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Winning Powerball Ticket Sold in Nebraska; Israelis Freeze Aid to Palestinians
Aired February 19, 2006 - 07:00 ET
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TONY HARRIS, CNN CO-ANCHOR: Oh, good morning, everyone. Check your numbers. Somebody somehow somewhere in Lincoln, Nebraska...
BETTY NGUYEN, CNN CO-ANCHOR: Not here.
HARRIS: No, not on this end this morning, in Lincoln, Nebraska -- although one of us tried...
NGUYEN: We're not naming names.
HARRIS: Oh sure we are. Beat the odds, and they're waking up with $365 million. Oh my goodness.
NGUYEN: Ooh wee.
HARRIS: Oh my goodness, one winning ticket was sold. So, if you live in the Cornhusker state, double check those digits. The winning numbers are 15, 17, 43, 44, 48 and the Powerball is 29.
NGUYEN: Utility crews are working overtime this morning after thousands of people spent a cold and dark night in the Northeast. Freezing winds have knocked out power all across the region. Some areas have been without electricity since Wednesday. Four deaths are blamed on the storm.
We're going to have your complete weather outlook coming up in about five minutes.
HARRIS: No money for Hamas, that's Israel's stand and this morning the Israeli cabinet agreed to freeze the $50 million in tax money it transfers to the Palestinians each month. The acting prime minister says Israel won't deal with any government in which Hamas plays a role. The militant group now dominates the Palestinian parliament.
Deep mud and heavy rain, that's what rescuers in the Philippines are fighting. In spite of their best efforts, hundreds of people still missing. It's been two days since a mountain of mud buried a whole village. A live report is just two minutes away.
NGUYEN: Well, a glimmer of good news surfacing out of the crash of two U.S. Marine helicopters off the coast of Africa. One of the two known survivors is a Wisconsin woman. Her family says she held onto a piece of chopper for three hours. The military has accounted for 10 other U.S. troops on those helicopters, but there's still no word on their fate.
Lashing out against the West. In Indonesia, Muslims burn a U.S. flag to protest European newspaper cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. New protests also broke out in Pakistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
HARRIS: Jail time, 10 years' worth. That's what California prosecutors say a disgraced former congressman should get for accepting bribes. Republican Randy "Duke" Cunningham resigned his seat last year after admitting he accepted millions to do favors for defense contractors. He'll be sentenced March 3.
NGUYEN: Go ahead, just do it.
HARRIS: Did you win?
NGUYEN: No, I didn't win, but I -- I drove all the way to South Carolina. But I'd never been there before. That's my excuse. I wanted to see the state.
HARRIS: Oh, you wanted to take a tour of South Carolina?
NGUYEN: Right. Yes, that's what it was.
HARRIS: From the CNN Center in Atlanta, this is CNN SUNDAY MORNING, 7:00 a.m. Eastern, 8:00 p.m. in the Philippines, and 6:00 a.m. in Lincoln, Nebraska. What are we talking about?
NGUYEN: Somebody won there.
HARRIS: Is that what's going on in Lincoln?
Good morning.
NGUYEN: Yes, the big lotto winner. That's what's going on there.
HARRIS: Good morning, everyone. I'm Tony Harris.
NGUYEN: And I'm Betty Nguyen. I'm never going to live this down, am I?
Thanks for being with us today. We've got a lot to tell you about, aside from the lottery. Coming up this morning, he got threatening messages, he endured racially charged remarks. But that didn't stop Shani Davis from skating his way into the history books. How running from the gangs on Chicago's south side got in him in shape for Olympic gold.
Plus, saint or sinner? They're supposed to be the holiest, but St. Peter denied Jesus, Francis of Assisi tore down a house and with his bare hands, no less. Plus, Mother Teresa called people lazy. We'll take a look at the human side of some of the most popular saints.
And at 9:00 Eastern, place your bets everybody. The wheels are turning again at Harris Casino in New Orleans. So, will this prove to be a jackpot for the city? We'll explore.
HARRIS: Well, another sleepless night for utility crews across the Northeast. High winds have left some 200,000 homes without power from New York to Maine, plus frigid weather descends from coast to coast, including the heartland parts of Illinois are shivering through subzero temps this week.
And icy roads are blamed for this crash of a charter bus in Oklahoma. A 28-year-old woman and an 8-year-old boy were killed.
Winter has also returned to southern California, just days after temps hit the mid 80s, Betty. Light snow is falling at some higher elevations.
Detroit's deep freeze. Take a look at this. Do we have pictures?
NGUYEN: No, we don't have pictures right now, but we're working on those pictures.
HARRIS: Oh we don't? Not yet? Okay.
NGUYEN: We got to fire it up. You know, it's freezing there.
HARRIS: Yes, yes, yes. But the motor city. Cold, cold this morning -- 8 degrees in Detroit right now.
NGUYEN: Brrr.
HARRIS: And the wind chill, Betty, makes it feel like 7 below. And yesterday, temps barely reached the double digits.
NGUYEN: Barely got there.
We want to check in with Meteorologist Brad Huffines for the complete forecast.
What is going on? You got ice storms in Dallas, freezing temps, below freezing in other parts of the nation?
BRAD HUFFINES, CNN METEOROLOGIST: Yes, in fact Dallas/Fort Worth yesterday is once again proof that you can accumulating ice in places like, well, Tupelo, Mississippi; and parts of north Alabama; middle Tennessee, you had ice accumulations, a quarter-inch or so, but the ground was so warm, it didn't stick on the roadways.
Go to Dallas/Fort Worth, where you have only a couple of or a few hundredths -- hundredths of an inch of precipitation, and what you end up getting is some freezing rain, especially on elevated surfaces. Yesterday in Dallas/Fort Worth, between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 p.m., about 150 injury accidents in Dallas/Fort Worth because of the freezing drizzle, just a little bit. But when the temperatures are below freezing, that makes a thin glaze of ice, hard to see. We call this black ice, in fact.
With the winter weather advisory from Oklahoma City to Dallas/Fort Worth, down south to Austin, areas of freezing drizzle again are possible today.
And right now, looking on radar, what you are seeing is a line of mostly just some light snow now, coming across parts of north Texas and to southern Oklahoma.
Wind chill's another problem this morning. Milwaukee, 15 below; Minneapolis, 12 below; Green Bay right now, it feels like it's 20 below. That feels warm compared to New York's 4 wind chill. Boston, right now it feels like it's 7 below when you head outside. And of course, in Detroit, wind chills are now once again below 10 degrees.
Across the rest of the country, cold weather continues to grip from the nation's South all the way up North, including the Eastern part of the country. The good news is the ugly gray weather in the South and Mid-Atlantic moving out today.
But the travel trouble spot, once again guys, right here, Oklahoma City, Dallas/Fort Worth. Please watch out for these patches of black ice. You can't see it until you start sliding.
NGUYEN: Yes, and once you start sliding, boy. Those accidents do pile up fast.
HARRIS: Yes.
HUFFINES: Just like that. Yes.
NGUYEN: Thank you, Brad. We'll be talking with you soon.
HUFFINES: All right.
NGUYEN: Well in the Philippines, hundreds of people are still believed to be buried in muck. And the confirmed death toll is climbing from Friday's mudslide. Search teams have pulled at least a dozen more bodies from the collapsed mountain that has entombed a farming village.
CNN's Hugh Riminton joins us now with the latest.
Hugh, about this time yesterday we were talking about the possibility of finding survivors trapped inside a school. What's the word on that?
HUGH RIMINTON, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, the word is not all that good, I have to say. Betty, it's not good as you can plainly see. There have been no people brought out alive in the last 48 hours now.
And where there was those reports -- there were those reports that there knocking sounds coming from the vicinity of the school, with 240 children entombed, no sign of it today when they put in special listening equipment, put in the dogs. And they also measured -- they used a sophisticated equipment to measure out exactly the new height of the land here, compared with where it was. And their conclusion, they are 100 feet from the top of this muddy slope, down to where the school is. They would have to bury through 100 feet just to get the school. They say realistically speaking, there's no one alive.
U.S. Marines arrived a few hours ago, a first contingent of 30 men were flown immediately onto the site with just shovels. They can't bring heavy equipment in. They were going to dig away. And they said if there's anyone alive, they'll bring them out.
But it has to be said, there's little prospect for all their enthusiasm to do the job.
NGUYEN: Hugh, let's talk about the chances of survival at this point because one of the rescue specialists there says it's cruel to still offer hope that survivors might be found in the school. So instead of more help, I'm asking for prayers.
RIMINTON: Well, that's about what it comes down to at a certain point. We spoke to one man yesterday, who was away working in his rice patty when the landslide happened. It wiped out his wife and his four children. He was identifying his wife's body at the local morgue.
We bumped into him again up on the slopes today, now acting as a guide for the searchers. Bear in mind, he's one of the very few people still alive at the moment who had intimate knowledge of that village. When he got up there onto the slope, he said he could see that there was no hope, that there was no purpose for hope. And for the first time he accepted it. He was dealing with the fact his family wasn't going to come back.
NGUYEN: Just difficult times there. CNN's Hugh Riminton, thank you so much for that update.
HARRIS: Well, Saddam Hussein talking about weapons of mass destruction on tape. It's quite a find. But what do the recordings of a former Iraqi leader and his inner circle actually prove?
David Ensor has details.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SADDAM HUSSEIN (through translator): This is Saddam Hussein...
DAVID ENSOR, CNN NATIONAL SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): All day Arabic translators in both Washington and Atlanta went through 12 ours of tape for CNN, listening to Saddam Hussein and his ministers.
The tapes were made public by a private group, which said they came from U.S. sources. CIA officials confirmed the tapes are indeed genuine.
CHARLES DUELFER, FORMER CIA WEAPONS INSPECTOR: He had a practice of recording many of his meetings.
ENSOR: In one ominous exchange, Saddam predicts weapons of mass destruction will one day be used against the United States. HUSSEIN (through translator): Terrorism is coming. I told the Americans a long time before August 2nd and told the British as well I think. I think Hamid was there keeping the meeting minutes with one of them that in the future there will be terrorism with weapons of mass destruction. What would prevent this technology from developing and people from smuggling it? All of this before the stories of smuggling.
TARIQ AZIZ (through translator): Sir, you mean germ warfare...
HUSSEIN (through translator): Before that, in 1989, I told them: in the future, what would prevent a booby-trapped car causing a nuclear explosion in Washington, or a germ or a chemical one?
AZIZ (through translator): Sir, the germs, any biologists can make a bottle at home...
HUSSEIN (through translator): This is coming. This story is coming -- but not from Iraq.
DUELFER: A lot of people pointed to the coming risk of weapons of mass destruction falling into the hands of terrorists. What is perhaps unique about Saddam's perspective on this is that he understands that if something like that were to happen, he would be blamed for it.
ENSOR: On many of the tapes, his aides make clear to Saddam Hussein, even if their weapons are destroyed, the know how will remain.
UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER (through translator): No matter what equipment they take away from us, we will still have our brains and our spirits. They are only depriving us of time. That's it.
ENSOR: For his part, Saddam Hussein repeatedly makes clear he plans to try to wait out the U.N. weapons inspectors and the sanctions and then to rebuild his weapons of mass destruction.
HUSSEIN (through translator): They will get tired and soon will reach that phase.
ENSOR (on camera): U.S. intelligence officials say the 12 hours of recordings are just the tip of the iceberg, that hundreds of hours of recordings of Saddam Hussein and his aides are in U.S. hands and thousands of pages of documents, many of them yet to be translated.
(Voice-over): But the man who looked for WMD in Iraq for the CIA says he expects nothing to emerge to change the view that despite what the Bush administration believed before the war, by the time coalition forces invaded Iraq, there were no usable weapons of mass destruction in the country and no programs to produce them.
DUELFER: There are no surprises in those tapes that bear on weapons of mass destruction.
ENSOR: Still, by recording many of his meetings, Saddam Hussein gave his story, and it's a gold mine that is just beginning to be exploited.
David Ensor, CNN, Washington.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
NGUYEN: All right, we're going to shift gears now. Because you might say winning is like bringing home the gold.
HARRIS: That's what you did yesterday, isn't it?
NGUYEN: I didn't win.
HARRIS: When you were shifting gears, and heading up the road to South Carolina to buy your ticket.
NGUYEN: You will not stop with this, will you? You think it's so funny, don't you.
HARRIS: I love this. I love this.
NGUYEN: I live close to South Carolina, so I figured I might take a chance in a lifetime.
HARRIS: Now hang on, guys. Hang on, Betty. Hang on.
NGUYEN: But you know what?
HARRIS: Yes?
NGUYEN: Can I get through this?
HARRIS: No, no, no, no. Here's the deal. No. Yesterday -- the story yesterday was about Powerball, right?
NGUYEN: This is not about me.
HARRIS: Gary Nurenberg in Washington and all the states that take part in this whole Powerball thing.
NGUYEN: Yes.
HARRIS: Yes. So, all yesterday morning, all we were talking about was $365 million, $365 million. And Betty, exhausted yesterday -- two shot, please. Can I have a two shot of Betty...
NGUYEN: No. Why do you have to...
HARRIS: Betty is exhausted yesterday at the end of the show. We finished up with you, right? Right?
NGUYEN: Mind you, I didn't drive. I didn't drive.
HARRIS: You didn't drive?
NGUYEN: I didn't drive. HARRIS: But let me tell you something, you saw those dollar signs in your eyes -- and you left here and you went to South Carolina because that was one of the Powerball states and you bought Powerball tickets. Didn't you, Betty?
NGUYEN: OK, hold up. That's not exactly how it happened. I was close and I figured, hey, it's a chance of a lifetime, let me get on it, you know. Get on that train. But you know my train went to nowhere because I didn't have a single one of the numbers. But, someone did beat the odds -- big time odds -- to become the biggest lottery winner in U.S. history this morning. Well, check out the numbers. I know you're still laughing at me, but someone is laughing all the way to the bank, Tony.
HARRIS: Well, here's the thing. You all went to -- for you to drive all the way up to South Carolina, and how much -- you spent $9 on tickets.
NGUYEN: Hey, nine was my lucky number. Here, let me explain. Nine was my lucky number. Apparently, it's not lucky anymore because I didn't win Powerball. But someone in Nebraska did. A single winning ticket.
So this is our e-mail question for you today. If you had won, if you weren't like me and lost, if you had won, what would you do with all that money? $365 million.
HARRIS: OK.
NGUYEN: Let me tell you, though, after taxes, it boils down to $124 million. So that's nothing to sneeze at.
HARRIS: This is, you know, you trying to play this by the book is funny too. It's absolutely laughable.
NGUYEN: You're just mad because you didn't get any tickets.
HARRIS: You know what, you just...
NGUYEN: You should have known I was going and you would have...
HARRIS: That's insane.
NGUYEN: ... called me and said, hey, Betty, can you pick up one for me?
HARRIS: One in 146 million. The odds of it -- and you drove all the way up to South Carolina?
NGUYEN: I could have been the one. It's fun, Tony. It's a game.
HARRIS: Still to come.
NGUYEN: Yes, let's move on. Shall we? Red hot on the ice is what we're talking about now. Speed skater Shani Davis grabbed the gold, but he also sped his way right into the Olympic record books. More about this major milestone when we go live in Torino. That's ahead.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's fun for people to come out enjoy Mardi Gras. They ought to come out enjoy. They might not have another one after this year.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HARRIS: Yes, how about that? Come out. And come out they did. But, for lots of folks, it's a case of laughing to keep from crying. We will take you to New Orleans.
Good morning, Brad.
HUFFINES: Good morning.
Drivers beware in Dallas/Fort Worth, places like that. But Detroit, the cold weather is the problem this morning in Detroit. Morning low temperatures are right around 8 degrees, wind chill is 7 below. That beats yesterday's wind chills in the 20 below category. Please be careful driving. Oklahoma City to Dallas, and don't forget that.
Of course, we're in the throws of winter and here's your cold and flu report for today. Checking out the states that are in red, that's where activity is widespread. Blue states, those are regional activity states. Local activity out West in purple. But it doesn't matter whether you're in a state of lots of activity or none, one time of not washing your hands at the right time can bring you a flu and can cost you a terrible time.
We'll talk about your weather forecast in just a few minutes, nationwide, as CNN's SUNDAY MORNING continues.
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HARRIS: Making our top story this morning, despite the odds of one in 146 million, of winning the jackpot, Betty drove from southern Georgia up to South Carolina to buy tickets. Powerball tickets popped out of printers at the rate of 30 every second in some cases. And just one ticket sold in Lincoln, Nebraska, wins it all. The winning numbers -- are you waiting for this? 15, 17, 43, 44, 48 and the Powerball is 29. No one claimed the record $365 million -- not yet, anyway.
More bodies are found in the Philippines mudslide, but a farming village in the southern Philippines remains buried beneath a sea of mud after a massive landslide on Friday. More than 1,000 people are missing and feared dead.
Freedom was short-lived in suburban Los Angeles. An handcuffed prisoner being transported out of state escaped into a residential neighborhood. Police and search dogs went door to door and rounded up the guy in a garage.
NGUYEN: Well, it is hard to imagine New Orleans in party mode so soon after Katrina, but that is what the Big Easy is trying to do. The calendar says Mardi Gras, so it's Mardi Bras.
CNN's Sean Callebs is in New Orleans.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SEAN CALLEBS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Marching bands and an array of floats pumped excitement into the heart of New Orleans.
The skies threatened, but mostly beads rained down.
After debate, should they or shouldn't they, the 150th Mardi Gras celebration is underway.
For many locals who are still coping with Katrina's aftermath, this cultural event is an anchor that helps them move forward.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I know a lot of people are going through so much and it's a nice distraction. It's nice to keep the traditions up because I think that's important to people's hope.
CALLEBS: The crews carve their way through shortened parade routes. It's part of the city's concession to keep police, firefighters and sanitation crews' overtime down.
Congressman William Jefferson says a successful Mardi Gras could provide some proof that the city can lure lucrative convention business again.
REP. WILLIAM JEFFERSON (D), LOUISIANA: There are folks who feel that it's an indication that the city is coming back and that we are getting back to some sense of normalcy.
CALLEBS: But, in the same breath he wonders if it's an accurate projection.
JEFFERSON: And, of course, you and I know that the normalcy that we show with the Mardi Gras parade is going to mask the real issues that are going on here, which are long-term recovery issues.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Come on, man, throw me some more!
CALLEBS: There are so many, like Don Motlow (ph) trying to put aside months of heartache, if only for a matter of days.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I lost my house and everything, you know, but I just keep on chugging along. I'm not getting no help from the government or nothing, so I figured hell, I'll just do it on my own.
CALLEBS: As many as 10,000 hotel rooms are filled with emergency personnel. No one expects the financial windfall from Mardi Gras to be as great as years past. Fewer than half of the city's residents have returned since Katrina. But some believe New Orleans is at a crossroads.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's fun for people to come out enjoy Mardi Gras. They ought to come out enjoy. They might not have another one after this year.
CALLEBS: Sean Callebs, CNN, New Orleans.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
HARRIS: Time to turn our attention to the Olympics.
NGUYEN: Yes. The gold medalists...
HARRIS: Some of -- Shani -- Shani Davis.
NGUYEN: Yes.
HARRIS: Someone called him a "mama's boy."
NGUYEN: Oh, you don't do that.
HARRIS: Hmm. You know, but Shani Davis has always been on the fast track.
NGUYEN: He has.
HARRIS: Listen.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
CHERIE DAVIS, SHANI'S MOTHER: Shani didn't even go like trick- or-treating. You know, he didn't go to prom. So, it's always skating.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
NGUYEN: And that single-mindedness has paid off for this mama's boy. He not only captured the gold, but he also made Olympic history. Mark McKay is live in Torino, when we come back.
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HARRIS: Oh, America's Speed Skater Shani Davis picks up a gold doughnut. It's not the -- it's the doughnut, isn't it?
NGUYEN: It's a medal.
HARRIS: Well, OK, it's a medal. And skates into history at the Winter Olympics. CNN's Mark McKay is live in Torino, Italy, with all the inside stuff.
Mark, good morning to you, sir.
MARK MCKAY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: And good morning to you, Tony. Some have called it a bagel. So, I guess..
HARRIS: Yes, there you go.
MCKAY: ... it doesn't really matter whether it's a...
NGUYEN: Yes.
MCKAY: It doesn't matter if it's a bagel, a doughnut, it's a gold medal. And Olympic history was made here Saturday night, Tony, as we witnessed it on the speed skating track. Shani Davis of the United States came in as the world record holder in the men's 1,000 meters. Boy, did he live up to his pre-Olympic billing.
Never before had an African American athlete won an individual gold medal at a winter Olympics. Davis, second to none here in Torino on the slick surface. Afterwards, he said quote, "I'm one of a kind." Fully realizing his place in winter games' history.
Larry Smith has more on the speedster from the south side of Chicago.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
LARRY SMITH, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Shani Davis has always had reasons to go fast. Some weren't as good as others.
SHANI DAVIS, OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST: The only reason why I really wanted to roller skate was because I had lots of videogames there, so I wanted to skate as fast as I could to go play the videogames.
SMITH: When Davis switched to skating on ice, his approach didn't change. But his reasons for going fast got better. His speed had him winning races at the rink; and staying out of trouble, away from it.
CHERIE DAVIS, SHANI'S MOTHER: I didn't know he used to run to school and he says, yes, I used to run home too. And I said why? He said because of the gangs, but he never really told me.
S. DAVIS: I've seen all kind of gangs and I've seen all kinds of like real bad gang fights and things like that, but I mean, it was just nothing that really interested me.
SMITH: Davis grew up on the south side of Chicago, when Michael Jordan was making basketball the sport of choice for most kids.
ANNOUNCER: Number 23, Michael Jordan.
SMITH: That made the neighborhood speed skater even more of an oddity.
ANNOUNCER: From Chicago, Illinois, Shani Davis.
C. DAVIS: Shani didn't even go like trick-or-treating. You know, he didn't go to prom. So, it's always skating. Skating was like... S. DAVIS: A lot of kids fought me for it. The taunting never really like persuaded me not to want to skate. It just made me stronger, you know. It made me, you know, like the sport even more because it was something that I could, you know, show my friends.
SMITH: He is the world record holder in the 1,000 meters. And barely missed becoming the first athlete to ever qualify for both long-track and short-track teams.
S. DAVIS: I gave it my best shot. And I didn't like -- I wasn't a coward about it and, you know, tuck my tail between my legs and, you know, said I couldn't do it before I even tried. I went out there and I gave it a good honest fight and that's all I could do.
SMITH: Davis will settle for the distinction of being the first African American to ever make the long-track team. And the honor that some kid might run home to watch his performance and decide he wants to go fast someday too.
S. DAVIS: To me, that's a gold medal within itself, you know. That's winning a gold medal in life.
SMITH: Larry Smith, CNN, Torino.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
MCKAY: Tony, they can say a lot of things about Shani Davis, but they'd also add -- they better add -- that he's an Olympic gold medalist.
HARRIS: How about that? Yes. I got to ask you, though, there's the shot, the moment when Davis crosses the line and he wins the gold. And then there's the shot of Chad Hetrick. This is a teammate who doesn't seem to be particularly happy at all at this development. What's going on between the two of them?
MCKAY: Well, you know, they don't want to really get too much into it. The word is, at least on the U.S. Speed Skating Team, that perhaps Davis is not a team player, perhaps. He, as you may remember, may or may not know, Tony, he -- Davis -- sat out of the team pursuit event in order to get ready for last night's event, in which he wanted to put his full energies to. So, he and Hetrick, though, go head to head one more time. On Tuesday night, watch it again. They will be involved in the 1,500 meter speed skate. That should be interesting.
HARRIS: I can't wait for that. Good stuff, isn't it? A little drama.
All right, Mark McKay, in Torino for us. Mark, thank you.
Well, you know, we've been talking about the Powerball lottery this morning and Betty's lame attempt to -- she started in Guatemala yesterday.
NGUYEN: I -- oh, it gets farther south the longer this show goes on, doesn't it? And then I walked all the way to South Carolina. Is that it now, Tony? Right. Can we stick to the winning ticket? That was sold in Lincoln, Nebraska. I didn't even come near that ticket. I didn't even get a single number if that makes you feel any better Tony. You're just mad that I didn't call you and get a ticket.
HARRIS: You didn't tell me you were there.
NGUYEN: I knew that's what this was about.
HARRIS: So even if you had one, there was no chance old T man was going to get a buck or two, don't see any of those winnings. All right. Before you pack your bags and move to Nebraska, consider this. You had a better chance of dating a supermodel than winning last night's jackpot.
NGUYEN: And you don't even want to know what the odds are that the pilot on your plane is drunk. Yeah, we're going to have a Powerball fact check, check all of those odds just a little bit later. Hi, Danielle.
DANIELLE ELIAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi Betty. I'm Danielle Elias at the international desk. Some Muslims are rallying, others are marching and still others are throwing rocks and eggs, different protests sparked by the same fury. Details when we go global.
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HARRIS: Well, good morning, everyone. It is a new morning and a whole new life for the winner or winners, because I guess you could buy a bunch of folks and sort of combine the resources.
NGUYEN: It's been done before, yeah.
HARRIS: Of a Powerball ticket in Lincoln, Nebraska, a single ticket matched all six numbers chosen last night for an estimated $365 million. That would be the largest jackpot in U.S. history. The ticket holder has not yet publicly come forward.
NGUYEN: I don't blame them.
HARRIS: The Arab takeover of six U.S. ports ratchets up from a national debate to a legal battle at the port of Miami. One company is suing to block the transfer to a state-owned business in the United Arab Emirates. The Miami-based business is challenging the UAE's purchase of a British firm which now operates at a half dozen ports. The Miami company cites security concerns.
NGUYEN: In the Philippines crews recovered more bodies today from the village that was swallowed by a mudslide two days ago. Almost all the village's residents, some 1,800 are believed to be entombed in the debris of a mountain that disintegrated under heavy rains. There have been no signs of life found near an elementary school. It was buried with more than 250 students and teachers inside.
Health officials in India have confirmed an outbreak of the deadly strain of bird flu. The h5n1 virus has been found in western India where thousands of poultry chickens have died in the last couple of weeks. India is the world's fifth largest exporter of eggs.
HARRIS: New violence breaks out in Nigeria over some controversial cartoons, but that's not the only country dealing with angry protesters.
NGUYEN: And now with more, we're joined by Danielle Elias at the international desk. Hi, Danielle.
ELIAS: Hey, Betty. Thank you. Now the Prophet Mohammed cartoons continue to ignite fury around the world. People have taken to the streets in Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, Iraq and Turkey and backlash over the riots in Italy and Libya have led to various government officials resigning.
Meanwhile, protesters in Jakarta, Indonesia have burned U.S. flags and stormed the U.S. embassy's front gate. They were angry about a little known sculpture of the prophet.
And in Pakistan, tensions were high after the government arrested several protest leaders trying to stop any uprisings. There have been heavy police presence and tear gas was used to break up the demonstrations.
Israel's acting Prime Minister Ehud Olmert says he will not hold contacts with Hamas, but he also says humanitarian aid will not be withheld from Palestinians. This comes a day after a new Hamas-led government was sworn in and CNN now has confirmed Ismail Haniyeh has been nominated to be the next Palestinian prime minister.
The spirit of rock 'n' roll has come to Rio de Janeiro. Betty, Tony, any of you Stones fans?
HARRIS: Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, I am.
ELIAS: Overwhelming. What's your favorite song?
HARRIS: I like the "Start Me Up."
NGUYEN: Everyone likes "Start Me Up."
HARRIS: And I like "Brown Sugar" and I like "Satisfaction." There are a bunch of songs I guess I like.
NGUYEN: They're still shaking it like they were what, 30 years younger. I mean they still have it.
ELIAS: Pushing 60 now, pretty good. Check this out, in Rio de Janeiro, the Rolling Stones have taken their bigger bang tour to the Copacabana Beach. They're performing free in front of an estimated 1 million people, not too bad, not like paying $100.
NGUYEN: Right.
ELIAS: Well, hotel officials say they're booked and call the concert a tremendous boost for Rio tourism. This is the Stone's third visit to the country but the first time the band has played for free in Brazil.
NGUYEN: All right. They're really playing for free or are these hotels paying for them to come there?
ELIAS: Who knows. Somebody's got to be paying but it says that they're playing for free. So all of the international artists that tend to come here, it's a struggling country. Not many people can afford it but now everyone can go.
NGUYEN: You got to spread the music. Danielle, thank you.
ELIAS: Thank you.
NGUYEN: Well, they are supposed to be the holiest, but some of them have denied Jesus, ripped a building apart with bare hands and called nuns lazy.
HARRIS: Believe it or not, we're talking about saints. What were they really like? We'll find out next in our "faces of faith." Good morning, Brad.
HUFFINES: Speaking of saints, we're looking outside live in Detroit. We're seeing sunny skies. Coming up next we'll talk about your weather forecast that has Detroit warming from 8 degrees now. We're coming up next with your weather forecast in just a few minutes. CNN SUNDAY MORNING.
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HARRIS: Well, Katrina's rains, winds and destructive path shut them down, but six months later, the wheels are turning, the cards shuffling and the chips are falling. Coming up at 9:00 Eastern, Harrah's CEO tells us how they managed to reopen, but are they taking a huge gamble on the city? We will find out.
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HARRIS: Taking a quick look at this morning's top stories, somebody in Nebraska waking up as a whole different person and man and that's if they even slept. You can imagine? The record $365 million Powerball jackpot ticket was sold somewhere in Lincoln. It is the ninth Powerball jackpot win in Nebraska. Nine times? The winners come from Nebraska? Coming up in just a few minutes, we'll give you a little 411 on the odds of that happening again.
It was one of those winter nights you couldn't imagine having to endure without heat, but thousands of people in parts of the northeast had to. A fierce winter storm knocked out power to 200,000 homes and businesses. Emergency shelters were open to take shivering people in.
A Wisconsin Marine is one of two people rescued off the coast of Africa yesterday. Two military choppers crashed Friday off of the east nation of Djibouti. Ten of the 12 people aboard the choppers were missing, but reports now indicate they're all accounted for but there's no word on whether this means they survived the crash. NGUYEN: Pope John Paul II could be a step closer to actual sainthood. The Vatican may have found the miracle required for beatification. The case of a French nun's apparent recovery from Parkinson's disease after praying to the pontiff for help. The Holy See's panel of experts must examine this nun before her recovery can be deemed a quote, unquote miracle. However, a second miracle is also needed for the late pontiff to be canonized. Whether or not this potential miracle is confirmed, the road to sainthood will likely be a fast one for the late pope. Now you might think those who are sanctified led a better or more godly life than the rest of us, but one Jesuit priest has found just the opposite. Father James Martin is the author of "My Life with the Saints" and he joins us from New York. We appreciate you being with us Father.
REV. JAMES MARTIN, AUTHOR, "MY LIFE WITH THE SAINTS": Thank you, good to be here.
NGUYEN: Well, OK, talking about people who are just every day folk who become saints, this is something that happens pretty often I guess in a sense but they are holy no doubt.
MARTIN: Well, they are holy. I think the point of my book though is that they're human too. They could be funny. They could lose their temper sometimes. They could even be impatient with people, and the idea is not that being a saint means being perfect. It just means being who you are and trying to be the best person that you are.
NGUYEN: I think it's interesting how you focus on these human qualities, talking about Mother Teresa and some of these other saints and you sit back and you listen to these stories, you think, my goodness, they were real. So tell us some of those stories.
MARTIN: Well, one of my favorite stories is Francis of Assisi, who founded the Franciscans and is noted for his poverty. And one day he came across a little house that some of his Franciscan brothers had built and he get so angry with what he thought was their kind of refusal to live simply that he climbed up onto the roof and started tearing apart the building with his bare hands, obviously much to the surprise of his Franciscan brothers.
NGUYEN: What's this about Mother Teresa calling other nuns lazy?
MARTIN: She could be tough. She had to hold a religious order together after all, a worldwide religious order and she wrote a letter saying look, I'm working all day and all night and I hear that some of you are just sort of malingering and what's the story basically? So she could be tough.
NGUYEN: Cracking that whip is what she was doing.
MARTIN: Yeah, exactly.
NGUYEN: OK, so now that we've established that saints don't really walk around with halos over their head, that they are real people, talk to us about some of the real flaws. Because I think if you're talking to nuns about really getting more involved, I wouldn't consider that a flaw. So what are some of the flaws that you've seen as you've done research on saints of past?
MARTIN: Well, I think the flaws, you know, it's interesting. The question of flaws versus just a humanity, I mean you have to think that the saints were more holy and did lead sort of a more Christian life than we did, but there were times when they had their doubts. They faced having to deal with their anger and their impatience with what they felt was maybe God's too slow ways and I think it's in those doubts and in those difficult times that I think they become more human and more accessible for us. You know, Mother Teresa found herself in the midst of a great deal of spiritual darkness for many people say decades in her life and even doubted that God existed which is something that came out after her death, in her private papers. But it's in these flaws and in this very humanity I think that they become accessible to us and that we realize that we can become or try to become saints as well.
NGUYEN: That's one thing I wanted to ask you, because they are human and there are these flaws. Does that mean any of us can become a saint or is that one of those things that if you're destined to be it, you will become one?
MARTIN: Well you know, Mother Teresa used to say the only thing you needed to become a saint was to want to become one and I think obviously it's with God's grace and it takes a lot of hard work but the ideas, they were all called the holiness, we're all called to be who we are and we're called to be as John XXIII said holy in a different way. We're all called to be uniquely ourselves and I think eventually, hopefully with God's grace we can all try to reach that point.
NGUYEN: Very, very quickly, your book is called "My Life With Saints." What do you want people to take from that?
MARTIN: That being a saint means being yourself and that being a saint doesn't mean being perfect and that's something that's it's a goal for all of us.
NGUYEN: I like the sound of that. Father Martin, we appreciate your time this morning.
MARTIN: Thank you.
NGUYEN: Take care. There's much more to come on CNN SUNDAY MORNING. Stay with us.
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NGUYEN: Take it away, Tony.
HARRIS: Hey Brad, you know, Betty drove up to South Carolina. She started off in Rio.
NGUYEN: We'll tell you what Brad did. I walked all the way.
HARRIS: The Rolling Stones concert and got her little car.
HUFFINES: Just proves that people will do anything, drive a lot of miles to get away from Tony.
NGUYEN: That's very true. Now I would admit to that. Yes, love you, Brad.
HARRIS: Whose idea was it to bring him up here?
NGUYEN: Keep him up here all show long.
HUFFINES: I'm going to go back to Alabama.
HARRIS: Whomever won the Powerball lottery will eventually take home a cool $125 million after taxes.
NGUYEN: And the single winning ticket was sold in Lincoln, Nebraska, mind you, the ninth winner from that state. Do you believe, nine winners of Powerball have come from that state?
HUFFINES: But if you think that moving to Nebraska is going to increase your chances of winning Powerball? Think again. Kyra Phillips has this reality check on that.
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KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The odds of winning the grand prize in the Powerball lottery with a single ticket are 1 in 146,107,962. Compare that to some other odds. The odds of dating a supermodel are 1 in 88,000. The odds of being on a plane with a drunk pilot are 1 in 117. The odds that a celebrity marriage will last a lifetime are 1 in 3. You may think your odds of winning are much better when you buy a bunch of tickets but if you bought 50 tickets a week, statistics show you'd still only be likely to win once every 30,000 years.
Some say you can't win if you don't play, but what about the drive home? Statistics show if you drive a mile to the store to buy a ticket and a mile back, the odds of being killed in a car accident are five times higher than the odds of hitting the jackpot. There's at least one thing that's less likely to happen than winning the lottery, your odds of being killed by a shark are 1 in 300 million. Remember that the next time you go to the beach.
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NGUYEN: All right. Here's what we want to know from you this morning. We heard Tony talk so much about this, but how would you spend the Powerball winnings if you won this huge jackpot? Yesterday we told you what we would do so this is your turn and we have gotten plenty. Let me tell you Tony, I'm not the only one interested in this Powerball.
HARRIS: Everybody's loving Betty this morning. Everybody loving Betty.
NGUYEN: You've been giving me such a hard time about it.
HARRIS: Feeling like you're being picked on this morning. NGUYEN: This says, Betty, just tell Tony that you can't win if you don't play. That's right Tony. You just went to the nearest state to try to help your family and friends and to be able to donate to your favorite charity, love that, not to mention buying a private island and family and private driver. Thanks, didn't need that.
HARRIS: ... watched yesterday too.
NGUYEN: Yes, but remember the mega millions is worth $180 million on Tuesday in Georgia, mega millions, $180, write it down, Tony. I'll be getting that ticket, too.
HARRIS: That is insane. All right and this one from Bill. Bill says if I won a $365 mill, I'd quit my day job and invest it in my rock star career and at that price I could buy a huge following and my music stinks. Thank you, Bill.
HUFFINES: Betty, this guy is your number one fan. I think you're going to like him too. Randy from Arlington, Texas. I went to high school there by the way. I'd give Betty half my money.
NGUYEN: I like Randy.
HUFFINES: Is it half the money before you win the lottery or after you win the lottery?
NGUYEN: Hopefully after.
HUFFINES: There's a guy in Lincoln, Nebraska also.
NGUYEN: Right, come on (INAUDIBLE)
HARRIS: (INAUDIBLE) Who is this from? If I won the lottery, I would chuckle and laugh as I parade past him.
NGUYEN: Tony that is.
HARRIS: Then swoop Betty up and head to a warm climate vacation and send Tony a cheap postcard. Everybody loving Betty this morning.
NGUYEN: I'm not alone in the quest for the Powerball winnings. Keep those e-mails coming would you please and especially the ones that take on Tony because he's been giving us a hard time, all of us Powerball players. How would you spend the Powerball winnings if you had it because someone in Nebraska did win it. That's right, I'm not the only one Tony.
HUFFINES: I played.
NGUYEN: And when did you get the ticket?
HUFFINES: At 1:00 in the morning on Saturday morning driving here from Huntsville, Alabama.
NGUYEN: Vindicated right there.
HUFFINES: I was coming here though, so I drove.
NGUYEN: You don't need to say that. I think just leave it where you had it.
HUFFINES: I won $7.
NGUYEN: See there you go.
HARRIS: That's a good thing.
HUFFINES: No Powerball.
HARRIS: So breakfast is on you.
HUFFINES: I'm buying lunch for me today.
NGUYEN: Just for you.
HUFFINES: For me today. I'll give you half the money.
HARRIS: There you go.
NGUYEN: That's not much.
HUFFINES: Later not now. I got to get lunch today. We're seeing clouds coming out of Texas today and some of these clouds may bring some areas of freezing drizzle and may also bring some slick spots to the roadways across north Texas. Please be careful if you're traveling across north Texas. Yesterday over 190 automobile accidents, Dallas Ft. Worth, just to the ice alone.
If you're traveling across the south today, cooler weather and the sunshine shines, some lake effect snows northeast, pretty cold temperatures across the northern plains, staying in the teens and low 20s but the good news is, it's warmer today than yesterday and tomorrow warmer still but likely still below freezing tomorrow across the plains as the cold weather still grips the north and the east. Tony and Betty.
NGUYEN: All right, listen to this, al Qaeda goes corporate offering employee contracts, salary benefits, sick leave and even vacation perks?
HARRIS: Yeah, sound crazy but it's spelled out in one document, coming up in a few minutes, oh at about 8:05 Eastern. What does it take to be a member of a terrorist group? We'll be right back.
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NGUYEN: We do have a developing story out of Nigeria. Three Americans and a British citizen have been abducted there. They are among nine foreign workers taken hostage. The group has been working in the area. And, of course, we're going to get you more on that.
Also want to talk about big news that happened overnight for a lucky person. Someone is waking up a whole lot richer this morning. It could be if you live in Lincoln, Nebraska. The single winning ticket for the largest lottery jackpot in U.S. history was sold there.
No one has come forward just yet. The Powerball pay out is a record -- a whopping $365 million. And just in case it may be you, check out the screen right now, in case it could be you. Here are the numbers: 15, 17, 43, 44, 48, Powerball number, 29.
HARRIS: Anger over the Muslim cartoons boiling over across Pakistan. This time it's not mobs we're talking about, but members of the country's parliament. At least 10 legislators and hundreds of their supporters were arrested yesterday after they marched toward the capitol in downtown Islamabad. A new protest also broke out in Indonesia, Iraq, and elsewhere.
NGUYEN: We're showing pictures of the winter weather. We are going to try to bring that up for you right now. It is a bad day without power, but that is a situation for thousands of people in Northeast this morning. A brutally cold winter storm dropped temperatures from 60 to below freezing in just a few hours in New York. The region also reported hurricane-force wind gusts. Four deaths are blamed on this storm.
A day after Hamas is officially sworn into power, the Israeli cabinet is hitting them where it hurts. Israel will freeze its monthly multi-million-dollar transfers to the Palestinians. The funds are used to pay nearly 140,000 Palestinian workers. This move could devastate the Palestinian economy.
Later today Baby Noor and her family will meet other families just like them. The four-month-old Iraqi girl was flown to the U.S., as you recall, for surgery to fix a potentially deadly birth defect. Now the group that brought her over here has invited other spina bifida survivors and their families.
Good morning, everybody, from it is CNN Center. It is CNN SUNDAY MORNING.
HARRIS: Everybody is loving Betty this morning.
NGUYEN: You know, hey, you've got to play to win. I didn't win, but I played. You know? Nothing wrong with that. It is February 19th, 8:00 a.m. at CNN Headquarters in Atlanta, 7:00 a.m. in Lincoln, Nebraska, where somebody is waking up a multi-millionaire several times over.
Good morning. I'm Betty Nguyen. That multimillionaire is not me because I didn't win. Neither did you, Tony.
HARRIS: I didn't play. Morning, everyone, Tony Harris, here.
Coming up on CNN SUNDAY MORNING. Trained to kill? Paid to relax? The business side of Al Qaeda, employee salaries, sick leave, even vacation policies, new documents all for a startling glimpse.
Also, you flight went to one destination, your luggage vanished to another. A new report shows you're definitely not alone. You may be a victim, but you may also be a part of the problem. And Harrah's Casino bets big on the recovery of New Orleans. We'll talk to the executive who is going with the hunch, the house always wins.
ANNOUNCER: You're watching CNN, you're severe weather headquarters.
NGUYEN: Check this out. From coast-to-coast misery by degrees. High winds, low temps, and only moderate prospects that the weather will soon improve in your neck of the woods. Some 200,000 homes and businesses are still without power after Friday's windstorm slapped the Northeast.
The nation's heartland shivers through subzero temperatures. Southern California even gets a dusting of snow, and the Southern Plains deal with the treachery of ice-covered roads.
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HARRIS: Stories making news across America. An escaped prisoner is behind bars after a massive manhunt in California. A private security company was driving Richard Rabika (ph) to LA's airport to faces charges in Michigan, when he overpowered the driver. The car crashed into the wall, and the prisoner jumped out. Police say they found him hiding in someone's garage less than a block away.
Music and merriment filling the streets of New Orleans for a second day. Marching bands and floats rolling down the Big Easy, Betty, in a scaled-back Mardi Gras celebration. The bigger party will take place next weekend ahead of Fat Tuesday on February 28th.
This newborn in South Florida has Wal-Mart employees to thank for bringing her into the world. A pretty baby, pretty baby!
NGUYEN: That's right.
HARRIS: Her mother gave birth to her in the store, and you can see. There it is in this video. The woman collapses in a second here. Then managers running to help her out. Mother and child are doing just fine today. They have free baby food.
NGUYEN: Good for them. When baby comes, you can't stop it.
HARRIS: That's right.
NGUYEN: Now to the Philippines, sniffer dogs and U.S. Marines have joined the hunt for survivors there, but hope is dimming. It has been more than 48 hours since a massive mudslide wiped out a village. Hundreds still missing, and believed buried in the muck. CNN's Hugh Riminton is in the Philippines and he joins us now on videophone with the latest.
Hi, Hugh.
RIMINTON: Well, the two great enemies of this search and rescue operation have struck again, it is nightfall quite plainly, there has also been another very heavy rainstorm just come through in the last few minutes. There is no one out there searching at the moment on the mountain side, it is far too treacherous for that.
And all the news, unfortunately, now is grim. When the search resumes at daylight, that will be the fourth day that they'll be entering into this exercise, and they're technically and officially looking to find survivors and to retrieve them. U.S. Marines have arrived to help with that. No heavy equipment will help in this, it's just pure old-fashioned muscular digging.
But the bare facts of it are now, is that in the words of one senior rescue official here, to pretend that there is hope is simply to do a cruelty to the families who are here. They have done measurements on the depth of this rubble, over the school where 240 children were entombed, and which has been the focus for much of this search and rescue operation. They have now done the measurements, it is down 28 meters. Nearly 100 feet of rubble and rock, of mud, lies above where those children were.
It is quite plainly now going to be a matter of trying to recover bodies. Even that is difficult, dangerous work. Only 75 bodies have been recovered so far. The ultimate toll could be well over 1,000. It is expected to be well over 1,000.
There maybe a call, at some point, when it will be said that it is too dangerous to keep on looking for people; that the mud and the constant shifting of the rubble underneath people's feet, is a danger to them now. This is what they're facing at the moment, 48 hours after the last living survivor was brought out of the rubble of this wreckage, Betty.
NGUYEN: It is just so tragic. Hugh Riminton, thank you for that update.
HARRIS: OK, when you think of people working for Al Qaeda, you certainly don't think about medical benefits, vacation, and sick leave, do you? Think again. Military officials are calling a newly released Al Qaeda document a contract for potential employees. CNN Pentagon Correspondent Barbara Starr has more.
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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice over): So what does it take to be an employee of Al Qaeda? The U.S. military academy at West Point has just released documents offering extraordinary details to answer that question.
Military officials tell CNN they were chilled when they read a document known as the Al Qaeda employment contract, which they strongly believe to be authentic. It was seized after 9/11 in the home of an Al Qaeda operative in Kandahar, Afghanistan.
There is an Al Qaeda vacation policy. Married members get seven days of vacation every three weeks. Bachelors get five vacation days every month. Requests for vacation travel must be submitted two and a half months in advance. Monthly salaries are spelled out; 6,500 Pakistani rupees, about $108, if you are married; 1,000 rupees, about $17, for bachelors. An extra 700 rupees per wife, if you have more than one. The contract requires Al Qaeda members to exercise and stay healthy, but they also get 15 days sick leave a year.
The document is one of dozens that Special Operations command asked West Point to analyze. The idea was to develop a better understanding of the Al Qaeda network, in their own words. And the contract requires, of course, total loyalty, secrecy, and adherence to jihad.
(On camera): Nobody knows how many Al Qaeda members signed the contract, and the documents are several years old now, but West Point officials and the Special Operations command say there is a disturbing lesson here. Four years ago Al Qaeda was a highly organized business, and now no one can really say what they are doing. Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.
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HARRIS: Here's the thing, since Al Qaeda seems to be running its organization like a corporation, it seems only right the group be held liable in multimillion-dollar lawsuit. A soldier wounded in Afghanistan, and the widow of his slain comrade rewarded $102.6 million. The money is supposed to come from the estate of a suspected Al Qaeda financier, but collecting it could be tough, because the man's assets are unknown. It may be the first suit of its kind filed for a soldier against terrorists, under the Patriot Act.
NGUYEN: Coming up, former President Bill Clinton is on a mission, fighting for dying children, and he talked to CNN just hours ago. We'll bring you some of that.
HARRIS: And 10,000 pieces of luggage lost or mishandled by the airlines every day.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It looks like they put it through a dumpster and rolled it around, and shot it with bullet holes, and tore it up with a knife. I mean, it is totally trashed -- I had to put it in a garbage bag in order to bring it here.
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HARRIS: Oh, man. Odds are it will happen to you. Coming up we'll tell you who is really to blame, and you might be surprised.
NGUYEN: Plus, after shattering both feet, she went from athlete to spectator in the 2002 Olympics. Well, Emily Cook is back. Oh, yes she is, in a big way. We are going to go live to Torino. That is ahead on CNN SUNDAY MORNING.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) NGUYEN: Former President Bill Clinton is on a mission overseas to combat the spread of AIDS. The Clinton foundation's HIV/AIDS initiative has concentrated on making affordable drugs more widely available. In India today, Clinton told CNN Satinder Bindra that if foundations and governments bought low-cost drugs they would be able to reach more children infected with HIV.
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BILL CLINTON, FMR. PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: The thing that I'm most worried about is that there were approximately 5 million new infections last year. And that primarily is because 90 percent of the people who were infected don't know it. That is when you and others, including me, when we say, well, there are 43 million people in the world who are HIV positive, the truth is we're guessing, so I think that's the next big frontier here, besides finding a vaccine and ultimately a cure.
SATINDER BINDRA, CNN SR. INT'L. CORRESPONDENT: With your foundation, these tests to find out if someone is HIV positive are cheaper. You also brought down the price of AIDS-fighting drugs, but does more still need to be done?
CLINTON: We now for about 50 cents can give people a test that will tell you in 20 minutes that you are HIV positive. We brought down the medicine very low, and we can tests see whether it's working. We're now working on the second line drugs.
But it's all irrelevant unless we have people in the rural areas, for example, who are trained to do this. So we're doing more and more work to train personnel. That's what we're doing here in India, working with nurses in rural areas. Because even in India, which has the largest number of doctors anywhere, and including in rural areas, there's still enormous areas where there aren't enough doctors without nurses and paramedical people to do this work.
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NGUYEN: The Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS initiative was started back in 2002.
HARRIS: Still ahead, from villain to hero, Shani Davis makes history as he speeds to the record books. Coming up, we will go live to Torino, Italy, for the latest. We'll be right back.
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HARRIS: Look at this! Look at this! Look at this!
NGUYEN: Boom! Right there! Did you see that? That was nice.
HARRIS: Proof positive, height isn't everything on the court, OK?
NGUYEN: Look at that!
HARRIS: "Little Big Man" Nate Robinson managed to win the slam dunk competition at the NBA All-Star Weekend in Houston.
How tall, Betty? How tall?
NGUYEN: Five-niner.
HARRIS: Five feet, nine inches tall. As you saw there, he actually leaped over his teammate. You know --
NGUYEN: I didn't actually see him leap over his teammate. Did he?
HARRIS: He did!
NGUYEN: Can we re-rack that? I want to see him jump over --
HARRIS: He did. It was spread eagle, but it still.
NGUYEN: OK.
HARRIS: Where is it again? Can we see that.
NGUYEN: Oh, OK! I was concentrated on the ball that I didn't see him jump over the guy. Wow! Look at that. That is amazing. Five foot, nine, everybody.
HARRIS: There was another -- was another -- was Spud Webb 5'9" or 5'7"? Spud Webb was 5'7" tall, when he won the slam dunk contest.
NGUYEN: You even have a little game. You got some height.
HARRIS: Yeah. 6'1" loaded with fun, OK? The game is tonight, by the way.
NGUYEN: Good times. Good times. All right.
Carry on, yeah, we're talking baggage now. That is what anyone headed to Houston for the All-Star game should do. Because carry-on, as in luggage, watch closely. CNN's Brian Todd has the story behind the mangled suitcase that next time could be yours.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Lisa Pfenninger is at the end of her rope. She's just brought her travel bag back to the airline for repairs after it was damaged during the time it was lost for three days. Somewhere between Miami and Reagan National Airport.
LISA PFENNINGER, BAGGAGE LOST & DAMAGED: It was completely trashed. It looks like they put it through a dumpster and rolled it around, and shot it with bullet holes, and tore it up with a knife. I mean, it's totally trashed. I had to put it in a garbage bag in order to bring it here. It is outrageous.
TODD: This kind of frustration is multiplying. The Department of Transportation now says U.S.-based carriers mishandled more than 3.5 million bags last year. That is nearly 10,000 a day; mishandled, meaning lost, delayed, damaged, or stolen.
Among the major carriers with more than 30 million passengers last year, the USAirways had the highest rate of mishandled bags. Nearly 10 for every 1,000 passengers, followed by Delta. Contacted by CNN both airlines said they recognized the problem and are taking steps to fix it.
USAirways officials say they're mortified by the numbers, and they cite the challenges of slogging through two bankruptcies in recent years. David Stempler of the Air Travelers Association says that's the essential problem. Financially strapped major carriers, struggling to compete with the discount airlines. The majors have cut back personnel. They're dealing with more passengers, backed up flight schedules, tighter baggage screening, and an overloaded system. But Stempler says passengers looking for someone to blame should look in the mirror.
DAVID STEMPLER, AIR TRAVELERS ASSOCIATION: The passengers are the one to blame. This is the airline system we bought. We basically said the three most important things that we want is low fares, low fares, and low fares.
TODD: It all has a ripple effect, says Stempler. More passengers carry luggage on board. Overhead bins are jam pack and more dangerous. Flights take longer to board and depart, and the system is, again, overloaded.
(On camera): Experts say none of this is going to matter to passengers in the long run. People won't fly any less because of mishandled luggage. The system will only get worse, experts say, and passengers won't be willing to pay any more at the ticket counters to make it better. Brian Todd, CNN at Reagan National Airport.
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HARRIS: American competitors are making history all over in these Winter Olympic Games. Speed skater Shani Davis is the first African-American to win an individual event at a Winter Olympics. Davis bested the competition in the 1,000 meter speed-skating event take home the gold.
And free-style skier Emily Cook is back in her quest for Olympic gold. Mark McKay is live in Torino, Italy, for us this morning.
And, Mark, I'm going to speak for you here. We love the story of Emily Cook.
MCKAY: Oh, and there's no doubt about it. We should, Tony. We've had a string of nice stories. The snow borders have done well. Well, Lindsey Jacob-Ellis, notwithstanding. She may get a little bit of grief as she comes back across the Atlantic, but the snow borders have done well. And so has that speed skater, you mentioned him right off the top, Shani Davis.
Never before had an African-American gone out and won an individual medal at these games. And check out the first to do it. The native of Chicago, from the south side of Chicago, well, you talk about backing up what you say you can do.
Davis, the world record holder in the men's 1,000, beat teammate Joey Cheek for the gold medal in speed-skating.
Now, women's freestyle aerials get underway in the Torino games, and for Emily Cook of the United States, a chance for her to experience something she missed out on four years ago. Two weeks after making the Olympic team cook suffered a devastating crash in training, which dashed her Salt Lake City dreams.
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EMILY COOK, FREESTYLE AERIALS OLYMPIAN: I broke bones in both feet, tore all the ligaments in both feet, and dislocated my left foot.
JERET "SPEEDY" PETERSON, FREESTYLE AERIALS OLYMPIAN: She had her foot in a ski boat that was a size six and broke the bones. It went down to a size two. This is in her ski boot.
COOK: It was a pretty devastating time. I cried. I was in so much pain. The pain was ridiculous.
PETERSON: I just can't even fathom the amount of pain that she went through not just physically, but emotionally.
LARRY SMITH, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: When the pain in her foot subsided, cook still had to deal with the anguish of missing the Olympic Games. She got help with that from the man who replaced her on the team, "Speedy" Peterson.
COOK: He came over all the time during the Olympics. I learned so much about, you know, what it really means to be an Olympian and what it really means to be a teammate.
PETERSON: I saw firsthand all the work that she had put in, the hard work and dedication, and she had been given her life-long dream. And to have that pulled away, I couldn't imagine that.
SMITH: Cook vowed to return to the Olympics, albeit, it on a leap of faith. Doctors said not only would she never compete again, she might not even be able to walk properly.
PETERSON: She went to doctor after doctor, and they're, like, you know, I'm sorry. You are going to walk funny. You are not going to be able to ski ever again. And she's, like, oh, yeah? Watch me.
COOK: I knew however long it took and however hard it was going to be, I would be back four years later and qualify for the team and actually go to the Olympics this time. When I qualified for the Olympics team, "Speedy" gave me a huge hug, and I said I can't wait to walk into the opening ceremonies with you.
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MCKAY: And Cook and Peterson did just that. That's CNN's Larry Smith reporting that story of Emily Cook back at the Olympics.
U.S. Speed Skater Apollo Ohno a bit disappointed that he wasn't able to defend his 1,500 meter short track speed-skating title. He didn't do much better Saturday in the 1,000 either. The best Ohno could do is win the bronze medal as skaters from South Korea, again, came back to haunt Ohno. Ahn Huyn-Soo earning second gold of these games. That storyline, Tony, continues here. Ohno versus the South Koreans.
HARRIS: Oh, no!
NGUYEN: Oh, no!
HARRIS: Mark McKay in Torino. I am so bad this morning. Thank you, Mark.
NGUYEN: You are bad. This morning? Every morning.
Hollywood stars, they do live forever on film, but now, Tony, they can live in your living room, too. Yes, they can. You can have your own -- would you want John Travolta, Tony?
HARRIS: I like Travolta.
NGUYEN: But how about Marilyn Monroe?
HARRIS: Now you are talking.
NGUYEN: Yeah. We'll tell you how can you get your hands on some of these, at 9 a.m. Eastern.
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