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President Bush on His Way to Florida; 'Daily Dose'

Aired January 14, 2005 - 11:33   ET

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TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now in the news, authorities are evacuating more than 800 homes in Corona, California this morning. They're concerned about rain water building up behind a Riverside County dam. Corona Police say there may be a small leak in that dam, but the Army Corps of Engineers says there is no leak. They say a crew is releasing water, but it's being retained behind the dam.
Baghdad police are looking for 28 Abu Ghraib prisoners who escaped. The inmates overpowered guards on a bus while they were being taken to trial. Authorities suspect that two police officers may have had a hand in the escape.

Authorities say a man who opened fire at an Ohio nightclub last month, shot 15 people, and had 34 or 35 more rounds of ammo to go. Former Pantera guitarist and Dimebag and three other people were killed in the spree before police shot and killed the gunmen.

Lawyers for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel are appealing his murder conviction to the Connecticut Supreme Court this morning. Skakel is accused of killing Martha Moxley with a golf club when both were 15 years old. He is serving 20 years to life.

And a Florida man is jailed this morning, charged with possessing the deadly ricin. Police don't think the man has ties to a terrorist group, but they haven't explained why he allegedly had the substance.

Keeping you informed, CNN, the most trusted name in news.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush is on his way to Florida. He is promoting his education agenda leading up to next week's inauguration.

White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux joins us with details.

Suzanne, good morning.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn.

Well, President Bush is going to be pushing for some education initiatives at a community college to make it more accessible and affordable for people. This is all a part of his plan to push forward his second-term agenda before the inauguration. Part of that, of course, is making himself more accessible. It was just yesterday the president met with more than a dozen newspaper reporters. Earlier in the week it was with Barbara Walters. And of course he was confronted with the same question that he got hit time and time again in last April's press conference, did he make any mistakes in the first term? you may recall his answer back then.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You know, I hope -- I don't want to sound like I made no mistakes, I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: Well, one thing that he didn't come up with, is he talked about his choice of words. You may recall that was back in July two years ago, he was addressing U.S. troops a couple months after saying that major combat was over, those deterring the U.S. mission he said, "bring them on." He told Barbara Walters in that interview, saying I watch what I say. I said some things in the first term that were probably blunt. "'Bring it on' was a little blunt. I was really speaking to our troops, but it came out and had a different connotation, different meaning for others".

The president also talked about that moment, it was the week of 9/11, he was asked about the fate of Osama bin Laden. He used an expression, he said, "From the West, wanted dead or alive." He said immediately following that, he went back to the White House. The first lady said, why did you say that? He regretted saying that as well.

But very interesting to note, Daryn, is that the president, while he says -- admits that he would change the words that he used, he did not admit or say that he would have changed any of the actions that he took in his first administration -- Daryn.

KAGAN: And that's the thing that makes the people who support him love him and the people who don't, makes them crazy. That's what makes him who he is.

Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thank you.

MALVEAUX: Sure.

HARRIS: Intelligence officials are gazing into the future to assess what the global threats and challenges will be in the year 2020. Their predictions are included in a new report. It sees Iraq replacing Afghanistan as the new training ground for terrorists. The report also says Iraq provides opportunities for both recruitment and technical training. The report says al Qaeda will be replaced by a splintered, decentralized terrorist group. And analysts say new global powers will emerge almost certainly, China and India. The report is called a long-term outlook to global trends.

KAGAN: Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the U.S. military will be out of Indonesia long before the end of March. Indonesia's vice president says his country wants all international troops out of the area by that time. Wolfowitz is in the region to tour the tsunami damage. He's downplaying any suggestion that Indonesia is ungrateful for U.S. help following the tsunami disaster.

HARRIS: Here's something new for you. It's dramatic amateur video showing the tsunami's violent surge, when it moved across a beach resort in Phuket, Thailand. I'm trying to read and I'm trying look at the pictures at the same time. Nearly three weeks later, the images are a chilling reminder of the random and sudden chaos that swept that region.

And in today's "Daily Dose," an advisory committee to the FDA will decide today whether to recommend over-the-counter sales of a cholesterol-lowering drug.

CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joins us with more, straight ahead.

KAGAN: Plus, ooh, la, la -- can you eat like the French and lose weight at the same time?

HARRIS: Nice.

KAGAN: One woman says, oui, yes, you can. Her secret coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: An FDA panel is considering whether a cholesterol- lowering drug should be sold over the counter without a prescription. The panel is expected to make its recommendation today. Medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is here to talk about the pros and cons in our daily dose of health news -- Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, well, now you got a headache, you got a cold, feel a cold coming on, you can just walk into a drugstore and buy yourself some medicine. Well, will that happen one day if you have high cholesterol? Will you be able to just walk into your drugstore and buy Mevacor, which is a cholesterol- lowering drug. Well, Merck, the company that makes it, would like to take it over-the-counter. And so they've applied to be able to do that to the Food and Drug Administration.

Let's look at what they say would be some of the advantages of having this very, popular cholesterol-lowering drug go over the counter. They say it would simply be more available and, therefore, because of that, it would lower heart disease rates. Heart disease, of course, the number one killer in this country. And also that the price would be lower. So you pay $30 a month for Mevacor rather than about $70, which is approximately what you would pay to get it by prescription, which is the only way to get it now.

But let's take a look at what some of the disadvantages might be. Many people are concerned if this drug were over-the-counter, patients would just skip doctors' visits. They would hear they have high cholesterol and they would just go to the store, buy this and never go back to the doctor. Then the patient would have no way of knowing if the drug is working or not. You can't feel if your cholesterol is going up or down. Also, the patient then wouldn't get checked for liver, kidney and muscle problems. Now -- and those are side effects that can happen, unusual side effects, but side effects that can happen on this drug. This is an FDA advisory committee which is considering this right now. And they are expected to make their recommendation to the FDA sometime today.

HARRIS: Well, Elizabeth, as you mentioned, we all use over-the- counter drugs when you have a headache, you have a cold. How is this different?

COHEN: This is very different. And this is what some of the critics have been pointing out to the Food and Drug Administration. They say, look, you know when you have a headache, you know when you have allergies. You don't know when you have high cholesterol or not. Your doctor has to tell you that.

You can't feel it and you also don't know if the drug is working. You may take the drug, it may not be lowering your cholesterol. The dosage may be too low, you may need a higher dosage. You can't feel that. You can't feel if it's working or if it's not working. So there is a big difference.

HARRIS: I'm wondering who stands to gain as this moves forward?

COHEN: Well, one group of people that would stand to gain is people who don't have insurance that pays for prescription drugs. So if you have to pay for your own drugs, you would be saving quite a bit of money if this went over-the-counter. Another group that could profit would be insurance companies. Your doctor says you have high cholesterol, your insurance company says well, you pay for it yourself, it's over-the-counter.

HARRIS: I knew there was that an angle in there.

COHEN: That's right. There's always that little edge.

HARRIS: Elizabeth, thank you. Appreciate it. Your daily dose of health news is always just a click away. Log on to cnn.com/health for the latest medical news, a health library and information on diet and fitness.

KAGAN: Well, speaking of diets, they savor rich cuisine and fine wine. Yet French woman have a reputation for staying slim. How do they do it?

Mireille Guiliano is the author of "French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure." And she's joining me from New York. Bonjour.

MIREILLE GUILIANO, AUTHOR, "FRENCH WOMEN DON'T GET FAT": Bonjour. Great to be here.

KAGAN: Good to have you here. Now, in your book, we should tell people up front, you don't talk about counting calories, you don't talk about fat grams and there's no real diet in there. GUILIANO: No. It's a program. It's a French program.

KAGAN: And one thing the French do, the French know how to eat.

GUILIANO: Yes.

KAGAN: Let's talk about how they know how to eat. What, they do it with all five senses.

GUILIANO: Exactly. They eat for pleasure, they eat with their senses. They think about balance or small portions. They drink a lot of water and they eat some particularly great foods such as leeks and yogurts, which are absolutely phenomenal for you.

KAGAN: And it's not exactly what you eat, but it's how you eat.

GUILIANO: It's how you eat. We sit down. Eating at the table is essential. And concentrating on the food and not trying to read the paper or work or, you know, the table is a moment for connections. And paying attention to the food. And so we take time to eat. We look at the food, we smell the food, we take small bites. We put our fork and knife down in between. We enjoy it much more than Americans, who are obsessed with food and feel always guilty and don't look at the pleasure aspect, which is enormous.

KAGAN: One of the things that I think confounds Americans is they look at what the French people are eating in terms of the cheeses and sauces and what looks to be so fattening, but in America, we eat and we don't really care what we're eating and so we eat more of it.

GUILIANO: Exactly. Because when you don't eat with your senses, you are not satisfied. You eat like you're on autopilot and you don't pay attention to it. So you keep eating, thinking you are hungry. But if you eat with your senses, after a few bites, you will be satisfied and you will not need to eat tremendous amounts of food.

KAGAN: And then you can eat what you want. It's more...

GUILIANO: Absolutely.

KAGAN: ... quality versus quantity.

GUILIANO: Absolutely. There is no deprivation. You can have everything, but in moderation.

KAGAN: Now, you had to learn about the American way of eating the hard way. You know how easy it is to gain weight over here.

GUILIANO: Absolutely. Been there, done that. I gained 20 pounds and more and I was miserable. So I know how terrible one feels physically and psychologically, how you feel when you are overweight. And it's not a nice feeling. So I hope I can turn my American friends a few tricks about how French women are staying -- well, French women.

KAGAN: Ooh-la-la.

GUILIANO: Ooh-la-la.

KAGAN: Ooh-la-la. OK, so let's share some of those tricks.

GUILIANO: First of all, the most important thing is you must drink much, much more water. Water is the essence of life and people here drink about a third of what we French women do. So you should try to start your day with a glass of water, drink a lot of glasses during the day and end your day. Because during the night, you dehydrate and you need to replenish that water, it flushes the toxins, so it cleans your body. It's very, very good for you.

KAGAN: Now, hold on. If you drink a lot of water right before you go to bed, that eight hours of sleep is not going to happen.

GUILIANO: No. A glass of water.

KAGAN: You're going to wake up.

GUILIANO: You drink a glass of water before you go to bed. It cleans your system. It's OK. You will know how to do it.

KAGAN: You have the champagne there, as well, which the French enjoy, and the wine that people drink. People think, they're drinking all this alcohol, why are they not gaining weight?

GUILIANO: I mean, wine is part of food. Wine is food for us. When we eat a meal, we like to have a glass of wine, again, in moderation. You don't need to drink a whole bottle.

KAGAN: Very good. And one more trick that you would tell American women, and I guess just Americans in general.

GUILIANO: Well, of course, an essential one is we eat much more vegetables, much more food. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and people have to try to eat fresh food and seasonal food and work much more with seasonings and herbs to put flavor into their food, and again, savor it.

KAGAN: To enjoy it. At the end of the day, that's kind of what it's all about, enjoying.

GUILIANO: Enjoying.

KAGAN: Absolutely. Well, I've enjoyed our chat here. Mireille Guiliano, "French Women Don't Get Fat." No, they don't. And if you're any testament, I think a lot of women out there would say they want to look like you. Thank you for stopping by and good luck with the book.

GUILIANO: Thank you. Bye bye.

HARRIS: And here's what's making news overseas this morning -- did she stumble out of the chair? Oh, my.

In this morning's world wrap, Palestinian militants stormed through a door at Gaza's Karni crossing and opened fire on Israeli civilians. Six Israelis were killed, five others wounded. Three Palestinian militant groups claimed responsibility for what they say was a joint attack.

Britain's Prince Harry reportedly has been ordered to visit Auschwitz and his older brother William has been told to join him. The "British Sun" newspaper reports Prince Charles was in rage over son Harry wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party. The paper says the crowned prince wants his sons to learn more about the Holocaust.

And in Venice, Italy, the lagooned city's famous canals appear to be drying up, at least temporarily. A major drop in water levels forced the city to reroute water taxis. Officials blame a combination of unusually low tides and extended sunny weather for the shift.

KAGAN: Well, you can say aloha to snow. Surfboards turn into snowboards.

HARRIS: The weather's just upside down. A weather update is straight ahead. We'll be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(WEATHER REPORT)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

KAGAN: Thank you for sitting in so many days this week. Are you coming back on Monday.

HARRIS: I'm back with you on Monday. You have a great weekend.

KAGAN: I will.

HARRIS: You know, I'll keep the Mother Ship on the air over the weekend as best I can.

KAGAN: You do that. You do that. Good hands.

Hey, you guys have a great weekend. I'm Daryn Kagan. That's going to do it for me and for Tony Harris.

Wolf Blitzer will be up after this quick break. You have a great weekend.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

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Aired January 14, 2005 - 11:33   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Now in the news, authorities are evacuating more than 800 homes in Corona, California this morning. They're concerned about rain water building up behind a Riverside County dam. Corona Police say there may be a small leak in that dam, but the Army Corps of Engineers says there is no leak. They say a crew is releasing water, but it's being retained behind the dam.
Baghdad police are looking for 28 Abu Ghraib prisoners who escaped. The inmates overpowered guards on a bus while they were being taken to trial. Authorities suspect that two police officers may have had a hand in the escape.

Authorities say a man who opened fire at an Ohio nightclub last month, shot 15 people, and had 34 or 35 more rounds of ammo to go. Former Pantera guitarist and Dimebag and three other people were killed in the spree before police shot and killed the gunmen.

Lawyers for Kennedy cousin Michael Skakel are appealing his murder conviction to the Connecticut Supreme Court this morning. Skakel is accused of killing Martha Moxley with a golf club when both were 15 years old. He is serving 20 years to life.

And a Florida man is jailed this morning, charged with possessing the deadly ricin. Police don't think the man has ties to a terrorist group, but they haven't explained why he allegedly had the substance.

Keeping you informed, CNN, the most trusted name in news.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: President Bush is on his way to Florida. He is promoting his education agenda leading up to next week's inauguration.

White House correspondent Suzanne Malveaux joins us with details.

Suzanne, good morning.

SUZANNE MALVEAUX, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Daryn.

Well, President Bush is going to be pushing for some education initiatives at a community college to make it more accessible and affordable for people. This is all a part of his plan to push forward his second-term agenda before the inauguration. Part of that, of course, is making himself more accessible. It was just yesterday the president met with more than a dozen newspaper reporters. Earlier in the week it was with Barbara Walters. And of course he was confronted with the same question that he got hit time and time again in last April's press conference, did he make any mistakes in the first term? you may recall his answer back then.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: You know, I hope -- I don't want to sound like I made no mistakes, I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

MALVEAUX: Well, one thing that he didn't come up with, is he talked about his choice of words. You may recall that was back in July two years ago, he was addressing U.S. troops a couple months after saying that major combat was over, those deterring the U.S. mission he said, "bring them on." He told Barbara Walters in that interview, saying I watch what I say. I said some things in the first term that were probably blunt. "'Bring it on' was a little blunt. I was really speaking to our troops, but it came out and had a different connotation, different meaning for others".

The president also talked about that moment, it was the week of 9/11, he was asked about the fate of Osama bin Laden. He used an expression, he said, "From the West, wanted dead or alive." He said immediately following that, he went back to the White House. The first lady said, why did you say that? He regretted saying that as well.

But very interesting to note, Daryn, is that the president, while he says -- admits that he would change the words that he used, he did not admit or say that he would have changed any of the actions that he took in his first administration -- Daryn.

KAGAN: And that's the thing that makes the people who support him love him and the people who don't, makes them crazy. That's what makes him who he is.

Suzanne Malveaux at the White House. Thank you.

MALVEAUX: Sure.

HARRIS: Intelligence officials are gazing into the future to assess what the global threats and challenges will be in the year 2020. Their predictions are included in a new report. It sees Iraq replacing Afghanistan as the new training ground for terrorists. The report also says Iraq provides opportunities for both recruitment and technical training. The report says al Qaeda will be replaced by a splintered, decentralized terrorist group. And analysts say new global powers will emerge almost certainly, China and India. The report is called a long-term outlook to global trends.

KAGAN: Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz says the U.S. military will be out of Indonesia long before the end of March. Indonesia's vice president says his country wants all international troops out of the area by that time. Wolfowitz is in the region to tour the tsunami damage. He's downplaying any suggestion that Indonesia is ungrateful for U.S. help following the tsunami disaster.

HARRIS: Here's something new for you. It's dramatic amateur video showing the tsunami's violent surge, when it moved across a beach resort in Phuket, Thailand. I'm trying to read and I'm trying look at the pictures at the same time. Nearly three weeks later, the images are a chilling reminder of the random and sudden chaos that swept that region.

And in today's "Daily Dose," an advisory committee to the FDA will decide today whether to recommend over-the-counter sales of a cholesterol-lowering drug.

CNN medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen joins us with more, straight ahead.

KAGAN: Plus, ooh, la, la -- can you eat like the French and lose weight at the same time?

HARRIS: Nice.

KAGAN: One woman says, oui, yes, you can. Her secret coming up.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

HARRIS: An FDA panel is considering whether a cholesterol- lowering drug should be sold over the counter without a prescription. The panel is expected to make its recommendation today. Medical correspondent Elizabeth Cohen is here to talk about the pros and cons in our daily dose of health news -- Elizabeth.

ELIZABETH COHEN, CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, well, now you got a headache, you got a cold, feel a cold coming on, you can just walk into a drugstore and buy yourself some medicine. Well, will that happen one day if you have high cholesterol? Will you be able to just walk into your drugstore and buy Mevacor, which is a cholesterol- lowering drug. Well, Merck, the company that makes it, would like to take it over-the-counter. And so they've applied to be able to do that to the Food and Drug Administration.

Let's look at what they say would be some of the advantages of having this very, popular cholesterol-lowering drug go over the counter. They say it would simply be more available and, therefore, because of that, it would lower heart disease rates. Heart disease, of course, the number one killer in this country. And also that the price would be lower. So you pay $30 a month for Mevacor rather than about $70, which is approximately what you would pay to get it by prescription, which is the only way to get it now.

But let's take a look at what some of the disadvantages might be. Many people are concerned if this drug were over-the-counter, patients would just skip doctors' visits. They would hear they have high cholesterol and they would just go to the store, buy this and never go back to the doctor. Then the patient would have no way of knowing if the drug is working or not. You can't feel if your cholesterol is going up or down. Also, the patient then wouldn't get checked for liver, kidney and muscle problems. Now -- and those are side effects that can happen, unusual side effects, but side effects that can happen on this drug. This is an FDA advisory committee which is considering this right now. And they are expected to make their recommendation to the FDA sometime today.

HARRIS: Well, Elizabeth, as you mentioned, we all use over-the- counter drugs when you have a headache, you have a cold. How is this different?

COHEN: This is very different. And this is what some of the critics have been pointing out to the Food and Drug Administration. They say, look, you know when you have a headache, you know when you have allergies. You don't know when you have high cholesterol or not. Your doctor has to tell you that.

You can't feel it and you also don't know if the drug is working. You may take the drug, it may not be lowering your cholesterol. The dosage may be too low, you may need a higher dosage. You can't feel that. You can't feel if it's working or if it's not working. So there is a big difference.

HARRIS: I'm wondering who stands to gain as this moves forward?

COHEN: Well, one group of people that would stand to gain is people who don't have insurance that pays for prescription drugs. So if you have to pay for your own drugs, you would be saving quite a bit of money if this went over-the-counter. Another group that could profit would be insurance companies. Your doctor says you have high cholesterol, your insurance company says well, you pay for it yourself, it's over-the-counter.

HARRIS: I knew there was that an angle in there.

COHEN: That's right. There's always that little edge.

HARRIS: Elizabeth, thank you. Appreciate it. Your daily dose of health news is always just a click away. Log on to cnn.com/health for the latest medical news, a health library and information on diet and fitness.

KAGAN: Well, speaking of diets, they savor rich cuisine and fine wine. Yet French woman have a reputation for staying slim. How do they do it?

Mireille Guiliano is the author of "French Women Don't Get Fat: The Secret of Eating for Pleasure." And she's joining me from New York. Bonjour.

MIREILLE GUILIANO, AUTHOR, "FRENCH WOMEN DON'T GET FAT": Bonjour. Great to be here.

KAGAN: Good to have you here. Now, in your book, we should tell people up front, you don't talk about counting calories, you don't talk about fat grams and there's no real diet in there. GUILIANO: No. It's a program. It's a French program.

KAGAN: And one thing the French do, the French know how to eat.

GUILIANO: Yes.

KAGAN: Let's talk about how they know how to eat. What, they do it with all five senses.

GUILIANO: Exactly. They eat for pleasure, they eat with their senses. They think about balance or small portions. They drink a lot of water and they eat some particularly great foods such as leeks and yogurts, which are absolutely phenomenal for you.

KAGAN: And it's not exactly what you eat, but it's how you eat.

GUILIANO: It's how you eat. We sit down. Eating at the table is essential. And concentrating on the food and not trying to read the paper or work or, you know, the table is a moment for connections. And paying attention to the food. And so we take time to eat. We look at the food, we smell the food, we take small bites. We put our fork and knife down in between. We enjoy it much more than Americans, who are obsessed with food and feel always guilty and don't look at the pleasure aspect, which is enormous.

KAGAN: One of the things that I think confounds Americans is they look at what the French people are eating in terms of the cheeses and sauces and what looks to be so fattening, but in America, we eat and we don't really care what we're eating and so we eat more of it.

GUILIANO: Exactly. Because when you don't eat with your senses, you are not satisfied. You eat like you're on autopilot and you don't pay attention to it. So you keep eating, thinking you are hungry. But if you eat with your senses, after a few bites, you will be satisfied and you will not need to eat tremendous amounts of food.

KAGAN: And then you can eat what you want. It's more...

GUILIANO: Absolutely.

KAGAN: ... quality versus quantity.

GUILIANO: Absolutely. There is no deprivation. You can have everything, but in moderation.

KAGAN: Now, you had to learn about the American way of eating the hard way. You know how easy it is to gain weight over here.

GUILIANO: Absolutely. Been there, done that. I gained 20 pounds and more and I was miserable. So I know how terrible one feels physically and psychologically, how you feel when you are overweight. And it's not a nice feeling. So I hope I can turn my American friends a few tricks about how French women are staying -- well, French women.

KAGAN: Ooh-la-la.

GUILIANO: Ooh-la-la.

KAGAN: Ooh-la-la. OK, so let's share some of those tricks.

GUILIANO: First of all, the most important thing is you must drink much, much more water. Water is the essence of life and people here drink about a third of what we French women do. So you should try to start your day with a glass of water, drink a lot of glasses during the day and end your day. Because during the night, you dehydrate and you need to replenish that water, it flushes the toxins, so it cleans your body. It's very, very good for you.

KAGAN: Now, hold on. If you drink a lot of water right before you go to bed, that eight hours of sleep is not going to happen.

GUILIANO: No. A glass of water.

KAGAN: You're going to wake up.

GUILIANO: You drink a glass of water before you go to bed. It cleans your system. It's OK. You will know how to do it.

KAGAN: You have the champagne there, as well, which the French enjoy, and the wine that people drink. People think, they're drinking all this alcohol, why are they not gaining weight?

GUILIANO: I mean, wine is part of food. Wine is food for us. When we eat a meal, we like to have a glass of wine, again, in moderation. You don't need to drink a whole bottle.

KAGAN: Very good. And one more trick that you would tell American women, and I guess just Americans in general.

GUILIANO: Well, of course, an essential one is we eat much more vegetables, much more food. We eat a lot of fresh fruit and people have to try to eat fresh food and seasonal food and work much more with seasonings and herbs to put flavor into their food, and again, savor it.

KAGAN: To enjoy it. At the end of the day, that's kind of what it's all about, enjoying.

GUILIANO: Enjoying.

KAGAN: Absolutely. Well, I've enjoyed our chat here. Mireille Guiliano, "French Women Don't Get Fat." No, they don't. And if you're any testament, I think a lot of women out there would say they want to look like you. Thank you for stopping by and good luck with the book.

GUILIANO: Thank you. Bye bye.

HARRIS: And here's what's making news overseas this morning -- did she stumble out of the chair? Oh, my.

In this morning's world wrap, Palestinian militants stormed through a door at Gaza's Karni crossing and opened fire on Israeli civilians. Six Israelis were killed, five others wounded. Three Palestinian militant groups claimed responsibility for what they say was a joint attack.

Britain's Prince Harry reportedly has been ordered to visit Auschwitz and his older brother William has been told to join him. The "British Sun" newspaper reports Prince Charles was in rage over son Harry wearing a Nazi uniform to a costume party. The paper says the crowned prince wants his sons to learn more about the Holocaust.

And in Venice, Italy, the lagooned city's famous canals appear to be drying up, at least temporarily. A major drop in water levels forced the city to reroute water taxis. Officials blame a combination of unusually low tides and extended sunny weather for the shift.

KAGAN: Well, you can say aloha to snow. Surfboards turn into snowboards.

HARRIS: The weather's just upside down. A weather update is straight ahead. We'll be right back.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(WEATHER REPORT)

(STOCK MARKET REPORT)

KAGAN: Thank you for sitting in so many days this week. Are you coming back on Monday.

HARRIS: I'm back with you on Monday. You have a great weekend.

KAGAN: I will.

HARRIS: You know, I'll keep the Mother Ship on the air over the weekend as best I can.

KAGAN: You do that. You do that. Good hands.

Hey, you guys have a great weekend. I'm Daryn Kagan. That's going to do it for me and for Tony Harris.

Wolf Blitzer will be up after this quick break. You have a great weekend.

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