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Air France Flight Diverted to Maine; Real Life CSI; King Tut's Face
Aired May 12, 2005 - 14:31 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.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Here's what "Now in the News."
The White House says President Bush is satisfied with the response to yesterday's security scare. He wasn't told until afterward that a small plane strayed about three miles or 90 seconds from the White House. The president wasn't there. Officials still plan to review how that situation was handled.
Drama on the Hill as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee debates John Bolton's nomination. Republican George Voinovich stunned colleagues when he said he'll support sending the nomination to the Senate floor, but he won't vote to confirm. Voinovich called Bolton the poster child of what an ambassador to the U.N. should not be.
And a filibuster fight is looming in the Senate over another of the president's controversial nominees. The Judiciary Committee today approved William Pryor's bid for a lifetime seat on the federal bench. Democrats blocked Pryor's nomination in Mr. Bush's last term.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: You might not think Wall Street analysts need protection, but one watchdog is asking regulators for help right now.
O'BRIEN: Susan Lisovicz, joining us from the New York Stock Exchange, with that and more. Hello, Susan.
SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Miles and Kyra.
We're not talking about bulletproof vests or bodyguards, but one industry group does want protection for Wall Street's analysts. The Securities Industry Association is calling on regulators to take a tougher stance against companies who punish analysts who issue negative research reports. They say the retaliation includes actions like refusal to take the analyst's question, access to senior management, or even threatening to withdraw business from an analyst's employers.
This comes more than two years after a massive clean-up was launched on Wall Street in an effort to make the analyst community more independent. And this is important because investors need to know that analyst comments are based solely on their research and not on pressure tactics -- Kyra and Miles.
O'BRIEN: Good to know.
(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN.COM CORRESPONDENT: Court-martial proceedings begin this week for the ninth and final soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. At CNN.com, the investigation, the fallout and the status of the soldiers charged.
Army Specialist Sabrina Harmon is the last soldier to face a military trial today at Ft. Hood, Texas. In this interactive gallery, click through the status of all nine soldiers charged, from Charles Graner, who was the first soldier to face court martial, to Lynndie England, whose case is now up in the air following a mistrial last week.
The damage from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal has been hard to measure. However, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told CNN's Larry King he twice offered to resign.
Reports were filed by Major General Antonio Taguba, former Defense Secretary, James Schlesinger and the Army. You can read the findings of their reports online.
And find out how others fared in the scandal, from Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez to Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who was demoted one rank by President Bush.
For a closer look at the impact of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse case, you can log on to cnn.com/law.
From the dotcom newsdesk, I'm Veronica De La Cruz.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
O'BRIEN: Well, you can just imagine the announcement. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Bangor. Close but no cigar. The hope was that Air France Flight 332 would, in fact, make it to Boston's Logan Airport, but somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, it became evident to security personnel on this side of the pond that someone on board the plane has a name which is awfully similar to someone on that infamous no-fly list. As a result, Air France 332 is in Bangor, Maine. And we'll get a thorough going-over by security personnel there. Eventually that group will make its way to Boston, we presume.
Richard Falkenrath is our security analyst. He joins us now from the Brookings Institution in Washington. He also worked inside the Bush administration on matters relating to this. Richard, this happens time and again. Every time I ask, I wonder why can't they get their act together before the plane takes off?
RICHARD FALKENRATH, CNN SECURITY ANALYST: Well, it is a vexing problem. We rely on the airlines to enforce the no-fly regulations and they don't always get it exactly right. And in addition, sometimes there are names which match names on the watch list, but are not, in fact, the person who should be on the watch list.
Right now, the airlines don't transmit the manifest data to U.S. customs until the plane has already taken off. And so the U.S. authorities don't really get a chance to go over the manifest itself until it's flying over the Atlantic, and when they find something like this, it's already in the air and they need to divert it to another airport.
O'BRIEN: Well, can't this be computerized somehow, where the name is matched against a database in the blind somehow? I know they're reluctant to release the name -- the names on the list. That make sense to me. But if that list of names on the manifest -- right as they shut the door there. I mean, this is the Internet age, for God's sakes. Why can't that be compared against a database in the United States for a hit?
FALKENRATH: Well, it is. It's just compared too late in the process. And what the key question is, can they get the manifest names earlier in the process, say, an hour before the plane takes off? And there is consideration of that idea in the U.S. government. The airlines don't like it one bit because it would lengthen the amount of time people would to have to wait to get on airplanes. My suspicion is the U.S. government will eventually get around to mandating this, but they haven't done so just yet.
O'BRIEN: Well, you know, they make us get to the airport, what is it, three hours early for an international flight. I think that's the recommended. You would think there would be enough time to pull that manifest together before the plane took off. I guess -- a question here, and this is sort of a similar theme to what we've been talking about yesterday with that little plane, does all this stuff really make us safer?
FALKENRATH: I think it does make us safer. And the reason that we're getting responses like this is because these defensive mechanisms are in place. I know that air travel is a really difficult sector of the economy to secure, but we have done a great deal since 9/11. And my sense is that particular possible form of attack, hijacking another airplane, infiltrating the country in that manner, is a much more difficult option today than it was on 9/11. And that's one of the things that the government is trying to do, is to take the easy options, the options they've used in the past, and make them more difficult, forcing the terrorists to explore other options.
O'BRIEN: Yes, and forcing a lot of people to be inconvenienced, as well. I guess that's just the times we live in. Richard Falkenrath at the Brookings Institution. Always a pleasure. Thanks for dropping by.
FALKENRATH: Thanks, Miles.
CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night. Ever watch those crime shows and wonder how closely they stick to the real thing? As part of a week-long series, CNN's senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta goes behind-the-scenes of "CSI: Miami." He talks with the person in charge of keeping it real.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A quick rehearsal.
And, action!
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Whoa, man, what the hell are you doing.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: You've been lying to me for months.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Don't be stupid, put the gun down!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cut!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Here's what a day on the job looks like for Elizabeth Devine, in the middle of the Florida Everglades followed by a CNN news crew.
For this show, the "CSI" crew set fire to the Everglades, a controlled burn with real firefighters standing by. They go to great heights to get the shot, as airboats race by below.
Check out the finished product, the chase scene.
The story is fictional drama, a serial killer on the loose, but parts of it inspired by real life, and Devine's days as a top-notch criminalist.
LIZ DEVINE, PRODUCER, "CSI MIAMI": OK, good.
GUPTA: She works closely with the director and the actors giving them advice from the field.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want it to seem like that guy's going to be the problem.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cut! next!
GUPTA: The labs on "CSI" and "CSI Miami" are modeled on this, the L.A. County sheriff's crime lab.
DEVINE: So this is my old stomping grounds.
GUPTA: For 15 years, Elizabeth worked on high-profile and often grisly cases.
DEVINE: This was a bloodstain on his shirt, and I was able to prove that it was the victim's handprint, and the victim grabbed his shirt while she was still alive. GUPTA (on camera): She grabbed it while he was stabbing her.
DEVINE: She grabbed it, and grabbed it like that.
GUPTA: Especially with the blood spatter and the whole (INAUDIBLE).
DEVINE: Yes. .
GUPTA (voice-over): She says that while she doesn't miss dealing with the tragedies or the long hours, the adrenaline rush was hard to give up.
DEVINE: When you get out there and you find the key piece of evidence, it's so exciting because you know this is it. This is the piece of evidence that's going to tell me who did it.
GUPTA (on camera): A lot of "CSI," the original "CSI," is based on some of the stuff you worked on here, and you saw here in the crime lab here.
DEVINE: My whole life is on that show. Everything that happened to me, you know, I would just talk to the writers and we would somehow incorporate little bits, sometimes the whole case into episodes.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: Be sure to tune in Sunday night. Dr. Gupta will take a closer look at the world of criminal forensic science in "Anatomy of a Murder." He'll go behind-the-scenes with those folks and also, some real-life homicide investigators. That's 10:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.
PHILLIPS: And straight ahead, we've got more cool forensic science for you. Could 3,000 years worth of pictures of King Tut be wrong? Well, experts have a new reconstruction of his face for you. We're going to show it to you.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: Well, it seems like a strange idea, one brewer plans to market one of its cheapest beers, even as competitors advertise their premium brews.
O'BRIEN: There's room for everybody in the beer world.
PHILLIPS: Absolutely.
O'BRIEN: Right? Some people want a bargain. Susan Lisovicz, which category you in, bargain-beer drinker, or premium?
SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'm always checking out the price. I'm a business correspondent so, you know, what is it, less taste, less filling, whatever it is. O'BRIEN: Generic beer. Just -- beer.
LISOVICZ: Right.
O'BRIEN: No.
LISOVICZ: Kyra and Miles, Miller Brewing may be getting ready to unleash the beast. "The Wall Street Journal" says Miller is going to advertise its inexpensive Milwaukee's Best on TV for the first time in 10 years. The brand is often referred to as "the beast" by thrifty, but thirsty, college students. Miller is hoping that, as its competitors push their high-end brands, it can gain market share by pushing its bargain brew. One quote in the "Journal" -- Miles, I think you'll be interested -- it says, "We want to reach out to the working-class hero-types, the kind of guys who listen to Springsteen, read "Playboy" magazine, and want to spend less money on beer." Is that you?
PHILLIPS: Sounds like you, Miles. That was you in your college days, wasn't it?
O'BRIEN: It's all about me. That's my demo, right there. So, I'm wondering why they call it the beast? Is that because after they use the produce they read best as beast? Is that what happens.
PHILLIPS: They turn into a beast.
LISOVICZ: Yes, their eyes get a little blurry, perhaps.
O'BRIEN: Perhaps, perhaps.
LISOVICZ: That's their -- that's their, you know, beer of last resort. Apparently, Miller wants to get rid of that name, though. They don't think it's good for the marketing. So stay tuned for that.
O'BRIEN: Oh, well, I guess they're going to have some trouble with that one.
All right, Bill Ford, I bet he's a premium beer drinker. He can afford to. He doesn't need a salary, does he?
LISOVICZ: No, this is one of these sort of man-bites-dog stories. We don't really hear about these stories too many times on Wall Street. Ford's chairman and CEO William Ford will forgo all compensation until the company can sustain profitability. It's certainly been a tough road for Ford recently. As we've reported last week, the company's credit rating was downgraded to junk. Bill Ford hasn't received a salary since he took the reins of the company in 2001. Back to you, Kyra and Miles.
O'BRIEN: All right. Well, he's not going to be hurting. We're not worried about him. Susan Lisovicz, thank you very much.
The plane!
PHILLIPS: The plane! O'BRIEN: It's a plane.
PHILLIPS: It has landed.
O'BRIEN: The plane has entered Bangor. This is tape, turned around from our affiliate WLBZ, up there in that part of the world, "down east," as they say. AirBus A330, packed full of people who had hoped to be at Boston's Logan Airport about now. Instead, they're in Bangor, but there's a really nice restaurant there called the Orinoko that I highly recommend to them as they wait for federal authorities who are currently on the flight, trying to cull through the passenger list and match it against a person who came up as a hit on the no-fly list.
Once again, we ask the question, why can't they figure that out before they're wheels-up at Charles de Gaulle? There's some issues there we've talked about. We will continue to focus on it: perhaps, one day, the Transportation Security Agency will figure it out. Stay with us for more.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
O'BRIEN: Earlier, we talked about the fascinating science of forensics. Here's an example of what forensics can do.
PHILLIPS: Experts have reconstructed the face of Egypt's King Tut, some 3,000 years after he died. Here's CNN's Cairo bureau chief Ben Wedeman.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CAIRO BUREAU CHIEF: Without the gold and the trappings of power, the pharaoh Tutankhamen, better known as King Tut, may well have looked like this, an almost regular guy. Late last year, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities conducted the first ever CT scan, a high-tech, three-dimensional x-ray of Tut's mummy. The council's director, Zahi Hawas, then commissioned three teams of specialists from France, Egypt and the United States, to study more than 1,700 images from the scan and come up with a reconstruction of Tut's face.
ZAHI HAWAS, SUPREME COUNCIL OF ANTIQUITIES: All of them, they agreed that -- on the skull, the shape of the skull, and the face and the eyes. But they disagreed on the nose and the ears.
WEDEMAN: The Egyptian and American teams did standard forensic reconstructions. The French rendered a more human image, the eye liner an artistic touch.
HAWAS: As (INAUDIBLE) and a head of antiquities, and so (INAUDIBLE), actually, to look at King Tut -- and when I saw the face, I said I know this man.
WEDEMAN: The scan has provided a clearer picture, not only of the face of Tut, but also the person, revealing that, before his still mysterious death at the age of 19, he was well-fed, in good health, buck-toothed and slightly built.
While some media reports have suggested that King Tut, as portrayed in these pictures was not particularly handsome, but beauty is, as they say are in the eyes of the beholder, and no doubt his mother thought he was a fetching young fellow.
Ben Wedeman, CNN, Cairo.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
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Aired May 12, 2005 - 14:31 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Here's what "Now in the News."
The White House says President Bush is satisfied with the response to yesterday's security scare. He wasn't told until afterward that a small plane strayed about three miles or 90 seconds from the White House. The president wasn't there. Officials still plan to review how that situation was handled.
Drama on the Hill as the Senate Foreign Relations Committee debates John Bolton's nomination. Republican George Voinovich stunned colleagues when he said he'll support sending the nomination to the Senate floor, but he won't vote to confirm. Voinovich called Bolton the poster child of what an ambassador to the U.N. should not be.
And a filibuster fight is looming in the Senate over another of the president's controversial nominees. The Judiciary Committee today approved William Pryor's bid for a lifetime seat on the federal bench. Democrats blocked Pryor's nomination in Mr. Bush's last term.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: You might not think Wall Street analysts need protection, but one watchdog is asking regulators for help right now.
O'BRIEN: Susan Lisovicz, joining us from the New York Stock Exchange, with that and more. Hello, Susan.
SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN FINANCIAL CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Miles and Kyra.
We're not talking about bulletproof vests or bodyguards, but one industry group does want protection for Wall Street's analysts. The Securities Industry Association is calling on regulators to take a tougher stance against companies who punish analysts who issue negative research reports. They say the retaliation includes actions like refusal to take the analyst's question, access to senior management, or even threatening to withdraw business from an analyst's employers.
This comes more than two years after a massive clean-up was launched on Wall Street in an effort to make the analyst community more independent. And this is important because investors need to know that analyst comments are based solely on their research and not on pressure tactics -- Kyra and Miles.
O'BRIEN: Good to know.
(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN.COM CORRESPONDENT: Court-martial proceedings begin this week for the ninth and final soldier charged in the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal. At CNN.com, the investigation, the fallout and the status of the soldiers charged.
Army Specialist Sabrina Harmon is the last soldier to face a military trial today at Ft. Hood, Texas. In this interactive gallery, click through the status of all nine soldiers charged, from Charles Graner, who was the first soldier to face court martial, to Lynndie England, whose case is now up in the air following a mistrial last week.
The damage from the Abu Ghraib prison abuse scandal has been hard to measure. However, Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld told CNN's Larry King he twice offered to resign.
Reports were filed by Major General Antonio Taguba, former Defense Secretary, James Schlesinger and the Army. You can read the findings of their reports online.
And find out how others fared in the scandal, from Lieutenant General Ricardo Sanchez to Brigadier General Janis Karpinski, who was demoted one rank by President Bush.
For a closer look at the impact of the Abu Ghraib prison abuse case, you can log on to cnn.com/law.
From the dotcom newsdesk, I'm Veronica De La Cruz.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
O'BRIEN: Well, you can just imagine the announcement. Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Bangor. Close but no cigar. The hope was that Air France Flight 332 would, in fact, make it to Boston's Logan Airport, but somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, it became evident to security personnel on this side of the pond that someone on board the plane has a name which is awfully similar to someone on that infamous no-fly list. As a result, Air France 332 is in Bangor, Maine. And we'll get a thorough going-over by security personnel there. Eventually that group will make its way to Boston, we presume.
Richard Falkenrath is our security analyst. He joins us now from the Brookings Institution in Washington. He also worked inside the Bush administration on matters relating to this. Richard, this happens time and again. Every time I ask, I wonder why can't they get their act together before the plane takes off?
RICHARD FALKENRATH, CNN SECURITY ANALYST: Well, it is a vexing problem. We rely on the airlines to enforce the no-fly regulations and they don't always get it exactly right. And in addition, sometimes there are names which match names on the watch list, but are not, in fact, the person who should be on the watch list.
Right now, the airlines don't transmit the manifest data to U.S. customs until the plane has already taken off. And so the U.S. authorities don't really get a chance to go over the manifest itself until it's flying over the Atlantic, and when they find something like this, it's already in the air and they need to divert it to another airport.
O'BRIEN: Well, can't this be computerized somehow, where the name is matched against a database in the blind somehow? I know they're reluctant to release the name -- the names on the list. That make sense to me. But if that list of names on the manifest -- right as they shut the door there. I mean, this is the Internet age, for God's sakes. Why can't that be compared against a database in the United States for a hit?
FALKENRATH: Well, it is. It's just compared too late in the process. And what the key question is, can they get the manifest names earlier in the process, say, an hour before the plane takes off? And there is consideration of that idea in the U.S. government. The airlines don't like it one bit because it would lengthen the amount of time people would to have to wait to get on airplanes. My suspicion is the U.S. government will eventually get around to mandating this, but they haven't done so just yet.
O'BRIEN: Well, you know, they make us get to the airport, what is it, three hours early for an international flight. I think that's the recommended. You would think there would be enough time to pull that manifest together before the plane took off. I guess -- a question here, and this is sort of a similar theme to what we've been talking about yesterday with that little plane, does all this stuff really make us safer?
FALKENRATH: I think it does make us safer. And the reason that we're getting responses like this is because these defensive mechanisms are in place. I know that air travel is a really difficult sector of the economy to secure, but we have done a great deal since 9/11. And my sense is that particular possible form of attack, hijacking another airplane, infiltrating the country in that manner, is a much more difficult option today than it was on 9/11. And that's one of the things that the government is trying to do, is to take the easy options, the options they've used in the past, and make them more difficult, forcing the terrorists to explore other options.
O'BRIEN: Yes, and forcing a lot of people to be inconvenienced, as well. I guess that's just the times we live in. Richard Falkenrath at the Brookings Institution. Always a pleasure. Thanks for dropping by.
FALKENRATH: Thanks, Miles.
CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night. Ever watch those crime shows and wonder how closely they stick to the real thing? As part of a week-long series, CNN's senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta goes behind-the-scenes of "CSI: Miami." He talks with the person in charge of keeping it real.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A quick rehearsal.
And, action!
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Whoa, man, what the hell are you doing.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: You've been lying to me for months.
UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Don't be stupid, put the gun down!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cut!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Here's what a day on the job looks like for Elizabeth Devine, in the middle of the Florida Everglades followed by a CNN news crew.
For this show, the "CSI" crew set fire to the Everglades, a controlled burn with real firefighters standing by. They go to great heights to get the shot, as airboats race by below.
Check out the finished product, the chase scene.
The story is fictional drama, a serial killer on the loose, but parts of it inspired by real life, and Devine's days as a top-notch criminalist.
LIZ DEVINE, PRODUCER, "CSI MIAMI": OK, good.
GUPTA: She works closely with the director and the actors giving them advice from the field.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I want it to seem like that guy's going to be the problem.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cut! next!
GUPTA: The labs on "CSI" and "CSI Miami" are modeled on this, the L.A. County sheriff's crime lab.
DEVINE: So this is my old stomping grounds.
GUPTA: For 15 years, Elizabeth worked on high-profile and often grisly cases.
DEVINE: This was a bloodstain on his shirt, and I was able to prove that it was the victim's handprint, and the victim grabbed his shirt while she was still alive. GUPTA (on camera): She grabbed it while he was stabbing her.
DEVINE: She grabbed it, and grabbed it like that.
GUPTA: Especially with the blood spatter and the whole (INAUDIBLE).
DEVINE: Yes. .
GUPTA (voice-over): She says that while she doesn't miss dealing with the tragedies or the long hours, the adrenaline rush was hard to give up.
DEVINE: When you get out there and you find the key piece of evidence, it's so exciting because you know this is it. This is the piece of evidence that's going to tell me who did it.
GUPTA (on camera): A lot of "CSI," the original "CSI," is based on some of the stuff you worked on here, and you saw here in the crime lab here.
DEVINE: My whole life is on that show. Everything that happened to me, you know, I would just talk to the writers and we would somehow incorporate little bits, sometimes the whole case into episodes.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Los Angeles.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
O'BRIEN: Be sure to tune in Sunday night. Dr. Gupta will take a closer look at the world of criminal forensic science in "Anatomy of a Murder." He'll go behind-the-scenes with those folks and also, some real-life homicide investigators. That's 10:00 p.m. Eastern right here on CNN.
PHILLIPS: And straight ahead, we've got more cool forensic science for you. Could 3,000 years worth of pictures of King Tut be wrong? Well, experts have a new reconstruction of his face for you. We're going to show it to you.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: Well, it seems like a strange idea, one brewer plans to market one of its cheapest beers, even as competitors advertise their premium brews.
O'BRIEN: There's room for everybody in the beer world.
PHILLIPS: Absolutely.
O'BRIEN: Right? Some people want a bargain. Susan Lisovicz, which category you in, bargain-beer drinker, or premium?
SUSAN LISOVICZ, CNN BUSINESS CORRESPONDENT: Well, I'm always checking out the price. I'm a business correspondent so, you know, what is it, less taste, less filling, whatever it is. O'BRIEN: Generic beer. Just -- beer.
LISOVICZ: Right.
O'BRIEN: No.
LISOVICZ: Kyra and Miles, Miller Brewing may be getting ready to unleash the beast. "The Wall Street Journal" says Miller is going to advertise its inexpensive Milwaukee's Best on TV for the first time in 10 years. The brand is often referred to as "the beast" by thrifty, but thirsty, college students. Miller is hoping that, as its competitors push their high-end brands, it can gain market share by pushing its bargain brew. One quote in the "Journal" -- Miles, I think you'll be interested -- it says, "We want to reach out to the working-class hero-types, the kind of guys who listen to Springsteen, read "Playboy" magazine, and want to spend less money on beer." Is that you?
PHILLIPS: Sounds like you, Miles. That was you in your college days, wasn't it?
O'BRIEN: It's all about me. That's my demo, right there. So, I'm wondering why they call it the beast? Is that because after they use the produce they read best as beast? Is that what happens.
PHILLIPS: They turn into a beast.
LISOVICZ: Yes, their eyes get a little blurry, perhaps.
O'BRIEN: Perhaps, perhaps.
LISOVICZ: That's their -- that's their, you know, beer of last resort. Apparently, Miller wants to get rid of that name, though. They don't think it's good for the marketing. So stay tuned for that.
O'BRIEN: Oh, well, I guess they're going to have some trouble with that one.
All right, Bill Ford, I bet he's a premium beer drinker. He can afford to. He doesn't need a salary, does he?
LISOVICZ: No, this is one of these sort of man-bites-dog stories. We don't really hear about these stories too many times on Wall Street. Ford's chairman and CEO William Ford will forgo all compensation until the company can sustain profitability. It's certainly been a tough road for Ford recently. As we've reported last week, the company's credit rating was downgraded to junk. Bill Ford hasn't received a salary since he took the reins of the company in 2001. Back to you, Kyra and Miles.
O'BRIEN: All right. Well, he's not going to be hurting. We're not worried about him. Susan Lisovicz, thank you very much.
The plane!
PHILLIPS: The plane! O'BRIEN: It's a plane.
PHILLIPS: It has landed.
O'BRIEN: The plane has entered Bangor. This is tape, turned around from our affiliate WLBZ, up there in that part of the world, "down east," as they say. AirBus A330, packed full of people who had hoped to be at Boston's Logan Airport about now. Instead, they're in Bangor, but there's a really nice restaurant there called the Orinoko that I highly recommend to them as they wait for federal authorities who are currently on the flight, trying to cull through the passenger list and match it against a person who came up as a hit on the no-fly list.
Once again, we ask the question, why can't they figure that out before they're wheels-up at Charles de Gaulle? There's some issues there we've talked about. We will continue to focus on it: perhaps, one day, the Transportation Security Agency will figure it out. Stay with us for more.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
O'BRIEN: Earlier, we talked about the fascinating science of forensics. Here's an example of what forensics can do.
PHILLIPS: Experts have reconstructed the face of Egypt's King Tut, some 3,000 years after he died. Here's CNN's Cairo bureau chief Ben Wedeman.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
BEN WEDEMAN, CNN CAIRO BUREAU CHIEF: Without the gold and the trappings of power, the pharaoh Tutankhamen, better known as King Tut, may well have looked like this, an almost regular guy. Late last year, Egypt's Supreme Council of Antiquities conducted the first ever CT scan, a high-tech, three-dimensional x-ray of Tut's mummy. The council's director, Zahi Hawas, then commissioned three teams of specialists from France, Egypt and the United States, to study more than 1,700 images from the scan and come up with a reconstruction of Tut's face.
ZAHI HAWAS, SUPREME COUNCIL OF ANTIQUITIES: All of them, they agreed that -- on the skull, the shape of the skull, and the face and the eyes. But they disagreed on the nose and the ears.
WEDEMAN: The Egyptian and American teams did standard forensic reconstructions. The French rendered a more human image, the eye liner an artistic touch.
HAWAS: As (INAUDIBLE) and a head of antiquities, and so (INAUDIBLE), actually, to look at King Tut -- and when I saw the face, I said I know this man.
WEDEMAN: The scan has provided a clearer picture, not only of the face of Tut, but also the person, revealing that, before his still mysterious death at the age of 19, he was well-fed, in good health, buck-toothed and slightly built.
While some media reports have suggested that King Tut, as portrayed in these pictures was not particularly handsome, but beauty is, as they say are in the eyes of the beholder, and no doubt his mother thought he was a fetching young fellow.
Ben Wedeman, CNN, Cairo.
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