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America on Alert Again; Mark Hacking Charged; Implant for Depression

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Police have just arrested the husband of a missing Utah woman. Salt Lake City Police say evidence suggests that Lori Hacking was killed and connects Mark Hacking to the alleged crime. She's been missing for two weeks. The search for her body in an area landfill will resume on Wednesday. We'll have more on that case coming up.
Thousands of Americans went to work today under tighter security than usual. The terror threat level was raised in the financial districts of New York, New Jersey, and Washington. Information gathered from al Qaeda members arrested in Pakistan may have led to that move. We've got live reports from New York and Washington just ahead.

President Bush says he wants a national intel director to advise him on countering terrorism. He made that announcement in the White House Rose Garden earlier today. Mr. Bush says the CIA will be run by a separate director while the new official will lead the entire U.S. intelligence community. A live report from the White House moments away.

There are reports of a shootout between U.S. and Iraqi forces and forces loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. A Baghdad- based spokesperson for al-Sadr says U.S. and Iraqi troops surrounded al-Sadr's home in Najaf and started shooting, and the cleric's Mehdi Army shot back, leading to an ongoing gun battle.

America on alert again. The president monitoring from the White House and saying what he wants done to keep Americans safer. Let's get the latest from our White House correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux -- Suzanne.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, earlier today, President Bush struck a defiant tone in the Rose Garden when he said, "Knowing what I know today, we would still go into Iraq." The president aggressively making the case that his administration did everything it could prior to September 11 and after September 11 to protect the American people.

The president today signing off on a number of recommendations from the 9/11 Commission, including the creation of a position, a new National Counterterrorism Center, as well as a new National Director of Intelligence. That is one individual who would oversee and integrate the 15 intelligence agencies of the country. This is an individual who would be appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, but would not work directly within the executive office within the White House.

The 9/11 Commission had hoped that that's -- that's what the president would have gone along with, but he says that this position requires greater autonomy.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I don't think the person ought to be a member of my cabinet. I will hire the person. And I can fire the person, which is -- any president would like. That's how you -- that's how you have accountability in government.

I don't think that the office ought to be in the White House, however. I think it ought to be a stand-alone group to better coordinate particularly between foreign intelligence and domestic intelligence matters.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: Now, the president's Democratic opponent, John Kerry, is criticizing the president and the administration, saying this is too little, too late, that the administration has done very little to protect the American people in the three-and-a-half years that the president has been in office.

President Bush's chief of staff, Andy Card, earlier today saying that many of these recommendations are things the Bush administration had already begun after September 11, and that these changes, these recommendations that he's enhancing now has nothing to do with the elections.

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ANDREW CARD, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: This has nothing to do with politics. This has to do with better protecting the homeland and making sure that the resources of our intelligence community are well coordinated so that the president can have the best information available to defeat terrorism.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: Now, Kyra, as you know, of course, there has been a lot of political pressure on the Bush administration, as well as on Senator Kerry, to come up with ways to best protect the people. Senator Kerry saying that he would have simply signed off on all of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. But of course there's still a lot of unknowns.

Congress has to approve what kind of role this director will play in terms of budget authority, what kind of control and power he will have. A lot of that up to the hands of the lawmakers -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Suzanne Malveaux, live from the White House. Thanks so much. And speaking today in Michigan, Senator Kerry blasted President Bush on several occasions for his handling on the war on terrorism. Here he is just a short time ago, charging that the president has moved too slowly to bolster homeland security.

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SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Today the president came out of the Rose Garden and made an announcement that he's going to adopt, after opposing it last week, and before that, he's going to adopt some of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

Ladies and gentlemen, the job of the president of the United States is to keep America as safe as possible. It's to do everything in your power that's available to you to make America safe.

September 11, 2001, September 11, 2002 came and went. September 11, 2003 came and went. September 11, 2004 is almost here, and only finally are we doing some of the things that some of us have been calling for all that period of time. We need leadership!

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PHILLIPS: And today on "AMERICAN MORNING," Kerry charged the policies launched by the Bush administration have energized potential terrorists. President Bush said the charge is ridiculous.

Let's go to now where the new terror warnings are in effect. CNN's Mary Snow is live at the Citigroup building in New York. Sean Callebs is at the World Bank in Washington.

Mary, let's go to you first.

MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, just moments ago, the first lady, Laura Bush, left with Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki here at Citigroup Center. This is part of a morale booster, meeting with employees at Citigroup.

They came just a short time ago, came into the atrium of the building, sat with some of the employees. The atrium was filled. And I talked with Governor Pataki after it was over, saying that he just found out about this surprise today.

Also, Laura Bush accompanied by her daughters. The Citigroup Center is one of the financial institutes -- institutions that had been on the target list. This is a 59-story building, 18 stories to this building are leased out by Citigroup. And across the street, also, some Citigroup offices.

And clearly here today, as you see the lunchtime crowds, it does appear to be business as usual. But when you take a closer look, it is anything but business as usual. You can see very tight security, heavily armed guards surrounding the buildings. Some entrances have been closed off. That public atrium was closed to the public, only open to employees today -- Kyra. PHILLIPS: All right. Mary Snow, live in front of Citigroup there in New York.

Now let's go over to Sean Callebs. He's in front of the World Bank in Washington.

Sean, what's the latest from there?

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, when World Bank and IMF employees arrived today, they found added security, guards in front of entrances that were checking IDs even before employees got inside. Police were also out here doing spot checks of trucks, making sure no suspicious items were in those vehicles as well.

Police are going to be an increased presence here in the nation's capital. They are on the subways, what are called sweep teams. Also, police have closed a street in front of the World Bank that runs one block to Eighth Street. Last night, the police had indicated they did not want to put up any barricades or close any streets, but they thought this was prudent. Still, authorities said they are not going to be intimidated.

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CHIEF CHARLES RAMSEY, D.C. METROPOLITAN POLICE: No, we're not going to be intimidated. We're going to do what we need to do, take the necessary precautions. We have a leg up because we know or at least suspect we know what it is that was being planned. We just don't know when.

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CALLEBS: And Kyra, finally, right now the World Bank and IMF are holding, in essence, town hall meetings. Authorities are trying to allay any kind of concerns or fears they may have. There are 7,000 World Bank employees in Washington; several thousand of them work in the building behind me.

Kyra, back to you.

PHILLIPS: Sean Callebs, thanks so much.

Well, police in Salt Lake City announced a short time ago the arrest of Mark Hacking. That's in connection with the disappearance of his pregnant wife, Lori. Hacking has been charged with one count of aggravated murder. Lori Hacking was reported missing two weeks ago.

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CHIEF RICK DINSE, SALT LAKE CITY POLICE: Well, the reality is we guessed pretty early on what -- what the results of this were. We believed very early in the investigation that this was -- that she was the victim of a crime and that her husband may very well have been involved. So we have just been building the case during this timeframe. (END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: We get the background on the major turn in the case now from CNN's Kimberly Osias.

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KIMBERLY OSIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Bubbly 27-year- old Lori Hacking was the woman who seemed to have it all, a business career of her own, a Mormon marriage her friends and family called ideal, and a baby on the way.

KATHY BLACK, LORI HACKING'S FRIEND: Mark was always very kind to Lori. And just opening doors for her. And just a gentleman.

OSIAS: Lori thought they were moving to North Carolina so her husband could go to medical school. But it turned out that just wasn't true.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think everybody has a question about his telling us the truth.

OSIAS: Friends say the couple had visited two out-of-state campuses. But on Friday, July 16, colleagues at Wells Fargo Bank receive Lori received a distressing phone call, perhaps from the University of North Carolina, when she found out mark was never enrolled. In fact, he never even graduated from high school.

PAUL SOARES, LORI HACKING'S BROTHER: They took pictures of him in his cap and gown. He thought everything out.

OSIAS: But photographs taken that same Friday night show Lori looking happy at a going away party. Friends believe the couple spent the weekend packing.

On Sunday, the 18th, they were seen by convenience store clerk Eric Holleman, who says Mark often came in alone to buy cigarettes. Mark Hacking told police that the following day, the 19th, Lori went jogging in Memory Grove Park in the nearby canyon.

That same morning he bought a mattress. And then a short while later, at 10:49 to be precise, Mark called police to report that his wife was missing. Later that same day, he begged for the public's help. But on Monday night, Mark was seining running around a local hotel naked. Within hours he admitted himself to a psychiatric unit.

DOUGLAS HACKING, MARK HACKING'S FATHER: I looked him in the eye, and I said, "I need you to tell me if you had anything to do with Mark -- with Lori's disappearance." And I know you're getting anxious, but I have to tell you that he looked me in the eye and he said, "No."

Kimberly Osias, CNN, Salt Lake City.

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PHILLIPS: Straight ahead, they were once the palace pets. Now the lions that belonged to Saddam Hussein's sons are getting a new home. Ahead on LIVE FROM, we take you inside the big cats' move to their new digs.

It affects millions of Americans. Now a new treatment for severe depression. Dr. Gupta has the details.

And later, actor Nicolas Cage goes out for dinner, comes back with a wife. We're serving that one up just ahead on LIVE FROM.

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PHILLIPS: Well, there may be new hope for millions of people with severe depression who don't respond to conventional treatment. CNN medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, tells us about a new device, an electrical implant, that's similar to a pacemaker that's showing promise.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For almost 30 years, Marna Davenport lived with the secret that almost killed her.

MARNA DAVENPORT: It was just a hopeless pain, a darkness that you just don't think you're ever going to come back into the real world.

GUPTA: Davenport, a college professor who holds both a Ph.D. and a pilot's license, suffers from severe recurring bouts of depression.

DAVENPORT: I knew I had been through the drugs. I was at the end of the line.

GUPTA: Like so many others with this disease, she considered suicide.

DAVENPORT: I did feel like killing myself. Only not that I said, "Oh, I want to die." That -- that was not it. It was, I want this pain to stop. I want this unbearable, exhausting, debilitating pain to stop.

GUPTA: That darkness that consumed her is now gone thanks to a pacemaker-like device called a Vagus Nerve Stimulator. Implanted in her chest, it has wires that are wrapped around the nerve located in the neck. Tiny electrical impulses too small to feel tickle or massage the vagus nerve, which then send signals to the part of the brain that controls our emotions, our gut feelings, our heartaches.

Though doctors still don't fully understand depression, they have discovered repeated stimulation of this neighborhood of the brain regulates the system, essentially fixing the psychiatric disorder. DR. MARK GEORGE, DIRECTOR, BRAIN STIMULATION LABORATORY: One of the exciting things about VNS is that it's the beginning of this idea of going straight to specific spots in the brain and over time kind of fixing an abnormal circuit.

GUPTA: Dr. Marriage George and colleagues here at the Medical University of South Carolina say Vagus Nerve Stimulation is considered a last resort. A patient must have tried at least four antidepressants and treatments without relief before they can be considered for this device.

Every month or so the settings are checked and, if necessary, adjusted. No longer suffering from overwhelming hopelessness, Marna feels like she's finally on a level playing field with the rest of the world.

DAVENPORT: I have a little bit more than hope now. I really have the reality that things are going to continue to get better and better.

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PHILLIPS: Well, checking entertainment headlines this Monday, August 2nd, "The Village" reaps box office gold. M. Knight Shyamalan's new movie riveted audiences to the tune of almost $51 million this weekend while some critics pan the flick as lame. Disney's thrilled. Executives expected its debut to take in about $11 million less.

Recasting himself as a family man again, Nicolas Cage went out for sushi and came home with his third wife. Friday, the 40-year-old married 20-year-old sushi waitress Alice Kim. Cage finalized his divorce from Lisa Marie Presley just two months ago.

Mama mia. The daughter of the late mob boss, John Gotti, starring in her own reality TV show, "Growing Up Gotti." It premiers on A&E tonight. Victoria Gottis is a divorced single mom raising three rambunctious little teens. Now she wants to dispel myths about the mob. Critics say, forget about it.

A LIVE FROM riddle just for you: How do you relocate a lion? The answer: Very carefully. Just ahead, American soldiers take on a wild assignment to give some big cats a new home.

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PHILLIPS: Out of the war and into the zoo, the lions of Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam, are now in the Baghdad Zoo after being taken from their palace home. The zoo has become a refuge for many animals who suffered during the war. CNN's Michael Holmes brings us one of his exclusive inside pieces.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fully armed and loaded, Humvees head out on an unusual mission for the U.S. Army. On board, precious cargo, lions, former pets of Uday, the son of Saddam Hussein. The adults have lived here for years on the grounds of his palace, but one by one, they're off to a new home at the Baghdad zoo. And the army's going to miss them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody's been down taking pictures and coming by and seeing them. And it's just been -- we've really been trying to -- trying to get all of them we can.

HOLMES (on camera): A lot of units (ph) now?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes, definitely.

HOLMES (voice-over): Dad, two mothers, and six cubs take their turns being sedated and moved a mile or two down the road to the zoo, past symbols of the former regime that kept them in such dire conditions. Soldiers showing concern for their charges. A little caution, too, in case one wakes up.

Overseeing the move, South African zoologist Brendan Whittington- Jones, who came to help out a few weeks after the fall of Baghdad and has been here ever since, helping make some big changes.

BRENDAN WHITTINGTON-JONES, ZOOLOGIST: Seeing the animals in better areas. You know, see (ph) the cheetah; we move them into a bigger area. Today the lions, the bear behind us, is -- you know, we moved them into -- just giving them open space, which they've never had before.

HOLMES: Originally, the coalition paid Whittington-Jones for his efforts here, but the contract ran out at the end of last year. Since then, he's been working for nothing. Local veterinarian Farah Morrani says he'll be missed.

FARAH MORRANI, ZOO VETERINARIAN: He helped us to change the attitude of the workers, get them to do things that they never even dreamed of doing.

HOLMES: We came here at the end of the war, too, and saw a zoo in chaos: open cages and animals barely alive from neglect and the war itself. This bear, 30 years old and completely blind, had spent 15 years in this cage and fed figs or bread. Today, he's outside and enjoying daily fruit salad.

Other changes, too. Not just the new lion enclosure, paid for by the U.S. military, but also a new aviary, a new home for the cheetahs. And other residents are even starting a family.

Those first pictures of the zoo more than a year ago saw a flood of cash and help. But it's all dried up.

(on camera): When there's a human tragedy in the world and people eventually give up and stop giving money, it's called donor fatigue. Well, it happens with animals, too. WHITTINGTON-JONES: It's a similar thing, you know. I think there's a lot of publicity to be had in the beginning and everybody jumps on the bandwagon. And as soon as, you know, the major interest weighs off, it's the people that are stuck in for the long run that really actually carry it through.

MORRANI: I think they think like, well, OK, it's going now, so they don't need our help anymore. But we still need it.

HOLMES (voice-over): It's too late for Brendan Whittington- Jones. He's out of money, needs a job, and is headed home. But he'd like to come back and finish the job one day.

WHITTINGTON-JONES: There's still a lot to go. There's a lot of work still to be done, just to keep it going to the next level. You know, to make it a -- not just an average zoo, but it can be made into a good zoo. But it just needs class (ph) to really step up to the plate.

HOLMES: As the sedative wears off, the lions stir, settling into a new home and, if the help keeps coming, a brighter future.

Michael Holmes, CNN, Baghdad.

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PHILLIPS: Well, that wraps up this Monday edition of LIVE FROM. Now to take us through the next hour of political headlines, "JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS."

Are you back from the bus tour, Judy?

JUDY WOODRUFF, HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS": We are back. And we're back from the convention. We're here, and we're glad to be back in Washington for a few days.

Kyra, thank you.

Well, this weekend's news about the heightened terror threat level for certain financial institutions has forced both political campaigns to refocus this week's message. We'll gauge the political impact and look at how the campaigns are dealing with the situation.

Plus, former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean's comments concerning the terror alert continue to reverberate today. We'll take a look at the backlash as the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry, distances himself from Dean's statement.

"INSIDE POLITICS" begins in just a moment.

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Aired August 2, 2004 - 15:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Police have just arrested the husband of a missing Utah woman. Salt Lake City Police say evidence suggests that Lori Hacking was killed and connects Mark Hacking to the alleged crime. She's been missing for two weeks. The search for her body in an area landfill will resume on Wednesday. We'll have more on that case coming up.
Thousands of Americans went to work today under tighter security than usual. The terror threat level was raised in the financial districts of New York, New Jersey, and Washington. Information gathered from al Qaeda members arrested in Pakistan may have led to that move. We've got live reports from New York and Washington just ahead.

President Bush says he wants a national intel director to advise him on countering terrorism. He made that announcement in the White House Rose Garden earlier today. Mr. Bush says the CIA will be run by a separate director while the new official will lead the entire U.S. intelligence community. A live report from the White House moments away.

There are reports of a shootout between U.S. and Iraqi forces and forces loyal to radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. A Baghdad- based spokesperson for al-Sadr says U.S. and Iraqi troops surrounded al-Sadr's home in Najaf and started shooting, and the cleric's Mehdi Army shot back, leading to an ongoing gun battle.

America on alert again. The president monitoring from the White House and saying what he wants done to keep Americans safer. Let's get the latest from our White House correspondent, Suzanne Malveaux -- Suzanne.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, earlier today, President Bush struck a defiant tone in the Rose Garden when he said, "Knowing what I know today, we would still go into Iraq." The president aggressively making the case that his administration did everything it could prior to September 11 and after September 11 to protect the American people.

The president today signing off on a number of recommendations from the 9/11 Commission, including the creation of a position, a new National Counterterrorism Center, as well as a new National Director of Intelligence. That is one individual who would oversee and integrate the 15 intelligence agencies of the country. This is an individual who would be appointed by the president, confirmed by the Senate, but would not work directly within the executive office within the White House.

The 9/11 Commission had hoped that that's -- that's what the president would have gone along with, but he says that this position requires greater autonomy.

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GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I don't think the person ought to be a member of my cabinet. I will hire the person. And I can fire the person, which is -- any president would like. That's how you -- that's how you have accountability in government.

I don't think that the office ought to be in the White House, however. I think it ought to be a stand-alone group to better coordinate particularly between foreign intelligence and domestic intelligence matters.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: Now, the president's Democratic opponent, John Kerry, is criticizing the president and the administration, saying this is too little, too late, that the administration has done very little to protect the American people in the three-and-a-half years that the president has been in office.

President Bush's chief of staff, Andy Card, earlier today saying that many of these recommendations are things the Bush administration had already begun after September 11, and that these changes, these recommendations that he's enhancing now has nothing to do with the elections.

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ANDREW CARD, WHITE HOUSE CHIEF OF STAFF: This has nothing to do with politics. This has to do with better protecting the homeland and making sure that the resources of our intelligence community are well coordinated so that the president can have the best information available to defeat terrorism.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: Now, Kyra, as you know, of course, there has been a lot of political pressure on the Bush administration, as well as on Senator Kerry, to come up with ways to best protect the people. Senator Kerry saying that he would have simply signed off on all of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission. But of course there's still a lot of unknowns.

Congress has to approve what kind of role this director will play in terms of budget authority, what kind of control and power he will have. A lot of that up to the hands of the lawmakers -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Suzanne Malveaux, live from the White House. Thanks so much. And speaking today in Michigan, Senator Kerry blasted President Bush on several occasions for his handling on the war on terrorism. Here he is just a short time ago, charging that the president has moved too slowly to bolster homeland security.

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SEN. JOHN KERRY (D-MA), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Today the president came out of the Rose Garden and made an announcement that he's going to adopt, after opposing it last week, and before that, he's going to adopt some of the recommendations of the 9/11 Commission.

Ladies and gentlemen, the job of the president of the United States is to keep America as safe as possible. It's to do everything in your power that's available to you to make America safe.

September 11, 2001, September 11, 2002 came and went. September 11, 2003 came and went. September 11, 2004 is almost here, and only finally are we doing some of the things that some of us have been calling for all that period of time. We need leadership!

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PHILLIPS: And today on "AMERICAN MORNING," Kerry charged the policies launched by the Bush administration have energized potential terrorists. President Bush said the charge is ridiculous.

Let's go to now where the new terror warnings are in effect. CNN's Mary Snow is live at the Citigroup building in New York. Sean Callebs is at the World Bank in Washington.

Mary, let's go to you first.

MARY SNOW, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, just moments ago, the first lady, Laura Bush, left with Mayor Bloomberg and Governor Pataki here at Citigroup Center. This is part of a morale booster, meeting with employees at Citigroup.

They came just a short time ago, came into the atrium of the building, sat with some of the employees. The atrium was filled. And I talked with Governor Pataki after it was over, saying that he just found out about this surprise today.

Also, Laura Bush accompanied by her daughters. The Citigroup Center is one of the financial institutes -- institutions that had been on the target list. This is a 59-story building, 18 stories to this building are leased out by Citigroup. And across the street, also, some Citigroup offices.

And clearly here today, as you see the lunchtime crowds, it does appear to be business as usual. But when you take a closer look, it is anything but business as usual. You can see very tight security, heavily armed guards surrounding the buildings. Some entrances have been closed off. That public atrium was closed to the public, only open to employees today -- Kyra. PHILLIPS: All right. Mary Snow, live in front of Citigroup there in New York.

Now let's go over to Sean Callebs. He's in front of the World Bank in Washington.

Sean, what's the latest from there?

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, when World Bank and IMF employees arrived today, they found added security, guards in front of entrances that were checking IDs even before employees got inside. Police were also out here doing spot checks of trucks, making sure no suspicious items were in those vehicles as well.

Police are going to be an increased presence here in the nation's capital. They are on the subways, what are called sweep teams. Also, police have closed a street in front of the World Bank that runs one block to Eighth Street. Last night, the police had indicated they did not want to put up any barricades or close any streets, but they thought this was prudent. Still, authorities said they are not going to be intimidated.

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CHIEF CHARLES RAMSEY, D.C. METROPOLITAN POLICE: No, we're not going to be intimidated. We're going to do what we need to do, take the necessary precautions. We have a leg up because we know or at least suspect we know what it is that was being planned. We just don't know when.

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CALLEBS: And Kyra, finally, right now the World Bank and IMF are holding, in essence, town hall meetings. Authorities are trying to allay any kind of concerns or fears they may have. There are 7,000 World Bank employees in Washington; several thousand of them work in the building behind me.

Kyra, back to you.

PHILLIPS: Sean Callebs, thanks so much.

Well, police in Salt Lake City announced a short time ago the arrest of Mark Hacking. That's in connection with the disappearance of his pregnant wife, Lori. Hacking has been charged with one count of aggravated murder. Lori Hacking was reported missing two weeks ago.

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CHIEF RICK DINSE, SALT LAKE CITY POLICE: Well, the reality is we guessed pretty early on what -- what the results of this were. We believed very early in the investigation that this was -- that she was the victim of a crime and that her husband may very well have been involved. So we have just been building the case during this timeframe. (END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: We get the background on the major turn in the case now from CNN's Kimberly Osias.

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KIMBERLY OSIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Bubbly 27-year- old Lori Hacking was the woman who seemed to have it all, a business career of her own, a Mormon marriage her friends and family called ideal, and a baby on the way.

KATHY BLACK, LORI HACKING'S FRIEND: Mark was always very kind to Lori. And just opening doors for her. And just a gentleman.

OSIAS: Lori thought they were moving to North Carolina so her husband could go to medical school. But it turned out that just wasn't true.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think everybody has a question about his telling us the truth.

OSIAS: Friends say the couple had visited two out-of-state campuses. But on Friday, July 16, colleagues at Wells Fargo Bank receive Lori received a distressing phone call, perhaps from the University of North Carolina, when she found out mark was never enrolled. In fact, he never even graduated from high school.

PAUL SOARES, LORI HACKING'S BROTHER: They took pictures of him in his cap and gown. He thought everything out.

OSIAS: But photographs taken that same Friday night show Lori looking happy at a going away party. Friends believe the couple spent the weekend packing.

On Sunday, the 18th, they were seen by convenience store clerk Eric Holleman, who says Mark often came in alone to buy cigarettes. Mark Hacking told police that the following day, the 19th, Lori went jogging in Memory Grove Park in the nearby canyon.

That same morning he bought a mattress. And then a short while later, at 10:49 to be precise, Mark called police to report that his wife was missing. Later that same day, he begged for the public's help. But on Monday night, Mark was seining running around a local hotel naked. Within hours he admitted himself to a psychiatric unit.

DOUGLAS HACKING, MARK HACKING'S FATHER: I looked him in the eye, and I said, "I need you to tell me if you had anything to do with Mark -- with Lori's disappearance." And I know you're getting anxious, but I have to tell you that he looked me in the eye and he said, "No."

Kimberly Osias, CNN, Salt Lake City.

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PHILLIPS: Straight ahead, they were once the palace pets. Now the lions that belonged to Saddam Hussein's sons are getting a new home. Ahead on LIVE FROM, we take you inside the big cats' move to their new digs.

It affects millions of Americans. Now a new treatment for severe depression. Dr. Gupta has the details.

And later, actor Nicolas Cage goes out for dinner, comes back with a wife. We're serving that one up just ahead on LIVE FROM.

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PHILLIPS: Well, there may be new hope for millions of people with severe depression who don't respond to conventional treatment. CNN medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta, tells us about a new device, an electrical implant, that's similar to a pacemaker that's showing promise.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For almost 30 years, Marna Davenport lived with the secret that almost killed her.

MARNA DAVENPORT: It was just a hopeless pain, a darkness that you just don't think you're ever going to come back into the real world.

GUPTA: Davenport, a college professor who holds both a Ph.D. and a pilot's license, suffers from severe recurring bouts of depression.

DAVENPORT: I knew I had been through the drugs. I was at the end of the line.

GUPTA: Like so many others with this disease, she considered suicide.

DAVENPORT: I did feel like killing myself. Only not that I said, "Oh, I want to die." That -- that was not it. It was, I want this pain to stop. I want this unbearable, exhausting, debilitating pain to stop.

GUPTA: That darkness that consumed her is now gone thanks to a pacemaker-like device called a Vagus Nerve Stimulator. Implanted in her chest, it has wires that are wrapped around the nerve located in the neck. Tiny electrical impulses too small to feel tickle or massage the vagus nerve, which then send signals to the part of the brain that controls our emotions, our gut feelings, our heartaches.

Though doctors still don't fully understand depression, they have discovered repeated stimulation of this neighborhood of the brain regulates the system, essentially fixing the psychiatric disorder. DR. MARK GEORGE, DIRECTOR, BRAIN STIMULATION LABORATORY: One of the exciting things about VNS is that it's the beginning of this idea of going straight to specific spots in the brain and over time kind of fixing an abnormal circuit.

GUPTA: Dr. Marriage George and colleagues here at the Medical University of South Carolina say Vagus Nerve Stimulation is considered a last resort. A patient must have tried at least four antidepressants and treatments without relief before they can be considered for this device.

Every month or so the settings are checked and, if necessary, adjusted. No longer suffering from overwhelming hopelessness, Marna feels like she's finally on a level playing field with the rest of the world.

DAVENPORT: I have a little bit more than hope now. I really have the reality that things are going to continue to get better and better.

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PHILLIPS: Well, checking entertainment headlines this Monday, August 2nd, "The Village" reaps box office gold. M. Knight Shyamalan's new movie riveted audiences to the tune of almost $51 million this weekend while some critics pan the flick as lame. Disney's thrilled. Executives expected its debut to take in about $11 million less.

Recasting himself as a family man again, Nicolas Cage went out for sushi and came home with his third wife. Friday, the 40-year-old married 20-year-old sushi waitress Alice Kim. Cage finalized his divorce from Lisa Marie Presley just two months ago.

Mama mia. The daughter of the late mob boss, John Gotti, starring in her own reality TV show, "Growing Up Gotti." It premiers on A&E tonight. Victoria Gottis is a divorced single mom raising three rambunctious little teens. Now she wants to dispel myths about the mob. Critics say, forget about it.

A LIVE FROM riddle just for you: How do you relocate a lion? The answer: Very carefully. Just ahead, American soldiers take on a wild assignment to give some big cats a new home.

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PHILLIPS: Out of the war and into the zoo, the lions of Uday Hussein, the son of Saddam, are now in the Baghdad Zoo after being taken from their palace home. The zoo has become a refuge for many animals who suffered during the war. CNN's Michael Holmes brings us one of his exclusive inside pieces.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fully armed and loaded, Humvees head out on an unusual mission for the U.S. Army. On board, precious cargo, lions, former pets of Uday, the son of Saddam Hussein. The adults have lived here for years on the grounds of his palace, but one by one, they're off to a new home at the Baghdad zoo. And the army's going to miss them.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody's been down taking pictures and coming by and seeing them. And it's just been -- we've really been trying to -- trying to get all of them we can.

HOLMES (on camera): A lot of units (ph) now?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes, definitely.

HOLMES (voice-over): Dad, two mothers, and six cubs take their turns being sedated and moved a mile or two down the road to the zoo, past symbols of the former regime that kept them in such dire conditions. Soldiers showing concern for their charges. A little caution, too, in case one wakes up.

Overseeing the move, South African zoologist Brendan Whittington- Jones, who came to help out a few weeks after the fall of Baghdad and has been here ever since, helping make some big changes.

BRENDAN WHITTINGTON-JONES, ZOOLOGIST: Seeing the animals in better areas. You know, see (ph) the cheetah; we move them into a bigger area. Today the lions, the bear behind us, is -- you know, we moved them into -- just giving them open space, which they've never had before.

HOLMES: Originally, the coalition paid Whittington-Jones for his efforts here, but the contract ran out at the end of last year. Since then, he's been working for nothing. Local veterinarian Farah Morrani says he'll be missed.

FARAH MORRANI, ZOO VETERINARIAN: He helped us to change the attitude of the workers, get them to do things that they never even dreamed of doing.

HOLMES: We came here at the end of the war, too, and saw a zoo in chaos: open cages and animals barely alive from neglect and the war itself. This bear, 30 years old and completely blind, had spent 15 years in this cage and fed figs or bread. Today, he's outside and enjoying daily fruit salad.

Other changes, too. Not just the new lion enclosure, paid for by the U.S. military, but also a new aviary, a new home for the cheetahs. And other residents are even starting a family.

Those first pictures of the zoo more than a year ago saw a flood of cash and help. But it's all dried up.

(on camera): When there's a human tragedy in the world and people eventually give up and stop giving money, it's called donor fatigue. Well, it happens with animals, too. WHITTINGTON-JONES: It's a similar thing, you know. I think there's a lot of publicity to be had in the beginning and everybody jumps on the bandwagon. And as soon as, you know, the major interest weighs off, it's the people that are stuck in for the long run that really actually carry it through.

MORRANI: I think they think like, well, OK, it's going now, so they don't need our help anymore. But we still need it.

HOLMES (voice-over): It's too late for Brendan Whittington- Jones. He's out of money, needs a job, and is headed home. But he'd like to come back and finish the job one day.

WHITTINGTON-JONES: There's still a lot to go. There's a lot of work still to be done, just to keep it going to the next level. You know, to make it a -- not just an average zoo, but it can be made into a good zoo. But it just needs class (ph) to really step up to the plate.

HOLMES: As the sedative wears off, the lions stir, settling into a new home and, if the help keeps coming, a brighter future.

Michael Holmes, CNN, Baghdad.

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PHILLIPS: Well, that wraps up this Monday edition of LIVE FROM. Now to take us through the next hour of political headlines, "JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS."

Are you back from the bus tour, Judy?

JUDY WOODRUFF, HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS": We are back. And we're back from the convention. We're here, and we're glad to be back in Washington for a few days.

Kyra, thank you.

Well, this weekend's news about the heightened terror threat level for certain financial institutions has forced both political campaigns to refocus this week's message. We'll gauge the political impact and look at how the campaigns are dealing with the situation.

Plus, former Democratic presidential candidate Howard Dean's comments concerning the terror alert continue to reverberate today. We'll take a look at the backlash as the Democratic nominee, Senator John Kerry, distances himself from Dean's statement.

"INSIDE POLITICS" begins in just a moment.

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