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Diplomatic Stalemate; Terror Trail

Aired February 11, 2005 - 13:31   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, CNN ANCHOR: Checking stories in the news, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller is dead at the age of 89. The legendary writer, who was once married to Marilyn Monroe, died of heart failure last night at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. Miller received the Pulitzer for "Death of a Salesman" in 1949 when he was just 33 years old.
Police in Ft. Lauderdale think they found the mother of the baby who was tossed from a moving vehicle. The baby is reported in good shape in a hospital. The infant was only hours old when he was thrown out of a car with his umbilical cord still attached. The next news conference on the case is set for an hour from now.

No way, won't happen. That's the White House's response to a call from North Korea for face-to-face bilateral talks. North Korea claimed earlier this week that it has nuclear weapons, and said it was pulling out of six-party talks on the issue. Now it say it wants direct talks with the Bush administration. Washington rejects that, saying multilateral talks are the only way forward.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: So why is the Bush administration refusing to negotiate one on one with North Korea? And why is North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il so insistent that bilateral talks with the U.S. are the only way that he'll even discuss his country's new program?

Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger joins us now live from Charlottesville, Virginia to provide some insight on this diplomatic stalemate.

Good to see you, sir.

LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER, FMR. SECY. OF STATE: Thank you. Good to be here.

PHILLIPS: So why not negotiate one on one? Why is that not happening?

EAGLEBURGER: Well, remember, We were in these six-party talks, and we had the Chinese and some others with us. And it was not just a question of the United States trying to twist the North Korean's arm by ourselves, nor was it that only the United States would have to pay something to get the North Koreans to behave themselves.

But most importantly of all, we have been lied to by the North Koreans for a decade. They told us they didn't have the weapons, they weren't going to produce them, and then they would go back and say, well, maybe we'll produce them. And we've given them billions of dollars in food aid, for example, and it's gotten us nothing. So I don't think there's anything to be gained by it.

PHILLIPS: When you hear the news in the headlines right now, and you've served under eight administrations, was North Korea ever this much of a concern, in any of those administrations prior to right now?

EAGLEBURGER: Well, it was a concern before that, in 1950, the Korean War, which I happen to be old enough to have been involved in. So it was a concern then. It's been a concern off and on for a long time, largely because you can't count on where these leaders and where this country is going. It's so isolated from the rest of the world, you can not really predict what it's doing, and it's previous leader was a very, very astute, very tough fellow. His son now is it's harder to figure him out. But in both cases, I think you're looking at a country led by somebody who understands only his own country and is not particularly concerned what he does, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, and that's dangerous.

PHILLIPS: Do you think that North Korea would nuke the United States?

EAGLEBURGER: Again, nothing is impossible. They can't get him here yet. There will come a time when they can. But no, I don't think -- at least that's not now their purpose. Let's remember that if you've got one of these things and you're mad at Uncle Sam, you can put it in a boat, put in a harbor.

In other words, it is a possibility. But I think more importantly, the North Koreans see this weapon as putting them in a different category of countries where more attention will have to be paid to them.

PHILLIPS: Should we be concerned about North Korea and Iran?

EAGLEBURGER: Yes. No. 1, the news about North Korea is, I suppose, expected. We've seen this coming, but it's very bad news in terms of maintaining some sort of control over nuclear weapons. And I have to ask if this is where North Korea is now, can Iran be far behind, and I'm afraid I think they're moving in the same direction.

And there's one other thing we have to worry about in both cases. That is, when North Korea gets nuclear weapons, the issue is not simply whether they're going to use them against us or somebody else, but are they give them to Osama bin Laden or somebody else of that character, and then we have a real problem.

PHILLIPS: Well, you have the recent report, Libya received nukes from North Korea. It looks like North Korea would sell them to almost anyone. So you see the possibility of these getting in the hands of al Qaeda, once again, the United States being at stake?

EAGLEBURGER: What you have here is clear evidence that they did do some conniving with Libya at an early stage. And when Libya finally gave up its pretenses to (INAUDIBLE) nuclear weapons, we learned about all of that. Well, if the North Koreans will do it there, they'll do it, I think, anywhere, particularly if this is something they can sell for a goodly amount of money. And beyond that, they would like nothing better than to be able to upset the balance with us and other Western countries by putting some of these weapons in the hands of terrorists. They don't have enough now to do that, but that doesn't mean they won't have.

PHILLIPS: Sir, real quickly, final question. U.S. has gone to war in Afghanistan, gone to war in Iraq. There's been talk about Iran. What about North Korea? Has strike planning even taken place? Do you think there are plans on the table?

EAGLEBURGER: Well, I'm sure there are plans on the table. That's been the case for decades. Whether there's any intention to use them or not is another question.

And I think we need to remember that one of the problems in dealing with this now in Iran, in North Korea, wherever, is that as long as we're involved as we are in Iraq, unless we want to go on a full mobilization, we're limited on the military we could use for something against North Korea anyway, and in the North Korean case, if we struck at them, I think it is almost inevitable that they would try to invade South Korea.

PHILLIPS: Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, thanks for your time today, sir.

EAGLEBURGER: My pleasure, ma'am.

PHILLIPS: Continuing our Security Watch this hour, an American woman is now facing up to 20 years after a conviction of charges of aiding a terrorist. Sixty-five-year-old Lynne Stewart, a prominent New York defense attorney, says she did nothing wrong is planning to appeal.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick has her story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She walked out of court a convicted woman but even in defeat Lynne Stewart was defiant.

LYNNE STEWART, CONVICTED ATTORNEY: I will fight on. I'm not giving up. I know I committed no crime.

FEYERICK: Stewart is well known for defending blind Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, a radical sheikh with ties to Osama bin Laden. After Rahman was found guilty of plotting terror attacks on New York City, Stewart visited him in prison.

She agreed in writing to abide by special prison rules and never reveal anything they'd talked about but a jury found that's just what she did, the 65-year-old grandmother found guilty of smuggling dangerous messages to the sheikh's followers around the world.

STEWART: When you put Osama bin Laden in a courtroom and ask the jury to ignore it that's asking a lot.

FEYERICK: The Justice Department called the victory an important step in fighting terror, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales saying "This department will pursue both those who carry out acts of terrorism and those who assist them with their murderous goals."

Stewart is well known for defending mob guys, cop shooters, and civil rights activists like the Black Panthers. In defending herself, she said she was only trying to keep her client in the public eye when she sent out a press release in 2000. In it, Sheikh Rahman called for an end to a cease-fire between his followers and the Egyptian government. Prosecutors say it was a call to arms.

STEWART: This case could be, I hope it will be a wakeup call to all the citizens of this country and all the people who live here that you can't lock up the lawyers. You can't tell the lawyers how to do the job. You've got to let them operate.

FEYERICK: Also found guilty, Stewart's translator Mohammad Yousry and a former paralegal Ahmed Sattar, an aide to Rahman. The case raised eyebrows because the FBI taped prison conversations between Stewart and Rahman without them knowing, compromising attorney/client privilege.

STEWART: I still see myself as being a symbol of what people rail against when they say that civil liberties are eroded, that we don't live in the same America that we lived in even three or four years ago.

FEYERICK (on camera): Stewart was really emotional after the verdict. She said her tears were not only for her colleagues but also for her family. She has four children and 12 grandchildren and if she receives the maximum 20 years she could potentially be separated from them for the rest of her life.

Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And tonight at 6 more on security risks at home, a critical look at the nation's bridges and tunnels, how would they withstand a natural disaster or terrorist attack? More on "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT" at 6 p.m. Eastern. Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

HARRIS: So did he or didn't he? We still don't know. The baseball steroid scandal prompts Jason Giambi to issue a cryptic apology. Up next find out why the Yankee slugger wouldn't answer direct questions about alleged steroid use.

PHILLIPS: And still to come, silent no more. Why some are calling one Kansas woman's sudden speech a medical miracle.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: She's considered the world's most foremost authority on chimpanzees, Dr. Jane Goodall travels the world, spreading her message of hope and respect for all living creatures. And as a part of CNN's anniversary series "Then & Now," we take a look back at the primatologist and where she is today.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): She entered the jungle of Tanzania in 1960, a young British woman with dreams of living with animals and writing books about them. Dr. Jane Goodall has done that and so much more. She has devoted 45 years to studying chimpanzees in Africa, forever changing the science of primates and funding the Jane Goodall Institute which funds research and conservation. She's earned hundreds of awards and honors and written more than a dozen books. But somewhere along the way, the primatologist became a peacemaker.

JANE GOODALL, PRIMATOLOGIST: We're not the only beings on this planet with personalities, minds and feelings. And let's live in a world that has respect for other life forms, but also for each other.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Goodall is now a grandmother and turned 71 this year. She still spends 300 days a year on the road lecturing and inspiring people to look beyond themselves. She says her top priority is her institute's worldwide youth program, Roots & Shoots, which promotes community service and giving children hope.

GOODALL: You make a difference. Your life matters. And it's up to you to save the world and each one of us have this mission.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: A couple sports items to bring you now. We've learned that an NBA great, after a stellar 20 years, is calling it quits. The Utah Jazz spokesperson says that two-time NBA MVP Karl Malone will announce his retirement this weekend. Malone, 41, a longtime bad knee has kept him on the bench this last season. But no word if that is the main reason that he is calling it quits. Malone is scheduled to make the announcement Sunday at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City.

So did he or didn't he? Those of you following Major League Baseball's latest steroid scandal will have to wait a bit longer to find out to see for sure if Yankee's first baseman Jason Giambi used illegal drugs as his accusers say. Giambi met the press yesterday. And to nobody's surprise, didn't even mention the word.

Steve Overmeyer with details.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

STEVE OVERMEYER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi didn't admit to taking steroids Thursday but he did apologize for the distraction he has caused to his fans and teammates.

JASON GIAMBI, NEW YORK YANKEES FIRST BASEMAN: I feel like I let down the fans, I feel like I let down the media. I feel I let down the Yankees. I feel I let down my teammates. So I apologize for that.

OVERMEYER: The San Francisco Chronicle reported last year Giambi admitted to a grand jury that he used steroids for at least two years, applying undetectable steroid cream and injecting himself with testosterone and human growth hormone. Giambi would not confirm what he testified about about BALCO, the California laboratory at the heart of the federal investigation.

GIAMBI: I'm sorry that I can't get into bigger specifics for you guys. And hopefully some day I will. Because of the legal issues that are going on, you know, it would be, you know, a lot easier.

OVERMEYER: The Chronicle said several big-name athletes called to testify, including Giambi, Barry Bonds and Olympic sprinter Marion Jones, were told they would not be charged with a crime if they told the truth. Giambi was the only athlete so far to allegedly admit using the steroids.

GIAMBI: But the one thing that I will tell you is that when I went in front of the grand jury I told the truth.

OVERMEYER: Baseball has been rocked by the steroid scandal. And a new book next week from former Major Leaguer Jose Canseco promises to "set the pot boiling again," according to his publisher. Giambi denied Canseco's allegation that he took steroids with Canseco and record-setting slugger Mark Mcguire when the trio played together with the Oakland A's.

GIAMBI: I think it's sad. I think it's delusional.

OVERMEYER: Since the BALCO investigation started, baseball has implemented a stricter steroid testing policy.

BUD SELIG, MLB COMMISSIONER: I think that as a sport we have done everything that we could at this point, media penalties, random testing, player gets publicly named if, heaven forbid, he does test positively.

OVERMEYER: Giambi won't be punished based on the new policy. But his punishment may come down from the stands where the fans will be the first to judge.

JOE TORRE, NEW YORK YANKEES MANAGER: It's going to be a tough time for him because the fans are going to have, you know, some questions in their mind.

GIAMBI: I totally understand how the fans feel. I really do. And that's why I've been working out twice a day to try to earn back of some of that support.

OVERMEYER: With spring training just two weeks away, fans may be wondering whether to support (UNINTELLIGIBLE) players whose accomplishments may or may not be real.

Steve Overmeyer, CNN, Atlanta.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Apple's hot-selling iPod is taking a big bite out of the competition, that's for sure.

PHILLIPS: I'll tell you what. My entire family, hooked on the iPod. (STOCK MARKET REPORT)

HARRIS: You know, there's going to be a big party in Hutchinson, Kansas, and Sara Scantlin's family and friends have good reason to celebrate. 20 years after an accident robbed Sarah of speech, she is suddenly talking again. CNN's David Mattingly with more on an awakening that has doctors at a loss for words.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The last time Sara Scantlin was able to speak, it was more than 20 years ago, the moment she walked into the glaring lights of a drunk driver. The hit- and-run left her battered, broken, and unable to speak.

BETSY SCANTLIN, MOTHER: She knows who we are, and she can't communicate with us.

MATTINGLY: John Moore (ph) now a police detective, was a witness to Sara's hit-and-run.

JOHN MOORE (ph), WITNESS TO ACCIDENT: We saw her fly through the air -- probably at least 20 feet into the air, and landed on her head.

MATTINGLY: It happened here, on a dark, two-lane road outside their hometown at Hutchinson, Kansas, as they left a party.

(on camera): When you saw that accident, did you think that there was any way she could survive?

MOORE: No, I thought she was probably -- if she wasn't dead, she was going to probably die.

JIM SCANTLIN, FATHER: The phone rings about midnight. My wife answers it, pulls my big toe and says, We've got to get to the hospital. Something bad's happened to Sara.

MATTINGLY: But now, more than 20 years later, and 38 years old, her family calls her a medical miracle, as she suddenly regained the ability to talk.

J. SCANTLIN: She got on the phone and she said, Hi, Dad. And she's, again, 100 percent Sara. She's using of all her capacity to the maximum. And that's a real inspiration. Sara's back. And that's the best gift in the world.

MATTINGLY: David Mattingly, CNN, Hutchinson, Kansas.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

Sara Scantlin's parents appeared on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING. Clearly, they don't need a medical explanation for their daughter's recovered voice.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

J. SCANTLIN: You resign yourself, you condition yourself to be able to try to cope with something like this. All of a sudden, the world instantly changes from despair to joy because it's amazing how important communication is between human beings, and to have this happen has made Sara whole again. She's 100 percent Sara again. The family is back together and it's just simply a joyous situation. It's beyond description.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: Following another pretty joyous story, too. This boy's story is capturing national headlines.

PHILLIPS: Coming up in the next hour of LIVE FROM, new details about the Florida baby allegedly tossed from a moving car. A news conference scheduled for about 2:30 Eastern. We're going to bring it to you live when it happens.

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HARRIS: Plus, you've heard the political spin about the war in Iraq, but what do the soldiers actually doing the fighting think about it? Ahead on LIVE FROM, a new documentary that lets the soldiers tell the story in their own words. We'll talk with the director and one of the soldiers who lived the movie.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: A newborn infant tossed from a moving car. New developments in the case. We expect a live sheriff's office conference this hour.

HARRIS: Nuclear threat. The U.S. says no to one-on-one talks a day after North Korea admits to having the bomb. We're live from the White House.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: And it will probably slow down the shrapnel so that it stays in your body instead of going clean through.

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Aired February 11, 2005 - 13:31   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Checking stories in the news, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Arthur Miller is dead at the age of 89. The legendary writer, who was once married to Marilyn Monroe, died of heart failure last night at his home in Roxbury, Connecticut. Miller received the Pulitzer for "Death of a Salesman" in 1949 when he was just 33 years old.
Police in Ft. Lauderdale think they found the mother of the baby who was tossed from a moving vehicle. The baby is reported in good shape in a hospital. The infant was only hours old when he was thrown out of a car with his umbilical cord still attached. The next news conference on the case is set for an hour from now.

No way, won't happen. That's the White House's response to a call from North Korea for face-to-face bilateral talks. North Korea claimed earlier this week that it has nuclear weapons, and said it was pulling out of six-party talks on the issue. Now it say it wants direct talks with the Bush administration. Washington rejects that, saying multilateral talks are the only way forward.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: So why is the Bush administration refusing to negotiate one on one with North Korea? And why is North Korean leader Kim Jong-Il so insistent that bilateral talks with the U.S. are the only way that he'll even discuss his country's new program?

Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger joins us now live from Charlottesville, Virginia to provide some insight on this diplomatic stalemate.

Good to see you, sir.

LAWRENCE EAGLEBURGER, FMR. SECY. OF STATE: Thank you. Good to be here.

PHILLIPS: So why not negotiate one on one? Why is that not happening?

EAGLEBURGER: Well, remember, We were in these six-party talks, and we had the Chinese and some others with us. And it was not just a question of the United States trying to twist the North Korean's arm by ourselves, nor was it that only the United States would have to pay something to get the North Koreans to behave themselves.

But most importantly of all, we have been lied to by the North Koreans for a decade. They told us they didn't have the weapons, they weren't going to produce them, and then they would go back and say, well, maybe we'll produce them. And we've given them billions of dollars in food aid, for example, and it's gotten us nothing. So I don't think there's anything to be gained by it.

PHILLIPS: When you hear the news in the headlines right now, and you've served under eight administrations, was North Korea ever this much of a concern, in any of those administrations prior to right now?

EAGLEBURGER: Well, it was a concern before that, in 1950, the Korean War, which I happen to be old enough to have been involved in. So it was a concern then. It's been a concern off and on for a long time, largely because you can't count on where these leaders and where this country is going. It's so isolated from the rest of the world, you can not really predict what it's doing, and it's previous leader was a very, very astute, very tough fellow. His son now is it's harder to figure him out. But in both cases, I think you're looking at a country led by somebody who understands only his own country and is not particularly concerned what he does, as far as the rest of the world is concerned, and that's dangerous.

PHILLIPS: Do you think that North Korea would nuke the United States?

EAGLEBURGER: Again, nothing is impossible. They can't get him here yet. There will come a time when they can. But no, I don't think -- at least that's not now their purpose. Let's remember that if you've got one of these things and you're mad at Uncle Sam, you can put it in a boat, put in a harbor.

In other words, it is a possibility. But I think more importantly, the North Koreans see this weapon as putting them in a different category of countries where more attention will have to be paid to them.

PHILLIPS: Should we be concerned about North Korea and Iran?

EAGLEBURGER: Yes. No. 1, the news about North Korea is, I suppose, expected. We've seen this coming, but it's very bad news in terms of maintaining some sort of control over nuclear weapons. And I have to ask if this is where North Korea is now, can Iran be far behind, and I'm afraid I think they're moving in the same direction.

And there's one other thing we have to worry about in both cases. That is, when North Korea gets nuclear weapons, the issue is not simply whether they're going to use them against us or somebody else, but are they give them to Osama bin Laden or somebody else of that character, and then we have a real problem.

PHILLIPS: Well, you have the recent report, Libya received nukes from North Korea. It looks like North Korea would sell them to almost anyone. So you see the possibility of these getting in the hands of al Qaeda, once again, the United States being at stake?

EAGLEBURGER: What you have here is clear evidence that they did do some conniving with Libya at an early stage. And when Libya finally gave up its pretenses to (INAUDIBLE) nuclear weapons, we learned about all of that. Well, if the North Koreans will do it there, they'll do it, I think, anywhere, particularly if this is something they can sell for a goodly amount of money. And beyond that, they would like nothing better than to be able to upset the balance with us and other Western countries by putting some of these weapons in the hands of terrorists. They don't have enough now to do that, but that doesn't mean they won't have.

PHILLIPS: Sir, real quickly, final question. U.S. has gone to war in Afghanistan, gone to war in Iraq. There's been talk about Iran. What about North Korea? Has strike planning even taken place? Do you think there are plans on the table?

EAGLEBURGER: Well, I'm sure there are plans on the table. That's been the case for decades. Whether there's any intention to use them or not is another question.

And I think we need to remember that one of the problems in dealing with this now in Iran, in North Korea, wherever, is that as long as we're involved as we are in Iraq, unless we want to go on a full mobilization, we're limited on the military we could use for something against North Korea anyway, and in the North Korean case, if we struck at them, I think it is almost inevitable that they would try to invade South Korea.

PHILLIPS: Former U.S. Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger, thanks for your time today, sir.

EAGLEBURGER: My pleasure, ma'am.

PHILLIPS: Continuing our Security Watch this hour, an American woman is now facing up to 20 years after a conviction of charges of aiding a terrorist. Sixty-five-year-old Lynne Stewart, a prominent New York defense attorney, says she did nothing wrong is planning to appeal.

CNN's Deborah Feyerick has her story.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DEBORAH FEYERICK, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She walked out of court a convicted woman but even in defeat Lynne Stewart was defiant.

LYNNE STEWART, CONVICTED ATTORNEY: I will fight on. I'm not giving up. I know I committed no crime.

FEYERICK: Stewart is well known for defending blind Egyptian cleric Omar Abdel Rahman, a radical sheikh with ties to Osama bin Laden. After Rahman was found guilty of plotting terror attacks on New York City, Stewart visited him in prison.

She agreed in writing to abide by special prison rules and never reveal anything they'd talked about but a jury found that's just what she did, the 65-year-old grandmother found guilty of smuggling dangerous messages to the sheikh's followers around the world.

STEWART: When you put Osama bin Laden in a courtroom and ask the jury to ignore it that's asking a lot.

FEYERICK: The Justice Department called the victory an important step in fighting terror, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales saying "This department will pursue both those who carry out acts of terrorism and those who assist them with their murderous goals."

Stewart is well known for defending mob guys, cop shooters, and civil rights activists like the Black Panthers. In defending herself, she said she was only trying to keep her client in the public eye when she sent out a press release in 2000. In it, Sheikh Rahman called for an end to a cease-fire between his followers and the Egyptian government. Prosecutors say it was a call to arms.

STEWART: This case could be, I hope it will be a wakeup call to all the citizens of this country and all the people who live here that you can't lock up the lawyers. You can't tell the lawyers how to do the job. You've got to let them operate.

FEYERICK: Also found guilty, Stewart's translator Mohammad Yousry and a former paralegal Ahmed Sattar, an aide to Rahman. The case raised eyebrows because the FBI taped prison conversations between Stewart and Rahman without them knowing, compromising attorney/client privilege.

STEWART: I still see myself as being a symbol of what people rail against when they say that civil liberties are eroded, that we don't live in the same America that we lived in even three or four years ago.

FEYERICK (on camera): Stewart was really emotional after the verdict. She said her tears were not only for her colleagues but also for her family. She has four children and 12 grandchildren and if she receives the maximum 20 years she could potentially be separated from them for the rest of her life.

Deborah Feyerick, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

PHILLIPS: And tonight at 6 more on security risks at home, a critical look at the nation's bridges and tunnels, how would they withstand a natural disaster or terrorist attack? More on "LOU DOBBS TONIGHT" at 6 p.m. Eastern. Stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security.

HARRIS: So did he or didn't he? We still don't know. The baseball steroid scandal prompts Jason Giambi to issue a cryptic apology. Up next find out why the Yankee slugger wouldn't answer direct questions about alleged steroid use.

PHILLIPS: And still to come, silent no more. Why some are calling one Kansas woman's sudden speech a medical miracle.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: She's considered the world's most foremost authority on chimpanzees, Dr. Jane Goodall travels the world, spreading her message of hope and respect for all living creatures. And as a part of CNN's anniversary series "Then & Now," we take a look back at the primatologist and where she is today.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE (voice-over): She entered the jungle of Tanzania in 1960, a young British woman with dreams of living with animals and writing books about them. Dr. Jane Goodall has done that and so much more. She has devoted 45 years to studying chimpanzees in Africa, forever changing the science of primates and funding the Jane Goodall Institute which funds research and conservation. She's earned hundreds of awards and honors and written more than a dozen books. But somewhere along the way, the primatologist became a peacemaker.

JANE GOODALL, PRIMATOLOGIST: We're not the only beings on this planet with personalities, minds and feelings. And let's live in a world that has respect for other life forms, but also for each other.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Goodall is now a grandmother and turned 71 this year. She still spends 300 days a year on the road lecturing and inspiring people to look beyond themselves. She says her top priority is her institute's worldwide youth program, Roots & Shoots, which promotes community service and giving children hope.

GOODALL: You make a difference. Your life matters. And it's up to you to save the world and each one of us have this mission.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: A couple sports items to bring you now. We've learned that an NBA great, after a stellar 20 years, is calling it quits. The Utah Jazz spokesperson says that two-time NBA MVP Karl Malone will announce his retirement this weekend. Malone, 41, a longtime bad knee has kept him on the bench this last season. But no word if that is the main reason that he is calling it quits. Malone is scheduled to make the announcement Sunday at the Delta Center in Salt Lake City.

So did he or didn't he? Those of you following Major League Baseball's latest steroid scandal will have to wait a bit longer to find out to see for sure if Yankee's first baseman Jason Giambi used illegal drugs as his accusers say. Giambi met the press yesterday. And to nobody's surprise, didn't even mention the word.

Steve Overmeyer with details.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

STEVE OVERMEYER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): New York Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi didn't admit to taking steroids Thursday but he did apologize for the distraction he has caused to his fans and teammates.

JASON GIAMBI, NEW YORK YANKEES FIRST BASEMAN: I feel like I let down the fans, I feel like I let down the media. I feel I let down the Yankees. I feel I let down my teammates. So I apologize for that.

OVERMEYER: The San Francisco Chronicle reported last year Giambi admitted to a grand jury that he used steroids for at least two years, applying undetectable steroid cream and injecting himself with testosterone and human growth hormone. Giambi would not confirm what he testified about about BALCO, the California laboratory at the heart of the federal investigation.

GIAMBI: I'm sorry that I can't get into bigger specifics for you guys. And hopefully some day I will. Because of the legal issues that are going on, you know, it would be, you know, a lot easier.

OVERMEYER: The Chronicle said several big-name athletes called to testify, including Giambi, Barry Bonds and Olympic sprinter Marion Jones, were told they would not be charged with a crime if they told the truth. Giambi was the only athlete so far to allegedly admit using the steroids.

GIAMBI: But the one thing that I will tell you is that when I went in front of the grand jury I told the truth.

OVERMEYER: Baseball has been rocked by the steroid scandal. And a new book next week from former Major Leaguer Jose Canseco promises to "set the pot boiling again," according to his publisher. Giambi denied Canseco's allegation that he took steroids with Canseco and record-setting slugger Mark Mcguire when the trio played together with the Oakland A's.

GIAMBI: I think it's sad. I think it's delusional.

OVERMEYER: Since the BALCO investigation started, baseball has implemented a stricter steroid testing policy.

BUD SELIG, MLB COMMISSIONER: I think that as a sport we have done everything that we could at this point, media penalties, random testing, player gets publicly named if, heaven forbid, he does test positively.

OVERMEYER: Giambi won't be punished based on the new policy. But his punishment may come down from the stands where the fans will be the first to judge.

JOE TORRE, NEW YORK YANKEES MANAGER: It's going to be a tough time for him because the fans are going to have, you know, some questions in their mind.

GIAMBI: I totally understand how the fans feel. I really do. And that's why I've been working out twice a day to try to earn back of some of that support.

OVERMEYER: With spring training just two weeks away, fans may be wondering whether to support (UNINTELLIGIBLE) players whose accomplishments may or may not be real.

Steve Overmeyer, CNN, Atlanta.

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HARRIS: Apple's hot-selling iPod is taking a big bite out of the competition, that's for sure.

PHILLIPS: I'll tell you what. My entire family, hooked on the iPod. (STOCK MARKET REPORT)

HARRIS: You know, there's going to be a big party in Hutchinson, Kansas, and Sara Scantlin's family and friends have good reason to celebrate. 20 years after an accident robbed Sarah of speech, she is suddenly talking again. CNN's David Mattingly with more on an awakening that has doctors at a loss for words.

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DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The last time Sara Scantlin was able to speak, it was more than 20 years ago, the moment she walked into the glaring lights of a drunk driver. The hit- and-run left her battered, broken, and unable to speak.

BETSY SCANTLIN, MOTHER: She knows who we are, and she can't communicate with us.

MATTINGLY: John Moore (ph) now a police detective, was a witness to Sara's hit-and-run.

JOHN MOORE (ph), WITNESS TO ACCIDENT: We saw her fly through the air -- probably at least 20 feet into the air, and landed on her head.

MATTINGLY: It happened here, on a dark, two-lane road outside their hometown at Hutchinson, Kansas, as they left a party.

(on camera): When you saw that accident, did you think that there was any way she could survive?

MOORE: No, I thought she was probably -- if she wasn't dead, she was going to probably die.

JIM SCANTLIN, FATHER: The phone rings about midnight. My wife answers it, pulls my big toe and says, We've got to get to the hospital. Something bad's happened to Sara.

MATTINGLY: But now, more than 20 years later, and 38 years old, her family calls her a medical miracle, as she suddenly regained the ability to talk.

J. SCANTLIN: She got on the phone and she said, Hi, Dad. And she's, again, 100 percent Sara. She's using of all her capacity to the maximum. And that's a real inspiration. Sara's back. And that's the best gift in the world.

MATTINGLY: David Mattingly, CNN, Hutchinson, Kansas.

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Sara Scantlin's parents appeared on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING. Clearly, they don't need a medical explanation for their daughter's recovered voice.

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J. SCANTLIN: You resign yourself, you condition yourself to be able to try to cope with something like this. All of a sudden, the world instantly changes from despair to joy because it's amazing how important communication is between human beings, and to have this happen has made Sara whole again. She's 100 percent Sara again. The family is back together and it's just simply a joyous situation. It's beyond description.

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HARRIS: Following another pretty joyous story, too. This boy's story is capturing national headlines.

PHILLIPS: Coming up in the next hour of LIVE FROM, new details about the Florida baby allegedly tossed from a moving car. A news conference scheduled for about 2:30 Eastern. We're going to bring it to you live when it happens.

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HARRIS: Plus, you've heard the political spin about the war in Iraq, but what do the soldiers actually doing the fighting think about it? Ahead on LIVE FROM, a new documentary that lets the soldiers tell the story in their own words. We'll talk with the director and one of the soldiers who lived the movie.

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PHILLIPS: A newborn infant tossed from a moving car. New developments in the case. We expect a live sheriff's office conference this hour.

HARRIS: Nuclear threat. The U.S. says no to one-on-one talks a day after North Korea admits to having the bomb. We're live from the White House.

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