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Preparing for the Pope's Funeral; Serial Bomber On Trial

Aired April 06, 2005 - 14:30   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.


(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
PHILLIPS: Live pictures once again. We've been talking about the shuttle. Good news, then we got a little have nerve-wracking news. Now it's good news, again. Evidently -- we were talking about how the shuttle's going to be heading to the launchpad, but then there was a tiny crack that was found in the external tank, and so they sort of halted it for a moment, took it back inside, checked it out. Evidently, they say it's nothing to worry about because of placement and size.

LIN: Right. They described the crack as minuscule on the external tank. But what's significant about this is that this is going to be the first manned mission since the space shuttle Columbia disaster, so those are all these modifications to the space shuttle Discovery.

A real test of whether NASA has learned its lessons about safety and recognition of safety factors, no matter how small or how relatively insignificant. But they actually think that they're going to be able to patch this minuscule crash right on the launchpad at the cape.

PHILLIPS: Thousands of people within two years making this happen. It looks like it's going to happen. And we will this primary mission that will be testing the new safety methods. More LIVE FROM right after this.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Now in the news, the man accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 9-year-old north Florida girl pleads not guilty. John Evander Couey has written a written plea to a first- degree murder charge in the death of Jessica Lunsford. The prosecution plans to seek the death penalty.

White supremacist Matthew Hale gets 40 years in prison for trying to have a federal judge killed. A court in Chicago handed down Hale's sentence today. He was convicted a year ago for soliciting an FBI undercover agent to murder Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow.

Members of Congress are weighing Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko's plea to help his country to help his country stay on a democratic path. Mr. Yushchenko addressed a joint meeting of Congress today, seeking U.S. support for Ukrainian membership in the E.U., the WTO, and NATO. LIN: Well, access to the line for viewing the pope closes in less than two hours, as the Vatican prepares for his funeral on Friday. The pope himself laid out part of the pomp and pageantry to accompany his own funeral, and the Vatican revealed the plans after his death.

CNN's Jim Bittermann reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(GREGORIAN CHANT)

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Reporters were sometimes surprised at the procession and process after the pope died, that it was televised and it happened so quickly. But all of it, the liturgy and chants of the cardinals, the litany of the saints, the prayer said at John Paul's bedside when he died, all was spelled out in two books kept secret since 1998.

The red and green volumes were outlined by the pope and printed in advance, but kept under wraps ready to be delivered to bookstores immediately after the pope's death. They revealed his minute attention to the prayers and songs that will go along with him to the grave, and with his cardinals, to the selection of his successor; the pope's details wishes that carried on beyond his death.

DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN ANALYST: For example, when the coffin will be closed, they have to place a white silk veil over the face of the pope. That will be placed by the masters of ceremonies and the pope's private secretary.

BITTERMANN: The books, along with a set of rules made public in 1996, spell out everything from how the College of Cardinals should dress to where they should sleep during the papal transition. The existence of the two new books only came to light at a news conference, where the Vatican spokesman made it clear the pope's body will be buried at the Vatican, and not be sent to Poland as some had suggested.

JOAQUIN NAVARRO-VALLS, VATICAN SPOKESMAN (through translator): Regarding the burial, I can confirm it will be in the same crypt as the one John XXIII was buried in. John Paul II will be buried under the ground. And that's the end of that.

Jim Bittermann, CNN, Vatican City.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: Well, CNN Vatican analyst Delia Gallagher is contributing editor for the publication "Inside the Vatican" and she has been covering and traveling with the pope for several years. She joins me now from Vatican City.

Delia, when you look at the detail that the pope went into in his death wishes, the silk veil over the face, what the cardinals should wear, is it unusual for a pope to be this specific? DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN ANALYST: Well, Carol, really this is the pope following what is the historical traditional funeral liturgy for popes. So he has taken what Paul VI outlined in terms of liturgy and he has added a few elements, and perhaps even chosen some of the readings. But more than anything, he has followed what is a traditional rite in the Catholic Church, the funeral of popes.

So there was already a book with the funeral rites and then he has added a few of his own touches, such as the white veil, such as the fact that the medals will be buried with him instead of coins. There are a few elements, probably most importantly the readings, to give a message to the people during his funeral -- Carol?

LIN: There's a document described as a will, Delia, that the cardinals got a preview of today, that we will learn I think more about tomorrow. When we talk about a will, we talk about, you know, in a traditional sense, for ordinary people, we talk about the handing down of, you know, material things. What is a will to the pope? What is it that we will learn tomorrow?

GALLAGHER: Well, I think there is probably also a material will, although the pope probably had very few material things. He didn't have a bank account, for example. But there is also talk of a spiritual will, which will be some sort of a message for the people that he wanted to leave. Now let's remember that he wrote his will in 1979. He updated it since then, but he began that one year after he was elected.

So we don't know what to expect. But we assume there will be more of a spiritual message in this will, rather than the sort of leaving behind material things to certain people. At least the part that we will see.

LIN: I mean, a spiritual message in the sense of influencing whoever the next pope might be in the direction of the Catholic Church?

GALLAGHER: Well, I think that there might be some sense of a direction for the future or wishes for the future, but I doubt that he will name anybody. I don't think that would be in line with what we've seen from this pope in the past and I think he recognizes that it will be a new time and a new era and I think that he would leave that decision up to the cardinals that he, himself, put in place.

LIN: Taking a look at some of the pictures that are accompanying the shot that we have of you right now, Delia, it is extraordinary, the number of people who are making their way through St. Peter's Basilica to see -- to pay their respects to the pope. But even in Vatican City and the city of Rome itself, what is it like for you to try to navigate these streets, which is basically your home turf? I mean, how difficult is it to get around and live in Rome today?

GALLAGHER: Well, to be honest, I don't have much of a problem, because I drive a Vespa. So I can get through the crowds rather easily.

LIN: That's the secret.

GALLAGHER: But you're right, traffic at the best of times is chaotic. So you add to that, you know, two million people coming in on buses, and roads closed off. And I actually heard this morning Romans saying, "We're just going to stay at home. We'll stay at home and we'll go visit the pope once he's buried in his tomb. We'll give the pilgrims who are coming from all over the world a chance to see him." Because it really is difficult.

We also have heads of state coming, so that's closing off the roads even more. So it is quite chaotic in terms of traffic and frankly, most people are just arriving on foot, having to walk, you know, twenty minutes or more from where they're left off by their buses, and coming in on foot, because there's just no other way to get here.

LIN: Right. All right. Well, the Vatican has asked that Romans open their homes to people who are coming from around the world. I don't know how many people are going to be planning on doing that, Delia, but any guess?

GALLAGHER: I don't know. Romans are very generous. They might be opening their homes, all right. I would believe that.

LIN: Yes, but really, I mean, you haven't been home much. Lately you've been with us in our extended coverage.

GALLAGHER: My home is entirely available.

LIN: All right, Delia, thank you so much. Delia Gallagher, joining us today -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, the man going down in history as John Paul II grew up in a small town in Poland. There he lived and learned and wrestled with life in ways that would shape him forever. This week, "Life" Books re-released the book that it published in 1999 to commemorate the pope's life. It tells his life story in pictures, many of them rarely seen.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What was a joy, finding out, in doing this book, was about the young man in Poland. John Paul II was born in Wadowice, Poland. Growing up, he was shaped by his parents, who were extremely devout. He was always at the church. But it's interesting, with his Jewish friends, he visited the synagogue. All of this would inform the way he would behave as pope. His outreach to Judaism and other world religions was certainly more pronounced than any other popes.

It's rather odd, perhaps, to put the term "bohemian" with one who would become the pope eventually, but there are pictures in the book that show him to quite a hipster in university. He was in drama, theatricals. I think his earlier love of the arts absolutely translated into his ability to communicate and certainly that informed why they chose him as pope. He was in Poland when the Nazis, with the totalitarian regime -- I just can't imagine anything informed his lust for life and also for protecting life more than seeing Jewish associates and friends disappear in Nazi Poland. That's nothing else than life taken away for religious reasons.

This was not only a large life, but an intrepid life throughout. He was in Poland when the Communists released a pressing regime. At that time, he was an intellectual young priest. He would take the youth groups into the woods and he'd lecture to them about communism and what was wrong with it. And this was true of other like-thinking priests at the time.

We were able to obtain some pictures of his priest friends in this period, some where they're meeting around a dining room table. Basically what that table represents is the intelligencia. It's not anything but a direct line from that dining room table to the solidarity movement and everything the pope wound up doing to help undermine communism.

I think that probably more than any pope, John Paul II experienced life and how that informed every single thing he did during his 26 year tenure is just fascinating.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LIN: More than seven years now since his first alleged attack, accused serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is going on trial. Now, he was the target of one of the biggest man hunts ever through the mountains of North Carolina. Bringing us up-to-date, our Dot.com desk with Veronica De La Cruz.

(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)

PHILLIPS: Oh, yes. Gas prices at an all-time high and likely to go nowhere but up this spring and summer.

LIN: What an optimist. What an optimist.

PHILLIPS: This is just what Gerri Willis told me. I'm just repeating what Gerri Willis told me.

LIN: And it must be the gospel truth, Gerri. Help us out, here. How do we save some money?

GERRI WILLIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is true, they should only go up this summer. That's the bad news. When it comes to soaring gas prices, it's every man or woman for themselves. Well, you might be a regular at Buddy's Self Serve. Buddy could be taking advantage of you by charging 20 cents more a gallon than other stations in the area. So the most important thing to keep in mind -- shop around. To find the best deals on gas in your area, check out gasbuddy.com or gaspricewatch.com.

Another way to save on gas is driving safely. Aggressive driving, rapid acceleration, excessive braking. You know these people. It wastes gas. You can increase your gas mileage by as much as a third by driving safely. Another tip -- stick to the speed limit for better fuel efficiency. Gas mileage decreases rapidly at speeds above 60 miles per hour. Also, use your cruise control. It helps you maintain a constant speed which can also save gas.

Another tip -- don't skip the tune-ups. The Department of Energy says that a simple tune-up on your car can improve gas mileage by as much as 4.1 percent. And fixing certain parts of your car can dramatically improve your gas mileage. Finally, get the right grade. You may prefer premium coffee, ice cream, caviar, but let's be honest, does your car really need the royal treatment? Triple A says the average gallon of premium unleaded gas costs 10 percent more than a regular gallon of gas. So check your owner's guide. Most cars don't even need premium gas -- Carol.

LIN: All right, you're already saving on your tips. That's number four, where's number five?

WILLIS: Well, if you want to save even more on gas, think about lightening up. Get the judge out of your trunk. PHILLIPS: Oh, no. Forget it. I can't drive aggressively and I got to get my junk out of the trunk.

LIN: Yes, ain't going to happen.

WILLIS: This is the no fun list of tips. But if you do get the junk out of your trunk, you save two percent on your gas. It's a little bit, but could add up.

LIN: Or you could lose 10 pounds. I think I'd rather go on a diet.

WILLIS: This is the harsh love segment, you know.

LIN: Thanks, Gerri.

WILLIS: You're welcome.

PHILLIPS: California Reds are making a lot of green. The U.S. has developed a big taste for wine.

LIN: Kathleen Hays now, live from New York. This we can talk about with a little pleasure -- Kathleen.

KATHLEEN HAYS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Well, you know, we're having to suffer from high gas prices, it makes us reach for the wine. I don't know, Carol and Kyra. But you know, maybe it's the economy, maybe it's a result of that movie "Sideways." Whatever the reason, California wineries are seeing quite a pick-up in business, shipping a record 428 million gallons of wine to the domestic market last year. That's about $15 billion worth of wine.

And in case you're wondering what we're drinking, super value wine such as "Two Buck Chuck" continued to sell well. That made up 12 percent of California's table wine shipments within the state. And according to A.C. Nielsen, consumers now have a slight preference for red over white. So, Carol, Kyra -- what are you two? Are you white folks, red folks, you know?

PHILLIPS: Red. I'm more red.

LIN: I'm a tee-totaller, but my friend Dickie Kostap (ph) would be horrified at "Two Buck Chuck."

PHILLIPS: Now what about beer sales? They're not slipping in my Irish household, but I guess they are otherwise?

HAYS: I thought you were going to say in my household.

PHILLIPS: I did. Oh, your -- you know what, I should know better. I'm not going to set you up like that, Kathleen.

HAYS: It's OK. I think our beer sales are actually on track at home, but that's not what Anheuser-Busch is saying about all of its Budweiser sales, for example. The company has previously noted the sales have been hurt by low-carb dieters who have turned away from beer in favor of wine -- we were just talking about that -- or other drinks. The brewer plans to increase its marketing and new product and packaging efforts, which could mean more of those cute, wacky beer commercials on TV. Anheuser Busch's stock symbol, BUD, is down four percent today.

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Aired April 6, 2005 - 14:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
PHILLIPS: Live pictures once again. We've been talking about the shuttle. Good news, then we got a little have nerve-wracking news. Now it's good news, again. Evidently -- we were talking about how the shuttle's going to be heading to the launchpad, but then there was a tiny crack that was found in the external tank, and so they sort of halted it for a moment, took it back inside, checked it out. Evidently, they say it's nothing to worry about because of placement and size.

LIN: Right. They described the crack as minuscule on the external tank. But what's significant about this is that this is going to be the first manned mission since the space shuttle Columbia disaster, so those are all these modifications to the space shuttle Discovery.

A real test of whether NASA has learned its lessons about safety and recognition of safety factors, no matter how small or how relatively insignificant. But they actually think that they're going to be able to patch this minuscule crash right on the launchpad at the cape.

PHILLIPS: Thousands of people within two years making this happen. It looks like it's going to happen. And we will this primary mission that will be testing the new safety methods. More LIVE FROM right after this.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

PHILLIPS: Now in the news, the man accused of sexually assaulting and killing a 9-year-old north Florida girl pleads not guilty. John Evander Couey has written a written plea to a first- degree murder charge in the death of Jessica Lunsford. The prosecution plans to seek the death penalty.

White supremacist Matthew Hale gets 40 years in prison for trying to have a federal judge killed. A court in Chicago handed down Hale's sentence today. He was convicted a year ago for soliciting an FBI undercover agent to murder Judge Joan Humphrey Lefkow.

Members of Congress are weighing Ukrainian president Viktor Yushchenko's plea to help his country to help his country stay on a democratic path. Mr. Yushchenko addressed a joint meeting of Congress today, seeking U.S. support for Ukrainian membership in the E.U., the WTO, and NATO. LIN: Well, access to the line for viewing the pope closes in less than two hours, as the Vatican prepares for his funeral on Friday. The pope himself laid out part of the pomp and pageantry to accompany his own funeral, and the Vatican revealed the plans after his death.

CNN's Jim Bittermann reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

(GREGORIAN CHANT)

JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Reporters were sometimes surprised at the procession and process after the pope died, that it was televised and it happened so quickly. But all of it, the liturgy and chants of the cardinals, the litany of the saints, the prayer said at John Paul's bedside when he died, all was spelled out in two books kept secret since 1998.

The red and green volumes were outlined by the pope and printed in advance, but kept under wraps ready to be delivered to bookstores immediately after the pope's death. They revealed his minute attention to the prayers and songs that will go along with him to the grave, and with his cardinals, to the selection of his successor; the pope's details wishes that carried on beyond his death.

DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN ANALYST: For example, when the coffin will be closed, they have to place a white silk veil over the face of the pope. That will be placed by the masters of ceremonies and the pope's private secretary.

BITTERMANN: The books, along with a set of rules made public in 1996, spell out everything from how the College of Cardinals should dress to where they should sleep during the papal transition. The existence of the two new books only came to light at a news conference, where the Vatican spokesman made it clear the pope's body will be buried at the Vatican, and not be sent to Poland as some had suggested.

JOAQUIN NAVARRO-VALLS, VATICAN SPOKESMAN (through translator): Regarding the burial, I can confirm it will be in the same crypt as the one John XXIII was buried in. John Paul II will be buried under the ground. And that's the end of that.

Jim Bittermann, CNN, Vatican City.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: Well, CNN Vatican analyst Delia Gallagher is contributing editor for the publication "Inside the Vatican" and she has been covering and traveling with the pope for several years. She joins me now from Vatican City.

Delia, when you look at the detail that the pope went into in his death wishes, the silk veil over the face, what the cardinals should wear, is it unusual for a pope to be this specific? DELIA GALLAGHER, CNN VATICAN ANALYST: Well, Carol, really this is the pope following what is the historical traditional funeral liturgy for popes. So he has taken what Paul VI outlined in terms of liturgy and he has added a few elements, and perhaps even chosen some of the readings. But more than anything, he has followed what is a traditional rite in the Catholic Church, the funeral of popes.

So there was already a book with the funeral rites and then he has added a few of his own touches, such as the white veil, such as the fact that the medals will be buried with him instead of coins. There are a few elements, probably most importantly the readings, to give a message to the people during his funeral -- Carol?

LIN: There's a document described as a will, Delia, that the cardinals got a preview of today, that we will learn I think more about tomorrow. When we talk about a will, we talk about, you know, in a traditional sense, for ordinary people, we talk about the handing down of, you know, material things. What is a will to the pope? What is it that we will learn tomorrow?

GALLAGHER: Well, I think there is probably also a material will, although the pope probably had very few material things. He didn't have a bank account, for example. But there is also talk of a spiritual will, which will be some sort of a message for the people that he wanted to leave. Now let's remember that he wrote his will in 1979. He updated it since then, but he began that one year after he was elected.

So we don't know what to expect. But we assume there will be more of a spiritual message in this will, rather than the sort of leaving behind material things to certain people. At least the part that we will see.

LIN: I mean, a spiritual message in the sense of influencing whoever the next pope might be in the direction of the Catholic Church?

GALLAGHER: Well, I think that there might be some sense of a direction for the future or wishes for the future, but I doubt that he will name anybody. I don't think that would be in line with what we've seen from this pope in the past and I think he recognizes that it will be a new time and a new era and I think that he would leave that decision up to the cardinals that he, himself, put in place.

LIN: Taking a look at some of the pictures that are accompanying the shot that we have of you right now, Delia, it is extraordinary, the number of people who are making their way through St. Peter's Basilica to see -- to pay their respects to the pope. But even in Vatican City and the city of Rome itself, what is it like for you to try to navigate these streets, which is basically your home turf? I mean, how difficult is it to get around and live in Rome today?

GALLAGHER: Well, to be honest, I don't have much of a problem, because I drive a Vespa. So I can get through the crowds rather easily.

LIN: That's the secret.

GALLAGHER: But you're right, traffic at the best of times is chaotic. So you add to that, you know, two million people coming in on buses, and roads closed off. And I actually heard this morning Romans saying, "We're just going to stay at home. We'll stay at home and we'll go visit the pope once he's buried in his tomb. We'll give the pilgrims who are coming from all over the world a chance to see him." Because it really is difficult.

We also have heads of state coming, so that's closing off the roads even more. So it is quite chaotic in terms of traffic and frankly, most people are just arriving on foot, having to walk, you know, twenty minutes or more from where they're left off by their buses, and coming in on foot, because there's just no other way to get here.

LIN: Right. All right. Well, the Vatican has asked that Romans open their homes to people who are coming from around the world. I don't know how many people are going to be planning on doing that, Delia, but any guess?

GALLAGHER: I don't know. Romans are very generous. They might be opening their homes, all right. I would believe that.

LIN: Yes, but really, I mean, you haven't been home much. Lately you've been with us in our extended coverage.

GALLAGHER: My home is entirely available.

LIN: All right, Delia, thank you so much. Delia Gallagher, joining us today -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: Well, the man going down in history as John Paul II grew up in a small town in Poland. There he lived and learned and wrestled with life in ways that would shape him forever. This week, "Life" Books re-released the book that it published in 1999 to commemorate the pope's life. It tells his life story in pictures, many of them rarely seen.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What was a joy, finding out, in doing this book, was about the young man in Poland. John Paul II was born in Wadowice, Poland. Growing up, he was shaped by his parents, who were extremely devout. He was always at the church. But it's interesting, with his Jewish friends, he visited the synagogue. All of this would inform the way he would behave as pope. His outreach to Judaism and other world religions was certainly more pronounced than any other popes.

It's rather odd, perhaps, to put the term "bohemian" with one who would become the pope eventually, but there are pictures in the book that show him to quite a hipster in university. He was in drama, theatricals. I think his earlier love of the arts absolutely translated into his ability to communicate and certainly that informed why they chose him as pope. He was in Poland when the Nazis, with the totalitarian regime -- I just can't imagine anything informed his lust for life and also for protecting life more than seeing Jewish associates and friends disappear in Nazi Poland. That's nothing else than life taken away for religious reasons.

This was not only a large life, but an intrepid life throughout. He was in Poland when the Communists released a pressing regime. At that time, he was an intellectual young priest. He would take the youth groups into the woods and he'd lecture to them about communism and what was wrong with it. And this was true of other like-thinking priests at the time.

We were able to obtain some pictures of his priest friends in this period, some where they're meeting around a dining room table. Basically what that table represents is the intelligencia. It's not anything but a direct line from that dining room table to the solidarity movement and everything the pope wound up doing to help undermine communism.

I think that probably more than any pope, John Paul II experienced life and how that informed every single thing he did during his 26 year tenure is just fascinating.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LIN: More than seven years now since his first alleged attack, accused serial bomber Eric Robert Rudolph is going on trial. Now, he was the target of one of the biggest man hunts ever through the mountains of North Carolina. Bringing us up-to-date, our Dot.com desk with Veronica De La Cruz.

(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)

PHILLIPS: Oh, yes. Gas prices at an all-time high and likely to go nowhere but up this spring and summer.

LIN: What an optimist. What an optimist.

PHILLIPS: This is just what Gerri Willis told me. I'm just repeating what Gerri Willis told me.

LIN: And it must be the gospel truth, Gerri. Help us out, here. How do we save some money?

GERRI WILLIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is true, they should only go up this summer. That's the bad news. When it comes to soaring gas prices, it's every man or woman for themselves. Well, you might be a regular at Buddy's Self Serve. Buddy could be taking advantage of you by charging 20 cents more a gallon than other stations in the area. So the most important thing to keep in mind -- shop around. To find the best deals on gas in your area, check out gasbuddy.com or gaspricewatch.com.

Another way to save on gas is driving safely. Aggressive driving, rapid acceleration, excessive braking. You know these people. It wastes gas. You can increase your gas mileage by as much as a third by driving safely. Another tip -- stick to the speed limit for better fuel efficiency. Gas mileage decreases rapidly at speeds above 60 miles per hour. Also, use your cruise control. It helps you maintain a constant speed which can also save gas.

Another tip -- don't skip the tune-ups. The Department of Energy says that a simple tune-up on your car can improve gas mileage by as much as 4.1 percent. And fixing certain parts of your car can dramatically improve your gas mileage. Finally, get the right grade. You may prefer premium coffee, ice cream, caviar, but let's be honest, does your car really need the royal treatment? Triple A says the average gallon of premium unleaded gas costs 10 percent more than a regular gallon of gas. So check your owner's guide. Most cars don't even need premium gas -- Carol.

LIN: All right, you're already saving on your tips. That's number four, where's number five?

WILLIS: Well, if you want to save even more on gas, think about lightening up. Get the judge out of your trunk. PHILLIPS: Oh, no. Forget it. I can't drive aggressively and I got to get my junk out of the trunk.

LIN: Yes, ain't going to happen.

WILLIS: This is the no fun list of tips. But if you do get the junk out of your trunk, you save two percent on your gas. It's a little bit, but could add up.

LIN: Or you could lose 10 pounds. I think I'd rather go on a diet.

WILLIS: This is the harsh love segment, you know.

LIN: Thanks, Gerri.

WILLIS: You're welcome.

PHILLIPS: California Reds are making a lot of green. The U.S. has developed a big taste for wine.

LIN: Kathleen Hays now, live from New York. This we can talk about with a little pleasure -- Kathleen.

KATHLEEN HAYS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes. Well, you know, we're having to suffer from high gas prices, it makes us reach for the wine. I don't know, Carol and Kyra. But you know, maybe it's the economy, maybe it's a result of that movie "Sideways." Whatever the reason, California wineries are seeing quite a pick-up in business, shipping a record 428 million gallons of wine to the domestic market last year. That's about $15 billion worth of wine.

And in case you're wondering what we're drinking, super value wine such as "Two Buck Chuck" continued to sell well. That made up 12 percent of California's table wine shipments within the state. And according to A.C. Nielsen, consumers now have a slight preference for red over white. So, Carol, Kyra -- what are you two? Are you white folks, red folks, you know?

PHILLIPS: Red. I'm more red.

LIN: I'm a tee-totaller, but my friend Dickie Kostap (ph) would be horrified at "Two Buck Chuck."

PHILLIPS: Now what about beer sales? They're not slipping in my Irish household, but I guess they are otherwise?

HAYS: I thought you were going to say in my household.

PHILLIPS: I did. Oh, your -- you know what, I should know better. I'm not going to set you up like that, Kathleen.

HAYS: It's OK. I think our beer sales are actually on track at home, but that's not what Anheuser-Busch is saying about all of its Budweiser sales, for example. The company has previously noted the sales have been hurt by low-carb dieters who have turned away from beer in favor of wine -- we were just talking about that -- or other drinks. The brewer plans to increase its marketing and new product and packaging efforts, which could mean more of those cute, wacky beer commercials on TV. Anheuser Busch's stock symbol, BUD, is down four percent today.

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