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THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Now in the news, bracing for more wild weather. No one was hurt in this tornado, caught on tape by a storm chaser. Now the same storms are marching southeast. We're tracking the storms throughout the day. We'll have tips for riding out that storm in just a couple of minutes.
John Allen Muhammed will stay on death row in the Washington-area sniper case. Virginia's supreme court today upheld his capital murder convictions. Muhammed is accused of masterminding 10 deadly shootings in 2002. His lawyers argue since Muhammed wasn't the triggerman, the punishment count doesn't fit the crime.
Wendy's say it is thrilled by the arrest of a woman who claimed she found a finger in her bowl of chili. Anna Ayala was taken into custody last night in Las Vegas, reportedly on larceny charges. A police news conference is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. Eastern.
Two insurgent groups are claiming responsibility for yesterday's helicopter crash in Iraq. This video, purportedly of the chopper being shot down, was shown on Al Jazeera. Another video circulating on Islamic Web sites shows a crash survivor being shot. Altogether, 11 people were killed, including six American security contractors.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, the bad weather has even thrown a monkey wrench at the president today. Mr. Bush had planned an Earth Day speech at the great Smoky Mountains National Park this afternoon, but rainstorms and the possibility of tornadoes forced the event to be scratched and the president's remarks moved indoors at the McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville.
Violent storms on the move. What happens if a tornado hits where you are? Here's what the experts say. If you're home, go to the basement or a closet or bathroom, and cover yourself with blankets. If you're somewhere like a school or shopping center, go to the hallway or an interior room, stay away from glass windows. That makes sense. Crouch down and cover your head. Most tornado deaths occur in cars or mobile homes, so if you're in one when a tornado strikes, get out, lie flat, preferably in a ditch if you can and keep your head covered. Click on on to our Web site for more tornado safety advice. That's CNN.com/tornadoes.
Now to help walk us through what's available online, here's Veronica De La Cruz from the CNN.com desk.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Tornadoes have long captured people's imagination and spawned some of their worst fears. How common and how destructive are they? Where do they most often occur? At CNN.com, a special report, tornadoes start as offshoots of thunderstorms, but can be devastating forces in their own right. Carving a path of destruction many miles long and in excess of a mile wide.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: A tornado is basically a violently rotating column of air that extends from the clouds down to the ground. When they touchdown, depending on their size and strength, they can level virtually everything in its path.
And how much do you know when it comes to these violent natural occurrences. This interactive offer possible indicators of whether a tornado is approaching, details the different between a watch and more severe warnings and gives you tips on what you can do if a twister comes your way.
Residents of what's known as Tornado Alley, shown here on this interactive map, stretching across the central U.S., are more likely than most to face this dilemma. Those tornadoes that touch down, some with winds exceeding 250 miles per hour, can inflict significant damage. You can look at the 10 deadliest twisters in the U.S. in this gallery.
Since the 19th century, surveys have included reports of tornadoes moving houses, completely unharmed, feet from their original locations. Which stories are true, and which ones are legends? Click through this interactive gallery for some answers. For example, tornadoes seek out mobile homes. Fact or fiction? Or tornadoes always rotate counterclockwise. You can log on and find out. You can also get your current forecast or sign up from the severe weather alerts.
From the dot-com newsdesk in Atlanta, I'm Veronica De La Cruz.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HARRIS: Look at these skies. It's gotten nasty, Kyra. Severe weather moving through downtown Atlanta right now. Those are pictures from WSB, our affiliate here in Atlanta, thank you very much for those pictures. You can see the watch box there in the lower right-hand corner.
PHILLIPS: Heading toward the airport, so call and check your flights.
HARRIS: Yes, absolutely.
And I think we have a second shot. Negative? OK, all right, we were trying to get a shot of the airport to see what the conditions are like out there.
PHILLIPS: Weather permitting.
HARRIS: Weather permitting. As you can see the weather is not permitting. A bad situation in downtown Atlanta and much of the southeast we're following all afternoon long here on LIVE FROM.
PHILLIPS: Also straight ahead, drug abuse and teenagers, are a growing number of American kids turning to their parents medicine cabinets for a quick high? We're going to have that story when CNN's LIVE FROM continues.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: News affecting your health this hour. The death toll from Asian bird flu up now to 52. Health officials in Vietnam report a woman who died there this week was infected with the bird flu virus. The patient lived in Cambodia, just a few miles from where it's believed other people who also died from the virus contracted it.
Central Africa. Nearly 250 people in Angola are dead from the latest outbreak of a rare and highly contagious virus called Marburg. One small bit of optimism, no new cases recorded over the past two days, but U.N. emergency medical staffers there say the virus is definitely not contained. Marburg causes a fever that kills almost everyone it affects.
HARRIS: Ecstasy, cocaine, crack, L.S.D. They are the drugs today's young people too often experiment with and the tragic results are no secret. But those substances are quickly taking a back seat to easier-to-get drugs that may already be in your home. CNN's senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Adam Stacy (ph) and Val Maroulis were both abusing drugs, but not the kind you'd might expect.
VAL MAROULIS, RECOVERING DRUG ADDICT: I started taking prescription drugs like Xanax, OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocets, all kinds of painkillers.
GUPTA: You heard right, prescription drugs. More and more, today's teenagers are getting their fix from inside the home instead of on the streets.
ROY BOSTOCK, PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG-FREE AMERICA: We could have about 25 percent of a quarter of our teens in this country abusing prescription and OTC drugs. That is a huge number.
GUPTA: The nonprofit organization Partnership for a Drug-Free America surveyed more than 7,300 teenagers. Their findings paint a troubling picture. One in five teens abuses Vicodin, the prescription painkiller. One in ten teens has tried the stimulants Ritalin or Adderall without a doctor's prescription. And one in 11 teens has used over-the-counter cough medicine simply for the purpose of getting high.
It's something Adam's mother is all too familiar with.
STACY HALL, MOTHER OF DRUG ADDICT: It started with the abuse of Robitussin, which led to marijuana and then eventually the prescription drug use.
GUPTA: So why are more kids turning to these drugs?
DR. HERBERT KLEBER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: There's this myth on the street that these are safer drugs than heroin or cocaine because they're prescribed. They're medicinal, they're pure.
GUPTA: And they're easier to get. Val Maroulis didn't have to look far to get his fix.
MAROULIS: Friend's cabinets, their houses. Sometimes my mom, very rarely, just -- you could buy it off people.
GUPTA: Once Stacy Hall recognized her son's problem, she tried to get help to get him clean.
HALL: I had Adam go to an outdoor rehabilitation program for 42 days and I thought he was fixed, and I let my guard down.
GUPTA: But Adam got hooked again.
HALL: Adam died two years ago, on February 17, 2003, from a drug overdose of cocaine, methadone, diazepam and antidepressants.
GUPTA: Yes, diazepam or Valium, and antidepressant, found in a lot of medicine cabinets.
HALL: You just don't think to lock up those medications. At least we didn't then. We do now.
GUPTA (on camera): Now, Stacy and other parents face the daunting task of learning about this growing trend.
KLEBER: You need to know what kind of drugs these adolescents are using, how they're getting hold of them and what you can do to help safeguard that.
GUPTA (voice-over): Val Maroulis has kicked his addictions. He's been clean now for seven months, and he has this to say to other teens.
MAROULIS: Just watch out for the people that you hang out with, you know, to know what drugs are, what they do to you, you know, health risks.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Well, it's quite possibly the most watched piece of ice and its size helps explain why. Up next, a journey to the bottom of the world for an update on a massive iceberg that's been on a dangerous collision course.
And what's wrong with this picture? In the next hour of CNN LIVE FROM...
HARRIS: Everything.
PHILLIPS: Charlie the chimp lighting up. Look at this. He looks like, what's his name? Oh, help me out, the comedian. Oh, it's going to come to me.
HARRIS: OK.
PHILLIPS: OK. We'll be right back. Gleason! He looks like Gleason.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: Well, scientists who study Antarctic icebergs are pretty excited today -- I have to admit, I am, too -- after some satellite images showed something that they've long been expecting, an icy bump at the bottom of the world.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS (voice-over): It doesn't have an impressive name -- B- 15-A -- but it's one of the world's biggest icebergs and a force to be reckoned with. Flashback to 2002: I traveled 14,000 miles to the bottom of the world, Antarctica, and saw it in all its glory.
(on camera): If you were to chop up this iceberg, everybody in the world would get a 25-pound bag of ice every day for the next 75 years. Now, if you were to melt it, it would cover Texas in eight feet of water, and it would supply the United States with all its water needs for the next five years.
But now, B-15-A is causing gigantic problems. The drifting iceberg has hit the tip of an Antarctic glacier, the Drygowski Ice Tongue (ph), snapping off a block about three miles square. The collision was captured in these remarkable satellite photos.
JOHN PIKE, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: The much larger, grayer object is this B-15-A, super iceberg that has just collided with the glacier ice flow out in the sea. This B-15, the big iceberg, may look like Manhattan but it's actually dozens of times larger than Manhattan.
PHILLIPS: Of grave concern, penguin breeding colonies. The giant berg has blocked sea access for some months now. Penguins are forced to trudge some 110 miles to open water to gather food. Adult penguins may be able to tough it out, but there are fears that tens of thousands of penguin chicks who can't swim far to feed will starve.
That's also bad news for scientists studying penguins who say they are a key indicator of the state of the environment. The bergs also blocking fuel and supply deliveries to antarctic research stations. PIKE: There is certainly hope at this point based on the recent movement of the iceberg that it's going to head out to sea, letting the penguins get to feeding areas and letting the resupply ships get into the American station. The problem, of course, is that they have been tracking this iceberg for several months now and it's consistently failed to do what they predicted.
PHILLIPS: The collision was actually expected sometime ago. But the iceberg became stranded on a sandbar. I remember this chilling moment from my trip in 2002. I was in Antarctica with Dr. Doug McGale who is studying birds and weather patterns. We were packing up to go and then this...
DR. DOUG MCGALE: A giant crack has run up about 20 kilometers and it stops over there. So that means we are going to see the iceberg split in half very soon. Maybe as we are standing on it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's time to waive B-15 good-bye.
PHILLIPS: Moments later we were in the air and saw a split.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This crack is going to be the death of B-15- A.
PHILLIPS: As the last of the suns rays hit the frozen continent and winter closes in on the region -- in Antarctica, winter means no more sunlight for months. Scientists will wait and watch for the iceberg's next move. Kyra Phillips, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Scientists say that the renegade iceberg's will most likely head out to sea. It'll be tough to follow its movements. Since it's winter there now, the sun won't shine until august.
HARRIS: Wow.
While the glacier melt in Antarctica, Ben and Jerry -- OK -- are burning mad about plans to drill for oil in the Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The ice cream moguls so inflamed that they have constructed a monument to their outrage on the West Lawn of the capital. Take a look at this. It's the world's largest baked Alaska.
Are you with me, baked Alaska?
PHILLIPS: My favorite dessert.
HARRIS: Is it?
PHILLIPS: More than 1,100 pounds of cake, marshmallow and Ben & Jerry's fossil fuel ice cream. It's all part of Ben & Jerry's "lick global warming" campaign.
PHILLIPS: Do you have a little champagne with it, too.
HARRIS: Is that what you do? PHILLIPS: That makes it just perfect.
HARRIS: OK.
PHILLIPS: Speaking of perfect?
HARRIS: Not the weather around here, right?
PHILLIPS: But the two individuals telling us about the weather.
HARRIS: Oh, very good.
(WEATHER REPORT)
PHILLIPS: Well, coming up in the second hour of LIVE FROM, we've got a lot more for you.
HARRIS: Yes, we do, proof that when you're a juror in a criminal case, Kyra, you want to follow the judge's orders. We'll explain why one woman could be facing a $25,000 court bill.
LIVE FROM's hour of power begins right after this.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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Aired April 22, 2005 - 13:31 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Now in the news, bracing for more wild weather. No one was hurt in this tornado, caught on tape by a storm chaser. Now the same storms are marching southeast. We're tracking the storms throughout the day. We'll have tips for riding out that storm in just a couple of minutes.
John Allen Muhammed will stay on death row in the Washington-area sniper case. Virginia's supreme court today upheld his capital murder convictions. Muhammed is accused of masterminding 10 deadly shootings in 2002. His lawyers argue since Muhammed wasn't the triggerman, the punishment count doesn't fit the crime.
Wendy's say it is thrilled by the arrest of a woman who claimed she found a finger in her bowl of chili. Anna Ayala was taken into custody last night in Las Vegas, reportedly on larceny charges. A police news conference is scheduled for 4:00 p.m. Eastern.
Two insurgent groups are claiming responsibility for yesterday's helicopter crash in Iraq. This video, purportedly of the chopper being shot down, was shown on Al Jazeera. Another video circulating on Islamic Web sites shows a crash survivor being shot. Altogether, 11 people were killed, including six American security contractors.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, the bad weather has even thrown a monkey wrench at the president today. Mr. Bush had planned an Earth Day speech at the great Smoky Mountains National Park this afternoon, but rainstorms and the possibility of tornadoes forced the event to be scratched and the president's remarks moved indoors at the McGhee Tyson Airport in Knoxville.
Violent storms on the move. What happens if a tornado hits where you are? Here's what the experts say. If you're home, go to the basement or a closet or bathroom, and cover yourself with blankets. If you're somewhere like a school or shopping center, go to the hallway or an interior room, stay away from glass windows. That makes sense. Crouch down and cover your head. Most tornado deaths occur in cars or mobile homes, so if you're in one when a tornado strikes, get out, lie flat, preferably in a ditch if you can and keep your head covered. Click on on to our Web site for more tornado safety advice. That's CNN.com/tornadoes.
Now to help walk us through what's available online, here's Veronica De La Cruz from the CNN.com desk.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Tornadoes have long captured people's imagination and spawned some of their worst fears. How common and how destructive are they? Where do they most often occur? At CNN.com, a special report, tornadoes start as offshoots of thunderstorms, but can be devastating forces in their own right. Carving a path of destruction many miles long and in excess of a mile wide.
ROB MARCIANO, CNN METEOROLOGIST: A tornado is basically a violently rotating column of air that extends from the clouds down to the ground. When they touchdown, depending on their size and strength, they can level virtually everything in its path.
And how much do you know when it comes to these violent natural occurrences. This interactive offer possible indicators of whether a tornado is approaching, details the different between a watch and more severe warnings and gives you tips on what you can do if a twister comes your way.
Residents of what's known as Tornado Alley, shown here on this interactive map, stretching across the central U.S., are more likely than most to face this dilemma. Those tornadoes that touch down, some with winds exceeding 250 miles per hour, can inflict significant damage. You can look at the 10 deadliest twisters in the U.S. in this gallery.
Since the 19th century, surveys have included reports of tornadoes moving houses, completely unharmed, feet from their original locations. Which stories are true, and which ones are legends? Click through this interactive gallery for some answers. For example, tornadoes seek out mobile homes. Fact or fiction? Or tornadoes always rotate counterclockwise. You can log on and find out. You can also get your current forecast or sign up from the severe weather alerts.
From the dot-com newsdesk in Atlanta, I'm Veronica De La Cruz.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HARRIS: Look at these skies. It's gotten nasty, Kyra. Severe weather moving through downtown Atlanta right now. Those are pictures from WSB, our affiliate here in Atlanta, thank you very much for those pictures. You can see the watch box there in the lower right-hand corner.
PHILLIPS: Heading toward the airport, so call and check your flights.
HARRIS: Yes, absolutely.
And I think we have a second shot. Negative? OK, all right, we were trying to get a shot of the airport to see what the conditions are like out there.
PHILLIPS: Weather permitting.
HARRIS: Weather permitting. As you can see the weather is not permitting. A bad situation in downtown Atlanta and much of the southeast we're following all afternoon long here on LIVE FROM.
PHILLIPS: Also straight ahead, drug abuse and teenagers, are a growing number of American kids turning to their parents medicine cabinets for a quick high? We're going to have that story when CNN's LIVE FROM continues.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: News affecting your health this hour. The death toll from Asian bird flu up now to 52. Health officials in Vietnam report a woman who died there this week was infected with the bird flu virus. The patient lived in Cambodia, just a few miles from where it's believed other people who also died from the virus contracted it.
Central Africa. Nearly 250 people in Angola are dead from the latest outbreak of a rare and highly contagious virus called Marburg. One small bit of optimism, no new cases recorded over the past two days, but U.N. emergency medical staffers there say the virus is definitely not contained. Marburg causes a fever that kills almost everyone it affects.
HARRIS: Ecstasy, cocaine, crack, L.S.D. They are the drugs today's young people too often experiment with and the tragic results are no secret. But those substances are quickly taking a back seat to easier-to-get drugs that may already be in your home. CNN's senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Adam Stacy (ph) and Val Maroulis were both abusing drugs, but not the kind you'd might expect.
VAL MAROULIS, RECOVERING DRUG ADDICT: I started taking prescription drugs like Xanax, OxyContin, Vicodin, Percocets, all kinds of painkillers.
GUPTA: You heard right, prescription drugs. More and more, today's teenagers are getting their fix from inside the home instead of on the streets.
ROY BOSTOCK, PARTNERSHIP FOR A DRUG-FREE AMERICA: We could have about 25 percent of a quarter of our teens in this country abusing prescription and OTC drugs. That is a huge number.
GUPTA: The nonprofit organization Partnership for a Drug-Free America surveyed more than 7,300 teenagers. Their findings paint a troubling picture. One in five teens abuses Vicodin, the prescription painkiller. One in ten teens has tried the stimulants Ritalin or Adderall without a doctor's prescription. And one in 11 teens has used over-the-counter cough medicine simply for the purpose of getting high.
It's something Adam's mother is all too familiar with.
STACY HALL, MOTHER OF DRUG ADDICT: It started with the abuse of Robitussin, which led to marijuana and then eventually the prescription drug use.
GUPTA: So why are more kids turning to these drugs?
DR. HERBERT KLEBER, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY: There's this myth on the street that these are safer drugs than heroin or cocaine because they're prescribed. They're medicinal, they're pure.
GUPTA: And they're easier to get. Val Maroulis didn't have to look far to get his fix.
MAROULIS: Friend's cabinets, their houses. Sometimes my mom, very rarely, just -- you could buy it off people.
GUPTA: Once Stacy Hall recognized her son's problem, she tried to get help to get him clean.
HALL: I had Adam go to an outdoor rehabilitation program for 42 days and I thought he was fixed, and I let my guard down.
GUPTA: But Adam got hooked again.
HALL: Adam died two years ago, on February 17, 2003, from a drug overdose of cocaine, methadone, diazepam and antidepressants.
GUPTA: Yes, diazepam or Valium, and antidepressant, found in a lot of medicine cabinets.
HALL: You just don't think to lock up those medications. At least we didn't then. We do now.
GUPTA (on camera): Now, Stacy and other parents face the daunting task of learning about this growing trend.
KLEBER: You need to know what kind of drugs these adolescents are using, how they're getting hold of them and what you can do to help safeguard that.
GUPTA (voice-over): Val Maroulis has kicked his addictions. He's been clean now for seven months, and he has this to say to other teens.
MAROULIS: Just watch out for the people that you hang out with, you know, to know what drugs are, what they do to you, you know, health risks.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Well, it's quite possibly the most watched piece of ice and its size helps explain why. Up next, a journey to the bottom of the world for an update on a massive iceberg that's been on a dangerous collision course.
And what's wrong with this picture? In the next hour of CNN LIVE FROM...
HARRIS: Everything.
PHILLIPS: Charlie the chimp lighting up. Look at this. He looks like, what's his name? Oh, help me out, the comedian. Oh, it's going to come to me.
HARRIS: OK.
PHILLIPS: OK. We'll be right back. Gleason! He looks like Gleason.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: Well, scientists who study Antarctic icebergs are pretty excited today -- I have to admit, I am, too -- after some satellite images showed something that they've long been expecting, an icy bump at the bottom of the world.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS (voice-over): It doesn't have an impressive name -- B- 15-A -- but it's one of the world's biggest icebergs and a force to be reckoned with. Flashback to 2002: I traveled 14,000 miles to the bottom of the world, Antarctica, and saw it in all its glory.
(on camera): If you were to chop up this iceberg, everybody in the world would get a 25-pound bag of ice every day for the next 75 years. Now, if you were to melt it, it would cover Texas in eight feet of water, and it would supply the United States with all its water needs for the next five years.
But now, B-15-A is causing gigantic problems. The drifting iceberg has hit the tip of an Antarctic glacier, the Drygowski Ice Tongue (ph), snapping off a block about three miles square. The collision was captured in these remarkable satellite photos.
JOHN PIKE, GLOBALSECURITY.ORG: The much larger, grayer object is this B-15-A, super iceberg that has just collided with the glacier ice flow out in the sea. This B-15, the big iceberg, may look like Manhattan but it's actually dozens of times larger than Manhattan.
PHILLIPS: Of grave concern, penguin breeding colonies. The giant berg has blocked sea access for some months now. Penguins are forced to trudge some 110 miles to open water to gather food. Adult penguins may be able to tough it out, but there are fears that tens of thousands of penguin chicks who can't swim far to feed will starve.
That's also bad news for scientists studying penguins who say they are a key indicator of the state of the environment. The bergs also blocking fuel and supply deliveries to antarctic research stations. PIKE: There is certainly hope at this point based on the recent movement of the iceberg that it's going to head out to sea, letting the penguins get to feeding areas and letting the resupply ships get into the American station. The problem, of course, is that they have been tracking this iceberg for several months now and it's consistently failed to do what they predicted.
PHILLIPS: The collision was actually expected sometime ago. But the iceberg became stranded on a sandbar. I remember this chilling moment from my trip in 2002. I was in Antarctica with Dr. Doug McGale who is studying birds and weather patterns. We were packing up to go and then this...
DR. DOUG MCGALE: A giant crack has run up about 20 kilometers and it stops over there. So that means we are going to see the iceberg split in half very soon. Maybe as we are standing on it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's time to waive B-15 good-bye.
PHILLIPS: Moments later we were in the air and saw a split.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This crack is going to be the death of B-15- A.
PHILLIPS: As the last of the suns rays hit the frozen continent and winter closes in on the region -- in Antarctica, winter means no more sunlight for months. Scientists will wait and watch for the iceberg's next move. Kyra Phillips, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Scientists say that the renegade iceberg's will most likely head out to sea. It'll be tough to follow its movements. Since it's winter there now, the sun won't shine until august.
HARRIS: Wow.
While the glacier melt in Antarctica, Ben and Jerry -- OK -- are burning mad about plans to drill for oil in the Alaska Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. The ice cream moguls so inflamed that they have constructed a monument to their outrage on the West Lawn of the capital. Take a look at this. It's the world's largest baked Alaska.
Are you with me, baked Alaska?
PHILLIPS: My favorite dessert.
HARRIS: Is it?
PHILLIPS: More than 1,100 pounds of cake, marshmallow and Ben & Jerry's fossil fuel ice cream. It's all part of Ben & Jerry's "lick global warming" campaign.
PHILLIPS: Do you have a little champagne with it, too.
HARRIS: Is that what you do? PHILLIPS: That makes it just perfect.
HARRIS: OK.
PHILLIPS: Speaking of perfect?
HARRIS: Not the weather around here, right?
PHILLIPS: But the two individuals telling us about the weather.
HARRIS: Oh, very good.
(WEATHER REPORT)
PHILLIPS: Well, coming up in the second hour of LIVE FROM, we've got a lot more for you.
HARRIS: Yes, we do, proof that when you're a juror in a criminal case, Kyra, you want to follow the judge's orders. We'll explain why one woman could be facing a $25,000 court bill.
LIVE FROM's hour of power begins right after this.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com
