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Bodies Of Missing Milwaukee Boys May Have Been Found; Jamie Rose Bolin's Body Found In Neighbor's Apartment; Barry Bonds Perjury Case; Dennis Frazier Interview; Gay And Lesbian Parents Join White House Easter Egg Roll; "South Park" Offends Religious Groups; Rape Allegations Leave Durham Divided; Crawfish Crawling Back To New Orleans, Great Economic Benefits
Aired April 15, 2006 - 10:00 ET
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TIM KUYKENDALL, DISTRICT 21 D.A.: This is one of the most, if not the most, heinous, atrocious, and cruel case that I've been involved with in my 24 years as a district attorney.
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TONY HARRIS, CNN ANCHOR: Two disturbing stories this morning about children in peril. First, the body of a 10-year-old Oklahoma girl is found in her neighbor's apartment; the other, about the hunt for two missing boys. The search centered around the Milwaukee lagoon.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: My gut tells me that we have a child that's dead in the water, and I'm not about to, you know, make any identification until we know for sure.
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HARRIS: A late night news conference does nothing to comfort parents waiting for the boys to come home.
And good morning, everyone. From the CNN Center in Atlanta, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING. I'm Tony Harris. It is Saturday, April 15th.
BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: And I'm Betty Nguyen. We have a live report from Milwaukee in just a moment, but first, here's a quick look at some of the other stories making news this hour.
In South America, heavy rains have triggered mudslides in western Colombia. A highway to the Pacific is now blocked, cutting off an important Pacific seaport. Dozens of people are missing, including eight soldiers who had been at a highway checkpoint. At least 10 deaths have been confirmed so far.
Now to Milwaukee. Three former police officers could still face federal charges. A jury has acquitted them of all but one charge in the beating of a biracial man in 2004. Here's the picture of that man. The jury did not return any verdict on a battery charge against one of the officers.
In Washington, gay and lesbian parents were out in force overnight. They're getting tickets for Monday's annual Easter Egg Roll on the White House lawn. A leader of the Family Pride Coalition says the presence of same-sex parents is not meant to be a political statement.
HARRIS: Listen to this.
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CROWD: Boo!
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HARRIS: Yes, Dodgers fans were quite vocal in their disapproval as Barry Bonds took the field last night in Los Angeles. It was the Giant slugger's first game since news broke that he may be in legal hot water over his 2003 grand jury testimony about steroids. More on Bonds' troubles coming up in just a few minutes.
And if you haven't filed your taxes yet, you better get cracking. This is your last weekend before the deadline. Don't be misled either about getting an extension. If you owe money, you still have to send a check to the IRS by the deadline even if you turn in your tax returns later.
NGUYEN: That's right. They want their money.
Coming up this hour, the case that has split Duke University and Durham, North Carolina. Can the rift be healed? We'll ask one community leader trying to stitch things back together.
And when it comes to religious images, critics say this time "South Park" is out of control and the cartoon's own network agrees.
Plus, you get a line, I'll get a pole and we'll go down to the crawdad hole.
HARRIS: Hey now.
NGUYEN: Wiped out by Hurricane Rita, mud bugs. Yes, those creepy crawlies -- well, they are crawling back and sweeter than ever and so are the customers.
HARRIS: Our top story -- their disappearance almost a month ago prompted an outpouring of community support. Now the bodies of two missing Milwaukee boys may have been found not far from home. We expect to hear from family members this hour.
They describe the 12-year-old Quadrevion Henning and 11-year-old Purvis Parker as good students, not the kind of kids who would run away. Now police believe two bodies found in a pond last night are the boys. Official autopsy results could come today.
But reporter Ty Milburn of affiliate WTMJ says family members have confirmed the tragic outcome.
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TY MILBURN, WTMJ REPORTER (voice-over): After weeks of an exhaustive search, police found Quadrevion Henning and Purvis Parker's bodies at one of the first places they looked, in a park just blocks away from where the boys live.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Two people walking through this park discovered a body floating in the lagoon.
MILBURN: The first body was found early Friday evening. The second body surfaced a few hours later. Police said the bodies were badly decomposed. Police showed family members photos of the bodies. They I.D.'d them. All this while, a group of neighbors and complete strangers said prayers and held a vigil outside the Henning family house.
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HARRIS: And more on the latest developments in the missing boys' case. Just ahead, family members plan, again, to hold a news conference this hour and we will bring that to you live. And reporter Ty Milburn, who you just heard from, will join us live from Milwaukee in about 10 minutes.
NGUYEN: Well, hope gives way to heartache in Oklahoma. The search for a missing 10-year-old girl ends in tragedy. Jamie Rose Bolin was the focus of an Amber Alert and an intense search. Police thought she may have been the victim of an Internet predator. Well, now they say her body has been found in a neighbor's apartment.
CNN's Ed Lavandera reports from Oklahoma.
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ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Two days of searching for 10- year-old Jamie Rose Bolin came to a devastating end Friday afternoon here in the town of Purcell, Oklahoma, where authorities discovered her body in an apartment complex not too far away from where she was last seen. In fact, that is the disturbing twist to this story.
Her body was discovered in the apartment of 26-year-old Kevin Ray Underwood, who lived just downstairs, 15 feet away from where Jamie Rose Bolin and her family lived in this apartment complex.
The district attorney here in Purcell says that Underwood will be charged with first degree murder on Monday, and will face the death penalty. And he says this is the most gruesome crime he has ever seen.
KUYKENDALL: This is one of the most, if not the most, heinous, atrocious and cruel case that I've been involved with in my 24 years as a district attorney.
LAVANDERA: The news of Jamie Rose Bolin's death came as a devastating blow to her family. In fact, the family was brought here, to the police station, just moments after they had discovered the body in the apartment complex. Her father collapsed here. He was taken away by ambulance and family members say he has been sedated at a local hospital.
MARK CHILES, UNCLE: This happened right there in the apartment below him. And you need to know who your neighbors are. And don't let your kids get away from you, because, I mean, this can happen in a flash.
LAVANDERA: Authorities here in Oklahoma will not say how Jamie Rose Bolin was killed, nor will they go into any details as to how Kevin Ray Underwood came into contact with her.
But they do say they will spend the weekend getting the necessary search warrants so they can search his apartment and car and be prepared to file those murder charges on Monday.
Ed Lavandera, CNN, Purcell, Oklahoma.
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NGUYEN: So the case of the missing Milwaukee boys -- and we just do want to remind you that the family is expected to speak within the hour and when they do we're going to bring that to you live. But that case and Jamie Rose Bolin's tragic story lead us to our e-mail question today.
What safety precautions do you take to protect your child? Do you talk about safety with your kids? What's your method? It could help a lot of folks out there this morning. E-mail us what you're doing at home to protect your children. Here's our e-mail address, weekends@CNN.com and we're going to read some of those responses throughout the show.
HARRIS: Whatever your plans for this holiday weekend you might have some nasty weather to deal with. Strong spring storms swept across Indiana overnight. Trees are down, power is out, and the National Weather Service has received reports of two tornadoes. And take a look at these pictures. Marble and golf ball-sized hail fell in the Indianapolis area.
NGUYEN: Is that a broken window?
HARRIS: Did it break the window?
NGUYEN: Yes. And it took some of that siding off.
HARRIS: Man. Some homes and other buildings were damaged southeast of the city where these storms are heading.
CNN meteorologist Reynolds Wolf is here with your forecast. Reynolds, it looks bad from those pictures and it's moving east, as these storms do.
(WEATHER REPORT) HARRIS: So they -- let's make a list here. They angered Scientologists and chef left the show.
NGUYEN: OK.
HARRIS: But their next stunt was too much for even Comedy Central.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A cartoon. A cartoon is about to air on American television with the Muslim Prophet Mohammed as a character.
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HARRIS: OK, find out what was banned from "South Park." That story coming up.
NGUYEN: No, that's not construction and it's not rain. Those were boos. The boo birds were flying high in Los Angeles last night. We'll have the latest on the perjury investigation.
Hi, Veronica.
VERONICA DE LA CRUZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, there, Betty. OK, here's the question. What are users clicking on at CNN.com? I've got the countdown of the most popular stories. That's coming up in less than 60 seconds.
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DE LA CRUZ: Our dot com countdown begins with number 10. How about a little hoop action and this question? Who are the top 10 players in the NBA? From Shaq to Kobe to Tim Duncan, Ian Thompson takes a look in "Inside the NBA."
And number nine takes us to Afghanistan for a battle that is being called the biggest in the country in several months. Afghan forces backed by U.S.-led coalition troops killed 41 Taliban insurgents.
Number eight, the judge in the death penalty trial of Zacarias Moussaoui has decided that would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid will not testify.
And number seven, the White House released President Bush's tax return on Friday. The president and the first lady reported at an adjusted gross income of $735,000 for last year. They paid just under $188,000 in federal taxes.
Vice president Cheney reported an adjusted gross income of nearly $9 million. The Cheneys refund, $1.9 million.
The countdown of the most popular stories continues when CNN SATURDAY MORNING returns. I'm Veronica de la Cruz for the .com desk.
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HARRIS: The tragic stories of three missing children top the news this morning. First, a month-long search for two missing Wisconsin boys has ended in a Milwaukee pond. The two bodies were found. Their family members say it's 12-year-old Quadrevion Henning and 11-year-old Purvis Parker. No official word yet. The family is holding a news conference in just moments and we will join that live.
In Oklahoma, a nationwide Amber Alert ended in tragedy. Police say they've found the body of a missing Oklahoma girl in the neighbor's apartment. Prosecutors say they will file murder charges against the 26-year-old neighbor.
Heavy rain in western Colombia sent a mountain of mud onto a seaport town. Roads washed out, nearly 1,000 people had to be evacuated by helicopter. Ten are known dead, but the death toll is expected to rise.
NGUYEN: Well, a rough night for home run hitter Barry Bonds. Take a listen.
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CROWD: Boo!
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NGUYEN: You hear all the boos? Los Angeles last night, Bonds and the San Francisco Giants played the Dodgers. Jeering fans yelled "liar" and "guilty" from the stands. Wow. So did Bonds lie when he testified about steroids in 2003? A federal grand jury is looking into it.
CNN's Ted Rowlands reports.
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QUESTION: Do you have anything to say about this grand jury investigation?
BARRY BONDS, BASEBALL PLAYER: No.
TED ROWLANDS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Swamped by the media, Barry Bonds had nothing to say last night as he left the baseball stadium in San Francisco.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Guys, you're not supposed to be in the hallway here.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You guys can't -- you guys have to go to the clubhouse.
QUESTION: We just want to know if ...
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's not speaking tonight, thank you, folks.
ROWLANDS: According to two sources familiar with the proceedings, Bonds is the focus of a grand jury probe because federal prosecutors believe he lied under oath when he testified during the 2003 BALCO scandal that he had not knowingly used steroids.
BONDS: I'm being crucified by the media.
ROWLANDS: On the ESPN2 reality show "Bonds on Bonds," Barry Bonds appeared frustrated when he acknowledged that the federal government is still investigating him. He also says he didn't lie.
BONDS: I am still being investigated by the federal government. So at this point and stage they already have my testimony so they already know what I stated. And I stand by that 100 percent.
ROWLANDS: When he testified in 2003, Bonds of given immunity, meaning if he told the truth, he would not be prosecuted.
MARK STARR, SENIOR EDITOR, "NEWSWEEK": The only way you could get in trouble in that grand jury, where all of the players had immunity, was to lie and it appears that Barry Bonds may have courted that trouble.
ROWLANDS: If indeed he did, Bonds would not be the first high- profile person to make a bad situation worse.
WILLIAM CLINTON, FORMER PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I did not have sexual relations with that woman.
ROWLANDS: From Bill Clinton and Martha Stewart to rapper Lil' Kim, many people have lied to grand juries or federal prosecutors.
TRENT COPELAND, LEGAL ANALYST: You're Barry Bonds, you're someone like him in the public eye, you may very likely be more concerned about your legacy than you are about telling the truth.
MICHAEL RAINS, BARRY BONDS' ATTORNEY: Barry bonds is clean. Barry Bonds is a great athlete. Some people will never accept it for what it is.
ROWLANDS: Bonds and his lawyers have long maintained he's being unfairly targeted by federal prosecutors, but many legal experts say it is common for prosecutors to go after high-profile figures like Bonds.
COPELAND: The core of our judicial system is that people must tell the truth, because if Barry Bonds can be indicted for perjuring himself, then every other guy on the street has got to know that he, too, could also be charged with perjury if he doesn't tell the truth.
ROWLANDS: Barry Bonds is very close to passing Babe Ruth to become number two for most career homeruns. This should be a wonderful time for the baseball superstar, but because of speculation that he used steroids and lied about it, it isn't.
Ted Rowlands, CNN, Los Angeles.
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HARRIS: And once again, we are standing by for the start of the news conference with the families of Quadrevion Henning and Purvis Parker, the two boys missing for just about a month now and may have been found. Two bodies found in a pond very near the homes of the two families. Once again, standing by for a news conference. No positive I.D. yet from the ...
NGUYEN: An autopsy is being done.
HARRIS: And an autopsy is being performed. We may have the results of the autopsy a little later today and a positive I.D., but the families believe they have found their loved ones.
NGUYEN: We will hear from them shortly.
Plus possible tornadoes land in the Midwest, and that storm system is not done yet. Meteorologist Reynolds Wolf is next right here on CNN SATURDAY.
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HARRIS: Quickly now let's take you to Milwaukee where Ty Milburn, reporter for our CNN affiliate WTMJ in Milwaukee, is talking to Dennis Frazier, Quadrevion Henning's uncle.
MILBURN: Holding out ...
DENNIS FRAZIER, UNCLE OF QUADREVION HENNING: Of course they're there. They hands are up and they're talking and joking. Everybody's doing well this morning.
MILBURN: Thank you.
HARRIS: OK. What we'll do is we'll just turn that tape around. This was an interview conducted just a short time ago. We thought -- give me just a second -- we thought that there would be a formal press conference, but apparently that is not going to happen.
What happened is the uncle, Dennis Frazier, just talked individually with individual reporters and what we'll do is we'll get Ty Milburn's interview. We'll turn that around and bring it to you.
NGUYEN: We'll also try to get Ty Milburn live too, to put it all in perspective for us. So hold on, stand by for that. More news coming at you, but we want to talk about some weather outside today, because that's making big news -- severe weather in many parts of the country. It's not over yet. I know we heard it last weekend ...
HARRIS: Not by a long shot.
NGUYEN: ... and the weekend before. More to come. Reynolds Wolf joins us now with the latest on that. Hi, Reynolds.
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NGUYEN: Thank you, Reynolds.
HARRIS: Well, just a moment ago, we promised that we would, as quickly as we could, turn around a bit of the interview conducted by Ty Milburn with our CNN affiliate WTMJ in Milwaukee.
His interview with Dennis Frazier, the uncle of Quadrevion Henning -- and this is Dennis Frazier talking about the discovery of the bodies last night, bringing some sense of closure for the family.
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FRAZIER: If you look at the family -- you know, obviously it was hard, but if you looked at the family, I mean, you couldn't really tell. I mean, the family is holding up very, very well.
MILBURN: But this is devastating.
FRAZIER: Yes, it is. Of course, it's devastating, but like I said, it brings closure to both families and it can help us get through this next process. You know, it's no more waiting. I was saying it's like a chess match, you know, at a certain point, you know, just waiting for the police department, just waiting for leads and stuff. So we're glad that, you know, I mean, that there can be closure right now.
MILBURN: Any sense of what happened? I mean, I heard you say that you hope that it's a mistake.
FRAZIER: Yes, there's a lot of speculations and everything, you know, that they were playing out on the ice and everything, but we're not going to say much on that until the police department finishes their autopsy and everything and just make sure, you know, that there was no foul play involved. You know, once all that's done, you know, we will hold another press conference.
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HARRIS: And once again, that is Dennis Frazier. He is the uncle of one of the two boys whose bodies were found in a pond near their home in Milwaukee. He is the uncle of Quadrevion Henning. Henning and Parker missing for ...
NGUYEN: Purvis Parker, yes.
HARRIS: Purvis Parker, 11 years old, Henning, 12 years old, missing for nearly two months. Is it two months?
NGUYEN: March 19th is when they went missing and this pond is in the park where the boys were headed the day that they ...
HARRIS: Just to play basketball.
NGUYEN: Yes -- were going to just go play basketball, but we do have to put this information out that the positive identification of these bodies has not been confirmed as of yet by the police. An autopsy is being conducted. We should get those results today.
HARRIS: A little later today.
NGUYEN: A little bit later today, but you heard it from the family there. They believe that these bodies are the two missing boys out of Milwaukee, bringing a sad search to a tragic end.
HARRIS: Well, they were notified when the bodies were found and, apparently, they went down with the authorities and identified the bodies. We will talk to Ty Milburn who is our reporter with our CNN affiliate WTMJ in Milwaukee and learn from him what more the uncle had to say about this discovery and what the family's been going through in the last couple of months and that's coming up straight ahead.
NGUYEN: In other news, tensions remain high in Durham, North Carolina this morning. Coming up here on CNN SATURDAY, an interview with a minister working to calm the community in the midst of the Duke rape investigation,
Plus gay and lesbian parents show up to make sure they are represented at the annual White House Easter Egg Hunt. We'll take you live to Washington.
And anything goes on "South Park," right? Not this time. The "South Park" ban is next.
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HARRIS: Good morning again, everyone. A sad ending to the search for a missing Oklahoma girl. Authorities say the body of 10- year-old Jamie Rose Bolin was found in a neighbor's apartment last night. The neighbor, Kevin Ray Underwood is under arrest. The D.A. says he'll seek the death penalty.
A tragic outcome in the case of two missing Milwaukee boys. Family members say two bodies found in a pond are those of the missing boys. Official autopsy results are expected later today. Twelve- year-old Quadrevion Henning and 11-year-old Purvis Parker have been missing for almost a month.
Milwaukee officials are calling for calm after the verdict in an alleged police beating case. Two former officers were acquitted. Jurors were deadlocked on a charge against the third ex-cop. The white officers were accused in the brutal beating of a biracial man. City officials say they'll ask whether Federal prosecutors can file charges.
NGUYEN: Well, good morning. It's the annual White House Easter Egg Roll, but with a little bit of a twist this time around. Some parents waited in line all night to get tickets. The traditional event rolls down the South Lawn Monday morning. White House correspondent Elaine Quijano joins us with the latest on this. A lot of attention on this year's Easter Egg Roll, Elaine.
ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: That's exactly right. Good morning to you, Betty. The Easter Egg Roll dates back to 1878, an American tradition for sure that is clearly taking on some political overtones this year. Among those who lined up early to get their hands on some of the thousands of tickets being distributed today for the event are gay and lesbian couples, parents who say they simply want to make their presence known.
So in a sign of unity on Monday, they're going to be wearing rainbow-colored leis at the event. They insist that the display is simply a chance to introduce their families to the American public. Here's Jennifer Chrisler, a lesbian mother of twins.
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JENNIFER CHRISLER, FAMILY PRIDE COALITION: It's not at all a protest. This really is about gay and lesbian families taking their kids to a great American tradition. You know, there are a lot of voices right now talking about gay and lesbian families and we think it's really important that our voices be heard since we are those families and we are the ones raising those kids and one way to do that is to identify ourselves when we participate in events like the White House egg roll.
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QUIJANO: Now, while Chrisler says this is not a protest, she in fact is the head of the executive director of the Family Pride Coalition, a group that has voiced objections to the Bush administration in the past, namely against education Secretary Margaret Spellings who last year criticized a PBS kid's show for depicting families that included lesbian parents. Now as for the White House, all officials here will say is that all families are welcome to attend the event -- Betty.
NGUYEN: Elaine, is the White House expecting any tensions to fly between the adults attending this event on Monday? Is there any kind of security in place for it?
QUIJANO: I haven't heard anything to that effect, Betty. I don't think they're really anticipating any kind of serious difficulty. Obviously, this is a group that wants to show its unity, but I have not heard of anything serious along those lines.
NGUYEN: Let's hope it doesn't get to that point. Elaine Quijano at the White House. Thank you.
HARRIS: There's always the razor-thin line separating funny from offensive. The creators of Comedy Central's "South Park" have been riding that line for years, but this time Comedy Central is saying oh, no, not going to happen. If you know anything about "South Park," then you know almost everything is grist for the mill so what has the network drawing the line in the sand?
CNN's entertainment correspondent Sibila Vargas has the answer.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: A cartoon. A cartoon is about to air on American television with the Muslim Prophet Mohammed as a character.
SIBILA VARGAS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Controversy has once again come to "South Park." "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone are taking on the use of religious symbols and religious groups are not laughing.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Matt Stone and Trey Parker are whores. They are prostitutes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, come on people. Do you really think anybody's going to be that pissed off about a cartoon?
VARGAS: The outrage stems from this week's "South Park" episode which satirizes the worldwide protest that erupted earlier this year after a Danish newspaper featured images of the Islamic Prophet Mohammed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just think about what you're doing to free speech.
VARGAS: One of the boys tried to persuade the Fox network not to censor an episode of another animated show, "The Family Guy" that features the Prophet Mohammed.
THE FAMILY GUY: Remember the time I got a salmon helmet (ph) from Mohammed while wearing a toga? Coming, Mohammed.
VARGAS: Here's where it gets interesting. Comedy Central really did ban "South Park" creators from showing the image of Mohammed and that led "South Park" to accuse its own network of hypocrisy by using another religious icon.
Because we don't want trouble with our own network we won't show you what the Jesus and President Bush figures do next, but suffice it to say it has Catholic groups plenty upset at "South Park's" creators.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know what they are. They're cowards. The hypocrites are not the people at Comedy Central. The hypocrites are Parker and Stone. If they're men of principle, they should resign immediately and say listen, this is out of character. We're not going to put up with this. Instead they take a cheap shot at Christ during holy week and they think that we're going sit around and smile about it.
VARGAS: Comedy Central is defending its decision to black out the Mohammed picture. In a statement to "SHOWBIZ TONIGHT," the network says quote, in light of recent world events, we feel we made the right decision. Just last month Comedy Central pulled a repeat of another "South Park" episode, the one that makes fun of Scientology and Tom Cruise.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What's going on? Tom Cruise won't come out of the closet.
VARGAS: But this Mohammed controversy is a lot more inflammatory. The real-life protests that erupted when that Danish newspaper published the Mohammed cartoon, stretched from Iran to New York City. Other networks including CNN decided to not show those controversial cartoons. CNN senior editor for Arab affairs Octavia Nasr has spent a great deal of time talking to people in the Muslim world about the Danish cartoon controversy.
OCTAVIA NASR, CNN SENIOR EDITOR FOR ARAB AFFAIRS: They tell you very clearly, it's not necessarily the depiction of the prophet. It's in what way he's being depicted. In if it's in a way that ridicules the prophet, that's not accepted. In it's in a way that disrespects the prophet in any way, that's not accepted and that's going bring in outrage.
VARGAS: "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone aren't commenting publicly on this issue, but they may very well have made their comment in the episode.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If you don't show Mohammed, then you've made a distinction between what is OK to poke fun at and what isn't. Either it's all OK, or none of it is. Let this be our final answer.
VARGAS: And so it goes. The latest smack fight between free speech concerns, religious sensibilities and corporate responsibility.
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HARRIS: Man! I've never watched that even once ...
NGUYEN: I've seen little clips on our show, but I don't watch it.
HARRIS: Still ahead, you can hear the loud calls coming all of the way from the city of Durham, North Carolina, a city rocked by racial tensions in the aftermath of rape allegations against members of the Duke lacrosse team. One of the men leading the cry for civility next on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
NGUYEN: Plus they don't just taste good. These mud bugs are crawling back to New Orleans with some great economic...
HARRIS: Mud bugs?
NGUYEN: Yep and people love them. We'll talk about it next.
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DE LA CRUZ: I'm Veronica de la Cruz at the .com desk. We continue now with our countdown of the most popular stories on CNN.com. We head to Florida for number six. Preliminary autopsy results show that the 49-year-old woman who died after riding mission space at Walt Disney World had severe and long-standing high blood pressure.
Number five, Eminem pays tribute to his best friend, rapper Proof. Proof was killed in a nightclub shooting on Eight Mile Road on Tuesday. And number four, Molly the cat is finally free and in good condition. The black feline had been stuck for nearly two weeks in the narrow crawl space between two buildings in New York. Yesterday rescuers drilled a hole in the wall and Molly was pulled to safety.
Get the details at CNN.com/most popular. We'll have the top three stories on our countdown when CNN SATURDAY MORNING returns.
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HARRIS: It is a community divided in Durham, North Carolina.
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CHANCELLOR JAMES AMMONS, NORTH CAROLINA CENTRAL UNIVERSITY: For the last few weeks, Durham has been shaken by allegations arising from the incident of March 13. While feelings of pain, anger and confusion are understandable, in times like these, let us remember that justice is served in the courtroom, not in the media nor at the hands of individuals.
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HARRIS: Duke University under scrutiny. An African-American student from another university hired to dance at a party told police she was beaten and raped by three white members of the university's lacrosse team. DNA evidence didn't produce a match to any of the 46 members tested but the DA says the investigation will go on.
The president of Duke University made a statement referring to, quote, "a culture of bad behavior involving the men's lacrosse team," but what is the community saying about this? I spoke with William Turner, an associate professor at Duke University's divinity school and the pastor of Mount Level (ph) Baptist church and talked about the peoples' initial reaction to the allegations and how the university can move on past this controversy.
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REV. WILLIAM C. TURNER, ASSOC. PROF., DUKE SCH. OF DIVINITY: First and foremost there are a lot of people in Durham who believe the woman. Now that's first. They believe that a woman has been victimized. They don't believe she made up the story. As it has to do with the details and the facts as the court sees them, that's another question, but the first response from the community is compassion for a woman who has pressed charges or who's made allegations, I might say. That's first.
Secondly, I don't think there's that much question about the sub culture of our college campuses. It's fairly well known how students behave. They come to college and take the four years as a time to sew wild oats, to study hard, to play hard.
And for years and years, most of that socializing was contained on campus. As long as it's contained on campus, then the campus has its way of cleaning it up, of disciplining people who need to be disciplined, suspended, bringing people before the judicial board and that's all a private matter within the campus.
HARRIS: Right.
TURNER: Once it spills out into the community, then it becomes a public matter and it has to be handled publicly and I think that's where we are in this case and in some other cases involving students who live in houses that are contiguous to the campus.
HARRIS: Let me -- let me just ask you another quick question here.
TURNER: OK.
HARRIS: To pick up on that point. Pampered, privileged athletes getting away with just about everything. Does that sound like Duke to you?
TURNER: That is the culture of privileged upper class young people whose parents are able to buy them in and out of whatever they get into. That is the culture of college athletics that has emerged or morphed, should I say, into big business for universities. Athletes get special treatment, that's no secret. In terms of the specific allegations, as I said, time will prove what can be tested in court. But the behavior --
HARRIS: Yes, go ahead, the behavior.
TURNER: But the behavior is within the range of activity that people have to know about.
HARRIS: Got you. You know, so often black folks and white folks end up at each other's throats and at the end of the day you ask them, what is it that you're arguing and fussing about, what are you fighting about and no one -- both sides can see it totally different. From your point of view, what are the racial dynamics that are going on here in Durham and perhaps even between these universities. I don't know, I can't characterize it. Maybe you can tell us better.
TURNER: All right. Between the universities I would take exception to the description of being at each other's throats. That's not the tone or the temperature between the universities and I might ad there's a third one. There's a third one that will soon be brought into conversations. When it comes to people who are on the street, when it comes to people who know the alleged victim, there is the cry for justice.
People believe that when allegations of this sort are made, somebody ought to be held accountable and that the wheels of justice, of criminal justice should move swiftly and not slowly to apprehend and to protect the rest of the citizenry. That's the way it happens out in the streets when the victims -- or not the victim, but when the alleged perpetrators are African-American, Hispanic, lower class, poorer class and so the cry on the streets is treat these alleged perpetrators just like all others are being treated.
HARRIS: Dr. Turner, thanks for your time. We appreciate it. (END VIDEOTAPE)
NGUYEN: In other news today, some of our top stories to tell you about, a month-long search for two missing Wisconsin boys has ended in a Milwaukee pond. Two bodies were found there. Family members say it's 12-year-old Quadrevion Henning and 11-year-old Purvis Parker, but no official word has been given just yet. Autopsy results could come later today.
In Oklahoma, a nationwide Amber alert ends in tragedy. Police say they have found the body of a missing girl in a neighbor's apartment. Prosecutors say they will file murder charges against the 26-year-old neighbor.
HARRIS: We want to get you to our e-mail question of the day. What are you doing this summer this, spring and summer, shoot, year round...
NGUYEN: Exactly.
HARRIS: ... to protect your kids, particularly in light of all of the bad news regarding children in the news, particularly this morning. Here's the question. What safety precaution do you take to protect your children? There's our address, weekends@CNN.com.
And this from Chuck and Nicole, who write, "accepting that we cannot watch our kids every moment of every day, we believe that the best chance we have of keeping them safe is to arm them with some self-preservation tools to help them develop a gut-check, a radar that tells them when something is wrong."
NGUYEN: DC from Atlanta writes, "Our children live in evil and perilous times. Parents today have to understand that we cannot parent the way our parents and their parents did. We can no longer simply send our kids out play to be home before the streetlights comes on."
HARRIS: That's what we used to do back in the day. And this from Martha who writes, "We bought my son a cell phone when he was about 10 and not because he has an active social life. My son's position can now be triangulated with GPS."
NGUYEN: That's smart.
HARRIS: That is smart. That's a good plan.
NGUYEN: Might as well use technology to your advantage.
HARRIS: Thank you. Thank you all for the e-mailed responses to our question this morning. We'll have another question for you tomorrow. Still ahead, tasting good and shelling the money.
NGUYEN: Crawfish are crawling back to New Orleans with some great economic benefits. That story is next.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) DE LA CRUZ: Well, like we promised you our .com countdown continues now with the top three stories at CNN.com. Number three, severe weather in the Balkans has caused the Danube River to rise to its highest level in more than a century, driving residents from their homes and farmlands.
And number two, as you may know by now, police say the body of 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin was found in a neighbor's apartment last night in Oklahoma. The district attorney says he plans to seek the death penalty in this case.
And number one, drum roll please, we go to Boston, Massachusetts, for this one. A couple has been charged with filing fraudulent insurance claims that said ate glass found in their food at restaurants, hotels and grocery stores. The couple allegedly filed claims in at least four different states, used aliases and even ate glass intentionally to support their insurance claims. That is dedication.
You can find all the stories online at CNN.com/most popular. Wouldn't you agree? That is pure dedication.
HARRIS: Dedication to fraud and crime.
NGUYEN: It's desperate. Come on!
HARRIS: There's a padded cell waiting for them.
NGUYEN: Yes.
HARRIS: Veronica, thank you. Folks in New Orleans just love those mud bugs.
NGUYEN: Crawdaddies as some people call them.
HARRIS: If you don't know what they are, CNN's Gulf coast correspondent Susan Roesgen explains what they are, where they went and who's standing in line to get them.
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SUSAN ROESGEN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): If you're not from Louisiana, boiled crawfish can look a little creepy, but in this part of the country standing in line for them is an Easter weekend tradition.
CARMIE WINTERS, CUSTOMER: I have a child coming in from college and this is the one request. No candy for Easter, but crawfish so that's why I'm here.
ROESGEN: Crawfish aren't really fish at all. They're crustaceans. Think of them as miniature lobsters and they're a lot more appetizing. In Louisiana we call them mud bugs because they live in the muddy rice fields in the southwestern part of the state. That's an area that got hit really hard by hurricane Rita and it ruined a lot of the rice crop and killed many of the crawfish, but the crawfish have come back sweeter than ever.
A small, but significant sign of hope for people like seafood store owner Henry Poynot. He lost his home in hurricane Katrina, but he's glad to be back in his busy store.
HENRY POYNOT, STORE OWNER: Doing great to see the customers back and we're glad to have the old New Orleans back.
Susan Roesgen, CNN, New Orleans.
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NGUYEN: Well if you're standing in line, let's show you what the weather's like outside down there in Louisiana waiting for those craw daddies. Do you eat crawfish, by the way?
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