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Child Sex Assault Tape; Lead Testing; Continuing Violence in Myanmar; Bombing in Afghanistan; What Does it Mean to be Latino?
Aired September 29, 2007 - 07:59 ET
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BETTY NGUYEN, CNN ANCHOR: From the CNN Center, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING, it is September 29th. October is knocking at our door. Good morning, everybody I'm Betty Nguyen.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Don London.
NGUYEN: Nice to have you here today.
LEMON: Some much deserved time off. And I'm sitting in with Betty Nguyen this morning. We're going to talk about a little girl seen brutalized in a home made videotape.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She's safe. She's OK. The mother has cooperated with us.
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LEMON: Right now police are asking for help in tracking this guy down.
And this.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's equivalent to 40 to 50 large hurricanes striking all at once. Its greater economic damage than any modern economy has ever suffered.
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NGUYEN: The threat is real. And this morning we're going to tell you what the U.S. government is doing to protect your power grid from a cyber attack. It is a CNN exclusive.
LEMON: Betty, take a look at this. It's not even full week of fall and it already looks like winter.
NGUYEN: Oh, my.
LEMON: In some parts of the nation. Is that snow?
NGUYEN: Believe it or not. Looks like it.
LEMON: We begin with a very serious story. New developments this morning in a disturbing story out of Nevada. A young girl seen being sexually assaulted in a home made videotape. She has been found and she is safe. Authorities released the haunting image of the girl to get help in finding her. It worked. And they're still searching for a man wanted for questioning who is now considered a suspect in all this.
For the very latest, details live from Kara Finnstrom she is in Pahrump, Nevada with the very latest for us -- Kara.
KARA FINNSTROM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Good morning, Don.
Well, really some heart-warming news late yesterday as a little girl seen repeatedly raped on this videotape was found not own alive but detectives say safe and with her mother. A lot of questions that remain this morning as to exactly what happened to this little girl and how this horrific abuse could have gone on for so long. Detectives now say that videotape was made four years ago. Right now they are asking that the public's focus shift from this little girl to the man they are still looking for, her attacker. They have identified their suspect in this case as Chester Arthur Stiles.
Now, this is the man they were already looking for as a person of interest in this case. Late yesterday, Madison's mother also confirmed that he was a distant family friend. He was also already being sought by both the FBI and Las Vegas authorities for some unrelated charges to this case of lewd conduct involving a 14-year-old.
Yesterday, the district attorney for Nye County and also detectives spoke a little bit about what they have been learning about this man. They say he considers himself a rugged survivalist, that he's often armed, and that he has been combative with police before. They also say that law enforcement across the country have made it their mission to find him.
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SHERIFF TONY DEMEO, NYE COUNTY NEVADA: Chester Arthur Stiles, turn yourself into local law enforcement agency so that you can be arrested for the warrants that we have open for you so you can be further investigated for any culpability you have in this case.
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FINNSTROM: Now, as far as Madison and her mother and family, detectives tell us that the mother says she was completely unaware that this abuse was happening and that she is very saddened. They also say as part of the ongoing investigation and one of the questions that need to be answered is how no one close to her saw the physical signs at least of this horrific abuse.
Also, we did just speak just a few moments ago with the sheriff and he says they are looking for Darren Tuck. He is the man that initially found this videotape. Police have a lot of questions for him. They wanted to take him into custody late yesterday. He tells us he has now taken underground. Those were his words. They are actively looking for him this morning as well as looking for Stiles -- Don. LEMON: Kara Finnstrom from Nevada, thank you for your report.
NGUYEN: Well, an even greater military presence being seen on the streets of Myanmar's largest city this morning. Myanmar was formerly known as Burma. And that greater crackdown that we talk about comes as a key U.N. envoy is set to meet with government leaders in Yangon today.
More guns also seem to have slowed the protest. We're getting fewer pictures and information out the repressed country. It looks like Internet links have been shut down. It's still not known if the government is responsible for that.
Let's turn to CNN's John Vause who joins us from neighboring Highland this morning. Any word on that Internet shutdown and who, indeed, is behind it?
JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Betty, the government would indeed be responsible for severing that connection to the outside world. It was really the voice of the protestors, the only weapon they had was international public opinion. That's all they had on their side. Just because the Internet connection has been severed it doesn't mean all communication has been stopped.
A CNN source inside Myanmar has described a dangerous game of cat and mouse which has been playing out on the streets of Yangon this afternoon. Now according to this source a hundred of the bravest and boldest demonstrators lined up three blocks away from army and police officers. There they called them, yelled at them, they shout slogans. May you be struck down by lightning.
As the soldiers and the police move in towards those demonstrators then suddenly another symbol goes up. The red fighting peacock flag which is a symbol of the student uprising in 1998 suddenly come out of no where. And we are told by this source that passers-by, those on patios, fall in behind this flag and they march for five blocks or so chanting Buddhist prayers.
And then as the police and the army turn their attention to those protesters, they scatter and hide. They then mask somewhere else and this game then begins all over again. That has been happening in the last few hours in Myanmar.
Also today Betty, there's been no sign of the Buddhist monks at the forefront of this uprising when it began a week or so ago. Many have been confined to their monastery. Hundreds of others have been arrested. There are rumors that many of the monks have been very mistreated by the authorities -- Betty.
NGUYEN: Yeah, John, the reports yesterday of some 35 bodies in the street near one of the main pagodas there. I want to ask you this, with the U.S. envoy coming into that country, what kind of talks is that person going to be having, not only with the government but also the noble laureate who is leader of the opposition national league for democracy? VAUSE: Ibrahim Gambari has in fact arrived now according to some reports. He did is say when he left Singapore on his way to Myanmar that he wants to talk to all sides. He met with her back in November when he was in Myanmar for the last occasion. It is unclear whether he will be able to meet with the opposition leader. He has said that he does want to hold fruitful discussions.
His job will be to try and broker some kind of peace talks between the military government and the pro democracy demonstrators. He is being described as the best chance for ending all of this peacefully. It's also being said that expectations are extremely low that he will have any success, Betty.
NGUYEN: All right. CNN's John Vause joining us live from Thailand. As well as many of the other media organizations are banned from Myanmar. John we thank you for that.
Now much of the information coming out of Myanmar is being collected by citizens of the country who send it onto the Democratic voice of Burma which is located in Norway. We will talk to the deputy director of the DVB in about 25 minutes.
But also new this morning, information out of Afghanistan.
LEMON: That's right. For a few seconds it was like an atom bomb. That's how a police officer describes a blast. Officials say a bomb ripped through a crowed military bus in the capital of Kabul, at least 27 people, including police and civilians were killed. Nearly 30 others were wounded. The government says no one has claimed responsibility for that.
Heading off more Blackwater U.S.A. type incidents in Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is sending a high-level investigative team to the country. The team will review how private security contractors operate. This follows the September 16th shootings where Blackwater U.S.A. guards allegedly killed Iraqi civilians. Blackwater says they were responding to attack on a U.S. diplomatic convoy. Rice wants a report by Friday.
The Pentagon is calling its latest missile defense test a success. Take a look at this new video, official's say a target missile was launched from Kodiak, Alaska and an interceptive missile fired from a base in California successfully tracked, intercepted and destroyed the target over the Pacific. Officials say yesterday's test marks seven successful tests out of 11 attempts.
NGUYEN: Also new this morning out of Texas, a break in the case of a first grader found hanged in her mother's garage. Take a look. Police have charged this man Shawn Earl Ahrender with capital murder. He is a 19-year-old, who lived less than a mile from the family's home.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I saw him all the time walking up and down our streets. No. No, it's not. (END VIDEO CLIP)
NGUYEN: Police are looking at DNA samples from the child's shirt. They say Ahrender who is also in jail on unrelated charges is a possible match. Earlier police suspected the mother's boyfriend and won't say if this arrest clears him.
LEMON: Crumbled SUV in ravine, you won't believe this Betty. Eight days.
NGUYEN: It is hard to imagine but it wasn't the end of the road for Tanya Rider.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is the cell power coverage that found her. This and a little cell phone beep saved her life.
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NGUYEN: Her incredible survival story and her husband's quest to find her. You don't want to miss this one.
BONNIE SCHNEIDER, AMS METEOROLIGIST: We almost are in the month of October, but things are very active in the tropics. We're watching two systems, including a brand-new tropical storm. I'll have a look at that.
Plus, the U.S. weather for today, coming up.
LEMON: Also coming up in a few minutes, what is Latino? We're exploring the Hispanic heritage in our "Uncovering America Series," when CNN SATURDAY MORNING continue.
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NGUYEN: Well, it's a good day to go out and play.
LEMON: Why are we here then?
NGUYEN: Exactly. But to that end, the children cable channel Nickelodeon is going dark today.
LEMON: I know. Usually dead air is not something most TV networks shoot for. But for three hours, that's a long time.
NGUYEN: For kids, that's a long time.
LEMON: Starting at noon, Nickelodeon won't show anything at all. It's the network's attempt to get kids out from in front of the TV and to get some fresh air.
NGUYEN: And it is not the first time, Nickelodeon has done this four years now for Worldwide Day of Play which is an attempt to fight the growing problem of childhood obesity. So kids keep the parents watching but you can go out and play. LEMON: Why is Bonnie Schneider here?
NGUYEN: Because she's going to tell us how the weather is going to be for those kids playing outside today.
LEMON: Some jumping jacks.
SCHNEIDER: You know the weather is perfect. It really, really is.
LEMON: I woke up this morning. Did you hear the breeze? I have these chimes and I could hear the breeze.
SCHNEIDER: We're talking about nice weather here, but we're also watching the Tropics. It has been so active, we have a brand-new tropical storm. Tropical storm Melissa has formed.
Let's go right to the satellite perspective and if you look at the bottom corner of your screen, you will see two tropical storms. One is named Karen. You may be familiar with that because we've been talking about it. But the new one is Melissa just formed this morning; winds are now at 40 miles per hour, busts up to 50 miles per hour. The movement to the west at 3 miles per hour. What's important to notice, as you look at the track, the storm weakens by the time we get to Tuesday and Thursday with winds down to 25 miles per hour.
There's a lot of wind sheer out there in the Atlantic and that is whey these storms even though they start very vigorous off the coast of Africa they tend to weaken. The same thing holds true with Karen. Notice on the satellite perspective is you look on the left side of your screen; the storm is getting sheered quite a bit. And that is definitely weakening it.
But you can't rule out Karen just yet because it is working its way across the Atlantic. And some of the computer models show the system re-strengthening. We'll have to watch this closely. You can see that re-strengthening from 35 mile pro ins on Sunday to Tuesday back to 35. So again towards the end of September, but it is still a very active time in the Tropics. So we'll be watching it.
NGUYEN: All right. So the kiddos go ahead and head outside. Although it's snowing in certain parts.
SCHNEIDER: In higher elevations we have snow, that's right and Mt. Hood.
NGUYEN: And it's just now fall.
SCHNEIDER: Yes. We're getting some snow there in the Mt. Hood area. But I can tell you that we'll really be looking at some warmer temperatures for the most of the country. It is taking a while to cool down.
NGUYEN: That's not just snow. That is a lot of it. And it's coming down fast.
SCHNEIDER: It's that heavy, wet snow that is tough to shovel, that's for sure.
LEMON: Nice to be on land.
NGUYEN: Ask us that in the mid of summer. We'll tell you how nice it is with all the humidity. Thank you, Bonnie.
This is an amazing story of survival. Tanya Rider crashed her car into a steep ravine in Washington State more than a week ago. It took eight days for rescuers to find her. In that time she didn't have any food or water.
Chris Daniels of our Seattle affiliate KING is tracking her recovery.
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Dr. LISA MCINTYRE, HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER: Well certainly people can live without food for a number of weeks. The fact that she's young and otherwise healthy helped in, you know, getting her to here.
CHRIS DANIELS, KING REPORTER (voice over): Doctors at Harborview Medical Center say Tanya Rider is in critical and improving condition, but she still suffered severe effects from a week without food and water, namely, her kidneys.
MCINTYRE: Dehydration, as well as the fact that she had muscle that was dead basically. When muscle dies, it breaks down and it has toxic by-products that cause kidney failure.
TOM RIDER, HUSBAND: I asked god to keep her safe or keep her with you. He had to have been with her for eight days with no food and water.
DANIELS: Tom Rider is relieved by the news. He had driven Highway 169 for days looking for his wife and was getting again questioned by authorities about her disappearance when he was told she was found.
RIDER: The detective comes in with this. This is the cell tower coverage that found her. This and a little cell phone beep saved her life.
DANIELS: That cell phone hit, called a ping, tracked Tanya's Honda Element to the wooded ravine off Highway 169. Rider wondered why police didn't do it earlier.
DEP. RODNEY CHINNICK, KING COUNTY WASH. SHERIFF'S DEPT: We saw bank activity when we believed could only be caused, based on information received by Tanya Rider. So that didn't stop us investigating but left us with a false impression that this was a voluntary missing person's case.
DANIELS: But Tom Rider says police focused too much attention on him instead of finding his wife and wonders if it would have made a difference in her condition at this hour. RIDER: She's basically still fighting for her life. It's not over. But I cannot believe god got her through eight days to die here.
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NGUYEN: And Tanya and Tom Rider have another reason to celebrate. Their eighth wedding anniversary is coming up next week. Thank goodness she's alive.
LEMON: That's an amazing story. Eight days. Can you imagine?
NGUYEN: At the bottom of a ravine with no water and no food.
LEMON: All right, we wish her well.
We are going to talk about a celebration of culture and Hispanic heritage. We'll start with this. What does it mean to be a Latino?
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The misnomer is that we all come from Mexico or Central America or South America.
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LEMON: Myths and realities. We're telling you the story in a special "Uncovering America."
NGUYEN: And she was rolled into a CAT scan machine where she waited and waited. Turns out she was left in there. But that is only the beginning. Wait until you hear how this ends.
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NGUYEN: In today's "Uncovering America," you know those ethnicity questions on forms that you have to fill out?
Well.
LEMON: Well.
CNN's Thelma Gutierrez shows us you can't define race by just checking a little box.
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THELMA GUTIERREZ, CNN CORRESPONDENT: What are Latinos? What do they look like? You may be surprised.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We go from black to white, we have Arab.
GUTIERREZ: Some of us are Asian. I'm Chinese-Mexican. Contrary to what most people think, Latino is not a race and it is not a particular ethnic group.
PROFESSOR PETE LOPEZ, CHICANO STUDIES, VALLEY COLLEGE: We transient race. We're not one racial mono logistic group. That is the biggest misnomer.
GUTIERREZ: Pete Lopez teaches Chicano studies in Los Angeles. He says politicians and marketing executives target the Latino market but usually miss their mark.
LOPEZ: They think if they put on the culture based celebrations and they talk immigration. The misnomer is that we all come from Mexico or Central America or South America.
GUTIERREZ: Latinos share a tie to Latin America somewhere in their family. My grandfather migrated from China to Mexico where he married my grandmother and started a family. Several generations and many interracial marriages later, this is the outcome. Different ethnic backgrounds tied at least in part to the Spanish language and the Mexican culture.
LOPEZ: The Latino is a person who understands he or she comes from this community. If you feel that you were raised in a Latino household, you'll know that. It's visceral. Something you feel, you sense.
MARCELLA ORTIZ SARDANIS, PROGRAM SPECIALIST, VALLEY COLLEGE: My name is Marcella Ortiz Sardanis, I'm French, Spanish and Mexican. I'm Latina. The stereotype is that we all speak with accents, that we all do not want to embrace the culture here, that we all are dark-skinned, black-eyed and we have one look, and we absolutely do not.
DOUG MARRIOTT: I'm Doug Marriott, I'm Canadian, and Mexican and I'm Latino. I remember somebody saying that if you have access to two languages it's like having two souls. I thought that was kind of true because when dream in Spanish or feel things in Spanish, you feel things differently.
GUTIERREZ: Latinos can be multi-racial, multi reglious and multi-ethnic that is 44 million counting U.S. Census Bureau suggests Latinos will exceed 100 million by the year 2050.
Thelma Gutierrez, CNN, Las Angeles.
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NGUYEN: Well in other news today. Pro democracy demonstrators aren't giving up in Myanmar. Now, the U.N. is stepping up pressure to end the violence. We have the latest on the tense protests right after this.
LEMON: She went in for a ct scan and was locked in the hospital. How the cancer patient got out coming up on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
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I'm Gerri Willis. That's your tip of the day. For more ideas, strategies and tips to save you money and protect your house, watch "Open House" today at 9:30 am Eastern right here on CNN.
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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Could a large-scale simultaneous cyber attack knock out power to a huge part of the country for months?
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NGUYEN: It is a scary scenario but one the U.S. government is hoping to prevent. Our Hugh has an exclusive report, and you don't want to miss it.
In the meantime, welcome back, everybody, on this Saturday morning. I'm Betty Nguyen.
LEMON: And I'm Don Lemon. T.J. is off today.
NGUYEN: That story coming up shortly on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. But Don, we are following new developments this morning in a shocking case out of Nevada. Authorities say a young girl seeing being sexually assaulted in a homemade video tape has been found and she is safe. Authorities say the girl was three when that tape was made. She is now 7 years old. And they say her mother didn't even know about the assault.
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SHERIFF TONY DEMEO, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: We believe, and I'd say this, that the mother was not aware of anything that went on with this young girl. It was very sad for her to find this out. And my heart goes out to the family.
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NGUYEN: A man initially wanted for questioning has now been named a suspect. Here's his picture. The Nye County sheriff is calling on Chester Arthur Stiles to turn himself in. Stiles is not related to the girl but had some connection to the family.
LEMON: The military now swarming through streets of Myanmar's largest city this morning, an even greater presence than in previous days. It's an attempt by the government to stop pro-democracy demonstrations. The increased crackdown in the country formerly known as Burma comes as a key U.S. envoy is expected to meet with leaders today. (INAUDIBLE) among the backers of the diplomatic mission.
Bloggers and online reporters have provided the lion's share of information on the situation there. But now Internet links have been shut down and many are blaming the government.
The military, the monks, the mass demonstrations, here's a CNN fact check on Myanmar.
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LEMON (voice-over): Buddhist monks in maroon and white robes. Thousands of their pro-democracy supporters in the streets of Yangon, Myanmar's largest city. Government warnings to stop the protests were ignored. Tensions soaring since the anti-government demonstrations began last month, triggered by a sharp increase in fuel prices and seething human rights issues like the jailing of political dissidents.
Burmese have suffered under the repressive yolk of military government for more than four decades. In the early '60s, a coup led by General Ne Win overthrew the democratic government. With his Burmese Path to Socialism, Ne Win virtually shut the country off from the outside world. Some 20 years later Ne Win resigned in the face of mounting popular demonstrations. The military stepped in and imposed direct rule.
A glimmer of hope swept the country in 1990 when an opposition party, led by Aung San Suu Kyi, won the first free multi-party elections in 30 years. Again, the military intervened, nullifying the results and placing Suu Kyi under house arrest. A year later, she was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. She has been under detention for 12 of the past 18 years.
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NGUYEN: We are following the very latest out of Myanmar. And the pictures and information that we're getting is smuggled out of the country because the hard-line regime has such control. One person who can bring us the inside story is Khin Maung Win. He once lived in Burma and now operates the Democratic Voice of Burma out of Norway where he is free of the repressive Myanmar regime in his home country. And he joins us by phone.
Let me ask you about this. Since this is such a repressive and secretive country, a lot of us are really just getting to know the extent of that through these pictures. Give us a sense of what the conditions are like in the country.
KHIN MAUNG WIN, DEP. DIR., DEMOCRATIC VOICE OF BURMA: Nowadays, you know, things that (INAUDIBLE) in Rangoon (ph), the situation is very difficult for demonstrators as well as for our journalists. And today there (INAUDIBLE) heavy shootings in Rangoon. That -- the snipers are targeting journalists and the leaders. And they are targeting our journalists. So our journalists are also finding very, very hard times to deliver images out of the country.
NGUYEN: Well, Khin, isn't it true that journalists can be sentenced to death for criticizing government? Also there are imposed nighttime curfews and the government has also banned assemblies of more than five people? WIN: That's right. That's right. You know, they even kill foreign journalists so they can (INAUDIBLE) citizens. You know, many have been killed in the last few days.
NGUYEN: Actually, we do have video of that, that you're talking about. And I want to warn our viewers that it is very graphic video. In the recent clashes, and we're going to air this in just a moment, the video shows a Japanese journalist. This is not it right now, but we will put it up there. It shows a Japanese journalist appearing to be shot dead at close range, which is what you were talking about, the journalists have been killed. There's a shot of that right now.
And to add to it, monks are reported dead. But we understand from the blogs, Ken, that your organization, the Democratic Voice of Burma, is going to have some special news about the Myanmar military. What is that?
WIN: We have been following closely the situation (INAUDIBLE) also. We are receiving information that there is a split within the army officers. For example, the (INAUDIBLE), they did not want to shoot the Buddhist monks and the demonstrators. But there are also some troop who they obey the order from the top and (INAUDIBLE) continuing the shootings (INAUDIBLE). So (INAUDIBLE) that there is a split within the army.
NGUYEN: All right. And the last thing I just want to say here, the first lady, Laura Bush, has issued this statement. We're going to put it up on the air for you. Saying: "Non-violent demonstrations by Buddhist monks and nuns have been met with tear gas, smoke grenades, baton beatings and automatic weapons. The regime admits to killing 10 people. But unofficial reports suggest the number is much higher."
Now the first lady goes on to say that the president calls on all nations, especially those closest to Burma, to support the aspirations of the Burmese people. Very quickly, though, when we talk about those nations who can really have an effect on what is happening there in Burma or now called Myanmar, is China really the only hope at this point?
WIN: Yes. China, and also Russia. We forget the (INAUDIBLE) of Russia. Russia is supposed to supply military hardware to Myanmar. Russia is also the (INAUDIBLE), have been the military regime to realize their (INAUDIBLE). So both Russia and China have a certain power on (INAUDIBLE). They both have to be convinced.
NGUYEN: All right. Khin Maung Win, the deputy director of the Democratic Voice of Burma, joining us today to provide some insight into the situation there in this country that is one of the most repressed on Earth -- Don.
LEMON: Betty, we go to a story that's pretty hard to believe, it's from Tucson, Arizona. A cancer patient says she was left alone in a CT scanner for hours. Apparently a technician put the patient into the scanner, well, and just forgot about her. The patient says it took her a while to realize what had happened. It took her a couple hours to get out of the machine. Then she realized she was locked in the clinic.
NGUYEN: Can you imagine?
LEMON: No. I'd be really upset too. She called 911 to get out. And the clinic says it's revising its procedures so this sort of thing doesn't happen again.
NGUYEN: How did she get left in -- I mean, it's already frightening enough, that machine.
LEMON: Maybe it was Friday and the person wanted to get out of there. I don't know, but that just seems really, really odd. And those things are really...
NGUYEN: Yes, it's very enclosed. So once you're in there, she had to crawl out. Well, the good thing is that she's out and she's OK. But my goodness.
All right. We're going to talk about this shortly, the nation's power system, is it protected against a cyber attack? Well, experts say it could all be turned off with just the click of a mouse.
LEMON: And later, at 8:00 a.m. Eastern, leading tests show positive results in one Georgia household. Now the mother is franticly trying to find where the lead came from. Back in a moment.
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NGUYEN: Parched earth, a severe drought is forcing officials in Alabama and Georgia to take drastic measures. A sweeping ban on outdoor watering is now in effect in parts of north and west Georgia, including Atlanta. In Alabama, the drought is putting a strain on the drinking water supply for more than 50,000 people. And in North Carolina, even the pumpkin crop is suffering. Farmers say the pumpkins are a little smaller this year because of the heat and dry conditions. So your jack-o-lantern is not going to be that big.
LEMON: Yes. It has been very, very dry. And we've seen it in the grass here. We had a little bit of rain in the past couple of days, though, past couple of weeks.
NGUYEN: That's Atlanta. I'm sure there are plenty parts that really could use the rain.
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LEMON: Celebrating Hispanic heritage, Josh Levs is -- Josh, I didn't know you were Hispanic.
JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Do you have to be to talk about stuff?
LEMON: No, not at all. But Betty and I were just wondering. We're like, wait, is Josh...
LEVS: I'm just here to share (INAUDIBLE) that maybe I am, maybe I'm not. Hey, Don...
LEMON: You just know a lot about everything.
LEVS: Nice. I do my best. I learn on time for you people. How's that? All right. So here's the deal, cnn.com today is unleashing a ton of information. It's fascinating about Hispanic heritage, part of our "Uncovering America" series, as part of this, we're learning things about how this country even came together in the first place. It's fascinating stuff. I'm going to have details on that. Not on myself (ph) though, I'm sorry to say.
Betty, what's up?
NGUYEN: All right. Well, Josh, with this ring I thee -- ah, forget about it. Yes, an appeals court ruling gives back that engagement ring.
LEMON: You have to say it right, fugetaboutit (ph)!
NGUYEN: Fugetaboutit! You'll want to hear, though, about this one, because coming up in our next hour of CNN SATURDAY MORNING, we'll give you all the juicy details.
LEMON: Fugetaboutit!
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LEMON: We are "Uncovering America" this morning as part of Hispanic Heritage Month.
NGUYEN: And our Josh Levs is here to show you how you can get some surprising information about a huge segment of the U.S. population.
This is really interesting, Josh.
LEVS: It is. It is fascinating. I mean, if you stop and think about America for a second, we have got a major city that we call Los Angeles. We have got a state called Montana. The Hispanic heritage defines a lot of America, a lot of where we come from. And dot-com today is unleashing some amazing stuff. I'm going to show you here. Get my glasses on because I am so Clark Kent. This is the home page of the Hispanic experience on cnn.com today. I want you to take a look at this.
If you go there and pay a visit to it. You can scroll through, see some amazing stories about how the Hispanic experience has defined America. And no matter where you live in America, you're going to take an interest in this. You can visit your state and take a look at the size and impact of the Hispanic experience in your state.
Now I'm going past these numbers really fast. If anybody gets these, you win a prize. But let me show you one more thing before I let you go here. You know, these days at cnn.com, it's not just about us sharing information with you. It's the opposite as well. You send your stories, your videos to us and we have a whole I-Report section here where people are sending us their stories, their backgrounds that really, from a very personal perspective, describe the experience that they have had and that has really helped define America, at least among this population.
Look at those cute kids. They are like 50 now. You can go through and you can see the stories of individuals just like you at home who were writing into cnn.com, sending videos, pictures, stories, whatever it is that you want to share with us about your personal experience.
And, guys, throughout this, we're also going to be posting video stories about the Hispanic heritage in America. And there are links to previous sections of "Uncovering America," a look at other minority populations in this country. That's all coming through starting today at cnn.com. We'll hope you'll pay a visit. We hope you'll send your e-mails, your thoughts, your videos, your photos. And who knows, guys? Maybe Don and Betty will want to share their stories, too. What do you all think?
LEMON: I think that's very interesting actually to go on there and to share that. Thank you, Clark Kent, for that.
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NGUYEN: Levs. All right. Well, you know, this is really a frightening scenario though. What would happen if the nation's power supply was the target of terrorism?
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SCOTT BORG, U.S. CYBER CONSEQUENCES UNIT: It's equivalent to 40 to 50 large hurricanes striking all at once. It's greater economic damage than any modern economy has ever suffered.
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NGUYEN: Right after this, you may be surprised to find out how the simple click of a computer mouse could turn out the lights.
And we're continuing to follow the new developments out of Nevada. Police are searching for a suspect in the sexual assault on a little girl. We have a live report in our next half hour. Back in a moment.
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NGUYEN: All right. So think of all the ways you rely every day on electricity and yet today we're hearing the nation's power supply could be an easy target for terrorists, so easy in fact a portion of it could potentially be crippled for months with a single click of the mouse. Here's CNN homeland security correspondent Jeanne Meserve.
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JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is an electric generator. It is vital because it is the kind that power companies use to bring electricity to your home. It shudders and shakes, then goes up in smoke, destroyed just as effectively as if with a smuggled bomb. But all it took was a computer, some patient work and the click of a mouse.
ROBERT JAMISON, ACTING UNDERSECRETARY, DHS: What's new here is that through a cyber attack you can actually get in and cause physical damage to equipment. That's the new piece of this.
MESERVE: This previously classified video of a test cyber attack on a power plant control system has sent shock waves through the federal government and the power industry.
Could a large scale simultaneous cyber attack knock out power to a huge part of the country for months? The nightmare scenario, at first it would be inconvenient. Lights out. Businesses shut. No teller machines, no gas pumps. By day three, stores would be out of food. Emergency generators out of gas.
After 10 days with no hope of power being restored, people want to evacuate. But where to? With what fuel? And with no emergency services, medicine, heating or air-conditioning, lives could be lost.
Listen to what economist Scott Borg projects if such a nightmare scenario played out with a loss of power to a third of the country for three months.
BORG: It's equivalent to 40 to 50 large hurricanes striking all at once. It's greater economic damage than any modern economy has ever suffered.
MESERVE (on camera): Even the Great Depression?
BORG: It is greater than the Great Depression.
MESERVE: The potential damage is so severe, the Department of Homeland Security asked CNN not to divulge certain technical details about the government experiment. Dubbed Aurora, the test was conducted last March at the Idaho National Lab.
(voice-over): We can say that the research involved hacking into a replica of a power plant's control system. Researchers changed the operating cycle of the generator, sending it out of control until it self-destructed.
Since the test, the Department of Homeland Security has been working feverishly with the electric industry to thwart such an attack.
(on camera): Can you say right now that this vulnerability has been eliminated?
JAMISON: No, I can't say it has been eliminated, but I can say that a lot of risk has been taken off the table.
MESERVE (voice-over): But the job of protecting power plants is hard because control systems that open and close valves and switches and govern the load are increasingly connected to the Internet for efficiency reasons, making them vulnerable.
Joe Weiss is an expert on power plant control systems and has been sounding the alarm for five years.
(on camera): So the same systems we're using here are being used in Iran, Pakistan?
JOE WEISS, APPLIED CONTROL SOLUTIONS: Very, very possibly.
MESERVE: Which means people there know how to run them.
WEISS: Absolutely.
MESERVE: They know how to bring them down.
WEISS: Absolutely, they have the same training, the same passwords.
MESERVE (voice-over): And security experts say it would be virtually impossible to figure out who attacked. In 2002, the current director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, and former CIA Director James Woolsey were among more than 50 computer and security experts who begging President Bush for a massive cyber-defense program to avoid a national disaster. Five years later, there is no such program.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We need to get on this and get on it quickly.
MESERVE: "Keeping Them Honest," we looked at how much is being spent on cyber security. Across the federal government, it is projected there will be a slight increase next year, but Homeland Security cyber security budget is projected to decrease, with only $12 million budgeted for protecting control systems.
DHS points out that its own research uncovered the power plant vulnerability and action it is taking with industry is reducing the risk. But the question remains, can the U.S. close the cyber security holes before the hackers find them?
Jeanne Meserve, CNN, Washington.
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NGUYEN: Well, despite all the warnings and worry, there has not been any publicly known successful cyber attack against an electric utility control system.
LEMON: And you know CNN is committed to providing the most reliable coverage of the news that affects your security. Coming up at 9:00 Eastern, you can hear what professional hackers say about the possibility of an attack on power systems.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I woke up tomorrow morning and decided I wanted to do that against a generator, I could. And it would not be that hard.
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LEMON: How tough is cyber security? How easy is it to crack it? CNN SATURDAY MORNING continues right now.
NGUYEN: From the CNN Center in Atlanta, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING. Good morning, everybody, I'm Betty Nguyen.
LEMON: And I'm Don Lemon. T.J. is off today. We have new developments in a story we've been following all week.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Chester Arthur Stiles, turn yourself in to your local law enforcement agency so that you can be arrested for the warrants that are -- that we have open to you so you can be further investigated for any culpability you have in this case.
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LEMON: We'll take a look at this. This is the man police want to question. The move comes after the discovery of a little girl shown in a homemade videotape being assaulted.
NGUYEN: And with all the toy recalls, have you thought of testing your kids for lead? One mom did and was very surprised at the results. Now, she started looking at a lot of other things in the house besides just the toy box.
LEMON: And you don't want to miss this debate between Betty and I, it's a ring of promise. So what happens when the promise is broken? Do you keep the ring or do you give it back?
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NGUYEN: From the CNN Center in Atlanta, this is CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
Good morning, everybody.
I'm Betty Nguyen.
LEMON: And I'm Don Lemon.
T.J. is off today.
We have new developments in a story we've been following all week.
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SHERIFF ANTHONY DE MEO, NYE COUNTY, NEVADA: Chester Arthur Stiles, turn yourself in to a local law enforcement agency so that you can be -- you can be arrested for the warrants that we have open to you so that you can be further investigated for any culpability you have in this case.
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LEMON: Well, take a look at this. This is the man police want to question. The move comes after the discovery of a little girl shown in a homemade videotape being assaulted.
NGUYEN: And with all the toy recalls, have you thought of testing your kids for lead? One mom did and was very surprised at the results. Now she started looking at a lot of other things in the house besides just the toy box.
LEMON: And you don't want to miss this debate between Betty and I. It's a ring of promise. So what happens when the promise is broken? Do you keep the ring or do you give it back?
NGUYEN: Oh, it's going to be a good one.
LEMON: Tell us what you think at weekends@cnn.com.
NGUYEN: E-mails are flooding in as we speak.
But in the beginning, though, that we're going to start right now with this hour, the search going on right now for a suspect in a shocking case out of Nevada. By now, you've probably seen the haunting images of a young girl who was videotaped being sexually assaulted. Well, this morning authorities say they have found the girl and she is safe, but the suspect is still on the loose.
CNN's Kara Finnstrom is following developments live now from Pahrump, Nevada, and she joins us.
What's the latest so far?
KARA FINNSTROM, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Betty, detectives now say it has become their personal mission to find the man who repeatedly raped this little girl on that videotape. It was heartwarming news for them and for this whole community yesterday as she was found not only alive, but detectives say safe and with her mother.
Now, there are a lot of questions that remain this morning as to how that horrific abuse that was seen on that videotape remained undiscovered for so long, because detectives now know that took place about four years ago. But detectives are now asking the public and the media to shift their attention from this little girl to the man who attacked her, because they say he's still out there and they consider him very dangerous.
Now yesterday, they announced their official suspect in this case is a man named Chester Arthur Stiles. He is the man they had been wanting to question before they found this little girl, but once they found her, her mother actually confirmed this was a distant family friend.
We also know that the FBI and Las Vegas police were already looking for this man. He was wanted on charges unrelated to this case, but involving lewd conduct with a 14-year-old. And we heard yesterday that this man has a history of being combative with police.
The district attorney took a little time to talk about some of the information that he's been gathering from numerous sources about who he believes Chester Stiles is.
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BOB BECKETT, NYE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY: We were told that he claims to have been a Navy SEAL or was a Navy SEAL. He's not a gambler. He's not a drinker. He's a survivalist type.
He can live without water or electricity. It doesn't bother him a bit. He's a martial artist. He claims to be a black belt.
He is very paranoid. He's very handy with weapons. And he always carries a knife on him.
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FINNSTROM: A little bit more information now about that little girl.
Detectives did say when they found her, she appeared to be a happy 7-year-old. They said the mother said she had absolutely no idea this abuse that took place when this little girl was about 3 years old, but they do also say that, how the family and how the mother did not recognize any physical or emotional signs of this abuse will be part of the ongoing investigation -- Betty.
NGUYEN: All right, Kara. We appreciate that -- Don.
LEMON: Sparks to the powder keg, that's what we're seeing in Myanmar today. The military presence ramped up in the largest city, Yangon. That's coming as a key U.S. envoy is set to meet with government leaders. He arrived there a short time ago.
Protesters have been playing a dangerous game of cat and mouse with the military, running from soldiers, while other groups are demonstrating in other areas. Just within the last hour, our John Vause told us this has been going on for much of the day. The military has been violently cracking down this week.
Here are some I-Report videos sent to CNN from Myanmar's largest city. You can see protesters running from the soldiers. The person who sent us this video is asking to remain anonymous. Journalists sending video and pictures out of the country have been targeted by the military.
The Pentagon is calling its largest missile defense test a success. Take a look at this new video.
Officials say a target missile was launched from Kodiak, Alaska, and an interceptor missile fired from a base in California successfully tracked, intercepted and destroyed the target over the Pacific. Defense officials say yesterday's test marks seven successful tests out of 11 attempts.
NGUYEN: Well, toys tainted by lead paint have grabbed headlines lately with one recall after another. And the consumer group Clearwater Action (ph) reported this week that of 50 toys sold by the largest stores, 11 contained lead.
Now, experts say your small children could be exposed to lead and you wouldn't even know it. That was the case with one Georgia family.
CNN's Rusty Dornin has their story.
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RUSTY DORNIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Nine-month-old Jake Duquette loves to put just about everything into his mouth. Two- and-a-half-year-old Taylor is past that stage, but the lead toy scare has Joe and Lisa Duquette worried.
So, last week, Lisa took them to a free lead testing event in Gainesville, Georgia, sponsored by Safe Kids. Parents bought bags of toys, toys that were not on any recall lists. That was a relief, but then Duquette decided to have her toddler's blood screened, just in case.
LISA DUQUETTE, HAD CHILDREN TESTED FOR LEAD: We're about to do the blood test next. That's the fun part.
DORNIN: Fun it was not, especially when she found out both her children tested positive for lead. She took them immediately to her pediatrician for complete blood tests but now must wait two to four weeks to find out the results.
We visited them five days later.
(on camera): Were you shocked when you found out that...
DUQUETTE: I was upset. I left there very upset. I mean, these are my -- you know, my babies. And if anything can inhibit their intellectual level of any sort, it has just kept me distraught.
DORNIN (voice over): The Duquettes live in a brand new house, so they're not worried about lead paint, but wonder where is the exposure?
DUQUETTE: We've tried to test some of these mugs that have been in the cabinet.
ANIL MANGLE, EPIDEMIOLOGIST: I think there's much more lead out there than we know.
DORNIN: Epidemiologist Anil Mangle gives seminars on what he calls the silent epidemic.
MANGLE: Guess how much lead content this had? Fifty times more than the normal content it should have. DORNIN: Mangle believes there are many toys containing lead that haven't been discovered yet, and not just toys -- pottery, kids' jewelry and certain candy from Mexico. Some have lead in the wrapper and sometimes in the candy itself.
Back at the Duquette house, Joe researches on the Internet, while Lisa works the phone.
DUQUETTE: Hi there. I'm wondering if there's someone I can speak with in reference to having our home tested for lead.
DORNIN: Mangle has advised the Duquettes to wait until the complete blood tests come back. Nationally, the CDC sets the blood lead level at 10. Anything above is considered unsafe. The Duquette children screened at 7.
(on camera): Is it more of a concern for her because she has smaller children that put things in their mouth?
MANGLE: Absolutely. That is a major concern.
DORNIN (voice over): If parents suspect their children may have been exposed to lead, Mangle suggests there's only one way to be absolutely sure. Test the children, not the toys.
Rusty Dornin, CNN, Gainesville, Georgia.
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LEMON: There are some storms forming, and you know where they are?
NGUYEN: In the tropics? I pay attention.
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LEMON: Police near Seattle are taking a closer look at the fight over a parking space. That's right, a parking space.
Police say a woman floored her car in order to beat someone into the space, but instead went barreling through the front of the store. You can see where the car went into the store. A 14-year-old girl inside the store was injured but she's expected to be OK. Police arrested the driver on suspicion of driving under the influence.
NGUYEN: Well, we are uncovering America this morning and talking about Latino identity.
LEMON: Absolutely. And since it's Hispanic Heritage Month, our own Rick Horrow reports from the world of sports about the contributions Hispanics have made.
NGUYEN: And Don, the engagement is off. So give that ring back. That's what one guy is saying. You know what? A judge agreed.
Wait a minute here. Is that fair? LEMON: Absolutely.
NGUYEN: We're going to talk about this one.
LEMON: Plus, Dr. Sanjay Gupta is here.
Is he? I haven't seen him. Have you seen him?
NGUYEN: He's going to be here with "HOUSE CALL". Take a look.
LEMON: Yes, he's here with a preview. Today's "HOUSE CALL".
DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: Thanks.
Well, I know you heard the story this week, health insurance for millions of American kids is in jeopardy. We're going to have some tips to help your family find affordable insurance and how to know if that's enough.
Then, empower yourself to avoid being misdiagnosed. Get smart about what questions to ask your doctor.
And ditch the eyeglasses. We look at vision surgery.
All that's coming up on "HOUSE CALL" at 8:30.
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NGUYEN: A California high school coach may have gone too far to get a competitive edge, all the way to American Samoa. The coach at Franklin High in Stockton is accused of recruiting players from America Samoa and letting some of them live in his house.
Player recruiting is not allowed at the high school level. An investigation also found coaches helped the players' parents get around residency rules. The team may be forced to forfeit games the Samoan players played in.
LEMON: Moving on now to baseball. By the end of the weekend we'll know which Major League Baseball teams will be in the playoffs. And of course, Cubbies already in. Go Cubbies!
Hispanic athletes are a big part of baseball and the post season. And as we uncover America here on CNN a bit further, we bring in sports business analyst Rick Horrow to talk about that.
First of all, before we get to this, what are the Cubbies' chances?
RICK HORROW, SPORTS BUSINESS ANALYST: Well, I've got the rally goat which is a big deal that they've...
LEMON: Yes.
HORROW: You know, the curse-breaking goat.
LEMON: The curse-breaking goat.
HORROW: Hey, you know what? It didn't work in 2004, it may not work now.
We got the -- we go the Angels, we got the Yankee, we got the Mets. I got the Mets ball. They may not make it either
LEMON: Oh, come on.
HORROW: But so -- you know, hey, $4 billion business, big time in playoffs, Major League Baseball very happy. You've got three Northeastern teams, two Midwestern teams, two Western teams in Arizona. Everybody is set for a heck of an October.
LEMON: Yes. All around for everyone.
Let me ask you this, because we're talking about baseball, but tell us, which sport has the most Hispanic players? Is it baseball?
HORROW: Well, that's a good segue. It is. And Major League Baseball has 40 percent total in professional baseball Hispanic, Latin-born players. About 24, 25 percent in the major leagues. Of course, big-time superstars as well.
LEMON: Why is that, Rick?
HORROW: Well, it's the culture, it's the promotion of the game. It's also television.
You know, the World Baseball Classic that baseball had started a couple of years ago. And again, it's Dominican's game, it's Venezuela's game, it is Puerto Rico's game, it's Mexico's game. When you look at the Caribbean World Series, television deals are out there and it's pretty significant as well. And obviously the superstars we can talk about help also.
LEMON: What do you mean the superstars we can talk about help also?
HORROW: Well, you know, let's talk about them, the Cubs with Alfonso Soriano and the Angels with Vladimir Guerrero, for example. The Red Sox with Big Papi, David Ortiz, the Yankees' Mariano Rivera. Just to name four.
Those happen to be in very large American urban markets with significant following and those superstars are Latin. Now, 10 percent, 12 percent of the fans have become -- baseball fans are Hispanic. And Hispanics count for 62, 63 percent on the avidity index -- are baseball fans.
So, there is the cultural phenomena. And baseball has done a wonderful job of promoting it, by the way.
LEMON: OK. I like that name, "Big Papi" in baseball. It sounds like a rapper name, "Big Papi".
So, are we just talking baseball, or are we talking all --- can you give us a percentage of all sports athletes, Hispanic?
HORROW: No. But I would guess at about 10, 15 percent. Obviously, football has a way to go. Basketball is moving in that direction. It's not hockey, but -- and NASCAR with Montoya and others.
So, as we're talking about the Latin population as well, but it's also in the board rooms. Artie Moreno owns the California Angels and doubled -- the Angels of Anaheim now. It used to be California.
LEMON: Yes.
HORROW: Doubled the revenue -- $11 million back to the central fund. And his team has been worth about 40 percent more than when he bought it. That's free enterprise, but it's not just the players, it's the ownership side as well.
LEMON: We are uncovering America here on CNN.
Rick Horrow, always appreciate it.
HORROW: Absolutely.
LEMON: Thank you, sir.
NGUYEN: And Josh Levs joins us now with the celebration of Hispanics in America.
You found out some very interesting information.
JOSH LEVS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Absolutely.
You know, Betty, all the presidential candidates these days are trying to reach out to the Hispanic community. Well, in order to do that, they have to know who they are and where they come from.
Coming up, I'm going to show you how you can do the same thing.
That's from the CNN.com desk, right here, CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
LEMON: And home from war. A hero surprises his two daughters. Look how cute this is. Oh, my god.
A warm welcome home this morning at 9:00 Eastern. You don't want to miss that.
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LEMON: Josh Levs joins us now with some interesting facts that you might not know.
s we head into October, we are celebrating Hispanic heritage month this morning.
What is that, Josh?
LEVS: Yes. It was a bunch of stuff. Good morning to you guys.
You know, so much of the time these days when we hear about the Hispanic community in America, you've got two contexts. You're either talking about the immigration battle or you're talking Hispanics as a desirable political group for presidential candidates.
Well, you can't really understand either of those unless you understand where it came from. And starting today on CNN.com, I want to show you what we've got here in this Hispanic heritage rundown.
We can show you right here, this is a timeline of the history of Hispanic heritage in America. I'm going to go through some of these pictures quickly. It's almost like a little CliffsNotes version with photos along the way, and it shows you some of the key moments, what the heritage is all about, how it has helped define America, and how the changes in America in turn have changed the Hispanic experience in the country.
This over here is the main page, filled with stories. Also an opportunity for you to send in your stories, your videos, your photos if you have experience as someone Hispanic in America.
We're even explaining to you what it is to be Hispanic. It doesn't mean what a lot of people think it means.
And this is part of a year-long effort by CNN in which we're looking at different communities and doing what we're calling "Uncovering America".
For example, this was our spread on the African-American experience, called "The Road to Equality". You can still see that, filled with stories.
I'll show you one more here, too -- the Asian-American journey. And it's interesting. You see Myanmar there, then we take you over east to the United States and we do something similar for that community, other communities as well.
We really hope that you send in your stories. They're all still active. So whatever your experience is in any minority group in America, we're happy to hear those stories. We want to share them with all of our viewers and all of our readers. So keep them coming in to us at CNN.com -- guys.
NGUYEN: All right. Then you'll share our stories. We'll have to write in.
LEMON: It's always nice to actually learn about...
NGUYEN: It is.
LEMON: ... other cultures, get outside of your own, you know, comfort zone.
NGUYEN: Step outside for a minute.
LEMON: Yes.
NGUYEN: It's all right.
LEMON: Learn something new.
Well, how about this? They didn't even make it to the altar and already they're duking it out in court. Guess what it's over?
NGUYEN: A ring, a diamond, a little bling. We're going to talk about that.
And talk about a big baby. Oh, my goodness. That's not a baby, that's a toddler. But, in fact, it is an infant. This one is the mother's 12th, the biggest of them all.
Guess how many pounds, Don?
LEMON: Oh, my gosh. That's got to be almost 20 pounds.
NGUYEN: Seventeen. Oh, that's painful just thinking about it.
LEMON: Ouch.
NGUYEN: But we're going to tell you much more when we come back.
LEMON: Cute, though. Cute.
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GUPTA: Thanks, guys.
NGUYEN: Well, that's coming up shortly. But in the meantime...
LEMON: Yes, Sanjay's a little -- jumped the gun a little bit.
NGUYEN: He did.
We do have an interesting case out of Tennessee to tell you about.
OK. So what happens to the engagement ring once it's all called off? Well, a Knoxville appeals court -- yes, it went all the way up to an appeals court -- ruled this week that the ring goes back to the prospective groom.
LEMON: Yes. I don't understand why we're even asking these questions.
The case stems from a wedding that was called off. Of course she should give it back. The bride, no longer to be...
NGUYEN: Well...
LEMON: ... kept the three-carat ring. So her former fiance filed suit. On court ruled she could keep the $35,000 ring since it was a gift, but an appeals... . NGUYEN: On a national holiday, on Christmas.
LEMON: An appeals court overturned that decision, saying instead the ring is a conditional gift based on the condition of marriage.
NGUYEN: I'm sure she just wanted to pawn that thing and get back at him.
But you know what? The story did make us think.
We wanted to see what you thought about it as well. So, to help us out, do you think a woman should have to give back that engagement ring?
LEMON: Yes.
NGUYEN: Do you? Was that the right thing to do?
Send us yours answers. We're going to read them a little bit later. So just e-mail us at weekends@cnn.com.
LEMON: Yes.
NGUYEN: All right. In this story, it is an eye-opener. OK?
Any mom or expecting mother might appreciate it, because a woman in Russia, did she give birth this week to a -- drum roll, please -- 17 pound, 1 ounce baby girl.
LEMON: There's a picture right here of the newborn.
NGUYEN: Wow.
LEMON: It's a bundle of joy. Cute. It's a cutie pie.
NGUYEN: That's a toddler. That's not a newborn.
LEMON: The baby was born in a small city in southern Siberia. Nurses say the birth went smoothly and the mom and the baby, well, they're doing just fine.
We're glad about that.
Big baby though.
NGUYEN: Yes. "The Guinness Book of World Records" says the heaviest surviving baby ever was born in Italy in 1955. That baby weighed 22 pounds and 8 ounces. Oh, painful just to think about, that is one large baby.
LEMON: It is, but big or small, they're all gorgeous. Look how cute he is. I think it's a he.
NGUYEN: It's a she.
LEMON: It's a she? NGUYEN: Apparently, she's going to be eating a lot.
LEMON: Coming up in our 9:00 hour Eastern, you can hear what professional hackers say about the possibility of an attack on power systems.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: If I woke up tomorrow morning and decided I wanted to do that against a generator, I could, and it would not be that hard.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
LEMON: The question is, how tough is cyber security? How easy is it to crack it?
CNN SATURDAY MORNING continues right now.
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