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Rove Testifies in CIA Leak Case; Many in New Orleans Still in Temporary Housing; "New You Revolution"
Aired October 14, 2005 - 12:30 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: First some headlines.
The U.S. Navy is trying to figure out why an F-18 jet fighter crashed during a training mission. The jet went down after launching from the Key West naval air station. The Navy says the pilot was able to eject from the craft.
Securities at a premium around Dutch government buildings, as authorities in the Netherlands arrest seven terrorism suspects. It's unclear what the threat is to government buildings. The Dutch Counterterrorism Office says information they've gathered has prompted the precautions.
The passenger accused of punching an airplane window during a flight is out of jail on a $25,000 bond. An FBI report says the 24- year-old suspect shattered the interior plastic shield that covered the window about 20 minutes into the America West flight from Las Vegas to Tampa, Florida. He faces up to 20 years in prison.
It's almost a week after the big earthquake. Rescue efforts are winding down. The focus is now help for estimated 2.5 million people left homeless. Pakistan is planning to set up a tent village, but it's not clear where the village will be constructed. Meanwhile, disaster teams still haven't been able to reach some remote Himalayan villages.
Indicted Texas representative and former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay will now have his phone records scrutinized. A subpoena has been issued for incoming and outgoing calls from DeLay's home phone. The subpoena comes Travis County, Texas, D.A. Ronnie Earle. Earle is pursuing money laundering and conspiracy charges against DeLay in a campaign finance investigation. A DeLay spokesman says Earle's subpoena is, quote, "a ridiculous stunt."
Did presidential adviser Karl Rove knowingly discuss the identity of CIA agent? A federal investigation is looking into the leak and Rove testified before a grand jury this morning for a fourth time.
For more on Rove's testimony and what it may mean, we turn to CNN national Bob Franken, who is live in Washington with the latest.
BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: And the latest is, Daryn, that notably, Karl Rove is still testifying, still has not come out more than two hours after he entered the grand jury room for what you pointed out is the fourth time in this investigation. And there is considerable legal speculation among people who, in fact, know about these things, that the investigation could go beyond the legal proposition that you raised, whether he knowingly identified Valerie Plame or somebody knowingly identified Valerie Plame as an undercover CIA operative and also as the wife of Joe Wilson, who had been a harsh administration critic.
Rove is somebody who has been named repeatedly by reporters as one of the sources that may have led to the identification of Plame. But his lawyer has always said that he did not know she was undercover. The other one is the White House -- excuse me, the vice president's chief of staff, Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Patrick Fitzgerald is the prosecutor. When Rove had volunteered the last time that he appeared, that he would come back voluntarily if he was requested -- Fitzgerald decided to take him up on that. Fitzgerald is now deciding whether to indict anybody as the grand jury investigation seems to be coming to a close. Whether to indict anybody, and of course, if he does, the question would be who and how high up those indictments might come. But, anyway, Karl Rove continues before the grand jury in a session that's gone longer than they typically do.
KAGAN: And is there only one way out, one way in? You'll have to see him come and go?
FRANKEN: Oh, no. There are any number of ways in and out. As a matter of fact, there is a big cat and mouse game that's gone on today. Karl Rove tried to go into an entrance that's brand new, that was not going to be there. And I can tell you for a fact, based on a variety of conversations I've had with people who are knowledgeable about this, he would have loved it had he not been seen going into the building.
KAGAN: All right. Bob Franken, live from Washington, D.C., thank you.
What is the hardest to deal with for victims of Hurricane Katrina? Well, according to a new CNN/"USA Today" poll, losing everything is at the top of the list. Employment is also tough. Only 18 percent of respondents are working the same job they had before the storm. Fifty percent are looking for work. As to what type of help is needed the most, nearly a third say finances. Fifteen percent say it's a roof over their head.
And on that note, only one in 20 are still living in their own home. Most are staying in new apartments or hotels. Only two percent remain in temporary shelters. That two percent represents roughly 22,000 people still in shelters, and it's likely the government will miss its self-imposed deadline of tomorrow of getting everyone out of the temporary housing.
As CNN's Alina Cho tell us, some of the displaced are quite ready to move on.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE) ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Bonnie Vernon has been living on this cot in the Baton Rouge Convention Center for a month. Now the city is shutting the shelter down, so Vernon and the rest of the hurricane evacuees, all 500 of them, have to move again.
(on camera): Where are you going next?
BONNIE VERNON, EVACUEE: I have no idea where I'm going.
CHO (voice-over): Vernon got an offer to work construction at $20 an hour near New Orleans, but she can't get there because she doesn't have a car. She lost that along with her home in the storm.
VERNON: All I want now is to get my life in order, and I don't want to be sent to another shelter, you know? I just want to be able to get me a place somewhere and go to work, and that's all I want to do.
CHO: Some evacuees are staying in hotels at FEMA's expense. Vernon will likely end up here in Baker, Louisiana in a trailer park for evacuees. This one is nearly filled to capacity, so the town is getting more trailers, but there won't be enough. Kim Johnson is one of the lucky ones.
(on camera): Air-conditioning in here?
KIM JOHNSON, EVACUEE: Yes.
CHO: Wow!
(voice-over): She moved from the convention center to her very own trail or Wednesday.
(on camera): What's the best part about it?
JOHNSON: The best part is privacy. That's the best part. I can go in there and shut the door.
CHO (voice-over): On Thursday, Johnson and others got an additional boost when New Orleans Mayor Ray Nagin paid them a visit.
MYR. RAY NAGIN, NEW ORLEANS: You know what, I still see a lot of stress. I still see a lot of strain, but I also see a little glimmer of hope.
CHO: Bony Vernon isn't so optimistic. She's been waiting for federal assistance for more than a month.
VERNON: I would like to get a little bit of money I have coming from FEMA so I can get a car so I could go to work and get my life back together again.
CHO: Alina Cho, CNN, Baker, Louisiana.
(END VIDEOTAPE) KAGAN: Coming up in the next hour on CNN LIVE FROM, how Hurricane Katrina has affected the New Orleans real estate market, and who is actually cashing in.
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The difference a decade makes. Ten years after helping to organize the first Million Man March, where does the movement stand now? You will hear from Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan up next.
And bird flu flies to Europe's doorstep. Is the U.S. next? CNN brings you details on the potential health threat coming up in the next hour.
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KAGAN: Vivian Malone Jones, the first African-American to graduate from the University of Alabama has died. She and fellow student James Hood made history in 1963 when they both enrolled during Governor George Wallace's failed stand to keep the school segregated. Jones died Thursday after suffering a stroke. She was 63 years old.
The Million Man March on the Washington Mall this weekend will mark the 10th anniversary of that event. And Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, spoke about its significance yesterday with CNN's Kyra Phillips on "THE SITUATION ROOM."
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LOUIS FARRAKHAN, NATION OF ISLAM: Certainly we can never repeat the Million Man March. But those who were responsible for producing the Million Man March, the Million Woman March, the Million Youth March, the Million Family March and the Million Worker March, all of us have come together along with civil rights nationalist, Pan- Africanists, young people, to look at the condition of our people, and we've realized that no one leader, no one organization can solve the many problems of our people. But we as a unified group believe that we have the will, the skill, and the finance to be able to help our people out of the condition that we find ourselves in.
We can say that 25,000 orphans found a home, 1.7 million black men voted in the next election, the crime rate, the murder rate went down in the inner cities at that time. But what has happened to America in the last 10 years is greatly reflected in the poor? It's not good, because when you send manufacturing to overseas, cheap labor markets. When factories close in the inner cities, this leaves the black, the brown, the poor white in the lurch. When we don't have a lot of choices. If we join the armed forces, maybe there's a chance there. If we become entrepreneurs, there's a chance there. But it seems like young black and brown men are being herded into criminal behavior. Drugs, and guns and gangs and the killing goes on, and we're filling the jails of America.
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KAGAN: Once again, the 10th anniversary event the scheduled tomorrow on the national mall.
Our final "New You" check-up is Sandra Garth. Now, you might remember she wanted to be fabulous and fit when she hit 50. That's when she started the program. After eight week, she had dropped 19 pounds. Did she keep it off?
CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta has the answer.
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SANDRA GARTH: I can just think back to when I first got started, when I went for that physical, everything hurt all the time and my blood pressure was through the roof.
SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): As a fitness instructor, Sandra Garth was always in shape. But when she got arthritis, her exercising stop and her love for food got the upper hand.
GARTH: (INAUDIBLE) I'm a junk food junky, I'm a chocoholic. I like everything that is not good for me.
GUPTA: And so the weight started to creep up. When her "New You" revolution began, she weighed in at 200 pounds.
GARTH: I started out in January. I was wearing a size 18.
GUPTA: So we enlisted the help of M-Fit, the health promotion division at the University of Michigan to teach Sandra how to eat better, control portion sizes, exercise safely. One important tool, a pedometer.
GARTH: They said, well you've got to do 10,000. And I wasn't working out and I was just wearing it. And I'm like, how on earth am I going to get 10,000 steps?
GUPTA: But she did by walking and walking and exercising and walking. And we watched as weight began to drop.
GARTH: So that is awesome! Seven pounds.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Seven pounds in four weeks.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: That is fantastic.
GARTH: I've lost 13 pounds.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Yes. You've lost 13 pounds. GUPTA: And at the end of our eight-week program.
GARTH: No! Nineteen pounds? Nineteen pounds?
GUPTA: But could she continue to lose the weight? This is how Sandra looked at the beginning of the "New You" revolution. This is Sandra eight months later.
GARTH: The last time I weighed was in the first part of August. And according to that scale, it was 145, down from 200 in January.
GUPTA: She now wears a size 10.
GARTH: I wanted to be fit at 50 and I wanted to be fabulous at 50. Well, I'm on my way to fit. I'm really close to it. When you know you're eating to be healthy, not just to wear a smaller size, that's the best motivation in the world.
GUPTA: Which is why Sandra is confident this time the weight will stay off.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta for the "New You Revolution."
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KAGAN: Well, good for her. I think she was the most successful of all the people we went and checked up on. Congratulations, Sandra.
We've now wrapped up this year's success stories. We are looking for the next troop that wants to try to get healthy, and this time we are trying to see double. Looking for three couples, three pairs, three duos who want to be fit in the new year. So if you have what you think it takes to be one of our featured twosomes for our next challenge, simply go to CNN.com/am. Then sign up with you and your partner. Now that can be your spouse, it can be your roommate, someone with you at work, all different types of pairs, to join the "New You Revolution."
A check of the financial markets coming up next. Also, Bond goes blond. We'll explain why filmmakers are give a new look to a legendary spy.
And apparently it's the more the merrier in Arkansas. We're going to meet an incredible family that keeps growing and growing and growing. Their story just ahead.
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KAGAN: Once again, we are keeping our eyes on the federal courthouse in Washington, D.C. Top White House aide Karl Rove making his fourth appearance before the grand jury looking into the situation of the leak of a CIA operative's name. Looking for any comment when that testimony wraps up.
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KAGAN: The choice of actor to play James Bond has left a lot of fans shaken, if not exactly stirred.
Here now, CNN entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas with the blond Bond.
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PIERCE BROSNAN, ACTOR: Bond. James Bond.
SIBILA VARGAS, CNN ENTERTAINMENT, CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Move over, Pierce Brosnan, there's a new bond in town. And for the very first time, this bond is blonde.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE, ACTOR: You're joking!
VARGAS: After months of speculation, the identity of the new 007 was finally revealed as British Actor Daniel Craig, which poses the question.
DANIEL CRAIG, ACTOR: I'm very well-known.
NICKI GOSTIN, "NEWSWEEK": He's quite well-known in England. He's been around for quite a few years and he's done some movies that people would have seen but he certainly has not been in one big hit that everyone immediately knows who he is.
CRAIG: I am the future. So don't you ever talk to me that way again.
VARGAS: Craig's past includes "Road to Perdition" where he played Paul Newman's psychopathic son, a role chasing Angelina Jolie in "Lara Croft: Tomb Raider," and a womanizing poet opposite Gwyneth Paltrow in "Sylvia." In his latest film, "Layer Cake," he played the crafty drug dealer.
CRAIG: Don't take this personally. It's business.
VARGAS: Some say his versatility is just the right thing to stir things up.
BROSNAN: Shaken, not stirred.
VARGAS: Craig is now the sixth man to take on the formidable franchise, which has grossed $1.3 billion in North America alone.
CRAIG: There's a lot that goes with playing a part like that. There, obviously, there's a lot of money to be made in playing a part like that. But there's also a lot to lose.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Are you ready, Mr. Bond?
VARGAS: Craig may be ready for 007 fame, but are audiences prepared for a blonde Bond?
LEAH ROSEN, "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE: Hey, blondes have more fun. We'll see.
VARGAS: Sibila Vargas, CNN, Los Angeles.
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KAGAN: So you think you have a full house? The Duggars of Lowell, Arkansas have enough family members to fill two baseball teams. That's mom and dad plus 16 kids. The newest arrival is a girl, the first girl born in eight years.
Earlier on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING, Michelle Duggar provided a glimpse of a typical day.
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MICHELLE DUGGAR, MOTHER OF 16: We have really enjoyed that. For our family, it has been something that has caused our family to be very close and a very close unity. And so we enjoy learning the same things at the same time. Of course, we have individual studies in the morning where we do math, English and spelling. And then we have lunch, break for lunch, and then we go back and do history and science and law together. And then we do our music lessons, piano and violin after that. So we have a very busy day.
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KAGAN: They do. All the kids have "J" names. And in case you're wondering if the Duggars will add another "J" or two, mom and dad have indicated they'll just keep doing what they've been doing and let nature take its course.
And that'll wrap it up for this hour of CNN LIVE TODAY. Much more ahead on CNN's "LIVE FROM" with Kyra Phillips. We'll explain why potential homeowners in New Orleans could be facing some serious sticker shock.
I'm Daryn Kagan. I'll be on vacation all next week, so I'll see you in about a week or so. CNN's "LIVE FROM" begins right now.
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