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Authorities Increase Search for Vacationing Teen; Supreme Court Rules Against Medical Marijuana; Jury Deliberates Michael Jackson's Fate

Aired June 06, 2005 - 13:00   ET

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KYRA PHILLIPS, HOST: Missing woman mystery. FBI dive team sent in. Two guards under arrest. But still no answer to the question, where is Alabama student Natalee Holloway? We're live from Aruba.
TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Ted Rowlands, live in Santa Maria, California, where the jury in the Michael Jackson case continues to deliberate his fate. We'll have the very latest coming up.

PHILLIPS: Medical marijuana. A Supreme Court ruling means six people could face federal prosecution for lighting up.

Secret bunker busted. Will clues found underground in Iraq lead to the capture of more insurgents?

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Kyra Phillips. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

Arrests in Aruba, but a solid week after a straight A, straight arrow, college-bound high school grad from Alabama disappeared, she's still a missing person or worse. The fliers say kidnapped, but police on the hunt for Natalee Holloway say they haven't ruled anything in or out. Despite the presence of two hotel security guards in an island lockup on charges said to be related to the Holloway investigation.

We get the very latest from CNN's Karl Penhaul in the Aruba community of Palm Beach.

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KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A senior police official has told me that the two suspects being held in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway are not being cooperative in interrogation sessions that have been held so far this morning. The police, official, though, says that that is the kind of behavior he would expect the behavior at this stage of the investigation.

(on camera) What he has said is that two urgent lines are being queried, the police pursuing in these interrogations are, first of all, to press these men for any clues as to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway. He said they're also trying to push the men to find out whether they are in any way linked to three other young men who were last seen in Natalee Holloway's company outside the Carlos and Charlie's bar. That was on Monday in the wee small hours exactly a week ago now. In other news, the government of Aruba has given all its employees the afternoon off. They will be joining search and rescue teams, Dutch Marines and other volunteers in a massive island wide search this afternoon to try and turn up any further clues as to what may have happened to Natalee.

The island's chief prosecutor has also called for expert FBI dive teams to be called in, in another effort to widen the search for Natalee. Those dive teams are likely to see action on parts of Aruba's coastline where there are craggy rock faces and also strong ocean currents.

Karl Penhaul, CNN, Palm Beach, Aruba.

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PHILLIPS: And joining me now on the phone from Aruba is the spokeswoman for her Natalee Holloway's anguished family, Carla Caccavale.

Carla, can you bring us up to date on how the family is doing?

CARLA CACCAVALE, FAMILY SPOKESPERSON: Yes, absolutely. The family is very, very upbeat today, because as you probably heard, the government of Aruba has released all government employees from 2 p.m. on this afternoon to -- to do a massive island-wide, nationwide search for Natalee Holloway.

PHILLIPS: So have you been able to find out, or has the family been able to find out any more about the investigation and these men that have been arrested, the security guards at another hotel?

CACCAVALE: Actually, we were briefed by the police earlier today and they have not revealed any new information, but they did reassure us that they are doing everything possible. And currently they cannot reveal new information because it would jeopardize the integrity of the search. But they are working day in and day out round the clock to bring Natalee back.

PHILLIPS: What do you think about the dive teams that have been sent to Aruba and that are in the process of possibly looking for a body? It must be hard for the family to just face the reality that they've asked for dive teams to come there.

CACCAVALE: Well, you know, the family isn't really focusing on the fact that they are dive teams. They're just focusing on the fact that it's more help and the more help, the better. And if they don't turn anything up in the water, that's great news. Because they believe that Natalee is still here on island, alive somewhere on island.

And that is the family's belief right now. They're not considering any other option. And, they're remaining very, very strong. And they have a great support system here on island from family, from friends, from the local community and, of course, the U.S. government sending in help is a huge, huge, you know, relief for them.

PHILLIPS: Well, and Carla, police have not ruled out the possibility of kidnapping, right?

CACCAVALE: No. Police have not ruled it out, and that is what the family -- that's the only thing the family is considering.

PHILLIPS: Carla Caccavale, thank you so much. We're going to continue to follow the story.

Now we want to move on to Washington, where medical marijuana finds few takers on the highest court in the land. In a long awaited 6-3 decision, the court rules Congress can just say no to states that have legalized marijuana use for treating chronic or life threatening conditions.

More on that now from CNN's Kimberly Osias. She's in our D.C. bureau.

Hi, Kimberly.

KIMBERLY OSIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Kyra.

Well, some patients I just spoke with said they will continue to say yes, regardless of this decision.

A big victory for the federal government. The high court handed the Bush administration a huge ruling in the use of so-called medical marijuana, saying the drug can no longer cultivated for private use, medicinal or otherwise.

Currently California, long the pioneer state in the issue, and 10 others have laws on the book allowing the use of pot in alleviating pain. But no more.

Several months ago, mother of two Angel Raich came to D.C. to lobby in support of the issue. She has an inoperable brain tumor. She says she needs the drug to have an appetite and to relieve unbearable pain.

In a 6-3 votes, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion, saying, essentially, that federal law trumps any kind of state law. Stevens voiced concern for abuse saying, quote, "Our cases have taught us that there are some unscrupulous physicians out that who over prescribe when it is sufficiently profitable to do so."

Patients like Raich say their pot is purely for personal use, carefully regulated by their doctors and never to be sold. The government in its case says marijuana is covered under the Controlled Substances Act and listed as a Class 1 drug.

Raich and others were subjected to federal raids back in 2001 when agents stormed homes and confiscated the marijuana. There were three dissenting opinions today from Justices O'Connor, Rehnquist and Thomas -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right, Kimberly Osias, live from D.C. Thank you.

Also today, smoother sailing for disabled cruisers. In another split decision, the high court applied the Americans with Disabilities Act to foreign cruise ships in U.S. waters. It sent the case back to a lower court to figure out exactly what the ships will have to do or change or fix. But the statute limits accommodations to those, quote, "readily achievable."

Well, the jury is out in Santa Maria, California, and the lawyers are on 10-minute notice. Deliberations in Michael Jackson's child molestation and conspiracy trial have gone on roughly three and a half hours since they started on Friday. But they're already said to be taking a toll on the defendant.

CNN's Ted Rowlands once again at the courthouse with the details -- Ted.

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, it is another day of waiting here outside the courthouse. And within the last two minutes or so, something bizarre just happened.

Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson's father, showed up here at the courthouse and walked through the crowd of supporters. And he approached some bailiffs outside the courthouse and started saying, "Where is my son? Where is my son? Where is my son?"

And he has now walked to the backside of the courthouse. And quite frankly, we don't know what he is talking about. We assume that his son is Michael, but it could be one of his other sons. And he seemed enraged, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what exactly is going on at this hour.

Meanwhile inside the courthouse, the jury continues to deliberate Joe Jackson's son's fate. They have been at it for about an hour and a half here. They had two hours on Friday of deliberations.

Over the weekend, Michael Jackson was in the hospital again for a reoccurring bad back. He spent a few hours at the hospital. According to a spokesperson, the stress is getting to him. He is under stress. "This is a difficult time" is the exact quote from Raymone Bain, Jackson's spokesperson.

But, this is -- you know, has been strange from the beginning, and it continues to be strange here during what is normally the calm jury deliberation time. We're not quite sure what Joe Jackson was -- is doing here at the courthouse and what he is talking about, demanding the whereabouts of his son. But we are working on trying to get some answers here and when we find them, we will pass them on.

Meanwhile, the jury continues to deliberate Michael Jackson's fate -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right. Ted Rowlands, we'll be checking in with you, of course, throughout the day. Thanks.

They've got living rooms, showers, air conditioning, lots of food and even more weapons. It was as big as nine football fields, and now it's a trophy of U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers on the prowl near Fallujah.

CNN's Jennifer Eccleston has more now from her post in Baghdad.

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JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The series of underground bunkers discovered by the U.S. Marines and Iraqi forces are now destroyed. It was part of an ongoing anti-insurgency operation in Anbar Province, a center of the Sunni Arab resistance.

Now, the Marines and Iraqi soldiers uncovered this elaborate series of bunkers with large stores of heavy weapons, including rockets and mortars, ammunition and supplies. It was located in the town of Karma, not far from the troubled city of Fallujah.

The bunker was actually found on Thursday, one of a dozen weapons caches uncovered in the area in recent days. No insurgents were actually in the compound at the time, but it was likely, according to Marines, used recently, because there was fresh food in a kitchen. It had a fairly comfortable layout with furnished living quarters, two showers and a functioning air conditioner.

The bunkers were built into an old rock quarry and totaled roughly half a million square feet, making it, according to the Marine spokesman, one of the largest underground insurgent hideouts discovered in at least the last year.

Now it's not clear whether the compound dated back to the era of Saddam Hussein or whether it was recently constructed by the insurgents, but again, that bunker has now been destroyed.

Jennifer Eccleston, CNN, Baghdad.

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PHILLIPS: Well, when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein goes to trial in just a couple of months, there could be 500 charges against him. But Iraqi officials say they'll focus on at least 12 thoroughly documented cases, some accusing him of gassing Kurds and executed enemies. And authorities believe that they can get convictions. A special tribunal will hear his case. The Iraqi foreign minister says Iraq will give Hussein, quote, "the same justice he has denied us for many years."

U.S. troops are now guarding the man considered al Qaeda's third in command. Authorities in Pakistan, who captured Abu Faraj al-Libbi just about a month ago near the Afghan border have put him in U.S. custody despite, the fact that he was Pakistan's most wanted fugitive, suspected of having tried to assassinate Pakistan's president. It's not clear when the U.S. took control of al-Libbi nor where he's being detained.

Straight ahead, they are out of prison, but police are still keeping tabs on them around the clock. Ahead on LIVE FROM, inside a high-tech system to track sex offenders.

Actors -- actor acts up? The cops move in on "Cinderella Man" Russell Crowe. We've got the details.

And later, is a British tradition too cruel to continue? And animal rights group calls for a changing of the guard, or at least their hats.

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PHILLIPS: And this just in to CNN. We are getting word that a judge has rejected a lawsuit on behalf of the GOP aimed at overturning Washington's governors' 2004 race. The judge denied Republican claims that that election was full of errors and illegal voters.

Our Sean Callebs on the phone live from Wenatchee, Washington, with the latest on this decision.

Sean, give us some background.

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, actually they say there were some illegalities but no proof that there weren't -- there was no proof that those illegalities were caused by fraud or were deliberately done to change the outcome of the election. That is very significant.

From here, without question, this is going to move on to the Washington Supreme Court.

Basically, what happened, Judge John Bridges has been hearing this case for the past two weeks. He set the tone early on by telling the GOP that they must -- by state law, the GOP needs to show that Gregoire, the current governor, received enough improper votes to make a difference. And that's really what hinged on the two weeks of sometimes very dry testimony that involved a lot of statistics.

But in the end, the judge ruled that there was -- there was no fraud and no misconduct, anything that could change the outcome. And he went on to say that when the voters speak, the judiciary should only weigh in using restraint. Saying that they should not overturn because, quote, "one judge has egotism or activism."

It was really from a long time ago -- Dino Rossi, the challenger here has been considered a rising GOP star in Washington state, and this state has not had a Republican governor since 1980.

There were actually three recounts here. In the first one Rossi won by more than 200 votes. In the second one, he won by a very narrow margin of only 49 votes. Then they hand recounted all 2.8 million votes in the state. At that point, Christine Gregoire won by 129 votes.

Since then, Rossi and the Republicans have been pursuing their legal action. We guarantee we have not heard the last of this one. But if you thought the 2000 presidential election went on for some time, this one still has months to go.

PHILLIPS: All right. Our Sean Callebs, reporting from Wenatchee, Washington. Once again, the judge denying Republican claims that the governor's race there in 2004 in Washington was fraudulent. As it stands, Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire will continue on as governor.

Other news across America now, "Cinderella Man" goes from on screen fisticuffs to a pair of NYPD handcuffs. Oh, Russell. Freshly arraigned now on a second degree assault charge and a fourth degree charge of criminal possession of a weapon.

Evidently, Russell Crowe allegedly pitched a fit and then a telephone when he couldn't get a call through to Australia. An employee at Soho's trendy Mercer Hotel was on the receiving end of that flying phone. Had to go to the hospital for stitches. Keep you posted on Russell Crowe.

In New Jersey, a police prostitution sting nets an unlikely madam. Eighty-year-old Vera Tursi now facing one criminal charge. She reportedly told cops she took over her late daughter's prostitution business because she needed money to augment her Social Security checks.

And in Winter Haven, Florida, a community college professor faces charges for allegedly defrauding some of his own students. Students say that Bradley Schlossberg passed around a sign-in sheet, asking them to write down their names and Social Security. Schlossberg's girlfriend, Deborah Hafner, allegedly used the personal info to open credit card accounts. She also faces charges.

In much of the country, bad weather is still the headline after a weekend of strong storms. Take a look at this video here.

In Michigan, almost 200,000 people were left in the dark when strong winds blew down a number of power lines and heavy thunderstorms spawned at least two twisters in Oklahoma, injuring at least five people and damaging several homes.

So, is the worst over for now? CNN's Jacqui Jeras now with the latest on the forecast -- Jacqui.

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PHILLIPS: All right, Jacqui Jeras. Thank you so much.

And in health news, a report in "USA Today" quotes global experts who think there's still time to avert a potential human bird flu pandemic but say that window of opportunity is closing. The virus, now passed from infected birds to humans, has killed 54 of the 98 known cases, most of them in Vietnam.

The goal is stemming a worldwide outbreak, if and when the virus mutates to allow human to human transmission. But even as wealthier nations stockpile anti-viral medicines like Tamaflu, health officials say the real key is to focus attention and resources on Southeast Asia, which is likely is the place an outbreak of bird flu would begin.

In other medical news, a new poll shows that five percent of Americans have tried putting down their pill bottles to try an ancient pain remedy, acupuncture.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets right to the point.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For 25 years, pain has been smoldering throughout 51-year-old Darrell Ortiz's body. Several major work injuries turned into a nagging sort of pain at first, but then basic things like walking, going to the grocery store, eventually even going to work became impossible.

DARRELL ORTIZ, PAIN SUFFERER: Excruciating. It feels like I've gone through all my injuries all over again, like they just happened. There's sometimes when I almost want to give up completely, you know? The pain just takes over.

GUPTA: Pain also appears in the sharp hues and images born of Ortiz's palette. Each day with each glide of his brush on canvas, he could paint away the dull painful throb, but eventually, pain would invade even that.

ORTIZ: Just lifting my arm like this, you know, pain. Sometimes I couldn't do it. I'd pint for half an hour and have to go to bed, you know.

GUPTA: That was the last straw. He tried everything: potent pain drugs like Oxycontin and Percocet, exercise. Nothing worked over the long term.

ORTIZ: I was to the point where I was desperate. I was willing to try anything.

GUPTA: He swallowed his fear of needles and tried acupuncture.

(on camera) Studies seem to be stacking up in favor of acupuncture, according to the World Health Organizations. They say little needles like these can be effective in terms of treating arthritis, headache, menopausal symptoms, lower back pain, dental pain, even.

The theory is this: you have energy or chi through natural channels in the body. Any interruption of those natural channels can cause tension, subsequently causing disease. Well, it's acupuncture that can help restore that flow.

DR. WEI HUANG, EMORY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: The theory of the tradition of Chinese medicine focuses on the whole body. And there's a harmony inside the body. The flow of the chi should be very fluid in order to maintain health. GUPTA (voice-over): Historically, western doctors may have been reluctant to use this 2,000-year-old practice, but the landscape is changing slowly.

DR. PETER JOHNSTONE, EMORY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: There are some things that we still don't do well. And there are things that we still don't understand well. And, in an attempt to hopefully relieve suffering, we need to, I think, be hope to the fact that there may be other avenues besides those that we were taught in medical school.

GUPTA: Mainstream options alone weren't helping Darrell Ortiz. He says using acupuncture as a complement to other therapies has made his life livable. A series of treatments keeps him pain free for months at a time.

ORTIZ: Since I've been doing the acupuncture, I've been having to take less drugs.

GUPTA: Fewer drugs but more importantly, the ability to paint away his pain. And to live a normal life.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.

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PHILLIPS (voice-over): Next, on LIVE FROM, how safe is America one year after the 9/11 Commission's report? We'll talk with a panel member set to grade the government's response to terror threats.

Later on LIVE FROM, tracking sex offenders.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's where he is right now.

PHILLIPS: These green dots tell police what's up 24/7. We'll show you how one system works.

Tomorrow on LIVE FROM, a chance meeting at the Vietnam memorial, the father of this soldier killed in Iraq and the Army nurse who held him as he died. They join us live with the moving story of how they met.

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PHILLIPS: Well, we're getting word that another company has lost personal information belonging to its customers. Kathleen Hays, live at the New York Stock Exchange.

Oh boy. Here we go again.

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Aired June 6, 2005 - 13:00   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
KYRA PHILLIPS, HOST: Missing woman mystery. FBI dive team sent in. Two guards under arrest. But still no answer to the question, where is Alabama student Natalee Holloway? We're live from Aruba.
TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Ted Rowlands, live in Santa Maria, California, where the jury in the Michael Jackson case continues to deliberate his fate. We'll have the very latest coming up.

PHILLIPS: Medical marijuana. A Supreme Court ruling means six people could face federal prosecution for lighting up.

Secret bunker busted. Will clues found underground in Iraq lead to the capture of more insurgents?

From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Kyra Phillips. CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.

Arrests in Aruba, but a solid week after a straight A, straight arrow, college-bound high school grad from Alabama disappeared, she's still a missing person or worse. The fliers say kidnapped, but police on the hunt for Natalee Holloway say they haven't ruled anything in or out. Despite the presence of two hotel security guards in an island lockup on charges said to be related to the Holloway investigation.

We get the very latest from CNN's Karl Penhaul in the Aruba community of Palm Beach.

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KARL PENHAUL, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): A senior police official has told me that the two suspects being held in connection with the disappearance of Natalee Holloway are not being cooperative in interrogation sessions that have been held so far this morning. The police, official, though, says that that is the kind of behavior he would expect the behavior at this stage of the investigation.

(on camera) What he has said is that two urgent lines are being queried, the police pursuing in these interrogations are, first of all, to press these men for any clues as to the whereabouts of Natalee Holloway. He said they're also trying to push the men to find out whether they are in any way linked to three other young men who were last seen in Natalee Holloway's company outside the Carlos and Charlie's bar. That was on Monday in the wee small hours exactly a week ago now. In other news, the government of Aruba has given all its employees the afternoon off. They will be joining search and rescue teams, Dutch Marines and other volunteers in a massive island wide search this afternoon to try and turn up any further clues as to what may have happened to Natalee.

The island's chief prosecutor has also called for expert FBI dive teams to be called in, in another effort to widen the search for Natalee. Those dive teams are likely to see action on parts of Aruba's coastline where there are craggy rock faces and also strong ocean currents.

Karl Penhaul, CNN, Palm Beach, Aruba.

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PHILLIPS: And joining me now on the phone from Aruba is the spokeswoman for her Natalee Holloway's anguished family, Carla Caccavale.

Carla, can you bring us up to date on how the family is doing?

CARLA CACCAVALE, FAMILY SPOKESPERSON: Yes, absolutely. The family is very, very upbeat today, because as you probably heard, the government of Aruba has released all government employees from 2 p.m. on this afternoon to -- to do a massive island-wide, nationwide search for Natalee Holloway.

PHILLIPS: So have you been able to find out, or has the family been able to find out any more about the investigation and these men that have been arrested, the security guards at another hotel?

CACCAVALE: Actually, we were briefed by the police earlier today and they have not revealed any new information, but they did reassure us that they are doing everything possible. And currently they cannot reveal new information because it would jeopardize the integrity of the search. But they are working day in and day out round the clock to bring Natalee back.

PHILLIPS: What do you think about the dive teams that have been sent to Aruba and that are in the process of possibly looking for a body? It must be hard for the family to just face the reality that they've asked for dive teams to come there.

CACCAVALE: Well, you know, the family isn't really focusing on the fact that they are dive teams. They're just focusing on the fact that it's more help and the more help, the better. And if they don't turn anything up in the water, that's great news. Because they believe that Natalee is still here on island, alive somewhere on island.

And that is the family's belief right now. They're not considering any other option. And, they're remaining very, very strong. And they have a great support system here on island from family, from friends, from the local community and, of course, the U.S. government sending in help is a huge, huge, you know, relief for them.

PHILLIPS: Well, and Carla, police have not ruled out the possibility of kidnapping, right?

CACCAVALE: No. Police have not ruled it out, and that is what the family -- that's the only thing the family is considering.

PHILLIPS: Carla Caccavale, thank you so much. We're going to continue to follow the story.

Now we want to move on to Washington, where medical marijuana finds few takers on the highest court in the land. In a long awaited 6-3 decision, the court rules Congress can just say no to states that have legalized marijuana use for treating chronic or life threatening conditions.

More on that now from CNN's Kimberly Osias. She's in our D.C. bureau.

Hi, Kimberly.

KIMBERLY OSIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Kyra.

Well, some patients I just spoke with said they will continue to say yes, regardless of this decision.

A big victory for the federal government. The high court handed the Bush administration a huge ruling in the use of so-called medical marijuana, saying the drug can no longer cultivated for private use, medicinal or otherwise.

Currently California, long the pioneer state in the issue, and 10 others have laws on the book allowing the use of pot in alleviating pain. But no more.

Several months ago, mother of two Angel Raich came to D.C. to lobby in support of the issue. She has an inoperable brain tumor. She says she needs the drug to have an appetite and to relieve unbearable pain.

In a 6-3 votes, Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the majority opinion, saying, essentially, that federal law trumps any kind of state law. Stevens voiced concern for abuse saying, quote, "Our cases have taught us that there are some unscrupulous physicians out that who over prescribe when it is sufficiently profitable to do so."

Patients like Raich say their pot is purely for personal use, carefully regulated by their doctors and never to be sold. The government in its case says marijuana is covered under the Controlled Substances Act and listed as a Class 1 drug.

Raich and others were subjected to federal raids back in 2001 when agents stormed homes and confiscated the marijuana. There were three dissenting opinions today from Justices O'Connor, Rehnquist and Thomas -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right, Kimberly Osias, live from D.C. Thank you.

Also today, smoother sailing for disabled cruisers. In another split decision, the high court applied the Americans with Disabilities Act to foreign cruise ships in U.S. waters. It sent the case back to a lower court to figure out exactly what the ships will have to do or change or fix. But the statute limits accommodations to those, quote, "readily achievable."

Well, the jury is out in Santa Maria, California, and the lawyers are on 10-minute notice. Deliberations in Michael Jackson's child molestation and conspiracy trial have gone on roughly three and a half hours since they started on Friday. But they're already said to be taking a toll on the defendant.

CNN's Ted Rowlands once again at the courthouse with the details -- Ted.

TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Kyra, it is another day of waiting here outside the courthouse. And within the last two minutes or so, something bizarre just happened.

Joe Jackson, Michael Jackson's father, showed up here at the courthouse and walked through the crowd of supporters. And he approached some bailiffs outside the courthouse and started saying, "Where is my son? Where is my son? Where is my son?"

And he has now walked to the backside of the courthouse. And quite frankly, we don't know what he is talking about. We assume that his son is Michael, but it could be one of his other sons. And he seemed enraged, and we're trying to get to the bottom of what exactly is going on at this hour.

Meanwhile inside the courthouse, the jury continues to deliberate Joe Jackson's son's fate. They have been at it for about an hour and a half here. They had two hours on Friday of deliberations.

Over the weekend, Michael Jackson was in the hospital again for a reoccurring bad back. He spent a few hours at the hospital. According to a spokesperson, the stress is getting to him. He is under stress. "This is a difficult time" is the exact quote from Raymone Bain, Jackson's spokesperson.

But, this is -- you know, has been strange from the beginning, and it continues to be strange here during what is normally the calm jury deliberation time. We're not quite sure what Joe Jackson was -- is doing here at the courthouse and what he is talking about, demanding the whereabouts of his son. But we are working on trying to get some answers here and when we find them, we will pass them on.

Meanwhile, the jury continues to deliberate Michael Jackson's fate -- Kyra.

PHILLIPS: All right. Ted Rowlands, we'll be checking in with you, of course, throughout the day. Thanks.

They've got living rooms, showers, air conditioning, lots of food and even more weapons. It was as big as nine football fields, and now it's a trophy of U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers on the prowl near Fallujah.

CNN's Jennifer Eccleston has more now from her post in Baghdad.

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JENNIFER ECCLESTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The series of underground bunkers discovered by the U.S. Marines and Iraqi forces are now destroyed. It was part of an ongoing anti-insurgency operation in Anbar Province, a center of the Sunni Arab resistance.

Now, the Marines and Iraqi soldiers uncovered this elaborate series of bunkers with large stores of heavy weapons, including rockets and mortars, ammunition and supplies. It was located in the town of Karma, not far from the troubled city of Fallujah.

The bunker was actually found on Thursday, one of a dozen weapons caches uncovered in the area in recent days. No insurgents were actually in the compound at the time, but it was likely, according to Marines, used recently, because there was fresh food in a kitchen. It had a fairly comfortable layout with furnished living quarters, two showers and a functioning air conditioner.

The bunkers were built into an old rock quarry and totaled roughly half a million square feet, making it, according to the Marine spokesman, one of the largest underground insurgent hideouts discovered in at least the last year.

Now it's not clear whether the compound dated back to the era of Saddam Hussein or whether it was recently constructed by the insurgents, but again, that bunker has now been destroyed.

Jennifer Eccleston, CNN, Baghdad.

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PHILLIPS: Well, when former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein goes to trial in just a couple of months, there could be 500 charges against him. But Iraqi officials say they'll focus on at least 12 thoroughly documented cases, some accusing him of gassing Kurds and executed enemies. And authorities believe that they can get convictions. A special tribunal will hear his case. The Iraqi foreign minister says Iraq will give Hussein, quote, "the same justice he has denied us for many years."

U.S. troops are now guarding the man considered al Qaeda's third in command. Authorities in Pakistan, who captured Abu Faraj al-Libbi just about a month ago near the Afghan border have put him in U.S. custody despite, the fact that he was Pakistan's most wanted fugitive, suspected of having tried to assassinate Pakistan's president. It's not clear when the U.S. took control of al-Libbi nor where he's being detained.

Straight ahead, they are out of prison, but police are still keeping tabs on them around the clock. Ahead on LIVE FROM, inside a high-tech system to track sex offenders.

Actors -- actor acts up? The cops move in on "Cinderella Man" Russell Crowe. We've got the details.

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PHILLIPS: And this just in to CNN. We are getting word that a judge has rejected a lawsuit on behalf of the GOP aimed at overturning Washington's governors' 2004 race. The judge denied Republican claims that that election was full of errors and illegal voters.

Our Sean Callebs on the phone live from Wenatchee, Washington, with the latest on this decision.

Sean, give us some background.

SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kyra, actually they say there were some illegalities but no proof that there weren't -- there was no proof that those illegalities were caused by fraud or were deliberately done to change the outcome of the election. That is very significant.

From here, without question, this is going to move on to the Washington Supreme Court.

Basically, what happened, Judge John Bridges has been hearing this case for the past two weeks. He set the tone early on by telling the GOP that they must -- by state law, the GOP needs to show that Gregoire, the current governor, received enough improper votes to make a difference. And that's really what hinged on the two weeks of sometimes very dry testimony that involved a lot of statistics.

But in the end, the judge ruled that there was -- there was no fraud and no misconduct, anything that could change the outcome. And he went on to say that when the voters speak, the judiciary should only weigh in using restraint. Saying that they should not overturn because, quote, "one judge has egotism or activism."

It was really from a long time ago -- Dino Rossi, the challenger here has been considered a rising GOP star in Washington state, and this state has not had a Republican governor since 1980.

There were actually three recounts here. In the first one Rossi won by more than 200 votes. In the second one, he won by a very narrow margin of only 49 votes. Then they hand recounted all 2.8 million votes in the state. At that point, Christine Gregoire won by 129 votes.

Since then, Rossi and the Republicans have been pursuing their legal action. We guarantee we have not heard the last of this one. But if you thought the 2000 presidential election went on for some time, this one still has months to go.

PHILLIPS: All right. Our Sean Callebs, reporting from Wenatchee, Washington. Once again, the judge denying Republican claims that the governor's race there in 2004 in Washington was fraudulent. As it stands, Democratic Governor Christine Gregoire will continue on as governor.

Other news across America now, "Cinderella Man" goes from on screen fisticuffs to a pair of NYPD handcuffs. Oh, Russell. Freshly arraigned now on a second degree assault charge and a fourth degree charge of criminal possession of a weapon.

Evidently, Russell Crowe allegedly pitched a fit and then a telephone when he couldn't get a call through to Australia. An employee at Soho's trendy Mercer Hotel was on the receiving end of that flying phone. Had to go to the hospital for stitches. Keep you posted on Russell Crowe.

In New Jersey, a police prostitution sting nets an unlikely madam. Eighty-year-old Vera Tursi now facing one criminal charge. She reportedly told cops she took over her late daughter's prostitution business because she needed money to augment her Social Security checks.

And in Winter Haven, Florida, a community college professor faces charges for allegedly defrauding some of his own students. Students say that Bradley Schlossberg passed around a sign-in sheet, asking them to write down their names and Social Security. Schlossberg's girlfriend, Deborah Hafner, allegedly used the personal info to open credit card accounts. She also faces charges.

In much of the country, bad weather is still the headline after a weekend of strong storms. Take a look at this video here.

In Michigan, almost 200,000 people were left in the dark when strong winds blew down a number of power lines and heavy thunderstorms spawned at least two twisters in Oklahoma, injuring at least five people and damaging several homes.

So, is the worst over for now? CNN's Jacqui Jeras now with the latest on the forecast -- Jacqui.

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PHILLIPS: All right, Jacqui Jeras. Thank you so much.

And in health news, a report in "USA Today" quotes global experts who think there's still time to avert a potential human bird flu pandemic but say that window of opportunity is closing. The virus, now passed from infected birds to humans, has killed 54 of the 98 known cases, most of them in Vietnam.

The goal is stemming a worldwide outbreak, if and when the virus mutates to allow human to human transmission. But even as wealthier nations stockpile anti-viral medicines like Tamaflu, health officials say the real key is to focus attention and resources on Southeast Asia, which is likely is the place an outbreak of bird flu would begin.

In other medical news, a new poll shows that five percent of Americans have tried putting down their pill bottles to try an ancient pain remedy, acupuncture.

CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta gets right to the point.

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DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): For 25 years, pain has been smoldering throughout 51-year-old Darrell Ortiz's body. Several major work injuries turned into a nagging sort of pain at first, but then basic things like walking, going to the grocery store, eventually even going to work became impossible.

DARRELL ORTIZ, PAIN SUFFERER: Excruciating. It feels like I've gone through all my injuries all over again, like they just happened. There's sometimes when I almost want to give up completely, you know? The pain just takes over.

GUPTA: Pain also appears in the sharp hues and images born of Ortiz's palette. Each day with each glide of his brush on canvas, he could paint away the dull painful throb, but eventually, pain would invade even that.

ORTIZ: Just lifting my arm like this, you know, pain. Sometimes I couldn't do it. I'd pint for half an hour and have to go to bed, you know.

GUPTA: That was the last straw. He tried everything: potent pain drugs like Oxycontin and Percocet, exercise. Nothing worked over the long term.

ORTIZ: I was to the point where I was desperate. I was willing to try anything.

GUPTA: He swallowed his fear of needles and tried acupuncture.

(on camera) Studies seem to be stacking up in favor of acupuncture, according to the World Health Organizations. They say little needles like these can be effective in terms of treating arthritis, headache, menopausal symptoms, lower back pain, dental pain, even.

The theory is this: you have energy or chi through natural channels in the body. Any interruption of those natural channels can cause tension, subsequently causing disease. Well, it's acupuncture that can help restore that flow.

DR. WEI HUANG, EMORY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: The theory of the tradition of Chinese medicine focuses on the whole body. And there's a harmony inside the body. The flow of the chi should be very fluid in order to maintain health. GUPTA (voice-over): Historically, western doctors may have been reluctant to use this 2,000-year-old practice, but the landscape is changing slowly.

DR. PETER JOHNSTONE, EMORY UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER: There are some things that we still don't do well. And there are things that we still don't understand well. And, in an attempt to hopefully relieve suffering, we need to, I think, be hope to the fact that there may be other avenues besides those that we were taught in medical school.

GUPTA: Mainstream options alone weren't helping Darrell Ortiz. He says using acupuncture as a complement to other therapies has made his life livable. A series of treatments keeps him pain free for months at a time.

ORTIZ: Since I've been doing the acupuncture, I've been having to take less drugs.

GUPTA: Fewer drugs but more importantly, the ability to paint away his pain. And to live a normal life.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.

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PHILLIPS (voice-over): Next, on LIVE FROM, how safe is America one year after the 9/11 Commission's report? We'll talk with a panel member set to grade the government's response to terror threats.

Later on LIVE FROM, tracking sex offenders.

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PHILLIPS: These green dots tell police what's up 24/7. We'll show you how one system works.

Tomorrow on LIVE FROM, a chance meeting at the Vietnam memorial, the father of this soldier killed in Iraq and the Army nurse who held him as he died. They join us live with the moving story of how they met.

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PHILLIPS: Well, we're getting word that another company has lost personal information belonging to its customers. Kathleen Hays, live at the New York Stock Exchange.

Oh boy. Here we go again.

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