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Casey Anthony Trial Set For Closing Arguments; Prosecutors Admit Problems With Accuser's Statements in DSK Case; Georgia Tries Guest-Worker Programs to Help Farmers; CNN Road Trip: Three Friends, One Vehicle, One Tank of Gas; Password Dos and Don'ts; Gesture Gets Spectator Jail Time; Royal Wedding on French Riviera; Iowa Tour for Bachmann; Nike and Michael Vick Re-Unite
Aired July 02, 2011 - 08:00 ET
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T.J. HOLMES, CNN ANCHOR: Good morning, everybody. From the CNN center in Atlanta, Georgia, on this July 2nd, I'm T.J. Holmes. Thank you for being here.
Closing arguments in the Florida murder trial of Casey Anthony will likely start tomorrow morning; testimony is done in this case. The court, which has been in session on Saturdays, is actually off today, so no trial today. Casey Anthony, as you know, accused of killing her two-year-old daughter Caylee. The prosecution wrapped up the rebuttal phase of the trial yesterday and here is how the judge ended the day.
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JUDGE BELVIN PERRY, ORANGE COUNTY CIRCUIT COURT: Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, this concludes the presentation of all evidence. We will convene on Sunday at 9:00 a.m. for closing arguments and instruction on the law in this case. Please remember all of my previous admonitions. In addition to the instructions on behalf of the state?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The defense?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Nothing from the defense.
PERRY: Members of the jury, you may be excused.
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HOLMES: So, after closing arguments, the jury will get the case. We will have much more on what we have seen in the past few days, past few weeks, even, on this case. Holly Hughes, an attorney has been helping us out on the coverage of this case, will be here live in studio with my shortly.
Also, some new video to show you of Dominique Strauss-Kahn, the former head of the International Monetary Fund, there he is now, smiling as he heads out for a night on the town with his wife. This came just hours after a judge released him from house arrest.
He, as you remember, is accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid. The judge, though, ended Strauss-Kahn's house arrest after prosecutors detailed problems with the accuser's story.
CNN's Susan Candiotti has more on the district attorney's concern.
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SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Prosecutors laid it out for the judge in court and in a letter to the defense. They said they turned up troubling, outright lies by the maid, some they said she admitted on her own.
Among them, her story changed about where she was and what she did right after Strauss-Kahn allegedly assaulted her in his hotel suite. At first she said she waited in the hallway until her supervisor came. She later admitted she cleaned another room and came back to DSK's suite before reporting the incident.
The DA also says she admitted she lied about a gang rape in a political asylum application and since she admitted faking information to the IRS about her dependents and income.
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HOLMES: Dominique Strauss-Kahn is due back in court July 18th. Meanwhile, his accuser could face legal penalties or even deportation based on the details of her story.
Minnesota, it's going to be an interesting weekend up there. The government is shut down. That could make things tough for people this fourth of July weekend. State parks, highway rest stops, even the zoo are closed because lawmakers could not agree on a budget before their deadline this week. Beyond the closures, more than 20,000 state workers laid off.
The same battle we're seeing in Washington. Democrats want to raise taxes on the wealthy to pay down the deficit. Republicans calling for deep spending cuts instead.
Canada, playing host this weekend to Britain's Prince William and his new bride. Don't they just look fabulous? There was a 21-gun salute in Ottawa to welcome the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. The royal couple arrived Thursday in time to watch most of the Canada day festivities. They will be in Canada a few more days before they head to California.
We turn now to Libya where the leader there Moammar Gadhafi is threatening to take the fight to Europe in retaliation for repeated NATO air strikes against his forces. NATO has also bombed several buildings in the capital of Tripoli calling them military targets. Here is Gadhafi making the threat on Libyan state TV.
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MOAMMAR GADHAFI, LIBYAN LEADER (through translator): People of Libya might exceed your houses and offices, your families, all of them will be fair military targets. The same way you turned our offices, our headquarters, our house, our children, you turned them into legitimate military targets. We will treat you the same, eye for eye, ear for an ear, a droop for a drop, a family for a family, a house for a house, a headquarter for a headquarter. If we decide, we are able to move to Europe like locust, like bees.
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HOLMES: A man who flew across the country without a ticket remains in jail this morning. A Federal judge refused to set bail during a hearing yesterday. The suspected stow away was caught traveling from New York to Los Angeles using someone else's boarding pass. When he got to Los Angeles, police let him go. He then tried to board a plane from Los Angeles to Atlanta a few days later using the same trick. He was arrested that time.
Also, this morning -- a live picture, Hartsville-Jackson International Airport in Atlanta, Georgia -- air traffic controllers in Atlanta and nationwide are getting some new rules in an effort to keep them awake on the job. Besides new guidelines, scheduling guidelines, controllers are now being allowed to read or listen to the radio to keep them awake, but only when there's not a lot of air traffic. They can also take sick days if they're too tired to work.
This all in response to several incidents earlier this year where controllers fell asleep in the tower. Controllers are still not allowed to take naps, though, while on break.
REYNOLDS WOLF, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Good plan.
HOLMES: That is a good plan, right?
WOLF: Especially take naps while you're working.
HOLMES: How do you like the radio part?
WOLF: I don't know. Depends on what they're listening to. Seriously, listening to Mega Death or something -- you want them to have easy, smooth jazz as planes are landing.
HOLMES: Put them to sleep.
WOLF: I guess that's true. Could be freaky.
HOLMES: Let us all say good morning to Reynolds Wolf here now. Big holiday weekend. You have the eye on the weather but also fireworks. Isn't it illegal --?
WOLF: In some states, I mean, depends on where you happen to be. There are some states in our great country where basically you can have your own almost like an arsenal, kind of stuff, I mean shoulder rocket missile and hey, Fourth of July, let's go.
Some things do happen with a bang, but again, you have to really use common sense out there. We tell the story every single year of people getting out there being careless and people get hurt. It's supposed to be a festive wonderful holiday, but unfortunately people do get a little careless.
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, there were three fireworks related deaths and again, it happened all last year. More than 8,500 people had to be taken to the emergency room because of firework injuries. Some of the tips to prevent such a thing from happening to you or to your family.
HOLMES: And this is amazing to hear 8,500 people are injured with fireworks. But here are some of the things. You of course, kind of common sense here, don't allow young children to play with or ignite the fireworks. You should always have an adult supervise the fireworks activities.
Those sparklers even, they seem innocent enough but they can be dangerous as well. They burn at some really high temperatures, so be aware of those. Never try to re-light or pick up fireworks that have not fully ignited and also keep a bucket of water or a garden hose.
WOLF: Water has a really detrimental effect on fire.
HOLMES: On fire.
WOLF: It's crazy. Also be careful, because I'm not joking, I've heard of people getting fireworks thrown at them and the dog -- they're playing a fetch game. Not good when that happens.
HOLMES: That's a good point.
Reynolds, I know you'll have the forecast, the weather coming up, but also something people need to see, people trying to hit the road on a budget.
WOLF: We're in tough times. We're talking about a trip on a tank, how you can get and explore some of the greatest things in America, some of the unusual, some of the bizarre, certainly never boring. That's coming up in just a few moments.
HOLMES: Reynolds, we'll see you in just a moment.
Also, to our viewers, Georgia, Alabama, Arizona, tough immigration laws passed in all those states and some are saying they're scaring off farm workers. One state thinks so. Felony probationers could be the answer.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Offenders are just like you and I. They need employment to feed their families and I think this program has given them an opportunity to do that.
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HOLMES: All right. You're hearing this right. Georgia is testing a program to send probationers to farms. The details next on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
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HOLMES: This is one demonstration in downtown Atlanta this week. They're there protesting Georgia's tough new anti-immigration law that went into effect just yesterday. A judge did block a couple of key provisions of that law, but still most of them did go into effect.
Now at this protest you're seeing here, you heard them chanting, unafraid, undocumented. Some of the people there say they are in fact here in this country illegally and they are letting it be known and several were arrested downtown.
Georgia lawmakers hope the law in part will discourage people who are in the country illegally from coming to the state. It may be working. And according to Georgia's agriculture commissioner, that may be a problem.
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GARY BLACK, GEORGIA AGRICULTURE COMMISSIONER: We have some people call and simply say, I had no workers or I had, you know, one- third of our normal crews that show up. Simply said, you know, they were not coming to Georgia. I'm focused on trying to find a solution for Georgia farmers and for, quite frankly, American producers.
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HOLMES: Georgia is trying to help farmers make up for a shortage of workers by connecting them with unemployed people. Just one thing, these unemployed people also have criminal records.
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HOLMES: Ten-hour days in 90-degree heat in July in south Georgia. Those are the work conditions and this is the work. The kind of work farmers say Americans won't do and can't do. It takes skill to do this. You're picking peaches. You just come out here and you just pull them off and that's the end of it.
ROBERT DICKEY, OWNER, DICKEY FARMS: No. You've got to really know which ones to pick, the ones that are much mature and the size and color and so it takes a lot of skill to pick them and know which ones to harvest.
HOLMES: For every worker you bring in from Mexico, it would take how many local workers to match the output of that?
DICKEY: It would take at least three to four.
HOLMES: Robert Dickey is a farmer, part of a $68 billion industry in Georgia. He's worried the state's new anti-immigration law is scaring away the skilled work force he depends on. Dickey is also a state legislator. He voted for that anti-immigration bill, knowing full well, it might hurt his family business. Has there ever been a point you kind of second-guessed that vote?
DICKEY: Absolutely. I just -- it hurts me terribly to see some of my farmers not being able to harvest their crops and get (INAUDIBLE) . It's going to make some things more expensive here in the state with the lack of work force.
HOLMES: Georgia farmers report they are 11,000 workers short this season. So the state floated the idea of having felony probationers fill the jobs. Some are already working on farms.
STAN COOPER, PRESIDENT, GEORGIA PROBATION ASSOCIATION: We're not forcing anyone to take this type of labor. We're simply offering up opportunities for offenders to be employed in the agriculture community where there's a great need right now. It's encouraging, even though small scale at this point. When we started out, it was the first couple days, of course, was rocky in the sense that, you know, you had offenders going into an extremely difficult job.
HOLMES: Like Dickey says, all peach pickers are not created equal. And even with time and training, probationers won't be able to keep pace. You have tried in the past to have local workers out here, didn't go so well.
DICKEY: It didn't. They just really don't have the patience and the incentive to stay here and do the kind of job we need done.
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HOLMES: Now, the workers you were seeing there on Dickey's farm are here legally for a guest-worker program. It's called H2A. The probationers, though, are only working on about two farms so far in Georgia. But the state hopes to see that number grow for the fall harvest.
At 14 minutes past the hour now, coming up, we are going on the road with Reynolds Wolf.
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WOLF: This is one of the many beautiful squares in Savannah but I'm not quite sure what the name of this particular one happens to -- of course. I mean, it all makes sense. Of course it does. Love it.
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HOLMES: One trip on one tank of gas. We'll see just how far he can go.
But first, what if you're going away on vacation for seven days, how many pairs of underwear do you need? That sounds like kind of a personal question, but it's fascinating in the survey to see just how different men and women are.
A British online travel agency asked more than a thousand people the question, women say in a seven-day trip, they would need 10 pairs of underwear. You will not believe and you will even be embarrassed when you hear how many pairs of underwear men would take along for a week-long trip.
That's after the break.
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HOLMES: All right, 16 minutes past the hour now.
Before the break, I was telling you about this new survey and we learned that women in the survey said that on a seven-day vacation, they would take 10 pairs of underwear, pack that many. That's according to a survey taken by an online British travel agency.
As I bring in Reynolds Wolf here in a moment, would you believe Reynolds, that men were asked, they said on a seven-day trip, just three, three pairs of underwear. That's all.
WOLF: Stunned.
HOLMES: Some of these men, we should say, they said that at least half of them here said they would either wash the three pairs of underwear or they would wear a swimsuit most of the time. The other half, we don't know what they do.
WOLF: Commando. It's got to be commando. Are you surprised by this? When you think about the sexes, men are Neanderthals. We are freaks (INAUDIBLE)
HOLMES: We're just nasty.
WOLF: First of all, to my British friends across the pond, why are you asking this question in the first place? Where does this come from seriously? Aren't there better questions to ask? How do you ask someone? You're my favorite people in the whole world. I consider you a dear friend. I would never ask you how many pairs.
HOLMES: I would never ask you that as well.
WOLF: That's a lifetime agreement. Never come up in conversation ever.
HOLMES: But you just went on a trip. You didn't have to pack necessarily a bag here.
WOLF: Yes.
HOLMES: You're doing a service, people, one tank of gas, how far can you get?
WOLF: That's the question. You know what's funny about this, when you go back to just traveling by car, it is -- we've lost something as Americans. Many people will get into a car. You can just pull out a credit card, and you don't have to speak to a soul. Go to a gas station, swipe your card, fill up your tank, keep driving, you don't have to say anything to anyone. It's become very impersonal.
You put on your mp3 player and you set it on cruise control and stop. We have taken a trip where, not only have we gone from point A to point B, we've made it into a bit of a vacation, seeing some of the unusual parts of America that are a little bit off the beaten path and we did it on one tank. Check it out.
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WOLF: We're starting a journey today going from St. Mary's, Georgia, to Savannah. I'm not going by myself. I got two other people with me. I got CNN photojournalist Ric Blackburn, he's behind the camera; we also have CNN producer Alicia Eakin. Three friends, one vehicle, one tank of gas -- let's hit the road.
And our first stop on today's trip on a tank is here at Cumberland Island, Georgia. You've got the sun. You've got the surf. You've got the island and the manatees -- check those guys out.
But it's not just the animals. We've got some incredible ruins here too. Maggie Tyler of the National Park Service is here with us.
Maggie, how long have these things have been here?
MAGGIE TYLER, NATIONAL PARK SERVICE: (INAUDIBLE) was built in the 1890s and actually burned in 1959 and became part of the National Park Service in 1972.
WOLF: It's been around for a long time. Speaking of time, it's time for us to keep moving. Let's go.
Let's just keep things in perspective. As we get one step closer to Savannah, we're going to see all kinds of neat things, but it's not like we're going to see a giant submarine sticking out of the ground. Let's be serious.
I'm speechless. Take a look at that. The USS George Bancroft, unbelievable, a submarine coming out of the ground here in Saint Mary's, Georgia. Clearly, nothing, nothing on this trip on a tank can top that.
Actually, it can. We're in Woodbine, Georgia and we found this. Dead peoples' things for sale. Wow.
Alicia, is it open?
ALICIA EAKIN, CNN PRODUCER: It's shut.
WOLF: Ric, you want to stick around? Let's get back in the car.
RIC BLACKBURN, CNN PHOTOJOURNALIST: Breaker one nine. Doggy.
WOLF: The journey brings us to Saint Simons Island, Georgia, where we've seen a lot of these amazing carvings on these tree on the island. The artist put this together as a memorial to the sailors who lost their lives at sea. There are a lot of them and these things are creeping me out. And we are out of here.
We decided to take a small break at the smallest church in America. At first glimpse, shocker, it looks small. Let's go take a peek inside. Watch your head there Ric. It's going to -- hello. Inside the tiny church we've got our tiny producer. She's 5'1" we're allowed to say that she's kind of small.
Do you feel crowded?
EAKIN: Just right.
WOLF: It's right for her, but for me and for Ric, we're tall so we're going to move on to bigger stories like our big story. We finally made it to our destination in Savannah, Georgia. Now we take a look around.
Let's hop on the old town trolley. It is amazing what you'll see when you're moving through this incredible city, just beautiful stuff. Denise is our driver. What is the number one stop for people in Savannah?
EAKIN: The number one stop here in Savannah is Forsythe Park.
WOLF: Wow. Let's check it out. There it is. The incredible fountain here in Forsythe Square in Savannah. It has been an amazing trip from St. Mary's to Savannah, over 200 miles, one tank, one trip and so many sights that we were able to see.
See you next time down the road.
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WOLF: OK. Travel log here it is, 200 miles, so went to six cities. When I say, cities these are small towns, costs about $100 to fill up a Ford Expedition. If you've got a smaller car, you're going to do much better. We had a big vehicle with all our gear we took with us.
In terms of the overall budget, take a look, again the gas we mentioned that, the ferry, you don't have to take one of those, but we did, $60, the trolley was about $78 or so, you can do a lot of things to shave off that price and of course in terms of food, we didn't include that. You can always bring your own food, pack a lunch, that kind of thing and in terms of hotels, you get a variance on that also.
HOLMES: That was a day trip?
WOLF: Yes. But you think about it, all these places we stopped, they were fun, they were weird, they were freaky, didn't cost a penny at any of the spots. You can go to a giant amusement park. You can go to these places you see on the map, but it's off the beaten path you're going to find weird things that let us know who we used to be as people, who we are today and what we might become.
HOLMES: You got me thinking about a road trip.
WOLF: Good times.
HOLMES: Good stuff Reynolds. We're going to see more of those from Reynolds. He's going to have a series here for us, one tank of gas. Reynolds, thank you. We'll see you more a little later on, the weather.
But at 23 minutes past the hour, a lot of you out there go through a form of password roulette, putting online information at risk because your password is too weak. Get those laptops ready. We've got some tips on building a better password right after this.
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HOLMES: Getting close to the bottom of the hour here on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
Big companies from Sony to Citigroup have had their computer systems hacked recently. You've seen these stories. A lot of customers' private passwords went public. Some people make it easy for hackers using some pretty obvious passwords like "John D" or "Wildman." Some of you even use the password "password."
Our digital lifestyle expert Mario Armstrong has some tips on how to make your computer password more secure.
Mario, good to see you as always.
This affects us all. We all have about 20 passwords we have to log into. So we can we start with simply the longer the password the better?
MARIO ARMSTRONG, CNN DIGITAL LIFESTYLE EXPERT: The longer the password is absolutely better, man. This is really, really important because so much identity theft can happen so easily from having the wrong password.
So here's the bottom line. Georgia Institute of Technology researchers found that they could crack an eight-character password in two hours. But for a 12-character password, the same process would take 17,134 years. So I say, go with at least a 10-character password or more to be safe.
HOLMES: That is a good tip.
The other thing, a lot of us just use letters and numbers. That's a bad idea?
ARMSTRONG: Yes. Because there's only 26 letters in the alphabet and numbers, there's only but so many you're going to use in a password, one through zero or all the way up to nine and then zero. So you want to use numbers, letters and symbols, but also, upper and lowercase. That actually matters when doing a password. You have to make this so hard that basically hackers can't use software to crack that code. And the more complexity you put into the password, the harder it becomes.
HOLMES: Yes. The more complexity you put in there, the harder it becomes and the harder it is to remember.
ARMSTRONG: To remember. HOLMES: We've got -- really, we've got our bank accounts. We have passwords, we have all this stuff at work. We have Hotmail and e-mail. We have credit card things online, the bill pay.
How are we supposed to keep up with all of these passwords?
ARMSTRONG: Yes. So one way to do it is to create sentences or phrases that are similar, but different, for different services. So, for example, you might want to create a phrase that just says, I love my son five times his birthday, and maybe that's for your e-mail or for certain web accounts and maybe you take that same type of phrase but have variations of it for different accounts. That way it's not the same exact password, but it makes it a little bit easier for you to remember long term. HOLMES: No. Mario, we are not going to remember that. You know how many things you log into, you are not going to remember all these unless you write them down somewhere.
Can we keep a file somewhere? Should we keep it in our wallet. Should we do something like that? Come on, man, you're not going to remember all that stuff.
ARMSTRONG: You can. T.J., seriously you can remember if you really start to memorize a little bit of a variation.
HOLMES: Stop it.
ARMSTRONG: All right. I don't know if you don't have enough random access memory in your brain there, but apparently not. So maybe you need to flush out some of those old memories and replace it with some new ones.
But here -- but -- but you bring up a really good point. So you can -- I wouldn't suggest necessarily writing these down, although I know people that do that, but I would say that you could create what's called a digital wallet and so there are software services, one's for free, called Key Pass X and that's "K-E-E Pass X." And that way they can store all of your passwords in an encrypted file so that you could have access to that when you need it.
However, if you want to just be safe, I guess you could write them out when on a sheet of paper at home.
HOLMES: OK.
ARMSTRONG: But I certainly wouldn't put a document -- I know someone in my family put a document on their computer and called it a password document. That's not smart.
HOLMES: OK, I have one of those, Mario. I am not kidding you.
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ARMSTRONG: OK good.
HOLMES: I have one of those at the house right now, because I am logged on to five different things right now at work.
ARMSTRONG: Right.
HOLMES: And another -- at least 15 to 20, seriously, at home.
ARMSTRONG: Yes, no seriously.
HOLMES: That's a lot of words, there's a lot of upper case, lower case, but you're saying don't write them down and also we should never, ever, use the same password for all these things right, no matter how complicated that one password is?
ARMSTRONG: It's complicated. Because, T.J., you're only as strong as your weakest link. So if you use the same password for your bank account as you do say for e-mail, if your e-mail or like Sony PlayStation you get hit, they would have the same access or the same information to basically log into your bank account.
So definitely on your higher, more security things, you want to think about different passwords. I can understand having some similar ones or variations of similar ones for frivolous things, but those -- those little bits of data, ID hackers, can really put together the big picture of you with just a little bit of info.
HOLMES: I've got work to do today. Before we let you go, you're always good to us here, and certainly hope you think we're good to you as well.
ARMSTRONG: Oh really.
HOLMES: But we're going to set up a moment here and let people see, that our Mario Armstrong picked up an Emmy for his work on the Maryland Public Television program "You can Afford College." You've got a picture here with your son with that Emmy.
I just wanted to be able to show that to our viewers and say congratulations to you. We always appreciate having you. We were the first to put you on TV.
ARMSTRONG: Thanks T.J. Yes.
HOLMES: And don't you ever forget it, Mario.
ARMSTRONG: Never will, never will. If it wasn't for you and Tanesha (ph), it never will.
HOLMES: All right. Mario good to see you, buddy. We'll talk to you soon.
ARMSTRONG: All right, take care.
HOLMES: And of course, you can see him every Saturday here, Mario Armstrong, our digital lifestyle expert, he has the scoop on technology for you.
Well, we're a little past at the bottom of the hour. Now, the Casey Anthony murder trial, winding down, they're not in court today. They've been going at it more than a month in the courtroom. There's been some emotional testimony as we know, but the closing arguments will begin tomorrow.
Up next, we'll ask a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor if there are any surprises left?
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HOLMES: All right, we're at 34 minutes past the hour on the CNN SATURDAY MORNING now.
Closing arguments in the Casey Anthony murder trial are set for tomorrow on Sunday; she's accused, of course, of killing her 2-year- old daughter Caylee.
Let me bring in now criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor Holly Hughes, who's been certainly a friend of our show here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING while this case is going on.
Wow.
First of all explain to folks why are we in court on Sunday, the closing arguments? Why did he decide to do it tomorrow?
HOLLY HUGHES, CRIMINAL DEFENSE ATTORNEY: Well, T.J., you know this is a death penalty case. So in death penalty cases especially these really high profile ones we do something called sequestering the jury. Essentially that's just a nice legal term for locking them up, OK.
HOLMES: Yes.
HUGHES: These poor jurors have been put in a hotel away from their families. They cannot listen to radio. They cannot watch television. They can't read newspapers. They can't go on the Internet. So essentially, if you think about it, they've got more restrictions than Casey Anthony, the defendant, who's locked up in jail here.
HOLMES: Right. So the judge is trying to get through it?
HUGHES: The judge is just -- he's so sensitive to the needs of these jurors and they don't even have family visitation time.
HOLMES: Oh wow.
HUGHES: So he's saying to the lawyers, let's keep moving; let's get these people back to their families.
HOLMES: All right. And we talked about when the defense finally rested but the prosecution came back with its rebuttal case, is that really when they made their case? Was in the rebuttal case?
HUGHES: Oh ouch. Yes, well let's say they rehabilitated their case, OK, because they had a great case up front, very orderly, very strong evidence, even though it's only circumstantial. The defense did manage to create some confusion, I'll give them that.
You know, Cindy Anthony got on the stand and from all the evidence we saw on rebuttal lied. She perjured herself, OK. We get that, she's trying to save her daughter's life. But what the prosecution had to do was clean up the mess, clean up the confusion, take it all away. And they did that so effectively.
HOLMES: Remind our viewers. You said she got up there and lied.
HUGHES: Oh, yes.
HOLMES: What was she lying about?
HUGHES: She lied about the most important thing in the case and that is the chloroform searches, done on the home computer in the Casey Anthony house. Now they all lived together, George, Cindy, Casey, Lee; they were all in that house.
Lee wasn't there at the time, but he still had a key to come and go. Somebody did 84 searches for chloroform on that home computer. Prosecution says this is the premeditation, there were searches for neck breaking, household weapons, how to make household weapons, ruptured spleen; all kinds of really nefarious searches.
Prosecution says that's the premeditation. She was trying to look up ways to chloroform her daughter, get rid of her daughter. When her mama Cindy took the stand and said oh no, I did those searches.
HOLMES: Yes.
Here's the problem, though.
HUGHES: Yes.
HOLMES: When they got up for the rebuttal case, they could actually show where mom Cindy was actually logged in at work on her computer when she claims she was making those searches and they have the exact evidence. They have that forensic evidence. They can pull off the computer.
HUGHES: Oh yes.
HOLMES: They know exactly when it was happening.
HUGHES: Absolutely. And this is not like she was working at Burger King and somebody else used her log in.
HOLMES: Yes.
HUGHES: Cindy Anthony, Casey's mom, worked for Gentiva, it is a health care company. Everybody knows what HIPAA is. We know that those medical companies are regulated by the federal government. They're a publicly traded company. And so there are all types of rules, regulations, federal and otherwise.
So she was on her computer at work, she being Cindy, Casey's mom, updating patient files with her own secret log-in and her own secret password. So there's no doubt it was her.
HOLMES: One other thing before I let you go here, even if the jury gets this case, closing arguments tomorrow, the jury gets the case, they come back and give whatever verdict. Let's say they do find her guilty, their work is not done.
HUGHES: Oh, no. This is what we call in the law a bifurcated proceeding, fancy word for two parts. That's really all it means. So once they decide the guilt or innocence. If there is a first-degree murder conviction, then we do a whole another mini trial. It's the second part. That's where the state puts on what we call aggravators. And then the defense will get up and put up mitigators. And all of that means is the prosecution will go first and say this is so horrible, it's so aggravating to the conscience, it's so offensive, to murder a 2-year-old child in a heinous nature and that's why we want the death penalty. They'll make that argument.
The defense will have the opportunity to come behind it, mitigating means, you know, not so bad; all the things they think should save Casey's life, they'll put up her parents to cry and beg.
HOLMES: How long could that last?
HUGHES: Probably about a day, maybe a day and a half max.
HOLMES: OK. Well, another thing here, Holly, were you able to see this, this juror -- this is not a juror, excuse me spectator, a spectator caught on camera, folks, making an obscene gesture during the trial, ended up with a six-day jail sentence. He's kind of in the back there, he's kind of trying to do it on the sly. We got to blur that part out for you.
But there he is. The guy has now been sentenced to jail. He's 28-year-old Matthew Bartlett, flipping the bird in the courtroom. The judge called him up to answer for his actions.
Listen to this.
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JUDGE BELVIN PERRY, PRESIDING OVER CASEY ANTHONY CASE: What is that symbol that you are projecting with your fingers?
MATTHEW BARTLETT, FOUND IN CONTEMPT OF COURT: Using my middle finger, and I am sorry.
PERRY: OK. And what does that mean, sir? When you extend one's middle finger?
BARTLETT: That's the "F" word to someone.
PERRY: What does it mean to you, sir? Not to someone, but to you?
BARTLETT: No. To use that, the "f" word to someone.
PERRY: And who were you extending the finger to, sir?
BARTLETT: Mr. Ashton.
PERRY: And what -- what was Mr. Ashton doing at that time, sir?
BARTLETT: I don't know.
PERRY: Court was in session, was it not?
BARTLETT: Yes, it was.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
HOLMES: You know, why not? It's been a wild, wacky case. Well, that's one more thing to throw in there.
Now, Bartlett, you're seeing there he is spending the holiday weekend in jail. It also has happens to be his birthday he'll be spending in jail. He was born on the Fourth of July.
Maybe, I don't know if there are any more surprises, possibly, Holly but let's hope not. Holly Hughes, it's always good to have you. Thank you so much.
HUGHES: Thanks so much, T.J.
HOLMES: As always, we'll be talking to her again, I'm sure, tomorrow.
Well, going on today, in Monaco, it's the second big royal wedding of the year. Grace Kelly's son, Prince Albert, is finally getting married. After the break, we'll look into why some media outlets say his bride tried to bail.
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HOLMES: 43 minutes past the hour.
Now I'll bring in Nadia Bilchik for today's "Morning Passport." A big wedding happening today, a royal wedding in Monaco; Grace Kelly's son getting married, but his bride almost bailed is what you're telling me, Nadia?
NADIA BILCHIK, CNN EDITORIAL PRODUCER: Well, we do know that she didn't, because they had the civil ceremony yesterday.
HOLMES: OK yesterday.
BILCHIK: In just a few hours time. So I can imagine right now what's going on, she's getting ready in her -- we think Giorgio Armani gown for this great religious wedding --
HOLMES: OK.
BILCHIK: -- which is about to take place and there is so much relief that this is happening. Both because as you said, there was rumor that she bailed. But did she really or did she just go to Paris to buy shoes?
HOLMES: Isn't that a convenient excuse, you women always use that excuse when you're leaving.
BILCHIK: Exactly. People in the royal household in Monaco are saying she went to Paris to buy shoes.
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HOLMES: And there she is.
BILCHIK: But there is the other concern that this lovely lady, Charlene Wittstock, who is now Her Serene Highness.
HOLMES: I love that.
BILCHIK: Princess of Monaco maybe bolted because she heard that Prince Albert may -- and this is all alleged --
HOLMES: OK.
BILCHIK: Had a third illegitimate child. Now we know he has two.
HOLMES: And she was well aware.
BILCHIK: And she was well aware of the two. But rumor has it that there may be a third.
He's been a very busy Prince, Prince Albert, but great relief that he is finally getting married. He's 53 and the idea is that he will provide an heir to the principality. Because right now, what you have is his Sister Caroline is the heir presumptive --
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HOLMES: OK.
BILCHIK: -- not the heir apparent. So should anything happen to him, she will become the head of the principality of Monaco. So the idea is let there be an heir.
But you know, they haven't had such good luck. Think about it. I mean the beautiful wedding of Princess Grace Kelly, that was magnificent and beautiful and then unfortunately you know, she had this demise in a car accident. And look at that beautiful dress that she's wearing and some say that the Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, copied that dress.
HOLMES: Oh, wow. BILCHIK: So have a look at it. And now know that your wedding dress knowledge has increased incrementally over the last few days. That beautiful dress is said to have been the inspiration for Catherine Middleton.
HOLMES: OK. And explain it one more time before we let folks go -- or let you go here -- they had a civil ceremony yesterday, a smaller one. But today --
BILCHIK: Yes. They had a smaller one yesterday. Today is the lavish wedding. It's going to cost something like $80 million.
HOLMES: In Monaco, a country of 35,000 people.
BILCHIK: Exactly. Well, it's actually about 8,000 people, but about 35,000 people will be attending the wedding. So they say.
HOLMES: Oh, my goodness. Crazy.
BILCHIK: This is going to be a grand affair.
HOLMES: All right. We will be dipping into that and keeping an eye on it.
BILCHIK: Royal visitors.
HOLMES: We have some people there as well. Nadia Bilchik, another royal wedding to tell folks about. Thank you so much.
And what an awkward turn I have to make now to divorce. Maria Shriver officially filed for divorce from Arnold Schwarzenegger. Those papers were filed Friday in Los Angeles Superior Court. The couple announced their separation back in may after the former California governor admitted fathering a child with a household employee. Shriver, who is a Kennedy family heiress and Schwarzenegger have been married for 25 years.
HOLMES: Now Michele Bachmann has her bus tanked up and ready to roll across Iowa today. We've got a live report from Iowa City on her campaign blitz. That's next.
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HOLMES: Hello. We're about 13 minutes to the top of the hour on this CNN SATURDAY MORNING.
Michele Bachmann is spending the day talking to voters in Iowa. The Republican presidential candidate is boarding a bus to make several stops across that state.
And our political producer Shannon Travis is in Iowa City this morning, site of the first stop of the Bachmann bus tour. Shannon, good morning to you; it looks like she's doing the traditional thing, got to stop at those diners.
SHANNON TRAVIS, CNN POLITICAL PRODUCER: That's right, T.J. You can't effectively run a campaign for president without coming here to Iowa. Today she has five stops -- five stops across the state.
You know on Monday, she started her presidential campaign or announced her presidential campaign on Monday here. Today she kicks off her bus tour. She's got five stops, as I mentioned just a moment ago, including a Tea Party rally in Des Moines at the state capital, as well as throwing out the first pitch at an Iowa Cups baseball game later on this evening, T.J.
But the first stop as you just mentioned is right here at the Blue Bird Diner here in Iowa City. There are some patrons who are gathered right now. They're drinking coffee. They're chatting. I've been chatting with a few of them. They're anticipating Michele Bachmann coming in.
We expect her in about ten minutes or so. And it just so happens, T.J., to have three diners right here with me, one of them is an independent, the other two are Republicans. We've got Peggy Wright here, who is the independent; we've got Bruce, and we've got Bob. And I just wanted to -- we were just talking a moment ago, Peggy, about why you're here and what you hope to hear from Michele Bachmann.
PEGGY SCHNEIDER, INDEPENDENT VOTER: I'm just curious as to what she has to say about the current political situation. Learn a little bit more about her.
TRAVIS: And Bruce, you were saying that you -- even though you're a Republican, that you're still open-minded, just trying to hear, you know, all the ideas from the different candidates?
BRUCE GUITHER, REPUBLICAN VOTER: Oh, absolutely. You know, being in Iowa, we get to see everybody come through here. It's really an opportunity for us to, you know, tell the nation what do we think and who these candidates are to us.
TRAVIS: And Bob, being an Iowan, do you think that Michele Bachmann has a bit of a leg up, since she was, A, born here and is from a neighboring state?
BOB WILSON, REPUBLICAN VOTER: No. I think it's a level playing field for anybody that wants to come to Iowa. And we certainly appreciate all the candidates that come here, spending their time and money. As well as you TV people, we like it when you come, Shannon.
TRAVIS: Got you.
There you have it, T.J. A bunch of anxious voters waiting for Michele Bachmann to come in; we expect her any moment.
HOLMES: You TV people, I assure you. We don't hear that a lot folks.
TRAVIS: Us, TV people.
HOLMES: That's good to hear. Somebody likes to see us there.
Shannon, thank you. We'll be checking in with Shannon in just a little bit.
Also coming up, Michael Vick, the quarterback who went to prison for dog fighting, just landed a huge endorsement deal. After the break, I'll tell you who just signed the Eagles number 7.
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HOLMES: Our good friend Ray D'Alessio here, HLN Sports. Good to see you.
RAY D'ALESSIO, HLN SPORT: Long time no see. Good to see you, man.
HOLMES: Been a little while. What's happening in sports right now? How is this being received? Michael Vick, he's paid his debt to society, right? Now he's getting endorsement deals.
D'ALESSIO: Sure.
HOLMES: Not just any deal we're talking about now.
D'ALESSIO: No and of course, let's go back to August of 2007, T.J. after Vick admitted to, you know, having ties to illegal dog fighting ring. Nike dropped him as an endorser. They had a great relationship; his products were some of the biggest sellers for Nike. They signed him his rookie season in 2001. They dropped him when the dog fighting thing came out.
Well, evidently Nike feels that Vick has done what he needs to do in order to, you know, begin rehabilitating his image. He's taking all the right steps trying to make good.
So they have now since re-signed him. No terms of the deal have been announced, but Michael Vick now back in the good graces of Nike as an official endorser of the products.
HOLMES: How has this been received so far?
D'ALESSIO: You know, there's mixed reactions. And no matter what Michael Vick does, let's face it, T.J., there's going to be those people who think, you know, the guy should be banned for life from sports. He should be banned from, you know, anything in life in general for what he did.
And then there's others fans, and people like myself and like you, who say you know what, the man paid his time, he went to prison. It was not easy time, it was hard time; he went to prison. And now he's taking those steps. If he has another setback then you'd be critical of him.
HOLMES: Heck of a year last year on the field --
D'ALESSIO: Yes it is. And he's comeback player of the year.
HOLMES: Comeback player of the year. We'll see what happens this season if they ever get the deal worked out, NFL. D'ALESSIO: They will. I have faith.
HOLMES: Let's move on to another, how can it be a good thing to get cracked upside the head by a golf ball? It's a good thing here. It saved the guy's life.
D'ALESSIO: And walking about PGA golfer Sean O'Hare. Last year, last 4th of July in fact, he was playing in a golf tournament, hits an errant tee shot. It hits this fan, Chris Logan is the fan's name. Logan immediately goes to the hospital.
While they're checking him for a concussion, they noticed a lump in his throat. And they said you need to get that checked out. It turns out the lump was thyroid cancer.
HOLMES: Wow.
D'ALESSIO: Thyroid cancer. Basically Sean O'Hare is being credited for saving this man's life in a roundabout way. Well, this week -- that's a picture of them earlier this week finally meeting for the first time.
Sean O'Hare went up to him and said I'm sorry for hitting you with the golf ball but I guess it was a good thing at the same time. And, you know of course, Logan, he was thrilled to meet his idol and the fact that this guy actually saved his life.
HOLMES: That's an incredible story.
D'ALESSIO: And the best part about it is, Logan is now cancer- free.
HOLMES: That's an incredible story.
D'ALESSIO: It really is.
HOLMES: I'm glad you brought that to us; we're going to wrap up with that one. Ray D'Alessio, always good to see you, buddy.
D'ALESSIO: Goodbye, man.
HOLMES: We're going to see you again this morning, right?
D'ALESSIO: Absolutely.
HOLMES: Great. Thank you as always.
Well, folks, we're getting close to the top of the hour here.
Do you have in your 401(k) some of the year's best performing stocks? According to cnnmoney.com, these stock prices have jumped the most this year. Number five is Aetna, shares of the health insurance company up 42 percent.
Number four, Dean Foods, the nation's top dairy producer, stock price jumped 43 percent this year. And then El Paso Corporation owns the nation's largest natural gas pipeline, stock up 44 percent since the beginning of the year. Third best on the list -- the top two, next.
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HOLMES: Looking for the year's best performing stocks. Before the break we were telling you about three of the top five: Aetna, Dean Foods and El Paso Corporation. The top two, though, the second best performing stock of 2011 is Cabot Oil and Gas. Stock has risen 59 percent helped by higher energy prices.
And the top performing stock of the year so far is National Semiconductor. Texas Instruments offered $6.5 billion in cash for the company earlier this year, causing the stock to jump 79 percent since January.
