. Senator Kerry said for him the bottom line was that the time to act is now, that this is not a time for politics.

Senator Kerry declining to criticize the Bush administration and its response to 9/11. About the closest that Senator Kerry would come to that was saying that the government hasn't done enough in the three years since 9/11.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Mark my words, if I am elected president and there still has not been sufficient progress rapidly in these next months on these issues, then I will lead. I will lead immediately by convening an emergency security summit that brings together leading Democratic and Republican members of Congress, as well as the leaders of the agencies that play a vital role.

And we will put together the rapid agenda necessary, the administrative and legislative changes necessary to protect this country.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BUCKLEY: Senator Kerry reiterated his call for a single intelligence chief at a cabinet level in the U.S. government. That is a recommendation included in the 9/11 Commission report.

He did not address two other specific recommendations: one, that there should be a single counter-terrorism center; and two, a single, joint congressional oversight committee.

Frank Buckley, CNN, Detroit.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

O'BRIEN: President Bush addresses the Urban League tomorrow in Detroit. CNN planning live coverage of that, bringing it to you at 10:00 a.m. Eastern, 7:00 Pacific.

Like father, like son: John Gotti, Jr. accused of hiring a hit man to wipe out an angel. We'll explain that one straight ahead.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

KIMBERLY OSIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Kimberly Osias in Salt Lake City. It is day three, and search efforts continue for the 27- year-old missing runner, Lori Hacking -- but now, under a veil of suspicion. The latest just ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

O'BRIEN: Couple of items of breaking news to keep you up to date on here.

This first one comes from Gaza, where the Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad, as the source on this, is claiming an Israeli Apache helicopter from the Israeli defense forces fired a missile Thursday -- that would be today -- at a car in a neighborhood of Gaza City. And according to Islamic Jihad, two members of its military wing were killed in that attack.

No immediate comment, however, from the Israelis on that. But that does, of course, fit the Israeli pattern of targeted assassinations of leadership of Islamic Jihad and other similar organizations.

Meanwhile, in Turkey, a train traveling between Ankara and Istanbul derailed today. Reports of at least 14 dead. The Associated Press is saying as many as 30 dead.

We're trying to pin all that down for you right now. This comes to us via Turkish television, by the way -- one witness telling Turkish television of a horrific scene with body parts strewn all over the ground there on that train between Ankara and Istanbul.

We're watching both of those for you. We'll keep you posted -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: A two-hour delay, a bit of aggravation, and a hint of danger this morning for passengers aboard a Boston-bound Amtrak train. Transit police stopped the train in Newark, New Jersey, after a suspicious note was found in the bathroom. Well, it's unclear what it said, but officers checked all passenger IDs, had canine search teams that swept through the Washington and Boston trains area before sending it on its way.

A security breach at Atlanta Hartsfield-Jackson Airport: A man in pajama bottoms walks through an alarm-equipped exit door, stole a baggage tractor and drove it into an active runway. Thirty-one-year- old Robert Buzzell was stopped by airport personnel. He's now in jail. Police say Bazell, who had a ticket for a domestic Delta flight, appeared mentally unstable.

O'BRIEN: Turning now to other news across America -- federal agents won't say what they're looking for, but they raided a Kentucky company that makes police and military gear. Several agencies, including defense and Homeland Security, were involved in yesterday's seizure of documents from Galls, Incorporated in Lexington. A Galls spokeswoman says the company is cooperating.

Apparently, Soldier Field's face-lift was a little too good. Federal officials are considering removing the home of the Chicago Bears from the National Registry of Historic Places. They say a $660 million overhaul has destroyed the stadium's historic character.

The federal government says it has the goods on John Gotti, Jr., currently serving time for racketeering. A federal indictment against the son of the late Gambino mob boss John Gotti was unsealed today. It charges him with the 1992 kidnapping and attempted murder of Guardian Angels founder Curtis Sliwa.

PHILLIPS: Despite startling personal deceptions, the family and in-laws of a missing Utah woman say they don't believe her husband had anything to do with her disappearance. CNN's Kimberly Osias is in Salt Lake City with more on the search for Lori Hacking.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

OSIAS: Twists, turns, and a cloud of suspicion over the mysterious disappearance into 27-year-old runner Lori Hacking. Police confirm that her husband Mark Hacking is considered, quote, "a person of interest" in the case. He has not been called a suspect; however, nobody has been called a suspect at this point in the case.

They have questioned him several times over in the past couple of days. He has not yet been cleared in the case. Both of the couples' cars have been seized, as well as a Dumpster with some bedding from their home. Police will be running forensics tests today, searching for clues, and following up on leads. Rescue efforts continue.

Although police have covered the eight-mile canyon where she was last seen extensively several times over and have opened the area back up to the public, Lori's best friend, Rebecca Carroll, feels compelled to go back. She says Lori Hacking had no clue about her husband's web of lies, and that he never graduated from college and had not even applied to medical school. She said the pair even visited several North Carolina campuses.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

REBECCA CARROLL, LORI HACKING'S BEST FRIEND: She had no clue whatsoever. I know that. We just went to dinner for a few weeks ago, and all we talked about was going to medical school and that they were trying to have a baby. And -- you know, she had no idea; we had no idea. It's just -- it's so hard to believe that. How could he pull that off for all this time?

(END VIDEO CLIP)

OSIAS: There are fewer volunteers out searching today, perhaps because of this cloud of suspicion in the case. Family members say that Mark Hacking, the reason that he is not out is simply because he is too drained. He has been in a psychiatric hospital for the past several days.

His father spoke earlier about his state of mind.

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DOUGLAS HACKING, MARK HACKING'S FATHER: This self deception got started, and it finally has come to an end. And he feels relieved that it's come to an end. It's like lifting a heavy load off his back.

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OSIAS: Despite what appears to be years of rather complicated lies, when I asked the Hacking family if Mark had ever undergone any psychiatric treatment before, they said no.

Reporting from Salt Lake City, Kimberly Osias. Back to you.

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