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Tropical Storm Arlene; Michael Jackson Trial
Aired June 10, 2005 - 13:59 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Live pictures from the Florida coast, where the wind is blowing and everyone is bracing for Tropical Storm Arlene.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Woo!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HARRIS: Crazy pictures, crazy emotions. Tornado chasers get what they're after, huge tornadoes. We'll take you inside the chase.
TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Ted Rowlands in Santa Maria, California. A Friday verdict? Is there one coming in the Michael Jackson trial? There are a lot of people waiting and waiting. Jurors now in their sixth day. We'll have the very latest coming up.
HARRIS: From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Tony Harris. Kyra Phillips and Miles O'Brien are off. This hour of CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.
Arlene's the name, but the season's first tropical storm is less lean than it used to be as it crosses into the Gulf of Mexico with top winds of 60 miles an hour. Forecasters fear the storm may cross the hurricane threshold as well, and we're all over it with CNN's John Zarrella in Miami and meteorologist Jill Brown, eying the virtual view from our weather center upstairs.
Jill, start us off.
JILL BROWN, CNN METEOROLOGIST: OK. We have some new problems now.
Storm -- a new update, by the way, from the Hurricane Center is in, and the winds are the same, although the pressure has dropped just a little bit, showing beginning signs of some strengthening. So expect to see that. But the new problem is that tornadoes are now showing up.
South Florida, we have a tornado watch that's in effect until 11:00 tonight, and that is for the Florida Keys and coastal waters. We've already had some warnings.
We have a warning in effect right now for Monroe County, I believe. Let me flip through here and see. Upper Keys, Monroe County, tornado warning until 2:15. We've had a report of a tornado on the ground moving to the northwest at about 20 miles per hour.
And from the radar you can see, here's the band coming right through here and, again, moving to the northwest. We'll get a closer look at I think here in just a moment.
Let me show you the latest now. There's our tornado watch. You can just barely see it. But the update from the Hurricane Center, again, winds still 60 miles per hour.
This pressure was 1,000 millibars, it's now down to 997. It's not a real significant change, but it does show us that it's probably showing some signs of strengthening at this point.
So let me go in a little bit closer for you here and show you what's going on as we get into south Florida. You see the heavy rain that's coming in. By the way, we could see as much as seven inches of rain with this. So, yes, that's likely to be a problem.
Rains in Florida in the last two weeks have been very, very wet through here. So we'll go in a little closer so you can get a better idea.
Here's our band that has been spawning tornadoes and Doppler- indicated rotations. So that's when sometimes you get those warnings before you actually see a tornado on the ground. But we have had reports of tornadoes on the ground through here coming up into rural Monroe Country.
We're going to see that heavy rain throughout the peninsula of Florida. We're already starting to see some of these showers come in up around the Florida Panhandle and up toward the New Orleans area. A few scattered showers, sort of a precursor of things to come.
So we're going to look at our track now and you'll see what's coming up now.
This is where it is at the moment. Most of the rain well off to the east, but the upper-level winds, where they're now fairly strong, should weaken. This is going to give this a chance to increase in strength and get better organized.
Landfall probably late on Saturday. At this point, the forecast is for it to get up to about 70 miles per hour. That's still a tropical storm, not a hurricane. Even if it becomes a minimal hurricane, the general effects will be about the same.
We'll have some minor wind damage, we'll have a lot of damage from flooding. And we may see more reports of tornadoes, and that could go on through tomorrow, even as it makes landfall and moves inland on Sunday morning.
Still more rain out there, Tony. So that's going to be the big story, but we'll watch this closely hour by hour.
HARRIS: Yes, it sounds like it. OK, Jill. Thank you.
Arlene is already blamed for the riptide death of a woman in Florida. CNN's John Zarrella, meantime, is holding his ground as best he can, doing a better job this hour than last hour in Haulover Beach, Miami -- John.
JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Tony, right now that last squall line that went through about an hour ago, it subsided a little bit. A little bit of breaks in the clouds.
The surfers have really come out. In fact, I think you saw one going through our shot at the beginning there.
There's got to be two dozen surfers in the water here, and the lifeguards have got their hands full keeping an eye on them, because the rip currents are terrible all up and down the east coast. Bathers are being told stay out of water. The surfers, it's another story there -- in there.
But, of course, Arlene, at least, direct -- indirectly blamed at this point for one death on South Beach, which about 10 miles to our south. And what happened this morning, very early, about 6:55 a.m., some ladies were in the water swimming, one of them got caught in one of the rip currents, another one tried to rescue her. Both of them got caught in the rip currents.
It took about 20 minutes for fire rescue personnel to get to them. The woman who was initially caught in the rip current, her lungs were filled with water, and she died at the hospital a short time later. Not clear on the condition of that second woman who was also caught. In fact, it was so bad out there that the people that were attempting to rescue, they themselves had to be rescued, the Miami Beach Fire Rescue people, by a Coast Guard boat that had been called in because of the terrible undertows and rip currents.
Again, it's a little clearer right now. The sun's trying to peek through, but the winds are gusting around 20, 25 miles an hour here on the beach, and it has been like this all day and expected to continue on, at least through the nighttime hours as Tropical Storm Arlene.
On the west coast of Florida, way over on the west in the Gulf of Mexico, it has this long reach with those spiraling bands coming in off of the Atlantic Ocean, bringing with it the rain and the wind and those reports of tornadoes down in Monroe County, which is in the -- in the Florida Keys.
So again, not a good day here for anyone, Tony, and not a very good start to the 2005 hurricane season which is expected to be very active -- Tony.
HARRIS: John, thanks. That's a complete picture for us. We appreciate it. Thank you.
We'll keep watching Arlene nautical mile by nautical mile, and you can watch live coverage all weekend long right here on CNN. North Korea is once again topping our security watch. President Bush and his South Korean counterpart are urging the communist nation to return to six-party talks on ending its nuclear program. The two leaders met at the White House today, and Mr. Bush says they are committed to speaking with one voice on the issue.
(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 that six-party talk are essential to saying to Mr. Kim Jong-il that -- that he ought to give up his weapons.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HARRIS: Well, North Korea is sending mixed signals about whether it will return to the talks. Earlier this year it announced it already has nuclear weapons and is making more.
Earlier today, President Bush toured the new National Counterterrorism Center outside of Washington. He also announced his pick to head the facility. Mr. Bush said he'll nominate retired Vice Admiral John Scott Redd as the director.
The Counterterrorism Center was created as part of an overhaul of the nation's spy community. It is charged with pooling and analyzing information about terror threats.
The fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks is just three months away, and it seems the more time passes, the more missed opportunities to stop the strikes are coming to light. A new report by the inspector general finds the FBI had at least five chances to possibly uncover the hijacking plot. It calls the bureau's handling of the clues a "significant failure."
In one instance, an FBI agent suggested Osama bin Laden was sending his followers to the U.S. to study how to take down planes. That was two months before the attacks, but the report says the FBI failed to fully heed the theory.
CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night.
Jurors in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial are in their sixth day of deliberations, and many people wonder if the jury might reach a decision soon. Let's get an update now from CNN's Ted Rowlands, outside the courthouse in Santa Maria -- Ted/
ROWLANDS: Tony, that's the source of a lot of speculation, that because it is Friday, maybe this jury will come up with a decision. But, you know, I have to say that every day that they've been deliberating, people have been predicting that there will be a decision on that day. So take what you will about -- take what you will from that.
Jurors did show up on time, and this is their sixth day of deliberation. Yesterday they only worked a half-day, even less than a half-day, because the judge allowed some jurors to attend some graduation ceremonies. Today they're at it on a full schedule, 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 Pacific Time.
There's been nothing out of the jury room since the first day of deliberations in terms of any questions or any readbacks. We haven't heard any updates as to what jurors have done. They arrived in their vans today on time, and presumably have been spending the day in this room, the jury room, where they've been doing their deliberating.
Meanwhile, outside the courthouse here, fans continue to stay and wait. They have held a vigil out here since the beginning of deliberations and throughout the trial, of course. The crowds grew considerably during closing arguments and have stayed somewhat large through this deliberation process.
Today, along with the Michael Jackson supporters, we are seeing some folks that have a bit of a biblical theme to their protests. They're trying to convert, I guess, a few of these supporters.
There are also people outside Neverland Ranch. Those numbers have dwindled offer the last few days. That is where Michael Jackson, according to his spokespeople, has been waiting, along with family members, for word of a verdict.
Neverland Ranch is about 40 minute away from the courthouse. The judge has allowed one hour between the time the jury reaches the verdict until the time that a verdict is read.
So we continue to wait here as the jury continues to work on the Michael Jackson case -- Tony.
HARRIS: Ted, these jurors aren't sequestered. So, you know, they finish up the day of deliberating and they can go home for the weekend, correct?
ROWLANDS: True. There's no real pressure here in terms of sequestration. I don't believe that you can read too much into the day of the week.
HARRIS: Yes.
ROWLANDS: They're going to go at their own pace, and that seems to be what they're doing now, working through this case. If they follow the judge's instructions, and that is to analyze the evidence, there is a lot of evidence over three months of testimony to analyze.
HARRIS: OK. Ted Rowlands in Santa Maria, California, following the Jackson jury deliberations for us. Ted, we appreciate it.
As you can imagine, it's been a media circus outside the courthouse. Our Rusty Dornin is especially intrigued by the rules imposed on the media. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The wait is on at the Santa Maria courthouse, a wait that can be sometimes busy, sometimes boring, often entertaining, but stocked with plenty of no- nos.
(on camera): Let's talk about all the things you can't do outside the courthouse. First of all, you can't jaywalk. One of the CNN employees got a $125 ticket for that a few weeks ago.
For the fans on the outside, the fence: "No trespassing," "No climbing on the fence," "Do not disturb the peace."
Now, once you cross this line, our photographer has to turn his camera off. He cannot come with me until we reach the next point.
TIM CAVENAUGH, DEPUTY: The only place you can film or photograph is along the pens (ph), which we call on the sides, or out on the street.
DORNIN: And how about?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, let me stop you for just a second. And Tim, let me move you out here.
CAVENAUGH: Absolutely. Any place where it's easier for you guys.
DORNIN: We just got moved away from the place where we were just shooting because it's against the rules, right?
CAVENAUGH: Yes, but the reason it's against the rules is because we don't want to be blocking this area for the emergency traffic that might be coming through here, ambulance, fire, police.
DORNIN: This is the main media entrance. There's no public allowed beyond this point, and I'm going to have to show my pass to the officer here at the front gate. Then I'm allowed to walk in here, but the photographers cannot be rolling as they walk through here. They have to shoot from behind the fence.
When something happens in court, or someone like Jesse Jackson comes into the area, there's a lockdown. We're not allowed to walk outside the fence, so we've got to make our way -- and sometimes you get help -- through a very narrow area for as long as the sheriffs tell us we have to.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a shot of him driving in the vehicle.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Which they have. They have that. OK. OK.
DORNIN: Producers, photographers and reporters filling time.
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": We scratch our heads at the crazy circus that is enfolding us, looking over at the fans. Sometimes they're screaming insults at us.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE), you nasty she devil racists.
DORNIN (voice-over): Ah, yes, the fans. They chant, they sing, they sleep, and....
(on camera): Not all fans are here for the same reason, and some have nothing to do with Michael Jackson. And sometimes those fans get into confrontations.
(voice-over): Too many people too often with not enough to do but wait..
(on camera): Rusty Dornin, CNN, Santa Maria, California.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HARRIS: Well, thrill seekers will love this. Take a look.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one's going to hit.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Yes. Wow!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you still recording?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HARRIS: Getting tight with tornadoes! We'll take you on the move with storm chasers.
And first comes the hurricane, then comes the baby boom. Some cuddly consequences of last year's busy storm season.
And the sounds and sights of Africa. A new cable channel sets out to do something never before seen by American viewers.
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HARRIS: In news "Across America" now, Vice President Cheney speaks and gives medals at a heroism award ceremony in Tampa. The event concludes a weeklong gathering of U.S. military leaders and their counterparts from 59 countries. They're aiming for a more effective joint response against global terrorism.
A Texas judge is expected to rule today whether a 12-year-old girl with Hodgkin's Disease should continue her cancer treatment. Her parents say their daughter's illness is in remission and she doesn't need radiation after having chemotherapy. Child Protective Services took the girl from her parents, claiming her life was in jeopardy and placed the couple's three sons in a foster home. More than 20 children in Boca Raton were injured this morning when a truck collided with their school bus on the Florida turnpike. Officials say at least five children were taken to a trauma center with serious injuries.
Parts of Kansas are cleaning up following several tornadoes. One went through the town of Stockton, damaging some buildings. No one was hurt, but the twisters churned up a lot of excitement, and it was all captured on video.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Woo!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, man! Good enough, isn't it? I mean -- woo!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Clearing Trego County June 9, 2005, two tornadoes on the ground at the same time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That east one is going to end up being...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, that's going to be a big one, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got him?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is a beautiful shot right there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tornado on top. Listen to that wind.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, the next time we need to cut north on this thing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do we want to head towards that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got to be sure we're on that thing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one's going to get included.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Yes. Wow!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you still recording?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Mike (ph), you need to work the map or something. OK, I'll do it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can't let you lay it across me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If that crosses the road, we could get cut off. So we've got to...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... be sure that we can...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, it's like right out here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. The next one's going to happen soon.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we've got to get north now. I think it's dying. It's getting wrapped around, it's just completely getting wrapped around the (INAUDIBLE) now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: God.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at that rapid rotation right there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank God for the (INAUDIBLE).
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HARRIS: Not for a million -- well, a million's a lot. Strong storms and tornadoes were also reported in parts of the Texas panhandle and the south plains. This is video of some of those tornadoes on the ground. And some tornadoes just beginning to form.
Officials in Floyd County reported damage to a barn and an irrigation system. One person described the storm this way...
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We went to the back, got in the bathtub. And while all of this was going on -- and we come out and I looked out and I said, "Well, my blue -- my blue pickup is gone." And we didn't find it until this morning.
And all it did was it just picked it up and set it down here. And man, I mean, we could hear stuff just -- and then it kind of let up, and then I bet we wasn't out a minute, and, I mean, here it come again.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HARRIS: In his own words. We'll keep you posted on any severe weather conditions throughout the day.
One of those severe weather situation we're tracking, Tropical Storm Arlene. As it makes its way on shore, we'll bring you any updates when they happen right here on LIVE FROM.
KATHLEEN HAYS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Kathleen Hays at the New York Stock Exchange. Before you encourage your teenager to find a job, you'll want to hear the next report. I'll have the top five most dangerous jobs for teens next on LIVE FROM. So stay tuned.
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HARRIS: Big Board. Listen up, parents. You might be urging your teenaged kids to get away from the video games and get a summer job. But before they do, check out this report.
Kathleen Hays joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange with a list of the most dangerous jobs for teens?
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Aired June 10, 2005 - 13:59 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Live pictures from the Florida coast, where the wind is blowing and everyone is bracing for Tropical Storm Arlene.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Woo!
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HARRIS: Crazy pictures, crazy emotions. Tornado chasers get what they're after, huge tornadoes. We'll take you inside the chase.
TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Ted Rowlands in Santa Maria, California. A Friday verdict? Is there one coming in the Michael Jackson trial? There are a lot of people waiting and waiting. Jurors now in their sixth day. We'll have the very latest coming up.
HARRIS: From the CNN Center in Atlanta, I'm Tony Harris. Kyra Phillips and Miles O'Brien are off. This hour of CNN's LIVE FROM starts right now.
Arlene's the name, but the season's first tropical storm is less lean than it used to be as it crosses into the Gulf of Mexico with top winds of 60 miles an hour. Forecasters fear the storm may cross the hurricane threshold as well, and we're all over it with CNN's John Zarrella in Miami and meteorologist Jill Brown, eying the virtual view from our weather center upstairs.
Jill, start us off.
JILL BROWN, CNN METEOROLOGIST: OK. We have some new problems now.
Storm -- a new update, by the way, from the Hurricane Center is in, and the winds are the same, although the pressure has dropped just a little bit, showing beginning signs of some strengthening. So expect to see that. But the new problem is that tornadoes are now showing up.
South Florida, we have a tornado watch that's in effect until 11:00 tonight, and that is for the Florida Keys and coastal waters. We've already had some warnings.
We have a warning in effect right now for Monroe County, I believe. Let me flip through here and see. Upper Keys, Monroe County, tornado warning until 2:15. We've had a report of a tornado on the ground moving to the northwest at about 20 miles per hour.
And from the radar you can see, here's the band coming right through here and, again, moving to the northwest. We'll get a closer look at I think here in just a moment.
Let me show you the latest now. There's our tornado watch. You can just barely see it. But the update from the Hurricane Center, again, winds still 60 miles per hour.
This pressure was 1,000 millibars, it's now down to 997. It's not a real significant change, but it does show us that it's probably showing some signs of strengthening at this point.
So let me go in a little bit closer for you here and show you what's going on as we get into south Florida. You see the heavy rain that's coming in. By the way, we could see as much as seven inches of rain with this. So, yes, that's likely to be a problem.
Rains in Florida in the last two weeks have been very, very wet through here. So we'll go in a little closer so you can get a better idea.
Here's our band that has been spawning tornadoes and Doppler- indicated rotations. So that's when sometimes you get those warnings before you actually see a tornado on the ground. But we have had reports of tornadoes on the ground through here coming up into rural Monroe Country.
We're going to see that heavy rain throughout the peninsula of Florida. We're already starting to see some of these showers come in up around the Florida Panhandle and up toward the New Orleans area. A few scattered showers, sort of a precursor of things to come.
So we're going to look at our track now and you'll see what's coming up now.
This is where it is at the moment. Most of the rain well off to the east, but the upper-level winds, where they're now fairly strong, should weaken. This is going to give this a chance to increase in strength and get better organized.
Landfall probably late on Saturday. At this point, the forecast is for it to get up to about 70 miles per hour. That's still a tropical storm, not a hurricane. Even if it becomes a minimal hurricane, the general effects will be about the same.
We'll have some minor wind damage, we'll have a lot of damage from flooding. And we may see more reports of tornadoes, and that could go on through tomorrow, even as it makes landfall and moves inland on Sunday morning.
Still more rain out there, Tony. So that's going to be the big story, but we'll watch this closely hour by hour.
HARRIS: Yes, it sounds like it. OK, Jill. Thank you.
Arlene is already blamed for the riptide death of a woman in Florida. CNN's John Zarrella, meantime, is holding his ground as best he can, doing a better job this hour than last hour in Haulover Beach, Miami -- John.
JOHN ZARRELLA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Tony, right now that last squall line that went through about an hour ago, it subsided a little bit. A little bit of breaks in the clouds.
The surfers have really come out. In fact, I think you saw one going through our shot at the beginning there.
There's got to be two dozen surfers in the water here, and the lifeguards have got their hands full keeping an eye on them, because the rip currents are terrible all up and down the east coast. Bathers are being told stay out of water. The surfers, it's another story there -- in there.
But, of course, Arlene, at least, direct -- indirectly blamed at this point for one death on South Beach, which about 10 miles to our south. And what happened this morning, very early, about 6:55 a.m., some ladies were in the water swimming, one of them got caught in one of the rip currents, another one tried to rescue her. Both of them got caught in the rip currents.
It took about 20 minutes for fire rescue personnel to get to them. The woman who was initially caught in the rip current, her lungs were filled with water, and she died at the hospital a short time later. Not clear on the condition of that second woman who was also caught. In fact, it was so bad out there that the people that were attempting to rescue, they themselves had to be rescued, the Miami Beach Fire Rescue people, by a Coast Guard boat that had been called in because of the terrible undertows and rip currents.
Again, it's a little clearer right now. The sun's trying to peek through, but the winds are gusting around 20, 25 miles an hour here on the beach, and it has been like this all day and expected to continue on, at least through the nighttime hours as Tropical Storm Arlene.
On the west coast of Florida, way over on the west in the Gulf of Mexico, it has this long reach with those spiraling bands coming in off of the Atlantic Ocean, bringing with it the rain and the wind and those reports of tornadoes down in Monroe County, which is in the -- in the Florida Keys.
So again, not a good day here for anyone, Tony, and not a very good start to the 2005 hurricane season which is expected to be very active -- Tony.
HARRIS: John, thanks. That's a complete picture for us. We appreciate it. Thank you.
We'll keep watching Arlene nautical mile by nautical mile, and you can watch live coverage all weekend long right here on CNN. North Korea is once again topping our security watch. President Bush and his South Korean counterpart are urging the communist nation to return to six-party talks on ending its nuclear program. The two leaders met at the White House today, and Mr. Bush says they are committed to speaking with one voice on the issue.
(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 that six-party talk are essential to saying to Mr. Kim Jong-il that -- that he ought to give up his weapons.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HARRIS: Well, North Korea is sending mixed signals about whether it will return to the talks. Earlier this year it announced it already has nuclear weapons and is making more.
Earlier today, President Bush toured the new National Counterterrorism Center outside of Washington. He also announced his pick to head the facility. Mr. Bush said he'll nominate retired Vice Admiral John Scott Redd as the director.
The Counterterrorism Center was created as part of an overhaul of the nation's spy community. It is charged with pooling and analyzing information about terror threats.
The fourth anniversary of the September 11 attacks is just three months away, and it seems the more time passes, the more missed opportunities to stop the strikes are coming to light. A new report by the inspector general finds the FBI had at least five chances to possibly uncover the hijacking plot. It calls the bureau's handling of the clues a "significant failure."
In one instance, an FBI agent suggested Osama bin Laden was sending his followers to the U.S. to study how to take down planes. That was two months before the attacks, but the report says the FBI failed to fully heed the theory.
CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of news that affects your security. Stay tuned to CNN for the latest information day and night.
Jurors in the Michael Jackson child molestation trial are in their sixth day of deliberations, and many people wonder if the jury might reach a decision soon. Let's get an update now from CNN's Ted Rowlands, outside the courthouse in Santa Maria -- Ted/
ROWLANDS: Tony, that's the source of a lot of speculation, that because it is Friday, maybe this jury will come up with a decision. But, you know, I have to say that every day that they've been deliberating, people have been predicting that there will be a decision on that day. So take what you will about -- take what you will from that.
Jurors did show up on time, and this is their sixth day of deliberation. Yesterday they only worked a half-day, even less than a half-day, because the judge allowed some jurors to attend some graduation ceremonies. Today they're at it on a full schedule, 8:30 a.m. until 2:30 Pacific Time.
There's been nothing out of the jury room since the first day of deliberations in terms of any questions or any readbacks. We haven't heard any updates as to what jurors have done. They arrived in their vans today on time, and presumably have been spending the day in this room, the jury room, where they've been doing their deliberating.
Meanwhile, outside the courthouse here, fans continue to stay and wait. They have held a vigil out here since the beginning of deliberations and throughout the trial, of course. The crowds grew considerably during closing arguments and have stayed somewhat large through this deliberation process.
Today, along with the Michael Jackson supporters, we are seeing some folks that have a bit of a biblical theme to their protests. They're trying to convert, I guess, a few of these supporters.
There are also people outside Neverland Ranch. Those numbers have dwindled offer the last few days. That is where Michael Jackson, according to his spokespeople, has been waiting, along with family members, for word of a verdict.
Neverland Ranch is about 40 minute away from the courthouse. The judge has allowed one hour between the time the jury reaches the verdict until the time that a verdict is read.
So we continue to wait here as the jury continues to work on the Michael Jackson case -- Tony.
HARRIS: Ted, these jurors aren't sequestered. So, you know, they finish up the day of deliberating and they can go home for the weekend, correct?
ROWLANDS: True. There's no real pressure here in terms of sequestration. I don't believe that you can read too much into the day of the week.
HARRIS: Yes.
ROWLANDS: They're going to go at their own pace, and that seems to be what they're doing now, working through this case. If they follow the judge's instructions, and that is to analyze the evidence, there is a lot of evidence over three months of testimony to analyze.
HARRIS: OK. Ted Rowlands in Santa Maria, California, following the Jackson jury deliberations for us. Ted, we appreciate it.
As you can imagine, it's been a media circus outside the courthouse. Our Rusty Dornin is especially intrigued by the rules imposed on the media. (BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The wait is on at the Santa Maria courthouse, a wait that can be sometimes busy, sometimes boring, often entertaining, but stocked with plenty of no- nos.
(on camera): Let's talk about all the things you can't do outside the courthouse. First of all, you can't jaywalk. One of the CNN employees got a $125 ticket for that a few weeks ago.
For the fans on the outside, the fence: "No trespassing," "No climbing on the fence," "Do not disturb the peace."
Now, once you cross this line, our photographer has to turn his camera off. He cannot come with me until we reach the next point.
TIM CAVENAUGH, DEPUTY: The only place you can film or photograph is along the pens (ph), which we call on the sides, or out on the street.
DORNIN: And how about?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK, let me stop you for just a second. And Tim, let me move you out here.
CAVENAUGH: Absolutely. Any place where it's easier for you guys.
DORNIN: We just got moved away from the place where we were just shooting because it's against the rules, right?
CAVENAUGH: Yes, but the reason it's against the rules is because we don't want to be blocking this area for the emergency traffic that might be coming through here, ambulance, fire, police.
DORNIN: This is the main media entrance. There's no public allowed beyond this point, and I'm going to have to show my pass to the officer here at the front gate. Then I'm allowed to walk in here, but the photographers cannot be rolling as they walk through here. They have to shoot from behind the fence.
When something happens in court, or someone like Jesse Jackson comes into the area, there's a lockdown. We're not allowed to walk outside the fence, so we've got to make our way -- and sometimes you get help -- through a very narrow area for as long as the sheriffs tell us we have to.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's a shot of him driving in the vehicle.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Which they have. They have that. OK. OK.
DORNIN: Producers, photographers and reporters filling time.
JANE VELEZ-MITCHELL, "CELEBRITY JUSTICE": We scratch our heads at the crazy circus that is enfolding us, looking over at the fans. Sometimes they're screaming insults at us.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (INAUDIBLE), you nasty she devil racists.
DORNIN (voice-over): Ah, yes, the fans. They chant, they sing, they sleep, and....
(on camera): Not all fans are here for the same reason, and some have nothing to do with Michael Jackson. And sometimes those fans get into confrontations.
(voice-over): Too many people too often with not enough to do but wait..
(on camera): Rusty Dornin, CNN, Santa Maria, California.
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HARRIS: Well, thrill seekers will love this. Take a look.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one's going to hit.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Yes. Wow!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you still recording?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
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HARRIS: Getting tight with tornadoes! We'll take you on the move with storm chasers.
And first comes the hurricane, then comes the baby boom. Some cuddly consequences of last year's busy storm season.
And the sounds and sights of Africa. A new cable channel sets out to do something never before seen by American viewers.
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HARRIS: In news "Across America" now, Vice President Cheney speaks and gives medals at a heroism award ceremony in Tampa. The event concludes a weeklong gathering of U.S. military leaders and their counterparts from 59 countries. They're aiming for a more effective joint response against global terrorism.
A Texas judge is expected to rule today whether a 12-year-old girl with Hodgkin's Disease should continue her cancer treatment. Her parents say their daughter's illness is in remission and she doesn't need radiation after having chemotherapy. Child Protective Services took the girl from her parents, claiming her life was in jeopardy and placed the couple's three sons in a foster home. More than 20 children in Boca Raton were injured this morning when a truck collided with their school bus on the Florida turnpike. Officials say at least five children were taken to a trauma center with serious injuries.
Parts of Kansas are cleaning up following several tornadoes. One went through the town of Stockton, damaging some buildings. No one was hurt, but the twisters churned up a lot of excitement, and it was all captured on video.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Tornado on the ground east! Tornado on the ground west! Woo!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, man! Good enough, isn't it? I mean -- woo!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Clearing Trego County June 9, 2005, two tornadoes on the ground at the same time.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That east one is going to end up being...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, that's going to be a big one, yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Got him?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is a beautiful shot right there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Tornado on top. Listen to that wind.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, the next time we need to cut north on this thing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Do we want to head towards that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We've got to be sure we're on that thing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This one's going to get included.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Yes. Wow!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you still recording?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. Mike (ph), you need to work the map or something. OK, I'll do it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can't let you lay it across me.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If that crosses the road, we could get cut off. So we've got to...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: ... be sure that we can...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, it's like right out here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: OK. The next one's going to happen soon.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, we've got to get north now. I think it's dying. It's getting wrapped around, it's just completely getting wrapped around the (INAUDIBLE) now.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: God.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at that rapid rotation right there.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Thank God for the (INAUDIBLE).
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HARRIS: Not for a million -- well, a million's a lot. Strong storms and tornadoes were also reported in parts of the Texas panhandle and the south plains. This is video of some of those tornadoes on the ground. And some tornadoes just beginning to form.
Officials in Floyd County reported damage to a barn and an irrigation system. One person described the storm this way...
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We went to the back, got in the bathtub. And while all of this was going on -- and we come out and I looked out and I said, "Well, my blue -- my blue pickup is gone." And we didn't find it until this morning.
And all it did was it just picked it up and set it down here. And man, I mean, we could hear stuff just -- and then it kind of let up, and then I bet we wasn't out a minute, and, I mean, here it come again.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Wow.
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HARRIS: In his own words. We'll keep you posted on any severe weather conditions throughout the day.
One of those severe weather situation we're tracking, Tropical Storm Arlene. As it makes its way on shore, we'll bring you any updates when they happen right here on LIVE FROM.
KATHLEEN HAYS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Kathleen Hays at the New York Stock Exchange. Before you encourage your teenager to find a job, you'll want to hear the next report. I'll have the top five most dangerous jobs for teens next on LIVE FROM. So stay tuned.
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HARRIS: Big Board. Listen up, parents. You might be urging your teenaged kids to get away from the video games and get a summer job. But before they do, check out this report.
Kathleen Hays joins us live from the New York Stock Exchange with a list of the most dangerous jobs for teens?
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