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A Republican Will Hold on to California House Seat; Senate Votes on Same-Sex Marriage Ban; No Drawdown of Troops in Iraq

Aired June 07, 2006 - 08:59   ET

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JOHN KING, CNN CHIEF NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: I'm John King in Delmar, California. Republicans escape with a win in their first big midterm election test. So why then is this not necessarily good news for the Bush White House?
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: A massive wall of dust sweeping across Phoenix. Conditions are ripe for another one today. We'll explain.

SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Kimberly Dozier is finally on her way home. The injured reporter left Germany just a couple of hours ago. She should be back in the U.S. later tonight. We'll update you on her condition.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Charles Manson was there, Scott Peterson is there. I'm Carol Costello. We'll take you on a rare trip behind bars at San Quentin.

S. O'BRIEN: Good morning. Welcome back, everybody. I'm Soledad O'Brien.

M. O'BRIEN: And I'm Miles O'Brien. Thanks for being with us.

We begin in California and a special election that might have some special implications for the balance of power in Washington. If so, it might be good news for the majority party in Congress, or maybe it won't.

A Republican will hold on to the California House seat vacated by imprisoned former congressman Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Brian Bilbray says his victory sends a message to the rest of the country.

CNN's John King with more on that message live now from Delmar, California.

Hello, John.

KING: Good morning to you, Miles.

That message might not make folks at the Bush White House all that happy, especially given what the president is doing today. He's out traveling the country, trying to strike a compromise deal on education, trying to make -- on immigration, excuse me -- and trying to make the case that the American people see things his way, not the way House conservatives do. But Brian Bilbray came back in this race last night. He won this seat here, California's 50th district. He will hold the seat in Republican hands.

I interviewed him as the results were coming in last night, and Brian Bilbray says this, he says he turned it around when he became very tough on immigration, promising the people in this district that if he goes to Washington, he will campaign against the president's guest worker program. Brian Bilbray calls that amnesty, he says it is the secret of his success, and he says other Republicans across the country should copy him.

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BRIAN BILBRAY (R), CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: The president proposing amnesty was absolutely a big problem. And, in fact, it wasn't until I was able to highlight the fact that I did not agree with my friends in the Senate or my friend in the White House on amnesty that we really saw the polls start supporting me strongly.

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KING: So make no mistake about it, Republicans are happy to hold this seat, but it is a seat they should have held. They have a 15 point voting advantage here in the 50th district, so Republicans will hold this seat. The president will be happy with that, and yet he will face pressure from this candidate and others on immigration -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: Well, that's apt to change the complexion of the compromise talks between the Senate and the House as they try to figure how to come together on the two wildly divergent bills on immigration.

KING: It is more and more likely, Republican strategists say, that there will be no deal at all unless the Senate and the president give up. They say any guest worker program that gives those illegal immigrants citizenship at the end of that guest worker program is a non-starter and that Brian Bilbray's victory is certainly to reinforce that with conservatives who are already in no mood to compromise.

M. O'BRIEN: John, give us a sense of how Democrats will try to spin this one.

KING: They'll spin this, Miles, as a moral victory, because their candidate, Francine Busby, came relatively close. The results are still being counted in a few more precincts, but it's 49-45. That is very good for a Democrat in an overwhelmingly Republican district.

She ran on the Democratic theme of culture of corruption, running as much against Duke Cunningham, who is in prison, than her opponent, Brian Bilbray. She said last night that she still thinks even in defeat there's a national message here.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) FRANCINE BUSBY (D), CALIFORNIA CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE: I truly believe people in this district have risen above partisanship, they've risen above our differences, because we're sending a message, all of us, that we need a government that works for us, not for special interests. And people are actually fed up with the direction that we're going in. And I think this is a message that will resonate across the country.

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KING: That will be the Democratic message today, that they believe they can take this culture of corruption theme elsewhere. But, Miles, let's be honest -- and Democrats can see this point. There aren't any other districts in the country where the former Republican congressman is in jail.

Busby herself called this ground zero in the debate over the culture of corruption. Close calls and moral victories will not make Nancy Pelosi speaker next January -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: Good points.

John King in Delmar, California. Picturesque, I might add, this morning.

Thank you very much.

Other important races now, other important places.

In Alabama, Republican Governor Bob Riley easily beat his controversial opponent. He was facing former state Supreme Court chief justice Roy Moore. Remember him? He's the man who caused a stir by refusing to remove that Ten Commandments display from a courthouse. Riley faces Democratic Lieutenant Governor Lucy Baxley in the November election.

In New Jersey, there will be a familiar name on the ballot in the fall. Tom Kean, Jr. won the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. He'll face incumbent Democrat Robert Menendez in November. Kean's father was governor of New Jersey for most of the 1980s.

In Iowa, Secretary of State Chet Culver will be the Democratic contender for governor. He'll take on Republican Congressman Jim Nussle, who is leaving the national House seat. They're vying to replace outgoing Democrat Tom Vilsack.

And in Montana, controversial Republican Senator Conrad Burns turned back the challenge of three other Republicans. Ethics questions likely to follow him through his re-election bid. Burns took money from lobbyist Jack Abramoff, convicted of bribery -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: The Senate debate on same-sex marriages is winding down right now. They're expected to vote on the constitutional amendment in just about an hour. It's widely expected to fail.

CNN's Dana Bash live for us on Capitol Hill.

Dana, good morning.

DANA BASH, CNN CONGRESSIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Soledad. And you're exactly right, the Senate is coming in to session as we speak. They are going to vote very shortly, but the big question is, why, then, are they taking this vote if they knew from the very beginning, proponents of banning gay marriage, that this was never going to get the two-thirds majority needed to amend the Constitution?

Well, one of the reasons they give, Republicans, that is, is they need to at least bring national awareness to this issue. And one way to do that is to have a debate on the floor of the United States Senate. We did see that this week.

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SEN. RICK SANTORUM (R), PENNSYLVANIA: If marriage is not about one man and one woman for the purpose of a relationship of which to have children and continue the society, then -- if it's about two women or two men, why not two women and three men? Why not whatever arrangement? If gender doesn't matter anymore, why does number matter? What's the significance?

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SEN. FRANK LAUTENBERG (D), NEW JERSEY: Once the federal government starts regulating marriage, what's next? What's going to stop Congress from acting as the morality police and prohibit people from getting married unless they pledge to have children? Or unless they pledge to restrict the number of children they have. What is this to do to stop this body from outlawing divorce?

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BASH: Now, despite the fact the Senate will come nowhere near that two-thirds majority in about an hour when they vote, you will likely see supporters claiming victory because they expect to get about 51 votes. For the first time, a majority of the Senate voting in favor of a federal ban on same-sex marriage. And they say this is about a long-term policy goal and momentum -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: So then both sides theoretically can claim victory in this, right, Dana? I mean, Democrats can say it didn't pass, and the GOP can say, well, 51, the highest number we've ever seen. Who really wins, do you think, in this?

BASH: Well, that's an open question, and it's a very good one. You know, Republican leaders here, we have been talking about this for some time now. They're very concerned about the fact that conservatives are unhappy with their leadership here on a number of issues. On social issues, they feel like they went out and voted for Republicans in control of Washington. And they have sort of turned their backs on them on key issues that they care about, like same-sex marriage. On the fiscal side, issues like repealing the estate tax.

So that is why you're seeing the Senate talk -- take up those issues this week. But on the other hand, you talk to some Republican strategists, Soledad, and they say, you know what? We don't really think specifically issues like gay marriage is really a turnout issue. It's sort of a misconception that this does help bring Republicans, specifically conservatives, to the polls.

So it will be interesting to see what happens in 2006, if this really does achieve the goal that some Republicans hope it will.

S. O'BRIEN: Yes, that will be interesting to see if many people think that.

All right. Dana, thanks.

The anticipated drawdown of U.S. troops in Iraq doesn't seem to be happening just yet. About 3,500 troops stationed in Schweinfurt, Germany, are going to Kuwait. Those soldiers were supposed to go last month. That deployment was put on hold.

CNN's Kathleen Koch is live for us at the Pentagon this morning.

Hey, Kathleen. Good morning.

KATHLEEN KOCH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Soledad.

And the key in all of this has been stability on the ground. That's what folks here at the Pentagon, U.S. Military commanders in Iraq, have said would really be key in the drawdown. And obviously that hasn't been happening.

So we're seeing in the coming weeks, we're told, roughly 3,700 troops that could begin rotating into Iraq. These are members of the 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, and we're told that the defense secretary, Donald Rumsfeld, signed the orders just last week to begin funding this troop movement -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: Let me ask you a couple of questions. Where does the investigation into what happened at Haditha stand? Where does the investigation into what happened Hamdaniya stand?

KOCH: With Haditha, what we're hearing from U.S. military officials here at the Pentagon is that that investigation, a longer, more complicated investigation into the deaths of 24 civilians, that is not going to be completed for another six to eight weeks. And that's the criminal investigation. The investigation into a possible cover-up could wrap up sooner.

Then when it comes to Hamdaniya, that investigation perhaps about a week. Obviously, this is of great concern to members of Congress. One of them who is calling for hearings into these investigations was asked yesterday what affect he thinks that these incidents are having on troops in Iraq.

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SEN. JOHN WARNER (R), ARMED SERVICES COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN: Now, as to how that impacts remains to the seen. But I do hope that at such time that further facts are made public. People will keep in mind the magnificent performance of nearly one million men and women in the United States armed forces who have rotated in and out of the AORs of Iraq and Afghanistan.

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KOCH: Senator Warner is asking that Major General Eldon Bargewell, who's looking into whether or not there was a cover-up of the Haditha incident, that he come and speak to his committee and testify about what he's found -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: Kathleen Koch at the Pentagon for us.

Kathleen, thanks.

KOCH: You bet.

S. O'BRIEN: Italy is preparing to get out of Iraq altogether. The Italian prime minister says that his country is going to pull all troops out of Iraq by the end of the year. Currently, there are about 2,700 Italian troops based just outside of Baghdad. Sixteen hundred of them could leave as early as this month -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: President Bush in the middle of a push for immigration reform. This morning he's in Omaha to visit a center that helps immigrants.

CNN White House Correspondent Elaine Quijano is there. She joins us live.

Good morning, Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good morning to you, Miles.

And President Bush is in the middle of a two-day, three-state push to try to sell skeptical members of Congress on his immigration plan.

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QUIJANO (voice over): President Bush chose the only U.S. Border Patrol academy in the country to deliver his latest pitch on comprehensive immigration reform. With the House and Senate bills remaining far apart, Mr. Bush suggested both sides in the emotional debate share basic beliefs. GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: And while the differences grab the headlines, the similarities and approaches are striking. We all agree we need to control our borders. There's a common agreement that the federal government has a responsibility to control the borders.

QUIJANO: To emphasize that part of his message, the president chose as his backdrop this facility in Artesia, New Mexico, where America's future Border Patrol agents receive training in everything from checkpoint operations to immigration law. Mr. Bush also oversaw the swearing in of their new boss, Ralph Basham, former Secret Service director and now the commissioner of Customs and Border Protection.

By highlighting their work, Mr. Bush hopes to sway skeptical House Republicans who have long called for tougher border security measures and want that dealt with before tackling other aspects of immigration reform. Yet, the president remains convinced that a temporary guest worker program and a path to what he calls earned citizenship are vital to reforming immigration laws. Critics call that path amnesty, but during a second stop in Laredo, Texas, the president took issue with his critics.

BUSH: Amnesty is something nobody is for in America. I'm not for it. But in order to frighten people, you just say the word "amnesty".

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QUIJANO: And at this hour here in Omaha, the president is visiting a Catholic Charities center in Omaha where he's highlighting another aspect of his immigration policy, and that is assimilation. We expect to hear the president talk about that when he makes remarks just about 40 minutes from now here at the Metropolitan Community College in Omaha -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: Elaine Quijano.

Thank you very much -- Soledad.

S. O'BRIEN: Kimberly Dozier, CBS reporter who was injured, is airborne right now. She's headed back to the U.S. a few hours ago. In Germany, she'd been hospitalized. Dozier was moved then on to a U.S. military transport plane.

She was seriously wounded, you'll remember, in a car bombing last week in Baghdad that killed four people. Dozier is being flown to Bethesda Naval Hospital in Maryland.

Also happening "In America" this morning, another steroid scandal may be brewing in Major League Baseball. Federal investigators searching the home of Arizona Diamondbacks reliever Jason Grimsley yesterday. According to court documents, Grimsley was embroiled in the scandal that began as part of the bay area BALCO probe. In the past, Grimsley has admitted, allegedly, to taking illegal performance- enhancing drugs. Investigators in Los Angeles are going to try to determine what caused a hydraulics program -- problem, rather, that forced an American Airlines jet to make an emergency landing. The flight from San Antonio touched down safely on Tuesday afternoon in L.A. There were no injuries reported. The jet, though, had to be towed to the gate once it landed.

Late last night in eastern Tennessee, authorities arrested Jerry "Buck" Inman. He's a convicted sex offender who earlier in the day was charged with sexually assaulting and killing 20-year-old Clemson University student Tiffany Souers. Souers' body was found on May 26th in her off-campus apartment.

A Tennessee man is recovering after spending more than a day stuck in the mud up to his waist. The man was hunting squirrels in a muddy water bank north of Memphis when his legs got stuck. He was finally spot bide a passing fisherman. Police say he's exhausted but otherwise he's just fine.

A big mess there.

People in Phoenix cleaning up this morning from a big old wall of dust. The storm made driving conditions difficult.

Look at the pictures. You can imagine that. It stopped flights, in fact, at Sky Harbor International Airport.

M. O'BRIEN: Time now for the forecast.

Rob Marciano, I was reading the forecast a little while ago, Rob, and they say the conditions actually are -- I know you're on the other side of the country now, but the conditions are actually ripe there today for more dust storms?

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S. O'BRIEN: Thanks.

M. O'BRIEN: Thank you very much.

S. O'BRIEN: Hold on to your wheels. We've got a list, and really a surprising leader of this year's most stolen cars. A dubious list, you might say.

M. O'BRIEN: Dubious indeed. And we'll let you guess, is it that vehicle there? Is it that one? Is it that one?

Anyway -- and then a new warning about canned tuna. "Consumer Reports" says pregnant women should steer clear of it. Now, this contradicts the Food and Drug Administration's recommendation. So what are you going to do?

S. O'BRIEN: We'll tell you.

M. O'BRIEN: Yes. S. O'BRIEN: And if you think you're paying a lot more for gas, well, this might make you feel better. That's nothing compared to what they're paying in California, unless, of course, you live in California. Well, now the attorney general there wants some answers. We'll talk to him just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.

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S. O'BRIEN: A check of the CNN "Gas Gauge" this morning.

If you're buying gas today, you're going to pay about $2.88 for a gallon of regular unleaded. That's down from a month ago, $2.90. This time last year, though, it was -- a gallon cost $2.11.

But take a look at what California drivers are paying, 42 cents more than the national average, $3.30 a gallon today. California's attorney general, Bill Lockyer, wants to know why his state paying so much more for gas.

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S. O'BRIEN: The attorney general joins us this morning. It's nice to see you, sir. Thank you very much for talking with us.

Thank you.

S. O'BRIEN: Listen, why do you think California's paying more for gas, significantly more, 42 cents more than everybody else, on average, in the nation?

BILL LOCKYER, CALIFORNIA ATTORNEY GENERAL: I think that California is a gas island, that there aren't competitive forces at play here. There's not a robust independent sector in the market, because half a dozen companies control the entire gasoline market in our state. And there's no incentive for them to compete by lowering prices.

So essentially, it's an old (INAUDIBLE), as economists would say. That's our basic problem. They can run up the prices, and there's nothing we can do about it. There's no alternative place to buy fuels.

S. O'BRIEN: So you're pointing directly at the companies. The companies might say, well, wait a minute, look at what's particular to California here.

For example, there are these requirements for cleaner gasoline. That's going to cost you more money. Then you have that California state tax, that's 18 cents a gallon. Then it's 7.25 percent sales and use tax. That's specific to California, as well.

That's on top of the 18.4 percent federal excise tax everybody pays. Additionally, you have a distance from refineries, you've got supply issues, you've got the issues with ethanol that affect all of this, it's more expensive.

They might say, listen, there's a litany of other reasons why you guys are paying more.

LOCKYER: Well, some of those are constant. They don't change between this year and last year like the tax levels and other such matters. So we want to understand, since mostly what they say is the cause is the world price of oil, that crude has gone up so dramatically, they're passing that along to consumers.

Well, the numbers in California are this: since the beginning of the year to mid-May, the world price of crude went up 14 percent. But the margins at refineries -- there's 21 refineries in our state -- those margins went up 130 percent.

So I think they have another 116 percent increase to explain. And at the same time, they're announcing huge repurchases of stock.

ExxonMobil, for example, said this year said they're going to repurchase $23 billion worth of their stock. That simply means it's good for shareholders -- that's part of their job, obviously -- but it also means management usually gets big increases in their compensation. So you have to ask, what are the priorities, and how much do they care about their customers?

S. O'BRIEN: Right, but how much you care about your customers and whether or not you're doing something illegal, frankly, are two very different questions.

LOCKYER: Absolutely.

S. O'BRIEN: Do you believe that they are shorting the market, that they're sort of keeping the supply low, which, of course, would raise prices? Do you have evidence of that?

LOCKYER: Well, we have evidence that there's been no significant expansion of refining capacity of terminals. Inventories are lower so that when there is any problem with a fire at a refinery or something, it causes a very quick spike in prices.

So it's a market that they don't have to break the law. You know, I've had an active investigation for a long time. A lot of people think we're going to find the backroom deal that secretly they were setting prices somewhere.

They don't have to do that. This, frankly, is legal thievery.

We've looked at antitrust. We've looked at fraud and collusion. Now we're looking at the unfair business practice potential of lawsuits.

The fact is, the reinvestments, the inability or unwillingness to invest in expansion, whether it's here or abroad, our port facilities that shrink purposefully -- anyhow, a variety of issues that keep supply and demand barely in balance. And then, of course, demand continues to grow as our state grows. So the prices keep going up.

S. O'BRIEN: Well, you know what...

LOCKYER: But these factors you mentioned are really, frankly, constant. They don't explain the price spikes that occur.

S. O'BRIEN: Well, we're out of time, but, of course, everyone is going to be watching as you grill some of these gas company CEOs.

California's attorney general, Bill Lockyer.

Thanks for talking with us.

LOCKYER: Thank you.

S. O'BRIEN: A luxury SUV, speaking of cars, is topping the list of vehicles that thieves love to steal. For the fourth year in a row, the Cadillac Escalade is the most stolen car. That's according to the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, which ranks vehicles by the number of insurance theft claims.

Number two is the Mitsubishi Lancer Evolution, followed by the Dodge Ram 1500 pickup.

New food warning for pregnant women. "Consumer Reports" says canned tuna is now on the bad list. The FDA says, though, it's fine in moderation. Who do you believe? We'll take a look just ahead.

DAN LOTHIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Dan Lothian at a truck stop in Atalissa, Iowa, where we continue our series, "Paying the Price in the Heartland." This morning we take a look at how independent truckers are being impacted.

That's coming up on AMERICAN MORNING.

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S. O'BRIEN: In January, the FDA advised pregnant women, nursing mothers and young children to avoid high mercury fish and limit consumption of fish lower in mercury. Mercury, of course, can delay development of the nervous system.

Canned light tuna was thought to be safe. The FDA advised eating up to 12 ounce as week.

"Consumer Reports" looked at the same data and reached some different conclusions, though. They say that pregnant women should avoid canned tuna altogether.

Senior scientist and policy analyst for "Consumer Reports" Urvashi Rangan joins us this morning.

Nice to see you. Good morning.

URVASHI RANGAN, SCIENTIST, "CONSUMER REPORTS": Thank you. Good morning.

S. O'BRIEN: The research was done back in 2004, and the FDA went public with their results in 2006 in January. You guys are using the exact same, you know, set of numbers that the FDA used and came up with essentially the opposite conclusion. Explain that to me.

RANGAN: That's right. We took a closer look at the FDA data that bases its recommendations on average levels of what's found in chunk white or solid white tuna. And based on those average levels, they make a determination in terms of how much you can eat, especially for pregnant women.

What we did is looked at the individual samples. And what we found is that the levels of mercury varied widely among the cans that we saw.

Up to 6 percent of the chunk white cans actually contained levels that met or exceed the average levels of solid white tuna, which is always thought to contain more mercury, and have always cautioned women to eat less of it. Based on that, we felt like, you can't know what you're going to get in any given can of tuna that you buy. And so for pregnant women, in order to minimize the risk of mercury exposure to the fetus, we want to caution them, really, to avoid all tuna altogether.

S. O'BRIEN: But are you saying that, hey, you end up having one can of tuna or two cans of tuna that have higher mercury than the average might have, and you're going to harm your baby? You hurt the fetus?

RANGAN: The question of when you're going to harm your fetus and how often you're going to do that and how high the levels have to be are all uncertainties. What we're saying is, in order to reduce all of that risk so that you don't have to play a guessing game, just avoid tuna while you're pregnant.

S. O'BRIEN: OK, which seems like very common sense. It's like, if we're sitting here doing -- you know, looking through the little differences, I mean, at some point if you're pregnant, why not just not eat tuna? Do you think, though, by saying that you're saying the FDA is being too lax on this, they should also be telling pregnant women, don't have canned tuna?

RANGAN: Well, they really should. And they already make recommendations to pregnant women that fish that are very high in mercury, like swordfish fish, tile fish, shark, avoid those because they are so high in mercury.

This is a numbers game. So the FDA is saying, well, it's not going to be enough times that you may get high levels of mercury. We're saying it is enough times you may get high levels of mercury.

S. O'BRIEN: And you're pregnant and it's a fetus, which, you know, high risk.

RANGAN: Which is just building a nervous system for the very first time. So it's incredibly vulnerable.

S. O'BRIEN: Are there kinds of fish -- I mean, can you say with confidence, listen, if you want to be safe, go organic? If you want to be safe, only buy fish from this region? If want to be safe, only have this kind of fish. Can you say that?

RANGAN: What you can say first for organic is that organic doesn't have any no standards that it meets right now, and don't rely on organic to meet any less from any contaminants at this type, but there are certain types of fish you can look for that are low in mercury and also low in other contaminants.

S. O'BRIEN: We've listed some of them right there, shrimp, oyster, clams, catfish, salmon, flounder. How many times a week can I eat this?

RANGAN: Those you can typically eat pretty often, at least two, three, four times as week. Wild-cut salmon in particular is preferable over farm raised in terms of being cleaner.

S. O'BRIEN: Let's throw up that list of high-mercury fish just one more time, tuna, snapper, halibut, snapper, just say no.

RANGAN: Just say no.

S. O'BRIEN: All right, Urvashi Rangan, now with "Consumer Reports." Nice to see you.

RANGAN: Nice to see you.

S. O'BRIEN: Congratulations on the impending delivery, pregnant lady!

RANGAN: Thanks.

S. O'BRIEN: If you're concerned about your mercury levels, your family can actually order a simple blood test to let you know how your levels are -- Miles.

M. O'BRIEN: All right, no tuna for her now.

S. O'BRIEN: No way!

M. O'BRIEN: New details emerging in that Canadian terror investigation. And they are really disturbing. Wait until you hear about this, what prosecutors are saying about this alleged plot -- Carol.

CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: ... finding yourself, all concerns of lifers in San Quentin. I'm Carol Costello. We'll take you behind bars where Scott Peterson is now locked up. Stay with us on AMERICAN MORNING.

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