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Nuclear Talks; Guarding the River

Aired June 10, 2005 - 13:31   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

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TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: An update on the latest VIP visit to the White House. South Korean Roh Moo-Hyun and President Bush having a working lunch. Topping their agenda, the perceived nuclear threat from North Korea.
CNN's Kathleen Koch is standing by with more on that for us -- Kathleen.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Tony, very interesting comments from the two men this morning. Some expected. Some not. They both said that their alliance remains very solid and very strong, and both men, President Bush and South Korean leader Roh Moo-Hyun, says that their shared goal does remain to jumpstart the nuclear disarmament talks on North Korea that have been stalled for nearly a year.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: South Korea and the United States share the same goal, and that is a Korean peninsula without a nuclear weapon, and that's what we've been discussing, how best to do that. And the president and I both agree, the six-party talks are essential to saying to Mr. Kim Jong-Il that he ought to give up his weapons, to making it very clear to him that the way to join the community of nations is to listen to China, and South Korea, and Japan, and Russia and the United States, and that is to give up nuclear weapons.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: But South Korean President Roh, who's right now in the process of leaving the White House, spoke very frankly this morning, saying that on this, his fourth meeting with President Bush, that there are differences, though he says they are only on one or two minor issues, and that they would be able to, quote, "work them out smoothly through dialogue."

Now of course the issues that they have to work out is how to bring North Korean President Kim Jong-Il's government back to the nuclear disarmament bargaining table. The United States, the White House, has described North Korea as part of the "axis of evil", one of the world's outposts of tyranny. President Bush has threatened to ask for U.N. sanctions. But President Roh is pressing instead for diplomatic solutions.

Now another thing that are likely to -- were supposed to talk about today, is the presence, ongoing presence, of U.S. troops in South Korea. Some 32,500 U.S. troops still there, helping to keep the peace. The Pentagon is talking about reducing that number by some 8,000 over the coming years, and that is something that is a continuing source of some anxiety for South Korea -- Tony.

HARRIS: OK, Kathleen Koch at the White House for us. Kathleen, we appreciate it. Thank you.

Airline passengers, highway cargo and ships that dock at America's major ports. All are subject to search in the name of national security, but there's another potential threat on the mighty Mississippi.

CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports, one group has taken on the chore of making sure it remains a safe passage.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Long before sunup, the Southwest House Pilot Station (ph) is cooking.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well it's a Monday morning, we automatically have red beans, because that's a tradition.

MESERVE: The men who work here live here for two weeks at a stretch.

The pilot station is a small village on stilts, situated at the remote southernmost stretch of the Mississippi. The pilots' job is to meet every ship entering or exiting the river at the Gulf of Mexico.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, sir, captain, this is the pilot boat. We're on our way out to you now. What's your distance and speed from the buoy, please?

MESERVE: There is a bit of the daredevil in the river pilots. They scale the sides of massive moving ships on rope ladders to help navigate the vessels through the shifting shoals and the narrow channel at the entrance to the Mississippi.

The pilots are, in most cases, the first Americans to board incoming ships. They are not government employees, but they provide, by default, a first thin line of defense for the river. There is a lot to protect.

(on camera): In the first 250 miles of this river, there are five ports, including three that rank among the largest in the country.

(voice-over): In centuries past, Mississippi steamboats carried cotton, not tourists. But the once mighty plantations are relics now, and the river is lined instead with chemical plants and petroleum refineries. Ships and barges haul millions of tons of products to and from those facilities, including highly toxic chemicals, like ammonia, chlorine and benzene, and flammable materials, like propane and liquefied natural gas.

The roster at the pilot house shows what ships coming into the river are carrying.

CAPT. MIKE LORINO, BAR PILOT: There's a lot of dangerous products, crude oil, chemical tankers, and whatever is in the containers.

MESERVE: The ships are arriving from all over the world with foreign crews.

(on camera): The Coast Guard looking at any of these, as far as you can tell?

LORINO: The Coast Guard is not looking at any of these, as far as I can tell.

MESERVE (voice-over): The Coast Guard does scrutinize crew lists and cargo manifests and boards ships offshore that it classifies as high interest. But Mike Lorino, a pilot for 30 years, says the Coast Guard is overwhelmed.

LORINO: They do a great job with what they have.

MESERVE (on camera): Which isn't enough?

LORINO: Which isn't enough. They need more. They need more.

MESERVE (voice-over): A terrorist attack on a ship carrying dangerous cargo could cause environmental havoc at the southwest pass. But 100 miles upriver, where the Mississippi flows through the city of New Orleans, there is a potential for massive loss of life.

LORINO: Highly, highly volatile cargo travels this river 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

MESERVE: As Mike Lorino watches 170-foot-wide ships squeeze past one another in the 600-foot-wide passage, he voices another fear, that a terrorist could simply turn a wheel and cause a collision, potentially shutting down the entire river.

LORINO: It would be an economic catastrophe to the United States.

MESERVE: Lorino loves the Mississippi for its lore and the livelihood it gives him. He says security has improved significantly. Though more could be done, ultimately, he admits, the volume of river traffic and the Mississippi's sheer size make it impossible to protect absolutely.

LORINO: The only way to secure it would be not let any ships come in the Mississippi River, and that's not going to happen.

You all take care.

MESERVE: So Lorino keeps his eyes and ears open when he boards, looking for threats, but hoping the water never brings them this way.

Jeanne Meserve, CNN, on the southwest passage. (END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: And this just in to CNN, local authorities have evacuated a 1.5 mile area around a Union Pacific freight train in rural Yermo, California. A spokesperson for Union Pacific railroad says the evacuation was precautionary and was made at the request of the Department of Defense. Navy and explosive ordinance teams are on their way to Yermo to investigate.

Just as a frame of reference, Yermo is near Barstow, and that is northeast of Los Angeles. Officials who looked at the car said it did not appear that the rocket had been tampered with. We will continue to follow this story and bring you any new developments.

CNN, as always, committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information, day and night.

A night of fun and frolic turns deadly in Canada. See what happens to this houseboat overloaded with people in the chilly waters of this lake in British Columbia. That's ahead.

And whiter is brighter for some people. But can the latest whitening products be too much for your teeth?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a closer look when LIVE FROM returns.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: A case of bad judgment brings catastrophic results in Canada. Police in British Columbia consider filing charges after an overloaded houseboat capsizes, pitching dozens of partygoers into frigid waters. The horrifying scene was captured on home video.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here it goes! There it goes! It's going down! It's going down!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It really is going down.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: One passenger died and several others were seriously injured. Police are working to remove the houseboat from the lake later today.

News across America now. A parent's nightmare playing out in south Florida. Take a look at this scene. At least five children are hospitalized in serious condition, after their bus collided with a tractor-trailer carrying a load of wooden pallets. Some of the injured were ejected by the force of the impact. The bus was reportedly carrying two dozen children to a summer camp event at the time of the wreck.

In just a few hours, a bail hearing for Hamid Hayat. The young California man being held in an FBI terror probe. Twenty-two-year-old Hayat has been charged to lying to federal officials about his alleged stint at an Al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan. His father is also charged with lying. Neither of the men has been charged with terrorism involvement.

In medical news, a lot of people spending a lot of green on making their pearly whites even whiter, but Dr. Sanjay Gupta says some are going way too far and need to use a little more wisdom about their teeth.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And look straight up.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Meet Jessica Neff. She calls herself a teeth whitening junkie.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Whiter teeth after just three days. Full results in seven.

GUPTA: Sure, they promise sparkling white smiles, but for a growing number of consumers, teeth whitening has become an obsession.

JESSICA NEFF, TEETH WHITENING ENTHUSIAST: I've tried tray and gel systems over the counter. I've tried the tray and gel systems in office. I've done the Rembrandt gel and toothpaste. I've done the Crest white strips. I've just tried the new Oral B white strips and the paint on brush that you use.

GUPTA (on camera): But here's the thing. 99 percent of Americans still simply brush their teeth. But there's no denying that these teeth whitening treatments, once administered only by dentists, have been transformed now by all these relatively easy to use products into a safe and effective beauty regimen for millions of Americans.

(voice-over): In fact, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Americans spent more than $336 million in teeth whitening products just last year. But abusing these products can cause gum irritation and oversensitivity, symptoms that Jessica has experienced in the past.

DR. JONATHAN LEVINE, AESTHETIC DENTIST: The manufacturer says use it for two weeks, morning and night, twice a day, or ten days every day. That doesn't mean doubling up on it and use it for three months. You're breaking down the structural integrity of the tooth.

GUPTA: Ironically, excessive bleaching can turn pearly whites into an unnatural translucent blue. So what is the safest way to whiten at home? The experts say it's important to know the strength of those bleaching agents.

So we consulted Dr. Peter Vanstrom, an aesthetic dentist, who told us it's safest to stick with hydrogen peroxide concentrations of 6 percent or lower. But knowing the concentration of a product at the drug store isn't easy. DR. PETER VANSTROM, AESTHETIC DENTIST: One of the frustrations in the over-the-counter market is we don't have labeled on any of these exactly what the concentration is.

GUPTA: Which is part of the reason why the American Dental Association only gives the seal of acceptance to four at home bleaching products, all gel and tray systems, all available only from dentists.

VANSTROM: That is the probably the safest means of whitening your teeth. It just takes longer.

GUPTA: These products are considered safer, but are much more expensive, ranging from $200 to $500, making their over the counter versions much more attractive. The safest bet, if you're going to use teeth whiteners from the drug store, follow their instructions, especially length and frequency of use, don't buy off the Internet and talk to your dentist beforehand.

As far as Jessica goes, she's still obsessed with white teeth, but she does check with her dentist regularly and together, they keep that smile sparkling.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Entertainment coming out of our ears these days with summer concerts and movies. That's what our next guest is all about. Let's set it up for you just a bit. It's a form of music called crunk. Heard about it? Heard about it? And the film about it has just won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival. It's opening the Atlanta Film Festival tonight.

Here's a clip from "Hustle and Flow."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoop that trick.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like what? Like...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like a chant, man. Whoop that trick.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoop that trick?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get 'em.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoop that trick. Get 'em.

UNIDENTIFIED MALES: Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: Whoop that trick.

CRAIG BREWER, DIRECTOR, "HUSTLE AND FLOW": Yep.

HARRIS: We've got director Craig Brewer to break it all down for us. Craig, good to meet you. It's good to meet you. All right. What's your film about?

BREWER: Well, it's -- this is where I get in trouble.

HARRIS: Because you have to explain that to everyone.

BREWER: I do, I do.

HARRIS: Audiences big and small, yes.

BREWER: It's about this hustler, this pimp, who has this kind of this mid-life crisis.

HARRIS: A pimp with a mid-life cris?

BREWER: He does, he does. He realizes that, you know, he's not doing what he wanted to do when he started off in life. And he just decides that he's going to get a crew together and they're going to build a music studio out of a shotgun house. Do you know what a shotgun house is?

HARRIS: Explain, please.

BREWER: A shotgun house is like these long houses that if you had a shotgun, you fired through the front door, it will go through the back door without hitting anything.

HARRIS: OK.

BREWER: Right. And they build this music studio and it's about this whole process, about like him and his friends trying make this music, and all the fights and problems and being creative.

HARRIS: It's about hustling.

BREWER: Oh, yes.

HARRIS: Trying to find your niche and hustling together.

BREWER: You can't be an artist without hustling.

HARRIS: Craig, unlike -- it's very much like you and your journey.

BREWER: Yes.

HARRIS: That brings to you this point. BREWER: Yes.

HARRIS: Tell us about your hustle and flow.

BREWER: Well, I mean, I had to make movies just on my own. I didn't go to, like, film school or anything like that. So I had to make them on DV and cut them together on a laptop. And I made this movie in Memphis, Tennessee. And that's where I'm from.

And we made this movie and -- you know, for, like, about $20,000 that I got when my father passed away. And I got inheritance of about 20 grand. And we made this movie and eventually, you know, Stephanie Lane (ph), the producer who gave John Singleton his start, saw it and then John Singleton hopped on board. And no studio wanted to make it. So then...

HARRIS: So how did you get it made? I mean, you know, that looks like more than a $20,000 movie. That's for sure.

BREWER: Oh, yes, yes, yes.

HARRIS: How did you get it made?

BREWER: Well, nobody wanted to make it

HARRIS: And John came through with some dollars for you?

BREWER: John put up his house. John Singleton reached into his own pocket, which is the big golden rule -- you're never supposed to put your own money into movies. But he financed the whole thing himself and now it's going wide across America and everybody's lovin' it, so.

HARRIS: So what is it about, the movie? The audience award at Sundance, that's a big deal.

BREWER: It is a big deal.

HARRIS: That's a big deal.

BREWER: Yes.

HARRIS: So what is the takeaway for audiences in this story?

BREWER: Well, I think it's -- you know, it's funny, it's not a young man's tale. It's not about some kid trying to be a rapper. It's about a guy that's in his late 30s and they're -- they want to reboot. You know, I think that everybody starts off with a dream that they have in their life and every day they compromise a little bit and they move like an inch and you know, a couple of years pass and they're on the other side of the moon. You know?

HARRIS: Yes.

BREWER: And I feel that what people are getting out of the movie is that, you know, everybody has the right to try to get back to where they started.

HARRIS: Take a look at this. These performances. Terrence Howard, there's Anthony Anderson. These...

BREWER: And what's great the -- this is the scene that I love so much is that -- you know, see the little cardboard drink holders on the back of the wall? You know, where you get those at McDonald's. You know, that's how you do some poor man's soundproofing. And so they just made their own little studio and so they're trying to make music anyway they can, you know?

HARRIS: "Hustle and Flow."

BREWER: "Hustle and Flow."

HARRIS: Opens when?

BREWER: July 13th. In July.

HARRIS: How many theaters do you have?

BREWER: Oh, right now, it's going pretty wide for an independent movie. It's like 1,500 screens, so it's...

HARRIS: 1,500 screens?

BREWER: Yes, yes.

HARRIS: You could do a little bit with this. You could have a really nice opening weekend, which is what you need.

BREWER: We'd love it.

HARRIS: Great. Good to meet you.

BREWER: Nice to be here.

HARRIS: And the best tonight at the Atlanta Film Festival.

BREWER: Come see it.

HARRIS: OK, absolutely.

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And turning tragedy into triumph. The story of a 17-year-old victim's will to make a difference in fighting sexual offenders. LIVE FROM'S "Hour of Power" begins after this.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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Aired June 10, 2005 - 13:31   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: An update on the latest VIP visit to the White House. South Korean Roh Moo-Hyun and President Bush having a working lunch. Topping their agenda, the perceived nuclear threat from North Korea.
CNN's Kathleen Koch is standing by with more on that for us -- Kathleen.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Tony, very interesting comments from the two men this morning. Some expected. Some not. They both said that their alliance remains very solid and very strong, and both men, President Bush and South Korean leader Roh Moo-Hyun, says that their shared goal does remain to jumpstart the nuclear disarmament talks on North Korea that have been stalled for nearly a year.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: South Korea and the United States share the same goal, and that is a Korean peninsula without a nuclear weapon, and that's what we've been discussing, how best to do that. And the president and I both agree, the six-party talks are essential to saying to Mr. Kim Jong-Il that he ought to give up his weapons, to making it very clear to him that the way to join the community of nations is to listen to China, and South Korea, and Japan, and Russia and the United States, and that is to give up nuclear weapons.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KOCH: But South Korean President Roh, who's right now in the process of leaving the White House, spoke very frankly this morning, saying that on this, his fourth meeting with President Bush, that there are differences, though he says they are only on one or two minor issues, and that they would be able to, quote, "work them out smoothly through dialogue."

Now of course the issues that they have to work out is how to bring North Korean President Kim Jong-Il's government back to the nuclear disarmament bargaining table. The United States, the White House, has described North Korea as part of the "axis of evil", one of the world's outposts of tyranny. President Bush has threatened to ask for U.N. sanctions. But President Roh is pressing instead for diplomatic solutions.

Now another thing that are likely to -- were supposed to talk about today, is the presence, ongoing presence, of U.S. troops in South Korea. Some 32,500 U.S. troops still there, helping to keep the peace. The Pentagon is talking about reducing that number by some 8,000 over the coming years, and that is something that is a continuing source of some anxiety for South Korea -- Tony.

HARRIS: OK, Kathleen Koch at the White House for us. Kathleen, we appreciate it. Thank you.

Airline passengers, highway cargo and ships that dock at America's major ports. All are subject to search in the name of national security, but there's another potential threat on the mighty Mississippi.

CNN's Jeanne Meserve reports, one group has taken on the chore of making sure it remains a safe passage.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Long before sunup, the Southwest House Pilot Station (ph) is cooking.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well it's a Monday morning, we automatically have red beans, because that's a tradition.

MESERVE: The men who work here live here for two weeks at a stretch.

The pilot station is a small village on stilts, situated at the remote southernmost stretch of the Mississippi. The pilots' job is to meet every ship entering or exiting the river at the Gulf of Mexico.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, sir, captain, this is the pilot boat. We're on our way out to you now. What's your distance and speed from the buoy, please?

MESERVE: There is a bit of the daredevil in the river pilots. They scale the sides of massive moving ships on rope ladders to help navigate the vessels through the shifting shoals and the narrow channel at the entrance to the Mississippi.

The pilots are, in most cases, the first Americans to board incoming ships. They are not government employees, but they provide, by default, a first thin line of defense for the river. There is a lot to protect.

(on camera): In the first 250 miles of this river, there are five ports, including three that rank among the largest in the country.

(voice-over): In centuries past, Mississippi steamboats carried cotton, not tourists. But the once mighty plantations are relics now, and the river is lined instead with chemical plants and petroleum refineries. Ships and barges haul millions of tons of products to and from those facilities, including highly toxic chemicals, like ammonia, chlorine and benzene, and flammable materials, like propane and liquefied natural gas.

The roster at the pilot house shows what ships coming into the river are carrying.

CAPT. MIKE LORINO, BAR PILOT: There's a lot of dangerous products, crude oil, chemical tankers, and whatever is in the containers.

MESERVE: The ships are arriving from all over the world with foreign crews.

(on camera): The Coast Guard looking at any of these, as far as you can tell?

LORINO: The Coast Guard is not looking at any of these, as far as I can tell.

MESERVE (voice-over): The Coast Guard does scrutinize crew lists and cargo manifests and boards ships offshore that it classifies as high interest. But Mike Lorino, a pilot for 30 years, says the Coast Guard is overwhelmed.

LORINO: They do a great job with what they have.

MESERVE (on camera): Which isn't enough?

LORINO: Which isn't enough. They need more. They need more.

MESERVE (voice-over): A terrorist attack on a ship carrying dangerous cargo could cause environmental havoc at the southwest pass. But 100 miles upriver, where the Mississippi flows through the city of New Orleans, there is a potential for massive loss of life.

LORINO: Highly, highly volatile cargo travels this river 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.

MESERVE: As Mike Lorino watches 170-foot-wide ships squeeze past one another in the 600-foot-wide passage, he voices another fear, that a terrorist could simply turn a wheel and cause a collision, potentially shutting down the entire river.

LORINO: It would be an economic catastrophe to the United States.

MESERVE: Lorino loves the Mississippi for its lore and the livelihood it gives him. He says security has improved significantly. Though more could be done, ultimately, he admits, the volume of river traffic and the Mississippi's sheer size make it impossible to protect absolutely.

LORINO: The only way to secure it would be not let any ships come in the Mississippi River, and that's not going to happen.

You all take care.

MESERVE: So Lorino keeps his eyes and ears open when he boards, looking for threats, but hoping the water never brings them this way.

Jeanne Meserve, CNN, on the southwest passage. (END VIDEOTAPE)

HARRIS: And this just in to CNN, local authorities have evacuated a 1.5 mile area around a Union Pacific freight train in rural Yermo, California. A spokesperson for Union Pacific railroad says the evacuation was precautionary and was made at the request of the Department of Defense. Navy and explosive ordinance teams are on their way to Yermo to investigate.

Just as a frame of reference, Yermo is near Barstow, and that is northeast of Los Angeles. Officials who looked at the car said it did not appear that the rocket had been tampered with. We will continue to follow this story and bring you any new developments.

CNN, as always, committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information, day and night.

A night of fun and frolic turns deadly in Canada. See what happens to this houseboat overloaded with people in the chilly waters of this lake in British Columbia. That's ahead.

And whiter is brighter for some people. But can the latest whitening products be too much for your teeth?

Dr. Sanjay Gupta takes a closer look when LIVE FROM returns.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: A case of bad judgment brings catastrophic results in Canada. Police in British Columbia consider filing charges after an overloaded houseboat capsizes, pitching dozens of partygoers into frigid waters. The horrifying scene was captured on home video.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Here it goes! There it goes! It's going down! It's going down!

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It really is going down.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

HARRIS: One passenger died and several others were seriously injured. Police are working to remove the houseboat from the lake later today.

News across America now. A parent's nightmare playing out in south Florida. Take a look at this scene. At least five children are hospitalized in serious condition, after their bus collided with a tractor-trailer carrying a load of wooden pallets. Some of the injured were ejected by the force of the impact. The bus was reportedly carrying two dozen children to a summer camp event at the time of the wreck.

In just a few hours, a bail hearing for Hamid Hayat. The young California man being held in an FBI terror probe. Twenty-two-year-old Hayat has been charged to lying to federal officials about his alleged stint at an Al Qaeda training camp in Pakistan. His father is also charged with lying. Neither of the men has been charged with terrorism involvement.

In medical news, a lot of people spending a lot of green on making their pearly whites even whiter, but Dr. Sanjay Gupta says some are going way too far and need to use a little more wisdom about their teeth.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: And look straight up.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Meet Jessica Neff. She calls herself a teeth whitening junkie.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Whiter teeth after just three days. Full results in seven.

GUPTA: Sure, they promise sparkling white smiles, but for a growing number of consumers, teeth whitening has become an obsession.

JESSICA NEFF, TEETH WHITENING ENTHUSIAST: I've tried tray and gel systems over the counter. I've tried the tray and gel systems in office. I've done the Rembrandt gel and toothpaste. I've done the Crest white strips. I've just tried the new Oral B white strips and the paint on brush that you use.

GUPTA (on camera): But here's the thing. 99 percent of Americans still simply brush their teeth. But there's no denying that these teeth whitening treatments, once administered only by dentists, have been transformed now by all these relatively easy to use products into a safe and effective beauty regimen for millions of Americans.

(voice-over): In fact, according to the American Academy of Cosmetic Dentistry, Americans spent more than $336 million in teeth whitening products just last year. But abusing these products can cause gum irritation and oversensitivity, symptoms that Jessica has experienced in the past.

DR. JONATHAN LEVINE, AESTHETIC DENTIST: The manufacturer says use it for two weeks, morning and night, twice a day, or ten days every day. That doesn't mean doubling up on it and use it for three months. You're breaking down the structural integrity of the tooth.

GUPTA: Ironically, excessive bleaching can turn pearly whites into an unnatural translucent blue. So what is the safest way to whiten at home? The experts say it's important to know the strength of those bleaching agents.

So we consulted Dr. Peter Vanstrom, an aesthetic dentist, who told us it's safest to stick with hydrogen peroxide concentrations of 6 percent or lower. But knowing the concentration of a product at the drug store isn't easy. DR. PETER VANSTROM, AESTHETIC DENTIST: One of the frustrations in the over-the-counter market is we don't have labeled on any of these exactly what the concentration is.

GUPTA: Which is part of the reason why the American Dental Association only gives the seal of acceptance to four at home bleaching products, all gel and tray systems, all available only from dentists.

VANSTROM: That is the probably the safest means of whitening your teeth. It just takes longer.

GUPTA: These products are considered safer, but are much more expensive, ranging from $200 to $500, making their over the counter versions much more attractive. The safest bet, if you're going to use teeth whiteners from the drug store, follow their instructions, especially length and frequency of use, don't buy off the Internet and talk to your dentist beforehand.

As far as Jessica goes, she's still obsessed with white teeth, but she does check with her dentist regularly and together, they keep that smile sparkling.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: Entertainment coming out of our ears these days with summer concerts and movies. That's what our next guest is all about. Let's set it up for you just a bit. It's a form of music called crunk. Heard about it? Heard about it? And the film about it has just won the audience award at the Sundance Film Festival. It's opening the Atlanta Film Festival tonight.

Here's a clip from "Hustle and Flow."

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoop that trick.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That's it.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like what? Like...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Like a chant, man. Whoop that trick.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoop that trick?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Get 'em.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Whoop that trick. Get 'em.

UNIDENTIFIED MALES: Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em. Whoop that trick. Get 'em.

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HARRIS: Whoop that trick.

CRAIG BREWER, DIRECTOR, "HUSTLE AND FLOW": Yep.

HARRIS: We've got director Craig Brewer to break it all down for us. Craig, good to meet you. It's good to meet you. All right. What's your film about?

BREWER: Well, it's -- this is where I get in trouble.

HARRIS: Because you have to explain that to everyone.

BREWER: I do, I do.

HARRIS: Audiences big and small, yes.

BREWER: It's about this hustler, this pimp, who has this kind of this mid-life crisis.

HARRIS: A pimp with a mid-life cris?

BREWER: He does, he does. He realizes that, you know, he's not doing what he wanted to do when he started off in life. And he just decides that he's going to get a crew together and they're going to build a music studio out of a shotgun house. Do you know what a shotgun house is?

HARRIS: Explain, please.

BREWER: A shotgun house is like these long houses that if you had a shotgun, you fired through the front door, it will go through the back door without hitting anything.

HARRIS: OK.

BREWER: Right. And they build this music studio and it's about this whole process, about like him and his friends trying make this music, and all the fights and problems and being creative.

HARRIS: It's about hustling.

BREWER: Oh, yes.

HARRIS: Trying to find your niche and hustling together.

BREWER: You can't be an artist without hustling.

HARRIS: Craig, unlike -- it's very much like you and your journey.

BREWER: Yes.

HARRIS: That brings to you this point. BREWER: Yes.

HARRIS: Tell us about your hustle and flow.

BREWER: Well, I mean, I had to make movies just on my own. I didn't go to, like, film school or anything like that. So I had to make them on DV and cut them together on a laptop. And I made this movie in Memphis, Tennessee. And that's where I'm from.

And we made this movie and -- you know, for, like, about $20,000 that I got when my father passed away. And I got inheritance of about 20 grand. And we made this movie and eventually, you know, Stephanie Lane (ph), the producer who gave John Singleton his start, saw it and then John Singleton hopped on board. And no studio wanted to make it. So then...

HARRIS: So how did you get it made? I mean, you know, that looks like more than a $20,000 movie. That's for sure.

BREWER: Oh, yes, yes, yes.

HARRIS: How did you get it made?

BREWER: Well, nobody wanted to make it

HARRIS: And John came through with some dollars for you?

BREWER: John put up his house. John Singleton reached into his own pocket, which is the big golden rule -- you're never supposed to put your own money into movies. But he financed the whole thing himself and now it's going wide across America and everybody's lovin' it, so.

HARRIS: So what is it about, the movie? The audience award at Sundance, that's a big deal.

BREWER: It is a big deal.

HARRIS: That's a big deal.

BREWER: Yes.

HARRIS: So what is the takeaway for audiences in this story?

BREWER: Well, I think it's -- you know, it's funny, it's not a young man's tale. It's not about some kid trying to be a rapper. It's about a guy that's in his late 30s and they're -- they want to reboot. You know, I think that everybody starts off with a dream that they have in their life and every day they compromise a little bit and they move like an inch and you know, a couple of years pass and they're on the other side of the moon. You know?

HARRIS: Yes.

BREWER: And I feel that what people are getting out of the movie is that, you know, everybody has the right to try to get back to where they started.

HARRIS: Take a look at this. These performances. Terrence Howard, there's Anthony Anderson. These...

BREWER: And what's great the -- this is the scene that I love so much is that -- you know, see the little cardboard drink holders on the back of the wall? You know, where you get those at McDonald's. You know, that's how you do some poor man's soundproofing. And so they just made their own little studio and so they're trying to make music anyway they can, you know?

HARRIS: "Hustle and Flow."

BREWER: "Hustle and Flow."

HARRIS: Opens when?

BREWER: July 13th. In July.

HARRIS: How many theaters do you have?

BREWER: Oh, right now, it's going pretty wide for an independent movie. It's like 1,500 screens, so it's...

HARRIS: 1,500 screens?

BREWER: Yes, yes.

HARRIS: You could do a little bit with this. You could have a really nice opening weekend, which is what you need.

BREWER: We'd love it.

HARRIS: Great. Good to meet you.

BREWER: Nice to be here.

HARRIS: And the best tonight at the Atlanta Film Festival.

BREWER: Come see it.

HARRIS: OK, absolutely.

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