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U.S. Senator Publicly Calling for Resignation of Kofi Annan; Look at the Changing Face of AIDS
Aired December 01, 2004 - 10:30 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And we are right at the half hour. Thanks for being with us. I'm Daryn Kagan.
RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Rick Sanchez. Here's what's happening right now in the news.
And let's start by doing this. Let's set the scene for you in Halifax. This area that you're looking at right here is called Pier 21. It's Canada's immigrant museum, their answer to Ellis Island, if you will. It's on the downtown waterfront in (INAUDIBLE). The president will be introduced by the prime minister, where he will then thank the people of Halifax and the entire region for what they did after 9/11, taking in tens of thousands of travelers who were literally stranded there.
Now let's show you another part of this picture. This is really just across the street. We're talking you now to a place called Cornwallis (ph) Park. This is a designated area where protesters have been told that they can gather to protest the president of the United States. As you can see, there are some people there, but we're told that it will be nonviolent and it is very different, or smaller, we should say, from the protests that we saw yesterday, up to 5,000 people on the streets of Ottawa.
The demonstrators, as well, have been protesting in the Ukraine presidential election. They're continuing to line the streets of Kiev. This is a picture of that. The parliament voted today to sack the government of Prime Minister Yunakovich (ph), recently declared the winner of that race. The supreme court is hearing allegations of voter fraud raised by opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko. We'll keep tabs on that for you.
Also former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is heading to work on Wall Street. Giuliani's consulting firm, security firm has now purchased an investment banking firm. The new investment bank will advise companies on deals such as acquisitions and restructurings as well.
Also Scott Peterson's attorneys begin their -- presenting their case in the penalty phase of the murder trial today. In an emotional session yesterday, Laci Peterson's mother took the stand. Sharon Rocha shouted directly at the defendant. She wanted to be a mother, she said, and that was taken away from her.
KAGAN: The U.S. senator who heads the investigation into the United Nations oil-for-food program is publicly calling for the resignation of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Here is what Norm Coleman wrote. It's an opinion piece in today's Wall Street journal, where he writes -- quote -- "The decision to call for Mr. Annan's resignation does not come easily, but I have arrived at this conclusion because the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch."
Here's more now from our CNN senior correspondent, Richard Roth.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's almost three years to the day that Kofi Annan and the United Nations won the Nobel Peace Prize. But the secretary general must now be wondering why has everyone declared war on them?
Several American critics, no U.N.-lovers to begin with, have called for Kofi Annan to resign. The main reason -- the corruption- ridden Oil For Food Program the U.N. ran with Iraq. Many investigations have yet to be completed. But some members of the U.S. Congress feel Annan should be held responsible and are threatening to cut U.N. funding.
REP. JEFF FLAKE (R), ARIZONA: I don't know how you can have this level of mismanagement at the U.N., this big of a scandal, and not say to the man at the top that you had nothing to do with it.
ROTH: Of all things, Kofi Annan has been let down by his own son, Kojo. It turns out he was on the payroll of a Swiss company being examined in the Oil For Food saga for years longer than even Kofi Annan knew.
KOFI ANNAN, SECRETARY GENERAL, UNITED NATIONS: Naturally, I was very disappointed and surprised, yes.
ROTH: Annan understands there is a perception of a conflict of interest, but says his son is his own man.
FRED ECKHARD, U.N. SPOKESMAN: You can't blame the father for the sins of the son if there are sins of the son.
ROTH: But that's not the only problem for the U.N. chief. U.N. staff announced support for Annan, yet blasted unnamed senior U.N. management for personnel decisions.
Relations with the Bush administration chilled after Annan called the Iraq war illegal and warned against military offensives in Falluja.
(on camera): Kofi Annan spokesmen said don't be ridiculous when asked about resignation talk. No country here has asked for it. Annan has two years left on his second term.
But the results of investigations by separate U.N. and U.S. groups may determine Annan's legacy.
Richard Roth, CNN, the United Nations. (END VIDEOTAPE)
SANCHEZ: Meanwhile, the praise is pouring in for NAACP president Kweisi Mfume, who announced that he is resigning after nearly nine years. During that time, he helped salvage the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group.
Earlier today, on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING," we spoke to the reverend Al Sharpton about him.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REV. AL SHARPTON (D), FMR. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He made the organization solvent. They were in millions of dollars of debt. Most of us have debts in civil rights organizations. He found a way to make it solvent again. I think he leaves with no scandal and with a proud record.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SANCHEZ: Mfume, a former congressman, says he wants to spend more time with his family, six children, especially his youngest, he says. He says His 14-year-old he said spent most of his life immersed in a world of news conferences and airports.
KAGAN: The symbolism of World AIDS Day is being accompanied by a somber message: Women and girls are facing a rising risk of becoming infected. At least 38 million people around the world are HIV positive. And nearly half, 47 percent, are women.
Our CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains, they are part of the changing face of the disease.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Forty- five-year-old Shelley Singer says she got HIV in her 20s, didn't know it all through her 30s and now is living with the consequences of it in her 40s.
SINGER: I guess I fell into that trap that you sort of think that this is about them. You know, those people, the bad people, you know, the people that deserve it, the people that didn't pay attention, that didn't listen. After all I'm a married woman. I'm straight. My husband is straight. All I was doing was being a normal woman, just like everyone I know and everyone around me and everyone in that bar behind me.
GUPTA: Thirty-seven-year-old David Britt of Cincinnati was married and raising daughter Gwendolyn (ph) when he learned he was HIV positive.
DAVID BRITT, HIV POSITIVE: It's an ailment like anything else, you know. It's a virus. I have it. I'm going to die with it, hopefully not from it. I plan on making sure that she gets through college, putting out the first few little boyfriends, the ones that I don't like.
I work with kids. God's got a funny sense of humor and I'm a chemical dependency counselor now. My ability to maybe impact somebody's life so that they don't go through what I go through some days is the most important thing for me.
GUPTA: Irene Begay of Phoenix, Arizona was a nurse in the AIDS ward of her Navajo Reservations hospital when she accidentally stuck herself with a patient's used needle. Five years later, the 56-year- old grandmother became ill and tested positive for the AIDS virus.
IRENE BEGAY, HIV POSITIVE: Already from the day it happened one day the doctor told me when I was positive the first time. I didn't want to die. But then as the years went by, I'm not afraid to die. My grandkids are my whole life right now. I want them to remember me as happy. I just want to be there and help them. I want to beat this thing. I want to beat this sickness and I don't want it to beat me.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
SANCHEZ: As you may know, few countries have suffered the ravages of AIDS like Haiti. The Caribbean nation today is hosting U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. His one-day visit will call attention to World AIDS Day. He'll review recovery efforts from the summer's natural disasters, and also try to reaffirm U.S. support for democracy there. It has been a struggle. February marks the one-year anniversary of Haiti's ouster of their President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Mr. Powell will likely be out of his post by then, though.
KAGAN: His boss, President George Bush, is in Canada today, Halifax, expected to speak to the Canadian people in a speech that you'll see live here on CNN. That will take place in just a few minutes.
SANCHEZ: Let's tell you about something else that's going on. How would you like to get caught up in this on your way to work. Really a tough situation there for the people just outside of Detroit. This is an area called Clarkston. And there are some 30 to 40 cars that were involved in this multi-car pileup. The interstate has been shut down. It's Interstate 75, and we'll continue to follow this story as it unfolds as well.
KAGAN: What is a record-breaker? That would be the question to the answer. He was a jeopardy whiz on $2.5 million streak.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ALEX TREBEK, HOST, "JEOPARDY": The category is business and industry, and here is the clue, ladies and gentlemen: "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year."
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Did you have the question to this answer? Still to come, a look at the winner, and the losers.
SANCHEZ: Just think of what you've got to do every year. Taxes. There's the tip.
Later, you'll soon have another channel to surf, and its mission, to bridge the gap. We'll explain that one for you as well.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KAGAN: And we are looking at a live picture of Halifax, Canada, getting very close to the moment that we'll see the prime minister, Paul Martin, come out. He is expected to speak for about 10 minutes, and then President Bush. We will dip in a bit for the prime minister's comments, and we'll bring you more of President Bush's comments when he begins to speak.
SANCHEZ: Yes, he's going to thank the people there, but he's also going to talk foreign policy, which could sometimes have an effect on things like the market.
(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)
SANCHEZ: For months, "Jeopardy" fans have watched the dollar signs suddenly add up. This has been a real story. A software developer from Utah became the greatest quiz show titan in television history, or that's how he's billed. Then last night, a new winner emerged. California realtor Nancy Zerg beat Ken Jennings. The answer Jennings got wrong, "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." Do you know the answer? Well, here's what happened.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ALEX TREBEK, "JEOPARDY" HOST: Let's take a look.
NANCY ZERG: I hope so, too.
TREBEK: "What is H&R Block," right. Your wager 4,401, taking you up to $14,401. You have a 1 dollar lead over Ken Jennings right now. And his final response was? FedEx. His wager was 5,601. He winds up in second place with 8,799. And Nancy Zerg, congratulation, you are indeed a giant killer.
(APPLAUSE)
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SANCHEZ: Can you believe this guy finally lost? People were gathering in bars and places all over the country watching this thing to see if it would finally happen. The show's outcome might have been a surprise to you, but to some people who had faced Ken Jennings, it was about time.
Jeff Hager, from our affiliate WMAR, has more on what had been a very well-kept secret up until now.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did he just say he quit his job?
JEFF HAGER, WMAR REPORTER: They've all come together like a group of lost souls to exorcise their demons.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At Daily Double, I bet $5,000, and I couldn't remember Isaac Walton's last name.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I read the world almanac, and I got through the 'R's in Encyclopedia Britannica before I had to get on the plane.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I remember the whole way home on the plane, I'm like, Isaac Walton, Isaac Walton, Isaac Walton.
HAGER: They had all traveled to Los Angeles, all seeking their fame and fortune on the game show "Jeopardy," and the same man sent all of them home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really want to play someone other than ken Jennings.
HAGER: Ken Jennings, the mild-mannered software engineer from Salt Lake, who's 74 consecutive victories and more than $2.5 million in winnings cost his opponents like these so much more.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If you go on national television to show -- to kind of showcase your intellect, you have to be prepared to lose. And I guess I was, but I'm still kind of upset about it.
HAGER: Upset enough to produce T-shirts with her "KJL," Ken Jennings loser number. And now, acting upon more than a hunch that Jennings' time is up, they've gathered for some retribution.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm missing my daughter's high school volleyball banquet, but I couldn't miss this.
HAGER (on camera): Episodes of "Jeopardy" are taped months in advance, but their outcome is a well-kept secret. So how, then, did all these people know to show up for this episode? Well, we're told members of the audience had the news on the Internet within seconds after it happened.
(voice-over): And as the fateful game played out...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Minnesota!
HAGER: They played on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ashcroft.
HAGER: Reliving their moment in the spotlight, they watched their nemesis fall.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Seeing it really happen, knowing there's going to be someone else on tomorrow, I'm ecstatic. Go Nancy. I hope you're a five-time champion, I hope you're a 10-time champion.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As long as it's not 74.
Jeff Hager, ABC 2 News in Arlington, Virginia.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAGAN: Oh, it's going to be long time before we see that record fall.
SANCHEZ: Whatever happened to being be happy for other people's success.
KAGAN: There you go. Well, let's see how successful President Bush can be today. You're looking at the Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. He is expected to speak for a few more minutes. President Bush also out on that stage in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When President Bush speaks, we will go back live to this event.
Right now, a quick break.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
SANCHEZ: There is the prime minister, Paul Martin. He's been telling the president of the United States that this is what people do. The gratitude that many Americans expressed for what people of Halifax did, he's telling Mr. Bush that that's just what Canadians do when people are in need. It's an interesting story, one that the president himself will be relating to in just a moment when he gets up to speak, something that you will see live right here on CNN.
KAGAN: A little bit south of there in Buffalo, suburban buffalo, a family there says its dream has been realized. The idea they had for others like them is to have positive images to watch on television.
Our Maria Hinojosa reports on America's first Muslim cable network.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They're pretty much your typical American family, raising kids in suburban Buffalo, New York.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
HINOJOSA: But Mo Hassan (ph) and his wife are bringing up their four kids to follow Allah and Islam, just five miles away from Lackawanna, where in the fall of 2002, six Muslim men were accused of operating a sleeper al Qaeda cell.
Listening to their car radio one day, the Hassans heard derogatory statements about Muslims in America, and they had an idea -- create a cable TV network that would be about and for U.S.-based Muslims. MUZZAMMIL HASSAN, FOUNDER, BRIDGES TV: When you read the papers or listen to the news, almost the two words that go together, it's either Muslim extremists, Muslim terrorists, Muslim insurgents, Muslim militants, whereas all the stories about Muslim service, Muslim excellence, Muslim tolerance, Muslim contribution, you know, they are not out there. And yet those are the people that we know.
HINOJOSA: On Tuesday, Bridges TV had its national premiere.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome to Bridges TV.
HINOJOSA: There are the usual flashy graphics and dramatic music. But this network's target audience is one of the country's fastest growing, with estimates as high as seven million Muslims living in the United States.
African-American Muslims, immigrant Muslims, women Muslims, children who will watch Muslim cartoons.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning, mommy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning, sweetheart.
HINOJOSA: And, yes, given that Bridges TV calls itself a lifestyle and entertainment network, there are Muslim comics.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You guys have it easy. When you guys get to the airport, you guys get there an hour, two hours before your flight. Takes me a month and a half.
HINOJOSA: It was a dream, but Mo Hassan (ph) knew there would be challenges.
HASSAN: The thing is, you know, let's be real. You have got the word Muslim in there, so when people first hear it, they're like, oh my God.
HINOJOSA: But the country's largest cable carrier, Comcast, has agreed to distribute Bridges TV. American Muslims are so desperate to support this venture that for the past year, 10,000 supporters have been paying monthly fees, even before the network was on the air.
Jamilah Fraser used to produce news for local TV; now she is Bridges TV program director.
HINOJOSA (on camera): What is the one stereotype that you hope this network banishes?
JAMILAH FRASER, BRIDGES TV PROGRAM DIRECTOR: That the women are (UNINTELLIGIBLE), that the women are uneducated, and it shows us that we are -- we're a little bit of everyone, we are doctors, we're lawyers, we're teachers, we're producers.
HINOJOSA (voice-over): So on Bridges TV, which hopes to bridge the gaps between Muslim and non-Muslim, you see Muslim women dealing with a hate-based attack alongside cooking shows. But this is not a political network. Bridges TV says it will stay away from anything overtly political. The leader of the country's largest Muslim sect will host a show.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We don't all agree. You know, Shiite has a different view than the Sunni, and then there are so many others everywhere. So that would make for confusion.
HINOJOSA: So if you sign up to watch Bridges TV, don't expect a crash course on the complexities of Islam. What you can expect is to see what American Muslims like the Hassan family want to wear, eat or do on a family vacation.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
KAGAN: And we go from that story, we're also keeping an eye and an ear on what's happening in Halifax, Nova Scotia right now. The Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin speaking and getting ready to introduce President Bush. When President Bush speaks, we will go there live.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
SANCHEZ: And that's the Prime Minister Paul Martin, and he is continuing to prepare his introduction of President George Bush, who will be doing several things there in Halifax on this day. He's going to be thanking, first of all, the people of Halifax and that entire region for all they did for the tens of thousands of stranded travelers on 9/11 and beyond. He's also, though, going to be giving a very important foreign policy speech. We're going to bring you the president's speech right here live on CNN.
KAGAN: A lot more ahead in the next hour of CNN, as well. Calling attention to a deadly disease, this is World AIDS Day. We'll talk to the representative of the group co-founded by the singer Bono to bring attention to the AIDS fight.
SANCHEZ: And you may want to phish, but you don't want to be hooked like this. Daniel Sieberg takes a look at how easily we can be duped while trying to surf the Internet.
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Aired December 1, 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: And we are right at the half hour. Thanks for being with us. I'm Daryn Kagan.
RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Rick Sanchez. Here's what's happening right now in the news.
And let's start by doing this. Let's set the scene for you in Halifax. This area that you're looking at right here is called Pier 21. It's Canada's immigrant museum, their answer to Ellis Island, if you will. It's on the downtown waterfront in (INAUDIBLE). The president will be introduced by the prime minister, where he will then thank the people of Halifax and the entire region for what they did after 9/11, taking in tens of thousands of travelers who were literally stranded there.
Now let's show you another part of this picture. This is really just across the street. We're talking you now to a place called Cornwallis (ph) Park. This is a designated area where protesters have been told that they can gather to protest the president of the United States. As you can see, there are some people there, but we're told that it will be nonviolent and it is very different, or smaller, we should say, from the protests that we saw yesterday, up to 5,000 people on the streets of Ottawa.
The demonstrators, as well, have been protesting in the Ukraine presidential election. They're continuing to line the streets of Kiev. This is a picture of that. The parliament voted today to sack the government of Prime Minister Yunakovich (ph), recently declared the winner of that race. The supreme court is hearing allegations of voter fraud raised by opposition candidate Viktor Yushchenko. We'll keep tabs on that for you.
Also former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani is heading to work on Wall Street. Giuliani's consulting firm, security firm has now purchased an investment banking firm. The new investment bank will advise companies on deals such as acquisitions and restructurings as well.
Also Scott Peterson's attorneys begin their -- presenting their case in the penalty phase of the murder trial today. In an emotional session yesterday, Laci Peterson's mother took the stand. Sharon Rocha shouted directly at the defendant. She wanted to be a mother, she said, and that was taken away from her.
KAGAN: The U.S. senator who heads the investigation into the United Nations oil-for-food program is publicly calling for the resignation of Secretary-General Kofi Annan. Here is what Norm Coleman wrote. It's an opinion piece in today's Wall Street journal, where he writes -- quote -- "The decision to call for Mr. Annan's resignation does not come easily, but I have arrived at this conclusion because the most extensive fraud in the history of the U.N. occurred on his watch."
Here's more now from our CNN senior correspondent, Richard Roth.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SENIOR U.N. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's almost three years to the day that Kofi Annan and the United Nations won the Nobel Peace Prize. But the secretary general must now be wondering why has everyone declared war on them?
Several American critics, no U.N.-lovers to begin with, have called for Kofi Annan to resign. The main reason -- the corruption- ridden Oil For Food Program the U.N. ran with Iraq. Many investigations have yet to be completed. But some members of the U.S. Congress feel Annan should be held responsible and are threatening to cut U.N. funding.
REP. JEFF FLAKE (R), ARIZONA: I don't know how you can have this level of mismanagement at the U.N., this big of a scandal, and not say to the man at the top that you had nothing to do with it.
ROTH: Of all things, Kofi Annan has been let down by his own son, Kojo. It turns out he was on the payroll of a Swiss company being examined in the Oil For Food saga for years longer than even Kofi Annan knew.
KOFI ANNAN, SECRETARY GENERAL, UNITED NATIONS: Naturally, I was very disappointed and surprised, yes.
ROTH: Annan understands there is a perception of a conflict of interest, but says his son is his own man.
FRED ECKHARD, U.N. SPOKESMAN: You can't blame the father for the sins of the son if there are sins of the son.
ROTH: But that's not the only problem for the U.N. chief. U.N. staff announced support for Annan, yet blasted unnamed senior U.N. management for personnel decisions.
Relations with the Bush administration chilled after Annan called the Iraq war illegal and warned against military offensives in Falluja.
(on camera): Kofi Annan spokesmen said don't be ridiculous when asked about resignation talk. No country here has asked for it. Annan has two years left on his second term.
But the results of investigations by separate U.N. and U.S. groups may determine Annan's legacy.
Richard Roth, CNN, the United Nations. (END VIDEOTAPE)
SANCHEZ: Meanwhile, the praise is pouring in for NAACP president Kweisi Mfume, who announced that he is resigning after nearly nine years. During that time, he helped salvage the nation's oldest and largest civil rights group.
Earlier today, on CNN's "AMERICAN MORNING," we spoke to the reverend Al Sharpton about him.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REV. AL SHARPTON (D), FMR. PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: He made the organization solvent. They were in millions of dollars of debt. Most of us have debts in civil rights organizations. He found a way to make it solvent again. I think he leaves with no scandal and with a proud record.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
SANCHEZ: Mfume, a former congressman, says he wants to spend more time with his family, six children, especially his youngest, he says. He says His 14-year-old he said spent most of his life immersed in a world of news conferences and airports.
KAGAN: The symbolism of World AIDS Day is being accompanied by a somber message: Women and girls are facing a rising risk of becoming infected. At least 38 million people around the world are HIV positive. And nearly half, 47 percent, are women.
Our CNN senior medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains, they are part of the changing face of the disease.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Forty- five-year-old Shelley Singer says she got HIV in her 20s, didn't know it all through her 30s and now is living with the consequences of it in her 40s.
SINGER: I guess I fell into that trap that you sort of think that this is about them. You know, those people, the bad people, you know, the people that deserve it, the people that didn't pay attention, that didn't listen. After all I'm a married woman. I'm straight. My husband is straight. All I was doing was being a normal woman, just like everyone I know and everyone around me and everyone in that bar behind me.
GUPTA: Thirty-seven-year-old David Britt of Cincinnati was married and raising daughter Gwendolyn (ph) when he learned he was HIV positive.
DAVID BRITT, HIV POSITIVE: It's an ailment like anything else, you know. It's a virus. I have it. I'm going to die with it, hopefully not from it. I plan on making sure that she gets through college, putting out the first few little boyfriends, the ones that I don't like.
I work with kids. God's got a funny sense of humor and I'm a chemical dependency counselor now. My ability to maybe impact somebody's life so that they don't go through what I go through some days is the most important thing for me.
GUPTA: Irene Begay of Phoenix, Arizona was a nurse in the AIDS ward of her Navajo Reservations hospital when she accidentally stuck herself with a patient's used needle. Five years later, the 56-year- old grandmother became ill and tested positive for the AIDS virus.
IRENE BEGAY, HIV POSITIVE: Already from the day it happened one day the doctor told me when I was positive the first time. I didn't want to die. But then as the years went by, I'm not afraid to die. My grandkids are my whole life right now. I want them to remember me as happy. I just want to be there and help them. I want to beat this thing. I want to beat this sickness and I don't want it to beat me.
GUPTA: Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Atlanta.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
SANCHEZ: As you may know, few countries have suffered the ravages of AIDS like Haiti. The Caribbean nation today is hosting U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell. His one-day visit will call attention to World AIDS Day. He'll review recovery efforts from the summer's natural disasters, and also try to reaffirm U.S. support for democracy there. It has been a struggle. February marks the one-year anniversary of Haiti's ouster of their President Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Mr. Powell will likely be out of his post by then, though.
KAGAN: His boss, President George Bush, is in Canada today, Halifax, expected to speak to the Canadian people in a speech that you'll see live here on CNN. That will take place in just a few minutes.
SANCHEZ: Let's tell you about something else that's going on. How would you like to get caught up in this on your way to work. Really a tough situation there for the people just outside of Detroit. This is an area called Clarkston. And there are some 30 to 40 cars that were involved in this multi-car pileup. The interstate has been shut down. It's Interstate 75, and we'll continue to follow this story as it unfolds as well.
KAGAN: What is a record-breaker? That would be the question to the answer. He was a jeopardy whiz on $2.5 million streak.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ALEX TREBEK, HOST, "JEOPARDY": The category is business and industry, and here is the clue, ladies and gentlemen: "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year."
(END VIDEO CLIP)
KAGAN: Did you have the question to this answer? Still to come, a look at the winner, and the losers.
SANCHEZ: Just think of what you've got to do every year. Taxes. There's the tip.
Later, you'll soon have another channel to surf, and its mission, to bridge the gap. We'll explain that one for you as well.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
KAGAN: And we are looking at a live picture of Halifax, Canada, getting very close to the moment that we'll see the prime minister, Paul Martin, come out. He is expected to speak for about 10 minutes, and then President Bush. We will dip in a bit for the prime minister's comments, and we'll bring you more of President Bush's comments when he begins to speak.
SANCHEZ: Yes, he's going to thank the people there, but he's also going to talk foreign policy, which could sometimes have an effect on things like the market.
(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)
SANCHEZ: For months, "Jeopardy" fans have watched the dollar signs suddenly add up. This has been a real story. A software developer from Utah became the greatest quiz show titan in television history, or that's how he's billed. Then last night, a new winner emerged. California realtor Nancy Zerg beat Ken Jennings. The answer Jennings got wrong, "Most of this firm's 70,000 seasonal white-collar employees work only four months a year." Do you know the answer? Well, here's what happened.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
ALEX TREBEK, "JEOPARDY" HOST: Let's take a look.
NANCY ZERG: I hope so, too.
TREBEK: "What is H&R Block," right. Your wager 4,401, taking you up to $14,401. You have a 1 dollar lead over Ken Jennings right now. And his final response was? FedEx. His wager was 5,601. He winds up in second place with 8,799. And Nancy Zerg, congratulation, you are indeed a giant killer.
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SANCHEZ: Can you believe this guy finally lost? People were gathering in bars and places all over the country watching this thing to see if it would finally happen. The show's outcome might have been a surprise to you, but to some people who had faced Ken Jennings, it was about time.
Jeff Hager, from our affiliate WMAR, has more on what had been a very well-kept secret up until now.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did he just say he quit his job?
JEFF HAGER, WMAR REPORTER: They've all come together like a group of lost souls to exorcise their demons.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: At Daily Double, I bet $5,000, and I couldn't remember Isaac Walton's last name.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I read the world almanac, and I got through the 'R's in Encyclopedia Britannica before I had to get on the plane.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I remember the whole way home on the plane, I'm like, Isaac Walton, Isaac Walton, Isaac Walton.
HAGER: They had all traveled to Los Angeles, all seeking their fame and fortune on the game show "Jeopardy," and the same man sent all of them home.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I really want to play someone other than ken Jennings.
HAGER: Ken Jennings, the mild-mannered software engineer from Salt Lake, who's 74 consecutive victories and more than $2.5 million in winnings cost his opponents like these so much more.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If you go on national television to show -- to kind of showcase your intellect, you have to be prepared to lose. And I guess I was, but I'm still kind of upset about it.
HAGER: Upset enough to produce T-shirts with her "KJL," Ken Jennings loser number. And now, acting upon more than a hunch that Jennings' time is up, they've gathered for some retribution.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm missing my daughter's high school volleyball banquet, but I couldn't miss this.
HAGER (on camera): Episodes of "Jeopardy" are taped months in advance, but their outcome is a well-kept secret. So how, then, did all these people know to show up for this episode? Well, we're told members of the audience had the news on the Internet within seconds after it happened.
(voice-over): And as the fateful game played out...
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Minnesota!
HAGER: They played on.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ashcroft.
HAGER: Reliving their moment in the spotlight, they watched their nemesis fall.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Seeing it really happen, knowing there's going to be someone else on tomorrow, I'm ecstatic. Go Nancy. I hope you're a five-time champion, I hope you're a 10-time champion.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: As long as it's not 74.
Jeff Hager, ABC 2 News in Arlington, Virginia.
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KAGAN: Oh, it's going to be long time before we see that record fall.
SANCHEZ: Whatever happened to being be happy for other people's success.
KAGAN: There you go. Well, let's see how successful President Bush can be today. You're looking at the Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin. He is expected to speak for a few more minutes. President Bush also out on that stage in Halifax, Nova Scotia. When President Bush speaks, we will go back live to this event.
Right now, a quick break.
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SANCHEZ: There is the prime minister, Paul Martin. He's been telling the president of the United States that this is what people do. The gratitude that many Americans expressed for what people of Halifax did, he's telling Mr. Bush that that's just what Canadians do when people are in need. It's an interesting story, one that the president himself will be relating to in just a moment when he gets up to speak, something that you will see live right here on CNN.
KAGAN: A little bit south of there in Buffalo, suburban buffalo, a family there says its dream has been realized. The idea they had for others like them is to have positive images to watch on television.
Our Maria Hinojosa reports on America's first Muslim cable network.
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MARIA HINOJOSA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): They're pretty much your typical American family, raising kids in suburban Buffalo, New York.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
HINOJOSA: But Mo Hassan (ph) and his wife are bringing up their four kids to follow Allah and Islam, just five miles away from Lackawanna, where in the fall of 2002, six Muslim men were accused of operating a sleeper al Qaeda cell.
Listening to their car radio one day, the Hassans heard derogatory statements about Muslims in America, and they had an idea -- create a cable TV network that would be about and for U.S.-based Muslims. MUZZAMMIL HASSAN, FOUNDER, BRIDGES TV: When you read the papers or listen to the news, almost the two words that go together, it's either Muslim extremists, Muslim terrorists, Muslim insurgents, Muslim militants, whereas all the stories about Muslim service, Muslim excellence, Muslim tolerance, Muslim contribution, you know, they are not out there. And yet those are the people that we know.
HINOJOSA: On Tuesday, Bridges TV had its national premiere.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Welcome to Bridges TV.
HINOJOSA: There are the usual flashy graphics and dramatic music. But this network's target audience is one of the country's fastest growing, with estimates as high as seven million Muslims living in the United States.
African-American Muslims, immigrant Muslims, women Muslims, children who will watch Muslim cartoons.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Good morning, mommy.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Good morning, sweetheart.
HINOJOSA: And, yes, given that Bridges TV calls itself a lifestyle and entertainment network, there are Muslim comics.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You guys have it easy. When you guys get to the airport, you guys get there an hour, two hours before your flight. Takes me a month and a half.
HINOJOSA: It was a dream, but Mo Hassan (ph) knew there would be challenges.
HASSAN: The thing is, you know, let's be real. You have got the word Muslim in there, so when people first hear it, they're like, oh my God.
HINOJOSA: But the country's largest cable carrier, Comcast, has agreed to distribute Bridges TV. American Muslims are so desperate to support this venture that for the past year, 10,000 supporters have been paying monthly fees, even before the network was on the air.
Jamilah Fraser used to produce news for local TV; now she is Bridges TV program director.
HINOJOSA (on camera): What is the one stereotype that you hope this network banishes?
JAMILAH FRASER, BRIDGES TV PROGRAM DIRECTOR: That the women are (UNINTELLIGIBLE), that the women are uneducated, and it shows us that we are -- we're a little bit of everyone, we are doctors, we're lawyers, we're teachers, we're producers.
HINOJOSA (voice-over): So on Bridges TV, which hopes to bridge the gaps between Muslim and non-Muslim, you see Muslim women dealing with a hate-based attack alongside cooking shows. But this is not a political network. Bridges TV says it will stay away from anything overtly political. The leader of the country's largest Muslim sect will host a show.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We don't all agree. You know, Shiite has a different view than the Sunni, and then there are so many others everywhere. So that would make for confusion.
HINOJOSA: So if you sign up to watch Bridges TV, don't expect a crash course on the complexities of Islam. What you can expect is to see what American Muslims like the Hassan family want to wear, eat or do on a family vacation.
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KAGAN: And we go from that story, we're also keeping an eye and an ear on what's happening in Halifax, Nova Scotia right now. The Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin speaking and getting ready to introduce President Bush. When President Bush speaks, we will go there live.
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SANCHEZ: And that's the Prime Minister Paul Martin, and he is continuing to prepare his introduction of President George Bush, who will be doing several things there in Halifax on this day. He's going to be thanking, first of all, the people of Halifax and that entire region for all they did for the tens of thousands of stranded travelers on 9/11 and beyond. He's also, though, going to be giving a very important foreign policy speech. We're going to bring you the president's speech right here live on CNN.
KAGAN: A lot more ahead in the next hour of CNN, as well. Calling attention to a deadly disease, this is World AIDS Day. We'll talk to the representative of the group co-founded by the singer Bono to bring attention to the AIDS fight.
SANCHEZ: And you may want to phish, but you don't want to be hooked like this. Daniel Sieberg takes a look at how easily we can be duped while trying to surf the Internet.
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