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Cookie Cookoff for First Lady Candidates; Who is Your Favorite Dad in TV Land?

Aired June 17, 2004 - 10:30   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.


DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Daryn Kagan. Let's take a look at the top stories "At This Hour."
The last public hearings for the 9/11 Commission takes a chilling term as the public hears for the first time audiotapes of what happened aboard the airlines and among the officials on the ground scrambling to unravel what was going on.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

PHILIP ZELIKOW, 9/11 COMMISSION STAFF: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path and searched from aircraft to aircraft in an effort to have another pilot contact American 11.

At 8:24:34, the following transmission came from American 11.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

MOHAMED ATTA, 9/11 HIJACKER: We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you'll be OK. We're returning to the airport.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

ZELIKOW: The controller only heard something on unintelligible. He did not hear the specific words, quote, "We have some planes," end quote. The next transmission came seconds later.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

ATTA: Nobody move. Everything will be OK. If you try to make moves, you'll endanger yourselves and the airplane. Just stay quiet.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

ZELIKOW: Hearing that transmission, the controller told us he then knew it was a hijacking.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

KAGAN: The panel is due to issue a final report by July 26. It is expected to include recommendations on how the government can improve its homeland defense.

To Baghdad. The death toll now stands at is at 35 in this morning's suicide car blast outside an Army recruitment center. One hundred and forty-five other people were wounded. U.S. military officials say that no Americans or Iraqi army recruits were among the casualties. Rather it was Iraqi civilians who just happened to be passing by.

In Columbus, Ohio a federal judge has ordered psychiatric testing for a Somali man accused of plotting to blow up a local shopping mall. Nuradin Abdi muttered under his breath and behaved strangely as his attorney sought and was granted a pretrial evaluation. Abdi has been held since November -- since November on immigration charges. He's accused of plotting with an admitted al Qaeda member.

And a vigil is going this on at a Fort Worth, Texas park where three children and an adult drowned on Wednesday. One of the children fell or jumped into the pool at the bottom of the a waterfall and the other three victims tried to rescue her. That pool is not meant for swimming.

President Bush is checking with his top advisers at a cabinet meeting this hour. We expect to have some videotape being shot from that meeting a little bit later in the hour. When it comes in, we will show it to you here on CNN.

Meanwhile, 34 minutes past the hour. Like the president, John Kerry will also be doing some congressional campaign fund raising today. Kerry will attend a birthday celebration and fund raiser for Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan. Before that, he'll speak to labor union leaders in Detroit.

Fund raising in Columbus, Ohio yesterday, Kerry proposed funding for after school programs to help working parents.

When it comes to presidential elections, pollsters crunched numbers and pundits sharpened insights. "Family Circle" magazine makes it's predictions based on the cookie recipes of the leading candidates for first lady. In fact, the winning recipe had correctly predicted the presidential outcome each of the last three elections.

Susan Uggaro is "Family Circle"'s editor in chief and she joins us with a preview from New York. Susan, good morning.

SUSAN UGGARO, "FAMILY CIRCLE" EDITOR IN CHIEF: Good morning, Daryn.

KAGAN: A crumbly morning to you. You know we're talking about a deadline. The cookies have just arrived here at CNN Center. So we get a shot at what we're looking at here.

So both -- first of all, first lady Laura Bush -- oops. Oh look at this. I do not have the hostess thing going here. She submitted these oat meal cookies, right? Oatmeal chocolate chip. Teresa Heinz Kerry submitted nothing with ketchup, which is what I was expecting. But pumpkin spice cookies.

UGGARO: That's right.

KAGAN: Can you tell us about each recipe a little bit more, please? UGGARO: Well this is Laura Bush's second entry in our cookie cookoff. Here first recipe was the Texas governor mansion's tabloid cookie recipe which had a lot more in it. Pecans, coconut, chocolate chunks. And all kinds of other, you know, sugar and spice.

These ones are just a more simple chocolate chip cookie that has chocolate chunks and dried sour cherries and oatmeal in ti. And it's a little healthier going which goes along with Laura Bush's heart health initiative. And smaller servings.

KAGAN: Healthier than Teresa Heinz Kerry's or healthier than what she submitted earlier?

UGGARO: Healthier than her last presidential election entry.

KAGAN: OK. So she's gotten a little smarter in her year in the White House.

UGGARO: And she changed her recipe.

KAGAN: OK. Now the pumpkin spice?

UGGARO: Well, we asked Teresa Heinz for her favorite family recipe and she submitted this pumpkin spice cookie recipe which is basically a very plain pumpkin and raisins. And it's a soft, spicy cookie.

KAGAN: Oh it is soft, it is soft. I'm going to kind of munch as we talk here.

Now, this -- as we were saying as I introduced you, there's more a lot more at stake here than just cookies and battle of recipes because we were saying, this can predict exactly who will be in the White House.

UGGARO: Well we started this in 1992 when Hillary Clinton made that infamous comment about I could have stayed home and baked cookies. And a lot of people upset that she said baking cookies and staying at home might not be the thing that a first lady to do.

And so we offered here the opportunity to say that she actually did bake and that her -- she had oatmeal chocolate chip cookies back then that were her husband's favorite cookie. And we had a chocolate chip cookie recipe from Barbara Bush.

We put the two head to head and Hillary's chips won. And obviously we know her husband won that election.

And we've been doing it ever since. And the winner of our cookie recipe, her husband has taken the election.

KAGAN: And so, tell us how your readers can participate.

UGGARO: Well they can either send a postcard to "Family Circle." Everything is online, www.FamilyCircle.com. And we're encouraging people to cast their vote. And as you know, I mean, we are having fun with this. But I believe people vote with their personal tastes, not their taste buds.

KAGAN: "This is not a scientific survey," as we like to say.

UGGARO: Exactly.

KAGAN: Well very good. And we will look forward to getting the results. We were going to do our own little survey here for you in newsroom. Cookies got here a little late. My own personal take -- and I don't usually eat cookies and interview at the same time. No political affiliation here. I'm leaning a little bit more toward the pumpkin spice.

UGGARO: That's interesting.

KAGAN: Got to say -- did you try both of them?

UGGARO: Oh I've tried them both. I think one is very sweet and one is -- you know, one's sweet and sugary and the other is sweet and spicy. And it really depends on, again, your personal taste. Not just, you know -- when you're using your taste buds, may have a different decision than how you might cast your vote.

KAGAN: Exactly. An independent decision.

Although I have to say, it's rare that I meet a cookie that I don't like. So I will be enjoying these, as well.

Thank you so much for sending the cookies and for explaining the contest and we'll look forward to those results.

UGGARO: And they'll be in October.

KAGAN: In October. OK.

UGGARO: We'll announce them in October.

KAGAN: Just in time for the election.

UGGARO: Right.

KAGAN: Very good. Susan Uggaro from "Family Circle," appreciate it. And thanks for the cookies.

Well, Tiger Woods. Can he break his drought major events? The U.S. Open takes off this morning. We'll take you live to South Hampton, New York. That's coming up next.

Plus in our "Everyday Heroes," a dramatic rescue of some lucky ducks. Details just ahead.

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(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: And now to some drama with a happy ending. An anxious mama duck waiting as two men feverishly try to save her seven offspring from drowning in a drain pipe. The duckling drama does waddle to a happy ending, we'll tell you that right now. Thanks to some every day heroes in Wichita, Kansas.

Details now from Jeff Herndon and our affiliate KAKE.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEFF HERNDON, KAKE REPORTER (voice-over): Watch this video monitor. You can see the seven baby ducks trapped underground after being sucked down a parking lot drain. A crowd begins to gather.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh.

HERNDON: Mama duck looking more like a nervous parent, waiting and watching as the Wichita Water and Sewer Department springs into action. The only way to save the ducklings is to go in after them.

With the help of a special camera, they get a visual. One man in the truck...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think one of them went past the camera.

HERNDON: One man in the hole. They communicate with an earpiece, guiding each other.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, they don't like the camera, but they're not coming this way yet.

HERNDON: And believe it or not, they have done this before.

(on camera): This is how you rescue ducks?

HERNDON: Yes. Yes. We been on a few before. It's part of our job, basically.

HERNDON (voice-over): The ducklings are rounded up in an orange cone and lifted to safety. Adjust like that, the little baby ducks are reunited with their mother. The rescue is a success, and these ducks will live to quack another day.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Love that story. Thank you KAKE.

If you know of an everyday hero, we'd like to hear about it. Send up an e-mail, livetoday@cnn.com.

All right, who will be the hero at this year's U.S. Open. It's at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. It is under way. There are more subplots to keep fans guessing about who will take over the world's number-one ranking. Maybe nobody, if Tiger can pull his act together.

Our reporter, sports reporter Josie Burke, is there.

Josie, what an exciting place to be for this weekend's action.

JOSIE BURKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is. I'm out on Long Island at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, and this is actually, Daryn, the second time in the recent past that they have held the U.S. Open out here on Long Island. The last time, of course, was in 2002 at Beth Page Black, and that year, Tiger Woods was the big story. He won that tournament. It was his seventh mayor victory in 11 tries, and he was really at that point in time at the top of his game, the dominant figure in all of golf. But times change a little bit. He's been shut out in major tournament ever since then. And this year, with the U.S. Open back on Long Island, the field of this time is wide open.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PHIL MICKELSON, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: I think that we all know that when Tiger reaches his level of play, he is still almost unstoppable. We're still trying to get to that level where we can compete with him when he's playing his best. And I think we all appreciate the fact that he's sharing the wealth and letting us win some tournaments.

TIGER WOODS, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: That's par seven majors without one. Yes, it's a long time, considering the fact that I was winning there it seemed like just about every other one, but at least I was in contention.

SERGIO GARCIA, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: I feel like I'm playing nicely. So that, for my own confidence, that's always good. But, as I said before, it's going to be a really tough week and, you know, you just got to be very patient and hopefully get around it with as little mistakes as you can.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BURKE: Sergio Garcia, the 24-year-old Spaniard, is one of the trendy picks to just maybe win this tournament this week, and that's for a couple of reasons. Number one, he's been on a real hot streak. He's won twice in the last month, and both of those victories came in playoffs, so he's shown that he can really stand up to some pressure.

But there's also this little trend: The last six majors have all been won by first-time major winners, and Garcia, obviously, is looking to win a major for the very first time. He teed off this morning before 8:00. He's right around even par, Daryn, and Tiger Woods, he was at even par through eight -- Daryn.

KAGAN: And a note on Sergio there. I was watching the Golf Channel last night, because that's just how exciting I am, that's what I do at night, they were talking about Sergio now as carrying the banner of best player out there not to win yet a major now that Phil Mickelson has taken care of his.

Josie, thank you.

BURKE: And Mickelson...

KAGAN: Go ahead.

BURKE: Thanks, Daryn.

KAGAN: No.

BURKE: I was just going to say Mickelson is the happiest guy here, because he got rid of the label. He could not be more pleased to have shed that at the Masters.

KAGAN: Monkey off his back. That was a great Easter Sunday.

Josie Burke in New York, thank you for that.

Who is your favorite dad in Tv Land? Ozzie Osbourne has scored some votes, but not enough to take number one, I'll tell you that right now, but we will reveal the name of the winner next on CNN LIVE TODAY.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: You know what made me feel better about myself? That award I got for world's greatest dad.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Dad, you bought that.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

KAGAN: Homer Simpson or George Jetson? Father's Day is coming up on Sunday, a little reminder there for you. TV Land wants to know, who is your favorite television dad of all time? Here with the top 10, Tom O'Neill, senior editor of "In Touch Weekly," and producer of the show "Top 10 TV Dads."

TOM O'NEILL, SR. EDITOR, "IN TOUCH WEEKLY": Hey, Daryn.

KAGAN: Good morning.

O'NEILL: Good morning.

KAGAN: Good to have you here with us.

All right, we're going to go right to the list, because we want to get this in. First, 10 through six, we've made some fancy graphics to talk about your show. Ten: Ozzie and Ozzy, love that.

O'NEILL: Ozzie and Ozzy is interesting, because between those two Ozzies, you have 50 years of TV where we have seen what's happened to TV dads, where we've gone from "Father Knows Best" to father knows least.

KAGAN: Yes, a little different there.

George Jefferson, Ward Cleaver, Ray Barone and Fred Sanford.

O'NEILL: Yes, a lot of hothead dads there, like George Jefferson, et cetera. Very interesting.

KAGAN: And let's go to the next list. We're not going to reveal number one quite yet, up through two. Homer Simpson, there he came at number five. Herman Munster?

O'NEILL: Herman was the first silly dad, you know. He was really the overgrown child parading as dad, and as a monster no less, and a green one. He was fascinating.

KAGAN: But a lovable one.

And then, at the opposite end of the spectrum, Archie Bunker, who you might have agreed or not agreed with his politics, yet you could always tell he loved Gloria.

O'NEILL: He loved Gloria. And let's be honest, Daryn, there's a little bit of Archie Bunker in all of our own fathers.

KAGAN: OK, you speak for your dad.

O'NEILL: Not mine. Not mine, but most of everybody else.

KAGAN: And then a dad that's impossible not to love, Billy Cosby as Cliff Huxtable.

O'NEILL: Yes, this was very close, our vote for number one dad, and Cliff came in very, very close with who we did pick at number one.

KAGAN: OK, without further ado, the number one top TV dad, take a look...: Andy Griffith.

O'NEILL: Andy Griffith. This is probably a little known fact, Daryn: This is the most watched TV series in rerun history. And throughout the eight years it was on the air, it was never out of the top seven rankings of Nielsen's. In fact, like "Seinfeld," it's one of those few shows that went out at number one. The magic of this show is Andy Taylor, who was a father to everyone in Mayberry.

And in this special, "TV's Top 10 Dads," that airs tonight at 7:30 on TV Land, Eastern Time, and tomorrow again at 5:00 p.m., and several times over the next few days, Andy himself says in the finale scene of our special, that Andy Taylor really was a father to Barney. He was a father to Opie, of course, but he was a father to Aunt Bea, and he did it without a wife, and he did it with great heart, and he was always the hero to everyone.

KAGAN: He was. And, much more ahead on that. Thanks for sharing that with us. People love lists.

(CROSSTALK)

O'NEILL: It's fun one to do.

KAGAN: And a happy father's day to your dad.

O'NEILL: Thanks, Daryn. Yours, too.

KAGAN: Tom O'Neill, thanks so much.

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Aired June 17, 2004 - 10:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Daryn Kagan. Let's take a look at the top stories "At This Hour."
The last public hearings for the 9/11 Commission takes a chilling term as the public hears for the first time audiotapes of what happened aboard the airlines and among the officials on the ground scrambling to unravel what was going on.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

PHILIP ZELIKOW, 9/11 COMMISSION STAFF: Controllers immediately began to move aircraft out of its path and searched from aircraft to aircraft in an effort to have another pilot contact American 11.

At 8:24:34, the following transmission came from American 11.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

MOHAMED ATTA, 9/11 HIJACKER: We have some planes. Just stay quiet and you'll be OK. We're returning to the airport.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

ZELIKOW: The controller only heard something on unintelligible. He did not hear the specific words, quote, "We have some planes," end quote. The next transmission came seconds later.

(BEGIN AUDIO CLIP)

ATTA: Nobody move. Everything will be OK. If you try to make moves, you'll endanger yourselves and the airplane. Just stay quiet.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

ZELIKOW: Hearing that transmission, the controller told us he then knew it was a hijacking.

(END AUDIO CLIP)

KAGAN: The panel is due to issue a final report by July 26. It is expected to include recommendations on how the government can improve its homeland defense.

To Baghdad. The death toll now stands at is at 35 in this morning's suicide car blast outside an Army recruitment center. One hundred and forty-five other people were wounded. U.S. military officials say that no Americans or Iraqi army recruits were among the casualties. Rather it was Iraqi civilians who just happened to be passing by.

In Columbus, Ohio a federal judge has ordered psychiatric testing for a Somali man accused of plotting to blow up a local shopping mall. Nuradin Abdi muttered under his breath and behaved strangely as his attorney sought and was granted a pretrial evaluation. Abdi has been held since November -- since November on immigration charges. He's accused of plotting with an admitted al Qaeda member.

And a vigil is going this on at a Fort Worth, Texas park where three children and an adult drowned on Wednesday. One of the children fell or jumped into the pool at the bottom of the a waterfall and the other three victims tried to rescue her. That pool is not meant for swimming.

President Bush is checking with his top advisers at a cabinet meeting this hour. We expect to have some videotape being shot from that meeting a little bit later in the hour. When it comes in, we will show it to you here on CNN.

Meanwhile, 34 minutes past the hour. Like the president, John Kerry will also be doing some congressional campaign fund raising today. Kerry will attend a birthday celebration and fund raiser for Representative Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick of Michigan. Before that, he'll speak to labor union leaders in Detroit.

Fund raising in Columbus, Ohio yesterday, Kerry proposed funding for after school programs to help working parents.

When it comes to presidential elections, pollsters crunched numbers and pundits sharpened insights. "Family Circle" magazine makes it's predictions based on the cookie recipes of the leading candidates for first lady. In fact, the winning recipe had correctly predicted the presidential outcome each of the last three elections.

Susan Uggaro is "Family Circle"'s editor in chief and she joins us with a preview from New York. Susan, good morning.

SUSAN UGGARO, "FAMILY CIRCLE" EDITOR IN CHIEF: Good morning, Daryn.

KAGAN: A crumbly morning to you. You know we're talking about a deadline. The cookies have just arrived here at CNN Center. So we get a shot at what we're looking at here.

So both -- first of all, first lady Laura Bush -- oops. Oh look at this. I do not have the hostess thing going here. She submitted these oat meal cookies, right? Oatmeal chocolate chip. Teresa Heinz Kerry submitted nothing with ketchup, which is what I was expecting. But pumpkin spice cookies.

UGGARO: That's right.

KAGAN: Can you tell us about each recipe a little bit more, please? UGGARO: Well this is Laura Bush's second entry in our cookie cookoff. Here first recipe was the Texas governor mansion's tabloid cookie recipe which had a lot more in it. Pecans, coconut, chocolate chunks. And all kinds of other, you know, sugar and spice.

These ones are just a more simple chocolate chip cookie that has chocolate chunks and dried sour cherries and oatmeal in ti. And it's a little healthier going which goes along with Laura Bush's heart health initiative. And smaller servings.

KAGAN: Healthier than Teresa Heinz Kerry's or healthier than what she submitted earlier?

UGGARO: Healthier than her last presidential election entry.

KAGAN: OK. So she's gotten a little smarter in her year in the White House.

UGGARO: And she changed her recipe.

KAGAN: OK. Now the pumpkin spice?

UGGARO: Well, we asked Teresa Heinz for her favorite family recipe and she submitted this pumpkin spice cookie recipe which is basically a very plain pumpkin and raisins. And it's a soft, spicy cookie.

KAGAN: Oh it is soft, it is soft. I'm going to kind of munch as we talk here.

Now, this -- as we were saying as I introduced you, there's more a lot more at stake here than just cookies and battle of recipes because we were saying, this can predict exactly who will be in the White House.

UGGARO: Well we started this in 1992 when Hillary Clinton made that infamous comment about I could have stayed home and baked cookies. And a lot of people upset that she said baking cookies and staying at home might not be the thing that a first lady to do.

And so we offered here the opportunity to say that she actually did bake and that her -- she had oatmeal chocolate chip cookies back then that were her husband's favorite cookie. And we had a chocolate chip cookie recipe from Barbara Bush.

We put the two head to head and Hillary's chips won. And obviously we know her husband won that election.

And we've been doing it ever since. And the winner of our cookie recipe, her husband has taken the election.

KAGAN: And so, tell us how your readers can participate.

UGGARO: Well they can either send a postcard to "Family Circle." Everything is online, www.FamilyCircle.com. And we're encouraging people to cast their vote. And as you know, I mean, we are having fun with this. But I believe people vote with their personal tastes, not their taste buds.

KAGAN: "This is not a scientific survey," as we like to say.

UGGARO: Exactly.

KAGAN: Well very good. And we will look forward to getting the results. We were going to do our own little survey here for you in newsroom. Cookies got here a little late. My own personal take -- and I don't usually eat cookies and interview at the same time. No political affiliation here. I'm leaning a little bit more toward the pumpkin spice.

UGGARO: That's interesting.

KAGAN: Got to say -- did you try both of them?

UGGARO: Oh I've tried them both. I think one is very sweet and one is -- you know, one's sweet and sugary and the other is sweet and spicy. And it really depends on, again, your personal taste. Not just, you know -- when you're using your taste buds, may have a different decision than how you might cast your vote.

KAGAN: Exactly. An independent decision.

Although I have to say, it's rare that I meet a cookie that I don't like. So I will be enjoying these, as well.

Thank you so much for sending the cookies and for explaining the contest and we'll look forward to those results.

UGGARO: And they'll be in October.

KAGAN: In October. OK.

UGGARO: We'll announce them in October.

KAGAN: Just in time for the election.

UGGARO: Right.

KAGAN: Very good. Susan Uggaro from "Family Circle," appreciate it. And thanks for the cookies.

Well, Tiger Woods. Can he break his drought major events? The U.S. Open takes off this morning. We'll take you live to South Hampton, New York. That's coming up next.

Plus in our "Everyday Heroes," a dramatic rescue of some lucky ducks. Details just ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: And now to some drama with a happy ending. An anxious mama duck waiting as two men feverishly try to save her seven offspring from drowning in a drain pipe. The duckling drama does waddle to a happy ending, we'll tell you that right now. Thanks to some every day heroes in Wichita, Kansas.

Details now from Jeff Herndon and our affiliate KAKE.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

JEFF HERNDON, KAKE REPORTER (voice-over): Watch this video monitor. You can see the seven baby ducks trapped underground after being sucked down a parking lot drain. A crowd begins to gather.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh.

HERNDON: Mama duck looking more like a nervous parent, waiting and watching as the Wichita Water and Sewer Department springs into action. The only way to save the ducklings is to go in after them.

With the help of a special camera, they get a visual. One man in the truck...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I think one of them went past the camera.

HERNDON: One man in the hole. They communicate with an earpiece, guiding each other.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, they don't like the camera, but they're not coming this way yet.

HERNDON: And believe it or not, they have done this before.

(on camera): This is how you rescue ducks?

HERNDON: Yes. Yes. We been on a few before. It's part of our job, basically.

HERNDON (voice-over): The ducklings are rounded up in an orange cone and lifted to safety. Adjust like that, the little baby ducks are reunited with their mother. The rescue is a success, and these ducks will live to quack another day.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Love that story. Thank you KAKE.

If you know of an everyday hero, we'd like to hear about it. Send up an e-mail, livetoday@cnn.com.

All right, who will be the hero at this year's U.S. Open. It's at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club. It is under way. There are more subplots to keep fans guessing about who will take over the world's number-one ranking. Maybe nobody, if Tiger can pull his act together.

Our reporter, sports reporter Josie Burke, is there.

Josie, what an exciting place to be for this weekend's action.

JOSIE BURKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It is. I'm out on Long Island at Shinnecock Hills Golf Club, and this is actually, Daryn, the second time in the recent past that they have held the U.S. Open out here on Long Island. The last time, of course, was in 2002 at Beth Page Black, and that year, Tiger Woods was the big story. He won that tournament. It was his seventh mayor victory in 11 tries, and he was really at that point in time at the top of his game, the dominant figure in all of golf. But times change a little bit. He's been shut out in major tournament ever since then. And this year, with the U.S. Open back on Long Island, the field of this time is wide open.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

PHIL MICKELSON, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: I think that we all know that when Tiger reaches his level of play, he is still almost unstoppable. We're still trying to get to that level where we can compete with him when he's playing his best. And I think we all appreciate the fact that he's sharing the wealth and letting us win some tournaments.

TIGER WOODS, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: That's par seven majors without one. Yes, it's a long time, considering the fact that I was winning there it seemed like just about every other one, but at least I was in contention.

SERGIO GARCIA, PROFESSIONAL GOLFER: I feel like I'm playing nicely. So that, for my own confidence, that's always good. But, as I said before, it's going to be a really tough week and, you know, you just got to be very patient and hopefully get around it with as little mistakes as you can.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

BURKE: Sergio Garcia, the 24-year-old Spaniard, is one of the trendy picks to just maybe win this tournament this week, and that's for a couple of reasons. Number one, he's been on a real hot streak. He's won twice in the last month, and both of those victories came in playoffs, so he's shown that he can really stand up to some pressure.

But there's also this little trend: The last six majors have all been won by first-time major winners, and Garcia, obviously, is looking to win a major for the very first time. He teed off this morning before 8:00. He's right around even par, Daryn, and Tiger Woods, he was at even par through eight -- Daryn.

KAGAN: And a note on Sergio there. I was watching the Golf Channel last night, because that's just how exciting I am, that's what I do at night, they were talking about Sergio now as carrying the banner of best player out there not to win yet a major now that Phil Mickelson has taken care of his.

Josie, thank you.

BURKE: And Mickelson...

KAGAN: Go ahead.

BURKE: Thanks, Daryn.

KAGAN: No.

BURKE: I was just going to say Mickelson is the happiest guy here, because he got rid of the label. He could not be more pleased to have shed that at the Masters.

KAGAN: Monkey off his back. That was a great Easter Sunday.

Josie Burke in New York, thank you for that.

Who is your favorite dad in Tv Land? Ozzie Osbourne has scored some votes, but not enough to take number one, I'll tell you that right now, but we will reveal the name of the winner next on CNN LIVE TODAY.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: You know what made me feel better about myself? That award I got for world's greatest dad.

UNIDENTIFIED ACTOR: Dad, you bought that.

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KAGAN: Homer Simpson or George Jetson? Father's Day is coming up on Sunday, a little reminder there for you. TV Land wants to know, who is your favorite television dad of all time? Here with the top 10, Tom O'Neill, senior editor of "In Touch Weekly," and producer of the show "Top 10 TV Dads."

TOM O'NEILL, SR. EDITOR, "IN TOUCH WEEKLY": Hey, Daryn.

KAGAN: Good morning.

O'NEILL: Good morning.

KAGAN: Good to have you here with us.

All right, we're going to go right to the list, because we want to get this in. First, 10 through six, we've made some fancy graphics to talk about your show. Ten: Ozzie and Ozzy, love that.

O'NEILL: Ozzie and Ozzy is interesting, because between those two Ozzies, you have 50 years of TV where we have seen what's happened to TV dads, where we've gone from "Father Knows Best" to father knows least.

KAGAN: Yes, a little different there.

George Jefferson, Ward Cleaver, Ray Barone and Fred Sanford.

O'NEILL: Yes, a lot of hothead dads there, like George Jefferson, et cetera. Very interesting.

KAGAN: And let's go to the next list. We're not going to reveal number one quite yet, up through two. Homer Simpson, there he came at number five. Herman Munster?

O'NEILL: Herman was the first silly dad, you know. He was really the overgrown child parading as dad, and as a monster no less, and a green one. He was fascinating.

KAGAN: But a lovable one.

And then, at the opposite end of the spectrum, Archie Bunker, who you might have agreed or not agreed with his politics, yet you could always tell he loved Gloria.

O'NEILL: He loved Gloria. And let's be honest, Daryn, there's a little bit of Archie Bunker in all of our own fathers.

KAGAN: OK, you speak for your dad.

O'NEILL: Not mine. Not mine, but most of everybody else.

KAGAN: And then a dad that's impossible not to love, Billy Cosby as Cliff Huxtable.

O'NEILL: Yes, this was very close, our vote for number one dad, and Cliff came in very, very close with who we did pick at number one.

KAGAN: OK, without further ado, the number one top TV dad, take a look...: Andy Griffith.

O'NEILL: Andy Griffith. This is probably a little known fact, Daryn: This is the most watched TV series in rerun history. And throughout the eight years it was on the air, it was never out of the top seven rankings of Nielsen's. In fact, like "Seinfeld," it's one of those few shows that went out at number one. The magic of this show is Andy Taylor, who was a father to everyone in Mayberry.

And in this special, "TV's Top 10 Dads," that airs tonight at 7:30 on TV Land, Eastern Time, and tomorrow again at 5:00 p.m., and several times over the next few days, Andy himself says in the finale scene of our special, that Andy Taylor really was a father to Barney. He was a father to Opie, of course, but he was a father to Aunt Bea, and he did it without a wife, and he did it with great heart, and he was always the hero to everyone.

KAGAN: He was. And, much more ahead on that. Thanks for sharing that with us. People love lists.

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O'NEILL: It's fun one to do.

KAGAN: And a happy father's day to your dad.

O'NEILL: Thanks, Daryn. Yours, too.

KAGAN: Tom O'Neill, thanks so much.

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