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Aired June 01, 2005 - 14:30 ET
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: The U.S. military is condemning what it calls an atrocious act of violence in Afghanistan. A suicide bombing inside a mosque killed at least 20 people, wounded more than 40 others, as they were gathering for a funeral. No one has claimed responsibility for that attack.
Back to that landslide in Laguna Beach, California, now. Liz Habib has been covering the story for us throughout the day. She joins us now live. Do we know, Liz, why it's even -- why it's happened?
LIZ HABIB, CORRESPONDENT: Yes, we do know why it's happened, Kyra. It's because we had a very busy, so to speak, rainy season here in Southern California over the winter. Let me have the photographer pan off for you and show you the area this landslide is going on right now. There are $12 million homes up there in the hills that have been destroyed. If you look up there, are homes that are precariously perched, about to come sliding down.
And this is still a very active mudslide right now. We can't see the movement, because the movement happens in inches and millimeters, even, even up there as those homes come sliding down. There are 15 homes damaged, but, significantly, 300 to 350 homes evacuated.
Let me give you an idea what this was like for these folks this morning. It started happening 5:00, 6:00 a.m. One lady was in the shower this morning. She said she thought she heard someone walking on the roof. Maybe there was hail, crackling noises. Then suddenly, this huge cracking, smacking sound that she had never heard before. She lives in a gray house that -- part of the house, the bedroom came down. She said it was a noise she'd heard before.
She ran outside the house. All her neighbors were running outside of the house. The transformer boxes on the electrical poles started exploding and shooting sparks everywhere. They got into their cars or on foot, if that's all they could, and ran down the hill out of the area.
People -- it was just chaotic. People were running down the hill this morning with anything that they could hold onto, mostly their pets, dogs, cats. I saw one guy carrying an aquarium with a snake in it. There's no electricity up there, so they need everything out of the house that they can.
There have been some injuries in this, mostly to elderly folks who had had a difficult time in this situation because it came as such a shock to them. So they had a difficult time getting out and some had to be taken to the hospital somehow.
Power lines are down. Gas lines are breaking up there right now. So again, it's still a very active situation. There's just a whole plethora of crews up there on the scene, from gas crews, police crews, fire crews, anything that you can imagine. The area has been evacuated.
One man who lives at the very edge of this evacuation line. His home sort of sits in an area where all the other homes may come crashing down onto his home. He's an engineer. He's worried about all of the antiques that are in his home. He ran into his house to get his medication.
And again, this has been a very rainy season during the winter. We have not had any rain here lately, but it's because of that rain seeping into this hillside that engineers believe this mudslide happened -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: All right. Liz Habib, live from Laguna Beach, California. Thank you so much.
And this just in to CNN. An amber alert to tell you about. The El Paso Police Department releasing a picture of this Ibrahim Yassim Muhammad. This 9-year-old has been missing now for a couple of days. He was last seen at an Tierra Del Sol Elementary School in El Paso, Texas, last seen wear a black windbreaker with a white polo shirt, khaki-colored white pants and white Puma tennis shoes. The police department has not listed a possible suspect.
We're just bringing you the information that this little boy, Ibrahim Yassim Muhammad, has been missing now for a couple of days. Police in El Paso, Texas, issuing an amber alert. You are asked to call this number, 915-564-7308, if you have any information about the whereabouts of this young boy.
Well, straight ahead, doctors are very excited today for a little girl with mermaid syndrome. She was born with her legs fused together. But today we have some pretty remarkable pictures to show you.
You wouldn't let a thief walk off with your credit cards when you're at the mall, but are you as careful when you're on -- shopping online? Important safety tips, straight ahead.
SIBILA VARGAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: And I'm Sibila Vargas in Hollywood. A legend is going to be a dad again. Sister and their pants celebrated last night. And this is one code filmmakers may not able to break. I'll have all that when CNN's LIVE FROM continues.
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PHILLIPS: Just for the sake of fairness, we have to admit we showed you two young kids who didn't do so well in the spelling bee. As a matter of fact, they're no longer participating. However, as we look at live pictures now at the nation's capital, about 146 kids, I believe, competing in the spelling bee. We did just moments ago capture a young man who spelled a nefarious right. Can you spell it? Well, he did. Listen to how he reacted when he knew he got it right.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nefarious. N-E-F-A-R-I-O-U-S.
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PHILLIPS: You can see it right there. Number 47. I wish I knew his name. Maybe he'll call in if he wins.
All right. Other news around the world now. She's being called the mermaid baby and doctors in Peru separated the fused legs of this baby girl. 13-month-old Milagros Cerron has been born with a rare defect called mermaid syndrome. Well, doctors describe the operation as a success and they hope it will help the little girl walk by her second birthday.
They were married on June 1, 1925. That's right. The world's longest married couple celebrates their 80th anniversary today. Are they adorable or what? Percy Arrowsmith is 105; his wife, Florence, 100. Their secret? Don't sleep on an argument, always share a kiss and hold hands before going bed.
And in Japan, they're going casual. Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi dons the light gear in an effort to save energy. Well, the government has ordered public workers to shed their jackets and ties and come to work in casual dress. They hope to save on energy costs that way by cutting down on air conditioning. The campaign is dubbed Cool Biz.
Well, it may get an Oscar for the strangest movie title, but the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is sure to appeal with adolescent girls with its one-size-fits-all humor.
CNN entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas, live in Los Angeles, with this and other stories. Hi, Sibila.
VARGAS: Hey, Kyra.
It was, indeed, a very styling premiere in Hollywood last night, as the stars turned out for "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Surrounded by a specially decorated Levi jeans -- ooh, those look good -- the cast hit the red carpet at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theater. The movie is placed on a popular series of books, but as the film star Amber Tamblyn puts it, the title may be a little deceiving.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
AMBER TAMBLYN, ACTRESS: There's really not even that much sisterhood or pants in the film. Like, what -- like the sisterhood is at, like the friends are beginning and then they get back together at the end. And the pants are like a segue between scenes, but they're not really in it that much.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
VARGAS: "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is rated PG and opens in theaters today.
Well, it's a movie causing some controversy and it isn't even out yet. And now the "Da Vinci Code" is being barred from Westminster Abbey. The movie is based on the best-selling novel, starring Academy Award Tom Hanks, and is being directed by Oscar-winner Ron Howard, but they were not allowed to film at the historic site after church officials denounced the picture as theologically unsound.
In a statement, the Abbey said: "Although a real page-turner, we can't commend the contentious and historic suggestions made by the book." Now, the story alleges that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had children.
Speaking of books, one lucky U.S. library will be getting quite a magic one. The first American edition of "Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince," signed by author J.K. Rowling, will forever be donned on its shelves. It's all part of a contest being held by Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the popular novels of the boy wizard. The sweepstakes is open to all U.S. libraries. Mailed entries are due by June 30 and the winning library will be chosen by July 1st.
And finally...
VARGAS: It's all part of a contest being held by Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the popular novels of the boy wizard. The sweepstakes is open to all U.S. libraries. Mailed entries are due by June 30th and the winning library will be chosen by July 1st.
And finally, some baby news to report. Singer Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster are confirming that she is, indeed, expecting a child. The parents-to-be held off making the news public until she reached her 12th week. The 60-year-old rocker says he is overjoyed and extremely proud. This will be Lancaster's first, and Stewart has five children from previous relationships. The baby is due early December and they plan to marry in spring of 2006.
And that's your news from Hollywood.
Kyra, back to you.
PHILLIPS: All right, Sibila, thank you so much.
Well, Deep Throat's identity now revealed completes the portrait of the long list of characters in the Watergate scandal.
CNN's Aaron Brown takes a look back at the other key players.
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AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He was the boss.
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RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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BROWN: And he had plenty of henchmen. There was Bob Haldeman, the chief of staff, and John Ehrlichman, his right-hand man, both now deceased.
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NIXON: In one of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, I accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates.
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BROWN: There was John Dean, the young White House counsel, who was fired the same night as Ehrlichman and Haldeman. No kind words for Dean, who would soon do his talking to the Senate.
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JOHN DEAN, WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL: There was a cancer growing on the presidency.
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BROWN: Then there were the Watergate burglars themselves. There was Gordon Liddy, now a talk show host, and Howard Hunt, the ex-CIA agent and mystery novelist, who is now deceased. They were the leaders.
There was Jim McCord, also former CIA, who was first to give up the cover-up when facing a long prison sentence, told his story to one of the true heroes of the scandal, the late Judge John Sirica.
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JIM MCCORD, FORMER CIA AGENT: I have been physically attacked and robbed in jail.
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BROWN: But the scandal touched so many more. There was Jeb Magruder, who would go to prison, then enter the clergy. And Chuck Colson, ruthless as a political operative, who found religion in prison.
Attorneys-general John Mitchell went to jail; Richard Kleindienst was forced to quit. Elliot Richardson was fired by Nixon for refusing to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, in the scandal's most dramatic early day, the Saturday night massacre.
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ARCHIBALD COX, SPECIAL WATERGATE PROSECUTOR: I don't feel defiant. In fact, I told my wife this morning, I hate a fight.
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BROWN: On the political side, Sam Ervin of North Carolina became the face of the Senate investigation.
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SEN. SAM ERVIN (D), NORTH CAROLINA: I'm a Southern country lawyer myself.
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BROWN: Young Howard Baker gave the hearings their most famous quote.
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SEN. HOWARD BAKER (R), TENNESSEE: What did the president know and when did he know it?
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BROWN: The committee's two chief lawyers became well known. Sam Dash for the Democrats -- he died about a year ago -- and a young attorney named Fred Thompson for the Republicans, later a senator and an actor.
In the House, a relatively unknown New Jersey congressman, a Democrat, Peter Rodino, led the impeachment committee. He died less than a month ago after a long and distinguished career.
Every scandal produces a trivia question or two. Alexander Butterfield told the Senate about the White House taping system that in the end would be Nixon's demise. And Rosemary Woods, Nixon's loyal, longtime secretary, was, we were told, accidentally guilty of erasing a crucial tape.
Finally, the new president, Gerald Ford, appointed, not elected.
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GERALD FORD, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Our long national nightmare is over.
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BROWN: It is now in the history books. With Leon Jaworski, the new special prosecutor, nearly 40 government officials were indicted, pled guilty or were convicted; 13 went to prison.
And almost 30 years later, the man who helped send them there finally came forward.
Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.
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PHILLIPS: And you don't want to miss Larry King's exclusive interview with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. That's tomorrow night, 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, right here on CNN.
Well, coming up next: protecting your identity.
Starting today, your boss has to take extra steps to protect you from identity theft. It's the law.
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So you think you're a savvy shopper who knows how to get great deals and keep your private information safe?
I'm Kathleen Koch. Stay tuned, you are in for a wake-up call.
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PHILLIPS: And in CNN Security Watch, new safeguards are going into effect today to further protect you from identity theft. The rules require businesses for the first time to get rid of your credit report once they are done with it.
As CNN's Valerie Morris, for one industry, I.D. theft and the effort to fight it have been a boom for business.
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VALERIE MORRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Brad Schofield has an appetite for destruction -- information destruction, which is essentially an industry term for shredding sensitive documents.
BRAD SCHOFIELD, SAFEGUARD SHREDDING: But we're doing approximately 125 to 150 tons of paper on a monthly basis.
MORRIS: He serves companies throughout the D.C. area and his shredders are highly mobile and high tech. Documents are moved from the client's office under lock and key, and immediately loaded into a truck and destroyed. Monitors are provided for edgy customers to make sure the job is done right.
SCHOFIELD: We want to limit that custody period to the shortest possible time frame, which we hope is about five minutes -- whatever it takes to get the material down an elevator, onto a loading dock, down the staircase and into that chute of the truck and have it destroyed.
MORRIS: It might sound like overkill, but paper is a bigger source of fraud and I.D. theft than you might think.
KATHERINE ARMSTRONG, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: A lot of identity theft does appear to occur in the paper arena. We have heard lots of stories about people that do dumpster dives outside of mortgage broker offices or other banks or things like that where they try to obtain information and then go ahead and try to steal someone's identity.
MORRIS: Starting today as part of the new Facta (ph) Act, every business that handles a person's credit report must get rid of it.
ARMSTRONG: This will be sort of the mopping up bit in a sense, because it is dealing with a problem that was perceived that wasn't being covered by any other regulation or rule.
MORRIS: This requirement affects thousands of companies of all sizes throughout the country. And for Brad Schofield and his wife, Gretchen, it just makes sense. They both left careers in finance to start their company after witnessing potential for fraud firsthand.
GRETCHEN SCHOFIELD, SAFEGUARD SHREDDERS: We dealt with consumer information, Social Security numbers. It was a student loan company. I mean, you know that that's sensitive information, and that's why companies of our size were shredding. As a company or corporation, you need to do it just to be protecting your client base.
MORRIS: So at least for this couple, I.D. theft and the fight against it are good for business.
Valerie Morris, CNN, New York.
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PHILLIPS: Well, if you shop online, chances are you're shelling out more money and more of your personal information than you think.
CNN's Kathleen Koch joins us now live from Washington with all the details on a pretty intriguing survey.
Hi, Kathleen.
KOCH: Hi, Kyra.
Although millions of Americans nowadays regularly make purchases online, the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that they know very little about Internet shopping policies and just what happens to the information they share while shopping online.
In a survey of 1,500 adults, it found that 64 percent believe it is illegal to charge different people different prices for the same item. However, it is permissible and it happens all the time.
Not surprisingly, some 87 percent of shoppers strongly objected to the practice known as price customization. More than two thirds of those surveyed say online travel sites like Orbitz or Expedia are required to post the lowest prices, but quite to the contrary. Savvy shoppers can often find a lower price on the airlines Web site.
Another surprise was that 75 percent thought that if a Web site has privacy policy that means it will not share their information. But instead such policies usually detail just how your personal information will be shared.
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PROF. JOSEPH TUROW, ANNENBERG CENTER: A labeled privacy policy is inherently deceptive. It's a deceptive label. If 75 percent of Americans who use the Internet don't understand what that means, that's a problem.
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KOCH: Now, let's check out a few of the private policies. They're generally at the bottom of the webpage. Let's go to J. Crew, click on "privacy," click on "Information we share with others," and let's see what J. Crew has to say. "J. Crew shares information about our customers with some of our affiliates and reputable third parties in order to help us better provide service to you." The third -- "those third parties may be given access to some or all of the information that you provide to us."
Now, how about we take a look at, say, a travel Web site. We were just talking about Orbit; let's go to "Your Privacy Rights," scroll down "To whom we disclose personal information," and this time it's a pretty long list. First of all, "to those travel service providers with which you make arrangements through the site. To organizations that perform services on or behalf of Orbitz," and this is an interesting point -- "Some of these service providers may be located in other countries."
Finally, they can collaborate with folks that offer sweepstakes, raffles, and promotions, give them your information. And, finally, Orbitz says, "We may also disclose your information to our affiliates and non-affiliated business partners for their use both on our behalf and for their own business purposes." So, Kyra, that seems to cover just about everyone.
PHILLIPS: Well, when we're online shopping, I mean, I don't even think we realize how vulnerable we are, do we?
KOCH: We don't, Kyra, and the survey proved that out: 65 percent of the people questioned said that they believe they knew what they needed to to protect themselves online, while, in fact, only 6.7 percent answered every question correctly. And, still, the survey found that Americans do not want any help from the government. Just 35 percent said that they trust Uncle Sam to protect them from marketers that misuse their information. Kyra?
PHILLIPS: All right. Kathleen Koch, thank you so much.
CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night.
Well, a scary scene out in California today. Million dollar homes come tumbling down. We're live from Laguna Beach with the latest on that situation.
And, the "Video of the Day," squirrel with a sweet tooth. What's wrong with plain ol' nuts, I tell you?
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PHILLIPS: "Now in the News," homes teetering on the brink in Laguna Beach, California. A landslide has damaged more than 15 homes, and forced the evacuation of about 300 others. We'll have more in just a moment from the scene.
The end is in sight -- closing arguments, set for tomorrow in the child-molestation trial of Michael Jackson. The defense and prosecution are still arguing over what should be included in the jury instructions.
Face to face again for the second time this year, the Palestinian Authority president and the Israeli prime minister are set to meet to talk peace. Officials confirm the two leaders will sit down on June 21st; just where hasn't been decided yet.
Crews in California monitoring a hillside in Laguna Beach, California. Part of it gave way, sending several homes and part of a road crashing down.
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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: The U.S. military is condemning what it calls an atrocious act of violence in Afghanistan. A suicide bombing inside a mosque killed at least 20 people, wounded more than 40 others, as they were gathering for a funeral. No one has claimed responsibility for that attack.
Back to that landslide in Laguna Beach, California, now. Liz Habib has been covering the story for us throughout the day. She joins us now live. Do we know, Liz, why it's even -- why it's happened?
LIZ HABIB, CORRESPONDENT: Yes, we do know why it's happened, Kyra. It's because we had a very busy, so to speak, rainy season here in Southern California over the winter. Let me have the photographer pan off for you and show you the area this landslide is going on right now. There are $12 million homes up there in the hills that have been destroyed. If you look up there, are homes that are precariously perched, about to come sliding down.
And this is still a very active mudslide right now. We can't see the movement, because the movement happens in inches and millimeters, even, even up there as those homes come sliding down. There are 15 homes damaged, but, significantly, 300 to 350 homes evacuated.
Let me give you an idea what this was like for these folks this morning. It started happening 5:00, 6:00 a.m. One lady was in the shower this morning. She said she thought she heard someone walking on the roof. Maybe there was hail, crackling noises. Then suddenly, this huge cracking, smacking sound that she had never heard before. She lives in a gray house that -- part of the house, the bedroom came down. She said it was a noise she'd heard before.
She ran outside the house. All her neighbors were running outside of the house. The transformer boxes on the electrical poles started exploding and shooting sparks everywhere. They got into their cars or on foot, if that's all they could, and ran down the hill out of the area.
People -- it was just chaotic. People were running down the hill this morning with anything that they could hold onto, mostly their pets, dogs, cats. I saw one guy carrying an aquarium with a snake in it. There's no electricity up there, so they need everything out of the house that they can.
There have been some injuries in this, mostly to elderly folks who had had a difficult time in this situation because it came as such a shock to them. So they had a difficult time getting out and some had to be taken to the hospital somehow.
Power lines are down. Gas lines are breaking up there right now. So again, it's still a very active situation. There's just a whole plethora of crews up there on the scene, from gas crews, police crews, fire crews, anything that you can imagine. The area has been evacuated.
One man who lives at the very edge of this evacuation line. His home sort of sits in an area where all the other homes may come crashing down onto his home. He's an engineer. He's worried about all of the antiques that are in his home. He ran into his house to get his medication.
And again, this has been a very rainy season during the winter. We have not had any rain here lately, but it's because of that rain seeping into this hillside that engineers believe this mudslide happened -- Kyra.
PHILLIPS: All right. Liz Habib, live from Laguna Beach, California. Thank you so much.
And this just in to CNN. An amber alert to tell you about. The El Paso Police Department releasing a picture of this Ibrahim Yassim Muhammad. This 9-year-old has been missing now for a couple of days. He was last seen at an Tierra Del Sol Elementary School in El Paso, Texas, last seen wear a black windbreaker with a white polo shirt, khaki-colored white pants and white Puma tennis shoes. The police department has not listed a possible suspect.
We're just bringing you the information that this little boy, Ibrahim Yassim Muhammad, has been missing now for a couple of days. Police in El Paso, Texas, issuing an amber alert. You are asked to call this number, 915-564-7308, if you have any information about the whereabouts of this young boy.
Well, straight ahead, doctors are very excited today for a little girl with mermaid syndrome. She was born with her legs fused together. But today we have some pretty remarkable pictures to show you.
You wouldn't let a thief walk off with your credit cards when you're at the mall, but are you as careful when you're on -- shopping online? Important safety tips, straight ahead.
SIBILA VARGAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT CORRESPONDENT: And I'm Sibila Vargas in Hollywood. A legend is going to be a dad again. Sister and their pants celebrated last night. And this is one code filmmakers may not able to break. I'll have all that when CNN's LIVE FROM continues.
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PHILLIPS: Just for the sake of fairness, we have to admit we showed you two young kids who didn't do so well in the spelling bee. As a matter of fact, they're no longer participating. However, as we look at live pictures now at the nation's capital, about 146 kids, I believe, competing in the spelling bee. We did just moments ago capture a young man who spelled a nefarious right. Can you spell it? Well, he did. Listen to how he reacted when he knew he got it right.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nefarious. N-E-F-A-R-I-O-U-S.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
PHILLIPS: You can see it right there. Number 47. I wish I knew his name. Maybe he'll call in if he wins.
All right. Other news around the world now. She's being called the mermaid baby and doctors in Peru separated the fused legs of this baby girl. 13-month-old Milagros Cerron has been born with a rare defect called mermaid syndrome. Well, doctors describe the operation as a success and they hope it will help the little girl walk by her second birthday.
They were married on June 1, 1925. That's right. The world's longest married couple celebrates their 80th anniversary today. Are they adorable or what? Percy Arrowsmith is 105; his wife, Florence, 100. Their secret? Don't sleep on an argument, always share a kiss and hold hands before going bed.
And in Japan, they're going casual. Japanese prime minister Junichiro Koizumi dons the light gear in an effort to save energy. Well, the government has ordered public workers to shed their jackets and ties and come to work in casual dress. They hope to save on energy costs that way by cutting down on air conditioning. The campaign is dubbed Cool Biz.
Well, it may get an Oscar for the strangest movie title, but the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is sure to appeal with adolescent girls with its one-size-fits-all humor.
CNN entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas, live in Los Angeles, with this and other stories. Hi, Sibila.
VARGAS: Hey, Kyra.
It was, indeed, a very styling premiere in Hollywood last night, as the stars turned out for "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants." Surrounded by a specially decorated Levi jeans -- ooh, those look good -- the cast hit the red carpet at the famous Grauman's Chinese Theater. The movie is placed on a popular series of books, but as the film star Amber Tamblyn puts it, the title may be a little deceiving.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
AMBER TAMBLYN, ACTRESS: There's really not even that much sisterhood or pants in the film. Like, what -- like the sisterhood is at, like the friends are beginning and then they get back together at the end. And the pants are like a segue between scenes, but they're not really in it that much.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
VARGAS: "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" is rated PG and opens in theaters today.
Well, it's a movie causing some controversy and it isn't even out yet. And now the "Da Vinci Code" is being barred from Westminster Abbey. The movie is based on the best-selling novel, starring Academy Award Tom Hanks, and is being directed by Oscar-winner Ron Howard, but they were not allowed to film at the historic site after church officials denounced the picture as theologically unsound.
In a statement, the Abbey said: "Although a real page-turner, we can't commend the contentious and historic suggestions made by the book." Now, the story alleges that Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married and had children.
Speaking of books, one lucky U.S. library will be getting quite a magic one. The first American edition of "Harry Potter and the Half- Blood Prince," signed by author J.K. Rowling, will forever be donned on its shelves. It's all part of a contest being held by Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the popular novels of the boy wizard. The sweepstakes is open to all U.S. libraries. Mailed entries are due by June 30 and the winning library will be chosen by July 1st.
And finally...
VARGAS: It's all part of a contest being held by Scholastic, the U.S. publisher of the popular novels of the boy wizard. The sweepstakes is open to all U.S. libraries. Mailed entries are due by June 30th and the winning library will be chosen by July 1st.
And finally, some baby news to report. Singer Rod Stewart and Penny Lancaster are confirming that she is, indeed, expecting a child. The parents-to-be held off making the news public until she reached her 12th week. The 60-year-old rocker says he is overjoyed and extremely proud. This will be Lancaster's first, and Stewart has five children from previous relationships. The baby is due early December and they plan to marry in spring of 2006.
And that's your news from Hollywood.
Kyra, back to you.
PHILLIPS: All right, Sibila, thank you so much.
Well, Deep Throat's identity now revealed completes the portrait of the long list of characters in the Watergate scandal.
CNN's Aaron Brown takes a look back at the other key players.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He was the boss.
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RICHARD NIXON, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.
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BROWN: And he had plenty of henchmen. There was Bob Haldeman, the chief of staff, and John Ehrlichman, his right-hand man, both now deceased.
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NIXON: In one of the most difficult decisions of my presidency, I accepted the resignations of two of my closest associates.
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BROWN: There was John Dean, the young White House counsel, who was fired the same night as Ehrlichman and Haldeman. No kind words for Dean, who would soon do his talking to the Senate.
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JOHN DEAN, WHITE HOUSE COUNSEL: There was a cancer growing on the presidency.
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BROWN: Then there were the Watergate burglars themselves. There was Gordon Liddy, now a talk show host, and Howard Hunt, the ex-CIA agent and mystery novelist, who is now deceased. They were the leaders.
There was Jim McCord, also former CIA, who was first to give up the cover-up when facing a long prison sentence, told his story to one of the true heroes of the scandal, the late Judge John Sirica.
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JIM MCCORD, FORMER CIA AGENT: I have been physically attacked and robbed in jail.
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BROWN: But the scandal touched so many more. There was Jeb Magruder, who would go to prison, then enter the clergy. And Chuck Colson, ruthless as a political operative, who found religion in prison.
Attorneys-general John Mitchell went to jail; Richard Kleindienst was forced to quit. Elliot Richardson was fired by Nixon for refusing to fire special prosecutor Archibald Cox, in the scandal's most dramatic early day, the Saturday night massacre.
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ARCHIBALD COX, SPECIAL WATERGATE PROSECUTOR: I don't feel defiant. In fact, I told my wife this morning, I hate a fight.
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BROWN: On the political side, Sam Ervin of North Carolina became the face of the Senate investigation.
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SEN. SAM ERVIN (D), NORTH CAROLINA: I'm a Southern country lawyer myself.
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BROWN: Young Howard Baker gave the hearings their most famous quote.
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SEN. HOWARD BAKER (R), TENNESSEE: What did the president know and when did he know it?
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BROWN: The committee's two chief lawyers became well known. Sam Dash for the Democrats -- he died about a year ago -- and a young attorney named Fred Thompson for the Republicans, later a senator and an actor.
In the House, a relatively unknown New Jersey congressman, a Democrat, Peter Rodino, led the impeachment committee. He died less than a month ago after a long and distinguished career.
Every scandal produces a trivia question or two. Alexander Butterfield told the Senate about the White House taping system that in the end would be Nixon's demise. And Rosemary Woods, Nixon's loyal, longtime secretary, was, we were told, accidentally guilty of erasing a crucial tape.
Finally, the new president, Gerald Ford, appointed, not elected.
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GERALD FORD, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: Our long national nightmare is over.
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BROWN: It is now in the history books. With Leon Jaworski, the new special prosecutor, nearly 40 government officials were indicted, pled guilty or were convicted; 13 went to prison.
And almost 30 years later, the man who helped send them there finally came forward.
Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.
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PHILLIPS: And you don't want to miss Larry King's exclusive interview with reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein. That's tomorrow night, 9:00 Eastern, 6:00 Pacific, right here on CNN.
Well, coming up next: protecting your identity.
Starting today, your boss has to take extra steps to protect you from identity theft. It's the law.
KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: So you think you're a savvy shopper who knows how to get great deals and keep your private information safe?
I'm Kathleen Koch. Stay tuned, you are in for a wake-up call.
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PHILLIPS: And in CNN Security Watch, new safeguards are going into effect today to further protect you from identity theft. The rules require businesses for the first time to get rid of your credit report once they are done with it.
As CNN's Valerie Morris, for one industry, I.D. theft and the effort to fight it have been a boom for business.
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VALERIE MORRIS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Brad Schofield has an appetite for destruction -- information destruction, which is essentially an industry term for shredding sensitive documents.
BRAD SCHOFIELD, SAFEGUARD SHREDDING: But we're doing approximately 125 to 150 tons of paper on a monthly basis.
MORRIS: He serves companies throughout the D.C. area and his shredders are highly mobile and high tech. Documents are moved from the client's office under lock and key, and immediately loaded into a truck and destroyed. Monitors are provided for edgy customers to make sure the job is done right.
SCHOFIELD: We want to limit that custody period to the shortest possible time frame, which we hope is about five minutes -- whatever it takes to get the material down an elevator, onto a loading dock, down the staircase and into that chute of the truck and have it destroyed.
MORRIS: It might sound like overkill, but paper is a bigger source of fraud and I.D. theft than you might think.
KATHERINE ARMSTRONG, FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION: A lot of identity theft does appear to occur in the paper arena. We have heard lots of stories about people that do dumpster dives outside of mortgage broker offices or other banks or things like that where they try to obtain information and then go ahead and try to steal someone's identity.
MORRIS: Starting today as part of the new Facta (ph) Act, every business that handles a person's credit report must get rid of it.
ARMSTRONG: This will be sort of the mopping up bit in a sense, because it is dealing with a problem that was perceived that wasn't being covered by any other regulation or rule.
MORRIS: This requirement affects thousands of companies of all sizes throughout the country. And for Brad Schofield and his wife, Gretchen, it just makes sense. They both left careers in finance to start their company after witnessing potential for fraud firsthand.
GRETCHEN SCHOFIELD, SAFEGUARD SHREDDERS: We dealt with consumer information, Social Security numbers. It was a student loan company. I mean, you know that that's sensitive information, and that's why companies of our size were shredding. As a company or corporation, you need to do it just to be protecting your client base.
MORRIS: So at least for this couple, I.D. theft and the fight against it are good for business.
Valerie Morris, CNN, New York.
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PHILLIPS: Well, if you shop online, chances are you're shelling out more money and more of your personal information than you think.
CNN's Kathleen Koch joins us now live from Washington with all the details on a pretty intriguing survey.
Hi, Kathleen.
KOCH: Hi, Kyra.
Although millions of Americans nowadays regularly make purchases online, the Annenberg Public Policy Center found that they know very little about Internet shopping policies and just what happens to the information they share while shopping online.
In a survey of 1,500 adults, it found that 64 percent believe it is illegal to charge different people different prices for the same item. However, it is permissible and it happens all the time.
Not surprisingly, some 87 percent of shoppers strongly objected to the practice known as price customization. More than two thirds of those surveyed say online travel sites like Orbitz or Expedia are required to post the lowest prices, but quite to the contrary. Savvy shoppers can often find a lower price on the airlines Web site.
Another surprise was that 75 percent thought that if a Web site has privacy policy that means it will not share their information. But instead such policies usually detail just how your personal information will be shared.
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PROF. JOSEPH TUROW, ANNENBERG CENTER: A labeled privacy policy is inherently deceptive. It's a deceptive label. If 75 percent of Americans who use the Internet don't understand what that means, that's a problem.
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KOCH: Now, let's check out a few of the private policies. They're generally at the bottom of the webpage. Let's go to J. Crew, click on "privacy," click on "Information we share with others," and let's see what J. Crew has to say. "J. Crew shares information about our customers with some of our affiliates and reputable third parties in order to help us better provide service to you." The third -- "those third parties may be given access to some or all of the information that you provide to us."
Now, how about we take a look at, say, a travel Web site. We were just talking about Orbit; let's go to "Your Privacy Rights," scroll down "To whom we disclose personal information," and this time it's a pretty long list. First of all, "to those travel service providers with which you make arrangements through the site. To organizations that perform services on or behalf of Orbitz," and this is an interesting point -- "Some of these service providers may be located in other countries."
Finally, they can collaborate with folks that offer sweepstakes, raffles, and promotions, give them your information. And, finally, Orbitz says, "We may also disclose your information to our affiliates and non-affiliated business partners for their use both on our behalf and for their own business purposes." So, Kyra, that seems to cover just about everyone.
PHILLIPS: Well, when we're online shopping, I mean, I don't even think we realize how vulnerable we are, do we?
KOCH: We don't, Kyra, and the survey proved that out: 65 percent of the people questioned said that they believe they knew what they needed to to protect themselves online, while, in fact, only 6.7 percent answered every question correctly. And, still, the survey found that Americans do not want any help from the government. Just 35 percent said that they trust Uncle Sam to protect them from marketers that misuse their information. Kyra?
PHILLIPS: All right. Kathleen Koch, thank you so much.
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PHILLIPS: "Now in the News," homes teetering on the brink in Laguna Beach, California. A landslide has damaged more than 15 homes, and forced the evacuation of about 300 others. We'll have more in just a moment from the scene.
The end is in sight -- closing arguments, set for tomorrow in the child-molestation trial of Michael Jackson. The defense and prosecution are still arguing over what should be included in the jury instructions.
Face to face again for the second time this year, the Palestinian Authority president and the Israeli prime minister are set to meet to talk peace. Officials confirm the two leaders will sit down on June 21st; just where hasn't been decided yet.
Crews in California monitoring a hillside in Laguna Beach, California. Part of it gave way, sending several homes and part of a road crashing down.
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