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President Bush Asks Congress for an Additional $82 Billion; Still Soldiering On

Aired February 15, 2005 - 10:30   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: Here we are at the midway point. And one of the things we're going to be focusing on is the president's financial wishlist to pay for the war in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm Rick Sanchez.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning once again. I'm Daryn Kagan.

Let's take a look at what's happening now in the news.

A sentencing hearing is under way for defrocked Catholic Priest Paul Shanley, one of the most notorious figures in the Boston archdiocese sex scandal. He faces life in prison for repeatedly molesting a young boy in the 1980s. That victim is set to make a statement today. Advocates say any prison term could be a life sentence, because Shanley's life will be in danger behind bars.

In Beirut, the death toll has climbed in yesterday's massive explosion. A 17th person has died in the blast that left a 20-foot crater in the posh neighborhood. The bomb killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and has underlined concerns about renewed volatility in Lebanon and its relationship with Syria.

Also today here in the U.S. the Senate is expected to confirm Michael Chertoff as the nation's new homeland security chief. The vote had been delayed by Democrats voicing concerns about Chertoff's views on prisoner interrogation. Chertoff, if confirmed, will replace Tom Ridge who has resigned to work in the private sector.

And the death toll has now topped 200 in a Chinese coal mine explosion. Some miners are still trapped about 800 feet below ground. China has a reputation for mining accidents. Despite government attempts to improve safety, mine operators and local officials often keep dangerous sites open.

SANCHEZ: President Bush has said his re-election now allows him to spend more political capital, and spending seems to be exactly what he plans to do, asking Congress for an additional $82 billion essentially for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here is CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be on Capitol Hill later this week, seeking congressional support for the budget supplemental, which totals over $80 billion. About 75 billion of that is for the Pentagon. The main cost, running the war in Iraq, which now costs more than $1 billion a week.

But there are several very interesting items for the Pentagon that are being funded in that supplemental request. They include $12 billion for refurbishing and repairing worn-out equipment. Part of that request, another $3 billion for armored vehicles, which was such a matter of controversy over the last several months.

Also included, $5.7 billion for training Iraqi security forces. That is considered vital. The sooner the Iraqis are trained, the sooner U.S. forces can return home. And there is an additional $5 billion for something the Pentagon calls army transformation. That basically is making the army lighter, more mobile, more easily deployable to places like Iraq. It is one of the lessons learned from the war. There is other money in the supplemental as well, $950 million for aid for tsunami victims. Another $200 million for Palestinian security initiatives. Congress is expected to approve the supplemental request, but there's certain to be a lot of very tough questions to the Pentagon on how exactly the money is going to be spent and how soon U.S. troops can come home.

Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: As the president is pushing for more money for operations in Iraq, there's a new round of violence had there. The U.S. military says a roadside bombing near Baqubah targets the deputy governor of that province. A bystander was killed, but the official and everyone in his convoy escaped injury.

Meanwhile, a Turkish businessman who was kidnapped in Iraq last December is now free. That is from the Turkish embassy in Baghdad. The shipping magnate had turned up on Turkish television on Christmas Day on a videotaped message from his captors. More than 120 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq over the past year. Some have been released, many others, though, have been killed.

SANCHEZ: At times the largest story on what's happening in Iraq on a daily basis obscures the details of those that are fighting there and the obstacles and the adversity that they have to face on a daily basis. A case in point, David Rozelle.

For him, honor, duty and country are more than just words. This story is filed by CNN's Aaron Brown.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the days after the fall of Baghdad before the car bombings and the IED attacks that seem so commonplace now, David Rozelle's Humvee hit a landmine and David Rozelle nearly lost his life. CAPT. DAVID ROZELLE, 3RD ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT: I remember the looks on the faces of my soldiers. They had to carry me and my litter onto the landing zone to load into the helicopter and saying goodbye to my brothers. I mean it's just gut-wrenching, really gut- wrenching.

BROWN: He would survive but lose his right foot.

ROZELLE: I laid back and really thought about it and it broke my heart and I don't like being still. I like being in motion and to say that you're going to take away one of my feet just, it just -- it hit me. I just, I couldn't even imagine it but I knew it was the only chance.

BROWN: That really is the beginning of Captain Rozelle's story, an amputee with the heart of a soldier, foot gone, heart intact.

ROZELLE: My initial response was I've given enough but my true self and my most inner person, you know, is not -- is not a quitter. I realized I at least needed to see if I can do this. I at least need to prove to myself that I can stay on active duty. I can go back and fight if I have to.

BROWN: As amputees go he was lucky. Others struggled to learn to eat again or take a step again. Rozelle's challenge was to become a soldier again, a step at a time, first walking, then running, then competing.

ROZELLE: When I started doing those races I was horribly self conscious of the way I looked. I didn't feel like an athlete and I didn't take myself very seriously. I felt like an amputee. I felt like I was disabled.

BROWN: There were triathlons and iron man relays. There was the New York City marathon and each one brought Rozelle closer to who he was and who he wanted to be.

ROZELLE: And then just the nature of competition as I did more and more events, I won one and as they handed me the trophy, I felt like a stud.

BROWN: In just ten months after he lost that foot David Rozelle won his race, not a marathon, something more.

ROZELLE: I'd won. They found me fit for duty. I'd proven to a board of doctors and the Army, the Department of Defense that I was -- I was fit for duty. OK, now what? That was my goal was to be found fit for duty. It wasn't to go back to Iraq. It's never been my goal is go back to Iraq. It's been to be able to have the ability to take command again. That's all I wanted. So, now I had to make a decision.

BROWN: And, in the end, with the country at war the man with the soldier's heart made the only decision he could.

ROZELLE: When I think about going back, yes, it's going to be hard but it's my duty and if you don't really know what that word means, then you don't understand it. I believe in it because it's who I am. I am a cavalry officer. I've commanded troops before and I'm going back where I have the opportunity to command troops again under the same conditions, plus I was the first amputee to do it. I love it. I'm proud -- I'm proud to serve the American people.

BROWN: We all, I suppose, judge ourselves by different standards but for most at some point we ask how will those who we love most and love us most see us? David Rozelle, now just weeks away from heading back to war, believes he knows.

ROZELLE: The truth is that a man judges himself on how his son perceives him and, although my son only has a perception of how good warm cookies are right now, in 30 years he's going to look at me as an old man and he's going to sit down and think about it and I want him to be proud of me and I think that my son will be proud of what I've done and that's the most important thing to me.

BROWN: Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: And we wish him well on his journey, a man who knows what he's meant to do.

SANCHEZ: A public school faces a parental challenge over a religious program for elementary students. It's a program that's not funded by the school, and it's not held on public property. So what's the problem?

KAGAN: We're going to explain why some parents say it is a case of education interrupted.

Plus, he was the center of a hoax that grabbed national headlines. Find out what's happening now to Baby Johnny.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: We're going to check on a story for you once again. We told you that from time to time we would be checking on the case going on with the sentencing of Paul Shanley. He's the Catholic priest convicted last week of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at a church in the 1980s. Just moments ago Paul Shanley walked out of the courtroom. The reason is there was less testimony than was expected.

The victim did not testify in this case -- in other words, he did not face his accuser. Instead, a statement was read by his lawyer. The case is now in the hands of a judge. If there is any new information on the story -- there you see Paul Shanley walking out just moments ago. If there's any new information on this case, we'll certainly going to bring it to you as soon as it happens -- Daryn, over to you.

KAGAN: Reading, writing and arithmetic have long been called the three Rs. But in Staunton, Virginia, you can also add religion. Last night the school board voted overwhelmingly to continue its controversial bible classes for public students. CNN's Tom Foreman looks at the battle lines over faith and fairness.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On a damp path behind McSwain Elementary School, the first graders are heading to a Baptist church.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We love him because he first loved us.

FOREMAN: For a half hour each week, first, second and third graders who sign up for weekday religious education, or WRE, are excused from class to learn about the Bible, morality.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, some of the lessons that I learned from the Bible were stuff like Daniel and the lion's den, the birth of Jesus.

FOREMAN: Both of Andrea Oakes' girls went, along with 85 percent of their classmates, and she's astonished the program is under attack.

ANDREA OAKES, PARENT: I would like to think that, no, they're not attacking us because we are Christians, however, I cannot help but question whether or not that is the reason.

FOREMAN: In this strongly religious state, church groups pay for WRE, which about 12,000 students attend, and religious classes are not held on school property.

AMY DIDUCH, PARENT: Well, it really began at the beginning of this school year.

FOREMAN: But Amy Diduch is one of the minority of parents who want the school board to shut the program down anyway.

DIDUCH: I'm not opposed to a parent, on an individual basis, choosing to take a child out for religious instruction, but I am opposed to having the school day stop while those children are absent.

FOREMAN: Diduch and others say kids who do not take part are getting little or no instruction while others are in religion class and that sometimes children are ostracized for not going.

EDWARD SCOTT, STAUNTON CITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER: If the letters to the editors are to be believed at all, then surely students have been stigmatized.

FOREMAN: Back at the church, the Oakes girls say they never saw any evidence of that.

JACLYN OAKES, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION GRADUATE: I don't think any of the kids in my classroom that were left behind got teased at all.

FOREMAN: And religion class organizers say the courts have long approved of such programs, as long as they remain separate from schools and parents can choose. JACK HINTON, PRESIDENT, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: The majority does not impose its will on any minority in this particular situation. It is a voluntary situation where you opt in or you opt out.

FOREMAN (on camera): Many of the opponents of the religion classes make a point of saying they are Christian, too. They just think that school time should be for traditional school studies.

(voice-over): But in the end, the school board voted overwhelmingly to keep the religion classes and try to figure out a better plan for what to do with the kids who don't participate.

Tom Foreman, CNN, Staunton, Virginia.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SANCHEZ: Now some of the other stories making news from coast to coast.

In Southern California a high-speed police chase ends in drama and then danger. After a half hour pursuit, the passenger bails out on Interstate 10 in Irwindale then struck his head as he jumped over. He was taken into custody. The driver bolted into oncoming traffic but was soon nabbed in this case.

Wow. Also in Portland, Oregon, former Olympic gold medalist Bill Johnson is free after spending the weekend in jail. Johnson was arrested after a traffic stop Friday that's somewhat bizarre. Officers say that he taunted them with his gold medal before attacking them. Johnson's lawyer says head injuries have left the skier with what they call poor judgment.

We have an update on the Florida baby that was reportedly thrown from a moving car that we first brought you right here last week on CNN. 4-day-old boy called Johnny was released yesterday from a Fort Lauderdale hospital and placed foster family. His mother, who was accused of fabricating the story to conceal her unwanted pregnancy, is hospitalized for observation.

KAGAN: We're going to check on the stock market coming up next.

And still to come in next hour of CNN LIVE TODAY, turning heads in the Big Apple. Why one dog is trying to prove that a whole lot of wrinkles and big droops -- big drops of drool -- can be a good thing.

SANCHEZ: That's a whole lot of skin, isn't it?

KAGAN: Yes.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: The lockout could be a shutdown by tomorrow. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to announce the season's cancellation. If he does, it would come in spite of significant movement in negotiations yesterday. The league did offer to remove its demand for a link between revenues and player costs. And the union agreed to a salary cap for the first time. But there's a cap gap of $12 million between the two sides.

SANCHEZ: We take from you the ice to something that would definitely be considered hotter, at least by most guys. "Sports Illustrated's" annual swimsuit issue hits newsstands today. Caroline Murphy is on the cover. That's her. She's a 31-year-old native of Panama City, Florida. On the inside, you'll find retired slugger Mark McGwire with his wife, Stephanie. Other sports celebs on the issue, tennis star Venus Williams and Olympic medalist Jenny Finch, Amanda Beard and Lauren Jackson. There you go.

KAGAN: "Sports Illustrated" would Rather talk to Mark McGwire about the allegations of steroid use in Jose Canseco's book than just take pictures.

SANCHEZ: Maybe this was a way of getting him to kind of go along with an in-depth story later or something, you know.

(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)

SANCHEZ: A check of the nation's weather forecast is going to be coming up in just a bit.

KAGAN: And still to come in the next hour, why a flu shot may not be the lifesaver that a lot of people hoped it would be.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(WEATHER REPORT)

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Aired February 15, 2005 - 10:30   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
RICK SANCHEZ, CNN ANCHOR: Here we are at the midway point. And one of the things we're going to be focusing on is the president's financial wishlist to pay for the war in both Iraq and Afghanistan.
I'm Rick Sanchez.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And good morning once again. I'm Daryn Kagan.

Let's take a look at what's happening now in the news.

A sentencing hearing is under way for defrocked Catholic Priest Paul Shanley, one of the most notorious figures in the Boston archdiocese sex scandal. He faces life in prison for repeatedly molesting a young boy in the 1980s. That victim is set to make a statement today. Advocates say any prison term could be a life sentence, because Shanley's life will be in danger behind bars.

In Beirut, the death toll has climbed in yesterday's massive explosion. A 17th person has died in the blast that left a 20-foot crater in the posh neighborhood. The bomb killed former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, and has underlined concerns about renewed volatility in Lebanon and its relationship with Syria.

Also today here in the U.S. the Senate is expected to confirm Michael Chertoff as the nation's new homeland security chief. The vote had been delayed by Democrats voicing concerns about Chertoff's views on prisoner interrogation. Chertoff, if confirmed, will replace Tom Ridge who has resigned to work in the private sector.

And the death toll has now topped 200 in a Chinese coal mine explosion. Some miners are still trapped about 800 feet below ground. China has a reputation for mining accidents. Despite government attempts to improve safety, mine operators and local officials often keep dangerous sites open.

SANCHEZ: President Bush has said his re-election now allows him to spend more political capital, and spending seems to be exactly what he plans to do, asking Congress for an additional $82 billion essentially for Iraq and Afghanistan.

Here is CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld will be on Capitol Hill later this week, seeking congressional support for the budget supplemental, which totals over $80 billion. About 75 billion of that is for the Pentagon. The main cost, running the war in Iraq, which now costs more than $1 billion a week.

But there are several very interesting items for the Pentagon that are being funded in that supplemental request. They include $12 billion for refurbishing and repairing worn-out equipment. Part of that request, another $3 billion for armored vehicles, which was such a matter of controversy over the last several months.

Also included, $5.7 billion for training Iraqi security forces. That is considered vital. The sooner the Iraqis are trained, the sooner U.S. forces can return home. And there is an additional $5 billion for something the Pentagon calls army transformation. That basically is making the army lighter, more mobile, more easily deployable to places like Iraq. It is one of the lessons learned from the war. There is other money in the supplemental as well, $950 million for aid for tsunami victims. Another $200 million for Palestinian security initiatives. Congress is expected to approve the supplemental request, but there's certain to be a lot of very tough questions to the Pentagon on how exactly the money is going to be spent and how soon U.S. troops can come home.

Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: As the president is pushing for more money for operations in Iraq, there's a new round of violence had there. The U.S. military says a roadside bombing near Baqubah targets the deputy governor of that province. A bystander was killed, but the official and everyone in his convoy escaped injury.

Meanwhile, a Turkish businessman who was kidnapped in Iraq last December is now free. That is from the Turkish embassy in Baghdad. The shipping magnate had turned up on Turkish television on Christmas Day on a videotaped message from his captors. More than 120 foreigners have been kidnapped in Iraq over the past year. Some have been released, many others, though, have been killed.

SANCHEZ: At times the largest story on what's happening in Iraq on a daily basis obscures the details of those that are fighting there and the obstacles and the adversity that they have to face on a daily basis. A case in point, David Rozelle.

For him, honor, duty and country are more than just words. This story is filed by CNN's Aaron Brown.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

AARON BROWN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): In the days after the fall of Baghdad before the car bombings and the IED attacks that seem so commonplace now, David Rozelle's Humvee hit a landmine and David Rozelle nearly lost his life. CAPT. DAVID ROZELLE, 3RD ARMORED CAVALRY REGIMENT: I remember the looks on the faces of my soldiers. They had to carry me and my litter onto the landing zone to load into the helicopter and saying goodbye to my brothers. I mean it's just gut-wrenching, really gut- wrenching.

BROWN: He would survive but lose his right foot.

ROZELLE: I laid back and really thought about it and it broke my heart and I don't like being still. I like being in motion and to say that you're going to take away one of my feet just, it just -- it hit me. I just, I couldn't even imagine it but I knew it was the only chance.

BROWN: That really is the beginning of Captain Rozelle's story, an amputee with the heart of a soldier, foot gone, heart intact.

ROZELLE: My initial response was I've given enough but my true self and my most inner person, you know, is not -- is not a quitter. I realized I at least needed to see if I can do this. I at least need to prove to myself that I can stay on active duty. I can go back and fight if I have to.

BROWN: As amputees go he was lucky. Others struggled to learn to eat again or take a step again. Rozelle's challenge was to become a soldier again, a step at a time, first walking, then running, then competing.

ROZELLE: When I started doing those races I was horribly self conscious of the way I looked. I didn't feel like an athlete and I didn't take myself very seriously. I felt like an amputee. I felt like I was disabled.

BROWN: There were triathlons and iron man relays. There was the New York City marathon and each one brought Rozelle closer to who he was and who he wanted to be.

ROZELLE: And then just the nature of competition as I did more and more events, I won one and as they handed me the trophy, I felt like a stud.

BROWN: In just ten months after he lost that foot David Rozelle won his race, not a marathon, something more.

ROZELLE: I'd won. They found me fit for duty. I'd proven to a board of doctors and the Army, the Department of Defense that I was -- I was fit for duty. OK, now what? That was my goal was to be found fit for duty. It wasn't to go back to Iraq. It's never been my goal is go back to Iraq. It's been to be able to have the ability to take command again. That's all I wanted. So, now I had to make a decision.

BROWN: And, in the end, with the country at war the man with the soldier's heart made the only decision he could.

ROZELLE: When I think about going back, yes, it's going to be hard but it's my duty and if you don't really know what that word means, then you don't understand it. I believe in it because it's who I am. I am a cavalry officer. I've commanded troops before and I'm going back where I have the opportunity to command troops again under the same conditions, plus I was the first amputee to do it. I love it. I'm proud -- I'm proud to serve the American people.

BROWN: We all, I suppose, judge ourselves by different standards but for most at some point we ask how will those who we love most and love us most see us? David Rozelle, now just weeks away from heading back to war, believes he knows.

ROZELLE: The truth is that a man judges himself on how his son perceives him and, although my son only has a perception of how good warm cookies are right now, in 30 years he's going to look at me as an old man and he's going to sit down and think about it and I want him to be proud of me and I think that my son will be proud of what I've done and that's the most important thing to me.

BROWN: Aaron Brown, CNN, New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KAGAN: And we wish him well on his journey, a man who knows what he's meant to do.

SANCHEZ: A public school faces a parental challenge over a religious program for elementary students. It's a program that's not funded by the school, and it's not held on public property. So what's the problem?

KAGAN: We're going to explain why some parents say it is a case of education interrupted.

Plus, he was the center of a hoax that grabbed national headlines. Find out what's happening now to Baby Johnny.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

SANCHEZ: We're going to check on a story for you once again. We told you that from time to time we would be checking on the case going on with the sentencing of Paul Shanley. He's the Catholic priest convicted last week of repeatedly raping and fondling a boy at a church in the 1980s. Just moments ago Paul Shanley walked out of the courtroom. The reason is there was less testimony than was expected.

The victim did not testify in this case -- in other words, he did not face his accuser. Instead, a statement was read by his lawyer. The case is now in the hands of a judge. If there is any new information on the story -- there you see Paul Shanley walking out just moments ago. If there's any new information on this case, we'll certainly going to bring it to you as soon as it happens -- Daryn, over to you.

KAGAN: Reading, writing and arithmetic have long been called the three Rs. But in Staunton, Virginia, you can also add religion. Last night the school board voted overwhelmingly to continue its controversial bible classes for public students. CNN's Tom Foreman looks at the battle lines over faith and fairness.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): On a damp path behind McSwain Elementary School, the first graders are heading to a Baptist church.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We love him because he first loved us.

FOREMAN: For a half hour each week, first, second and third graders who sign up for weekday religious education, or WRE, are excused from class to learn about the Bible, morality.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Well, some of the lessons that I learned from the Bible were stuff like Daniel and the lion's den, the birth of Jesus.

FOREMAN: Both of Andrea Oakes' girls went, along with 85 percent of their classmates, and she's astonished the program is under attack.

ANDREA OAKES, PARENT: I would like to think that, no, they're not attacking us because we are Christians, however, I cannot help but question whether or not that is the reason.

FOREMAN: In this strongly religious state, church groups pay for WRE, which about 12,000 students attend, and religious classes are not held on school property.

AMY DIDUCH, PARENT: Well, it really began at the beginning of this school year.

FOREMAN: But Amy Diduch is one of the minority of parents who want the school board to shut the program down anyway.

DIDUCH: I'm not opposed to a parent, on an individual basis, choosing to take a child out for religious instruction, but I am opposed to having the school day stop while those children are absent.

FOREMAN: Diduch and others say kids who do not take part are getting little or no instruction while others are in religion class and that sometimes children are ostracized for not going.

EDWARD SCOTT, STAUNTON CITY SCHOOL BOARD MEMBER: If the letters to the editors are to be believed at all, then surely students have been stigmatized.

FOREMAN: Back at the church, the Oakes girls say they never saw any evidence of that.

JACLYN OAKES, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION GRADUATE: I don't think any of the kids in my classroom that were left behind got teased at all.

FOREMAN: And religion class organizers say the courts have long approved of such programs, as long as they remain separate from schools and parents can choose. JACK HINTON, PRESIDENT, RELIGIOUS EDUCATION ASSOCIATION: The majority does not impose its will on any minority in this particular situation. It is a voluntary situation where you opt in or you opt out.

FOREMAN (on camera): Many of the opponents of the religion classes make a point of saying they are Christian, too. They just think that school time should be for traditional school studies.

(voice-over): But in the end, the school board voted overwhelmingly to keep the religion classes and try to figure out a better plan for what to do with the kids who don't participate.

Tom Foreman, CNN, Staunton, Virginia.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

SANCHEZ: Now some of the other stories making news from coast to coast.

In Southern California a high-speed police chase ends in drama and then danger. After a half hour pursuit, the passenger bails out on Interstate 10 in Irwindale then struck his head as he jumped over. He was taken into custody. The driver bolted into oncoming traffic but was soon nabbed in this case.

Wow. Also in Portland, Oregon, former Olympic gold medalist Bill Johnson is free after spending the weekend in jail. Johnson was arrested after a traffic stop Friday that's somewhat bizarre. Officers say that he taunted them with his gold medal before attacking them. Johnson's lawyer says head injuries have left the skier with what they call poor judgment.

We have an update on the Florida baby that was reportedly thrown from a moving car that we first brought you right here last week on CNN. 4-day-old boy called Johnny was released yesterday from a Fort Lauderdale hospital and placed foster family. His mother, who was accused of fabricating the story to conceal her unwanted pregnancy, is hospitalized for observation.

KAGAN: We're going to check on the stock market coming up next.

And still to come in next hour of CNN LIVE TODAY, turning heads in the Big Apple. Why one dog is trying to prove that a whole lot of wrinkles and big droops -- big drops of drool -- can be a good thing.

SANCHEZ: That's a whole lot of skin, isn't it?

KAGAN: Yes.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

KAGAN: The lockout could be a shutdown by tomorrow. NHL commissioner Gary Bettman is expected to announce the season's cancellation. If he does, it would come in spite of significant movement in negotiations yesterday. The league did offer to remove its demand for a link between revenues and player costs. And the union agreed to a salary cap for the first time. But there's a cap gap of $12 million between the two sides.

SANCHEZ: We take from you the ice to something that would definitely be considered hotter, at least by most guys. "Sports Illustrated's" annual swimsuit issue hits newsstands today. Caroline Murphy is on the cover. That's her. She's a 31-year-old native of Panama City, Florida. On the inside, you'll find retired slugger Mark McGwire with his wife, Stephanie. Other sports celebs on the issue, tennis star Venus Williams and Olympic medalist Jenny Finch, Amanda Beard and Lauren Jackson. There you go.

KAGAN: "Sports Illustrated" would Rather talk to Mark McGwire about the allegations of steroid use in Jose Canseco's book than just take pictures.

SANCHEZ: Maybe this was a way of getting him to kind of go along with an in-depth story later or something, you know.

(STOCK MARKET UPDATE)

SANCHEZ: A check of the nation's weather forecast is going to be coming up in just a bit.

KAGAN: And still to come in the next hour, why a flu shot may not be the lifesaver that a lot of people hoped it would be.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

(WEATHER REPORT)

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com