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Iraqi Police Broadcast Insurgent Confessions; Defense Department Enduring Some Cuts; Multi-Agency Security Team Keeps Super Bowl Fans Safe; Watergate Source Reportedly Ailing; Rich Colors Featured for Fall at Fashion Week

Aired February 07, 2005 - 15:00   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


TONY HARRIS, CO-HOST: More violence today in Iraq, and again, Iraqis are the targets. A car bombing outside a police station in Baqubah killed 15 civilians and wounded 16 others.
The bomb detonated outside a station where about 50 men were gathered looking for work.

And a suicide bombing outside a hospital in Mosul, 12 killed and four wounded in the attack on the Mosul help center. The location had been a police recruitment center.

With Iraqi insurgents stemming stepping up their attacks, police developed a method to fight back: video confessions from captured insurgents.

CNN's Nic Robertson has the story from Baghdad.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Looking cowed and submissive, suspected insurgents line up for a police camera, part of a new initiative to combat terror.

Naming, shaming, and intimidating others not to join their ranks.

"This is me," says Mohammed al-Sharquan (ph), pointing to a picture of three Insurgents and a captive in front of an Abu Musab Zarqawi banner. "Next to me is Fawas (ph). Next to me again is Ali. We're preparing to kill this man."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We showed these tapes of confessions to show the Iraqi people the ministry of interior's efforts to ensure they are safe and terrorists are being captured.

ROBERTSON: The insurgents' own propaganda video releases are used to confront and belittle them.

Dier Aldi Moussau al-Jawari (ph) appears shaken. "I saw them bring him to the amusement park in Mosul," he says. "I didn't know he was going to be killed. They told me he was going to work with us. Then I realized he was going to be killed."

On the next video of a victim, he shows remorse. "He was a Christian, the poor man," he says. "He was innocent and had children."

The use of videos like these on Iraqi television, showing alleged insurgents, has human rights groups up in arms. And some international groups have accused the police of brutality.

Ministers have admitted brutalities in the past, explaining it's the leftover mentality from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime.

BAKHTIAR AMIN, IRAQI HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER: There have been abuses in pretrial detention centers in some places. We acknowledge that, and we condemn that. And the Iraqi government's position is clear that we are against torturing.

ROBERTSON: Iraqi security forces say they know better how to get information out of Iraqis than U.S. troops do but claim to stay within the law.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We took these confessions at the crime scene. They had in their possession tapes of themselves executing these crimes. We didn't make them up or arrange them. All these crimes of killing and beheading were filmed by themselves.

ROBERTSON: Police have been slow to join the propaganda war. Insurgent video releases have been multiplying their ranks for some time, and recent videos like this show a logo burned into the picture, a degree more sophistication than their early footage.

(on camera) More than any other war, this conflict is being won and lost through the transmitted image. Abu Musab Zarqawi has grown his international following through the relatively simple means of recording and releasing his atrocities on the Internet.

Reversing that trend and taking the image and the fear it conveys to the enemy is an as yet unproven tactic.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And in just days President Bush is expected to ask for another $80 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is not included in the budget proposal he delivered to Congress today.

That $2.5 trillion spending plan calls for more money for homeland security and slashes programs intended to help the poor, 150 domestic programs, in fact, from foreign subsidies to education, Medicaid and the environment.

The military, while seeing some equipment cuts, would receive an overall increase. Also favored, a new high school performance program and grants for qualified college bound students.

The president calls it a lean budget. Democrats have branded it a hoax because it has doesn't include money for his No. 1 priority, transforming Social Security, or for the troops overseas.

Now Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld just wrapped up a briefing at the Pentagon, where he weighed the pluses and minuses of the budget for his department.

Our senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, joins us with that -- Jamie.

JAMIE MCINTYRE: Well, Kyra, as you said, the Pentagon budget comes in at $419 billion, but as you pointed out, even though that's a 4.8 percent increase, it doesn't include the supplemental funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you add the money in for that, the $80 billion, the Pentagon budget comes to a whopping half a trillion dollars for defense.

Now, the centerpiece of the spending plan is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's pet project to transform the military into a lighter, more mobile force.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Those people have thought that when someone uses the words "agile, lethal, expeditionary," they think that means smaller. It doesn't. It isn't the size of the force that was wrong; it's the shape of the force and the capability of the force.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MCINTYRE: Rumsfeld has already increased the size of the Army by 30,000 troops, using his emergency authority, and the Army is hinting they may want to make that permanent as they move from a structure of 10 divisions into smaller but more deployable brigades, up to 43 brigades.

Now, there are some losers in the budget. Some weapons systems are losing money, notably the F-22, a pet project of the U.S. Air Force. The -- excuse me, the F-22 Raptor is going to be cut from about 300 planes to just 128. This is one of the most expensive planes in the Air Force, but it's the key to having air superiority according to the Air Force.

Also some C-130 cargo planes are going to be -- end the production. Both planes, the F-22 and the C-130 made by Lockheed Martin, which is saying they may have to have some layoffs if Congress approves the plan.

Other -- quickly some other things: missile defense down about $1 billion, and the Navy will lose an aircraft carrier. They had 12. They'll only have 11. They're going to retire one. But the Navy says they have a new system for deploying them, which will actually make them more responsive, the remaining 11 -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right. Jamie McIntyre, live from the Pentagon, thanks -- Tony.

HARRIS: News across America now.

Jury selection delayed. The judge in the Michael Jackson case has postponed the second round of jury questioning by a week after a family member of Jackson's lead attorney died. Meantime, the judge agreed to allow the media to see questionnaires filled out by prospective jurors.

On the edge. A multimillion-dollar home in Anaheim, California, is on the verge of collapse. The home is teetering, as you can see here, on a slow moving landslide triggered by heavy rains last month. The house and two others have been evacuated.

Super numbers for a super game. Early estimates show millions of Americans tuned in to watch the Patriots sack the Eagles in last night's Super Bowl. Nielsen Media Research says ratings were down about two percent from last year, when nearly 90 million watched the big game.

PHILLIPS: Super tight security paid off at Super Bowl XXXIV. And CNN got an exclusive, all access look at the behind the scenes security operation.

Here's CNN's Susan Candiotti.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): While two teams were doing battle on the gridiron, a third team was in the middle of its own game plan, using everything from satellite images ever Jacksonville, down to schematics of the stadium club-level ceilings.

Hundreds of agents from federal, state and local agencies stood by in case of trouble. As it turns out, the biggest worry wasn't the game but at jam-packed activities nearby, reminiscent of the park bombing at the summer Olympics in Atlanta.

ROBERT CROMWELL, FBI: If an individual, a lone wolf type character like Eric Rudolph were, say, were to show up, the most vulnerable area is, of course, the NFL venues that are not at the Super Bowl.

CANDIOTTI: A few hours before the game began, a possible problem. Radar aboard this homeland security aircraft picked up a small plane close to penetrating a 30-mile wide no-fly zone. The plane was ordered to put down.

RON GUIRRERI, HOMELAND SECURITY: It landed at an outlying field, and it was met by investigators.

CANDIOTTI: But no threat was found.

That information went straight to the man in charge of Super Bowl XXXIX security, Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford, at his command post.

Perhaps his biggest get of the night was this man, Dion Rich (ph), famous for faking his way into more than 30 Super Bowls, the Kentucky Derby and the Academy Awards. This time he was arrested with an alleged phony ticket.

SHERIFF JOHN RUTHERFORD, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA: He's, I believe, trying to embarrass law enforcement, show that the security is not that good.

CANDIOTTI: In section 119, a minor fan fight in the seats.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And this is the closest camera.

CANDIOTTI: A battery of more than 200 cameras allowed authorities to pinpoint where it happened.

For the Coast Guard, no breaches to its 14-mile safety zone on the St. John's River.

Yet by game's end, the sheriff was not ready to call his security team's work a success.

RUTHERFORD: Once we help get all these fans moved out of Jacksonville and get back to where they -- where they reside, that will be our -- that's when we're going to start celebrating this -- the end of this game.

CANDIOTTI (on camera): Now the sheriff has his eye on Jacksonville International Airport, bracing for its busiest day yet as tens of thousands of Super Bowl fans head for home.

Susan Candiotti, CNN, Jacksonville, Florida.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And of course, stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

HARRIS: It is a question America has wondered about for more than 30 years.

PHILLIPS: Who is Deep Throat? Ahead on LIVE FROM, why the secret source that brought down President Nixon may soon be revealed.

HARRIS: Also ahead on LIVE FROM, it's question you face every morning as you're staring into the abyss that is your closet, trying to figure out what to wear. That may be...

PHILLIPS: How about that number. Wouldn't that look hot?

HARRIS: Wow. Fashion Week.

PHILLIPS: Yes. I'll wear that tomorrow. Look at this. I couldn't fit into that.

HARRIS: I dare you to wear that tomorrow.

PHILLIPS: Wish I could fit into it. Sorry. Did you want to say something else?

HARRIS: Well, just that Fashion Week -- you're going to take us there live, aren't you, coming up?

HARRIS: We're talking about a sweet deal for Diet Coke, also. Some changes coming to a soda can near you. We'll pop the top on that one and of course, bring you all the fashion advice, coming up.

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

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(WEATHER REPORT)

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HARRIS: Will we soon unravel an enduring and tantalizing mystery from the Watergate affair that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency?

CNN's Howard Kurtz reports the latest on the identity of Deep Throat.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ROBERT REDFORD, ACTOR: The story has told on us (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you thought I'd help?

HOWARD KURTZ, HOST, "RELIABLE SOURCES" (voice-over): He's the most famous secret source in journalistic history, the man who whispered Watergate secrets to Bob Woodward in a parking garage, played by Hal Holbrooke in the movie "All the President's Men."

More than three decades later could we be closer to learning the identity of Deep Throat? John Dean, the Nixon White House aide who went to jail over the Watergate cover up, says we might.

Writing in Sunday's "Los Angeles Times" Dean said that Deep Throat, the man -- we do know he's a man -- who helped bring down President Nixon is ill. What's more, says Dean, Woodward has told the editor of the "Washington Post" about the illness.

How exactly does Dean know this? He's got his own Deep Throat, a source he won't identify who gave him the information.

Woodward declined to comment Sunday about any alleged illness but confirmed that former "Post" editor Ben Bradley, the only other person beside Woodward and Carl Bernstein who knows Throat's identity, has said publicly that the obituary is already written. At the very least, the "Post" has the material ready.

Journalists are increasingly on the defensive about their use of confidential sources. "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller and "TIME" magazine's Matt Cooper are facing possible jail terms for refusing to disclose which Bush administration official, or officials, talked to them about Valerie Plame, the CIA operative whose role was leaked to columnist and CNN "CROSSFIRE" host Bob Novak.

Other journalists could face jail over anonymous sources in the case of Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist suing to find out who gave his name to reporters, including one former CNN correspondent.

(on camera) Last week's opening of an exhibit on Woodward and Bernstein's papers at the University of Texas rekindled interest in Deep Throat, who is still held up as a good source, a classic example of a whistle blower who needed to be protected by the press.

But who was Deep Throat? What was his motivation? And why did he betray Nixon? If John Dean is right, we may be soon able to answer those lingering questions.

Howard Kurtz, CNN, Washington.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: The current executive editor of the "Post," Lynn Downey, tells Howard Kurtz -- Kurtz that Woodward has not contacted him to say Deep Throat is ill.

PHILLIPS: Dean and the Democrats. Will former presidential candidate Howard Dean be a uniter or divider for his party? Judy Woodruff has details just ahead on "INSIDE POLITICS."

And if you're wondering what to wear to the party, up next on LIVE FROM, yes, we'll take you inside what's hot and what's not at Fashion Week. I like that.

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PHILLIPS: Well, patchwork is hot, ponchos are not. Gee, I've got two in my closet. I'm so glad that I got those as gifts.

Fashion Week in full swing in New York. Top talents like Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Hererra are showing off their fall collections today.

Kate Betts, editor-in-chief at "TIME Style & Design," is checking out the trends for us style conscience fashionistas.

Looking good, Cate. We both are wearing black, is that OK?

KATE BETTS, EDITOR, "TIME STYLE & DESIGN": Yes. Well actually it's not OK, because Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta, they both showed a lot of color here, kicking off Fashion Week. So I guess I'm not dressed in the right color.

PHILLIPS: Uh-oh. BETTS: Uh-oh. I actually caught up with Oscar before -- right after his show today, where he talked about his trip to Uzbekistan and how it inspired his collection.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

OSCAR DE LA RENTA, FASHION DESIGNER: Sort of dressing a woman, making their dream, making them feel great. You know, keep your eyes open on who your consumer is and fulfill all her fantasies.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Wow. So why Uzbekistan? Why did he choose that area?

BETTS: Well, he was very inspired by the colors of the fabrics there. There was a lot of very beautiful fabrics, embroideries, cold coins and all that showed up on his collection. It was really quite beautiful, lots of deep sort of gem tones with gold coins and good sequins. Very, very rich. Lots of fur also.

PHILLIPS: I can just imagine. All right. What about colors? What are the hot colors this year?

BETTS: Colors. Well, the hot colors seem to be kind of deep purples and reds and a kind of rust color. We're also seeing a lot of tweeds, so there's a lot of beautiful sort of browns mixed in with grays.

And I guess the message for spring that we are seeing now coming out in the stores is continuing for fall. The whole color thing, rich, exuberant embroidery, lots of details.

PHILLIPS: All right. I saw Beyonce in a little clip there. Saw her hanging out. She's always looking pretty good in her beautiful dresses. Besides Beyonce, tell us about other big designers we should keep an eye on?

BETTS: Well, tonight is the big show of Marc Jacobs, and that's always a very popular one here in New York. He's a trendy kind of downtown guy and sets a lot of the trends for Fashion Week. So this season he's promised to take a new direction. So people are kind of hotly anticipating what that's going to be.

PHILLIPS: All right. Kate, I promise you and I will not wear black the rest of his week. OK? We'll look for the Uzbekistan colors.

BETTS: Like green maybe.

PHILLIPS: OK. That works. All right. A couple gold coins. All right, Kate, we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks so much. Kate Betts.

And mark your date planner and your PDA, because Kate Betts will be with us again tomorrow and with the inside scoop, of course, on Bill Blass designs for the fall.

All right. There we go.

HARRIS: Some knockoffs, right? I mean, you get -- you get the main line rolled out.

PHILLIPS: Right.

HARRIS: And then you got the stuff that ends up in some of the stores that I can go and shop and enjoy myself.

PHILLIPS: Talking about the outlets?

HARRIS: Well, yes. Yes. Got to put a real fine point on it.

PHILLIPS: All right. How about Coke and Pepsi? There's no outlet for these.

HARRIS: That's right. That's right.

PHILLIPS: You get what you want.

Starting to boost, I guess, flat sales by coming up with some new products.

HARRIS: And Susan Lisovicz is with that story -- Susan.

(STOCK REPORT)

PHILLIPS: Thanks Susan.

"INSIDE POLITICS" is up next.

HARRIS: Judy Woodruff is here with a preview.

Hi, Judy.

JUDY WOODRUFF, HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS": Hey there. Thank you, Tony and Kyra.

Well, the stage is set for a fight over the president's newly released budget proposal. We'll look closely at some numbers with the deputy budget director, Joel Kaplan, Democratic Senator Kent Conrad.

Plus, new information from former White House counsel John Dean surfaces, making us ask once again who is Deep Throat? The latest on one of America's age-old mysteries, at least of this modern age, when "INSIDE POLITICS" begins in just a minute.

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HARRIS: Checking stories now in the news.

Word today on an Islamic web site that an Italian journalist kidnapped in Baghdad on Friday will be freed in the coming days. The message was from an Iraqi group which claims it is holding Giuliana Sgrena of the communist newspaper "Il Manifesto." The claim could not be independently corroborated. And an Egyptian diplomat tells CNN U.S. forces have helped free four Egyptian technicians held hostage in Iraq. They were abducted outside their home in western Baghdad yesterday.

A sign of goodwill between the Israelis and Palestinians. Officials on both sides say Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will announce a cease-fire at their summit tomorrow. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is hosting those talks at the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh.

The United Nations has suspended the former head of the oil-for- food program and another top official. Benon Sevan was singed out last week in a scathing report. Independent investigators accuse the pair in misconduct in the $64 billion humanitarian program in Iraq.

Now, "JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS."

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Aired February 7, 2005 - 15:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
TONY HARRIS, CO-HOST: More violence today in Iraq, and again, Iraqis are the targets. A car bombing outside a police station in Baqubah killed 15 civilians and wounded 16 others.
The bomb detonated outside a station where about 50 men were gathered looking for work.

And a suicide bombing outside a hospital in Mosul, 12 killed and four wounded in the attack on the Mosul help center. The location had been a police recruitment center.

With Iraqi insurgents stemming stepping up their attacks, police developed a method to fight back: video confessions from captured insurgents.

CNN's Nic Robertson has the story from Baghdad.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Looking cowed and submissive, suspected insurgents line up for a police camera, part of a new initiative to combat terror.

Naming, shaming, and intimidating others not to join their ranks.

"This is me," says Mohammed al-Sharquan (ph), pointing to a picture of three Insurgents and a captive in front of an Abu Musab Zarqawi banner. "Next to me is Fawas (ph). Next to me again is Ali. We're preparing to kill this man."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We showed these tapes of confessions to show the Iraqi people the ministry of interior's efforts to ensure they are safe and terrorists are being captured.

ROBERTSON: The insurgents' own propaganda video releases are used to confront and belittle them.

Dier Aldi Moussau al-Jawari (ph) appears shaken. "I saw them bring him to the amusement park in Mosul," he says. "I didn't know he was going to be killed. They told me he was going to work with us. Then I realized he was going to be killed."

On the next video of a victim, he shows remorse. "He was a Christian, the poor man," he says. "He was innocent and had children."

The use of videos like these on Iraqi television, showing alleged insurgents, has human rights groups up in arms. And some international groups have accused the police of brutality.

Ministers have admitted brutalities in the past, explaining it's the leftover mentality from Saddam Hussein's brutal regime.

BAKHTIAR AMIN, IRAQI HUMAN RIGHTS MINISTER: There have been abuses in pretrial detention centers in some places. We acknowledge that, and we condemn that. And the Iraqi government's position is clear that we are against torturing.

ROBERTSON: Iraqi security forces say they know better how to get information out of Iraqis than U.S. troops do but claim to stay within the law.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We took these confessions at the crime scene. They had in their possession tapes of themselves executing these crimes. We didn't make them up or arrange them. All these crimes of killing and beheading were filmed by themselves.

ROBERTSON: Police have been slow to join the propaganda war. Insurgent video releases have been multiplying their ranks for some time, and recent videos like this show a logo burned into the picture, a degree more sophistication than their early footage.

(on camera) More than any other war, this conflict is being won and lost through the transmitted image. Abu Musab Zarqawi has grown his international following through the relatively simple means of recording and releasing his atrocities on the Internet.

Reversing that trend and taking the image and the fear it conveys to the enemy is an as yet unproven tactic.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And in just days President Bush is expected to ask for another $80 billion for military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. That is not included in the budget proposal he delivered to Congress today.

That $2.5 trillion spending plan calls for more money for homeland security and slashes programs intended to help the poor, 150 domestic programs, in fact, from foreign subsidies to education, Medicaid and the environment.

The military, while seeing some equipment cuts, would receive an overall increase. Also favored, a new high school performance program and grants for qualified college bound students.

The president calls it a lean budget. Democrats have branded it a hoax because it has doesn't include money for his No. 1 priority, transforming Social Security, or for the troops overseas.

Now Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld just wrapped up a briefing at the Pentagon, where he weighed the pluses and minuses of the budget for his department.

Our senior Pentagon correspondent, Jamie McIntyre, joins us with that -- Jamie.

JAMIE MCINTYRE: Well, Kyra, as you said, the Pentagon budget comes in at $419 billion, but as you pointed out, even though that's a 4.8 percent increase, it doesn't include the supplemental funds for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. If you add the money in for that, the $80 billion, the Pentagon budget comes to a whopping half a trillion dollars for defense.

Now, the centerpiece of the spending plan is Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's pet project to transform the military into a lighter, more mobile force.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

DONALD RUMSFELD, SECRETARY OF DEFENSE: Those people have thought that when someone uses the words "agile, lethal, expeditionary," they think that means smaller. It doesn't. It isn't the size of the force that was wrong; it's the shape of the force and the capability of the force.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MCINTYRE: Rumsfeld has already increased the size of the Army by 30,000 troops, using his emergency authority, and the Army is hinting they may want to make that permanent as they move from a structure of 10 divisions into smaller but more deployable brigades, up to 43 brigades.

Now, there are some losers in the budget. Some weapons systems are losing money, notably the F-22, a pet project of the U.S. Air Force. The -- excuse me, the F-22 Raptor is going to be cut from about 300 planes to just 128. This is one of the most expensive planes in the Air Force, but it's the key to having air superiority according to the Air Force.

Also some C-130 cargo planes are going to be -- end the production. Both planes, the F-22 and the C-130 made by Lockheed Martin, which is saying they may have to have some layoffs if Congress approves the plan.

Other -- quickly some other things: missile defense down about $1 billion, and the Navy will lose an aircraft carrier. They had 12. They'll only have 11. They're going to retire one. But the Navy says they have a new system for deploying them, which will actually make them more responsive, the remaining 11 -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right. Jamie McIntyre, live from the Pentagon, thanks -- Tony.

HARRIS: News across America now.

Jury selection delayed. The judge in the Michael Jackson case has postponed the second round of jury questioning by a week after a family member of Jackson's lead attorney died. Meantime, the judge agreed to allow the media to see questionnaires filled out by prospective jurors.

On the edge. A multimillion-dollar home in Anaheim, California, is on the verge of collapse. The home is teetering, as you can see here, on a slow moving landslide triggered by heavy rains last month. The house and two others have been evacuated.

Super numbers for a super game. Early estimates show millions of Americans tuned in to watch the Patriots sack the Eagles in last night's Super Bowl. Nielsen Media Research says ratings were down about two percent from last year, when nearly 90 million watched the big game.

PHILLIPS: Super tight security paid off at Super Bowl XXXIV. And CNN got an exclusive, all access look at the behind the scenes security operation.

Here's CNN's Susan Candiotti.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): While two teams were doing battle on the gridiron, a third team was in the middle of its own game plan, using everything from satellite images ever Jacksonville, down to schematics of the stadium club-level ceilings.

Hundreds of agents from federal, state and local agencies stood by in case of trouble. As it turns out, the biggest worry wasn't the game but at jam-packed activities nearby, reminiscent of the park bombing at the summer Olympics in Atlanta.

ROBERT CROMWELL, FBI: If an individual, a lone wolf type character like Eric Rudolph were, say, were to show up, the most vulnerable area is, of course, the NFL venues that are not at the Super Bowl.

CANDIOTTI: A few hours before the game began, a possible problem. Radar aboard this homeland security aircraft picked up a small plane close to penetrating a 30-mile wide no-fly zone. The plane was ordered to put down.

RON GUIRRERI, HOMELAND SECURITY: It landed at an outlying field, and it was met by investigators.

CANDIOTTI: But no threat was found.

That information went straight to the man in charge of Super Bowl XXXIX security, Jacksonville Sheriff John Rutherford, at his command post.

Perhaps his biggest get of the night was this man, Dion Rich (ph), famous for faking his way into more than 30 Super Bowls, the Kentucky Derby and the Academy Awards. This time he was arrested with an alleged phony ticket.

SHERIFF JOHN RUTHERFORD, JACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA: He's, I believe, trying to embarrass law enforcement, show that the security is not that good.

CANDIOTTI: In section 119, a minor fan fight in the seats.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And this is the closest camera.

CANDIOTTI: A battery of more than 200 cameras allowed authorities to pinpoint where it happened.

For the Coast Guard, no breaches to its 14-mile safety zone on the St. John's River.

Yet by game's end, the sheriff was not ready to call his security team's work a success.

RUTHERFORD: Once we help get all these fans moved out of Jacksonville and get back to where they -- where they reside, that will be our -- that's when we're going to start celebrating this -- the end of this game.

CANDIOTTI (on camera): Now the sheriff has his eye on Jacksonville International Airport, bracing for its busiest day yet as tens of thousands of Super Bowl fans head for home.

Susan Candiotti, CNN, Jacksonville, Florida.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And of course, stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

HARRIS: It is a question America has wondered about for more than 30 years.

PHILLIPS: Who is Deep Throat? Ahead on LIVE FROM, why the secret source that brought down President Nixon may soon be revealed.

HARRIS: Also ahead on LIVE FROM, it's question you face every morning as you're staring into the abyss that is your closet, trying to figure out what to wear. That may be...

PHILLIPS: How about that number. Wouldn't that look hot?

HARRIS: Wow. Fashion Week.

PHILLIPS: Yes. I'll wear that tomorrow. Look at this. I couldn't fit into that.

HARRIS: I dare you to wear that tomorrow.

PHILLIPS: Wish I could fit into it. Sorry. Did you want to say something else?

HARRIS: Well, just that Fashion Week -- you're going to take us there live, aren't you, coming up?

HARRIS: We're talking about a sweet deal for Diet Coke, also. Some changes coming to a soda can near you. We'll pop the top on that one and of course, bring you all the fashion advice, coming up.

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

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(WEATHER REPORT)

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HARRIS: Will we soon unravel an enduring and tantalizing mystery from the Watergate affair that brought down Richard Nixon's presidency?

CNN's Howard Kurtz reports the latest on the identity of Deep Throat.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ROBERT REDFORD, ACTOR: The story has told on us (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And you thought I'd help?

HOWARD KURTZ, HOST, "RELIABLE SOURCES" (voice-over): He's the most famous secret source in journalistic history, the man who whispered Watergate secrets to Bob Woodward in a parking garage, played by Hal Holbrooke in the movie "All the President's Men."

More than three decades later could we be closer to learning the identity of Deep Throat? John Dean, the Nixon White House aide who went to jail over the Watergate cover up, says we might.

Writing in Sunday's "Los Angeles Times" Dean said that Deep Throat, the man -- we do know he's a man -- who helped bring down President Nixon is ill. What's more, says Dean, Woodward has told the editor of the "Washington Post" about the illness.

How exactly does Dean know this? He's got his own Deep Throat, a source he won't identify who gave him the information.

Woodward declined to comment Sunday about any alleged illness but confirmed that former "Post" editor Ben Bradley, the only other person beside Woodward and Carl Bernstein who knows Throat's identity, has said publicly that the obituary is already written. At the very least, the "Post" has the material ready.

Journalists are increasingly on the defensive about their use of confidential sources. "New York Times" reporter Judith Miller and "TIME" magazine's Matt Cooper are facing possible jail terms for refusing to disclose which Bush administration official, or officials, talked to them about Valerie Plame, the CIA operative whose role was leaked to columnist and CNN "CROSSFIRE" host Bob Novak.

Other journalists could face jail over anonymous sources in the case of Wen Ho Lee, the former nuclear weapons scientist suing to find out who gave his name to reporters, including one former CNN correspondent.

(on camera) Last week's opening of an exhibit on Woodward and Bernstein's papers at the University of Texas rekindled interest in Deep Throat, who is still held up as a good source, a classic example of a whistle blower who needed to be protected by the press.

But who was Deep Throat? What was his motivation? And why did he betray Nixon? If John Dean is right, we may be soon able to answer those lingering questions.

Howard Kurtz, CNN, Washington.

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HARRIS: The current executive editor of the "Post," Lynn Downey, tells Howard Kurtz -- Kurtz that Woodward has not contacted him to say Deep Throat is ill.

PHILLIPS: Dean and the Democrats. Will former presidential candidate Howard Dean be a uniter or divider for his party? Judy Woodruff has details just ahead on "INSIDE POLITICS."

And if you're wondering what to wear to the party, up next on LIVE FROM, yes, we'll take you inside what's hot and what's not at Fashion Week. I like that.

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PHILLIPS: Well, patchwork is hot, ponchos are not. Gee, I've got two in my closet. I'm so glad that I got those as gifts.

Fashion Week in full swing in New York. Top talents like Oscar de la Renta and Carolina Hererra are showing off their fall collections today.

Kate Betts, editor-in-chief at "TIME Style & Design," is checking out the trends for us style conscience fashionistas.

Looking good, Cate. We both are wearing black, is that OK?

KATE BETTS, EDITOR, "TIME STYLE & DESIGN": Yes. Well actually it's not OK, because Carolina Herrera and Oscar de la Renta, they both showed a lot of color here, kicking off Fashion Week. So I guess I'm not dressed in the right color.

PHILLIPS: Uh-oh. BETTS: Uh-oh. I actually caught up with Oscar before -- right after his show today, where he talked about his trip to Uzbekistan and how it inspired his collection.

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OSCAR DE LA RENTA, FASHION DESIGNER: Sort of dressing a woman, making their dream, making them feel great. You know, keep your eyes open on who your consumer is and fulfill all her fantasies.

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PHILLIPS: Wow. So why Uzbekistan? Why did he choose that area?

BETTS: Well, he was very inspired by the colors of the fabrics there. There was a lot of very beautiful fabrics, embroideries, cold coins and all that showed up on his collection. It was really quite beautiful, lots of deep sort of gem tones with gold coins and good sequins. Very, very rich. Lots of fur also.

PHILLIPS: I can just imagine. All right. What about colors? What are the hot colors this year?

BETTS: Colors. Well, the hot colors seem to be kind of deep purples and reds and a kind of rust color. We're also seeing a lot of tweeds, so there's a lot of beautiful sort of browns mixed in with grays.

And I guess the message for spring that we are seeing now coming out in the stores is continuing for fall. The whole color thing, rich, exuberant embroidery, lots of details.

PHILLIPS: All right. I saw Beyonce in a little clip there. Saw her hanging out. She's always looking pretty good in her beautiful dresses. Besides Beyonce, tell us about other big designers we should keep an eye on?

BETTS: Well, tonight is the big show of Marc Jacobs, and that's always a very popular one here in New York. He's a trendy kind of downtown guy and sets a lot of the trends for Fashion Week. So this season he's promised to take a new direction. So people are kind of hotly anticipating what that's going to be.

PHILLIPS: All right. Kate, I promise you and I will not wear black the rest of his week. OK? We'll look for the Uzbekistan colors.

BETTS: Like green maybe.

PHILLIPS: OK. That works. All right. A couple gold coins. All right, Kate, we'll see you tomorrow. Thanks so much. Kate Betts.

And mark your date planner and your PDA, because Kate Betts will be with us again tomorrow and with the inside scoop, of course, on Bill Blass designs for the fall.

All right. There we go.

HARRIS: Some knockoffs, right? I mean, you get -- you get the main line rolled out.

PHILLIPS: Right.

HARRIS: And then you got the stuff that ends up in some of the stores that I can go and shop and enjoy myself.

PHILLIPS: Talking about the outlets?

HARRIS: Well, yes. Yes. Got to put a real fine point on it.

PHILLIPS: All right. How about Coke and Pepsi? There's no outlet for these.

HARRIS: That's right. That's right.

PHILLIPS: You get what you want.

Starting to boost, I guess, flat sales by coming up with some new products.

HARRIS: And Susan Lisovicz is with that story -- Susan.

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PHILLIPS: Thanks Susan.

"INSIDE POLITICS" is up next.

HARRIS: Judy Woodruff is here with a preview.

Hi, Judy.

JUDY WOODRUFF, HOST, "INSIDE POLITICS": Hey there. Thank you, Tony and Kyra.

Well, the stage is set for a fight over the president's newly released budget proposal. We'll look closely at some numbers with the deputy budget director, Joel Kaplan, Democratic Senator Kent Conrad.

Plus, new information from former White House counsel John Dean surfaces, making us ask once again who is Deep Throat? The latest on one of America's age-old mysteries, at least of this modern age, when "INSIDE POLITICS" begins in just a minute.

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HARRIS: Checking stories now in the news.

Word today on an Islamic web site that an Italian journalist kidnapped in Baghdad on Friday will be freed in the coming days. The message was from an Iraqi group which claims it is holding Giuliana Sgrena of the communist newspaper "Il Manifesto." The claim could not be independently corroborated. And an Egyptian diplomat tells CNN U.S. forces have helped free four Egyptian technicians held hostage in Iraq. They were abducted outside their home in western Baghdad yesterday.

A sign of goodwill between the Israelis and Palestinians. Officials on both sides say Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas will announce a cease-fire at their summit tomorrow. Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is hosting those talks at the Red Sea resort of Sharm El Sheikh.

The United Nations has suspended the former head of the oil-for- food program and another top official. Benon Sevan was singed out last week in a scathing report. Independent investigators accuse the pair in misconduct in the $64 billion humanitarian program in Iraq.

Now, "JUDY WOODRUFF'S INSIDE POLITICS."

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