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Aired April 06, 2005 - 13:29   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.


(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CHRIS HUNTINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Call it the pump and grind, your teeth, that is. According to the Department of Energy, the national average price for unleaded regular gasoline is now $2.22 a gallon, an all-time high. And that tab is almost certain to move high over the next month, as the record prices set this week in the wholesale gasoline market filter down to a station near you.

The biggest factor is that American drivers show no sign of changing the way they drive. Demand for gasoline this summer is projected to increase even more than it did last year.

EVARISTO STANZIALE, OIL AND GAS TRADER: No one's really going to change their habits, as far as their driving habits. That extra 25 cents is -- you know, apparently, is not meaningful enough where they're going to all of a sudden say, hey, you know, I'm going to start commuting with three or four of my buddies as I drive into work. You know, the average person wants to be by himself, drinking his cup of coffee.

HUNTINGTON: The cost of crude oil, which accounts for more than half of the retail price of a gallon of gas, has jumped almost 50 percent in the last year, due to sharply-growing demand in the United States, China and India. The big concern in the oil market is that growing demand could outpace supply.

GEORGE ORWEL, ENERGY INTELLIGENCE GROUP: Basically, there's a lot of physical crude around, but what is driving the market is not the presence or the availability of physical crude. It is the fear that, in the future, perhaps in the summer, we're not likely to have enough.

BURNS: Energy market analysts point out that U.S. refineries are operating at full tilt. In fact, the United States already imports about 10 percent of the gasoline it uses domestically.

One other factor pushing oil and gas prices higher, the energy markets are now the hottest on Wall Street. And there are a lot of sophisticated investors and brokerage firms who in the past might have been in other markets, now betting that supply concerns will drive energy prices even higher.

Chris Huntington, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Mourners, more than a million strong, are waiting as long as 12 hours to file past the body of Pope John Paul II as he lies in state in St. Peter's Basilica. Just as the pope faced the rigors of age in recent years, so is the church. It's drawing fewer priests, especially right here in the United States.

But as CNN's Aaron Brown discovered in Rome, some Americans are still answering the call to duty.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BROWN (voice-over): In the tranquility of this special place you can still find young Americans who yearn to become priests.

BRYAN BABICK, CHARLESTON, S.C., SEMINARY STUDENT: To be able to act in the person of Christ will be for the faithful and their good something that I think I will treasure my entire life, God please, as a priest.

BROWN: They are among a group of 150 Americans who will spend four years studying here before their ordination. And they are well aware of the difficulties they face in an American Catholic Church that has been rocked by scandal.

PETER PURPORA, BROOKLYN, N.Y., SEMINARY STUDENT: In a lot of these issues, yes, they're present for our church. They're an issue that we have to deal with but it also gives us the opportunity to respond to them and, you know, they can stay the way they are or a new guy is going to come along and through their work and through their ministry make a difference.

BROWN: And, if they are the future of the Catholic Church in America, many began that journey they say directly because of Pope John Paul II.

PURPORA: In 1995, he came to New York City. I was a freshman in high school and I attended that audience at Aqueduct Race Track and I remember his helicopter flying over the stadium and it was like someone flipped a switch and the electricity came on. In myself, you know, I felt that presence and among the crowd. It was like electricity.

BROWN: But they know as well that the new pope is crucial to where the church is headed.

KILLIPS: There's a possibility for great change but I think it's also an exciting time for the church because John Paul called it this era that we're going through now the new springtime of Christianity.

And, you know, when I think of spring, you think of change. You think of, you know, the death now coming to life. And so, I'm excited about the possibility of change in the church in that I'm excited to see where this new leader is going to take the church because ultimately I have the utmost faith that it's going to be the direction that God wants it to go. BROWN: On one level there is no more uncertain time to enter the priesthood but these young seminarians seem to be on firm foundation today in these days of sorrow. For the future, they say, is something to relish.

PURPORA: Already after two years, I'm very much looking forward to getting back to a parish because I really see the parish as the place where my vocation was formed initially so that's where I relate to my vocation. That's where I relate to my understanding of the priesthood. So, getting back to that will be tremendous.

KILLIPS: I know I'm not perfect. Peter wasn't perfect and yet he's one of our greatest saints and so it tells me that, you know, in spite of my human weakness I have with God's help the ability to become a great saint and that's what I'm called to be. That's what you're called to be. That's what we're all called to be are these great saints.

BABICK: I can't tell you how much I'm excited to do that, to be able to share the sacraments of the church with the faithful, who have a faith that sometimes is weaker than that of others and can be taught the message of salvation. That's an awesome responsibility.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, one of the last foot soldiers of Pope John Paul II is Dan Hanley. The 32-year-old protege from Arlington, Virginia is the future of the church, a church that faces many challenges. Dan Hanley will graduate from the North American Pontifical College in Rome, retaining much of the Pope John Paul's powerful influence over the American church. Is he ready?

Let's go live to Rome and talk with the fourth year seminarian, who will be ordained next month. Dan, thanks for being with us.

DAN HANLEY, PONTIFICAL N. AMERICAN COLLEGE: Thank you, nice to be here.

PHILLIPS: Well, I know you had a chance to spend time with Pope John Paul II and I'm curious if -- what his divine direction was for you? Did he give you specifics on what he wanted you to do as you go on to lead the church?

HANLEY: Well, I wouldn't say that I'm going on to lead the church or that he gave me any specifics. He said "God bless you" and he gave me his blessing.

PHILLIPS: Is that enough when it comes down to meeting with the pope? Is just a "God bless you" OK?

HANLEY: To be honest with you, when I walked in -- you're filled with awe when you're around the pope. But it's a different kind of awe. There's a kind of awe when you're someplace you don't think you should be. But when you're with him, you realize you belong there. You realize he's -- in a way, he's your father, because he has care for you. And so when I was with him and he looked at me -- and he looked at everyone in the room and he really let you know that he knew you were there.

I got to go to a private mass with the Holy Father and then just a brief time to go by and receive his blessing. But in that time, he really looks at you and he knows who you are, he knows what you are, and I know he prays for us and he gave me a blessing. So I would say, "God bless you" and that that small thing personally to me, but in so many ways, his message has inspired me.

PHILLIPS: That's interesting, though, because I would think -- now, I'm not Catholic, I'll tell you that now. But I can remember when I got married and sitting down with my pastor and he told me what he expected from me as a wife and as a mother and as a Christian.

So I guess I just sort of assumed that maybe he would sit down with each one of you and say, look, these are the things that are important, this is what I want you to do. We're facing a lot of challenges in the church. There are possible changes that you're going to face also that need to be tackled. Where does the counseling come from, as you prepare to go on to a church in America as a priest and lead a lot of people?

HANLEY: Well, when you think about how the pope teaches, you just look at the crowd that's out in St. Peter's Square and beyond, walking to see the pope. He preaches to large crowds and he teaches. And in so many ways, he did the same for me. When I read his books, I read his message.

And when he does speak to a crowd, he speaks to a crowd -- even though there may be 1,000, a million people, in front of him he really does speak to us as if he's speaking to each one of us. I think that's a special ability that he had.

And so I would say -- to say there's probably about 3,000 seminarians in Rome. To say that he, along with governing the whole church in the world and being responsible for almost a billion people, that he's also supposed to sit down for 20 minutes with each one of us, actually you can do the math, it's just not really possible to do that.

PHILLIPS: Sure.

HANLEY: But certainly there are so many people that have -- so many priests that have been involved in my life, teaching me, as well.

PHILLIPS: And, you know, we can look at John Paul II's -- just example, the life that he lived. And it's obvious how we should carry on our lives, all of us, no matter what religion or spirituality we take on.

But let me ask you, many American Catholics are saying, I love my church, I love being Catholic, but the church is just not keeping up with modern times. What do you think, as a young seminarian, is the biggest challenge for the Catholic Church? What is going to be your biggest challenge and the church's biggest challenge?

HANLEY: Well, I think -- I think a lot of people, and even some Catholics -- we kind of think of the church -- or Catholics themselves, as people who belong to this big institution with a lot of rules. But we're not. We're people that have a savior, that's Jesus Christ. And the pope is the person who has really shown us who the savior is.

He's shown us who the savior by the way he speaks, but even more importantly, just by the way he lives. I mean, evidence of that, literally, over a million people right now lined up to see the pope. So I think in the future, the challenge to the church, the challenge for me as a priest, is really to communicate that, to meet people where they are, and really communicate that message that Jesus -- of who Jesus Christ is and what his saving message is.

And then all the other things that people talk about surrounding the church, I think they'll make a lot more sense once you begin first with the first step that, yes, we have a God, we have a savior, Jesus Christ. He founded his church and the church is a gift from god. When we understand that, it's a lot easier to understand what the church is teaching.

PHILLIPS: And Dan, I have to ask this, because we've covered it so much and that, of course, is the sex abuse scandal. How do you plan to take that on and to deal with those issues?

HANLEY: Well, I think -- I think I'll be in a good position to do that as a parish priest because really, that's handled, I think, person-to-person and building trust between priests and their people. And just getting to know the people, looking them in the eyes and show them that you love them and why you're there. I think that's the way that the scandal is best healed. It's going to be a great, deep wound that we have, but I think that's the best way to heal it.

PHILLIPS: Dan Hanley, I'm going to sit in within your congregation and listen to you when you do become a priest and I hope we can talk again.

HANLEY: Thank you, God bless you.

PHILLIPS: Dan Hanley, thank you.

LIN: Well, we're talking about the celebration of a different and perhaps more controversial life. While defending a celebrity against allegations of murder, he became a celebrity in his own right. And now family and friends prepare to say a final farewell to Johnnie Cochran. That is straight ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LIN: We've got some news across America now. As we mentioned earlier, the funeral begins shortly for Johnnie Cochran. You're looking at some live pictures that we're bringing in. He was the defense attorney of some of the most famous and, frankly, some of the most infamous. And among those attending, the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, as well as several musicians. And Cochran's most famous client O.J. Simpson, is there right now, as well as Michael Jackson. Johnnie Cochran died last week of a brain tumor. And legal wheels turning around Eric Robert Rudolph, the man suspected, among other violent acts, of bombing an Alabama abortion clinic. Jury selection began this morning and testimony in the murder trial is expected to start in June.

PHILLIPS: Our coverage of the case against Eric Robert Rudolph always triggers plenty of feedback from you, the viewer, and plenty of hits on the CNN Web site. Veronica De La Cruz has a brief tour of the special Internet resources that we've arranged for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN.COM CORRESPONDENT: Jury selection begins today for the man charged with the bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic. At cnn.com/rudolph, we take a closer look at the case against Eric Robert Rudolph.

It's been more than seven years since the bomb, hidden beneath a shrub, exploded at a woman's clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing an off-duty police officer and injuring a nurse. Four months later, Eric Rudolph was added to the FBI's ten most wanted fugitive list.

Cnn.com chronicles the major events in Rudolph's life, from his birth in Florida in 1966, to the bombings in the 1990s he's suspected of orchestrating, including one during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. This gallery shows images from the crime scenes. An explosion went off in a crowd of people in Centennial Olympic Park here in Atlanta, killing one woman and injuring more than a hundred hours.

This abortion clinic was damaged in January 1997, when two bombs went off an hour apart. The following month, four people were injured when a bomb exploded at a lesbian night club in Atlanta. All these crimes occur in the southeastern part of the United States. You can track their exact locations and the exactly location where Eric Rudolph was arrested with this interactive map.

Again, you can find our special report on Eric Rudolph at cnn.com/rudolph.

I'm Veronica De La Cruz.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: She's a three-time Olympian who captivated audiences with her talent and limitless energy. As part of CNN's anniversary series "Then & Now," we look back at gymnast Dominique Dawes, her achievements and where she is today.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Dominique Dawes tumbled into the spotlight during the 1996 Olympics as part of the Magnificent Seven gold-medal winning gymnastic teams. "Awesome Dawson" became the first African-American to win an individual gymnastics medal, with the bronze in the floor exercise.

DOMINIQUE DAWES, GYMNAST: It just meant a lot to do it for the country, my team and myself.

HEMMER: After the games in Atlanta, Dawes turned heads on Broadway, dabbled in acting and modeling, and cartwheeled her way through a Prince music video.

She hung up her leotard in 1998 and started class at the University of Maryland, but soon realized that gymnastics was not quite out of her system. Dawes participated in her third Olympic Games in 2000, in what she calls a once in a lifetime experience.

Dawes is now 28, is completely retired from gymnastics, and splits her time between coaching and motivational speaking.

DAWES: It's really going out there and teaching young girls what being fit is all about.

HEMMER: She's also president of the Women's Sports foundation, and has recently launched a new project called Go Girl, Go.

DAWES: I feel like I do have to inspire and empower others, and that's why, you know, I've found these different platforms, these different venues that I feel like I've been able to touch lives in.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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Aired April 6, 2005 - 13:29   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
CHRIS HUNTINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Call it the pump and grind, your teeth, that is. According to the Department of Energy, the national average price for unleaded regular gasoline is now $2.22 a gallon, an all-time high. And that tab is almost certain to move high over the next month, as the record prices set this week in the wholesale gasoline market filter down to a station near you.

The biggest factor is that American drivers show no sign of changing the way they drive. Demand for gasoline this summer is projected to increase even more than it did last year.

EVARISTO STANZIALE, OIL AND GAS TRADER: No one's really going to change their habits, as far as their driving habits. That extra 25 cents is -- you know, apparently, is not meaningful enough where they're going to all of a sudden say, hey, you know, I'm going to start commuting with three or four of my buddies as I drive into work. You know, the average person wants to be by himself, drinking his cup of coffee.

HUNTINGTON: The cost of crude oil, which accounts for more than half of the retail price of a gallon of gas, has jumped almost 50 percent in the last year, due to sharply-growing demand in the United States, China and India. The big concern in the oil market is that growing demand could outpace supply.

GEORGE ORWEL, ENERGY INTELLIGENCE GROUP: Basically, there's a lot of physical crude around, but what is driving the market is not the presence or the availability of physical crude. It is the fear that, in the future, perhaps in the summer, we're not likely to have enough.

BURNS: Energy market analysts point out that U.S. refineries are operating at full tilt. In fact, the United States already imports about 10 percent of the gasoline it uses domestically.

One other factor pushing oil and gas prices higher, the energy markets are now the hottest on Wall Street. And there are a lot of sophisticated investors and brokerage firms who in the past might have been in other markets, now betting that supply concerns will drive energy prices even higher.

Chris Huntington, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Mourners, more than a million strong, are waiting as long as 12 hours to file past the body of Pope John Paul II as he lies in state in St. Peter's Basilica. Just as the pope faced the rigors of age in recent years, so is the church. It's drawing fewer priests, especially right here in the United States.

But as CNN's Aaron Brown discovered in Rome, some Americans are still answering the call to duty.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BROWN (voice-over): In the tranquility of this special place you can still find young Americans who yearn to become priests.

BRYAN BABICK, CHARLESTON, S.C., SEMINARY STUDENT: To be able to act in the person of Christ will be for the faithful and their good something that I think I will treasure my entire life, God please, as a priest.

BROWN: They are among a group of 150 Americans who will spend four years studying here before their ordination. And they are well aware of the difficulties they face in an American Catholic Church that has been rocked by scandal.

PETER PURPORA, BROOKLYN, N.Y., SEMINARY STUDENT: In a lot of these issues, yes, they're present for our church. They're an issue that we have to deal with but it also gives us the opportunity to respond to them and, you know, they can stay the way they are or a new guy is going to come along and through their work and through their ministry make a difference.

BROWN: And, if they are the future of the Catholic Church in America, many began that journey they say directly because of Pope John Paul II.

PURPORA: In 1995, he came to New York City. I was a freshman in high school and I attended that audience at Aqueduct Race Track and I remember his helicopter flying over the stadium and it was like someone flipped a switch and the electricity came on. In myself, you know, I felt that presence and among the crowd. It was like electricity.

BROWN: But they know as well that the new pope is crucial to where the church is headed.

KILLIPS: There's a possibility for great change but I think it's also an exciting time for the church because John Paul called it this era that we're going through now the new springtime of Christianity.

And, you know, when I think of spring, you think of change. You think of, you know, the death now coming to life. And so, I'm excited about the possibility of change in the church in that I'm excited to see where this new leader is going to take the church because ultimately I have the utmost faith that it's going to be the direction that God wants it to go. BROWN: On one level there is no more uncertain time to enter the priesthood but these young seminarians seem to be on firm foundation today in these days of sorrow. For the future, they say, is something to relish.

PURPORA: Already after two years, I'm very much looking forward to getting back to a parish because I really see the parish as the place where my vocation was formed initially so that's where I relate to my vocation. That's where I relate to my understanding of the priesthood. So, getting back to that will be tremendous.

KILLIPS: I know I'm not perfect. Peter wasn't perfect and yet he's one of our greatest saints and so it tells me that, you know, in spite of my human weakness I have with God's help the ability to become a great saint and that's what I'm called to be. That's what you're called to be. That's what we're all called to be are these great saints.

BABICK: I can't tell you how much I'm excited to do that, to be able to share the sacraments of the church with the faithful, who have a faith that sometimes is weaker than that of others and can be taught the message of salvation. That's an awesome responsibility.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, one of the last foot soldiers of Pope John Paul II is Dan Hanley. The 32-year-old protege from Arlington, Virginia is the future of the church, a church that faces many challenges. Dan Hanley will graduate from the North American Pontifical College in Rome, retaining much of the Pope John Paul's powerful influence over the American church. Is he ready?

Let's go live to Rome and talk with the fourth year seminarian, who will be ordained next month. Dan, thanks for being with us.

DAN HANLEY, PONTIFICAL N. AMERICAN COLLEGE: Thank you, nice to be here.

PHILLIPS: Well, I know you had a chance to spend time with Pope John Paul II and I'm curious if -- what his divine direction was for you? Did he give you specifics on what he wanted you to do as you go on to lead the church?

HANLEY: Well, I wouldn't say that I'm going on to lead the church or that he gave me any specifics. He said "God bless you" and he gave me his blessing.

PHILLIPS: Is that enough when it comes down to meeting with the pope? Is just a "God bless you" OK?

HANLEY: To be honest with you, when I walked in -- you're filled with awe when you're around the pope. But it's a different kind of awe. There's a kind of awe when you're someplace you don't think you should be. But when you're with him, you realize you belong there. You realize he's -- in a way, he's your father, because he has care for you. And so when I was with him and he looked at me -- and he looked at everyone in the room and he really let you know that he knew you were there.

I got to go to a private mass with the Holy Father and then just a brief time to go by and receive his blessing. But in that time, he really looks at you and he knows who you are, he knows what you are, and I know he prays for us and he gave me a blessing. So I would say, "God bless you" and that that small thing personally to me, but in so many ways, his message has inspired me.

PHILLIPS: That's interesting, though, because I would think -- now, I'm not Catholic, I'll tell you that now. But I can remember when I got married and sitting down with my pastor and he told me what he expected from me as a wife and as a mother and as a Christian.

So I guess I just sort of assumed that maybe he would sit down with each one of you and say, look, these are the things that are important, this is what I want you to do. We're facing a lot of challenges in the church. There are possible changes that you're going to face also that need to be tackled. Where does the counseling come from, as you prepare to go on to a church in America as a priest and lead a lot of people?

HANLEY: Well, when you think about how the pope teaches, you just look at the crowd that's out in St. Peter's Square and beyond, walking to see the pope. He preaches to large crowds and he teaches. And in so many ways, he did the same for me. When I read his books, I read his message.

And when he does speak to a crowd, he speaks to a crowd -- even though there may be 1,000, a million people, in front of him he really does speak to us as if he's speaking to each one of us. I think that's a special ability that he had.

And so I would say -- to say there's probably about 3,000 seminarians in Rome. To say that he, along with governing the whole church in the world and being responsible for almost a billion people, that he's also supposed to sit down for 20 minutes with each one of us, actually you can do the math, it's just not really possible to do that.

PHILLIPS: Sure.

HANLEY: But certainly there are so many people that have -- so many priests that have been involved in my life, teaching me, as well.

PHILLIPS: And, you know, we can look at John Paul II's -- just example, the life that he lived. And it's obvious how we should carry on our lives, all of us, no matter what religion or spirituality we take on.

But let me ask you, many American Catholics are saying, I love my church, I love being Catholic, but the church is just not keeping up with modern times. What do you think, as a young seminarian, is the biggest challenge for the Catholic Church? What is going to be your biggest challenge and the church's biggest challenge?

HANLEY: Well, I think -- I think a lot of people, and even some Catholics -- we kind of think of the church -- or Catholics themselves, as people who belong to this big institution with a lot of rules. But we're not. We're people that have a savior, that's Jesus Christ. And the pope is the person who has really shown us who the savior is.

He's shown us who the savior by the way he speaks, but even more importantly, just by the way he lives. I mean, evidence of that, literally, over a million people right now lined up to see the pope. So I think in the future, the challenge to the church, the challenge for me as a priest, is really to communicate that, to meet people where they are, and really communicate that message that Jesus -- of who Jesus Christ is and what his saving message is.

And then all the other things that people talk about surrounding the church, I think they'll make a lot more sense once you begin first with the first step that, yes, we have a God, we have a savior, Jesus Christ. He founded his church and the church is a gift from god. When we understand that, it's a lot easier to understand what the church is teaching.

PHILLIPS: And Dan, I have to ask this, because we've covered it so much and that, of course, is the sex abuse scandal. How do you plan to take that on and to deal with those issues?

HANLEY: Well, I think -- I think I'll be in a good position to do that as a parish priest because really, that's handled, I think, person-to-person and building trust between priests and their people. And just getting to know the people, looking them in the eyes and show them that you love them and why you're there. I think that's the way that the scandal is best healed. It's going to be a great, deep wound that we have, but I think that's the best way to heal it.

PHILLIPS: Dan Hanley, I'm going to sit in within your congregation and listen to you when you do become a priest and I hope we can talk again.

HANLEY: Thank you, God bless you.

PHILLIPS: Dan Hanley, thank you.

LIN: Well, we're talking about the celebration of a different and perhaps more controversial life. While defending a celebrity against allegations of murder, he became a celebrity in his own right. And now family and friends prepare to say a final farewell to Johnnie Cochran. That is straight ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LIN: We've got some news across America now. As we mentioned earlier, the funeral begins shortly for Johnnie Cochran. You're looking at some live pictures that we're bringing in. He was the defense attorney of some of the most famous and, frankly, some of the most infamous. And among those attending, the Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton, as well as several musicians. And Cochran's most famous client O.J. Simpson, is there right now, as well as Michael Jackson. Johnnie Cochran died last week of a brain tumor. And legal wheels turning around Eric Robert Rudolph, the man suspected, among other violent acts, of bombing an Alabama abortion clinic. Jury selection began this morning and testimony in the murder trial is expected to start in June.

PHILLIPS: Our coverage of the case against Eric Robert Rudolph always triggers plenty of feedback from you, the viewer, and plenty of hits on the CNN Web site. Veronica De La Cruz has a brief tour of the special Internet resources that we've arranged for you.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN.COM CORRESPONDENT: Jury selection begins today for the man charged with the bombing of an Alabama abortion clinic. At cnn.com/rudolph, we take a closer look at the case against Eric Robert Rudolph.

It's been more than seven years since the bomb, hidden beneath a shrub, exploded at a woman's clinic in Birmingham, Alabama, killing an off-duty police officer and injuring a nurse. Four months later, Eric Rudolph was added to the FBI's ten most wanted fugitive list.

Cnn.com chronicles the major events in Rudolph's life, from his birth in Florida in 1966, to the bombings in the 1990s he's suspected of orchestrating, including one during the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. This gallery shows images from the crime scenes. An explosion went off in a crowd of people in Centennial Olympic Park here in Atlanta, killing one woman and injuring more than a hundred hours.

This abortion clinic was damaged in January 1997, when two bombs went off an hour apart. The following month, four people were injured when a bomb exploded at a lesbian night club in Atlanta. All these crimes occur in the southeastern part of the United States. You can track their exact locations and the exactly location where Eric Rudolph was arrested with this interactive map.

Again, you can find our special report on Eric Rudolph at cnn.com/rudolph.

I'm Veronica De La Cruz.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: She's a three-time Olympian who captivated audiences with her talent and limitless energy. As part of CNN's anniversary series "Then & Now," we look back at gymnast Dominique Dawes, her achievements and where she is today.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Dominique Dawes tumbled into the spotlight during the 1996 Olympics as part of the Magnificent Seven gold-medal winning gymnastic teams. "Awesome Dawson" became the first African-American to win an individual gymnastics medal, with the bronze in the floor exercise.

DOMINIQUE DAWES, GYMNAST: It just meant a lot to do it for the country, my team and myself.

HEMMER: After the games in Atlanta, Dawes turned heads on Broadway, dabbled in acting and modeling, and cartwheeled her way through a Prince music video.

She hung up her leotard in 1998 and started class at the University of Maryland, but soon realized that gymnastics was not quite out of her system. Dawes participated in her third Olympic Games in 2000, in what she calls a once in a lifetime experience.

Dawes is now 28, is completely retired from gymnastics, and splits her time between coaching and motivational speaking.

DAWES: It's really going out there and teaching young girls what being fit is all about.

HEMMER: She's also president of the Women's Sports foundation, and has recently launched a new project called Go Girl, Go.

DAWES: I feel like I do have to inspire and empower others, and that's why, you know, I've found these different platforms, these different venues that I feel like I've been able to touch lives in.

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