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Police Questioning Mother of Newborn Thrown from Moving Ca; Rumsfeld Visits Iraq; Arthur Millers, 89, Dies

Aired February 11, 2005 - 13:00   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, CO-HOST: Nuclear threat. The White House says no thanks to an offer for one-on-one talks with North Korea. What's the next step in curbing the North's nuclear ambitions?
TONY HARRIS, CO-HOST: Surprise visit. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld drops in and checks out Iraq's security forces.

PHILLIPS: New developments in the story of this baby. He was allegedly tossed from a car window and found by a passing motorist. We're live from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

HARRIS: Death of a playwright. He married a movie star and wrote some of America's best-known play. We mark the passing of Arthur Miller.

From the CNN center, I'm Tony Harris in for Miles O'Brien.

PHILLIPS: And I'm Kyra Phillips. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

Six way or no way. The same day North Korea demands one-on-one talks with Washington over its nuclear ambitions, the White House says talk to the group, the group being Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and the U.S., which has met three times with North -- the North since 2003 with almost nothing to show for it.

The reclusive nation's U.N. ambassador says it will think about the broader talks when conditions are ripe, meaning after bilateral talks aimed at a formal non-aggression pact. To that, the White House press secretary said this just moments ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: All parties in the region recognize that they have a stake in North Korea ending its nuclear weapons program. This is a regional matter that affects the countries in the region, and we've made very clear our view. It is a view shared by the other parties to the talks.

The six-party talks are the way to resolve this matter in a peaceful and diplomatic way. We've also made very clear that North Korea has ample opportunity to visit directly with us in the context of the six-party talks, and they've had ample opportunity in the past to do so.

(END VIDEO CLIP) PHILLIPS: In yesterday's bombshell, officials presumably speaking for mysterious leader Kim Jong-Il declare they'll bolster their nuclear arsenal in response to threats from the Bush administration.

HARRIS: Kyra, dramatic news in the past hour in the case of that baby who was allegedly tossed from a car window in Florida.

Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne says they have talked to a woman whom they believe is the infant's birth mother.

CNN's Susan Candiotti is in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with the very latest on this developing story -- Susan.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Tony.

Of course, potentially, this is very good and very exciting news. At this hour, the young woman that police say they strongly believe is the mother of that baby boy, the newborn who was tossed out of the moving car yesterday, is at police headquarters, talking with detectives -- talking with detectives as we speak.

Now, they are -- police are not saying exactly what led them to this young woman, other than revealing that when they located her, they asked her -- called her up and asked her to come in and talk with them. And indeed, she did.

Here is what the sheriff said just a short time ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SHERIFF KEN JENNE, BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA: The mother, and without going into any detail, at this point, the person is indicating that they are the birth mother. We're just trying to get some additional corroboration out of it. We've also looked and found some -- some physical evidence, and we are now looking at that, to corroborate that, also.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CANDIOTTI: Now, to recap what happened, this all began yesterday when police say a newborn baby with its umbilical cord still attached was thrown out of a moving car.

A woman who was following that vehicle pulled her car over, picked up what had what she discovered was a baby, said it was wrapped in a plastic grocery bag. And she immediately ran the boy over to a nearby police station.

In turn, the baby was airlifted to a local hospital and is said to be in excellent condition right now. Believe it or not, without a scratch, without any bruises at all, even though he was tossed out of this moving car and landed in the grass.

Now, police are holding a news conference in about an hour and a half from now, at which time they hope to perhaps confirm that, indeed, this is the mother and also reveal other information about the circumstances.

Remember, Tony, what we know so far, according to a witness, is that the young couple in this car, young man and a young woman, described in their late teens, early 20s appeared to be arguing, according to witnesses, before the baby was thrown out of the vehicle -- Tony.

HARRIS: Susan, and it didn't need to end this way. I believe Florida is one of the states with the safe haven law for newborns. Is that correct?

CANDIOTTI: It is, indeed. That's right. And in fact, 23 babies have been turned in under the safe haven law. If the baby is less than three days old, a mother or a father can turn in the baby, no questions asked, and can remain anonymous.

HARRIS: All right. Susan Candiotti following this story in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Susan, thank you.

PHILLIPS: Saint Valentine's Day mass suicide or computer age hoax? Either way, an Oregon man is in jail today, charged with solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to commit manslaughter. His alleged offense: evoking pledges from at least 32 participants in an Internet chat room to kill themselves on Valentine's Day.

Among the alleged participants is a mother who also allegedly said she planned to kill her two small children.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SHERIFF TIMOTHY EVINGER, KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON: Obviously, we're trying to capture information, e-mails, maybe some chat information, and then we'll be issuing some further subpoenas, I'm certain, through the district attorney's office to ascertain who the other individuals were, where they are and to try to deem them safe.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Police searched the suspect's house and took his computer and are hoping for more leads from ISPs, Internet service providers. Canadians are thought to be involved, as well. So authorities there are also on the case.

HARRIS: A mosque and two bakeries, the latest sites of deadly violence in Iraq apparently perpetrated by Sunni insurgents, apparently aimed at Shiites, who are poised to win the power they've been denied for generations.

More about the power and the ongoing Iraqi vote count in a moment. First, the violence, and an unexpected VIP.

CNN's Nic Robertson runs down the day's news from Baghdad.

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NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The secretary of defense landed before dawn in Mosul. One of his first visits was to a medical army facility. He met there with Sergeant Sean Ferguson and gave him a Purple Heart. The soldier had been shot in the wrist the day before, the soldier's second Purple Heart in four just four months.

Donald Rumsfeld also went on to meet with U.S. troops, congratulated them on their efforts for providing security for the elections. He then flew south to Baghdad, met with the interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi. The interim prime minister thanked Donald Rumsfeld for the work of the U.S. troops in providing security and stability for the elections.

The next part of Donald Rumsfeld's visit focused on watching the training of Iraqi Special Forces. The very -- focus of his visit, very much on -- very much to see the training that all Iraqi forces are getting.

But what he saw was a special forces training on a weapons range, firing automatic weapons, firing handguns. He saw them doing simulated assaults on buildings, descending by helicopter onto the buildings, rushing the buildings in vehicles. That was before he left towards the end of the day.

But while he was here, there were two very significant attacks on the Shiite community. One in the middle of the day. A car bomb detonated at a mosque northeast of Baghdad. Twelve people killed there, four of them Iraqi National Guardsmen patrolling the mosque at that time. Eight civilians killed. Twenty-three other people wounded, according to the police.

The police also say that there was another attack on Shiites in Baghdad early in the day. A Shia-run bakery in a Shia neighborhood of Baghdad came under attack when two vehicle loads full of insurgents arrived outside the bakery quite early in the day. About 12 gunmen got out of those vehicles, the police say, went into the two tiny bakeries, set up side by side, sprayed them with gunfire and killed nine workers in those bakeries.

What the police fear is that perhaps there's an effort of the Sunni Muslim insurgents here to step up violence against the Shia community to try and foment sectarian violence, perhaps that, in particular, they say, ahead of a very important Shia Muslim festival in about nine days time, the Ashura festival.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: As for those elections, almost two weeks after Iraqis went to the polls, roughly a week after we expected final results, we're still waiting. Officials promise the counting is in its final phase with only three percent of the votes for national assembly still to be tallied.

However, thousands of ballots for provincial councils are still being recounted, and some 300 complaints from Sunni areas are being looked into. A U.S. officials says to give the process at least another week.

PHILLIPS: Attention must be paid today to the loss of a giant. Unlike his most iconic stage creation, Arthur Miller was a great man who set the stage for American hopes and heartbreak and won every accolade a dramatist can win in the process. Miller died last night at his Connecticut home at 89.

Here's CNN's Eric Philips.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Arthur Miller has given our nation some of the finest plays of this century.

ERIC PHILIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Chief among them, "Death of a Salesman," which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize, and in 1953, his metaphor for McCarthyism, "The Crucible."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want the truth now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We never conjured spirits.

PHILIPS: But Miller took his lumps before becoming known as a writer of classics.

ARTHUR MILLER, PLAYWRIGHT: Fifty years ago I quit forever. I had a disaster with my first play. I resolved never to write another one.

PHILIPS: Fortunately, the playwright reneged on that vow and within a few years was penning masterpieces. Miller's characters were specific yet universal, infected with human flaws like pride, envy, greed, and lust.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Harriet tells me you used to take out her cousin, Rosalyn Fein (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's possible. I don't remember.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, you had so many, didn't you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I was younger.

MILLER: The art of playwriting consists mainly of the manipulation of time. Everything has to be squeezed so that it becomes dramatic.

PHILIPS: At the peak of his fame in 1956, Miller married Marilyn Monroe. The pair became the celebrity couple of their time. The marriage, his second of three, lasted until 1961.

Later on, Miller was honored for his contributions to the theater, an honorary degree from Harvard, a lifetime achievement award from the Tonys and the National Medal of the Arts.

Toward the end of his life, Miller lamented how Broadway changed over the years.

MILLER: There was a kind of reverence that is gone. People felt it was an art, not a business. Of course, it always was a business.

PHILIPS: That business made Miller famous, and Miller's plays enriched readers and audiences everywhere.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: How do you write something like a "Death of a Salesman" at 33?

PHILLIPS: At age 33? He's a genius.

HARRIS: How do you do that? My goodness.

Well, a young woman is hit by a drunken driver.

PHILLIPS: Her injuries left her unable to speak for more than 20 years. But now, her family says it's a miracle. Wait until we tell you about the latest developments.

HARRIS: Trillions of tax dollars provoke dozens of arguments on Capitol Hill. What does the Bush budget really mean to you? We'll boil it down straight ahead.

PHILLIPS: And did this baseball player have anything to say about steroids? Well, Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi has an apology for fans.

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PHILLIPS: Howard Dean is making news again, this time as the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It's just about certain that the former presidential candidate will be elected to that post by party activists in Washington this weekend.

Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton is calling on Democrats to rally around party leaders. Clinton spoke at a dinner honoring the outgoing DNC chairman, Terry McAuliffe, who in turn says the party needs to play to its strong points.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

TERRY MCAULIFFE, DNC CHAIR: We need to make sure that we get our message out. Republicans were very effective coming into our neighborhoods and taking our voters away from us. They took married white women. They won for the first time. They did it by scaring women by talking about the issues of terrorism.

We now need to be going into those red states and talking about the Democratic Party's strength on values, job creation, health care, education. And when we do that, that will resonate. But we've got to convince people that we'll keep you safer.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: And just a quick reminder, you can get the inside story about how Howard Dean secured the DNC chairmanship from the man himself. Dean will be Judy Woodruff's guest on "INSIDE POLITICS," 3:30 Eastern, 12:30 Pacific this afternoon.

HARRIS: Now economics for the rest of us and first, the president's budget. It is a mammoth $2.5 trillion spending plan. And inevitably, it's becoming quite a political football -- what is he doing? There's sure to be something in it. Ken, what are you -- all right.

KEN DOLAN, CO-HOST, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED": Tony, I'm trying to...

HARRIS: You're trying to balance the budget?

K. DOLAN: Don't wreck my bit. I'm just about to say...

DARIA DOLAN, CO-HOST, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED": Tony, you're a genius. Nobody here, except Ken, knew what he was trying to do.

K. DOLAN: You know, I know you like Daria better. But you didn't have to ruin my bit, Tony.

HARRIS: I just pulled the rug right out from under him, Kyra. I apologize, Ken. I'll make up for it.

K. DOLAN: All right.

HARRIS: I've got to tell you, let's start with the education budget. The president's education budget. And here's my little rant for the day, less money for vocational training, less money for college readiness, early education takes a bit of a hit. But we've got plenty of money for testing.

K. DOLAN: Teach to test, teach to test, teach to test. Tony, let me just say one thing to you before Daria chimes in.

HARRIS: Work away, Ken. Take it away.

K. DOLAN: I've got the important stuff to talk about.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: Tony, I agree with you, because I'll just tell you one thing that really makes me mad about the budget. Two hundred and forty-six million dollars cut from the Even Start Association. One sentence. "To break the cycle of limited literacy, under employment, and high mobility by participating families by building literary -- literacy skills in both parents and children." What a stupid idea that is.

D. DOLAN: OK, gentlemen. Let me get you both on the right track here. HARRIS: No. No. Put it up there. There you go. That's the shot I want. There you go. Daria, take it away.

D. DOLAN: OK. Here's what's wrong with both of you.

HARRIS: For starters.

D. DOLAN: Everybody yells about the deficit.

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: Everybody yells that we spend enough on this, that and the other thing.

HARRIS: Ken, pay attention.

D. DOLAN: But we've got to cut the deficit -- put that book down. You can't read it anyway, for heaven's sakes.

The fact of the matter is, the president tries to make some cuts on programs that have not lived up to expectations, and even the few cuts he's trying to make, which ends up to be about no more than 20 programs, are coming under the scrutiny and shotguns of everybody on both sides.

HARRIS: Yes, but Daria, what about it?

D. DOLAN: Give the guy a break.

HARRIS: Why do you have to cut? Why not a tweak? Why not -- why not bring everybody in and say can you make it better? Can you make it better? Is it worthwhile? Is it useful? Is it helping people? Why don't we tweak it and not cut it?

K. DOLAN: I agree. I agree with Tony.

D. DOLAN: But that's part of the criteria that was used on looking at what needs to be cut. If they weren't living up to expectations, then why would we keep funding them?

But nobody is going to talk about whether they performed or not. They're just going to say, you know, cut something else. Don't cut my pet project.

HARRIS: Right. Right.

D. DOLAN: And we'll be talking with Congress and Mike Castle tomorrow about that.

K. DOLAN: Can I -- Let me update both of you. I hate to do this, Tony and Daria. I hate to bring in the answer to this. And Tony, don't get mad at me.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: Social security, Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements are two-thirds of the $2.3 trillion budget, Tony. We can needle around whether we need a bridge in Arizona over the desert or...

HARRIS: But you've got to train kids to get jobs so that they can pay into the system. Come on. You've going to cut the program that train the kids to get the job to pay into the system.

K. DOLAN: Because our kids can't read; our kids can't write. And you know what the problem is, Tony? Because of the schools and the high schools, even some of the colleges, they can't get jobs when they get out.

HARRIS: OK.

D. DOLAN: OK. Gentlemen, here's -- let me get this one last thing in.

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: Because I don't know how you can even call this a budget proposal. Believe it or not, in all that text that Ken was balancing on his head, there is not one dollar allocated for anything military in Afghanistan and Iraq. How can we call it a budget?

HARRIS: Right, right, right. Right. Hey, I need to move on. Carly...

K. DOLAN: No. We don't want to move on. We want to keep talking about this.

D. DOLAN: Shh, shh, shh.

HARRIS: That's why you have your own show now. That's why you have your own.

She's out at Hewlett Packard. I know this is a big deal, but Daria, explain to me why it is. I know I should care, and I do. But tell me why I care.

D. DOLAN: You know, I think Carly Fiorina's biggest problem and the reason it's become such a big story is she was a media darling.

HARRIS: Right.

D. DOLAN: And she spent a lot of time catering to the media and doing things that got her notoriety. Unfortunately, while she was getting that notoriety, the stock price was burning ala Nero.

HARRIS: Right.

D. DOLAN: And now, because she was such a darling, she's easy to take pot shots at. I worry -- I think she made some critical errors as a -- as any CEO, man, woman or otherwise.

HARRIS: OK.

D. DOLAN: But I think that we run the risk of her casting bad -- bad karma on other women trying to break through the glass ceiling.

HARRIS: Let's talk about that. What do you think about this, Ken? I mean, was she judged differently than -- than, say, a man in that position?

K. DOLAN: Tony, that's a great question. I don't think so, Tony, because Daria and I are both from Wall Street. And the numbers speak for themselves.

I think the problem we have is you've got -- is that you've got a horribly failed, at least to this point, failed team partnership between Hewlett Packard and Compaq. One thing we're going to talk about so much is, do you think other women will be hurt in their way up the ladder?

HARRIS: Yes.

K. DOLAN: No. 1, Tony. And No. 2, what can we as business people, as investors, what can we learn from some of the mistakes she and others like her have made?

D. DOLAN: And as managers.

HARRIS: OK.

D. DOLAN: Managers of other employees. What mistakes did she make that we should not?

HARRIS: Those are great questions.

K. DOLAN: Yes.

HARRIS: Take it up tomorrow on the show. What time? Ten a.m.?

D. DOLAN: Ten a.m.

HARRIS: On Saturday.

D. DOLAN: We'll even have some money tips for lovers tomorrow, Tony.

HARRIS: Beautiful.

K. DOLAN: Bye, Tony.

HARRIS: Beautiful. All right. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow at 10 a.m.

K. DOLAN: Thank you, Tony.

HARRIS: We'll be back with much more on the budget, how it will affect your pocket. Join them tomorrow, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED," 10 Eastern, Kyra, right here on CNN. I'm out of breath.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PHILLIPS (voice-over): Next on LIVE FROM, a young woman hit by a drunken driver, left unable to speak. Now, more than 20 years later, her family says a miracle has happened.

Later on LIVE FROM, the tide is rising in the Tubulu Islands (ph). Our Miles O'Brien shows us what these tiny South Pacific islands are revealing about what's happening on the entire planet.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once the violence became real it wasn't a movie anymore.

PHILLIPS: A documentary follows 400 soldiers from the streets of Baghdad to the palace of a former playboy. The filmmaker, and the soldier and the stories never told until now.

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PHILLIPS: Disney is holding its annual shareholder meeting today. This year it is getting to be another -- well, it's going to be -- it's going to be an interesting year. Probably a revolt.

HARRIS: Well, it's going to be better than last year.

PHILLIPS: That's true.

HARRIS: Which was...

PHILLIPS: We hope.

HARRIS: Let's get the details....

PHILLIPS: Michael Eisner, speaking up.

HARRIS: Exactly -- from David Haffenreffner, standing by at the New York Stock Exchange -- David.

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Aired February 11, 2005 - 13:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CO-HOST: Nuclear threat. The White House says no thanks to an offer for one-on-one talks with North Korea. What's the next step in curbing the North's nuclear ambitions?
TONY HARRIS, CO-HOST: Surprise visit. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld drops in and checks out Iraq's security forces.

PHILLIPS: New developments in the story of this baby. He was allegedly tossed from a car window and found by a passing motorist. We're live from Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.

HARRIS: Death of a playwright. He married a movie star and wrote some of America's best-known play. We mark the passing of Arthur Miller.

From the CNN center, I'm Tony Harris in for Miles O'Brien.

PHILLIPS: And I'm Kyra Phillips. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

Six way or no way. The same day North Korea demands one-on-one talks with Washington over its nuclear ambitions, the White House says talk to the group, the group being Russia, China, Japan, South Korea and the U.S., which has met three times with North -- the North since 2003 with almost nothing to show for it.

The reclusive nation's U.N. ambassador says it will think about the broader talks when conditions are ripe, meaning after bilateral talks aimed at a formal non-aggression pact. To that, the White House press secretary said this just moments ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SCOTT MCCLELLAN, WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY: All parties in the region recognize that they have a stake in North Korea ending its nuclear weapons program. This is a regional matter that affects the countries in the region, and we've made very clear our view. It is a view shared by the other parties to the talks.

The six-party talks are the way to resolve this matter in a peaceful and diplomatic way. We've also made very clear that North Korea has ample opportunity to visit directly with us in the context of the six-party talks, and they've had ample opportunity in the past to do so.

(END VIDEO CLIP) PHILLIPS: In yesterday's bombshell, officials presumably speaking for mysterious leader Kim Jong-Il declare they'll bolster their nuclear arsenal in response to threats from the Bush administration.

HARRIS: Kyra, dramatic news in the past hour in the case of that baby who was allegedly tossed from a car window in Florida.

Broward County Sheriff Ken Jenne says they have talked to a woman whom they believe is the infant's birth mother.

CNN's Susan Candiotti is in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, with the very latest on this developing story -- Susan.

SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Tony.

Of course, potentially, this is very good and very exciting news. At this hour, the young woman that police say they strongly believe is the mother of that baby boy, the newborn who was tossed out of the moving car yesterday, is at police headquarters, talking with detectives -- talking with detectives as we speak.

Now, they are -- police are not saying exactly what led them to this young woman, other than revealing that when they located her, they asked her -- called her up and asked her to come in and talk with them. And indeed, she did.

Here is what the sheriff said just a short time ago.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SHERIFF KEN JENNE, BROWARD COUNTY, FLORIDA: The mother, and without going into any detail, at this point, the person is indicating that they are the birth mother. We're just trying to get some additional corroboration out of it. We've also looked and found some -- some physical evidence, and we are now looking at that, to corroborate that, also.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

CANDIOTTI: Now, to recap what happened, this all began yesterday when police say a newborn baby with its umbilical cord still attached was thrown out of a moving car.

A woman who was following that vehicle pulled her car over, picked up what had what she discovered was a baby, said it was wrapped in a plastic grocery bag. And she immediately ran the boy over to a nearby police station.

In turn, the baby was airlifted to a local hospital and is said to be in excellent condition right now. Believe it or not, without a scratch, without any bruises at all, even though he was tossed out of this moving car and landed in the grass.

Now, police are holding a news conference in about an hour and a half from now, at which time they hope to perhaps confirm that, indeed, this is the mother and also reveal other information about the circumstances.

Remember, Tony, what we know so far, according to a witness, is that the young couple in this car, young man and a young woman, described in their late teens, early 20s appeared to be arguing, according to witnesses, before the baby was thrown out of the vehicle -- Tony.

HARRIS: Susan, and it didn't need to end this way. I believe Florida is one of the states with the safe haven law for newborns. Is that correct?

CANDIOTTI: It is, indeed. That's right. And in fact, 23 babies have been turned in under the safe haven law. If the baby is less than three days old, a mother or a father can turn in the baby, no questions asked, and can remain anonymous.

HARRIS: All right. Susan Candiotti following this story in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. Susan, thank you.

PHILLIPS: Saint Valentine's Day mass suicide or computer age hoax? Either way, an Oregon man is in jail today, charged with solicitation to commit murder and conspiracy to commit manslaughter. His alleged offense: evoking pledges from at least 32 participants in an Internet chat room to kill themselves on Valentine's Day.

Among the alleged participants is a mother who also allegedly said she planned to kill her two small children.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

SHERIFF TIMOTHY EVINGER, KLAMATH COUNTY, OREGON: Obviously, we're trying to capture information, e-mails, maybe some chat information, and then we'll be issuing some further subpoenas, I'm certain, through the district attorney's office to ascertain who the other individuals were, where they are and to try to deem them safe.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Police searched the suspect's house and took his computer and are hoping for more leads from ISPs, Internet service providers. Canadians are thought to be involved, as well. So authorities there are also on the case.

HARRIS: A mosque and two bakeries, the latest sites of deadly violence in Iraq apparently perpetrated by Sunni insurgents, apparently aimed at Shiites, who are poised to win the power they've been denied for generations.

More about the power and the ongoing Iraqi vote count in a moment. First, the violence, and an unexpected VIP.

CNN's Nic Robertson runs down the day's news from Baghdad.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The secretary of defense landed before dawn in Mosul. One of his first visits was to a medical army facility. He met there with Sergeant Sean Ferguson and gave him a Purple Heart. The soldier had been shot in the wrist the day before, the soldier's second Purple Heart in four just four months.

Donald Rumsfeld also went on to meet with U.S. troops, congratulated them on their efforts for providing security for the elections. He then flew south to Baghdad, met with the interim prime minister, Ayad Allawi. The interim prime minister thanked Donald Rumsfeld for the work of the U.S. troops in providing security and stability for the elections.

The next part of Donald Rumsfeld's visit focused on watching the training of Iraqi Special Forces. The very -- focus of his visit, very much on -- very much to see the training that all Iraqi forces are getting.

But what he saw was a special forces training on a weapons range, firing automatic weapons, firing handguns. He saw them doing simulated assaults on buildings, descending by helicopter onto the buildings, rushing the buildings in vehicles. That was before he left towards the end of the day.

But while he was here, there were two very significant attacks on the Shiite community. One in the middle of the day. A car bomb detonated at a mosque northeast of Baghdad. Twelve people killed there, four of them Iraqi National Guardsmen patrolling the mosque at that time. Eight civilians killed. Twenty-three other people wounded, according to the police.

The police also say that there was another attack on Shiites in Baghdad early in the day. A Shia-run bakery in a Shia neighborhood of Baghdad came under attack when two vehicle loads full of insurgents arrived outside the bakery quite early in the day. About 12 gunmen got out of those vehicles, the police say, went into the two tiny bakeries, set up side by side, sprayed them with gunfire and killed nine workers in those bakeries.

What the police fear is that perhaps there's an effort of the Sunni Muslim insurgents here to step up violence against the Shia community to try and foment sectarian violence, perhaps that, in particular, they say, ahead of a very important Shia Muslim festival in about nine days time, the Ashura festival.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: As for those elections, almost two weeks after Iraqis went to the polls, roughly a week after we expected final results, we're still waiting. Officials promise the counting is in its final phase with only three percent of the votes for national assembly still to be tallied.

However, thousands of ballots for provincial councils are still being recounted, and some 300 complaints from Sunni areas are being looked into. A U.S. officials says to give the process at least another week.

PHILLIPS: Attention must be paid today to the loss of a giant. Unlike his most iconic stage creation, Arthur Miller was a great man who set the stage for American hopes and heartbreak and won every accolade a dramatist can win in the process. Miller died last night at his Connecticut home at 89.

Here's CNN's Eric Philips.

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BILL CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Arthur Miller has given our nation some of the finest plays of this century.

ERIC PHILIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Chief among them, "Death of a Salesman," which won the 1949 Pulitzer Prize, and in 1953, his metaphor for McCarthyism, "The Crucible."

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I want the truth now.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We never conjured spirits.

PHILIPS: But Miller took his lumps before becoming known as a writer of classics.

ARTHUR MILLER, PLAYWRIGHT: Fifty years ago I quit forever. I had a disaster with my first play. I resolved never to write another one.

PHILIPS: Fortunately, the playwright reneged on that vow and within a few years was penning masterpieces. Miller's characters were specific yet universal, infected with human flaws like pride, envy, greed, and lust.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Harriet tells me you used to take out her cousin, Rosalyn Fein (ph).

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's possible. I don't remember.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, you had so many, didn't you?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: When I was younger.

MILLER: The art of playwriting consists mainly of the manipulation of time. Everything has to be squeezed so that it becomes dramatic.

PHILIPS: At the peak of his fame in 1956, Miller married Marilyn Monroe. The pair became the celebrity couple of their time. The marriage, his second of three, lasted until 1961.

Later on, Miller was honored for his contributions to the theater, an honorary degree from Harvard, a lifetime achievement award from the Tonys and the National Medal of the Arts.

Toward the end of his life, Miller lamented how Broadway changed over the years.

MILLER: There was a kind of reverence that is gone. People felt it was an art, not a business. Of course, it always was a business.

PHILIPS: That business made Miller famous, and Miller's plays enriched readers and audiences everywhere.

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HARRIS: How do you write something like a "Death of a Salesman" at 33?

PHILLIPS: At age 33? He's a genius.

HARRIS: How do you do that? My goodness.

Well, a young woman is hit by a drunken driver.

PHILLIPS: Her injuries left her unable to speak for more than 20 years. But now, her family says it's a miracle. Wait until we tell you about the latest developments.

HARRIS: Trillions of tax dollars provoke dozens of arguments on Capitol Hill. What does the Bush budget really mean to you? We'll boil it down straight ahead.

PHILLIPS: And did this baseball player have anything to say about steroids? Well, Yankees first baseman Jason Giambi has an apology for fans.

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PHILLIPS: Howard Dean is making news again, this time as the next chairman of the Democratic National Committee. It's just about certain that the former presidential candidate will be elected to that post by party activists in Washington this weekend.

Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton is calling on Democrats to rally around party leaders. Clinton spoke at a dinner honoring the outgoing DNC chairman, Terry McAuliffe, who in turn says the party needs to play to its strong points.

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TERRY MCAULIFFE, DNC CHAIR: We need to make sure that we get our message out. Republicans were very effective coming into our neighborhoods and taking our voters away from us. They took married white women. They won for the first time. They did it by scaring women by talking about the issues of terrorism.

We now need to be going into those red states and talking about the Democratic Party's strength on values, job creation, health care, education. And when we do that, that will resonate. But we've got to convince people that we'll keep you safer.

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PHILLIPS: And just a quick reminder, you can get the inside story about how Howard Dean secured the DNC chairmanship from the man himself. Dean will be Judy Woodruff's guest on "INSIDE POLITICS," 3:30 Eastern, 12:30 Pacific this afternoon.

HARRIS: Now economics for the rest of us and first, the president's budget. It is a mammoth $2.5 trillion spending plan. And inevitably, it's becoming quite a political football -- what is he doing? There's sure to be something in it. Ken, what are you -- all right.

KEN DOLAN, CO-HOST, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED": Tony, I'm trying to...

HARRIS: You're trying to balance the budget?

K. DOLAN: Don't wreck my bit. I'm just about to say...

DARIA DOLAN, CO-HOST, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED": Tony, you're a genius. Nobody here, except Ken, knew what he was trying to do.

K. DOLAN: You know, I know you like Daria better. But you didn't have to ruin my bit, Tony.

HARRIS: I just pulled the rug right out from under him, Kyra. I apologize, Ken. I'll make up for it.

K. DOLAN: All right.

HARRIS: I've got to tell you, let's start with the education budget. The president's education budget. And here's my little rant for the day, less money for vocational training, less money for college readiness, early education takes a bit of a hit. But we've got plenty of money for testing.

K. DOLAN: Teach to test, teach to test, teach to test. Tony, let me just say one thing to you before Daria chimes in.

HARRIS: Work away, Ken. Take it away.

K. DOLAN: I've got the important stuff to talk about.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: Tony, I agree with you, because I'll just tell you one thing that really makes me mad about the budget. Two hundred and forty-six million dollars cut from the Even Start Association. One sentence. "To break the cycle of limited literacy, under employment, and high mobility by participating families by building literary -- literacy skills in both parents and children." What a stupid idea that is.

D. DOLAN: OK, gentlemen. Let me get you both on the right track here. HARRIS: No. No. Put it up there. There you go. That's the shot I want. There you go. Daria, take it away.

D. DOLAN: OK. Here's what's wrong with both of you.

HARRIS: For starters.

D. DOLAN: Everybody yells about the deficit.

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: Everybody yells that we spend enough on this, that and the other thing.

HARRIS: Ken, pay attention.

D. DOLAN: But we've got to cut the deficit -- put that book down. You can't read it anyway, for heaven's sakes.

The fact of the matter is, the president tries to make some cuts on programs that have not lived up to expectations, and even the few cuts he's trying to make, which ends up to be about no more than 20 programs, are coming under the scrutiny and shotguns of everybody on both sides.

HARRIS: Yes, but Daria, what about it?

D. DOLAN: Give the guy a break.

HARRIS: Why do you have to cut? Why not a tweak? Why not -- why not bring everybody in and say can you make it better? Can you make it better? Is it worthwhile? Is it useful? Is it helping people? Why don't we tweak it and not cut it?

K. DOLAN: I agree. I agree with Tony.

D. DOLAN: But that's part of the criteria that was used on looking at what needs to be cut. If they weren't living up to expectations, then why would we keep funding them?

But nobody is going to talk about whether they performed or not. They're just going to say, you know, cut something else. Don't cut my pet project.

HARRIS: Right. Right.

D. DOLAN: And we'll be talking with Congress and Mike Castle tomorrow about that.

K. DOLAN: Can I -- Let me update both of you. I hate to do this, Tony and Daria. I hate to bring in the answer to this. And Tony, don't get mad at me.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: Social security, Medicare, Medicaid and other entitlements are two-thirds of the $2.3 trillion budget, Tony. We can needle around whether we need a bridge in Arizona over the desert or...

HARRIS: But you've got to train kids to get jobs so that they can pay into the system. Come on. You've going to cut the program that train the kids to get the job to pay into the system.

K. DOLAN: Because our kids can't read; our kids can't write. And you know what the problem is, Tony? Because of the schools and the high schools, even some of the colleges, they can't get jobs when they get out.

HARRIS: OK.

D. DOLAN: OK. Gentlemen, here's -- let me get this one last thing in.

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: Because I don't know how you can even call this a budget proposal. Believe it or not, in all that text that Ken was balancing on his head, there is not one dollar allocated for anything military in Afghanistan and Iraq. How can we call it a budget?

HARRIS: Right, right, right. Right. Hey, I need to move on. Carly...

K. DOLAN: No. We don't want to move on. We want to keep talking about this.

D. DOLAN: Shh, shh, shh.

HARRIS: That's why you have your own show now. That's why you have your own.

She's out at Hewlett Packard. I know this is a big deal, but Daria, explain to me why it is. I know I should care, and I do. But tell me why I care.

D. DOLAN: You know, I think Carly Fiorina's biggest problem and the reason it's become such a big story is she was a media darling.

HARRIS: Right.

D. DOLAN: And she spent a lot of time catering to the media and doing things that got her notoriety. Unfortunately, while she was getting that notoriety, the stock price was burning ala Nero.

HARRIS: Right.

D. DOLAN: And now, because she was such a darling, she's easy to take pot shots at. I worry -- I think she made some critical errors as a -- as any CEO, man, woman or otherwise.

HARRIS: OK.

D. DOLAN: But I think that we run the risk of her casting bad -- bad karma on other women trying to break through the glass ceiling.

HARRIS: Let's talk about that. What do you think about this, Ken? I mean, was she judged differently than -- than, say, a man in that position?

K. DOLAN: Tony, that's a great question. I don't think so, Tony, because Daria and I are both from Wall Street. And the numbers speak for themselves.

I think the problem we have is you've got -- is that you've got a horribly failed, at least to this point, failed team partnership between Hewlett Packard and Compaq. One thing we're going to talk about so much is, do you think other women will be hurt in their way up the ladder?

HARRIS: Yes.

K. DOLAN: No. 1, Tony. And No. 2, what can we as business people, as investors, what can we learn from some of the mistakes she and others like her have made?

D. DOLAN: And as managers.

HARRIS: OK.

D. DOLAN: Managers of other employees. What mistakes did she make that we should not?

HARRIS: Those are great questions.

K. DOLAN: Yes.

HARRIS: Take it up tomorrow on the show. What time? Ten a.m.?

D. DOLAN: Ten a.m.

HARRIS: On Saturday.

D. DOLAN: We'll even have some money tips for lovers tomorrow, Tony.

HARRIS: Beautiful.

K. DOLAN: Bye, Tony.

HARRIS: Beautiful. All right. Have a great day. We'll see you tomorrow at 10 a.m.

K. DOLAN: Thank you, Tony.

HARRIS: We'll be back with much more on the budget, how it will affect your pocket. Join them tomorrow, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED," 10 Eastern, Kyra, right here on CNN. I'm out of breath.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) PHILLIPS (voice-over): Next on LIVE FROM, a young woman hit by a drunken driver, left unable to speak. Now, more than 20 years later, her family says a miracle has happened.

Later on LIVE FROM, the tide is rising in the Tubulu Islands (ph). Our Miles O'Brien shows us what these tiny South Pacific islands are revealing about what's happening on the entire planet.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Once the violence became real it wasn't a movie anymore.

PHILLIPS: A documentary follows 400 soldiers from the streets of Baghdad to the palace of a former playboy. The filmmaker, and the soldier and the stories never told until now.

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PHILLIPS: Disney is holding its annual shareholder meeting today. This year it is getting to be another -- well, it's going to be -- it's going to be an interesting year. Probably a revolt.

HARRIS: Well, it's going to be better than last year.

PHILLIPS: That's true.

HARRIS: Which was...

PHILLIPS: We hope.

HARRIS: Let's get the details....

PHILLIPS: Michael Eisner, speaking up.

HARRIS: Exactly -- from David Haffenreffner, standing by at the New York Stock Exchange -- David.

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