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Princely Outrage; Major League Baseball Revises Drug Policy

Aired January 13, 2005 - 10:32   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: We are a couple minutes past the half hour. Good morning once again, I'm Daryn Kagan.
RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Rick Sanchez. And here's what's happening right now in the news.

Fire officials at the scene of a massive mud slide say all of the known missing been accounted for. At least 10 people were killed, 15 houses destroyed in La Conchita, California. Search crews still going over the site just in case anyone remains trapped in one of those air pockets that we've been telling you about. There are concerns that more mudslides could occur in this area.

The potential for severe weather is on the horizon for parts of the southeast as well. We're talking about tornado warnings up this hour for places like Tuscaloosa, Alabama. These pictures of Tuscaloosa are from our affiliate WBRC. CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen reports that there was a brief tornado touchdown there already, and straight-line winds of 60 miles an hour have already been recorded.

Live this hour, nearly three dozen prominent religious leaders issue an appeal to President Bush. They want Middle East peace negotiations to be a top priority during his second term. Leaders represent Jewish, Christian, Muslim groups that boast some 100 million American members.

Also Major League Baseball players and owners are planning to announce a new deal on steroid testing today. Now this agreement is expected to include penalties for first-time offenders. Congress had threatened to take action unless baseball came up with a strict steroid policy than it had in the past, considered weak and diluted.

KAGAN: Let's get right to our "what was he thinking" file. British lawmakers and Jewish groups around the world voicing outrage over a photo pasted across a leading tabloid. Take a look. Yes, that is Prince Harry, grandson of the queen, wearing a Nazi uniform, to what Buckingham Palace describes is a fancy dress party. I think that's, like, a costume party. The photo was first published on "The Sun" newspaper.

Let's hop across the pond for British reaction to this wardrobe gasp by the person who's third in line to the throne.

CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney is outside Buckingham Palace with the latest. Hello.

FIONNUALA SWEENEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn. Yes, it's not the first time that Prince Harry has been in trouble with not just the royal family and the media here in Britain, but it would appear that this time he has crossed the line. He wore that costume at a party in the English countryside last Saturday evening, and he was photographed, as you can see, smoking and drinking wearing a Nazi uniform with a swastika on his left arm.

Now as I say, the 20-year-old prince has been in scrapes before, recently punching a member of the press as he left a restaurant in central London. But it would appear that the palace has gone to great lengths to try to improve the prince's image, by having him doing high visible in the media eye -- work in the public eye in times of charity work in memory of his late mother, Diana, princess of Wales.

But as you say, there is a media fury here. And indeed, the leader of the opposition party, the conservative opposition party, calling for Prince Harry to make a personal and public apology, this despite a statement from the palace last night when it got word that the tabloid "Sun" newspaper was going to publish this photograph, a statement from the prince saying, and I'm quoting here, "I'm very sorry if I caused any offense or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume, and I apologize."

But I think if the palace thought that would be an end to the matter, they've been very much taken off guard, they're very much mistaken -- Daryn.

KAGAN: And clearly is not an end to matter, because it's being talked about all around the world. What about some the ideas being put toward Prince Harry of further ways he can make amends?

SWEENEY: Well, I think it's rather early in the day yet to decide how that is going to be achieved or what further action we might hear from the palace. As I say, they issued that statement last night, quite quick to jump off the mark when they got word there would be a publication of this photograph.

There has been words from at least one Jewish group here in Britain that his apology is enough, and I know that sources that CNN has been in touch with, such as veterans from the Second World War, one organization there, saying that they also consider the apology to be enough.

It's also a question of what Prince Harry, who is the third in line to the throne, as you point out, is going to do with his life. And as I say, he's been involved in a number of high-profile incidents that in the past have been put down to high jinx or youthful indiscretions, but it would appear now that this one has crossed the line, and it does remain to be seen what action, or further action, if any, is going to be taken by the prince and the palace to make amends for this photograph -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Clearly the young man could use some guidance. Fionnuala Sweeney in London, thank you.

SANCHEZ: Now another prominent British name make making news. The son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has avoided jail in Cape Town, South Africa. Sir Mark Thatcher entered a guilty plea to unknowingly helping to bankroll a failed coup in oil-rich Equatorial New Guinea. Thatcher paid a half-million dollar fine and received a suspended jail sentence. He admitted to financing a helicopter, not realizing that mercenaries tried to use it to take over the government.

A New York-bound flight was forced to return to London after U.S. authorities discovered one of the passengers was on Washington's no- fly list. Once in London, the passenger was removed without incident. And British Airways flight continued on to New York's JFK Airport. U.S. officials say British airways did not have the latest no-fly list, but it's not clear why. The man, who was suspected of possible terrorist ties, was questioned, and he was later released.

KAGAN: Let's look at other stories making news coast to coast.

SANCHEZ: Yes, we're going to begin with the powerful blast just outside a Chicago shopping mall. Firefighters say a natural gas explosion ripped up a parking lot. It's a half a football field long trench that was left there. As a result of this, nine people taken to the hospital. The blast overturned a dozen cars. It set parts of a gas main flying through the air.

KAGAN: Two people were killed when some 200 vehicles crashed in multiple pileups in Michigan. Crashes are being blamed on a blinding fog on interstate 96 near Lansing; 37 people were hospitalized. The highway was closed in both directions for hours. One driver said, it was like driving into a white piece of paper.

SANCHEZ: Did you know that Tennessee, of all states, has the highest divorce rate in the nation? And one state lawmaker there says he wants to change that. So he's introducing a bill that would allow covenant marriages. The bill would make it tougher to get a divorce. Covenant marriages have been on the books in some states. Critics say divorce rates there aren't much lower.

KAGAN: Harvard grad turned CIA spy. You're going to meet one woman who is a pro at espionage. That's coming up next.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If you can't tell when you're being followed, you're not going to be a very effective spy.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: Also Apple is taking a bigger bite out of the market. We're going to back with business, yours, next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

SANCHEZ: James Bond was the super spy who made the leap from books to the big screen. Lindsey Moran is a former spy who's making the transition from real life cloak and daggers to books. She's revealing her life as a spy as well.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The new challenge Lindsay Moran faces is not unusual: motherhood. But until 2003 her very unusual challenge was convincing foreigners to commit treason.

(on camera) Do you believe that women make better spies than men?

LINDSAY MORAN, AUTHOR, "BLOWING MY COVER": I do think women make better spies. Because I think that women are and have been from an early age conditioned to listen. And as a spy, a lot of what you're doing is listening.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lindsay Moran.

ENSOR (voice-over): On the day after she delivered the commencement address to her senior class at Harvard in 1991, Lindsay Moran first contacted the CIA about a job.

They sent her to The Farm, the secret CIA training school outside Williamsburg, Virginia.

MORAN: That was actually incredibly fun. It was like a two month Outward Bound experience.

ENSOR: They jumped out of airplanes. They practiced recruiting spies.

(on camera) OK, so you invite man to a restaurant for lunch, and here we are.

MORAN: Right.

ENSOR: What is that man thinking?

MORAN: Nine times out of 10, he's probably thinking that you're hitting on him. And that's OK at the beginning, and that's one of the reasons why I think women make very effective case officers. It's a lot easier as a young woman to ask a man out to lunch or to coffee, and for it to seem perfectly natural.

ENSOR (voice-over): At CIA training school, Lindsay learned to drive with a sixth sense, tracking other cars which might be following her.

MORAN: If you can't tell when you're being followed, you're not going to be a very effective spy.

ENSOR: She learned to watch out for five, six or seven different cars that might all be helping to track her on her way to meet with an agent.

MORAN: I would often be wearing a skirt or shorts, and sometimes I would take notes of license plates and car makes and models that I saw right on my thigh. Because I could be pretty sure that I wasn't going to be strip-searched by the CIA instructors.

ENSOR: Lindsay learned to make left turns and U-turns frequently so as to force the followers to do the same and to expose themselves.

The movie "The Recruit," she says, captures pretty well the atmosphere at the CIA Farm.

AL PACINO, ACTOR: We're going to hand you the tools. The black arts. Not witchcraft, trade craft.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready, fire!

ENSOR (on camera): Hollywood presents the career you had as an enormously glamorous and dangerous profession. Is it?

MORAN: No. On both counts.

ENSOR (voice-over): The beautiful spy on "Alias," the one with the James Bond gadgets, that's far from reality, she says.

MORAN: At the end of the day, the CIA is a lot of people in sensible shoes, sitting in cubicles.

ENSOR: Lindsay Moran worked for the CIA in Macedonia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. She worked on the Iraq desk at CIA headquarters during the Iraq invasion. But already, she had doubts about her chosen profession.

MORAN: I did have a deep level of discomfort, even with the profession of being a spy and leading a sort of double life and using people and lying to everyone who was close to me.

ENSOR: And gradually, too, she lost her faith in the CIA.

(on camera) Do you think it's an organization that is broken at this point?

MORAN: Yes. I guess I do. I don't have the answers as to how the agency can adequately infiltrate terrorist networks or combat terrorism. I feel that the agency has been incredibly slow to respond.

ENSOR (voice-over): So now Lindsay Moran has written a book. Some at the CIA regard that as a betrayal as sorts. She knows that well.

MORAN: It's not a threat to write a book about a dysfunctional intelligence organization. It's a threat to have a dysfunctional intelligence organization. And that was my ultimate conclusion.

ENSOR: Lindsay Moran, author, former spy, future mother.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Baseball and steroids. People have said something had to be done. Starting today, new rules to address the problem. SANCHEZ: Yes, still to come. Keeping it fair and legal on the diamond. Details about baseball's new rules as opposed to their 2002 rules, which didn't really work, many would argue.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: A major announcement is expected today on a new steroid testing policy in Major League Baseball. Players and owners have struck an agreement that will require tougher testing and penalties for the performance-enhancing drug.

Ray D'Alessio of CNN Sports joins us with the closer look. OK, the old policy, a joke, let's just say it.

RAY D'ALESSIO, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: It was. It was.

KAGAN: Any teeth to the new policy?

D'ALESSIO: Well, I mean, the new policy is a step in the right direction. In a perfect world, I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of fans out there that would say, first time a player tests positive, they need to be gone for a year.

But here's the way things break down. Reportedly, according to the Associated Press, under the old plan, first time a player tested positive for steroids he was subject to only treatment and counseling. New plan, first time offense could reportedly result in a possible ten-day suspension. Old plan, player wouldn't face a one-year suspension until the fifth offense. New plan, a fourth offense could result in a one-year suspension.

So again, it is a step in the right direction. And if you're a player, guys, who has never even taken any kind of steroids, you remain clean, you know, you want to abide by the rules, you're loving this because now you're not going out in public, you're not playing in front of the fans every day wondering what they're thinking and looking at you with all the scrutiny.

KAGAN: You're literally evening the playing field.

D'ALESSIO: Exactly. You're evening the playing field. And you know, with the old system, the way it was, players would get randomly tested one time of year at the start of spring training -- between the timespan of spring training and at the end of the regular season. One time. That was it. And they knew no more tests were coming.

Under the new agreement, again, reportedly, we're going to find out more this afternoon when they make they announcement, but reportedly under the new agreement, a player can get tested more than once during the regular season and in the off-season. That's the big key there, as well.

KAGAN: How does this compare to what the NFL and NBA are doing right now?

D'ALESSIO: Well, you look at -- I mean, really, there's no comparison. The NFL has got one of the strictest drug-testing policies around. First time a player tests positive for steroids, there's no counseling whatsoever. It's an automatic four-game suspension. Second time, it's a six-game. Third time, gone, you're done for the entire year. And the list of banned substances are incredible. There's something like 60 things that they can test for.

KAGAN: Yes, we're not talking like one thing, that you shoot up. Well, we're just weeks away from players and catchers recording. Love saying that, it makes people get all excited for baseball.

D'ALESSIO: Makes me excited. And you know, it's funny you should say that, Daryn. Not to interrupt you, but we heard so much about this whole negotiation policy, like Donald Fehr saying, well, a new testing policy would be an invasion of the players' privacy. When I was down at spring training last year, a lot of the players were like, hey, we need a new testing policy, we're looking forward to it someday.

KAGAN: Looking ahead to 2005, how do you think this is going to affect the performances that fans see when they go to the ballpark? Fewer homeruns?

D'ALESSIO: It's hard to say. And then there's that agreement, the argument, you know, do the steroids really help, you know, do the performance enhancers really help you with records and stuff like that? Yes! Rick's a believer.

KAGAN: Look at the record books from the last few years...

D'ALESSIO: Yes, Rick's a believer.

KAGAN: ... and you answered that. Ray D'Alessio, thank you.

D'ALESSIO: OK. Look at their bodies as well.

(CROSSTALK)

D'ALESSIO: Remember, I've got to cover these guys. So I don't want to get beat up in person, so...

SANCHEZ: Got you covered, Ray.

KAGAN: But you won't have to worry this year because they won't be on steroids.

D'ALESSIO: That's true.

SANCHEZ: Good point. Good point.

Let's talk about what's going on. And we do tell you, the time is now 10:55. That's on the East Coast, of course. 7:55 on the West Coast.

KAGAN: Stay with us. We'll be back with a check of your morning forecast.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: All right, we have talked about mudslides, flooding, tornadoes this hour and how about some snow? Throw some in.

SANCHEZ: Well, I'll tell you what. They were slip slidin' on the streets of Denver this morning. Kim Posey of our affiliate KDVR is showing us a smash-up rush hour.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

KIM POSEY, KDVR REPORTER (voice-over): What starts with a few spins, slips and slides, soon turns to a downhill disaster zone.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See, there's another one coming.

POSEY: One after the other. 28 vehicles crashed in this same spot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just like a chain reaction.

POSEY: The hill on Florida between Parker and Corvette.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It must have been solid ice. I just started sliding and I just couldn't stop.

POSEY: Out of control, this woman jumps out of her car. As it slides, so does she.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get out of the way, come on!

POSEY: And she almost gets hit. Minutes later, this woman jumps out the passenger side of the car and is dragged down the hill.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is crazy.

POSEY: As soon as one five-car pileup moves to safety around the corner...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to get hit from behind, you think?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

POSEY: ... another pile-up forms. Fox 31 photojournalist Josh White tries to help.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You all right?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I'm OK.

POSEY: Stunned drivers try to stay out of the way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Heads up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, sir.

POSEY: And wait for police.

(on camera): Within half an hour, Denver Police had blocked off this entire hill.

(voice-over): Firefighters and the snowplows arrive.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did you hit?

POSEY (voice-over): As the group tries to figure out who hit who, many wonder why this area was such a problem.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The street maintenance, they get to it as quick as they can, as fast as they can. This has always been a bad hill.

POSEY: No one was hurt, but drivers want to be prepared the next time it storms.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I will not come this way next time.

POSEY: Kim Posey, Fox 31 News.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

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Aired January 13, 2005 - 10:32   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: We are a couple minutes past the half hour. Good morning once again, I'm Daryn Kagan.
RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Rick Sanchez. And here's what's happening right now in the news.

Fire officials at the scene of a massive mud slide say all of the known missing been accounted for. At least 10 people were killed, 15 houses destroyed in La Conchita, California. Search crews still going over the site just in case anyone remains trapped in one of those air pockets that we've been telling you about. There are concerns that more mudslides could occur in this area.

The potential for severe weather is on the horizon for parts of the southeast as well. We're talking about tornado warnings up this hour for places like Tuscaloosa, Alabama. These pictures of Tuscaloosa are from our affiliate WBRC. CNN meteorologist Dave Hennen reports that there was a brief tornado touchdown there already, and straight-line winds of 60 miles an hour have already been recorded.

Live this hour, nearly three dozen prominent religious leaders issue an appeal to President Bush. They want Middle East peace negotiations to be a top priority during his second term. Leaders represent Jewish, Christian, Muslim groups that boast some 100 million American members.

Also Major League Baseball players and owners are planning to announce a new deal on steroid testing today. Now this agreement is expected to include penalties for first-time offenders. Congress had threatened to take action unless baseball came up with a strict steroid policy than it had in the past, considered weak and diluted.

KAGAN: Let's get right to our "what was he thinking" file. British lawmakers and Jewish groups around the world voicing outrage over a photo pasted across a leading tabloid. Take a look. Yes, that is Prince Harry, grandson of the queen, wearing a Nazi uniform, to what Buckingham Palace describes is a fancy dress party. I think that's, like, a costume party. The photo was first published on "The Sun" newspaper.

Let's hop across the pond for British reaction to this wardrobe gasp by the person who's third in line to the throne.

CNN's Fionnuala Sweeney is outside Buckingham Palace with the latest. Hello.

FIONNUALA SWEENEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hello, Daryn. Yes, it's not the first time that Prince Harry has been in trouble with not just the royal family and the media here in Britain, but it would appear that this time he has crossed the line. He wore that costume at a party in the English countryside last Saturday evening, and he was photographed, as you can see, smoking and drinking wearing a Nazi uniform with a swastika on his left arm.

Now as I say, the 20-year-old prince has been in scrapes before, recently punching a member of the press as he left a restaurant in central London. But it would appear that the palace has gone to great lengths to try to improve the prince's image, by having him doing high visible in the media eye -- work in the public eye in times of charity work in memory of his late mother, Diana, princess of Wales.

But as you say, there is a media fury here. And indeed, the leader of the opposition party, the conservative opposition party, calling for Prince Harry to make a personal and public apology, this despite a statement from the palace last night when it got word that the tabloid "Sun" newspaper was going to publish this photograph, a statement from the prince saying, and I'm quoting here, "I'm very sorry if I caused any offense or embarrassment to anyone. It was a poor choice of costume, and I apologize."

But I think if the palace thought that would be an end to the matter, they've been very much taken off guard, they're very much mistaken -- Daryn.

KAGAN: And clearly is not an end to matter, because it's being talked about all around the world. What about some the ideas being put toward Prince Harry of further ways he can make amends?

SWEENEY: Well, I think it's rather early in the day yet to decide how that is going to be achieved or what further action we might hear from the palace. As I say, they issued that statement last night, quite quick to jump off the mark when they got word there would be a publication of this photograph.

There has been words from at least one Jewish group here in Britain that his apology is enough, and I know that sources that CNN has been in touch with, such as veterans from the Second World War, one organization there, saying that they also consider the apology to be enough.

It's also a question of what Prince Harry, who is the third in line to the throne, as you point out, is going to do with his life. And as I say, he's been involved in a number of high-profile incidents that in the past have been put down to high jinx or youthful indiscretions, but it would appear now that this one has crossed the line, and it does remain to be seen what action, or further action, if any, is going to be taken by the prince and the palace to make amends for this photograph -- Daryn.

KAGAN: Clearly the young man could use some guidance. Fionnuala Sweeney in London, thank you.

SANCHEZ: Now another prominent British name make making news. The son of former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has avoided jail in Cape Town, South Africa. Sir Mark Thatcher entered a guilty plea to unknowingly helping to bankroll a failed coup in oil-rich Equatorial New Guinea. Thatcher paid a half-million dollar fine and received a suspended jail sentence. He admitted to financing a helicopter, not realizing that mercenaries tried to use it to take over the government.

A New York-bound flight was forced to return to London after U.S. authorities discovered one of the passengers was on Washington's no- fly list. Once in London, the passenger was removed without incident. And British Airways flight continued on to New York's JFK Airport. U.S. officials say British airways did not have the latest no-fly list, but it's not clear why. The man, who was suspected of possible terrorist ties, was questioned, and he was later released.

KAGAN: Let's look at other stories making news coast to coast.

SANCHEZ: Yes, we're going to begin with the powerful blast just outside a Chicago shopping mall. Firefighters say a natural gas explosion ripped up a parking lot. It's a half a football field long trench that was left there. As a result of this, nine people taken to the hospital. The blast overturned a dozen cars. It set parts of a gas main flying through the air.

KAGAN: Two people were killed when some 200 vehicles crashed in multiple pileups in Michigan. Crashes are being blamed on a blinding fog on interstate 96 near Lansing; 37 people were hospitalized. The highway was closed in both directions for hours. One driver said, it was like driving into a white piece of paper.

SANCHEZ: Did you know that Tennessee, of all states, has the highest divorce rate in the nation? And one state lawmaker there says he wants to change that. So he's introducing a bill that would allow covenant marriages. The bill would make it tougher to get a divorce. Covenant marriages have been on the books in some states. Critics say divorce rates there aren't much lower.

KAGAN: Harvard grad turned CIA spy. You're going to meet one woman who is a pro at espionage. That's coming up next.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: If you can't tell when you're being followed, you're not going to be a very effective spy.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

SANCHEZ: Also Apple is taking a bigger bite out of the market. We're going to back with business, yours, next.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

SANCHEZ: James Bond was the super spy who made the leap from books to the big screen. Lindsey Moran is a former spy who's making the transition from real life cloak and daggers to books. She's revealing her life as a spy as well.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

DAVID ENSOR, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The new challenge Lindsay Moran faces is not unusual: motherhood. But until 2003 her very unusual challenge was convincing foreigners to commit treason.

(on camera) Do you believe that women make better spies than men?

LINDSAY MORAN, AUTHOR, "BLOWING MY COVER": I do think women make better spies. Because I think that women are and have been from an early age conditioned to listen. And as a spy, a lot of what you're doing is listening.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Lindsay Moran.

ENSOR (voice-over): On the day after she delivered the commencement address to her senior class at Harvard in 1991, Lindsay Moran first contacted the CIA about a job.

They sent her to The Farm, the secret CIA training school outside Williamsburg, Virginia.

MORAN: That was actually incredibly fun. It was like a two month Outward Bound experience.

ENSOR: They jumped out of airplanes. They practiced recruiting spies.

(on camera) OK, so you invite man to a restaurant for lunch, and here we are.

MORAN: Right.

ENSOR: What is that man thinking?

MORAN: Nine times out of 10, he's probably thinking that you're hitting on him. And that's OK at the beginning, and that's one of the reasons why I think women make very effective case officers. It's a lot easier as a young woman to ask a man out to lunch or to coffee, and for it to seem perfectly natural.

ENSOR (voice-over): At CIA training school, Lindsay learned to drive with a sixth sense, tracking other cars which might be following her.

MORAN: If you can't tell when you're being followed, you're not going to be a very effective spy.

ENSOR: She learned to watch out for five, six or seven different cars that might all be helping to track her on her way to meet with an agent.

MORAN: I would often be wearing a skirt or shorts, and sometimes I would take notes of license plates and car makes and models that I saw right on my thigh. Because I could be pretty sure that I wasn't going to be strip-searched by the CIA instructors.

ENSOR: Lindsay learned to make left turns and U-turns frequently so as to force the followers to do the same and to expose themselves.

The movie "The Recruit," she says, captures pretty well the atmosphere at the CIA Farm.

AL PACINO, ACTOR: We're going to hand you the tools. The black arts. Not witchcraft, trade craft.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ready, fire!

ENSOR (on camera): Hollywood presents the career you had as an enormously glamorous and dangerous profession. Is it?

MORAN: No. On both counts.

ENSOR (voice-over): The beautiful spy on "Alias," the one with the James Bond gadgets, that's far from reality, she says.

MORAN: At the end of the day, the CIA is a lot of people in sensible shoes, sitting in cubicles.

ENSOR: Lindsay Moran worked for the CIA in Macedonia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe. She worked on the Iraq desk at CIA headquarters during the Iraq invasion. But already, she had doubts about her chosen profession.

MORAN: I did have a deep level of discomfort, even with the profession of being a spy and leading a sort of double life and using people and lying to everyone who was close to me.

ENSOR: And gradually, too, she lost her faith in the CIA.

(on camera) Do you think it's an organization that is broken at this point?

MORAN: Yes. I guess I do. I don't have the answers as to how the agency can adequately infiltrate terrorist networks or combat terrorism. I feel that the agency has been incredibly slow to respond.

ENSOR (voice-over): So now Lindsay Moran has written a book. Some at the CIA regard that as a betrayal as sorts. She knows that well.

MORAN: It's not a threat to write a book about a dysfunctional intelligence organization. It's a threat to have a dysfunctional intelligence organization. And that was my ultimate conclusion.

ENSOR: Lindsay Moran, author, former spy, future mother.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: Baseball and steroids. People have said something had to be done. Starting today, new rules to address the problem. SANCHEZ: Yes, still to come. Keeping it fair and legal on the diamond. Details about baseball's new rules as opposed to their 2002 rules, which didn't really work, many would argue.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: A major announcement is expected today on a new steroid testing policy in Major League Baseball. Players and owners have struck an agreement that will require tougher testing and penalties for the performance-enhancing drug.

Ray D'Alessio of CNN Sports joins us with the closer look. OK, the old policy, a joke, let's just say it.

RAY D'ALESSIO, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: It was. It was.

KAGAN: Any teeth to the new policy?

D'ALESSIO: Well, I mean, the new policy is a step in the right direction. In a perfect world, I mean, I'm sure there's a lot of fans out there that would say, first time a player tests positive, they need to be gone for a year.

But here's the way things break down. Reportedly, according to the Associated Press, under the old plan, first time a player tested positive for steroids he was subject to only treatment and counseling. New plan, first time offense could reportedly result in a possible ten-day suspension. Old plan, player wouldn't face a one-year suspension until the fifth offense. New plan, a fourth offense could result in a one-year suspension.

So again, it is a step in the right direction. And if you're a player, guys, who has never even taken any kind of steroids, you remain clean, you know, you want to abide by the rules, you're loving this because now you're not going out in public, you're not playing in front of the fans every day wondering what they're thinking and looking at you with all the scrutiny.

KAGAN: You're literally evening the playing field.

D'ALESSIO: Exactly. You're evening the playing field. And you know, with the old system, the way it was, players would get randomly tested one time of year at the start of spring training -- between the timespan of spring training and at the end of the regular season. One time. That was it. And they knew no more tests were coming.

Under the new agreement, again, reportedly, we're going to find out more this afternoon when they make they announcement, but reportedly under the new agreement, a player can get tested more than once during the regular season and in the off-season. That's the big key there, as well.

KAGAN: How does this compare to what the NFL and NBA are doing right now?

D'ALESSIO: Well, you look at -- I mean, really, there's no comparison. The NFL has got one of the strictest drug-testing policies around. First time a player tests positive for steroids, there's no counseling whatsoever. It's an automatic four-game suspension. Second time, it's a six-game. Third time, gone, you're done for the entire year. And the list of banned substances are incredible. There's something like 60 things that they can test for.

KAGAN: Yes, we're not talking like one thing, that you shoot up. Well, we're just weeks away from players and catchers recording. Love saying that, it makes people get all excited for baseball.

D'ALESSIO: Makes me excited. And you know, it's funny you should say that, Daryn. Not to interrupt you, but we heard so much about this whole negotiation policy, like Donald Fehr saying, well, a new testing policy would be an invasion of the players' privacy. When I was down at spring training last year, a lot of the players were like, hey, we need a new testing policy, we're looking forward to it someday.

KAGAN: Looking ahead to 2005, how do you think this is going to affect the performances that fans see when they go to the ballpark? Fewer homeruns?

D'ALESSIO: It's hard to say. And then there's that agreement, the argument, you know, do the steroids really help, you know, do the performance enhancers really help you with records and stuff like that? Yes! Rick's a believer.

KAGAN: Look at the record books from the last few years...

D'ALESSIO: Yes, Rick's a believer.

KAGAN: ... and you answered that. Ray D'Alessio, thank you.

D'ALESSIO: OK. Look at their bodies as well.

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D'ALESSIO: Remember, I've got to cover these guys. So I don't want to get beat up in person, so...

SANCHEZ: Got you covered, Ray.

KAGAN: But you won't have to worry this year because they won't be on steroids.

D'ALESSIO: That's true.

SANCHEZ: Good point. Good point.

Let's talk about what's going on. And we do tell you, the time is now 10:55. That's on the East Coast, of course. 7:55 on the West Coast.

KAGAN: Stay with us. We'll be back with a check of your morning forecast.

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KAGAN: All right, we have talked about mudslides, flooding, tornadoes this hour and how about some snow? Throw some in.

SANCHEZ: Well, I'll tell you what. They were slip slidin' on the streets of Denver this morning. Kim Posey of our affiliate KDVR is showing us a smash-up rush hour.

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KIM POSEY, KDVR REPORTER (voice-over): What starts with a few spins, slips and slides, soon turns to a downhill disaster zone.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: See, there's another one coming.

POSEY: One after the other. 28 vehicles crashed in this same spot.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just like a chain reaction.

POSEY: The hill on Florida between Parker and Corvette.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It must have been solid ice. I just started sliding and I just couldn't stop.

POSEY: Out of control, this woman jumps out of her car. As it slides, so does she.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get out of the way, come on!

POSEY: And she almost gets hit. Minutes later, this woman jumps out the passenger side of the car and is dragged down the hill.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is crazy.

POSEY: As soon as one five-car pileup moves to safety around the corner...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're going to get hit from behind, you think?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.

POSEY: ... another pile-up forms. Fox 31 photojournalist Josh White tries to help.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You all right?

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes, I'm OK.

POSEY: Stunned drivers try to stay out of the way.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Heads up.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Sir, sir.

POSEY: And wait for police.

(on camera): Within half an hour, Denver Police had blocked off this entire hill.

(voice-over): Firefighters and the snowplows arrive.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What did you hit?

POSEY (voice-over): As the group tries to figure out who hit who, many wonder why this area was such a problem.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The street maintenance, they get to it as quick as they can, as fast as they can. This has always been a bad hill.

POSEY: No one was hurt, but drivers want to be prepared the next time it storms.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I will not come this way next time.

POSEY: Kim Posey, Fox 31 News.

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