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Aired May 27, 2005 - 13:41 ET
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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: Well, first the good news. It's a three-day holiday weekend. Now the bad news, only about 37 million Americans will try to take advantage of it. So if you're taking the car, you'll be sharing those roads with over 30 million other people. More than four million planning to fly this weekend. And almost two million going by bus, train or boat.
CNN's Chris Huntington is enjoying a little camaraderie with a few thousand of his closest friends at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
How're you doing, Chris?
CHRIS HUNTINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Kyra.
All my good buddies here at LaGuardia.
I've got to say, I have never seen this airport run more smoothly. LaGuardia can be a nightmare, even on a non-holiday day. Today very, very smooth. No delays here. Minor delays reported at Newark.
Frankly, there's good news coming in this weekend on another front, too, and that is prices. You know, we've talked so much about gasoline prices this spring. The fact is that Gasoline right now, today, according to AAA, national average for unleaded regular down positive $2.10 a gallon. That's only a nickel more than it was a year ago. In fact, the price rise from today to a year ago, less than the consumer price index, less than three percent rise.
Airline tickets, again, according to AAA, on average down about 10 percent. Rental cars are cheaper. You are going to pay more for hotel rooms, and amusement parks are going to cost you more.
But frankly, the weather is breaking here, at least here in the Northeast. Could be a cue to head for the beach -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: There you go. Just stay home, head to the beach, barbecue with the family.
Chris Huntington, thanks.
(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
O'BRIEN: The fight for Iraq claimed the lives of two U.S. Army flight crewmen today, northeast of Baghdad near Baqubah. The military say insurgents on the ground shot down an Army helicopter. The wreckage of the OH-58 is already loaded onto trucks in the scene here. The two soldiers on board died. Another helicopter was also hit, but returned to base. That OH-58 Kiowa is a scout-and-reconnaissance craft.
President Bush today addressing a generation of leaders just beginning their careers in the wartime military. It's graduation day at the U.S. Naval Academy. Commencement speaker, the commander in chief. His message to midshipmen today, far different from the last time he spoke there.
Bob Franken joining us now -- Bob.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's because they rotate, the military academies, where the president appears each year, an even that the last time he was at the Naval Academy was right before the September 11th attacks, just a couple months before. And his message today is the world has changed so much since then, so has the U.S. military. There's a need to be more agile, to be much more high tech, and a need for everybody to share the sacrifices of the new base closings, painful though they may be.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To meet new threats, we must transform our domestic force posture as well, and that will require closing and realigning military bases.
The military services have each done a review of their requirements, and they've concluded that we have more bases than we need. Supporting these facilities wastes billions of taxpayers' dollars, money that can be better spent on giving you the tools to fight terrorists and confront 21st century threats.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hip hip...
CROWD: Hooray!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hip...
CROWD: Hooray!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hip hip...
CROWD: Hooray!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FRANKEN: Ah, the traditional cap toss. After the president had passed out his diplomas and everybody and his uncle had made a speech, the midshipmen and women got to throw their caps in the air in traditional way. Of course, the president knows something about that. He's tossed his hat in the ring a few times -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: All right, Bob Franken, thank you very much -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: Well, you may never heard of Internet relay chat, but that doesn't mean you couldn't be a victim of the latest cyberscam. On patrol with the cybercop, straight ahead.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's your name?
SHOSHANA JOHNSON, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN POW: Shana.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shana? Where are do you come from?
JOHNSON: Texas.
UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She's the first African-American woman to become a prisoner of war. Shoshana Johnson was a cook for the 507th maintenance company when it was ambushed in Iraq in March of 2003.
JOHNSON: I was terrified. I didn't know what was going to happen to me and I was in a lot of pain.
CORRESPONDENT: The 35-year-old single mother was shot in both ankles, captured with five other soldiers.
JOHNSON: I feared for my life the whole captivity.
CORRESPONDENT: She was rescued three weeks later and came home to instant celebrity. Johnson-Wilson retired from the Army. She's had to fight to keep her disability benefits. Because her injuries were less severe, she receives much less than her fellow soldier Jessica Lynch. But she says she doesn't begrudge her friend.
JOHNSON: Things don't bother me as much, you know. Quite frankly, I'm just very happy to still be on this earth.
CORRESPONDENT: Johnson spends her time with her daughter. She does some speaking engagements. And she's still undergoing both physical and emotional therapy.
JOHNSON: Everything happens for a reason. I've had a lot of good fortune. I'm healthy. My family's healthy, my daughters, my nieces. I don't ask God for anything more than that.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: Well, you've probably known for some time that you have to watch yourself on the Internet. Crooks are out there, willing and able to pretend that they're you and do business as you and steal from you. And it doesn't take much to get these identity thieves started. Watch with us here, the thriving trade of your personal information now.
Our resident techie/correspondent Daniel Sieberg reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DAN CLEMENTS, CARDCOPS.COM: Here's a thief that says he has a Citibank credit card or checking account, and he wants to be paid via WU, which is Western Union, to make a deal. And if you want to make a deal with him, message him.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Dan Clements of CardCops doesn't carry a badge or a gun, but he's on patrol in cyber space, in virtual black markets where thieves buy, sell, and barter personal information in underground chat rooms. The format is called IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, a low frequency hum in the World Wide Web. Think of it as the Internet equivalent of CB radio.
CLEMENTS: This is just a guy posting that he's hacked into a checking account with a $2,100 balance, and he's X'd out the numbers. He's proving he has access to it, and he wants to trade for some type of tool or ware, and he wants to split the money on this account.
SIEBERG (on camera): So this is somebody's checking account just waiting to be robbed?
CLEMENTS: Yes. And he's looking for help. He's looking for an accomplice.
SIEBERG (voice-over): It's a live look at identity theft, chitchat among con artists, happening in real time. If you've heard about personal data being stolen, a lot of it ends up here.
CLEMENTS: This is what they call a gold profile. This is all the information on this lady. We have her e-mail address, Ebay account, Paypal account, we have her first name, last name, we have her address, phone. We even have her Social Security number. We have her MMN, which is mother's maiden name. If the thief has this information, he can absolutely rip this lady's identity off in seconds.
SIEBERG (on camera): Dan, help me understand this ID thief community or black market, if you will. Each of those names down the righthand side there, they're actual people in this sort of virtual world, trading all of this very real data in real time.
CLEMENTS: That is correct. These people in the chat room, they're usually in Europe, and they're trading credit card and identities. They're swapping out different types of wares and tools so that they can commit crimes, but they're real. They're doing this right now.
SIEBERG: Clements doesn't have the means to track down the criminals, but he earns his living by spreading the word. His team alerts law enforcement, credit card associations, and merchants, many of whom pay for his information, and he even notifies consumers, whenever they spot a crime in the making.
CLEMENTS: Hello, Nestor. My name is Dan Clements with CardCops, and I'm investigating some fraud on your Mastercard ending in 1992. SIEBERG: A man named Nestor's entire personal profile is posted. We have no trouble calling him since, well, we have his home number.
How do you feel knowing that all of this personal information of yours is in this chat room where anybody could come across it and buy and sell it? How does that make you feel?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my gosh. It's in a chat room?
SIEBERG: Yes.
CLEMENTS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, no wonder because at this moment, I'm still getting charges, even from Spain, Italy.
SIEBERG: Does it scare you that this is happening?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, it does, yes.
SIEBERG: Is it too late for Nestor now that this information is out there, Dan?
CLEMENTS: Well, it's too late in one regard, but, Nestor, you can put a fraud alert on your credit file.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I did that.
CLEMENTS: Oh, you did that? That's good.
SIEBERG: A little later, Clements gets a private communication.
So, Dan, somebody's messaging you right now?
CLEMENTS: Right. They're sending me an instant message and let's see what they're -- what they have to say.
SIEBERG: What do they often want?
CLEMENTS: This particular gentleman is offering credit cards with CVV2, full info and PayPal. So he has those available and he wants to either sell them to me or trade them to me.
SIEBERG: A whole new meaning to the phrase "online shopping," price tags on your priceless information, bought and sold in a marketplace right under our noses.
Daniel Sieberg, CNN, Calabas, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Let's take a quick break. More LIVE FROM right after this.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
PHILLIPS: Coming up in the second hour of LIVE FROM, remember Star Wars? No, not the movie. We're talking about the Strategic Defense Initiative. Well, in our next hour, we're going to discuss whether the military in space is feasible.
Stay with us.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
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Aired May 27, 2005 - 13:41 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Well, first the good news. It's a three-day holiday weekend. Now the bad news, only about 37 million Americans will try to take advantage of it. So if you're taking the car, you'll be sharing those roads with over 30 million other people. More than four million planning to fly this weekend. And almost two million going by bus, train or boat.
CNN's Chris Huntington is enjoying a little camaraderie with a few thousand of his closest friends at New York's LaGuardia Airport.
How're you doing, Chris?
CHRIS HUNTINGTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Kyra.
All my good buddies here at LaGuardia.
I've got to say, I have never seen this airport run more smoothly. LaGuardia can be a nightmare, even on a non-holiday day. Today very, very smooth. No delays here. Minor delays reported at Newark.
Frankly, there's good news coming in this weekend on another front, too, and that is prices. You know, we've talked so much about gasoline prices this spring. The fact is that Gasoline right now, today, according to AAA, national average for unleaded regular down positive $2.10 a gallon. That's only a nickel more than it was a year ago. In fact, the price rise from today to a year ago, less than the consumer price index, less than three percent rise.
Airline tickets, again, according to AAA, on average down about 10 percent. Rental cars are cheaper. You are going to pay more for hotel rooms, and amusement parks are going to cost you more.
But frankly, the weather is breaking here, at least here in the Northeast. Could be a cue to head for the beach -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: There you go. Just stay home, head to the beach, barbecue with the family.
Chris Huntington, thanks.
(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
O'BRIEN: The fight for Iraq claimed the lives of two U.S. Army flight crewmen today, northeast of Baghdad near Baqubah. The military say insurgents on the ground shot down an Army helicopter. The wreckage of the OH-58 is already loaded onto trucks in the scene here. The two soldiers on board died. Another helicopter was also hit, but returned to base. That OH-58 Kiowa is a scout-and-reconnaissance craft.
President Bush today addressing a generation of leaders just beginning their careers in the wartime military. It's graduation day at the U.S. Naval Academy. Commencement speaker, the commander in chief. His message to midshipmen today, far different from the last time he spoke there.
Bob Franken joining us now -- Bob.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, it's because they rotate, the military academies, where the president appears each year, an even that the last time he was at the Naval Academy was right before the September 11th attacks, just a couple months before. And his message today is the world has changed so much since then, so has the U.S. military. There's a need to be more agile, to be much more high tech, and a need for everybody to share the sacrifices of the new base closings, painful though they may be.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: To meet new threats, we must transform our domestic force posture as well, and that will require closing and realigning military bases.
The military services have each done a review of their requirements, and they've concluded that we have more bases than we need. Supporting these facilities wastes billions of taxpayers' dollars, money that can be better spent on giving you the tools to fight terrorists and confront 21st century threats.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hip hip...
CROWD: Hooray!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hip...
CROWD: Hooray!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hip hip...
CROWD: Hooray!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
FRANKEN: Ah, the traditional cap toss. After the president had passed out his diplomas and everybody and his uncle had made a speech, the midshipmen and women got to throw their caps in the air in traditional way. Of course, the president knows something about that. He's tossed his hat in the ring a few times -- Miles.
O'BRIEN: All right, Bob Franken, thank you very much -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: Well, you may never heard of Internet relay chat, but that doesn't mean you couldn't be a victim of the latest cyberscam. On patrol with the cybercop, straight ahead.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's your name?
SHOSHANA JOHNSON, FIRST AFRICAN-AMERICAN POW: Shana.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Shana? Where are do you come from?
JOHNSON: Texas.
UNIDENTIFIED CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): She's the first African-American woman to become a prisoner of war. Shoshana Johnson was a cook for the 507th maintenance company when it was ambushed in Iraq in March of 2003.
JOHNSON: I was terrified. I didn't know what was going to happen to me and I was in a lot of pain.
CORRESPONDENT: The 35-year-old single mother was shot in both ankles, captured with five other soldiers.
JOHNSON: I feared for my life the whole captivity.
CORRESPONDENT: She was rescued three weeks later and came home to instant celebrity. Johnson-Wilson retired from the Army. She's had to fight to keep her disability benefits. Because her injuries were less severe, she receives much less than her fellow soldier Jessica Lynch. But she says she doesn't begrudge her friend.
JOHNSON: Things don't bother me as much, you know. Quite frankly, I'm just very happy to still be on this earth.
CORRESPONDENT: Johnson spends her time with her daughter. She does some speaking engagements. And she's still undergoing both physical and emotional therapy.
JOHNSON: Everything happens for a reason. I've had a lot of good fortune. I'm healthy. My family's healthy, my daughters, my nieces. I don't ask God for anything more than that.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
PHILLIPS: Well, you've probably known for some time that you have to watch yourself on the Internet. Crooks are out there, willing and able to pretend that they're you and do business as you and steal from you. And it doesn't take much to get these identity thieves started. Watch with us here, the thriving trade of your personal information now.
Our resident techie/correspondent Daniel Sieberg reports.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DAN CLEMENTS, CARDCOPS.COM: Here's a thief that says he has a Citibank credit card or checking account, and he wants to be paid via WU, which is Western Union, to make a deal. And if you want to make a deal with him, message him.
DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN TECHNOLOGY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Dan Clements of CardCops doesn't carry a badge or a gun, but he's on patrol in cyber space, in virtual black markets where thieves buy, sell, and barter personal information in underground chat rooms. The format is called IRC, or Internet Relay Chat, a low frequency hum in the World Wide Web. Think of it as the Internet equivalent of CB radio.
CLEMENTS: This is just a guy posting that he's hacked into a checking account with a $2,100 balance, and he's X'd out the numbers. He's proving he has access to it, and he wants to trade for some type of tool or ware, and he wants to split the money on this account.
SIEBERG (on camera): So this is somebody's checking account just waiting to be robbed?
CLEMENTS: Yes. And he's looking for help. He's looking for an accomplice.
SIEBERG (voice-over): It's a live look at identity theft, chitchat among con artists, happening in real time. If you've heard about personal data being stolen, a lot of it ends up here.
CLEMENTS: This is what they call a gold profile. This is all the information on this lady. We have her e-mail address, Ebay account, Paypal account, we have her first name, last name, we have her address, phone. We even have her Social Security number. We have her MMN, which is mother's maiden name. If the thief has this information, he can absolutely rip this lady's identity off in seconds.
SIEBERG (on camera): Dan, help me understand this ID thief community or black market, if you will. Each of those names down the righthand side there, they're actual people in this sort of virtual world, trading all of this very real data in real time.
CLEMENTS: That is correct. These people in the chat room, they're usually in Europe, and they're trading credit card and identities. They're swapping out different types of wares and tools so that they can commit crimes, but they're real. They're doing this right now.
SIEBERG: Clements doesn't have the means to track down the criminals, but he earns his living by spreading the word. His team alerts law enforcement, credit card associations, and merchants, many of whom pay for his information, and he even notifies consumers, whenever they spot a crime in the making.
CLEMENTS: Hello, Nestor. My name is Dan Clements with CardCops, and I'm investigating some fraud on your Mastercard ending in 1992. SIEBERG: A man named Nestor's entire personal profile is posted. We have no trouble calling him since, well, we have his home number.
How do you feel knowing that all of this personal information of yours is in this chat room where anybody could come across it and buy and sell it? How does that make you feel?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, my gosh. It's in a chat room?
SIEBERG: Yes.
CLEMENTS: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, no wonder because at this moment, I'm still getting charges, even from Spain, Italy.
SIEBERG: Does it scare you that this is happening?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, it does, yes.
SIEBERG: Is it too late for Nestor now that this information is out there, Dan?
CLEMENTS: Well, it's too late in one regard, but, Nestor, you can put a fraud alert on your credit file.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, I did that.
CLEMENTS: Oh, you did that? That's good.
SIEBERG: A little later, Clements gets a private communication.
So, Dan, somebody's messaging you right now?
CLEMENTS: Right. They're sending me an instant message and let's see what they're -- what they have to say.
SIEBERG: What do they often want?
CLEMENTS: This particular gentleman is offering credit cards with CVV2, full info and PayPal. So he has those available and he wants to either sell them to me or trade them to me.
SIEBERG: A whole new meaning to the phrase "online shopping," price tags on your priceless information, bought and sold in a marketplace right under our noses.
Daniel Sieberg, CNN, Calabas, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
PHILLIPS: Let's take a quick break. More LIVE FROM right after this.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
(STOCK MARKET REPORT)
PHILLIPS: Coming up in the second hour of LIVE FROM, remember Star Wars? No, not the movie. We're talking about the Strategic Defense Initiative. Well, in our next hour, we're going to discuss whether the military in space is feasible.
Stay with us.
(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
