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Police Investigating Case of Missing Florida Girl; Pope Rests After Tracheotomy; Zarqawi Lieutenant Arrested; Congress to Investigate Data Mining Companies; World Demands Answers on Hariri Assassination

Aired February 25, 2005 - 12:59 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.

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Her grandparents tucked her in and then she was gone. New developments now in the case of a missing Florida girl. We'll hear from the police just ahead.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Pope John Paul II recovering from a tracheotomy in this Rome hospital. What's next for the pontiff? We'll go to Rome to find out.

PHILLIPS: Kids born in Calcutta's red light district, give them a camera and a lot of inspiration, and now a possible Oscar. Pictures come to life for eight special children. This hour, the movie director joins us live.

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips.

HARRIS: And I'm Tony Harris in for Miles O'Brien. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

More than a missing person case, not necessarily a kidnapping. The disappearance of 9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford is very much a mystery. Home in bed at 10 p.m. Wednesday, gone at 6 a.m. Thursday. No signs of struggle.

In a news conference you may have seen live here on CNN, Jessica's father made a heart-rending appeal from the family's home on the Florida Gulf Coast.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MARK LUNSFORD, FATHER OF MISSING GIRL: I really need as much help as I can get right now. I just -- I want my daughter home. If there's anything that anybody knows. There -- there's a lot of numbers that you can call. And I just ask you to please help me find my daughter and bring her home.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: Jessica lives with her father and grandparents. And though her father was away Wednesday night, police say they have checked his alibi and he is not considered a suspect.

More now from reporter Josh Talkington of CNN affiliate WFTS.

Josh, good to see you. First question, I suppose, is are police close to having an idea of a suspect, a description, anything?

JOSH TALKINGTON, WFTS REPORTER: it doesn't seem that way at all. At this point, police say they have zero suspects. And that's one major reason a lot of people are wondering this, why they haven't issued that Amber Alert quite yet.

As you said, Tony, they don't even know for certain this was a kidnapping and abduction. They don't have a car. They don't have a suspect or even a suspect description.

The very latest information, just came down to us just about an hour ago. We can tell you that the sheriff has confirmed, after much searching the last day and a half, they have finally tracked down the girl's mother in Ohio. They talked to her for about an hour and a half. They said she really has been out of this girl's life the last eight years or so.

They have not told us what that conversation included, but they did say she and no other family members right now are considered suspects.

HARRIS: And Josh, have to -- have to ask you, so what are police working on? Have they set up a tip line? And is that essentially all they have to go on? What information they get from neighbors, friends, calls to the tip line?

TALKINGTON: Yes. There's some interesting goings on out here, because a lot of the neighbors, for whatever reason, believe that the grandfather had something to do with this young girl's disappearance.

Police -- we talked to them just a second ago. The sheriff said absolutely not. The grandfather is not a suspect. He believes that is just a flat-out rumor. He said they've talked to the grandfather a few times, obviously, because he was apparently inside the house.

We can zoom into the house back there. Let me tell you exactly what happened, Tony.

About 5:45 yesterday morning, this father, Mark Lunsford, said he came home after a night out on the town with his friend. He came in, noticed the front door was unlocked. He went to look for his daughter. She was gone. She has not been heard from, has not been seen since.

We do know all she was wearing were her pajamas. She had on no shoes, no socks. Police tell us a moment ago only thing missing from her room is a doll. They would not tell us what type of doll or if there's any significance at all to this particular doll. But we do know that is the only thing missing from inside her room.

HARRIS: Questions, questions, and more questions. OK, Josh, we appreciate it. Josh Talkington with CNN affiliate WFTS.

Let's throw up a full screen, if we could, right now. And these are the tip line numbers. If you have any information on Jessica's whereabouts, you call one of these two numbers: 352-726-1121 or 352- 726-4488. If you have any information on the whereabouts of 9-year- old Jessica Marie Lunsford.

PHILLIPS: Now a deadly case of marital discord in Texas.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get down. Stay down.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Those are semiautomatic rifle shots that you heard, being fired by David Hernandez Arroyo, who police say open fired on his ex-wife outside the Smith County Courthouse in Tyler, Texas, just some 100 miles east of Dallas.

Police say that Maribel Estrada was leaving a hearing possibly related to child support when Arroyo, wearing body armor, shot and killed her along with a man also carrying a gun who tried to intervene.

The Arroyo's adult son, David Jr., was wounded as were a police officer, a sheriff's deputy and one other person. Arroyo was shot and killed in a separate shootout several miles away after he fled in his truck and was stopped by police.

Now a street sweeper is being held in Los Angeles today after allegedly killing his boss and a fellow employee. That attack, again, from an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle. It happened at a municipal asphalt plant just around quitting time. Police say the suspect was reprimanded earlier in the day for being late. After the shootings he drove himself to a police precinct and surrendered.

HARRIS: Eating, resting, breathing. Hours after his flu relapse prompted surgeons to open his throat, Pope John Paul II is said to be doing as well as could be expected, far better than many feared.

Aides say the pope does not have pneumonia, does not have a fever. He does have an appetite and was never on a respirator. No further details or updates are planned until Monday.

PHILLIPS: Supposedly the pope acknowledged the long road facing him just to get back to his precarious health before he caught the flu. The story goes the pope's doctors told him the tracheotomy procedure was small, to which the patient replied, "Small? It depends for whom."

CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen looks at the pope's prognosis from our studios in New York. It's amazing how he still keeps sort of a sense of humor, Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That is amazing, considering everything that he's been through not only in the past few day but over the years. He has certainly had many, many health problems.

And what we've seen in the past 24 hours is a readmittance to the hospital for the flu and a tracheotomy. Let's take a look at exactly what a tracheotomy is. It's actually quite easy to understand. It's very mechanical.

What happens is that doctors insert that white pipe, which is inserted at the base of the neck. And it goes down and it attaches into the windpipe. So that what happens is air comes through, and then it actually goes directly to the windpipe.

Now why would you want to do this? If someone's having problems breathing, this in some ways just lets the air come in. And if there's an obstruction above that tube, you bypass that obstruction.

Now, it's not entirely clear what the obstruction is. But at a press conference that the Vatican held this morning, they said that the pope had a laryngeal stenosis, a stenosis of the larynx, which in layman's terms is a narrowing of the voice box. And when that happens, it can be very difficult for someone to breathe. There are spasms. And they talked about it at this press conference.

Now, why would the pope have this problem? That also is unclear. It could be caused, for example, if there's some infection in that area. That could cause the narrowing of the windpipe. It could also be if the tracheotomy had been in there before, sometimes that happens if that tube had -- I'm sorry, if the trache tube had been in there, that could cause the problem. So there are a variety of things. We don't know the answers to that.

What we do know is that he is not allowed to talk at this time. We also know, as you said, that he has an appetite. We were told that this morning he drank some cafe latte and he also had some yogurt and ten small biscuits -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: That's not a bad thing to eat. Now of course, his Parkinson's Disease, we talked about this yesterday, Elizabeth, has definitely affected his overall health?

COHEN: That's right. People think of Parkinson's and they think of sort of jerking arms or jerking legs. But in fact, it's much more than that. It's really an inability to control your muscles to a greater or lesser extent, depending upon how advanced the disease is.

And in the advanced stages it can weaken the muscles that control breathing and it can also weaken the muscles that expel fluid from the lungs. And so that, in and of itself, can cause breathing problems. You put on top of that the flu. You put on top of that a frail man, you know, 84 years old. That can lead to problems.

PHILLIPS: Let's talk about that for a minute. Considering he's 84 years old. He got the flu. I was even reading that his doctors didn't want him to go back to work the first time he got sick, but he wanted to and insisted on doing so. So I guess it's really not surprising that he had a relapse.

COHEN: Well, it's not surprising for many reasons, one of which is that people that age who have the flu, it's not unusual for them to have a relapse of the flu in a relatively short period of time. That happens. And what doctors look out for is they look out for not just the flu, but a secondary infection, a bacterial infection. The flu is a virus. A bacterial infection on top of the flu such as pneumonia.

The Vatican spokesman said today that he did not have pneumonia. But they're looking for that type of infection and looking to fight that type of infection. That's really what you worry about in a man his age.

PHILLIPS: Elizabeth Cohen, our medical correspondent, with the post-op on the pope. Thanks so much -- Tony.

HARRIS: Another roadside bombing, more dead Americans, another big arrest, and a crucial endorsement or, should I say, blessing in the campaign to head the new government. Those are headlines out of Iraq this hour.

And CNN's Nic Robertson has the stories.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The attack on the U.S. military convoy coming around the middle of the day, about 20 miles, 35 kilometers north of Baghdad. Three soldiers killed and nine wounded by that roadside bomb.

Officials here also say that over the last few days they have captured a key lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Talib al-Dulaymi, they say, was captured close to the Syrian border, about 60 kilometers, 35 miles from the Syria border, northwest of Baghdad.

They say that he was a key interlocutor with Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, that he controlled transportation, housing, getting packages to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, delivering money. They say all the people who came close to getting in contact with Zarqawi, it had to be arranged through this man. When they were going to meet him, how they were going to meet him, the location that it would all happen in.

They say that he was very important in the structure of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's network.

However, some government officials here do say -- do caution against reading too much into this particular arrest. They say while it's important, it doesn't necessarily mean that Zarqawi's arrest may be immediately around the corner.

Also through the day, a journalist working for the Arabic language Al-Hura station, funded by the United States, was gunned down in his car south of Baghdad. He survived the attack. But his driver was killed immediately in that shooting. Apparently, three insurgents drove close to their vehicle and fired their weapons right at the car from close range.

We've also been told that Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who is the lead contender for the prime minister's job in the new interim government, went to see the top Shia cleric in Iraq today, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani. We're told that in that meeting they discussed bringing the largely marginalized, or politically marginalized, at least, Sunni community, trying to get them into the political process.

Many of the Sunnis boycotted the elections or stayed away. Fear of intimidations kept a lot of them away. Apparently, the religious leader and the new prime contender for the prime minister's job discussing how to get them back involved in the political process.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.

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PHILLIPS: Well, a man who needs a new kidney finds a willing donor. But medical officials won't allow the donation because of a web site. We've got the rest of the story ahead on LIVE FROM.

Too much information. How can you keep your personal data private? We're going to talk about it.

And hey, waiter, there's a fly in my soup. And that may be the least of your problems. What you need to know about your waiter before you go out to dinner. Serving it up, right ahead on LIVE FROM.

HARRIS: Wait her? I don't even know her.

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

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HARRIS: Kathleen, thank you.

All right. Here's the question: who's holding the keys to your identity. And how do you make sure they don't want up in the wrong hands?

Plus, as the Academy Awards approach, our next guests are also showing symptoms, I'm told, of Oscar fever.

But unlike -- oh, that is that. I like those...

DARIA DOLAN, CO-HOST, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED": Darling, how are you?

HARRIS: Oh, my. Daria, you look lovely. Ken, you look like Ken with sunglasses.

D. DOLAN: That's what happens when you go to Hollywood if a couple of days.

HARRIS: Your futures are so bright you need those shades. Isn't that a wonderful song, there?

D. DOLAN: That was a good one. HARRIS: How is that?

D. DOLAN: Yes.

HARRIS: So you're just back from Hollywood.

KEN DOLAN, CO-HOST, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED": Yes, we did. We'll talk in a second about that, Tony.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: We'll get to something a little more serious. We did a very different Hollywood thing we'll tell you about.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: But a real bad problem, Tony, and you've seen it -- you've seen it yourself. We have a personal story. And that is identity theft is totally out of control. And as late as usual, however, the Senate is now going to have -- let's have a hearing!

D. DOLAN: No, but at least the good news on this is they are going to investigate these companies that mine personal data. I mean, you look at a company like ChoicePoint. Authorities out in California are now saying more than a half a million people...

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: ... might have been adversely affected by their selling information to companies that were not truly companies that should have a right to this.

So the federal government, through Congress, is now going to investigate putting some sort of legislation in place, which is very much needed, considering we still use our Social Security numbers as our identity and our being.

HARRIS: Yes.

K. DOLAN: You know, Tony, we've got to do something other than Social Security number as our national identifier.

HARRIS: Right.

K. DOLAN: Because once identity theft-ers get past the personal information, which is kind of easy to get out of your trash can and stuff, then they get the Social Security number. You're dead. It's happened -- it's happened to us, and we're going to pass it along.

HARRIS: I've got to tell you. I pulled up the site. And here's the description of ChoicePoint, the company description?

K. DOLAN: Yes.

HARRIS: It says ChoicePoint provides risk management and fraud prevention information. Fraud prevention information. K. DOLAN: Yikes.

HARRIS: Hello.

K. DOLAN: Hello there.

HARRIS: OK. So you're going to take that on a little bit over the weekend, as well. Right?

D. DOLAN: We definitely are.

HARRIS: Good.

K. DOLAN: Talk about the problem, Tony. We're going to try to talk the solution. There's no solution to protecting yourself 100 percent.

HARRIS: Right.

K. DOLAN: But we'll see if we can minimize the odds.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: Speaking of the odds, when we went to Hollywood this past -- this past few days, we don't care what people are going to wear at the ceremonies, Tony. We wanted to talk about the movie business and where it's going. And we've got some good stuff to talk about.

HARRIS: Well, what did you get?

D. DOLAN: Well, in fact, we were able to sit down and talk with Dan Glickman, who is the new head of the Motion Picture Association of America.

HARRIS: Taking over for Jack Valenti.

D. DOLAN: Exactly.

K. DOLAN: Exactly right, Tony.

D. DOLAN: Interestingly enough, not quite taking over in every respect. We'll talk about the ratings situation, which Jack developed and still has a hold on right now.

HARRIS: Right.

D. DOLAN: But the big issue for Hollywood through the MPAA is the downloading and piracy of movies online...

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: ... and from sitting in the movie theater with a video camera and bootlegging them.

HARRIS: Right. Right. D. DOLAN: They're now saying that in 2004 they lost about $3.5 billion. And as Dan Glickman points out in our interview, it is theft. Unfortunately, for most Americans, they see the big buck salaries that the stars make...

HARRIS: Right.

D. DOLAN: ... and forget that that hurts the little guys that do the catering on the sets and the makeup and things of that nature.

HARRIS: So Daria, what's part -- what is the solution? Is it new technology to prevent it? Is it -- is it legislation? What's the answer here?

K. DOLAN: Honesty.

D. DOLAN: Well, right now the MPAA is doing what the RIA, the radio -- Recording Industry of America didn't do fast enough, and that is lawsuits.

HARRIS: I see. I see.

K. DOLAN: So we'll talk about that moral and ethical issue, Tony. And I know an awful lot of people, and I talked to Dan Glickman. You've got to watch, Tony. That is how upset can we get, as Daria said, on fat cat Hollywood people worrying that somebody is downloading a little movie someplace.

HARRIS: Well, you know what's interesting about that is when you look at this crop of films, and Daria was talking about this a little earlier today, when you look at this crop of movies that are nominated in the Best Picture categories, one of the big prestige categories...

K. DOLAN: Yes. Yes.

HARRIS: ... this crop of films has made less money than films in this category over years past. Correct?

K. DOLAN: Great point, Tony.

D. DOLAN: Well, you know, it's sort of like open an envelope or open their veins on Sunday evening. When you look at the topics that were big, almost alcoholism...

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: ... assisted suicide. And all the things...

K. DOLAN: Drugs.

D. DOLAN: ... that Hollywood liked is really a downer for the rest of us in America. So they're off 41 percent with the nominated pictures, gross, year to date where they would have been about 41 percent ahead of last year.

K. DOLAN: Tony... HARRIS: Yes, Ken?

K. DOLAN: ... where the heck is -- where's Fred Astaire when you need him?

HARRIS: When you need him. All right. To pump up some box office. I've got to tell you. You've got an -- you've got an airline horror story you're going to share with folks tomorrow, as well.

K. DOLAN: I'm not even going to tell you anything.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: Because I start crying. The crew had to console me. So I'm going to hold it until tomorrow.

HARRIS: Daria, will you console him if humanly possible? See you both tomorrow. OK?

D. DOLAN: A little muzzle on him, I think, would work, Tony.

HARRIS: Those topics plus what you need to know about eminent domain. What are your rights when the government says it is going to seize your property? Tomorrow morning on "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED." That's right here on CNN, 10 a.m. Eastern.

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PHILLIPS (voice-over): Next on LIVE FROM, they were born into brothels. But a woman gives them a camera and inspiration. Now, their story is up for an Oscar. We'll talk with the moviemakers about the film and the courageous kids that made it happen.

Later on LIVE FROM...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Open the door now!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right now!

PHILLIPS: Hot on the trail with fugitive hunters. Just how far will they go to bring in their man or woman?

And later on LIVE FROM: life and death situation. A man needs a kidney. He finds a matching donor, but medical officials won't allow a transplant, all because of a web site.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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PHILLIPS: As part of CNN's 25th anniversary we're updating you on where yesterday's newsmakers are today. And on this edition of "Then and Now," we focus on Scott O'Grady.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SCOTT O'GRADY, SURVIVED BEING SHOT DOWN: As soon as the missile hit, the only thing I saw is the cockpit disintegrating in front of me.

AARON BROWN, HOST, "NEWSNIGHT": Captain Scott O'Grady spent six days struggling to survive after being shot down in Bosnia in 1985.

O'GRADY: My heart started racing. And then I heard Dasher 1-1 up on the radio.

I'm alive. I'm alive.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Copy that. You're alive.

BROWN: Little did he know those six days would change his life forever.

O'GRADY: I just want to have a normal life and just continue on.

BROWN: O'Grady immediately found himself thrust into the spotlight, recounting his story for millions. And he continues to do so today, 10 years later. He has published two books, "Returned With Honor" and "Basher Five-Two," a children's edition of his story.

After 12 years serving his country, O'Grady is now pursuing a master's at Dallas' Theological Seminary.

O'GRADY: I believe that you shouldn't be ignorant as to what you believe. You should understand why you believe it.

BROWN: Once graduated, Scott O'Grady says he wants to dedicate his life to giving back to both his community and his country.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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HARRIS: In Beirut this week, the high how powered search for the killers of a beloved statesman coincides with an apparent, if partial, concession by Syria to popular demand. We get the latest from CNN senior international correspondent Brent Sadler.

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BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Top Irish police officials in Beirut, joining the hunt to track down the killers of Rafik Hariri, blown up in a devastating bomb attack on Valentine's Day, nearly two weeks ago.

Many suspects, but no reliable evidence. The U.N. appointed investigators treading on eggshells.

PETER FITZGERALD, DEPUTY IRISH POLICE COMMISSIONER: I would like to assure everybody that we will work absolutely impartially and professionally in order to fulfill the mandate.

SADLER: A Security Council mandate to discover the circumstances, causes and consequences of the murder.

Growing international pressure on Syria, Lebanon's main power broker, seems to have forced an urgent rethink in Damascus. Syria's remaining 15,000 soldiers in Lebanon now on the verge, say security officials here, of a major redeployment, much larger than before, but staying inside Lebanon, close to the Syrian border, falling short of U.N. demands.

(on camera) Demands to identify the assassins of Rafik Hariri have reached global dimension. But the killing is now much more than a murder mystery. It's turned into the focal point of anti--Syrian protests sweeping the country.

(voice-over) Opening a Pandora's box of boiling dissent. It's political, led by opposition parties, trying to uproot Syria influence here.

And personal. Relatives of missing Lebanese allegedly held captive in Syria join a protest rally, carrying photos of people they say were picked up in Lebanon by Syrian security forces, suspected, it's thought, of spying for Israel. Many of them imprisoned without trial, it's claimed, decades ago. Fifteen years of muted protest, until now.

GHAZI AAD, ASSOCIATION FOR LEBANESE IN SYRIA: The uprising is very crucial for us because we used to live under -- under an atmosphere of fear. Nobody was able to talk. Now everybody is talking.

SADLER: And worrying, regardless of loyalties, what might happen next.

Brent Sadler, CNN, Beirut.

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Aired February 25, 2005 - 12:59 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Her grandparents tucked her in and then she was gone. New developments now in the case of a missing Florida girl. We'll hear from the police just ahead.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Pope John Paul II recovering from a tracheotomy in this Rome hospital. What's next for the pontiff? We'll go to Rome to find out.

PHILLIPS: Kids born in Calcutta's red light district, give them a camera and a lot of inspiration, and now a possible Oscar. Pictures come to life for eight special children. This hour, the movie director joins us live.

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, hello, everyone. I'm Kyra Phillips.

HARRIS: And I'm Tony Harris in for Miles O'Brien. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

More than a missing person case, not necessarily a kidnapping. The disappearance of 9-year-old Jessica Marie Lunsford is very much a mystery. Home in bed at 10 p.m. Wednesday, gone at 6 a.m. Thursday. No signs of struggle.

In a news conference you may have seen live here on CNN, Jessica's father made a heart-rending appeal from the family's home on the Florida Gulf Coast.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

MARK LUNSFORD, FATHER OF MISSING GIRL: I really need as much help as I can get right now. I just -- I want my daughter home. If there's anything that anybody knows. There -- there's a lot of numbers that you can call. And I just ask you to please help me find my daughter and bring her home.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: Jessica lives with her father and grandparents. And though her father was away Wednesday night, police say they have checked his alibi and he is not considered a suspect.

More now from reporter Josh Talkington of CNN affiliate WFTS.

Josh, good to see you. First question, I suppose, is are police close to having an idea of a suspect, a description, anything?

JOSH TALKINGTON, WFTS REPORTER: it doesn't seem that way at all. At this point, police say they have zero suspects. And that's one major reason a lot of people are wondering this, why they haven't issued that Amber Alert quite yet.

As you said, Tony, they don't even know for certain this was a kidnapping and abduction. They don't have a car. They don't have a suspect or even a suspect description.

The very latest information, just came down to us just about an hour ago. We can tell you that the sheriff has confirmed, after much searching the last day and a half, they have finally tracked down the girl's mother in Ohio. They talked to her for about an hour and a half. They said she really has been out of this girl's life the last eight years or so.

They have not told us what that conversation included, but they did say she and no other family members right now are considered suspects.

HARRIS: And Josh, have to -- have to ask you, so what are police working on? Have they set up a tip line? And is that essentially all they have to go on? What information they get from neighbors, friends, calls to the tip line?

TALKINGTON: Yes. There's some interesting goings on out here, because a lot of the neighbors, for whatever reason, believe that the grandfather had something to do with this young girl's disappearance.

Police -- we talked to them just a second ago. The sheriff said absolutely not. The grandfather is not a suspect. He believes that is just a flat-out rumor. He said they've talked to the grandfather a few times, obviously, because he was apparently inside the house.

We can zoom into the house back there. Let me tell you exactly what happened, Tony.

About 5:45 yesterday morning, this father, Mark Lunsford, said he came home after a night out on the town with his friend. He came in, noticed the front door was unlocked. He went to look for his daughter. She was gone. She has not been heard from, has not been seen since.

We do know all she was wearing were her pajamas. She had on no shoes, no socks. Police tell us a moment ago only thing missing from her room is a doll. They would not tell us what type of doll or if there's any significance at all to this particular doll. But we do know that is the only thing missing from inside her room.

HARRIS: Questions, questions, and more questions. OK, Josh, we appreciate it. Josh Talkington with CNN affiliate WFTS.

Let's throw up a full screen, if we could, right now. And these are the tip line numbers. If you have any information on Jessica's whereabouts, you call one of these two numbers: 352-726-1121 or 352- 726-4488. If you have any information on the whereabouts of 9-year- old Jessica Marie Lunsford.

PHILLIPS: Now a deadly case of marital discord in Texas.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get down. Stay down.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

PHILLIPS: Those are semiautomatic rifle shots that you heard, being fired by David Hernandez Arroyo, who police say open fired on his ex-wife outside the Smith County Courthouse in Tyler, Texas, just some 100 miles east of Dallas.

Police say that Maribel Estrada was leaving a hearing possibly related to child support when Arroyo, wearing body armor, shot and killed her along with a man also carrying a gun who tried to intervene.

The Arroyo's adult son, David Jr., was wounded as were a police officer, a sheriff's deputy and one other person. Arroyo was shot and killed in a separate shootout several miles away after he fled in his truck and was stopped by police.

Now a street sweeper is being held in Los Angeles today after allegedly killing his boss and a fellow employee. That attack, again, from an AK-47 semiautomatic rifle. It happened at a municipal asphalt plant just around quitting time. Police say the suspect was reprimanded earlier in the day for being late. After the shootings he drove himself to a police precinct and surrendered.

HARRIS: Eating, resting, breathing. Hours after his flu relapse prompted surgeons to open his throat, Pope John Paul II is said to be doing as well as could be expected, far better than many feared.

Aides say the pope does not have pneumonia, does not have a fever. He does have an appetite and was never on a respirator. No further details or updates are planned until Monday.

PHILLIPS: Supposedly the pope acknowledged the long road facing him just to get back to his precarious health before he caught the flu. The story goes the pope's doctors told him the tracheotomy procedure was small, to which the patient replied, "Small? It depends for whom."

CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen looks at the pope's prognosis from our studios in New York. It's amazing how he still keeps sort of a sense of humor, Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That is amazing, considering everything that he's been through not only in the past few day but over the years. He has certainly had many, many health problems.

And what we've seen in the past 24 hours is a readmittance to the hospital for the flu and a tracheotomy. Let's take a look at exactly what a tracheotomy is. It's actually quite easy to understand. It's very mechanical.

What happens is that doctors insert that white pipe, which is inserted at the base of the neck. And it goes down and it attaches into the windpipe. So that what happens is air comes through, and then it actually goes directly to the windpipe.

Now why would you want to do this? If someone's having problems breathing, this in some ways just lets the air come in. And if there's an obstruction above that tube, you bypass that obstruction.

Now, it's not entirely clear what the obstruction is. But at a press conference that the Vatican held this morning, they said that the pope had a laryngeal stenosis, a stenosis of the larynx, which in layman's terms is a narrowing of the voice box. And when that happens, it can be very difficult for someone to breathe. There are spasms. And they talked about it at this press conference.

Now, why would the pope have this problem? That also is unclear. It could be caused, for example, if there's some infection in that area. That could cause the narrowing of the windpipe. It could also be if the tracheotomy had been in there before, sometimes that happens if that tube had -- I'm sorry, if the trache tube had been in there, that could cause the problem. So there are a variety of things. We don't know the answers to that.

What we do know is that he is not allowed to talk at this time. We also know, as you said, that he has an appetite. We were told that this morning he drank some cafe latte and he also had some yogurt and ten small biscuits -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: That's not a bad thing to eat. Now of course, his Parkinson's Disease, we talked about this yesterday, Elizabeth, has definitely affected his overall health?

COHEN: That's right. People think of Parkinson's and they think of sort of jerking arms or jerking legs. But in fact, it's much more than that. It's really an inability to control your muscles to a greater or lesser extent, depending upon how advanced the disease is.

And in the advanced stages it can weaken the muscles that control breathing and it can also weaken the muscles that expel fluid from the lungs. And so that, in and of itself, can cause breathing problems. You put on top of that the flu. You put on top of that a frail man, you know, 84 years old. That can lead to problems.

PHILLIPS: Let's talk about that for a minute. Considering he's 84 years old. He got the flu. I was even reading that his doctors didn't want him to go back to work the first time he got sick, but he wanted to and insisted on doing so. So I guess it's really not surprising that he had a relapse.

COHEN: Well, it's not surprising for many reasons, one of which is that people that age who have the flu, it's not unusual for them to have a relapse of the flu in a relatively short period of time. That happens. And what doctors look out for is they look out for not just the flu, but a secondary infection, a bacterial infection. The flu is a virus. A bacterial infection on top of the flu such as pneumonia.

The Vatican spokesman said today that he did not have pneumonia. But they're looking for that type of infection and looking to fight that type of infection. That's really what you worry about in a man his age.

PHILLIPS: Elizabeth Cohen, our medical correspondent, with the post-op on the pope. Thanks so much -- Tony.

HARRIS: Another roadside bombing, more dead Americans, another big arrest, and a crucial endorsement or, should I say, blessing in the campaign to head the new government. Those are headlines out of Iraq this hour.

And CNN's Nic Robertson has the stories.

NIC ROBERTSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The attack on the U.S. military convoy coming around the middle of the day, about 20 miles, 35 kilometers north of Baghdad. Three soldiers killed and nine wounded by that roadside bomb.

Officials here also say that over the last few days they have captured a key lieutenant of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi. Talib al-Dulaymi, they say, was captured close to the Syrian border, about 60 kilometers, 35 miles from the Syria border, northwest of Baghdad.

They say that he was a key interlocutor with Abu Musab al- Zarqawi, that he controlled transportation, housing, getting packages to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, delivering money. They say all the people who came close to getting in contact with Zarqawi, it had to be arranged through this man. When they were going to meet him, how they were going to meet him, the location that it would all happen in.

They say that he was very important in the structure of Abu Musab al Zarqawi's network.

However, some government officials here do say -- do caution against reading too much into this particular arrest. They say while it's important, it doesn't necessarily mean that Zarqawi's arrest may be immediately around the corner.

Also through the day, a journalist working for the Arabic language Al-Hura station, funded by the United States, was gunned down in his car south of Baghdad. He survived the attack. But his driver was killed immediately in that shooting. Apparently, three insurgents drove close to their vehicle and fired their weapons right at the car from close range.

We've also been told that Ibrahim al-Jaafari, who is the lead contender for the prime minister's job in the new interim government, went to see the top Shia cleric in Iraq today, Grand Ayatollah Ali al- Sistani. We're told that in that meeting they discussed bringing the largely marginalized, or politically marginalized, at least, Sunni community, trying to get them into the political process.

Many of the Sunnis boycotted the elections or stayed away. Fear of intimidations kept a lot of them away. Apparently, the religious leader and the new prime contender for the prime minister's job discussing how to get them back involved in the political process.

Nic Robertson, CNN, Baghdad.

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PHILLIPS: Well, a man who needs a new kidney finds a willing donor. But medical officials won't allow the donation because of a web site. We've got the rest of the story ahead on LIVE FROM.

Too much information. How can you keep your personal data private? We're going to talk about it.

And hey, waiter, there's a fly in my soup. And that may be the least of your problems. What you need to know about your waiter before you go out to dinner. Serving it up, right ahead on LIVE FROM.

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HARRIS: Kathleen, thank you.

All right. Here's the question: who's holding the keys to your identity. And how do you make sure they don't want up in the wrong hands?

Plus, as the Academy Awards approach, our next guests are also showing symptoms, I'm told, of Oscar fever.

But unlike -- oh, that is that. I like those...

DARIA DOLAN, CO-HOST, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED": Darling, how are you?

HARRIS: Oh, my. Daria, you look lovely. Ken, you look like Ken with sunglasses.

D. DOLAN: That's what happens when you go to Hollywood if a couple of days.

HARRIS: Your futures are so bright you need those shades. Isn't that a wonderful song, there?

D. DOLAN: That was a good one. HARRIS: How is that?

D. DOLAN: Yes.

HARRIS: So you're just back from Hollywood.

KEN DOLAN, CO-HOST, "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED": Yes, we did. We'll talk in a second about that, Tony.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: We'll get to something a little more serious. We did a very different Hollywood thing we'll tell you about.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: But a real bad problem, Tony, and you've seen it -- you've seen it yourself. We have a personal story. And that is identity theft is totally out of control. And as late as usual, however, the Senate is now going to have -- let's have a hearing!

D. DOLAN: No, but at least the good news on this is they are going to investigate these companies that mine personal data. I mean, you look at a company like ChoicePoint. Authorities out in California are now saying more than a half a million people...

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: ... might have been adversely affected by their selling information to companies that were not truly companies that should have a right to this.

So the federal government, through Congress, is now going to investigate putting some sort of legislation in place, which is very much needed, considering we still use our Social Security numbers as our identity and our being.

HARRIS: Yes.

K. DOLAN: You know, Tony, we've got to do something other than Social Security number as our national identifier.

HARRIS: Right.

K. DOLAN: Because once identity theft-ers get past the personal information, which is kind of easy to get out of your trash can and stuff, then they get the Social Security number. You're dead. It's happened -- it's happened to us, and we're going to pass it along.

HARRIS: I've got to tell you. I pulled up the site. And here's the description of ChoicePoint, the company description?

K. DOLAN: Yes.

HARRIS: It says ChoicePoint provides risk management and fraud prevention information. Fraud prevention information. K. DOLAN: Yikes.

HARRIS: Hello.

K. DOLAN: Hello there.

HARRIS: OK. So you're going to take that on a little bit over the weekend, as well. Right?

D. DOLAN: We definitely are.

HARRIS: Good.

K. DOLAN: Talk about the problem, Tony. We're going to try to talk the solution. There's no solution to protecting yourself 100 percent.

HARRIS: Right.

K. DOLAN: But we'll see if we can minimize the odds.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: Speaking of the odds, when we went to Hollywood this past -- this past few days, we don't care what people are going to wear at the ceremonies, Tony. We wanted to talk about the movie business and where it's going. And we've got some good stuff to talk about.

HARRIS: Well, what did you get?

D. DOLAN: Well, in fact, we were able to sit down and talk with Dan Glickman, who is the new head of the Motion Picture Association of America.

HARRIS: Taking over for Jack Valenti.

D. DOLAN: Exactly.

K. DOLAN: Exactly right, Tony.

D. DOLAN: Interestingly enough, not quite taking over in every respect. We'll talk about the ratings situation, which Jack developed and still has a hold on right now.

HARRIS: Right.

D. DOLAN: But the big issue for Hollywood through the MPAA is the downloading and piracy of movies online...

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: ... and from sitting in the movie theater with a video camera and bootlegging them.

HARRIS: Right. Right. D. DOLAN: They're now saying that in 2004 they lost about $3.5 billion. And as Dan Glickman points out in our interview, it is theft. Unfortunately, for most Americans, they see the big buck salaries that the stars make...

HARRIS: Right.

D. DOLAN: ... and forget that that hurts the little guys that do the catering on the sets and the makeup and things of that nature.

HARRIS: So Daria, what's part -- what is the solution? Is it new technology to prevent it? Is it -- is it legislation? What's the answer here?

K. DOLAN: Honesty.

D. DOLAN: Well, right now the MPAA is doing what the RIA, the radio -- Recording Industry of America didn't do fast enough, and that is lawsuits.

HARRIS: I see. I see.

K. DOLAN: So we'll talk about that moral and ethical issue, Tony. And I know an awful lot of people, and I talked to Dan Glickman. You've got to watch, Tony. That is how upset can we get, as Daria said, on fat cat Hollywood people worrying that somebody is downloading a little movie someplace.

HARRIS: Well, you know what's interesting about that is when you look at this crop of films, and Daria was talking about this a little earlier today, when you look at this crop of movies that are nominated in the Best Picture categories, one of the big prestige categories...

K. DOLAN: Yes. Yes.

HARRIS: ... this crop of films has made less money than films in this category over years past. Correct?

K. DOLAN: Great point, Tony.

D. DOLAN: Well, you know, it's sort of like open an envelope or open their veins on Sunday evening. When you look at the topics that were big, almost alcoholism...

HARRIS: Yes.

D. DOLAN: ... assisted suicide. And all the things...

K. DOLAN: Drugs.

D. DOLAN: ... that Hollywood liked is really a downer for the rest of us in America. So they're off 41 percent with the nominated pictures, gross, year to date where they would have been about 41 percent ahead of last year.

K. DOLAN: Tony... HARRIS: Yes, Ken?

K. DOLAN: ... where the heck is -- where's Fred Astaire when you need him?

HARRIS: When you need him. All right. To pump up some box office. I've got to tell you. You've got an -- you've got an airline horror story you're going to share with folks tomorrow, as well.

K. DOLAN: I'm not even going to tell you anything.

HARRIS: OK.

K. DOLAN: Because I start crying. The crew had to console me. So I'm going to hold it until tomorrow.

HARRIS: Daria, will you console him if humanly possible? See you both tomorrow. OK?

D. DOLAN: A little muzzle on him, I think, would work, Tony.

HARRIS: Those topics plus what you need to know about eminent domain. What are your rights when the government says it is going to seize your property? Tomorrow morning on "DOLANS UNSCRIPTED." That's right here on CNN, 10 a.m. Eastern.

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PHILLIPS (voice-over): Next on LIVE FROM, they were born into brothels. But a woman gives them a camera and inspiration. Now, their story is up for an Oscar. We'll talk with the moviemakers about the film and the courageous kids that made it happen.

Later on LIVE FROM...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Open the door now!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Right now!

PHILLIPS: Hot on the trail with fugitive hunters. Just how far will they go to bring in their man or woman?

And later on LIVE FROM: life and death situation. A man needs a kidney. He finds a matching donor, but medical officials won't allow a transplant, all because of a web site.

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PHILLIPS: As part of CNN's 25th anniversary we're updating you on where yesterday's newsmakers are today. And on this edition of "Then and Now," we focus on Scott O'Grady.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) SCOTT O'GRADY, SURVIVED BEING SHOT DOWN: As soon as the missile hit, the only thing I saw is the cockpit disintegrating in front of me.

AARON BROWN, HOST, "NEWSNIGHT": Captain Scott O'Grady spent six days struggling to survive after being shot down in Bosnia in 1985.

O'GRADY: My heart started racing. And then I heard Dasher 1-1 up on the radio.

I'm alive. I'm alive.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Copy that. You're alive.

BROWN: Little did he know those six days would change his life forever.

O'GRADY: I just want to have a normal life and just continue on.

BROWN: O'Grady immediately found himself thrust into the spotlight, recounting his story for millions. And he continues to do so today, 10 years later. He has published two books, "Returned With Honor" and "Basher Five-Two," a children's edition of his story.

After 12 years serving his country, O'Grady is now pursuing a master's at Dallas' Theological Seminary.

O'GRADY: I believe that you shouldn't be ignorant as to what you believe. You should understand why you believe it.

BROWN: Once graduated, Scott O'Grady says he wants to dedicate his life to giving back to both his community and his country.

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HARRIS: In Beirut this week, the high how powered search for the killers of a beloved statesman coincides with an apparent, if partial, concession by Syria to popular demand. We get the latest from CNN senior international correspondent Brent Sadler.

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BRENT SADLER, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Top Irish police officials in Beirut, joining the hunt to track down the killers of Rafik Hariri, blown up in a devastating bomb attack on Valentine's Day, nearly two weeks ago.

Many suspects, but no reliable evidence. The U.N. appointed investigators treading on eggshells.

PETER FITZGERALD, DEPUTY IRISH POLICE COMMISSIONER: I would like to assure everybody that we will work absolutely impartially and professionally in order to fulfill the mandate.

SADLER: A Security Council mandate to discover the circumstances, causes and consequences of the murder.

Growing international pressure on Syria, Lebanon's main power broker, seems to have forced an urgent rethink in Damascus. Syria's remaining 15,000 soldiers in Lebanon now on the verge, say security officials here, of a major redeployment, much larger than before, but staying inside Lebanon, close to the Syrian border, falling short of U.N. demands.

(on camera) Demands to identify the assassins of Rafik Hariri have reached global dimension. But the killing is now much more than a murder mystery. It's turned into the focal point of anti--Syrian protests sweeping the country.

(voice-over) Opening a Pandora's box of boiling dissent. It's political, led by opposition parties, trying to uproot Syria influence here.

And personal. Relatives of missing Lebanese allegedly held captive in Syria join a protest rally, carrying photos of people they say were picked up in Lebanon by Syrian security forces, suspected, it's thought, of spying for Israel. Many of them imprisoned without trial, it's claimed, decades ago. Fifteen years of muted protest, until now.

GHAZI AAD, ASSOCIATION FOR LEBANESE IN SYRIA: The uprising is very crucial for us because we used to live under -- under an atmosphere of fear. Nobody was able to talk. Now everybody is talking.

SADLER: And worrying, regardless of loyalties, what might happen next.

Brent Sadler, CNN, Beirut.

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