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Severe Weather in Nebraska; New Development in Holloway Case; Oklahoma Girl Found Murdered; Bush Spends Easter Weekend at Camp David; The Quake of 1906

Aired April 16, 2006 - 16:00   ET

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's a tornado right there, it's going over us. We're in a tornado.

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FREDRICKA WHITFIELD, CNN ANCHOR: And you don't want to get any closer than this, right along with storm chasers, who take you inside a tornado.

Also, it's no ordinary church key. This opens the door to the most important church in Christianity. We'll take you there on this Easter Sunday.

And 100 years after the great quake of 1906, might history repeat itself?

Hello and welcome to CNN LIVE SUNDAY, I'm Fredricka Whitfield. All that and more after this check of the headlines.

A melee today in Istanbul after a bomb blast at an outdoor shopping mall. An angry crowd attacked a man police were apparently detaining. The crowd thought he was the bomber, but police say he was only a witness. The explosion left at least 30 people wounded.

Four U.S. Marines have died in Iraq. The military says that all four were killed in combat yesterday in Anbar Province in western Iraq.

In Baghdad today, a car bomb exploded near a mini bus killing four Iraqi civilians. South of the city, a car bombing killed at least eight. In all, 27 people were wounded.

A drag racer in Turkey loses control and careens into a crowd killing at least three people. You see it right there. The driver of the car was one of the two people injured. It happened in the town of Alanya along the Mediterranean.

Picking up the pieces in the Midwest of this country, after a bout with dangerous weather. Residents surviving severe storms and tornadoes in Nebraska and Indiana are trying to resume their normal lives today. But what a time they had. Look at this video from storm chasers in Nebraska. One shows a formation of a massive funnel cloud in Beatrice, that's south of Omaha. The other was taken from inside the middle of a massive tornado as it was scattering debris. And the third shows a condensation cloud slowly shifted into a funnel cloud. Several twisters ripped through the area, damaging buildings, homes and farms. Power lines were knocked down, but no injuries were reported.

CNN purchased the storm chaser video that shows what it's like inside a tornado. It touched down in Gage County, Nebraska, last night.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're right in -- rain, we're in a bad spot here, just hang on to your ride. Hold on.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh, my god.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There's the tornado right there, it's going over us.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right over us.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in a tornado. We're in the (BLEEP) tornado. Get down. I know.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: There's stuff flying everywhere.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Woo, look at there.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Look at that debris.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in the middle of this that tornado. There it is, right on the side of us. We're right over it. It went right over us. Oh, yes, who's your daddy?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh hang on, here comes another one. Oh, watch out.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Oh my gosh.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hold on.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I'm holding on, I'm sorry.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, we lost our windows. I don't know what window we lost.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think we lost the whole -- we lost the camera bag and now our bags.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. Look at that piece of debris. Woo!

(END VIDEOTAPE) WHITFIELD: That is crazy, but they are lucky to be alive. Well look at the mess the storms left behind. Barns and sheds were the primary casualties of the tornadoes in Nebraska. More storms are on the horizon for other parts of the country today. Let's check in right now with our Bonnie Schneider.

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WHITFIELD: Other stories on our radar. In Aruba, police are questioning a 19-year-old man in the disappearance of Natalee Holloway. The Alabama teenager has been missing since May 30th. She was last seen leaving an island nightclub where she had been celebrating her high school graduation with friends. The man detained is being identified only by the initials GVC. Aruban law allows police to make an arrest without charges to question a person of interest. A Dutch teenager and two brothers were arrested and then released last year. Holloway's father says he's hoping that something will come out of this new development.

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DAVE HOLLOWAY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S FATHER (on phone): I still think that these three original suspects still know more than what they've told us. And it could be others. You know, they just made this arrest. We'll just have to wait and see what happens. I know he'll probably be detained for at least two days and if there's sufficient evidence, I think it goes on to another eight days after that, and then they have a number of days, depending on how much evidence is compiled throughout their investigation.

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WHITFIELD: Joran Van Der Sloot and Deepak and Satish Kalpoe were released for lack of evidence after being detained last year. Joining me now is freelance journalist Tito Lacle. He's in Oranjestad, Aruba. And Tito, who do suspect this GVC is?

TITO LACLE, JOURNALIST (on phone): Well Fredricka, first of all happy Easter to you.

This is a person that apparently unable to be -- with Natalee just a couple of days before Natalee ever met Joran. So that connection -- apparently my sources tell me why he was detained yesterday.

Other than that, it's not known what the charges are, and what he's accused of. But since yesterday, he's been detained and is still detained at the moment.

WHITFIELD: And what is the general feeling there? The law allows that someone can be detained for questioning. That doesn't necessarily mean that they are a suspect.

LACLE: That is correct. Usually they ask the person to come in voluntary to give a statement. And if they do not want to do that, they can always use force and detain the person for that sole purpose, and after that, let the person go.

And this was not the case in the sense that the person did show up voluntarily yesterday late afternoon and after they questioned him, they had enough reason to detain him at the moment, which is also what happened.

WHITFIELD: And Tito, how aggressive have investigators been in recent weeks or recent months in this investigation?

LACLE: Well, compared to last year when the media was all over the place, it looked like things were moving much quicker last year. But when the cameras stopped rolling, things did not die down. Things have been moving on. Interrogations have been going on a daily basis and searches have been going on, which you probably know about, a couple weeks of huge searches by a Dutch team. But things have been moving pretty aggressively lately.

WHITFIELD: And now what about the other three young men who were detailed for a moment and questioned and released? Where are they these days? Are they still being questioned in any way by investigators or watched?

LACLE: No, they have not been investigated and/or questioned. They are suspects until the judge decides otherwise. Joran is studying in Holland and the two boys are still living on the island here in Aruba.

WHITFIELD: All right, Tito Lacle, a freelance journalist out of Aruba. Thank you so much for that update.

Well now to the horrifying story of a girl killed in Oklahoma after being reported missing last Wednesday. Police say Jamie Rose Bolin died at the hands of the man who lived in the apartment below her, 26-year-old Kevin Ray Underwood.

He is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow. Police call this one of the most heinous crime scenes they have seen. With the latest, CNN's Ed Lavandera is now in the small town of Purcell, about 40 miles south of Oklahoma City. Ed?

ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Fredricka. Well you know, for two days, hundreds of people here in this town frantically searched for 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin. But the worst part about it is she was discovered just a few feet away from where her family had been standing vigil for several days. And police say she was dead long before they even knew she was missing.

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LAVANDERA (voice-over): Murder isn't the kind of news people in Purcell, Oklahoma are used to dealing with. The last time it happened was six years ago. So Jamie Rose Bolin's murder stings here in a way only small towns understand.

REV. DUANE ELMORE, MISSION ASSEMBLY CHURCH OF GOD: It's like a big family. So that's, it hits everybody hard. It's uncharted territory for our community, but we've got a lot of good people, and I think it will -- I think the community will rally and pull together. I really believe that it will, and I think it will make it stronger once we get past it.

LAVANDERA: Reverend Duane Elmore says Jamie Rose Bolin had recently started participating in a young mission program at his church. After Easter services this Sunday, the reverend said his congregation is struggling to understand how something so evil could happen so close to home.

ELMORE: I told my girls, they were shook up. I said, you know, whoever did that is far from here by now, and that's what everybody is saying.

LAVANDERA: Kevin Ray Underwood is the man police say murdered Jamie Rose Bolin. The 26-year-old was a familiar face around town, especially for customers driving through this hamburger restaurant where he once worked. A co-worker says he was quiet and reserved.

BILL BERDAM, CO-WORKER: He wasn't a happy person, you could see it, you know. He just -- it was hard to get him to smile. But you know, other than that, he was all right.

LAVANDERA: CNN cameras were there just moments after Underwood was taken into custody, following the discovery by police of Bolin's body in his apartment closet. He appeared calm and relaxed, but what investigators say he planned to do with his 10-year-old victim has repulsed this central Oklahoma town.

TIM KUYKENDALL, DISTRICT ATTORNEY: This appears to be a part of a plan to kidnap a person, rape them, torture them, kill them.

LAVANDERA: White ribbons in honor of Jamie Rose Bolin have begun appearing around Purcell, and mourners have started a tiny memorial of Easter lilies and teddy bears in front of the little girl's apartment.

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LAVANDERA: Kevin Ray Underwood is in jail now. He is expected to be in court tomorrow Monday, where prosecutors say they will file first-degree murder charges against him, and they will seek the death penalty in this case -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: And Ed, have you heard from family members of either side?

LAVANDERA: We haven't heard from any of Underwood's family, although the police chief here in Purcell says that his mother has reached out to Jamie Rose Bolin's family and has apologized, and that a state investigator is also speaking with her as well.

WHITFIELD: All right. Ed Lavandera, thank you so much, out of Purcell, Oklahoma.

Now, other headlines making news across America. Milwaukee police say the drownings of two boys in a lagoon was a tragic accident, not the result of foul play. Police speculate one of the boys, who could not swim, fell into the lagoon, and his friend died trying to save him.

A family hike takes a horrifying turn when a 7-year-old boy is attacked by a mountain lion. It happened last night in Boulder, Colorado. The family pelted the animal with rocks until it ran off. The boy is in stable condition. The mountain lion was tracked down and destroyed.

Rangers think they caught a black bear that attacked a Tennessee family, killing a 6-year-old girl. They found the bear in the same area of Cherokee National Forest today. They say it looks like the one that killed the girl and mauled her mother and brother on Thursday. The bear was euthanized.

And straight ahead...

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I usually go to church on Easter, with grandma, but sorry, grandma, that's not happening this year.

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WHITFIELD: A sniper platoon makes it through Easter their own way.

Hundreds are pushed out of their homes as some European rivers rise to their highest levels in more than 100 years. And San Francisco under siege, a look back at the biggest quake to ever hit the United States, later on CNN SUNDAY.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you doing. This is Private Simmons (ph), in Baghdad, Iraq. I want to give a shoutout to everybody in Birmingham, Alabama, my grandma, Deborah Simmons (ph), my mama, Yolanda Simmons (ph). Happy Easter, everybody. I'm safe.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi. This is Specialist Gilbert Barrio (ph), stationed here at Camp Victory in Baghdad, Iraq, just wishing all of my family in Tucson, Arizona a very happy Easter. I love you and miss you very much, and I'll see you soon.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi. This is Staff Sergeant Wojcik (ph), from Kabul, Afghanistan. I'd like to say happy Easter to all my family and friends back in Antioch, California.

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WHITFIELD: President and Mrs. Bush celebrated Easter with a few members of their family. They all returned to the White House this afternoon after an early Easter dinner at Camp David. CNN's Elaine Quijano is at the White House with more on the first family's holiday -- Elaine.

ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Good afternoon to you, Fredricka. That's right, President Bush is back here at the White House after spending the Easter holiday weekend with his family at Camp David.

Now, because of tomorrow's White House Easter egg roll event on the South Lawn, the president actually choppered back to the Naval Observatory here in Washington and then motorcaded back to the White House.

Now, among those who spent the Easter holiday with him, of course first lady Laura Bush, as well as the president's parents, George H.W. and Barbara Bush, and Jenna Welsh, the first lady's mother.

After attending Easter services this morning, presumably, at Camp David, the family sat down for an Easter lunch that included two kinds of ham and baked macaroni and cheese.

Now, Monday, the Easter festivities continue, as I mentioned. The annual Easter egg roll is going to take place on the South Lawn. The first lady is said to take part in that, but the president turning his attention to taxes. He will be traveling to nearby Northern Virginia to talk about that -- Fredricka.

WHITFIELD: All right. And thanks very much, Elaine Quijano from the White House.

Well, Easter in Iraq for U.S. troops in Fallujah, another day patrolling the streets, another day knowing that danger is always nearby. CNN's Arwa Damon caught up with one unit and found that humor is the glue that keeps things together there.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Easter? What do we do for Easter?

ARWA DAMON, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): When we asked Marines at Camp Black (ph) what they are doing for Easter, they just start laughing.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: These actually came in two boxes.

DAMON: An Easter care package brings home a little closer for Corporal Travis Roundtree (ph), even at this desolate camp just outside of Fallujah.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The Reese's, they are not -- supposed to be in the heart shape, but it melts.

DAMON: Survival out here for this sniper platoon is more about being able to find humor in everything, even close calls, such as the IED that detonated on the vehicle carrying Corporal Stefano Gettanhun's (ph) translator. There are few other ways to cope with their reality.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I can't cry over this. Hey, (INAUDIBLE), you want to cry?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cry?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yeah.

DAMON: Death is very real to them, reminders spray-painted on the wall next to the freshly washed socks.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I should have worked at McDonald's.

DAMON: But that doesn't slow them down.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Anybody wants to work in McDonald's when we get back? See, there's a lot of potentials right here.

DAMON: A few hundred meters away at another camp, the men describe each day as Groundhog Day.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right, here's the famous wag (ph) bag, the famous wag (ph) bag.

DAMON: It's hard to find relief from the mundane routine. So they find humor, even in their toilet drill as this corporal Aaron Mann (ph) demonstrates.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Inside you have a Ziploc bag.

DAMON: Lance Corporal Jeremiah Dillon (ph) jokes before going to his post.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I take three bottles of ice out there. And then after about two to three hours, there's no more ice water.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Still peaches, but no eggs.

DAMON: Out here, home comforts are a world away.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I usually go to church on Easter with my grandma. But sorry, grandma, that's not happening this year.

DAMON: Joking aside, it's time to head out. The temperature is reaching 100 degrees. Their gear weighs in excess of 65 pounds. They have to stay alert for the next four hours.

Back at Camp Black (ph), preparations are underway for their mission, weapons are cleaned. Soon the sniper platoon will be back outside the wire.

(on camera): Many of these men are actually just kids. Their peers back home in the United States will be celebrating the holidays with their families. Right now they're focusing on their mission, knowing that if they get home alive, they'll have a lifetime of holidays ahead of them. Arwa Damon, CNN, Fallujah, Iraq. (END VIDEOTAPE)

WHITFIELD: And now to Easter in Jerusalem. These men keep the key that opens the world's most famous Christian church, but they themselves are not Christians. Their family has held the key since the 12th century. That story coming up.

And it's been 100 years since a massive earthquake destroyed San Francisco. Are there expectation it is might happen again? We'll explore that question.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, my name is PFC Kean Holloway (ph) and I'm currently deployed in Baghdad, Iraq. And I just want to send an Easter greetings to my wife, Alexis Holloway (ph) and the rest of my family in Asheville, South Carolina.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, I'm Captain Am Ritenback (ph) from Phoenix-based Baghdad, Iraq. Just wanted to say happy Easter to all my family back in Oreck (ph), South Dakota. I'll see you soon. Hopefully, hopefully soon.

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WHITFIELD: Heavy rains and melting snow are sending Europe's Danube River to record highs. It's causing flooding against its path, particularly in Serbia, Romania and Bulgaria.

It's a race against time in Serbia, where people are sandbagging against the rising waters. In some cases, the effort seems futile. In Romania, officials intentionally flooded forests and farmland to try to veer the floodwaters away from towns. And entire towns are submerged in Bulgaria. Flood waters in that country are expected to go even higher. In all, hundreds of people have been evacuated.

It could be months before searchers reach more victims of deadly mudslides in southwestern Colombia. More than three dozen people are feared buried under tons of mud, many of them at a resort west of Bogota. At least two entire villages were destroyed. This weekend loved ones began burying the 16 bodies that have been recovered so far. The soaking rains that triggered the slides are expected to continue for at least another week.

Hurricane Katrina was bad, but this even worse. The quake of 1906, it leveled San Francisco and left thousands dead. Coming up, we look back on this 100-year anniversary of the disaster.

And it's considered the holiest church in Christianity. But the men who hold the key to its door are not Christians. Their story later in the show.

(COMMERCIAL BREAK) WHITFIELD: Now in the news, horrific details are emerging about a slain Oklahoma girl. Authorities say 10-year-old Jamie Rose Bolin's death was the result of a neighbor's plot that involved kidnapping, torture, sexual assault, mutilation, and cannibalism.

Officials in Aruba say they've detained a 19-year-old man for questioning in the Natalee Holloway case. Aruba law allows an arrest without charges, for the purposes of questioning. And the young man is not necessarily a suspect. Holloway was celebrating her high school graduation when she disappeared in Aruba nearly a year ago.

An Iranian hard-line group says it is signing up people for what it calls martyrdom missions abroad in case Iran is attacked. The U.S. has accused Iran of trying to build nuclear weapons the White House is stressing a diplomatic solution but has not ruled out a military option.

The Reverend Jesse Jackson is offering to pay the tuition of the woman at center of the Duke lacrosse team's scandal. The woman says she performed as an exotic dancer to help pay her college expenses. Her charge is that she was beaten and raped by three men on the lacrosse team, remain under investigation.

Severe storms ravaged parts of Nebraska and Indiana last night. The storm spawned tornadoes and hail.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're in the (BLEEP) tornado!

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: For Randy Hicks the twister that spiraled across Nebraska was more exciting than terrifying.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Look at that debris.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It was one of several tornadoes that touched down northeast of Omaha on Saturday.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We may have two tornadoes in a minute.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Cameraman Jeff Piotrowski followed one tornado, watching it race across a road before wrecking several buildings. Two more photographers caught a twister in the making in the skies above the plains and raced to keep up as it barreled across farmland. Amazingly, there were no casualties, but several farm buildings in eastern Nebraska were destroyed, including the chicken houses at Gary Wiese's farm. He'd evacuated the birds just two days earlier.

GARY WIESE: If we had it full of chicken it would have been tough because you'd have 80,000 chickens up there.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Neighbors gathered to help the Erikson's after their farm had been damaged by winds that topped 60 miles an hour.

MARY ERICKSON, FARMER: My husband's birthday today. What a way to celebrate. Of course he's got the whole community here.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Saturday's tornadoes in Nebraska were the latest in what's become the most dangerous season for twisters in seven years.

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WHITFIELD: Other parts of the country are seeing heavy rains and thunderstorms today. Let's check in with meteorologist Bonnie Schneider again.

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WHITFIELD: For severe weather alerts and the latest forecast 24-7, log onto CNN.com, just type in your zip code, get up to the minute conditions in your area, CNN.com/weather.

It was called the great quake, 100 years ago today in 1906; it leveled most of San Francisco. Some say it was one of the greatest disasters in America's history. It's the focus of a new "National Geographic" special tonight.

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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: In just three days a devastating earthquake and massive fire have reduced San Francisco once the greatest city on the west coast to ruins.

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WHITFIELD: Historian James Dalessandro wrote "1906" a novel about the quake and he contributed to that "National Geographic" special. The great quake is also the cover story of the latest issue of "National Geographic" Magazine. James Dalessandro joins us from where else, San Francisco. Good to see you James.

JAMES DALESSANDRO, AUTHOR, "1906:" Good afternoon, Fredricka. Thank you.

WHITFIELD: All right. Well congratulations on all these projects and bringing so many folks up to date on what happened 100 years ago today. What are you hoping people learn from your book, the special, and the magazine?

DALESSANDRO: Well, I hope that they learn we live in a very fragile nation on a very fragile planet and that diligence and preservation and mitigation are very important things. This was a colossal disaster in 1906 that wiped an entire city off the earth. We just saw a repeat of disaster that magnitude in New Orleans. So it would behoove us to pay attention and to prepare ourselves.

WHITFIELD: So you really do see the parallels of what took place, the great quake, and what this generation just experienced less than a year ago in, along the Gulf Coast?

DALESSANDRO: Well, I like to say that if history teaches us anything it's the fact that history rarely teaches us anything. We should be learning these lessons by now. We should realize that, ignoring these things and being complacent and lacking both the personal and political will to deal with these issues in advance, it would have cost a lot less to prepare than it would be to prepare, to replace the city of San Francisco or the city of New Orleans. Yes there are enormous parallels between these two disasters.

WHITFIELD: In your book, which is a novel you tell the story through a journalist, but you also, of course, bring in the historical accounts of what took place in 1906, everything from the kind of organization, the preparedness, the lack of preparedness, the response, all of that. What are you hoping people take away from the experience of 1906?

DALESSANDRO: Well, I hope they learn an extraordinary story. This is one of the great stories in American history. I believe it's the most dramatic story in American history outside of a war. I really believe that. New Orleans is certainly right there with this story. I hope they realize that we live in a fractious environment. We have to pay attention to things and that history is a living thing. History has great lessons and great stories and this is a story well worth examining. This is an event that should be part of our culture and it should prepare us for the future. All of the warnings, all of the lessons we need to learn are right there in the great 1906 earthquake story. It is an extraordinary tale.

WHITFIELD: You also delve into the fact as colasole as this calamity was you talk about the domino effect that ensued. Everything down to the political influence of the mayor of San Francisco being part of helping to dispel the truth, covering up what had actually happened. In your discovery of that, what was the reason behind that?

DALESSANDRO: Well, it's a strange thing about politicians. The first thing they do is try to cover their behinds. They deny that they had any warnings. They try to minimize the magnitude of the disaster. The official death count for almost 100 years was 478. Just look at the photographs that you just showed. Try to tell me that only 500 people died in that disaster. The death count could easily be ten times that high. You know, it's cyclical. We always do these things.

The city administration had been warned six times by the fire chief, Dennis Sullivan, in 1906, that we needed to build a massive fire suppression system that the city was destined to burn, and it burned six times before during the gold rush. They ignored the fire chief. It's not a wise thing to ignore your fire chief.

WHITFIELD: Well looking ahead now the Atlantic states are preparing for a, if, as well as a when. For those along the San Andreas Fault, might the approach be the same way? Is it a matter of when, not necessarily if another quake of this magnitude were to happen?

DALESSANDRO: Well, that's the great phrase. It is not an if, it is a when. It is inedibility. The U.S. geological survey says there is a two in three chance that in the next 30 years, one of the seven active earthquake faults in the bay area will slip. The San Andreas Fault is 700 miles long. It goes through the heart of the state of California. You know, the most popular state in the United States. Yes, we should pay attention to all of these things. We should -- we have a lot of problems at home. You know, and the states and the cities are losing lots of revenue, down firefighters, down police officers and we're complacent. That's a big one.

WHITFIELD: A lot of lessons to learn.

DALESSANDRO: Yes there is a lot lessons Fredricka, absolutely.

WHITFIELD: James Dalessandro thanks so much for joining us from San Francisco. The book is "1906."

DALESSANDRO: Thank you so much.

WHITFIELD: The great quake premieres tonight at 8:00 p.m. Eastern on the National Geographic channel.

Coming up in our next hour rarely seen photos from the great San Francisco quake, a great grandchild found them in of all places hidden in the wall of his family home, and he's sharing them with us.

And Easter services around the world today, including Pope Benedict's first Easter mass. We'll show you more of that.

And then it's one of the holiest sites to Christians, the church where believers say Jesus was crucified. We'll take you inside on this Easter Sunday.

And if you're looking to improve your golf game this spring, listen up. The invention we are about to show you don't promise to make you the next Phil Mickelson or Tiger Woods, but it may save you some time and money. Daniel Sieberg has more in this edition of "New Frontiers."

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DANIEL SIEBERG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): Like many recreational golfers, Californian Chris Savarese grew tired of hitting errant shots into the woods.

CHRIS SAVARESE, FOUNDER & PRESIDENT, RADARGOLF: I tend to spray the ball a little bit off the tee and thought it would be nice if someone could come up with a way to find golf balls more quickly.

SIEBERG: That was in 1993; 11 years later his stroke saving technology hit the market.

SAVARESE: Better golf is a findable golf process. We implant a microchip in the center of the ball and using a hand held device that transmits an RF signal the microchip acts as a reflector and reflects that frequency back. There we go. The range of detection is 30 to 100 feet.

SIEBERG: At $250 for the device and a dozen balls it won't fit every budget. The Radargolf has received Stella reviews. "Fairways and Greens" Magazine calls it "The greatest golf advancement of the fledgling 21st century." One of their competitors is Visiball; glasses that help you locate your ball visually by blocking out excess light.

SAVARESE: What makes our product unique is that if it's very deep in bushes or under leaves or grass, you can still find it.

SIEBERG: So while Radargolf may help you lower your score, it can only go so far.

SAVARESE: The balls that go in the water are goners.

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WHITFIELD: Christians around the world are marking their faith's most joyous day. In the nation's capital Cardinal Theodore McCarrick led Easter Sunday worship at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception. The shrine is the largest Catholic Church in the Americas. Thousands of worshippers gathered at the Georgia Dome in Atlanta for a celebration billed as the biggest Easter service in the country. The choir alone had 500 people, and 40,000 faithful were expected to attend.

At the Vatican, Pope Benedict XVI led his first Easter mass. He urged diplomacy to defuse nuclear crises and he pleaded for peace in Iraq. The Pope is also marking his 79th birthday.

In Jerusalem today pilgrims gathered in larger numbers than they have in recent years. The bigger turnout a reflection of the relative calm between Israelis and Palestinians.

It is considered the most hallowed spot in Christianity, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre is built on the ground that Jesus is said to have died on the cross and it shares the old city of Jerusalem with some of the holiest sites of Judaism and Islam. As CNN's John Vause reports it can get a little bit complicated.

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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice over): This is a moment, which goes back centuries. Two Muslim families who, together, control the giant wooden door to the holiest site in all Christianity. The Church of the Holy Sepulcher. Aded Qader Joudeh family is the custodian of the oversized steel key.

ADED OADER JOUDEH, KEY HOLDER: It's a job of honor to have the key, of the most important church in all over the world.

VAUSE: This family is custodians of the door?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This goes from father to son.

VAUSE: These doormen of Christianity are entrusted with the sacred duty handed down by (INAUDIBLE). The Islamic warier who drove out the Christian crusaders from Jerusalem in the 12th century. To this day both families are considered neutral parties in a century's old turf war inside the church.

PROF. DAN BAHAT, ARCHAEOLOGIST FOR JERUSALEM: Jerusalem is a complicated place and since it was decided at the end of the 12th century that the family will get it, I think the status quo keeps things quite nicely.

VAUSE: Even so, the Greek and Syrian orthodox churches --

Roman Catholics, Armenians and Egyptian Coptic's are locked in a tense and a time violent struggle over every square inch of this site where tradition has it Jesus was crucified and three days later rose from the dead.

There's been so much fighting and squabbling that the Turkish government who once ruled Jerusalem declared a status quo in 1852, defining which part of the church belongs to which denominations. The status quo arrangement is still in place today and covers every aspect inside the church, lighting, decorations and hours of worship. The doorkeeper is philosophical about his role.

WAJEEH NUSEIBEH, DOOR KEEPER: I think they should be happy; the Muslims to be here because we are like a united nations between all the groups.

VAUSE: These families pay just a few U.S. dollars a month.

JOUDEH: The key was entrusted to us and we have to take care of this key. It's an honorable job. It's not a matter of money.

VAUSE: By nightfall, the church door is locked shut. The key safely in the hand of a Muslim family, the way it has been and is likely to be for centuries.

John Vause, CNN, in Jerusalem.

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WHITFIELD: And more on this Easter Sunday after this.

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WHITFIELD: Some procrastinators beware midnight tomorrow is the deadline for most states for filing your 2005 income tax. This year the traditional April 15 filing date fell on a Saturday so you get two extra days to get the job done. Many other states including the District of Columbia have until Tuesday, you see right there because they are observing Patriots Day on Monday.

Meantime, some big court cases coming up this week. Jeffrey Skilling gets other chance to answer accusations that he's to blame for one of the biggest corporate collapses in U.S. history. Thousands of people lost their jobs, life savings and pensions when Enron went under five years ago. The former Enron CEO faces cross-examination when his fraud trial resumes tomorrow.

A life or death decision could go to the jury in the Zacarias Moussaoui sentencing trial this week. Moussaoui has testified he and would-be shoe bomber Richard Reid planned to fly a fifth plane into the White House on 9/11 but Reid won't take the stand after all. The judge revoked an order requiring him to testify.

Saddam Hussein is back in court tomorrow as well, the former Iraqi leader is accused of killing 148 Iraqi Shiites after an assassination attempt failed.

In Africa a longstanding profile is shattered and an age-old question just might be answered. What's the secret behind pygmy's sizes? CNN's Femi Oke has more on this changing earth report.

FEMI OKE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: This week on changing earth, we take a look at the pygmy tribes of central Africa, where the story actually starts here in the United States, with a group called Geneva Global. The organization takes money from wealthy donors and invests it in projects around the developing world.

One of the recent trips has been to Burundi to work with a pygmy tribe. Technically a pygmy is a person of unusually small size, but so little is known about them that there are no known reasons why they are so small. Some researchers suggest that the lack of height is to do with hormones, most adult would be under five feet tall, so a person with normal height would look something like this but recently one area of Burundi there are reports the local pig pygmies are starting to grow.

Eric Thurman is CEO of the Geneva Global and you can see him here in a recent trip to Burundi, Geneva Global donated $40,000 to boost the income of pygmy farmers in the Aptenco (ph) region of Burundi, the money went toward buying seeds, supplies and funding training. These efforts helped to improve the health, nutrition and according to Eric Thurman the height of the pygmies.

ERIC THURMAN, CEO, GENEVA GLOBAL: I discovered, and talked to the people who were there and found out that the people weren't that much smaller than I was, when I stood among them. The adults were a little bit smaller, but the children were the normal height for their age. Now why was that? The stunted height was simply because they've been malnourished and when they got adequate nutrition they grew to what would be considered close to normal size for their neighbors and people from other tribes.

OKE: Eric Thurman is 5'6". Could it be possible that the tribe is just lacking a balanced diet? The anthropologists of the region have a fascinating case to study. These conclusions were made by local anthropologist in Burundi and have yet to face a rigorous scientific location.

Femi Oke, CNN, Atlanta.

WHITFIELD: Coming up in our next hour, dress blue. Some U.S. troops say they've found the perfect clothing to deal with Iraq's hot weather but now they are being told they can't wear it. We'll tell you why, coming up.

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