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Same-Sex Marriage Law In New York; Casey Anthony Trial Continues; Record Flooding in North Dakota; Protests Continue in Syria; Examining the Top Threats to Men's Health; Thing Big: Solar Powered Roads; Internet Security Issues on the Cloud; Nick Charles Dies; PDA's Unwelcome in Dubai; Casey Anthony's Mother and Brother Testify

Aired June 25, 2011 - 08:00   ET

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T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, a major victory overnight for the gay rights movement. New York becomes the sixth state to approve Same-Sex Marriage.

Also the Casey Anthony trial resumes this morning after both her mother and brother cried on the witness stand yesterday. And this morning, we could be hearing from the man who found two-year-old Caylee's body.

Also, imagine this, folks, having sex in your own house and going to jail for it. It's happening. We'll explain. That's coming your way at the bottom of the hour.

But let's start in New York right now where Same-Sex Marriage is now legalized. The bill passed the legislature last night to a wave of applause and cheers.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Ayes 33, nays 29.

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HOLMES: That was the reaction inside the senate in Albany, New York. Governor Andrew Cuomo signed the bill into law a short time later, making New York now the sixth state to approve Same-Sex Marriages.

CNN's David Ariosto is live for us in New York this morning.

Good morning to you, David.

We're hearing, of course some of those cheers. A lot of people applauding what happened last night, but you have plenty of people who are coming out already and saying they are opposed to what happened last night.

DAVID ARIOSTO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Thank you, T.J., yes. This is a highly contentious issue, not just here but across the United States and it was the unattended consequences that those in opposition are lawmakers in opposition have pointed to the potential effects on religious institutions and it was an amendment to that bill that kept lawmakers in Albany well past the end of the legislative session on Monday up until Friday.

Still, religious institutions and their leaders come out in opposition to this. We have a letter here signed by Archbishop Timothy Dolan and seven other bishops which says, "we worry that both marriage and the family will be undermined by this tragic presumption of the government in passing this legislation that attempts to redefine these cornerstones of civilization."

So still as you can see, religious leaders are very much opposed to this T.J.

HOLMES: And Dave, Democrats had to make some concessions to Republicans to get some of them to vote for it?

ARIOSTO: That's right. Four Republican lawmakers crossed party lines and voted for this measure. This bill was brought three times in previous years. All had failed in the state senate. This time it passed.

What we see here is there might be a bit of horse trading going on, but more generally recent polls that we've looked at have suggested that the majority of New Yorkers are in actually favor of this legislation.

HOLMES: All right, one other thing here. We know the law takes effect in 30 days, but something else here. There's no residency requirement. Is there a concern, is there talk that a lot of people might now flock to New York to get married?

ARIOSTO: Well, you know, that's an issue that opposition lawmakers brought up. Some called it a bit of a red herring. But others say that New York is somewhat unique in the sense that even prior to this bill being signed, New York was one of the few states in which the state laws actually recognized Same-Sex Marriage that were performed elsewhere. They just didn't perform them here. Now that's all about to change.

HOLMES: All right, David Ariosto for us in New York. We appreciate you this morning. Thanks so much.

We're just a few minutes past the top of the hour on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING.

In the next hour, we're expecting to see the Casey Anthony trial resume, the defense putting on its case. It's expected at 9:00 for testimony to resume after an emotional day yesterday that saw the mother and brother of Casey Anthony take the stand, both of them trying to save, a lot of people would say, save Casey Anthony's life with some of their testimony. We're going to be talking to a legal expert here in just about 30 minutes about what we saw yesterday, what the defense was trying to do and if they made any head way with some of those jurors. That's coming up.

Also in North Dakota right now, 20 percent of one city there is under water. This is the Souris River, not necessarily the river there. This is just a neighborhood, but the Souris River has over flowed its banks, flooded much of Minot, North Dakota. The river is supposed to crest today, maybe early tomorrow. People are hoping the levees will hold, but for a lot of folks it's already just too late.

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MANDI MOSSER, FLOOD VICTIM: My sister called me and her husband, her parents' house is totally under water now. So it's tough.

QUESTION: Have you gotten other calls like that?

MOSSER: Yes. I got my brother-in-law's house, my dad's house is all under water now.

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HOLMES: We'll be checking in with Reynolds Wolf to get the latest there here in just a moment.

Also at least two people are dead after a tractor-trailer hit a moving Amtrak train near Reno, Nevada. Train caught fire. Some people jumped from that train trying to get away from the fire. Authorities trying to figure out if there are more victims in the burned out train car. Listen to one guy.

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JUSTIN RHINE, PASSENGER: Get hit by something, a big ball of fire or something, jumped out the window.

QUESTION: You jumped out the window?

RHINE: Yes.

I just saw the fire and the train was moving. I thought it was going to tip over, but it didn't tip over. Then I saw people flying on the other side of the train.

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HOLMES: Also, a story that just had a lot of people shaking their heads around the newsroom this morning. Live ammo used instead of blanks at a wild west re-enactment. This was in South Dakota, Hill City in particular.

This was one of these wild west - it was supposed to be a gun battle from the wild west, one of these reenactments. And sure enough one of the actors had real bullets in his gun instead of blanks and three tourists were shot. Nobody killed, though, thank goodness. Investigators going over the evidence trying to decide if they will file any charges. For now though, these wild west shows have been cancelled.

Also a Southwest Airlines pilot back on the job two months after calling his crew members all kind of names on an open microphone. He was referring to gays and grannies, his words. He had an open mike at the time. Other pilots and air traffic controllers could hear all of this. Here's just a little sample of it.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I still wouldn't want anyone to know if I had (EXPLETIVE DELETED) I mean it is all these (EXPLETIVE DELETED) old dudes and grannies and there's like maybe a handful of cute chicks.

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HOLMES: That was some of the more tame stuff there.

The unnamed pilot was suspended, got extra diversity training, apologized as well before returning to work. The flight attendants' union says that's not quite good enough. They told a Houston newspaper that they might file a lawsuit against Southwest.

Here's what the airline at least is saying, "The actions of this pilot are, without question, inconsistent with the professional behavior and overall respect that we require from our employees."

Turn to Syria now where we are hearing reports of more deaths among anti-government demonstrations there. An activist group says at least 20 people were killed in clashes there on Friday. CNN not able to independently confirm that. The state news agency says seven civilians and one police officer were killed. The U.S. is among several countries putting pressure on Syria's government to stop the deadly crackdown on protesters.

Follow up on a story we were telling you here on CNN SATURDAY and "SUNDAY MORNING" just a few weeks ago. A lawsuit has now been filed over that green card lottery. People from more than 20 countries are now suing the Federal government after the original results of the last green card lottery were thrown out.

See what happened here, the State Department said a computer glitch nullified the earlier results. They had actually contacted about 22,000 people who were told that they had won green cards. That's a big deal. They call it a green card lottery for good reason. Fifteen million people apply and only 50,000 get these green cards.

A Pulitzer prize winning journalist is revealing that he is in this country illegally. Jose Antonio Vargas says he used a fake Social Security card and driver's license to get a job at the "The Washington Post." The fake IDs also got him into the White House at one point.

Vargas said he's speaking out now because he's upset that Congress didn't pass the DREAM Act. That act would have given a clearer path to citizenship to people like him who came into this country as kids. He could be deported to the Philippines if the government goes after him.

We'll hear more on his decision to come forward when he talks with our Howard Kurtz on CNN's "RELIABLE SOURCES." That is Sunday, that interview coming your way at 11:25 a.m. Eastern time.

Also, take a look at the screen. This surveillance video showing a hit-and-run near Philadelphia. There is the hit. You'll see the run here in just a second. The driver has surrendered to police. That just happened yesterday but you can see she took off after she hit a store clerk. She knocked the store clerk clear through the front window of the store. You're going to see this again. Then she drove off.

The passenger that you see as well hopped out of the car and just strolled away like not much had happened, says they were out drinking that night. The clerk, he is laid up right now, legs banged up but he's pretty lucky that that's all he has is a pretty banged up leg.

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GEJEA EJETA, HIT AND RUN VICTIM: My leg is (INAUDIBLE)

QUESTIONS: Your leg is injured.

EJETA: (INAUDIBLE)

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HOLMES: Really. I say good morning to Reynolds Wolf. Reynolds, you see that video and it's amazing, just laying up on the couch with a bum leg. But still, could have been worse.

REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST: It's funny how getting hit by an SUV can really get your attention.

HOLMES: It does. Has it happened to you?

WOLF: No. Let's hope it doesn't. He's very lucky. He got away with just a few minor injuries. It could have been far worse. Something else that's been very bad, that may indeed get worse, the flooding situation in parts of North Dakota.

The latest we have for you very quickly the expected crest possibly later tonight more than likely around 1:00 a.m., around the midnight hour into Sunday. It's going to be like six and a half feet above the record stage. We're talking about records set back in 1881 and, again, the rain and terrain that they have in the region not going to help matters at all.

We got more coming up right here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.

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HOLMES: Eleven minutes past the hour now.

This is being called the worst flooding to hit Minot, North Dakota in more than a century. It has swamped up to 4,000 homes now, the pictures as you see here. We're not seeing a river here. We're actually seeing neighborhoods. A lot of people have had to paddle their way home. This is the Souris River, hasn't even crested yet, won't happen until later tonight or early tomorrow.

Do I have that right Reynolds?

WOLF: You are correct.

HOLMES: Six feet above flood stage. Now in context there, if you hear a river six feet above flood stage, any foot above flood stage I assume is bad, but six feet, how bad is that?

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HOLMES: Appreciate you as always buddy, thank you so much.

We are at 14 minutes past the hour now.

Oftentimes we show you some of the surveillance video from inside a cop car. We have some to show you now. It's not of a police chase, but look at what happened to this poor little guy.

This is the Tennessee Police Department is where we're getting this from. The guy is just heading home and he hits a bear. Maybe the bear was heading home too, but trying to get across the road there and the cruiser slams into the little guy. He slides a little bit and maybe has a little bit of a limp, hopefully. Hopefully he's OK now. But good to see at least, got up and was able to make his way back home.

Quarter past the hour here now.

June, did you realize this is men's health month. There's a list of the top health risks out there that men face most often. Also have some prevention tips for you. The Mayo Clinic put together the list using information from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

So listen to this, men. Stroke, the fifth most common threat that men face. Of course, you can't control factors like your age, race and family history but you can control your blood pressure and you can quit smoking as well.

Number four on the list is chronic respiratory disease. You can stay healthy here by making sure you get a flu shot and limit exposure to air pollution. Try to do that as best you can I guess.

The third highest threat, look at this, car accidents. Now we've all been in car accidents, but the threat lies in you not taking care of yourself in that car by simply buckling up and you can also control this by not speeding as much. That can help cut down.

The top two and some of the tips to help you maybe stay off of this list when we come back. Stay with us.

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HOLMES: Well, it's 17 minutes the hour on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. It is Men's Health Month. Maybe you didn't realize. Before the break we were showing with you as you see on the list, the top five threats to men's health as put together by the Mayo Clinic. You see stroke, chronic respiratory disease and car accidents.

But number two on the list now, the number two threat to men is cancer. Of particular concern to men, lung cancer, skin cancer, prostate cancer and colorectal cancer. Now to reduce your risk here, don't smoke. Eat healthy. Protect yourself from the sun the best you can and take some early detection seriously.

Also and the number one threat, you guessed this, heart disease. Again, the best way to prevent this, same way you can prevent a lot of problems, don't smoke, eat that healthy diet, manage your cholesterol and blood pressure and make sure you make exercise a part of your daily routine.

Time for us now to go across country with some stories that are making news. In Boston alleged mob boss James "Whitey" Bulger is asking for a public defender. Bulger appeared in a Boston court Friday after being captured in southern California. He didn't enter a plea or ask for bail. Bulger was on the run for 16 years. The FBI found $800,000 in his apartment when they arrested him. The 81-year- old former fugitive faces dozens of charges from racketeering to murder.

Also in Detroit, former Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick could be released from prison next month. He was granted parole Friday. Kilpatrick pleaded guilty in 2008 to obstructing justice while trying to cover up an extra-marital affair. He still faces several Federal charges from his time in office.

Now to Washington, the so-called sexpresso stands getting a lot of business. That's where they serve up a lot of skin with these skinny lattes. People are complaining about the five steamy shops that have opened up in the past year. County is considering some regulations to clarify them as adult entertainment, essentially as you can kind of see from the video we are showing you, the people serving it up, well you just say you don't want to spill any of that coffee on those parts that are exposed.

Well, 20 minutes past the hour now. Imagine what it would be like to drive on solar powered roads, roads that would actually charge your electric car. Could happen, could happen sooner than you think.

Reynolds Wolf has this weekend's "Start Small, Think Big" story.

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WOLF (voice-over): Engineer Scott Brusaw (ph) is turning his childhood dreams into reality.

SCOTT BRUSAW, ENGINEER: When I was five or six or seven I got a slot car track. It's really an electrical road with little electric vehicles on it. My brainstorm as a young man was if we could make real roads electric, then kids could drive and that stuck with me my entire life.

WOLF: Electric roads seemed out of reach until his wife suggested he make the surface out of solar panels and that's when solar roadways began.

BRUSAW: (INAUDIBLE) Asphalt and then internal combustion engines for over 100 years. I think it's time to move into the 21st century.

WOLF: A solar roadway can light up to let you know there's an accident ahead or heat up to melt snow in the winter. But most importantly, it could provide inexpensive electricity.

BRUSAW: If you could replace all the asphalt and concrete surfaces in the lower 48 states, that's a little bit over 28,000 square miles, you could produce three times more power than we use as a nation.

WOLF: Scott created a prototype and the idea has caught on fast. He says the payoff for solar roadways would be quick as well.

BRUSAW: When you put asphalt or concrete down, as soon as it's down, you're done. That money is gone. With no subsidies, no tax breaks, nothing at all, the panel could pay for itself in 20 years with just the generation of electricity.

WOLF: The first solar roadway panels could be installed as early as next year.

Reynolds Wolf, CNN.

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HOLMES: It has happened again. Another security breach that compromised the personal information of 25 million people. But that 25 million number isn't the only thing that makes this breach a big deal.

That's next. It's 21 minutes past the hour.

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HOLMES: Well, 25 minutes past the hour now.

Using a password to protect your personal data online only works if nobody else knows your password. The latest security breach allows anybody to use any password to access the personal data of 25 million people.

Our digital lifestyle expert, Mario Armstrong, a friend of our show here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING joins us now.

Mario, first of all, this had to do with something that a lot of people think is the next big thing and it's called the cloud. First of all, simplify it for us. What is that?

MARIO ARMSTRONG, CNN DIGITAL LIFESTYLE EXPERT: I know it's early. I'm going to break it down. So you have a hard drive in your computer. The hard drive looks something like this inside of your computer. This hard drive has programs and it has files. Imagine if this hard drive is sitting up on the Internet.

Now if it's on the Internet, any device, a phone, a laptop, a tablet can now connect to this hard drive to pull down those files, to sync them together or to access them on any device. So the bottom line is, with the cloud through the Internet, you can access software and files on any device.

HOLMES: Essentially you don't have to have your physical hard drive any more. You are trusting yourself literally to put it just out there in space, hence the word the cloud.

ARMSTRONG: On some other company's service, that's right, on some other company's cloud service.

HOLMES: So this is supposed to be the next big thing. I believe Apple is coming out with their version which is supposed to give this cloud service a boost. What happened in this case where 25 million just had their stuff out there and anybody could get on it?

ARMSTRONG: The name of this company you're referring to is called Drop Box. It's one of the cloud services companies. I actually like the service. I use it quite a bit.

But the problem was that they made a software update to their code and when they made that update, they accidentally left the front door unlocked. So that meant for about four hours earlier this week, anyone as long as I knew your user name I could get access to your files. I did not need a password to get access. So that was an error that they made on their end that they didn't catch.

HOLMES: But Mario, a lot of people have some concerns about the cloud and security and maybe this was an error on their part. It sounds like human error here.

But still, is this going to hurt in the future and kind of point out to some people that hey, you know, like I was discussing with you a security guy, hey only put something on the cloud that you don't mind giving away?

ARMSTRONG: It's almost like, you know, keeping your front door unlocked if you don't really have any valuables you don't mind people walking away with. So that's the premise of the cloud kind of falls apart. So on one hand, I agree.

At this stage in the game -- only 40 percent of consumers according to (INAUDIBLE) research understand what the cloud is and only 9 percent of Americans are using cloud services. So still you're right, T.J., lots of education to go but a quick tip would be number one, password protect any of your secure files. If you have a secure file, I don't care what you put it on, your own hard drive or if you upload it to the Internet, password protect that file to make it harder for anyone to access. HOLMES: All right. You tell us that's what we're supposed to do. But we keep hearing about this, these kinds of security breaches and passwords no matter what. I think we're naive to even think to have an expectation at this point that anything we put out there is going to be protected.

Mario, good stuff this morning. I'm sure we'll be following up on this story, but always good to see you. My man, you enjoy the rest of your weekend.

ARMSTRONG: All right, T.J., you too.

HOLMES: Folks, you know you can join us here every Saturday at this time for jour digital lifestyle guy, Mario Armstrong giving us the latest scoops on all of the latest technology.

What did JPMorgan Chase know about Bernie Madoff's Ponzi scheme? That's now the big question in the middle of a new big multibillion dollar claim. Who wants more money and why. That is next.

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HOLMES: Well, we're at the bottom of the hour here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING. Welcome back to you all. I'm T.J. Holmes. I'm so glad you could spend part of your weekend here with us.

Here's a look at some of the stories making headlines this morning.

New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has signed legislation allowing same-sex marriage. This legislation passed a Republican-controlled State Senate just before midnight. Same-sex couples can get married starting in 30 days. New York now the sixth state to legalize the unions.

Casey Anthony murder trial resumes in Orlando. It should resume here in about half an hour. Anthony's brother Lee testified about stains in her car trunk saying they were there before his niece disappeared. Casey Anthony accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter Caylee and putting her body in that trunk.

Also a trustee in the Bernie Madoff case wants billions of dollars from JP Morgan Chase. The trustee says the bank knew about Madoff's Ponzi scheme and didn't do anything. The amended complaint seeks $19 billion up from nearly $5.5 billion.

Well, a lot of people visit Dubai and before you do there is something those folks need to know. Public displace of affection heavily frowned on. There are serious repercussions if you don't keep your hands to yourself and that includes jail time. Those details next.

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HOLMES: Thirty-five minutes past the hour. We have some sad news to pass along to you on this SATURDAY MORNING. Nick Charles has died. Nick was a CNN staple for years on "SPORTS TONIGHT"; lost his battle with bladder cancer. You may remember his name, certainly from the time he was here at CNN.

But most recently our Sanjay Gupta did a profile that got overwhelming reaction, a profile of Nick and how essentially he was preparing to go. He knew his days -- he didn't have many left and he was preparing himself and his family for the last days of his life and for the time when he would not be here.

So Nick Charles has died at the age of 64. We will certainly have much more on this man and his life; and again, what he knew was inevitable. Nick Charles is dead at the age of 64 years old.

Now we're at 36 minutes past the hour now on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. Let's turn to our Nadia Bilchik for our "Morning Passport."

NADIA BILCHIK, CNN EDITORIAL PRODUCER: And I do have to just tell you I had the pleasure of knowing Nick Charles.

HOLMES: Nick.

BILCHIK: And what a superb human being.

HOLMES: He was and we did. We got overwhelming reaction. I think it might have been last weekend or the week before that -- that Sanjay actually profiled Nick. And I mean just unsolicited reaction from people out there, our viewers, we appreciate certainly you writing in and just they were touched by what he was doing and preparing --

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BILCHIK: A beautiful man and a beautiful life.

HOLMES: -- yes. Well that was -- and see again, we will have much more on that if you're not familiar with the story. We'll certainly be telling you throughout the day.

But turning to our "Morning Passport"; we turn to Dubai where there are tourists in jail right now. But for what?

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BILCHIK: Yes. You know, you can't make this stuff up.

HOLMES: Yes.

BILCHIK: T.J. -- so this is the story. In December a New Zealander finds himself in a rather unusual predicament. He's in his apartment with his current lover --

HOLMES: Yes.

BILCHIK: -- who happens to be British. HOLMES: OK.

BILCHIK: The ex-lover knocks at the door.

HOLMES: Wow.

BILCHIK: Does not get in but eventually literally pounds the door down. Gets in, sees the New Zealander with his current girlfriend/lover --

HOLMES: OK.

BILCHIK: -- and starts messing up the entire apartment and throwing things. So what happens is this --

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HOLMES: Hey, what are we seeing here? Explain this to me first.

BILCHIK: Right now you're seeing one of the girlfriends.

HOLMES: OK, OK.

BILCHIK: OK, so one of the girlfriends who's got a Facebook page by the way so we know even though she's in prison she at least has a computer.

HOLMES: OK.

BILCHIK: So he calls the authorities, the police arrive and arrests all three of them: the New Zealander, his British girlfriend and the Brazilian girlfriend, the former girlfriend.

HOLMES: Wow, OK.

BILCHIK: And detained them.

HOLMES: For?

BILCHIK: For illicit conduct, for immorality -- and this is a big deal.

HOLMES: Wow.

BILCHIK: Now what happened this week is they actually get sentenced. He gets sentenced for two months in a Dubai prison. I mean that is no joke in a communal prison.

HOLMES: Wow.

BILCHIK: And each girl gets sentenced for one month and prior to that while they've been detained the women became great friends. So it's a rather extraordinary story. But it's the fact that there is an Immorality Act in Dubai. And if you are seen to have extramarital sex outside of the marriage that is against the law for which you can be imprisoned.

And in fact, on the British Embassy site in Dubai there's a warning against this kind of behavior.

HOLMES: And you talk about an immorality clause. But how much does that necessarily cover? Is it just the premarital sex?

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BILCHIK: It's even holding hands or kissing.

HOLMES: Yes.

BILCHIK: You can only have alcohol in certain licensed restaurants. But this -- the irony of course is that "Sex in the City II" is supposedly set in the United Arab Emirates. And originally in Dubai and Dubai said no "Sex in the City" so they say, let's go to Abu Dhabi.

HOLMES: Yes.

BILCHIK: Abu Dhabi said no, so they stoned it in Morocco.

HOLMES: Morocco.

BILCHIK: But it's supposed to be in Abu Dhabi. Well, there's nothing romantic about being arrested for having sex. Now, in 2008 there was a couple who was on the beach, a British couple who were arrested. Well, they very quickly went and got married.

HOLMES: Oh well.

BILCHIK: And put the (INAUDIBLE) shortly after.

HOLMES: So again some of these, the prison sentence or the jail sentences go for a number of months. We're not talking about years and years.

BILCHIK: No.

HOLMES: OK.

BILCHIK: And then the people are deported afterwards.

HOLMES: Wow.

BILCHIK: So right now we have a banker in New Zealand who is a banker with HSBC Bank earning over $100,000 a year. He is going to be deported back to New Zealand along with his Brazilian ex and his British current --

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HOLMES: Current girlfriend.

BILCHIK: -- who have become great friends. HOLMES: You cannot make this stuff up. Nadia Bilchik, sometimes I wonder if you do but she's not, folks. Nadia, with our "Morning Passport"; thank you as always.

Well, we're about 20 minutes from the top of the hour now.

The CNN Freedom Project looking at the horrors out there of modern day slavery with a new documentary. It's called "NEPAL'S STOLEN CHILDREN." It's narrated by Demi Moore. It premieres tonight or tomorrow night I should say, again that's tomorrow night 8:00 Eastern here on CNN.

Also actress Mira Sorvino has also joined the fight against human trafficking as a U.N. Goodwill Ambassador and talks about her mission in this "Impact Your World."

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MIRA SORVINO, ACTRESS, U.N. AMBASSADOR: A lot of what I've learned about human trafficking has been through direct conversations with victims. I've interviewed many, many victims in several different countries in different situations and different age ranges.

Almost all the victims are so often to have been women and most of them had been in sexual exploitations. Some of it is so shocking that it almost ruins you for a few weeks. Like you can't actually escape the horrendousness of what people are telling you and the pain that they have lived through.

If all of us rise up and all of us fight, this thing will end. This is going to change because it is morally intolerable.

CNN ANNOUNCER: "Impact your World" CNN.com/impact.

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HOLMES: Now young women and girls in Nepal bought and sold for sex. They are all victims. And tomorrow night the survivors get a voice. Demi Moore joins the 2010 CNN Hero the Year to take you inside the fight to end this modern day slavery; "NEPAL'S STOLEN CHILDREN," a CNN Freedom Project documentary -- again CNN Sunday night, 8:00 Eastern Time.

Well, the Casey Anthony trial is set to resume here in just a matter of minutes this morning and some will tell you she has no choice but to take the stand. Others will tell you that would be a huge mistake. We are looking at both scenarios and also the crocodile tears that some will tell you flowed on the stand yesterday.

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HOLMES: Well, about a quarter of the top of the hour now.

The murder trial of Florida mom, Casey Anthony gets back on track. We're just a few minutes away from that now. Casey's mother and brother were both on the witness stand yesterday. I want to bring in now criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor, Holly Hughes. It sounds like you've been on both side of this type of stuff here.

HOLLY HUGHES, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Yes, thank you.

HOLMES: But -- let's start with -- yesterday's testimony. We talked about and you and I were on yesterday talking about this. The brother Lee was crying at one point on the stand yesterday. The mother was crying. But these two, in your opinion, were clearly trying to help Casey.

HUGHES: Absolutely. And the way you can tell that, T.J., is look at how they testified when they were witnesses for the prosecution. Look at the affect. Look at how they were acting.

When Cindy Anthony who is the mother of Casey Anthony, the defendant in this case, was up for the prosecution, she was so raw and vulnerable and emotional. At one point in time T.J., we saw her doubled over. She could not even sit up straight in the witness box because she was just so emotional about this baby granddaughter that she loved so much.

But then we see her called for Jose Baez and all of a sudden oh, she's just -- she's on it and she's snapping out and, she's -- you know, just very different affect, trying to help her daughter. You know, I made those -- say again?

HOLMES: Would you say, does she look rehearsed? Would you say that? Practiced?

HUGHES: No. What she's trying to do -- it's very affected like she's putting on a show. She's trying to help her daughter, obviously, avoid the death penalty and you can't blame her for that. I cannot imagine what this family is going through. What a horrible thing.

HOLMES: Let's look at -- and this is something you and I were watching yesterday as well. But her brother was up on the stand, Lee Anthony and he really was crying, certainly looked emotional but the prosecutor wasn't buying it.

Let's listen to this and then I'm going to ask you about it on the other side.

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LEE ANTHONY, BROTHER OF CASEY ANTHONY: I was very angry at my mom and I was also angry at my sister. I mean I was just angry at everyone in general that they didn't -- that they didn't want to include me, and didn't find it important enough to tell me, especially after I'd already asked. So, I was very hurt.

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HOLMES: Now, what we're listening to there, he was asked a question about -- he apparently did not know that Casey was pregnant. He was kind of left out of it. But his reaction there -- what did you make of his reaction? We're going to play here how the prosecutor reacted to it. But let me ask you first, just what was your reaction when you first saw that?

HUGHES: I thought it was really bizarre. I mean he's not the father of the baby. So all of this emotion and all of this, they didn't tell me, I felt so left -- really? (INAUDIBLE)

That was a first for me. It's not a legal term but "really" is what popped into my head, T.J. It just seemed over the top to me.

Let's listen because it sounds like the prosecutor may have agreed with your reaction. Here's the prosecutor now coming back and asking him questions after his -- I don't want to say performance -- but testimony, his tearful testimony. Listen to this.

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JEFF ASHTON, PROSECUTOR: What was different about the way the emotion with which you answered that question two hours ago, it was different than the emotion that you did not display when asked the same question two years ago?

L. ANTHONY: Two years ago I did not 100 percent hold the belief that Caylee was dead. At this very moment, two hours ago, during that two-year span I've come to the place where I believe that she is. And my emotions are elicited from those facts that I have regrets and I wish I could have been there a lot more than I was.

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HOLMES: OK. Holly, the prosecutor essentially saying hey when you were asked this same question in your deposition you just answered it and moved on. Today you're putting on a performance, is that what he was saying?

HUGHES: That's absolutely where the prosecutor Jeff Ashton was going. Because he needs to point out to the jury this isn't the first time you've heard these question. And when you answered them in deposition, which was about a year after the baby disappeared you weren't emotional. In fact your answer was and you look at the deposition, he showed it to him T.J. You and I saw that yesterday.

Well, I didn't go to the hospital to visit but when she came home everything was OK. So he glossed over it. He was not emotional about it. And his explanation to the prosecutor was well, I didn't really believe she was dead. And then we see the prosecutor saying OK but there was a memorial service six months before you gave your deposition. They had already found the bones. They knew from DNA testing that this was indeed your little niece.

So, it's his job -- it's the prosecutor's job, he's fighting for justice. Trial is war, T.J., and it might seem like he's picking on Lee but you've got to call to the jury's attention this is different than what you said and how you acted before. We have to ask ourselves why.

HOLMES: OK. We want our viewers to know, Holly is going to be with us throughout the morning because we're going to be dipping in here for you for a lot of today's testimony, really. Would you call yesterday the most dramatic and emotional testimony we've seen in the trial?

HUGHES: It was. Yesterday and the day before with what Cindy and Lee, the mother and brother of the defendant had to say. And with Cindy claiming responsibility for all this chloroform search -- this was bombshell stuff. It was big.

HOLMES: Well, it continues today in just a matter of minutes. We're actually looking at some live pictures. I see defense attorneys walking into the room as we speak -- into the courtroom.

So we know they're going to start up here in a moment. When that testimony starts and we will be dipping in and bringing you the parts that we believe that you might be interested in seeing or want to see. Again we'll be going live to Orlando.

Also our David Mattingly is there covering it for us. But we're glad to have you here with us Holly. Thanks so much.

HUGHES: Thank you.

HOLMES: Quick break here on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING. We're right back.

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HOLMES: All right.

This is happening right now in an Orlando courtroom. You see the defense attorney there on your left and also Casey Anthony has re- entered the courtroom. They are resuming the trial this morning after a couple of dramatic days of testimony on Friday and Thursday with her brother and mother taking the stand.

Now we'll see who's going to end up on the stand this morning. We're standing by for that. We will be dipping into this throughout the morning and letting you hear some of the more relevant points and testimony that will come up.

We also have attorney Holly Hughes who is standing by here with me to help us navigate through some of the parts of this trial. So again, that's happening right now in Orlando.

Also the sad news to pass along for you this Saturday morning about Nick Charles; Nick was a CNN staple for years on "SPORTS TONIGHT" here at CNN. He has now lost his battle with bladder cancer. He was 64 years old. Our Dr. Sanjay Gupta looking back at the career of Nick Charles.

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NICK CHARLES, FORMER SPORTSCASTER: We're here at the Rose Bowl at the Super Dome. We have the field of play --

Hello again from Pontiac, Michigan.

DR. SANJAY GUPTA, CNN CHIEF MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The voice, the smile, the hair. Nick Charles was CNN's original sports anchor and part of the longest running anchor team in television sports history, teaming up with Brad Hickman on "SPORTS TONIGHT" for almost 17 years. Nick did it all from the Olympics.

CHARLES: The Olympics have finally arrived.

GUPTA: To the Kentucky Derby.

CHARLES: But for now, the one to beat is a girl.

GUPTA: But the one thing he never missed was a good fight.

CHARLES: In the back parking lot of the stadium here at Cesar's Palace we'll find out a little bit more of what former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson is made of.

GUPTA: In August, 2009 the fight became his own. This time Nick was in the ring and the opponent was stage four bladder cancer. Nick chose to do what he's done all his life -- fight, enduring rounds of chemo and radiation. He refused to let his diagnosis define him. He kept a positive attitude and focused on living with purpose and passion.

I had a chance to sit down with Nick weeks before he died.

(on camera): It's a beautiful place. How have you been feeling?

CHARLES: Feeling good. I'm really feeling fine. I'm a forward- looking person but also a living in the moment person. So I wake up every day expecting to have a good day. It may sound trite, Sanjay, but life as you get older is about 20 percent what happens to you and about 80 percent how you react to it.

GUPTA: When you have this change in attitude where you say it's 80 percent how you react to it, I mean you developed that because you're now confronting your mortality?

CHARLES: I think about my mortality and I'll think about just look at the sky and say this is beautiful this morning. Look at this dawn. I'll only go that far.

You really need and I've told my older children this, Sanjay, in life you need short term, medium term and long range goals. I'm at the short term goals. It's almost day-to-day, moment to moment. It's really quite sustaining for me and actually invigorating.

GUPTA (voice-over): Nick lived longer than his doctors expected. His inspiration: his 5-year-old daughter, Giovanna, and his wife, Cora. He didn't hide from his youngest child that he was dying. Instead, he focused on his faith. CHARLES: Spiritually I tell her I'm going to prepare a better place for you and we're going to be there eternally. The eternal picture is a difficult concept for a 5-year-old but we talk about heaven a lot.

GUPTA: Nick found meaning all around him. He died surrounded by the people he loved, at peace, knowing he fought the good fight.

(on camera): You've named some of these mountains.

CHARLES: Well, yes. I have three peaks. And I always tell, that's mommy, Giovanna in the middle, and daddy and they are always going to be there and you're always going to look at them and know that we're always going to be together.

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