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U.S., Iraqi Troops Target Insurgents Along Syrian Border
Aired June 19, 2005 - 07:00 ET
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BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: Peace in the Middle East was at the top of the agenda for Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice's meetings in Israel this morning. Rice discussed the time table for the Gaza withdrawal with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. She called Gaza crucial to the success of the so-called road map for peace. We have a live report from CNN's Guy Raz in about two minutes.
In the meantime, police in Aruba questioned a judge as a witness in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The judge is the father of one of the suspects already in custody. Holloway has been missing for three weeks now.
Another earthquake as shaken Californians this morning. This one, just about an hour ago off the northern California coast. This moderate 5.0 quake is the fifth to rumble along the West Coast in the past week.
TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Our top story this morning, an all out effort to root out insurgents in northwestern Iraq. They're targeting Karabila in the al Anbar province, where foreign fighters are thought to be hiding out.
CNN is the only news organization embedded with U.S. military taking part in Operation Spear. We're joined now by Lieutenant Colonel Tim Mundy via video phone from Karabila. He is the commander of the operation.
And colonel, good morning to you. Thanks for talking to us.
LT. COL. TIMOTHY MUNDY: Thank you. Good morning.
HARRIS: Well, good morning, colonel. We understand that the operation started on Friday. Give us a sense of the progress you're making. Are you making progress?
MUNDY: Certainly so. We're making progress through central Karabila, an area that we know to be a foreign fighter stronghold. And we've been very successful in finding some real evidence of their activity here.
HARRIS: Give us a sense of the evidence you're finding. And how are you defining the progress that you're making?
MUNDY: Well, we have run into some resistance. We expected to. They have fought back against us. We verified some vehicle bombs, IEDs that we've found and destroyed. More importantly, we liberated yesterday four hostages that were in a torture chamber. A lot of evidence of the torture that they had been enduring at the hands of foreign fighter insurgents. So we've seen that and found a lot of documents that went along with that, as well as occasionally some of the fighters that will kill -- we can tell by the dead that they are not Iraqi. Some of them look like Sudanese, you know, Algerian, different foreign elements that are here.
HARRIS: I'm going back to the men that you found yesterday. I understand they were Iraqis, but give us a sense of the kind of condition you found them in yesterday?
MUNDY: Two of them were in pretty bad shape, had been beaten very badly. All of them were handcuffed, hands and feet together. They had been subjected to some electric shock torture and the beatings.
We've taken all four and treated them. Three have gone on to further treatment in Baghdad. One's going to be released later. He's doing a lot better now.
HARRIS: And colonel, is this an extension of Operation Matador from a couple of weeks ago?
MUNDY: Not really an extension of that operation. That was my battalion involved in that as well, because it's the same area. But really, two different operations.
Matador was focused in the area north of the river, really north of the bridge that's just above Karabila. And we know that a lot of the foreign fighters left that northern area and came down into Karabila. And so the intelligence led us here, to try to continue to clean them out in this area now.
HARRIS: Colonel Tim Mundy, we appreciate it. Thanks for taking the time and be safe. Thank you.
NGUYEN: Well, about two hours ago, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said the Israelis and Palestinians are on the verge of making history. Israel's planned withdrawal from Gaza is less than two months away. And Rice is in the region to help iron out a lot of the nitty gritty details.
CNN's Guy Raz is following the story from Jerusalem. And he joins us live.
Guy, what's the latest?
GUY RAZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Betty, the secretary's visit had one main objective. That is to offer U.S. political and economic support to Israel's planned pull out from Gaza and four small settlements in the northern West Bank later this summer.
Now that plan, known as the disengagement plan, is expected to begin around August 15th. Israel plans to pull out all 9,000 settlers, thousands of soldiers, who now are based inside the Gaza Strip in parts of the northern West Bank.
Secretary Rice called the disengagement plan the best hope out there to revive the U.S. backed road map for peace.
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CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: Much more work will still be needed to be done in coming months for the disengagement to succeed. And the United States will remain actively involved in every step of the way.
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RAZ: Now Betty, Secretary Rice outlined three main points of principle on which both Palestinians and Israelis have agreed. The first is that both parties will fully cooperate on the evacuation process. The second is that the homes Israel leaves behind in Gaza, about 1200 of them, will be jointly demolished by Israelis and Palestinians. And the third is that both sides will come to some kind of mutual agreement over the freedom of movement for goods and people between the West Bank and Gaza.
Now Secretary Rice emphasized one key theme while she was here. She called on both parties to end focusing on disputes of the past and to simply focus on the future.
Now both Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon and the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas are expected to hold talks, bilateral talks, on Tuesday, the second time these two leaders are meeting this year. It's widely expected those talks will be focused on the Gaza disengagement plan with the hopes that it will be carried out without a hitch -- Betty?
NGUYEN: So progress is being made. Thank you, Guy Raz.
Well, Secretary Rice will talk more about her mission in the Middle East this afternoon on CNN's "LATE EDITION WITH WOLF BLITZER." You'll want to tune in at noon Eastern right here on CNN.
HARRIS: And about two hour search and rescue teams in eastern Utah will get back to work combing over rugged terrain in search of a missing Boy Scout. 11-year old Brennan Hawkins was last seen Friday afternoon by nearby Scout camp. The sheriff's department says it's using every available resource to find the boy. That includes search dogs, a rescue helicopter, and many volunteers.
Meantime, Hawkins' father says he knows his son is still alive.
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TOBY HAWKINS, MISSING SCOUT'S FATHER: My greatest plea at this time and the way that we can find my boy is for anybody and everybody to come out and help.
He's a bashful boy. And Brennan isn't the kind of boy that would go up and confess that he's lost and grab somebody by the shirt sleeve and say, "Hey, I'm lost."
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HARRIS: Oh, boy. A 12-year old Scout went missing in the same region last year, but was never found. That boy's father is helping in the search for Brennan Hawkins.
NGUYEN: It is a place where you go for comfort, but that may not always be what you get. Coming up next on CNN, an investigation. How a hospital's mistake can sometimes lead to tragedy.
HARRIS: And later, they fell from the sky inside a helicopter and all lived to talk about it. Good morning, Rob.
ROB MARCIANO, METEOROLOGIST: Happy Father's Day. We're going to talk forecast in just a couple of minutes. Tony, Betty, hi again.
NGUYEN: Good morning. Nice to see you.
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HARRIS: Plus this morning's e-mail question. What's the best advice your Dad ever gave you? Ever, ever, ever, ever, ever? Single best piece of advice? Hit us up, as the kids say at weekends@cnn.com. We'll be right back.
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HARRIS: Another deadly day in Baghdad. This just in to CNN. A suicide bomber wearing a vest of explosives set off that vest. This afternoon, Sunday afternoon, in Baghdad at a crowded restaurant where Iraqi security forces were eating their lunch. This according to Iraqi police. The cafe is in the central Baghdad area, near a checkpoint leading to the heavily fortified green zone, sort of the seat of the Iraqi government there in Baghdad and of course, U.S. operations.
Once again, this just into CNN. A suicide bomber wearing a vest of explosives has detonated that vest, killing as many we understand as 20 people, but a firm number on casualties is not immediately known. This happened in central Baghdad in a crowded restaurant downtown. And this is very near the fortified green zone, the -- where the Iraqi government and the base of U.S. operations.
We'll continue to follow the latest developments and bring you updates on this breaking news story.
NGUYEN: In the meantime, while most of us associate hospitals with getting better, tens of thousands of people are dying in hospitals each year. The cause? Medical errors.
The circumstances are different, but the results are the same, the death of a loved one.
CNN's Randi Kaye has one family's story.
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RANDI KAYE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Last November, Mary McClinton checked into Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle for a procedure to correct a brain aneurysm. She never checked out.
GERALD MCCLINTON, MARY MCCLINTON'S SON: It's 19 days of terror for my mother.
KAYE: The aneurysm procedure was successful. And Mary McClinton in good health otherwise, according to her family, was expected to recover and live for years.
But right after the surgery, a fatal error.
G. MCCLINTON: One simple procedure of marking what you're about to inject into a person would have prevented this whole thing. 30 seconds or less to write down what's toxic, what is not.
KAYE: A technician was supposed to inject a harmless marker dye for x-rays into Mary's leg. But instead of injecting dye, the technician inadvertently injected antiseptic skin cleanser, Chlorhexidine, toxic when injected into the body.
Did you speak to her after the surgery?
WILLIAM MCCLINTON: Basically, she could talk. And I talked to her for all of 30 seconds because the pain she was in, it was -- I mean I heard a lot of screaming to the point where she actually dropped the phone. And the nurse picked it up and told me they'd have to call me back.
KAYE: How could something so tragic happen? Hospital officials said the antiseptic was in a cup identical to the one holding the marker dye. That cup was unlabeled, an error that led the technician to grab the wrong solution and inject it into Mary McClinton's bloodstream.
While no one at the hospital told Mary McClinton's sons what had happened, what they saw scared them.
W. MCCLINTON: The leg that was injected actually had swollen to probably double its size. So and as far as hands and feet, it was -- they were just so swollen that like the fingers ran together almost like it was just a mitt.
KAYE: Finally, four days after the error, Mary's sons say they were made aware of the mix-up.
W. MCCLINTON: My first reaction would definitely be anger. And I mean, this was my mother. This is -- I mean, you have the most important thing in my life in your hands.
KAYE: Days later, the hospital admitted the error in this staff memo. "These are the consequences of an avoidable mistake that caused massive chemical injuries." The hospital took responsibility and says it has made improvements to processes to ensure it doesn't happen again. But it says the labeling process used at the time was the industry standard.
Meanwhile, the McClintons watched as their mom endured multiple strokes and cardiac arrest.
W. MCCLINTON: I mean, you're pretty much emotionally hostage. And there's nothing you can do about it.
KAYE: Nine days into the nightmare, the McClintons were told the tissue was dying in their mom's lower left leg where she had been injected.
G. MCCLINTON: It's a leg or mom's life? The doctor told me if we don't amputate her leg, she will die.
KAYE: So you went ahead with it? You still remember what that was like?
G. MCCLINTON: Yes.
KAYE: Doctors removed Mary McClinton's left leg below the knee. This nurse's note obtained by CNN show she asked the nurse that day to "let me die."
Did she ask you that?
W. MCCLINTON: She did. She said that we need to let her go. She's like I need to die. She's like they've not stopped. And that's one of the hardest things that I think I'll ever have to deal with in my life, hands down.
KAYE: By day 13, the McClinton family says they were told another amputation was necessary, but that their mom would likely not survive the surgery.
So you were faced with the decision of really which way you wanted your mother to die, not any longer if she would?
G. MCCLINTON: Yes. That was basically it, yes, she was going to die.
KAYE: And that became clear for all of you? You had another tough decision to make?
G. MCCLINTON: (INAUDIBLE) as comfortable as they could be. Or she was going to die on the operating table.
KAYE: The McClinton sons said no to more surgery and abandoned hope for recovery.
G. MCCLINTON: My mother's breathing was so labored, you know. I grabbed my mom's hand and I told her that everything was going to be OK. She had fought hard enough and she had suffered enough pain. We're going to be OK. Just go ahead and go. And a minute or so later, my mom took her last breath.
KAYE: Mary McClinton had hung on for 19 days.
DONALD BERWICK, DR., HEALTHCARE IMPROVEMENT INST.: People really don't understand how hazardous health care really is. And I think if the public did understand the risks, they'd be angrier. They'd be more demanding.
KAYE: An institute of medicine study estimates the number of hospital deaths caused by mistakes to be anywhere from 44,000 to 98,000 a year.
BERWICK: That would make, if it's 44,000 deaths a year, that's more than breast cancer, more than motor vehicle accidents, more than AIDS in our country. It would make it the eighth most serious public health problem in America. And if it's 98,000 deaths a year, that would be the fourth most common cause of death in all of America.
KAYE: Dr. Donald Berwick's organization, the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, is pushing for changes to eliminate hospital errors. Already, more than a third of U.S. hospitals have agreed to participate.
It's been six months since the McClinton sons lost their mom. The pain is still raw.
Gerald McClinton now lives in his mother's apartment, cooks in her kitchen.
G. MCCLINTON: It's difficult, and at the same time, comforting.
KAYE: And in the family bible, a piece of their mother's hair is kept just pages from their own. The McClintons couldn't save their mom, but they're hoping to save others. They are suing the hospital, not for the money, they say, but to make a difference.
G. MCCLINTON: And if it comes down to, you know, better procedures to make hospitals safer for patients, patient awareness, patients need to know what their rights are, families need to know these things.
Randi Kaye, CNN, Seattle.
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NGUYEN: Another daily problem plagues many hospitals across the country -- infections acquired or believed to be acquired by patients while they're getting treatment for something else. The worst of those infections, those resistant to antibiotics.
They sometimes can't even be stopped by today's modern medicine. You'll want to tune in to "PAULA ZAHN NOW" at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Monday night for part two of hospital horrors, a story about one family's terrible fight with a deadly antibiotic resistant staff infection.
And be sure to watch us next Sunday morning for another spotlight story from our investigative unit.
HARRIS: And coming up, he is a hero among a band of brothers under siege during an Iraqi insurgency attack. He blasts back and saves lives. We'll have his amazing story.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Turn off your engines. Step away from the car.
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NGUYEN: Bet you can. The caped crusader is back. See if this super hero lives up to all the box office hype.
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NGUYEN: One of America's most celebrated bachelors and politicians is off the market. Former California Governor Jerry Brown finally married long time girlfriend Ann Guss. They've known each other for 15 years.
Back in the '70s, Brown dated singer Linda Ronstadt. Since then, he's run for president and served as mayor of Oakland.
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HARRIS: When CNN SUNDAY MORNING continues, a chopper down, an amazing escape, a survivor of a recent helicopter crash in New York describes the ordeal in his own words.
NGUYEN: And listen to this. Some preschool children are learning a new listen to play nicely or be expelled. We will show you why there's an alarming number of youngsters getting kicked out of school.
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NGUYEN: Welcome back, everyone. I'm Betty Nguyen. It is Father's Day. Happy Father's Day. Guess who's back just in time to celebrate?
HARRIS: You think my babies would have called me by now, wouldn't you? Come on. Call the old man. Happy Father's Day. I'm Tony Harris. Here's a quick look at what's happening now in the news.
New information and first video just in to CNN from a bombing in Baghdad. A suicide bomber detonated a vest of explosives at a crowded Baghdad restaurant. Five people are dead and another 19 injured. The cafe is near a checkpoint leading to the green zone, the site of Iraq and U.S. operations. U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is hailing Israel's planned exit of the Gaza strip and parts of the west bank. Israeli settlers are said to move from the contested lands in August. Rice is calling the scheduled withdrawal a historic step towards peace. Defending U.S. Open champ Retief Goosen is hoping three is his lucky number. It's actually Goosen, just having a little fun, having a little fun.
NGUYEN: (INAUDIBLE)
HARRIS: He leads going into the final round of the Open. He begins this morning 3 under par and three shots ahead of his closest competitors. Should Goosen win again today, it would be his third U.S. Open title.
NGUYEN: He called and it's Goosen. OK.
Two helicopters -- this is serious now -- two helicopters crashed into New York's East River last week. Tuesday, a sight seeing helicopter crashed and on Friday a chopper carrying bank executives went down shortly after takeoff. One of the victims from that crash described what it was like once the chopper hit the water.
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LANCE WEAVER, CRASH VICTIM: The helicopter rocked slightly in a way that allowed me to throw the whole weight of my body against that door and as I threw the weight of my body against the door, the door sprung open. The helicopter was continuing to sink in the water. We came up through the door. I came out first into the water. The currents were very, very strong in the river, pulled me away from the helicopter.
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NGUYEN: And here's the good news. A total of 15 people survived the two crashes. There were no fatalities.
HARRIS: Looking beyond our shores now at some of the other stories making news around the world.
NGUYEN: Voters are going to the polls in the final phase of the Lebanese election and for the details on that and other big stories let's turn it over now to Anand Naidoo at the CNN international desk. Good morning Anand.
ANAND NAIDOO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning and thank you. More on that Lebanese election in just a moment. But first, we're going to go to Iraq. In addition to that suicide bombing at a restaurant there, these are the other developments. Insurgents target Iraqi soldiers and police in two separate attacks. A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint in Tikrit kills two Iraqi soldiers and wounded 15 others. One civilian was also killed. And two Iraqi police officers were fatally shot in a Baghdad neighborhood.
Those attacks came as U.S. and British war planes attacked suspected insurgent hideouts in western Iraq. This exclusive video that you're looking at is from CNN's Jane Arraf who's is embedded with U.S. Marines there. U.S. troops backed by Iraqi forces are pushing into the northern section of Karabila, which they say is a stronghold for insurgent fighters.
Now to South Korea and a soldier goes berserk there, killing eight of his fellow soldiers and wounding two others. It happened in the demilitarized zone which divides the Koreas. Officials say the soldier fired several rounds and threw a grenade into a barracks where the soldiers were sleeping. The man was apparently the victim of bullying.
Now to Lebanon and voters there are going to the polls in the final phase of parliamentary elections. Voting is taking place in the northern part of the country this Sunday. Anti-Syrian opposition groups are trying to get a clear majority in parliament. Twenty eight seats are being contested by more than 100 candidates in this part of the election. Analysts say there could be quite a bit of horse trading and even more bickering before the makeup of the Lebanese parliament. We'll keep you posted on that. That's all from me. More later. Back to Betty and Tony.
NGUYEN: All right. Thank you, Anand.
HARRIS: Each Sunday we like to bring you a hero's story, our weekly tribute to the men and women serving overseas. Today a tale of one harrowing day in Iraq. Casey Wian has the story.
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SGT. JONATHAN AYERSMAN, USMC: We had set up for security and we were keeping an eye out on what was going on in the city to my front.
CASEY WIAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Sergeant Jonathan Ayersman describes what happened the day he saved the lives of 60 Marines last November in Iraq. On patrol two light armored vehicles became stuck in mud. While a nearby mosque broadcast messages instructing insurgents to attack, Ayersman moved a vehicle similar to this one into a defensive position.
AYERSMAN: That's when the first mortars, RPGs, small arms started going off. And I actually had to shove my driver because he was popped up and we were talking real quick. I actually had to push him down in the driver's compartment and close the hatch and swing my machine gun around when I noticed the insurgents.
WIAN: Ayersman fired. As he did, mortars rained down. One hit the vehicle showering him with shrapnel.
AYERSMAN: It knocked my goggles off my helmet and knocked me back into my hatch right here. I thought I was actually wounded, but I checked myself out real quick and I was fine and shook it off and grabbed my machine gun again and continued to engage.
WIAN: The attack continued, but he needed more fire power, a missile.
AYERSMAN: Corporal Adams already had the turret erected, so I was able to talk him on, get him on target where I wanted him to fire the missile and exactly how I wanted him to fire it and that's when the two system went down and he had to repair it real quick. He had to splice some wires together.
WIAN: The missile was fixed and fired.
AYERSMAN: The whole top of the wall that they were behind and all the shrapnel and everything, the explosion just took out the insurgents that were shooting the mortars at us. And after that, everything stopped. It was completely over with after that and we recovered the vehicles and went back to base.
WIAN: No Marines were killed or injured. For his leadership, Sergeant Ayersman was awarded a Bronze Star with a distinguishing device for heroic achievement.
AYERSMAN: I never imagined that I would have had that prestigious of an award awarded to me, especially for just doing basically doing my job as a Marine.
WIAN: Casey Wian, CNN, reporting.
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HARRIS: And we bring you heroes stories every week on CNN SUNDAY MORNING.
NGUYEN: Here's some stories you'll want to keep track of. Coming up this week, Monday President Bush meets with European Union leaders who will be in Washington for the EU summit. European leaders have been trying to work out an EU constitution and budget which fell through late last week.
Also on tap for Monday, the all England club opens its gates for Wimbledon 2005. The two week tennis event ends on July 3rd with the men's singles final. Now to Thursday, the Federal government releases a draft report on the World Trade Center collapse. The Commerce Department will use the report to recommend improvements for the design, construction and maintenance of new buildings.
Preschool should teach youngsters how to work and play well with others, right, it goes without saying. So why are thousands of preschoolers getting kicked out of class? A child psychologist joins us live next on CNN SUNDAY MORNING to explain it all.
HARRIS: Plus this morning's e-mail question. What's the best advice your dad ever gave you? We got some good ones too. I'm going to read one now. OK, I won't. E-mail us at weekends@cnn.com. We'll be right back.
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HARRIS: Well believe it or not, kids typically just three or four years old are being expelled from preschool. Whose fault is it you might ask, the kid, the kid's home life or the preschool itself? We posed the question to Penn State psychology professor Dr. Pamela Cole who joins us live from State College, Pennsylvania. Pamela, good to see you.
PAMELA COLE, PSYCHOLOGY PROFESSOR: Good morning Tony. Happy Father's Day.
HARRIS: Well, thank you, thank you very much, appreciate it. I got to tell you, we're having you here because of this study that's out at Yale that says -- let me just sort of give you the line on it, says that preschoolers are three times more likely to be expelled as students in kindergarten through 12th grade. I think I read that the proper way. But is that it? OK, so what's going on here? Why are we expelling three and four-year-olds?
COLE: The children are expelled because they're typically -- because their behavior is so difficult that the teacher feels that she can't -- he or she can't handle the problem in the classroom. The children are aggressive. They are disobedient and they're not only not learning themselves or having difficulty learning themselves, but they're disrupting the other children as well. I think, you know, we don't have services as we do in elementary schools or in middle schools or high schools, we don't have services to sort of help the child care staff with children like that. We don't have any -- go ahead.
HARRIS: Well, Pamela, we see a little side panel here that the kids are being expelled because they're disobedient, they're easily angered. Wait a minute. We're talking about three and four-year-olds. Isn't this kind of typical behavior?
COLE: That's a really good question. I think what is really difficult to evaluate is when is it just typical behavior and a child is going through a phase and when is the child really having serious difficulties that are going to require more professional evaluation and treatment. We don't really have a way right now of evaluating children. In the study, in the Gilliam study, they report on schools that had access to a behavioral consultant had much lower rates of these expulsions and that's because the consultant who was trained in these matters was a social worker, a psychologist or a psychiatrist was able to help them, not only determine whether or not the children had a problem that was different than the normal child, but also to provide them with ways to help the child.
HARRIS: So what's happening with these children? Are they just being bounced from one preschool to the next?
COLE: It can happen. I mean, I think some children do better in a certain classroom than another. A particular teacher might be very gifted and find a way to work with a child who's difficult, whereas maybe another classroom cannot. But I've worked with children who have been thrown out of three and four preschools.
HARRIS: What's sort of the takeaway for parents here? Is there help available for parents who are dealing with children and school systems that are dealing -- preschools that are dealing with children who have these issues?
COLE: I'm sorry Tony, I missed the beginning of the question.
HARRIS: What are the takeaways for the parents? What can parents -- is there help available for parents? COLE: It's very important for child care staff and parents to communicate. It's not easy for a child care staff member to talk to a parent about this type of a problem. But if they can communicate, then they should be able to find some kind of services that will help them sort out -- what does this child need because these problems are fixable.
HARRIS: And the kids don't know. They're being kicked out of a school and they may not understand exactly what is happening to them.
COLE: No. They won't understand.
HARRIS: Or what's being asked of them really at three and four?
COLE: I'm sure that if the children knew how to behave, they would.
HARRIS: Yes, yes. But for the parents, it is a big deal. They don't want to see their kids labeled as anything certainly at three and four?
COLE: That's absolutely true. It's not even necessary that the child has to be labeled. Somebody just has to understand what's interfering with the child's normal development of self control?
HARRIS: And is there any evidence to suggest that the kids who are having these difficulties in preschool go on to be problem children as kindergarteners?
COLE: What we know is that children in elementary, middle school who have serious and chronic behavior problems, those children almost always had problems as preschoolers. It doesn't work in the opposite. It doesn't mean that every behavior problem preschoolers on that pathway.
HARRIS: Dr. Cole, we appreciate the time this morning. Thank you.
COLE: Thank you. Bye.
HARRIS: Have a good Sunday.
NGUYEN: Let's update you with the stories that we're following this hour. Five people are dead, 27 hurt after a man wearing a vest filled with explosives detonates his bomb in a Baghdad cafe. That explosion occurred at a cafe near a checkpoint for the U.S. green zone.
Praise from U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice for Israel's proposed withdrawal from the west bank and Gaza strip. Rice met with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon this morning. She called the planned pull out of Jewish settlers an historic step toward peace.
And the search for an 11-year-old boy scout will resume shortly. Brennan Hawkins was last seen 5:00 Saturday afternoon near a scout camp in the town of Camus (ph), Utah. A Father's Day tribute live next hour, plus the caped crusader is back. Cnn.com's look at the new version of an old favorite.
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NGUYEN: Told you. Gone a little batty over there.
HARRIS: I had a couple comments.
NGUYEN: Yes, you did, but you're not supposed to say that.
HARRIS: I was told to zip it.
NGUYEN: Zip it.
HARRIS: The best advice you've ever gotten from your dad, when we come back on this Father's Day.
NGUYEN: We got some really good ones on this.
And at the top of the hour, a summer camp for the spirit. "Faces of Faith," that is live next hour 8:00 a.m. Eastern.
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NGUYEN: All right. Father's day, Tony wants some sunshine.
HARRIS: Yeah.
NGUYEN: Not too much of it so it's hot.
HARRIS: Get a little round of golf. That would be nice Rob.
MARCIANO: All right. We'll try to work that out for you. Speaking of golf, we're going to start you off with the forecast of the U.S. Open final round, always a good Father's Day tradition. This time at Pinehurst number two, 82 degrees expected today, a slight chance of seeing a thunderstorm pop up in the afternoon. Northeast winds at five to 15 miles an hour. They've been blessed with beautiful weather for the entire four-day stretch.
The only nuisance really is this area of low pressure kind of just sitting just off the Carolina coastline, very unstable atmosphere in spots. So a couple thunderstorms possible there, but northeast looks great. Cleveland to Chicago, really comfortable weather. Across the mid-section, little bit of heat. That's for sure. San Francisco up to Seattle, cool and most of the showers now are really in through extreme northern California through Eureka, maybe getting to Redding and into Chico and North Dakota, a couple of storms there. So a lot of the country, a lot of real estate has some sunshine for fathers out there. Hey Daytona Beach, DAB on the identifier, 72, little bit of fog. We get up to near 90, maybe a thunderstorm. And because Tony likes jazz piano, we threw that in for you. Who's your daddy, Tony.
HARRIS: Who's your daddy?
MARCIANO: Just one more thing these guys that I don't do.
NGUYEN: I know.
MARCIANO: He has something I don't have. Enjoy your day.
NGUYEN: That's another topic though. Before we get to today's e-mail, let's talk about yesterday because the news late Friday of a security breach affecting 40 million credit cards was the subject of our morning e-mail question yesterday. We asked you what are your strategies for safeguarding financial details? We received one e-mail late in the morning that was very creative. So we want to share this with you. Here it is.
HARRIS: It had better be.
NGUYEN: Jane from Ohio, says, I called my credit card company and talked them into giving me an additional credit card with a $200 limit. Now I use this one for Internet transactions and for highly vulnerable purchases such as restaurants, where they take your credit card to a machine outside of your sight. So far, this has worked for me and I suggest every person get one.
HARRIS: OK. All right Jane. We appreciate it. Thank you. OK, to today's e-mail question.
NGUYEN: Father's Day. HARRIS: Father's Day and in honor of Father's Day, we want to know what the best piece of advice your father ever gave you. How about this from Stephanie. Dad's best advice? Let the main thing be the main thing.
NGUYEN: Pretty simple there. Here's another one. Daniel from California says, look, I'm only going to bail you out once -- good piece of advice there. Keep them coming this morning. We've got some really good ones. What's the best advice your dad ever gave you? E- mail us at weekends@cnn.com.
HARRIS: And the next hour of CNN SUNDAY MORNING begins right now.
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NGUYEN: From the CNN Center, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING, June 19th, Father's Day. Good morning everybody. I'm Betty Nguyen. Look who's here, a father himself.
HARRIS: That's it. Happy Father's Day to all the dads out there.
I'm Tony Harris. Thanks for being with us.
Let's get you started with headlines now in the news.
We're keeping you updated on a bombing in Baghdad this morning. At least five people are dead and 27 hurt after a suicide bomber detonated a vest of explosives at a crowded restaurant. The cafe is near a check point leading to the green zone, the site of Iraq and U.S. operations.
Another earthquake is shaking Californians this morning. The magnitude 5 quake off the northern California coast struck about two hours ago now. It's the fifth to rattle the West Coast in the past seven days.
Police in Aruba questioned a judge as a witness in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The judge is the father of one of the suspects already in custody. Holloway has been missing for three weeks.
NGUYEN: Also ahead in the next 30 minutes, Operation Spear in Iraq. U.S. and Iraq troops push ahead against insurgents near the Syrian border entry point of a fire -- fore foreign fighters that is.
A massive search is mounted for a Boy Scout in Utah. The eleven year old has been missing a day and a half in the rugged mountains.
And our "Faces of Faith" looks at alternatives to traditional vacation Bible school. They are called spiritual summer camps, and we'll tell you all about it.
U.S. and Iraq forces are pushing on with Operation Spear. The offensive is targeting insurgents along Iraq's north western border with Syria. This is video you'll see only on CNN.
I spoke with a mission battalion commander live in the last hour of CNN SUNDAY MORNING. He said troops are making good progress. They've killed about 60 insurgents and destroyed several explosive devices. He also mentioned the four hostages that troops freed, a story you saw here first on CNN Saturday morning.
CNN senior Baghdad correspondent Jane Arraf is embedded with the Marines in Operation Spear. She takes us inside the place where the hostages were discovered.
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JANE ARRAF, CNN BAGHDAD BUREAU CHIEF (voice-over): This is the worst of the rooms, very heavy ropes hanging here from the ceiling. They say they were hung here by their feet. One of them tells us that as he was hung, he was dipped in water. His head dipped first in the bucket of water. They would bring him up again and then they would give him electric shock. These people's wounds are absolutely horrendous, much too grave for us to even show their feet or their hands on television. They even say someone would recognize their voices and would come and kill them.
They've been absolutely terrorized. The man who seems to have gotten the worst of the beatings is a member of the border police. He was seized about two weeks ago. And he said that they whipped him with electric cables and electrocuted him on his back. He is absolutely covered with welts and crisscross pattern. They've been trying to get the handcuff off of his hand and they managed to succeed on all the rest of them. Their feet and their hands were bound. But his hand is so swollen, the wrist seems to be broken that they've tried wire cutters, bolt cutters; everything and they can't get it off without causing him intense pain.
All of them say they don't know why they were held. One Marine official tells us it's believed that it might be partly because they're from a tribe that has been opposed to the insurgents and particularly foreign fighters here. They were two young men who didn't have a job at all. They said they were just taken here, threatened with death. They said people barely spoke to them, their captors, except to whisper in their ears that they would be killed. The two others were border policemen. They had identification on them and they suffered the worst of the beatings.
They still say that they don't know who was that held them. They don't know if they were Iraqi. They don't know if they were foreign. The only thing they know is that they were horribly, horribly treated.
This was the original reason that they were interested in this compound. It's a neighborhood that is known, they say, to be a hot bed of insurgents and foreign fighters and here they thought they might find a car bomb factory. They fired rockets and other ammunition at these cars. This one, they say, would have been a potential car bomb or even a suicide bomb. It had that many explosives in it, judging by the secondary explosion. This whole compound, they found ammunition. They found things that indicate to them that there were serious insurgents or foreign fighters located here but they didn't know until they actually arrived, the Marines and the Iraqi forces, that they'd find something even worse.
Jane Arraf, CNN, reporting from Karabila, Iraq.
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NGUYEN: No more time, says Condoleezza Rice on withdrawal of Israeli troops and settlers from Gaza. The secretary of state is on a week long trip to the Mid East and Europe.
She called on both Israeli and Palestinian leaders to tackle their key differences. Rice spoke to reporters after meeting with both sides.
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CONDOLEEZZA RICE, SECRETARY OF STATE: Israel and the Palestinian Authority agree that the settler homes in Gaza should be removed. Therefore, the parties will work toward a plan for destruction and clean up.
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NGUYEN: The secretary of state will appear on "LATE EDITION" with Wolf Blitzer today at noon eastern.
HARRIS: Back here in the U.S., a father's appeal to find his missing son.
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TOBY HAWKINS, FATHER OF BRENNAN HAWKINS: My greatest plea at this time, and the way that we can find my boy, is for anybody and everybody to come out and help.
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HARRIS: The search for missing 11 year old Brennan Hawkins will resume shortly. The Boy Scout was last seen at his scout camp in Utah on Friday. Saturday thousands of searchers, dogs and helicopters combed the mountains in an area just south of the Utah, Wyoming border.
NGUYEN: Other news across America. In Mississippi, attorneys for former Ku Klux Klansman Edgar Ray Killen are presenting their defense. The 80 year old is accused of murdering three civil rights workers in 1964. The prosecution ended their case yesterday with testimony from the mother of one of the victims.
The defense could call its last witness tomorrow morning.
In New Jersey, an accident shuts down a ride at the Steel Pier Amusement Park in Atlantic City. A man is hospitalized after being thrown out of the big splash ride. A fire department official says part of the water ride was missing, well, water.
And investigators say it is too early to tell what happened to a pair of helicopters that crashed into the East River last week. You're looking at the aftermath from Friday when a corporate helicopter hit the water just about 30 seconds after lifting off. That's when one passenger says he knew he had to act quickly.
One of the pilots remains hospitalized, but remarkably none of he passengers were hurt. The other helicopter crash that happened on Tuesday.
HARRIS: Look, in case you forgot, what do you think? What rock are you under today? It's Father's Day.
NGUYEN: Father's day, right there.
HARRIS: All right. So if you haven't bought a card, a gift...
NGUYEN: Are you sending a message to your family?
HARRIS: Well, you know, the ties, let's not do the tie again this year. Let's do something a little more creative.
NGUYEN: Electronic?
HARRIS: That would -- OK.
NGUYEN: Outdoor equipment?
HARRIS: At the very least make the call...
NGUYEN: Yes.
HARRIS: ...on Father's Day.
NGUYEN: Call the father's out there. Father's Day is the subject of our e-mail question this morning. Speaking of, what's the best advice your dad ever, ever, ever gave you?
HARRIS: Duck.
NGUYEN: Send them to us at weekends@cnn.com and we'll read those replies a little bit later on in this show.
HARRIS: Inward Bound, a new kind of camp that doesn't necessary focus on religion, but finding your spirituality. We'll explain in today's Faces of Faith.
NGUYEN: And we want to say good morning Daytona Beach. Look at that. Now that's the way to spend father's day...
HARRIS: That's it. That's it.
NGUYEN: ...on the beach. I know the weather is going to be great there, right there by the ocean. Rob Marciano is here with your Sunday forecast coming up when CNN SUNDAY MORNING returns.
HARRIS: And those new Father's Day trunks.
Live tomorrow on "AMERICAN MORNING," a survival guide for kids and team sports. That's Monday 7:00 Eastern.
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NGUYEN: American soldiers serving together in Iraq often say they become almost like brothers with their comrades in arms. In this case it's true, four of them, in fact. Meet this group of brothers in arms next hour in our "Soldier's Story," 9:00 a.m. Eastern.
MARCIANO: And I'm Rob Marciano in the CNN weather center. Not a whole lot of rain on the map today, maybe across the southeast, across the Carolinas, North Dakota, extreme parts of northern California.
So that brings us to our gardening tidbit of the day. If mother nature doesn't provide it you need to water your lawn, about an inch a week. Do it all at one time at night. About an inch is pretty much a tuna can full of water. Dads turn the sprinkler on and take a nap in the year. Happy Father's day.
Full forecast is coming up after the break.
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NGUYEN: Take a live look now in Washington on this Father's Day. Sons and daughters by the hundreds are gathering at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. The ceremony called Remembering Our Fathers celebrates the 15th anniversary of Sons and Daughters In Touch. An estimated 20,000 children lost their fathers during America's longest war.
One thousand red, yellow and white roses placed along he memorial honor Americans who paid the ultimate price then and now. Family members and fellow veterans will adorn the roses with messages from across the country.
HARRIS: Birthday wishes are pouring in to a pro-democracy activist is Myanmar. Aung San Sul Ky is 60 years old today. The Nobel Peace Prize winner is still under house arrest in the country formerly known as Burma. Activists around the world have staged protest as a way to celebrate a birthday and as a show of support to her cause for democracy in her country.
CNN's Aneesh Raman is live near the border of Thailand and Myanmar. He joins us via video phone.
Aneesh.
ANEESH RAMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Tony, good morning to you. As you say, celebrations worldwide to mark this milestone, a 60th birthday for imprisoned political activist Aung San Sul Ky. From Johannesburg to London, from Tokyo to Washington, D.C., demonstrators, once again, calling for the Nobel Peace Prize winner's immediate release.
She is under house arrest, the most severe house arrest she's ever been under now for the past two years, refused visitors, phone calls. One U.N. official saying it is virtually solitary confinement. We know that she is getting a doctor's visit on a monthly basis, according to the U.N. Other reports on the ground though that those are less frequent.
Now 1998 is when she emerged on the global stage as a defining force for democracy in Myanmar the same year the junta seized control of the country.
Tony, she's given her all to this cause. In the late '90s, when her husband was dying of cancer she was imprisoned in Myanmar, could not leave because she knew she would not be let back into the country. Her husband in his dying days, he was in England at the time, asked to come back. The junta refused that request. So she has given her life to democracy in the country that stands behind me.
Tony.
HARRIS: What tremendous determination. Aneesh Raman for us this morning. Aneesh we appreciate it. Thank you.
NGUYEN: In about an hour, the search is set to resume for a missing 11 year old Boy Scout in the rugged Utah mountains. Brennan Hawkins was last seen Friday at the scout camp in eastern Utah. A 12 year old boy was lost in the same are last year. He was never found.
A gruesome scene in Iraq this morning. Police say a suicide bomber blew himself up inside a crowded Baghdad restaurant where many Iraqi security forces were eating lunch. At least five people were killed including two police officers, 27 people were hurt.
HARRIS: Let's get another check of the nation's weather now with Rob Marciano upstairs in the CNN weather center.
Good morning, Rob.
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HARRIS: Well, it is not your typical vacation Bible school. In today's "Faces of Faith," why more and more families are choosing to send their kids to camps where the focus is more on spirituality than religion. We'll explain when CNN SUNDAY MORNING returns.
NGUYEN: But first, a CNN extra. Thirty five percent of dads polled by "Best Life" magazine say communication with their wife and kids is the number one way to be a good father.
HARRIS: Yes, yes, yes.
NGUYEN: Next on the list, Tony, being a good provider and a good disciplinarian. And, you may agree with this, 97 percent said they'd still have children if they had to do it all over again. Right, Tony?
HARRIS: Absolutely.
NGUYEN: Yes, that's what we want to hear. We'll be right back.
HARRIS: Are we still on the air?
NGUYEN: Yes.
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NGUYEN: You may want to put away those images of swimming in the lake, telling ghost stories and roasting marshmallows, summer camps they are a changing. More and more kids are spending their summer vacations with a higher purpose in mind.
In this week's "Faces of Faith" segment, we will examine some of those higher goals and where they're being reached. Deborah Caldwell is with belief.net -- beliefnet.com, there we go, and joins us now for more on some non traditional summer camps. We appreciate you being with us today.
Let's talk about these alternative spiritual camps. What exactly are they?
DEBORAH CALDWELL, BELIEFNET.COM: People are looking for two things primarily. One is personal development and the other is sort of the search for meaning. So, as you said a moment ago, they want to do more than just canoeing and hiking and telling ghost stories. They are looking for ways to make a difference.
NGUYEN: And why are families choosing these camps instead of say, your traditional vacation Bible school camps or other religious camps?
CALDWELL: Well, I think that they don't want something that's specifically religious. I think they're looking for something that may have a spiritual component where there may be some religious components, but it's more primarily spiritual and volunteering based.
NGUYEN: All right. So let's go through some of these camps. There's a bunch of hem out there.
CALDWELL: There sure are.
NGUYEN: There's one that's called Volunteers for Peace. Tell us about that one.
CALDWELL: That -- the catch word there is citizen diplomacy. This was very popular particularly after the fall of the iron curtain in the late '80s, early '90s but it's also all over the world. This is primarily young adults who go overseas, live very, you know, sort of close to the ground for two to three weeks and they may help with AIDS education, they may do organic farming, child care, build houses and they form a community with each other.
NGUYEN: So this is how you can really get your hands dirty, use some elbow grease, help these communities? CALDWELL: Absolutely.
NGUYEN: How much doe sit cost?
CALDWELL: That one is about $250 to $300 for two to three weeks.
NGUYEN: Really? That's all, for two to three weeks
CALDWELL: Right. The idea there is, again, you're close to the ground. So you're living with families in villages, maybe in a church social hall, but that's not why you're there. You're there really for the experience and the community not the accommodations.
NGUYEN: All right. There's another one that's called Appalachia Service project. Tell us about that one.
CALDWELL: Right. That program was actually started by the Untied Methodist many years ago. It's now really open to all -- people of all faiths. And they're -- and that's also primarily teenagers and adults who go as chaperons. They go down to the Appalachian part of the country, Tennessee, West Virginia, Kentucky. They build houses.
It started out as just repairing homes and now they're building them. And then also learn about poverty, about rural poverty in America and issues of social justice.
NGUYEN: And that one is about $195 per week.
The last one we want to talk about this morning is called Camp Quest.
CALDWELL: Camp Quest is an interesting one. That is a camp for children ages 8 to 17 and they are children of agnostic, secularist, humanist, people who really specifically don't want their kids want at a religious summer camp. So they learn about science. They go on archaeological digs. They learn about history. And then, of course, they sit around the camp fire as well and learn responsibility and all those good things that kids learn at summer camp.
NGUYEN: That's about $650 per camper. And all of these camps still available this summer? Can people still sign up?
CALDWELL: Yes, particularly the ones in July and August they are still available.
NGUYEN: All right. Deborah Caldwell, thanks for the insight. Very interesting stuff out there.
CALDWELL: Thanks.
NGUYEN: Ready to send you kids off?
HARRIS: Ohhhh, don't tempt me.
All right. On this Father's Day we've made dear old dad... NGUYEN: Yes.
HARRIS: Why is old in there?
NGUYEN: I think you inserted that.
HARRIS: The subject of our e-mail question this morning, what's the best piece of advice dad ever gave you. This is from Doctor Vicki T. from Charleston who writes, "My dad always told us can't never could do anything. He would never let us say the word can't. He always assured me that I could do anything with my life that I wanted. He instilled confidence and courage in all of his four children and I love dad for that."
And we love that e-mail. Send them along. Send them along. Here's the question again, The best single piece of advice your dad ever gave you. There's the address, weekends@cnn.com.
And coming up at the top of the hour the search resumes for a missing Boy Scout lost in the Utah wilderness since Friday. But first, on this Father's Day weekend a very special "HOUSE CALL" devoted to dad. OK. That plus your top stories straight ahead.
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HARRIS: Headlines now in the news, carnage in Baghdad this morning. Police say a suicide bomber walked into a restaurant full of lunch time customers and blew himself up. At least five people are reported killed, two of them were police officers, 27 people were hurt.
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is upbeat after her trip to the Middle East. She says Israeli and Palestinian leaders are committed to Israel's peaceful withdraw from Gaza this summer. That pull out is planned for mid August.
The search is set to resume in 30 minutes for a missing 11 year old Boy Scout in the rugged Utah mountains. Brennan Hawkins was last seen Friday at the scout's camp in eastern Utah. A 12 year old boy was lost in that same area last year. He was never found.
I'm Tony Harris. "HOUSE CALL" begins right now.
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