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'Morning Buzz'
Aired January 09, 2002 - 07:20 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
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JACK CAFFERTY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Time now for a segment we call the Morning Buzz, which is a check of some of the stories in the newspapers and on the radar screens.
What's going on?
PAULA ZAHN, CNN ANCHOR: Well, one report that caught my eye is a report in the "Washington Post" this morning about the number of people being treated for depression having risen dramatically in this country, not necessarily because there's a rise in depression, but the view is that the depression has become less stigmatized.
ANDERSON COOPER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Also the treatments for it have become much more...
ZAHN: Available.
COOPER: ... so much better. I mean Prozac, a lot of the, you know, the drugs are much, much better.
CAFFERTY: But is some of the increase related to 9-11? I assume it must be.
ZAHN: They're not able to really establish that.
COOPER: No.
ZAHN: And they go on to try to figure out whether part of the reason why people are getting more Prozac now, because more insurance companies are covering that.
The other story that's pretty explosive here in New York and has hit a very raw vein is what this headline addresses in this morning's "U.S. Post" or "New York Post" about outrage.
CAFFERTY: (UNINTELLIGIBLE).
ZAHN: You now have a bunch of these street vendors selling counterfeit New York Police Department stuff and fire department hats and calendars.
CAFFERTY: That's insensitive. But I mean street vendors in New York have been selling knock off everything since they invented the internal combustion engine. I mean that's nothing new in New York. You can buy knock off designer handbags and jewelry and wristwatches and perfume and, you know, pick something you like, it's out there on the sidewalk.
ZAHN: That is true, but because of the great loss they've suffered here...
CAFFERTY: No, I understand.
ZAHN: ... the police department is going to go out on the street next week in much bigger numbers to try to clamp down on these vendors.
COOPER: You could also argue, I mean a lot of people are profiting off this. Mayor Giuliani's is getting $100,000 for speeches now, which he probably wouldn't have prior to 9-11. And I'm not saying he's profiting from this but...
ZAHN: No one's arguing yet for the city to take a cut of that just yet.
COOPER: Well, yes, but...
ZAHN: No, but that's what some of these outraged family members are saying.
COOPER: Right. Sure.
ZAHN: OK, you can sell your counterfeit stuff, but at least give us 15 percent of the proceeds and send it to the Twin Towers Fund.
CAFFERTY: Give us a piece of it, yes.
COOPER: There are actually authorized hats and T-shirts that you can buy that say NYPD or the fire department logo on it that the city has actually, will get a cut of. But most of these are just counterfeit ones.
ZAHN: And you had a piece in the "Washington Post" that caught your eye?
COOPER: Yes, this is in the "Washington Post." Just about the Afghan prisoners. You know, they are expecting up to 2,000 Afghan prisoners to be sent to Guantanamo Bay but really no one's talked about what they're going to do with these guys once they're there. I mean it's kind of this legal gray area. They're not prisoners of war really, no one's really talked about what's going to happen to them.
CAFFERTY: I thought they were terrorists. Aren't they terrorists?
COOPER: Well...
CAFFERTY: I have some ideas what they could do with them, but I guess we probably shouldn't discuss those.
ZAHN: I'm sure, would you like to share that with everybody in America this morning?
COOPER: I can't imagine what you think we should do with them, Jack?
CAFFERTY: Letterman had a funny, you know, the thing we ran yesterday from Letterman's show about, you know, here's a way to be harsh and tough on the prisoners of war...
ZAHN: Send them to the Caribbean.
CAFFERTY: Take them from Afghanistan and put them on a Caribbean island for the winter. But, you know what? In terms of security, think about it. What a perfect spot. It's an enclave that belongs to the United States surrounded by water and Fidel Castro. They're not going to go anywhere. They're not going to get a lot of visitors. They're not going to talk to anybody and, you know, whatever.
ZAHN: Pretty darned secure.
CAFFERTY: Wait until they get a nice tan and, you know, just leave them there.
COOPER: Well, that's about it for the Morning Buzz this morning.
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