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4 Held in Fla. Slayings; Alan Keyes Enters Illinois Senate Race

Aired August 08, 2004 - 18:00   ET

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello there. I'm Carol Lin and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
Ahead, arrests in a gruesome murder mystery in Florida. I'm going to be talking to investigators who say four young men killed six people over a videogame system.

Also, the Illinois Senate race gets more bizarre every day. Alan Keyes enters the fray. He's a Republican from Maryland. Can he go toe to toe with the Democrats Barack Obama? Our Bill Schneider will give us the low down on this and the presidential campaign that's suddenly gone negative.

In the meantime, it has been a full week since U.S. authorities raised the terrorism alert level in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. It's been just as long since Howard Dean questioned whether the alert was real or whether the president was trying to get votes.

Now there is fresh evidence that the Bush administration has compromised their best source in the war against al Qaeda

Elaine Quijano has more detail.

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ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's the man whose information helped lead to raising the threat level, according to U.S. officials. But Pakistani intelligence sources say the move to name al Qaeda operative Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan means one fruitful information source has dried up.

Khan, a computer expert secretly arrested in Pakistan last month, was being used in a sting operation to try to net other al Qaeda members. But that ended when he was identified.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. NATL. SECURITY ADVISOR: The problem is that when you're trying to strike a balance between giving enough information to the public so that they know that you're dealing with a specific, credible, different kind of threat than you've dealt with in the past, you're always weighing that against kind of operational considerations.

QUIJANO: It was last week that questions swirled about why the alert level was raised for financial sectors of New York, New Jersey and Washington. Against that backdrop, unnamed U.S. officials said Khan was the source of intelligence which prompted the United States to act.

One Republican is criticizing the move.

SEN. GEORGE ALLEN (R) VIRGINIA: They should have kept their mouth shut and just said we have information, trust us, and I think that would have been good enough.

QUIJANO: The administration continues to worry al Qaeda will try to disrupt the election process, but has no more details on timing.

FRANCES TOWNSEND, U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR: Right now we're going to wait to get some additional information from the British and Pakistani authorities and see if we can't continue to alert the American people when we have specifics.

QUIJANO: "Time" magazine is reporting some specifics, saying Osama bin Laden himself desires a pre-election strike and that limousine bombs, speedboats and divers might be their tools of choice, according to al Qaeda surveillance reports.

In Washington, where police have built up protective measures around Capitol Hill, local authorities say they've been told of threats against members of Congress. At least one lawmaker says it's enough to be concerned but not alarmed.

SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D) DELAWARE: I don't want the American people or specifically my wife, listening to this thinking that there is hard data that is incontrovertible from hard sources.

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QUIJANO: Now, the president's domestic security advisor says the intelligence about threats against the U.S. capital and lawmakers is information both from the past as well as what she says is from the continuing threat stream -- Carol.

LIN: All right, thanks very much, Elaine Quijano, live at the White House.

Well, in the war on terror the United States is up against an enemy that not only is ruthless, al Qaeda is also patient and methodical. They put intricate schemes on computers. They photographed potential targets.

CNN has obtained some of this material relating to an attack that occurred last year inside Saudi Arabia. Brian Todd gives us a unique look into the mind of an enemy.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Surveillance, an al Qaeda staple. This tape showing what's believed to be the Al Mujia (ph) civilian housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is that same neighborhood and the product of that reconnaissance.

November of last year, suicide car bombs setting off three explosions kill at least 17 people at Al Mujia (ph) and wound more than 100. This type of surveillance now very much in the American public consciousness as officials ratchet up the terrorism alert based partly on information about the casing of financial buildings in the United States at least three years ago.

RICE: Al Qaeda does meticulous planning over many years.

TODD: On this tape, we learn how the November attack in Riyadh was planned, from the group believed to have carried it out, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

BEN VENZKE, INTEL CENTER: And it's the kind of expertise that is frequent and frequently used and trained on by al Qaeda cells around the world.

TODD: CNN obtained this tape from a group called Intel Center, a consulting firm that works with U.S. government agencies. Experts who we consulted confirmed the authenticity of the tape.

We see al Qaeda members displaying rocket-propelled grenades and surface to air missiles, but the operational part of the tape is perhaps the most chilling. A diagram is shown of what Intel Center says is the Al Mujia (ph) complex. And a technique which later proved very effective. A vehicle was painted with the markings and insignia of the Saudi security forces. Those vehicles were used to breach the Al Mujia (ph) compound.

PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: In this instance, they learned that there was some security which they wanted to get around, and the way to do that was to pretend that they were all themselves police officers, and that worked, and they got in the compound and killed a lot of people.

TODD: We also see a man next to one of the vehicles later identified as Naser Al Sairi (ph), an al Qaeda operative killed in that suicide attack.

This tape, produced some months ago, was originally posted on a Web site. We asked Intel Center why al Qaeda would tip off people on their operational techniques.

VENZKE: This is used for instructional material for future recruits and it's released after attacks to drive fundraising and as a moral boost for the group.

TODD: One other practical reason for distributing this tape: terrorism experts say al Qaeda can no longer operate training camps with any consistency. They say the Internet and tapes like these are a virtual replacement for those camps and they're often used as a communications network.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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LIN: Iraq has issued an arrest warrant for a one-time U.S. favorite. Ahmed Chalabi was an Iraqi exile who returned to the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein. He was on the Iraqi Governing Council and attended President Bush's State of the Union Address in January.

However, the relationship between the United States and Chalabi soured several months ago and the coalition raided his office.

According to the Associated Press, Iraq's government ordered the arrest of Ahmed Chalabi on a charge of trying to counterfeit Iraqi money.

The AP says a warrant issued for his nephew, Salem Chalabi, is in connection with a murder.

Both men talked with CNN and angrily denied the allegations. Ahmed Chalabi called CNN from Iran. We are the only U.S. network to have talked to him since the news of the warrant broke.

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AHMED CHALABI, FMR. MEMBER OF IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL: I have been fighting Saddam for many years and we survived that and we sure are not going to be intimidated by this judge who has made it his business to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in the press and who has made it his business to attack the INC and I am going to go back to confront those lies.

They manufactured lies about forged currency. All of this was done in the -- I was in the Governing Council as chairman of the Finance Committee and I had meetings with the government of the Central Bank many times and the deputy in my office to discuss the issue of the currency exchange.

There is no case here and I will go to meet those charges head on and if there is any semblance of justice, this judge should recuse himself because he went on many times in the American press, attacking me personally on political grounds.

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LIN: Ahmed Chalabi from Iran, denying allegations made against him today by his Iraqi homeland.

Chalabi's nephew, Salem, who is in London, also denies any wrongdoing.

Now in other headlines from Iraq, the country's interim prime minister has made a personal visit to the holy city of Najaf. He called on Muslim militants to stop fighting Iraqi and U.S. forces.

And a U.S. helicopter made an emergency landing in a suburb of Baghdad today. Iraqis danced in the streets around the wreckage before U.S. forces arrived to remove it and safely rescue its pilots.

Now, here in this country the murder case in Delton, Florida, is both compelling and gruesome. Four people are now in custody and charged in the brutal killings of six people. Of all the theories on motive, probably none came down to a videogame.

Our Sara Dorsey reports.

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SARA DORSEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Cameras catch a brief glimpse of the men the Volusia County Sheriff's Department says are responsible for beating six people and a dog to death with aluminum baseball bats last Thursday.

SHERIFF BEN JOHNSON, VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA: There was forced entry to the front door. They were overtaken while they were all apparently, you know, laid down, I believe. And they were overpowered, because all these individuals were carrying baseball bats.

DORSEY: Police say three of the men have confessed. They are being identified as 18-year-old Robert Cannon, Jerome Hunter and Michael Salas. The sheriff calls 27-year-old Troy Victorino the ring leader and they believe he went to the home seeking revenge over some missing clothes and a videogame system.

JOHNSON: This is a mean individual that believed that somebody had done him wrong, which they had -- nothing justifies this and I don't call it a mistake. I call this a criminal acting out on violence that he has shown in the past that he is capable of.

DORSEY: The sheriff described the crime scene as the worst he has seen in his career. One victim was so badly beaten authorities still have not positively identified her.

JOHNSON: All four of these people deserve the death penalty, in my opinion. They're a danger to society. They've proven that. They've proven they aren't fit to be in society.

DORSEY: All four men are charged with first degree murder and armed burglary. The sheriff's office says it is confident that everyone involved in the murders is now in custody.

Sara Dorsey, CNN, Atlanta.

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LIN: As you just saw in that piece, the man heading up the investigation into these shocking killings is Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson.

He joins me now from Deltona.

Sheriff Johnson, I'm just wondering, how did you crack this case? What was the break that you got?

JOHNSON: Well, we had -- early on we had some people identify Troy Victorino as a possible suspect, that he had some problems with some of these individuals. And from there we were able to identify several different possible accomplices of him, and one of those started breaking for us. He started telling us a little bit about what was going on.

Victorino and Jerome Hunter were both arrested -- well, actually, Victorino was taken into custody for another charge, violation of probation, and as one of the fellows was with him, Jerome Hunter, broke down and told us about the murders. At that time, we were able to get names of two other individuals, Robert cannon and Michael Salas. And three of the four have confessed to the murder.

LIN: Victorino has a criminal record. What about the three 18- year-olds?

JOHNSON: I can't tell you about their criminal record at this time. I don't know.

LIN: All right.

A mother talked to reporters yesterday, claiming her daughter being inside and killed inside that house, claiming that authorities knew all along who the suspects would be, that apparently her daughter was even afraid to live in the house because she felt that she was being stalked by some kids from Pine Ridge High School.

Is there any connection to that claim and the arrest that you've made?

JOHNSON: We haven't found any connection to the complaints at the house yet.

We did have some disturbance calls. There were some young girls who came over there and another individual, but we haven't found a connection yet about Victorino showing up at the house. But we have answered several calls at that house.

LIN: What was his relationship to the victims, or at least the main victim?

JOHNSON: Well, one of the victims knew him and he was living in her grandmother's home several miles away from the scene of the murders, and he'd been a evicted while he was in jail. And they had picked up some of his property, an X-Box and clothing, and they had it at the house, and apparently from what we're gathering, Victorino said he was going to go out and kill them, from witnesses now, and in fact he did.

LIN: But, Sheriff, what explains the brutality of this crime, that they used baseball bats and beat these people to a pulp?

JOHNSON: Nothing can explain that brutality. It was something that in all my years in law enforcement, which is over 30 years, I've never seen anything like it. None of my other investigators have. The crime scene technicians.

We can't explain it. It was just a -- like they went into a rage. And it was just a very, very gruesome scene, and it's -- I hope I never bump into anything like this again in my career.

LIN: Sheriff Johnson, glad to see that there are some arrests in this case. Thank you very much, Sheriff Ben Johnson, Volusia County.

JOHNSON: Thank you very much.

LIN: Well, coming up next on CNN LIVE SUNDAY, troops injured on the front lines are getting a second chance at an active life. We're going to show you how high tech prosthetics make it all possible.

Plus, trying to make a difference in war-torn countries. Their heart was in the right place but they couldn't compete against the dangers.

And later, they've been training for years. We're going to take a look at the top picks for this year's Olympics.

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LIN: And it was a shock when Medicine Sans Frontieres announced that it was withdrawing from Afghanistan after 24 years because the government in Afghanistan refused to arrest the murders of five of its staff.

Well, MSF, or Doctors Without Borders as we know them here in the United States, has been in Afghanistan providing medical care during several wars, that the injured and the sick in war zones normally would not get. They don't take government money and they don't take sides.

But there is a larger story to this. As U.S. coalition forces try to win over the enemy with promises of food and medicine wearing civilian clothes, the Taliban now accuses MSF of being an agent of coalition troops.

Earlier, I talked to their program director, Vickie Hawkins, in London, about the loss of their friends and their mission.

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VICKIE HAWKINS, DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: We don't know, we can't know exactly why we were targeted. What we do know is that it appears from the investigation that has been conducted by the government that local commanders were responsible for this attack.

Now, we really don't know the motivations behind the attack, but obviously we are looking for something to be done about if the government knows who is responsible.

LIN: Well, you actually say that the government knows specifically who is responsible. Why doesn't the Afghan government go out and arrest them?

HAWKINS: I can't say, and that's exactly the question that we're asking them ourselves.

Obviously it's clear that the government has limited capacity and we recognize that, but to not even issue warrants for arrest, that lack of action we find completely unacceptable, and for us it just demonstrates a lack of commitment on the side of the government for the safety of humanitarian aide workers in Afghanistan and just encourages the culture of impunity that already exists there.

LIN: But, Vickie, MSF has worked in some 80 countries, risking lives before. If you don't stay in Afghanistan, what you have described already is that people will have to travel at least a day in order to get any medical attention. Why not stay?

HAWKINS: Because we simply can't put our volunteers at this level of risk. The people who work for MSF, they're volunteer doctors and nurses. They choose to go to the field. Over and above the fact that it seems that the government are not demonstrating a commitment to ensure the safety of aide workers, such as MSF, in Afghanistan, in the days following the attack, the Taliban, who claimed responsibility for the attack on MSF, directly threatened us by accusing us of working in the interest of America.

To send our volunteers into the field with that kind of threat hanging over their head, it's simply unacceptable for us.

LIN: So what is it going to take for you to feel safe enough to return?

HAWKINS: We would have to see some kind of demonstration of commitment from the Afghan government as to the safety of aide workers in Afghanistan and we would have to feel that we were not directly targeted by the Taliban.

And I would like to assure you as well that no one feels sadder than MSF at the thought of the patients that we leave behind. We know only too well that tens of thousands of Afghans will be affected by this. But as I said...

LIN: I mean, Vickie, you literally want to have...

HAWKINS: ... we simply can't put our volunteers at that risk.

LIN: You want to have, literally, an apology from the Taliban. That is something you're probably not going to get.

HAWKINS: We recognize that that's a tall order, and I don't know if a direct apology is what would be required, but we would have to have some kind of indication. Maybe that would simply be by a decrease in the number of direct attacks toward humanitarian aide organizations in Afghanistan.

LIN: Vickie Hawkins, thank you.

Prime Minister Karzai has told Medicines Sans Frontieres that he regrets that they're leaving the country and that he's doing everything he can to pursue the killers of the five aide workers.

Every week we try to take you to the front lines in the war on terror in a more personal way. Walter Reed Army Medical Center has treated more than 700 troops for recent battle wounds in the Iraq and Afghan conflicts, but about 120 are amputees.

CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr looks at what is possible now to help them put their lives back together.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Army Sergeant Michael Cain lost his leg to a land mine attack in Iraq. He hopes to become a physical therapist, but for now he wants to get back to the sports he loves.

MICHAEL CAIN, AMPUTEE: I used to like to do everything. Baseball, basketball, hockey, running, everything.

STARR: Cain and other amputees are using high tech prosthetics, some driven by computer chips, to regain their independence.

Specialist Lee Pedraza's prosthetic arm has sensors that lay along his remaining arm muscles. As he flexes, electronic signals are sent to computer chips inside the arm device. The hand and arm respond. Today he is getting a computer adjustment.

LEE PEDRAZA, AMPUTEE: There was a guy who was missing both his legs and one arm and he was walking. So if he can do it and go on with life, I know anybody else can.

STARR: Sergeant First Class Joseph Briscoe is a determined member of special forces who now hopes he can stay on duty with only one arm.

JOSEPH BRISCOE, AMPUTEE: We don't want to make the same mistake we did in past wars, where we just shoved our guys to the side. They get hurt and that's it.

STARR: More than 100 amputees and 700 wounded troops from the war have been treated at Walter Reed.

On the battlefield, improved armor protection has saved lives.

DR. PAUL PASQUINA (ph), WALTER REED MEDICAL CTR.: But what that has done is left the extremities exposed to severe injuries that perhaps would have not survived prior conflicts.

STARR: The Army now focusing on more than just immediate physical recovery, watching for the dark moments that may occur.

PASQUINA (ph): So we're talking about individuals that are already living with a missing limb for 40, 50 even 60 years.

STARR: None of these soldiers expect life the way it was before Iraq. Michael Cain sums up his hopes now.

CAIN: Just raise my family and go on with my life. STARR: Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

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LIN: Artists and their tools. Imagine if you could hold a conference of fine artists, like Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso and Renoir. That meeting would be extraordinary, and obviously impossible.

But if you love computer graphic arts and the tools to use computers, then you should be in Los Angeles this weekend for the annual Sea Graph (ph) convention, which kind of explains what you're looking at right now. They're the Michelangelos of the computer world and what we see there will soon be available on a screen near you.

I wonder what that guy was doing, walking around on laptops.

Ever wonder whether E.T. really exists? Well, some scientists will have you believe that he or someone like him does indeed live out there in the cosmos.

Tonight CNN space correspondent Miles O'Brien goes searching for signs of life in the universe in "CNN PRESENTS: IS ANYBODY OUT THERE." Here's a preview.

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's late at night, or perhaps by now early in the morning. The coffee is hot, the champagne on ice, just in case tonight's the night Jill Tartar (ph) and her team make contact with an alien civilization.

JILL TARTAR (ph), SPACE SCIENTIST: We actually detected two CW (ph) signals on that.

O'BRIEN: For Tartar (ph), all the optimistic talk about finding microscopic life out there somewhere is just fine, thank you very much.

TARTAR (ph): But when people ask the question are we alone, they're really not talking about is there some pond scum out there that we can find. They're really asking the question is there some other intelligent creature out there that looks up at its universe and wonders as we do.

O'BRIEN: Jill Tartar (ph) is all about answering that question. For years she's made pilgrimages here to the world's largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoping to tune in to a signal from an intelligent civilization. WUFO, if you will.

This is the search for extraterrestial intelligence, or SETI.

TARTAR (ph): If you put a transmitter up there, and there is a radar transmitter in there... O'BRIEN: Jill Tartar (ph) is the real life inspiration for the Jody Foster character in the movie "Contact." Remember how they described here?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Brilliant, driven, a major pain in the ass.

O'BRIEN: Typical over the top Hollywood, right?

TARTAR (ph): Oh, no. I mean, I'm stubborn. I'm obsessional, a bit. You have to be to continue on with something like this in spite of the fact that everybody tells you, or many people tell you, that it's a waste of time.

PAUL DAVIES, AUSTRALIAN CENTER FOR ASTROBIOLOGY: It's a glorious but almost certainly hopeless quest. It's something that we must do, we should do. It's worth spending the money, but it's one hell of a long shot and I would be astonished if it succeeds, but the real value of SETI, in my opinion, is not are we going to pick up a signal -- that would be one hell of a bonus -- it's because it forces us to think very deeply about what is life, what is intelligence, what is our place in the universe.

FRANK DRAKE, SETI INSTITUTE: No doubt we are the riverboat gamblers of science, but we are making the experiment that's a real long shot, but it's one of the these things like a long shot in a horse race. Your chances of winning are very small, but if you win, you win really big.

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LIN: So be sure to join Miles O'Brien for "CNN PRESENTS: IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?" Tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 5:00 Pacific.

Political spoiler or true contender? We're going to find out what impact if any Alan Keyes will have on the Illinois senate race against Democratic favorite, Barack Obama.

Also, ads gone wild. We're going to check out some outrageous political ads causing a stir on the web.

And they're considered America's favorites for the summer games this week, but who are they? We're going to run down the list of who's who for the United States in Athens.

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LIN: Here's a quick look at what's happening now in the news.

Iraq national congress leader Ahmed Chalabi and his nephew are Salem Chalabi are strongly denying charges brought against them by an Iraqi investigating judge. The senior Chalabi is accused the counterfeiting. His nephew Salem is charged in connection with a murder. Arrest warrants have been issued in the cases. Both Chalabis' are out of the country, but both say they will return to Iraq to contest the charges. An autopsy has failed to find the cause of death of flamboyant funk singer Rick James. The L.A. County coroner's office says it's now awaiting toxicology results. He died in his sleep Friday, at his home. The 56-year-old had suffered a stroke in 1998, and battled a crack- cocaine addiction in the 1990s.

Things are going very well for the Filipino conjoined twins who were separated last week at a New York hospital. Doctors say the two- year-old boys are recovering much faster than expected, and their medication may soon be reduced.

And Presidential Candidate John Kerry spent the day campaigning in the southwest. He took time out to attend mass in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Then he greeted several hundred well-wishers.

And then there is that interesting race for senate in the state of Illinois. Political commentator and former ambassador Alan Keyes has now made it official. He is running for the U.S. Senate from Illinois. He who lives in Maryland was recruited by the Illinois Republican party to challenge Barack Obama.

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ALAN KEYES, (R) SENATE CANDIDATE: It just seemed wrong, they said -- now, wait a minute I'm just reporting here -- that somebody with his record should waltz into the United States senate unopposed.

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LIN: OK. So for more on this suddenly very interesting senate race in Illinois, plus the suddenly very negative presidential race, CNN's senior political analyst Bill Schneider joins me from Los Angeles. I thought if you were running for the senate in Illinois, you might had to live there.

WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Actually, no. According to the law in Illinois as I read it, you have to establish residency by election today, which is November 7th. Even though Alan Keyes lives in Maryland, and in fact has run twice unsuccessfully for senator from Maryland, as well as twice unsuccessfully for the Republican Nomination for president, he can in fact run in Illinois as long as he moves there before Election Day.

LIN: Consider this Bill on the part of the Republican side of this race; I'm not sure it's even that competitive at this point. You have Jack Ryan, who is running against Barack Obama, suddenly there was this sex scandal, or it came out in previously filed papers that he was attending sex clubs. And now you have Alan Keyes. What are the Republicans thinking?

SCHNEIDER: They're thinking they want a real spirited contest. They don't want Barack Obama to just waltz in unopposed. He still has to be counted as the favorite. But look at this. You have two men who are very, very accomplished orators. Alan Keyes thrilled Republican audiences when he ran for president. Though he didn't do well in his two senate races, or even in that race. But he is a great orator. And barrack Obama came into his own at the Democratic convention just last month when he gave that stirring speech on Tuesday night of the convention. A lot of people may remember it. Here is how he described himself in that speech.

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BARACK OBAMA, (D) ILLINOIS SENATE CANDIDATE: The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.

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SCHNEIDER: Well now, that skinny kid with the funny name Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. He's actually biracial. His father was a Kenyan economist who started life out, as he described it, as a goat herder. Now, he the accomplished orator is going to face another accomplished or orator.

And this will also be the first senate race on record between two African American candidates. This could be the best debate since Lincoln Douglas which also occurred in Illinois.

LIN: You think Alan Keyes has a chance?

SCHNEIDER: I wouldn't count him as a favorite right now. But look, he's a great or orator, a great speaker. Who knows what can happen? Politics is a funny business.

LIN: You bet. Speaking of politics, negative ads coming out in the presidential campaign. We have a couple to show. One is a group of veterans who were calling Kerry basically a liar about his Vietnam veteran war campaign. And also a negative ad about President Bush. Let's watch.

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SEN. JOHN EDWARDS, (D-NC) VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If you have any questions about what John Kerry is made of, just spend three minutes with the men who served with him 30 years ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I served with John Kerry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I served with John Kerry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: John Kerry has not been honest about what happened in Vietnam.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is lying about his record.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We could build thousands of new schools, or hire a million new teachers. We could make sure every child has insurance. Instead, under George Bush, America is alone, spending tens of billions to rebuild Iraq, with no plan for success.

(END VIDEO CLIP)

LIN: Boy, what does it mean, Bill, in terms of going into the general election, the kind of campaigning we're going to see from both sides?

SCHNEIDER: We are. Notice what a lot of voters and viewers aren't aware of. If you look at the top of the screen, it had the sponsors of those two very hard-hitting ads. The first one was sponsored by a group called The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That is not the Bush/Cheney campaign that was criticizing Kerry.

That was an independent group of veterans. Many of them are Republicans. But they took it upon themselves to form this organization and pay for this ad. And under the law, an independent group can run -- spend as much money as it wants, run all the harsh negative ads, or positive ads that it wants without any limits, as long as their activities are totally uncoordinated with the presidential campaigns.

The second ad was run by a group called The Media Fund, which is supporting John Kerry and opposes President Bush. They're also running ads. They're an independent group. And they are very important for John Kerry this month. Because he has accepted federal funding as a result of his nomination.

He has $75 million that he has to stretch for the next three months until Election Day. That's all the money he can spend. Bush, meanwhile, can spend as much as he wants until he's nominated. That will be on September 1st, when he gets $75 million. But he has two months to spend that money. So a lot of those ads that you are seeing are not being run by the campaigns. They are being run by independent groups. And they can spend as much money as they want.

LIN: And say just about anything they want apparently. Thanks very much.

SCHNEIDER: Apparently they can.

LIN: All right. If you've had your fill of negative campaign ads, wait until you see what's available on the Web. Our Jeanne Moos tickles or funny bone.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the story of how a subservient chicken begat a subservient president, but there's nothing subservient about the candidate bashing that goes on on the Web. John Kerry is portrayed as Frankenstein, his face morphs out of a cicada. While President Bush is portrayed as a bumpkin. Will Ferrell donated his time to an anti-Bush group.

WILL FERRELL, COMEDIAN: Ever since I took office, well, things have been really, really bad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cut.

FERRELL: That seemed like a good one. I'm getting my groove on.

MOOS: You think the president looks back.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They call him Flipper, Flipper.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are people still doing dancing baby jokes? It's 2004. That should be illegal.

MOOS: Maybe it should be illegal to use John Kerry's head to shoot incoming flip-flops.

(on camera): The one thing that is interesting about it is that they can be so much meaner on the web.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is true.

MOOS (voice-over): You couldn't get away with this in a TV spot. The two Johns getting it on. Many of these are just an individual's attempt at humor and persuasion. Take the "Subservient President." It's a parody of Burger King's "Subservient Chicken." But instead of typing in orders like "touch your toes," you tell the subservient president to say, "invade North Korea," and a guy in a Bush mask presses the nuclear button.

Write foreign policy, he plays the cowboy. Ask for a magic trick, and he turns Osama into Saddam. If you type, "club the director", you will glimpse Steve Anderson (ph), the interactive media professor who dreamed up the Web site. Though some Web cam campaign videos may be lowbrow ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'll be the triple Purple Heart president.

MOOS: ... they make TV ads seem subservient. This president's no chicken. Mention Michael Moore, and he flips the bird. This is take no prisoner politicking.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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LIN: The opening ceremony is just five days away. They've been pushing themselves to the limits to prepare. But are they ready? Up next, I'm going to take a look at who's who at this year's Olympic Games.

And it's a gathering among friends for one very special occasion. We're going to take you there for the cake and ice cream.

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LIN: Security is especially tight in Athens, Greece right now for the start of the summer games Friday. And some criminals are taking advantage of it. Our Michael Holmes reports.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Greek deputy defense minister put it this way today. He said Athens is the safest city in the world right now, and he could well be right. All of the security apparatus are in place. There are warships off the coast here. There are airships in the air 24 hours a day seven days a week, patrolling the skies over here with electronic surveillance and cameras.

Just around the city too there are patriot missile batteries to protect against any kind of air strike from the outside. There are police on the streets, 70,000 police, and soldiers are on the streets of Athens and around the venues, but it's not an overt presence. It's not a threatening presence.

In fact, tourists are telling us they feel rather good having so many uniforms around them. It makes them feel secure. It seems to be making criminals feel secure, too. One sideline is that there are so many police uniforms on the street that bank robbers have been using it as a disguise themselves, wearing the uniforms of S.W.A.T. police, and going in and carrying out daylight raids on banks, and getting away with it by (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

A couple journalists were held up in the streets by men dressed in police uniform. They took $2,000 off them. That's one sideline of the security issue. However, when it comes to ticket sales, there's a lot more optimism here. They had a record day a couple days ago, 54,000 tickets sold. Still, a couple million to go, yet we are told by officials that opening and closing ceremonies, and all of the finals events have been completely sold out now.

HOLMES (on-camera): Greece now very much into the countdown towards that opening ceremony and all they're waiting for now are for the tourists to arrive. Michael Holmes, CNN, Athens.

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LIN: The summer games don't start until next weekend, but experts are already picking their favorite athletes for each competition. Sean Gregory covers sports for "Time" magazine and he's with us tonight. Hi there Sean.

SEAN GREGORY, TIME MAGAZINE: Hi Carol. How are you?

LIN: I'm doing just fine. How do you think the Americans are going to fare?

GREGORY: I think we're going to do really well. There's all these scandals and the security and everything else but we have --

LIN: Scandals -- you're talking about the drug testing?

GREGORY: Exactly. A lot of talk about that. But we've got one of our best gymnastics teams in years. We have Michael Phelps going after eight Gold Medals. And our track team is still the strongest in the world.

LIN: Yes. Michael Phelps. Tell me a little bit about him.

GREGORY: He grew up in Baltimore. He's trying to break Mark Spitz's record of seven Gold Medals in 1972. It is not going to be easy for him. He has a very tight schedule. He's right in. He swims Saturday, the day after the opening ceremonies. He's going to be swimming two a day, consecutive days.

He's the man getting most of the hype, kind of what Marion Jones was getting in 2000. It's Michael Phelps this year. But it's going to be very difficult for him.

LIN: All right. So we talked about swimming. What are some of the other sports you think that the Americans are going to dominate in?

GREGORY: You've got to start with track and field. There's a couple young stars up and coming, one woman, Allyson Felix. She's kind of the LeBron James of track and field. She's 18-years-old. She's the first track athlete to turn pro right out of high school.

She kind of kept a low profile earlier this year, but ran the second best time in the world at the trials. Her coach is a woman by the name of Pat Connelly, who coached Evelyn Ashford to a Gold Medal in 1984. Kind of an old-school disciplinarian-type coach. She's in pretty good shape to win the 200 meters in Athens.

LIN: Anybody else?

GREGORY: On the men's side, Shawn Crawford, a guy you don't hear much about, Maurice Greene, one of his teammates, he won in 2000, he's kind of the more flamboyant of the two, but Shawn has the best time in the 100 and the 200 this year.

LIN: All right. Are there any new events, any new sports that are going to be part of this Olympics?

GREGORY: Women's wrestling is the highest-profile new sport. The United States has some interesting members of that team. Four women are going over there. One woman, Takara Montgomery competing in the heavyweight division. She grew up in Cleveland, and her father is in prison.

In 1998 he was convicted for double murder. He's spending 30 years to life in prison, and they talk -- she's forgiven him. When it first happened, she kind of took out her anger and frustration in wrestling. Two years after she started wrestling for the boys' team in East Tech (ph) high school in Cleveland, she was one of the best wrestlers in the world.

In the lightweight division, Patricia Miranda, from California. Her biggest opponent growing up was her father. Her father did not want her to wrestle, and even threatened to sue the high school to keep her off the mat. Begged her not to wrestle, for two reasons. One, he was afraid it would interfere with her academics. He's a doctor; the family puts a lot on the academics. LIN: Sean, thanks for adding that human dimension to all these stories. It's not just about the sport, but it really is about the people. The individuals that makes they Olympics such magic. We're going to look forward to it. Are you heading out there?

GREGORY: Yes. Going tomorrow night.

LIN: All right. Have a great time.

GREGORY: Thanks a lot.

LIN: From archery to basketball to cycling, stay up on the games by keeping your Internet on cnn.com/olympics. There you are going to find the most up-to-date information on games, scores, and medal honors. That is cnn.com/olympics.

Still to come, the age-old saying is dedicated to the feline family. But we're going to tell you why this pup deserves honorable mention in the Nine Lives club.

Plus...

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What the hell? Man, are you all right?

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LIN: The Jamie Foxx-Tom Cruise duo takes charge at the box office. We're going to take a look at this weekend's top picks.

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LIN: The new movie "Collateral" will give Dreamworks studio plenty of collateral at the bank. The Tom Cruise film debuted at the top in North American weekend box office receipts. Taking in about $24.5 million. Coming in right behind it "The Village," "The Bourne Supremacy", "The Manchurian Candidate", and "Little Black Book".

And in the 6 to 10 slots, "I Robot", Spider-Man 2", "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", and "A Cinderella Story", and "Catwoman".

Now, if you want to start the week on a feel-good note, this next story should do it for you. It's about a dog that by all accounts should not be with us. Rhonda Grayson tells you how hope defied death twice to get a chance at a new life.

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RHONDA GRAYSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Life is good for Hope. The chocolate lab mix is celebrating her birthday with party with some party animal friends, complete with a doggy cake, lots of confetti, hats, and balloons.

Today Hope has a loving home. But life wasn't always so hopeful for a stray roaming the streets in this small Texas town. Hope was shot and buried alive not once, but twice by some neighborhood children. But somehow managed to tunnel her way out.

DAVID YORK, BARKING HOUND VILLAGE: They shot she was dead, and one of their neighbors who knew what had happened, saw her crawling down the road a few days later, and picked her up and took her to the vet.

Her ears were packed with mud. Her eyes were totally infected. Her nose was all packed with mud. Like I said, most of her hair had fallen out. And she couldn't walk. Her hip was shattered.

GRAYSON: These are happier days for Hope, the Wonder Dog. David (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of Gilmore (ph) Texas drove her back to Atlanta where she was adopted. Hope is now a pampered pooch, going to doggy daycare complete with a pool.

YORK: The progress she's made is unbelievable. Like I've said, she's had a couple more surgeries, and is walking and running fine now, and she's definitely a miracle dog.

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LIN: Well, you may wonder why Hope came to Atlanta in the first place. Even though her story made news in Texas, it appears no one there wanted to adopt her.

That's all the time we have for this hour. Coming up next on PEOPLE IN THE NEWS, Tom Cruise, and Carly Simon. At 8:00 Eastern, "CNN PRESENTS: IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?" The search for life in space has been the stuff of sci-fi movies. But Miles O'Brien examines the science behind the quest.

At 9:00 Eastern, LARRY KING, billionaire Donald Trump discussed his hit NBC show, "The Apprentice, and his success in real estate development.

And please join me tonight at 10:00 Eastern. Because I am going to be talking with a very good friend of Mary Kay Letourneau, the former school teacher just released from prison after serving time for her sexual relationship with one of her students. The hours headlines when I come back. And then PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.

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CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Hello there. I'm Carol Lin and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY.
Ahead, arrests in a gruesome murder mystery in Florida. I'm going to be talking to investigators who say four young men killed six people over a videogame system.

Also, the Illinois Senate race gets more bizarre every day. Alan Keyes enters the fray. He's a Republican from Maryland. Can he go toe to toe with the Democrats Barack Obama? Our Bill Schneider will give us the low down on this and the presidential campaign that's suddenly gone negative.

In the meantime, it has been a full week since U.S. authorities raised the terrorism alert level in New York, New Jersey and Washington, D.C. It's been just as long since Howard Dean questioned whether the alert was real or whether the president was trying to get votes.

Now there is fresh evidence that the Bush administration has compromised their best source in the war against al Qaeda

Elaine Quijano has more detail.

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ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): He's the man whose information helped lead to raising the threat level, according to U.S. officials. But Pakistani intelligence sources say the move to name al Qaeda operative Mohammed Naeem Noor Khan means one fruitful information source has dried up.

Khan, a computer expert secretly arrested in Pakistan last month, was being used in a sting operation to try to net other al Qaeda members. But that ended when he was identified.

CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. NATL. SECURITY ADVISOR: The problem is that when you're trying to strike a balance between giving enough information to the public so that they know that you're dealing with a specific, credible, different kind of threat than you've dealt with in the past, you're always weighing that against kind of operational considerations.

QUIJANO: It was last week that questions swirled about why the alert level was raised for financial sectors of New York, New Jersey and Washington. Against that backdrop, unnamed U.S. officials said Khan was the source of intelligence which prompted the United States to act.

One Republican is criticizing the move.

SEN. GEORGE ALLEN (R) VIRGINIA: They should have kept their mouth shut and just said we have information, trust us, and I think that would have been good enough.

QUIJANO: The administration continues to worry al Qaeda will try to disrupt the election process, but has no more details on timing.

FRANCES TOWNSEND, U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY ADVISOR: Right now we're going to wait to get some additional information from the British and Pakistani authorities and see if we can't continue to alert the American people when we have specifics.

QUIJANO: "Time" magazine is reporting some specifics, saying Osama bin Laden himself desires a pre-election strike and that limousine bombs, speedboats and divers might be their tools of choice, according to al Qaeda surveillance reports.

In Washington, where police have built up protective measures around Capitol Hill, local authorities say they've been told of threats against members of Congress. At least one lawmaker says it's enough to be concerned but not alarmed.

SEN. JOSEPH BIDEN (D) DELAWARE: I don't want the American people or specifically my wife, listening to this thinking that there is hard data that is incontrovertible from hard sources.

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QUIJANO: Now, the president's domestic security advisor says the intelligence about threats against the U.S. capital and lawmakers is information both from the past as well as what she says is from the continuing threat stream -- Carol.

LIN: All right, thanks very much, Elaine Quijano, live at the White House.

Well, in the war on terror the United States is up against an enemy that not only is ruthless, al Qaeda is also patient and methodical. They put intricate schemes on computers. They photographed potential targets.

CNN has obtained some of this material relating to an attack that occurred last year inside Saudi Arabia. Brian Todd gives us a unique look into the mind of an enemy.

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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Surveillance, an al Qaeda staple. This tape showing what's believed to be the Al Mujia (ph) civilian housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. This is that same neighborhood and the product of that reconnaissance.

November of last year, suicide car bombs setting off three explosions kill at least 17 people at Al Mujia (ph) and wound more than 100. This type of surveillance now very much in the American public consciousness as officials ratchet up the terrorism alert based partly on information about the casing of financial buildings in the United States at least three years ago.

RICE: Al Qaeda does meticulous planning over many years.

TODD: On this tape, we learn how the November attack in Riyadh was planned, from the group believed to have carried it out, al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula.

BEN VENZKE, INTEL CENTER: And it's the kind of expertise that is frequent and frequently used and trained on by al Qaeda cells around the world.

TODD: CNN obtained this tape from a group called Intel Center, a consulting firm that works with U.S. government agencies. Experts who we consulted confirmed the authenticity of the tape.

We see al Qaeda members displaying rocket-propelled grenades and surface to air missiles, but the operational part of the tape is perhaps the most chilling. A diagram is shown of what Intel Center says is the Al Mujia (ph) complex. And a technique which later proved very effective. A vehicle was painted with the markings and insignia of the Saudi security forces. Those vehicles were used to breach the Al Mujia (ph) compound.

PETER BERGEN, CNN TERRORISM ANALYST: In this instance, they learned that there was some security which they wanted to get around, and the way to do that was to pretend that they were all themselves police officers, and that worked, and they got in the compound and killed a lot of people.

TODD: We also see a man next to one of the vehicles later identified as Naser Al Sairi (ph), an al Qaeda operative killed in that suicide attack.

This tape, produced some months ago, was originally posted on a Web site. We asked Intel Center why al Qaeda would tip off people on their operational techniques.

VENZKE: This is used for instructional material for future recruits and it's released after attacks to drive fundraising and as a moral boost for the group.

TODD: One other practical reason for distributing this tape: terrorism experts say al Qaeda can no longer operate training camps with any consistency. They say the Internet and tapes like these are a virtual replacement for those camps and they're often used as a communications network.

Brian Todd, CNN, Washington.

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LIN: Iraq has issued an arrest warrant for a one-time U.S. favorite. Ahmed Chalabi was an Iraqi exile who returned to the country after the fall of Saddam Hussein. He was on the Iraqi Governing Council and attended President Bush's State of the Union Address in January.

However, the relationship between the United States and Chalabi soured several months ago and the coalition raided his office.

According to the Associated Press, Iraq's government ordered the arrest of Ahmed Chalabi on a charge of trying to counterfeit Iraqi money.

The AP says a warrant issued for his nephew, Salem Chalabi, is in connection with a murder.

Both men talked with CNN and angrily denied the allegations. Ahmed Chalabi called CNN from Iran. We are the only U.S. network to have talked to him since the news of the warrant broke.

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AHMED CHALABI, FMR. MEMBER OF IRAQI GOVERNING COUNCIL: I have been fighting Saddam for many years and we survived that and we sure are not going to be intimidated by this judge who has made it his business to (UNINTELLIGIBLE) in the press and who has made it his business to attack the INC and I am going to go back to confront those lies.

They manufactured lies about forged currency. All of this was done in the -- I was in the Governing Council as chairman of the Finance Committee and I had meetings with the government of the Central Bank many times and the deputy in my office to discuss the issue of the currency exchange.

There is no case here and I will go to meet those charges head on and if there is any semblance of justice, this judge should recuse himself because he went on many times in the American press, attacking me personally on political grounds.

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LIN: Ahmed Chalabi from Iran, denying allegations made against him today by his Iraqi homeland.

Chalabi's nephew, Salem, who is in London, also denies any wrongdoing.

Now in other headlines from Iraq, the country's interim prime minister has made a personal visit to the holy city of Najaf. He called on Muslim militants to stop fighting Iraqi and U.S. forces.

And a U.S. helicopter made an emergency landing in a suburb of Baghdad today. Iraqis danced in the streets around the wreckage before U.S. forces arrived to remove it and safely rescue its pilots.

Now, here in this country the murder case in Delton, Florida, is both compelling and gruesome. Four people are now in custody and charged in the brutal killings of six people. Of all the theories on motive, probably none came down to a videogame.

Our Sara Dorsey reports.

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SARA DORSEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Cameras catch a brief glimpse of the men the Volusia County Sheriff's Department says are responsible for beating six people and a dog to death with aluminum baseball bats last Thursday.

SHERIFF BEN JOHNSON, VOLUSIA COUNTY, FLORIDA: There was forced entry to the front door. They were overtaken while they were all apparently, you know, laid down, I believe. And they were overpowered, because all these individuals were carrying baseball bats.

DORSEY: Police say three of the men have confessed. They are being identified as 18-year-old Robert Cannon, Jerome Hunter and Michael Salas. The sheriff calls 27-year-old Troy Victorino the ring leader and they believe he went to the home seeking revenge over some missing clothes and a videogame system.

JOHNSON: This is a mean individual that believed that somebody had done him wrong, which they had -- nothing justifies this and I don't call it a mistake. I call this a criminal acting out on violence that he has shown in the past that he is capable of.

DORSEY: The sheriff described the crime scene as the worst he has seen in his career. One victim was so badly beaten authorities still have not positively identified her.

JOHNSON: All four of these people deserve the death penalty, in my opinion. They're a danger to society. They've proven that. They've proven they aren't fit to be in society.

DORSEY: All four men are charged with first degree murder and armed burglary. The sheriff's office says it is confident that everyone involved in the murders is now in custody.

Sara Dorsey, CNN, Atlanta.

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LIN: As you just saw in that piece, the man heading up the investigation into these shocking killings is Volusia County Sheriff Ben Johnson.

He joins me now from Deltona.

Sheriff Johnson, I'm just wondering, how did you crack this case? What was the break that you got?

JOHNSON: Well, we had -- early on we had some people identify Troy Victorino as a possible suspect, that he had some problems with some of these individuals. And from there we were able to identify several different possible accomplices of him, and one of those started breaking for us. He started telling us a little bit about what was going on.

Victorino and Jerome Hunter were both arrested -- well, actually, Victorino was taken into custody for another charge, violation of probation, and as one of the fellows was with him, Jerome Hunter, broke down and told us about the murders. At that time, we were able to get names of two other individuals, Robert cannon and Michael Salas. And three of the four have confessed to the murder.

LIN: Victorino has a criminal record. What about the three 18- year-olds?

JOHNSON: I can't tell you about their criminal record at this time. I don't know.

LIN: All right.

A mother talked to reporters yesterday, claiming her daughter being inside and killed inside that house, claiming that authorities knew all along who the suspects would be, that apparently her daughter was even afraid to live in the house because she felt that she was being stalked by some kids from Pine Ridge High School.

Is there any connection to that claim and the arrest that you've made?

JOHNSON: We haven't found any connection to the complaints at the house yet.

We did have some disturbance calls. There were some young girls who came over there and another individual, but we haven't found a connection yet about Victorino showing up at the house. But we have answered several calls at that house.

LIN: What was his relationship to the victims, or at least the main victim?

JOHNSON: Well, one of the victims knew him and he was living in her grandmother's home several miles away from the scene of the murders, and he'd been a evicted while he was in jail. And they had picked up some of his property, an X-Box and clothing, and they had it at the house, and apparently from what we're gathering, Victorino said he was going to go out and kill them, from witnesses now, and in fact he did.

LIN: But, Sheriff, what explains the brutality of this crime, that they used baseball bats and beat these people to a pulp?

JOHNSON: Nothing can explain that brutality. It was something that in all my years in law enforcement, which is over 30 years, I've never seen anything like it. None of my other investigators have. The crime scene technicians.

We can't explain it. It was just a -- like they went into a rage. And it was just a very, very gruesome scene, and it's -- I hope I never bump into anything like this again in my career.

LIN: Sheriff Johnson, glad to see that there are some arrests in this case. Thank you very much, Sheriff Ben Johnson, Volusia County.

JOHNSON: Thank you very much.

LIN: Well, coming up next on CNN LIVE SUNDAY, troops injured on the front lines are getting a second chance at an active life. We're going to show you how high tech prosthetics make it all possible.

Plus, trying to make a difference in war-torn countries. Their heart was in the right place but they couldn't compete against the dangers.

And later, they've been training for years. We're going to take a look at the top picks for this year's Olympics.

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LIN: And it was a shock when Medicine Sans Frontieres announced that it was withdrawing from Afghanistan after 24 years because the government in Afghanistan refused to arrest the murders of five of its staff.

Well, MSF, or Doctors Without Borders as we know them here in the United States, has been in Afghanistan providing medical care during several wars, that the injured and the sick in war zones normally would not get. They don't take government money and they don't take sides.

But there is a larger story to this. As U.S. coalition forces try to win over the enemy with promises of food and medicine wearing civilian clothes, the Taliban now accuses MSF of being an agent of coalition troops.

Earlier, I talked to their program director, Vickie Hawkins, in London, about the loss of their friends and their mission.

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VICKIE HAWKINS, DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS: We don't know, we can't know exactly why we were targeted. What we do know is that it appears from the investigation that has been conducted by the government that local commanders were responsible for this attack.

Now, we really don't know the motivations behind the attack, but obviously we are looking for something to be done about if the government knows who is responsible.

LIN: Well, you actually say that the government knows specifically who is responsible. Why doesn't the Afghan government go out and arrest them?

HAWKINS: I can't say, and that's exactly the question that we're asking them ourselves.

Obviously it's clear that the government has limited capacity and we recognize that, but to not even issue warrants for arrest, that lack of action we find completely unacceptable, and for us it just demonstrates a lack of commitment on the side of the government for the safety of humanitarian aide workers in Afghanistan and just encourages the culture of impunity that already exists there.

LIN: But, Vickie, MSF has worked in some 80 countries, risking lives before. If you don't stay in Afghanistan, what you have described already is that people will have to travel at least a day in order to get any medical attention. Why not stay?

HAWKINS: Because we simply can't put our volunteers at this level of risk. The people who work for MSF, they're volunteer doctors and nurses. They choose to go to the field. Over and above the fact that it seems that the government are not demonstrating a commitment to ensure the safety of aide workers, such as MSF, in Afghanistan, in the days following the attack, the Taliban, who claimed responsibility for the attack on MSF, directly threatened us by accusing us of working in the interest of America.

To send our volunteers into the field with that kind of threat hanging over their head, it's simply unacceptable for us.

LIN: So what is it going to take for you to feel safe enough to return?

HAWKINS: We would have to see some kind of demonstration of commitment from the Afghan government as to the safety of aide workers in Afghanistan and we would have to feel that we were not directly targeted by the Taliban.

And I would like to assure you as well that no one feels sadder than MSF at the thought of the patients that we leave behind. We know only too well that tens of thousands of Afghans will be affected by this. But as I said...

LIN: I mean, Vickie, you literally want to have...

HAWKINS: ... we simply can't put our volunteers at that risk.

LIN: You want to have, literally, an apology from the Taliban. That is something you're probably not going to get.

HAWKINS: We recognize that that's a tall order, and I don't know if a direct apology is what would be required, but we would have to have some kind of indication. Maybe that would simply be by a decrease in the number of direct attacks toward humanitarian aide organizations in Afghanistan.

LIN: Vickie Hawkins, thank you.

Prime Minister Karzai has told Medicines Sans Frontieres that he regrets that they're leaving the country and that he's doing everything he can to pursue the killers of the five aide workers.

Every week we try to take you to the front lines in the war on terror in a more personal way. Walter Reed Army Medical Center has treated more than 700 troops for recent battle wounds in the Iraq and Afghan conflicts, but about 120 are amputees.

CNN Pentagon correspondent Barbara Starr looks at what is possible now to help them put their lives back together.

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BARBARA STARR, CNN PENTAGON CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Army Sergeant Michael Cain lost his leg to a land mine attack in Iraq. He hopes to become a physical therapist, but for now he wants to get back to the sports he loves.

MICHAEL CAIN, AMPUTEE: I used to like to do everything. Baseball, basketball, hockey, running, everything.

STARR: Cain and other amputees are using high tech prosthetics, some driven by computer chips, to regain their independence.

Specialist Lee Pedraza's prosthetic arm has sensors that lay along his remaining arm muscles. As he flexes, electronic signals are sent to computer chips inside the arm device. The hand and arm respond. Today he is getting a computer adjustment.

LEE PEDRAZA, AMPUTEE: There was a guy who was missing both his legs and one arm and he was walking. So if he can do it and go on with life, I know anybody else can.

STARR: Sergeant First Class Joseph Briscoe is a determined member of special forces who now hopes he can stay on duty with only one arm.

JOSEPH BRISCOE, AMPUTEE: We don't want to make the same mistake we did in past wars, where we just shoved our guys to the side. They get hurt and that's it.

STARR: More than 100 amputees and 700 wounded troops from the war have been treated at Walter Reed.

On the battlefield, improved armor protection has saved lives.

DR. PAUL PASQUINA (ph), WALTER REED MEDICAL CTR.: But what that has done is left the extremities exposed to severe injuries that perhaps would have not survived prior conflicts.

STARR: The Army now focusing on more than just immediate physical recovery, watching for the dark moments that may occur.

PASQUINA (ph): So we're talking about individuals that are already living with a missing limb for 40, 50 even 60 years.

STARR: None of these soldiers expect life the way it was before Iraq. Michael Cain sums up his hopes now.

CAIN: Just raise my family and go on with my life. STARR: Barbara Starr, CNN, the Pentagon.

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LIN: Artists and their tools. Imagine if you could hold a conference of fine artists, like Michelangelo, Van Gogh, Picasso and Renoir. That meeting would be extraordinary, and obviously impossible.

But if you love computer graphic arts and the tools to use computers, then you should be in Los Angeles this weekend for the annual Sea Graph (ph) convention, which kind of explains what you're looking at right now. They're the Michelangelos of the computer world and what we see there will soon be available on a screen near you.

I wonder what that guy was doing, walking around on laptops.

Ever wonder whether E.T. really exists? Well, some scientists will have you believe that he or someone like him does indeed live out there in the cosmos.

Tonight CNN space correspondent Miles O'Brien goes searching for signs of life in the universe in "CNN PRESENTS: IS ANYBODY OUT THERE." Here's a preview.

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MILES O'BRIEN, CNN SPACE CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's late at night, or perhaps by now early in the morning. The coffee is hot, the champagne on ice, just in case tonight's the night Jill Tartar (ph) and her team make contact with an alien civilization.

JILL TARTAR (ph), SPACE SCIENTIST: We actually detected two CW (ph) signals on that.

O'BRIEN: For Tartar (ph), all the optimistic talk about finding microscopic life out there somewhere is just fine, thank you very much.

TARTAR (ph): But when people ask the question are we alone, they're really not talking about is there some pond scum out there that we can find. They're really asking the question is there some other intelligent creature out there that looks up at its universe and wonders as we do.

O'BRIEN: Jill Tartar (ph) is all about answering that question. For years she's made pilgrimages here to the world's largest radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico, hoping to tune in to a signal from an intelligent civilization. WUFO, if you will.

This is the search for extraterrestial intelligence, or SETI.

TARTAR (ph): If you put a transmitter up there, and there is a radar transmitter in there... O'BRIEN: Jill Tartar (ph) is the real life inspiration for the Jody Foster character in the movie "Contact." Remember how they described here?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Brilliant, driven, a major pain in the ass.

O'BRIEN: Typical over the top Hollywood, right?

TARTAR (ph): Oh, no. I mean, I'm stubborn. I'm obsessional, a bit. You have to be to continue on with something like this in spite of the fact that everybody tells you, or many people tell you, that it's a waste of time.

PAUL DAVIES, AUSTRALIAN CENTER FOR ASTROBIOLOGY: It's a glorious but almost certainly hopeless quest. It's something that we must do, we should do. It's worth spending the money, but it's one hell of a long shot and I would be astonished if it succeeds, but the real value of SETI, in my opinion, is not are we going to pick up a signal -- that would be one hell of a bonus -- it's because it forces us to think very deeply about what is life, what is intelligence, what is our place in the universe.

FRANK DRAKE, SETI INSTITUTE: No doubt we are the riverboat gamblers of science, but we are making the experiment that's a real long shot, but it's one of the these things like a long shot in a horse race. Your chances of winning are very small, but if you win, you win really big.

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LIN: So be sure to join Miles O'Brien for "CNN PRESENTS: IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?" Tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern, 5:00 Pacific.

Political spoiler or true contender? We're going to find out what impact if any Alan Keyes will have on the Illinois senate race against Democratic favorite, Barack Obama.

Also, ads gone wild. We're going to check out some outrageous political ads causing a stir on the web.

And they're considered America's favorites for the summer games this week, but who are they? We're going to run down the list of who's who for the United States in Athens.

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LIN: Here's a quick look at what's happening now in the news.

Iraq national congress leader Ahmed Chalabi and his nephew are Salem Chalabi are strongly denying charges brought against them by an Iraqi investigating judge. The senior Chalabi is accused the counterfeiting. His nephew Salem is charged in connection with a murder. Arrest warrants have been issued in the cases. Both Chalabis' are out of the country, but both say they will return to Iraq to contest the charges. An autopsy has failed to find the cause of death of flamboyant funk singer Rick James. The L.A. County coroner's office says it's now awaiting toxicology results. He died in his sleep Friday, at his home. The 56-year-old had suffered a stroke in 1998, and battled a crack- cocaine addiction in the 1990s.

Things are going very well for the Filipino conjoined twins who were separated last week at a New York hospital. Doctors say the two- year-old boys are recovering much faster than expected, and their medication may soon be reduced.

And Presidential Candidate John Kerry spent the day campaigning in the southwest. He took time out to attend mass in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Then he greeted several hundred well-wishers.

And then there is that interesting race for senate in the state of Illinois. Political commentator and former ambassador Alan Keyes has now made it official. He is running for the U.S. Senate from Illinois. He who lives in Maryland was recruited by the Illinois Republican party to challenge Barack Obama.

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ALAN KEYES, (R) SENATE CANDIDATE: It just seemed wrong, they said -- now, wait a minute I'm just reporting here -- that somebody with his record should waltz into the United States senate unopposed.

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LIN: OK. So for more on this suddenly very interesting senate race in Illinois, plus the suddenly very negative presidential race, CNN's senior political analyst Bill Schneider joins me from Los Angeles. I thought if you were running for the senate in Illinois, you might had to live there.

WILLIAM SCHNEIDER, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL ANALYST: Actually, no. According to the law in Illinois as I read it, you have to establish residency by election today, which is November 7th. Even though Alan Keyes lives in Maryland, and in fact has run twice unsuccessfully for senator from Maryland, as well as twice unsuccessfully for the Republican Nomination for president, he can in fact run in Illinois as long as he moves there before Election Day.

LIN: Consider this Bill on the part of the Republican side of this race; I'm not sure it's even that competitive at this point. You have Jack Ryan, who is running against Barack Obama, suddenly there was this sex scandal, or it came out in previously filed papers that he was attending sex clubs. And now you have Alan Keyes. What are the Republicans thinking?

SCHNEIDER: They're thinking they want a real spirited contest. They don't want Barack Obama to just waltz in unopposed. He still has to be counted as the favorite. But look at this. You have two men who are very, very accomplished orators. Alan Keyes thrilled Republican audiences when he ran for president. Though he didn't do well in his two senate races, or even in that race. But he is a great orator. And barrack Obama came into his own at the Democratic convention just last month when he gave that stirring speech on Tuesday night of the convention. A lot of people may remember it. Here is how he described himself in that speech.

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BARACK OBAMA, (D) ILLINOIS SENATE CANDIDATE: The hope of a skinny kid with a funny name who believes that America has a place for him, too.

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SCHNEIDER: Well now, that skinny kid with the funny name Barack Obama was born in Hawaii. He's actually biracial. His father was a Kenyan economist who started life out, as he described it, as a goat herder. Now, he the accomplished orator is going to face another accomplished or orator.

And this will also be the first senate race on record between two African American candidates. This could be the best debate since Lincoln Douglas which also occurred in Illinois.

LIN: You think Alan Keyes has a chance?

SCHNEIDER: I wouldn't count him as a favorite right now. But look, he's a great or orator, a great speaker. Who knows what can happen? Politics is a funny business.

LIN: You bet. Speaking of politics, negative ads coming out in the presidential campaign. We have a couple to show. One is a group of veterans who were calling Kerry basically a liar about his Vietnam veteran war campaign. And also a negative ad about President Bush. Let's watch.

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SEN. JOHN EDWARDS, (D-NC) VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: If you have any questions about what John Kerry is made of, just spend three minutes with the men who served with him 30 years ago.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I served with John Kerry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I served with John Kerry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: John Kerry has not been honest about what happened in Vietnam.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He is lying about his record.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We could build thousands of new schools, or hire a million new teachers. We could make sure every child has insurance. Instead, under George Bush, America is alone, spending tens of billions to rebuild Iraq, with no plan for success.

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LIN: Boy, what does it mean, Bill, in terms of going into the general election, the kind of campaigning we're going to see from both sides?

SCHNEIDER: We are. Notice what a lot of voters and viewers aren't aware of. If you look at the top of the screen, it had the sponsors of those two very hard-hitting ads. The first one was sponsored by a group called The Swift Boat Veterans for Truth. That is not the Bush/Cheney campaign that was criticizing Kerry.

That was an independent group of veterans. Many of them are Republicans. But they took it upon themselves to form this organization and pay for this ad. And under the law, an independent group can run -- spend as much money as it wants, run all the harsh negative ads, or positive ads that it wants without any limits, as long as their activities are totally uncoordinated with the presidential campaigns.

The second ad was run by a group called The Media Fund, which is supporting John Kerry and opposes President Bush. They're also running ads. They're an independent group. And they are very important for John Kerry this month. Because he has accepted federal funding as a result of his nomination.

He has $75 million that he has to stretch for the next three months until Election Day. That's all the money he can spend. Bush, meanwhile, can spend as much as he wants until he's nominated. That will be on September 1st, when he gets $75 million. But he has two months to spend that money. So a lot of those ads that you are seeing are not being run by the campaigns. They are being run by independent groups. And they can spend as much money as they want.

LIN: And say just about anything they want apparently. Thanks very much.

SCHNEIDER: Apparently they can.

LIN: All right. If you've had your fill of negative campaign ads, wait until you see what's available on the Web. Our Jeanne Moos tickles or funny bone.

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JEANNE MOOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): This is the story of how a subservient chicken begat a subservient president, but there's nothing subservient about the candidate bashing that goes on on the Web. John Kerry is portrayed as Frankenstein, his face morphs out of a cicada. While President Bush is portrayed as a bumpkin. Will Ferrell donated his time to an anti-Bush group.

WILL FERRELL, COMEDIAN: Ever since I took office, well, things have been really, really bad.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cut.

FERRELL: That seemed like a good one. I'm getting my groove on.

MOOS: You think the president looks back.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: They call him Flipper, Flipper.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are people still doing dancing baby jokes? It's 2004. That should be illegal.

MOOS: Maybe it should be illegal to use John Kerry's head to shoot incoming flip-flops.

(on camera): The one thing that is interesting about it is that they can be so much meaner on the web.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is true.

MOOS (voice-over): You couldn't get away with this in a TV spot. The two Johns getting it on. Many of these are just an individual's attempt at humor and persuasion. Take the "Subservient President." It's a parody of Burger King's "Subservient Chicken." But instead of typing in orders like "touch your toes," you tell the subservient president to say, "invade North Korea," and a guy in a Bush mask presses the nuclear button.

Write foreign policy, he plays the cowboy. Ask for a magic trick, and he turns Osama into Saddam. If you type, "club the director", you will glimpse Steve Anderson (ph), the interactive media professor who dreamed up the Web site. Though some Web cam campaign videos may be lowbrow ...

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'll be the triple Purple Heart president.

MOOS: ... they make TV ads seem subservient. This president's no chicken. Mention Michael Moore, and he flips the bird. This is take no prisoner politicking.

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

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LIN: The opening ceremony is just five days away. They've been pushing themselves to the limits to prepare. But are they ready? Up next, I'm going to take a look at who's who at this year's Olympic Games.

And it's a gathering among friends for one very special occasion. We're going to take you there for the cake and ice cream.

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LIN: Security is especially tight in Athens, Greece right now for the start of the summer games Friday. And some criminals are taking advantage of it. Our Michael Holmes reports.

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MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The Greek deputy defense minister put it this way today. He said Athens is the safest city in the world right now, and he could well be right. All of the security apparatus are in place. There are warships off the coast here. There are airships in the air 24 hours a day seven days a week, patrolling the skies over here with electronic surveillance and cameras.

Just around the city too there are patriot missile batteries to protect against any kind of air strike from the outside. There are police on the streets, 70,000 police, and soldiers are on the streets of Athens and around the venues, but it's not an overt presence. It's not a threatening presence.

In fact, tourists are telling us they feel rather good having so many uniforms around them. It makes them feel secure. It seems to be making criminals feel secure, too. One sideline is that there are so many police uniforms on the street that bank robbers have been using it as a disguise themselves, wearing the uniforms of S.W.A.T. police, and going in and carrying out daylight raids on banks, and getting away with it by (UNINTELLIGIBLE).

A couple journalists were held up in the streets by men dressed in police uniform. They took $2,000 off them. That's one sideline of the security issue. However, when it comes to ticket sales, there's a lot more optimism here. They had a record day a couple days ago, 54,000 tickets sold. Still, a couple million to go, yet we are told by officials that opening and closing ceremonies, and all of the finals events have been completely sold out now.

HOLMES (on-camera): Greece now very much into the countdown towards that opening ceremony and all they're waiting for now are for the tourists to arrive. Michael Holmes, CNN, Athens.

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LIN: The summer games don't start until next weekend, but experts are already picking their favorite athletes for each competition. Sean Gregory covers sports for "Time" magazine and he's with us tonight. Hi there Sean.

SEAN GREGORY, TIME MAGAZINE: Hi Carol. How are you?

LIN: I'm doing just fine. How do you think the Americans are going to fare?

GREGORY: I think we're going to do really well. There's all these scandals and the security and everything else but we have --

LIN: Scandals -- you're talking about the drug testing?

GREGORY: Exactly. A lot of talk about that. But we've got one of our best gymnastics teams in years. We have Michael Phelps going after eight Gold Medals. And our track team is still the strongest in the world.

LIN: Yes. Michael Phelps. Tell me a little bit about him.

GREGORY: He grew up in Baltimore. He's trying to break Mark Spitz's record of seven Gold Medals in 1972. It is not going to be easy for him. He has a very tight schedule. He's right in. He swims Saturday, the day after the opening ceremonies. He's going to be swimming two a day, consecutive days.

He's the man getting most of the hype, kind of what Marion Jones was getting in 2000. It's Michael Phelps this year. But it's going to be very difficult for him.

LIN: All right. So we talked about swimming. What are some of the other sports you think that the Americans are going to dominate in?

GREGORY: You've got to start with track and field. There's a couple young stars up and coming, one woman, Allyson Felix. She's kind of the LeBron James of track and field. She's 18-years-old. She's the first track athlete to turn pro right out of high school.

She kind of kept a low profile earlier this year, but ran the second best time in the world at the trials. Her coach is a woman by the name of Pat Connelly, who coached Evelyn Ashford to a Gold Medal in 1984. Kind of an old-school disciplinarian-type coach. She's in pretty good shape to win the 200 meters in Athens.

LIN: Anybody else?

GREGORY: On the men's side, Shawn Crawford, a guy you don't hear much about, Maurice Greene, one of his teammates, he won in 2000, he's kind of the more flamboyant of the two, but Shawn has the best time in the 100 and the 200 this year.

LIN: All right. Are there any new events, any new sports that are going to be part of this Olympics?

GREGORY: Women's wrestling is the highest-profile new sport. The United States has some interesting members of that team. Four women are going over there. One woman, Takara Montgomery competing in the heavyweight division. She grew up in Cleveland, and her father is in prison.

In 1998 he was convicted for double murder. He's spending 30 years to life in prison, and they talk -- she's forgiven him. When it first happened, she kind of took out her anger and frustration in wrestling. Two years after she started wrestling for the boys' team in East Tech (ph) high school in Cleveland, she was one of the best wrestlers in the world.

In the lightweight division, Patricia Miranda, from California. Her biggest opponent growing up was her father. Her father did not want her to wrestle, and even threatened to sue the high school to keep her off the mat. Begged her not to wrestle, for two reasons. One, he was afraid it would interfere with her academics. He's a doctor; the family puts a lot on the academics. LIN: Sean, thanks for adding that human dimension to all these stories. It's not just about the sport, but it really is about the people. The individuals that makes they Olympics such magic. We're going to look forward to it. Are you heading out there?

GREGORY: Yes. Going tomorrow night.

LIN: All right. Have a great time.

GREGORY: Thanks a lot.

LIN: From archery to basketball to cycling, stay up on the games by keeping your Internet on cnn.com/olympics. There you are going to find the most up-to-date information on games, scores, and medal honors. That is cnn.com/olympics.

Still to come, the age-old saying is dedicated to the feline family. But we're going to tell you why this pup deserves honorable mention in the Nine Lives club.

Plus...

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: What the hell? Man, are you all right?

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LIN: The Jamie Foxx-Tom Cruise duo takes charge at the box office. We're going to take a look at this weekend's top picks.

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LIN: The new movie "Collateral" will give Dreamworks studio plenty of collateral at the bank. The Tom Cruise film debuted at the top in North American weekend box office receipts. Taking in about $24.5 million. Coming in right behind it "The Village," "The Bourne Supremacy", "The Manchurian Candidate", and "Little Black Book".

And in the 6 to 10 slots, "I Robot", Spider-Man 2", "Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle", and "A Cinderella Story", and "Catwoman".

Now, if you want to start the week on a feel-good note, this next story should do it for you. It's about a dog that by all accounts should not be with us. Rhonda Grayson tells you how hope defied death twice to get a chance at a new life.

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RHONDA GRAYSON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Life is good for Hope. The chocolate lab mix is celebrating her birthday with party with some party animal friends, complete with a doggy cake, lots of confetti, hats, and balloons.

Today Hope has a loving home. But life wasn't always so hopeful for a stray roaming the streets in this small Texas town. Hope was shot and buried alive not once, but twice by some neighborhood children. But somehow managed to tunnel her way out.

DAVID YORK, BARKING HOUND VILLAGE: They shot she was dead, and one of their neighbors who knew what had happened, saw her crawling down the road a few days later, and picked her up and took her to the vet.

Her ears were packed with mud. Her eyes were totally infected. Her nose was all packed with mud. Like I said, most of her hair had fallen out. And she couldn't walk. Her hip was shattered.

GRAYSON: These are happier days for Hope, the Wonder Dog. David (UNINTELLIGIBLE) of Gilmore (ph) Texas drove her back to Atlanta where she was adopted. Hope is now a pampered pooch, going to doggy daycare complete with a pool.

YORK: The progress she's made is unbelievable. Like I've said, she's had a couple more surgeries, and is walking and running fine now, and she's definitely a miracle dog.

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LIN: Well, you may wonder why Hope came to Atlanta in the first place. Even though her story made news in Texas, it appears no one there wanted to adopt her.

That's all the time we have for this hour. Coming up next on PEOPLE IN THE NEWS, Tom Cruise, and Carly Simon. At 8:00 Eastern, "CNN PRESENTS: IS ANYBODY OUT THERE?" The search for life in space has been the stuff of sci-fi movies. But Miles O'Brien examines the science behind the quest.

At 9:00 Eastern, LARRY KING, billionaire Donald Trump discussed his hit NBC show, "The Apprentice, and his success in real estate development.

And please join me tonight at 10:00 Eastern. Because I am going to be talking with a very good friend of Mary Kay Letourneau, the former school teacher just released from prison after serving time for her sexual relationship with one of her students. The hours headlines when I come back. And then PEOPLE IN THE NEWS.

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