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Chasing the High; Hot Pot

Aired February 04, 2005 - 13:33   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.


BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Returning now to our look at the troubling and growing spread of illegal drug use in this country and the people, frequently children, forced to live with and sometimes die from the most sinister of addictions.
Again, here's Randi Kaye.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Look into the eyes of this woman. You'll see a life full of drugs, abuse, neglect and violence. Her name is Tiffany. She asked that we not use her last name.

She says she's been around meth since she was a young child, a meth addict since her early teens. She's also a mom who chose drugs over her own children.

TIFFANY: I could never make that more important than getting another dose.

KAYE: At 25, Tiffany says she's clean. She was hooked on methamphetamine for a decade. It's like speed, but far more addictive.

On the street, they call it ice, glass or crank. Some women take it to lose weight, others to help them get chores done. And some, like Tiffany, because she didn't know any better.

TIFFANY: Your heart just, you know, starts racing, you know, 200 beats a minute. And then your legs go weak. And you try to get up and walk around but you're not going to walk straight for a few minutes. And then, you know, after about 30 minutes, the rush is gone and you're just up and you're just wide open, 90 miles an hour.

KAYE (on camera): How long had you gone at some point without sleep?

TIFFANY: I think the most I ever stayed up was right at three weeks.

KAYE (voice-over): Tiffany tried meth for the first time when she was 12. She snorted it.

(on camera): And do you remember the first time, what it felt like?

TIFFANY: I remember it burned, it hurt.

KAYE (voice-over): Still, Tiffany kept doing it. Meth is so powerful, it takes a hold of you and doesn't let go. That taste led to a lifestyle Tiffany never imagined for herself.

TIFFANY: It had become a daily thing, pretty much. And if I wasn't using meth, I was smoking marijuana or drinking or taking pills, whatever.

KAYE: At 15, Tiffany had her first child, Terrell (ph), but meth was still her baby. She'd hit the street searching for the next party, the next high. Gone weeks at a time, family members looked after her son.

TIFFANY: It's really sad to say this, but my son had gotten so used to it, he quit worrying about me.

KAYE: And she quit worrying about herself. Then she got pregnant again. Even that didn't stop her from taking the drug.

TIFFANY: I think I was almost three months pregnant when I found out I was pregnant. And I had been using heavily.

KAYE: Her daughter Audrey (ph) is now almost three.

TIFFANY: I wouldn't shoot up in front of them, I wouldn't smoke in front of them. I would hide in the bathroom. But my son always knew something was going on.

I left my son at school a few -- a few times. I would be so caught up in what I was doing I just wouldn't remember him.

KAYE: Typical behavior for a mom on meth. Too high to know where her children are, too high to even care. A meth high can last 12 hours, plenty of time for a child to get into trouble. And when Tiffany came down...

TIFFANY: I felt so ashamed and so guilty, and I just -- I almost just wanted to die.

KAYE: And she almost did. She downed a bottle of pills, cut her wrists.

TIFFANY: I could be dead right now. By all rights I should be.

KAYE: Then the car accident. These photos, an ugly reminder.

TIFFANY: They made me think about how close I came to death.

KAYE (on camera): So what would drive a mother to take such risk? Remember, before Tiffany was a mom who used meth, she was a child who used meth. Where she learned to do this drug is at the heart of her story.

TIFFANY: I think how a child turns out has got to do a lot with their parents. And, you know, what I was shown was how I turn out to be.

KAYE (voice-over): Tiffany's mom was arrested and charged in 2003 with running a meth lab. She has not yet entered a plea.

TIFFANY: For a long time I wanted to blame her for everything.

KAYE: But now, Tiffany blames herself, at least for what she did to her kids. This photo was taken on the night she was arrested for possession of meth, the night her life started to turn around.

TIFFANY: It's real hard to look back at what I did to my kids.

KAYE: Her family refused to bail her out of jail. Tiffany's time away from home hit her son, Terrell (ph), hardest.

TIFFANY: He stayed with my stepsister, and she would tell me he would cry himself to sleep at night, wanting me.

KAYE: Jail sobered Tiffany, gave her time to reflect. It forced her into recovery, something she struggles with two-and-a-half years later.

(on camera): Do you feel you've broken the cycle in your family?

TIFFANY: I hope so.

I'm watching you, baby.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

NGUYEN: And Randi Kaye joins us now to talk about this growing problem. I think the most heart-wrenching thing to me as I watched it is the children. What kind of long-term effects are you seeing with these children exposed like that?

KAYE: Well, Dr. Ridge Wansha (ph), who was featured in our story. She tells us that kids are having problems with impulse control. And she's doing a study from watching them from when they were babies all the way until they're grown up. And impulse control is a big problem, anger management, ADHD, a much higher rate of it than in the general population of children. And learning disabilities, a much higher risk of learning disabilities. And the problem is the parents and the schools aren't fully prepared, she believes, to deal with this growing crisis.

NGUYEN: And that preparation, Tiffany mentioned it in the piece that she wants to break the cycle. Is their help out there? How do they break the cycle?

KAYE: Well, they're trying very hard to, but this is a growing problem. The number of meth incidents doubles every year in every state. So it's getting worse and worse. But the Republican and Democratic senators introduced a bill last week. It's called the "Combat Meth Act," and what it would do is target the meth cooks, and these are the people who have the kids at home who are making the meth at home. It would put the drugs used to make meth, the cold medicines behind the counter, plus consumers would actually have to show identification and sign for the drugs.

NGUYEN Any consumer?

KAYE: Any consumer. But it really is targeted toward the meth cooks. So show I.D., sign for it, and the drugs behind the counter. It's the first step.

NGUYEN: Very interesting piece. Randi Kaye, thank you for that.

And we by no means are finished with this important subject matter. Addiction and drug abuse, particularly the dangerous use of inhalants, that is the focus of tonight's "360" with Anderson Cooper. That's only on CNN, and it's tonight at 7:00 Eastern.

TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And to news across America now, a jury in Boston is in the midst of its full day deliberations in the molestation case against former Catholic Priest Paul Shanley. Shanley's accused of molesting a boy at a Massachusetts church in the '80s. His accuser, now aged 27, already won a civil suit against the Boston archdiocese in Charleston, South Carolina.

The defense of Christopher Pittman is under way today. The 15 year old is accused in the double murder of his grandparents three years ago. His lawyers say the boy was hallucinating, under the influence of the antidepressant Zoloft when he shot Joe and Joy Pittman and set their home on fire.

And in Wichita, Kansas, the FBI is analyzing a postcard sent to a television station to determine if it could be from the so-called BTK serial killer. It's the third such communication the station KAKE has received in a week. This latest postcard reportedly thanks the station for its quick response to the two previous messages. The BTK killer has been linked to eight unsolved killings from 1974 until 1986.

The warning signs something is wrong with your heart. Why gender differences could mean trouble for some women when they seek medical help. That story is up next.

NGUYEN: And still to come -- how age actually pays. Why this silver pot is worth so much more than some homes out there.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: It is Super Bowl Sunday this weekend as the New England Patriots vie for yet another championship ring. As part of CNN's anniversary series "Then and Now," we look at a former Chicago Bear lineman who, as a rookie, scored a one yard touchdown against the Patriots, helping his team shuffle its way to victory in Super Bowl XX.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: He shuffled into America's heart as a member of the 1985 Super Bowl championship Chicago Bears. With a 400 pound frame and persona as big as a household appliance, William "The Refrigerator" Perry played nine years in the NFL. His Super Bowl ring was the largest ever made, but his heart was even bigger.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His smile lights up the room. So does his body.

CORRESPONDENT: After football, Perry moved on to the construction business in his hometown of Aiken, South Carolina. Nowadays, Perry spends his time hunting, fishing, speaks frequently with children and still makes a big impression.

WILLIAM "THE FRIDGE" PERRY, FMR. CHICAGO BEARS LINEMAN: Study hard, you know, stay in school, listen to your teacher. Everybody can't be a football player. Everybody can't be a basketball player. You know, you need people to be lawyers, doctors and everything else.

CORRESPONDENT: Perry has four children and is now a grandfather. He's also the spokesperson for a company that sells industrial size fans. Leave it to "The Fridge" to stay cool even in retirement.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Seeing a lot of ladies in red today? It may be part of a unique fashion statement. The American Heart Association has dubbed this Wear Red Day to build awareness of heart disease and women. Heart disease kills more women than any other sickness, although CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells us it is often overlooked.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Last year, when she was 51 years old, Cheryl Miller woke up in the middle of the night suffering from a pain in her arm.

CHERYL MILLER, HEART ATTACK SURVIVOR: It was just kind of a dull ache and I had thought maybe I'd done something, you know, pulled a muscle or something. So I did get up and sat there and read for a while.

GUPTA: When the pain got worse, Miller went to the emergency room. But because she didn't have the typical symptoms of a heart attack, severe chest pain, doctors diagnosed her with a stomach problem.

MILLER: They were going to send me home because I was having esophageal spasms. And I thought, you know, I've had ingestion and it doesn't feel like this.

GUPTA: But Miller insisted her results be sent to a cardiologist and she was rediagnosed with a heart attack. According to Dr. Elizabeth Ross, Miller's cardiologist, misdiagnosis of women's heart disease is very common.

DR. ELIZABETH ROSS, WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER: Men, when they have heart disease, frequently have severe chest pain. They may describe it as a crushing or pressure-like pain. Women, on the other hand, may not have chest pain at all. They may just be excessively fatigued or nauseated or more short of breath.

GUPTA: Experts say more women need to know what their symptoms might be and be proactive like Miller.

DR. ALEXANDRA LANSKY, N.Y. PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: The difference between 30 minutes and 60 minutes could be the difference between life and death.

GUPTA: After all, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the U.S.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

NGUYEN: Well, the Super Bowl connection to the value of your stock portfolio.

HARRIS: Really?

NGUYEN: Apparently.

HARRIS: Plus, hitting the antiques lottery. How one Connecticut's family find wrought a $144,000 payday.

NGUYEN: Wow.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

NGUYEN: You never know what you're going never find in the attic or the back of your cupboard, especially when the Keno Brothers stop by. Lee and Leslie Keno host the TBS antiques search show "Find." And today they're with us from our New York bureau with word of a chocolate pot that's really hot with the antiques world.

We appreciate you being here. Let's I guess first, Leslie, let's talk to you about this pot. Who knew there was a thing as a chocolate pot. actually looks like a coffeepot.

How did you find this?

LESLIE KENO, ANTIQUES EXPERT: How'd we first find it. Well, we got photographs that is came to our producers at our TV show "Find," and they got all excited, and we went to visit Chris. And actually the interesting thing about coffee pots and the silver chocolate pots, is that originally chocolate was very much in fashion, that by the second half of the 18th century, they sometimes converted them. All's they did is stick made (ph) stationary, the little phinneal (ph) on the top. They were touching right there in the picture.

NGUYEN: So, Lee, when you saw this, did you know exactly what it was?

LEE KENO, ANTIQUES EXPERT: I'm going to tell you, one great thing we love about our show is we can check with the right experts. But we knew enough about this pot when we saw it in a plastic bag in this lady's trunk in her living room. No idea of value I don't think she had. It was a genuine 18th century silver pot, made by a great maker, but wanted to check with the experts to be sure.

NGUYEN: The expert said how much was it worth?

LESLIE KENO: Well, this is a -- has the rare touch mark of Thomas Hammerlsy (ph) of New York, made about '76, with a great coat of arms, incredible condition. And an estimate of $70,000 to $100,000.

LEE KENO: And, Betty, it was made for one of the great early landowners in New York State, Robert Livingston, whose brother was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. So it's one of the families, great names.

NGUYEN: So you place it between 70 and 100 grand. But, Lee, when it went to auction, it went for much more than that, didn't it?

LEE KENO: Well, the neat thing was that the owner went to the auction when it was sold, and obviously, there were a lot of bidders there as well. And when it sold it sold, it actually ended up selling for -- Leslie, you want to tell them?

LESLIE KENO: It came up at Sotheby's, and with the buyer's premium it sold for $144,000 on January 21st.

NGUYEN: Why can't I find a pot like that in my attic?

LEE KENO: I wish I had five or six. But the great news, Betty, is that it was actually bought by a descendant of Robert Livingston. So it went from one descendant, went to auction, and is still in the family.

NGUYEN: Things happen for a reason. It stayed in the family.

Well, have you both ever come across a piece, and I'll direct this to you, Leslie, that you just looked at and was just really stumped. You knew it was something, but you had no idea.

LESLIE KENO: Well, it happens. We're learning every day. That's the fun thing about this business. Part of our job every single day is to try to figure out what region a piece of furniture is from.

LEE KENO: We recently filmed a piece that's in an upcoming episode of "Find." You have to watch the show to find out.

NGUYEN: Nice plug.

LEE KENO: I'm just kidding.

LESLIE KENO: It's an amazing piece that's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we're still trying to determine if it was made in Maryland or Pennsylvania. And that's what fun. LEE KENO: And that's what we love about the show, we're learning every day.

NGUYEN: You're investigators basically?

LEE KENO: Yes, get out the magnifying glass.

LESLIE KENO: Yes, it's a little detective work. You know it's fun.

LEE KENO: It's an adventure.

NGUYEN: So for people watching at home, and they're thinking, well, I may have something, what's your advice, Leslie? What should they first do?

LESLIE KENO: Well, what they should do, we have a Web site, www.find-tv.com. And there is a page there on the screen you can fill out and send images, and we're happy to try to help. And please watch the show.

LEE KENO: Also, people can use the Internet a lot. We suggest you just use Google or something or something like that actually, or just e-mail us directly. You want to get several opinions on a piece before you make a decision. That also happens in terms of cleaning something, like this silver pot had not been cleaned up. Some people over-polish them and really hurt the engraving.

NGUYEN: It damages it, yes.

LEE KENO: Yes, it would have taken away probably $60,000 had she used brillo or something to clean that engraving.

LESLIE KENO: And you don't do that at home either.

LEE KENO: I don't.

LESLIE KENO: He doesn't do dishes, period.

LEE KENO: I don't do dishes at all. I don't even know what a dishwasher is.

NGUYEN: You don't want to mess it up, you don't want to mess up the value of them. Exactly, sure. We're buying that.

Leslie and Lee Keno, we appreciate your time today. Thank you. Always a pleasure.

LEE AND LESLIE KENO: Thank you. Thanks for having us.

HARRIS: I clean up my pots and they're just still pots. They're not...

NGUYEN: But you never know, that's the key.

HARRIS: You never know. OK, where did we find them? And coming up in the second hour of LIVE FROM, he helped to break down Hollywood's color barrier, and as a result received one of America's highest honors.

NGUYEN: We will take a look at Ossie Davis' life when LIVE FROM returns after this.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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Aired February 4, 2005 - 13:33   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Returning now to our look at the troubling and growing spread of illegal drug use in this country and the people, frequently children, forced to live with and sometimes die from the most sinister of addictions.
Again, here's Randi Kaye.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Look into the eyes of this woman. You'll see a life full of drugs, abuse, neglect and violence. Her name is Tiffany. She asked that we not use her last name.

She says she's been around meth since she was a young child, a meth addict since her early teens. She's also a mom who chose drugs over her own children.

TIFFANY: I could never make that more important than getting another dose.

KAYE: At 25, Tiffany says she's clean. She was hooked on methamphetamine for a decade. It's like speed, but far more addictive.

On the street, they call it ice, glass or crank. Some women take it to lose weight, others to help them get chores done. And some, like Tiffany, because she didn't know any better.

TIFFANY: Your heart just, you know, starts racing, you know, 200 beats a minute. And then your legs go weak. And you try to get up and walk around but you're not going to walk straight for a few minutes. And then, you know, after about 30 minutes, the rush is gone and you're just up and you're just wide open, 90 miles an hour.

KAYE (on camera): How long had you gone at some point without sleep?

TIFFANY: I think the most I ever stayed up was right at three weeks.

KAYE (voice-over): Tiffany tried meth for the first time when she was 12. She snorted it.

(on camera): And do you remember the first time, what it felt like?

TIFFANY: I remember it burned, it hurt.

KAYE (voice-over): Still, Tiffany kept doing it. Meth is so powerful, it takes a hold of you and doesn't let go. That taste led to a lifestyle Tiffany never imagined for herself.

TIFFANY: It had become a daily thing, pretty much. And if I wasn't using meth, I was smoking marijuana or drinking or taking pills, whatever.

KAYE: At 15, Tiffany had her first child, Terrell (ph), but meth was still her baby. She'd hit the street searching for the next party, the next high. Gone weeks at a time, family members looked after her son.

TIFFANY: It's really sad to say this, but my son had gotten so used to it, he quit worrying about me.

KAYE: And she quit worrying about herself. Then she got pregnant again. Even that didn't stop her from taking the drug.

TIFFANY: I think I was almost three months pregnant when I found out I was pregnant. And I had been using heavily.

KAYE: Her daughter Audrey (ph) is now almost three.

TIFFANY: I wouldn't shoot up in front of them, I wouldn't smoke in front of them. I would hide in the bathroom. But my son always knew something was going on.

I left my son at school a few -- a few times. I would be so caught up in what I was doing I just wouldn't remember him.

KAYE: Typical behavior for a mom on meth. Too high to know where her children are, too high to even care. A meth high can last 12 hours, plenty of time for a child to get into trouble. And when Tiffany came down...

TIFFANY: I felt so ashamed and so guilty, and I just -- I almost just wanted to die.

KAYE: And she almost did. She downed a bottle of pills, cut her wrists.

TIFFANY: I could be dead right now. By all rights I should be.

KAYE: Then the car accident. These photos, an ugly reminder.

TIFFANY: They made me think about how close I came to death.

KAYE (on camera): So what would drive a mother to take such risk? Remember, before Tiffany was a mom who used meth, she was a child who used meth. Where she learned to do this drug is at the heart of her story.

TIFFANY: I think how a child turns out has got to do a lot with their parents. And, you know, what I was shown was how I turn out to be.

KAYE (voice-over): Tiffany's mom was arrested and charged in 2003 with running a meth lab. She has not yet entered a plea.

TIFFANY: For a long time I wanted to blame her for everything.

KAYE: But now, Tiffany blames herself, at least for what she did to her kids. This photo was taken on the night she was arrested for possession of meth, the night her life started to turn around.

TIFFANY: It's real hard to look back at what I did to my kids.

KAYE: Her family refused to bail her out of jail. Tiffany's time away from home hit her son, Terrell (ph), hardest.

TIFFANY: He stayed with my stepsister, and she would tell me he would cry himself to sleep at night, wanting me.

KAYE: Jail sobered Tiffany, gave her time to reflect. It forced her into recovery, something she struggles with two-and-a-half years later.

(on camera): Do you feel you've broken the cycle in your family?

TIFFANY: I hope so.

I'm watching you, baby.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

NGUYEN: And Randi Kaye joins us now to talk about this growing problem. I think the most heart-wrenching thing to me as I watched it is the children. What kind of long-term effects are you seeing with these children exposed like that?

KAYE: Well, Dr. Ridge Wansha (ph), who was featured in our story. She tells us that kids are having problems with impulse control. And she's doing a study from watching them from when they were babies all the way until they're grown up. And impulse control is a big problem, anger management, ADHD, a much higher rate of it than in the general population of children. And learning disabilities, a much higher risk of learning disabilities. And the problem is the parents and the schools aren't fully prepared, she believes, to deal with this growing crisis.

NGUYEN: And that preparation, Tiffany mentioned it in the piece that she wants to break the cycle. Is their help out there? How do they break the cycle?

KAYE: Well, they're trying very hard to, but this is a growing problem. The number of meth incidents doubles every year in every state. So it's getting worse and worse. But the Republican and Democratic senators introduced a bill last week. It's called the "Combat Meth Act," and what it would do is target the meth cooks, and these are the people who have the kids at home who are making the meth at home. It would put the drugs used to make meth, the cold medicines behind the counter, plus consumers would actually have to show identification and sign for the drugs.

NGUYEN Any consumer?

KAYE: Any consumer. But it really is targeted toward the meth cooks. So show I.D., sign for it, and the drugs behind the counter. It's the first step.

NGUYEN: Very interesting piece. Randi Kaye, thank you for that.

And we by no means are finished with this important subject matter. Addiction and drug abuse, particularly the dangerous use of inhalants, that is the focus of tonight's "360" with Anderson Cooper. That's only on CNN, and it's tonight at 7:00 Eastern.

TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: And to news across America now, a jury in Boston is in the midst of its full day deliberations in the molestation case against former Catholic Priest Paul Shanley. Shanley's accused of molesting a boy at a Massachusetts church in the '80s. His accuser, now aged 27, already won a civil suit against the Boston archdiocese in Charleston, South Carolina.

The defense of Christopher Pittman is under way today. The 15 year old is accused in the double murder of his grandparents three years ago. His lawyers say the boy was hallucinating, under the influence of the antidepressant Zoloft when he shot Joe and Joy Pittman and set their home on fire.

And in Wichita, Kansas, the FBI is analyzing a postcard sent to a television station to determine if it could be from the so-called BTK serial killer. It's the third such communication the station KAKE has received in a week. This latest postcard reportedly thanks the station for its quick response to the two previous messages. The BTK killer has been linked to eight unsolved killings from 1974 until 1986.

The warning signs something is wrong with your heart. Why gender differences could mean trouble for some women when they seek medical help. That story is up next.

NGUYEN: And still to come -- how age actually pays. Why this silver pot is worth so much more than some homes out there.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: It is Super Bowl Sunday this weekend as the New England Patriots vie for yet another championship ring. As part of CNN's anniversary series "Then and Now," we look at a former Chicago Bear lineman who, as a rookie, scored a one yard touchdown against the Patriots, helping his team shuffle its way to victory in Super Bowl XX.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT: He shuffled into America's heart as a member of the 1985 Super Bowl championship Chicago Bears. With a 400 pound frame and persona as big as a household appliance, William "The Refrigerator" Perry played nine years in the NFL. His Super Bowl ring was the largest ever made, but his heart was even bigger.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: His smile lights up the room. So does his body.

CORRESPONDENT: After football, Perry moved on to the construction business in his hometown of Aiken, South Carolina. Nowadays, Perry spends his time hunting, fishing, speaks frequently with children and still makes a big impression.

WILLIAM "THE FRIDGE" PERRY, FMR. CHICAGO BEARS LINEMAN: Study hard, you know, stay in school, listen to your teacher. Everybody can't be a football player. Everybody can't be a basketball player. You know, you need people to be lawyers, doctors and everything else.

CORRESPONDENT: Perry has four children and is now a grandfather. He's also the spokesperson for a company that sells industrial size fans. Leave it to "The Fridge" to stay cool even in retirement.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Seeing a lot of ladies in red today? It may be part of a unique fashion statement. The American Heart Association has dubbed this Wear Red Day to build awareness of heart disease and women. Heart disease kills more women than any other sickness, although CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta tells us it is often overlooked.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Last year, when she was 51 years old, Cheryl Miller woke up in the middle of the night suffering from a pain in her arm.

CHERYL MILLER, HEART ATTACK SURVIVOR: It was just kind of a dull ache and I had thought maybe I'd done something, you know, pulled a muscle or something. So I did get up and sat there and read for a while.

GUPTA: When the pain got worse, Miller went to the emergency room. But because she didn't have the typical symptoms of a heart attack, severe chest pain, doctors diagnosed her with a stomach problem.

MILLER: They were going to send me home because I was having esophageal spasms. And I thought, you know, I've had ingestion and it doesn't feel like this.

GUPTA: But Miller insisted her results be sent to a cardiologist and she was rediagnosed with a heart attack. According to Dr. Elizabeth Ross, Miller's cardiologist, misdiagnosis of women's heart disease is very common.

DR. ELIZABETH ROSS, WASHINGTON HOSPITAL CENTER: Men, when they have heart disease, frequently have severe chest pain. They may describe it as a crushing or pressure-like pain. Women, on the other hand, may not have chest pain at all. They may just be excessively fatigued or nauseated or more short of breath.

GUPTA: Experts say more women need to know what their symptoms might be and be proactive like Miller.

DR. ALEXANDRA LANSKY, N.Y. PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL: The difference between 30 minutes and 60 minutes could be the difference between life and death.

GUPTA: After all, cardiovascular disease is the number one killer of both men and women in the U.S.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

NGUYEN: Well, the Super Bowl connection to the value of your stock portfolio.

HARRIS: Really?

NGUYEN: Apparently.

HARRIS: Plus, hitting the antiques lottery. How one Connecticut's family find wrought a $144,000 payday.

NGUYEN: Wow.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

NGUYEN: You never know what you're going never find in the attic or the back of your cupboard, especially when the Keno Brothers stop by. Lee and Leslie Keno host the TBS antiques search show "Find." And today they're with us from our New York bureau with word of a chocolate pot that's really hot with the antiques world.

We appreciate you being here. Let's I guess first, Leslie, let's talk to you about this pot. Who knew there was a thing as a chocolate pot. actually looks like a coffeepot.

How did you find this?

LESLIE KENO, ANTIQUES EXPERT: How'd we first find it. Well, we got photographs that is came to our producers at our TV show "Find," and they got all excited, and we went to visit Chris. And actually the interesting thing about coffee pots and the silver chocolate pots, is that originally chocolate was very much in fashion, that by the second half of the 18th century, they sometimes converted them. All's they did is stick made (ph) stationary, the little phinneal (ph) on the top. They were touching right there in the picture.

NGUYEN: So, Lee, when you saw this, did you know exactly what it was?

LEE KENO, ANTIQUES EXPERT: I'm going to tell you, one great thing we love about our show is we can check with the right experts. But we knew enough about this pot when we saw it in a plastic bag in this lady's trunk in her living room. No idea of value I don't think she had. It was a genuine 18th century silver pot, made by a great maker, but wanted to check with the experts to be sure.

NGUYEN: The expert said how much was it worth?

LESLIE KENO: Well, this is a -- has the rare touch mark of Thomas Hammerlsy (ph) of New York, made about '76, with a great coat of arms, incredible condition. And an estimate of $70,000 to $100,000.

LEE KENO: And, Betty, it was made for one of the great early landowners in New York State, Robert Livingston, whose brother was a signer of the Declaration of Independence. So it's one of the families, great names.

NGUYEN: So you place it between 70 and 100 grand. But, Lee, when it went to auction, it went for much more than that, didn't it?

LEE KENO: Well, the neat thing was that the owner went to the auction when it was sold, and obviously, there were a lot of bidders there as well. And when it sold it sold, it actually ended up selling for -- Leslie, you want to tell them?

LESLIE KENO: It came up at Sotheby's, and with the buyer's premium it sold for $144,000 on January 21st.

NGUYEN: Why can't I find a pot like that in my attic?

LEE KENO: I wish I had five or six. But the great news, Betty, is that it was actually bought by a descendant of Robert Livingston. So it went from one descendant, went to auction, and is still in the family.

NGUYEN: Things happen for a reason. It stayed in the family.

Well, have you both ever come across a piece, and I'll direct this to you, Leslie, that you just looked at and was just really stumped. You knew it was something, but you had no idea.

LESLIE KENO: Well, it happens. We're learning every day. That's the fun thing about this business. Part of our job every single day is to try to figure out what region a piece of furniture is from.

LEE KENO: We recently filmed a piece that's in an upcoming episode of "Find." You have to watch the show to find out.

NGUYEN: Nice plug.

LEE KENO: I'm just kidding.

LESLIE KENO: It's an amazing piece that's worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and we're still trying to determine if it was made in Maryland or Pennsylvania. And that's what fun. LEE KENO: And that's what we love about the show, we're learning every day.

NGUYEN: You're investigators basically?

LEE KENO: Yes, get out the magnifying glass.

LESLIE KENO: Yes, it's a little detective work. You know it's fun.

LEE KENO: It's an adventure.

NGUYEN: So for people watching at home, and they're thinking, well, I may have something, what's your advice, Leslie? What should they first do?

LESLIE KENO: Well, what they should do, we have a Web site, www.find-tv.com. And there is a page there on the screen you can fill out and send images, and we're happy to try to help. And please watch the show.

LEE KENO: Also, people can use the Internet a lot. We suggest you just use Google or something or something like that actually, or just e-mail us directly. You want to get several opinions on a piece before you make a decision. That also happens in terms of cleaning something, like this silver pot had not been cleaned up. Some people over-polish them and really hurt the engraving.

NGUYEN: It damages it, yes.

LEE KENO: Yes, it would have taken away probably $60,000 had she used brillo or something to clean that engraving.

LESLIE KENO: And you don't do that at home either.

LEE KENO: I don't.

LESLIE KENO: He doesn't do dishes, period.

LEE KENO: I don't do dishes at all. I don't even know what a dishwasher is.

NGUYEN: You don't want to mess it up, you don't want to mess up the value of them. Exactly, sure. We're buying that.

Leslie and Lee Keno, we appreciate your time today. Thank you. Always a pleasure.

LEE AND LESLIE KENO: Thank you. Thanks for having us.

HARRIS: I clean up my pots and they're just still pots. They're not...

NGUYEN: But you never know, that's the key.

HARRIS: You never know. OK, where did we find them? And coming up in the second hour of LIVE FROM, he helped to break down Hollywood's color barrier, and as a result received one of America's highest honors.

NGUYEN: We will take a look at Ossie Davis' life when LIVE FROM returns after this.

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