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Police Expand Search for Chandra Levy
Aired July 13, 2001 - 09:04 ET
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DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: And now for an update on the Washington intern who now has been missing for two and a half months. Here are the latest developments in the search for Chandra Levy.
Investigators say they will leave no stone unturned as they have searched abandoned buildings. But so far they reportedly have found nothing. Police also want to do computer generation work on photos of Levy just in case she disappeared intentionally and has altered her appearance. And in California, the Levy family home is now under 24 hour surveillance. That is at their request. Our Jonathan Karl joins us from Washington with more on the investigation.
Jonathan, good morning.
JONATHAN KARL, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning.
Well, the search clearly expanding today. As a matter of fact, that search of the abandoned buildings which we saw yesterday, abandoned buildings in the D.C. area, that search will continue today as police also look into the possibility that Chandra Levy may have intentionally disappeared. Those computer generated drawings that you talked about, that is, what they're trying to do there is to give people an idea of what Chandra Levy might look like should she be intentionally trying to disguise her appearance.
Meanwhile, a law enforcement official tells CNN this morning that police will reinterview two members of California Democrat Gary Condit's staff today, this morning. This is part of the process, this source tells us, of going back and reinterviewing some of the 100 or so people that the police have interviewed during the course of this investigation. Again, two members of Gary Condit's staff, we are told by a law enforcement official, to be reinterviewed this morning as part of that ongoing process.
Meanwhile, the D.C. police chief, Ramsey, told Larry King last night that there's been a lot of attention, obviously, on Gary Condit, but that, in fact, the search and this investigation goes far beyond just Gary Condit.
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CHIEF CHARLES RAMSEY, D.C. METROPOLITAN POLICE: Mr. Condit, because of his position, is obviously getting the majority of the attention in this case, but we have an awful lot of work to do. We're recanvassing areas. We're taking a look now at people on probation, parole and tracking them down, trying to reach out for cab drivers, anybody who may have any information at all. We're doing searches. And we're even taking a look at composite sketches of Chandra Levy in the event that she is a alive, she is missing, but of her own free will, to see what she would look like if she tried to change her appearance at all.
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KARL: So, again, those searches, the searches of the abandoned buildings will be continuing today here in Washington, D.C. -- Daryn?
KAGAN: Meanwhile, Jonathan, the political fallout of this situation for Gary Condit continues to increase, it appears?
KARL: Well, certainly there's been a lot of talk up on Capitol Hill. The vast majority of members of Congress have refused to comment whatsoever about this situation. There has been one of the 435 members of the House of Representatives to call on Gary Condit's resignation. That's California -- I mean that's Georgia Republican Bob Barr. But by and large, even most Republicans aren't coming out and saying much about Gary Condit.
As a matter of fact, Tom Davis, who is a representative from Virginia and is the Republican in charge of the House reelection effort, he even isn't really saying much about Gary Condit, except, actually, telling CNN that he believes that Condit could quite possibly recover from all this when all is said and done.
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REP. TOM DAVIS (R), VIRGINIA: I haven't seen any polling in that district and so on. I've seen members rebound from worse situations than this and so I just think it's premature to really talk about what the political ramifications are.
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KARL: Other members are privately and quietly watching this unfold and wondering just how Gary Condit can continue to do his job amidst this intense scrutiny. Back to you, Daryn.
KAGAN: Jonathan Karl in Washington, thank you.
You can hear from Congressman Bob Barr and his call for Congressman Condit to resign. Barr will be a guest this evening on CNN's "CROSSFIRE" at 7:30 Eastern, 4:30 Pacific. Also, we want to remind our viewers that John Walsh of "America's Most Wanted" will be focusing on the Chandra Levy case and he will be our guest later this hour.
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