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A Look At "TIME's" 100 Most Influential; A Look At Holocaust Survivor Saved By Japanese-American Soldiers; South Africa Post Apartheid

Aired April 18, 2004 - 18:34   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: People around the world are remembering the holocaust. Israel's streets come to a standstill Monday morning as sirens sound for two minutes. CNN National Correspondent Frank Buckley has the unusual story of a survivor and the American soldier who liberated her camp.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: At least 28,000 people died at Dachau. The girl in the picture was a witness, sixteen year old Janina Cywinska parents and brother had already died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Janina was taken to Dachau and survived.

JANINA CYWINSKA, HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: I was thinking about that it's the end. There was no way out.

BUCKLEY: She remembers when the photo was taken. She'll never forget the day she was liberated by American soldiers of Japanese descent. They were part of the segregated and Japanese American 522nd field artillery battalion. Janina and others thought at first the Japanese won the war.

CYWINSKA: We thought they were going to take over and shoot us. That was our thinking and he said, I am American soldier. I am your liberator, and I am here to save you and so forth, and we didn't believe him.

BUCKLEY: George Olye was one of the liberators.

GEORGE OLYE: For the local people to see Japanese faces was kind of strange until I learned that, we were American soldiers.

BUCKLEY: While Olye and other Japanese American soldiers were liberating the prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp, some of their families were incarcerated in internment camps in the U.S.

OLYE: Our families in concentration camps in the states, being the ones that liberate concentration camp -- the real ones in Europe. That seemed so strange.

BUCKLEY: They thought of their families at home in America living behind barbed wire while they fought and died for America to prove their loyalty.

OLYE: It seems so ironic and difficult to deal with. BUCKLEY: Nearly 50 years later, the Japanese American liberator and the Polish-American survivor are friends. George Olye and Janina Cywinska (ph) both live in California. They occasionally appear together at places like the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

Olye's personal pictures from the war are among those that helped to tell the story of man's capacity to hate. Racism and fear stripped people of their dignity in America. It sent people to their deaths in Dachas (ph). But people were also sent to Dachas (ph) to liberate them, teaching the world.

OLYE: There is a difference between good and evil.

BUCKLEY: Frank Buckley, CNN, San Jose, California.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: And some news from around the world right now. A bus carrying American teenage soccer players overturned east of Paris. One person was killed and three others were injured. The roads were wet from overnight rains. Authorities say speed may have played a factor.

The Vatican -- Pope John Paul II began his weekly address by praying for the Middle East and its people. He said he was following the "tragic news from the Holy Land." The Pope also appealed to kidnappers in Iraq to release all of their hostages.

The governing African national congress has won a decisive election victory in South Africa. The ANC took nearly 70 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections. That earned the party more than two-thirds of the seats in the 400-member national assembly. It's the biggest win for the party since the end of Apartheid a decade ago.

Well it was in Sowetto where much of the struggle against Apartheid took place. Riots started on June 16, 1976 with black children protesting against Africans. This led to a wave of panic, stone-throwing and shooting. CNN's Mike Hannah looks back at the nationwide uprising and some of the changes that have occurred over the years.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MIKE HANNAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On a glinting late summer's day, harmony in the streets of Sowetto. The annual Palm Sunday procession up the hill and into the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) church. After 10 years of democracy, it's hard to conceive that this was once a frontline in the battle against Apartheid.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The green grass that you see, it is like now the greener pastures. Trespassers (ph) just ending. Bodies used to lay around here, being shot by the police.

HANNAH: a few miles down the road I seek out an old acquaintance to find out how sweet the fruits of struggle. Poppy Buthelezi was shot and crippled by police on the 16th of June, 1976. That was the day Sowetto erupted. When police opened fire on demonstrating students, sparking off a nationwide uprising that led to the eventual end of the white government.

I first met Buthelezi in 1986, on the 10th anniversary of the Sowetto uprising. She and a group of other victims had set up the Self-Help Association of paraplegics, fending for themselves in a society where even able-bodied people battled to survive. I asked her then whether she thought the suffering and the pain was worth it.

POPPY BUTHELEZI: Yes. I do. I pray and having hope that one day we will win.

HANNAH: Today it seems Poppy has won.

BUTHELEZI: I stay with my baby. I cook. I wash, I clean. I always clean. I am happy.

HANNAH: Poppy has a house, a 14-year-old daughter, (UNINTELLIGIBLE), and because the labor market is open to all races, she has a job.

BUTHELEZI: So much has changed. My job, especially the job. I fought for that. I want to go to the open labor market and work in my life, but I did it. Thank you to the government for that, to give me that chance. I want to see my daughter happy, you know. I don't want to see her suffering like I did.

HANNAH: It takes time.

BUTHELEZI: It will take time. But, as I said, I hope one day -- I still repeat, one day it will be more better than this. It was worse. It is better. It will be the best.

HANNAH: That day in June, 1976, when you marched in the streets, confronted the police, would you do that again?

BUTHELEZI: For the right thing, yes I will. If really the fighting for what I think is right and to help them. I'm still a fighter. I won't give up. I'm still fighting. I'm a soldier.

HANNAH: And others in Sowetto agree there's still much to fight for.

(UNINTELLIGIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's poverty, first of all, and it's again, unemployment.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People are struggling.

HANNAH: Even while celebrating a decade of freedom, the knowledge that there's still much to be done. That the struggle here, and in other parts of the country is not yet over. Mike Hannah, CNN, Sowetto.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: In other news -- he's topped another list. Bill Gates and the 99 others considered "Time" magazine's most influential people. Still to come, a closer look at who made the list, and who was left out in the cold. Plus, using a college course to teach high school students to stay sober on the road. Is it going to measure up? The story straight ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LIN: What does outcast have to do with shaping our world? More on that in just a moment with our guest. But the last 40 minutes of our news program probably shows you how the world changes so quickly. "Time" magazine has tried to put a face, actually 100 faces, to why our world changes so dramatically.

In this week's edition, "Time's" editors and writers came up with their list of 100 people whose power, influence or moral example affect all of us. See if you agree with the choices. In the meantime, Time's" Deputy Managing Editor, Stephen Koepp, how do I pronounce your name?

STEPHEN KOEPP, TIME MAGAZINE: Koepp is good.

LIN: Steven Koepp joins us now to talk about the list. How exactly does outcast shape our world if that is the standard?

KOEPP: Well, these days in entertainment, things are divided so much into fragments, especially in the music business. For a few magical weeks there, these guys had two songs on the charts "Hey Ya" and "The Way You Move" that everyone loved. They brought a lot of people together that way.

Part of it is because these songs are just great compellations of musical history all rolled into one. These guys are very original. They really brought musical taste together for a while.

LIN: Definitely. I liked your list. I thought it was really interesting. You had people like Mark Burnett; you really nailed it there with reality television, and Simon Cowell. Nicole Kidman, a lot of the women in the newsroom thought that was a good choice because of how she really rose out of that separation with Tom Cruise to really come into her own. Why Nicole and not Tom then?

KOEPP: After the separation you really saw how she wrote her own script in terms it of her career. Not many people can do that, actors of either gender, but especially women. She was willing to appear in roles that didn't necessarily fit the mold of the movie star. Things like "The Human Stain" or "The Hours." These were not glamorous parts. She was willing to take risks.

LIN: Speaking of taking risks, builders and titans, this category. You had Steven Jobs Meg Witman from eBay, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, the father of our competition here at CNN.

KOEPP: Well, Murdoch, never mind his -- what you might think of his political views and his activism there, has really plunged ahead in business in terms of getting into the satellite.

LIN: So did Ted Turner.

KOEPP: Right. But with dishes on people's houses, and really giving the cable business a run for its money. For his continued aggressiveness in the business, that's why he's on the list.

LIN: All right. Leaders and revolutionaries. Some people I expected, for example, the Pope, and maybe to some degree even Bill Clinton, but why Bill Gates?

KOEPP: Bill Gates, it interesting, usually you'd have him in a business category. But his second career with all the billions he has is philanthropy. He's gone into this along with his wife in a way that's bigger and more efficient than anyone ever has, and he's really calculated how to make his money go a long way.

And that's generally in health in the developing world. He's also fast, too. There's not a lot of red tape. Does his own homework. Really gets the money out there when it's needed.

LIN: Was it a tough process, all of you getting together and putting in your choices?

KOEPP: Well, we had billions of names to choose from. It took us weeks and weeks. What we were really aiming for was diversity in every way you could imagine in terms of continents, in terms of different lines of work, and in terms of people who are famous and then a lot of people that you've never heard of, but when you read about them you'll see why they are having an influence on the world.

LIN: We can read about them this week. Thank you very much, Stephen Koepp.

KOEPP: You're welcome.

LIN: Taking college courses online is not a new concept. But using the internet to teach high school students to stay sober is. Up next, will this new effort make the grades?

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LIN: Teaching teens about the dangers of alcohol. Five U.S. High schools, including one in New York, are turning to a popular online alcohol prevention program already used in some colleges now redesigned for a younger audience. They hope it will save lives. CNN's Alina Cho reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When Emily Bushkin was alive; she relied on her parents to teach her about the dangers of alcohol. It didn't work. A popular high school senior, Emily died nearly three years ago when the convertible she was riding in flipped over. Emily and her friends had been drinking.

AMY BUSHKIN, EMILY'S MOTHER: It was tremendous shock. The students held candlelight vigils on the grounds of the high school. CHO: Now Emily's high school in Suffern, New York is one of five in the nation testing an interactive online alcohol education program. The class for ninth graders mostly 14 to 15-year-olds, speaks, not preaches to students.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, the truth is that alcohol is definitely a drug.

CHO: In a language they understand.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How does that change the way you view alcohol when you hear that it's a drug?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It just makes me want to stay away from it more because I don't want anything to happen to me.

CHO (on camera): The idea is to teach these kids about alcohol prevention before they get in trouble, not after. Consider this. The American Medical Association says on average, kids have their first drink at age 12.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How many of you guys have had a drink before?

CHO (voice over): The principal says the students have told him they wish the program was taught earlier.

PATRICK EAHERTY, PRINCIPLE, SUFFERN HIGH SCHOOL: I enjoyed this, but why aren't you showing this to kids in sixth and seventh grade?

CHO: Other students are skeptical it will even work.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Most just think it's there to scare them. They don't really care about the facts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They kind of just blow it off like, oh, we have to sit through another alcohol course.

CHO: Some suggest getting kids to stop drinking altogether may be a losing battle, but teaching them how to be smart about it says Amy Bushkin--

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Knowledge is power?

BUSHKIN: Absolutely.

CHO: ...Is a lesson she says may have saved her daughter's life. Alina Cho, CNN, Suffern New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: And that's it for us. Coming up at 7:00 Eastern PEOPLE IN THE NEWS highlights two heroes facing daunting odds. Christopher Reeve and Lance Armstrong.

Then at 8:00, in conjunction with a special edition of "Time" magazine, CNN PRESENTS examines some of the world's the most influential people. And then at 9:00 Eastern on LARRY KING WEEKEND, The Donald, Donald Trump takes us inside "The Apprentice" phenomenon, and shares his secret of success.

Speaking of "The Apprentice," guess who is back with us at 10:00 Eastern in our prime-time show, CNN SUNDAY NIGHT? Heidi Bressler (ph) and you won't believe what she had to stay about one particular apprentice everyone loves to hate.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HEIDI BRESSLER, FMR APPRENTICE: Omarosa I think will make something out of this. However, I think she's burned so many bridges, and I think that last episode destroyed her. So what she makes a hair commercial. She's not getting paid that much money to do it. I think people aren't going to want to deal with her. She acts likes she's Janet Jackson.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LIN: More tonight at 10:00 Eastern. Heidi Bressler (ph). In the meantime, up next, PEOPLE IN THE NEWS, and a recap of the day's top stories

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com


Aired April 18, 2004 - 18:34   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: People around the world are remembering the holocaust. Israel's streets come to a standstill Monday morning as sirens sound for two minutes. CNN National Correspondent Frank Buckley has the unusual story of a survivor and the American soldier who liberated her camp.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

FRANK BUCKLEY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: At least 28,000 people died at Dachau. The girl in the picture was a witness, sixteen year old Janina Cywinska parents and brother had already died in the gas chambers at Auschwitz. Janina was taken to Dachau and survived.

JANINA CYWINSKA, HOLOCAUST SURVIVOR: I was thinking about that it's the end. There was no way out.

BUCKLEY: She remembers when the photo was taken. She'll never forget the day she was liberated by American soldiers of Japanese descent. They were part of the segregated and Japanese American 522nd field artillery battalion. Janina and others thought at first the Japanese won the war.

CYWINSKA: We thought they were going to take over and shoot us. That was our thinking and he said, I am American soldier. I am your liberator, and I am here to save you and so forth, and we didn't believe him.

BUCKLEY: George Olye was one of the liberators.

GEORGE OLYE: For the local people to see Japanese faces was kind of strange until I learned that, we were American soldiers.

BUCKLEY: While Olye and other Japanese American soldiers were liberating the prisoners of a Nazi concentration camp, some of their families were incarcerated in internment camps in the U.S.

OLYE: Our families in concentration camps in the states, being the ones that liberate concentration camp -- the real ones in Europe. That seemed so strange.

BUCKLEY: They thought of their families at home in America living behind barbed wire while they fought and died for America to prove their loyalty.

OLYE: It seems so ironic and difficult to deal with. BUCKLEY: Nearly 50 years later, the Japanese American liberator and the Polish-American survivor are friends. George Olye and Janina Cywinska (ph) both live in California. They occasionally appear together at places like the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles.

Olye's personal pictures from the war are among those that helped to tell the story of man's capacity to hate. Racism and fear stripped people of their dignity in America. It sent people to their deaths in Dachas (ph). But people were also sent to Dachas (ph) to liberate them, teaching the world.

OLYE: There is a difference between good and evil.

BUCKLEY: Frank Buckley, CNN, San Jose, California.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: And some news from around the world right now. A bus carrying American teenage soccer players overturned east of Paris. One person was killed and three others were injured. The roads were wet from overnight rains. Authorities say speed may have played a factor.

The Vatican -- Pope John Paul II began his weekly address by praying for the Middle East and its people. He said he was following the "tragic news from the Holy Land." The Pope also appealed to kidnappers in Iraq to release all of their hostages.

The governing African national congress has won a decisive election victory in South Africa. The ANC took nearly 70 percent of the vote in parliamentary elections. That earned the party more than two-thirds of the seats in the 400-member national assembly. It's the biggest win for the party since the end of Apartheid a decade ago.

Well it was in Sowetto where much of the struggle against Apartheid took place. Riots started on June 16, 1976 with black children protesting against Africans. This led to a wave of panic, stone-throwing and shooting. CNN's Mike Hannah looks back at the nationwide uprising and some of the changes that have occurred over the years.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

MIKE HANNAH, CNN CORRESPONDENT: On a glinting late summer's day, harmony in the streets of Sowetto. The annual Palm Sunday procession up the hill and into the (UNINTELLIGIBLE) church. After 10 years of democracy, it's hard to conceive that this was once a frontline in the battle against Apartheid.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The green grass that you see, it is like now the greener pastures. Trespassers (ph) just ending. Bodies used to lay around here, being shot by the police.

HANNAH: a few miles down the road I seek out an old acquaintance to find out how sweet the fruits of struggle. Poppy Buthelezi was shot and crippled by police on the 16th of June, 1976. That was the day Sowetto erupted. When police opened fire on demonstrating students, sparking off a nationwide uprising that led to the eventual end of the white government.

I first met Buthelezi in 1986, on the 10th anniversary of the Sowetto uprising. She and a group of other victims had set up the Self-Help Association of paraplegics, fending for themselves in a society where even able-bodied people battled to survive. I asked her then whether she thought the suffering and the pain was worth it.

POPPY BUTHELEZI: Yes. I do. I pray and having hope that one day we will win.

HANNAH: Today it seems Poppy has won.

BUTHELEZI: I stay with my baby. I cook. I wash, I clean. I always clean. I am happy.

HANNAH: Poppy has a house, a 14-year-old daughter, (UNINTELLIGIBLE), and because the labor market is open to all races, she has a job.

BUTHELEZI: So much has changed. My job, especially the job. I fought for that. I want to go to the open labor market and work in my life, but I did it. Thank you to the government for that, to give me that chance. I want to see my daughter happy, you know. I don't want to see her suffering like I did.

HANNAH: It takes time.

BUTHELEZI: It will take time. But, as I said, I hope one day -- I still repeat, one day it will be more better than this. It was worse. It is better. It will be the best.

HANNAH: That day in June, 1976, when you marched in the streets, confronted the police, would you do that again?

BUTHELEZI: For the right thing, yes I will. If really the fighting for what I think is right and to help them. I'm still a fighter. I won't give up. I'm still fighting. I'm a soldier.

HANNAH: And others in Sowetto agree there's still much to fight for.

(UNINTELLIGIBLE)

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's poverty, first of all, and it's again, unemployment.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: People are struggling.

HANNAH: Even while celebrating a decade of freedom, the knowledge that there's still much to be done. That the struggle here, and in other parts of the country is not yet over. Mike Hannah, CNN, Sowetto.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: In other news -- he's topped another list. Bill Gates and the 99 others considered "Time" magazine's most influential people. Still to come, a closer look at who made the list, and who was left out in the cold. Plus, using a college course to teach high school students to stay sober on the road. Is it going to measure up? The story straight ahead.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LIN: What does outcast have to do with shaping our world? More on that in just a moment with our guest. But the last 40 minutes of our news program probably shows you how the world changes so quickly. "Time" magazine has tried to put a face, actually 100 faces, to why our world changes so dramatically.

In this week's edition, "Time's" editors and writers came up with their list of 100 people whose power, influence or moral example affect all of us. See if you agree with the choices. In the meantime, Time's" Deputy Managing Editor, Stephen Koepp, how do I pronounce your name?

STEPHEN KOEPP, TIME MAGAZINE: Koepp is good.

LIN: Steven Koepp joins us now to talk about the list. How exactly does outcast shape our world if that is the standard?

KOEPP: Well, these days in entertainment, things are divided so much into fragments, especially in the music business. For a few magical weeks there, these guys had two songs on the charts "Hey Ya" and "The Way You Move" that everyone loved. They brought a lot of people together that way.

Part of it is because these songs are just great compellations of musical history all rolled into one. These guys are very original. They really brought musical taste together for a while.

LIN: Definitely. I liked your list. I thought it was really interesting. You had people like Mark Burnett; you really nailed it there with reality television, and Simon Cowell. Nicole Kidman, a lot of the women in the newsroom thought that was a good choice because of how she really rose out of that separation with Tom Cruise to really come into her own. Why Nicole and not Tom then?

KOEPP: After the separation you really saw how she wrote her own script in terms it of her career. Not many people can do that, actors of either gender, but especially women. She was willing to appear in roles that didn't necessarily fit the mold of the movie star. Things like "The Human Stain" or "The Hours." These were not glamorous parts. She was willing to take risks.

LIN: Speaking of taking risks, builders and titans, this category. You had Steven Jobs Meg Witman from eBay, Warren Buffett, Rupert Murdoch, the father of our competition here at CNN.

KOEPP: Well, Murdoch, never mind his -- what you might think of his political views and his activism there, has really plunged ahead in business in terms of getting into the satellite.

LIN: So did Ted Turner.

KOEPP: Right. But with dishes on people's houses, and really giving the cable business a run for its money. For his continued aggressiveness in the business, that's why he's on the list.

LIN: All right. Leaders and revolutionaries. Some people I expected, for example, the Pope, and maybe to some degree even Bill Clinton, but why Bill Gates?

KOEPP: Bill Gates, it interesting, usually you'd have him in a business category. But his second career with all the billions he has is philanthropy. He's gone into this along with his wife in a way that's bigger and more efficient than anyone ever has, and he's really calculated how to make his money go a long way.

And that's generally in health in the developing world. He's also fast, too. There's not a lot of red tape. Does his own homework. Really gets the money out there when it's needed.

LIN: Was it a tough process, all of you getting together and putting in your choices?

KOEPP: Well, we had billions of names to choose from. It took us weeks and weeks. What we were really aiming for was diversity in every way you could imagine in terms of continents, in terms of different lines of work, and in terms of people who are famous and then a lot of people that you've never heard of, but when you read about them you'll see why they are having an influence on the world.

LIN: We can read about them this week. Thank you very much, Stephen Koepp.

KOEPP: You're welcome.

LIN: Taking college courses online is not a new concept. But using the internet to teach high school students to stay sober is. Up next, will this new effort make the grades?

(COMMERCIAL BREAK)

LIN: Teaching teens about the dangers of alcohol. Five U.S. High schools, including one in New York, are turning to a popular online alcohol prevention program already used in some colleges now redesigned for a younger audience. They hope it will save lives. CNN's Alina Cho reports.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

ALINA CHO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: When Emily Bushkin was alive; she relied on her parents to teach her about the dangers of alcohol. It didn't work. A popular high school senior, Emily died nearly three years ago when the convertible she was riding in flipped over. Emily and her friends had been drinking.

AMY BUSHKIN, EMILY'S MOTHER: It was tremendous shock. The students held candlelight vigils on the grounds of the high school. CHO: Now Emily's high school in Suffern, New York is one of five in the nation testing an interactive online alcohol education program. The class for ninth graders mostly 14 to 15-year-olds, speaks, not preaches to students.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well, the truth is that alcohol is definitely a drug.

CHO: In a language they understand.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How does that change the way you view alcohol when you hear that it's a drug?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It just makes me want to stay away from it more because I don't want anything to happen to me.

CHO (on camera): The idea is to teach these kids about alcohol prevention before they get in trouble, not after. Consider this. The American Medical Association says on average, kids have their first drink at age 12.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: How many of you guys have had a drink before?

CHO (voice over): The principal says the students have told him they wish the program was taught earlier.

PATRICK EAHERTY, PRINCIPLE, SUFFERN HIGH SCHOOL: I enjoyed this, but why aren't you showing this to kids in sixth and seventh grade?

CHO: Other students are skeptical it will even work.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Most just think it's there to scare them. They don't really care about the facts.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They kind of just blow it off like, oh, we have to sit through another alcohol course.

CHO: Some suggest getting kids to stop drinking altogether may be a losing battle, but teaching them how to be smart about it says Amy Bushkin--

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Knowledge is power?

BUSHKIN: Absolutely.

CHO: ...Is a lesson she says may have saved her daughter's life. Alina Cho, CNN, Suffern New York.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

LIN: And that's it for us. Coming up at 7:00 Eastern PEOPLE IN THE NEWS highlights two heroes facing daunting odds. Christopher Reeve and Lance Armstrong.

Then at 8:00, in conjunction with a special edition of "Time" magazine, CNN PRESENTS examines some of the world's the most influential people. And then at 9:00 Eastern on LARRY KING WEEKEND, The Donald, Donald Trump takes us inside "The Apprentice" phenomenon, and shares his secret of success.

Speaking of "The Apprentice," guess who is back with us at 10:00 Eastern in our prime-time show, CNN SUNDAY NIGHT? Heidi Bressler (ph) and you won't believe what she had to stay about one particular apprentice everyone loves to hate.

(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)

HEIDI BRESSLER, FMR APPRENTICE: Omarosa I think will make something out of this. However, I think she's burned so many bridges, and I think that last episode destroyed her. So what she makes a hair commercial. She's not getting paid that much money to do it. I think people aren't going to want to deal with her. She acts likes she's Janet Jackson.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LIN: More tonight at 10:00 Eastern. Heidi Bressler (ph). In the meantime, up next, PEOPLE IN THE NEWS, and a recap of the day's top stories

TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com